Senior Project 2016 Directory

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Advocacy & Protection

Adult Protective Services

454-4101, (866) 580-4357, cdss.ca.gov/agedblinddisabled/PG1298.htm. 24-hour hotline to report elder abuse.

Advocacy, Inc.

5274 Scotts Valley Drive, Ste. 203, Scotts Valley, 429-1913,
advocacy-inc.org.

California Department of Aging

1300 National Drive, Ste. 200, Sacramento, (916) 419-7500, TDD: (800) 735-2929, aging.ca.gov.

California Senior Legislature

1020 N. St., Room 513, Sacramento, (916) 552-8056, 4csl.org. Local representatives: Senior Sen. George “Bud” Winslow (bu****@gm***.com) and Senior Assemblymember Chuck Molnar (mo*********@ya***.com).

Center of Excellence on Elder Abuse and Neglect at UC Irvine

(714) 456-6466,
centeronelderabuse.org.

Central Coast Center for Independent Living

1395 41st Ave., Capitola, 462-8720, 462-8729 TDD: cccil.org.

County of Santa Cruz Human Services Agency, Adult and Long-term Care Division  

1400 Emeline Ave., Bldg. K, Santa Cruz, 454-4101, TTY: 763-8828, santacruzhumanservices.org.

ElderCare Locator

(800) 677-1116, eldercare.gov.

Elderday Adult Health Center

100 Pioneer St., Ste. C, Santa Cruz, 458-3481, splg.org.

Elderly and Disabled Transportation Advisory Committee

1523 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz, 460-3200, sccrtc.org.

Financial Abuse Specialist Team (FAST)

ncea.aoa.gov.

In-Home Support Services Public Authority Advisory Commission

18 W. Beach St., Watsonville, 763-8800; 1400 Emeline Ave., Santa Cruz, 454-4101, santacruzhumanservices.org.

Santa Cruz County Commission on Disabilities

701 Ocean St., Room 30,
Santa Cruz, 454-2355, scccod.net.

Santa Cruz County Seniors Commission

701 Ocean St., Room 310, Santa Cruz, 454-2600, co.santa-cruz.ca.us/departments/personnel/commissions/seniorscommission.aspx.

Seniors Council of Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties/Area Agency on Aging

234 Santa Cruz Ave., Aptos, 688-0400, seniorscouncil.org.

Senior Network Services

1777-A Capitola Road, Santa Cruz, 462-1433, seniornetworkservices.org.

Senior Roundtable of Santa Cruz County

Visit seniorroundtable.com or call 469-4900

The Senior Coalition

P.O. Box 303, Soquel, 684-8172, seniorcoalition.org.

Living Facilities

There are many types of senior housing options, ranging from residential facilities and assisted living homes, to independent living and retirement communities. Learn more about the differences and search for options near you at eldercare.gov (800-677-1116) or seniorfacilityfinder.com.

Aegis of Aptos

125 Heather Terrace, Aptos, 706-2977, aegisliving.com.

Alexandria Victoria

226 Morrissey Blvd., Santa Cruz, 429-9137.

Capitola Manor

1098 38th Ave., Santa Cruz, 291-0010,
capitolamanor2014.com.

Cresthaven Nursing Home

740 17th Ave., Santa Cruz, 475-3812.

Darwin House

707 Darwin St., Santa Cruz, 457-9091.

Dominican Oaks

3400 Paul Sweet Road, Santa Cruz, 462-6257, dominicanoaks.com.

Golden Age Convalescent Hospital

523 Burlingame Ave., Capitola, 475-0722.

Hanover Guest Home

813 Hanover St., Santa Cruz, 426-0618, hanoverguesthome.com.

La Posada

609 Frederick St., Santa Cruz, 429-9230, laposadaretirementcommunity.com.

Maple House

410 Pennsylvania Ave., Santa Cruz, 423-6347, themaplehouse.com.

Maple House II

2000 Brommer St., Santa Cruz, 476-6366, themaplehouse.com.

Oak Tree Villa

100 Lockewood Lane, Scotts Valley, 438-7533, brookdaleliving.com.

Pacific Coast Manor

1935 Wharf Road, Capitola, 476-0770, covenantcare.com.

Paradise Villa

2177 17th Ave., Santa Cruz, 475-1380, paradisevillaelderlycare.com.

Sunshine Villa

80 Front St., Santa Cruz, 459-8400, sunshinevillaseniorliving.com.

Twin Lakes Manor

777 Volz Lane, Santa Cruz, 477-1100, twinlakesmanor.net.

Valley Haven

2266 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz, 818-8372, valleyhavencare.com.

Valley Heights

925 Freedom Blvd., Watsonville, 722-4884, valleyheights.com.

Westwind Memory Care

160 Jewell St., Santa Cruz, 421-9100, westwindmemorycare.com.
 

Classes & Activities

Academy of Martial & Internal Arts

1570 Soquel Dr., Santa Cruz, 475-1429, reelingsilk.com.

Awakening Chi

1060 River St., Ste. 111, 334-7757, awakeningchi.org.

Bridge Of Hope

P.O. Box 576, Soquel, 464-2362,
bridgeofhopefoundation.org.

California Classic Sail

Santa Cruz Harbor, F dock. Near 790 Mariner Park Way, Santa Cruz, 325-0466, californiaclassicsail.com.

City of Capitola Recreation Department

4400 Jade St., Capitola, 475-5935, cityofcapitola.org/recreation.

City of Santa Cruz Parks & Recreation Department

323 Church St., Santa Cruz, 420-5270, cityofsantacruz.com.

Dominican Hospital’s Personal Enrichment Program

1555 Soquel Drive, Santa Cruz, 462-7709, dominicanhospital.org.

Santa Cruz County Parks Department

979 17th Ave., Santa Cruz, 454-7901, scparks.com./adult_senior.html.

Seascape Village Fitness & Physical Therapy

16 Seascape Village, Aptos, 708-2323, seascapevillagefitness.com.

Simpkins Family Swim Center

979 17th Ave., Santa Cruz, 454-7946, scparks.com.

Watsonville Community Hospital

75 Nielson St., Watsonville, 724-4741, watsonvillehospital.com.

Watsonville Parks & Recreation Department

30 Maple Ave., Watsonville, 768-3240, cityofwatsonville.org/parks-community-services.

Project SCOUT

114 E. 5th St., Watsonville, 724-2606, seniorscouncil.org./project_scout.html.

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)

5732 Soquel Drive, Soquel, 475-5782, aasantacruz.org. 24-hour hotline.

AA Family Groups

462-1818, ncwsa.org/d23.

Adult Mental Health Services

Santa Cruz: 1400 Emeline Ave., Bldg. K, Santa Cruz, 454-4170, santacruzhealth.org.

Adult Protective Services (Human Services Department)

1400 Emeline Ave., Bldg. K, Santa Cruz, 454-4101, santacruzhumanservices.org.

Catholic Charities Mental Health Department

217 E. Lake Ave., Watsonville, 722-2675.

Conflict Resolution Center

1414 Soquel Ave., Ste. 218, Santa Cruz, 475-6117, crcsantacruz.org.

Family Service Agency of the Central Coast

Santa Cruz: 104 Walnut Ave., Ste. 208, Santa Cruz, 423-9444; Watsonville: 11 Alexander St., Ste. D, Watsonville, 728-9970 (24-hour multi-lingual crisis line), fsa-cc.org.

Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program (HICAP) of Senior Network Services

1777-A Capitola Road, Santa Cruz, 462-5510, seniornetworkservices.org.

Hospice of Santa Cruz County

940 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, 430-3000, hospicesantacruz.org.

Mental Health Client Action Network

1051 Cayuga St., Santa Cruz, 469-0462, mhcan.org.

Narcotics Anonymous

429-7436, 24-hour hotline, scnapi.org.

Narcotics Anonymous Family Groups at Aptos Christian Fellowship

7200 Freedom Blvd., Aptos. St. Philip’s Church, 5271 Scotts Valley Drive, Rm 1, Scotts Valley, (888) 374-1164. At Sutter Hospital—Sutter Room: 2900 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz.

Santa Cruz Vets Center

1350 41st Ave., Ste. 102, Capitola, 464-4575, santacruzhumanservices.org, va.gov.

Women’s Crisis Support ~ Defensa de Mujeres (Monarch Services)

Santa Cruz: 1685 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz, 425-4030; Watsonville: 233 E. Lake Ave., Watsonville, 722-4532, (888) 900-4232 (crisis line), wcs-ddm.org.
 

Dental Care

Cabrillo College Dental Hygiene Clinic

6500 Soquel Drive, Room 611, Aptos, 479-6431, cabrillo.edu/academics/dentalhygiene/clinic.

Denti-Cal

(800) 322-6384, denti-cal.ca.gov.

