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INSIDE Volume 41, No.44 February 3-9, 2016

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OPINION

EDITOR’S NOTE Back at my first newspaper job at the Watsonville RegisterPajaronian, I wrote a story about how the long-term projections for the California salmon population were alarming. Two decades later, those numbers didn’t turn out to be accurate. In fact, the reality is far worse than what scientists and fishermen were able to imagine then. Maria Grusauskas’ cover story this week explains why. From rising ocean temperatures to how an unforeseen crop trend in the Central Valley is killing off salmon before they even reach the Monterey Bay, her story puts together the pieces to

LETTERS

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BOTTLED UP

Re: “Bubbling Up” (GT, 1/27): I applaud Mr. Ow’s forward thinking (as always) and the realization of his dreams with the Westside project. He has created less expensive space for inventors and artists, which is sorely needed in Santa Cruz’s ever-more-costly rental market. One thing only, regarding LifeAID/FitAID, athletes have more than their share of healthy beverages shelf space. The cost to the already plastic-polluted environment and of additional water usage are a definite downside, and I think leasing/rental agents should reconsider signing with bottled-drink entrepreneurs.

create a clear picture of how we got here. Just as importantly, it explains why it matters. Salmon play a remarkable role in shaping our ecosystem that very few of us understand—but after reading this story, you will. Lastly, a quick update, also on the topic of conservation and our link to the natural world: last year, I wrote about Santa Cruz’s internationally renowned nature photographer Frans Lanting, and mentioned he would be doing a show locally in 2016 featuring his photos from the Monterey Bay. That event, “Frans Lanting’s Bay of Life,” is coming to the Rio this Saturday, Feb. 6. Lanting will share images and stories at two shows, at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. For ticket information, go to lanting.com. STEVE PALOPOLI | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Organized actions that do not cause problems for passers-by show consideration for the public, so the public is more inclined to pay attention to the idea and to support it. Lining overpasses and sides of freeways with signs and banners for miles, without harassment of bystanders, without blocking traffic, would make drivers feel communicated with, not hassled and endangered and unfairly blamed. Successful protests are those that gain more and more support for the cause. Successful protests involve real strategy. KATHLEEN MILLER | APTOS

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The Box Bike Collective, a new Santa Cruz-based business, has started building innovative, easy-to-ride cargo bicycles and launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund them. The bikes have a box behind the front wheel, making it easier to carry kids, groceries and surfboards, and a battery to help with the pedaling, says founder Alex Yasbek. He says he always loved bike commuting and decided he didn’t want to give it up when he had a kid.

We’d like to take a second to honor the service of Dennis Popper, also known as TuPop ShaCorn, the hardest-working—or at least funniestnamed—popcorn maker in the business. The popcorn maker is now gone, and its former home, Aptos Cinemas, has been gutted. The 45-year-old institution closed Jan. 26, after Landmark Theatres announced its lease at the Rancho Del Mar Shopping Center had not been renewed. Thanks for the memories, Mr. Popper. You always left us feeling buttered up.

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BAD STRATEGY Re: “Fury Road” (GT, 12/23): Freeway protests are bad strategy. They frighten and endanger and alienate people who are not responsible for the problem being protested against. They lose support. Social change only happens when there is widespread support for the change. Blocking freeways and airports attracts attention, but gains no support, no solidarity. History shows us many truly effective ways to change a societal problem, ways that do not just end up looking like a tantrum. Blockading corporate offices, arms factories, polluting businesses, etc. also get attention but make sense and deal directly with those responsible.

RE: ‘CATCHING FIBER’ This partnership is one of the best things the City of Santa Cruz has ever undertaken. As an IT professional, I can't find anything bad about this project. The benefits are numerous and widespread. The risks are extremely minimal. Everyone wins, except maybe Comcast and AT&T. Personally, it can’t get here fast enough for me. —JOHN RICKARD

RE: ‘BUBBLING UP’ Hi Kara Guzman. So well-written. Thank you for putting such good and thorough energy into this story. I know the story well >8

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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of February 3 ARIES Mar21–Apr19

LIBRA Sep23–Oct 22

The Bible’s Book of Exodus tells the story of the time Moses almost met God. “Show me your glory, please,” the prophet says to his deity, who’s hiding. “You cannot see my face,” God replies, “but I will show you my back parts.” That’s good enough for Moses. He agrees. I hope that you, too, will be satisfied with a tantalizingly partial epiphany, Aries. I’m pretty sure that if you ask nicely, you can get a glimpse of a splendor that’s as meaningful to you as God was to Moses. It may only be the “back parts,” but that should still stir you and enrich you.

“I like people who unbalance me,” says Irish writer Colum McCann. Normally I wouldn’t dream of encouraging you to make the same declaration, Libra. My instinct is to help you do everything necessary to maintain harmony. But now is one of those rare times when you can thrive on what happens when you become a bit tilted or uneven or irregular. That’s because the influences that unbalance you will be the same influences that tickle your fancy and charge your batteries and ring your bell and sizzle your bacon.

TAURUS Apr20–May20

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21

The archaic English word “quaintrelle” refers to a woman who treats her life as a work of art. She is passionate about cultivating beauty and pleasure and wit in everything she is and does. But she’s not a narcissistic socialite. She’s not a snooty slave to elitist notions of style. Her aim is higher and sweeter: to be an impeccable, well-crafted fount of inspiration and blessings. I propose that we resuscitate and tinker with this term, and make it available to you. In 2016, you Tauruses of all genders will be inclined to incorporate elements of the quaintrelle, and you will also be skilled at doing so. If you have not yet dived into this fun work, start now!

The African Association was a 19th-century British group dedicated to exploring West Africa. Its members hoped to remedy Europeans’ ignorance about the area’s geography. In one of the Association’s most ambitious projects, it commissioned an adventurer named Henry Nicholls to discover the origin and to chart the course of the legendary Niger River. Nicholls and his crew set out by ship in their quest, traveling north up a river that emptied into the Gulf of Guinea. They didn’t realize, and never figured out, that they were already on the Niger River. I’m wondering if there’s a comparable situation going on in your life, Scorpio. You may be looking for something that you have already found.

GEMINI May21–June20 Sufi teacher (and Gemini) Idries Shah offered this teaching: “They say that when Fortune knocks, you should open the door. But why should you make Fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?” Let’s make this your featured meditation, Gemini. If there is anywhere in your life where proverbial doors are shut— either in the world outside of you or the world inside of you—unlock them and open them wide. Make it easy for Fortune to reach you.

CANCER Jun21–Jul22 Many Cancerians harbor a chronic ache of melancholy about what they’re missing. The unavailable experience in question could be an adventure they wish they were having or an absent ally they long to be near or a goal they wish they had time to pursue. That’s the bad news. The good news is that you can harness the chronic ache. In fact, it’s your birthright as a Cancerian to do so. If you summon the willpower to pull yourself up out of the melancholy, you can turn its mild poison into a fuel that drives you to get at least some of what you’ve been missing. Now is a favorable time to do just that.

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LE0 Jul23–Aug22

How will the next chapter of your story unfold? I suspect there are two possible scenarios. In one version, the abundance of choices overwhelms you. You get bogged down in an exciting but debilitating muddle, and become frazzled, frenetic, and overwrought. In the other possible scenario, you navigate your way through the lavish freedom with finesse. Your intuition reveals exactly how to make good use of the fertile contradictions. You’re crafty, adaptable, and effective. So which way will you go? How will the tale unfold? I think it’s completely up to you. Blind fate will have little to do with it. For best results, all you have to do is stay in close touch with the shining vision of what you really want.

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“To hell with my suffering,” wrote Arthur Rimbaud in his poem “May Banners.” I suggest you make that your mantra for now. Anytime you feel a sour thought impinging on your perceptions, say, “To hell with my suffering.” And then immediately follow it up with an expostulation from another Rimbaud poem, “It’s all too beautiful.” Be ruthless about this, Virgo. If you sense an imminent outbreak of pettiness, or if a critical voice in your head blurts out a curse, or if a pesky ghost nags you, simply say, “To hell with my suffering,” and then, “It’s all too beautiful.” In this way, you can take advantage of the fact that you now have more power over your emotional pain than usual.

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21 Richard P. Feynman was a brilliant physicist who won a Nobel Prize in 1965 for his pioneering work in quantum electrodynamics. He also played the bongo drums and was a competent artist. But excessive pride was not a problem for him. “I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb,” he testified. “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.” I suggest you adopt him as your role model for the next two weeks, Sagittarius. All of us need periodic reminders that we’ve got a lot to learn, and this is your time. Be extra vigilant in protecting yourself from your own misinformation and misdirection.

CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 Food connoisseur Anthony Bourdain has a TV show that enables him to travel the globe indulging in his love of exotic cuisine. He takes his sensual delights seriously. In Charleston, South Carolina, he was ecstatic to experience the flavorful bliss of soft-shell crab with lemon pasta and shaved bottarga. “Frankly,” he told his dining companion, “I’d slit my best friend’s throat for this.” Bourdain was exaggerating for comic effect, but I’m concerned you may actually feel that strongly about the gratifications that are almost within your grasp. I have no problem with you getting super-intense in pursuit of your enjoyment. But please stop short of taking extreme measures. You know why.

AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 You may sometimes be drawn to people or places or ideas long before they can give you their gifts. Although you sense their potential value, you might have to ripen before you’ll be ready to receive their full bounty. Here’s how author Elias Canetti expressed it: “There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, yet one carefully refrains from reading even a complete sentence. Then after twenty years, there comes a moment when suddenly, as though under a high compulsion, one cannot help taking in such a book from beginning to end, at one sitting: it is like a revelation.” I foresee a comparable transition happening for you, Aquarius.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 The Leaning Tower of Pisa is eight stories high, including its belfry, and tilts sideways at a four-degree angle. When builders started construction back in 1173, they laid a weak foundation in unstable soil, and the building has never stood straight since then. And yet it is the most lucrative tourist attraction in the city of Pisa, and one of the top ten in Italy. Its flaw is the source of its fame and glory. What’s the equivalent in your world, Pisces? Now is a favorable time to take new or extra advantage of something you consider imperfect or blemished.

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One of my favorite things about running an independent brokerage is the range of real estate services we can offer, and each of the categories of projects that we take on brings a set of skills and experiences that are uniquely satisfying in remarkably different ways.

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For Residential transactions, our connections to the NAR and CAR via the local Santa Cruz County Association of Realtors is tantamount. Under the REALTORÂŽ trade organization, the Code of Ethics provides the professional infrastructure for the effective representation of buyers and sellers through the powerful tools of the MLS, Broker Tours, and Lockbox system through which we network with our fellow residential agents, as well as the tie-ins to popular consumer-facing search engines like Zillow, Trulia and Redfin. In Commercial transactions, surprisingly little happens through the MLS, although it occasionally serves as a crossover link to the more traditional residential agencies whose agents may dabble in the occasional commercial deal. More often, the deals are done through direct networking with the other commercial offices in the area, and searches and marketing are primarily conducted on national sites like Loopnet and CoStar, where stiffer membership fees pose a barrier to casual practitioners and where agents and serious investors mingle on more common footing. Commercial leases present a unique set of challenges and triumphs when you are able to successfully coordinate the formation of a lasting contractual bond between a building owner and a business owner.

