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reality rea ality to to the the breaking breaking point. point. It is even eveen more more outrageous ou utr t ageous to to claim claim that that I have have had had something s ething som to to do do with with this, based based on no no evidence evidencee at at all. The The campaign campaign season is a llong ong and an nd hard hard one, one, and and serious serious scrutiny scruttiny is to to be expected. expected. But Bu ut I hope hope in the t e future th fu utur t e we we can expect expecct a higher higher journalistic journalistic standard stan a dard from from our local local papers papers than than n that that practiced prac a ticed by by the the National Enquirer. Enquirrer e . Tim Goncharoff G Santa Cruz [For [F For o more morre on this story, see page 6. — Editor]
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On Rittenhouse Ritttenhouse Re: Empty” R e: e “Big E mpty” (Cover, (C Covveerr, March March 5): Although Although thee ar th article ticle h has as m my y ttwo wo comm comments ents th that at pu put ut Rittenhouse negative Louis Ri ttenhousee in a n egattivve light light cclose lose tto o accur accurate, ate, I think k it it unfortunate unffo ortunate that that none none off m myy posi positive comments about o tivve com mments abou ut Louis R., in including cluding his what what I consider consider positive positivve community motivation communi ty m otivvattion for for o keeping keeping the the buil building ding em empty pty un u until til h hee ffound ound a major o major an anchor chor ttenant. enant. Louis Lo ouis always allways felt felt that that the the dow downtown ntown ne needed eded a majo majorr de department partment sto store, re, a vi view ew sshared hared b byy m most ost o off th thee coun council cil an and d all off tthe he re redevelopment deevelopm ment sta staff, fff, a and nd he wa wass ggoing oing tto oh hold old ou out ut un until til h hee coul could d gget et such such a ttenant enant rrather atther th than an lleasing easin ng his buil building ding ou out ut tto oa bun bunch ch o off sm smaller aller rretailers, etailers, w which hich I am sur suree h hee coul could dh have ave d done on ne if all h hee w was as con concerned cerned abou about ut w was as his per personal rsonal bott bottom om lin line. e. Mike Rotkin Santa Cruz
CORRECTION CORRE ECTION Geoffrrey Geoffrey e Dunn was wa as never an owner of the Lau pr property ro operty on P Pacific acific Avenue. Santa Cruz Weekly W eeekly rregrets eegrreets th the he err error. ro or.
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Currents JUST FRIENDS A screenshot shows council candidate Tim Goncharoff’s interaction with one of the fake Facebook accounts.
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New links to Goncharoff in Facebook fraud BY GEORGIA PERRY
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fter Santa Cruz Weekly reported last week about a collection of fake super-hot lingerie-model Facebook accounts that all seemed to be suspiciously enthusiastic supporters of city council candidate Tim Goncharoff, he took to social media to declare he had been unfairly “tarnished” by our reporting, saying it was “outrageous to claim that I have had something to do with this.” But a quick look through the histories of the fake accounts shows that Goncharoff was, at one time, Facebook friends with them. And according to the comments he made on their pages, very familiar with them—calling them “sweetie,” telling them the erotic literature they posted was “making me blush,” and reminding them to “remember sunscreen next time you go skinny dipping.” In fact, he apparently spent so much time offline with one of the avatars
that another one commented, “Oh Jazzy, when are you not with Tim? You two should just get married and get it over with!” The avatar wrote this in a thread Goncharoff had commented on exactly five minutes prior. While the women regularly invited him to their clothing-optional pool parties, Goncharoff was, unfortunately, always unable to attend, much to the chagrin of the women. “@Tim: You and your cute behind better be there!” wrote one. The postings from the fake accounts were also used in a number of instances to promote public policy initiatives Goncharoff worked on, including the plastic bag ban, and to tear down politicians with opposing viewpoints. Several fake accounts were deployed in May of 2012 to criticize a post that current county supervisor candidate Ryan Coonerty made on his Facebook page about new public safety measures proposed following
the murder of Shannon Collins. “Sometimes when something terrible happens, we feel such an urge to DO SOMETHING that we rush into ill-advised measures,” wrote one avatar, named Jasmine Guadeloupe. The same language was used by Goncharoff himself this February, in a video interview filmed at the Zami cooperative house and currently available on YouTube. “If you go to things like city council meetings something you hear a lot is, ‘We have to do something.’ And if somebody says, ‘Well you know, this proposal you’re making isn’t really going to help the problem you’re trying to address,’ they say, ‘Well, we have to do something,’” Goncharoff says in the interview. In October of 2012, “Jasmine Guadeloupe” leapt out of the digital realm entirely, writing a letter to the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors in support of the green
business program. The address listed as Guadeloupe’s home is a Chevron gas station in Watsonville. The group of sexy female avatars also includes a stray male or two, who also share the same posts, have the same friends and regularly communicated with Goncharoff over the years. One of the males, Dennis Finch-Hatton, made a post this past July criticizing Santa Cruz City Councilwoman Pamela Comstock’s stance that the South Beach Pizza Co. should not be allowed to serve food and alcohol past midnight—a position that directly went against the Planning Commission, which Goncharoff served on at that time. “It’s unfortunate whenever someone misrepresents themselves. Especially if that person is running for an elected position,” Comstock told Santa Cruz Weekly about the incident. As is evident from the screen shots of conversations viewed by the Weekly, most postings were made just one or two minutes apart. A majority were also made during business hours. At the time the accounts were active, Goncharoff was employed by the County of Santa Cruz as a resource planner. Perhaps Goncharoff was coincidentally almost always online at the same time as this collection of fake, busty gal-pals? Or maybe he was hacked? That’s Goncharoff’s newest defense, delivered in a post he wrote on his Facebook page Monday morning: “My friends: It looks as if my Facebook account might have been hacked,” he wrote. If that were the case, it would mean Goncharoff’s personal Facebook page was hacked repeatedly, over the course of a few years—without him noticing the multiple posts that had been made using his “hacked” account. “Please be cautious about any messages that appear to be from me,” his post continued. At this point, that advice is sager than Goncharoff likely intended it to be. 0
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ALT PIONEER Buz Bezore, circa 1990.