Dientes Community Dental Clinic

1830 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz, 464-5409, dientes.org.

Dr. Robert Matiasevich Jr., DDS

1775 Dominican Way, Santa Cruz, 316-1580, santacruzdentist.com.

Salud Para La Gente

204 E. Beach St., Watsonville, 728-0222, splg.org.

Santa Cruz Pacific Dental

550 Water St. Bldg J-2, Santa Cruz, 458-3384, santacruzpacificdental.com.

Smile Dental Care, Dr. Fernandez

1588 Soquel Drive, Santa Cruz, 476-5995, usasmiledent.com.
 

Education & Social Services

AARP (American Association of Retired Persons)

1-888-687-2277, aarp.org.

Caregiver Training Series

Cabrillo College, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos, 708-8576, cabrillo.edu/services/extension/healthcare.html. Offered each semester, Saturdays 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

Cabrillo College Stroke & Disability Learning Center

6500 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz, 477-3300,
cabrillo.edu/academics/strokecenter.

Cabrillo Community College

6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos, 479-6100, cabrillo.edu.

Davenport Resource Service Center

150 Church St., Davenport, 425-8115.

Disability Resource Center

1156 High St., Santa Cruz, 125 Hahn Student Services, 459-2089.

The Diversity Center

1117 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz, 425-5422, diversitycenter.org.

Mountain Community Resources

6134 Hwy. 9, Felton, 335-6600, communitybridges.org/
mountaincommunity.htm.

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UC Santa Cruz

1156 High St., Santa Cruz, 459-2552, ucsc-osher.wikispaces.com.

Santa Cruz Adult Education

319 La Fonda Ave., Santa Cruz, 429-3966, adulted.santacruz.k12.ca.us.

Santa Cruz Public Libraries

117 Union St., Santa Cruz, 427-7717, santacruzpl.org.

Scotts Valley Center of Cabrillo College

104 Whispering Pines Drive, Scotts Valley, 477-3400. cabrillo.edu/services/ scottsvalley.

Senior Computer Center  

301 Center St., Santa Cruz, 420-6180, seniorcomputer.org.

Social Security

169 Walnut Ave., Santa Cruz, (800) 593-8523, ssa.gov.

Watsonville Center of Cabrillo College

318 Union St., Watsonville, 786-4700, cabrillo.edu/services/watsonville.
 

Employment Services

California State Department of Vocational Rehabilitation

1350 41st. Ave., Ste. 101, Capitola, 465-7100, dor.ca.gov.

Employment Development Department Capitola Career Center

2045 40th Ave., Capitola, 464-6286.

Home Help for Seniors Respite Care Registry

1777-A Capitola Road, Santa Cruz, 462-1433, seniornetworkservices.org./ respite-care-registry.

Human Resources Department

809 Center St., Santa Cruz, 420-5040, cityofsantacruz.com./index. aspx?page=210.

Shoreline Santa Cruz Neighborhood Career Center

350 Encinal St., Santa Cruz, 423-8611, shorelineworks.org.

Watsonville Career Center

18 W. Beach St., Watsonville, 763-8700, santacruzhumanservices.org.

Workforce Investment Board

18 W. Beach St., Watsonville, 763-8900, cwib.ca.gov, santacruzhumanservices.org.

Financial Services

Bay Federal Credit Union

Multiple Locations, 479-6000, bayfed.com.

Edward Jones Investments

Multiple locations, edwardjones.com.

Pacific Inland Financial Inc.

5161 Soquel Drive, Soquel, 475-2600, pacificinland.com.

Santa Cruz Home Finance

1535 Seabright Ave., Santa Cruz, 425-1250, santacruzhomefinance.com/home.html.
 

Food and Nutrition

Agri-Culture

141 Monte Vista Ave., Watsonville, 95076, 722-6622, agri-culture.us.

Beach Flats Community Center

133 Leibrandt Ave., Santa Cruz, 426-8232, beachflatscommunitycenter.org.

California Grey Bears

2710 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz, 479-1055, greybears.org.

Carnation Cafe Senior Lunch at Louden Nelson Community Center

301 Center St., Santa Cruz, 427-0901, cityofsantacruz.com.

Cindy’s Celebrations, Inc.

320 Carrera Circle, Aptos, 479-7509, cindyscelebrations.org.

Community Bridges Adult Care Food Program

236 Santa Cruz Ave., Aptos, 688-8840, communitybridges.org.

Elena Baskin Live Oak Senior Center

1777 Capitola Road, Santa Cruz, 476-3272, liveoakseniorcenter.com.

Familia Center

711 E. Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz, 423-5747, communitybridges.org/familiacenter.

Highlands Senior Dining Center at the Senior Center of San Lorenzo Valley

8500 Hwy. 9, Ben Lomond, 336-5366.

Human Services Department

1020 Emeline Ave., Bldg. B, Santa Cruz/18 W. Beach St., Watsonville,
(888) 421-8080, santacruzhumanservices.org.

La Manzana Community Resources

521 Main St., Ste. Y, Watsonville, 724-2997, communitybridges.org/lmcr.

Live Oak Family Resources

1740 17th Ave., Santa Cruz, 476-7284.

Meals on Wheels for Santa Cruz County

Contact Community Bridges for meal times, locations and drop-off information: 464-3180, communitybridges.org/meals.

Mountain Community Resources

6134 Hwy. 9, Felton, 335-6600, communitybridges.org/mcr.

Pajaro Rescue Mission

111 Railroad Ave., Royal Oaks, 724-9576, teenchallengemb.org.

Second Harvest Food Bank

800 Ohlone Pkwy., Watsonville, 722-7110, thefoodbank.org. Food hotline: 662-0991.

Scotts Valley Senior Center

370 Kings Village Road, Scotts Valley, 438-8666.

Valley Churches United Missions

Drop-off: 9400 Hwy. 9, Ben Lomond; mail: P.O. Box 367, Ben Lomond, 336-8258, vcum.org.

Watsonville Senior Center

114 E. 5th St., Watsonville, 722-1333.
 

Healthcare & Health Resources

Advantacare Medical

2121 41st Ave., Capitola, Ste. 303, (800) 481-4662, advantacare.net.

Aimee Gould Shunney, ND

Licensed Naturopathic Doctor. 740 Front St., #130, Santa Cruz, drshunney.com.

Alzheimer’s Disease Care Center at Elderday

100 Pioneer St., Ste. C, Santa Cruz, 458-3481, splg.org.

American Cancer Society

(800) 227-2345, cancer.org.

American Chronic Pain Association

P.O. Box 850, Rocklin, (800) 533-3231, theacpa.org.

American Council of the Blind

(800) 424-8666, acb.org.

American Diabetes Association

(408) 241-1922, diabetes.org.

American Heart Association

(408) 977-4950, americanheart.org.

American Kidney Fund

(800) 638-8299, kidneyfund.org.

American Liver Foundation

(800) 465-4837, liverfoundation.org.

American Lung Association

(800) 548-8252, lung.org.

American Red Cross

2960 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz, 462-2881, redcross.org/ca/santa-cruz.

Arthritis Foundation Great West Region

657 Mission St., Ste. 603, San Francisco, (888) 391-9389, arthritis.org.

Cabrillo Caregiver Training Series

708-8576, cabrillo.edu/services/extension/healthcare.html.

Cabrillo College Stroke & Disability Learning Center

6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos, 477-3300, strokecenter.com.

Cancer Detection Program: Every Woman Counts Central Coast Regional Contractor: Community Health Partnership

100 N. Winchester Blvd., Ste. 250, Santa Clara, dhs.ca.gov/cancerdetection. (408) 556-6605.

Carol Shwery, DC CCN

831 Bay Ave., Ste. 1E, Capitola, 476-6906, dccarolshwery.com.

Center for Disease Control and Prevention

(800) 232-4636, cdc.gov.

Center for Lifestyle Management Program

610 Frederick St., Santa Cruz. 457-7077.

Central California Alliance for Health

1600 Green Hills Road, Ste. 101, Scotts Valley, 430-5500, ccah-alliance.org.

Community Connection Santa Cruz

300 Harvey West Blvd., Santa Cruz, 425-8132, ccsantacruz.org.

Dakota Health Center

111 Dakota Ave., Ste. 2, Santa Cruz, 429-1188.

Diabetes Health Center

85 Nielson St., Ste. 201, Watsonville, 763-6445, pvhealthtrust.org.

Dominican Hospital

1555 Soquel Drive, Santa Cruz, 462-7700, dominicanhospital.org.

EyeCare America Seniors Eye Care Program

(877) 887-6327, eyecareamerica.org.

Frank’s Pharmacy

7548 Soquel Drive, Aptos, 685-1100, franksrx.com.

Front St., Inc.

2115 7th Ave., Santa Cruz, 420-0120, frontst.com.