For our Property Management division, we do most of our marketing through CraigsList for monthly rentals and on Homeaway and AirBnB for vacation rentals. The majority of our networking and legal forms are transacted through our membership with TriCounty Apartment Assn., and transaction management and bookkeeping is handled through Appfolio software suite. Our bond with our owners is a particularly satisfying one as they entrust us with the task of safeguarding their property and maximizing their income, while our relationship with tenants can be equally satisfying, attained by cultivating a mutual environment of fairness and respect. In the end, it all comes down to relationships built on trust and parties upholding their side of the deal. That is the universal bond that ties us all together. datta Khalsa is the broker and owner at Main Street Realtors in Soquel. He can be reached at (831)818-0181 or datta@mainstrealtors.com Paid Advertorial

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NEWS NOT DIGGING IT Plan to reconfigure Beach Flats Community Garden rankles activists, but the future is uncertain BY SALLY NEAS

BUDDING THREADS Jarrad Pecoraro, the director of Herbal Cruz on 41st Avenue, says that some of the county’s medical

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s he points out items in his 41st Avenue shop, Jarrad Pecoraro, the director of Herbal Cruz, sounds more like Willy Wonka than a marijuana expert. “Over here we have everything from ice cream and frozen popsicles to blueberries covered in chocolate, espresso beans covered in chocolate and candy bars of every flavor,” he says. Along with more than 100 strains of cannabis flowers—the buds and blossoms that most people think of when they imagine cannabis— Herbal Cruz’s shelves boast iced teas,

bubble gum, medicinal balms and ointments, saltwater taffy, cupcakes and cookies. Unlike what’s available on the black market, everything at Herbal Cruz has been properly weighed and lab tested to ensure patients know what they are getting. But not everything is sweet for the medical marijuana industry, with growers and patients trying to navigate an ever-changing landscape of marijuana laws and enforcement policies. Cultivation laws have been the blazing question at the center of the cannabis issue both in Santa Cruz County and across the nation. Locally, a 13-member advisory

panel called the Cannabis Cultivation Choices Committee—or C4, for short—was chosen last year by the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors to tackle that question. Five of the C4’s members were chosen to represent county supervisors and their constituents; five more were picked to represent the cannabis industry; and three members were added for their “knowledge of land use, neighborhood issues, environmental protection or the medicinal value of cannabis.” But while the C4 was poring

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Colorful streamers weave in and out of the metal fence to the Beach Flats Community Garden, framing a large sign proclaiming “Save the Garden” and creating a vivid display for cars whizzing by on Third Street in Santa Cruz. Garden supporters created the artwork to bring continued attention to the community garden after a recent decision by the Santa Cruz City Council asking gardeners to vacate the garden in order to reconfigure it. The notice to vacate was an unexpected addendum to a resolution passed on Oct. 27, when the City Council voted unanimously to “negotiate with the goal of acquisition of the current Beach Flats Garden property to allow it to continue permanently as a community garden operated by the city.” This sounded like a win for gardeners and community supporters, who have been in limbo since March of last year, when the city issued a notice that the Seaside Company, which owns the land, would be reclaiming most of the parcel for its own landscaping purposes. “After the resolution, the gardeners put lots of trust in the city,” garden supporter Senka Pavisic says. Then in January, the council issued new terms to the gardeners. City officials said that they would only negotiate with the Seaside Company to buy the land if the gardeners were to vacate the premises on Jan. 20, something the gardeners have yet to do. They are also calling on gardeners to sign a letter wherein they agree to surrender 40 percent of the land to the Seaside Company, which owns the land and the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. The city plans to reconfigure the remaining parcel. “We’ve been trying to work with the gardeners because that is what we have a lease for,” city manager Martín Bernal says, stressing that the original date to leave was November and that originally the remaining garden would be much smaller. City officials point out that there are two projects in play. The first is >14

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over details last October, Gov. Jerry Brown signed the Medicinal Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act (MMRSA). The bill not only formed the Bureau of Medicinal Marijuana Regulation, but also set a controversial March 1 deadline for all cities and counties to present regulatory and licensing programs—a provision lawmakers say slipped in by accident. A bill is currently awaiting a vote in the assembly to undo the “mistake.” In the meantime, many communities have responded by completely banning cannabis altogether. So far, scores of cities and a half a dozen counties have approved bans. “The term in the industry is ‘Banapalooza,’’’ says Patrick Malo, co-founder of Santa Cruz’s Cannabis Advocates Alliance (CAA), and a C4 member.

IN WEED WE TRUST Instead of giving in, the C4 is working to sort out the complex issues that swirl around a booming industry. There are currently 18 states that allow medicinal use, and in the last four years, five states have legalized recreational cannabis use. ArcView

Market Research, based in Oakland, estimates the value of California’s legal cannabis industry was a whopping $1.3 billion in 2015. Business is blossoming locally, as well. Between November 2014 and October 2015, Santa Cruz County marijuana tax revenues of $1.95 million exceeded officials’ estimates. Patients pay the standard 8.25 percent sales tax as they would for any product at any other store. On top of that, the 14 regional brickand-mortar dispensaries also pay an additional 7 percent tax, exclusive to their industry. “We don’t pass that on to our patients,” Pecoraro says. Despite the rise in recreational and medicinal cannabis use throughout the country, the cultivation of commercial cannabis has a sticky history, thanks to rapidly changing laws—and it’s been no different in Santa Cruz County. In 2014, the Board of Supervisors ratified County Code 7.126, which legalized cultivation for commercial medicinal use, limiting farmers to 99 plants. Many advocates in the cannabis community believed this was problematic due to the difference in size between outdoor and indoor yields. It also raised concern because it called for all

farmers in the county to be tied to a local dispensary, while most cultivators elsewhere service several dispensaries throughout the state. A year later, everything went up in smoke. In March of 2015, citing environmental concerns along with neighborhood complaints of light and noise pollution, the board repealed 7.126, ratifying a new ordinance that banned commercial cultivation and limited each grow to a 100-square-foot space for personal use only. The new language also removed much of the limited protection given to farmers. Anxiety ignited soon after, with reform-minded grower groups like the CAA forming in direct response to that proposed ban. “Santa Cruz has a long history of progressive politics, and has always been a leader on the cannabis front,” explains Malo. Two months later, advocates filed a ballot referendum to repeal the changes, gaining 11,210 signatures, well over the 7,248 signatures needed to qualify. Afraid of losing at the ballot, the board repealed its ban, reverted back to the previous rules and created the C4 committee to craft some innovative reforms.

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agencies in December 2014. The ensuing report, released in May, has spurred some law enforcement agencies, like the local sheriff’s department, to begin thinking about a shift. Hart assigned a task force of 20 deputies and 20 community members to examine and discuss the recommendations. At the event, which Congressmember Anna Eshoo attended, deputies announced plans to purchase body cameras, another move Obama has pushed for, although some activists have mixed feelings, based on privacy concerns.

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NOT DIGGING IT <11 reconfiguring a smaller, interim garden on the 60 percent of the land the Seaside Company has agreed to lease to the city for the next three years. The second is making a plan for a long-term community garden in the city. Bernal says that before they can move forward in negotiations with the Seaside Company, they first need to return the 40 percent of the land that the city does not have a lease for. “It is hard to negotiate with someone when you haven’t even complied with the first thing you said you would do,” he says. The notice to leave part of the land was still disheartening to the gardeners and their supporters. “I thought they were going

to help us, but now it seems like they are not,” says Don Emilio Martinez Castañeda, a founder of the garden and 25-year resident. His plot is on the 40 percent slated for removal. For him, moving his plot would mean losing his decades-old nopales cactus and over two decades of investment in the soil. “I have garlic that is this high,” he says, using his fingers to indicate about 6 inches. “What am I supposed to do? Tear it up? It is just a little baby.” Castañeda helped write and submit a letter to city council on Jan. 25, which was signed by 17 gardeners. The letter states that the gardeners “are confident that the city will do everything it can to purchase the land” and calls for “a more favorable solution for all.” The letter ends by stating that the undersigned gardeners intend to

continue gardening the entire plot. Only one signed the letter that the city sent them. The group launched a fundraising campaign on Monday, Feb. 1, to try and help the city purchase the space. “Many of the gardeners are focused on the entire garden,” says Director of Parks and Recreation Dannettee Shoemaker. She has been trying to work with gardeners to redesign the smaller interim garden, but has had trouble finding willing participants. Their cause has gotten some high-profile attention. United Farmworkers co-founder Dolores Huerta toured the garden on Nov. 13, offering words of encouragement. “There’s people out there that are manipulating the food supply, so we have to counter that with things like a community garden,” Huerta said. A few days later, rock

icon Patti Smith, who was in town with her new book, endorsed the fight on stage, saying “Let’s save our gardens! We don’t need any more fucking buildings!” The gardeners and supporters hope that the community response, as well as the vitality of the garden to the community, can turn their situation around. “This garden is essential for the community. It is food security,” says Pavisic. “There are plenty of places that the Seaside Company can put their landscaping business. If we lose the garden, who gets hurt in that situation? Seaside doesn’t, the city doesn’t, the community does.” Amidst the back and forth, the future of the garden remains uncertain, even to city officials. “How it will turn out?” says Shoemaker. “Honestly, I’m not sure.”

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The committee was designed to draw up specific recommendations for the legal, commercial cultivation of cannabis within the county while taking into consideration the concerns of patients and neighborhoods. It also aims to provide a framework for the county to cope with pot legalization, which many expect California voters to approve this year. So far, the C4 has gone on field trips to dispensaries, farms and areas damaged by mismanaged farms. And with stakeholders that have wildly different views, the process has been anything but speedy. But it has helped create the framework for a new licensing program that County Counsel Dana McRae introduced in December. The Medical Cannabis Cultivation Licensing Program appoints an officer to distribute one of two licenses for cultivation—a “Cottage Garden” license for 200 square feet of covered space or a large-scale cultivator license for 500 square feet. The program also calls for several suggestions discussed by the C4, including lifting the “county only” sale regulations to allow farmers to supply dispensaries throughout the state. (Pecoraro estimates 70 percent of Herbal Cruz’s items come from within Santa Cruz County.) The program set a March 1 deadline for the C4 to work out the details. In its Jan. 21 meeting, the C4 took a vote on the details of how the state’s latest rules will now affect growers in the coming years. Most of the meeting was spent balancing the best way to protect the sanctity and safety of county neighborhoods with the livelihoods of farmers and the health of patients. “The problems the neighborhoods faced that caused the county to put the reactive ban in the first place are real problems associated with an unregulated market,” Malo says. “We’re trying to form a regulated market to bring in the people who have been doing their very best to follow the law.”

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IS THERE HOPE FOR CALIFORNIA’S SALMON?

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or more than 14,000 years, humans have had a close relationship with wild salmon. Along the Pacific Coast, natives harvested thousands of adult salmon each fall from their spawning grounds in local rivers and streams, a catch that fed their families throughout the year. While many cultures in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska are still deeply wedded to the salmon resource, California’s grasp has

grown increasingly slippery, with only a small percentage of its historical natural breeding population remaining. Salmon’s legacy for Californians goes far beyond its estimated $1.4 billion fishery, or its classification as one of the most nutritious foods in the world: the fish also provide a vital transfer of nutrients and energy from the ocean back to the freshwater ecosystems where they were born.

“People have done studies to show that you can identify oceanderived nutrients from salmon in many dozens of different species, like kingfishers or water ouzels, fish-eating ducks, foxes, raccoons, coyotes—all the way up to the big predators that used to live here but are gone, like grizzly bears,” says Nate Mantua, a research scientist for NOAA’s Southwest Fishery Science Center in Santa Cruz. Accumulating 95 percent of

their biomass at sea, adult Pacific salmon die after they spawn, and their nutrient-rich carcasses, gametes (mature eggs and sperm) and metabolical waste return to the land. “It’s fascinating that, over the eons, a lot of fertilizer was provided by these dead salmon, so a lot of the wine grapes and a lot of the agriculture inland by the rivers was fertilized by salmon for a long time,” says Randy Repass of the Golden Gate Salmon Association (GGSA), a

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DAMMING A SPECIES The largest salmon known to man—with adults often exceeding 40 pounds, and capable of growing to 120 pounds—the chinook (aka king) salmon is the pride and joy of California’s salmon fishery. Not so long ago, the Central Valley watershed was one of the biggest

producers of naturally breeding chinook salmon in the world, second only to the Columbia River, with the Klamath River another big California contributor. Driven by the Sacramento and San Joaquin river systems, the Central Valley nursed a ballpark average of a few million salmon per year, emerging each spring out of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, says Mantua. “Today, natural production, maybe in a good year is in the hundred

thousand or hundreds of thousands,” Mantua says. “So, yeah, it’s a few percent of the historical population.” In addition to cold ocean water and an ample food supply at sea, salmon require cold river water that drains all the way to the sea, and, during their early life, a delta habitat. Salmon eggs do not survive in water warmer than 56 degrees, which is why adult fish ready to spawn instinctively head toward the cold, upper headwaters and

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coalition of salmon advocates based in Petaluma. Salmon’s yearly return props up an entire food web, replenishing bacteria and algae, bugs and small fish, and fueling plant growth with deposits of nitrogen and phosphorus. “They fertilized forests as well, there are lots of studies that find salmon’s ocean-derived nutrients in trees that grow along productive salmon watersheds,” says Mantua.

