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A RECENT ARTICLE (“Big Fish,” Currents, June 17) and several letters have appeared in this paper regarding coho salmon, local and statewide forestry practices and pending policy changes, along with a quote from myself. These articles have raised several issues that would benefit from clarification.

I should state this was not an interview I solicited. When contacted by the Santa Cruz Weekly reporter, I stated repeatedly that I was not an expert of forestry practices or policies. I did agree to discuss local ecological challenges to coho salmon, including f luctuating ocean conditions, predation and habitat issues. Regarding habitat issues, the reporter asked about local forestry practices and their potential impacts on stream temperatures. I replied that our research was not directly targeted at addressing

the impacts of local forestry practices, and stated that stream temperatures were a complex issue with fish that involved more than simply being too high or too low, and related to other issues such as productivity in the stream and growth potential of fish under these conditions.

There are several reasons our research has not directly addressed forestry practices, none of which relate to our access agreements with Big Creek Lumber or any other landowner in the Scott Creek watershed. As quoted and implied in the article, we established our research site in Scott Creek in 2002, in part based on data available at the time that it had the largest population of coho salmon remaining in the area.

In recent years, changes in coho population trends in Scott Creek and all other rivers in California have involved

dramatic declines in adults returning from the ocean across the entire state, and this has brought concerns about ocean conditions to the top of our priority list. In addition, no one would argue that the local selective harvest practices have less impact than other more severe practices, such as clear-cutting, as in other watersheds farther to the north. There are plenty of data on variables such as stream f low, turbidity, and temperature to indicate that other more human-impacted watersheds in the Santa Cruz Mountains have more degraded habitat than Scott Creek. This is not meant to imply that Scott Creek does not have habitat challenges or state one way or another that I feel Big Creek’s “self-regulation works,” as printed in the original article. Rather, I believe that factors other than forestry practices are of greater concerns for setting local research priorities for coho salmon.

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We Can’t Afford Not to Protect the OceansWITH BUDGET WOES in every headline and economic

concerns touching every household, some say California can no longer afford to be a leader in conservation: we should

shutter our state parks, defer action on climate change and put the brakes on our landmark effort to establish marine protected areas for our oceans.

Former Monterey Bay area congressman Leon Panetta’s signature line is that we govern either by leadership or by crisis. If our leaders have vision and are willing to make tough decisions—crisis can be avoided. If not, crisis will drive policy decisions. So while some argue that the economic downturn is an excuse to abandon our state’s conservation values, turn back the clock and wait for environmental collapse before taking action, I believe that, with leadership, great things can be accomplished even in challenging times.

The Marine Life Protection Act (co-authored by Fred Keeley) is an example of leadership. Based on scientific evidence from around the world demonstrating the effectiveness of marine protected areas (MPAs)—underwater refuges where habitats and sealife can recover and thrive—10 years ago, a bipartisan California Legislature passed our nation’s first law calling for a statewide network of MPAs. We’re now halfway done with this historic effort. Using the state’s budget woes as an excuse, opponents have suggested that we quit midstream.

But with the coast and ocean contributing 369,000 jobs and $22 billion to the state’s economy, per the National Ocean Economic Program’s 2004 figures, marine protection is a critical investment for California. And it’s urgently needed: some sealife populations are in decline, and fishery revenues have dropped by half in the past 20 years.

I agree with those who say more funding is needed for conservation efforts. My son is starting kindergarten this year and I sure wish we had more money for public education as well. But instead of keeping my kid out of school, I am going to volunteer in his classroom. When times are tough we can’t abandon our community values; instead, we need to get creative, do more with less and work together to keep our priorities on track for better times ahead. Fortunately, that is exactly what is happening with California’s new (and proposed) MPAs. Since MPAs were adopted on the Central Coast in 2007, our community has come together to assist with education, monitoring and management. The Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary and the Sanctuary Foundation, our state parks, museums, academic institutions and local organizations like Save Our Shores have all chipped in. Together, they’re creating signage, educating school kids and working to improve compliance. Sports fishermen are working with scientists to study the effectiveness of the new protected areas. A lot of the work is staffed by volunteers, and some of it is funded through private donations.

Next week the California Fish and Game Commission will take action on a second section of the coast—adopting additional MPAs between Año Nuevo and Point Arena. Just like on the Central Coast, partners stand ready to help the state implement its new protections and bridge the gap until the economy recovers. I urge the Commission to exercise bold leadership and focus on long-term success. We can’t afford any less.

Kaitilin Gaffney is the Pacific Ecosystem Protection Program director for Ocean Conservancy and served on the Marine Life Protection Act’s Regional Stakeholder Group for the Central Coast. She notes that Everglades National Park was established in the middle of the Great Depression.

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T H E B U L L H O R N

The original article also quoted some numbers I provided for local salmon and steelhead populations that were questioned in subsequent letters to the editor. These numbers, although vague and lacking in detail, are more or less accurate. Since the devil is often in the details, it seems necessary to provide additional information here. The letters to the editor indicate much lower numbers, with specific reference to the past two years. In general we have only caught a few coho in our fish trap during the past few years, due in part to low numbers of returning spawners but also to variable efficiencies in trapping success associated with storm events. In other words, we never catch them all. To compensate for this, our team conducts hundreds of hours of spawner surveys each winter on foot and through snorkel/dive surveys of the river. In addition, we make use of microchip technology, tagging juvenile coho smolts as they leave the watershed. As we have an approximate idea of what percentage of juvenile fish were tagged, we can use this as an additional tool to estimate the relative number of untagged fish that returned to the river. With that said, through a variety of sampling methods, our team detected 12 unique coho salmon returning to Scott Creek this year. As several fish were detected by our in-stream tag readers, and we know the ratio of tagged to untagged fish, we determined an upper estimate of possibly 40 fish returning to the river this year.

Finally, as a private resident of Santa Cruz county for 15 years, and a current home owner, it is my hope that a way can be found to maintain a locally owned and operated, environmentally responsible timber harvest practice here, rather than increasing the demand for timber harvest in someone else’s back yard, creating additional problems for their salmon, and increasing the overall costs and carbon footprint challenges associated with trucking lumber from far away.

Sean A. Hayes, Ph.D. Research Fisheries Biologist for NOAA

Southwest Fisheries Science Center

Read this letter in its entirety at www.santacruz.com/news.

I JUST SAW what could be the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen in my 30 some years of living in Santa Cruz—a large motorized sidewalk cleaner (kind of like a Zamboni machine without the ice) going up and down the sidewalks of Pacific Avenue in the middle of lunch hour! The sidewalks were full of people desperately trying to get out of the way of this thing. There’s no room between the iron rails fencing in the diners (trying to enjoy a peaceful meal at one of the restaurants downtown) and the trees, bike racks, parking meters, etc., on the other side of this ankle-banging monstrosity. Is the city really that anxious for a lawsuit? I stopped the guy driving it and asked, “Did the city really authorize doing this in the middle of the lunch hour?” He embarrassedly informed me that he was supposed to do it all day and let me know who to contact if I had concerns: Mark R. Dettle, director of Public Works. I think we should all let Mr. Dettle and the city manager, Richard C. Wilson, know what we think of this reckless and incredibly stupid decision.

Doug Springs,Santa Cruz

I CAN’T BELIEVE you had a pet issue (July 22) and did not include anything about this group: Woofers & Walkers! They are changing Santa Cruz into a dog-friendly town one paw at a time. The group walks every Sunday morning and then goes to “Yappy Hour.” Thanks to Woofers & Walkers, over 15 restaurants now allow dogs on their patios that were previously “no-dog territory.” Check the site for info.

Whitney Wilde,Woofersandwalkers.com

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I am an actor/director. For the past six years, I was also a lecturer for the UCSC theater arts department.

I think I’d make a good spy. But I’d probably end up being an attorney.

I’m a travel junkie. And a beer drinker.

Paul Whitworth hired me to work at Shakespeare Santa Cruz in 1997. I

P U B L I C E Y E1 0 Q U E S T I O N Sworked here off and on until moving permanently in 2003 when Danny Scheie offered me a teaching job.

Meder Street past Western. Wildlife + Convenience = Awesome.

I’m going to the Galapagos islands in September, and I can barely sleep from thinking about it.

You know how sometimes you’re waiting to turn left in a single lane and someone in a giant truck wedges themselves in between you and the curb to turn right and you can’t see oncoming traffic any more? Drives me through the roof.

Robinson Crusoe, which was an inspiration for the play I’m doing at SSC right now.

That I can share my life with someone and enjoy it.

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Camp WannarockyaIN MY DAY, “summer camp” meant bunk beds,

nature walks, BB guns and calamine lotion. Obviously I didn’t grow up in Santa Cruz.

Because here, besides beaches, redwood forests and more skateparks than you can shake a fractured wrist at, kids can spend their summers becoming the next Jimi Hendrix at a little thing called Soundwall Rock Music Camp

I checked out the camp, which kicked off its second session of its 16th year at UCSC this week. About 70 boys and girls, ages 12 to 17, had signed up for the camp and, on Monday, were getting their first lessons in the arts of rock stardom. Having just broken off into 16 different bands consisting of a drummer, a bassist, one or two guitarists and a singer, the kids were inside the university’s state of the art Music Center jamming in various instrument-specific workshops.