Hanger Inc., Prosthetics & Orthotics

700 Frederick St., Ste. 101, Santa Cruz, 460-9245, hanger.com.

Health Projects Center

1537 Pacific Ave., Ste. 300, Santa Cruz, 459-6639, hpcn.org.

Hearing Aid Helpline

(800) 521-5247 ext. 2, ihsinfo.org.

The Hearing Foundation

(800) 327-8077, earofthelion.org.

Hearts & Hands, Post Acute Care & Rehab Center

2990 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz, 479-9000.

Homeless Persons Health Project

115-A Coral St., Santa Cruz, 454-2080, santacruzhealth.org.

Horsnyder’s Pharmacy

1226-A Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz, 458-1400, horsnyder.com.

Katz Cancer Resource Center at Dominican Hospital

1555 Soquel Drive, Santa Cruz, 462-7770.

Laser Hair & Skin Solutions

783 Rio Del Mar Blvd., Ste. 71B, Aptos, 689-9830.

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

675 N. First St., Ste. 1100, San Jose, (408) 490-2666, lls.org.

Lincare, Inc.

444 Airport Blvd., Ste. 105, Watsonville, 724-1211, lincare.com.

Medi-Cal

18 W. Beach St., Watsonville, 763-8500, medi-cal.ca.gov. Also, see Central California Alliance for Health.

Medicare

(800) 633-4227, medicare.gov.

Mended Hearts Support Group

475-7585, mendedhearts.org.

Muscular Dystrophy Association

(800) 572-1717, mdausa.org.

National Kidney Foundation of North America

(415) 543-3303, kidney.org.

National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Northern California Chapter

1700 Owens St., Ste. 190,
San Francisco, (415) 230-6677, nmss.org.

Natural Foundations

4450 Capitola Road, Ste. 105, Capitola,
612-4628, NaturalFoundationsHealing.com.

NuMotion (formerly ATG Rehab)

446 Westridge Drive, Watsonville, 724-5544, numotion.com.

Optimage Health Inc.

930 Mission St., Santa Cruz, 421-0197, optimagehealth.com.

Orthnorcal

4140 Jade St., Room 100, Capitola, 475-4024, orthonorcal.com.

Ostomy Support Group of Santa Cruz County

230 Larita Drive, Ben Lomond, 336-8683.

Overeaters Anonymous Support Group

P.O. Box 698, Santa Cruz,
429-7906, santacruzoa.org.

Pacific Pulmonary Services

440 Westridge Drive, Watsonville, 643-2175, ppsc.com.

Parkinson’s Support Group in Santa Cruz

477-9412, 708-2906,
parkinsons.stanford.edu.

Philips Lifeline

(855) 214-1363, lifelinesys.com.

Physicians Medical Group of Santa Cruz

100 Enterprise Way, Ste. C110, Scotts Valley, 465-7800, pmgscc.com.

Radiology Medical Group

1661 Soquel Drive, Santa Cruz, 476-7711, rmgsc.com.

Santa Cruz AIDS Project

542 Ocean St., Ste. 1, Santa Cruz, 427-3900, scapsite.org.

Santa Cruz Core Fitness and Rehab

317 Potrero St., Ste. C, Santa Cruz, 425-9500, santacruzcore.com.

Santa Cruz Host Lions Club Eyeglass Fund

PO Box 477, Santa Cruz, 423-2352, santacruzhostlionsclub.org.

Santa Cruz County Prostate Cancer Support Group

1555 Soquel Drive, Education Bldg., Santa Cruz, 462-7770, scprostate.org.

Soquel Hearing Aid Center

2901 Park Ave., Ste. C2, Soquel, 498-9890, soquelhearingaidcenter.com.

Sutter Maternity & Surgery Center of Santa Cruz

2900 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz, 477-2200, suttersantacruz.org

Therapilates

920-A 41st Ave., Santa Cruz, 476-3100, therapilates.com.

Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired

413 Laurel St., Santa Cruz, 458-9766, vistacenter.org.

Watsonville Community Hospital

75 Nielson St., Watsonville, 724-4741, watsonvillehospital.com.

Watsonville Pharmacy Medical Supplies and Gifts

1433 Freedom Blvd., Watsonville, 728-1818, watsonvillepharmacy.com.

Westside Pharmacy Medical Supplies and Gifts

1401 Mission St., Santa Cruz, 423-7175. westsidepharmacyrx.com.

WomenCARE

2901 Park Ave., Ste. 1A, Soquel, 457-2273, womencaresantacruz.org.
 

Housing

Bay Avenue Senior Apartments

750 Bay Ave., Capitola, 464-6435.

California Rural Legal Assistance Inc.

501 Soqual Ave., Santa Cruz, 458-1089, crla.org.

Donald Dimitruk, Reverse Mortgage

411 Kelly Lane, Santa Cruz, 464-6464, do****@co******************.com.

Homeless Services Center

115-A Coral St., Santa Cruz, 458-6020, scshelter.org.

Housing Authority of Santa Cruz County

2931 Mission St., Santa Cruz, 469-4272, hacosantacruz.org.

Los Gatos Meadows

110 Wood Road, Los Gatos, (408) 354-0292, losgatosmeadows-esc.org.

Mobile Home Commission

701 Ocean St., Santa Cruz, 454-2772, sccounty01.co.santa-cruz.ca.us/mhc/index.html.

Mobile Home Ombudsman’s Office

(800) 952-5275, hcd.ca.gov.

Portola Property Management

1210 Brommer St., Santa Cruz, 475-1355, portolarentals.com.

Santa Cruz County Counsel

701 Ocean St., Room 505, Santa Cruz, 454-2040, co.santa-cruz.ca.us.

Senior Housing Finder

462-1433, seniornetworkservices.org.

The Shelter Project of the Community Action Board

Santa Cruz: 501 Soquel Ave., Ste. E, Santa Cruz, 457-1741; Watsonville: 728-4634,
cabinc.org./TSP.

Valley Haven

157 Herman Ave., Watsonville, 722-6242, valleyhavencare.com.
 

In Home Services

Care from the Heart Home Service

3143 Paul Sweet Road, Santa Cruz, 476-8316, carefromtheheart.net.

ComForcare Home Care

100 Doyle St., Ste. F, Santa Cruz, 427-1553, comforcare.com.

Companion for Life /Lifeline Project

1570 Soquel Drive, Ste. 2, Santa Cruz, 475-2778, companionforlifelifeline.com.

Dominican Home Health

8030 Soquel Ave., Ste. 104, Santa Cruz, 465-7988, dominicanhospital.org.

Familiar Surroundings

2901 Park Ave., Ste. C3, Soquel, 480-3990, fshomecare.com.

Helping Hands Senior Home Repair Program

427-5070, scvolunteercenter.com./ programs/elderly-disabled/helping_hands.

Home Helpers

343 Soquel Ave. #100, Santa Cruz, 477-6265, homehelpers.com.

Home Instead Senior Care

3912 Portola Drive, Ste. 3, Santa Cruz, 476-9500, homeinstead.com.

Heartland Hospice

824 Bay Ave., Ste. 40, Capitola, 476-2158, heartlandhospice.com.

Hospice of Santa Cruz County

940 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, 430-3000, hospicesantacruz.org.

In-Home Support Services (IHSS) Public Authority

Santa Cruz: 1400 Emeline Ave., Bldg. K, Santa Cruz, 454-4101;
Watsonville: 12 W. Beach St., Watsonville, 763-8800,
santacruzhumanservices.org.

Lifespan Care Management Agency

600 Frederick St., Santa Cruz, 469-4900, lifespancare.com.

Safe At Home Senior Care

820 Bay Ave., Capitola, 462-3500, safehomeseniorcare.com.

Santa Cruz Senior Home Care      

477-6265, santacruzseniorhomecare.com.

Senior Network Services Registry

1777-A Capitola Road, Santa Cruz, 462-1433, seniornetworkservices.org.

Visiting Angels

5274 Scotts Valley Drive, Scotts Valley, 430-0616, visitingangels.com./santacruz/home.

Visiting Nurses Association (VNA) of Santa Cruz County

2880 Soquel Ave., Ste. 10, Santa Cruz, 479-6620, santacruzvna.org.
 

Legal Services

Advocacy Inc.

5274 Scotts Valley Drive, Ste. 203, Scotts Valley, 429-1913, advocacy-inc.org.

California Rural Legal Assistance

501 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz, 458-1089, crla.org.

California Victim Compensation Program

PO Box 3036, Sacramento, (800) 777-9229, calvcp.ca.gov.

Catholic Charities Immigration Services

Santa Cruz: 610 Frederick St., Santa Cruz, 431-6939,
Watsonville: 656 Main St., Watsonville, 722-2675,
dioceseofmonterey.org.

