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EXTREME EXPLORER The double life of guitarist and Antarctic researcher Henry Kaiser P18

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EDITOR’S NOTE I was guest hosting on KPIG’s “Please Stand By” show last year when I first saw Henry Kaiser perform. He did a short set with Grateful Dead alum Bob Bralove live in studio, and I’d never seen so much guitar gear set up in that tiny space—as he played, his foot was darting around about 20 effects pedals laid out around him. The way the two of them communicated through a series of mere glances and nods was intense, and the sound was phenomenal. “That was all completely improvised,” Kaiser told me later. “There was no rehearsal at all.” I mentioned the impression Kaiser made on me a couple of weeks later to GT contributor Brad Kava, who knows a lot more about guitar culture than I do, and he said “Oh yeah, Henry Kaiser? He’s famous! Wait, he lives in Santa Cruz now?”

Indeed, Kaiser moved to this area—Bonny Doon, specifically— four years ago, and he’s one of those Santa Cruz personalities I find fascinating. World-famous as a key member of the free improvisation movement of the 1970s, he’s performed on hundreds of records across a range of genres. He’s the kind of cult figure who can walk around town unrecognized most of the time—but mention his name to guitarheads like Kava and they may freak out. Combine that with Kaiser’s other job, as a diver doing scientific research in Antarctica, and you probably see why I wanted to introduce our readers to him. He’ll be doing a show at Don Quixote’s on Wednesday, Jan. 27 which will combine both of his obsessions, as he presents some of his footage of the Antarctic ecosystem and accompanies it with a solo guitar performance. You can get a sense of how he does this in the “Music of the Seals” video on YouTube. It’s great stuff. Hope to see you there! STEVE PALOPOLI | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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TRAIN STOPS TRAIL

The GT review of the Land Trust meeting on the Rail Trail failed to report the most important fact: the Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) Rail Trail plan comes with a commuter train—60 diesel trains per day running at speeds up to 45-60 mph. This train would be inefficient (taking only 200 commuters from Watsonville each day), expensive (a $9-$13 taxpayer subsidy for each $2.50 ticket sold), and the RTC says it would have no effect on Highway 1 congestion. This is why trailnow.org supports a trail-only solution. Conflicting with the goals of a continuous county trail, the rail itself squeezes out the trail from the corridor, forcing it onto the street for long stretches. Wherever the corridor’s width is less than 35 feet, the rail and trail do not fit. A good example is the section from 7th Avenue to Capitola, where even the RTC’s trail study has drawn the trail going over O’Neill’s surf shop at 41st Avenue. The rail component of the Rail Trail would cost $127 million, five times the $25 million to build a trail alone. The added cost

comes from bridges, excavation, retaining walls, and track replacement; unnecessary with a trail-only solution. This is the most expensive approach possible. If built, the corridor greenery would be gone (think along Park Avenue), every stroll interrupted by a train every 15 minutes; neighborhoods, beaches and wildlife from Santa Cruz to Watsonville separated throughout by a continuous safety fence except at 11 stations or cross streets. We deserve an affordable, beautiful trail where moms and dads with strollers won’t hesitate to walk, kids can cross, disabled can use, and bikes can pass without noise, fumes, or being routed onto the street. We need to change the conversation to a trail-only solution. CAREY PICO | SANTA CRUZ

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Dean Cutter, a science teacher at New Brighton Middle School, is always looking for good articles to share with his class. Last month after reading the GT cover story “Mercury Rising” about tests showing that mercury has been bioaccumulating in mountain lions, he decided to offer extra credit to anyone who wrote a report on the article. Cutter says the story dovetailed nicely with their unit on chemistry.

Nina Simon’s book The Participatory Museum has received strong reviews since first hitting stores five years ago. We ran into Simon at the Museum of Art & History, where she serves as executive director, and she mentioned that her book has come out in Korean, its first translation, and that’s just the beginning. “Russian and Chinese are coming,” she adds. Her next book, The Art of Relevance, is due out this year.

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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of January 13 ARIES Mar21–Apr19 You love autonomy. You specialize in getting the freedom and sovereignty you require. You are naturally skilled at securing your independence from influences that might constrain your imagination and limit your self-expression. But here’s a sticking point: If you want the power to help shape group processes, you must give up some of your autonomy. In order to motivate allies to work toward shared goals, you need to practice the art of interdependence. The next test of your ability to do this is coming right up.

TAURUS Apr20–May20 “Nothing is really work unless you’d rather be doing something else.” So said Taurus writer James M. Barrie (1860-1937), who created the Peter Pan stories. Your challenge and invitation in the coming months is to increase the amount of time you spend that does not qualify as work. In fact, why don’t you see how much and how often you can indulge in outright play? There’ll be no better way to attract grace and generate good fortune.

GEMINI May21–June20 Here’s my proposal: Get in touch with your madness. And don’t tell me you have no madness. We all do. But listen: When I use the word “madness,” I don’t mean howling rage, hurtful lunacy, or out-of-control misbehavior. I’m calling on the experimental part of you that isn’t always polite and reasonable; the exuberant rebel who is attracted to wild truths rather than calming lies; the imaginative seeker who pines for adventures on the frontiers of your understanding. Now is an excellent time to tap into your inner maverick.

CANCER Jun21–Jul22 Here’s an excerpt from Dorianne Laux’s poem “Antilamentation”: “Regret nothing. Not the cruel novels you read to the end just to find out who killed the cook. Not the insipid movies that made you cry in the dark. Not the lover you left quivering in a hotel parking lot. Not the nights you called god names and cursed your mother, sank like a dog in the living room couch, chewing your nails.” I’m giving you a good dose of Laux’s purifying rant in the hope that it will incite you to unleash your own. The time is favorable to summon an expanded appreciation for the twists and tweaks of your past, even those that seemed torturous in the moment. Laux doesn’t regret the TV set she threw out the upstairs window or the stuck onion rings she had to sweep off the dirty restaurant floor, and I hope you will be that inclusive.

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ing about kissing. I like kissing more than sex because there’s no end to it. You can kiss forever. You can kiss yourself into oblivion. You can kiss all over the body. You can kiss yourself to sleep.” I invite you to temporarily adopt this expansive obsession, Libra. The astrological omens suggest that you need more sweet slippery sensual tender interaction than usual. Why? Because it will unleash sweet slippery sensual tender emotions and sweet slippery sensual tender thoughts, all of which will awaken a surge of dormant creativity. Which you also need very much.

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 “Everything has been said before,” said French author André Gide, “but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.” I am happy to inform you that you’re about to be temporarily exempt from this cynical formulation. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will be able to drive home certain points that you have been trying to make over and over again for quite a while. The people who most need to hear them will finally be able to register your meaning. (P.S. This breakthrough will generate optimal results if you don’t gloat. Be grateful and understated.)

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21 Do you want more money, Sagittarius? Are there treasures you wish you could have, but you can’t afford? Do any exciting experiences and life-enhancing adventures remain off-limits because of limited resources? If your answer to any of these questions is yes, now would be an excellent time to formulate plans and take action to gather increased wealth. I don’t guarantee total success if you do, but I promise that your chance to make progress will be higher than usual. Cosmic tendencies are leaning in the direction of you getting richer quicker, and if you collaborate with those tendencies, financial magic could materialize.

CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 “It’s a terrible thing to wait until you’re ready,” proclaims actor Hugh Laurie. He goes even further: “No one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready.” His counsel is too extreme for my tastes. I believe that proper preparation is often essential. We’ve got to get educated about the challenges we want to take on. We need to develop at least some skills to help us master our beloved goals. On the other hand, it’s impossible to ever be perfectly prepared and educated and skilled. If you postpone your quantum leaps of faith until every contingency has been accounted for, you’ll never leap. Right now, Capricorn, Laurie’s view is good advice.

“Modesty is the art of drawing attention to whatever it is you’re being humble about,” said Alfred E. Neuman, the fictitious absurdist whose likeness often appears on the cover of Mad magazine. I’m here to tell you, Leo, that now is an excellent time to embody this aphorism. You are in a perfect position to launch a charm offensive by being outrageously unassuming. The less you brag about yourself and the more you praise other people, the better able you will be to get exactly what you want. Being non-egotistical and non-narcissistic is an excellent strategy for serving your selfish needs.

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“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s,” says a character in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment. I don’t agree with that idea 100 percent of the time. Sometimes our wrong ideas are so delusional that we’re better off getting interrupted and redirected by the wiser insights of others. But for the near future, Virgo, I recommend Dostoyevsky’s prescription for your use. One of your key principles will be to brandish your unique perspectives. Even if they’re not entirely right and reasonable, they will lead you to what you need to learn next.

Good news: Your eagerness to think big is one of your superpowers. Bad news: It’s also one of your liabilities. Although it enables you to see how everything fits together, it may cause you to overlook details about what’s undermining you. Good news: Your capacity for intense empathy is a healing balm for both others and yourself. At least potentially, it means you can be a genius of intimacy. Bad news: Your intense empathy can make you fall prey to the emotional manipulation of people with whom you empathize. Good news: Your willingness to explore darkness is what makes your intelligence so profound. Bad news: But that's also why you have to wrestle so fiercely with fear. Good news: In the next four weeks, the positive aspects of all the above qualities will be ascendant.

LIBRA Sep23–Oct 22 “I love kissing,” testifies singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens. “If I could kiss all day, I would. I can’t stop think-

Fate has transformed a part of your life that you didn’t feel ready to have transformed. I won’t offer my condolences, though, because I’ve guessed a secret that you don’t know about yet. The mythic fact, as I see it, is that whatever you imagine you have had to let go of will ultimately come back to you in a revised and revivified form—maybe sooner than you think. Endings and beginnings are weaving their mysteries together in unforeseen ways. Be receptive to enigmatic surprises.

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NEWS TAKING THE LEAD Mayor Cynthia Mathews talks about Santa Cruz’s challenges and future BY JACOB PIERCE

For Christmas this year, Cynthia Mathews got a black-and-white pin from her daughter Amey that she has been proudly wearing around. It reads: “Feminist With a To-Do List.” Mathews, who is thinking about running for re-election to the City Council this year, was sworn in for her fourth term as mayor last month, and GT caught up with her to talk about politics, city infrastructure and basketball. You seem to enjoy being on the City Council as much as anyone I’ve ever seen. Why is that? CYNTHIA MATHEWS: I love Santa Cruz, and I do find it rewarding, because there are so many people who feel equally invested in the community in a lot of different ways … As a community we have a good attitude, good diversity and good engagement, and we see the results. After years of study, no one knows how to fix the high rates of E. coli in the water under the Santa Cruz Wharf, or even what’s causing it. What’s next on that front?

What are you excited to do this term? We have some big plans ahead of us. Given that the economy is beginning to recover, I hope we move forward with some of those. The broadband [Internet] I hope we move forward with [see “Catching Fiber,” this page]. We have studies on the arena, the Civic—the future of those institutions. I think we will try and look at doing what we can for workforce housing. The housing problem comes up in every discussion. You mentioned the Santa Cruz

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Catching Fiber Private-public partnership creates universal access to high-speed Internet in Santa Cruz BY KARA GUZMAN

anta Cruz’s brain drain of 20,000 residents commuting over the hill for better pay may soon be a trend of the past. If all goes as planned in an unprecedented deal between Santa Cruz and local service provider Cruzio, gigabit fiber Internet—the gold standard for speed—will be available to all homes and businesses in the city by 2018. The roughly $45 million project is the first of its kind in the outer

Silicon Valley area, and promises to launch Santa Cruz to the forefront of the tech industry, says J. Guevara, the city’s economic development manager. Similar projects such as Google Fiber have built high-speed networks in cities like Kansas City and Austin, but only in wealthy neighborhoods. Only a handful of small cities across the nation offer fiber connectivity to all. “We’re solving our own market problems with a local company,

through local government, to protect our community’s interests,” says Guevara. “This isn’t solely about technology. The Internet is access to the world and all the ideas and all the things to come that we can’t even foresee. With the so-called ‘Internet of Things,’ with self-driving cars, with how interdependent we’ve become in our daily lives, this is the groundwork and framework to make our lives more fulfilling and successful.” For years, Internet speeds in

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We just keep working on it, and we have eliminated some of the possibilities. We have fixed some problems. And I thought the latest report we got gave us additional information. It was very clear from the beginning that there was not an easy fix, because the source wasn’t even known. It seems at this point that the source is birds in a very localized area, and we’ve given direction to see what we can do to reduce or eliminate that source. We’ve made some improvements already and we will continue to do that.

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NEWS CATCHING FIBER <11 Santa Cruz have lagged behind Silicon Valley’s, part of the reason so many professionals commute over the hill, Guevara says. In June, Santa Cruz was ranked No. 447 out of 505 California cities for download speeds, according to Ookla, a network diagnostic company. The city also got a “D” grade for its Internet speeds from the Central Coast Broadband Consortium, an association working to bring highspeed networks to the region.

