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It’s time to come clean: behind the doors of the Good Times office, beyond its tastefully decorated lobby, there’s been a cult flourishing openly for more than a year. This being Santa Cruz, the world’s leading exporter of conspiracy theory, I’m sure someone already suspected this. And, for once, it’s true. It’s a cult whose membership has infiltrated all departments: advertising, production, editorial— probably distribution, too, although I think they’re more of a sleeper cell. It all started when somebody in the office—I honestly can’t remember who was the first—discovered the Serial podcast. Whoever it was had to go and talk about it, and within a few weeks, several key members of the staff were hooked. It got to the point where there would be impromptu meetings in my office on Monday mornings some weeks—after everyone had time to absorb the previous week’s episode— to discuss the latest developments. What was Jay’s deal? Was the creepy park guy as innocent as he claimed to be? How is it possible that no one knows whether there was a pay phone at Best Buy—there either was or there wasn’t, people! Seriously, though, what was Jay’s deal? The cult didn’t break up when the
LETTERS 1 DIRECTION I appreciate the Good Times’ story last week (2/10) about the underreported greenhouse gas emissions which would result from proposed Highway 1 expansion. The Campaign for Sensible Transportation (CFST) has more concerns than that about the related Environmental Impact Report, and in a collaboration with the local Sierra Club, we’re posting an eight-page, detailed and referenced, greenwash-free analysis on our website, sensibletransportation.org. You can also see our Highway 1 slide show and sign our petition at the website. We agree there’s a traffic congestion problem on Highway
first season of Serial ended. It moved on to obsessing over Undisclosed, the podcast that examined the Adnan Syed case in even more minute detail. (Those taps, though. WTF.) And also The Jinx, and then of course Making a Murderer, and now season 2 of the podcast that started it all—for us, at least—Serial. And for a lot of other people too, obviously, since Serial is probably the biggest culture phenomenon of the last two years (non-Star Wars division). I was intrigued to discover that one of the minds behind Serial, co-creator and producer Julie Snyder, is a UCSC alum who got her start in radio here in Santa Cruz before moving on to one of NPR’s flagship shows, This American Life. Snyder is coming back to the Monterey Bay with Serial host Sarah Koenig to discuss the making of the podcast at an event at Carmel’s Sunset Center on March 9. At the end of my interview with her, I told her about the GT cult of Serial and she sounded not just thrilled but also genuinely shocked to hear about it. This is a woman whose podcast has been downloaded over a 100 million times—how can that possibly surprise you at this point, I asked her. She laughed, but later I realized it’s because the people behind Serial are only beginning to understand the influence they have. They’re not jaded by their success, and they just want to tell more stories. So do we here at GT. STEVE PALOPOLI | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
1; the necessary question is: what’s smart to do about it, while not helping to hand the children of the future a destabilized climate? We’d like to correct any mistaken impression that could result from the GT story. CFST supports having a local transportation sales tax measure considered by the voters, to include sustainable transportation measures that would help reduce automobile dependence in Santa Cruz County along with providing funds to maintain the existing transportation system. We’re asking the RTC to move in that direction, instead of including funds for adding lanes on Highway 1 in projects that have been shown will not perform, either to provide long-term congestion relief >8
PHOTO CONTEST REVERSE THE POLARITY OF THE NEUTRON FLOW Local writer Ann Parker spotted this Dr. Who police box in a field south of Davenport last week, before it mysteriously disappeared the next day. She came out as a fan of the long-running British sci-fi series herself when she suggested a possible reason for its sudden departure: “Off to battle the Daleks in another universe, I guess.” Photograph by Ann Parker.
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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of February 17 ARIES Mar21–Apr19
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“Old paint on a canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent,” said playwright Lillian Hellman. “When that happens, it is possible to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman’s dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea.” Why does this happen? Because the painter changed his or her mind. Early images were replaced, painted over. I suspect that a metaphorical version of this is underway in your life. Certain choices you made in the past got supplanted by choices you made later. They disappeared from view. But now those older possibilities are re-emerging for your consideration. I’m not saying what you should do about them. I simply want to alert you to their ghostly presence so they don’t cause confusion.
Poet Barbara Hamby says the Russian word ostyt can be used to describe “a cup of tea that is too hot, but after you walk to the next room, and return, it is too cool.” A little birdie told me that this may be an apt metaphor for a current situation in your life. I completely understand if you wish the tea had lost less of its original warmth, and was exactly the temperature you like, neither burning nor tepid. But that won’t happen unless you try to reheat it, which would change the taste. So what should you do? One way or the other, a compromise will be necessary. Do you want the lukewarm tea or the hot tea with a different flavor?
TAURUS Apr20–May20 Let’s talk about your mouth. Since your words flow out of it, you use it to create and shape a lot of your experiences. Your mouth is also the place where food and drink enter your body, as well as some of the air you breathe. So it’s crucial to fueling every move you make. You experience the beloved sense of taste in your mouth. You use your mouth for kissing and other amorous activities. With its help, you sing, moan, shout, and laugh. It’s quite expressive, too. As you move its many muscles, you send out an array of emotional signals. I’ve provided this summary in the hope of inspiring you to celebrate your mouth, Taurus. It’s prime time to enhance your appreciation of its blessings!
GEMINI May21–June20 Coloring books for adults are best-sellers. Tightly wound folks relieve their stress by using crayons and markers to brighten up black-and-white drawings of butterflies, flowers, mandalas, and pretty fishes. I highly recommend that you avoid this type of recreation in the next three weeks, as it would send the wrong message to your subconscious mind. You should expend as little energy as possible working within frameworks that others have made. You need to focus on designing and constructing your own frameworks.
CANCER Jun21–Jul22 The Old Testament book of Leviticus presents a long list of forbidden activities, and declares that anyone who commits them should be punished. You’re not supposed to get tattoos, have messy hair, consult oracles, work on Sunday, wear clothes that blend wool and linen, plant different seeds in the same field, or eat snails, prawns, pigs, and crabs. (It’s OK to buy slaves, though.) We laugh at how absurd it would be for us to obey these outdated rules and prohibitions, and yet many of us retain a superstitious loyalty toward guidelines and beliefs that are almost equally obsolete. Here’s the good news, Cancerian: Now is an excellent time to dismantle or purge your own fossilized formulas.
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“I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well,” said the philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau. In accordance with your astrological constitution, Leo, I authorize you to use this declaration as your own almost any time you feel like it. But I do suggest that you make an exception to the rule during the next four weeks. In my opinion, it will be time to focus on increasing your understanding of the people you care about—even if that effort takes time and energy away from your quest for ultimate self-knowledge. Don’t worry: You can return to emphasizing Thoreau’s perspective by the equinox.
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SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 Russian writer Ivan Turgenev was a Scorpio. Midway through his first novel Rudin, his main character Dmitrii Nikolaevich Rudin alludes to a problem that affects many Scorpios. “Do you see that apple tree?” Rudin asks a woman companion. “It is broken by the weight and abundance of its own fruit.” Ouch! I want very much for you Scorpios to be spared a fate like that in the coming weeks. That’s why I propose that you scheme about how you will express the immense creativity that will be welling up in you. Don’t let your lush and succulent output go to waste.
SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21 Asking you Sagittarians to be patient is akin to ordering a bonfire to burn more politely. But it’s my duty to inform you of the cosmic tendencies, so I will request your forbearance for now. How about some nuances to make it more palatable? Here’s a quote from author David G. Allen: “Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.” Novelist Gustave Flaubert: “Talent is a long patience.” French playwright Moliere: “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.” Writer Anne Lamott: “Hope is a revolutionary patience.” I’ve saved the best for last, from Russian novelist Irène Némirovsky: “Waiting is erotic.”
CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 “If you ask for help it comes, but not in any way you’d ever know.” Poet Gary Snyder said that, and now I’m passing it on to you, Capricorn. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to think deeply about the precise kinds of help you would most benefit from—even as you loosen up your expectations about how your requests for aid might be fulfilled. Be aggressive in seeking assistance, but ready and willing to be surprised as it arrives.
AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 For a limited time only, 153 is your lucky number. Mauve and olive are your colors of destiny, the platypus is your power animal, and torn burlap mended with silk thread is your magic texture. I realize that all of this may sound odd, but it’s the straight-up truth. The nature of the cosmic rhythms are rather erratic right now. To be in maximum alignment with the irregular opportunities that are headed your way, you should probably make yourself magnificently mysterious, even to yourself. To quote an old teacher, this might be a good time to be “so unpredictable that not even you yourself know what’s going to happen.”
PISCES Feb19–Mar20 In the long-running TV show M*A*S*H*, the character known as Sidney Freedman was a psychiatrist who did his best to nurture the mental health of the soldiers in his care. He sometimes departed from conventional therapeutic approaches. In the series finale, he delivered the following speech, which I believe is highly pertinent to your current quest for good mental hygiene: “I told you people something a long time ago, and it’s just as pertinent today as it was then. Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice: Pull down your pants and slide on the ice.”
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NEWS CUTS LOOM FOR METRO Bus system will slash $6.5 million worth of bus routes BY KARA GUZMAN
Drastic reductions are coming to Santa Cruz County’s public bus system this fall, and transit authorities are seeking public input on which routes should be spared. Since the 2008 recession, Santa Cruz METRO’s expenses have exceeded revenues, forcing the bus system to dip into its reserves. Rising operating costs, stagnant funding, flat ticket sales, and a growing backlog of repairs and capital needs have pushed the transit system against the wall. In March, METRO officials will present an initial plan to cut its bus system costs by $6.5 million—the system’s largest cutback to date, says Barrow Emerson, the transit system’s new planning and development manager. The way he explains it, METRO has three choices, in order of least to most painful: cut the bus routes’ frequency, cut the hours and days that buses operate, or cut routes entirely. “In the third and most painful tier, the route is completely eliminated and someone in that vicinity can no longer walk to a bus,” Emerson says. “We are trying to accomplish the impact in the first two (tiers), but the scale of our problem will include the elimination of routes.”
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veryone’s heard stories of people getting priced out of Santa Cruz. County Supervisor Zach Friend recently warned that if the current trajectory of increasing housing costs continues, the community could turn into an exclusive “Carmelized” version of its former self. The board of supervisors adopted a state-required Housing Element to its General Plan this month by a unanimous vote, following more than
a year of community workshops, public hearings, several revisions, and overall support from many local groups, like Affordable Housing Now! The Housing Element calls for 1,314 new housing units, almost 40 percent of which are planned to be affordable for low-income households, in the unincorporated areas of Santa Cruz County by 2023. That’s almost 200 housing units a year, for seven years. Friend says where and in what form this housing gets built will be an
“ongoing exercise in accommodating change” and garnering community support, as well. Friend knows something about the need for community support. The supervisor has endured several months of public criticism— culminating in the threat of a recall from a handful of activists—for his support of the large, mixed-use Aptos Village project in his district, in which 10 of the 69 new homes
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After the initial plan of cuts is presented to the METRO board in March, a 30-day public comment period follows in April and May. The board votes on the amended plan in June and cuts take effect in September. Emerson said his team has not yet decided which routes will be targeted. Some routes draw more income, such as the Highway 17 Express, which shuttles riders to San Jose. But that’s not the only factor—planners must take the entire system into account, he says. “In a bus network of 35 routes, if we just cut X number of the poor-performing routes, we would no longer have a network where people could get from point A to point B,” he says. Plus, federal regulations require that lowincome and minority neighborhoods are not disproportionately affected by cuts, Emerson says. >14
HOW THE PLAN STACKS UP County supes have adopted a Housing Element to the General Plan that promises hundreds of affordable housing units.
