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Elijah Pfotenhauer’s on a mission to paint the town p9 Staggering Student Debt p7 | Leary Protégé in Capitola p17 | Hollins House Rules p33 March 10-17, 2010 March 10-17, 2010 Vol. 1, No. 45 Vol. 1, No. 45 2 | march 10-17, 2010 SANTACRUZ.COM
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March 10-17, 2010
Vol. 1, No. 45
March 10-17, 2010
Vol. 1, No. 45
Elijah Pfotenhauer’s on a mission to paint
the town p9
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Staggering Student Debt p7 | Leary Protégé in Capitola p17 | Hollins House Rules p33
2 | march 10-17, 2010 SANTACRUZ.COM
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ONE IMPORTANT issue that was not directly addressed in the Bullhorn submission last week (“Arana Path Would Connect More Than Streets”) was that of convenience—the daily battle of will between what we know to be the responsible choice and that which is most comfortable and easy. Of course it is less work to move around when the biggest physical strain is the tilt of one’s ankle, but it’s easy to forget that it’s on the dime of a fuel that is filthy to burn, pricey to buy and injurious to obtain. The bike path through Arana Gulch would make it that much more convenient for those who commute in Santa Cruz to make a conscious decision about how to get around. It is necessary infrastructure for a future that we know cannot be so reliant on the ease of automobiles. Build it, and they will come.
Paul Hempstead, Santa Cruz
MEGAN McNamara (“Profoundly Un-Jewish,” Posts, March 3) and others commented on my Bullhorn piece (“Cut Israel a Break,” Bullhorn, Feb. 24). She states that not serving in the Israeli military can be a disadvantage for Arabs. Arabs are not drafted into the IDF, but they are free to volunteer for military or non-military national service. Arab Israeli members of the Knesset have consistently opposed national service for Arabs, even service within the Arab community. The Druze community in Israel is subject to the draft because its leaders requested that they be subject to conscription so they could serve their country. Equal opportunities should be accompanied by equal responsibilities. McNamara knows full well that medicine and food are entering Gaza. Thousands of Gazans have received medical treatment in Israel during the so-called siege. What is not occurring is the bombardment of rockets into Israel from Gaza. I didn’t write that Palestinians
should be grateful for Israel improving their standard of living: these are her words, but why won’t she acknowledge that their lives were better when Israel controlled the territories compared to now? Perhaps it is because it is easier to blame Israel than accept responsibility. As far as Sami Abed’s comments, Rabbi Cooper’s talk was sponsored by Temple Beth El members. I am not a member so I don’t know what group of mine he refers to. For more information on the Museum of Tolerance controversy I recommend their website to get a different perspective. For comments about apartheid I suggest Richard Cohen’s recent piece in the Washington Post where he debunks this racist notion of Mr. Abed.
The issues are complex and passion runs high. But the demonization of Israel and the defense of racist, homophobic, misogynist terrorist groups by these so-called peace and justice advocates will not bring either peace or justice.
Gil Stein, Aptos
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Arana Gulch Defenders Speak Up
SUPPOSE someone came to your home, demanded you give up your dining room for an important project, and said your family would still be able to live in the home but would have to accept the intrusion and
the loss and just, well, get on with your life? Suppose when you asked why, the answer was to fight global warming? If you responded that there were already 211 miles of bike lanes in the county, three other east-west routes with one designed for expanded bike lanes and sidewalks (Murray Street) and a fourth that would offer 32 miles of unbroken bike trails and sacrificing your home was not needed to fight global warming, and the $4 million could be better spent in maintaining, enhancing and restoring those existing 211 miles of bike lanes and encouraging people to use them, would you be called unreasonable?
Friends of Arana Gulch supports the Arana Gulch Master Plan (a well designed resource management tool), contingent on the removal of the Broadway-Brommer paved transportation project. Why?
In declaring 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity, the United Nations said, “Biodiversity, the variety of life on Earth, is essential to sustaining the living networks and systems that provide us all with health, wealth, food, fuel and the vital services our lives depend on. Human activity is causing the diversity of life on Earth to be lost at a greatly accelerated rate. These losses are irreversible, impoverish us all and damage the life support systems we rely on every day. And we can prevent them.”
The pertinent question is not how many individual plants will be killed by construction of the paved bikeways routes (there are two, not just Broadway-Brommer). The question is how is habitat (think of it as your home) diminished by the project. Approving the Broadway-Brommer paved bikeway project risks reduction of the biodiversity of Arana Gulch and increases the risk of extinction of an endangered species. It will do this by bifurcating critical habitat of the endangered tarplant and all of its many associated coastal prairie species.
The central question for the Coastal Commission is: will approval of a non–“resource-dependent” project in an Environmentally Sensitive Habitat Area that is also designated as “critical habitat” of an endangered species be a violation of Sec. 30240 of the Coastal Act, as all opponents of Broadway-Brommer assert?
The more pertinent questions for Santa Cruzans are: when is enough enough, and how much do we demand of the natural world for our pleasure, our entertainment, our recreation, our convenience? Can we be generous enough to let a small fragile place, in the middle of our urban city, be free of wide paved routes for the multitudes?
Friends of Arana Gulch does not suggest excluding people from this small fragile place, since one can already walk or bicycle in Arana Gulch, accessing it from two directions. We are simply asking people to enjoy the place on its own terms. Regarding access for mobility impaired residents, Friends of Arana Gulch presented its Restoration Alternative, including such access, to the city almost five years ago. The city ignored our alternative. Fortunately, we do not need Broadway-Brommer to provide access for mobility-impaired visitors to Arana Gulch. Friends of Arana Gulch is a countywide association that counts bicyclists among its members. Jean Brocklebank is a biologist and grandmother who has worked for 15 years to protect Arana Gulch. Michael Lewis is an anthropologist and a daily bicycle commuter who supports practical and responsible bicycling.
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Students at the March 4 campus protest posed the obvious questions.
After the MarchOn the other side of graduation, students face mounting debt and few jobs
wouldn’t have changed a central fact of Moore’s life. Like millions of other college students around the country, he’s already deep in debt and facing a brutal job market when he graduates.
“It’s pretty bleak, that’s for sure,” says the history of consciousness doctoral student, who says he’ll graduate with around $45,000 in debt despite his job as a teacher’s assistant and several grants. “I have friends that are eighty and ninety thousand in debt, so I feel a little lucky in that respect. The job market, though, that’s really not looking good.”
According to the Institute for College Access & Success, a Berkeley research firm, the average amount
of debt held by graduating seniors in the United States has increased by 6 percent each year since 2004. In 2008 it was $23,200 per graduate on average, about $16,000 at UCSC. And the jobs to fund those loan repayments? In December, the unemployment rate among recent college grads was 10.6 percent—worse than the national jobless average of 9.7 percent.
Matt Reed, the ICAS program director, says this translates to a dim future for students who were sold the idea of purchasing an education as the best way toward a brighter future.
“In general, costs of attending college have been going up much faster than inf lation. Grant aid hasn’t kept up with that. Loans have been filling the gap,” says Reed. “The costs are not just tuition; you have to pay for books, transportation, room and board. There are a lot of odds stacked against students these days.”
The 20-Year PlanIn this “Great Recession,” graduates
who do find work often settle for low-paying jobs that have little to do with their freshly completed educations. Juliane De Grazia graduated from UCSC in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and two different loans that left her roughly $30,000 in debt. She now works 40 hours per week selling designer clothes at Pacific Trading Company in downtown Santa Cruz. She pays $290 per month toward her loans and will for the next 20 years.
“It’s frustrating, depressing, annoying, pathetic—whatever you want to call it,” says De Grazia. “I went through all of this, graduated with a 3.9 [grade point average] and
MATTHEW MOORE didn’t carry a sign at last week’s student protest at UCSC. With a walking stick in
one hand and his dog’s leash in the other, he stood in a grassy field near the university entrance at High and Bay streets and watched while hundreds of his fellow students demanded the university lower its fees and restaff its departments.
Yet even if he had brought a sign or joined the march, and even if the organized protests around the nation had succeeded in reaffirming the nation’s commitment to higher education and reversing the UC system’s 32 percent tuition hike, it
now I’m barely making over minimum wage doing something I could do when I was 16. I don’t regret going to college. I just wish I hadn’t rushed into a UC and instead looked at some other opportunities, like going to a community college.”
