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ANOTHER IDEA I want Alan Webber as our Mayor. Alan knows what 60-plus McHard fraud prevention findings mean and is not content with “shape of the table” solutions. Each of the other candidates’ histories place them at the scene of those findings, but Alan does not descend to blame; he insists on repair and prevention. One hundred percent of his paid campaign staff are women. Eighty percent are women of color. He calls out misogynists. He has not and will not tolerate less. He’s emphatic and on time with leadership options for safety in a society where guns don’t die but people do. Alan is the managers’ manager to whom our best city, state, enterprise and entrepreneurial managers go to learn to be better. And he is ours. Why would we not want Alan to be our first “Strong Mayor?”
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AND ANOTHER I first met Nate Downey in 1992. I’d just gotten off the bus, and he had just graduated from St. John’s College. We were young idealists, dedicated to bringing a different kind of politics to Santa Fe—based on honesty, social justice, and sustainability. Nate has carried this idealism forward throughout his life. He supported the Living Wage as both an activist and an employer. He fought for affordable housing and against ridgetop development. And his business has
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When Santa Fe had a Japanese Prison Camp
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The Santa Fe camp imprisoned a reported 4,555 men and was one of several camps operated by the Department of Justice during World War II.
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n Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which authorized the federal government to incarcerate people it considered potential saboteurs of the war effort. In practice, ordinary Japanese immigrants and citizens mostly on the West Coast were its primary targets. One of the largest concentration camps was built in Santa Fe 76 years ago. Teichiro Maehara spoke to his grandson Paul about his imprisonment at the Santa Fe Internment Camp just once, right before Paul left Hawaii in 1964 to attend the University of Denver as a freshman. “My grandfather told me, ‘You’re going to Denver. I remember sleeping on a bench on a train station there while I was being shipped to New Mexico,’” says Paul Maehara, who is now in his 70s. “That’s all he talked about, the train stop in Denver.” The Santa Fe camp imprisoned a reported 4,555 men and was one of several camps operated by the Department of Justice during the war. They were dis-
tinct from the 10 larger relocation camps scattered across the country, which held around 110,000 adults and children and were maintained by a different federal agency. From 1942 to 1946, the DOJ camps held around 7,000 people, primarily Japanese immigrants who had been monitored by the FBI prior to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. Their cultural connection to Japan, as well as their high levels of education and respected social standing, had earned them the government’s pre-emptive suspicion. According to his grandson, Teichiro piqued the feds’ interest because he was a principal at a Japanese language school on the island of Maui in Hawaii. He and others considered “enemy aliens” were transported to DOJ camps around the country, including the one in Santa Fe. Often, those taken to these sites had family incarcerated in relocation camps elsewhere. Nikki Nojima Louis, a special projects coordinator with the New Mexico Japanese-American Citizen League, says relatively little is known about the DOJ camps—three of which were in New Mexico, at Fort Stanton, Lordsburg and Santa Fe. Her father Shoichi Nojima, a
newspaper editor who immigrated to Seattle from Tokyo, was picked up by the FBI just hours after the Pearl Harbor attack (which was also Nikki’s birthday). He was taken to Santa Fe while she and her family were incarcerated in Idaho. “He was from a samurai family, so he was targeted right away,” says Louis. “The FBI had very, very extensive records on the communications back and forth” between immigrants in the US and relatives in Japan. The 80-acre camp in New Mexico’s capital “was run like a high-security federal penitentiary, with the prisoners treated like prisoners of war, as governed by the Geneva Convention,” according to the book Silent Voices of World War II: When Sons of the Land of Enchantment Met Sons of the Land of the Rising Sun. According to authors Everett Rogers and Nancy Bartlit, prisoners had identification numbers stenciled onto their clothes and were penned inside with woven and barbed wire. One hundred guards patrolled the camp, which had a population at its height that constituted 10 percent of Santa Fe’s total. Despite the dehumanizing environment, the men there—most of whom were over the age of 50—were able to
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operate their own poultry farms and irrigate community vegetable gardens, and produced a newspaper, the Santa Fe Jiho. For a time, a handful were even able to secure daytime work outside the camp, according to Rogers and Bartlit. Santa Fe was also the site of an uprising by men who had been sent there from a relocation camp in California. Near the end of the war, after years of persecution, hundreds of incarcerated Japanese Americans renounced their US citizenship, legally transforming themselves into “enemy aliens” overnight. Rogers and Bartlit write that over 300 people who had been transported to Santa Fe resisted their confinement with rocks, crowbars and iron pipes against camp guards, who responded with tear gas and nightsticks. Many of the dissidents were transported to harsher camps. Amid this growing anti-American sentiment, Teichiro remained loyal to the US. Three of Teichiro’s sons fought for the US against the Axis powers, including one who was killed in Italy. He did not return to Hawaii until early 1946, months after Japan’s surrender. “He strongly emphasized being an American citizen and honoring the flag,” says Paul Maehara. The expanse of the camp existed within the area now enclosed by St. Francis Drive and West Alameda Street. Apartments and houses sprout where barracks used to be. The only sign of the camp is a boulder in Frank S Ortiz Park on Camino de las Crucitas with a plaque, dedicated by the city in 2002. The plaque reads, in part: “This marker is placed here as a reminder that history is a valuable teacher only if we do not forget our past.” Teichiro did not say much to his grandson about his imprisonment, but Paul has kept the past alive through his own research. Life events have also found a way to put Santa Fe at the forefront of Paul’s mind: By coincidence, one of his godsons, Brian Watkins, is now a fire inspector with the Santa Fe Fire Department. “Parts of the family history was being lost because all my uncles and aunts on my father’s side, and now on my mother’s side, are all gone,” he says. Louis is also helping keep the memory alive through multimedia theatrical performances that tell the stories of American-born Japanese people during WWII. The NMJACL performed in Albuquerque on Feb. 17, and Louis says a date for Santa Fe and other cities will be announced soon. “We’re always in Santa Fe,” she says, “because that’s where many of these stories are centered.”
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Prison time for Phil Judge sentences Griego to 18 months on public corruption charges
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t’s going to be okay,” Phil Griego told family and friends outside a Santa Fe courtroom Feb. 16. He’s going to prison in less than a month. There weren’t tears from Griego, and the state senator-turned-felon didn’t make a mad dash for the courthouse doors to avoid the press. Facing more than a decade in prison on four public corruption convictions, in some ways, an 18-month sentence with a $47,225 fine could be considered a win. It was far from what Griego wanted, though. “What am I asking for today? Balance. Perspective,” the 69-year-old pleaded to District Court Judge Brett Loveless during the hearing. “Even as I accept the verdict of my fellow citizens that I have violated that law, I also believe this is not the story of my life. My path is littered not with violations, but with honest effort.” In November, a jury convicted the veteran legislator of crimes including fraud, bribery, violating the ethical principles of public service and improper interest in a public contract. The case arose from an SFR story (Cover, “Sold Out,” July 2014) detailing how Griego greased the legislative process on his way to a payout for brokering the sale of a state-owned building in the historic Barrio Analco north of the Roundhouse. The fine of more than $47,000 is about $4,000 less than the check Griego re-
You, quite frankly, are part of the problem. -Brett Loveless, District Court judge
ceived for his ill-gotten gains. The judge said he would recommend Griego be sentenced to the geriatric unit in Los Lunas due to medical issues. Attorney Tom Clark tells SFR on Tuesday he expects to file a request for an appeal bond, which, if granted, would keep Griego out of prison while he appeals the verdict and sentence. Barring that, the former state lawmaker has until March 9 to turn himself in. Prosecutors asked for 10 years in prison as well as the maximum fine of $53,245. While Loveless sentenced Griego to nine years for the fraud charge, he suspended all but 18 months of the prison term, which matched his penalties for two lesser charges and will be served simulta-
neously. Loveless interpreted the fines differently than the attorney general, and imposed the maximum allowed. The judge said he wanted no part of a 10-year sentence that would have felt more like revenge than justice. Five family members asked the court to go easy on Griego. His oldest daughter, Darla, said her family still depends on Griego, whose 39-year-old son suffers from congestive heart failure and lives at the ex-senator’s San Jose home. “He is my confidant, my taster of hot chile, my football buddy,” she told the judge. Griego, who displayed little emotion during the sentencing, chuckled at the description. Loveless said he was saddened by the case, but he disagreed with Griego’s opinion that he had made a mistake that resulted in a victimless crime.
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“That perception is the danger here,” the judge said. “It’s the danger that when people don’t have confidence in their elected officials, they’re disenfranchised. … You, quite frankly, are part of the problem.” In a telling moment after Griego made his plea for leniency to the court, Assistant Attorney General Zach Jones said the former senator hadn’t truly admitted to the crimes. Clark shot to his feet and revealed that Griego had, in fact, signed a plea agreement in June that would have bound him to a guilty verdict, mandated a $50,000 fine and suggested a sentence of zero to three years. But the state, Clark claimed, reneged on the deal after a debate over language in the plea agreement. Balderas’ office said it never received a signed agreement from Griego and his legal team. While the office conceded such an offer was made, a spokesman said it was withdrawn after a second investigation into Griego’s campaign finances suggested further wrongdoing. Three days after Deputy Attorney General Sharon Pino withdrew the proposed plea deal, the office filed 22 additional charges in a separate case, including perjury and embezzlement. With bad blood still boiling between the two sides, that case is set for trial in October.
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READINGS & CONVERSATIONS brings to Santa Fe a wide range of writers from the literary world of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to read from and discuss their work.