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NEWS NEW FOUNDATION <11 will be affordable. At a board of supervisors meeting last month, Friend spoke passionately about the need for “shared sacrifice” if any progress is to be made making new housing more affordable. “If you come before the board and say you are for more affordable housing, you actually have to be willing to let things get built, even in your neighborhood. That’s the challenge—affordable housing is a collective shared sacrifice,” he said. “You can’t say you are in favor of it as long as it is somewhere else.” That “somewhere else” is getting increasingly scarce. The Housing Element focuses on the need to re-zone for increased density along transportation corridors such as Soquel Drive, as well as relatively dense, multifamily infill projects to meet the demand. Both the county and city of Santa Cruz are moving toward plans to re-zone along corridors to encourage sustainable growth, and transit-dependent and walkable neighborhoods with higher densities of smaller housing units. The county’s program is called Sustainable Santa Cruz County. The Housing Element is a policy document required by the state every five to seven years demonstrating
how the county will accommodate its “fair share” of projected growth. State law does not require that the housing actually get built—only that planning policies are in place to house the expected population growth for all income levels. State funding to help finance affordable housing has not been backfilled since Sacramento dissolved local redevelopment agencies as part of budget reforms in 2011. That puts increased pressure on local governments to secure grants to fund these projects. All five supervisors pledged to support affordable housing across the county, although that support was not without nuance or caveats. District 4 Supervisor Greg Caput said South County has in past years shouldered an unfair burden of new affordable housing, and that the burden needs to shared more evenly. District 5 Supervisor Bruce McPherson said the San Lorenzo Valley does not have much room or infrastructure to grow. Many of the locations identified in the Housing Element for possible development are in the Live Oak area, Supervisor John Leopold’s district. Still, they stressed they want to fight this on a united front. The constant pressure on the housing market from high-income generator Silicon Valley renders affordability a perennial problem. Add to that a growing UCSC population,
and a tradition of neighborhood activism that ensures slow—if any— growth, and Santa Cruz County seems caught in the perfect storm of fullblown affordability crises. According to the UCSC Office of Community Rentals, the average rent for a two-bedroom apartment now exceeds $2,000 per month, compared to $1,650 in 2010—a 21 percent increase. The percentage of homes a median income household in Santa Cruz County can afford to buy dropped from a high of 54 percent of homes in 2012, when median sales prices were about $365,000, to only 22 percent in January 2015, when median sales prices were topping $625,000. By June 2015, the median sales price jumped to $725,000. When median incomes are compared to the price of housing, Santa Cruz-Watsonville often gets rated the least affordable small metro area in the entire nation by the National Association of Home Builders. People agree there’s a problem, but not everyone agrees on how to fix it. One of the guiding arguments from “slow-growthers,” as they’re sometimes called, has been that Santa Cruz cannot build its way out of its affordability problem because increasing housing supply enough to make a dent in housing prices would require a level >15
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group with the same name that now boasts 30 chapters around the world. “You can’t tweet your way to freedom,” she told the Civic audience, to thunderous applause, before going on to explain why she wrote a letter on July 13, 2013—the day Trayvon Martin’s killer was set free—that contained the phrase “Our lives matter.” “It was a love letter to black people,” she said. “Our lives matter. Our children matter. We are human, and we deserve dignity and respect exactly as
we are. I also wrote that letter because too many people who are sworn to serve and protect us are getting away with murder.” Garza also said that Black Lives Matter is not a new movement, but just a different moment in the same movement that was formerly championed by Rosa Parks, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. Garza read King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” in which King decries white moderates who acknowledge injustice but allow it to continue. This is the radical side of King that Garza wanted
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CUTS LOOM FOR METRO <11 “We can’t cut Watsonville 50 percent and cut Santa Cruz 10 percent. The law doesn’t let us do that,” Emerson says. During the school year, around half of riders are UC Santa Cruz students, who pay for bus passes with their tuition and fees. By far, the most popular bus routes (with the highest annual number of riders) are No. 16, UCSC via Laurel East, serving the campus and the Westside, and No. 71, serving Cabrillo College and Watsonville. Both routes serve around 900,000 riders each year. By the same measure, the five least popular bus routes are: No. 34 (South Felton), No. 8 (Emeline in Santa Cruz), No. 33 (Lompico in Felton), No. 54 (Capitola, Aptos and La Selva) and No. 42 (Davenport and Bonny Doon), according to 2013 data. But those least-popular routes are not
necessarily at risk, since they only have a few trips each day compared to dozens each day for the popular routes, says Emerson. “This is a very complicated, nuanced thing,” he says. ParaCruz, METRO’s door-to-door service for people with disabilities, is not a direct target of cuts, but will likely see reductions. Federal regulations only obligate METRO to provide paratransit service within threequarter miles of its system, and only during the system’s hours of operation. So if the bus system’s boundaries or hours shrink, then so will ParaCruz’s, says Emerson.
WHAT CAUSES A DEFICIT? Since the 2008 recession, METRO’s county sales tax income stopped growing like it had previously, resulting in $26 million less income than forecasted from 2008 to 2014.
The sales tax is the system’s largest source of income, accounting for 39 percent. Passenger fares account for 20 percent of income, and state and federal funding account for 22 percent. Those income sources have also stayed flat since 2008. “No public bus company makes a profit,” says Emerson, who notes that even popular routes with full busloads still need a subsidy to operate. Meanwhile, the operating budget has continued to grow, from $40 million in 2012 to $50.7 million in 2016. METRO has been able to balance its operating budget only by dipping into its reserves (taking around $22 million since 2008) and state and federal funds intended for capital improvements (around $14 million since 2011). Around $200 million in capital needs are expected over the next 20 years, says Emerson. For example, METRO has delayed replacing its aging bus fleet, which is about
12 years old and at the end of its life span. In September, METRO increased fares for the Highway 17 Express route and ParaCruz, but the effects of those rate increases remain to be seen, says Alex Clifford, METRO’s CEO. The Highway 17 route has since had a minor drop in the number of riders, but that may be due to low gas prices and increased traffic, he says. Further rate increases are not part of the immediate plan, Clifford says. “We really would like to have the public stay engaged and aware of this process that we’re going through,” says Clifford. “We would like for them to understand the challenge that we’re faced with, and that is [that] we’re delivering more service today than we can afford to pay for. We have to balance our budget.”
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Left to right, three of the primary minds behind 'Serial': co-creator and host Sarah Koenig; Ira Glass, from whose 'This American Life' 'Serial' was spun off; and co-creator and producer Julie Snyder. PHOTO:MEREDITH HEUER
TRUE STORYTELLER UC Santa Cruz grad Julie Snyder talks about how the ‘Serial’ podcast gets made—and how it became a cultural phenomenon BY STEVE PALOPOLI
“I heard they had the broadcast class at the radio station, and I thought, ‘Well, I guess I could try that,’” she remembers. But in the summer of 1994, after her third year at UCSC, she landed her first paying job, working as the morning anchor at KSCO. The next summer, after graduating with a degree in politics, she was KSCO’s afternoon anchor. Two years later, she was hired by WBEZ’s then-fledgling show This American Life, where she still
works as senior producer. But since 2014, Snyder is better known for creating and producing (and occasionally appearing on-air in) the podcast Serial with her This American Life co-producer Sarah Koenig. Serial put a different spin on TAL’s storytelling format by stretching a single story out across a whole season of hour-long episodes that dug into the narrative from a number of different angles. Maybe it was just the right moment
in American culture, with distrust of the criminal justice system hitting seemingly new highs. Maybe it was the compelling story and personality of Adnan Syed, who still claimed to be innocent for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee, his ex-girlfriend and fellow student at Baltimore’s Woodlawn High School, for which he was serving a life sentence after two trials. Maybe it was host Koenig’s incredibly personal delivery, in which she was so forthcoming with her doubts and
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frustrations about the case that she was accused of everything from flipflopping to oversharing—but left no doubts about her transparency. Whatever the reason, Serial is the most popular podcast in history, reaching five million downloads faster than any before it, and eventually passing 100 million downloads. In becoming the first “mustlisten” podcast, Serial seemed to give the format its first cultural legitimacy, with fans binge-listening in the same way they were used to consuming TV shows and movies. At the end of last year, Serial returned with season two, featuring an entirely new story about the case of Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. soldier who was captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan, freed in a controversial prisoner swap five years later, in 2014, and now faces a courtmartial on charges of desertion and “misbehavior before the enemy” that could result in a life sentence. Snyder and Koenig will come to the Sunset Center in Carmel on Wednesday, March 9, for an event titled ‘Binge-Worthy Journalism: Backstage With the Creators of Serial’ in which they’ll discuss the workings of the podcast. Snyder spoke to GT from her office in New York the week after the show posted a series of updates about a new hearing granted to Syed—a hearing which many credit Serial for setting into motion. Last week must have been intense, between putting out an episode of season 2 and also doing three mini-episodes with updates from Syed’s hearing.
JULIE SNYDER: Last week really took a lot out of us. It was crazy. We should not have done that, it was too nutty. I guess if you just decide to give up sleep—that was what we kind of felt like we did. But I guess you probably felt like you had to do the updates, since so many people are following the case through you.
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Sarah really wanted to. It’s hard, you know, you feel like, “Wait, for a year I was in this world.” And then you’re going to have, for three days—which turned out to be five days—people testifying and talking about the case.
We kind of lived inside there for a long time. She definitely felt like she had to. I wasn’t clear on whether or not we had to do anything with it, but at least we had to go. And then we knew we would be having conversations at the end of every day anyway about what happened, so then it felt like “Well, I guess we could put that stuff out.” We kind of did the best we could while we’re in the middle of the second season. Many people credit ‘Serial’ with the fact that Adnan Syed is getting a new hearing in the first place. What’s it like seeing the real-world effect the podcast has had?
It was heartening for me that the appeals court said, “OK, we should take another look,” because for me I did think that particularly Asia McClain’s testimony felt like it was at least something that should be considered. I can’t get inside the court of appeals’ heads to understand what they’re thinking or where they’re coming from, but a lot of people who were more familiar with the court said to us that with the extra scrutiny on the case, it means a lot to the court that this process be transparent and receptive and working. Good! In that way, it was good to see, and I was fascinated by the process of it and seeing what happened. There’s a moment in one of the hearing updates where Sarah says to co-producer Dana Chivvis something like, ‘Oh, remember when we thought this would be as easy as just finding Asia McClain, and the whole thing will be solved?’ Was it really like that at the beginning, where you thought this would be fairly simple?
Yes. It sounds so silly, I know. I know! But yeah, it kind of felt a little like, ‘well, every question has an answer, so you’ve just got to push a little harder and ask the right people, and you’ll get an answer.’ And we did! That’s the thing, we got a lot of answers. The problem is that then a lot of times the answers raised more questions, as well. So we kept on going deeper and deeper and deeper into it, you know? But you can’t just stop and say, “These things are unknowable,” because
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TRUE STORYTELLER <18 they’re not unknowable. That’s where it gets frustrating—you never know where to stop. For us, by the end, I couldn’t think of any more avenues to go down. I think we felt like we’d probably exhausted what we could do. That’s interesting, because ‘Undisclosed’ started up right after that, and looked at the same case from a very analytical legal perspective. What was it like for the team at ‘Serial’ hearing the first few episodes of that, which broke some new information that built on what you had done?
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Sarah has never heard Undisclosed, and I can’t say I’ve listened to every episode. I have heard some episodes of Undisclosed. [What they did] for what was introduced last week at the hearing about the cell tower testimony, that was pretty incredible. I was aware of the cover sheet—and that was one itch that was not scratched last week, the question of does it make a difference—but the fact that they had talked with the AT&T cell phone expert who had testified at Adnan’s trial, who said essentially, “I wasn’t aware of this disclaimer, and I now feel like I can’t stand behind my testimony because of it,” I felt like whoa. That was really big. But with Undisclosed, I think they have a different agenda than we do. There were a lot of other things that I thought were pretty much more in the speculative camp.
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But the biggest difference I think is that ‘Serial’ had such an emphasis on storytelling. Do you think its breakthrough into the mainstream came from that attention to crafting the story?
Yes, and we focus a lot on how to tell a story, and how to tell something that feels emotional, and has meaning, where people are more than just props. Where you’ve got threedimensional characters. Empathy, trying to see things from everybody’s point of view, is something that we’re always going for. News stories, personal stories, everyday stories—a lot of times they’re complicated, and I think we can be a little knee-jerk sometimes in assuming things are more simple than they are. So yeah, we put a lot of thought into trying to get across in these stories the level
CENTRAL CASTING Snyder and Koenig at work. The pair will discuss 'Serial' at the Sunset Center on March 9.
of emotion and understanding that we’re seeing when we meet people, and when we talk to them. Were you shocked at how many people seemed disappointed that you didn’t ‘solve’ the case in season one? Although, I admit I’m not sure what that would mean.
Right, it seems like it’s really complicated. Yeah, definitely. For me, I felt like when we went on the air and began broadcasting I knew that at the very least where our reporting had led us was that this crime did not happen the way the state is saying that it happened. So in that regard, at least, I knew I had a story that I wanted to tell, and Sarah had a story that she wanted to tell, saying, at the very least, here’s what did not happen. As the podcast went on and a lot of listeners became convinced of Adnan’s innocence, it seemed like many started to take a rooting interest, to the point where people would express frustration whenever she raised the possibility that he did do it.
It seemed like it was important for
her to say both what she knew and what she didn’t know. That’s ballsy, especially to talk about what you don’t know. There’s a role often that reporters and writers will take, as if they know everything. I really admired her for being honest about what she couldn’t figure out, and what she struggled with while trying to figure it out. Did you have a lot of discussions about that transparency?
Yeah, a lot of times where it would come up is that so much of that story—as is apparent even in those updates—lives in the details. It’s pretty deep in the weeds. And so we would start trying to say, “Well there’s this, but then on the other hand, there’s that. And then there’s this, and then there’s that.” It was hard, we would be in edits and say, “I feel like you’re just giving me a bunch of facts. I don’t know how I’m supposed to be piecing it together. I don’t understand what it means.” I think that’s where we came to learn that we needed Sarah to tell us what she thinks. Even if we didn’t
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agree. It was like, “The only way for me to understand what I think about this is to understand what you think about this. Then I can disagree with you, but I need you to kind of put it in context. That was a little uncomfortable for her at first, even though she comes from This American Life, and we’re pretty used to narrative nonfiction in a traditional way. But that much was not completely comfortable for her. But I think she saw that that was the only way she could get people to interact with the story on the level that she needed them to. All of us, we want to be having this conversation with the listener, but we need them to be as inside of it as we are. Were there a lot of things you didn’t agree on? Did you argue about theories?
We would, because we would sometimes have these far-fetched ideas, like “What if …?” And it would just be like, “You’re crazy.” There weren’t knock-down, dragout fights. But there were definitely certain people who had theories that were a little bit more their pet
TRUE STORYTELLER theory. There were times when we all could be kind of skeptical of each other, but you could a few weeks later kind of come around and be like “I get what you’re saying.” How did you come to co-create ‘Serial’ in the first place, and why a podcast?
I was at This American Life for 18 years, and Sarah came on a little bit after me, so I think we’ve worked together for about 12 years. And we’d been talking, and it seemed like at that point podcasts were a possibility. To start a new radio show is a lot of work. It’s a lot of logistical work; you have to make a real commitment to doing it, because you’re asking the entire public radio system to sign on. So I think neither of us felt like we were in a position—and I don’t think Ira [Glass] did either—to do that. We were being pretty experimental, kind of like “We have this idea and we just kind of want to try it out.” At that point, it seemed like podcasting was becoming more of an option—we could be experimental, we could do it for a little while, it could just be a season, they could be however long we wanted. It just seemed a lot more conducive to taking a chance. Was choosing Bowe Bergdahl’s story for the second season a deliberate attempt to do something radically different from Syed’s story and avoid being pigeonholed?