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years spent feasting on smaller fish and krill at sea, and back under the Golden Gate Bridge to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. As of 1989, the winter run had joined the ranks of 130 other endangered and threatened marine species when it was listed as an endangered species under the Federal Endangered Species Act. Ten years later, the spring run was listed as threatened. It’s the state’s numerous hatcheries, managed by the California Department of Fish and Game, that now propel the strongest fall run, which makes up the bulk of California’s fishery. Not to be confused with farmed salmon—a practice banned for salmon in California—and a far cry from the on-land GMO-raised salmon recently approved by the FDA and projected to hit supermarkets in two years, hatcheries produce about 90 percent of chinook salmon caught in the ocean. But hatcheries are not invulnerable to drought conditions or massive habitat losses in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. “When we have a really good fishing year out in the ocean, it’s because of two things,” says McManus. “We have a good contribution from natural spawning salmon coming out of the Central Valley, and we have a good contribution from the hatcheries.”

FEAST OR FAMINE When I ring Frank Ribeiro’s boat, Gayle R, in the Santa Cruz Yacht Harbor, his answering machine squawks out that there is “no new news!” With an email list of more than 1,000 customers for salmon and Dungeness crab, which he’s been fishing locally since ’71, everyone is clamoring to know if crab season will be called back on. I found Ribeiro—whose reputation as both a damn good fisherman and a notorious flirt echoes up and down the docks—on his boat, cooking a pot of beans. Sitting on the deck, he jokes to a passerby that he’s going to bottle and sell the rain water he’s been collecting in plastic bins when water is scarce this summer. “Like

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represents a generation of old timers who weathered both good and bad years, but for whom the good years outnumbered the bad. “When I first started, the piers were loaded,” says Wilson Quick, who began fishing out of Santa Cruz in 1966 with his dad, and continues to fish for salmon up and down the coast on his boat Sun Ra. “All of that stock was nothing but a solid commercial fleet. I would say there were at least 60 salmon boats in the Santa Cruz harbor in the beginning.” Today, there are 25 boats with commercial salmon permits, according to Hans Haveman of H&H Fresh Fish Co., who has also been the official fish buyer at the Santa Cruz Harbor for the past three years. Following a period of abundance in the late ’80s and then again in the late ’90s and early 2000s,

any bets for this coming season. “The fish are being killed in the Central Valley before they get a chance to get to the ocean,” says Ambiel. “If you follow the money, that’s who gets the water. It’s simple, just go look at the almond trees in the Central Valley.” Indeed, over the last few years, a fairly drastic shift has occurred, with high-profit almond crops replacing raisin grapes and other less profitable crops in the Central Valley. The problem for salmon is that it takes a gallon of water to produce one almond—which is three times more water than it takes to produce a grape—according to a study published in 2011 at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Water demands for agriculture are a known contributor to an estimated 95 percent loss of salmon’s critical rearing ground in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The success of the 2016 season also relies on the survival rate of the juveniles who went to sea in the spring of 2014. “That was a transition year from what looked like really good ocean conditions in 2012, 2013, the spring of 2014. But by the fall of that year, it started to look really bad,” says Mantua, who says ocean temperatures remained warmer than normal for all of 2015, which is not favorable. Two weeks ago, O’Farrell began the process of calculating 2016 abundance forecasts for both the Sacramento and Klamath rivers and tributaries—based on data that includes the return of fish the previous fall. Each March, he reports the number to the Pacific Fishery Management Council, who then sets the season in April. “Where we’re at right now, we’ve come out of the very low abundance periods of 2008 and 2009, but we don’t know exactly what the returns are for this past year,” says O’Farrell. “There are some issues that we are monitoring with regard to the effects of drought and ocean conditions. It’s hard to say which way the population’s going to go at this point, but we’ll have more information on that in a couple of months.”

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Under ideal conditions, a hatchery will produce a lot more juvenile salmon smolts that are ready to go to the ocean from a single pair of parents than could be produced in the wild. “Wild fish are spawning in gravels—some of those eggs may not get fertilized, some are going to get preyed upon by other fish or birds, some might not successfully hatch, and then once they hatch, the fry are going to be subject to lots of predation risk. So a lot of those fish end up getting eaten before they are big enough to go to sea,” says Mantua. “For a pair of natural spawning salmon, maybe in a really good year they’ll produce 50 or a hundred smolts, but for a pair of

spawning adults in a hatchery, they might produce 5,000.” But drought can tip those odds considerably: for the past two years, 95 percent of winter-run salmon were killed off by low water levels and high temperatures in the Sacramento River, and 98 percent of salmon eggs perished in the Red Bluff area this year. The drought also left Lake Shasta at low levels. Such conditions that hurt the winter run are not good for the other runs either, says McManus. Heavy rains not only raise river levels to help salmon down the river, they also raise water turbidity, which acts as a cloaking device against predators. The last year that happened was in the winter of 2010-2011, says McManus.

“It started raining in October, and it didn’t really stop until June. So, in a situation like that, in spite of the dam, there’s so much water everywhere that it mimics the way it used to be in the good old days before the dams,” he says. “In fact, you get a bunch of runoff coming down even below the dams. So in situations like that, survival of the juvenile salmon is quite high.” In 2014, to avoid high loss of baby salmon due to low, clear water conditions during drought, the GGSA began encouraging all of the state’s hatcheries to truck their productions down to the bay to release them safely. Of five major hatcheries, which collectively produce around 32 million juvenile salmon, says McManus, two were

already trucking 100 percent of their production, and by 2015, GGSA had gotten the other three to also give their smolts a ride—which is expensive. “The biggest hatchery we have in the Central Valley is called the Coleman Hatchery, up by Redding,” McManus says. “It produces 12.5 million juvenile salmon every year, and it’s around 280 miles from the Bay. You can fit about 120,000 in a tanker truck, so if you think about it, that’s over 300 truckloads.” This means there could be a fairly good chunk of hatchery-produced salmon out in the ocean this year— and old enough to be fished—as a result of the 2014 trucking, says McManus. But while scientists and fishermen

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water and lack of funding. But Lindley points to success stories in Central Valley wetland restoration in places like Clear Creek and Butte Creek. “These shallow areas that are nurseries for salmon, those populations have done very well, even during the poor ocean and drought periods,” he says. “So it’s not a lost cause. But we do really need to address some of these habitat issues, and find a way to operate salmon hatcheries in a way that supports our fisheries without imperiling their long-term liability. We’re really keen on working with GGSA and the fishing community and the broader fish and water communities to try to find those kind of solutions.” The GGSA is also working with researchers at NOAA to identify areas of high predation along the river and delta, to try to restore some of the historic rearing areas where the fish can pick up weight and size and find refuge from predators. Lindley thinks that the California WaterFix plan is a step in the right direction as far as making the state a little more resistant to drought and helping revive fish populations. The $20 billion program would utilize pumps and tunnels under the delta that would allow water to be taken out more efficiently. In the current system, a large amount of freshwater is pumped into the delta during the summer months to keep saltwater out, which is not only a waste of water but creates a big lake-like environment for freshwater fish to eat juvenile salmon, says Lindley. There has been success on the Columbia River since 2005, when water managers were required to begin opening the reservoirs every springtime, says McManus. “It’s worked wonders. The salmon runs in the Columbia River have rebounded big time. And it’s because of this runoff, it’s artificial runoff but it mimics natural runoff, and it functions exactly the same way. It carries the baby salmon in that camouflaged turbidity rapidly down the river, which is all you need,” McManus says. “So, in California, if we had something like that we would see a real beneficial result, rapidly.”

agree that trucking prompted an increase in survival, Steve Lindley, leader of the Fisheries Ecology Division at NOAA, says that the practice is the only GGSA-backed idea that his lab does not agree with. “We have serious concerns about the longterm consequences of those practices for the genetic integrity of the stock,” says Lindley. When salmon make their way down the river on their own, they use their sense of smell to memorize their way back. “When they’re trucked, the fish can’t find their way back to where they were born very accurately, and they end up going all over the place, and they interbreed with each other.” Inbreeding is especially detrimental to endangered fish, whose low numbers increase the probability. “It causes fish to die before they can reproduce,” says John Carlos Garza, a research geneticist at NOAA. Garza, who was recently dubbed “The Fish Matchmaker” in the New York Times, is currently working to provide DNA-based elucidation of kin relationships to conservation hatcheries. In the wild, salmon are more likely to recognize close kin to avoid breeding with them. “In the hatcheries, typically, it’s a haphazard process,” says Garza. “They’re sticking this big bucket into the tank, and taking whoever comes up first in line, first male, first female.” The genetic markers involve a noninvasive fin clipping, and is especially important for small hatcheries. “It essentially adds back in the element of inbreeding avoidance that occurs in natural populations to the hatchery environment,” he says.

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THEATER

HIGH ANXIETY Nike Doukas (left) and Marcia Pizzo bring the laughs as boozy women on the verge of romantic breakdown in ‘Fallen Angels.’ PHOTO: STEVE DIBARTOLOMEO

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Jewel Theatre Company shines with fizzy ‘20s farce ‘Fallen Angels’ BY LISA JENSEN

he latest production from Jewel Theatre Company is as light and bubbly as the champagne the characters quaff incessantly onstage. For the company’s second offering at their new home, the Colligan Theater at the Tannery, Artistic Director Julie James has chosen Noel Coward’s

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crowd-pleasing farce Fallen Angels. The play’s subject matter, that women might be capable of having sexual lives outside of marriage, was considered quite racy in its day. Even though its day was 1925—smack in the middle of the postwar, anythinggoes Jazz Age, when sexuality was obviously a fact of life—it was still

not something usually discussed onstage. But Coward got away with it using his trademark wit and grace, depicting not an affair, but its aftermath, and providing wry commentary on what happens when the wild past of two proper, married English ladies comes back to haunt (and entice) them.

The production is directed by Art Manke, veteran of both Santa Cruz Shakespeare (last summer’s hilarious The Liar), and JTC (the equally hilarious What the Butler Saw). Manke is also an expert on Coward, having directed nine productions of his work, and it shows in the fleet pacing

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and style he brings to this vivacious show. Coward’s Fallen Angels combines elements of the cult TV hit Absolutely Fabulous and its dizzy, champers-swilling girlfriends, with plenty of 1920s chic. Julia Sterroll (Nike Doukas) has been happily married to Fred Sterroll (Kit Wilder) for five years. (Their comfortable, powder-blue drawing room is the only set, masterfully detailed by scenic designer Tom Buderwitz to include a baby grand piano and a vintage Victrola.) On the morning Fred is leaving on an overnight golfing trip, they congratulate themselves that they still love each other, but they are no longer subject to the rash throes of being in love. Fred heads off to the links with his buddy, Willy (Shaun Carroll). Julia looks forward to a weekend of “practicing ballet” and amusing herself, until her best friend, Jane (Marcia Pizzo), Willy’s wife, rushes in with shocking news: a Frenchman named Maurice, with whom both ladies dallied seven years earlier, before they had even met their current husbands, has come to town. The ladies panic, desperate to keep their youthful indiscretions secret from their husbands. (“It’s unfair that men should have the monopoly on wild oats,” Julia complains, to which Jane counters, “They don't, but we let them think they do.”) But what they really fear is that now that their marriages have become so settled, they won’t be able to resist the Frenchman’s charms. Yet somehow their initial plan to run away for the weekend evolves into the two of them awaiting Maurice in the Sterrolls’ flat—both women in swanky evening dress and fortifying themselves with champagne. (Kudos to costume

designers David Kay Mickelsen and B. Modern for all the elegant costume changes—including the plaid plusfours of Fred’s golfing outfit.) This extended comic sequence is the centerpiece of the play, a boozy riff on Waiting For Godot. Doukas and Pizzo are wonderfully funny as small, dark, outwardly composed Julia, and tall redhead Jane, hovering on the edge of hysteria. Egging each other on, they discuss love, sex, and romance; pratfall about the flat; and segue from sisterhood to rivalry to recrimination as the bubbly flows. Wilder (better known for swashbuckling roles in The Three Musketeers and The Man in the Iron Mask with Shakespeare Santa Cruz), and JTC stalwart Carroll are just right as phlegmatic Fred and slightly more excitable Willy. Shaking the menfolk out of their complacency becomes the unspoken goal as the two couples meet the morning after to fling about accusations and speculation over what’s happened. And J. Paul Boehmer is sublimely unflappable as the prodigal Maurice. Finally, a word of praise for longtime JTC diva Diana Torres Koss’ scene-stealing turn as Saunders, the Sterrolls’ new maid. Nothing fazes the ferociously competent Saunders, and Koss is a riot throughout, whether answering the phone or sneaking over to the piano when no one else is about, entertaining the audience between scenes. She brings a little extra fizz to Coward’s sparkling cocktail. The Jewel Theatre Company production of Fallen Angels plays through Feb. 21 at the Colligan Theater at the Tannery. For ticket information, call 425-7506, or visit jeweltheatre.net.

