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EDITOR’S NOTE With the Grateful Dead playing farewell shows in Santa Clara this week, nostalgia for the band is running high. And Santa Cruz is, of course, a hotspot for it, with its Dead history going all the way back to what legend holds was one of the first Acid Tests. But it turns out that in reality that’s not exactly how things went down, and in the cover story this week, DNA looks at what did, and also reflects on the reason for the band’s everlasting mystique. Also in this issue, John Malkin reports on concerns from community members, the mayor of Santa Cruz, city councilmembers and former local politicians about SCPD Deputy Chief Steve Clark. Malkin charts how these tensions developed, and writes about
his own history with Clark as part of the Santa Cruz Citizens’ Police Review Board. I was heartened by how another group is dealing with communication issues this week, namely the primary players in my story about the future of the Warriors franchise in Santa Cruz. There are difficult and complicated issues to be hashed out in planning for that future, and the relationship between the Warriors and city staff have sometimes been strained. But I can’t say enough about how forthcoming and open Santa Cruz Warriors President Jim Weyermann, City Manager Martín Bernal and Executive Director of Economic Development Bonnie Lipscomb have been in talking about those issues. The possibilities they’re considering are exciting, and I have the feeling the process is in good hands.
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I read the review of Anita Telle’s book regarding childhood bullying (GT, 5/20), and I’m very pleased with the work she is doing standing up for the rights of children who are treated cruelly simply because they are regarded as being “other” and therefore inferior and undeserving of kindness and respect. I regard childhood bullying by peers along with child abuse by adults as one of the most serious political and social issues in the world, since bullying is the basic pattern behind all forms of institutionalized violence, social hierarchy and conformity, both in adults and children, worldwide. Contempt and violence toward women, gays, the transgendered, people with disabilities, the poor, the homeless, eccentrics, nonconformists and dissidents, other races, cultures and ethnic groups, intellectual prodigies and the emotionally sensitive, are directly tied in with childhood bullying. My belief is that bullies are afraid of expressing their own vulnerabilities and insecurities, and the social shame that goes with it, so they take it out on others whom they perceive as being more vulnerable and insecure in their social standing. When
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RAIL STUDY Thanks Anne-Marie Harrison and the Good Times for a well-written article (“Getting on Track,” GT, 6/17). The RTC appreciates the level of community interest in the Draft Passenger Rail Feasibility Study and encourages everyone to participate in the discussion by reviewing the report findings, taking the online survey (sccrtc.org/rail), and sharing links with family, friends, colleagues, and neighbors. The survey is now available in English and Spanish, and the comment period closes on July 31. The intent of developing current ridership, cost and funding projections for rail transit is to advance a robust and honest community discussion about future transportation options, and steps needed to meet the transportation needs of future generations. KARENA PUSHNIK | SENIOR PLANNER, RTC
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On Friday, many Santa Cruz teens are doing their first century bike ride—100 miles round trip between Santa Cruz and Monterey. This is the sixth year of “Bike the Bay,” which promotes cycling, alternative transit and bike paths, as well as teaching middle and high school students the virtues of taking on a big challenge and conquering it. The ride leaves at 10 a.m. Friday from the Bike Church at 703 Pacific Avenue.
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What’s a creative new approach to addressing summer beach litter? BY MATTHEW COLE SCOTT
Robotic dogs with duct tape on their paws that walk around picking up litter wherever they go. JOAQUIN HEINZ SANTA CRUZ | BARISTA
Something like a Spaceballs vacuum situation. STELLA CELESTE SANTA CRUZ | BARISTA
Educating Santa Cruz children about ocean debris and environmental concerns. VILASHINI COOPPAN SANTA CRUZ | LITERATURE TEACHER
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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of June 24 ARIES Mar21–Apr19
LIBRA Sep23–Oct22
During my regular hikes along my favorite trails, I’ve gotten to know the local boulders quite intimately. It might sound daft, but I’ve come to love them. I’ve even given some of them names. They symbolize stability and constancy to me. When I gaze at them or sit on them, I feel my own resolve grow stronger. They teach me about how to be steadfast and unflappable in all kinds of weather. I draw inspiration from the way they are so purely themselves, forever true to their own nature. Now would be an excellent time for you to hang out with your own stony allies, Aries. You could use a boost in your ability to express the qualities they embody.
Your symbolic object of the week is a magic wand. I recommend that you visualize yourself as the star of a fairy tale in which you do indeed have a wand at your disposal. See yourself wielding it to carry out a series of fantastic tricks, like materializing a pile of gold coins or giving yourself an extraordinary power to concentrate or creating an enchanted drink that allows you to heal your toughest wound. I think this playful imaginative exercise will subtly enhance your ability to perform actual magic in the real world.
TAURUS Apr20–May20
The taskmaster planet Saturn wove its way through the sign of Scorpio from October 2012 until the end of 2014. Now it has slipped back into your sign for a last hurrah. Between now and mid-September. I urge you to milk its rigorous help in every way you can imagine. For example, cut away any last residues of trivial desires and frivolous ambitions. Hone your focus and streamline your self-discipline. Once and for all, withdraw your precious energy from activities that waste your time and resist your full engagement. And if you’re serious about capitalizing on Saturn’s demanding gifts, try this ritual: Write either “I will never squander my riches” or “I will make full use of my riches” 20 times—whichever motivates you most.
“Everyone is a genius at least once a year,” wrote German aphorist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. “The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.” According to my astrological analysis, Taurus, your once-a-year explosion of genius is imminent. It’s even possible you will experience a series of eruptions that continue for weeks. The latter scenario is most likely if you unleash the dormant parts of your intelligence through activities like these: having long, rambling conversations with big thinkers; taking long, rambling walks all over creation; enjoying long, rambling sex while listening to provocative music.
GEMINI May21–June20 “I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring,” says author Paul Auster. “It would be tedious to be alive.” But he goes even further in his defense of inconsistency, adding, “Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do.” This bold assertion may not apply to everyone all the time, but it does for you in the coming weeks, Gemini. You should feel free to explore and experiment with the high art of changing your mind. I dare you to use it to generate extravagant amounts of beauty.
CANCER Jun21–Jul22 In its early days, the band Depeche Mode had the infinitely boring name Composition of Sound. Humphrey Bogart’s and Ingrid Bergman’s classic 1942 film Casablanca was dangerously close to being called Everybody Come to Rick’s. And before Charles Dickens published his novel Bleak House, a scathing critique of the 19th-century British judicial system, he considered eleven other possible titles, including the unfortunate Tom-all-Alone’s. I bring this to your attention, Cancerian, as the seeding phase of your personal cycle gets underway. The imprints you put on your budding creations will have a major impact on their future. Name them well. Give them a potent start.
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One summer afternoon when I was seven years old, my friend Billy and I grabbed an empty jar from my kitchen and went looking for ants. Near the creek we found an anthill swarming with black ants, and scooped a bunch of them in the jar. A little later we came upon a caravan of red ants, and shoved many of them in with the black ants. Would they fight? Naturally. It was mayhem. Looking back now, I’m sorry I participated in that stunt. Why stir up a pointless war? In that spirit, Leo, I urge you to avoid unnecessary conflicts. Don’t do anything remotely comparable to putting red ants and black ants in the same jar.
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VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 In order for everyone in your sphere to meet their appointed destinies, you must cultivate your skills as a party animal. I’m only slightly joking. At least for now, it’s your destiny to be the catalyst of conviviality, the ringleader of the festivities, the engineer of fun and games. To fulfill your assignment, you may have to instigate events that encourage your allies to leave their comfort zones and follow you into the frontiers of collaborative amusement.
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SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21 The advanced lessons on tap in the coming days are not for the squeamish, the timid, the lazy, or the stubborn. But then you’re not any of those things, right? So there shouldn't be a major problem. The purpose of these subterranean adventures and divine interventions is to teach you to make nerve-racking leaps of faith, whether or not you believe you’re ready. Here’s one piece of advice that I think will help: Don’t resist and resent the tests as they appear. Rather, welcome them as blessings you don’t understand yet. Be alert for the liberations they will offer.
CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 “Man’s being is like a vast mansion,” observed philosopher Colin Wilson, “yet he seems to prefer to live in a single room in the basement.” Wilson wasn’t just referring to Capricorns. He meant everybody. Most of us commit the sin of self-limitation on a regular basis. That’s the bad news. The good news, Capricorn, is that you’re entering a time when you’re more likely to rebel against the unconscious restrictions you have placed on yourself. You will have extra motivation to question and overrule the rationales that you used in the past to inhibit your primal energy. Won’t it be fun to venture out of your basement nook and go explore the rest of your domain?
AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 “An obscure moth from Latin America saved Australia’s pasture-land from the overgrowth of cactus,” writes biologist Edward O. Wilson. “A Madagascar ‘weed,’ the rosy periwinkle, provided the cure for Hodgkin’s disease and childhood leukemia,” he adds, while “a chemical from the saliva of leeches dissolves blood clots during surgery,” and a “Norwegian fungus made possible the organ transplant industry.” I think these are all great metaphors for the kind of healing that will be available for you in the coming weeks, Aquarius: humble, simple, seemingly insignificant things whose power to bring transformation has, up until now, been secret or unknown.
PISCES Feb19–Mar20 “She is hard to tempt, as everything seems to please her equally,” said artist Anne Raymo in describing a hedonistic acquaintance. A similar statement may soon apply to you, Pisces. You will have a talent for finding amusement in an unusually wide variety of phenomena. But more than that: You could become a connoisseur of feeling really good. You may even go so far as to break into a higher octave of pleasure, communing with exotic phenomena that we might call silken thrills and spicy bliss and succulent revelry.
Homework: You know what to do and you know when to do it. Provide the evidence that this is true. FreeWillAstrology.com.
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Sweet Dreams Begin With A Healthy Mattress Learning to draw is like learning to play an instrument. It’s not a mystery, and you don’t have to figure it out on your own. It takes practice but the rewards are magical. Somehow when it comes to the visual arts people tend to believe that if results don’t come to them naturally they lack talent. Modern notions of originality and freedom of expression have left many would-be artists in the dark. The tradition of classical training in the visual arts, practically unavailable for a century, is making a welcomed come back. Classical training to play an instrument frees you to experience the pleasure and beauty of music. Classical training to draw is a way to experience the beauty you see and to convey your personal vision. Santa Cruz Atelier is a place to discover and develop your talent. The word “atelier” is French for workshop and refers to a tradition of training in a master’s studio. Lisa Joseph was trained at the Aristides Atelier with contemporary master Juliette Aristides. Studying with Lisa can connect you to a lineage reaching back for ages to Classical Greece. The classes and workshops at Santa Cruz Atelier will provide beginning and advanced students alike with methods to develop skills that will last a lifetime. The only requirement is the desire to learn. You will surprise yourself.
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Five minutes before a GMC Suburban slammed into the back of her home on Dec. 16, 2014, Gayle Silva, 63, says she had a premonition that something big was going to happen. She walked to a separate unit to grab a Bible and stood in her living room clutching it to her chest. It was then that 28-year-old James Campos’s SUV crashed toward her Paradise Park home in the woods below Highway 9, landing upside down, wedged partly inside the rear room of her home. “At first I just heard a limb snap, which is normal here in the forest,” says Silva. “Then several crashes before it hit and shook the whole house.” Evidence of the 300-foot plunge is visible on at least four trees in the SUV’s path. The trees slowed Campos’s trajectory, sparing the house and himself more harm. The last tree he hit was just feet from the house and limited the damage to a couple of walls and a skylight. Although Silva was not physically hurt, she has been suffering from post traumatic stress disorder symptoms ever since, all while keeping CalTrans’ attention focused on her request for a guardrail on Highway 9 directly above her home. “I couldn’t do anything but sleep for three months,” Silva says. “I had to force myself to get up to shower and eat. This is one of the few places I associate with happiness. This whole thing has shattered all of that.” This isn’t the first time a car has careened off this S-shaped squiggle of road between Felton and Santa Cruz. Silva remembers that in the 1970s a school bus converted into a hippy travel van tumbled down, demolishing a small building that Silva describes as her dream tree house from her 1950s childhood. A sporty-looking coup of unrecognizable make is also stationed about halfway down the hill by Paradise Park, the relic of another crash. Someone removed the tires and engine at some point, but left the carcass, which now sports an empty King Cobra 40-ounce bottle in its cup holder. Silva has bombarded CalTrans with
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BIG SCORE Like their NBA counterparts, the Santa Cruz Warriors won a championship this year. PHOTO: SANTA CRUZ WARRIORS
Warriors Shootaround With two championships in one year, the franchise considers radical possibilities for their future in Santa Cruz BY STEVE PALOPOLI
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anta Cruz’s Jim Weyermann had a lot to celebrate when he rode in the Golden State Warriors’ victory parade in Oakland last Friday. The Warriors organization he joined four years ago under the new ownership of Joe Lacob and Peter Guber just won its first NBA title in 40 years, defeating LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in six games. Their victory comes less than two months after the Santa Cruz Warriors, of which Weyermann is president, won their first D-League championship, clinching a sweep of the Fort Wayne Mad Ants at a
sold-out Kaiser Permanente Arena in Santa Cruz on April 26. The Warriors are the first franchise in NBA history to win both titles in the same year. It may seem like the ultimate vindication of some controversial decisions by the Warriors’ management, not the least of which was to relocate their D-League team to Santa Cruz in 2012, constructing the 2,500-seat temporary arena in just 78 days. But now the question is: where will they find a permanent home? And some of the ideas they’re throwing around are their most radical yet. That could mean that the bond
that’s been built between the Warriors organization and the city is likely to be tested in the next two years, with the current three-way contract between the Warriors, the City of Santa Cruz and the Seaside Company for the existing arena expiring in 2017. The timing of this year’s championship is especially interesting since it comes as the city just hired a consulting firm, Victus Advisors, to conduct a threemonth feasibility study which will “establish the feasibility and benefits of a permanent arena facility in Santa Cruz … from both a capital cost and operations perspective” before the >13
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many people laughed at us when we started this trip four years ago?� But Weyermann, who admits his drive to get the temporary arena done created plenty of fireworks with city staff the first time around, is wary of the feasibility study. “There’s one way to approach this, which is the way the city knows—
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SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK? Santa Cruz Shakespeare, which has been on the UCSC campus since 1981, is looking for a new home at DeLaveaga Park, and the City Council will discuss it in August. The city’s Parks and Recreation Department solicited proposals in May for the former Stroke Center site at the park, which also houses golf and disc golf courses—and the only proposal came from the popular Shakespeare troupe. The city’s staff is preparing a report and negotiating with the group, which had been funded by UCSC until 2013, when the school said it couldn’t afford it. The group raised $1 million in crowdfunding and changed its name from Shakespeare Santa Cruz. “Our recent strategic planning process has made clear that if SCS is to continue to grow and thrive as an independent and sustainable organization, we need to be situated in the city of Santa Cruz, not only artistically, but [also] geographically,� says artistic director Mike Ryan. “Our true home is in town.� BRAD KAVA
MAKING PLANS FOR WATSONVILLE There’s a bold plan to make downtown Watsonville more like Paris or Santa Cruz— cutting lanes of traffic on
Main Street and adding bigger sidewalks, a grassy median and more lighting. It would cut the central thoroughfare from four lanes to two, using the space for people to walk and for a grassy space in the middle of the street. The stretch runs from Peck Street to First Street and includes the civic center. There is a meeting to discuss the proposal at 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 1 on the top floor of the Civic Center building at 250 Main St., Watsonville. You can find artists’ renderings of the project at growinwatsonville. com or search city of Watsonville revitalization. ROSEANN HERNANDEZ
SHOE OF SUPPORT An Aptos blacksmith who drives hundreds of miles a week to shoe horses around the state is looking for votes in a Wells Fargo contest to build his business. Charley Bunyea, who is a farrier (horseshoer), is looking for $25,000 to buy a better truck and build his business caring for some of the 600,000 horses around the state. Many of their owners are struggling to care for ailing horses and he works on a sliding scale to help them afford the care. Search Charley’s Farrier Service at Wells Fargo Works.com to vote for him. BRAD KAVA