Even students with advanced graduate degrees are finding it difficult to find meaningful work. Greg Ingraham, a UC-Riverside graduate with a master’s degree in archival management and a candidate for the much-ballyhooed position of Grateful Dead archivist at UCSC, currently works the graveyard shift as a room service attendant at a San Mateo Westin Hotel. Even that job took three months to land and plenty of rejection along the way.
“There were a lot of times I didn’t list my graduate degree,” says Ingraham. “If I put it down, people would think I was overqualified and be like, ‘What are you doing here?’ The fact is, after an undergrad degree and a master’s, I’m in the same kind of job I went to school to get away from.”
“In the end I’ll probably go back to grad school,” says De Grazia. “I’ll rack up more debt, but I’m not getting anywhere doing what I’m doing.”
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WallpowerElijah Pfotenhauer spreads the love of art one mural at a time
CUSTOMERS coming into Santa Cruz Stoves & Fireplaces sounded alarm bells. “There’s a kid outside the store with cans of paint,” they told employees worriedly. “He looks like he’s going to spray the walls!”
Spray the walls is exactly what Elijah Pfotenhauer was intending to do. It was late 2006, and Pfotenhauer had already established himself as a talented Santa
Cruz muralist with two other projects, one depicting dancers on the former Motion Pacific building on Front Street and another at the former Santa Cruz Teen Center on Laurel. The
three-panel scene outside of Santa Cruz Stoves & Fireplaces would be his largest project to date. And some shoppers didn’t know what to think of the young black man outside the
store armed with spray paint and a vision.Nearly four years later, Pfotenhauer, 29, leans against the back of his truck
across from the mural. Paint stains his jeans and the brown hoodie pulled over his head. He’s willowy and speaks in a voice so soft you have to lean in to
hear him over the traffic. It all started when the shop’s owner, Steve Vorhees, commissioned
Pfotenhauer to paint a bamboo-themed mural in his home. He’d seen Pfotenhauer’s work, and the two men shared mutual acquaintances. While
the two talked one day, Vorhees mentioned the Water Street building. “Oh, that place?” Pfotenhauer remembers saying. “That building has a
crazy wall. I always wanted to tag it at night with ‘Where’s the mural?’”So Vorhees suggested painting his store first. He wanted a mural
depicting Vulcan, the Roman blacksmith god of fire and volcanoes, and a modern-day family around the hearth: fire past and fire present.
The third scene, a mechanical fire-breathing dragon, was all Pfotenhauer. “I took it as three time periods,” he says, “ancient,
modern and futuristic, with my own spin on heat.”Lava f lows through the Roman god’s tunnels and turns to
fire in the family’s wood stove before moving through the vents surrounding the futuristic dragon. As with most—if
not all—of Pfotenhauer’s murals, symbols abound. “Fire as renewal,” he says.
A scarab and phoenix decorate the molten walls of the first scene. Framed pictures of a pinecone (“They
need fire to spread their seeds. Fire destroys and fire renews. Nature has it all figured out”), a sunrise
and Burning Man decorate the family room walls in the second scene. “Pictures within
pictures,” Pfotenhauer says. “It’s cool to go into a space within a space.” The dragon in the
third scene snakes around in a figure 8—an infinity symbol—and f lowers fall out of
the vents. “It’s futuristic and industrial,” he says. “I feel passionately that for us
to evolve, technology has to evolve with nature.”
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Certain themes appear frequently in Pfotenhauer’s art, among them the balance
of nature and technology and our connection to both. Native people, plants and animals. Infinity symbols and the number 8.
His website, www.paintedladder.com, and T-shirts show a boy painting a ladder, climbing it as he paints. “It means rising up creativity,” Pfotenhauer says. “Turning metaphysical into physical. Art has the power to do that.”
It also has the power to turn a superhero-loving kid into a professional painter.
Pfotenhauer’s first gig as an artist was as a superhero. He posed for a drawing class at the California College of Arts and Crafts while iguanas crawled around the room. He wore his costume under his clothes, went into a closet and came out clad in a red cape and blue suit. “It was iguanas and a little black 5-year-old Superman,” he says.
At the time, his mother attended the Oakland school and Pfotenhauer frequently attended art classes and lectures with her, bouncing between Santa Cruz and the Bay Area as a kid. He liked to draw teenage mutant ninja turtles, stick figures killing each other and violent robots.
After graduating from Santa Cruz High School in 1998, Pfotenhauer took classes for a couple years at Cabrillo before traveling across Europe, painting murals in exchange for places to sleep and do his laundry. “Paris, Barcelona, parts of Italy, Switzerland, Prague, Amsterdam, southern France. I painted in every country except for Italy. I toted spray paint in a shoe box outside my bag.”
Traveling, painting, taking classes and traveling some more became Pfotenhauer’s routine for a half-dozen years.
He studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts in Southern California between 2003 and 2005. “I was inspired by animation, its platform to be a lot of disciplines,” he says. “It can incorporate storytelling, visual arts, music.”
When he was 25, he dropped out. “I wasn’t feeling it,” he says. “Was it school or me or just us? I felt really removed, isolated, which is an opportunity in itself if you’re in the right state of mind. But it wasn’t what I was looking for at the time.”
Again, he hopped on a plane and f lew overseas, painting a teen-center mural in Vietnam and an underwater scene at a dive school in exchange for scuba lessons
and certification in Thailand.Then he returned to Santa Cruz.
Pfotenhauer’s latest mural decorates pull-down doors outside of Good Guys Biodiesel
on Water Street near Santa Cruz Stoves & Fireplaces and Charlie Hong Kong, where he recently finished a birds and vines mural inside the eatery.
He also spends a lot of time with kids, volunteering at DeWitt Anderson School and Renaissance High School, where he’s taught mural classes since 2007. A handful of kids at the high school help him paint murals on the weekends, and have supervised mural projects with youngsters at MacQuiddy Elementary and Rolling Hills Middle schools.
“Santos, Shasta, Carlos and Pedro—they’re the next generation of muralists I’m watching come up,” he says. “Santos went up to Oakland with me to paint murals, and wrote the grant for the Books Not Bombs–sponsored mural [at Renaissance.]”
But funding for arts programs at all schools—including DeWitt and Renaissance—has been cut to the quick, so Pfotenhauer’s still looking into grants and other sources to pay for his time, art supplies and gas to and from both locations. He recently started a few new paid teaching gigs: art at Star High School on Frederick Street, beat making at Highlands Park Community School and set design at Happy Valley Elementary School. He’s also offering private and small-group classes.
“Elijah plays an essential but often underappreciated and under-resourced role,” says Sandino Gomez, youth empowerment coordinator at the Resource Center for Nonviolence. “It’s really unfortunate that art programs have been cut so thoroughly in schools. People like Elijah go above and beyond any official capacity or responsibility to bring art to kids.”
When Youth Coalition Santa Cruz teens said they wanted to paint a mural, Gomez asked Pfotenhauer to mentor the group. Together, they built a giant frame for one mural, learned to draw and paint, and even silkscreened T-shirts at Barrios Unidos for a second mural. Both now hang in the Santa Cruz Library. A “Bookscape” is upstairs (with help from Renaissance High teens) that shows a girl reading under a tree with leaves made from pages; below her, paper swells from a purple sea meet a town built of books. The youth group also completed an “Energy Conservation” 3-D
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Art” featuring Kat Von D, French graffiti girl Fafi and Santa Cruz’s own DJ Eko, among others.
Today the girls are making dream pillows, ironing silkscreen images onto fabric and then stitching and stuffing.
“It’s a pillow that inspires you—you’re going to look at it every night before you go to sleep,” says Janelle Carranco, cutting out images of dancers to iron onto her pillow. “Mine is dance. I want to be a choreographer.” Another girl chose a photo of the Bay Bridge at sunset; another picked an ultrasound image of her baby, due in a month.
Pfotenhauer circles the desks, threading needles and giving advice.
“He’s a talented artist, an inspiring, creative leader with a big heart,” says teacher Lissa Downey. “His style is really easy, really encouraging of the girls. He’s gentle, and to have an experience with a young man who is so gentle is important to them. He’s very real with them.”
“So after these pillows, what’s our next project?” asks Jyzenia Maldonado.
“I don’t know,” Pfotenhauer answers. “Let’s figure it out together.”
For more information about Pfotenhauer’s murals and private classes, visit www.painted ladder.com. To see more photos of Pfotenhauer at work, visit news.santacruz.com.
mural that hangs above the downstairs computers. In it, people hang clothes to dry on a line out the window, and real T-shirts with energy-conservation images and messages hang on a real clothesline between the two canvases.