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Boys and Girls Club – National Fine Arts Exhibition 543 Center Street – 5p-7p

One of thousands of clubs across the country are joining in a search to identify talented young artists. This month for First Friday, art created by Boys and Girls Club members will be on display. Winning pieces will be sent to a regional competition with possible advancement to the national level.

Kick-off party for the Cid Pearlman Performance production~ Year of Free . Featuring an early work-in-progress showing of Robbie Schoen and Cid Pearlman’s site-specific, immersive performance~Economies of Effort: 3 which will premiere at Felix Kulpa Gallery in March. The walls will display 20 years of ephemera from Pearlman’s dance company, including photos, programs, posters, and postcards.

Friday Realty – Vaughn Visnius

1001 Center Street – 5p -10p

Philanthropic photographer David Dennis unveils his seventh installation of photos focused on raising awareness and funds to improve our community in the areas of ocean conservation, education and homelessness. ~FACES OF THE SEA ODYSSEY will be an~evening of artisans, food, drinks and live music featuring portraits of students learning on the OíNeill Sea Odyssey. A portion of all sales will be donated to the O’Neill Sea Odyssey program.

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A very special First Friday event, in memory of a great friend’s photography. Please stop by Friday Realty on lower 41st in Pleasure Point to raise a glass to Vaughn Visnius aka “Vaughn-oRama,” a great father, husband and friend loved by so many! After a rewarding parenthood, Vaughn turned his attention to recording the wonders and beauty of our surroundings.~Following The Zen of Seeing, he went through life not merely looking at things but seeing with a deeper awareness and joy of being alive. With this appreciation Vaughn endeavored to capture the beauty and awe of our world through the lens of his camera.

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MARK LONDON & THE SUPERGREENS Mark London and the Supergreens are all about community involvement. When the masterminds behind Santa Cruz’s Hibernation Fest aren’t tracking down locals to join them onstage at the Crepe Place, they’re operating DIY record label Invertebrate Records, in addition to running a blog, “Two-Track Tuesdays,” where they feature music from local artists every week.

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Their own musical influences range in scope from Explosions in the Sky to Al Green, which explains their eclectic style and sound. The band has been playing together since 2013, but they prefer to remain, for the most part, underground. They have next to no music available online, but that hasn’t kept them from gaining popularity, or from landing the weekly Monday night slot at the Crepe Place.

Mark London & the Supergreens secured the Mixtape Monday gig through a local band that they originally met at Hibernation Fest. Hibernation is a winter music festival usually hosted at private houses, and often features not only musicians, but also other Santa Cruz artists and local home-brewers. Out of respect for their hosts, Mark London & the Supergreens try to keep the festival “low profile,” opting to reveal the location to a handful of people a few days before the event. Invitations are largely by word of mouth. “Hibernation has played a huge role in defining our sound, our goals, our mission,” explains bassist Tauvin Pursley. “There are so many pockets of different artists and musicians in Santa Cruz, and we’re trying to bring them all together. That’s what we’re doing with Hibernation, and what we’re trying to do with Mixtape Mondays.” KATIE SMALL INFO: 9 p.m. Mondays. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $3. 429-6994.

RYAN MONTBLEAU

THURSDAY 2/4 HAWAIIAN

KEOLA BEAMER It’s been a long time since slack-key master Keola Beamer has graced our town with his breezy island tunes. He’s also bringing with him Henry Kapono Ka'aihue, a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, also from Hawaii. Plus, Moanalani Beamer will be there doing a little bit of dancing. AARON CARNES

INFO: 7:30 p.m. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $32. 423-8209.

FOLK/FUNK

RYAN MONTBLEAU Ryan Montbleau has a knack for crafting slice-of-life experiences into catchy tunes that range from hearton-sleeve weepers such as “Ghost” to gritty dance numbers like the funky “Pacing Like Prince.” Blending folk, Americana, rock, funk, groove and soul into a colorful tapestry of sound, Montbleau creates music that catches the heart and the feet. CAT JOHNSON

INFO: 8:30 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $12/adv, $15/door. 479-1854.

JAZZ

KAHIL EL’ZABAR Percussionist Kahil El’Zabar, a second-generation member of Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, inhabits a singular spot in American culture. He embodies the search for freedom pursued by jazz’s wild and wooly 1960s Black Arts Movement, and spearheaded the infiltration of African percussion into mainstream U.S. forums via his work on Hollywood film scores and Julie Taymor’s landmark Broadway hit The Lion King. He returns to Northern California for a series of gigs with two equally renowned masters, baritone saxophonist/clarinetist Hamiet Bluiett and trombonist Craig Harris. ANDREW GILBERT

INFO: 7 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $25/adv, $30/door. 427-2227.

JAZZ

FRANK VIGNOLA & VINNY RANIOLO Two guitar legends for the price of one? OK, maybe legend is a bit of a stretch, but these guys can show Eddie Van Halen a few tricks. And while they do

shred, it isn’t ear-bleeding metal shredding. Jazz is their foundation, but it’s also really fun. You’ll be dazzled trying to figure out how they play so fast, but delighted by their renditions of “Eye of the Tiger” and Beethoven’s Fifth. AC INFO: 7:30 p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $20. 335-2800.

FRIDAY 2/5 CELTIC ROCK

YOUNG DUBLINERS Founded in 1988, the Los Angeles-based band the Young Dubliners is a long-running staple of the international Celtic rock scene, with 10 albums to its name and an impressive list of tour mates, including Jethro Tull, Chris Isaak, John Hiatt, and Jonny Lang. Taking Celtic music where few other acts have, the Young Dubliners tread deep into jam territory and have as much in common with Phish and the Dave Matthews Band as they do with the Pogues and the Waterboys. CJ INFO: 9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $13/adv, $16/door. 423-1338.

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Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, the Banff Mountain Film Festival takes film lovers on incredible journeys from the tops of mountain peaks down to raging rivers and everything in between. The Banff Mountain Film Festival tour, which runs Feb. 19-21, brings the best of the festival’s highadrenaline adventures and spectacular cinematography to local audiences. CAT JOHNSON

R&B

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INFO: 9 p.m. Blue Lagoon, 923 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $5. 423-7117.

MONDAY 2/8

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

R&B

SATURDAY 2/6

As part of New Orleans’ royal family the Neville Brothers, Aaron Neville established himself as one of Crescent City’s great R&B vocalists. In his ensuing solo career, the smooth crooner topped the charts with a string of hits, including “Tell It Like It Is,” “Don’t Know Much,” “All My Life,” and “Everybody Plays the Fool,” and reached triple-platinum status with the 1989 album Cry Like A Rainstorm, Howl Like The Wind, a collaboration with Linda Ronstadt. Neville’s latest album, My True Story, is a collection of

DANCE FUNK

PLANET BOOTY This six piece, electro-funk, dance phenomenon has been serving their infectious tunes to the Bay Area since their Oakland inception in 2009. As the name suggests, Planet Booty plays straightto-the-point party songs that wash away life’s troubles. Their live show features lights, dancers, over-the-top

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doo-wop cover songs made famous by some of the genre’s greats such as Hank Ballard, Leiber & Stoller, Curtis Mayfield, and the Ronettes. Neville is joined on Monday by his quintet, featuring his brother Charles Neville. CJ INFO: 7:30 p.m. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $40/adv, $60/door. 423-8209.

TUESDAY 2/9 FUNK

LETTUCE By combining influences like Earth Wind and Fire and Tower of Power with John Coltrane and Herbie Hancock, Lettuce has grown an international following well beyond their origins at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Surprisingly, they’ve released only four studio albums in their career, beginning with 2002’s Outta Here, through last year’s Crush. This Tuesday, they team up at the Catalyst with Chicago R&B/glitch-hop natives ProbCause for a Mardi Gras party that’s sure to deliver some sinfully tasty grooves. MW INFO: 8 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $20/adv, $25/door. 429-4135.

INFO: 7 p.m. Feb. 19-21. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $18. 423-8209. WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/ giveaways before 11 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 5 to find out how you could win a pair of Gold Circle tickets to the festival.

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Folk-rock outfit out of Columbus, Ohio. Wednesday at Crepe Place VAN MORRISON TRIBUTE

Former Van Morrison collaborator Kevin Brennan and his band pay tribute to the legend. Friday at Don Quixote’s SNOOP DOGG

Rapper, actor and Long Beach legend. Friday at Catalyst TOMMY CASTRO

San Jose-born blues rocker. Saturday at Moe’s Alley WHITE BUFFALO

Americana singer-songwriter. Saturday at Catalyst

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From his time with the MGs to being a leading member of the Stax Records house band, Booker T. Jones helped shape the soul/funk/R&B sound in the ’60s. Everyone knows his 1962 instrumental “Green Onions,” which is about as groovy as a song can get. But Jones isn’t just coasting on his past achievements. He’s released three albums in less than a decade, most notably 2013’s Sound the Alarm, which is his long-awaited return to Stax. AC

outfits, and an armory of energy. But don’t let them fool you. They might be freaks inside, but Planet Booty is serious about their music and proved it by pushing their own musical limits on their third release, 2014’s Future Sweat. This Saturday is also rumored to be a special double birthday party, so show up early and beat the crowd. MAT WEIR

LIVE MUSIC

Thursday February 4th 8:30pm $12/15

Singer Songwriter Returns With Live Band

RYAN MONTBLEAU + JEFF CONLEY

Friday February 5th 9pm $12/15 Grateful Dead Dance Party

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Underground Disco w/DJ AZ$5 10p-1a

THE APPLETON GRILL 410 Rodriguez St, Watsonville

Al Frisby 6-8p

Preacher Boy 6-8p

Jewl Sandoval 6-8p

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

Hot Roux 6-8p

Broken Shades 6-8p

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TUE Fat Tuesday/ Mardi Gras w/DJ AZ $5 9p-Midnight

Rand Rueter 6-8p

APTOS ST. BBQ 8059 Aptos St, Aptos

CD Release Celebration w/ Blues Favorite

TOMMY CASTRO

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

Wednesday February 10th 8:30pm $7/10

BAYVIEW HOTEL 8041 Soquel Dr, Aptos

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

BLUE LAGOON 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

SpinFarm, Hologram Sun, Planet Plow $5 9p

Comedy Night/80s Night Free 8:30p

Light The Band, Funktopus, The J.Trees Band & more $5 9p

Planet Booty, NumerThe Box (Goth Night) ous, Thomas Dawson & 9p Friends $7 8:30p

Post Punk Night 9p

Pride Night 9p

Party w/Raina 9p

Incidental Live Music Revue w/Alisha

Karaoke

Locals Night, Music w/ Lil Billy

Karaoke 8p-Close

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JON WAYNE & THE PAYNE SUN-DRIED VIBES

Thursday February 11th 8:30pm $9/12 Americana, Bluegrass, Folk & Roots

DEAD WINTER CARPENTERS + THE MCCOY TYLER BAND Friday February 12th 9pm $18/22 & Saturday February 13th 9pm $20/25 A Weekend With The

CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS + ROOSEVELT DIME

Minor Thirds Trio 6:30-9:30p

BLUE LOUNGE 529 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz BOARDWALK BOWL 115 Cliff St, Santa Cruz

Karaoke 8p-Close

BOCCI’S CELLAR 140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz

Intangabillies free 8p

Swing Dance Social $5 5:30p Whitefuzzybloodbath free 9p

Bob Marley Bday Bash free 9p

Karaoke 9p

Songwriter Showcase 7-10p

Snoop Dogg 8p

The White Buffalo $20 8p

Lettuce $20/$25 8p

Scott Pemberton $8/$10 8:30p

Ancestree $10 8p

Young Dubliners $13/$16 8:30p

Sin Sisters Burlesque $15/$20 9p

Afternoon Blues Series

MICHAEL LANDAU Sunday February 14th 9pm $12/15 Annual Shady Valentine Bash!

