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EDITORIAL
EDITOR STEVE PALOPOLI
STAFF WRITERSGEORGIA PERRY
JACOB [email protected]
RICHARD VON [email protected]
CONTRIBUTING EDITORCHRISTINA WATERS
PHOTOGRAPHERCHIP SCHEUER
CONTRIBUTORS ROB BREZSNY, PAUL M. DAVIS,
MICHAEL S. GANT, JOE GARZA,
ANDREW GILBERT, MARIA GRUSAUSKAS,
JORY JOHN, CAT JOHNSON,
KELLY LUKER, SCOTT MACCLELLAND,
AVERY MONSEN, PAUL WAGNER
ART & PRODUCTION
DESIGN DIRECTOR KARA BROWN
PRODUCTION OPERATIONS
COORDINATORMERCY PEREZ
GRAPHIC DESIGNER TABI ZARRINNAAL
EDITORIAL PRODUCTION
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AD DESIGNER DIANNA VANEYCKE
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Issues with Issues
I'm responding to Russ Campbell’s letter "Dealing with Real Issues” (Letters, Oct. 23). It really stuck with me. Specifically he addressed "taking back Santa Cruz" as being ignorant and naive in regard to the homeless problem.
He said it could only be addressed by more affordable housing and that the greedy landlords and lack of will to employ or hire people who have been homeless is really the real crux of the problem.
I would argue that as an employer or a property owner, why would you want some guy who obviously has a chip on his shoulder? Why would you want to hire someone like that or have someone like that in your home or your property? What would be the incentive to have someone like that around?
NAME WITHHELD BY REQUESTSanta Cruz
Wigging Out
Re: “UCSC Opera’s Mistress of Wigs”: Hello,
I am a bridal hair and makeup stylist. I am
also a Wiggie. I love Jeanna Hurd-Parhams'
approach on style and wig theory. Since I
have been wearing wigs for a very long time,
I have reached that point where people make
comments on how beautiful my hair is all the
time (ha ha), but I feel so awful sometimes
that I have deceived them in such a way. I
have hair of my own, but just do not like the
density (very fine), and its inability to grow
past my chin without looking sparse or fly-
away, let alone that I live in a climate that is
juicy with humidity and sucks for my hair
type. Great article and would love to hear
more about her, she sounds just awesome!
EDIE KEEL
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Power to the Street Poets
I read your article “Street Fight” regarding the new regulations for street performers, as well as an account of all the previous attempts to regulate street performers. Frankly, I think it is blatantly hypocritical for people to complain about the “noise” of street musicians and other performers, or even the parties of college students, while still accepting the far more obnoxious sound of loud motorcycles and leaf blowers. I even prefer music I dislike to the acoustic abominations of those machines, and I don’t hear much talk about regulating or banning them by the City Council, either downtown or anywhere else. More power to the drum, the jug band, the didgeridoo and the street poets, and less to these ear-splitting mindless, insensitive mechanical devices!
ERICH HOLDEN
Santa Cruz
Re-Think Pacific
Re: “Street Fight” (Cover, Oct. 23): Using
space on Pacific Avenue to bring in the
maximum possible revenue for local
businesses is an important goal. So is
vibrant civic space, including street art
and music. If there isn't room on the street
to accomplish both of these important
functions, we should start closing parts
of it to cars for parts of the week. It could
be that assumptions about automobile
use are getting in the way of us acting on
our community priorities for the Pacific
Garden Mall.
MICAH POSNER
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county staff. Every comment and
presentation from the event will be
saved and posted online. People who
aren’t at the event can comment on the
ideas and vote on them on Civinomics.
com. Then at the end, every attendee
will have a chance to make a case for
solutions to city problems.
“Say your solution to
homelessness—this is an example—is
affordable housing: basically tell
me the who, what, where, when and
how,” Singleton says. “Who’s going to
sponsor it? How is it going to be paid
for? Who’s going to govern it? Where’s
it going to go? What groups are you
going to be talking to? Why are you
doing it in this way? What case studies
are you building off? And you have five
minutes to pitch this, live-streaming, to
the entire community.”
The event reflects what Koenig and
Singleton are trying to do every day
on Civinomics.com—get new ideas
from everyday people for fixing old
problems. Visitors to their site can
post suggestions for how to improve
Highway 1 or prevent dire water
shortages.
“If you drive on the same road
every day going to and from work,
you probably know that road pretty
damn well—probably more so than
the staff person designated to allocate
transportation funding—and your
perspective is valuable,” Singleton says.
“If there’s not an outlet for you to give
it, that information is lost. Right now,
the way public meetings work is often
times they’re hostile—very much so.”
If all goes according to plan, the two
young techies from Santa Cruz will
be making good things in the county
happen very soon.
“What we really want to do is
accelerate the process by which the
good ideas are implemented, and we
think the way to do that is to make
discussion about them,” Koenig says.
“Rather than making them happen
behind closed doors with task forces,
study groups. People are only going to
be interested in us if we can have an
effect on the real world.”0
Why Can’t We Be Friends?Civinomicon seeks to restore some civility to the local public discourse BY JACOB PIERCE
On the council agenda that night,
Sept. 24, were an extension of the
downtown no-smoking zone and
proposed regulations for street
vendors and performers, which
passed 5-2, and Singleton thinks the
anger level in the room may have
affected the outcome.
“The crowd was incredibly rude
and loud and booing at certain
points,” 23-year-old Singleton says. “If
that’s going to be the state of our civic
discourse in order to gain attention
and ultimately shoot yourselves in
the foot, like what happened at the
government level with government
shutdown, it’s really depressing.”
Singleton and Civinomics CEO
Manu Koenig are trying to take city
discussions in a different direction.
Their startup tech company is hosting
an event they’re calling Civinomicon,
which sold out early—Singleton and
Koenig already raised the capacity
three times to 125 people.
The free three-day weekend
event kicks off Nov. 15 with Santa
Cruz County treasurer Fred Keeley
as a keynote speaker, followed by
county supervisor Zach Friend on
Saturday and Mayor Hilary Bryant
on Sunday. Six out of seven city
councilmembers—all except vice-
mayor Lynn Robinson—will also
attend.
Koenig and Singleton are splitting
the conference, which will be
held at Cruzioworks in downtown
Santa Cruz, into a series of small
group discussions led by city and
People were coughing swear
words into their hands
and yelling at one another
outright. One city councilwoman
referred to some of the public’s
concerns as “idiotic.” And a homeless
advocate with a penchant for Nazi
salutes was roaming the city council
chambers making side comments
to anyone who would listen. It was
just an especially bad Santa Cruz City
Council meeting.
“That was very, very uncomfortable.
That was the most uncomfortable
public meeting I’ve ever sat through,”
says Robert Singleton, co-founder of
Civinomics, who later wrote a blog
post “Bullshit and Bathrobes: The
State of Our Civic Discourse” about the
experience.
AMERICA’S NEXT TOP GOVERNANCE MODELS Santa Cruz’s Robert Singleton (left) and Manu Koenig will showcase their start-up’s attempt to find new solutions for problems across the political landscape at this weekend’s Civinomicon.
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what locations, estimated timelines,
business sizes and more. The
conversion rate for people who open
an account versus those who actually
submit permits is only 10 percent. But
there’s valuable data in the other 90
percent.
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Using feedback from these users,
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Counter OfferHow OpenCounter is helping Santa Cruz innovators cut through the red tape BY CAT JOHNSON
who spearheaded the Code for America
Santa Cruz project, and Joel Mahoney,
who was a 2011 Code for America
fellow in Boston—$450,000 to build a
scalable application that other cities
could utilize to streamline their own
process and tap into the entrepreneurial
potential of their communities. This
allowed Koht and Mahoney to transition
OpenCounter from a municipal project
into an application that helps move local
governments into the 21st century.
Around the country, municipalities
are strapped with increasingly tightened
budgets, diminishing teams and
processes that are vestiges of a bygone
era. At a time when life moves at the
speed of a tweet and we have access
to information 24/7, government
bureaucracy, with its paper forms,
limited hours of operation and one-way
conversations, is a dinosaur. This makes
starting a small business a confusing,
frustrating affair.
“The interface for government is
formica, fluorescence and forms,” says
Koht, pointing out that government
was set up during a time when we
were predominantly an agricultural
economy. There were some updates
made during the industrial revolution,
but it has yet to catch up to the
information economy.
“Open government”—a catchall
phrase that includes government
transparency, open data, accessibility
and up-to-date interfaces—aims to
change this. As part of this growing open
government movement, OpenCounter
gives users a transparent platform that
clearly lays out the details of starting a
local business.
It also provides a treasure trove
of data to officials. City leaders can
In 2012, a Code for America team
came to Santa Cruz. They branded
the downtown bike lockers,
designed wayfinding signs, held weekly
skillshares, built an open data portal
for the city and created OpenCounter,
a platform to streamline the process of
starting a business in town. The goal
for OpenCounter was to take a complex
process involving numerous forms,
fees, labyrinthine instructions and
data redundancies and turn it into a
user-friendly process that clearly lays
out what steps are required to start a
business, how long it will take and how
much the whole thing will cost.
The Code for America team is now
gone, but OpenCounter is thriving. In
June, the Knight Foundation awarded
the OpenCounter team—co-founders
Peter Koht, the City of Santa Cruz’s
former economic development director,
OPEN SEASON Santa Cruz’s Peter Koht went from running the city’s Economic Development Department to becoming an advocate for would-be entrepreneurs with OpenCounter.
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Primal ScreenAfter pushing its all-volunteer staff and its resources to the brink last year, the Santa Cruz Film Festival returns with an innovative new vision BY STEVE PALOPOLI
The Santa Cruz Film
Festival is a harsh
mistress.Festival President
Elizabeth Gummere
has watched it consume the lives of
its all-volunteer staff, starting right
out of the gate with founder Jane
Sullivan in 2002, its very first year.
