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Indoor Cats Re: “The Catfight Over Santa Cruz’s Backyard� (Cover, June 12): I am writing to ensure there is clear understanding regarding Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter’s (SCCAS) policies and procedures on feral cats. SCCAS is an open admission shelter that accepts all animals brought to its doors. Cats at the shelter that are healthy and friendly can be placed for adoption. Cats that are unsocial or unadoptable are offered to our placement partner organizations, such as Project Purr. SCCAS loans out humane traps for free to residents that wish to trap, neuter, return cats in conjunction with Project Purr or by establishing a colony that adheres to the regulations of the Santa Cruz County ordinance on managing a feral cat colony. These policies are put in place to ensure that

the very basic needs of these cats are met and that someone is responsible for taking care of them. SCCAS also pays for all spay/neuter and vaccinations for cats that are transferred out to Project Purr. However, SCCAS advocates for cats (a domestic non-native species) to be kept indoors for several reasons including health and safety of cats exposed to the hazards of living outdoors, threat posed to the integrity of native wildlife populations and natural ecosystems, public health concerns and nuisance to neighbors and businesses. SCCAS does not believe in the concept of warehousing stray cats outdoors. Through humane education and animal advocacy, it has taken many decades for dogs to become something more than property to be chained to a tree in the backyard and then ignored. We believe that cats deserve the same love and care afforded other types of

pets. Encouraging the idea that it is OK for cats to be outdoors and to be exposed to the dangers they will encounter on the street conveys the message that should you no longer want your cat, release it outside and it will survive on its own, or that possibly someone else will care for it. As long as people promote any form of the idea that cats can be kept outdoors, the public’s opinion toward them will not change. MELANIE SOBEL General Manager, Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter

Do Something Re: “Brand New Bag� (Currents, June 12): TJ didn’t envision TCT [The Clean Team] picking up trash. He highlighted the issue, actually did go out and pick up trash (on the cliffs) and the City did...nothing. The other concerned citizens had two choices. Continue to watch the City do nothing, or do something. So we did, and we do. I for one am not interested in the politics of who administers a Facebook page, though it should be pointed out that TJ has since moved out of state. What is it he would do from Oklahoma to help Santa Cruz? As for Ken Collins, he made a mistake and apologized. Given that Santa Cruz has a rep for giving thieves, junkies and even dealers a second chance, how about the same for someone doing good instead of bad? It should also be pointed out that he used a trash grabber, not “a metal stick,� which sounds like a weapon. A small point, but visualization is key for readers. Simply put, community members who help clean up the community each week should be applauded (as we are each week by drivers, bikers and walkers) instead of local media focusing on ginned up controversies. ERIC ROWLAND Santa Cruz

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THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO VROOM Supervisor John Leopold believes gas prices have a big effect on traffic.

Driving Factors Do gas prices or economic growth have a bigger effect on gridlock? BY JACOB PIERCE

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oe Hall has worked for the City of Santa Cruz since the 1970s. He watched the city double in size to over 60,000 people. He helped it recover from the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. But he never saw the Highway 1 bridge over the San Lorenzo River get built. Hall, who now works part-time as economic development manager since retiring, says the bridge, at 57 years old, is almost as old as he is. It’s one of the oldest in the state’s highway system, in fact, and a pier at the center of the overpass sometimes collects debris during heavy flooding. It didn’t take long for a vote on the future of the bridge at a city council meeting last month to morph into a discussion about what causes

congestion. The plan would add two northbound lanes and one southbound lane to accommodate projections from eight years ago that traffic flows will reach 100,000 daily trips by 2035. But will Santa Cruz ever reach those levels? Some politicians have their doubts. Before the meeting, councilmember Micah Posner had emailed Hall two graphs showing that traffic has gone down steadily across the bridge as traffic volumes have gone down since 2002— from 68,000 daily trips to below 60,000 in 2011—and Posner presented them at the meeting. “This corresponds closely to gas prices,� Posner said of the decline. “When projects go on for this long, I think it behooves us as a community

to step back and say, ‘well, are we really going to have more traffic?’� Posner is skeptical about adding more lanes to a highway if traffic doesn’t demand it. After much discussion, councilmembers unanimously approved further study of a replacement bridge, to the tune of about $11 to $12 million. Before they did, Hall said gas prices affect errands, but not how people get to work. “The prime factor is jobs,� Hall says. “Gas prices probably cut down random trips, but they have to be pretty severe.�

Jobs vs. Gas County Supervisor John Leopold, who

represents Live Oak, isn’t involved with the bridge over the San Lorenzo River, but he says some are overstating the role the economy plays in traffic. “I think that’s a selective reading of the data. The data clearly shows gasoline prices having an effect,� says Leopold, a commissioner for the Regional Transportation Commission. He’s been a vocal critic of the $500 million plan to widen Highway 1 to accommodate increased traffic. Leopold notes that traffic declined at a steady rate from 2005 to 2011, up and down Highway 1, a period when gas prices climbed near $5 a gallon in California for the first time. Hall notes, however, that traffic remained high in years of strong economic growth. “There really are a number of economic factors that play into this,� Hall says. “No doubt: if gas prices went up to $7 or $8 a gallon, you would drop car volume down. But at some point, you’ll reach the point where car volumes reach capacity no matter what because it was designed so long ago.� It is hard to reconcile the many vastly different transportation studies that delve into what causes traffic, or the roles that gas prices in particular and the economy in general play. But expensive gas makes people buy more fuel-efficient cars, says Karena Pushnik, spokesperson for the county’s Regional Transportation Commission. “We do know that external forces, such as the cost of gas, influence people’s mobility patterns. Do they look for cheaper ways to travel? Yes, whether those ways are getting on your bike more or getting a more fuel-efficient car, or walking to the store,� Pushnik says. Hall and RTC engineer Kim Schultz also say high gas prices make people drive more hybrids. Leopold hopes in the coming years the RTC board carefully weighs federal funds that could be either spent on local roads, which are some of the worst in the state, or on highway improvements. Says Leopold: “If we can find a way to balance the interests of the local roads

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PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF A DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT (EIR) AND PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE CITY OF SANTA CRUZ AND SOQUEL CREEK WATER DISTRICT (scwd2) REGIONAL SEAWATER DESALINATION PROJECT The Draft EIR is available for review and comment from May 13, 2013 to July 15, 2013. Copies of the Draft EIR can be viewed at several locations in the Santa Cruz area. For a list of these locations, or for more information about the Draft EIR, visit the project website at www.scwd2desal.org.

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A public hearing will be held to solicit comments on the Draft EIR. The hearing will include an open house and presentation, followed by a public comment period. t Monday, July 1, 2013 at First Congregational Church, 900 High Street,

Santa Cruz: 6:30PM – 9:00PM Please submit written comments on the Draft EIR to: Heidi Luckenbach scwd2 Desalination Program Coordinator City of Santa Cruz, Water Department 212 Locust Street, Suite C Santa Cruz, CA 95060. Email: hluckenbach@cityofsantacruz.com

For more information on the public hearings or to request special accommodations or translation services please contact Melanie Mow Schumacher, Public Outreach Coordinator by telephone at: (831) 475-8501 ext. 153 or by email at: melanies@soquelcreekwater.org

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Where There’s Smoke‌ When it comes to reporting on the dangers of large marijuana farms, the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors beat The New York Times on a scoop. Zach Friend and Bruce McPherson, the board’s two newest supes, submitted a letter at a meeting that suggested reforms on large marijuana farms—citing environmental degradation and law enforcement issues. What a buzzkill, right? But Friend says the study into new regulations isn’t just about busting up parties—ahem, we mean, taking away people’s right to medicine. “This isn’t about individual use or access. This is about the fact that we’ve had significant neighborhood and rural impacts because we’ve had unmitigated and unregulated and unenforced grows,â€? Friend said at the June 18 meeting, where people showed up wearing sunglasses. “We’ve been silent on this issue, and you get to a tipping point very quickly where things get out of hand in a neighborhood and you’re trying to put a genie back in a bottle.â€? Two days later, The New York Times wrote a long news story about what pot grows are doing to California landscapes and redwood forests. In Humboldt County, the main focus of the article, hilltops have been leveled, bulldozers have started landslides and dams are diverting water from salmon whose populations were already decimated by logging— leaving the North Coast residents feeling a little less high on life. Many Humboldt growers also used dangerous rat poisons like D-Con, the no-fun dangers of which the Weekly reported last week. The poisons have killed endangered animals and California fishers—cute, weasellike animals. Humboldt’s County supervisors have taken steps to get D-Con out of stores. Needless to say, pot grows across California have politicians trying to weed through tricky issues. Here in Santa Cruz, the county already has a moratorium on new dispensaries—which expires in

November. In light of confusing court decisions and unclear state and federal law, staff is at work studying what the county’s next homegrown ordinances should be. During public comment, the talk of regulation at the meeting got reformminded folks, like medical marijuana attorney/hero Ben Rice, talking about the benefits for testing crops for potency and chemicals. Friend says—bluntly—that’s out of the scope of what the county can tackle.