THE DEAL According to the plan, which will be funded through a 30-year bond, every resident and business will have access to gigabit speeds for around $80 per month by 2018. That’s 1,000 Mbps (megabits per second)—fast enough to download an HD movie in three seconds—for roughly the same price as ordinary cable or DSL connections. The contract between Cruzio and the city should be final early this year and groundbreaking is expected by fall. In 2017, neighborhoods will be brought online, starting with those showing the most interest in a cruzio.com online survey. Broadband Internet is becoming an essential utility like electricity

and sewers, Guevara says, so involving local government in its construction makes sense. Think of it like a highway system, he says. For competition to occur, each service company would have to lay its own pipes down every street, building a redundant system. Letting the government build one system and lease it to a private company is more efficient, he says. In Santa Cruz’s case, the city has an exclusive agreement with Cruzio. In the plan unanimously approved by the city council on Dec. 8, the city will pay up to $52 million of construction costs to lay the cables in the ground, and Cruzio will cover the $2 million of electronics needed to light up the network. The city will own the network, but Cruzio, based in downtown Santa Cruz, will administer it and provide customer and technical support. The private company has more than 25 years of experience doing so, and is a better fit for the job than the city, Guevara says. The local private-public partnership model makes sense for broadband Internet, because governments are good at building utilities, but aren’t always the most entrepreneurial, he says. “This is the people’s network,” Guevara says. “The people of Santa

Cruz, through local government, will own the network, so all of the money which is typically leaving our local economy to pay Comcast and AT&T, wherever they are, that money will stay within the city.” “It’s closing that economic loop by building our own infrastructure, because the private sector won’t do it,” he adds.

SHARED RISKS, REWARDS The city will cover its costs with a lease revenue bond, which does not use the general fund and would not compete with services such as schools and libraries. Cruzio fiber customers will pay back the bond collectively through their rates—likely over 30 years, roughly $2.5 million a year. For the city to stay in the black, 7,500 customers, or 34 percent of Santa Cruz households, would need to sign up for the fiber network—a goal referred to as the “take rate.” Cruzio already has 3,000 subscribers that have said they will join, says James Hackett, Cruzio’s director of business operations and development. “A 34 percent take rate, or 7,500 subscribers, is a very doable target and similar networks offering the same types of speeds for the same types of prices have 60 >16

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UCSC and the rest of the Santa Cruz community lost a powerhouse last year when Marge Frantz died on Oct. 16, at the age of 93. Beginning in 1976 as a lecturer, she taught in UCSC’s American Studies and Women’s Studies departments, and had been a pioneering social justice activist since the 1930s. A memorial will be held for Frantz from 2-5 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 17, at the UCSC Music Recital Hall.

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TAKING THE LEAD <11 Warriors basketball arena and the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. The council should be looking at plans for both of those facilities soon. What might their futures be? We’re trying to be extremely thorough in the studies that lead to the options presented to us—pretty conservative fiscally. We don’t want to jeopardize the city’s overall financial health. We may look at a facilities revenue measure at some point. I don’t see that in the immediate term, but taking a look at what are the things that we have on our list—both critical infrastructure and public projects have strong support. Additionally, there may be a measure

for our libraries on the ballot this year. What is their place in our changing world? The way libraries serve their communities is changing. And that’s part of the impetus for the revenue measure—that our existing libraries are well-used, but can be better used, and the trend now is to have libraries assume more of a role of a place for community meetings, classes, events. We have dramatically overhauled our whole access to electronic media that’s a huge part of library systems now. Another big role that libraries play is in helping to bridge the digital divide. The topic of vacation rentals has come up a lot this past year. The council took some action to keep people from using accessory dwelling units (ADUs) for

short-term rentals. When do you look at the bigger picture? That will come back to us in the springtime. This is not unique to us, and the ADU piece was, to my mind, a very small piece of the larger picture. So, I have no prediction where that will end up. The impact on housing stock is real, and the impact on neighborhoods is real. But where we strike a balance on that— communities are all over the map. What do you think of the idea of having warming centers in the city limits for homeless to go to on cold nights? I much prefer that we focus on our coordination with what the county is doing, and using our resources where they will do the most good. We added funding for the winter shelter a couple of months ago, and that’s not fully occupied. So, I think we want to look to

what the county is doing. What are the funding trends? What’s available in the community? And I just did not see that proposal as one where we should focus our resources. Now that the Santa Cruz Warriors have re-acquired Aaron Craft, last year’s D-League defensive player of the year, what can we expect from him this season? I don’t know anything about Aaron Craft. [Laughs] What I appreciate about the Warriors is that they’ve made Santa Cruz their home. They have reached out. They have been embraced by the community. They are integrated into practically every aspect of community life. It has been an amazing fit that I think no one could have conceived before it happened. So, what do I expect of the Warriors? Another great year of partnership.

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When Bonny Doon’s Henry ry ero Kaiser isn’t diving in subzero temperatures in Antarctica, ca, he’s playing on the edge as one of music’s most acclaimed experimental OP POLI guitarists By STEVE PALOPOLI

THE SNOW MUST GO ON Henry Kaiser will combine his life as an Antarctic diver and experimental guitarist at a multimedia show at Don Quixote's on Jan. 27. PHOTO: COURTESY HENRY KAISER

enry Kaiser recently returned to his home in Bonny Doon from an eight-week scientific expedition to Antarctica, during which he braved temperatures that got as low as -40 F, did 40 dives and worked 20 hours a day, seven days a week—all to secure a picnic cooler worth of samples that will further the study of single-celled organisms called forams. It was his 11th deployment as a freelance diver for the United States Antarctic Program, and coming back from 8,800 miles away isn’t so disorienting anymore. to play music until I was 20, and I don’t really think about it as selfexpression. I do the experiment, present the results, and then move on to the next experiment.” These musical experiments are just as controlled as the scientific ones, he explains. No matter how far out there his improvisations get, he says he never worries about losing sight of the song, or that an entire performance will come crashing down from one wrong move. “It doesn’t fall apart,” he says. “It’s just like if you were painting a room in your house yourself. You might want to stencil some stuff or paint the trim a funny way, but when you’re done painting it, it’s going to be OK.” Bob Bralove, a Bay Area musician best known for working with the Grateful Dead for almost a decade, including producing their 1991 album Infrared Roses, has been collaborating with Kaiser regularly for almost 25 years. He laughs when he hears about Kaiser’s metaphor. “That’s so Henry to turn it into painting a house. It’s just like him to keep it down at that level,” says Bralove. But he thinks the painting metaphor does describe Kaiser’s guitar work very well. “It’s Picasso with a line,” he says. “It’s that sure hand.”

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“It used to be weird to come back and see green things and animals and people under the age of 20,” he says. “But now it just seems normal.” Normal, however, is relative; when he’s done visiting faraway worlds, Kaiser is known for transporting other people to them—through his music. As an internationally acclaimed experimental guitarist, Kaiser has appeared on some 270 albums, including 10 in 2015 alone. Besides his solo work, he has collaborated with Richard Thompson and David Lindley, along with dozens of other musicians who share his love for improvisation and musical exploration. He also has a passion for film, shooting and editing video of his Antarctic trips both for research and documentaries, and scoring films for director Werner Herzog— including his Academy-Awardnominated work on the soundtrack of Herzog’s 2007 documentary about Antarctica, Encounters at the End of the World. So between his work in hard science and radical art, there would seem to be an extreme left-brain, right-brain split going on in Kaiser’s head. He realizes everyone thinks this, but he straight-up denies it exists. “No! Everything’s the same. Everything’s experimental. Everything’s just a science experiment,” he says. “Music is science experiments—you try something nobody’s tried before to see what happens. I didn’t start

Kaiser, who is most remembered today for founding the Kaiser Permanente health care organization with physician Sidney Garfield in 1945. So yes, he’s heard many times about how he’s supposedly the heir to the “Kaiser fortune.” But the true story of what happened to the elder Kaiser’s billion-dollar estate and array of companies is a twisted one. To sum up: Kaiser is not the heir to any fortune. “If I was, my bumper wouldn’t be duct-taped to my car, probably,” he says. He discovered diving before he discovered guitar. Inspired by the late ’50s show Sea Hunt, he got certified at 11—since divers were supposed to be at least 12, he lied about his age. But even before he started playing guitar, Kaiser was picking up strands of cultural DNA that would come together in the free improvisation movement of the ’60s and ’70s, of which he would be considered one of the most notable members, along with contemporaries like Bill Laswell, Derek Bailey and John Zorn. “There was a lot of improvisation in the music I grew up around— what I heard on free-form radio, what I heard on non-commercial radio,” says Kaiser. “I developed an appreciation for that from what I heard when I was in junior high school and high school.” But it wasn’t just music he was drawing on for his experimental creative philosophy. “A science fiction writer takes some ideas and creates a whole new world with those ideas. It’s kind of an experiment in a book,” Kaiser says. “I could pick Ursula K. LeGuin—Left Hand of Darkness is a really famous book that does that. But there are so many books that did that. I’d read about how those writers thought, and I applied that to music.” He was also influenced by experimental American independent filmmakers of the ’60s and ’70s, like Stan Brakhage, Jordan Belson and James Whitney. “That was similar,” Kaiser says. “They were making art that was new and looking for something new. They seemed to be

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THE CALL UPS “One of the best things about the music is the long-term relationships you make with people,” says Kaiser. For him, that includes celebrated British guitarist Richard Thompson. They met at a show in Santa Cruz in the early ’80s, when Kaiser walked up to him and said “Want to make a record?” It took a couple of years, but they’ve since made several together. A few years later, they were in a band together called French Frith Kaiser Thompson, which also included John French, the drummer

on Trout Mask Replica and several other Captain Beefheart albums, and Fred Frith, another cornerstone of the free improvisation movement. (Among the band’s achievements is a downright terrifying cover of the Beach Boys’ “Surfin’ USA.”) Last year, Thompson invited Kaiser to teach improvisation and other classes as a faculty member at his acoustic guitar and songwriting camp, Frets and Refrains. “He’s one of my best friends,” says Kaiser of their long relationship. In an interesting twist, he recorded an album last year with Thompson’s son Jack, who he’s known since birth and taught to dive. Jack Thompson’s tastes lean more toward experimental, noise and ambient music, which was a kick for Kaiser. “I’m part of the roots of that, in a distant way,” he says of Jack Thompson’s industrial-edged sound. “It was really fun to play music together.” Nor is Richard Thompson the only musician he’s gotten to know after just walking or calling up and suggesting they make a record. In fact, he does it all the time. “I’ve always done that thing where I’ll go up to heroes of mine and say ‘Hey, I’m Henry Kaiser! Let’s make a record, c’mon!’ And generally speaking, they say yes,” he says. “So I’ve got to record with more than half of my biggest heroes. Like getting to work with David Lindley, or everybody in the Grateful Dead, or Richard Thompson, or jazz guys like Wadada Leo Smith, or the people in Captain Beefheart’s band. If I just look at the list, it’s kind of crazy how it goes on and on.” Kaiser and Lindley have done some remarkable records together. They met while working on the 1989 Neil Young tribute album The Bridge (on which they combined “The Needle and the Damage Done” and “Tonight’s the Night”). Shortly after, Kaiser was planning a trip to Madagascar to perform with some of the island’s musicians, and Lindley expressed interest in coming along. The resulting sessions, featuring the pair sitting in with a number of performers from Madagascar,

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became the basis for the album A World Out of Time, and its two subsequent volumes. Though the records proved to be extremely popular, Kaiser and Lindley decided not to take any money for them, instead directing the profits and the publishing rights to the musicians they had played with there. “We didn’t want to be like Paul Simon or David Byrne, so we just took a per diem for the hotel while we were there. At that time, it was the best-selling release of real world music, roots music collaboration,” remembers Kaiser. “We got a special publishing company so they got 90 percent of the publishing—the publishing company only took 10 percent. The record company took nothing. We gave them all the money, and the guys in Madagascar who would have made $400 in a year made $10,000.” When Kaiser and Lindley used the same model again on a trip to Norway for the next album, though, they got quite a different reaction from the musicians there. “They all get paid more than we do!” says Kaiser, with a laugh. “We still did the same thing, and they were like, ‘Ten thousand dollars? OK. Not very much.’ Kind of the opposite of Madagascar.”

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category. It might be because I want to allude to something people are familiar with in guitar, or maybe because I want to make it sound like an oboe from Kashmir all of a sudden. I’m not thinking about it, I’m just trying to get out of the way and keep my head above water at the same time. I have no idea what I’m going to do five seconds before I do it.” Bob Bralove says that’s one of the craziest things about playing with Kaiser. “It’s an amazing thing, because it requires a sense of presence in the moment that is very unusual to find,” he says. “It also requires huge confidence that the moment is going to bring out more than an expectation would.” And you can absolutely get swallowed up in it. “I’ve done recordings with Henry where I’m so present just to be on that plane with him that I’m not even sure we got anything,” says Bralove. “It’s only when I leave and listen back later that I realize in one session we did the whole album.”

