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‘Nobody y Made Thi U This Up p’’ Up’ Re: R e: “Deep “Deep Web” Web” (Currents, (Currents, March March 12): I am wr writing iting becau because use I be believe lieve I am on onee off th o thee ffew ew peo people ple w who ho kn knows ows the the truth truth aboutt all this. I h abou have ave been a aware ware of of the the Facebook profiles created since F acebook p rofiles Tim cr eated sin ce off 2012. I w was concerned December o as con cerned aboutt th them after hee created abou em because becausse aft er h created them, th em, h hee h had ad them them m ““friend” friend” many many of of his friends, fr iends, w which hich I p pe personally ersonally found fo ound to to be deceptive. d eceptive.

I know know Tim, an and d I have have al always ways thought thought hee w h was as a ni nice ce m man. an. T Though hough I am n not ot politically po litically active, active, I agree agree with with him politically po litically on m most ost issu issues. es. I believe believe he he has h as a vvery ery ni nice ce ffamily. am a mily. I’m sorr sorryy th that at th they ey will be h hurt urt an and nd emb embarrassed arrassed b byy this. Bu Butt iitt is Tim Tim’s ’s ac actions, tions, an and d Tim Tim’s ’s

subsequent being out, that sub bsequent reactions reactions tto o bein g ffound o ound ou t, th at aree h hurtful—not thee ffact that hee h has ar urtful—not th a act th at h a been as out. ffound ou o und ou t.

Beyond thing B Bey ond the the whole whole thin g being being creepy, crreepy, dishonest, and myy o opinion, not dis shonest, an d in m pinion, n ot appropriate behavior man who app propriate b ehavior ffor or a ma nw h iiss ho asking trust mostly as k g us tto kin o tr ust him tto o llead ead us, I am a m ostly upset by, and moved write off u pset b y, an dm oved tto o wr ite this, because b o Tim’s when hee w was out.

For Tim m’s rreaction eaction w hen h as ffound o ound ou t. F or continue deceive friends and him m tto o con tinue tto od eceive his fr iends an d supporters—good, trusting people—and su pporters—good, tr usting peo ple—an e d llet et them outt a att th thee p press att im imagined th e llash em ash ou ress or a a ed agin enemies off Tim, is in indefensible.

Hee sa says en e es o emi deffeensible. H ays hee n never friended these women.

There h ever fr iended th ese w omen. T here is proof (screenshots p roo o f (scr eenshots ttaken aken in 2012) that that he he not not only friended them, butt fr friended onee on ly fr iended th em, bu iended eac eeach h on immediately after was created. im mmediately aft er the the profile profile w as cr eated.

Hee h has lied and denied friending them, H as li ed an dd enied eever ver fr iendin d g th em, and unfriended them immediately after an d unfr iended th em all imm edia ately aft er being questioned aboutt iit.

For hee al also bei ing qu estioned abou t. F or yyears earrs h so often thee con conversations hee cr created o ften jjoined oined in th versations h eated

ffor or o th them. em. His com comments mments didn’t didn’t disappear disappear when w hen he he unfr unfriended ien nded them. them.

Nobody N obody m made ade this t u up. p. Tim cr created ea ated a bunch bun ch o off ffake a ake id identities e tities on F en Facebook. acebook. H Hee had h ad th them em fr friend iend his fr friends. iends. H Hee used th them em tto o su pport his cau uses an d al so tto o carr support causes and also carryy on in appropria ate b a terr, often an often pullin g oth ers inappropriate banter, pulling others in to th eir con nverssations, an do ften wr ote into their conversations, and often wrote suggestive sugg estive thin things, gs, sw which hich coul could d possib possibly ly have h ave in invited vited p private rivate m messages, essages, w which hich is entrapment. en trapment. Wh When e confr en confronted onted an and d giv given en a cchance hance tto oa pologi o ze an d com lean, h apologize and comee cclean, hee w ent on th ffeen nse, li ed, an d in nvi v ted his went thee o offense, lied, and invited su pporters tto o be fur ffurther ther betr ayeed. T he supporters betrayed.

The w hole thin g is rrife iffe with with deceit…I deceit…I hope hope that that whole thing Tim will ttake ake rresponsibility esp ponsibility an dd ow hat h and do what hee can tto om ake am e ds. en make amends.

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Bad Ka Karma arma Re: R e: “Big Em Empty” ptyy” (Cover, (Coverr, March March 5): I appreciated yyour appreciated ourr w well-researched ell-researched article article in thee March th March 5 issue issue abou aboutt Loui Louiee Ri Rittenhouse's ttenhouse's "Big Em Empty" pty" buil building d gd din downtown. owntown. Am I thee onl th onlyy on one, e, or d do o oth others ers sshare hare m myy be belief lief that th at Loui Louie's ee'ss in intransigence tran a sigence wi with th th those ose w who ho wanted w anted tto o ac acquire quire his vvacant acant llot ot an and d turn iitt into in to a pub public lic o open pen n sp space ace som somee yyears ears aft after er thee earthquake, th earthquake, h has as n now ow earn earned ed him his "white "w hite elephant" elephant" b bad ad k karma arma d downtown? owntown? H Hee seems tto oh have ave m made a e a ser ad series ies o off poor cchoices, hoices, beginning beginnin g wi with th lleaving eavving his rrubble-filled, ea ubble-filled, weedy w eedy llot ot as an ey eyesore yeesore ffar a ar llonger onger th than an other oth er landowners landownerrs downtown downtown (e (even ven while while hee w h was as a City City Cou Councilman), uncilman), th then en rrefusing efusing tto o all allow ow iitt tto o be pu purchased urchased as a d downtown owntown plaza p laza (a mu much ch be better etter use use,, I be believe) lievee) an and d finally fin ally buil building ding th tthee be behemoth, hemoth, W Wall all Str Streeteetlikee buil lik building ding iitt h has a been ffor as o or fiv fivee yyears ears n now, ow, sitting si tting em empty. ptyy. Let Let's t's h hope ope th that at th thee ttortured ortured ttale ale o off d downtown's owntown n's llonely onely Ri Rittenhouse ttenhouse Building Buil ding will soo soon nh have ave a happier happier ending ending th that at in involves volves a m major ajor an anchor chor ttenant. enant.

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Wellness W elln e llnes ss BREAST DE DEFENSE EFENSE Dr Drawing awing on her own experience, Christina Gr Grant’s ant’s encourages approach breast book encour a ages women to take a holistic appr a oach to br east cancer.

Breast B Bre east Can C Cancer ncer Re-Examined R -Examin ReE ined d Christina Chr isstin t a Grant Gran nt asks asks what what w women omen ar aren’t ren n’t bein beingg told told

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n a cr crowded owded Aptos Aptos bistro, bistro, I am a nervous n ervo ous b ball all o off en energy ergy b byy th thee time time I llocate oca ate Christina Ch hristina Gr ant, Ph.D., Ph.D., Grant, holistic healer and author off th thee rrecent h olistic h ealerr an d au a uth t or o ecent book Holistic Approach Breast boo k The Holi istic Appr ro oach to Br reast e Woman's Cancer: Every yW oman's o Guide to Vitality Wellbeing.

Health, Vitalit ty & W eellbeing. truth, thee ttopic wee ar aree abou about In tr utth, th opic w ut tto o confront horrifies me. don't like confr ron ont h orrifi i es m e. I d on't lik ke tto o spend off tim entertaining thee spen d a llot ot o ttimee en nterrtaining th that myy b breasts, which kind off rreality eality th at m reasts, w hich I kin h do like, could mee som someday. thee ffact lik e, coul d kill m eday. Or th acct a that thee secon second most common off th at th dm ost comm on fform orm o o cancer women can cer in American Amer erican w o omen is predicted preedicted new and tto o see 300,000 n ew cases an d ttake ake a lives according thee 40,000 liv vees in n 2014, accor rding tto o th American Cancer Society.

Am erican Can ncer Soci etyy.