Buz Bezore, 1945-2014 Iconic Santa Cruz journalist founded Santa Cruz Weekly Buz Bezore, founding editor of the Santa Cruz Weekly and longtime Santa Cruz alternative journalism pioneer passed away on March 6, at age 68, after many years in declining health. Bezore, born May 5, 1945, and among the first graduates of UCSC, was a Santa Clara native who fell in love with Santa Cruz on many early morning surfing expeditions to Little Wind and Sea. An early adopter of gonzo journalism, Bezore was a music critic and then editor at the Santa Cruz Independent during the late 1970s, going on to found the Santa Cruz Express, where he worked with and mentored some of the leading proponents of alternative reportage. He came on board in the infancy of Metro Newspapers, continuing to work with publisher Dan Pulcrano here in Santa Cruz with Metro Santa Cruz (which became the
Santa Cruz Weekly). A graceful writer himself, he took pride in surrounding himself with writers whom he considered "the best," and he vigorously attracted (and wore out) a string of the finest, most patient art directors in California. Living to the hilt his personal motto to "spread joy and revolution," he was a sensitive editor, uncanny in his ability to preserve each writer's voice. Alert to whatever radical news story might be breaking, he devoted his life to tweaking the noses of sacred cows everywhere. An irreplaceable figure in the media history of late 20th century Santa Cruz, he burned brightly and left a playful legacy. He is survived by his mother and stepfather Norma and Roy Cilia of Santa Clara, a sister Lani, brother Roy Jr. and grand-daughter Rhiannon Bezore of Santa Cruz. —Christina Waters
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The Tragedy and Triumph of Mary Blair The classic Disney work of Soquel artist Mary Blair is experiencing an international revival more than three decades after her death BY GEOFFREY DUNN
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orre th ore than an a h half-century alf-century ffollowing ollowing h er gr ea atest tr iumphs her greatest triumphs ass an ar tist, M ary Bl airr, w hose artist, Mary Blair, whose ggenius e enius p laced h er person al placed her personal sstamp tam a p on m any o alt many off W Walt Disney’s most most celebrated celebrated films and and amusem entDisney’s amusementpark a ttr t actions, is fin nally ggetting etting th lobal park attractions, finally thee gglobal recognition th at w as d enied h er d uring a lif fetim e eo recognition that was denied her during lifetime off personal tr agedy an dd espair. personal tragedy and despair. Posterity P osterity h has as a w way ay o off eevening venin e g thin things gs ou out, t, o off balancing thee univ universe and settling scores. Nearly b alancing th veersee an d settlin g scor es. N early ffour our o decades after Mary’s death—she died Soquel d ecades aft er M ary’s d e th—she di ea ed in Soqu el in 1978 off a cer cerebral hemorrhage likely brought byy acu acute o ebral h emorrhag a e lik ely b rought on b te
alcoholism—Blair alcoholism—Blair is finally finally receiving receivin e g international internattional acclaim acclaim for fo or her her work work as the the principal principal concept concept artist artist and and color color stylist styyllist on a trio trio of of Disney Disney classics— classics— Cinderella, and Peter Pan, along Cinderreella, Alice in Wonderland Wo onderla and d an dP eter P an, al ong with her design work several three-dimensional wi th h er d esign w ork on se veerral thr ee-dimensional Disney most notably “It’ss a Sm Small World.” Disn ey eexhibitions, xhibitions, m ost n otab a ly “It’ all W orld.” For the past several there has F or th he p ast se verall yyears, ears, th here h as been b a monumental m onumental eexhibit xhibit of of her her work work on tour tour in JJapan, apan, curated byy th thee Museum o off Con Contemporary Artt in cur ated b ntemporary Ar Tokyo, where huge crowds T okyo, w here iitt llaunched aunched tto oh u e cr ug owds in 2009. And, now, week Francisco, thee Disn Disney An d, n ow, this w eek in San F rancisco, th ey Family F amily Museum is launching launching a major major rretrospective etrospectivve on her career, onee th that addition including her work h er car eerr, on at in ad dition n tto o in cluding h er w ork Disney Studios, also her signature ffor or Disn o ey Stu dios, al so ffocuses o ocusees on h er sign atture sstyle tyyle
artist and illustrator during the as a commercial commercial ar tist an d ill ustrator d uring th e 1950s and an d ’60s. Her ascendant aboutt tto grow brighter. H er ascen dant sstar tar is abou o gr ow eeven ven b righterr.
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lair’s pos lair’s posthumous thumous ce celebrity lebrity rregisters egisters a deeply deeply personal note me, knew her—and her person al n ote ffor o or m e, as I kn ew h er—and h er husband Blair, also accomplished artist— h us u band Lee L Bl air ir, al lso an acco omplis li hed d ar ti t— tis during off their lives where durin i g the the final final years yeears o their liv es in Soquel, S Soqu el, w here they they made after from mad de their their residence residence aft er rreturning eturning tto o California Califfo ornia fr om Long Long Island Island in the the llate ate 1960s. Sometime So ometime ar around ound th thee tim timee o off m myy 16th 1 bir birthday—I thday—I w as a so phomore a el Hig h School—my School—my fr iend was sophomore att Soqu Soquel High friend Ar th hur Swanson, Swanson, an eelderly lderly h andym man an d Arthur handyman and rraconteur, aco onteurr, in troduced m o som ew friends friends introduced mee tto somee n new 12
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of his, Lee and Mary, who lived less than a mile from my home, on a ridge with golden views overlooking the Soquel Valley and the northern sweep of Monterey Bay. Several of my childhood and high school friends lived nearby. The Blairs were refugees, I was told, from the world of corporate advertising on Madison Avenue. They had two grown sons, several years older than me—and whom, quite frankly, I don’t much recall. Later, there would be whispered rumors of family violence and alcohol-induced rages. I now suspect that many of them were true. Ozzie and Harriet it was not. Arthur and I developed a friendly bond with Lee, but not so much with Mary. Mary kept to herself; she had a certain distance to her, an enforced aloofness. She smoked cigarettes at a steady rate, and as I was soon to fathom, drank rather extensively, as did Lee. Lee was tall and outgoing, with an open face and engaging smile, bald and really quite full of himself, especially when his speech became slurred. Mary and he were roughly the same age as my mother, though Mary in particular looked decades older. She dyed her hair blonde in a pixie cut, though her graying roots often betrayed her, and she dressed in bright colors—a sort of British hip that seemed completely out of place to me. She preferred to spend her days on the couch, or, on warm days, to sit by the pool and take in the magnificent views from their backyard patio. She moved slowly, carefully, as if she might fall at any time, and Lee often held her by the arm if she walked outside. The walls of their ranch-style home were covered with paintings, assorted works of art and some Disney memorabilia. There were also lots of family photos, and I could not help but notice several of a beautiful woman, absolutely striking—think a 40’s version of Uma Thurmond—tall and elegant with high cheekbones and calming eyes. It took me a while to reconcile the fact that the woman in the photos was the woman on the couch. Arthur and I did odd jobs for the Blairs, mostly in their backyard and
on the terraced hillside beyond their pool, until, suddenly, Lee was no longer around. Arthur explained to me that Lee was “in the can,” as he put it, that there had been a series of drunk driving arrests and that he had been sentenced to a year in the county jail.
In certain respects, it seems to me, Mary Blair is on the verge of becoming the American version of Frida Kahlo, minus the politics. None of which made Mary happy. Mary didn’t like to drive, and so she often had Arthur or me chauffer her to places around the valley. Once, when Arthur was unavailable, Mary had me drive her to the downtown jail—it was located in the building where the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History is today—and I could sense her anger and profound embarrassment over the fate that had befallen her family. By then, Mary wreaked of booze and cigarettes and French perfume and god knows what was going on with her body. Her stomach was bloated and Arthur suspected that she had cirrhosis of the liver. It was a painful ordeal to behold. Mary ducked into the front door of the jail, and when I picked her up afterwards I could tell she had been crying. “I’ll be okay,” she said. And then she lit a cigarette. Her hands were shaking. I didn’t know what to say. As we drove, she looked off to the right, away from me and in silence, out to some distant horizon that I
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ELEGANT DESIGN “She always wore designer clothes and was perfectly groomed,” remembers Maggie Richardson, Mary Blair’s niece. couldn’t see and, frankly, couldn’t have understood at that age. I left her at the door of her home and didn’t go in. I wanted to get away from it all. Little could I have ever imagined then, at what was probably the nadir of her life, the international recognition and celebration that would one day be hers.
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uch of the Mary Blair resurgence in recent years has been facilitated by the energies of her two loving nieces, Jeanne Chamberlain and Maggie Richardson, the daughters of Mary’s eldest sister, Margaret, both of whom were raised in the Santa Clara Valley (Jeanne still lives in Cupertino, and Maggie in Sonoma County). I suspect that in many ways Jeanne and Maggie were the daughters that Mary never had. Both delight in recounting stories about visits to New York and Hollywood, with Mary taking them to fancy restaurants and on shopping sprees. They delighted in her elegance and personal grace. Jeanne recalls how Mary taught the
girls how to laugh rather than giggle. “She always wore designer clothes and was perfectly groomed,” remembers Maggie. “She wore capes and French perfumes and had a beautiful voice.” They were both a bit in awe of her, mesmerized by her enormous talents and accomplishment, but also charmed by the special attention Mary paid to them. Both describe her as a “loving aunt.” In certain respects, it seems to me, Mary Blair is on the verge of becoming the American version of Frida Kahlo, minus the politics— buried during her own lifetime under the force of her husband’s career (and plagued by health issues and substance abuse) only to be discovered posthumously, her artistic oeuvre an astonishing collection of brilliance and beauty and creativity and driving talent. She was way ahead of her time. Blair’s post-Depression aesthetic, with its flat and primitive formulations and a brightly colored
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palette, invokes the modernism of Picasso combined with the folk art of South America. “There was a magic that her stuff had that nobody else had,” her Disney co-worker Marc Davis told author and animation director John Canemaker in the 1990s. “I thought her color was better than Matisse.” Certainly Walt Disney agreed. Much ado was recently made about Meryl Streep’s rather hyperbolic attack on Walt Disney himself for being both a sexist and an antiSemite, but at least in respect to the former allegation, Blair’s career at Disney provides something of a counter-argument. At a time when women were relegated to minor positions in virtually all animation studios, Disney promoted Blair to head up several critical projects, both on the screen and off of it. He described her work as possessed of “wild and beautiful colors,” and likened them to those of a vibrant sunset over the Pacific. In a pair of superb books—The Art and Flair of Mary Blair, and in the introductory essay to the Japanese catalog, The Colors of Mary Blair— her admiring biographer John Canemaker (who has also curated the exhibit in San Francisco) has sketched out the framework of Mary’s life. Born in McAlester, Oklahoma, in October of 1911, the young Mary Browne Robinson eventually migrated with her impoverished family, first to Texas and then, in the aftermath of World War I, to the southern edge of the Santa Clara Valley, near Morgan Hill. A graduate of San Jose High School, Mary exhibited artistic talent at an early age, and, after studying fine arts for two years at San Jose State College, she won a scholarship to the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. It was at Chouinard that she met a fellow student, Lee Everett Blair, a native of Southern California who, at the age of 21, won a Gold Medal at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles for his watercolor portrayal of a California rodeo. Perhaps it was a case of opposites attracting. Mary was quiet and reserved and modest to a fault. Lee was gregarious and outgoing and full of himself. Both were extremely talented.