SHADY GROOVE Monday February 15th 7:30pm $20/25 Early Partially Seated Concert With

SOPHIE B. HAWKINS + TESS DUNN February 17th February 18th February 19th February 20th February 21st February 24th February 25th February 26th February 27th February 28th February 28th March 3rd March 4th March 12th March 17th March 18th

THE INCITERS GOVINDA, PSYMBIONIC, KR3TURE DEADPHISH ORCHESTRA PREZIDENT BROWN + PABLO MOSES JOHNNY SKETCH & THE DIRTY NOTES WORLD’S FINEST + MOON CADILLAC MARTY O’REILLY + ROYAL JELLY JIVE THE MOTHER HIPS BRAZILIAN CARNAVAL 2016 JOHN NEMETH (afternoon) THE GARCIA PROJECT (eve) INSECTS VS. ROBOTS ENGLISH BEAT DEL THE FUNKY HOMOSAPIEN RED BARAAT ORGÓNE

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International Music Hall and Restaurant

Fine Mexican and aMerican Food All you cAn eAt lunch buffet m-f $7.95 Thu Feb 4

Frank Vignola & Vinny Raniolo Guitar Virtuosity Times Two

$20 adv./$20 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm Fri Feb 5

Sat Feb 6

A Tribute to Van Morrison

featuring Kevin Brennan & Wavelength

wednesday 2/3

SAINTSENECA w / DES ARK w / MATT ADAMS

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Doors 8:30pm/Show 9pm $10 adv $12 door

$15 adv./$19 door 21 + 8:30pm

thursday 2/4

Aja Vu plays Steely Dan plus Stealin’ Chicago plays Chicago MARDI gRAS FAT TuESDAY CELEBRATIon & FEAST Big River Cajun Honky-Tonk & French Louisiana Music COME EARLY FOR LOUISIANA MARDI GRAS GUMBO SPECIAL

$10 adv./$10 door 21+ 7:30pm Thu Feb 11

OPEN LATE EVERY NIGHT!

plus Joshua Lowe & patti Maxine

$15 adv./$15 door 21 + 8pm Tue Feb 9

Comedy Night 9p

Jazz Society Free 3:30p Elisa the Songwriter Xochiti So-Chee free 8p free 8p

Catalina Scramblers free 8p

DJ Luna 9p

CATALYST 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz CATALYST ATRIUM 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Tango Ecstasy 6-9:30p

The Mystery Spot 9-11:45p

BRITANNIA ARMS 110 Monterey Ave, Capitola CASA SORRENTO 393 Salinas St, Salinas

Minor Thirds Trio 7-10p

Sunday February 14th 4pm $12/15

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The Big Game free Noon

Saturday February 6th 9pm $20/25

Triple Bill Funk, Reggae & Soul Dance Party

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Laurence Juber Grammy Winning Acoustic Guitar Great of Paul McCartney & Wings

$17 adv./$20 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm CoMIng RIgHT up

Fri. Feb. 12 Super Huey - The ultimate Huey Lewis Experience Sat. Feb. 13 Tempest Celtic Rock and World Music Sun. Feb. 14 Charmas Valentines Concert – Celtic Songs From Cupid’s Blacklist Tue Feb. 16 Steve Wynn Former Frontman of Dream Syndicate Wed. Feb. 17 griffin House plus Sean McConnell Thu. Feb. 18 Radim Zenkl USA Mandolin Champion Reservations Now Online at www.donquixotesmusic.com Rockin'Church Service Every Sunday ElEvation at 10am-11:15am

THE SHE'S w / SPOOKY MANSION w / THE ROARING 420S

Doors 8:30pm/Show 9pm $8 Door

friday 2/5

ALEX ABREU Doors 8:30pm/Show 9pm $8 Door

saturday 2/6

TOR MILLER w / SEAN MCVERRY

Advance Tickets at www.ticketweb.com

Doors 8:30pm/Show 9pm $10 Door

monday 2/8

mix tape monday Show 9pm $3 Door

TUESday 2/9

7 COME 11 Show 9pm $5 Door

MIDTOWN SANTA CRUZ 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz

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D-Lo $16/$20 8:30p

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CILANTROS 1934 Main St, Watsonville

Hippo Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

CREPE PLACE 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

Saintseneca, Des Ark, Matt Adams $10/$12 9p

The SHE’s, Spooky Mansion, The Roaring 420s $8 9p

Alex Abreu $8 9p

Tor Miller, Sean McVerry $10 9p

Yuji Tojo $3 8p

Papiba & Friends $5 8:30p

Locomotive Breath $6 9p

Coastal Sage $7 9:30p

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

2/7

MON

2/8

TUE

2/9

KPIG Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

DAV. ROADHOUSE 1 Davenport Ave, Davenport

Frank Vignola & Vinny Raniolo $20 7:30p

DON QUIXOTE’S 6275 Hwy 9, Felton

SUN

Kevin Brennan & Wavelength $15/$19 8:30p

THE FISH HOUSE 972 Main St, Watsonville

Mix Tape Mondays $3 9p

7 Come 11 $5 9p Free Reggae Party Free 8p

Superbowl Sunday

Ugly Beauty

Sherry Austin w/ Henhouse

Aja Vu, Steely Dan, Stealin’ Chicago $15 8p

Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday Celebration, Big River $10 7:30p

The Rayburn Brothers and Pan Dulce

HENFLING’S 9450 Hwy 9, Ben Lomond

Flingo 7:30p

IT’S WINE TYME 312 Capitola Ave, Capitola

Open Mic 7p

Exzookers 8p

Naked Agenda 9p

The Present Tense 9p

MALONE’S 4402 Scotts Valley Dr, Scotts Valley

Live Music 5:30-9p

MICHAEL’S ON MAIN 2591 Main St, Soquel

Kip Allert 7-10p

MISSION ST. BBQ 1618 Mission St, Santa Cruz

Tomas Gomez 6p

Thursday, February 4 • 7 pm

KAHIL EL’ZABAR AND THE NEW ETHNIC HERITAGE TRIO 1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS Friday, February 5 • 7 & 9 pm |No Comp Tix BOOKER T. JONES Saturday, February 6 • 8 pm

FLAMENCO: LUZ New work by award-winning artist Fanny Ara

Tickets: TusconFlamenco.com Monday, February 8 • 7:30 pm At the Rio Theatre | No Comps/Gift Cert

AARON NEVILLE QUINTET FEATURING CHARLES NEVILLE Wednesday, February 10 • 7:30 pm

The Next Blues Band 4p

Roadhouse Karaoke 7:30p

DAVE AND PHIL ALVIN Tickets: SnazzyProductions.com

Thursday, February 11 • 7:30 pm

THE CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS Kahil El’Zabar & the Booker T. Jones New Ethnic Heritage Trio $30 7, 9p $25 7p

KUUMBWA 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz

Celebrating Creativity Since 1975

Flamenco Luz $25 8p

Tickets: MoesAlley.com

Aaron Neville Quintet w/ Charles Neville $40/$60 7:30p

Friday, February 12 • 7:30 pm

WHITE ALBUM ENSEMBLE UNPLUGGED

Karaoke w/Ken 9p Lucille Blues Band 7-10p

Next Blues Band 8-11p

Bombshell Bullys 8-11p

Al Frisby 6p

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

Tickets: Streetlight Records & Tix.com Saturday, February 13 • 7:30 pm TUCK & PATTI | No Comp Tix Valentine’s Jazz & Dinner Packages Available!

Sunday, February 14 • 3 pm

COLE PLAYS (NAT KING) COLE Tickets: SnazzyProductions.com Sunday, February 14 • 7:30 pm

PULSE PRODUCTIONS WELCOMES

SHERRY AUSTIN & HENHOUSE w/CAROLYN SILLS COMBO

Tickets: SnazzyProductions.com Monday, February 15 • 7 pm

GARY PEACOCK “NOW THIS” TRIO FEAT. MARC COPLAND AND JOEY BARON | No Comp Tix Tuesday, February 16 • 7:30 pm At the Rio Theatre | No Comps/Gift Cert

LISA FISCHER & GRAND BATON Thursday, February 18 • 7 pm

New music featuring Steve Kimock & John Kimock Bobby Vega & Leslie Mendelson

Friday, March 4th Kuumbwa Jazz Center

Amazing waterfront deck views.

LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

See live music grid for this week’s bands.

Sat. March 5th - RIO THeATRE Crystal Bowersox

STAND-UP COMEDY

Three live comedians every Sunday night.

HAPPY HOUR

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

VISIT OUR BEACH MARKET

Wood-fired pizza, ice cream, unique fine gifts.

SPECIAL DEALS

Weekdays, upstairs and down.

NOW SERVING BREAKFAST March 24th Rio Theatre

Sunday, May 1st 7:00 pm Kuumbwa Jazz Ctr

Tickets at Streetlight, Tomboy & online at pulseproductions.net

Open for Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Daily

(831) 476-4560

crowsnest-santacruz.com

BANDA MAGDA

French café music with a Latin beat

1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS

Monday, February 22 • 7 pm PAT MARTINO TRIO | No Comp Tix Monday, February 29 • 7 & 9 pm

REGINA CARTER’S SOUTHERN COMFORT | No Comp Tix KJ PRESENTS @ RIO THEATRE 3/8 VICENTE AMIGO 3/20 BUIKA 4/16 LIZZ WRIGHT Unless noted advance tickets at kuumbwajazz.org and Logos Books & Records. Dinner served one hour before Kuumbwa presented concerts. Premium wines & beer. All ages welcome.

320-2 Cedar St x Santa Cruz 831.427.2227

kuumbwajazz.org

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Call now for Valentine’s reservations. LOCATED ON THE BEACH

LIVE MUSIC WED

2/3

THU

MOE’S ALLEY 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz MOTIV 1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Hi Ya! by Little John 9:30p-2a

2/4

FRI

An Evening of Hawaiian Music and Dance! Keola Beamer & Henry Kapono with Moanalani Beamer Thursday, February 4th, 2016 Rio Theater in Santa Cruz, CA, 7:30PM Show / 6:30PM door

SAT

Tommy Castro & the Painkillers $20/$25 8p

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

Tone Sol 9:30p-1:30a

Tech Minds 9:30p-1:30a

Wild Iris 7-9p

Matt Masih and the Messengers 7:30-9p

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Used & Vintage Instruments

PARADISE BEACH 215 Esplanade, Capitola

Claudio Megela

THE POCKET 3102 Portola Dr, Santa Cruz

Jam Session w/ Vinny Johnson 7p

POET & PATRIOT 320 E. Cedar St, Santa Cruz

Trivia

THE RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz

The Alex Raymond Band 8p

THE REEF 120 Union St, Santa Cruz

Jazz Jam

Dirty Revival $8 9p

1003 Pacific Ave Downtown Santa Cruz 427.0670

MON

2/8

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

TUE

2/9

Hip Hop w/DJ Marc 9:30p-2a Trivia 6-8p

Dennis Dove

7th Wave

Albatross: A Tribute to Peter Green $8 9p

Gary Regina 8p

Chris Ellis Jazz Session w/Jazz Jam Comedy Santa Cruz 7p 9p Comedy Open Mic 8p

DJ Shea Butter 8p Acoustic Jam w/Toby Gray and Friends

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

Aloha Fridays Traditional Great Acoustic Covers Hawaiian Music Brunch and Dinner

Keola Beamer and HenBaymonte Talent Show ry Kapono w/Moanalani $5 7-9p Beamer $32 7:30p

Chas and Friends 6-9p

Frans Lanting $23 3, 7p

ROSIE MCCANN’S 1220 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz Musicians Only Weekly Showcase 6-9p Aaron Neville, Charles Neville $40/$60 7:30p Trivia 8p

1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-429-4135

BBQ

The Lenny and Kenny Show

Open Mic 7:30p

BEER

BLUES

Wednesday, February 3 • In the Atrium • Ages 21+

SCOTT PEMBERTON

BRITANNIA ARMS IN CAPITOLA 110 Monterey Avenue, Capitola Village

7-10pm Free and open to everyone registration starts at 6pm

For contest rules, raffle tickets, information & registration, contact Mars Studio. 831.688.8435 mars-studios.com Raffling off Boulder Creek Guitar Raffle proceeds go to Guitars Not Guns

Top Dollar Paid…

Union Grove Music

2/7

Open Mic 4-7p

RIO THEATRE 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

BUY • SELL TRADE CONSIGN for your used electric, acoustic or bass guitar, drum set, amplifier, wind instrument, keyboard and equipment.

