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EDITOR’S EDITOR R’S NOTE When we started planning this 40th anniversary issue, anniver sarry is sue, we quickly had mor e ideas than more would ffit iit in one cover stor ry. So we story. made room room for 10 cover stories, e this week in what as you can see came GT T’s most ambitious ultimately bec became GT’s commemorrati a ive paper yet. The commemorative ed fr rom o tr ying to tr race a scope expande expanded from trying trace y off just Good Times itself the histor history (although Dan Dan nP ulcrrano a pr ovides a hug e Pulcrano provides huge sight into the contr oversy amount of ins insight controversy y surr ounded the paper that originally surrounded re eviou usly unpublished 1980 in his pr previously interrview v with h founderr Ja e) to interview Jayy Shor Shore) the histor y off all Santa Cruz weeklies history (in which Mich hael S Michael S.. Gant explains how GT frustr rated a and confounded frustrated its alt-pr re ess co ontemporra aries) to an alt-press contemporaries) examination of o many many factor factorss that have shaped Santa Cruz over the last 40 year s. years. Geo ffrrey D un nn takes an in-depth Geoffrey Dunn l k att the look th 197 70s Santa S t Cruz C cultur lt e 1970s culture out of which Good G Times was born, fr om music to o politics to beach from ffires iires and book kstore basements. Cat bookstore Johnson ele gan ntly explains how the elegantly commun LGBT community nity tr ansformed the transformed identity of San nta Cruz, while AnneSanta Marie Harrison Harrison tr races a the gr row o th of traces growth

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If you could live in Santa Cruz in any era besides now, which would you choose? BY MATTHEW COLE SCOTT Probably the ’70s, because Santa Cruz is such a flyyour-freak-flag place. That was when free love and hippiness was in vogue. SHANE REBER

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I'd probably run with the ’60s, because I was born in them. And I liked all the music of that time. JAMES WADELL SPIERES

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I’d like to be in Santa Cruz in the 1930s to experience not only Prohibition, but the flappin’ times. CORINA CONNIFF

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The 1890s, because you could make your own butter, and there are still cobblers that exist. COURTNEY HOWARD

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LIBRA Sep23–Oct22

If you’re stumped about what present to give someone for a special occasion, you might buy him or her a gift card. It’s a piece of plastic that can be used as cash to buy stuff at a store. The problem is, a lot of people neglect to redeem their gift cards. They leave them in drawers and forget about them. Financial experts say there are currently billions of dollars going to waste on unredeemed gift cards. This is your metaphor of the moment, Aries. Are there any resources you’re not using? Any advantages you’re not capitalizing on? Any assets you’re ignoring? If so, fix the problem.

“To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first,” says Libra actress and activist Janeane Garofalo. I can think of other ways to measure bravery, but for your immediate future, her definition will serve just fine. Your ultimate test will be to freely give your tenderness and compassion and empathy— without any preconditions or expectations. For the sake of your own integrity and mental health, be steadfast in your intention to always strike the first blow for peace, love and understanding.

TAURUS Apr20–May20 I usually have no objection to your devoted concern (I won’t use the phrase “manic obsession”) with security and comfort. But there are rare phases in every Taurus’s life cycle when ironclad stability becomes a liability. Cruising along in a smooth groove threatens to devolve into clunking along in a gutless rut. Now is such a phase. As of this moment, it is healthy for you to seek out splashes of unpredictability. Wisdom is most likely to grow from uncertainty. Joy will emerge from an eagerness to treasure the unknown.

It will soon be that time when you are halfway between your last birthday and your next birthday. I invite you to make this a special occasion. Maybe you can call it your anti-birthday or unbirthday. How to celebrate? Here are some ideas: 1. Imagine who you would be if you were the opposite of yourself. 2. Write a list of all the qualities you don’t possess and the things you don’t need and the life you don’t want to live. 3. Try to see the world through the eyes of people who are unlike you. 4. Extend a warm welcome to the shadowy, unripe, marginal parts of your psyche that you have a hard time accepting, let alone loving. 5. Any other ways you can think of to celebrate your anti-birthday?

GEMINI May21–June20

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21

There may be a flood-like event that will wash away worn-out stuff you don’t need any more. There might be an earthquake-type phenomenon that only you can feel, and it might demolish one of your rotten obstacles. There could be a lucky accident that will knock you off the wrong course (which you might have thought was the right course). All in all, I suspect it will be a very successful week for benevolent forces beyond your control. How much skill do you have in the holy art of surrender?

As I climb the first hill along my regular hike, both sides of the path are dominated by a plant with glossy, three-lobed leaves. They’re so exuberant and cheerful, I’m tempted to caress them, even rub my face in their bright greenery. But I refrain, because they are poison oak. One touch would cause my skin to break out in an inflamed rash that would last for days. I encourage you, too, to forgo contact with any influence in your own sphere that is metaphorically equivalent to the alluring leaves of the poison oak.

CANCER Jun21–Jul22

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21

CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19

What is your biggest excuse? Or rather, what is your thickest, sickest, most debilitating excuse? We all have one: a reason we tell ourselves about why it’s difficult to live up to our potential; a presumed barrier that we regard as so deeply rooted that we will never be able to break its spell on us. Maybe it’s a traumatic memory. Maybe it’s a physical imperfection or a chronic fear. In accordance with the current astrological omens, Cancerian, you’d be wise to do an audit and reassessment of your own lamest excuse. I suspect you now have insight about it that you’ve never had before. I also think you have more power than usual to at least partially dismantle it.

Today, the French Capricorn painter Henri Matisse (1869-1954) is regarded as a foremost pioneer of modern art. Some critics say his innovative influence on painting nearly matched Picasso’s. But during the first part of the 20th century, his work often provoked controversy. When a few of his paintings appeared at a major exhibition in Chicago, for example, local art students were shocked by what they called its freakishness. They held a mock trial, convicted Matisse of artistic crimes, and burned his painting Blue Nude in effigy. I don't expect that you will face reactions quite as extreme as that in the coming weeks, Capricorn. But it will make sense to express yourself with such forceful creativity and originality that you risk inciting strong responses.

LE0 Jul23–Aug22

AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18

If you were a supporting character in a popular TV drama, the producers would be cooking up a spin-off show with you in a starring role. If you were in an indie rock band, you’d be ready to move from performing at 300-seat venues to clubs with an audience capacity of 2,000. If you have always been just an average egocentric romantic like the rest of us, you might be on the verge of becoming a legend in your own mind— in which case it would be time to start selling T-shirts, mugs, and calendars with your image on them. And even if you are none of the above, Leo, I suspect you’re ready to rise to the next level.

Leonardo da Vinci had skills in many fields, ranging from botany to engineering to cartography, but he is best known as a painter. And yet in his 67 years on the planet, he finished fewer than 40 paintings. He worked at a very gradual pace. The Mona Lisa took him 14 years! That’s the kind of deliberate approach I'd like to see you experiment with in the coming weeks, Aquarius. Just for a while, see what it’s like to turn down your levels of speed and intensity. Have you heard of the Slow Food Movement? Have you read Carl Honoré’s book In Praise of Slowness? Do you know about Slow Travel, Slow Media, and Slow Fashion?

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 Free at last! Free at last! Thanks to the Lord of the Universe or the Flying Spaghetti Monster or a burst of crazy good luck, you are free at last! You are free from the burden that made you say things you didn’t mean! You are free from the seductive temptation to rent, lease, or even sell your soul! Best of all, you are free from the mean little voice in your head— you know, the superstitious perfectionist that whispers weird advice based on fearful delusions! So now what will you do, my dear? You have escaped from the cramped, constricted conditions. Maybe you can escape to wide-open spaces that will unleash the hidden powers of your imagination.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 Modern movies don’t scrimp on the use of the f-bomb. Actors in The Wolf of Wall Street spat it out 569 times. The word-that-rhymes-with-cluck was heard 326 times in End of Watch, while Brooklyn’s Finest racked up 270 and This Is the End erupted with an even 200. But this colorful word hasn’t always been so prominent a feature. Before 1967, no actor had ever uttered it on-screen. That year, Marianne Faithfull let it fly in the film I’ll Never Forget What’s’isname. In the coming weeks, Pisces, I invite you to break a taboo that’s maybe not as monumental as Faithfull’s quantum leap, but still fabulously fun and energizing. Be a liberator! End the repression! Release the blocked vitality!

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EARTH DAY AND EATING Just in time for the 45th anniversary of Earth Day on April 22, the U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee has made it official: consumption of animal products

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I COULD EAT A HORSE A new study provides a greater understanding of the cellular signals responsible for the hunger sensation.

Hunger Pangs New discovery in the neurochemical pathways of appetite sheds light on future treatment of overeating BY BRENDAN D. BANE with under-eating and overeating. The project, supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, explored how our cells communicate with each other to cause the sensation of hunger. “What makes this remarkable really is a technical thing,” says co-author of the study and UCSC biochemist Glenn Millhauser. “But it’s a real game changer in terms of understanding cellular signaling.” The old explanation isn’t far off the mark: Whether you feel hungry or stuffed begins with two hormones: ghrelin and leptin. When you start eating, fat cells release leptin, and, through a series of biochemical interactions, you start to feel less hungry. But when your body needs nutrients, ghrelin steps in. Intestinal

cells secrete ghrelin into your bloodstream, and in response the body releases a special molecule called Agouti-related protein, which scientists refer to as AgRP (pronounced ag-rip). “AgRP drives feeding behavior,” says Millhauser. “It makes you want to eat. When you get hungry, your AgRP neurons are firing away.” AgRP stimulates hunger by binding to melanocortin 4 (or MC4) receptors, which are like stationary couriers that relay messages from outside the neuron. Faulty MC4 receptors can prevent the cessation of hunger, causing a person to eat much more than their body actually needs. Many people who struggle with severe obesity for genetic reasons have

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t’s 11 a.m., almost lunchtime. Your grumbling stomach sends the signal: I’m hungry! There’s more than just a growling gut instigating those hunger pangs, though. Behind the sensation of hunger lies a complex system of biochemical processes running throughout your intestines, fat and brain. Though scientists have generally understood the neurochemical pathways of appetite for several years, a new study from researchers at UC Santa Cruz, the Vanderbilt University and King’s College, London, reveals that the previous explanation was missing a crucial step. The discovery of a previously overlooked protein involved in the process could lead to better medicine for those who struggle

mutated MC4 receptors. Here’s where the old explanation had it wrong: Scientists suspected that hunger comes shortly after AgRP tells the MC4 receptor to send its signal. But when researchers at the University of Vanderbilt tested that system, they found something surprising. They blocked the MC4 receptor signal, which should have brought the process (and the onset of hunger) to a screeching halt. But it didn’t. The neurons still fired. So they started blocking other parts inside the cell. By turning one thing off at a time, they eventually found an overlooked player in the game: a special protein, Kir7.1, that communicates with the MC4 receptor. When the researchers blocked the once-unnoticed protein, that finally quieted the neuron, and hunger pathway. “From a human health perspective, this is huge in that it gives us a new insight into such a critical metabolic pathway,” says Rafael Palomino, another co-author of the study and graduate student in Millhauser’s lab. Palomino, who holds a fellowship from the National Institutes of Health, suggested that the discovery could allow future scientists to create more precise and specialized medicine to treat eating disorders. “As with any drug, you want to avoid off-target molecules that can lead to side effects,” Palomino says. “Moving away from an on-off switch model to something that can be fine tuned to a specific response requires learning as much as we can about this pathway.” That medicine could come through altering AgRP’s structure. By tweaking the protein’s shape, Millhauser can create versions of AgRP that either enhance or dull hunger. “The obesity epidemic has profound health consequences,” says Millhauser, who explained that his lab had produced a type of Trojan horse version of AgRP that still binds to the MC4 receptor, but steals the place of regular AgRP and produces a much shorter hunger response instead. “If we could develop drugs that interfere with this system, that interfere with AgRP’s action, then that could be great way to develop therapeutics to help people stay at a healthier weight.”

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FARE SHARE The Santa Cruz Metro and economic development are working on a plan to redo downtown’s bus station, complete with housing and parking. PHOTO: CHIP SCHEUER

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collaboration brewing between the City of Santa Cruz and a private development group could potentially transform a main corridor of the city, completely revamping a 4.1-acre segment of downtown Santa Cruz’s Lower Pacific Avenue. The two development projects, headed by the City of Santa Cruz and Santa Cruz Metro, and by a private development group spearheaded by developer Owen Lawlor, are adjacent to each other, near the intersection of Pacific Avenue and Laurel Street. If approved, the projects, which are in initial planning phases, include the Pacific Station project—headed by the city and Santa Cruz Metro— which seeks to rehabilitate the Santa Cruz Metro Center and create housing, while Lawlor’s development

group looks to create a mixed-use development next door. Planners say the projects solve a public parking crunch in downtown, while offering more residential space for a community that suffers from a scarcity of housing inventory and soaring rental prices. The project area encompasses both sides of the city block, with Front Street on the west and Pacific Avenue to the east, and will extend to the 1010 Pacific Apartments just south of Cathcart Street to Laurel Street. “From the city’s perspective, this project aligns with our goals to provide a vibrant downtown corridor,” says Bonnie Lipscomb, executive director of Santa Cruz’s Economic Development Department. “When you view it as one large project, it creates additional open space and there is opportunity

for a paseo between projects. We’re talking about a 4.1-acre project in a vibrant public downtown space.” The Lawlor plan calls for about 200 market-rate housing units built on floors that ascend from a ground floor that will feature commercial space for retail or restaurants. Lawlor says he and his group are eagerly collaborating with city officials and they are excited about the possibility of developing a large swath of downtown. “It’s a large undertaking,” says Lawlor, who has partnered with Devcon Investments LLC for the project. “But it’s a great opportunity and potentially a great thing for downtown Santa Cruz. “We can provide more housing, look at creating more great retail, revamp the transit community and do it all >14

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Cycling and transportation activists have long been partners, but in Santa Cruz they could soon be walking down a new path to closer collaboration than ever before. The Santa Cruz City Council voted on April 14 to begin work on a new Active Transportation Plan that will consolidate the process by which the city applies for funding for bicycle and pedestrian projects. It will also let city staff plan for the future of both pedestrian and cyclist projects together, all at the same time. “There are some specific needs of the bicycle and pedestrian community. There are many common and shared experiences they have,” says Claire Fliesler, a transportation planner who’s been with the city’s public works department for about three months now. “They want a shared network. They want to get from point A to point B.” The notion that pedestrians and cyclists have a lot in common isn’t a particularly novel one, but it does have some momentum right now. Just earlier this month, People Power, the iconic Santa Cruz organization that promotes alternatives to driving, changed its name to Bike Santa Cruz County. When some people raised concerns about pedestrian issues being left by the wayside, the nonprofit’s director, Amelia Conlen, pointed out that infrastructure for safer walking and better biking are often one and the same: trails, paths and small bridges—such as the one planned to go over the Branciforte Creek and complete the levee system. Fliesler is in the process of applying for a grant to close the gap with that new bridge right now. “We’re really working to complete that feature, to provide one more gem in our active transportation community,” says Fliesler. More to the point, this shift to lump bike and pedestrian grant applications together mirrors funding at the state level. In 2013, the state legislature combined bicycle and pedestrian grant programs— including State Safe Routes to School and Bicycle Transportation Account—into one umbrella-funding program called the Active Transportation Program. By getting on board, the >16

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Annivveerrsaaries and Anniversaries Memes iin R M Reall E Estate t t By Datta Khalsa, Broker

As I write for the 40th Anniversary Issue of Good Times, I feel inspired to take a look at anniversaries in real estate. An anniversary is a reminder of the passage of time, a way to measure how far we have come, and of how much things have changed. When I got into the business 23 years ago, agents didn’t have laptops, much less iPads, and 30 agents shared a single computer served by a dot matrix printer. A few had started to carry cell phones but they were huge, and many still used pagers in case of emergency. We used the Thomas Brothers map book and, since email wasn’t in popular use yet, we had a few extra fax machines to lend to clients. Seems almost trite compared to the way we do business today, with electronic signatures, automatic email updates, GPS mapping, aerial video tours and homebuyers spending more time on the Net searching for properties than their agents.

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I remember spending evenings and weekends at the ofﬁce as that was when you could reach people at home. Today pretty much everyone carries a smart phone and ﬁts their real estate in between their daily activities. A deal can just as likely go together via a text or email at 6 a.m. or 11:30 p.m.

Even as the memes of communication have changed over the decades, the essence of the relationship between agent and client hasn’t. And in the face of industry game changers like Zillow and Trulia, there still is no substitute for an advocate who can evaluate, market, investigate and guide the due diligence process. It brings to mind the recent movie Boyhood, which followed a ﬁctional family for 17 years as technology and fashion changed all around them. Or the recent episode of Modern Family that took place entirely on an iMac screen as a FaceTime conversation. At the end of the day, while stage and setting may have changed dramatically, the players and plot of the play remain the same. Datta Khalsa is the broker and owner at Main Street Realtors in Soquel. He can be reached at (831)818-0181 or datta@mainstrealtors.com. Paid Advertorial

in a way that is consistent with the community.” The Pacific Station project has been in the planning stage for more than a decade and has been the subject of serious detailed planning talks for the past 18 months. The project entails replacing the current Metro Center, which was built in 1984, with a ground-floor transit hub replete with retail shops and restaurants topped by four or five floors of residential units and a component of public parking. “The current Metro Center is an obsolete facility,” says Andrew Clifford, the Metro’s general manager. “Since it is located right in

the hub of the downtown, we think it makes sense to pursue transitfriendly development, mixed use features, commercial property that makes sense and will support the downtown ridership of our system.” Lipscomb says the parking spaces are particularly important, as permits for parking garages feature waiting lists at least six months long. “We’re at the point where if you do a new development, you’ll have to create the required parking spaces,” Lipscomb says. “Previously, you could just buy into a parking district, but we don’t have excess parking spaces.” As city leaders reimagine downtown, they are discussing parking in other places, too. Last week, the City Council bought

the vacant building that used to house Front Street Thrift, which is surrounded by city-owned land. The $2 million purchase opened up a discussion about one day using the location for more parking or for mixed use—possibly a combination of housing and parking. Lawlor hopes that creating housing downtown will give people an option of living without the dependence on automobiles. “The community desperately needs housing, but, increasingly, young people want to live in an urban environment where they don’t need a car,” he says. “You can ride a bus, ride a bike, experience entertainment or go to the beach all without needing a car. It’s >18

NEWS BRIEFS BEAR TRAP It appears a city grants policy was apparently not followed when the Santa Cruz Police Department (SCPD) applied for federal grants for a BearCat armored truck, GT has learned. The policy requires that City Council approve grant applications for all new projects. The policy is in Santa Cruz’s City Council Policy Manual and reads, in part, “If staff proposes to submit a grant application for a project or program that has not received prior approval, the City Council must expressly approve the application.” It also reads, “Acceptance and appropriation of grants in excess of $50,000 must be approved by the City Council.” It sparked community outrage last December when both the community and city councilmembers learned that SCPD had already engaged in 15 months of a grant application process for the controversial truck without informing local government and public. In response, the city manager’s office announced that it was working on a new grants policy. A draft proposal was in the agenda report for the March 24 City Council meeting.

That draft included the language, “Council authorization is required for the submittal of grant applications for awards exceeding $100,000 ... Whenever possible, Council approval of a grant application for significant projects, programs or equipment should precede any request to other governmental bodies for letters in support of the application, regardless of grant value.” On March 24, Assistant City Manager Tina Shull told the City Council, “The community questioned the process by which the grants funds were sought. While the police department followed the established process in seeking Council acceptance of the grant, the City agrees that the process could be strengthened to provide earlier notice and requested action to the Council. … We can do better.” The grant procedure discussion is likely to appear on this week’s agenda report for the April 28 City Council meeting. The mayor and city manager were unavailable for comment, while SCPD spokesperson Lt. Bernie Escalante referred GT to the city manager. Opponents of the BearCat are none too thrilled about city leaders

apparently straying from its own written policy. “It’s sad to see city administration as either deceptive or incompetent,” says Ron Pomerantz of SCRAM! (Santa Cruz Resistance Against Militarism) upon hearing that grant procedure seems to have not been followed. Pomerantz wants the council “to bring accountability for those responsible for violating City policy in order to rebuild trust in our government.” JOHN MALKIN

LOST IN SPACE Stevenson College’s sci-fithemed “Intergalactic Night” in the Stevenson Event Center blew up last week, but not in a good way. At the same time that the dining hall was decorated with flying saucers and space scenes, someone chose to put Mexican food on the menu. Why? Simply because they hadn’t had Mexican food this year, we’re told. But beings from outer space are called aliens, and some people call Mexican farmworkers illegal aliens … and, do we need to spell out the rest? Several people complained,

a campus spokesman says, and the school not only apologized, but mandated “cultural competence training” for all students who put on campus events. Stevenson’s Dean of Student Life Carolyn Golz wrote an apology letter emailed to students: “Unfortunately, the program planners made a poor decision when choosing to serve a Mexican food buffet during a program that included spaceships and ‘aliens,’ failing to take into account how these choices might be perceived by others. We would never want to make a connection between individuals of Latino heritage or undocumented students and ‘aliens’ and I am so sorry that our College Night appeared to do exactly that.” After the story went viral with posts by Fox News and others, there were howls of protest on Reddit’s Santa Cruz page: “Instead of seeing this as an act of trying to be socially conscious,” wrote Bestnoona, “isn’t automatically assuming that aliens equal Mexicans actually the more obvious racist remark? People need to check themselves.” BRAD KAVA

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BRIDGING THE GAP The Arana Gulch Multi-Use Trail, seen here at its grand opening ceremony, is a new link in the city’s transportation network for cyclists and pedestrians. PHOTO: BRAD KAVA

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city can streamline much of its grant application process, making it easier to apply for grants that would benefit both pedestrians and cyclists. Santa Cruz County Public Works Director John Presleigh says that in the future, the county will probably consider doing something similar to the city’s new Active Transportation Plan. It’s an approach that could help a wide array of people. “At different times of the week, you might be a walker, or a cyclist, or a driver, or a transit user, but we want to have those facilities really benefit everyone in our community,” Fliesler says. For the plan’s drafts, Fliesler will be reaching out to pedestrian and bicycle groups, including nonprofits like Bike

Santa Cruz County, as well as Bicycle Advisory Committee and the Elderly and Disabled Transportation Committee, both part of the Regional Transportation Commission. The city’s plan, which is expected to appear before the City Council in summer 2016, will go through two rounds of community input, says Fliesler, to assess the community’s wants and needs. The first round will allow community members to share their vision and highlight parts of the city’s “non-motorized transportation network.” After collecting that data into a cohesive strategy, Fliesler and company will report back to the community with its findings to see if there’s anything that needs fine-tuning.