“Elijah puts brushes in kids’ hands,” Gomez continues. “He puts paints in kids’ hands, and he has them do it. He meets them where they are at, and gives them the encouragement they need to shine.
“He sees the world as a giant playground-slash-canvas that we’re just lucky enough to interact with.”
Pfotenhauer himself takes a democratic view of art. “Something I’m trying to articulate is how we’re all artists,” he says. “It’d be cool to not even use the word art, just to say ‘life’ or ‘expression.’ Expression is just another part of life. It’s pretty valid. We all do it in different ways. The way I do it is a classic way.”
I t’s a Friday afternoon, and Pfotenhauer is the only male in the room. He’s teaching an art class at
DeWitt Anderson, an alternative school for girls ages 12 to 18. This is volunteer work—he used to get paid but now the money’s run out—so twice a week, he drives to Freedom with art supplies to teach. Last year, he and the girls created a mural titled “Women We Admire in
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Alli said he’s noticing a whole different kind of despair, angst and futility these days, especially among kids who never engaged in any moral groundwork.
“I felt in writing this book, maybe I could encourage some action,” he said. “Inspire younger people to take their lives and their destinies and their fates into their own hands some more. And to begin making their own sense of what is going on, instead of constantly absorbing the external messages—whether it’s media or society that are causing the apathy, the despair and the depression.”
Two) presents an entire eight-week course of study and application giving students a wealth of opportunity to apply the model for themselves—a course Alli taught online at the Maybe Logic Academy. The “Forum” section provides 40 pages of interaction in Q&A format between Alli and former students who took that online class.
“I felt that was important for people who were reading the course, who may have some trepidation about doing it,” Alli said over the phone. “If they got to read some of the questions people had, some of the struggles and conflicts from people who already took the course, perhaps they could ease themselves into it a little bit more.”
In the fourth section, titled “How I Got This Way,” Alli spills a personal autobiographical narrative one will never see on Dr. Phil. Crudely simplified, Alli is a mystic, one who serves and yields to the mysterious forces in the universe, rather than a magus who engages those forces with the direct intention of using them for his own power and control. He at least partly attributes this to the fact that he was raised without a father and was never issued a standardized guidebook for life. The mystical bent was cemented after tremendously heavy psychological
Intuitive-Psychic Intelligence of the Brain, Spine and Central Nervous System; (7) Mytho-Genetic Intelligence of DNA and the Planetary Entity; and (8) Quantum-Nonlocal Intelligence of Subatomic interactions.
Leary wrote piles of material on this, but his contributions were entirely theoretical. Robert Anton Wilson crosslinked the model to a stellar free-form circus variety show of Zen, anarchism, nonlinear physics, Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, semiotics, Aleister Crowley, booze, dope, Chebyshev Coefficients, The Vatican banking scandal, quantum psychology, heroin, Marxism and Toffler’s Third Wave.
Alli instead provides an entire eight-week program of study for anyone who has the time and the ambition to do it. A quarter-century ago, he wrote Angel Tech, providing exercises, rituals, meditations, games and other immersive endeavors for the reader to directly experience the different modalities in the eight-circuit model. Now he’s appeared with a new version, The Eight-
Circuit Brain. There are four parts to the book. Part
One, “Theorem,” explains how Alli arrived at his version of the model, beginning with Leary and through Wilson. “Praxis” (Part
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Trigger. Those three characters—Leary, Wilson and Alli—function as a trilateral commission providing a toolbox of modalities that, when applied, might actually help people increase their intellects in a number of ways. The redefinition of intelligence comes in a holy trinity of three words: absorb, integrate and transmit. That is, the ideas in this book must be absorbed, integrated and transmitted—not just absorbed—for the model to have any usefulness.
The first two heroes, Leary and Wilson, are no longer with us. But Alli is alive and will appear at Gateways Books to informally discuss his most recent book, The
Eight-Circuit Brain: Navigational Strategies for
the Energetic Body (Vertical Pool; 312 pages; $19.95 paperback), in which he expands on and updates Leary’s eight-circuit model.
The first four circuits in Alli’s model are the basic survival circuits: (1) Physio-Biological Intelligence; (2) Emotional-Territorial Intelligence; (3) Symbolic-Conceptual Intelligence; and (4) Social-Moral Intelligence. These four function as anchors for the other four, the “upper” circuits: (5) Somatic Intelligence of Body Wisdom and the Five Senses; (6)
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WITH JUST a month to go before tickets go on sale, the ninth annual Santa Cruz Film Fest is shaping up to be another cinematic feast for the senses. Tonight’s benefit auction and kick-off party primes the pump with trailers from several of the festival’s 100-plus films, Afro-Peruvian music by the Kombucheros and a smokin’ benefit auction featuring items like an Adobe Creative Suite software package valued at 2,500 clams and, at the other end of the spectrum, hula hoop lessons. Planet Cruz’s Richard Stockton and KUSP’s Genial Johnny Simmons emcee the event; India Joze, Alfresco, Hallcrest Vineyards, Honest Tea and Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing provide the comestibles and libations. Big party, small price tag—what’s not to like? (Traci Hukill)
THE SANTA CRUZ FILM FESTIVAL KICK-OFF PARTY AND BENEFIT AUCTION is Saturday, March 13, at 7pm at the Mill Gallery, 131 Front St., Santa Cruz. $10.
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BURT LEVITSKY left New York more than 30 years ago, but the streets of Manhattan still pulse to life in his realist oil paintings.
Trained as an illustrator and Madison Avenue ad designer, Levitsky recalls working on ad layouts by day and coming home to paint all night. Studying with Frank Reilly and Max Ginsburg, Levitsky mastered contemporary realist imagery that was always haunted by the moods and hustle of urban life. There’s a lot of George Tooker’s ennui and Thomas Hart Benton’s vitality in his ambitious portrayals of people embedded in their metropolitan landscapes.
And while he still travels to New York each year to see family, Levitsky has been a familiar feature of downtown Santa Cruz since 1973. “I was just going to stay for a little while,” he jokes, “but I kept coming back.”
Admitting that his figurative style went against the fashionable grain of abstract expressionism and, more recently, conceptual art, Levitsky is passionately dedicated to old masters techniques of careful preliminary drawing, chiaroscuro underpainting and then a build-up of glazes that lends depth and color brilliance to his work. Of the 16 paintings on exhibit—midscale oils on linen—most bear the lineage of his urban illustration days. Streets slick with rain, richly rendered architectural motifs, skyscrapers lost in the clouds. A few of the works are sensuous still-lifes, with lustrous drapery and gleaming pewter echoing the great tradition of northern Renaissance style. Levitsky admits his meticulously detailed realism hearkens back to earlier trends in painting, but he has no regrets. “As you look back—and at my age you can see decades past—you can see what your work was all about. I did what I wanted,” he admits. “You never know where it’s going to lead, so you need to please yourself.” (Christina Waters)
BURT LEVITSKY: CONTEMPORARY REALIST is on exhibit at MichaelAngelo Gallery, 1111 River St., Santa Cruz, through March 28. 831.426. 5500.
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Life Drawing & more!
Art Fair booths available for June 12 & 13
91 Years of Imagination!
Twenty years ago, so the story goes, 12-year-old Joe Bonamassa opened a show for blues legend B.B. King, prompting the blues legend to remark afterward that the young guitarist’s potential was “unbelievable” and that he “hadn’t even scratched the surface.” Truer words, it seems, have seldom been spoken, as the now man-size Bonamassa is considered among the most gifted and accomplished studio and touring guitarists around. Known mostly for his howling rock and blues style, Bonamassa is just as much at home playing funk and country. Bottom line: if someone can play it on guitar, Joe Bonamassa can probably play it better. Rio Theatre; $33.50–$44.50; 8pm. (Curtis Cartier)
Guitarists spend their entire lives dreaming of an endorsement by the likes of Steve Vai and Joe Satriani. It’s an honor that guitarist Vicki Genfan can claim, having won first place in Guitar Player magazine’s 2008 Guitar Superstar Competition, for which Vai and Satriani served as judges. Genfan’s nimble acoustic guitar stylings are joined by the songwriting of Jill Knight and the Caribbean-inflected playing of Erika Luckett, who together form the mighty Kickass Guitar Girls trio. Don Quixote’s; $10; 7:30pm. (Paul M. Davis)
Revered for the clarity of his lyricism and unique melodic gifts, John Gorka has won attention from a handful of folk luminaries since his rise to prominence during the ’80s new folk movement. Among them is confirmed guitar wizard Patty Larkin, who celebrates a quarter-century in the music business with 25, a collection of love songs and collaborations with the leading lights of folk, including Shawn Colvin, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and Gorka himself. Of her tour mate, Larkin says: “With a voice like John’s, he could sing the newspaper and it’d sound good.” We invite him to do just that when the two take the stage tonight. Rio Theater; $25; 7:30pm. (PMD)
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Tickets subject to service charge and5% S.C. City Admissions Tax.
