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EDITOR’S NOTE If I told you that a new, techbased system for teaching dyslexic kids was being used to teach kids internationally, you’d probably assume that it was a product initiative from some big company. But isn’t it so Santa Cruz that it’s actually a system developed by one educator in Aptos, who does the instruction himself via video conferencing with dyslexic students both in the U.S. and other countries? It also says a lot about what is required to meet the needs of those students. As Anne-Marie Harrison’s cover story explains, it is only recently that significant leaps have

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Thank you for your very timely, sensitive and well-written article “Bedside Manners.” (GT, 11/4). I am so happy to see coverage of local efforts to create a welcoming community for people of all genders. I have just one comment about your article: you refer to trans people several times as “biologically female,” “born female,” and “born male.” I understand the impulse toward clarity for readers who are not familiar with transgender terminology. However, many people see these terms as overly reductive—for instance, a transgender male might object strongly to being called a “biological female” or “born female,” since he identifies as male (and not a “former female”). I quote from the GLAAD Media Reference Guide on Transgender Issues: “Problematic: biologically male, biologically female, genetically male, genetically female, born a man, born a woman. Preferred: assigned male at birth, assigned female at birth or designated male at birth, designated female at birth.” Problematic phrases like those above are reductive and overly simplify a very complex subject. As mentioned above, a person’s sex

been made in understanding exactly how to turn the educational model inside out (literally, as you’ll read) to better serve those with dyslexia. Technology is giving those efforts a big boost, but even so, there are no shortcuts. Even the very notion of what dyslexia is, and how it affects those who have it, is still widely misunderstood. Read the story and see if you’ve had the same misconceptions that most people do. Also, don’t forget that our Santa Cruz Gives holiday giving program is in full swing. Read this week’s moving story about Watsonville’s Aztecas Youth Soccer Academy, one of the 30 nonprofits we’re asking you to fund this year, then go to santacruzgives.com and decide who you’d like to support. STEVE PALOPOLI | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

is determined by a number of factors—not simply genetics—and one’s biology does not “trump” one’s gender identity. Finally, people are born babies, they are not “born a man” or “born a woman.” Thank you for publishing this excellent article. I hope you will take my comments into account. SOPHIA BOOTH MAGNONE | PHD CANDIDATE, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ

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The Land Trust of Santa Cruz County hopes to raise $20 million for its Great Land and Trail Campaign. Two anonymous donors have stepped up to match every donation, of any amount, until the end of January 2016. The anonymous donors did tell officials, “Let us know when you reach $5 million, and we’ll see.” That would still put the group halfway to its goal. Visit landtrustsantacruz.org for more information.

Thanks to local residents, thousands of poor children around the world will receive Christmas gifts this year—shoeboxes filled with small items like toys, school supplies and hygiene necessities. Operation Christmas Child, a project of Samaritan’s Purse, collected more than 9,000 shoebox gifts from Santa Cruz, San Benito and Monterey counties in its annual collection week, Nov. 16-23. Visit samaritanspurse.org/ occ for more information.

TERMS OF USE, PART 2 Re: “Bedside Manners”: That was an awesome write-up about transgender phenom. Something I have a hard time with is facing transphobia in the face and telling people that sometimes it is not OK to always call me “sir.” I have to correct the person, as I am gender-non-conforming, but do prefer fem pronouns—after all, pronouns were put on this earth to fulfill their duty. Please stop calling me mister! And don't call me ma'am, either, it's overrated.

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Does UCSC do enough for the community? BY MATTHEW COLE SCOTT

As a UCSC student, I think it does a lot for the community, from working with the Homeless Garden Project to students volunteering in schools around town. CAITLIN MANNIX SANTA CRUZ | STUDENT/WAITRESS

No. Just by comparison, UC Santa Cruz doesn’t integrate with the town anywhere near as much as a lot of other places. FERGUS FERRIER SANTA CRUZ | TEACHER

I think UCSC is a tremendous asset for the community in many ways, and like any of us it could probably do more. REV. BETH LOVE SANTA CRUZ | MINISTER

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No. If they had stopped at 10,000 to 12,000 students, it would have benefited the community, school and students—and housing wouldn’t be overpriced.

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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of December 9 ARIES Mar21–Apr19

LIBRA Sep23–Oct 22

The Neanderthals were a different human species that co-existed with our ancestors, homo sapiens, for at least 5,000 years. But they eventually died out while our people thrived. Why? One reason, says science writer Marcus Chown, is that we alone invented sewing needles. Our newborn babies had well-made clothes to keep them warm and healthy through frigid winters. Neanderthal infants, covered with ill-fitting animal skins, had a lower survival rate. Chown suggests that although this provided us with a mere one percent survival advantage, that turned out to be significant. I think you’re ready to find and use a small yet ultimately crucial edge like that over your competitors, Aries.

The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to consort with hidden depths and unknown riches. In every way you can imagine, I urge you to go deeper down and further in. Cultivate a more conscious connection with the core resources you sometimes take for granted. This is one time when delving into the darkness can lead you to pleasure and treasure. As you explore, keep in mind this advice from author T. Harv Eker: “In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, what’s under the ground creates what’s above the ground. That’s why placing your attention on the fruits you have already grown is futile. You can’t change the fruits that are already hanging on the tree. But you can change tomorrow’s fruits. To do so, you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots.”

TAURUS Apr20–May20 Artist Robert Barry created “30 Pieces,” an installation that consisted of pieces of paper on which he had typed the following statement: “Something which is very near in place and time, but not yet known to me.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, this theme captures the spirit of the phase you’re now entering. But I think it will evolve in the coming weeks. First it’ll be “Something which is very near in place and time, and is becoming known to me.” By mid-January it could turn into “Something which is very near and dear, and has become known to me.”

GEMINI May21–June20 “There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is uncanny, wild, and lawless.” Greek philosopher Plato wrote that in his book The Republic, and I’m bringing it to your attention just in time for your Season of Awakening and Deepening Desire. The coming days will be a time when you can, if you choose, more fully tune in to the uncanny, wild, and lawless aspects of your primal yearnings. But wait a minute! I’m not suggesting you should immediately take action to gratify them. For now, just feel them and observe them. Find out what they have to teach you. Wait until the new year before you consider the possibility of expressing them.

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Congratulations! You have broken all your previous records for doing boring tasks that are good for you. On behalf of the other eleven signs, I thank you for your heroic, if unexciting, campaign of self-improvement. You have not only purified your emotional resources and cleared out some breathing room for yourself, but you have also made it easier for people to help you and feel close to you. Your duty has not yet been completed, however. There are a few more details to take care of before the gods of healthy tedium will be finished with you. But start looking for signs of your big chance to make a break for freedom. They’ll arrive soon.

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The English word “fluke” means “lucky stroke.” It was originally used in the game of billiards when a player made a good shot that he or she wasn’t even trying to accomplish. Later its definition expanded to include any fortuitous event that happens by chance rather than because of skill: good fortune generated accidentally. I suspect that you are about to be the beneficiary of what may seem to be a series of flukes, Leo. In at least one case, though, your lucky break will have been earned by the steady work you’ve done without any fanfare.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 You may not have to use a literal crowbar in the coming weeks, but this rough tool will serve you well as a metaphor. Wherever you go, imagine that you’ve got one with you. Why? It’s time to jimmy open glued-shut portals . . . to pry loose mental blocks . . . to coax unyielding influences to budge . . . to nudge intransigent people free of their fixations. Anything that is stuck or jammed needs to get unstuck or unjammed through the power of your willful intervention.

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 In the coming weeks, the pursuit of pleasure could drain your creative powers, diminish your collaborative possibilities, and wear you out. But it’s also possible that the pursuit of pleasure will enhance your creative powers, synergize your alliances, and lead you to new opportunities. Which way will you go? It all depends on the kinds of pleasures you pursue. The dumb, numbing, mediocre type will shrink your soul. The smart, intriguing, invigorating variety will expand your mind. Got all that? Say “hell, no” to trivializing decadence so you can say “wow, yes” to uplifting bliss.

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21 Garnets are considered less valuable than diamonds. But out in the wild, there’s an intimate connection between these two gemstones. Wherever you find garnets near the surface of the earth, you can be reasonably sure that diamonds are buried deeper down in the same location. Let’s use this relationship as a metaphor for your life, Sagittarius. I suspect you have recently chanced upon a metaphorical version of garnets, or will do so soon. Maybe you should make plans to search for the bigger treasure toward which they point the way.

CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 Ready for the Cool Anger Contest? You can earn maximum points by expressing your dissatisfaction in ways that generate the most constructive transformations. Bonus points will be awarded for your ability to tactfully articulate complicated feelings, as well as for your emotionally intelligent analyses that inspire people to respond empathetically rather than defensively. What are the prizes? First prize is a breakthrough in your relationship with an ally who could be crucial to your expansion in 2016. Second prize is a liberation from one of your limiting beliefs.

AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 A fourth-century monk named Martin was a pioneer winemaker in France. He founded the Marmoutier Abbey and planted vineyards on the surrounding land. According to legend, Martin’s donkey had a crucial role in lifting viticulture out of its primitive state. Midway through one growing season, the beast escaped its tether and nibbled on a lot of the grapevines. All the monks freaked out, fearing that the crop was wrecked. But ultimately the grapes grew better than they had in previous years, and the wine they produced was fabulous. Thus was born the practice of pruning, which became de rigueur for all grape-growers. What’s your equivalent of Martin’s donkey, Aquarius? I bet it’ll exert its influence very soon.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 “The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important,” said educator John Dewey. If that’s true, Pisces, you are on the verge of having your deepest urge fulfilled more than it has been in a long time. The astrological alignments suggest that you are reaching the peak of your value to other people. You’re unusually likely to be seen and appreciated and acknowledged for who you really are. If you have been underestimating your worth, I doubt you will be able to continue doing so. Here’s your homework: Take a realistic inventory of the ways your life has had a positive impact on the lives of people you have known.

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ong before bearded hipsters made cycling cool again, Santa Cruz prided itself as a bike-friendly community, and now it has a gold award—plus several sizable grants—to back it up. The League of American Bicyclists announced its bi-annual Bicycle Friendly Communities awards on Nov. 16. With rankings from platinum to bronze, the league’s rankings are announced each fall and spring. This year Santa Cruz came out in the gold tier, making it one of 24 in the entire country to receive the honor since the awards began in 2003. A public celebratory ride took

place on Nov. 24 from City Hall down the San Lorenzo Riverwalk, although the chilly winter night brought in a lower-than-expected turnout, says Amelia Conlen, director of the nonprofit Bike Santa Cruz County. “But we did have treats donated by the Pacific Cookie Company and Cocoamotion,” she says. The League of American Bicyclists was originally founded in 1880 as the League of American Wheelmen—as cyclists apparently were then called. The League is a national bicycling advocacy group working to change policy and create a safer experience for anyone who chooses to ditch four wheels in favor of two.

Santa Cruz is now in good company, with only three other gold members in the state: San Francisco, Palo Alto and San Luis Obispo. Among its accolades, Santa Cruz was acknowledged for its strong infrastructure, cycling education programs and 10 percent of its population biking to work. Sixty percent of Santa Cruz’s arterial streets have bike lanes, compared to an average of 78 percent in most platinum-ranked areas. Davis is the only Californian city that’s achieved platinum status. On the city’s “report card,” the league noted a few reasons why Santa Cruz did not receive >14

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For the 50 teenage boys in Watsonville’s Aztecas Youth Soccer Academy, their purple uniform is more than just a jersey and shorts. It’s a metamorphosis—a chance to lose their baggy pants, long T-shirts and gang colors, and become something new, says Gina Castaneda, a Santa Cruz County deputy probation officer and the academy’s head coach. Most of the boys are probationers from migrant farmworker families. Many are in gangs, some in generational gangs with their parents, uncles and grandparents. Several struggle with drugs and alcohol. On the team, the boys receive not only elite soccer coaching, but also mentoring, academic help, field trips and community service opportunities from a group of volunteers—several who are probation department employees. At some point, something truly transformative happens. New players begin dressing in Aztecas gear off the field, not just occasionally, but constantly, says Castaneda. It’s a signal to gang members to leave them alone. “The warm-ups—they wear them all the time. Their jerseys and T-shirts, they’re worn until they’re tattered,” she says. “They’re absolutely right. They get to identify all the time as athletes. They don’t have to go back to wearing their gang clothes.” Castaneda, a former Aptos High soccer standout and collegiate player, founded the nonprofit academy in 2008 with the Santa Cruz County Probation Department, after realizing that many of the boys on her case load wanted to play but had no money to join a team. More than just a space for soccer, she wanted to create a safe place, where boys from rival gangs could play together. She has a strict rule: no gang colors at practice. “They’re at a point in their lives where they’re rejecting gangs and they’re getting clean and sober, and that’s scary for them,” she says. “There’s a safety concern. How do you move away from gangs and violence and not have your homeboys come after you? What do you do? It’s changing their identity.” Most of the young men, who range in age from 13 to 20, grew up playing street ball, but never organized >16

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NEWS MEDAL TO THE PEDAL <13 a platinum rating, and a big one is accidents. Santa Cruz County routinely has among the highest rate of per capita bike accidents in the state. The county’s higherthan-average ridership at least partly explains those numbers. Still, the report card notes that the city’s average fatalities per 100,000 cyclists is 222, more than twice the average for platinum communities. Ken Mcleod, the league legal and policy specialist, was one of three reviewers who went over Santa Cruz’s application, and he says the city is on the right track when it comes to transportation. “It seemed very ambitious for the community compared to other applications we received,� he says, “especially with the building of new facilities to encourage more cyclists.� Earlier this year, the city won two big grants for bike projects. One grant extends part of the Coastal Rail Trail, a planned multiuse 32-mile path from downtown Watsonville to Davenport. The other

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members—which they then get to keep at the end of the program. “Having access to bikes can be difficult,� explains Conlen. “Especially the tools and accessories needed to hang-on [to] and maintain one. We provide all that, so the kids are ready to go.� But there is even more good bike news that didn’t make it into the Bicycle Friendly Community award application. Just three weeks before being honored, Santa Cruz was awarded $3.2 million in grants from Caltrans. The first grant of $1.4 million went to a program to improve school crossings. The city and environmental nonprofit Ecology Action will work together to improve 24 crosswalks around eight local schools, as well as transportation education in the classrooms. Sometimes changing people’s habits can create serious momentum when it comes to how people get around. “Many of the crossings are simply perceived as being unsafe—causing more parents to drive and >19

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adds bicycle route signs to instruct commuters about the safest and fastest paths, something Conlen is excited about. “Many cyclists may not be as experienced as others, which is why the sign program is so important around town,� she says. The league based its awards on 111 questions, as well as data collected by both the city and by the league itself. Criteria ranged from the number of bike-friendly laws to access to cycling education programs. The number of active bicycle advocacy groups within the community also played a factor. Bike Santa Cruz County, formerly known as People Power, is probably the best-known of those advocacy groups. This year, the nonprofit teamed up with the city to complete the Arana Gulch multi-use trail and the green lane bike path on Laurel Street. One of its programs is the Earn-A-Bike program in Watsonville. Over the course of six weeks, students are taken on bike-related field trips, and they learn to work on bicycles donated by community

There’s an assumption these days in politics that labor and environmentalists have a hard time seeing eye to eye. Sure enough, a recent meeting for the county’s Regional Transportation Commission broke, more or less, along those lines. The matter this time is a halfcent transportation sales tax measure that the RTC board is leaning toward supporting. Environmental activists, worried about climate change, are taking issue with 25 percent of the proposed money going toward adding merge lanes— also called auxiliary lanes— from off-ramp to on-ramp, stretching from Soquel Avenue to 41st Avenue and back.