BACK TO THE END OF THE WORLD As Kaiser’s music career progressed, so did his career as a scientist. “I taught underwater research at

UC Berkeley for many years. When our research diving program there ended, I slid in 2001 into the U.S. Antarctic Program as a diver,” he says. Even Kida, the 9-year-old Alaskan Malamute Kaiser can often be seen with around Santa Cruz, has a research job. She walks a treadmill at Long Marine Lab, where her oxygen intake is measured as part of a metabolic study of dogs, mountain lions and wolves. Kaiser doesn’t take a guitar with him to Antarctica anymore, because there’s so little time to play. Even at home, he doesn’t really play guitar unless there’s a performance, or a recording, or he’s learning something on it. Most of his time is taken up with his research work around the Antarctic trips, and both he and his wife, artist Brandy Gale, are basically workaholics, he says. “There’s an endless amount of work for Antarctic stuff that happens before and after every season. It’s crazy,” he says. “Video editing for scientists, things like that. It’s way too much stuff. And I’m always doing extra work for other groups, like ‘hey, let me just make an outreach video for you guys! I’ll just come out to your camp while everybody else is asleep.’ Basically,

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Last year, someone turned the tables on Kaiser’s cold-calling technique— and he loved it. “An old guitar student of mine from when I taught one summer 20, 25 years ago at the National Guitar Summer Workshop became kind of a famous guitarist on the East Coast, Alan Licht. He said ‘I want to make a record with you,’ and I was like ‘OK! Come on out and we’ll do it.” The resulting record, Skip to the Solo, is one of the wildest concepts of any Kaiser record yet, actually delivering what the title promises. “We recorded the songs and then cut away everything but the solos,” he says. “Isn’t that a funny idea?” The concept hearkens back to his college days, when he says he’d take a record home and play only the solos—

just dropping the needle on the solos over and over—in other words, skipping to the solo. He’s surprised to learn that not everyone did this. “Maybe it’s just a guitar subculture thing,” he says. Besides Kaiser and Licht, the album also features another guitarist who lives in Santa Cruz, Mikko Biffle. “He’s lived here for decades,” says Kaiser. “He’s a world-class guitarist that nobody knows about. It’s crazy how good he is.” Also on the album is local drummer Rick Walker, who shares Kaiser’s passion for looping instruments. “We’ve known each other forever, and we have a lot of friends in common who are loopers,” says Kaiser. “And he’s a great, great drummer.” The two also performed together on another record that just came out, Can’t Get There From Here, which improbably blends western improvisation, Chinese traditional music and South Indian classical music. “It’s completely impossible that it worked, but it did,” said Kaiser. “No matter what we did, it seemed to work. We ended up with a two-CD set, there was so much good stuff.” Even though he’s surprised by the outcome, he’s not. “I always believe it’s going to work,” he says of his offbeat collaborations, “and it usually does. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s the spirit of the people I pick to work with. Nobody’s diluting what they do. It’s more than the sum of its parts. Instead of less than the sum of its parts, like when people try to make it sound like bad spa music.” Kaiser says when it comes to improvisation, he just wants to be in the moment with his collaborators. He doesn’t even necessarily want to know exactly what he’s going to get out of his effects pedals. “I want to walk a line between predictable and unpredictable, where I’m reacting to it like it’s another person, because it makes some sounds I don’t expect,” he says of his equipment. “But I know I want to get a certain type of sound in a certain

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thing that people said to me was ‘we were so surprised he was so kind.’ He’s one of the kindest people I know. He’s the first person to wash the dishes and help out and carry that heavy thing over there with you.” Nor is Herzog’s reputation reflected in his process, says Kaiser. “He knows what he wants in films and he gets it done,” he says. “He has his own funny preferences and artistic obsessions, and he follows those—sometimes in expected ways and sometimes unexpected ways. But as somebody to work with, he’s so professional and so great.” Interestingly enough, that’s not too different from how Michael Manring describes Kaiser. A Bay Area bassist best known for his years of collaboration with the late Michael Hedges and his work on the Windham Hill label, Manring also says people often don’t fully understand Kaiser’s vision. He remembers when Kaiser approached him in the late ’90s about a new project he was working on called Yo Miles!, which celebrated Miles Davis’ electric period in the 1970s. “That music at the time was famously hated by everyone,” Manring says. “I remember when he called me up and told me about it. I thought ‘this is really weird. I don’t know if this is going to fly.’” But Yo Miles! turned out to be a huge success, selling out the Fillmore in San Francisco twice, and Davis’ music from that time has had a critical re-evaluation. “He was one of the first to see that. But that’s typical Henry. He’s a real genius, and a major force in music,” says Manring. “Anytime Henry calls, I’ll say yes, no matter how crazy it sounds.”

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romantic pop opera,” Carson says. Here’s how he began sketching out music for the opera. “I draw on improvisational instincts at the piano. I play, make notes, then play some more. Then I imagine it as an orchestra, begin filling in the instruments, then play a bit more. And the music takes shape in Midi files.” Carson works to create compelling dramatic music, “and I write a lot of it even if I’m not sure which character might use it,” he says. Later he chooses specific music for the characters. “I enjoy playing with contrasts of emotions,” he says. A scene in which Scotty complains about an engine room breakdown is set to music building to a passionate emotional climax. Carson enjoyed writing the parts for James T. Kirk in clipped syncopation, matching actor William Shatner’s familiar vocal delivery. Carson believed gender switching for Menagerie was crucial. “We wanted more women’s voices and parts,” he says. “Linc and Lee and I listened, commented, and rewrote. We had lots of wonderful fights—it was a great collaboration,” Carson says. “Last February I started shopping the opera to four companies, and so far no doors are closed.” When fully staged, the opera will run two hours. Meanwhile, a minimally produced debut of the opera will be presented this June at UCSC, to be directed by John De Lancie (who played “Q” in Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes). “He has directed lots of opera and even did a sci-fi Madame Butterfly,” Carson notes. “We will present it as an oratorio, with minimal set, recruiting singers from the Bay Area to perform.” Work on the Star Trek project has encouraged Carson to create music on a bolder scale, as he puts it, “blending the emotionally immediate with the experimental.” But he also admits that the project took a lot longer than he expected. Find out more about and listen to Menagerie: The Trial of Spock: startrekopera.com.

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tick Figure has been on the road quite a bit these past three years—especially considering that before that, they’d never played live at all. Beginning in 2006, Stick Figure had been a studio project for sole member Scott Woodruff. But after the release of his fifth album, 2012’s Burial Ground, he got an offer to go on tour for a couple of weeks. “I never thought to myself, ‘someday I’m going to hit the road.’ I had never been attracted to it—then I got that offer,” Woodruff says. “I was in a place in my life where I

was ready to try something new. I started thinking about it more and got excited.” He assembled a band, rehearsed for a of couple weeks and hit the road. Once they got back, he liked it so much, he booked another tour, and has been playing nice-sized venues ever since. He headlines the main stage at the Catalyst this Friday. Woodruff arrives in Santa Cruz armed with a new Stick Figure album, Set In Stone. It’s the first album since the project became a live band, but the record isn’t a band album. It was written and recorded the same way

his previous five were—all by himself in his home studio. As a one-man reggae band, the sound he produces is a bit different than your standard roots reggae band. There’s a trance-y vibe, a lot of electronics (he samples drums and then programs them), and cites Pink Floyd as one of his biggest influences. But more than all of that, he is influenced by dub, the spacey sub-genre of reggae from the ’70s that is a forebear to the remix and to some extent the modern-day electronic music scene. “I prefer electronic drums over the

acoustic style. It’s almost like you’re listening to a Dr. Dre album, just really thick, when you put it in your car and you can feel it,” Woodruff says. “I will always incorporate elements of dub, those echoes and reverb. That’s in every song. I can’t even help it. If I tried to stray away from that for a certain song to give it a more poppy feel, I always add that stuff in.” Set In Stone was written and recorded right here in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Woodruff relocated from San Diego about a year ago and built a home studio, which is basically a log cabin behind his house, which he calls Ruffwood Studios. “I literally put up the studio the same week we moved in. Before I put my clothes away in my bedroom, I had guys over here pouring concrete and getting the studio underway,” Woodruff says. “Right behind my studio is just a redwood forest. It has this big window that looks out at this beautiful landscape. I find a lot of inspiration from nature and being out in the woods. My environment plays a big factor in the type of music I play.” The new record actually isn’t much of a departure from Burial Ground. If anything, he’s become more meticulous about working with electronic elements. He admits to spending days sometimes just to get the perfect bass drum sound for a single track. The biggest difference is that he now considers his live band when he writes music, something he never did for his previous five records. “Before, I would make a part that calls for having three keyboards on stage. It would never matter. It doesn’t matter that it would take six arms to do this part. I made this one a little different, because I know it would sound different live,” Woodruff says. Woodruff is already thinking about his seventh record. “You feel really proud of what you just put out,” he says. “How am I going to be able to top that? What am I going to be able to do different to impress people and show that I’ve made progress and come a long way from the last album?’ There’s always that question of how you’re going to keep progressing.” INFO: 7:30 p.m., Jan. 15, Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $17/Adv, $20/Door. 429-4135.

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THURSDAY 1/14 ‘CODE: DEBUGGING THE GENDER GAP’ SCREENING AND PANEL There are not a lot of women coders, and the percentage has actually decreased since the ’80s. Why is there such a blatant gender gap in the computer science industry despite a growing need for experienced programmers? That’s the question that the Robin Hauser Reynolds documentary CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap asks. It explores the ways in which industries benefit and grow from having a bigger minority representation and a more equitable gender balance. Thursday, Jan. 14, Santa Cruz Tech Beat will screen the film and lead a panel discussion with Sarah Ross, a Yahoo software engineer; Cherizza Lundy, the Global Women’s Initiative manager at Intel Corp; Jacob Martinez, founder of Digital NEST; UCSC professor and Baskin School of Engineering undergraduate dean Charlie McDowell; and UCSC students Emily Lovell and Remington Maxwell. Info: 6:30-9:30 p.m. CruzioWorks, 877 Cedar St., #150, Santa Cruz. santacruztechbeat. com. Free. Register online.

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We could talk about our love for chocolate—we could go on and on about how we’re actually eating some Lindt milk squares while writing this—but we won’t. But maybe we won’t have to, since this Sunday, Jan. 17, is the ninth annual Santa Cruz Chocolate Festival so we can indulge every chocoholic fantasy. An afternoon of wine and chocolate tastings, demonstrations, music, and chocolate delights serves as a benefit for UCSC Women’s Club re-entry student scholarships. Returning for the second year the Chocolate Workshop will lead “Chocolate Alchemy 101” preceding the festival opening and Brian Wallace sharing new recipes and techniques for ganache, truffles and cakes.

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STEPPING STONES BRIEF GROUP: ADAPTING AND THRIVING AS A FAMILY WHEN YOUR CHILD HAS SPECIAL NEEDS This free parenting group offers support for families of children with special needs. Learn more online. 6-8 p.m. Imagine Supportive Living Services, 9065 Soquel Drive, Aptos. 227-4145 or first5scc.org/calendar/parent?trainings. Free.

CLASSES SALSA DANCING CUBAN-STYLE This class is for intermediate dancers and features Cuban casino partnering, salsa suelta and great Cuban music. 7-8 p.m. Louden Nelson Center, Santa Cruz. salsagente.com or 426-4724. $9/$5. IMPROVING CHILDRENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S NUTRITION & PHYSICAL ACTIVITY THROUGH POSITIVE PARENTING This is a free parenting support group to provide strategies to increase childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s healthy eating and physical activity. 6-8 p.m. Dominican Rehabilitation Center, First Floor Conference Room, 610 Frederick St., Santa Cruz. 227-4145 or first5scc.org/calendar/ parent?trainings. Free. KINK FOR BEGINNERS Curious about kink, but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know where to start? Join us for a fun and informative class to expand your erotic landscape. 7-9 p.m. Pure Pleasure, 204 Church St., Santa Cruz. 466-9870. $25/$20. TRIYOGA BASICS/THERAPEUTIC YOGA WITH KIM TriYoga taught by Kim Beecher, DC includes sustained postures with prop support.

CALENDAR wrestle, you will meditate, you will play hide-andgo-seek, and much more. 6-8 p.m. Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. elise@santacruzmah. org. $5/$3/Free.

CLASSES BONE BROTH WORKSHOP Join Chef Magali of Kitchen Witch Bone Broth and learn the what, why and how of bone broth for the modern kitchen. Pre registration required. 6-8 p.m. New Leaf Community Market classroom, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. newleafwestside.eventbrite. com. $25/$20. CHAIR YOGA WITH SUZI This wonderfully therapeutic practice will help you increase strength, range of motion and stamina. It is easy for everyone. Grey Bears, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Yoga Center Santa Cruz, 234-6791. $5.

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SATURDAY 1/16 - MONDAY 1/18 DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. WEEKEND Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” Martin Luther King Day of Service is a day to enact the values by which Dr. King lived his life, and this year the Santa Cruz NAACP and the Resource Center for Nonviolence host a weekend of celebration and opportunities to give back. Saturday, Jan. 16, the Resource Center will host live performances, food, and more, followed by a night of inspiring songs lead by Santa Cruz Community Gospel Group. On Sunday they invite community members to discuss and read Dr.King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” On Monday, Jan. 17, the Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz will host a day of motivational speakers, breakfast and service projects. Info: Various locations. rcnv.org. scvolunteernow.org. Free.

