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TALKING POINTS Zach Friend finishes a press conference after two SCPD officers were shot in February. Former police spokesman and current Santa Cruz County Supervisor Friend has funneled what he’s learned on the job into his new book ‘On Message.’
Just Saying Supervisor Zach Friend on his new book and Santa Cruz’s broken branding BY GEORGIA PERRY
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hy do we know the logo for Nike and Target, but not for US Airways? Why did Barack Obama win the presidency in 2008 over several better-funded and better-known opponents? And why did he win again in 2012, with most of the country disappointed in him? Santa Cruz County Supervisor Zach Friend believes he knows the answers to these questions. His new book, On Message: How a Compelling Narrative Will Make Your Organization Succeed, posits
that people and organizations that effectively and honestly tell the story of who they are will achieve success. The book comes out Sept. 17, with a release party and reading on Sept. 18 at Bookshop Santa Cruz. We sat down with Friend to discuss his book and the insights he’s gained over the course of his career, which before his move into local politics included everything from communications expert for the Obama campaign to spokesperson for the Santa Cruz Police Department.
SANTA CRUZ WEEKLY: When did you get the idea for this book? ZACH FRIEND: I started putting together the ideas for the book in 2010, so in my mind it has been a three-year process. But it’s exciting to have it come out, because I want my parents to have something in their hands. ‘On Message’ is about how politicians and organizations can develop narratives for themselves. What are some of
the common mistakes public figures make trying to get their message out, specifically talking to the press? I think that one of the greatest mistakes that any leader can make is exclusively trying to communicate via facts and figures without going for things that have emotional resonance. Is that something you became aware of during your time as spokesperson for the police department? Yeah, we used to talk a lot at the police department about how to communicate things that are pretty horrific. I mean, I could just lay out what happened and tell everybody that at this date and time, this person was brutally assaulted, and this is who we’re looking for and this is what we hope to get out of it. By the way, that is what I would say 95 percent of all law enforcement agencies do. Or you can think about it as: the first thing that I need to recognize, because I live in this community too, is this sucks. What happened sucks. Because we feel it at the police department. We’re dealing with the victim, right? Or the victim’s family if the victim’s not with us. As SCPD spokesman, you had a reputation for your sense of humor, and your use of foul language. Was that you trying to be authentic, or was that a trick to throw off reporters who might try to get you ‘off message’? I hadn’t thought of that (laughs). I don’t think you can try to be authentic, actually. But I do believe that it’s just easier to be who you are in all contexts, recognizing that decorum is necessary in certain contexts. To me, you have to see some humor in some of those dark situations, or it would be tough to sleep at night. And you have to be able to blow off some of the steam, and be honest with reporters about it. I like to believe that I was honest
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Currents | JUST SAYING with them. And that showed me as whoever I was, including at 2am at a murder scene when we’re all showing up together. That’s who you are. And sometimes you’re gonna use inappropriate language, and tell probably a couple jokes you shouldn’t have. But I’m OK with that. Hypothetical question: The New York Times publishes a story that says Santa Cruz is the most dangerous city in the U.S. right now. If you were a spokesperson for the city, how would you respond to that? Well, you’re normally a result of your ability to create the narrative about your community. And I would argue that the narrative of Santa Cruz County is not what it should be. So if The New York Times would write that story, it’s because we failed at doing a good job of having [them] think differently of us. They wouldn’t write that about Boulder [Col.], right? They would write it about here, and the question is why. We have a remarkable outdoor sports enthusiast area, unbelievable small business success stories from Penny Ice Creamery to NextSpace on up. We’re entrepreneurial, environmental, progressive yet focused on the economy. But if you were to go out of town and tell somebody you’re from Santa Cruz, overall there’s a discussion about drugs, there’s a discussion about counterculture. I don’t think that’s the identity of the community, and we should do a better job of retelling that story than we are right now. What about spin? Does your book teach people how to turn bad situations around? No. Because what that is, is you trying to put a good face on something, but if the underlying story isn’t good over time, what’s going to happen is it’s going to break apart. But don’t a lot of politicians and businesses, both of which you explore case studies of in the book, create deceptive and distorted stories about themselves? I do think that happens. But I don’t think that lasts. I think that if you want to be
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truly successful in whatever it may be, if you’re not genuine at your underpinning, then something’s going to come out.
'I would argue that the narrative of Santa Cruz County is not what it should be.' —SUPERVISOR ZACH FRIEND You worked in communications for the Obama campaign. How did he use a narrative to win? He was running in 2008 as a “change” candidate, which is a very common message. “I’m gonna do things differently than the last person.” But here you’ve got a guy who was born in Hawaii, lived a good portion of his life outside the U.S., totally took a different path than any normal, standard road to the presidency. And so the story about him was one of something that is unique and different, and so when he says, “I’m about change,” it made sense to the average voter. The narrative about him made sense. If you were running for president, what is the personal narrative you would create about yourself? Well, I appreciate the “if,” because that is most likely not in my future. But in general, you don’t create a narrative. Your narrative is already there because it is who you are. The thing to learn is how to highlight it.
Zach Friend will read from and sign ‘On Message’ at Bookshop Santa Cruz on Sept. 18 at 7:30pm.
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Missed Connection A little over a week ago, Kayla Hallee passed away. She was a vivacious and adventurous 20-year old about to enter her junior year at UCSC to continue her course in environmental studies. On August 27, her body was found off the coast of Santa Barbara, a mile away from an orange kayak. Although the cause of her death still remains unknown, coroners are not calling the death suspicious and no evidence of trauma was found. What’s particularly strange about this tragic loss is that local news media have utterly failed in reporting it. In fact, most of her friends at UCSC probably heard of her death through Facebook. Though the story broke fairly big right away, being reported on the CBS local news in L.A., Hallee’s connection to UCSC went unreported for days. Even the small item in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, picked up from the Associated Press, didn’t mention it. It was a lesson in how media outlets cannibalize each other, as the initial reports from SoCal news sources identified her only as a graduate of Mission Viejo High School, and subsequent write-ups (including the one in the Sentinel) simply copied that. In fact, it wasn’t until a day after Santa Cruz Weekly called inquiring about Hallee that UCSC issued a statement about her death. To those who knew her on campus, Hallee’s smiling face will never be forgotten. As a member of the campus’s Kayak Club and Women’s Club Soccer, she wasn’t just a student who “attended” UCSC, but one of those rare people who was a living, breathing embodiment of its very message— “let there be light.” She is remembered as warm and outgoing, and a true lover of the outdoors—striving to be in nature at least once a day. Perhaps her July 2012 Facebook status post, quoting a line from “The Prophet,” says it best: “Only another breath will I breathe in this still air, only another loving look cast backward...Only another winding will this stream make, only another murmur in this glade, And then shall I come to you, a boundless drop to a boundless ocean.”
An on-campus memorial for Kayla Hallee is being organized by UCSC students for Saturday, Sept. 14; contact Jacquie Perez at jacapere@ucsc.edu for more information.
Main Event Event Santa Cruz, a new monthly speaker series showcasing thriving local businesses and the people behind them, will make its debut Sept. 18 at 7pm at the Nickelodeon Theater. Speakers will include Launch Brigade rocket scientist Chris Miller, the Penny Ice Creamery’s Kendra Baker, NextSpace’s Ryan Coonerty and Danny Keith, the executive director of Grind Out Hunger.
