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EDITOR’S NOTE A couple of years ago, we wrote about Santa Cruz’s stunning legacy of hip-hop dance, and I am still surprised this community hasn’t embraced it the way we should. Over the hill in San Jose, the Bangerz—who compose the music for the Jabbawockeez, probably the most famous hiphop dance crew of all time—are a cultural fixture, wowing crowds at huge downtown festivals and working closely with other arts groups in the area. By comparison, Santa Cruz’s history with the Jabbawockeez—as in, the founder of the group, Gary Kendell, came out of

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Re: GT’s KZSC cover (12/6): I knew it was Robin Lewin. I did not know that people were asking. I was the tie-breaking vote that got him in as station manager when he was only a freshman.

My husband, Kevin Monahan, is also in that 1978 picture on your inside pages—he is the cute one in the middle, left, with a mustache. I was not in that picture, as I had already graduated and was in L.A. working at NBC. Kevin went on to work at EMU Systems in Santa Cruz, and invented the first sound library for musicians. So much of the ’80s music came from Kevin’s sounds. Maybe there should be a follow-up story on all of the sound developments that happened (and are still happening!) in Santa Cruz.

The EMU founders are still alive (and working) and many of the ex-EMU people are still working at Universal Audio. Others are at Apple, etc. Our tenant at the original EMU house in Santa Cruz on Broadway, also a later EMU person from England, is presently at Amazon Alexa, for example.

Robin was also in last year’s 50th anniversary UCSC alumni magazine, along with several of the students from our small little “communications” group.

There were about 20 of us under the

our dance community—should be the stuff of local legend.

It hasn’t really happened yet, but we’re going to continue to do our part to make it so. The Santa Cruz studio that Kendell taught at, Motion Pacific, turns 20 this year, and Georgia Johnson’s cover story this week explores how hip-hop was one aspect of how they revolutionized the dance scene here. At the same time, it also goes a little deeper in Kendell’s history than we have before, exploring how his work with the Boom Squad changed a lot of minds about the meaning and possibilities of hip-hop dance.

I’ve been wowed by many Motion Pacific shows over the years.

Congratulations to them on two decades of helping to shape how our community thinks about dance.

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guidance of Gordon Mumma, head of the electronic music studio. I was Kresge Town Hall Manager at the time, and assistant teacher to Gordon. A lot of the existing audio people in our industry came out of Gordon’s electronic music studio. I knew Robin as late as 1980, when a bunch of us got together and got a hotel room at the second-ever Billboard Video Music Awards in L.A. I stayed in L.A., started my own company, and won a Billboard Music Video Award in 1986. My ex, Rob Schafer, who also helped maintain KZSC, is still a top engineer at CBS NY, and has been so for about 40 years.

Doing radio shows at KZSC was one of the most fun things in my life. I have been a video editor for almost 45 years, doing a documentary on Jackson Browne right now for the NAMM Awards show in L.A. But there is nothing like real-time broadcasting for a real continual adrenaline rush.

Kevin and I live in Corralitos and still do video … and support Danny Croft’s ’80s show on KZSC with contributions.

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A local operation is officially launching its Landlord Incentive Program designed to encourage property owners to accept tenants with Section 8 rental vouchers.

The basic concept, covered by GT last year (“Vouch for ‘Em,” 11/2), offers loss coverage of up to $2,500 per tenant. The program protects landlords if they incur certain expenses within the first year of tenancy.

The county’s low-income renters can spend several years on the waiting list before getting a voucher, and even then, many don’t find a home before it expires.

A judge in Canada recently banned solitary confinement, relying heavily on testimony from UCSC psychology professor Craig Haney. For decades, Haney has been an expert on the psychological effects of imprisonment, as well as a critic of solitary confinement, and he testified at the trial about the effects of isolation on mental health. His expertise has figured prominently in numerous court decisions regarding the treatment of inmates. Here in America, California and other states have begun limiting the use of solitary confinement.

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What do you think about the homeless camp in San Lorenzo Park?

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The campgrounds are definitely needed in this community, and I think we should have more.

There’s still land available.

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I think visually it looks bad, and I also want the homeless to have a place to go, and resources to help those who need it.

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They obviously need a place to go, but I’m concerned with the proposed move to the Harvey West area, because there are residents in that area.

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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of January 24 ARIES Mar21–Apr19

LIBRA Sep23–Oct 22

Anders Haugen competed for the U.S. as a ski jumper in the 1924 Winter Olympics. Although he was an accomplished athlete who had previously set a world record for distance, he won no medals at the games. But wait! Fifty years later, a sports historian discovered that there had been a scoring mistake back in 1924. In fact, Haugen had done well enough to win the bronze medal. The mistake was rectified, and he finally got his long-postponed award. I foresee a comparable development happening in your life, Aries. Recognition or appreciation you deserved to have received some time ago will finally come your way.

In the late 1980s, Budweiser used a Bull Terrier to promote its Bud Light beer in commercials. The dog, who became mega-famous, was presented as a rich macho party animal named Spuds MacKenzie. The ad campaign was successful, boosting sales 20 percent. But the truth was that the actor playing Spuds was a female dog whose owners called her Evie. To earn money, the poor creature, who was born under the sign of Libra, was forced to assume a false identity. To honor Evie’s memory, and in alignment with current astrological omens, I urge you human Libras to strip away any layers of false identity you’ve been pressured to acquire. Be your Real Self—to the max.

TAURUS Apr20–May20

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21

In 1899, Sobhuza II became King of Swaziland even though he was less than five months old. He kept his job for the next 82 years, and along the way managed to play an important role when his nation gained independence from the colonial rule of the United Kingdom. These days you may feel a bit like Sobhuza did when he was still in diapers, Taurus: not sufficiently prepared or mature for the greater responsibilities that are coming your way.

But just as he received competent help in his early years from his uncle and grandmother, I suspect you’ll receive the support you’ll need to ripen.

The giant panda is a bear native to China. In the wild, its diet is 99 percent bamboo. But bamboo is not an energy-rich food, which means the creature has to compensate by consuming 20 to 30 pounds of the stuff every day. Because it’s so busy gathering its sustenance, the panda doesn’t have time to do much socializing. I mention this, Scorpio, because I want to offer up the panda as your anti-power animal for the coming weeks. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you should have a diversified approach to getting your needs met—not just in regards to food, but in every other way as well. Variety is not just the spice of life; it’s the essence.

GEMINI May21–June20 In my ideal world, dancing and singing wouldn’t be luxuries practiced primarily by professionals. They would be regular occurrences in our daily routines. We’d dance and sing whenever we needed a break from the numbing trance. We’d whirl and hum to pass the time. We would greet each other with an interpretative movement and a little tune. In schools, dance and song would be a standard part of the curriculum—as important as math and history. That’s my utopian dream, Gemini. What’s yours?

In accordance with the astrological omens, I urge you to identify the soul medicine you’d love to incorporate into your everyday regimen. Then go ahead and incorporate it! It’s time for you to get more aggressive about creating the world you want to live in.

CANCER Jun21–Jul22

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Psychology pioneer Carl Jung believed that most of our big problems can never be fully solved. And that’s actually a good thing. Working on them keeps us lively, in a state of constant transformation. It ensures we don’t stagnate. I generally agree with Jung’s high opinion of our problems. We should indeed be grateful for the way they impel us to grow. However, I think that’s irrelevant for you right now. Why? Because you have an unprecedented opportunity to solve and graduate from a major long-running problem. So no, don’t be grateful for it. Get rid of it. Say goodbye to it forever.

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LE0 Jul23–Aug22 Between now and March 21, you will be invited, encouraged, and pushed to deepen your understanding of intimate relationships. You will have the chance to learn much, much more about how to create the kind of togetherness that both comforts and inspires you. Will you take advantage of this eight-week opportunity? I hope so. You may imagine that you have more pressing matters to attend to. But the fact is that cultivating your relationship skills would transform you in ways that would best serve those other pressing matters.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 In December, mass protests broke out in Mashhad, Iran’s second-largest city. Why? The economy had been gradually worsening. Inflation was slowly but surely exacting a toll. Unemployment was increasing. But one of the immediate triggers for the uprising was a 40-percent hike in the price of eggs. It focused the Iranian people’s collective angst and galvanized a dramatic response.

I’m predicting a comparable sequence in your personal future, Virgo. A specific irritant will emerge, motivating you to stop putting up with trends that have been subtly bothering you.

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21 You’re the star of the “movie” that endlessly unfolds in your imagination. There may be a number of other lead actors and actresses, but few if any have your luster and stature. You also have a supporting cast, as well as a full complement of extras. To generate all of the adventure you need, your story needs a lot of dramatis personae.

In the coming weeks, I suggest that you be alert for certain minor characters who are primed to start playing a bigger role in your narrative. Consider the possibility of inviting them to say and do more to advance the plot.

CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 Thirty-five miles per hour is typically the highest speed attained by the U.S. Navy’s Nimitz-class aircraft carriers.

That’s not very fast. On the other hand, each ship’s engine generates 190 megawatts, enough to provide the energy needs of 140,000 houses, and can go more than 20 years without refueling. If you don’t mind, I’m going to compare you to one of those aircraft carriers during the next four weeks. You may not be moving fast, but you will have maximum stamina and power.

AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 The pawpaw is a tasty fruit that blends the flavors of mango, banana and melon. But you rarely find it in grocery stores. One reason is that the fruit ripens very fast after being picked. Another is that the pollination process is complicated. In response to these issues, a plant scientist named Neal Peterson has been trying to breed the pawpaw to be more commercially viable. Because of his work, cultivated crops have finally begun showing up at some farmers markets. I’d like to see you undertake metaphorically similar labors in 2018, Aquarius. I think you’ll have good luck at developing rough potentials into more mature forms of expression. You’ll have skill at turning unruly raw materials into more useful resources.

Now is a great time to begin.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 An iceberg is a huge chunk of ice that has cracked away from a glacier and drifted off into the open sea. Only nine percent of it is visible above the waterline. The underwater part, which is most of the iceberg, is basically invisible. You can’t know much about it just by looking at the top. This is an apt metaphor for life itself. Most everyone and everything we encounter is 91 percent mysterious or hidden or inaccessible to our conscious understanding.

That’s the weird news, Pisces. The good news is that during the next three weeks you will have an unprecedented ability to get better acquainted with the other 91 percent of anything or anyone you choose to explore.

Homework: Imagine that you’re still alive in 2090. What’s your life like?

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ust weeks into cannabis legalization, Santa Cruz County’s dispensaries are licensed and open for business, and SC Labs is licensed to conduct the now state-required testing of all products for a roster of chemicals that will grow from 12 to 66 come July.

But without a license, growers and manufacturers can’t enter their product into a distributor’s inventory, and a slow trickle of temporary state licenses is just beginning to reach the small pool of cultivators and manufacturers who were in a position to apply.

As all await a new cannabis ordinance that may or may not be able to include them, there is talk among the industry that the environmental impact report, which cost taxpayers $451,689 and serves

as the informational foundation of the ordinance, could be scrapped entirely—a hypothetical that County Supervisor John Leopold says is “too early to tell.”

As of print time, a meeting originally planned for Feb. 5—in which county staff will present its recommendations for the ordinance to the Board of Supervisors—had not appeared on the county’s official calendar, and therefore could not be confirmed by the county’s Cannabis Licensing department. In the meantime, a panel discussion on the Future of Cannabis will be held at 7 p.m. on Jan. 24 at the Resource Center for Nonviolence—co-hosted

by Cannabis Advocates Alliance, WAMM, the SC Veterans Alliance, and GreenTrade, a coalition seeking to promote an environmentally

responsible cannabis trade in Santa Cruz County.

Colin Disheroon of Santa Cruz Naturals, like many dispensary owners in the county, says he stocked up on product in anticipation of this interim period. But his inventory is quickly shrinking, and he’s disappointed by the selection and pricing offered by the now-mandatory distributors that have approached him.

“The cost of edibles has almost doubled,” he says, adding that the available flowers are of commercial grade quality—not ideal for a dispensary whose mission has been, for the last seven years, to prioritize organics.

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Mary Maleta Wright had already proven herself a serious competitor on the Soquel High School cross country team when Melissa McConville joined their sophomore year, sparking a longtime friendship.

Since then, they’ve kept in touch—and kept running too, through pregnancies, moves to college and various careers.

Wright ran on Division 1 teams at UCLA and Cornell University. McConville, who ran independently while at UC Santa Barbara, still competes in marathons. She’s also the creator of the popular she.is.beautiful race series, which takes place each year in both Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara.

Together, the two started shopping around for a running club a couple of years ago, but struggled to find the right fit.

“None of them really appealed to us. We were looking for something all-women,” McConville remembers. “We’ve run with men in the past. But there’s a different kind of energy, a camaraderie [with just women].

We both love men. We’re married to them.

But men get egotistical when you’re beating them or running at the same pace as them.”

Gathering feedback from other runners, they launched their all-women team, which they called Arete, in 2016 with 20 members. The team has already grown to 80 members in Santa Cruz, with other chapters springing up around the Bay Area and beyond.

McConville can’t help feeling in awe of the club’s quick expansion. Less than two years in, she and Wright are already thinking about taking the club national.

“It’s huge. We had our first meet-up in spring of 2016. We had a goal, and it was an investment in time and money. We said we had a goal—that this would be worth it if we have 20 people,” Wright explains. “In 2017, we decided it would be worth it if we have 50 people. In 2017, we had 150 people.”

Some of the group’s secrets lie in its name—pronounced ahr-i-tey, a Greek word for virtue—that reflects the group’s philosophy. Michelle Kern, 53, who has been running with the group since its first year, sums up the meaning of the word as “Excellence in fulfillment, living up >14

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LEGAL CROSSWALK. Did you know that every corner is a legal crosswalk? Drivers are required by law to yield to pedestrians at ALL intersections—even if there is no marked crosswalk.

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product coming from far Northern California,” says Disheroon. “There’s almost zero local product coming from local farmers.”

The issue, of course, is not that Santa Cruz farmers aren’t already growing a significant portion of the state’s cannabis—with many farmers priding themselves in high-quality and heirloom strains. The problem, rather, is that as of Jan. 1, the gray market that fueled dispensaries for years is now obsolete.

“It’s black and white again,” says Disheroon. “I know a number of growers—growers that we have been working with for years—who are saying that their only option is to turn to the black market to stay in business. I think that we’re going to see that the black market is going to be producing nicer, higherquality product than the legal market, and it’s going to be cheaper because of all the taxes.”

Although Leopold cautions that we’re only a few weeks into legalization, and the county is working hard on drafting an ordinance that brings folks into compliance, it’s clear that not everyone will be able to comply with the new regulations.

“I don’t think that there was any delusion by policy makers at the state or local level that pure legalization would eliminate a black market,” says County Supervisor Zach Friend. “There’s a black market in all kinds of legal things now. So, that doesn’t surprise me. And when you get the commercial players in, what you may see is actually some of the early players unable to sustain from a price standpoint just because of competition statewide.”

Adding to the uncertainties is U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ recent rescinding of the Obama-era Cole Memos, which protected cannabislegal states from federal interference.

And two weeks ago, the Board of Supervisors in California’s Calaveras County, which had its cannabis ordinance already in place, voted to ban commercial cannabis, giving growers 30 days to cease operations— after the county had collected more than $3 million in licensing fees, and more than $10 million in tax revenue.

Echoing a mounting distrust within the industry of the revenue-focused powers that be, Disheroon doesn’t mince words: “We’re heading down the same path,” he says.

BOTTLE NECK Who survives—or at least who will have a shot at it—in the new era of regulated cannabis will largely be determined by the conditions of the county ordinance. The rules, as of yet, seem like they may suit largescale greenhouse growers on the Pajaro Valley floor—many with no prior experience growing cannabis.