“In the beginning, she was
managing all the volunteers, she
was managing the money, she was
managing the sponsorships, she was
managing the programming for this
long festival,” says Gummere. “That
was ridiculous.”
That first year, Gummere had
signed up as a volunteer because
she was new to Santa Cruz, and a
friend had suggested it’d be fun to
do together. That friend bailed, but
Gummere quickly became one of
Sullivan’s top deputies.
“She always needed straight men
around her,” says Gummere of the
famously flamboyant Sullivan.
“She needed somebody to say, ‘Let’s
count the dollars and cents now.’ So
that worked out really well, because
I’m an accountant. So I said, ‘Okay,
let me be that guy.’ Julian Soler was
the programmer for the first two
years, and he left, and then came
back in 2008, and he and I were
like her two assistant people.”
When Sullivan left after the 2009
festival, Gummere and Soler stepped up
to run it. But then Gummere watched it
take over Soler’s life, too, as he moved to
New York, but continued to pour all of
his time into keeping it going.
“For a long time, he was working
at this job in New York, and totally
phoning it in. And doing the film
festival all day long at work!” she
remembers. “He called me one
night and said ‘Dude, this is my
performance review: Why can’t Julian
spell?’ I said, ‘What do you mean? You
write beautifully. Everything you do
is so well crafted and well thought
out.’ He said ‘No, not my work stuff.
My festival work is A+. My work-work
is ‘Julian needs remedial spelling
classes.’…And then he got fired from
that job, of course.”
They can laugh about it now, but
it wasn’t easy when Soler had to get
“a real job,” at the same time he was
getting married, basically leaving
the 10-day festival completely in
Gummere’s hands.
It all came to a head last year.
“The 2012 festival was just riddled
with problems,” she says. “Julian had
one foot out the door, and he wasn’t
able to come to the festival. Having
his presence here used to help a lot,
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’cause it was the two of us, and our
board—you need a team. You can’t
just have one person having to deal
with everything. We were really too
overextended.”
Everything seemed to be going
wrong. The weather was perfect every
single one of the festival’s 10 days in
May, and attendance was down, while
venue costs were up—about five times
as much as in the SCFF’s first year,
by Gummere’s estimation. And the
volunteers that the festival had relied
on for a decade were being pushed to
their limit.
“We had two years in a row of
projectionists just physically exhausted.
God bless them,” she says. “Everybody
was having to take a week off work, they
were using their own vacation time
doing the festival. It’s unreasonable to
expect people to do that.”
When the SCFF board gathered to do
a post-mortem on the 2012 festival last
summer, Gummere made a confession:
it had taken over her life, too.
“I own two businesses,” she says.
“I work more than full time— all
weekend, every evening, I work all the
time. The festival is a hobby. It’s an
unpaid board of director position. In
the last 12 years, I’ve put thousands of
hours and my own dollars into it as a
board member.”
She told the SCFF board she simply
couldn’t handle the festival anymore
as it was configured. And to her
surprise, they agreed with her that no
one could. They decided on a radical
re-working of the festival, shortening
it from 10 days to four days, and
moving it to fall.
This week, it makes its return in
a form that Gummere believes will
better serve both its audience and the
people who go a little crazy—or a lot
crazy—every year making it happen;
it runs Nov. 7-10 at the Rio Theatre
and other venues around Santa Cruz.
“We said, ‘Enough. Enough
madness. We can’t do this to people.’
So we already knew we were going to
shorten it considerably, we knew we
were going to move it to November,”
she says. “And then we just said, ‘Let’s
simplify this sucker. Let’s make this
thing survive.’”
New BloodAn essential part of making the
transformation was finding Jeff Ross,
who takes over this year as festival
director. Beginning in 1998, when
he financed the first San Francisco
Independent Film Festival on his
own credit cards, Ross has built
a regional film festival
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empire, including the San Francisco
Documentary Festival (which he
brought to Santa Cruz earlier this year
in collaboration with SCFF) and the
horror fan fave Another Hole in the
Head Festival.
Coming from that background,
Ross very much understood SCFF’s
need to re-invent itself.
“His mantra from the beginning
has been ‘keep it simple,’” says
Gummere. “Somebody will say,
‘Should we do this and this and this?’
And he’ll say ‘Well, is it simple?’ And
we’ll say ‘Well, no.’ And he’ll say ‘Then
don’t do it.’”
Ross is pretty much the antithesis
of everything you’d expect a
successful film festival producer
to be. The stereotype is that they’re
wannabe filmmakers—all the
attitude without any of the talent—but
Ross is maybe the least pretentious
film person you’ll ever meet.
“I have no artistic talent
whatsoever,” he states flatly.
Nor does he hold film up as some
mystical, ultimate art form. “I don’t
even mind calling them movies,” he
says. “The m-word doesn’t scare me.”
And it’s not even an ego thing, this
push to make an ever-increasing
number of film festivals succeed.
“I don’t necessarily need to be in
the public eye. I’d rather be the guy in
the back who pulls the rope up and
down,” he admits.
So what is it then that drives Ross to
keep getting himself involved in one
festival after another?
“It probably has something to
do with my background,” he says.
“My mom is a painter, but she can’t
survive without the gallery owner
showing her work.”
Ross has become a curator himself,
and that’s one mission he sees for
film festivals in the 21st century:
“There’s a lot of value in that curating,
sifting through the material to find
the gems.”
He started his career in the late
’90s, during an era he calls “after
the rise of Indiewood, and before
Fahrenheit 9/11”—meaning that
independent film was already a pop
phenomenon, but still very much
independent, not yet a cash cow being
endlessly exploited by the big studios.
But it was also during the rise of
DVD, the first true film lover’s home
video format. Its ability to showcase
films in the way that the filmmaker
intended them to be seen, and its
explosion in popularity over several
years, made DVD a catalyst for the
rediscovery and restoration of
countless films that had either been
chopped and screwed on VHS, or
considered too niche even to bother
with. Studios emptied their vaults,
and smaller producers showered
attention on cult classics and also-
rans alike to feed the endless demand
for more content.
Suddenly, film festivals weren’t
the only place audiences could
discover rare films, and with the
corresponding explosion in home
theater, they weren’t even the only
place those films could be seen
on a (somewhat) big screen. Now
that’s even more true, thanks to the
availability of just about every movie
in some form on the Internet.
Social NetworkSo it may be time for the Ross
Revolution. While traditional film
festival organizers put their emphasis
on championing films that may
not otherwise be seen, he believes
that even more important than the
selections is the social interaction that
events like the Santa Cruz Film Festival
provide—the community-building
that home viewing can’t offer, even
with all the pixels in the world.
“My goal isn’t really to get films
seen by as many people as possible,”
he says. “My goal is to get people
together for a shared experience.”
Toward that end, he’s turned the
SCFF into more of a neighborhood
event in mid-town Santa Cruz—a
“festival corridor,” as he calls it.
“That was all him,” says Gummere.
“We knew we were going to be at
the Rio, and what he decided to do
was build around that. He was the
one who came up with the idea of
approaching the Pacific Arts Complex
across the street. And they’re like,
‘Oh, you know why that’s great is we
teach kids to make videos.’ So they’re
already doing something that is
something we’re supporting, so we
have this common thing. It’s going to
be the first time that it’s been made
into a theater, so we’ll see how it looks
and feels.”
The “corridor” also includes the
Crepe Place and the Santa Cruz Roller
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Paladium, which will hold various
events, and the Del Mar and Museum
of Art and History are participating
as well.
“I’m picturing people talking on
the sidewalk about the films they just
saw,” says Ross.
It’s not that the films themselves
aren’t important to Ross, but in the
case of the SCFF, he flat-out refused
to be involved in the programming,
as a newbie living in Marin who still
has a lot to learn about Santa Cruz.“I
don’t feel as an outsider that that is
an appropriate role,” he explains. “I
can’t say what Santa Cruz should be
watching. “
He has a team of programmers for
his San Francisco festivals, too, and
he thinks the dynamic between the
people choosing the films for any
film festival is extremely important.
“What I really like is when I have
multiple programmers who strongly
dislike the other programmers’
films,” he says, with a bit of a
mischievous tone.
Grummere is extremely pleased
with the work of Logan Walker,
who now oversees SCFF’s process of
selecting films.
“He teaches film theory at the
colleges, and he’s getting a Ph.D. in
film. Even on paper, it’s kind of a
no-brainer,” she says. “So he’s taken
over as the programmer, and I think
he really programmed well this year.
I think everything is going to speak to
Santa Cruz audiences, and Bay Area
audiences.”
For Ross, that’s the baseline the
festival promises in its very name.
Talk about keeping it simple: “The
Santa Cruz Film Festival, that’s all
it is—it’s Santa Cruz, and it’s a film
festival,” he says. “I really do want
everybody in town to be able to pick
up a program and find something
they want. I think we’ve done that.”
Grummere is excited that despite
cutting the scope of the festival (there
are about two dozen films in this year’s
SCFF, plus shorts, with the acceptance
rate of submissions dropping from
15-20 percent to 10 percent, in her
estimation), it will still showcase local
filmmakers’ work alongside national
DYNAMIC DUO F estival president Elizabeth Grummere has brought her experience with all of the previous Santa Cruz Film Festivals to this year’s extreme makeover, while new festival director Jeff Ross brings an outsider’s perspective, and the lessons he learned running three San Francisco film festivals. C
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and international selections.
“We don’t necessarily have a quota,
but we do know that some sort of
local character or angle is going to
appeal to audiences,” she says. “Like
opening night. Those guys are local,
they have a ton of friends in town,
it will appeal to a pretty wide cross-
section of Santa Cruz.”
That film is Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story, an autobiographical
documentary by local co-directors
Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle.
It will kick the festival off Thursday
at the Del Mar, with MAH hosting
SCFF’s opening night party
afterward. Other festival parties
include a disco inferno at the Roller
Paladium on Friday, a Big Lebowski
party at the Pacific Arts Complex
on Saturday (with costume contest,
music, bar, mini-bowling and, of
course, the Coen brothers’ classic),
and a Closing Night Party on Sunday
at the Crepe Place featuring live
music from Girls + Boys and Sad
Robot.