In that regard, I think we definitely did not start anything. I think just on the facts alone we didn’t start anything, because those projects— well, Undisclosed is different, but The Jinx and Making a Murderer were all well into production for much longer than we were around. I know we all kind of get put together, but there’s nothing new about crime stories. And there’s nothing new even about serialized storytelling. But where I do understand it, what I think has changed, is the idea of slowing down a story, and telling it using all the tools of journalism—rigorous reporting, fact-checking, and all the kind of boring, sloggy stuff that goes into regular journalism—but then telling the stories in an emotional way, where people are three-dimensional characters and have contradictions and ambiguities. The Jinx and Making a Murderer, a lot of times you’re not exactly sure if somebody’s a good guy or a bad guy, you’re not sure what you’re supposed to think of somebody. I think there is a way that people are becoming a lot more comfortable in storytelling, and being honest about that. And I think that might be the thing that we’re all sharing in the way we’re reporting stories. That might be the thing we have in common.
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We always knew from the beginning we were going to do something really different. For the first half of season one, people would say “So, you guys are a true crime podcast?” And that was a thing we definitely did have to constantly be pushing back against, because we knew from the very beginning we did not want to be a true crime podcast. There was no way that was our genre. But then a lot of times people would say, “Well, so is the next story going to be a story about a crime, or a murder case or something?” And at first I would always be like, “No, no, no, no, no,” and then after a while I realized “Honestly, I probably shouldn’t say no, because I really have no idea what we’re going to do next, because we have not gotten a chance at all to think about this.” But we were pretty positive no.
In a larger cultural context, I’m curious what you think of the fact that ‘Serial’ has been credited with kicking off this wave of documentaries and podcasts devoted to examining the failures of the justice system. ‘Undisclosed’ and other podcasts continued to follow Syed’s story. ‘The Jinx’ was sort of the flip side of ‘Serial’’s individual-possibly-wronglyaccused storyline. ‘Making a Murderer’ was very much like the documentary version of ‘Serial,’ another multi-part story examining the weaknesses in the state’s conviction of a man serving time for murder. Do you agree that ‘Serial’ started something?
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PTSD would be given medical help rather than the death penalty. “We’re at a crisis in our criminal justice system: since 1982 at least one black man has been executed on death row every single year,” says Hibbert-Jones. “In California the death penalty will again be on the ballot, so we’re hoping that some of the attention coming to us will come to the film, and people who maybe aren’t sure what their positions are will maybe have their perspectives shifted through this story.” Hibbert-Jones started the project six years ago with her co-producer and co-director Nomi Talisman. They first heard Babbitt’s story when Talisman was working for a nonprofit community resource initiative interviewing families for testimony against the death penalty. “We started thinking about animation because we started interviewing a family that needed anonymity,” says Hibbert-Jones. “From there we realized the power of animation in ways that can access the audiences—younger audiences. We really liked the idea of working metaphorically across stories.” Babbitt’s narrative encompasses so many of the other experiences that Hibbert-Jones and Talisman encountered in their work, like the absolute shock at the failings of the justice system and the heartbreak of watching a family member be executed by the state. “We realized their stories needed telling and we needed to foreground that as the center of this piece,” Babbitt says. “Then we started thinking about how one could communicate some of these ideas, beyond just the telling of the stories and imagining ourselves in an emotional state—for Bill and also for Manny.” That’s how watching the movie feels: as if it comes from inside the chaos of a mind that has slipped from reality and remains caged in a Vietnam battlefield. It took 32,000 drawings to make the moody clash of sometimes choppy, sometimes smooth animated sketches a reality. With some animation help, Hibbert-Jones and Talisman did the work from
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Reel Big Fish was an MTV sensation in the ’90s, but did they sell out? BY AARON CARNES
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n 1996, SoCal ska-punkers Reel Big Fish released one of the most ironic songs to get chewed up in the MTV machine: “Sell Out,” a song about a band signing to a major record label—and selling out. Sure, sarcasm was big in the ’90s, but what exactly was their angle? The song is off of the band’s major label debut, Turn the Radio Off, but it wasn’t written by the major-labelsigned Reel Big Fish, it was penned a year earlier when they were slogging through half-filled clubs like every other underground ska band. “Sell Out” was inspired by watching Berkeley ska band Dance Hall Crashers get backlash from their fans because they released the more rockoriented album Lockjaw that year.
Everyone was screaming “sellouts!” “It was the opposite of what most people think it was about,” says frontman Aaron Barrett. “I was just like, ‘Dance Hall Crashers are a good band and they just came out with an awesome new album.’ I was making fun of the people yelling ‘sellout’ to anyone that gets any kind of success for anything.” In fact, it was the record label that pushed “Sell Out” as Reel Big Fish’s breakout single. They had, as Barrett explains, a sense of humor about the whole thing. The song captured not just the confusing feeling ska fans had when their music was suddenly on MTV, but also the essence of what the ’90s were like for bands. Whether a band “sold out” was of
utmost importance, even though few people could agree on what exactly that meant. “The people yelling ‘sellout,’ they don’t know what they’re talking about. Now everybody’s technically selling out. They’re trying to get their music on commercials,” Barrett says. “Selling out would be changing your music because the record label told you to so you can sell more records. We saw some people do that.” For any grief Reel Big Fish got for signing to a major label, they did actually face a “sell-out” moment after they recorded their follow up album, Why Do They Rock So Hard?, but they turned the other way. Ska’s mainstream popularity was dying, and bands were either breaking up or
trying to repackage themselves as rock bands. When the label received the first mix of Why Do They Rock So Hard?, they asked the band if they could hear a version of it “without the horns.” “We didn’t do that. We were little brats—‘fuck you, we do whatever we want.’ We already had a following, people that liked this music,” says Barrett. “So why would we make music that we really don’t like, rather than music that we like and we know that other people like? Makes more sense to me.” Aside from a couple of songs off Turn the Radio Off, and a cover of “Take On Me” from the BASEketball soundtrack, the group didn’t have another hit. But by staying true to their sound and touring nonstop, their fan base remained steady. “Since we put out Turn the Radio Off in ’96, we went on tour and we’ve been on tour ever since,” says Barrett. “We were never so big that we were playing stadiums. We got to a certain level in ’97, and we’re still playing all the same clubs we were back then. It’s pretty awesome.” In their post-MTV years, they got to travel more globally; they made it to Europe for the first time in 2001, and their 2002 record Cheer Up was their big hit over there, not Turn the Radio Off. Since then, they keep finding new countries to play in. Recently, they played a ska festival in Indonesia. Wherever they go, the crowds tend to be a mixture of old fans and young kids just discovering the music. As the road warriors that they are, Reel Big Fish still draw the same diehard fans, mainly because there are not a lot of other ska bands still doing what they’re doing. Besides, they know how to put on a good show. “This kind of music is really fun live. The best way to experience it is live at the show, so people keep coming back to see these shows because it’s so fun. Everybody always has a good time watching ska music,” says Barrett. “We’ve been building our following all these years. We have a reputation as a really fun live band, so people keep coming back to see us and they bring their friends— that’s one theory, I guess.” INFO: 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 23. The Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. 429-4135. $20-$23.
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‘EARTHLINGS’ When Luke Kitchel was 3 years old, he decided to become a vegetarian. Now, he pays people—that’s right, pays them five dollars—to attend screenings of the film Earthlings, in an attempt to inspire others to take the same course. Kitchel has spent more than $1,000 to host screenings (despite having his own student debt to deal with) to raise awareness about animal cruelty, human kindness and environmental sustainability. Earthlings is a 2005 documentary directed by Shaun Monson and narrated by Joaquin Phoenix about how the world’s largest industries rely on animals for profit. Info: 6 p.m, Monday, Feb. 22. Cabrillo College Room 450, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos. gofundme.com/earthlings. Free.
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WEDNESDAY 2/17 ARTS SHADES OF BLUE Celebrate the cool blue feelings of winter in our first show of 2016. This is our annual juried show, with cash prizes. Come see who wins. Gallery open Wednesdays through Sundays, Noon-5 p.m. SC Mountains Art Center, 9341 Mill St., Ben Lomond. 336-3513. Free.
BUSINESS BROWN BAG SERIES: COMBINING TODAY’S TECH TO MARKET YOUR BUSINESS Ian Utile will lead us in an interactive discussion about some of the successful marketing campaigns he has led during the last year. Noon-1 p.m. Downtown Santa Cruz Public Library Upstairs Meeting Room, 224 Church St., Santa Cruz. Teresa Thomae, sbdc@cabrillo.edu. Free.
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TRIPLE P WORKSHOP: IT’S TIME FOR POTTY TRAINING Attend this free parenting workshop and drop-in playgroup to learn about how to potty train your child. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Mountain Community Resources, 6134 Hwy. 9, Felton. first5scc.org/workshop-its-time-pottytraining. Free.
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RANDOM WITH A PURPOSE Two acts, all styles: this year’s “Random with a Purpose” dance performance event showcases the abundance of movement talent that UCSC’s hardworking students create. Entirely student-led and produced, this year’s two-act night will feature pieces in hiphop, modern, tap, breaking, bhangra, and contemporary dance. Original choreography is by Lauren Korth, Makenna Bantillo, Juliet Paramor, Annalise Constantz, Kenny Kahlon, Joey Toor and more. Info: 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Feb. 18-21. Mainstage, UCSC Theater Arts, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz. santacruztickets.com. 459-2159. $12, Free for UCSC students.
GROUPS THE APTOS VILLAGE PLAN - PROGRESS OR TRAFFIC JAM? LIVE TALK Live Talk by Becky Steinbruner and Debbie Henke. Changes are coming to Aptos. Find out what these amazing women's investigations have uncovered. 7-9:30 p.m. Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave., Santa Cruz. SantaCruzFreedomForum. 708-8626. Free/donations.
HEALTH QI GONG FOR ENERGY BALANCE & HEALTH BY BREIGE WALBRIDGE Qi Gong is a fantastic and easy practice that brings physical happiness and mental calm. 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel. 462-8383. Donation. B12 HAPPY HOUR Come and get your Happy Hour B12 shot. B12 treats: fatigue, anemia, colds/flus, anxiety, depression and more. 3-6
SATURDAY 2/20 ON STRUCTURE & CHRIS PECK EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC This Saturday, Feb. 20, Indexical presents a multimedia performance that blurs the lines of movement, composition, language and performance, featuring On Structure with Natacha Diels and Jessie Marino and Chris Peck. Diels and Marino present their latest work “The Portal,” a combination of choreographed performance rituals with video projection, electronic sound, and DIY animatronics performance. Part videogame, part Twilight Zone, the two heroines bounce between analog and digital worlds. Peck is a composer, improviser and computer musician who performs as a multi-instrumentalist with Crystal Mooncone, Stephen Rush and Jon Moniaci. Info: 7 p.m. Radius Gallery, 1050 River St., #127, Santa Cruz. $10-$15.
p.m. 736 Chestnut St., Santa Cruz. 477-1377. $17. TAI JI- CHI GONG EXERCISE Tai ji and chi gong is a low impact, body-mind exercise suitable for people of all ages. Benefits improve health, vitality, strength, balance and flexibility. 10-11:15 a.m. Inner Light Circle, 5630 Soquel Drive, Soquel. Linda Gerson 334-7757, awakeningchi.org or awakeningchi33@gmail.com. Free.
OUTDOORS DOWNTOWN SANTA CRUZ FARMERS MARKET Our largest and oldest market is situated in the heart of Downtown Santa Cruz, one block off of Pacific Avenue. In addition to a
large variety of farm products, this market offers a great selection of local artisan foods. 1:30 p.m. Cedar and Lincoln streets, Santa Cruz. Free.
SPIRITUAL CHENREZIG NYUNG NAY RETREAT FOR DEVELOPING OUR COMPASSION Nyung Nays of Chenrezig, the Buddha of Compassion are a purification practice and a way to help us develop our compassion for the new year. Sessions go from Feb. 17-24. 7-9 p.m. Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel. office@landofmedicinebuddha.org or landofmedicinebuddha.org.
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THURSDAY 2/18 ARTS THURSDAY ART MARKET Held rain or shine in the Tannery Courtyard, features live music, artist demonstrations, loft artists, and guest chefs with rotating menus. The adjacent Working Studios at the Tannery Arts Center will be open to visitors. 3-6 p.m. Tannery Arts Center, Santa Cruz. COMMUNITY POETRY CIRCLE Join the circle and write a poem in a supportive environment. All ages and levels of poets encouraged. Led by poet-teacher, Magdalena Montagne. 6-7:30 p.m. Watsonville Public Library, 275 Main Street, Suite 100, Watsonville. magdarose@hughes.net. Free.
CLASSES SALSA DANCING CUBAN-STYLE This class is for intermediate dancers and features Cuban casino partnering, salsa suelta and great Cuban music. 7-8 p.m. Louden Nelson Center, Santa Cruz. salsagente.com or 426-4724. $9/$5. SALSA RUEDA SERIES BEGINNER 2 A fun four-week Rueda de Casino series for Beginner 2 and up. No partner required. Need to know the basics in Rueda such as Guapea, dame, enchufla doble, el uno, sombrero, and setenta. 8-9 p.m. Louden Nelson Community, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. 420-6177. $34. BEGINNING BALLET WITH DIANA ROSE An introduction to ballet technique with a focus on posture, balance and strength building. Noon1:15 p.m. International Academy of Dance Santa Cruz. info@iadance.com. $10.