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Aleksandar Hemon’s books include the novels The Making of
Roxane Gay is an author and cultural critic. Her work includes the story collection Difficult Women and Ayiti, a blend of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry interwoven into a tale of the Haitian diaspora. In her essay collection Bad Feminist, she writes, “I never want to be placed on a Feminist Pedestal. People who are placed on pedestals are expected to pose, perfectly. Then they get knocked off. . . . Consider me already knocked off.” Gay’s most recent book is Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. The New York Times writes, “At its simplest, it’s a memoir about being fat — Gay’s preferred term — in a hostile, fat-phobic world. At its most symphonic, it’s an intellectually rigorous and deeply moving exploration of the ways in which trauma, stories, desire, language and metaphor shape our experiences and construct our reality.” Gay is the author of the comic series World of Wakanda and is the first African American woman to write for Marvel Comics. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times.
Zombie Wars and Nowhere Man, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the story collections The Question of Bruno and Love and Obstacles. Born in Sarajevo in the former Yugoslavia in 1964, Hemon was visiting Chicago as a tourist in 1992 when the Bosnian War broke out. Unable to return home, he eventually settled permanently in Chicago. Having arrived with only a basic command of English, Hemon learned the language by reading the novels of Vladimir Nabokov; he published his first story in English in 1995. The New Yorker described him as having an “astonishing talent to notice the world with a sarcastic, wily precision that is then put in tension with his love of surreal metaphor.” Hemon’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, and the New York Times, with more recent work addressing issues of immigration and the Trump administration. In a piece entitled “When Neighbors Turn on Each Other, It Happens Fast,” he writes, “Nevertheless, the question remains what happens to that sense of ethical stability when there is a societal rupture, when the infrastructure that allows for essentialist individualism is damaged and destroyed?” Hemon was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 and received a MacArthur “genius grant” the following year. He lives in Chicago with his family.
John Freeman wrote the recently published poetry collection Maps and is editor of Freeman’s, a literary journal featuring new fiction.
Tressie McMillan Cottom teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University and is the author of Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy.
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How PNM’s plan to finance the shutdown of San Juan Generating Station brought environmentalists to the table with coal miners—then lost big at the Roundhouse power and good jobs trump those concerns—at least in some ways. Facing both economic and air quality challenges, PNM wants to walk away from the plant early—as well as from 30 more years of potential profits. Now, there’s a new fight over how much loss PNM should have to eat, and how much it can recoup from its ratepayers. Normally, it would be up to the state Public Regulation Commission to strike a balance between what PNM’s investors get and what its customers pay. That’s what the law says and that’s what voters elect the PRC commissioners to do. But before the company asked the PRC, it pitched the Legislature on a plan to let it charge customers for everything. The PRC worried PNM’s pitch was sidestepping its authority. Consumer and environmental advocates said the company knew investing in coal was expensive and risky. Some tried to negoti-
ate with PNM to find an affordable way into renewables. But one player not at the table called the plan a Trojan horse and set to work trying to kill it. New Energy Economy took out newspaper ads (including in SFR), blasted warnings to 5,000 people on its email list and lobbied against the measure at every turn. By the end of the legislative session, the speaker of the House would accuse New Energy Economy of “poisoning the well” of public opinion and making it virtually impossible to craft a compromise. PNM would take out a sarcastic newspaper ad criticizing the nonprofit for torpedoing the bill. So, by the time Rep. Montoya was pleading with his colleagues, it was a last-ditch effort. His stripped-down bill would have saved some jobs and kept San Juan County and the Central Consolidated School District from being ravaged. A whopping 65 percent of the district’s property tax revenue comes from PNM and Westmoreland, which owns the coal mine nearby. Montoya, a former union steward at the mine, had reading glasses hanging from his neck, his voice slightly raspy from four weeks of long days in the session. “Since the changes [that the bill would make] are to the abandonment regulations … and the PRC will be taking up the abandonment of the San Juan Generating Station later this year, unfortunately we do not have the opportunity to wait another year and go at it again. … We have to do this now,” he said. The House passed the bill 44-25, but Montoya was right: He was out of time. The bill died in a Senate committee. His rescue attempt, however, tells only part of a story that started with a
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t was almost 8 o’clock at night at the Roundhouse. State Rep. Rod Montoya’s jacket was off and the Farmington Republican was pleading with his colleagues on the House floor to pass his bill. At stake, he said, were nearly 1,600 jobs in and around San Juan County, $10 million a year in property tax revenue for local governments and one of New Mexico’s poorest school districts, and an estimated $140 million in local spending by the workers who hold those jobs.
It might seem like easy legislation to support, but those jobs and tax revenue are attendant to the San Juan Generating Station, a coal-fired behemoth of a power plant that is presently belching plumes into the Four Corners sky. In December, Public Service Company of New Mexico—PNM—shut down two of the four units at the plant. The company aims to abandon the other pair by the end of 2022. That’s 30 years earlier than planned, and the deadline is closing in like a locomotive. The plant provides power for some 2 million customers, but it has also been the focal point of a feud that pits environmental and public health advocates against those who believe cheap
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For weeks this winter, a group of Republicans and Democrats, environmental advocates, power plant workers, utility lobbyists and others gathered to map a way out of coal for PNM, bolster renewable energy requirements for the state’s largest utility and provide a safety net for the boom-and-bust economy of northwestern New Mexico. They met in empty committee rooms at the Capitol, in conference rooms at PNM’s Santa Fe offices and in the headquarters of nonprofits near downtown. Sens. Jacob Candelaria, D-Albuquerque, and Steven Neville, R-Aztec, agreed to shepherd the proposal through the Legislature with Montoya. They failed. The massive effort would have allowed PNM to own the power projects that replaced the San Juan Generating Station and required they be located in the same school district. It mandated a 50 percent renewable portfolio standard for the state’s largest utility by 2030 and injected $19 million into an economic recovery fund for San Juan County. The key piece was PNM’s plan to cover the cost of closing the plant early. It would sell at least $320 million in highly rated bonds backed by the state’s promise to let the company pass along all those costs to consumers. Because the bond interest would be much less than the interest PNM would have to pay to retire the coal plant on its own, the utility said, customers would actually save money. That’s a controversial move, though, because in recent similar cases, the state has only allowed PNM to raise rates enough to cover 50 percent of its costs, not the 100 percent the bill mandated. To many skeptics, the proposal was dubious. Gerard Ortiz, PNM’s head of regulatory affairs, says the financing isn’t some swashbuckling attempt to loot ratepayers for the good of investors, but a tool that isn’t available to the PRC under current law.
Mine worker Travis Hutchinson has been studying the alternatives.
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different, much bigger bill that detailed the PNM plan.
“That’s normal ratemaking,” he tells SFR. “Especially in a situation where the [coal plant] retirement is cost-effective, because customers are already saving money.” In the rate case PNM filed with the PRC when it asked to close the first two San Juan units, Ortiz says his company agreed to cover 50 percent of its investment because a proposed settlement provided other benefits. PNM chose not to push for 100 percent, he says, so it’s not fair for skeptics to assume the PRC would reject a full-cost proposal like the one in the bill.
We’d have to burn down the power plant and hang every PNM executive for New Energy Economy to be happy. -Rep. Rod Montoya, R-Farmington
The proposal is beyond complicated. The fiscal impact report—a sort of legislative SparkNotes prepared by staff to summarize each bill—is 30 pages long. The title of the bill, which is supposed to be a short declaration of its purpose, takes up more than a page. Sen. Joe Cervantes, D-Las Cruces, is an accomplished attorney who served 11 years in the House of Representatives before his current six years in the Senate. He knows his way around paperwork, and still calls the bill the most complex piece of legislation he’s ever come across. Cervantes chairs the Senate Conservation Committee, the panel that ultimately stalled the proposal. Sen. Peter Wirth, D-Santa Fe, balked at a provision that allowed PNM to own all the replacement power facilities. Those would likely include renewables like solar and wind and the bill could, he reasoned, artificially restrict the market for renewable power. Though the bill required PNM to get half of its replacement power from renewable resources by 2030 (it’s just 20 percent by 2020 right now), it would have let the company charge consumers for the cost to do that. While both the Natural Resources Defense Council and Western Resource Advocates had been part of the negotiations to get to that standard, neither group was satisfied with the bill as a whole. At a Saturday hearing that lasted three and a half hours, Sen. Jacob Candelaria presented the bill as the last best chance to get PNM out of coal now, create more renewable energy, and save the jobs and tax payments that worry everyone in San Juan County. A 33-year-old electrician working at the San Juan mine, Travis Hutchinson has the best job of his life. The son of a Farmington oil field worker, he spent a year taking courses at San Juan College before deciding he’d rather start making a living. After seven years in the oil field, he was making $20 an hour when the CONTINUED ON PAGE 17
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As the cost of coal and meeting environmental restrictions increases, PNM applies to the Public Regulation Commission to abandon two units of the 40-yearold San Juan Generating Station.
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Since 1963, the ghostly prow of Shiprock jutting above the horizon in northwestern New Mexico has been joined by the Four Corners Power Plant and, 10 years later, by the nearby San Juan Generating Station. At their peak, the two coal-fired power plants cranked out nearly 4,000 megawatts of electricity. They also pumped thousands of tons of toxic pollutants into the sky above the Navajo Nation every year. Part of the reason PNM is abandoning San Juan in 2022 and leaving its share at Four Corners by 2031 is economics; coal has become increasingly expensive not only in terms of its cost to obtain as a raw fuel,
but also because environmental standards require aggressive treatment of emissions to scrub the white smoke that pours out of the stacks. As the haze in the Four Corners grew, it obscured the vistas the Navajo, Ute, Hopi and others had prized for centuries. Looking out from Colorado’s Mesa Verde, one of our most unique national parks, was an exercise in trying to make out landmarks that were once clear. A 2012 Environmental Protection Agency rule and the federal Clean Air Act aim to restore vistas to a natural state, and are another reason PNM is getting out of coal-fired generation.