THURS. MARCH 11 • 7 PMModern Jazz Singer!KATE McGARRY/KEITH GANZ DUO$18/Adv $21/DoorSponsored by Silent Gong Fund
MON. MARCH 15 • 7 & 9 PMJOHN SCOFIELD NEW JAZZQUARTET FEAT MULGREW MILLER,BEN STREET & KENDRICK SCOTT7PM: $25/Adv $28/Door9PM: $20/Adv $23/Door, No Jazztix/Comps
THURS. MARCH 18 • 8 PMAT THE RIO THEATREGILBERTO GILThe String Concertfeaturing JaquesMorelenbaum &Bem Gil$50/Gold Circle,$35/General, No Jazztix/CompsSponsored by Redtree Properties
MON. MARCH 22 • 7 PMJOE LOVANO US FIVEEsperanza Spalding - bassJames Weidman - pianoFrancisco Mela & OtisBrown III - drums$25/Adv $28/Dr, No Jazztix/Comps
THURS. MARCH 25 • 7 PMANTONIO SANCHEZ& MIGRATIONFEATURING DAVID BINNEY,DONNY McCASLIN & SCOTT COLLEY$20/Adv $23/Door
MON. MARCH 29 • 7 & 9 PMAcclaimed global guitar duo!STRUNZ & FARAH$23/Adv $26/Door
SATURDAY, MARCH 20 • 7 & 9 PMLES YEUX NOIRSGypsy Klezmer fromParis!$20/Adv $25/DoorTickets: Streetlight Records &www.brownpapertickets.com
FRIDAY, MARCH 26 • 8 PM • $25HAWAIIAN GENERATIONS FeaturingDENNIS AND DAVID KAMAKAHIAND GEORGE AND KEOKIKAHUMOKUTickets: Streetlight Records,AlohaIsland Grille & www.ticketweb.com
Apr. 1 Andrea Brachfeld & Phoenix RisingApr. 8 The “NAZZ” - A Jazz Be-Bop Musical
based on a monolog written by LordBuckley, 1959
Apr. 12 Bill Frisell Trio featuring JasonMoran & Kenny Wollesen
Apr. 15 Mariah Parker’s Indo Latin Jazz Quintetwith special guest Paul McCandless
Apr. 19 Monterey Jazz Festival on Tourfeaturing Kenny Barron Trio,Regina Carter, Kurt Elling,Russell Malone
Apr. 22 Crossing Borders featuring JenniferScott and Kristen Strom
Apr. 26 Pat Metheny: The Orchestrion Tour
John Scofield’s collaboration résumé reads like a pamphlet for the Jazz Hall of Fame. Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Medeski Martin & Wood and George Duke are just a few of the folks who have shared a stage or a recording studio with the Ohioan guitar whiz most fans know simply as “Sco.’” To Kuumbwa, Scofield brings Mulgrew Miller, Ben Street and Kendrick Scott to form the New Jazz Quartet, promising one of the most polished lineups he’s ever attached to his bill. Jumping from cool, experimental jazz to funky blues, back to rock and on to gospel and bebop, Sco’s rep is that of an artist with each finger in a different and delicious musical pie. Kuumbwa; 7 and 9pm; 7pm: $25 adv/$28 door, 9pm: $20 adv/$23 door. (CC)
Urbandictionary.com defines the term “acid crunk” as mixing “SyFy channel and BET channel sound effects ... by a drunk white dude while playing Xbox Live.” Though San Francisco DJ/producer Adam Ohana, a.k.a. An-Ten-Nae, is a Caucasian male known to put away the cocktails, he has his own definition of acid crunk and uses a lot more equipment than an Xbox to deliver its bass-heavy dubstep and breakbeat bliss. But whether you get your literary designations from an online pop culture dictionary or not, when it comes to booty-shaking electro goodness, Ohana comes correct. Catalyst; $12 adv/$16 door; 8pm. (CC)
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Having been away from Santa Cruz for the last several months, the homespun four-piece Sourgrass is set to get Moe’s Alley rocking with its mashup of rock, dirty funk and “slow-as-molasses blues.” The band’s new set, which includes a handful of brand new songs, is guaranteed to leave you “drenched in sweat and tears and begging for more,” or so we’re told, and we have no reason to doubt it. Sharing the bill are the Brothers Comatose, the old-timey, shout-along, drink-along foot-stompers from San Francisco. Moe’s Alley; $10 adv/$13 door; 9pm. (Cat Johnson)
to the Bay Area’s music scene, and with a reputation as today’s hardest working DJ and producer, he was among the first to fuse live vocals and instrumentals with electronic dubs, creating a style that defies categorizing and showcases multilingual talents. His band “Dubtronic Science” features a horn section, MC’s and Latin percussionists that mix funky dub vibes with hip-hop, reggae, bhangra and disco to create a soul music of the future. Moe’s Alley; $10. 9pm. (Maria Grusauskas)
Troy Andrews, a.k.a. Trombone Shorty, enjoys an unusually high profile for a contemporary jazz player. That may be partially because of his story: Andrews dropped out of the same music school that brought us Branford Marsalis and released his debut album roughly around the same time he became legal to drive. Andrews’ original genre description, “Supafunkrock,” gives you a sense of what he’s getting at: a high-energy amalgam of funk, jazz and rock. It’s a sensibility that has earned him respect in jazz circles even as he hits the stage with the likes of U2, Green Day and Lenny Kravitz. Purists might recoil in horror, but there’s no denying that Andrews is passionate about blazing a path for jazz in the new millennium. Catalyst; $15 adv/ $19 door; 9pm. (PMD)
MARCH 17 AT CATALYST
MARCH 18 AT RIO THEATRE
MARCH 19 AT CREPE PLACE
MARCH 21 AT MOE’S ALLEY
MARCH 22 AT KUUMBWA
MARCH 26 AT BROOKDALE LODGE
APRIL 2 AT DON QUIXOTE’S
Santa Cruz’s own Sourgrass plays Moe’s Alley this Saturday.
Over radio waves and through dance halls across the globe, soulful mix master J-Boogie has been innovating music as we know it for the past 15 years. No stranger
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THURS. MARCH 18, 8 PMRIO THEATRE
Tickets at Logos Books & Records, downtown Santa Cruz andonline at kuumbwajazz.org • Info: 831.427.2227
Sponsored by Redtree PropertiesPresented by Kuumbwa Jazz • Celebrating 35 Years in 2010
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1011 PACIFIC AVE.SANTA CRUZ
831-423-1336
Tickets subject to city tax & service charge by phone 866-384-3060 & online
www.catalystclub.com
Young Dubliners Atrium (Ages 21+)The Holdup/880 South Atrium (Ages 16+)Wisdom Atrium (Ages 21+)New Found Glory/Saves The Day (Ages 16+)St. Patty’s Day Wild Rovers Atrium (Ages 21+)Iration (Ages 16+)Hank III/Assjack (Ages 21+)Reel Big Fish (Ages 16+)
Yonder Mountain String Band (Ages 21+)Collie Buddz (Ages 16+)Phoenix (Ages 16+)
The Devil Makes ThreeThrice/Manchester Orch. (Ages 16+) Groundation/ Orgone (Ages 16+)
Sage Francis (Ages 16+)Rev. Horton Heat (Ages 21+)Willie Nelson & Family (Ages 21+)
THE NEW MASTERSOUNDS Salvadore Santana
Andre’s Birthday Bash
Smoov-e TeboChris Rene
Vital SC presents“ROBOTIC HYPNOTIC”
AN-TEN-NAENTRLD Andy P.