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Santa Cruz radio station KUSPFM, which is on the verge of bankruptcy, got an anonymous $100,000 donation last week, allowing community members and the station’s board to work on other proposals for the struggling local station, and extending the “runway� before they have to take action. Much to the chagrin of many community members who have supported the 1,250watt signal at 88.9 FM for the past 43 years, the board has considered selling the signal to a Los Angeles classical music company for $1 million, which would cover its $750,000 in debts. The station was once the only provider of National Public Radio shows, but has been undercut by Monterey’s KAZU-FM, which began airing the same shows in 2000. Some 35 people complained to the board last week at a packed public meeting. The next meeting will be Monday, June 29, at 6 p.m. at the Community Foundation building in Aptos. “Under the current management it has moved further and further from that vision and format,� said Steven Coulter. “Volunteer programmers have been axed, NPR has been increased, and local news has been cut back.� Coulter also criticized the way that the board was handling the current
situation, saying, “There appears to be a large gap between the community’s vision of public radio and the vision recommended by the management. The paths forward recommended by the management are essentially variations on the failing approach of the last 10 years.� Others expressed frustration. “I’m a longtime listener, since 1979. I’m angry,� said Helen Garden. “You guys are not communicating with us, and this is our radio station.� One man offered to donate $5,000 right then and there if the board promised not to sell the station. Board President Kelly O’Brien said because of their responsibilities to pay debts, they couldn’t do that. Under the leadership of station manager Terry Green, the station laid off local hosts and filled its schedule with national programs. “There’s more than enough talent in Santa Cruz to fill up two radio stations, let alone one,� said Dennis Morton, the host of the station’s longrunning poetry show. Board members were also not in favor of selling the station. They have posted a selection of possible futures on the kusp. org website. “I just want to be perfectly clear that we want an outcome for KUSP that makes it a local radio station and web outlet and allows us to retain this identity,� said treasurer John Morrison.MICAYELA KONVISER
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For one thing, he’s not convinced there needs to be a permanent arena, at least in the sense of a permanent building. “Why brick and mortar?” he asks. “I mean, if we took a look at the fabrication we’ve done down there, we can do it for a third of the cost, and make it mobile. What happens if the world changes in 10 years and we want to move it?” He’s also concerned that without a larger, community-based discussion beyond a consulting study, radical but potentially interesting ideas will get shuffled aside. “There’s a lot of complexity to the situation right now in terms of what road you want to go down. I’m not speaking out of school, I had this conversation with Martín [Bernal, city manager] and Bonnie [Lipscomb, executive director of the city’s Economic Development Department] earlier in the week: if the feasibility study looks at brick and mortar traditional financing packages, we’re wasting our time. We’re just absolutely wasting our time. This city can’t support a commercial–run arena,” says Weyermann. Some of the ideas the Warriors would like to see looked at are indeed radical, even when it comes to site selection. “One idea that’s been raised, not publicly, is the Trader Joe’s site. The reason I love the Trader Joe’s site is it ties into the Abbott Square development, it ties us into the MAH across the street,” he says. “What if it went all the way down and created the first levee development? What if we put the first restaurant on the river?” Michelle Williams, executive director of the Santa Cruz County Arts Council, has been working on San Lorenzo River revitalization, most recently with the Ebb & Flow event, and knows how significant it is for the Warriors to even raise the issue of the river. “I think it would be extraordinary,” says Williams. “If they have the courage and foresight to do it, they’re going to be early adopters.” “There’s not a model in a commercial venture, but the arts
have shown us the way,” says Weyermann of how some of these less conventional ideas could be approached. “What you would be looking at in terms of your economic package would be much more of a nonprofit model. You get Netflix to build the kids’ physical fitness center in the building. We go get Looker to build this piece out over here. You see what I’m saying? So your collaborators are not commercial venture-oriented ROI people. Your collaborators are saying ‘We’re going to make this a better place for the community.’ It’s not been done, so it’s kind of foreign to [the city’s] process.” Bernal, the city manager, doesn’t think the Warriors’ strategy is as different from Weyermann’s as he thinks, but he admits it’s a lot slower. “I think there’s a natural tension between government bureaucracy and the business community,” says Bernal. He knows how frustrating the process can be for an organization with vision like the Warriors. And he saw the first time around how Weyermann can make things happen that other people can’t. “I have to give Jim a lot of credit. He really pushed us,” says Bernal. “It wouldn’t have happened without him. He’s very gung ho, very move forward. He can get emotional—he admits it all the time. But we have a great relationship personally.” There may be a deeper—but at the same time, easily fixed—concern for the Warriors, too: the feasibility study seems to question whether the Warriors do have value to the city, something Weyermann believes should be clear to “anybody who’s been here on game day, who’s watched 2,000 people walk down from the restaurants.” Lipscomb of the EDD says that isn’t an issue. “We already know the community loves the Warriors. We all love the Warriors,” she says. “We think they’ve been a great success.” What the study will do, she says, is begin to untangle the complicated details of some of these ideas. “It’s not that we’re naysayers,” Lipscomb says of the city staff. “I think our minds immediately go to ‘is that feasible?’ But we get
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IN THE HOUSE A car plunged down a steep ravine and into Gayle Silva’s Paradise Park home. She’s been asking for a guardrail for months. PHOTO: KEVIN SILVA
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frustration. “I see she has decided to go to the media about this,” Goodman says. “I don’t blame her.” Roaring Camp has offered to reduce its right-of-way down to 9 feet from 20 feet, if that would help CalTrans build the guardrail. “As long as we can get trains through safely and the guardrail doesn’t impede the traffic gate arm from lowering properly, we see no problem,” says Goodman. “We are in the business of running trains, not keeping people on Highway 9.” Shivers told GT on June 15 that CalTrans is working on this issue, and that Silva’s emotional reaction has moved it ahead of other projects. On Friday, June 19 he emailed Silva and others to announce that the project had
been approved, but was unable to give a specific timeline for completion. Explaining the long wait, Shivers cited sorting out details with the railroad as well as staffing limitations at the fifth district’s headquarters in San Luis Obispo. Their office, like others in the state agency, works on citizen requests from an active list of 100 projects at a time. However, there is only one traffic safety investigator, who must sign off on all the projects. Their jurisdiction includes Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Barbara counties. This means his office must answer to a population of more than 1.5 million Californians. Shivers says he is appreciative to the railroad for making the meetings with his
investigators productive so they could get the mission at hand completed. “We are appreciative that they are being cooperative with us to do this service not for this one citizen but for the greater good,” Shivers says. Silva was ecstatic when she heard the news. “Thank God! It’s about time!” she says. CalTrans’ formula for rating the priority of a project measures collisions by “incidents within the past 10 years.” By this standard, Campos’s vehicle was the only one to have plummeted seemingly from the sky onto Silva’s property, and may have not warranted action on their part. Her persistence therefore, clearly had an effect on them sticking with this cause.
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SCPD Deputy Chief Steve Clark was reassigned after his role as spokesman for both the department and the union attracted councilmembers’ ire BY JOHN MALKIN
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You’re wrong!” Fitzmaurice turned around and recognized the man in the jacket and tie as Deputy Chief Steve Clark, one of the Santa Cruz Police Department’s highest-ranking officers. “It was a disturbing display of lack of control,” Fitzmaurice says. “I didn’t like being confronted by a police officer after I testified to the council. It seemed intimidating.” Santa Cruz Resistance Against Militarization (SCRAM!) member
Dru Glover witnessed the confrontation. “I asked his position and badge number, but the officer refused to identify himself,” says Glover. When Glover told Clark he’d figure it out himself, he says Clark responded, “I’m here on my own time. I don’t have to share my badge number. Go ahead, do the research. It’ll be more exciting that way.” Glover filed a formal complaint with the SCPD on March 25, writing that as “an employee of the city and
a representative of the police, his actions should not and cannot go overlooked or excused.” On June 11, Glover was interviewed in Pacific Grove by Fred Hardee, a private investigator and former police chief with California State University Monterey Bay, as part of what the SCPD has termed an “outside investigation.” Meanwhile, Fitzmaurice says he spoke with SCPD Chief Kevin Vogel on March 26 and Vogel
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REASSIGNMENT Chief Vogel removed Clark from his position as SCPD Public Information Officer at the beginning of the year.
City Council candidate Leonie Sherman as an “anarchist.” Sherman participated in civil disobedience during the 1999 anti-WTO protests in Seattle, but does not call herself an anarchist. The KSBW report aired during the height of the 2014 election campaign period, and included images of protesters smashing windows while Clark referred to property destruction that occurred in Santa Cruz on May Day in 2010, saying, “You take a look at the number of businesses that have been victimized by these kind of actions in the community.” Response to the story was immediate and heated, with Mayor Don Lane receiving complaints beginning that very night accusing Clark of an “inflammatory attack,” and four-time Santa Cruz mayor Mike Rotkin calling the comment “slander” in a letter to the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Clark officially appeared in the story as a representative for the Police Management union. City
Manager Martín Bernal and interim SCPD spokesperson Lt. Bernie Escalante both told GTT that Clark was acting within his right to free speech as a union spokesperson in the segment. Analicia Cube, founder of the anti-street crime advocacy group Take Back Santa Cruz (TBSC), agreed. The group posted a petition on its website supporting Clark, “Dep. Chief Clark is one of the finest, most dedicated officers in our local police department, and we are lucky to have someone who cares so much about his community … His honest, sometimes blunt observations and statements are frankly a breath of fresh air in a town that has long tolerated too much misbehavior coupled with a lack of accountability for it.” While Cube supported Clark’s right to call Sherman an “anarchist,” she says that she had reservations about television news’ take on the dispute. “KSBW did contact me and ask me if I would go an air, and I said
no, because I didn’t know enough about it,” Cube said. “It felt like they wanted it to be Take Back Santa Cruz versus the anarchists. I didn’t like the approach. They wanted me to go on air to talk about what? Anarchists? I don’t want to be a part of a story like that.” Sherman lost the election by a margin of approximately .7 percent, just 303 votes. “When a deputy chief of police fails to distinguish between protest and anarchy, we need to reflect on those far more nuanced judgments our police officers are called upon to make every day: about probable cause, the need to arrest, the use of force, etc.,” Sherman says now. “Clark’s behavior reflects poorly on the whole force and undermines public confidence in our police. Most agree that the police department ought to stay out of politics, and the city manager ought to ensure that it does.” “I have no idea what effect this may have had on the
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acknowledged, “He has a history of this.” When Fitzmaurice told the chief he was considering filing a formal complaint he said Vogel said, “I’m not sure if this rises to the level of a complaint.” Krohn says that in an April 15 phone call, which was transcribed by a third party on the call, Vogel characterized Clark’s remarks as “totally inappropriate.” Krohn says Vogel said Clark has to “change his behavior,” but also that “I don’t know if that is going to happen.” He said that Clark, according to the notes from the conversation, was “totally out of line.” Clark’s critics say it wasn’t the first time. Clark rose to the then-$167,268 per year position in 2011, after 24 years with the force. “It’s important to form partnerships and collaborations so the community feels they are a true partner in this,” he told the Santa Cruz Sentinel at the time. The March 24 incident, however, is one of a number of Clark’s reported actions that have been described as “uncomfortable,” “threatening,” “intimidating” or “scary” by current and former City Councilmembers, activists and citizens. Clark stirred up controversy in his former role as police spokesman, most notably when he referred to a city council candidate as an “anarchist”— potentially influencing the election’s outcome—and when he went on a national news program to make comments about Alix Tichelman, who was arrested on first-degree murder charges for administering a fatal heroin dose to a Google millionnaire, and later sentenced to six years for involuntary manslaughter and administering drugs. Clark was subsequently replaced as SCPD spokesperson. (Clark has made no public statement about his reassignment, and neither he nor Chief Vogel responded to interview requests.)
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ALPRS STANDOFF Councilmember Micah Posner raised concerns about a conversation with Steve Clark over whether or not to put the purchase of vehicle license plate scanners on the city council agenda.
BLURRED BLUE LINES <21 elections,” City Councilmember Richelle Noroyan says now about Clark’s “anarchist” comment. “Campaigns are complex and unless you do a scientific poll, all discussions on this subject are just speculative.” She pointed to other factors that may have affected the outcome, including low voter turnout and campaign finance disparity. Noroyan, who was endorsed by the Police Officers Association and the Police Managers Association, edged out Sherman for her council seat. Former mayor Katherine Beiers, however, thinks many people didn’t see a distinction between Clark’s role as official voice of the department and as a political advocate for the union, a distinction that was blurred when he appeared in a television news segment in front of the police station. Clark was identified as a union spokesman and wore a plaid, navy blue shirt. California law prohibits officers from participating in political activities while in uniform.
“I’m always seeing Steve (on TV) as the spokesperson for the police. He’s polished and pretty good at it,” says Beiers. “I understand his freedom of speech as the union representative. I got that. But most people don’t know the difference. They see him standing there saying ‘don’t vote for this person’ and they think, ‘the police.’ Period.”
POLITICAL BACKLASH In November, Beiers joined three other former mayors—Celia Scott, Krohn and Fitzmaurice—to discuss Clark’s comments about Sherman with City Manager Martín Bernal. “We were asking that at a minimum he be removed as the police spokesperson,” says Beiers. “And he was. It wasn’t just us, but we made it clear.” “The ‘anarchist’ incident in the last election opened a legitimate debate about the appropriate role of the police department in our local elections,” says Scott. “I don’t want to see that sort of thing happen again.”
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LONG HISTORY Back in the early ’90s, a debate over police accountability flared up in Santa Cruz, with the Coalition for a Police Review Commission (CPRC) advocating for independent oversight and the Police Officers’ Association (POA) attempting to avoid it. Clark was president of the
POA at the time. On Sept. 22, 1992, Clark told the City Council, “If you create a police review board in Santa Cruz, I’ll hold each and every one of you personally responsible.” Lane was mayor at the time, and two days after Clark’s remarks he wrote perhaps the most strongly worded letter of his political career: “I was extremely troubled by your remarks on behalf of the [Police] Officers Association … In addition to my perception that you presented an attitude of self-righteousness and arrogance, I found the substance of your remarks offensive and counterproductive. Many people, including myself, will find it difficult to “forgive” and “forget” your stance of obstruction, name-calling and insensitivity to the public’s desire for police accountability and scrutiny … Perhaps you, too, could recognize your mistakes and act to correct them. Until you do so, I believe you will be an ineffective representative of the [Police] Officers Association before the Council and the community.” After the City Council created a police review board in 1995, it seems Clark made good on his promise. “I was there [on the council] for 12 years almost. Then police review came,” says former Councilwoman Katherine Beiers. “Steve got promoted and I was mayor, but he would never make eye contact with me. He would shake everyone’s hand around me, but not mine, saying ‘hello.’ When I went back on in 2008, I talked to [City Manager] Dick Wilson about it. I said, ‘I’m back and I’m going to need to work with the police. I’d like permission, if you think it’s a good idea, to have coffee with Steve Clark.’ And we did. He said he remembered incidents and said, ‘I didn’t like police review and I thought you were partly responsible.’ After that, he was, ‘Hello Katherine. How are you today?’ He said he was wrong, and I bought the coffee.” When Beiers ran for City Council in 1992, a major point of her campaign was supporting the creation of an independent police review board. Now in 2015, she says, “We need independent review more than ever.” >25
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Within two days of the KSBW report, Chief Kevin Vogel announced that Clark “will no longer speak on behalf of a police manager’s union to avoid confusion between the roles.” By Jan. 5, Vogel had officially reassigned him. Clark was replaced as SCPD Public Information Officer by Lt. Bernie Escalante on an interim basis. Escalante credited both Clark and Vogel with providing “guidance and mentoring” as he transitioned into the position. Councilmember Micah Posner wrote an email to his constituents commending the action: “In a positive example of the supervision of our local police, Deputy Chief Steve Clark has been replaced as the police spokesperson after he created an unnecessary controversy during the recent election.” Mayor Lane had the same view. “I indicated to the city manager that I thought there’s a problem … And so they [SCPD] did subsequently make a change,” Lane said. “I do think that incident had an impact on why that reassignment was done. The two roles that Steve Clark [was] in are really muddled and that’s not a healthy thing for the city.” However, Vogel challenged this analysis in an email to Sentinel reporter JM Brown on Dec. 21, writing “Councilmember Posner mischaracterized and incorrectly stated the reason for the PIO assignment change.” In October, Lane told the Sentinel, “The positive community perception of our excellent Police Department could be compromised when a top figure in the department makes partisan public statements—even as a union representative—that do not seem to be supported by evidence.” It wasn’t the first time Lane had been critical of Clark’s blurred roles as union representative and police officer.
