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Just Lik Like ke Steven Zi Zirnkilt kiltton t Said S id Zirnkilton Sorry, Sor ry, but bu ut I can't w wait a ait for for o part part 2 o off yyour our o “Recidivism and Public Safety Cruz” “R ecidivisman dPub blicSaf feety in Santa San ntaCr uz” (Jan. (J an. 29). T The he first first one on ne was was h horrendous. orrendous. What does hope Wh at d oes Mr. Mrr. Roubal Ro oubal h ope tto o accomplish, people accom plish, short short of of demonizing demonizing peo ple who hee understand w ho are are arrested? arrested? Doesn't Do oesn't h understand that there why th at th ere is a vvery eery good good o rreason eason w hy we we have have off ac action against “criminals”— ttwo wo llevels evels o cttion ag a ainst “c criminals”— thee po police th lice and and the the courts? co ourts? Each Each has has a vvery eery important im portan nt job job to to do. do. (Hasn't (Hasn't he he eever veer watched watched Order?) Law and Or rd der??)) The The police police respond respond to to what what they consider threats public th ey con sider to to be thr t ea atts tto o pub lic safety. saffeetyy. Sometimes they're sometimes they're Som etimes th ey're right, right, som etimes th ey're wrong. wr ong. That That is the the function fu uncti t on of of the the judge: judge: to to (ideally) patiently and fullyy eexamine (id eally) p attien nttlly an nd full xamin a e the the thee cir circumstances, thee ““crime,” crime,” the the accused, accused d, th cumstances, th options, thee o ptions, etc. etc. And And then then e to to determine, determine, tto o th bestt of her whether there's "there" bes of h er ability, abilityy, w hether th ere's a "th ere" there—whether there th ere—w whether th erre is enough enough of of a threat threa at to to
pub public blic saf safety feety to to w warrant arrant llocking ocking som someone e eu eon up, p, a att great gr eat pub ea public lic eexpense, xpense, ffor or a per o period iod o off ti time. ime. D Mr Does Mr. r. R Roubal oubal ser seriously iously eexpect xpecct llocal o ocal merchants m e chan er ntts tto o pos postt his p photos? hotos? An And d th then hen w what? hatt? Call Cal ll th thee police police every eveery time time one one of of his “p “perps” perps” w a s in alk to a sstore? tore? Or d own w th treett? Or walks into down thee sstreet? (h eaveen fforbid) ea o orrbid) b si ts on a bench bench for for o 611 min utes? (heaven sits minutes? I think w o bett er th an pos tin ng wee can d do better than posting pictures pi cttures o off peo people ple w who ho h happen appen tto o gget et arr arrested ested more m o e th or than an on once. ce. Robert Ro Rottenberg ottenberg Sa anta Cruz Santa Oh, h, you should definitely rread ead e part two, t Rob bert. It’s on page 8. — Editor Robert.
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B Bike Facts? F acts? a Re:: “N Re: “Never ever Forget Forget Josh Josh Alper” Alper” (Cover, (Cover er, Jan. Jan. 8): While While I am sad abou aboutt the the death dea ath t an and d Iw welcome elcome th thee infr infrastructure, astructure I th thought ou ught
that th that thee tone tone o off th this his ar article ticle was was hig highly hly mis misleading leading oth otherwise. errwise. If I rread ead this, I w would ould be afr afraid aid o off cy cycling cling because cy cyclists clists ar a aree “v “vulnerable.” ulnerable.” T This his is p proven roven b byy th thee ffact a acct th that at ov over veer 30,000 peo people ple di motor-vvehicle rrelated elated co llisions. diee in motor-vehicle collisions. Oo ps, I’m sorr y, abou ple di e, Oops, sorry, aboutt 30,000 peo people die, a yyear, earr, in m otor vvehicles. ehicles. M any o em ar motor Many off th them aree so sober ber an and d ar aree cchildren. hiildren. Onl Onlyy ar around ound 70 700 00 or so cy cyclists clists di diee eac each h yyear ear in th thee U.S. Iff this w were ere on a lis list, t, iitt w would ould n ot be am ong th op 10 kill ers in th ted not among thee ttop killers thee Uni United S tates. States. In con trast, m o or vvehicles ot ehicles ar contrast, motor aree th thee #1 kill er o ounger peo ple (I m ean th ey ar killer off yyounger people mean they aree IINSIDE NSIDE th thee car). T hus, m otorists t ar so hig hly Thus, motorists aree al also highly vvulnerable. ulnerable. Bu ore peo ople cy cled, th en th ere Butt if m more people cycled, then there w ould be m ore cy ycling d eaths. would more cycling deaths. N o, if m ore peo ople cy cled th ere w ould No, more people cycled there would be [f fewer] cy clin ng d ea atths an d [f fewer] [fewer] cycling deaths and [fewer] m otoring d eaths. motoring deaths. Let’ stick to to the the facts fa acts and and stop stop spou utting Let’ss stick spouting an ti-cycling ffear eear m ongering. anti-cycling mongering. Fred Ollinger Ollin l ger e Fred
In Resp Response ponse to ‘‘Bike Bike F Facts?’ Fa a acts? ’ Let’s Let’s stick stick tto o th thee ffacts: a acts: Approximately Ap proximately 60,000 cyclists cyclists are are hit hit by by motorists m otorists per yyear eea ar according according to to the the National Nati t onal Highway Hig hway T Traffic raffffic Saf Safety S feety Boar Board. d. A cy cyclist clist is n no om match atch ffor or a car o car, r, w weighing eighing on average a veerage abou aboutt 350 3500 00 poun pounds. ds. Let’ss be llogical: Let’ ogical:: w when hen 60,000 Am Americans ericans aree bein ar beingg sstruck truck b byy som something ething 15 tim times es th their eir ssize, ize, w wee hav have ve a pro problem. oblem. Wee have W have a problem problem F Fred. red. Parse Parse the the w words ords as you you wis wish. h. Surr Surrender e der tto en o th thee ffacts acts or th a thee anecdotes… an ecdotes… bu butt the th he gist gist of of the the article article rings rings true: tr ue: cy cyclists yclists are are vulnerable vulnerable an and dn need eed infrastructure infr astructure cchange. hange. N No o ffear eear m mongering ongering needed n eeded nor nor applied. applied. Cyclists Cy clists are are vvulnerable. ullnerable. An And dw wee all kn know ow iit. t. Jim Jim K.
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FIXING A BROKEN LAW Santa Cruz County’s new chief probation officer Fernando Giraldo is trying to secure funding for treatment of criminals who get rehab instead of jail time under Prop. 36.
Coming Around Again The truth behind what some call a ‘revolving door’ for criminals BY JACOB PIERCE [Editor’s Note: This is the second part of a two-part series on recidivism in Santa Cruz. Part one ran last week.]
