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EDITOR’S NOTE Text neck, iPosture, iHunch—the names for these new physical conditions are so evocative they don’t even need a description. The fact that I can feel a little twinge in my spine just reading them is a sign that I—like everybody else—have become far too accepting of how today’s technology is twisting my body into knots. Perhaps the most radical thing Anne-Marie Harrison’s cover story on the subject suggests is that it doesn’t have to be that way, even in our hyperconnected world of instant communication and blue light. Knowing we don’t have to take some
untenable stand against technology— that even a few small adjustments can vastly improve how our bodies relate to it—is a huge revelation. But that’s only half of how we consider the relationship between technology and biology in this Health and Fitness issue. Andrew Steingrube also takes a look at the rapidly advancing field of wearable technology. While checking in with famed Santa Cruz inventor Philippe Kahn—who developed the first camera phone technology, and is now pioneering the wearables industry with his local company Fullpower—Steingrube examines some of the surprising possibilities in the technology’s future for advancements in fitness and other aspects of our lives. Like your mom said, sit up straight while you read this week’s issue!
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I want to share our thanks for launching the first ever Santa Cruz Gives program in 2015. All of us here at the Coastal Watershed Council (CWC) are so grateful for your support, forward thinking and perseverance in getting this program off the ground. And what a success! As Karen Delaney of the Volunteer Center said at the wrap-up meeting, no one thinks that when you launch a new program you’ll exceed your fundraising goal by over 25 percent, but we did just that—thanks to you. CWC brought in lots of new donors big and small, and reached the top five of the young donor category, which we’re very proud of. We heard from some of our new young donors that Santa Cruz Gives was the mechanism with which they gave their first-ever philanthropic gift. They thought it was innovative and exciting and it inspired them to give not only to CWC, but to others in the community. A big thank you to Good Times, Volunteer Center, Community Foundation and Santa Cruz County Bank for making it all happen. LAURIE EGAN | OUTREACH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, COASTAL WATERSHED COUNCIL
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her Mass Communication class assignment at Cabrillo College. She assigned her class to a four-hour fast from all digital media, books, magazines, radio, video games, Internet, and smartphones. After the assignment was completed, over half of the students “likened the urge to use media to an addiction.” Recently, I was at restaurant for lunch when a family of four walked in and sat at a table near me. The waitress gave them their menus and a short time later they placed their order. At that point, as if it were synchronized, each family member pulled out their smartphone. The rest of the time they sat side-by-side, not saying one word to each other. They all stared down at their smartphones, finished their lunch, and left. It really struck me how sad it is that a family could be with each other sharing a meal and not say one word to each other. They truly missed out on some important quality time together. Our society as a whole could use some digital detox.
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For the second year running, the city of Santa Cruz donated all of the money from its parking meters during the week before Christmas to charity. Parking for Hope raised $30,000, far exceeding last year’s number of $21,000. The city used to offer free holiday parking all day, but beginning in 2014, the City Council voted to instead begin collecting the revenue and donating it to Hope Services, which provides training and support to people with developmental disabilities who help keep the city clean.
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It just sounds like a lot of mumbo jumbo. Cell phones have been around, what, 20 years? And people aren’t dropping off from cancers, so I’m not worried about it. COLIN CAMPBELL SANTA CRUZ | WRITER
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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of January 20 ARIES Mar21–Apr19
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The next four weeks could potentially be a Golden Age of Friendship . . . a State of Grace for Your Web of Connections . . . a Lucky Streak for Collaborative Efforts. What can you do to ensure that these cosmic tendencies will actually be fulfilled? Try this: Deepen and refine your approach to schmoozing. Figure out what favors would be most fun for you to bestow, and bestow them. Don’t socialize aimlessly with random gadabouts, but rather gravitate toward people with whom you share high ideals and strong intentions.
More than one-third of all pregnancies are unintended. The two people involved aren’t actually trying to make a baby, but their contraceptive measure fails or isn’t used at all. According to my analysis, you heterosexual Libras are now more prone to this accidental experience than usual. And in general, Libras of every sexual preference must be careful and precise about what seeds they plant in the coming weeks. The new growth you instigate is likely to have far-reaching consequences. So don’t let your choice be reckless or unconscious. Formulate clear intentions. What do you want to give your love to for a long time?
TAURUS Apr20–May20 On a clear day, if you stand at the summit of Costa Rica’s Mount Irazú, you can see both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It’s not hard to get there. You can hop a tourist bus in the nearby city of San JosÊ, and be 11,200 feet high two hours later. This is a good model for your next assignment: Head off on a stress-free jaunt to a place that affords you a vast vista. If you can’t literally do that, at least slip away to a fun sanctuary where you'll be inspired to think big thoughts about your long-range prospects. You need a break from everything that shrinks or numbs you.
GEMINI May21–June20 A filmmaker working on a major movie typically shoots no more than four pages of the script per day. A director for a TV show may shoot eight pages. But I suspect that the story of your life in the near future may barrel through the equivalent of 20 pages of script every 24 hours. The next chapter is especially action-packed. The plot twists and mood swings will be coming at a rapid clip. This doesn’t have to be a problem as long as you are primed for high adventure. How? Take good care of your basic physical and emotional needs so you'll be in top shape to enjoy the boisterous ride.
CANCER Jun21–Jul22 The city of Paris offers formal tours of its vast sewer system. Commenting at an online travel site, one tourist gave the experience five stars. “It’s a great change of pace from museums full of art,� she wrote. Another visitor said, “It’s an interesting detour from the cultural overload that Paris can present.� According to a third, “There is a slight smell but it isn’t overpowering. It’s a fascinating look at how Paris handles wastewater treatment and clean water supply.� I bring this up, Cancerian, because now is a favorable time for you to take a break from bright, shiny pleasures and embark on a tour of your psyche’s subterranean maze. Regard it not as a scary challenge, but as a fact-finding exploration. What strategies do you have in place to deal with the messy, broken, secret stuff in your life? Take an inventory.
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“When I look at a sunset, I don’t say, ‘Soften the orange a little on the right hand corner, and put a bit more purple in the cloud color.’� Pioneering psychologist Carl Rogers was describing the way he observed the world. “I don’t try to control a sunset,� he continued. “I watch it with awe.� He had a similar view about people. “One of the most satisfying experiences,� he said, “is just fully to appreciate an individual in the same way I appreciate a sunset.� Your assignment, Leo, is to try out Rogers’ approach. Your emotional well-being will thrive as you refrain from trying to “improve� people—as you see and enjoy them for who they are.
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The future is headed your way in a big hurry. It may not be completely here for a few weeks, but even then it will have arrived ahead of schedule. Should you be alarmed? Should you work yourself into an agitated state and draw premature conclusions? Hell, no! Treat this sudden onrush of tomorrow as a bracing opportunity to be as creative as you dare. Cultivate a beginner’s mind. Be alert for unexpected openings that you assumed would take longer to appear.
SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 I was a rock musician for years, which meant that I rarely went to bed before dawn. I used to brag that my work schedule was from 9 to 5—9 p.m. to 5 a.m., that is. Even after I stopped performing regularly, I loved keeping those hours. It was exhilarating to be abuzz when everyone else was asleep. But two months ago, I began an experiment to transform my routine. Now I awake with the dawn. I spend the entire day consorting with the source of all life on earth, the sun. If you have been contemplating a comparable shift in your instinctual life, Scorpio—any fundamental alteration in your relationship to food, drink, exercise, sleep, perception, laughter, love-making—the next few weeks will be a favorable time to do it.
SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21 You Sagittarians are often praised but also sometimes criticized for being such connoisseurs of spontaneity. Many of us admire your flair for unplanned adventure, even though we may flinch when you unleash it. You inspire us and also make us nervous as you respond to changing circumstances with unpremeditated creativity. I expect all these issues to be hot topics in the coming weeks. You are in a phase of your cycle when your improvisational flourishes will be in the spotlight. I, for one, promise to learn all I can from the interesting detours that result from your delight in experimentation.
CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 Capricorn world-changer Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail on 29 different occasions. His crimes? Drawing inspiration from his Christian faith, he employed nonviolent civil disobedience to secure basic civil rights for African Americans. He believed so fiercely in his righteous cause that he was willing to sacrifice his personal comfort again and again. The coming months will be a favorable time to devote yourself to a comparable goal, Capricorn. And now is a good time to intensify your commitment. I dare you to take a vow.
AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 The birds known as mound-builders are born more mature than other species. As soon as they peck themselves out of their eggs, they are well-coordinated, vigorous enough to hunt, and capable of flight. Right now I see a resemblance between them and many of you Aquarians. As soon as you hatch your new plans or projects—which won’t be long now—you will be ready to operate at almost full strength. I bet there won’t be false starts or rookie mistakes, nor will you need extensive rehearsal. Like the mound-builders, you’ll be primed for an early launch.
PISCES Feb19–Mar20 You are not purely and simply a Pisces, because although the sun was in that astrological sign when you were born, at least some of the other planets were in different signs. This fact is a good reminder that everything everywhere is a complex web of subtlety and nuance. It’s delusional to think that anyone or anything can be neatly definable. Of course it’s always important to keep this in mind, but it’s even more crucial than usual for you to do so in the coming weeks. You are entering a phase when the best way to thrive is to know in your gut that life is always vaster, wilder, and more mysterious than it appears to be on the surface. If you revere the riddles, the riddles will be your sweet, strong allies.
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ot to be confused with solitude, health practitioners define loneliness as the perception of social isolation—a perception that has reached epidemic proportions in the U.S. In a sixyear study published in 2012, 43 percent of Americans over the age of 60 reported being lonely, according to the study’s author Carla Perissinotto, MD., assistant professor in UCSF’s Division of Geriatrics.
But that number becomes even more profound when considering its impact on health: loneliness is a proven social determinant for serious health problems, including shortened lifespan. “The lonely half of Americans have a 45 percent increased mortality at six years compared to the other half, and a 60 percent increased rate of disability, or rate of losing your activities in daily living,” says Dr. Paul Tang, vice president and chief innovation and technology officer at
the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. While the U.S. spends about 18 percent of its Gross Domestic Product on medical intervention, we continue to score among the unhealthiest of OCED (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries. “We have this real disparity between what we get versus what we pay for,” says Tang. “And one of the other factors is that all of the other countries but the U.S. spend more on social service than on
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medical service, and I think that’s a big part of it.” “Only 10 percent of health and well-being is attributed to medical intervention,” says John S. Williams, marketing communications specialist at PAMF’s innovation center. The rest of health and wellbeing can be attributed to genetics, behavior, and the social and community aspects of a person’s life. While the desolate, empty feeling of loneliness is not something typically addressed in a doctor’s visit, PAMF’s innovation center identified it as a recurring theme while interviewing the elderly population. As one woman described it to Tang, “Your world dies before you do.” In an effort to combat loneliness as a root cause for illness, PAMF developed a program called linkAges, a multigenerational time-bank-like service-exchange program. Formed in Mountain View in 2010 under the direction of Tang, the program brings together individuals in the community who probably wouldn’t have otherwise interacted. “In American culture, which is a young culture compared to Asia or Europe, we value professional work, autonomy and mobility, and all of the things that make America great. But it also leaves us less supported as we age out of the workforce,” says Tang. “You view yourself in the context of what you contribute in a professional vein, and when you retire, that sort of recognition goes away. You don’t think as highly of yourself, and often feel like you’re a burden to everybody, including your family, and that leads to a downward spiral.” LinkAges expanded to the Bay Area in 2013, and just a few months ago took root in Santa Cruz, with partners including the Live Oak Senior Center, Cabrillo College, Santa Cruz Libraries, and Museum of Art & History, which has pledged to open up space for artistic collaborations between linkAges members. It is free and open to anyone 18 or older who passes a criminal background check. (See tagline at the end of this article for a membership code.) “Once people join the system, they are able to post a >12
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request or offer services on the website platform,” says Williams. “Somebody might say ‘I need a ride to my doctor’s appointment, I don’t have a car,’ and it takes them two hours round trip. That gets recorded, and then [the driver] uses that time later, likely with someone different, to play chess or learn photoshop, or any number of things.” Since its inception, more than 3,000 hours have been exchanged among linkAges’ 760 members, and its potential impact in the Santa Cruz community is greatly anticipated—with 26 local members already signed up. Patsy Gardner, a linkAges member who recently moved to Santa Cruz, looks forward to offering knitting, fiber arts and babysitting as a service to other local linkAges members. She recently attended a Tech Day at the Live Oak Senior Center. “I learned how to take pictures on my iPhone and it helped me with my tablet a little bit, too” says Gardner. “I think most of us get all these ‘toys,’ and we know the basics, but I can’t do everything that they do.” Tang agrees with Jennifer Acher of the Stanford Business School that the three major components of happiness are meaning, connectedness, and being part of something bigger— and linkAges interactions often touch on all three, says Tang. The largest category of exchanges seen in linkAges are in what Tang calls the enrichment group, where members are sharing something they know, from ukelele playing to knitting or cooking. “One of the things as you get older is you have experiences to pass on,” says Tang. For example, there was the 84-year-old retired professor’s Scrabble game with a 28-year-old woman, and the woman living in a retirement home who threw her arms up in happiness when she met a dog owner at the park, fulfilling her wish to just walk a dog again. “Based on our initial experience with time bank and the stories we get back, there is a lasting effect of just feeling like you are valued or contributing. And I think as we age, the importance of that just elevates,” says Tang. “American health care of course is reimbursed
for doing things to people, and this is not one of those things, but under the Affordable Care Act, we’re moving to a world where you get compensated to improve the health of the communities that you serve, so this fits in really well with that.”