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‘IF WE WERE ADVERSARIES’ On March 31 of last year, Clark met City Councilmember Micah Posner at a coffee shop on Ocean Street to discuss whether or not to put the purchase of vehicle license plate scanners on the city council agenda. According to a transcript Posner typed that day and made available to GT via a public records request, “he did not want me to put it on the agenda. At some point we made the mistake of talking about the vote … he said, ‘I have at least four votes for whatever protocols I suggest.’” Posner wrote that Clark told him, “Don’t worry, you and I are not adversaries. If we were adversaries, I would find a way to get at you. I wouldn’t do it directly. I’d do it through a third party,” adding, “If there is someone who is screwing up this city, whether he is on council or whatever, I’m going to go after him. I’m not going to let someone mess up this city.” >26
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Following Tichelman’s 2013 arrest for the overdose death of technology executive Forrest Timothy Hayes, Clark was featured in local and national media calling her “callous,” “glacially cold” and “selfish”—a PR offensive which Tichelman’s defense attorney Larry Biggam says undermined the justice process. “I’m not familiar with specific ‘best practices’ rules governing police pretrial comments, but it seems fundamentally unfair to charge, convict and condemn an accused—especially with inflammatory language—before her lawyer is even appointed and due process can play itself out,” says Biggam. Incidents involving Clark and local activists have been captured on video, as well. In one from Feb. 15, 2012, shot and posted to YouTube by Alex Darocy, Clark calls a group of protesters “a bunch of jackassess” during a heated discussion. In another, from Nov. 9, 2011, local resident Eric Zamost began recording Clark outside a rally where UCSC students and Occupy activists protested tuition hikes and bank bailouts, as he was interviewed by local news. “There are 50 officers here,” Clark told him. “Which one do you want me to have arrest you?” Other activists and politicians who’ve worked with Clark, however, describe positive experiences. In the ’90s, Erik Larsen helped organize an activist group called Neighbors Of Lower Ocean (NOLO). He’s now an SEIU union organizer in San Jose, but when he lived on Canfield Avenue near Bixby Street in the late ’90s, there was a late-night shooting
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or something that would require me to report a conversation,� explains Bernal. “That would be different.� Indeed, conversations seem to be the basis of most concerns and complaints made by community members about Clark. Perhaps that has made each individual incident of verbal or physical intimidation easier for his superiors to write off, but his critics note a pattern of behavior. Full disclosure: I was involved in one of these incidents myself, when I helped form the Santa Cruz Citizens’ Police Review Board (CPRB) and served on the board from ’95 to ’97. On Aug. 30, 1995 Clark told me that he and the POA had investigated me and that he’d created a file about my political activism regarding police accountability. He said he’d collected information about me including published and unpublished writings. Clark added that he’d gathered information that would be embarrassing if he made it public, and he wouldn’t tell me what it was. He said that having a file on someone was the “nature of politics,� a way to “find out information to use if someone pushes you.� I filed a complaint about the incident, which was not investigated, and have >29
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Clark handled the grant writing for the Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) scanning systems and helped make the presentation to the City Council last December for the BearCat, when he told the council that Homeland Security grants for the armored truck would be lost unless they were approved that day. Critics of the BearCat acquisition quickly questioned why the public and council hadn’t been notified earlier. The SCPD has recently acknowledged violating a city policy when they applied for grants for some ALPRs and the BearCat. Council Grants Policy 14.3 requires notification of the City Council at the time of application, not 15 months later, as was done in the case of the armored truck. Escalante of the SCPD told GT he first heard of the grants policy, “when you sent it to me via email.” The policy was authorized in 1998 and updated in 2006. “I don’t think any department in the city was aware of the existing policy,” says Escalante. “We followed what we believed was the correct protocol.” But other city departments have complied with the grant policy; for instance, a Nov. 5, 2009 Information Report to the City Manager refers to a “quarterly grant report for FY 10” from the Finance Department, “as required by City Council policy 14.3.” Critics of the BearCat acquisition say the policy violation should be grounds for invalidating the council’s decision. “The police department didn’t follow the policy, so the process should be null and void, right?” asks Irene O’Connell of the Resource Center for Nonviolence. “They shouldn’t get the BearCat.” Analicia Cube of Take Back Santa Cruz agrees. “Whether you’re pro BearCat or against the BearCat, the bottom line is there is a procedure and it should have been followed,” she says. One city employee who wishes to
remain anonymous put it this way: “Either it was purposeful deception or it was unprofessional. Either way, there needs to be accountability.”
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important. Acting has enriched my life immeasurably.” Looking forward to a directing gig next year with Jewel Theatre, Ryan speculates that it definitely helps to have been an actor when working with other actors. “But as a director you have to think about all the actors, all the roles, not just the single focus of one character,” he says. “You have to guide the storytelling of the ensemble. You’re essentially guiding, weaving a living tapestry.” A master of many Shakespearean roles, Ryan learns parts the old fashioned way. “Repetition, repetition, repetition,” he says. “I believe in moving around while learning the lines—getting the lines fully in my body. If you know why you’re saying something, you’ll be able to remember it. It’s about intention—not memorization.” To play a character, “you essentially have to reveal, to pull away parts of yourself that aren’t right for the role. It’s never about adding gestures, costumes, that sort of thing.” The great thing about theater, says Ryan, is that everyone brings something to the creation. “It’s a living art form.” Any roles he hasn’t yet tackled? With a saucy smile Ryan reveals, “Benedick has been on my list for a long time.” How coincidental! When Much Ado About Nothing—in which sparring lovers Beatrice and Benedick endure both wit and trickery—opens next month, Mike Ryan will be playing Benedick. ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ runs June 30-Aug. 30 in the Festival Glen at UCSC. Go to santacruzshakespeare.org for details, or call the ticket office at 459-2159.
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job training by sharing the responsibilities of Artistic Director during the festival’s last year. Now with Barricelli in the role of UC San Diego professor, Ryan is the solo act at the Festival’s helm. “Definitely a switch from acting,” he grins. Grinning is something Ryan does brilliantly. “As an actor, I have to respond to fellow actors, to the director. The hardest part as an artistic director, actually, is not taking control—it’s relinquishing control,” he says. But he also admits that his heightened profile as a well-known actor has helped with other necessary tasks, such as fundraising. “There’s always a new challenge in the theater,” he adds. “That’s what drew me to acting. Every day is new. Ultimately it’s about how to bring more and more of yourself to your art.” For Ryan, personal honesty is the key to acting. “Of course in the beginning of your career there’s value in emulating great actors,” he says. “But when you’ve acquired enough tools, then you can mine your own experience.” Originally, Ryan wanted to be a lawyer. “My dad was a lawyer, but I fell into acting, and then I got obsessed with acting,” he says. However fun and easy it all looks, Ryan insists it’s not all play. “It’s a tremendous amount of work,” he says. “It’s hard and scary and requires great vulnerability. I really believe that for any civilization to work, we have to have a welldeveloped sense of empathy. That’s the glue of civilization, being able to put ourselves in the place of others. And that’s what theater does,” he says, his eyes crinkling eloquently, for emphasis. “In addition, the work is valuable and
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Bookshop Santa Cruz’s summer book group series, occurring once a month through September. Held in breweries and pour houses around town, these events allow you to lounge with hipsters and talk books with fellow readers, craft beer in hand. You’ll also meet a fascinating author, have the chance to win a $150.00 gift certificate, drink awesome beer, and buy books on the spot. Did I mention beer? The first event will be a mixer at Discretion Brewery on June 24, filled with stimulating summer reading suggestions,
happily in paperback—so you can stuff them in your bag and drop them in the sand. The second event is a standout. On July 28, at Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing, join war correspondent, surfer, and New Yorker magazine writer William Finnegan to discuss his new memoir, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life. It doesn’t matter if you lack a surfboard or plane ticket. Finnegan will place you in the curl, with stories of countries and cultures that surround and support surfers worldwide. Travel with him from California to Hawaii, the
South Pacific, Asia, Australia and Africa, as he searches for perfect waves and finds them, not only in remote locations but right next door. Spanning history, obsession, and the far reaches of adventure, his story is a lesson in how to pursue the passionate life. The third event, on Aug. 10, is a discussion of Laline Paul’s enormously creative novel The Bees. In the tradition of Animal Farm and Watership Down, The Bees shrinks the reader down to size, as we explore the yearnings, rewards and dangers of the hive. Our guide is a lowly sanitation bee named Flora 717, who conjures the courage and defiance to realize her true potential. Based in science, empathetic without being sentimental, and unnervingly timely, this is both cautionary tale and tribute to the complexity in our own backyard. Here are a few more new and soon-to-be-released titles, in no particular order, guaranteed to captivate: For anyone who has ever listed To Kill A Mockingbird as a favorite book, the publication of Harper Lee’s newly discovered novel, Go Set A Watchman, is cause for celebration. Written in the 1950s and submitted to publishers before To Kill A Mockingbird, it deals with Atticus Finch and Scout 20 years later, and was thought to be lost for decades. With Harper Lee’s blessing, it promises to flesh out the lives of characters we’ve known and loved for a lifetime. The Water Knife, by Paulo Bacigalupi, should prove especially resonant to those of us living with drought. Set in an all too plausible future where rain dries up before it hits the ground and water rights are more valuable than gold, this dystopian thriller races across the desert landscape between Las Vegas and Arizona, laying out a water war to end all water wars. Blending cyberpunk with a heat index we can already feel, Bacigalupi shows us just where we might be headed. NPR put it best: Think Chinatown Meets Mad Max. Patricia Park’s charming debut novel, Re Jane, leaps off the pages
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of perennial classic Jane Eyre into territory all its own. Instead of English moors, we journey from Queens to Brooklyn to Korea and back with a heroine who is spirited, orphaned, and half Korean. With truths to tell about love, identity, and fitting in, Re Jane is the 21st century story of colliding cultures, stumbling blocks, and one young woman who manages to shake off other people’s expectations in pursuit of her best sense of self. A heist book in the tradition of Ocean’s 11, Among Thieves, by John Clarkson, pits a group of ex-cons against big wigs at a Manhattan brokerage firm, along with the Russian mob, NYPD, illegal arms dealers and the requisite shadow government agency. When Olivia Sanchez runs into some questionable multi-million dollar transactions at her place of employment, the discovery leads to assault and termination by her boss, a partner in the firm. Her cousin and protector, Manny, would like to see him dead, but Manny’s associate and fellow ex-con, James Beck, has a better idea—beat the brokers at their own game. Punctuated by dark humor, sharp twists, and non-stop action, this has all the makings of a badass franchise. Another winner for armchair
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I Was a Teenage Deadhead
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Memories of life on tour, plus the truth about that legendary Santa Cruz Acid Test BY DNA
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s the Grateful Dead play their Northern California farewell shows at Levi’s Stadium this week, it’s clear that there are as many different reasons Deadheads loved the band as there are Deadheads. There were plenty of people who treated shows like athletic endurance competitions, as in “How many shows have you seen?” For others, it was about the shared transient community, the easy
access to psychedelics and ecstatic dance. For me, it became about answering the three questions my father had told me were the only questions worth considering: First, where did we come from? Second, why are we here? And third, where are we going?
TURNED ON, TUNED IN Suburbia in New Jersey in the 1970s and ’80s might have been the most
boring place on the planet to grow up. But one summer evening, while playing backyard basketball, the neighborhood weed merchant turned me on to the music of the Grateful Dead and to the pleasures of Nepalese hash-balls—he was a high-end guy. Thus began a 20-year journey chasing and sometimes finding the most mysterious band in the world. The Grateful Dead were the adventures of Huck Finn, Buckaroo Bonzai and Tintin all rolled into one.
The tie-dyed circus stood in stark contrast to the monochrome Pine Barrens of Reagan-era Jersey. Dead shows were a traveling caravan of characters that scanned like a Philip K. Dick novel on DMT. I was hooked. When asked by the other kids in high school what the shows were like, I would say things like, “At times it was pure revelation, a revealing of layers behind layers of realities, the multiverse in all its complexities.” This might be why my teenage social
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LIVING ON TOUR Traveling to Dead shows was fraught with peril. Situations tended to get hairy on tour. And it was in those
THE WHEEL KEEPS TURNING Phil Lesh and Bob Weir will be joined by Phish’s Trey Anastasio up front for a week of shows in Santa Clara and Chicago. PHOTO: COMMONS.WIKIMEDIA
extreme moments that a person’s mettle was tested. It was a coming-ofage experience that lasted generations. When society doesn’t offer ritual to its youth, they will create their own, and, at times, Grateful Dead shows were like Lord of the Flies on Molly. Other times it was more sublime. My mom thought I had joined a cult. In her mind, I preferred traveling to see a middle-aged Mexican dude play guitar than hang out with her. My vegetarian diet, dreadlocks, VW vans and tour girlfriends did nothing to ease her worry. I loved the adventure of traveling around the country with an ill-formed misfit posse. Gas wasn’t as gouging at the pump as it is today. Back then, I could travel across the country and back with just two balls of hemp string and a bag of African beads as my only means of support. One tour, I only made anklets. I would sell them for $10, or $15 installed. I wasn’t getting rich like the tie-dye and Guatemalan merchants, but it was enough to get to the next show.
Everyone called us hippies, but I thought the entire experience was totally punk rock. All of the antistagemanship of the performers, the anti-trappings of the culture, the band’s refusal to substitute hype and flash for substance, Jerry Garcia’s complete refusal to be a leader. It all seemed to fly in the face of what I heard hippies were supposed to be about. Amongst the throng, there were at least 50 Shades of Deadheads, but one thing that drew us all along was the music.
ACID TEST REVISITED For every Deadhead who was there to raise their consciousness and have a wonderfully healthy spiritual time, there were also those there just for the party. That goes all the way back to the Acid Tests. Originally, the pranksters thought that LSD would be good for all people. Then, they encountered genuine psychotic people who should not be taking LSD at all. Legend has it that the first Acid
Test took place in Santa Cruz at “The Spread.” Novelist and prankster Ken Babbs now lives in Oregon, where the intrepid traveler is writing his memoirs—and Babbs’ account differs from the acknowledged history. This is from a short essay Babbs wrote for this story: “It wasn’t really an Acid Test, per se. We hadn’t started doing them yet. It was a Halloween party. The Merry Band of Pranksters was actually a band, for we played instruments in a bizarre fashion, calling our music a form of nonverbal communication. I played the electric bass, Kesey the electric guitar, George Walker was on drums, Gretchin Fetchin on electric piano and Mike Hagen was also on guitar. We had the instruments set up on the living room of the house and went outside to commune with the moon and form an Om circle, holding hands and ommmming till we levitated a couple of feet off the ground. We settled back down and heard music coming from the house. We went in and saw that the band called The Warlocks were playing our >36 instruments and singing through
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life was wildly awkward. But UCSC Grateful Dead archivist Nicholas Meriwether firmly endorses the idea that Dead shows had more going on than meets the eye and ear. “A lot of Deadheads were on a quest for transcendence,” says Meriwether. “The Grateful Dead used old-fashioned human ritual, elective ritual and communal music making.” Political anarchist Hakim Bey theorized about a social construct where there is a nonhierarchical system of social relationships. He called these uncommon environments “temporary autonomous zones.” According to Meriwether, this is exactly what was happening at Dead shows. “There is a constellation of ways that we describe ritual, certain kinds of performance, music, improvisation, and a variety of things that socket together,” says Meriwether. “The amazing ability of the Dead is to fuse all of these separate things and make it accessible to a popular audience. The Dead were not exclusive. Anyone could participate in it.” Not since the Dionysian Mysteries of ancient Greece have that many thousands of people entered a transformative zone through dance and music. “They managed to continue to court the muse and create that kind of magic even when they were playing a 60,000-person stadium, which is extremely difficult,” Meriwether says. Everyone else who was playing 60,000-seat arenas in the ’80s, from Madonna to Pink Floyd, had their shows choreographed down to the microsecond—every spotlight, every song transition, everything. “That, in part, is a response to the kind of pressure, the kind of money, the kind of stage fright that kind of show creates,” Meriwether explains. Phrased that way, the Dead deserve enormous credit for just being able to walk out in front of a sea of people and try to make it new every night. Nobody else in rock ’n’ roll did that, but the Dead did it every night—or failed gloriously trying.
