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GOING FORWARD What does the latest vote on the rail trail mean for local transportation? P11

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EDITOR’S NOTE There’s been so much to talk about for the last few weeks that I haven’t mentioned that voting in the Best of Santa Cruz awards is in full swing. So get over to goodtimes.sc and vote for your favorite local businesses, groups and individuals now! Voting ends Feb. 1, and our always-show-stopping Best of Santa Cruz issue comes out on March 27. Make sure your picks are in it! Meanwhile, I’ve wrapped up another agenda item in this issue with a story on the final results

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NO MANDATE

Re: “Agenda Pack-It” ( GT, 1/16): Having dealt with Mr. Krohn and his cabal for more than 20 years, I'm not surprised that he is trying to stack the Charter Amendment Committee. This attempted power play should be viewed in light of the election results. His Measure M was defeated by more than 62 percent of city voters and his candidates received just 46 percent of the city council votes. This situation is similar to Mr. Trump’s “winning” the presidency while losing the popular vote—neither Trump nor Krohn can claim a mandate. The California director of Common Cause says that, “he has never heard of a city considering such a change to a special committee that has already been seated.” Given that the council will have the final say—not the committee itself— why not let this group complete its work? Changing the rules in the middle of game is both unfair and unethical. Thanks to Jacob Pierce for his thorough reporting on this issue: good journalism! ROBERT DEFREITAS | SANTA CRUZ

ON THE MAPS Bless you for your recent MAPS and psychedelics research coverage (GT, 1/9)! There is so much misinformation and disinformation out there, and GT, when you’re good, you’re good!

of the Santa Cruz Gives campaign. Getting to go to the final Gives event where all the nonprofits get their checks and talk about their experiences is maybe the best part for me, and if you read the story, I think you’ll find that the things they got up to in the name of raising money were pretty entertaining, and maybe even inspiring. Also inspiring is the no-nonsense approach of Madeleine Albright to the subject of her newest book, Fascism: A Warning. Our writer Steve Kettmann was in Washington D.C. last week and spoke with Albright in advance of her event in Santa Cruz on Feb. 5. Not that it’s a timely subject or anything …. STEVE PALOPOLI | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Please stay on the forefront of important journalism and forego the powerful and elite message that burdens the working people and harasses the vulnerable. We now have an ever-growing homeless population, and governments prosper from those hit the hardest— whether drug-addicted or just falling through the cracks, these humans need better shelter and living conditions. Please write your governor, mayor or representative—this is part and parcel their job! ANY ANDERSON | NEVADA CITY, CA

LAST BEAT STANDING I just wanted to send out a big huge thanks to Geoffrey Dunn for his wonderful and unexpected article on one of the most chill, laid-back Southern Pacific railroad hipsters of 20th century America, Al Hinkle (GT, 1/9). I was so surprised that he just passed away to the Other Side of the Cosmic Road at age 92 last month. Wow! Every day for the last four years, I have not only been reading, but studying all of Jack Kerouac’s 44 published volumes of genius writing, including his literary journals and letters. As a newly minted local expert on Beat literature and its dramatis personae, I have pretty much read/heard all the numerous stories of this crew, including some from Carolyn Cassady in 1996, when I and several friends had dinner with her at Vesuvio’s in SF. So it was >8

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Santa Cruz County’s Homeless Action Partnership has released a request for proposals aimed at addressing the rising crisis of homelessness. California’s homeless population soared to 134,000 residents in 2018, a quarter of the nation’s estimated homeless population. The state legislature recently passed emergency funding for local communities to address the problem. The Homeless Action Partnership will distribute more than $10 million to local programs, services and facilities. Grant funds must be spent within two years. For more information, visit santacruzcounty.us.

State Senator Bill Monning (D-Carmel) has been appointed to the California Air Resources Board. It’s a new honor for Monning, who already serves on six Senate committees. Meanwhile, over in Washington D.C., where Democrats have a new congressional majority, Rep. Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) has been appointed to the House Committee on Agriculture. In notoriously polarized Washington, the sophomore congressman can say goodbye to the days of watching all his bills die in the House—he can now watch them die in the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate instead.

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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of January 23 ARIES Mar21–Apr19 We might initially be inclined to ridicule Stuart Kettell, a British man who spent four days pushing a Brussels sprout up 3,560-foot-high Mount Snowden with his nose. But perhaps our opinion would become more expansive once we knew that he engaged in this stunt to raise money for a charity that supports people with cancer. In any case, the coming weeks would be a favorable time for you, too, to engage in extravagant, extreme or even outlandish behavior in behalf of a good or holy cause.

TAURUS Apr20–May20 The Taurus guitar wizard known as Buckethead is surely among the most imaginative and prolific musicians who has ever lived. Since producing his first album in late 2005, he has released 306 other albums that span a wide variety of musical genres—an average of 23 per year. I propose that we make him your patron saint for the next six weeks. While it’s unlikely you can achieve such a gaudy level of creative self-expression, you could very well exceed your previous personal best in your own sphere.

GEMINI May21–June20 Novelist Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes, a fictional character who personifies the power of logic and rational thinking. And yet Doyle was also a devout spiritualist who pursued interests in telepathy, the occult and psychic phenomena. It’s no surprise that he was a Gemini, an astrological tribe renowned for its ability to embody apparent opposites. Sometimes that quality is a liability for you folks, and sometimes an asset. In the coming weeks, I believe it’ll be a highly useful skill. Your knack for holding paradoxical views and expressing seemingly contradictory powers will attract and generate good fortune.

CANCER Jun21–Jul22 In 2006, a 176-year-old tortoise named Harriet died in an Australian zoo owned by “Crocodile Hunter” and TV personality Steve Irwin. Harriet was far from her original home in the Galapagos Islands. By some accounts, evolutionary superstar Charles Darwin picked her up and carried her away during his visit there in 1835. I propose that you choose the long-lived tortoise as your power creature for the coming weeks. With her as inspiration, meditate on questions like these: 1. “What would I do differently if I knew I’d live to a very old age?” 2. “What influence that was important to me when I was young do I want to be important to me when I’m old?” 3. “In what specific ways can my future benefit from my past?” 4. “Is there a blessing or gift from an ancestor I have not yet claimed?” 5. “Is there anything I can do that I am not yet doing to remain in good health into my old age?”

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LE0 Jul23–Aug22

John Lennon claimed that he created the Beatles song “Because” by rendering Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” backwards. Even if that’s true, I don’t think it detracts from the beauty of “Because.” May I suggest that you adopt a comparable strategy for your own use in the coming weeks, Leo? What could you do in reverse so as to create an interesting novelty? What approach might you invert in order to instigate fresh ways of doing things? Is there an idea you could turn upside-down or inside-out, thereby awakening yourself to a new perspective?

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 The Tsonga language is spoken by more than 15 million people in southern Africa. The literal meaning of the Tsonga phrase I malebvu ya nghala is “It’s a lion’s beard,” which is often interpreted as, “something that’s not as scary as it looks.” According to my astrological analysis, this will be a useful concept for you to be alert for in the coming weeks. Don’t necessarily trust first impressions or initial apprehensions. Be open to probing deeper than your instincts might influence you to do.

LIBRA Sep23–Oct 22 The old Latin verb crescere meant “to come forth, spring up, grow, thrive, swell, increase in numbers or strength.”

We see its presence in the modern English, French and Italian word crescendo. In accordance with astrological omens, I have selected crescere and its present participle crescentum to be your words of power for the next four weeks. May they help mobilize you to seize all emerging opportunities to come forth, spring up, grow, thrive, swell, and increase in numbers or strength.

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 When animals hibernate, their metabolism slows down. They may grow more under-fur or feathers, and some add extra fat. To conserve heat, they may huddle together with each other. In the coming weeks, I don’t think you’ll have to do what they do. But I do suspect it will be a good time to engage in behaviors that have a resemblance to hibernation: slowing down your mind and body; thinking deep thoughts and feeling deep feelings; seeking extra hugs and cuddles; getting lots of rich, warm, satisfying food and sleep. What else might appeal to your need to drop out of your fast-paced rhythm and supercharge your psychic batteries?

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21 When people tell me they don’t have time to read the books I’ve written, I advise them to place the books under their pillows and soak up my words in their dreams. I don’t suggest that they actually eat the pages, although there is historical precedent for that. The Bible describes the prophet Ezekiel as literally chewing and swallowing a book. And there are accounts of 16th-century Austrian soldiers devouring books they acquired during their conquests, hoping to absorb the contents of the texts. But in accordance with current astrological omens, I suggest that in the next four weeks you acquire the wisdom stored in books by actually reading them or listening to them on audio recordings. In my astrological opinion, you really do need, for the sake of your psycho-spiritual health, to absorb writing that requires extended concentration.

CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 Among the top “how to” search inquiries on Google are “how to buy Bitcoin,” “how to lose belly fat fast,” “how to cook spaghetti in a microwave,” and “how to make slime.” While I do think that the coming weeks will be prime time for you to formulate and launch many “how to” investigations, I will encourage you to put more important questions at the top of your priority list. “How to get richer quicker” would be a good one, as would “how to follow through on good beginnings,” “how to enhance your value” and “how to identify what resources and allies will be most important in 2019.”

AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 A motivational speaker and author named Nick Vujicic was born without arms or legs, although he has two small, unusually shaped feet. These facts didn't stop him from getting married, raising a family of four children, and writing eight books. One book is entitled Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life. He's a positive guy who has faith in the possibility of miracles. In fact, he says he keeps a pair of shoes in his closet just in case God decides to bless him with a marvelous surprise. In accordance with current astrological omens, Aquarius, I suggest you make a similar gesture. Create or acquire a symbol of an amazing transformation you would love to attract to your life.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 About 11 percent of the Philippines’ population is comprised of Muslims who call themselves the Bangsamoro. Many resist being part of the Philippines and want their own sovereign nation. They have a lot of experience struggling for independence, as they’ve spent 400 years rebelling against occupation by foreign powers, including Spain, the United States and Japan. I admire their tenacity in seeking total freedom to be themselves and rule themselves. May they inspire your efforts to do the same on a personal level in the coming year.

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NEWS TRACKING THE SYSTEM What the Regional Transportation Commission’s recent vote on the rail trail and the UCS means for the future of transit BY JACOB PIERCE

After two years of waiting, county residents finally have a clearer sense of Santa Cruz County’s path forward on transportation. On Thursday, Jan. 17, the Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) unanimously finalized its Unified Corridor Study (UCS). The RTC’s vote puts Santa Cruz County a step closer toward one day implementing passenger rail service—and maybe even building carpool lanes on the highway in the decades that follow. GT is here to break down the significance of the study, the vote, what this all means and also what it doesn’t.

First of all, what is the UCS? FORMAL REQUEST Aaron Lazenby makes a video adjustment while Kate Pavao checks donation numbers during Live Like Coco’s ‘virtual pajama party’ fundraiser.

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As fundraising through Santa Cruz Gives took a huge leap, nonprofits went all out in unexpected ways BY STEVE PALOPOLI

t’s New Year’s Eve, and Aaron Lazenby is desperately trying to figure out Facebook Live on the fly. “Are you seeing me move around or anything?” he asks his virtual audience. He shakes his head, staring with a look of hopelessness into his iPad as he broadcasts from his bed, occasionally flashing the kind of self-deprecating smile you might expect from a man wearing a tuxedo t-shirt. “We’re new to this whole webcasting thing,” he admits. After a few minutes, he’s joined by Kate Pavao, his wife and partner in Live Like Coco, a nonprofit which, among other things, provides books to local grade-school students on

their birthdays. It’s the last night of the Santa Cruz Gives (SCG) holiday donation drive, and this husband and wife are determined to win the special $1,000 award for the participating nonprofit that gets the largest number of donors over the course of the campaign. They beat out the almost three dozen other local groups that participated in SCG for the prize last year, turning it into a fun and friendly—but, make no mistake about it, truly hardcore— competition with runner-up Brent Adams of the Warming Center that had both groups dialing up donors in the final hours of Dec. 31. The spirit of the whole thing ended up

inspiring a lot of last-minute donors, benefitting both groups immensely. This year, Lazenby and Pavao have been watching the donation leaderboard at santacruzgives.org closely, and they’re upping the ante with this “virtual pajama party” that lasts over two hours. While Pavao, in her pajamas, takes sips of wine, makes brownies in an EZ Bake oven perched on the bed’s headboard, and updates viewers with the latest numbers, the couple takes karaoke requests from donors whose comments roll along next to their video as they broadcast. One requests the Elton John/Kiki Dee duet “Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart.” “Do you have the lyrics? >12

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This two-year study from the RTC examined future transportation solutions for Santa Cruz County’s main corridors—Highway 1, Soquel Drive, Soquel Avenue, Freedom Drive, and the Santa Cruz Branch Rail Line. For years, the coastal rail line’s corridor has lain mostly dormant, except for a few freight trains running on its southern portion around Watsonville. Partially funded by the 2016 transportation sales tax Measure D, the UCS has earned attention mostly for its analysis of the rail corridor. The Friends of the Rail and Trail has been calling for a new bike and pedestrian trail down the corridor and a commuter train running alongside it. Not everyone shares that vision. Concerned about high projected costs and less-than-inspiring ridership estimates, there have been calls to abandon the railroad tracks in favor of either bus-rapid transit or a trail-only solution on the corridor—a position spearheaded by local anti-train groups like Santa Cruz County Greenway. But there’s more to the UCS than that. In its final version, the chosen scenario does call for transit on the rail corridor and a trail alongside the tracks, but it also calls for new bike infrastructure and highway improvements—like on-ramp metering and new merge lanes, which would improve bus travel times. Additionally, the UCS calls for controversial high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes, or carpool lanes, at some point after the >14

NEWS RAISING SPIRITS <11 Do you even know the words to this song?” Lazenby asks Pavao. “Maybe it’s ‘Make all our dreams come true…?’” “No, that’s Laverne and Shirley,” she says. “I’m going to have nightmares about this for weeks,” he says before they launch into a god-awful but truly entertaining rendition of the song. Then he addresses the invisible audience. “‘Give generously’ is what I’m saying.” The user comments continue to scroll by. “This is def better than the countdown on TV,” says one. But an even better one comes up not far behind it: “Okay, so how do I make a donation?”