MEETING AND MOVING But there’s more for Santa Cruz to look forward to: Under the umbrella of linkAges is the Meet and Move program, a support network that links family caregivers of all kinds with other caregivers to simply walk and talk—and for every hour used in the Meet and Move program, members are given one hour of time to use in the linkAges program. With an orientation at 11 a.m.-noon on Feb. 11 at the Senior Network Services Building in Soquel, Meet and Move is also free and open to anyone who passes a background check. “Anyone can come as long as they are a caregiver who is not being paid,” says Cyndi Mariner, project coordinator for Meet and Move. “People come, and they can talk if they want or just walk, they can laugh, cry, scream, and it’s all fine. Whatever you gotta do, we’re all about supporting each other on this journey.” Mariner, who joined the program while caring for her 84-year-old mother, says that Meet and Move changed her life, giving her an outlet for support and a small block of time to exercise. Caregivers are often under a lot of stress, often forget to take care of themselves, and can also suffer from social isolation, Mariner explains. “As a family caregiver, your time gets eaten up so quickly,” says Mariner, “and suddenly you’ve got weeds growing over the backyard and you need help weeding the garden, or you need someone to run out and get groceries for you. The linkAges platform gives that help right to you.” To sign up for the linkAges timebank, visit linkages.org, click “sign up” and use the membership code ‘goodtimes.’ The next linkAges orientation is 2-3 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 18, from 2-3 pm at the Museum of Art & History. Register by emailing timebank@linkages.org. For more information on Meet and Move, visit linkages.org/meetandmove.
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In a race against time, chef Ana Mendoza Rodriguez is searching for the appropriate spatula to scrape brownies off her baking sheet and onto small plates already decorated with strawberries, chocolate chips and a glaze. Yards away, her competitors have been reducing a creamy Alfredo sauce, mashing avocados for guacamole, baking cupcakes and frying malasadas, a fried Portuguese pastry similar to a doughnut or a beignet. “It was really fun, but we were in a rush,” says Ana, a member of Ms. Sandra Palazzola Jennings’ culinary arts class at Branciforte Middle School. With one hour to prep, cook and plate dishes, they didn’t leave enough time to bake for 20-25 minutes, forcing Ana and her small team of fellow middle schoolers to improvise. The dish was still graceful enough to win “Best Plate Design” at the class’s Top Chef competition that afternoon—an honor she shared with teammates Anthony Sundeen, Jennifer Pacheco Martinez and Keidy Mendoza Martinez. Jennings says that making the best of a bad situation is just one of many skills kids learn through cooking, along with a little science, math, reading, and practical life skills. “It teaches kids how to work in a team. You have to with others in close communication,” Jennings says. “And we also all need to learn how to cook.” The award for “Best Flavor” went to Emily Bolin, Erick Juarez Medina, Jordan McCray-Brown, Olivia Amador, and Mai Naughton-Ceja for a ravioli Alfredo dish. Perhaps more important than winning, though, are the connections and skills the students pick up along the way. “You get to know a lot more people in this class,” Olivia Lackey, a seventh grader offers. “In most classes, you just sit down and learn.” Olivia also learned how to be resourceful, and that you don’t need fancy tools to make good food—for instance, you can whisk eggs just fine using a fork. “You don’t need the most expensive things,” she says. In the class, which is officially called Literacy Through Culinary Arts, >18
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having not known where they were allowed to set up. Then, last year, after the Santa Cruz City Council voted to remove half of the spaces, local activist and co-founder of the international group Food Not Bombs Keith McHenry decided to protest. One night in August, he repainted the boxes that the city had removed. “I decided I would do it without hiding,” McHenry says. “I’m publicly saying I’m against the policy. Put back the boxes and encourage more artists to flourish on Pacific Avenue.”
McHenry, who’s 58, is now facing charges of felony conspiracy to commit a crime and felony vandalism for his November arrest. McHenry paid his $5,000 bail. “The main thing is that I wanted to give hope to the people on the street, that it would empower them to stand up for their rights, and I think that really happened,” he says. “People really got excited. They had been getting depressed.” Two months later, while
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protesting with the Freedom Sleepers, a group of homeless advocates who camp out in front of city hall, McHenry was charged with offensive words and failure to obey a police officer. While serving food at the October sleepout, he says he called a city staffer “chickenshit”—something he now regrets, he says, “because there’s really no sense in being negative.” Later, he allegedly jaywalked when an officer told him not to, which he denies. “I perceived the removal of the boxes, the stay-away ordinance, and the cutting of services at the Homeless Service Center as being a widespread attack on lowincome and homeless people,” says McHenry, whose next hearing takes place at 10 a.m. on Jan. 26. Assistant District Attorney Archie Webber, who could not be reached for comment, offered McHenry a plea deal that would have dropped the charges if he pleaded guilty to vandalism. The offer included two months in jail and a year’s stay away
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from Pacific Avenue, but McHenry isn’t interested. “I won’t take a deal that interferes with my right to protest,” said McHenry, who will represent himself in court. His first hearing took place Dec. 8. Joining him was Abbi Samuels, an activist, member of FNB and his partner, who was with him during the blue box incident, although she says she did not participate. Vice Mayor Cynthia Chase attended the hearing, curious about their status. “We’re trying to create a balance downtown between free expression and downtown business. This [case] brought attention to that,” Chase tells GT. She says the city manager’s staff is in the process of researching how other communities find this balance, and expects a report to the council by the end of February.
BOMB-FREE “I live very marginally, my personal expenses are about $500 a month. To make that, I speak at colleges,” McHenry says, sipping tea in the back corner of Saturn Cafe, his usual
demonstrating that SC County gets it: every little bit counts. Second, most of the funds raised were from individual donors giving to multiple nonprofits. That is, while some donors were driven by a desire to support a single, favored organization, it was clear that top donors did some one-stop philanthropic shopping on the website (santacruzgives.org). Each nonprofit had its own info page to browse, and donors used the online shopping cart to click wherever inspiration led. “This form of fundraising on one convenient website is new to our community and truly can create a network of donor participation we haven't seen before,” said Karen Delaney, executive director of the
spot. “Anything after $500, I donate to Food Not Bombs.” McHenry has written three books, his latest, The Anarchist Cookbook, teaches people how to cook affordable group meals with the purpose of feeding the hungry. In 1988, McHenry says, the FBI classified him as a terrorist; they also classified Food Not Bombs as a terrorist group. The FBI told him it will review his case, he says, but that it would take 45 years. He considers himself a nonviolent person who was targeted for his activism. It all started one day when, as a college activist in 1980, McHenry noticed a poster that spoke to him and changed his life. The poster read, “Wouldn’t it be a beautiful day if the schools had all the money they needed and the Air Force had to hold a bake sale to build a bomber?” The poster would help inspire the creation of Food Not Bombs. McHenry and eight buddies bought military uniforms from a surplus store in Boston, and held a bake-sale, acting as generals trying to buy a bomber. The money >19
Volunteer Center. “I am really enthusiastic about its potential.” A few donors especially warmed our hearts. Two brothers held a bake sale at the Santa Cruz Montessori School, and showed up at the Volunteer Center to deliver 26 $5 donations plus 35 cents for the Teen Kitchen Project. Puppy Breath Boutique allowed Birchbark to hold a bake sale on site that raised $97. And a man in a wheelchair made his way up to the third-floor GT office with two $10 bills for Shared Adventures. Late on Christmas Eve, after the GT staff had gone home, hopefully already having chowed down a few sugar plums, the last staffer was packed up and ready to lock the door for a few days off, when a pretty young woman
walked in with a folder full of cash and checks. Amanda Tran collected the funds from her co-workers at wearable technology company Fullpower as a holiday gift to their CEO Philippe Kahn and his wife Sonia Lee. Kahn apparently presides over a 10-dog office (sounds much warmer than a three-dog night), and every year the staff donates in his name to a nonprofit that serves animals. Tran was delighted to see that animal organizations were included in SC Gives, and chose Unchained. “If you do this again next year, we’ll do it again, too!” she said, with a gleam in her eye. I believe I heard her exclaim as she danced out of sight, “And to all, a good night!” JEANNE HOWARD
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offered to teach the class as a first-year teacher a decade ago. “I will be teaching it until I retire, I hope.” Kris Munro, the Santa Cruz City Schools superintendent, says electives are important, because they allow students to grow and also help them to lead wellrounded lives. Other school districts took a different approach 15 years ago, she explains, when the since-defunct No Child Left Behind Act became law—effectively cutting their more creative curriculum in favor of basic math and English classes. “Kids would take three hours of math and three hours of language arts, instead of getting exploratory classes. But we decided to embrace those skills and embed those standards in our exploratory course work,” Munro says. As a result, the district has a handful
of elective classes. Mission Hill Middle School, the district’s other middle school, has 15 electives, including ceramics, stained glass, musical theater, multimedia, and 3D design. As Jennings is now more than six months pregnant, long-term substitute Kyle Noone has been coming into class three to four times a week to get a feel for the class as he’ll take over next month in the new semester. “It’s a self-driven class,” Noone says. “The kids are just doing. The teacher facilitates it, but the kids make it happen. I love the fact that other teachers come in during their prep [periods] and eat the food.” After Jennings finishes counting down an hour of cooking, children’s hands spring up from their plates, and the dishes are complete. Next begins the tasting and
voting, which all of the students, as well as a few teachers who are in between classes for the day, participate in. After that, the sound of discussing tasty dishes is replaced with the drone of running water and the swishing of brooms. Out come the 409 spray bottles and sponges. “And this might be the most exciting part— watching kids clean,” Jennings says. After class, Jennings tallies up the votes and prepares to announce the winners later in the week. “What they win is bragging rights. I used to give out a $5 gift card to Safeway, but they didn’t really care. What they really want is to be able to say, ‘Hey, I’m Top Chef,” says Jennings, casually lifting her sweater an inch off of her shoulders and shrugging. “Bragging rights are a hot commodity.”
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McHenry moved to San Francisco in 1988 to start Food Not Bombs’ second chapter. He says he was arrested his first day for not having a permit for feeding people at Golden Gate Park. He served a total of 500 days in jail between 1988 and 1995, he says, racking up 47 felony conspiracy cases. “Every time we would get arrested there would be more groups popping up,” he says. “It shocked people’s consciousness seeing and hearing about the police beating and arresting people for feeding people.” Today, there are an estimated 1,000 Food Not Bombs chapters worldwide. The group has three principles that other chapters must recognize. The first is that food must be vegan or vegetarian and free to anyone drunk or sober. Second, there are no leaders or headquarters, and each chapter is autonomous, making its decisions as a collective. Third, members of the group do not consider it a charity, but rather a group dedicated to taking nonviolent action to change society. “If you want to end hunger, rather than just feed people, it’s better to change the conditions and make a world where everyone has access to food,” he says. McHenry says that with his recent protest, he was just trying to support people whose voices may otherwise be forgotten along Pacific Avenue. “I did water colors out there in the ’70s. It’s such an artist town,” he says. “It seems like an effort to drive poor people out of town, and that’s where poor people make their money.”
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audience, putting their wins for the season below 50 percent with a performance that could best be described as “lackluster.” It was the team’s first game of the NBA D-League showcase. Five rows of the north side of the Kaiser Permanente Arena were filled with scouts from all over the world, NBA employees and reporters from the likes of ESPN and the Associated Press. They came to see the up-andcoming talent, and the Santa Cruz Warriors may have choked under the pressure. “I think what happened is we
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came out nervous,” Hill said after the Jan. 8 game. Of course, it would be a wrong to say that a poor performance boils down to only nerves for a team that has now lost the last seven of its past eight games. The team was playing its first game with point guard Aaron Craft, last year’s D-League Defensive Player of the Year, since April. More significantly, the team had just lost guard Elliot Williams—who earned both Player of the Month and Player of the Week honors at the beginning of the season—to a
10-day contract with the Grizzlies. “Losing Elliot at 28 points a game hurts, and at a certain point, you’ve got to find where those 28 points are gonna come from,” Hill said. Since that disappointing game, Santa Cruz would go on to lose four more straight games. But it’s too early to sound the alarm for a 10-15 team that just reached the midway point in the season. Forward Kevon Looney, Golden State’s first-round draft pick, has been getting playing time, now that he’s back from his hip surgery. Looney got 11 points, 12 rebounds and two blocks in just 16 minutes. He might help carry Santa Cruz to wins, just as James Michael McAdoo did to help them win the championship last year. At this month’s showcase, I sat next to a league official, who told me that Santa Cruz has one of the three best environments in the league. It is a fan base that’s never been tested, though, as the team has been to three championships in its first three years in Santa Cruz, even winning it all and taking home the D-League trophy last year. So, this all begs the question: What happens if and when the winning stops in a league where it’s so hard to have continued success? Chris Murphy, Santa Cruz’s new team president, says he isn’t too worried, as the organization has done a lot of community work to build a relationship that’s bigger than just basketball. “You build an affinity with your fan base, and they stay with you through thick and thin,” says Murphy, who notes that Golden State’s diehard following stayed true during 17 miserable straight seasons of missing the playoffs. In the meantime, Hill says his team needs to come out aggressive early in games. “This group’s got this strange need to get flicked in the ear six or seven times, and then they wake up and turn around and punch someone in the face,” Hill said at the showcase. “It’s the perfect example of the hibernating bear—fat and happy. And then at a certain point, we wake up and start attacking.”
