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Goldies 2005 Intro The Santa Cruz Top 11 Survey Results Goldies 2005: The Santa Cruz Top 11 Most people, including David Letterman, make Top 10 lists. Here at Metro Santa Cruz we like to go one step further, especially when we're about to turn 11. So, here are our Top 11s: Top 11 Pieces of Good News (the good kind) Free Skool is running classes. Banning gay marriages is unconstitutional. Family Guy is returning to the air. Freak Radio is back on the air and now there is a franchise in Felton. Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmental activist, won the Nobel Peace Prize, not Henry Kissinger. There was a 14 percent decrease in larceny this January within city limits, as compared to last January. Amy Goodman received the first annual Ruben Salazar Journalism Award at UCSC. Café Brasil is open once again. Regardless of the war on terror, spring is pretty. We are past the midpoint of the Bush presidency. Eleven is still less than 12. Name Dropping Top 11 Ballot Write-Ins Best Chocolate: Donnelly Fine Chocolate Best Hawaiian Restaurant: Aloha Island Grille Best Herb Source: The Herb Room Best Kitchen Chef: Soup Maker Aristico Perez at Mainsail Best Nail Salon: Swan & Co Best New Eatery: River Café and Cheese Shop Best Medical Care: Santa Cruz Medical Clinic Best Perfume-Making Store: Perfumer's Apprentice Best Realtor: Patty Connole Best Tax Preparer: Cynthia Leachmore at Soquel Tax Worst Evildoer: Mr. George W. Bush Top 11 Celebrity Names M. Angelo M. Bolton J. Crawford C. Diaz Michael Jackson Dennis Miller S. Peterson C. Powell R. Russo D. Sawyer B. Willis Photograph by Stephen Laufer Slugalicious: Banana slugs put Santa Cruz on the map. Top 11 Santa Cruz Names Brandy Bunker Echo Bush Elmer Cloud Shalom Compost Marilyn Dreampeace Freesia Raine Sequoia Seaborn Bud Stump Billy Sunshine Crystal Tippy Herb Xanadu M. L. Zarathustra Top 11 Locally Based International Image Makers Banana Slugs Professor Angela Davis Jack O'Neill Mr. Twister Lost Boys Neil Young Ramblin' Jack Elliott Tom Lehrer Sudden Impact John Laird Zasu Pitts Top 11 Great Morgani Costumes The Bar Code Babes The Spikes Oscar Statue The River Street Sign The Mirrored Odyssey The Nunordionist Que Bookee Geysha Neon Watermelon (Bruce Suba-inspired) Eggstravaganza (Easter) Morgani and the Blue Meanies (Fourth of July) The Little Squeeze The Sorbet Santa Top 11 Surf Spots Steamer Lane The Point Middle Peak The Slot Indicator Cowell 4-Mile Pleasure Point Sewer Peak The Hook The Jetty Top 11 Grossest Places City Dump Watsonville Dump Catalyst Trough Harbor on Dredging Day Waste Water Treatment Plant The Tallow Truck Biowaste bins at UCSC KFC Weinerschnitzel Fried Twinkie Stand at the Boardwalk Mitchell's Beach in Winter Top 11 Hippy Stores Circa 1975 Dr. Buck's Garden of Eatin' Harmony Foods Mr. Natural Food Store Windham Market Staff of Life Sunflower Natural Foods Whole Earth Restaurant Everyday Handweaver's Supply The Era The Turquoise Nugget Free-Form Homes Inc., Geodesic Domes Liquid Entertainment Top 11 Cocktails at the Red Room (As poured by Blaine) Bloody Mary Irish Car Bomb Jugunga Cosmopolitan Satan's Whiskers Hemingway Daiquiri Rubytini Lemontini Old Fashioned Manhattan White Russians Prison Bitch Top 11 Beers at 99 Bottles (Provided in no particular order by an anonymous bartender) Pauliner Hefeweizen Great White from the Lost Coast Brewery Anderson Valley Boont Amber Ale Barney Flat Oatmeal Stout Young's Double Chocolate Stout Black Watch Cream Porter Firestone Double Barrel Ale Hoegaarden Speakeasy's Prohibition Ale Duvel Guinness Literature Picks Top 11 Requested Books at the Santa Cruz Public Library (As read by Anne Turner--Director of Libraries) Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince--J.K. Rowling The Broker--John Grisham Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed--Jared Diamond Case Histories: A Novel--Kate Atkinson Cold Service--Robert B. Parker The Forgotten Man--Robert Crais Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking--Malcolm Gladwell The Listening Library Version of the Da Vinci Code--Dan Brown Gilead--Marilynne Robinson America the Book: A Guide to Democracy Inaction--Jon Stewart Runaway Stories--Alice Munro Top 11 Local Libraries for Materials Checkout (As calculated by Anne Turner) Central Santa Cruz Aptos Scotts Valley Branciforte Capitola Boulder Creek Felton Garfield Park La Selva Outreach Program Live Oak (currently closed) Top 11 Titles at Bookshop Santa Cruz (As provided by Neal Coonerty) America The Book: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction--Jon Stewart The Time Traveler's Wife--Audrey Niffenegger The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time--Mark Haddon The Da Vinci Code--Dan Brown The Kite