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We demand an independent investigation to examine how Levinsohn was hired given his documented history of misconduct; whether he acted inappropriately toward Times employees during his tenure as publisher; and how the company and board have responded previously to allegations of sexual misconduct by newspaper leaders.
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The following article is reproduced from the public-domain version of the International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia (1913).
James Orr, M.A., D.D., General Editor
John L. Nuelsen, D.D., LL.D.
Edgar Y. Mullins, D.D., LL.D.
Morris O. Evans, D.D., PhD., Managing Editor
[ Underlining added for emphasis ]
(שׁכר, shēkhār; σίκερα, síkera; from שׁכר, shākhar, "to be or become drunk"; probably from the same root as sugar, saccharine): With the exception of Num 28:7, "strong drink" is always coupled with "wine." The two terms are commonly used as mutually exclusive, and as together exhaustive of all kinds of intoxicants.
Originally shēkhār seems to have been a general term for intoxicating drinks of all kinds, without reference to the material out of which they were made; and in that sense, it would include wine. Reminiscences of this older usage may be found in Num 28:7 (where shēkhār is clearly equivalent to wine, as may be seen by comparing it with Num 28:14, and with Exo 29:40, where the material of the drink offering is expressly designated "wine").When the Hebrews were living a nomadic life, before their settlement in Canaan, the grape-wine was practically unknown to them, and there would be no need of a special term to describe it. But when they settled down to an agricultural life, and came to cultivate the vine, it would become necessary to distinguish it from the older kinds of intoxicants; hence, the borrowed word yayin ("wine") was applied to the former, while the latter would be classed together under the old term shēkhār, which would then come to mean all intoxicating beverages other than wine (Lev_10:9; Num_6:3; Deu_14:26; Pro_20:1; Isa_24:9). The exact nature of these drinks is not clearly indicated in the Bible itself. The only fermented beverage other than grape-wine specifically named is pomegranate-wine (Son_8:2 : "the juice of my pomegranate," the Revised Version, margin "sweet wine of my pomegranate"); but we may infer that other kinds of shēkhār besides that obtained from pomegranates were in use, such as drinks made from dates, honey, raisins, barley, apples, etc. Probably Jerome (circa 400 ad) was near the mark when he wrote, "Sikera in the Hebrew tongue means every kind of drink which can intoxicate, whether made from grain or from the juice of apples, or when honeycombs are boiled down into a sweet and strange drink, or the fruit of palm oppressed into liquor, and when water is colored and thickened from boiled herbs" (Ep. ad Nepotianum). Thus shēkhār is a comprehensive term for all kinds of fermented drinks, excluding wine.
Probably the most common sort of shēkhār used in Biblical times was palm or date-wine. This is not actually mentioned in the Bible, and we do not meet with its Hebrew name yēn temārīm ("wine of dates") until the Talmudic period. But it is frequently referred to in the Assyrian-Babylonian contract tablets (cuneiform), and from this and other evidence we infer that it was very well known among the ancient Semitic peoples. Moreover, it is known that the palm tree flourished abundantly in Biblical lands, and the presumption is therefore very strong that wine made of the juice of dates was a common beverage. It must not be supposed, however, that the term shēkhār refers exclusively to date-wine. It rather designates all intoxicating liquors other than grape-wine, while in few cases it probably includes even wine.>/p>
There can be no doubt that shēkhār was intoxicating. This is proved (1) from the etymology of the word, it being derived from shākhar, "to be or become drunk" (Gen_9:21; Isa_29:9; Jer_25:27, etc.); compare the word for drunkard (shikkār), and for drunkenness (shikkārōn) from the same root; (2) from descriptions of its effects: e.g. Isaiah graphically describes the stupefying effect of shēkhār on those who drink it excessively (Isa_28:7, Isa_28:8). Hannah defended herself against the charge of being drunk by saying, "I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink," i.e. neither wine nor any other intoxicating liquor (1Sa_1:15). The attempt made to prove that it was simply the unfermented juice of certain fruits is quite without foundation. Its immoderate use is strongly condemned (Isa_5:11, Isa_5:12; Pro_20:1; see DRUNKENNESS). It was forbidden to ministering priests (Lev_10:9), and to Nazirites (Num_6:3; Jdg_13:4, Jdg_13:7, Jdg_13:14; compare Luk_1:15), but was used in the sacrificial meal as drink offering (Num_28:7), and could be bought with the tithe-money and consumed by the worshipper in the temple (Deu_14:26). It is commended to the weak and perishing as a means of deadening their pain; but not to princes, lest it might lead them to pervert justice (Pro_31:4-7).