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years and suddenly your body’s breaking down,” says UCSC’s Campus Ergonomist Brian MacDonald. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy recently brought the text neck concept—also referred to as iHunch or iPosture—into the national discussion with her Dec. 12 article in the New York Times, which presents this previously underreported fact: “When we bend our necks forward 60 degrees, as we do to use our phones, the effective stress on our neck increases to 60 pounds.” “That extra weight will either go directly into their neck or transfer down, often to a weak link in the spine,” Bean says. “Sometimes they’ll feel it all the way down their back into the hips.” The problem is growing, and fast—a 2013 study on the health effects of smartphones and portable devices in 1,049 people found 70 percent of adults and 30 percent of children surveyed reported musculoskeletal symptoms in the body, according to the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Hong Kong Physiotherapy Association, which collaborated on the study.
SPINAL TAX The physical effects of the now ubiquitous iHunch can creep up slowly, and sometimes people don’t realize that the jaw, wrist, elbow or lower back pain they develop is caused by poor posture in the neck and shoulders. “What it ends up doing is putting a lot of load on the [spinal] discs,”
says Bean. “The disc is designed to absorb load when you put stress on it, and it ends up kind of moving the stress to the front of the disc, squeezing the disc so you can get cracks in the disc or a herniation, disc bulges, bone spurs.” And that’s just talking about the spine, says Bean. “Other things like lung capacity gets bound because you’re closing down the lung space. Problems with digestion is one we really see. You're also squeezing down on the abdominal cavity,” says Bean. The saddest thing about these negative physical impacts is that they’re so easily preventable, says Bean. Most people aren’t yet cognizant enough of the problem to make a change. Bean and MacDonald both report seeing text neck affecting young people, in a way never seen before, and that there’s a significant gap in education on how to maintain good posture—both at school and in the workplace. Bean works on patients who come into her practice with complaints of pain, once things like text neck have already set in, while MacDonald’s focus as an ergonomist is to try and prevent those injuries from forming. MacDonald and the UCSC Environmental Health & Safety Department try to encourage supervisors and managers to report physical effects of equipment as they arise, in order to get funding for ergonomically sound furniture. There’s an altruistic and financial motivation for businesses to do this, too, he says—healthy employees
create a happier work environment, but from a financial standpoint, keeping employees in good posture decreases the cost of an injury or hiring and training someone new. “In the late ’80s, late ’90s, computers started showing up in a big way. Before then it wasn’t recognized that office work was risky,” says MacDonald, who worked as a chiropractor for 20 years before beginning ergonomics consulting. “But since around 2000, even in the last five years, we’re experiencing an industry-wide shift,” says MacDonald. “For the first time new employees—young people in their early 20s—showing up within in the first few months experiencing these injuries because they've been looking at their cell phones, tablets—and they’ve been doing it since they were 3 years old. We’re seeing a new epidemic of young people with these injuries.” Straightening up in your chair can help, and guess what, there’s an app for that. The Text Neck Institute— yes, that exists too—launched the Text Neck Indicator app for Android phones to notify cell phone users when they’re holding their device at an unhealthy height. MacDonald also points out that employers are legally responsible for making workplaces ergonomically safe. The California Code of Regulations stipulates that if one or more ergonomic-related injuries takes place on the job, the employer must institute training, an evaluation and controls to minimize the risk of injury.
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echnology is everywhere: It’s in the checkout line at Trader Joe’s, glowing in the dark after bedtime, tempting us while we’re stopped for a red light—it even creeps into our bathrooms while we’re sitting on the toilet. But what is our attachment to our phones doing to our bodies and brains? Well, let’s start with the latest medical phenomenon you should probably know about: text neck. “Think of it as whiplash at zero miles an hour,” says local chiropractor Michelle Bean, co-founder of the Santa Cruz Challenge. “It’s the shortening of certain [neck] muscles, [while] muscles on the other side of the body get inhibited or elongated. If they’re chronically elongated and inhibited the body turns them off at some point.” So how relevant is this to anyone who relies on texting as their main form of communication with friends? “I look around all the time and see people with their heads hanging over their shoulders and it’s sad. I worry,” says Bean. “What’s going to happen with this next generation coming up?” To experience the healthy, all-toorare sensation of a straight spine while reading on a mobile device eye, or other screen for that matter, we should raise it up to eye level. “With text neck, you’re constantly looking down at your tablet or cell phone, and nodding, sitting on the couch, on a chair. You do it hundreds of times a day over the course of
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Back in the 18th and 19th centuries, good posture was a status symbol—a social signifier of good breeding and etiquette. Most baby boomers were also nagged by their parents to sit up straight, too, perhaps while dialing a rotary phone or opening a piece of mail. But then there are those who grew up with the Internet—millennials with the last remaining memory bridge to the dial-up past—and those born after, into a world of Wi-Fi. Teenagers and young adults have often had bad posture, says Bean, but there’s now far less education about how critical good posture is. “If you’ve ever seen a one-year-old or two-year-old they've got [good posture], because they’re influenced by one thing, and that’s gravity,” Bean says. “Gravity is the number one influencer on the body, so they sit with really good posture, they bend over with really good posture, they stand up with good posture. Those are natural instincts.”
The change occurs when kids reach around 7 or 8, says Bean. These days, that’s the age when children are starting to really use technology, especially for school and homework. The good news is that there are ways to prevent the effects of bad posture from leading to chronic problems, especially if children start changing their posture habits at an early age. Bean recommends that in order to maintain good posture while seated, bring the shoulder forward, up and back for a roll motion. The goal is to elongate the body, not just pop the chest out, she says. “You can just get up and walk around the desk, it’s going to make a huge difference,” says Bean. “For people that commute a lot, set the rearview mirror getting into the car and get in a good postural position— and then don’t move it.” For workstations, MacDonald recommends that all furniture be adjustable, especially the chair and desk, that everything be in close reach, and that the monitor is at
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While our mental state can often affect our posture, poor posture can also affect our mental state. In 2010, the Brazilian Psychiatric Association found that depressed patients tend to slouch with the whole body folding more inwardly than non-depressed people. Meanwhile, a study published last year in Health Psychology showed how the moods of non-depressed participants can become much more negative when sitting in a constantly slouched position. And then there’s the damage to our eyes. “The eye didn’t develop to stare at a fixed distance for eight hours in a row,” says Santa Cruz Optometric Center optometrist Laura Prisbe. The problem is so pervasive that the Vision Council even came up with a name for it: Digital Eye Strain. And with nearly four out of 10 millennials spending at least nine hours on digital devices every day, it’s something to pay attention to, says Prisbe. “That muscle that controls focusing, by being locked in the specific distance, gets really fatigued staring at the same distance,” Prisbe says. That’s how people who aren’t genetically nearsighted or farsighted end up with symptoms of those conditions. But that’s not even the half of it. Prisbe says that staring at one spot also causes us to blink less—increasing eye fatigue—and that the glare from a computer screen coupled with the ubiquitous aesthetic atrocity that is overhead fluorescent lighting is the ultimate recipe for eye exhaustion. New research coming to light over the last few years details the effects of “blue light”—that familiar glow on most screens—on the human eye. According to the Vision Council’s 2015 Digital Eye Strain Report, the band of blue-violet light thought to be most harmful to retinal cells falls between 415 to 455 nanometres (nm). Some of the “most favored
digital devices and modern lighting” typically start at around 400 nm. Prolonged exposure to blue light can lead to macular degeneration, especially if you have a family history of it, says Prisbe. “It’s the loss of your central vision. Your macula is the center part of your retina, what you use when you look directly at something,” she says. “With macular degeneration, you get a blind spot in the center of your vision.” It’s a scary prospect, says Prisbe, who, like Bean, worries most about children spending unprecedented amounts of time looking at screens when the long-term effects are not yet known. One thing parents can do to avoid future problems, says Prisbe, is make their kids go outside more. “There’s research that supports that your eye continues to grow if you're reading up close in poor light—that’s what nearsightedness is, the eyes grow too much,” she says. “With kids who are in natural daylight, they found that having exposure to outside reading was the key in not developing myopia, or nearsightedness.” For cubicle dwellers, Prisbe recommends anti-glare screens, using artificial tears, and making sure the screen is at least an arm’s length away, the font is at a comfortably large size, the illumination is not at its brightest, and the screen is just below eye level. For those fighting fluorescent lighting, she even suggests wearing a hat or visor. Also worth looking into: a coating for glasses that blocks blue light, and computer-specific glasses to help the focusing muscle relax. For most people, the most important rule to remember is the 20-20-20 rule, says Prisbe: every 20 minutes, take 20 seconds and spend it looking away from your screen at something at least 20 feet away. “This field is evolving with the research being done,” says MacDonald. “Technology is providing us with new challenges, many people now aren’t working in front of a desktop computer, but they’re looking at their tablet and cell: that provides a new set of static prolonged postures.”
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wearable technology like Google Glass with distrust and even outright hostility—after all, once technology is on us, isn’t it only a matter of time before it’s in us, or simply is us? But Philippe Kahn, best known as the inventor of the camera phone, and now CEO and founder of Santa
Cruz-based Fullpower Technologies Inc., thinks that attitude is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. More and more consumers are embracing gadgets like FitBits, smart watches, smart beds, and even fitnesstracking smart shoes for their potential to revolutionize the fitness
and health care industries. These wearables can track every aspect of daily life, from sleep patterns to steps taken to heart rate, calories burned, body weight, and time spent standing. Meanwhile, Kahn’s company is already working on all sorts of ideas that will help usher in the next era of wearable tech. Why is he betting the industry will continue to grow? Because knowledge is power. When it comes to improving our health and lifestyles, extremely individualized data can go a long way. And when we decide to make a change and do something about it, wearable technology can provide immediate feedback on our progress. “It’s simple and amazingly efficient,” Kahn tells GT. Wearable technology provides the kind of information that can get results fast, he says, which feeds its popularity. “Without any other changes, if Ms. and Mr. Everyone are just a little more active and sleep just a little more, health immediately improves.” Whereas current fitness wristbands and watches collect data mainly through an accelerometer that tracks step-related movements or lack thereof, devices of the future will be able to distinguish among many different and diverse types of exercise, as well as provide data about blood sugar, hydration, hormone levels, and beyond. Additionally, whereas a current concern among wearable technology users and makers is a lack of privacy, the wearable tech of the future will use authentication techniques that are unique to every individual, such as heart rhythm. Current wearable fitness trackers are fairly limited in the types of exercise they can track, and this is especially true if the exercise doesn’t involve taking steps. The next generation of wearable tech will not only be able to “learn” and measure new exercises performed by the wearer, it will also be able to more accurately track activities like weight lifting, swimming, and even something like playing an instrument that while usually performed stationary is nonetheless
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FUZZY DATA Wearable technology, however, is still in its infancy, or, at most, its toddlerhood. And there are plenty of growing pains. One challenge is the drive to constantly improve the accuracy of the data these devices provide. When current wearable technology can only provide estimates on steps taken, calories burned, or anything else, it simply isn’t good enough. This can be a major problem, especially if health care providers are basing recommendations for medication, exercise, diet, and lifestyle on the accuracy of this data. “Accuracy is important, as that is key work that Fullpower focuses on more than any other company on the planet,” says Kahn. But for most current applications of wearable technology, he believes this issue shouldn’t be overblown. “Remember that the benefits come from being more active and sleeping a little longer, not necessarily understanding every detail of everything.” At this point, there is little industry regulation and no governing body to make independent verifications of wearable technology data, and to make sure standards are upheld. Greater industry regulation with independently verified data will go a long way toward legitimizing the entire industry. “We sure hope this happens soon, as it will make Fullpower’s technology shine even more,” says Kahn. “My understanding is that there are a couple of labs who are evaluating the business opportunity.” There is also the issue of interpretation of all this data— without it, the information is basically useless. “It’s not just quantified self-measuring, it’s using big data science to give meaningful insights,” explains Kahn. “For example, Fullpower’s new Sleeptracker® Smartbed will soon start being deployed by major bedding manufacturers and will provide lots of insights and tools to improve sleep.”
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Exercise and sport aren’t the only frontiers for wearable technologies. They show even greater potential to improve personal health on a large scale because they provide a larger amount of more accurate data to a doctor or health care provider. As long as the patient consistently wears his or her health-and-fitnesstracking wearable technology, a doctor can easily use the data from the device to get a more accurate picture of the patient’s lifestyle. This will allow doctors to make better decisions and diagnoses than ever before. Eventually, wearable technology will allow doctors to treat patients remotely, without having to see them in person— transforming health care for travelers, those who find it difficult or impossible to visit a doctor’s office, and pretty much everyone else. Some examples of cutting-edge health care wearable technology include body-worn sensors and contact lenses that monitor blood sugar levels and could revolutionize the care and management of diabetes, an increasingly common condition in America. Companies are also developing smart bras that track breast health, as well as wearable technology that could help a person quit smoking by detecting cravings and then releasing medication before the smoker falls off the wagon and lights up a cigarette. There is even ingestible technology being developed that is powered by stomach acid and could monitor the timing and consistency of when a person takes their medications. This could provide doctors with
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Kahn says the insight the smart bed provides is based on data from more than 500 million nights of detailed recorded sleep, and calls it “the greatest sleep study ever.” Wearable technology not only needs to be stylish, in Kahn’s view, it also needs to be at least somewhat invisible or at least seamlessly integrated into a person’s “look.” Making a one-size-fits-all product that also has universal aesthetic appeal is no small challenge. Just consider how many different companies sell widely diverse products that are all essentially either a shoe, a shirt, a hat, or anything else wearable. “We believe that wearable tech and fashion are tied at the hip. We are focused on making non-invasive technology that is green, invisible and beautifully discreet,” says Kahn. Battery life is another challenge. “Fullpower is working on energy harvesting off the host. It’s no different than getting solar energy to work in the home,” says Kahn. His company recently launched the Movado smartwatch that can run for over two years without a charge. Whether it’s using body heat, body movement, or some other source, renewable energy is a big part of the future of wearable technology.