But Grant, with her blue Bu ut Gr ra an ntt, wi w th h er cclairvoyant lairrvoya an nt b lue eyes and bestt fr friend quality her ey yees an d a bes riend qu ality in h er demeanor, politely waits thee sm small d emeanorr, po l tely w li a aits ffor or th o all dry up, and then mee tto ttalk alk tto o dr ry u p, an a d th en fforces or orcces m o about think abou ut iit.t.

"The "T he tumor tumor supposedly supposedlly was was a ab bou ut one one cen nttimeterr. They They sa aw iitt about centimeter. saw on n an ul lttrasound. This This is th ultrasound. thee thin thingg ab b ut mammograms, bou mammogr g ams, is i th at no no about that m ammogram w orrked on m o e. Becau use mammogram worked me.

Because iff yyou're o ou're yyoung oung an o d yyour our b o reeast tissu ue and breast tissue iss d ense, the the m ammogrrams a ar dense, mammograms aree w orrtthless," sshe o he sa ays, ttaking aking a si po e I ea. worthless," says, sip off ttea. or rder a gglass lass of of wine. wine. order H oping it it would wo ould go go away away on its its o w wn, Hoping own, Gr ra an nt w ai a ted an en nttire yyear ear e bef fo ore sshe he Grant waited entire before h a the ad the cchickpea-sized hickpea-sized m ass bi opsied. e had mass biopsied.

It grew. grew. An d th en h er w orst ffears o ears e w eerre And then her worst were co onfirmed: the the tumor tumor was wa as malignant, malignan ntt, confirmed: an nd it it needed needed to to be rremoved—the emovved e —the n ex xt and next w eeek. Grant Grra an nt complied, complied, th en sshe he rrefused eefused week. then al ll fur ther treatments trea atm t ents or rdered b err all further ordered byy h her p rominent Monterey Mon nterey an d Son oma prominent and Sonoma co oun ntty doctors: docctors: rradiation, a adia ati t on, ttamoxifen amoxiffeen n county a n nd d chemotherapy. chemotherapyy. and "Wh at happens happens in our soci ety is w "What society wee ggive gi ivve all a our ou power po ower e away away to to the the m edica al medical

system, an system, and d th then en if iitt ffails, aiils, w a well, ell, th that's att's th thee m edical sy stem, th drug u s didn't w ork," o medical system, thee drugs work," sa ays Grant.

Gran ntt. "I'm a big advocate ad dvoca o ate for fo or taking taking says rresponsibility esponsibili ibility t for fo or our own ow wn li livvees, our o w wn lives, own bodi es, an d our o w wn illn ness. Bu ut iit's t's n ot a bodies, and own illness.

But not po pular way way to to think ab bou ut ourse lves e in popular about ourselves our cul ltture." culture."

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But emb arkeed on a regimen regimen n of of self self healing, healing, embarked rresearching esearrching cancer cancer fr om m eevery veery angle angle from as sshe he went—the wen ent— —the im porrtance o o ood importance off ffood an d body bod dy movement, movvem e en ntt, im mmunityy, and immunity, en nvvirro onmen ntal toxins, toxins, em eemotions, otions, mind mind environmental an d spirit. spirit. and "[T he doctors] docctors] didn'tt ttell ell me me 'ea at "[The 'eat m orre b roccoli,' they they didn't did dn't tell tell me me to to stop stop more broccoli,' ea atting sugar," sug ga arr," , says sa ays Grant.

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"Because cancer cells It giv vees th em m en ergy tto o eexpand." xpand." gives them energy Eig ht yyears ears aft er h er diagn osis, Eight after her diagnosis, Gr an nt is can ncer fr ee. H er book book is over ovveer Grant cancer free.

Her 300 p ages o lid rresearch, esearch, con cisely pages off so solid concisely rreferencing effeerencing dozens dozens o cer-related off can cancer-related issu es th at w eere n ot readily readily o ffer e ed issues that were not offered a occtor or'ss o o fffice. Lik enal att th thee d doctor's office.

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"Can cer ggave ave m petus tto o "Cancer mee th thee im impetus cchange hange m feestyyle," sa ays Gr an nt.t "It al so myy lif lifestyle," says Grant. also b rought ou ut em otions o egret abou ut brought out emotions off rregret about th ay th at I h ad been livin g." Bu ut thee w way that had living."

But w hile Gr h an nt's person al an d spir ritual while Grant's personal and spiritual jjourney ourney wi nds thr oug gh th ages, es iitt winds through thee p pages, n ever e ac cttuall a ly ttakes akes ov veerr. Gr ant w a anted never actually over.

Grant wanted h er rreaders eaderss to to pi ck an d cchoose hoose their their her pick and o wn w p atth. own path.

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"Shee w went ar ound ffor o orr yyears ears e wi th a llump, ump, bef fo ore around with before fin ally as kiing a pedia attrician w hat iitt finally asking pediatrician what w as," a m other sa ays. "W Wo omen w er e en't was," myy m mother says.

"Women weren't ttaught aught w hat tto o llook ook ffor, or or, or tto od o se lf what do self eexams." xa ams."

All owin w g Grant's Grant's boo k in to m Allowing book into myy nig httly rreading ea ading h as been em poweering. nightly has empowering.

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SOLAR PERPLEX US The city says the house next to Joe Collins isn’t blocking his ‘solar access,’ even if it’s blocking the sun.

Shadow Government How an odd reading of the city’s planning laws affected a Westside neighborhood BY JACOB PIERCE

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ou could call Joe Collins’ home on Manor Avenue of the Westside of Santa Cruz “quaint.”

The neighborhood used to be home to the town’s Italian fishing community, and neighbors have told Collins, a nonfiction author, they once saw Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio eat in the dining room decades before he bought it. The one-story house is painted white with a red door, a wooden gate in the driveway and a dark kitchen that’s now—depending on the time of day—often under the increasingly long shadow of a construction site next door.

“There’s nothing I can do about this now,” 68-year-old Collins says of the shadows hanging over his house, “but I think there really are issues that need to be looked at.”

When neighboring landowner Brice

de la Menardiere first proposed the project, Collins thought city planners would never green-light the two-story development. A line in the zoning code requires developers who create new structures to “preserve solar access of adjacent properties.”

“When I read that, I said ‘there’s going to be a problem,’” Collins recalls.

Most legal definitions of solar access call it the ability of one’s property to receive sunlight unobstructed. But in a bizarre twist, Santa Cruz city planner Mike Ferry says that, according to the city’s 1990-2005 general plan, “solar access” means solar panels’ access to direct sunlight.

And because this project didn’t block any solar panels, there couldn’t be a problem.

“We can’t Google the definition. We can’t use the Random House definition,”

Ferry says of solar access. “If we refer to something, we have to use the general plan or the zoning ordinance. And the zoning ordinance didn’t make any mention of solar access.” Ferry says if people don’t like the city’s definition of “solar access,” they should get involved in the implementation of the city’s 2030 general plan, which passed two years ago.

Some community members definitely believe the wording needs another look. “It certainly needs re-interpretation,” says Alan Goldstein, former owner of Pacific Sun Properties and a friend of Collins. “I know Brice is in the letter of the law, but it’s still tragic for Joe.”

Good Fences?

De la Menardiere did not respond to requests for comment on this story. But

at a public hearing for his new home in April 2013, not many people showed opposition. Mayor Lynn Robinson, then vice mayor, lives near the property and had some questions about revisions to the building and shadowing.

Neighbor John Phillip Berawall spoke in opposition. Mary Hamilton, another neighbor, wrote a letter outlining her concerns that the scale did not match with the neighborhood. But when Collins spoke, he actually supported the project.

Why did he suddenly change his mind?

The answer goes back to last year.

Collins says the two struck a deal last spring, just weeks before the hearing, when the French native proved to his new neighbor that the Collins’ fence was encroaching on the property line to de la Menadiere’s then-vacant lot.

Collins says he’d had no idea, but that de la Menardiere’s developer told him via email it was no big deal—they’d keep the fence in the same spot, and in return, de la Menardiere asked Collins to support the project. He agreed, and, de la Menardiere’s developers put in a new fence along those same unofficial lines.

Then Collins says he got an email on Christmas Eve from de la Menardiere’s developer telling him his future neighbor had changed his mind after the project was approved. He would be moving his fence to the property line.