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aul M. Marigonda, presiding judge for Santa Cruz Superior Court, has heard what people say about him and his colleagues. Public Safety Task Force members pressured judges to get tougher on criminals last year, and activists from the Santa Cruz Hall of Shame have criticized the court for supposedly creating a “revolving door” for repeat offenders. It is true that the few statistics available show recidivism—a crux of the Hall of Shame’s frustration—is higher among some criminals in Santa Cruz than it is statewide. But Marigonda says it’s much more complicated. “It’s easy to say the judges let people
out of the door, but there are a lot more pieces to the puzzle,” Marigonda says. Sitting in his office, Marigonda, who has a close-cropped haircut, is sympathetic to community concerns. But he says county judges can’t control what happens to criminals after they go across the street to the jail. “There are so many aspects that go into it—what crime a person is arrested for, what charges the district attorney brings, what agreements do the district attorney and the defense attorney reach in resolving the case, and then what capacity does the sheriff have in the jail? And lastly, what can the community provide as far as treatment?” Marigonda says. Proposition 36, passed by California voters in 2000, allows rehab instead jail time for people convicted of being under the influence or in possession of
drugs—even when they’re already on probation. The problem is that the law doesn’t guarantee they’ll actually get any help, because it’s up to the cash-strapped county government (not the courts) to provide it. Instead, addicts can go through the motions and end up back in the community. “The concept was good as long as you had the funding source to provide the treatment,” Marigonda says. “That ran out.” But the county’s probation department, under new chief probation officer Fernando Giraldo, is currently trying to secure funding for treatment through the newly implemented Affordable Care Act. Giraldo is also working hands-on with the effects of AB 109, the realignment bill to reduce prison overcrowding—a law Marigonda notes is changing how long
criminals stay off the streets. Aiming to reduce state prison populations, AB109 forces non-violent, non-serious, non-sex offender convicts to serve locally at the county jail, which is currently 25 percent over capacity, instead of state prisons. Many of them serve part of their sentences on probation instead of in county jail. The probation department nearly doubled its probation officers to accommodate the 8 percent increase in its population. So how is this group doing? Countywide, recidivism among the types of criminals relocated under AB109 fell from 70 percent to 66 percent one year following release, which is still high. Statewide, the rate among those offenders went down from 59 percent to 56 over that same span. “The folks under AB109 are highrecidivist. Any progress you make in reducing recidivism is progress,” Giraldo says. Due to jail crowding, the Sheriff’s Department has also expanded its electronic monitoring programs for locally sentenced convicts, who stay under supervision. “If you mess up, we can bring you right back down to the jail and put you back in a cell,” Chief Deputy Jeremy Verinsky says. Not all judges have stayed as far from the political frays as Marigonda when it comes to public safety. Last summer, county judge Ariadne Symons spoke at a public safety task force to share what she’s seen as a judge and a lawyer. She called Santa Cruz a “magnet” for homeless people and people who want to break the law. “We have people who come to Santa Cruz with the intent of leading a criminal lifestyle on our streets,” she said. Symons, who was out of the office and unavailable for comment last week, cited several criminal cases with transplants and transients over the past 15 years at the August meeting. If Marigonda has any thoughts about broke people who move to Santa Cruz, he isn’t interested in sharing them. “Someone is going to come before me, who may be a transient, and I have to be impartial to everyone,” he says. “I can’t pick and choose.” 0
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Currents DATA DUMP Former Santa Cruz Patch editor Brad Kava believed in the promise of the format.
Patch Cuts Santa Cruz Local editor one of 300 let go
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ast Wednesday, the new owners of Patch.com pulled the plug on over 300 of its remaining editors, including Santa Cruz's own Brad Kava, who ran Santa Cruz Patch for the past three years. "I never worked so hard in my life," says a recovering Kava. "You know, a lot of 18-hour days. But I never loved a job so much either. The first thing I did in the morning was log onto Patch, and that was the last thing I did at night. And you know, it was out of love." Acquired by AOL in 2009, the platform of 900 hyperlocal news sites struggled to make a profit, and lost over $200 million before a majority stake was finally sold to Hale Global on January 15. But even after 2013's wave of layoffs—which cut the employee number down from 1,000 to 450—last week's drastic downsize came as a shock, especially after CEO Charles Hale promised a Patch experience "full of innovation and growth." "It didn't make sense to me that someone would buy it and then break it down," says Kava. "I thought that if they bought it, they believed in it and wanted to build it even stronger." For someone who's just lost his job, though, Kava's reflections are extremely positive. Sure, Patch expanded with reckless abandon—and who wasn't skeptical, really? But somewhere between Patch's rapid and abundant
sprouting, its short-lived bloom and ultimate fizzle, Kava became a believer in the future of hyperlocal news. "The genius of Patch is they really made us feel like we owned our Patch, so I felt like I was working for myself, I felt like an entrepreneur, really building something," says Kava. "They never questioned our content. They said 'we trust you to reflect your community, what you think is important is what's important.'" So while east coast Patches wrote about Little League, Santa Cruz Patch published columns like David Jay Brown's popular "Catch the Buzz," which explored the science and benefits of psychedelics, among other illicit things. "I believed in it so much I paid him out of my own pocket when the money ran out," says Kava. "Which is one of the craziest things I've ever done." While Hale Global's plans for Patch remain secret, they appear to be keeping all 900 Patch sites online—with only 100 or so editors employed. "So, hyperlocal is gone," says Kava. "I think what they want is for the community to take it over, to be bloggers. That was always one of their goals. But I think what they gave up is serious journalists, and editors who could sort the content into what was really local, and what was true and what was important."0 — Maria Grusauskas
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A Ride in the Junk Truck The all-too-true story of my date from hell BY GEORGIA PERRY
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can say with conviction that the only reason I made an online dating profile was because of my roommate.
Clarissa was 37, she had a job she liked, she had two dogs, and she owned the house in which I had been renting a room for the past three months in Portland, Oregon’s deep southeast side. Romance was the one thing missing in her life, and she wasn’t having any luck meeting anyone offline. This was most likely due to the fact that we spent most of our weekend nights on the couch in our living room, getting high and making fun of television infomercials while her mini-mini dachshund Bella—short for “Tinkerbella”—napped in a ball between us. (For those not in the know, a mini-mini dachshund is one size below a mini dachshund.) If not touching a human at all times, Bella would piddle on the floor. I had moved to Portland a couple months before
finding Clarissa on Craigslist, and hadn’t been dating much. This was fine with me. I moved west for the same reason any jobless Midwesterner moves west: To escape the person I had become in my last failed relationship. But when Clarissa suggested creating an online dating profile for herself, I jumped at the opportunity to help. We stood flamingo-legged in the kitchen, sipping from glasses of red wine and hovering over her laptop, propped open on the counter. I helped her pick out her username and scoured her Facebook page for profile-worthy photos. “What’s the first thing people notice about you when they see you?” she read aloud from the website’s prompt. “Your hair,” I said. “Use this photo of you with that hair in the wind. Yeaahhh—that one. That’s good there’s a guy with you in it, too. Makes you look desirable.”
“That’s my brother.” “Doesn’t matter!” All told, we spent over an hour on her profile, and when that was finished we still had half a bottle of wine left, so with a little prodding I agreed we could create one for me too. After that, looking at the site together immediately became our new favorite hobby. Most weeknights we would come home from work, she at a local accounting firm and me at a winery’s tasting room, where I poured glasses for rich couples and made up names of various exotic fruits they should supposedly be able to taste. We would then pour the leftover tasting room wine, and scour the website together for eligible bachelors. “Oh, okay, okay, look at this one,” she would say, as if we were online shopping for a couch. “Great coloring, super build, oh wait never mind he’s too short. Damn. Why can’t you put in ‘over six feet’ in the search criteria?” 14
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The site worked. We each started going out on one or two dates a week. Even once we learned their real names, even if we had been out with them a couple times, we still referred to the men by their OK Cupid handles around the house. “Who are you going out with tonight?” “Bestusernameguy.” “Oh yeah, totally, Bestusername. He’s cute! I’ve got BurritoFanatic.” The men I went on dates with were, for the most part, attractive and kind. They all had jobs and took good care of their appearance, and were interesting and smart. Probably any of them would have made a good boyfriend, but at the time I couldn’t comprehend getting close to someone like that. I was honest with none of them. I would lie regularly, as a sort of secret game to play with myself—about what I did for work, what my interests were, where I was from. Even inconsequential things like my middle name. I wasn’t too creative, I just wanted to keep the men at a distance—they couldn’t reject me if I didn’t even let them know me. It’s hard to say what exactly went wrong in the relationship I had before moving to Portland, how it gradually deteriorated over the course of the year we spent together, but in any event it ended with me drunk, screaming at him—from his front yard, and for the whole neighborhood to hear—that I wished I were dead. He let me stay the night, but I was so drunk that I pissed the bed. So, that was fun. I met Jason about a month after I joined OK Cupid. I had grown so used to seeing a person’s credentials laid out like a resume online that it felt like a strange novelty to meet someone in real life. We met on an airplane. We were both flying down to Long Beach to visit friends. His move was to simply stare at me as I boarded the plane. He was in his seat before me, and as I walked past him to file into my seat at the back of the plane, he just silently mouthed the word, “Hi.” After the plane landed, he waited for me at baggage claim. He said it out loud this time: “Hi.” He told me he was a rapper and that he worked for a modeling agency. He had blue
eyes like a Huskie dog. I gave him my phone number. When I got back to town, he called and suggested dinner for one night later that week. I accepted, and when he came to the door, Clarissa answered. She was staying in that night. She would later tell me that the smell of his cologne lingered in our living room for several hours after he left.