BLAZING NEW PATHS Live Like Coco’s funny stunt was just one of the new and sometimes out-ofthe-box ways the 33 Santa Cruz County nonprofits participating in SCG found

to raise a total of $235,041, which represents a whopping 19 percent growth over last year’s total. Started by Good Times in 2015 with partner the Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz County, the yearly holiday drive has now raised almost three-quarters of a million dollars total for local causes. This year’s campaign was sponsored by Santa Cruz County Bank, Wynn Capital Management and Community Foundation Santa Cruz County. Oswald Restaurant is another SCG backer, specifically sponsoring the three $1,000 awards that drove Lazenby and Pavao to Facebook Live—with success, it turns out, as Live Like Coco took home the prize for Most Donors with 163. The group that won the $1,000 award for Most Young Donors, the Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries, also had an innovative strategy. Erika Anderson, the group’s 25-year-old campaign manager, says she is very aware of the library system’s need to reach out to people

in her age group—who, when she tells them what her job is, sometimes ask, “People still go to the library?” With that in mind, she organized two pop-up book sales at UCSC, with a clever Santa Cruz Gives hook. She slipped a homemade handout that prominently featured the SCG logo and donation information into every book sold on campus—which turned out to be quite a few. “The students were so excited we were there that we didn’t even have to unpack the books,” she says. “It worked out really well.” For the nonprofit that brought in the most money overall—the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter Foundation, which raised $29,585 via this year’s campaign—the key was storytelling. “What’s really effective for us is social media,” says Melanie Sobel, the animal shelter’s general manager. “We tend to highlight certain animal cases that we’ve dealt with.” It doesn’t hurt that the >16

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John Laird, California's outgoing natural resources secretary and Santa Cruz’s former state assemblymember, has announced that he’s running for the California Senate’s 17th District in 2020. It’s a seat currently held by state Sen. Bill Monning (D-Carmel), who’s terming out. If elected, Laird hopes to provide leadership on a variety of daunting issues, ranging from the state’s growing threat of devastating wildfires to questions about housing affordability. “There are a lot of challenges facing the Central Coast—in housing, in education, in health care and the environment,” Laird says. “I have the energy and experience to lead on each of those issues.” Laird, 68, just wrapped up an eight-year term as secretary of the California

Natural Resources Agency under Gov. Jerry Brown. Still, he says that his energy levels show no sign of waning, adding that his mother, who’s nearing her 95th birthday, still reads the newspaper every day and emails him often to ask if certain things are true. In the Brown administration, Laird oversaw a $10 billion budget and 25 statewide departments, commissions and conservancies, including the departments of water, state parks, fish and wildlife, and Cal Fire, as well as the California Coastal Commission. Many challenges that lie ahead for the state are unique to California, Laird says. And some, he feels, are exacerbated by a lack of leadership at the federal level. For example, fighting fires and reducing fire risk would be more manageable if California had a partner in the White House

more willing to help, rather than criticize, he says. Already, California helped create the International Alliance to Combat Ocean Acidification in 2016, working around the feds in a wide-ranging collaboration to combat the effects of climate change. Laird, a UCSC grad, got his political start on the Santa Cruz City Council, where he served as one of the first gay mayors in U.S. history. Coming out wasn’t easy at the time, he says. “I knew it was the right thing to do, but I didn’t know if I was going to be on the right side of history,” Laird says, adding that he now knows he undoubtedly was. Laird later spent six years in the state Assembly representing Santa Cruz County, before terming out in 2008. After that, he ran for the state Senate in 2010 against Sam Blakeslee during a

special election to fill a vacant seat. Laird says the old senate district, which stretched from Santa Cruz to Santa Barbara County, was drawn to elect a Republican. After an independent redistricting commission re-drew the boundaries, Blakeslee announced his retirement in 2012. That opened the door for a run from Monning that same year. Laird is now running for that same seat. Laird—who, if elected, plans to work full-time out of Santa Cruz—is married to watercolorist John C. Flores. Laird finds himself continually impressed with his husband’s serene paintings of nature, but his own shifting political schedule has required adjustments locally. “He’s getting used to having me at home more,” Laird says, “which is another story.” JACOB PIERCE

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Can we even rip up the tracks, in favor of bus-rapid transit or some other solution on the corridor? Maybe. Hypothetically, let’s say that in the future, the RTC decides commuter rail is too expensive and that it wants to throw in the towel on the idea. The RTC could file for abandonment of the corridor with the federal Surface Transportation Board (STB) and “railbank” the corridor, protecting the line for possible rail service at some point again in the future. According to RTC staff, however, no one’s sure what the STB will say, and it’s possible that this would trigger a process for landowners adjacent to line and seize portions of it. That decision would be left up to the courts. The federal government would be on the hook for the case, not the RTC or any local agency. COMMISSION GRANTED County analyst Patrick Mulhearn (left) and Supervisor Bruce McPherson react to new information at

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year 2035. It isn’t clear how seriously anyone is supposed to take this idea. In the report, it reads like little more than an afterthought—a compromise between people who say that carpool lanes are their number one priority and activists who hate expensive highway-widening measures in all their forms. This compromise is just barely concrete enough to give carpool lanes supporters something to look forward to, while still being far enough in the future for environmentalist opponents to hope that the RTC will simply keep kicking the can down the road until they either realize that they cannot figure out how to pay for construction or just forget about the idea altogether.

What does the decision mean for the county’s transportation future? The UCS decision is non-binding, although it does send a signal about the RTC’s priorities, as well as where it will be looking for funding. Perhaps the most concrete impact from the Unified Corridor Study vote is that the county will definitely keep the railroad tracks for at least another 10 years, although the rail line will be getting repairs.

Last week, the RTC also voted to finalize its 10-year contract with Minnesota-based freight operator Progressive Rail, though some commissioners wanted more time to study their options. The vote to delay came down to the wire, with only five of 11 possible commissioners supporting it. Because of the new contract, in a few years, there could be freight trains running from the Westside of Santa Cruz to Watsonville, where Progressive already began hauling trains over the summer. The RTC has three years to repair the remaining 24 miles of rail line, so Progressive can extend its service farther north. It also means that if for some reason the RTC decides that passenger rail isn’t going to work out, and that it prefers the notion of busrapid transit on the corridor, it has to wait until at least 2029, when the 10-year agreement expires, before ripping up the tracks. There is a chance, however, that busrapid transit could co-exist with freight service. There’s talk of building railroad tracks that are partially paved over, so that buses would be able to drive up and down them the same way cars do over the railroad tracks that run up Chestnut Street in downtown Santa Cruz. We’ll have more information about various

options soon. The final UCS calls for an alternatives analysis. This secondary study will do an in-depth, side-by-side comparison of specific options for the corridor, namely rail transit and bus-rapid transit, as well as possibly the more science fiction-sounding idea of personal rapid transit (pod cars, essentially). The Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District, the local bus agency, called for the alternatives analysis, partly as an effort to study how possible passenger train service might affect buses. Greenway supporters say that such an analysis should have been in the UCS.

Who’s going to pay for everything? RTC chair Ed Bottorff says the county would need to pass another tax measure if it’s going to pay for everything in its chosen UCS scenario. The scenario will cost an estimated $950 million, most of which would be unfunded under current revenue streams. That’s on top of an estimated $35 million a year in annual maintenance, about a quarter of which would be unfunded under current revenue streams. Not everyone was a fan of the expensive transportation options outlined in the UCS. Patrick Mulhearn, an alternate on the

If the RTC decided not to do a train, would it owe anyone any money? The most recent word on this suggests that, yes, the RTC would have to pay the state back $11 million in transportation funding if it opts not to build a commuter train on the corridor, although there have been some mixed messages on this topic. A planning official for the state California Transportation Commission told GT last spring that the county might actually be able to keep the money if it pursued a trailonly solution along the corridor—especially if it preserved portions of the tracks for fright service. Even among most trail-only sympathizers, there’s support for preserving the tracks outside the Boardwalk that Roaring Camp Railroads uses, as well as three miles of freight rail track in South County. But this past fall, CTC Executive Director Susan Bransen wrote a letter to RTC staff explaining that if the local agency decides not pursue passenger rail service, it had better pay back that $11 million. In a county the size of ours, that amount of money is not chump change. Greenway supporters would be quick to remind everyone, though, that $11 million comes out to about 1 percent of the projected cost of the RTC’s chosen path forward. And transportation projects, for what it’s worth, generally have a track record of running over budget.

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eally, if you do a little translation of cultural reference points, it’s not that big of a gap from first-term Congresswoman Rashia Tlaib’s much-clucked-about “Impeach the motherfucker” remark earlier this month to the line that former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright dropped on a Washington banquet crowd in December, eyebrow raised for emphasis. “Leaders such as Viktor Orbán and Rodrigo Duterte have said that these times demand a governing model that is more autocratic than democratic,” Albright intoned with slow, steely deliberation, referring to the neo-fascist thugs who have taken power in Hungary and the Philippines. “There is a diplomatic term of art for such thinking, and it starts with a ‘b.’” I happened to be in the crowd for the National Democratic Institute event, next to where Albright was sitting before taking the podium, and considered yelling out: “’Bullshit!’” to complete her

thought. It was the kind of fancyfancy Washington function where I’d have probably been dragged out of the place for such an outburst, but I’d have done my part for the public discourse. “Balderdash,” Albright quickly added, with perfect comic timing and a butter-wouldn’t-melt-in-hermouth look. Indeed, it’s time to call balderdash, loudly and repeatedly, to the notion that there’s anything at all justifiable about dallying with fascism, as our dim-witted monster of a president so loves to do. Fascism is a power grab. Fascism is crude self-love writ large. Fascism is the enemy and the opposite of democracy, real democracy, as Madeleine Albright has articulated better than anyone—in that speech in Washington, to a degree, but especially in her New York Times No. 1 bestseller Fascism: A Warning, due out next week in paperback. And, I expect, at her upcoming appearance at the Kaiser Permanente Arena in Santa Cruz

on Feb. 5 (the $23 admission also includes a paperback copy of the book). As Albright writes in a new preface to the paperback edition: “Fascist attitudes take hold when there are no social anchors, and when the perception grows that everybody lies, steals, and cares only about himor-herself. That is when the yearning is felt for a strong hand to protect against the evil ‘other’—whether Jew, Muslim, black, so-called redneck, or so-called elite. Flawed though our institutions may be, they are the best that four thousand years of civilization have produced, and cannot be cast aside without opening the door to something far worse. The wise response to intolerance is not more intolerance or selfrighteousness; it is a coming together across the ideological spectrum of people who want to make democracies more effective. We should remember that the heroes we cherish—Lincoln, King, Gandhi, Mandela—spoke to the best within us. The crops we’ll harvest depend on the seeds we sow.”

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us. Democracy is not just what you take out, it’s also what you give back. “Citizens must consider voting and participation not just a right, but a responsibility,” Albright told me. “Some people think my book is alarming. It is supposed to be alarming. … I do think that it’s tragic what is going on. Clearly there are issues in all our societies in terms of divisions, and whether the social contract is broken, and what

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the impeachment of Donald Trump. “I don’t,” she said, and paused to choose her words carefully before expanding on the thought. “I do think laws have to be followed. I have witnessed two impeachments, and they suck the air out of everything going on, but I think if a president is breaking the law, there are processes here, and I do believe in the constitution, or maybe even the 25th amendment.” I had to look that one up for a refresher, and when I did, wished I’d asked a follow-up. The 25th amendment calls for the vice president to replace the president “in the event of death, removal, resignation, or incapacitation.” Since Trump is already somewhat incapacitated, more so all the time, it would seem, I’m assuming she was probably alluding to the “resignation” option, which I for one have been espousing for a while as our most likely way out of this long national nightmare. If you attend Albright’s Santa Cruz speech, this would be a great follow-up question for her. “The reason I also wanted historic parts of my book, like how Mussolini happened, was to illustrate how fascism can creep up on a society,” Albright told me. “By the way, Mussolini said he was ‘a stable genius.’” Staring fascism straight in the face is a great way to get us thinking in a fresh way about democracy and what it really means, just as staring death in the face—when cancer claims a relative, for example—has a knack for reminding us that we’d better get out there and live our lives like we mean it. Make no mistake, the American experiment in democracy has been on life support these last two years, dangerously close to slipping away in the night, and we’re not through the woods yet. This is a good time to ask yourself, really ask yourself: Do I care about democracy? What am I willing to do for it? And do we ask ourselves often enough what democracy requires of us? “I think they don’t,” Albright told me. “I wasn’t born in the United States. When we came to this

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technology is doing to our societies.” History, which Albright has lived to a remarkable degree, can indeed be a good teacher. “I don’t think most people focus on the fact that Mussolini and Hitler and Franco in Spain all came to power constitutionally,” she told me. “There are those who are copying things that Mussolini said initially, which was that there are simple answers to problems. The problems are complicated. People don’t want to hear that.” No, they don’t, especially in an era when most of our dialogue comes in short bursts via social media. “If all of a sudden there is a leader who says, ‘I have the answers, just follow me,’ and the extrapolation of that is that there are scapegoats, which are the reasons that this happened, and the identification with one group that feels that they have been robbed or neglected, then divisions are exacerbated. So what we need is leaders who can find common ground.” So what of Trump, then? Albright paused before answering. “I don’t call him a fascist,” she said evenly. “I do think he’s the least democratic president in modern American history. I draw an allusion in the book, first made by Mussolini, which is that you can pluck a chicken one feather at a time and nobody notices. What I think is happening is Trump is plucking feathers. Thinking he’s above the law or having no respect for the judiciary and generally putting down institutions—those are pretty significant feathers. He is taking steps that are undermining how government is supposed to operate.”

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father continued his career in the Czechoslovak Foreign Service and, for a brief time, all was well. Then, in 1948, our country fell under the control of Communists. Democracy was shut down and once more my family was driven into exile. That Armistice Day, we arrived in the United States, where, under the watchful eyes of the Statue of Liberty, we were welcomed as refugees.” I’ve written on foreign policy for publications from The New York Times to Salon to Foreign Policy, and I had some reservations about some of Albright’s positions when she first took over from Warren Christopher and served as Bill Clinton’s Secretary of State. But she soon won me over, and in the years since, I’ve crossed paths with her repeatedly and have always been amazed by her combination of knowledge, considered opinion, feel for people and self-aware sense of humor. Ask her about her pins and she can talk to you for an hour—and you’ll love every minute of it. She has what can only be called oldworld charm and manners, but at the same time, a uniquely American love of ideas and engagement. She’s always excited about what’s coming next, especially some time in California. “I love coming to California,” she told me. “It’s beautiful and the people are very politically engaged. I think it’s a fascinating state. Some people think it’s very different than the rest of the United States in its dedication to diversity. That to me is its great strength.” Diversity was a strength of the Prague of Albright’s youth, so she’s not just mouthing slogans, she’s speaking of honest regard. I’ve always felt very at home in Prague— the Prague of Milan Kundera, the Prague of Havel, a place where the storytellers and the dreamers had a seat at the table, which sounds to me like California. But Prague also teaches the world about how much can change quickly. I was in Prague the night of the Velvet Divorce, when Slovakia decided to sever itself and create two states, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, watching a tiny TV with my Czech friend

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that worry to push us not to yell louder, not to tweet meaner tweets, but to ask ourselves again what more we can do for decency, what more we can do to reach out and bring people together, what more we can do to understand better the fault lines and underlying causes of so much of the angst and fear that fuel the hate and resentment. Absorbing the words and message of rare individuals like Madeleine Albright, truly a wise woman, is a good place to start.

MADELEINE ALBRIGHT AT THE KAISER PERMANENTE ARENA Bookshop Santa Cruz will present an evening with Madeleine Albright on Tuesday, Feb. 5, at 7 p.m. at the Kaiser Permanente Arena in Santa Cruz. The event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and Temple Beth El. Tickets are $23 and include one general admission ticket and one pre-signed paperback copy of ‘Fascism: A Warning.’ All books will be distributed at the venue. Albright will not be doing a signing at the event.

