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Santa Cruz County is going wild for Bernie Sanders
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Chucho Valdés celebrates 40 years of his influential Cuban band Irakere at Santa Cruz show
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New Leaf Community Markets celebrates its 30th anniversary with a block party this weekend. Co-founder and president Scott Roseman talks about how he set out to change the world, and the changes in his own life after New Leaf’s sale
Avant Guardian
Phil Collins’ 37th New Music Works features music from Morocco, Israel, Lebanon, and Turkey
French Connection
Sarah Vowell puts her unique spin on an obscure piece of American history
Cookie Town
Pacific Cookie Company turns 35 and a new Dim Sum restaurant in Capitola nails the wonton
High-Level Policy
New state pot laws line up with county task force
Sun Enters Scorpio, United Nations Day, Full Moon
Wednesday and Thursday (Oct. 21 and 22) are the last days of Libra. Friday, a very complex day, Sun enters Scorpio. During Scorpio we can expect the Nine Personality Tests, Scorpio’s emphasis on death and regeneration and its call to discipleship. There are unusual and multiple interactions with the planets, reflecting the deep complex emotional and mental waters of Scorpio itself. A major shift of energies is the sign change (from Libra to Scorpio), from balance to desire, rest to transformations, choice to revelations. Continuing through Sunday.
Saturday, United Nations Day, is the 70th birthday of the United Nations (Scorpio organization), created by the hierarchy to bring forth the rule of law for the world. The U.N., in its reconstruction work, is a deeply Scorpio endeavor.
Sunday is favorable with Venus/Jupiter in Virgo, radiating love/wisdom (Ray 2) to Earth and humanity, expanding goodwill. Tuesday is the full moon, Scorpio solar festival (4 degrees). Scorpio is the sign of deep feeling, Temple Mysteries, Persephone and Pluto’s underworld—psychological, spiritual, hidden and sheltered. Scorpio is the “flaming sword” protecting the Tree of Knowledge (and desire), from which the serpent plucked the apple offered to Eve (feminine mental plane). Scorpio is the sign and color of pomegranates, the orange of persimmons, pumpkins and Halloween, the latter informing us soon “something wicked (good) our way comes.” Scary indeed!
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Uncommon Brewers
Their flavors may be offbeat, but Santa Cruz brewery still puts craft first Every craft brewer has a hot new IPA or pale ale, but how many of them have a bacon brown ale? Just one: Santa Cruz’s Uncommon Brewers, which first went into production in August of 2007, and has created unusual flavors like Golden...
Bern Notice
Santa Cruz County is going wild for Bernie Sanders At a “Brews for Bernie” event, a life-size Bernie Sanders cutout greets a diverse crowd of enthusiastic supporters at Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing. A merchandise table is stocked with “Feel the Bern” T-shirts, bumper stickers and pins. Around the patio, everyone has their own reasons for supporting...
Have a Cigar
Chucho Valdés celebrates 40 years of his influential Cuban band Irakere at Santa Cruz show Chucho Valdés wants to set the record straight. “I didn’t help create Irakere,” says the Cuban pianist and composer, referring to the seminal jazz ensemble that came together in Havana in 1973. “I did create Irakere.” While in recent years he...
What’s In Store
New Leaf Community Markets celebrates its 30th anniversary with a block party this weekend. Co-founder and president Scott Roseman talks about how he set out to change the world, and the changes in his own life after New Leaf’s sale Scott Roseman, the founder and president of New Leaf Community Markets, has a beatific manner about...
Avant Guardian
Phil Collins’ 37th New Music Works features music from Morocco, Israel, Lebanon, and Turkey As Santa Cruz rolled its alternative way into the 1980s, artistic nonprofits began to sprout up like psilocybin mushrooms. Always at the edge of our avant-garde inner circle is musician/composer Phil Collins, who, for the past 36 years, has probed, pushed and...
French Connection
Sarah Vowell puts her unique spin on an obscure piece of American history Sarah Vowell is the American history teacher we all wish we’d had. Slightly sardonic, often hilarious, and deeply sympathetic, she guides us into the thick of the past with tongue in cheek and quip at the ready, pointing out ironic connections, wandering down...
Cookie Town
Pacific Cookie Company turns 35 and a new Dim Sum restaurant in Capitola nails the wonton C is for cookie, and if we Santa Cruzans never had to grow up and abandon our favorite childhood dessert, we can place our blame squarely at the delicious doorstep of Larry and Shelly Pearson. Back in the heyday of...
High-Level Policy
New state pot laws line up with county task force A brand new sweeping package of laws aims to transform California’s billion-dollar medical pot sector with a complex multi-agency system of testing and licensing. And it’s right in step with the action local government leaders and marijuana advocates are taking. “It’s perfect timing, actually,” says Colin...
Sun Enters Scorpio, United Nations Day, Full Moon
Wednesday and Thursday (Oct. 21 and 22) are the last days of Libra. Friday, a very complex day, Sun enters Scorpio. During Scorpio we can expect the Nine Personality Tests, Scorpio’s emphasis on death and regeneration and its call to discipleship. There are unusual and multiple interactions with the planets, reflecting the deep complex emotional and mental waters...
From The Editor
Plus Letters To the Editor Santa Cruz was all-in very early in the organic food revolution, and some of the local trailblazers are still thriving today. Staff of Life, for instance, has been around for 40 years, and this weekend New Leaf Community Markets celebrates its 30th anniversary with a block party at their Westside store....