County and state tax revenues will pour in regardless of who and where

cannabis is grown, and anonymous sources within the industry fear a bureaucratic ban on rural cannabis— as several stipulations in the draft ordinance make it infeasible for rural commercial farms, like the ones in the hills and mountains, to continue legally. In an October Board of Supervisors meeting, the board confirmed that “somewhere around” $1.4 million of its estimated annual $2.5 million in tax revenue would be used for enforcement of noncompliant operations. Santa Cruz County’s Cannabis Licensing Manager Robin Bolster-Grant says there will be a transition time before enforcement begins.

“Our standards have always been that if you are doing something egregious, if you are hurting the environment, we care about the impacts,” she says. “If folks are doing what they’ve been doing, there’s going to be a transition time, just like the state has given folks six months before they’re really focusing

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Sandidge, who explains that the owners know to keep their hands off programming. “They invested a lot of money, and their job is to get money back out. All corners are cut.

Or were. There are no corners left.”

That kind of straight talk makes a listener want to turn up the volume, and it’s probably part of what helps KPIG outperform other stations. Which, of course, makes Mapleton more money. What the hell do they care what a DJ who calls himself “Sleepy John” is telling Santa Cruz locals?

Guzman’s honesty about Alden Global Capital came off that same way—at least to me—in her moving reflections on a paper going 161 years strong, and on Miller, the man who lead the operation for the past decade.

Surely, no executive got their feelings hurt by that … right?

What’s interesting is that the story has disappeared from the internet. The link to the article has

gone dead. No amount of googling or perusing the Sentinel’s website seems to be fruitful.

Is it possible that the story disappeared in some other way that doesn’t involve an administrator scrapping it?

Well, if the story simply got lost on the back end, the editors should have the power to repost it—something the Sentinel has done in the past.

Guzman tells us she can’t comment. Sentinel publisher Gary Omernick never got back to us, nor did Digital First Media, the part of the Alden news organization to which the Sentinel belongs.

Ken Doctor, a media expert based in Aptos who writes the blog Newsonomics, says readers generally expect a newspaper to be transparent about its own operations—especially because reporters are always sticking their noses into everyone else’s business.

Still, he said it was “surprising” to see Alden’s shoutout in print.

“It didn’t surprise us that they pulled it in that way, because DFM is a very sensitive company,” says Doctor, a Sentinel subscriber, who enjoyed Guzman’s column and remembers it being well-received for its frankess. “They would say, ‘Why would we want to see our own write about us in print?’”

We hate to sound preachy, but journalism is a public service, especially with the meager wages reporters are making these days.

And for a decent journalist, nothing is more important than their integrity and independence. Both are difficult to develop, especially once they’ve been compromised.

And yet, until someone explains what the heck happened with last month’s column, it looks like the Sentinel’s owners are placing their own ego above all else. If Alden Global Capital is willing to erase their own local reporting, it may be difficult for us to read the Sentinel the same way. JACOB PIERCE

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At first blush, a Santa Cruz Sentinel column that mentioned the paper being owned by hedge fund Alden Global Capital looked bold and edgy.

Wait ... did our local daily just throw shade at the big boss?

When you think about it, though, it makes perfect sense.

Sure, in her touching Editor’s Notebook piece profiling outgoing Editor Don Miller, the paper’s Managing Editor Kara Meyberg Guzman did touch on the uncomfortable topic. And yet, what made the mention surprisingly refreshing was the way she approached it—with a sense of optimism and acceptance.

“Many blame the hedge fund’s financial greed for gutting its newspapers’ budgets and staff, but Miller said that’s not the whole picture,” Guzman wrote, breaking down the recent history of ownership. “The newspaper chain the Sentinel belongs to had gone

through a bankruptcy prior to the sale, and the hedge fund had to bail out MediaNews Group.”

We’re well into the 21st century, and everyone already knows that big corporations own most daily newspapers. It’s a fact of life, one that leaves some of America’s oldest institutions teetering somewhere between a local community’s public interest and the profitsucking objectives of CEOs or their henchmen. So, counterintuitively, one could posit that the idea of plainly referring to the Sentinel’s ownership actually sounds like a surefire way to establish some credibility and win some of that allimportant community’s trust.

The Watsonville-based radio station KPIG appears to understand this. They’ve been talking frankly about their ownership for years.

“We’re doing what we do. And they’re to do what they do, which is get their money,” says DJ John

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to one’s full potential.” The group’s runners believe that competitors must develop mind, body, and soul in order to achieve arete.

The idea of an all-women’s team for experienced and intermediate runners is a new one. Wright says the current national atmosphere—with sexual harassment grabbing headlines—may have fueled interest in building and seeking community.

Women on the team who must run in the dark of early mornings to fit it into their schedules always run in a group of five or six and feel safer in the streets together.

Wright and McConville, both 32, each bring their own unique perspectives to the club.

Wright, a certified running coach, is an expert in training, conditioning, and running techniques, whereas McConville is more plugged into the running community and trends.

More than 60 members competed in the recent California International Marathon held in Sacramento, with all top 10 Arete members finishing in under three hours and 20 minutes, a 7:37-per-mile pace. Included in that group was 62-year-old Karen Kunz from the Sacramento chapter, who set an age-group course record of 3:15:06. Becky Lavelle, 43, a former reserve on the U.S. Olympic triathlon

team, ran a time of 2:56:55. That puts her within 12 minutes of the qualifying standard for the Olympic Trials.

Certain club members who’ve reluctantly moved away have since started Arete teams in other locations. Other supporters found the club online, mostly through Instagram, and there are now chapters in Santa Barbara, Oakland, Sacramento, and Chico.

Arete, which just surpassed 200 members, is having its Santa Cruz Season Launch Party this Saturday. Wright and McConville are up front about the club not being right for any rank beginner. “Must be able to run six miles continuously” is the requirement listed on the website, and there are race time levels, “Open,” “Intermediate” and “Advanced” for athletes to aspire to.

The joy of that aspiration is right there in the group’s name.

“It’s just the idea of making improvements in all aspects of your life,” McConville says, “while, still feeling grateful for where you are.”

Arete Women’s Running Club is holding its 2018 season launch party at 8 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 3, at New Brighton Middle School. There will be a fun run, complimentary coffee, brunch, physical therapy, and an info session. For more information, visit runarete.com.

on track and trace [laws].”

During 2016’s open season of registration, 760 applicants paid the $500 fee to register. In retrospect, many could have held on to that payment. As of print time, around 80 requests for letters of authorization, which show good standing with the county—a required accompaniment for temporary state license applications—had been filed, according to Bolster-Grant.

“It’s an extremely small number.

I would have expected close to a thousand, if everybody who is truly involved in commercial cannabis production was trying to obtain the state license,” says Dan Peterson, who resigned after nine months from his position as cannabis licensing manager in June of 2017, citing ethical reasons.

“I felt that it was a disservice, and unethical to be accepting money from people for their applications to get a license, and additional monies to have their cultivation sites inspected as a pre-licensing inspection, when we didn’t even know what the rules were or how they could come into compliance,” says Peterson of his reasons for leaving. “When I started to do the digging, because my job was to figure out how these people were supposed to become compliant and then help them become compliant, I quickly realized it couldn’t be done.”

Bolster-Grant notes that many of the initial 760 registrants were speculative—attorneys throwing their hats into the ring and never following through, for instance.

Only about 150 continued the process and opened a Cannabis Business Tax—a prerequisite for seeking a state license made public in November of 2016. But the narrowed pool of potential licensed cannabis businesses could also signify that people are pulling up stakes and moving their cultivation or manufacturing businesses out of county, quitting entirely, or hanging back until the 11th hour to see if they can comply with the ordinance.

Small mom-and-pop businesses may also still be working to raise enough money to request their letters of good standing, which require county fees of $2,500 for a pre-licensing

inspection, as well as $800 for each letter—with manufacturers who also cultivate paying that fee twice.

The county says that it’s cleared up a permitting snafu that sent licenseseekers, including its 14 dispensaries, back and forth between the planning department, which would not issue a permit without a license, and the licensing department, which would not issue a license without a building permit, but other disincentives exist in the draft ordinance that may make it hard for anyone not on ag land to pull a license.

“I think that there are a lot of obstacles for the folks in some of the more remote areas, and fire regulations could be one of those things,” says Bolster-Grant, “but if you look at the state regulations and what they are requiring in terms of energy conservation, water conservation, a whole host of other things, those things in combination with what we already have on the books about environmental protection will certainly make it difficult or not feasible for folks in the mountains.”

She adds that the authorization requests came from all areas of the county, and will be considered on a parcel-by-parcel basis. Totaling around 40,000 square feet, the pending plots average about 2,000 square feet and range from 540-square-foot specialty grows to large South County parcels of 20,000 or 30,000 square feet, including two family farms in the cut flower industry.

“The [ag] farmers may not be perfect stewards of the environment or with pesticides, but they at least know how to be regulated, and how to file the necessary applications, pesticide use, water use. It gives them an advantage, and there is less of a learning curve,” says Bolster-Grant.

Most problematic is a Factory Industrial, or F-1 fire code, which was addressed in public comments to the EIR. The code, which includes manufacturing of airplanes, electric generation plants and hemp-fiber products, does not apply to any other rural greenhouses or agricultural buildings in the county; California Fire Code groups wineries, orchards and other small farms in rural residential areas under Group U. It requires a holding tank of 120,000

NEWS gallons of water and a 20-foot access road—a dealbreaker for many in the mountains because, “You can’t build a 20 foot access road because you’re in timberland area which is regulated by Cal Fire and you can’t remove trees,” says Peterson.

“For those folks that can’t make a go with it, the regulations are just too onerous, we are looking at what are the alternatives, and how do we establish a pathway,” says BolsterGrant. “We have learned from this industry that they are very creative.”

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One such creative idea brewing among the industry is to write a ballot initiative, something advocacy group Association for Standardized Cannabis is actively discussing. The initiative’s goals would be to lower taxes and straighten out the process to allow a thriving economy— especially if the ordinance adopted by the county makes compliance infeasible for many. The general public is advised to speak with local dispensary owners for information on how to support such an initiative.

GreenTrade is focusing on elevating the Santa Cruz brand and appellation—a crucial move, says board member Christopher Carr, if Santa Cruz wants to survive in competition with large corporate grows in Salinas, Monterey and Humboldt. Carr has received his county letter of good standing for Grateful Gardens—a 5,000-squarefoot garden on a family farm in the mountains—and is awaiting state approval.

“There are many bigger operators around the county—guys and girls, families, that are still holding out, and I’m hoping that if I can do this as a small farmer, and set the precedent and continue to try to educate and shed light, I would hope that our leaders can get behind that effort in good faith too,” says Carr.

Carr says the next action will be ensuring that Santa Cruz has a voice in Sacramento, to find a way to reduce the state’s 15 percent excise tax. At a local level, says Carr, “We just want to use what’s available to get things done—it’s a democracy, Santa Cruz can figure this out, Santa Cruz can organize.”

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fter months of renovations, Motion Pacific Dance Studio welcomed hundreds of excited visitors on Jan. 17, 1998. They were asked to leave their shoes at the door, and a few pairs quickly turned into a mountain of hundreds of shoes. Those who couldn’t get in overflowed into the parking lot or peered in through the window.

“We had no idea how much interest it had generated,” Motion Pacific co-founder Molly Heaster said of the new studio. “When we had our grand opening, we had over 700 people show up. It was crazy. I was hiding in the office. We thought, ‘Oh god, our brand new sprung Canadian maple floors—we should have people not wear their shoes!’ It was unbelievable.”

Before opening, the building needed new bathrooms, showers and ceilings. Perhaps the most memorable renovation, Heaster says, was installing fire sprinklers, since it involved an entirely new waterline installation that spanned across the street.

“The city made us pay for it,” she remembers. “It was $17,000, and every time I pass that section I feel like that’s my waterline.”

Twenty years, two locations and a new waterline later, Motion Pacific has bloomed into much more than just a dance studio. It’s a community space. The studio offers more than 1,500 dance classes annually and more than 20 dance workshops while hosting annual events like Santa Cruz Dance Week, the Stockings Cabaret, the Incubator Project and the max10 performance laboratory to bring the community together around dance and dialogue.

After the All The Right Moves dance studio unexpectedly closed in the mid-’90s, many local dancers and performers were without work and a place to practice. Together, Heaster, Carmela Woll and Greg Favor opened Motion Pacific to fill the creative hole and provide a permanent place to embrace dance of all kinds, for all ages.

Motion Pacific has always been a dance melting pot. Even early on, the ambitious class schedule listed ballet, belly dancing, tap, jazz and, of course, hip-hop and breakdancing. Motion Pacific’s original building, now the Sherwin Williams paint store, was right next door to the Santa Cruz Dance Gallery—today known as the 418 Project. Together, Motion Pacific and the 418 were like a downtown dance hub, each establishing a rich legacy of dance and arts in Santa Cruz.

“Dance has the potential to push us to go deeper. It can provide us an opportunity to cultivate community engagement, self-reflection and expression, compassion and human connection,” says current Motion Pacific Director Abra Allan. “I believe that people feel that potential when they are in the studio, or in the street for Dance Week, and that’s what 18> attracts people to Motion Pacific and keeps people coming back.”

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DROPPING THE BOOM Motion Pacific was the foundation for much of the breakdancing and hip-hop movement in the ’90s.

Local dancer and Motion Pacific instructor Gary Kendell founded the Boom Squad, a dance group made up of seven members (including Woll and Heaster) learning hip-hop and synchronized breakdancing— something not at all common at the time, especially for girls.

“People understand hip-hop now as independent from what they did at that time,” Heaster says. “Back then, hip-hop was associated with a lot of negativity, and gangster rap. People would say, ‘Isn’t it promoting guns and violence?’ And we would say no, there’s a lot more to it than that.”

The Boom Squad performed around the Bay Area, frequently holding shows in Santa Cruz. They were wildly popular and won awards for their performances. Kendell left Motion Pacific and the Boom Squad a couple of years after it opened and went on to create the Jabbawockeez dance group before passing away in 2007. Many of the Boom Squad members went on to own their own studios, including David Bortnick, owner of Santa Cruz’s Pacific Arts Complex, and Ryan Curren, who owns Truckee Dance Factory.

True to the nature of Motion

Pacific, Heaster says that there was also an educational and community aspect. There were often multiple other dance groups along with the Boom Squad, and Heaster recalls there being 13 different groups at one point, and members would often be part of more than one.

She and other dancers would go to local schools, homeless children and women’s shelters and recovery centers to teach hip-hop and dance.

“One school we went to, there were weeks of parent protests and concerns and letters before we even got there,” Heaster recalls of the controversy around hiphop in the late ’90s. “We went in and there were more parents and administrators in the room than there were children.”

Heaster says people were often surprised to learn about the positive message of their project.

“When we started the studio, we wanted a place to be able to dance, and I didn’t feel that hip-hop needed to be in a separate studio the way it had been,” Heaster says. “You’d find hip-hop classes in fitness studios and gyms, it wasn’t considered an art in the dance community. Now people understand that there are foundations just like in ballet and flamenco.”

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THE BUNHEADS AND THE BREAKERS But Motion Pacific was founded as more than just a hip-hop dance studio. Heaster herself had been trained as a tap and ballet dancer, too, and the dozen or so teachers she hired came from various dance backgrounds and specialties.

“I remember sitting in the first staff meeting and looking around the circle and being so impressed with the teachers and faculty they had,” says longtime ballet teacher, studio manager and Motion Pacific board member Rebecca Blair. “There were hip-hop, yoga, fitness, tap, jazz, and ballet teachers. It was a full plate, they had a huge plan to have everything at this one studio and they were really pursuing that.”