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If there’s a villain in all this, as some people seem to wish there were, it might be tempting to slap that label on the company that sends the utility bills and uses the coal-fired plants.
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mine called. He’d applied two years earlier and was told that within a year on the job, he’d be making $33 an hour—almost $70,000 a year. He’d get a month of vacation and free health insurance premiums for his wife, Crystal, and three kids. He tells SFR taking the job “was a no-brainer.” Last year, including overtime, Hutchinson figures he made about $132,000. There’s hardly anything comparable around San Juan County, certainly not for a guy with one year of community college under his belt. “We moved up, definitely, in the world. We were living okay before. But we bought a new house, new vehicles. … My income basically doubled,” he says. Since PNM closed two units at the power plant, some families with jobs at the mine have sold their homes and decided to lease, figuring they’ll throw away less on rent than they’ll lose on a sale if property values tank when the company walks away in five years. Hutchinson, a quick study who’s spent hours poring over the proposed legislation and ideas for keeping the mine open, is working toward his journeyman’s license. There’s probably work for him in Farmington even if the plant and mine close, but he knows most of his coworkers will have to move or take a huge pay cut, if they’re lucky enough to find work at all. He feels like some environmental groups know they have the plant on the ropes and, rather than try to find a more reasonable compromise, they’re moving in for the knockout. On the Saturday he spoke in favor of the bill at the Senate Conservation Committee hearing, he woke up at 3:30 in the morning to make the drive to Santa Fe.
Mariel Nanasi (above) says PNM is using sympathy for San Juan families to line its pockets. The utility’s full-page ad (right) accuses her of refusing to compromise.
To Mariel Nanasi, executive director of New Energy Economy, the designation certainly fits. She says the bill was an endaround by a monopoly utility that knew it was unlikely to recover all of its investment in an outdated coal plant and that refuses to take responsibility for its toll on air quality and human health. “I think it was a PNM bailout bill and it was masked in concern for San Juan County families. It was a disingenuous proposition in every way,” she tells SFR after the session. Nanasi says only the PRC has the expertise to truly evaluate the proposal, and no version of the bill ever assumed anything other than PNM passing 100 percent of its costs to consumers, even for the replacement power facilities. It forced the hand of regulators, she says, at the expense of the people who pay power bills every month. “It’s just cruel,” she says. And so she spent time and money to make sure the public knew her side of the story. If PNM was the villain to her, the utility made clear the feeling was mutual.
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“ C O N G R AT U LATIONS NEW ENERGY ECONOMY ON YOUR DEFEAT OF SB47,” begins the full-page ad the utility took out in The Santa Fe New Mexican during the final week of the legislative session. It sarcastically praises Nanasi’s group for “tireless work to undermine the coalition of environmental organizations.” Speaker of the House Brian Egolf says Nanasi’s effort was a big part of what killed the bill; nobody wanted to touch something labeled as a PNM bailout. “There were a couple of organizations outside the Legislature that, I think, poisoned the well and made it too hard for legislators and advocates on both sides of the issue to have that kind of open dialogue and communication,” says Egolf, a Santa Fe Democrat. Montoya says it’s impossible to negotiate with someone who is only trying to kill a bill.
“We’d have to burn down the power plant and hang every PNM executive for New Energy Economy to be happy,” Montoya tells SFR. While neither of the two environmental groups that negotiated the bill ultimately supported it, they weren’t willing to go as far as Nanasi. “I think we came pretty close to finding a way that we could get PNM out of coal in a way that doesn’t undermine their business model, was friendly to consumers and ensures they’re on a path toward significant clean and renewable energy for the state,” says Noah Long, legal director for western energy at the NRDC. Steve Michel, who heads policy development at Western Resource Advocates, tells SFR compromise became untenable once the public relations battle began. “And that’s kind of worrisome,” he explains. “One of the things we probably lost as a result of this bill failing was production tax credits for renewable development. PNM would have had the certainty it needed to develop renewables.” PNM has promised to file an abandonment plan with the PRC later this year, but it’s not clear if that’s the last step. “I guess we’ll have to see where we go from here,” PNM’s Ortiz says. “It’s also true that there’s another legislative session next year. So, I guess that’s a long way of saying I don’t really know.”
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Building the Business of the Great Outdoors There’s just a murmur of an effort to create a state office of outdoor recreation, but it’s poised to turn into a persistent hum BY ELIZABETH MILLER e l i z a b e t h @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m
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hen the first state office of outdoor recreation opened in Utah in 2013, it consisted of one employee who spent the next six months traveling among the state’s counties to talk to stakeholders about outdoor recreation. Five years later, the office has improved funding sources for search and rescue, weighed in on master leasing plans to help oil and gas infrastructure coexist with recreation, and developed trails. Some advocates have picked up on the notion of tasking a state employee with cultivating outdoor recreation, particularly as an economic driver, and they’re looking to import it to the Land of Enchantment. The move could both attract more of the billions spent each year on outdoor recreation to New Mexico, and have ramifications beyond those dollar signs. “My personal mission is about imagining the American West in the 21st century where it’s not all about hard rock mining and cattle drives; it’s about communities that are based around ecotourism or environmental remediation or big scientific labs. This office is one prong
Advocates say a new state could increase opportunities for biking, hiking and hunting.
of that vision,” says Madeleine Carey, an outdoor recreation and conservation advocate. “It’s about monetizing our natural resources in a non-consumptive way and in a way that will attract lots of young people to the state.” A state office of outdoor recreation could improve the availability of recreation-oriented maps and calendars, coach ski resorts into four-season destinations, unify permitting systems for event organizers—like Carey, who runs the annual Plaza2Peak race in Santa Fe— and develop Southern New Mexico as a manufacturing or shipping corridor for outdoors-oriented goods. A conference in Las Cruces in May will explore on that last option. Reno, Nevada, has lured distribution centers for several big-name outdoor brands by showcasing its own outdoor recreation assets, including easy access to Lake Tahoe. Attracting new, young residents with opportunities to mountain bike and ski could lead to business startups: The Taos Mountain Energy Bar, founded by a transplant who moved to New Mexico for the skiing, is one such example. Carey latched on to the idea at SHIFT (Shaping How we Invest For Tomorrow), a conference on conservation and adven-
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ture in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, that she attended in 2016. The conference often hosts a workshop on creating these offices. She took the idea to state legislators, who then introduced memorials calling for the Economic Development Department to study the cost and financial impact of creating a state office of outdoor recreation during the 2017 and 2018 sessions. Those memorials have died, but that’s not really the point. State legislators don’t need to create this office—the governor could do it, says Sen. Jeff Steinborn (D-Las Cruces), who introduced the Senate memorial in 2017. Already, Economic Development Department Secretary Matthew Geisel has begun looking into the issue, according to Steinborn. Geisel did not respond to a request for an interview. “We are doing some work in this area, but I think we just need to be doing more,” Steinborn says. “It’s going to involve a multi-pronged effort, and that’s why I think you need the office pulling them together to create a cohesive effort.” In 2016, the outdoor recreation industry accounted for 2 percent of the gross domestic product, according to numbers released February 14 by the US Bureau of
Economic Analysis. It’s a $373.7 billion industry that grew faster that year than the overall economy. Mining, including oil and gas extraction, was 1.4 percent of the GDP in 2016. Capitalizing on those billions will likely fall to the next governor. Steinborn says they’ll be talking to gubernatorial candidates about the idea. Outdoor recreation is not without its own impacts. These transitions tend to spark tensions in rural communities that are asked to make big cultural shifts. Local burdens can include increased traffic, trash, and damage to the landscape like erosion. It’s no silver bullet. “It’s going to be a 1 percent step in the right direction on economic development and conservation, and just generally how we should be living our lives,” Carey says. There’s a chance as well for increased local input on these initiatives, something akin to the historic approach of community land management. “An office of outdoor recreation suddenly says it’s not just about what we take out of the land or how much money we can make from the land,” Carey says. “It starts to be about quality of life for where we live.”
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The Rock Cats: 4 pm and 8 pm Thursday Feb. 22; 3 pm and 7 pm Friday Feb. 23. $22-$40. Studio Center of Santa Fe (formerly Warehouse 21), 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423.
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MUSIC SAT/24 GOOD AS GOLD While local musician Talia Kosh may spend her daytime hours lawyering it up (and presiding over New Mexico Lawyers for the Arts), she’s been compiling kickass songs in her spare time for nearly a decade now. With her band Golden General, Kosh hits a fantastic middle ground between Cyndi Lauper-esque new-wave and indie rock, a bit of something different for Santa Fe and some of the best damn vocals we’ve heard in a long time. Says Kosh, “It’s very diverse and not like the songs all fit into one category—a couple things are kind of bluegrass, a couple things sound kind of punk.” We’ll drink to that, or at least check it out ASAP. Join us, Santa Fe. (ADV) Golden General with Holy Knives and John Francis Mustain: 8:30 pm Saturday Feb. 24. $8. Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom), 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068
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MUSIC SUN/25 MOUSE HOUSE If you missed out on Lexington, Kentucky-based punk trio City Mouse’s August 2017 Santa Fe appearance (opening for Scotland’s Murderburgers), your chance to right this atrocious wrong presents itself this Sunday at the VFW. This band wails, a combination of throwbacky punk a la Descendents and relatively newer Asian Man Records-era pop punk for aging pop-punkers, skate fans and the heartbroken. Of special note is bandleader Miski Dee Rodriguez’ heartfelt and aggressive vocal style, a great hook for the pissed off, lovelorn and all points in between. (ADV) City Mouse with The Plurals and Curmudgeon: 9 pm Sunday Feb. 25. $5. VFW, 307 Montezuma Ave., 983-9045.
