Cover bands have to be fun. That’s a rule guitarist-vocalist Jeff Ebbage sticks to in his group Fishhook, which plays covers spanning from the Who to Sublime.
Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds’ soul-singing frontwoman may be small, but her voice rattles the rafters
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My Mom’s Mole
Watsonville company brings mole to the masses
Age of Unreason
Lily Tomlin tackles age with caustic zeal as ‘Grandma’
Mole of Champions
Uncovering the secrets of the art with a former winner of the Mole & Mariachi Festival cook-off
Route Awakening
Possible downtown overhaul centered around the Santa Cruz Metro Center continues taking shape
The Myth of Multitasking
Daniel Levitin reveals the truth about how the brain functions most efficiently
Jazz EPICenter
In celebration of the Kuumbwa Jazz Center’s 40th anniversary, a look back at how it shook up the jazz world
Mercury Retrograde, Fall Equinox, Yom Kippur, Forgiveness
We have a complex week ahead. Wednesday, Jupiter is opposite Neptune (Virgo/Pisces). Synthesis. A most auspicious, kind and loving day. Thursday, Mercury, star of conflict and crisis, is playing its beginning of retrograde in Libra (16 degrees). Our last Mercury retro was in Gemini (May/June). It concerned communications. Now the retrograde is in Libra, concerning relationships, right use of money and pondering upon right relations. Mercury takes us deep within ourselves where we deliberate, ponder, and brood over issues in our personal and global worlds. Mercury retro in Libra helps us review the quality and status of our relationships (commitments, marriage, partnerships, etc.). It calls us to assess if we have right relations with all the kingdoms—mineral, plant, animal, human and our soul (the new kingdom on Earth). Mercury retrograde continues through the Oct. 9. We all know the Mercury retro rules by now.
Monday is United Nations International Day of Peace. Everywhere in the world, at noon, there is a moment of silence. Let us all participate. We know the esoteric equation for peace: Goodwill + right relations (Libra) = the beginning of the peace process. More at internationaldayofpeace.org.
Wednesday (Sept. 23) is autumn equinox, as the sun enters Libra. The soul year begins. It’s also Yom (day) Kippur (to atone), a somber day of atonement, the most holy and solemn day of the Jewish year. We ask God on this day to forgive us, our omissions, ignorance, and all that we have done to create separations and sadness in others. The purity of Virgo has prepared us for the Libra balance and harmony forgiveness offers. All things are then made new. “May we all be inscribed for good in the Book of Life.”
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Fishhook
Cover bands have to be fun. That’s a rule guitarist-vocalist Jeff Ebbage sticks to in his group Fishhook, which plays covers spanning from the Who to Sublime. “We’re happy to play the court jester, if that’s what’s going to get people involved. If you’re all like, ‘I’m just too cool for this,’ it’s a hard sell,”...
My Mom’s Mole
Watsonville company brings mole to the masses Never buy tamales from the frozen food department at Costco. Good tamales require days to prepare correctly, otherwise forget it. The same is true of mole, the popular and flavorful Mexican sauce that will be celebrated this week at the Mole and Mariachi Festival (see page 49). When Watsonville...
Age of Unreason
Lily Tomlin tackles age with caustic zeal as ‘Grandma’ When some people of a certain age realize they’re old enough to be grandparents, they’re horrified. But they might feel better about the whole thing if they decided to abuse the privileges of age with as much snarky verve as Lily Tomlin in Grandma. As the caustic...
Mole of Champions
Uncovering the secrets of the art with a former winner of the Mole & Mariachi Festival cook-off It’s Sunday night and Leo Santana, who won the mole cook-off at the Mole & Mariachi Festival in 2013, is seated with us at a small round table in the center of his father’s namesake restaurant, Manuel’s. Sunday is...
Song Bird
Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds’ soul-singing frontwoman may be small, but her voice rattles the rafters Arleigh Kincheloe’s weathered voice, which cracks in and out when she laughs or talks excitedly, suits her music perfectly. As frontwoman of Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds, a horn-heavy seven-piece steeped in classic R&B and rock, Kincheloe gives...
Route Awakening
Possible downtown overhaul centered around the Santa Cruz Metro Center continues taking shape Buses circulate on the ground floor of a large building between Pacific Avenue and Front Street. Outside, lining the street, an assortment of cafes and clothing stores bustle with shoppers. Above the street is a layer of parking, followed by story upon story...
The Myth of Multitasking
Daniel Levitin reveals the truth about how the brain functions most efficiently As I sat down to write this article, I remembered that I’d requested some related information via email. While I was checking my email, I noticed one from a friend who asked me to participate in a survey. As I completed the survey, I...
Jazz EPICenter
In celebration of the Kuumbwa Jazz Center’s 40th anniversary, a look back at how it shook up the jazz world Standing behind his electric keyboard, his beatific face bathed in sweat and his rotund body draped by a shiny metallic purple tunic, Sun Ra started the slow, undulating incantation. Before long his entire besparkled Arkestra joined...
Mercury Retrograde, Fall Equinox, Yom Kippur, Forgiveness
We have a complex week ahead. Wednesday, Jupiter is opposite Neptune (Virgo/Pisces). Synthesis. A most auspicious, kind and loving day. Thursday, Mercury, star of conflict and crisis, is playing its beginning of retrograde in Libra (16 degrees). Our last Mercury retro was in Gemini (May/June). It concerned communications. Now the retrograde is in Libra, concerning relationships, right use...
From The Editor
Plus Letters To the Editor Koo-um-ba. Koo-um-ba. Kuumbwa. Sorry, I just realized after reading Andrew Gilbert’s cover story this week that I’ve been pronouncing “Kuumbwa” wrong for the last 20 years, and it’s a bit of a shock. The “w” is silent? Who knew? There are lots of other things I didn’t know about the history...