She explained that not many places offered strong teachers and classes across a broad range of dance at that time. It was new to have one place with everything from a high level of ballet and technical street dance to fitness classes for all ages.

“Molly and Carmela said their dream was that the bunheads and the breakers would warm up together in the same lobby, and it happened,” Blair recalls. “Within a couple weeks, I’m in a lobby with people that I otherwise had no access to know.

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Motion Pacific quickly gained a high profile locally for the neo-burlesque Stockings Holiday Cabaret and the Santa Cruz Dance Week parade events where hundreds of dancers and spectators dance in the streets of downtown Santa Cruz. When Heaster was still the owner of Motion Pacific, she says the company was best known for its annual anniversary shows every January. Renowned artists came out for these shows, like Blanche Brown’s Afro-Haitian group, Christy Hernandez’s tap dance group, and Ballet Folklórico de México.

Motion Pacific dancers would also participate in holiday parades and dance at the start of the AIDS Walk each year, where they would wake

and warm up participants on chilly mornings.

With community roots in mind, the studio has amped up its approach to inclusivity and giving back, especially to young choreographers and performers.

Within the last five years, the newest introductions of the Incubator Project and max10 performances have given dancers and artists the opportunity to push the envelope and experiment outside of their comfort zone.

“That’s really a lot of what we have been spending our time doing since,” Allan says. “Building and sustaining a thriving educational program while building as much presenting opportunity for our artists locally and regionally as we can.”

The Incubator Project is a biannual residency program that caters to new and emerging choreographers and gives early stage dancers the opportunity and support to create a large-scale professional show over several months.

“The Incubator Project enabled me to further develop ideas that I had and put them into practice in ways that I didn’t know where possible,” says former Motion Pacific dancer and teacher Eli Weinberg, who was also one of the first people selected for the Incubator Project when it began.

“I didn’t quite understand how to be making work in the community outside of that educational school setting, so there was a lot of learning about how you make performance work in the real world. That was really profound, to have that kind of support coming out of college.”

Weinberg’s show, “This Land is My Land,” involved at least six months of work integrating music, theater and dance into an hour-long historically based show that drew hundreds.

“I found this woven community at Motion Pacific, and it didn’t feel like you were necessarily sacrificing any other opportunities or spaces to be there,” Weinberg says. “I had a rich history of people who were investing in dance-making and teaching over a long period of time, and it almost felt like you were a step in a larger

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generation of what was going on.”

Around the same time, Motion Pacific adopted max10, a series of 10 short, 10-minute shows aimed at experimental new work. The “performance laboratory” idea was created in Venice, California by local choreographers David King and Cid Pearlman and brought to Santa Cruz, where the triannual show is wildly popular.

“These are opportunities for people to come and express their Santa Cruzness, express themselves, and do that with the support and connection to the larger audience and community,” says Cabrillo College Dance Department Chair and former Motion Pacific board member David King. This is the type of show, he says, that makes Motion Pacific such a unique gem within Santa Cruz.

“There has never been a time when there has been a greater need, and recognition of what’s different about dance and physicality,” King says. “We live in a swipe right/left world, but when we are face-to-face and in the room sweating together, it’s a very different way, a much richer way, of being with each other than through screens.”

CHANGING HANDS Under the stress of annual rent increases, the start of the recession, and a decrease in class enrollment, Motion Pacific moved to the Arts Center on Center Street in 2008.

Now the Actors’ Theatre location, it was the only place Heaster could find at the time. It was comparably much smaller and didn’t have a sprung floor. It was a temporary solution to their problems, but Motion Pacific lost some teachers and students because of it.

After the move, Heaster was the last of the three co-founders to bow out. She didn’t want the studio to close after 11 years, so she made a short list of people she trusted.

Allan remembers getting a call from Heaster out of the blue, asking if she would take over Motion Pacific.

“I had no idea Molly was thinking about letting it go,” Allan says. “It was a pretty quick yes for me—it wasn’t on the phone call that I said yes; in my head I was like, ‘No, you cannot say yes immediately when somebody asks that.’”

Allan took over Motion Pacific as the owner and director in the fall

of 2009. She made getting out of the temporary space an immediate priority, and began searching for new locations. After looking at a couple of other downtown spots, the current 4,000-square-foot space (originally a Yellow Cab storage building) in The Mill became available. Framed by auto body shops and car dealers, the industrial area and proximity to downtown was a perfect place to relocate.

“It was a monster project,” Allan says. “Start with the idea of what people say about a kitchen remodel and multiply it by 100.”

The new facility opened just over a year later in the spring of 2011. Allan also moved to have the company become a nonprofit organization, allowing for more contributed income and restructuring the organization of Motion Pacific to include a board of directors. The studio was able to operate previously under a fiscal sponsorship umbrella of Dancers Group San Francisco, though nonprofit status has since allowed them to move into their own fiscal support system.

Along with the financial shift, Allan envisioned the studio as a more performance based elements, since she says there was a definite lack of dance performances in town.

“Once we were at this facility, it became about starting to build and present programming,” Allan says.

“There was a lot of discussions with my advisory board about presenting programs that supported artists at every level of their development, both people that had never performed and people that had been performing for decades.”

residency and relocated to begin a professional career.

“Of course our job is to incubate and support artists wherever they decide to go, and really the end game is to support artists to live and work here locally in Santa Cruz,” she says.

“The cost of living is something that is discussed constantly.”

Though Santa Cruz is an expensive place to live, it’s also recognized as a creative hub of the Bay Area. Motion Pacific has always been a valuable resource for UCSC and Cabrillo dancers, since the performance options are more limited in college.

Between Motion Pacific, the 418 Project, the Tannery and much more, Santa Cruz is an attractive creative destination, if you can afford it.

“We aren’t interested in just presenting dance,” Allan says. “We want the impact to be bigger.”

For more information about Motion Pacific, visit their website at motionpacific.com.

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me, like breathing air. I’d been exposed to it for so long that it was only a question of developing my own work. And I also enjoyed good health and good fortune.”

Admitting that he wanted to develop “some singular, expressive work,” Joachim early on turned away from figurative painting and began experimenting with precise, geometric abstractions himself.

Starting with Mondrianesque grids of black and white, he began to explore more expressive angles and shapes with vibrant color accents. And those led to the largescale, richly colored pieces he has exhibited recently at the Blitzer Gallery.

“In painting geometric abstractions, I emphasize the universal elements of shape, design, color, and space relationships that are free from the limitations of realistic subject matter,” he explains. As he leads me through his personal gallery and studio space, Joachim admits to aiming for something of a Platonic ideal of pure shape, “to explore the underlying geometry of nature, the beauty of pure physics.”

His large abstracts display the extreme discipline required to adhere to non-representational images. Think Mondrian and Kandinsky and you’ll have some idea of the rigorous color shapes Joachim explores, especially in his more recent circular panels. “Who knew that Home Depot would have these plywood rounds,” he says with a grin, as he points to recent studies, done—as is all of his work—in

brilliant acrylic paint. Diagonals of yellow pierce slow curves of purple, white and black. “These need a very large wall,” he says, pointing to a lofty double triptych in black and white. “I envision a very large conclusion as I work, similar to a mural. I’m experimenting all the time—enjoying seeing where I can push abstraction.”

Joachim works solely in acrylics.

“They’re fast-drying, and for geometric abstraction, that’s important. I can achieve perfect, flat volumes and edges. No uneven shading, that would interfere with the harmony. The volumes must be smooth and precise.” Plus, he says, “acrylic paint cleans up well.”

Confined by the size of his studio, he has designed large artworks made of many panels, “focusing on the whole.” The modular design allows him to create manageably sized pieces that ultimately fit together into monumental artworks with metaphysical themes, such as the Creation, space, and the universe.

“You can’t ever capture the Absolute,” he says, “but you can begin to approach visual insights that apply universally.”

Transfixed by the ocean just outside his double Dutch front door, Joachim is nothing if not persistent.

“I’m willing to keep experimenting to create something original, and not let myself be distressed by individual failures,” he says.

Coming out West for law school, Joachim stayed and built his family, and now a satisfying art practice.

“Art and nature are powerful connections,” he says, “and this is a beautiful place.”

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here’s no shortage of dark and dreary songs in the canon of early American music. Tales of lost love, death, sickness, war, and despair run through roots genres, including bluegrass, blues, gospel and folk music.

Ryan Boldt grew up listening to these songs, soaking in the depth, beauty, sadness and hope inside them. Songwriter and frontman for Deep Dark Woods, an alternative country band from Saskatoon, in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, Boldt was raised Mennonite. One of his core musical influences was his grandparents, who were in a group that performed country gospel music.

Though the songs he listened to tackled hard topics, Boldt doesn’t see them as being dark. Rather, he says, they provide an honest glimpse into people’s lives.

“It was just the way people wrote back then,” Boldt says. “Singing songs was a way to feel better, and a lot of the things people were singing about were their mother dying or their loved ones passing away. I don’t consider it darker, it’s just something people did.”

Boldt embraces that same tradition of tackling life’s hardships through song. His appreciation for early American traditional music started early and has only grown

since his teen years, when he started writing in that style. In addition to folk music, he’s influenced by gospel, sacred harp singing, Anglican hymns and “that sort of thing.”

Boldt’s understanding of vintage roots is immediately apparent in his music. The Deep Dark Woods—which formed in 2005 and recently released its sixth album,Yarrow—embodies the timelessness of folk and roots traditions while infusing them with electric guitar, drums and a rugged, rock ’n’ roll flair. In a foundation of traditional styles, he finds an authenticity and structure.

Boldt’s appreciation of things crafted and real extends to his

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hobbies outside of music, as well.

He is a stonemason and enthusiastic gardener, and is, as he explains, “obsessed with curing meat.”

“I grew up eating a lot of that sort of thing,” he says. “I became interested in how it was made and figured it out on my own. Now I just do it myself rather than buying meat at the supermarket.”

Boldt takes the same approach to writing songs as he does to any of his other crafts: learn how something is done and where it came from before you start doing it yourself. A self-acknowledged history buff, he’s interested in world history, the history of cooking and music history—including how to structure a song. He sees a clear connection between his hands-on hobbies and his music.

“I think it’s really important when you’re creating something to know how it’s made before you make it on your own,” he says.

For Boldt, songwriting is no different.

“You have to know how it works,” he says. “It’s like any other trade— you need to know how to lay bricks before you lay them.”

On Yarrow, Boldt puts his understanding of song structure and music traditions to good use.

The album is a quiet standout of the contemporary roots and alt-country landscape. It blends classic country, early rock grooves à la Roy Orbison, a Nick Cave-like moodiness, and a grungy folk sound infused with gothic macabre.

The album sees Boldt telling tales of murder, prison, floods, sickness, loss and heartache over reverby guitar. His smooth, crooning vocals seem to echo through from another time. It’s familiar territory for the artist, who admits he doesn’t know if he could sing happy songs—even while he doesn’t see his music as being dark.

“Even if the subject is about dying or losing someone, there’s never hopelessness in the songs,” he says.

“There’s always a bit of hope in the songs I sing.”

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WATSONVILLE WETLANDS RESTORATION The Watsonville Wetlands are some of the largest and most abundant wetlands.

They’re home to more than 220 species of birds, and countless other animals.

Unfortunately, more than 90 percent of California’s wetlands have been destroyed or degraded. Every fourth Saturday presents a chance to pitch in for ours, with seasonal restoration work and time for birdwatching. Sturdy shoes, shade and reusable water bottles are recommended. All ages, no experience necessary.

INFO: 9 a.m.-noon. Saturday, Jan. 27. The Fitz Wetlands Educational Resource Center. 500 Harkins Slough Road, Watsonville. 728-4106. watsonvillewetlandswatch.org. Free.

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MARYJO KOCH AND THE ART OF SCIENTIFIC ILLUSTRATION Maryjo Koch doesn’t overlook the little things. When it comes to painting birds nests and honeybees, every little twig and hair matters.

With acute attention to detail and precision, Koch is one of the world’s most accomplished naturalist painters around. Her hyperrealistic specimens are often found in the Santa Cruz Mountains, where Koch works. She has illustrated 18 books, and her work has been featured across the globe.

INFO: Wednesday, Jan. 24-Friday, March 16. Opening reception Wednesday, Jan. 24, 4-7 p.m.

UCSC’s Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, 11 Cowell Service Road, Santa Cruz. 459-2953. cowell.ucsc.edu/ smith-gallery. Free.

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WEDNESDAY 1/24 ARTS 8 TENS @ 8 SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL The 23rd annual 10-minute play festival is one of the most anticipated and popular events of the theater season in Santa Cruz. Always a sell-out, so get your tickets early. Sixteen awarded short plays, from Actors’ Theatre’s annual international playwriting contest, are performed and directed by some of the best talents the Santa Cruz theater community has to offer. 8-10 p.m. Center Stage Theater, 1001 Center St., Santa Cruz. $45/$26.

CASE ART CLUB CASE stands for Creative, Artistic, Scientific, Expressive. A new monthly class for kids ages 6-10. Come craft with Anna and learn about the relationship between art and science. The goal is to involve kids in art using their own creativity.

Parents are welcome to observe and learn but the art is for the kids. 2 p.m. Scotts Valley Library, 251 Kings Village Road, Scotts Valley.

427-7700. Free.

JEWEL THEATRE PRESENTS: ‘SILENT SKY’ Based on the true story and science of early 20th century female “computers” at Harvard Observatory, astonishing discoveries await Henrietta Leavitt as she maps distant stars in galaxies beyond our own. But this brilliant, headstrong pioneer must struggle for recognition in the man’s world of turn-of-the-century astronomy. 7:30 p.m. The Colligan Theater, 1010 River St., Santa Cruz. jeweltheatre.net. $48/$42/$26.

EVER CURIOUS: MARYJO KOCH AND THE ART OF SCIENTIFIC ILLUSTRATION The Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of work by Maryjo Koch.

As an artist, Koch combines a precise rendering of detail with elements of whimsy, speaking to a reverence and wonder for the natural world that is rooted in close observation. 4 p.m.

Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, UCSC Cowell College, Santa Cruz. 459-2953. Free.

FOOD & WINE TRIVIA NIGHT Trivia night at 99 bottles. 21 and up. 8 p.m. 110 Walnut Ave., Santa Cruz.

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FRIDAY 1/26-SUNDAY 1/28 ‘URINETOWN’ THE MUSICAL Urinetown is a critically acclaimed Broadway classic about, er, a town that doesn’t have private toilets. In an attempt to regulate water consumption, Urinetown has outlawed the use of private facilities, and people must use public, pay-per-use amenities owned and operated by Urine Good Company, a malevolent corporation run by the corrupt Caldwell B. Cladwell. Will Urinetown’s residents be ever be free to pee? There’s only one way to find out.

INFO: Shows at 2 and 7 p.m. Hawks’ Nest Theater at Mount Madonna School, 491 Summit Road, Mount Madonna. 408-847-2717. mmsurinetown.bpt.me. $16 adults, $11 18 and under.

DOWNTOWN SANTA CRUZ FARMERS MARKET In addition to a large variety of farm products, this market offers a great selection of local artisan foodstuffs, delicious baked goods, and lots of options for lunch and dinner. 1:30 p.m. Cedar and Lincoln streets, Santa Cruz. 454-0566.

WOODSTOCK’S SC PINT NIGHT When life hands you beer specials … drink up!

If you’re searching for the best sudsy social scene in Santa Cruz, look no further than Woodstock’s Pizza. 9 p.m.-Midnight.

Woodstock’s Pizza, 710 Front St., Santa Cruz. woodstockscruz.com/events. Free.