After Santa Cruz activists made the case that any improvement would be marginal, the RTC board responded with Santa Cruz Mayor Don Lane mentioning that it may not have a huge impact, but it also isn’t a huge chunk of change in transportation dollars. He showed sympathy for the people of Watsonville, many of whom have to commute to Santa Cruz. “Those folks have been waiting, not just in traffic every day, but for our county to do something,� Lane said. RTC boardmembers, especially those representing South County, said it was time to lend a hand to the predominantly lower-income work force driving northbound every day—and much of the

Santa Cruz economy yearround. District 2 County Supervisor Zach Friend admitted that merge lanes don’t do away with a ton of congestion, and that’s why the RTC tried 11 years ago to build carpool lanes, which reduce traffic and cost more. The board proposed a measure in 2004 that the Campaign for Sensible Transportation lobbied hard against and helped defeat. With some of those same people in the room for the Dec. 3 meeting, Friend explained that many of his poorest constituents couldn’t make it to the meeting because they were either stuck in traffic or stuck at their jobs, but he insisted they would beg the RTC to “do

something. They would say, ‘we didn’t elect you to do nothing.’� With that, he asked for the activists’ support. “If not, I invite you come down to the South County to sit with people to tell them why we couldn’t get something done,� Friend said. During a meeting break, Paul Elerick from the Campaign for Sensible Transportation suggested that maybe it would help if more people changed their working hours and reiterated that he didn’t think the lane would make for much change. “Looking at the EIR [Environmental Impact Report],� he said, “I don’t think it will have the impact people are looking for.� JACOB PIERCE

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have you ever spent time with these kids? They’re like any other kid.” Like Sanchez, most of the group’s mentors grew up in Watsonville and grappled with similar life choices. “You’re talking about a population of kids that people don’t want to support,” Castaneda says. “It’s easier to incarcerate them and forget about them than actually give them service. When they see that there’s all these people and probation officers that show up for them every single practice and every single game, they get motivated.” Coming into the program, the boys have different goals than many other teens, Sanchez explains—getting fed that day or staying alive, for instance, rather than college. “It’s changing the mindset,” Sanchez says. “It’s having a bright future, going from ‘I could graduate’ to ‘I’m going to graduate and this is how I’m going to do it.’”

Sanchez says that several of the boys already knew him from his Alcance work. The boys know the other mentors, the police and probation officers, too, from their lives on the streets, he adds. “We’re not strangers to them,” he says. “Having law enforcement on the team, the boys get to joke around with them and know that they’re human and they make mistakes, too.” In the past four years, Aztecas has graduated more than 15 students from high school. Outside of the program, Castaneda says, in 10 years she’s had only two students in her probation caseload graduate from high school. What’s more, Aztecas boasts a handful of alumni playing college soccer at Cabrillo College and California State University Monterey Bay. “They’re not just kids that are at risk or kids that are on probation or gang kids,”

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ne of the oldest clichés in sports journalism is the narrative of an athlete who, when faced with hardship, works night and day to prove doubters wrong. Usually these tales happen in young adulthood—maybe getting cut from a team, forgotten in college recruiting or skipped over in the draft. For some players, though, the going gets tough much earlier on. Ronnie Brewer, a small forward and shooting guard for the Santa Cruz Warriors, faced his first major obstacle at age 10, when he broke his

arm, suffering a compound fracture on a waterslide. Ever since, Brewer has been unable to raise the ball over his head to take a basketball shot with proper form. Instead, he holds the basketball closer to his face with his elbows bent and shoves the ball up into the air. “The way my arm set made me shoot the way that I did, and I just practiced over the years and tried to make it repetitious, and it’d go in,” says Brewer, who was drafted by the Utah Jazz in 2006 and has eight years of NBA experience. “It got me to where I am, and it’s never perfect. That’s why you practice it.

I continue to work every day on it.” Brewer’s father Ron was an eight-year player in the league. Big on fundamentals, the elder player felt that if someone wasn’t going to play the right way and make the right decisions on both offense and defense, they shouldn’t bother playing at all. At first, his father assumed Brewer was just being rebellious by using an unorthodox stroke, but when he realized he couldn’t shoot any other way, they began working on his shot together to make it more consistent. Brewer’s father warned him that people were going to criticize him,

telling him to change his shot, but that if he got points, it didn’t matter. It was a lesson he would hear again when he met Roy Williams, a decorated basketball coach from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Kansas. Brewer remembers Williams telling him, “Ronnie, there are going to be times in your life where people are going to tell you you can’t do something. You can’t listen to the naysayers. The only way you can stop them from saying you can’t do something is to go out there hard enough you change their mind. People are going to tell you to change your shot, [that] you need to do something different, that it will never go in. All you can do is work on it and make it where it’s natural and have confidence in it.” Brewer, who is currently out with a pulled hamstring, has played only two games for the Santa Cruz Warriors, who are 5-4, and the team hopes to have him back soon. He averaged 6.5 points and 1.5 steals in 21 minutes. Part of Brewer’s immense value to Santa Cruz is his experience on a handful of NBA play-off teams. Brewer, who was waived by the Chicago Bulls in August, knows what it’s like to guard Kobe Bryant or Russell Westbrook. Just a few years ago, he was starting for NBA teams, and he’s only 30 years old. Santa Cruz Coach Casey Hill and Pat Sund, the team’s associate general manager, were both amazed Brewer was still around for the 30th overall pick in this year’s D-League draft. Some players would be miffed about slipping so far in the draft, but Brewer says those numbers don’t matter, noting that there are players like Paul Millsap and Rajon Rondo who were taken after him in the 2006 NBA draft who are still contributors in the big leagues. He just wants to be on the court to prove he still works hard and can still ball. “I feel like I’ve got a lot of years of basketball left. I’m 30 years old,” Brewer says. “There are a lot of guys in the NBA that are a lot older. I’m still passionate about basketball. There’s a lot I can still learn.”

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County educator who has developed a teletherapy program to teach dyslexic children how to read. “One in five of the population is somewhere on the dyslexia spectrum,” says Rogers, who also holds a doctorate in education. “In a lot of ways, it’s really the level of tolerance that a child has for suboptimum instruction.” Many dyslexic children get by for years with gaps in their public school education, he says. But his program, Eulexic, aims to fill those gaps with a multimedia strategy

that draws on the Orton-Gillingham Approach, a multisensory, cumulative cognitive reading instruction method. Some kids will innately comprehend what they’re taught in school, says Rogers. Others— like the more than 40 million American adults living with dyslexia, according to Austin Learning Solutions—need the information broken down into basic building blocks. That’s where newer approaches have made an impact; these more individualized

alternatives that have sprung up over the past 10 years include Lexercise, a program Rogers worked with before building on it to create his own approach. Without such programs, most public education can’t offer the kind of one-on-one attention children with learning disabilities need, says Rogers. Although it used to be called “word blindness,” dyslexia has nothing to do with sight. Rather, it has to do with processing: the information doesn’t easily travel from the right side of the brain,

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which is partly responsible for spatial thought, to the left. It’s also hereditary and not indicative of I.Q.—Albert Einstein was dyslexic and he had an estimated I.Q. of 160. Rogers chose the name Eulexic for his program because he also strives to end the stigma associated with the disability. ”Eu” is from the Greek word meaning “good”; by replacing the “dys” in “dyslexia,” he’s helping children become “good with words.” Through Zoom’s video conference software, I virtually sat in on a teletherapy session that Rogers led with Julie McGovern and her 12-year-old daughter, Sara. First, Rogers opens Whizzimo, a program where a set of tiles sits on the screen with single letters and combinations like “ch” and “tch.” Sara is steely-eyed and locked in, creating “gym” when Rogers asks her to think of letters with a “j” sound, and even opting to wear a blindfold in the later part of the spelling fluency program. Her mother tells me later over the phone from a suburb of Rockford, Illinois, that in Sara’s case, the school provided a 37-page report on her dyslexia and dysgraphia (a writing disorder) when she was in first grade. “She would sound out pretty much every single word and she would take a word like ‘people,’ and sound it out really weird like ‘peuh-ah-eu-

pleh’ and then she’d go ‘people!’ and just laugh,” recounts McGovern. Rogers’ program unpacks each building block of a word, from the bottom-up—starting with the sounds to the word—then to the grammatical rules, rather than the other way around. This linguistic approach is also the basis for Eulexic’s spelling, reading comprehension and vocabulary instruction. For many children with learning disabilities, there’s crossover, so a child might have dyslexia and dyscalculia. Dyscalculia makes understanding arithmetical calculations difficult, and when combined with dyslexia, things like word problems become all the more frustrating. In the McGoverns’ case, the school did conduct the examination to see if Sara was dyslexic (something public schools in California don’t do), and eventually offered to pay the monthly $395 fee for Rogers’ Eulexic—but only because McGovern wouldn’t stand for how they were treating her daughter. “They wanted her to go up 10 points in math for state testing, and they were going to have an award for it. Well, Sara went down 10 points,” says McGovern. “They punished her, they put her in the library with three magazines that she couldn’t read for 45 minutes while the other

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At one point during the session with the McGoverns, Roberts turns to my tiny window on the screen and, toggling over a “k” tile and an “o” tile, asks, “what is the difference between a consonant and a vowel?” My stomach lurches, my face flushes: “I know this, I write for a living!” I tell myself. But it’s been ages since I pondered anything about the topic beyond the scene in My Fair Lady where Eliza Doolittle has to recite vowels with marbles in her mouth. I can name them, of course, but explain the actual difference? Not all teachers know the answer either, Rogers says. A vowel is a speech sound that comes from the vocal cords by way of the lungs and a consonant serves as a “break,” meaning it closes the vocal tract— pronounced with the lips, tongue or throat, unlike vowels. Similarly, few people can explain why the first “c” in “circle” is pronounced like an “s” and not a “k”—simplified, it’s because of the rule “soft c’s” generally come before an “i,” “e,” or “y.” The point is that though we need language to communicate, it can be extremely difficult to communicate about language, which only makes things harder for dyslexics. The cliche is that most dyslexics see letters in the wrong order or backwards, that a “d” is a “b” and so on. However, symptoms and acuteness exist on a spectrum. “Whatever way you label it, it’s a problem,” says Rogers. “There are

parents and kids in desperate need of extra support in this area.” Rogers has understood this in a very personal way since about age 5, when he went to school and was asked to “decipher those little marks on the page,” as he describes the process now. In those days, his teachers treated Rogers and his brother, who’s also dyslexic, as if they had a handicap. No one ever said the word “dyslexia.” So he worked harder, and although learning to type was “a nightmare,” eventually graduated cum laude and went on to develop after-school programs in reading as a Special Education teacher and assistant principal. The biggest problem, says Rogers, is that not a lot has really changed since he was a kid. “Definitely in chapter books, after I read it I can’t really remember what happens,” Ryder Esquivel tells me in short bursts over Facetime, in between rolling off the back of the couch onto the floor, bouncing on his heels, waving his Santa figurine into the camera or bounding off the screen all together. Ryder is 9 and in fourth grade in Alameda. The Esquivels moved to Alameda to be in a better school district so it was a huge disappointment when they found Ryder wasn’t getting the attention he needed. “He spoke about feeling stupid— for a 5-year-old that can be a pretty painful thing,” says Esquivel of her son who’s now been working with Rogers since last year. For Esquivel, it was baffling when her son’s school didn’t know what to do with him. “It’s kind of the battle between the school system and the health industry: you go to the school and you say ‘I think my child’s dyslexic’

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That’s the thing about dyslexia and other learning disabilities—they can’t be cured. You just have to learn the tools to get around them, says Rogers, who still has moments of misreading signs as well. Without the tools, we end up with “Swiss cheese education,” he laughs. “The research shows that with good structured literacy up to all but six percent of kids will respond,” says Rogers. “What happens is that we create a wait-to-fail model. If you’re behind in kindergarten, you’re stuck.” In October, the California Assembly passed Assembly Bill No. 1369, which stipulates that teachers receive guidelines for dyslexics based on an “evidence-based, multisensory, direct, explicit, structured, and sequential approach." It also added “phonological processing” to the list

of things to evaluate in the learning disability. However, no monies are to be allocated for the addition, and in California the “guidelines” don’t have to be completed until 2018. The tools that Rogers teaches his students help grow new neural pathways, he says. Teaching children to better identify distinctions among individual sounds helps all students spell, regardless of learning disability. “You’re spending the first few years learning to read, and then you’re reading to learn. For a while you can treat everything like a sight word, like “the” or “in,” but then when you get into upper grades and vocabulary explodes, it starts coming to the fore,” says Rogers. As someone who’s seen both sides of the education system, Rogers wants to expand his method to be more accessible for more children. “It also can depend on the degree of hurt you’re suffering as you’re watching your child who is hopeful and vivacious start turning inward and feeling bad about themselves,” he says, describing his goal to create a nonprofit to support students and parents with the same resources. “It’s hard for parents to be involved, and it’s not just ‘are they working full time?’ It’s a matter of cultural access to the schools, are the schools responsive to you? Does getting involved help your child—are you getting positive feedback for getting involved with the schools?”