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<35 our microphones. We dug it a bit and then slowly moved in and started taking over.” As the night progressed, the conversation got heady: “Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady were there that night. Very late, we lay on the floor holding microphones and rapping long nonsensical poetical free jazz that morphed into deep religiosos when we started talking about meeting on the other side and if we believed in it or not. Cassady, the Catholic, said, ‘Doggone, dogma, dog man.’ Kesey, the Baptist, said, ‘Want to fervently believe.’ Babbs, the delayer, said, ‘Won’t know till we get there.’ George Walker, putting it off, said, ‘How about it Allen, what’s the Buddhist take?’ Ginsberg didn’t hesitate. ‘There was a chicken on the side of the road who saw another chicken on the other side. ‘How do I get to the other side?’ he yelled. The other chicken yelled back, ‘You are on the other side.’” I asked Babbs what happened next. “Dawn crested on the eastern ridge and everyone packed up and went
home, leaving not too bad a mess, only a three-day job,” he says. So beyond the party, the lot and even the drugs, what was it all about? There was a feeling many Deadheads had that something, well, extraspecial was happening when the Dead with Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, were playing. Almost four decades later, I can honestly say that I learned almost everything I need to know at Grateful Dead shows. Does it answer the three questions my pops told me I need to always ponder? Perhaps. It’s still evolving, but here’s what I got: 1. Where do we come from? As near as I can figure, we are GMOs whose originators/scientists/farmers/gods are purposely obscured. 2. Why are we here? The only reason we are on this planet is to help each other and keep ourselves entertained until the originators show up again. 3. Where are we going? This one’s easy. Space. But before that, drums.
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SKANKS, MAN The Slackers play the Catalyst at 9 p.m. on Saturday, June 27.
Slack of Faith Ska cult band the Slackers remain true to a much earlier ska sound BY AARON CARNES Vic Ruggiero of ska’s fleeting golden age, when most of the ska bands on MTV in the ’90s were playing a hyperkinetic punk-fueled version of ska. “We were lucky we didn’t get caught up in that. When the hype died, all the bands died. Ska became a dirty word. Everyone stopped going to shows. The people that just liked us, they kept coming to our shows—they became loyal fans. We had a much better scene.” Of all the bands in that era with a big-hit ska single, it was Rancid—a punk band—that brought the traditional “2 Tone” sound of 1970s ska to the mainstream, with their hit “Time Bomb.” Rancid’s Tim Armstrong embraced the Jamaican-
inspired grooves of the Slackers, and signed them to his new Hellcat label in 1997—making them the first band signed to the label. While the Hellcat label remained diverse, traditional ska and reggae was a major part of the roster, including such groups as Hepcat, the Aggrolites and King Django. Even with Hellcat, the Slackers weren’t an instant hit, but through constant touring and a spot on NPR’s All Things Considered in 2001—at the pinnacle of ska’s uncoolness—they gradually built a more substantial following. Around the time they were on NPR, the Slackers released their fourth album Wasted Days, which was
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ot every ska band during the brief ska craze of the mid’90s was selling out venues. While ska-influenced altrockers No Doubt were dominating MTV and radio, and ska-punk goofballs Reel Big Fish were on the set of Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s BASEketball, the Slackers were playing a more rootsy traditional ska sound to halfempty dive bars. Things didn’t pick up for them until a few years later after ska supposedly died a painful death. “It wasn’t our kind of ska boom. It wasn’t happening based off [traditional] bands like us and Hepcat. It was because of the Bosstones, Goldfinger, Reel Big Fish,” says Slackers lead singer/keyboardist
a continuation of their traditional ska grooves, but expanded to include elements of soul, and more importantly, ’50s rock ’n’ roll and doo-wop. “We always listened to ’50s music,” Ruggiero says. “It’s got a romantic sound to it, it doesn’t matter what they’re singing about, it’s make-out music. I think there’s an element to that of us in the group. We all wanted to make make-out music on some level, like ’50s doo-wop, or early R&Bkind of slow jams or rock steady.” The Slackers’ later records mix these elements with ska, and sound less like a Jamaican band and more like what they are: A group of white guys from New York with style and groove. Of course, the other defining factor is Ruggiero’s ragged voice, which is reminiscent of Mick Jagger and Van Morrison. “It’s got to sound convincing coming from you. The guys who I always thought were the coolest singers, they weren’t always hitting the notes perfect. They were making the melodies good, but it was more the delivery and their uniqueness,” Ruggiero says. The Slackers hit the road consistently, and put out albums every couple of years. Members even fill in the gaps with side bands and solo projects. They’re a well-oiled machine at this point, and a model that’s seemingly outdated, but it works—people continue to show up to see them, even as the music industry has completely changed around them. These days, ska may not be as popular as it was in the ’90s, but it isn’t as unpopular as it was in the early 2000s either. As far as Ruggiero is concerned, ska is bigger than a lot of people think. “There’s a lot of secret ska,” he says. “There are a lot of bands that play ska, especially in the hipster scene. All these bands that are supposed to be retro, like Vampire Weekend. They have ska songs, but nobody calls them ska songs. Or even Bruno Mars. All these guys have massive reggae and ska influences. You can hear it all over their music. Nobody’s putting them in any category.”
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QUESTING FOR THE OTHER GIANTS Northern California is known for enormous, towering redwoods, but what about the other giants of the plant kingdom? During this hour-long journey along the river zone, you’ll see all four different ecosystems existing in Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park— each with its enormous trees, like the stately sycamores, California bays, bigleaf maples, elders, black cottonwoods and gargantuan white alders. Learn about the wide array of natural beauty that Henry Cowell offers and what makes for a healthy river. Info: 2:30 p.m., Friday, June 26. Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, 101 North Big Trees Road, Felton. 335-4598. Free.
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In continued celebration of this year’s centennial of Santa Cruz’s Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF), the Santa Cruz Public Library will present an exhibition of “Women, Peace & Power—100 Years,” chronicling changing roles of local women especially in art and activism. The downtown library location features two floors of inspirational artwork and histories including the works of Carolina McCall, Sara Friedlander, Myra Eastman, the Guerilla Girls and many others. Don’t miss out on learning about one of the most dangerous women in America, WILPF founder Jane Addams, and celebrating the legacies of local women before attending the closing ceremony on July 5. Info: 2-5 p.m., Sunday, June 28. 224 Church St., Santa Cruz. Free.
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WEDNESDAY 6/24 ARTS VILLAGE RHYTHMS All ages invited to join us for a cultural experience with drumming and dancing. Founder of Village Rhythms Onye Onyemaechi brings the joy and soul of African culture, music and the celebration of village life. 2-3 p.m. La Selva Beach Library, 316 Estrella Ave., La Selva Beach. 427-7713. Free. PERRY’S FAMILY MAGIC Thirty-minute magic show is a combination of sleight of hand and clean comedy that the whole family will enjoy. Lots of audience participation. Part of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries Summer Reading Program. To learn more or to sign up, visit bit.ly/scplkidsread15. 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Live Oak Library, 2380 Portola Drive, Santa Cruz. 427-7713. Free. KIDS MAKE MUSIC Drop-in class for children based on the book “Kids Make Music.” Make an instrument, learn about it and make music. 2-3 p.m. Santa Cruz Children’s Museum of Discovery, 1855 41st Ave., Capitola. 888-424-8035. Free with museum admission/membership.
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WEDNESDAY 6/24 SCIENCE ON TAP: SOLVING REAL WORLD PROBLEMS
PROBIOTIC POWER Certified Health Coach Hannae Syd shares tips and tricks for improving digestive health through diet and lifestyle adaptations. Intestinal health is a vital part of a healthy immune system. 6-7 p.m. New Leaf Community Market, 1210 41st Ave, Capitola. newleafcapitola.eventbrite.com. Free.
Statistical modeling can be sexy—sensual margins and throbbing formulae pave the way to a playground for the intellectual who fears commitment to computer modeling. Maybe! In any case, the UCSC Applied Mathematics department hopes to show how, sexy or not, statistical modeling can help solve real world problems. Dr. Herbert Lee of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at UCSC will explain what statistical modeling is and how it provides a cheaper yet equally effective alternative to computer modeling. He’ll take novice numbers enthusiasts through real-world problems such as health care policy and groundwater contamination in a talk for “normal people” (statistician brain not required).
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Info: 8 p.m., The Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. Free. 429-6994.
HEMLOCK DISCUSSION GROUP Discuss end of life options with others. Meets the last Wednesday of each month. 2-3:30 p.m. Aptos Fire Protection District Station, 6934 Soquel Drive, Aptos, conference room upstairs. 457-0999. Free.
HEALTH QI GONG FOR ENERGY BALANCE & HEALTH BY BREIGE WALBRIDGE Qi
Gong is an ancient Chinese healing art that has been used for centuries to balance one's internal body energy and promote good health. 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Land of Medicine Buddha 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel. 462-8383. Donation. BLOOD SUGAR BLUES WITH CYNTHIA
QUATTRO Learn about the relationship between diet and blood sugar changes. Early signs of blood sugar problems and how to avoid insulin resistance. The three types of diabetes. A five-step approach to prevent blood-sugar-related conditions. How your hormones affect your blood sugar levels. Nutritional supplements to support your
CALENDAR blood-sugar balance. 6:30-8 p.m. Way of Life, 1220A 41st Ave., Capitola. 464-4113. Free.
OUTDOORS NEARY LAGOON TOUR FOR ACTIVE SENIORS Free guided natural history tour of Neary Lagoon for active seniors ages 45 and up. Bird spotting, plant identification, Ohlone history, and land conservation information on three-mile walking tour. RSVP. 9:30 a.m.noon. 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. 420-6180. Free.
SPIRITUAL MEDITATION FOR LIFE Mindfulness meditation class. Drop in. Simple, basic meditation technique that focuses on the breath. Floor cushions and chairs provided. 7-8 p.m. Branciforte Plaza, 555 Soquel Ave., Studio #245, Santa Cruz. 246-0443, holeyboy.com. Free, donations accepted. JUNIPER MEDITATION FOR MODERN LIFE Second and fourth Wednesday evening meditation. Meditation, talk, discussion on Buddhist training for modern life. All-level meditators and drop-ins welcome. 7:30-9 p.m. Pacific Cultural Center, Gallery Room. juniperpath.org. $10.
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PERRY'S FAMILY MAGIC SHOW. Familyfriendly. 2-3 p.m. Aptos Branch Library, 7695 Soquel Drive, Aptos. 427-7713. Free.
CLASSES CHOICES FOR THE CARE OF YOUR LOVED ONE In this class you will explore how to do a self-evaluation of your individual situation and learn how to find care options both in-home and out-of-home that fit your financial budget. 2-4 p.m. CAN Insurance Office, 1500 41st Ave., Suite 280, Capitola. 459-6639. Free. SAMBA: ALL LEVELS DANCE CLASS High-energy Brazilian dance fitness classes infused with Samba Rio, Samba Reggae,
SALSA DANCING CUBAN-STYLE Variety of Cuban-style dancing including Casino partnering and Salsa Suelta. Drop-in. No partner required. For intermediate dancers and up. Two skilled instructors with over 15 years of experience. 7-8 p.m. Louden Nelson Center, Santa Cruz. salsagente.com, 2956107. $9/$5 students. SALSA RUEDA FUN DANCING DOWNTOWN Fun Cuban Salsa Rueda dancing. Immerse yourself in vibrant music and easy but cool-looking moves. Drop-in. No partner required. For Beginner level 2 and up. Basic Salsa skills required. 8-9 p.m. Louden Nelson Center, Santa Cruz. salsagente.com, 426-4724. $9/$5 students.
FOOD & WINE EVENT SANTA CRUZ: POPUP NIGHT There is a growing food scene in our community. Celebrate and hear from the new up-andcomers of this movement. 6-8:30 p.m. 104 Bronson St., Ste. #13, Santa Cruz. eventsantacruz.com. $15.
GROUPS BABY HAT KNITTING GROUP Join Kiddie Kapers in making hats for newborns in Santa Cruz County. Meet with the group (usually on the last Thursday of the month) or make hats at home and drop them off. Donations of sport and baby weight yarn are appreciated. 12:30-3 p.m. 4425 Clares St., #31, Capitola. 479-9613. Free. A COURSE IN MIRACLES SANTA CRUZ A Course In Miracles is a book on enlightenment that might be called a psychological journey to a spiritual awakening. We informally but deeply study this book, taking a few paragraphs each week. Books provided, regular attendance not required. 7:15-9 p.m. Barn Studio at 104b Agnes St., Santa Cruz. 272-2246. spiritualear.org/acim (map). Free.
HEALTH FOOD ADDICTS IN RECOVERY ANONYMOUS FA is a program based on the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. FA is a fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience and mutual support, are recovering from the disease of food
SUNDAY 6/28 JEWISH CULTURAL FESTIVAL In the spirit of friendship, learning, and love, join Temple Beth El in celebrating its third annual Jewish Cultural festival this Sunday with six hours of food, music and festivities. Nosh and kibbitz, shop the shuk, enjoy Nana’s matzoh ball soup shots, swing to the global musical entertainment and feast at Aptos’ Lower East Side deli—and get your spirits up at the “BAR” Mitzvah serving wine and beer. There’s something for the kinder as well, of course, with an all-day play-dough table, craft-making, and music circles. More than 20 local and Bay Area artists will feature their original artwork in booths throughout the festival, and Carol Skolnick, Zambra, Klezmer Gypsy All Stars, Adama, and Rock Shabbat Band will keep you on your feet, dancing the day away. Info: 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Temple Beth El, 3044 Porter Gulch Road, Aptos. 479-3444. Free.
addiction. 9-10:30 a.m. 420 Melrose Ave., Santa Cruz. 435-0680. Free.
FRIDAY 6/26 ARTS PERRY’S FAMILY MAGIC Family-friendly. 11 a.m.-noon. Capitola Public Library, 2005 Wharf Road, Capitola. 427-7713. Free.
CLASSES CHAIR YOGA WITH SUZI Therapeutic practice will help you increase strength, range of motion, stamina, memory and mental awareness, improve circulation and relax the body all while seated on a chair.
Stretch your body and relax your mind. For all ages. 9:30-10:30 a.m. 2710 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz at Grey Bears in the computer room. 234-6791, suzimahler@ gmail.com. $5.
GROUPS Clutterers Anonymous 12-step program every Friday. There is hope for order and serenity in your life. You are not alone. 5:306:45 p.m. Sutter Room, Sutter Maternity & Surgical Center, 2900 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz. 359-3008. Free. OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS 12-Step support group for those who want to stop eating compulsively. Meetings daily. For schedule of times and locations: >40
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COLLAGE WORKSHOP WITH T. MIKE WALKER Fun and challenging photo collage workshop. Workshop is structured, arrive on time. Kids ages 7 and up. 1-3 p.m. Branciforte Library, 230 Gault St., Santa Cruz. 427-7713. Free.
Samba de Roda, plus movements from Africa, Cuba, Trinidad, Tobago, and more. Live drumming. 6-7:25 p.m. 418 Front St., Santa Cruz. DanceOfBrazil.com. $15.