Consumer Affairs

701 Ocean St. Room 20, Santa Cruz, 454-2050, datinternet.co.santa-cruz.ca.us, dca.ca.gov.

Deborah A. Malkin, Attorney at Law

2425 Porter St., Ste. 3, Soquel, 462-9100.

District Attorney

701 Ocean St., Room 200, Santa Cruz; 275 Main St., Ste. 202, Watsonville, 454-2400.

Law Offices of Moira Leigh

150 Walnut Ave., Santa Cruz, 454-0226, santacruzattorney.com.

Lawyer Referral Service

340 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz, 425-4755, lawyerreferralsantacruz.org.

Pacific Gardens Chapel

1050 Cayuga St., Santa Cruz, 423-5721, pacificgardenschapel.com.

Senior Citizens Legal Services of Santa Cruz

501 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz, 426-8824, seniorlegal.org.

Senior Legal Hotline

(800) 222-1753, slh.lsnc.net.

State Department of Insurance

(800) 927-4357, insurance.ca.gov.

Victim-Witness Assistance Program

454-2010.
 

Senior Centers

Senior Computer Center  

301 Center St., Santa Cruz, 420-6180, seniorcomputer.org.

Elena Baskin Live Oak Senior Center

1777 Capitola Road, Santa Cruz, 476-3272.

Louden Nelson Community Center

301 Center St., Santa Cruz, 420-6177 nelsoncenter.com.

Market Street Senior Center (Senior Citizens Opportunities, Inc.)

222 Market St., Santa Cruz, 423-6640.

Mid-County Senior Center

829 Bay Ave., Capitola, 476-4711, midcountyseniorcenter.com.

Scotts Valley Senior Center

370 Kings Village Road, Scotts Valley, 438-8666, svlions.org.

Senior Center of San Lorenzo Valley

8500 Hwy. 9, Ben Lomond, 336-8900.

Watsonville Senior Center

114 E. Fifth St., Watsonville, 722-1333.
 

Transportation

A Move Made Simple

539-1000, AMoveMadeSimple.com.

American Cancer Society Transportation for Patients

(800) 227-2345, cancer.org.

Community Bridges Lift Line

236 Santa Cruz Ave., Aptos, 425-1558, 688-9663, communitybridges.org

Courtesy Cab

149 Walker St., Watsonville, 761-3122, courtesycab.com.

Greyhound Bus Lines

920 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz, 423-4082, greyhound.com.

Metro ParaCruz

425-4664, scmtd.com./metro-paracruz.

Santa Cruz Metro Center

920 Pacific Ave., Ste. 21, Santa Cruz, 425-8600, scmtd.com.

Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz County Transportation

Santa Cruz: 427-3435, Watsonville: 722-6708; Ben Lomond: 336-9387, scvolunteercenter.com.

Santa Cruz Yellow Cab

423-1234.
 

Volunteering

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Santa Cruz County

1500 41st Ave., Ste. 250, Capitola, 464-8691, santacruzmentor.com.

California Grey Bears

2710 Chanticleer Ave., Santa Cruz, 479-1055, greybears.org.

CASA

813 Freedom Blvd., Watsonville, 761-2956, casaofsantacruz.org/index.html.

Dominican Hospital Volunteer Services

1555 Soquel Drive, Santa Cruz, 462-7740, dominicanhospital.org.

Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries

PO Box 8472, Santa Cruz, 427-7716, fscpl.org.

Seniors Council of Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties

234 Santa Cruz Ave., Aptos, 688-0400, seniorscouncil.org.

Suicide Prevention Service

104 Walnut Ave. Ste. 208, Santa Cruz, 459-9373, fsa-cc.org.

Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz County’s Retired Senior Volunteer Program

1740 17th Ave., Santa Cruz, 427-5070; 12 Carr St., Watsonville, 722-6708, scvolunteercenter.org.
 

Opinion August 17, 2016

EDITOR’S NOTE

Sometimes I find a theme will arise in an issue of GT whether those of us who put together the paper each week thought to put it there or not. That was definitely the case this week with the battle between sound and silence. On the one hand, there’s the cover story by Aaron Carnes on local musician Henry Chadwick, whose sound is getting him attention from music journalists and fans around the country right now. It’s also, at a deeper level, about how hard it is to break out beyond the oddly insular music scene here, and what’s fueling Chadwick’s unexpected success. On the sonic side, there’s also Cat Johnson’s story about “Mighty” Mike Schermer, who went from changing sheets at UCSC to becoming a sought-after guitar sideman and leader of his own band.
But there’s a flip side, too, in the form of new contributor Daniel Talamantes’ article about the benefits of silence in our distinctly loud culture. And I have an article this week about the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods that explains why its founders Steve Kettmann and Sarah Ringler are pushing back against the noise to create an oasis of quiet for writers in Soquel.
I’m always surprised and fascinated when the issue is done and these threads of similar and contrasting ideas seem to suddenly rise off the page. I hope you enjoy finding those and other connections throughout this issue, too.
STEVE PALOPOLI | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Read the latest letters to the editor here.

Tracks Must Go
In regards the upcoming ballot measure by the RTC to fund Highway 1 widening, I could not agree more with Steve Schnaar (GT, 7/27) that we have to get out of our cars. We have a wonderful opportunity to build a beautiful bike trail, and we have the perfect path in the rail line, going from Davenport to Watsonville. A program of incentives to get people electric bikes, coupled with the trail, could get many people out of their cars. But the tracks have to go. If in the near to middle future someone comes up with a better use of the path, we will figure that out. Leaving the rails in is a non-starter, like highway widening. The only reason not to pull them is the owner gets to expense the track at book value, propping up their stock price. The measure as presently constructed is designed for failure; it would only pass due to voters’ ignorance.
Joel Koppa
Santa Cruz

Which Cars?
While I agree with Steve Schnaar in the short term about the negative impacts of widening Highway 1, I think it’s important to point out that driving and automobiles do not, in and of themselves, contribute to climate change. It’s the type of automobiles we drive and how they are manufactured that adds greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. The sooner we can transition to all-electric vehicles manufactured using power that doesn’t add carbon dioxide or methane to the air, the better off we’ll be. In opposing the current plans to widen Highway 1, we should not lose sight of the even more important battle to transition away from our current fossil fuel economy.
Mordecai Shapiro
Santa Cruz

Still the Thing
As many locals may have done, I was afraid that our best Shakespeare days were behind us, with the loss of the beloved Sinsheimer Grove. But after Ms. Jensen’s and Ms. Waters’ encouraging reviews I went to the new locale past the Delaveaga golf course and discovered the best two productions I have seen in years! All hail to two great directors, a fabulous cast, and the amazing discovery that changing young Hamlet’s gender makes the role more powerful, rather than diluting it. We are so blessed to have Shakespeare in this world, and twice blessed to have such passionate, engaging, and amusing productions presented here in our own quaint (and brilliant!) little town.
Go quickly to see both of these first-rate productions, with stunning and true performances by great actors (Bernard K. Addison as both Hamlet and Bottom! Larry Paulsen as both Puck and the lead of The Players!) delivering fine and true productions conceived by inspired directors. Just to see Hamlet played by this powerful woman, Kate Eastwood Norris, who proves that fierceness and existential crisis are not the terrain of a single gender. I, too, was worried, deeply, about Hamlet the female Dane, and found, as Ms. Waters said, that “I was quickly smitten.” I will not wish to see Hamlet (my favorite Shakespeare play) as a man again, as this was so much better.
In case you forget, Shakespeare expands the soul by reminding us how marvelous the world we inhabit—as complex and convoluted humans—really is. This is something worth re-“membering,” and these are productions which re-“mind” us well, with joy and intrigue, brightness and generosity, how wonderful it is, this fabulous globe of Shakespearean life.
John Roevekamp
Santa Cruz

Parting Gifts
Re: “Dancing in the Sunset” Photo Contest winner (GT, 8/3): It gets better, Kenny. Having lost my companion rottweiler Pooh Bear last year, after 14 wonderful years, I promise it will not be so raw as time passes. His loss was a wonderful catalyst for me to offload some old unfinished business as well, as I grieved fully and audibly. His last gift to me. Hugs.
Diane Cohan
Scotts Valley

CORRECTION
In last week’s cover story about the web dramedy Cleaner Daze, we stated that after Olivia Orea got out of rehab “she was caught up in transporting drugs from across the border.” In actuality, she became involved in an effort to retrieve a car stolen by drug traffickers near the border. Orea did not transport illegal substances across state or international borders. We regret the error.


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GOOD IDEA

HOME BODY
With so many lovely cats in need of homes, the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter has drastically reduced adoption fees by as much as 65 percent through the end of August. Senior cats (over 6 years old) are only $25 this month, down from the norm of $55. Adult cats (between 1 and 5 years old) are $35, down from $100. And kittens, usually $120, are only $60 right now. That’s right—you’re only one adoption away from being a world-renowned cat video director.