'It wasn't until a day after Santa Cruz Weekly called inquiring about Hallee that UCSC issued a statement about her death.' Billing itself as “not just another speaker series,” the event promises to give an inside look into the experience of successful Santa Cruz business leaders—one of which, in particular, has seen his organization grow significantly in the last year. Keith’s project, Grind Out Hunger, which provides healthy meals to Santa Cruz families in need, was the recipient of a $21,802 donation this summer courtesy of New Leaf market’s “Taste at the Tee” golf tournament. The donation is the largest New Leaf has made to any local group in the store’s 28-year history. Grind Out Hunger combines action sports (its facility includes an indoor skate park) with the goal of ending childhood hunger in our county—a truly “only in Santa Cruz”-style nonprofit organization. Event Santa Cruz is promising the inside scoop on how Keith and other local business innovators have made their mark. Tickets are $10. 0
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312 River Street, Santa Cruz, CA 831.423.3360 primasantacruz.com BREAKING NEWS James Reitano’s ‘Nineteen Eighty Five’ comics show how graffiti and early hip-hop culture intersected in Santa Cruz in the 1980s.
shows and was run by Rotten Richie (a.k.a. Richard Walker, the African American drummer in the popular Santa Cruz punk band Public Enemies). Reitano did his very first tagging behind Club Culture, and eventually he put together a crew. Though from a mix of ethnic backgrounds (Reitano is of Italian descent), they all affiliated themselves with the Afrocentric, straight-edge Zulu Nation movement begun by early hip-hop star Afrika Bambaataa (best known to punkers of the mid-’80s for his single “World Destruction” with former Sex Pistol John Lydon and Bill Laswell, as Time Zone). “Then I just kind of ran with that group of dudes, which is what the comic’s about. That lasted for about two years, then it just died,” he says. “I kept doing it for myself, and then it came back in the early ’90s, a whole new generation of kids that regarded me as this, like, Yoda type guy. I was only 21! They were like, ‘Oh my god, you’re still around, bro?’”
Making a Name The punk scene was already well established here, but the earlier generation of punks scared the hell out of Reitano and his friends. “The punk and skateboarding scene of the early ’80s was really scary. Those guys were all older and gnarly,” he says. “They’d always have like a black eye or something! They were kind of crazy, so we were scared of them. Years later, I worked with all those guys, cause they were all retired almost, and doing screen printing at Santa Cruz Skateboards. ‘Oh yeah, you’re Mike Neider from Bl’ast!? Oh cool! You’re from Spaceboy?’ Knowing them in that setting was interesting, but those guys were all really intimidating.” Reitano chose the title Nineteen Eighty Five for the series—of which he is currently prepping volume five out of a projected eight—because that’s the year everything seemed to click with his original crew.
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Elder Statesman And yet, for Reitano the ’90s would turn out to be even more interesting. Santa Cruz’s impact on skateboarding culture was huge in the ’80s—San Jose may have had bigger stars, but the best boards were over the hill at Santa Cruz Skateboards. In the early ’90s, white street skaters began adopting hip-hop style, and more Latino and African American kids began picking up boards. In Santa Cruz, Reitano began hanging out with kids in this new scene, who romanticized him as an old-school hero even though he was only a couple of years older than they were. Through one of them, he made a life-changing connection. “One of the guys, Dimitri, who I would go graffiti with, he got hired at Santa Cruz Skateboards. It was like ‘oh shit, you got in there? That’s awesome!’ And he said, ‘they’re looking for a guy to do board
designs,’” Reitano remembers. “I went in there, got the interview and spent four years there. I spent every single day at that place thinking I was going to get fired.” Even so, he was thrilled to see kids skating around town on boards he’d designed. But he was also ready to hang up the spray can. By the mid’90s, he’d been busted several times— including once at Disneyland, where only the intervention of a relative on the Anaheim police force saved him from juvenile hall.
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Within a couple of years, Reitano moved to L.A. He found work at an Internet start-up, having no clue that he’d soon have a separate career doing music videos for some of the biggest names in underground hiphop—and later, electronic music. It all started with KutMasta Kurt, aka Kurt Matlin, who was part of Reitano’s crew. Matlin is also Santa Cruz’s only hip-hop breakout success story. In the mid-’80s, at age 15, he had done a fantastic show called “Solid Funk” on local public station KUSP (clips from the mix CDs that accompany each volume of Nineteen Eighty Five document Reitano guesting on the show, as DJ Icee J). Matlin moved to L.A. to work with Kool Keith, whom he still collaborates with to this day, and once Kool Keith’s legendary Sex Style album broke in 1997, KutMasta Kurt was in demand, producing Dilated Peoples and Linkin Park, and doing remixes for the Beastie Boys, Mos Def and more. It was Matlin who first approached Reitano about doing an animated video, for the song “We All Over,” by Masters of Illusion, which featured Kool Keith, KutMasta Kurt and Motion Man. Flash animation was big on the Internet, and Reitano was an early innovator. He was working for Fox at the time, but after the Kool Keith video got some traction online, he got a call from representatives of Biz Markie, who had blown up with a string of Top 10 hits like “Just a Friend” and “Young Girl Bluez.” Markie wanted an animated video for “La Da Da.”
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“It all kind of kicked in. We got a little bit of notoriety in other towns. People in San Francisco started paying attention to us. Graffiti was still very regional—there was no Internet—so if you heard about people, you just saw the photos. ‘Oh, that’s so and so from San Francisco.’ But you never met anybody. We kind of made a name for ourselves,” he says. Though it’s hard to figure out the exact time span that weaves through the volumes of Nineteen Eighty Five, it’s clear that it all takes place before the 1989 earthquake—a significant point, as Reitano sees it. “The earthquake was kind of a demarcation line. That’s what I wanted to write about,” he says. “As you write, you think, ‘oh man, that’s what this is about. It’s not really about running around spray painting. It’s about this city, and how before the earthquake, it was kind of this last gasp of the ’60s. The earthquake was kind of like, no, now this is dead, and the town has a chance to shed all that past. All of a sudden, the dream was over. Because Berkeley and Santa Cruz were always the places you could go and it was like ‘Wow, these guys are still hanging on!’ The ’80s were in full swing, and everything here was going against that, there was this whole political movement.”
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“So I got hired to do a Biz Markie video,” he remembers. “Holy shit, I couldn’t believe it. I quit Fox, and spent seven months on that video. From there, it was one video after another. It was a crazy time. I did one for the Dickies [‘Donut Man’], Madlib [the iconic video for ‘All Caps’ that defined the Madvillain project with MF DOOM], Quasimoto [‘Bullyshit’], a bunch for Stones Throw Records, Manchester Orchestra [‘Golden Ticket’], Cut Chemist [‘Spat’]. I just did one for Skrillex last year [for ‘Burst’]. It was totally crazy. I spent a year on it. These things are a big chunk of my life.” It was also during this time that Reitano got his first graphic novel project, a biography of Wu-Tang Clan’s GZA. It ended up shelved, but was clearly a dry run for Nineteen Eighty Five. “I wanted it to be an actual biography about Ol’ Dirty Bastard, RZA and GZA, and the impetus of Wu-Tang. I took a lot of artistic liberty in there, and I don’t think he liked that,” he admits. “I think he wanted something more fantastic. I was like ‘we should do an indie comic like Love & Rockets, where you guys are just yourselves and it’s ’86, and the crack epidemic is about to hit New York. I went to New York and took photos of their old neighborhood for research. It was an intense year and a half.” In 2006, though, after years of requests for his “war stories” as a tagger, he started putting together notes and making sketches for the
comic he really wanted to write, about his misadventures in Santa Cruz. “The funny thing about the book is I wouldn’t have done this if I stayed here. I needed to move to do a book about my hometown,” he says. “When I look back, it was kind of a dark time. It’s interesting what we did, but my teens and 20s? I’d never want to go back there.” All the real-life members of his old crew have seen the books, and apparently all but one have been very supportive, and pleased with their portrayal. “This guy Stokely who’s in here, he was my best friend. He just disappeared, and no one knew where he went. It turned out he changed his name, and he’s a professor of hiphop studies. I’ve emailed him, but I guess he’s just severed ties, I guess with everybody. I was like ‘you’re in the book!’ But I don’t think he’s happy about it,” says Reitano. He’s almost finished with the fifth volume, and there are many more strange characters and bizarre stories to be packed into the next two books. But for the finale, he has something truly radical planned. “The eighth issue’s going to be about Santa Cruz of 1885,” he says. “The same characters, but set in the 1800s. That was the year that surfing was introduced by the Hawaiians, it was the year the railroads were fighting over who had access to the main corridors. I think I can tie all that in and make it this weird historical comic about Santa Cruz County back then.” 0
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WE NEED THE SPACE Graffiti from Reitano’s tagging days in Santa Cruz, with a reference to the iconic punk song from Fear’s 1982 album ‘The Record.’