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HEALTH VITAMIN B12 FRIDAY Fun time for people to meet and mingle, enjoy our beautiful healing atmosphere, meet the doctors and start their weekend off right. Come on down and bring a friend or loved one. 3-6 p.m. Thrive Natural Medicine, 2840 Park Ave., Soquel. 515-8699. FREE DENTISTRY Free dental event for uninsured adults, 18 years and older. Choice of free cleaning, extraction or filling. First come, first served. Limited parking; park on Mission Drive and look for signs/balloons. 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m. 1775 Dominican Way, Santa Cruz. 476-7272. Free.
MUSIC THE BLACKOUTS LIVE AT COASTERS BAR AND GRILL Best of the ’80s. Blondie, Pat Benatar, Billy Idol, Journey and the Cars. Dance, drink, and dine with the Blackouts. Wear your favorite ’80s outfit. 9 p.m.-12:15 a.m. Coasters Bar and Grill at the Boardwalk Bowl. No cover.
SPIRITUAL ZEN MEDITATION & LIFE Zen meditation, discussion and tea. Everyone welcome. Every Sat. Ocean Gate Zen Center, 920 41st Ave. 8:30-10:30 a.m. 920 41st Ave., Suite B. info@ oceangatezen.org. Donation.
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VIDEO NEWS: SHAPING YOUR NEWS PIECE FOR THE WEB, PODCASTING AND VIDEO STORYTELLING Learn to tell your story through video. Get hands-on practice with professional video cameras and your own mobile device. Learn best practices and
tips, legal issues and ethics. This is workshop No. 3 in a new citizen journalism series being taught by local journalists and hosted by Community Television of Santa Cruz County. 9 a.m.-Noon. 816 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. jennifer@jenniferpittman.com. $40 /$48 (discount for whole series).
CLASSES PARTNER YOGA AND KIRTAN AT POETIC CELLARS WINERY Enjoy an exchange of energies and deepen a connection between you and your partner through asanas, pranayama, tantric principles and sacred sound. Bring a yoga mat, and auxiliary props if you have them. See poeticcellars.com for directions. Ongoing Saturdays. 10 a.m.noon. 462-3478 to reserve space. Donations accepted.
GROUPS SANTA CRUZ DERBY GIRLS: HOME TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS It all comes down to this bout as two of our talented home teams face off for bragging rights and the Home Team Championship Trophy. 6:30-9 p.m. Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. santacruzderbygirls.org. $18/$32. 3RD ANNUAL PLEASURE POINT STREET FAIR Featuring nine local bands on two stages—from reggae to funk to rock cover band Coffee Zombie Collective. There will be a skateboard contest, arts and crafts, great food, and a beer garden. With a kids’ area across from the beer garden for kids 3-8 for $10 an hour. A benefit for Surfrider Foundation. Sponsored by the Pleasure Point Business Association. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Portola Drive between 41st and 38th avenues, Santa Cruz. pleasurepointstreetfair.com. Free.
HEALTH COMPLEMENTARY TREATMENT FORUM Educational and collaborative group for women with cancer who want to learn about complementary treatments. Meets every fourth Saturday of the month. 10:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. WomenCARE. Call to register 457-2273. Free.
MUSIC MUSIC ON THE MOUNTAIN Casa Ganesh Records presents Music On The Mountain 2015 featuring the best of progressive world and local music in the San Francisco Bay Area. Pangea Futbol Club, Lillie Lemon, Salt
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FRIDAY-SUNDAY 6/26-28 21ST ANNUAL ‘WOODIES ON THE WHARF’ Picture the beach town of the late ’50s—think pressed polo shirts, khaki shorts, the Beach Boys playing on the jukebox at the local malt shop—and step into a vintage, good ol’ fashioned reality with this year’s annual “Woodies on the Wharf.” Featuring more than 200 wood-bodied beauties, this is far more than just a car show—this year’s festival will have a breakfast and paddle out, welcome-home party, a wharf parade, and more activities over the course of three days. Plenty of eats, woodie cars, and more than enough good vibrations to go around. Check out the weekend’s schedule online. Info: 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Santa Cruz Wharf, 21 Municipal Wharf, Santa Cruz. santacruzwoodies.com.
GEOFF ALLEN Guitarist Geoff Allen has been rocking since the 1970s when he played in the band Lomamar and more recently in the band Blu. He performs many musical genres, and enjoys requests. 6-9 p.m. Davenport Roadhouse Restaurant & Inn, davenportroadhouse.com. Free.
SPIRITUAL 13TH ANNUAL MEDICINE BUDDHA FESTIVAL AND CULTURAL FAIR Highlights include: traditional Tibetan procession beginning at 11 a.m. Processing and raising of the 24-foot painting (thangkha) of Medicine Buddha, led by the Gamelan
Orchestra. To join the procession, arrive by 10:45 a.m. Free lunch with Tibetan and Asian food and American pies for dessert. Local artists, healing practitioners, Himalayan handicrafts, gift booths and other vendors. Free shuttle service to and from the festival starting on Main Street. Limited parking on site for $20 carbon offset fee. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Land of Medicine Buddha, 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel. Donations/Free.
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ARTS DONATE YOUR OLD BIKE, CHANGE A LIFE Alaffia makes body-care products out of Shea Butter and coconut oil from Togo, West Africa. They give back to that community by providing bikes to students. Ninety-one percent of girls drop out of school because they live 10-15 miles away and have to travel through unsafe areas to get there. When given a bike, 95 percent of students graduate. All used adult bikes and bike parts collected will be sent directly to Africa. Join us for a fun day with the Alaffia Team. 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Whole Foods Market, 911 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. Free.
CAPITOLA SUNDAY ART & MUSIC AT THE BEACH Live music on the Esplanade stage, with Laurent Fourgo & His Combo. Local artist displays. cityofcapitola.org. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Esplanade Park, Capitola. 4197485. Free.
CLASSES SALSA FOOTWORK AND WORKOUT Learn to dance and get fit at the same time. No partners needed. Drop-ins welcome to our beginner and intermediate salsa suelta classes every week. 9 a.m.-10 a.m. The Tannery, 1060 River St., Santa Cruz. 818-1834. BailamosSalsaRueda.com. $7/$5 student. BEGINNER SALSA RUEDA Come check us out. Drop-ins welcome. No experience or
CALENDAR partners needed. Wear comfortable clothes. Only clean shoes on the dance floor. 6:307:30 p.m. The Tannery 1060 River St., #111. 818-1834 or BailamosSalsaRueda.com. $7/$5 students. ESSENTIAL OILS FOR ROMANCE Interactive class to learn about the overall benefits of essential oils and how they can be used to enhance a romantic evening. Make personalized bath salts. 1-2 p.m. Mountain Spirit, 6299 Hwy 9, Felton. 335-7700. $10.
GROUPS SERENITY FIRST—PAGANS IN RECOVERY Weekly meeting with a pagan flair. Guests free to discuss their spiritual paths, including those which are nature-based and goddesscentered. Those from all 12-step programs welcome. 7-8 p.m. MHCAN, 1051 Cayuga St., Santa Cruz, Room 12. 925-895-3424. Donation/Free. REGISTRATION NOW OPEN: CANCER FUNDRAISER New Leaf Community Markets is looking for players and sponsors for their Fourth annual Taste at the Tee Golf Tournament. Funds raised will be donated to Santa Cruz Cancer Benefit Group and its six local beneficiaries: Hospice of Santa Cruz, Jacob’s Heart Children’s Cancer Association, Katz Cancer Resource Center, Teen Kitchen Project, UC Santa Cruz Fellowship for Cancer Research, and WomenCARE. This year’s fundraising goal is $30,000. With shotgun scramble, food, beer, and wine samples around the course. Seascape Golf Club, 610 Clubhouse Drive, Aptos. newleaf.com/tasteat-the-tee or 600-3863.
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Temple Beth El—Jewish Cultural Festival Everyone is invited. Temple Beth El brings to its campus the third annual Jewish Cultural Festival. Admission is free for this familyfriendly event that includes six hours of food, music and fun. Nosh and kibbitz, shop the shuk, and swing and sway to nonstop live musical entertainment. Parking will be available on the Temple Beth El campus with overflow parking at the Cabrillo College
SPIRITUAL HERMES AT THE CROSSROADS How does the ancient Greek messenger deity Hermes intersect with nature and modern mass communication? Take a nature walk and find out. Bring good walking shoes, sunscreen, water, food to share, and an open mind. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Moore Creek Preserve (Highway 1 & Shaffer Road). pandemosbay@gmail. com. Free. INSPIRATIONAL MEDITATION SERVICE Join the Santa Cruz SRF Meditation Group for Sunday morning Inspirational Service. This service includes inspirational readings from the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda, the founder of Self-Realization Fellowship and the author of the spiritual classic “Autobiography of a Yogi.” 11 a.m.noon. Call for location. 334-2088. RED CEDAR PRAYER CIRCLE We invite you to join us in a Native American prayer circle. There will be singing, dancing and praying. Bring your drums and rattles if you have them and any pictures of loved ones you want to place on the altar for prayers. We will be meeting the fourth Sunday of each month. 7-10 p.m. Quaker meeting house, 225 Rooney St., Santa Cruz. kathysundown@ yahoo.com or 530-913-0554. Free/ Donations.
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WEDNESDAY 7/1 MOUNTAIN SPIRIT WRITING GROUP Maybe writing thoughts and experiences has always been a cathartic act, maybe you were the kid in English who barely had to try to get an A-plus on their essays. Whatever the motivation and skill level, the Mountain Spirit Writing Group meets every first Wednesday of the month to support and inspire writers. Each month they work on bringing out everyone’s individual stories—people, places, things, moments in time. Led by Wendy Ledger, who has an MA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University where she has also taught, this group is an open and creative space for self expression— so grab a pen and notebook, the pages await! Info: 5-7 p.m. Mountain Spirit, 6299 State Route 9, Felton. 335-7700. $15 suggested donation.
CLASSES VING TSUN CLUB SC Learn and Practice: Pak Sao, Pak Dar, Lop Sao, Don Chi Sao, Luk Sao, etc. 8-9 p.m. 1344 Pacific Ave., Second Floor. Free.
GROUPS EVENING TOASTMASTERS Strengthen public speaking and leadership skills. Supportive and fun group; all levels welcome. 6:30-7:30 p.m. Live Oak Senior Center, 1777 Capitola Road, Santa Cruz. dtyrrel@sbcglobal.net. Guests free. WOMEN’S COMMUNITY SAILING Provide a relaxing, low-pressure learning environment where women can learn to sail and improve their sailing with other women. All skill levels welcome. 5-7 p.m. UCSC dock, Santa Cruz Harbor. 475-6464; boating.ucsc. edu/boatingclub/womenssailing.
TUESDAY 6/30 CLASSES MOD GARDENING CLUB Children learn to take care of and learn about the MOD Children’s Garden. 11 a.m.-noon. Santa Cruz Children’s Museum of Discovery, 1855 41st Ave., Capitola. 888-424-8035. Free with admission/membership.
FOOD & WINE TAPAS TUESDAYS Enjoy live music, delicious plates and Spanish wine specials every Tuesday. Sweeping views of the Monterey Bay complement our exceptional service. Outdoor patio dining, international wine list and specialty cocktails. Happy Hour 4-5 p.m. Hollins House, Pasatiempo Golf Club. 459-9177.
GROUPS MOOD MATTERS Weekly, confidential dropin peer-support group for persons with any type of mood challenge, including depression, bipolar, or schizoaffective disorders. Family and friends welcome. 6-8 p.m. MHCAN, Room 12, 1051 Cayuga St., Santa Cruz. 247-1124. Free.
MUSIC ENAHENA AND TAN OF DREAMS Vocalist, prolific songwriter, and innovative drummer and percussionist. A native of Italy, he sings in English, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese. 6-9 p.m. Davenport Roadhouse Restaurant and Inn. davenportroadhouse.com. Free.
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SEMINAR: BLOSSOMS IN THE SPRING QIGONG Learn a simple, meditative Qigong practice for healing and rejuvenation. We’ll learn the routine, practice together, drink tea, and explore the place of Qigong in Chinese medicine and healing. 1-3:30 p.m. Academy of Martial and Internal Arts, 1570 Soquel Drive, Santa Cruz. 475-1429. $25.
parking lot across the street. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 3044 Porter Gulch Road, Aptos. Free.
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LOCAL BAND HALL PASS
“Hall Pass” might sound like an ’80s screwball comedy, but really it’s a local cover band—and not even an ’80s cover band. The name Hall Pass refers to the fact that two of the members are teachers. The other two are parents of kids at their school. They play songs from the ’60s to the present, all generally rock-based, and a little unexpected and random. “We mainly cover songs that people are familiar with, but don’t hear all the time, like Eve 6 or Harvey Danger,” says drummer Patrick McMillan. “There’s a lot of great songs out there. We’re trying to find a different niche and surprise people with songs, whether it’s with a song by Rancid, Sublime, or we’ll play a Doors song or Beatles song. Or we might play Black Keys. We’re all over the place.”
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Regardless of when the song was originally released, Hall Pass sounds like a ’90s alt-rock band. When they play Simple Minds’“Don’t You (Forget About Me)” or Nena’s “99 Luftballons” they do them as ’90s pop-punk songs. Songs from the ’90s to present are done more true to form.
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“All of us are in our early-to-mid 40s, so we all went to college in the ’90s. We were all in high school bands or college bands, and then we became adults,” says McMillan. The group is a fun outlet for the members, who all have full-time jobs. Part of the joy is in reading the crowd and adapting accordingly. They have over 75 tunes in their repertoire, and try to give the crowd what they want whenever they play. “Some songs will clear the dance floor and some will bring them all out. We were playing the other day and our bass player just started the beginning of a Violent Femmes song, and 20 people rushed out on the floor. You kind of go down the direction everyone is feeling at the time,” McMillan says. AARON CARNES INFO: 8:30 p.m. Thursday, June 25. Crow’s Nest, 2218 East Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz. $5. 476-4560.
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WEDNESDAY 6/24 PSYCHOBILLY
GUTTER DEMONS Oscar Wilde once said, “We’re all in the gutter, but some of us are rock ’n’ roll demons.” OK, maybe not quite that, but it’s the perfect way to describe 14-year psychobilly veterans the Gutter Demons. The Montreal trio delivers the best of their genre with heavy upright bass slapping, revved-up rockabilly guitar and all the horror imagery a ghoul could want. Add to the concoction Santa Cruz’s newly resurrected Stellar Corpses with Thee Merry Widows (the Bay’s longest-running all-female psychobilly band) and the result can only mean one hell of a rumble pit. MAT WEIR INFO: 9 p.m., Catalyst Atrium, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $12/adv, $15/door. 429-4135.
THURSDAY 6/25 AMERICANA
JOHN DOE LA’s X were one of the more eclectic first-wave punk bands, incorporating el-
ements of country, folk, roots, rockabilly and alternative rock into their sound pretty early in their career. This diversity set up bassist/lead singer John Doe for a successful and seemingly un-punk solo career, mostly as a folk-country troubadour, and frequent collaborator with other great songwriters like Jill Sobule and Aimee Mann. His 1990 debut Meet John Doe showcased his tender grittiness, and just how beautifully his weathered voice delivered reflective lyrics. He may be classified more so in the Americana category now, but he still keeps his music diverse and direct. AARON CARNES INFO: 8 p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $18/adv, $20/door. 603-2294.
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JAZZ CAMP CONCERT Most of the kids attending Kuumbwa’s Summer Jazz Camp aren’t destined to go on as professional musicians. They’re playing for fun, for the challenge of gaining proficiency on their instruments while gaining insight into the art of instant composition (i.e. improvisation). But some of the teenagers on stage for this session-ending concert are likely to follow in the footsteps of tenor
saxophonist Jesse Scheinin, and the twins Remy and Pascal LeBoeuf (on sax and piano, respectively), who gained invaluable experience getting mentored in Kuumbwa education programs. Think of the show as a free peek at jazz’s future. ANDREW GILBERT
INFO: 7 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. Free. 427-2227.