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Booze In The Bible Reference
Bacchus and Anti-Bacchus
Below are links to a two-part article written by John MacLean in 1841. Dr. MacLean was Professor of Ancient Languages at the College of New Jersey at the time.
In this two-part article, John MacLean examines the claims made in two articles:
Bacchus, by Ralph Barnes Grindrod
Anti-Bacchus, by Rev B. Parsons
In John MacLean's introduction he says:
The comparative merit of the two Essays we shall not undertake to discuss, as our purpose is merely to examine some of the positions assumed, and to show that they are utterly untenable, being contrary to the word of God and the testimony of antiquity. So far as the object of these Essays is to promote temperance, we cordially approve it and we only regret that in the prosecution of an object so important, and so benevolent, the authors have not confined themselves to arguments which will stand the most rigid scrutiny.
These two articles form the foundation of modern prohibitionist arguments, and John MacLean refutes them soundly.
pp. 267-306 Bacchus and Anti-Bacchus, Part 1
pp. 471-523 Bacchus and Anti-Bacchus, concluded
The distribution of these documents was made possible by: Princeton Theological Seminary.
Articles in The Princeton Review were published without identifying their authors. However, in 1868 an index was published which made it possible to identify the Authors, such as John MacLean.
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This article is about the manga. For the 2020 television series based on it, see Alice in Borderland (TV series).
Japanese suspense manga series
Cover of volume 1.
(Imawa no Kuni no Arisu)
Fantasy,[1] survival,[2] suspense[3]
Haro Aso
Shōnen Sunday Comics
Shōnen Sunday S
(November 25, 2010 – March 25, 2015)
Weekly Shōnen Sunday
(April 8, 2015 – March 2, 2016)
Original run
November 25, 2010 – March 2, 2016
18 (List of volumes)
Daiya no King
October 15, 2014 – February 4, 2015
Original video animation
Hideki Tachibana
Tomohiko Iwase
Hiro Torimitsu
Ryō Ōyama (#1)
Ryōsuke Nakamura
Hiroaki Tsutsumi
October 17, 2014 – February 18, 2015
Alice on Border Road
Illustrated by
Takayoshi Kuroda
Monthly Sunday Gene-X
August 19, 2015 – February 19, 2018
8 (List of volumes)
Alice in Borderland: Retry
Live-action series
Alice in Borderland (2020)
Anime and manga portal
Alice in Borderland (Japanese: 今際の国のアリス, Hepburn: Imawa no Kuni no Arisu) is a Japanese suspense manga series written and illustrated by Haro Aso. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday S magazine from November 2010 to March 2015, and later moved to Weekly Shōnen Sunday in April 2015 and finished in March 2016.
Alice in Borderland was adapted into a 3-episode original video animation (OVA), released from October 2014 to February 2015. A live-action series produced by Netflix and directed by Shinsuke Satō premiered worldwide in December 2020.
3.1.1 Spin-offs
3.1.2 Volume list
3.1.2.1 Alice in Borderland
3.1.2.2 Alice on Border Road
3.1.2.3 Alice in Borderland: Retry
3.2 Original video animation
3.3 Live-action series
Premise[edit]
Arisu, Karube, and Chōta, a trio of high school students, are bored with their current lives. During a firework celebration, Arisu wishes that he could live in a different world which would be more exciting for him. As such, his wish was granted, and the three were transported into a seemingly post-apocalyptic-like parallel world. After stepping into what seems to be an empty festival, they are greeted by a woman who tells them that they have already "entered their game". After clearing the game, she reveals to them that, in Borderland, they must play games to survive.