HEALTH B12 HAPPY HOUR Come and get your Happy Hour B12 shot. Your body needs B12 to create energy and is not well absorbed from the diet or in capsule form. Everyone can benefit from a B12 shot. After B12 injections many patients feel a natural boost in energy. 3-6 p.m. Santa Cruz >28

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Questions that matter: Freedom & race JanuaRy 30 / 7pM KUUmBwa Jazz Center $15/PerSon

the relationship between freedom and race vexes us in the age of trump and the wake of Charlottesville.

Join Dean of humanities tyler Stovall and history of art and visual Culture Professor Jennifer gonzalez in this important public dialogue.

The Right to REOpening ReceptiOn JanuaRy 25 / 6–9pM UC Santa CrUz Digital artS reSearCh Center (DarC) Free aDmiSSion

artists whose work asks how we (re)establish agency over our identities. “the right to rewrite” investigates textual self-identity, and “the right to reconstruct” explores physical identity online. through February 12.

JanuaRy 25 & 26 UC Santa CrUz KreSge town hall Free aDmiSSion

internationally renowned native american environmental activist winona laDuke on grassroots strategies to mitigate global climate change, and how we move ahead. the next economy conference features talks and panels with experts on business as a force for good.

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Drop-in Figure Drawing for the Community

learn about “Planets, inside and out” at a happy hour with games, quizzes, and swag! Bring your curiosity, questions, and love for space.

JanuaRy 10–MaRch 14 WedneSdayS / 7–9 pM BaSKin viSUal artS Center / rm l-101 Free aDmiSSion

34th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation Celebrate the life of Dr. martin luther King Jr. with Kimberle Crenshaw, professor of law, speaking on “harriet’s legacy: navigating intersectionality in the age of trump.”

County Spelling Bee

local artist maryjo Koch combines a precise rendering of detail with elements of whimsy, speaking to a reverence and wonder for the natural world.

Santa Cruz County office of education hosts the elementary and Junior high County Spelling Bee Competition at UC Santa Cruz.

a presentation by renowned photographer Frans lanting and his partner, Chris eckstrom, about the wonders of wild africa.

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Ever Curious: Maryjo Koch and the Art of Scientific Illustration thROugh MaRch 16 UC Santa CrUz eloiSe PiCKarD Smith gallery Free aDmiSSion

JanuaRy 27 / all day UC Santa CrUz ClaSSroom Unit 1 & 2 Free aDmiSSion

JanuaRy 27 / 3pM & 7pM rio theatre $20–$45/PerSon

enjoy drawing at your own pace with a live model and classroom monitor. there is no formal lesson; dry media only.

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get your fruit tree questions answered by the experts at this free Q&a session.

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Spoken/Unspoken: Forms of Resistance exhibitiOn Opening FebRuaRy 8 UC Santa CrUz SeSnon gallery Free aDmiSSion

a collection of artists and activists engaged with forms of resistance. artists include Self help graphics, ruth-marion Baruch, laura Kina, the guerrilla girls, hung liu, yolanda lopez, yoko ono, Jo hanson, and others. through march 17.

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Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour 2018 FebRuaRy 23

Maitra Lecture: Nirupama Menon Rao

on Diplomacy and the Feminist voice MaRch 7

Climate Policy Lecture MaRch 2–11 / 7:30pM / Sun 3pM

A Raisin in the Sun apRil 27–29

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Have your organization join our 2018 Adopt-A-Levee Program 

Every year, dedicated groups commit to caring for San Lorenzo River in the City of Santa Cruz. We call these stewardship heroes Adopt-A-Levee Groups.

What Adopt-A-Levee Groups Do

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• Adopt one section of San Lorenzo River in the City of Santa Cruz • Host 3 river levee cleanups in 2018 • Remove trash and debris from river levee • Prevent plastic from entering the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary and improve habitat for wildlife!

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This program is funded by the City of Santa Cruz Clean River, Beaches and Ocean Fund

SATURDAY 1/27 LAURA HECOX DAY Honor the Museum of Natural History’s founder with a day of activities, including tidepooling and a beach clean-up. Hecox was the first Santa Cruz lightkeeper and a naturalist who shared her profound love of the environment and marine life with the world through her curated exhibits. Before passing away in 1916, Hecox donated her collections to the city; they became part of the Santa Cruz’s first public museum.

Celebrate Hecox’s legacy while enjoying the beauty of our own rocky coast. Layers, comfortable shoes and reusable water bottles are recommended.

INFO: Beach cleanup 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Seabright Beach, intersection of East Cliff Drive and Mott Ave., Santa Cruz. To register contact volunteer@santacruzmuseum.org. Free.

Guided tidepooling 1-2:30 p.m. 511 41st Ave., Santa Cruz. Pre-registration is required, register online at santacruzmuseum.org/public-programs. $10 general admission, $5 members, children free.

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MUSIC OPEN MIC NIGHT Open Mic Night every Wednesday in Capitola Village. Join us at the new Cork and Fork Capitola. All are welcome.

Always free, always fun. Awesome wines by the glass or bottle, Discretion beer on tap, handmade pizzas and great small-plate dishes. 7 p.m. Cork and Fork, 312 Capitola Ave., Capitola. corkandforkcapitola.com. Free.

VOLUNTEER SANCTUARY STEWARDS VOLUNTEER TRAINING Want to join our dedicated team of ocean lovers? Become a Sanctuary Steward.

Sign up below and attend all four training sessions to volunteer with us. Whether it’s beach cleanups, community outreach, data entry, or educational programming, the Save Our Shores Stewards program has something for you. 5:30-7 p.m. The Coastal Watershed Council, 345 Lake Ave., Santa >30 Cruz. saveourshores.org. Free.

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BRIDAL REGISTRY Annieglass (831) 761-2041 annieglass.com

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Santa Cruz and the Monterey Bay area offer some of the most unique wedding venues in the world. Whether you picture yourself barefoot on the beach, in a traditional dress at a local church, or dancing under the redwoods, there are hundreds of options to fit your style and budget.

The 2018 Bridal Expo brings more than 75 vendors together under one roof to help simplify the process. You’ll see gorgeous bridal fashions, stunning photography, fantastic cakes, and amazing decor. You’ll also get to sample food from top caterers, and meet the talented people who can work their magic for you.

Planning your wedding should be a wonderful adventure, and with the right experts on your team, it will be. Our area is fortunate to have an abundance of creative, skilled professionals excited to share their knowledge and make your life a lot easier.

Register online for $3 off and you’ll be entered to win a romantic weekend getaway valued at over $1000! www.beachboardwalk. com/Bridal-Expo. (Tip: Bring your own return address labels to easily sign up for the many prize drawings.)

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CATERERS Highlights: 90 Vendors, Fashion Shows, Door Prizes including $1,000 getaway Where: Boardwalk’s Cocoanut Grove, 400 Beach St., Santa Cruz

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for an up-close look at the variety of collectible pieces they carry. Dell Williams in downtown Santa Cruz carries the most extensive selection in north county.

A big part of their registry involves connecting with brides who are beginning their Annieglass collection.

“Lots of people have grown up with their parents or grandparents having Annieglass, so they know the name, but it’s not until their wedding that they get their first piece themselves,” Sadie Phillips, Annieglass marketing manager says.

Additionally, the Watsonville location offers a variety of event spaces ready to accommodate the gathering needs of a bridal party. There is a wine and craft beer bar (all local) that may be followed with a tour of the Annieglass studio, as well as private event spaces, and the new Craftbar features classes in glass, ceramics, metals, textiles and more.

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hen it comes to setting up a bridal registry, you want to have a variety of options for your guests depending on their financial situation, closeness to you, and your own needs. Aunt Deb will be happy to get you the Swiffer Wetjet from Target, but your sister knows what you’ve really been eyeing: your own pieces of Annieglass.

The Annieglass registry online provides a look at the most popular items including the iconic Roman Antique and Ruffle glass center and serving pieces, sold at Bloomingdale’s, Neiman Marcus, and 300 independent retailers around the country.

Annieglass is a unique registry option for the Santa Cruz wedding because the company began here in 1983. For the couple who likes to shop locally, a set of dishes or a serving platter may be the perfect gift. The Watsonville store allows

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A Wedding Affair to Remember at the County Clerk’s Office

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eddings can be expensive and time consuming. If you are overwhelmed with all of the important decisions and feel like you are spinning like a princess in your dream dress or a prince in your dream tux wondering how to create the ideal experience for your special day, you can stop.

Once the dizziness settles, head over to the County Clerk booth (Table M) at the Bridal Expo where you can simplify the ceremony portion of the wedding, freeing up your budget for a memorable reception or honeymoon.

For only $100 plus a $92 marriage license fee, the County Clerk, Gail Pellerin, or one of her deputies, will officiate your ceremony with a considerable amount of care. In similar civil ceremonies, such as at City Hall in San Francisco, couples are unable to provide their own vows, but the Santa Cruz County Clerk’s office doesn’t have that restriction. Pellerin and each of the five County Clerk’s assistants have vows that they prefer, but they’re also open to vows provided by the couple.

Also unlike San Francisco’s City

Hall, which limits attendees to six, our County Clerk’s office welcomes up to 20 people. For larger parties, they have been known to take the ceremony outside to the park behind the office located at 701 Ocean Street.

There are a number of ways the experience can be made unique. For example, the informal setting allows for a wider range of non-traditional attire. “It runs the gamut,” Crystal Bertheau, Assistant County Clerk says. “Sometimes they bring flowers, sometimes they’re dressed in white, sometimes they’re dressed in Star

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Photographers are welcome, but often clerk employees take charge of the couple’s smart phone, and snap photos of the event.

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ou’ve probably had cake at a wedding or two, but what about pie? Beckmann’s Bakery is on a mission to make their delicious pies a popular contender in the wedding dessert category.

Beckmann’s has only recently gotten into the wedding game, and last year was the first year they attended the Bridal Expo. “Over the past few years we’ve seen an increase in people ordering pies for their weddings because they want some sort of alternative dessert,” Kristen Tatroe says. Since attending last year’s Expo, they jumped from two to three events per year to over twenty last year.

Tatroe says most people know of Beckmann’s pies through the farmers markets and that’s where orders are often placed. “Our couples really like that we are non-GMO and all natural.

We use an all-butter crust and are careful about how we source our ingredients,” she says.

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the stand-alone dessert, but some couples also select Beckmann’s cookies and pumpkin breads for dessert bars. Pastries on the morning of the wedding are a reliable way to get those much needed carbs for the long day ahead!

“They turn to us because what you get at the farmers markets and grocery stores is what our couples get. It’s an affordable option and a first-class experience,” Tatroe says.

Their rum-laced pecan pie and classic pumpkin pie won first place at the National Pie Championships, so there will be no guessing as to the flavor and quality of the dessert you’ll serve if you choose the unconventional pie route with Beckmann’s. For an average wedding of 100 people, they recommend 13-15 pies. Orders of ten or more get a 10 percent discount.

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The beer comes out ice cold and guests can serve themselves with an easy pull of the handle.

As an event space, the taproom or beer garden can accommodate up to 40 guests. Wedding parties work with the taproom manager, Tamara Kleinman, to set up pre-wedding events including rehearsal dinners and planning meetings that are best had over an organic, local beer or two.

“Santa Cruz is such a beautiful place to get married, so we definitely have brides from not just in-town, but couples who are choosing Santa Cruz as a place to get married,” Brooks says. Whether they are working with Bargetto’s bridal package, or looking to the brewery as their sole beverage provider, the party is offered a complimentary tasting so they can select a beer that will fit best with their guest’s tastes.

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e bet you know about Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing’s taproom and beer garden on the Westside as a place to gather before or after a wedding, but did you know that you can bring Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing to your party?

Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing has partnered with Bargetto Winery for the past few years, as part of their bridal package program for brides and grooms who are looking for local craft beer options to provide for their guests. “It’s great to be a part of the community in that way,” Katie Brooks, the brewery’s events manager says. Like other local breweries, all of their beers are available by the pint, in growlers, and in 5- and 15-gallon kegs.

Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing sets itself apart from other breweries, according to co-owner Chad Brill, in providing jockey box rentals, which are perfect for event spaces where a bartender isn’t pouring drinks for

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While their collection covers a range of styles, from modern to vintage, their rustic farm wood pieces, many of them handmade by John in a “labor of love,” as Laura calls it, serve as the foundation for creating the romantic-yet-homey vibe that dominates the wedding landscape, for good reason.

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Chandeliers, lanterns, string lighting, and candelabras are essential elements for an event that takes place in the afternoon or evening hours, and View Point has a wide range to select from. “Whatever the bride wants, we have it,” Laura says.

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ARTS ‘PHREN-Z’ LITERARY MAGAZINE READING Join phren-z literary magazine as we present our Winter 2018, Issue 22 live reading at Bookshop Santa Cruz, featuring Jenny Kurzweil, Irene Reti, and Sarah Rabkin.

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CLASSES MOM & BABY CONNECTION Nursing Mothers Counsel and Luma Yoga host a weekly Mom & Baby Connection support group. Every family presents their own unique situations and challenges. This is a time to get together with other moms in a group setting to explore and discuss the tips and tricks of successful breastfeeding, and much more. 1:30-2:30 p.m.

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WEEKLY MEDITATION DRUMMING SESSIONS WITH JIM GREINER ON THURSDAYS IN CAPITOLA Percussionist/ Educator Jim Greiner is conducting weekly Meditation Drumming sessions on Thursdays. Join us for tranquil rhythms to calm your inner rules, release stress, ground yourself, and reinforce positive life rhythms— uplifting patterns of attitude and action. 5-6 p.m. Breath+Oneness, 708 Capitola Ave., Capitola. 462-3786 or breathandoneness. com. Sliding Scale.

FOOD & WINE TRIVIA NIGHT This festive event brings together trivia aficionados, boneheads and the chic geek for a night of boisterous fun.

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ALES 4 TAILS Drink beer! Raise money!

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FOOD & WINE WATSONVILLE FARMERS MARKET This market is in the heart of the famously bountiful Pajaro Valley. Peaceful and family-oriented, the Latino heritage of this community gives this market a “mercado” feel. 2-7 p.m. 200 Main St., Watsonville.

LOCAL BY LOCALS Every Friday we’re filling our halls and hearts with live music as well as creating craft cocktails and pouring local wines and beers. All made locally. Come celebrate the goodness created in Santa Cruz. 3-6 p.m. Hotel Paradox, 611 Ocean St., Santa Cruz. 425-7100 or hotelparadox.com.

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MUSIC SANTA CRUZ SYMPHONY LEAGUE PREVIEW Join the League, Daniel Stewart and soloist Michelle Bradley for a delicious lunch at the California Grill, followed by a discussion and demonstrations of the music being performed at the concerts that weekend. 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. California Grill of Pajaro Valley, 1970 Freedom Blvd., Freedom.

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JEWEL THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS At The Colligan Theater 1010 River Street, Santa Cruz

Silent Sky

Lauren Gunderson

Directed by: Susan Myer Silton Featuring: Michelle Drexler, Marissa Keltie*, Marcia Pizzo*, Diana Torres Koss*, and Aaron Wilton*

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Feb 3 8pm

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Feb 11 Based on the true story and science 7:30pm 8pm 8pm 2pm (Talk-Back) of early 20th century female — Feb 15 Feb 16 Feb 18 Feb 17 Henrietta Leavitt — who maps 7:30pm 8pm 2pm 8pm distant stars in galaxies beyond (Talk-Back) our own. In this exquisite blend of science, history, family ties, and fragile love, a passionate woman must map her own passage through a society determined to keep a woman in her place.

Tickets: Adults $48 / Seniors & Students $42 / Preview $26 all tickets www.JewelTheatre.net (831) 425-7506 *Member, Actors’ Equity Association.