FRIDAY 6/26 CELTIC
CHARMAS & WILD ROVERS A Santa Cruz-based Celtic band complete with fiddle, flute, pennywhistle, guitar, mandolin, banjo, bodhran, bagpipe, bass, and vocals, Charmas draws inspiration from legendary Celtic outfits including the Chieftains, The Clancy Brothers, Molly’s Revenge, and Steeleye Span. They’re joined on Friday by the Wild Rovers, local purveyors of pub-friendly, Irish singalong songs in the spirit of Flogging Molly and the Pogues. CAT JOHNSON INFO: 9 p.m. Blue Lagoon, 923 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz, $5. 423-7117
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BE OUR GUEST SANTA CRUZ SHAKESPEARE
JOHN DOE
HIP HOP
POTLUCK
INFO: 8:30 p.m. Catalyst Atrium, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $14/adv, $17/door. 429-4135.
SATURDAY 6/27 FOLK
LAUREN SHERA Lauren Shera spent her childhood in New York, and currently lives in Nashville, but it was the time in the middle, right here in Northern California, that she feels most influenced her sound. The young folk singer’s music
day. He formed the group with Babatunde Williams, Kuti’s prized trumpet player. The music is true to the tradition of the music, which relies on trance-like repetition and a deep groove. AC INFO: 9 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $10/adv, $15/door. 479-1854.
INFO: 9 p.m. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz. $10. 429-6994.
MONDAY 6/29
AFROBEAT
SUGARCANE JANE
LAGOS ROOTS AFROBEAT ENSEMBLE
Hailing from the Alabama Gulf Coast, Sugarcane is a husband-and-wife Americana duo comprising Anthony Crawford and Savana Lee Crawford. Anthony is a renowned multi-instrumentalist whose credits include playing with Neil Young, Steve Winwood, Dwight Yoakam, and Rosanne Cash. Savana is an Alabama-born multi-instrumentalist and self-described “natural drifter” with a standout voice. As Sugarcane Jane, they pull from a variety of influences including gospel, country, jazz, and rock. CJ
Ensemble is right—they have 17 members in the band, not including friends who might drop in and join them for a show. The Oakland group takes listeners right back to 1970s West Africa when Fela Kuti was dazzling locals with his politically charged, highly danceable hybrid of funk, jazz and traditional African music known as Afrobeat. The group aren’t just avid lovers of the music. They are led by Geoffrey Omadhebo, an Afrobeat drummer from Nigeria who played with lots of the greats back in the
AMERICANA
INFO: 7:30 p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $10. 603-2294.
INFO: Santa Cruz Shakespeare runs June 30-Aug. 30. More info: santacruzshakespeare.org. WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/giveaways before 11 a.m. on Friday, June 26 to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to Much Ado About Nothing.
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California country out of Los Angeles. Wednesday at Crepe Place LIL’ ED & THE BLUES IMPERIALS
Chicago blues great. Thursday at Moe’s Alley JEFF CRUSE TRIBUTE
Several of the area’s standout acts pay tribute to the late-guitarist. Saturday at Don Quixote’s YELLOW SUBMARINE SING-ALONG
Sing along to the classic Beatles film. Saturday at Rio Theatre BAEZA
Rapper/producer out of Fresno. Sunday at Catalyst
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Humboldt County, California is home to the Lost Coast, an ocean of marijuana, and hip-hop duo Potluck. Emcees Underrated and 1 Ton have been representing the Emerald Triangle since their 2001 debut, Humboldt County High, and never shy away from their county’s number one crop. Potluck’s fire flow, strange beats and high-quality rhymes quickly gained the respect of the underground, and the duo have since collaborated/toured with E-40, Tech N9ne, Krizz Kaliko and Bone-Thugs-NHarmony, just to name a few. MW.
is tranquil and gorgeous and evokes California coastlines, mountains and meditative beauty of the ocean. She keeps her music sparse, with the focus on the gentle finger-picking of the acoustic guitar, but with little touches like limited backing instruments and backing harmonies that gives it the lush quality of Fleet Foxes. Her latest record is 2014’s Gold and Rust. AC
Earlier this month, Santa Cruz Shakespeare announced plans to find a new home in the city of Santa Cruz. While the move marks an exciting new chapter for productions accessible to the wider community, one can’t help but feel a twinge of sadness that Shakespeare in the glen will be no more. If you’ve been meaning to get up to the glen, now’s the time to do it. This year’s productions include Macbeth and the witty battle-of-the-sexes tale Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Laura Gordon. CAT JOHNSON
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Wednesday June 24th 8:30pm $8/10 Cow Punk/Honky Tonk
TWO COW GARAGE THANKS BUDDY THE GUTZ Thursday June 25th 8pm $15/20 Evening With, 2 Sets
LIL’ ED & THE BLUES IMPERIALS Friday June 26th 9pm $17/20 Latin/Reggae/World Music Party
B-SIDE PLAYERS + ROOTZ UNDERGROUND Saturday June 27th 9pm $10/15 Big Band Afrobeat w/ Members Of AFRICA 70 & SONNY OKOSUNS
LAGOS ROOTS
6/24
BLUE LAGOON 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz
Wayy Open Mic 6:30-9p
Rhythm Dragons, The Hearders & More $5 9p
6/27
Carly and the Universe 7p
Getaway Dogs 7p
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TUE
6/30
Poetry Workshop, Poetry Open Mic & Late Mic 4-10p
Summer Peaks 7:30p
Comedy Night/ 80s Night Free 8:30p
Charmas, The Wild Rovers $5 9p
Blueprint, Eliquate, DJ Rare Groove, JWON $5 9p
Faded, Mercury’s Antennae $5 9p
DJ/Live Music
Comedy Night
Jazz Night Free 5p Fat T-Rex Free 8p
Karaoke 8p-Close
The Blackouts 9-11:45p
BOCCI’S CELLAR 140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz
Funk Night Free 9p
Do-Rights Burlesque, Cleveland Cowboys Free 8p
Swing Dance $5 5:30p Burner Party$5 8p Metal Show Free 9p
Reggae Night Free 9p SC Unscrews $10/$20 9p
Karaoke 9p
Karaoke 9p
Skanks Roots Projects
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BRITANNIA ARMS 110 Monterey Ave, Capitola DJ Luna 9p
Radio Etiquette, Moon Beau & more $5 9p Karaoke
Open Mic
Comedy Night Free 8p Songwriter Showcase 7-10p
OG Maco $20/$25 8p
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CILANTROS 1934 Main St, Watsonville
Hippo Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p
Wednesday July 1st 8:30pm $9/12
CREPE PLACE 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz
“Solving Real World Problems,” Western Wednesdays $8/$9 8p
1535 Commercial Way Santa Cruz 831.479.1854
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Karaoke 8p-Close
Gutter Demons $12/$15 8:30p
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Rainbow Night w/DJ AD DJ/Ladies’ Night
CATALYST ATRIUM 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz
July 2nd BROKEN ENGLISH July 3rd MICHAEL ROSE + Teki July 4th PATO BANTON July 8th JOHN MAYALL July 9th DEAD WINTER CARPENTERS July 10th & 11th THE WHITE BUFFALO July 12th AFLORA July 15th THE SUBDUDES July 16th JOSEPH ISRAEL July 18th COFFEE ZOMBIE COLLECTIVE July 19th RICK ESTRIN July 22nd DEBBIE DAVIES July 25th & 26th LA SANTA CECILIA July 28th ALERTA KAMARADA July 29th KATCHAFIRE July 31st TARRUS RILEY August 7th WHITEY MORGAN August 8th ZONGO JUNCTION August 12th NOVALIMA August 13th CORNMEAL August 14th THE SKATALITES August 15th VAUD & THE VILLAINS
FRI
BOARDWALK BOWL 115 Cliff St, Santa Cruz
CATALYST 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz
FRUITION + STEEP RAVINE
6/25
Lara Price, Velvet Plum 8-11p
BLUE LOUNGE 529 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz
Sunday June 28th 8:30pm $12/15
Bluegrass/Americana
THU
BITTERSWEET BISTRO 787 Rio Del Mar Blvd, Aptos
CASA SORRENTO 393 Salinas St, Salinas
GLEN DAVID ANDREWS
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THE ART BAR & CAFE 1060 River St #112, Santa Cruz
AFROBEAT ENSEMBLE New Orleans Favorite Returns
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WED APTOS ST. BBQ 8059 Aptos St, Aptos
The Redlight District $8 8:30p
Potluck $14/$17 8p
The Slackers $14/$16 8:30p
Baeza $20/$50 8p KPIG Happy Hour 5:30-7:30p
Marty O’Reilly and the Old Soul Orchestra & more $12 9p
Songs Hotbox Harry Taught Us $8 9p
Lauren Shera, The Fairground Saints $10 9p
Don Cat, Burnt Palms, Strange Ideas $8 9p
Desmadre $3 9p
7 Come 11 $5 9p
LIVE MUSIC WED CROW’S NEST 2218 E. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz
6/24
Now and Then $3 7:30p
6/25
THU Beach BBQ Party w/ House Rockers 5:30p Hall Pass $5 8:30p
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6/26
Locomotive Breath $6 9p
DAV. ROADHOUSE 1 Davenport Ave, Davenport
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6/27
Bonedrivers $7 9:30p
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MON
6/29
Live Comedy $7 9p
Geoff Allen
DON QUIXOTE’S 6275 Hwy 9, Felton
John Doe of X $18/$20 8p
Foreverland $17/20 8p
Jeff Cruse $10 8p
6/30
TUE Ocean-View Reggae Party Free 8p
Tan of Dreams Awna Teixeira $10/$12 7p
Sugarcane Jane, Anthony Crawford & more $10 7:30p
Thursday, June 25 U 7 pm FREE COMMUNITY EVENT!
SUMMER JAZZ CAMP CONCERT Come hear the future of jazz! Thursday, July 9 U 7 pm Rising Star Pianist!
CAILI O’DOHERTY “PADME” CD RELEASE
THE FISH HOUSE 972 Main St, Watsonville
WITH SANTA CRUZ NATIVE BEN FLOCKS
GG RESTAURANT 8041 Soquel Dr, Aptos
Uncharted Jazz 6-9p
HENFLING’S 9450 Hwy 9, Ben Lomond
Flingo 7p
Pete Contino Accordion 6-9p Dr.Madd Free 9p
IDEAL BAR & GRILL 106 Beach St, Santa Cruz IT’S WINE TYME 312 Capitola Ave, Capitola
Celebrating Forty Years of Creativity
Open Mic 7p
KUUMBWA 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz
John and Harrison 7p
Matias Urzua Flamenco 6-9p
F-Dupp 9p
Quarter Till 9p
The Next Blues Band 4p
Live Music 10p-1a
Live Music 10p-1a
Karaoke w/Eve 2-5p
Keavin Shine 7p
Jade 7p
Simone and Rivere 4p
Trivia Night 7p
Roadhouse Karaoke 7:30p Karaoke w/Eve 9:30p
Steve Walters 6:30p
Val Blaha 6:30p
Jazz Camp Concert 7-10p
Saturday, July 11 U 9 pm CLUB KUUMBWA
MICHAEL FEINBERG NYC Bassist on the Rise! $5 at the door! Monday, July 13 U 7 pm
SPIROS EXARAS – ELIO VILLAFRANCA PROJECT Cuban pianist and Greek guitarist create rich melodies with artistic brilliance
MALONE’S 4402 Scotts Valley Dr, Scotts Valley
Live Music 5:30-9p
Chris Kelly 7-10p
Live Music 5:30-9p
Karaoke w/Ken 9p
MICHAEL’S ON MAIN 2591 Main St, Soquel
Snarky Cats Band 7-10p
Acoustic Soul 7-10p
Breeze Babes 8-11p
The Spell 8-11p
MISSION ST. BBQ 1618 Mission St, Santa Cruz
Tomas Gomez 6p
Broken Shades 6p
MOE’S ALLEY 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz
Two Cow Garage, Lil’ Ed & the Blues Thanks Buddy, The Gutz Imperials $15/$20 7p $8/$10 8p
B-Side Players, Rootz Underground $17/$20 8p
1/2 Price Night for Students 7th Wave 7-10p
Dave Muldauer 6:30-8:30p Rand Rueter 6p
Lagos Roots Afrobeat Ensemble $10/$15 8p
Glen David Andrews $12/$15 8p
Thursday, July 16 U 7 pm
RAY OBIEDO GROUP “...in the pocket Latin fusion.” –Allmusic.com Saturday, July 18 U 7:30 pm
DONNY MCCASLIN’S FAST FUTURE Monday, July 20 U 7 pm
FREDDY COLE QUARTET “A true gentleman of song...” –JazzTimes Friday, July 24 U 7:30 pm
JONATHA BROOKE “...powerful, emotional and intelligent songs.” –NPR Monday, July 27 U 7 pm
JEFF HAMILTON TRIO “...highly melodic and musical drummer...” –DownBeat Tuesday, July 28 U 7 pm | FREE EVENT!
7/30 7/31 8/3 8/6 8/7 8/10 8/12 8/13 8/17 8/24 8/30
Alive! Reunion Concert – 40 Years Dizzy Burnett “Tribute to Billy Holiday” Letieres Leite & Orkestra Rumpilezz Etienne Charles & Creole Soul Plena Libre - DANCE SPACE! John Pizzarelli Quartet Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba Bria Skonberg Tinariwen Marcus Miller Martin Taylor & Bucky Pizzarelli
Unless noted advance tickets at kuumbwajazz.org and Logos Books & Records. Dinner served 1-hr before Kuumbwa presented concerts. Premium wines & beer. All ages welcome.