Characters[edit]
Ryōhei Arisu (有栖 良平, Arisu Ryōhei)
Voiced by: Yoshimasa Hosoya[3]
Yuzuha Usagi (宇佐木 柚葉, Usagi Yuzuha)
Voiced by: Minako Kotobuki[3]
Daikichi Karube (苅部 大吉, Karibe Daikichi)
Voiced by: Tatsuhisa Suzuki[3]
Chōta Segawa (勢川 張太, Segawa Chōta)
Voiced by: Tsubasa Yonaga[3]
Saori Shibuki (紫吹 小織, Shibuki Saori)
Voiced by: Maaya Sakamoto[3]
Shuntarō Chishiya (苣屋 駿太郎, Chishiya Shuntarō)
Hikari Kuina (水鶏 光, Kuina Hikari)
Manga[edit]
Alice in Borderland is written and illustrated by Haro Aso. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday S magazine from November 25, 2010 to March 25, 2015,[4][5] and later moved to Weekly Shōnen Sunday on April 8, 2015 and finished on March 2, 2016.[6][7][1][8] Shogakukan compiled its individual chapters into eighteen tankōbon volumes, published from April 18, 2011 to April 18, 2016.[9][10]
Spin-offs[edit]
A spin-off series, titled Daiya no King (だいやのきんぐ, Daiya no Kingu, lit. "King of Diamonds"), was published in Weekly Shōnen Sunday from October 15, 2014 to February 4, 2015.[11][12]
Another spin-off, titled Alice on Border Road (今際の路のアリス, Imawa no Michi no Arisu), written by Aso and illustrated by Takayoshi Kuroda, was published in Shogakukan's Monthly Sunday Gene-X from August 19, 2015 to February 19, 2018.[13][14][15] Shogakukan compiled its chapters into eight tankōbon volumes, published from January 18, 2016 to March 19, 2017.[16][17]
Another series, titled Alice in Borderland: Retry (今際の国のアリス RETRY, Imawa no Kuni no Arisu Retry), was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday from October 14, 2020 to January 20, 2021.[18][19] Shogakukan released the first tankōbon volume on December 11, 2020.[20] The second and final volume will be released on February 18, 2021.[21]
Volume list[edit]
Alice in Borderland[edit]
April 18, 2011[9] 978-4-09-122819-2
September 16, 2011[22] 978-4-09-123269-4
January 18, 2012[23] 978-4-09-123444-5
July 18, 2012[24] 978-4-09-123779-8
October 18, 2012[25] 978-4-09-123897-9
May 17, 2013[27] 978-4-09-124304-1
August 16, 2013[28] 978-4-09-124363-8
December 18, 2013[29] 978-4-09-124514-4
March 18, 2014[30] 978-4-09-124580-9
June 18, 2014[31] 978-4-09-124667-7
February 18, 2015[34] 978-4-09-125560-0
April 18, 2016[10] 978-4-09-127097-9
Alice on Border Road[edit]
November 17, 2017[42] 978-4-09-157505-0
Alice in Borderland: Retry[edit]
Original video animation[edit]
The series was adapted into a three-episode original video animation (OVA) produced by Silver Link and Connect and directed by Hideki Tachibana.[45][3] The first OVA episode was bundled with the limited edition of the 12th volume of the manga on October 17, 2014.[46] The second OVA episode was bundled with the limited edition of the 13th volume of the manga on November 18, 2014.[47] The third and last OVA episode was bundled with the limited edition of the 14th volume of the manga on February 18, 2015.[48]
Live-action series[edit]
Main article: Alice in Borderland (TV series)
An 8-episode live-action series, produced by Netflix and directed by Shinsuke Satō, premiered on December 10, 2020 in over 190 countries worldwide simultaneously. It stars Kento Yamazaki as Ryōhei Arisu and Tao Tsuchiya as Yuzuha Usagi.[49][50] On December 24, 2020, a second season was announced.[51]
Reception[edit]
As of March 2016, the manga had 1.3 million copies in circulation.[8] Volume 11 reached the 48th place on the weekly Oricon manga charts and, as of June 22, 2014, has sold 21,496 copies.[52]
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^ Loo, Egan (July 9, 2013). "I.G. Makes Anime Ad of Suspense Manga Alice in Borderland". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 15, 2020. Shogakukan began streaming an anime commercial for Haro Aso's survival suspense manga Alice in Borderland
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^ a b 今際の国のアリス 18 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on October 26, 2020. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
^ Hanashiro, Emma (October 7, 2014). "Alice in Borderland Spinoff Manga to Start in Shonen Sunday". Anime News Network. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
^ Pineda, Rafael Antonio (January 5, 2015). "Alice in Borderland's King of Diamonds Spinoff Manga Ends". Anime News Network. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (July 19, 2015). "Alice in Borderland Gets Imawa no Michi no Alice Spinoff Manga". Anime News Network. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (November 19, 2017). "Alice on Border Road Spinoff Manga Ends in February". Anime News Network. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
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^ Mateo, Alex (October 7, 2020). "Alice in Borderland Manga Returns Despite Creator's Plans to Retire". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
「今際の国のアリス」新たな"げぇむ"が幕を開ける、サンデーで新章がスタート. Natalie (in Japanese). October 14, 2020. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
少年サンデー 46号 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on December 14, 2020. Retrieved December 14, 2020.