We didn’t make it another two blocks before he also confessed that he is a convicted felon who spent four years in prison. He wore a freshly ironed blue collared shirt, to match his eyes, and khaki slacks. He had gel in his hair to make it spike up, in the style of early-2000’s boy band musicians. When we got to the street out in front of my house, he motioned to a big dump truck with the words, 1-800-GOT-JUNK printed on the side. I recognized the logo from the back-to-back episodes of Hoarders I sometimes watched when I had insomnia. Jason gave me a boost up with his hands cupped together, like he was helping me hop a fence. Once seated inside the vehicle, I
secret intel on Portland restaurant dining, I realized, or he was taking me somewhere to kill me. To this day, sitting in that 1-800-GOT-JUNK truck, cruising down 1-5 South was the one and only time I’ve ever seriously contemplated jumping out of a moving vehicle. I texted Clarissa. “Have you ever heard of ‘Bridgeport Village’???” “Haha—classy. Unlimited soup, salad and breadsticks on the first date?” Relieved by her obvious familiarity, I eased my grip on the door handle. Indeed, once we got to our destination, the neon Olive Garden sign loomed large. It was on the perimeter of a forest of chain restaurants that also included Chili’s, the Macaroni Grill and Joe’s Crab Shack. “We can go around and look at the menus outside, then pick which one we want.” He had a big grin on his face, and expectancy in his eyes, like he’d taken me to a tucked-away street in Paris, or Italy, where a man and a woman would stroll around and look at the menus, maybe stop and listen to a violinist playing some concerto on the street. He took my hand, and we strolled across a couple vast parking lots to check out the menus, all advertising roughly the same entrees: flatbread pizzas, grilled chicken, margaritas. I don’t remember the name of the restaurant we eventually picked, but I ordered a large and mediocre salad, and he had macaroni and cheese. I was 23 years old at the time, right at the tail end of the period where I felt I needed my parents’ approval for who I dated. Even if I had been able to look past his felony conviction and budding porn empire, I knew they wouldn’t. The date was over before it began. And because of that, because I knew I would never see him again, I was able to loosen up a lot more than I did on most of my OK Cupid dates. I did what I always want to be doing, all the time, with everyone: I grilled him about his past and his deepest inner wounds. “Do your parents love each other?” “I don’t know; I never met my dad.” “Are you mad at your web-cam
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received a text message from Clarissa, who was watching from the window: “Is that a 1-800-GOT-JUNK truck!?!?” “You know it, bitch!” I wrote back. I realized then that the reason I chose to go out with most of the men I chose to go out with was for Clarissa’s sake— to make her laugh, or feel surprise, or otherwise entertain her. In the car, I asked him what kind of modeling his agency focused on. “Like, editorial or…?” “It’s like an adult webcam site, you know?” he said, fingering his watch, a Rolex he had scored from a 1-800-GOT-JUNK cleanup. We didn’t make it another two blocks before he also confessed that he is a convicted felon who spent four years in prison. “Me and my friends were trying to dine and dash from this restaurant, right? We were like 16. But the manager ran outside and chased us, and I accidentally—accidentally— ran over her foot, okay? And then I got tried as an adult for attempted vehicular manslaughter.” “Wow.” “So I spent the years 18-22 in jail.” I felt bad for him. I told him those were the same years I spent in college. “Yep. No college for me. But I read all the time in there. That’s how I got my education. I read a book a day.” I fell in love with him a little bit in that moment. I pictured a cinematic montage of him alternating between doing pull-ups with the bars in his cell, and lying on his back on a jail bed reading the great philosophers, and big ambitious novels by Dickens and Tolstoy. Maybe Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time. “My favorite was Dean Koontz,” he said, with a grin. It was about at this point I realized we had been driving for quite a while, and that we were no longer within Portland’s city limits. “Where are we going?” I asked, hoping to sound casual. “This place—Bridgeport Village. It’s where all the restaurants are.” Hmm. The Portland I knew had restaurants on every corner, and smoky little whiskey bars, tapas places and dessert places. And I’d never been anywhere outside the city limits in the months I’d been in town. This man either had some
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1 5 V A L E N T I N E’S DA Y model ex-girlfriend for stealing your money?” “No, not really.” “Did prison make you racist?” “What?” “What, on this Earth, are you most afraid of?” He contemplated this for a moment, then made a cringing face and answered, “Spiders.” I inhaled red wine through my nose, laughing at this. “The man who spent four years in prison is afraid of spiders,” I said. “You know, they have really bad spiders in prison.” He didn’t ask me too many questions, but told me he liked me at the airport because I was wearing glasses. “I could tell you’re intelligent,” he said. I built off that, lying to him and telling him I was applying to graduate schools and didn’t have much free time for dating in the next few weeks. “What are you going to take?” “Probably Ancient Mayan Studies. That or ballet. I can’t decide.” The only true thing I told him was that my most recent relationship hurt me badly. “All men are jerks,” I stupidly muttered. “Yeah, but all women are liars,” he said, grinning. Then he asked me if I wanted to see a movie, at the giant megaplex just one parking lot away. Why not, I figured. Rather than bowing to my regular crippling anxiety about revealing any preferences whatsoever on an early date, I told him immediately that I wanted to see It’s Kind of a Funny Story—the Zach Galifianakis movie about a children’s mental health unit. “I think I’ll relate to it,” I told Jason. “Why?” “Because I’m crazy.” As long as someone’s not completely terrible, it’s always nice to be sitting in a dark movie theater next to a guy. I let him hold my hand, and talk throughout the duration of the movie, which allowed his pasta breath to waft into my ear. I didn’t mind too much, but made a mental note to rent the movie on Redbox when it came out on DVD, so I could watch it in peace, with a glass of wine and Bella trembling on my lap, the way God intended. When we got to my house around 11pm, Clarissa was still up, watching
workout infomercials with Bella wedged between the back of the couch and her thigh. “How was it?” she asked. I had been waiting all night for the chance to get home and lay my winning hand out on the living room coffee table: convicted felon, runs a porn website, drives the junk truck. I had imagined her reaction, and the laugh we would have, and the ensuing hour we would spend on the site, looking for my next date. But I was tired. Of dating, lying, running from myself—all of it. “Eh, not the one,” I said with a wry smile, then excused myself to go to bed.
I let him hold my hand, and talk throughout the duration of the movie, which allowed his pasta breath to waft into my ear. That night, in my sleep, I saw Jason in my dream. His blue eyes looked right at me—not the character of me acting in my dream, but the actual me, the sleeping watcher watching the dream. “You need to stop objectifying men,” he said. Then he got in his JUNK truck and drove off, into the sunset. 0
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h, Valentine’s Day. Whether you love it, hate it, put on a brave face for it or ignore it completely, it’s coming around again. But rest easy, Santa Cruz non-traditionalist. You don’t have to go the cupid and roses route; you can take in some live music instead. We live in a town with an endless stream of outstanding musical offerings, and this year’s Valentine’s Day lineup is no exception. So, if getting sweaty in a pit, tapping along to the beat, dancing into the wee hours, or drifting off in a state of sonic bliss sounds better than white tablecloths and ties, you’re in luck. Here are your options: A horn-driven band with a big, soulful sound, Big Bang Beat is a “hard-rocking Motown and soul revue” that covers classic Motor City jams as well as other dancefloor-worthy hits from the 1960’s on through today. Get your groove on with them at Don Quixote’s. One of the area’s beloved Grateful Dead-inspired bands, Shady Groove plays head-swirling, extended-improv covers and original music that pays tribute to a cross-genre mix of artists. They’ll be tripping fantastic at Moe’s Alley. A Santa Cruz original, Skinny Ricky & the Casual Encounters is an eight-piece soul outfit that’s taking in lonely and broken hearts for the holiday. They’re headlining a lively “Heartbroken Valentine’s Day” at the Crepe Place. Returning for their regular February 14th gig are Tuck & Patti, the love-spreading musical power-couple supreme. If HELL COMES TO YOUR HEART a warm, glow-y, lovey vibe Nick Oliveri really wants to be your is called for, head over to valentine. Please circle ‘yes’ or ‘no’ and the Kuumbwa. return to the Mondo Generator’s show at But if getting all sweet the Catalyst. is not going to cut it, hit the Catalyst to see Mondo Generator. Led by basswielding bad boy Nick Oliveri of Kyuss, the Dwarves, and Queens of the Stone Age, this band is going to rock hard, rough and loud. Recommended for those trying to forget someone. Last but not least is Jake Shimabukuro at the Rio Theatre. Word is that this show is sold out. But I could not in good conscience do a V-Day roundup and not include this ukulele master. Yes, he’s blown the top off of what can be done with the uke but he’s also one of those rare masters whose heart is as enormous as his skill set. Seeing him is a great way to celebrate life and love—if you were lucky enough to get tickets. Wherever you end up, have fun, enjoy the music and remember: love is where you find it. —Cat Johnson
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Stage DANCE Bellydance Showcase
THEATER Are We There Yet? A one-man live comedy show by Richard Stockton aimed at rekindling the Baby Boomers' revolutionary spirit. Tickets at www.arewethereyetshow.com. Fri, Feb 7, 8pm. $15. Broadway Playhouse, 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz.