Runner--Khaled Hosseini Reading Lolita in Tehran--Azar Nafisi Eats, Shoots and Leaves--Lynne Truss The Secret Life of Bees--Sue Monk Kidd Angels & Demons-- Dan Brown Middlesex--Jeffery Eugenides Life of Pi--Yann Martel Music Top 11 Hardest to Believe They Ever Performed Here Bob Dylan Bob Marley & the Wailers R.E.M. Ray Charles Midnight Oil Crosby, Stills & Nash Stevie Ray Vaughan Laurie Anderson Youssou N'Dour Johnny Cash Pearl Jam Top 11 Local Bands Circa 1975 Jango Dirty Butter Jug Band "Boogie" Bruce Gold n' Leeds The Homewreckers Bob Lowery Zentner Brothers (perfomed naked) Dirty Blonde Chaw (performed naked) Cal (performed naked) The Low Tide Circle Band (performed naked) Top 11 KZSC Radio Shows Metallic Blurp Skank for Brains Forgive Me for I Have Synthesized Mutilated in Minutes The Broken Toy Contraption Bushwackers Silverfish in the Kitchen Dusting Off Dad's Vinyl Screaming at a Wall A Walk on the Wild Side: Music to Cross-Dress By Dead Air Photograph by Stephen Laufer Cypress Royale: This cypress tree made it onto our list of Top 11 Ents. Nature and History Top 11 Local Ents Bunya Bunya at Walnut and Chestnut Treebeard at Rincon and Walnut in front of the Swiss chalet Tree No. 9 in the UCSC Upper Campus Reserve Heirloom olive trees on Ocean Street Extension Cypress at De La Costa and West Cliff Redwood Loop at Henry Cowell Big Basin redwoods above Berry Creek Falls Old Man Willow at northwestern entrance to Neary Lagoon Trees hopelessly clinging to Waddell Bluffs Butterfly Grove at Natural Bridges Massive Bonsai in the Santa Cruz Zen Center Top 11 Development-Blocking Endangered Species Monarch butterflies California red-legged frog Tidewater goby Ohlone tiger beetle Santa Cruz tarplant San Francisco popcorn-flower Gairdner's yampah Townsend's big-eared bat Great blue heron Dusky-footed woodrat West Side homeowner Top 11 Natural Resources for the Ohlone Indians Tules Acorns Seeds Grizzly Bears Deer Salmon Abalone Cinnabar Flint tips Sweat Lodge Soap Plant Top 11 Local Interesting Ruins Pogonip Club Kenneth Kitchen's Abalone Palace/Yogi Temple on Fair Street Raymond Kitchen's Stone Castle on Fair Street Whaling station remains at Moss Landing Wave generator remains near Chico Street and West Cliff Sawmill remains in Nisene Marks Forest Unrestored adobe structures at Santa Cruz Mission The clock tower (actually the clock from the IOOF meeting hall) Santa Cruz Portland Cement Company's 1934 steel pier located north of the current plant in Davenport Lime kiln remains inside the Pogonip Southern Pacific Summit tunnels over the Coast Range (For more information, check out www.sandylydon.com) Photograph by Stephen Laufer Marquee Power: We can see the Del Mar rated among our Top 11 historical structures. 11 Best Historical Structures Santa Cruz Missionary Baptist Church The Octagon Building Del Mar Theatre Rio Theatre La Bahia Giant Dipper roller coaster Boardwalk's merry-go-round Holy Cross Church Town Clock El Palomar Hotel Vets Hall Post office 11 Best Historical Houses 417 Cliff St.--the Deming House 114 Escalona Drive--oldest house in Santa Cruz 319 Laurel St.--Four Palms apartments 412 Lincoln St.--Cope Row houses 315 Main St.--Carmelita Cottages 130 School St.--Neary Rodriguez Adobe 109 Sylmar--Alzina House 924 Third St.--Golden Gate Villa 304 Walnut Ave.--Douglas Haslam House 320 West Cliff--Epworth by the Sea 423 Mott Ave. (The City Planning Department has historic building records.) Top 11 Items the First Settlers Brought to Town Tea Coffee Spices Raisins Hardware Crockery Shoes Calicoes Combs Fireworks Cartwheels Top 11 Early Santa Cruz Industries Lumber Lime Powder Works Paper Works Tannery Dairies Tinsmiths Fishing Salt Baths Telegraphs Railroads Politics 11 Development Projects That Have Never Happened Santa Cruz Wharf entryway Wilder Ranch subdivision Double-decker Highway 1 extension over Mission Street Highway 1 extension through Pogonip, across campus and down through Wilder Frederick Street Apartment Towers Rittenhouse's hole at Pacific and Church/Downtown Plaza Ron Lau's hole at Pacific and Water Performing Arts Center A factory outlet center near downtown Lighthouse Field hotel, shopping and convention center Apartment building complex above downtown Longs Top 11 Locally Sighted Political Bumper Stickers Democracy Was Getting Old anyway Who's Your Baghdaddy? Iraq Is Arabic for Vietnam Draft SUV Drivers First Vote Republican: It's Never Too Late to Return to the Dark Ages Lobotomies for Republicans: It's the Law I Need a Florist Who Will Send Two Bushes to Iraq Proud to Live in a Blue State No One Died When Clinton Lied We're All Wearing the Blue Dress Now Drug-Free Since 1974 Top 11 Endangered and Threatened Habitats and Species in the Monterey Bay Region 1. FRESHWATER: Increased human use leads to less anadromous fish habitat, and more proposed desalination plants (which will increase coastal development/impacts). 