“At different times of the week, you might be a walker, or a cyclist, or a driver, or a transit user, but we want to have those facilities really benefit everyone in our community.” - CLAIRE FLIESLER, TRANSPORTATION PLANNER

Fliesler expects the process to be “very interactive,” with lots of maps. Possible priorities may include green bike lanes, safe routes to schools, multi-use trails, and improvements to West Cliff Drive. The City Council is expected to see the final Active Transportation Plan in August

2016. And if all goes according to plan, city residents will see a more foot-friendly transportation network—for cyclists and pedestrians alike—not too long after that. Says Fliesler: “It’s a good time to start thinking about these things and start planning for them together.”

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The inside story of how Jay Shore’s weekly divided and conquered Santa Cruz 40 years ago BY DAN PULCRANO

hen I arrived in Santa Cruz as an 18-yearold, I applied to sell ads at Good Times because I needed to pay for college. I’d been the top seller at the San Diego Reader a year earlier. I didn’t get the job. They told me they didn’t want to hire a student, and I wound up working for a competitor, the Independent. That didn’t last long because my boss invited me over to his house on Opal Cliffs, plied me with vodkagrapefruit cocktails and expressed his interest in having his way with

me. Yes, ladies, it happens to us, too. Even though I identified more with the socially conscious free publications of the era, I found Good Times fascinating because it defied conventional wisdom and succeeded. When I wrote my thesis on weekly journalism in California, it was Good Times, along with the LA Weekly and the San Diego Reader, that I studied. My graduation advisor—the late, legendary UCSC writing instructor Don Rothman—was unsettled by my conclusion that a free weekly could be wildly successful without any social mission, as long as it had a

good entertainment section. It didn’t matter if the publisher thought gay personals and abortion were immoral (Reader), was obsessed with covert U.S. military intervention in Central America (LA Weekly) or just wanted to party on (Good Times); the publication would succeed if it covered the fundamentals of selling ads and provided useful back-ofbook information in an attractive format. So it’s ironic that I’m an owner of the paper that almost four decades ago wouldn’t hire me, and which was also the antagonist of my college thesis.

A large concrete block rises above the south end of Santa Cruz’s Pacific Garden Mall. The building looks something like a giftwrapped package with a ribbon slicing across its upper left-hand corner. On the ribbon are two words: Good Times. In the rear parking lot is a black Mercedes sports coupe with the same words on its bumper. A man gets out and heads toward the elevator, which is decorated with a rainbow-like design, a pattern one sees again when the doors open onto the corridors of the third floor. It’s painted in happy colors—lime-sherbert green and cantaloupe orange. The publisher’s office inside is mostly white and stark. Two graphics stand out. The first is a framed copy of the first issue of Good Times, the weekly Jay Shore started five years ago. The other is a chart of advertising plotting each year’s fortunes with green, blue, purple and red lines, each one exceeding the previous year in a jagged upward climb. He’ll need a new chart soon, because the red line went off the chart last December, forcing him to use a pushpin and red thread to reach a point inches above the bulletin board that holds the graph. Shore leans back in a padded swivel chair, strokes a crest of fine red hair and glances out the window. The 32-year-old est graduate says the reason for his success is simple. “I’ve presented a positive view on whatever we chose to cover, and I left politics aside … I think the paper is rather unique. It doesn’t cover any politics, yet it is seen by a large number of people in Santa Cruz as a community paper and it doesn’t cover things that are traditionally covered by community papers, namely school boards, births, deaths …” “I wanted people to finish reading

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So, while the electorate of Santa Cruz has battled over issues of growth management, rent control, environment, power, and the recall of public officials, Good Times has covered entertainment. Its coverage has been dominated by music reviews, film reviews, record reviews and restaurant reviews which are rarely, if ever, critical. This policy was set down by Shore in a front page editorial on October 30, 1975: “This paper, it’s no secret, generally gives favorable publicity to local performers and resident enterprises. We believe in the talent in this community and are strong boosters of the good life in Santa Cruz … And I personally prefer to publish good news. Not only does it make it easier for me to walk down dark alleys and into bars late at night, it’s also profitable—for everyone associated with the paper. Good Times is healthy and prosperous precisely because of this attitude." At least half a dozen other weeklies and biweeklies started up in the ’70s, none of which shared Good Times' fortune. All of them tried to present an alternative viewpoint to the news presented in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, a conservative daily. The two that have survived into the ’80s—the Phoenix and the nowdefunct People’s Press—could barely maintain enough advertising for a 16-page issue on weeks when Good

Times prints ad-choked 60-pagers. Underground-style newspapers like Sundaze and Free Spaghetti Dinner are only memories. So is the Santa Cruz Independent, which for two-and-a-half years was Good Times’ most vital competitor. The Independent had been a collectively-owned, communityoriented newsweekly which alienated many of its potential advertisers with its editorial positions. Disregarding the sentiment of the business community, it supported rent control, opposed development, took up the cause of street musicians and endorsed socialist candidates for public office. It also revealed that Leask’s department store had administered polygraph tests to employees and reported that bouncers at the Catalyst nightclub were rearranging customers’ faces. Both businesses excluded the Independent from their large advertising budgets. Jay Shore knew better than to bite the hand that fed him and opted for a more commercially palatable product when he founded Good Times in 1975. He realized that political coverage was not something the business community wanted and that “... there didn’t seem to be a market for it. Those who wanted it weren’t a large enough segment of society to make an impact on our possible advertisers. Santa Cruz is a small town, and I knew that to establish a good, buyable newspaper here I’d have to bring together the different parts of this town like they hadn’t been brought together before. And to take political stands on issues was just going to further fragment the town or at least make more manifest the fragmentations of the town, and there is no economic base for a fragmented audience.” Today, Leask’s and the Catalyst advertise heavily with Good Times. So do the majority of small businesses that advertise locally, who, regardless of their ideological leanings or feelings toward the Good Times, find the paper an indispensable way to reach the lucrative youth audience. Shore learned the hard way

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NOTHING BUT GOOD TIMES that profits, not politics, make a successful newspaper. He made the transition from idealistic journalist to success-conscious businessman only after a series of attempted careers and a failed newspaper venture. Once, he was even controversial. While a student at Penn State, he published an underground newspaper which led to his arrest on obscenity charges. “Our first issue had John Lennon and Yoko Ono nude on the cover, and it got into the hands of high school students,” Shore remembers. “Some irate parents phoned the local constabulary, who pulled me out of my Shakespeare class and arrested me ... It cost me $500 in attorney’s fees to prove my innocence.” Shore had also been a seventh grade English teacher in North Plainfield, New Jersey and a freelance reviewer for Rolling Stone. He came out to Santa Cruz in the summer of 1971 with a guitar he sometimes played at local clubs. Shore worked for 13 months as a reporter for the Santa Cruz Sentinel. He quit to become a fiction writer, a career that would last only a few months, after which he started the Santa Cruz Times with some savings he had brought out from New Jersey. The paper was billed as “a contemporary news medium,” and emphasized feature-oriented local issues, such as development, crime against hitchhikers, gays and lesbians, nuclear power, oil drilling in Monterey Bay, and what university students do after graduation. Neal Coonerty of Bookshop Santa Cruz, a faithful advertiser in both papers who now co-owns a bar with Shore, recalls that the bearded publisher wore a leather jacket and rode a motorcycle in those days.

“His first office was upstairs in the ID building, and you went in through the entryway to the men’s room. It was a small paper, only eight or 12 pages, and it wasn’t very successful,” says Coonerty. As editor of the Santa Cruz Times, Shore says, “I was not so much concerned with operating a business as I was with running an editorially and artistically professional newspaper. I didn’t realize then, although I should have, that a newspaper had to be run exactly like a business to stay in business. Both the editorial and the graphic end of the newspaper were indeed functions of the business end, because if there was no business, there would be no paper to print the editorial matter on. There would be no machines to typeset it. There’d be no office in which to house it—and there wasn’t in those days. In those days I was bringing home $300 a month, and by far I was the highest paid person there—and I was working 50 to 60 hours a week.” Even then, he — JAY SHORE claims, “I was never politically concerned.” Unlike many of his peers of that era, he was not bothered by capitalism. He yawns and adds, “I didn’t think about it being necessarily bad. I never thought the workers were particularly oppressed. I never thought of it one way or the other.” Shore covered politics in the Times because “it was exciting from a purely journalistic point of view,” not out of a desire to shape events or influence changes. Despite its editorial strengths, the Times had lost money from its first issue, and in March of 1975 Shore had to give up because “I was tired of hitting my head against the wall … [and] … I could no longer afford to sustain the loss.” He decided to create a new

“I did something that I found made good business sense as well as good karma, and that is to write about things in a positive light."

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NOTHING BUT GOOD TIMES “I told him it would absolutely not work ... Obviously, I was wrong,” he chuckles. * * *

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“Want to have fun?” asked the first subscription ad. “Subscribe to Good Times, the one local newspaper dedicated to telling you about all the fun trips you can take in HOMECOMING Jay Shore (center, with then-staffers Santa Cruz … the Elizabeth Limbach and Greg Archer) revisted the one newspaper GT offices in 2010. devoted entirely to the entertainment, recreation and <29 paper called Good Times, the crafts scene.” name he had been using A front page article in the second for the Times’ calendar section. issue asked readers to write about It started two weeks after the their recreational activities. “Don’t original newspaper’s demise. It hesitate to include the seemingly would be light and unchallenging, small or irrelevant incidents that emphasizing lifestyle features, were part of your activity,” they calendar listings, film reviews, were advised. Writers were offered crafts, theatre and record writeups. a free one-year subscription in Most importantly, it would be exchange for their services. apolitical. It was a novel concept, one that In the Santa Cruz Times’ final hadn’t been tried before. At first, editorial, the editor wrote, “While reader reaction was restrained, but not disparaging politics, I think by the third issue there appeared a there are enough vehicles for fan letter: it for those people who want to

read about it … Good Times, it is my hope, will show people how to enjoy themselves here. It will suggest places to go and things to do.” Apparently, he was not without misgivings, telling his readers, “I know more and more residents have come to depend on the Times to provide them with a professional, alternative viewpoint we so sorely need. The local daily leaves a gap, a big one, and the other weeklies in town have not consistently had the talent to bridge that gap.” Coonerty remembers Shore coming into his office and announcing that he was starting a paper exclusively for entertainment.

Dear Editor: Hey, I like your new paper, better than the old political one. I just finished reading Vol. I, No. 2 and Bruce Bratton’s page is really fun to read. Don’t let him go. Also Joan Klingenberg’s food column—we needed this. I also read the “Letters,” glanced through the Calendar, and, of course, the front page. You know, I was going to let my subscription run out in August, but now I am sending a $5 check for another year. I really appreciate your terrifically good efforts ... I like it and I’m square and middle aged. Sincerely, Irene Clark, Watsonville

Shore says he doesn’t recall if he wrote the letter. In the beginning, the paper struggled to build an advertising base, running lean 12-page issues. At one point, Good Times even accepted an ad from Frenchy’s adult bookstore offering a $14.95 vibrator for $8.88 “with this ad.” There was also a hazy distinction made between advertising and editorial. When the newly-opened Stereo Warehouse ran a full page ad, it was accompanied by an article headlined “LOW PRICES, QUALITY GEAR AT STEREO WAREHOUSE.” By its seventh month, Good Times was running 16 pages steadily and claimed to be “the largest circulated weekly in Santa Cruz.” It was getting advertising from stereo stores, haircutters, craft shops, clothing stores, restaurants, theatres and foreign car mechanics. Soon the paper added color to its covers, an innovation which would evolve into a colorful style that became the publication’s trademark. As Good Times grew, so did employee dissatisfaction. During late 1977 and early 1978, staff members claimed their talents were being exploited by an unresponsive management, and they attempted to form a union. Unionization was put to a vote, and to Shore’s surprise, it won by almost a 2-1 margin. According to former typesetter Rosemary Balsley, Shore hired management consultants and lawyers and dragged out negotiations for over nine months. Afraid of sabotage, he stripped employees of their keys. When the stalemate was finally broken, only one union member remained, and starting wages were raised from $2.50 to $3 an hour. Balsley minces no words in describing her former employer. “He’s a pig,” she says, “very controlling, sexist, exploitative, aggressive and authoritarian. He’s very temperamental. He broke a lot of pencils and threw a lot of temper tantrums.” In the summer of 1978, Shore had a falling out with his sales manager, Lee Nation. (“He fell out,” as Shore

describes it.) Nation had been a long-time Santa Cruz local whose experience as a salesman for the Sentinel, hometown contacts, and business savvy had been largely responsible for the paper’s rapid growth. Shortly after he left Good Times, a bitter Nation charged he had been promised a share of the corporation, and he quit the day Shore reneged on the deal. Shore says he never discussed ownership with his sales manager, but prefers to avoid the subject. Shore also came under heavy criticism from the left for his headin-the-sand approach to community politics. Many resented him for his success alone, but there was also a feeling that Good Times was rapidly gobbling up the bulk of the youth market advertisers, making it difficult for a political paper to exist in Santa Cruz for the 18-34 market. Nevertheless, Shore persevered. Up until then his life had been a series of disappointments. An attempted marriage fell through. He did not want to be a teacher or reporter, and there was little hope of making it as a musician or novelist. His first newspaper venture had failed. This time he was determined to succeed. He had hit upon a moneymaking formula with Good Times. It meant he had to discard many of the time-honored notions traditionally associated with good journalism: public service, objectivity, credibility, critical reviews uninfluenced by advertising concerns, protection of people against bad government, and so on. Because his paper is so different from other newspapers, Shore claims, “I further defined the alternative newspaper ... Good Times is a true alternative newspaper.” This statement, while ludicrous at first, may have a strange logic to it. There has been a nationwide trend among alternative newsweeklies to de-emphasize news in favor of fluff, features and entertainment coverage. Shore took this trend to its extreme conclusion and eliminated news coverage altogether. Shore feels that a newspaper’s

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of style and format than substance. “To a great extent ... the impact of the content is determined more on its presentation and medium in which it is presented rather than the content itself.” As Marshall McLuhan would say, “the medium is the message.” The way in which a newspaper presents its content is sometimes called “packaging.” Shore believes “packaging is crucial to the success of just about anything. I think it is the absence of a package as well as reduced price which make people buy Kmart toothpaste as opposed to Crest. Yet, far more people will buy Crest as opposed to Kmart, precisely because of its package and naturally, because of publicity and advertising.” It’s hard to resist the challenge: “So what you’re saying is that a newspaper is like, say, a toothpaste, and will sell if you design it right and put the right colors on it?” “Sure,” he answers, “You have to sell a newspaper. Anything you have to sell has to be packaged properly, marketed properly, distributed properly, and I think it can well be argued that to a great extent content is either subservient to or definitely altered and made to be what it is as a result of the package you choose to present it in … The viewer sees it differently depending on how it is presented.” The results of good packaging are apparent from the chart on my left. Shore sees me looking at the grid of peaks and valleys and a dialogue ensues. How much money does Good Times make? That’s for the stockholders to look at. How many stockholders do you have? One. Ha. It is a private corporation.

What’s your gross? It’s healthy. Figure it out. Some quick mental arithmetic reveals that during his top week of the year, Shore is grossing near $20,000. Other issues fall between $10 and $15 thousand. What does Shore think about capitalism? “Oh, it is an excellent system,” he responds, “As long as it is left unhindered it is the only system that provides you with incentive to do something, the only economic system that provides you with the incentive to get off your ass and better yourself.” And while he may never have looked at it this way, by publishing Good Times for the past five years and getting away with it, Jay Shore has been making an important political statement about our times. He has been distributing a sanitized view of the world in his newsless newspaper, and as far as the print media in Santa Cruz goes, it’s the hottest thing in town. If you talk to Good Times readers or advertisers, you’ll hear many complaints. But readers snap up papers each Thursday to find out what movies are playing or what bands are in town. And advertisers find Good Times an irresistible vehicle for attracting revenue. Shore thinks he’s found the trend of the future and has launched a San Jose Good Times. After San Jose, he’s looking to conquer the entire Bay Area with a regional paper. Shore shrugs off any criticism of Good Times, saying: you can’t fault the dog for not being a cat. After reading this article, his only complaint was that I had gotten the color of his Mercedes wrong. It’s brown, not black,” he pointed out, adding that brown was the color of a conservative businessman. I looked closely at the sports coupe and noticed that, sure enough, it was a deep cordovan that closely resembled black. It was a subtlety that had escaped me, but Jay Shore knows packaging and was just trying to make sure I’d show his true colors.

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ust out of UCSC, clutching a highly practical degree in medieval history, I went looking for work and found it at the long-lost and lamented Santa’s Village near Scotts Valley, where I toiled one summer at the puppet theater. I pulled strings to get the job, because I knew the franchise operator, and I pulled strings on the job, making a musty ostrich marionette cavort across the stage to the desultory delight of small children. My next employment move was into the offices of Sundaz!, the local alternative weekly newspaper. On reflection, I think puppetry would have been a more lucrative career choice. But then I would have had nothing to offer about the exceptional longevity of the Good Times, which has survived 40 years in one of the great hotbeds of alternative journalism and emerged as the last independent weekly left standing. The roll call is almost Biblical. The Free Spaghetti Dinner, a freeform id eruption, begat Sundaz! (also Sundaze at times), which begat the Independent, which begat the Phoenix, which begat the Santa Cruz Weekly, which sort of begat the Express, which begat the Sun and Taste, which didn’t exactly begat (but we’ve got a rhythm going) Santa Cruz Magazine and Inside Santa Cruz, which begat Metro Santa Cruz, which became Santa Cruz Weekly, which hybridized with Good Times. And the list is neither exhaustive

nor perfectly chronological, but does give a good idea of how many people, in the words of Charles Foster Kane, thought it would be fun to run a newspaper. When I started at Sundaze!, in 1973, alt-journalism wasn’t a job (withholding? medical insurance? Surely, you jest!), it was a calling, an embrace of the muse and a taste for amusement. We didn’t have word counts back then, because the IBM Selective typewriter on which copy was entered on a narrow roll of adding machine paper didn’t have a wordcount tool, and we weren’t about to do the math ourselves. Articles sprawled to fill the space available (about 12 or 16 pages an issue, but the font and leading were suitable for head-of-a-pin engraving). And we still had room for a poetry page, short stories, weird unsigned satirical pieces and miscellaneous japes (“Subscribe to Sundaz! and win a tank! Offer void where prohibited by Geneva Convention.” Who knew that 40-plus years later, the Santa Cruz Police Department would finally take delivery on its winning entry?) When we weren’t writing, we idled away our time peering through the smudgy second-story windows at Pacific and Church, checking out the action on the patio at the old Cooper House, where Don McCaslin and Warmth held court; razzing passersby; and making fake calls to the phone booth by Leask’s department store. Those were salad days indeed. Rents, even adjusted for inflation, were ridiculously low; printing

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was cheap, and paper was cheaper. If it wasn’t exactly an Edenic era, it was at least prelapsarian, because the fall came just two years later, on April 3, 1975, when Jay Shore started a new weekly called Good Times. The name alone felt like an affront designed to lure advertisers rather than to challenge and enlighten readers. Shore’s reputation as a difficult boss prone to outbursts didn’t help; I never worked at Good Times, but I heard enough tales of woe to accept them at face value. Ever after, a motley crew of writers, reporters, columnists, artists and activists beat itself to a bloody (as in red ink) pulp trying to compete with Good Times and its upbeat product— the one newspaper devoted entirely to the entertainment, recreation and crafts scene. Jay Shore rapidly became our bête noire, a name taken in extreme vain. Moby Dick and Captain Ahab were BFFs compared to Good Times and us. The things we said, the dark thoughts we

harbored—they do us no credit in retrospect, but after more than 10 years of failed publications, the task of taking on Good Times seemed positively Sisyphean. When Shore sold Good Times to a New Zealand publishing company in 1988, some of the air went out of the local newspaper war. It wasn’t personal anymore. In the mid1990s, Metro Santa Cruz/Santa Cruz Weekly (which I edited for a time) proved a worthy competitor to Good Times; it was a near miracle that a town the size of Santa Cruz could support two robust free weekly papers, but it wasn’t a model that could last indefinitely. In 2014, Dan Pulcrano came up with a better idea, bought Good Times and combined it with. The Hatfields and the McCoys had intermarried at last. Forty years later, Good Times has at last merged with the whole tradition of Santa Cruz alternative journalism. That is surely cause for celebration. If only the Oak Room were still open for a round of drinks.