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a show. It was three local bands—Bl’ast!, Mock, and Several Fish—but then we got SWA to play—which was Chuck Dukowski’s [from legendary L.A. band, Black Flag] side project. There was this old guy who ran the building—it was like Kresge or Crown, one of those. I pulled him aside and said, “Hey man, you really can’t push the envelope on this thing. You have to just be accepting of the situation or shit’s going to go bad. My mom worked here all through my childhood. I don’t want to see this place get destroyed, but it’s going to get really stupid if you try to shut down the show. Go with the flow, and I promise we’ll make it through.” Keith Meek: It just blew up! There’s video of it online. That was the biggest pit I had ever seen! One guy’s filming and Clifford’s singing, [bassist Dave] Cooper’s going nuts and there’s this whirlwind of legs flying by the screen, upside-down! Jimbo Phillips: Every local from the city barged to the school and the place was just mobbed! I remember being out front, trying to get in, and Cliff props open the back door, yells, “Heeeey! You guys!” and lets about 50 people from the local crew in. I remember when [Bl’ast!] came out there was so much feedback ringing in the place. There was wall-to-wall craziness going on, the place just erupted! I always remember that night as the pinnacle of the era. I think it was ’88 [according to the video, it was 1989], right when Bl’ast! was really at their peak. Keith Meek: At that point, with everyone traveling into Santa Cruz, I think it started having an influence. That’s when people saw we had a lot going on. We always had the surf/skate culture; that goes back to Kevin Reed. He was a ripping surfer and skater, he was a pro at both. So that scene was going on here and, at the same time, Dogtown was happening [in Santa Monica]. Then there was San Diego and San Clemente. Certain spots had the culture, but Santa Cruz embodied all three. Jimbo Phillips: We had the pro skaters from L.A. and San Jose come in and talk about their graphics along with a lot of local rippers; Meekster was already here, but Roskopp came around at that time. It really was a hot
spot back then, so a lot of people were coming around. Cliff Dinsmore: This town became such a Mecca because of the skateboard association and a lot of the people that rode for Santa Cruz Skateboards were from somewhere else. People like Jay Adams, Steve Olson, Jason Jesse, [Jeff] Grosso and Salba would come by to visit and skate.
'The Santa Cruz logo really went worldwide at that time. A lot of people probably didn’t even know it was a town, they just thought it was a brand' Keith Meek: Jay was a huge influence on us, because he’d come up and show us what they were doing in L.A. Here, people at shows were bouncing off each other and doing the pogo. Jay came up and did this gnarly whirlwind of violence on the dance floor and we all thought, “Wow! Look at that! Let’s do that!” Jimbo Phillips: The Santa Cruz logo really went worldwide at that time. A lot of people probably didn’t even know it was a town, they just thought it was a brand, but then they figured it out. Having that stuff distributed around the world definitely put Santa Cruz on the map. Jim Phillips: As a surfer who doesn’t like crowded surf, I’d rather keep [the city] off the map, but I did whatever it took to make a living. Santa Cruz Skateboards is the oldest operating skateboard company in the world. Santa Cruz, the city, realized that surfing is a money pie and promotes traveling surfers as “ecotourists” instead of what they used to call them: surf bums. 0
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t’s one thing when you go to a comedy competition where you don’t know any of the performers, and it’s so obvious how much better some comedians are than others, and you don’t even have to care. After all, you don’t even know them, which means you don’t have to see them afterward and either genuinely tell them they kicked ass, or fake tell them they kicked ass. Perhaps the lesson to be learned is if you’re going to have a friend who’s a comedian, for chrissake make sure he or she is a talented one. I am lucky in this regard, as I have only had to watch one person I care about go from “Hey, I think I might give stand up a shot one time at this open mic coming up” to “I think they are actually going to pay me gas money to do this show in Modesto” to “Come see my threenight stint in San Francisco opening for Will Durst.” She happens to be one of the funniest people I’ve ever met, so watching her go from threeminute walk-throughs to 45-minute headlining sets over the course of a couple years has been surprisingly painless, and extremely entertaining. So yeah, Colleen Watson has done all the work, but which of us really has more comedy expertise at this point? For instance, many a night hanging out at comedian showcases with her has taught me that newbies tend to be
the ones who go for the easy shocks, while more experienced comics develop a unique style. As Watson prepared to come to the Crow’s Nest Sunday for the San Francisco International Comedy Competition, I asked her if even she, an actual comedian, had realized this. The answer, obviously, was yes. In fact, it turns out she is the one who pointed it out to me like two years ago. I totally forgot! It pertains to the evolution of her comedy, as well.
“Dicks don't star so heavily in the newer jokes,” she admitted. “And there is more of me in most of my newer stuff.” I also asked her if her intense comedy schedule—some weeks I have known her to do five or six nights of shows, and then spend the free nights going to see other comics—is a necessary part of building a career. But no, she’s just really creepily obsessive. “I like to see how others tell their jokes,” she said. “I think it's amazing how some people's minds can look at ordinary things so differently and make it hilarious.” — Steve Palopoli
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of mixed media drawings by eight artists. Gallery hours: Mon-Sat, 9am-9:30pm. Opens Sept. 6 and runs thru the end of the month. 831.425.1305. 301 Center St, Santa Cruz.
Bellydance Showcase Lulu s at the Octagon
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All Those Figures: A national juried exhibit exploring diversity of outlooks in the Figurative Movement. www. scal.org. Gallery Hours: Wed.-Sat., noon-5pm; Sun. noon-4pm. Thru Sept. 15. $7. Wed-Sat, noon-5pm, Sun noon-4pm. 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz, 831.426.5787.
Live Comedy Weekly standup comedy showcases featuring rotating Bay Area comics held Tuesdays at the Red Room, 200 Locust St., Santa Cruz and Wednesdays at The Mediterranean, 265 Center Ave., Aptos. Both shows 810pm. Free. The Red Room, 1003 Cedar Street, Santa Cruz, 831.227.1500.
Theatre Auditions Auditions for the new production by Chicano Theatreworks, “Particulate.” For information email manuelmontez.sc@gmail. com. All actors over 18 years old welcome. Fri, Sep 13, 79pm and Sat, Sep 14, 3-5pm. Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St, Santa Cruz, 831.325.8469.
Art GALLERIES OPENING Art Loft Local Scenes: New works by local artists Wayne Adachi, Barbara Bailey-Porter, Shmuel Thayer, Karen Toole and Patrick Woodman. www. artloftsantacruz.com. Gallery Hours: Wed-Sun, noon-8pm. 1319 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz.
Center for Transformative Visions Open House Art Party. Nine, Cycles of Creation: A pop-up gallery featuring fantastical works by nine female artists inspired by the cycles of growth and birth. Sat, Sep 14, 11am-9pm and Sun, Sep 15, 10am-3pm. Free. 819 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz.
CONTINUING Felix Kulpa Gallery Kiss My Bronze: Bronze castings by Sheila HalliganWaltz and Eike Waltz. Gallery hours: Thurs-Sun, noon-6pm. Aug. 2-31. Free. 107 Elm St, Santa Cruz, 408.373.2854.
Louden Nelson Community Center Gallery Mixed Media Drawings. Call and Response: A collection
Paintings by Mary Karlton. www.marykarlton.com. Thru Sept. 22. Free. 118 Cooper St, Santa Cruz.
Santa Cruz Art League
Santa Cruz Central Branch Library Libraries Inside Out. HOME: A large-scale woodblock printmaking exhibition by Bridget Henry. Aug. 2 through the winter months. Free, 831.427.7700. 224 Church St, Santa Cruz.
Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center Mountains Art Center. Simply Red: “Hot” paintings, sculptures, textiles and more by local artists. Gallery hours: Wed-Sun, noon-6pm. Thru Sept. 28. Free, 831.336.3513. Wed-Sun, noon-6pm. 9341 Mill St, Ben Lomond.
The Cosmo Factory Cosmo Factory. Kelly Fuenning: Abstract painting and collage. Hours: Wed-Sat, 10am-4pm. Thru October. Free. 131-B Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.621.6161.