SUN

Trivia 8p

Tickets available on line at www.ticketfly.com (Enter Keola Beamer) Or for purchase at Streetlight Records on Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA

2/6

The China Cats $12/$15 8p

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

2/5

Ryan Montbleau Band $12/$15 8p

MUSIC ARTS

RECORDING STUDIO

Guitar Works

Thursday, February 4 • In the Atrium • Ages 21+

ANCESTREE

plus Nomolakadoja

Friday, February 5 • In the Atrium • Ages 21+

YOUNG DUBLINERS

plus The Deadlies

Saturday, February 6 • Ages 21+

Wed. Feb. 3 Al Frisby 6-8pm

Saturday, February 6 • In the Atrium • Ages 21+

Thurs. Feb. 4 Preacher Boy 6-8pm

The White Buffalo SIN SISTERS BURLESQUE

Sunday, February 7 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

D-LO

plus Willie Joe also Young Gully

Tuesday, February 9 • Ages 16+ Mardi Gras Party

Lettuce

Feb 10 & 11 Iration (Ages 16+) Feb 12 Geoff Tate’s Operation: Mindcrime (Ages 21+) Feb 14 Brillz/ Party Favor (Ages 18+) Feb 15 Matisyahu (Ages 16+) Feb 18 Thomas Jack (Ages 18+) Feb 19 Keys N Krates (Ages 18+) Feb 20 blessthefall (Ages 16+) Feb 23 Reel Big Fish (Ages 16+) Feb 25 Tyga (Ages 16+) Mar 3 Bingo Players (Ages 18+) Mar 4 Skizzy Mars/ Gnash (Ages 16+) Mar 5 Dead Kennedys (Ages 16+) Mar 9 & 10 Rebelution/ Protoje (Ages 16+) Mar 11 Andre Nickatina (Ages 16+) Mar 18 The Wonder Years (Ages 16+) Mar 23 Yonder Mountain String Band (Ages 21+) Mar 25 Kottonmouth Kings (Ages 16+) Mar 29 Geographer/ The Crookes (Ages 16+) Mar 30 The Floozies (Ages 16+) Apr 18 SuicideGirls Blackheart Burlesque (Ages 18+)

Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating. Tickets subject to city tax & service charge by phone 877-987-6487 & online

www.catalystclub.com

Fri. Feb. 5 Jewl Sandoval 6-8pm Sat. Feb. 6 Loyd Whitney 1-5pm Al Frisby 6-8pm Sun. Feb. 7 Hot Roux 6-8pm Mon. Feb. 8 Broken Shades 6-8pm Tues. Feb. 9 Rand Reuter 6-8pm

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LIVE MUSIC WED THE SAND BAR 211 Esplanade, Capitola

2/3

THU

2/4

Little Petie & the Mean Old Men 7-11p

FRI

2/5

Touch’d Too Much 8-12p

SAT

2/6

Joint Chiefs 8-12p

SANDERLINGS 1 Seascape Resort, Aptos

Dan Robbins, Eddie Mendenhall, Steve Rob- Mike Renwick ertson

SEABRIGHT BREWERY 519 Seabright, Santa Cruz

Tsunami

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

Don McCaslin & the Amazing Jazz Geezers 6-10p

Breeze Babes 7:30-11:30p

Nora Cruz 8-12p

SHADOWBROOK 1750 Wharf Rd, Capitola

Ken Constable 6:30-9:30p

Joe Ferrara 6:30-10p

Claudio Melega 7-10p

SIR FROGGY’S PUB 4771 Soquel Dr, Soquel

Karaoke w/Eve

TROUT FARM INN 7701 E Zayante Rd, Felton

SUN

2/7

MON

Dennis Dove Pro Jam 7-11p

2/8

TUE

2/9

Ten Foot Faces 7-11p

Mojo Mix 7-9p

Trivia Night

Taco Tuesday

Chas & Friends 6-9p

UGLY MUG 4640 Soquel Ave, Soquel

Open Mic w/Mosephus 5:30p

WHALE CITY 490 Highway 1, Davenport

Jim Lewin and Edge of the West 6-9p

Calico The Band 5-7p

YOUR PLACE 1719 Mission St, Santa Cruz

Danny Lawrence 6-9p

Daniel Martins 6-9p

Danny Lawrence 6-9pm

ZELDA’S 203 Esplanade, Capitola

Kurt Stockdale Jazz Trio 6p

Matt Masi 9:30p

The John Michael Band 9:30p

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

Jon Kennedy 7-9:30p

Johnny Fabulous 7-9:30p

Just Judy 7-9:30p

Upcoming Shows FEB 04 FEB 05 FEB 06 FEB 08 FEB 11 FEB 13 FEB 16 FEB 19 FEB 20 FEB 21 FEB 24 FEB 27

Keola Beamer Baymonte Talent Show Frans Lanting Aaron Neville Quintet Rufus Wainwright The Comic Strippers Lisa Fischer and Grand Baton Banff Mountain Film Banff Mountain Film Banff Mountain Film Shawn Mullins Film: Rising From Ashes

MAR 08 Vicente Amigo MAR 11 Citizen Cope Solo Acoustic MAR 19 Greg Brown MAR 20 Buika

Davenport Beach Cleanup 9-11a

APR 01 APR 09 APR 15 APR 16

Sunday Jazz Brunch 11am-2p

Leftover Salmon House of Floyd Pete Yorn Lizz Wright

MAY 05 Kathleen Madigan MAY 06 Tommy Emmanuel MAY 22 Mac DeMarco Follow the Rio Theatre on Facebook & Twitter! 831.423.8209 www.riotheatre.com Feb. 17 Indigo Girls

Feb. 27 VINYL: The Classic Rock Experience featuring Denny Laine of Wings & The Moody Blues Mar. 19 Jackie Greene presented by (((FolkYEAH!))) and KPIG Apr. 21 Country Star Clint Black For Tickets www.GoldenStateTheatre.com 831-649-1070

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 3RD COCKTAIL WEDNESDAY WITH ZOE ALEXANDER DUO FROM THE MONEY BAND! THURSDAY FEBRUARY 4TH THIRSTY THURSDAY $3 PINTS ALL NIGHT! $.49 WINGS!! FRIDAY FEBRUARY 5TH DJ NOEL S, MG MARK GARCIA, & RANDALL THE HOTTEST OLD SCHOOL, FREESTYLE AND LATIN MIX!! SATURDAY FEBRUARY 6TH NATIVE ELEMENTS, LA YERBA RUDA, DJ SUGER BEAR & MC SHOW.NUFF BOB MARLEY’S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION 393 Salinas St, SALINAS (oldtown) 831.757.2720 // casasorrento.com

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Feb. 18 Charlie Musselwhite & The North Mississippi Allstars

FILM

CRUTCH TIME In The Lady in the Van, Dame Maggie Smith plays an eccentric transient woman living in a gentrifying London neighborhood.

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Senior Moments

‘The Lady in the Van’ gives viewers a lesson in compassion and charity BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

CHARMING MEMOIR of a smelly, prickly old lady, The Lady in the Van is based on material that was first performed on stage, then as a radio play. Surprisingly, as a movie it hasn’t lost any keenness. Its writer and subject is Alan Bennett (played by Alex Jennings), a playwright whose breakthrough was being part of the Beyond the Fringe quartet that paved the way for Monty Python. In 1973, when Bennett moved to Gloucester Crescent in London’s Camden Town, it was a changing district—awaiting the gentry who inhabit it today. Priding themselves on their liberality, the neighbors put

up with one Miss Shepherd (played by Dame Maggie Smith in the film adaptation) a transient old lady living in her van on the street. When the parking police tried to run her off, Bennett allowed her to park in his driveway. She would be encamped there for 15 years. Bennett once commented that he thought he’d go into the clergy just because he looked like a clergyman. Jennings’ Bennett does look like a vicar: tall, self-effacing, awkward, limp-haired. In his never-to-beforgot Beyond the Fringe sketch, “Take a Pew,” Bennett played a minister trying to explain, with multiple inanities and chummy,

hopeless faux-contemporary allusions, the importance of a scripture verse from II Kings 14. The quote was actually from Genesis: “But my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am a smooth man.” The funny thing is that Bennett ended up a bit of a nondenominational minister, after all. As opposed to the more overt (and boring) St. Francis imagery in The Soloist—the Jamie Foxx-starring movie on a similar subject to this— The Lady in the Van is a sweet, subdued piece of natural Christianity. During the course of his friendly but never informal relationship with Miss Shepherd, Bennett often

has a good talk to himself. The play depicts Bennett split in half on the grounds that a writer is actually two people in conversation with himself. And while watching this strange woman, and learning her own sad history, he has some guilt about using her for material. Director Nicholas Hytner is primarily a theater director and an occasional filmmaker. He has made three movies this century. Bennett’s direct address to the camera doesn’t look stagey, and the movie is opened up to take in the hilliest, most endearing part of London as it was 40 years ago. The role is so right for Smith that it might be easy to underrate her very tough and touching work here. (Think of the twinkling a less rigorous actor would have brought to this. Smith’s derelict Miss Shepherd is no pixie.) Smith has long been a deep-focus underplayer, from her helpless Desdemona in Olivier’s Othello, to 1987’s Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne—the soul is so strong in her that we never really think of this 80-year-old performer’s fragility until the end of the film, when her health fails. Before then, her Miss Shepherd has push. She is willing to be a pain; snarling at anyone who dares to play music around her, or talking grandly of her memoirs, to be titled either The Lady Behind the Curtain or A Woman of Britain. The fragrance of Miss Shepherd is described as that of “a bad dish cloth”; out of folk wisdom, she eats raw onions to ward off colds. Bennett, not an enormous fan of the physical world, admires the way the ambulance people or the social workers can handle this exasperating woman without minding her moods or her smell. It’s bemusing to imagine the army of people in their vans, trucks and campers today, displaced by the obscene rents of the Bay Area, being looked after with the care and dignity demonstrated by the characters in this story. The Lady in the Van wells up with compassion; it never drills for it. THE LADY IN THE VAN Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, and Jim Broadbent. Written by Alan Bennett. Directed by Nicholas Hytner. A BBC Films release. Rated PG-13. 104 Mins.

MOVIE TIMES February 5-11

Santa Cruz Show timeS for fri. 2/5/16 – thurS. 2/11/16

All times are PM unless otherwise noted.