GOOD WORK

ROADS AHEAD
Amelia Conlen, the executive director of Bike Santa Cruz County since 2012, has accepted a job at the City of Santa Cruz as the transportation coordinator, a position she will start in a few weeks. That means Bike Santa Cruz County—known until last year as People Power—has an opening at its executive director position and is seeking applications for the job. Visit bikesantacruzcounty.org for more information.


QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“UC Santa Cruz students embraced [Camper Van Beethoven] like a normal university would embrace its sports team.”

-David Lowery

Music Picks Aug 17—23

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WEDNESDAY 8/17

COUNTRY

EVENING BELL

Hailing from the country music hotbed of Seattle, Evening Bell is a throwback to an era when honkytonks ruled the weekend, Tammy Wynette and George Jones ruled the airwaves and a long ride in an old pickup truck was the height of romance. Paying tribute to the classic country sound, Evening Bell also reflects modern life in the Pacific Northwest by pulling in elements of rock, folk and psychedelic influences, furthering the contemporary roots scene in compelling ways. Also on the bill: Santa Cruz-based country outfit Doggone Lonesome. CAT JOHNSON
INFO: 9 p.m. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $8. 429-6994.
 

THURSDAY 8/18

REGGAE

MIKE LOVE

So this isn’t that Mike Love—you know, the one that fronted the Beach Boys. No, this is the reggae Mike Love, and isn’t “Mike Love” a more appropriate name for a conscious-minded roots reggae singer-songwriter than a rock star? Anyway, reggae Love was born and raised in Hawaii. He’s a vegan, a family man, and very, very spiritual. All that plus plenty of politics is dripping all over his ’70s-inspired roots reggae sound. Also, the island of Hawaii serves as an influence to his sound. It’s easy-going and breezy, despite all the seriousness in the lyrics. AARON CARNES
INFO: 9 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $12/adv, $15/door. 429-4135.

ZYDECO

ANDRE THIERRY

When the King of Zydeco, Clifton Chenier, deems you an accordion player, you’d be wise to take up the instrument—even if you’re still a toddler. Such was the case with West Coast Zydeco standout Andre Thierry, who Chenier dubbed a player at the age of 3. Born in Northern California, but deeply rooted to his Louisiana family, the Grammy-winning Thierry now blends the best of both worlds, combining traditional Zydeco with progressive elements from his home state. CJ
INFO: 7:30 p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $12/adv, $14/door. 335-2800.
 

FRIDAY 8/19

SKA

ENGLISH BEAT

It’s hard to believe that the English Beat only released three albums. With that limited output, the band continues to enrapture audiences, decades later. The English Beat wasn’t even that big in the states in the early ’80s when it released those records, but, man, what amazing albums they were. The debut I Just Can’t Stop It (1980) is an amazing, infectious ska gem. Sophomore record Wa’ppen? (1981) is weirder and more reggae-influenced. The band’s final record, Special Beat Service (1982), is an absolute pop masterpiece—the group’s best album by far. Oddly, after all these years, the members are supposedly releasing a fourth studio album in late 2016/early 2017. Can it stack up to their prior brilliant LPs? We shall see. AC
INFO: 9 p.m. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz. $26/adv, $30/door. 479-1854.

EXPERIMENTAL HIP-HOP

JOOMANJI

Born in the concrete caves of UCSC’s music studios, Joomanji’s electro-jazz-infused hip-hop is tinged with tasty neo-soul, unique samples and intricate grooves. Now located in L.A., the group keeps their sound diverse by incorporating a variety of vocalists and guest artists. All composition, production, engineering, and mixing is their own, revealing a deep appreciation for the process. Local band Boostive brings a similar vibe: gritty hip-hop mixed with elements of dub and reggae, their energetic sets flow from ambient trance to psychedelic swing via rich bass grooves and a dynamic horn section. Openers Boostive’s opening set will be recorded for a live album, commemorating their last Santa Cruz show before the collective relocates to San Diego. KATIE SMALL
INFO 9 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz Center, 320 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $5. 427-2227.
 

SATURDAY 8/20

PUNK

POWER OF EXPRESSION FEST

Question: Do you love banging your head to punk rock bands, but hate those boring gaps between sets? If the answer is yes, then the Power of Expression is for you. The lineup of 15-plus local and regional bands will be playing on two stages at the Catalyst. The organizers are assuring everyone that it’s going to be bam, bam, bam, one band after another. No down time. There’s seriously some incredible acts on this line-up: Great Apes, Thanks Buddy, Good Neighbor Policy, the Defenders, and of course the one-of-a-kind Dan Potthast. AC
INFO: 6 p.m. Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $10/adv, $15/door. 429-4135.
 

SUNDAY 8/21

CANADIAN FOLK

DE TEMPS ANTAN

Drawing from the rich and lively folk music traditions of Quebec, De Temps Antan combines age-old techniques with a contemporary flair to create music that seamlessly bridges the eras of the French-Canadian province. The band’s music is driven by traditional Quebec folk instruments, including the fiddle, accordion, harmonica, guitar and bouzouki, but it boasts a freshness and flair as traditional tunes are filtered through modern sensibilities and a fine-tuned sense of humor. As one reviewer wrote, the band blends “boundless energy with the unmistakable joie de vivre found only in traditional Quebec music.” CJ
INFO: 7 p.m. Don Quixote’s, 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton. $18/adv, $20/door. 335-2800.
 

MONDAY 8/22

JAZZ

JANE BUNNETT & MAQUEQUE

With relations between the United States and Cuba attaining a semblance of normality, it’s a good time to recognize the essential role that Canadian soprano saxophonist and flutist Jane Bunnett has played for the past two decades in introducing brilliant young Cuban players to the North American scene. Her Juno Award-winning band Maqueque showcases a rising generation of women—musicians who have been overlooked both at home and abroad. The band’s latest incarnation features drummer Yissy García, daughter of Irakere drummer Bernardo García, pianist Danae Olano, Daymé Arceno on percussion, Magdelys Savigne on batás, congas and vocals, and the single-monikered Yusa on tres guitar and fretless bass. ANDREW GILBERT
INFO: 7 p.m. Kuumbwa Jazz, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz. $25/adv, $30/door. 427-2227.


IN THE QUEUE

DEZARIE

Roots reggae great from St. Croix. Wednesday at Moe’s Alley

REDLIGHT DISTRICT

Local psych-rock. Wednesday at Don Quixote’s

LARA PRICE BLUES BAND

Blues vocalist and her ace band. Friday at Pocket

B-SIDE PLAYERS

Afro-Latin-reggae-funk favorites. Saturday at Moe’s Alley

JAMESTOWN REVIVAL

Roots-inspired indie-rock from Austin. Sunday at Catalyst

Be Our Guest: Tequila & Taco Music Festival

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The fact that there’s a local gathering celebrating tequila, tacos and music may be enough to get you over to San Lorenzo Park to partake. If you need more, here goes: there will be top-shelf tequila sampling, gourmet tacos with all the fixings, plenty of margaritas to go around, craft beers, art vendors and live music from Third Sol, Patrón Latin Rhythms, Metalachi Band, Extra Large, and SambaDá. Sound good? We think so, too. 


INFO: 11 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, Aug.27 and 28. San Lorenzo Park, 137 Dakota St., Santa Cruz. WANT TO GO? Go to santacruz.com/giveaways before 11 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 25 to find out how you could win a pair of tickets to Saturday’s festivities.

Love Your Local Band: Dead Recipe

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Day of Mangos is a creative, moody synth-pop record layered with lots of strange sounds and infectious hooks. Local three-piece Dead Recipe recorded it last year, but it’s not really the band you’ll get if you see them live right now.
For one thing, they recorded it when they were only a two-piece (Austin natives Kyle Albrecht and Camille Lewis). When they performed these songs live initially, they tried to recreate it as accurately as possible, which meant relying heavily on backing tracks.
“We were interested in seeing how much sound we could produce with just the two of us. We were singing over big sample sections of our songs. Then this year, we just tried to strip everything down,” says Lewis.
Part of that change-over is the addition of third member, Tom Clary. They are starting over, in a sense. Rather than try to get every layer of electronics into their set, they start with just guitar, drums and keyboards, and build up from there. One of their biggest influences for this new direction is early Talking Heads, which was minimalistic at its core, while still being incredibly experimental.
Is Dead Recipe a New Wave band now? Kind of, but even that definition doesn’t totally define them. They are more like pop experimentalists that are using whatever means they have to express themselves.
“We’re still using electronics. It’s a little less karaoke. It breathes a little more. If we had an electronic malfunction, we wanted that to not be the death of us,” says Albrecht.


INFO: 9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 19. Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $8. 429-6994.