TRIYOGA BASICS CLASS WITH TERRI TriYoga flows are presented with personalized guided alignment assistance. 9:30 a.m. 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz. 464-8100. $15.

SPIRITUAL DISCOVERING BUDDHISM: THE WISDOM OF EMPTINESS Join us for the final module of the Discovering Buddhism series where we gain insights and wisdom to learn how to see ourselves and the world as they really are. 7-9 p.m. Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel. landofmedicinebuddha.org. Free/Donation.

FRIDAY 1/15 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/Free. PALO ALTO PLAYERS PRESENTS “DEATH OF A SALESMAN” This masterpiece exposes the secrets, shattered dreams, and unfulfilled promises that lurk behind the white picket fence. 8-10:30 p.m. Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. 650-329-0891 or info@paplayers.org. $46/$32. THIRD FRIDAY: POWER HOUR OF FUN A non-stop participatory event. You will arm

NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUPS—GREATER BAY AREA SANTA CRUZ Nar-Anon GBA Santa Cruz offers three meetings in support of friends and families of addicts. naranoncalifornia.org/ norcal or helpline 291-5099. 9-10 a.m. Santa Cruz, Aptos and Scotts Valley. saveyoursanity@ aol.com. Free/donations. OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS 90-Day OA, Study of the AA 12 and 12 book. OA is a 12-step support group to stop compulsively eating. Noon-1 p.m. Live Oak Family Resource Center, Community Conference Room, 1740 17th Ave., Santa Cruz. Nate, 429-7906. Free. OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Do you have a problem with food? OA is a 12-Step support group to stop eating compulsively. 12:15-1:15 p.m. Quaker Center, 225 Rooney St., Santa Cruz. 429-7906 or santacruzoa.org. Nate, 4297906. Free.

HEALTH VITAMIN B12 FRIDAY Receiving B12 via injection means that people can increase their energy. B12 Fridays are a fun time for people to meet and mingle. 3-6 p.m. Thrive Natural Medicine 2840 Park Ave., Soquel. 515-8699.

PRE-SHABBAT POTLUCK, CHADEISH YAMEINU Monthly on the third Friday. Bring vegetarian items to share. Shabbat Service and potluck and refreshments follow. 6-7:15 p.m. Peace United Church, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. cysantacruz.com. Free. SHABBAT SERVICES WITH CHADEISH YAMEINU All are welcome! Potluck and refreshments follow; bring a vegetarian item to share. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Peace United Church, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. cysantacruz.com. Free.

SATURDAY 1/16 ARTS CRAFTS FOR KIDS: BIRD FEEDERS Kids are invited to make and take home a traditional bird feeder to support birds during the cold winter months. Pre registration required. Noon-2 p.m. New Leaf Community Market at 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz and 1210 41st Ave., Capitola. newleaf.com/events. Free. AYURVEDA OPEN HOUSE Find out how to become an Ayurvedic practitioner. Join MMI staff for an informational presentation followed by an introductory talk and campus tour. 1-3 p.m. Mount Madonna Center, 445 Summit Road, Watsonville. 408-846-4060 or info@ mountmadonnainstitute.org. Free. COMMUNITY POETRY CIRCLE Join the circle and write a poem in a creative and supportive environment. All ages and levels of poets encouraged. 2-4 p.m. Scotts Valley Library, 251 Kings Village Road, Scotts Valley. magdarose@ hughes.net. Free. CHERRYVALE ART FARM OPEN HOUSE Come meet our farm animals, explore our gardens and pick up a paint brush. We currently have ongoing after-school classes and a 2016 Summer Program. Noon-3 p.m. 4900 Cherryvale Ave., Soquel. cherryvaleArtFarm. com or Facebook cherryvaleartfarm. Free.

BUSINESS SPRINGYGIRL CLOTHING SALE Gently used, like-new women’s clothing and accessories. Wide selection of sizes and styles. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 262 Ada Ave., Felton. facebook.com/ springygirl. Free. ANIMAL SHELTER RELIEF RESCUE ADOPTION FAIR Animal Shelter Relief rescues cats and dogs from high-risk situations. Our ultimate goal is to reduce euthanasia numbers at local shelters. All of our >32

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Everyone is welcome. Suitable for those with chronic conditions. 7:30 p.m. 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz. 464-8100. $15.

SCOTTS VALLEY NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUP Nar-Anon is a 12-step program/ support group for friends and families who have been affected by the addiction or drug problem of another. 6:30-7:45 p.m. Bison Center, The Camp Recovery Center, 3192 Glen Canyon Road. Free.

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CALENDAR celebration in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King. A gospel night of inspirational songs by Santa Cruz choirs and local soloists. 7-9 p.m. Resource Center for Nonviolence 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz Branch NAACP, 4292266. $20/$10.

SPIRITUAL MEDICINE BUDDHA PRACTICE GUIDED MEDITATION Sessions include recitation of traditional Tibetan Buddhist prayers and the Medicine Buddha mantra, as well as some quiet meditation. 9:30-10:45 a.m. Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel. 4628383. Donation. ZEN MEDITATION & LIFE How do you practice equanimity, kindness and compassion? Four classes on The Awakened Mind & Heart. Meditation 8:30 a.m. Class and tea: 9-10:30 a.m. Ocean Gate Zen Center, 920 41st Ave., Capitola. 8:30-10:30 a.m. 920 41st Ave., Suite B, Capitola. info@oceangatezen.org. Donation.

SATURDAY 1/16 INTERNATIONAL BREEMA WEEK WORKSHOP Breema is a floor-based method of exercises, bodywork and philosophy designed to open the here and now. Sunday, Jan. 17 Jon Schreiber will lead a workshop in “Being Present Means Being Yourself” in addition to a free introductory session to the subject on Jan. 16. Schreiber is the director of the Breema Center in Oakland and has written several books on the practice. Attendees are invited to experience the nourishing and energizing effect of Self-Breema exercise and bodywork, as well as discover the Nine Principles of Harmony. Info: 6:30-8:30 p.m. Santa Cruz Chi Center, 1119 Pacific Ave., Suite 300, Santa Cruz. breema.com. Register online.

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anorexia and bulimia. 11 a.m.-Noon. Watsonville Hospital, Sequoia Rm, 75 Nielson St., Watsonville. 429-7906 or santacruzoa.org. Free.

HEALTH WOMENCARE—ART FOR HEALING For women living with cancer: Paint, draw, glitter, and use pastels, clay, natural materials to explore our deepest self. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Call 4572273. Free. WOMENCARE SPANISH SUPPORT GROUP WomenCARE offers a support group in Spanish for women with cancer on the first and third Saturday of the month. Call to sign up. 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Santa Cruz. 457-2273 or 336-8662. Free. QIGONG FOR WOMEN LIVING WITH CANCER Learn specific tools for managing side effects of cancer treatments. Meets every

third Saturday. 2-3 p.m. Pacific Cultural Center. WomenCARE. Free.

MUSIC REFLECTIONS TRIO This Santa Cruz jazz trio plays a range of styles, from classic standards to modern compositions; marvelous music that will appeal to both the casual listener and the musician. 6-9 p.m. Davenport Roadhouse Restaurant & Inn, 1 Davenport Ave., Davenport. davenportroadhouse.com. Free. DR MARTIN LUTHER KING - YOUTH DAY Santa Cruz NAACP & RCNV present a creative and musical celebration in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King. Live Performances, food, raffle and more. 1-4 p.m. Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz. Irene O’Connell, irene.cj.oconnell@gmail.com. Free. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING WEEKEND Santa Cruz NAACP & RCNV present a musical

EYES OPEN MEDITATION WITH SADHVI PARANANDA Eyes open meditation is a practice in which a connection is made with a teacher who acts as an energy source which releases blocks within for the unfolding of happiness. 9-10:30 a.m. The Center for Source Healing, 2959 Park Ave., Suite E, Soquel. Dr. Jen Wilhelm. $20/Donation.

SUNDAY 1/17 ARTS TAKE AWAYS: ART TO GO! This invitational annual exhibit features 65 of the county’s most notable artists. As a fundraising exhibit event these artists are presenting works that fit into many budgets. Will be open Jan. 13-Feb.14 from 11-4 p.m. With the exception of Jan. 17. 2-4 p.m. Pajaro Valley Arts Council, 37 Sudden St., Watsonville. 722-3062. Free.

partners needed. 9-10 a.m. The Tannery, 1060 River St., Suite #111, Santa Cruz. Cesario. $7/$5. BEGINNING BALLET WITH DIANA ROSE An introduction to ballet technique with a focus on posture, balance and strength building. Noon1:15 p.m. International Academy of Dance Santa Cruz. info@iadance.com, $10. THE DO-RIGHTS BURLESQUE OPEN REHEARSAL The Do-Rights Burlesque is a neo-burlesque dance troupe looking to add new members to our community by holding open rehearsals. Please email us to receive an application and policy information. Applications are due prior to the first rehearsal. 4:30-7 p.m. Dance Synergy 9055 Soquel Drive, Aptos. do.rights.burlesque@gmail.com. Free.

FOOD & WINE 9TH ANNUAL SANTA CRUZ CHOCOLATE FESTIVAL The Santa Cruz Chocolate Festival features chocolate and wine tastings, a silent auction, demonstrations, music, and more. Tickets for tastings available at womensclub. ucsc.edu/fundraising/chocolate-festival/ tickets.html. 1-4 p.m. Cocoanut Grove at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. santacruzchocolatefestival.org.

GROUPS NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUPS: SANTA CRUZ A 12-step program designed to help relatives and friends of addicts recover from the effects of living with an addicted loved one. 6:30-8 p.m. Santa Cruz Sutter Hospital, Sutter Room, 2900 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz. saveyoursanity@ aol.com, or helpline 291-5099. Free. OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Speaker/ Discussion meeting. Have a problem with food? OA is a 12-Step support group to stop compulsive eating behaviors. 9:05-10:15 a.m. Sutter Maternity & Surgery Center, Sutter Room, 2900 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz. santacruzoa.org or 429-7906. Free.

BUSINESS SPRINGYGIRL CLOTHING SALE Gently used, like-new women’s clothing and accessories. Wide selection of sizes and styles. Two days only. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 262 ADA Ave., Felton. facebook.com/springygirl. Free.

CLASSES GOOD MORNING WORKOUT Get your juices flowing. Enjoy the music and get fit at the same time. You’ll learn movement, patterns, style, and technique in a welcoming environment. No

HEALTH REMOVING NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS OF STRESS, ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION A free introductory seminar is being offered to those who would like to learn how to control and remove stress, anxiety and depression. 5 p.m. 700 South Green Valley Road, Watsonville. 3257993 or removingnegativity@yahoo.com. Free. BREEMA WORKSHOP WITH JON SCHREIBER Experience the nourishing and energizing effect of Self-Breema exercises

CALENDAR International Academy of Dance Santa Cruz. info@iadance.com. $10. BEGINNING BALLET WITH DIANA ROSE An introduction to ballet technique with a focus on posture, balance and strength building. Noon1:15 p.m. International Academy of Dance Santa Cruz. info@iadance.com. $10. BEGINNING HIP-HOP FOR ADULTS HipHop is a great way to build strength, stamina and flexibility while having fun and learning to dance. No prior dance experience required. 7-8 p.m. 320 Encinal St., Santa Cruz. International Academy of Dance Santa Cruz. $10.

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SATURDAY 1/16 ‘SING FOR YOUR LIFE’ SCHOOL BENEFIT CONCERT Eight county schools and one special guest—it’s the annual school benefit concert featuring school and college choirs from every corner of the county. This year’s featured guest choir is Flightline, a dynamic young quartet from Southern California that has earned the top Barbershop Harmony Society honors in 2015. Over the past 12 years Sing For Your Life has raised more than $70,000 for participating schools which goes toward sheet music, accompanist salaries, field trips, and other items in music education otherwise not covered by increasingly thin school budgets. Santa Cruz’s own barbershop chorus, the all-age Gold Standard Chorus, will also perform. Info: Noon. Santa Cruz Bible Church, 440 Frederick St., Santa Cruz. scbarbershop.org. $15-$20.

and bodywork. 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 1119 Pacific Ave., Suite 300, Santa Cruz. 510-428-0937 or center@breema.com. Free.

SPIRITUAL GUIDED MEDITATION Led by Venerable Drimay, an excellent way to learn how to set up a daily meditation practice. Stabilizing meditation followed by guided contemplation on various Dharma topics. 9:30-10:30 a.m. Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel. 462-8383. Donation. MEDICINE BUDDHA PUJA Medicine Buddha Puja is a prayer ceremony that is performed daily at Land of Medicine Buddha. One Sunday a month it is done in English. The other three Sundays it is done in Tibetan. 2-3 p.m. Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel. 462-8383 or landofmedicinebuddha.org. Free/donation.