Various Santa Cruz County Bank Locations Bank Arts Collaborative. Down on the Farm: Seven local artists whose work represents the beauty of simple life on the farm. Mon-Thurs, 9am5pm, Fri 9am-6pm. Thru Jan. 3. Free. n/a, Santa Cruz.
Events LITERARY EVENTS Armchair Theater Local reader’s theater group will read selections from the novels and short stories of Ray Bradbury. Tue, Sep 17, 7pm. Free. Santa Cruz Central Branch Library, 224 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.427.7717.
Author Event: Laurie R. King Author and Santa Cruz native King will read from her newest mystery, “The Bones of Paris: A Novel of Suspense.” Sun, Sep 15, 7:30pm. Free. Bookshop
Book Group Mixer Those currently in or interested in joining a book group are invited to share their favorite reads and get staff suggestions. Wine and cheese will be served. Tue, Sep 17, 7pm. Free. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.
Poet/Speak Reading Open reading with featured reader Nora Grant. www. poetrysantacruz.org. Sun, Sep 15, 2pm. Free. Santa Cruz Central Branch Library, 224 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.464.8983.
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 ADHD Support Group A group meeting for adults with ADHD. Email Judy Brenis at jbbrenis@comcast.net for information. Second Wed of every month, 6:30-8pm. Aptos Fire Station Community Room, 6934 Soquel Drive, Aptos, 831.818.9691.
Beat Sanctuary A dance class for exploring authentic movement as connection, exercise, prayer and spiritual practice. Wed, 7:30-9:15pm. $15. A weekly class for exploring exercise and spirituality through dance. Wed, 7:30-9:15pm. $15. Santa Cruz Yoga, 402 Ingalls Street, Santa Cruz, 585.278.0080.
Climate Change Action Meeting A panel discussion on how to take immediate action regarding climate change. Hosted by the Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom. Tue, Sep 17, 7pm. Free/donation. Friends Quaker Meeting House, 225 Rooney St, Santa Cruz, 831.428.5096.
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.
Diabetes Lecture Sweet Fire, Sugar, Diabetes
& Your Health: Author Mary Toscano offers a crash course on sugar, insulin resistance and preventing diabetes. Wed, Sep 11, 6-7pm. Free. Staff of Life, 1266 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.8632.
Foster Parent Orientation
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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.
Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.0900.
Above the Line-Homes for Kids offers monthly informational meetings for potential foster parents. To register and get directions, please call Gail Lewis at 831.662.9081 x212 Second Wed of every month. 831.662.9081 x212.
Grief Support A lunchtime drop-in support group for adults grieving the death of a family member or friend. Fri, noon-6pm. free831.430.3000. Hospice of Santa Cruz County, 940 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley.
Homeopathy for Your Child In this lecture intended for soccer moms, author and homeopath Shelley Keneipp will discuss homeopathic remedies for both on and off the field. Sat, Sep 14, 11am12:30pm. Free. New Leaf Market Westside, 1101 Fair Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.426.1306x0.
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.
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.
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.
Qigong Flow Led by Bonnie Eskie, MFT. Tue, 10-11am. $10-$12. Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St, Santa Cruz, 831.515.4144.
Science Sunday Featuring a talk by Adina Payton, Research Professor at UCSC’s Institute of Marine Sciences. Sun, Sep 15, 1pm. Free with admission. Seymour Discovery Center, 100 Shaffer Rd, Santa Cruz, 831.459.3800.
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Felix Kulpa Gallery Kiss My Bronze, a show by Sheila Halligan-Waltz and Eike Waltz, is dedicated to the art of bronze castings. The personal stories and emotions of the artist are communicated through the most basic of shapes: squares and circles. Eike Waltz is a former German ballet dancer, and Sheila Halligan-Waltz studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. Gallery hours are Thursday through Sunday, noon-5pm at Felix Kulpa Gallery, 107 Elm St., Santa Cruz. The show is ongoing through Friday, Oct. 4. 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).
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 Lotus Center, 831.239.3900. Hatha Yoga with Debra Whizin, 831.588.8527.
AROUND TOWN Ceram-A-Rama Two days of clay/ceramic workshops, demonstrations, and even kiln-fired pizza. www.MountainsArtCenter.org. Sun, Sep 15, 11am-5pm. Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center, 9341 Mill St, Ben Lomond, 831.336.3513.
Comedy Showcase A new comedy showcase hosted by DNA featuring a different Bay Area headliner each week. Tue, 8:30pm. Free. Blue Lagoon, 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.7117.
Derby Girls The Santa Cruz Derby Girls Boardwalk Bombshells will take on the Silicon Valley Roller Girls Dot Kamikazes. Sat, Sep 14, 7:30pm. $12$28. Kaiser Permanente Arena, 140 Front St., Santa Cruz, 831.466.9117.
English Country Dance Second and fourth Thursdays of each month; beginners welcome. Second Thu of every month. $5-$7. First Congregational Church of Santa Cruz, 900 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.426.8621.
Family Legacy Day Volunteers will help locate family and community members’ burial plots, demonstrate how to make stone rubbings, and provide tours of the cemetery. Sat, Sep 14, 1-3pm. Free. Evergreen Cemetery, Evergreen Street near Harvey West Park, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.
Jazz Achievement Awards The Jazz Society of Santa Cruz will honor Lile Cruse and Michele Rivard with the annual Outstanding Achievement Award. Sun, Sep 15, 5-7:30pm. Bocci’s Cellar, 140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz, 831.427.1795.
PechaKucha Lectures
Wetlands Tours Wetlands Alive! Informational tours offered by Watsonville Wetlands Watch. Sat, Sep 14, 10am. Fitz Educational Center, Pajaro Valley High School, Watsonville, 831.345.1226.
A selection of speakers discussing their Santa Cruz experience in the PechaKucha format: 20 images shown for 20 seconds each. Fri, Sep 13, 6:30-8pm. Free. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.
San Francisco’s City Guide
AlunaGeorge Led by Aluna Francis, UK electronic duo carves out expertly rendered modern pop. Sep 11 at the Independent.
Julia Holter A wild galaxy wisps blissfully through her latest album, ‘Loud City Song.’ Sep. 12 at Great American Music Hall.
Local Natives Someone call the Wrecking Crew—the 1970s Laurel Canyon sound is back. Sep 12 at the Fox Theater.
Talib Kweli Brooklyn MC with new grammatically challenged album ‘Prisoner of Conscious’ plays free in-store. Sep 14 at Amoeba SF.
Rock the Bells Kendrick, Tyler, A$AP, Earl, Deltron, Keef, Danny, Riff Raff, more; bonus ODB & Eazy-E holograms. Sep 14-15 at Shoreline Amphitheatre. More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.
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Beatscape GET DOWNS Songstress Lila Downs plays the Rio Tuesday.
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KEPI GHO GHOULIE OULIE Just to rremind emind us all that rrock occk and rroll oll can be heree ar aree the comple complete true art, her ete lyrics to KKepi epi Ghoulie’s “That’s That”: Ghoulie ’s 35-second song “T That’s That ”: “I need need you like the flowers ne eed the rrain/I ain/I need brains/I you like zombies need br ains/I need you like a you witch needs a hat/I need yo ou like black needs that’s a cat/I need you/And that ’ss that.” That is all. Crepe (Steve Palopoli) Cr epe Place; $5; 9pm. (S teve P alopoli)
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LILA DOW DOWNS WNS If P Pocahontas ocahontas and Frida KKahlo ahloo had a gor gorgeous geous love child who could sing rreally, eallyy, rreally eaally well, it would be Oaxaca, gorgeous, Lila Downs.. A native of Oaxaca a,, her voice is gor geous, beat-poet with a splash of cutting beat-poet style rrap. ap. Thirteen haven’t albums haven ’t managed to peg p down one single experiments sound ffor or Downs;; she experim ments with her own traditionals, take on Mexican-American tr a aditionals, , and harkens back to her indigenous rroots. oots.. She can also sing in never heardd of of,f, languages most of us have ne ever even hear like mixtec, zapotec, nahuatl and a p'urhepecha. Rio Theatre; Theatr e;; $35 gen/$50 gold;; 8pm. 8 (AMH)
BORN AGAIN After killing it at the SJ Jazz Summerfest, Lyrics Born comes to Moe’s Alley.