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As bright as the future may be for wearable fitness technology, the possibilities for merging man and machine on a larger scale may be even more astounding. For example, Lockheed Martin has developed an unpowered exoskeleton that makes heavy tools feel almost weightless, as if they are being used in zero
gravity. This kind of technology could revolutionize many industries including construction, demolition, disaster cleanup, and firstresponder situations. Still other exoskeletons are being used to help paraplegics regain the use of their legs and walk again. There is even wearable technology being developed that turns sound into patterns of vibration felt on the skin from a garment that, with training, can help the deaf “hear” the world around them in a similar way to how Braille turns letters and words on a page into tactile representations that allow the blind to “see.” Some people are even pushing the boundaries of our senses by implanting magnets into their fingertips in order to be able to “feel” electromagnetism. The incredible neuroplasticity of the human brain allows for all of this remarkable technology to be seamlessly integrated into the brain’s representation of the body over time. For example, ask any experienced surfer where the body ends and they will all tell you that eventually the surfboard becomes an extension of the self. To them, the body does not end at the foot, it ends on the wave. All of this seemingly space-age technology being closer to our doorstep than most of us thought begs the question: How much technology is too much technology? But the reality is that technology is in many ways the ultimate embodiment of everything it means to be human, showcasing our ingenuity, ambition and creativity. Wearable technology is only the latest expression of an age-old truth: We have always been natural born cyborgs, using technology to transcend ourselves and our biology.
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the pharmaceutical and defense industries. He thinks the squirrel has got to go. The two of them embody the Bay Areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s yin and yang: Veblen embracing the natural beauty and diverse path that speaks to our progressive tendencies, while Paul craves the innovative yet corruptible course that operates like a highspeed rail. As they stumble toward the altar after only three months together, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also attempting to break away from the grasp of their difficult families. Veblenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother is a narcissistic hypochondriac, and Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents are passive-aggressive hippies who have pushed his needs aside to care for his intellectually disabled brother. The question is, in all the turmoil, will this fledgling couple find their way back to each other? McKenzie currently edits the Catamaran and Chicago Quarterly literary magazines. This is her third novel, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s getting rave reviews. She lives in Santa Cruz and we talked recently about her work.
There are so many wide-ranging elements in this novel. How did you bring them together? ELIZABETH MCKENZIE: It took years. I just allowed myself to follow different threads of interest. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if they were going to meld or not, but I thought that would be my challenge, to make it work. I figured if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all in me, they must fit together somehow.
Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s with the squirrels? Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re kind of emblematic of whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s left of the natural world that we come into contact with, and we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really control them even though theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made a lot of sacrifices to adapt to us. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s amazing how polarizing they are. People either love them or hate them. For Veblen, the squirrel is an emotional investment, like an imaginary friend.
The military plays a surprising role in this book. What sparked your interest? I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been in close contact with people in the military growing up, yet my own father, stepfather and grandfather had all been in WWII. Because everyone in their generation was involved, they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think much about what it meant. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not like we all have someone in the military now. I started to realize there were things that happened to my father, who served in the Navy, that accounted for how the rest of his life unfolded. He was fired upon, injured and shell-shocked, and though it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t talked about as I grew up, his behavior was there, and it had a strong effect on me. I realized that veteransâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; issues had touched my life in a way I hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t thought about before, and I developed a kind of obsession with them as I wrote this book, reading war memoirs and following the news about V.A. scandals. I became fascinated with current issues in the military, like clinical trials and marketing. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot going on there that you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see in everyday life.
I like your exploration of parenthood. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a preoccupation of mine, the effect of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something I keep writing about, almost without thinking about it.
What are you working on now? After such a long period writing a novel, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m happily writing short stories. It feels great to finish something quickly.
What advice do you have for aspiring novelists? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard, but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hurry the thing youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re working on. Let it accrue all the depth it can. Elizabeth McKenzie will read from her new book at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 20 at Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. Free.
MUSIC What’s most important to you about spreading the message of his songs? The bottom line for me is to get people to read what he actually wrote. He was a Marxist and influenced by the Second International as well as the Wobblies (I.W.W.). Here was a guy from the lowest depths of the working class who managed to teach himself to read, to think and to articulate in an eloquent way the noblest ideals of humankind. That includes not only trying to improve the lot of the working class, but also he was a leader of the whole idea of fighting for self-determination, which was a major theme of the 20th century. Connolly was also a feminist, wasn’t he? Connolly’s statement that John Lennon quoted on the Dick Cavett Show many years ago was, “Woman is the slave of the slave.” Connolly was writing about the role of women in history, but also imagining a Socialist Workers Republic of Ireland and what the role of women would be in liberating Ireland’s working class.
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evolution is in his blood, says Mat Callahan. After all, the singer-songwriter was born on the 14th of July—Bastille Day—the opening battle of the 1789 French Revolution. Now Callahan is in California for a 14-city tour to perform songs written by Irish labor organizer James Connolly, whose books include Socialism Made Easy and Songs of Freedom. If the name James Connolly doesn’t ring a bell it may be because his antiCapitalist ideas didn’t have much of a shelf life in American history books. But in Ireland, Connolly is widely remembered as the founder of the Irish Citizen Army (1913), a
leader of the Easter Rising (1916) and a Socialist songwriter whose life ended in 1916 at the age of 48 on the receiving end of a British firing. If you have heard of Connolly maybe you recall John Lennon quoting him on TV in the early ’70s: “The female worker is the slave of the slave,” said Lennon, who transposed the sentiment with Yoko Ono into, “Woman is the nigger of the world.” GT recently spoke with Mat Callahan about Ireland, revolution and the Songs of Freedom book/CD (2013, PM Press) that Callahan helped assemble from Connolly’s lost writings and lyrics.
Why did James Connolly come to this country in 1903? MAT CALLAHAN: Connolly was one of the many impoverished workers who came to the U.S. looking for a means of a livelihood. That was part of the reason he came. But Connolly already had essays and articles published in the United States under the auspices of the Socialist Labor Party of America. He couldn’t work in Ireland because he was too well known as a labor organizer. To support his family he came to the U.S. and was immediately embraced by the labor movement in New York. In 1905 he joined the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W) at its very founding.
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Connolly dedicated himself to the struggle to ‘liberate humanity from all forms of slavery.’ How successful would you say we have we been in moving toward this goal? Connolly came along at the end of a century full of revolution, starting with the American, French and Haitian revolutions of the late 18th century. The 20th century had ... a feeling that “workers of all countries unite” really had a future. At the moment, it seems like that great wave of human liberation has been turned back. But Connolly’s determination was steeled in struggle itself; that the problems of the world cannot be solved through talk. It requires active engagement, whether its labor organizing or organizing a food co-op or playing in a band. Once you’re engaged, you see the process in a different way than if you’re on the sidelines. My own optimism comes from being involved as opposed to just reading the news. Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore will be performing modern adaptations of Connolly’s revolutionary tunes at The Poet & The Patriot at 9 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 22 and at San Jose’s Caffe Frascati on Jan. 28.
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ustard Plug were almost famous. The Grand Rapids, Michigan ska-punk band isn’t exactly unknown, at least in ska circles, but back in the ’90s they nearly achieved the MTV level of success that some of their contemporaries like Reel Big Fish, No Doubt, Sublime, and Mighty Mighty Bosstones reached. The group, which formed in 1991, had already been touring hard and were on indie label Hopeless Records when, in 1997, a song they recorded for a local benefit CD, a
ska-punk cover of the Verve Pipe’s “The Freshmen,” started getting radio airplay. Hopeless wanted them to reissue their current LP, Evildoers Beware, with the song on it, and to push it hard. But the band wasn’t into the idea. Besides, it was recorded as a joke. “The Verve Pipe were from Grand Rapids. The station thought that the Verve Pipe walked on water, so we gave them a ska-punk version of this song that was sacred to them,” says singer David Kirchgessner. “We weren’t sure how anyone was going to react. Would the station
get pissed off, or would the band get pissed off? Everyone took it well.” They took it better than well. This was right in the heyday of ska in the U.S., and there were already ska bands with cover singles doing well on the radio like Save Ferris’s version of “Come On Eileen” and Reel Big Fish’s cover of “Take On Me.” So even if Mustard Plug’s bouncy ska version of the dramatic, breathy tune was done for laughs, the time was ripe for it to be a legitimate hit single. The band sent a two-song CD to radio stations all over the country with “The Freshmen” on it, and the
original “You.” They hoped the cover would get the stations’ attention, and then they’d latch onto “You.” DJs did start spinning “The Freshmen,” but they passed over the original. Mustard Plug didn’t want a coversong hit single, so they pulled the plug on the whole thing. They didn’t even release the song. “We didn’t want to be known as a one-hit wonder to a lot of people. We wanted to be known as a band with a whole catalog of material to a smaller group of people that cared more about it,” Kirchgessner says. “With Save Ferris, I don’t think anyone can name any of their other songs. They will always be known as that band that did ‘Come On Eileen.’ We were pretty confident that would have happened to us.” Mustard Plug never did have a big hit single, but they continued on as road warriors, packing clubs all over the country. When ska become uncool in the 2000s, they were one of most vocal ska bands still openly embracing the music. In 2004, they started the Ska Is Dead tour, a package that showed there was still an audience for the genre, even if MTV would no longer touch it. “We kept going. It wasn’t popular in 1991 when we started. We started the band because we loved doing it. It wasn’t a calculated thing to become rock stars,” Kirchgessner says. The group doesn’t tour nearly as much as they used to. They are mostly in their 40s, with families and jobs now, but they do get out every year, usually going for smaller stretches at a time. Now they have more time to explore their songwriting craft, and more serious topics. Their 2007 album In Black and White was topical and much darker tone. It’s arguably their best record. “There’s still an element of humor in some of the songs. But I think we moved away from that a lot. If you listen to stuff on our first album, there are songs like ‘Schoolboy with a Boner.’ At the time we were influenced by Skankin’ Pickle, Madness, and Bad Manners. The bands I find myself going back to now are more like the Specials and Operation Ivy,” Kirchgessner says. INFO: 9 p.m., Jan. 22, Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $10/Adv, $12/Door. 429-6994.
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WEDNESDAY 1/20 ARTS UCSC FARM PRODUCE POP-UP If shopping at a farmers market isn’t already part of your weekly regimen it can be hard to find the time to get healthy, fresh produce. That’s why the UCSC Food Systems Working Group is hosting a popup farm produce event every Thursday at the Quarry Plaza on the UCSC campus. For students, teachers, joggers and anyone else rushing through the plaza, the market provides a convenient way to purchase CASFS Farm’s organic vegetables and fruit without having to leave campus. Info: Noon-4p.m., Thursdays. UCSC Food Systems Working Group, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz. casfs.ucsc.edu. Free.
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SHADES OF BLUE Celebrate the cool blue feelings of winter in our first show of 2016. This is our annual juried show, with cash prizes— come see who wins. Gallery open Wednesdays through Sundays, noon-5 p.m. SC Mountains Art Center, 9341 Mill St., Ben Lomond. 3363513. Free. LIFE DRAWING SESSIONS 60-second gestural warm ups, followed by 5-7-minute poses. No long poses. 1-3 p.m. Studio #125, 1050 River St., Santa Cruz. 621-6226. $10.
CLASSES SALSA RUEDA CLASSES Cuban-style dance at the Tannery. Introductory and beginning classes 7-8 p.m. Intermediate and advanced classes 8-9 pm. 7-9 p.m. Tannery 1060 River St., Suite #111, Santa Cruz. Cesario, Danny, Gilberto. $7/$5.
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BATERIA SAMBA CRUZ Come learn to play drums and the carnival rhythms of Brazil. All levels. Instruments provided. 7-8:30 p.m. Tannery Arts Center, 1060 River St., #104. Santa Cruz. Joe Mailloux, 435-6813. $10.
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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.
MUNCHING WITH MOZART Join the Santa Cruz Public Libraries and Santa Cruz County Branch of the Music Teachers’ Association of California in this free monthly noontime concert at the downtown branch of the Santa Cruz library. Every month, favorite local musicians play classical pieces inspired and composed by Wolfgang Mozart. Info: Noon-12:50 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 21. Santa Cruz Public Libraries Downtown Branch, 224 Church St., Santa Cruz. 427-7707. santacruzpl.org. Free.
SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING CLASSES Scottish country dancing is fun and aerobic. No partner required. The traditional social dancing of Scotland. Wear soft-soled shoes. 7-9:30 p.m. Peace United Church of Christ, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. mazlarson@cabrillo. edu or 427-1921. $7. TRIPLE P SEMINAR: THE POWER OF POSITIVE PARENTING This is a free parenting seminar. Learn more online. 6-8 p.m. Vine Hill Elementary School, 151 Vine Hill School Road, Scotts Valley. 227-4145 or first5scc.org/ calendar/parent?trainings. Free. TRIPLE P WORKSHOP: PROBLEMS AT MEAL TIME This free parenting workshop provides
THURSDAY 1/21 MORTAL DUMPLING POP UP It’s mid-Thursday and you’re wishing it was Friday. You’re tired, you’re hungry, and you crave the weekend when—hark! It’s Mortal Dumpling day and the freshest, fluffiest steamed buns and honeyglazed baked BBQ pork buns are floating down Pacific Avenue! Well, in people’s hands, of course. Mortal Dumpling is dedicated to Northern Chinese styles of jiaozi and Cantonese dim sum classics from recipes passed down through generations. This week’s Thursday on Pacific Avenue just got a whole lot more delicious. Info: 11:30-2 p.m. Pop Up, 1108 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. heypopup.com.
tips and guidelines for mealtime. Learn more online. 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Mountain Community Resources, 6134 Hwy. 9, Felton. 227-4145 or first5scc.org/calendar/parent?trainings. Free. YOGANON Mindful movement and support for families and friends of those with substance use disorders or behavioral addiction. No prior yoga experience necessary. 5:45-7:15 p.m. Louden Nelson Center, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. Heidi Brown, 566-5825 or yoganoninfo@gmail.com. $5 donation. ADVANCED VINYASA FLOW Join Michelle Naklowycz every Wednesday morning for a level 2/3 Vinyasa Flow. There will be lots of space
offered to stay with the most accessible version of a pose or to explore as deep as you like. 9-10:30 a.m. Santa Cruz Yoga, 402 Ingalls St., Santa Cruz. michellenak2@gmail.com. $15/$9.
GROUPS OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS OA is a 12-Step support group for those who wish to stop compulsive eating. 10:30-11:30 a.m. Trinity Presbyterian Church, Youth Room, 420 Melrose Ave., Santa Cruz. Nate, santacruzoa.org/ meetings or 429-7906. Free. MIDNIGHT RIDE - WHEN ROGUE POLITICIANS CALL FOR MARTIAL LAW Have you noticed the police and surveillance
CALENDAR state being quietly built around us since 9/11? ‘Midnight Ride’ explores what would happen if the dollar crashed. 7-9:30 p.m. Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave., Santa Cruz. SantaCruzFreedomForum.org, midnightride.us or 708-8626. Free/Donation.
HEALTH QI GONG FOR ENERGY BALANCE & HEALTH BY BREIGE WALBRIDGE Qi Gong is a fantastic and easy practice that brings physical happiness and mental calm. 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel. 462-8383. Donation.
THURSDAY 1/21 ARTS THURSDAY ART MARKET Held rain or shine in the Tannery Courtyard, features live music, artist demonstrations, loft artists, and guest chefs with rotating menus. The adjacent Working Studios at the Tannery Arts Center will be open to visitors. 3-6 p.m. Tannery Arts Center, Santa Cruz. COMMUNITY POETRY CIRCLE Join the circle and write a poem in a creative and supportive environment. All ages and levels of poets are welcomed. 6-7:30 p.m. Watsonville Public Library, 275 Main St., Suite 100, Watsonville. magdarose@hughes.net. Free.
CLASSES MIDDLE SCHOOL INFORMATION NIGHT AT GATEWAY SCHOOL Prospective families are invited to learn how our exceptional middle school prepares adolescents to succeed in high school and beyond. 6-8 p.m. Gateway School, 126 Eucalyptus Ave., Santa Cruz. Colleen Sullivan, Admissions Director: 4230341 ext. 302. Free. IMPROVING CHILDREN’S NUTRITION & PHYSICAL ACTIVITY THROUGH POSITIVE PARENTING This is a free parenting support group to provide strategies to increase children’s healthy eating and physical activity. 6-8 p.m. Dominican Rehabilitation Center, First
Naturopathic Medical Center, 736 Chestnut St., Santa Cruz. thresholdchoir.org/santacruz. Free.
SALSA RUEDA PREP CLASS FOR BEGINNERS Only on Jan. 14 and Jan. 21: Dropin, no partner required. Prep class for upcoming Salsa Rueda series beginner 2. 8-9 p.m. Louden Nelson Center, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. SalsaGente.com or 426-4724. $9/$5.
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AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT Come explore Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement Classes. These engaging classes will heighten your vitality as they increase your self-awareness and flexibility. Pre-registration required. 5:30 p.m. Pacific Cultural Center, 1307 Seabright Ave., Santa Cruz. 426-8893. Free. TRIYOGA BASICS/THERAPEUTIC YOGA WITH KIM TriYoga taught by Kim Beecher, DC includes sustained postures with prop support. Everyone is welcome. Suitable for those with chronic conditions. 7:30 p.m. 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz. 464-8100. $15. 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.
HEALTH ENTRE NOSOTRAS GRUPO DE APOYO Open to Spanish-speaking women with all types of cancer from diagnosis through treatment and the healing process. Meets every first and third Thursday of the month. Call to register. 6-8 p.m. Entre Nosotras, Watsonville. 761-3973. Free. WOMENCARE: LAUGHTER YOGA Laughter yoga for women with cancer meets the first and third Thursdays. Call WomenCARE to register: 457-2273. 12:30-1:30 p.m. WomenCARE. Free. FOOD ADDICTS IN RECOVERY ANONYMOUS Obsessed with food, weight or dieting? FA is a program based on the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. There are no dues, fees or weighins at FA meetings. 9-10:30 a.m. 420 Melrose Ave., Santa Cruz. Elana, 435-0680. Free. ARM-IN-ARM CANCER SUPPORT GROUP2 For women with advanced, recurrent and metastatic cancers. Registration required. 12:30-2 p.m. WomenCARE 457-2273. Free.
MUSIC SONGS OF COMFORT FOR THE COMMUNITY Sing and receive the gift of song focused on your well-being with Santa Cruz Threshold Singers. 7-8:30 p.m. Santa Cruz
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 1/22 CLASSES 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.
FOOD & WINE AUTOIMMUNE PROTOCOL (AIP) BATCH COOKING Nutrition Consultant Madia Jamgochian and Licensed Acupuncturist Magali Breke pair up in this hands-on cooking class to teach you their secrets to homemade meal planning. 6-8:30 p.m. New Leaf Community Market, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. newleafwestside.eventbrite.com. $45/$40.
LIVE PIANO BAR MUSIC AT ZIZZO’S COFFEE, WINE & PIANO BAR Stuart Buie plays popular classical & jazz favorites for your listening pleasure. 7-9:30 p.m. Zizzo’s Coffee, Wine & Piano Bar, Brown Ranch Marketplace, 3555 Clares St., Capitola. 477-0680 or zizzoscoffee.com. WALLACE RONEY GROUP Wallace Roney evokes the innovative style pioneered by Clark Terry, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis like no other trumpeter today. 7 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz Center, 320 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. 427-2227. $30. THE CROOKED ROAD CEILI BAND— STOMPIN’ IRISH CONTRA DANCE The Crooked Road Ceili Band presents a lively winter contra. 7 p.m. Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave., Santa Cruz. 476-6424 or facebook.com/ events/181739415506725/. Free.
OUTDOORS SAN LORENZO RIVER LEVEE LIGHTING CEREMONY The City of Santa Cruz welcomes the public to celebrate the official opening of San Lorenzo River Parkway Phase II Project, with California Secretary for Natural Resources John Laird and Mayor Cynthia Mathews. 5:15-6 p.m. San Lorenzo River Levee next to Warriors Stadium and adjacent to Laurel Street Extension. Janice Bisgaard. Free.
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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.
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 adoptable animals can also be found online. Noon. PetSmart, 490 River St., Santa Cruz. animalshelterrelief.org.
MUSIC FOURTH FRIDAY FAMILY MUSIC JAM It’s time to jam with your fam. Bring your whole fam and jam out with us in our Music Together classroom behind The Abbey Coffeehouse. 4:30-6:30 p.m. 239 High St., Santa Cruz. Tammy, 438 3514 or musicalme.com. $20 donation. BRAZILIAN CARNAVAL WITH SAMBADÁ AT MOE’S ALLEY SambaDá is back and ready to bring some heat to this cold Santa Cruz winter. The band will be joined by Brazilian singer and dancer, Dandara and the Pragandaia Band. 8 p.m.-Midnight. 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. moesalley.com. $15.
CLASSES SATURDAY OPEN HOUSE AT GATEWAY SCHOOL Walk through Gateway School's classrooms, hear from specialist teachers and the Head of the School, be treated to a musical performance, and get to know our student docents. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Gateway School, 126 Eucalyptus Ave., Santa Cruz. gatewaysc.org. Colleen Sullivan, Admissions Director: 423-0341 ext. 302. Free. FREE FRUIT TREE PRUNING DEMONSTRATION This week, join us for the best tips and tricks to pruning fruit trees with
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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.
Floor Conference Room, 610 Frederick St., Santa Cruz. 227-4145 or first5scc.org/calendar/ parent?trainings. Free.
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CALENDAR Joe Strang. Check-in at the nursery front desk. 1:30-2:30 p.m. McShane’s Nursery & Landscape Supply, 115 Monterey Salinas Hwy. mcshanesnursery.com or sp@ mcshanesnursery.com. Free.
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OPEN HEART OPEN HIPS WITH EOIN FINN We will take some time to break down the basics of hip function and focus on the potential risk and alignment strategies so we can choose the appropriate level without harming ourselves. Some yoga experience is recommended. Noon3 p.m. Santa Cruz Yoga, 402 Ingalls St., Santa Cruz. michelle@blissology.com. $35/$30.
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MUSIC UGLY BEAUTY Featuring jazz standards, boogie-woogie, New Orleans funk and gypsy jazz. Enjoy the music in a comfortable, familyfriendly venue just ten minutes away from downtown Santa Cruz. 6-9 p.m. Davenport Roadhouse Restaurant and Inn, 1 Davenport Ave., Davenport. davenportroadhouse.com, 462-8801. Free.
TRIYOGA NATURAL ALIGNMENT CLASS Join Kim Beecher for this Natural Alignment yoga class. Includes an in-depth understanding of alignment, anatomy, and the benefits of the postures. All are welcome. 8:30-10:30 a.m. TriYoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz. 464-8100. $15.
LIVE PIANO BAR MUSIC AT ZIZZO’S COFFEE,WINE & PIANO BAR Rocky & Matisse sing and play your jazz standard favorites. 7-9:30 p.m. Zizzo’s Coffee, Wine & Piano Bar, Brown Ranch Marketplace, 3555 Clares St., Capitola. 477-0680 or zizzoscoffee.com.
INTERMEDIATE TRIYOGA CLASS WITH JAMIE ANDRES-LARSEN TriYoga flows are presented with personalized guided alignment assistance. For Levels 1 and 2. 10:30 a.m. Triyoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz. 464-8100. $15.
ESOTERIC COLLECTIVE PLAYS JAZZ Esoteric Collective plays straight-ahead jazz featuring music ranging from 1940s bebop to the 1960s. Enjoy the music in a comfortable family-friendly venue just 10 minutes from downtown Santa Cruz. 6-9 p.m. 1 Davenport Ave., Davenport. 426-8801. Free.
RHYTHM AND MOTION DANCE WORKOUT Rhythm and Motion is a high-energy dance workout. For almost 40 years dancers and non-dancers have gathered to learn routines made up of various dance styles. 9:30-10:45 a.m. Motion Pacific, 131 Front St., Santa Cruz. 457-1616. $14/Free.
SHERRY AUSTIN WITH HENHOUSE Sherry Austin with Henhouse is a magical combination of music woven from folk, country, and rock. Their music ranges from sweet love songs to gritty rock. 6-9 p.m. 1 Davenport Ave., Davenport. 426-8801. Free.
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afterward. 1-3 p.m. Mount Madonna Center, 445 Summit Road, Watsonville. 408-846-4060 or info@mountmadonnainstitute.org. Free.
BOOMER HUMOR The 3 Funniest Fossils, still standing up and still kicking ass, wax wacky about boomer life from politics to the boomer bedroom. 7 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz Center, 320 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. 323-854-8543 or brownpapertickets.com/event/2476839. $25/$20.
HEALTH COMPLEMENTARY TREATMENT FORUM Educational and collaborative group for women with cancer who want to learn about complementary treatments. Meets every fourth Saturday of the month. Call to register. 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. WomenCARE, 457-2273. 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. An optional one-hour class preview will be available
OUTDOORS FRUIT TREE Q & A Join Orin Martin of UCSC’s Alan Chadwick Garden and Matthew Sutton or Orchard Keepers for this free Q&A session on fruit trees. 10 a.m.-Noon. The Garden Company, 2218 Mission St., Santa Cruz. Pam Dewey, 4593240 or casfs@ucsc.edu. Free. BEGINNERS MUSHROOM WALK Learn the rudiments of fungus foraging, identification, photographing, and taking spore prints with mycology expert and photographer Al Frisby. Meet at 11 a.m. at Aptos Coffee Roasting, then enjoy a 2-3 mile hike in Nisene Marks State Park, where a variety of mushrooms can be found. Specimens will not be collected (State Park rules). Optional: bring a snack/water, a camera/phone and notebook to take notes. $15. RSVP aljfrisby@yahoo.com. Rain cancels. POST-APOCALYPTIC ZOMBIE FUN MUD RUN A post-apocalyptic, Zombie Fun Mud Fun, Special Z Games was created to bring awareness to school systems that aren’t
equipped to help special needs children. 10 percent of all proceeds from Special Z Games go to a foundation which provides financial support for families. 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, 344 Tully Road, San Jose. 251-0731. $60.