Collins was furious, and considered legal action. Tim Morgan, his lawyer, told him he would probably win in court because their email chain amounted to a contract, but that it might cost $85,000 in legal costs, so he decided against it.

“He’ll be my neighbor for the rest of my life, and I’ll never speak to him,” Collins says.

If there’s a moral, it might be to always get a contract for an agreement like this.

“That’s the big lesson,” Goldstein says.

“When I was working on anything in real estate, we got something in writing.

And it could have been a simple letter of agreement between the two of them. It’s just so odd. Brice is a grown man. To just do something like that—I just don’t get it myself.” 0

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Briefs

ABOUT A MOVER ‘The Kitchen God’ by Belle Yang. The MAH is looking for locals to submit their immigration stories in conjunction with her exhibit.

Dropped Kick Santa Cruz City Council candidate Tim Goncharoff called off his official kickoff event last week, which had been set to take place at the Darling House on Sunday. The event was postponed as a result of the Weekly’s investigation into several fake Facebook accounts that have been linked to Goncharoff.

“It would be a mistake to suggest that recent articles in the local media have not had an impact. Some of my close advisors have suggested that we take a break to resolve these issues and make plans for moving forward, and I think that is wise advice,” Goncharoff wrote on his Facebook page Thursday afternoon.

Goncharoff continues to claim he was not behind the fake accounts, and last week claimed his Facebook page may have been hacked. It was only the most recent Goncharoff excuse for the several years he spent communicating frequently with a collection of steamy, politically progressive lingerie model avatars. He told the Weekly he has changed his Facebook password and security settings, “so hopefully that took care of the problem.”

Asked if he planned to investigate who was behind the accounts himself, Goncharoff said no. “I’m sure there are people who could track down information about these accounts, but I don’t have those kinds of skills or the resources to hire someone who does,” he said via e-mail.

“I want to say clearly that I did not create these accounts and I do not know who did. I would be pleased if anyone who can shed light on this would come forward,” Goncharoff said. “Strange things happen in the online world.”

Indeed. And in the real world, too. On the flier for his campaign kickoff event, State Assembly Member Mark Stone was listed as a “special guest,” but when reached for comment earlier in the week, Stone said he was not planning on going to the event and had not endorsed anyone for city council.

Despite rescheduling the event, Goncharoff says he is still running for council. “Beginning the campaign so early presents some challenges, but it also provides some advantages. One of these is that we still have plenty of time, and we can take a break to work on our strategy moving ahead without too much concern,” he wrote on his Facebook page.

MAH Journey How did we all end up here, anyway?

That’s what the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History is asking this summer, as it presents “Crossing Cultures,” an exhibit featuring paintings by Belle Yang that explore her experience as a Chinese-American.

In conjunction with the exhibit, the MAH is looking for the stories of other locals who adopted Santa Cruz as their home. Entrants simply have to lend a personal object, and write a short essay (up to 250 words) about the experience of immigrating to Santa Cruz County. Ten diverse stories will be displayed alongside Yang’s paintings in the museum’s Solari Gallery from June 6-Aug. 24.

To enter, submit your essay and a photo of your object to Marla Novo at marla@santacruzmah.org by Friday, March 28. 0

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FUR EXAMPLE Amelia Solas reads to Chosca as part of the Santa Cruz Libraries’ Tales to Tails program.

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The Santa Cruz Public Libraries’ Tales to Tails program gives new readers a boost BY CAT JOHNSON

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n a big oval rug in the children’s section of the Capitola library sits a scruffy little dog with sandy brown hair and friendly eyes. A boy in a little league uniform is sitting next the dog, reading aloud. Not far away, a giant black Newfoundland named Bitsy is lying on her side listening to a story about some children and their dog. A fluffy Persian cat in a pink bed is taking in the ABCs with a girl in pink sparkly shoes.

It’s not your typical library scene, to be sure—but neither is Tales to Tails, a literacy program where children spend 20 minutes reading to a therapy animal. Tales to Tails is among the most popular

of our local library programs for reasons that are becoming obvious: It combines both animal and human cuteness, literacy and community engagement. The program’s objective is to provide a comfortable, no-pressure environment for children to practice reading.

From what I can see, everything is going according to plan. The little leaguer is sounding out his story, while the brown dog casually surveys the room.

Miss Pink Shoes is up and down a few times, taking breaks to run her hand over the soft head of her feline companion, but she always returns to her book. Bitsy is happy on the receiving end of her reader’s—I’ve learned the girl’s name is Klarisse— impressive ability

to turn pages with one hand and rub Bitsy’s belly with the other. Klarisse’s small hand is all but lost in the black sea of Bitsy’s fur.

The kids, who occasionally ask their animal’s handler for help with a word, seem to embrace the concept that the animals are there to help them further their reading skills. They interact occasionally with them, but don’t need prompting to stay focused on the reading. I can’t help but think that they’re concerned about giving the animals a good storytime experience. “I know she likes me,” says the little leaguer softly, to no one in particular.

Klarisse’s dad, Ted, confirms my suspicions. He says that when Klarisse is choosing books

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to read, she oftentimes asks, “Do you think the dog is going to like this book?”

As adorable as it is, there’s some science behind the sweetness. A 2010 study by researchers at UC Davis found that young readers who read aloud to therapy dogs improved their reading skill 12 percent over a 10-week period.

And it’s not just for kids. Therapy dogs have proven to have such a calming presence that they’ve even been enlisted to hang out at university libraries during finals week. Yale Law School and M.I.T. are among the schools with therapy dog programs.

In 2010, the Santa Cruz Public Library system created Tales to Tails, spearheaded by Melanee Barash, who’s in charge of the Capitola branch. It’s now in eight branches around Santa Cruz County, and similar programs with names such as Book Buddies and Reading Buddies exist in libraries around the country.

Program coordinator Laura Whitley says that Tales to Tails has grown mainly through word-ofmouth. The feedback she receives from parents of program regulars is that their reading level has gone up—and their confidence, too. She’s

also seen kids who are afraid of dogs move beyond their fear through the program. “Being around the therapy dogs,” she says, “they're getting over that fear, they’re coming out of their shell.”

The therapy animals are from one of two organizations, Furry Friends Incorporated or Therapy Dogs International. The furry therapists all have their Good Citizen Certification and have gone through additional training to work with children.

Funded primarily through the library, the program also receives support from the Capitola Dog

Owners Group, which provides funding for program rewards.

Every time a child participates in Tales to Tails, they get a bookmark.

Every fifth bookmark they get a book, and after 25 sessions they get a dog tag that reads, “Paw-some Reader.”

As we approach the end of the session, there is indeed an air of calm. I’ve lost track of the number of books that have been read, but the kids are still going strong. The dogs have moved around a little, but they haven’t strayed from their listening posts. Somewhere around the letter R, the cat falls asleep.

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Sour Grapes

A well-timed new bio of Steinbeck’s marriage shows how success tore apart a powerfully creative couple

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eventy-five years on, John Steinbeck’s masterwork, The Grapes of Wrath, remains potent reading. The opening prose poem about the drought that drives the Joad family to the promised land of California—“The sun faced down on the growing corn day after day until a line of brown spread along the edge of each green bayonet. The clouds appeared, and went away, and in a while they did not try any more”—takes on a new resonance as the Golden State suffers its own arid era.

The book’s politics continue to resonate. It reads like an Occupy manifesto in its indictment of raw capitalism: a bank or a company, “they breathe profits; they eat the interest on money.” The farmers bulldozed off their land link to homeowners displaced by the mortgage crises of the Great Recession.

The Grapes of Wrath grabs the reader with a singular energy that makes it easy to miss the dedication: “To CAROL who willed this book.” The

Carol in caps is Carol Steinbeck, who not only picked the title, but also rode herd on the manuscript, the research and the hard years of creation in a rare kind of artistic synergy. For more than a decade, Carol and John Steinbeck were soul mates and collaborators, also birthing The Red Pony, In Dubious Battle and Of Mice and Men. And then the publication of The Grapes of Wrath brought fame, money, frenzied attacks and censorship. Their marriage, their artistic union, dissolved in animosity and bile.