The Ballad of Emmett Till A performance by Houston's Ensemble Theatre, one of the nation's largest African American theaters, featuring contemporary prose with the infusion of jazz. Sat, Feb 8, 7-9pm. Free. Stevenson College Event Center, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, 831.459.3729.
Art MUSEUMS CONTINUING Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History Free First Friday. View the exhibits for free every first Friday of the month. Docent tours at noon. First Fri of every month, 11am-6pm. Museum hours Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm; closed Mon. 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.
GALLERIES OPENING Felix Kulpa Gallery “Urns, Shrines, and Reliquaries”: A collection of ceramic vessels and sculptures for honoring special people, presented by Coeleen Kiebert. Gallery hours: Thurs-Sun, noon-6pm. Thru Feb. 23. Free. 107 Elm St, Santa Cruz, 408.373.2854.
Pure Pleasure First Friday: Frank Leonard. Landscapes, Femininity, and Mindfulness: Photographs by native Santa Cruzan Leonard. Fri, Feb 7, 6:30-8:30pm. Free. 204 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.466.9870.
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History The Cradle Project. An exhibition of hand-crafted cradles honoring the numbers
Schriver Gallery & Studio “For My Valentine.” Romantic paintings by Stephanie Schriver with guest artists Jack & AJ Ferrell. Fri, Feb 7, 5-9pm. Free, 831.588.1643. 1050 River St, #122, Santa Cruz.
Tannery Arts Center Fine art clay paintings on tile. Fri, Feb 7, 5-9pm. Free. 1040 River St, Santa Cruz.
CONTINUING Cabrillo College Gallery
NOTICES Aptos Shakespeare Group Members read and discuss a Shakespeare play each week for five Saturdays. Open to the public. Sat, 10am-12pm. Thru Feb 8. $2 suggested donation. Christ Lutheran Church, 10707 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.462.5767.
Baby Feeding Circle A chance to relax, feed your baby and chat with other new mothers. Open to all mothers and babies. Mon, 10:3011:30am. free. Luma Yoga & Family Center, 1010 Center St., Santa Cruz, 831.325.2620.
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“Holt Murray: A Retrospective”: Three-dimensional work by former Cabrillo College Art Dept. faculty Holt Murray. Gallery hours: Mon-Fri 9am-4pm & Mon-Tues 7-9pm. Thru Feb. 21. 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.479.6308.
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.
Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center
Breakfast with Friends
“Prime Time”: The "best of the best" submitted by local artists. Judged by George Rivera. Thru April 5. Free, 831.336.3513. Wed-Sun, noon-6pm. 9341 Mill St, Ben Lomond.
Watsonville Chief of Police Manny Solano will honor and thank the local businesses that joined him in supporting children with cancer earlier this year. breakfastwithfriends. eventbrite.com. Thu, Feb 6, 8:30-10am. $30 per person. Seascape Golf Course, 610 Clubhouse Dr, Aptos, 831.688.3214.
Various Santa Cruz County Bank Locations SC County Bank Arts. Off the Wall: Local artists create works exploring the beauty and space of our 3-dimenstional world. Mon-Thurs, 9am-5pm, Fri 9am-6pm. Thru May 2. Free. n/a, Santa Cruz.
Events LITERARY EVENTS Author Event: Pamela Davis Book launch party and art show for local author Pamela Davis, in celebration of her illustrated children's story, "This Heart Is Me." Fri, Feb 7, 5-9pm. Cameron Marks Boutique, 402 Ingalls st. #7 , Santa Cruz, 831.458.3081.
Poetry Santa Cruz Poetry reading by Michael Hannon and Gary Young. poetrysantacruz.org. Tue, Feb 11, 7:30pm. $3 suggested donation. Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, 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.
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.
Dog Hikes 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.
Figure Drawing Weekly drawing from a live model, facilitated by Open Studio artist Richard Bennett. Mon, 7-10pm. $16. Santa Cruz Art League, 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz, 831.426.5787.
Free Aquarium Visit Free admission to residents of Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties in celebration of the aquarium's 30th anniversary. Feb. 3-9, 10am-5pm. Free. Monterey Bay Aquarium, Cannery Row, Monterey, 831.647.6886.
Friday Shakespeare Club A group of diverse women engaging in stimulating discussions of Shakespeare's plays. www. fridayshakespeare.org. Fri, Feb 7, 10:30am-12:30pm. Free.
Peace United Church of Christ, 900 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.438.3615.
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Grief Support A lunchtime drop-in support group for adults grieving the death of a family member or friend. Tues. 6-7pm at 125 Heather Terrace, Aptos; Fri. noon-1pm at 5403 Scotts Valley Dr. Ste. D, Scotts Valley. free. Various sites, NA, Santa Cruz, 831.430.3000.
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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.
of African children orphaned by the AIDS epidemic. Thru March 23. Museum hours Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm; closed Mon. 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.
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Homeopathy for Children A workshop on using homeopathy to treat newborn discomforts through teen discomforts in a safe, nontoxic way. Preregistration required. Sat, Feb 8, 9am-4pm. $95. 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.
John & Abigail Adams' Letters Jerry Falek and Suzanne Sturn read from the love letters of John and Abigail Adams. Tue, Feb 11, 7pm. Free. Aptos Library, 7695 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.427.7700.
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.
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 and 4-5:15pm at 115 South Morrissey, 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. 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 225 Rooney St., Santa Cruz. Saturdays 9-10am at 532 Center St, Santa Cruz and 11am-noon at 75 Nelson St, Watsonville. 831.429.7906.
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Jenny Offill at Bookshop Santa Cruz A reading, signing and Q&A with the author of the new novel Dept. of Speculation, which explores the uncertainty inherent in life and the conflicts between domestic life and the life of an artist. Touted as one of Bookshop’s favorite reads of 2014. Monday, Feb. 10 at 7pm at Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. 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.
Queer Game Night A variety of board games, party games and card games for like-minded friends. Sat, Feb 8, 6pm. $5 for pizza. Diversity Center, 1117 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.425.5422.
Seymour Center Homeschool Day Hands-on activities designed for home school students. Thu, Feb 6, 10am-12:30pm. Seymour Discovery Center, 100 Shaffer Rd, Santa Cruz, 831.459.3800.
Support and Recovery Groups ADHD: 831.818.9691; 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). Pagans in Recovery: 831.428.3024. Narcotics Anonymous: saveyoursanity@ aol.com. Clutterers Anonymous: 831.359.3008.
The Art of Conscious Loving A workshop in the primary areas of Tantra study. Wed, Feb 5, 7-9pm. $20-$25. Pure Pleasure, 204 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.466.9870.
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.
Trail Crew Volunteering Bring work gloves, lunch and water for day of lively and productive trail maintenance. Must be 18 years of age or older. Meet at park headquarters. Second Sat of every month, 9am. Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Hwy 236, Boulder Creek, 831.338.8883.
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.
Younger Lagoon Tour Tours of the lagoon's diverse coastal habitat. Advance reservations required. Thu, Feb 6, 2-3:30pm and Sun, Feb 9, 2-3:30pm. Free with admission. Younger Lagoon Reserve, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz, 831.459.3800.
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 Apple & Pear Workshop An in-depth weekend workshop on selecting, growing and caring for apple & pear trees. Sat, Feb 8, 10am-4pm and Sun, Feb 9, 10am-4pm. $250 general; $225 for friends of the farm; $75 for UCSC students. UCSC Farm and Garden, UCSC, Santa Cruz, 831.459.3240.
Comedy Open Mic A rotation of the best up-and-coming stand-up comedy acts from the Bay
Area. Thu, 8:30pm. Free. Blue Lagoon, 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.7717.
Erotica & Love in Art Forums and performances focusing on the uninhibited nature of the artist and the self. Sat, Feb 8, 6-11pm. $20. Tannery Arts Center, 1040 River St, Santa Cruz, 831.227.6770.