VOLUNTEER DAY OF SERVICE HONORING DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. In honor of Dr. King’s teachings, take a few hours out of your day to volunteer and support your local community. 12 a.m.-12 p.m. Santa Cruz Bible Church, 440 Frederick St., Santa Cruz. Anna Bontrager, 427-5070 x128 or engagement@ scvolunteercenter.org.

MONDAY 1/18 CLASSES JAZZ: BEGINNING JAZZ FOR ADULTS An introductory study in classic American jazz choreography and technique. This class begins with placement, strength and an emphasis on turns, kicks and jumps. 1:30-2:30 p.m.

TRANSLOVE GROUP For non-trans (cis) partners and close friends of transgender people. First and third Mondays, 7-8:30 p.m. Email debabbott.lmft@gmail.com for location information and to register. $25.

MUSIC NIR FELDER QUARTET Within the playing of guitarist Nir Felder you can hear the strains of many influences, from Jimi Hendrix to John Coltrane and many points in-between. 7 p.m. 320 Cedar St, Santa Cruz. 427-2227. $25. TRIYOGA BASICS YOGA CLASS A relaxing and strengthening class to benefit your back and hips. With Dr. Kim Beecher. For beginners and all levels. 5:30 p.m. TriYoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz. 464-8100. $15. TRIYOGA LEVEL 1 YOGA CLASS Enjoy the wealth of TriYoga. Taught by Terri Richards. 9:30 a.m Triyoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz. 464-8100. $15.

SPIRITUAL MONDAY DROP-IN MEDITATION Led by Venerable Yangchen and Venerable Gyalten— basic meditation instruction and practice. One session of mindfulness meditation, followed by guided reflection meditation. 5:30-6:30 p.m. Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel. 462-8383. Donation. CRYSTAL BOWL SOUND JOURNEY This sound journey will carry you beyond the mindlocks of your consciousness to the deeper

BLOOM OF THE PRESENT WEEKLY MONDAY EVENING MEDITATION Please join us for this weekly drop-in meditation group. The meeting will include a silent mindfulness meditation and Dharma talk on Buddhist teachings. 7-8:30 p.m. 6265 Hwy. 9, Felton. 2222100. Free/Donation.

TUESDAY 1/19 ARTS MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY THEATER ANNOUNCES AUDITIONS FOR THE MYSTERY PLAYS We are looking for five experienced actors. Three men (ages 20-65) and two women (ages 25-65). Please prepare a one-minute monologue or reading. 7-9 p.m. 1001 Center St., Santa Cruz. Miguel Reyna, director, migueljreyna@gmail.com. Free. OFF THE LIP RADIO SHOW Tune in to the “Off the Lip” radio show, the world’s only live show dedicated to surfing and skateboarding. 7-8 p.m. KSCO AM 1080, FM 104.1, ksco.com, and live streaming on santacruzwaves.com.

MUSIC BILLY MANZIK Manzik delivers a driving roots rock sound, complete with catchy riffs, lyrical hooks and a feel good, toe tapping kind of style. Just 10 minutes up the coast on Highway 1. 6-9 p.m. Davenport Roadhouse Restaurant and Inn, 1 Davenport Ave., Davenport. davenportroadhouse.com. Free.

OUTDOORS LEARN HOW TO COMBAT PLANT PESTS AND DISEASES the Monterey Bay Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society will feature a presentation by Dennis McKiver on Pests and Diseases of Rhododendrons. 7 p.m. Santa Cruz Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave., Santa Cruz. gardenbythesea.org. Free.

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THETA HEALING FOR THE NEW YEAR Rochelle Kindell Stanley’s work involves teaching self healing, empowerment, connection to source and to the higher realms. 10:30-11:30 a.m. 6299 Hwy. 9, Felton. 335.7700. $25.

INSPIRATIONAL MEDITATION SERVICE Join the Santa Cruz SRF Meditation Group for Sunday morning Inspirational Service. This service includes inspirational readings from the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda. 11 a.m.Noon. Call for location, 334-2088.

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Have a problem with food? OA is a 12-Step support group for those who wish to stop compulsive eating. 12:15-1:15 p.m. Trinity Presbyterian Church, Library, 420 Melrose Ave., Santa Cruz. santacruzoa.org/meetings or 429-7906. Free.

regions of your soul. 7:30-8:30 p.m. The Garden Sanctuary, 3070 Prather Lane, Santa Cruz. Kim, 333-6736. Donation.

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LOVE YOUR

LOCAL BAND TAN OF DREAMS

A lot of professional musicians skip music school, but in the case of Renato Annicchiarico (aka Enahena), the drummer and lead singer of local trio Tan of Dreams, it’s truly a surprise. He has more music pouring out of him than he knows what to do with. “I don’t write music. I don’t read it. It’s just always been with me. The melodies are spontaneous. They just come to me on an hourly basis. My phone is filled with hundreds of tunes,” Annicchiarico says.

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Fortunately, he has psychedelic rock trio Tan of Dreams to funnel these songs to, which is why the relatively new group has more than 30 songs in their repertoire. During any given set, Annicchiarico will play whatever one of them he feels like playing in the moment.

“We go on how my inspiration is, on the fly. I’m jumping from one song into something else, which could be another song, originals or covers. It can also be an improvisation, like a total new thing. I also sometimes improvise the lyrics,” Annicchiarico says. The group’s music is moody and dreamy, but still rocks out, and is filled with catchy (albeit strange) hooks. Appropriately, “tan of dreams” is an old term for the color of dreams. “The dreams can have different colors, different flavors. So tan is a transformation, something that changes. So it’s like converting dreams into reality,” Annicchiarico says. “People dance to our music. Sometimes I wish I didn’t play drums, because I dance when I sing. I’m a good dancer.” AARON CARNES INFO: 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 14. Crow’s Nest, 2218 East Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz. $5. 476-4560.

SEA KNIGHT

THURSDAY 1/14 INDIE

SEA KNIGHT Somewhere between sweeping postrock soundscapes and dreamy shoegazepop lies the latest soon-to-break-out San Francisco indie band, Sea Knight. The four-piece channel a bit of Pixies, Mogwai, Sonic Youth, and the Breeders into a ’90s-loving indie group that keeps their retro-worship in check enough to be relevant in 2016. The group formed just a few years ago, and released the EP Where Are You about a year ago. It’s carefully produced music, ideal for the headphones experience. Live, I imagine it’s a lot less careful, and earplugs might be necessary. AARON CARNES INFO: 9 p.m. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $8. 429-6994.

SOUL JAZZ

TONY LINDSAY Tony Lindsay is best known for his long relationship with Santana, a two-decade run that included the band’s 1999 resurgence and megahit Supernatural (he’s got 11 Grammy Awards on his

mantel as a testament to his tenure). But that high-profile gig only showed one facet of Lindsay’s impressive musical range. A potent soul and soul-jazz crooner, he joins forces with two other excellent Bay Area vocalists, Nicolas Beard and Fred Ross, in a program devoted to the music of three singular masters—Marvin Gaye, Lou Rawls and Bill Withers—backed by a formidable combo. ANDREW GILBERT INFO: 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $25/adv, $30/door. 427-2227.

FRIDAY 1/15 HIP HOP

DEAD PREZ Dave Chappelle once said you’ll never hear Dead Prez on the radio because they say whatever they want. Twelve years later, Stic.man and M-1 are still spitting truth as soldiers of knowledge. The politically and socially conscious rappers haven’t released a full-length since 2012’s Information Age, leaving fans to hope for news of what’s next for the duo in 2016. The writers of such anthems as “Turn off the Radio” and “Bigger Than Hip Hop” (but they never

ghostwrote for Nas, don’t believe the hype!) will be joined by Mic Crenshaw, Apollo Anthony and Archon. MAT WEIR INFO: 9 p.m. Catalyst Atrium, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $20/adv, $25/door. 429-4135.

SATURDAY 1/16 INDIE

THERE IS NO MOUNTAIN Aren’t husband/wife-led indie-rock bands the best? There’s Yo La Tengo, Mates of State, Sonic Youth (oops, not anymore!). There’s also a relatively new group from Portland called There Is No Mountain. Like early Mates of State, they are just a duo, and make good use of their minimalism. Both sing. Kali Giaritta plays drums and keys, while Matt Harmon plays guitar and percussion. They create a surprisingly full and dynamic sound as just a two-piece. It blurs the line between roots Americana and experimental art-pop, and, man, they certainly create an eerie haunting vibe, with a hint of world-beat rhythms. AC INFO: 9 p.m. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave,, Santa Cruz. $10. 429-6994.

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BE OUR GUEST Y&T The hair metal era of the 1980s was an interesting (and fun) one, indeed. It’s easy to dismiss it with an eyeroll now, but those of us who were there rocked out to plenty of jams by the likes of Poison, Mötley Crüe and Europe. One of the pioneering acts of the genre was Y&T, an Oakland-based outfit that embraced the flying V guitars, glam aesthetic, videos with lots of bikinis and candles in them, and, of course, big hair. The group’s hit “Summertime Girls” remains a crowd favorite. Four decades after its formation, Y&T is still going strong. CAT JOHNSON

RUTH MOODY

ROOTS/ROCK

JD MCPHERSON

8 p.m. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $22/adv, $25/door. 423-8209.

SUNDAY 1/17 HIP HOP

2CHAINZ The career path of 2Chainz (aka El Chapo Jr.) is as far flung as his music.

INFO: 8 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $43-$150. 429-4135.

NEW ORLEANS

REBIRTH BRASS BAND On its way to becoming a New Orleans institution à la Preservation Hall Jazz Band, the Rebirth Brass Band is a long-running, Grammy-winning outfit that plays brass band ambassador to the world. Founded in 1983 by Philip Frazier on tuba, Keith Frazier on drums, and the legendary Kermit

Ruffins on trumpet, Rebirth is one of the funkiest, hip-swinging, dancefloor-shaking groups you’ll ever have the pleasure of seeing. CJ INFO: 8:30 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $20/adv, $25/door. 479-1854.

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RUTH MOODY BAND Canadian singer-songwriter Ruth Moody has an impressive resume: two-time Juno award-winner, founding member of folk trio The Wailin’ Jennys, former singer for Scruj Macduhk, and frequent performer on the Prairie Home Companion. But none of that is why you should check her out. You should swing by Don Quixote’s if you’re the kind of person who likes moody, lush, spine-tingling roots music. She is the master. Her songs are dripping with emotional complexity, and her backing band provides tons of layers and nuance. AC INFO: 7:30 p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 CA-9, Felton. $13/adv, $15/door. 335-2800.

Award-winning, progressive bluegrass from Missoula, Montana. Thursday at Moe’s Alley DEVOTCHKA

Dark cabaret, multi-instrumental fourpiece out of Denver. Friday at Rio Theatre STICK FIGURE

Fast-rising American reggae and dub group. Friday at Catalyst VINTAGE AMERICANA SONGCATCHERS

Singer-songwriters Jim Kweskin, Meredith Axelrod and Suzy Thompson. Sunday at Don Quixote’s NIR FELDER

Emerging jazz great hailed by NPR as “the next big jazz guitarist.” Monday at Kuumbwa

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When JD McPherson burst onto the roots scene with his 2010 album Signs & Signifiers, and its standout tune “North Side Gal,” he was widely praised for his revivalist tendencies—pulling back into the spotlight of that musical sweet spot where rockabilly and early American rock ’n’ roll pointed the way to the coming musical revolution. On his latest album, Let the Good Times Roll, McPherson continues to pay tribute to the styles and pioneers of the genre, but he moves things forward in exciting ways, even enlisting the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach to co-write with him on “Bridgebuilder.” The album is raw and explosive, an outstanding offering from one of the most exciting roots artists around. CJ

He started with Ludacris and the Dirty South crunk, moved into supporting rhymes for players like Nicki Minaj and Kanye West, kicked off his own successful solo career as a trap lord, and even battled Nancy Grace over marijuana legalization on television. He’s also the host of the GQ’s online series “Most Expensivest Shit,” where he goes around trying on $48k sunglasses, drinking $100k bottled water and smoking out of $10k bongs. Basically, 2Chainz decided he wanted to have the best jobs in the world, took them, and now inspires the rest of us to follow our dreams. MW

INFO: 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $20/adv, $25/door. 423-1338. WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/giveaways before 11 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 15 to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to the show.