SUNDAY 1/24 ARTS COMMUNITY WRITERS FEATURING DAN PHILLIPS Come join us for the monthly Community Writers series. Poet Dan Phillips is the featured author in January. There will be time for open mic by poets and prose writers reading original work. 2:30-4:30 p.m. Porter Memorial Library, 3050 Porter St., Soquel. 5154122 or poetrysantacruz.org. Free.
OUTDOORS HISTORY HIKE: A WALK THROUGH TIME When most people hike the Quail Hollow trails, they're enjoying nature. But it is possible to walk the hills, listening instead to the stories of who came before you. Sign up by calling 335-9348. Rain cancels the event. 1-3 p.m. Quail Hollow Ranch County Park, 800 Quail Hollow Road, Felton. Lee Summers, 335-3948 or prc120@ scparks.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. 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. CHANUKAH HOSTED BY CHADEISH YAMEINU Celebrate with Santa Cruz's Jewish Renewal congregation. Join with entire congregation and Munchkin Minyan lighting
candles, singing, and snacking. Visit website for more details. 4:30-6:30 p.m. Peace United Church, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. cysantaCruz.com. Free. SUBUD INTRODUCTION Subud is a worldwide association of people who follow the spiritual practice known as the Latihan Kejiwaan, an exercise of surrender to the divine force within each one of us. Reservation required. 11 a.m.-Noon. Subud Center, 3800 Old San Jose Road, Soquel. 588-3013 or santacruz.subudcalifornia.org. Free.
MONDAY 1/25 HEALTH ARM-IN-ARM CANCER SUPPORT GROUP For women with advanced, recurrent and metastatic cancers. Registration required. 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. WomenCARE 457-2273. Free.
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. 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 1/26 ARTS 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 santacruzwaves.com.
GROUPS NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUPS: APTOS A 12-step program for the friends and families who have been affected by the addiction or drug problem of another. 7-8:30 p.m. Freedom Road Church, 7200 Freedom Blvd., Aptos. saveyoursanity@aol.com or helpline 291-5099. Free. OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS OA Tools of
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CLASSICAL INDIAN DANCE Join Triyoga Center Santa Cruz in ringing in their 30-year anniversary with renowned Pampa Dance Academy chief choreographer Nirmala Madhava. Madhava is a master of Bharata Natyam and Kathak dance forms and has choreographed theater productions all over the world, adding her own training, flair and personal knowledge to the traditional Indian dance styles. Over the course of Pampa Dance Academy’s 25 years, Madhava has performed in schools, colleges, and universities and has led the company through international conference and ethnic dance festivals.
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BUSINESS DEBTORS ANONYMOUS Living in chaos and drama around money? You are not alone. In Business Debtors Anonymous, all are welcome, and we specifically focus on recovering from debt in one’s business. 5:156:30 p.m. Calvary Episcopal Church, Parish Hall 532 Center St., Santa Cruz. 425-3272. Free.
HEALTH CANCER SUPPORT GROUP WomenCARE support group for women newly diagnosed, or undergoing treatment, for cancer. Registration required. 12:30-2 p.m. WomenCARE, 4572273. Free.
MUSIC SHERRY AUSTIN WITH HENHOUSE Sherry Austin with Henhouse is a magical combination of music woven from folk, country and rock. Their music ranges from sweet love songs to gritty rock. 6-9 p.m. 1 Davenport Ave., Davenport. 426-8801. Free.
SPIRITUAL FOCUSING YOUR MIND AND OPENING YOUR HEART MEDITATION COURSE Start the new year with this four-week introductory meditation course. 7-8:45 p.m. Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel. office@landofmedicinebuddha.org or landofmedicinebuddha.org. Free/Donations.
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LOCAL BAND RUMBLE STEELSKIN
“We’re Rumble Steelskin. We’re here to kick your ass!” exclaims guitar player and founding member Jimmy Cardarelli, with his hands in the symbolic metal horns pose. And he’s not lying. The first time I saw them was roughly two years ago at the Blue Lagoon. It struck me as surprising that there weren’t many people in the audience for such a tight, rhythmic rock band. Turns out, it was one of their first gigs.
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The five-piece power act draws from a list of influences such as Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Megadeth and other heavy hitters in the genre. Within the last half year, the band has solidified into a lineup of Cardarelli and Kenneth Kaschalk on guitar, Jasen Christensen on drums, Tim Mullen on bass, and Anna Carlson on vocals. Since then, they have embarked on an ambitious, 13 song full-length album—with the working title Thrawn—recorded at Carlson’s Ocean View Studios, to be released sometime early this year.
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While Rumble Steelskin plays the Rock Bar in San Jose on Jan. 20, this Saturday they celebrate their Catalyst stage debut with some help from a few friends. “We’ve got Heavy Hands [from Salinas] and Still Searching [from Santa Cruz]—two heavy bands from the area—opening up,” says Cardarelli. As an added bonus, comedian El Pasty Guero—the “host of the most gross”—will emcee the event. “I haven’t showered since their last gig at Bocci’s [in December],” El Pasty says. “So everyone will be in for a real treat.” MAT WEIR INFO: 9 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23. Catalyst Atrium, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $8. 429-4135.
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THURSDAY 1/21 ROCK
MALI, BURNSIDE &J Mix rock, reggae, New Orleans, the blues, and other various music styles from around the world and the result might be a taste of what Papa Mali, Cedric Burnside and Brian J are bringing to Moe’s Alley. Individually, they are respected powerhouses in their own right: Mali is a founding member of the 7 Walkers and even earned his name from reggae artist Burning Spear; Cedric has the blues running through his blood, being the grandson of R.L. Burnside; and Brian J is the energetic leader of the soul-infused funk outfit Pimps of Joytime. MAT WEIR INFO: 8:30 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $10/adv, $15/door. 479-1854.
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AGENT ORANGE As one of the longest-running California punk bands still throwing fists in the pit of life, Agent Orange shied away from the commercial marketing many
of their contemporaries later bought into. They’ve also shied away from recording new music, having only three studio full-lengths to date, with the last one in 1996. However, in all that time they toured relentlessly, keeping a central fan base of die-hards while picking up new listeners along the way. Their first LP, Living In Darkness, is a hardcore surf-punk opus and one that is mandatory in the collection of every person who calls themselves a punk. MW INFO: 8:30 p.m. Catalyst Atrium, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $12/adv, $15/door. 429-4135.
FRIDAY 1/22 SKA
DAN P + THE BRICKS With a 10-piece all-star ska ensemble, it’s not like there’s much money after they’ve divvied it up between them. This band is about playing as much ska as possible, for the sheer love of ska. These guys have been at it for over two decades, and come from ’90s bands Slow Gherkin and MU300. Unlike their skapunk bands of yesteryear, the Bricks harken back to classic Jamaican ska and
rocksteady grooves, but with a strong modern pop sensibility. AARON CARNES INFO: 9 p.m. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $10/adv, $12/door. 429-6994.
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MELISSA BROOKS Melissa Brooks and the Aquadolls are a Southern California-based indie band that skillfully blends the pop sweetness of doo-wop and 1950s maltshop music with the smart, rough ethos of the riot grrrl movement. An emerging underground favorite that calls Burger Records home, this outfit is led by singer-songwriter Melissa Brooks, who launched the band making bedroom demos of her songs in 2012. CJ INFO: 9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $12/adv, $14/door. 423-1338.
SATURDAY 1/23 ROCK
PAUL THORN After a couple of listens to Paul Thorn’s feel-good anthems, it might come as
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BE OUR GUEST AUTOGRAF Autograf is making big waves in the electronic underground, but the Chicago trio is rooted not in music, but in visual arts. Comprising Jake Carpenter, Louis Kha and Mikul Wing, Autograf was originally an outlet for visual artists. Those creative leanings remain a core part of the Autograf experience. Even as the trio is what the Chicago Tribune calls an “enigmatic and dreamy house group,” they include plenty of visual elements, including art installations and performance tools. The result is something extraordinarily eye- and ear-catching. CAT JOHNSON DIRTY CELLO
stream music map, but they were just getting started. Since then, the Cowboy Junkies have released dozens of albums, raked in international awards, grown a global following, and remained one of the quiet treasures of the contemporary folk/rock landscape. CJ
INFO: 7:30 p.m. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $26/gen, $40/gold. 423-8209.
You say that the cello is just a backing instrument? Balderdash, responds Rebecca Roudman. She is a cello playing extraordinaire after all, and leads the band Dirty Cello. The band plays every style imaginable, and does some fantastic covers. (Their rendition of “Purple Haze” is incredible.) But what is most spectacular about them is hearing the depth of soul in Roudman’s playing—it goes beyond what most people would expect from the instrument. She plays it with so much heart, you’ll wonder why more bands don’t have a cellist. AC
SUNDAY 1/24 FOLK/ROCK
COWBOY JUNKIES My introduction to the Cowboy Junkies was their stunning version of the Velvet Underground’s “Sweet Jane.” The song immediately found a place in my heart and turned me onto a masterpiece album called The Trinity Session which the band recorded in Ontario’s Church of the Holy Trinity. The song and record put the Toronto-based band on the main-
INFO: 8 p.m. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $30. 423-8209.
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INFO: 7 p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $10. 335-2800.
MONDAY 1/25 JAZZ
MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL ON TOUR The fourth incarnation of the moveable musical feast known as the Monterey Jazz Festival On Tour marks a generational shift. Launched in 2007 in conjunction with the festival’s 50th season as a way to celebrate Monterey’s legacy and extend its brand, this all-star aggregation has featured well-traveled masters such as saxophonist James Moody, pianist Kenny Barron and vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater. This year, the tour showcases a cast of cats born in the 1960s and ’70s, led by 31-year-old pianist Gerald Clayton. With bassist Joe Sanders, drummer Gregory Hutchinson, saxophonist Ravi Coltrane and trumpeter/pianist Nicholas Payton, there’s no golden age veteran in sight, just mid-career stars. The wild card is guitarist/vocalist and songwriter Raul Midón, who’s rarely performed in a straight-ahead jazz context. ANDREW GILBERT INFO: 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $35/adv, $40/ door. 427-2227.
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Psychedelic rockers out of Oakland. Thursday at Crepe Place WALLACE ROONEY
Jazz trumpet great who studied under Miles Davis. Friday at Kuumbwa PAINTED MANDOLIN
New band, led by Joe Craven, that pays tribute to Jerry Garcia’s acoustic side. Saturday at Don Quixote’s ROACH GIGZ
Bay Area underground hip-hop standout. Saturday at Catalyst ANTSY MCCLAIN
Everyone’s favorite trailer-park troubadour comes to town with the Troubs Trio. Monday at Moe’s Alley
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a shock to find out that he used to be a professional boxer—he once fought Roberto Durán on a nationally televised battle. But that part of his life is over, and now he sings heartfelt, passionate tunes that are equal parts country, rock and blues. Oddly, his music sounds like it would make a good training soundtrack. It’s the kind of music that fills your heart with determination and emotion, and brings chills up your spine. It’s really catchy, too, as Thorn has a gift for melodies. Good thing he never got his larynx punched out. AC
9 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $10/adv, $15/door. 423-1338. WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/giveaways before 11 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 22 to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to the show.