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technique achieves its desired intimacy, convincing readers that we are in on the caper. Characters are taken or imagined from daily life at home in smalltown Santa Cruz. Hippies, UCSC students, vegetarians, divorcees, sullen teenagers, and plenty of red wine, junk food and marijuana float through this carnival of stories. A loose “whatever” culture—as one of her characters describes it—forms the atmosphere tunneling through these tales. Loser and lovers, tattoos, playful and indifferent sex, and town/ gown misfits gather 'round the secret swimming hole of Perks’ narratives. The result is a sense of people playing an endless game of charades with each other. Understanding is rare, confrontation endless. Recurring characters—Isaac and Diane, their daughter Lilah, former lovers Helga and Dave—populate many of the slices of everyday domestic discord that Perks probes with her flawless ear. Isaac stars as the hapless center of “The Comeback Tour,” a showcase for the author’s vibrant dialogue. Isaac has separated from his wife Diane, who has run off with the karate instructor. Daughter Lilah, who’s left college for cooking school, returns to live with Isaac, and the two attempt to make the best of their twilightzone situation. Here’s Isaac and the doctor he consults when convinced that he has a terminal eye infection: “My wife and I separated over the summer. She’s with a woman now.” “I can top that. My best friend,

who also happened to be the nurse practitioner at my former practice stole my husband. That’s why I changed offices. Welcome to the pain that keeps on giving, am I right?” “I like to think of divorce as an opportunity.” “Oh, are you on Tinder or one of those? I tried that and let me tell you I’d rather have surgery sans anesthesia, you know what I mean?” The opening of “To My Best Friend Who Hates Me” is classic Perks. “I keep thinking about the things you said when you called, Lucille. I’m not talking about the part where you said ugly shoes. I’m talking about the other parts, where you said that I was a lying whore, and you wish were dead. You know very well I’m a no-nonsense, get-back-to-work kind of woman, I mean, hello? I’m a nurse practitioner (I know you’ve always thought you were better than me because you’ve got the MD, but it just means you have to work longer hours and pay exorbitant insurance.)” In uncensored inner monologues and whiplash conversations, Perks offers tart glimpses of vernacular silliness and romance filtered through a laidback haze of attitude. The best pieces in the book reward multiple readings, and may or may not convince the reader that true love is the best revenge. Micah Perks will read from her book of short stories ‘True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape’ from 2:30-4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 26, at the Community Writers Series. Porter Memorial Library, 3050 Porter St., Soquel.

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Psych-prog pioneers the Soft Machine reclaim their identity for ‘Hidden Details’ BY MIKE HUGUENOR

eginning in 1966, the Soft Machine were at the forefront of the British psych and prog movements, backing up Syd Barrett’s first solo album, playing with Andy Summers before he joined the Police, and even touring with Jimi Hendrix. Since the late ’60s, the Machine has gone through at least six distinct eras, even changing its name a few times along the way—first to Soft Ware, then Soft Works, and, in 2004, to Soft Machine Legacy. But as of 2015, the band has once again become Soft Machine, a name inspired by William Burroughs’ term for the human body. So how does it feel for them to re-become themselves?

“It feels good,” says Theo Travis, the band’s woodwind and piano player. “It feels real.” Last September, Soft Machine released Hidden Details, their first album under their original moniker since 1981’s Land of Cockayne. Throughout Hidden Details, the band sounds as amalgamated and inspired as ever, giving both their jazz and rock chops a heavy workout. Focused equally on improvisation and composition, the album is a mix of new songs and reworkings of classics, which have been transformed through decades of live play. The experiment works, most notably on the excellent “The Man Who Waved At Trains” from 1975’s Bundles—a slippery, angular jazz

tune that’s original minute-and-ahalf length has here been expanded to five (with Travis’s flute now on the melody). As always, Hidden Details is purposefully mixed stylistically, and many may have a hard time categorizing the album. Leading with an absolutely filthy guitar riff from John Etheridge, the title track opener starts off sounding like Black Sabbath before settling into a warm, mid-tempo fusion. Third track “Ground Lift” is stratospheric in its passages of free improvisation, while “Heart Off Guard” sounds like the darker side of English folk run through a film noir filter. “It’s kind of the jazzy end of the progressive world, or the progressive

end of the jazzy world,” Travis muses on the album. A moment later, he settles. “It’s probably more of the jazzy end of the progressive world. The improvisation has a comfortable mix with the composition of the more progressive, out-there, left-field rock.” Whichever end of the prog/jazz spectrum it most represents, Soft Machine’s music has always been something that could only emerge out of the specific soft machines in the band, and Hidden Details is no exception. “It’s like a big melting pot,” Travis says. “The four of us, we have overlapping taste, but we have very different tastes. It’s where we meet that the music happens.” More than anything, the band is just happy to be themselves again. “To have an album where it says in big letters “Soft Machine,” it makes it very clear that it is Soft Machine,” Travis says, sounding at ease. “It has a greater importance to it, it feels like the stakes are higher. Soft Machine Legacy sounds a bit like a tribute band. It could be everyone in it was a key member of Soft Machine, but people don’t have a relationship to Soft Machine Legacy. They haven’t been listening to Soft Machine Legacy for 40 years People don’t have that same kind of feeling about it.” Though they dropped the word from their name, the concept of legacy is still central to the band’s work. With more than 50 years of material to draw from, Soft Machine makes a point to embody their entire career live. “If we like a track from the repertoire and it works well live, we’ll do it,” Travis says. “The only thing we don’t do is we don’t do any vocals, so we don’t go back to the first album.” As soon as these words leave his mouth, he corrects himself. “Although we did actually rehearse ‘Joy of a Toy’ [from 1968’s The Soft Machine], and we were talking of doing it. If you’re a Soft Machine fan of any of the eras, we do them. Something for everyone.” Soft Machine performs at 9 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 25 at Flynn’s Cabaret & Steakhouse, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $35. 335-2800.

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Free calendar listings in print and online are available for community events. Listings show up online within 24 hours. Submissions of free events and those $15 or less received by Thursday at noon, six days prior to the Good Times publication date, will be prioritized for print (space available). All listings must specify a day, start time, location and price (or ‘free’ if applicable). Listings can be set to repeat every week or month, and can be edited by the poster as needed. Ongoing events must be updated quarterly. It is the responsibility of the person submitting an event to cancel or modify the listing. Register at our website at santacruz.com in order to SUBMIT EVENTS ONLINE. E-mail calendar@goodtimes.sc or call 458.1100 with any questions.

LAURA HECOX DAY

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Honor the Museum of Natural History’s founder with a day of activities, including geological exploration and a beach cleanup. Hecox was the first Santa Cruz lightkeeper and a naturalist who shared her profound love of the environment and marine life with the world through her curated exhibits. Before passing away in 1916, Hecox donated her collections to the city; they became part of Santa Cruz’s first public museum. Celebrate Hecox’s legacy while enjoying the beauty of our own rocky coast.

ARTS FRIENDS OF THE SCPL BOOKSTORE SALE EVERY DAY The Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries Bookstore sells books used and nearly new at a fraction of the cost you’d usually pay for them. We have all types of books, including classics, fiction, mysteries, biographies, local interest, art books, science books, nature, cookbooks, some reference books, children’s and young adult books, holiday books and more. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Santa Cruz Public Library, 240 Church St., Santa Cruz. fscpl.org.

Lighthouse Field beach cleanup 9-11 a.m., Rockin’ Geology Pop-Up 10 a.m.noon, Mobile Museum 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Lighthouse Point. 700 W. Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz. santacruzmuseum.org. $10 general/$5 members/children free.

PATHWAYS THROUGH OUR PARKS EXHIBITION On exhibition will be a selection of work from artist Ann Thiermann’s series of pastel and acrylic paintings. This series invites the viewer to linger visually over the flora and fauna along the pathways of our local parks. Noon-4 p.m. San Lorenzo Valley Museum, 12547 Hwy. 9, Boulder Creek. slvmuseum.com. Free.

CLASSES ROBO SUMO @ BOULDER CREEK Try your hand at the not-so-ancient-art of building Sumo-wrestling robots using Lego Mindstorms. We will work in groups to build a competition robot to battle on the last day of class. Prerequisite of previous participation in a robo series program or previous Lego robotics experience. Pre-registration required. 2:30-4 p.m. Boulder Creek Library, 13390 West Park Ave., Boulder Creek. Santacruzpl.libcal.com. Free.

PEMA CHÖDRON CONVERSATIONS

TUESDAY 1/29 ‘QUESTIONS THAT MATTER: DATA AND DEMOCRACY’ Technology increasingly shapes our habits and defines our access to information. As our society navigates shifting sources of news, targeted advertising and polarizing online rhetoric, it is essential that we work to understand the complex and often-obscured relationship between data and democracy. A conversation between UCSC Associate Professor of Linguistics Pranav Anand and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Lise Getoor, the event is part of the “Questions That Matter” humanities series. 7 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz Center. 320 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. thi.ucsc.edu. $15.

In this casual study group, we will start getting our meditational feet wet by following a series of renowned Tibetan Buddhist teacher and writer Pema Chodrön’s user-friendly-but-revealing videos and meditations, all designed to help us break free of old habits and negative patterns. Join Denice Everham, a longtime meditation teacher and brain fitness coach for teachings and discussion. 6 p.m. Wisdom Center of

Santa Cruz, 740 Front St. #155, Santa Cruz. wisdomcentersc.org. $10.

FOOD & WINE DOWNTOWN SANTA CRUZ FARMERS MARKET In addition to a large variety of farm products, this market offers a great selection of local artisan foodstuffs, delicious baked goods and lots of options for lunch and dinner. 1-6 p.m. Cedar >30

CABRILLO’S ‘CONTINUUM & FLUX’ Natalya Burd and Kirk Maxson use images of nature to comment on the shifting conditions of humans moving through time and space. Burd paints scenes of human activity in natural landscapes on tinted Plexiglass panels, her images amplified by mirrored backgrounds. Maxson creates hundreds of small, hand-cut and formed metal leaves clustered in largescale installations. His work has been featured in Victoria’s Secret fashion shows. Each artist creates technically striking, otherworldly artworks that are both sublimely beautiful and provoking. Show runs Monday, Jan. 28-Friday, March 1. Reception and artists talk Saturday, Feb. 9, 4-6 p.m. Cabrillo Gallery, 6500 Soquel Drive Room 1002, Aptos. 479-6308. Free.

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RED VELVET This stirring drama transports audiences to the turbulent backstage world of London’s Theatre Royal in the early 1800s. Edmund Kean, the greatest actor of his generation, has taken ill and can’t go on tonight as Othello, leaving his company in disarray. A young American actor named Ira Aldridge arrives to step into the role, but no black man has ever played Othello on the English stage. 7:30 p.m. The Colligan Theater, 1010 River St., Santa Cruz. jeweltheatre.net. $27.

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CALENDAR Research Reserve is seeking new volunteers. Reserve staff will share details on volunteer opportunities in the Reserve's research, stewardship and education departments. 5:30-7 p.m. Elkhorn Slough Reserve, 1700 Elkhorn Rd., Watsonville. elkhornslough.org/ events/. Free.

THURSDAY 1/24 CLASSES

THURSDAY 1/24 ‘LEGALLY SPEAKING’ The Santa Cruz Public Library System has partnered with the Santa Cruz County Bar Association to offer a free monthly series of discussions on various legal and financial life event topics. The series answers questions about the most frequently experienced legal issues faced by people in our community. These discussions will take place at various locations throughout the county. This evening in particular focuses on immigration law, led by local immigration attorney Jeraline Singh Edwards. The presentation will encompass “Know your Rights,” immigration law fundamental principles— such as ways to get a green card and the process of naturalization—and the truths and myths about current immigration law and policies. 6-7 p.m. Santa Cruz Downtown Library, 224 Church St., Santa Cruz. 427-7707, santacruzpl.org. Free.

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GROUPS OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Come join us for a friendly 12-Step support group with the solution. Teens and adults welcome. Includes compulsive overeating, anorexia and bulimia. Meets in the church Youth Room, two doors down from the corner of Poplar and Melrose. See our website for additional times and locations. 10:30-11:30 a.m. Trinity Presbyterian Church, 420 Melrose Ave., Santa Cruz. santacruzoa.org. Free.

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injections many patients feel a natural boost in energy. 3-6 p.m. Santa Cruz Naturopathic Medical Center, 736 Chestnut St., Santa Cruz. 477-1377 or scnmc.com. $29/$17.

B12 HAPPY HOUR B12 deficiencies are common, as the vitamin is used up by stress, causing fatigue, depression, anxiety, insomnia and more. Not well absorbed in the gut, B12 injections can be effective in helping to support energy, mood, sleep, immunity, metabolism and stress resilience. Come get a discounted shot from 1:30-4:30 p.m. Thrive Natural Medicine, 2840 Park Ave., Soquel. thrivenatmed.com/b12-injections or 515-8699. $15.

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GIRLS WHO CODE: SESSION A Girls Who Code (GWC) is a program meant to bridge the gender gap in the field of tech. In Session A, 3rd-5th grade girls will build sisterhood, read and reflect on the Girls Who Code book, and complete various challenges over a 10-week course. Participants must attend all classes. Space is limited and attendees must register. 3-4 p.m. Scotts Valley Library, 251 Kings Village Rd., Scotts Valley. santacruzpl.libcal.com. Free. EASY WAYS TO REDUCE YOUR PLASTIC USE Join Shell Cleave, founder of Sea Hugger, and learn how plastic negatively affects the environment and how you can make simple changes in your daily life to reduce plastic waste. Discover products available at New Leaf to support your goal to reduce your dependency on plastic. 6-7 p.m. New Leaf Market, 1101 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz. newleaf.com. Free.

HEALTH B12 HAPPY HOUR B12 helps support energy, mood, sleep, immunity, metabolism and stress resilience. Since B12 is not absorbed well during digestion, and all B vitamins are depleted by stress, most Americans are deficient. Having B12 in the form of an injection bypasses the malabsorption problem, and people often feel an immediate difference. Every Thursday morning, we offer discounted vitamin B12 by walk-in or appointment. 9 a.m.-noon. Thrive Natural Medicine, 2840 Park Ave., Soquel. thrivenatmed.com or 515-8699. $15.

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FRIDAY 1/25 ARTS ALL ABOUT THEATRE PRESENTS HONK! Performed by over 30 talented local youth ages 10-16 years old. Since it first hatched in 1993, Stiles & Drewe's musical, Honk!, has winged its way around the world in over 8,000 productions in many different languages. Winner of multiple awards, including the 2000 Olivier Award for Best Musical. 7 p.m. Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. allabouttheatre.org. $20/$16/$13.

THE WEEPING CAMEL In Mongolia’s Gobi desert, a camel belonging to a group of nomadic shepherds gives birth to a white calf. It’s a rare occurrence, and the shepherds watch as the unusually-colored offspring is rejected by its mother. To save its life, the nomads send two boys on a journey across the desert to find a musician in the village whose song may compel the camel to accept its calf. 7 p.m. Wisdom Center of Santa Cruz, 740 Front St. #155, Santa Cruz. wisdomcentersc.org. Donation $10/$5.

FOOD & WINE WATSONVILLE FARMERS MARKET This market is in the heart of the famously bountiful Pajaro Valley. Peaceful and family-oriented, the Latino heritage of this community gives this market a “mercado” feel. 2-7 p.m. 200 Main St., Watsonville.

HEALTH VITAMIN B12 FRIDAY Every Friday is B12 Happy Hour at Thrive Natural Medicine. B12 improves energy, memory, mood, immunity, sleep, metabolism and stress resilience. Come on down for a discounted shot and start your weekend off right! Walk-ins only. 3-6 p.m. Thrive Natural Medicine, 2840 Park Ave., Soquel. thrivenatmed.com/b12injections or 515-8699. $15.

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EXPLORING SPIRITUALITY A discussion

FREE OPEN REHEARSAL OF THE SANTA CRUZ SYMPHONY Hey, what’s

group focusing on spirituality and ways to incorporate it into our daily lives. This group is not affiliated with any religion, nor is it a therapy group. Will meet Thursday evenings in the music room. Peace United Church Santa Cruz, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. peaceunited.org. $10 donation.