MAKING DISNEY’S WORLD Blair with a mural for Tomorrowland. Walt Disney praised Blair’s artistry and put her in charge of several critical projects.
After Mary returned home to the Santa Clara Valley for a year—she worked as a barmaid in San Jose— she returned to Los Angeles in active pursuit of a career in art. She and Lee married in March of 1934. In a poignant—and painfully telling—note written to Lee near the time of her marriage, Mary declared: “We are artists, dear, in love with art and each other.” The economic depression of the 1930s, however, rendered the life of a struggling fine artist nearly impossible. Lee often expressed to me his distaste in going to work for the film studios and his career as an animator, but the necessities of married life, he contended, required him to earn a living. “It was way
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beneath our standards,” he would say with disdain, “but we needed to eat.”
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s it turned out, Lee’s year in jail was very good for him, and very bad for Mary. Lee served as a cook and even taught elementary filmmaking courses to other inmates. Most importantly he dried up—quit drinking and joined Alcoholics Anonymous in jail—all at the age of 60-something. Not an easy thing to do. Mary’s resentments about it stewed in the dark cauldron of her psyche. Later, I heard a story about her going to a San Francisco advertising agency during this time looking for work as a graphic artist. She told friends that the agency claimed that her style
and aesthetic were “passé.” She was beaten and depressed by it. Once Lee got out of jail, they tried to put the pieces of their lives back together. Lee pushed for Mary to quit drinking. She didn’t. She hated the way that Lee lorded his sobriety over her. Mary retreated back into herself. She slumped on the couch watching daytime television, long grey ashes teetering on the ends of her cigarettes, then falling like snowflakes to the floor. By the time I started college, Mary had deteriorated greatly. Her lips were cracked and bleeding and she had trouble walking and was hunched. I saw her less frequently and our interactions essentially stopped.
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At one point, the Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a front-page story about Lee and Mary—“They Animated Fantasia” it declared in bold headlines—and for the first time, I had a greater sense of their remarkable careers as artists and animators. I remember feeling this revelation, like a bolt to my chest, that this complex couple I had known the past five-odd years had been such famous figures in a world—or worlds, really—that I simply couldn’t fathom. The article focused almost entirely on Lee—his career, his accomplishments, the narrative arc of his life—with Mary’s role serving mostly as filler. She had “joined her husband” on the production team of Fantasia; she was an adjunct. The accompanying photograph signaled much the same. Lee, on the wagon now, looked healthy and confident; Mary, in the background, appeared aged and fragile. In what was a full-length feature, there were only two small quotes from Mary; one about Walt Disney raising his eyebrows if he was “displeased” with someone’s work, and the other about the challenges of mixing careers as fine artists with animation. “It was a Jekyll-Hyde existence,” she said. That was it. The rest of the article focused on Lee. It didn’t mention his arrest, nor his jail time, but it heralded his roles in the productions of Fantasia, Snow White and Pinocchio. Lee this, Lee that. It was always about Lee.
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hese days, however, it’s mostly about Mary. She’s come a long way from her couch overlooking the Soquel Valley. Not long ago, when I was discussing Mary and Lee with a member of the Disney family, she posited that I was lucky to have known the Blairs in my youth. I gently confided in her that I actually didn’t feel so lucky, that it had been a bit like watching Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? up close and personal for nearly a decade. I said that I would have preferred to have known them during their heyday in the 1930s and 1940s, particularly when they traveled with Disney and his wife to South America on a remarkable cultural sojourn, when they were both young and beautiful and full of life.
I have seen Life magazine photographs and bright Technicolor film footage of the South American journey, which commenced in the summer of 1941 and took the Disney entourage of artists and filmmakers—dubbed “El Grupo”—to Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Peru. Both Mary and Lee seem so vibrant and fit in the imagery, so purposeful and attractive.
In a poignant— and painfully telling—note written to Lee near the time of her marriage, Mary declared:“We are artists, dear, in love with art and each other.” The trip had a transformative impact on Mary and her art. Her palette absolutely exploded in terms of color and she began to explore modernist expressions of form and movement. In the aftermath of World War II, Lee demanded that Mary follow him to New York, where he established a film and television production company that was, at least at first, widely successful. The Blairs also began a family on the East Coast. Mary gave birth to her two children in 1947 and 1950, respectively. With Lee’s energies focused almost exclusively on his business, Mary embarked on an absolutely astounding, if not thoroughly mindboggling bi-coastal career as mother, commercial artist and designer for Disney. Not only did she produce staggering amounts of conceptual art
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ast year, I discovered that a longtime friend of mine, Michael Zwerling of radio station KSCO-AM (1080), had also known the Blairs in Soquel in the 1970s at the same time I did. We had similar memories of the Blair household, of Mary the recluse taking refuge on the sofa, and the signature sadness that seemed to surround her. Our conversation confirmed—and revived—many distant memories. We both marveled at how Mary’s reputation was on the rise so long after her death, on how new generations were recognizing her enormous and complex talents. Michael worked on a few commercial video projects with Lee, and maintained a friendship with him following Mary’s death, as did I. In the early 1990s, shortly before Lee died at the age of 81, Michael conducted a fascinating and revealing in-depth interview with Lee. He graciously provided me with a digitized copy of the interview. I listened to the program intently. Lee’s voice was frail, but still familiar, and he didn’t refrain from championing his own legacy. I suppose I should not have been surprised by the fact that not once during the hour-long interview did Lee mention Mary by name. He merely made passing references to “his wife” and “getting married.” It
was Michael who forced the issue by bringing the conversation back to Mary following a commercial break. Aside from offering that she did “real good work” as a modeler for Disney, Lee utterly diminished, and even dismissed, her artistic career, and steered the conversation back toward himself. As time ran out at the end of the show, Michael said he wanted to bring back Lee to talk about Mary. Lee mumbled. The second conversation, Michael told me, never happened. Hearing Lee’s voice brought me back to my coming-of-age years in the Soquel Valley, to the house on the hill with the stale smell of cigarettes permeating its dark rooms and hallways. I thought about Mary there and her amazing life that led up to such a tragic denouement —and to such a triumphant revival in the many long years afterwards. Mary’s nieces Jeanne and Maggie have told me a story about being with their aunt at a 50th anniversary party for their parents shortly before Mary died. It was a boisterous affair, and there had been a slideshow made with dozens of images from family events, set to a musical soundtrack that included passages from “It’s a Small World.” After the party was over and the guests were leaving and the cleanup commenced, someone turned on the music, and the girls watched Mary move to the middle of the living room. Seemingly oblivious to the activities going on around her, Mary began twirling slowly to the celebrated refrain—“it’s a small world, after all…”—and for her, at least, it was growing even smaller and more fragile by the second, her head tilted upward, her eyes closed, a gentle and angelic smile forming on her face.