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Dazed, But Not Confused

A reflection on Santa Cruz in the 1970s They were planting in the full moon. They had given all they had for something new. — Neil Young, “Thrasher”

975 was a great year to be young and bohemian in Santa Cruz. I had just turned 20 that spring, and, like Henry Miller nearly a half-century earlier in Paris, I had no money, no resources, no hopes. I was the luckiest man alive. Santa Cruz was oozing with

sensuality back then, in every aspect of its culture: music, food, dance, poetry, film, politics, and conversation. Even the air and the light seemed sensual. One moved through the Santa Cruz scene in those years with a pulsating, physical passion. To borrow a phrase from Ernest Hemingway about Paris in the ’20s, it was a movable feast. The community was just beginning to emerge from a dark, psychotically twisted cocoon of the Eisenhower era and strange, nearly

BY GEOFFREY DUNN incomprehensible violence. In the early years of the decade, Santa Cruz had been rocked by a grim series of mass murders, earning it the dubious rubric “Murder Capital of the World.” But by 1975, that darkness, at least for the moment, seemed to be passing; Santa Cruz was once again enveloped in light. Looking back 40 years, the times seem remarkably free and easy. Rooms rented for as little as $15 a month. During one period in the mid-’70s, I slept

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he center of the universe in the ’70s was the Pacific Garden Mall. From one end to the other, and off its side streets, it was teeming with life. During the day, its main hub was the Cooper House, with jazz wizard Don McCaslin and a musical ensemble he called Warmth holding court in the margarita sunshine. The music bounced off the 19th century walls up and down the avenue, calling out to one and all that the circus was in town—every day, every night. The scenes after sundown were many and varied. One of my first hangouts downtown was Seychelles, then located in a brick building behind the old Bookshop Santa Cruz. It was dark with lots of little nooks and angles and wooden tables that rattled against the floor. My friends from the university and I would drink carafes of red wine and spend endless hours there discussing Mao Tse-tung and Virginia Woolf, Jean Rimbaud and Jack Kerouac. Intellectual horizons seemed to

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stretch into eternity. There were lots of other truly magical nightspots that have long since vanished, all with their own unique flavor and unforgettable charm. On North Pacific Avenue, there was the working-class-chic United Bar, and, of course, the Flat Iron Building housed the legendary Teacup. There was nothing quite like a kamikaze in the Teacup listening to Don Yee’s stories and dreaming about faraway places. That would come to be my hangout for the next decade and a half, until the 1989 earthquake wiped it all out. The Catalyst was still located in the wonderfully intimate Garden Court of the old St. George Hotel. That was the place I had my first public drink at the age of 19— with my father, who was passing through town—and where some great local bands like Snail, Annie Steinhart and Oganookie played into the wee hours of darkness.

f you wanted to brave the elements and stray away from the friendly counterculture confines of the Pacific Garden Mall, you could head for blue-collar heaven up Soquel Avenue. There was the Eastside Tavern (now One-Double-Oh-Seven), where most of my high-school buddies and a band of pseudo Hells Angels hung out, and Rita’s Senator Club, from which I was permanently eighty-sixed for getting in a fight with a redneck plumber who either didn’t like my dreadlocks or my pubescent goatee. Probably both. Out of town, there was the Zayante Club up in Lompico, the Sail Inn on Portola Drive, the Edgewater and Capitola Joe’s in Capitola, and you could always make closing time with Jimmy Del Pierre at Mac’s Patio. Before that there had been the Sticky Wicket in Aptos, and a host of smaller funkier joints. All those places are long gone.

I developed a routine back then in the mid-’70s that I was to maintain, more or less, until the earthquake. On Friday afternoons, I would start with a coffee in the courtyard behind Bookshop Santa Cruz, where everybody seemed to know everybody and where you could pick up all the weeklies and semi-weeklies and variations of the so-called alternative press. I started in the basement of Bookshop, then eventually browsed my way out the front door onto the Pacific Garden Mall, where there would always be more conversations and more friends. If you were lucky, you might run into a delightful cast of elderly mall characters like Tom Scribner or Sid Canepa. You never knew how long a trek down the mall could take. Sometimes it took hours; sometimes even days—perhaps weeks. Santa Cruz was nothing else if not an adventure.

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and even the Civic Auditorium (twice), the Ducks played to mostly packed and enthusiastic houses until Labor Day weekend. Young himself performed some of his personal anthemsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mr. Soul,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Are You Ready for the Country,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Comes a Timeâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;and also showcased a new song that summer, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sail Away,â&#x20AC;? which would later appear on his album Live Rust. Their all-too-brief summer stint marked one of the glories of that era.

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Recollections vary, and the record is not quite definitive, but by my best calculation and memory, the Ducks played in Santa Cruz at least 20 times that summer. Because of contractual obligations that Young had with his longtime backup band Crazy Horse, the Ducks were allegedly restricted to playing gigs solely within the city limits of Santa Cruz. Jim Mazzeo, Youngâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good friend and road manager in the 1970s, handled the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bookings and arrangements. Beginning on July 9 at the New Riversideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Back Roomâ&#x20AC;? bar (site of todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Riverside Inn), then to the Crossroads (located at todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sash Mill), then to various haunts, including the Catalyst, Veterans Hall, the Pacific Coast Steamship Company (in Harvey West Park),

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guidance of former model Ann Simonton, ultimately became larger than the pageant itself and served, in a sense, as part of the civic religion. You could always count on Santa Cruz for remarkable street theater.

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hen I arrived in Santa Cruz in the mid1990s, the town had a well-established reputation for being an open, gayfriendly place. There were rainbow flags hanging from balconies, Pride was a city-wide celebration, and out-gay men and lesbians worked in every imaginable job, from coffee shops and restaurants to health care, law, city government and public works. A women’s bookstore, Herland Book Cafe, kept me stocked with queer-centric zines and other reading material; the Saturn Cafe was a beacon for gay and gayfriendly vegetarians; Ani DiFranco, Ferron, and Team Dresch performed here regularly; and the Diversity Center was a vital community hub. For a hippie-leaning young lesbian, Santa Cruz was queer paradise. But it wasn’t always this way.

In the 1970s, Santa Cruz was a different place. With one of the largest retiree populations in the country and a conservative City Council, it was not the open, liberal, gay-friendly hub that it is now. In 1975, the first Pride parade drew hecklers, protesters, and threats of violence. The election of John Laird and the late-Mardi Wormhoudt to the City Council signaled a change in local politics, and in 1983 Laird became one of the first openly gay mayors in the country, marking a pivotal time in the city’s transition away from conservative politics toward a liberal bent. The way Laird tells it, however, he was just the face of a very vibrant and active community. “When I was elected to the City Council in ’81, there was strong gay support,” Laird says. “Gay people were everywhere—there were

doctors, lawyers, child care workers, public employees, people who worked in the visitor serving industry … You couldn’t build a coalition with any organization without there being somebody that was gay or lesbian in it.” Trying to determine the key players and events that shifted the local consciousness around LGBT issues is like diving headfirst down a wormhole of courage, activism and vision, with each community leader or activist leading to five or 10 more people who were instrumental in the movement. In addition to Laird, those key players include celebrated feminist author, UCSC educator, and activist Bettina Aptheker; famed composer and Santa Cruz resident Lou Harrison; lesbian feminist poet, essayist and activist Adrienne Rich; renowned scholar, activist and UCSC educator Angela Davis, an early supporter of gay rights; prominent LGBT activist and educator Nancy Stoller; and Dr. Jerry Solomon, co-founder of the Santa Cruz AIDS Project (SCAP). But the groundswell of queer acceptance and visibility was created by people whose names didn’t appear in any national headlines—people who saw a way they could make a difference, and did it. These people all shaped Santa Cruz into the LGBT-positive place that it is today. The establishment of UCSC helped lay a foundation of liberalism in Santa Cruz. Women’s Studies and Feminist Studies departments provided safe spaces for people to talk about issues surrounding gender, inequality, health and sexuality. In 1975, the KZSC radio program “Closet Free Radio” began

as a queer-content public affairs show, and is still airing today. As students graduated and stayed in Santa Cruz, the local culture began to change, too, which in turn attracted more queer-friendly people. A 2014 UC Campus Climate Assessment Project found that over 11 percent of UCSC undergraduates, nearly 14 percent of graduate students, and 12 percent of the staff, identify as LGBT. Deb Abbott, director of UCSC’s Cantú Queer Center, describes it as a critical mass. “Because UCSC was billed as kind of an alternative campus from its inception,” says Abbott, “it drew queer students, even though it took a few years in the beginning to be a visible presence. As critical mass developed and people became more courageous about being out, it began to draw even more people.” The university also tries to give good cultural competency training, so those students who don’t identify as LGBT have a progressive stance around LGBT issues. “In whatever work they end up doing, they have a sensibility that’s queer inclusive,” Abbott says. Crucial to the creation of a queerfriendly environment in Santa Cruz was the women’s movement of the 1970s and ’80s, which brought to light issues of gender, reproductive rights, domestic violence, equal pay, sexual harassment, sexual violence and more. Out of it grew consciousness-raising groups which included a men’s movement and queer-centric publications such as Matrix, Manifesto, the Lavender Reader, and the Rubyfruit Reader. Numerous nonprofits also budded then, including the Santa Cruz Women’s Health Collective which became the Women’s Health Center, WomenCARE, and Women’s Crisis Support-Defensa de Mujeres. “Some of our earliest nonprofits … were founded by feminists,” says Abbott. “And many of the founding mothers of those organizations were lesbians or queer-identified women.” In the 1980s, the AIDS epidemic proved to be a unifying force for the local gay community. Dr. Jerry Solomon, co-founder of the Santa

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our months ago, I stopped shaving my armpits. I’d always been lazy about it (do you even know how much time and money it demands?) and even during my years at UCSC, among the happily hairy hippies, I never felt quite confident enough to just let myself grow—something inherently feminine, although not by cultural standards. But when I returned to the smallish, wealthy, semi-suburb community where I grew up, I realized there’s something unique about Santa Cruz that only a 50-minute drive east could unveil: women here have a lot of freedom. Freedom to reclaim femininity in whatever way we see fit—with

pumps or Birkenstocks, lipstick or septum piercings, pencil skirts or birdwatcher pants, waxed legs or hairy ones. No matter how small or subtle, the multitude of ways in which we can express ourselves is a testament to the city’s robust history of women who transformed academia, career fields, artistic niches and physical spaces in ways often taken for granted. 1975 saw the first class to graduate in Women’s Studies at UCSC, but at that time it wasn’t a sanctioned degree, since it was still a studentfaculty collective. What is now called Feminist Studies had an arduous journey to becoming a full-fledged department, despite the fact that, in

the heat of second-wave feminism, many found it unacceptable that there was no curriculum focused on women’s issues. “Certain administrators were very resistant to allowing Women’s Studies to become a bonafide department. It took until 1996 to become a department—it was simply sexism. It was just a prejudice,” says Bettina Aptheker, one of the most renowned professors in the Feminist Studies department. Those early years depended greatly on faculty members from various departments and students to keep classes afloat, says Aptheker. Today, the department has 10 fulltime faculty members and the classes are packed. In 2013, the

first Ph.D. cohort in the department began its inaugural session, and during the 10 years faculty pushed for its approval, the department was granting a “designated emphasis” in Feminist Studies. “Reproductive rights, violence against women, issues around child rearing, the family, race and class, gender, sexuality, lesbian identity, gay identity—these were all major political issues that were being argued on a much broader political scale,” says Aptheker. Aptheker began teaching “Intro to Women’s Studies” in 1980 and became the first hire on a tenure track in 1987 when the then-“program” became a “committee.” She’d already made a name for herself in the Communist Party and Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, and worked for the defense in Angela Davis’s high-profile trial in the early ’70s. Since Aptheker arrived at UCSC, the student population has more than doubled, but she says that it’s been other changes, like the inclusion of cultural and ethnic studies, that have diversified the feminist landscape. “When Women’s Studies and women’s liberation was first founded, the mainstream movement was very white and largely middle class. But at the same time that the media was giving all this attention to the women’s movement, there were black feminists who were organizing in 1970, and Chicano Latino women at the same time,” she says. When the Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) department was founded at UCSC, it was a huge step, says Aptheker. But the transformation took time, and a whitewashed movement wasn’t attractive to all women. Roberta Valdez was the director for the UCSC Women’s Center from 2000 to 2008, and she says that before she took the job, she didn’t identify as a feminist. “I’m Chicana—that was my primary identity; I did things through my involvement and activism that certainly made me a feminist, but the transformation was subtle in many ways,” says Valdez. “But I left my job at the university

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I was grateful to the students for their education of me.” Valdez came to Santa Cruz from Mendocino, and she agrees that there is something unique about how women were able to claim their education, organizations and careers: “There’s an openness for women here—there isn’t the kind of overarching identity of feminism in other places as there is here,” she says. This is a city where many men aren’t afraid to call themselves feminists, says Valdez, and they actively strive to advocate for both genders. Ultimately, it has to do with the networks that men and women built to raise women up—networks that were not present 40 years ago.

LAYING DOWN THE LAW

TRAIL BLAZERS The right to bare hairy arms, among others, rests on the struggle of countless women throughout this city’s history. Like Ann Simonton, who notoriously made headlines with her famous meat dress in 1982—the same year that Ms. Magazine dubbed Santa Cruz a “feminist utopia.” Activists like Simonton and Nikki Craft were responsible for getting the media’s attention, but other women in Santa Cruz also made enormous strides for the movement in far less obvious ways. Lorette Wood was elected the first female mayor in 1971; Mardi Wormhoudt followed in her footsteps and led Santa Cruz through the aftermath of the Loma Prieta earthquake, later becoming County Supervisor; Helene Moglen was the first female dean of Humanities and championed for the Women’s Center, as did famed lecturer emerita Marge Frantz. Claire Delano Thompson, Carol Girvetz and Suzanne Paizis, among others, fronted the local chapter of the National Organization for Women; bell hooks completed her Ph.D. in Literature at UCSC a few years before Angela Davis headed the African American Studies and Feminist Studies departments there; and, most recently, a local computer programmer named Kathleen Tuite created the Feminist Hacker Barbie website. It’s not a utopia (even Simonton renounced that title) but 40 years of fierce vocal women fought to pave the path for future generations—like mine, who can raise our unshaven arms in celebration of their legacy. Like the former Women’s Center Director Valdez says: “That’s why it’s called a movement, it helps these transitions over hard places, it gets things out in the open—gets people talking about them, and problem solving, working together,” Valdez says. “It’s all moving things in a more just direction.”

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aybe it happened because I’d spent part of my childhood in Europe. By the time I was 12, I’d hit cafes in Como, patisseries in Paris, and weinstubes in Munich. Or maybe it happened because I had no fear. Or both. But at any rate, there came a time in the early days of Santa Cruz alternative journalism, circa 1980-something, that a posh new California-cuisine restaurant opened in the old Cooper House. It was called Hilarie’s and

the chef, Ray Pinochi, resembled a thinking woman’s cross between a Hell’s Angel and a Viking god. That worked for me, and so did Pinochi’s menu, which featured lots of nouvelle touches like reduction sauces spiked with Pernod, salads tossed with raspberry vinaigrette, adorable baby vegetables instead of big full-grown everyday vegetables, and beautifully presented seafood and game dishes. It was the era of scallops crowned with prosciutto and wrapped in ribbons of leek. It was the power

moment of dining as entertainment, and it seemed like every street corner in Santa Cruz had sprouted a wonderful new restaurant. Some were long on intriguing ethnic menus—Seychelles, The Swan/Heavenly Goose, Zanzibar, China Szechuan, O’mei, India Joze, Persimmon House, Sukeroku. Some gave a California spin to bistros of European and Mediterranean provenance— Salmon Poacher, Theo’s, Casablanca, l’Oustalou, Cedar St. Cafe, Chez Renee, Cafe Sparrow, Primizia, Pearl Alley Bistro, the Courtyard, The Farm, the list goes on and on. Everybody went out to eat. All. The. Time. And the same everybody wanted to know just where to spend their dining dollars. I had some pretty specific ideas on that question. I went to the opening of Hilarie’s, sampled gorgeous (looking and tasting) appetizers and wrote up an energetic little riff on why people should get extremely excited about Pinochi’s menu. It seems that I had a knack for vibrant, down-to-earth sensory reportage—and it was much more fun than finishing up the dissertation I’d been avoiding. Around the same time that Hilarie’s opened, a tiny redhead came knocking on the door of Santa Cruz Express. She had a few bottles of chilled chardonnay in her hands and she didn’t hesitate to open them and pour a few glasses for us. We didn’t hesitate to drink them. She was June Smith and the wine she pitched— Roudon-Smith—represented one of the first wave of the new wave of boutique California premiums. But she wasn’t the only surfer on that wave, and pretty soon there were others. Like a tall good-looking guy from Beverly Hills who’d just planted a few very costly clones of Pinot Noir up in the hills of Bonny Doon. His name was Randall Grahm and he could talk about wine, Kierkegaard, and Middle English dialects all day

long. I could listen to Grahm all day long. And I did. Pretty soon I was wandering through damp cellars, through forests of steel fermenting tanks, learning to swill and spit into those unfortunately undersized little drains in the concrete floors. Many shoes were stained an indelible shade of Grenache during those arduous early days. Back then, winemakers pitched their tents on a weekly basis, it seemed. Where Roudon-Smith, David Bruce, Felton-Empire, and Bonny Doon Vineyard led, others joined in. Storrs, Smothers, Byington, Salamandre, McHenry, Silver Mountain. Post-hippie winemakers like Jeff Emery, J.P. Pawloski, Jim Beauregard, Chuck Devlin, Prudy Foxx and John Schumacher brought their wine instincts and sheer grit to the seemingly insane idea of making top-quality wines—initially based on the Burgundian grail of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir—on this rocky, mountainous, coastal neck of the woods. Nobody likes to talk about their oenolic handiwork like up-andcoming winemakers. Shamans bearing gifts with sturdy tannins and top notes of mint and licorice, they were hugely informative and entertaining. I hung out with them, visited their wine-making facilities—tiny, cramped cellars usually located at the end of steep mountain roads (at least one car radiator was sacrificed in the quest for the latest Syrah). I listened. I tasted. I took notes. Dexter Ahlgren helped me educate my tastebuds on the distinctions between Sémillon and Sauvignon Blanc. Steve Storrs explained the alchemy of Pinot Noir clones. Bradley Brown taught me to appreciate the crimson blackness of Syrah, and Jim Schultze provided liquid epiphanies on the joys of tannins. Just like the red wine stains in my Levis, some of their lore sank in. Eventually, I learned how to taste, what to taste for, and not only what I liked in wines—almost anything red, if you must know— but what made a wine memorable: minerality, complexity, and a long finish. (Thanks again, Jim Schultze).

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work aside, acquiring a grasp for what makes one wine a standout and another simply serviceable is a lifelong study. Wine is a living creation, and like everything that’s alive, it changes as it grows, develops, and ages. A glass of wine five minutes after it was opened is a far different creature than the same glass a half hour later. Learning to detect and savor those nuances has come with the territory. I’ve been lucky. Our winemakers wanted me to get on board with what they were up to just as much as I wanted to sample and appreciate their craft. It was a mutual pact among consenting adults. I think I got the best end of that bargain. Our local food scene—indeed, the entire California culinary scene— and our Santa Cruz Mountains wine-growing adventure, both came up together. When I began food and wine writing, times were flush; everybody uncorked bottles for plenty of free tastings, and many restaurants were happy to bring out a few extra dishes for me to try. I didn’t have an expense account, but the newspaper did have trade-outs with lots of great eateries, so I could graze, sample, and immerse myself in new dishes and seasonal specialties the minute they arrived on local menus. It was the best of times and the tastiest of times. Adventurous restaurateurs like Paul Cocking turned the kitchen of Gabriella Cafe into what has become the prequel to many superstar chefs’ careers—Jim Denevan, Rebecca King, Brad Briske, Sean Baker, and Ari Taymor. I continued to tune my palate by saving my puny salaries (more than one day job has been my lifelong strategy) for trips to Europe and Mexico throughout those prime tasting and dining years. There is nothing like a five-hour dinner at some multi-Michelin-starred restaurant abroad to add nuance to one’s discernment. Accompanied by fellow foodies, such as Rosemary Bryan and Melody Quarnstrom, I ate my way across France, starting

in Paris where I had a superb meal at Guy Savoy (before chef Savoy spawned a dining empire on two continents), before heading south to l’Esperance and Paul Bocuse. A passion for Italy has broadened my palate (though not my hips, thanks to nonstop walking), and last year I enjoyed a one star Michelin lunch in Milan, then another in Munich. I try to keep some skin in the game. The point is that wherever I am—at home or traveling—I make sure to find out what chefs are up to, what the local specialties are like, and what seasonal harvest is being showcased. A few years ago, a trip to Rome in early October produced dish after dish, on menu after menu, of variations on fresh porcini mushrooms. Back home at Ristorante Avanti, I found the local California variations on fresh porcini, as wonderful as they were, not European. My taste buds could compare. I admit I’ve become a food and wine tourist (OK, and art and opera), finding the cuisine of a region to be one of the most accurate lenses through which to understand the locals, their values and their passions. Let’s just say it has worked for me. Along the way I won some awards and three James Beard Foundation nominations. And this kind of decades-long research allows me to confidently and genuinely enjoy the many creative food and wine experiences once again on the ascendance in Santa Cruz: a Hungarian wine workshop at Soif, an evening of southern Italian specialties at La Posta, venison carpaccio at Oswald, winter squashes with Szechuan peppercorns at O’mei, shredded baby artichokes and organic arugula at La Gioconda, seafood carpaccio at Bantam, authentic rye breads from Companion Bakeshop. A glass of Pinot Noir made by Tony Craig, un-oaked Chards from Ryan Beauregard, or just about anything concocted by Jeff Emery. Bold and often surprising, such sensory experiences are the continual rewards of a charmed career.