What’s your favorite happy hour in Santa Cruz?

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“515 Kitchen and Cocktails. I like the different selections they have and there is a nice atmosphere upstairs.”

Stephanie Lain

Santa Cruz
Lecturer

“Pono. I love the ahi wasabi poke bowl. It’s the best.”

Jack Hulse

Santa Cruz
Sales

“Santa Cruz Mountain Brewery, because there’s a good outdoor seating area and really good beer options at a good price.”

Rebekah Wilson

Santa Cruz
Nanny/Cab Driver

“Crow’s Nest, because they have delicious appetizers and good drinks.”

Vanessa Orey

Santa Cruz
Educational Assistant

“Riva, because the calamari is bomb there.”

Kaiana Harding

Santa Cruz
Fifth grade

Film Review: ‘Florence Foster Jenkins’

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Something that’s really perfectly awkward is, in essence, perfect. Florence Foster Jenkins is Stephen Frears’ biopic of a show-business legend who deserves her place next to the Shaggs and Ed Wood. Meryl Streep certainly sentimentalizes this deluded woman’s life, but she also honors it.
Frears is crafty, not letting the cat out of the bag until the right time. It was fun to watch FFJ in a theater full of people not acquainted with the legend of Jenkins, an opera singer whose reach truly exceeded her grasp. And, as per the Browning verse, Frears sends this provocative singer to heaven.  
We open at the Verdi Club in Manhattan in 1944, where the well-off Ms. Jenkins is entertaining the big city culture vultures. Her husband, St. Clair Bayfield (Hugh Grant), a former actor, massacres a little Hamlet as an entr’acte before his wife and patroness Florence Foster Jenkins (Streep) assumes the stage. The hefty lady is the center of a playlet about the winged Angel of Inspiration visiting Stephen Foster, to bestow “Oh, Susanna!” upon him. (Happily, this was a real thing—Jenkins’ penchant for wearing angel wings on stage was due to her appearance as the star in this tableau.) The night is a success, though Florence is not a healthy woman and has to go to bed early. St. Clair leaves to go spend the night elsewhere.
Jenkins is a patron of the conductor Toscanini (Christian McKay) who’d rather look the other way when Florence tries to get practice as a mezzo-soprano. She hires an accompanist, Cosme McMoon (Simon Helberg of The Big Bang Theory, the movie’s real standout); he little realizes he will be playing for a singer who is so cataclysmically off-key. Jenkins’ career soars, greased with the help of her own money. She trades small practice rooms for the largest stages in New York, and her rise is contrasted with McMoon’s terror.  
There used to be an expression, “all his features were working,” to describe someone barely able to conceal their emotions. The explosively funny Helberg recalls such masters of working-features comedy as Eddie Bracken and Gene Wilder.
The handsome digitized recreations of midtown New York are charming. Frears speeds it along with wipes, one scene elbowing another to the side. Passages of effective farce emerge—Grant hiding his mistress from an unscheduled visit from his wife, while McMoon, half-dressed and walloped by his first hangover, tries to endure the surprise. But FFJ also contains the kind of farce that doesn’t snap—some labored business of St. Clair trying to hide all the newspapers containing a scathing review of Florence’s recital, written by a reporter who will become a big-name gossip columnist, Earl Wilson (John Cavanagh).
The film suggests that only disease could explain this remarkably strange career. And the serious turn of Nicholas Martin’s script is, ultimately, payback for the funny parts. Despite her reputation and her Oscars, Streep has greater gifts for comedy than tragedy—she’s most watchable when thwarted or fogbound or fatuous, with her gaga pussycat smile revealing pearly little teeth. She dresses for this part in a Mad Carlotta mantilla or a turban worthy of the one the Three Stooges’ Joe de Rita wore when impersonating a sultan. Streep does have a keen tragic moment—a pitiful phobia that shakes her suddenly, cracking her grande-dame composure.
Jenkins came from a time when high culture wasn’t overwhelmed by pop music. Her perfect awfulness may have been a keener joke, back before the budget cuts that humble the Toscaninis of today. I’ve heard it said that opera singers really can’t hear themselves sing. Jenkins had no excuse: she made recordings. She remains a mystery. This is an often hilarious film, but it flattens out. Despite this, and the French-made pastiche of Jenkins’ life Margaret released earlier this year, the glorious enigma of Jenkins stands, defiant, ready to be cracked by a defter movie.


FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS With John Cavanagh, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg, Christian McKay, and Meryl Streep. Written by Nicholas Martin. Directed by Stephen Frears. PG-13, 110 Mins.

A Star Among Us: Henry Chadwick’s Breakout Success

I interviewed local indie-rocker Henry Chadwick back in March for GT’s “Love Your Local Band” column. He was putting the final touches on his debut solo EP, and was excited to shake his reputation as a one-trick-pony pop-punker with local punk band My Stupid Brother, a group he’d been in since before high school. I found him to be a nice guy. Humble, unassuming, and now, at 25, anxious to show off a new side of himself. I also immediately liked his new music, influenced in equal parts by ’60s and ’90s rock ’n’ roll, but with infectious hooks that stood up to multiple listens.
I didn’t think much about Chadwick after that until June, when I was shocked to discover that Rolling Stone magazine had declared his song “Guest At Home,” the title track off his solo EP, one of the best pop songs of 2016. This wasn’t an article highlighting the best up-and-coming indie singles—Chadwick was suddenly being put in the same conversation as Pitbull, Garbage, Enrique Iglesias, and Tegan and Sara. It’s not that his song didn’t deserve the attention, but how did Chadwick, an indie musician almost completely unknown outside of Santa Cruz, suddenly crack the top-pop list in the biggest music magazine in the country?
A week later, Time Magazine also named “Guest At Home” one of the best songs of 2016, this time placing him in the company of artists like Kanye West, Brandy Clark, Flo Rida and Miguel. And that was just the beginning of an avalanche of press; to date, Chadwick’s Guest At Home EP has garnered write-ups in more than 50 publications. Some have focused mainly on the title track, others on the song “Alright”—which has actually gotten more listens on Chadwick’s Soundcloud than “Guest At Home”—and others on the entire EP.
The Santa Cruz artist is a bona fide sensation, but with all of this publicity coming seemingly out of nowhere, none of the national publications writing about Chadwick know much about him. Rolling Stone even mistakenly said he was a “San Diego solo artist.”
Meanwhile, Chadwick, a longtime fixture on the Santa Cruz scene, still doesn’t know how it all happened.
“I stumbled across the Rolling Stone thing, and I was like ‘what the hell?’ It was very surprising. It was bizarre. I didn’t really know what to think,” Chadwick tells me over beers at Harlow’s Nightclub in Sacramento, where the Coffis Brothers—who he drums for—will be playing that night. “It’s weird to me that people heard that song and thought of it as something worth sharing and putting alongside other cool songs.”
What’s even stranger is that these publications consistently refer to his breezy, Beatles-influenced garage-rock sound as “pop music.” In reality, he’s a rocker who happens to write catchy hooks.
“I was confused by that as well, but I’m not complaining,” Chadwick says. “I like pop, and I think there’s some pop sensibilities in my songwriting. Maybe pop is just a big umbrella.”
 

CURSE OF THE LOCAL BAND

Maybe it was no coincidence that Rolling Stone thought Chadwick was from somewhere else, as it’s rare for Santa Cruz musicians to break out regionally, let alone nationally. The local music scene here, while thriving, is extremely insular. Ska band Slow Gherkin sold out the Catalyst multiple times in the ’90s, but struggled to draw crowds elsewhere. Only a handful of bands from here have gained popularity nationally, and even those that have—Camper Van Beethoven, Good Riddance, and the Devil Makes Three, for instance—tend to be thought of either as cult bands or popular solely within a niche genre. Meanwhile, the Santa Cruz band that almost made it big is a tradition that stretches all the way back to ’60s rockers Snail.

henry chadwick guest at home album
RECORD SETTER Rolling Stone called the title track from Chadwick’s debut solo EP one of the best pop songs of 2016.

So Chadwick seems to be on his way to beating the odds. And though this sudden rush of attention is a total shock to him, I can see barely any trace of excitement exuding from his face. Chadwick is a short man wearing a Beastie Boys T-shirt and sporting a Beatles moptop circa 1964. He speaks quietly, and takes measured sips of his beer as he explains that it doesn’t exactly surprise him that he’s gotten so much publicity. That was, after all, his plan. What surprises him is that it actually worked.
Chadwick is a talented multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, singer and recording engineer. As such, he was able to record Guest At Home at his father’s home studio for virtually nothing, and used the majority of his recording budget to hire a publicist. He wanted to “get his music out there,” but didn’t have too lofty an idea of what exactly that meant.
“I wanted to be Google-searchable. That was my goal with it all. I really lucked out that this person hustled,” he says of his publicist.
Probably the biggest score was getting featured on music blog Indie Shuffle, where he was the No. 1 artist for a week. As a result of the attention he got from that, two of his songs were featured on Spotify’s “Fresh Finds: Six Strings” playlist. He was also approached by a small label, and even scored a manager. The Indie Shuffle highlight is also likely what led to the Rolling Stone and Time magazine features, since his publicist didn’t reach out to those particular publications.
 