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LIVE MUSIC
Wednesday January 20th 8:30pm $7/10 NYC Party Funk Meets Jambalaya Brass Band
SOPHISTAFUNK + TUBALUBA Thursday January 21st 8:30pm $10/15 All-Star Band w/ Brian J (Pimps Of Joytime), Papa Mali & Cedric Burnside (Memphis Blues Drummer Of The Year)
MALI, BURNSIDE & J + PAPIBA & FRIENDS
WED APTOS ST. BBQ 8059 Aptos St, Aptos
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Al Frisby 6-8p
AQUARIUS RESTAURANT Santa Cruz Dream Inn 175 W Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz BAYVIEW HOTEL 8041 Soquel Dr, Aptos
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Preacher Boy 6-8p Minor Thirds Trio 6:30-9:30p
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+ YABAS DANCE TROUPE DANDARA & PRAGANDAIA Saturday January 23rd 9pm $15/20 Bluegrass & Beyond With
HOT BUTTERED RUM + MIDNIGHT NORTH Monday January 25th 8pm $15/20 A Very Special Double Bill With
ANTSY MCCLAIN + NELL ROBINSON & JIM NUNALLY BAND Thursday January 28th 9pm $15/20 Mardis Gras Celebration With The
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SAT Lloyd Whitney 1-5p Hawk n Blues Mechanics 6-8p
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Al Frisby 6-8p
Live Jazz & Wine Tasting Salsa Bahia 6-9p 6-9p Comedy Night/80s Night Free 8:30p
Night Dive, Lungs & Limbs, Antique Radio $5 9p
Olright, Noetic, PVNDTS, The Box (Goth Night) Superfool $5 9p 9p
BLUE LOUNGE 529 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz
Pride Night 9p
Party w/Raina 9p
Incidental Live Music Revue w/Alisha
Karaoke 8p-Close
BOCCI’S CELLAR 140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz
Funk Night w/ Light the Band Free 9p
Swing Dance Social Ukulele Club Free 4:30p $5 5:30p Camino Bordinghouse Free 8p Free 9p
BRITANNIA ARMS 110 Monterey Ave, Capitola
Karaoke 9p
CASA SORRENTO 393 Salinas St, Salinas
DJ Luna 9p
CATALYST 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz
Boombox $18/$22 8p
CATALYST ATRIUM 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz
Show Me the Body $7/$10 8p
CILANTROS 1934 Main St, Watsonville
Hippo Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p
Agent Orange $12/$15 8p
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Rand Rueter 6-8p
Tango Ecstasy 6-9:30p
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BLUE LAGOON 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz
BOARDWALK BOWL 115 Cliff St, Santa Cruz
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Broken Shades 6-8p
Minor Thirds Trio 7-10p
Friday January 22nd 9pm $15/20 BRAZILIAN CARNAVAL PARTY
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Mark Hummell 6-8p
Sound Off Saturdays Reggae Party Free 9p
Comedy Night 9p
Watzreal, Three Dimensional Crew & More $5 9p Karaoke
Locals Night, Music w/ Lil Billy
Karaoke 8p-Close
Karaoke 8p-Close
Jazz Society Free 3:30p Lise the Songwriter Los Teles $30/$35 Free 8p 6:30p
Karaoke 9p
Roach Gigz, Minnesota B2B, G Jones Ezale, Los Rakas $19/$24 8p $20/$25 8p Melissa Brooks and Heavy Hands the Aquadolls, Swmrs $8 8:30p $12/$14 8:30p
Occasional Caucasians Free 8p Songwriter Showcase 7-10p
Kung Fu $12/$15 8:30p
KPIG Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p
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Friday January 29th 9pm $17/20 Blues Favorite Returns
COCO MONTOYA
International Music Hall and Restaurant
FINE MEXICAN AND AMERICAN FOOD ALL YOU CAN EAT LUNCH BUFFET M-F $7.95
Saturday January 30th 9pm $15/20
Wed Jan 20
Jamaican Reggae Great Returns
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Chris Jones & The Night Drivers 8 International Bluegrass Awards
$15 adv./$15 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm
Timothy James Presents: THE SUBTLE ART OF LYING Magic & Illusion
+ SOULWISE & DJ SPLEECE
Thu Jan 21
Sunday January 31st 8:30pm $13/17
Fri Jan 22
Zeppelin Live Dazzling Led Zeppelin Tribute
Sat Jan 23
Painted Mandolin ACOUSTIC GARCIA with Joe Craven (of Garcia / Grisman Band),
World Class Funk With 3 Guest Singers
THE MOTET February 4th February 5th February 6th February 10th
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Yuji Tojo $3 8p
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The Primadons $5 9p
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The House Rockers $6 9:30p
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1/25
MON Moonbeau, The Shang-His $8 9p
TUE
Live Comedy $7 9p
Free Reggae Party Free 8p Sherry Austin w/ Henhouse
Ugly Beauty Chris Jones & The Night Drivers $15 7:30p
Timothy James $12/15 7:30p
Zeppelin Live $17 8p
THE FISH HOUSE 972 Main St, Watsonville
Painted Mandolin, Joe Craven $12/$15 8p
1/26
7 Come 11 $5 9p
Dirty Cello, The Nora Cruz Band $10 7p
Flingo 7p
Beat Street Band 8p
Streuth 9p
Olde Blue 9p
IT’S WINE TYME 312 Capitola Ave, Capitola
Open Mic 7p
Jack and Hannah 6:30p
Mike and Lenny 7p
Seaside Sisters 7p
Wallace Roney Group $30 7p
Will Durst, Dan St.Paul, Richard Stockton $20/$25 7p
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Live Music 5:30-9p
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BOOMER HUMOR TRIO: WILL DURST, DAN ST. PAUL & RICHARD STOCKTON Tickets: PlanetCruzComedy.com MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL ON TOUR FEATURING RAUL MIDÓN, RAVI COLTRANE, NICHOLAS PAYTON, GERALD CLAYTON, JOE SANDERS, GREGORY HUTCHINSON |No Comp Tix Tuesday, January 26 • 5:30 – 9 pm
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MISSION ST. BBQ 1618 Mission St, Santa Cruz
Tomas Gomez 6p
Al Frisby 6p
Rand Rueter 6p
MOE’S ALLEY 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz
Mali, Burnside, Sophistafunk, Tubaluba J+Papiba & Friends $7/$10 8p $10/$15 8p
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WALLACE RONEY GROUP featuring Lenny White – drums Anthony Wonsey – piano Rashaan Carter – bass Benjamin Solomon – saxophone
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AARON NEVILLE QUINTET FEATURING CHARLES NEVILLE Saturday, February 13 • 7:30 pm TUCK & PATTI | No Comp Tix Valentine’s Jazz & Dinner Packages Available! Monday, February 15 • 7 pm
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PARADISE BEACH 215 Esplanade, Capitola
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THE POCKET 3102 Portola Dr, Santa Cruz
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POET & PATRIOT 320 E. Cedar St, Santa Cruz
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The Alex Raymond Band 8p
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Santa Cruz Musicians Only Weekly Showcase 6-9p
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Dennis Dove Pro Jam 7-11p
R&B Vocal Sensation “Twenty Feet From Stardom”
Aaron Neville Quintet
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TRAPPER’S TALE Leonardo DiCaprio plays a trapper with a thirst for revenge in ‘The Revenant.’
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Man vs. man vs. nature in bloody ‘The Revenant’ BY LISA JENSEN
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famous stage direction in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale reads: “Exit, pursued by a bear.” A bear has to be introduced at this point, but it’s up to the discretion of the theatrical director to figure out how to do it. In his wilderness survival/revenge movie The Revenant, filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu takes the direct approach. A giant grizzly bear rises up out of the underbrush behind star Leonardo DiCaprio and runs straight at him—and the audience. But this bear does not merely pursue; a savage mauling commences, every moment of which we get to watch in excruciating detail for many long minutes. As a piece of filmmaking, it’s an extraordinary sequence. But in
dramatic terms, while the scene is as visceral and horrifying as it needs to be for the purposes of the story, it’s hard for the viewer (OK, me) to quell that nagging voice in her head that wonders: how the heck did they do that? We’re caught up in the spectacle, not the drama. And that’s just the beginning of this literally blood-soaked tale of brutality, loss and revenge. Like most of Iñárritu’s films (Amores Perros; Babel; Birdman), it’s a morality play, although morality is slippery in the world of rival American and French fur trappers encroaching on native lands, native tribes defending their turf from the white men and each other, unforgiving nature (and of course, that bear), in which The Revenant takes place. It’s more like
a post-morality play in which greed, commerce, violence, and villainy are so deeply entrenched that no one emerges with his soul unscathed. In the American frontier of the 1820s, a party of trappers from a distant fort are out in the wilderness collecting pelts under the command of the youthful but conscientious Captain Henry (Domhnall Gleeson). Their tracker, loner Hugh Glass (DiCaprio), lived with an Indian tribe for years—until white soldiers burned the village and killed his native wife. Now he’s been hired to lead trappers through the forest with his teenage son, Hawk (Forrest Goodluck). When a band of Arikara (or “Ree”) warriors attack their camp, only a few men escape to their boat. They’ve ditched the boat downriver
as a decoy and are heading back to the fort on foot when Glass has his close encounter with the bear. There’s barely enough of him left for Henry (who’s had some medical training) to stitch back together. They drag Glass along on a litter for awhile, until the captain finally makes the fateful decision to leave the dying Glass behind with two trappers to give him a decent burial. But the designated caregivers are Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy), a shifty opportunist with a half-scalped pate who’s already had run-ins with “Injun-lovin” Glass, and Bridger (Will Poulter), a green youth Fitzgerald knows he can bully. The trappers’ odyssey back to the fort plays out against a Ree chieftain trading their stolen pelts with the French trappers for guns and horses on his own mission of vengeance. Meanwhile, Glass claws his way back from the brink of death using all his Junior Woodchuck skills, motivated by one thing: revenge on the dastardly Fitzgerald. Gruesome bloodletting mostly ensues. While the bear is instinctively protecting her cubs, the human animals are more vicious, according to their separate agendas—and the moral decisions they (may or may not) choose to make. Still, Iñárritu handles other passages with quiet lyricism. Glass’ fever dreams are beautifully staged, particularly those involving the haunting presence of his unnamed wife (Grace Dove), and a crumbling, highly symbolic Spanish mission. Landscapes are vast and uncaring, and many establishing shots of sky-scraping treetops echo his wife’s parable that “A tree with strong roots will not fall.” A lone Pawnee brave whose village has been massacred by the Sioux befriends Glass, and in the one moment of levity, they catch snowflakes on their tongues. This man delivers the moral of the story, that vengeance is in the hands of the Creator, although it takes a lot more killing, knifing, maiming, and bleeding before the characters and the filmmakers remember it. THE REVENANT **1/2 (out of four) With Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, and Domhnall Gleeson. Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Rated R. 156 minutes.
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DIRTY GRANDPA Robert de Niro plays Dick Kelly—aptly named and quite the smutty old man—who, after only a few days after his wife’s death, tricks his grandson into letting loose in Florida for spring break. With a bevy of booties and other common Zac Efron film accessories (beer cans, a lack of clothing, etc), perhaps the appearance of Aubrey Plaza can class up this raunch comedy. Dan Mazer directs. Robert De Niro, Zac Efron, Zoey Deutch co-star. (R) 102 minutes.
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THE 5TH WAVE In a very logical sequence of alien attack events, first all the power goes out, then a global earthquake rips the earth apart, thirdy disease spreads and finally the aliens invade human hosts. So naturally, Chloë Grace Moretz grabs an AK and runs to save her younger brother, gets trained by Liev Schreiber in camo with a bunch of other teens and still finds time to snog a blonde teen heartthrob equivalent. J Blakeson directs. Chloë Grace Moretz, Matthew Zuk, Gabriela Lopez costar. (PG-13) 112 minutes. NORM OF THE NORTH When a real estate development invades his Arctic home, Norm fights back— with his three lemming friends and an ingenious plan. In an attempt to beat them at their own game,
Norm goes to New York City and becomes the corporation’s mascot in order to destroy it from the inside and protect his native habitat. Trevor Wall directs. Rob Schneider, Heather Graham, Ken Jeong co-star. (PG) 86 minutes.
NOW PLAYING CONTINUING EVENT: LET’S TALK ABOUT THE MOVIES Film buffs are invited Wednesday nights at 7 p.m. to downtown Santa Cruz, where each week the group discusses a different current release. For location and discussion topic, go to https:// groups.google.com/group/LTATM. 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. (PG-13) 111 minutes. DADDY’S HOME Will Ferrell is the step-dad competing again 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 costars. (PG-13) 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
EMO INVASION Chloë Grace Moretz is totally bummed about hostile aliens attempting to take over Earth in ‘The 5th Wave.’
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 costar. (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 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. 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.
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.
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.
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 costar. (PG-13) 135 minutes.
RIDE ALONG 2 Kevin Hart and Ice Cube are back as “The BrothersIn-Law” with the next installment of the Ride Along adventures. This time Ben (Hart) volunteers to join James (Cube) in pursuit of a powerful Miami drug dealer—and mayhem, of course, ensues. Between saving getting flung across the room by a ceiling fan, fending off alligator attacks, and rocking flower-printed pants with a Miami fedora, it’s bound to be as silly (and amusing, maybe) as the first installment. Tim Story directs. Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, Tika Sumpter costar. (Pg-13) 101 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)
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raced with the elegant energy of three top Santa Cruz Mountains vineyards, Nicole Walsh’s debut Pinot Noir under her own Ser label, has got my attention. A seasoned winemaker for Bonny Doon Vineyard, and vineyard manager for Randall Grahm’s San Juan Bautista estate vines, Walsh has put her signature spin on the 2012 harvest from Lester Family Vineyard in Corralitos, Byington and Lilo Vineyards. By many accounts, the 2012 harvest was one of the best in memory for our appellation, and Walsh’s 2012 Santa
Cruz Mountains Pinot Noir underscores that opinion. From its opening nose of mint, licorice, and earth, to a central core of red fruit, this lovely Pinot Noir is completely loaded. The wine blends raciness with a balance of tannins and fruit, and the finish unfolds into cherries, orange peel and something like dark strawberries. From start to finish, the wine reflects Walsh’s belief that wine “has an ability to move us, to create an emotional reaction,” she says. This wine has already put the rock-star winemaker (my friend Laura Ness’ apt description) on a
prestigious map, taking a Double Gold at the recent Pinot Noir Shootout in San Francisco. Walsh is dedicated to preserving the true varietal character of the wines she’s begun making under her own label— ser means “to be” in Spanish. The appellation’s unique terroir, the essence of the grape-growing region, guides Walsh’s intent “to allow the wine to express where it comes from,” she says. Walsh has also recently released a 2014 Coastview Vineyard Chardonnay, a 2013 Coastview Syrah and a 2013 Lilo Vineyard Pinot Noir.