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sometimes they’ve managed to pass through unnoticed or teachers give higher grades than they deserve. McGovern says that in her daughter’s case, that’s exactly what happened. “Sara got an A+ in reading, but how can you give an A+ to a kid who can’t read?� asks McGovern. “Her second-grade teacher gave her all twos (out of four) and I thanked her. I said ‘this needs to go in her file—I don’t want to see Sara being pushed through the system.’� Rodais says that it’s a hard line for some teachers, wanting to help a student and also teach them independence. “It’s terrible for us, because for the diploma track we have these requirements,� says Rodais. “If they’re being passed through general education classes and these things aren't talked about, it makes it really difficult on us, and more importantly it makes it more difficult on the child.� At Harbor, says Rodais, students with an IEP that are on a diploma track can qualify for the special education program, which is a more restrictive environment, or a less restrictive environment like the resource support class, which is more typical for children with learning disabilities. The resource support class is a period in a child’s schedule which offers access to a teacher and case manager to help students stay organized. Typically, she says, classes are comprised of about 15 students who receive individualized help based on what they’re struggling with. Students have access to audiobooks, software programs like Read 180, and are presented with study skills at the beginning of each class. “Their case managers will say ‘OK, what’s going on in English, you got a D?’ And they’ll know exactly what's coming down the pike in English,� says Rodais. “There’s a fine line between teaching the kids to advocate for themselves and helping them; we try to do the best that we can. We want students to be as independent as they can be.�

It’s impossible to catch every problem all the time, she says, especially within the system of public education. “We have a lot of interventions in place and we have a lot of people looking for those kids. I think this district does a great job of working with what they've got,� says Rodais. “School workers and teachers and specialists are not miracle workers, but I think parents and students need to advocate for themselves and do the best they can, too. We’re trying.� For children with more than one disability, even alternative education schools can be a challenge. Jim Hale’s son, Christian, is 14 and was attending a Montessori school where they live in Goochland County, Virginia, when about a year ago Christian had a complete breakdown, says Hale. On top of being dyslexic, Christian also has Tourette syndrome, so Hale was hopeful that Montessori would give him the individual attention he needed. The problem was, says Hale, that his needs didn’t fit with the philosophy of freedom and independence Montessori schools are known for. “He had begun struggling so much socially as well as academically that we had to take him out because we feared for his long-term psychological and emotional health,� says Hale, who worked in public schools and special education in Charlottesville, Virginia. “We weren’t planning to homeschool him, but we felt that we had no recourse.� Hale has worked in public schools and says his family is not “antipublic schools.� They just can’t individualize the curriculum like Rogers can with Eulexic. Christian reads at a fifth-grade level, but in just the five weeks that they’ve been working with Rogers, Christian’s confidence and comprehension has skyrocketed. “This has never happened with my son,� says Hale. “The other night we went to bed and I saw the light on his room and I said ‘Christian, what are you doing?’ and he said, ‘I’m reading!’ I was almost in tears. We celebrated that moment.�

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young women between the ages of 12 and 15. Cooper knew they were the right performers to tell her story. “It’s a difficult time to be young and female in our country right now, so it’s important to acknowledge that vulnerability, even as we celebrate inclusiveness and strength in a group,” she says. After two commanding presentations, will there be another chapter after Eos to complete the journey? “I hope so,” says Cooper. “I’d like to bring together the adult cast members and this young group. It would bring things full circle. The third piece will be about rebuilding.” What inspires her about this show, she says, is the extraordinary talent at work. “These girls may be young,” she says, “but their skill is incredible, totally professional, comparable to any highlevel circus performers anywhere.” Though Eos is family-friendly, it’s not a kids show. “These are serious themes,” Cooper says, “and yet having young people explore them, wearing utilitarian, pedestrian costumes, makes what they’re doing that much more spectacular.” Without the glitz, in other words, there’s nowhere to hide. “Exactly,” she says. “And that, coupled with the innocence and power these young women bring to their performance, is going to blow people away.” AeraFlux presents ‘Eos’ at 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 18 and Saturday, Dec. 19 at the Santa Cruz County Memorial Veterans Building, 846 Front St., Santa Cruz. Tickets are $20 general, $15 for youth 12 and under. 800-838-3006, aeraflux.brownpapertickets.com.

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rateful Dead fans are so devoted that they not only followed them around town to town, but even earned the first fan nickname. And they pop up in the least likely of places—even in the music world, where they include Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell, Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo, and Real Estate’s Alex Bleeker. The Dead’s influence isn’t all that apparent in any of these groups, but it’s unmistakable in Bleeker’s

solo work, which is far removed from Real Estate’s dream-pop sound. When he started recording solo in 2009, the Dead influence was there, but the blown-out production, combined with a Crazy Horse energy, disguised the full extent of Bleeker’s Grateful Dead fandom. Things became quite a bit clearer when he penned a heartfelt essay for Stereogum about his experience at all three of the Dead’s farewell shows. This is all important to keep in

mind when listening to Bleeker’s third record, Country Agenda, which was released in October. He’s gone all in and let his Grateful Dead flag fly high and proudly. But Country Agenda is very specific in the inspiration it takes from the Dead. It brings to mind their two 1970 albums, a highlight in their recording career (and the only period some non-Deadheads consider listenable). These two records, The Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty, are gorgeous

breezy mixtures of country, folk and bluegrass that keep the wandering solos to a minimum. The same is true of Country Agenda. This is a feel-good, country-inspired record in literally the same vein. Real Estate fans might run screaming at the mere mention of the Grateful Dead as the record’s primary influence, but if they give it a shot, they might be surprised to find themselves liking these lighthearted folk tunes (and maybe even find themselves digging into the Dead’s discography). Alt-rockers may feel an affinity to the music, too, as this era of the Dead influenced ’90s groups like Wilco. This is the first album by the Freaks that’s a full-band collaborative affair. On Bleeker’s self-titled debut, he enlisted mostly fellow Real Estate bandmates to back him (which produced a record that was a little disjointed and jolting), but now he’s got a band of like-minded souls, and the chemistry is fantastic. On Country Agenda, Bleeker and the Freaks play with confidence and sound like they’re having a lot of fun in the process. The record was recorded at a studio on the coast of Stinson Beach, which seems to be perfectly captured in the music. Whether or not Bleeker was trying to make a record inspired by the California coast, he did—it has a gentle, breezy sound, and laid-back groove. Even the lyrics fit the theme, as in “California” (“California, California, you’re set free”). Deadheads will get a kick out of their rendition of the traditional tune “Turtle Dove,” which Jerry Garcia covered frequently. Overall, the record’s only real problem is that Bleeker may have succeeded a little too well in bringing his influences to the fore—I’m not exaggerating when I say that Country Agenda literally sounds like the Grateful Dead circa 1970. A lot of Deadheads will just listen to the real thing. INFO: 8 p.m., Dec. 10, Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $15. 335-2800.

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THURSDAY 12/10 LOCAL POET BOOK LAUNCH Local poet, Ziggy Rendler-Bregman, launches her newest collection of poetry and art The Gate of Our Coming and Going. A longtime resident of Santa Cruz, Rendler-Bregman was a key leader during the ’90s in restoring art and music education for children in local public schools as well as having had several poems published in several anthologies and journals. Former Santa Cruz Poet Laureate David Swanger says of her newest work, “Ziggy’s sensibility is at once romantic and contemporary.” Thursday, Dec. 10, Rendler-Bregman will read from her book and present original prints. Info: 7 p.m., Holy Cross Parish Hall, 126 High St., Santa Cruz. 469-3560. Free.

CALENDAR FOOD & DRINK HOLIDAY MIXER IN CAPITOLA Live jazz, appetizers from Caruso’s restaurant, taffy from Carousel Taffy, BFF Boutique featuring holiday fashions by strolling models, wine from Wine Tyme, drawings for great prizes from local merchants. 5 p.m The Capitola Mercantile, 115 San Jose Ave., Capitola. $10/$5. HOLIDAY COOKIE BAKE AND EXCHANGE Bake, decorate and take home an assortment of cookies including chocolate chip, gingersnap, oatmeal, shortbread, sugar cookies and vegan. All gluten- and dairyfree, low sugar, high in protein and fiber. RSVP required. 5:30-8:30 p.m. New Leaf Community Market classroom, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. newleafwestside.eventbrite.com. $30/$15 youth.

GROUPS LOVING MORE POLY POTLUCK AND DISCUSSION GROUP Monthly group for polyamorous and poly-curious people and allies, discussing poly theory and praxis, and offering support for attendees. 7:15-9:15 p.m. Fellowship Room, Friends Meeting House, 225 Rooney St., Santa Cruz. goodheartduck@gmail. com. $5-$10 donation. LATE-STAGE ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE: PLANNING AND PREPARING FOR ENDOF-LIFE CARE In the late stage of Alzheimer’s disease, caregiving typically involves new ways of connecting and interacting with the person with the disease. Part two of three-part series. Next and final meeting is on 12/17. RSVP required. 10:30 a.m.-Noon. Live Oak Senior Center Annex, 1777-A Capitola Road, Santa Cruz. mkaminski@ alz.org or 800.272.3900. Free.

ARTS ARGENTINE DANCE Welcoming place to learn and dance Argentine Tango. Beginners welcome. Ongoing Fridays. 8-11 p.m. Tannery World Dance and Cultural Center, 160 River St., Santa Cruz. tangoalternativo@gmail.com. $8/$5 students. First time free.

BUSINESS ST. NICHOLAS CHRISTMAS TREES Trees range from 3.5 to 10 feet, wreaths and garlands. Free hot chocolate, apple cider, crafts and storytime. Open every day until Christmas. Benefiting St. Lawrence Academy and Valley Churches

FOOD & DRINK IMMUNE-BOOSTING PROBIOTIC MOCKTAILS Learn to be creative with Kombucha and kefir, and how to incorporate various beneficial herbs that will help keep you healthy through the holidays. 6-8 p.m. New Leaf Community Market, 1210 41st Ave., Capitola. holidayhappierhour.eventbrite.com. $5. HOLIDAY WINE AND FOO- PAIRING CLASS WITH CALIFORNIA WINES Sommelier Kristen Valenza introduces you to the different bodies, styles, mouthfeel, dry-sweet levels, colors and regions of California wines and teaches you the basic rules for pairing. RSVP required. 6-8 p.m. New Leaf Community Market classroom, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. newleafwestside. eventbrite.com. $45/$40 each for 2.

GROUPS NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUPS: GREATER BAY AREA SANTA CRUZ Nar-Anon GBA Santa Cruz offers three meetings in support of friends and families. naranoncalifornia.org/norcal. Helpline: 291-5099. Santa Cruz, Aptos and Scotts Valley. saveyoursanity@aol.com. Free/Donation. CLUTTERERS ANONYMOUS Twelve-step program every Friday. There is hope for order and serenity in your life. 5:30-6:45 p.m. Sutter Room, Sutter Maternity & Surgical Center, 2900 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz. 359-3008. Free.

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OUTDOORS A STELLAR EXPERIENCE Bring your own telescope or stop by and look through telescopes from the Santa Cruz Astronomy Club. Rain or cloudy skies cancels the program. All ages welcome. 6-11:30 p.m. Quail Hollow Ranch County Park, 800 Quail Hollow Road, Felton. 335-3948, prc120@scparks.com. Free.

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Cabrillo Jazz Series Two Days of Clinics & Concerts featuring Legendary Trumpeter, Allen Vizzutti December 11, 7:30pm, Crocker Theater Big Band Jazz December 12, 11:00am, Crocker Theater Cabrillo College Latin Jazz Combos & The Kuumbwa Jazz Honor Band (Immediately followed by a FREE Clinic featuring Allen Vizzutti) December 12, 2:00pm, Crocker Theater Jazz Combos December 12, 7:30pm, Crocker Theater Jazz Singers* * This concert does not feature Allen Vizzutti $10 general, $8 senior/student, $4 Cabrillo SAC holder, $22 for all-event Series Pass

Cantiamo! Concert for a Winter’s Eve December 12, 8:00pm Holy Cross Church, Santa Cruz December 13, 8:00pm Carmel Mission Basilica $23 general, $21 senior/student, $19 Cabrillo SAC holder

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SATURDAY 12/12 ARTS AUDITIONS FOR YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN All roles are open. Actors 16+ are welcome to audition. 1-3 p.m. Park Hall, 9400 Mill St., Ben Lomond. Free. SOQUEL HIGH HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR Benefits our 2016 Safe & Sober Grad Night event. Come get a little holiday shopping done and support local craftspeople at the same time. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Soquel High School MultiPurpose Room. jennijdeeter@gmail.com. Free.

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BEGINNING YOGA With Korrine. Ongoing. 10:15-11:30 a.m. Yoga Within, Aptos. $15 drop-in.

THURSDAY 12/10 FONCA ARTISTS’ COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: MEXICO THROUGH THE ARTS Presented by the Mexican Consulate of San Jose, Thursday, Dec. 10, five artists from five different artistic disciplines will present how their work evokes their link to their Mexican identity. How has music shaped various Mexican identities; how does Mexico lead the world in religious architecture? What does it sound like to transform indigenous melodies into electronic sounds? Maria Ines Canto will present a general panorama of Mexican cultural history while the MAH will offer a drawing workshop led by Salomon Duarte, and Marina Laborde will speak about her research on religious architecture in addition to presentations by Pablo Rubio, Jordi Funtanet and Daniel Chavez. Info: 5-8 p.m., Museum of Art & History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. santacruzmah.org. Free.