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Why Would You Kill a Cat? The philosopher Thomas Hobbes once said, “Curiosity is the lust of the mind.” This is the topic that will be widely discussed in over 150 cities this month during lectures known as Creative Mornings. The host of Creative Mornings in Santa Fe, Meredith Davidson, understands the importance of finding like-minded people in the area to intermingle thoughts and ideas with. “The stories of our creative professionals today are the stories that we’re going to be telling inside of our walls,” she says— and is why she finds people like Tim Thomas to present at these events. Thomas spent 20 years at the University of New Mexico as a scientist and deputy director of the supercomputing and research faculty, and is now an astrophysicist at Sandia National Labs. At his lecture, Thomas connects the dots between curiosity and physics. With regard to whether curiosity killed the cat, he says, “people use the phrase to admonish children to not be curious. In my own career, I have evidence that the statement is actually true,” Thomas continues. “You can actually be too curious about too many things, and it could distract you at a practical level.”
Thomas doesn’t believe we should stop being curious altogether, though. “Killing curiosity in children and adults is bad,” he adds. “One of the things that curiosity will generate is a passion for something; one of the most important things in life is to find your passion.” Thomas uses the popular adage to incite discussion of the famed Schrödinger’s Cat paradox (essentially: A cat, in a box alongside a vial of poison, is simultaneously living and dead until proven one or the other) along with other questions about how curiosity lives around us. A light breakfast of coffee and bagels will also be provided to nourish your mind, and free food should be a good enough reason to make your way there. When asked to consider Schrödinger’s Cat, Davidson responds: “It would be fine if you weren’t so curious.” In the end, it’s a question we might not be able to answer. (Juan Mendoza) CREATIVE MORNINGS: DID CURIOSITY KILL SCHRÖDINGER’S CAT?: 9 am Friday Feb. 23. Free. New Mexico History Museum, 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100
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THE CALENDAR SHADES OF COLOR Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 In the college's Jemez Rooms, celebrate Black History Month as UNM professor of Africana studies Jamal Martin discusses the black experience in contemporary America. 11:30 am-1 pm, free
EVENTS NAMASTE Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 Get a hatha yoga class and a beer, and stick around for dinner if you're not too sweaty. Or even if you are. Whatever. 6 pm, $15
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Strangers Collective takes over form & concept for Mirror Box, opening Friday. Nate Massey (here, detail from his “On Polyamory”) is one of many emerging artists highlighted.
WED/21 BOOKS/LECTURES AN OVERVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INVENTORY, MONITORING AND RESEARCH ON THE VALLES CALDERA NATIONAL PRESERVE Christ Lutheran Church 1701 Arroyo Chamiso, 467-9025 Lecturer Bob Parmenter, chief of science and resource stewardship for the Valles Caldera National Preserve, discusses research programs, including long-term studies. 6:30 pm, free DHARMA TALK BY MATTHEW KOZAN PALEVSKY Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 Palevsky presents a talk entitled "Wholeheartedly Showing Up." The evening begins with a meditation, so please arrive by 5:20 pm to be polite. 5:30 pm, free
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FRIENDS BOOK CLUB: MY TREE OF LIFE AS AN APPRAISER OF AMERICAN INDIAN ART Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian 704 Camino Lejo, 982-4636 Author Leona M Zastrow discusses her book My Tree of Life as an Appraiser of American Indian Art. Meet in the museum’s library. 1:30-2:30 pm, free GARDEN CONVERSATIONS Stewart Udall Center 725 Camino Lejo, 983-6155 Every Wednesday, engage in a conversation around gardening, horticulture and more. Noon-1:30 pm, free PEOPLE TO PEOPLE GALLERY CONVERSATIONS: ATI MAIER New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Ati Maier discusses her video work in the exhibition Contact: Local to Global with Merry Scully, head of curatorial affairs for the museum. 12:30 pm, $7-$12
CALVIN HAZEN El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Flamenco and classical Spanish guitar. 7 pm, free DJ SAGGALIFFIK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 House, electronica, hip-hop and reggaeton. 10 pm, free ELECTRIC JAM Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Plug it in and rock out. Hosted by Nick Wymette and Albert Diaz. 8 pm, free JULIE PRICE AND DR. HALL Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Blues, Americana, classic rock and alternative country. 8 pm, free LIMELIGHT KARAOKE Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 You know the drill. 10 pm, free MIKE NICHOLSON Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards, pop and opera on piano and vocals. 6:30 pm, free SANTA FE CROONERS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Golden Age standards. 6:30-9:30 pm, free SANTA FE MEGABAND REHEARSAL Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, 470-7077 Join an open community band for an opportunity to play acoustic string band music. 7 pm, free
SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country tunes to dance to. 7:30 pm, free SYDNEY WESTAN Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Folky-rocky singer-songwritery tunes. 5:30-7:30 pm, free
WORKSHOP PRUNING YOUNG FRUIT TREES Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Join Tracy Neal, certified arborist and longtime Santa Fe landscaper, to prune the garden’s young fruit trees. If you’ve recently planted a fruit tree or are thinking about beginning to grow fruit at home, this is the place to get recommendations for tools, discuss different styles of pruning and get a chance to make some cuts on the trees. Dress warmly, ‘cause trees grow outside. (Or, juding from our recent weather, maybe wear a tank top. Just check the weather and dress accordingly, we guess.) 1-3 pm, $15-$20
THU/22 BOOKS/LECTURES THE LAMY BRANCH LINE St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-5397 Railroad historian Fred Freedman describes the development, importance and subsequent decline of the 18-mile stretch of linear history known as the Lamy Branch Line. It has a magnificent history involving territorial schemes, Harvey houses, world wars, movie stars and commuter services. Presented by the Renesan Institute. 1 pm, $10
EVENTS ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE DEMO: TONI OLIVER Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino 20 Buffalo Thunder Trail, 455-5555 Artist Oliver of the Poeh Cultural Center gives live demonstrations of creating jewelry. It's in the lobby outside the Red Sage restaurant. 4-7 pm, free
THE ROCK CATS Studio Center of Santa Fe (formerly Warehouse 21) 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 This is an actual band of actual cats. Like ... cats. They were on Colbert. We saw the video. You can get VIP tickets with a meet ‘n’ greet, too, because who doesn’t want to pet cats? (See SFR Picks, page 21). 4 pm and 8 pm, $22-$40 SOUTHSIDE MAYORAL FORUM Cesar Chavez Elementary School 6251 Jaguar Drive, 983-6896 The latest public forum is hosted by Earth Care, Communities in Schools, Chainbreaker Collective and NM Dreamers In Action. Childcare is provided. 6 pm, free
FOOD RANK YOUR BREW Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307, 983-0134 FairVote New Mexico hosts a happy hour that's all kinds of fun: civic engagement AND beer! Our favorite things. Practice filling a ranked-choice ballot with four beer samplers. 5 pm, $8
MUSIC AMELIA WHITE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana singer-songwriter out of East Nashville. 8 pm, free BIRD THOMPSON The New Baking Company 504 W Cordova Road, 557-6435 The local singer-songwriter plays songs from the heart. 10 am, free BROTHER E CLAYTON El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Soul and blues. 7 pm, free DRASTIC ANDREW Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Progressive rock. 8:30 pm, free GOT SOUL El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 The house jazz band is joined by Michael Herndon. 7 pm, free HALF BROKE HORSES Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Americana and honky-tonk. 7 pm, free
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MIKE NICHOLSON Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards, pop and opera on piano and vocals. 6:30 pm, free PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Live solo jazz guitar. 6 pm, free SHIII WHAAA, THE HAMMERITZ AND CULT TOURIST Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Colorado Springs' Shiii Whaaa (refreshing and fun fuzzy garage rock) is joined by locals The Hammeritz and Cult Tourist. 8:30 pm, $5 SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country tunes to dance to. 7:30 pm, free VINCENT COPIA Pizzeria & Trattoria da Lino 204 N Guadalupe St., 982-8474 Americana and solo guitar originals. 7 pm, free
THEATER THE ROOMMATE Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 A divorcee living in Iowa after a bitter divorce advertises for a roommate, but doesn't get what she expected. 7:30 pm, $15-$25 THE WATER ENGINE Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Set in 1934, the story centers around a young inventor who has created an engine that runs on water; soon a story of corruption unfolds as only David Mamet could pen. For tickets, call 917-439-7708. 7:30 pm, $15-$25
WORKSHOP HEALINGS HAPPEN Deep Roots Studio Via Alegria and Agua Fria St., 927-5407 Stop by for tea, snacks and a short guided energy healing on a topic of your choice. 6-7 pm, free
FRI/23 ART OPENINGS A RIVER FLOWING East of West 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 600, 570-7708 Contemporary investigations of the theme of modern womanhood through the art of eight women from across the world. Each artist displays a series of work which offers a nuanced glimpse into her identity through photography, painting, sculpting, printmaking, videography and more. Through April 9. 5 pm, free