FOOD & WINE FROM FARM TO FORK: COOKING WITH THE SEASONS Join Nutrition Consultant Madia Jamgochian for a hands-on cooking class. Help create a balanced, seasonal meal, paired with a delicious California wine. Pre registration required. 6-8:30 p.m. New Leaf Community Market, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. newleafwestside.eventbrite.com. $40.
NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUPS A 12-Step program for the friends and families who have been affected by the addiction or drug problem of another. 7-8:30 p.m. Glenwood Fire Station, 251 Glenwood Road, Scotts Valley. naranoncalifornia.org/norcal, saveyoursanity@ aol.com or 291-5099. Free/donation. OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS OA is a 12-step program to stop eating compulsively. 1-2 p.m. Trinity Presbyterian Church, Youth Room, 420 Melrose Ave., Santa Cruz. santacruzoa.org/ meetings or 429-7906. Free.
FRIDAY 2/19 ARTS GILBERT & SULLIVAN’S RUDDYGORE Sir Ruthven fakes his death, leaving his brother to carry the curse of committing a crime a day or dying in agony. Before long he falls in love with virtuous Rose but so does his foster brother. 8-10:30 p.m. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theatre, San Francisco. 415-978-2787. $59/$20. WHAT IS EROTIC? 2016: NOTHING TO HIDE A spicy romp that will leave you hot and bothered, What Is Erotic? highlights original performance works inspired by actors’ own desires and answers to one personal and provocative question. 8 p.m. 418 Front St., Santa Cruz. 466-9770. $30. THIRD FRIDAY AT THE MUSEUM OF ART & HISTORY The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History connects diverse local organizations, artists, and visitors around a specific theme in Santa Cruz arts and culture. 6-9 p.m. Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. 429-1964 or santacruzmah.org/ events/category/3rd-fridays/. Free.
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IMPROVING CHILDREN’S NUTRITION & PHYSICAL ACTIVITY THROUGH POSITIVE PARENTING This is a free parenting support group to provide strategies to increase children’s healthy eating and physical activity. 6-8 p.m. Dominican Rehabilitation Center, First Floor Conference Room, 610 Frederick St., Santa Cruz. 227-4145 or first5scc.org/calendar/ parent?trainings. Free.
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SATURDAY 2/20 ARTS SUTTER BABIES ART DAYS Have you had a baby at Sutter Maternity Center? Bring your kids and make art with us. SPECTRA artists will lead workshops for age-appropriate lessons at the Radius Gallery in honor of Sutter Maternity & Surgery Center’s 20th birthday. 1-4 p.m. Radius Gallery, 1050 River St., #127, Santa Cruz. info@artscouncilsc.org. Free.
SATURDAY 2/20 HEALING THE BURNED WOMAN Fear of criticism, judgment, betrayal—it’s enough to keep anyone’s full potential locked away in one’s shell. For Barbara Thomas, author of The Burned Woman and Celebrating the Magic of Jim’s Road, it’s this fear that manifests the “burned woman,” which she says we all have inside of us. The elder, visionary and mystic will teach a five-hour workshop to help participants discover and heal personal memories, cultivate awareness, choose new attitudes and actions and most importantly, stand in one’s own power. Taught at the serene College of Botanical Healing Arts (COBHA) in Live Oak, the workshop is open to both men and women and also counts as five credits toward essential oil therapy coursework at the college. Info: 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 20. College of Botanical Healing Arts, 1821 17th Ave., Santa Cruz. $120. 462-1807, cobha.org.
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VITAMIN B12 FRIDAY Receiving B12 via injection means that people can increase their energy. B12 Fridays are a fun time for people to meet and mingle. 3-6 p.m. Thrive Natural Medicine 2840 Park Ave., Soquel. 515-8699.
JOE FERRARA San Jose native, Joe Ferrara, has been entertaining audiences from Santa Cruz to San Francisco since his first gig at the Grog and Sirloin in Los Gatos in 1968. 6:30-9:30 p.m. Shadowbrook Restaurant, 1750 Wharf Road, Capitola. 475-1222.
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THE LITTLE MERMAID CYT Presents The Little Mermaid. Matinees at 3 p.m. Feb. 20, 21, 27 & 28. Evening Performances at 7 p.m. Feb. 26 and 27. Cabrillo College Crocker Theater. Tickets at cytsantacruz.org or Crocker Theater Box Office. 479-6154. $14. ON STRUCTURE + CHRIS PECK Indexical presents two multimedia performances that blur the lines of performance, language, movement, and composition. 7-9 p.m. Radius Gallery, Tannery Arts Center, 1050 River St. #127, Santa Cruz. $15/$10. KOREAN NEW YEAR CELEBRATION Experience Korean culture, art, games and dance in a celebration of the Lunar New Year. Enjoy performances by UCSC’s Tae Kwon Do Club and the KPop Dance Group, POPreka. Tea and snacks served. Noon-2 p.m. Discovery Learning Center, 111 Errett Circle, Santa Cruz. Free. AN EVENING OF ARTISTS SHARING A variety of artists come together in sharing to read, perform, make music and create art. Social hour at 6 p.m., performances start at 7 p.m.. Light potluck and drinks served. 6-9 p.m. Satellite Telework Center, 6265 Hwy. 9, Felton. Ron Lampi 251-0225. Donation. WHAT IS EROTIC? 2016: NOTHING TO HIDE A spicy romp that will leave you hot and bothered, What Is Erotic? highlights original performance works inspired by actors’ own desires and answers to one personal and provocative question. 8 p.m. 418 Front St., Santa Cruz. 466-9770. $30.
SPRINGYGIRL CLOTHING SALE Feb. 20 and 21st Springygirl clothing sale. Gently used like-new women’s clothing and accessories. Wide selection of sizes and styles. Most items $5 or $10. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 262 Ada Ave., Felton. facebook.com/springygirl. SANTA CRUZ DERBY GIRLS SEASON HOME OPENER We’re kicking off the 2016 season with a Derby Double Header. First, a home team match-up from our talented junior league. Then, reigning adult home team champions the Steamer Janes will take on underdog challengers Organic Panic. Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St., Santa Cruz. 4205260 or santacruzderbygirls.org. $16. ANIMAL SHELTER RELIEF RESCUE ADOPTION FAIR Animal Shelter Relief rescues cats and dogs from high-risk situations. Our ultimate goal is to reduce euthanasia numbers at local shelters. All of our adoptable animals can also be found online. Noon. PetSmart, 490 River St., Santa Cruz. animalshelterrelief.org.
CLASSES POWER TOOLS FOR WOMEN Learn to use common power tools safely with local contractor Christine Berry. Hands-on experience. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. A private home in Santa Cruz. Register at timebanksantacruz.org/ events; admin@timebanksantacruz.org. $15.
FOOD & WINE SANTA CRUZ CLAM CHOWDER COOK-OFF Amateur and professional chefs mix it up at the Boardwalk’s 35th Annual fundraiser for Santa Cruz Parks & Rec. Sample your way through the largest selection of clam chowders in Northern California. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. Free/$10. APTOS FARMERS MARKET AT CABRILLO COLLEGE Voted Good Times best farmers market in Santa Cruz County. With more than 90 vendors, the Aptos Farmers Market offers an unmatched selection of locally grown produce and specialty foods. 8 a.m.-Noon. Cabrillo College. montereybayfarmers.org or akeller@ montereybayfarmers.org. Free. LESBIAN HAPPY HOUR Join us at Tampico Kitchen & Lounge for liter margaritas $17 and full nachos con todo $9 special. Everyone welcome. 3-6 p.m. Tampico’s Kitchen & Lounge, 822 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz.
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LENTEN FISH FRY DINNERS Come and join your friends and neighbors for a great Lenten dinner and good fellowship. The menu is calamari or fish with side dishes, bread and salad. 5-7 p.m. St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, 435 Monterey Ave., Capitola. 475-8211. $12/$5/Free.
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GILBERT & SULLIVAN’S RUDDYGORE Sir Ruthven fakes his death, leaving his brother to carry the curse of committing a crime a day or dying in agony. Before long he falls in love with virtuous Rose but so does his foster brother. 8-10:30 p.m. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theatre, San Francisco. 415-978-2787. $59/$20.
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SUNDAY 2/21 CELEBRATE PIANO ENSEMBLE CONCERT Taking full advantage of the unparalleled UCSC Recital Hall acoustics, Celebrate Piano Ensemble will perform its 15th anniversary concert of piano duos and duets. The duos will feature two pianists at two pianos, and the duets will feature two pianists on one piano playing Brahms, Dvorák, ˇ Chabrier, Mussorgsky, Bizet, and Shostakovich. The concert benefits the Talent Bank Scholarship Fund and Josephine Alvarado Memorial Bach Scholarship Fund. Celebrate Piano Ensemble strives to explore, with an original repertoire, music for both four hands and eight, as well as to enable further musical education. Info: 2 p.m. UCSC Music Center Recital Hall, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz. 338-1214. $10 suggested donation.
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THE HIDDEN GEMS FILM CLUB This monthly film screening features those “hidden gems” of foreign films, documentaries, independents, and mainstream movies that might have been missed by moviegoers. We appreciate RSVPs. 1-4:30 p.m. Santa Cruz Public Library, Downtown Branch, 224 Church St., Santa Cruz. bit.ly/scpl-gems or pro@santacruzpl.org. Free.
BUSINESS SPRINGYGIRL CLOTHING SALE Feb. 20 and 21. Springygirl clothing sale. Gently used like-new women’s clothing and accessories. Wide selection of sizes and styles. Most items $5 or $10. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 262 Ada Ave., Felton. facebook.com/springygirl.
CLASSES NO WETSUIT REQUIRED: ADVENTURES OF A FISH VETERINARIAN COME and hear “tails” of adventure from under the waves! Dr. Jessie Sanders will share some of the excitement of her career as an aquatic veterinarian. 1 p.m. Seymour Marine Discovery Center, 100 Shaffer Road, Santa Cruz. $8/$6/Free. IF HOUSES COULD TALK - A RANCH HOUSE TOUR Do you enjoy looking through old buildings, learning about their stories? Join interpreter, Lee Summers, on a tour through the Quail Hollow Ranch House. 1-3 p.m. 800 Quail Hollow Road, Felton. 335-9348. $3.
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FOOD TRUCK BRUNCH EVENT Lounging around the Scotts Valley Skypark and all you want is someone to bring you brunch— wait, it’s all happening. This Sunday, Feb. 21, Food Trucks A Go Go is hosting a brunch event with specially crafted items from mobile food vendors, including honey and cardamom French toast, breakfast wraps, kale and quinoa salads, huevos rancheros nachos, croissants, and more. With the unseasonably warm weather to celebrate, grab a picnic table, a blanket and some friends for a wholesome mobile brunch. This event will be rescheduled if it rains. Info: 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Skypark, 361 Kings Village Road, Scotts Valley. foodtrucksagogo.com.
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SIP FOR SECOND HARVEST Mingle and sample wines from 10-plus local vintners. We'll have appetizers and raffles too. 2:30-4:30 p.m. 1 Seascape Resort Drive, Aptos. 722-7110 or classy.org/santa-cruz/events/second-harvestfood-bank-annual-awards-dinner-2016/ e68674. $40/$25.
PAT MARTINO TRIO Long regarded as one of the greatest guitarists in jazz, Pat Martino has certainly had a remarkable journey. After an aneurysm rendered him unable to recall any of his skills as a guitarist, he began to study of his own recordings to regain his abilities. Kuumbwa Jazz Center, 320 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. 4272227. $30.
MONDAY 2/22 GROUPS OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Have a problem with food? OA is a 12-Step support group for those who wish to stop compulsive eating. 12:15-1:15 p.m. Trinity Presbyterian Church, Library, 420 Melrose Ave., Santa Cruz. santacruzoa.org/meetings or 429-7906. Free.
TUESDAY 2/23 FOOD & WINE LIONFISH SUPPERCLUB POP-UP DINNER Tasty Tuesdays at the Food Lounge with Chefs Zachary Mazi and Tighe Melville of LionFish SupperClub. Will it be burgers, reinvented? Ramen with Asian snacks and sides? The boys of LionFish SupperClub cook up something different and seasonal every week. 5-9 p.m. 1001 Center St., Santa Cruz. 359-3356. $6.
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LOCAL BAND HOT CLUB PACIFIC
There are a lot of jazz ensembles in the Santa Cruz area, but there aren’t many like Hot Club Pacific, which has been together for more than a decade, and has had three steady gigs for the past six years, including the Crow’s Nest where they play every fourth Wednesday of the month.
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For one thing, the group brings to mind what a classic swing jazz band sounded like to a 1950s audience. This isn’t bebop, and it’s not Dixieland. It captures a time when jazz was pop music, and usually had a lead clarinet player, not a sax or trumpet.
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“When jazz was pop music, when jazz was as big as the Beatles and Michael Jackson and Lady Gaga, it was clarinetists that were in front of all the bands. When jazz shifted to the saxophone, it lost its popularity. I think it also lost its danceability,” says band leader Marc Schwartz. “You can dance to what we do. Most modern jazz bands, one could not say that about. We’re probably one of the last danceable jazz bands out.” The band usually plays as a fourpiece. The lineup rotates, but includes Schwartz on lead guitar, Jack Fields on rhythm guitar, Dale Mills on Clarinet, Nat Johnson on bass, Olaf Schiappacasse on drums and Bill Bosch on bass.
