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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Kranked 7 “The Cackle Factor”
Bicycle Trip is hosting the Santa Cruz premiere of Kranked 7 “The Cackle Factor”, a Radical Films production featuring epic riding sets from top riders like Jamie Goldman, Nathan Rennie, Steve Romaniuk, Mike Kinrade and Eric Porter… filmed in Alaska, British Columbia, California, Vermont, Switzerland and France. FREE prize toss and major raffle prizes to be given away after the film.
Show time: 7:00 pm (doors open at 6:45pm)
Tickets: only $5
Tickets available at the door or in advance at Bicycle Trip, 1127 Soquel Ave ( near Seabright and The Rio )
Visit www.bicycletrip.com for more info!
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Archy Comes To Life
A documentary film on surf icon Matt Archbold’s life
LOS ANGELES, CA – March 4th 2008: Billygoat Productions in conjunction with sponsors, RVCA, Surfer Magazine, Santa Cruz Surfboards and Hoven in association with Studio411 is proud to present Archy – a documentary film on Matt “Archy” Archbold.
Directed by Bill Ballard (The Mystic, Blue Crush), Archy chronicles one of the most fascinating and talented surf icons throughout his career as top-amateur, dynamic and innovative pro, troubled athlete, and most of all a survivor.
Since exploding onto the surf scene at 14 years old, Archy’s surfing and style have influenced more than three generations of surfers.
A variety of professional surfers, musicians, actors and noted industry leaders lend their voices and experiences to the chapters of Archy’s story including the likes of Martin Potter, Chris Mauro, Art Brewer, Bruce Irons, Christian Fletcher, Dino Andino, Moses Paskowitz, Sunny Garcia, Herbie Fletcher and Garth Tarlow.
The film is narrated by rock legend, Henry Rollins.
Show time: 8:00 pm
Tickets: $10 at door Night of show
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
The Leftist Gorillas of Comedy
Equality Exhalted • Fox Flogged • Activists Admired • Vegetarians Vindicated • Coulter Chloroformed • Peace Proliferated • Neo-cons Needled • Goodness Glorified • Choice Championed • Animals Adored • Hate Halted • Hummers Harangued • Limbaugh Lambasted • Bush Busted • Lefties Lauded • Cheney Chastised • Liberalism Loved • Environment Extolled
A raucous evening of kick-ass, take-no-prisoners, progressive comedy featuring national headliners Will Durst, Dan Piraro, and Johnny Steele.
• Will Durst is a 5-time Emmy Award nominee and a 7-time nominee for The American Comedy Awards Comedian of the Year. His Off Broadway solo show was repeatedly extended and came “Highly Recommended” by the New York Times.
• Dan Piraro is creator of the syndicated and award winning cartoon Bizarro. Also a talented performer, Piraro’s inventive multi-media solo work, The Bizarro Baloney Show, played in theaters across America to great critical acclaim.
• Johnny Steele has hosted award winning radio and TV shows in San Francisco. A former winner of the S.F. Comedy Competition, Steele’s performances have been described as ‘A tidal wave of social and political commentary’.
Also performing will be Santa Cruz favorite, stand up comedian Richard Stockton, whose Planet Cruz Comedy Hour airs locally on 88.9 KUSP.
Show time: 8:00 pn
Tickets: $20 in advance/$23 at the door
Advance tickets at Streetlight records 831-421-9200 and TICKETWEB
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Women's Voices - A Night of Comedy
Featuring: Rene' Hicks, Marga Gomez & Robin Reiser
Show time: 7:30
Tickets: $25 General, $50 Gold Circle, $20 Seniors & Students
Tickets Available Now at: Bookshop Santa Cruz, Streetlight Records, Bookworks Aptos, Womencare
More Info: 831.457.2273
www.womencaresantacruz.org
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Monday, May12th, 2008
Ralph Nader
“There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship toward 'a new birth of freedom.’” — Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader is American's most renowned and effective crusader for the rights of consumers and the general public, a role that has repeatedly brought him into conflict with both business and government.
Now, running for President of The United States, Ralph Nader and running mate MATT GONZALEZ will make a stop in Santa Cruz at The Rio Theatre to bring his independent presidential campaign message.