DEL MAR THEATRE

PG-13

831.469.3220

2016 OSCAR ANIMATED SHORTS Wed-Thu 2:30, 7:20 Fri-Tue 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 + Sat-Sun 11:50am 2016 OSCAR LIVE ACTION SHORTS Daily 4:30, 9:20 THE BIG SHORT Daily 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 + Sat-Sun 11:00am THE CHOICE Fri-Tue 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 + Sat-Sun 11:40am THE DANISH GIRL Wed-Thu 4:40, 9:55 THE MARTIAN Wed-Thu 1:50, 7:10

NICKELODEON

(2:10pm, 4:40), 7:10, 9:40 + Sat, Sun (11:40am)

2016 the

ANOMOLISA Daily 9:30pm + Wed-Thu 2:50, 5:00, 7:20 Fri-Tue 5:20, 7:30 + Sat-Sun 12:40pm BROOKLYN Daily 1:50, 4:20 + Wed-Thu 7:00 + Fri-Tue 7:10 + Sat-Sun 11:20am CAROL Daily 1:40 + Wed-Thu 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 + Fri-Tue 9:45pm + Sat-Sun 11:10am THE LADY IN THE VAN Fri-Tue 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:20 + Sat-Sun 11:30am ROOM Daily 4:40 + Wed-Thu 7:05, 9:35 Fri-Tue 2:50, 7:20 SPOTLIGHT Wed-Thu 2:00, 9:20 Fri-Tue 9:35pm 831.761.8200

13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI Wed-Thu 9:45pm THE 5TH WAVE Daily 1:30 Wed-Thu 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 + Fri-Tue 7:20 + Sat-Sun 10:45am THE BOY Daily 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:00 + Sat-Sun 11:30am THE CHOICE Fri-Tue 2:05, 4:15, 7:15, 10:00 + Sat-Sun 10:45am DIRTY GRANDPA Wed-Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:00 FIFTY SHADES OF BLACK Daily 10:00pm + Wed-Thu 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45 + Fri-Tue 4:30 THE FINEST HOURS Wed-Thu 4:15, 7:15, 10:00 Fri-Tue 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 + Sat-Sun 10:40am THE FINEST HOURS 3D Wed-Thu 1:30 HAIL, CAESAR! Fri-Tue 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 + Sat-Sun 10:45am KUNG FU PANDA 3 Daily 1:45, 4:15*, 7:00, 9:30 + Sat-Sun 11:00am *No Wed-Thu show KUNG FU PANDA 3 3D Wed-Thu 4:15 NORM OF THE NORTH Wed-Thu 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30 PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES Fri-Tue 2:05, 4:45, 7:25, 10:00 + Sat-Sun 11:30am THE REVENANT Daily 2:50, 6:10, 9:30 + Sat-Sun 11:30am RIDE ALONG 2 Daily 1:45, 4:30, 7:00, 9:45 + Sat-Sun 11:00am

(2:30pm) 7:20 + Sat, Sun (11:50am)

2016 Live Action ShortS (4:30pm) 9:20 5 Academy Award Nominations including BEST PICTURE

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Starring Maggie Smith and Alex Jennings PG-13

02/28/16

(2:00pm, 4:30), 7:00, 9:20 + Sat, Sun (11:30am)

831.438.3260

CINELUX 41ST AVENUE CINEMA 831.479.3504 13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI Wed-Thu 8:00 THE 5TH WAVE Wed-Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 10:00 THE BIG SHORT Daily 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 + Wed-Thu 1:00 + Fri-Tue 12:45 BROOKLYN Fri-Tue 1:00, 3:45, 6:45 DIRTY GRANDPA Wed-Thu 11:20, 2:00, 4:55, 7:30, 10:15 THE FINEST HOURS Daily 11:00, 1:45, 4:30, 7:20 + Wed-Thu 10:10pm + Fri-Tue 10:00pm HAIL, CAESAR! Fri-Tue 11:30, 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 9:40 KUNG FU PANDA 3 Daily 11:00, 11:55, 1:30, 2:20, 4:45, 7:15 + Wed-Thu 9:45 + Fri-Tue 10:15pm THE REVENANT Daily 12:30, 4:15, 7:45 STAR WARS VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS Daily 9:30pm + Wed-Thu 12:15, 3:30, 7:00 + Fri-Tue 11:45, 3:15, 6:30

OSCAR nominated for BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM R

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(5:20pm), 7:30, 9:30 + Sat, Sun (12:40pm) 4 Academy Award Nominations including BEST PICTURE R

(2:50pm, 4:40), 7:20* *No 7:20pm show on Wed. 2/10 6 Academy Award Nominations including BEST PICTURE R

(1:40pm), 9:45 + Sat, Sun (11:10am) OSCAR nominated for Best Picture

PG-13

(1:50, 4:20), 7:10 + Sat, Sun (11:20am) 4 Academy Award Nominations including BEST PICTURE R

editing, duplication, & media conversion

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Once Nightly 9:35pm UCSC presents FREE SCREENING NR

Wed. 2/10 @ 7:30pm w/post documentary Q&A with Director Branwen Okpako

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13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI Daily 8:15 THE 5TH WAVE Wed-Thu 11:00, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 THE BIG SHORT Daily 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 BROOKLYN Daily 5:15 + Fri-Tue 2:30 THE CHOICE Fri-Tue 11:00, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 DEADPOOL Fri-Tue 7:00, 9:45 DEADPOOL DBOX Fri-Tue 7:00, 9:45 DIRTY GRANDPA Wed-Thu 11:30, 2:15, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 THE FINEST HOURS Wed-Thu 11:00, 2:00, 4:55, 7:30, 10:20 Fri-Tue 12:45*, 3:45, 6:45, 10:00* + Sat 10:10 *No Sat show THE FINEST HOURS DBOX Wed-Thu 7:30, 10:10 HAIL, CAESAR! Thu 7:45 Fri-Tue 11:30, 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 KUNG FU PANDA 3 Daily 11:55, 2:30, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 + Wed-Thu 11:15, 12:45, 1:45, 3:15, 6:45, 9:15 + Fri-Tue 11:00, 1:30, 4:55 NORM OF THE NORTH Wed-Thu 11:00am PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES Fri-Tue 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:55 THE REVENANT Daily 11:30, 3:00, 6:30*, 8:00* + Wed 10:00pm + Fri-Tue 9:30pm *No Thu show STAR WARS VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS Daily 1:15, 4:30, 7:45 + Wed-Thu 11:45, 3:30, 6:45, 9:45 + Fri-Tue 11:15 BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S Thu 7:00 INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM Sat 11:00am

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

Upper Westside Santa Cruz

CINELUX SCOTTS VALLEY CINEMA

AnimAted ShortS

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FILM NEW THIS WEEK THE CHOICE OK, we love camp, and we even love the utter absurdity of zombies in classic literature (see below). But we draw a big fat line at handsome shirtless men with a pre2012 McConaughey-style southern drawls saving a litter of puppies, trying to woo a girl who refuses his advances and then crying at the bedside of his forbidden beloved. Ross Katz directs. Benjamin Walker, Teresa Palmer, Alexandra Daddario co-star. (PG-13) 111 minutes.

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HAIL, CAESAR! They’re the geniuses who brought to the world The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou?, True Grit, and Inside Llewyn Davis. And besides the Coen brothers magic behind the camera, you’ve got campy, screwball 1950s Hollywood with this beautiful bunch: Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Josh Brolin, Ralph Fiennes, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, and Jonah HIll. Ethan Coen, Joel Coen direct. (PG-13) 100 minutes.

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES Apologies in advance, but Jane Austen is really, really hard to read. If you fell into the same camp of high school readers who desperately wished for zombies thrown into the dusty classics (it’s OK, we loved Chaucer, so it balances out), this might be the brilliantly bad or terribly clever rendition you’ve been waiting for. Plus, hello, classy female gentry wearing empirewaisted gowns with hidden daggers underneath and slicing through zombie skulls! Burr Steers directs. Lily James, Sam Riley, Jack Huston co-star. (PG-13) 108 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. ANOMALISA It’s a stop-motion animated comedy-drama and it’s been heralded as the “most human”

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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 raunchy comedy. Dan Mazer directs. Robert De Niro, Zac Efron, Zoey Deutch co-star. (R) 102 minutes. 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, then 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 co-star. (PG-13) 112 minutes. FIFTY SHADES OF BLACK The wait is over: someone finally took all that overblown Fifty Shades of Grey innuendo with its overly dramatic score, slow steely stares, underwhelming lack of chemistry (and talent), and created something beautiful. Oh, Marlon Wayans, how we missed you. Michael Tiddes directs. Kali Hawk, Marlon Wayans, Jane Seymour co-star. (R) 92 minutes. THE FINEST HOURS Even if it’s based on a true story and not meant to be a horror flick—is there really anything more terrifying than being stuck in the ocean during a blizzard on a sinking ship? The fact that it’s based on the true story of two oil tankers being destroyed off the coast of Cape Cod in 1952 makes it all the more astounding. Craig Gillespie directs. Chris Pine, Holliday Grainger, Casey Affleck co-star. (PG-13) 117 minutes. THE FOREST Aokigahara Forest is a real place at the foot of Mount Fuji in Japan, and it’s where people go to commit suicide—so often that authorities put a sign at the entrance of the main trail urging visitors to think of their families and contact suicide prevention associations. So that’s the true history. Now go watch

Natalie Dormer run around the forest, chased by paranormal forces, in search of her twin sister: how are movies like this rated PG-13 when even we have to watch the trailers on mute, with all the lights on? Jason Zada directs. Natalie Dormer, Eoin Macken, Stephanie Vogt co-star. (PG-13)

world. He wakes up and says hello to Lamp, to Table, and to Plant. Now it’s up to the 5-year-old to break his mother out of Room, so they can both find freedom in a harrowing outside world that he’s never even heard of. Lenny Abrahamson directs. Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Sean Bridges co-star. (R) 118 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.

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.

OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS: Grab the popcorn and delve into this year’s Academy Award nominees for best animated shorts and live action shorts. Check the movie times section for showings. POINT BREAK Wow, FBI agents are so pretty and that Bureau life is so glamorous—inspired by the 1991 film (really, we’re calling it a classic now?), it’s just art imitating life, obviously. Ericson Core directs. Édgar Ramírez, Luke Bracey, Ray Winstone co-star. 113 minutes. THE REVENANT Leonardo DiCaprio fighting, grunting, running, shooting—a bear, among other things—and seeking revenge for the death of his son. From the director of Birdman and Babel, it’s the rugged frontier in the 1820s snow and ice, every man for himself: chills, just chills. Alejandro González Iñárritu directs. Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter co-star. (R) 156 minutes. RIDE ALONG 2 Kevin Hart and Ice Cube are back as “The Brothers-InLaw” 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 getting flung across the room by a ceiling fan, fending off alligator attacks, and rocking flowerprinted 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 co-star. (Pg-13) 101 minutes. ROOM To Jack, there is nothing outside Room: Room is the entire

STAR WARS EPISODE VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS Ooh, what a neat looking indie flick! Lots of pew-pew and bang-bang somewhere in the desert, maybe Nevada? And some grumpy old man mumbling about the Dark Side. At least the really tall lady from Game of Thrones is in it, otherwise it’d so be a total flop, right? J.J. Abrams directs. Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher co-star. (PG-13) 135 minutes. 13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI No, it’s not a biopic about Hillary Clinton’s congressional hearings (thank goodness). Instead, it’s “the true story you were never told” about six men who defied orders to defend the American diplomatic compound in September 2012. Based on the 2013 book of the same name, the film follows the true story of the compound’s security team who returned to fight for those left behind. Michael Bay directs. Toby Stephens, John Krasinski, Freddie Stroma co-star. (R) YOUTH Michael Caine plays a retired composer and orchestra conductor on vacation in the Alps with his stillactive film director buddy, played by Harvey Keitel. They sit, they muse, they don’t elaborate on the worlds existing in their minds; “Music is all I understand because you don’t need words or experience to understand it, it just is,” sighs Fred (Caine). They’re contentedly peaceful until Fred is invited by Queen Elizabeth herself to perform for Prince Philip’s birthday. (R) 124 minutes.

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92-percent-Cab-Franc, 8-percentMerlot blend developed its nuance thanks to 21 months in the barrel. Native yeast fermentation and the winemaker’s devotion to “the minimal manipulation philosophy of winemaking,” have done the rest. Made from Santa Clara Valley grapes, the result is a lilting creation, with a central core of bay, cedar, and raspberry, and a gorgeous nose of rose, violets and some mysterious spice. The 14.1 percent alcohol carries the well-balanced tannins and fruit. Beauregard’s new releases represent a collaboration with

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different than hoped for. We must be cautious with investments and business partnership. It is most important to cultivate a balanced and harmonious daily life, seeking ways to release tension, pressure and stress to improve health and calmness. Monkey is lively, flexible, quick-witted, and versatile. Their gentle, honest, enchanting yet resourceful nature results often in everlasting love. Monkeys are freedom loving. Without freedom, Monkey becomes dull, sad and very unhappy. During the Spring and Autumn Period (770 - 476 BC), the Chinese official title of Marquis (noble person) was pronounced ‘Hou,’ the same as the pronunciation of ‘monkey’ in Chinese. Monkey was thereby bestowed with auspicious (favorable, fortunate) meaning. Monkey years are: 1920, 1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016.