You will need to get your hot chocolate fix elsewhere (may I suggest Chocolate?) now that the highly niched Mutari Chocolate Bar has closed. Same for the longtime Chinese culinary favorite Little Shanghai on Cedar Street (now home of Mandarin Gourmet) and Taqueria Vallarta at the lower end of Pacific Avenue. But there are also new tasting opportunities, including a new sister cafe to be opened by the Westside favorite Cafe Ivéta on the UCSC campus, in the Quarry Plaza location that once housed Joe’s Pizza and Subs. “The space is under construction now, and we plan to open in early February,” Ivéta owner John Bilanko told me last week. Bilanko says that the new shop will offer a breakfast and lunch “similar to what we do here at the Westside Ivéta, but we will also be open in the evening.” Good news for students whose appetites don’t stop at 4 p.m. “We’ll do a limited lunch menu of fresh items, hot entrees and burgers, too. They wanted burgers. So, it’s a little different," Bilanko says. The new UCSC Ivéta will also serve beer and wine in addition to a full espresso bar. The former Chicagoans, John and Yvette (Ivéta) Bilanko brought their successful pastry recipes to Santa Cruz 16 years ago and opened the Delaware Avenue cafe in 2010. (Thank you, thank you.) Now, their popular blend of irresistible breakfasts and pastries, plus signature salads and outrageously delicious sandwiches will add texture and flavor diversity to the UCSC campus.
WEST CLIFF WINES Run out and grab a bottle of the 2012 Syrah from the hand of Andre Beauregard, now available at Shopper’s Corner for $21. This is one stand-up Syrah, loaded with spice, tannic attitude, and just a joy to drink with bold-flavored foods.
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the other is at 402 Ingalls St., Santa Cruz in the Swift Street Courtyard complex, open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. O’Brien is running some good sales on his wines right now, and Feb. 13 Silver Mountain is hosting a celebration called Wine Lover’s Weekend. What a good time to take your sweetheart wine tasting! Check silvermtn.com for more info.
DATE NIGHT SANTA CRUZ With all of the new movies out now and the Academy Awards coming up on Feb. 28, why not take in a good flick and spend time wining and dining on the local scene? Landmark Theatres (The Nick, Del Mar Theatre and Aptos Cinemas) collaborates with 13 of Santa Cruz’s favorite restaurants to offer a Dinner-and-a-Movie package Monday through Thursday. Tickets for “Date Night Santa Cruz” all cost $50, and include two movie tickets and up to $50 in restaurant credit. The package can be purchased at any of the partner restaurants or at the box offices. Sign up for Landmark’s Film Club Newsletter and you’ll be in the know. Visit the theater box office for tickets and more info.
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The Sun enters Aquarius on Wednesday, Jan. 20. The energies shift and change in our unpredictable world. From the concretion (earth, mountains) of Capricorn (cardinal initiating sign) to the air of Aquarius, humanity’s sign of freedom, the future and the new age. Aquarius is ruled by Uranus. This means Aquarius works with Uranus, which offers humanity revelations, revolutions and “all things new.” Aquarius calls humanity to create the New Culture and Civilization, bring forth the New Education (based on astrology and the Ageless Wisdom Teachings), create the New Economy (the sharing economy), feed the world differently (biodynamic gardening, Steiner’s work), and come to the aid of suffering humanity. There are quotes we can ponder upon this month as the Sun in Aquarius streams into the Earth bringing with it the changing, new world Aquarian energies. Saturday, the moon is full, and Mercury is stationary direct on Monday. From Buckminster Fuller on creating the new world, “You never change things by fighting
the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” From Ryokan (Zen Buddhist monk/ hermit, poet) on serving suffering humanity, “Oh, that my priest’s robe were wide enough to gather up all the suffering people in this floating world.” From Antero Alli (writer, astrologer, illuminator) on our present dislocated identity, “We know who we are. We are the dispossessed, the outcasts, and the outsiders, rebels with a cause … we renunciate dominator culture’s status quo … wavering in the fog of dislocation. Free-floating between old worlds and new, guided only by the shining paths of mother evolution … We have passed the point of no-return and since there is no turning back, we celebrate the momentum lifting us on the wings of perception, grace, and whatever skills we have earned … Only when we are over, does our real life begin. (“The Eight-Circuit Brain.”)
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As the world continues its shift from one age to the new (Pisces to Aquarius), you’re called to be a server of humanity, focusing your will(ingness) and abilities toward initiating the new culture and civilization and discovering like-minded groups who will assist you in this historical, era-changing task. This is what you’ve been called here to do in this present lifetime. Begin with intentions. Be dedicated.
Daily life rhythms seem to have been interrupted. There’s a wound or pain or an inability to do what you are used to be doing. You need new tools to navigate. You’ve experienced a slow down. This is the time when creativity can express itself more fully. Recapture an art form you did in the past. Begin again. Think about home, family, growing up, and everything related to art and culture.
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TAURUS Apr21–May21 You’re called to bring forth ideas that will activate and then support the work Aries (and the New Group of World Servers) will do as they initiate the new economic order (the New Sharing Society). The past months (if not years) you’ve known your job was to gather information for the times to come, which you know will be difficult. Even if only a few listen, carry on.
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CANCER Jun21–Jul20 The next weeks uncover deep and unrecognized feelings. Careful. Don’t be too secretive about what you’re doing. You’ll want and need people around to share your thoughts and feelings, ideas and plans. Your heart’s missing people these days. You often have information valuable to others’ well-being. Say yes more. Say yes to what’s offered. Then offer more.
LE0 Jul21–Aug22 You assess your everyday work, how to care for yourself on a daily basis, and the best ways to be effective and efficient with all responsibilities. Is more communication needed in certain relationships? There’s a need to share your values and to set time aside for special moments. Write down your values. The focus on values will continue. It’s a mirror into your future.
VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 You’ll accomplish tasks and then redo them. You’ll think you’ve completed something and find it’s completely incomplete. You’ll find odds and ends from the past showing up seeking something or other. You’ll be busy, productive, at times impatient. Look backward, backpedal when necessary, review, renew, and in the midst of all of this reorganization, you’re happy.
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SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 You ponder upon questions of security and what determines emotional safety. You think about home, wondering where it is. You consider living in other areas and regions, consider ordering an astro-cartography (geographical astrology) chart. What you need to include in your thinking is community, because in the future you can no longer be alone all the time. What would home in a community look like for you?
SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20 It’s good to explore neighborhoods, neighbors’ yards, downtowns, gardens, town squares, and to have social contact with others. Focus on things local, consciously spending money that supports community endeavors. Also consider what’s of value to you, investing in the values you believe in. Stay steady. Information at times seems all mixed up. Feelings, too. Be silent for a while. Sag is the sign of silence.
CAPRICORN Dec21–Jan20 Careful with communication. It may be missing here and there in the retrograde. Focus on defining your values. Try not to spend on non-essentials, depleting your financial resources. Do you have a monthly budget yet, to assess expenditures at month’s end? You will not lack money. It’s simply a time to value and be consciously careful with money and resources. You are valuable.
AQUARIUS Jan21–Feb18 More and more people will be attracted to what you do, say and think. You will find yourself especially brilliant in terms of new ideas. A new self-identity dawns upon you. You’re more than you’ve ever thought yourself to be. It takes many years, lots of life experiences, and many ups and downs for us to value ourselves. Your words are important. People listen. You’re more than you know.
PISCES Feb19–Mar20 We see you struggling to flourish and maintain yourself. It’s a struggle of identity, geography, place, groups, leadership, and of things constantly dissolving away. New opportunities and contacts eventually emerge out from the shadows. Each day you become more and more practical. A future plan is coming into form and matter. It loves you. Prepare each day for it. With hope and faith and prayer. These are Pisces’ tasks.
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BIKES. 299 HUBBARD GULCH, BEN LOMOND, CA 95005. County of Santa Cruz. DAVID YOST. 299 HUBBARD GULCH, BEN LOMOND, CA 95005. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: DAVID YOST. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 9/10/2015. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Jan. 5, 2016. Jan. 13, 20, 27, & Feb. 3.
statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Jan. 04, 2016. Jan. 13, 20, 27, & Feb. 3. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-2143 The following Individual is doing business as B.C.S, BROSING CONSTRUCTION SERVICES. 7171 MESA DR., APTOS, CA 95003. County of Santa Cruz. KARL H. BROSING. 7171 MESA DR., APTOS, CA 95003. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: KARL H. BROSING. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Dec. 22, 2015. Jan. 6, 13, 20, 27.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0022 The following General Partnership is doing business as VETERANS TAKE CHARGE STORE. 101 CEDAR ST. APT 102, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. JUSTIN BAKER & DAVID RAMOS. 101 CEDAR ST. APT 102, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by a General Partnership signed: JUSTIN BAKER. The registrant commenced
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to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Jan. 5, 2016. Jan. 13, 20, 27, & Feb. 3. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0032 The following Individual is doing business as DEAN SOMERVILLE TREE GUY. 1745 LOTMAN DR., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. DEAN SOMERVILLE. 1745 LOTMAN DR., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: DEAN SOMERVILLE. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Jan. 6, 2016. Jan. 13, 20, 27, & Feb. 3. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-2125 The following Individual is doing business as CENTRAL COAST MOBILE NOTARY SERVICE. 4575 JEWEL STREET, CAPITOLA, CA 95010. County of Santa Cruz. DENA KIM LEVEY. 4575 JEWEL STREET, CAPITOLA, CA 95010. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: DENA KIM LEVEY. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 10/8/1999. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Dec. 15, 2015. Dec. 30, & Jan. 6, 13, 20.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-2130 The following Individual is doing business as TECH MONEY GENETICS. 61 ROGGE LANE, WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. County of Santa Cruz. PHILLIP CARRANCO. 61 ROGGE LANE, WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: PHILLIP CARRANCO. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 6/19/2015. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Dec. 16, 2015. Dec. 30, & Jan. 6, 13, 20. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16 - 0070 The following General Partnership is doing business as EQUILIBRIUM. 543 SEABRIGHT AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. AUSTIN TWOHIG, DOMONIQUE SPEIGHT, & KELLEN RICE. 543 SEABRIGHT AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by a General Partnership signed: AUSTIN TWOHIG. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Jan. 11, 2016. Jan. 20, 27, & Feb. 3, 10. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0093 The following Individual is doing business as QUINN CLEANING. 22400 LOVE CREEK RD., BEN
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LOMOND, CA 95005. County of Santa Cruz. HANNAH QUINN. 22400 LOVE CREEK RD., BEN LOMOND, CA 95005. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: HANNAH QUINN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Jan. 12, 2016. Jan. 20, 27, & Feb. 3, 10.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15 - 2135 The following General Partnership is doing business as SANTA CRUZ GREEN. 1548 EL DORADO AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. PETER FEURTADO JR., & JACOB J. THOMAS. 1548 EL DORADO AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by a General Partnership signed: PETER FEURTADO JR. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION OF ORDINANCE BY POSTING (ORDINANCE NO. 2016-01)
The City Council of the City of Santa Cruz having authorized the city clerk administrator, that the ordinance hereafter entitled and described, be published by posting copies thereof in three (3) prominent places in the City, to wit: The City of Santa Cruz Website www.cityofsantacruz.com City Hallâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;809 Center Street Central Branch Libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;224 Church Street NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that copies of said ordinance were posted according to said order. (Original on ďŹ le with city clerk.) Said ordinance was introduced on January 12, 2016 and is entitled and described as follows: ORDINANCE NO. 2016-01 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA CRUZ AMENDING CHAPTER 16.05.100(d) TO REVISE REGULATIONS REGARDING ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AT THE LOCH LOMOND RECREATION AREA This ordinance would allow the use of alcohol at the Loch Lomond Recreation Area with a valid City-issued permit and subject to certain restrictions. PASSED FOR PUBLICATION on this 12th day of January, 2016, by the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers Terrazas, Lane, Noroyan, Posner; Vice Mayor Chase; Mayor Mathews. NOES: None. ABSENT: Councilmember Comstock. DISQUALIFIED: None. APPROVED: ss/Cynthia Mathews, Mayor. ATTEST: ss/Bren Lehr, City Clerk Administrator. This Ordinance is scheduled for further consideration and ďŹ nal adoption at the Council meeting of January 26, 2016.
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listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Dec. 17, 2015. Dec. 30, & Jan. 6, 13, 20. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0097 The following Individual is doing business as ASANTE PLUMBING. 921 CAYUGA ST., UNIT C. SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. ROBERT THUITA. 921 CAYUGA ST., UNIT C. SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: ROBERT THUITA. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 11/30/2015. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Jan. 13, 2016. Jan. 20, 27, & Feb. 3, 10. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0061 The following Limited Liability Company is doing business as MISSION DRY CLEANERS. 1224 MISSION STREET. SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. MIRSHAMSI, LLC. 1224 MISSION STREET. SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. AI# 25810016. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company signed: VALY JALALIAN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name
listed above on 1/8/2016. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Jan. 8, 2016. Jan. 20, 27, & Feb. 3, 10. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16 - 0101 The following General Partnership is doing business as BOTANIC AND LUXE. 701-A FRONT STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. ARIEL CARLSON & LEILANI KANTER. 701-A FRONT STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by a General Partnership signed: ARIEL CARLSON. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Jan. 13, 2016. Jan. 20, 27, & Feb. 3, 10. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0111 The following Individual is doing business as DS PAINTING. 1141 EL DORADO AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. DAVID ALLEN SMITH. 1141 EL DORADO AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: DAVID ALLEN SMITH. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT
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