This production is funded, in part, by grants from the following organizations:

“Sure and lyrically expressive” – Boston Globe

JTC voted best theatre company in Santa Cruz!

SILENT SKY is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

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CALENDAR CLASSES WORKSHOP: JUMPSTART YOUR SPRING VEGETABLE GARDEN Take advantage of our mild California Bay Area climate to get your vegetable garden up and productive for the season! Why wait for summer to start harvesting your own healthy, organic produce? Advance registration required.

11 a.m.-4 p.m. Love Apple Farm, 2317 Vine Hill Road, Santa Cruz. 588-3801 or growbetterveggies.com. $89.

MOVIES & MORTALITY You are invited to the first in series of interesting short videos on end-of-life issues, followed by an informal discussion facilitated by members of Natural Deathcare Initiative. Video: Tom Brokaw and physician daughter have a heart-to-heart about what decisions family members make toward end-of-life. 1 p.m. Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz. estateplanningscottsvalley.com. Free.

SATURDAY 1/27 ‘INTO AFRICA’ Are Zebras white with black stripes or black with white stripes? Why do giraffes have blue tongues? And how on Earth did baboons get the best butts? Frans Lanting and Chris Eckstrom might have answers to these and many way more important questions.

Their new presentation “Into Africa” captures the wonders of wild African landscape and wildlife. The lecture is based on Frans Lanting’s landmark photo exhibition of the same name, produced as a partnership with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and the National Geographic Society. Proceeds will benefit the marine science education and conservation programs at the Seymour Marine Discovery Center.

INFO: 3 and 7 p.m. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. 459-3800. seymourcenter.ucsc.edu. $20/$45.

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6:30 p.m. Santa Cruz Mission State Park, 144 School St., Santa Cruz. 429-1840 or thatsmypark.org.

SATURDAY 1/27 ARTS SONGS OF PAST, PRESENT, & FUTURE Richard Wagner’s celebratory and stirring Prelude to his comedic opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg begins our vocally themed program. The story revolves around the city's guild of Meistersinger (Master Singers), an association of amateur poets and musicians who were primarily master craftsmen of various trades. 7:30 p.m. Santa Cruz CIvic Auditorium, 307 Church St., Santa Cruz. 420-5260 or santacruzsymphony.org. $85/$29.

FILMING A STAGED READING OF SCENES FROM A PLAY Descendants of the Imagination, a TV series on Santa Cruz Community TV will hold filmed auditions for a staged reading of two scenes from a play, for a documentary with fiction elements. The play is an absurd coming of age story and characters needed range between the ages of 18 and 40. Reservations required. 1:3-4:30 p.m.325 Soquel Ave., Soquel. santacruz. thesatellitecenters.com. Free.

‘URINETOWN,’ THE MUSICAL Fresh, relevant and provocative: Urinetown onstage at Mount Madonna School, a story with a controversial, edgy message couched in humor. The story is set in a dystopian “near future” where decades of drought have led to water shortages and private toilets are outlawed. 7 p.m. Mount Madonna School, 491 Summit Road, Watsonville.

Mountmadonnaschool.org. $16/$11.

COMMUNITY DAY AT THE SANTA CRUZ CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY Enjoy free admission to the Santa Cruz Children’s Museum of Discovery. Visit Triple P practitioners and First 5 staff at the SCCMOD for a chance to win raffle prizes, get quick parenting tips and tools, and have fun learning and exploring with your children. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Santa Cruz Children’s Museum of Discovery, 1855 41st Ave., Capitola. sccmod.org. Free.

2018 JUMPSTART: HEALTHY EATING WITH EXECUTIVE CHEF KENNY WOODS Join our Executive Chef, Kenny Woods, to kickstart a healthy and delicious year. Chef Woods will demonstrate how to prepare wholesome dishes and share top tips and habits for healthy meals throughout your day. Delight in sampling Chef Kenny’s handmade creations and go home with recipes that you can easily recreate for family, friends and yourself. 4:30 p.m. 1440 Multiversity, 800 Bethany Drive, Scotts Valley. 844-544-1440. $60/$40.

FREE FRUIT TREE Q&A SESSION Join Matthew Sutton, owner of Orchard Keepers, and Orin Martin of the Alan Chadwick Garden for a free talk and Q&A session on fruit trees. 10 a.m.-Noon. The Garden Company, 2218 Mission St., Santa Cruz. 4593240. Orchardkeepers.com. Free.

FOOD & WINE 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, Saturdays, Cabrillo College. montereybayfarmers.org or akeller@ montereybayfarmers.org. Free.

WESTSIDE FARMERS MARKET The Westside Farmers Market takes place every week at the corner of Highway 1 and Western Drive, situated on the northern edge of Santa Cruz’s greenbelt. This market serves the communities of the west-end of Santa Cruz including Bonny Doon, North Coast, UCSC Campus and is a short trip from downtown.

9 a.m.-1 p.m. Mission Street and Western Drive, Santa Cruz. 454-0566.

PEPE 10 YEAR PARTY We're celebrating 10 years with PEPE! Can you believe this guy has been brewing the best organic beer for 10 years? We can. We love him. You love him.

Come and celebrate with us. 7 p.m. Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing, 402 Ingalls St. Suite 27, Santa Cruz. 425-4900.

HEALTH B12 HAPPY HOUR Come and get your Happy Hour B12 shot. Your body needs B12 to create energy and is not well absorbed from the diet or in capsule form. Everyone can benefit from a B12 shot! After B12 injections many patients feel a natural boost in energy. 10 a.m.-Noon.

Santa Cruz Naturopathic Medical Center, 736 Chestnut St., Santa Cruz. 477-1377 or scnmc. com. $29/$17.

MUSIC SOFAR SOUNDS SANTA CRUZ LAUNCH Ever feel like those perfect music moments in your life are too few and far between?

Sofar Sounds is here to bring the magic back. Founded in London and based all over, Sofar Sounds is a global movement that brings intimate musical moments to fruition.

Sofar Sounds shows are at secret venues with secret lineups. Location given to ticket holders the day before the show. 7 p.m.

Downtown Santa Cruz. sofarsounds.com.

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ARTS TAKE AWAYS: ART TO GO This annual invitational exhibit features 62 of the county’s most notable artists. As a fundraising event, these artists are presenting works that fit into many budgets.

In this wildly popular show everyone benefits; you take home fabulous art the day of your purchase, the artists and PVA get their normal commissions, and new art comes into the gallery every day. 2-4 p.m.

Pajaro Valley Arts Council, 3 Sudden St., Watsonville. 768-0457. Free.

PLAY WITH COLOR: FOAM MARBLING Come to the MAH and play with Color! Play with Color is a series of all ages drop in activities where you play and explore with color in different ways. Play with shaving cream and food coloring to create fantastical marbleized designs. 11 a.m. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. santacruzmah.org. Free.

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111 Dakota Ave, Suite 2, Santa Cruz

831.429.1188

TECH TUTORING One of our tech savvy librarians will teach you a variety of technology services during weekly, drop-in 20-minute appointments in January. First come, first served. Topics include: creating an email account, creating word documents, attaching files, using premium subscription library resources, downloading and streaming content like movies, books, and audiobooks, and more. 1:30-3 p.m. Santa Cruz Public Library, 240 Church St., Santa Cruz. Free.

MORNING YOGA Yoga For All Movement will be offering donation based yoga from. All donations will go towards supporting Yoga For All Movement programs and expansion.

Align your body and mind with us. 9:3010:30 a.m. Hotel Paradox, 611 Ocean St., Santa Cruz. 425-7100 or hotelparadox.com.

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CULTIVATING EMOTIONAL BALANCE The Cultivating Emotional Balance training was sparked in 2000 during a meeting between behavioral scientists, a neuroscientist, a monk, a philosopher, and the Dalai Lama, as a new approach to understanding our emotional lives. The Cultivating Emotional Balance training gives participants new tools for working with emotion. A six -part series.

10:45 a.m. Land of Meddicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel. 462-8383 or landofmedicinebuddha.org.

MUSIC STEADY SUNDAZE REGGAE All -ages reggae in Santa Cruz outside on the patio at the Jerk House with DJ Daddy Spleece and DJ Ay Que Linda plus guest DJs in the mix.

1-5 p.m. The Jerk House, 2525 Soquel Drive, Santa Cruz. 316-7575. Free.

VOLUNTEER FAMILY VOLUNTEER EVENT WITH THE SPCA This event will be held at Bookshop Santa Cruz as part of The Compassion Project, inspired by Ann M. Martin’s children’s novel Rain Reign. Like Rose’s love for her dog, Rain, put your compassion into action! Support our local SPCA at a volunteer event to help make toys for animals at the shelter. 4 p.m. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. bookshopsantacruz.com. Free.

MONDAY 1/29 ARTS POETRY OPEN MIC CELEBRATES NEW VENUE A project of the Legendary Collective, the weekly Santa Cruz Word Church poetry open mic is a community of local writers who recognize the power of spoken word.

They gather every Monday for a community writing workshop, then host a 15-slot open mic followed by a different featured poet each week. 4 p.m. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. santacruzmah.org. Free.

CLASSES ADVANCED/BEGINNING BALLET WITH DIANA ROSE Ballet for the beginning adult student with little or no ballet training. Learn ballet terminology and fine tune placement, posture and technique. 6 p.m. International Academy of Dance Santa Cruz. info@ iadance.com. $10.

CHAIR YOGA Suzi Mahler has been teaching chair yoga to all ages and abilities for more than six years. She has developed a unique style that allows each person to access the benefits of yoga without getting on the floor. Her classes are a gentle yet dynamic blend of strength-building movement, breath awareness, with an emphasis on posture, alignment, flexibility and pain management. 9 a.m. Yoga Center Santa Cruz, 429 Front St., Santa Cruz.

423-6719 or suzimahler.com.

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‘SONGS OF THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE’ They say you have to know the past to know the future, and that’s true for music, as well.

Santa Cruz Symphony’s “Songs of the Past, Present, and Future” features works from Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss and Michelle Bradley. After the intermission, Rimsky Korsakov rounds out the evening with “One Thousand and One Nights” inspired by Scheherazade and featuring concertmaster Nigel Armstrong.

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INFO: 7:30-10 p.m. Jan. 27: Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. 307 Church St., Santa Cruz. 420-5260. 2-4:40 p.m. Jan. 28: Henry J. Mello Center for the Performing Arts. 250 East Beach St., Watsonville. SantaCruzTickets.com. $29-$85.

TUESDAY 1/30 CLASSES CHAIR YOGA WITH SUZI Instructor Suzi Mahler, CMT, NE will guide you through a series of gentle seated yoga postures that are performed slowly and with breath awareness. This wonderfully therapeutic

practice will help you increase strength and range of motion. 9:30 a.m. California Grey Bears, 2710 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz.

234-6791. $5.

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LEVEL 2 TRIYOGA CLASS TriYoga for Level 2 with Priya. Strengthen the whole body and free the hips and spine. 5:30-7 p.m. Triyoga Center, 708 Washington St., Santa Cruz. triyoga-santacruz.com. $15.

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FOOD & WINE TACOS AND TRIVIA TUESDAY Did you know we make our own tacos now on Tuesdays?

They are seriously bomb. They won’t break the bank and neither will the 20 oz beer. Don’t be afraid to join us for some trivia either. 4-8 p.m.

New Bohemia Brewing Company, 1030 41st Ave., Santa Cruz. 350-0253 or nubobrew.com.

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Our mission is to end support hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.

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TRIPLE P SEMINAR: THE POWER OF POSITIVE PARENTING Triple P seminars offer general parenting tips that can be used in a wide range of situations. This seminar is the first in a series of three for families with newborns to 12 year olds. You can attend one, two or all three of the seminars in the series.

6-7:30 p.m. Bay View Elementary School, 1231 Bay St., Santa Cruz. 429-3991. Free.

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LOCAL BAND

WHISKEY WEST Last October, just before Whiskey West was about to go on stage at Moe’s Alley, acoustic guitarist/singer Eric Winders was telling upright bassist Devon Pearse about a song about redneck hippies. Pearse responded: “Isn’t that what we are?”

They both laughed, but it’s kind of true. The four-piece band, which also includes Liz Smith on fiddle/vocals, and Steve Tatowicz on drums, plays a mix of traditional bluegrass and outlaw country, but there’s a healthy dash of Santa Cruz hippiedom in their laidback vibe and breezy feel-good sound.

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“We love that thing country music provides—we associate it with the redneck world. Real country music has a beautiful simplicity to it,” Winders says.

“Also, I grew up with the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers. I think that influences us all to a certain degree.”

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Whiskey West formed a couple of years ago, but had a different lineup. The current lineup came together last April, and clicked immediately. Since then, they’ve been gigging and having a good time, playing feel-good country dance music for folks in Santa Cruz. They’ll be releasing their debut EP at their upcoming Catalyst show. It’s got four originals and one traditional song.

“A lot of the music we play is about suffering, vengeance, drinking, and heartbreak,” says Winders. “We try to counter that by putting on a good fun show that will put smiles on people’s faces.” AARON CARNES INFO: 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 27.

Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $8/adv, $10/door. 429-4135.

CONVERGE

WEDNESDAY 1/24 METALCORE

CONVERGE After its peak in the early-to-mid 2000s, “metalcore” has become something of a dirty word. That is, unless you’re talking about Converge.

Since 1990, this Massachusetts band has torn down convention and experimented with the strange to create a fierce sound all their own.

It’s an intricate blend of heavy metal and hardcore punk played in the controlled chaos of jazz theory, and brings together music aficionados from all walks of life. MAT WEIR INFO: 8:30 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $20. 429-4135.

THURSDAY 1/25 FUNK/R&B

NEW ORLEANS SUSPECTS New Orleans is a hotbed of musical styles, including funk, jazz, R&B, soul, brass band and zydeco—and the New Orleans Suspects have a handle on all of them. An all-star outfit

comprising “Mean” Willie Green of the Neville Brothers on drums, Jeff Watkins from the James Brown Band on saxophone, Jake Eckert of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band on guitar and vocals, CR Gruver of Polytoxic on keyboards and vocals, and Eric Vogel of the Nigel Hall Band on bass guitar, the Suspects play high-energy songs full of life, Crescent City soul and irresistible grooves. CJ INFO: 8:30 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $15/adv, $20/ door. 479-1854.

FRIDAY 1/26 INDIE-JAZZ

TOMMY GUERRERO MEETS MATTSON 2 In 2003, former pro skater Tommy Guerrero had an unexpected hit with his third solo album Soul Food Taqueria. It’s a sample-based, chilled out collection of easy guitar melodies and laid-back beats. Guerrero spent the next 15 years creating equally experimental music veering into distinct territories like Latin, jazz, and alt-rock, while generally staying in

the downtempo vibe. He’s teaming up with L.A. Jazz duo Mattson 2 to create some new, entirely interesting music.

Considering that the duo worked with Toro y Moi’s Chaz Bundick last year to deliver a phenomenal record, hopes are high that this collab with Guerrero will blow a few minds. AC INFO: 9 p.m. Michael’s on Main, 2591 S. Main St., Soquel. $25. 479-9777.

SOUL

ORGONE California soul band Orgone has a sound that pulls from ’60s and ’70s funk and groove styles, but the group adds a 21st century flair by infusing hip-hop and electronic elements.

Hailing from Los Angeles, the eightpiece formed in the late-’90s and performed as a backing band for hip-hop groups. It made a splash on the pop music scene with a cover of “Funky Nassau” by the Beginning and the End. These days, the band takes center stage with an infectious blend of deep funk, Latin jazz, Afro-beat and blues originals, as well as a healthy dose of classic soul covers. CJ INFO: 9 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $20/adv, $25/door. 479-1854.