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Questions That Matter: Data and Democracy

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JANUARY 29, 7PM KUUMBWA JAZZ CENTER $15/PERSON

As society navigates fake news, targeted social media, and compromised voting systems, it is essential that we understand the complex and often obscured relationship between data and democracy.

Finance Moves West: Disruption or the Rise of the Machine? JANUARY 23, 4PM ENGINEERING 2, ROOM 180 FREE ADMISSION

As Silicon Valley democratizes the financial sector, people rely less on expert financial advisers to invest their money. Who benefits and who loses as algorithms increasingly direct how money flows?

Carceral Identity Within and Beyond the Prison JANUARY 24, 1:30PM HUMANITIES 1 BUILDING, ROOM 210 FREE ADMISSION, PARKING PERMIT REQ

Patrick Lopez-Aguado shares the stories of youth and adults navigating the “carceral social order” of detention facilities.

JANUARY 26, 9:30AM–NOON FARM & GARDEN $0–$30/PERSON

JANUARY 26, NOON–3PM UC SANTA CRUZ, CLASSROOM UNIT 1 & 2, FREE ADMISSION

The Santa Cruz County Office of Education hosts the Elementary and Junior High County Spelling Bee Competition at UC Santa Cruz.

Science on Tap JANUARY 30, 7PM THE CREPE PLACE FREE ADMISSION

Can acquired traits or experiences be passed on from one generation to the next? Braden Larson explains.

“What Refugees Taught Me About Shakespeare” JANUARY 31, 5PM KRESGE TOWN HALL FREE ADMISSION

NY theater director Jessica Bauman Learn how to prune fruit trees to maximize explores how the stories we tell about health and production with Matthew Sutton refugees influence how we respond to the of Orchard Keepers. Heavy rain cancels. migration crisis in Arden/Everywhere, a Rainout date is Saturday, February 2. Please retelling of As You Like It. pre-register for this event.

Amahl and the Night Visitors JANUARY 26, 11AM & 1PM MUSIC CENTER RECITAL HALL $0–$10/PERSON

Benjamin Verdery— Virtuoso Classical Guitarist and Composer FEBRUARY 1, 7:30PM MUSIC CENTER RECITAL HALL FREE ADMISSION

UCSC opera students and instrumentalists Acclaimed classical guitarist and compresent the story of an imaginative child, poser Benjamin Verdery performs Bach, Amahl, and his three royal visitors. Sung Villa-Lobos, and others; the UCSC Guitar in English with chamber orchestra. Ensemble performs Verdery’s “Scenes from Ellis Island” for 12 guitars.

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Winter Drop-In Figure Drawing

The Seymour Marine Discovery Center presents renowned photographer Frans Lanting and his partner Chris Eckstrom, who will showcase inspiring conservation successes in wild wetlands.

WEDNESDAYS THROUGH MARCH 13, 7–9PM UCSC ART DEPARTMENT M-101 FREE ADMISSION

Foundation Medal Honoring Janet Yellen FEBRUARY 2, 6:30PM HOTEL NIA, MENLO PARK $100/PERSON; SPONSORSHIPS AVAILABLE

Janet Yellen, former chair of the Federal Reserve, receives the UC Santa Cruz Foundation Medal for distinguished achievement that exemplifies the ideals of UC Santa Cruz.

Starting a Successful Spring Garden FEBRUARY 3, 9:30AM–12:30PM COWELL RANCH HAY BARN $5–$40/PERSON

Laura Sasso shares best practices for sowing seeds, cultivating seedlings, and transplanting. Participants will also explore strategies for planning and timing a successful warm season garden in this region.

An Evening with Madeleine Albright FEBRUARY 5, 7PM KAISER PERMANENTE ARENA $23/PERSON

Madeleine Albright, the first female U.S. Secretary of State, will speak about her book, Fascism: A Warning, a personal and urgent examination of fascism in the 20th century and how its legacy shapes today’s world. Cosponsored by the Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.

Drop-In Figure Drawing provides a live model and a room monitor. There is no formal lesson; the sessions are free and open to the public. ONLY DRY MEDIA ALLOWED.

Community Day Free Admission to the Arboretum & Botanic Garden FIRST TUESDAY OF THE MONTH UC SANTA CRUZ ARBORETUM & BOTANIC GARDEN FREE ADMISSION

Free admission to the Arboretum & Botanic Garden on the first Tuesday of every month. Parking is limited, so we encourage visitors to carpool, bike, walk, or use public transportation.

UPCOMING EVENTS FEBRUARY 5

Have Spacesuit, Will Travel FEBRUARY 6

Women’s Club Meeting FEBRUARY 11

Melissa Harris-Perry— Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation FEBRUARY 12

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism FEBRUARY 20

“The Right to Be Heard—Jews, Human Rights, and Global Democracy in Historical Perspective”

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CALENDAR lot next to the nature store. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, 101 N Big Trees Park Rd., Felton. thatsmypark.org. Free.

watershed education. 5 p.m. Peace United Church of Santa Cruz, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. santacruzflyfishermen.org. $40/$25.

DAN HAIFLEY PRESENTS A STORY OF THE DEATH & LIFE OF THE MONTEREY BAY The Friends of the Aptos Library in

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conjunction with the Aptos History Museum presents the founder of Save Our Shores and the outgoing director of the O'Neill Sea Odyssey, Dan Haifley. Dan will discuss important topics concerning the history of the Monterey Bay and what we as residents of the area can do to care for our most important natural resource. 2:30-4 p.m. Rio Sands Hotel, 116 Aptos Beach Drive, Aptos. friendsofaptoslibrary.org. Donation $10.

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SATURDAY 1/26 WOMEN’S ADVENTURE FILM TOUR This is the first time that the Women’s Adventure Film Tour is touching down in the U.S. This tour is a celebration of the fantastic women around us who are doing extraordinary things in the otherwise male-dominated adventure industry. Join Patagonia in an evening of short films highlighting the world’s greatest female athletes. Subjects vary from extreme skiing and snowboarding to surfing and rock climbing. The show benefits the Changing Tides Foundation, whose mission includes educating others on how to adventure and live in a conscious way, protecting our oceans and earth, and empowering women through the outdoors. 7-10 p.m. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. riotheatre.com. $18.

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Auditorium, 307 Church St., Santa Cruz. santacruzsymphony.org. Free.

OUTDOOR REDWOOD GROVE LOOP WALK Join us for this fun and informative guided, half-mile stroll through a magnificent oldgrowth redwood forest. Meet the famous Mother Tree, the Father of the Forest and the incredible Chimney Tree on this 90-minute walk. 1 p.m. Big Basin Redwood State Park, 21600 Big Basin Way, Boulder Creek. Thatsmypark.org. Free.

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series invites the viewer to linger visually over the flora and fauna along the pathways of our local parks. Noon. San Lorenzo Valley Museum, 12547 Hwy. 9, Boulder Creek. slvmuseum.com. Free.

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celebration of Laura Hecox: lightkeeper, naturalist, citizen scientist, and founder of the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History. As keeper of Santa Cruz’s original lighthouse on West Cliff Drive, Laura Hecox was responsible for ensuring the light never failed, but her work didn’t end there. 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Lighthouse Point Park, West Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz. santacruzmuseum.org. Free.

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selection ofwork from artist Ann Thiermann’s series of pastel and acrylic paintings. This

FOOD & WINE best farmers market in Santa Cruz County. With more than 90 vendors, the Aptos Farmers Market offers an unmatched selection of locally-grown produce and specialty foods. 8 a.m.-noon, Saturdays, Cabrillo College. montereybayfarmers.org or akeller@montereybayfarmers.org. Free.

SATURDAY 1/26 PATHWAYS THROUGH OUR PARKS EXHIBITION On exhibition will be a

Join open studios artist Alexandra Sanders, aka LadyWhoLovesBirds, for a series of BATIK classes using the SERTI Method of wax application (outline resist technique) on cotton and silk. Take one class or take many. At each class, students will complete one BATIK suitable for framing. 11 a.m. LadyWhoLovesBirds Studio, 637 Columbia St., Santa Cruz. ladywholovesbirds.com. $260/$75.

formation—its fossils, its unique plants and animals, and how fire plays a role in preserving this special habitat at our Sandhills Mobile Visitor Center in the parking

Westside Farmers Market takes place every week at the corner of Highway 1 and Western Drive, situated on the northern edge of Santa Cruz’s greenbelt. This market serves the communities of the west end of Santa Cruz, including Bonny Doon, North Coast, UCSC Campus and is a short trip from downtown. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Mission Street and Western Drive, Santa Cruz. 454-0566.

WILD CAUGHT SALMON FEED The Santa Cruz Fly Fishermen are holding their annual fundraising dinner featuring a raffle and auction along with a wild-caught salmon dinner grilled up by members of the Rotary of Santa Cruz. The fly fishing club, which was established in 1977, holds this yearly event to fund wildlife habitat conservation efforts, youth outdoor programs and local school

ENCHANTED FOREST FIT4MOM FUNDRAISER BENEFITING MAH Join us for the 3rd annual fundraiser, this year benefiting the Museum of Art & History, hosted by FIT4MOM. You and your family are invited to us at the MAH for an afternoon of woodland games and crafts, follow the forest maze for prizes, and enjoy delicious food and beverages. 3-6 p.m. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. santacruz.fit4mom.com. $35.

SANTA CRUZ MIDWIVES OPEN HOUSE Considering home birth? The Santa Cruz Midwives are hosting an open house at their office downtown, just off River Street. Come meet the team of experienced professionals ready to answer any questions you may have about midwifery care and home birth in Santa Cruz. Light refreshments provided, children welcome. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Santa Cruz Midwives, 303 Potrero St., Santa Cruz. santacruzmidwives.com. Free.

HEALTH B12 HAPPY HOUR Come and get your Happy Hour B12 shot. Your body needs B12 to create energy and is not well absorbed from the diet or in capsule form. Everyone can benefit from a B12 shot! After B12 injections many patients feel a natural boost in energy. 10 a.m.-noon. Santa Cruz Naturopathic Medical Center, 736 Chestnut St., Santa Cruz. 477-1377 or scnmc.com. $29/$17.

MUSIC ENCHANTMENT WITH JAI UTTAL, PRAJNA VIEIRA AND RAMA Kirtan is the calling, the crying, the reaching across infinite space, digging into the heart’s deepest well to touch and be touched by the divine presence. Embark on a vocal journey through the sacred sounds of ancient India. With call-and-response group chanting and storytelling, Jai Uttal creates a space of invocation, prayer and heartfelt expression.7-9 p.m. Breath+Oneness, 708 Capitola Ave., Capitola. breathandoneness. com.

YOUTH SYMPHONY CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT Musicians age 13-17 who participate in the Santa Cruz

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“informative, entertaining, and thought-provoking.” – London Telegraph This stirring drama transports audiences to the turbulent backstage world of London’s Theatre Royal in the early 1800s. Edmund Kean, the greatest actor of WEDS. THURS. FRI. SAT. SUN. his generation, has taken ill and can’t Jan 23 Jan 24 Jan 26 Jan 25 Jan 27 2pm 8pm 7:30pm 7:30pm 2pm go on tonight as Othello, leaving his (Opening) (Preview) (Preview) 8pm company in disarray. A young Jan 31 Feb 2 Feb 1 Feb 3 7:30pm 2pm American actor named Ira Aldridge 8pm 2pm (Talk-Back) 8pm arrives to step into the role—but no black Feb 7 Feb 8 Feb 9 Feb 10 man has ever played Othello on the English 7:30pm 8pm 8pm 2pm (Talk-Back) stage. His groundbreaking performance Feb 14 Feb 15 Feb 17 Feb 16 upends stage tradition and changes the lives 7:30pm 8pm 2pm 8pm of everyone involved. Lolita Chakrabarti’s (Talk-Back) multi-award-winning play uncovers the fascinating true story of a pivotal figure in theatre history. The accomplished and versatile Aldo Billingslea, recently seen in the brilliant BLACK ODYSSEY at California Shakespeare Festival, makes his Jewel Theatre debut as Ira Aldridge.

Tickets: Adults $50 / Seniors & Students $45 / Preview $27 all tickets

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Directed by: Bob rumsby

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January 23 – February 17, 2019 GT 4.34" x 4.84" - Jan 23, 2019

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Music Academy (CMA) rehearse throughout the school year with coaching by professional musicians. CMA proudly presents its Winter Concert. Refreshments will be served. 3 p.m. The Episcopal Church of St. John the Baptist, 125 Canterbury Drive, Aptos. sccys.org. Free.

CELSO PIÑA Y SU RONDA BOGOTA Celso Piña is a pioneer in the mixture and fusion of tropical sounds with many of his works having elements of musica norteña, sonidero, ska, reggae, rap/hip-hop, R&B, etc. Piña is also known as Alfredo Gutierrez El Rebelde del acordeón or the Cacique de la Campana. 9 p.m. Appleton Event Center, 410 Rodrigues St., Watsonville. facebook.com/ events/604401519977767/. $40.

AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS UCSC opera students and instrumentalists present Amahl and the Night Visitors, the most beloved of Gian Carlo Menotti's operas. The 50-minute story of the imaginative child, Amahl, and his three royal visitors is sung in English with chamber orchestra. 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. UCSC Music Center Recital Hall, Heller and Meyer Drive, Santa Cruz. arts.ucsc.edu. Free.

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OLD COVE LANDING TRAIL WALK On this two-hour natural history excursion, you will explore the plants, animals and geology of the spectacular coastal bluffs. Meet at the interpretive center. Bring snack, water, binoculars, and good walking shoes. 11 a.m. WIlder Ranch State Park, 1401 Coast Rd., Santa Cruz. thatsmypark.org. $10/Free.

REDWOOD GROVE LOOP WALK Join us for this fun and informative guided, half-mile stroll through a magnificent oldgrowth redwood forest. Meet the famous Mother Tree, the Father of the Forest and the incredible Chimney Tree on this 90-minute walk. 1 p.m. Big Basin Redwood State Park, 21600 Big Basin Way, Boulder Creek. Thatsmypark.org. Free. RANCH TOURS Discover what life was like a century ago on this innovative dairy ranch. This hour-long tour includes the 1897 Victorian home, 1859 Gothic Revival farmhouse, 1896 water-powered machine shop, barns and other historic buildings. 1 p.m. Wilder Ranch State Park, 1401 Coast Rd., Santa Cruz. thatsmypark.org. $10/Free.

OLD-GROWTH REDWOOD TOURS Are there different kinds of redwoods? How do coastal redwoods grow to become the tallest

organisms on earth? Why are there so few old growth trees left? How important are banana slugs to the redwood ecosystems? Answer these questions and more every Saturday on our Redwood Grove Walks. 11 a.m. Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, 101 N. Big Trees Park Rd., Felton. thatsmypark. org. $10/Free.

SNAKES ALIVE Why are snakes important to us? How do they see, smell, taste, and hear? What and how do they eat? What does a snake feel like? Come to the Sempervirens Room at Big Basin Redwoods State Park Headquarters, meet Docent Diane Shaw and her snake, and learn about the fascinating world of snakes. Noon-3 p.m. Big Basin Redwoods State Park, 21600 Big Basin Way, Boulder Creek. thatsmypark.org. Free. SEAL ADVENTURE WEEKEND Experience a memory-making adventure by participating in a special fundraising event to support educational programs at Año Nuevo State Park and other California State Parks along the San Mateo coast. For one weekend only, visitors will have access to linger for an entire morning or afternoon to view the elephant seals at the peak of the breeding season. 8:30 a.m.-noon or 1:30-5 p.m. Ano Nuevo State Park, New Years Creek Road, Pescadero. thatsmypark.org. $65.