^ Pineda, Rafael Antonio (January 12, 2021). "Haro Aso's Alice in Borderland Retry Manga Ends in 2 Chapters". Anime News Network. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
少年サンデー 8号 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on January 19, 2021. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
^ a b 今際の国のアリス RETRY 1 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on December 19, 2020. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (January 3, 2021). "Haro Aso's Alice in Borderland Retry Manga Ends in 2nd Volume". Anime News Network. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
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^ 今際の国のアリス 5 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on October 26, 2020. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
^ 今際の国のアリス 10 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on October 26, 2020. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
^ 今際の路のアリス 2 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on October 26, 2020. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
^ 今際の国のアリス RETRY 2 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
^ Nelkin, Sarah (June 27, 2014). "Alice in Borderland Survival Manga Gets 3 Original Video Volumes". Anime News Network. Retrieved December 23, 2020.
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^ [今際の国のアリス]14巻OVA付き限定版第3弾 2/18頃発売!. WebSunday (in Japanese). Shogakukan. February 4, 2015. Archived from the original on March 15, 2015. Retrieved December 23, 2020.
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^ "Japanese Comic Ranking, June 16–22". Anime News Network. June 25, 2014. Retrieved August 25, 2014.
Alice in Borderland official website at Web Sunday (in Japanese)
Alice in Borderland Retry official website at Web Sunday (in Japanese)
Alice in Borderland (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
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Why Cynthia Chase Isn't Running for Re-election
Popular council member's announcement opens up questions about Santa Cruz city government
PHOTO: KEANA PARKER
By Jacob Pierce
City Councilmember Cynthia Chase knows how to go out with a bang.
If Chase's self-proclaimed "year of housing" were a long and grinding sports season, her "listening tour"—stretching from July through November—was the grueling playoff run. Conducted during her one-year term as mayor, the tour culminated in about 100 affordable housing-related recommendations at a Dec. 5 meeting, after a hellish flu had gotten the best of her. The way she battled through that night was an MVP-like performance, the Michael Jordan flu game of city government. By the end, her voice had gone from hoarse to practically nonexistent. Chase never considered skipping it, but she was out sick for the following week.
"People would ask, 'Is everything OK … ?' Like, 'No! Everything's not OK! My body can't do all of this,'" remembers Chase, who also works full-time as the inmate programs manager at the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office. "Once I commit to something, I'm gonna follow it through, and I'm gonna do it to the best of my ability."
Chase says she had never been as sick as she was last year during her term as mayor. Looking back now, she's grateful it's behind her.
She loved hearing the perspectives of thousands of community members, and then packaging them into cogent policy solutions, she says. Nonetheless, Chase broke the news to GT that she won't be running for re-election this November.
Chase's decision not to run again, and her reasons for making it, open up questions about the future of Santa Cruz elections, the entire set-up of the city's government, the future of Santa Cruz housing policy and even the tenor of local politics.
Generally, when anyone hears a politician talking about seeking more input or forming a subcommittee, it sounds like little more than a polite way to avoid making any tough decisions. But what Chase showed Santa Cruz over the past few years is that an intensive study process really can be a method of building consensus down a path of action that will have a wide swath of community buy-in. Two years ago, Chase served on a council committee on homelessness that came up with 21 short- and long-term recommendations, some of which are now being implemented.
Her housing suggestions spawned a subcommittee of their own—a committee that Chase also served on—leading to a community discussion last month, and ultimately the adoption a few weeks ago of the housing blueprint subcommittee's recommendations.
"What we had heard over and over and over [from the public] was, 'You're not asking, you're not listening to us,'" says Chase, who says she would be open to one day running again for elected office, possibly the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors. "It felt like we really needed to do that, and we really needed to vet our recommendations with them because what I was trying to say was, 'OK we heard from you, we looked at those things, we came back with some preliminary recommendations. Before we move forward with these, we want to check them out with you.'"
TAKE MY SEAT
Chase isn't the first city councilmember to bow out in recent years after serving only one term, due partly to the heavy workload of a tough gig that's supposed to be only part-time.
She's actually the third councilmember to do so in the last four years—all of them women juggling a number of other responsibilities.
Like Chase, then-Councilmember Hilary Bryant left office in 2014, while enormously popular, after a challenging year as mayor. Two years later, Pamela Comstock announced she wouldn't be running for re-election, either. (Micah Posner also decided not to run again that same year, although he cited disillusionment with city politics, at the time, rather than unreasonably high time expectations.)