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LIVE MUSIC WED
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MOTIV 1209 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz
Depth! 9:30p-2a
NEW BOHEMIA BREWERY 1030 41st Ave, Santa Cruz
Ron Work, Joaquin Spengemann & Tony J.Fade Free 6:30-8:30p
99 BOTTLES 110 Walnut Ave, Santa Cruz
Trivia 8p
THU
6/25
FRI
Libation Lab w/Syntax 9:30p-2a
6/26
SAT
6/27
PARADISE BEACH 215 Esplanade, Capitola
Joe Ferrara 10p
THE POCKET 3102 Portola Dr, Santa Cruz
Jam Session w/Angelo Rossi 7-10p
The Alex Raymond Band 8p
THE REEF 120 Union St, Santa Cruz
Jazz Jam
Yuji
Lara Price
Chris Kelly
Candye Kane $10 9p
Quinn DeVeaux 6-9p
Acoustic Jam with Toby Gray ’n’ Friends
Quinn DeVeaux & the Blue Beat Review $8 9p
Traditional Hawaiian Music
Acoustic Covers Brunch and Dinner
ROSIE MCCANN’S 1220 PaciďŹ c Ave, Santa Cruz
Comedy Night w/ Hamburger 10pm
THE SAND BAR 211 Esplanade, Capitola
John Michael 8-11p
Aria Brown 7pm
Merry Widows 2 ) & ) &
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REDLIGHT DISTRICT plus French Cassettes
Burnin Vernon & Aftermath
Deep Love 8:30p-12:30a Tassajara Trio w/Eddie Mendenhall and Dan Robbins
The Ben Sibley Trio
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International Music Hall and Restaurant
FINE MEXICAN AND AMERICAN FOOD ALL YOU CAN EAT LUNCH BUFFET M-F $7.95 Thu Jun 25
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John Doe of X and The Knitters plus Jesse Dayton $18 adv./$20 door 21 + 8pm
Foreverland
14 Piece Michael Jackson Tribute $17 adv./$20 door 21 + 8pm
Jeff Cruse – A Celebration of His Life In Music featuring Travis Cruse Trio and Ginny Mitchell, Larry Hosford, Roadhouse Ramblers w/Steve Throop & JoJo Fox, Jay Lingo, Steve Griswold & more $10 adv./$10 door 21 + 8pm
THE SLACKERS plus Monkey
Sun Jun 28
Awna Teixeira of Po’Girl $10 adv./$12 door <21 w/parent 7pm
Mon Jun 29
Sugarcane Jane feat. Anthony Crawford of Neil Young & Steve Winwood Bands plus Dan Frechette
& Laurel Thomsen
$10 adv./$10 door <21 w/parent Wed July 1
Sunday Brunch w/ Chris
Josh Lozada
1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-429-4135
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Jazz Session w/ Jazz Jam Santa Cruz 8-11p
Tuesday Night Comedy Smackdown 9-11p
Comedy Open Mic 8p
Open Mic 7:30-11:30p
Open Mic
The Lenny and Kenny Show
Trivia
Open Mic 7:30p
“Yellow “Dalai Lama Awakening� Submarine� Sing-Along $15 7:30-11:30p $15 7-11p
SANDERLINGS 1 Seascape Resort, Aptos
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Hip-hop with DJ Marc 9:30p-2a
DJ PVCK 9p
RIO THEATRE 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz
GUTTER DEMONS plus Stellar Corpses
6/30
TUE
Open Mic 4-7p
THE RED 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz
6/29
Music Showcase 10p
POET & PATRIOT 320 E. Cedar St, Santa Cruz
>LKULZKH` 1\UL ‹ In the Atrium ‹ AGES 16+
SUN
6/28
MON Eclectic by Primal Rasta Cruz Reggae Party Productions 9:30p-2a 9:30p-2a Ron Work, Joaquin Spengemann & Tony J.Fade Free 3-5p
Chris Slater 9:30p-2a
Big River Cajun, New Orleans Boogie, Zydeco Party CAJUN GUMBO DINNER SPECIAL $10 adv./$10 door 21 + 7:30pm
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Pro Jam w/Dennis Dove 7-11p
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LIVE MUSIC WED
6/24
THU
6/25
SEABRIGHT BREWERY 519 Seabright, Santa Cruz
FRI
6/26
SAT
6/27
SEVERINO’S BAR & GRILL 7500 Old Dominion Court, Aptos
Don McCaslin & the Amazing Jazz Geezers 6-10p
Room Shakers 7:30p
Tsunami 8p
SHADOWBROOK 1750 Wharf Rd, Capitola
Ken Constable 6:30-9:30p
Joe Ferrara 6:30-10p
Claudio Melega 7-10p
SIR FROGGY’S PUB 4771 Soquel Dr, Soquel
SUN
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Trivia w/Roger
6/29
TUE
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Upcoming Shows
Karaoke w/Eve
SUMMIT HOUSE BEER GARDEN & GRILL 23123 Santa Cruz Hwy, Los Gatos
Taco Tuesday
Roadhouse Karaoke
TROUT FARM INN 7701 E Zayante Rd, Felton
The Reactors
Chamis
Not So Young $5 9p
Swirly Girls Free 5p
UGLY MUG 4640 Soquel Ave, Soquel WHALE CITY 490 Highway 1, Davenport
MON
Greyhound w/Hindu 6:30-10:30p
Open Mic w/Mosephus 5:30p Scott Cooper and the Barrel Makers 6-9p
Save Our Shores Beach Scott Cooper Cleanup: Davenport 5-7p 9-11a
Black Eyed Suzies 5-7p
WHARF HOUSE 1400 Wharf Rd, Capitola
Otilia and the Back Alley Boy’s 1-5:30p
WINDJAMMER 1 Rancho Del Mar, Aptos
Serious Condition
ZELDA’S 203 Esplanade, Capitola
Kurt Stockdale Trio 5:30p
John Michael Band 9:30p
Funkranomicon 9:30p
ZIZZO’S COFFEEHOUSE & WINE BAR 3555 Clares St, Capitola
Bro 7-9pm
Robert Ridder 6:30-9:30p
Robert Ridder 6:30-9:30p
Nora Cruz Band 1-5:30p
6.26 Dalai Lama Awakening 6.27 Yellow Submarine Sing-Along 6.29 Summer Music Camp - 2015 7.16 Kahulanui Hawaiian Swing Band 7. 17 Mountain Bike Film: Unreal 7.27 Summer Music Camp - 2015 8.15 Beggar Kings 8.16 Sacred Chant Concert Tour with Snatam Kaur 8.26 The Waifs 9.11 In My Life: Beatles Tribute 9.26 Radical Reels Tour 11.17 Patti Smith Follow the Rio Theatre on Facebook & Twitter!
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MIND OF RILEY Pixar veteran Pete Docter and Ronaldo Del Carmen direct the smart and idea-crammed ‘Inside Out,’
which takes viewers on an animated joyride through the brain of main character Riley.
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t says something about the state of the movie business when some of the brainiest, funniest, most humane and heartfelt films are cartoons. Well, not just any cartoons. I refer, of course, to the animated output of Pixar Studios at its best. And now, in the tradition of Toy Story 2 and Up, comes Inside Out, a movie so smart, so crammed with ideas, and so full of genuine emotion that it reinvents the whole idea of what an animated movie can be. (Oh, and it’s really funny too.) Inside Out is directed by Pixar veteran Pete Docter (he won an Oscar for directing Up) and Ronaldo Del Carmen, from a script that Docter co-wrote with Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley. It begins with the simple premise that each individual person is
governed by a mission control center in the brain where five key emotions constantly jockey for position. But rather than hit the viewer with too much explanation up front, the story begins at the birth of a newborn baby named Riley, which is also the birth of her feelings. The personification of these feelings is the witty backbone of the film. First comes Joy (voice of Amy Poehler), as the baby gazes out at her mom and dad and the world with wonder and delight. In contrast to upbeat and plucky Joy comes droopy, woebegone Sadness (Phyllis Smith), born when baby Riley first cries for food. Next up is Fear (Bill Hader), a nerdy alarmist, warning Riley of every possible danger, real or imagined. Hot
on their heels comes pouty, sarcastic Disgust (Mindy Kaling), and Anger (Lewis Black), whose head explodes like a volcano at the slightest hint of opposition. As Riley grows into childhood, we see how the candy-colored kiddie gears of her brain work, fueled by “core memories.” These are key moments preserved in bubble-like spheres that establish the various “personality islands” that make her who she is. In Riley’s case, happy islands devoted to things like Family, Friendship, and Hockey (she’s an avid player), along with Goofball Island— her sense of humor. We see the conflicting emotions in other brains too, including Riley’s mom and dad, and the occasional domestic animal.
All systems are go in Riley’s command center—until her parents uproot her from her Minnesota home at age 11 to start a new life in San Francisco. As the challenges mount up (a lost moving van, the first day in a new school), there’s a foul-up in the control booth and Riley’s precious core memories are sucked up the vacuum tube and dispersed to some far-off corner of her brain. The intrepid Joy goes after them, dragging Sadness along with her. And as they journey through the outer limits of Riley’s brain trying to get back to headquarters (literally), the only coping tools Riley has left are Anger, Disgust, and Fear— gradually disconnecting her from her personality islands. This is such a smart concept that could explain so much—bipolarism, Alzheimer’s, teen angst—yet Docter and company never forget to entertain. The trek through Riley’s brain is hilarious, from the Train of Thought that chugs around the periphery, to the movie studio backlot of her Dream Productions, to the funhouse carnival of Imaginationland, and the Abstract Thought chamber that turns the characters into Cubist, geometric patterns. In the Subconscious, they find Riley’s deepest fear—a huge, hideous clown. Also lurking in the shadows is Riley’s Imaginary Boyfriend, whose single deadpan declaration (“I would die for Riley”) gets funnier every time it’s repeated. But Joy also discovers Riley’s forgotten Imaginary Friend, Bing-Bong (Richard Kind). A genial critter of mismatched animal parts and a big heart, who cries candy tears, he and Riley once built a wagon rocket powered by singing that would carry them to the moon. This touch of whimsy is both charming and moving, a wistful nod to growing up and moving on in this accomplished joyride of a movie. And whatever you do, don’t walk out before the final credits roll—especially if you’ve ever shared your space with someone of the feline persuasion. INSIDE OUT ****(out of four) With the voices of Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Bill Hader, and Richard Kind. Written by Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley and Pete Docter. Directed by Pete Docter and Ronaldo Del Carmen. A Pixar release. Rated (PG) 94 minutes.
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ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL Daily 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 + Sat, Sun 12:00 I’LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS Daily 3:00, 5:10, 7:10, 9:10 + Sat, Sun 12:50
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FILM NEW THIS WEEK ESCOBAR: PARADISE LOST In his directorial debut, Andrea Di Stefano takes on the dark and dangerous world of Pablo Escobar’s Colombian drug cartel. Played by Hunger Games sweetheart, Josh Hutcherson, Nick ventures from Canada to the Colombian coast in search of a surf paradise. He stumbles upon the beautifully alluring Maria—none other than Escobar’s niece. Step by step Nick becomes initiated into the family and with their acceptance come the responsibilities of an Escobar, forcing Nick to grapple with the moral implications of his new adopted family. Josh Hutcherson, Benicio Del Toro, and Brady Corbet co-star. (R) 120 minutes. Starts Friday.
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MAX Trained as a precision military dog, Max served on the frontlines of Afghanistan with his handler, U.S. Marine Kyle Wincott, until things go terribly awry and Wincott is mortally wounded. Traumatized by the loss of his best friend, the canine is unable to return to service and thus shipped stateside to Wincott’s family where the fallen soldier’s brother develops an unlikely bond with the four-legged veteran. Boaz Yakin directs. Thomas Haden Church, Josh Wiggins, and Luke Kleintank co-star. (PG) 111 minutes. Starts Friday.
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TED 2 The lovably foul-mouthed Teddy is back—and this time, he wants to produce a spawn of his own. However, as anyone who’s survived a trip to Build-A-Bear knows, the insides of a Teddy are not conducive to reproduction, hence why Ted asks John to provide the goods. What ensues is a typically hilarious battle for civil rights (“we’ll take it all the way up to Judge Judy if we have to”) so that Ted can prove he’s a human and keep the child he’s always wanted. Seth MacFarlane directs. Mark Wahlberg, Seth MacFarlane, and Amanda Seyfried co-star. (R) 115 minutes. Starts Friday. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH: Jon Snow—what are you doing in
World War I England? It seems that winter came and went as Game of Thrones star Harington makes his first major film debut in this war drama based on the namesake memoir by Vera Brittain. Presented by BBC, the young Vera defies the conventions of her times, trying desperately to ignore the wiles of dashing Roland Leighton (Harington—who likely still knows nothing) as she accepts her position at Oxford. Conflict arises when the star-crossed lovers find themselves in the pull of the WWI volunteerism and the devastating realities of the lost generation. James Kent directs. Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, and Taron Egerton co-star. (PG-13) 129 minutes. Starts Friday. 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 our location and discussion topic, go to https://groups.google.com/group/ LTATM.
NOW PLAYING DOPE Shameik Moore certainly redefines the definition of “geek” (since when are geeks the perfectly chiseled Fresh Prince throwback types with Class Act hair and excellent taste in music) as Malcolm, a straight-A student carefully maneuvering the reality of growing up in Inglewood. Produced by Pharrell Williams and Sean Combs (who are responsible for the undoubtedly dope soundtrack which includes four new originals by Pharrell) in addition to Forest Whitaker, the coming of age comedy/drama sees Malcolm through the trials and tribulations of his teens—the mean streets, romance, drama, and everything awkward and awesome in between. Rick Famuyiwa directs. Shameik Moore, Tony Revolori, and Kiersey Clemons co-star. (R) 115 minutes. ENTOURAGE Once upon a time there was an HBO series that everyone agreed was good, but not quite as good as The Sopranos. But it did have Jeremy Piven as
agent Ari Gold, and after the show was over everybody kind of missed seeing him play that guy, so that’s probably why we now have an Entourage movie. The whole gang is back as we once again follow Adrian Grenier’s Vince, who is apparently still chasing fame and fortune in Hollywood. (R) 104 minutes. I’LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS It’s always a refreshing change to see an entire movie built around a woman of a certain age. Blythe Danner personifies aging with grace and spirit in this wistful comedy with romantic overtones written for her by filmmaker Brett Haley, very loosely concocted from Danner’s real-life situation as a widow living in LA with a background in showbiz. Some plot elements fall into place a bit too easily, and the story has an insular feel, but the actors are fun to watch, especially Martin Starr, as a deadpan pool guy, and the ever-roguish Sam Elliott. And telling a story from a woman’s viewpoint is always appreciated. (PG-13) 95 minutes. (**1/2)—Lisa Jensen. INSIDE OUT Reviewed this issue. (PG) 94 minutes. INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 3 Now with 60 percent more insidiousness! Unlike the other films in this series of low-budget horror hits, though, this prequel isn’t about the Lambert family and their haunting problems. Instead, it has the psychic character Elise Rainier saving a different family from the supernatural. (PG-13) 97 minutes. JURASSIC WORLD Steven Spielberg apparently learned nothing about franchises that have worn out their welcome from the poor reaction to Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Oh wait, that movie made hundreds of millions of dollars? Oh, maybe he did learn something! Anyway, in this one, there’s a new dinosaur park, and everything goes fine! Not really, but wouldn’t that be kind of awesome? (PG-13) 124 minutes. LOVE & MERCY Bill Pohlad’s generally absorbing fiction film about the amazing life and harrowing times of Brian Wilson,
of the Beach Boys, narrows its focus to two pivotal moments in Wilson’s life. Paul Dano is terrific playing the younger Brian in the mid-1960s, at the height of his creative genius, and John Cusack is surprisingly effective as the ’80s-model Brian, under the thumb of controlling psychotherapist Dr. Eugene Landy (Paul Giamatti). And it’s all connected by the music, a fabulous, gluttonous feast of Wilson music, from surf tunes to Smile, that informs every single scene. (PG-13) 120 minutes. (***)—Lisa Jensen. MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Tom Hardy takes over the role that made the youthful Mel Gibson a star, and director George Miller takes the helm once again in this continuation of the postapocalyptic action franchise about souped-up, spare-part monster vehicles, huge explosions, and survival of the weirdest. Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, and Zoe Kravitz co-star. (R) 120 minutes. PITCH PERFECT 2 The sassy women’s a capella singing team that made the first Pitch Perfect such a sleeper hit is back in this sequel, directed by co-star Elizabeth Banks. It’s a big-game movie with songs in which the Barden Bellas choke at a big concert, then try to re-earn their reputation by entering an international competition that no American team has ever won. Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Hailee Steinfeld, Brittany Snow, and Skylar Astin head the cast. (PG-13) 118 minutes. POLTERGEIST The old Steven Spielberg horror classic gets a makeover in this update. Sam Rockwell and Rosemarie DeWitt star as the parents whose little daughter starts to bond with aliens oozing into the household via the TV. Jared Harris co-stars for director Gil Kenan (Monster House; City of Ember). (PG-13) 93 minutes. RESULTS Set in the world of buff fitness trainers and their cheerfully backsliding clients, this edgy comedy of dueling agendas from Andrew Bujalski is just off-kilter enough to keep us guessing. The
engaging cast includes starry-eyed fitness junkie and gym owner Guy Pearce, tart star trainer Cobie Smulders, and oddly endearing sad-sack client Kevin Corrigan. Just when we think we know how all these characters are going to interact, things shift—and that keeps the story interesting. (R) 105 minutes. (***)—Lisa Jensen. SAINT LAURENT As one of history’s most iconic fashion designers, Yves Saint Laurent was a man cloaked in as much perfumed mystery and lustrous allure as his creations. Chronicling his life from 1967 to 1976, this biography drama film stars Gaspard Ulliel as the master artist and depicts a man grappling with his own legacy, a prisoner of his own genius. Bertrand Bonello directs. Gaspard Ulliel, Jérémie Renier and Louis Garrel costar. (R) 150 minutes. Starts Friday. SAN ANDREAS Dwayne Johnson stars in the first big disaster movie of the summer season, as a chopper pilot on a mission to save his daughter after the famous fault line goes kablooey and rips up the state of California. Carla Guigino, Alexandra Daddario, and Ioan Gruffudd co-star for director Brad Peyton (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island). (PG-13) 114 minutes. SPY Melissa McCarthy plays a suave, cold-as-ice secret agent in this film from writer-director Paul Feig. Just kidding! She’s goofy and loveable again, and Feig is doing his same action-comedy shtick from The Heat, only for spy movies. Jude Law and Jason Statham co-star. (R) 120 minutes. TOMORROWLAND Intent on turning every ride in their original theme park into a movie, the folks at Disney present this sci-fi mystery adventure about a jaded, former boy genius (George Clooney) and a bright teenage girl (Britt Robertson) on a journey of destiny to a place called “Tomorrowland” that haunts their dreams. Directed by Brad Bird (The Iron Giant; Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol), from a script he wrote with Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof. (PG) 130 minutes.