Old Friends and New
For Ross, who first met Gummere
and Walker in Austin last year at a
festival for film festivals (yes, that
is a thing that exists), taking on
the festival offered not just a new
challenge, but also a chance to satisfy
his own intellectual curiosity about
the differences between organizing
a big-city festival and one in a place
like Santa Cruz, which already has
a lot of the community elements
he is constantly banging his head
against the wall trying to create in San
Francisco.
“I’m personally attracted to Santa
Cruz because of its size,” he says. “It’s
not a big city, but it’s not a town. We’re
not talking Mayberry.”
Gummere says the SCFF board
is thrilled with Ross’ innovations.
“I hope Jeff will stay with us forever
and ever. We love Jeff. We’ve got really
good people on the team.”
She doesn’t know how long she’ll
last on that team, but she also knows
that every time she thinks she’s out,
the festival pulls her back in. Though
it has consumed her life, too, she
has a lot of memories that make her
laugh out loud now—like the time she
and Sullivan had to program the SCFF
five months early so Sullivan could go
on a trip to India.
“We locked ourselves into
[Sullivan’s] house on Seabright for
seriously like 48 hours straight. I don’t
think we even showered. We sat on
the couch, and it was freezing—it was
January. We were under blankets,
and we were sitting there freezing
watching film after film after film. It
was awful,” she remembers, laughing.
“We got so loopy. There was some
film with a catchy theme song, and
we started singing it and dancing
around. We were so insane. We
watched so many films.”
Even if Grummere were to actually
step down, she’s seen how the SCFF has
become a lasting bond in the lives of
the people who make it happen—not
just in that crazy, all-consuming way.
“There were a bunch of really solid
volunteers that hung out through the
years, that we’re still friends with,
fortunately. They’re still people who
are involved; some of them have
moved away, but they still check
in—‘how’s the festival going?’ It’s
a festival family,” she says. “That’s
probably why I’ve stuck around.
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everyday life. “It doesn’t take much—
birds in a tree, sitting at a sushi bar, really
anything,” Collins says of the inspiration
for his poetry. His poems draw on the
splendor of everyday life.
Collins has reached a popularity
largely unheard of amongst poets.
The New York Times called Collins
“America’s favorite poet,” and he has
been appointed national Poet Laureate
twice. His appeal is due in part to the
accessibility of his poems, and his work
to move poetry back into everyday life.
“I think it is a great idea to take poetry
out of the libraries, to see that it can have
a life outside of the classroom, outside
of the library,” he told Diane Rehm in a
recent radio interview.
And to back up his reputation as
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a robust publishing career: he has
authored 10 collections of poetry, edited
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featured in top literary magazines.
Aimless Love is his first anthology of
new and selected poems. It includes
the best poems from his previous four
books, as well as 50 new poems.
Collins will be reading from this
anthology, as well as answering
questions and signing books at UCSC
this Friday at 7pm, with tickets available
through Bookshop Santa Cruz.
Bringing BillyTo get a writer as popular as Collins
to read in a town as small as Santa Cruz
isn’t always easy. Publishers are hesitant
unless they are convinced there is a big
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book from which poet
Billy Collins will be reading at UCSC
this Friday, I found myself quickly
flipping through it, looking for a
poem that typified his work. I was
a bit hurried and unaffected as I
skimmed lines about Cheerios, fish
and dogs. And then, before I could
even realize what happened, one
poem stopped me dead in my tracks.
Suddenly, tears were running down
my cheeks.
This pattern—the mundane details
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moving—is truly Collins’ trademark. He
says that he hopes his poems “begin in
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enough audience to make it worth the
author’s time.
“We had to go to New York and
convince [the publishers] that we
can fill the auditorium,” says Susan
McCloskey, Bookshop Santa Cruz’s
events coordinator.
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Cruz is now hosting its largest events at
Santa Cruz High and UCSC, where they
can accommodate more people.
One reason this area has a closer
relationship to poetry than many others
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solely to bringing poetry to the local lit
scene: Poetry Santa Cruz. The group was
founded over 13 years ago on the “dream
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poetry readings throughout the year,
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Many of Santa Cruz’s own poets are
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and arts reader based in Santa Cruz. The
journal also features many nationally
known poets—in fact, Collins was
published in its most recent edition.
Another great opportunity to check
out the local poetry scene is the weekly
poetry open mic every Monday at
the Tannery. “I have been pleasantly
surprised at the real range of styles
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can be spotted downtown with a desk
and 1920s typewriter, writing poetry for
donations. “We actually made enough
money writing poems that way to pay
for the open mic’s sound system,” he
says. “Our sound system is literally
made of poems.”
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Meat Puppets—who play the Catalyst on
November 12—have continued to write
and release a slew of excellent records,
the most recent being this year’s Rat Farm, which has a laid back feel to it, a
quality that can probably be attributed
to the way the band feels about the
recording process.
“We don’t really have an approach,
because none of us really knows how to
use the machines. It all depends on who
we’re working with. I can go into stuff
thinking it’s going to go a certain way, but
that’s never the case,” says singer and
guitarist Curt Kirkwood over the phone
from a tour stop in Delaware.
“It’s an artistic endeavor, you want to
be collaborative with the engineers and
the machines—we just kind of dive in.”
The band spent about 10 days in the
studio, which to a lot of acts out there is
no time at all, but as Kirkwood explains,
it was longer than he would have liked to
have taken—an attitude remaining from
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“I’ve been trying to do stuff quickly
since the old days. We used to do
stuff with Spot when we were on SST
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could do stuff in two or three days. I don’t
like to scrutinize myself, I’m not very
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On this tour, in addition to new
drummer Shandon Sahm (whose
father was Doug Sahm of the Sir Douglas
Quintet and the Texas Tornados), Curt’s
son Elmo has joined the band on guitar.
This has added to the familial
nature of the group, which as Kirkwood
says, could be a blessing or a curse,
Although they originally got
their start as a hardcore
band that played at
breakneck speed back in the early
1980s, the Meat Puppets quickly
branched out and added a variety
of other influences to their sound
and style, including country and
psychedelic rock, all the while
retaining the independent attitude
and raw energy of early punk.
Based around the musical and vocal
interplay between brothers Curt and
Cris Kirkwood, the Arizona-born band
is perhaps best known for their classic
second album, Meat Puppets II, which
featured three tunes that Nirvana
covered during their iconic “MTV
Unplugged” concert.
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MEAT FIRST The Meat Puppets come to the Catalyst on Tuesday.
depending on who you ask.“It’s cool if you like a roundtable
of insults and no-holds-barred locker room horror. That’s what the Kirkwoods tend to bring to things. We’re outrageously sarcastic to one another—you know how family is,” he says. “Shandon is the one guy in the band that isn’t a Kirkwood, and I think sometimes we forget that he isn’t family, so we tease him horribly—we’re pathetic, what can I say? We have nothing better to do, we’ve got an hour and a half, two hours of music each night, and the rest of the time we just drive around and amuse ourselves.”
One thing that fans may have noticed while watching the Meat Puppets over the years is the fact that Curt Kirkwood doesn’t play guitar with a pick. He uses a quarter instead—a habit that got its start out of basic necessity, but became a habit because of the unique tone and sound that plucking a string with the coin produced.
“It started because I would often wind up at a gig or practice without a pick, it’s the one thing you can never have enough of, and somebody always has a quarter,” says Kirkwood. “They’re actually really fun to play with, they don’t bend, so your fingers start to do the bending instead, and it gives it a lot more twang, with the serrations and stuff.”
This month marks the 20th anniversary of the taping of Nirvana’s “MTV Unplugged” show, where the Kirkwoods sat in with the band and played their songs “Lake of Fire,” “Plateau” and “Oh, Me.”
Kirkwood looks back on the now legendary gig with fond memories.
“It was definitely the coolest television-studio-type thing that we ever did, better than any talk shows—it went completely beyond anything like that—and it was actually a really, really good show. I enjoyed the hell out of it, and I love those guys.”
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Bellydance ShowcaseDifferent belly dancers each week on the garden stage. Presented by Helene. www.thecrepeplace.com. Sat, 1:30pm. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.429.6994.
THEATER
Mughal Miniatures: Tales of LoveA student cast directed by Kathy Foley, in three mini-play love stories from Iran and the Indian subcontinent. Fri, Nov 8, 7pm, Sat, Nov 9, 7pm and Sun, Nov 10, 3pm. $12-$15. UCSC Theater Arts Center, UCSC, Santa Cruz, 831.459.2159.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling BeeThe Tony Award-winning musical comedy. Sat, Nov 9, 7:30pm and Sun, Nov 10, 2pm. $9-$19. Cabrillo College Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.479.6154.
UCSC Theater Arts‘The Normal Heart’: A student-directed production of the play by Larry Kramer, about the rise of the AIDS crisis in New York City in the 80s. Thu, Nov 7, 7pm, Fri, Nov 8, 7pm, Sat, Nov 9, 7pm and Sun, Nov 10, 3pm. $12. Experimental Theater, Theater Arts Center UCSC, Santa Cruz, 831.459.2159.
CONCERTS
AriaLyrical selections for saxophone
and piano. Sun, Nov 10, 4pm. $20 general; $10 seniors & students. Christ Lutheran Church, 10707 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.479.1968.
UCSC Rainbow TheaterA variety of performances for the 20th anniversary of the multicultural student-led theater troupe. www.cadrc.org. Fri, Nov 8, 7pm and Sat, Nov 9, 7pm. $10 general; $7 students. Stevenson College, UCSC, Santa Cruz, 831.459.1861.
ArtGALLERIESOPENING
Cabrillo College GalleryDavid Fleming & Diane R. Ritch: Two award-winning artists selected from a juried exhibition. Gallery hours: Mon-Fri 9am-4pm & Mon-Tue 7-9pm. Thru Dec. 13. Free. 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.479.6308.