Staff is at work studying what the county’s next homegrown ordinances should be. On Principal When leaves at Soquel Union Elementary start turning brown next year, the school will have a new principal. Gerri Fippin, the director of student services from Scotts Valley, will take over at the post. And Henry Castaniada, the district superintendent, is pleased with the fit. “It’s a great match,� he says. “It’s fantastic.� Also on the list of happy Soquel people is parent Denice Barnes, who criticized the school’s bullying policy, as reported by the Weekly, after her son Quentin was targeted by his peers. Barnes says most parents and teachers were happy to see her go. She thinks now-former principal Cata Fitzgerald was pushed into leaving. “The timing of her retirement announcement was way too convenient,� Barnes says. Not so, says Castaniada, adding that Fitzgerald has gotten three principal offers. Fitzgerald did return our emails— hey, there’s a first for everything—with a statement explaining that she’d like to live near to her new grandchild. “I want to be closer to that sweet girl,� Fitzgerald added via email. 0

SCREEN TIME Jennalee Dahlen, an esthetician at Santa Cruz Skin Solutions, at last weekend’s local health expo.

Therein Lies the Rub Sunscreen is crucial, but they’re not all created equal BY MARIA GRUSAUSKAS

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IVING life in the orbit a 4.5 billion-year-old star certainly has its perks, but slacking on protecting ourselves, daily, from this life-giving gaseous mass comes with serious health consequences. Not to mention cosmetic ones. About 90 percent of nonmelanoma skin cancers (and 65 percent of melanomas, the deadliest kind of skin cancer) are associated with exposure to ultraviolet radiation from the sun, reports the Skin Cancer Foundation. And both are on the rise: a recent study in the Archives of Dermatology estimates 3.5 million new cases of nonmelanoma skin cancer annually

in the United States—a 300 percent increase since 1994. Melanoma, caused by unrepaired DNA damage to skin cells, is on the rise, too. Deadly because it often spreads to other parts of the body, the American Cancer Society estimates 120,000 new cases of melanoma in the United States each year. While skin cancer is now the world’s most common cancer, totaling more cases annually than breast, prostate, lung and colon cancers combined, there is a bright side to this story. If caught early enough, both forms are usually curable, and applying Sun Protection Factor of 15 or higher—

every day—has been shown to reduce the likelihood of developing skin cancer. But here’s the catch: “We’re not necessarily being told which [sunscreens] are good for us,� says Jennalee Dahlen, Esthetician at Santa Cruz Skin Solutions. In her serene office on River Street, 30-year-old Dahlen has luminous pale skin, and the glowing radiance of a teenager. She’s obsessed with the body’s largest organ, and quit her corporate job in San Francisco several years ago to pursue her passion for skin. Dahlen confirms what we already suspected:

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“You should be applying sunscreen every single day, even if you’re inside,� says Dahlen. “There’s always those UV rays coming through, even when it’s foggy, even in the evening when we think there are no UV rays. They’re just invisible, you can’t smell them, you can’t see them.� If the cancer facts aren’t sinking in to a still tan-obsessed society, maybe this one will: “Ninety percent of skin aging is caused by the sun. Only 10 percent is true aging,� says Dahlen. If her own skin wasn’t testament enough, a four-year-long Australian study released earlier this month found that a daily dollop of sunscreen resulted in 24 percent less skin aging in a group of 900 adults, ages 25 to 55. But diligence in reading the ingredient list is just as important as slathering up. In the European Union, sunscreen containing .5 percent oxybenzone or higher is required to be labeled as such, but in America, it’s the main chemical in a majority of sunscreens. “Oxybenzone is one of the most harmful chemical ingredients for sunscreens,� says Dahlen. “This creates an increase of free radicals once it hits something that illuminates it, such as sun.� So what’s safe? Avobenzone, when it’s not accompanied by octocrylene, says Dahlen, as well as the good old mineral-based sunscreens containing zinc oxide or titanium dioxide. She recommends Badger, BurnOut, Jason and the Hungarian brand Eminence, and reapplying every two hours. “If a SPF says 50+, there are typically more chemical ingredients and not enough data to support that they protect any more than an SPF 30 would,� says Dahlen. On July 18, at 6:30 p.m., Jennalee Dahlen presents the workshop ‘Shining a light on Sun Protection and Hyperpigmentation’ at 720 River Street. For more information call Santa Cruz Skin Solutions at 831.247.1987.0

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Like a Version With their irreverent and warped approach to the very definition of a cover song, Santa Cruz’s Coffee Zombie Collective brings something new to an unjustly overlooked art form BY AARON CARNES

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hat a cover band does is very simple; they play other musicians’ material. How they do it, though, that’s really the trick. A cover band can include everything from the cheesy bar band that whips through hits of the ’80s to the repro groups that dedicate themselves to sounding, and even looking, exactly like their idols, whose work they seek to carefully reconstitute with every performance. In jazz, covers are an integral part of the music’s heritage, an opportunity to give a classic arrangement one’s personal stamp, and in rock there are groups like Yo La Tengo who put as much craft and creativity into their choice and execution of cover songs as they do into their original material.

Then there’s Santa Cruz’s Coffee Zombie Collective, who are indeed a cover band, but with a very different approach. They look and sound like a ramshackle bluegrass band (with some odd instrument choices, like a trumpet and a ukulele) and they play quite literally anything. Their set list includes Britney Spears, Neutral Milk Hotel, Motorhead, LMFAO, Sir Mix-A-Lot, NOFX, Foster the People and many more. CZC aren’t just a bluegrass cover band—they mangle and twist songs into fun and sometimes barely recognizable shapes. Take their cover of Weezer’s “Undone – The Sweater Song� which clocks in at roughly 10 minutes. After they play about threefourths of the original song in a downtempo bluegrass arrangement (even including a live rendition of the spoken dialogue introductions), the band jumps into a medley that includes “Hunger Strike� by Temple of the Dog, then “Jeremy� by Pearl Jam, then “Barbie Girl�

by Aqua, then a bizarre banjo breakdown where the band chants “Chewbaccca! Solo!� and makes wookie sounds while lead singer Nate Lieby rattles off a bunch of Star Wars facts, all before they hop back into “Undone� to finish the song out. This particular medley, as is the case with a lot of their songs, evolved over time. The last piece of the puzzle so far was the inclusion of “Jeremy� which happened spontaneously when they played a friend’s wedding in Manresa State Beach. Before the performance, someone asked them if they played any Pearl Jam songs. The answer was no. “That stuck in my head as we rolled into the interlude for ‘Sweater,’� says lead singer Nate Lieby. “‘Jeremy’ just fit, and the crowd lit up. It was great. We do it every time, and have added a special group move for the ‘arms raised in a V’ line that cracks people up. Someday, that song will be 45 minutes long,� Lieby says. 13

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TAKE COVER Coffee Zombie Collective are known for particularly twisted takes on their cover versions. But even the “Sweater� medley (or as they call it, the “Swedley�) doesn’t compare to the absurdity of the “George Michael Wind Sprint� which Lieby does at the end of Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire,� just after they start the music for George Michael’s “Faith.� Lieby will hop into the crowd and run a lap around the venue, which—depending on where their show is—could be a really long lap. He then returns to the stage. The band plays “Faith� instrumentally the whole time. Once on back on stage he busts out the first line of “Faith,� and away they go. The first time they did it, it was totally unexpected, even to the rest of the band. “I just booked it, leaving the band to fend for themselves. I did a quick loop out around, and behind the perimeter of the audience, playing the intro riff. People were dying, the band was cracking up,� Lieby says. The “George Michael Wind Sprint� is now a regular part of the show, which has led Lieby into some precarious situations. He’s run through a working kitchen at a wedding, he did a knee slide across a tasting room at Pichetti Winery, and one time even hopped on some unsuspecting guy’s motorcycle (which wasn’t appreciated). “We all have our ska/punk/rock backgrounds, so a lot of that comes

out in the energy. We’re whipped into a frenzy, and drawing everyone there into helping create our unified shout choruses, falsetto barrages and general lunacy. We’re doing crazy people covers,� Lieby says.