In Carol and John Steinbeck: Portrait of a Marriage, Susan Shillinglaw fleshes out the book’s dedication and gives Carol Henning Steinbeck her full due. This strongwilled, opinionated, forceful, sharpwitted woman was more than just a supportive wife, more than a repressed Zelda Fitzgerald: “Her story is, in effect, his. His greatest triumph, hers,” Shillinglaw argues.

For many years, the director of San

Jose State University’s Center for Steinbeck Studies, Shillinglaw has drawn on her deep access to archives, letters and family interviews for her fascinating study of two people ideally suited to each other for a passionate decade and then doomed to an unhealable rift.

Carol Henning was born in San Jose, four years after John Steinbeck and just a month before the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

Precocious and witty, Carol was a spirited outsider at San Jose High School; she couldn’t wait to move to San Francisco, where she attended secretarial school, which sounds old-fashioned but was daring for her times, a “modern option that led to a socially useful career in business,” not to mention economic and sexual liberation. Like an intellectual

flapper, Carol was “a poster child for the decade: she smoked freely, swore energetically and set her own rules.”

She even bought her own Buick roadster.

In the summer of 1928, Carol and a friend vacationed at Lake Tahoe, where would-be author John Steinbeck, a few years out of Stanford, was biding his time working at a fish hatchery. The attraction was pretty

15 Campbell, a young classics scholar (he went on to write The Hero With a Thousand Faces) who had wandered into Ricketts’ orbit and went on tide pool expeditions when he wasn’t mooning after Carol, whose breezy outspokenness had an addictive effect on men.

In the mid-’30s, a deepening interest in politics and the strife and suffering of the Depression pointed the Steinbecks toward a novel about the migrant experience in California.

John traveled widely in the Central Valley soaking up the hardscrabble stories of field workers. A good part of the growing sense of outrage on this “pilgrim’s journey to partisan wrath” came from Carol, who was Shillinglaw writes, “the more politically engaged.”

The reach for authenticity in the voices of migrant experience eventually found another valuable contributor, Tom Collins, the manager of a migrant camp at Arvin near Bakersfield. John drew on Collins’ detailed reports for an

Rail Trail Tom Zoellner’s ‘Train’ looks for the railroad’s place in the past and present

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ollowing in the tracks of Paul Theroux, journalist and English prof Tom Zoellner succumbs to the lure of railroad travel, even if it can be slow, late, cramped and dangerous. He calls our ongoing lovehate relationship with trains “Train Sublime,” and waxes rhetorical about “the tidal sway of the carriages, the chanting of the wheels striking the fishplates, the glancing presence of strangers on their own journeys and wrapped in private ruminations.”

In Train, Zoellner embarks on longdistance journeys across England, India, America, Russia, China, Peru and Spain. Less cranky than Theroux, the author eagerly welcomes the phenomenon that railroad brought

to the world in the early 1800s, when “people were suddenly forced to talk with strangers.”

He strikes up impromptu friendships with fellow travelers, relishing the conversational possibilities; the train, he writes, is “always a hot herbarium of stories.”

More than once, his romantic tendencies lead him to read a little extra into the sight of a beautiful stranger. In the introduction, Zoellner confesses that he has never forgotten, after 20 years, the vision of a young woman across the aisle of a Pennsylvania train: “We were standing perfectly still, yet moving over parallel lines of steel, and she seemed like a ghost in the dim light.”

up-to-the-minute oral history of Oakie life. There’s a good reason that the book’s dedication, below Carol, also mentions Tom. Carol and John were so immeshed during this period that much of Carol’s character found its way into the female characters, especially Ma Joad. Summing up the impact of The Grapes of Wrath, Shillinglaw points out that John managed to tie together all the strands of the “genres documenting poverty in the 1930s”—from photojournalism to folk songs to documentaries—into a blended narrative that combines a wide view of history and nature with precise, person-by-person closeups of migrant pain. And Carol was indispensable to this achievement.

The rest of John and Carol’s saga unravels unhappily, the intensity of their creative yoking dissolving as simply as a “spinning top running out of momentum can easily be tipped off axis,” in Shillinglaw’s astute image. A fruitful but very contentious research cruise with

The flipside of romanticism is a solid grasp of the historical, political and social upheavals that trains made as they ushered in the industrial era.

Zoellner deftly interleaves fascinating asides about Chicago’s meatpacking era; the resource-sucking design of the Trans-Siberian (“The train was basically a straw through which to suck money into St. Petersburg”); the demographic effect of China’s high-speed rail system on Tibet; and the economic significance of the sprawling Indian rail system, a “giant Keynesian jobs juggernaut.”

The chapter on the arduous route through the Andres comes complete with a harrowing visit to the engine cab, where a moment’s distraction could spell a runaway disaster—as well as the story of a roguish San Francisco promoter named Henry Meiggs. Chased from the United States, Meiggs landed in Peru in 1868 and convinced President José Balta to built an impossibly difficult Trans-Andean line. The project turned out to be a boondoggle, but somehow the rails got laid and the resources of the Andes got

Ricketts led to The Log of the Sea of Cortez and some embarrassing scenes between the fracturing couple. Finally, John took up with a younger woman, Gwen Conger, and Carol’s anger took over, especially when she was drunk.

Carol and John Steinbeck does a valuable service in exploring a model of creativity beyond the usual solitary-genius trope. In Shillinglaw’s analysis, their marriage achieved something “larger than both individually, with art the ‘keying mechanism’ of their marital bond.” His name is on the cover of every edition of The Grapes of Wrath, but Carol lives in all of its pages.

Carol and John Steinbeck: Portrait of a Marriage

By Susan Shillinglaw University of Nevada Press, cloth, $34.95

laid bare for exploitation.

The final chapter looks at Spain’s successful high-speed trains, and then asks if the United States has the same will to build, particularly in California. The proposed S.F.-L.A. link is fraught with cost overruns. In

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much instantaneous. Shillinglaw quotes Carol’s sister, Idell, on the suddenness: “John fell upon Carol like a bear coming out of hibernation would fall on a fresh beef steak!”

As for sex, that came quickly, too, and John was ready, having made “condoms out of fish skins” (“apparently,” Shillinglaw adds for the squeamish). The intellectual connection was even stronger; within weeks Carol was helping John with a play he was writing.

After marrying in early 1930 in L.A., John and Carol moved to a cottage in Pacific Grove, a small town both isolated and yet surprisingly fertile intellectually, not least as the stomping grounds of philosopher/ marine biologist Doc Ed Ricketts.

The Bohemian life suited Carol and John. The Pacific Grove years were free of money worries, not because they had a lot, but because no one had much. A party could convene around a cheap jug of wine (“20 cents a gallon”). The relationship even survived Carol’s affair with Joseph

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addition to budget complaints, some conservatives (Zoellner cites George Will) recoil at the whole idea of trains, which they consider collectivist and anti-individualist. Zoellner remains optimistic, but the book was finished before Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom threw some cold water on Jerry Brown’s (and

Arnie’s and Gray Davis’) pet project.

Transit politics aside, Zoellner is really at his best evoking the mystery and gravitational pull of the long train ride. His imagery is often striking: “Our progress across the midsection of Siberia had been steady but almost invisible, like a man growing older but

not understanding when, exactly, the gain had taken place.” His depiction of the industrial outbacks that trains traverse and freeways often miss is priceless: “Deserted streets arrowed away, and apartments shuffled past like a series of Edward Hopper paintings on an educational filmstrip.”

Train: Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World— From the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief

By Tom Zoellner Viking, cloth, $27.95

Tale of the Tape ‘Videoland’ remembers when it was kind to rewind

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he recent debacle on HBO’s Go site that squirreled the streaming of the last episode of True Detective might make some people nostalgic for the good old days of DVDs or, even better, videotapes.

Daniel Herbert’s fascinating new study, Videoland, recalls a time that seems impossibly remote, even though it barely ended a decade ago.

Starting in the late 1970s, the videorental store quickly transformed the distribution and consumption model for movies. What had once been a social spectacle dictated by Hollywood became a home experience controlled by the consumer. The video store, Herbert argues, turned movies into commodities.