Magic, Color, Flair “Magic, Color, Flair: The World of Mary Blair,” runs from March 13 thru September 7 at the Walt Disney Family Museum, 104 Montgomery Street, San Francisco (in the Presidio, not in the Financial District). Open daily (except Tuesdays) 10am–6pm. $20/$15. For more information, go to: www.waltdisney.org, or call 415.345.6800.
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Jewel Theatre Company Three Days of Rain: A Pulitzer nominated drama about two adult siblings and their friend who reunite to settle their fathers' estate. www. jeweltheatre.net. Wed, Mar 12, 7:30pm, Thu, Mar 13, 8pm, Fri, Mar 14, 8pm, Sat, Mar 15, 2 and 8pm and Sun, Mar 16, 2pm. $26-$31. Center Stage, 1001 Center St, Santa Cruz, 831.425.7506.
Singin' in the Rain The classic musical production, presented by Pacific Collegiate School. www.seatyourself.biz/ pacificcollegiate. Fri, Mar 14, 7pm, Sat, Mar 15, 7pm and Sun, Mar 16, 2pm. $8-$15. Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St, Santa Cruz, 831.420.6177.
CONTINUING Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History Spotlight Tours. Bringing the artists' voices directly to visitors. Go behind the scenes and museum-wide exhibitions. Third Sat of every month, 11:30am-12:30pm. Museum hours Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm; closed Mon. 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.
GALLERIES CONTINUING Cabrillo College Gallery
CONCERTS Irish Harp Festival Performances by the Santa Cruz Harp Orchestra and more, plus refreshments and a silent auction. Sun, Mar 16, 3pm. Donations requested. St. John's Episcopal Church, 125
Cabrillo Gallery. Bridging Santa Cruz: A survey show spanning 50 years of printmaking in Santa Cruz County. Gallery hours: Mon-Fri, 9am-4pm & MonTues, 7-9pm. Thru April 11. 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.479.6308.
Lulu's at the Octagon Barbara Lawrence. Landscape oil paintings. Open daily from
6am-8pm. Thru March 16. Free. 118 Cooper St, Santa Cruz.
Pajaro Valley Arts Council The MPC Printmakers. Printmaking On and Off the Wall: An exhibit of contemporary fine art prints, sculptures, handmade books and more. Gallery hours: Wed-Sun, 11am-4pm. Thru April 19. Free. 37 Sudden St, Watsonville, 831.722.3062.
Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center 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.
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History The Cradle Project. An exhibition of handcrafted cradles honoring the numbers of African children orphaned by the AIDS epidemic. Thru March 23. Nikki McClure. Cutting Her Own Path 1996-2013: McClure transforms black construction paper into graphic stories of daily life. Thru May 25. Museum hours Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm; closed Mon. 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.
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.
LITERARY EVENTS Poet/Speak Reading
San Francisco’s City Guide
Tool Legendary prog-rock outfit unleashes their epic catalogue. Mar 12 at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium.
Rick Springfield
Featured reader Susan Allison. Sun, Mar 16, 2pm. Free. Santa Cruz Central Branch Library, 224 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.464.8983.
Storytime
SF outsider icon’s take on pop music is not to be missed. Mar 14 at Elbo Room.
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.
Nils Frahm
The Poets' Circle
Berlin-based contemporary composer shares his poignant piano experimentation. Mar 16 at the Independent.
Featured reader Patricia Zylus, local poet, copy editor and author of Once in a Vibrant Field. Thu, Mar 13, 6-8pm. Free. Watsonville Public Library, 275 Main Street, Watsonville, 831.768.3419.
Actor/musician plays a “stripped down” solo acoustic show. Mar 13 at Yoshi’s SF.
The Space Lady
Mike Gordon Phish bassist rocks with surprisingly sophisticated jams from his latest album. Mar 18 at the Fillmore.
More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com. Canterbury Dr., Aptos.
NOTICES Baby Feeding Circle A chance to relax, feed your baby and chat with other new mothers. Open
to all mothers and babies. Mon, 10:30-11:30am. free. Luma Yoga & Family Center, 1010 Center St., Santa Cruz, 831.325.2620.
Bead Society Monthly meeting of the Santa Cruz Bead Society. Attendees are invited to bring something to work on during the meeting and finished pieces to show the group. Second Wed of every month, 6-8pm. Kiss My Glass, 660 Seventh Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.460.1389.
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.
Computer Coaching Basic computer help for adults: Emailing, searching the internet, creating passwords and more. Sign up for 30-minute sessions at the front desk. Third Sun of every month, 1-4:30pm. Free. Santa Cruz Central Branch Library, 224 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.427.7700x7635.
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.
Foster Parent Orientation 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. 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.
Information about 25 different homeopathic remedies for everything from tick bites to food poisoning and colds. Sun, Mar 16, 2-6pm. College of Botanical Healing Arts, 1821 17th Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.462.1807.
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.
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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.
A variety of jazz concerts outdoors and in venues along the wharf. www. santacruzwharf.com. Sun, Mar 16, 11am-5pm. Santa Cruz Wharf, Beach Street, Santa Cruz, 831.420.5273.
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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.
Stitchers-by-the-Sea Meeting The local chapter of Embroiderers' Guild of America meets and weaves yarns; public welcome. This meeting will feature stitching a lacy canvas scissors case. Second Wed of every month, 7pm. Free. Dominican Hospital Rehab Center, 610 Frederick St, Santa Cruz, 831.475.1853.
Support and Recovery Groups Ongoing groups and weekly meetings. ADHD: 831.818.9691. Alzheimer's: 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. Recovering Couples Anonymous: 408.592.6377.
SATURDAY 3/15
Young Writers Program Benefit The Young Writers Program, an initiative sponsored by the County Office of Education, sends writing professionals into schools to help kids express themselves with words. This benefit will include a screening of the film, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” plus a panel discussion with poets, UCSC professors, and high school students about how Harper Lee’s book changed their lives. Saturday, March 15 from 7-10pm at the Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St, Santa Cruz. Tickets $25 in advance, $28 at the door. www.santacruzwrites.org. Female Survivor Support: 831.425.4030.
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.
Veterans of Foreign Wars Monthly Meeting VFW Tres Pueblos Post 7263. Second Thu of every month, 6:30pm. 831.475.9804. Veterans Hall, 2259 7th Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.345.3925.
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.
Young Writers Program Fundraiser A screening of "To Kill a
Mockingbird" followed by a panel discussion plus wine and hors d'oeuvres. All proceeds benefit the Young Writers Program of Santa Cruz County. Sat, Mar 15, 7-10pm. $25-$28. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.227.7690.
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 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.
English Country Dance Second and fourth Thursdays of each month; beginners welcome. Second
Thu of every month. $5-$7. Peace United Church of Christ, 900 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.426.8621.
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.
Film Particle Fever Screening A screening of the awardwinning documentary plus a Q&A with the Santa Cruz Institute of Particle Physics. Fri, Mar 14, 7pm. $10.50. Nickelodeon Theatre, 210 Lincoln St, Santa Cruz, 831.426.7647.
Watsonville Film Festival A celebration of films that inspire, educate and focus on issues relevant to the local community. watsonvillefilmfestival.org. Fri, Mar 14, Sat, Mar 15 and Sun, Mar 16. Henry J. Mello Center, 250 E. Beach St, Watsonville, 831.763.4047.
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HE’S PICKING OUT A THERMOS FOR YOU Steve Martin brings his Steep Canyon Rangers to the Civic Friday.