Friday, September 13 U 7 pm | No Comps
PATTI MAXINE AND FRIENDS Santa Cruz lap steel master!
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Concerts NATURAL VIBRATIONS Sep. 12 at Moe’s Alle
STORY ROAD
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Sep. 15 at Catalyst
MIDLAKE
Sep. 21 at Rio Theatre
MICHAEL HURLEY
Sep. 27 at Crepe Place
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BANDA BAND DA MAGDA Red lipstick, dark-winged d eyes, a striped white black and wh ite blouse—Magda g Giannikou lookss like the delightfully sul sultry look try singer you’d hope to find find in in an edgy underground underground Paris Paris café, caf é, where where the th he air is thick with smoke and cool. Singing about l’amour no less, the Greek-born Gr eek-born film film composer and new queen brought of coy has br o ought together an intriguing group musicians moree gr oup of mus icians ffor or an even mor intriguing sound. souund. She’s She’s got a whisper of a voice, that comes c with surprising bouts of fforce orce and oozes o nostalgic mid-century France, delivering cheekyy jazz manouche and Fr ance, delive ering cheek Brazilian bossa—listen “Caramel” Br azilian boss sa—listen to “C aramel”” on her debut album. Don Quixote's; $12 $ adv/$15 $ door; 7:30pm.. (AMH)
Saturday, September 14 U 8 pm
BENEFIT FOR THE INSIDE MEN’S FOUNDATION Tickets: brownpapertickets.com
Monday, September 16 U 7 pm | No Comps
DAVE DOUGLAS QUINTET Cutting-edge trumpeter/composer Thursday, September 19 U 7 pm
BEN GOLDBERG: UNFOLD ORDINARY MIND NELS CLINE – GUITAR; ELLERY ESKELIN AND ROB SUDDUTH – SAXOPHONES; CHES SMITH – DRUMS 1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS
DIRECT FROM SPAIN: 3 NIGHTS BAY AREA FLAMENCO FESTIVAL Sun. Sept. 22 U CONCHA VARGAS Fri. Sept. 27 U DAVID SERVA & FRIENDS Sun. Oct. 6 U GEMA MONEO Tickets: bayareaflamencofestival.org Thursday, September 26 U 7 pm | No Comps
MIGUEL ZENON’S RHYTHM COLLECTIVE
Jazz backbeat fused with alto saxophonist’s Afro-Caribbean roots Saturday, September 28 U 9 pm $5 @ CLUB KUUMBWA: SOUR MASH HUG BAND door An irresistible mix of old-time, gypsy, bluegrass, jazz, Irish, and ragtime Monday, September 30 U 7 pm
DAYNA STEPHENS GROUP FEATURING REMY & PASCAL LEBOEUF Thursday, October 3 U 7 & 9 pm | No Comps
YELLOWJACKETS
9 PM: 1/2 PRICE NIGHT FOR STUDENTS Monday, October 7 U 7 pm | No Comps
CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE TRIO 10/10 10/14 10/17 10/18
The Claudia Quintet Paula West Steve Lehman Trio 1/2 Price Night for Students John Medeski in concert, GOLD CIRCLE solo piano OUT! Jaimeo Brown’s SOLD Transcendence
10/21 10/24 Steve Wilson Opportunity Knockiing CD Release Party 10/28 Patricia Barber Trio 10/28 Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri “Transylvanian Concert”
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.
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LLyrics yyrics Born rrecently ecently killed it at a the San Jose Summerfest. Paying tribute Jazz Summerf est. P aying trib bute to James Brown, producer Br own, the tastemaking rrapper appper and pr oducer define hip-hop who helped to def ine ‘90s hip p-hop with projects—including his various pr ojects—includiing Solesides, Quannum and Latyrx—had Latyrx had the t audience rreveling eveling in the music of JJ.B. .B. aass he led a full through funkyy pace paces. band thr ough the funk es. SStaying taying true to breaks fform, orm, he sprinkled the br eaks with his rrapid-fire apid-fire rhymes and emcee flourishess and by the end of the night, he had sated the musical m appetites of Saturday, both funkateers and hip-hopp heads.. Satur dayy, he brings the band, horns andd all, to town. Moe’s door; Moe ’s Alley; $15 adv/$20 doo or;; 9pm. (CJ)
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CUTIE AND THE BOXER (R; 82 min) Documentary about the 40-year marriage between boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife Noriko, who is also an artist and longs to be out of his shadow. (Opens Fri at the Nick) DRINKING BUDDIES (R; 90 min) Indie rom-com has Olivia Wilde and Jake Johnson as brewery workers in other relationships with other people. Their boundaries get blurry while their speech gets slurry. (Opens Fri at the Nick) THE FAMILY (R) French
director Luc Besson directed and co-wrote this dark crime comedy that stars Robert DeNiro and Michelle Pfeiffer as the heads of a mafia family that gets re-located to France as part of the Witness Protection Program, but have trouble giving up their old ways. “Are vous talking to moi? Zer is no one else he-uh!” (Opens Fri at 41st Ave, Scotts Valley, Green Valley) INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (PG-13; 105 min) When we last saw the Lambert family, they were pretty screwed (spoiler alert!). The original Saw team of director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell returns for a second installment of their
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surprise horror hit that was pretty much the anti-Saw— all mood and psychological heebie-jeebies, with none of the Jigsaw grisliness. (Opens Fri at 41st Ave, Cinema 9, Scotts Valley, Green Valley) THE PATIENCE STONE (R; 102 min) In an occurrence roughly as likely as seeing a unicorn, Afghan writer Atiq Rahimi gets to actually direct the adaptation of his own novel, based on a Persian fable about a magic stone in which one can confide all problems. The stone, this time, is a man in war-torn Afghanistan. When a bullet in the neck reduces him to a vegetative state, his wife begins to confide in him all the things that would
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otherwise go unsaid. (Opens Fri at the Nick) SHORT TERM 12 See review, page 35 (Opens Fri at Del Mar)
Reviews ADORE (R; 100 min) Robin Wright and Naomi Watts star in this adaptation of a Doris Lessing novella about childhood friends in relationships with each other’s sons—one affair begun out of love, the other revenge. BLUE JASMINE (PG-13; 98 min) If Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Louis C.K. and Andrew Dice Clay are in a movie together, you know
either the apocalypse is going down, or there’s a new Woody Allen film. His neverending movie tour of the world’s great cities has finally stopped in San Francisco, to which Blanchett’s character Jasmine escapes after her life gets a seismic shake up. THE BUTLER (Pg-13; 132 min) Forrest Whitaker stars as a butler in the White House who gets to meet Oprah. CLOSED CIRCUIT (R; 96 min) Paranoia flicks keep trying to make a comeback, but it just never quite happens. The poster for this one has the tagline “They See Your Every Move,” with Eric Bana looking nervous. Is he worried someone will accidentally stumble across
Showtimes are for Wednesday, Sept. 11, through Wednesday, Sept. 18, unless otherwise indicated. Programs and showtimes are subject to change without notice.
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One Direction:This Is Us 3D—Wed-Thu 2:50; 5:15; 7:35; 9:55; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters —Wed-Thu 1:20; 7:25; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. Riddick — Wed-Thu 12; 2:45; 6:15; 7; 9; 9:50; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. The Butler — Wed 12:40; 4:10; 7:10; 10:10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones — Wed-Thu 4:30; 10; Fri-Wed call
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Insidious: Chapter 2 — (Opens Fri) 11; 2:10; 4:45; 7:30; 10:10pm. The Family — (Opens Fri) 11:10; 1:45; 4:30; 7:15; 9:55pm. Riddick — Wed-Thu 11:20; 1:30; 4:20; 7; 9:45pm.