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knew the man was a mere youngster when, referring to the “old days in Santa Cruz tech,” he said in an incredulous tone, “Back then, companies didn’t even let people work from home!” “Actually,” I replied, “we couldn’t work from home. Most companies in those days had mainframes and minicomputers, and to get work done we had to go into the computer lab. It’s not that they wouldn’t let us—working at home wasn’t possible.” Suddenly, my professional life

flashed before my eyes. What follows will publicly out me as an old person in tech. But there’s no turning back. My first job at a computer company was at Mountain Computer, in 1980-81. Located in the back corner of Harvey West Park, we were cutting edge, creating digital synthesized music on the Apple II. We had no networking then, so the only way into the system was by keyboard or diskette. One of my projects was to test Mountain’s music software.

I soon realized that my lack of a Computer Science degree was going to keep me as the lowest person in the engineering pecking order. Although I already had a BS in Sociology, I decided to go back to school and get some practical skills. As a CS student at UCSC in 1981-82, our only way to get homework done was in one of the computer labs on campus. Aside from learning the basics of compilers, data structures, and C programming language, one of my poignant memories of that year was flirting by email with my soonto-be boyfriend. It was a new thing to flirt online in 1981. I graduated in 1982, and the guy and I broke up the following spring. I landed a job at Parallel Computers in Santa Cruz, my first startup. We made UNIX-based redundant self-monitoring systems (preTandem) and our tag line—at least internally—was “Syncing at last!” All of those long startup hours were spent in the office. At least we each had a huge character-based monitor. Our domain name was dogbreath. com, because geeks controlled things like that—and, honestly, it didn’t occur to us that anybody would ever be interacting with customers by email. My next four years were at Hewlett-Packard in Cupertino on the HP-UX team. Still no working at home. I commuted in a vanpool and was slightly carsick for the entire four years. Other than that, my main nightmare was the refrigerated lab. Since I was working on limited prototype hardware, I had no choice. Cold air flowed up through perforated raised floor tiles to keep the huge systems from overheating. These days, you can typically see these floors in a data center. Back then, you had to sit where the terminal was located, and my only option was to wear a winter coat and hat, which really doesn’t help much when you’re sitting on top of freezing air blasting directly at you all day long, for weeks on end. I started at Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) in 1989. I was grateful for my two-mile commute, and vowed never to complain about crosstown traffic. I rode out the ’89 Loma Prieta earthquake on the

second floor of SCO’s Mission Street building (now a CVS store). Our team eventually moved to Encinal Street. In those days, SCO was one of the largest private employers in Santa Cruz and occupied seven or eight buildings in Harvey West Park. Back then, we sent software updates to customers on 5.25- or 3.5-inch floppy disks. Because the department I worked in controlled all the partner-supplied hardware, we each had one or two powerful workstations to use, each with a huge terminal. It wasn’t until 1993 or 1994 that I brought a system home from work. The tower and terminal were so huge that I couldn’t carry either by myself. When my house was burglarized in 1997, the burglars couldn’t unscrew the display cable and left all the SCO gear behind. I went on maternity leave in August of 1994, and when I returned to SCO in March of 1995—like magic we were looking at displays with a graphical interface. The main focus of 1998-99 was gearing our software for Y2K, a big deal in the entire software industry. At some point while at SCO, I got DSL at home. I heard about Google for the first time—before that, “a googol” was a large number. Our lunchtime walks included visits to the then-new Costco. One thing hasn’t changed—it’s still popular to hit Costco for food samples. We survived Y2K, but in 2001, SCO split into two. One part became Tarantella, acquired in 2005 by Sun Microsystems, now Oracle Corporation. The other part was acquired by Caldera Internatonal, a company headquartered in Utah. Caldera later changed its name to “The SCO Group.” I’ll spare you the sordid legal details, but by then, it was no longer our SCO. I got married, had a kid, and got divorced, all during my 13 years at SCO. After surviving many layoffs, my time there came to an end in 2002. I was still using the vi text editor. Some folks had started using MS Word, so perhaps I was a bit behind the times. Where did folks go after SCO? What tech companies were in Santa Cruz during the ’80s and ’90s?

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The answer informs our local tech history: The folks at SCO moved to Borland, Starfish, LightSurf, Microport, Metaware, Sierra Imaging, Intel, Silicon Engineering, Perkin-Elmer, Lutris, Intersan, TGV, Victor, WatkinsJohnson, Texas Instruments, Meridian, JSB, Raytek, Live Picture, Creative Labs, Predictive Systems, Phoenix Technologies, Double Click Imaging, ICOnetworks, Seagate, Cisco, IUMA, MediaCast, Addicted to Noise, Touch Communications, Plantronics, Cruzio, UCSC, and plenty of other places in Santa Cruz. The only large tech company still based in Santa Cruz from those days is Plantronics. In 2004-2005, I worked at UCSC in a few project management roles. And I got my first laptop. That’s what really enabled us to work at home—that, and a flexible manager. In 2005, I transitioned from W2 to 1099. My first two clients as a freelancer were Claire Schneeberger, founder of Monarch Media, and Margaret Rosas, then founder of Quiddities. Both women are still very much Santa Cruz-based, and both continue to be inner-circle colleagues of mine.

OUR BIG BANG Four key events conflated in 2007-08 to form the current era of local tech: SC Geeks, Tech Meetup, Freelance Camp and NextSpace. Margaret Rosas, Sean Tario, Sol Lipman, David Beach, Marcus

Nelson, and William Lawrence formed Santa Cruz Geeks in November of 2007. The Geeks had regular dinner gatherings for several years, and today SC Geeks still function as an email list. Doug Erickson founded Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup in 2008. This meetup is still going strong, typically filling Cruzio to capacity with 250-plus attendees. The first-ever Freelance Camp was held on Aug. 17, 2008, at the Museum of Art & History. Many key movers and shakers in our tech community today were there, including Shane Pearlman, Margaret Rosas, Jeremy Neuner, Iris Kavanagh, Sol Lipman, Jacob Knobel, and Nina Simon. Freelance Camp was a huge success, and it represented a turning point in our tech community. During a break at Freelance Camp, Neuner walked a group of us across Cooper Street to show off his new endeavor. The opening of NextSpace in downtown Santa Cruz (in the former site of TGV) in October 2008 was a primary catalyst that ultimately shifted us from the notion that tech in Santa Cruz consisted of a collection of mediumsized companies to the reality that our tech community was—or was soon going to become—a vibrant ecosystem of freelancers, startups and companies, all interrelated. “We’re in co-op-etition,” Rosas would say. Cruzio’s coworking space opened in November 2010. Cofounders Peggy Dolgenos and Chris Neklason

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On a career-shifting spring day in 2013, Rosas and I sat in her car on Walnut Avenue after a coffee date. It was time for my yoga class, but as we talked, yoga came and went. Margaret, who later went to work at Looker, was professing that somebody should be telling our stories and documenting our history, and I found myself saying, “I think I can do that.” Shortly after, I met with then-mayor Hilary Bryant and asked if she thought a weekly digest of local tech news would be valuable to her. “Here’s my personal email address,” she said. “I don’t want to miss it.” Santa Cruz Tech Beat (santacruztechbeat. com) launched in July 2013, and continues to publish the tech community’s news, events, jobs, and more, online and in a weekly email digest. In the fall of 2013, Bud Colligan stepped into the local limelight. I was pleased when Bud allowed Santa Cruz Tech Beat to break the story when he launched Central Coast Angels, a group of local investors that provides capital to early-stage businesses in the region. Aside from being a savvy investor and businessman, Colligan genuinely cares about local economic vitality. What pivotal things in the last 40 years have given rise to our current emerging tech scene of startups, freelancers, co-working, and companies? Of course, we know it’s the Internet, laptops, and smartphones. However, if you add in the special Santa Cruz sauce, you’ll find NextSpace, Cruzio, UCSC, SCO, Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup, Santa Cruz Tech Beat, and much more.

THE EVOLUTION OF SANTA CRUZ’S TECH LANDSCAPE t In 1983 or ’84, Parallel Computers was the first tenant to move into the 3004 Mission St. building that is currently being renovated for Pacific Collegiate School. t Intel also had a fab lab on the Westside, near Natural Bridges. The building went through a few hands, including AT&T, and now belongs to UCSC. t Jon Luini co-founded the Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA) in 1993, Geek.org in 1994, and Addicted to Noise in 1994. IUMA started in a borrowed space on campus and then moved to 903 Pacific Ave. along with scruz.net and Cruzio. IUMA later moved to the Sash Mill, which was also the location for the Santa Cruz office of MediaCast (which later turned into wah.net). t In the mid-’90s, TGV—said to stand for “Two Guys and a VAX”—was acquired by Cisco Systems. The building that is now NextSpace was once TGV/Cisco’s Santa Cruz office. t Lutris, founded by SCO ex-employees Paul Morgan and Michael Browder around 1995, was located on the second floor above what is now occupied by Forever 21. t In 1997, Network Alchemy, co-founded by David Kashtan and five other ex-employees of TGV/ Cisco, resided in the Flatiron building, above what is now Jamba Juice. Network Alchemy was acquired by Nokia in 2000. t Intel occupied the 400 Encinal St. building prior to SCO. t SCO built their main headquarters in 1988 or so at 425 Encinal St. The building is now occupied by Georgiana Bruce Kirby Preparatory School.

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SANTA CRUZ DANCE WEEK 2015

OPEN CLASSES SATURDAY, APRIL 25TH-FRIDAY, MAY 1ST Curious about African, Ballet, Samba or Hip Hop? With no excuses and nothing to lose, dancers from beginner to advanced can shake it up in any number of Open Classes offered throughout the week. This is a great opportunity to try a new style or instructor and to bring a friend to any number of dance studios and community centers offering classes all week. An Unlimited Class-Pass gets you in to all classes and is only $10. Go to SCDanceweek.com to purchase yours today! All classes are open to NEW students only

ADULT CLASSES SATURDAY, APRIL 25TH 9:00am Ecstatic Dance (418) 10:00am Mixed Level Belly Dance Conditioning (PPFFDC) 10:30am All Levels Capoeira (RDB) 12:00pm Ballet Basics (MP) 2:30pm Int/Adv. Master Class with Anton Pankevich (ADA-SV) 7:30pm Beg. Tango (PBRSC) SUNDAY, APRIL 26TH 9:00am Rhythm & Motion Dance Workout (MP) 9:00am Salsa Workout (TWDCC) 11:30am Pilates Mat (BIM) 7:00pm 8-Count Beg. Swing (PAC)

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MONDAY, APRIL 27TH 11:30am Pilates Mat (BIM) 5:00pm Xtend Barre (BIM) 6:00pm Beg. Capoeira (RDB) 6:00pm Worldanz Workout (SVG)

6:30pm Beg./Int. Jazz (MP) 7:00pm Rhythm & Motion Dance Workout (MP) 7:15pm Int. Ballet (ADA-SV) 7:30pm Beg. Jazz (DC) 7:30pm West African (TWDCC) 8:00pm Ecstatic Dance (418)

TUESDAY, APRIL 28TH 9:00am Rhythm & Motion Dance Workout (MP) 11:30am Power Stretch (BIM) 5:30pm Beg. Hula (THN) 6:00pm Egyptian Belly Dance (418) 6:00pm Xtend Barre 6:15pm Beg. Belly Dance (PPFDC) 7:00pm Jazz Basics (MP) 7:00pm Samba Basics (TWDCC) 7:30pm Beg. Tango (GAH) WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29TH 9:30am Ballroom Basics (PBRSC) 9:45am Worldanz Workout (WAMA)

11:30am Pilates Mat (BIM) 12:30pm Xtend Barre (BIM) 5:30pm Beg. Ballet (DC) 6:00pm Worldanz Workout (SVG) 6:00pm Xtend Barre (BIM) 6:30pm Mixed Level Hip Hop (MP) 7:00pm Beg. Level Tango (CEC) 7:00pm Beg. Hip Hop (TWDCC) 7:15pm Int. Ballet (ADA-SV)

THURSDAY, APRIL 30TH 11:30am Power Stretch (BIM) 12:30pm Xtend Barre (BIM) 5:30pm Intro Ballet (ADA-A) 5:45pm Rhythm & Motion Dance Workout (MP) 6:00pm Beg. Capoeira (RDB) 7:00pm Beg. Salsa Rueda (PH) 7:00pm American Tribal Style® Belly Dance, level 1 (TWDCC) 7:00pm Limon Modern (TWDCC) 7:30pm Beg. Tango (VH)

LOCATION KEY (ADA-SV) Agape Dance Academy Scotts Valley 2183 Mt. Hermon Rd. Scotts Valley (ADA-A) Agape dance Academy Aptos 783 Rio Del Mar Blvd. 53 Aptos (BIM) Body in Motion 783 Rio Del Mar Suite 55, Aptos (TN) Te Hau Nui School of Hula 924 Soquel Avenue in Santa Cruz (CEC) Calvary Episcopal Church Parish Hall, corner of Lincoln and Cedar St. Santa Cruz (GAH) German American Hall 230 Plymouth St, Santa Cruz (LN) Louden Nelson Community Center 301 Center St., Santa Cruz (MP) Motion Pacific 131 Front St. Downtown, Santa Cruz (PAC) Pacific Arts Complex 1122 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz (PBSC) Palomar Ballroom 1344 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz (PPFDC) Pleasure Point FDC 907 41st Ave. Santa Cruz (RDB) Raizes Do Brasil 207 McPherson, Santa Cruz (LSMA) Light Speed Martial Arts 5004 Scotts Valley Dr., Scotts Valley (SVG) Scotts Valley Gym 100 Enterprise Way, Scotts Valley (SZ) Studio Z 6861 East Zayante, Felton (TWDCC) Tannery World Dance 1060 River st. #111, Santa Cruz (VMB) Veteran’s Memorial Building 846 Front Street, Santa Cruz (418) 418 Project 418 Front St. , Santa Cruz (WAMA) Westside Aerobics & Martial Arts 509 Swift Street, Santa Cruz

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A Few UCSC Facts In honor of its 50th anniversary, five odd tidbits BY WENDY MAYER-LOCHTEFELD

The banana slug has been the UCSC mascot for 25 years. There was a brief attempt by a pushy sea lion to usurp the slimy yellow forest dweller, but it did not end well—for the sea lion. When the men’s tennis team played in the NCAA finals, their T-shirts read: “Banana Slugs—No Known Predators.”

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t’s official: Santa Cruz has been a university town for 50 years. And while the relationship between UCSC and the city of Santa Cruz is complicated, so are all great marriages. Fiftieth anniversary alumni celebrations take place this week, and there will be plenty of accolades to go around. UCSC graduates have won Pulitzer Prizes, MacArthur Genius Grants and Fulbright Awards. Its researchers were the first to assemble the DNA sequence of the human genome. Its astronomers came up with the theory of cold dark matter, which is now considered the basis for the structure of the universe. We can’t top that. But we can offer a toast to the city on the hill (and a shout out to City on a Hill, whoo!), and point out a few random things that make UCSC unique.

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A look back at how downtown Santa Cruz recovered from the 1989 earthquake BY MIKE CONNOR [Editor’s Note: This article originally ran in 2005 in pre-Good-Times-merger Metro Santa Cruz as one in a multipart series which I still consider the definitive chronicling of development in downtown Santa Cruz.]

he road to hell isn’t the only one paved with good intentions. Pacific Avenue, sometimes known as the Pacific Garden Mall, but most commonly understood as simply "downtown Santa Cruz,"

has relied on the good intentions— even relentless devotion—of the good people of Santa Cruz for more than 100 years. It's kind of pitiful, actually. The history of the area reads like one long verification of Murphy's law, or a game with the elements not unlike rock, paper, scissors— only we get to play with floods, earthquakes and fire. Flood rots wooden foundations, which are replaced with masonry; earthquake levels masonry, which prompts a

return to wood. Fire burns wood, and so on. If this is some kind of cruel game of fate, then Santa Cruz, over the years, has pretty much sucked at it. Naturally, because the odds are against us. The sexy strip of land we call downtown is part of the natural flood plain of the San Lorenzo River, source of the 1955 flood that devastated downtown. The soil here is subject to liquefaction in an earthquake, and if there ever were a major

tsunami on the West Coast (experts say it’s extremely unlikely), well, downtown is right in the tsunami run-up area. If we were golfers, we’d call the spot where downtown Santa Cruz landed a bad lie. "I keep looking over my shoulder for the locusts," says John Lisher, who owned Artisans Gallery on Pacific Avenue when the Loma Prieta earthquake destroyed downtown Santa Cruz on Oct. 17, 1989. Afterward, he relived the tragedy many times a year, giving presentations for a branch of the governor's disaster preparedness program called the California Specialized Training Institute. Photos of the destruction and statistics like $433 million in damages, more than 600 people injured and six people killed reveal the devastation caused by the magnitude 7.1 earthquake. A columnist in the Washington Post wrote that Santa Cruz lost no less than its very soul. “A piece of the ’60s went down when the quake struck this beach town last week,” she wrote, “and no amount of cement and plywood, no amount of government loans, can bring it back. The quake stole the only thing Santa Cruz had going for it—its past.”

REMEMBERING THE ABBOTTS The past that she spoke of is actually a 20-year period of time, from 1969 to 1989. Before that, Pacific Avenue was just a boring little Main Street, and a flagging one at that, until Chuck and Esther Abbott embarked on a mission called “Project Foresight” to convince business owners to transform the avenue into a Pacific Garden Mall. With nearly 100 species of trees and plenty of benches and planters, the converted PGM was lush and welcoming, its line swaying gently east and west as it ambled north from Cathcart to Water, accented along the way with architectural landmarks like the Cooper House and the Del Mar Theatre. The old mall is still remembered by many as an urban Eden.

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WE CAN REBUILD YOU For a while, the new mall flourished, and the counterculture with it, which I’ll sum up with a snapshot of the Cooper House in the afternoon: people eating and drinking outside, lawyers and hippies in close proximity, Warmth playing the soundtrack to people dancing in the streets. But by 1989, the downtown had gone downhill. Overgrown trees and bushes blocked the streetlights, making some residents feel unsafe there at night. “Before the earthquake,” says former Downtown Association president Louis Rittenhouse, “you could fire a cannon down Pacific Avenue at night and never hurt anybody.” Businesses were also extremely unhappy with and distrustful of the progressive majority, which had taken control of the council in ’81, and had been largely unresponsive to their concerns about street people downtown. “All the businesspeople were often—I use the word ‘whining’— about how things are terrible downtown," remembers Mayor Mike Rotkin. “We [progressives] never had that much of a sense that there was a problem that needed to be addressed. For us the issue was, ‘How do we want to spend the money the city takes in?’” Thanks to UCSC’s continuing parade of undergraduate cash cows, not to mention the cheap rents charged by longtime property owners whose buildings were free and clear, downtown was still economically viable, and the city was functioning somewhat comfortably on the sales tax revenue. The earthquake changed all that. “All of a sudden,” says Rotkin, “for the first time, progressives who had been in power are in a position where they have to figure out, ‘Jeez, now what?’”

ALL FALL DOWN While the earthquake took its toll on the entirety of Santa Cruz County, Gary Patton, who was chairperson of the Board of Supervisors at the

time, says that downtown Santa Cruz suffered the most destruction. Buildings lay in ruins on Pacific Avenue, while the infrastructure below—sewage lines, water lines, telecommunications lines—was irreparably damaged. The Urban Land Institute estimated that Santa Cruz would be lucky to have its downtown back in 10 years. Engineers flew in from around the world to evaluate the structures left standing after the quake, red-tagging building after building. Battles to preserve historic landmarks like the Cooper House were fought and lost. Citing safety issues, City Manager Dick Wilson exercised his emergency powers and had unsafe buildings torn down immediately, even before business owners could retrieve anything— cash, records or merchandise—from the condemned buildings. The rationale was that if something were to collapse, more lives would have to be risked in a rescue effort. Some went in illegally and did not get caught. Jeffrey Armstrong wasn’t so lucky; while removing desk, chairs, records and a computer from his office in the old Hihn Building at Lincoln and Pacific, he was arrested at gunpoint. No one was hurt. “Some people never forgave us for buildings coming down,” says County Supervisor Mardi Wormhoudt, who was Santa Cruz’s mayor at the time of the quake. “Which is understandable, but we made the best decisions we thought we could given the evidence we had at that time.” The economic and cultural heart of the city was destroyed. Knowing that post-earthquake rebuilding efforts are notoriously unsuccessful in small towns, the City Council promptly decided not to approve any projects outside of the downtown area, to focus all energy and investment on Pacific Avenue from Laurel to Water streets, plus Cedar and Fronts streets on either side. The magnitude 7.1 turn of the karmic wheel effectively rendered moot all the political struggles over development and growth throughout the county. All the chips moved

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downtown, and the pressure to move quickly—first to eliminate immediate dangers, then to relocate people and businesses, and ultimately to rebuild—never let up. “It's still a blur to me,” says Wormhoudt. “The community was very divided, and my fear was, those of us—and I will include myself among them—who fought mostly environmental battles and stuff like that, we’d gotten very sophisticated at knowing how to stop projects—not necessarily how to get things done. And so I was really troubled." She said as much to a Sentinel reporter on Nov. 19, a month after the quake when the town clock reopened, adding “When you see all the possibilities [of rebuilding the mall], it can be kind of terrifying.” But progressives weren’t the only ones with the sharp learning curve ahead of them. Earthquake insurance didn’t exist at the time, and many of the property owners downtown—some of whom had been bequeathed their land and buildings from family—had never developed anything before the earthquake. “They were property managers rather than developers,” says Redevelopment Agency director Ceil Cirillo, who was hired soon after the quake. Adding to the difficulty was the fallout of the savings and loan scandals in the coked-up ’80s, which trashed the economy and led to absurd lending policies that required developers to rent 100 percent of their retail space before a loan would be granted. “It was a really hard time,” remembers Wormhoudt. “If you’re gonna have a disaster, you should have it when the economy is good, you know? And the economy was bad.”

BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL Miraculously, the proactive forces of a community in crisis conspired to push, from conception to completion in less than six weeks, the idea of moving merchants into large tents. The so-called Phoenix Pavilions, built by a company called Sprung Instant Structures, covered some

44,000 square feet of parking lot space along Cedar Street. With the help of donated time from local unions, the tents were set up and open for business by the day after Thanksgiving, the busiest shopping day of the year. Meanwhile, Rittenhouse had called Rich Bradley, who was the president of the International Downtown Organization and who just so happened to be in San Francisco at the time, to help facilitate the rebuilding process. “There were still aftershocks as I was coming to visit,” says Bradley. “At that time, my first civic contacts were Dick Wilson and Mardi Wormhoudt, and the lesson I brought to them is that cities that seem to have succeeded after a disaster are cities where everyone pulled together, and Santa Cruz was known as a place where traditionally people like to pull in different directions.” An idea began to take shape to bring both the business community and the community at large to the table together, to find some common ground for what would become of the downtown. The magic number was 36. “The Gaggle of 36 was patterned after the Richmond Project,” remembers Rittenhouse. “In Richmond [Va.], you had two groups—you had most of the business community, and then the politics of Richmond were controlled by the black population. Richmond was becoming kind of like East Palo Alto, where all of the property, the money, the banking community, the ability to invest was controlled by a predominantly white population that had virtually abdicated out of Richmond, and let it sit there and it kept degrading. They finally arbitrated a deal in Richmond where they had an equal number from the financial community and from the political community, 15 and 15, so that somewhere they had to reach a compromise that both sides could live with, and that eventually became a terrific success story in revitalizing a city.” Bradley advised the council to

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"The earthquake for most people was a pretty important event in their life," says Pacific Cookie Company owner Larry Pearson, "and for those of us who were involved with the reconstruction effort, it’s one of the seminal events in our lives." The early days were slow going, as the members groped to find their bearings in the group. It took them multiple meetings to work out a name, even a fair amount of time to choose the shape of a table. “What actually was going on there was we knew it was going to be a long process, so that the name was important, and it had to indicate what we were about,” remembers Pearson. “We could have called ourselves ‘Rebuild Santa Cruz,’ which would have meant, ‘Let's re-create what was there before.’ But all of us realized this was an opportunity that a community is very rarely given, and that is to redefine itself, to have the ability to rethink itself, and how its downtown core—the center of social interaction in the community—how it can be configured, how it can further a community's sense of itself.” And so Vision Santa Cruz was born. Pearson says that, in much the same way that everyone's a food critic, everyone’s an urban planner. Jim Pepper, who taught environmental planning at UCSC, tried his best to make that happen, arranging a 10-part lecture series to bring “everyone” up to speed. The series was called “The Idea of Planning: Thoughts on Rebuilding Downtown Santa Cruz,”

and included speakers like William H. Whyte Jr., a national authority on public space, the New Urbanism proponent Peter Calthorpe and UC Berkeley professor of architecture Christopher Alexander. The architectural design group ROMA hired to design the downtown later remarked that they had never worked in a more informed community. The public was also invited to participate in community chautauquas, the first of which took place in the Santa Cruz High gymnasium. “The entire gym was covered by 8-foot tables, surrounded by eight chairs each,” explains Pearson. “Each table was covered with butcher paper, and on the butcher was a schematic of the streets and the property lines and nothing else. So each table was to feel free, those eight people, to say what they thought would be a good idea for downtown. Do we want to reconfigure streets? Put streets where buildings were, or buildings where streets were? Do you want to make the mall wider? Make it smaller? Do you want a public plaza? Any idea that you had about street furniture, about gathering places, the kinds of businesses who were there … put ’em on the paper." The next day, a representative from each table stood by their vision and explained it to passersby. The input from the community, like the input for this story, provided enough raw ideas to build something 20 times as long as the space in which they had to work. They’d have to narrow down the wide swath of dreams to fit into a very real downtown area. And, where neither the city nor the business community had the authority or the money to do it alone, a compromise would have to be reached. “I really matured immensely as an academic and a professional as a result of being involved in this,” says Pepper, who is now happily retired in Bozeman, Montana, “and listening to the dynamics of this public/ private partnership, which was a whole new thing in Santa Cruz.”

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eccentricity that defined Santa Cruz during a literary renaissance that spread from San Francisco to Big Sur. Tellers of tales close to home like Geoffrey Dunn, Sandy Lydon, and the late great Morton Marcus dig deep into local history, sharing their passion for the past in books like “Chinatown Dreams” and “Santa Cruz is in the Heart.” The legendary Jim Houston, who cut quite a figure in his Hawaiian shirt,

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<80 Graceful subversives like acclaimed poet and feminist touchstone Adrienne Rich found the alchemy in pushing boundaries here. She wrote that a revolutionary poem reminds you â&#x20AC;&#x153;where and when and how you are living and might live. It is a wick of desire.â&#x20AC;? Such thoughts may have occurred to her while browsing at local bookstores, which she did quite often. She might have argued theory with bell hooks, the pivotal feminist writer who continues to advocate for racial equality. After graduating from UCSC, she went on to write her first major work, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t I a Woman?â&#x20AC;? Writing blends into Santa Cruz daily life. Jonathan Franzen goes birding in Boulder Creek, where he lives part-time. Elizabeth McKenzie, author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;MacGregor Tells the Worldâ&#x20AC;? and editor of a collection of Japanese writing called â&#x20AC;&#x153;My Post War Life,â&#x20AC;? serves as managing editor of the Tanneryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s homage to Kayak, the Catamaran Literary Reader. Dan White remembers writing â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Cactus Eaters,â&#x20AC;? his book about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, over coffee at the now defunct but much-loved Capitola Book Cafe. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impossible to do justice here to the history and scope of writers with ties to Santa Cruz. They extend from the likes of visionary philosopher Robert Anton Wilson, whose ashes were scattered off the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, to Karen Joy Fowler, winner of the 2014 Pen/ Faulkner award for her novel â&#x20AC;&#x153;We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.â&#x20AC;? But no matter how far they wander, those who have called this place home would probably agree, it has a way of calling you back. Laurie Fox, Don Wallace, Reyna Grande, and Laurie King will all be heeding the call when they appear along with artist Tom Killion at Bookshop Santa Cruz as part of UCSCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 50th anniversary alumni weekend, to read, sign their books and mingle with their audience. I asked them what effect Santa Cruz has had on their work. Laurie Fox, author of three books, is still a literary agent after 28 years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Santa Cruz was truly a stunning time for me,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was here in the heyday of interdisciplinary arts majors, when you could focus on two

different art forms, like painting and playing the saxophone. We were all thrown together, and I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how it should be. I was a theater rat who came into creative writing because I wanted to perform my own work, and this was a place where you were permitted to plunge headfirst into your ardor, wherever that might lead. Even now, I find myself going from one discipline to another throughout the day, and I prefer books that synthesize several disciplines at once. The richness of collaboration is what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve taken away.â&#x20AC;? Author and journalist Don Wallace says of coming here from Long Beach at age 19, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The landscape and seascapes had an immediate and permanent impact. It was so green, and raw in placesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the ocean smashing into cliffs, the fog rolling in and out, the community molded to the landscape. In Santa Cruz, I lived in my first ruin, which undoubtedly influenced my doing the crazy thing later, as chronicled in my book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The French House,â&#x20AC;? of buying a ruin on an island in Brittanyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;an island of cliffs and smashing seas and fog rolling in, by the way.â&#x20AC;? Santa Cruz was an ideal writing incubator then, he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;as Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure it is now.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;On Walk Circle, near the Lighthouse, I got a rude shed with a pot-bellied coal stove for $50 a month. It had an outdoor shower and leaked badly. But for someone from the flats of SoCal it was inspiring to be that close to the elements. I would write in the living room and walk to the little library that had a fireplace going in winter,â&#x20AC;? he remembers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was a writing community that let me hang around, learning by watching and then doing. At the University, we had dedicated teachers who were not academicsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; they championed a free writing life out in the world, which influenced me in terms of making a life living on my writing.â&#x20AC;? It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t all â&#x20AC;&#x153;warm and fuzzy,â&#x20AC;? Wallace says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I worked in menial jobs, played in a band, got arrested for protesting, fell in and out of love, and lived next door to a serial killerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all the kinds of experiences that feed into a writerly world-view. You can have these experiences anywhere, but in

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Shrine of Saint Joseph DAILY AND WEEKEND CONFESSIONS 10:30 am DAILY AND WEEKEND MASSES 11:00 am The Shrine is administered by the Congregation of the Oblates of St. Joseph KING’S COURT ‘Santa Cruz is like a first draft,’ says local author Laurie King.

Cruz than local author Laurie King. “Santa Cruz is like a first draft: a shorthand sort of tale understood by, and comfortable to, a very limited audience. Explaining Santa Cruz to outsiders is like the rewrite process, when the writer considers how the story looks to the reader,” she says. “Living in an alternative universe, where banana slugs are school mascots and bakeries mull over gluten, lactose and animal products, is good practice for someone whose novels are based on the premise that Sherlock Holmes is not only real, but still alive.” The thing is, we believe in Sherlock, and ruins on an island in Brittany. We believe in collaboration, and that painting and saxophones go together perfectly. We believe that banana slugs make great school mascots, butterflies make good dance partners, and gluten is problematic. We believe in conflict resolution. We believe that our living writers stand on the shoulders of giants, and we believe in the written word. That’s the beauty of inspiring, confounding, unexplainable Santa Cruz. We believe.

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WOOD YOU RATHER Cliff Friedlander in his woodworking studio. PHOTO: CHIP SCHEUER

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rom the Arts & Craftsinspired front door, to the satiny kitchen cabinets and vintage hardwood floors, many if not all of the spaces in the Friedlander home are hand crafted. The customized rooms Cliff Friedlander has shared with his artist wife Sara for the past 35 years are inflected by his global aesthetic, wood working expertise and sensitivity to both form and function. “Cherry wood with ebony pegs,” Friedlander smiles, pointing to kitchen cabinets he recently created, “inspired by a visit to the

Gamble House.” [The Pasadena landmark, hand-constructed by Greene & Greene in 1908, is considered the apex of Arts & Crafts architecture in the United States.] Over the years, Friedlander has re-imagined his own home—ripped out walls, refreshed sight lines, and re-configured windows and doors. “The original house was a box,” he says with a shrug. Everything has been changed. Refined. Passageways have turned into dining nooks, fluted glass mellows the light swelling through the small, incredibly efficient kitchen. As in

so many homes, the kitchen—with its floating cabinets and intelligent counter space—is the heart of the house. “I like to cook, so I was interested in the spaces of the kitchen. Kitchens are the majority of my work,” he admits. Friedlander once taught a kitchen design class along with a chef, and admits, “I learned a lot from that interaction. I saw how a kitchen functions for the cook. And that’s what I can bring to a client.” In the bedroom, a custom platform bed floats on drawers that glide like buttered silk. Vertical

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The customized rooms Cliff Friedlander has shared with his artist wife Sara for the past 35 years are inflected by his global aesthetic, wood working expertise and sensitivity to both form and function. <86 lifelong interest in the Arts & Crafts movement. “We called it ‘art furniture,’” he says. He always wanted to do something with wood, he says, as I admire the undulant grain on a desk of curly koa wood he made 30 years ago. “What I realized in the early ’70s was that it was fun to be doing it—and yet it was very high end stuff for rich people.” Friedlander wanted to translate the artistic style into something more people could afford. He and Sara came out from the East Coast to Santa Cruz, where Friedlander began working with George Smiley, a cabinet maker in Soquel. “I was able to develop a sense of a business that would work, that I could do myself, without needing employees,” he says. And that lifestyle would allow him to help take part in raising his daughter Sasha while continuing to pursue his other lifelong interest— music. Between his New York art furniture mentor Mike Coffey and “nuts and bolts guy” George Smiley, Friedlander discovered his own style—“somewhere in the middle.” A product of his generation, Friedlander wanted to avoid the professional route expected of him. “I’ve always done music, first piano and then guitar,” he says. He studied gamelan, here and in Indonesia, and continues to play jazz with a tight-knit group in his living room every Friday. But when he saw the documentary film Alive Inside, he hit upon the latest of his musical projects. “It was incredible seeing the reaction of Alzheimer’s patients to hearing the music from their youth,” he says. Wanting to be “useful” with his music, Friedlander recently began compiling song lists and taking them, and his guitar, to places like Dominican Oaks where he can lead singalongs with many of the receptive and appreciative tenants. “Music is a powerful thing. It’s

a huge satisfaction, playing and singing with people, especially where people are eager for contact and participation,” he says. Friedlander says he long ago made the decision to do work he loved. “So we wouldn’t have the newest car, or the largest house,” he says. But they traveled widely, Cliff made music, built instruments, and learned to craft unique and beautiful living spaces. “I don’t have huge expenses,” he says, leading me out the back door, across the deck he designed and constructed, past the studio he built for his wife, and out to his wood shop filled with power tools, cabinets-in-progress, and Balinese instruments. From a bank of skylights the room is flooded with natural light. The earthy perfume of freshly cut wood reminds me of my Uncle Harold’s shop. “The table saw is the most important piece,” he notes of a state-of-the-art piece of computerized equipment. He runs his hand over a large piece of smooth maple. “You can actually get pre-finished plywood now. It’s a great innovation,” he says, opening the bathroom cabinet door. “I don’t have to finish the inside of this—it’s already been finished.” Back in the kitchen, Friedlander offers a few pro tips. Modular frameless cabinets are much more flexible, “easier to build, less expensive” than cabinets with framed doors. “There are some obvious solutions when doing kitchens. The placement of the refrigerator is huge, and no matter what you try, like lazy susans, corners are notoriously difficult,” he says. Prioritizing space is key. “The stove is prime real estate. So is the refrigerator and the sink,” he says. Design magic happens around those large appliances. “I’ve learned from my own mistakes,” Friedlander confesses. “And as I get older, I get pickier.”

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NOT SOMEWHERE ELSE Alt-country sensation Lydia Loveless plays Moe’s Alley on Sunday, April 26.

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Lydia Loveless’ latest album is a mature approach to heartache, longing and romance BY CAT JOHNSON

n 2011, Lydia Loveless became an alt-country sensation with the release of her album Indestructible Machine. Riding the wave of attention she received, Loveless hit the road and toured for two years. While on the road, she didn’t write much, knowing she would find time to be creative when she returned from tour. But once she started writing again a funny thing happened: she hated it all. “I was waiting for a break to write all this new material,” Loveless says. “But once I got home I was like, ‘Well, this is all crap.’” Once she ditched that first batch of songs—an entire album’s worth— Loveless went back to the drawing board and produced something she

deemed worthy of sharing. The new material became last year’s album Somewhere Else. So what changed? Loveless says she needed to “get all the crap out” before she could uncover the better material. She also needed to be braver, she says. “I think I was a little afraid to make a rock ’n’ roll album.” With Indestructible Machine, Loveless established herself as an edgy fringe-dweller of the Americana and alt-country scene. The album sees her loudly and proudly proclaiming her independence, and a lack of concern about whether anyone agrees with her opinions—some good old punk-

rock sentiment. On Somewhere Else, however, Loveless let go of the expectations, both internal and external, that Indestructible Machine brought. Breaking free proved to be challenging but liberating. “Once I sort of jumped off the proverbial cliff, I felt a little more free to write what I needed to write at the time,” she says. Somewhere Else delves into the internal world of a talented, observant, and maturing artist. Where Loveless previously came off as hard and loud, her new material sees her being open, thoughtful, and even vulnerable. Songs including “Really Wanna See You,” “Hurts So Bad,” and “To Love Somebody”

explore the challenges and heartache of longing and being in love with a newly revealed maturity. “I never wanted to make the same album twice,” she says. “I didn’t want to make some drastic change that was kind of like a whole new person, but I knew I needed to do something different.” While Loveless draws inspiration for her songs from everything around her, a common thread she sees running through them is human drama. Somewhere Else includes songs inspired by Liz Taylor, old boyfriends, and 19th-century French poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud. “It’s mostly melodrama,” she says. “‘Jane Eyre’ is my favorite book, and I see a common thread in the crappy Lifetime movies I watch, and really melodramatic love stories. That’s probably my biggest inspiration.” A native of Ohio, Loveless grew up in Coshocton, in the eastern part of the state—an area she describes as looking a lot like an egg carton drawing. Ohio tends to elicit images of rubber factories and junkyards, but Loveless has a great appreciation for the natural beauty of the state. Though she says she loves Los Angeles, and California in general, she’s happy in Columbus. “The nature is part of what keeps me here,” she says. “Not so much Columbus, but drive a couple of hours in any direction and there’s a lot of beautiful scenery.” Loveless says she’s always had a longing to be somewhere else, then laughs at the inadvertent connection between the sentiment and the title of her album. “I have a bit of a nomad thing going on,” she says. “I’ve always been a really restless person. Even when I was a little kid, my parents would get mad at me for being depressed at six years old.” She speculates that at the root of her restlessness is a desire to express herself. “It was always really important to me to create something, even if it was going to leave me starving in a garret,” she says. “I just always wanted to do that.” Lydia Loveless performs at 9 p.m. on Sunday, April 26 at Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $12/adv, $15/door. 479-1854.

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YOU WERE JUST AROUND THE CORNER FROM ME Pete Yorn plays the Catalyst on Tuesday, April 28.

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Days of Yorn

Pete Yorn goes back to where it all started on solo acoustic tour BY STEVE PALOPOLI

he way Pete Yorn talks about his own songs doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. “I just write about weird, mundane, everyday things,” says the L.A. singer-songwriter by phone, as he prepares for a sevendate tour up the coast that will bring him to the Catalyst on April 28. But a song can’t be about something both weird and mundane, right? Aren’t those adjectives, in this context, mutually exclusive? Theoretically, yes, but consider “Closet,” a fan

favorite from Yorn’s 2001 debut album, musicforthemorningafter. It is not metaphorically about a closet; it’s literally about being inside one. “I’m walking around your closet/I want you to say my name again,” he sings, and suddenly “weird” and “mundane” don’t seem so strange together. There are plenty of similar contradictions wrapped in compulsively catchy riffs on that record, which was one of the biggest things to hit L.A. that year. It went gold, made critics’ end-ofthe-year best lists everywhere, and

spawned the hit single “Strange Condition.” Yorn had moved to L.A. from his native New Jersey and started gigging around just five years before, and though he signed to a major label, they didn’t seem too enthused by musicforthemorningafter. He never saw success coming. “The record was in the can for over a year before they put it out. I didn’t have any big expectations,” he says. “But when it came out, things moved pretty quickly. It was a wild time.” Part of the legend of his debut

album’s success was the oftrepeated fact that Yorn not only wrote the whole record, but also played all of the instruments on it. He was spoken of as some sort of wunderkind, since almost no one realized he had done it completely out of necessity. “I didn’t have any money to hire people,” he says. “I thought, ‘I’ll just play it and be done with it.’” His sound evolved, though, from that album’s eccentric alt-folk— sort of a cross between Springsteen and the Smiths—to more straightforward rock on the followups Day I Forgot and Nightcrawler. By 2009’s Back and Fourth, he was recording with a full band, and releasing another album that same year with Scarlett Johansson, Break Up. For 2010’s self-titled album, he recorded with Black Francis of the Pixies. Suddenly, he couldn’t play with enough people. “At some point I was like, ‘I’d really like to collaborate,’” he says. “It was more out of curiosity.” Most recently, he’s been playing in the Olms with longtime friend J.D. King, who he met through Johnny Ramone’s widow, Linda Ramone. They released their retroinfused debut album in 2013, and it seemed like Yorn had completed some kind of linear journey from one-man band to actual bands. But suddenly, it’s all come back around—not only because he’s playing solo and acoustic on this tour, but also because he’s switched it up in the studio yet again. “After all that, I felt the urge to go back and make a record in my old style,” says Yorn of the upcoming album he plans to release this year—on which he once again plays all the instruments. But this isn’t a fourth chapter to the trilogy he once considered his first three albums to be. In fact, now he’s not even sure they were a trilogy, and he views his work very differently. “It was me trying to make sense of my body of work at the time,” he says. “I’m starting to realize it’s all one big thing. They’re all one big tapestry, ’cause it’s me moving through time.” Pete Yorn plays at 9 p.m. on Tuesday, April 28 at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz, $30/$33.

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WEDNESDAY 4/22 MUSIC SANTA CRUZ CITY SCHOOLS DISTRICTWIDE MUSIC CONCERT With 6-12 grade students of the district. 6-7:30 p.m. Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. gbrown@sccs.net. Free.

ARTS ROCK CANDY RIVER INSTALLATION Sculptor Jenni Ward presents one of her largest installations, comprised of over 70 ceramic pieces all individually hand-built from high-fired stoneware. Displayed at Pacific Edge Climbing Gym in Santa Cruz. jw@jenniward.com.