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Season SponsorsROWLAND & PAT REBELE
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BARBER ADAGIO FOR STRINGS
TCHAIKOVSKY VIOLIN CONCERTO
TESSA LARK, VIOLINIST
MENDELSSOHN SYMPHONY NO. 3
SUNDAY, MARCH 28 2PM
Concert sponsored by Rowland & Pat Rebele
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SYMPHONYJohn Larry Granger, Music Director
SATURDAY, MARCH 27 8PM
Concert sponsored by Todd & Corinne Wipke
www.santacruzsymphony.org
Tickets $20-66. Call 420-5260or www.SantaCruzTickets.com
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corridors of cold, dark marble—the serpentine cinematography moves the story forward. Also, the film cleverly crafts one of the most ingenious uses of GPS in the mystery genre.
Since this is neonoir, we know there will be a twist at the end. And there is. But some of the film’s appeal is the view of the gorgeously aging Brosnan chewing his role into oblivion. He has honed to high sheen the ability to enfold lies in nuanced looks of innocence that also hint at genuine surprise. The former James Bond is having fun with this chance to play a weary, troubled head of state. The softening of Brosnan’s handsome features only adds depth and decadence to his every expression. Even B-grade Polanski is well worth a tumble.
Roman Polanski’s past genius haunts
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FROM ITS first moments, Roman Polanski’s The Ghost
Writer sets its film noir trap and then lets us savor the bait
before we happily succumb. Owing as much to Hitchcock as it does to Polanski’s dark masterworks, The Ghost Writer is by turns stylish, brooding and tense. It’s also often predictable. While by no means a masterpiece, it is such a good-looking thriller, so expertly laced with eerily relevant political innuendo, that it makes for a juicy two hours of viewing.
Loosely based on recent events in global politics, the story follows a British journalist (Ewan McGregor) hired to clean up the memoirs of a British prime minister Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan) whose previous ghost writer has just turned up dead. McGregor is scooped up and flown to a fortified Cape Cod island compound where the PM and his entourage are luxuriously encamped. Things immediately thicken up, thanks to the tangible tension in the household between the PM, his curvaceous chief of staff (Kim Cattrall) and his intellectual wife Ruth (played with scene-stealing precision by Olivia Williams). The new ghost writer is no sooner ensconced in the isolated compound and ready to start interviews when the minister’s past flares up, thanks to accusations of human rights offenses. The world media fans the controversy to wildfire proportions just as sinister behavior erupts at the beach compound. Polanski tightly laces these two plot strands during the film’s first hour.
As Lang and his handlers try to placate media hysteria, the new ghost writer tracks down clues as to the death of the PM’s former writer. Like Jack Nicholson’s detective Jake Gittes in the Polanski
masterpiece Chinatown, McGregor is a man in jeopardy, unsure of just who to trust in the high-security household of bodyguards, publicists and attorneys. Danger might come in the form of an enraged and jealous wife or from the prime minister’s former defense secretary, whose phone number turns up in the dead ghost writer’s personal effects. With help from the urgent, moody score by Alexandre Desplat, the caper moves swiftly from McGregor’s shrinking options to the implications of mysterious black limos and carefully planted clues.
For all its good looks and atmospheric shots of desolate Atlantic coast dunes, however, The Ghost Writer’s plot twists are visible a mile away, and most of the final hour vamps through a litany of sudden rain storms, cocktail confessions and midnight visitations. McGregor can almost hold it together, and while he’s no Nicholson, he manages the right pitch between paranoia and frustration to keep us in the game.
Polanski is such a seasoned pro that it is easy not to notice his attention to detail. Long, slow shots of neon reflected on wet tarmac, sudden flashes of crimson,
New England Noir
Kim Cattrall (left), Olivia Williams and Pierce Brosnan are at the fraught center of the storm in ‘The Ghost Writer.’
THE GHOST WRITER (PG-13; 136 min.), directed by Roman Polanski, written by Polanski and Robert Harris, photographed by Pawel Edelman and starring Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor, plays at the Del Mar.
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122 Rancho Del Mar Center, Aptos 831.688.6541 www.culvertheatres.com
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– Wed-Thu 3:40; 6:10. – Wed-Thu 1:40; 8:40.
1475 41st Ave., Capitola 831.479.3504 www.culvertheatres.com
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1124 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com
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– Wed-Thu 1. - Fri-Sat midnight.
Lincoln and Cedar streets, Santa Cruz 831.426.7500 www.thenick.com
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– Wed-Thu 4:20; 8:50. Sat-Sun 12. – Wed-Thu 4:30; 6:40. Fri-Wed 9:25.
– (Starts Fri) 4:20; 7; 9:30. – (Starts Fri) 2:30; 4:50; 7:10; plus Sat-Sun 12:10pm.
155 S. River St, Santa Cruz 800.326.3264 x1701 www.regmovies.com
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1405 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz 800.326.3264 x1700 www.regmovies.com
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– (Opens Fri) 2:35; 4:50; 7:15; 9:40; plus Fri-Sun 12:10. – (Opens Fri) 2:45; 5:10; 7:50; 10:20; plus Fri-Sun 12:15.
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226 Mt. Hermon Rd., Scotts Valley 831.438.3261 www.culvertheatres.com
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1125 S. Green Valley Rd, Watsonville 831.761.8200 www.greenvalleycinema.com
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SHOWT IME S Showtimes are for Wednesday, March 10, through Wednesday, March 17, unless otherwise
indicated. Programs and showtimes are subject to change without notice.
(R; 94 min.) You sank my battleship! Either that or you’ve discovered this über-cool 2004 cult film about an undercover cop out to save Paris from a neutron bomb in the near future . . . of 2010. Whoops! Anyway, I have no idea why The Matrix got so much attention, while this movie that was just as much a leap in filmmaking vision and concept, didn’t get the credit it deserves. Just because it’s French? Quel dommage! ( Plays Fri-Sat midnight at the Del Mar.) (SP)
(R; 115 min.) The commercials try to make this look
like a Jason Bourne sequel, but really it’s Matt Damon in an Iraq War thriller about a conspiracy to lie about the existence of weapons of mass destruction, as a justification for U.S. invasion. Whew! Good thing that didn’t really happen! (Opens Fri at 41st Ave, Riverfront, Scotts Valley and Green Valley Cinema.) (SP)
(Unrated; 134 min.) German film tells the true story of a 1936 race to climb the most dangerous “north face” in the Alps, at the behest of Hitler. Too bad Tarantino didn’t direct this one, he’d have der Führer right up there on the ropes screaming
while the Basterds blew the entire mountain off the map. (Opens Fri at the Del Mar Theatre.) (SP)
(PG-13) Forest Whitaker, America Ferrera and Carlos Mencia star in a tale about paternal egos and wedding preparations gone awry. (Opens Fri at Santa Cruz 9.)
(PG-13; 120 min.) Romantic drama has Twilight’s Robert Pattinson beginning a relationship with Emilie de Ravin, who lost her mother at a . . . ahhhhhhhh, it’s got Robert Pattinson! Lock up Hot Topic for two hours, we’re going to the movies! (Opens Fri at the
Aptos Cinema, Riverfront and Scotts Valley.) (SP)
(1968) Mia Farrow stars in Roman Polanski’s classic about a woman who gets increasingly paranoid after she gets pregnant and is harassed by evil freaks. Hmm, who could the baby’s father be? Who could it be? Could it be . . . John Cassavetes? Or worse? (Plays Thu at Santa Cruz 9.) (SP)
(R; 105 min.) Internet scandal over this comedy centers on whether Alice Eve is really out of Jay Baruchel’s league, as the plot requires. I guarantee you that is the least of this movie’s problems.
(Opens Fri at Santa Cruz 9, Scotts Valley and Green Valley Cinema.) (SP)
(PG-13; 110 min.) This week’s second Twilight-related romantic drama has Kristin Stewart catching a ride with a couple of strangers in the deep South, one of whom is William Hurt as a . . . holy shit, Kristin Stewart? Put down those Misfits candle tins and that Rob Zombie lunchbox, we’re closing up Hot Topic again! (Opens Fri at the Nickelodeon.) (SP)
(PG; 109 min.) Tim Burton’s
CGI-heavy take-off on the Lewis Carroll books about Alice has the smell of his other remakes—gaudy, over-the-top and ultimately pointless. Can Johnny Depp dressed up like Carrot Top on acid save it? Probably not. But let’s appreciate it for giving Crispin Glover work. (SP)
(PG-13; 162 min.) In the future, Earthling mercenaries are shipped to the planet Pandora, where 9-foot-tall, blue-skinned noble savages called Na’vi live in a phosphorescent forest full of saurian beasts. Jake (Sam Worthington) is the paraplegic brother of a dead soldier hooked up to a Na’vi shell; the
Movie reviews by Steve Palopoli,
Richard von Busack and Mel Valentin
march 10 -17, 2010
Film CapsulesSHOWTIMES FOR FRIDAY MARCH 12 – THURSDAY MARCH 18
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COMING SOON!‘That Evening Sun’ ‘A Prophet’
‘Repo Men’
Midnights @ The Del MarFun! Prizes! Parkour!