Busking Zombies The band started as a fun outlet for Lieby, who had previously been in local ska band Sneaky Creekans and, later, indie-rock band 300 Pounds, and Dustin Di Mauro who was in local reggae-rock band Stone Groove. Besides singing, Lieby also plays the ukulele in Zombie Coffee Collective, and plays a homemade percussion instrument he calls the BoomSlap, while Dustin Di Mauro plays the acoustic guitar. Other friends later joined the band, starting with Nate’s wife, Kristi (banjo), then Dustin’s brother, Joel (mandolin), John Davis (upright bass), Brian Forsse (trumpet) and most recently Sean Ring (violin). They started by busking downtown and playing Famer’s Markets, but have since played shows locally at Kuumbwa, the Poet and the Patriot, the Redwood Mountain Faire, Earth Day and Wharf to Wharf. There have also been lots of parties and weddings, along with some pretty unusual gigs, like the opening of DeWitt Physical Therapy office on Portola,

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and the Santa Cruz Public Library book sale. In most cases, they’ve made no effort to seek out these gigs. For instance, they were approached while playing a farmers market by someone asking them to play Earth Day. Then at Earth Day, someone asked them to play on KPIG. A KPIG DJ then invited them, while on air, to open for Austin Lounge Lizards at Kuumbwa. “I’m not on the horn sending out promo packs to venues or anything like that, none of the drudgery I used to have to do for my ‘real’ bands, or all that schmoozing with bookers. It’s been really awesome,� Lieby says. Earlier this year, they even released a full length album called Streetlight People, which has some of their favorite covers, like “Fight Test� by Flaming Lips, “Sweet Child O’ Mine� by Guns N’ Roses, “Kiss� by Prince and even “Carry On� by the Sneaky Creekans. “I’m constantly amazed at how well things are going for this band and the fact that we’ve been getting these really amazing shows,� Lieby says. There’s even some talk of the band doing some originals, particularly after one show at the Poet and the Patriot, when an audience member shouted out a request for them to play an original. “I have never once in my musical career heard someone scream, ‘play an original.’ It’s always, ‘play something I know,’� Lieby says. Not everyone in the band is convinced that doing originals is a good idea. Di Mauro, for instance, is having fun with the overwhelming reception Coffee Zombie Collective is getting with covers. “People love what we’re doing. I don’t want to waste time writing music, because I’ve been there and done that. Let’s just keep this train going,� Dustin says.

Under the Covers As entertaining as Coffee Zombie Collective are, Lieby is weary of being labeled just a “fun� band, because it downplays the hard work the band puts into their songs, and the creativity behind them. “When you hear a band being described as fun, it’s like a girl you’re going on a blind date with being described as having a nice

personality,� Lieby says. “Without sounding pompous, it’s a very honest band. Half the stuff that gets people laughing, I’m pulling on Dustin every practice anyway. We’re putting on a show, but it’s all of us out there. A black metal band, I’m pretty sure those guys don’t walk around in their black metal gear all day long. People get that we’re enjoying what we’re doing.� When looking over Coffee Zombie Collective’s vast range of material, it’s hard to find a common thread to their cover choices. The idea has always been to play songs that excite people—that they’ll want to sing along to, even if they don’t know they want to sing along to them. Some artists, like Britney Spears, are the type of performers that a lot of the audience would say they hate, yet out of context of the pop ridiculousness that surrounds them, her songs can actually be pretty good. For whatever reason, when Coffee Zombie Collective plays “Hit Me Baby One More Time,� it suddenly seems okay for even hardened hipsters to enjoy the song, and sing it at the top of their lungs. “Everyone knows these songs for a reason. It’s not ’cause it’s a terrible song. Everyone knows it ’cause it was a great song. Maybe the reason you hated it was because it got popular, and you heard it every 30 seconds,� Lieby says. Their cover that is both the best example of that guilty pleasure, and one that has the biggest shock value, is LMFAO’s “Sexy and I Know it,� which all started one day when Ring came over to Lieby’s house and showed him and Kristi their music videos. “LMFAO was completely off my old-guy/dad radar,� says Lieby. “I’ve always been a huge fan of B-Boys, popping, locking, you name it, and their videos were filled to the brim with guys and gals just crushing it. So their videos instantly had me interested, not to mention staggered by their hit counts on YouTube. How did I miss this one?� Ring, Lieby and Kristi started holding unofficial “CZC Dance Crew� practices after their actual band practice for weeks, learning the dance moves in LMFAO’s videos. Of course, talk quickly turned to Coffee Zombie Collective covering one of their songs. They settled on “Sexy and I Know It� because it was more vocal-focused—

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Soul of the Song The process of transcribing songs into their set obviously isn’t about the authenticity. The band will often not even listen to the song they’re thinking about covering, but start trying to figure it out based on their hazy recollection of the song. They liken it karaoke, where you’ll hop on stage convinced you know the song, but you forget all the little details, instead adding your own new ones. “We play it how we remember it first, then we listen to the song and we’re like, ‘Oh, that’s way different.’ We’re defining the soul of the song first,� Lieby says. Though it’s hard to pinpoint when a song is ready to put in a show, they will sometimes work on a song for months before it feels right. One of the toughest songs for them to work out was Foster the People’s “Pumped Up Kicks.� “‘Pumped Up Kicks’ is pretty downtempo, whispery tune, so when we first started trying to fit it into our configuration, we started there. We kept on playing it all slow and kind of mopey and it was just falling flat. It sort of plodded along, waddled into the chorus, slid into and out of verses, and then trailed off,� Lieby says. They kept at it, because they really liked the song and wanted to make it work. One day, they got the idea to play it as a high-speed rockabilly hoedown. “We just blasted through it on the first try. We hit the ending and just said ‘done!’ We knew it was going to be that way or nothing. We added in the shout-choruses and some fine-

tuning to the arrangement and called it a Coffee Zombie song. We were stoked,� Lieby says. This process is true even for some of the cheesier, guilty-pleasure type songs. Bon Jovi’s “Living on a Prayer� was a surprising challenge for the band. “‘Living on a Prayer’ is a complex song—which I feel like I’m going to regret saying—but I wanted to play it cause I knew we’d play it at parties and people would vibe with it. Of course everyone’s going to jump out of their chairs and scream ‘woah’ with you,� Lieby says. While there is a certain goofy element to most of their songs, they have a handful of serious songs in their set, like “In the Aeroplane over the Sea� by Neutral Milk Hotel, for instance. “That is pretty much a love song to my wife. That song is really special to me,� Lieby says. “When we play it at a wedding, everyone gets really into the emotion of it, and everyone’s slowdancing and there’s the bride and the groom and everything. That’s a very deep down emotionally satisfying song to play, whereas there are other songs that people freak out to. Those are very satisfying as well.� Three years into this band, Coffee Zombie Collective continues to be an unexpected source of fun and joy for the members of the band, particularly because they’d worked so hard when they were younger in their other bands, and in some cases beating their heads on the wall trying to catch a break. Ninety-five percent of their gigs with Coffee Zombie Collective are just thoroughly fun for the members. And even that 5 percent of “bad gigs� means something totally different than what it once did with their previous bands. “I’ve played way more punishing gigs with my real bands, driving up to Roseville on a Tuesday, playing to nobody, and you have to drive back and go to work at 7am the next day. Getting paid zero dollars and having no one care,� Lieby says. “Whereas with this band it’s like, ‘It was a bummer, but it was two blocks away and we got tacos and we got a few hundred bucks.’ It’s like, ‘That gig sucked, no one danced til the last 40 minutes.’ That’s a pretty good gig, guys! We get spoiled on how fun gigs can be.� 0

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and more ridiculous—though they now flip over to “Party Rock Anthem� at the end. Of course, they sing “Coffee Zombie is in the house tonight.� “Some people recognize it, and we get some cocked eyebrows and turned heads. By the time we hit the first chorus, people are jamming and smiling. It’s instantly fun. When we hit the outro, it just elevates the mood. People who know LMFAO get that we’re giving a nod by hopping over to ‘Party Rock Anthem,’ people who don’t just love the huge ‘Coffee Zombie’s in the house tonight’ anthem. Then we finish off with our falsetto-beeps-as-synths ending, and people just fall over. It’s great,� Lieby says.

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The 10 Best Cover Songs of All Time BY STEVE PALOPOLI

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over songs are a critically underappreciated art. They usually don’t get as much respect as original songs—since after all, they’re just copies, right? But in truth, a good cover can transcend all of the expectations for it—and even the original song itself. In my time doing the all-covers radio show “Repeater� on Santa Cruz’s KUSP, I got a chance to indulge my lifelong fascination with the way a new interpretation can bring out the greatness of an established piece of songwriting, but also offer something entirely, well, original. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of covers that I think deserve a legacy, or at least a listen. But here are the 10 I think best epitomize the potential for a cover song. While there was no strict rule for time-testedness, in compiling this list I did find it takes a while for a great version to really prove itself —I’m listening to Atlas Genius’ new cover of “Get Lucky� all the time right now, but in five years, who knows? 1. ‘ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER’– JIMI HENDRIX (ORIGINALLY BY BOB DYLAN) The gold standard of cover songs that are better than the original. And the original is one of the most incredible rock songs of all time.