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GRAYWATER LAUNDRY TO LANDSCAPE INSTALLATION Help install a system from a second-story washer to the landscape. You’ll learn how much water is conserved by such systems, how to route it to your garden, and what tools and materials are needed. To register, pay the fee using the PayPal Donate button on our website. When we receive the payment, we’ll send you confirmation and the address: http://timebanksantacruz.org/events. 10 a.m.3 p.m. A private home on the Westside. admin@ timebanksantacruz.org. $10.

FOOD & DRINK SANTACON (PUBCRAWL WEARING SANTA OUTFITS) Join more than 100 Santas just like you as we pop into several drinking and eating establishments on Pacific Avenue. Many of the venues will have dancing music just for us. We start at Tampico Mexican restaurant. Then we go to Blue Lagoon. Then Motiv. Then it gets interesting. 6-11 p.m. 650-814-7873, text OK. Free. CAPITOLA NEW LEAF HOLIDAY PARTY Celebrate the holidays and the completion of their remodel with live music, craft beer, and appetizer and holiday menu sampling. Check

out the new, super-energy-efficient deli, meat and seafood cases with an expanded selection of foods, and the larger craft beer selection. 2-6 p.m. New Leaf Community Market, 1210 41st Ave., Capitola. newleafcapitola.eventbrite. com. Free.

GROUPS HONK AND WAVE AND MARCH FOR BERNIE Like Bernie? Come on out and show it! 11 a.m.-Noon at the corner of Ocean and Water streets. Noon on: mini-march down Water Street to the corner of Pacific and Water. Noon-1 p.m.: Honk and Wave continues on the corner of Pacific and Water by the Clock Tower. https://go.berniesanders.com/page/event/ detail/4vymr. Free.

SPIRITUAL SHABBAT SERVICES WITH CHADEISH YAMEINU Potluck luncheon follows; bring a vegetarian item to share. 10 a.m.-Noon. Peace United Church, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. cysantaCruz.com. Free. YULE SOCIAL: COMMUNITY SEED EARTH SPIRIT FELLOWSHIP Potluck, dancing, raffle, all around revelry. communityseed.org/yulesocial. 5:30-10 p.m. Harvey West Clubhouse, Harvey West Park. espi@communityseed.org. $9-$20 (no one turned away for lack of funds).

VOLUNTEER MEET THE NEED: HELP SOMEONE READ Learn how you can teach an eager adult how to read. No teaching or foreign language experience necessary. Our skilled retired teachers provide 15 hours of training. Requires 2-3 hours per week. 10-11 a.m. Volunteer Center, 1740 17th Ave., Santa Cruz. 427-5077, iteracysantacruz.org. Free.

SUNDAY 12/13 CLASSES MAD SCIENTIST EXPERIMENTS We experiment making slime, playing with rainbow milk, turning cabbage water different colors and more. For ages 7 and up. Group size is 12. Sign up at 335-3948. 1-3 p.m. Quail Hollow Ranch County Park, 800 Quail Hollow Road, Felton. $5.

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FRIDAY 12/11 - SUNDAY 12/13 CABRILLO WINTER FESTIVAL OF BANDS Three days of instrumental and vocal jazz concerts with local school talent and professional ensembles come to Cabrillo this weekend with special guest Allen Vizzutti. Vizzutti has become a legend within trumpeting circles, and at this year’s Cabrillo College “Symphonic Winds: A Winter Celebration for Bands,” he’ll be bringing with him his years of experience as a classical and jazz artist. Vizzutti has performed with a rainbow of artists and ensembles including the NBC Tonight Show Band, Chick Corea, and performed in more than forty countries. Vizzutti has recorded with everyone from Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand to Neil Diamond and Prince. Info: 7:30 p.m., Cabrillo College Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos. cabrillovapa. com. $4-$25.

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CALENDAR <41 and experience many of your favorite carols transformed by the magic of lots of tubas. If you are a tuba or euphonium player, come play with us. Contact at tubachristmasmonterey@ gmail.com or 275-4790 for details. 1-2 p.m. 400 West Franklin St., Monterey.

SPIRITUAL SUNDAY SERVICE WITH HEART CIRCLE A spiritual community exploring the Divine Nature. Wherever you are on your journey, you are welcome here. 10:30-11:30 a.m. 920 41st Ave., # H (behind Family Cycling Center). heartcirclecsl.com. Free. CHANUKAH HOSTED BY CHADEISH YAMEINU Celebrate with Santa Cruz’s Jewish Renewal congregation. Join with entire congregation and Munchkin Minyan lighting candles, singing, and snacking. Visit website for more details. 4:30-6:30 p.m. Peace United Church, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. CYSantaCruz.com. Free.

MONDAY 12/14 CLASSES JAZZ: BEGINNING JAZZ FOR ADULTS An Introductory study in classic American jazz choreography and technique. 1:30-2:30 p.m. International Academy of Dance Santa Cruz. info@iadance.com. $10 for new students.

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SUNDAY 12/13 ‘TO LINDA, WITH LOVE’ AT KUUMBWA Winner of 11 Grammys and one of the most popular singers in history, Linda Ronstadt has appeared on more than 120 albums and sold over 100 million records. To celebrate her extensive repertoire and stunning career, local musicians will perform her biggest hits and some favorite Christmas carols. Nashville Song Writer’s Hall of Famer, Gary Burr, will open the show with John Tindel, Randy Tupper, Dean Newberry, Annie Steinhart, and Patti Maxine breathing life into Ronstadt’s beloved tunes. Info: 7 p.m., 320 Cedar St. # 2, Santa Cruz. kuumbwajazz.org. $20.

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7:30-8:30 p.m. Pacific Cultural Center Studio, 1307 Seabright Ave., Santa Cruz. 333-6736 or 2crystallinesound@gmail.com. $12-$20.

TUESDAY 12/15 ARTS SOULCOLLAGE Easy art based collage method to build and create your own tarot collage deck of cards. Register by 2 p.m. of each Tuesday at 212-1398. 7-9 p.m. Elemental Art Studio Gallery-128, Tannery Arts Center, 1050 River St., Santa Cruz. $10/$20.

FOOD & DRINK DATE NIGHT: DINING IN ITALY Sign up with your sweetheart and learn how to make beautiful food together in this hands-on cooking class. Help prepare Caprese salad, Pasta Carbonara, Caesar Salad, Focaccia bread and Coconut Panna Cotta (dairy-free). Meal and wine pairing included. RSVP required. 6-8:30 p.m. New Leaf Community Market classroom, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. newleafwestside. eventbrite.com. $85 for 2.

GROUPS GUIDED IMAGERY GROUP FOR CANCER AND BEYOND Introductory session from Guided Imagery. For any stage of cancer recovery. 10:30 a.m.-Noon. Center for Health, 555 Soquel Ave., Ste 260, Santa Cruz. 4570904, director@centerforhealthsc.com. Free.

INVISIBLE / ALIENATED GRANDPARENT SUPPORT GROUP Led by Dr. Pat Hanson, author of Invisible Grandparenting: Leave a Legacy of Love Whether You Can Be There or Not, this will be a safe structured environment for sharing stories if you so choose and learning healthy ways to deal with separation from anyone. 4-5:30 p.m. Christ Lutheran Church, 10707 Soquel Drive, Aptos. pat@ invisiblegrandparent.com.

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ARM-IN-ARM CANCER SUPPORT GROUP For women with advanced, recurrent and metastatic cancers. Registration required. 12:30-2 p.m. WomenCARE 457-2273. Free.

ANGEL HEALING CIRCLE Come enjoy a warm Healing Circle, sharing our experiences where Spirit and the Angels have helped us in our lives, followed by Individual and World Prayer requests. RSVP at circle4angelhealing@gmail. com. 7-9 p.m. Location given with RSVP. Love offerings accepted.

SPIRITUAL ZEN MEDITATION & LIFE How do you practice equanimity, kindness and compassion? Four classes on The Awakened Mind & Heart. Meditation 8:30-10:30 a.m. 920 41st Ave., Suite B. info@oceangatezen.org. Donation. CRYSTAL BOWL SOUND INFUSION AND LIGHT BODY ACTIVATION This guided activation will awaken and energize the Light Body as well as raising your vibration level.

SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAIN STRING TRIO The trio plays an eclectic mix of old-time fiddle tunes and gypsy music on mandolin (Todd Allen), fiddle and voice (Becky Hendricks) and guitar (Mad Dog Kienzle). 6-9 p.m. Davenport Roadhouse Restaurant and Inn. Free.

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The debut EP from Pyromids, Out In Time Past, contains the cover image of a trio of water skiers in a triangle formation—all with their heads on fire. The obvious question is: Does this have something to do with the odd spelling of the band’s name? Yes, it turns out. The name occurred to lead singer/guitarist Joseph Perrin as he was playing around with the words “pyramid” and “pyrotechnics,” and his friend (and now guitarist) Devin Eiring started laughing, thinking he accidentally misspelled Pyramids.

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“I laughed too, and said, ‘maybe this is fate.’ It kind of stuck,” says Perrin. “It can be super serious or super funny. Things moved a lot faster than I thought they would, so that was just kind of the name.”

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The name is fitting, though, because the songwriting is dark, but its overall feel is an upbeat, dance-y post-punk sound, like New Order, that mixes electronics and instruments. What better way to convey the nuanced emotions of the music than with a band name that evokes both humor and darkness? “When it all comes together, it just seems like it works much better if you can move to it. I want it to be fun to see live. I wanted a cool vibe to it. I know the actual subject matter can be a little dark. I’m just trying to keep a good mix,” Perrin says. Eiring and bassist Celeste Deruisa have played every show with Perrin, but otherwise the lineup isn’t set in stone. “A lot of times it’s a five-piece. Sometimes it’s a six-piece. It depends what the lineup is for that show. Whoever I have that’s down to do the shows is pretty much what I have to work with,” Perrin says. AARON CARNES INFO: 9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 11. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $8. 429-6994.

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THE BAD PLUS JOSHUA REDMAN What started as a guest spot for Joshua Redman with the Bad Plus has turned into one of the most exhilarating collaborations in jazz. Over the past three years, the Berkeley-raised saxophonist has become a turbocharged fourth wheel for the collective trio, contributing tunes that fit the ensemble’s roiling sound like a bespoke glove. They released an eponymous Nonesuch album earlier this year, capturing the band’s epic, tidal approach to improvisation. ANDREW GILBERT

INFO: 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $35/adv, $40/ door. 427-2227.

THURSDAY 12/10 EXPERIMENTAL

THAT1GUY When Mike Silverman, a.k.a. That1Guy, started making music, he gravitated toward the bass. But he quickly discovered that he wanted to create a sound

that was more unique than what he could do with the instrument. Mission accomplished. These days, That1Guy plays a custom instrument, dubbed the Magic Pipe, that has been described as “a monstrosity of metal, strings, and electronics.” Landing somewhere between Les Claypool, Frank Zappa, drum and bass, and something you’ve never heard, Silverman is one of the most extraordinary talents in the music underground. CAT JOHNSON INFO: 8:30 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $15. 479-1854.

FRIDAY 12/11 HIP-HOP

SNOOP DOGG Who’s the man with that dance? Who kicks the khakis from his pants? Who’s still rockin’ gin and juice in hand? Fo’ shizzle you know it’s the one and only Snoop Dogg. For more than 20 years, the Dogfather of Rap has held down West Coast gangsta funk with his smooth rhymes delivered in a thick cloud of Cali smoke. But more than that, Snoopzilla has become a bona fide, justified media icon. Snoop-aloop has worn many hats: criminal,

musician, actor, reality star, pee-wee football coach, marijuana enthusiast and so much more; a true American story of rags-to-riches. This Friday, big Snoop-a-loop returns to the Catalyst with the Eastsidaz, Tha Dogg Pound, and LBC Movement for a funky-green Santa Cruz Christmas. MAT WEIR INFO: 9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $40-$80. 429-4135.

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DAN HICKS & THE HOT LICKS A one-of-a-kind artist who has found the sweet spot between folk music and swing, singer-songwriter Dan Hicks is heading back to Santa Cruz with his “Holidaze in Hicksville” show. Blending dry humor, holiday cheer, and swinging guitar work reminiscent of Django Reinhardt, Hicks’ holiday collection of tunes includes “My Main Man Santa,” “A Yule That’s Cool,” and the oh-so-memorable “Christmas Mornin’,” which sees Rudolph finishing up a beer, and Santa breaking up an elf dice game. CJ INFO: 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $27/adv, $32/ door. 427-2227.

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SATURDAY 12/12 MARIACHI

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INFO: 7:30 p.m. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $30/gen, $45/gold. 423-8209.

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

REGGAE

ITALS Way back in 1976, the Itals, one of reggae’s great trios, was formed in Jamaica. For the next 40 years, through numerous lineup changes, the group has remained one of the most recognized and celebrated of all the roots-reggae acts, dropping numerous hits, including “In A Dis Ya Time,” and the Grammy-nominated album Rasta Philosophy. CJ INFO: 9 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $15/adv, $20/door. 479-1854.

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Ho! Ho! Ho! It’s almost Christmas time, and local folksy alt-country roots band Mylo Jenkins is already celebrating the holidays at the Crepe Place. More than likely, there will be a few Christmas tunes, some Santa costumes and eggnog. Regardless, the group will

VOODOO GLOW SKULLS Riverside ska-punkers Voodoo Glow Skulls weren’t as big in the ’90s as contemporaries Less Than Jake or Reel Big Fish. But even so, they were

one of the best bands of their era to wave the ska flag. Their formula was simple: distorted guitar upbeats; crisp, punchy brass; shouted hardcore vocals in English and Spanish. The group, led by the three Casillas brothers, never stopped playing, and they continue to record awesome punky ska music, and put on high-energy shows. AC INFO: 8:30 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $10/adv, $13/door. 429-4135.

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INFO: 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23. Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St., Santa Cruz. $27-$72. 426-6966. WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/giveaways before 11 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 11 to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to the performance.