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Jamie Bianchini rode through 81 countries over the course of eight years on a two-seat tandem bicycle—and invited total strangers to hop on his back seat. More than 1,000 people accepted his invitation, including the woman who would become his wife. This year, they are taking their two children on a 12,000-mile book tour through 36 states over the course of five months, giving free multimedia talks to share the stories of his new book, “A Bicycle Built for Two Billion.” The tour kicks off this Friday with a free ice cream celebration in Watsonville. Info: 7 a.m.-8 p.m., Friday, April 24, Santa Cruz KOA, 1186 San Andreas Road, Watsonville. Free.

SALSA RUEDA CLASSES Learn the style and technique in a welcoming environment. No partners needed. Drop-ins are welcome. 8-9 p.m. Portuguese Hall, 216 Evergreen Street, Santa Cruz. 818-1834. $7/$5. ARGENTINE TANGO Argentine tango classes and practice with John and Nancy Lingemann. Beginners 7 p.m., Int./Adv. 8:30 Parish Hall Calvary Episcopal Church. Lincoln and Cedar streets. 469-3288. $3. SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING CLASSES Fun and aerobic. No partner required. The traditional dancing of Scotland. Wear soft soled shoes. 7-9:30 p.m. Peace United Church of Christ, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. 427-1921. $6. HEALING A LEAKY GUT Dr. Holly German, N.D. discusses what causes it and what we can do to avoid it. What foods, herbs, and lifestyle factors help to repair a leaky gut. How to increase nutrient absorption, assimilation, and overall nutrient status. 6:30-8 p.m. Way of Life, 1220A 41st Ave., Capitola. 464-4113. Free.

SATURDAY 4/25 UCSC JUGGLING CONVENTION Feel like life’s a juggling act? Well, at this year’s seventh Annual Santa Cruz Juggling Convention, you can let the stress of daily life drop, and focus on real juggling instead. The convention hosts 30 workshops throughout the weekend for jugglers of all levels, and Saturday night features a gala show at the Veterans Memorial Building downtown. Sunday’s games will include five ball cascades, on-body hooping, ball on head, flub face balancing and, of course, juggling combat. Info: 1-9 p.m., UCSC College Eight, 200 Heller Drive, Santa Cruz. facebook.com/ events/697037177077009/. $5-$10.

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SOUND HEALING MEDITATION Allow your Chakra Energy Centers to come into a state of balance. 7-8 p.m. Pacific Cultural Center, 1307 Seabright Ave., Santa Cruz. Located in studio behind main building. connectingtoyoursoul.com. $12.

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THURSDAY 4/23 FABMO DESIGNER SAMPLE SELECTION EVENT Designer samples of fabric, trim, wallpaper, tile, carpet and more. Make an appointment at fabmo.org or drop in as space allows. Bring bags to fill. Noon-7 p.m. Club House at Harvey West Park, 326 Evergreen St., Santa Cruz. Free.

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Dance can be anything you want it to be, anything you make it—which is exactly why National Dance Week was founded in 1981, to bring the joy of movement to as many people as possible. This year’s Santa Cruz festivities will include everything from a Flash Motion Mob for novices to dance in unlikely places (keep your eyes peeled), dancing in the streets of downtown, open classes at Motion Pacific, and the premiere of Cid Pearlman’s “Open Book/Closed Book” show. A full schedule is available on the website so you can dance the week away.

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2015 marks UC Santa Cruz’s 50th anniversary, and we invite all alumni to celebrate with us during the most spectacular Alumni Weekend ever. Among the many events: • TEDxSantaCruz • Alumni keynote: Dr. M. Sanjayan (Ph.D., ‘97), executive vice president and senior scientist at Conservation International, host of new PBS series EARTH A New Wild • Teach-Ins: Professors Craig Haney and Bettina Aptheker • True Originals alumni series—ﬁlm, law, art, writing • Banana Slug Lunch: Farm Fresh, Family Style • Alumni Sunset Wine Reception • Graduate Research Symposium

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SATURDAY 4/25 PAN-DANM-ONIUM 10TH ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL This Saturday UCSC’s Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) MFA program rings in its first decade with a full-day festival including DIY making, 3D Design and animation from MakersFactory, Porter College MakerSpace Co-Op, projection mapping, food, fine art, vacuform masks, kids crafts, and repurposed military vehicles. The DANM department draws faculty and students from the arts, humanities, sciences, computer science, and the social sciences for an interdisciplinary artistic research production. Info: 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Digital Arts Research Center, UCSC, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz. pandanmonium.ucsc.edu.

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SPIRITUAL ESTABLISHING A DAILY DHARMA PRACTICE: HOW TO GET REALIZATIONS Getting started, setting up your meditation space, understanding obstacles to meditation and antidotes to prevent them and more. 7-9 p.m. Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel. landofmedicinebuddha.org. Free, donations accepted.

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CLASSES PARTNER YOGA AND KIRTAN AT POETIC CELLARS WINERY Enjoy exchange of energies and deepen connection between you and your partner through asanas, pranayama, tantric principles and sacred sound. Bring yoga mat, and auxiliary props if you have them. Donations accepted. See poeticcellars.com for directions. 10 a.m.Noon. 462-3478 to reserve space. FREE ORIENTATION & STUDIO TOUR Get involved with your Community TV. Sign up communitytv.org/ctv-user-portal-login. 2-3:30 p.m. 816 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. Free. SELF-DEFENSE STRATEGIES & SKILLS WORKSHOP Not completely comfortable when it comes to your safety? Do something about it now. Discover the number one thing

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SPEEDING YOUR RECOVERY FROM INJURIES USING CHINESE MEDICINE Walks participants through the four stages of recovery. By Elisha Livni, Licensed Acupuncturist. springofhealth.com. 1-2 p.m. Louden Nelson Community Center, Room #1, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. elishalivni@ gmail.com. Free.

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WALK A MILE IN HER SHOES Put on your fanciest high heels to speak out against sexual violence in our community. Men, women, children and dogs teeter down West Cliff to raise awareness and create a safer Santa Cruz County. Plus kids activities, live music, dance performances. Proceeds support sexual assault survivors and their families. Register at wam2015. monarchservices.org. 9:30 a.m.-Noon. Lighthouse Park, West Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz. 722-4989. Free.

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ARTS SANTA CRUZ JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL “Havana Curveball,” follows a Palo Alto Bar Mitzvah boy as he attempts to gather and ship baseball equipment to kids in Cuba. Post-screening Q&A with filmmaker. 3 p.m. Temple Beth El 3055 Porter Gulch Road, Soquel. santacruzjewishfilmfestival.com for tickets. 471-8491. $8/$10. SANTA CRUZ JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL “Apples from the Desert.” 5 p.m. Temple Beth El 3055 Porter Gulch Road, Soquel. santacruzjewishfilmfestival.com for tickets. 471-8491. $8/$10. REEL WORK 2015 MAY DAY LABOR FILM FESTIVAL Presents "Immigrants for Sale,” which shows the effects of sinister and ill-conceived laws on immigrants and their families. “Women Behind Bars,” on the fastest growing segment of the prison population. “Why Solitary Confinement is a Form of Modern Day Torture.” With live music, speakers. 7-10 p.m. Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz. Donation. TRADITIONAL BHUTANESE SUPPLICATION DANCE Ven. Karma Namgyel Rinpoche perform in full ritual dress the 7 Line Guru Rinpoche Supplication Dance. 3-5 p.m. MAH Abbott Courtyard. 4699467. Free.

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IRIS SOCIETY SPRING SHOW Showcase of irises grown in the area by members. Latest introductions by iris hybridizers. Iris experts give advice. 1-6 p.m. Louden Nelson, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. 335-4949. Free.

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CLASSES 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. BEGINNER SALSA RUEDA Drop-ins welcome. No experience or partners needed. Wear comfortable clothes. Only clean shoes on the dance floor. 6:30-7:30 p.m. The Tannery Arts Center, 1060 River St., #111, Santa Cruz. 818-1834. $7/$5.

RHYTHM & MOTION DANCE WORKOUT High-energy, dance-based workout with a mix of movement and music styles. Taught by experienced dancers. 9-10:15 a.m. Motion Pacific, 131 Front St., Santa Cruz. 457-1616. motionpacific.com. First class free.

FOOD & DRINK ANNIEGLASS POUR & TOUR Sip on a glass of wine or a tasting flight featuring local wineries at our wine bar. Free studio tours. Noon-4:30 p.m. Annieglass, 310 Harvest Drive, Watsonville. annieglass.com. $6-$8.

GROUPS EATING DISORDER RECOVERY SUPPORT GROUP For meal support, come at noon. 1-2:30 p.m. The Lotus Collaborative, 701 Mission St., Santa Cruz info@ thelotuscollaborative.com. 600-7103. Free. OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Meetings daily. See website for schedule of times and locations: santacruzoa.org. 4-5:15 p.m. Church of the Nazarene, 115 S. Morrissey, Santa Cruz. 462-9644. Free. SERENITY FIRST — PAGANS IN RECOVERY Guests free to discuss their spiritual paths, including those which are nature-based and goddess-centered. All 12-step programs welcome. 7-8 p.m. MHCAN Room 12, 1051 Cayuga St., Santa Cruz. 3368591. Free, donations accepted.

MUSIC THE SANTA CRUZ CHORALE PRESENTS: “VIVA VIVALDI” Accompanied by a chamber orchestra and soloists. Tickets santacruzchorale.org/tickets, 427-8023. 4 -6 p.m. Holy Cross Church, 123 High St., Santa Cruz. santacruzchorale.org. $25/$20/$5.

SPIRITUAL INSPIRATIONAL MEDITATION SERVICE Includes inspirational readings from the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda, the founder of Self-Realization Fellowship and author of Autobiography of a Yogi. 11 a.m.Noon. Call for location. 334-2088.

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CLASSES RHYTHM & MOTION DANCE WORKOUT High-energy, dance-based workout with mix of music and movement styles. Taught by experienced dancers. 7-8:15 p.m. Motion Pacific, 131 Front St., Santa Cruz. 457-1616. motionpacific.com. First class free! VING TSUN CLUB SC Learn and Practice: Pak Sao, Pak Dar, Lop Sao, Don Chi Sao, Luk Sao, etc. 8-9 p.m. 1344 Pacific Ave., 2nd Floor. Presents Ving Tsun Club SC. Free for April/May/June.

GROUPS EVENING TOASTMASTERS Strengthen public speaking and leadership skills. Supportive and fun group; all levels welcome. 6:30-7:30 p.m. Live Oak Senior Center, 1777 Capitola Road, Santa Cruz. dtyrrel@ sbcglobal.net. Guests free.

MUSIC PAPER MACHETE Rock/indie-pop band from Seattle. 5-6 p.m. Streetlight Santa Cruz, 939 S. Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. 421-9200. Free.

MONDAY DROP-IN MEDITATION Led by Venerable Yangchen and Venerable Gyalten Basic meditation instruction and practice. One session of mindfulness meditation followed by guided reflection meditation. 5:30-6:30 p.m. Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel. 462-8383. Donation.

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CLASSES YIN/YANG YOGA Expect to experience the warmth generated by a flow practice, as well as the stillness of surrendering into a pose. All levels welcome. 7:30-8:45 p.m. Santa Cruz Yoga, 402 Ingalls St., Santa Cruz. michellenak2@gmail.com. $8-$15.

GROUPS TRIPLE P: EIGHT-WEEK GROUP: FOR FAMILIES WITH TEENS Provides in-depth parenting information and assistance. Learn what Positive Parenting is and how to incorporate it into your family. Meets Tuesdays. 6-8 p.m. Mission Hill Middle School, 435 King St., Santa Cruz. 465-2217. triplep@first5scc.org. Free.

MUSIC SHERRY AUSTIN WITH HENHOUSE A magical combination of music woven from folk, country, and rock. 6-9 p.m. Davenport Roadhouse Restaurant & Inn. davenportroadhouse.com. Free. WENDY DEWITT (WITH KIRK HARWOOD) SF Queen of Boogie Woogie, Wendy DeWitt, performs with veteran drummer and vocalist, Kirk Harwood. Wendy’s 7th CD, “Industrial Strength” came out of this collaboration. 7:30-9 p.m. The Ugly Mug, 4640 Soquel Drive, Soquel. Reservations, (408) 499-9441. $15.

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an instrumental band, and more importantly, they keep it simple and stripped-down. These are emotional, instrumental journeys that will enthrall any music lover who gives them a chance. AC

9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $20/adv, $25/door. 423-1338.

SATURDAY 4/25

PSYCHEDELIC

MERMEN You can’t blame the Merman for actively running away from the “surf” label. Even in the early days, when they played instrumental, reverbed guitar-led tunes, it wasn’t exactly surf the way most of us think of it (Dick Dale, Surfaris, Del-Tones). The Mermen always played moody, eclectic music, and since the late ’80s, it’s only gotten more psychedelic. Yet, as they push the boundaries of their music, there remain certain truths that transcend all their genre tinkering. For instance, they remain

INFO: 9 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $12/adv, $15/door. 479-1854.

ROCK

JAMES DURBIN Take a local-done-right-turned-celebrity, mix-in the psychedelic and blazing music from two of rock’s most mysterious groups and let it percolate in one of the city’s favorite historic theatres. The result? Destroy the Night! Big-name locals James Durbin and Dale Ockerman be rocking the Rio with covers of their favorite Led Zeppelin & Doors songs, and donate part of the proceeds to Guitars not Guns and the Musicscool Scholarships Fund. MW INFO: 8 p.m. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $25/gen, $40/gold. 423-8209.

MONDAY 4/27 JAZZ

BILLY COBHAM’S “SPECTRUM 40” The definitive drummer of the jazz/ rock fusion era, Billy Cobham is a polyrhythmic powerhouse who combines ferocious technique, pummeling energy and feathery finesse. A rising force on the New York scene when he started working with Miles Davis (including the epochal 1971 album Jack Johnson), he became a bona fide rock star as a founding member of John McLaughlin’s torrential Mahavishnu Orchestra, a band too volatile to last long. Striking out on his own, Cobham recorded the classic 1973 album Spectrum, and he’s celebrating its 40th anniversary (and change) with a formidable band of longtime collaborators. ANDREW GILBERT

INFO: 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $30/adv, $35/ door. 427-2227.

INFO: 8 p.m. Saturday, May 9. Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St., Santa Cruz. $25-$70. 426-6966. WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/ giveaways before 11 a.m. on Friday, April 24 to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to the performance.

IN THE QUEUE MORGAN HERITAGE

Jamaica’s “royal family of reggae.” Wednesday at Moe’s Alley TOMMY IGOE GROOVE CONSPIRACY

12-piece, rocking jazz band. Thursday at Kuumbwa NEW MONSOON

Classic rock outfit out of the Bay Area. Friday at Don Quixote's PHENOMENAUTS

Futuristic sci-fi, glam rock and rollers. Saturday at Catalyst BREATHE OWL BREATHE

Michigan-based Americana trio. Sunday at Crepe Place

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shot him into country stardom. The baby-faced Michigan native knows how to deliver a pop-country tune, but says his inspiration ranges from classic country and blues to Southern rock and current pop music. He recently received a big nod from the Nashville music machine when he was invited to play the Grand Ole Opry. A helluva life, indeed. CJ

Closing the season in dramatic style, the Santa Cruz Symphony, along with the Cabrillo Symphonic Chorus, present Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. Described as an “awe-inspiring choral masterpiece,” Carmina Burana is based on medieval songs discovered in the library of a monastery in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps. The performance features soprano Nadine Sierra (above), tenor Anthony Roth Costanzo. and baritone John Moore. Also on the program is Marche pour le cérémonie des Turcs, a 17th century piece by Jean-Baptiste Lully, and O Magnum Mysterium, a 16th century piece by Tomas Luis De Victoria. CAT JOHNSON

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Ghetto Youths International Presents Setup Shop Volume 2 Tour

CHAM • WAYNE MARSHALL • JO MERSA CHRISTOPHER ELLIS • BLACK AM I $15/ $18 • 8/ 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 28 • In the Atrium • AGES 16+ PETE YORN YOU & ME ACOUSTIC

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40 years on the movie beat in Santa Cruz BY LISA JENSEN

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anta Cruz in 1975 was heaven for a fledgling film buff. The movies were great: Dog Day Afternoon, The Godfather Part II, Nashville. Admission was $2.50 for a double bill. Those were the days! Much has changed in the world since then—especially the movie scene and the moviegoing experience here in Santa Cruz. My affair with both began in the summer of 1974—a freshly minted UCSC grad, selling tickets and popcorn at the U. A. Cinemas (now the Riverfront). It was the streamlined “flagship” of the United Artist chain of theaters in town (which at that time included the Del Mar, the Rio, 41st Avenue Playhouse, and Aptos Cinema), before the corporation lost interest in Santa Cruz and let its theaters crumble into ruin.

The flipside of this corporate mentality were independently owned mom-and-pop movie houses. The Nickelodeon, operated by Bill and Nancy Raney (one screen, with a vintage nickelodeon movie machine roped off in the lobby), was a popular venue for foreign films, maverick indies, and festival programming. The family-owned Capitola Theater, and Cinema Soquel, showed not-so-brandnew double features. The Skyview Drive-In was still showing movies, but neither Scotts Valley Cinema nor the Cinema 9 were yet in existence. In January 1975, Rene FuentesChao opened the Sash Mill Cinema, with 25-cent popcorn and double bills like A Streetcar Named Desire with Last Tango In Paris, or Chinatown with Touch Of Evil. It had poor insulation, no ventilation, and a corrugated metal

roof that guaranteed patrons would freeze in the winter and roast in the summer; raindrops sounded like Taiko drumming. We loved it. Its program of vintage and recent films changed three times a week, and they published a poster-sized schedule every quarter, which everyone I knew had taped to their refrigerator. The Sash Mill and the Nick catered to Santa Cruz’s new identity as a university town. Programming was inspired and offbeat, prices were relatively low, and the sense of community was enormous—especially among students (and recent students) discovering David Lynch, RKO musicals, or Japanese samurai movies together. I wrote obsessively about everything I saw in my journal, long before anybody ever paid me to do it. Enter Good Times, a 12-page

entertainment weekly started by Jay Shore in April 1975. By then, I had a day job and my nights were free, so when GT film reviewer Christian Kallen advertised for an assistant, I plunged in. I love to write, and I love movies; the rest was on-the-job training. When Christian left town, I inherited the job. One of its greatest perks was the fabled Nickelodeon press screening. Films are screened early for the press in cities, so writers can meet their deadlines and get a review out on opening day. The Raneys embraced this idea for a small, movie-loving town like ours. Their eclectic films needed attention right away; if a movie didn’t get reviewed that first week and draw a house, it probably wouldn’t last a second week. Thursday afternoon press screenings at the Nick became a private club for local scribes, where we all got to hang out, whatever rivalries might have been going on between our papers: Buz Bezore, Christina Waters, Tom Maderos, Michael Gant, and Bruce Bratton from the Santa Cruz Independent/ Express/Taste/Metro/Weekly. Rick Chatenever and, later, Wallace Baine, from the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Morton Marcus, Geoff Dunn, and UCSC professor and film historian Vivian Sobchack, Dennis Morton and David Anthony from KUSP. We knew we were all on the same team—the collective treasure hunt to discover great movies and spread the word. We saw the sublime, the ridiculous, and everything in between at the Nick, and since we rarely agreed on which was which, debates were spirited as we filed back out into the (always unexpected) daylight. Sadly, those press screenings are no more, much like film itself. Movies are projected digitally; vintage film reels are preserved as objets d’art suspended from the ceiling in the lobby of the Nick, relics as quaint as that old nickelodeon machine once was. Today, movies assault you in 3D, seats rock or recline, theaters call themselves “cafe lounges.” But it was never about that stuff. All that really matters is the transformative magic of the movies.

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40 YEARS IN THE DARK Lisa Jensen wrote her first film review for GT in 1975.

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How reading Lisa Jensen’s reviews taught me to love film BY GEOFFREY DUNN alternative publications, the art of the creative film review was in its embryonic stages. For a 20-year-old kid like me, it was a heady time, a moment of cultural discovery. At some point in late 1975, I noticed a new byline appearing in Good Times: Lisa Jensen. Her observant, superbly written and intelligently argued reviews would forever change the way I looked at “movies,” as they were then called, and would later come to know under the rubric of “film.” The date of this discovery was precisely Oct. 23, 1975, when Jensen’s inaugural review of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (billed with Raquel Welch in Bedazzled at UA Cinema I) appeared in Good Times. It was so good that I clipped it, and I still have a copy of it in my files, along with several

other Jensen gems. Jensen’s Monty Python review augured all of her steady and tempered brilliance that was to come. She gave a nod to the comedy troupe’s preceding film, And Now for Something Completely Different, and pointed out the distinguishing characteristics between the two works. “[Python’s] comedy is equal parts satire, slapstick, and silliness,” she observed. “They are neither as cerebral as Woody Allen at his wordiest, nor as crass as Mel Brooks at his cheapest.” She also made the inevitable comparison to the Marx Brothers: “There is one valid comparison:” she observed. “Attitude. Holy Grail, like the best of the Marx Brothers, is completely anarchistic … In the process, they are often tasteless,

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t’s almost hard to imagine now how rich the cinematic fare was in the 1970s, even in a relatively small cultural outpost like Santa Cruz. Virtually all of the film venues that we enjoy today were in full throttle then, plus there were other long-forgotten movie houses like the Sash Mill Cinema and the Capitola Theater (which ran the oddest double bills imaginable at $1.50 a ticket) that screened a varied assortment of films nightly. And if the ’70s marked a Golden Age for both American and foreign films, the era also marked the birth of new film criticism, first pioneered by the likes of the New Yorker’s Pauline Kael and the Village Voice’s J. Hoberman and Andrew Sarris. In Santa Cruz, with its plethora of

violent, sexist and redundant, but they are funny.” Forty years later, her assessment of the film still holds up. Jensen also wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle and one of my favorite local rags, The Sash Mill Cinema Times, which allowed her more room to expand and reflect on larger themes and premises. One of her pieces on the cumulative films of Woody Allen was the first piece of film criticism I ever encountered to frame his work as an American auteur. I found it profoundly enlightening and educational. I’ve been a fan—and a student—of Jensen’s ever since. Raised in Hermosa Beach, Jensen came to Santa Cruz as a student at UCSC, where she majored in Aesthetic Studies. She worked as a “counter girl” at the UA Cinemas and in the textbook room at Bookshop Santa Cruz before answering an ad in Good Times for an occasional movie reviewer. The regular film editor, Christian Kallen, moved out of town the following year, and, presto, Jensen moved into a weekly gig—one which she has held ever since. Fortunately, I suppose, we have had similar cinematic tastes over the years (although not always), but the truth was and remains that Jensen has always had an accurate feel of Santa Cruz’ filmic sensibilities and appetites. “Films mirror our reality,” the German critic Siegfried Kracauer once wrote. Jensen has helped us to look in the mirror. Many years ago, a movie house proprietor told me that a good Lisa Jensen review could make a film in Santa Cruz, and a bad review could end it quickly. In the era before the digital age, she held that kind of power. To her credit, she usually gave most films the benefit of the doubt. She was generous when other local reviewers could be downright nasty, but when criticism was warranted, she wasn’t afraid to deliver it. After surviving, by her own account, 17 editors and five publishers at Good Times, the prolific Jensen is still hard at it, while also producing a trio of novels. She says that back then she never saw herself writing reviews for 40 years. “This was just something I was going to do until I had to get a real job,” she smiles. “Fortunately, that never happened.”