By the late ’80s, there were some 30,000 rental outlets in the United States, exceeding the number of theaters. In 1987, rental revenue surpassed the box-office returns.

With the rise of even more convenient alternatives—DVDs by

mail from Netflix, ubiquitous Redbox kiosks and Internet streaming, a drop in the purchase price of DVDs—the video store retreated, with behemoths like Blockbuster and Hollywood Video failing. A number of the independent stores that Herbert wanted to study for Videoland were going out of business even as he tried to arrange interviews for the book.

Herbert raises some intriguing ideas about how video stores, especially the independents, spread movie culture. The best stores were always quirky. Part of the experience was the social interaction between customer and clerks, who were forthright in their likes and dislikes.

Stores often functioned as “de facto film schools.” The phenomenon persists; the other day, I visited Video USA in Aptos, where Sharpie-scribed notes by the clerks still flutter in the aisles like origami cranes.

The video store, like the independent bookstore, is threatened but still vital. Even as vinyl and early

videogames beckon a new generation with the lure of the retro, “people continue to value the tangibility of video and the materiality of the video store.” Some companies are now issuing films on VHS again; in New York, fans of vintage technology united to save Video Free Brooklyn.

In an increasingly immaterial world, Herbert speculates, people crave the “tangible media in a public space.”

Conceived as a research project, Videoland suffers from a surfeit of academic prose (overuse of “valorization,” for starters) and the university press habit of stating the thesis of every chapter before getting down to the nitty-gritty. Still, Herbert, who clerked at a video store before attending graduate school, got out to a lot of video stores for substantial firsthand reporting, and he evokes some fond memories.

I was especially transported to the ’80s by the photograph of that ubiquitous shaming tableau posted by the register at many video stores:

Panic Button New book suggests the best use of your paralyzing anxiety

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he title of the new compilation volume What Should We Be Worried About? cries out for a reader’s response: “What shouldn’t we be worried about?” The book is a

project of the website Edge (née the Reality Club), which annually surveys scientists, philosophers and assorted deep thinkers about speculative topics. As any born worrier might

suspect, there is no end of things to worry about, which makes this a good bedside title for insomniacs.

The more than 150 bite-size entries in What Should We Be Worried

the twisted lump of melted plastic that was once a functioned tape accompanied by the dire warning “Tape left in the car in the hot sun!

Don’t let that happen to you.”

Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store

By Daniel Herbert UC-Press, paper, $29.95

About? run the gamut from the obvious (climate change, duh) to field-specific fretting (scientists apparently worry a whole lot about finding new big-budget experiments to pursue), from familiar handwringing about social media (we’re too connected; no, we’re not connected enough) to both fear of and excitement about artificial intelligence. Surprisingly, given the current political discourse, there are only a few passing references to

which in turn “creates pressure … to downplay or eliminate editing and self-editing” (which gives the dwindling breed of editors ulcers).

Contrary to the red flags hoisted by modern Malthusians, Kevin Kelly of Wired says that our real problem is what happens after we reach peak population, and society starts to become both smaller and older, with significant effects on economic growth. Completely missing the point of Battlestar Galactica, tech author Rodney A. Brooks figures that we’re going to need a lot more robots than we’re currently working on in order to take care of that aging population.

Given the somewhat elitist nature of the project, many of the scientists in the anthology worry about antiscientific thinking, mass stupidity and inadequate science education— or what psychologist Douglas T. Kenrick terms the “looming idiocracy.” He doesn’t mention the Tea Party by name, but the inference is worrisome.

As a countermeasure, several contributors take the “meta” route and discuss the possibilities and limitations of worry and anxiety as human traits. Stanford neuroscientist Brian Knutson thinks that people waste valuable time worrying about the wrong things. Psychiatrist Joel Gold calls worry a “corrosive” force that renders us passive and helpless.

To leaven all the worst-case scenarios, Monty Python original and director Terry Gilliam confesses, “I’ve given up worrying. I merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me … and marvel stupidly.” Or, as Mad magazine’s Alfred E. Neuman once quipped, “What, me worry?”

What Should We Be Worried About?: Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night Edited by John Brockman Harper Perennial, paper, $15.99

Lit in Sight Local author events for spring

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number of author appearances and bookrelated events are taking place this spring at Bookshop Santa Cruz.

One of the more noteworthy is a stop by Mary Roach, who is skilled at making science both accessible and humorous.

She’s dug into cadavers (in Stiff), the afterlife (Spook) and sex (Bonk). Her latest book, Gulp (now in paperback), embarks on a “fantastic voyage” through humanity’s alimentary canal.

April 2 at 7pm.

Four days later, esteemed shortstory writer Lorrie Moore will be in town to discuss Bark, her first collection of stories in more than a decade. April 6 at 7:30pm.

Emma Donoghue’s new mystery, Frog Music, conjures up the gilded age of San Francisco in the 1870s. Set during the course of a mere three days, the novel tells the tale of a burlesque dancer who tries to find a killer. Donoghue talks about her work on April 11 at 7:30pm.

Bird lovers will want to alight early on the chance to go on a 15-person birding sojourn with that modern Audubon, David Allen Sibley, whose text and illustrations make his birding guides indispensable to amateur ornithologists (the second edition of his seminal Sibley Guide to Birds is now out). The bird walk is scheduled for April 23 at 2pm, and the only way to participate is to buy the book early (by April 1 at the latest) at Bookshop and get entered in a lottery. Sibley will also talk in the evening, at 7pm, at Bookshop.

At the end of the month, Barbara Ehrenreich, whose Nickel and Dimed anticipated much of today’s discussion about the minimum wage, will talk about her memoir, Living with a Wild God. In the book, the experienced adult Ehrenreich comes to terms with her wild, speculative younger self as expressed in her own adolescent journals. April 24 at 7:30pm.

ROACH CLIP Mary Roach comes to Bookshop Santa Cruz April 2.

Over at the Museum of Art and History, this Friday (March 21, 5–8pm), the monthly third Friday celebration is billed as a Poetry and Book Arts Extravaganza. The event brings together Santa Cruz’s vibrant community of artists who use books as materials for creation.

Among the many workshops

and demonstrations there will be classes on papermaking, bookbinding and paper marbling.

Starting at 6pm, Poetry Santa Cruz hosts readings by Robert Sward, Peggy Heinrich and others, followed by an open mic at 7pm. Admission is $5 ($3 for students, seniors and kids). — Michael Gant

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income inequality, but maybe that’s something that scientists don’t lose sleep over.

Steven Pinker’s mini-essay about the “Real Risk Factors for War” seems especially prescient in its analysis of narcissistic leaders embarking

on “imperial adventures,” even if he doesn’t cite Vladimir Putin by name.

Equally troubling in light of the failure of government to regulate and Wall Street to atone is psychologist Randolph Nesse’s warning about the “hidden fragility of complex systems,” especially in the machinery of global finances.

Columnist and author of To Save Everything, Click Here, Evgeny Morozov skewers Silicon Valley hubris by noting that so-called “smart solutions don’t translate into smart problem solvers.”

Although we are perfectly capable of destroying our own world, SETI astronomer Seth Shostak reminds us that “an attack by malevolent extraterrestrial beings” is a legitimate concern and not just “shabby science fiction.” As seems both appropriate for a printed book and a trifle hypocritical for a printed book generated by a website, David Gelernter argues that “the Internet forces a general devaluation of the written word,”

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DANCE

“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.

Bellydance Showcase Different belly dancers each week on the garden stage.

Presented by Helene. www. thecrepeplace.com. Sat, 1:30pm. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.429.6994.

CONCERTS Hot Hands Boy-girl noise pop from Florida. Fri, Mar 21, 4pm. Free.

Streetlight Records Santa Cruz, 939 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.421.9200.

Santa Cruz Symphony “Dance Prisms”: A concert featuring works by Bartok, Ives, Bach and Stravinsky.

Sunday's concert at the Watsonville Mello Center. Sat, Mar 22, 8pm and Sun, Mar 23, 1pm. $22-$67. Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.420.5260.

The Picasso Ensemble A program of chamber music by Rameau, Bruch, Barber, Harrison, Copland, Still, Capers & Robinson. Sun, Mar 23, 3pm. $15 general; $8 students & seniors. Cabrillo College Sesnon House, 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.479.6464.