District B13 (R)
Fri 3/12 & Sat 3/13 @ MidnightNext Week: Terminator 2
Children under 5 admitted only onMondays & Weekend Matinees
Daily: (1:30), (4:10), 6:50, 9:20 plus Sat, Sun (10:50am)
STARTS FRIDAY 3/12!
Daily: (1:50), (4:10), 6:30, 8:50 plus Sat, Sun (11:30am)
ACADEMY AWARD WINNER!
(R)Daily (4:20), 7:00, 9:30
Daily: (2:10), (4:30), 6:50, 9:00 plus Sat, Sun (11:50am)
“A beautifully acted, captivating film!” – N.Y. Post
Animated Program: Once Daily (2:00)Live Action: Sat/Sun Only (12 noon)
Best Actor - Jeff Bridges!
(R)
Daily: (2:40), (5:00), 7:20, 9:40 plus Sat, Sun (12:20)(R)
“A deliciously directed, edge-of-your-seat thriller!” – L.A.Times
Daily on 2 Screens:Grand Auditorium: (1:40), (4:20), 7:00, 9:30 + Sat, Sun (11:00am)Stadium Seating: (3:20), 6:00, 8:40 plus Sat, Sun (12:40)
Ewan McGregor Pierce Brosnan Kim Cattrall Olivia WilliamsTom Wilkinson Timothy Hutton
FROM THE DIRECTOR OF ‘CHINATOWN’ AND ‘ROSEMARY’S BABY’A ROMAN POLANSKI FILM
(PG-13)
STARTS FRIDAY 3/12!“A smart, heartfelt romantic drama!” –Hollywood Reporter
Robert Pattinson Emile de Ravin Pierce Brosnan Chris Cooper
(PG-13)
Daily: (1:40), (4:00), 6:20, 8:40 plus Sat, Sun (11:20am)
FINAL WEEK!
(PG-13)Once Nightly: 9:25
FINAL WEEK!
WINNER2 ACADEMY AWARDS!Best Actor - Jeff Bridges!
WINNER6 ACADEMY AWARDS! incl. Best Picture!
Daily: (2:30), (4:50), 7:10 plus Sat, Sun (12:10)
(R)
William Hurt Maria Bello Kristen Stewart
(PG-13)
STARTS FRIDAY 3/12!
“A white-knuckle adventure …
spectacular!”–Philadelphia Inquirer
(NR)
program is under the direction of a chain-smoking biologist (Sigourney Weaver). The politics play it both ways; letting us swoon over the military hardware and still lament for the plundered forests. If you’re going to see it, see it in 3-D. (RvB)
(PG-13; 126 min.) The film focuses on Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron), who overcame homelessness as a teenager to received a football scholarship to the University of Mississippi and later played in the NFL. Oher succeeded with the help of a wealthy Christian couple, Ole Miss grads Leigh Anne (Sandra Bullock) and Sean Tuohy (Tim McGraw), who took Oher in and made him a part of their family. (MV)
(R; 133 min.) The stories of three seemingly unconnected police officers turn out to be—intertwined! No way! I did not see that coming. By the way, is there any person in the world whose story does not somehow intersect with every other person in the world? Cause that’s my takeaway from this endless slew of popcorn flicks aspiring to Altmanness. Point of interest: one of the cops is Richard Gere. Oh, you know he’s handling the prostitute beat! (SP)
(R; 110 min.) Kevin Smith doing a movie about cops somehow seems every bit as wrong as Ice T playing a cop on TV, and that’s pretty wrong. This is the first movie Smith didn’t write himself, although I don’t know whether that’s better or worse. In any case, it has Bruce Willis as a New York cop trying to retrieve a baseball card with partner Tracy Morgan. (SP)
(R; 101 min.) Made for $275,00 in 1973, George Romero’s The Crazies had no right to be anywhere near as good as it was. But it hit the perfect paranoia pitch for the era, featuring government troops in shocking white hazmat suits invading a small town to “clean up”
the mess that it made when it let an army virus infect a small town. The basic idea of “undead by infection” was the second big idea Romero would contribute to the zombie movie; it took longer to catch on but now is one of the most popular genre staples. Think the people behind this remake can do better with $12 million? Not bloody likely. (SP)
(R; 119 min.) Crazy Heart gives Jeff Bridges a belly-baring role, with his slit-eyed country singer Bad Blake as a kind of Bad Lebowski, a morose sweet-talking satyr drinking his way to the grave. On tour in his ancient 1978 Chevy Suburban, he meets a former Oklahoma newspaper reporter, Jean (Maggie Gyllenhaal). What truly concerns Jean is the influence this charismatic wreck of a man will be on her young son. Robert Duvall, who co-produced, plays a clean and sober bar owner in Houston who is also Bad’s mentor. Ultimately, it may be that Bridges is more fun to watch as a drunkard—his Bad has a hostile, coolly funny mean streak that goes away when he gets dry and sensitive. (RvB)
(PG-13; 108 min.) Dear John is based on Nicholas Sparks’ epistle romance between a big, shy lug of a Green Beret named John Tyree (Channing Tatum) and Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried), a well-off college girl who lives by the beach in South Carolina. She is a good girl who doesn’t drink, doesn’t smoke and doesn’t sleep around. Tyree begs Savannah to wait for her while his tour of duty ends. Then Sept. 11 strikes: a choice between his country and Amanda Seyfried. The Forever War is cornstarch to hold this batter together—the movie shuns female curves and goes full porno on the fuselages of cargo planes instead. Director Lasse Hallström does a few things neat—a matching shot between a fountain of brass shell casings and tumbling of coins at the mint. (RvB)
(PG-13; 95 min.) Lone Scherfig’s British coming-of-age film ends with a marathon session of tea brewing, but it has its good points. The look is cool—1960ish England may be more interesting than the full-blown and overexposed later ’60s. Twickenham-raised Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is studying for Oxford when she gets picked up by David (Peter Sarsgaard), a slightly older rotter; his slightly cruel eyes and flat smile forecast trouble to come. Until then, Jenny gets to see London high life and nightclubs, and voyages to Paris. Smelling class, and wanting to make their hard-working daughter happy, Jenny’s parents (Cara Seymour, Alfred Molina) relax the leash. And that’s when the young girl learns how David makes his money without working days. Mulligan is charming, the meet-cute is deft and Olivia Williams bears all the movie’s spine as a deliberately drabbed-down English teacher. Nick Hornby screenplay from the Lynn Barber memoir. (RvB)
(PG-13; 136 min.) See review on page 29.