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Forget about those cute puppies or Game of Thrones calendars. Why not get a “Banjo Babes” calendar? The Banjo Babes are a rotating collective of women banjo players that get together every year to record an album—and make a calendar! They welcome musical diversity into their ensemble, but the songs tend to fall in the Americana realm, for obvious reasons. The calendar’s theme this year is “natural beauty.” The album is an awesome, gorgeous collection of 15 finger-picking tunes. AC

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José Hernàndez and his Mariachi Sol de Mexico have served the rich tradition of mariachi for over three decades, and show no signs of slowing down. Born in Jalisco—as was the music itself—Hernàndez is a fifth generation musician and began displaying his talents at the ripe age of 4. In 1981, he founded the Mariachi Sol de Mexico and with them has given mariachi international fame, including being the only act in the genre to be nominated for an American Grammy. MW

be playing their own unique brand of nuanced indie-folk. AARON CARNES

Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 was scored for a symphony of 100 musicians and is described as “towering,” and “incomparable.” Written in 1887 and 1888, the work was envisioned by Mahler as a symphonic poem and is considered a landmark in the history of symphonic music. On Saturday, Jan. 23, Santa Cruz Symphony presents it, along with Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, by Norway’s most celebrated composer, Edvard Grieg. The symphony will perform an encore performance on Sunday, Jan. 24 at Mello Center for the Performing Arts in Watsonville. CAT JOHNSON

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THAT 1 GUY Friday December 11th 9pm $25/30 Ska/Rock Greats From Mexico

INSPECTOR + LA CASTAÑEDA Saturday December 12th 9pm $15/20 Classic Jamaican Reggae

THE ITALS

+ BLAZEEN Wednesday December 16th 8:30pm $20/25

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FRI

12/11

Jewl Sandoval 6-8p

Minor Thirds Trio 6:30-9:30p

12/12

SAT Lloyd Whitney 1-5p Hawk n Blues Mechanics 6-8p

SUN

12/13

MON

Al Frisby 6-8p

12/14

Broken Shades 6-8p

TUE

12/15

Rand Rueter 6-8p

Minor Thirds Trio 7-10p DJ

BLUE LAGOON 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Phonetic, Seraphik-G, Quigs, Know Morals, De Cor $5 9p

Comedy Night/ 80s Night Free 8:30p

Arrows, Mike PZ, Future Night Dive, Sit Kitty Sit, Myth, Antique Radio Lungs & Limbs$5 9p $5 9p

The Box (Goth Night) 9p

Post-Punk Night 9p

Pride Night 9p

Party w/Raina 9p

Comedy Night 9p

Karaoke

Locals Night, Music w/ Lil Billy

Be Natural Music 5-8p

Karaoke 8p-Close

Karaoke 8p-Close

Joey Hudoklin Free 8p

Hamburger’s ComedyShow Free 8p

BLUE LOUNGE 529 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz

Tango Ecstasy 6-9:30p

Incidental Live Music Revue w/Alisha

BOARDWALK BOWL 115 Cliff St, Santa Cruz

Karaoke 8p-Close

Na’an Stop 9p-Midnight

The D’oh Bros 9p-Midnight

BOCCI’S CELLAR 140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz

Funk Night w/Light the Band Free 9p

Ukelele Club Free 9p Fallow Noise Free 8p

Swing Night $5 5:30p Poor Beggar Thieves Free 9p

Corona’s Creations Jazz Society Faire Free 11a-5p United Free 3:30p Rasta Reggae Free 9p

Karaoke 9p

Karaoke 9p

Songwriter Showcase 7-10p

Snoop Dogg $40 8p

Nahko and Medicine for the People $23/$27 8p

Yellow Claw $27/$30 8p

BRITANNIA ARMS 110 Monterey Ave, Capitola

CATALYST 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

1535 Commercial Way Santa Cruz 831.479.1854

12/10

Preacher Boy 6-8p

Live Jazz & Wine Tasting Salsa Bahia 6-9p 6-9p

ANUHEA +

WWW.MOESALLEY.COM

THU

BAYVIEW HOTEL 8041 Soquel Dr, Aptos

CASA SORRENTO 393 Salinas St, Salinas

December 17th SCOTT COOPER + EDGE OF THE WEST December 18th JOSH HEINRICHS, SKILLINJAH, ANIMO CRUZ, SOULWISE December 19th CHUCK RAGAN December 20th LYDIA PENSE & COLD BLOOD December 31st B-SIDE PLAYERS January 1st GLEN DAVID ANDREWS January 2nd DUMPSTAPHUNK January 3rd ZONGO JUNCTION January 8th LYRICS BORN January 9th ROY ROGERS January 10th WALTER TROUT January 14th THE LIL’ SMOKIES January 15th HARRISON STAFFORD (OF GROUNDATION) January 16th THE METERS EXPERIENCE w/ LEO NOCINTELLI & BERNIE WORRELL January 17th REBIRTH BRASS BAND January 21st MALI, BURNSIDE & J January 22nd SAMBADÁ January 23rd HOT BUTTERED RUM January 28th NEW ORLEANS SUSPECTS January 29th COCO MONTOYA January 30th WARRIOR KING January 31st THE MOTET February 4th RYAN MONTBLEAU February 11th DEAD WINTER CARPENTERS February 12th & 13th CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS February 15th SOPHIE B. HAWKINS February 19th DEADPHISH ORCHESTRA

12/9

Al Frisby 6-8p

AQUARIUS RESTAURANT Santa Cruz Dream Inn 175 W Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz

2 Of Hawaii’s Favorite Female Artists

PAULA FUGA

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WED APTOS ST. BBQ 8059 Aptos St, Aptos

DJ Luna 9p

CATALYST ATRIUM 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Metalachi $8/$12 8:30p

CILANTROS 1934 Main St, Watsonville

Hippo Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

Devin the Dude, Potluck $18/$23 8:30p

Sin Sisters Burlesque $15/$20 9p

Voodoo Glow Skulls $10/$13 8p

Poison Idea $13/$15 8p KPIG Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

International Music Hall and Restaurant

FINE MEXICAN AND AMERICAN FOOD ALL YOU CAN EAT LUNCH BUFFET M-F $7.95 Thu Dec 10

Alex Bleeker And the Freaks Roots Rock Jammin’

$15 adv./$15 door 21+ 8pm Fri Dec 11

Sat Dec 12

The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit,

The Harmed Brothers, Darrin Bradbury $12 adv./$12 door 21 + 8pm

Melvin Seals & The Spirit of 76 + David Gans

$20 adv./$25 door 21 + 8pm Sun Dec 13

Banjo Babes Erin Inglish, Evie Ladin, The Littlest Birds, The Small Glories $15 adv./$18 door <21 w/parent 7pm

Tue Dec 15

Gary Burr

Wed Dec 16 Thu Dec 17

of Kenny Loggins & Blue Sky Riders $10 adv./$10 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm

Mike Renwick’s Holiday Deluxe $10 adv./$15 door 21+ 8pm

The Human Experience, saQi, feral fauna,

A Solstice Soiree $15 adv./$20 door 21+ 8pm Kat Factor

COMING RIGHT UP

Fri. Dec. 18 Sat. Dec. 19

Santa is Real: A 1950’s Christmas Spectacular with The Carolyn Sills Combo Shady Groove A SHADY X-MAS PARTY

Sun. Dec. 20 The Holiday Hoot Tammi Brown, Dan Frechette & Laurel Thomsen, Ukulele Dick & Jayme Kelly Curtis, Wendy Treat Sat. Dec. 26 Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio Sun. Dec. 27 Pascal’s Triangle 2pm Sun. Dec. 27 Peppino D’Agostino 7pm Wed. Dec. 30 Ben Ahn Uke Virtuoso, Vocalist from Kauai Thu. Dec. 31 The Sun Kings NYE Celebration Reservations Now Online at www.donquixotesmusic.com Rockin'Church Service Every Sunday ELEVATION at 10am-11:15am

Outdoor Tree-Lighting Party Friday! LOCATED ON THE BEACH Amazing waterfront deck views.

LIVE ENTERTAINMENT See live music grid for this week’s bands.

STAND-UP COMEDY

Three live comedians every Sunday night.

HAPPY HOUR Mon–Fri from 3:30pm. Wednesday all night!

VISIT OUR BEACH MARKET Wood-fired pizza, ice cream, unique fine gifts.

SPECIAL DEALS Weekdays, upstairs and down.

NOW SERVING BREAKFAST Open for Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Daily

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LIVE MUSIC 12/9

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

WED Nova Rosa, Sap Laughter $8 9p

West Coast Soul $3 7:30p

THU

12/10

FRI

12/11

Paradise Soul Savers $8 9p

The Fighting Murrays, Pyromids $8 9p

Third Stone $5 9p

Extra Large $6 9p Tree Lighting Free 6p

DAV. ROADHOUSE 1 Davenport Ave, Davenport

12/12

SAT Mylo Jenkins: A Merry Mylo Christmas $10 9p

The Leftovers $7 9:30p

SUN

12/13

MON

12/14

Alex Bleeker and the Freaks $15 8p

The Good Luck Thrift Melvin Seaks Outfit, Harmed Brothers & Spirit of 76 $12 8p $20/$25 8p

12/15

Doubleclicks, Sammus Mix Tape Mondays $10 9p $3 9p

7 Come 11 $5 9p

Live Comedy $7 9p

Reggae Party Free 8p Santa Cruz Mountain String Trio

Reflections Trio

DON QUIXOTE’S 6275 Hwy 9, Felton

TUE

Banjo Babes $15/$18 7p

Gary Burr $10 7:30p

THE FISH HOUSE 972 Main St, Watsonville

Celebrating Forty Years of Creativity Wednesday, December 9 3 7 and 9 pm

THE BAD PLUS JOSHUA REDMAN No Comp Tix

7 pm SOLD OUT!

Thursday, December 10 3 7 pm 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF JOHN COLTRANE’S HISTORIC ALBUM

J. HANRAHAN QUARTET: A LOVE SUPREME Plus Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue

Friday, December 11 3 7 and 9 pm

HENFLING’S 9450 Hwy 9, Ben Lomond

Flingo 7p

Bad Dog 8p

Grampa’s Chili 9p

Kevin Hamm 9p

IT’S WINE TYME 312 Capitola Ave, Capitola

Open Mic 7p

Michael Gather 6:30p

Depot Dogs 7p

Madrigal and Strange 7p

KUUMBWA 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz

The Bad Plus, Joshua Redman $35 7, 9p

J. Hanrahan Quartet $15 7p

Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks $27 7,9p

MALONE’S 4402 Scotts Valley Dr, Scotts Valley

Live Music 5:30-9p

MICHAEL’S ON MAIN 2591 Main St, Soquel

Sean Ryan and Friends 7-10p

MISSION ST. BBQ 1618 Mission St, Santa Cruz

Tomas Gomez 6p

MOE’S ALLEY 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz

Junior Toots, King Hopeton, Kurrency & more $12/$15 8p

Phoenix Rising 8-11p

Live Music 5:30-9p

Karaoke w/Ken 9p

B-Movie Kings 8-11p

Tsunami 8-11p

Al Frisby 6p That 1 Guy $15 8p

Ten O’Clock Lunch 4p

Roadhouse Karaoke 7:30p

Bobby Love and Sugar Sweet 4p Merry Christmas: To Linda with Love $20 7p

DAN HICKS AND THE HOT LICKS: HOLIDAZE IN HICKSVILLE | No Comp Tix

Kip Allert 6:30-8:30p Rand Rueter 6p

Saturday, December 12 3 7:30 pm At the Rio Theatre | All ages | No Comp Tix

Inspector, La Castañeda The Itals, Blazeen $25/$30 8p $15/$20 8p

MARIACHI SOL DE MÉXICO DE JOSÉ HERNÁNDEZ: A MERRI-ACHI CHRISTMAS Saturday, December 12 3 7:30 pm

IRISH CHRISTMAS IN AMERICA Tickets: BrownPaperTickets.com Sunday, December 13 3 7 pm

MERRY CHRISTMAS: TO LINDA WITH LOVE Tickets: BrownPaperTickets.com

Dec. 11 Chris Isaak

Jan. 22 Beach Boys Jan. 23 Jo Koy Feb. 18 Charlie Musselwhite & The North Mississippi Allstars Apr. 21 Country Star Clint Black For Tickets www.GoldenStateTheatre.com 831-649-1070

LAVAY SMITH AND HER RED HOT SKILLET LICKERS Friday, December 18 3 8 pm

TAMMI BROWN & YUJI TOJO, HEATHER CHRISTIE & FRIENDS, BELLA VOCE Tickets: BrownPaperTickets.com Saturday, December 19 3 7:30 pm

THE KLEZMATICS TICKETS & GIFT IDEAS Rio Theatre Concerts: 2/8 Aaron Neville Quintet featuring Charles Neville 2/16 Lisa Fischer and Grand Baton Plus Gift Certificates and Gift Memberships for Music Fans! Unless noted advance tickets at kuumbwajazz.org and Logos Books & Records. Dinner served 1-hr before Kuumbwa presented concerts. Premium wines & beer. All ages welcome.

320-2 Cedar St [ Santa Cruz 831.427.2227

kuumbwajazz.org

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Jan. 3 Forever Tango featuring Dancing With the Stars Guest Artists

Thursday, December 17 3 7 pm

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LIVE MUSIC WED

Great Food.