CONTINUING
Cabrillo College GalleryCabrillo Gallery. ‘12 x 12 (x12)’: An open invitational statewide exhibition featuring ceramics, photography, mixed media and more. Gallery hours: Mon-Fr, 9am-4pm. Thru Nov. 11. 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, 831.479.6308.
Felix Kulpa GalleryComing Attraction - ‘New Work by a Community of Artists’: Paintings,
photography, mixed media and video by 13 local artists. Gallery hours: Thurs-Sun, noon-6pm. Oct. 24-Nov. 24. Free. 107 Elm St, Santa Cruz, 408.373.2854.
Pajaro Valley Arts Council‘Mi Casa es Tu Casa’: An exhibit of installations paying tribute to Dia de los Muertos with the theme of "Passages." Gallery hours: Wed-Sun 11am-4pm. Thru Dec. 8. Free. 37 Sudden St, Watsonville, 831.722.3062.
Santa Cruz Art League‘Beasts on Broadway’: Art inspired by animals of all shapes and sizes, real or imagined. www.scal.org. Gallery hours: Wed-Sat, noon-5pm; Sun, noon-4pm. Thru Nov. 24. Wed-Sat, noon-5pm, Sun noon-4pm. 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz, 831.426.5787.
Santa Cruz Central Branch Library‘Libraries Inside Out.’ HOME: A large-scale woodblock printmaking exhibition by Bridget Henry. Aug. 2 through the winter months. Free, 831.427.7700. 224 Church St, Santa Cruz.
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History‘Journey Forth’: An exhibition that explores our complex relationships with nature in the digital age, juxtaposing the natural and artificial. Gallery Hours: Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm; Fri 11am-9pm. Thru Dec. 1. Museum hours Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm; closed Mon. 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.
Santa Cruz Rehearsal Studios‘The Rock Series’: Acrylic on canvas paintings by June inspired by Janis Joplin and other rock icons. Hours: Mon-Sun, 10am-midnight. Free. 118 Coral St, Santa Cruz, 831.425.7277.
Various Santa Cruz County Bank LocationsBank Arts Collaborative. ‘Down on the Farm’: Seven local artists whose work represents the beauty of simple life on the farm. Mon-Thu, 9am-5pm, Fri 9am-6pm. Thru Jan. 3. Free. n/a, Santa Cruz.
EventsLITERARY EVENTS
StorytimeFormer Shakespeare Santa Cruz actress Billie Harris and Book Cafe manager Jill Rose perform animated readings of children's stories. Mon, 11am. Capitola Book
Cafe, 1475 41st Ave, Capitola, 831.462.4415.
NOTICES
Baby Feeding CircleA chance to relax, feed your baby and chat with other new mothers. Open to all mothers and babies. Mon, 10:30-11:30am. free. Luma Yoga & Family Center, 1010 Center St, Santa Cruz, 831.325.2620.
Beat SanctuaryA weekly class for exploring exercise and spirituality through dance. Wed, 7:30-9:15pm. $15. A dance class for exploring authentic movement as connection, exercise, prayer and spiritual practice. Wed, 7:30-9:15pm. $15. Santa Cruz Yoga, 402 Ingalls Street, Santa Cruz, 831.227.2156.
Compassionate CommunicationA program put on by the Alzheimer's Association providing strategies for improving communication with memory impaired individuals. Thu, Nov 7, 1:30-3:30pm. Free. Live Oak Senior Center, 1777-A Capitola Rd, Live Oak, 800.272.3900.
A Course In Miracles Study GroupA weekly meeting on learning how to forgive and live in peace. Drop-ins are welcome. Thu, 7-9pm. The Barn Studio, 104b Park Way South, Santa Cruz, 831.272.2246.
Dog HikesSanta Cruz International Dog Owner's Community hosts a weekly one-hour, easy hike along the beach for dog lovers and their pets. www.newdogsintown.com Mon, 8:45-9:45am. Free. Aptos Beach staircase, 1049 Via Palo Alto, Aptos.
Figure DrawingWeekly drawing from a live model, facilitated by Open Studio artist Richard Bennett. Mon, 7-10pm. $16. Santa Cruz Art League, 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz, 831.426.5787.
Grief SupportA lunchtime drop-in support group for adults grieving the death of a family member or friend. Tues. 6-7pm at 125 Heather Terrace, Aptos; Fri. noon-1pm at 5403 Scotts Valley Dr. Ste. D, Scotts Valley. free. Various sites, NA, Santa Cruz, 831.430.3000.
Homelessness Symposium‘Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream’: A full day interactive symposium aimed at exploring the connection between homelessness and the health of our society. Sat, Nov 9, 1-5:30pm. Free. The Circle Church, 111 Errett Circle, Santa Cruz, 831.247.6150.
Insight Santa Cruz
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Steel Panther Master parodists of the 1980s L.A. glam metal sound and look. Nov 8 at the Regency Ballroom.
Dev Born in 1989, Devin Star Tailes gets the party rolling with hits like ‘In the Dark.’ Nov 8 at Slim’s.
Of Montreal Kevin Barnes debuts material from new LP, written entirely in SF. Nov 8 and 9 at Great American Music Hall.
A Minor Forest Math-y indie band from SF plays first show in 15 years. With the atmospherics of Barn Owl. Nov 9 at Bottom of the Hill.
Cults NYC duo ask: if you’re so cool, why aren’t James Franco and Emma Roberts in your video? Nov 13 at the Fillmore.
More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.
San Francisco’s City Guide
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Homeless Symposium“Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream” is an interactive educational
symposium aimed at exploring the reality of homelessness in our community,
its costs to everyone and what can be done. Saturday, Nov. 9 from 1-5:30pm at the
Circle Church, 111 Errett Circle, Santa Cruz. Free. Pre-registration required by email
or phone: [email protected] or 831.247.6150.
Meditation sits, talks and discussions every day of the week. Learn the formal practice of meditation and engage with a community dedicated to reducing suffering by cultivating compassion. Visit www.insightsantacruz.org for specific times and more information. Ongoing. Insight Santa Cruz, 1010 Fair Avenue, Suite C, Santa Cruz, 831.425.3431.
LGBT 60+ Thanksgiving SocialA Thanksgiving luncheon and social sponsored by The Diversity Center. RSVP by Nov. 6. Sat, Nov 9, 12:30-3:30pm. $5 donation. Inner Light Ministries, 5630 Soquel Dr, Soquel, 831.425.5422.
Miracle WorkingSpiritual teacher Dominique Free leads a weekly class on cultivating the consciousness to heal, overcome, succeed and create miracles. Thu, 7-8pm. Conscious Lounge, 1651A El Dorado Av @ Capitola Rd, Santa Cruz, 831.359.0423.
Overeaters AnonymousA 12-step support group for those who wish to recover from compulsive eating. Sundays 9-10:15am at 2900 Chanticleer Ave, Santa Cruz and 4-5:15pm at 115 South Morrissey, Santa Cruz. Mondays 12:15-1:15pm at 420 Melrose Ave, Santa Cruz and 7-8pm at 4951 Soquel Drive, Soquel. Tuesdays 12:15-1:15pm at 420 Melrose Ave, Santa Cruz. Wednesdays 10:30-11:30am at 1335 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz; noon-1pm at 49 Blanca Ln #303, Watsonville; and 6:30-7:30pm at 335 Spreckles Dr, Ste. A, Aptos. Thursdays
1-2pm at 301 Center St., Santa Cruz. Fridays noon-1pm at 49 Blanca Ln, #303, Watsonville and 12:15-1:15pm at 225 Rooney St., Santa Cruz. Saturdays 9-10am at 532 Center St, Santa Cruz and 11am-noon at 75 Nelson St, Watsonville. 831.429.7906.
Postpartum Health CircleA weekly community circle offering support and information about postpartum changes for mothers. Wed, 1:30-2:30pm. $5-$10 donation. Luma Yoga & Family Center, 1010 Center St., Santa Cruz, 831.325.2620.
Qigong FlowLed by Bonnie Eskie, MFT. Tue, 10-11am. $10-$12. Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St, Santa Cruz, 831.515.4144.
Support and Recovery GroupsAlzheimer's: Alzheimer's Assn., 831.464.9982. Bipolar: 707.747.1989. Cancer: Katz Cancer Resource Center, 831.351.7770; WomenCARE, 831.457.2273. Candida: 831.471.0737. Chronic Pain: American Chronic Pain Association, 831.423.1385. Grief and Loss: Hospice, 831.430.3000. Lupus: Jeanette Miller, 831.566.0962. Men Overcoming Abusive Behavior: 831.464.3855. SMART Recovery: 831.462.5470. Trans Latina women: Mariposas, 831.425.5422. Trichotillomania: 831.457.1004. 12-Step Programs: 831.454.HELP (4357). Pagans in Recovery: 831.428.3024. Narcotics Anonymous: [email protected]. Clutterers Anonymous: 831.359.3008.
The Speaker's GymInstructor Noel Murphy provides leadership coaching and public speaking skills every week. www.thespeakersgym.com. Wed, 7-9:30pm. Discovery Gym, 75 Mt. Hermon Rd, Scotts Valley, 831.238.1234.
Thrive Natural MedicineGrand opening celebration featuring food by Chef Zachary Mazi and Food is Medicine, plus beer, wine and a raffle. Sat, Nov 9, 2-6pm. Thrive Natural Medicine, 2840 Park Ave., Soquel, 831.515.8699.
Trail Crew VolunteeringBring work gloves, lunch and water for day of lively and productive trail maintenance. Must be 18 years of age or older. Meet at park headquarters. Second Sat of every month, 9am. Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Hwy 236, Boulder Creek, 831.338.8883.