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BEEKEEPERS
STEVE MARTIN & THE STEEP CANYON RANGERS
PAPADOSIO
MOSAIC QUARTET
The members of Papadosio don’t make you wonder what they’re about. The band’s latest album is titled To End the Illusion of Separation (T.E.T.I.O.S.) and its live performances involve burning sage, psychedelic light shows, slideshows of life on earth and a whole lot of spinning, grooving and tripping. But, it’s all in the name of elevating consciousness and connecting people, so it’s all good, right? Existing in the inter-dimensional space between progrock, longform jams, jazz, psych and electronica, the Asheville, North Carolina-based band surrenders to rhythmic complexity, melodic euphoria and transcendental vibes and asks of its audience the same. Catalyst; $12 adv/$15 door; 9pm. (CJ)
If you catch the ear of T-Bone Burnett, you’re probably doing something right. Just having the legendary producer’s name associated with your music guarantees some traction. The Mosaic Quartet did just that and shortly-thereafter, Burnett oversaw the production of a live recording session with the quartet. Based in San Diego, the outfit, which describes itself as an “art pop band,” plays sweeping, piano-driven soundscapes inspired by Radiohead, Coldplay, 1960s soul and classical music. The result is smart, sweeping pop music that keeps you coming back for more—a sensation that Mr. Burnett knows a little something about. Don Quixote’s; $12 adv/$15 door; 7:30pm. (CJ)
Picking up hitch-hikers can lead to any number of things: the swapping of interesting stories, new friends, death—or, in the case of the Beekeepers, a name for your band. Inspired by a conversation they had with two Australians thumbing a ride, the folk-pop duo, comprising Olivia Radovich and Elena Rossman, had what they describe as an “animated conversation” about the extinction of bees and the importance of folk music. We’re left to wonder about the connection, but after hearing the sweet, catchy sounds of the Beekeepers, I imagine that it involves lots of kind-hearted, small-planet type stuff. Crepe Place; $8; 9pm. (Cat Johnson)
Those expecting the hilarious stand-up comedy of Steve Martin won’t be disappointed—well, not entirely disappointed. He retired from that in 1981, but the legendary banjo-plucking comedian and former “Wild and Crazy Guy” now strikes a balance between instrumentals and amusing lyrical originals like “Jubilation Day”—a breakup song—and faux spiritual “Atheists Don’t Have No Songs.” With the Steep Canyon Rangers behind him, Martin plays as fast as he did in his thirties, and sets up some songs with witty one-liners. I won’t give any of them away because he only has about five of them. Santa Cruz Civic; $51.75-$94.75; 8pm. (Jacob Pierce)
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CABRILLO COLLEGE JAZZ COMBO, DIRECTED BY RAY BROWN Friday, March 14
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WHITE ALBUM ENSEMBLE Mar. 14 at Kuumbwa ANDRE NICKATINA Mar. 15 at Catalyst
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TIERNEY SUTTON “AFTER BLUE” THE JONI MITCHELL PROJECT Monday, March 17
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BRUCE FORMAN’S COW BOP Mix of jazz & western-swing blues!
JASON MRAZ Mar. 15 at Civic Auditorium
Tuesday, March 18
POUR HOUSE Mar. 17 at Crepe Place
Thursday, March 20 U 7 pm Local & Live: Honoring Artistry, Celebrating Community
BILL KIRCHEN Mar. 19 at Don Quixote’s
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DAVID BROMBERG
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CLUB KUUMBWA: THE BAD LIGHT & HIGHNESS
MONDAY 3/17
MARTY O’REILLY & THE OLD SOUL ORCHESTRA
MONDAY 3/17
ST. PATRICK’S DAY CELEBRATION WITH STORY ROAD An all-star Celtic band made up of Molly’s Revenge members John Weed and Stuart Mason, as well as vocalist Colleen Raney, who is being touted as one of the finest Celtic singers of her generation, Story Road handily covers a range of musical territory from pulse-invigorating dance tunes to tear-inducing ballads. Add to the bill the Rosemary Turco Irish Dancers, ace button accordionist Johnny B. Connolly, and even a round of corned beef and cabbage, and it becomes clear that this St. Patrick’s Day celebration aims to show Santa Cruz what Irish tradition is all about. Don Quixote’s; $12 adv/$15 door; 7:30pm. (CJ)
As fiddler Chris Lynch shreds the hairs of his bow, guitarist/songwriter Marty O’Reilly sings and picks so passionately the band’s music sometimes moves him to the edge of tears. Their style is versatile, and at Moe’s Alley, this little “orchestra” jams a little harder—taking long solos that rile up a rowdy crowd and get people dancing. O’Reilly and his bandmates can turn “Folsom Prison Blues” into a top-notch swing song. O’Reilly’s emotionally charged musical style is matched by poetic lyrics about love, lust, beauty and death. If there’s a better band in Santa Cruz right now, I haven’t heard it. Moe’s Alley; $7 adv/$10 door; 8:30pm. (JP)
TUESDAY 3/18
DAVID BROMBERG David Bromberg doesn’t make set lists for his band, which has over 100 songs in its repertoire. He picks a first song, then feels out the mood for the second and goes from there. Bromberg, a former Columbia University student, studied guitar with Reverend Gary Davis in the 1960s and toured with Bob Dylan a few years later. The jazz/folk/blues guitarist has also played with Jerry Jeff Walker, Willie Nelson, George Harrison and Jerry Garcia. His 2011 album Use Me features Levon Helm, John Hiatt, Tim O'Brien, Los Lobos, Widespread Panic, Linda Ronstadt. Kuumbwa; $28 gen/$40 gold; 7pm. (JP)
Sunday, March 23
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QUEER QUEENS OF QOMEDY Tickets: brownpapertickets.com Mon. March 24
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HUGH MASEKELA 9 pm: 1/2 Price Night for Students JAZZ EDUCATION SERIES March 25 – April 29 (6 weeks ea.Tues)
JAZZ KILN: Improvisation Worship Levels 1 & 2 Info: kuumbwajazz.org/education/jazz-kiln Friday, March 28
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CAMINOS FLAMENCOS Featuring renowned gypsy singer Kina Mendez and dancers direct from Spain! Monday, March 31 U 7 pm | No Comps World Class Guitarist!
STANLEY JORDAN Friday, April 4
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BRAD MEHLDAU TRIO 4/7 4/11 4/21 4/25 4/28 4/30
René Marie Chihiro Yamanaka Trio Regina Carter’s Southern Comfort Claudia Villela & Heloisa An Evening w/Branford Marsalis José James - Int’l Jazz Day!
GOLD CIRCLE ON SALE - ONLINE ONLY Monday, May 5 U 7 andSOLD 9 pm OUT! | No Comps
DAVID GRISMAN SEXTET
Saturday, May 17, 8 pm | No Comps
At the Rio Theatre BELA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN Unless noted advance tickets at kuumbwajazz.org and Logos Books & Records. Dinner served 1-hr before Kuumbwa presented concerts. Premium wines & beer. All ages welcome.
320-2 Cedar St [ Santa Cruz 831.427.2227
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UNDECYDED plus Planet Pow !DV $RS s $RS OPEN P M 3HOW P M Friday, 4HYJO ‹ AGES 16+
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MURPHY’S WAGON
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Mar 19 Tycho/ Trails & Ways (Ages 16+) Mar 20 EOTO/ VibeSquaD (Ages 18+) Mar 21 Iration/ Natural Incense (Ages 16+) Mar 22 Jackie Greene (Ages 21+) Mar 28 La Dispute (Ages 16+) Mar 29 The Polish Ambassador (Ages 18+) Mar 30 Blue October (Ages 21+) Apr 3 Emancipator Ensemble (Ages 18+)
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Film Capsules
MARCH 12-18, 2014
New
NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND (1984) This is an almost unheard-of chance to see this early Miyazaki film on the big screen. Using his unique animation
style to tell the story of a princess drawn into a conflict between warring sides in a post-apocalyptic future Earth, Miyazaki set the stage for his epic Princess Mononoke a decade later. (Plays Fri and Sat at midnight at the Del Mar)
S H O W T IM E S
NEED FOR SPEED (PG-13; 130 min) Aaron Paul plays a street racer sentenced to prison for making meth, who reunites with Heisenberg…oh wait, scratch that last part. Wishful thinking. Okay, he was actually framed, and when he gets out, he
Movie reviews by Steve Palopoli
crafts a plan for revenge that involves driving really fast. (Opens Fri at Cinelux Scotts Valley, 41st Ave, Santa Cruz Regal 9, Green Valley) PARTICLE FEVER (NR; 99 min) See page 27. (Opens Fri at the Nick)
THE ART OF THE STEAL (R; 90 min) Kurt Russell plays a motorcycle daredevil and thief named Crunch Calhoun, because that’s awesome. Matt Dillon and Terence Stamp co-star in this crime comedy about a book heist. (Opens Fri at Nick)
Showtimes are for Wednesday, March 12, through Wednesday, March 19, unless otherwise indicated. Programs and showtimes are subject to change without notice.