VOLUNTEER VOLUNTEER TO FEED THE HUNGRY WITH FOOD NOT BOMBS We need your help preparing and sharing vegan meals every Saturday and Sunday. We cook at 418 Front Street at 12:30 p.m. We share food from 4 -6 p.m. at the Post Office, 850 Front St. Santa Cruz. 1-800-884-1136.

SUNDAY 1/27 ARTS PATHWAYS THROUGH OUR PARKS EXHIBITION On exhibition will be a selection of work from artist Ann Thiermann’s series of pastel and acrylic paintings. This series invites the viewer to linger visually over the flora and fauna along the pathways of our local parks. 2 p.m. San Lorenzo Valley Museum, 12547 Hwy. 9, Boulder Creek. slvmuseum.com. Free.

DROP-IN FAMILY CRAFT: PAPAL PICADO Enjoy an informal afternoon at this hidden jewel near downtown Santa Cruz. Snip your way to your own colorful tissue paper decorations. 1-3:30 p.m. Santa Cruz

Mission Historic State Park, 144 School St., Santa Cruz. 425-5849. Free.

of local writers who recognize the power of spoken word. They gather every Monday for a community writing workshop, then host a 15-slot open mic followed by a different featured poet each week. 4 p.m. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. santacruzmah.org. Free.

SUNDAY SEASIDE CRAFTS Make it and take it! Come create and take home a fun souvenir, an activity for the whole family to share. Join the hands-on fun in the crafts room every Sunday. 1-3 p.m. Seymour Marine Discovery Center, 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz. seymourcenter.ucsc.edu.

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LIVING TO TELL THE TALES: MEMOIR WRITING CLASS Write and share

SCIENCE SUNDAY: POLAR BEARS AND CLIMATE CHANGE, LIVING ON SEA ICE IN A WARMING WORLD Polar bears are an iconic symbol of climate change. These unique marine mammals exist in a remote and inhospitable Arctic where few scientists have documented their basic behaviors. While melting sea ice is expected to reduce polar bears’ ability to catch food, how they will respond is unknown. 1:30-2:30 p.m. Seymour Marine Discovery Center, 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz. seymourcenter.ucsc.edu.

OPEN HOUSE AT THE CASTRO ADOBE: BEGINNINGS AT THE ADOBE As your family begins a new year, please join us as we imagine the Castro’s experience as one of the first Spanish families to make their home in California. Warm up with some traditional hot chocolate from our cocina and keep out of the cold in the comfort of our adobe, where we will share the stories of this pioneering family and our pioneering park. 11 a.m. Castro Adobe Historic State Park, 184 Old Adobe Rd., Watsonville. thatsmypark.org.

OUTDOOR THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED: A DOGFRIENDLY WALK On this dog-friendly walk, we travel North Escape Road, a paved road closed to traffic. We tour stunning oldgrowth redwood groves along beautiful Opal Creek. We'll discuss redwood ecology and park history while exploring the deep shade of the redwood forest. This is a fun and easy, 3-mile, two-hour walk with docent Diane Shaw. 9:30 a.m. Big Basins Redwood State Park, 21600 Big Basin Way, Boulder Creek. thatsmypark.org. $10/Free.

MONDAY 1/28 ARTS POETRY OPEN MIC A project of the Legendary Collective, the weekly Santa Cruz Word Church poetry open mic is a community

memoirs taught by Kathryn Cowan, formerly memoirs instructor at Cabrillo College. This is a drop-in class. 1-2:30 p.m. Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. cityofsantacruz.com. 420-6180. Donation $4.

TUESDAY 1/29 ARTS ARTIST WAY The Artist Way is a fun, experiential process with 12 weeks of lessons that will help re-enliven and nurture your innate creative and spiritual self. This class helps people recover their artistic, fun self to bring more depth, light and joy into their personal and professional lives. Together, as a group we create a safe place to share and explore ideas, thoughts, and feelings. 11 a.m.1 p.m. Tannery Arts Center, 1050 River St., Santa Cruz. joanrosestaffen.com.

FOOD & WINE SHADOWBROOK COMMUNITY TUESDAYS SUPPORTING HOSPICE OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY The Community Tuesday Program is an excellent opportunity for Hospice of Santa Cruz County to raise funds while members and supporters socialize and enjoy a delightful evening at the award-winning Shadowbrook Restaurant. Shadowbrook donates one-third of the evening’s sales to our organization. 8:30 p.m. Shadowbrook Restaurant, 1750 Wharf Rd., Capitola. Shadowbrook-capitola.com.

OUTDOOR EXPLORING BIG BASIN Learn about redwoods, forest plants, fires, geology, history and more on these fun, varied hikes with docent Diane Shaw. Hikes are 5-8 miles and last up to five hours. We go rain or shine, but strong winds may cancel. Meet at park headquarters. 9:30 a.m. Big Basin Redwoods State Park, 21600 Big Basin Way, Boulder Creek. thatsmypark.org. Free.

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LOCAL BAND 3UPFRONT

Local skate-punk band 3upfront has been “defending a nation of ears from the evils of emo” since ’98, or so says their biography. Makes sense. Emo is pretty much the exact opposite of what the band is about. “Nothing officially against it, just the fact that is unacceptable,” says bassist Josh “Fish” Fisher. “I can respect the talent. It just feels whiny to me. Everybody has hard times, a rough day. I think you stay positive, get a little crazy, run in circles, do a couple cartwheels.”

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The group, which includes Fisher, Dave “D$$” Montanari on guitar, Adam “Mr. Pierce” Pierce on vocals and Mason “The Beast” Mitchell on drums, plays a mix of hardcore, pop-punk, funky altrock and some ska, but one thing that ties it all together is its nonstop energy. It’s not the kind of music to sit in your car and cry over. It’s fun and irreverent. (Songs “Boobies” and “Whoa Bundy,” for instance). Even the songs that are serious aren’t overly dramatic.

“It’s stuff you can drive fast, go skate or snowboard to—extreme sports, skydive. Do things like that,” says Fisher. The band’s latest album, 2018’s Puppets & Psychiatrists, is their first studio record in a decade. It was a work several years in the making, and endured four drummers, three studio engineers, two hard drive crashes, and one divorce. The result is an 18-track album that finds the band with renewed energy that is pure, old-school punk rock at its core. “It's the most powerful material that we’ve ever put out on one single album,” says Pierce. AARON CARNES 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25. Blue Lagoon, 923 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $5. 423-7117.

BILL FRISELL

WEDNESDAY 1/23 POWER POP

THE POSIES A little more than three decades ago, two melodically inclined students were in the audience at a funk concert thinking, “We could be a better band than them.” Soon after that, Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow began playing shows as the Posies. Before long, they evolved into a full-fledged band, complete with a major label deal and a string of hit singles (one of which was even covered by Ringo Starr). Now celebrating 30 years of power pop, the Posies return to their duo roots, coming to Santa Cruz for an intimate acoustic performance at Flynn’s. MIKE HUGUENOR 8:30 p.m. Flynn’s Cabaret & Steakhouse, 6275 Hwy 9., Felton. $20 adv/$25 door. 335-2800.

THURSDAY 1/24 ROCK

YAWPERS A dark soul weaves its way through the Yawpers blend of psychobilly and truckstop blues. This trio from Denver delves deep into the maniacal and grotesque with thudding grooves, screeching, raspy

vocals and foreboding, gothic literary aspirations. Their 2017 album Boy In A Well is about exactly what the title states. At once haunting and morbid, the Yawpers take the old notion of a concept album and give it a second wind with a complete and concise exploration of a melancholy life lived in a well. Concept albums aren’t dead—far from it. But the boy in the well probably is. AMY BEE 9 p.m. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $8. 429-6994.

FRIDAY 1/25 HIP-HOP

WIFISFUNERAL The moment the beat drops in nearly any Wifisfuneral track, the Palm Beach rapper jumps in with a mile-a-minute, rapid-fire flow and doesn’t quit. His beats are tailor-made to pump you up like audio steroids. Lyrics about drug benders and a day in the life of a rap star take front stage in his verses, which might sound like typical hip-hop braggadocio. But within all the nonstop, turn-up energy is a subtle inherent sadness in everything Wifisfuneral is rapping about. AC 9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $15. 423-1338.

EXPERIMENTAL

BILL FRISELL Guitarist Bill Frisell is a protean creative force who’s wandered down countless musical paths. He’s been a thrasher and a bluegrass acolyte, a post-bop explorer and a Delta blues rambler. Drawing on material from 2016’s When You Wish Upon a Star, Frisell applies his bittersweet tone to his arrangements of themes written for Hollywood films and television, exploring everything from Bernard Herrmann’s score for Psycho to Johnny Mandel’s “The Shadow of Your Smile” to the Evans/Livingston theme song for Bonanza. He’s joined by violist Eyvind Kang, bassist Thomas Morgan, drummer extraordinaire Rudy Royston, and vocalist Petra Haden. ANDREW GILBERT 7 and 9 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $31.50-$47.25. 427-2227.

SATURDAY 1/26 CELTIC

TEMPEST Though their band photos suggest otherwise, Tempest is not a gang of swashbuckling pirates on the hunt for buried treasure. At its core, this is

MUSIC

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THE POSIES

Celtic-influenced rock ’n’ roll. But the group also mixes in music from all over the high seas: Scandinavian, Middle Eastern, African, Irish. It’s all in there because they’ve all been there (allegedly). Your urge to swing back a drink and sing along in a drunken slur will surely be high if you dare test the waters of a Tempest show. AC 8 p.m. Michael’s on Main, 2591 Main St., Soquel. $15. 479-9777.

METAL

MYTHRAEUM Deep from the bowels of sunny San Diego comes the aural void of black metal quartet Mythraeum. Ok, so maybe San Diego doesn’t sound like the darkest, most evil place for a black metal band to hail from, but don’t let that fool you. Their music is as brutal as anything from a pagan forest, and my guess is their live show is just as relentless. Rounding out the night in a fury of hellfire and sound is Oakland’s Dearth, with Cult Graves and Slege from San Jose. MAT WEIR 9 p.m. Blue Lagoon, 923 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $5. 423-7117.

CHROME SPARKS The world of electronic music is a colorful, wild and muddied place. There are thousands of DJs constantly putting out new music, trying to find a new sound while keeping one step ahead of the competition. But there are some names that stand out from the rest, and Chrome Sparks is one of them. Since 2012, he has continued to expand the realm of Futurebeats, mixing original sounds into danceable moments. MW 8:30 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $18 adv/$20 door. 423-1338.

MONDAY 1/28 FOLK

JAKE SHIMABUKURO Jake Shimabukuro travels the musical landscapes with his trusty ukulele, turning beloved (and often overplayed) iconic singles into something strangely poignant and new because, you know, he’s doing it on a ukulele. One might think this is a gimmick, until one hears Shimabukuro shred solos, trade sparring riffs with guitarists, or give a rendition of “While

My Guitar Gently Weeps” that makes even the most hardened prog-rocker soften up and take notice. With a mixture of covers and originals, Shimabukuro validates the ukulele and proves that it’s not just a tiny island guitar to play at bonfires. AB 8 p.m. Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $35. 423-8209.

TUES 1/29 REGGAE

THE GLADIATORS Starting out as a rocksteady vocal group in the mid-60s, the Gladiators were playing roots reggae at the time when reggae was still laying its roots. In 2014, longtime singer Albert Griffiths retired from touring, but the band carried on, replacing him with upand-comer Droop Lion (note: not Snoop Lion), whose soulful and gravelly voice had already become famous around Jamaica for his hit “Freeway.” Now made up of the four original Gladiators along with Droop Lion on the mic (and Griffiths’s son Anthony on drums), the Gladiators are still essential to the story of reggae music. MH 9 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Drive, Santa Cruz. $15 adv/$20 door. 479-1854.

8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $25 adv/$30 door. Information: catalystclub.com. WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/ giveaways before 11 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 1 to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to the show.

IN THE QUEUE SHINDIGS

Tripped-out, wacked-out, lo-fi pop music. Wednesday at Crepe Place MATTHEW MICHAEL & CHRISTINA MARIE

Heartfelt acoustic duo from the Windy City. Thursday at Flynn’s Cabaret & Steakhouse B-SIDE PLAYERS

Latin dance with a side of funk. Saturday at Moe’s Alley JESSE MARKS

Folk music for psych-pop lovers. Saturday at lille æske PETER BERNSTEIN, LARRY GOLDINGS & BILL STEWART TRIO

So much jazz! Monday at Kuumbwa Jazz Center

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SATURDAY 1/26

ELECTRONIC

Now that everyone is doing the 10-year “how have you aged” challenge on Facebook, it’s time for Hawaii reggae band the Green to join in on the fun. A decade ago, the members were fresh-faced kids, just dipping their feet into reggae music. Cut to 2019, and they’re one of the hottest, best-selling reggae artists on the island, with several albums and a ton of mainland tours under their belt. As they’ve honed their craft, they’ve shown the ability to write some really sweet, romantic songs. They also add dub and traditional Hawaiian music to the mix. It’s just great pop music.