Yoga InstructionPacific Cultural Center: 35+ classes per week, 831.462.8893. SC Yoga: 45 classes per week, 831.227.2156. TriYoga: numerous weekly classes, 831.464.8100. Yoga Within at Aptos Station, 831.687.0818; Om Room School of Yoga, 831.429.9355; Pacific Climbing Gym, 831.454.9254; Aptos Yoga Center, 831.688.1019; Twin Lotus Center, 831.239.3900. Hatha Yoga with Debra Whizin, 831.588.8527.
Zen, Vipassana, Basic: Intro to MeditationZen: SC Zen Center, Wed, 5:45pm, 831.457.0206. Vipassana: Vipassana
SC, Wed 6:30-8pm, 831.425.3431. Basic: Land of the Medicine Buddha, Wed, 5:30-6:30pm, 831.462.8383. Zen: Ocean Gate Zendo, first Tue each month 6:30-7pm. All are free.
AROUND TOWN
Comedy ShowcaseA new comedy showcase hosted by DNA featuring a different Bay Area headliner each week. Tue, 8:30pm. Free. Blue Lagoon, 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.7117.
Marine Wildlife LectureA panel of three marine wildlife veterinarians moderated by Santa Cruz Mayor Hilary Bryant. Thu, Nov 7, 7-8:30pm. Free. Seymour Discovery Center, 100 Shaffer Rd, Santa Cruz, 831.459.3800.
Pop Up Museum: Drinking‘Drinking Is in the Heart’: Drinking memorabilia presented by historian Geoffrey Dunn and collector Bob Welch, with contributions from the public welcome. Sat, Nov 9, 3-5pm. Free. Red, 200 Locust St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.
Researchers Anonymous‘Snapshot Stories’: Participants can bring their family's historical photos to contribute to the Santa Cruz Library's local history photo collection. Sat, Nov 9, 11am-1pm. Free. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, 831.429.1964.
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BILL FRISELL’S BIG SUR QUINTETBill Frisell stands in a class of his own. The jazz guitarist who long ago abandoned the rules of what it means to be a jazz guitarist, has a sound that is unmistakably his, whether he’s redefining the Americana songbook, performing the score to a Buster Keaton film, guesting on an album by the doom metal band Earth or leading a jazz band. Frisell’s 2013 release, Big Sur, which was commissioned by the Monterey Jazz Festival, continues his barrier-bending tradition with sweeping, string-based compositions that sit closer to sound paintings than they do songs. The Big Sur Quintet accompanies Frisell to town on Thursday night. Kuumbwa; $27 adv/$30 door; 7pm & 9pm. (Cat Johnson)
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WANDA JACKSONFor most, Elvis and Johnny Cash are the gateway drugs that lead to an early-rockabilly-binge-listening phase, but hopefully it lasts long enough to discover the absolutely insane singles Wanda Jackson began putting out in the 1950s. “Fujiyama Mama” and “Funnel of Love” are classics in themselves, but “Let’s Have a Party” is indescribable to those who haven’t experienced it—originally recorded by Presley, whom Jackson dated, her version blows his out of the water. To this day, I can’t fully wrap my head around the lyrics—“I never kissed a bear/I never kissed a goon/But I can shake a chicken in the middle of the room”…wait, what?—but her rebel yell was a revelation a half-century ago. And it still is, as she’s made a Jack-White-driven comeback covering songs like Amy Winehouse’s “You Know I’m No Good” and Woody Guthrie-via-Wilco’s “California Stars.” Don Quixote’s; $22; 8pm. (Steve Palopoli)
SWITCHFOOTSwitchfoot’s introspective lyrics about staying true to oneself and avoiding materialism belie their distorted, blaring, guitar-based sound, reminiscent of ’90s rock with some soft rock tunes thrown in. Originally out of San Diego, the band, whose songs mostly don’t have blatantly Christian themes, won a 2011 Grammy for best rock gospel album. (Wait, there’s an award for that?) This January Switchfoot, famous for songs like “Meant to Live” and “Dare You to Move,” releases Fading West, its eighth album, the cover of which looks like an Instagram picture of five guys lost in a field looking for their dog. Rio Theatre; $31 gen/$37 VIP; 7:30pm. (Jacob Pierce)
MACY GRAYIn the 14 years since Macy Gray burst on the scene with her 1999 smash hit single “I Try” and triple platinum album debut How Life Is, she has released five albums—most of them interesting, many of them overproduced and lacking the tender vulnerability that set her apart among R&B singers. She became a popular collaborator, working with Fatboy Slim and the Black-Eyed Peas. She acted in Training Day, Spider-Man, Scary Movie and Idlewild and appeared on Dancing with the Stars, although she and her dance partner didn’t make it to week two. Gray’s most recent musical effort, 2011’s Covered, takes on songs by Sublime, Radiohead and Colbie Caillat with her own soulful yet raspy style. Catalyst; $25 door/$30 adv/$100 VIP; 9pm. (JP)
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ANTIDOPINGNov. 8 at Moe’s Alley
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JOSHUA REDMAN QUARTETNov. 15 at Kuumbwa
BRETT DENNENNov. 17 at Rio Theatre
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RODDY RADIATION AND HIS SKABILLY REBELSRoddy Radiation, lead guitarist for the seminal second-wave ska band the Specials, has, after 30-plus years in the music world, struck out on his own. His new band, Roddy Radiation and the Skabilly Rebels is, as the name implies, a lively amalgam of ska and rockabilly. Possessing a gritty, move-your-feet sound, an early rock ‘n’ roll vibe and the shredding guitar work of frontman Radiation, the band is both a nod to, and a furthering of, deep-rooted, deep-grooved musical styles. Also on the bill: the Chop Tops and the Inciters. Moe’s Alley; $12 adv/$15 door; 9pm. (CJ)
MARY GAUTHIERA road-tested veteran of the international music circuit, Mary Gauthier is a fearless songwriter who doesn’t shy away from the hard stuff, but finds the humanness therein. For the last 10-plus years, the Nashville-based artist has been traveling the world, performing songs about the search for home, the characters and lives she encounters, falling in and out of love, and her own adoption. Her latest album, Live at Blue Rock, sees the singer/songwriter in top form, demonstrating why she is considered one of the finest in the game. Don Quixote’s; $18 adv/$20 door; 7:30pm. (CJ)
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ANDREW JACKSON JIHADAndrew Jackson Jihad is the kind of band that can sing a song called “Rejoice” that features lyrics like, “Rejoice despite the fact this world will kill you / Rejoice despite the fact this world will tear you to shreds”—and actually make you want to rejoice. Lead singer and guitarist Sean Bonnette is like a cross between the Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle and a crazy person, radiating impossible exuberance as he wails politically incorrect, funny and even creepy folk-punk songs, accompanied by bassist Ben Gallaty. Describing their live show as “high energy” is like saying Ted Nugent kind of enjoys firearms. Crepe Place; $10/$12; 9pm. (SP)
GOING TO JACKSON, AGAIN Andrew Jackson Jihad rejoices at Crepe Place Nov. 13.
1/ Celebrating Creativity Since 1975
320-2 Cedar St Santa Cruz 831.427.2227
kuumbwajazz.org
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.
GOLD CIRCLE SOLD OUT!