Matt Gonzalez
Show time: 8:00 pm
Tickets: $10 contribution/ $5 student/low-income (no one turned away) at the door night of show
there are no advance ticket sales to this show
More Info Call – (831) 466-0739 or events@votenader.org
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Santa Cruz Film Festival
3:30 pm
Goodbye Baby Daniel Schechter 87 min USA With First Period Jonathon Roessler 12 min USA
6:00 pm
The Listening Project Dominic Howes and Joel Weber 75 min USA
8:00 pm
Les Paul – Chasing Sound! John Paulson 86 min USA With A Jazz Sketchbook Ruth Beckmann 3 min USA
The Scraffle:
A Les Paul Studio Chameleon guitar will be raffled . The Chameleon is a gorgeous shifting coloured guitar made by the Wizard of Waukesha Les Paul. The drawing for this guitar will be held tonight at The Rio Theatre.
Following the doc a performance by local Dylan Rosenberg of Archer will astound us with his guitar virtuosity. Dylan was named Best musician of 2008 and his band Archer will be opening up for Judas Priest in Europe this summer.
Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Santa Cruz Film Festival Closing Day / Night
12 Noon
The Future is Now! Works produced by filmmakers less than 18 years old
Heart Attack David Harris 8 min USA
Driven Max Blum, Gabriel Edelsohn, Will Kasten, Patrick Ouziel 10 min USA
Alone, Together Eric Fisher, Dan Lewis, Krystalline Armendariz, Roan Bibby 10 min USA
Dependent Richard Memminger 14 min USA
Bose Douglas de Jesus 1 min USA
COPS Roman Marin IV 1 min USA
The Ghoul Adam Brayton 6 min USA
Catastrophe in the Hotel del Gallo (Gatastrofe en el Hotel del Gallo) Enrique Vargas Celis 5 min Mexico
Masquerade Kellen Moore 12 min USA
Speaking Truth to Power Melissa Mergner 10 min USA
Peace. Stephen Sotor, Trace Gaynor 17 min USA
The Fly Christopher Jarvis 4 min USA
Lost and Found Vadim Oss 8 min USA
2:30pm
Uchronia Dimitri Djahanbani and Benjamin Djahanbani 90 minutes Belgium/USA
4:00
Youth Empowering Youth,,Coming ..
7:30
YOU ARE INVITED TO THE SANTA CRUZ FILM FESTIVAL VII CLOSING NIGHT
Festivities and The World Premiere of Programming the Nation? Included in your 15 dollar ticket you will be privy to our Awards Ceremony following the screening.
Programming the Nation? Jeff Warrick 120 min USA
Rock out while we count the ballots to Not Sane the Closing Night band PROGRAMMING THE NATION? will perform. Following the music our Awards Ceremony will commence. Audience Award winners (9 categories) and Jury Award winners for Best Documentary and Best Feature narrative will be announced and presented to film makers. Awards Honoring Casting Director Judy Bouley and Film maker, Soundman and Director Arthur Rosato will be honored. A Closing Night Party at The Rio Theatre with celebrations with Beer Sponsored by Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Yard Dog Road Show
Big Time burlesque & Vaudeville
The Yard Dogs Road Show is a hobo cabaret, a living patchwork of vaudeville and rock and roll. In the enchanting land of stage show entertainment theirs is both pleasant and formidable terrain. They require a sensitivity to the subtle and the absurd. They lead the modern hobohemian on a visual and sonic journey through part of history that may or may not have existed – followed by an ambitious return to the emotional challenges of our punch-drunk contemporary world. It’s a true story on stage: sword swallowers, dancing dolls, fire eaters and sunset hobo poetry - all animated by the live sounds of the Yard Dogs cartoon heavy band. Yard Dogs Road Show is pure visual and sonic voodoo.
Show time: 8PM
Tickets: $19 all ages welcome
Tickets available at Streetlight Records 831-421-9200 and www.ticketweb.com
artist website
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
The Bobs & Roy Zimmerman
Roy Zimmerman and his funny songs about ignorance, war and greed. The Bobs, touring their new album " Get your monkey off my dog "
Show time: 7:30PM
Advance tickets $22 831-479-9421 and www.snazzyproductions.com
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Junior Brown
"A lot of people tell me they don't like country
music, but they like what I am doing," says Junior
Brown. "I hear that line more than anything else,"
which is ironic because a couple of licks is all it
takes to erase any doubts concerning Junior's
stylistic allegiance. His music combines the soul of
country and the spirit of rock n' roll.