Food & Film A screening of the restaurant documentary "Spinning Plates" plus a sampling of food and wine from the upcoming downtown restaurant Assembly. Tickets at thenick.com. Thu, Feb 6, 6:30pm. $24 with wine; $28 without wine. Del Mar Theatre, 1124 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz.
Freeman Hrabowski Hrabowski will share his perspective on the Civil Rights movement as a part of the UCSC MLK Jr. convocation. Thu, Feb 6, 7-8:30pm. Free. Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.459.5003.
Queer Movie Night A monthly event featuring an LGBTQ-themed film plus snacks and socializing. First Fri of every month, 6pm. Diversity Center, 1117 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.425.5422.
Wharf Wildlife Tours Free eco-tours of the wharf by the Seymour Discovery Center. Sat-Sun, 1 and 3pm. Thru Dec 31. Free. Santa Cruz Wharf, Beach Street, Santa Cruz.
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MORGAN HERITAGE In the 1970s, after Jamaican-born artist Denroy Morgan made a mark on reggae music with his New York-based band the Black Eagles, he went on to have a solid solo career that lasted into the 1990s. Picking up where Morgan left off, his children formed a sibling band to carry on the family’s musical legacy. That was 14 years ago. Now referred to as “the royal family of reggae” and “the Rolling Stones of reggae,” Morgan Heritage is one of the most widely recognized and prolific contemporary reggae outfits, with 15plus albums to its name. On Saturday they bring the positive message and deep grooves to Moe’s. Moe’s Alley; $25 adv/$30 door; 9pm. (Cat Johnson)
SATURDAY
2/8
COFFEE ZOMBIE COLLECTIVE I am 95 percent certain that Nate Lieby slips the line “just like a prayer, I want to shave you bare” into Coffee Zombie Collective’s cover of “Like A Prayer.” But then, isn’t that just the kind of shenanigans you’d expect from a man who plays ukulele on a Madonna song? I suppose at this point, bluegrass covers of “Crazy” and “Creep” and “Hey Ya” are no longer bizarre in and of themselves, but the frenzied passion and unpredictable twists with which they’re delivered have earned CZC a reputation beyond that of a mere cover band. Crepe Place; $8; 9pm. (Steve Palopoli)
SATURDAY
2/8
SECRET CHIEFS 3 A kind of musical catch-all for a bunch of different projects, artists and styles, Secret Chiefs 3 is an instrumental rock band that forges a path through surf, electronica, black metal, Persian music and more. Constraints are few with this outfit, but far from being all over the place, the band sweeps you up and takes you on a wild trip through time and space that feels like tumbling through a musicological wormhole. The brainchild of guitarist/composer Trey Spruance of Mr. Bungle and Faith No More, Secret Chiefs 3 is like nothing you’ve heard before. Prepare for a face-melting, trans-dimensional, guitarwielding druid-guided affair. Don Quixote’s; $20 adv/$22 door; 9pm. (CJ)
MONDAY
2/10
JOHN ABERCROMBIE QUARTET As a student at the Berklee College of Music, jazz guitarist John Abercrombie was no stranger to the 1960s music scene in Boston. He played the small clubs and frequented the larger ones where he witnessed the likes of John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk. While he was already on the road to a career in jazz, it seems likely that Monk and Coltrane, two of the genre’s most celebrated innovators, influenced Abercrombie immensely as his own style embraces the experimental and nontraditional tendencies of the two legends. His current quartet features Mark Copland on piano, Drew Gress on double bass and Joey Baron on drums. Kuumbwa; $25 adv/$30 door; 7pm. (CJ)
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TARRUS RILEY Born in the Bronx and raised in Jamaica, Tarrus Riley brings pop and R&B influences to Caribbean vibes with a voice soulful enough to win over even the most hesitant of reggae fans. With tunes like “She’s Royal” and “Love’s Contagious,” love is a frequent theme for the son of Jamaican reggae singer Jimmy Riley (from the Uniques and the Sensations). Since his debut album Challenges a decade ago, Tarrus Riley has won nine awards, including the Jamaica Observer Artiste of the Year, Reggae Academy Awards and the UNIA Marcus Garvey Award. Moe’s Alley; $25 adv/$30 door; 9pm. (Jacob Pierce)
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CLUB KUUMBWA: FEED ME JACK & SIREN SOLSTICE
JAKE SHIMABUKURO Feb. 14 at Rio Theatre
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WHAT WE DO IS SECRET Faith No More spinoff Secret Chiefs 3 comes to Don Quixote’s Saturday.
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We added up the approximate ages of the musicians in this quartet, and although we’re not professionals at guessing ages (or adding for that matter), we arrived at 200 years. Coincidentally, that’s exactly how old the music of the Dry Branch Fire Squad actually sounds. With treble-y banjo and mandolin under high, lonesome-sounding vocals, this is a band that knows how to take audiences way, way back in, you know, time. The Ohio-based bluegrass group is a favorite of both the Strawberry Music Festival and San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. Don Quixote's; $15 adv/$18 door; 7:30pm. (JP)
WEDNESDAY
2/12
BOZ SCAGGS Boz Scaggs doesn’t just blur the line between jazz and rock & roll. He’s a free-flowing, loosey-goosey joint that ties the two together. And anyone wondering if the singer/ songwriter, who used to collaborate with childhood friend Steve Miller, has still “got it” need not listen to more than a couple lines of Scaggs’ smooth, powerful voice on classics like “Look What You’ve Done to Me” off the Urban Cowboy soundtrack or “Lowdown” and “Lido” off his 1976 smash hit album Silk Degrees. Hmm, hmm—silky indeed. Civic Auditorium; $64.50-$135.50; 8pm. (JP)
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DR. LONNIE SMITH TRIO Tues. February 18
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MASTER CLASS SERIES: ASHWIN BATISH: Application of Indian Music Concepts to Jazz and World Music Thurs. February 20
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SCOTT HAMILTON & HARRY ALLEN QUINTET FEATURING ROSSANO SPORTIELLO Saturday, February 22
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KENNY WERNER TRIO
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THE LEGO MOVIE (PG; 100 min) Everybody from Morgan Freeman to Will
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Ferrell to Shaq gets to voice something in this animated movie, which (spoiler alert) is not actually made out of Legos. In other news, it’s official: everything gets to have a movie. What’s next, Battleship? Oh wait…
Movie reviews by Steve Palopoli
(Opens Fri at 41st Avenue, Scotts Valley, Green Valley) THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG-13; 118 min) There’s something creepy about the fact that this movie is flying so under the radar. It’s written and
directed by George Clooney, with a great premise (a World War II platoon rescues art from the Nazis), and an all-star cast featuring Clooney, Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, John Goodman, Bill Murray and more. It’s
Showtimes are for Wednesday, Feb. 5, through Wednesday, Feb. 12, unless otherwise indicated. Programs and showtimes are subject to change without notice.
APTOS CINEMAS 122 Rancho Del Mar Center, Aptos 831-426-7500 www.thenick.com
The Monuments Men — (Opens Fri) 1:40; 4:15; 6:45; 9:10 plus Sat-Sun 11:10am. Gravity 3D — Wed-Thu 6:45; 8:45. Frozen — Wed-Thu 1:45pm; 4:15; Fri-Wed 1:50; 4:15 plus Sat 11:20. Frozen 3D — Sun 11:20pm. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit — Wed-Thu 3:40; 8:30 Nebraska — Wed-Thu 1:15; 6; Fri-Wed 7; 9:20.
41ST AVENUE CINEMA 1475 41st Ave., Capitola 831.479.3504 www.cineluxtheatres.com
The LEGO Movie — (Opens Fri) Fri-Tue 11:15; 12:45; 1:45; 4:20; 7; Wed 2/12 11:15; 1:45; 4:20; 7.
The LEGO Movie 3D — (Opens Fri) 9:30pm. Robocop — (Opens Wed 2/12) 11; 1:30; 4:30; 7:20; 10:15. August: Osage County — Wed-Thu 1:15; 4:15; 7:10; 10. American Hustle — Wed-Thu 12:45; 3:45; 7; 10; Fri-Tue 3:45; 6:45; 9:45. Labor Day — Fri-Wed 11; 2; 4:45; 7:30; 10:10. Lone Survivor — Wed-Thu 1; 4; 7:20; 10:15.