SUPERSUCKERS
WEDNESDAY 2/17 ROOTS
JESSE DANIEL & LAURA BENITEZ Now in its second year, Western Wednesday at the Crepe Place is one of the lesser-known hotspots of the local roots scene. Showcasing touring bands and local favorites, the event, which takes place on the third Wednesday of every month, brings Western swing, country, folk, and Americana to Santa Cruz audiences. This Wednesday, Ben Lomond singer-songwriter Jesse Daniel is celebrating the release of his new album. He’s joined by the magnetic Bay Area outfit Laura Benitez & the Heartache, which draws from rockabilly, honky tonk and classic country. CAT JOHNSON
In addition to their regular spot at the Crow’s Nest, they play every Monday night at Soif Restaurant in Santa Cruz, and every third Thursday at Gayle’s Bakery in Capitola. AARON CARNES
INFO: 9 p.m. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $8 ($7 with cowboy boots). 429-6994.
INFO: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 24. Crow’s Nest, 2218 E Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz. $5. 476-4560.
GRIFFIN HOUSE
FOLK-POP Griffin House’s gift for gorgeous melodies and hook-laden songwriting is immediately apparent, but it could be
his tenacity that has him headlining clubs all over the country. The Ohio native started playing music as a teen, and turned down an Ohio University scholarship in order to forge a career in music—he could barely write a song at that point. As crazy as that seems, his third self-released LP, 2004’s Lost & Found, got the attention of CBS Sunday Morning music journalist Bill Flanagan, who raved about it nonstop. That helped, but he still had to self-release albums and hit the road a lot, and because of that, he’s managed to find a place for himself in the vast musical landscape. AARON CARNES INFO: 7:30 p.m., Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $15. 335-2800.
THURSDAY 2/18 INDIE-PUNK
BUDDIES Buddies plays fast. This is a key element they’ve highlighted in their band bio. The fact of the matter is, Buddies also plays loud, and their tone is thick, fuzzy and heavily distorted. In other words, Buddies also rocks hard. And as much as Buddies likes to hop on stage and kick out some rocking jams,
they are clearly music fans, particularly in the guitar-driven rock realm, and put a lot of nuance into their songwriting. The Oakland foursome, all of whom are Santa Cruz expats, formed while they were living here and DJ-ing on KZSC, bonding over music nerd stuff, obviously. They’ve taken that obsession and transformed it into some visceral rock. AC INFO: 9 p.m., Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $8. 429-6994.
FRIDAY 2/19 ROCK
SUPERSUCKERS A Seattle-based band that resides in that gritty and irreverent sweet spot between garage, cowpunk, and hell-raising southern rock, the Supersuckers were one of the first to successfully transition from punk to country. Led by frontman/songwriter Eddie Spaghetti, the long-running band has secured a place for itself in the annals of insurgent twang—even as it flaunts its playful side and has a healthy laugh at itself. The band’s latest, 2015’s Holdin’ the Bag, featuring guest spots by fellow alt-country favorites Hayes
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WHISKERMAN
Carll and Lydia Loveless, is one of the standout albums of last year. CJ INFO: 8:30 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $10/adv, $12/door. 423-1338.
JAM ROCK
DEADPHISH ORCHESTRA
INFO: 9 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $12/adv, $15/door. 479-1854.
SATURDAY 2/20 AMERICANA
WHISKERMAN The songs on Whiskerman’s latest
INFO: 9 p.m., The Pocket, 3102 Portola Drive, Santa Cruz. $8. 475-9819.
REGGAE
PREZIDENT BROWN & PABLO MOSES It seems like in 2016, most reggae music on the radio is done by a group of white bros from San Diego claiming to fight Babylon. Right. Luckily, we still have plenty of roots reggae warriors around to teach the youth the true meaning of the music. This Saturday, two legends will do just that. For the past four decades, Prezident Brown and Pablo Moses have individually carved their places in music history
with multiple hit songs in the U.S. and throughout the rest of the world. MW INFO: 9 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $20/adv, $25/door. 479-1854.
SUNDAY 2/21 FOLK
BOB CHEEVERS A renowned part of the Austin singer-songwriter scene, Bob Cheevers is a fine storyteller, poet and musician. He artfully crafts observations, emotions and decades of experiences from the road into songs that hit the heart and ears just right. One of his most beloved albums is 2014’s On Earth As It Is In Austin. The collection of songs is a snapshot of the Memphis-raised Cheevers’ love and appreciation for the city and its many musician residents—many of whom call themselves his fans. As Ray Wylie Hubbard put it, “Bob Cheevers is one cool scarecrow gypsy poet who writes and sings the romantic, beautiful truth. When he releases a record, I listen.” CJ INFO: 7 p.m. Ugly Mug, 4640 Soquel Drive, Soquel, $15. 477-1341.
INFO: 9 p.m. Friday, March 4. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $14/adv, $17/ door. 423-1338. WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/giveaways before 11 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 19 to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to the show.
IN THE QUEUE INCITERS
Santa Cruz’s own purveyors of Northern Soul. Wednesday at Moe’s Alley RED FANG
Rock and stoner metal outfit out of Portland. Thursday at Catalyst BANDA MAGDA
International band led by Greek vocalist Magda Giannikou. Thursday at Kuumbwa RADIM ZENKL
Czech Republic-born mandolin master. Thursday at Don Quixote’s EDGE OF THE WEST
Roots and Americana jam band led by Jim Lewin. Friday at the Pocket
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Dude, everyone with natural dreads and Birkenstocks knows that there are two jam acts unlike all others: the Grateful Dead and Phish. Well, start rolling the party favors now, because Boulder, Colorado’s own DeadPhish Orchestra is debuting at Moe’s Alley. This talented quartet combines the music of both acts in a way purely their own while keeping the spirit of ’69 alive. This is the perfect show for anyone who has taken a stroll on Shakedown Street to see Lawn Boy making some bathtub gin. MAT WEIR
record, Nomad, are both grandiose and melancholy. Makes sense, as the band has taken on the topic of the apocalypse. Considering their folk roots, this album has a true smorgasbord of styles covering soul, gospel, country and classic rock. The group employs the use of a string ensemble on the album, which makes it that much more striking and emotional. It is about the apocalypse after all. AC
Black Tiger Sex Machine is a trio of Montreal-based electronic music producers that creates a hybrid of produced tracks, loops, synthesizer, samples, live drums, and more. And, they do it all while wearing lighted black tiger masks that add significantly to the already trip-enhancing visuals and extraordinary stage show. With a heavy and aggressive sound, and what’s been described as “postapocalyptic visuals,” the trio is a favorite on the underground electronic dance music scene. CAT JOHNSON
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LIVE MUSIC
Wednesday February 17th 8:30pm $7/10 Big Band Soul Dance Party
THE INCITERS Thursday February 18th 8:30pm $12/16
WED
Euphoric Presents
GOVINDA
PSYMBIONIC KR3TURE, BIG DELIGHT Friday February 19th 9pm $12/15
A Seamless Web Of Grateful Dead & Phish
DEADPHISH ORCHESTRA
Saturday February 20th 9pm $20/25 Jamaican Roots Reggae Double Bill
PREZIDENT BROWN + PABLO MOSES Sunday February 21st 8:30pm $7/10 New Orleans Funk/Rock Festival
JOHNNY SKETCH & THE DIRTY NOTES Wednesday February 24th 8:30pm $7/10
Americana/Ska/Rock From Portland Oregon
WORLD’S FINEST + MOON CADILLAC Thursday February 25th 8:30pm $9/12
2/17
THU
2/18
FRI
APTOS ST. BBQ 8059 Aptos St, Aptos
2/19
Underground Disco $5 9p
THE APPLETON GRILL 410 Rodriguez St, Watsonville
Al Frisby 6-8p
AQUARIUS RESTAURANT Santa Cruz Dream Inn 175 W Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz
Hawk n Blues Mechanics 6-8p
Preacher Boy 6-8p Minor Thirds Trio 6:30-9:30p
2/20
SAT Lionheart & Inner Standing Sound Free 9p
Lloyd Whitney 1-5p
SUN
2/21
MON
2/22
TUE
2/23
La Cruzada De Mexico 9p Troy Sandow 6-8p
Broken Shades 6-8p
Rand Rueter 6-8p
Minor Thirds Trio 7-10p
BAYVIEW HOTEL 8041 Soquel Dr, Aptos
Live Jazz & Wine Tasting Salsa Bahia 6-9p 6-9p
DJ
BLUE LAGOON 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz
Night Dive, Yes Alexander, Future Myth $5 9p
Comedy Night/80s Night Free 8:30p
Beach Fuzz, Mountain Gorphyryac, Miasma, Tamer, Supernaut, Solar Still Searching, Planet Glory $5 9p Plow $5 9p
The Box (Goth Night) 9p
Fountain of Bile, Raptor, Gladiators Eat Fire, Sakrificer, Dead War Stone Sloth, Arab Spring $5 9p & more $5 9p
Pride Night 9p
Party w/Raina 9p
Comedy Night 9p
Karaoke
Locals Night, Music w/Lil Billy
Karaoke 8p-Close
Karaoke 8p-Close
Painting Class 5:30p Disiac Free 8p
Elise the Songwriter Free 8p
BLUE LOUNGE 529 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz BOARDWALK BOWL 115 Cliff St, Santa Cruz
Karaoke 8p-Close
BRITANNIA ARMS 110 Monterey Ave, Capitola
Sound Off Saturdays Reggae Party Free 9p
Jazz Society Free 3:30p
Karaoke 9p
Karaoke 9p
Songwriter Showcase 7-10p
Thomas Jack $20/$30 8p
Keys n Krates $18 8p
Blessthefall $20/$24 8p
Reel Big Fish $20/$23 7p
Red Fang $14/$16 8p
Supersuckers $10/$12 8p
DJ Luna 9p
CATALYST 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz CATALYST ATRIUM 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz
Incidental Live Music Revue w/Alisha
Mike Osborn Band 9-11:45p Swing Dance Social Ukulele Club Free 4:30p $5 5:30p Outlined Bordinghouse Free 8p Free 9p
BOCCI’S CELLAR 140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz
CASA SORRENTO 393 Salinas St, Salinas
Tango Ecstasy 6-9:30p
Coffins $12/$15 8p
Dave Steezy $15/$20 8:30p
Hunny $10/$14 8:30p
Americana, Roots & Blues Double Bill
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February 26th THE MOTHER HIPS February 27th BRAZILIAN CARNAVAL 2016 w/ UNIDOS DE BAHIA, NAMORADOS DE LUA, PATO BANTON & MORE February 28th JOHN NEMETH (afternoon) February 28th THE GARCIA PROJECT (eve) March 2nd KING SCHASCHA w/ RUSTY ZINN March 3rd INSECTS VS. ROBOTS + RUNSON WILLIS III March 4th ENGLISH BEAT March 5th KATDELIC March 9th PARADISE SOUL SAVERS + NAT OSBORN March 10th ANUHEA, THROUGH THE ROOTS, THRIVE March 11th FLOR DE CAÑA + DE’ANZA March 12th DEL THE FUNKY HOMOSAPIEN March 15th CloZEE, SECRET RECIPE March 17th RED BARAAT March 18th ORGÓNE March 19th MELVIN SEALS & JGB March 29th TROUT STEAK REVIVAL + THE LIL’SMOKIES March 30th PIMPS OF JOYTIME April 2nd B-SIDE PLAYERS April 3rd MARCO BENEVENTO April 8th JUNGLE FIRE April 9th PAULA FUGA (afternoon)
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OPEN LATE EVERY NIGHT! wednesday 2/17
International Music Hall and Restaurant
FINE MEXICAN AND AMERICAN FOOD ALL YOU CAN EAT LUNCH BUFFET M-F $7.95 Wed Feb 17
Griffin House Fast Rising Singer Songwriter
Thu Feb 18
Radim Zenkl plus Steve Baughman
sponsored by Tomboy and tourMore Booking:
western wednesday
JESSE DANIEL
w / LAURA BENITEZ AND THE HEARTACHE Doors 8:30pm/Show 9pm $8 Door ($7 with boots on!)