2. ‘GLORIA’ – PATTI SMITH (ORIGINALLY BY THEM) I’d like to think that if Van Morrison had thought of the opening lines Patti Smith added to his song—“Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine�— he’d have put them in himself. But probably not. Smith’s unparalleled skill at mixing gritty songwriting with

17 pure poetry is what made her one of rock and roll’s greatest, and it made her covers great, too. 3. ‘HURT’ – JOHNNY CASH (ORIGINALLY BY NINE INCH NAILS)

4. ‘GIN AND JUICE’ – THE GOURDS (ORIGINALLY BY SNOOP DOGG) The defining cover of the 21st century so far, this is the one that set peer-to-peer networks on fire, and was possibly the first “viral hit.� Musically, this flawless collision of bluegrass and hip-hop signified that genre boundaries as we once knew them were now officially a thing of the past, for good. 5. ‘LOUIE LOUIE’ – BLACK FLAG (ORIGINALLY BY RICHARD BERRY) Beginning with the 1963 hit version by the Kingsmen, this has become possibly the most ridiculous song to enter into rock’s sacred canon—and that’s saying a lot. There was an entire (surprisingly interesting) book written about it, and it’s been covered hundreds of times. This version faces up to the song’s goofiness, makes the lyrics even weirder and gives that familiar A-D-E-minor chord progression a punch unmatched before or since. 6. DEAD FLOWERS – TOWNES VAN ZANDT (ORIGINALLY BY THE ROLLING STONES) A song this bleak probably needed Townes to do it justice. And yet, the vocal he delivers on this version is one of his most ambiguous—rather than defeated, he sounds wistful, maybe even a little hopeful, even as he sings “I’ll be in my basement room with a needle and a spoon.�

Even Lou Reed likes this version of “Sweet Jane� better than any of his own. (When I spoke to him about cover songs, he also had nice things to say about Cat Power’s take on “I Found a Reason.�) Ironically, most people didn’t even know there was a slow version of this song, with entirely different lyrics, before this cover was released (it had only been on the relatively obscure Velvet Underground live album 1969). Margo Timmins never sounded better, and it put Reed’s songwriting in a whole new light—mysterious and romantic. 8. ‘CALIFORNIA STARS’ – WILCO & BILLY BRAGG (ORIGINALLY BY WOODY GUTHRIE) I always figured the whole point of Billy Bragg & Wilco’s Mermaid Avenue sessions (which were just released in their entirety last year), was to show that Woody Guthrie’s music is as relevant now as it was when he wrote those songs, between the ’30s and the ’60s. No song proved that more than “California Stars,� which comes through on this version like the ultimate anthem for modern altcountry. 9. ‘MAD WORLD’ – MICHAEL ANDREWS & GARY JULES (ORIGINALLY BY TEARS FOR FEARS) Years of eye-rolling over the #firstworldproblems pop pretentiousness of Tears for Fears left us all unprepared for the stunning emotional power of this simple piano and cello version of one of their earliest songs. The brilliant way it was showcased in Donnie Darko didn’t hurt. 10. ‘I DON’T WANT TO GROW UP’ – RAMONES (ORIGINALLY BY TOM WAITS) Waits’ original on Bone Machine is a masterpiece, but somehow the sentiment in this song meant even more coming from the original punks, on their final album. 0

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Stage Events DANCE Different belly dancers each week on the garden stage. Presented by Helene. www.thecrepeplace.com. Sat, 1:30pm. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.429.6994.

CONCERTS Rickie Byars Beckwith Songs intended to inspire transformation. Fri, Jun 28, 7:30pm. Inner Light Ministries, 5630 Soquel Dr, Soquel, 831.465.9090x6.

Twilight Concerts Live music by a different group each week. Wed, 6-8pm. Thru Aug 29. Free. Capitola Esplanade Park, Capitola Village, Capitola.

Art GALLERIES CONTINUING Chimera Tattoo Studio An exhibition of taxidermy and oddities by Emily Bones. Gallery hours MonSat, noon-8pm. Thru July 30. 831.426.8876. 1010 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz.

Felix Kulpa Gallery 16� x 16�: Mixed media work by Gloria K. Alford. Gallery hours: Thurs-Sun, noon6pm. Thru June 30. Free. 107 Elm St, Santa Cruz, 408.373.2854.

R. Blitzer Gallery Catamaran Artists Only: An exhibition featuring work by 14 Catamaran Literary Magazine artists. Gallery hours: Tues-Sat, 11am-5pm. Thru June 29. Free, 831.458.1217. Mission Extension and Natural Bridges, Santa Cruz.

Santa Cruz County Bank Viva Santana. A solo retrospective of the late painter, printmaker and sculptor Manuel Santana. At Santa Cruz County Bank locations in Aptos, Capitola, Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley and Watsonville. Mon–Thu, 9am–5pm & Fri. 9am– 6pm, Thru Aug. 23. Free, 831.457.5003. 720 Front St, Santa Cruz.

Author Event: Rebecca Solnit Author of the memoir “The Faraway Nearby,� Solnit has been called “who Susan Sontag might have become if Sontag had never forsaken California for Manhattan.� Thu, Jun 27, 7:30pm. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.460.3232.

Storytime Former Shakespeare Santa Cruz actress Billie Harris and Book Cafe manager Jill Rose perform animated readings of children’s stories. Mon, 11am. Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415.

NOTICES Baby Feeding Circle A chance to relax, feed your baby and chat with other new mothers. Open to all mothers and babies. Mon, 10:30-11:30am. free. Luma Yoga & Family Center, 1010 Center St., Santa Cruz, 831.325.2620.

Beat Sanctuary A weekly class for exploring exercise and spirituality through dance. Wed, 7:30-9:15pm. $15. A dance class for exploring authentic movement as connection, exercise, prayer and spiritual practice. Wed, 7:30-9:15pm. $15. Santa Cruz Yoga, 402 Ingalls Street, Santa Cruz, 831.227.2156.

Clutterers Anonymous A free weekly 12-step meeting for those frustrated with too much clutter and not enough room. Fri, 5:30pm. Free. Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center, 2900 Chanticleer Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.359.3008.

A Course In Miracles Study Group A weekly meeting on learning how to forgive and live in peace. Drop-ins are welcome. Thu, 7-9pm. The Barn Studio, 104b Park Way South, Santa Cruz, 831.272.2246.

Deconstructing Monsanto A talk by author Chris Kanthan about the basics of GMO’s and Monsanto, and how they affect us. Sun, Jun 30, 6:30pm. $3$20 donation. Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz.

Santa Cruz International Dog Owner’s Community hosts a weekly one-hour, easy hike along the beach for dog lovers and their pets. www.newdogsintown. com Mon, 8:45-9:45am. Free. Aptos Beach staircase, 1049 Via Palo Alto, Aptos.

Postpartum Health Circle A weekly community circle offering support and information about postpartum changes for mothers. Wed, 1:30-2:30pm. $5-$10 donation. Luma Yoga & Family Center, 1010 Center St., Santa Cruz, 831.325.2620.

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Insight Santa Cruz Meditation sits, talks and discussions every day of the week. Learn the formal practice of meditation and engage with a community dedicated to reducing suffering by cultivating compassion. Visit www. insightsantacruz.org for specific times and more information. Ongoing. Insight Santa Cruz, 1010 Fair Avenue, Suite C, Santa Cruz, 831.425.3431.

Lawn Alternatives Class Information on how to create a water-efficient landscape using native, drought-tolerant plants. Sat, Jun 29, 10am-12pm. $25. Native Revival Nursery, 2600 Mar Vista Drive, Aptos, 831.684.1811.

Miracle Working Spiritual teacher Dominique Free leads a weekly class on cultivating the consciousness to heal, overcome, succeed and create miracles. Thu, 7-8pm. Conscious Lounge, 1651A El Dorado Av @ Capitola Rd, Santa Cruz, 831.359.0423.

NAACP Santa Cruz Membership and Leadership Outreach Effort Members of the community are invited and encouraged to attend meetings of the NAACP Santa Cruz County Branch #1071. First Mon of every month, 7:30pm. Progressive Missionary Baptist Church, 517 Center St, Santa Cruz.