“Push! I want to feel it in my hand,” said vocal teacher Ann Hughes, while pressing her palm against the sternum of 15-year-old Kallie Key, who, along with seven other giggling yet focused girls, was singing AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell.” “You’ve got to learn to do this right or you’re just going to tear up your throat.”

The camp focuses on teaching the kids not only how to play their instruments, but more importantly, how to play with others, and what it takes to make a life in the music business. Key, who is on a full scholarship in her fourth year at Soundwall, said the experience has shaped almost every part of her musical persona and helped kick-start her band Sunrise Rehab in Lubbock, Texas.

“After the first day I ever came to Soundwall, I doubled my music knowledge just like that,” she said

outside of the classroom. “The teachers here really care about you.”

Elsewhere in building about 14 boys were learning guitar solos and practicing a solo skill called tapping. A cacophony of muted string pluckings sounded in the room from the multitude of unplugged electric guitars, while the boys’ eyes remained locked on their fretboards. In the drum room, instructor Jason Wall had just finished up with the stick swingers and compared the way he learned music with the opportunities these kids have had.

“When I grew up, you essentially had jazz and classical music camps. There was never a rock camp,” he said. “If nothing else, these kids learn to work with others, which is a skill they can apply to anything they do.”

—Curtis Cartier

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The Commission on the 21st Century Economy is working on a tax plan to present to the Legislature.

Golden OpportunityReform advocates look at the flip side of California’s budget meltdown and see a chance to mend the Golden State

where the fault lies.“I think we could have a bill to

boil in oil a legislator a month and it would probably pass,” says Santa Cruz County Treasurer and former District 27 Assemblyman Fred Keeley. “That assumes the legislators and the governor are fundamentally the problem. I don’t think they are.”

Keeley, though he agrees that the budget is “inadequate, insufficient, incoherent,” views the disaster from a

unique perspective in that he serves on two different bodies with an eye on the future. Both the Commission on the 21st Century Economy and California Forward are trying to channel the same passion with which Californians cried “Don’t cut us” into “Change us.”

“I think about 65 percent of [the blame] can be laid at the doorstep of a process that is terribly outdated and broken and needs to be modernized,” Keeley says.

The commission was ordered by Gov. Schwarzenegger back in March to rewrite California’s tax system to decrease the kind of volatility that has made the state obese in good times and starved it in bad. Keeley says the group is now poised, after months of information-gathering, to formulate a proposal to bring before the governor and Legislature in the next 60 days. At present the commission must combine two approaches—the wryly named “red plan,” written by the conservatives in the 14-member commission, and the

A S STATE LAWMAKERS wrangled the budget to a close, voices rose up from every hill and dale

in California pleading not to be administered cuts on top of cuts already doled out by their local governments. Schools, social services, health care—they’re all being force-fed a giant slice of the $26 billion budget deficit pie. So naturally people are pissed. And they want blood, no matter

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“blue plan,” for which Keeley served as head author—into one coherent formula.

To Keeley’s eye, the red plan is a regressive approach that shifts the burden from the wealthy to more middle- and lower-income taxpayers.

The blue proposal advocates reducing sales and use taxes (while simultaneously broadening their applicability), amending Prop. 13 to reassess nonresidential commercial property for property tax purposes, creating a pollution tax on carbon-based fuels and starting a “rainy day fund” to be filled by extra personal-income tax monies in times of bounty.

The red plan would f latten personal income tax, eliminate the bank and corporation tax and abolish the state general fund sales tax. It would fill those holes with some replacement business taxes.

“They’re two completely different ways of dealing with the same thing, and they’re both legitimate and we’ll probably end up doing some of both,”

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says Keeley. Depending on how palatable the final product is, the governor and Legislature will either vote it up or down as a whole or break it down to chew, digest and vote on piecemeal.

On the California Forward side of things, the group is putting together ballot measures for 2010 designed to limit lawmaker spending, force politicians to explain how their programs will be paid for and give local governments more control over tax dollar allocation.

There is also a possibility the group will have a ballot measure that will eliminate the two-thirds majority needed to pass a state budget, a rule shared only by Arkansas and Rhode Island and one that has become increasingly unpopular over the course of the crisis.

“It is a distortion of democracy,” says Keeley. The group is still trying to decide whether to recommend a simple 50 percent–plus one majority or a slightly higher 55 percent.

Still a third effort,

called Repair California, hopes to place two of its own ballot measures on the ticket in 2010, which will empower Californians to call a constitutional convention to revise or rewrite what it calls a drastically dysfunctional document.

But are we ready for all this change? Sure, everyone’s foaming at the mouth over the dismal

state of affairs, but there’s the memory of May 19, when voters soundly voted down a whole package intended to stave off disaster.

Though the Public Policy Institute of California has not yet explicitly asked whether

voters will say yes to governance or fiscal reform, a May poll showed that 78 percent of those polled felt major change is needed in the way the state budget process works in terms of spending and revenue, an increase of 13 points from 2008.

“I know that California Forward will be on the ballot in 2010 and we’ll have a chance to vote on it, and I wouldn’t be surprised if some portion of the tax commission’s work ends up on the ballot as well,” says Keeley. “We have to fix this. We have some degree of confidence that the voters will think we’re on the right track.”

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Raspberries Over StrawberriesAs two berry festivals prepare to face off this weekend, we review their short, messy history

IT STARTED OUT, simply enough, as a celebration of the crop that put Watsonville back on the map. The Monterey Bay Strawberry Festival had enjoyed

14 summers of peace and prosperity in various locations in and around town, where many of the men and women who pick the county’s top crop live and work, and where nationally renowned apple orchards had once reigned supreme.

But in these not-so-innocent times, the festival became divided against itself, and in the chaos two competing festivals have emerged: festival promoter Leslie Peterson leading the Monterey Bay Berry Festival on the one side and city leaders championing the Watsonville Strawberry Festival at Monterey Bay on the other. Both are to be held this weekend. One festival will claim victory, the other will be ridden out of town on a rail (maybe). But the dust will not settle come Monday morn. Peterson is all but certain to sue, the City Council is mired in in-fighting and allegations of racism have entered into this very strangest of food fights. Suffice to say, the situation has gotten berry, berry sticky.

Where did the rot slip in? Let’s recap. Flashback: the year was 2008, the president was George W. Bush and the Watsonville City Council had decided it was time the city came into its own, strawberry festival–wise. In an Oct. 28 vote, the council decided to move the word “Watsonville” to the fore of the festival name “Monterey Bay Strawberry Festival” in order to better promote a city whose reputation has suffered from gang violence. The festival’s promoter, Leslie Peterson, objected because of what he said were business and marketing reasons. Things quickly turned from sweet to sour. “I say, Forget you,” said Councilmember Antonio Rivas presciently. “He shouldn’t be running the strawberry festival. We don’t need him.”

Though Peterson ultimately backed down, in late May, when he announced his decision to pluck the festival from Watsonville’s Ramsay Park and move it to the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds just outside of town, the city called foul and fired him for breach of contract.

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“What else might be done without our knowledge, with the city of Watsonville’s name on it?” said Councilmember Kimberly Petersen of the decision. Promoter Peterson announced almost immediately that his festival would move ahead as scheduled, and after a 6-1 council vote, the city countered that it would hold its own Strawberry Festival in downtown Watsonville, same Bat-time, same Bat-channel. “It was probably the most foolish decision they could have made,” said Peterson.

Foolish or not, the line was drawn in the sand. Councilmember Manuel Bersamin is in hot soup for writing to Peterson’s headlining act, Malo, asking them to pull out of the festival run by the “Anglo promoter” and instead support the City Council, which is “fighting to uplift our Raza.” And Peterson, who says he’s already taken a financial hit, is winding up to pitch the final, and perhaps inevitable, curveball in this parable: a lawsuit. Bersamin may be due for council censure, Councilmember Emilio Martinez is asking for his resignation and the Op-

Ed pages of the Register-Pajaronian are buzzing with local movers and shakers’ opinions about whether this is about being Latino or Anglo or just loco.

But in the meantime, county residents and tourists are left with a choice as epic as Coke vs. Pepsi: Which berry festival will earn their attendance? There are a few helpful differences. The Berry Festival will have national name acts such as Malo, El Sapo and Richard Bean, while the Strawberry Festival will have, in Peterson’s words, “a bunch of 7-year-old girls” performing (well, that plus a clutch of local bands). The Strawberry Festival will have beer and wine for sale by the Freedom Rotary club, while the Berry Festival goers will be high and dry. The Berry Festival will host full-blown carnival rides, while the city has opted for tamer, family-oriented rides like the Merry-Go-Round. And the nonprofits have been cleaved neatly down the middle in terms of who is fundraising where.

Now only time will tell which festival will lord it over the other. “This year, one will be successful and one will not,” predicts Pajaro Valley Chamber of

Commerce director Jerry Beyersdorff. “The event that is not as successful will decide, ‘Do we want to do this again or do we want to make an accommodation with the other event?,’ which is what I would hope for.”