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KATIE THIROUX TRIO

ROCK

MICHAEL NESMITH

INFO: 9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $20-$75. 429-4135.

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SUNWATCHERS

HIP-HOP

Music is a healing force. This is the credo of experimental New York group Sunwatchers. And considering how unhinged and dissonant the music is, you have to wonder a little about what they are healing if the antidote is songs by a wailing-saxophone-led avant-rock band. Seeing themselves less as overt political commentators, they see the surreal, hard-edged instrumental music they play as an alternative form of communication, one that doesn’t rely on the trickery of words. AC

JOYNER LUCAS

INFO: 9 p.m. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $8. 429-6994.

INFO: 8:30 p.m. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $48.92/gen, $69.52/ gold. 423-8209.

SATURDAY 1/27 For three years, Joyner Lucas has been solidifying his name in the hip-hop world. With the “Ross Capicchioni” track off his 2015 mixtape, Along Came Joyner, he bewildered critics and fans alike.

How many other artists can say their track made legendary lyricist Busta Rhymes exclaim that he was

Thiroux is a triple threat, a rapidly rising bassist, composer and vocalist who’s earned distinction in all three pursuits. Her second album, 2017’s Off Beat, made several Top 10 lists, and she’s been growing by leaps and bounds as an accompanist with the likes of reed virtuoso Ken Peplowski and pianists Helen Sung, Tamir Hendelman and Eric Reed. ANDREW GILBERT INFO: 7 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $22/adv, $27/door. 427-2227.

TUESDAY 1/30 CELTIC

JIM MALCOLM

KATIE THIROUX

Dubbed the “ultimate Scots troubadour,” Jim Malcolm travels the world performing traditional and reworked Scottish ballads and folk songs, as well as his own original music. A master of his craft, Malcolm is a renowned vocalist, and an impressive fingerpicking guitarist and harmonica player. On Tuesday, Malcolm performs at a house concert in Soquel.

The concert is presented by the Celtic Society of the Monterey Bay. CJ

A Los Angeles native with deep ties to the Monterey Bay area, Katie

INFO: 7:30 p.m. House concert, Soquel. $20.

Information: celticsociety.org. 464- 9778.

MONDAY 1/29 JAZZ

INFO: 9 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 10. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $25/adv, $30/door. 479-1854.

WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz. com/giveaways before 11 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 1 to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to the show.

IN THE QUEUE BLUE SUMMIT

Bluegrass and Americana featuring AJ Lee. Thursday at Michael’s on Main PONCHO SANCHEZ

Latin jazz legend. Thursday at Kuumbwa IRATION

Hawaiian Reggae by-way-of Isla Vista.

Thursday and Friday at Catalyst EDGE OF THE WEST

Local cosmic honky-tonk outfit.

Friday at Don Quixote’s ERIC JOHNSON

Platinum-selling guitar wiz and multi-instrumentalist. Tuesday at Rio Theatre

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Remember the Monkees, that ’60s band that was made for TV, that didn’t write their own songs, and didn’t even play their own instruments? That was the how the Monkees started, anyway. Eventually, the band took over songwriting duties, and showed that they weren’t just four pretty faces. Michael Nesmith was an extremely talented member of the group, having penned the hit “Mary, Mary,” among others. AC

so amazed, “I can’t even put it into words”? MW

Reggae and dancehall artist Junior Reid was frontman and lead vocalist for the legendary Jamaican group Black Uhuru for three albums, Brutal, Positive and Black Uhuru Live in New York. He’s also the vocalist behind the song “It’s Okay (One Blood),” a worldwide reggae anthem reminding listeners that wherever we come from, humans are all of one blood.

On Feb. 10, Reid makes a much anticipated return to Moe’s Alley, along with his One Blood Band band.

The evening includes performances by his sons Yung JR and Juju Reid.

Also on the bill: Woven Roots and DJ Spleece. CAT JOHNSON

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Wednesday January 24th 8:30pm $7/10 Funk & Soul Double Bill

DIRTY REVIVAL + SAL’S GREENHOUSE Thursday January 25th 8:30pm $15/20

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Saturday January 27th 9pm $20/25 All Star Band Debuts Moe’s

THE ROCK COLLECTION W/ MELVIN SEALS, STU ALLEN, LEBO, GREG ANTON & JP MCLEAN Sunday January 28th 4pm $20/25 Afternoon Blues Series

TOMMY CASTRO Thursday February 1st 8pm $12/15

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Al Frisby 6-8p

Kid Andersen & John “Blues” Boyd 6-8p

James Murrary 6-8p

Minor Thirds Trio 6:30-9:30p

Lloyd Whitely 1p Jeffrey Halford 6-8p

Rob Vye 6-8p

Virgil Thrasher & Blind Rick 6-8p

Mojo Mix 6-8p

Minor Thirds Trio 7-10p

BLUE LAGOON 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Supernaut, Oort Cloud, Praying, Time Panther $5 9p

Comedy Night, 80s Night, Safety Dance Free 8:30p

Sleep Huffer, Law Abiding Citizens & more 9p

Roast, KOOK $7 9p

The Box (Goth Night) 9p

THE BLUE LOUNGE 529 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz

Unplugged: Movie Night 9p

Free Pool

Karaoke with Ed Greene 9p

Karaoke with Ed Greene 9p

Comedy Night 9p

Free Pool

The Eldorado Blues Band 8:30p

BOARDWALK BOWL 115 Cliff St, Santa Cruz

Karaoke 8p-Close

Karaoke 8p-Close

Cake by the Ocean 9p-12:15a

Karaoke 6p-Close

Karaoke 6p-Close

Karaoke 6p-Close

Karaoke 8p-Close

BOCCI’S CELLAR 140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz

Nomad Free 8p

Karaoke Free 8p

Swing Dance $5 5:30p West of Nashville & more Free 8p

Light Free 8p

SC Jazz Society Free 3:30p

Free Pool 8p

Comedy w/ Shwa Free 8p

BRITANNIA ARMS 110 Monterey Ave, Capitola

Alex Lucero & friends 8-11p

Karaoke 9-12:30a

Karaoke 9-12:30a

CATALYST 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Iration 7p

Iration 7p

Dizzy Wright $20-$75 8p

Mild High Club $15 8:30p

Two Feet $12/$15 8p

Willy Tea Taylor $8/$10 8p

CATALYST ATRIUM 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Converge $20 8p

Stephen Sams, Jesse Williams & more 9p

The Octopus Project $10/$12 8:30p

Grateful Dead Dance Party

CRYPTICAL

w/ Dave Hebert (JGB) & Sunshine Becker (Furthur) Friday February 2nd 9pm $9/12 Soul & Funk Dance Party

ROYAL JELLY JIVE + MIDTOWN SOCIAL Saturday February 3rd 9pm $9/12 Latin Dance Party With

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Feb 6th LA CUNETA SON MACHIN + SALT PETAL Feb 8th FAYUCA Feb 9th BROKEN ENGLISH Feb 10th JUNIOR REID Feb 11th CHRIS CAIN (afternoon) Feb 11th SCOTT PEMBERTON (eve) Feb 15th DAVID LUNING BAND Feb 16th THE BLASTERS Feb 17th BRAZILIAN CARNAVAL Feb 21st 1 GRASS 2 GRASS, CASCADE CRESCENDO, BLUE SUMMIT Feb 23rd NOMALAKADOJA, SOULWISE, BURNT Feb 25th MELVIN SEALS & JGB Feb 27th WHITNEY ROSE + WHISKEY WEST Mar 1st WATER TOWER + AUSTIN SHAW Mar 2nd ZACH DEPUTY Mar 4th CURTIS SALGADO Mar 17th PREZIDENT BROWN + CHEZIDEK Mar 24th LOS AMIGOS INVISIBLES Mar 25th DELLA MAE

WWW.MOESALLEY.COM 1535 Commercial Way Santa Cruz 831.479.1854

OPEN LATE EVERY NIGHT! thursday 1/25

DREAMCATCHER DJ DANCE NIGHT! Show 9pm $2 Door

friday 1/26

DAN TOO w / SWEET CHARIOT

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

saturday 1/27 KZSC PRESENTS:

SUNWATCHERS w / BEAT TAPE w / YOSHREDYO

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

sunday 1/28

THE DEEP DARK WOODS Advance Tickets at www.ticketweb.com

Doors 8:30pm/Show 9pm $12 adv $15 door

TUESday 1/30

7 COME 11 Show 9pm $5 Door

wednesday 1/31

PRETTIEST EYES w / MANORLADY w / RETURN TO NAGOYA

doors 8:30pm/Show 9pm $8 door MIDTOWN SANTA CRUZ 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz

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LIVE MUSIC WED

1/24

CAVA CAPITOLA WINE BAR 115 San Jose Ave, Capitola

1/25

FRI

1/26

John Michael Free 6:30-9:30p

CILANTROS 1934 Main St, Watsonville

Hippo Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

CORK AND FORK 312 Capitola Ave, Capitola

Open Mic Free 7-10p

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

THU

Hot Club Pacific $3 7:30p

SAT

1/27

SUN

1/28

MON

1/29

TUE

1/30

Kip Allert Free 2-5p KPIG Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

Madrigal & Strange Free 7-10p Dreamcatcher DJ Dance Dan Too, Sweet Chariot Night $2 9p $8 9p

Sunwatchers, Beat Tape, yoshredyo $8 9p

The Deep Dark Woods $12/$15 9p

Rose & the Honeysuckers FishHook $5 8:30p $7 9:30p

Extra Large $7 9:30p

Live Comedy $7 9p

Ugly Beauty Free 6-9p

DON QUIXOTE’S 6275 Hwy 9, Felton

Erica Lee Sunshine Free 6-9p

1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS!

KATIE THIROUX TRIO WITH JUSTIN KAUFLIN & MATT WITEK An up-and-coming triple-threat talent: bassist, vocalist and bandleader extraordinaire.

QUESTIONS THAT MATTER: FREEDOM AND RACE Info: ucsc.edu

Roadhouse Karaoke Free 8p Karaoke 10:30p-1:30a

Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band $32/$37 7 & 9p

YOUTH RESOURCE BANK BENEFIT FEAT. RAINBOW GIRLS & THRIVE CHOIR Tickets: 831-689-9609

Tuesday, January 30 • 6 pm

AJ Lee & Blue Summit Free 8p

HINDQUARTER BAR & GRILLE 303 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

Saturday, January 27 • 7 pm

Monday, January 29 • 7 pm

Nite Creepers Free 8p Flingo Free 7:30p

PONCHO SANCHEZ LATIN JAZZ BAND A masterful ensemble led by one of the great congueros of our time.

Funk Night ft.

7 Come 11 $6 9p

Edge of the West $15/$20 8p

THE FISH HOUSE 972 Main St, Watsonville

KUUMBWA 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz

Thursday, January 25 • 7 & 9 pm

Jazz with a Twist Free 6:30-9:30p

DAV. ROADHOUSE 1 Davenport Ave, Davenport

HENFLING’S 9450 Hwy 9, Ben Lomond

Celebrating Creativity Since 1975

Youth Resource Bank Benefit $25-$50 7p

Katie Thiroux Trio $22/$27 7p

Questions That Matter: Freedom & Race $15 6p

Wednesday, January 31 • 7:30 pm

LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO South Africa’s beloved a cappella vocal group; spellbinding and uplifting.

AT THE RIO THEATRE Thursday, February 1 • 7 pm

STEVE SMITH AND VITAL INFORMATION NYC EDITION Led by a legendary drummer and featuring a who’s who of collaborators from throughout his storied career.

Monday, February 5 • 7 pm

PAULA WEST One of the Bay Area’s favorite jazz vocalists.

1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS! Thursday, February 8 • 7 pm

PAT BIANCHI ORGAN TRIO FEAT. PAUL BOLLENBACK Hammond organ trio with guitarist Bollenback.

1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS! Saturday, February 10 • 8 pm

COME FLY WITH ME - THE SONGS OF FRANK SINATRA Tickets: brownpapertickets.com TUCK & PATTI A Valentine’s Day tradition with a beloved guitar/vocal duo.

Thursday, February 15 • 7 pm

OAKLAND > NOLA An all-star ensemble pays homage to two of America’s most musical cities: Oakland and New Orleans.

1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS! Monday, February 19 • 7 pm

JULIAN LAGE TRIO Guitar-led trio inspired by the pre-bop era melding of jazz, country and swing..

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All ages welcome.

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Farm-to-table, non-GMO with 40% Vegan, Vegetarian menu.

Fri Jan 26

Edge of the West

w/Hank & Ella and The Fine Country Band

– Rock n Roll/Americana from Santa Cruz $15 adv./$20 door Dance – ages 21+ 8pm Thu Feb 8

Sun Feb 11

AC/DC Tribute to The Young Brothers

MOE’S ALLEY 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz

Award-Winning Acoustic Guitarist

NEW BOHEMIA BREWERY 1030 41st Ave, Santa Cruz

$15 adv./$15 door Dance – ages 21+ 7:30pm

99 BOTTLES 110 Walnut Ave, Santa Cruz

Thu Feb 15

Front Country

Forging a sound hell bent on merging the musical past with the future

$12 adv./$12 door Dance – ages 21+ 7:30pm

Saqi + KR3TURE + Driftr Live Acoustic + Electronic Dance Music Featuring Live Horns, Guitar and MCs

$12 adv./$15 door Dance – ages 21+ 9:00pm

Pride & Joy

THU

1/25

FRI

1/26

1/27

SUN

1/28

MON

Jazz the Dog Free 5p Tommy Guerrero/ The Mattson 2 $25 9p

China Cats $15 8p

Grateful Sundays Free 5:30p

Al Frisby Free 6p

Lloyd Whitley Free 6p

Coyote Slim Free 1p Gil De Leon Trio Free 6p

Magpies Blues Band Free 6p

The New Orleans Suspects $15/$20 8p

Orgone & the Humidors The Rock Collection $20/$25 8p $20/$25 8p

Tommy Castro & the Painkillers $20/$25 3p

Libation Lab 9:30p-1:30a

Chris Slater 9:30p

Rasta Cruz Reggae Party 9:30p

Matt Masih & the Messengers Free 7p Trivia 8p

SAT

Blue Summit ft. AJ Lee $7/$10 7:30p

1/29

RIO THEATRE 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

1/30

Dore Coller & Friends Free 7:30p Broken Shades Free 6p

Blues Mechanics Free 6p

Hip-Hop w/ DJ Marc 9:30p

The Juncos Free 7p

Alex Lucero 6p

John Michael Band 2p

Alex Lucero Band 2p

Open Mic 4 -7p SC Cider Co. Wassail All Day

Open Mic 8-11p

THE RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz

Tom Russell

TUE

David Jeremy Free 10p-12a

POET & PATRIOT 320 E. Cedar St, Santa Cruz

THE REEF 120 Union St, Santa Cruz

CD Release “Folk Hotel”

Depth! 9:30p-2a

PARADISE BEACH 215 Esplanade, Capitola

Legendary Bay Area R&B Band

$20 adv./$25 door Dance – ages 21+ 8pm Thu Feb 22

Aki Kumar & Little Jonny Duo Free 6p Dirty Revival & Sals Greenhouse $7/$10 8p

MISSION ST. BBQ 1618 Mission St, Santa Cruz

$20 adv./$25 door seated <21 w/parent 7pm

Ed Gerhard – Grammy

1/24

Tan of Dreams $7 7:30p

MOTIV 1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Hot Roux – Louisiana Swamp Rock