Overeaters Anonymous A 12-step support group for those who wish to recover from compulsive eating. Sundays 9-10:15am at 2900 Chanticleer Ave, Santa Cruz. Mondays 12:15-1:15pm at 420 Melrose Ave, Santa Cruz and 7-8pm at 4951 Soquel Drive, Soquel. Tuesdays 12:15-1:15pm at 420 Melrose Ave, Santa Cruz and 7-8pm at 301 Center St, Santa Cruz. Wednesdays 10:30-11:30am at 1335 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz; noon-1pm at 49 Blanca Ln #303, Watsonville; and 6:30-7:30pm at 335 Spreckles Dr, Ste. A, Aptos. Thursdays 1-2pm at 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. Fridays noon-1pm at 49 Blanca Ln, #303, Watsonville and 12:15-1:15pm at 2500 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz. Saturdays 9-10am at 532 Center St, Santa Cruz and 11am-noon at 75 Nelson St, Watsonville. 831.429.7906.

Qigong Flow Led by Bonnie Eskie, MFT. Tue, 10-11am. $10-$12. Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St, Santa Cruz, 831.515.4144.

Serenity First— Pagans in Recovery A 12-step meeting with a Pagan flair where guests are free to discuss their nature-based, goddesscentered spiritual paths. Sun, 7pm. The Sacred Grove, 924 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, 831.423.1949.

Support and Recovery Groups Alzheimer’s: Alzheimer’s Assn., 831.464.9982. Cancer: Katz Cancer Resource Center, 831.351.7770; WomenCARE, 831.457.2273. Candida: 831.471.0737. Chronic Pain: American Chronic Pain Association, 831.423.1385. Grief and Loss: Hospice, 831.430.3000. Lupus: Jeanette Miller, 831.566.0962. Men Overcoming Abusive Behavior: 831.464.3855. SMART Recovery: 831.462.5470. Trans Latina women: Mariposas, 831.425.5422. Trichotillomania: 831.457.1004. 12-Step Programs: 831.454.HELP (4357).

The Speaker’s Gym Instructor Noel Murphy provides leadership coaching and public speaking skills every week. www.thespeakersgym.com. Wed, 7-9:30pm. Discovery Gym, 75 Mt. Hermon Rd., Scotts Valley, 831.238.1234.

Touched By Adoption Group Adoptive families, adult adoptees, families waiting to adopt and birth parents meet monthly to connect in a safe, confidential setting. Last Sat of every month, 10am-12pm. Free. Live Oak Family Resource Center, 1438 Capitola Rd, Santa Cruz, 1.866.219.1155.

Yoga Instruction Pacific Cultural Center: 35+ classes per week, 831.462.8893. SC Yoga: 45 classes per week, 831.227.2156. TriYoga: numerous weekly classes, 831.464.8100. Yoga Within at Aptos Station, 831.687.0818; Om Room School of Yoga, 831.429.9355; Pacific Climbing Gym, 831.454.9254; Aptos Yoga Center, 831.688.1019; Twin

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Hop ‘N Barley Festival Taste mouthwatering brews from 60 local breweries, nosh on BBQ, and let your ears soak up the sounds of live music from two stages. Are there better ways for beer lovers to spend a day outdoors? We think not. Saturday, June 29 beginning at noon at Skypark, 361 Kings Village Rd., Scotts Valley. $40 in advance, $45 at the door. www.hopnbarley.org. Lotus Center, 831.239.3900. Hatha Yoga with Debra Whizin, 831.588.8527.

Zen, Vipassana, Basic: Intro to Meditation Zen: SC Zen Center, Wed, 5:45pm, 831.457.0206. Vipassana: Vipassana SC, Wed 6:30-8pm, 831.425.3431. Basic: Land of the Medicine Buddha, Wed, 5:30-6:30pm, 831.462.8383. Zen: Ocean Gate Zendo, first Tue each month 6:30-7pm. All are free.

AROUND TOWN Busy Bee Dogs A troupe of formerly homeless dogs who now travel the Bay Area delighting audiences with tricks they have learned to do. Boulder Creek Library at 11am and Scotts Valley Library at 2pm. Sat, Jun 29, 11am and 2pm. Free. Boulder Creek Library, 13390 W. Park Ave, Boulder Creek, 831.427.7717.

Comedy Showcase A weekly comedy night featuring Bay Area talent. Lineup changes every week. Wed, 7pm. Cafe iVeTA,

2125 Delaware Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.713.0320. A new comedy showcase hosted by DNA featuring a different Bay Area headliner each week. Tue, 8:30pm. $5. Blue Lagoon, 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.7117.

English Country Dance Second and fourth Thursdays of each month; beginners welcome. Fourth Thu of every month. $5-$7. First Congregational Church of Santa Cruz, 900 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.426.8621.

Film Screening “Forks Over Knives�: A screening and discussion of the film, which investigates the links between diet and disease. Sat, Jun 29, 3pm. Free. Santa Cruz Central Branch Library, 224 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.427.7717.

Santa Cruz Indian Council Annual Intertribal Gathering and Indian Market with songs, drums, dancing and crafts. Sat, Jun 29, 10am-6pm. Free. Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St, Santa Cruz, 831.420.6177.

San Francisco’s City Guide

Tyrese, Ginuwine & Tank If you want it, you got it: Three veterans of 1990s R&B ride the pony once again. Jun 26 at the Paramount Theatre.

Mykki Blanco Self-declared “illuminati prince/ss� embraces the freaks, slays the haters and rules the club. Jun 27 at Mezzanine.

Defiance, Ohio Preciously DIY acoustic punk band raises ďŹ sts and voices; with Japanther. Jun 28 at Bottom of the Hill.

La Luz Reverb-drenched girl group from Seattle creates intoxicating dream-pop. Jun 30 at Hemlock Tavern.

Big Freedia & DJ Assault Azz everywhere azz everywhere azz everywhere azz everywhere azz everywhere azz everywhere. Jun 30 at Public Works.

More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.

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NOT JUST ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL GIRL Former Beautiful Girls frontman Mat McHugh brings his new band to Moe’s Alley.

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Atomic Aces Bringing a punk rock flair to country music, Western swing and rockabilly, the Atomic Aces bridge the divide between old school rock and rollers and a new generation of country-rock appreciaters. Hailing from Santa Cruz this high-energy outfit plays fun, upbeat, danceable music inspired by Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash and the like, with a pinch of the Cramps thrown in. Also on the bill: Psychos In Love and Spokesman. Crepe Place; $8; 9pm. (Cat Johnson)

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Face To Face Despite being one of the better post-NOFX poppunk bands, Face to Face surprisingly fell apart after putting out their most daring and satisfying album, 2002’s How to Ruin Everything. Having officially ruined everything, they spent most of the rest of the decade slowly working toward making things right again. Now, two albums into their reunion, they’re back to playing the crunchy and catchy punk that originally put them on the map when “Disconnected� was all the rage. Catalyst; $14/$19; 8pm. (SP)

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PETER APFELBAUM & SPARKLER Founder of “The Hieroglyphics Ensemble� Thursday, July 11 U 7 pm

HRISTO VITCHEV QUARTET “...sophisticated and adventurous...� Weber Iago – piano – JazzTimes Dan Robbins – bass Mike Shannon – drums Friday, July 12 U 7:30 pm

BADI ASSAD

“One of Brazil’s top guitarists.� – Rolling Stone Monday, July 15 U 7 & 9 pm | No Comps

Latin Jazz Fireworks! PETE ESCOVEDO ORCHESTRA With Peter Michael and Juan Escovedo Thursday, July 18 U 7 pm

Mat McHugh & The Seperatista Sound System

NEW FLAMINGO SWING ORCHESTRA

As frontman for the Australian roots band Beautiful Girls, Mat McHugh toured the world playing big, radio-friendly, pop reggae. With his latest band, the Seperatista Sound System, McHugh reveals a different side of his musical self: the stripped down singer-songwriter playing outside the realm of electronic gadgetry and effects. This musical devolution, as McHugh calls it, is a reflection of his desire to move away from the trend of bigger and louder, and to connect with people in the purest way possible. “I want to contribute to the musical landscape,� he says, “by making something more about feelings and emotions than it is about musical cleverness.� Moe’s Alley; $12 adv/$15 door; 8:30pm. (CJ)

Wednesday, July 24 U 7:30 pm

Monday, July 22 U 7 pm

RED BARAAT

“Best party band in years.� – NPR

RAUL MIDON 7/25 Dmitiri Matheny Group featuring GOLD CIRCLE Dave Ellis SOLD OUT! 7/29 John Pizzarelli 8/1 Oliver Mtukudzi & The Black Spirits 8/5 Eric Alexander Quartet with Harold Mabern 8/12 The Cookers Unless noted advance tickets at kuumbwajazz.org and Logos Books & Records. Dinner served 1-hr before Kuumbwa presented concerts. Premium wines & beer. All ages welcome.