LIVE MUSIC

Thursday January 24 – 7:30/8pm $8/12 Local Live Music Showcase With

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Celso Piña $40

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Al Frisby 6-8p

Broken Shades 6-8p

Scott Kail 6-8p

Magpies Blues Band 6-8p

Saturday January 26 - 8/9pm $20/25

BLUE LAGOON 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Live Bands 9p

Comedy Night, ’80s Night Free 8:30p

BOARDWALK BOWL 115 Cliff St, Santa Cruz

Karaoke 8p-Close

BOCCI’S CELLAR 140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz

Aris 8p

JUNIOR REID

Afro/Latin/Cumbia/Funk Dance Party

B-SIDE PLAYERS

Sunday January 27 – 3/4pm $20/25 Afternoon Blues Series

TOMMY CASTRO Tuesday January 29 – 8/9pm $15/20

Jamaican Reggae Legends Debut Moe’s

THE GLADIATORS

w/ DROOP LION + KAVAJAH & THE REMEDY Wednesday January 30 – 8/8:30pm $12/15 American Roots Music Favorites

BRITANNIA ARMS 110 Monterey Ave, Capitola

CATALYST 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz CATALYST ATRIUM 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz CHAMINADE RESORT 1 Chaminade Ln, Santa Cruz

Thursday January 31 – 8/8:30pm $15/20

CILANTROS 1934 Main St, Watsonville

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Gail Dobson Quintet

Saturday February 2 – 8/9pm $10/25

KATDELIC

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The DC Trio

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JORDAN T & SWELLS February 8 HOT BUTTERED RUM February 9 LA MISA NEGRA February 10 STEVE GUNN February 14 IKE WILLIS of FRANK ZAPPA BAND February 15 Y LA BAMBA + JUAN SON February 16 SPACE HEATER February 17 KABAKA PYRAMID February 19 DEAD MEADOW February 20 SCOTT PEMBERTON February 22 SLY & ROBBIE w/ BITTY MCLEAN February 23 ANTIBALAS February 24 DEAD FUNK SUMMIT w/ MELVIN SEALS February 27 TOMMY GUERRERO

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Mojo Mix 6-8p

Live Bands/Club 2000 Live VJ Dancing 9p Free 9p

The Box (Goth Night) 9p

Post Punk Dance Floor 9p

Funk Night w/ DJ Ed 9p

Karaoke 8p-Close

UTURN 9:30-12:45p

Karaoke 6p-Close

Karaoke 8p-Close

Karaoke Free 8p

Cement Ship 8p

Chris Fox, John Underwood, Spike McGuire 8p

SC Jazz Society, Beat Weekend w/ DJ Monk Earl Free 3:30p

Alex Lucero & Friends 8p

Karaoke 9-12:30a

Berner $35/$38 8p

Wifisfunderal, Robb Banks $15 8p

Y&T $26/$30 7p

J.I.D. $22/$25 8p

Opiuo $18$20 8:30p

Colter Wall $18/$20 8:30p

Chrome Sparks $18/$20 8p

Winter Wreck $12/$15 6p

Comedy Night w/ Shwa Free 8p

KPIG Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p

DANCEFLOOR SHOW SEATS IN THE REAR

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New Zealand Reggae Legends Return

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Summit Sisters Free 6:30-9p

Friday January 25 - 8/9pm $25/30

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Mudfrog plus Southern Pacific

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Tempest

Sat. Jan. 26 8pm $15 adv./$15 door dance- ages 21+

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SATURDAY 1/26

GARDENS & VILLA w/ HYPNOSIS

RICHARD THOMPSON w/

ELECTRIC TRIO

Cocoanut Grove Ballroom

Ryley Walker (solo) Thursday, Jan 31

STEVE GUNN BAND MOES 2/10 TIM BLUHM (solo) BIG SUR 2/16 DEAD MEADOW MOES 2/19 RIO THEATRE 2/27 SAM AMIDON SANTA CRUZ 3/1

9PM - $15 ADVANCE

TUESDAY 1/29

7 COME 11

9PM UNTIL MIDNIGHT - $8 DOOR THURSDAY 1/31

MARGO CILKER

w/ WHISKEY WEST & BODY LANGUAGE

WOOD BROTHERS 3/5 RIO

GREEN LEAF RUSTLERS BIG SUR

9PM - $8 DOOR

FRIDAY 2/1

ST PATTY’S DAY WEEKEND!!!

MANORLADY

w/ BALMS & EVE’S PEACH 9PM - $8 DOOR

SATURDAY 2/2

THE APPOLO ERA

FRI/SAT MARCH 15 & 16

MIDTOWN SANTA CRUZ

CASS McCOMBS BAND

w/ REDWOOD SOUND & SLEEP IT OFF SHOW 9PM 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz 429-6994

FERNWOOD TAVERN!

MOES THURSDAY, APRIL 4

LIVE MUSIC

Thursday, January 24 • 7 PM

ANDRÉ MEHMARI TRIO

WED CORK AND FORK 312 Capitola Ave, Capitola

1/23

Open Mic Night Free 7-10p

THU

1/24

FRI

1/25

Steve’s Jazz Kitchen Free 7:30-9:30p

CORRALITOS CULTURAL CENTER 127 Hames Rd., Corralitos

1/26

Shindigs & more $8 9p

CROW’S NEST 2218 E. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz

Hot Club Pacific $3 7:30p

The Yawpers w/ Blackfoot Gypsies & Taillight $8 9p

SUN

1/27

MON

1/28

TUE

1/29

Madrigal & Strange Free 7-10p Open Mic 7-10p

THE CREPE PLACE 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

Cosmic Pinball $6 9p

Friday, January 25 • 7 PM & 9 PM

Acoustic Open Jam 3-5p

FishHook $7 9:30p

Funk Night ft. 7 Come 11 $6 9p-12a Live Comedy $7 9p

The SOMas $5 8:30p

Esoteric Collective 6-9p

Ginny Mitchell Free 6-9p

Flypaper Blues Free 6:30-8:30p

The Posies w/ David Tyler Fox $20/$25 8:30p

GABRIELLA CAFE 910 Cedar St., Santa Cruz

Linc Russin 7-9p

MICHAEL’S ON MAIN 2591 Main St, Soquel

Gail Dobson Quintet $12/$15 7:30p

The singular guitarist’s inventive take on beloved film & TV music. Saturday, January 26 • 7 PM

YOUTH RESOURCE BANK: 30th ANNIVERSARY CABARET Tickets: 831-689-9609

PETER BERNSTEIN, LARRY GOLDINGS & BILL STEWART TRIO

Matthew Michael & Christina Marie $10/$12 8:30p Jeannine Bonstelle & Sweeney Schragg 6:30-9:30p

Soft Machine w/ Levin Brothers $35 9p

Wild Child: Jim Morrison Celebration $18/$20 9p

A soulful and nuanced organ trio.

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS Tuesday, January 29 • 7 PM

QUESTIONS THAT MATTER: DATA & DEMOCRACY

JACK O’NEILL LOUNGE Santa Cruz Dream Inn 175 W Cliff Dr. Santa Cruz KUUMBWA JAZZ 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz

BILL FRISELL: WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR

Monday, January 28 • 7 PM

THE FISH HOUSE 972 Main St, Watsonville FLYNN’S CABARET 6275 Hwy 9, Felton

Framing the evolution of Brazilian musical identity through the lens of a piano trio.

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS

Bobcat Rob, The Nightly Gardens & Villa w/ Howl & more $7 9p Hypnosis $15 9p

DAV. ROADHOUSE 1 Davenport Ave, Davenport DISCRETION BREWING 2703 41st Ave, Soquel

SAT

Andre Mehmari Trio $26.25/$31.50 6p

Bill Frisell $42/$47.25 7&9p

Youth Resource Band Anniversary Cabaret $25-$50 6p

The DC Trio Free 7:30p

Jazz The Dog Free 5p Mudfrog & Southern Pacific $10 8p

Tempest $15 8p

Peter Bernstien & more $31.50/$36.75 6p

Questions That Matter: Data & Democracy $15 7p

Grateful Sundays Free 5:30p

Tickets: thi.ucsc.edu

Thursday, January 31 • 7 PM

HOT CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO

The Bay Area’s champians and guardians of swinging got jazz traditions.

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS Monday, February 4 • 7 PM

BEN WENDEL SEASONS BAND

Fine handcrafted furniture

A melding of jazz and chamber music, inspired by Tchaikovsky and the changing seasons.

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS Thursday, February 7 • 7 PM

LEYLA MCCALLA

American- and Caribbean-influenced folk melodies, imbued with history.

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS Saturday, February 9 • 8:30 PM

Tickets: eventbrite.com

Monday, February 11 • 7 PM

THE RAD TRADS

“The Carver’s Groove” Custom woodworking, antique care & restoration, architectural feature reproduction. SINCE 1989

Blending together Americana, soul, and indie rock.

1/2 PRICE STUDENT TICKETS Thursday, February 14 • 7:30 PM

TUCK & PATTI

Valentine’s Day with a beloved duo and a love-inspired set-list. Monday, February 18 • 7 PM

THE BAD PLUS

ANDREW CHURCH 719 Swift Street #14, Santa Cruz (near Hotline Wetsuits)

831.818.8051

With Orrin Evans on piano, the start of a new chapter for this boldly creative trio. Unless noted, advance tickets at kuumbwajazz.org and dinner served one hour before Kuumbwa presented concerts. Premium wine & beer available. All ages welcome.

320-2 Cedar St | Santa Cruz 831.427.2227 kuumbwajazz.org

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SIN SISTERS BURLESQUE

We are now open Tuesday-Sunday for dinner. Stop by for an amazing farm to table dining experience! Thu Jan 24

Matthew Michael and Christina Marie

Honest songs expressed in harmonically-rich layers of voices and strings $10 adv./$12 door seated – <21w/parent 8:30PM Fri Jan 25

Soft Machine w/Levin Brothers

An Evening of Wonderful Music with Legendary Artists $35 adv./$35 door seated - ages 21+ 9PM Sat Jan 26

Fri Feb 1

Sat Feb 2

Thur Feb 7

Wild Child

Authentic Doors tribute from Southern California $18 adv/$20 doors Dance – ages 21+ 9PM

Rusty Rock and Roll Rocking the Bay Area! $10 adv/$12 Dance – ages 21+ 9PM

The Van Burdon Project

LIVE MUSIC WED MISSION ST. BBQ 1618 Mission St, Santa Cruz

MOTIV 1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

99 BOTTLES 110 Walnut Ave, Santa Cruz

Sat Feb 9

Steven Graves Band w/ Reckless Poets Girls’ Night Out, The Show

Best of Las Vegas Gold Winner, Best Male Review $22 adv./$28 door seated - ages 21+ 8:30PM

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Fri Feb 15

Frankie Gavin

Traditional Musician of the Year 2018 – Gradam Ceoil Award $18 adv./$20 door seated - ages 21+ 8:30PM

Sat Feb 16

Steelhorse

Mon Feb 18

John Craigie

Fri Feb 22

Sat Feb 23

Bon Jovi Tribute $10 adv./$12 door Dance – ages 21+ 9PM Humorous Storytelling, Serious Folk $27 adv./$27 door seated - <21 w/parent 8:00PM

August Sun

Local Rock Favorites $10 adv./$12 door Dance – ages 21+ 9PM

Grampa’s Chili w/Southern Pacific

Local Rock, Psychedelic, Americana and More… $10 adv./$12 door Dance – ages 21+ 9PM Wed Feb 27

Deadgrass

String band interpreting the music of Jerry Garcia $15 adv./$15 door Dance – ages 21+ 8:30PM COMIN G RIGH T U P

Fri, Mar 1 Alex Lucero Sat, Mar 2 Freestone Peaches – Allman Brothers Tribute Thu, Mar 7 Shawn & Lehua Fri, Mar 8 The Boys of Summer Sun, Mar 24 An Evening with Steve Poltz Sat, Apr 6 Scott Capurro Tickets Now Online at flynnscabaret.com

Rockin'Church Service Every Sunday ELEVATION at 10am-11:15am

The Westside Sheiks Free 6p

SAT

1/26

SUN

1/27

MON

1/28

TUE

1/29

Gil de Leon Trio Free 6p

Mark Hummel & Deep Basement Shakers Free 6p

B-Side Players $20/$25 8p

Tommy Castro & the Painkillers $20/$25 3p

The Gladiators ft. Droop Lion & more $15/$20 8p

Rasta Cruz Reggae Party 9:30p

The Takeover, Turn Up Tuesday w/ Cali 9:30p

Kid Andersen & John “Blues” Boyd Free 6p

Blues Mechanics Free 6p

Taco Trivia Tuesday w/ Hive Mind 6:30p Blind Rick Free 10p-12a Dave Muldawer 6-9p

POET & PATRIOT 320 E. Cedar St, Santa Cruz

Dart Tournament

Shooting Coal, Preston Dillon Free 9p

Static Tilt 2-5p

The Joint Chiefs 2-5p

Erin Avila 6-9p

Santa Cruz Cider Wassail

Some Kind of Nightmare Comedy Free 8p Free 8p

Open Mic Free 8-11p

THE RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz

‘Geeks Who Drink’ Trivia Night 8p Variety Show w/ Toby Gray 6:30p

ROSIE MCCANN’S 1220 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Comedy Night 9p

THE SAND BAR 211 Esplanade, Capitola

Acoustic Reggae Jam 6:30p

First & Third Celtic Jam

Aloha Friday 6:30p

Live DJ

Featured Acts 6:30p

The Human Juke Box 6p

Women’s Adventure Film Tour $18 7p

Jake Shimabukuro $35-$50 7p

Live DJ Casey Hensley 8:30p-12a

An evening of Americana Roots Music $12 adv./$15 Dance – ages 21+ 9PM Thu Feb 14

1/25

The Get Down w/ Groove 9:30p

PARADISE BEACH 215 Esplanade, Capitola

RIO THEATRE 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

The name says it all… $20 adv./$20 Dance – ages 21+ 9PM

FRI

Junior Reid, The One Patrick Maguire & more Blood Band & more $8/$12 7:30p $25/$30 8p Libation Lab w/ Brandon Beach King Wizard & Chief 9:30p Transcend 9:30p

Trivia 8p

Area 52 w/Wredhorse Pride and Joy

1/24

Lloyd Whitley 6-8p

NEW BOHEMIA BREWERY 1030 41st Ave, Santa Cruz

THE REEF 120 Union St, Santa Cruz

Fri Feb 8

THU

MOE’S ALLEY 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz

A Tribute to The Music of Van Morrison and Eric Burdon $15 adv./$18 Dance – ages 21+ 9PM

Rock, Americana and more $10 adv./$12 door Dance – ages 21+ 8:30PM

1/23

Little Jonny Lawton Free 6p

Open Mic 6p

Tuesday Trivia Night 6:30p

Trivia 7:30p Jesse Sabala 7-10p

Live Again 7:30-11p

1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-429-4135 Wednesday, Jan. 23 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

BAS

plus Rexx Life Raj also Innanet James

Thursday, January 24 • Ages 16+

BERNER

Thursday, January 24 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

OPIUO

plus Daily Bread

Friday, January 25 • Ages 16+

WIFIS FUNERAL

ROBB BANK$ Saturday, January 26 • Ages 21+

Saturday, January 26 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

CHROME SPARKS

plus Teen Daze

J.I.D.

Sunday, January 27 Ages 16+ Saturday, January 27 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

WINTER WRECK

Jan 31 Tritonal/ Apek (Ages 16+) Feb 1 Lil Xan (Ages 16+) Feb 2 RJD2/ Memba (Ages 16+) Feb 5 Badfish A Tribute To Sublime (Ages 16+) Feb 7 Groundation/ Thrive (Ages 16+) Feb 8 The Amity Affliction/ Senses Fail (Ages 16+) Feb 9 The Green/ Eli Mac (Ages 16+) Feb 12 J Boog (Ages 16+) Feb 13 The Record Company (Ages 16+) Feb 14 The Expendables/ Ballyhoo! (Ages 16+) Feb 23 Lil Mosey/ PARKE (Ages 16+) Feb 26 Bad Suns/ Vista Kicks (Ages 16+) Mar 8 Twiddle/ Iya Terra (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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THU

1/24

FRI

SANDERLINGS 1 Seascape Resort, Aptos

1/25

Calico & more 7:30-10:30p

SEABRIGHT BREWERY 519 Seabright, Santa Cruz

SAT

1/26

1/27

MON

1/28

TUE

1/29

SEVERINO’S BAR & GRILL 7500 Old Dominion Court, Aptos

Joint Chiefs 8-11:30p

Hall Pass 8-11:30p

SHADOWBROOK 1750 Wharf Rd, Capitola

Ken Constable 6:30-9:30p

Joe Ferrara 6:30-9:30p

Claudio Melega 7-10p

Kage O’Malley 6-9p

Mikey Bilello 6-9p

DJ Soulciter 6-9p

FEB 02 Frans Lanting FEB 09 Film: Still Wild at Heart FEB 14 Laura Love w/ Terry Hunt FEB 15 Oliver Tree FEB 16 Paula Poundstone FEB 21-24 Banff Mountain Film Festival FEB 27 OM

Lindsey Wall 6-9p

SID’S SMOKEHOUSE 10110 Soquel Dr, Aptos STEEL BONNET 20 Victor Square, Scotts Valley SUSHI GARDEN S.V. 5600 Scotts Valley Dr, Scotts Valley

AJ Lee & Jesse Fichman Dave Muldawer Free 5:30p Free 5:30p

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Goodnight Moonshine ft. Molly Venter $20/$25 7:30p

Open Mic w/ Steven David 5:30p

VINOCRUZ 4901 Soquel Dr, Soquel VINO LOCALE 55 Municipal Wharf, Santa Cruz

Joe Leonard & guest Free 6-8p

ZELDA’S 203 Esplanade, Capitola

Scott Lies Free 6-8p

Linc Russin Free 6-8p

Matt Masih 9:30p

DJ Yosemite & Spicy Boys 9:30p

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JAN 26 Women’s Adventure Film Tour JAN 28 Jake Shimabukuro

Evan Thomas Blues Don McCaslin & the Amazing Jazz Geezers 6-9p

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Sambassa 7:30-10:30p

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TWILIGHT OF THE CLOWNS Steve Coogan (left) and John C. Reilly in ‘Stan and Ollie.’