DEL MAR 1124 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com
The Monuments Men — (Opens Fri) 1:40; 4:20; 7; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 11am. Her — Daily 1:50; 4:30; 7:10; 9:45 plus Sat-Sun 11:10am. Oscar Shorts: Animated — Wed-Thu 2:30; 7:20 (no Thu 7:20pm). Oscar Shorts: Live Action — Wed-Thu 4:40; 9:30 (no Thu 9:30pm). The Wolf of Wall Street — Daily 12:20; 3:50; 7:30. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas — Fri-Sat midnight. Amelie — Fri-Sat midnight.
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Gravity 3D — Wed-Thu 12:05; 6:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — Wed-Thu 12:05; 3:25; 6:35; 9:45; FriWed call for showtimes. I, Frankenstein — Wed-Thu 3:15; 10:10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. I, Frankenstein 3D — Wed-Thu 1; 7:15; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit — Wed-Thu 12; 2:30; 5:10; 7:50; 10:20; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. The Legend of Hercules — Wed-Thu 2:10; 7:05; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. The Legend of Hercules 3D—Wed-Thu 11:50; 4:35; 9:35; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. Lone Survivor—Wed-Thu 12:15; 3; 6:30; 9:15; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. (noThu 9:15pm) The Nut Job — Wed-Thu 4; 9; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. The Nut Job 3D — Wed-Thu 12:50; 6:20; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. Paranormal Activity:The Marked Ones —Wed-Thu 9pm; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. Ride Along — Wed-Thu 12:20; 3:05; 7; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. Superbad — 9pm.
CINELUX SCOTTS VALLEY CINEMA 226 Mt. Hermon Rd., Scotts Valley 831.438.3260 www.cineluxtheatres.com
The LEGO Movie — (Opens Fri) 11; 11:40; 12:30; 1:30; 2:15; 3; 4:10; 6:45; 7:45; 9:20; 10:15; Wed 2/12 11; 11:40; 12:30; 1:30; 2:15; 3; 4:10; 7:15; 7:45; 9:45; 10:15.
Lego 3D — (Opens Fri) 5:30pm. The Monuments Men — (Opens Fri) 11:55; 12:30; 3:45; 4:45; 7; 8; 10. American Hustle — Wed-Thu 12:30; 3:45; 7; 9:30; Fri-Wed 12:45; 3:45; 6:45; 10 plus Sat 3:45; 6:45; 10.
August: Osage County — Wed-Thu 1; 4; 7; 9:55. Frozen — Wed-Thu 11; 2; 4:40. Her — Wed-Thu 1:15; 4:15; 7:10; 10. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — Wed-Thu 11:45; 3:30. I, Frankenstein — Wed-Thu 2:45; 7:45; 10:15. I, Frankenstein 3D — Wed-Thu 12:15, 5:15; 10:15. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit — Wed-Thu 11:55; 2; 4:45; 7:30; 10:15; Fri-Wed
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12 Years a Slave — Wed-Thu 3:30; 8:30; Fri-Wed 2:10; 8:50. August: Osage County — Wed-Thu 4:20; 7; 9:30; Fri-Wed 1:50; 4:40; 7:10;
Labor Day — Fri-Wed 11:30; 2:15; 4:55; 7:30; 10:10. Lone Survivor — Wed-Thu 11; 1:45; 4:30; 7:20; 10:10. Nebraska — Fri-Tues 4; 7; Wed 7pm. The Nut Job — Wed-Thu 11:45; 2:30; 4:55; 7:20; 10; Fri-Wed 11:30; 2. Ride Along — Wed-Thu 11:30; 2:15; 4:55; 7:40; 10:10; Fri-Wed 9:45pm. Saving Mr. Banks — Daily 7:45pm. That Awkward Moment — Fri-Tues 11:45; 2:30; 4:55; 7:20; 10:15; Wed 4; 9:45. How to Marry a Millionaire — Sat 11am.
9:40 (no Thu 9:30).
Dallas Buyer’s Club — Wed-Thu 1:40; 8:50; Fri-Wed 4:50 plus Sat-Sun 11:30am. The Invisible Woman — Wed-Thu 2:30; 4:50; 7:10; 9:30; Fri-Wed 3:40; 8:10 (no Thu 9:10) plus Sat-Sun 11:50am.
Nebraska — Wed-Thu 1; 6:30; Fri-Wed 1:20; 6:30. Oscar Shorts: Animated — Fri-Wed 2; 7. Oscar Shorts: Live Action — Fri-Wed 4:10; 9:30. Philomena — Wed-Thu 12:20; 4:10; 6:20; Fri-Wed 6pm plus Sat-Sun 11:40 am.
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American Hustle — Wed-Thu 12:15; 3:15; 6:30; 9:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. (no Wed 12:15pm) Devil’s Due — Wed-Thu 12:30; 3:30; 6:45; 9:40; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. (no Wed 12:30pm)
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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues — Wed-Thu 12:45; 6:15; 9:30; FriWed call for showtimes.
That Awkward Moment — Wed-Thu 12:30; 2:50; 5:15; 7:35; 10:15; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. Frozen — Wed-Thu 12:10; 3:10; 3:45; 6; 8; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.
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That Awkward Moment—(Opens Fri) 1:05; 3:15; 5:20; 7:30; 10:00 plus Sat-Sun 11am. American Hustle — Daily 12:45; 4; 7; 10. August: Osage County — Daily 1:30; 4:10; 6:50; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 10:45. Frozen — Sat-Sun 11am. I, Frankenstein — Daily 12:55; 3:05; 7:25; 9:40. I, Frankenstein 3D — Fri-Wed 5:15pm plus Sat-Sun 10:45am. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit—Wed-Thu 1:35; 4:25; 7; 9:45; Fri-Wed 4:25; 7:15; 9:45. Labor Day — Fri-Wed 1:35; 4:15; 7; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 11am. The Nut Job —Wed-Thu 1; 3; 7:25; 9:30; Fri-Wed 1; 3; 5:10; 7:25; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 10:55am. The Nut Job 3D — Wed-Thu 5:10pm. The Legend of Hercules — Wed-Thu 1:35; 4:20; 7:15; 9:30. Lone Survivor — Daily 1:25; 4:15; 7; 9:45 plus Sat-Sun 10:45am. Paranormal Activity — Wed-Thu 1:05; 3:15; 5:20; 7:30; 10. Ride Along — Daily 1:20; 4; 7:15; 9:45 plus Sat-Sun 10:45.
based on a true story, the trailer looks great. Why isn’t anyone talking about this? (Opens Fri at the Del Mar, Aptos, Green Valley) VAMPIRE ACADEMY (PG-13; 114 min) If I even started to tell you the over-complicated plot of this movie about “dhampir guradians,” half-vampires and blah blah blah, you would go comatose in seconds. Here’s all you need to know to decide if this is the movie for you: hot young vampires wear schoolgirl outfits, crack cheeky double entendres, bite each other, fight and say stupid stuff like, “Let’s make tonight our bitch.” (Opens Fri at Green Valley)
Reviews 12 YEARS A SLAVE (R; 133 min) Based on an 1853 memoir, this story of a free African American kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South is easily the bestreviewed film of the year. ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES (PG-13; 119 min) I tried to get through the Ron Burgundy book, but trust me, his ridiculousness isn’t that interesting unless it’s coming out of Will Ferrell’s mouth. That’s the thing that made Anchorman so great in the first place—these characters weren’t shticks, and they even transcended the caricatures they were meant to be in the first place. They seemed like real people—hilarious, dumbass real people— living in some kind of alternate reality that was a lot like ours, except funnier and with news-team gang fights. Can this muchanticipated sequel recapture the magic? Don’t look at me, I have no idea. AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (R; 121 min) It’s this year’s Acting Olympics, as Meryl Streep, Benedict Cumberbatch, Julia Roberts, Chris Cooper…oh come on! You saw the preview! You know you’re gonna go! They got the people everybody loves to be in an adaptation of a play everybody loves, with a plot about family dysfunction, which everybody loves! (The plot, not the dysfunction). Face it, you’re going! I’m already there! In my mind! I, FRANKENSTEIN (PG-13; 92 min) Aaron Eckhart plays a weary, centuries-old man caught up
in a battle of immortals. Can it possibly be a coincidence that the last cross-eyed movie star before Eckhart, Christopher Lambert, also played a weary, centuriesold man caught up in a battle of immortals—in 1986’s Highlander? I think not! What the hell is going on with these immortals? How do they live so long when they can’t see straight? JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG-13; 105 min) A bunch of people have played Tom Clancy’s CIA-analyst hero at this point, but for some reason it seems like Harrison Ford just is Jack Ryan. Now the character is back in the form of Chris Pine (best known for re-booting Captain Kirk), with an over-thetop action approach that basically makes Ryan into a superhero. Couldn’t you just hear millions of Clancy fans groan when Kevin Costner tells him in the trailer “You’re not just an analyst now”? Uh, wasn’t the whole point of the character that he was an analyst? THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (R; 94 min) Zac Efron, Miles Teller and Michael B. Jordan star as three best friends whose dating lives start to come between them because rom-com. THE NUT JOB (PG; 86 min) I can’t even imagine what the pitch sessions are like for these animated quirky-animal movies. Is there a lightning round? “OK, there’s a bear…” “No.” “OK, there’s a duck…” “No.” “OK, there’s a platypus…” “Hell no.” Somehow, somebody sold the idea of a squirrel, and so in this movie little Surly the Squirrel (voiced by Will Arnett) gets kicked out of his home in a park and has to survive in the city. RIDE ALONG (PG-13; 100 min) We know Ice Cube can act, but for the last decade his career has been pretty much reduced to finding different ways to contort his face for a wide spectrum of annoyed looks. Make no mistake about it: if there were Oscars for facial tics, Ice Cube would add to his collection with this latest comedy in which he plays a cop who keeps getting annoyed by Kevin Hart. How is that a movie? We’re all annoyed by Kevin Hart.