320-2 Cedar St [ Santa Cruz 831.427.2227

kuumbwajazz.org

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Audrey Auld is from Australia, yet she has one of the best songs about Marin County wackiness to come along in quite some time, “Bolinas.� (As far as I know, this particular subgenre of NorCal-ripping began with the Dead Kennedys’ “Moon Over Marin.�) It’s on her retrospective from last year, Resurrection Moon, too, and it’s interesting to note how she’s changed—and not changed—over the last few years. After her tour of duty living in Cali, she moved to Nashville, but she’s maintained an outsider’s take on Americana; she calls her version “Amerikinda.� Meanwhile, her insider work about the human experience, like the gorgeous “My Father,� shouldn’t be missed. Don Quixote’s; $12/$15; 7pm. (Steve Palopoli)

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Film HELLO, HOME DEPOT; WE NEED MORE ZOMBIE REPELLENT Brad Pitt staves off the zombies in ‘World War Z.’

Five Billion Maniacs It’s Brad Pitt vs. zombies with anger management problems in ‘World War Z.’ RICHARD VON BUSACK

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HIS IS THE WAY the world ends—not with a bang but with a chomp. World War Z has a deceptively global scope: Korea is represented as a rainy dark airport; many of the Jerusalem aerial shots are so synthetic it’s like looking at some pastor’s mock-up for Sunday school. Every big zombie movie is an exercise in weird xenobiology. Here, the zombies go into power-saver mode when there’s no one for them to bite. They don’t have to eat, but they

do linger, drifting around aimlessly and knocking into things, like unpopular teenagers. I’m blue-skying here, but these zombies may be reptilian, like the famous toads that get locked up in a building’s cornerstone and go dormant for a few decades. One of the few snappers we see in extended close-up is as wrinkly as a lizard. When human game’s afoot, the zombies call to each other like velociraptors; when they charge, they roar so loudly they gobble a little, like

angry turkeys. They may be mindless, but they harbor enough rage (as seen in the previews) to climb on each other like army ants to breach walls. At least Brad Pitt knows who he’s supposed to be in the movie (even beyond his character’s name, Gerry Lane). He’s Brad Pitt. He’s a drop-out, a rebel, a former hellhole-inspector for the United Nations. Figuring this film out is work for someone trying to duplicate Mark Twain’s analysis of the literary offenses of James Fennimore Cooper. First, downtown Philadelphia

explodes and turns into a zombie volcano. Next, Pitt and his family (wife Mireille Enos, in the year’s most depressing wife role, mothers a pair of interchangeable daughters) escape this urban holocaust and drive right into Newark, strictly to get the kind of asthma inhaler sold all over the state of New Jersey. Everyone is whisked to an aircraft carrier. Lane, alone at last, is sent to South Korea. The point of the Asian trip is that Lane gets to hear two speeches, one on the bitchiness of Mother Nature and another about how North Korea performed “the greatest act of social engineering in history.� David Morse plays the Kurtzlike CIA man who apparently went mad reporting this story. Thence to Israel, where it looks like all that wall-building has paid off in zombieproofing. (“They’ve been building walls there for 2,000 years!� we hear, in case we’re in the mood to complain about Israel’s foreign policy.) Lane picks up a shell-shocked Israeli Defense Force companion named Segen (Daniella Kertesz) with croppedhair and pale makeup; they head for a Welsh lab and settle down. Among the concerned scientists: the humane German actor Moritz Bleibtreu, and the lovely, droll Irish actress Ruth Negga. Both are billed as “WHO doctor.� Who, indeed? Who are they? With its busy effects, fight scenes and antlike swarms of zombies, World War Z isn’t about anything but our stalwartness in the face of zombie attack. Mentions of Earth’s degraded ecology, the horrors of war or the weirdly Crichtonesque monologues about the wanton killing power of nature are ludicrous in the face of this street-maniac’s story. Killing the metaphor, it may also kill off the genre for a few years. WORLD WAR Z >5 !) $ [W\ >ZOga Q]c\bgeWRS

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S H O WTI M E S

THE KINGS OF SUMMER (R; 93 min) Quirky comedy has three teenage friends deciding to go off the grid and live for a summer in a house they build in the woods. (Opens Fri at the Nick)

Reviews

AFTER EARTH (PG-13; 100 min.) After Hollywood figured out that no one wants to watch M. Night Shyamalan

Movie reviews by Steve Palopoli and Richard von Busack

movies anymore, they had to find something to do with him. So they put him in the director’s chair for a Will Smith sci-fi movie, didn’t let him write the script by himself and agreed that no one would talk about the fact that he was involved. Smart move. Smith, who once again stars with his own kid in this story about a father-son outing to an abandoned and treacherous Earth, doesn’t need the M. Night albatross around his

neck in selling this summer blockbuster. BEFORE MIDNIGHT (R; 109 min) Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy bring their characters Jesse and Celine back for the third film in this series from Richard Linklater. It’s two decades since they first met, and all is not well. Can they stick it out? THE BLING RING (R; 98 min) Sofia Coppola’s buzzy new film stars Emma Watson as part of a group of teenagers

Showtimes are for Wednesday, June 26, through Wednesday, July 3, unless otherwise indicated. Programs and showtimes are subject to change without notice.

APTOS CINEMAS

The Internship — Wed-Thu 11:10; 2; 4:45; 7:30; 10:15; Fri-Wed call for

122 Rancho Del Mar Center, Aptos 831.688.6541 www.thenick.com

showtimes.

Despicable Me 2 — (Opens Wed 7/3) 2:20; 4:40; 7; 9:10. Monsters University — Wed-Thu 2:20; 4:40; 7; 9:10; Fri-Wed 2:40; 5; 7:20;

Man of Steel — Wed-Thu 11; 2:20; 6; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. Man of Steel 3D — Wed-Thu 11:30; 3; 6:30; 9:30; 10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. Now You See Me — Wed-Thu 12:15; 3:10; 7:10; 9:50; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. The Purge — Wed-Thu 12; 2:40; 5:30; 7:40; 9:50; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

9:35 plus Fri-Sun noon; Wed 7/3 12:20pm.

This Is the End — Wed-Thu 2:40; 5; 7:20; 9:30; Fri-Tue 12:20; 4:40; 7; 9:20 plus Fri-Sun 12:10pm.

41ST AVENUE CINEMA

1475 41st Ave., Capitola 831.479.3504 www.cineluxtheatres.com

(no Thu 7:40, 9:50)

Star Trek Into Darkness — Wed-Thu 11:50; 2:50; 7; 10:10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

World War Z — Wed-Thu 10:40; 1:25; 4:10; 7:25; 10:10; 10:35; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Man of Steel — Wed-Thu 11:55; 3:30; 5:30; 6:45; 10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. Man of Steel 3D — Wed-Thu 2:15pm; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. World War Z — Wed-Thu 11:30; 2; 4:45; 8:45; 10:15; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. World War Z 3D — Wed-Thu 11:15; 7:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. The Smurfs — Wed-Thu 10am.

World War Z 3D — Wed-Thu 10; 12:45; 3:30; 6:45; 9:25; Fri-Wed call for

DEL MAR

226 Mt. Hermon Rd., Scotts Valley 831.438.3260 www.cineluxtheatres.com

1124 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com

The Bling Ring — Daily 12:50; 3; 5:10; 7:20; 9:30. Monsters University — Wed-Thu 12; 2:20; 4:40; 7; 9:20; Fri-Wed 12; 1:30; 2:20; 4:40; 6:15; 7; 9:20.

showtimes.

Munch 150 — Thu 7:30pm. Lawrence of Arabia — Thu 9pm.

CINELUX SCOTTS VALLEY CINEMA

Epic — Wed-Thu 11:20; 2; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. The Internship — Wed-Thu 4:30; 10:15; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. Man of Steel — Wed-Thu 11:55; 12:30; 1:15; 3:15; 4; 4:45; 6:30; 7:30; 8:15; 9:45;

Monsters University 3D — Wed-Thu 11:15; 1:30; 3:50; 6:15; Fri-Wed 3:50;

Fri-Wed call for showtimes. (no Thu 6:30pm)

8:30 plus Sat-Sun 11:15am.