Stan and Deliver Biopic ‘Stan and Ollie’ may lay it on a little thick, but it does capture the charm of two comedy greats BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

on S. Baird’s biopic Stan and Ollie has a certain inflationary quality, regarding the appeal of a comedy team in their sunset years. But in lovingly recreating Laurel and Hardy’s mid-1950s tour of the UK, it’s a film with lots of charm. Stan Laurel (Steve Coogan) is revealed as the spark plug of the act, the writer who understood the

formula. No matter who else was around them, on screen or stage, Laurel and Hardy needed to be the only person in each others’ worlds. The road is tough on two aging performers. It’s bad when no one shows up at the music halls, and it’s worse when they’re congratulated for surviving their has-been status. At a seaside pavilion, they’re congratulated by

the hostess: “Still going strong, and still using the same material!” The team hopes to parlay the attention they’re getting into a new movie, a Sherwood Forest lampoon to be called Robin Good. Not much is made here of the team’s actual last movie, done before this tour in France, a disaster with several titles, including Utopia. As befitting his massive flesh,

Oliver (John C. Reilly) had trouble with his vices. He accumulated ex-wives, and he had a taste for gambling that took whatever money the alimony left. New complications come with the arrival in London of the team’s wives. They’re united in mild detestation of one another. Stan’s Russian and haughty Ida (Nina Arianda) is a bit of a princess compared to Oliver’s spouse, Lucy (Shirley Henderson, first rate as always). Seeing Ollie and Lucy laying down together in their room at the Savoy—him immense, her tiny—one gets the pleasure of marveling at the way opposites attract. One puts up with Stan and Ollie’s insistence that the team absolutely murdered the English audiences, even as Abbott and Costello were stealing their lunches back in the U.S. But wasn’t it smiles they usually got, rather belly laughs— particularly when they were doing something as sweet as their dance to the yodeling of the cowboys in Way Out West (1937)? Performing a copy of Laurel and Hardy’s cherishable “Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” Coogan and Reilly may be even better singers than the originals. They eclipse your memories of their models, with Coogan imitating Stan’s monkeyish head scratch and Reilly, through the fat suit and makeup, evincing the beatific side of Ollie. Watching Reilly, you understand why Ollie carried the nickname “Babe” into his 60s. It doesn’t break new ground, this biopic, but it has its stinging moments. When the two get into a fight about an old rift, this time Ollie’s slow burn is real, and so is Stan’s hesitant peacemaking. John Paul Kelly’s lavish production design drips with nostalgia; it can be a tad too sweet and rich for the times, but it’s more evidence that this film was a labor of love. STAN AND OLLIE Directed by Jon S. Baird. Written by Jeff Pope. Starring John C. Reilly, Steve Coogan and Shirley Henderson. (PG) 97 minutes.

FILM NEW RELEASES THE KID WHO WOULD BE KING I hope you’re not all King Arthur-ed out by that last Guy Ritchie version and Aquaman (which, let’s face it, was just an undersea take on the legend), because here’s yet another retelling—this time a modern-day, family-friendly fantasy with kiddos as the stars and Joe Cornish at the helm. I’m certainly not opposed to the return of the writer-director of Attack the Block, but I kind of wish that just once Hollywood would say, “On second thought, let’s not go to Camelot. It is a silly place.” Starring Rebecca Ferguson, Tom Taylor and Patrick Stewart. (PG) SERENITY Sorry, Browncoats, this has nothing at all to do with Firefly. Instead, it’s the latest in the recent trend of throwback, ’90s-style thrillers. The poster for this one even has a rip between the faces of the two stars, Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway! McConaughey plays a fishing boat captain (I love this movie already) with a mysterious past (oh my god, yes) who is approached by his ex-wife (of course) to murder her new husband (bingo!) Give me all the tickets! Directed by Steven Knight. Co-starring Diane Lane, Djimon Hounsou and Jason Clarke. (R) 106 minutes. (SP)

CONTINUING EVENT: LET’S TALK ABOUT THE MOVIES Film buffs are invited Wednesday nights at 7 p.m. to downtown Santa Cruz, where each week the group discusses a different current release. For location and discussion topic, go to https:// groups.google.com/group/LTATM.

NOW PLAYING BEN IS BACK Just when it seemed like the nominations for worst movie title had closed for the year, here comes Ben is Back. It’s a shame, too, because the trailer makes this look like

A DOG’S WAY HOME Good lord, barely into 2019 and we already have a damn dog movie? Forget global warming and government shutdowns—this, my friends, is proof of impending apocalypse. And Bryce Dallas Howard as the voice of the dog that has to travel hundreds of miles to find its home, are you kidding me? What’s next, a Benjiverse of interconnected dog films? Wait, why did I just bring that idea into the world? Directed by Charles Martin Smith. Starring Jonah Hauer-King, Ashley Judd and Alexandra Shipp. (PG) 96 minutes. (SP) THE FAVOURITE Rachel Weisz, Emma Stone and especially Olivia Colman as a cranky, insecure Queen Anne are all excellent as women jockeying for power in the man's world of early 18th-century England. But the narrative often goes awry in Yorgos Lanthimos’ witches’ brew of sex, politics and intrigue—if not historically, in terms of its weirdly comic tone. Lanthimos may be taking satirical aim at human folly—greed, ambition, depravity, especially among the oh-so-idle rich—but that’s a broad target. Too often, his contrived setups and deliberately provocative images don’t add up to anything. And as the fortunes of these women rise and fall, and viewer sympathies are meant to keep shifting, they remain little more than pawns in an exercise

of mannered absurdity. (R) 131 minutes. (LJ) GLASS Let’s trace the decline of director M. Night Shyamalan through what we said over the years when we discovered the twists of his various movies: The Sixth Sense: “Whoa, he was dead this whole time?” Unbreakable: “No way, it was a comic book movie in disguise?” Signs: “Huh, so the aliens are hurt by water, but they invaded a planet that’s mostly water?” The Village: “Uh, so it’s basically just a Renaissance Faire?” The Happening: “Did I just watch the worst movie ever made?” He’s been having a career resurgence, though, with The Visit and the surprise sequel to Unbreakable, Split. Now he winds up the “comic book movie in disguise” trilogy (it’s not really much of a disguise at this point, but I’m sure there will be a twist in there) with this film that brings back Bruce Willis as David Dunn, James McAvoy as Kevin Wendell Crumb (from Split) and, of course, Samuel L. Jackson as Mr. Glass. (PG-13) 129 minutes. (SP) HOLMES & WATSON Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly reunite to deliver a dramatic, emotional take on the Sherlock Holmes mythology that examines the crippling mental toll that being the world’s most sought-after detective would exact. J/k! It’s totally another one of their goofy comedies, this time with an Arthur Conan Doyle theme. Directed by Etan Cohen. Co-starring Lauren Lapkus, Kelly Macdonald and Ralph Fiennes. (PG-13) 89 minutes. (SP) ON THE BASIS OF SEX If you loved RBG in RBG, you might enjoy … more RBG! This time it’s a fictionalized version of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s early career, depicting her crusade for gender equality. Directed by Mimi Leder. Starring Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer and Justin Theroux. (PG-13) 120 minutes. (SP) REPLICAS Ho-hum, looks like another typical boy-meets-girl, boy-marries-girl, boy-has-a-familywith-girl-and-then-watches-thatfamily-die-in-a-horrible-car-crash,

boy-creates-clones-of-familybecause-he-can’t-bear-to-losethem, boy-finds-that-clones-donot-react-well-to-finding-out-theyare-clones, boy-fights-owners-oftechnology-that-made-clonespossible-because-they-wantto-repossess-family-of-clones story. Doesn’t Hollywood have any new ideas? Directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff. Starring Keanu Reeves, Alice Eve and Thomas Middleditch. (PG-13) 107 minutes. (SP) ROMA Don't go to Roma expecting an action movie. The story builds slowly, its effects a gradual process of accumulated details. Events that might be huge crescendos in a more traditional narrative—birth, death, violence, heroism, heartbreak—roll in and out of this movie with the same steady rhythm as the wash water that ebbs and flows across a tiled hallway floor in the film’s lengthy opening shot. Victories are small. Tragedies are muted. Life goes on. It’s another intriguing departure in tone and style for Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón, a chameleon of a storyteller well known for the diversity of his films. In Roma, he explores his own roots in the suburban district of Mexico City where he grew up. Shot in pristine black-and-white, and beautifully composed, it’s a cinematic dose of deep yoga breathing, slowing down the heart rate while inviting us to observe and appreciate the small details that make up a life. Starring Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira and Carlos Peralta. (R) 135 minutes. (LJ) SHOPLIFTERS This drama from director Hirokazu Kore-eda about a family that turns to shoplifting when they fall on hard times is about so much more than that premise suggests. I suspect it’d be cleaning up in foreign-language categories this awards season if it wasn’t for Roma. Starring Lily Franky, Sakura Ando and Miyu Matsuoka. (R) 103 minutes. (SP) SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE Spider-Man,

Spider-Man/Doing whatever several alternative universes full of Spider-Men can/Are there a lot?/Listen bub/Even Nicholas Cage/Voices one/Look out!/Here comes a new animated Spider-Man movie! Featuring the voices of Jake Johnson, Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld and Mahershala Ali. (PG) 117 minutes. (SP) THE UPSIDE Do you really want to watch Kevin Hart in a movie right now, after all of his exhausting apologizing/non-apologizing for his past anti-LGBTQ jokes? I know, me neither. What’s that, you didn’t really want to watch Kevin Hart in a movie anyway? Oh, you! You’re so funny. Anyway, in this comedy from the director of Divergent, Hart plays an excon who becomes friends with a quadriplegic billionaire played by Bryan Cranston. Oh, I get it, the hands are your pillow, like you were falling asleep before I even got to the end of that sentence. You are hilarious today! Directed by Neil Burger. Starring Nicole Kidman, Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart. (PG-13) 125 minutes. (SP) VICE Political dramas can be deathly dull, but one look at the trailer for Vice and it’s clear that this is not one of them. Christian Bale as Dick Cheney, somehow looking exactly like Dick Cheney? Sam Rockwell as George W. Bush? Are you kidding me? All in the service of writer-director Adam McKay’s funny-scary take on how one vice president usurped the White House and altered the course of history. Co-starring Amy Adams, Steve Carell and Jesse Plemons. (R) 132 minutes. (SP) WELCOME TO MARWEN Anyone who’s seen the trailer for this film starring Steve Carell as a man who builds a doll-based fantasy world to help him through a traumatic experience might be surprised that it’s a true story—unless they’ve seen the 2012 documentary Marwencol that pretty much broke the story to the world. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Starring Steve Carell, Leslie Mann and Gwendoline Christie. (PG-13) 116 minutes. (SP)

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STAN AND OLLIE Reviewed this issue. (PG) 97 minutes.

a pretty powerful movie about addiction and love. Julia Roberts stars as the mother of a drugaddicted teenager (Lucas Hedges) who shows up unexpectedly on Christmas Eve. Over the next 24 hours, her son’s spiraling life will force her into desperate decisions in order to save her family. Wow! If somebody thought a great name for that story would be Ben is Back, I’d hate to see their list of rejected titles. Wacky Drug Addict Christmas? Not Without My Disappointing Son? Hey Oscar, Check Out Julia Roberts All Up In This Drama? Directed by Peter Hedges. Co-starring Courtney B. Vance and Kristin Griffith. (R) 103 minutes. (SP)

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Alderwood: First Bite

New downtown coastal steakhouse is a carnivore’s dream BY CHRISTINA WATERS

es, it’s finally open, and from what I’ve seen and tasted, Alderwood and chef Jeffrey Wall will be winning quite a few hearts, minds and taste buds in the coming months. The high-profile transformation of the old Erik’s Deli in downtown Santa Cruz is astonishing. A wall of glittering bottles lines the long bar, and the exhibition kitchen offers counter seating and a glimpse of the wood-fired soul of Wall’s coastal steakhouse menu. It’s a menu that includes local produce and a serious selection of oysters, as well as aged and very choice cuts of beef. We started

by foraging from a three-tiered plateau of oysters—Compass Point, Skookum Inlet, Hammersley and my favorites, the tiny Pacific Northwest Kumamotos and Royal Miyagis. After a gabby media meet and greet, we were seated at a long community table next to the floor-toceiling glass wall. Alderwood honors its steakhouse concept by filling the large dining room with cozy, round tables and wooden chairs. Although there’s a comforting French accent in the kitchen, the commitment here is to robust, non-fussy dining. The chef came out as each of our sample courses was presented and introduced the finer points of the

dishes. Wall is serious about food, and the first bite of the tartare bar snacks proved it. A confit egg yolk came nestled next to the beef tartare, but I was more impressed with the almost-surreal microdice of smoked beets served with crisp leaves of gem lettuce, pickled mustard and a dusting of dill pollen. All flavors were tuned to 100 percent. Also from the bar menu were baked potato pommes frites dusted with parmesan to dip into excellent house-made ketchup. The blockbuster item was a pyramid of sourdough onion rings, gossamer and featherlight thanks to carbonation in the sourdough batter, and served

with Russian dressing. These were absolutely killer onion rings—and I don’t even like onion rings!—especially when paired with the Tattinger Brut Alderwood poured for us. Of two gorgeous salads offerings, I fell for a shared bowl of winter greens in shades of pink, burgundy and chartreuse with walnuts and squash oil. Magically intense in flavor—which, I’m coming to believe, is one of Wall’s personal fetishes (in a good way). Then, partnered with a Hess Collection Cabernet Sauvignon, came a trio of the house specialty—red, juicy, tumescent slices of bone-in ribeye, signature porterhouse (how beef is really supposed to taste, I now suspect), and dry-aged beef tenderloin. These are showcase steaks, no mistake about it, served with three house sauces. My favorite of the options was a Bordelaise of beef and red wine reduction. Classic, Paul Bocuse classic. The Cabernet partnered perfectly with the beef, which is probably why Santa Cruz Mountains wines were absent from the menu; this region specializes in Pinot Noir. Most carnivore traditionalists prefer bigger wines—Syrah, Cab, French Bordeaux, Malbec—with beef. But it might be both politic and desirable for a few of our top local “big” wines to be included on this menu. Something from Muns or Beauregard Vineyards, for example. Now a media tasting is not the same as coming in for dinner, ordering, checking out the pacing, service and comfort of the room. But flavors can’t be spun out of thin air. Alderwood’s kitchen can produce dishes with depth, flavor sparkle, and finesse of presentation—exactly what you want when you dine out. Alderwood, 155 Walnut Ave., Santa Cruz. Open 4 p.m.-midnight TuesdaySunday. Entrees $25-$70+, happy hour 4-6:30 p.m. and 9:30-midnight.