APTOS CINEMAS
The LEGO Movie —Wed-Thu 12:10; 2:35; 5; 7:30; 10:05; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. Mr. Peabody & Sherman — Wed-Thu 12:35; 3; 5:25; 7:50; 10:25; Fri-Wed call
The LEGO Movie— Fri-Wed 2:45; 5; 7:15 plus Fri-Sat 9:20pm and Sat-Sun 12:30pm. The Monuments Men — Wed-Thu 1:30; 4; 6:30; 9. Mr. Peabody & Sherman — Wed-Thu 12:20; 2:30; 4:40; 6:45; Fri-Wed 2:30;
Mr. Peabody & Sherman 3D—Wed-Thu 1; 3:30; 6; 8:40; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. Non-Stop — Wed-Thu 12; 2:30; 5:10; 7:45; 10:20; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.
4:40; 7 plus Fri-Sat 9pm and Sat-Sun 12:20pm. Mr. Peabody & Sherman 3D — Wed-Thu 8:45pm.
Son of God — Wed-Thu 12:15; 3:15; 6:15; 9:20; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. The Fast and the Furious (2001) — Thu 9pm.
41ST AVENUE CINEMA
CINELUX SCOTTS VALLEY CINEMA
122 Rancho Del Mar Center, Aptos 831-426-7500 www.thenick.com
1475 41st Ave., Capitola 831.479.3504 www.cineluxtheatres.com
Need for Speed — (Opens Fri) 1; 4; 9:45. Need for Speed 3D — (Opens Fri) 7:15pm. 300: Rise of an Empire — Wed-Thu 1:45; 4:20; 7:30; Fri-Wed 1:15; 4:15; 7:30. 300: Rise of an Empire 3D — Wed-Thu 11; 10:15; Fri-Wed 11; 10:15. Non-Stop — Wed-Thu 11:15; 2; 4:45; 7:15; 10:15; Fri-Wed 1:30; 4:30; 7; 10:15. Son of God — Wed-Thu 12:30; 3:45; 7; 9:55.
DEL MAR
1124 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com
12 Years a Slave — Wed-Thu 1:15; 6:40; Fri-Wed 6pm. Her — Wed-Thu 4; 9:20; Fri-Wed 1:50; 8:40. The Monuments Men — Wed-Thu 1:40; 4:20; 7; 9:30; Fri-Wed 4:30; 7. War Horses — Thu 7:30pm; Sun 11am. The Wind Rises — Wed-Thu 3:15; 3:45; 6:30; 9:10; 9:30. The Wolf of Wall Street — Wed-Thu 12:20; 3:50; 7:30. (no Thu 7:30pm) Nausticaa of the Valley of the Wind — Fri-Sat midnight.
NICKELODEON
Lincoln and Cedar streets, Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com
The Art of the Steal — (Opens Fri) 3; 7:20; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 1pm. The Girls in the Band — (Opens Fri) 2:50; 5:10. Particle Fever — (Opens Fri) 2:20; 4:40; 7; 9:20 plus Sat-Sun noon. 12 Years a Slave — Wed-Thu 12:30; 9. American Hustle — Wed-Thu 3:40; 6:30; 9:20; Fri-Wed 8:45pm. Nebraska — Wed-Thu 6pm; Fri-Wed 6:15 plus Sat-Sun 12:20pm. Tim’s Vemeer — Daily 3:10; 5:10; 7:10; 9:10 plus Sat-Sun 1:10pm. Walking the Camino —Wed-Thu 3; 5; 7:10; 9; Fri-Wed 4:50; 6:50 plus Sat-Sun 12:50pm. The Wolf of Wall Street — Wed-Thu 2:45; 8:40.
RIVERFRONT STADIUM TWIN
155 S. River St, Santa Cruz 800.326.3264 x1701 www.regmovies.com
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, R-rated— Wed-Thu 3:45; 6:45; 9:45; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. Endless Love — Wed-Thu 4; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. Ride Along — Wed-Thu 7; 9:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.
SANTA CRUZ CINEMA 9
1405 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz 800.326.3264 x1700 www.regmovies.com
Need for Speed — (Opens 8pm Thu) call for showtimes. 300: Rise of an Empire — Wed-Thu 12:30; 10:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. (no Thu 10:30pm)
300: Rise of an Empire 3D — Wed 12:05; 12:15; 2:40; 2:45; 3:10; 5:15; 5:30; 5:45; 7:40; 8:05; 8:10; 10:15; 10:40; Thu 12:05; 12:15; 2:40; 2:45; 3:10; 5:15; 5:30; 5:45; 7:40; 8; 10:15; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. Frozen — Wed-Thu 12:25; 3:25; 6:30; 9:05; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.
for showtimes.
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Need for Speed — (Opens Fri) 1; 2:30; 4:15; 5:30; 8:30; 9:45. Need for Speed 3D — (Opens Fri) 11:30; 7:20. 12 Years a Slave — Wed-Thu 11:30; 7. 300: Rise of an Empire — Wed-Thu 11:55; 1:45; 2:45; 4:15; 4:45; 7:20; 8:15; 10; Fri-Wed 11:45; 2:20; 4:55; 7:40. (no Sat 11:45) 300: Rise of an Empire 3D — Wed-Thu 11:15; 9:45; Fri-Wed 9:30pm. Frozen — Wed-Thu 11; 2:30; Fri-Wed 11; 1:45. The Great Beauty — Wed-Thu 5:15pm. The LEGO Movie —Wed-Thu 11:30; 2; 4:30; 7; 10 Fri-Wed 11:30; 2; 4:30; 7; 10:15. (no Thu 7pm). The Monuments Men — Wed-Thu 11:15; 2:15; 5:15; 8:15 Fri-Wed 4:30; 7:45. (no Thu 9:15pm) Mr. Peabody & Sherman — Wed-Thu 11; 11:45; 1:30; 2:15; 4; 5:30; 6:30; 7:15; 9; Fri-Wed 11:55; 1:40; 2:20; 4; 4:45; 6:30; 7:20; 9; 10:15. (no Thu 9pm) Mr. Peabody & Sherman 3D — Fri-Wed 11:15am. Nebraska — Wed-Thu 4:15; 6:30. Non-Stop — Wed-Thu 11:15; 2; 4:40; 7:30; 8:30; 10:15; Fri-Wed11; 2; 4:40; 7:30; 10:15. (no Thu 7:30 or 10:15) Philomena — Wed-Thu 1:45; 4:30. Son of God — Wed-Thu 12:15; 3:30; 6:45; 9:30 Fri-Wed 11; 1:45; 4:55; 8:15. The Wind Rises — Fri-Wed 12:45; 3:45; 6:45; 9:45. The Adventures of Robin Hood — Sat 11am; Thu 7pm.
GREEN VALLEY CINEMA 8
1125 S. Green Valley Rd, Watsonville 831.761.8200 www.greenvalleycinema.com
Need for Speed — (Opens Thu 8pm) 1:30; 7:15; 10. Need for Speed 3D — (Opens Thu 8pm) 4:15pm. The Single Moms Club — (Open Fri) 1:30; 4; 7:30; 10 plus Sat-Sun 11am. 300: Rise of an Empire—Wed-Thu 1:45; 4:30; 7:30; 10; Fri-Wed plus Sat-Sun 11:15am. 300: Rise of an Empire 3D — Wed-Thu 7:40pm; Fri-Wed 4:30pm. 3 Days to Kill — Wed-Thu 4; 9:45; Fri-Wed 9:45pm. Dallas Buyers Club — Wed-Thu; Fri-Wed 1:45; 4:30 plus Sat-Sun 11am. Gravity — Wed-Thu 2; 4:15; Fri-Wed 7:25; 9:35. The LEGO Movie — Wed-Thu 1:45; 4:30; 7; 9:30; Fri-Wed 1:45; 4:30; 7. Non-Stop — Wed-Thu 1:25; 4:15; 7:15; 9:45; Fri-Wed 1:25; 4:15; 7:20; 9:45 plus Sat-Sun 10:45am.