2. NATURAL SHORELINE: Natural input of sand has declined and there are more seawalls. 3. COASTAL WETLANDS AND ESTUARIES: Humans have destroyed or severely degraded 80 percent of California�s coastal salt marshes. 4. SOUTHERN SEA OTTERS: They are officially listed as an endangered species and face threats from disease, toxins, and resource reduction. 5. NORTHERN RIGHT WHALES: There are only 400-500 remaining, worldwide. 6. BLACK ABALONE: Historically abundant, they are being decimated by the spread of "withering foot" disease spreading north through the Sanctuary. 7. LEATHERBACK TURTLES: These 1,000-pound visitors to the Sanctuary every autumn will likely go extinct in your lifetime. 8. BOCACCIO ROCKFISH: Often marketed as red snapper, their stocks are severely depleted and have been declared "overfished." 9. SNOWY PLOVER: One of the most endangered species in the U.S., human disturbances along our beaches severely impact breeding success. 10. BLUE WHALE: Whaling led them, the largest mammals on earth, to the brink of extinction. 11. MARBLE MURRELET: These birds feed in the ocean, but nest in coniferous forests, which are impacted by land-use practices. For more information, visit the Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring Network (SIMoN) at www.mbnms-simon.org. Instructions for Directing The Foundation of Villa de Branciforte, Monterey, July 17, 1797 1. YOUR FIRST care must be to maintain peace and proper harmony among the settlers, watching carefully over their good habits, not permitting concubinage, forbidden games, or drunkenness and punishing those who succumb to these vices and to that of not assisting in public and individual works in fitting customary ways. 2. YOU WILL oblige all to attend Mass on the days of instruction, taking roll, and he who fails without legitimate cause will be put in the stocks for three hours. 3. UPON QUITTING their work the men must recite the rosary of the Most Holy Mary in the Guardroom, at present in that of the troops and later in that to be built in the new villa. 4. DURING LENT you will take care that they complete the annual instruction, sending the corresponding certification to the Government. 5. YOU WILL not allow present Settlers or those who might settle in future to have dealings or contacts with the Indians of the Mission, men or women, and much less, illicitly to abuse the women. To this end you will prohibit their going to the Rancheria by day or by night. This is a point that must be scrupulously observed. 6. AT THE Mission they will make liberal grant of the necessary food supplies to be rationed; it will be done in proportion to the number of individuals in each family. You will see to it that they take advantage of this for the improvement of their sustenance. Families of the married men might be able to prepare meals for the bachelors as is the custom among the troops, but take care that no enmity should arise because of this. 7. AS TO the effects delivered to you by the Paymaster, you will mete them out most exactly, according to the state of each settler's account, so they may cover their flesh and free themselves from the season's hardships. For each one you will keep a separate account and hand it to the Paymaster. 8. CARRETAS IN use and the implements for agriculture and ironwork delivered to you for community service must be cared for and preserved in the best condition. 9. EVERY SUNDAY indefectibly the settlers must pass in review the articles of clothing, arms, mounts and iron tools given them, and you will collect those that might have been transferred and punish any person acting with such abandon. You will do the same with the horses and cattle when they are supplied. 10. UNTIL THE Engineer arrives and draws up the sketch of the land to show the fields for irrigation and for seasonal use to be given each settler, you will proceed with the construction of temporary lodgings and corrals suitable for large and small animals, giving a monthly report to the Government of the progress made and the conduct of the Colonists. This can be done by dispatching the letter from Santa Clara on the day the Corporal of the Mission Guard sends his diary to the President of San Francisco. 11. LASTLY, THE Comisionado must pay the most respectful attention to the Reverend father Ministers of the Mission of Santa Cruz concerning whatever controversies might present themselves, to avoid occasioning well-founded complaints. Any discord whatsoever obstructs good service. It is a copy Borica. Diego de Borica Translated by Starr Gurcke. Provided courtesy of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. [ Santa Cruz | Metroactive Central | Archives ]