LIVE MUSIC

Thursday January 14th 8:30pm $7/10 2015 Telluride Bluegrass Competition Winners

THE LIL’ SMOKIES + GRATEFUL BLUEGRASS BOYS Friday January 15th 9pm $20/25 Groundation’s Front Man Brings New Reggae Project

HARRISON STAFFORD

OF GROUNDATION & THE PROFESSOR

CREW

+ PURE ROOTS Saturday January 16th 9pm $20/25 Members Of The Meters & Parliament Funkadelic

THE METERS EXPERIENCE W/ LEO NOCENTELLI & BERNIE WORRELL + 7 COME 11

Sunday January 17th 8:30pm $20/25

WED APTOS ST. BBQ 8059 Aptos St, Aptos

1/13

Al Frisby 6-8p

AQUARIUS RESTAURANT Santa Cruz Dream Inn 175 W Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz BAYVIEW HOTEL 8041 Soquel Dr, Aptos

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

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January 22nd SAMBADÁ January 23rd HOT BUTTERED RUM + MIDNIGHT NORTH January 25th ANTSY MCCLAIN + NELL ROBINSON & JIM NUNALLY January 28th NEW ORLEANS SUSPECTS January 29th COCO MONTOYA January 30th WARRIOR KING January 31st THE MOTET February 4th RYAN MONTBLEAU February 5th THE CHINA CATS February 6th TOMMY CASTRO February 10th EUFORQUESTRA + JON WAYNE & THE PAYNE February 11th DEAD WINTER CARPENTERS + MCCOY TYLER February 12th & 13th CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS February 14th MICHAEL LANDAU GROUP (afternoon)

WWW.MOESALLEY.COM 1535 Commercial Way Santa Cruz 831.479.1854

SAT

1/16

Lloyd Whitney 1-5p Al Frisby 6-8p

1/17

SUN Hawk n Blues Mechanics 6-8p

MON

1/18

Broken Shades 6-8p

TUE

1/19

Rand Rueter 6-8p

Minor Thirds Trio 7-10p Tango Ecstasy 6-9:30p

DJ Total Badass, Vincula $5 9p

Daddy Long Legs, GUR, Big Delight, Tektite $5 9p

The Box (Goth Night) 9p

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

BLUE LOUNGE 529 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz

Pride Night 9p

Party w/Raina 9p

Incidental Live Music Revue w/Alisha

Comedy Night 9p

Karaoke

Locals Night, Music w/ Lil Billy

Karaoke 8p-Close

BOARDWALK BOWL 115 Cliff St, Santa Cruz

Karaoke 8p-Close

BOCCI’S CELLAR 140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz

Funk Night w/ Light the Band Free 9p

Crown Chakra Free 8p

BRITANNIA ARMS 110 Monterey Ave, Capitola CASA SORRENTO 393 Salinas St, Salinas CATALYST 1011 Paciﬁc Ave, Santa Cruz

Surfer Blood $15/$18 7p

CILANTROS 1934 Main St, Watsonville

Hippo 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

Roy Zimmerman + Cynthia Carle Wit & Satire in Song

$15 adv./$18 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm Fri Jan 15

Locomotive Breath Songs of Tull, Floyd, Who, Cream, Zeppelin, Stones, Doors $10 adv./$10 door 21 + 8pm

Sat Jan 16

EXTRA LARGE plus AZA TWO DYNAMIC DANCE BANDS TONIGHT

$15 adv./$15 door 21 + 8pm Sun Jan 17

Jim Kweskin, Meredith Axelrod, Suzy Thompson 2pm Matinee SONGCATCHERS TOUR

$17 adv./$20 door <21 w/parent 2pm Sun Jan 17

Muriel Anderson presents Wonderlust--A virtual tour around the world in music and imagery 7:30pm Concert $17 adv./$20 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm

Tue Jan 19

Ruth Moody Band Ruth of The Wailin’ Jennys

$13 adv./$15 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm Wed Jan 20

Chris Jones & The Night Drivers Winners 8 (IMBA) Bluegrass Awards

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

Sound Off Saturdays Reggae Party Free 9p

Karaoke 9p

Stick Figure $17/$20 7:30p

CATALYST ATRIUM 1011 Paciﬁc Ave, Santa Cruz

Thu Jan 14

Swing Dance Social $5 5:30p

Jazz Society Free 3:30p

Hamburger’s Comedy Show Free 8p Songwriter Showcase 7-10p

DJ Luna 9p

NYC Party Funk Meets Jambalaya Brass Band

MALI, BURNSIDE & J + PAPIBA & FRIENDS

1/15

Big John Atkinson 6-8p

Comedy Night/80s Night Free 8:30p

Wednesday January 20th 8:30pm $7/10

All-Star Band w/ Brian J (Pimps Of Joytime), Papa Mali & Cedric Burnside (Memphis Blues Drummer Of The Year)

FRI

BLUE LAGOON 923 Paciﬁc Ave, Santa Cruz

REBIRTH BRASS BAND

Thursday January 21st 8:30pm $10/15

1/14

Preacher Boy 6-8p Minor Thirds Trio 6:30-9:30p

Grammy Winning Brass Greats From New Orleans

SOPHISTAFUNK + TUBALUBA

THU

Timothy James Magic & Illusion Spectacular $12 adv./$15 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm

COMING RIGHT UP

Fri. Jan. 22 Sat. Jan. 23

Zeppelin Live Painted Mandolin ACOUSTIC GARCIA with Joe Craven (of Garcia / Grisman Band), Matt Hartle, Larry Graff, Roger Sideman Sun. Jan. 24 Dirty Cello plus The Nora Cruz Band

Reservations Now Online at www.donquixotesmusic.com Rockin'Church Service Every Sunday ELEVATION at 10am-11:15am

DJ Salatiel $8/$10 8:30p

Dead Prez $20/$25 8:30p

2Chainz $43/$150 7p Gardens and Villa $10/$12 8p KPIG Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

LIVE MUSIC WED

1/13

CREPE PLACE 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

Eric Hisaw $8 9p

CROW’S NEST 2218 E. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz

West Coast Soul $3 7:30p

1/14

THU Sea Knight, Ghost Tiger, Hod & the Helpers $8 9p

Tan of Dreams $5 8:30p

1/15

FRI Misner and Smith, Young and Lowe, Dear Rabbit $8 9p

The D’oh Bros $6 9p

DAV. ROADHOUSE 1 Davenport Ave, Davenport

SAT

1/16

SUN

1/17

1/18

MON Moonbeau, The Shang-His $8 9p

There Is No Mountain, Henry Chadwick $10 9p Room 9 $7 9p

Roy Zimmerman, Cynthia Carle $15/18 7:30p

Locomotive Breath $10 8p

THE FISH HOUSE 972 Main St, Watsonville

Extra Large, AZA $15 8p

1/19

7 Come 11 $5 9p

Live Comedy $7 9p

Reverb Lounge $3 8p

Reﬂections Trio

DON QUIXOTE’S 6275 Hwy 9, Felton

Billy Manzik Jim Kweskin & more $17/$20 2p Muriel Anderson $17/$20 7:30p

Ruth Moody Band $13/$15 7:30p

Roadhouse Karaoke 7:30p

The Western Skylarks

HENFLING’S 9450 Hwy 9, Ben Lomond

Flingo 7p

World Preposterous 8p

Drifting Compass 9p

Grampa’s Chili 9p

Blue Chevrolet 9p

IT’S WINE TYME 312 Capitola Ave, Capitola

Open Mic 7p

Bobby Love and Sugar Sweet 6:30p

Jade 7p

Frank Sorci 6:30p

Steve Walters 4p

KUUMBWA 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz

Live Music 5:30-9p

MICHAEL’S ON MAIN 2591 Main St, Soquel

Chris Ellis 7-10p

MISSION ST. BBQ 1618 Mission St, Santa Cruz

Tomas Gomez 6p

Joint Chiefs 8-11p

Breeze Babes 8-11p

Broken Shades 6p The Lil’ Smokies, Harrison Stafford & Grateful Bluegrass Boys the Professor Crew $7/$10 8p $20/$25 8p

Monday, January 18 • 7 pm

NIR FELDER “the next big guitarist.” – NY Times 1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS Friday, January 22 • 7 pm Grammy-winning jazz trumpet virtuoso

WALLACE RONEY GROUP featuring Lenny White – drums Anthony Wonsey – piano Rashaan Carter – bass Benjamin Solomon – saxophone

Tuesday, January 26 • 5:30 – 9 pm

Rand Rueter 6p The Meters Experience $20/$25 8p

TONY LINDSAY PRESENTS: THE MUSIC OF MARVIN GAYE, LOU RAWLS AND BILL WITHERS

MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL ON TOUR FEATURING RAUL MIDÓN, RAVI COLTRANE, NICHOLAS PAYTON, GERALD CLAYTON, JOE SANDERS, GREGORY HUTCHINSON |No Comp Tix

Nir Felder $25 7p Karaoke w/Ken 9p

10 O’Clock Lunch Band 7-10p

Thursday, January 14 • 7 pm

Monday, January 25 • 7 and 9 pm

Tony Lindsay $25 7p 9p

MALONE’S 4402 Scotts Valley Dr, Scotts Valley

MOE’S ALLEY 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz

TUE

Celebrating Creativity Since 1975

SUPPORT JAZZ EDUCATION DINE AT SHADOWBROOK Music by Kuumbwa Jazz Honor Band

Rebirth Brass Band $20/$25 7:30p

Thursday, January 28 • 7 pm

1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-429-4135 Wednesday, January 13 • In the Atrium • AGES 16+

SURFER BLOOD

plus Cayucas

Thursday, January 14 • In the Atrium • AGES 18+

DJ SALATIEL

plus Cali King also DJ Javitone

Friday, January 15 • AGES 16+

Stick Figure Friday, January 15 • In the Atrium • AGES 16+

DEAD PREZ plus Mic Crenshaw

GARDENS & VILLA

plus Dante Elephante

Sunday, January 17 • AGES 16+

2 CHAINZ

plus

DJ Aspect

Jan 20 Boombox/ Ryan Bauer (Ages 16+) Jan 22 Minnesota b2b G Jones (Ages 18+) Jan 23 Roach Gigz/ Ezale/ Los Rakas (Ages 16+) Jan 29 Steel Pulse (Ages 16+) Jan 30 Y & T/ Archer (Ages 21+) Jan 31 Dr. Dog (Ages 16+) Feb 5 Snoop Dogg/ DJ Aspect (Ages 16+) Feb 6 The White Buffalo (Ages 21+) Feb 9 Mardi Gras Party: Lettuce (Ages 16+) Feb 10 & 11 Iration (Ages 16+) Feb 12 Geoff Tate’s Operation: Mindcrime (Ages 21+) Feb 13 The Growlers/ Jonathan Richman (Ages 16+) Feb 14 Brillz/ Party Favor (Ages 18+) Feb 15 Matisyahu (Ages 16+) Feb 19 Keys N Krates (Ages 18+) Feb 20 blessthefall (Ages 16+) Feb 23 Reel Big Fish (Ages 16+) Mar 4 Skizzy Mars/ Gnash (Ages 16+) Mar 5 Dead Kennedys (Ages 16+) Mar 9 & 10 Rebelution/ Protoje (Ages 16+) Mar 11 Andre Nickatina (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

Thursday, February 4 • 7 pm Renowned innovative percussionist

KAHIL EL’ZABAR AND THE NEW ETHNIC HERITAGE TRIO 1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS Friday, February 5 • 7 and 9 pm R&B legend BOOKER T. JONES | No Comp Tix Monday, February 8 • 7:30 pm At the Rio Theatre | No Comp Tix

AARON NEVILLE QUINTET FEATURING CHARLES NEVILLE Saturday, February 13 • 7:30 pm TUCK & PATTI | No Comp Tix Valentine’s Jazz & Dinner Packages Advance Reservations Only Tuesday, February 16 • 7:30 pm At the Rio Theatre | No Comp Tix

LISA FISCHER & GRAND BATON Twenty Feet from Stardom Vocalist Unless noted advance tickets at kuumbwajazz.org and Logos Books & Records. Dinner served one hour 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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Saturday, January 16 • In the Atrium • AGES 16+

MADS TOLLING AND THE MADS MEN FEATURING KENNY WASHINGTON Celebrating the music of the 60s Mad Men Era 1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS Monday, February 1 • 7 pm |No Comp Tix DAVE WECKL ACOUSTIC BAND

LIVE MUSIC WED MOTIV 1209 Paciﬁc Ave, Santa Cruz

1/13

DassWassup! 9p-2a

NEW BOHEMIA BREWERY 1030 41st Ave, Santa Cruz 99 BOTTLES 110 Walnut Ave, Santa Cruz

Trivia 8p

THU

1/14

Pint and Paint 7-9p

Yuji Tojo and Friends 7-9p

THE POCKET 3102 Portola Dr, Santa Cruz

Jam Session w/ Pam Hawkins 7p

THE RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz

The Alex Raymond Band 8p

THE REEF 120 Union St, Santa Cruz

Jazz Jam

SAT

1/16

SUN

1/17

The Routine $7 9p

Dolce Musica

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Chris Ellis

Kevin Selfe $7 9p

Jazz Session w/Jazz Jam Tuesday Night Comedy Santa Cruz 8p Smackdown 9p

Open Mic 4-7p

Comedy Open Mic 8p

Acoustic Jam w/Toby Gray and Friends

Little Petie & the Mean Ol’ Men 7-11p

Open Mic 7:30-11:30p ‘Geeks Who Drink’ Trivia Night 8p

Aloha Fridays Traditional Great Acoustic Covers Hawaiian Music Brunch and Dinner

Chas and Friends 6-9p

Santa Cruz Musicians Only Weekly Showcase 6-9p

The Lenny and Kenny Show

Trivia 8p

Open Mic 7:30p

JD McPherson $22 8p

Jake Nielson Triple Threat The John Michael Band 8-12p 8-Midnight

Vinny Johnson Pro Jam 7-11p

R&B Vocal Sensation “Twenty Feet From Stardom”

AT THE RIO THEATRE

Lisa Fischer and Grand Baton

featuring

1/19

Hip-hop with DJ Marc 9:30p-2a Trivia 6-8p

ROSIE MCCANN’S 1220 Paciﬁc Ave, Santa Cruz

Aaron Neville Quintet

TUE

Papiba and Friends 7-9p

Kelly Bros.