Thursday, November 7 7 & 9 pm | No CompsBILL FRISELL’S BIG SUR QUINTET FEATURING EYVIND KANG, HANK ROBERTS, RUDY ROYSTON AND JENNY SCHEINMAN9pm: 1/2 Price Night for Students
Monday, November 11 7 pm | No CompsKIM NALLEY WITH THE MARCUS SHELBY ORCHESTRA “THE COLE PORTER SONGBOOK”
Friday, Nov. 15 7 & 9 pm | No CompsJOSHUA REDMAN QUARTET with Aaron Goldberg, Joe Sanders and Gregory Hutchinson9pm: 1/2 Price Night for Students
Thursday, November 14 7 pm PETER BRÖTZMANN AND PAAL NILSSEN – LOVE DUO
Saturday, November 9 9 pmCLUB KUUMBWA: MICHAEL FEINBERG TRIO
$5 @ door
Mon. November 18 7:30 pm | No CompsDIANE SCHUURTuesday, November 19 7 pm | FREEMASTER CLASS SERIESDAN ROBBINS: JAZZ BASS AND BEYONDWednesday, November 20 7:30 pmMAURA O’CONNELLTickets: snazzyproductions.comThursday, November 21 7 pm | No CompsRANDY WESTON AND BILLY HARPER “AFRICAN RHYTHMS”
Friday, November 8 7:30 pmLISA LINDSLEY PERFORMS: “BLOSSOM DEARIE. A TRIBUTE”
Sunday, November 10 7 pmTIM WEED CD RELEASE CELEBRATIONTickets: brownpapertickets.com
Saturday, November 23 7:30 pmSLAID CLEAVESTickets: snazzyproductions.comMonday, November 25 7:30 pmRAY BROWN’S GREAT BIG BANDAT CABRILLO COLLEGE CROCKER THEATRE | No CompsTickets: brownpapertickets.com12/2 Louis Hayes and the Cannonball Adderley Legacy Band12/5 Joey DeFrancesco and the Vibe12/9 Pedrito Martinez Group12/11 Aoife O’Donovan12/16 Charlie Hunter & Scott Amendola
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SANTA CRUZ BLUE LAGOON Live Rock Live Comedy Live DJ 923 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz + 80’s dance party
BLUE LOUNGE Live Music Rainbow Lounge Live DJ 529 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz DJ A.D
BOCCI’S CELLAR 140 Encinal St, Santa Cruz
THE CATALYST ATRIUM New Kingston A-1 Iba Mahr Sin Sisters 1101 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz Burlesque
THE CATALYST Dev Macy Gray Soja 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz
CREPE PLACE John Dee Graham OTS Trio The Beekeepers Papa Bear & the 1134 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz Easy Love
CROW’S NEST Yuji Tojo Animo Touch’d Too Much Coastal Sage 2218 East Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz
DAVENPORT ROADHOUSE Ugly Beauty 1 Davenport Ave, Santa Cruz
HOFFMAN’S BAKERY CAFE Preston Brahm Trio Mapanova Isoceles 1102 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz with Gary Montrezza
KUUMBWA JAZZ CENTER Bill Frisell’s Lisa Lindsley Michael Feinberg 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz Big Sur Quintet Trio
MOE’S ALLEY Squidly Cole Tumbleweed Wanderers Antidoping Roddy Radiation & 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz his Skabilly Rebels
MOTIV Hi Ya! Libation Lab Charly Fusion Rizzo & the Real 1209 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz by Little John with Curtis Murphy Kilo Jones
THE REEF Open Mic Live Reggae Live Hawaiian Live Rock & Reggae 120 Union St, Santa Cruz
RIO THEATRE Switchfoot Santa Cruz Santa Cruz 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz Film Festival Film Festival
SEABRIGHT BREWERY Harpin Jonny & 519 Seabright Ave, Santa Cruz the Groovehounds
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Sunday, November 10 In the Atrium AGES 16+RITTZ plus Snow Tha Product
also Jarren Benton
Tuesday, November 12 In the Atrium AGES 16+MEAT PUPPETS plus The World Takes
also Singhs
Sunday, November 10 AGES 18+
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Saturday, November 9 AGES 16+
SOJA plus Common Kings
Friday, November 8 In the Atrium AGES 21+IBA MAHR plus Luv Fyah
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Saturday, November 9 In the Atrium AGES 21+SIN SISTERS BURLESQUE
Thursday, November 7 In the Atrium AGES 16+A-1 plus Los Rakas also Nima Fadavi
AGES 16+ 102.5 KDON presents
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Wednesday, November 6 In the Atrium AGES 16+NEW KINGSTON plus Indubious
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Friday, November 8 AGES 21+
Macy Gray plus Jillette Johnson
Nov 13 $Night 40 oz. To Freedom (Ages 21+)Nov 15 A$AP Ferg/ Joey Fatts (Ages 16+)Nov 20 Relient K/ Motion City Soundtrack (Ages 16+)
SANTA CRUZGoth/Industrial Karaoke Live DJ BLUE LAGOON Soul/funk/rap 831.423.7117
Karaoke DJ Jahi BLUE LOUNGE Neighborhood Night 831.425.2900
BOCCI’S CELLAR 831.427.1795
Rittz Meat Puppets THE CATALYST ATRIUM 831.423.1338
Grizzly Figure THE CATALYST 831.423.1336
7 Come 11 CREPE PLACE 831.429.6994
Live Comedy CROW’S NEST 831.476.4560
Danjuma Adamu DAVENPORT ROADHOUSE 831.426.8801
Dana Scruggs Trio Jazz by Five Barry Scott HOFFMAN’S BAKERY CAFE & Associates 831.420.0135
Tim Weed Kim Nalley KUUMBWA JAZZ CENTERCD Release 831.427.2227
MOE’S ALLEY 831.479.1854
Rasta Cruz Reggae Eclectic by Hip-Hop by MOTIV Primal Productions DJ AD 831.479.5572
Jazzy Evening Open Jazz Jam Open Blues Jam THE REEF 831.459.9876
Santa Cruz RIO THEATREFilm Festival 831.423.8209
SEABRIGHT BREWERY 831.426.2739
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THE FOG BANK Live Music Jesse Sabala & the Touched Too Much 211 Esplanade, Capitola Soul Pushers
MANGIAMO’S PIZZA AND WINE BAR David Paul Campbell David Paul Campbell George Christos Roberto-Howell 783 Rio del Mar Blvd, Aptos
MICHAEL’S ON MAIN Broken Shades Wild Blue El Cuarto Verde Breeze Babes 2591 Main St, Soquel
PARADISE BEACH GRILLE Johnny Fabulous Vinny Johnson 215 Esplanade, Capitola
SANDERLINGS Yuji & Steve In Three 1 Seascape Resort Dr, Rio del Mar
SEVERINO’S BAR & GRILL Don McCaslin & B-Movie Kings Stormin Norman 7500 Old Dominion Ct, Aptos The Amazing Jazz Geezers
SHADOWBROOK Anastasia Joe Ferrara 1750 Wharf Rd, Capitola
THE UGLY MUG Tom Faia & Steve Key 4640 Soquel Dr, Soquel
ZELDA’S 203 Esplanade, Capitola
SCOTTS VALLEY / SAN LORENZO VALLEY DON QUIXOTE’S Wanda Jackson Aja Vu 6275 Hwy 9, Felton
HENFLING’S TAVERN 9450 Hwy 9, Ben Lomond
WATSONVILLE / MONTEREY / CARMEL CILANTRO’S Hippo Happy Hour Mariachi Ensemble KDON DJ Showbiz 1934 Main St, Watsonville & KDON DJ SolRock
MOSS LANDING INN Open Jam Firefly Bobby Love & Hwy 1, Moss Landing Sugar Sweet
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Vinny Johnson Karaoke THE FOG BANK with Eve 831.462.1881
MANGIAMO’S PIZZA AND WINE BAR 831.688.1477
Jay Alvarez MICHAEL’S ON MAIN 831.479.9777
Ho’Omana Ken Constable PARADISE BEACH GRILLE 831.476.4900
SANDERLINGS 831.662.7120
SEVERINO’S BAR & GRILL 831.688.8987
SHADOWBROOK 831.475.1511
Open Mic THE UGLY MUG w/ Mosephus 831.477.1341
ZELDA’S 831.475.4900
SCOTTS VALLEY / SAN LORENZO VALLEYThe Creole Belles Tish Hinojosa Mary Gauthier DON QUIXOTE’S 831.603.2294
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WATSONVILLE / MONTEREY / CARMELSanta Cruz Trio KPIG Happy Hour CILANTRO’S Happy hour 831.761.2161
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NewASS BACKWARDS (90 min) Casey Wilson and June Diane Raphael star in this offbeat comedy as Chloe and Kate, two childhood friends turning 30 who road trip home in the belief that all their problems can be solved by winning a beauty pageant. Like Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, with crowns. (Plays Fri and Sat at 11:45pm at the Del Mar)BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR (NC-17; 179 min) Much buzzed-about French lesbian love story has French lesbians, love story. Also won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. (Opens Fri at the Nick)
HOW I LIVE NOW (R; 101 min) Action thriller is an adaptation of Meg Rosoff’s novel about an American teenager bored out of her skull while staying with relatives in Britain, until it suddenly comes under martial law, and she has to escape a violent military dictatorship. FML! (Opens Fri at the Nick)JURASSIC PARK (1993) Let’s review the plot, courtesy of Weird Al: “I recall the time they found those fossilized mosquitoes/And before long, they were cloning DNA/Now I’m being chased by some irate veloceraptors/Well, believe me, this has been one lousy day.” (Plays Fri and Sat at midnight at the Del Mar)
THE PIN (R) World War II drama has two young people falling in love while in hiding, which is pretty much doomed from the start because World War II. (Opens Fri at the Nick)
THOR: THE DARK WORLD (PG-13; 122 min) If he had a hammer, he’d hammer in the morning. He’d hammer in the evening, all over the nine realms. Anyway, Thor is back in a plot that’s basically what you’d expect: blah blah Dark Elves, blah blah wormhole, blah blah anomaly. Thank god for the Loki comic relief. (Opens Fri at 41st Ave, Cinema 9, Scotts Valley and Green Valley)
Reviews12 YEARS A SLAVE (R; 133 min) Based on an 1853 memoir, this story of a free African American kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South is easily the best-reviewed film of the year.
ALL IS LOST (PG-13; 106 min) Robert Redford stars in this adventure story of a man on the open sea whose boat is damaged, leaving him in a lonely and desperate fight for survival.
BAD GRANDPA (R; 92 min) Johnny Knoxville’s obnoxious old man character from Jackass gets his own movie, which for sure nobody saw coming. For
some reason, the movie combines a fictional plot with the typical hidden-camera footage of real people being grossed out by Grandpa’s lewd behavior. CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (PG-13; 134 min) Oscar buzz is already a-buzzin’ for Tom Hanks, who plays the titular captain in this true story of the first U.S. cargo ship to be hijacked in 200 years. CARRIE (R; 99 min.) Have you heard of this new thing called “remaking classic horror films”? Apparently, it always goes great, and makes all the fans of the original movies super happy!THE COUNSELOR (R; 117 min) Ridley Scott directs this Cormac McCarthy
APTOS CINEMAS 122 Rancho Del Mar Center, Aptos 831.688.6541 www.thenick.com
Ender’s Game — Daily 2; 4:20; 6:45; 9:10.Gravity 3D — Daily 3; 5:10; 7:15; 9:20; plus Sat-Sun 12:50pm.
41ST AVENUE CINEMA 1475 41st Ave., Capitola 831.479.3504 www.cineluxtheatres.com
Thor: The Dark World — (Opens Fri) 11:45; 1:30; 4:15; 5:20; 7:15; 9:30.Thor: The Dark World 3D — (Opens Thu 8pm) 2:30; 8:15.Captain Phillips — Wed-Thu 12:30; 3:45; 7; 10.The Counselor — Wed-Thu 1:15; 4:15; 7:15; 10:15. (no Thu 7:15; 10:15)Last Vegas — Wed-Thu 11:30; 2; 7; 4:40; 7:15; 9:45; Fri-Wed 11:30; 2; 4:30; 7; 10.
DEL MAR1124 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com
12 Years A Slave — Daily 1:50; 3:30; 4:40; 6:15; 7:30; 9 plus Fri-Sun 11; 12:45.All Is Lost — Daily 2:30; 4:50; 7:10; 9:30; plus Fri-Sat 12:10pm.Ass Backwards — Fri-Sat 11:45pm. Jurassic Park — Fri-Sat Midnight.50 Years On Stage — Sun 11am.