Art GALLERIES CONTINUING Cabrillo College Gallery “Bridging Santa Cruz”: A survey show spanning 50 years of printmaking in Santa Cruz County. Gallery hours: Mon-Fri, 9am-4pm & Mon-Tues, 7-9pm. Thru April 11. 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.479.6308.

Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center

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.

Events LITERARY EVENTS Book Discussion Group A discussion of a new book each month, with copies available at the branch circulation desk. Email harbisons@santacruzpl.org for more information. Third Thu of every month, 1pm. Free. Santa Cruz Central Branch Library, 224 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.427.7700x7616.

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.

Felix Kulpa Gallery “Imprinted Memories”: Memories from Childhood explores the images that come into our lives in childhood and stay with us through our adult lives.

Gallery hours: Thurs-Sun, noon-6pm. Thru March 23.

Free. 107 Elm St, Santa Cruz, 408.373.2854.

NOTICES Baby Feeding Circle A chance to relax, feed your baby and chat with other new mothers. Open to all mothers and babies. Mon, 10:3011:30am. free. Luma Yoga & Family Center, 1010 Center St., Santa Cruz, 831.325.2620.

Pajaro Valley Arts Council

Beat Sanctuary

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,

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.

Insight Santa Cruz, 1010 Fair Avenue, Suite C, Santa Cruz, 831.425.3431.

Computer Class Led by Computer Dave, this beginner-friendly class lets group participants pick the topics themselves. Third Wed of every month, 4-5:30pm. free. Santa Cruz Central Branch Library, 224 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.427.7717.

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.

E-Waste Recycling Drop off computers, cell phones, and appliances with electric cords (no batteries) to help Grey Bears serve the community. www.greybears. org. Sat, Mar 22, 10am-2pm.

Free. Capitola New Leaf Community Markets, 1210 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.426.3250.

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.

Friday Shakespeare Club A group of diverse women engaging in stimulating discussions of Shakespeare's plays. www. fridayshakespeare.org. Fri, Mar 21, 10:30am-12:30pm.

Free. Peace United Church of Christ, 900 High St, Santa Cruz, 831.438.3615.

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.

Hemlock Discussion Group Discuss end-of-life options for serenity and dignity. Meets in Aptos the last Wed afternoon of every month except Dec; call for more info. 831.251.2240.

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.

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.

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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 6:307:30pm 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.

Paleo Lecture Paleo-Inspired Power Breakfasts: A lecture about the right foods for sustained energy and well-being plus 10 take-home recipes. Wed, Mar 19, 6-7pm. $30. New Leaf Market Westside, 1101 Fair Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.426.1306x0.

Performing Arts for Seniors A workshop and panels exploring the many avenues for creative expression and its benefits. Sat, Mar 22. Cabrillo College, 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.479.6331.

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.

Pure Pleasure Workshop Sex educator Amy Baldwin leads a class on anal pleasure open to all genders. Tue, Mar 25, 7-8:30pm. $15-$20. Pure Pleasure, 204 Church St, Santa Cruz, 831.466.9870.

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

Support and Recovery Groups Ongoing groups and weekly meetings. ADHD: 831.818.9691. Alzheimer's:

TUESDAY 3/25

Emalou King: Under My Roof Under My Roof: A Mother’s Story of the Heinous Crime of Incest is King’s story of how she moved West to heal from an abusive family situation. She will read and facilitate a discussion about child sexual abuse. Royalties from books sold at this event will go to the Survivors Healing Center of the Central Coast. Tuesday, March 25 at 7pm at Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz. Free event; $18.95 for the book.

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. 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.

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.

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.

Crab Feast!

Dungeness crab plus allyou-can-eat crab legs from the buffet. Reservations required. Sat, Mar 22, 5-9pm. $55 adults; $17.95 children. Chaminade, 1 Chaminade Lane, Santa Cruz, 831.475.5600.

Poetry & Book Arts Workshops and activities for turning the printed page into book art sculptures, envelopes and art projects of all types. Featuring a kid

happy hour from 4-5pm. Fri, Mar 21, 5-8pm. $5 general; $3 students, seniors & kids.

Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.

Storytelling Swap Anyone can put their name in a hat to tell a five-minute story on the theme of "Beginnings & Endings."

Followed by featured

performerStan Grindstaff.

Thu, Mar 20, 9:30pm. Art Bar & Cafe, 1060 River St., Santa Cruz, 360.556.6672.

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.

San Francisco’s City Guide

Guy Fox Indie soul band out of Oakland invites audiences to dance the night away. Mar 21 at Bottom of the Hill.

Kurt Elling Grammy Award winning jazz vocalist performs two nights of standout singing. Mar 22-23 at Yoshi’s SF.

Rebirth Brass Band New Orleans institution, recently seen on HBO’s Treme, make their way to SF. Mar 22 at Mezzanine.

Future Twin Hometown indie rock outfit band gets psychedelic with a flair for the fierce. Mar 23 at Brick & Mortar Music Hall.

Black Lips Atlanta rockers tour in support of their first album in three years. Mar 24 at Great American Music Hall.

More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.

MARCH 19-25, 2014

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What is Veronica Roth, who wrote this series about a teen in a rigidly divided world who is branded as part of the “Divergent” class of outcasts, going to get out of this except everyone complaining once again about how no youngadult books or films can measure up to The Hunger

Movie reviews by Steve Palopoli

Games? Oh, right, millions of dollars. (Opens Fri at Aptos, Santa Cruz 9, Scotts Valley, Green Valley) GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (R; 100 min) If there’s a more anticipated film among real movie lovers than this latest film by Wes Anderson, I haven’t heard

about it. (Opens Fri at the Del Mar) MUPPETS MOST WANTED (PG; 112 min) I was surprised the Muppets reboot headed up by Jason Segal didn’t make more of a splash. It was really pretty good. But perhaps the intrigue of a jewel-heist angle, which

Showtimes are for Wednesday, March 19, through Wednesday, March 26, 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

Muppets Most Wanted — (Opens 7pm Thu) 2:15; 4:45; 9:30 plus Fri-Sun 11am.

Divergent — (Opens 8pm Thu) 2; 5; 8 plus Fri-Sun 11:45am.

The LEGO Movie — Wed-Thu 2:45; 5; 7:15.

Mr. Peabody & Sherman — Wed-Thu 2:30; 4:40; 7.

41ST AVENUE CINEMA

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

Veronica Mars — (Opens Fri) 11:30; 1:45; 4:30; 7:30; 9:40; 300: Rise of an Empire — Wed-Thu 1:15; 4:15; 7:30.

300: Rise of an Empire 3D — Wed-Thu 11; 10:15.

Mr. Peabody and Sherman — Fri-Wed 11:20; 2:15; 4:45; 7:15; 10:15.

Need for Speed — Wed-Thu 1; 4; 9:45; Fri-Wed 11:30; 2:30; 5:30; 8:30.

Need for Speed 3D — Wed-Thu 7:15pm.

Non-Stop — Wed-Thu 1:30; 4:30; 7; 10:15.

DEL MAR

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

Muppets Most Wanted — (Opens 7pm Thu) 11:45; 1:30; 2:15; 4; 4:45; 6:30; 7:15; 9; 9:45 plus Fri-Sat 11:20pm; Fri-Sun 11am.

12 Years a Slave — Wed-Thu 6pm.

Her — Wed-Thu 1:50; 8:40.

The Monuments Men — Wed-Thu 4:30; 7.

Particle Fever — Fri-Wed 11:30; 9:30. (no Sun 11:30pm) The Wind Rises — Wed-Thu 1; 3:15; 3:45; 6:30; 9:10; 9:30; Fri-Wed 1:40; 4:15; 6:50.

The Tempest — Thu 6pm.

My Neighbor Totoro — Fri-Sat midnight.

NICKELODEON

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

Blood Ties — (Opens Fri) 12; 9.

The Grand Budapest Hotel — (Opens 8pm Thu) 12:15; 1; 2:30; 3:15; 4:45; 5:30; 7; 7:45; 9:15; 10; plus Fri-Sat 11:20pm; Fri-Sun 10:45am.