Devotchka $22 8p

PRESENTS

1/18

DJ Jahi 10p

RIO THEATRE 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

THE SAND BAR 211 Esplanade, Capitola

MON

Rasta Cruz Reggae Party Eclectic Bass Event 9:30p-Close 9:30p-2a

Matt Masih 10p Omar Spence

Trivia

1/15

Trevor Williams 9:30p-1:30a

PARADISE BEACH 215 Esplanade, Capitola

POET & PATRIOT 320 E. Cedar St, Santa Cruz

FRI

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

Charles Neville

Tues Feb 16 7:30 pm

Mon Feb 8 7:30 pm

SPONSORED BY REDTREE PARTNERS

SPONSORED BY APPENRODT COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES

TICKETS KuumbwaJazz.org / Logos Books & Records, downtown Santa Cruz

INFO KuumbwaJazz.org / 831.427.2227

Coming Soon:

Vicente Amigo

BUIKA

March 8

March 20

" The greatest guitarist alive. " — PAT METHENY

" One of the world’s 50 Great Voices. " — NPR

LIVE MUSIC WED

1/13

THU

1/14

FRI

1/15

SANDERLINGS 1 Seascape Resort, Aptos

Ultrasound

SEABRIGHT BREWERY 519 Seabright, Santa Cruz

So. 46th

SAT

1/16

Don McCaslin & the Amazing Jazz Geezers 6-10p

Fish Hook 7:30-11:30p

Spun 8-12p

SHADOWBROOK 1750 Wharf Rd, Capitola

Ken Constable 6:30-9:30p

Joe Ferrara 6:30-10p

Claudio Melega 7-10p

SIR FROGGYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PUB 4771 Soquel Dr, Soquel

Karaoke w/Eve Chas and Friends 6-9p

1/17

MON

1/18

TUE

1/19

Upcoming Shows

Groovetime

SEVERINOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BAR & GRILL 7500 Old Dominion Court, Aptos

TROUT FARM INN 7701 E Zayante Rd, Felton

SUN

The Night Creepers 7-9p

Trivia Night The John Michael Group The Wild Stallions $5 9p Free 8:30p

Taco Tuesday

Still Searchin Free 3p

UGLY MUG 4640 Soquel Ave, Soquel

Ginny Mitchell and Sâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;wang $15 5:30p

WHALE CITY 490 Highway 1, Davenport

Steve Abrams Quartet 5-7p

Intangibillies 5-7p

YOUR PLACE 1719 Mission St, Santa Cruz

Danny Lawrence 6-9p

Daniel Martins 6-9p

Danny Lawrence 6-9pm

ZELDAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S 203 Esplanade, Capitola

Kurt Stockdale Jazz Trio 6p

Coastal Sage 9:30p

The Bonedrivers 9:30p

Kurt Stockdale Jazz Trio 6p

ZIZZOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COFFEEHOUSE & WINE BAR 3555 Clares St, Capitola

Brohemia After Dark 7-9:30p

Ruby Rudman 7-9:30p

Gemini Jazz 7-9:30p

Sunday Jazz Brunch 11am-2p

Open Mic w/Mosephus 5:30p

SpeakUp Young Adult Creative Event

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Jan. 20 Dwight Yoakum

LOCATED ON THE BEACH Amazing waterfront deck views.

LIVE ENTERTAINMENT See live music grid for this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bands.

STAND-UP COMEDY

Three live comedians every Sunday night.

HAPPY HOUR Monâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;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

(831) 476-4560

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Jan. 22 The Beach Boys Jan. 23 Jo Koy Jan. 30 Comedian David Cross Feb. 17 Indigo Girls Feb. 18 Charlie Musselwhite & The North Mississippi Allstars Mar. 19 Jackie Greene presented by (((FolkYEAH!))) and KPIG Apr. 21 Country Star Clint Black For Tickets www.GoldenStateTheatre.com 831-649-1070

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 13TH CASA WEDNESDAY WITH SPECIAL GUEST AN OPEN MINDED FUN NIGHT FOR ALL! THURSDAY JANUARY 14TH THIRSTY THURSDAY $3 PINTS ALL NIGHT! $.49 WINGS! FRIDAY JANUARY 15TH DJS WAR & FAT CAT SATURDAY JANUARY 16TH CS ALL STARS SANTANA COVERS, R&B, FUNK, OLD SCHOOL GET DOWN AND DANCE MUSIC 393 Salinas St, SALINAS (oldtown) 831.757.2720 // casasorrento.com

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Craving that salad bar again.

Follow the Rio Theatre on Facebook & Twitter! 831.423.8209 www.riotheatre.com

FILM

A TALE OF TWO LADIES Cate Blanchett co-stars in Todd Hayne’s ‘Carol,’ the story of an affair between two women in the ’50s.

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Forbidden female love story unfolds in lush ‘Carol’ BY LISA JENSEN

n the Golden Age of Hollywood—the 1940s and ’50s—there was a genre called the “woman’s picture.” These were melodramas in which one of a studio’s most formidable female stars played a woman in crisis, battling for her husband or her children, or to escape a poisonous marriage, or for the right to earn her own living. And no matter what the issue was, the woman risked severe social condemnation if she dared to go against the rules. Contemporary filmmaker Todd Haynes has become the modern master of the form. His scrupulously crafted drama Carol has everything the genre requires. Set in 1950, it serves up two powerhouse female stars, luscious period clothes and cars, and a deluxe, sophisticated

urban milieu in which the story plays out. But the issue is one that dared not speak its name back in the Golden Age—two women falling in love with each other. In fact, the novel on which the film is based, The Price of Salt, was written in the ’50s by Patricia Highsmith, the famed thriller writer (Strangers On a Train; The Talented Mr. Ripley). Published under a pseudonym because of its controversial subject, and swiftly reprinted as a pulp lesbian paperback, the book was noteworthy in its era for not making its protagonists repent or renounce their so-called “crime.” The story unfolds over a few weeks in December, 1950. Therese (Rooney Mara) is a young sales clerk selling toys in a ritzy Manhattan

department store. A budding photographer, Therese has an Audrey Hepburn vibe, with her long bangs and enormous eyes, piquantly set off by the Santa hat all employees are required to wear during the holidays. She’s dazzled when glamorous, expensively maintained Carol (Cate Blanchett) comes into the toy department looking for a Christmas present for a little girl. Carol is impressed in turn when the salesgirl admits that when she was a child, she loved to play with trains. After Carol leaves, Therese finds the older woman’s mauve kid gloves on the counter, sneaks a peek at the address on the sales receipt, and mails the gloves to her. Carol responds with a phone call of thanks and an invitation to lunch. Carol is beguiled by Therese’s youth and

poise, while Therese is thrilled to be noticed by the sophisticated Carol. Theirs is a love story waiting to happen, handled with warmth, humor, and delicacy by Haynes. But there’s a problem: Carol’s husband Harge (yes, “Harge”), played with stolid indignation by Kyle Chandler. Carol is in the process of divorcing him, which doesn’t set well with controlling Harge, who’s also a volatile drunk. “She’s still my wife!” he yelps. “She’s my responsibility!” (Men, as a species, aren’t portrayed with much sympathy here.) Of course, there’s another problem: “respectable” women don’t have love affairs with each other in 1950. (They did, of course, but not openly.) When Harge realizes he can’t dominate Carol in any other way, he gets his lawyers to write an “immorality clause” into the divorce agreement. If Carol is perceived as taking undue interest in another woman, the court will grant full custody of their daughter to Harge—who will be within his rights to forbid Carol to ever see her beloved child again. To get out of the city for a few days while the divorce is finalized, Carol invites Therese on a road trip to Chicago in her sleek Packard. They are not yet having a physical relationship; they’re in the early stages of exploring their friendship, and behave with absolute discretion in public. Yet the joy of discovering each other is shadowed at every step by the fear of being discovered by the forces of repression. Although Carol has had a previous relationship with another woman, she is never painted as a predator. For all her innocence and inexperience, Therese is almost the more determined of the two, achingly open to the prospect of a new world she never knew existed that Carol represents. Even with elements of spying and enforced psychotherapy stirred into the mix, the story never feels lurid. And the choices each woman must make along the way are never any less than heroic. CAROL *** (out of four) With Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. Written by Phyllis Nagy. Directed by Todd Haynes. A Weinstein release. Rated R. 118 minutes.

MOVIE TIMES January 15-21

DEL MAR SHOW TIMES FOR FRI. 1/15/16 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; THURS. 1/21/16

All times are PM unless otherwise noted.

DEL MAR THEATRE

THE BIG SHORT Daily 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 + Sat-Mon 11:00am THE DANISH GIRL Daily 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 + Sat-Mon 11:00am THE MARTIAN Daily 1:20*, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 + Sat, Mon 10:45am *No Sun show THE KENNETH BRANAGH THEATRE COMPANY: THE WINTERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TALE Sun 11:00am

NICKELODEON

D E L M A R

831.426.7500

BROOKLYN Daily 1:30, 4:10, 7:05, 9:30 + Sat- Mon 11:05am CAROL Daily 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 + Sat-Mon 11:20am IN THE HEART OF THE SEA Wed-Thu 4:30, 9:45 ROOM Daily 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:35 + Sat-Mon 11:10am SPOTLIGHT Daily 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 + Sat-Mon 11:00am YOUTH Wed-Thu 1:50, 7:10

APTOS CINEMA

Golden Globe winners Best Motion Picture Comedy & Matt Damon for Best Actor PG-13

the

831.469.3220

(1:20pm*, 4:10), 7:00, 9:50 + Sat, Mon (10:45am) *No 1:20pm show Sun 1/17 R

(1:40pm, 4:30), 7:20, 10:00 + Sat, Sun, Mon (11:00am) R

831.426.7500

JOY Wed-Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 STAR WARS VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS 2D Daily 1:00, 4:00, 7:10*, 10:05* + Wed-Thu 7:00-9:50 *No Wed-Thu show THE REVENANT Daily 12:30pm, 3:45, 7:00, 9:55

GREEN VALLEY CINEMA 8

(1:30pm, 4:20), 7:10, 9:40 + Sat, Sun, Mon (11:00am) THE KENNETH BRANAGH THEATRE COMPANY:

831.761.8200

13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI Thu 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Tue 12:15pm, 3:25, 6:35, 9:45 ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE ROAD CHIP Wed-Thu 1:45 + Wed 7:15 Fri-Tue 4:30, 7:00 THE BIG SHORT Daily 9:30pm Wed-Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:30 Fri-Tue 1:00pm DADDY'S HOME Daily 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 + Sat-Mon 10:45am THE FOREST Daily 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 + Sat-Mon 10:45am THE HATEFUL EIGHT Wed-Thu 2:30, 6:00, 9:30 NORM OF THE NORTH Daily 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 +Sat-Mon 10:30am POINT BREAK Wed-Thu 4:30 + Wed 10:00pm THE REVENANT Daily 2:30, 6:00, 9:30 + Sat-Mon 11:00am RIDE ALONG 2 Thu 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Tue 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 + Sat-Mon 11:00am SISTERS Daily 1:30, 4:15, 7:15*, 10:00* + Sat-Mon 10:45am *No Thu show STAR WARS VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS Wed-Thu 12:25pm, 2:00, 3:35, 6:45, 8:20, 9:55 Fri-Tue 12:30pm, 3:35, 6:40, 9:45 STAR WARS VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS 3D Wed-Thu 5:15

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(1:50, 4:30), 7:10, 9:35 + Sat, Sun, Mon (11:10am) R

(2:00, 4:40), 7:20, 9:50 + Sat, Sun, Mon (11:20am) PG-13

(1:30, 4:10), 7:05, 9:30 + Sat, Sun, Mon (11:05am) R

(1:40, 4:20), 7:00, 9:40 + Sat, Sun, Mon (11:00am)

with the

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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.

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THE BIG SHORT Based on the book of the same name, The Big Short follows the players and proﬁteers of the 2007-2010 ﬁnancial crisis who bet against collateralized debt obligation, and sent the system reeling. Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt co-star. Adam McKay directs. (R) 130 minutes.