Show time: 9:00 pm
Tickets: $20 adv $25 day of show all ages available at Streetlight Records 831-421-9200, Logos Books and The Crepe Place (831) 429-6994 in Santa Cruz.
Online: Ticketweb
www.juniorbrown.com
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Orchestra Baobab
The legendary and Award winning Senegalese group, Orchestra Baobab are masters of the Afro-Cuban vibe. Formed in the 1970's, the group took over the music scene in Dakar, Senegal. They were praised and recognized as the best band in Senegal, if not Africa, enjoying a high profile status similar to Bembeya Jazz group. In the late 80's the group folded after a tour in France. After a fifteen year hiatus, they have come back with fanfare, sizzlin' stages around the globe.
Orchestra Baobab was, and still is renown for their seamless tapestries of multilingual Afrobeat, South American polyrhythms, big-band jazz, calypso and exotic tempos galore.
Show time: 8PM
Tickets: $23 adv / $28 door
Tickets available: Streetlight Records 831-421-9200
Tickets are available online via www.browntickets.com
More info at: www.zookbeat.com
Alma Gifts By Phone: 1.800.838.3006
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
SALMAN RUSHDIE
The Enchantress of Florence
Salman Rushdie is one of the world literature’s leading voices.
A British-Indian essayist and novelist, his award-winning works include Midnight’s Children, Haroun and the Sea of Stories and Shalimar the Clown. He is perhaps best known for his novel The Satanic Verses which, in 1988, provoked violent reaction from Middle Eastern Muslim communities and a fatwa against his life issued by the Ayatollah Khomeini, forcing him to spend a decade largely underground. In recent years, Salman Rushdie has been more visible publicly, speaking out against Islamic extremism, as well as lecturing on his continued successes as the author who can tell stories that span the East and the West better than almost anyone writing today.
In The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie draws on more than seven years of research, bringing together two seemingly different cities—the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant emperor Akbar wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire, and treachery, and the equally sensual city of Renaissance Florence, where Niccolò Machiavelli takes a starring role. A virtuosic feat of storytelling that mixes political, romance and magic, Rushdie's novel is a reflection on war and politics, gender and society, fantasy and rumor, individuality and public life, and how the brutal past still influences our present world.
• With purchase of one copy of The Enchantress of Florence, up to two event tickets can be purchased at the reduced price of $12.00 each.
• Event tickets without book purchase are $30.00 each.
• Books will be available for in-store pick-up beginning May 28.
Show time: 7:30PM
Books and tickets available ONLY at Capitola Book Café: 1475 41st Ave * Capitola CA 95010 * (831) 462-4415
Capitola Book Café is not responsible for lost tickets.
www.capitolabookcafe.com
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Monday. June 23rd, 2008
BRANDI CARLILE
Support to be announced
Show time: 8:00 pm
Advance tickets $18 at Streetlight Records Santa Cruz 831-421-9200 and TICKETWEB
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2008
Habib Koité & Bamada
Habib is from the noble Khassonké griot lineage of Mali. His stirring, evocative music resonates with the emotional depth and spirit of the modern African experience. Habib's artistry and powerful personality earned him the adoration of fans such as Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt, both of whom ended up visiting Habib in Mali. Habib takes some unique approaches to playing the guitar. He tunes his instrument to the pentatonic scale and plays on open strings as one would on a kamale n'goni. At other times Habib plays music that sounds closer to the blues or flamenco, two styles he studied under Khalilou Traoré a veteran of the legendary Afro-Cuban band Maravillas du Mali. Unlike the griots, his singing style is restrained and intimate with varying cadenced rhythms and melodies. Reviews "His music is stuningly beautiful and lyrical, rooted in African tradition, yet broadly accessible. Koité is fast becoming an international star."
Show time: 8PM
Tickets: $23 adv / $28 door
Tickets available : ONLINE HERE
By Phone: 1.800.838.3006