"The decision was made out of necessity. I couldn't continue to fulfill my commitments to my family, my community and my employer," Comstock says. "Something had to give."
When Comstock would get home at night, she says that if she wanted to help her son with homework, make dinner and put him to bed at 9 p.m., she knew she would have 100 emails waiting for her. Most of the senders would be expecting thoughtful replies, so she would be up until 1 or 2 a.m., knowing that she would be up again at 6:45 a.m. Whenever she didn't reply, she felt like a failure.
Comstock adds, however, that she doesn't necessarily see a problem with this trend of respected councilmembers serving only one term. She says it brings more voices to city government.
Although Santa Cruz city councilmembers got a pay increase two years ago, they still make about $20,500, with the rotating mayorship—a one-year term—paying roughly twice that. If a city councilmember ends up working 40 hours a week, which Chase says isn't uncommon, that comes out to less than minimum wage. Chase says the workload varies based on how much a councilmember takes on, but she thinks it's going to become rarer for people working their own full-time jobs to serve on the council.
"Who's going to represent the community?" says Chase. "I think that is going to be more common, where people aren't able to balance this with their lives, unless they're retired or independently wealthy. You can have a couple people on your council, but you certainly don't want the majority of your council being that."
For a councilmember, just staying on top of emails and scheduling is a job in itself, Chase says. Then there is meeting with constituents and going to events, and, of course, the meetings—ones for the City Council (which can go on for more than 10 hours), separate commissions (Chase has served on both the RTC and the METRO boards), and various subcommittees. Many of those meetings come with 300 or 400 pages of dense reading material.
It's worth noting that Santa Cruz city councilmembers do, however, get paid more than other councilmembers in the county.
Although the county supervisors make more than $120,000 each, councilmembers from Scotts Valley, Capitola and Watsonville all make less than $7,000 a year.
Capitola Mayor Mike Termini, who'll be sad to see Chase go, says that a Capitola city councilmember typically works about 20 hours a week and that the mayor works an additional 15 hours or so.
Even though Capitola's councilmembers make less than a third of what representatives in Santa Cruz make, Termini doesn't envy his North County counterparts, who serve in a city that has six times the population and doubles as the county seat. Although he loves his gig, he agrees with Chase that this may be the right time for a discussion on what county residents expect of their local electeds.
"If you ask the average person," he says, "they really think we're making the big bucks."
TIME SERVED Councilmember Cynthia Chase, who also works full-time as the inmate programs manager at the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office, has announced she won't seek re-election. PHOTO: KEANA PARKER
FACING FORWARD
If the thankless task of serving on the council is the dumpster fire it's often made out to be, then it begs the question: Why would so many candidates—nine so far, in the current race—want it? Or is there something else about the allure that somehow pulls in candidates like moths drawn to the flame?
Robert Singleton, 27, who's strongly considering a run for the council, says that, plain and simple, this isn't a decision that anyone makes out of self-interest.
"It's public service," says Singleton, who ran two years ago and also co-founded Civinomics, a discussion forum and polling group. "It's not a good move for your career, because it's not going to pay anything close to what you would make in in the private sector. It certainly doesn't pay in the way that is commensurate with your experience or the time you put in. But it's a way to have an impact on your community."
The other eight candidates come from a variety of different backgrounds:
Richelle Noroyan, 49, is running for her second consecutive term on the Santa Cruz City Council, and also works part-time in community relations at UCSC. A moderate on the council, she pushed for more rigorous Cowell Beach cleanups and served on the Homelessness Coordinating Committee, alongside Chase and Comstock. She also proposed two local gun laws that the council passed unanimously.
Drew Glover, 32, ran for City Council two years ago, finishing the race for four seats in fifth place, after he learned his mother was dying and chose to spend some of the final weeks of his campaign by her side. He believes that if he goes through the city budget, he'll find ways to better prioritize community programs.
Donna Meyers, 53, has her own environmental company, Conservation Collaborative, that works on a variety of watershed and coastal habitat projects. She chairs both the city's Parks and Recreation Commission and the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, which has eliminated its deficit, expanded its budget and grown its staff in recent years.
Cynthia Hawthorne, 67, is a psychotherapist who helped organize the last two women's marches in downtown Santa Cruz. The mother of two and former school board trustee says her experience as a great listener can bring civility and respectful dialogue back to local politics.
Michael R. Mahan, 29, is a Santa Cruz County assistant district attorney, who works on domestic violence cases. He touts his conflict resolution background and wants to help the police to prioritize cracking down on serious crimes, as opposed to petty offenses.