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director John Locke is keen on the new Soif burger which promises “rich high-quality flavor,” says chef Denham. “These cows enjoyed an organic diet their entire lives. Incredible dairy. The quality of meat takes on a whole new character when it is raised to adulthood.” Though meats are making a new bold statement on the expanded Soif dinner menu, there are splendid options: a carrot confit dish presented with carrot top pesto, hazelnuts and goat’s milk feta, as well as seared Atlantic scallops with sweet pea risotto, nettles and preserved Meyer
lemon. Denham admits that his newly enlarged kitchen allows him to break down whole lambs and do whatever he wants with steaks, chops, meatballs, and sausage. “We’re in on the whole lamb program shared with Manresa. I really enjoy butchering, start to finish, all the preparations,” Denham says with a big grin. “With so much of savory cooking, it’s essentially alchemy. But with butchering,” he contends, “it has to be exact.” Denham’s skills, honed at places like Chez Panisse, Postrio and Manresa before he entered
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Is tomato chutney the thinking woman’s ketchup? Or does it simply “identify” as ketchup? Perhaps we’ll never know. Myth has it that ketchup made its way West from China by way of India, and became tomatofied in the 17th century, after Cortez brought the tomato back to Europe along with some other loot. Origins aside, tomato chutney is a sexy substitute for ketchup as we discovered all over again last week. Feeling reckless, we substituted Sukhi’s Tomato Chutney for its tamer, gentler cousin ketchup (the organic variety made by Heinz) on our nontraditional dinner of bratwurst, artisanal sauerkraut, and braised lamb’s quarters lettuce. Fabulous! Thick and tangy, this was grown-up “ketchup,” exploding with intense tomato flavor that had been amped up with vinegar, raisins, and wild onion seeds. Tomato chutney—a fixture now in our pantry along with hot mango chutney and tamarind chutney—is also divine atop breakfast eggs, or as a partner to pork chops or broiled chicken. I’m certain it would be astonishing on top of vanilla ice cream, though I have not made this experiment myself. Some have said it was this tomato chutney that powered Steph Curry’s performance during the NBA championship game. Sukhi’s Tomato Chutney can be found for under $5 at New Leaf and other enlightened grocery stores.
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Why fried chicken and waffles? CANDICE MENDOZA: These are comfort foods that taste good late at night and are for people who want to try something new, who want something crispy, snacky and highend. Our chicken is inspired by the idea of molecular gastronomy and pure chance. I like to think of what we make and do as inspired by a happy accident, and we keep building on that with our new recipes. But our chicken isn’t just fried chicken. The
chicken is soaked in an herbal brine, vacuum-sealed and cooked first in a sous vide. We then batter it in our spicy recipe and quickly fry it. It is sweet and salty and amazingly crisp, the perfect balance of these flavors.
Why late night only? We moved here from Los Angeles and realized the only late night foods were basically Safeway and Domino’s. Our initial customer base were UCSC students because they had no way of getting food after nine o’clock at night. They were not being fed. We don’t charge for delivery and have no minimum, as of now, so we grew exponentially.
What is Sunday Mass? We all grew up in Catholic school, so our Sunday dinners at the Food Lounge, the only night we serve in-house, are kind of a play on “soul food.” Since we only deliver to the Westside, Sunday Mass gives people a chance to come see us at the Food Lounge, which is our home. Santa Cruz is an incredibly supportive and fun place to live and work and eat. People here are willing to explore something new. We can’t imagine doing this anywhere else. Visit kickinchicken.com for more information.
+ RISA’S STARS BY RISA D’ANGELES I BUILD A LIGHTED HOUSE AND THEREIN DWELL
Wednesday, June 24, Chiron turns stationary retrograde (we turn inward) at 21.33 degrees Pisces. We usually speak of “retrograde” when referring to Mercury. But all planets retrograde. Next month in July, Venus retrogrades. What is Chiron retrograde? Chiron represents the wound within all of us. Wounds have purpose. They sensitize us; make us aware of pain and suffering. Through our wounds we develop compassion. Through compassion we become whole (holy) again. Chiron helps develop these states of consciousness. Everyone carries family wounds (family astrology tracks the astrological “DNA” through generations). Chiron wounds are deep within. We’re often not aware of them until Chiron retrogrades. Then the wounds (through pain, hurt, sadness,
suffering) become apparent. They seem to break us open emotionally, psychologically. Painful events from the past are remembered. They are brought to the present for healing. Through experiencing, talking about and deeply feeling what is hurting us, healing takes place. All week, Jupiter and Venus move closer together in the sky. They meet in Leo at the full moon, Cancer solar festival, on Wednesday, July 1. The Cancer keynote is, “I build a lighted house and therein dwell.” The soul’s light has finally penetrated the “womb” of matter. The New Group of World Servers is to radiate this light. At the end of each sign are keywords to use and remember during the Chiron retrograde.
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LIBRA Sep23–Oct22
You’re known for individuality and freedom of expression. Only Aquarius rivals you. And Pisces. In coming weeks and months, the need for individual freedom and creativity expands, because you’re partially responsible for initiating changes in the present culture and civilization. Humanity is suffering and asleep. Suffering radicalizes us. Especially you. Divinity has a plan to “make all things new.” You play a major part in this plan. Patience in your keynote.
Nothing routine occurs in any area of your life. Changes come forth to help develop original ideas and creativity. Focus your energy on helping friends, gardening and creating beauty. Notice how you upset the apple cart wherever you are. Because you’re a changemaker, greatly needed everywhere. Tend to your health. Be forgiving and steadfast.
TAURUS Apr21–May21
You find the need for more self-control, which would also provide you with more self-knowledge. Through discipline you come to know yourself, your needs and a new level of creativity emerges. Speculation is costly. Instead, focus on independent thinking and how to break with all that’s old and seeking liberation. Keynote: Love more.
Esoteric Astrology as news for week of June 24, 2015
Past hopes, dreams, wishes, friends, groups and associates are on your mind. You wonder about them. Your life goals and ambitions suddenly changed long ago after an unexpected event. Your mind wonders about the future and how to plan for it. As your life twists and turns you find yourself becoming liberated from the past. You didn’t know how this would occur. Understanding is your goal.
GEMINI May 22–Jun20 Flashes of intuition and insight help you make quick decisions that are authoritative, leading others to understand situations hidden behind fogs and illusions. Maintain independence. And begin to explain your actions to others so they can understand the whys, hows and meanings of your choices. This makes your endeavors more transparent and accepted. Wisdom is your calling.
CANCER Jun21–Jul20
LEO Jul21–Aug22 What investments and resources are held in common with others? They may begin to behave erratically, with sudden ups and downs. Look into all things financial, attempting stabilization. Invest in gold and silver even when the market shifts, safekeeping precious metals and practical resources for coming times. You are intuitive enough to understand. Be tolerant. Be truly kind.
VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 Relationships, marriages, partnerships and close intimate connections may experience sudden change and spur-of-the-moment decisions, affecting the future. Tend carefully, developing stability through clear communication. Calmly absorb unexpected upsets. Everything in our lives is turning upside down in order to create new values and the new materialism. This also creates new relationships. Summon strength of will.
SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec20 As you attempt each day to summon constancy and calmness, know that sudden upsets occur so you can experience more freedom. Balance your needs with family needs even if traveling far away. Inform them of the astrological energies creating change everywhere. Your family will understand. Ask them to look for these changes and communicate about them. This creates new traditions. Your true mantra is “Peace be with you.”
CAPRICORN Dec21–Jan20 You experience your income and finances as fluctuating. In the coming times, don’t fret if this continues. Material things will come and go, unforeseen events will upset all plans. This is not due to anything you created. All conditions in our world are changing, even the waters you swim in. The new world is being created. It’s not here yet. We’ve just begun. Stay calm and rest a while. Have courage.
AQUARIUS Jan21–Feb18 Your thinking, communicating, processing information and interacting with others is so spontaneous that changes begin to appear to everyone everywhere. You want to unexpectedly strike out in different directions, going here and there. New thinking appears. You become interested in science, technology and sources of light. And you think more and more about community, which is where you belong. Sharing is your joyful keynote.
PISCES Feb19–Mar20 You need to be in nature most of the time. You realize nature is the most balanced kingdom. Sometimes (often) you must work alone so your intuitive and investigative gifts emerge clearly. To maintain harmony you avoid oppositions, cooperating instead with accepted reality. Something or someone shatters your calmness. It’s not comfortable, yet it’s needed. The past arrives. Self-transcendence begins. You stand in dappled light.
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In the coming weeks and months, notice a changed philosophy of life emerge in your thinking that creates a new view of how to live your life with others. You may (help) create community with like-minded people who realize the ideas of the past need updating in order to build the new culture and civilization under the Aquarian laws and principles. Your mind travels to unusual places far and wide. Healing is your priority. Display gentleness.
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OF HEARING July 20, 2015 at 8:30 am, in Department 4 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street, Room. 110. 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: June 1, 2015. John S Salazar, Judge of the Superior June 10, 17, 24 & July1. .FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1050 The following individual is doing business as SANTA CRUZ LANGUAGE INSTITUTE. 303 POTRERO STREET #55, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060 County of Santa Cruz. MICHELLE BARBOSA. 303 POTRERO STREET #55, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: MICHELLE BARBOSA. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 6/2/2015. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on June 2, 2015. June 10, 17, 24 & July1. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1048 The following individual is doing business as MERMAID’S CLEANING SERVICE. 4920 HIGHWAY 9, FELTON CA 95018 County of Santa Cruz. GAIA JENSEN. 4920 HIGHWAY 9, FELTON CA 95018. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: GAIA JENSEN. 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 June 2, 2015. June 10, 17, 24 & July1. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1036 The following individual is doing business as LEMON & HONEY. 105 MILL RD., SANTA CRUZ CA 95060 County of Santa Cruz. ANALISA RONDELLEFOLEY. 944 EMERSON ST., PALO ALTO CA 94301. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: ANALISA RONDELLE-FOLEY. 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 May 29, 2015. June 10, 17, 24 & July1. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1057 The following individual is doing business as ECO PACIFIC FLOORING & DESIGN. 119 CATALPA STREET, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062 County of Santa Cruz. JON MORENO. 119 CATALPA STREET, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: JON MORENO. 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 June 3, 2015. June 10, 17, 24 & July1. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1055
The following individual is doing business as DNA PRESENTS. 215 BEACH ST. #302, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060 County of Santa Cruz. DAVID NEIL ABRAMSON. 215 BEACH ST. #302, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: DAVID NEIL ABRAMSON.. 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 June 3, 2015. June 10, 17, 24 & July1. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-0974 The following individual is doing business as ALL I NEED PRO. 826 BAY AVENUE BOX 1691, CAPITOLA CA 95010 County of Santa Cruz. STEVEN LAWLER. 826 BAY AVENUE BOX 1691, CAPITOLA CA 95010. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: STEVEN LAWLER.. 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 May 19, 2015. June 10, 17, 24 & July1. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1106 The following individual is doing business as SANTA CRUZ TRAVELER. 243 MARNELL AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062 County of Santa Cruz. LABRIS WILLENDORF. 243 MARNELL AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062 . This business is conducted by a Individual Signed:. LABRIS WILLENDORF. 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 June 12, 2015. June 17, 24 & July1,8, 15. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1080 The following individual is doing business as PIZZA TIME. 925 38TH AVENUE SPC. 43, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062 County of Santa Cruz. JOSE LUIS VASQUEZ. 925 38TH AVENUE SPC. 43, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062 . This business is conducted by a Individual Signed:JOSE LUIS VASQUEZ. 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 June 8, 2015. June 17, 24 & July1,8. CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF JAMES P. BARON & JULIE M. BARON CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. CV181841. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner JAMES P. BARON & JULIE M. BARON has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing Applicant’s name from: RIPLEY MARIE CLARE to: RIPLEY MARIE CLARE BARON. 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 July 29, 2015 at 8:30 am, in Department 4 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street, Room. 110. 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: June 9, 2015. John S Salazar, Judge of the Superior June 17, 24 & July1,8. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1110 The following individual is doing business as POST STREET FARM. 122 POST STREET, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060 County of Santa Cruz. MATTHEW HODEL. 114 POST STREET, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: MATTHEW HODEL. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 1/1/2015. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on June 12, 2015. June 24 & July1, 8, 15. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1116 The following individual is doing business as CHUMP MAGIC. 104 SEARS CIRCLE, SOQUEL CA 95073 County of Santa Cruz. COLE LEMKE. 104 SEARS CIRCLE, SOQUEL CA 95073. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: COLE LEMKE. 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 June 15, 2015. June 24 & July1, 8, 15. CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF JENNIFER LEE SCHELL CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. CV181857. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner JENNIFER LEE SCHELL has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing Applicant’s name from: JENNIFER LEE SCHELL to: JENNIFER ROCKATANSKY HOWLS. 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
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petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING July 30, 2015 at 8:30 am, in Department 4 located at Superior Court of California, 701 Ocean Street, Room. 110. 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: June 11, 2015. John S Salazar, Judge of the Superior June 24 & July1, 8, 15. CHANGE OF NAME IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ. PETITION OF LISA COLIN DOPFEL CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. CV181923. THE COURT FINDS that the petitioner LISA COLIN DOPFEL has filed a Petition for Change of Name with the clerk of this court for an order changing Applicant’s name from: LISA COLIN DOPFEL to: LISA DOPFEL ACHELIS. 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 August 10, 2015 at 8:30 am, in Department 4 located at Superior Court of California, 701
Ocean Street, Room. 110. 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: June 22 2015. John S Salazar, Judge of the Superior June 24 & July1, 8, 15. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1069 The following Corporation is doing business as DUPPEN PROPERTY MANAGEMENT. 1041 41ST AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062 County of Santa Cruz. DUPPENOTTAVIANO, INC. 1041 41ST AVENUE, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062 . Al# 3784126. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: CHARLES DUPPEN-OTTAVIANO. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 6/1/2015. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on June 5, 2015. June 24 & July1, 8, 15. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1117 The following individual is doing business as SERENDIPITY HOME PRESCHOOL. 115 REDWOOD STREET, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060 County of Santa Cruz. JILL SCHETTLER-SUSSKIND. 115 REDWOOD STREET, SANTA CRUZ CA 95060 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: JILL SCHETTLER-SUSSKIND. 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 June 15, 2015. June 24 & July1, 8, 15. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 15-1155 The following General Partnership is doing business as SANTA VIDA RV PARK. 1611 BRANCIFORTE DR., SANTA CRUZ CA 95065 County of Santa Cruz. GRACE VANNERUS & WILLIAM VANNERUS. 1611 BRANCIFORTE DR., SANTA CRUZ CA 95065. This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: WILLIAM VANNERUS The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name listed above on 12/18/1987. This statement was filed with Gail L. Pellerin, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County, on June 19, 2015. June 24 & July1, 8, 15.
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Kindness for non-emergency emergencies. New urgent care in Santa Cruz County No one plans a trip to urgent care, but it’s at those moments that we need kindness the most. Dignity Health Medical Group—Dominican’s new urgent care offers same-day treatment for non-emergency medical conditions such as flus, colds, and sore throat. Open seven days a week, 365 days a year. To learn more visit dominicanmedicalgroup.org or call 831.684.7611.