thursday 2/18
Doors 8:30pm/Show 9pm $8 Door
Fri Feb 19
friday 2/19
w / SKY COUNTRY
monday 2/22
mix tape monday Show 9pm $3 Door
TUESday 2/23
7 COME 11 Show 9pm $5 Door
MIDTOWN SANTA CRUZ 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz
429-6994
Michael Jackson
Danny Paisley and The Southern Grass 2pm Powerful, traditional Bluegrass plus Bean Creek
$15 adv./$15 door <21 w/parent 2pm
saturday 2/20
Doors 8:30pm/Show 9pm $8 Door
Foreverland Electrifying 14-Piece Tribute to $17 adv./$20 door 21 + 8pm
Sun Feb 21
Doors 8:30pm/Show 9pm $8 Door
BICICLETAS POR LA PAZ
Vaud & The Villains 1930’s New Orleans Orchestra & Cabaret Show plus RJ Comer $15 adv./$15 door 21 + 8pm
Sat Feb 20
DIO FEST PRESENTS:
SCARY LITTLE FRIENDS
USA Mandolin Champ & Celtic Guitar Great
$15 adv./$15 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm
BUDDIES
w / MARY SKATE & THE TRASHLEYS w / DAD LOVES BIKES
plus Sean McConnell $15 adv./$15 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm
Thu Feb 25
Helm, Sese Egan, Helene & Bellydance International and more
$17 adv./ $20 door <21 w/parent 7:30pm COMING RIGHT UP
Fri. Feb. 26
Teada ReAwakening--100 years of Irish Freedom Concert Sat Feb. 27 Spirit of ’76 Grateful Dead Tribute Mon. Feb. 29 Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper + Bean Creek Bluegrass Wed. March 2 Mick Maloney & Athena Tergis Feast of Irish music & culture Fri. March. 4 Mustache Harbor San Francisco’s Hottest Party Band—Selling out Big SF Venues multiple nights! Reservations Now Online at www.donquixotesmusic.com Rockin'Church Service Every Sunday ELEVATION at 10am-11:15am
WED
2/17
THU
2/18
FRI
2/19
SAT
LIVE MUSIC
Thursday, February 18 • 7 pm
2/20
French café music with a Latin beat
CILANTROS 1934 Main St, Watsonville
Hippo Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p
CREPE PLACE 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz
Jesse Daniel, Laura Benitez and the Heartache $8 9p
Buddies, Mary Skate & The Trashleys, Dad Loves $8 9p
DIO Fest: Scary Little Friends, Sky $8 9p
Bicicletas Por La Paz $8 9p
Yuji Tojo $3 8p
Live Again $5 8:30p
Billy Martini Show $6 9p
Stamina! All-Stars $7 9:30p
CROW’S NEST 2218 E. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz
2/21
MON
2/22
Mix Tape Mondays $3 9p Live Comedy $7 9p
2/23
Radim Zenkl, Steve Baughman $15 7:30p
Vaud & The Villains $15 8p
THE FISH HOUSE 972 Main St, Watsonville
Foreverland $17/$20 8p
7 Come 11 $5 9p Free Reggae Party Free 8p Sherry Austin w/ Henhouse
Ugly Beauty Griffin House $15 7:30p
TUE
KPIG Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p
DAV. ROADHOUSE 1 Davenport Ave, Davenport DON QUIXOTE’S 6275 Hwy 9, Felton
SUN
Danny Paisley and the Southern Grass, Bean Creek $15 2p
HENFLING’S 9450 Hwy 9, Ben Lomond
Flingo 7:30p
Poor Beggar Thieves 8p
The Mile 9p
The Nightdriver 9p
TV Show 4p
IT’S WINE TYME 312 Capitola Ave, Capitola
Open Mic 7p
Mike and Lenny 7p
Madrigal and Strange 6:30p
Jade 7p
Jack, Hannah and Ron 4p
Banda Magda $20 7p
AZA’s 15th Anniversary Concert $18/$20 8p
Kendra McKinley, Battlehooch, Harry and the Hitmen $10 8p
MALONE’S 4402 Scotts Valley Dr, Scotts Valley
Live Music 5:30-9p
MICHAEL’S ON MAIN 2591 Main St, Soquel
Chris Ells 7-10p
MISSION ST. BBQ 1618 Mission St, Santa Cruz
Tomas Gomez 6p
Roadhouse Karaoke 7:30p
Breeze Babes 8-11p Al Frisby 6p
1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS Friday, February 19 • 8 pm
AZA’S 15TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
Tickets: BrownPaperTickets.com Saturday, February 20 • 8 pm | $10 Door
CLUB KUUMBWA: KENDRA McKINLEY, BATTLEHOOCH, HARRY AND THE HITMEN
Saturday, February 27 • 7pm and Sunday, February 28 • 5 pm
SANTA CRUZ RAGTIME FESTIVAL
Tickets: SantaCruzRagtime.com Monday, February 29 • 7 & 9 pm
Pat Martino Trio $30 7p
REGINA CARTER’S SOUTHERN COMFORT | No Comp Tix
Karaoke w/Ken 9p Wild Blue 7-10p
BANDA MAGDA
Monday, February 22 • 7 pm PAT MARTINO TRIO | No Comp Tix One of the most prolific jazz guitarists
Next Blues Band
KUUMBWA 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz
Celebrating Creativity Since 1975
Thursday, March 3 • 7 pm
Hall Pass 8-11p
David O’Connor 6:30-8:30p Rand Rueter 6p
KNEEBODY + DAEDELUS
A powerful fusion of abstract hip-hop and modern jazz!
1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS Saturday, March 5 • 7:30 pm
JOHN CRAIGIE WITH SAM CHASE
Tickets: SnazzyProductions.com Monday, March 7 • 7 pm
DELFEAYO MARSALIS QUARTET: The Last Southern Gentleman’s Tour Sullivan Fortner–piano, Glen Fisher– bass, Marvin “Smitty”Smith–drums Tuesday, March 8 • 7:30 pm At the Rio Theatre | No Comps/Gift Cert
VICENTE AMIGO
The heir apparent to Paco de Lucía! Wednesday, March 9 • 8 pm
LOCATED ON THE BEACH
Amazing waterfront deck views.
LIVE ENTERTAINMENT
See live music grid for this week’s bands.
STAND-UP COMEDY
Three live comedians every Sunday night.
HAPPY HOUR
Mon–Fri from 3:30pm. Wednesday all night!
VISIT OUR BEACH MARKET
Wood-fired pizza, ice cream, unique fine gifts.
SPECIAL DEALS
Weekdays, upstairs and down.
NOW SERVING BREAKFAST Open for Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Daily
(831) 476-4560
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Tickets: Ticketfly.com
Friday, March 11 • 7:30 pm
CLAUDIA VILLELA GROUP
Performing the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim and Milton Nasicmento
KJ PRESENTS @ RIO THEATRE 3/12 ESPERANZA SPALDING PRESENTS: EMILY’S D+EVOLUTION 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
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Mildly Amused Hour: 2:30 – 3:30pm
MASTERS OF HAWAIIAN MUSIC: GEORGE KAHUMOKU, LED KAAPANA AND JEFF PETERSON
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LIVE MUSIC
Wednesday, February 17 • In the Atrium • AGES 16+
COFFINS
plus Noothgrush
Thursday, February 18 • AGES 18+
THOMAS JACK
WED
Thursday, February 18 • In the Atrium • AGES 16+
RED FANG
plus Dusted Angel also The Bad Light
Friday, February 19 • In the Atrium • AGES 21+
SUPERSUCKERS
Saturday, February 20 • AGES 16+
blessthefall
Sunday, February 21 • In the Atrium • AGES 16+
DAVE STEEZY
2/17
THU
2/18
FRI
2/19
SAT
2/20
SUN
2/21
MON
2/22
MOE’S ALLEY 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz
The Inciters $7/$10 8p
Govinda, Psymbionic, Kr3ture, Big Delight $12/$16 8p
DeadPhish Orchestra $12/$15 8p
Prezident Brown, Pablo Moses $20/$25 8p
Johnny Sketch, The Dirty Notes $7/$10 8p
MOTIV 1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz
SpaceBass! by AndrewThePirate 9:30p-2a
Libation Lab w/Syntax 9:30p-1:30a
Trevor Williams 9:30p-1:30a
Brandon Fox B-EZ 9:30p-1:30a
Rasta Cruz Reggae Party Eclectic Bass Event 9:30p-Close 9:30p-2a
Rola-J 7-9p
Yuji Tojo and Friends 7:30-9p
NEW BOHEMIA BREWERY 1030 41st Ave, Santa Cruz
TUE
2/23
Hip Hop w/DJ Marc 9:30p-2a Trivia 6-8p
(HBK) plus Rev Roc
Monday, Feb. 22 • In the Atrium • AGES 16+ HUNNY Tuesday, February 23 • AGES 16+
REEL BIG FISH
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 17 Hirie/ Spiritual Rez (Ages 16+) Mar 18 The Wonder Years (Ages 16+) Mar 20 Sammy J (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 15 Blackberry Smoke (Ages 16+) Apr 20 Badfish A Tribute To Sublime (Ages 16+) Apr 25 Flatbush Zombies (Ages 16+) May 7 Lucius (Ages 16+) May 11 Luca Turilli’s Rhapsody/ Primal Fear (Ages 16+) May 14 Tech N9ne (Ages 16+)
99 BOTTLES 110 Walnut Ave, Santa Cruz
Trivia 8p
Rola J
PARADISE BEACH 215 Esplanade, Capitola
Claudio Melega
Kelly Bros.
THE POCKET 3102 Portola Dr, Santa Cruz
Jam Session w/ Don Caruth 7p
Reverend Love Jones & the Sinners $5 9p
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Banff Mountain Film Festival $18 7-10p
Banff Mountain Film Festival $18 7-10p
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LIFETIMES TOGETHER Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling co-star as an English couple approaching their 45th anniversary in Andrew Haigh’s ‘45 Years,’ which was adapted from a short story by David Constantine.
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ess is definitely more in the haunting marital drama 45 Years. Small in size, subtle in effects, and short on action, Andrew Haigh’s quietly realized tale nevertheless broadens in scope, frame by frame, as its story of a married couple on the eve of their 45th wedding anniversary plays out. The film covers less than one week in its characters’ lives, yet it’s so infused with feeling that it manages to convey a lifetime of unspoken longing, mystery, compromise, and regret. Writer-director Haigh adapted the material from a short story by David Constantine, and the film retains the sense of spareness and close observation of that fiction format. At its center are Kate and Geoff, a somewhat tweedy English couple
living in quiet retirement in the Norfolk countryside. Kate (Charlotte Rampling) is a retired schoolteacher. Geoff (Tom Courtenay) was a foreman at a factory in a nearby town. Theirs is a comfortable life, puttering around their home and grounds out in the country, walking the dog, and shopping or meeting their friends down in the village. They are tidying up the last few details for their 45th anniversary party, to be held in town on the upcoming Saturday, when Geoff receives a mysterious letter. It pertains to an accident that befell a woman Geoff was traveling with in Europe 50 years earlier, as a very young man, long before his marriage to Kate. This is not a murder mystery, nor a hothouse melodrama in
which a lifetime of deception eats away at the characters’ lives. No physical ghosts from the past pop up on their doorstep. Kate knows about the accident in a general way, and the circumstances under which it occurred, although she’s never pursued the details. But as she tunes in to subtle shifts in her husband’s demeanor over the next couple of days, it becomes clear that while Geoff has never told outright lies about this seminal relationship in his early life, he’s been guilty of a sin of emotional omission in never facing his deeper feelings, or sharing them with his wife. Ever composed and capable, Kate does not push; she simply observes. And so do we. The couple seems in all ways compatible; Geoff has survived
bypass surgery, but he’s still capable of dancing Kate around the parlor to (surprisingly) “Stagger Lee,” which is not exactly a waltz. It gradually becomes evident that they have no children—and that this is probably not by choice. Whatever adjustments they may have made over time are revealed in small, sure strokes. As things play out, this becomes very much a story about the effects of age and time. Geoff mourns his distant youth, when he was “brave.” At a reunion with his former colleagues, he’s appalled that they, like him, have become fusty elders— even a onetime firebrand he calls “Red Lenny,” who’s now an old man “with a banker for a grandson!” The spot-on music used throughout locates their youth in the 1960s, ands it’s a shock to realize that properly middle-class Kate and Geoff are products of that radical era. Rampling is masterful as Kate, always wry and good-humored, yet conveying moments of utter devastation with barely a flicker in her expression. A moment alone at the piano, playing Bach, that evolves over a couple of minutes into a powerful expression of her pain and anger is all the more potent when one learns that the actress improvised the moment and music on the spot. Courtenay is also excellent as Geoff, whose cantankerous persona masks the sadness inside. It’s not fair or correct to say their marriage unravels as the anniversary day approaches, but Kate begins to view their near half-century together in a different light. The effect on Geoff is more opaque, although his anniversary speech to Kate suggests he perceives that something needs to be put right between them. The vintage music in the party scene— “Happy Together,” “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes,” “Go Now”—leaves it up to the viewer to decide what happens next in this engrossing, shrewdly constructed film. 45 YEARS *** (out of four) With Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay. Written and directed by Andrew Haigh. From a short story by David Constantine. A Sundance Selects release. Rated R. 95 minutes.
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FILM NEW THIS WEEK RACE In 1936, there was no better Olympic middle-finger to Adolf Hitler than a black man dominating in Berlin. Jesse Owens broke five world records and won four gold medals in a time and place where the Aryan vision of the world was dominant, thrusting his story into an international fight against racism abroad and at home. Stephen Hopkins directs. Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis, Eli Goree costar. (PG-13) 134 minutes. RISEN It’s the Resurrection from the Roman perspective—and the “biggest manhunt in history” which ensued, in which the full force of the Roman military tried to find the risen Jesus. Joseph Fiennes and Draco Malfoy—cough, erm, Tom Felton—play the Roman tribunes responsible for keeping the peace in Jerusalem as rumors of the divine inspire an uprising. Kevin Reynolds directs. Joseph Fiennes, Tom Felton, Peter Firth co-star. (PG-13) 107 minutes.
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SON OF SAUL Nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign language film, Son of Saul is the story of a man in the horrifying Auschwitz concentration camp who is forced to burn the corpses of his own people. László Nemes directs. Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn co-star. (R) 107 minutes.