Monsters University — Wed-Thu 11; 11:45; 1:40; 2:30; 4:20; 7; 8:30; 9:40; Fri-

NICKELODEON

Wed call for showtimes. (no Thu 9:40pm)

Lincoln and Cedar streets, Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com

Star Trek Into Darkness — Wed-Thu 7:20pm. (no Thu 6:45pm) This Is the End — Wed-Thu 11:30; 2:15; 4:55; 7:45; 10:15; Fri-Wed call for

The Dirty Wars — (Opens Fri) 3:20; 5:20; 7:30; 9:30. The Kings of Summer — (Opens Fri) 2:40; 4:50; 7:10; 9:10 plus

World War Z — Wed-Thu 11:55; 1:45; 2:40; 4:30; 5:30; 7:15; 10; Fri-Wed call for

showtimes..

Sat-Sun 12:30pm.

showtimes.

Before Midnight — Daily 2; 4:30; 7; 9:20 plus Sat-Sun 11:45am. The East — Wed-Thu 4:40; 9:50. Frances Ha — Wed-Thu 5:20; 9:30. Kon-Tiki — Wed-Thu 3:15; 7:30. Much Ado About Nothing — Wed-Thu 2:20; 4:50; 7:20; 9:40; Fri-Wed 2:30; 5;

GREEN VALLEY CINEMA 8

7:20; 9:40 plus Sat-Sun noon. MUD — Wed-Thu 1:50; 7:10; Fri-Wed 12:40pm.

RIVERFRONT STADIUM TWIN

155 S. River St, Santa Cruz 800.326.3264 x1701 www.regmovies.com

Fast and Furious 6 — Wed-Thu 12:45; 3:45; 6:45; 9:40; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

This Is the End — Wed-Thu 12; 2:30; 5; 7:30; 10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

World War Z 3D — Wed-Thu 11; 8; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. The Smurfs — Wed-Thu 10am. Singin’ in the Rain — Thu 7pm. 1125 S. Green Valley Rd, Watsonville 831.761.8200 www.greenvalleycinema.com

Epic — Wed-Thu 11; 1:45; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. Fast and Furious 6 — Wed-Thu 10:55; 1:35; 4:15; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. Man of Steel — Wed-Thu 12:45; 3:45; 6:45; 9:45; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. Man of Steel 3D — Wed-Thu 3:30pm; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. Monsters University — Wed-Thu 10:50; 1:25; 4; 7; 9:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Monsters University 3D — Wed-Thu 10:45; 1:05; 6:30; Fri-Wed call for

SANTA CRUZ CINEMA 9

showtimes.

Epic — Wed 6/19 11:10; 1:45; 4:15; 7:10; 9:50; Thu 11:10; 1:45; 4:15; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. Fast and Furious 6 — Wed-Thu 11:20; 2:40; 7:20; 10:20; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

World War Z — Wed-Thu 11; 1:45; 2:45; 4:30; 7:30; 8:15; 10:15; Fri-Wed call for

1405 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz 800.326.3264 x1700 www.regmovies.com

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who rob celebrities. The victims of the real-life crime ring that inspired the film included Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, so they can’t be all bad. THE EAST (PG-13; 116 min) Brit Marling, Ellen Page and Alexander Skarsgard star in this thriller about a private detective hired to infiltrate an anarchist group who is forced to re-consider her loyalties as she gets deeper in the case. EPIC (PG; 102 min.) Somewhere between Brave and Arthur and the Invisibles is this computer animated story of a girl who finds a culture of tiny people in the forest, shrinks down to their size and joins them in a battle of good against evil. Amanda Seyfried and Clint Ferrell headline the voice cast. FAST AND FURIOUS 6 (PG-13; 130 min) Fasterer! Furiouserer! And Michelle Rodriguez is back from the dead! That’s pretty much the extent of the plot in this fifth franchise sequel. How did they fit it all into 130 minutes? THE INTERNSHIP (PG-13; 125 min.) Sure, you could argue the world doesn’t need another Frat Pack comedy about losers who learn a valuable life lesson by acting stupid—in this case, wasting valuable space in Google’s internship program. But look at it this way: Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn get jobs, Fox gets a summer comedy product and Google gets millions of dollars in free advertising. Everybody wins! KON-TIKI (PG-13; 118 min.) Finally, the Norwegians take back Thor. Okay, not that Thor, but Thor Heyerdahl, the Norwegian researcher and adventurer who sailed the famous Kon-Tiki expedition of 1947. Nominated for an Oscar and all kinds of other awards, this film dramatizes his attempt to prove a theory about preColumbian explorers by building and then attempting to sail what is basically a wood raft 4,300 miles across the Pacific. It’s not as easy as it sounds‌oh wait, it sounds absolutely impossible. MAN OF STEEL (PG-13; 116 min.) Director Zack Snyder was accused by many of botching his Watchmen adaptation, but somehow he still managed to get himself put in charge of reviving the most troubled superhero franchise this side of The Hulk. Can new cape star Henry Cavill lead a rebound from Superman Returns, with this story that vaguely combines the original Superman (origin story) with Superman II? Zod is back, baby!

MONSTERS UNIVERSITY (G; 110 min) When people talk about the greatest Pixar movies, Monsters Inc. never seems to get mentioned. And yet, it is awesome. Why Cars got a sequel before Sulley and Mike is anyone’s guess, but at least it’s here now. Technically, it’s a prequel, with John Goodman and Billy Crystal returning to tell the story of how the pair got into the scare business. MUD (PG-13; 130 min.) Ellis and Neckbone, two 14-year-olds living on a river in Arkansas, go on an adventure and come across some surprises, including a very gritty Matthew McConaughey. NOW YOU SEE ME (PG13; 116 min.) Magicians pulling heists? How come no one ever thought of that before? Not to mention that this movie re-teams Zombieland’s Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg, who co-star with Morgan Freeman and Mark Ruffalo. SF DOCFEST The San Francisco documentary festival, now in its 12th year, brings a three-day mini-festival to the Rio Theatre this weekend, Friday through Sunday. Subjects include the famous punk protest band Pussy Riot, Bettie Page, mountaineering on K2 and a lot more. STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (PG-13; 132 min.) Considering that J.J. Abrams is now in charge of both the Star Trek and Star Wars franchises, nerds of both tribes can finally come together in the hope that this movie will kick ass. And hey, he didn’t do such a bad job on the first Star Trek reboot, did he? Certainly he got bonus points for using Trek-type reasoning to explain why we suddenly had Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana and Simon Pegg as the original Enterprise crew, in a different origin story. Pine as Kirk did a fantastic job of holding off on any kind of a Shatner impression until the end of the first movie after he had something to be so cocky about. STORIES WE TELL (PG-13; 116 min.) Actress Sarah Polley directed this film about her own family secrets, with the cast mixing actors and actual family members. THIS IS THE END (R; 112 min.) For this follow-up to Superbad and Pineapple Express (and Green Hornet?), Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen got their friends to star as themselves in a comedy about what people who party at James Franco’s house would do in the apocalypse.

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DESPICABLE ME 2 (PG; 98 min) How often is the most anticipated film of the summer an animated movie? That isn’t made by Pixar? Right, and yet the first movie was the movie that was more than just a big moneymaker. It also bubbled up from nowhere on the cultural radar, with fans watching it over and over with the same kind of passion normally reserved for a Nolan Batman flick. The main

characters—Steve Carell as former supervillain Gru, Miranda Cosgrove as Margo, Russell Brand as Dr. Nefario, etc.—are all back in this story of what happens when world leaders call upon Gru’s expertise to defeat a new villain. (Opens Wed at Aptos and Cinema 9) DIRTY WARS (NR; 90 min) Jeremy Scahill uncovers the sordid secrets of America’s covert wars in this unsettling documentary. (Opens Fri at the Nick)

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every slice. Here you can taste every topping in every bite. What’s the secret to your crust?

SL: We have sauce in our crusts, so we fold over the crust when we’re making pizzas. When we roll it out, there’s an inch over the pan. Then we sauce it, and we pull it back. That way, there’s sauce in the crust. It’s one of our signatures.

It’s a sports joint. What’s your favorite sport?

Are your pizzas nutritious?

How’s the work atmosphere?

EMILEY STAKE: We have wheat crusts,

SL: Fun. When I first started at Woodstock’s, I needed a job to get me through school. I would just go to work, do my job and go home, but there were always employees who hung around. I was like, “What are you doing? We were just here for six hours.” And then you become their friend and all of a sudden, you have a great time at work, and you’re one of those people sitting down at the table after work and hanging out and having a good time.

and we have gluten-free crusts, and we have Daiya cheese, which are all big things we try to push, especially in Santa Cruz County with the whole gluten-free movement. If aliens landed in your parking lot, what should they order?

A LIFE IN SLICES Shana Lewis is the general manager of Santa Cruz's Woodstock's.