Paige Concannon, 56, is a former cook for Santa Cruz County Juvenile Hall, who's been volunteering at the St. Francis Soup Kitchen for 10 years. Concannon—who notes that her neighbors already call her "Mayor of Seabright"—says her neighborhood's being overrun by theft and littered needles.
Dave Lane, 55, is a retired UCSC auditor who believes he can introduce a new level of austerity to the city budget. He wants to cut back the police budget and reverse course on any goals for low-income high-density housing.
Justin Cummings, 35, is a UCSC climate change researcher who teaches kids about environmental stewardship at Long Marine Lab. He felt motivated to run after seeing so many of his friends either get priced out or end up among the working homeless population.
Former Santa Cruz Sentinel reporter J.M. Brown, who had considered running, has decided he won't—saying he doesn't want to interfere with his new job as an analyst for County Supervisor Bruce McPherson.
Former Councilmember Comstock is surprised to hear that so many candidates have already jumped in, and says that it's important for them to be aware of what they're getting into. But she also explains that the magnitude of the undertaking is only part of the equation.
"Fear of time commitment does not dissuade people from serving, because it is such an honor," Comstock says.
Soon, Chase will be taking on a new kind of leadership role.
Chase says she and her husband Howard Heevner have started taking classes to become foster parents, and she hopes to start taking in kids by next year. Chase says they're most interested in the hard-to-place kids—sibling groups, older kids and LGBT youth.
"It is one of those things where we vacillate between 'Oh, this is so amazing, we're going to have these lovely little creatures in our lives,' and then we're also 'Oh God, are we ready for this?' and all of the potential challenges that come with kids in that circumstance," she says.
Four years ago, Chase was thinking about running for Santa Cruz City Council, and found herself sitting in the same place she's been for the past few weeks—adding up all of the hours of work and trying to figure out how much she could realistically accomplish each week. Chase got a lot of encouragement from women's advocacy groups to jump in, but she was already the director of Gemma, a Watsonville-based nonprofit that helps convicts transition back into society. When the program got moved under the umbrella of Encompass Community Services, it freed up enough time for her to jump into the council race.
A couple of years later, when a position at the sheriff's office opened up, her responsibilities intensified again, forcing her to re-do the whole calculus four years later. She also asked herself if she was letting down young girls by not entering the race.
"And then I really thought about it, and I think that part of being a good leader—in general, but particularly as a woman—is knowing that there's other ways to serve, and that I did serve for four years to the best of my abilities. And that part of being a good leader is knowing when to step out," says Chase.
Over the past couple years, she says that "personality conflicts and theatrics" have at times gotten in the way of good governance and community representation, although she declines to identify any councilmembers specifically.
Going forward, possible changes have appeared on the horizon that could alter the shape of future elections, possibly even city governance itself.
Mayor David Terrazas floated the idea of a ballot measure to test the waters of public opinion on the idea of newly established city council districts, a publicly elected mayor, and letting a mayor serve a two-year term. Terrazas isn't the first Santa Cruz mayor to suggest that a one-year term is too brief to implement any sense of vision and see it through. (As Ryan Coonerty finished up his second term as mayor in 2011, he identified the same problem, and offered pretty much the same solution.)
The City Council has declined to pursue a ballot measure for now, instead voting to create a committee to look at developing a possible new setup for the election.
Chase says the topic of a directly elected mayor is an interesting one that's worthy of a discussion. If the city increased the pay of the mayor and made the position full-time, that could, in theory, reduce the workload for his or her fellow councilmembers. But that would come at a financial cost, so Chase believes the city may want to look at reducing the number of city councilmembers to offset them.
The other idea that came up was to split up the city into separate City Council districts so that each region of the city gets its own elected representative. Some Midtown and Seabright residents, including Concannon, support the district approach, having long felt that they've been underrepresented on the council. The Watsonville City Council has held district elections for nearly 30 years, after a court ordered the change and ruled that at-large elections were disenfranchising the South County city's Latino population.
Here in Santa Cruz, Comstock feels that switching to four council districts—along with a directly elected mayor—may reduce the workload for each representative, as they would have fewer constituents to answer to.
Implementing the change would involve at least a small handful of practical considerations.
For instance, would UCSC dominate its own district, or get split into two? And what are the ramifications if a skilled up-and-coming public servant lives in the same district as a popular incumbent? Or what if two well-liked councilmembers are already living in the same district?
These are the kinds of questions that the new committee will have the authority to sift through.