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Blue Jasmine — Wed-Thu 3; 5:10; 7:20; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 12:50. The Spectacular Now — Wed-Thu 2:30; 4:45; 7; 9:10 plus Sat-Sun 12:20pm. Short Term 12 — Wed-Thu 2:50; 5; 7:10; 9:20; plus Sat-Sun 12:40pm.
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We’re the Millers — Wed 1:10; 4:40; 7:40; 10:30 Thu 1:10; 4:40; 7:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.
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Insidious: Chapter 2 — (Opens Fri) Fri-Thu 11:45; 2:20; 4:55; 7:30; 10:10pm. The Family — (Opens Fri) Fri-Thu 11:20; 2; 4:40; 7:20; 9; 10pm. Blue Jasmine — Wed-Thu 11:10; 1:45; 4:10; 6:45; 9:15pm. Despicable Me 2 — Wed-Thu 11; 2:20pm. Elysium — Wed-Thu 4:30; 7; 9:30pm. Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters — Wed-Thu 11:10; 1:45pm. Planes — Wed-Thu 11; 1:30; 4; 6:30pm. Riddick — Wed-Thu 11:30; 1:30; 4:20; 7:10; 10pm. The Butler — Wed-Thu 12:15; 3:30; 6:45; 9:45pm. The Spectacular Now — Wed-Thu 4:30; 9:30pm. The Way, Way Back — Wed-Thu 11:30; 2; 7pm. We’re The Millers — Wed-Thu 4:45; 7:30; 10:10pm.
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Insidious: Chapter 2 —(Opens Fri) Fri-Thu 1:45; 4:30; 7:30; 10:15; plus Sat-Sun 11:15am. The Family — (Opens Fri) Fri-Thu 1:25; 4:10; 7; 10:15; plus Sat-Sun 11am. Elysium — Wed-Thu 1:35; 7:15pm. Getaway — Wed-Thu 4:20; 10; plus Sat-Sun 11:15am. Instructions Not Included — Wed-Thu 1:25; 4:10; 7; 9:45; plus Sat-Sun 10:50am. Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters — Daily 4:10pm. Planes — Wed-Thu 1:45; 4:30; plus Sat-Sun 11:15am. Riddick — Wed-Thu 1:45; 4:30; 7:30; 10:15; plus Sat-Sun 11am. The Butler — Wed-Thu 1:35; 4:20; 7:15; 10; plus Sat-Sun 10:50am. The Grandmaster — Wed-Thu 7:30; 10pm. We’re the Millers — Wed-Thu 1:25; 7; 9:45; plus Sat-Sun 11am.
his crappy Hulk movie? Nah, he’s got bigger problems in this British crime thriller. He plays one of the lawyers involved in a huge terrorism case, which would be all well and good if the opposing lawyer (played by Rebecca Hall) wasn’t his former lover. When things start to point to a cover up, you have to hope this sentence ends before giving away spoilers. 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. ELYSIUM Neill Blomkamp, director of the refreshingly smart sci-fi flick District 9, goes full-on big-budget Hollywood action for this story set in 2154 about Matt Damon doomed to a bleak life on a broken-down Earth overrun by crime and disease. (I kinda feel like Ben Affleck deserved it more, but whatever.) When he needs a miracle cure, he infiltrates Elysium, a giant space-station to which the elite have escaped. THE GETAWAY (PG-13) Wait, Ethan Hawke gets a comeback? And now he’s playing a race-car driver named Brent Magna? Okay, that makes sense. In this thriller, Brent Magna’s wife is kidnapped, and then he has to drive around places for reasons, and Selena Gomez plays some girl whose car he steals who just happens to be a whiz-kid computer hacker. This is all true, except the part about it making sense. THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES (PG-13; 130 min) Cassandra Clare’s popular young adult series gets a film adaptation, with a young emo cast straight out of Twilight central casting. But this is nothing like Twilight, we swear, because see it’s about demons, not vampires. And yes, there are magical people who fight
the demons, but it’s nothing like Harry Potter, we swear. For instance, in Harry Potter people who don’t know about the supernatural world are called Muggles, but here they’re called Mundanes. ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US (PG; 92 min) Boy band music documentary may very likely be mistaken for an instructional driving film by anyone over 15. PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS (PG; 106 min) Oh, it’s on! Nerds everywhere are already filling Internet message boards with fabulously uninteresting debates about whether Percy Jackson is better than Harry Potter. This is the second PJ adaptation, featuring Percy and company on a quest to find the Golden Fleece. PLANES (G; 92 min.) This spin-off of Cars was originally supposed to go directto-video, but apparently theatrical audiences can’t get enough of kids’ movies about things that long to do other things, but can’t because of reasons, but then do. So here you go. RIDDICK (R; 119 min) At the turn of the century, David Twohy’s Pitch Black was a new kind of sci-fi thrill: an Alien rip-off with none of the grit and grime that those movies obsessed over. Instead, it had a slick, comic-book sensibility and Vin Diesel at his badassest. Unfortunately, the 2004 sequel Chronicles of Riddick kind of overplayed those comic-book aspects, wrapping Vin Diesel’s character up in a space-opera plot. Nobody thought the would-be franchise would ever recover; weirdly, Diesel himself was the guy who provided the muscle to get this new sequel made. He and Twohy fought for it for years, and almost a decade later, this threequel is kind of a mix of the first two films—grounding the action again on a single planet, where Diesel has to face off against nasty aliens, but including a subplot that has Riddick threatened by his past. WE’RE THE MILLERS (R; 110 min.) Filling the no-doubt massive audience demand to see the last vestiges of their ’90s innocence ruined by seeing Jennifer Aniston play a stripper, this comedy stars Jason Sudeikis as a pot dealer who enlists a random group of weirdos to be his fake family so he can smuggle drugs in from Mexico.
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Teens in a group home get guidance from a young social worker dealing with her own family issues in Short Term 12 BY RICHARD VON BUSACK
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RIE LARSON is the most exciting thing about Short Term 12, and it’s a high quality, honestly touching film as it stands. We don’t see the dark-eyed Larson in full face much for the first two thirds of the film; she acts in profile, or with her hair eclipsing one side of her face. Larson has the ability to turn down the candlepower, to look ordinary. A really serious actor has to show conviction in himself. But the starsto-be are the ones who can show that kind of conviction when they’re doing something terribly wrong. Larson was the genial ex in The Spectacular Now, who had dumped the hero for reasons we didn’t understand at first … and later understood quite well. Here, she’s the aptly named Grace, a social worker: the uncannily serene main woman at
a Southern California home for kids. It’s a kind of halfway house between juvenile hall and the parents who lost or gave up custody. Somewhere during the development of the film, it must have been decided to make Grace something like the lead in a Kathryn Bigelow film. She even picks up and racks a gun … in the sense that she’s armed with a super-soaker to blast the kids that won’t get out of bed on time. We follow Grace, looking over her shoulder, watching her compassionate yet efficient handling of the daily problems around her. And we see the gradual revelation of what she has been shutting down inside herself. The expression “shutting down” could be used literally. Grace is considering an abortion. She’s learned she’s been impregnated by her live-in
and co-worker Mason (a hairy, selfdeprecating, motherly goof played by John Gallagher Jr). That’s when the barely adolescent Jayden turns up at the home. She’s played by the soon to be famous Kaitlyn Dever, one of the movie’s three standouts. It surprises Grace, just as it surprises us, to learn how much the social worker has in common with this wry, troubled kid. Jayden’s problems precipitate the crisis Grace has been smothering in herself. Director Destin Cretton worked in just such a home for a couple of years, and the details are all believable—the incident, for example, when the too well-dressed, condescending Nate (Rami Malek) makes an ass out of himself by declaring “I always wanted to work with underprivileged kids.” The sense of shame is palpable in the
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confessions drawn out through art therapy: through a tragic children’s story Jayden draws, as bitter as wormwood and absolutely free of schmaltz. Young Marcus (the amazing Keith Stanfield), the unit’s short timer, stops this show with a blistering poem about the way his crack-prostitute mother treated him. Short Term 12 finishes with a happy ending. Some will feel they’re owed such an ending, just hearing the outline of this film. I could have used something more open-ended. The film doesn’t always work—some lover’s talk over the stove at Grace and Mason’s house is fairly stiff. The liveins in Short Term 12 are all children who had things done to them. I knew a few foster children growing up—goodhearted, witty, extremely charismatic kids—but a couple of them were serious hellions. They lashed out first. Except for a pretty good joke about Jayden wanting to rebel by putting pictures of penises on her wall, we don’t learn what happens when these kids try to express their sexuality. I’m not saying I wanted it depicted. I’m saying I wanted to see what happens when they tried to act it out. You see, the trick in Short Term 12 is that we’re on the side of the people who run this panopticon, understanding the necessity of their rules, the no-closed-doors policy, the constant searchings of the rooms for contraband. It’s probably the first film since One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest that has been on the side of the flawed institution. When Grace tells Jayden, “Your attitude is not helping either one of us,” and one agrees it’s true, this sympathy she creates with the powers that be must, ultimately, be due to the sheer power of the actress saying the line.