MOTIV 1209 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

12/9

THU

DassWassup! by Zagg 9:30p-2a

NEW BOHEMIA BREWERY Papiba & Friends Free 6-9p 1030 41st Ave, Santa Cruz 99 BOTTLES 110 Walnut Ave, Santa Cruz

Trivia 8p

FRI

12/11

SAT

D-ROC 9:30p-1:30a

12/12

DJ Juan Burgandy 9:30p-1:30a

SUN

12/13

Zameen Food Truck 5-9p Ancestree Reggae 7-9p

PARADISE BEACH 215 Esplanade, Capitola

Omar Spence

THE POCKET 3102 Portola Dr, Santa Cruz

Jam Session w/Pam Hawkins 7p

David M’ore $5 9p

POET & PATRIOT 320 E. Cedar St, Santa Cruz

Trivia

THE RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz

The Alex Raymond Band 8p

Late Night Happy Hour 9p

DJ Trev Williams 10p

THE REEF 120 Union St, Santa Cruz

Jazz Jam

Acoustic Jam w/Toby Gray and Friends

Traditional Hawaiian Music

Vinny Johnson

Chris Ellis

Joint Chiefs $5 9p

Billy Manzik 8p

Ten O’Clock Lunch Band 7-11p

Various Artists Jam Session w/Jazz Jam SC 7p

Tuesday Night Comedy Smackdown 9p

Comedy Open Mic 8p

Open Mic 7:30-11:30p

Traditional Hawaiian Music

Sunday Brunch w/ Chris

Mariachi del Sol $35/40 7:30p

Joni Morris $40 2-4p

The John Michael Band 8p-Midnight

Live Again 8-Midnight

Dennis Dove Pro Jam 7-11p

Open Mic

The Lenny and Kenny Show

Trivia 8p

Open Mic 7:30p

Ten Foot Faces 7-11p

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La Plebe

MELVIN SEALS W/ SPIRIT OF 76 AND DAVID GANS AT DON QUIXOTES December 12th

Book signing w/ Blaire Jackson $20 Advance/$25 at door-Show 8:00

Monday, December 14 ‹ In the Atrium ‹ AGES 16+

also $3 Pints & $10 Pitchers of any West End Brew (bar area only)

OPEN 7 DAYS FOR LUNCH & DINNER 334D Ingalls St Santa Cruz

831.471.8115 westendtap.com

POISON IDEA

plus

12/15

Hip-hop with DJ Marc 9:30p-2a

‘Geeks Who Drink’ Trivia Night 8p

ROSIE MCCANN’S 1220 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz

JOHN BROWN’S BODY

TUE

Trivia 6-8p

Open Mic 4-7p

Robert Crazy Band $40 The Fab Four 7:30p $40 8p

THE SAND BAR 211 Esplanade, Capitola

12/14

MON Eclectic by Primal Rasta Cruz Reggae Party Productions 9:30p-close 9:30p-2a

Shotgun Suitor 10p

RIO THEATRE 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

Great Beer.

12/10

Libation Lab w/Syntax 9:30p-1:30a

Fast Asleep also Drain

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YELLOW CLAW

Dec 18 & 19 IAMSU! (Ages 16+) Dec 30 Beats Antique (Ages 18+) Dec 31 Beats Antique (Ages 21+) Jan 1 The Weight featuring former members of The Band Atrium (Ages 21+) Jan 8 & 9 Tribal Seeds (Ages 16+) Jan 15 Stick Figure (Ages 16+)

Jan 22 Minnesota b2b G Jones (Ages 18+) Jan 23 Roach Gigz/ Ezale/ Los Rakas (Ages 16+) Jan 30 Y & T (Ages 21+) Jan 31 Dr. Dog (Ages 16+) Feb 9 Mardi Gras Party: Lettuce (Ages 16+) Feb 12 Geoff Tate’s Operation: Mindcrime (Ages 21+) Feb 14 Brillz/ Party Favor (Ages 18+) Feb 19 Keys N Krates (Ages 18+) Feb 20 blessthefall (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating. Tickets subject to city tax & service charge by phone 877-987-6487 & online

www.catalystclub.com

TAMMI BROWN AND YUJI TOJO AND HEATHER CHRISTY

AT THE KUUMBWA December 18th

)LULĂ„[ MVY ;OL (Y[LTPZ 7YVQLJ[ $10 Students/$15 adults $20 at door-Show 8:00

T I C KE TS AVAI L AB L E AT;

www.thewheelcompany.com

LIVE MUSIC WED

12/9

THU

12/10

FRI

12/11

SAT

12/12

SANDERLINGS 1 Seascape Resort, Aptos

“In Three� w/Bob Burnett Yuji and Steve and Tammi Brown

SEABRIGHT BREWERY 519 Seabright, Santa Cruz

Otilia and the Back Alley Boys 7:30-10:30p

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

Don McCaslin & the Amazing Jazz Geezers 6-10p

Hot Fuse 7:30-11:30p

Nora Cruz 8p-Midnight

SHADOWBROOK 1750 Wharf Rd, Capitola

Ken Constable 6:30-9:30p

Joe Ferrara 6:30-10p

Claudio Melega 7-10p

SIR FROGGY’S PUB 4771 Soquel Dr, Soquel

Karaoke w/Eve

SUN

12/13

Western Skylarks 9p

MON

12/14

TUE

12/15

Trivia Night

Taco Tuesday

Open Mic w/Mosephus 5:30p

Speak Up 5:30p

TROUT FARM INN 7701 E Zayante Rd, Felton UGLY MUG 4640 Soquel Ave, Soquel

Carolyn Sills $15 7:30p

WHALE CITY 490 Highway 1, Davenport

EBL 6p

Robert Elmond Stone 5p

YOUR PLACE 1719 Mission St, Santa Cruz

Danny Lawrence 6-9p

Daniel Martins 6-9p

Danny Lawrence 6-9pm

ZELDA’S 203 Esplanade, Capitola

Kurt Stockdale Jazz Trio 6p

ZIZZO’S COFFEEHOUSE & WINE BAR 3555 Clares St, Capitola

Brohemia After Dark 7-9 pm

Stuart Buie 6:30-9:30pm

Gemini Jazz 6:30-9:30pm

Davenport Beach Cleanup 9-11a

AT THE RIO THEATRE SANTA CRUZ

SATURDAY DECEMBER 12TH 7:30 PM

Mariachi Sol de MĂŠxico de JosĂŠ HernĂĄndez A MERRI-ACHI CHRISTMAS

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DEC 10 DEC 11 DEC 12 DEC 13 DEC 18 DEC 29 DEC 30

Robert Cray Band The Fab Four Mariachi Sol de Mexico Joni Morris Film: Reach for the Sky White Album Ensemble White Album Ensemble

JAN 02 JAN 15 JAN 16 JAN 23 JAN 24 JAN 27 JAN 29 JAN 30

Patti Smith SOLD OUT Devotchka JD McPherson Paul Thorn Band Cowboy Junkies Gail Rich Awards Cirque Ziva Tim Flannery

FEB 04 FEB 06 FEB 13 FEB 19

Keola Beamer Lecture: Frans Lanting The Comic Strippers Banff Mountain Film

MAR 19 Greg Brown APR 1

Leftover Salmon

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THURSDAY DECEMBER 10TH THIRSTY THURSDAY $3 PINTS ALL NIGHT! $.49 WINGS! FRIDAY DECEMBER 11TH BAYONICS HIP HOP, FUNK, R&B, LATIN MUSIC W/ REGGAE FLARE SATURDAY DECEMBER 12TH POB AND RYDDIM ROCK LAB AND CASA SORRENTO PRESENTS... 393 Salinas St, SALINAS (oldtown) 831.757.2720 // casasorrento.com

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Ring in the holidays with the upbeat sounds of a new breed of Mariachi!

Jazz Brunch w/Myhaylo K 11am-2pm

Upcoming Shows

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FILM

PEACE MAKER Teyonah Parris plays the leading heroine, Lysistrata, in Spike Lee’s ‘Chi-Raq,’ which parallels Aristophanes’

comedy ‘Lysistrata.’

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Women withhold sex to end gang war in angry, vital ‘Chi-Raq’ BY LISA JENSEN

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lack lives matter to Spike Lee. In his new film ChiRaq, an excoriating look at gun culture and gang violence in urban America, Lee wants to make sure they also matter to black youths who are killing each other in record numbers, as well as to the failing institutions that are supposed to be serving them. A provocative mash-up of classical tragedy, rap music, minstrel show, and musical theater, the film is an in-your-face explosion of anger and vitality. Lee and co-scriptwriter Kevin Willmot borrow their source material from the ancient Greeks. Aristophanes’ Lysistrata is a comedy of sex, warfare, and gender relations, in which the women of Greece, led by the title heroine, make a sacred

pact to withhold sex from their men unless the men make a peace treaty to end the devastating Peloponnesian War against the Spartans. The filmmakers reboot the story for Chicago’s gritty South Side, where gang warfare in the impoverished neighborhoods (as we’re told early on) are responsible for twice as many deaths in a given period than the death toll of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and Iraq combined. Lee’s updated Lysistrata (Teyonah Parris) is the girlfriend of an aspiring rapper calling himself Chi-Raq (Nick Cannon), which is local slang for the war zone of the South Side. Chi-Raq is also the leader of a gang called the Greeks (their colors are purple), whose rivals are the Spartan gang, who dress in orange. One night,

onstage at a local club, Chi-Raq’s show is busted up by gunfire. Later that night, while he and Lysistrata are doing the down and dirty at home, someone sets fire to the building. When a 7-year-old girl is killed by a stray bullet in the neighborhood and the pain of her sorrowing mother (Jennifer Hudson) touches everyone, Lysistrata gets an earful from her neighbor, Miss Helen (Angela Bassett), who claims ending the violence is everybody’s responsibility. Lysistrata Googles her namesake, and gathers her girlfriends. They meet with the Spartan girlfriends, and once the trash-talking is over, they make a pact to withhold sex from their men until they turn in their guns. To make sure there’s no backsliding, they infiltrate and take over the

Armory building downtown and lock themselves in. The women at the strip club sign on, and the movement spreads to upscale and professional women as well. As the sex strike continues (“No Peace, No Pussy” is their battle cry), angry women all over the globe take up the cause. Lee sticks surprisingly close to his ancient source, from the characters’ names (Wesley Snipes plays a oneeyed gangsta called Cyclops), to the use of Greek choruses to comment on the action. Aristophanes’ Chorus of Old Women is Miss Helen and her sisterhood of doctors and lawyers; the Chorus of Old Men is a local black lodge brotherhood. But he also uses a devilish master of ceremonies (Samuel L. Jackson, impeccably duded up) to set each scene, and lavish music and dance numbers, like the funeral at the church, and the precision chorus line of the women in their chastity belts dancing at the Armory. And most of the dialogue is in verse, albeit the rough, profane rhymes of rap songs. With so much going on in Lee’s ambitious vision, there’s a lot that doesn’t work. That the compassionate church pastor (John Cusack) is white suggests the violence affects all races, but since it’s said he grew up in the neighborhood, shouldn’t there be a few other white parishioners too? The wheezy sex farce of the scene when Lysistrata worms her way into the Armory by promising her favors to the white racist commanding officer (it involves a Civil War cannon called “Whistling Dick”) is grueling to sit through. But images of silent women carrying posters of their murdered children, or neighborhood streets full of young men in wheelchairs and on crutches, add up to a powerful statement. Lee lays plenty of blame on an uncaring government that fails to ensure jobs, affordable housing, and social services in black communities. But he aims his movie at the young black urban audience, knowing the first change that’s gotta come is in attitude. CHI-RAQ *** (out of four) With Teyonah Parris, Nick Cannon, Jennifer Hudson, Angela Bassett, and Samuel L. Jackson. Written by Spike Lee and Kevin Willmot. Directed by Spike Lee. A Roadside Attractions release. Rated R. 127 minutes.

DEL MAR SHOW TIMES FOR FRI. 12/11/15 – TUES. 12/15/15

MOVIE TIMES December 11-17

NOTE: THE DEL MAR IS CLOSED WED. 12/16 & THURS. 12/17 & re-opens on Friday 12/18

All times are PM unless otherwise noted.

DEL MAR THEATRE

IN THE HEART OF THE SEA 2D Fri-Tue 1:40, 4:20, 6:00, 7:00, 9:40 + Fri 12:40 + Sat 11am, 12:40 + Sun 11am

D E L M A R

IN THE HEART OF THE SEA 3D Fri-Tue 3:20, 8:40 SPOTLIGHT Fri-Tue 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 + Sat, Sun 10:50am JANE EYRE Sunday 11am REAR WINDOW Friday & Saturday Midnight

NICKELODEON

831.426.7500

MACBETH Fri-Tue 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 + Sat, Sun 11:20am TRUMBO Fri-Tue 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 + Sat, Sun 10:50am BROOKLYN Fri-Tue 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 + Sat, Sun 11:30am HEART OF A DOG Fri-Tue 2:40, 7:10* + Sat, Sun 12:50 *No Tue show CHI-RAQ Fri-Tu 4:40, 9:00* *No Tue show

APTOS CINEMA

Directed by Ron Howard (Apollo 13 and A Beautiful Mind) starring Chris Hemsworth PG-13

the

831.469.3220

Daily in 2D (1:40pm), (4:20), 6:00, 7:00, 9:40 + Fri (12:40pm) + Sat (11:00am), (12:40pm) + Sun (11:00am) Daily in 3D (3:20pm), 8:40 “By far, the best movie this year.” – Newsweek Starring Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo & Rachel McAdams R

Daily (1:30pm), (4:10), 6:50, 9:30 + Sat, Sun (10:50am) National Theatre Live presents Sun 12/13 @ 11:00am Midnights at The Del Mar presents

831.426.7500

PG

Fri. 12/11 & Sat. 12/12 @ Midnight

SPOTLIGHT Fri-Tue + Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:25

1124 PACIFIC AVENUE | 426-7500

SUFFRAGETTE Fri-Tue + Thu 1:30, 6:15

NICK SHOW TIMES FOR FRI. 12/11/15 – TUES. 12/15/15

ROOM Fri-Tue + Thu 3:45, 8:30

NOTE: THE NICK IS CLOSED WED. 12/16 & THURS. 12/17 & re-opens on Friday 12/18

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS Thursday 7:00, 9:50

GREEN VALLEY CINEMA 8

NR

JANE EYRE

Starring Academy Award nominee Michael Fassbender & Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard

831.761.8200

IN THE HEART OF THE SEA Daily 1:35, 7:15, 10:00 + Sat, Sun 10:45am IN THE HEART OF THE SEA 3D Daily 4:25

the

KRAMPUS Daily 1:45, 4:45, 7:30, 10:00 + Sat, Sun 11am SECRET IN THEIR EYES Daily 1:30, 4:15, 7:00*, 9:45* + Sat, Sun 10:45am *No Thu show BROOKLYN Daily 1:25, 4:05, 6:50*, 9:30* + Sat, Sun 10:45am *No Thu show THE GOOD DINOSAUR Daily 1:30, 4:15, 7:00*, 9:45* + Sat, Sun 10:45am *No Thu show CREED Daily 12:30, 3:35, 6:45, 9:55 THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 2 Daily 12:35, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 THE 33 Daily 12:45, 6:30* *No Thu show LOVE THE COOPERS Daily 3:45, 9:30* *No Thu show SPECTRE Daily 12:30, 6:35* *No Thu show THE NIGHT BEFORE Daily 3:45, 9:45* *No Thu show STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS Thursday 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:15 STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS 3D Thursday 7:00, 9:45

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CONTINUING EVENT: LET’S TALK ABOUT THE MOVIES Film buffs are invited Wednesday nights at 7 p.m. to downtown Santa Cruz, where each week the group discusses a different current release. For location and discussion topic, go to https:// groups.google.com/group/LTATM. BRIDGE OF SPIES In May of 1960, two weeks before an East-West summit in Paris, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet airspace. With the world teetering on the brink of Mutually Assured Destruction, the entire course of the Cold War depended on getting that CIA agent back on U.S. soil. Tom Hanks plays the man who was trusted with negotiating the prisoner exchange, a lawyer plucked from a normal, everyday existence by the CIA. Steven Spielberg directs. Alan Alda, Amy Ryan co-star. (PG13) 135 minutes. BROOKLYN From far across the cavernous pond, Eilis is an Irish

immigrant who lands in 1950s Brooklyn, New York, only to face crippling homesickness, glaring cultural differences, prejudice, and hardship. When Eilis falls in love with a young Italian boy from a totally different world, she’s forced to choose between her old home and her new life. John Crowley directs. Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson co-star. (PG-13) 111 minutes. CHI-RAQ Potentially one of the most intriguing films to debut this December, Spike Lee’s newest creation is a satirical adaptation of the ancient Greek Lysistrata set in modern-day Chi-Raq (aka Chicago), and begs the question: can a sex strike end gang violence? It sounds hokey, sure, but Samuel L. Jackson has a knack for bolstering underrated alt dramas, even if Nick Cannon plays ChiRaq’s thug king. Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Wesley Snipes costar. (R) 118 minutes. CREED Well, Michael B. Jordan has sure changed since his days in The Wire—as in he looks like he ate the other Michael Jordan and gained double the body weight. Not that it’s a bad look, mind you, and it makes his appearance as prodigy boxer Adonis Johnson believable at least. Rocky Balboa is back but this time he’s training the young Adonis (really, with that name?) as he strives to fill his father’s shoes. Ryan Coogler directs. Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, and Tessa Thompson co-star. (PG-13) 132 minutes. THE GOOD DINOSAUR What if the comet that destroyed the dinosaurs missed earth? In Pixar’s newest animated wonder, a baby Apatosaurus is separated from his family and encounters several surprising challenges on his journey back home—including a tiny identity-confused human who becomes his sidekick. Peter Sohn directs. Jeffrey Wright, Frances McDormand, Maleah Nipay-Padilla co-star. (PG) 100 minutes. HEART OF A DOG Artist Laurie Anderson traces her relationship with her dog through a lyrical

meditation on living between past and future, love, loss, and life. Laurie Anderson directs. Archie, Jason Berg, Heung-Heung Chin costar. 75 minutes.

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THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 2 Did this book need two movies? Who even cares, we’ll follow Katniss anywhere. Francis Lawrence directs. Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth co-star. (PG-13) 137 minutes.

SECRET IN THEIR EYES Jess, Claire and Ray are a tight-knit group of investigators quickly rising through the ranks until they find the body of a teenage girl—the body of Jess’s daughter. Thirteen years have passed when another lead falls into their lap and the trail of justice and retribution is picked up once more. Led by the brilliant trio of Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nicole Kidman, and Julia Roberts (with Roberts delivering what looks to be her most haunting performance to date), Secret In Their Eyes is a chilling journey of personal vengeance directed by the screenplay writer for Captain Phillips and The Hunger Games. Billy Ray directs. (PG-13) 111 minutes.

KRAMPUS You know what happens when you tell your kids Santa Claus isn’t real? A giant, hooved Christmas demon ends up haunting your home. Probably some sort of moral about bad parenting, Krampus looks so bad it might actually be good—in that sort of “Yes, Adam Scott and Toni Collette in a Christmas horror film, this makes sense” (more eggnog, please) kind of way. Michael Dougherty directs. Adam Scott Toni Collette, David Koechner co-star. (PG-13) 98 minutes. LOVE THE COOPERS In case the ’90s didn’t deliver enough holiday feel-good films about families around the dinner table—here’s one that sounds just like all the others except with Olivia Wilde, Amanda Seyfried, Marisa Tomei, Diane Keaton and John Goodman. There’s the gorgeous daughter who feels pressure to bring home a life mate so she snags a stand-in at the airport, the single dad with his potty-mouthed daughter, the crazy grandmother, and the overbearing mother who only wants a perfect Christmas. Jessie Nelson directs. (PG-13) 120 minutes. THE MARTIAN Astronaut Mark Watney is left stranded on Mars after a storm hits and he’s presumed dead—but somehow, he maintains a pretty positive outlook on the whole thing, despite the fact that he only has enough food for 50 days, the terrain isn’t suited for agriculture, and it’ll take four years to get a message back to Earth. There are, of course, complications with attempts to rescue Watney but with such a stellar cast (can you say Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Donald

SPECTRE Beautiful Bond is back again: hello, piercing blue eyes and puckered pout, it’s been too long! Oh yeah—something about a secret organization, M struggling again to secure Bond’s job, and over two hours of bing, bang, boom, kablooey. Also, Christoph Waltz! Sam Mendes directs. Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux co-star. (PG-13) 148 minutes. SPOTLIGHT In Boston, the church ran everything. When the Spotlight investigative reporting team from the Boston Globe began unpacking the decades-long cover-up of child molestation, they found themselves up against a web of religious, legal, and government cronies. The cover-up was linked to the city’s highest levels and the wave of revelations that followed in its wake rocked not only the Catholic world, but the entire international community. Tom McCarthy directs. Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams co-star. (R) 128 minutes. SUFFRAGETTE “All my life I’ve been respectful, done what men have told me—well, I can’t have that any more,” says Maud Watts, an almost reluctant suffragette who stumbles upon the underground women’s

movement in England in the late 19th century. Cornered by men at every turn, these foot soldiers of the early feminist movement risked everything to gain the right to vote—suffering oppression at work, brutality in the streets, humiliation by their peers, ostracization from their families and children, imprisonment by the police, and in some cases, even death. Sarah Gavron directs. Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter co-star. (Pg-13) 106 minutes. TRUMBO He was on his way to becoming a legend, but when Dalton Trumbo was blacklisted as a member of the Communist party and brought in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947, his entire career screeched to a halt. The famous screenwriter was forced out of Hollywood, so he did the unthinkable—he continued to work. Based on the true story of the man behind many of Hollywood’s greatest works, including Roman Holiday which he did not receive credit for until 2011. Jay Roach directs. Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren co-star. (R) 124 minutes. TRUTH A group of journalists stumble upon the “holy grail” of documents— proof that President George W. Bush lied about his military service. Only, once the story goes national, it turns out the memos haven’t been confirmed and some of them can easily be forged on Microsoft Word. Truth is the story of the 2004 CBS “60 Minutes” report which sank anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes’ career. James Vanderbilt directs. Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Dennis Quaid co-star. (R) 121 minutes. VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN Victor Von Frankenstein played God. He created life from dead flesh and toyed with fate. This is the story from Igor’s perspective—the troubled origins, the tortured friendship and the darkness that emerged from their underworld creation. Paul McGuigan directs. Daniel Radcliffe, James McAvoy, Jessica Brown co-star. (PG-13) 109 minutes.

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eeking aid, comfort and a hearty lunch on a gray day last week, we found all of the above—and more—at Assembly. The house that Kendra and Zach built is more appealing than ever, graced with some of the besttrained servers in the area and a seductive menu. Absolutely “yes” we answered our server Michael when he tempted us with “bread fresh from the oven.” My lunch date, on his initial visit to Assembly, was won over immediately by the huge salt crystals topping the side of butter

served with the warm, wood-fired bread. Here were carbs so earthy and sustaining that they mocked the very idea of waistline issues. I love those pretty little cast-iron pots Assembly provides for orders of green tea. And the equally pretty glazed cups. I needed something substantial, and the flat iron steak and avocado salad looked just right ($14.50). My companion spied Assembly’s popular West Coast burger and looked no further ($13.50.) We busied ourselves with tea, bread, and a tiny plate of pistachios and apples.

Jack admired the sleek industrial interior of the restaurant, and I was happy that we had gone early enough in the lunch hour that the restaurant was quiet enough for conversation. Looking ridiculously gorgeous, both main dishes delivered what we needed. Jack’s burger—done exactly at the rare/medium-rare point—was enthroned on a homemade brioche bun lavish with scarlet beefsteak tomato ($3 extra), an aioli-esque “secret sauce,” melted cheddar and a side of thin dill pickle. It was indecently thick, juicy and delicious.

Beauregard Vineyards Lost Weekend ($24), is a full-throated and instantly likeable red blend from the wild mind of winemaker Ryan Beauregard. I sampled it last week at Gabriella Cafe while putting up my current exhibition of portrait paintings. (Check ’em out.) The 2012 Lost Weekend—named for the colorful saloon once located on the spot of today’s tasting room— is a savory berry-laden blend of Sangiovese and Merlot, a very versatile partner for pasta, pizza, burgers, and chocolate ice cream.

TASTING TIPS Swing by lovely Carmel Village for the Windy Oaks Winery Holiday Open House, Saturday, Dec. 19, from noon to 7 p.m. Sample the exceptional Pinot Noirs made by winemaker Jim Schultz, enjoy apps from Affina, cheese from the stupendous Cheese Shop and some holiday tunes, too. The Tasting Room is at the west side of Dolores, between 5th and 6th. Charming to the max.

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How excited do people get when they get cupcakes delivered to their house? KELLY DAHER: It’s pretty awesome if it’s a surprise. It’s the best when it’s UCSC students. We have one called the Banana Slug [chocolate-banana]. A lot of parents will order that one for their kids that are going to school at UCSC. It’s fun for me because I always get a positive reaction.

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What are your most popular flavors? The SC Strawberry [vanillastrawberry] is a crowd pleaser. People like chocolate. They tend to order that one because it’s the “safe” cupcake, but it’s not the tastiest. Red Velvet seems to be popular. I don’t feel like it’s my favorite.

OK, what are your favorites? I like the Cruz-N-Kahlúa. I think that’s the best one. It’s just a chocolate cupcake, and it has Kahlúa frosting and a chocolate Kahlúa filling. I like the peanut butter one, too. Those two are my favorite. And plain vanilla—that one is surprisingly good. People don’t think of it because they think, ‘it’s vanilla, it must be boring.’ It’s fat and sugar. How can you go wrong with that?

What is a pull-apart? I take the cupcakes and I put them all together in the shape of whatever somebody might want, whether it be an animal or a truck or train or whatever. There was a local company that wanted the cupcakes in a sandal. Once I did an Old English 40-ounce—it was for somebody’s 21st birthday. Some are Halloween-themed. Someone wanted a divorce cake, where they wanted their ex-husband in a meatgrinder. That was kind of fun. mycupcakecorner.com, 278-0022.

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FRUITCAKE MADE BY MONKS I recently tried some delicious Brandy-dipped Fruitcake and Brandy-dipped Date-Nut Cake made by Camaldoli monks in Big Sur—one of their prime sources of income, especially over the holiday season. The monks have been making these cakes for years, and are well known for producing quality products. Most Brits love fruitcake, and I’m one of them. Their granola, too, is very tasty and packed with good stuff. Brother Michael said he hoped we would enjoy the cake and the “Holy Granola.� I certainly felt blessed when I’d eaten it. Info and to order: 866-886-0544 and HermitageBigSur. com

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beliefs? A deep transformative change penetrates your heart/mind and many beliefs begin to have no validity. Disconcerting at first, you’re actually being led to truths you were previously incapable of understanding. As beliefs break down, a greater capacity to (give/ receive) love emerges. You will then understand the e.e.cummings’ poem, “be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.”

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You seek resources for generations to come so everyone can feel safe and secure. Your studies help build the new culture and civilization. You do an important work. In the meantime, resources are hiding in rooms, closets, drawers, storage units and garages. Let everything be wide open in the fresh air. So you can see what you truly have. A wealth of resources.

It’s time to ponder upon and then clarify goals concerning money and resources in order to make your future safe and practical. You don’t want to be wounded by not preparing adequately. It’s good to concentrate on building adequate resources for the times to come. These resources are not only for you. Others will join you for you have the stamina to face great challenges. And protect humanity.

GEMINI May 22–June 20 Are relationships, one in particular, on your mind? Are resources held in common communicated about and being used practically and with care? Your money needs a practical reference point—a goal for its use, investments in land, building for the future. Money and relationships work together. Both are basic archetypes, needing harmony. Harmony emerges only after chaos and conflict. Recognize this.

CANCER Jun21–Jul20 In your daily life, you seek to find new goals, meet those goals and discover others. However, it’s possible you can’t see clearly what your goals are. Goals influence our future. To discover the right goals, think on how your life is. Are you happy? Have you created separations? Are you alone? Connect relationships with your goals. Something seeks to be transformed in your life.

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Initiation—birthing a new spiritual reality of life into the world. Friday, Dec. 11 is the Sagittarius (seeing the goal) new moon. During new moon festivals we “strengthen the endeavors of the New Group of World Servers (NGWS).” Strength to support the forces of light in their battle against the forces of darkness. Saturday is the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, mother of the Americas. We invoke the Mother to help us recognize the higher values coming into our world. Understanding the need for change, we stand with the wise engineering of these changes. We call forth control by the soul to direct humanity, world leaders and all nations. This is our journey and our work together under the Sagittarius Light.