Perhaps the biggest question about the approach relates to what happens when a needed but unpopular project like a homeless shelter or affordable housing development comes through the city pipeline.
Chase worries that if the city opted to set up council districts, it would simply allow "Not in My Backyard"—or NIMBY—activists to stonewall the effort.
"I have seen other communities where districts end up being a way to push responsibility out of someone's district and into somebody else's, and then for something to not get done," Chase says. "Two things that are really important to me are affordable housing and homelessness. Both of those issues are NIMBY issues, and I worry considerably about what would happen if we had districts and we had all district representatives saying 'not here.' Then where?' Those are the conversations we need to have."
Update 9/26/2018: We originally misreported the specifics of Cynthia Hawthorne's occupation.
Jacob Pierce
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Jacob, the news editor for Good Times, is an award-winning journalist, whose news interests include housing, water, transportation, and county politics. A onetime connoisseur of dive bars and taquerias, he has evolved into an aspiring health food nut. Favorite yoga pose: shavasana.
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Super Bueno is built around tacos and drinks (and solid nachos).
There's a picture in Ethan Stowell's 2010 cookbook of the chef rocking a pair of knuckle rings, "Cooks Rule" spelled out in bling across his two brandished fists. That's the same guy who, eight years later, owns 16 restaurants, including his latest, Cortina and Super Bueno—stylish crowdpleasers with 376 seats between them—that opened less than a week apart. Like Stowell's journey from feisty turk to prolific restaurateur, that proximity certainly wasn't planned at the outset.
Cortina transformed the old Sullivan's Steakhouse space downtown into a sleek reflection of the professional microclimate above. Gone is the clubby dark wood of the Sullivan's days, the tables whose linens draped nearly to the burgundy carpet, and the giant flavored martinis. Apple's Seattle offices occupy some of the 56 stories above Cortina; you can imagine acolytes of its clean design nodding approvingly at the banquettes upholstered in smooth saddle-colored leather beneath a ceiling of slatted white oak. The entirety of Stowell's second-eldest restaurant, How to Cook a Wolf, could fit in the dining room, but the bankers and button-down bros and sharp-shoed lady pals who come in for lunch or post-work drinks prefer the wool sofas in the lounge, or the high seats across from the 60-foot bar.
Steaks and a shellfish tower with a triple-digit price tag service the post-Sullivan's era of power dinners, but the core of Cortina's vast menu hews to familiar Stowellian rhythms: small plates, careful salads, pasta. Dinner might start with a scallop crudo garnished with tarragon, almond, and an unexpected pop of cherry, or torta fritta—bite-size fried dough pillows that one server likened to salty beignets. (As salted fried dough goes, they're brilliant, but cry out for some sort of dipping sauce.) Some beautiful seasonal compositions in the vein of Stowell's tiny Mkt. in Tangletown also dwell here, like the tight arrangement of petite tomatoes and wedges of fresh peach atop ricotta salata, a salty-sweet union codified with just the right aged balsamic.
Bowls of pappardelle or lobster-topped linguini nero come with Stowell's familiar sharing tongs, the better to ward off ghosts of ahi tuna nachos from Sullivan's happy hours past. Uncommon combos like potato gnocchi with smoked bits of geoduck and fava bean slivers are fun, but the real pleasure center is the sort of traditional pasta dishes that built this company in the first place: Tonnarelli is a sturdy foil for carbonara, its guanciale diced fine enough to scatter richness like a porky confetti through practically every bite. Pizza, an after-work favorite, uses the same dough as the memorable Neapolitan pies at Bar Cotto, minus the blistering from a wood oven. Cortina's occasional flubs are usually the gaffes of a busy kitchen, like grim overcooked shrimp in an otherwise dynamite dish of paccheri pasta with sofrito.
Some favorites at Cortina: torta fritta, a salad of grilled castelfranco greens, sun gold tomatoes and peaches on ricotta salata, and scallop crudo.
There are some overt nods to the office crowds. Cobb salad might be history's most phoned-in lunch item, but Cortina's is reimagined as something rustic, almost Italian, with herby dressing and some chickpeas nestled next to crouton-size cubes of bacon. When one of my chickpeas made like a wayward escargot in Pretty Woman, a passing server barely broke her stride as she bent to pluck that slippery little sucker off the floor; reliable hospitality is another evolution of the Ethan Stowell brand.