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THE WITCH Spoiler alert: despite the misleading typeface of this film’s posters, apparently it is not “The Vvitch,” and is actually a story about a witch. Ah well, guess a witch who torments a Puritan family in 1630s New England will suffice, although what incredible potential would a vvitch have had? Robert Eggers directs. Anya TaylorJoy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie costar. (R) 93 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” film of the year—without any live humans. From the minds behind Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, it’s a world of emotional complexity from mundanity to the extraordinary. Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman direct. David Thewlis, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Noonan costar. (R) 90 minutes. THE BIG SHORT Based on the book of the same name, The Big Short follows the players and profiteers of the 2007-2010 financial crisis who bet against collateralized debt obligation, and sent the system reeling. Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt co-star. Adam McKay directs. (R) 130 minutes. THE BOY Good rule of thumb: when you get hired as a nanny for a family that keeps a life-sized doll around as their stand-in son, run fast, run far. William Brent Bell directs. Lauren Cohan, Rupert Evans, James Russell co-star. BROOKLYN From far across the cavernous pond, Eilis is an Irish immigrant who lands in 1950s Brooklyn only to face crippling homesickness, glaring cultural differences, prejudice, and hardship. When Eilis falls in love with a young Italian boy from a totally different world, she’s forced to choose between her old home and her new life. John Crowley directs. Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson co-star. (PG13) 111 minutes. 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. DEADPOOL He’s a special ops dude who’s transformed into a super-human in a rogue experiment, left with an indestructible body and the face of chopped liver. How many almost-funny
superheroes with the voice of a Disney prince has Ryan Reynolds played now? Tom Miller directs. Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, T.J. Miller co-star. (R) 108 minutes. 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. 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. 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. 45 YEARS Reviewed this issue. (R) 95 minutes. HOW TO BE SINGLE Because being single means free drinks, maintaining a man-rack of hookups, and getting free hangover cures by showing your cleavage? With all the “ughs” implied, who are we kidding, we still want Rebel Wilson and Leslie Mann to be our best friends, and will definitely be funnelling to the theater with a bevy of best friends and a happy hour receipt of champions. Christian Ditter directs. Dakota Johnson, Rebel Wilson, Leslie Mann co-star. (R) 109 minutes. LADY IN THE VAN Maggie Smith plays an unflappable transient woman living in her car who, despite being quite the vitriolic grouch, manages to form an unlikely bond with the man whose driveway she occupies. Nicholas Hytner directs. Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Jim Broadbent co-star. (PG-13) 104 minutes. OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS: Grab the popcorn and delve into this year’s Academy Awards nominees for best animated shorts and live action shorts. Check the movie times section for showings. 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 empire-waisted 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. 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. ROOM To Jack, there is nothing outside Room: Room is the entire 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. 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. WHERE TO INVADE NEXT Oddly beardless and slightly thinner, Michael Moore returns as angry and ferocious as ever, investigating the absurdities of modern politics across the entire globe. From public school cafeterias to Wall Street, Moore’s latest documentary takes on the American Dream. Michael Moore directs. Michael Moore, Krista Kiuru, Tim Walker co-star. (R) 110 minutes. ZOOLANDER 2 They’re back: La Tigre, Magnum and Blue Steel. Benedict Cumberbatch as an ambiguous male model named All. Kristen Wiig is “amousing” with enough faux-botox to treat a small country. Penélope Cruz struts, Owen Wilson pouts (as usual), and Justin Bieber dies. How many other reasons do you need? Ben Stiller directs. Olivia Munn, Kristen Wiig, Benedict Cumberbatch co-star. (PG13) 102 minutes.
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SALMON KING John Battendieri, founder of Moss Landing’s Santa Cruz Fish Company, with a fresh slab of Mt. Cook alpine salmon, now available at New Leaf. PHOTO: KEANA PARKER
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New Leaf Markets to introduce sustainably raised, freshwater farmed salmon BY CHRISTINA WATERS
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few months ago I had a terrific dinner at Artisan in Paso Robles, one terrific entree featured something the waitperson called “alpine king salmon.” We found out it was carefully farm-raised in New Zealand, and it was remarkably moist and full-flavored. I was intrigued. But no one in Santa Cruz seemed to carry it. Until now. This past week, New Leaf Community Markets has been hosting complimentary tastings of Mt. Cook Alpine Salmon to introduce its customers to the new freshwater,
farm-raised king salmon that they’ve just begun to carry. And, given the woeful state of wild king salmon right now (see Maria Grusauskas’ in-depth feature in the Feb. 3 issue of GT), New Leaf’s timing is impeccable. “We considered carrying farmraised salmon,” says Sarah Owens, New Leaf marketing director, “but until we discovered Mt. Cook’s unique fish-farming practices, we didn’t have an option that met our standards.” Indeed, most of us have tried to avoid farm-raised salmon, given the many issues of water temperature, hygiene, food sources, and genetic mutation
problems that arise in confined farming situations. Mt. Cook is one of those operations that has taken complete control of every step of its salmon, from sourcing free-flowing glacial waters to hand-feeding the salmon a healthy, non-GMO diet. Mt. Cook Alpine Salmon is greenrated by Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program and verified by FishWise as a Best Choice freshwater farm-raised king salmon. So it makes sense that Owens says she is “excited to offer this delicious and healthy delicacy to our customers.”
Everyone loves the primal flavor of king salmon, but most of us have been forced to consider a future in which we won’t be able to enjoy this magnificent seafood much longer. Thanks to the sustainably conscious entrepreneurs of Mt. Cook, that has changed. “I’ve visited many salmon farms around the world and by far none compare to Mt. Cook alpine salmon,” says John Battendieri, founder of Moss Landing’s Santa Cruz Fish Company, which is the local importer of Mt. Cook alpine salmon. To find out more about just why this is the freshwater farmed king salmon we’ve been waiting for, you should spend some time with the company’s website alpinesalmon. co.nz. But here are a few highlights: the two-million-gallon sanctuary where the salmon are raised is located in a very remote landscape of the Southern Alps of New Zealand, and fed by ice-cold freshwater currents. The entire operation is sustainable, with aquaculture best practices in place at each step. The salmon’s gene pool is sourced from the wild, and densities of fish stock are kept low to give the salmon maximum freedom to swim. As far as carbon footprint goes, Mt. Cook alpine salmon is shipped by sea containers, generating fewer CO2 emissions than shipping the same weight the same distance by truck. The results of this careful stewardship are lean, delicious, and again—this is the big takeaway—sustainable. Which, in this case, means not just environmentally friendly, but also renewable into the foreseeable future. Stop by New Leaf and look for the new Mt. Cook alpine king salmon—grill some up and see what you think.
WINE OF THE WEEK From Bianchi Bench in the Santa Lucia Highlands comes Estancia Pinot Noir 2010, a solid alliance of Pinot spice and plums. Nice balance of shape, tannins and a pretty finish. It’s a major bargain for $12.99, among the current wine bargains at Shopper’s Corner. Get it before it’s gone! Kudos to cult winemaker Tony Craig, whose Sonnet Cellars Tondre Grapefields Pinot Noir 2013 took 91 points from Wine Enthusiast and was named the Red Sweepstakes Winner at the prestigious 2016 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition.
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The finest food and ambience on the waterfront! LIFE OF THE PARTY Marci Prolo (left) and Adrienne Megoran, owners of An Epicurious Lifestyle. PHOTO: CHIP SCHEUER
An Epicurious Lifestyle Bringing locals to the table BY AARON CARNES
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What is ‘An Epicurious Lifestyle?’ MARCI PROLO: Epicurious means ‘enjoy today for tomorrow we might not be here.’ We chose that because we have the one table that invites you to have family-style dinners, so really it’s just enjoy the food, enjoy the time you have together because tomorrow we won’t know what will be brought forth.
What do you guys do? MARCI PROLO: We do private events here. Some organizations have their meetings in our kitchen during
lunch or dinner. We’ve had book clubs in here. We also have a themed dinner. One of them is always the last weekend of the month. We have a beautiful table that was built by Adrienne’s husband. It can fit 20-22 people. We have a four-course meal. You come in and you can mix and mingle. What really is behind it is to meet new people and enjoy breaking bread together. What we like to say is you come in as friends and you leave as family.
What kind of food do you prepare? ADRIENNE MEGORAN: We basically work off of the seasons, and what is sustainable. I would use more root vegetables or heartier meats in the winter time. And in the summertime get back to fresh vegetables, fruit and seafood. We do four courses. People sign up through our website. It’s kind of like a pop-up. On Feb. 27, we are doing a cozy dinner—I’m doing braised beef short ribs with citrus gremolata, and salmon with Meyer lemon vinaigrette. 104 Bronson St., Ste.13, Santa Cruz. 471-8524, anepicuriouslifestyle.com.
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n Epicurious Lifestyle. It’s a pretty big mouthful. But before you whip out your smartphones and start googling, we already asked owners Marci Prolo and Adrienne Megoran what it means. More importantly, we asked them about the actual company, which hosts private and public food events. Some folks might already know Prolo for her brand of homemade toffee, Goose’s Goodies, and Megoran for her catering company Food, Family & Vino. Together, they host public dinners at their kitchen twice a month.
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THRIVING VINES ‘Rapid shoot growth’ in the springtime at Alberti Vineyard,
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Alberti Vineyard Estate-grown Pinot Noir from the Vine Hill district BY JOSIE COWDEN
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ituated in the Santa Cruz Mountains in what is known as the Vine Hill district, Alberti Vineyard is in a “sweet spot” for growing premium Pinot Noir grapes. “The slope of the vineyard is quite critical,” says owner and winemaker Jim Alberti, adding that their vineyard’s gentle incline allows air to move through it, minimizing frost early in the spring when buds and tender shoot tissues are vulnerable. “The slope also allows the heat of the midsummer day to rise, causing a cooling air flow within the vineyard,” says Alberti. The Alberti Vineyard continues in the tradition of producing an estate-grown and limited estate-bottled Pinot from a spot in the Santa Cruz Mountains only 500 meters from the first-established vineyard in California, says Alberti. Jim, along with his wife Peggy, is making some outstanding Pinot Noir (around $32)—the only varietal they produce right now—and it’s all handmade and aged in French oak barrels. We had houseguests for 10 days last month—friends who live in the south of Spain and swear by Spanish wines. But I opened up the Alberti Santa Cruz Mountains Pinot 2013 to enjoy with a pot of black beans and ham, served with crusty bread
and a green salad, and they loved it. Tending toward the lighter side with an aroma of berries and cherries, it’s an easy-drinking Pinot with a medium mouthfeel that paired well with this simple food. It’s also very flexible and gentle on the palate, so would pair well with everything from a ham sandwich to a hearty steak. The Albertis don’t have a tasting room, although they do have a wine club, but the good news is that their wine is available at Cantine Winepub, Deluxe Foods of Aptos, Shopper’s Corner, Deer Park Wine & Spirits, and most recently in New Leaf on the Westside and in Capitola. Visit albertivineyard.com for more info.
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LionFish SupperClub will soon have its very own space in which to continue its popular dinner events. Owners Zachary Mazi and Tighe Melville will be cooking at Motiv’s upstairs bar/kitchen on Center Street and operate a Wednesday-Saturday dinner service from 4-10 p.m. There will be a grand opening on Friday, March 4, but in the meantime you can check them out in their new space on Feb. 19 and Feb. 26. Mazi and Melville want to focus on “breathing new life” into the epic Pacific Avenue locale. Visit lionfishsc.com for more info.
H RISA’S STARS BY RISA D’ANGELES PISCES SUN, FULL MOON & LANTERN FESTIVAL Esoteric Astrology as news for week of Feb. 17, 2016
Friday, the Sun enters Pisces, sign of the fishes, and symbol of saving humanity. Pisces is esoterically known as the “Light of the World.” Pisces’ light “ends forever the darkness (ignorance, cruelty, hopelessness, evil, etc.).” Pisces is known for its saviors, sacrifice and sense of dying to the world. Saviors appear periodically on Earth, dying to their state of paradise, sacrificing themselves to help in the struggles of humanity. The keynote of Pisces is, “I leave the Father’s House in order to serve and save humanity.” Christ was our last and present (Pisces/ Aquarius) World Teacher and Savior. This is His season, the season of Lent. We stand with Him in the desert. Do you know a Pisces? Monday, Feb. 22, is George Washington’s birthday, and mine, too. I celebrate my birthday by tithing and doing things that create a template of beauty and balance for
ARIES Mar21–Apr20 It’s good to enter into solitude and retreat for a while. This builds strength and confidence. Your ruler (planet influencing Aries), Mars, calls you to a place of shelter, refuge, sanctuary, an inner harbor, so you can reflect upon the past and make plans quietly for the coming times, festivals and seasons. This is a gift of time and contemplation. Attend church.
TAURUS Apr21–May21 You find yourself constantly thinking about groups. It’s because they need your quiet, efficient, illuminating mind, practical direction, and determined focus. Behind all your words and ideas are these realities; it’s time to salvage (restore) the world and much sacrifice must come from all of us. When you lead, everyone follows.
GEMINI May 22–June 20 What talents and abilities do you want to be recognized for in helping to construct the new world? What gifts of self do you want to offer as part of the New Group of World Servers (NGWS)? A task of the NGWS is to radiate forth new ideas that become an ideal within humanity to create the new culture and civilization. What are your thoughts on these things? Actually, where are you?
the rest of the year. Join me, everyone. Monday is also full moon, the 3 degrees Pisces solar festival. It is also the Chinese Lantern Festival. Lanterns floating, fixed, held, hung, flying—in our homes, around windows and doors, in the trees—glow in the winter light, bright with blessings and fullmoon dreams for the new year. The Lantern Festival began during the Han Dynasty (25-220 A.D.). Emperor Han Mingdi watched monks light lanterns in the temples greeting the Buddha on the first of the new year (spring). The emperor ordered all temples, households and palaces to light lanterns on that evening from then on. The lanterns symbolize the loosening of the past and the welcoming of a new phase and a new year. The red of the lanterns symbolize prosperity, auspiciousness and good fortune.
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There are times you may struggle with disillusion and disappointment concerning relationships and professional endeavors. In the midst of these you find a surge of creativity and recognition in the world. Feeling your inner powers still to be expressed, you long to do something significant. You’re talented and lucky. Sometimes sacrifice plays a part. You need peace and seclusion in a big garden.