TREBLE IN THE DETAILS

Chadwick’s new EP is short and sweet, with five songs, three of which Chadwick has released videos for. Each song stands on its own in terms of sound, with influences all over the board—including ’60s rock ’n’ roll, surreal psych-folk, electro-rock, surf-pop and ’90s alt-rock.
What connects the songs is Chadwick’s approach to infectious hooks and overall production quality. The songs are similar enough to occupy the same record, and different enough to keep the EP from getting boring.
“I wanted each song to have its own identity,” Chadwick says. “It’s more rewarding when you hear a band and there’s some punk stuff, surfy stuff, some Beach Boys-y stuff, some Beatles influence and some electronic stuff mixed in. It feels more authentic to just incorporate all of them, at least for me, because I like a lot of stuff.”
Though the result is a quick, easy listen, Chadwick worked on the EP for nearly a year, in between touring with local band the Coffis Brothers, and recording other bands at his studio. During the interview he repeatedly refers to himself as “obsessive” and “OCD,” qualities that are in no way apparent to me as I sit across from him. His worry-free, go-with-the-flow demeanor reveals no obsessive characteristics.   
“It’s kind of a paradox,” Aidan Collins tells me over the phone. Collins plays bass in the Coffis Brothers, and in Battlesnake, Chadwick’s backing band. “He’s really easygoing, but he’s definitely detail oriented. He doesn’t get hung up on the little things. He can be pretty open to change. He’s pretty democratic with ideas.”
Perhaps Chadwick’s secret weapon is his remarkable recording skills, which have roots in his childhood. His father was a recording engineer in Hollywood in the ’80s, and moved up to the Bay Area in 1988 when Chadwick’s older brother George was born. In the ’90s, the Chadwicks moved to Ben Lomond. There, Chadwick’s dad built his own studio using leftover equipment he saved from his Hollywood days. Chadwick’s father dubbed the studio Hale Kua (Hawaiian for “House in the Back”), and it’s where Chadwick recorded Guest At Home.
By the time he recorded his solo album, he was a seasoned engineer. His dad helped him record My Stupid Brother, a band Henry and George formed in 2002—before they were old enough to drive themselves to gigs. The first record in 2007 was self-titled, and Chadwick’s father recorded it for them. The second, 2009’s What You Need, was an engineering collaboration between Henry and his dad. The final record, 2014’s Welcome To My Head, Henry engineered and produced entirely on his own. He spent a lot of time on it, tweaking every little detail he could imagine, and sometimes overdoing it, he says now.
By the time Chadwick was in high school, he was also recording friends’ bands, and this has continued in more recent years. Some of the bands he’s recorded include Subpar, Jesse Daniel and the Slow Learners, McCoy Tyler, and the Leftovers. He records bands at Hale Kua, and another studio, the Compound.
“He’s really professional. He has a really good ear for things on the production end of it that I wouldn’t necessarily think of. I’ve had a lot of people compliment the sound,” says Jesse Daniel. Chadwick recorded Daniel’s country-rock American Unknown EP last year. The two have been friends since childhood, and Daniel also plays drums in Battlesnake. “He’s meticulous. If something’s a little bit off, he’ll tweak out on that, and obsess about it. It’ll be a good thing. It’ll end up sounding perfect, exactly the way you want it.”

“It’s more rewarding when you hear a band and there’s some punk stuff, surfy stuff, some Beach Boys-y stuff, some Beatles influence and some electronic stuff mixed in.” – HENRY CHADWICK

All of the time Chadwick devoted to poring over the final My Stupid Brother album, as well as the hours he’s devoted to friends’ bands, paid off on Guest At Home. It’s an incredibly fresh, professionally produced batch of songs that manage to steer clear of the over-polished radio sheen, but also doesn’t sound like the work of a DIY artist with no label affiliation who played virtually every instrument himself. The balance of instruments and vocals is exceptional. Certainly, if Rolling Stone had heard the music of a completely unknown artist without a flair for production, it’s unlikely they’d even consider featuring him alongside Pitbull and Enrique Iglesias.
As far as I can tell, it’s this high level of production value that has Chadwick pinned as a pop artist by so many music writers. When I mention this theory, Chadwick agrees.
“Some of my songs at their core are garage-rock songs. Maybe they’re pop songs. I just mask them in fuzz and stuff. If it was more drowned in reverb, it could have been straight up indie or garage,” he says.
 

FEELING ‘AT HOME’

The recording process for Guest At Home was a liberating experience for Chadwick. Up until recording these songs, his primary creative outlet had been My Stupid Brother—he’s played drums for the Coffis Brothers since 2010, but when he played with his brother, he was the primary singer-songwriter.
From the beginning, My Stupid Brother was a pop-punk band, an identity they kept intact more-or-less until their final album. It was on that last album that Chadwick felt himself wanting to write different types of songs. Some of it ended up being pop-punk, some of it steered into indie and garage-rock territory.
The band was changing anyway. Chadwick’s brother George moved to New York to get his master’s degree before the album was released. The band continued on a little bit. Between playing without George, and Chadwick wanting to move away from strictly pop-punk, it started to just not feel right continuing to play as My Stupid Brother.
All of these other musical influences, that up until then had to take a back seat to pop-punk, were not new for Chadwick. He’d always had eclectic musical tastes. The first band that ever had an impact on Chadwick was the Beatles, a group he’s been in love with since he was in diapers.  
“It was everything—all albums, all videos, all movies, all books,” George tells me over the phone, regarding his brother’s Beatles fetish. “He knew the words. He could sing the melodies. I remember him knowing the names of songs and knowing the names of stuff before I did. At one point, he was able to make his face look like every one of the Beatles. He could do a John Lennon impression, a Ringo Starr impression. He was like 8 years old. They were really pretty good.”
My Stupid Brother never broke up, but the group hasn’t played much over the past several years. Meanwhile, Chadwick had all these unused demos. When he started recording the songs, he wasn’t sure what it would be for, or if it would be a full album or an EP. Ultimately, he settled on the five songs, since they were so fully developed.
As for the name of the project, it just clicked in his head to go solo, which helped him to go anywhere he wanted genre-wise.
“I’m always going to be Henry Chadwick. I’m always going to be able to get behind my name. I can’t really break myself up,” Chadwick says. “There are solo artists that do something different every album, like Beck or David Bowie. They can just kind of reinvent themselves at any point and it doesn’t shun fans away.”  
As press continues to roll in for Guest At Home, Chadwick takes it all in stride, unsure what it all means for his future. One thing that’s changed is that he’s working with people on his solo music—a manager, label, publicist—and they’re all in discussion about what he should do next: releases, tours, etc.  
“It’s weird having a little team built around me now. That’s never something I’ve had before,” he says with reluctant enthusiasm.
After we finish the interview, he heads off to join the Coffis Brothers on stage. In this role, he’s completely unassuming—for half of the set I can barely even see him, hidden behind one of the lead singers. As I watch, it suddenly strikes me that no one in this club would ever guess that that guy is poised to be a genuine rock star. They certainly won’t hear it from him.
Henry Chadwick and Battlesnake with Jackie Zealous perform at 9 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 9 at the Crepe Place, 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz. $8. 429-6994.