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AL FRESCO FOR A CAUSE Darrie Ganzhorn from the Homeless Garden Project wil be part of a panel discussion at the HGP farm supper on Saturday, Oct. 5.
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teaming up for a gala farm supper to benefit the Homeless Garden Project on Saturday, Oct. 5 at 3pm at the HGP’s Santa Cruz farm. The multi-course al fresco meal will be prepared by top local chefs including Brad Briske of La Balena, Kendra Baker from the Penny Ice Creamery, Passionfish’s Ted Walter and Sierra Mar/Post Ranch Inn’s John Cox. Tickets are $75 and will include a farm tour, local wines, all-organic ingredients, music by Casey Frazier and a panel
discussion on “Food, Community and the Health of the Central Coast.” Participating in the discussion will be Live Earth Farm’s Tom Broz, New Leaf Markets’ Scott Roseman, Darrie Ganzhorn from the Homeless Garden Project, Tabitha Stroup from Friend in Cheeses Jam Company and reps from Second Harvest Food Bank. It should be a spectacular harvest afternoon with exciting food and stimulating discussion. Come and honor our local food heroes. This event will sell out quickly! Purchase tickets at https://fallfarmsupper-localheroes. eventbrite.com.
LA POSTA DELIVERS: Brick Pressed
Chicken—pollo al mattone—at La Posta takes the humble fowl to new levels of wow. The four of us plowed through some of La Posta’s menu last week and found ourselves loving big bowls of green tagliatelle with housemade sausage, sensuous manicotti and a good-looking entree of chicken al mattone, “under the brick.” Bronzed and moist, the Fog Line Farms chicken breast arrived wrapped in prosciutto, which ramped up the poultry's flavor even more. Accompanying were plump squares of spinach polenta and roast artichokes—indecently fabulous! Housemade Santa
Rosa plum ice cream with greengage plums made intriguing dessert flavor contrasts. Not only does this kitchen never, ever disappoint, but the service just cannot be touched. Warm and forthcoming…More great salads from the surprising kitchen of Pizzeria Avanti. Last week’s special showcased tender local Monterey Bay calamari in a salad with radicchio and cabbage, avocados and exceptional heirloom tomatoes. Stunning. WINES TO LOVE: Check out the 2010 Pecchenino Dolcetto San Luigi ($18 @ Shoppers), a big, lusty, not-simplistic bit of blackberry-laden red wine with a suggestion of bay leaves and iron oxide in its deep tissue. It is absolutely out of the ballpark with pastas and pizza, and definitely a partner to barbequed items, from pork chops to chicken. Treat yourself!...Denis Hoey of Odonata is smiling a lot over his latest bins of grapes. He believes the harvest this year not only “looks very good,” but so far represents a distinct improvement over last year’s. Taste Hoey’s wines at the appealing Odonata Tasting Room located at 2343 Mission Street next to Companion Bakeshop. The 2013 vintage might be one to watch… Bargetto Winery once again has revealed its playful side with a new red wine release, Tuxedo Red, named for the winery’s resident feline and labeled with a charming image of Tux created by artist Vanda Lavar ($18). The black and white cat, beloved of the tasting room manager and company, is also the official mascot of the Bargetto 80th anniversary (1933-2013) Harvest Dinner happening on Oct. 5. Call (831) 475-2258 for details and reservations…Gourmet Grazing on the Green is Sept. 21 at Aptos Village Park, noon-4pm. Enjoy live music, fine wines, locally crafted beers and oodles of tasting from fine local restaurants. $65 benefits the Santa Cruz Cancer Benefit Group. 0
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FO O D IE FIL E Chip Scheuer
Pono Hawaiian Grill Owner, ‘Braddah’ Timmy Hunt
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wo years ago, “Braddah” Timmy Hunt, former co-owner of Aloha Island Grill, opened Pono Hawaiian Grill with the intention of offering authentic Hawaiian cuisine, but in a way that was healthier and uniquely creative. We chatted with Hunt about his restaurant, his special poke bowls and what makes Hawaiian food authentic.
SCW: What do you do to keep your food authentically Hawaiian, while still aiming to make it healthier? BRADDAH: If you were to go to a
traditional place in Hawaii right now that’s been there for at least 10 years, you would find it would be a lot of carbs—very heavy, greasy, unhealthy. Hawaii has very much been changing with all the diabetes that’s been going on over there, all the people that have been gluten intolerant, but didn’t know it. We’ve taken all of those things into account. We have a big melting pot of people and cultures. People started to realize, we can actually create a style, if you will, called mixed plate. It’s the availability of having each culture’s food. So our spin on it is still very traditional. We have all the staples. But we round it out by having creative salads, poke bowls, wraps. We would be taking something like chicken katsu or the chicken teriyaki, and utilizing those ingredients in a lighter style, like organic rice or fresh greens in a wrap, or seaweed salad instead of the macaroni salad. It’s pretty limitless, what we’re able to do. Your poke bar (and poke bowls) are really popular. What is poke?
It would be like a Hawaiian-style sashimi. Poke in the Hawaiian language essentially means to slice, cut or cube. The misconception is people think it’s just ahi tuna, and it’s not. Anything can be turned into poke. Tofu can be used as poke. Salmon, scallops. Historically, Hawaiian poke, they utilized the ingredients that they had on hand when they pulled the fish from the ocean. They would cube their fish, and they would add something called inamona which comes from the kukui nut, which was almost like a salty seasoning. They would also use a Hawaiian salt. Then they would take limu, which is different types of seaweed that grew in areas, and they would mix all of those ingredients together. What’s the dish on your menu that most reminds you of home? Lau Lau is something that always brings me back home, because Lau Lau was something you couldn’t get very often. It was made in smaller batches. It was something they had just on Sundays. It’s a traditional Hawaiian dish that is wrapped in seaweed and taro leaf. It’s slow cooked for about 5-6 hours. You open it up and there’s spinach inside there. You eat the spinach and it has pork shoulder. It is to die for.—Aaron Carnes
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ALOHA 2.0 ‘Braddah’ Timmy Hunt is putting an innovative spin on Hawaiian food at Pono, while keeping traditional staples.