(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. (RvB)
(R; 117 min.) For Terry Gilliam, Don Quixote is still the ur-text. Despite the various stops and starts he has had adapting the Cervantes classic, Gilliam repeatedly makes films about fantasy as an escape from a cruel world. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus has Christopher Plummer in the Man of la Mancha role this time, with Verne Troyer as Percy, a dwarf Sancho Panza. Plummer plays Doctor Parnassus, an immortal sage reduced to busking in a horse-drawn Gypsy wagon. He and his crew set up their stand in the streets of modern-day London, trying to lure patrons in to a world beyond the doctor’s mirror. On board is his daughter, who doesn’t know that she has been promised to the devil on her 16th birthday; Mr. Nick (Tom Waits) is sniffing around already. During their travels, the group rescues a hanged man named Tony (an irresolute Heath Ledger). (RvB)
(R; 112 min.) Well cast, visually pleasant yet strangely toneless film about Tolstoy’s last days. Around 1910 in Moscow, Valentin (James McAvoy) is recruited by Chertkov (Paul Giamatti), who is dedicated to carrying out the author’s reformist ideas regarding celibacy and manual labor. Valentin will live on Tolstoy’s commune and record the great man’s thoughts. Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer) is enjoying a sort of Indian summer, watching his minifarm bloom and receiving the adulation of the world. But the count’s countess—Sofya, his wife of nearly 50 years, played by Helen Mirren—has tired of her husband’s utopian politics. Mirren does the great lady thing with ease. (RvB)
(Unrated; 102 min.) Directors Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith tell how this former Marine and
game theorist became dangerous when he copied the Pentagon Papers, a secret history of the Vietnam War. Ellsberg tried to leak them to the Senate; the solons showed little desire to hold the hot potato. The spud in question passed to The New York Times. When the papers were published, Ellsberg became a fugitive, persecuted by a vengeful President Nixon. Not overly nostalgic for the smell of vintage tear gas, for a change, and Ellsberg shows he’s still on the frontlines of protest. Concisely and intelligently told, this is a story to refresh the memories of the old and inspire the young. (RvB)
(R; 110 min.) Much lauded, but it’s a bulldozer. It’s 1987, during some of Harlem’s most suffering years. A girl of immense girth, 16-year-old Claireece (Gabourey “Gabby” Sidibe) makes her way through life. She has intelligence, but she can’t focus, and we learn why in flashback; she was serially raped by her mother’s boyfriend. Her scathing, angry mother, Mary (Mo’Nique), blames Precious for
this and her resulting pregnancy), urging her to stop this foolishness about school and go on welfare. Mo’Nique is great, but Precious has a judgmental streak that won’t quit. (RvB)
(R; 138 min.) In 1954, two federal marshals, Teddy and Chuck (Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo), are sent to a Skull Island–like promontory in Boston harbor. They match wits with the lord of the place: Dr. Cawley, the bald head psychiatrist (Ben Kingsley), and his assistant, a Mahler-loving Mitteleuropean (Max von Sydow). The two supervise a weird staff; we can’t tell them from the inmates without their uniforms. Bad storm, check; power outage, check; escaped lunatic, check. The traditions are honored: nightmare sequences, statues flickering in lightning and visits to Teddy by the ever-more persistent ghost of his dead wife, Dolores (Michelle Williams). The all-you-can-eat buffet of fruitcakes includes a disfigured Elias Koteas, Patricia Clarkson as a tragic cavewoman, Emily Mortimer as a suburban Medea and Jackie Earle Haley. It’s all
laid out with panache, if with stagy chunks of backstory. It’s an entertaining throwback, not a step forward—a stumbling block for a baffled audience trained to believe “it must be important, because it’s Scorsese.” (RvB)
(R; 109 min.) Based on Christopher Isherwood’s early-1960s novel, canonical in gay literature but slightly dusty today. A British professor (Colin Firth) teaching in L.A. loses his longtime companion in a car accident and has decided he can no longer stand the pain. He finds some consolation with a hard-drinking old friend (and ex-lover) called Charley (Julianne Moore); on his route, he encounters young men who are both interesting and interested. Noteworthy as a great comeback performance by Firth, who has had much substandard work to deal with lately. Firth plays George with sensitivity and grace, and a sense of the era that most of the performers here lack. Director Tom Ford shows his roots as a fashion designer, focusing on surfaces. The clothes don’t make the men. (RvB)
(R; 102 min.) It’s not a perfect film, but The Wolfman is a loving remake, made by people who understood the romance, pathos and torment of the original 1941 film. This new animal has speed on his side, and there’s more viscera flying around. In 1891, after the horrific death of his brother, the noted Shakespearean actor Lawrence Talbot (Benicio del Toro) returns home to his family’s mansion. This means a re-encounter with his estranged father Sir John (Anthony Hopkins). The town gossip has it that Lawrence’s brother was killed by a tame dancing bear owned by a band of Gypsies; when investigating on a moonlit night, Lawrence himself is nearly killed by the real culprit. The fiancé of the late brother (Emily Blunt) stays to nurse Lawrence back to health And when the next moon rises, well, you know. The Talbot scenes suggest Del Toro was cast for his resemblance to Lon Chaney Jr., with his clouded, thick features and his air of suffering. We see the human under the fur. (RvB)
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Creek bourbon glaze that called out to us. Deciding to share a single portion, we surrendered completely to a large rectangle of quivering, warm, feather-light bread pudding glazed with the warm masculine tones of caramelized whisky. Think heartland American tiramisu. Not only was the pudding itself creamy and light, it was joined by freshly whipped cream that made my palate an offer it couldn’t (or wouldn’t) refuse. A remarkably pampering, completely satisfying finish to this excellent meal.
Hollins House—who knew it was the next hot and affordable dining room in Santa Cruz?
Good thing, too. Both dishes were terrific. My Kobe beef stroganoff, rich with tender meaty intensity on a bed of egg noodles ($20), and Katya’s inventive giant sushi creation of tuna wrapped inside seared salmon ($24) were both utterly delicious. Especially the seafood creation, served with a large portion of sticky steamed rice laced with zest of zucchini and red peppers. Braised baby bok choy added a jolt of chartreuse next to four large-scale sushi rolls on a pool of two sauces, one a sweet and sour plum sauce, the other a zippy wasabi.
We both coveted this dish, especially the warm, luscious salmon. Even though there was every possible opportunity for the kitchen to apply salt to each dish, restraint had been exercised. The salt choice was ours. I wish more dining rooms were that confident of their handiwork.
But now I get to the actual heart of this meal: dessert.
The Hollins House menu offers ample pastry temptation, but it was a croissant bread pudding ($8) sauced with Knob
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L AST WEEK we enjoyed dinner in the cozy Tap Room at Hollins House, where a sensational meal took us by
storm. I’ve always been partial to this hilltop location, where even at night the view of the town and ocean far below shimmers delightfully. Housed in the graceful residence of former championship golfer Marian Hollins, the restaurant currently boasts an appealing menu of well-made, beautifully presented dishes at friendly prices. Flat-screen televisions have been placed discreetly at both ends of the vintage bar, and hardwood wainscoting nicely sets off the corner fireplace and deep green walls.
Our skillful server provided expertise as well as helpful tastes of wines to assist us in choosing from the two dozen wines by the glass on the eclectic Hollins House list. We decided on an Alfaro Family Vineyards Pinot Noir 2007 ($11) and a Kenwood Sauvignon Blanc ($9), both fine with our meals to come.
A basket of warm bread arrived along with our split order of mâche salad ($7) and an appetizer of sweet potato gnocchi with basil, brown butter and a dusting of parmesan ($6.95). The gnocchi, tender and freshly made, were so good we ate every last one. The lovely composed salads proved irresistible. In a large “cup” of purple radicchio lay a mound of the delicate, peppery lettuce. Two vinaigrettes were provided, as well as ample quantity of feta cheese, walnuts, endive, sliced pears and a few crimson cherry tomatoes. It was hard to save room for our entrees, but we managed.
Hollins House chef Michael Alonzo’s office has one of the best views in town.
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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 prime rib and Capitola 203 Esplanade, 831.475.4900 lobster. Daily 7am-2am.
$$ Mexican/Seafood/American. Traditional Mexican favorites. Best Santa Cruz 1116 Pacific Ave, 831. 426.7588 fajitas, chicken mole, coconut prawns, blackened prime rib! Fresh seafood. Over 50 premium tequilas, daily happy hour w/ half-price appetizers. Sun-Thu 11am-10pm, Fri-Sat 11am-11pm.
$ California organic meets Southeast Asian street food. Organic Santa Cruz 1141 Soquel Ave, 831. 426.5664 noodle & rice bowls, vegan menu, fish & meat options, Vietnamese-style sandwiches, eat-in or to-go. Consistent winner “Best Cheap Eats.” Open daily 11am-11pm.
$$ American, California-style. With a great bar scene, casually Santa Cruz 110 Church St, 831.429.2000 glamorous setting and attentive waitstaff. Full bar. Mon-Sat 11:30am-10pm, Sun 1-10pm.
$$ Crepes and more. Featuring the spinach crepe and Tunisian Santa Cruz 1134 Soquel Ave, 831.429.6994 donut. Full bar. Mon-Thu 11am-midnight, Fri 11am-1am, Sat 10am-1am, Sun 10am-midnight.
Seafood. Fresh seafood, shellfish, Midwestern aged beef, pasta Santa Cruz 2218 East Cliff Dr, 831.476.4560 specialties, abundant salad bar. Kids menu and nightly entertainment. Harbor and Bay views. Lunch and dinner daily.