Veronica Mars — (Opens Fri) 2:45; 5; 7:30; 9:45 plus Fri-Sun 11:30am.

American Hustle — Wed-Thu 8:45pm.

The Art of the Steal — Wed-Thu 3; 7:20; 9:30.

The Girls in the Band — Wed-Thu 2:50; 5:10.

Particle Fever — Wed-Thu 2:20; 4:40; 7; 9:20.

Tim’s Vermeer — Wed-Thu 3:10; 5:10; 7:10; 9:10; Fri-Wed 1:40; 3:30; 5:25; 7:10.

Walking the Camino — Wed-Thu 4:50; 6:50.

RIVERFRONT STADIUM TWIN

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

Son of God — Wed-Thu 3:45; 6:40; 9:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Stalingrad — Wed-Thu 4; 6:50; 9:40; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

SANTA CRUZ CINEMA 9

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

Divergent — (Opens 8pm Thu) call for showtimes.

300: Rise of an Empire — Wed-Thu 12:05; 2:30; 3:40; 4:55; 7:20; 8:55; 9:50; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. (no Thu 9:50pm)

300: Rise of an Empire 3D — Wed-Thu 12:25; 1:10; 2:50; 5:15; 6:10; 8; 10:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Frozen — Wed-Thu 12:25; 3:25; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

The LEGO Movie — Wed-Thu 12:10; 2:35; 5; 7:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Mr. Peabody & Sherman — Wed-Thu 12:15; 2:40; 10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Mr. Peabody & Sherman 3D—Wed-Thu 1; 3:30; 6; 8:45; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Need for Speed — Wed 3/19 12; 6:30; 7; 9:25; Thu 12; 6; 6:30; 9:25 Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Need for Speed 3D — Wed 3:10; 10; Thu 3:05pm; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.

Non-Stop — Wed-Thu 12:20; 2:50; 5:20; 7:50; 10:20; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. (no Thu 7:45 or 10:20) MET: Wether Encore — Wed 3/19 6:30pm.

Royal Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty — Thu 7pm.

Serenity — Thu 9pm.

CINELUX SCOTTS VALLEY CINEMA 226 Mt. Hermon Rd., Scotts Valley 831.438.3260 www.cineluxtheatres.com

Muppets Most Wanted —(Opens 7pm Thu) 11; 11:45; 1:45; 2:45; 4:30; 5:30; 7:20; 9:15.

Divergent — (Opens 8pm Thu) 11; 11:55; 1; 2:15; 3:45; 4:30; 5:30; 7; 7:45; 8:45; 10:15.

Veronica Mars — (Opens Fri) 11:20; 1:30; 4:20; 7:10; 9:45.

300: Rise of an Empire — Wed-Thu 11:45; 2:20; 4:55; 7:40; Fri-Wed 7:30; 10.

300: Rise of an Empire 3D — Wed-Thu 9:30pm.

Frozen — Wed-Thu 11; 1:45.

The LEGO Movie—Wed-Thu 11:30; 2; 4:30; 7; 10:15; Fri-Wed 11:30; 2; 4:40. (no Thu 7pm).

The Monuments Men — Wed-Thu 4:30; 7:45; Fri-Wed 8:15pm.

Need for Speed — Wed-Thu 1; 2:30; 4:15; 5:30; 8:30; 9:45; Fri-Wed 11:10; 2:15; 5:15; 8:30. (no Sat 11:10am) Need for Speed 3D — Wed-Thu 11:30; 7:20.

Mr. Peabody & Sherman — Wed-Thu 11:55; 1:40; 2:20; 4; 4:45; 6:30; 7:20; 9; 10:15; Fri-Wed 11; 11:40; 2; 4:20; 6:45; 10.

Mr. Peabody & Sherman 3D — Fri-Wed 11:15am.

Non-Stop — Wed-Thu 11; 2; 4:40; 7:30; 10:15; Fri-Wed 2; 4:45; 7:30; 10:15. (no Thu 7:30 or 10:15) Son of God — Wed-Thu 11; 1:45; 4:55; 8:15.

The Wind Rises — Wed-Thu 12:45; 3:45; 6:45; 9:45.

Shadow of a Doubt — Thu 7pm; Sat 11am.

GREEN VALLEY CINEMA 8

1125 S. Green Valley Rd, Watsonville 831.761.8200 www.greenvalleycinema.com

Divergent — (Opens 8pm Thu) 12:45; 3:45; 6:45; 9:45.

Muppets Most Wanted— (Opens 7pm Thu) 1:45; 4:30; 7:15; 9:45 plus Sat-Sun 11am.

3 Days to Kill — Wed-Thu 9:45pm.

300: Rise of an Empire — Wed-Thu 1:45; 7:30; 10; Fri-Wed 1:45; 4:30; 7:30; 10 plus Sat-Sun 11:15am.

300: Rise of an Empire 3D — Wed-Thu 4:30pm.

Dallas Buyers Club — Wed-Thu 1:45; 4:30; Fri-Wed 4:30pm plus Sat-Sun 11am.

Gravity — Daily 7:25; 9:35.

The LEGO Movie — Wed-Thu 1:45; 4:30; 7. (no Thu 7pm) Need for Speed — Wed-Thu 1:30; 7:15; 10; Fri-Wed 1:30; 4:15; 7:15; 10.

Need for Speed 3D — Wed-Thu 4:15pm.

Non-Stop — Daily 1:25; 4:15; 7:20; 9:45 plus Sat-Sun 10:45am.

Mr. Peabody and Sherman — Daily 1:15; 4; 7; 9:30 plus Sat-Sun 10:45am.

Philomena — Wed-Thu 1:45; 4:15; 6:50 Fri-Wed 1:45pm. (No Thu 6:50pm) Robocop — Wed 3/19 9:30pm.

Single Moms Club — Daily 1:30; 4; 7:30; 10.

Son of God — Wed-Thu 1; 6:50; Fri-Wed 1; 6:50; 9:45.

Son of God in Spanish — Wed-Thu 3:55; 9:45; Fri-Wed 3:55pm.

this sequel has the Muppets drawn into while on a world tour—will spark more interest.

Not, by the way, a remake of The Great Muppet Caper, which was definitely the best Muppets movie. (Opens Fri at Aptos, Del Mar, Scotts Valley, Green Valley) MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (1988) Probably Japanese animator Miyasaki’s cultiest early film, and with good reason: the Totoro creature the two girls in this film befriend is probably his most iconic creation. Even if you haven’t seen the film, you may have encountered it in stuffed animal form without knowing it, because kids are hopelessly drawn to it. It’s like he stumbled onto some archetype of cuteness. (Plays Fri and Sat at midnight at the Del Mar) VERONICA MARS (PG13; 107 min) Don’t even get me started on how annoying it is that Kickstarter is being used by the Hollywood super-rich to fund their projects. But hey, the fans paid for this crowdfunded big-screen version of the cult TV show. So at least if it sucks they have nobody else to blame. (Opens Fri at 41st Avenue, the Nick, Scotts Valley)

Reviews

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.

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.

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…

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.

NEED FOR SPEED (PG13; 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 crafts a plan for revenge that involves driving really fast.

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!

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 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.

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!

THE WIND RISES (PG13; 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 sendoff, if advance word is any indication.

MARCH 19-25, 2014

BLOOD TIES (R; 144 min) Clive Owen, Marion Cotillard, Mila Kunis and Billy Crudup star in this ’70s-era NewYork-gangs flick that plays off the classic brother dynamic: older one tries to get younger

one away from a life of crime, younger one can’t resist the pull, James Caan is their dad. Wait, James Caan is their dad? They are screwed.

(Opens Fri at the Nick) DIVERGENT (PG-13; 109 min) If you’re a YA author, do you even want your books adapted into films anymore?

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HAPPY NEW YEAR India Joze’s Jozseph Schultz hosts his annual dinner in honor of Persian New Year on Sunday.