AQUARIUS Jan21–Feb18 You can be very generous now. However, you can also be dreamy and/or imaginative about your money. You have a sense of timing and intuition concerning when things should be done, with whom, when and where. These abilities will be more easily understood in coming months. You can tap into unusual resources. There is always the supply you need. Share generously.
PISCES Feb19–Mar20 You’re not an everyday sort of person. You don’t have the energy of Aries or the steadfastness of Taurus, the business acumen of Capricorn or the relating skills of Libra. You’re in touch with other states of reality, different values based on spiritual motivations. Know that you always have the ability to be thankful and have gratitude. You need music, art, culture, and to plant your spring garden from seeds. Happy Birthday, Pisces.
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You might find that religious themes form an important area of study. Altruism becomes your keynote and people begin to perceive you as philosophical, idealistic and visionary. You will have inspired insights that assist first yourself and then others. You imagine other lands, people’s cultures and worlds. It’s good to build a boat, eat fish, swim in warm waters.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0312 The following Individual is doing business as INNER ALCHEMY. 214 EL CAMINO RD., SCOTTS VALLEY, CA 95066. County of Santa Cruz. FUNCHUN MARTINA LIN. 214 EL CAMINO RD., SCOTTS VALLEY, CA 95066. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: FUNCHUN MARTINA LIN. 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 Feb. 10, 2016. Feb. 17, 24, & Mar. 2, 9.
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. Feb. 17, 24, & Mar. 2, 9.
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. 25, 2016. Feb. 3, 10, 17, 24.
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.
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The following Individual is doing business as CONFLUENCE. 5969 GUSHEE STREET, FELTON, CA 95018. County of Santa Cruz. LEIGH ANN MAZE GESSNER. 5969 GUSHEE STREET, FELTON, CA 95018. This business is conducted by an Individual
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real estate FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0120 The following Individual is doing business as SC SYSTEMS. 950 34TH AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. ASHLEY MILLER. 950 34TH AVE., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: ASHLEY MILLER. The registrant commenced
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION OF ORDINANCE BY POSTING (ORDINANCE NO. 2016-04) 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:
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ORDINANCE NO. 2016-04 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA CRUZ AMENDING PORTIONS OF TITLE 24, SECTIONS 24.04, 24.08, 24.10 AND 24.12 TO THE SANTA CRUZ MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO SIGN REGULATIONS IN CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT (CBD) ZONE DISTRICT AND CITY-WIDE. THIS ORDINANCE IS AN IMPLEMENTING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY’S LOCAL COASTAL PROGRAM This ordinance adds sign regulations, which were formerly located in the Downtown Recovery Plan, to Title 24 of the Zoning Code; simplifies standards, eliminates the sign permit process for certain types of signs, and clarifies sign permit requirements City-wide. PASSED FOR PUBLICATION on this 9th day of February, 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 23, 2016.
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. 16-0251 The following Individual is doing business as MOONCHILD PRODUCTION. 200-B CORAL STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. MICHAEL JOHN CORCORAN. 200-B CORAL STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: MICHAEL J. CORCORAN. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 12/14/1995. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Feb. 1, 2016. Feb. 10, 17, 24, & Mar. 2.
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. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0180 The following Individual is doing business as OPTIMUM FINANCIAL. 1975 SOQUEL
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 16-0260 The following Individual is doing business as ADVANCED AWARENESS SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS. 895 NINA DRIVE, BOULDER CREEK, CA 95006. County of Santa Cruz. DANIEL THIELE. 895 NINA DRIVE, BOULDER CREEK, CA 95006. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: DANIEL THIELE. 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 Feb. 3, 2016. Feb. 10, 17, 24, & Mar. 2. 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
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 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.
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10, 17. CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ PETITION OF RACHAEL RIDENOUR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.16CV00285. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner RACHAEL RIDENOUR has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: GRACE LYNN SCHMIDT to: GRACE LYNN RIDENOUR. 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 21, 2016 at 8:30 am, in Department 4 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street. Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times, a newspaper of general circulation printed in Santa
CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ PETITION OF LUCY OLIVIA 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. 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 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.
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Where the locals shop since 1938. VOTED BEST BUTCHER SHOP BEST WINE STORE BEST CHEESE SELECTIONS BEST LOCALLY OWNED GROCERY STORE
Family owned & operated 78 years.
622 Soquel Avenue,Santa Cruz
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GROCERY: Local, Organic, Natural, Specialty, Gourmet
Beer/Wine/Spirits:
Bakery • Fresh Daily
Butcher Shop: All Natural USDA Choice Beef & Lamb
only, Corn-Fed Midwest Pork, Rocky Free Range Chickens, Air Chilled Mary’s Chicken, Wild-Caught Seafood, Boar’s Head Brand TRI TIPS, U.S.D.A. Choice/ 6.98 Lb COULOTTE STEAKS, U.S.D.A. Choice/ 7.98 Lb FLAT IRONS, U.S.D.A. Choice, Natural/ 6.98 Lb FLANK STEAKS, U.S.D.A. Choice, Natural/ 8.98 Lb BLOODY MARY CROSSRIB, Steaks/ 5.98 Lb BLACK PEPPER PORK CHOPS, Boneless/ 3.98 Lb PETRALE SOLE/ 14.98 Lb PACIFIC RED SNAPPER FILLETS/ 6.98 Lb
Domestic Beer
BECKMANN’S, Three Seed Sour Loaf 24oz/ 3.89 WHOLE GRAIN, Whole Wheat 30oz/ 4.19 KELLY’S, Sour Cheddar 16oz/ 3.89 GAYLE’S, Organic Capitola Sourdough Sandwich/ 4.79 SUMANO’S, Healthy Grain 24oz/ 3.99 Cheese • Best Gourmet Selection in Santa Cruz MILD CHEDDAR, “Soft Cows Milk, Creamy & rBST Free” Loaf Cuts/ 3.29 Lb, Averaged Cuts/ 3.49 Lb BUFF BLUE, Italy, “Strong Blue Flavor”/ 13.99 Lb MONTAGNA, Italy, “Made from Free Grazing Cows”/ 13.99 Lb HUMBOLDT FOG, “Soft with a Luscious Tangy Flavor/ 21.69 Lb
UINTA BREWING, IPA, 12oz Bottles, 6 Pack/ 8.99 +CRV SIERRA NEVADA, Tropical IPA, 12oz Bottles, 6 Pack/ 8.99 +CRV 10 BARREL BREWING, IPA, 22oz Bottle/ 4.99 +CRV SPEAKEASY BREWING, IPA, 12oz Bottles, 6 Pack/ 7.49 +CRV FOUNDERS BREWING, IPA, 12oz Bottles, 6 Pack/ 10.49 +CRV
Tequila – 750ml
HORNITOS, Reposado/ 17.99 CAZADORES, Reposado/ 25.99 ALTOS, Silver & Reposado/ 19.99 PATRON, Silver/ 39.99 DON JULIO, Anejo/ 49.99
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Best Buy Reds
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TRIPPLE CRÈME GOAT BRIE, “New Item, Delicious & Rich Flavor”/ 8.09 CALABRO ROTOLINI, Italy “Rolled Mozzarella & Prosciutto”/ 9.99 Di STEFANO BURRATA, “Enjoy with Grilled Peaches” 4oz/ 3.49 HEMPLER APPLEWOOD SMOKED BACON, “All Varieties” 10oz/ 5.19 SABRA HUMMUS, “Customer Favorite, All Varieties” 10oz”/ 5.29
2010 DOMAINE LES JOS DES PAPES (91WA, Reg 43.99)/ 19.99 2010 CHATEAU LA GORRE (90WA, Reg 22.99)/ 13.99 2012 ARBRAS, Malbec (Reg 18.99)/ 9.99 2009 AHLGREN, Zinfandel (Reg 28.99)/ 9.99 2011 GIFFT, Red (91WE, Reg 19.99)/ 9.99
BEAR NAKED, “Bearly Processes Granola” 12oz/ 5.19 LOVE CRUNCH, “Premium Organic Granola” 11.5oz/ 5.29 BACK TO NATURE, “Not Just For Breakfast” 11oz/ 6.19 KIND, “Ingredients You Can See & Pronounce” 11oz/ 6.19 PURELY ELIZABETH, “Gluten Free” 12oz/ 7.59
2012 ABRAS, Torrontes (Reg 16.99)/ 7.99 2012 VERUM, Chardonnay (Reg 16.99)/ 8.99 2012 VO CA, Cortese (91WW, Reg 16.99)/ 8.99 2012 LINCOURT, Sauvignon Blanc (90WE, Reg 17.99)/ 9.99 2014 KIM CRAWFORD, Sauvignon Blanc (91TP, Reg 17.99)/ 9.99
Produce: California-Fresh, Blemish-Free, 30% Local / Organic Arrow Citrus Co., Lakeside Organics, Happy Boy Farms, Route 1 Farms Canned Seafood ROMA TOMATOES, Ripe and Firm/ 1.49 Lb RED POTATOES, Premium Quality/ 1.19 Lb NAVAL ORANGES, Sweet and Juicy/ 1.09 Lb GRAPEFRUIT, Pink Flesh Sweet/ 1.09 Lb ZUCCHINI SQUASH, Extra Fancy Squash/ 1.49 Lb CAULIFLOWERS, Great as a Side Dish/ 2.29 Ea AVOCADOS, Table Ripe Ready/ 1.09 Ea LEAF LETTUCE, Red, Green, Romaine, Butter and Iceberg/ 1.49 Ea BANANAS, Always Ripe/ .89 Lb
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Spanish Wines
ROMANOFF CAVIAR, “Black & Vodka Lumpfish” 2oz/ 8.99 SUSTAINABLE SEAS, Solid Light Tuna “100% Pole Caught” 4.1oz/ 3.69 RAINCOAST TRADING SARDINES, “Sustainable Seafood” WILD PLANET, Wild Alaska Pink Salmon “Canned Fresh” 6oz/ 5.69 TONNINO, Tuna Fillets “Wild Caught, Hand Packed” 6.7oz/ 6.99
2011 BODEGAS, Muriel Garnacha (90WE, Reg 29.99), 22.29 2011 BLACK SLATE, Priorat (94RP)/ 22.99 2011 ROMANICO, Tora (92WA)/ 15.99 2012 VOLVER, Tempranillo (91ST)/ 16.99 2010 MARQUES MURRIETA, Roja Reserva (93RP)/ 24.99
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TWINS KITCHEN MUSTARD, “Made in a Home Kitchen” 9oz/ 5.99 OLIO UMBERTO, Extra Virgin Olive Oil “First Cold Press” 12.7oz/ 17.99 POLAR BEAR ICE CREAM, “Since 1975” Quart/ 5.99 FRIEND IN CHEESES JAM CO., “Savor the Journey” 8oz/ 8.29 WILD MOUNTAIN APIARY HONEY, “Pure, Fresh, Raw” 16oz/ 8.99
2009 FRANKLAND ESTATE, Shiraz (94W&S, Reg 39.99)/ 29.99 2012 YANGARA, Shiraz (95JH)/ 23.99 2010 GLAETZER WALLACE, Shiraz/Grenache (90RP)/ 26.99 2007 KILIKANOON, Shiraz/Grenache (90RP)/ 23.99 2010 TWO HANDS, Shiraz Bella’s Garden (95WS)/ 79.99
EDITH MEYER, 20-Year Customer, Santa Cruz
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Occupation: Organic wedding cake designer, Edith Meyer Wedding Cakes Hobbies (pre-twins): Cycling, reading, gardening, cooking, loves to bake Astrological Sign: Taurus What do you enjoy cooking? Italian dishes and I do a lot of Southern-style cooking. Living two minutes from Shopper’s, I’m here daily, sometimes multiple times. I shop European style — ‘What do we want for dinner?’ and then I’ll go get it. Some days it might be fried chicken, ham hocks, collard greens, black-eyed peas, or polenta. We like to barbecue and do a lot of steaks. Shopper’s has a wonderful selection of seafood, and we really like their bacon and sausages. We buy a lot of pork shoulder and pork butts and slow-roast them for pulled pork. The butcher shop’s variety and quality is terrific!
You prefer shopping local? One-hundred percent! Here at Shopper’s, I’ve gotten to know the people and they greet us every day with smiles and ’hellos.’ And, my goodness how the checkers and butchers dote on the twins, Harry and Henry. I don’t get near the same attention! I love the market’s wooden flooring and the size is really manageable. I think Shopper’s is the most charming store in Santa Cruz. Not being a corporate chain, you find local products here such as coffee, eggs, milk, and organic produce — I appreciate the labeling so we know the origins — which is even more important to me now because of my young sons.
OUR 78 TH YE AR
What would you say about Shopper’s to newly arrived resident? It’s the best market you can go to find everything that you’re looking for, all the time. I’ve always been impressed that, though being a small store, what a great selection of quality products they provide. Shopper’s has the most fabulous and diverse wine department, with friendly prices. If you’re looking for an unusual wine, Paul will assist you. The cheeses are fantastic and you can buy them in small sizes. I love baking pies (I once catered a celebrity wedding with nine different pies), and use Shopper’s organic butter. They carry amazing chocolates, like Donnelly Chocolates. You cannot find the same products in town elsewhere for less.
“I love the market’s wooden flooring and the size is really manageable. I think Shopper’s is the most charming store in Santa Cruz.”
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Corner: Soquel & Branciforte Avenues 7 Days: 6am-9pm Meat: (831)423-1696 Produce: (831)429-1499 Grocery: (831)423-1398 Wine: (831)429-1804
Superb Products of Value: Local, Natural, Gourmet ■ Neighborhood Service for 78 Years