And we are left to ask, at the end of the day: all this over a berry festival? More importantly, which one should we go to? To those members of the festival-going public lost in the maze of seeds and stems, we offer a helping hand (page 14) and wish all involved a berry lovely time.

runs Saturday–Sunday, Aug. 1–2, 10am–9pm (carnival runs till 11pm Saturday, 10pm Sunday) at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds. $6.

runs Saturday–Sunday, Aug. 1–2, 10am–7pm in downtown Watsonville. Free.

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was LOL funnier, Jonathan David Visser’s falsetto Thisbe (kudos to hardware store accessories) or Chris Butler’s hillbilly enactment of “The Wall.” But the play’s virtuoso turn is Wentworth’s Bottom. Armed with an embarrassment of technical riches, he unleashed an array of pitches, accents and inflections that left the audience almost too dazzled to breathe. (And to think that all of these performers will transform themselves, yet again, into the cast of Julius Caesar!)

Like many in last Saturday’s audience, I’ll gladly see A Midsummer Night’s Dream again just to hear Wentworth undulate through a vocal repertoire Patrick Stewart would kill for.

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with. And from a deck loaded with equity actors, he devised a game available to every observer: peeling away cliché and offering up the tart, fresh meaning within the words.

The two Athenian ladies, in love with each other’s intended, were played by a short, feisty Lenne Klingaman as Hermia and a lanky, plaintive Emily Kitchens as Helena. Clever casting, since the physical disparity exactly matched Shakespeare’s wordplay (though I won’t give away just how) and helped us keep the two couples separate. Oberon and Titania were cast as epics of attitude, desire and sass—a towering Aldo Billingslea (Oberon) and Lanise Antoine Shelley as the sashaying queen. No delicate sprites here!

As Puck, the astonishingly gymnastic J. Todd Adams soared away with every scene into which he swooped, spun and somersaulted. Using the spare, sturdy set as a personal trapeze, he showered briolettes of magic far into the redwood darkness.

The “rude mechanicals”—weaver Nick Bottom (Scott Wentworth) and his blue collar colleagues—punched up the sitcom ending. There’s no telling which delivery

the way. This play was delivered on the wings of sheer make-believe magic, just the way it was in Shakespeare’s day.

Acoustical design and luscious costumes filled in for elaborate sets. A moment of gushing praise is in order for the playful sound work of Norman Kern, whose use of clicks, hoots, pings, whoops and owl calls triggered hidden worlds and gestures that advanced each scene. Costumer B. Modern clarified the tricky identity switches by dressing mortals in casual outdoor gear while the fairies were clad in tropical fantasies festooned with flowers, ribbons, leathers, feathers and velvet. Every production choice rendered the delicious mayhem clear and comprehensible.

The production not only showcases actors who know what they were saying and why they are saying it, but invites the audience inside the gossamer layers of meaning, rhyme, wordplay, dream and poetry. Opening night’s audience hung on every line, laughed at every joke and oohed and aahed like children around a campfire.

Director Richard E.T. White, whose insight infused the text with all of the wisdom it can carry, had a lot to work

Midsummer Night’s Smash

Tommy Kearney (Crow), Aldo Billingslea (Oberon), Boris Volkov (Bluejay) and Zarif Kabier Sadiqi (Screech-owl) investigate matters in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ running through Aug. 30.

Shakespeare Santa Cruz’s 28th season gets off to

a brilliant start

R ARELY has such a tortured plot been so clearly articulated. A

Midsummer Night’s Dream, one of Shakespeare’s most popular

offerings, explores the elaborate mistaken-identity twists that Elizabethan audiences adored. Three mortal couples—Duke Theseus of Athens and his Amazon bride-to-be, plus two sets of love-struck (but not with each other) mortals—find themselves in a wooded dreamscape rife with fairy mischief. In bravura fashion, Shakespeare adds yet another layer of play-within-a-play complexity in a sextet of rough Athenian workmen rehearsing a play they intend to perform in honor of the Duke’s upcoming wedding. Meanwhile, Titania and Oberon, king and queen of the fairies, are quarrelling over custody of a pretty Indian baby. Determined to control his headstrong wife, Oberon sends his archfairy Puck to play a trick on her. That trick—having Titania fall madly in love with the first creature she sees, the preening weaver Bottom turned into a donkey—is one of the most famous comic devices in the history of theater. So why does none of this premiere production of the festival’s 28th season feel either convoluted or predictable?

Because artistic director Marco Barricelli has assembled a company of professionals capable of delivering every line, every innuendo, every delicious pun, with intelligence and style. Many times during opening night I had to pinch myself. Was I in New York? Was this a Broadway production? This Midsummer absolutely could have been. No flab, no muffed lines, no lame special effects, nothing to get in

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM runs through Aug. 30 at the UCSC Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen. For schedule visit www.shakespearesantacruz.org. Tickets are $32–$48 (kids are $13; last-minute rush tickets are $20) at 831.459.2159 or www.santacruztickets.com.

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THIS WEEKEND, grownups and children alike can plunge their hands into wet goop and shape it into musical instruments

good for a lifetime of whistling, shaking and general merriment, or perhaps make like Monet with loaded palettes and paintbrushes to capture the glory not of Givenchy but of Watsonville reveling in midsummer bounty. Dad always warned against playing with melting candle wax because it’d burn, right? But here’s a chance to sculpt it into Rodinesque figures working from a live model or layer its milkily transparent richness over photos and drawings to make encaustic paintings. Have a window that needs a dazzling glass mosaic? Make it. Or fashion a garden sculpture out of plastery gunk and chickenwire. It’s time to release that pent-up child into the garden of creativity.

The Art Extravaganza is two days and 21 one-to-five-hour workshops, with a dozen ongoing art demonstrations and slide presentations for adults and children in the sprawling gardens of Watsonville’s Sierra Azul Nursery. Here the spirits-

Local artists like Kirk McNeill, whose work is shown above, lead hands-on workshops as part of this weekend’s Art Extravaganza.

Garden of Artsy DelightsArt play among the succulents

lifting outdoor sculpture exhibition, Sculpture Is, sprouts over 100 artworks of all conceivable materials and styles amid colorful shrubs, succulents and towering trees. The exhibit and the Art Extravaganza are presented by the Pajaro Valley Arts Council.

“I don’t think there’s ever been anything like this,” says Susana Arias, a widely exhibited Santa Cruz sculptor and this year’s co-curator of Sculpture Is. She organized the Extravaganza as the next logical step in the four-year development of the extraordinary confluence of art and nature that Sculpture Is has become.

Like the 14-year old, six-acre Mediterranean-inspired demonstration garden and nursery located across from the Watsonville fairgrounds, the Sculpture Is exhibition has matured beautifully; the exhibition is now considered one of the region’s most important art events. The Rydell Fund of the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County awarded them a grant twice the amount that the Pajaro Valley Arts Council requested.

THE PVAC’S ART EXTRAVAGANZA is Saturday–Sunday, Aug. 1–2, 10am–5pm, at Sierra Azul Nursery and Garden, 2660 E. Lake Ave., Watsonville (across from the Fairgrounds). Enroll at www.pvarts .org or 831.722.3062. (Note this is also the weekend of the Monterey Bay Berry Festival at the Fairgrounds; plan travel time accordingly.)

Jeff Roendale, Sierra Azul Nursery owner, has been co-curator of the Sculpture Is each year.

“I have always loved the way that sculpture interacts with nature in a garden setting—there’s so much life to it, a contrasting expression of beauty, one that doesn’t need to be cultivated,” he says. As a businessman, he also hopes that the exhibition will encourage more homeowners to invest in sculpture for their own gardens. He sets the example; each year he purchases works for Sierra Azul’s growing permanent collection.

Co-curator Arias wanted to give the public a chance to have the experience of making art. “It’s such a tough time right now, we all need more positive things, to share positive experiences,” she says. Evidently others felt the same. “I began by approaching a few friends,” she continues. “Everybody volunteered.”

The core grew to over 30 artists. Many, like Tobin Keller, Rose Sellery, Dale Bates and Andy Ruble, are among the area’s most beloved art teachers, expert in coaxing out that creative force in students and helping them succeed. They created the highly structured workshops that provide all materials and the guidance to

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enable participants to enjoy themselves and walk away with something substantial. Workshops cost from $10 to $50, depending on the materials and the length.

Since the opening reception for the exhibit in May, attended by more than 700 people, the workshops have been filling steadily. Some are already at capacity. However, observers are welcome at all workshops. Some, like Marilyn Kuksht’s metal sculpture using wire-feed welding, or the ongoing drawing or painting from a posing professional model, are open for drop-in participants. Free demonstrations take place throughout both days.

Anna Martin, creator of ‘Currents,’ leads a workshop in hydrostone sculpture on Saturday.

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campfire and even an English bathtub. The clothesline curtain at one point was crowned with several colorful masks, becoming instantly a group of tribal elders. And the stage itself, with the aid of innovative lighting and shadow puppetry, was everything from a roiling ocean to a crowded street.

The story, though undeniably comical, told a deeper and more poignant tale of deception. By combining elements of books he’d read and stories he’d heard, de Rougement sprinkles his mild three-year adventure with romantic ornamentations and a few outright lies. Yet the lesson learned by the end of the play, with an impoverished de Rougemont discredited, broken and perhaps senile, is that the difference between fact and fiction is only a minor detail. The story itself is the most valuable thing of all.

awestruck little boy he meets in London. Moments in the play, like a delightfully choreographed wedding dance ceremony and a sea-turtle-riding grand finale, were particularly moving.