Mr. Peabody and Sherman —Wed-Thu 1:30; 4:15; 7:05; 9:30; Fri-Wed 1:15; 4; 7; 9:30. Mr. Peabody and Sherman 3D — Wed-Thu 5:05pm. Philomena — Fri-Wed 1:45; 4:15; 6:50 plus Sat-Sun 11am. Pompeii — Wed-Thu 1:25; 7:15 plus Sat-Sun 10:45am. Ride Along — Wed-Thu 2:30; 5:15. Robocop — Wed-Thu 1:40; 4:30; 7:30; 10; Fri-Wed 9:30pm. Son of God — Wed-Thu Fri-Wed 1; 3:55; 6:50; 9:45; Fri-Wed 1; 6:50. Son of God in Spanish — Wed-Thu 7:15; 10; Fri-Wed 3:55; 9:45.
THE GIRLS IN THE BAND (NR; 81 min) Fans of the Oscar-nominated documentary 20 Feet From Stardom are likely to dig this one about women in jazz music who were kept on the periphery for years, and the ones who broke through—all of them setting the stage for today’s prominent female jazz artists. (Opens Fri at the Nick) THE SINGLE MOM’S CLUB (PG-13; 111min) Tyler Perry wrote directed, and starred in this Tyler Perry movie about Tyler-Perryconceived characters who find joy and friendship doing Tyler Perry things. Tyler Perry! (Opens Fri at Green Valley)
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300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE (R; 102 min) As hotly anticipated as a commemorative plate, this sequel to Frank Miller’s horrendous mangling of world history comes long after anyone cared, and without original director Zach Snyder or star Gerard Butler. Mainly what it promises is a lot more men in skirts screaming, and untold gigabytes of CGI blood as Greeks and Persians clank, slice and hack their way through comic-book-style battles. 3 DAYS TO KILL (PG13; 100 min) An action thriller co-written by Luc Besson, directed by McG, and starring Kevin Costner as a secret service agent forced to become an assassin probably can’t be that bad. Plus, I love any trailer where the character actually says the name of the movie. “You’ve got 3 days to kill! ‘Cause you’re in the movie 3 Days to Kill, and 3 days of killing shall you do! The number of days of killing shall be 3! Four days shall thou not kill, neither kill thou two days, excepting that thou then proceed to three days. Five days is right out.” 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 best-reviewed film of the year. ENDLESS LOVE (PG-13; 103 min) Wait, let me check the bottom of my list again. Yup, this one’s there, too. But hey, this drama about obsessive love can’t be any
worse than that god-awful 1981 version with Brooke Shields, right? Right? GLORIA (R; 110 min) Pauline Garcia is getting rave reviews for her portrayal of a free-spirited older woman in a new relationship in Santiago. THE LEGO MOVIE (PG; 100 min) Everybody from Morgan Freeman to Will 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… POMPEII (PG-13; 104 min) The Game of Thrones phenomenon has inspired a new crop of swords-andsandals flicks—and most of them have actual GoT actors in them, which is kind of funny. It’s like, “You loved him talking like it was olden times as Jon Snow, now see him talking like it was olden times again in Pompeii!” And what are they going to come up with for Lena Headey’s character in 300: Rise of an Empire? “She’s like Cersei, without the incest!” 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 based on a true story, the trailer looks great. Why isn’t anyone talking about this? MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (PG; 90 min) I loved Rocky & Bullwinkle as a kid, it was basically The Simpsons before The Simpsons. But the movies based on it so far—The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle and Dudley Do-Right, were pretty bad. I have higher hopes for this animated spin-off, since time-travelling dog scientist Mr. Peabody and his pet boy Sherman were pretty much my favorites, anyway. NON-STOP (PG-13; 110 min) The flight is non-stop! The danger is non-stop! The feeling that Liam Neeson is in a hell of a lot of B-level thrillers lately is non-stop!
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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. ROBOCOP (R; 102 min) What a coincidence, this is also low on my list of movies Hollywood should remake! But for a different reason. Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 original was so unique in its mix of comic-book brightness and gritty crime action that it seems silly to try to recreate that magic. They couldn’t just make a whole different movie about a cyborg cop? Hells to the no! So now we have what appears to be a Christopher-Nolanedup version from Brazilian director Jose Padilha, who would like to thank you for your cooperation. SON OF GOD (PG-13; 138 min) Jesus gets a reboot! As with most franchises, this epic Biblical drama starts at the beginning with an origin story, but apparently the producers didn’t get the memo about how hot trilogies are these days, because this one goes all the way through to the end of the story. If only someone had put them in charge of The Hobbit. THE WIND RISES (PG-13; 126 min) Will this really be Hayao Miyazaki’s last animated film? That’s what he says, and the guy is 73. But he will leave a hole in the art of cinema that can’t be filled. At least this is a hell of a send-off, if advance word is any indication.
THE GOD MACHINE The Large Hadron Collider and the attempt to use it in the search for the ‘God particle’ are at the center of ‘Particle Fever.’
Particle Fever Director Mark Levinson followed a bunch of nerds for five years to create a documentary that is, dare I say, the most riveting story ever based around particle physics. In fact, it’s really set up like a mystery, with physicists flocking to the Large Hadron Collider, the biggest machine ever built by mankind. Will it be able to recreate the conditions of the universe just after the Big Bang? Will it even work? Levinson actually makes you care, a lot, since all of the fascinating characters in the film treat it like the fate of mankind’s
understanding of the universe is in the balance. You’ll be sweating as they attempt to determine if the Higgs boson exists—like in, “OH DEAR GOD PLEASE LET THEM FIND IT!” That’s the level of tension and intrigue he craftily creates. The suspense is balanced, though, with some funny and odd scenes that include a hip-hop song about a supercollider done by superdorks, theoretical physicists playing with a piece of modern art and a researcher who compares his work to making coffee: “Coffee’s a very serious business in the
life of a theorist. It’s not like physics research, where you can wait for 30 years before you know if you are right. Within a few minutes, it pays off. If you succeed, it’s great. If you fail, you get to try another one in another minute.” He then sums up his job thus: “Jumping from failure to failure with undiminished enthusiasm is the big secret to success.” The film opens Friday at the Nick; on opening night at 7pm there will be a Q&A with staff from the Santa Cruz Institute of Particle Physics at UCSC. —Steve Palopoli
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one of those ultra nutty, dense, complex bits of baking chemistry that hang out in all of our favorite coffee houses and bakery emporia. I must confess that I have developed a crush on Shelly's cornmeal, almond and cranberry
COOKING TO CLEANSE Santa Cruz’s Talya Lutzker, author of ‘The Ayurvedic Vegan Kitchen,’ will lead one of New Leaf’s food classes on March 27.