Joze’s Persian New Year

BY CHRISTINA WATERS

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n what could well be the culinary deal of the season, the inimitable Jozseph Schultz will finesse the annual India Joze Now Rooz Festival, Sunday March 23. To celebrate the Persian New Year, the master chef unleashes one-seatingonly of dish after dish of flavors that launched a thousand and one nights. It starts at 5pm, $40. Move fast, because mega-foodies and fans of the former India Joze dining palace will rush to snap up the few seats. RSVP to joz@indiajoze.com, or call (831) 3320255. Of all the many cuisines Schultz

has mastered, it's just possible that Persian is his all-time specialty.

These intricate, spice-perfumed dishes involve some specialties we all know, such as kabobs—spit-roasted meats that have been bathed in marinades loaded with pomegranate, onions and sumac. And some we don't: chicken in pomegranate and walnut sauce; lentils and red beans; cucumber salads strewn with cress, mint and cilantro. Stuffed grape leaves, ground meats and herbs, and endless variations on hummus.

Persian cuisine is intricate and

precise, punctuated with spices that those of us raised in Methodist households had to leave home to sample. Cardamom is one sensuous top note, especially in after-dinner coffee. Eggplant and yogurt like to join forces, and most entrees arrive with spiced rice and fresh, warm nan lavash bread. Imagine chickpea cassoulet! Schultz is a master of all this and much, much more. Don't miss a chance to be carried away by sheer seasoning dazzle. India Joze Restaurant, the newer, streamlined version, is located at 418 Front St.

Chip Scheuer

MARCH 19-25, 2014

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PINOT PARADISE: Plan to indulge

in some serious pinot noir tasting at the upcoming Pinot Paradise 2014, April 11-13. Think of it as a three-day learning/tasting encounter with one of our area's most esteemed grapes, curated by our top producers. On Saturday, April 12th, come sip, sample and enjoy a self-guided tour through the many pinot-producing wineries, for a $25 ticket. And on Sunday, April 13th the Grand Cruz Tasting gets you very close to the finest pinot noirs from over 40 winemakers of the Santa Cruz Mountains, all available for copious tasting at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga. Paired with appropriately classy appetizers from local restaurants, this final day of tasting runs $85 per person, from 2-5pm. For info and tix, visit the Santa Cruz Mountains Winegrowers Association webpage.

SPEAKING OF WINES: Check out the new 2012 Grenache bottling from Birichino, loaded with salty plums and bright cherry notes. It is entirely possible that nothing won't go with this incredibly upbeat, accessible wine made from 100-year-old Besson Vineyard vines by Alex Krause and John Locke. In the $15 ballpark at such enlightened outposts as Shoppers and New Leaf…We've been enjoying a few choice Rexford Pinot Noirs ($40-ish), one from Fambrini Vineyard, loaded with currants, orange bitters, licorice with a hint of cloves and a salty mineral finish. At 14.2% alcohol, it is a dream of a local terroir bottling. Another Rexford wine, a 2010 vintage from the celebrated Regan Vineyard, carries more heft and a tasty menagerie of tones and notes, ranging from blood to leather, silver to lavender. Lemongrass center. Big enough to handle pork and lamb. Quite a lovely and unexpected version of Santa Cruz Mountains pinot noir. You can swing by the tasting room on Ingalls St. and congratulate winemakers Joe and Sam Miller on their bold achievements. 0

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FO O D IE FIL E Chip Scheuer

West End Tap Geoff Hargrave, co-owner

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eoff Hargrave, a Texas-raised chef, knows there’s beer for every occasion. “When it’s hot outside, I love a Kolsh,” says Hargrave, chef and co-owner for West End Tap, which has 18 beers and 11 wines.

“When it’s cold outside, I prefer a porter.”

The eight-month-old restaurant in the Swift Street courtyard sits in the former site of Le Cigare Volant, and will open up a patio this spring.

Hargrave and I chatted on Thursday afternoon as Eric Clapton’s “Layla” played over the speakers.

SCW: Good song. Do you pick the music?

GEOFF HARGRAVE: We have a commercial Pandora account, so it’s whatever we’re feeling. Black Keys is very fitting for here. Eric Clapton radio works. Eddie Vedder radio works, a little more folksy. It all depends. Friday night’s a different mood than Thursday afternoon.

You worked under French and Japanese chefs. Have those flavors influenced you?

The French have helped me adjust with bringing the comfort food side to West End—heavier sauces, bigger flavors that match better with beer. The Japanese have taught me when to stop adding heavy flavors, when to pull back. That’s a good balance for any cook. Anyone can keep adding flavors, but when you pull back, that’s when you get something great.

How’s the community on Swift Street? Any kickball games with Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing?

I would love to. I’ve been so busy. I haven’t had a chance to venture out on those things yet—softball, whatever it may be. I just haven’t had time to come up for air yet.

Did you learn anything from Le Cigare Volant?

We’re a very inclusive restaurant, not exclusive. We want people to be able to come here a few times a month. That’s why it’s priced the way it is. That’s why the food’s approachable the way it is. We’re not pushing any boundaries here. That’s for a different venue that I hope to get to at a different time. Le Cigare Volant was a little avant-garde, which I think is cool and great and I respect very much. It just might not have been for this neighborhood at this time.

—Jacob Pierce

MARCH 19-25, 2014

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CAPRICORN N (Dec. 22 22-Jan. -Jan. 19): A Actor ctor Gary born Oldman was bor rn and rraised aised in LLondon. ondon. In the course career portrayed of his long car eeer he has portr ayed a wide rrange ange characters who of char acters wh ho speak English with American, Russian German, and Ru ussian accents. He has also lived in LLos os Angeles ffor or years. When he signed on to play a intelligence British intelligen nce agent in the 2011 film TTinker iinker TTailor aailor Soldier Spyy, he rrealized ealized that over the years he had lost some of hiss native British accent. He had to take voice lessons too restore restore his original pronunciations. pronunciations.

I suspect you ha have ave a metaphorically comparable comparable project project ahead ooff you, Capricorn.

Capricorn. It may be time to get back to wher wheree you y once belonged.

AQUARIUS S (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Every now and then, you’re miracle inspires you’re blessed blesssed with a small mir acle that inspir es you to see everyday everyyday things with new vision. Common objects and prosaic prosaic experiences get stripped of their habitual expectations, expectations, allowing them to become almost as enchanting enchaanting to you as they were were before before numb familiarity familiarityy set in. The beloved people you take for for granted granted suddenly sudddenly remind remind you of why you came to love them in the first place. Boring acquaintances may reveal reveal sides sides of themselves that are are quite entertaining. Soo are are you ready ready and eager for for just such an outbreak and a surge outbreak of curiosity c surge of fun surprises?

If you are, are, they will w come. If you’re you’re not, they won’t. won’t.

PISCES (Feb.. 19-Mar 19-March ch 20): Before Before she died, Piscean actress moree than 79 years actr ess Elizabethh TTaylor aaylor enjoyed mor lifee on this gor gorgeous, of lif rgeous, maddening planet. But one never acquired aptitude she nev ver acquir ed in all that time was the hard-boiled theree a pocket of ability to cook a har d-boiled egg. Is ther ignorance your ignor ance in you ur own rrepertoire epertoire that rivals this lapse, Aree ther theree any fundamental lif lifee skills that you Pisces? Ar probably pr obably should have learned by now? If so so, now would be a good time ttoo get to work on mastering them.

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MARCH 19-25, 2014

ARIES (Mar (March ch 21-April 19): “W “When When you plant seeds garden, don’t in the gar den, you don ’t dig them m up every day to see sprouted if they have spr outed yet,”” says Buddhist B nun Thubten Chodron.

“You Chodr on. “Y You o simply water them m and clear away the grow weeds; you know that the seeds will w gr ow in time.”

That’s That ’s sound advice for for you, Aries.

Ariess. You You o are are almost rready eady to plant the metaphorical seeds s that you will cultivating be cul tivating in the coming months. months. Having faith faith should be a key element in your plans p ffor or them. YYou’ve ou’ve o any ggot to find a wayy to shut down an nyy tendencies yyou control freak. might have to be an impatient co ontrol fr eak. YYour oour job good provide is simply to give your seeds a goo od start and pr ovide caree they will need. them with the persistent ffollow-up ollow-uup car

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