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ASHLEY HUNT: DEGREES OF VISIBILITY Foto Forum Santa Fe 1716 Paseo de Peralta, 470-2582 Los Angeles photographer Hunt presents a photographic survey of the US prison system, documenting over 250 prisons from all 50 states and US territories. Through March 26 (see AC, page 29). 5 pm, free ED MIECZKOWSKI: VIBRATIONS OF THE EYE AND SOUL LewAllen Railyard 1613 Paseo de Peralta, 988-3250 Mieczkowski’s personal interests in science and optics lend a particularly interesting technical bent to his aesthetically pleasing geometric works. Through March 25. 5 pm, free GUADALUPE GROUP SHOW: CLOSING RECEPTION Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery 614 Agua Fría St., 928-308-0319 Check out large-scale sculptures of Guad before the show closes on Feb. 28. 6 pm, free INTRODUCING FORD / FORLANO form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111 form & concept welcomes artistic duo Steve Ford and David Forlano, who have collaborated on a collection of wearable sculptures made from polymer clay, precious metals and many other materials since 1984. 5 pm, free JESSIKA EDGAR: EVERYONE SMILES AS YOU DRIFT PAST THE FLOWERS Santa Fe Clay 545 Camino de la Familia, 984-1122 New hand-built ceramics reference contemporary fashion trends, the political climate and society's seeming eagerness for social change, waiting to take you away. Through March 24. 5 pm, free
BOOKS/LECTURES ADDRESSING THE ROOT CAUSES OF CHILDHOOD TRAUMA Santa Fe Community Foundation 501 Halona St., 988-9715 Katherine Ortega Courtney, co-author of Anna, Age Eight, discusses the book, which provides a detailed, data-driven analysis of the scope of trauma and how to strengthen systems designed to protect children. 1 pm, free CREATIVE MORNINGS: DID CURIOSITY KILL SCHRÖDINGER’S CAT? New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 Join creative professionals for coffee, bagels and a breakfast lecture about curiosity (see SFR Picks, page 21). 9 am, free
DANCE NIA GLOW-IN-THE-DARK FREE DANCE Sneha Blue Yoga & Energy Boutique 112 W San Francisco St., Suite 104, 702-373-1146 Music and eclectic sonic landscapes help unleash creativity and promote healing. 8:30 pm, free
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MUSIC ANDY KINGSTON TRIO Tonic 103 E Water St., 982-1189 Local piano-led jazz. 9:30 pm, free BROTHER E CLAYTON Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Soulful R&B. 5:30-8 pm, free THE BUS TAPES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Folk rock and blues with a jazzy twist. 8 pm, free BUSY McCARROLL BAND Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Jazz, pop and gothic Americana. 6 pm, free CHARLES TICHENOR'S CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 Groovy piano, poetry and song. Vive la révolution! 6 pm, free CHICHA SUMMIT Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Money Chicha and Dos Santos bring cumbia-driven reverb-noir psychedelia—perhaps a mouthful, but worth hearing. Locals Baracutanga open. 8 pm, $18
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A FREE PUBLIC LECTURE Dr. Thomas Chavez: “Fray Angelico Chavez vs. Willa Cather: Between Truth And Fiction” A study of the cultural and social conflicts that resonate in New Mexico history. Tuesday, February 27, 6:00 pm St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 West Palace Ave., Santa Fe For more information go to golondrinas.org or call 505-471-2261. presented by
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THE CALENDAR DJ DANY Camel Rock Casino 17486 Hwy. 84/285, Pojoaque, 984-8414 All your fave pan-Latin jams. 8:30 pm, free DANIELE SPADAVECCHIA Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Smooth crooning in Italian, English and Spanish and gypsy jazz guitar. 7 pm, free DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Piano standards and Broadway tunes. 6 pm, $2 DOUG MONTGOMERY AND MIKE NICHOLSON Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards and Broadway tunes on piano: Doug starts, Mike takes over at 8 pm. 6 pm, free GERRY CARTHY Pizzeria & Trattoria da Lino 204 N Guadalupe St., 982-8474 Traditional Irish tunes. 7 pm, free HALF BROKE HORSES Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Country, Western and honkytonk. 6 pm, free HOUSE OF MARY TRIO Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Indie rock and Americana on the deck. 5 pm, free JJ AND THE HOOLIGANS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n' roll to dance to. 8:30-10:30 pm, $5 JESUS BAS La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Amorous and romantic Spanish and flamenco guitar. 7 pm, free JOHN KURZWEG BAND Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Rock 'n' roll. 8:30 pm, free LINCOLN COUNTY WAR Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Renegade country. 10 pm, $5 LÚNASA & TIM O'BRIEN Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Rich Irish and Celtic music from Lúnasa, joined by country and bluegrass singer-songwriter O'Brien. 7:30 pm, $25-$39 NELSON DENMAN Chez Mamou French Bakery & Cafe 217 E Palace Ave., 216-1845 Classical, folk and jazz on cello and guitar. 6 pm, free
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NEXT 2 THE TRACKS Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 A Southwestern outlaw rock and renegade blues power trio with roots in Texas and New Mexico. 7 pm, free NORTHERN NEW MEXICO PIANO QUARTET First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Ari Le (violin), Brian Newnam (viola), Shanalyn Kemme (cello) and Cindy Little (piano) play Johannes Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 60. 5:30 pm, free THE PLEASURE PILOTS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Original and classic R&B. 8 pm, free RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar. 7 pm, free THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Jazzy piano music. 7:30 pm, free
THEATER CURTAINS! Santa Fe Prep 1101 Camino Cruz Blanca, 982-1829 A musical tells the story of a musical-loving detective who tries to solve the murder of a leading lady in 1959 Boston. Student tix are free! 7 pm, $10 THE ROOMMATE Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 Sharon, a divorcee living in Iowa after a bitter divorce, advertises for a roommate, but she doesn't exactly get what she expected in Robyn. 7:30 pm, $15-$25 THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES Santa Fe Center for Spiritual Living 505 Camino de los Marquez, 983-5022 Eve Ensler's seminal work about anatomy, feminism, humor, trauma, love, sex and just about everything else that makes up humanity from a cast comprised of current students and faculty members from Southwestern College; proceeds benefit Tewa Women United. 7 pm, $10-$15 THE WATER ENGINE Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Set in 1934, the story centers around a young inventor who has created an engine that runs on water. When he tries to patent it, he soon discovers that there are forces out there that don’t want that to happen. Tix: 917-439-7708. 7:30 pm, $15-$25
SAT/24 ART OPENINGS ASHLEY HUNT: ARTIST TALK Foto Forum Santa Fe 1716 Paseo de Peralta, 470-2582 Los Angeles photographer Hunt discusses his unprecedented photographic survey of the US prison system, documenting over 250 prisons from all 50 states and US territories (see AC, page 29). 5 pm, free MIRROR BOX form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111 Kyle Farrell, Alex Gill and Jordan Eddy curate an exhibition of emerging artists and writers, representing a network of early career creatives starting in Santa Fe and spiraling across the nation, a radical method for reflecting on place and identity through art objects. Through April 14. 5 pm, free
BOOKS/LECTURES ARCHAEOLOGY 101: THE ABCS: ARCHAEOLOGY, BELIEFS AND CHILDHOOD Museum of Indian Arts & Culture 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 With University of New Mexico grad student Paulina Przystupa, explore the archaeology of childhood through definitions of children and childhood in the past, and examine how we investigate children through material culture. Free with museum admission. 1 pm, $6-$12 BENJAMIN KLEIN: DROPOUTS, RENEGADES AND UTOPIANS New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 Klein presents a talk subtitled "Irwin Klein’s Photographs of the ’New Settlers’ of Northern New Mexico." Benjamin is Irwin's nephew, and edited collections of Irwin's photographs of (for lack of a better term) hippies. 1 pm, free EDUCATING GIRLS: POWER AND PURPOSE IN CONGO Railyard Performance Center 1611 Paseo de Peralta, 982-8309 Join Neema Namadamu of Hero Women Rising and alumnae of the Santa Fe Girls School for a community conversation about the power of educating girls. 7 pm, free ROCHELLE GERRATT: JAPAN’S KUMANO KODO TREK Travel Bug Coffee Shop 839 Paseo de Peralta, 992-0418 Join Gerratt for a talk and slide show about a five-day hike on the Kumano Kodo, Japan’s popular pilgrimage route. 5 pm, free CONTINUED ON PAGE 26
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Franny and Matty The formation of a songwriting partnership with local bassist Matt McClinton of Led Zeppelin cover act Moby Dick came later (there’s a nearly 30-year age gap; a less common story): “I’ve never written with anyone before, and the first song we wrote together … we call it ‘reverse engineering,’ where she has a melody and I worked out the music around it,” McClinton says. Their songs have been kind of hard to find thus far (though they’re now on Spotify), which McClinton says is delib-
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ho the hell is Francesca Jozette and where has she been hiding? The last thing I remember, I got a Facebook friend request (and I really only accepted because I’d heard her name whispered on the wind as some kind of musician and figured it would make my life easier down the road), but now she’s got a band? An EP? A backup squad of who’s-who local talent? More material ready to go for a full-length release? Jozette’s Free Range Buddhas has arrived, and you’re probably going to love it. “I didn’t even learn how to play an instrument until the last couple years,” Jozette says. “But I’ve been developing this thing, it’s just now gotten somewhere that I’m proud to present.” Jozette is a Santa Fe native, but spent time at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces and the University of New Mexico pursuing a degree in musical theater (she works in tech at The Lensic now; “I can go back to my dad and say ‘Hey! I got a job with my degree!’” she says) and training her voice. These days she plays guitar and ukulele, dabbles in keys and is finally realizing years of what she thought was simply poetry as fullfledged songs. “I guess I’ve always been a songwriter,” she explains. “I’ll grab a napkin and write lyrics, those always seem to turn into a melody; I’ll be in the shower and hum a tune and suddenly those feelings are coming.” The ultimate catalyst was a terrible breakup (a common story): “I had to reframe my whole existence after five years,” Jozette recalls.