Re-thinking Our Diets BY CHRISTINA WATERS
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ALEO PROLIFIC: You might want to check out the Spring Paleo Cooking demos
presented by licensed nutritionist
Rebecca Hazelton at the Westside New Leaf Community Market starting
March 19 from 6 to 7:30pm. Surely you're familiar with the "Paleo" food phenom? Think of it as a "back to the future" backlash against all things dairy and gluten. The plan is inspired by the way our ancient ancestors are thought to have consumed calories—without processed anything (obviously), but mostly stressing proteins and avoiding dairy
and wheat products. Ask yourself, what would a paleolithic hunter-gatherer eat? Well, mostly nuts, fruits, seeds, seafood, meat and healthy oils. They did not eat refined sugars. The upcoming Paleo workshops are packaged as a 3-part series which includes “Power Breakfasts” (Part 1, March 19), “Paleo Staple Foods” (Part 2, April 16) and “Paleo Desserts” (Part 3, May 14). All occur in the spacious, well-appointed classroom at the Westside New Leaf, 6-7:30pm. Actually there's a huge program of exciting food classes at New Leaf, like
those from very busy Ayurvedic chef and cookbook author Talya Lutzker who will walk you through Cooking with Cleansing Foods on March 27, at the Westside New Leaf Market. Why not get in the habit of checking the New Leaf website regularly, or pay attention to the chalkboard of upcoming events when you're shopping at the Ingalls & Fair store? SPEAKING OF LOCALLY MADE:
Who doesn't crave Shelley's Biscotti? Yes, that was a rhetorical question, since I assume that if you have a molar in your head, it loves crunching away at
model, a creation so fully locked and loaded with some of my favorite oral textures and flavors as to be frankly de rigueur stockpiling for my utopian bunker, or at least my car, my office and my tea cabinet. Seriously, even though the almond biscotti by Shelley's is a blatant classic, the newer cornmeal variation is, well, stupendous. The cornmeal base, which in its polenta disguise is an authentic Italian biscotto ingredient, just adores the tart flavor of cranberry inflected with orange peel. And the almonds just add to the interactive pleasure of these robust biscotti. These are biscotti for adults, and cry out not only for tea and/or espresso, but flirt shamelessly with one's favorite after-dinner liqueur. For example, I give you the cornmeal cranberry orange almond biscotti from Shelley's, shared with a glass of Highland Park or Laphroaig single malt. The experience has been known to change lives. Just sayin'. Thanks to local entrepreneuse Shelley Patterson for making so many tastebuds and teeth so very happy. Staff of Life, Shoppers, Mr. Toots, Aptos Coffee Roasting, Ugly Mug—you know where you can
find these hand-cut, freshly-baked, locally-made bits of oral gratification. ASSEMBLY AND MORE: In addition to the opening of Assembly this week,
there are other events to be anticipated. Such as the new, expanded offering of atmospheric al fresco food, farm and wine experiences known as Outstanding in the Field, which is about to launch its bigger-than-ever schedule of appealing, if costly, outdoor dining extravaganzas. If you haven't had the unique pleasure of sitting in the very fields in which your dinner items were grown, sipping a local wine, touring the property, meeting worldly fellow gourmets—this is your event. Check out the possibilities. 0
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very fisherman you talk to would have a story that could easily be turned into a movie or book,” says Alan Lovewell, co-founder of Local Catch Monterey Bay. “They’ve all had their scary encounters. They’ve all had that huge fish get away. They’ve all lost friends at sea, and they’ve all struggled.” Lovewell, who grew up on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, started the Community Supported Fishery (CSF) to bring people closer to the fish they eat in a world where 90 percent of seafood is imported, and many local fishers make just enough money to scrape by. SANTA CRUZ WEEKLY: Are you more of a fisherman or a businessman? Alan Lovewell: Businessman. But I come at it from fishing
and working in policy. Starting Local Catch was a way for me to address some of the issues and the trends I was seeing. Fishing is on a six percent decline, and what we’re seeing is the greying of the fleet. We have all these fishermen, but they’re all about to retire. They’re all in their fifties, sixties. And when they retire, no one’s coming up the ranks to take on their job and their responsibilities and their crucial role in terms of our food system. Reminds me of what farm activists say about the old farm generation retiring… It’s the exact [same] thing. The CSA movement started
in the eighties in New England, and the first CSF wasn’t until 2007. You’ve got this 27-year gap between what the agricultural movement did and the fisheries. The reason for that is fishers are for the most part solitary individuals who like to work hard and do it on their own. They’re out on the ocean and working alone on their boats. And when they come to shore, the last thing they want to do is get together with businessmen to talk about business planning. What’s your favorite book about the ocean? A book called Four Fish. It’s not an exciting book. It’s about our dependence on seafood and what it means. As a society, we really desire four different fish: salmon, tuna, sea bass and cod. So, his argument is that’s not sustainable for a lot of different reasons. We can’t just demand four fish in our society. We really need to broaden our horizons. We should be eating what’s in season. We should be eating small forage fish that other cultures really enjoy and that we have for some reason failed to integrate into our culinary endeavors. —Jacob Pierce
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WHAT A CATCH Alan Lovewell, co-founder of Local Catch Monterey Bay, is on a mission to reverse the decline in fishing.
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ARIES (Mar (March ch 21-April 19): “T “There here was another lifee that I might have had, but I am lif a having this one.” So says a character character in Kazuo Kazuuo Ishiguro’s Ishiguro’s novel The Unconsoled. At At this juncture juncture in your life life story, story, Aries, it might be healing for for youu to make a similar declaration. declaration. Now is an excellent moment to say a final goodbye to plot twists that you wished would have happened but never did. To To do so will free free up stuck energy energy that will then become become available for for future awaken future projects. pprojects. j YYou oou mayy even aw waken to excitingg possibilities you haven’t imagined haven’t imagine ed yet.
SCORPIO (O (Oct. ct. 23-Nov. 23-Nov. 21): You You o won’t won’t be the recipient recipient of goodd luck in the coming days. Nor will you experience bad b luck or dumb luck or weird weird luck. No, Scorpio. The serendipitous serendipitous slew of synchronicities synchronicities that will slip and slide into your sphere sphere requires requires a new word, word, whichh I have coined for for this occasion. That word word is “shluck.” “shluck.”” Shluck is a cracked cracked yet plucky plucky sort of backwards backwards luck that t provides provides you with an abundance of curious slack. Shluck slings your way a series of happy accidents and curious coincidences that give you experiences you didn’t didn’t even rrealize ealize you needed. TToo take maximum advantage advanntage of shluck’s benefits, you have to dispense with your yoour agendas and drop drop your expectations. SAGITTARIUS SAGITTAR RIUS (Nov (Nov.. 22 22-Dec. -Dec.. 21): In the old ffairy airy tale “Ali “A Ali Baba andd the Forty Thieves,”” the poor woodcutter Ali Baba is collecting collectting firewood firewood in the forest forest when he spies a gang of thievess bragging about their exploits. Observing brragging a Observing them from from a hiding hiding place, place he hears them chant a phrase, phrraase, “open “open sesame.”This T magically unseals the opening to a cave that happens happenns to be full of their stolen treasure. treasure. Later, Laterr, when the thievess have departed, Ali Baba goes to the cave and says “open himself.. The hocus-pocus “oppen sesame” sesame” himself works. works. He slips into innto the cave and steals a bag of gold from from the robbers’ robbers’ plunder. plunderr. This story has resemblances resemblances to an adventure adventure youu could enjoy sometime soon,, Sagittarius. I suspect you may may discover your own version of “open “open sesame.”” It will give giive you access to a less literal literal and more more legitimate bounty. bountyy. CAPRICORN N (Dec. 22 22-Jan. -Jan. 19): YYour oour ability to bridge heal rifts and br ridge gaps is unusually high. YYou oou could seemingly irreconcilable connect seemin ngly ir reconcilable elements and fforge orge apparently impossible links. appar ently impo ossible link s. Former allies who have estranged become estr angged might be moved to bond again through compassionate intervention. thr ough your co ompassionate inter vention. I’m not promising amazingly miraculous eats of unification, pr omising amaz zingly mir aculous ffeats ruling either.. YYou but I’m not rulin ng them out, either ou o have a sixth interesting mixtures sense about how w to create create inter esting mixtur es by applying justt the right amount of pressure pressure and offering off ering just thee right kind of tenderness. AQUARIUS S (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): My friend Har Harry ry said he wanted to teach me to play golf. golf. “Are “A Are you kidding?”” I asked asked him incredulously. incredulously. “The dullest game on the planet?” plaanet?”” He tried to convince me that it would provide provide lots loots of interesting interesting metaphors I could use in writing horoscopes. horoscopes. “Name one,” I challenged him. He told mee that “Volkswagen” “Volkswagen” is a slang term that describes what happens when a golfer w golfer makes an awkward hat nevertheless turns out to be quite awkward shot tthat good. “Hmmm,”” I replied. replied. “That is exactly the theme I have decided onn for for the Aquarius horoscope.” horoscope.” PISCES (Feb.. 19-Mar 19-March ch 20): Do you remember remember being in your mother’s mother ’s womb? Probably Probably not. But here’s know here’s what I kn now about that time: In the first ffew ew weeks weeks after youu were were conceived, your body grew grew at a very rapid weree born, if you had rapid rrate. ate. Once you wer continued to expand expand and develop with that much vigor, vigor, you wouldd literally literally have grown grown to be as big as a mountain by now let’s nnow.. So let ’s be thankful you slowed down. But I do want to sound an alert and let you w know that you are a e currently ar currently in a growth growth spurt with some metaphorical metaphorrical resemblances resemblances to that original eruption. It It’s ’s basically basically a good thing. Just be aware aware that you may experience exxperience growing growing pains.
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