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Project Homeless Connect offers services that fill a need beyond hunger
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Soquel Vineyards
Thanksgiving is just around the corner, so it’s time to be thinking about the wine you’re going to serve with that special dinner, be it turkey, ham, a roast, or something vegetarian or vegan.
The Kitchen
Chef Santos Majano talks beer-friendly food at Discretion Brewery
Left Coasting
Planet Cruz returns with impressive comic line-up
Safeway First
The city of Scotts Valley inches closer to a new market in their Town Center project
State of Surveillance
Author Chris Hedges on the NDAA, domestic spying and civil resistance
Over Hills and Plains, Riding a White Horse, Bow and Arrows in Hand
Saturday, early morning, the sun enters and radiates the light of Sagittarius. Three hours later, the Sagittarius new moon (0.07 degrees) occurs. “Let food be sought,” is the personality-building keynote. “Food” means experiences; all kinds, levels and types. It also means real food. Sag’s secret is their love of food. Many, if not musicians, are chefs. Some are both.
The energies shift from Scorpio’s deep and transformative waters to the “hills and plains of Sagittarius.” Sag is the rider on a white horse, eyes focused on the mountain peaks of Capricorn (Initiation) ahead. Like Scorpio, Sagittarius is also the “disciple.”
Adventure, luck, optimism, joy and the beginnings of gratitude are the hallmarks of Sagittarius. Sag is also one of the signs of silence.
The battle lines were drawn in Libra and we were asked to choose where we stood. The Nine Tests were given in Scorpio and we emerged “warriors triumphant.” Now in Sag, we are to be the One-Pointed Disciple, riding over the plains on a white horse, bow and arrows in hand, eyes focused on the Path of Return ahead.
Sagittarians are one-pointed (symbol of the arrow). Sag asks, “What is my life’s purpose?” This is their quest, from valleys, plains, meadows and hills, eyes aimed always at the mountaintop. Sag emerges from Scorpio’s deep waters, conflict and tests into the open air. Sag’s quest is humanity’s quest. Sag’s quest, however, is always accompanied by music and good food.
Film, Times & Events: Week of November 21
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Splitting the Profile
Activist calls for united front in fighting bias Sexism hurts everyone in society, says Chris Crass, an activist, writer, speaker, and stay-at-home dad. That’s why even white males like himself should take an interest in putting a stop to it, he says. “Men and boys are generally told to act like a man, which means to...
Soquel Vineyards
Thanksgiving is just around the corner, so it’s time to be thinking about the wine you’re going to serve with that special dinner, be it turkey, ham, a roast, or something vegetarian or vegan. An exceptionally good Chardonnay is always a solid staple. I suggest Soquel Vineyards’ 2013 Partners’ Reserve from Santa Cruz Mountains Lester Family...
Hands Out
Project Homeless Connect offers services that fill a need beyond hunger Earlier this month, I gave hand massages to the homeless. It was at the county’s fifth Project Homeless Connect event—and the first one to be held in Watsonville. Volunteering with the College of Botanical Healing Arts (COBHA), we were just one booth of around 40,...
The Kitchen
Chef Santos Majano talks beer-friendly food at Discretion Brewery Bar food is changing. Cold nachos, soggy fries and greasy burgers are no longer the only options for people getting their drink on—assuming they go to a place like Discretion Brewery. Since their opening last year, Discretion Brewery has always had an impressive beer selection—and now they...
Left Coasting
Planet Cruz returns with impressive comic line-up Richard Stockton’s love for Santa Cruz goes beyond “what rational thought would indicate,” he says. It’s the city where, like so many others, he found himself. “Before my brain congealed I was a feral child/ Raised Republican for real/ Then I moved to Santa Cruz and my spirit healed,”...
Safeway First
The city of Scotts Valley inches closer to a new market in their Town Center project In the center of Scotts Valley, a large empty lot sits idly, as it has for decades. Various visions for the space have come and gone through the years without result, but in the not-too-distant future, the void in Scotts...
State of Surveillance
Author Chris Hedges on the NDAA, domestic spying and civil resistance This month marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which signalled the end of almost 30 years of a totalitarian society. But mass surveillance and government control have increased elsewhere since that nonviolent revolution in 1989. “The Stasi State was...
Pop Life
The pop-up dining trend is freeing culinary imaginations and creating a guerilla version of event dining around Santa Cruz It’s Monday evening in downtown Santa Cruz, and people are gathering inside Front Street Kitchen– the bustling line stretches out the door. Customers will soon sit down to bite into bao, a fluffy white Chinese bun encapsulating...
Over Hills and Plains, Riding a White Horse, Bow and Arrows in Hand
Saturday, early morning, the sun enters and radiates the light of Sagittarius. Three hours later, the Sagittarius new moon (0.07 degrees) occurs. “Let food be sought,” is the personality-building keynote. “Food” means experiences; all kinds, levels and types. It also means real food. Sag’s secret is their love of food. Many, if not musicians, are chefs. Some are...
Film, Times & Events: Week of November 21
Films This WeekCheck out the movies playing around town.With: Reviews, Movie Times click here.Santa Cruz area movie theaters > ....... New This Week THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 1 Jennifer Lawrence returns again as Katniss Everdeen—along with most of the original cast—in this first installment of the third and last book in Suzanne Collins’ dystopian futurist...