$ Mexican. Serving breakfast all day. Popular for our street tacos Santa Cruz 460 Seventh Ave, 831.477.2908 and handmade Salvadoran pupusas. Vegetarian options made w/ local fresh vegetables & organic tofu. Daily 9: 30am-9:30pm.
$$ Americana. Ribs, steaks and burgers are definitely the stars. Santa Cruz 303 Soquel Ave, 831.426.7770 Full bar. Lunch Mon-Sat 11:30am-2:30pm; dinner Sun-Thu 5:30-9:30pm, Fri-Sat 5:30-10pm.
$$ 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.
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(March 21–April 19): Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923) was called “the most famous actress the world has ever known.” She did a few films in the early days of the cinema, but most of her work was in the theater. At age 70, she played the role of the 13-year-old Juliet in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. I commend her on her refusal to act her age, and recommend that you make a comparable effort in the coming weeks. For example, if you’re in your twenties, try something you thought you wouldn’t do until you were at a very ripe age. If you’re over 50, be 25 for a while. It’s an excellent time to do this kind of time-traveling.
(April 20–May 20): You might have to use primitive means to accomplish modern wonders. It may be necessary to hearken back to what worked in the past in order to serve the brightest vision of the future. Take your cue from Luis Soriano, a saintly teacher who carries a library of 120 books on the back of a donkey as he meanders around the back country of Columbia, helping poor kids learn how to read.
(May 21–June 20): Humans have been baking and eating bread for at least 5,000 years. But it wasn’t until the 20th century that anyone figured out a fast and easy way to cut it into thin, precise pieces. Then Otto Rohwedder, who had been working on the project for 16 years, produced a machine that cut a loaf into individual slices. I bring him to your attention, Gemini, because I think you are in a phase of your life when you could very possibly create an innovation that would be as intimately revolutionary as Rohwedder’s was for the masses. In fact, why aren’t you working on it right now?
(June 21–July 22): In order to heal deep-seated problems, people may need to engage in long-term psychotherapy, patiently chipping away at their mental blocks for many years. But some lucky sufferers get their neuroses zapped virtually overnight, either with the help of a monumental event that shocks them out of their malaise or through the work of a brilliant healer who uses a few strokes of kamikaze compassion to creatively destroy their deluded fixations. I think you’re now a candidate for this type of correction, Cancerian.
(July 23–Aug. 22): To discover the most useful truths, you will have to peek behind the curtains and root around to see what’s cloaked in the dark and maybe even explore messes you’d rather not touch. What complicates your task is that the fake truths may be extra loud and shiny, distracting you from the down and dirty stuff with their relentless come-ons. But I have confidence in your ability to outmaneuver the propaganda, Leo. You shall know the hype, and knowing the hype will set you free.
(Aug. 23–Sept. 22): The evil geniuses of the advertising industry are hard at work in their labs dreaming up seductive new mojo to artificially stimulate your consumer lusts. Meanwhile, the media’s relentless campaign to get you to believe in debilitating fantasies and divert you from doing what’s really good for you has reached a fever pitch. And here’s the triple whammy: Even more than usual, some of your relatives and cohorts are angling to convince you that what pleases them is what pleases you. So is there any hope that you will be able to hone in on what truly excites you? (It’s especially important that you do so right now.) The answer, in my opinion, is a qualified yes—if you’re willing to conduct intensive research into the idiosyncratic secrets of what makes you happy; and IF you’re not scared to discover who you are when you’re turned on all the way.
(Sept. 23–Oct. 22): If you were living in Greece in the fifth century B.C., I’d urge you to bathe in the healing spring at the shrine of Asklepios in Athens. If you were in 19th-century France, I’d recommend that you trek to the sacred shrine at Lourdes—being sure to crawl the last half-mile on your hands and knees—and sip from the curative waters there. But since you’re a busy 21st-century sophisticate and may have a limited belief in miracles, I’ll simply suggest that you visit the most interesting tree you know and spill a bottle of pristine water over your head as you confess your sins and ask the sky for forgiveness and sing songs that purify you to the bone.
(Oct. 23–Nov. 21): It’s quite possible that the nature of consciousness is in the midst of a
fundamental transformation. The human race seems to be getting more empathetic, more compassionate, and even more psychic. Many of us are having experiences that were previously thought to be the province of mystics, such as epiphanies that give us visceral perceptions of the interconnectedness of all life. Even as some traditional religions lose members and devolve into cartoony fundamentalism, there are ever-increasing numbers of intelligent seekers who cultivate a more discerning spiritual awareness outside the decrepit frameworks. If you haven’t been on this bandwagon, Scorpio, now’s a good time to jump on. If you’re already on board, get ready for an accelerated ride.
(Nov. 22–Dec. 21): This week you’ll be working overtime while you sleep. Your dreaming mind will be playing around with solutions to your waking mind’s dilemmas. Your ally, the wild conjurer in the ramshackle diamond-encrusted sanctuary at the edge of the deep dark forest, will be spinning out medicine stories and rounding up help for you. So of course you should keep a pen and notebook by your bed to record the dreams that come. I suggest that you also try to keep the first part of your mornings free of busy work so you can integrate the full impact of the nights’ gifts. And don’t despair if you can’t actually remember any of your nocturnal adventures. Their tasty after-images will remain with you subliminally, giving your logical mind an intuitive edge.
(Dec. 22–Jan. 19): There’ll be an abundance of unambiguous choices for you to make in the coming days. I’m not implying they’ll be easy, just that the different alternatives will be clearly delineated. To get you warmed up for your hopefully crisp decisions, I’ve compiled a few exercises. Pick one of each of these pairs: 1. exacting homework or free-form research; 2. pitiless logic or generous fantasies; 3. precise and disciplined communication or heedless self-expression; 4. grazing like a contented sheep or rambling like a restless mountain goat.
(Jan. 20–Feb. 18): Among Eastern religions, some traditions preach the value of getting rid of your desires. To be righteously attuned to current cosmic rhythms, however, I think you should rebel against that ideal, and instead cultivate a whole host of excellent desires. Use your imagination, please! Here are a few I highly recommend: a desire for a revelation or experience that will steer you away from becoming more like a machine; a desire for a fresh blast of purity from a primal source; a desire for an imaginary pet snake that teaches you how to be more playful with your libidinous energy; and a desire for a jolt of unexpected beauty that reminds you how important it is to always keep a part of your mind untamed.
(Feb. 19–March 20): I used to have an acupuncturist who, as she poked me with needles, liked to talk about her understanding of Chinese medicine. Once she told me that every human being needs a “heart protector,” which is a body function that’s “like a holy warrior who serves as the queen’s devoted ally.” But the heart protector is not something you’re born with. You’ve got to grow it by building your fortitude and taking care of your body. I think the heart protector will be an apt metaphor for you to play with in the coming weeks, Pisces. It’s going to be an excellent time for you to cultivate any part of your life that gives your heart joy, strength, peace, and integrity.
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CONNECT WITH THEPOWER OF NATUREHuichol Indian Shamanism withBrant Secunda at the PacificOcean. March 19-21, 2010.Friday: 7-9pm, Saturday &Sunday: 9:30am-4:30pm. At thePacific Ocean (exact locationannounced later) [email protected] Registeronline: www.Shamanism.com
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FUTON COUCHQueen size, dark blue cover,folds out into bed. Light maplewood In excellent condition.Only $250.00 for setCall 588-8527
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Cabinets andFurnitureElegance and beauty for thediscriminating homeown-er/contractor. Paul Sable,Master Craftsman, 44 yearsexperience, Creating amazedand contented clients. Freedesign consultation and esti-mate. References. 831/345-3540 www.sablestudios.com
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Music
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Guitar andSongwriting LessonsGive the gift of music. Guitarand songwriting lessons witha pro. Patient, focused guid-ance. Demystify the fretboard. Sliding scale. Steven831-278-1500
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FREE!!!- Online homesearches! Visit us anytime at townand-countrysantacruz.com for alist homes that are currentlyfor sale throughout SantaCruz and Santa Clara coun-ties.
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Notice All real estate advertised inMetro Newspapers is subjectto the State and Federal FairHousing Act, which makes itillegal to advertise any pref-erence, limitation, or dis-crimination based on race,color, religion, sex, handicap,family status (the presence ofchildren), or national origin,or the intention to make anysuch preference, limitation,or discrimination. State andlocate laws forbid discrimina-tion in the sale, rental, or ad-vertising of real estate. Wewill not knowingly acceptany advertising for real es-tate which is in violation ofthe law. All persons are here-by informed that alldwellings advertised areavailable on an equal oppor-tunity basis to the best ofour knowledge.
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