Sat Feb 17

WED MICHAEL’S ON MAIN 2591 Main St, Soquel

$15 adv./$15 door ages 21+ 7:30pm

Tues Feb 13

Fri Feb 16

LIVE MUSIC

‘Geeks Who Drink’ Trivia Night 8p Toby Gray & Friends 6:30p

Moshe Vilozny & Friends 6:30p

Traditional Hawaiian Music 6:30p

Featured Acoustic Hits 12:30 & 6:30p

Michael Nesmith & the First National Band $48.92 8:30p

Into Africa $20/$45 3 & 7p

Featured Acoustic Hits 12:30 & 6:30p

Audition Night 6:30p

African Music Adama & Mabanza 6:30p Eric Johnson $35 7:30p

$35 adv./$35 door seated <21 w/parent 7:30pm Fri Feb 23

Sat Feb 24

Langhorne Slim

Presented by (((folkYEAH!))) $15 adv./$18 door Dance – ages 21+ 8pm

The China Cats

Powerhouse Grateful Dead Tribute

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$15 adv./$18 door Dance – ages 21+ 9pm Thu Mar 1

Big Youth

Roots Reggae Sensation, Live and Direct $20 adv./$25 door Dance – ages 21+ 8pm

Sat Mar 3

Foreverland

Electrifying 14-Piece Tribute to Michael Jackson

$25 adv./$25 door Dance – ages 21+ 8pm Tue Mar 6

The Mammals – Carrying on

the work of Pete Seeger & Woody Guthrie

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Thu Mar 8

Altan Traditional Irish Band

Fri Mar 9

Zeppelin Live

Presented with Snazzy Productions $30 adv./$30 door seated <21 w/parent 8pm

The Led Zeppelin Concert Experience

$20 adv./$20 door Dance – ages 21+ 8pm Thu Mar 15

California Kind

Monster Jam Band Featuring Katie Skene, Pete Sears & Barry Sless

$15 adv./$18 door Dance – ages 21+ 8pm COMIN G RIGH T U P

Fri. Mar. 16 Locomotive Breath w/Spun Sat. Mar. 17 Molly’s Revenge Thu. Mar. 22 Mary Gauthier Sat. Mar. 24 Paula Boggs Band Fri. Mar. 30 The Joint Chiefs w/Alex Lucero & Live Again Sat. Mar. 31 Aja Vu/Steelin’ Chicago Wed. Apr. 4 R. Carlos Nakai Thu. Apr. 5 Jack Tempchin Fri. Apr. 6 Grampa’s Chili Sat. Apr. 7 Carolyn Sills Combo Tues. Apr. 24 Black Uhuru Wed. Apr. 25 The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc Thu. Apr. 26 Zepparella Fri. Apr. 27 Mustache Harbor Sat. Apr. 28 The China Cats Tickets Now Online at www.donquixotesmusic.com Rockin'Church Service Every Sunday ELEVATION at 10am-11:15am

Wednesday, January 24 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

CONVERGE

plus SUMAC

Thursday, January 25 • Ages 16+ Friday, January 26 • Ages 16+

Iration

Thursday, January 25 • Ages 16+

MILD HIGH CLUB

plus Jerry Paper

Friday, January 26 • Ages 16+

TWO FEET

plus Absofacto

Saturday, January 27 • Ages 16+

Jan 27 Thunder From Down Under Presented by Valley Comedy 8pm Feb 16 Dave Davies of The Kinks 8pm

DIZZY WRIGHT

Mar 3 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour 2018 7pm

WILLY TEA TAYLOR

Mar 9 Chris Botti 8pm

Saturday, January 27 • Ages 21+ Tuesday, January 30 • Ages 16+

THE OCTOPUS PROJECT Jan 31 Fetty Wap (Ages 16+) Feb 1 Of Mice & Men (Ages 16+) Feb 8 The Expendables (Ages 16+) Feb 9 & 10 Tribal Seeds (Ages 16+) Feb 11 J Boog/ Jesse Royal (Ages 16+) Feb 12 Mike Gordon (Ages 16+) Feb 17 Dr. Octagon (Ages 16+) Feb 18 Mø & Cashmere Cat (Ages 16+) Feb 20 Datsik/ Space Jesus (Ages 18+) Feb 22 Shooter Jennings (Ages 16+) Feb 23 The Frights (Ages 16+) Feb 24 Hari Kondabolu (Ages 16+) Feb 25 Ty Dolla$ign (Ages 16+) Feb 26 Gogol Bordello (Ages 16+) Mar 2 Yung Pinch (Ages 16+) Mar 4 Molotov (Ages 21+) Mar 9 Andre Nickatina (Ages 16+) Mar 11 The Psychedlic Furs (Ages 16+)

Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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Pet events on weekends.

Mar 10 Whose Live Anyway? 8pm Apr 7 Jonny Lang 8pm Apr 8 Arlo Guthrie 8pm Apr 20 Art Garfunkel: In Close-Up 2018 8pm Apr 27 The Wailers 8pm May 11 Rufus Wainwright 8pm May 17 “Weird Al” Yankovic with Special Guest Emo Philips 8pm

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THU

1/25

FRI

1/26

SAT

1/27

SUN

MON

Tsunami 8p-12a

SANDERLINGS 1 Seascape Resort, Aptos

Sambassa w/ Jeff Buenz & more Free 7:30-10:30p

SEABRIGHT BREWERY 519 Seabright, Santa Cruz

Vinnie Johnson Band 6:30p

The Gutz, The Dodges & Get Dead 8p-12a We Three w/ Tammi Brown, & Yuji Tojo Free 7:30-10:30p

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

Don McCaslin & the Amazing Jazz Geezers 6-9:30p

Groovity 7:30-11:30p

Joint Chiefs 8-11:30p

SHADOWBROOK 1750 Wharf Rd, Capitola

Ken Constable 6:30-9:30p

Joe Ferrara 6:30-10p

Claudio Melega 7-10p

SUSHI GARDEN S.V. 5600 Scotts Valley Dr. Scotts Valley

Jeong Hee Lee 5:30p

AJ Lee & Jeese Fichman 5:30p

Toby Gray 5:30p

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Jesse Sabala Open Jam 7-11p

Dave Muldawer 5:30p Chuck Brodsky $20/$23

Open Mic w/ Steven David 5:30p

Puffball Collective 6-9p Ziggy Tarr 6-8p

Willy Bacon 7:30-8:30p

ZELDA’S 203 Esplanade, Capitola

Ziggy Tarr 7-9p

Ziggy Tarr 7-9p

Coast Tribe 9:30p

Soulwise 9:30p

Ziggy Tarr 11a-1p

Wed. Tan of Dreams Jan. 24 Trance-Dense-Eurorock 7:30 $7 adv./$7 door DANCE- AGES 21+ Thu. Blue Summit (feat. A.J. Lee) Jan. 25 Bluegrass, Folk, Americana 7:30 $7 adv./$10 door seated Fri.. Jazz The Dog Jan. 26 HAPPY HOUR 5:00 NO COVER

Sun. Grateful Sunday Jan. 28 Dance to the Dead 5:30 NO COVER DANCE – AGES 21 + Tues. Dore Coller & Friends!

Jan. 30 Steve Palazzo & Annie Steinhardt 7:30 NO COVER

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Lauren Wahl & Simply Put The Ethnic Heritage Ensemble Locomotive Breath The Puffball Collective Grateful Sunday

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FILM

COMING UNRAVELED Daniel Day-Lewis and and Vicky Krieps in Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Phantom Thread.’

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Plot and logic hang by a ‘Phantom Thread’ in Anderson’s latest BY LISA JENSEN

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o one could accuse filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson of a lack of ambition. His new movie Phantom Thread aspires to present an insider’s look at the ritzy, exclusive world of international haute couture, grafted onto a battle-of-the-sexes melodrama about a cranky artiste and his stubborn muse struggling for control of their fractious relationship. There are moments of intrigue and interest—mostly in the pleasure of watching star Daniel Day-Lewis act—but Anderson never manages to stitch all of the pattern pieces into a seamless whole.

Set in London in the postwar

1950s, the story revolves around fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock (Day-Lewis), whose clients include celebrities, royalty, and obscenely wealthy dowagers. An “incurable bachelor” of a certain age, Reynolds is a man of strict routines; the business of the formidable House of Woodcock is handled by his crisply efficient sister Cyril (a terrific Lesley Manville), who maintains the atmosphere of peace and quiet that Reynolds needs to work. Her duties include giving her brother a gentle nudge to move on whenever his current mistress becomes tiresome.

After delivering an important gown to a countess, Reynolds motors

down to his country house for some R&R. In a seaside cafe, he meets fresh-faced, ever-so-charminglygauche Alma (Vicky Krieps) waiting tables. He asks her out to dinner, a bizarre first date that includes him taking her home, stripping her to be fitted for a gown-in-progress, and taking all of her most intimate measurements. Turns out she’s his “perfect shape” (not too busty). Next thing we know, he’s moving her into his London townhouse.

Here, the mechanics of the plot start to get a little hazy; Alma models in his private showroom sometimes, but otherwise, she wanders around in the same

antiseptic white uniform his staff of seamstresses wear. The points by which her position is gradually upgraded to new mistress are ticked off cleanly enough, but we never feel an emotional connection between them. Which becomes a problem when, once she’s ensconced, persnickety Reynolds starts finding fault with everything she does, from consuming her breakfast too noisily to arguing with him about his taste.

The problem with this so-called love story is that we have no idea who Alma is‚ or what she wants, and neither does Anderson. She has a vaguely European accent (Krieps is from Luxembourg), but she’s given no backstory, and apparently has no family or friends, or life of her own.

Compliant at first (almost all she says in her first few scenes is “yes”), she only starts to grow a spine when it’s convenient for Anderson to set her up in opposition to Reynolds’ perfectly ordered world.

Reynolds, of course, has plenty of backstory, from the deceased, adored mother, to whom he still feels spiritually connected, to his habit of sewing secret messages into the lining of his gowns. But beneath his veneer of elegant charm, he’s also vicious and belittling.

Meanwhile, Anderson mines the haute couture milieu to try to keep our attention. There’s tactile pleasure in the way the camera fawns over antique lace and voluptuous fabrics, or noses among the corps of veteran seamstresses hand-sewing an extravagant gown.

(It’s a nice touch that Anderson casts many now-matronly women who actually did sew for the great fashion houses of the ’50s as Reynolds’ seamstresses.)

There are moments of sly, subversive wit, as Reynolds and Alma bait and challenge each other—on the rare occasions when he’s not insulting or demoralizing her (and sometimes when he is).

But we never become invested in these prickly characters, their relationship, or their insular world.

PHANTOM THREAD **1/2 (out of four) With Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville, and Vicky Krieps. Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. A Focus Features release.

Rated R. 129 minutes.

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FILM NEW THIS WEEK HOSTILES Christian Bale plays a U.S. Cavalry captain who escorts a Cheyenne war chief and his family from New Mexico to Montana.

Directed by Scott Cooper. Costarring Rosamund Pike and Wes Studi. (R) 134 minutes. (SP) MAZE RUNNER: THE DEATH CURE I know you’ve been spending an unhealthy amount of time every day wondering “When in the actual hell is that third Maze Runner movie gonna get here? I can’t take all this waiting! Aaaaaaahhhhhhh!”

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by Wes Ball. Starring Rosa Salazar, Dylan O’Brien, and Thomas BrodieSangster. (PG-13) 142 minutes.

(SP) 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.

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12 STRONG Based on Dough Stanton’s nonfiction book Horse Soldiers, this war drama follows a group of soldiers sent to Afghanistan to destabilize the Taliban after 9/11. Guess how many soldiers there are? Wrong!

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Starring Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, Michael Pena, and nine other guys. (R) 130 minutes.

ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD Who doesn’t love a Christmas kidnapping movie? That’s exactly what this latest film from director Ridley Scott is, telling the true story of how billionaire John Paul Getty balked at paying ransom money to the men who kidnapped his grandson in the 1970s. Perversely, it’s gotten a buzz bump from the fact that one of its central performances— Christopher Plummer as the elder Getty—was recast mid-production

after original actor Kevin Spacey was accused of sexual assault, requiring Spacey’s scenes to be reshot. Co-starring Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Williams and Timothy Hutton. (R) 132 minutes. (SP) CALL ME BY YOUR NAME Scripted by the great James Ivory (veteran director of classics like A Room With a View and Howard’s End), from a 2007 novel by Italian-American writer André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name follows the relationship between the 17-year-old son of a globe-trotting academic, and the 24-year-old American grad student hired as his father’s research assistant. Evolving over six weeks of a hot, lazy, Italian summer in 1983, the story explores physical attraction, yearning, and romantic attachment in ways viewers of all sexual orientations can understand. Directed by Luca Guadagnino. Starring Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, and Michael Stuhlbarg. (R) 132 minutes. (LJ) COCO Prepare for kids everywhere to go Day-of-the-Dead crazy with the release of this muchanticipated Pixar film about a boy named Coco whose family secrets and dreams of becoming a musician lead him to the Land of the Dead. Lee Unkrich directs.

Featuring the voices of Benjamin Bratt, Anthony Gonzalez and Gael Garcia Bernal. (PG-13) 109 minutes.

THE COMMUTER Liam Neeson drives too fast on Highway 17, except when it rains and he drives three miles an hour and makes everybody crazy. Well, that’s what he would do if he were a real commuter, but apparently he just plays one in this action movie about a businessman who gets caught up in a criminal conspiracy on his drive home. Don’t forget to check your phone a lot to see how the conspiracy’s going, Liam!

Other drivers love that! Jaume Collet-Serra directs. Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson co-star. (PG-13) 104 minutes.

DARKEST HOUR Just a few years ago, Hollywood trade mags were asking “What’s wrong with Gary Oldman?” after he gave a rambling, profanity-laced interview to Playboy magazine in which he defended Mel Gibson’s anti-semitism and whined about Obama’s supposedly terrible presidency. He then went on the expected apology tour, and here he is playing Winston Churchill in an Oscar-bait World War II movie. Take note, crazy-saying Matt Damon! Luckily, perhaps, avowed libertarian Oldman is unrecognizable in makeup as celebrated reformist Churchill, as director Joe Wright traces the critical decisions Churchill made immediately upon becoming prime minister, ending Britain’s strategy of Nazi appeasement and taking a stand against Hitler. Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Mendelsohn and Lily James co-star. (PG-13) 127 minutes.

DEN OF THIEVES Are there enough C-level action movies in the world to keep Gerard Butler working in Hollywood until he can collect Social Security? Yes, says the new film Den of Thieves! In this one, the best bank robbers in L.A. have to fight the best cops in L.A. That is seriously the plot. I totally thought of this movie when I was 6 years old; the only difference is that I phrased it something like “and then the super-duperpowerful bad men fight the superduper strongest good guys.” Oh, and no one gave me millions of dollars to make it. Directed by Christian Gudegast. Co-starring Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackon, O’Shea Jackson Jr. and Dawn Olivieri. (R) 140 minutes. (SP) THE FINAL YEAR Guess which year of Obama’s presidency this documentary focuses on? Wrong!

The final one. Directed by Greg Barker. Starring a president who was actually fit for office. (NR) 89 minutes.

I, TONYA Craig Gillespie directs this often raucously entertaining fact-based fiction film that purports to be a documentary

detailing the tragi-comic incidents of Tonya Harding's early life and public career. The story is told from a variety of perspectives as the plucky competitor who was the first American woman ever to stick a triple axel in competition evolves into the most reviled woman in the world. Along the way, they generate a surprising amount of sympathy for the human being at the center of all that notoriety. Starring Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney, and Caitlin Carver.

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PADDINGTON 2 People seemed to like the 2014 adaptation of the popular children’s book, so you better believe there’s a sequel! At the center of the story once again is the (mostly) CGI bear, who can talk and live with humans. This time, he gets to solve a mystery— finally, something realistic! I was beginning to feel like bears were being misrepresented by this series. Directed by Paul King.