BROOKLYN From far across the cavernous pond, Eilis is an Irish immigrant who lands in 1950s Brooklyn 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. (PG13) 111 minutes. CAROL Reviewed this issue. (R) 118 minutes. CONCUSSION Based on the 2009 GQ article Game Brain, the ﬁlm follows Dr. Bennet Omalu as he tries to tell the world that repeatedly using your head as a weapon can lead to a lifetime of pain. Peter Landesman directs. Will Smith, Luke Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw

DADDY’S HOME Will Ferrell is the step-dad competing against Mark Wahlberg for the affections of his stepchildren with weird bedtime stories full of innuendo. At least we get to see Ferrell fall a lot. Ugh. Sean Anders directs. Linda Cardellini co-stars. (PG13) 96 minutes. THE DANISH GIRL Eddie Redmayne looks positively transcendent as Lily Elbe, one of the ﬁrst transgender women known to have received sexual reassignment surgery. Based on the true story of the artist during her revolutionary transition, and the love of her wife, Gerda, who fought hard to stay by her side, The Danish Girl opens a beautifully haunting window into a previously unknown story. Tom Hooper directs. (R) 120 minutes. THE FOREST Aokigahara Forest is a real place at the foot of Mount Fuji in Japan, and it’s where people go to commit suicide—so often that authorities put a sign at the entrance of the main trail urging visitors to think of their families and contact suicide prevention associations. So that’s the true history. Now go watch Natalie Dormer run around the forest, chased by paranormal forces, in search of her twin sister: how are movies like this rated PG-13 when even we have to watch the trailers on mute, with all the lights on? Jason Zada directs. Natalie Dormer, Eoin Macken, Stephanie Vogt co-star. (PG-13) JOY Joy shares her house with her divorced parents, her grandmother and her ex, and then she invents something—does anyone actually know what this movie is about? Not that it matters, all we want for

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Christmas is JLaw. And apparently David O. Russell really loves Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence in movies together—like really. Robert De Niro co-stars. (PG-13) 124 minutes. MACBETH Epic cinematic renditions of classic literature seem to be seeing a resurgence this year, with Shakespeare’s Scottish tragedy being born anew in Justin Kurzel’s most ambitious work to date. Ambitious, of course, because how could you refashion the beloved play for the screen without pissing off at least a few hundred dramaturgs? The rest of us will simply nod and smile at the sweeping slo-mo shots, gripping music and oh-so pretty cast—because, let’s be honest, we still don’t have a friggin’ clue what they’re saying. Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jack Madigan co-star. (R) 113 minutes. NORM OF THE NORTH Here’s a ﬁlm with everything we love in animation: a polar bear! Adorable fuzzy sidekicks! Rob Schneider! OK, not so much the last thing. But still. (PG) 86 minutes. POINT BREAK Wow, FBI agents are so pretty and that Bureau life is so glamorous—inspired by the 1991 ﬁlm (really, we’re calling it a classic now?),

it’s just art imitating life, obviously. Ericson Core directs. Édgar Ramírez, Luke Bracey, Ray Winstone co-star. 113 minutes. THE REVENANT Leonardo DiCaprio fighting, grunting, running, shooting—a bear, among other things—and seeking revenge for the death of his son. From the director of Birdman and Babel, it’s the rugged frontier in the 1820s snow and ice, every man for himself: chills, just chills. Alejandro González Iñárritu directs. Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter co-star. (R) 156 minutes. SISTERS Playing sisters who celebrate one final night in their childhood home, it’s Tina Fey and Amy Poehler together, taking their rightful places as the queens of comedy. There are no words—except, maybe, yes. Jason Moore directs. Maya Rudolph co-stars. (R) 118 minutes. STAR WARS EPISODE VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS Ooh, what a neat looking indie flick! Lots of pew-pew and bang-bang somewhere in the desert, maybe Nevada? And some grumpy old man mumbling about the Dark Side. At least the really tall lady from Game of Thrones is in it, otherwise it’d so be

a total flop, right? J.J. Abrams directs. Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher co-star. (PG-13) 135 minutes. 13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI No, it’s not a biopic about Hillary Clinton’s congressional hearings (thank goodness). Instead, it’s “the true story you were never told” about six men who defied orders to defend the American diplomatic compound in September 2012. Based on the 2013 book of the same name, the film follows the true story of the compound’s security team who returned to fight for those left behind. Michael Bay directs. Toby Stephens, John Krasinski, Freddie Stroma co-star. (R) YOUTH Michael Caine plays a retired composer and orchestra conductor on vacation in the Alps with his still-active film director buddy, played by Harvey Keitel. They sit, they muse, they don’t elaborate on the worlds existing in their minds; “Music is all I understand because you don’t need words or experience to understand it, it just is,” sighs Fred (Caine). They’re contentedly peaceful until Fred is invited by Queen Elizabeth herself to perform for Prince Philip’s birthday. (R) 124 minutes.

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resh, hands-on and welcoming, Surf City Sandwich shop is a ripping success. Imagine a clean lean cafe, walls embedded with vintage longboards, a wall mural of a green water pipeline of Mavericks proportions, and an HD flat screen streaming hypnotic wave action and underwater aquascapes. Now, fill it with inventive sandwiches and lots of handcrafted local beer on tap. That’s what I’m talking about. We spotted the six-month-old shop on our way to Ocean Honda (practically next door at the corner

of Soquel Drive and 41st Avenue). It was the “Verve” coffee sign outside that got our attention—if you’re not looking for Surf City Sandwich it can be hard to notice. The menu of creative sandwiches—plus breakfasts on weekends—made me wish I had brought six people with me just to sample more items. Jack and I were overwhelmed with possibilities. But in the end here’s what we decided on: a winter wheat Hefeweizen beer by Pleasure Point’s New Bohemia, a rare roast beef sandwich ($9) and something called the Green Hornet involving Asian-

inflected chicken, peanuts and finely diced veggies wrapped up tight in a spinach tortilla ($8). And what we got was a freshly made lunch of major sandwiches—my wrap was sliced into halves, each the size of a kick boxer’s quads. An army of thick-cut potato chips accompanied each order, and every bite seemed to rhyme with the luscious wheat beer, called “Highway to Hefe.” Lots of ripe fruit, hints of clove and a rounded finish distinguish this caramel-colored brew, enough to partner with the spicy, zingy, crunchy filling of my irresistible wrap. Huge cubes of chicken made a

lively contrast with the crisp carrots and diced garlic chives. (Half of this monumental wrap came home with me for later on.) Meanwhile back at Jack’s roast beef sandwich, we were both impressed with the quality of grass-fed beef in this gorgeous creation. Just another example of the attention to fresh ingredients owner Paul Figliomeni is obviously passionate about. Romancing the rare beef were tomatoes, Rip Tide ranch dressing, Swiss cheese, and a layer of micro-sprouts. Very satisfying, we both agreed, noticing that the line to place orders had lengthened right out the door. Next time I want to try the Cubano, or the Banh Mi, or maybe the hot pastrami. Jack wants a burger for sure, and he sighed as he noticed another of the day’s special sandwiches involving panko-breaded squid from Stagnaro’s. If for some unfathomable reason you aren’t a sandwich person, relax. Surf City also makes creamy clam chowder served with a sourdough roll, and Caesar salad to which you can add grilled chicken. Everything here is something you really want to eat. And it’s all affordable—major value for not much money. Surf City Sandwich is open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday-Friday, 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday, and 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. So you have no excuse not to check it out. Local craft brews, Verve coffee, quick friendly staff, killer sandwiches. Destination sandwiches. See what I mean?

NEW YEAR’S CHANGES The wait has been long for the opening of Germaine Akin’s latest dining room, Splash!, in the old Carniglia’s slot on the Santa Cruz Wharf. Akin, just back from holidays in the islands, tells me it could be open “within a month.” East End Gastropub—the sister to West End Tap Room might just be ready by Feb. 1, and, this spring, Uncommon Brewers’ mega-beer bar is scheduled to fill the former Farmers Exchange. Fingers crossed on all of the above. I’ll keep you posted.

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This is our last week of Capricorn. The Sun enters Aquarius next Wednesday, Jan. 20. Then we will enter the Gate of Aquarius, sign of World Servers. Capricorn prepares us for the final two zodiacal signs. Aquarius, where we ‘serve.” And Pisces, where we “save.” Each of the signs impacts our evolutionary journey offering new revelations and new tasks. The 12 zodiacal signs, 12 Labors of Hercules, the Seven Rays, and the 12 planets are dedicated to humanity’s enlightenment, upliftment and evolution (Path of Return). Together they form the “Lighted Way.” Capricorn, sign of the mountaintop, offers us the truth about our origins and identity. We are the daughters and sons of God, imbued with love, intelligence, courage, and strength. We are together servers and saviors of humanity. We are the diamond light. After a long journey (Aries to Capricorn) we reached the mountaintop, resting in the light of the rising sun. Gradually, from the valleys below, we began to hear increasingly

the cries of suffering humanity. Eventually and together, we realized when Capricorn ended that we would return to Earth to help humanity. Our words as disciples this week absorbing the light of the sun are, “Next week we re-enter the Cancer Gates—returning to form and matter. Then the Gate of Aquarius appears, Aquarius, where we serve humanity. On the mountaintop, and on this last week of Capricorn, our words as disciples, speaking together, “Lost are we in light supernal yet we know that on this light we will turn our backs.” Entering Aquarius, to serve. And later, Pisces, to save. We remember the words of the great leader, Martin Luther King, Jr. (Capricorn), “I have been to the mountaintop and I’ve seen the future (the Promised Land).” King possessed the qualities of the disciple—joy, courage, vision, insight and steadfast devotion to the people. King, with the one-pointed focus of the unicorn, was also the “scapegoat, the sacrificial lamb and the awakened one.” (MLK’s birthday is observed Monday, Jan. 18.)

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LIBRA Sep23–Oct22

Your communications and work in the world will be redefined. In the past you have been recognized for your initiating leadership. Now, newer and bolder steps will be called for in creating the new world. You are to assess how, what, when, where and with whom. You will define the context. Tend to everyone with compassion and understanding care, as real leaders do.

You may find yourself turning from the outer world to face your inner world – which becomes your sanctuary and refuge. It’s at home where you feel deep safety and where you build a firm foundation. You remember many things–your childhood home, both good and difficult. Forgiveness is important here. Some Libras redecorate. Some attend culinary school. A new beginning and a self-redefining follow.

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TAURUS Apr21–May21 You become a bit more philosophical, ponder upon higher education, read more and observe life from an ever-widening lens. Some will become or interact with lawyers, priests, adventurers, philosophers, writers and intellectuals. All previous beliefs will be challenged. Meaningful events and people enter your life. You embrace them. You study entrepreneurship, serving the world in new ways, with new values.

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 In the next four months or so notice your values. They are being redesigned. As the retrogrades continue you question and ascertain exactly what money and resources mean to you. You’ll seek ways of solidifying and building on what you already have. When we have constant gratitude, what we have becomes enough. A love of something new emerges. It makes you happy.

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20

Saturn is restructuring and redefining your relationships perhaps through some sort of possible change, loss, separation or marriage. Or perhaps you are simply going to redefine what relationships mean and redefine your relationship behaviors. In partnerships you come closer or remain apart. If choosing, align with the Willto-Good. This provides strength and Right Choice.

A great inward shift is occurring. You will encounter all that’s been hiding, all of your past, anything emotional that has upset you in the past 28 years. You’ll discover habits that no longer work, fears you thought were left behind, and a litany of actions needing assessments. All these you’ll tend to as a warrior. The purpose is complete restructuring of self so your future has a solid (brilliant) foundation.

CANCER Jun21–Jul20 You will find yourself re-assessing all relationships. You made decisions this past year concerning how you will (or will not) interact with others. A great silence has descended upon you concerning some people. This may not be the best decision. There needs to be more fairness. It’s time to create new ways to interact. The old way is too much of a struggle. Don’t perpetuate it. Practice ahimsa.

LE0 Jul21–Aug22 Your everyday tasks, agendas and work will be reassessed to understand fully what needs to be accomplished, completed, creating priorities and ascertaining who can help. During the next four months the art of Right Relations in daily life becomes important, along with health matters. You find you’re efficient in both. Most important is kindness and care for your health.

CAPRICORN Dec21–Jan20 Happy Birthday, Capricorn (sign of the unicorn). Your birthday should last all month. We realize how dedicated you’ve been in helping others succeed. Outline what you need to feel rewarded and recognized professionally, socially and monetarily. Your life direction begins to emerge and soon a foundation is built toward new goals. Life changes. Stay with that change and summon the Angel of Beauty.

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It’s good to clearly recognize what inspires you. In the coming months you will notice your creativity comes from various sources: early childhood, intimacy, relationships, love affairs, long-ago conversations, and while walking here and there in local neighborhoods. Be aware, careful and practical with all resources. Prepare for the upcoming tax season. Organize your many papers into files.

I wish much for you; that your hopes, wishes and dreams be fulfilled. In the coming months certain groups of people with specific ideas are of interest to you. Be discriminating. You aspire to serve humanity by creating a new center of light, education and healing in the world. This liberates humanity. You seek to manifest these aspirations. You will be tested as to your seriousness. New structures will be formed. Success follows.

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