The rest of the cast performed superbly as well, with the only criticisms residing in a few upstaged visuals and a couple of stuttered lines. Perhaps best loved was the adorably loyal hound Bruno. Played by Mike Ryan in an orange, ear-flapped winter hat, Bruno dog-paddled through the water with his drowning master, barked at menacing aborigines and regularly showered de Rougemont with lickings. Karen Aldridge, who played a multitude of roles, also shone as the salty sea captain and island wife of de Rougemont.

Aside from Torsek’s brilliant portrayal, the play’s biggest success was in its set design. Made up of a simple wooden floor strewn with changing arrangements of travel boxes and suitcases, the stage was backed by a clothesline hung with sheets and flanked by odd items like sheet metal and cowhide drums, which were used for sound effects. Like the supporting characters themselves, each piece of the set also had several different roles. The travel boxes were stacked and used to form a massive sailing ship, a blazing

Stranger Than Fiction

Louis de Rougement (played by Dierk Torsek, left) and his faithful companion Bruno (Mike Ryan) travel the world in ‘Shipwrecked!’

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T HEY SAY truth is often stranger than fiction. But in a tale told by master raconteur Louis de Rougemont, both

fact and fantasy have their place. Explorer, seaman, survivalist and con artist, de Rougemont, as played by seasoned television and stage actor Dierk Torsek, spins his greatest yarn ever in Shakespeare Santa Cruz’s production of Shipwrecked!

An Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures

of Louis de Rougement (As Told by Himself).

The play was a hit with the sold-out crowd at its July 24 opening at UCSC’s indoor Theatre Arts Mainstage. The only non-Shakespeare play to be part of this year’s SSC festivities, the production, which was written by Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies, was for all intents a beautifully animated extended monologue by Torsek.

The story follows de Rougemont, who serves as both the main character and the narrator, on a fantastic, if wildly embellished, adventure that takes him from the bustling streets of London to a pearling ship off the coast of Australia to a deserted island in New Guinea to an aboriginal camp in the Outback and back again to England. Aided by a mere four additional actors, each playing no fewer than five roles apiece, the play triumphed in its use of simple means to tell an epic story.

Torsek’s acting, especially considering his curtain-to-curtain stage time, was dazzling. With a booming, British-accented voice, the white-bearded actor gave vivid life to lines that were joyful, terrified, witty, dejected, vengeful and desperate. He showed a palpable bond with his old mother, the dog Bruno, his aboriginal wife and even an

SHIPWRECKED! continues through Aug. 30 at UCSC’s Theatre Arts Mainstage. For schedule visit www .shakespearesantacruz.org. Tickets range from $15 to $46 at www.santa cruztickets.com or 831.459.2159.

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As part of the Improv Festival, David Razowsky—veteran of the Second City stage and former colleague of Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris—comes to town with his improv partner, Carrie Clifford, for a Friday night performance featuring one certainty: two chairs onstage. Friday, July 31, 8pm at Actors Theater, 1001 Center St., Santa Cruz. $15. 831.425.7529.

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Using Jungian imagery, Westside artist Michelle Stitz layers oils and surfboard resin to dreamlike effect. Show runs Monday, Aug. 3, through Sunday, Aug. 30, with reception on Friday, Aug. 7, at Felix Kulpa Gallery, 107 Elm St., Santa Cruz. 408.373.2854.

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THE STADIUM lights glare and erase the presence of an audience as every muscular contour of a left jab from Carina Moreno becomes visible. Is it really the glare of the stadium lights or just the skylight and track lighting? While the subject matter of W. Scott Berry’s show, “Carina Moreno/ringside,” stands in stark contrast to the mood music and décor of LuLu’s at the Octagon, the actual layout of the photos along six walls just works. The action shots lend themselves to a movie reel–style feeling as the viewer’s eyes track the 21 black-and-white silver gelatin prints around the circular room.

Moreno herself—daughter of the Moreno family famous for its Water Street taqueria and a rising star in boxing—is in fine fettle. In a photo taken at a bout in San Jose against Mayela Peréz, her arm makes a powerful horizontal line straight to her opponent’s face; the startling image is further accentuated by the pitch-black background. By far my favorite is an image labeled as a training session sometime in July of 2006. Silhouetted against the open training room door, Moreno’s upper body seems to radiate light. Despite her blurred torso, the focus on her dancing legs and feet is sharp.

Leaving the Octagon, visitors cannot help but notice one picture completely different from all the rest. Slightly blurred up close, Moreno appears in a very feminine and vulnerable photo. Eyes closed and relaxed, she uses a towel to wipe her face during practice. Some of her hair has escaped in wisps from the bun she wears. The ropes of the ring on the left and the beams on the right sides frame her soft-lit face, bringing the observer back to the focus: Carina Moreno, Watsonville boxer. (Kat Lynch)

W. SCOTT BERRY’s exhibition CARINA MORENO/RINGSIDE is on display through Sunday, Aug.16, at LuLu’s at the Octagon, 118 Cooper St., Santa Cruz. Free. Open 6am–8pm daily. 831.429.5858.

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A violin prodigy and critic’s favorite, Mads Tolling is best known for his work with his previous outfit, the Turtle Island String Quartet. The 28-year-old Tolling, who holds two Grammy statues on his mantel, steps into the spotlight with his eponymous quartet. The group’s debut album, Speed of Light, was an invigorating exploration of what jazz can be. A player with chops and style to spare, Tolling is an expressive and f lashy player who never succumbs to excess. Kuumbwa; $18 advance/$21 door; 7pm. (Paul M. Davis)

Opio has served as a loyal soldier to the Hieroglyphics cause for most of his career, originally as a member of Souls of Mischief and later as a part of the greater touring collective. But even when sharing the stage with high-wattage talent such as Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Opio’s skills are hard to miss. His nimble wordplay and Möbius-strip rhyming patterns mark him as one of the most talented MCs to ever rock the mic. With his latest solo effort, Vulture’s Wisdom, Volume 1, Opio finally has the space to display his formidable gifts. Motiv, 1209 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz, 831.429.8070; $7; 9pm. (PMD)

The blues-rock diva of the Lone Star state, Carolyn Wonderland, has garnered many comparisons to Janice Joplin for her full-throated, expressive voice, but it’s her musical range that’s perhaps her most impressive gift. The multi-instrumentalist—singer, pianist, trumpeter and guitarist—effortlessly slides between blues and country, zydeco and surf-rock, rock and Latin jazz, and somehow makes it look easy. Onstage, Wonderland commands the audience with the authority of a Texan dust storm, almost daring listeners to keep up with her limitless energy and power. Moe’s Alley; $10 advance/$15 door; 9pm. (PMD)

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If they are trying to gain notoriety in the unruly rock star sense of the word, the Infamous Stringdusters’ ferocious acoustic blues instill more joy than intimidation. The warm sounds emanating from the sweet-toothed town of Nashville, Tenn., are delectable treats to the ear. The Infamous Stringdusters are out on the road like dobro and fiddle-wielding apostles of country, spreading the genre’s spectrum from ambrosia to black licorice. Don Quixote’s; $12; 7:30pm. (JN)

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The punks of Santa Cruz County have waited a long time for the hell-spawned and homebred kings of local psychobilly to drop their debut LP. Well, guys and ghouls, Welcome to

the Nightmare is finally out, and the Stellar Corpses are back in their home catacomb to unleash it live. Featuring all the spooky standup bass, swanky vocals and screaming guitars you’ve come to expect from the fearsome foursome, the album is a dark but danceable trip down hell’s highway. And when it comes to live shows, the Corpses are known for shaking the rigor mortis out of the stiffest of limbs for a concert experience that’s worth carting your cadaver to. Catalyst; $10 advance/$12 door; 9pm. (Curtis Cartier)

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Raymond Raposa is the kind of songwriter you’d imagine pacing around a cluttered mountain cabin, cackling ad hoc lyrics at a rug-prone old hound while sucking back on whiskey-spiked cold coffee. Indeed, judging from the Gandalf-length face fuzz he sports, any isolated setting far from a barber would

The heaviest thing to hit the San Lorenzo Valley since Bigfoot, Lodge-A-Palooza is back for its third year of head-hammering at the famously haunted Brookdale Lodge. The show puts a handful of Santa Cruz County’s hardest rocking bands on one stage and features performances from event-founders and guitar worshipers Honest Mistake as well as pop punkers My Stupid Brother, metallic grungers The Devil Himself, old-school rockers Who’s Holdin’ and skate punks 3UPFRONT. . Brookdale Lodge; $10; 7:30pm. (CC)

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the background for this comedy-drama. (Seeing Jack Holden in Carter’s lobby, Jemma says, “Are you who I think you are? You ought to make better movies.”) Taking up the bum’s life—as Carter does, smoking herb in the parking lot—is a natural reaction to all that frenzied ambition. But Pate’s life-affirming, everything-to-all-people script keeps introducing new characters until, at the end, he’s forced to act with all the aplomb of a man herding cats.