Coastal Commission Ejects City Councilmember, Strikes Down RV Ban

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At last week’s meeting of the California Coastal Commission, Commissioner Martha McClure ranted against the City of Santa Cruz’s controversial new law banning recreational vehicles from parking overnight. She has begun to feel exasperated, she tried to explain, with cities that make criminals out of the poor and homeless. Just then, a shout reverberated through the hotel meeting room.
“Good, because Santa Cruz won’t have to host all of them, so thank you for your consistency!” someone blurted out from the sparsely populated room on the second floor of the Hilton Santa Cruz.
It was City Councilmember Richelle Noroyan, yelling from the seventh row.
Three other women sitting with Noroyan began yelling along, as a back-and-forth erupted between Noroyan and Coastal Commission Chair Steve Kinsey.
“Excuse me. You’re an elected official—you should know better,” a frustrated Kinsey barked back at Noroyan, eliciting gasps from the crowd.
Looking back on the encounter, Noroyan, who was ultimately ejected from that Aug. 10 meeting, says that her anger toward the California Coastal Commission had been festering for weeks. She believes the commission has singled out the City of Santa Cruz’s law despite the fact that it’s similar to measures 21 other coastal cities have enacted without so much as a peep from the commission. The laws passed by those other cities, she believes, have forced more RV-driving transients toward Santa Cruz.
However, she says the experience has humbled her.
“I beat myself up for doing that, because I am critical of those who do this at council,” says Noroyan. The City of Santa Cruz’s meeting rules, last updated two years ago, allow the council to indefinitely bar anyone who becomes too “boisterous.”
“Moving forward, I will be less judgmental of people who do that,” Noroyan adds, “because sometimes your emotions and frustrations get the best of you.”
Ultimately, the commission voted 11-1 to uphold an appeal that claimed Santa Cruz’s rule cuts back on critical coastal access. The lone dissenting voice in support of the law came from Kinsey, who had just thrown Noroyan out. Commissioners also directed staff to investigate the issue further.
Robert Norse, the homeless advocate gadfly who filed the Coastal Commission appeal against the city, admits that even he was surprised by the outcome.
The City Council originally passed its oversized vehicle rule at a May 24 meeting, during which Noroyan proposed a motion to enact the ban without the support of the Coastal Commission, which had called city staffers about the matter at the 11th hour, the day of the meeting. Her motion failed.
Noroyan, a vocal supporter of the RV crackdown, says complaints from locals prompted the rule, with many residents expressing anger at large vehicles parking for long periods on city streets, taking up multiple spots and often leaving trash behind.
Noroyan and Deputy City Manager Scott Collins mentioned such complaints at the Coastal Commission meeting, arguing that the city’s plan ensures public safety. Local residents have found discarded needles in areas where RVers are known to stay, Collins told the commission, and bike thefts also spiked in these neighborhoods. The city has also had problems with RV campers dumping waste onto the streets, he added.
But in lecturing Noroyan and Collins, coastal commissioners sounded unconvinced and unimpressed by the city’s presentation.
Commissioner Effie Turnbull-Sanders said that, anecdotes aside, the city did not prove a connection between RV users and crime—a point which McClure also emphasized. “I’m getting very frustrated with communities that have this tendency to identify anyone who is homeless as a chronic drug user or chronic thief or somebody who is not on the right side of the law,” McClure said.
City staffers had suggested that RVs could possibly park at local businesses or in church parking lots, but admitted they did not know of specific churches or businesses willing to offer their lots.
“It seems like they want us to demonstrate that there will be parking spaces, so we’ll have to look at that,” Collins said after the vote.
Collins says the city will not enforce the rule—which would have still allowed RV drivers to purchase overnight parking permits—until the matter gets sorted. Santa Cruz City Attorney Tony Condotti says the Coastal Commission’s appeal process is lengthy and involved, adding that it would probably cause “several months of delay” in the city’s ability to implement the ordinance.
At the same meeting, protesters showed up with signs criticizing a sand-mining operation in Marina that the Coastal Commission has been trying to shut down. The commission also got an update on the search for a replacement of popular Executive Director Charles Lester, who was fired in a controversial vote this past winter. Jack Ainsworth, the senior deputy director, has served as interim executive director since March, and a recruiting firm will begin its search for a permanent replacement this month.
When it comes to the RV rule, Noroyan asserts that the city’s way of handling homeless issues is “not within the purview of the Coastal Commission.”
“The RV issue is important, but how we were being treated by the Coastal Commission became even bigger,” she says. “It’s an unequal application of standards.”
It isn’t the first time someone has made such claims. The Coastal Commission heard a loud public outcry in Santa Cruz when it denied approval of both the Arana Gulch Multi-Use Trail in 2010 and the La Bahia hotel project in 2011—both of which were approved in later years.
Commissioner Wendy Mitchell concedes that the commission needs to develop a policy on coastal access and RV ordinances, rather than tackle these matters on a city-by-city basis. In the meantime, McClure asked the enforcement division to look at the RV ordinances of the 21 other coastal cities in California that have enacted similar bans.
Other commissioners reminded everyone that the principal charge of the commission is to ensure that the public is able to access the beach. “From our perspective,” Commissioner Mark Vargas said, “we need to be careful about how this impacts people of all economic spectrums’ ability to access the coast.”

Sentinel Reporter Resigns After Controversial Voicemail

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Toni Riley was packing up snacks for a bonfire late last month when her cell phone rang. She answered, and it was Stephen Baxter, a reporter from the Santa Cruz Sentinel, working on a story about the one-year anniversary of the slaying of 8-year-old Tannery resident Maddy Middleton, who was a family friend of Riley. At the beginning of what would be a strange series of events, Riley says she told Baxter that if Laura Jordan—Middleton’s mom—wanted to comment, she would let him know and hung up the phone.
When Baxter called back immediately after, Riley let it go to voicemail and Baxter left her a message.
“I just wanted to let you know that you’re a terrible person,” he said in the message, which Riley says left her completely shocked when she listened to it on the way to the bonfire. “You’re an awful person, and I have heard so much between last year and this year about the things that you’ve done.”
Baxter made a few accusations in his message—that Riley’s family was involved in a fight outside Middleton’s memorial, that she may have had something to do with a mismanaged fundraiser, and that she has enabled a close friend’s supposed “drinking problem”—all of which Riley denies. Riley says, for instance, that she’s sober. “How am I enabling someone if I don’t even drink?” she asks.
A recording of the voicemail, left on July 26, has made the rounds on social media, and Baxter has since resigned from the Sentinel. Though he declined to address the specifics of his accusations, he says the voicemail came out of his frustration and anger with a lack of cooperation from community members as he covered the story.
“I’m not shy to controversy and I’m always working in the public interest. I’ve been fair, accurate and professional in my reporting,” says Baxter, a five-time California Newspaper Publishers Association award-winning reporter. “I’m also human.”
The voicemail post has garnered more than 4,000 views and 100 shares on Facebook. Baxter says he had already been thinking about leaving the paper and looking for other jobs for about a year.
“In this case, Mr. Baxter himself acknowledged that it was inappropriate what he did, and we would never encourage anyone to lose their objectivity in a case,” says Santa Cruz Sentinel Editor Don Miller, who stresses that it was Baxter’s decision to step down. “I think Stephen was a good reporter here, and it was an unfortunate incident, but he chose to resign,” Miller says.
As they sat around the bonfire that night, Riley says that she played the voicemail for her friends, and everyone there was “appalled.”
“We got that there was going to be a story, and people want to know what happened. But there is a right way and a wrong way,” says Riley. “This isn’t a black-and-white issue—it’s super gray, and you have to have a bit of finesse to go into a place where something horrible happened and people are picking up the broken pieces of their life.”
In addition, says Riley, “there’s another level to this story. My father shot himself while I was at the bonfire that day.”
Baxter notes that he apologized four days later, although he says Riley didn’t feel his apology sounded sincere.
Riley and one of her friends also criticized Baxter’s reporting and the Santa Cruz Sentinel more generally, especially for how they handled the tragedy at the Tannery Arts Center.
“Santa Cruz can do better. We can do better if we demand more of the people who are serving us and giving us our news. You have to demand more of that,” says Facebook user Raggedy Andey, who posted the video and performs as a slam poet under the same name. “You aren’t allowed to create more pain in the wake of pain. We can demand better as a community, as a people, as a whole.”
Andey, who hoped to shine a more public light on what she sees as Baxter’s transgressions in the public eye, has asked us not to use her real name. Andey and Riley make numerous claims about Baxter’s reporting, including that he is loose with his facts.
In his coverage of the Middleton tragedy, Baxter did misreport the exact date of Middleton’s death, although the Sentinel article has since been corrected. In his most recent story on the series, he reported that defendant Adrian Gonzalez’s preliminary hearing will be Feb. 28, although it’s actually scheduled for Feb. 21, and that Middleton went missing July 25. She was, in fact, last seen the afternoon of July 26.
We ran 25 stories, or something, on the murder, so, on one of them it had the day of the murder wrong then it got corrected,” Baxter says, who adds that there’s no excuse for wrong dates and that people should expect accuracy from reporters. “But is that the one thing I did? OK, I’ll take it. There are thousands of facts in there, so, if I had one date of one thing wrong, I’ll accept that.”
Now that he’s left the Sentinel, Baxter says he hopes to freelance and work on stories outside of the Santa Cruz area. He also hopes to write about his experiences as a reporter, and the “moral quandaries” reporters face, like weighing what to do with off-the-record information and the struggle of trying to write a long slate of well-rounded stories in a tight turnaround.
“The amount of work you do and the extent you go to to get interviews and get ahold of people, just to get someone on the phone or in person, all of the reporting that goes into the two or three stories that I am writing per day … It’s never enough,” Baxter says. “No matter what you do.”

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Sentinel Reporter Resigns After Controversial Voicemail

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A message Stephen Baxter left while reporting an update on the Maddy Middleton tragedy made the rounds on social media
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