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AMELIE (2001) Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet reached into his same bag of wacky visual tricks once too often for my tastes with this hyper-quirky character
study that I frankly blame for Juno. But whatever, yes, I know everybody loves it. (Plays Fri and Sat at midnight at the Del Mar)
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HOT PLATES Alinea's Grant Achatz in the documentary ‘Spinning Plates,’ which shows Thursday at the Del Mar.
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OMANTIC LEAD: That would be the mighty
Shadowbrook Restaurant, which has been winning hearts, minds and awards for six decades. The latest accolade comes from OpenTable, whose Diner's Choice award dubbed the Shadowbrook one of the 100 Most Romantic Restaurants in the United States. The list of winners comes from more than five million reviews submitted by OpenTable diners. Given my experience with Ted Burke's enduring landmark, I have to say that I'm not exactly surprised. Of course Shadowbrook is tops on anyone's short list of "special occasion" venues. But it
also continues to deliver impeccable cuisine in a unique—and, yes, romantic—setting. Congratulations to Burke, chef Anthony Kresge and GM Rob McLaughlin. TO SEND YOU ‘SPINNING’: Steve Principe of VinoCruz is both serious
and passionate about the challenges of pairing wine with foods. That's part of why we love his centrally located wine shop and tasting room, specializing exclusively in the wines made in our Santa Cruz Mountains appellation. Principe has been involved in the pleasurable task of selecting wines to match the food
samples to be served at tomorrow night's Spinning Plates screening at the Del Mar Theatre. Just to review, the evening is a sensory multi-media collaboration among the downtown movie palace, VinoCruz tasting room and wine shop, and the entrepreneurs behind the restaurant-in-progress Assembly (soon to open a few doors down from the Del Mar). The prospect of a brand-new restaurant opening in the middle of downtown Santa Cruz has generated mega-buzz. And small wonder. A new dining room in early 2014 bodes well for the collective attitude about reclaiming our restaurant turf, as well as unveiling
a new place to meet, dine, drink and be fashionable. Okay, so the Assembly folks—who are also the masterminds of The Penny Ice Creamery and The Picnic Basket—will be providing edible previews of Assembly's debut menu. And those food samples will be offered along with appropriate wines chosen by Principe. The entire event celebrates a screening of the foodie documentary Spinning Plates, which goes behind the scenes with three restaurant kitchens and provides mouthwatering glimpses of how it's all really done. Sort of reality TV meets the Food Channel, only in-depth. Principe took a look at the sample menu for the evening and began dreaming up a few possible wine matches. What red wine would work with seared steak with herbs and coriander, as well as with lavosh with smoked onion, nigella and yogurt? Hmmmm. How about a white that could stand up to roasted winter squash with fromage blanc, as well as pickled quail egg and roasted beet with horseradish? (These are but a few of the proposed menu items for the event.) The VinoCruz proprietor knew that the menu also included menu items from The Picnic Basket, such as roasted pork shoulder with Meyer lemon, and a chicken salad sandwich with avocado and pickled onions. After considering many variables, Principe zeroed in on a River Run 2008 Carignane (one of my personal local favorites)."It has body and some acid and a bit of bright fruit," he mused approvingly. And for a white wine, Principe immediately liked the idea of an un-oaked chardonnay, such as Santé Arcangeli 2012 Tank'd Chardonnay from Split Rail Vineyard. Loaded with minerals. And no oak. Brilliant. And you'll get to see how these wines work with the preview foods, at the Del Mar Theatre on Feb. 6. Foods and wines from 6:30-8pm, then the movie. $18 sans wine/$24 with. Get there early!0
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arin Taing has been up since a little after midnight, and it’s now 8:15am. Taing, who owns the Mission Street Ferrell’s doughnuts, comes in seven nights a week around 1 or 2am, and he stays until 8 or 9am. “It’s hard because of the 24-hour thing—waking up in the middle of the night,” he says. He fell into this business at an early age: his parents and sisters and cousins all own doughnut shops, too, and it isn’t all fun and games anymore. He eats about two or three doughnuts a month, and says that on a scale from 1 to 10 his doughnut exasperation (from baking the sugary breakfast items) has reached a 10. In other words, the man needs a night off.
SCW: How do you make a raised doughnut? DARIN TAING: You mix it
in, and you actually have to roll out the dough and cut each shape at the bar, kind of like a cookie cutter doughnut. You cut out what you want, and you have to put it in a steamer, a proof box. Put it in there for about 30 or 45 minutes. It raises the doughnut, gets it to twice the size. After that, you just fry it. Have any doughnuts inspired you? Yeah, I’ve seen some. With me here,
I already do so much. It’s one of my dying flaws. I don’t want to create new stuff and do new stuff and do more labor as far as making doughnuts. I hate making doughnuts. But your kids like doughnuts, right? Yeah, no, sort of, whatever. They
like bringing doughnut holes to class. Does burger. on Mission Street still use Ferrell’s doughnuts for the Luther burger? They do. They pick up doughnuts every couple days,
a couple dozen or so. I found it weird at first, but I tried it. It was pretty good—a breakfast-y type burger. How do you make apple fritters? Just the dough—you chop it up, and
then put some cubed apple, mix in a bunch of cinnamon, chop it all up for a few minutes until it’s fine. Get the amount you want. Put that in a proof box and make it bigger and fry it. It’s a lot of work. Apple fritter is probably the most labor-intensive. What’s the best doughnut you’ve ever had? I like the cinnamon
crumb doughnuts, maple bars sometimes. When doughnuts come out within a half hour after they’re made, it’s two or three times better than an ordinary doughnut. Fresh doughnuts are way better. —Jacob Pierce
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THE HOLE STORY Darin Taing got up way, way early to bring Santa Cruz sprinkles.