There's nothing perfunctory about Cortina's burger, either. The squishy bun, shredded lettuce and mayo-based sauce channel a roadside tavern burger, but Team Stowell's upgrade adds Beecher's cheese and high-end bacon. I say "Team Stowell" because the restaurateur freely confessed that his culinary director, Addam Buzzalini, devised the burger; Stowell himself tasted it only in passing. If Stowell donned those old knuckle rings now, "Cooks Rule" could be more of a salute to the people under his employ.
Cooks, or at least Seattle's labor costs, are a big factor in Cortina's not-exactly-casual prices, says Stowell. The company recently gave up on a longstanding effort to keep bowls of pasta mostly under $20. In matters of Ethan Stowell restaurants, it's hard to limit discussion to the food, since Stowell and his wife and business partner, Angela, are vocal participants in Seattle civic life; in October, Angela leaves her CEO role to become the head of FareStart.
In the 11 years since the Stowells opened Tavolàta, currently their eldest establishment, the culinary repertoire expanded along with the company. The spaces got nicer, the bar programs reliably adept. Cortina feels like a light-filled, leatherbound distillation of everything Stowell's restaurant group has become.
Everything, that is, except mom tacos.
In one week, Ethan Stowell Restaurants launched a polished room full of urbane snacks, like truffled cheese and mushroom pizza, and a casual taco hang where margaritas come in pint glasses.
It's barely 5pm, but the hostess at Super Bueno tells me every table by the upstairs play area is already booked. My family settles for a table in the main dining room, where lemon yellow metal chairs and the glow of white wicker pendant lights stand ready to approximate summer long after the sliding glass doors to the patio are closed for the season. I accompany my son up to the kid pit where he vrooms toy cars and I cast longing looks at the tables below, where my husband already has a margarita in hand. As kid pits go, though, it's fabulous: magnetic blocks, toy dinosaurs, and child-size hard hats that I predict will walk out the door the way copper mugs disappear from bars that serve moscow mules.
The taco and margarita joint, opened by pure construction happenstance on the heels of Cortina, is the company's most definitive departure from its usual Northwest-Italian spectrum. But Super Bueno is Mexican the way the Stowells' Frelard Pizza Company—with its play area, big screen, and oversize pies by the slice—is Italian.
The nachos on practically every table are the cognate of Cortina's Cobb salad: something you forgot could be legit good, if someone would just put some thought into it. Chips come in a sizzling cast iron pan, largely obscured beneath a generous guacamole dollop and a halo of your preferred meat (go for the brisket). Black beans, jalapeños, and a ribbon of fiery sauce make welcome cameos; housemade queso is drizzled throughout, also pooled at the bottom for maximum cheese distribution. Messy cobs of street corn covered in mayo and chili powder and the watermelon salad dusted with the crackle-fizz of actual Pop Rocks, a dish chef Rudolfo Martinez brought from Austin, achieve that same cheeky middle ground between fun and tasty.
The perpetual summer of Super Bueno's dining room.
Funny, there's no kids menu; the regular lineup includes things like cheese quesadillas on a flour tortilla. House guacamole is smooth, some might say bland, but comes with a thick topper of pico de gallo so a single order might satisfy both picky children and mature-palated adults (side gripe: guac comes in a narrow jar that makes chip-dipping a challenge).
Tacos are the jam here, the culmination of a meal the way pasta is at other Ethan Stowell restaurants. They're the size of a small saucer, piled with way more meat than a purist would approve. Fillings like carne asada, carnitas, and that brisket have terrific flavor that can devolve into saltiness if the meat sits for a while.
Though, at the risk of sounding basic, the most successful taco is the one conceived ironically. The so-called Mom Taco is an ode to weeknight dinners of the '80s, a hard-shell tortilla filled with ground beef, shredded lettuce, tomatoes, and crumbles of queso Oaxaca. For these, the kitchen ditches housemade salsa in favor of Ortega. The crunch from the shell is pure pleasure, everything is balanced, and the ground beef has more flavor than any whitebread mom could ever coax from a seasoning packet. Though I was probably living at home with my own mom the last time I listened to this much Matchbox 20 in one sitting. Super Bueno's soundtrack is like a late-'90s frat party with background vocals of kid chatter.
If Cortina reflects dining's new role as a work amenity, Super Bueno speaks to our shift toward eating out more frequently, and casually, than back when Stowell opened his original (now shuttered) restaurant, Union, 15 years ago.
When I asked what his former self, the one with the knuckle rings, would think of him these days, his first response was, "What is that dude doing cooking Mexican food?" He still owns that bling of yore, and a picture of his young son, Adrian, sporting them with some gold chains, Angela shaking her head in the background. In life, as in restaurants, it's good to evolve.


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