Scripter Thomas Moffett insists that the act of scriptwriting is essential to healing, that everyone has a good script in them. Likewise, Shrink insists that everyone in L.A. is in the Industry whether they know it or not. Pate sets some of the action at the Los Feliz Theater, the anchor of a mini-neighborhood notorious as a scriptwriter’s hangout. The question remains, then, why do all the movie references seem 20 years old? When Carter reminds Jemma she doesn’t have to be crazy to see a shrink, Jemma

‘Shrink’ makes us wonder: Aren’t people paid to listen to these

complaints?

CALL ME a buzzsquelcher, but Jonas Pate’s Crash-y, tag-team, only-connect, only-in-L.A. drama draws its moral lines

so heavily you can taste the chalk dust f lying off them. Shrink begins solidly, with world-weary psychiatrist Dr. Henry Carter (Kevin Spacey) all dogfaced from sleeplessness and partaking much of the evil herb. Once he was a psychiatrist to the stars and author of a book called Stop

Feeling Sad; now he is a physician who needs to heal himself.

The doctor has a roster of clients, a real workload: Kate (Saffron Burrows) and Evan (Joel Gretsch), a famous movie star/rock-star couple with child, are now on the verge of splitting. This couple, referred to as “Katevan” in the tabloids, are supposed to be as famous as Brangelina. Shamus (Jack Huston, John’s grandson) is supposed to be Colin Farrell, an out-of-control Irish movie star unhappy with his work. Robin Williams is Jack Holden, an aging movie star who quips that he needs to be sent to “Cockenders” for his adulterous tendencies, for which he self-medicates with booze.

Want more? Too bad, here they come: Dallas Roberts is Carter’s patient Patrick, a neurotic asshole of a motion picture executive, the Jay Mohr type. New patients include Jeremy, who was the godson of Carter’s father—a lawn-mowing nobody in this star-studded scheme, with hopes of writing a script

someday. Though he’s supposed to be joe average, Mark Webber plays Jeremy as if he had the lead role in a Sam Rockwell biopic. Lastly, working-class African-American girl Jemma (Keke Palmer) is seeing Dr. Carter pro bono for sessions of what seems like that “movie therapy” you’ve read so much about. Jemma won’t talk to the doc about her problems, or the reason she has a cast on her arm from having tried to knock some sense into the mirror in her high school bathroom. So they go to the films together.

Once upon a time, the man who linked high- and low-lives in L.A. was a private eye. Spacey’s sardonicism would make a great late-period Phillip Marlowe (in a remake of The Little Sister, say). Like Marlowe, Carter has a fateful mystery of his own to solve. And, as in the case of Raymond Chandler’s mysteries, the real killer is the city of Los Angeles itself. The dry, coyote-haunted hills, the smoggy sunrises and the affably brutal way people treat each other is

The Doctor Is Sick

COUCH POTATO Kevin Spacey’s psychiatrist absorbs the phobias and complaints of his high-profile patients in ‘Shrink.’

responds, “I know, I’ve seen Ordinary

People.” Why would a 16-year-old of today have seen Ordinary People unless she got keelhauled through it in Scriptwriting 101 class? Yes, there’s wit in Shrink; playing a TV chat show host, Gore Vidal pronounces the word “suicide” as if it were the name of a fine wine. Hard to imagine why a man that smart would have been so ill informed about his guest, though. Spacey’s look of groggy melancholy is a reliable getter of laughs, and one short scene of Saffron Burrows sitting and eating ice cream makes up for a lot of heavy life affirmation in this tangled, tangled web Pate weaves.

SHRINK (R; 110 min.), directed by Jonas Pate, written by Thomas Moffett, photographed by Lukas Ettlin and starring Kevin Spacey, Mark Webber and Gore Vidal, opens Friday at the Nickelodeon.

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the congressman looks sad, shabby and gray as he falls for it; there’s little comedy in an aged congressman sitting on the edge of a hotel bed at the behest of someone he thinks will help his career. One can be slightly cheered by less well-known citizens who must—you pray—have either been in on the joke or had enough good humor to play dumb for this amazing Technicolor Teutonic faun.

A film in shining bad taste: that’s

‘Brüno’

SACHA BARON COHEN, late of Borat, plays an extra-tall, tousled-hair Aubrey Beardsley imp in Brüno. He purports

to be the one-named Brüno, Austrian star of Funkyzeit, the most popular fashion show in the German-speaking lands (“except Germany”). He is a past-his-prime, mid-1990s club kid, whose claim to fame was a tryst with Rob Pilatus of Milli Vanilli. (Bruno’s séance with the ghost of the dead “singer” is the kind of humor that staggers you too much to laugh.) Fired from his show, Brüno seeks greater fame. Run out of L.A. after a fateful celebrity interview with Paula Abdul, he goes first to Jordan to try to bring peace. He faces the problems of the Middle East commentator who confuses the words “Hamas” and “hummus.” On the basis of the fame of three big movie stars whose heterosexuality no one would like to bet their lives on, Brüno decides he must be converted to straightness in order to succeed.

The film’s beguiling bad taste includes the hero trying to tackle some of Rev. Phelps’ fag-hating f lock, while naked and draped with more chains than Marley’s Ghost. Cohen’s choice dog-German is classic even by this standard comic gold mine: “arseschwitz,” “arschenhower” and “schtinker” are all terms for the same much-f launted part of Brüno’s anatomy.

The finale is the sweetest spot. Cohen does a mass chumping of a Ft. Smith, Ark., auditorium to the music of Celine Dion’s biggest hit. This dangerous-looking scene gets into the real dirt of anti-gay prejudice. Cohen’s drastic comedy insists that all the worst fears of gay haters are true and screws that point down. It argues that gay people are into f lagrantly

bizarre sexual practices—practices that that surpass even an Internet surfer’s pretty good knowledge of what his fellow earthlings get up to. It insists that gay people will try to recruit straight people relentlessly, and that they’ll tease and seduce even the violently uninterested.

Brüno, then, is not a plea for understanding, but a shout of rage. There can’t be anything playful in this urge to incite fury or to be hounded out into the night by security guards and everyday joe-sixpacks alike. Watching Cohen in his disguise is like reading H.L. Mencken—amusement at the rude wit is followed by nauseated despair at universal gullibility. Even Congressman Ron Paul, whom so many had set their hopes on, swallows Brüno’s bait like a starved crappie. But

Fame Whore

PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER Sacha Baron Cohen gets on his high horse for ‘Brüno.’

BRÜNO (R; 83 min.), directed by Larry Charles, written by Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, et al., photographed by Anthony Hardwick and Wolfgang Held and starring Cohen, plays countywide.

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122 Rancho Del Mar Center, Aptos 831.688.6541 www.culvertheaters.com

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

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

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(PG; 86 min.) A movie with this title can only mean one of three things: (a) PBS, having run completely out of ideas, is hiring extraterrestrials to travel around and appraise family heirlooms; (b) James Cameron, having run completely out of ideas, has reshot his 1986 science-fiction hit in his mom’s loft; or (c) Hollywood, having run completely out of ideas, is desperately trying to combine the

alien-invasion genre with family fun. OK, the answer’s “c,” but it would be “a” if PBS had thought of it. (Opens Fri at Santa Cruz 9, Scotts Valley and Green Valley.) (SP)

(R; 88 min.) Desperate ex-con breaks into his new boss’s house, only to find he’s the second guy to have that idea. (Opens Fri at Santa Cruz 9.)

(R; 146 min.) Forget Adam Sandler’s return to an actual dramatic role, what shocks everybody about this movie is the trailer that reminds

them this is only “the third film from the director of Knocked Up and The 40-Year-Old Virgin.” We’re all sitting there going, “Wait, doesn’t Judd Apatow make every comedy now? No? Then why the hell is Seth Rogan in all of them?” He’s in this too, by the way, playing a young comic whom Sandler begins to mentor after having a near-death experience. (Opens Fri at Aptos, Riverfront, Scotts Valley and Green Valley.) (SP)

(1974) This

movie is so good, it’s like The Godfather: Part II of sequels. You know, the kind of sequel that’s better than the original, such as The Godfather: Part II , or The Godfather: Part II. (Plays Thu at Santa Cruz 9.) (SP)

(PG; 92 min.) What is there to say about this animated film featuring the voices of Jack Black, Angelina Jolie and Jackie Chan? A panda is kung fu fighting. That bear is fast as lightning. In fact it’s a little bit frightening. But he fights with expert

timing. (SP) (Plays Wed-Fri at 1pm at Fox.)

(PG-13; 97 min.) Quirky and funny arthouse drama follows a train conductor on the night of his retirement. The onslaught of crossed-out vowels in the cast and crew names guarantees it’s made with the Scandinavian commitment to quality. (Opens Fri at the Nick.)(SP)

(1998) You’ll find a pair of safety glasses and some earplugs under your seats. Please feel free to use them, although if

you do you’ll miss the sweet nothings of odd comedy that made this a groundbreaking movie. There’s something naked, hanging out and embarrassed about the humor in Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson’s scripts. Their characters are always trying to hide so much from each other, to make everyone see them exactly as they want to be seen rather than how they really are. But how they really are can’t help but slip out a little bit at a time, and the high/low in the comic timing

Movie reviews by Steve Palopoli

and Richard von Busack

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Film CapsulesSHOWTIMES FOR FRIDAY JULY 31 – THURSDAY AUGUST 6

Children under 5 admitted only onMondays & Weekend Matinees

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‘Humpday’ 8/7 ‘The Cove’ 8/7 ‘Soul Power’ 8/7‘Ponyo’ 8/14 ‘Paper Heart’ 8/14

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“Funny, tender and extraordinary!” –Rolling Stone

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Rushmore (R)

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FROM THE STUDIO THAT BROUGHT YOU THECRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ‘BRA BOYS’

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Larry DavidIN A WOODY ALLEN FILM

STARTS FRI 7/31!“Outstanding! An affectionate &

quirky film with droll wit androbust sensitivity.”