Meet Free Range Buddhas erate—they’re not in a rush. A physical version of their eponymous debut EP does exist, though, and the very first Free Range Buddhas show goes down this weekend, where it will be available. For the EP, Jozette and McClinton enlisted musicians like John Kurzweg (guitar), Karina Wilson (fiddle), Mikey Chavez (drums) and Justin Lindsay (guitar), recorded at the seriously-starting-to-kickso-much-ass Kabby Sound with engineer David Badstubner and worked with Will Dyar’s Hills Audio to master the songs, Francesa Jozette and Matt McClinton— songwriting 2gether 4ever.
making it sound far more professional than the average local fare. The self-titled debut, Free Range Buddhas, is pretty much what you’d expect from the band’s lineup: A borderline Americana number with mid-tempo songs about heartache and loss and subtle forays into psychedelia. But its twopronged secret weapon (a rock-solid band and Jozette’s flawless voice) push it out of the realm of the ordinary into that of a promising beginning. Is it perfect? No—but as far as musical introductions go, they’ve really done it right. “I’ve worked with a lot of great songwriters,” McClinton says, “but I’ve waited my whole life for someone with a sense of melody like [Jozette] has.” This tracks with the whole not-rushing thing, but McClinton is also right about Jozette’s innate talent—for someone who’s just now starting to dive into the musical aspects of songwriting, she really seems to know what she’s doing. “She co-produced as well,” McClinton adds, “and she really stepped up with her production ideas.” Should this sound enticing, Free Range Buddhas performs their first real show (not counting various impromptu appearances from Jozette and McClinton) this Saturday at Duel Brewing. One hopes the energy and urgency of playing live adds a little something to the songs. As always, though, I’m a little more interested in what they’ll be doing six months or a year from now, when the kinks have been worked out and the songwriting has matured and Jozette has really come into her own. Still, for a limited-budget EP from a songwriting duo that features a fledgling musician, this one comes pretty damn close to excellent. FREE RANGE BUDDHAS WITH DJ TRES MARTINEZ AND SUNBENDER 6:30 pm Saturday Feb. 24. Free. Duel Brewing, 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301
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I’m an 18-year-old female. I’m cisgender and bisexual. I’ve been in a monogamous relationship with my cisgender bisexual boyfriend for about a year. I’m currently struggling with a lot of internalized biphobia and other hang-ups about my boyfriend’s sexuality. I don’t know if I’m projecting my own issues onto him or if I’m just being bigoted towards bi men, but either way, I feel truly awful about it. But when I think about the fact that he’s bi and is attracted to men, I become jealous and fearful that he will leave me for a man or that he would rather be with a man. (I’ve been with men and women in the past; he’s never been with a man.) I know it is unfair of me to feel this way and he’s never given me any real reason to fear this. We have a very engaged, kinky, and rewarding sex life! But I worry I’m not what he really wants. This situation is complicated by the near certainty that my boyfriend has some sort of hormonal disorder. He has a very young face for an 18 year old, a feminine figure, and not a lot of body hair. He orgasms but he does not ejaculate; and although he has a sizable penis, his testicles are more like the size of grapes than eggs. He struggles a lot with feeling abnormal and un-masculine. I try to be as supportive as possible and tell him how attracted to him I am and how he’ll get through whatever this is. But he can tell his bi-ness makes me nervous and uncomfortable. I think that because he appears more feminine than most men and is more often hit on by men than women, I worry that he would feel more comfortable or “normal” with a man. I don’t want to contribute to him feeling abnormal or bad about himself. How do I stop worrying that he’s gay or would be happier with a man? I feel horrible about myself for these anxieties considering that I’m bi too, and should know better. -Anonymous Nervous Girlfriend Seeks Tranquility “Many people who encounter us Bi+ folk in the wild just project their insecurities onto us with impunity and then blame us for it,” said RJ Aguiar, a bisexual activist and content creator whose work has been featured on Buzzfeed, HuffPo, Queerty and other sites. “As someone who’s bi herself, I’m sure ANGST know this all too well.” So if you’ve been on the receiving end of biphobia—as almost all bisexual people have— why are you doing it to your bisexual boyfriend? “This hypothetical so-and-so-is-going-toleave-me-for-someone-hotter scenario could happen to anyone of any orientation,” said Aguiar. “But maybe because the potential ‘pool of applicants’ is over twice as big for us Bi+ folk, we get stuck with twice as much of this irrational fear? I don’t know. But here’s what I do know: most Biphobia (and jealousy for that matter) is projected insecurity. Built into the fear that someone will leave you because they ‘like x or y better’ is the assumption that you yourself aren’t good enough.” And while feelings of insecurity and jealousy can undermine a relationship, ANGST, they don’t have to. It all depends on how you address them when they arise. “We all have our moments!” said Aguiar. “But we can turn these moments into opportunities for open communication and intimacy rather than moments of isolation and shame. That way they end up bringing you closer, rather than drive this invisible wedge between you. The key is to understand that feelings aren’t always rational. But if we can share those feelings with the person we love without fear of judgment or reprisal, it can help create a space of comfort and intimacy that no piece of ass will ever be able to compete with—no matter how hot they are or what they may or may not have between their legs.” As for the reasons you’re feeling insecure— your boyfriend might be gay and/or happier with a man—I’m not going to lie to you, ANGST. Your boyfriend could be gay (some people who aren’t bisexual identify as bi before coming out as gay or lesbian), and/or he could one day realize that he’d be happier with a man (just as you could one day realize that you’d be happier with a woman). But your wonderful sex life—your engaging, kinky,
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rewarding sex life—is pretty good evidence that your boyfriend isn’t gay. (I was one of those guys who identified as bi before coming out as gay, ANGST, and I had girlfriends and the sex we had was far from wonderful.) And now I’m going tell you something you no doubt already know: Very few people wind up spending their lives with the person they were dating at 18. You and your boyfriend are both in the process of figuring out who you are and what you want. It’s possible he’ll realize you’re not the person he wants to be with, ANGST, but it’s also possible you’ll realize he’s not the person you want to be with. Stop worrying about the next six or seven decades of your life—stop worrying about forever—and enjoy this time and this boy and this relationship for however long it lasts. Finally, ANGST, on the off chance your boyfriend hasn’t spoken to a doctor about his symptoms—because he’s an uninsured/underinsured/unlucky American or because he’s been too embarrassed to bring up the size of his balls and quality of ejaculations with his parents and/ or doctor—I shared your letter with Dr. John Amory, Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington. “An 18-year-old male with testicles the ‘size of grapes’ indicates an issue with testicular development,” said Dr. Amory. “The reduced testicular volume, in combination with the other features such as his feminine face and sparse body hair, also suggest an issue with testicular function.” It could simply be delayed puberty—some people suddenly grow six inches when they get to college—or it could be something called Klinefelter syndrome. “Klinefelter syndrome occurs in one out of every 500 males and is associated with small testicular volume and decreased testosterone,” said Dr. Amory. “This diagnosis is frequently missed because the penis is normal in size and the men are normal in most other ways, although about half of men with Klinefelter syndrome (KS) can have breast enlargement (gynecomastia) that can be seen as feminizing. Bottom line: Small testes at age 18 means it’s time for a doctor’s visit—probably an endocrinologist or urologist—to take a family history, do an examination, and consider measurement of testosterone and some other hormones. This should help him understand if he ‘just needs to wait’ or if he has a diagnosis that could be treated. There is a real possibility that he has KS, which is usually treated with testosterone to improve muscle mass, bone density and sexual function.” Follow RJ Aguiar on Twitter @rj4gui4r. I’m a 27-year-old woman whose boyfriend recently broke up with her. Along with the usual feelings of grief and heartbreak, I’m feeling a lot of guilt about how I handled our sex life, which was one of the main issues in our breakup. My now ex-boyfriend was interested in BDSM and a kink-oriented lifestyle, and I experimented with that for him. I attended several play parties, went to a five-daylong kink camp with him, and tried out many of his BDSM fantasies. The problem became that, hard as I tried, I just wasn’t very interested in that lifestyle and parts of it made me very uncomfortable. I was game to do the lighter stuff (spanking, bondage), but just couldn’t get behind the more extreme things. I disappointed him because I “went along with it” only to decide I wasn’t into it and that I unfairly represented my interest in his lifestyle. Did I do something wrong? What should I have done? -Basically A Little Kinky All you’re guilty of doing, BALK, is exactly what kinksters everywhere hope their vanilla partners will do. You gave it a try—you were good, giving, and game enough to explore BDSM with and for him—and sometimes that works, e.g. someone who always thought of themselves as vanilla goes to a play party or a five-day-long kink camp and suddenly realizes, hey, I’m pretty kinky, too! But it doesn’t always work. Since the alternative to “went along with it” was “never gave it a chance,” BALK, your ex-boyfriend should be giving you credit for trying, not grief for supposedly misleading him.