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TAURUS S (April 20-May 20): What Wh hat is the single best thing you could do to fulfill your number nuumber one desire? desire? Is there there a skill you should attain? A subject you should study? A special kind of experience experience you should seek or a shift in perspective you should initiate? innitiate? This is a big opportunity, opportunityy, TTaurus. aaurus. YYou ou o have an excellent exxcellent chance to identify the specific action you could couuld take that will lead you to the next stage of your evolution. evolu ution. And if you do manage to figure figure out exactly whatt needs to be done, start doing it! GEMINI (May (M 21 21-June 21-June J 20) 20): When When songwriters Whe it make k a “slant words use don’t “slant rhyme,”” the wor ds they us se don ’t rreally eally rhyme, but they sound close enough alikee to mimic a rhyme. An example occurs in “The Bad Touch,” Toouuch,”” a tune by the Bloodhound Gang: “You baby “YYou o and me ba aby ain’t ain’t nothing but mammals / So let’s let’s do it like they do on the Discovery Channel.” Technically, Teechnicallyy, ““mammals” mammals” doesn’t doesn d ’t rhyme with “channel.” “channel.”” I suspect that in the coming com ming week you will have experiences with metaphorical metaphoriccal resemblances resemblances to slant rhymes. But as long you don’t fret don’t ’ fuss and fr et about the inexactness you encounter, don’t encounterr, as long as you don ’t demand that everything be precise precisee and cleaned-up, you will be entertained and educated. Vow Vow to see the socalled imperfections imperfections as soulful. CANCER (June 21-July 21-July 22): “Almost,” “A Alm most,” writes novelist Bauer.. “It “It’s Joan Bauer It’ss a big word word for for me. mee. I feel feel it everywhere. everywhere. e happy.. Almo Almost Almost home. Almost happy ost changed. Almost, maybe.” suree you know but not quite. Not yet. Soon, mayb e.”” I’m sur yourself,f, CCancerian. about that ffeeling eeling yourself ancerrian. Sometimes it has entiree lif lifee is com composed seemed like your entir mposed of thousands of small almosts that add up to one gigantic g almost. But I Theree is an excell excellent have good news: Ther lent chance that in the weekss you will gr graduate from next 14 to 16 week aduate fr om the endless omnipresent and omnipr esent almost; you will rise r up and snatch a measuree of completeness fr from bold measur o out of the everom flow.. And it all kick kickss into hhigh now.. shifting flow igh gear now LEO (July 23-Aug. 23-Aug. 22): One of thee chapter titles in my most recent recent book is this:: “Ever since I learned to three much better see thr ee sides to every story, storyy, I’m finding fi stories.”” I’m recommending recommending that you yoou find a way to use as your this pperspective p y own in thee comingg weeks, weeks,, Leo. According astrological it’s A ccording to my analysis of the as strological omens, it ’s crucial that you not get stuck in ann oppositional mode. wrong debilitating It would be both wr ong and debilit tating to believe one that you must choose between on ne of two conflicting introduce wordd options. With that in mind, I will in troduce you to a wor meree you may not know:: “trilemma.”” It tr ttranscends anscends a mer third alternative. dilemma because it contains a thi rd al ternative. VIRGO (Aug. 23 23-Sept. -Sept. 22): In 198 1984, 84, Don Henley’s song “The Boys of Summer” thee top of the Billboar Billboardd Summer ” rreached eached th charts. “Out on the rroad oad today / I ssaw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac,” Cadillac,”” Henley singss wistfully near the end of the tune. He He’s Grateful ’s dismayed by the sight of the Gr ateful Dead’s logo, an ultimate ultimate hippie symbol, sym mbol, displayed on a luxury car driven by snooty rich kids. kidds. Almost 20 years later, laterr, the band The Ataris Ataris covered covered “The Boys of Summer,” Summerr,,” but changed the lyric to “Out on the thhe road road today / I saw a Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac.” Cadillac.”” It conveyed the same mournful contempt, but this time invoking the iconic punk band Black Flag. I offer offer this tale taale to you, Virgo, Virgo, as an encouragement encouragement to update the wayy you think about your life’s life’s mythic quest, to modernize your y old storylines, to refresh refresh and refurbish refurbish the references referencees you invoke to tell people about who you are. are. LIBRA (Sept. 23 23-Oct. -Oct. 22): Food aficionado a Michael Pollan moree about ffood Pollan says that Americans “worry “worryy mor ood and derive less pleasure from eating” than people in other pleasure from ”t
countries. If you ask them what their association is with “chocolate “chocolate cake,”” they typically say “guilt.” “guilt.”” By contrast, contrast, the French French are are likely likkely to respond respond to the same question with “celebration.” “celebration n.”” From From an astrological astrological perspective, I think it’s it’s appropriate appropriate for for you to be more more like the French French than the Americans Americaans in the coming weeks—not weeks—not just in your attitude toward tow ward delicious desserts, but in regards regards to every opportunity opportunity for for pleasure. pleasure. This is one of those times when you have a license to guiltlessly guiltlessly explore explore the heights and depths deptths of bliss.
SCORPIO (Oc (Oct. ct. 23 23-Nov. -Nov. 21): In the Inuktitut language the wordd spoken among th he Eastern CCanadian anadian Inuit, the wor ffor or ““simplicity” simplicity”” iss katujjiqatigiittiarnirlu. This amusing fact fact reminds reminds me of a certain situation in your life. life. Your Yoour quest to get backk to basics and reconnect reconnect with your core core sources sources is turning tuurning out to be rather rather complicated. If you hope to invoke invooke all of the pure, pure, humble clarity you need, you will have haave to call on some sophisticated and ingenious magic. magicc. SAGITTARIIUS (Nov SAGITTARIUS (Nov.. 22-Dec. 22-Dec. 21): “What is the tree?” the purpose of th he giant sequoia tr ee?”” asked environmentalist Edwardd Abbey Abbey.. His answer: “The envir onmentalistt Edwar tree provide purpose of the ggiant iant sequoia tr ee is to pr ovide shade titmouse.” ffor or the tiny titmo ouse.”” I suggest you meditate on all th ways you cann apply the l that th t wisdom i d as a metaphor t h tto your own issues.. For example: What monumental part lifee might service fragile of your own lif m be of ser vice to a small, fr agile major provide part? What majo or accomplishment of yours can pr ovide strength protection that’s str ength and pr o otection to a ripening potential that ’s underappreciated under appreciated by others? CAPRICORN N (Dec. 22 22-Jan. -Jan. 19): “T “To To burn with desir desiree and keep quiet about it is the greatest a greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves,” wrote wrote the poet Federico García García Lorca. Lorca. I urge urrge you to make sure sure you are are not inflicting that abuse abbuse on yourself in the coming weeks, weeks, Capricorn. Capricorn. It’s It’s always alw ways dangerous dangerous to be out of touch with or secretive secretive about abouut your holy passions, but it’s it’s especially risky risky these days. I’m not necessarily saying you should rent rent a megaphone megaphonne and shout news of your yearnings in the crowded crowded streets. sstreets. eets In fact, fact, act it’s it’ss better if you are are discriminating about abbout whom you tell. The most important thing is to not bee hiding anything from from yourself about what moves you the most. AQUARIUS (Jan. ( 20-Feb. 18): Back in 2005, thr three ee young men launched launcched YouTube, YoouTTube, u in part motivated by a banal desire. desire. They Th hey were were frustrated frustrated because they couldn’t online couldn’t find onli ine videos of the notorious incident that occurred occurred during during the Super Bowl halftime show, show w, when Janet Jackson’s wardrobe Jackkson’s war drobe malfunction exposed her breast. breast. In response, ressponse, they created created the now-famous now-famous website that allows alloows people to share share videos. I foresee foresee the possibility of a comparable coomparable sequence for for you, Aquarius. A seemingly superficial superficial wish or trivial interest interest could inspire inspire you to come come up with a fine new addition to your world. Pay Payy attention attenttion to your y whimsical notions. PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar 119-March ch 20): “I believe mor moree in the scissors than I doo in the pencil.”That’s That’s what 20th-century author Truman said about his own writing process. Trruman Capote Capote a process. Back in that primitive his prim mitive pre-computer pre-computer era, era, he scrawled scrrawled a words words on paper with w a pencil and later edited out the extraneous extrraaneous stuff by applying scissors to the manuscript. Judging from from your youur current current astrological astrological omens, Pisces,, I surmise you’re you’re inn a phase that needs the power of the scissors more more than thaan the power of the pencil. What you cut away will markedly markeddly enhance the long-term beauty and value of the creation creattion you’re you’re working on.
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ARIES (March (March 21-April 19):: “You “YYoouu know it’s it’s Saturday Saturday when you are are wiping off vodka stains staains from from your face face with a marshmallow,” marshmallow w,,”” testifies thee woman who writes blog “French the Tumblr Tumblr u “French Fries Absinthe Absiinthe Milkshakes.” Milkshakes.” I really really hope you don’t don’t even come close to having an experience like that this week, Aries. Ariees. But I’m worried worried beecoming allergic that you will. I sense that you’re you’re becoming allergic to caution. You Yoou may be subconsciously subconscioussly wishing to shed all self-control. clear,r, ther there’s decorum and rrenounce enounce self-contr o TToo be clear ol. e’s nothingg inher inherently wrong guard. entlyy wr ongg with rrelaxing elaaxingg yyour gguar d. I high-stress hope you will indeed give up somee of your high-str ess surrender life’s vigilance and sur render a bit to lif e’s sweet chaos. Just safee and not-too-insane please try to find a playful and saf way to do so.
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