–Hollywood Reporter

Daily: (3:30), (5:30), 7:30, 9:30 & Sat (12:20), Sun (1:30)

“Spellbinding! An intelligent & suspenseful film and aleading Academy Award contender.” –Roger Ebert

A KATHERINE BIGELOW FILM

Daily: (1:40), (4:20), 7:00, 9:40 plus Sat, Sun (11:00am)(R)

“����! A delightful comedy, alivewith invention.” –Roger Ebert

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Zooey Deschanel

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(R)

STARTS FRIDAY 8/17!“Hilarious! A serious comedy that’s Apatow’s richest and most resonant movie yet.” –The New Yorker

Adam Sandler Seth Rogan Leslie MannEric Bana Jonah Hill Jason Schwartzman

A JUDD APATOW FILM

FUNNYPEOPLE

Daily: (12:15), (3:10), 6:00, 8:50(R)

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STARTSFRI 7/31!

STARTS FRI 7/31!“A witty comedy with strong performances by

Kevin Spacey and Keke Palmer.” –Claudia Puig

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comes from when the characters are at their most manic or most depressed. Rushmore is perhaps the pinnacle of this balance so far, as their previous film Bottle Rocket leans toward the manic and The Royal Tennenbaums settles into depression. Still, at least all of those films gain meaning and yuks over repeat viewings—by The Life Aquatic, Anderson’s increasingly glacial style has finally ground into inertia. (Plays Fri and Sat midnight at the Del Mar.) (SP)

(R; 111 min.) See review, page 39. (Opens Fri at the Nick.)

(R; 95 min.) Angsty drama has one up-and-coming skateboarder against the world. Oh yeah, like skateboarders have it hard. The only people who don’t like them are cops and all other adults. Whiners! (Opens Fri at the Nick.) (SP)

(R; 100 min.) Hi, I’m writer-director Atom Egoyan. My new movie is called Adoration. You better go see it, or smart people will laugh at you! And don’t forget to “get” it—you might want to nod a lot and tap your fingers on your lips to make sure everyone knows that you do! Just a tip! What’s this one about, you ask? Well, like it matters, but if you must know it’s about a student whose mysterious family history becomes a class project and an Internet sensation. Did I mention it’s mysterious? And important! Like my name! Atom Egoyan! Peace out! (SP)

(R; 98 min.) Burt (John Krasinski), an alterna-insurance broker, and his pregnant mate, the dour, nervous Verona (Maya Rudolph) seek a community. Sadly, they learn that America is a beautiful country full of ugly people. Not enough jokes, by a long chalk. Alison Janney, the standout, as a sharp-tongued mom, is only temporary relief from the two leads: the moral and physical center of

this movie’s universe. The writers are San Francisco’s Dave Eggers and his wife, Vendela Vida, who seek the wonder and freshness in aged platitudes about the innocence of children. (RvB)

(R; 82 min.) See review, page 41.

(R; 100 min.) One of the grand horizontals of Paris’ Belle Epoque, Lea de Lonval (Michelle Pfeiffer) is ready for retirement and a hobby. She picks a ruinous kind: the care and feeding of a beautiful, diffident young man, nicknamed Chéri (Rupert Friend). Chéri is the son of Madame Peloux, Lea’s frenemy. In Cheri, director Stephen Frears reunites with scriptwriter Christopher Hampton and star Pfeiffer to revisit the type of games all three of them played 20 years ago in Dangerous Liaisons. The film brings out Pfeiffer’s gloriousness, her translucent skin, the limbs and hair still golden. Yet Kathy Bates’ Madame Peloux walks away with this picture, not that she does much walking. She spends a good deal of the film with feet propped up, a half-smile on her face. (RvB)

(PG-13; 95 min.) Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a greeting-card writer, has his heart broken by a girl he knew for about two years. She was called Summer (Zooey Deschanel), and she drifted in and out of his embrace and finally out of his life. “She’s either an evil, emotionless human being or she’s a robot,” Tom sums up. As he recalls this anti-love story in random-accessed moments, we begin to see the bigger picture. (500) Days of Summer is the best of a lot that includes Away We Go and Juno. It might have been about the same one-dimensional romance chronicled in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, but there’s a sudden reverse angle. At long last, we learn why there was a good reason Summer kept her

distance. She expresses it in a handsomely curt sentence, a real epitaph to a relationship. (RvB)

(PG; 101 min.) The most necessary film of the summer. The outrages of corporate food production are exposed in this fast and infuriating documentary by Robert Kenner, who can’t be accused of starry-eyed idealism. Food, Inc. reminds that if the United States could make Big Tobacco come to heel, then agribusiness’s wasteful and deadly practices can be stopped. (RvB)

(R; 100 min.) A satisfyingly low comedy with a sturdy plot and the wit to realize that the Three Stooges format is solid gold.Stick with it, since the first third is hit and miss; later, director Todd Phillips solidly builds the situations, thinking up strategies to bolster the risky comedy. (RvB)

(R; 138 min.) The soldiers of Bravo Company are stationed in Baghdad for the 2004 fighting. Central to the film is the mystery of Staff Sgt. James (Jeremy Renner) who comes in to replace a slaughtered demolition expert. James’ risk-taking amazes and angers his subordinate, Sgt. Sanborn (Anthony Mackie). The suspenseful, grimly funny script is by co-producer Mark Boal. Renner is outstanding as the inhumanly brave demolition expert. Director Kathryn Bigelow does what Howard Hawks would do; she finds the cooperation between men of great competence in a killing trade, rather than pumping up rivalry. Bigelow breaks through the sense of anonymity that characterizes most Iraq war movies, where helmeted men move alike and talk the same terse slang. However, The Hurt Locker takes an essentially knightly view of the war, of men suiting up and closing their visors. Thus this is the first Iraq film an American audience can feel good about. Boal’s script does discover the hollow inside the brave James: the missing part

that made him never stop to realize why he did his job. That final revelation is smart filmmaking. It’s just that the hollow inside this movie—inside almost all the war movies, even the good ones—isn’t as easily seen. If war is a drug, as The Hurt Locker claims, who’s pushing it? (RvB)

(PG; 94 min.) Many Internet posters are extremely angry that this third film in the popular animated series shows ice-age mammals and dinosaurs existing at the same time, which of course they did not. Fans, meanwhile, say they should get over it—after all, it’s not a documentary, right? Right, except for the part about Ray Romano being trapped in the Ice Age, which will soon be true, since I am building a time machine for the sole purpose of sending him there. (SP)

(R; 97 min.) Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is a miner, assigned to a three-year shift on the dark side of the moon. His only companion is a living computer named Gerty, with an emoticon face and measured, ambiguous voice by Kevin Spacey. Sam is counting the days until he gets to go home, but matters start to go wrong. Already, communications with the Earth (and with his beloved wife) are fritzing out, and he sees strange glimpses of another figure through the station’s monitors. The film has its points. Director/writer Duncan Jones does bring home the moon on $5 million. He did this with old-fashioned ideas like the use of miniatures and a lunar set. Some fans of Moon argue that its not the technique, or the movie’s derivative sourcing that matters, as much as what the film has to say about identity. It makes you wonder: how much science fiction writing do science fiction film fans read? Like all horror stories, Moon must face that terrible point where the audience says, “There must be a reasonable explanation for this.” Ultimately, Jones gives

us the reasonable explanation, but he can’t supply a great final twist on a story that would have been deft at 60 minutes on The Outer Limits. (RvB)

(PG-13; 107 min.) Boss lady Sandra Bullock and underling Ryan Reynolds fake an engagement for the benefit of the family of the “bride.” Directed by Anne Fletcher.