The general manager and marketing director of Woodstock’s talk about crust secrets, Yelp and more BY JACOB PIERCE

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HANA LEWIS started at Woodstock’s in Chico as an 18-year-old college student. Now at 25, she’s the general manager of the Santa Cruz location, where she likes to enjoy a glass of Sierra Nevada Summerfest lager with a slice of pie. Emiley Stake began at Woodstock’s at 19 in Santa Cruz. Also 25, she became marketing director last year. SCW: What’s your favorite pizza?

ES: I would recommend the pizza that didn’t win our online pizza contest. It was by Miles, and he’s worked at Woodstock’s for a really long time. His is called the Blue Buffalo or something like that. It’s got green onions, chicken soaked in spicy wing sauce, and it’s got blue cheese all over it. I’d give that to the aliens. What’s the best part about being a manager?

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really like our pesto sauce and all the vegetables on it. What sets your pizza apart?

SL: Unique toppings, gourmet toppings and unique crust. When you order a pizza from other places and get a pepperoni pizza, you’ll get one pepperoni here and another one there. It’s mostly cheese. If you’re lucky, you get a piece of pepperoni on

organizations in the community. The elementary, middle and high school programs are really big fundraisers. And UCSC has so many different clubs and programs.

SL: Getting to know every single employee. Another thing I love, ever since I became a general manager, is meeting new business people, really getting to know what they do at the chamber mixers. The hardest?

SL: There’s the ups and downs of any job. Office work? I can’t pin down any one thing. Sometimes you run out of something, and you have to get it really quick. What’s it like working with Shana?

ES: It’s awesome, I get to have (a) a young boss and (b) a woman boss. I feel like I never have to hide anything from her. Why do you do community fundraisers?

SL: We take pride in supporting

SL: Basketball. I don’t have a favorite team. I played in high school.

Craziest thing that’s ever happened at work?

ES: All Woodstock’s employees get 50 percent off beer and food, so we drink there. And we have morning breakfasts together, my favorite part. We just go to Trader Joe’s and spend 20 bucks. What do you think of Yelp?

ES: There’s a lot of animosity going on with Yelp right now. It’s not just everybody’s opinion [in the comments]. If you don’t pay Yelp, they don’t let all the reviews go up. They filter them. You might get three awesome reviews, and one bad review, and they’ll take two of them off and say they’re randomly taken off. It sucks because we have a lot of really good reviews and a lot of really bad reviews. The bad reviews mostly all reflect product. Those are, overall, people who don’t like the style of pizza we offer. A cross the board, customer servicewise we do very well, especially on Yelp. 0

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Now here’s one of your assignments for the next 12 months: Distill all you’ve learned out there in the borderlands and decide how you will use your wisdom to build an unshakable power spot back here in the heart of the action.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): Michael Faraday (1791–1867) was one of the most influential scientists in history. He produced major breakthroughs in both chemistry and physics. Have you ever used devices that run on electricity? You can thank him for playing a major role in developing that wonderful convenience. And yet unlike most scientists, he had only the most elementary grasp of mathematics. In fact, his formal education was negligible. I propose that we name him your role model of the week. He’s a striking example of the fact that you can arrive at your chosen goal by many different paths. Keep that in mind if you’re ever tempted to believe that there’s just one right way to fulfill your dreams. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): “The only thing that we learn from history,� said the German philosopher Georg Hegel, “is that we never learn anything from history.� I’m urging you to refute that statement in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. I’m pleading with you to search your memory for every possible clue that might help you be brilliant in dealing with your immediate future. What have you done in the past that you shouldn’t do now? What haven’t you done in the past that you should do now? CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): According to my analysis of the astrological omens, now would be a pretty good time to talk about things that are hard to talk about. I don’t necessarily mean that you’ll find it easy to do. But I suspect it would be relatively free of pain and karmic repercussions. There may even be a touch of pleasure once the catharsis kicks in. So try it if you dare, Capricorn. Summon the courage to express truths that have previously been hard to pin down. Articulate feelings that have been murky or hidden. For best results, encourage those you trust to do the same. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): Are you familiar with Quidditch? It’s a rough sport played by wizards in the fictional world of Harry Potter. All seven books in the series mention it, so it’s an important element. Author J.K. Rowling says she dreamed up the sport after having a quarrel with her boyfriend. “In my deepest, darkest soul,� she reports, “I would quite like to see him hit by a bludger.� (In Quidditch, a bludger is a big black ball made of iron.) I bring this up, Aquarius, because I suspect that you, too, are in position to use anger in a creative and constructive way. Take advantage of your raw emotion to make a lasting improvement in your life. PISCES (Feb. 19–March 20): In his erotic poem “Your Sex,� Joe Bolton exults: “My heart simplified, I touch the bud of happiness—it’s in season. And whatever grief I might have felt before simply dies inside me.� You might want to write that down on a slip of paper and carry it around with you this week, Pisces. According to my understanding of the astrological omens, the bud of happiness is now in season for you. You have good reason to shed the undertones of sadness and fear you carry around with you. I’ll tell you the last lines of Bolton’s poem, because they also apply: “Sometimes I think it’s best just to take pleasure wherever we want and can. Look: the twilight is alive with wild honey.� (The full poem: tinyurl.com/JoeBolton.) Homework: Each of us has a secret ignorance. Can you guess what yours is? What will you do about it? Freewillastrology.com.

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ARIES (March 21–April 19): “To know when to stop is of the same importance as to know when to begin,� said the painter Paul Klee. Take that to heart, Aries! You are pretty adept at getting things launched, but you’ve got more to learn about the art of stopping. Sometimes you finish prematurely. Other times you sort of disappear without officially bringing things to a close. Now would be an excellent time to refine your skills. TAURUS (April 20–May 20): “The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it’s hard to determine whether or not they are genuine.� So said Joan of Arc back in 1429, right before she helped lead French troops in the battle of Patay. JUST KIDDING! Joan of Arc never had the pleasure of surfing the Web, of course, since it didn’t exist until long after she died. But I was trying to make a point that will be useful for you to keep in mind, Taurus, which is: Be skeptical of both wild claims and mild claims. Stay alert for seemingly interesting leads that are really timewasting half-truths. Be wary for unreliable gossip that would cause an unnecessary ruckus. GEMINI (May 21–June 20): French Impressionist painter Claude Monet loved to paint water lilies, and he did so over and over again for many years. Eventually, he created about 250 canvases that portrayed these floating flowers. Should we conclude that he repeated himself too much? Should we declare that he was boringly repetitive? Or might we wonder if he kept finding new delights in his comfortable subject? Would we have enough patience to notice that each of the 250 paintings shows the water lilies in a different kind of light, depending on the weather and the season and the time of day? I vote for the latter view, and suggest that you adopt a similar approach to the familiar things in your life during the coming weeks. CANCER (June 21–July 22): “In order to swim one takes off all one’s clothes,� said 19th-century Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. “In order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one’s inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness, etc., before one is sufficiently naked.� Your assignment in the coming week, Cancerian, is to get au naturel like that. It’s time for you to make yourself available for as much of the raw, pure, wild truth as you can stand. LEO (July 23–Aug. 22): Gertrude Stein was an innovative writer. Many illustrious artists were her friends. But she had an overly elevated conception of her own worth. “Think of the Bible and Homer,� she said, “think of Shakespeare and think of me.� On another occasion, she proclaimed, “Einstein was the creative philosophic mind of the century, and I have been the creative literary mind of the century.� Do you know anyone like Stein, Leo? Here’s the truth, in my opinion: To some degree, we are all like Stein. Every one of us has at least one inflated idea about ourselves—a conceited self-conception that doesn’t match reality. It was my turn to confront my egotistical delusions a few weeks ago. Now would be an excellent time for you to deal with yours. Don’t be too hard on yourself, though. Just recognize the inflation, laugh about it, and move on. VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): When I close my eyes, I get a psychic vision of you as a kid playing outside on a warm summer day. You’re with friends, immersed in a game that commands your full attention. Suddenly, you hear a jingling tune wafting your way from a distance. It’s the ice cream truck. You stop what you’re doing and run inside your home to beg your mom for some money. A few minutes later, you’re in a state of bliss, communing with your Fudgsicle or ice cream cone or strawberry-lime fruit bar. I have a feeling that you will soon experience an adult version of this scene, Virgo. Metaphorically speaking, either the ice cream man or the ice cream woman will be coming to your neighborhood. LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): During the past 10 months, you have been unusually adventurous. The last time you summoned so much courage and expansiveness may have been 2001. I’m impressed! Please accept my respect and appreciation. You’ve had a sixth sense about knowing when it’s wise to push beyond your limitations and boundaries. You have also had a seventh sense about intuiting when to be crafty and cautious as you wander through the frontiers.

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