NICKELODEON Lincoln and Cedar streets, Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com
Blue Is the Warmest Color — (Opens Fri) 3:30; 4:30; 7; 8 plus Fri-Mon 1pm.How I Live Now — (Opens Fri) 2:20 plus 9:20pm.The Pin — (Opens Fri) Fri-Mon 12:30pm.A.C.O.D. —Wed-Thu 2:30; 7:10 .Enough Said — Wed-Thu 2:40; 4:50; 7; 9; Fri-Wed 2:50; 5; 7:10; 9:10 plus Fri-Mon 12:50pm. Inequality for All — Wed-Thu 4:40; 9:15; plus Sat-Sun 12:20pm. Muscle Shoals — Wed-Thu 2:20; 6:40; Fri-Wed 1:10; 4:30.Rush — Wed-Thu 4:20; 6:50; 9:20; Fri-Mon 12:30pm.The Fifth Estate — Wed-Thu 4:30; 9:10.Licks — Wed 11/6 9pm.
RIVERFRONT STADIUM TWIN 155 S. River St, Santa Cruz 800.326.3264 x1701 www.regmovies.com
Last Vegas — (Opens Fri) Wed-Thu 3:30; 7; 9:30; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.The Counselor — Wed-Thu 3:40; 6:40; 9:20; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.
SANTA CRUZ CINEMA 9 1405 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz 800.326.3264 x1700 www.regmovies.com
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Thor: The Dark World 3D — (Opens Thu 8pm) Fri-Wed call for showtimes.Captain Phillips — Wed-Thu 12:10; 2:30; 6:15; 9:15 Fri-Wed call for showtimes. (no Thu 9:15pm)Carrie — Wed 11/6 12:35; 3:05; 5:30; 8; 10:25; Thu 12:35; 3:05; 5:25; 10:25; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 — Wed-Thu 12:25; 3:20; 6:35; 9; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. (no Thu 6:35pm)Ender’s Game — Wed 11/6 11; 1:45; 2:30; 4:30; 5:10; 7:15; 7:50; 10; Thu 11; 1:45; 4:30; 7:40; 7:50; 9:150 Fri-Wed call for showtimes.Escape Plan — Wed-Thu 11:35am plus Thu 2:30; 5:10; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.Free Birds — Wed 11:25; 9:25 plus Thu 2pm; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.Free Birds 3D — Wed-Thu 4:40pm; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.Gravity — Wed-Thu 12:40; 3; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.Gravity 3D — Wed 11/6; 12; 2:45; 5:15; 6; 7:35; 8:20; 10:10; 10:40; Thu 12; 12:45; 5; 5:15; 10:15; Fri-Wed call for showtimes.Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa — Wed-Thu 12:15; 3:15; 5:30; 7:45; 10:05; Fri-Wed call for showtimes. (no Thu 7:45; 10:05)Jason and the Argonauts — Thu 9pm.
CINELUX SCOTTS VALLEY CINEMA226 Mt. Hermon Rd., Scotts Valley 831.438.3260 www.cineluxtheatres.com
Thor: The Dark World — (Opens Fri) 11; 1; 1:45; 7; 9:45pm.Thor: The Dark World 3D — (Opens Fri) 8; 11:30; 2:30; 8:30pm.12 Years A Slave — Daily 12:15; 3:30; 6:45; 9:45pm.About Time — Daily 11:55; 3; 9:55pm.Captain Phillips — Wed-Thu 12:15; 3:30; 7; 9:15.Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 – Wed-Thu 11:10; 1:45; 4:15; 6:45.Ender’s Game — Wed-Thu 11; 11:55; 1:45; 2:45; 4:30; 5:30; 7:10; 8:15; 9:55; Fri-Wed 11; 1:45; 4:30; 7:10; 10.Free Birds — Wed-Thu 11:55; 2:20; 7; 10; Fri-Wed 11:55; 2:20; 4:45; 7; 9:20. Last Vegas — Wed-Thu 11:30; 2; 4:30; 7:20; 9; 9:55; 11:30; 2; 4:30; 7:20; 9:55.Gravity — Wed-Thu 7:30; 9:45; Fri-Wed 11:45; 3; 9:55.Gravity 3D — Wed 11/6 11:55; 2:30; 4:55; 6:30; 9; Thu 11:55; 2:30; 4:55; Fri-Wed 4:55; 7:30.Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa — Wed-Thu 11:20; 2:30; 4:55; 7:30; 10; Fri-Wed 11:40; 2:10; 7:30; 10:15 (No 11:40 Sat). All About Ever — Thu 7pm.Dial M for Murder 3D — Sat 11am.
GREEN VALLEY CINEMA 81125 S. Green Valley Rd, Watsonville 831.761.8200 www.greenvalleycinema.com
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SHOWTIMESShowtimes are for Wednesday, Nov. 6, through Wednesday, Nov. 13, unless otherwise indicated. Programs and showtimes are subject to change without notice.
adaptation about a laywer who gets tangled in drug trafficking. All-star cast includes Michael Fassbender, Cameron Diaz, Penelope Cruz, Brad Pitt and Javier Bardem. ENDER’S GAME (PG-13; 104 min) There’s been a lot of LGBT supporters protesting this movie because of the despicable anti-gay views of Orson Scott Card, the author of the book it’s based on (and a producer of the film). I don’t know if the film itself should be judged on the basis of that—maybe more on the fact that Ender’s Game wasn’t a great book to begin with, certainly inferior even to Card’s short story of the same name on which it was based. (Philip K. Dick’s Time Out of Joint is a far superior take on a very similar idea.) But whether or not you think the political issues should affect whether or not you see the film, at least we can all agree the guy’s a total douche. THE FIFTH ESTATE (R; 128 min.) We’re not sure how many people out there want to see a movie dramatizing the Wikileaks saga, but Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange? That’s pretty damn awesome. FREE BIRDS (PG; 91 min) Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson star in this animated movie that is seriously about turkeys traveling through time. They go back to try to stop JFK’s assassination. Just kidding, of course they try to get turkey off the Thanksgiving menu. GRAVITY (PG-13; 90 min) In director Alfonso Cuaron’s much-anticipated space-disaster flick, an accident on a space shuttle mission threatens to make Sandra Bullock and George Clooney astro-nots. LAST VEGAS (PG-13; 105 min) The trailer for this comedy just makes you involuntarily smile. Is it getting to watch Morgan Freeman, Michael Douglas, Robert DeNiro and Kevin Kline being goofy? Yeah, and also that this old-fart version of The Hangover actually looks hilarious, when it could have been just a cash-in on its all-star cast. MACHETE KILLS (R; 107 min) Director Robert Rodriguez brings back Danny Trejo as Machete, the Mexican double, triple or maybe even quadruple-agent who first appeared
in one of the fake trailers buried in the middle of Grindhouse. This time, he’s battling an arms dealer trying to blow up space. More or less. THE PATIENCE STONE (R; 102 min) In an occurrence roughly as likely as seeing a unicorn, Afghan writer Atiq Rahimi gets to actually direct the adaptation of his own novel, based on a Persian fable about a magic stone in which one can confide all problems. The stone, this time, is a man in war-torn Afghanistan. When a bullet in the neck reduces him to a vegetative state, his wife begins to confide in him all the things that would otherwise go unsaid. PLANES (G; 92 min.) This spin-off of Cars was originally supposed to go direct-to-video, but apparently theatrical audiences can’t get enough of kids’ movies about things that long to do other things, but can’t because of reasons, but then do. So here you go. PRISONERS (R; 153 min) Hugh Jackman stars in this crime drama about a father who begins considering extreme options as police fail to find his missing daughter and time could very well be running out. RUNNER RUNNER (R; 91 min) Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake star in this crime thriller about one man who must go up against a syndicate when he tries to bring sexy back—to online poker. RUNNING WILD: THE LIFE OF DAYTON O. HYDE (NR; 93 min) Documentary follows the cowboy conservationist as he tries to preserve home-on-the-range culture while at the same time protecting natural resources and rescuing horses. RUSH (R; 123 min) Ron Howard’s epic re-telling of the real-life rivalry between Formula 1 racers James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and Niki Lauda (James Bruhl). WE’RE THE MILLERS (R; 110 min.) Filling the no-doubt massive audience demand to see the last vestiges of their ’90s innocence ruined by seeing Jennifer Aniston play a stripper, this comedy stars Jason Sudeikis as a pot dealer who enlists a random group of weirdos to be his fake family so he can smuggle drugs in from Mexico.
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ago." And from where I sit, the good
news is that the Santa Cruz area is
heavily strewn with cafes, bakeries
and restaurants well-stocked with
fine pumpkin pies. Good news, except
when calories are an issue. And
calories should never be an issue,
much less a talking point, during the
winter holidays.
I accidentally ran into three
slices of very, very good traditional
pumpkin pie last week, and being
forced to sample each one to the
point of completion, I arrived
at several conclusions worth
sharing. Remember that one's
taste for desserts, e.g., pumpkin
kitchens, especially at holiday time—
which just happened to coincide
with pumpkin harvest time. And
the classic pumpkin pie emerged as
a spice-laden variation on custard
pie. The ingredients of cream, eggs,
pumpkin, sugar and spices are
required. The amounts vary, however,
as do eclectic additions such as
cognac, molasses or ginger.
As Thanksgiving looms, our
collective craving for pumpkin
pie expands to almost addictive
proportions. I've personally
witnessed more than one consumer
meltdown at the ominous words,
"We sold out of pumpkin pie an hour
The True Value of Pie
BY CHRISTINA WATERS
Let's face it, pumpkin pie is as
American as, well, apple pie.
According to well-documented
legend, the Europeans who made it
to the New World in the mid-1600s
provided themselves with comfort
food in the form of roast pumpkin
and spices. An English cookbook
of 1671 vintage urged home cooks
to spice pumpkin with thyme,
rosemary, parsley, cinnamon,
nutmeg, pepper and cloves. This
volatile blend was beaten together
with eggs, sweetened to taste and then
fried. Hmmm.
Eventually, pumpkin pie matured
as a staple in North American
pie, has been firmly established at
childhood. Hence, the pie you crave
is the pie your mother (or aunt, or
grandmother, or godfather) made.