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It’s important to be with like-minded others, to consider what groups need your initiating leadership. It’s possible you’re being attracted, magnetized or simply swept into a group that recognizes your talents and gifts. Extend your endeavors into more community efforts. Investigate what other communities are doing to unify their economics. You become cause-oriented, impersonal and humanitarian.

You’ll be like a Leo for a while. Leo is about the heart. Stand in the Sun’s light at dawn and dusk. A special light bathes and brings healing to the body. I see there’s a wound occurring in your daily life. Visualize the heart of the Sun (Love/Wisdom) streaming into your heart. Then love flows more easily and you see life changes. Connect your heart with the hearts of those around you. Instead of reflecting the light of others you become their source of Light.

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Your purpose is to research the new economic structures that define the new Aquarian businesses that bring forth the new sustainability for humanity. You are attempting to anchor the new ideas (entrepreneurships) that bring about unlimited resources needed for the coming new times. All assets are to be used differently now. No longer tossed away but tended to, saved, and cherished, to re-order, reorganize and reconstruct the world.

You’ve become the mother (nurturer). The chaos and conflict you feel are actually states of creativity needed for the new harmony in your life to emerge. You’re shedding old desires, moving into states of sharing, qualities of the disciple. From the waters of the womb to swimming in the waters of the earth you’re now seeking the Waters of Life. You’re thirsty. You help others. You’re the Mother now.

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A great time of testing, transformation and regeneration has begun. This also means crisis is felt. Within the crisis is the seed of regeneration. Hidden within regeneration is Resurrection. Much of the time you hide in darkness with intermittent soaring in the air. Do you dream of birds? What hurts eventually heals. Then we become healers. Stand in the Light of the Sun, morning and evening and at noon.

In the coming days you’ll attempt to bring harmony to all conflicts. When conflict appears, people usually exhibit agitation. They turn away. But you don’t—realizing when conflict appears it means a new harmony is seeking to come forth. Conflict is a life force, the old dying away, the new emerging. You realize conflict and chaos must exist. They are the other side of harmony. The horns of conflict become the “horns of plenty” (harmony). Knowing this calms your world.

LE0 Jul21–Aug22

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Observing the changes. Preparing for Aquarius is your shadow. From disharmony, harmony emerges. From imbalance equilibrium and a new balance emerges. From not knowing about love comes “love that underlies the happenings of the times”. From needing to dominate comes the desire to serve. From seeing only the light of self emerges a light that shines over the earth across the seas. You become this Light.

An Aries quality (all things new) colors all events in your life for a while. The stars ask a question of you. “What inspires you?” It’s important to ponder and go deep within the self to answer this question. Then to go about each day, with discipline, doing all that brings you motivation, stimulation and encouragement. What is your muse? Is it a person, an art form, a place, a season? Tend very carefully to financial resources.

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Your inner and outer worlds are merging. As you searched for order within the disorder, order appeared like magic out from the chaos. At first you were fearful and now you’re resourceful. You see yourself no longer imprisoned by form but that you (humanity and all the Kingdoms and the Earth itself) are actually Divine Form. Your perfect purity is showing.

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fictitious BusiNess Name statemeNt file No. 16-0009 The following individual is doing business as fiamma d'amore, fiamma d'amore felloWship, fiamma d'amore iNstitute, fiamma d'amore iNstitute & miNistries. 18 seacliff driVe, aptos, ca 95003. County of santa Cruz. michele demouliN. 18 seacliff driVe, aptos, ca 95003. This business is conducted by an individual signed: michele demouliN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious

business name listed above on 8/8/2013. This statement was filed with Gail l. Pellerin, County Clerk of santa Cruz County, on Jan. 4, 2016. Jan. 13, 20, 27, & feb. 3.

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. 04, 2016. Jan. 13, 20, 27, & feb. 3.

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.

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 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.

25, 2016. feb. 3, 10, 17, 24. fictitious BusiNess Name statemeNt file No. 16-0195 The following limited liability Company is doing business as delaVeaga properties. 3019 porter street, soQuel, ca 95073. County of santa Cruz. delaVeaga properties, llc. 3019 porter street, soQuel, ca 95073. ai# 1610205. This business is conducted by a limited liability Company signed: KathleeN J. alleN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 1/1/2016. This statement was filed with Gail l. Pellerin, County Clerk of santa Cruz County, on Jan. 26, 2016. feb. 3, 10, 17, 24.

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.

order of BaVariaN seers. 500 BohNeN road, saNta cruZ, ca 95065. County of santa Cruz. marK pace. 500 BohNeN road, saNta cruZ, ca 95065. This business is conducted by an individual signed: marK pace. 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. 22, 2016. feb. 3, 10, 17, 24.

real estate fictitious BusiNess Name statemeNt file No. 16-0012 The following individual is doing business as d'casa. 138 graNdVieW st., saNta cruZ, ca 95060. County of santa Cruz. JeNNy rashe. 138 graNdVieW st., saNta cruZ, ca 95060. This business is conducted by an individual signed: JeNNy rashe. The

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that copies of said ordinance were posted according to said order. (Original on file with city clerk.) Said ordinance was introduced on January 26, 2016 and is entitled and described as follows:

ORDINANCE NO. 2016-02 AN UNCODIFIED ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA CRUZ APPROVING THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN GREEN VALLEY CORPORATION (DEVELOPER) AND THE CITY OF SANTA CRUZ FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FOUR-STORY BUILDING WITH 94 RESIDENTIAL CONDOMINIUMS (SMALL OWNERSHIP UNITS) AND 4,680 SQUARE FEET OF COMMERCIAL SPACE WITHIN FOUR SEPARATE TENANT SPACES FRONTING ON PACIFIC AVENUE AT 555 PACIFIC AVENUE. This uncodified ordinance approves the Development Agreement for a four-story building with 94 residential condominiums and commercial space at 555 Pacific Avenue. PASSED FOR PUBLICATION on this 26th day of January, 2016, by the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers Noroyan, Terrazas, Comstock; Mayor Mathews. NOES: Councilmembers Lane, Posner; Vice Mayor Chase. ABSENT: None. DISQUALIFIED: None. APPROVED: ss/Cynthia Mathews, Mayor. ATTEST: ss/Bren Lehr, City Clerk Administrator. This Ordinance is scheduled for further consideration and final adoption at the Council meeting of February 9, 2016.

fictitious BusiNess Name statemeNt file No. 16-0020 The following individual is doing business as crust BiKes. 299 huBBard gulch, BeN lomoNd, ca 95005. County of santa Cruz. daVid yost. 299 huBBard gulch, BeN lomoNd, ca 95005. This

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,

NOTICE OF PUBLICATION OF ORDINANCE BY POSTING (ORDINANCE NO. 2016-03)

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 Hall–809 Center Street Central Branch Library–224 Church Street NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that copies of said ordinance were posted according to said order. (Original on file with city clerk.) Said ordinance was introduced on January 26, 2016 and is entitled and described as follows: ORDINANCE NO. 2016-03 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA CRUZ AMENDING SECTIONS 10.69.030 AND 10.69.040 OF THE SANTA CRUZ MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO THE NOTICING PERIOD FOR NUISANCE BICYCLE ABATEMENT This ordinance changes the notice period for removal of bicycles or parts thereof that are a public nuisance from seven days to 48 hours. PASSED FOR PUBLICATION on this 26th day of January, 2016, by the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers Noroyan, Lane, Terrazas, Posner, Comstock; Vice Mayor Chase; Mayor Mathews. NOES: None. ABSENT: None. DISQUALIFIED: None. APPROVED: ss/Cynthia Mathews, Mayor. ATTEST: ss/Bren Lehr, City Clerk Administrator. This Ordinance is scheduled for further consideration and final adoption at the Council meeting of February 9, 2016.

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. 16-0150 The following individual is doing business as a secret gardeN BoutiQue thriftshop. 2628 B. soQuel driVe. saNta cruZ, ca 95065. County of santa Cruz. liNda s. BurNam. 2628 B. soQuel driVe. saNta cruZ, ca 95065. This business is conducted by an individual signed: liNda s. BurNam. 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. 20, 2016. feb. 3, 10, 17, 24. fictitious BusiNess Name statemeNt file No. 16-0188 The following individual is doing business as oceaN VieW medical caNNaBis collectiVe. 1075 ormsBy cutoff, WatsoNVille, ca 95076. County of santa Cruz. garrett alaN haNd. 1075 ormsBy cutoff, WatsoNVille, ca 95076. This business is conducted by an individual signed: garrett haNd. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 1/20/2016. This statement was filed with Gail l. Pellerin, County Clerk of santa Cruz County, on Jan.

fictitious BusiNess Name statemeNt file No. 16-018 The following individual is doing business as optimum fiNaNcial. 1975 soQuel driVe, suite 210, saNta cruZ, ca 95065. County of santa Cruz. laureN marie guy. 1975 soQuel driVe, suite 210, saNta cruZ, ca 95065. This business is conducted by an individual signed: laureN marie guy. 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. 22, 2016. feb. 3, 10, 17, 24. 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 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:

fictitious BusiNess Name statemeNt file No. 16-0125 The following individual is doing business as Bay NatiVes BotaNicals. 23 e. Beach st. #209. WatsoNVille, ca 95076. County of santa Cruz. laureN o'doNNell. 23 e. Beach st. #209. WatsoNVille, ca 95076. This business is conducted by an individual signed: laureN o'doNNell. 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. 15, 2016. Jan. 27, & feb. 3, 10, 17. fictitious BusiNess Name statemeNt file No. 16-0209 The following individual is doing business as healiNg haVeN. 149 JosephiNe st., ste. B, saNta cruZ, ca 95060. County of santa Cruz. phil caylor. 149 JosephiNe st., ste. B, saNta cruZ, ca 95060. This business is conducted by an individual signed: phil caylor. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 1/27/2016. This statement was filed with Gail l. Pellerin, County Clerk of santa Cruz County, on Jan. 27, 2016. feb. 3, 10, 17, 24. fictitious BusiNess Name statemeNt file No. 16-0174 The following individual is doing business as aNcieNt

fictitious BusiNess Name statemeNt file No. 16-0215 The following individual is doing business as red Wolf raNch Naturals. 112 el camiNo, scotts Valley, ca 95066. County of santa Cruz. susaN moriN. 112 el camiNo, scotts Valley, ca 95066. This business is conducted by an individual signed: susaN moriN. 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. 27, 2016. feb. 3, 10, 17, 24. 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.

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3, 10. statemeNt of aBaNdoNmeNt of use of fictitious BusiNess Name The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: KeViN's tool repair. 2050 tWiN hills driVe, saNta cruZ, ca 95065. The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in saNta cruZ couNty on: 3/12/2012. KeViN's tool repair. 2050 tWiN hills driVe, saNta cruZ, ca 95065. This business was

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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 applicaBle. This statement was filed with Gail l. Pellerin, County Clerk of santa Cruz County, on Jan. 14, 2016. Jan. 20, 27, & feb. 3, 10.

conducted by: inDiViDUal: KeViN riddle. This statement was filed with the County Clerk- Recorder of sanTa CRUZ CoUnTy on the date indicated by the file stamp: Filed: Jan. 21, 2016. file No.2012-0000611. Jan. 27, & feb. 3, 10, 17. 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.

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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.

stagNaro chaNge of Name case No.16cV00154. the court fiNds that the petitioner lucy oliVia stagNaro has filed a Petition for Change of name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: lucy oliVia stagNaro to: oliVia Kacey stagNaro. the court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. if no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Notice of heariNg march 7, 2016 at 8:30 am, in department 5 located at superior court of california, 701 ocean street. santa cruz, ca 95060. a copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times, a newspaper of general circulation printed in santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: Jan. 21, 2016. Denine Guy, Judge of the superior Court. Jan. 27, & feb. 3, 10, 17.

fictitious BusiNess Name statemeNt file No. 16-0151 The following individual is doing business as califorNia safety coNcepts. 2664 freedom BlVd., WatsoNVille, ca 95076. County of santa Cruz. heriBerto garcia. 2664 freedom BlVd., WatsoNVille, ca 95076. This business is conducted by an individual signed: heriBerto garcia. 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. 20, 2016. Jan. 27, & feb. 3, 10, 17.