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CONTRA DANCE Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, 470-7077 The New Mexico Folk Music and Dance Society hosts a contra dance with caller Sherilyn Urben. Show up at 7 pm for a lesson; the dance starts at 7:30 pm. 7 pm, $8-$9 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 A performance by the National Institute of Flamenco. 6:30 pm, $25 YOGA-DANCE-GLOW Sneha Blue Yoga & Energy Boutique 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 104, 702-373-1146 Yoga poses and guided movement with upbeat music might just help release negative energy. 8:30 pm, free
BREWSKI Ski Santa Fe 740 Hyde Park Road, 982-4429 Six local breweries pour delicious craft beer while Soul Foundation provides some rocking tunes. 11 am-3 pm, free
EVENTS ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE DEMO: TONI OLIVER Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino 20 Buffalo Thunder Trail, 455-5555 Live demonstrations of jewelry-making in the lobby outside the Red Sage restaurant. 4-7 pm, free BIRD WALK Randall Davey Audubon Center 1800 Upper Canyon Road, 983-4609 Head to the hills for a guided birding hike. 8:30-10 am, free EL CAMINO CROSSING GRAND OPENING Agua Fria and Harrison Road Homewise hosts a grand opening of the affordable neighborhood, with model home tours and a chance to win a 1978 El Camino. 10 am-5 pm, free AN EVENING WITH LISA MARIE BODY of Santa Fe 333 W Cordova Road, 986-0362 Join fourth-generation psychic and medium Lisa Marie Toal as she reads the live audience, speaks to loved ones who are now in spirit, makes predictions and more. 7 pm, $35-$45 ADOPTABLE GREYHOUND MEET 'N' GREET Teca Tu DeVargas Center, 165 Paseo de Peralta, 982-9374 We love greyhounds sooooooooo much! 11 am-1 pm, free WILD SPIRIT WOLF SANCTUARY FAMILY PROGRAM Santa Fe Public Library LaFarge Branch 1730 Llano St., 955-4860 Learn about wolves and wolf behavior, get myths debunked and meet an ambassador wolf. 2:30 pm, free
MUSIC THE BUS TAPES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Alternative folk ‘n’ rock. 8:30 pm, free CS ROCKSHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Classic rock. 9 pm, $5 CHARLES TICHENOR'S CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 Groovy piano, poetry and song with Tichenor and special guests. Vive la révolution! 6 pm, free DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Broadway tunes and piano standards. 6 pm, $2 DAVID PARLATO AND MICHAEL ANTHONY Museum Hill Café 710 Camino Lejo, 984-8900 A jazz concert reunion of guitarist Anthony and bassist Parlato, joined by John Trentacosta on drums. 7 pm, $20-$25 FREE RANGE BUDDHAS, DJ TRES MARTINEZ AND SUNBENDER Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 Americana, folk, rock, indie pop, ambient tunes y más (see Music, page 25). 7 pm, free GERRY CARTHY Pizzeria & Trattoria da Lino 204 N Guadalupe St., 982-8474 Traditional Irish tunes. 7 pm, free HARTLESS Camel Rock Casino 17486 Hwy. 84/285, Pojoaque, 984-8414 Classic rock. 8:30 pm, free THE HIGH DESERT PLAYBOYS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Original and classic country on the deck. 2 pm, free HOLY KNIVES, GOLDEN GENERAL AND JOHN FRANCIS MUSTAIN Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 The Holy Knives melds playful pop with dark, groovy dreamscapes. With locals Golden General and Mustain (see SFR Picks, page 21). 8:30 pm, $8
JONO MANSON El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Original rock and blues. 7:30 pm, free JUSTIN MARTIN Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 The electronica DJ and producer kicks off his 2018 tour (see 3 Questions, page 27). 9 pm, $22 MYSTIC LIZARD Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Bluegrass. 6 pm, free NELSON DENMAN Chez Mamou French Bakery & Cafe 217 E Palace Ave., 216-1845 Classical, folk and jazz. 6 pm, free NOSOTROS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 High-energy Latin jams. 10 pm, $7 PAT MALONE Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Solo jazz guitar. 7 pm, free THE PLEASURE PILOTS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Original and classic R&B. 8 pm, free THE PORTER DRAW Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Rock and Americana. 8 pm, free RANGEL AND JOHNSON Tonic 103 E Water St., 982-1189 A jazzy duo featuring John Rangel on piano and Sean Johnson on tenor sax. 9:30 pm, free RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar. 7 pm, free SFPS MUSIC FACULTY AND FRIENDS CABARET The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 A fundraiser benefiting the Santa Fe Public Schools’ music education programs. 7 pm, $25-$40 SARAH MOHR Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Blues 'n' jazz. 6 pm, free SOUND AND SPECTACLE: FRIEDRICH HEINRICH KERN SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 Ethereal and peaceful piano tunes with electronic sensibilities and drum machines for work that fluctuates between the poles of classical discipline. 6:30 pm, $10-$15
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OPERA OPERA BREAKFAST SERIES: PUCCINI’S LA BOHÈME Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Need to brush up on the most beautiful opera of all time? Hit a lecture by Mark Tiarks in advance of today’s Met Live in HD broadcast at the Lensic (see below). 9 am, $5 THE MET LIVE IN HD: LA BOHÈME Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 A simulcast of history's most popular opera, the tragic tale of love between artists Rodolfo and Mimi. 10:30 am and 6 pm, $20-$28
THEATER CURTAINS! Santa Fe Prep 1101 Camino Cruz Blanca, 982-1829 A musical-loving detective who tries to solve the murder of a leading lady. 7 pm, $10 THE ROOMMATE Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 A new play tells the story of Sharon, a divorcee living in Iowa after a bitter divorce. She advertises for a roommate, but she doesn't exactly get what she expected. 7:30 pm, $15-$25 THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES Santa Fe Center for Spiritual Living 505 Camino de los Marquez, 983-5022 Eve Ensler's seminal work about anatomy, feminism, humor, trauma, love, sex and life in general, presented by students and faculty of Southwestern College. Proceeds benefit Tewa Women United. 2 pm and 7:30 pm, $10-$15 THE WATER ENGINE Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A young inventor has created an engine that runs on water. When he tries to patent it, he soon discovers that there are forces out there that don’t want that to happen. For tickets: 917-439-7708. 7:30 pm, $15-$25
WORKSHOP CANNUPA HANSKA LUGER: MMIQWT BEAD PROJECT Museum of Indian Arts & Culture 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Hanska Luger hosts a workshop for the community to make 2-by-2-inch beads, which are needed to complete a beaded portrait version of a photograph taken by First Nations photographer Kali Spitzer to acknowledge missing and murdered First Nations people (MMIQWT is Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Queer and Trans). 10 am-4 pm, free
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After San Francisco-based DJ Justin Martin made his Meow Wolf debut last summer, he realized he wanted to make the place a recurring stop. Earlier this month, he proved his admiration for the art exhibit by announcing a new residency at Meow Wolf (9 pm Saturday Feb. 24. $22. 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369). In doing so, he makes Santa Fe his first stop outside of his hometown during his 2018 tour. (Juan Mendoza) So, you’ve played at many big clubs and festivals— what made Meow Wolf so memorable that you wanted to come back and make it a residency? Honestly, I was blown away. ... It’s so much more than a club. It really is a collective of creative individuals and the music is just a small part of it. To be a part of that is just really special. ... I’m so used to going to play the same old bottle service nightclubs, and it’s really nice to see something that’s different, where people think outside of the box and try to create an atmosphere that’s just different than your typical club. It’s important to work with positive people that are trying to do something different, and this place, for me, is the pinnacle of that. What are you trying to do with your music? I’ve never been really one to follow current trends that go on in dance music. I try to make stuff that is sonically pleasing and has a nice emotion to it while having a little bit of grit and that bass that moves people on the dance floor. If I can capture that juxtaposition between something that’s got a little bit of edge and some rawness to it but also make feel a certain way, like emotionally, then I feel like I am following the right path with where I want to go with my music.