Your energy’s high as you gallop toward far-reaching goals. Your creativity is taking on a new structure and focus. You might feel at first a restraint especially if disharmony occurs with others. Choose revolution as an art form. Take camera, art supplies, bow and arrow, a horse and several dog companions along. There’s something you’ve wished to do for a long time. You return to where your heart truly resides.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 Have you plans and goals for your home during this season? Are you seeking to change the structure of home and daily life? Are you spending time and energy on things for the self? Let yourself have valuable rest in your heart. There’s longing for new self-identity. Concentrate on the season’s festivities by making your home cheerful and welcoming, filled with lights, colors and nature. Do things differently this year. Joy impels you onward.

LIBRA Sep23–Oct22 What is the foundation and source of your many

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20 “I see the goal, I reach the goal, and then I see another.” Keynote words significant to all Sag people. Concentrating on them allows a new self-identity to emerge. Seeking truth, you also seek justice and joy. It’s most important to acknowledge that you travel from goal to goal. Goals change. What are they now? What would you like them to be? Look for swans, altars, harps, eagles and serpents while maintaining silence.

CAPRICORN Dec21–Jan20 You stand in both inner and outer realities, in the world yet not of it, personal while also public. You accomplish much work each day, from morning till night. At day’s end you hope sleep will bring refreshment and balance. For sleep, drops of nutmeg oil are good. Create rituals at home that reflect the sacred season. Create rhythms of prayer with family. These connect you with the heavens and the Earth. You hear the symphony of the spheres.

AQUARIUS Jan21–Feb18 Our outer reality is connected with our inner reality. What occurs in our outer life is based on what we believe, envision, have intentions for and focus on. Humanity, which you represent, is to bring forth the new culture and civilization, the new world order, and to learn the Aquarian laws and principles under which the new culture will emerge. Your present life is a template of this. Be grateful for even the difficulties. They hold secrets. You will lead the Way.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 Each day and night, through dreams and visions, new revelations appear. Revelations are gifts from the future. On our Earth revelations often emerge from suffering, from grief and feelings of despair. You understand this line of poetry from Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy,’ “In the middle of the journey of my life, I came to a dark wood and found myself and my way lost.” That journey is coming to a fork in the road. Two paths are seen.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1872 The following Individual is doing business as MARGINS WINE. 675 PINE FLAT RD., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. MEGAN E. BELL. 675 PINE FLAT RD., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: MEGAN BELL. 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 Oct. 28, 2015. Nov. 18, 25, & Dec. 2, 9. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1956 The following Individual is doing business as RODASII. 310 30TH AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. MONICA ESCUDERO. 310 30TH AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: MONICA ESCUDERO. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin,

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CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF ITZEL KASSANDRA GUTIERREZ CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. 15CV00246. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner ITZEL KASSANDRA GUTIERREZ has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing Applicant’s name from: ITZEL KASSANDRA GUTIERREZ to: KASSANDRA ITZEL MARTINEZ. 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 December 28, 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

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once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: Oct. 19, 2015. Paul M. Marigonda, Judge of the Superior Court. Dec. 2, 9, 16, 23. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15 - 1875 The following General Partnership is doing business as BOULDER CREEK ART LAB. 13124 HWY 9., BOULDER CREEK, CA 95006. County of Santa Cruz. SARAH NIELSEN & DIANA ROBERTSON. 13124 HWY 9., BOULDER CREEK, CA 95006. This business is conducted by a General Partnership signed: SARAH NIELSEN. 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 Oct. 28, 2015. Nov. 18, 25, & Dec. 2, 9.

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF NICOLE ELISABETH SABINE CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.15CV00065. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner NICOLE ELISABETH SABINE has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: NICOLE ELISABETH SABINE. to: NICOLE ELISABETH SABINI. 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 December 11, 2015 at 8:30 am, in Department 4 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street. Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times, a newspaper of general circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California,

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1983 The following Individual is doing business as VOTYPE EDITORIAL AND TRANSCRIPTION SERVICES. 875 FOREST WAY, BEN LOMOND, CA 95005. County of Santa Cruz. WENDY ELLEN LEDGER. 875 FOREST WAY, BEN LOMOND, CA 95005. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: WENDY ELLEN LEDGER. 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 Nov. 17, 2015. Nov. 25, & Dec. 2, 9, 16. STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME. The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: CLOTHES COTTAGE. 911 C. CAPITOLA AVE. CAPITOLA, CA 95010. The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in SANTA CRUZ COUNTY on: 2/4/2015. This business was conducted by: INDIVIDUAL: JOANN MCCULLOUGH. This statement was filed with the County Clerk- Recorder of SANTA CRUZ COUNTY on the date indicated by the file stamp: Filed: Nov. 19, 2015. File No.2015-0000222. Dec. 2, 9, 16, 23. CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF DENNIS DOYLE TAKAHASHI KELSO, ANNE TAKAHASHI-KELSO, & MIDORI REN KELSO-TAKAHASHI. CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. 15CV00331. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner(s) DENNIS DOYLE TAKAHASHI KELSO, ANNE TAKAHASHI-KELSO, & MIDORI REN KELSOTAKAHASHI have filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants’ names from: DENNIS DOYLE TAKAHASHI KELSO, ANNE TAKAHASHIKELSO, & MIDORI REN KELSO-TAKAHASHI to: DENNIS DOYLE TAKAHASHI-KELSO, ANNE MIGAHM TAKAHASHIKELSO, & MIDORI REN TAKAHASHI-KELSO. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described

above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING January 22, 2016 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: Nov. 18, 2015. Paul M. Marigonda, Judge of the Superior Court. Nov. 25, & Dec. 2, 9, 16. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1874 The following Individual is doing business as BREATHING ROOM & MADRONE D'ARDENNE. 316 WILKES CIRCLE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. PATRICIA SHIMOKAWA. 316 WILKES CIRCLE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: PATRICIA SHIMOKAWA. 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 Oct. 28, 2015. Dec. 2, 9, 16, 23. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-2035 The following Individual is doing business as SANTA CRUZ HAIR DESIGN. 711

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CA 95073. County of Santa Cruz. SERGIO ESPINOZA, JOSEPHINE R. ROTTER, & FRANCISCO J. ARANA. 2335 SOQUEL DR., SOQUEL, CA 95073.. This business is conducted by a General Partnership signed: SERGIO ESPINOZA. 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 Nov. 3, 2015. Nov. 18, 25, & Dec. 2, 9.

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Santa Cruz. ERIC G. SHEDLARSKI. 815 ALMAR AVE., SUITE K, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. AI# 3224683. This business is conducted by a Corporation signed: ERIC G. SHEDLARSKI. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 1/1/2013. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Nov. 18, 2015. Dec. 2, 9, 16, 23.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15 - 2032. The following General Partnership is doing business as Z'S PROPERTIES. 338 ISBEL DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. GERALDINE ZABALLOS, EVELYN ZABALLOS & LUCAS ZABALLOS. 338 ISBEL DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by a General Partnership signed: GERALDINE ZABALLOS. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 1/1/1997. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Dec. 1, 2015. Dec. 9, 16, 23, 30.

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF SUSAN PATRICIA HARNISH CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.15CV00435. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner SUSAN PATRICIA HARNISH has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: SUSAN PATRICIA HARNISH to: SUZAN SEQUOIA. 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

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1841 ALICE STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: JEFFREY COOPER. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 12/2/2015. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Dec. 2, 2015. Dec. 9, 16, 23, 30. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-2056 The following Individual is doing business as DANZANTE COFFEE ROASTING, DANZANTE EVENTS, & DESIGNS BY DANZANTE. 1240 BAY AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. REBECCA ANNE ZAVALETA. 1240 BAY AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an

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LAURA CHENEL’S HONEY GOAT CHEVRE LOG, “Pair w/ Apples�/ 4.49 GALBANI RICOTTA, “Great in Lasagna� 32oz/ 5.29 GENUINE GRUB PICKLES, “Raw & Vegan� 14oz/ 8.99 ATHENOS FETA CHUNKS, “Traditional & Tomato Basil� 4oz/ 5.29 BLUE HILL BAY HERRING, “In Wine or Cream Sauce� 12oz/ 5.99

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MICHELLE, Brut (90W&S, Reg 17.99)/ 9.99 G.H. MUMM, “Cordon Rouge� (92WS, Reg 39.99)/ 29.99 SCHARFENBERGER, Brut (91WE)/ 19.99 LAURENT PERRIER, Brut (91WE, Reg 39.99)/ 29.99 BOLLINGER, “Special Cuvee� (94WS)/ 59.99

PEPPERIDGE FARMS, “Crispy Cookies� Asst/ 3.89 SUPER CHUNK, “Taste Just Like Homemade� 6oz/ 4.19 SIMPLY INDULGENT GOURMET, “Moist & Delicious� 7oz/ 4.29 SALEM BAKING CO, “The Art of Moravian Baking� 7oz/ 4.99 PACIFIC COOKIE COMPANY, 16oz Bag/ 7.69

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SHOPPER’S COFFEE MUG/ 4.99 +Tax SHOPPER’S TRAVEL COFFEE MUG/ 6.99 +Tax SHOPPER’S CREW NECK T-SHIRT/ 12.99 +Tax SHOPPER’S V-NECK WOMEN’S T-SHIRT/ 14.99 +Tax SHOPPER’S HOODED SWEATSHIRT/ 39.99 +Tax

AVOCADOS, Table Ripe Ready/ 1.29 Ea GREEN BEANS, Fresh and Tender/ 2.49 Lb YELLOW ONIONS, A Kitchen Must Have/ .49 Lb CUCUMBERS, Always Fresh/ .59 Ea ZUCCHINI SQUASH, Extra Fancy Squash/ 1.79 Lb CLUSTER TOMATOES, Ripe on the Vine/ 2.29 Lb BROCCOLI CROWNS, Delivered Fresh Daily/ 2.29 Lb BANANAS, Always Ripe/ .89 Lb NAVEL ORANGES, Large Size, Seedless/ 1.19 Lb

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BECKMAN’S, Big California Sour Round 24oz/ 3.89 WHOLE GRAIN, Great White 30oz 4.19 KELLY’S, Sweet Baguette 8oz/ 1.99 GAYLE’S, Organic Painde Campagne, Oval/ 3.99 SUMANOS, 100% Whole Wheat 24oz/ 3.99 Cheese s "EST 'OURMET 3ELECTION IN 3ANTA #RUZ WISCONSIN SHARP CHEDDAR, “rBST Free� 1/3 Loaf Cuts/ 5.09 Lb, Average Cuts/ 4.99 Lb BLACK RIVER GORGANZOLA, “Customer Favorite�/ 5.99 Lb FROMAGER d’AFFINOIS, “Triple Cream Import�/ 10.99 Lb NORWEGIAN JARLSBERG, “Import Swiss�/ 10.09 Lb

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CLOVER EGGNOG, Quart/ 3.99 CLOVER BUTTER, 16oz/ 3.99 CLOVER ORGANIC BUTTER, 16oz/ 6.99 NANCY’S YOGURT, All Kinds 32oz/ 4.59 ODWALLA ORANGE JUICE, 1.8qt/ 4.99

JAMIE LOSTALOT, 40-Year Customer Santa Cruz Occupation: Business owner: De Laveaga Golf Shop; De La Santa Cruz Hobbies: Golf, travel, art, cooking, walking the beach, hiking, yoga Astrological Sign: Taurus TIM LOSTALOT, 45-Year Customer, Santa Cruz Occupation: Business owner, De Laveaga Golf Shop Hobbies: Golf, travel, cooking, reading, A’s/Raiders/Dubs follower Astrological Sign: Aries

OUR 77 T H YEA R

What do you folks enjoy cooking? JAMIE: “Cooking is in my blood. I do a lot of Mediterranean cooking such as pasta, soups, brown rice, lots of fresh vegetables, and salads with olives, nuts, artichokes, goat cheese, and more. There’s always a main dish such as steak, chicken, or seafood.â€? TIM: “I love barbecuing using my old Weber.â€? JAMIE: “You’re grilling, not barbecuing.â€? TIM: “Well, I call it barbecuing and do rib eye steaks, ďŹ llet mignon, chicken, salmon, swordďŹ sh, and leg of lamb which I slow-cook.â€? JAMIE: “We also GRILL our vegetables. The butchers are so accommodating and the variety of meats is fantastic.â€? TIM: “Best quality in town!â€?

Quality is important? JAMIE:“Yes, and so is shopping local. Here, not only do we support a family-run business but county-based vendors who supply the breads, coffees, eggs, salsas, pies, apples/organic produce, and the ice cream which is Andrew’s, and my other kids, Ellie and Ian’s favorite section.� TIM: “They have all the best Santa Cruz Mountain wines such as Ridge and Bargetto’s. Jim (Beauregard) has done a wonderful job with the store and the staff: they’re well-trained, knowledgeable, and always helpful. They’re on their game.� JAMIE: “The checkers recognize us ask, ‘How’re you doing?’ which makes for a family-friendly feeling. Our kids enjoy coming to Shopper’s.�

Do you shop here for holidays? JAMIE: “We love coming here for the holidays. So many great memories.� TIM: “We’ll get a big prime rib — that’s a must — some pies, and good wines for Christmas. Holidays or not, Shopper’s is the place to go for the community — it’s been the hub of Midtown forever.� JAMIE: “Shopper’s is very social, and during the holidays you’ll run into people you don’t see on a regular basis. People can be very joyful and excited when they’re thinking about preparing their meals, and you’re sharing stories right in the middle of the store. It’s wonderful. I tell people new to Santa Cruz to shop here. Shopper’s will make you feel welcomed to the community.�

“I tell people new to Santa Cruz to shop here. Shopper’s Corner will make you welcomed to the community.�

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Corner: Soquel & Branciforte Avenues 7 Days: 6am-9pm Meat: (831)423-1696 Produce: (831)429-1499 Grocery: (831)423-1398 Wine: (831)429-1804

Superb Products of Value: Local, Natural, Gourmet â– Neighborhood Service for 77 Years

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