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FILM NEW THIS WEEK THE AGE OF ADALINE Blake Lively stars in this fantasy drama as a woman who has remained 29 years old for nearly a century who risks her isolated existence when she falls in love with a charismatic man (Michiel Huisman). Harrison Ford, Kathy Baker, and Ellen Burstyn costar. Lee Toland Krieger directs. (PG13) 110 minutes. Starts Friday. EX MACHINA A smart programmer at a huge Internet research giant wins a contest to spend a week with the company’s genius boss, where he’s asked to evaluate the CEO’s seductive new A.I. experiment. Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, and Alicia Vikander star for writer-turned-director Alex Garland (who wrote 28 Days Later, and Sunshine). (R) 110 minutes. Starts Friday.

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LITTLE BOY Newcomer Jakob Salvati plays the title character in this inspirational drama set in the 1940s about a 7-year-old who will do anything to bring his beloved dad back home from World War II. Kevin James, Emily Watson, Michael Rappaport, and Tom Wilkinson co-star for director Alejandro Monteverde. (PG-13) 106 minutes. Starts Friday.

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THE SALT OF THE EARTH The 40-year global journey of photographer Sebastião Salgado, on a mission to capture and record our planet’s wild unspoiled beauty, is the subject of this documentary from Wim Wenders. (PG-13) 110 minutes. Starts Friday. SEYMOUR: AN INTRODUCTION Creativity, passion, and the tools for building a rewarding life are the themes in this documentary about Seymour Bernstein, a virtuoso concert pianist who gave up the limelight to become a teacher, helping others develop their talents. Actor-turned-ﬁlmmaker Ethan Hawke directs. (PG) 84 minutes. Starts Friday. THE WATER DIVINER Russell Crowe makes his directing debut with this drama in which he stars as an Australian farmer who travels to Turkey in 1919, at the end of World

War I, where all three of his sons were lost in the Battle of Gallipoli, to ﬁnd their remains and bring them home. Olga Kurylenko co-stars. (R) 111 minutes. Starts Friday. SPECIAL EVENT THIS WEEK: GRIEFWALKER Tim Wilson’s documentary features the life and work of Harvard trained theologian, Stephen Jenkinson, who counsels that the knowledge of death empowers us to live our lives to the fullest. At the Center for Spiritual Living (1818 Felt Street), Friday only, 7 p.m. 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: GHOST IN THE SHELL This slice of existential Japanese anime from 1995 features a female cyborg cop of the hightech future pondering the nature of her existence (the “ghost” of consciousness within her robotic shell) while tracking powerful criminal mastermind, the Puppet Master. Mamoru Oshii directs, based on the graphic novel. (Not rated) 83 minutes. In Japanese with English subtitles. At the Del Mar, Fri-Sat midnight only. CONTINUING EVENT: LET’S TALK ABOUT THE MOVIES Film buffs are invited to join us Wednesday nights at 7 p.m. in downtown Santa Cruz, where each week we discuss a different current release. For our location and discussion topic, please visit our Google Groups webpage: https:// groups.google.com/group/LTATM

NOW PLAYING CHILD 44 Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, and Noomi Rapace star in this thriller set in Stalin’s Soviet Union about a disgraced member of the military police investigating a string of horriﬁc child murders. Daniel Espinoza (Safe House) directs. (R) 137 minutes. CINDERELLA Disney’s live-action reboot isn’t quite as fresh as last year’s Maleﬁcent. The production values are luscious, and director

Kenneth Branagh imbues the story with humor, tension, and emotional complexity. But Linda Woolverton, who wrote Maleficent, comes from a generation of women who grew up chafing against the passivity of Disney cartoon heroines. Chris Weitz, the scriptwriter here, provides personalities for both his heroine, and her Prince, but he doesn’t have the same feminist fire; he’s content to tell the same old story in much the same old way. Still, what it lacks in innovation, the film makes up for in sheer loveliness, performed by an engaging cast. (PG) 112 minutes. (***)—Lisa Jensen. DANNY COLLINS Al Pacino stars as a past-his-prime ’70s rocker with a chance to get a grip on his wayward life after he discovers an undelivered letter written to him 40 years ago by John Lennon. Annette Bening, Jennifer Garner, Bobby Cannavale and Christopher Plummer co-star for writer-turneddirector Dan Fogelman (he wrote Crazy Stupid Love and The Guilt Trip). (R) 106 minutes. THE DIVERGENT SERIES: INSURGENT Shailene Woodley and Theo James return as Tris and Four in this second installment of the dystopian future trilogy based on the popular book series by Veronica Roth. Hunted by the leader of the Erudite ruling class (Kate Winslet), they race to unlock the secret of their fiercely classbased society. Octavia Spencer, Zoë Kravitz, Miles Teller, and Ansel Elgort co-star for director Robert Schwentke. (PG-13) 119 minutes. (Saved FGB) 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. FURIOUS 7 The untimely death of co-star Paul Walker midway through filming this installment was a blow to the series, but the action franchise roars on with this

tale of a vendetta sworn against team leader Vin Diesel and his crew. Dwayne Johnson, Tyrese Gibson, Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez, Ludacris, and Walker are featured. Jason Statham and Kurt Russell also join the cast. (PG13) 137 minutes. HOME A lovable purple alien from another world and a hip earth girl with a suped-up car become friends and allies in this family adventure comedy from DreamWorks Animation. Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Steve Martin and Jennifer Lopez provide voices. Tim Johnson (Antz; Over the Hedge) directs. (PG) 94 minutes. MONKEY KINGDOM Hot on the heels (or paws) of the previous Disneynature films Earth, Chimpanzee, African Cats, and Bears, comes a new Earth Day doc about a monkey clan in South Asia. Tina Fey narrates for codirectors Mark Linfield and Alastair Fothergill. (G) 81 minutes. PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 Kevin James is back aboard his Segway in this belated sequel to the 2009 comedy hit. This time he heads to Las Vegas for a last, pre-college outing with his teenage daughter and winds up facing a whole new cast of foes. Raini Rodriguez costars for director Andy Fickman. (PG) 94 minutes. TRUE STORY This drama is based on the true story of disgraced New York Times reporter Michael Finkel who became obsessed with finding out the truth about accused murderer Christian Longo after Longo stole Finkel’s identity. Jonah Hill and James Franco star as Finkel and Longo; Rupert Goold directs. (R) 99 minutes. UNFRIENDED Chat room friends find themselves stalked online by an evil entity using the account of their dead friend in this horror thriller from director Levan Gabriadzre. (R) 82 minutes. WOMAN IN GOLD Themes of art, justice, and family merge in Simon Curtis’ compelling true story. The famous Gustav Klimt painting is the subject of a contest of wills

between the Austrian government and one determined Austrian Jewish woman, repatriated to Los Angeles, who claims the painting was stolen from her family by the Nazis. The mighty Helen Mirren stars as Maria Altmann, seeking to recover the portrait of her beloved aunt. Tatiana Maslany is wonderful as her younger self, and ﬂashbacks to elegant Old World Vienna deepen the drama. PG-13. 109 minutes. (***)—Lisa Jensen. WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, co-creators of HBO cult hit Flight of the Conchords, take on vampireobsessed pop culture in this comedy about bloodsucking roommates trying to keep up with the times— trends, technology, fashion, their zombie and werewolf rivals, and their daily dose of nourishment. (Not rated) 86 minutes. WHILE WE’RE YOUNG Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts star in this new comedy from Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale; Frances Ha) as a “middle-aged” couple of New Yorkers (they’re in their 40s) on a collision course with upheaval and introspection when they are befriended by a hip, spontaneous younger couple (Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried). (R) 94 minutes. WOMAN IN GOLD Reviewed this issue. (PG-13) 109 minutes. (***)— Lisa Jensen. THE WRECKING CREW Denny Tedesco’s entertaining music documentary celebrates a loose aggregate of L.A.-based recording studio session musicians known to insiders as “The Wrecking Crew.” In the burgeoning West Coast pop music scene of the early 1960s, these were the players smart producers called in to lay down the basic groove under some of the best-known hit songs of the era (by artists like The Beach Boys, The Mamas and the Papas, and Sonny and Cher). Tedesco’s ﬁlm honors these unsung heroes (including his late father, guitarist Tommy Tedesco, and fascinating female bass guitarist Carol Kaye) with the recognition they deserve. (PG) 95 minutes. (***)—Lisa Jensen.

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SEARED AND ROBUST The ahi appetizer at Oswald is a fresh take on a classic dish. PHOTO: ROSIE ECKERMAN

Blown away by dinner at Oswald

ho knew that an early Tuesday dinner scene at Oswald could pack such vibration? But despite the decibels, we persevered and enjoyed one of the top meals of the season. Both the crowd and the menu offered flashbacks from Oswald’s bistro heyday. A very urban, upscale pack of baby boom diners filled every square inch of the downtown corner dining room. I never could have predicted such consistency and menu success when the establishment moved from its

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beloved and tiny digs at the top of Pacific Avenue, or rather behind Pacific Avenue. Yet, with a menu that contains not a false move, a superb wait staff, and that lively full bar with a view to the questionable street scene beyond, today’s Oswald is a well-deserved hit. Long ago, the management decided that the food and the patrons would provide most of the visuals. Hence, the absence of decor. A painting here, a plant there, and of course, the exhibition kitchen do the rest of the work. In the hands of Oswald’s chefs,

even tried and true signatures, such as a seared ahi appetizer, present themselves at your table as very fresh ideas. Freed of fuss and detailed into visual haiku, the long slices of quickly-seared ahi lay on a patchwork of multi-colored beets, cubes of perfectly steamed al dente Yukon gold potatoes, and emerald snap peas ($13). Only a negligee of gossamer mustard vinaigrette mediated the bright, fresh flavors of each ingredient. The crunchy pods and their microsized peas, were irresistible, as

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were the various golden, pale pink, and assertively maroon beets. This is a destination appetizer— playful and loaded with sexy flavor combinations, yet safe enough for a trans-generational reunion dinner. It might even make a smart light dinner paired with one of the evening’s special muddled strawberry and cucumber vodka cocktails. To accompany our meal, we picked two substantial red wines by the glass ($10 each). For me, a tannic blend of syrah and grenache in the Saint Cosme Cotes du Rhône 2012. My companion spotted a red from Macedonia and grew nostalgic about a year he had spent in Greece, in the years before Greek premium wines came of age. Naturally he had to sample the 2009 Boutan Naoussa Xinomavro, whispering of the Odyssey’s “wine dark sea.” It turned out to be a lovely creation, with fruit tasting of mystery and enough tannins to sail through the entire dinner. Although momentarily tempted by an evening special of plump dayboat scallops, I zeroed in instead on one of my Oswald favorites: the “crispy duck breast” produced slices of bronzed duck breast surrounded by a collar of creamy polenta and thicket of roasted fennel and parsnips ($28). Such an ample portion of rare duck, loaded with that luscious fat and saltiness that contrasted with the austere polenta. The satiny vegetables offered just the right bitterness to push against the opulent duck. I could have eaten twice the amount of polenta, but that’s less a criticism of portion than a tribute to flavor. Our other entree of roast chicken— deliciously crisped and herbed skin and supernaturally moist flesh— arrived perched on a cushion of braised kale encircled by a necklace of pale golden squash puree ($24). The squash had been applied with panache, as if deKooning had grabbed a spoon and made a single bold gesture onto the plate. The kale had been lightly cooked so that the deep green shreds retained plenty of tooth. Total fun to eat. Again, the vegetables knocked us out. What a great meal. Bravo and then some. Oswald—corner of Soquel and Front Streets, 423-7427. Dinner Tues-Sun from 5:30 p.m.; lunch Fri only 11:30 a.m.-1:45 p.m.

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SANTA CRUZ CANCER BENEFIT GROUP GALA The Santa Cruz Cancer Benefit Group will hold its 20th annual Spring Forward Against Cancer black tie event on Saturday, May 2 at the Sesnon House. This year’s theme—”A Night in Casablanca”— will transport attendees to Rick’s Café Américain to enjoy a fabulous gourmet dinner and wine. The upscale event includes a huge art, wine and lifestyle auction, a gourmet dinner, dancing and more— with all proceeds going to SCCBG’s beneficiaries. Tickets are $175. For more information, visit sccbg.org or call 465-1989.

TAILGATE WINE EVENT If you love the Paso Robles area and you love wine, then you won’t go wrong with a fabulous event coming up on Saturday, April 25. Eight notable wineries are loading up their pickups, and will arrive at a beautiful hilltop ready to share their favorite new releases, appetizers and stories. Join winemakers, vineyard managers and staff members for a relaxing afternoon with good wine, food and views. The event will be held at Rotta Winery in Templeton and tickets are $120. Visit tailgatetasting.com for more information.

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arah’s Vineyard of Gilroy is known for crafting fine wines—and one of my alltime favorites is its Chardonnay. But this time, its Viognier has my vote. My husband and I went for dinner recently to the Pino Alto Restaurant in the historic Sesnon House in Aptos, where students in Cabrillo’s culinary program learn how to create amazing dishes. A huge part of learning the art of preparing quality food is by making everything from scratch—even bread. To go with the food we ordered from their menu of culinary treats, we got a Sarah’s Vineyard Viognier 2012—a wine that can be a bit difficult to pair with food because of its high alcohol content and low acid. But sometimes I throw caution to the wind and just order a wine that takes my fancy. When I saw that Pino Alto carries the wellcrafted Sarah’s Vineyard wines, I just had to try their Viognier ($28). Full-bodied and with typical heady aromas of spices and flowers, this Viognier is chock full of flavor, and enjoyable to drink just by itself. We enjoyed delicious spring onion and spinach puree with pine nuts, salads of roasted beets, arugula and chevre, and impressive entrees of lobster ravioli and very tender lamb chops. A shared dessert of chocolate stout cake with stout ice cream was not only imaginative, but also mouth-wateringly good. Try the Viognier at the Pino Alto if you go there for dinner.

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Every April 22, humanity celebrates International Mother Earth Day and Earth Day. As more than a billion people participate in Earth Day activities every year, Earth Day has become the world’s largest civic observance. The massive concern to build right relations between humanity and the living being we call Earth is evidence of humanity’s love of the Mother. In 2009, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed April 22 International Mother Earth Day, with a significant resolution affirming “the interdependence existing among human beings, other living species (the kingdoms—mineral, plant, animal and human) and the planet itself, the Earth which we all inhabit.” The Earth is our home. Celebrating Earth Day helps us define new emerging processes (economic, social, political) focused on the well-being of the kingdoms. Through these, humanity seeks to raise the quality of life, foster equality and begin to establish right relations with the Earth. We dedicate ourselves to bringing

forth balance and a relationship of harmony with all of nature. Learn about planting a billion trees (the Canopy Project); participate in 1.5 billion acts of green. Disassociation (toward Earth) is no longer viable. We lose our connection to life itself. Participation is viable—an anchor, refuge and service for all of life on Earth. Visit earthday.org; harmonywithnatureun. org; and un.org/en/events/motherearthday for more information. From Farmers Almanac, “On Earth Day, enjoy the tonic of fresh air, contact with the soil, companionship with nature! Go barefooted. Walk through woods, find wildflowers and green moss. Remain outside, no matter the weather!” Nature, Earth’s most balanced kingdom, heals us. The New Group of World Servers is preparing for the May 3 Wesak Buddha Taurus solar festival. We prepare through asking for and offering forgiveness. Forgiveness purifies and like nature, heals.

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Money concerns are shared by you and Taurus this month. Pull back on spending for a while, assessing exactly what you need and no more. Before any actions with money, tithe to those in need. Do not refrain from this, even if you feel you have no money. We can always give even small amounts. This ensures constant loving resources flow into our lives from spiritual sources. After giving, financially organize.

Thinking, planning and organizing finances for the future is appropriate now. A good idea is purchasing gold and silver instead of retirement plans and/or other ideas the banks have created. Find someone reputable who ethically deals in gold and silver. Discuss with others (family, intimate, financial advisor, etc.) what and how you are planning for your death. Make a plan. Legalize it.

Esoteric Astrology as news for week of April 22, 2015

TAURUS Apr21–May21 Read Aries, follow the suggestions. And now about your money and resources: You have resources all around—hidden away in containers (boxes, bags, drawers, garages, storage units, etc.)—kept as historical remembrances. However, now a new resource is needed. Trade the old for the new so new money can come in. Ask if you need assistance in organizing. Know that when things are used their light shines forth.

GEMINI May 22–June 20 Allow yourself contemplation and solitude. Your own thoughts need to be listened to now. You may feel dreamy during the day and/or your dreams may become vivid through the night. Record all dreams in a dream journal, then talk about them. Dreams are messages clarifying yesterdays, releasing emotions, future prescriptions. Over time, through chronicling our dreams they become understandable.

CANCER Jun21–Jul20 More and more you must come out of your shell. You’re a cardinal (initiating things) sign (a leader) that knows the future must be prepared for in ways different than before. You’re the nurturing “great mother,” realizing food must be grown and necessities must be sustained for family, friends, pets and humanity later on. Tend to all personal health matters first. Then, “carry on.”

LE0 Jul21–Aug22 As you observe those you work with, looking for constancy, trust, confidentiality and abilities, you’re also being observed. You’re influencing many at this time. Let your work ethic be a model for others. It’s important to acknowledge, praise and recognize everyone. We, you included, evolve through praise, recognition and what we create. We see, recognize and applaud your gifts and endeavors.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 Tend to resources and money with care. If you do so, ponder upon and prepare to travel to places that transform your mind and heart, cast a radiance of dappled light onto your body, and allow you to adapt to new ways of life, food, people and cultures. It also could be time to return to school or a certain study. Some great learning calls to you—heart to heart.

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 With all your present relationships, partnerships and interactions with others, you consider new ways of relating that include more good will and kindness that creates right relations. Having the intention to act with greater depth and love is alchemical, creating a magnetic aura around you. It attracts others seeking the love you so potently (or potentially) emit. Think on these things. Do you need new sunglasses?

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20 Lots of little things need your attention. So often you see the big issue, the grand scale, the great philosophical overview. It’s an excellent celestial foundation of knowing. However, little parts and pieces in your world need to be tended too. Survey your daily agenda, tasks and environments, for what is calling for care and attention. Then heaven and earth meet, heart and mind, body and soul integrate and balance.

CAPRICORN Dec21–Jan20 Something new is asking to come forth. A new path perhaps, a new garden or foundation of life. Maybe a new child or a new creative endeavor at home, in rooms around the house. Something repaired, repainted, re-floored, re-surfaced, carpeted or perhaps a new artform of creativity. Everything must be fun, lively, filled with color, music, dance, fire, friends, nurturing foods and children at play. A new comfort.