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SCORPIO (O (Oct. ct 23-Nov. ct. 23-Nov Nov. 21): The cosmos her hereby eby grants poetic brazen gr ants you poet ic license to be br azen in your craving cr aving ffor or the best b and brightest experiences . . . uninhibited eeding your obsessions and to be uninhibite ed in ffeeding work making them wo ork ffor or you . . . to be shameless as you pursue exactly and a only what you rreally, eallyy, rreally eally want moree than anyth anything offer, mor hing else. This is a limited time off err, although al though it mayy be extended if you pounce eagerly advantage. and take full adv vantage. For best rresults, esults, suspend purge your pursuit of trivial t wishes and pur ge yourself of complaints life. your bitchy com mplaints about lif e. SAGITTARIUS SAGITTAR RIUS (Nov (Nov.. 22 22-Dec. -Dec. 21): A Att the last minute, Elsa Oliv ver impulsively canceled her vacation Oliver to New YYork. oork. Shee had a hunch that something exciting would happen iff instead she stayed at her home in later,, she got a message inviting England. A ffew ew hours h later contestant her to be a cont estant on the UK television show Who Wants Waants To To Be a Millionaire? M Millionaire?? In the days and week weekss followed, she shhe won the equivalent of $100,000. that followed, I’m not pr predicting edictinng anything quite as dr dramatic amatic ffor or you, Sagittarius.. But I do suspect that good luck is lurking in unexp unexpected pected places, and to gather it in you may have to trust trust your intuition, stay alert for for latebreaking alter breaking shifts in i ffate, ate, and be willing to al ter your plans. CAPRICORN N (Dec. 22 22-Jan. -Jan. 19): “The only thing standing between b you and your goal,” writes author Jordan Belfort, American autho or Jor dan Belf ort, “is the bullshit story can’t ’t achieve you keep telling yourself as to why you can don’t entirely agree Theree may it.”” I don ’t entir e agr ely ee with that idea. Ther obstacles control. be other obstac les over which you have little contr ol. But the bullshit story is often more more than half the problem. that’s pr oblem So tha oblem. t’ss the bad news, news CCapricorn. apricorn The good apricorn. right news is that righ ht now is a magic moment in your you moree power than usual to fr free destiny when yo ou have mor ee yourself of your own personal bullshit story. story. AQUARIUS S (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Is the truth a clear clear,r, bright, shiny treasure, treasure, like a big diamond glittering in the sunlight? Does it have an objective existence that’s that’s independent independent of our feelings feelings about it? Or is the truth a fuzzy fuzzy, esembles a y, convoluted thing that rresembles stream through underground stream of smokee snaking thr ough an under ground cavern? Does it have a diff different or every erent meaning ffor mind that seeks seeks to grasp grasp it? The answer, answer, of course, is: both. Sometimes Sometimes the truth is a glittering diamond and at other times it it’s or you right t’s a stream stream of smoke. But ffor now, latter.. YYou now, Aquarius, the t truth is the latter oou must have a high toler tolerance cultivate ancee ffor or ambiguity as you cul tivate your relationship It’s secrets relationship withh it it. It ’ss more more likely to rreveal eveal its secr ets if you maintain a flexible and cagey frame frame of mind. PISCES (Feb. (Feb. 19-Mar 19-March ch 20): It It’s ’s a good time to wide-open, indulge in wide-open, high-flying, anything-goes love—IF, antasies about love—IF ffantasies F, that is . . . IF you also do something ppractical ractical to help those ffantasies antasies encourage dream come true. So I eencour age you to dr eam about rrevolutionizing evolutionizing your y rrelationship elationship with rromance omance intimacy—as and intimacy— as long as you also make specific adjustments in your y own attitudes and behavior that moree likely likely.. TTwo moree tips: 1. will make the rrevolution e evolution mor wo w mor Free from Fr ee yourself fr o dogmatic beliefs you might have om love’s possibilities. Work increase ’s pos about love ssibilities. 2. W ork to incr ease your lusty capacity ffor or lust ty trust and trusty lust.
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ARIES (Mar (March ch 21-April 19): ““A A good story should break eak your make you laugh, and a moment llater ater br wrote Palahniuk heart,” wr ote Chuck P alahniuk in his book SStranger trraanger Than Fiction. From From what I can tell, tell, Aries, the sequence is the reverse reverse for for you. In your story, storyy, the disruption has already already happened. Next comes the thhe part where where you laugh. It may be a sardonic sardonic chuckle chuckkle at first, as you become aware aware of the illusions you yoou had been under before joltt exposed them. Eventually Eveentually I expect you before the jol will be ggiggling eternally gg g and ggleeful,, etern nallyy gr ggrateful ateful ffor or the tricky freed pursue moree complete tricky luck that fr eed you to purs ue a mor version of your fondest fondest dream. dream. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): TTaurus aaurus musician David Byrne was asked by an inter interviewer view wer to compose a seven-word autobiography. essponse, he came up seven-word autobiogr aphy. In rresponse, with ten wor words: unprocessed, ds: ““unfinished, unfinished, unpr rocessed, uncertain, unknown, unadorned, under underarms, armss, underpants, unfrozen, unfussy.” unfrozen, unsettled, unfussy .” Thee coming days would be an excellent time ffor carry or you to ca arry out similar assignments. I’d love to see you expr eexpress ess the essential truth about yourself in bold and playful ways. I will also be happy if you make it clea clear ar that even though you’re work-in-progress, ave a succinct you’re a work-in-pr ogress, you hhave understanding of what you need and who you ar aree becoming. GEMINI (May (M 21 2121-June J June 20) 20): Th The h Fr he FFrench enchh wor wordd sillage means “wake,”” like the tr trail a cr ail created eated behind a boat as it zips thr through water.. In English, ough water E it rrefers efers to the fr fragrance agrance that rremains emains in thee air after a person wearing perfume or cologne pas passes by.. For our ses by purposes, we will expand the defi definition finition to include any influences and impr impressions essions left behind b by a powerful presence scene. astrological presence who has exited the sce ne. In my astr ological opinion, Gemini, sillagee is a key ttheme heme ffor or you to monitor in the coming days. Be alert a ffor or it. SStudy tudy it. It will be a sour source information that ormation th ce of inf hat helps you make good decisions. CANCER (June 2121-July July 22): “C “Cataglottism” Cataglottism” is a rarely wordd that hass the same meaning rarely used English wor as Fr French liberal ench kissing —engaging in liber al use of the tongue as you make out. But I do don’t on’t rrecommend ecommend that you incorpor incorporate inelegant, guttural ate such an inelegan nt, guttur al term into your vocabulary vocabulary.. Imagine yoursel yourselff thinking, while in the midst of Fr French you’ree doing ench kissing, that what you’r is ““cataglottism.” pleasuree would probably obably be cataglottism.” YYour oour pleasur w pr diminished. This truth applies in a br broader oader sense, too. The language you use to fr frame ame your y experience has a dr dramatic amatic impact on how it all unf uunfolds. olds. The coming week will be an excellent time too experiment with this principle. See if you can incr increase ease your levels of joy and gr grace what’s ’s happening ace by describing what h to you with beautiful and positive wor words. ds. LEO (July 23-Aug. 23-Aug. 22): This is Co Correct orrect YYour oour First Impressions Week. It’s Impr essions W eek. It ’s a perfect perfect time t ffor or you to that aree based on rre-evaluate e-evaluate any of your beliefs th hat ar perceptions. Aree you mistaken ffacts acts or superficial per c ceptions. Ar open p to the possibility p y that you y might m g have jjumped p to unwarranted Aree yo you unwar ranted conclusions? Ar ou willing to question hardened certainties that har dened in you after just a brief exposuree to complicated pr processes? Correct exposur ocessses? During Cor rect Impressions Week, humble YYour our o First Impr essions W eek, hum mble examination prejudices greatest of your fixed pr ejudices is one off the gr eatest gifts yourself.. P P.S. you can give yourself .S. . This is a good time to rereconnect with a person you have unjustly judged as unworthy of you. VIRGO (Aug. 23 23-Sept. -Sept. 22): Thiss is a good time to free free yourself from from a curse that ann immature immature soul placed on you once upon a time. I’m not talking about a literal literal spell cast by a master masster of the dark arts. Rather Rather,r, I’m referring referring to an abusive abbusive accusation that was heaped on you, perhapss inadvertently inadvertently,, by a careless careless person whose own pain made them stupid. As astrological omens, As I evaluate the astr ological om ens, I conclude that you now have the power to dissolve dissoolve this curse all by yourself. don’t wizard yourself. YYou ou don ’t need a wiza ard or a witch to handle it for for you. Follow your intuition intuuition for for clues on how to proceed. Here’s suggestion proceed. Her e’s a sugges tion to stimulate your imagination: Visualize the curse as a dark purple rose. rose. See yourself hurling it into a vat of molten molten gold. LIBRA (Sept. 23 23-Oct. -Oct. 22): The cur ccurrent rent chapter of your life life story may not be quite as a epic as I think it is, so my advice may sound melodramatic. meloodramatic. 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