That style is your automatic default.
So in assessing the three slices of pie
I had to acknowledge my childhood
template, the flavor/texture lens
through which I taste favorite foods.
Here are my findings.
The slab of heavy, dense, spice-
balanced pumpkin pie I consumed
at Kelly's ($4) was outstanding. Rich
flavor, flaky crust, firm tooth, utterly
satisfying in every way. And looking
back, I have to admit it was made
exactly as my memory believes my
mother made her pies, pies so good
(even to her palate) that she and I
shamelessly ate pie for breakfast the
morning after Thanksgiving (and
Christmas, and New Year's).
Another slice, much thicker in size/
shape, from Gayle's ($3.50) proved
more moist and custardy (i.e., eggy).
It was excellent, with a delicious
crust and fine balance of spices,
slightly sweeter (very slightly) than
Kelly's. This pie tasted like the pies
I used to make from scratch (roast
the organic pumpkin, then add half
and half, extra spices, etc.) And the
final slab of pumpkin pie I sampled
(not all in the same day, mind you)
was from The Buttery ($3.25). I
detected more assertive spices, and a
texture somewhere between the firm
(Kelly's) and the custardy (Gayle's).
The thin crust allowed the pumpkin
filling to show off, although I might
have liked a bit more salt in the
dough. Yet, this too was a righteous
piece of pumpkin pie. Righteous.
Better than righteous.
So I've learned that (1) I prefer a
firmer, less sweet pumpkin pie—
but again, based on the childhood
template; (2) I loved all three pieces
of pie, each one worth the money
in terms of deliciousness, expertise
and value; and (3) great pumpkin pie
is alive and well in Santa Cruz. But
I have miles more pie tastings to go
before I sleep. Stay tuned.0
HOT DAMN, THAT PIE IS GOOD Santa Cruz is basically the ‘Twin Peaks’ of pumpkin pie.
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I SAW HER TODAY AT THE RECEPTION Kirsten Ponza went from cooking for the Rolling Stones to heading up Chaminade’s kitchen.
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Kirsten Ponza, executive chef for Linwood’s Bar & Grill at
Chaminade Resort, gave up the rock & roll lifestyle but learned a
lot of from touring as a chef with the Rolling Stones. “My hardest
days at Chaminade, I always think about working on the tour, and am glad
that I’m not a part of that,” she says. “I’m glad I have this security, and being
home is nice.” Ponza just took over at Linwood’s after working for 10 years
under former executive chef Beverlie Terra, who’s now executive chef at
Cabrillo’s Pino Alto Restaurant.
SANTA CRUZ WEEKLY: What’s your favorite appetizer? KIRSTEN
PONZA: We’re doing this seasonal pumpkin with an artichoke soufflé. It
gets served with pear slices and crostini. The best part is you can eat the
pumpkin, too, which is always so fun for me when you can eat the vessel
that your food is served in.
How was the last farm-to-table dinner? We did an ostrich carpaccio
and changed a few people’s minds on it, which is exactly what you try to do
as a chef—say “Here’s something outside of your regular eating routine. Try
it. Just try it. You don’t have to like it, you can tell me you hate it. But on the
off chance, try it because you could love it.” What’s the best way to make chicken? If I’m going to have chicken, it’ll
be roasted. Basic vegetables, your mirepoix, your potatoes. But it’s hard for
me because it’s cold outside, so automatically my brain has a switch and
goes straight to comfort food. In the summer, I’d still prefer it roasted. But
it’d be much fresher with more fruits and vegetables. Probably very little
starch—more of a citrus-y lemon type of roasted chicken. Winter, I go more
hearty; maybe a gravy sauce instead of an au jus.
Which Stone was the pickiest, and is it true Keith Richards is a zombie who only eats brains? No band member was picky, and they
never complained about what was on the menu. Keith Richards is nowhere
close to being a zombie. He was very cool—sent little notes to people who
worked on the tour. All of the ladies that worked on the tour got a rose one
night when we were in New York, saying, “Thanks for all your hard work.”
—Jacob Pierce
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EVENTS •NEWS •MUSIC •RESTAURANTS BEACHES •GIVEAWAYS
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I’m not a big fan of fear. It gets far more attention than it deserves. The media and entertainment industries practically worship it, and many of us allow ourselves to be riddled with toxic amounts of the stuff. Having said that, though, I do want to put in a good word for fear. Now and then, it keeps us from doing stupid things. It prods us to be wiser and act with more integrity. It forces us to see the truth when we might prefer to wallow in delusion. Now is one of those times for you, Aries. Thank your fear for helping to wake you up.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings,” wrote W.H. Auden. If that’s true, then your job is to be a poet right now. You seem to be awash in a hubbub of paradoxical inclinations, complete with conflicting desires and mismatched truths. There’s no shame or blame in that. But you do have a responsibility to communicate your complexity with honesty and precision. If you can manage that, people will treat you with affection and give you extra slack. They might even thank you.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): What can you do to improve your flow? Are there obstructions in your environment that keep you from having a more fluidic rhythm? Do you harbor negative beliefs that make it harder for life to bestow its natural blessings on you? Now is the time to take care of glitches like these, Gemini. You have more power than usual to eliminate constrictions and dissolve fixations. Your intuition will be strong when you use it to drum up graceful luck for your personal use. Be aggressive. Be bold. Be lyrical. It’s high time for you to slip into a smooth groove.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the beginning of his novel The White Castle, Orhan Pamuk offers this meditation: “To imagine that a person who intrigues us has access to a way of life unknown and all the more attractive for its mystery, to believe that we will begin to live only through the love of that person—what else is this but the birth of great passion?” How do you respond to this provocative statement, Cancerian? Here are my thoughts: On the one hand, maybe it’s not healthy for you to fantasize that a special someone can give you what you can’t give yourself. On the other hand, believing this is true may inspire you to take an intriguing risk that would catalyze invigorating transformations. Which is it? Now is a good time to ruminate on these matters.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Canadians Tommy Larkin and Stephen Goosney are biological brothers, but they were adopted by different families when they were young. They lost touch for almost 30 years. Once they began looking for each other, it didn’t take long to be reunited. Nor did they have to travel far to celebrate. It turns out that they were living across the street from each other in the same small town in Newfoundland. I foresee a metaphorically similar experience in your future, Leo. When you get reconnected to your past, you will find that it has been closer than you realized.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): This will be an excellent week for you to talk with yourself—or rather, with yourselves. I’m envisioning in-depth conversations between your inner saint and your inner evil twin … between the hard worker and the lover of creature comforts … between the eager-to-please servant of the greater good and the self-sufficient smartie who’s dedicated to personal success. I think that in at least some of these confabs, you should speak every word out loud. You should gesture with your hands and express colorful body language. It’s prime time for your different sub-personalities to get to know each other better.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the coming week you will probably have more luck than usual if you play keno, craps, blackjack, bingo, or roulette. People who owe you money will be inclined to pay you back, so you might want to give them a nudge. I won’t be surprised if you find a $20 bill lying on the sidewalk or if a store cashier accidentally gives you way too much change. In the wake of these tendencies, your main assignment is to be alert for opportunities to increase your cash flow. For example, if you wake up in the middle of the night with an idea for boosting your financial fortunes, I hope you will have a pen and notebook by the bed to write it down.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Not for all the whiskey in heaven,” begins a poem by Charles Bernstein. “Not for all the flies in Vermont. Not for all the tears in the basement. Not for a million trips to Mars. Not for all the fire in hell. Not for all the blue in the sky.” Can you guess what he’s driving at? Those are the things he will gladly do without in order to serve his passion. “No, never, I’ll never stop loving you,” he concludes. According to my understanding of your astrological cycle, Scorpio, now is a good time for you to make a comparable pledge. What is the one passion you promise to devote yourself to above all others? And what are you willing to live without in order to focus on that passion? Be extravagant, pure, wild, and explicit.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Dmitri Razumikhin is a character in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment. His surname is derived from the Russian word for “reason.” At one point he makes a drunken speech that includes these observations: “It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! Not one single truth has ever been arrived at without people first having talked a dozen reams of nonsense, even ten dozen reams of it.” Let’s make this a centerpiece of your current strategy, Sagittarius. Just assume that in order to ferret out the core insights that will fuel your next transformations, you may need to speak and hear a lot of babble.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): At the 2013 Grammy Awards, actor Neil Patrick Harris introduced the band Fun. this way: “As legendary gangster rap icon Katharine Hepburn once said, if you follow all the rules, you miss all the fun.” Everything about that vignette is a template for the approach you can use now with great success. You should gravitate toward festive events and convivial gatherings. Whenever possible, you should sponsor, activate, and pave the way for fun. Toward that end, it’s totally permissible for you to tell amusing stories that aren’t exactly factual and that bend the rules not quite to the breaking point.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Some spiritual traditions regard the ego as a bad thing. They imply it’s the source of suffering—a chronically infected pustule that must be regularly lanced and drained. I understand this argument. The ego has probably been the single most destructive force in the history of civilization. But I also think it’s our sacred duty to redeem and rehabilitate it. After all, we often need our egos in order to get important things done. Our egos give us the confidence to push through difficulties. They motivate us to work hard to achieve our dreams. Your assignment, Aquarius, is to beautify your ego as you strengthen it. Build your self-esteem without stirring up arrogance. Love yourself brilliantly, not neurotically. Express your talents in ways that stimulate others to express their talents.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Dr. Seuss wrote his children’s books in English, but he liked to stretch the limits of his native tongue. “You’ll be surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond ’Z’ and start poking around,” he said. One of the extra letters he found out there was “yuzz,” which he used to spell the made-up word “yuzz-a-ma-tuzz.” I recommend that you take after Seuss—not only in the way you speak, but also in the ways you work, play, love, dream, and seek adventure. It’s time to explore the territory beyond your comfort zone.
Homework: Make two fresh promises to your-self: one that’s easy to keep and one that’s at the edge of your capacity to live up to.
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