(R; 141 min.) Michael Mann’ carries out this study of John Dillinger’s career from its middle to its end in darting, little-cam movements. The photography often uses high-def synthetic light: yellowish-white flares of gun bursts and gritty magenta torches burning. Surfaces come to mind—that’s what this skin-deep film gives you when you can’t hear the dialogue or can’t tell who the new characters are supposed to be. In numberless close-ups, Johnny Depp emphasizes surface, too. The movie makes the master bank robber a gent, a showman, an ardent monogamous lover; when he takes hostages, it’s to relieve them of the humdrumness of their lives. But Public Enemies never takes us hostage;

it never establishes that link it reaches for, the link between those hard times and ours. (RvB)

(Unrated; 134 min.) Francis Ford Coppola’s new work is set in Buenos Aires. Bennie (Alden Ehrenreich), a waiter on a cruise ship, descends on his long-lost half-brother, who’s renamed himself Tetro (Vincent Gallo). This broken-legged lone wolf winds his way through a series of cafes, having written off the writing life. His adoring wife Miranda (Maribel Verdu) tries to smooth the roughness between the brothers, but Bennie’s own ambition to become a writer inflames matters. Decrypting a hidden stash of notes for an open-ended modernist novel, Bennie discovers the truth about his own family. (RvB)

(PG-13; 150 min.) Off to college goes young Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) trying to forget the trauma of watching the robots destroy L.A. The government covered it up. Sadly, a chip of the spark cube stuck to Sam’s shirt, and that Opens the whole mess over

again: indistinguishable robot-clobber with warlike threats. Manly Air Force officers in camouflage strut in slo-mo amid more cargo planes than one would see in an “Army of One” commercial.(RvB)

(R; 96 min.) After getting stuck with Seth Rogan as an arrested-development geek in her last romantic comedy, Katherine Heigl now gets Gerard Butler as a douchebag radio personality. This woman deserves combat pay. (SP)

(PG; 96 min.) During the last Depression, a reject kid named Carl becomes fascinated with that darling of the newsreels, the intrepid dirigible pilot Charles Muntz, who discovered the bones of an immense bird in South America and was declared a fraud. Fast-forward and Carl (voiced by Ed Asner) is a square-headed, Spencer Tracy lookalike of 78. When trouble comes, he escapes in the only direction open to him—straight up, with his battered house as the gondola to thousands of balloons, Unfortunately, a pesky 7-year-old scout, Russell (Jordan Nagai), is clinging to the front porch. The pair land in

South America, where they discover a 13-foot-tall iridescent goonie bird and eventually Muntz himself (Christopher Plummer). The news that Up is one of the year’s best films isn’t really news; Pixar has faith in an audience’s ability to feel without being manipulated—that’s what makes them more than just a studio with an unusually dazzling command of the vocabulary of animation. (RvB)

(PG-13; 92 min.) Very minor and musty but often funny misanthropy comedy by Woody Allen. Larry David plays Boris, formerly a physics professor; today, he is retired, a free-range castigator, living in a brick-lined vault in Manhattan’s Chinatown. A waif called Melodie (Evan Rachel Wood) drops into his lap; she takes Boris’ imprint completely—his rants, his phobias and his dislike of sex—and marries him. A year afterward, the in-laws arrive (Patricia Clarkson and Ed Begley Jr.), While it’s often canned corn, give it its props; Allen knows how to make a civilized comedy even when denouncing civilization. (RvB)

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around for very long. . . . So they buy.” Veteran wine rep Robert Marsh sees

the situation this way: “Your reason for buying hand-crafted wines or beers is not necessarily to get drunk—although you can, of course,” he chuckles. “You’re buying into the art of the beverage. In a sense, it’s a lifestyle decision.”

That can mean buying local fine wines in order to support local economies and avoiding choices that involve long-distance shipping. In Marsh’s view, cheap rules in Santa Cruz. “But when money is going to be spent,” he adds, “it’s the local wines that are selling.”

Marsh admits that while his overall sales are down, many local premiums continue to move briskly. He mentions Storrs

in making choices “in order to mitigate the risk of buying something they don’t know.” Anyone who has snapped up a cheap bottle that proved vapid in the glass knows what she means.

“The price point that is getting dinged is the $28 to $35 range,” admits J-P Correa of Vinocruz. “We’ve definitely seen an increase in some of our more attractively priced offers, such as Foxglove Chardonnay at $13 and the Zayante wines at $18. “But the surprising news is that Vinocruz has experienced a jump in sales of wines over $40, says Correa, rattling off a half-dozen local labels.“ I’m not talking a bottle or two. Quantities.”

Why? “People know some of those wines are limited and that they won’t be

Premium wine sales are down,

inexpensive wines sales are up. Those of us living in prime

wine country can do that math.

ADMIT IT. Your refrigerator probably contains at least one bottle of $7.99 Chilean chardonnay and a few

bargain-priced malbecs from Argentina. But do tough times require tough choices?

Wine marketing consultant Laura Ness is happy that “the fake air has gone out of those overpriced wines in the $65-plus category.” The dotcom era of status symbol consumption arrived much too abruptly, she contends. Even though there will always be people who can afford to “drink the prestige on the label,” Ness notes, “wine is a passion and an important quality of life factor that people won’t give up easily. And why should they?” The good news, as Ness sees it, is that consumers have more choices than ever. She likes the eco-rewards of buying locally made wines, of, as she says, “putting your dollars into your neighbors’ pockets, rather than the economy of Argentina or Australia.”

“None of us has the answer to success in this economy,” admits Soif owner Patrice Boyle. “But the fundamentals still seem to hold. Most people want value for their money.” For Boyle that means consumers refocused on the basics. She sees patrons turning to experts for help

Moderately priced local wines are leaping off the shelves, merchants say.

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chardonnays, high-end Ridge zins and the widely popular Cinnabar Mercury Rising as wines that continue to sell well. These wines are not cheap. “Reliability is the key here,” Marsh contends. “A consumer who is thinking about paying more than $10 must feel that what he or she buys will deliver pleasure as well as art. There is no chance-taking these days.”

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Price Ranges based on average cost of dinner entree and salad, excluding alcoholic beverages

$$ Indian. Authentic Indian dishes and specialties served in a Aptos 207 Searidge Rd, 831.685.0610 comfortable dining room. Lunch buffet daily 11:30am-2:30pm; dinner daily 5pm to close. www.ambrosiaib.com

$$ American and specialty dishes from the British and Emerald Isles. Aptos 8017 Soquel Dr, 831.688.1233 Full bar. Children welcome. Happy hour Mon-Fri 2-6pm. Open daily 11am to 2am.

$$$ Italian. Ambience reminiscent of a small trattoria in the streets Aptos 257 Center Ave, 831.685.8111 of Italy, serving handmade lasagna, pasta dishes, gnocchi and fresh fish. Wed-Sun, lunch 11am-2pm, dinner 5-9pm.

$$$ Continental California cuisine. Breakfast all week 6:30-11am, Aptos 7500 Old Dominion Ct, lunch all week 11am-2pm; dinner Fri-Sat 5-10pm, Sun-Thu 831.688.8987 5-9pm. www.seacliffinn.com.

$$ Middle Eastern/Mediterranean. Fresh, fast, flavorful. Gourmet Aptos 7528 Soquel Dr, 831.688.4465 meat and vegetarian kebabs, gyros, falafel, healthy salads and Mediterranean flatbread pizzas. Beer and wine. Dine in or take out. Tue-Sun 11am-8pm.

$ All day breakfast. Burgers, gyros, sandwiches and 45 flavors of Capitola 104 Stockton Ave, 831.479.8888 Marianne’s and Polar Bear ice cream. Open 8am daily.

Japanese. This pretty and welcoming sushi bar serves superfresh Capitola 200 Monterey Ave, 831.464.3328 fish in unusual but well-executed sushi combinations. Wed-Mon 11:30am-9pm.

California Continental. Swordfish and other seafood specials. Capitola 1750 Wharf Rd, 831.475.1511 Dinner Mon-Thu 5:30-9:30pm; Fri 5-10pm; Sat 4-10:30pm; Sun 4-9pm.

Mediterranean tapas. Innovative menu, full-service bar, Capitola 231 Esplanade, 831.464.1933 international wine list and outdoor dining with terrific views in the heart of Capitola Village. Open daily.

$$$ California cuisine. Nightly specials include baby back ribs, Capitola 203 Esplanade, 831.475.4900 prime rib, lobster and crab legs. Daily 7am-2am.

$$ Mexican/Seafood/American. Traditional Mexican favorites. Best Santa Cruz 1116 Pacific Ave, 831. 426.7588 fajitas, chicken mole, coconut prawns, blackened prime rib! Fresh seafood. Over 50 premium tequilas, daily happy hour w/ half-price appetizers. Sun-Thu 11am-10pm, Fri-Sat 11am-11pm.

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$$ California/full-service bakery. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. “Best Santa Cruz 1102 Pacific Ave, 837.420.0135 Eggs Benedict in Town.” Happy Hour Mon-Fri 5-6pm. Half- price appetizers; wines by the glass. Daily 8am-9pm.

’60s Vegas meets ’50s Waikiki. Amazing dining experience in Santa Cruz 221 Cathcart St, 831.426.4852 kitchy yet swanky tropical setting. Fresh fish, great steaks, vegetarian. Full-service tiki bar. Happy-hour tiki drinks. Aloha Fri, Sat lunch 11:30am-5pm. Dinner nightly 5pm-close.

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$$ Japanese Fusion. Sushi bar, sake bar, vegetarian, seafood, steak Santa Cruz 516 Front St, 831.421.0706 in fun atmosphere; kids play area; karaoke every night. Open seven days 5-10pm; Mon-Fri 11:30am-2:30pm.

$$ Seafood/California. Fresh catch made your way! Plus many Santa Cruz 493 Lake Ave, 831.479.3430 other wonderful menu items. Great view. Full bar. Happy hour Mon-Fri. Brunch Sat-Sun 10am-2pm. Open daily.

$$$ Italian. La Posta serves Italian food made in the old style— Santa Cruz 538 Seabright Ave, 831.457.2782 simple and delicious. Wed-Thu 5-9pm, Fri-Sat 5-9:30pm and Sun 5-8pm.

$$ Fine Mexican cuisine. Opening daily at noon. Santa Cruz 49-B Municipal Wharf, 831.458.9393

$$ Thai. Individually prepared with the freshest ingredients, Santa Cruz 1319 Pacific Ave, 831.420.1700 plus ambrosia bubble teas, shakes. Mon-Thu 11:30am-9:30pm, Fri 11:30am-10pm, Sat noon-10pm, Sun noon-9:30pm.