Starring Ben Whishaw, Hugh Grant and Hugh Bonneville. (PG) 103 minutes.

INSIDIOUS: THE LAST KEY So far, this horror franchise has given us exactly one half of a good movie (the first half of the first film), but it keeps right on rolling along. In fact, the scariest thing about the Insidious films might be keeping the timeline straight. The third film was a prequel to the first film, and now this fourth one is a sequel to the prequel, but still comes before the first two films. It continues (er, continues to set up?) the mythology of “the Further,” which is basically an astral purgatory that unlucky kids keep getting stuck in and needing demonologist Elise Rainier to pull them out of. Directed by Adam Robitel. Starring Lin Shaye, Angus Sampson and Leigh Whannell. (PG-13) 103 minutes.

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PHANTOM THREAD Reviewed this issue. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville, Brian Gleeson and Vicky Krieps. (R) 130 minutes.

LADY BIRD With Lady Bird, writer-director Greta Gerwig delivers a wry but warm-hearted portrait of family, home, and dreams in modern America.

The family in question is not dysfunctional in any clichéd movie comedy way, but Gerwig captures the gulf of potential calamity in the fractious relationship between a high-school senior (Saoirse Ronan) and her loving, but harried mom (Laurie Metcalf). As in most mother-daughter relationships, one false move or the wrong word might set either one of them off as they try to navigate the minefield of what they think or feel, and their ability (or not) to express it.

Odeya Rush and Jake McDorman co-star. (R) 93 minutes.

PITCH PERFECT 3 Considering they won the a capella world championship in Pitch Perfect 2, what is there left for the Bellas to do? According to this movie, go on a USO tour. Trish Sie directs.

Rebel Wilson, Anna Kendrick, Brittany Snow, Anna Camp and John Lithgow co-star. (PG-13) 93 minutes.

THE SHAPE OF WATER You could call it Beauty and the Beast meets The Creature From the Black Lagoon, but that doesn't suggest the profound emotional pull and dramatic resonance of this bewitching new movie from Guillermo del Toro. Sally Hawkins is marvelous as a mute, spinsterish woman mopping floors at a secret, Cold War-era government research facility, who bonds with a captive amphibious man (soulful Doug Jones) — a sentient being capable of intelligence and compassion. In small deft strokes, theirs becomes one of the most compelling, fanciful, and satisfying love stories of the year — in the name of diversity, tolerance, and the right to fall in love with whoever you choose. Del Toro's sheer joy of filmmaking is contagious in this evocative modern fairy-tale.

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ULTIMATE SALAD If you had told me that one of the best salads in town is available every night at one of the top pizzerias in town, I might have questioned your culinary intelligence. But I know better. At Pizzeria Avanti on Mission, the house reigning genius blows us away every visit with special salads of local seasonal ingredients.

Invariably fresh harvests of baby lettuce, dotted with some fruit, avocado, and cheese form the main concept. Last week it got even better when the evening salad featured tender butter lettuces tossed in the outstanding house shallot vinaigrette, dotted with avocados, shaved fennel, bits of mandarin citrus, and shreds of Dungeness crab.

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amed for two third-century Christian martyrs who rubbed the Roman Empire the wrong way, Valentine’s Day is to restaurateurs what Steph Curry is to Under Armour. Smart lovers (an oxymoron, perhaps?) plan ahead for that special Valentine’s dinner. On Feb. 14, smile at your sweetheart from across some of these romantic tables.

Gabriella—now that’s a no-brainer if ever there was one. Everyone feels attractive and flirtatious in these charming rooms, bathed in the glow of Prosecco and something beautiful from the kitchen of chef Gema Cruz. A plate of prosciutto-wrapped

asparagus, or some grilled quail— and whatever you do, do not pass up one of the exciting desserts from pastry chef Krista Pollack.

One of the corner tables at La Posta down on Seabright might be the perfect spot for a Valentine’s dinner tryst. Share a few appetizers, an amusing bottle of Nebbiolo, and one of chef Katherine Stern’s unexpected pastries or gelati to finish.

Over in that South County villagein-progress, better known as Aptos, lovers adore the enduring Cafe Sparrow, whose sheer coziness offers instant romantic vibes. And there are a few choice tables at Shadowbrook that encourage significant eye

contact, such as the one next to the enormous redwood that grows straight through the restaurant.

Or the tiny two-top perched in the stairway alcove of the great stone fireplace dining room. You know the one. Ask for it when placing your reservations, and keep your fingers crossed! Shadowbrook is running a special Valentine’s menu the entire week surrounding the holiday.

The dining room at Hollins House feels like Valentine’s Day all year long, and the menu created by John Paul Lechtenberg will put you in a romantic mood from the first bite. Do not fail to split one of this restaurant’s sensational desserts!

SOQUEL GOLD Congratulations to the winemakers of Soquel Vineyards, whose outstanding Santa Cruz Mountains Pinot Noirs—plus one Chardonnay, all from vintage 2016—took a half dozen Gold Medals at the recent San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition. Two of these wines took Double Golds! the 2016 Soquel Vineyards Pinot Noir from Estate grapes, and another from Partners’ Reserve Lester Family Vineyard. Congratulations to winemakers John Morgan and the Bargetto twins, Peter and Paul.

And to viticulturist extraordinaire Prudy Foxx, the guru of Lester Family Vineyard, among other plots of great grapes, for another award-winning vintage. Cannot wait to taste these wines! Look for these outstanding examples of our Santa Cruz Mountain appellation at your favorite wine emporium, or at the panoramic winery itself on Glen Haven Road, above Soquel. Open for tasting Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. soquelvineyards.com.

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We have a complex week coming up, preparing us for the super blue moon total lunar eclipse on Jan. 31. Lunar eclipses mean the moon’s light/energy is hidden; something in form and matter disappears, it’s work completed. The moon represents our past, that which must be left behind so we can create the new world.

This very same lunar eclipse occurred 19 years ago. Where was everyone, what was occurring, what happened then with each of us? Who remembers?

During this week of preparations, we have Saturn in Capricorn (discipline), Mars entering Sagittarius (we undertake a new journey, the veils hiding the eyes of Lady Justice will continue to drop) and on the full moon day, lunar eclipse. Mercury enters Aquarius, reminding us that we are on the

cusp of the Aquarian Age with its Aquarian laws and principles.

The focus at all full moon times (full moons are timing mechanisms) is the Sun’s light.

The Sun receiving and dispensing information from one of the 12 signs, each sign and information is different each month.

On Jan. 31, the Sun (light) of Aquarius—sign of the new culture and civilization, sign of humanity, and of humanity’s hopes, wishes and dreams—streams into the Earth and her kingdoms. The lunar eclipse informs us that the past is disintegrating, moving deeper into its shadows. And that the future now depends upon our dreams, our visions and our creative imaginations. What is our personal vision?

What is our collective vision? Do we have one?

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You’re exploring profoundly what your right work in the world may be, what you are to do that will serve to uplift our culture and civilization and bring you to the recognition needed so that others follow. Continue your internal inquiry. There are no answers yet, not for months. They depend upon your ability to focus on the questions your heart poses.

These are times of reconciliation, reunions, understanding leading to rapprochement, times of kindness, consideration, and thoughtful and perceptive realizations that each of us (including you) is a character, everyone’s doing their very best and everyone’s on their Path toward a more enlightened way of being. Is there some sort of suffering or sadness in your life at this time? We will pray with you.

Esoteric Astrology as news for week of Jan. 24, 2018

TAURUS Apr21–May21 New ideas, concepts, school, study, traveling, the art of archery, horseback riding or horse husbandry, publishing, and studying ancient philosophies catch your attention. Many recognize your gifts, talents and qualities. You’re called to governance and leadership.

Listening is your best way of understanding what others need. Remain attentive. Philosophical answers will not be heard.

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You’re edgy, agitated, restive, restless with somewhat anxious feelings, including wanting to go anywhere that is not here. However, there’s nowhere to go. The planets are creating a stellium (gathering) of impatience and over-sensitivity. All you can do is visit things from the past, people, events, ideas, work. It’s not easy and there are no quick answers. Who from the past needs to be contacted?

GEMINI May 22–June 20

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20

There is a focus on money held in common with another as well as investments and in this critical time of change and monetary reorientation it’s required to be aware of the world’s finances. The best place is solari.com/ blog for exceptional understanding of the world and our country’s economic situation. One can also become a Solari subscriber. Of all of the financial advisors in the world, this one’s the best. Share this with partners and friends.

Read Gemini first and investigate the Solari website. I suggest a financial investor and information on finances because two major planets (Saturn and Pluto) are influencing your money, finances and resources, seeking to transform how you’ve handled yourself in these areas. Are you generous or challenged to be generous? Do you maintain a budget and balance finances? What are your worries regarding money? Know that you always have enough.

CANCER Jun21–Jul20 Relationships this month will be on your mind—all types, levels of closeness, friendships and intimacies.

It’s good to review how you are in relationships, if you are attentive, caring and sharing. Are you nurturing, generous, and do you ask for help when needed? Add forgiveness (of self and others) to your list of daily tasks. Forgiveness liberates our heart for further love encounters.

LE0 Jul21–Aug22 There is a continual emphasis on your daily occupation and the environments you find yourself in. Something shifts at work, some discipline or rule or structure or timing causing a phase of fine-tuning to occur. During this time, strengthen your support for others, aligning with them. This will ensure your success should you suddenly be in charge of everything and everyone. Blend your Ray 1 (Will) with Ray 2 (Love/Wisdom). Come from the heart.

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SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21

You must begin to loll about a bit, think of a way to create relaxation, pleasure, fun and perhaps a bit of romance (there are many kinds). Plan each week to attend musical or film events, to stroll downtown with friends, to have lunches and dinners, little parties, tête-àtêtes, perhaps a small salon. Art is most important. Who is your favorite (artist, musician, dancer, actor)?

CAPRICORN Dec21–Jan20 Every once in a while, others truly notice Capricorns (the unicorn), offering compliments and praise for jobs well done, for Cap’s help, presence and nurturing. They notice the care taken with how you appear in the world.

You may be asked to lead a function of a group endeavor you’re a part of. You’re the very best for this position.

Radiate goodwill to everyone and remember to recognize those who have courage. You have it.

AQUARIUS Jan21–Feb18 Aquarians continue to be self-focused as they are in a stage of great self-development. An important growing stage. Eventually you will begin to look outward, onto humanity and its needs, noting humanity is suffering.

This is when Aquarians begin to serve. It is time for you— to help others, to see their needs, to offer support and resources, time and money, care and attention. Then you, too, become one who receives.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 It’s important to be part of a group. It’s important to not be isolated. You need a balance of being in retreat and being social. Being social is sometimes difficult.

You sense the depths within others. You see how others serve and how “love underlies the happenings of the times and all events.” Love happens to be the nature of Pisces, too. You may not feel it at times, but love’s surrounding us all the time. Our heavens are made of it.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-2058 The following Individual is doing business as ZEN MEDICAL THERAPY INSTITUTE. 1003 SMITH GRADE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz.

JACQUELINE AMAR SAKAI. 1003 SMITH GRADE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: JACQUELINE AMAR SAKAI. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 3/18/2016.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Dec. 21, 2017. Jan. 3, 10, 17, & 24.

is conducted by a General Partnership signed: RAUL BIANCHI. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Dec. 22, 2017. Jan. 3, 10, 17, 24.

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 February 13, 2018 at 8:30 am, in Department 10 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: Dec. 28, 2017. Denine J. Guy, Judge of the Superior Court. Jan. 10, 17, 24, 31.

AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: MARK EBRAHIMIAN. DMD. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 9/1/1997.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Jan. 3, 2018. Jan. 10, 17, 24, 31.

CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF NOAH RALPH SIDMAN-GALE CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.18CV00075.

THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner NOAH RALPH SIDMAN-GALE has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: NOAH RALPH SIDMAN-GALE to: NOAH GALE. 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 February 26, 2018 at 8:30 am, in Department 10 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. 10, 2018. Denine J. Guy, Judge of the Superior Court. Jan. 17, 24, 31 & Feb. 7.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 18-0075 The following Limited Liability Company is doing business as NOMAD AUDIO. 125 BETHANY DRIVE, SCOTTS VALLEY, CA 95066. County of Santa Cruz. NOMAD AUDIO, LLC. 125 BETHANY DRIVE, SCOTTS VALLEY, CA 95066. AI# 15310324. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company signed: NOMAD AUDIO, LLC. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 5/30/2014.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Jan. 11, 2018. Jan. 24, 31 & Feb. 7, 14.

JENNIFER ANN CIERVO CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.18CV00115. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner JENNIFER ANN CIERVO has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: JENNIFER ANN CIERVO to: JENNIFER ANN. 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 2, 2018 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. 16, 2018.

Denine J. Guy, Judge of the Superior Court.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 17-2072 The following Corporation is doing business as LION CRAFT. 1085 SUMMIT RD., WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. County of Santa Cruz. TEO BROMA GROUP. 1085 SUMMIT RD., WATSONVILLE, CA 95076. Al# 3957319.

This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: RON LION. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 5/1/2017.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Dec. 27, 2017. Jan. 10, 17, 24, 31.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 18-0079 The following Limited Liability Company is doing business as THE CALIFORNIA CURE. 363 OCEAN STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. LICKY LOU'S, LLC. 363 OCEAN STREET, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company signed: LOUIE HUMPHREY. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Jan. 12, 2018. Jan. 24, 31 &

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 18-1998 The following Individual is doing business as ERGOVERA. 34 GRANDVIEW AVE, FELTON, CA 95018.

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This business is conducted by an Individual signed: DEIDRE ROGERS. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 10/14/1998.

This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Jan. 12, 2018. Jan. 24, 31 & Feb. 7, 14.

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CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF ELIAS LOPEZ JR. CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.17CV03298. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner ELIAS LOPEZ JR. has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: ELIAS LOPEZ JR. to: NICOLAS SANTIAGO LOPEZ. 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.

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Occupation: Administrator, UCSC Hobbies: Reading, Traveling Astrological Sign: Pisces Is Shopper’s your go-to-store? Yes. And it’s my preference to support local businesses. I think it’s part of our responsibility — plus Shopper’s is also a great store! Shopper’s is family-owned and they have a stake in the community. Definitely not a corporate feeling here. If there’s a product you want and they don’t carry it, they will try and order it. At the big stores, they either have it or they don’t. I like the size as I can easily navigate the entire market exploring my options. My father had lived in Scotland and I wanted to make him a mincemeat pie. Then one day I spotted mincemeat filling here. I think, ‘Who carries that?’ I was so happy! Shopper’s is fun!

How so? I know it sounds cliche to say but I like the hardwood floors. Shopper’s feel nice and warm and cozy. I know the people, the checkers and baggers — my daughter, Zoe is a bagger, and maybe one day my other daughter, Hannah, here with me, might work at Shopper’s too. It’s great that Shopper’s provides jobs for high-schoolers as they can learn about working and customer service. And you run into so many people and friends here from different circles. My husband has been known to spend more than an hour here shopping and chatting because of the people he knows! They also let local groups do charity drives out front which certainly adds credibility.

What do you like to cook? Ethiopian, Mexican, and a lot of fresh, California-style dishes with minimally processed ingredients. I really love the butcher counter: I feel comfortable buying my meats here.

The butchers are great with the cooking tips, and they’re willing and happy to special cut what you need, like lamb for my lamb stew. Shopper’s spice and cheese selections are excellent, and the alcohol and wine choices are quite impressive, especially for a grocery store. The quality is high while the pricing is very reasonable. Shopper’s has somehow figured out how to carry the best variety of products in a small-ish amount of space.

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