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love the story behind the label on Comanche Cellars’ wines. Michael Simons, owner and winemaker, had a trusted steed called Comanche from the age of 10—a big part of his life, his paper route and his rodeo circuit. In memory of this beautiful horse, he named his winery Comanche. Comanche’s horseshoes are now depicted on the label of each handcrafted bottle. But we know it’s always the contents that count, and ex-contractor Simons is turning out some very good wines. His 2011 Calaveras County Tempranillo ($28) is a standout. “This big-boned beauty is bursting with savory sausage, caraway, sun-dried tomato, grilled figs with balsamic, soy-roasted nuts, white pepper, and roasted cherry peppers,” says Simons. “A spirited wine built for ultimate enjoyment with food, you’ll love the grippy tannins and the relentless finish. It’s a sheer joy to drink.” After going from making wine as a hobby to producing hundreds of cases, Simons’ wines now include Pinot Noir, Merlot, Syrah, Chardonnay, and a red blend called Maverick. The good news is that

Simons recently opened a tasting room to showcase his excellent wines. He’s even started another brand called Dog & Pony—what else would it be called!— featuring several oldworld “forgotten wines.” Comanche Cellars Wine Room, 412 Alvarado St., Monterey. 747-2244, comanchecellars.com.

BURRELL SCHOOL Burrell School Vineyards will be celebrating everybody’s favorite crustacean with a Wine & Crab Feed featuring Chef Kyle Davis—and at the same time, releasing their 2017 Chardonnay. We can also look forward to tasting more of Burrell School’s wonderful wines, including a “surprise tasting” of cellar wines and an unreleased varietal. Fresh local crab, homemade clam chowder, fresh sourdough, mixed green salad and—wait for it—crabthemed cupcakes. Bring out your finery because a bottle of wine will be given to the best dressed. 2-5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26, and Sunday, Jan. 27. Burrell School Vineyards, 24060 Summit Rd., Los Gatos. $55, cash requested for gratuity. Kyle@ burrellschoolvineyards.com for tickets.

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ARIES Mar21–Apr20 You are working hard, perhaps to exhaustion, with your thinking power and energy focused in the world of work. Are you finding yourself easily upset, edgy, irritated or impatient? Are there criticisms or interruptions around you? You continue to achieve success and enthusiasm. You ask that others exhibit the same. They cannot. They don’t have your astrology chart. Be generous, listen and ponder instead of having expectations. Exhaustion then falls away.

TAURUS Apr21–May21 You love pleasure, and pursue it quietly. You seek satisfaction through each day’s tasks and endeavors. At times, you’re unexpectedly playful. Deep down, you’re competitive. Your animals and/or children may exhibit this. You’re affectionate. You forgive. You’re admired yet secretive. You’re a taskmaster toward yourself. Enter the field of art. Draw, paint, sing, be creative each day. It’s your saving grace.

GEMINI May 22–June 20 You’re protective of friends, home and family. You hide away with them. You have anger, but no one can find it. You don’t even know why. It’s hidden in a Scorpio sort of family situation. Be careful—resentments, like fiery sparks, sometimes fly out of you. Someday, you’ll seek a more direct approach to your hidden inner world. Prayer helps soothe away what hurts. Studying astrology does, too.

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More and more, you speak your mind, expressing ideas and opinions. Knowing a lot of this and that, you become upset when your morals and values differ from others. Sometimes you’re afraid, sometimes you’re informative. Sometimes you’re disruptive. Consider the differences and outcomes. Everyone has important information. Even silence contributes. Everyone is polishing the facet of themselves, creating the great diamond of humanity. What facet belongs to you?

LE0 Jul21–Aug22 You’re working hard these days. In the months to come, slow down a bit, become more precise and deliberate. Produce only what you value. At times, you’re ambitious. Then your impatience emerges with fiery impulsiveness. You can also be possessive. Independence is vital; a value you defend with secrecy. Daily life becomes filled with tasks. Take it easy. Slow down. Look around.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 For a time, you’ll be more forcefully creative than usual. A dynamic energy will pour through you. It allows you to consider new realities, new plans and creative endeavors, giving you a new identity that’s independent and direct. You will be called to spontaneity, action and followthrough. Only for only a while, though. Then with the retrogrades, everything turns inward. You return home.

LIBRA Sep23–Oct22 For a long or short amount of time, you felt stifled by your choices. Understanding and asserting yourself

wellbeing of people and nations worldwide. They foster and encourage cooperative development, which generates local wealth, employment and marketplace interactions. It’s a plan of action that’s time has come. The thought of continuing under big corporation (BC) agendas is no longer feasible, acceptable, attractive, understandable or sustainable. BC is part of the past, lifeless world of greed and mass control. Cooperatives fulfill the need of the 99 percent (humanity), seek what is local and sustainable, and are consumer-owned and member-controlled. Cooperative members believe in the ethical values: honesty, openness, social responsibility, and caring for others. Farmers in cooperatives say with pride, “I’m a farmer and I’m an owner.” Where is a cooperative near you? was obstructed. A sense of defeat, perhaps despair, was felt. No one was encouraging or loving you enough. You needed to build up self-confidence and a sense of balance. Then you made a decision to return somewhere to something. Your balance was re-established. Now, you’re strong—though very sensitive. This latter is hidden. And now, there’s one more something to do.

SCORPIO Oct23–Nov21 Make a spiritual decision, based on comradeship, to work directly with people in a state of loving cooperation. You will achieve your goals more readily. Enlarge the circle of people you trust. Do this first by supporting them in their undertakings, praising their accomplishments. Cooperation is your new work, endeavor and keyword. It will establish for you more permanent relations with others. Calling forth all your hidden abilities and gifts.

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20 You feel you were born to be respected and successful. Other people’s opinions of you are of no concern. You are to keep your eyes on the horizon while realizing no one is an island. Compassion is your watchword. You learn to be more loving in the coming year, realizing everyone is useful and of great value. This makes for real leadership. Be practical with money. What is true happiness and choice without limits?

CAPRICORN Dec21–Jan20 You curb yourself when any sort of criticism floods your lower mind. You never want to disregard others’ opinions. However, you know there is a great truth beyond opinions and you seek that truth everywhere—in everything and everyone. It’s quite hidden these days. You have trained yourself to be honest, smoothing blunt edges of communication. Your humor finds the absurd in all events. Laughter is a companion. New leadership responsibilities come forth and knock on your door.

AQUARIUS Jan21–Feb18 So clearly do you see through pretenses that sometimes you can be blunt in the attempt to banish untruths, illusions and glamours. This is both a gift and a difficulty. Many admire you. Some don’t understand you. You want to share. However, something hurt you long ago that makes you wary. Your desire nature is strong. It makes things happen like magic. Whatever you focus on materializes. You provide nourishment to the world so hungry. You are a white magician.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 Be conscious and aware of communication and interactions, especially with intimates and close family and friends. You could feel and be perceived as impatient, angry and unaware of others’ needs. Should this occur, you would feel devastated, as your behavior is never like this. Use the soul energies to quicken your sensitivity towards everyone. Ask what are everyone’s needs, hopes, wishes and cares. What can you offer them? Cultivate these ways, developing the subtle art of harmonious right human relationships.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018-0002014The following Limited Liability Company is doing business as HEART OF CAREGIVING PETS, HEART OF HOMES TO BUY. 114 MOUNTAIN VIEW AVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. HEART OF CAREGIVING PETS, LLC. 114 MOUNTAIN VIEW AVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. AI# 12310305. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company signed: HEART OF CAREGIVING. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 4/23/2018. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 26, 2018. Jan. 9, 16, 23, & 30. STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME. The following person (persons) have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: GUANG ZHO CHINESE RESTAURANT. 3150 PORTOLA DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062. The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in SANTA CRUZ COUNTY on: 6/13/2017 GUANG ZHO CHINESE RESTAURANT. 3150 PORTOLA DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062. This business was conducted by: INDIVIDUAL: MO QIXIN AND YUEE LI. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of SANTA CRUZ COUNTY on the date indicated by the file stamp: Filed: December 27, 2018. File No.2017-0001018. Jan. 9, 16, 23, & 30. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018-0001983 The following Individual is doing business as AFRICAN NECTAR FARMING AND CONSULTING. 1641 ESCALONA DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. DARRIN PETZER. 1641 ESCALONA DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0000001 The following Individual is doing business as URBAN GOLD. 122 HOLWAY DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95065. County of Santa Cruz. JOHN FRANCIS DERUOSI. 122 HOLWAY DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95065. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: JOHN FRANCIS DERUOSI. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on January 2, 2019. Jan. 16, 23, 30 & Feb. 6. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018-0002011 The following Individual is doing business as APPENRODT COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES. 4375 CAPITOLA ROAD, STE. C, CAPITOLA, CA 95010. County of Santa Cruz. JOSEPH WILLIAM APPENRODT. 3140 WALLACE DR., APTOS, CA 95003. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: JOSEPH WILLIAM APPENRODT. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 1/12/2009. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Devember 21, 2018. Jan. 16, 23, 30, & Feb. 6. CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.PETITION OF MELISSA MOORE CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.19CV00033. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner MELISSA MOORE has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: ISABELLA MAY ROBINSON to: ISABELLA MAY MOORE. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME.The following person(s) have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: DEJAVU VIDEO SERVICES. 339 ALTA VISTA DR., SANTA CRUZ, CA, 95060. The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in SANTA CRUZ COUNTY on: 12/07/2017. DEJAVU VIDEO SERVICES. 339 ALTA VISTA DR., SANTA CRUZ, CA, 95060. This business was conducted by a MARRIED COUPLE ALLISON KAY CLARK & JAMES STEVEN CLARK. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of SANTA CRUZ COUNTY on the date indicated by the file stamp: Filed: Jan 8, 2019. File No.2017-0001985. Jan. 16, 23, 30, & Feb. 6. CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.PETITION OF MICHELLE KATHERINE SUTTON CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.19CV00082. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner MICHELLE KATHERINE SUTTON has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: MICHELLE KATHERINE SUTTON to: MICHELLE KATHERINE GUTMANN. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Feb 25, 2019 at 8:30 am, in Department 10 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street. Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times, a newspaper of general circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.PETITION OF JENNIFER J. GRAY CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.19CV00108. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner MILDRED ANN ENOCKSON has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: MILDRED ANN ENOCKSON to: ANN MILDRED LANE. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Feb 25, 2019 at 8:30 am, in Department 10 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street. Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times, a newspaper of general circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.PETITION OF LUZ FALCON-TOLEDO CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.19CV00082. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner LUZ FALCON-TOLEDO has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: JESUS CAMAXTLI CARDENAS TOLEDO to: JESUS CAMAXTLI FALCON-TOLEDO. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING March 1, 2019 at 8:30 am, in Department 5 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street. Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times, a newspaper of general circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: Jan 15, 2019. Paul P. Burdick, Judge of the Superior Court. Jan. 23, 30, Feb 6, & 13. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2019-0000066 The following Individual is doing business as ROBERTSON JANITORIAL. 3912 PORTOLA DRIVE #211, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. DARCY KATHERINE ROBERTSON. 3912 PORTOLA DRIVE #211, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: DARCY KATHERINE ROBERTSON The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above is NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Jan 10, 2019. Jan. 23, 30, Feb 6, & 13. REFILING OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT WITH CHANGE FILE NO. 2019-0000074. The following Individual is doing business as MARGINS WINE. 675 PINE FLAT RD., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. MARGINS WINE LLC. 675 PINE FLAT RD., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. AL#34710446 This business is conducted by an Individual signed: MEGAN BELL. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 11/1/2015. Original FBN number: 2015-0001872. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on Jan. 11,

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CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.PETITION OF MAX DAVID MOORMAN CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.18CV03697. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner MAX DAVID MOORMAN has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: MAX DAVID MOORMAN to: MAX DAVID FERRERO. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING February 11, 2019 at 8:30 am, in Department 5 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street. Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times, a newspaper of general circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: December 26, 2018. Paul P. Burdick, Judge of the Superior Court. Jan 9, 16, 23, & 30.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018-0001989 The following Corporation is doing business as CHRISTIE FAMILY DENTISTRY. 550 WATER STREET, E-1., SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. County of Santa Cruz. MARK R. CHRISTIE, DDS, INC. 704 ESCOLONA DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060. Al# 4092453. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: MARK R. CHRISTIE, DDS, INC. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 7/1/2014. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 17, 2018. Jan. 9, 16, 23, & 30.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2018-0002015 The following Individual is doing business as GUANG ZHO CHINESE RESTAURANT. 3150 PORTOLA DRIVE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. County of Santa Cruz. JIE HUI HE. 1606 HERITAGE LANE, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95062. This business is conducted by an Individual signed: JIE HUI HE. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on NOT APPLICABLE. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on December 26, 2018. Jan. 9, 16, 23, & 30.

CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ.PETITION OF CAITLIN V. MULDER AND KYLE A. CONDE CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO.19CV00092. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioners CAITLIN V. MULDER AND KYLE A. CONDE have filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing the applicants name from: NOELLE LOUISE ROSE CARR to: NOELLE LOUISE CONDE. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Feb 25, 2019 at 8:30 am, in Department 10 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street. Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A copy of this order to show cause must be published in the Good Times, a newspaper of general circulation printed in Santa Cruz County, California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: Jan 10, 2019. Paul P. Burdick, Judge of the Superior Court. Jan. 16, 23, 30, & Feb 6.

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MARCIA GIBBS, 48-Year Customer, Santa Cruz

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Occupation: Retired landscape gardener Hobbies: Attending to 95 rose bushes/giving away free bouquets, family, cooking What was your first impression of Shopper’s? Aside from the beautiful hardwood floors, I recall the long-time checkers back then such as Dorothy, Shirley and Gloria.And the produce, which to this day, is so lovely with all the colors and how it’s arranged. Being a long-time landscape gardener, I’ll notice a store’s produce. Shopper’s has the best, and it’s really fresh! And the variety… and oh my gosh the mushrooms… You can’t find such great selections anywhere else.And everything is priced really well. Locallyowned makes a big difference. I know Jim and Andre, and I knew Bud, a real character!

What do you like to cook? I love chicken, I love fish. Shopper’s butchers take good care of me. If I’m making chicken parmesan, they’ll slice the breast in three pieces then pound it to tenderize it. I recently made beef bourguignon for friends following a Julia Childs’ recipe. I used a tri-tip from Shopper’s and it was fabulous! I tend to cook simply but I do like some of Shopper’s specialty products such as their pinot noir vinegar, which I use on beets. So good! Shopper’s cheeses prevent cheese boredom, and they carry my favorite salsa, Robert’s. Shopper’s is always a fun experience.

How so? Well, I almost always run into friends and neighbors when shopping here. Plus the wine selection is great — that’s fun — and it’s all over the store! Wine guys Paul and Jeff are very helpful if you ever need assistance. I also feel acknowledged and enjoy friendly conversations with the crew. Basically everything is quality at Shopper’s and the pricing is good for what you get. Fun story: My parents had separated and my mother moved from Gilroy to Santa Cruz.When my parents got back together, she said,’Oh, no! Now I won’t be able to shop at Shopper’s Corner!’ My mother loved it here.

“Being a long-time landscape gardener, I notice a store’s produce. Shopper’s has the best, and it’s really fresh!”

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