Italian-American. Mouthwatering, generous portions, Santa Cruz 555 Soquel Ave, 831.458.2321 friendly service and the best patio in town. Full bar. Lunch Mon-Fri 11:30am, dinner nightly at 5pm.

$$ Irish pub and restaurant. Informal pub fare with reliable Santa Cruz 1220 Pacific Ave, 831.426.9930 execution. Lunch and dinner all day, open Mon-Fri 11:30am- midnight, Sat-Sun 11:30am-1:30am.

$$ Wine bar with menu. Flawless plates of great character and flavor; Santa Cruz 105 Walnut Ave, 831.423.2020 sexy menu listings and wines to match. Lunch Wed-Sat noon- 2pm; dinner Mon-Thu 5-10pm, Fri-Sat 5-11pm, Sun 4-10pm; retail shop Mon 5pm-close, Tue-Sat noon-close, Sun 4pm-close.

$$ Pizza. Specializing in authentic Sicilian and square pizza. Santa Cruz 2415 Mission St, 831.423.9010 Homemade pasta, fresh sandwiches, soups, salads and more. Hot slices always ready. Sun-Thu 10am-9:30pm, Fri-Sat 10am-11pm.

$$ Pizza. Pizza, fresh salads, sandwiches, wings, desserts, beers on Santa Cruz 710 Front St, 831.427.4444 tap. Patio dining, sports on HDTV and free WiFi. Large groups and catering. Open and delivering Fri-Sat 11am-2am, Mon-Thu 11am-1am, Sun 11am-midnight.

$$ Organic Pizza. Everything organic: pizza, lasagna, soup, salad, Felton 6205 Hwy 9, 831.335.1500 beer and local wine. Always organic, local produce. Party room seats 32. Weeknights 4-9pm (closed Tue), Fri 4-10pm, Sat 1-10pm, Sun 1-9pm. See menu at www.redwoodpizza.com.

$ American. Serving breakfast and lunch daily. Large parties Scotts Valley 1210 Mt. Hermon Rd, 831.335.7311 welcome. Mon-Fri 6:30am-2:15pm, Sat-Sun 7am-2:45pm.

$ Cambodian. Fresh kebabs, seafood dishes, soups and noodle Scotts Valley 5600 #D Scotts Valley Dr, bowls with a unique Southeast Asian flair. Beer and wine 831.438.5005 available. Patio dining. Sun-Thu 11am-9pm, Fri-Sat 11am-10pm.

$$ Mexican. Open for breakfast. We use no lard in our menu and Soquel 4724 Soquel Dr, 831.477.1048 make your food fresh daily. We are famous for our authentic ingredients such as traditional mole from Oaxaca. Lots of vegetarian options. Mon-Fri 9am-9pm, weekends 8am-9pm.

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(March 21–April 19): Are you a gelatinous pool of longing yet? Are you a perfumed garden of madly blooming purple explosions? Are you throbbing and gooey and half-nauseous with that delicious sickness some people called love? If not, I don’t know what to tell you. By all astrological reckoning your gut should be swarming with drunk butterflies and the clouds should be taking on the shapes of mating horses. If you’re not half-drowning in these symptoms, I implore you to find a way to pry open the f loodgates.

(April 20–May 20): You’re primed to cancel a jinx in the coming days, Taurus. You could help someone (maybe even yourself) escape a bewitchment, and you might be able to soothe a wound that has been festering for a long time. In fact, I’m playing with the fantasy that you are now the living embodiment of a lucky charm. At no other time in recent memory have you had so much power to reverse the effects of perverse karma, bad habits and just plain negative vibes. Your hands and eyes are charged with good medicine. Other parts of you are, too, which means sexual healing could be in the works. But as you embark on your mission to cure everyone you love, remember the first law of the soul doctor: “Physician, heal thyself.”

(May 21–June 20): The Norwegians used to have a concept called svoermere, which meant something sweetly futile or deliciously unprofitable. While I can see the appeal that your particular version of svoermere has had for you, Gemini, I think it’s time to think about moving on. According to my reading of the omens, you have both a right and a duty to seek out more constructive pleasures that not only make you feel really good but also serve your long-term goals.

(June 21–July 22): It’s Freedom from Want Week! For Cancerians only! During this uncanny grace period, you might actually feel perfectly contented. It’s quite possible that you’ll be free from the obsession to acquire more security, more love, more proof of your greatness, more tchotchkes, more everything. You may even make the shocking discovery that you don’t need nearly as much as you thought you did in order to be happy; that maybe you have a lot to learn about getting more out of what you already have.

(July 23–Aug. 22): Would you like to spend the next 30 years working your assets off to make your bosses rich? If not, I suggest you start formulating Plan B immediately. The astrological time is not exactly ripe to extricate yourself from the wicked game, but it’s ripe to begin scheming and dreaming about how to extricate yourself. Here’s a tip to get you in the mood. Assume that there’s some validity in the meme that mythologist Joseph Campbell articulated: “Follow your bliss and the money will come.” Then ask yourself, “Do I even know what my bliss is? Not my mild joy or diversionary fun but my unadulterated bliss?” Once you know that, you can follow it. And then, inevitably—although it may take a while—the money will follow.

(Aug. 23–Sept. 22): As the season of riddles and paradoxes kicks into high gear, I present you with a two-part quiz. Question 1: Since it has taken you your whole life to become the person you are today, is it reasonable to expect that you can transform yourself in a f lash? Question 2: On the other hand, since you are more creative than you give yourself credit for, and are also in an astrological phase when your ability to change is greater than usual, is it reasonable to assume that you must remain utterly stuck in your old ways of doing things?

(Sept. 23–Oct. 22): So much to say and do. So little time. Is it OK if I pepper you with pithy hints? It’s the only way to fit everything in. Here goes. There’s strength in numbers, Libra. So travel in packs. Round up support and whip up group fervor. Always say “we,” not “I.” Add at least one new friend and bolster at least one old friendship. Think before you act, but always act instead of watching from afar. Avoid doing stupid things in smart ways. To court good luck, do charity work. To ensure that extra favors will come your way later this year, do extra favors now.

(Oct. 23–Nov. 21): The biblical book of Isaiah prophesies a future time of undreamed-of harmony and cooperation. “The wolf will romp with

the lamb,” reads one translation. “Cow and bear will graze in the same pasture, their calves and cubs will grow up together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.” I have it on good astrological authority that you’re now eligible for a preview of this paradisiacal state. To receive your free introductory offer, you need only meet one condition. You must vow not to harm any living thing—not even a cockroach. Not even the person you love best.

(Nov. 22–Dec. 21): You Sagittarians are famous for filling your cups too full. Sometimes this is cute. Sometimes it’s a problem for those who don’t like cabernet sauvignon sloshed on their handwoven Persian rugs. This week, however, I predict there will be little or no hell to pay for overflowing. So go ahead and transcend your containers, you beautiful exaggerators. Feel free to express yourself like a fire hose. Now enjoy a few gems from your fellow Sagittarius, the extravagant poet and painter William Blake. 1. “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” 2. “Exuberance is beauty.” 3. “The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.” 4. “You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”

(Dec. 22–Jan. 19): Constant vigilance, my friend. That’s what I advise. Be attentive to details you sometimes gloss over. Wake up a little earlier and prepare for each encounter with greater forethought. Stare a little harder into the hearts of all those whose hidden motivations might detour your destiny. Monitor every communication for hints that all is not as it seems. Most importantly, guard against the possibility that you may be overlooking a gift or blessing that’s being offered to you in an indirect way.

(Jan. 20–Feb. 18): “Keep exploring what it takes to be the opposite of who you are,” suggests psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of the book Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. This advice is one of his ideas about how to get into attunement with the Tao, also known as being in the zone or getting in the groove or being aligned with the great cosmic f low. How would you go about being the opposite of who you are, Aquarius? According to my reading of the omens, that will be an excellent question for you to muse about in the coming weeks. As you stretch yourself to embody the secret and previously unknown parts of you, I think you’ll be pleased with how much more thoroughly that allows you to be in sync with the rhythms of life.

(Feb. 19–March 20): Internet addiction has risen to epidemic proportions in China. In early 2009, psychologists in Shandong province began offering an alleged cure that involved the use of electro-shock therapy. Parents of 3,000 young people paid Dr. Yang Yongxin and his team over $800 a month to hook their anesthetized teens up to machines that sent electricity through their brains to induce artificial seizures. After four months, the Chinese government intervened and halted the treatment, noting that there was no evidence it worked. This practice might sound comically barbaric to you, but I think it has a certain resemblance to the way you have been dealing with your own flaws and excesses: with inordinate force. In the coming weeks, I really think it’s important not to punish yourself for any reason, Pisces, even if it’s in a supposedly good cause. The lesson of the Chinese experiment is: not only is it overkill, it also doesn’t even have the desired effect.

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