AQUARIUS Jan21–Feb18 Careful with communication. You could be too quick for others to follow and/or understand. You could also be potentially frustrated with others, thinking them too slow. Act instead with kindness and understanding. No one in the zodiac is as fast as you, talks quicker, or understands new realities with your comprehension. Look with love and compassion upon your fellow travelers. They all wish they had your mind.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 The environments around you are in need of change. You need a change of environment, neighborhood, yard, and room. Some Pisceans might actually need a completely new home. If this is you, begin with a list of all you need in a home, town, village, etc. Then draw and write down what your perfect home would be. Working on this daily, hourly, creates a magnetic field within you that attracts your new home directly to you. And the resources needed. Begin now. There is happiness in change.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-0404 The following Corporation is doing business as SANTA CRUZ GROCERY OITLET. 120 MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, SANTA CRUZ CA 94060 County of Santa Cruz. Cruz. 321 GO DRIVE, INC 110 PARKVIEW DRIVE INC. SAN BRUNO, CA94066. Al# 3755088. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: BLANCA CAMPBELL. 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 4, 2015. April 1, 8, 15, 22. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-0613 The following Corporation is doing business as THRIFT CENTER. 1305 WATER STREET, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062 County of Santa Cruz. Cruz. UNIQUE RECYCLING CORPORATION OF CALIFORNIA. 729 BROADWAY, SONOMA, CA 95476. Al# 1434594. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: DIANN SORENSON. 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 24, 2015. April 1, 8, 15, 22.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO NO. 15-0586 The following individual is doing business as JUDYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S HAND AND FOOT DETAILING. 1515 CAPITOLA RD. SUITE E, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062 County of Santa Cruz. JUDITH M. WEBB. 2235 CAPITOLA RD., SANTA CRUZ CA 95062. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: JUDITH M. WEBB

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-0481 The following individual is doing business as STERLING FAUX PAINT. 220 HATWARD ROAD, APTOS, CA 95003 County of Santa Cruz. RYAN S. SHUGART. 220 HATWARD ROAD, APTOS, CA 95003. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: RYAN S. SHUGART. 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 11, 2015. April 1, 8, 15, 22 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-0534 The following individual is doing business as WINGFIELD FAMILY FARM. 4835 CHERRYVALE AVE., SOQUEL CA 95073 County of Santa Cruz. BARBARA H. AVE., WINGFIELD 2331 17TH AVE WINGFIELD. SANTA CRUZ CA 95062. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: BARBARA H. WINGFIELD. 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 18, 2015. April 1, 8, 15, 22 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-0644 The following individual is doing business as BROOK. 464 SILVERWOOD DRIVE, SCOTTS VALLEY CA 95066 County of Santa Cruz. SEATH AHRENS. 464 SILVERWOOD DRIVE, SCOTTS VALLEY CA 95066. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: SEATH AHRENS. 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 March 127 2015. April 1, 8, 15, 22 CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF MARGARITA PERCHES ESTRADA CHANGE OF NAME

CASE NO. NO O. CV181358. THE COURT FINDS F that the petitioner MARGARITA MARGAR RITA PERCHES ESTRADA A has filed a Petition Change for Chang ge of Name with the clerk of this this court for an order changingg Applicantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name from: MARGARITA MA ARGARITA PERCHES ESTRADA, ESTRADA A, MARGARITA PERCHES S GERBER to: MARGARITA MARGAR RITA PERCHES. THE COURT ORDERS O that all persons interestedd in this matter appear before this this court at the hearing indicatedd below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should s not be granted. Any perso person on objecting to the name cha changes anges described above must file a written objection that includes incluudes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the the matter is scheduled to be heard heaard and must appear at the hea hearing aring to show cause why the ppetition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, fileed, the court may grant the petition petitioon without a hearing. NOTICE OF O HEARING May 29,, 2015 at 8:30 8 am, in Department 4 locatedd at Superior Court of California, Californi a, 701 Ocean Street, Room. 110. 1110. Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause cauuse must be published in the Good Good Times , a newspaper General of Genera al Circulation printed in Santa Cruz Cruuz County, California, once a week w for four successive prior weeks pr rior to the date set for hearing on o the petition. Dated: March 24 24, 4, 2015. John S Salazar, Judge of the Superior April 1, 8, 15, 22. 222. CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR SUP PERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, CALIFOR RNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA SANTTA CRUZ. PETITION OF LISA JOHNSON JOH HNSON ZEE. A CHANGE OF NAMEE CASE NO. CV181361. THE COURT COU URT FINDS that the petitionerr LISA JOHNSON ZEE has filed a Petition for Change of Name with witth the clerk of this court for an order ordder changing Applicantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name from: froom: LISA JOHNSON ZEE to: LISA KAREN ZEE. THE L COURT ORDERS that all persons O interestedd in this matter appear before this this court at the hearing indicatedd below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. s Any person persoon objecting to the name changes chaanges described above must file a written objection that includes incluudes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the the matter is scheduled to be heard heaard and must appear at the hearing heaaring to show cause why the petition should not be p granted. t d If no written itt objection bj ti is i timely filed, fileed, the court may grant the petition petitioon without a hearing. NOTICE OF O HEARING May 12,, 2015 at 8:30 8 am, in Department 4 locatedd at Superior Court of California, California, 701 Ocean Street, Room. 110. 1110. Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause cauuse must be published in the Good Good Times , a newspaper of Genera General al Circulation printed in

Santa Cruz County, California, C once a week for fourr successive weeks prior to the date daate set for petitioon. Dated: hearing on the petition. March 24, 2015. John Johhn S Salazar, Judge of the Superior Superioor April 1, 8, 15, 22.. IN CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT COURT OF TH HE COUNTY CALIFORNIA, FOR THE OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION PEETITION OF AMBER M. HOGGE & KENNETH R. BROWN CHANGE OF NAME CV1813500. THE CASE NO. CV181350. COURT FINDS that the thhe petitioner AMBER M. HOGGE & KENNETH R. BROWN has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court forr an order changing Applicantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ss name from: LAWRENC CE BROWN MAXIMUS LAWRENCE LAWRENC CE BROWN. to: DEVIN LAWRENCE THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested inn this matter appear before b f this thi court coourtt att the th bellow to show hearing indicated below cause, if any, why the the petition s for change of name should not be granted. Any person p name changes objecting to the name described above must musst file a written objection thatt includes the reasons for the objection objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to t be heard t hearing and must appear at the to show cause why the the petition granted. If no should not be granted. written objection is timely tiimely filed, t petition the court may grant the

without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING May 11,, 2015 at 8:300 am, in Department 5 located at Superior Court of California, 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 Circ lation printed in Santa Cruz Circulation Cr County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on thee petition. Dated: March 23, 2015. 20155. John S Salazar, Judge of the Superior April 1, 8, 15, 22. CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY Y OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF BELLA AURORA ESPINDOLA CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. CV181414. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner BELLA AURORA ESPINDOLA has h filed fil d a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing Applicantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name from: BELLA AURORA A ESPINDOLA to: BELLA AURORA AVINA-ESPINDOLA - . 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 May 20, 20 2015 at 8:30 am, in Department 4 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street, Room. 110. Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times , a newspaper of General Circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: April 2, 2015. John S Salazar,

Judge of the Superior April 8, 15, 22, 222, 29. CHANGE CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, CALIFFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA SA ANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF DEBORAH DEEBORAH OKNER SMITH CHANGE CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. CV181432. CV1811432. THE COURT FINDS that the thhe petitioner DEBORAH OKNER R SMITH has filed a Petition Petitioon for Change of Name with the thhe clerk of this court for an ord order der changing Applicantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name from: DEBORAH OKNER SMITHto: SMITH Hto: DEBORAH OKNER. THE COURTT ORDERS that all persons interested interessted in this matter appear beforee this court at the hearing indicated indicatted below to show cause, if w the petition for change any, why

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www.havealife.com www..havealife.com NOTICE OF PUBLICATION P PUBLICA AT TION OF ORDINAN ORDINANCE NCE BY POSTING (ORDINANCE E NO. 2015-07) The City Council of the City of Santa Cruz having authorized administrator, the city clerk adm ministrator, that the ordinance ordinance hereafter hereafter entitled and desc described, cribed, be published by posting copies thereof ther eof in three three (3) (3 3) prominent prominent places in the City, City, to wit: Website www.cityofsantacruz.com The City of Santa Cruz W ebsite www .cityofsantacruz.com City Hal Hallâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;809 llâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;809 Center Street Street Central Branch Libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;224 Libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;224 Church Church Street Street HEREBY NOTICE IS HERE EBY GIVEN that copies of said ordinance ordinance were according wer ording to said order. order. (Original on ďŹ le with city y e posted acco ordinance clerk.)) Said or dina ance was introduced introduced on April p 14, 2015 and is entitled and described de escribed as follows: ORDINANCE NO. 2015-07 O AN ORDINANC ORDINANCE CE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY Y SANTA CRUZ OF SANT TA CR RUZ AMENDING SECTIONS 16.01.050, 16.01.090, 16.01.120, 16 6.01.120, 16.01.130 AND 16.01.140 OF, OF F, AND ADDING G SECTION 16.01.055 TO, THE SANTA SANT TA MUNICIPAL CRUZ MUNIC CIP PA AL CODE PERTAINING PERTA AINING TO WATER WAT TER SHORTAGE REGULATIONS AND RESTRICTIONS SHOR TAGE A REGULA ATIONS T ordinance This or dinance improves im mproves and clariďŹ es the existing ordinance ordinance language. Changes Chan nges include: 1) addition of customer deďŹ nitions classiďŹ cation deďŹ ďŹ nitions 2) elimination of the prohibition prohibition outdoor against ďŹ lling outd door spas 3) adding a prohibition prohibition against irrigating outdoorr landscapes during or within two days of rainfall measurable rainfa all 4) reorganization reorganization and clariďŹ cation of updated exceptions 5) upd dated appeal procedure procedure to reďŹ&#x201A;ect reďŹ&#x201A;ect what was done in 2014 and d 6) updated administrative enforcement enforcement ďŹ&#x201A;exibility.. ďŹ&#x201A;exibility PASSED PUBLICATION on this 14th day of April, P A ASSED FOR PU UBLICA ATION T 2015, by the following follo owing vote: AYES: AY YES: Councilmembers Chase, Terrazas, Comstock, T errazas, e Comsto ock, Posner, Posner, Noroyan; Noroyan; Vice Vice Mayor Mathews; NOES: ABSENT: Mayor Lane. NO OES: None. ABSENT T: None. DISQUALIFIED: APPROVED: None. APPROVE ED: ss/Don Lane, Mayor. Mayor. ATTEST: ATTEST T T: ss/Bren ss/Bren Lehr,, City Clerk Administrator. Lehr A Administrator . This Ordinance Ordinance is scheduled consideration for further further consid eration and ďŹ nal adoption at the Council meeting of April 28, 2 2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-0642 The following individual is doing business as GET STITCHED EMBROIDERY. 444 AIRPORT BLVD. $103, WATSONVILLE CA 95076 County of Santa Cruz. JOSHUA SALAS. 440 MARIGOLD AVE., FREEDOM CA 95010. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: JOSHUA SALAS The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 3/23/2015. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on March 27, 2015. April 1, 8, 15, 22

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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 May 22, 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. petition Dated: April 3, 2015. John S Salazar, Judge of the Superior April 8, 15, 22, 29.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 150550 The following Corporation is doing business as VIVA’S ORGANIC MEXICAN CAFE & VIVA’S. 200 MCLAUGHLIN DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ CA 95064 County of Santa Cruz. Cruz. CASIAN S1, INC. PO BOX 1301, SANTA CRUZ CA 95063. Al# 3761018. 3761018 This Thi business b i is conducted by a Corporation Signed: C. MEDINA. 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 17, 2015. April 8, 15, 22, 29.. CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. CRUZ PETITION OF GALE FRANCES WILSONSTEELE CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. CV181416. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner GALE FRANCES WILSON-STEELE has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing Applicant’s name from: GALE FRANCES WILSON-STEELE to: GALE FRANCES MCCREARY. 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 any, 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

timelyy filed, the court may grant the petition peetition without a hearing. NOTICE NOTIC CE OF HEARING May 20, 2015 at a 8:30 am, in Department located 5 loca ated at Superior Court of California, Califo ornia, 701 Ocean Street, Room. Room m. 110. Santa Cruz, CA 95060. 95060 0. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times , a newspaper of Gen General neral Circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weekss prior to the date set for hearin ng on the petition. Dated: hearing April 1, 1 2015. John S Salazar, Judgee of the Superior April 8, 222, 29. 15, 22, FICTITTIOUS BUSINESS NAME FICTITIOUS STATEEMENT FILE No. 15-0589 STATEMENT foollowing General Partnership The following doinng business as LILLE is doing AESKEE. 13160 HIGHWAY 9, AESKE. BOULD DER CREEK CA 95006 BOULDER Countyy of Santa Cruz. SARAH FARREELL & JAMES MACKESSY. FARRELL 131600 HIGHWAY 9, BOULDER K CA 95006. This business CREEK conducted by a General is conducted Partneership Signed: JAMES Partnership MACK KESSY. The registrant MACKESSY. comm menced to transact business commenced under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. APPLI ICABLE. This statement was fifiled led with Gail L. Pellerin, Countyy Clerk of Santa Cruz County y, on March 23, 2015. County, April 8, 15, 22, 29.

FICTITTIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS NAMEE STATEMENT FILE NO. 115-0600 5-0600 The following individual individ dual is doing business as SO SOKOLOW OKOLOW PROPERTY MANAGEMENT. MANA AGEMENT. 301 HIGHVIEW HIGHV VIEW COURT, SANTA CRUZZ CA 95060 County Santa of San nta Cruz. SONYA SOKOLOW. SOKO OLOW. 301 HIGHVIEW COURT, COUR RT, SANTA CRUZ CA 950600 This business is conducted ucted by a Individual condu Signed: Signe d: SONYA SOKOLOW. The re registrant egistrant commenced to transact transa act business under the fictitious fictitio ous business name listed abovee on 4/25/2005. This statement statem ment was filed with Gail L. Pel Pellerin, lerin, County Clerk of Santaa Cruz County, on March 2015. 24, 20 015. April 8, 15, 22, 29. FICTITTIOUS BUSINESS NAME FICTITIOUS STATEMENT STATE EMENT FILE NO. 15-0666 The fo following ollowing individual is doing business as HANDSOME CARGO. CARG GO. 113 OSPREY LANE, APTOS APTO S CA 95003 County of San Santa nta Cruz. CHRISTINA BORBELY. BORB BELY. 113 OSPREY LANE,, APTOS CA 95003. This LANE business busine ess is conducted by a Individual Individ dual Signed: CHRISTINA BORBELY. BORB BELY. The registrant commenced comm menced to transact business busine ess under the fictitious business busine ess name listed above is NO NOT OT APPLICABLE. This

statement was fil filed ed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk C of Santa Cruz County, on April A 1, 2015. April 8, 15, 22, 29. 299. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSIINESS NAME STATEME STATEMENT ENT FILE NO. 15-0701. The The following individual is doingg business as CAVEMAN CREATIONS. CREA ATIONS. 946 N. BRANCIFORTE AVE A #B, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062 County of Cruz.JARED Santa Cruz. JARED BORCHERS. BRANCIFORTE 946 N. BRANCIFO ORTE AVE #B, SANTA CRUZZ CA 95062 by This business is conducted c a Individual Signed: Signeed: JARED BORCHERS.. Thee registrant commenced to transact transact the business under th he fictitious business name listed lissted above APPLICABLE. is NOT APPLICA ABLE. This filed statement was fil ed with Gail L. L of Santa Pellerin, County Clerk C Cruz County, on April A 6, 2015. April 8, 15, 22, 29. 299. BUSIINESS NAME FICTITIOUS BUSINESS STATEMENT FILEE No. 15-0618 The following Unincorporated Uninncorporated doinng business Association is doing PATRICK as FRIENDS OF PATRICK O’BRIEN. 113 O OSPREY SPREY LANE, APTOS CA 950033 County CHRISTINA of Santa Cruz. CH HRISTINA BORBELY & .PATRICK .PATTRICK O’BRIEN. 113 OSPREY LAN LANE, NE, APTOS b is CA 95003. This business conducted by a Unincorporated Unnincorporated Association Signed: Signed: CHRISTINA BORBELY. The re gistrant registrant commenced to transact traansact business under the thhe fictitious business name listed lissted above on 3/24/2015.. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County P Clerk of Santa Cruz Cruuz County, on March 24, 2015. April 8, 15, 22, 29.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSIINESS NAME STATEMENT FILEE NO. 150391. The followi following ing individual is doing businesss as VISCARIA DANCE AND YOG YOGA GA WEAR. 783 RIO DEL MAR BL BLVD. LVD. STE 51, APTOS CA 950033 County of Santa Cruz. DENA A GRAVEN. MAR 390 RIO DEL MA AR BLVD., APTOS CA 950033 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: DENA GR GRAVEN. RAVEN. The registrant commenced commenced to transact businesss under the fictitious businesss name listed above on 3/2/20 015.This 3/2/2015.This statement was fil ed with Gail L. filed Pellerin County C Pellerin, Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on March M 2, 2015. April 8, 15, 22, 29. 299. FICTITIOUS BUSI BUSINESS INESS NAME STATEMENT FILEE NO. 150487. The followi following ing individual is doing businesss as SANTA CRUZ TEA KEEPE KEEPERS. ERS. 151 HIGH STREET, BROOKDALE BR ROOKDALE CA 95007 Countyy of Santa

Cruz. GIANNA GOODPASTER. GOODPASTER R. 2210 SEQUOIA DRIVE, SANTA SANTTA 95065.. This busine business CRUZ CA 95065 ess is conducted by a Individual Signed: GIANNA GOODPASTER. GOODPASTTER. The registrant commenced to transact business under the listed fictitious business name liste ed above is NOT APPLICABLE. APPLICABLEE. This statement was filed wit withh Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerkk of March Santa Cruz County, on Marc ch 11, 2015. April 15, 22, 29 & May 6. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME NAM ME STATEMENT FILE NO. 150668. The following individual individual is doing business as CAPITOLA CAPITO OLA CREPES. 1855 41ST AVE., CAPITOLA CA 95010 Countyy of Santa Cruz. MOHAMED IBESSAINE. 459 CANYON D DEL REY BOULEVARD, DEL REY OAKS CA 93940. This business business is conducted by a Individual Signed: MOHAMED IBESSAINE. IBESSAINE. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name liste listed ed above on 3/23/2015.. This Gailil L. statement was filed with Gai Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Sannta 2015. Cruz County, on April 1, 201 15. April 15, 22, 29 & May 6. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME NAM ME STATEMENT FILE NO 15-000703 NO. 15 15-0703 The following individual is doing dooing business as STEVE BARNES S TRUCKING. 590 SWANTON RD., DAVENPORT CA 950177 County of Santa Cruz. STEVEE BARNES. 590 SWANTON RD., DAVENPORT CA 95017. 950177. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: STEV STEVE VE BARNES. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 4/6/2015... This statement was w filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on April 6, 2015. April 15, 22,, 29 & May 6. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAM NAME ME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-0733 15-00733 The following Married Couplee is doing business as SURF CHECK DRIVING SCHOOL. 777 RANCHO CALABASAS DR., WATSONVILLE CA 950 076 95076 County of Santa Cruz ARA Cruz.. BARB BARBARA KNAPP & MARK KNAPP. 777 7777 RANCHO CALABASAS DR DR., WATSONVILLE CA 95076. This business is conducted by A Married Couple Signed: Signedd: MICHELLE BARBOSA. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed listeed above is NOT APPLICABLE.. This statement was filed with with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerkk of

Santa Cruz County, on March 4, 2015. March 25 & April 1, 8, 15. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-0483 The following individual is doing business as OCTAVIAN ARTS. 1925 46TH AVE. #41, CAPITOLA CA 95010 County of Santa Cruz. SARAH HUGHES. 1925 46TH AVE. #41, CAPITOLA CA 95010. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: SARAH HUGHES 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 11 2015. 11, 2015 April 88, 15 15, 22 22, 29 & May 6. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-0651 The following Corporation is doing business as CAMERON MARKS. 402 INGALLS STREET, #7, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060 County of Santa Cruz. Cruz. VCCV, INC. 402 INGALLS STREET, #7, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060. Al# 3766887. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: VANESSA AMBROSE. Th registrant The i t t commencedd to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 3/7/2005 This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on March 30, 2015. April 15, 22, 29 & May 6. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 150754 The following Married Couple is doing business as THETAHEALING BENEFITS. 141 SU SUTPHEN S STREET,, S SANTA CRUZ CA 95960 County of Santa Cruz. Cruz. SUSAN HEILO & SIMON GEORGES HEILO. 141 SUTPHEN STREET, SANTA CRUZ CA 95960. This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: SUSAN HEILO. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 4/15/2015. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on April 13, 2015. April 15, 15 22, 22 29 & May 6. 6 CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF AKIELA CHNIECE BAKER CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. CV181480. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner AKIELA CHNIECE BAKER has filed a Petition for Change of Name with

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-0775 The following individual is doing business as AARDVARK

TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES. 38 PINE AVE., MOUNT HERMON CA 95041 County of Santa Cruz. MAURICE MAMON. 38 PINE AVE., MOUNT HERMON CA 95041. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: MAURICE MAMON. 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 April 15, 2015. April 22, 29 & May 6,13. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-0717 The following individual is doing business as LESLEY GRAINGER GARDENING 1595 LAUREL GARDENING. GLEN RD., SOQUEL CA 95073 County of Santa Cruz. LESLEY GRAINGER. 1595 LAUREL GLEN RD., SOQUEL CA 95073 . This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: LESLEY GRAINGER. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 4/7/2015. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on April 7, 7 2015. 2015 April 22, 22 29 & May 6,13.

FICTITIO FICTITIOUS OUS BUSINESS NAME STATEM MENT FILE NO. 15-0746 STATEMENT The follo wing Corporation is following doing bu usiness as SANTA business CRUZ CA AB, SANTA CRUZ CAB, TAXI & YELLOW Y CAB. 1025 WATER ST. S SUITE B, SANTA CRUZ CA A 95062 Countyy of Santa Cr ruz. BLACK & YELLOW Cruz. TRANSP PORTATION. 301 OCEAN TRANSPORTATION. AVE., MO ONTEREY CA 93940. MONTEREY Al# 3762 2070. This business 3762070. is conduc conducted cted by a Corporation Signed: MICHAEL M CARDINALLI. The regis strant commenced registrant to transa transact act business under the fictiti ious business name fictitious listed ab ove on 4/7/2015 This above statement statemen nt was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz Cou unty, on April 9, 2015. County, April 22, 222, 29 & May 6,13.

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