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SUN/25 BOOKS/LECTURES HIM OLD RUINS: EDGAR LEE HEWETT AND THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF PUEBLO PAINTING St. Francis Auditorium 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Archaeologist Hewett had a profound impact on art in New Mexico; Nancy Owen Lewis discusses his contributions and explores and artists’ relationship with Hewett. Presented by the School for Advanced Research. 1 pm, $10
JOURNEYSANTAFE: JOE MONAHAN Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Monahan’s political blog (joemonahan.com) has been sifting through New Mexico politics since 2003. See what his thoughts are today. 11 am, free JULES NYQUIST AND TINA CARLSON Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Join the fine folks at Paraguas for a reading and conversation with two New Mexico poets. 6 pm, $5
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THE CALENDAR EVENTS EL CAMINO CROSSING GRAND OPENING Agua Fria and Harrison Road Homewise hosts a grand opening of the affordable neighborhood, with model home tours and a chance to win a 1978 El Camino. 10 am-5 pm, free DHARMA DISCUSSION GROUP Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 Share thoughts related to Buddhist practice. 7 pm, free MODERN BUDDHISM: BLUE SKY MIND Zoetic 230 St. Francis Drive, 292-5293 Experience the vast clarity of your mind with meditation. 10:30 am-noon, $10
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VFW 307 Montezuma Ave., 983-9045 Pop punk ‘n’ fuzzy garage jams (see SFR Picks, page 21). 8:30 pm, $5 DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards. 6:30 pm, free EMILY KAYE Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Acoustic tunes by way of Baton Rouge. 2-4 pm, free JASON GOODYEAR’S 50TH BIRTHDAY SHOWCASE Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Jason Goodyear has taught music, sound and technology in Santa Fe for 18 years so celebrate with performances by acts playing everything from hip-hop to ragtime. 7 pm, free LULU AND THE BLACK SHEEP WITH BROKESTRINGS AND THE EMPTY PROMISES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Folk 'n' country, punk 'n' blues, ska 'n' soul, electro 'n' jazz—all on the deck. 3 pm, free MATTHEW ANDRAE La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Soulful, grooving roots and blues. 6 pm, free NACHA MENDEZ La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Latin music. 7 pm, free PAT MALONE TRIO El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 A jazzy trio. 7 pm, free
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THE SANTA FE REVUE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Country and Americana. Noon, free SERENATA OF SANTA FE: ROMANTICS First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Lush compositions from Anton Webern, Richard Strauss, Kenji Bunch and Johannes Brahms. 3 pm, $20-$40
THEATER CURTAINS! Santa Fe Prep 1101 Camino Cruz Blanca, 982-1829 A musical-loving detective tries to solve the murder of a leading lady in 1959 Boston. Student tix are free! 2 pm, $10 THE ROOMMATE Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 Sharon advertises for a roommate, but she doesn't exactly get what she expected in Robyn. 3 pm, $15-$25 THE WATER ENGINE Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A story of corruption and violence as only renowned playwright David Mamet could pen. For tickets, call 917-439-7708. 2 pm, $15-$25
WORKSHOP FOR THE LOVE OF PLAY Railyard Performance Center 1611 Paseo de Peralta, 982-8309 Join a multi-generational class as part of a graduate thesis project exploring the healthy benefits of play. 1-2:15 pm, free YOUNG ADULT BOOK CLUB Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Teens (ages 14-18) are invited to the monthly book club. Discuss Love, Hate & Other Filters by Samira Ahmed. 4 pm, free
MON/26 BOOKS/LECTURES SOUTHWEST SEMINARS: AN AMERICAN GENOCIDE Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Historian Benjamin Madley, associate professor at UCLA, speaks about the California Indian Catastrophe. 6 pm, $15 VICTORIA PRICE: THE WAY OF BEING LOST Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Victoria Price, local luminary, public speaker and author, reads from her newest release, The Way of Being Lost: A Roadtrip to My Truest Self. 6:30 pm, free
EVENTS THE SANTA FE HARMONIZERS REHEARSAL Zia United Methodist Church 3368 Governor Miles Road, 699-6922 The choral group invites anyone who can carry a tune to its weekly rehearsals. Join in on tenor, lead, baritone or bass. 6:30-8 pm, free
MUSIC BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Honky-tonk and Americana. 7:30 pm, free BLITZEN TRAPPER Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Country, folk and rock. 7 pm, $17-$20 DANIELE SPADAVECCHIA TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Gypsy jazz guitar. 6 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Classical, standards, pop and original tunes on piano. 6:30 pm, free JAMIE RUSSELL Pizzeria & Trattoria da Lino 204 N Guadalupe St., 982-8474 Americana, pop and rock. 7 pm, free
TUE/27 BOOKS/LECTURES FRAY ANGELICO CHAVEZ VS. WILLA CATHER: BETWEEN TRUTH AND FICTION St. Francis Auditorium 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Thomas Chavez explores conflicting portrayals of Hispanos in literature and history. 6 pm, free SIDNEY REDNER: RANDOMNESS EVERYWHERE Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Physicist Redner discusses the randomness—or is it?—of the likelihood of contracting the flu or the fluctuation of stocks. 7:30 pm, free STEPHANIE ALIA AND ADAM FRANK: ALCHERINGA Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Author Stephanie Alia and illustrator Adam Frank talk about Alcheringa’s Dream World and discuss their creative process and journey from concept to comic. 5-7 pm, free
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A&C behind the walls, free of narrative, free of visual guideposts. It’s a testament to how methodically and ingeniously concealed many correctional facilities are; so insidiously disguised we don’t realize they’re there. “The erasure of punishment in our everyday lives is very different from the actual disappearance of punishment,” Hunt says. “Maybe the very invisibility of our penal system—the way we punish people by camouflaging them—maybe that’s why incarceration in this country has grown so out of control.” Documentarian in approach, the images in Degrees of Visibility contain elements of landscapes, intrinsic to works like “1,495 Men, Montana State Prison, Deer Lodge, Montana.” It seems a simple, albeit pretty picture of a grassy dell in Anytown, USA. Only after prolonged study do we notice the roof of a long, low building in an upper corner. In “An Average Daily Population of 1,000, Dauphin County Prison, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,” we find a far less idyllic setting: a sad sea of asphalt, anchored on the left by a Toys-R-Us, its bright sign providing color to otherwise drab terrain. Inserted into such an impersonal context, the viewer feels isolated from possible storylines, seen or unseen. Like others in the series, it’s intentionally anonymous and hard to access. Want to learn more about getting involved with prison advocacy locally? Get information from the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico (aclu-nm.org) or, internationally, look into mass incarceration research and reform with Human Rights Watch (hrw.org).
“9,806 Men, Kern Valley State Prison and North Kern State Prison, Delano, California” from Ashley Hunt’s staggering series at Foto Forum.
The Invisibles In a photographic survey of American prisons, there’s more than meets the eye BY IRIS MCLISTER a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m
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or nearly a decade, artist, professor and activist Ashley Hunt has traveled across America, taking photos of 250 prisons and jails from each of the country’s 50 states and territories for his series Degrees of Visibility. Speaking to SFR from his home in Los Angeles, Hunt is both candid and eloquent. When I ask if he remembered taking shots of any New Mexico prisons, I didn’t expect a lightning-fast response—after all, the guy’s taken photos of hundreds of correctional institutions. “One of the pictures that really matters to me was actually taken at Cibola,” Hunt says, referring to the institution in “1,204 Men, Cibola County Correctional Center, Milan, New Mexico,” a privately owned prison in a map-blip town near Grants. “I had pulled off the highway and was at a gas station, and right next to it was a DVD rental place,” he pauses. “The weird thing was, this movie rental place looked like it
went on forever, which made no sense. So I walked closer, and saw that what looked like part of the DVD place was actually a totally separate building behind it, with rows of tall, skinny windows. It was a prison, and it was practically invisible.” This image, along with a couple dozen more, are on view at Foto Forum Santa Fe, the newly launched photo-specific nonprofit art space near the Railyard. Each image is shot from a publicly accessible view of the institution and named according to the number of prisoners the facility contains. For 20 years, Hunt, who also directs the photography and media arts program at California Institute of the Arts, has been focused on raising awareness about mass incarceration. There were multiple occurrences that spurred this interest—from watching loved ones whose drug addictions meant jail time instead of treatment, to friends locked up for relatively innocuous nonviolent crimes. “I started wondering what shapes our understanding of so-called ‘criminal behavior,’” Hunt tells SFR. Since the inception of Degrees of Visibility in 2010, he’s seen a sharp increase in imprisoned populations. “We had started to make some incremental progress during the Obama
administration,” he explains, “in terms of at least letting the words ‘mass incarceration’ become part of an acknowledged discourse.” Under the current administration, with folks like private prison-happy US Attorney Jeff Sessions in power, progress has stalled, or even reversed. If race isn’t overtly addressed in these images, it’s nevertheless a crucial aspect of the series. Incarceration, after all, has a disproportionate impact on people of color—African American men, for example, are six times as likely to face jail time as white men. Still, to what degree can race really be visible in a series with an emphasis on what—or who—we can’t see? The image “Numbers Unavailable, Ferguson City Police Jail, Ferguson, Missouri” was taken just miles from where black teenager Michael Brown was killed by a cop in 2014. The photo of squat, beigebricked buildings flanking a parking lot is initially bland, but the context puts us on edge and, if we stay with that feeling, being in this nondescript parking lot is suddenly a lot like being deposited into a bad dream. In accompanying exhibition texts, Hunt uses the word “hidden” to refer both to prisoners and the institutions. As such, photos are necessarily spare, free of even passing glimpses of the people cloistered
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The Water Engine • by David Mamet For full details on these and other listings, please see
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Oasis Theatre Co. at Teatro Paraguas: 3205 Calle Marie Feb. 22–25 • Thurs. Fri. Sat. at 7:30 p.m., Sun. at 2 p.m.
The Amazing Acro-Cats
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ASHLEY HUNT: DEGREES OF VISIBILITY Opening reception: 5 pm Friday Feb. 23. Free. Artist Talk: 5 pm Saturday Feb. 24. Free. Foto Forum Santa Fe, 1716 Paseo de Peralta, 470-2582
The Roommate • by Jen Silverman
at Adobe Rose Theatre: 1213 Parkway Drive Feb. 22–25 • Thurs. Fri. Sat. at 7:30 p.m., Sun. at 2 p.m.
A.M.L. and A Common Thread
at New Mexico School for the Arts: 275 E. Alameda St. Feb. 22–24 • Thurs. Fri. Sat. at 7 p.m.
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DUEL EXPRESSIONS Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 A monthly open mic welcomes comedy, drama, music, poetry, short stories, spoken word and more. Sign up at 5 pm. 6 pm, free METTA REFUGE COUNCIL Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 A gathering for people who are struggling with illness and loss in a variety of its forms. It is an opportunity for the sharing of life experiences in a setting of compassion. 10:30 am, free
MUSIC BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Honky-tonk and Americana. 7:30 pm, free
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CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 A night of music, improv and camaraderie. Sign up if you want to join in, but this ain't amateur hour. 8:30 pm, $5 CHUSCALES La Boca (Original Location) 72 W Marcy St., 982-3433 Exotic flamenco guitar from a dude whose family descended from the inventors of the genre. He knows his stuff. 7 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND MIKE NICHOLSON Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards, classical and Broadway tunes on piano: Doug starts, Mike takes over at 8 pm. 6 pm, free FULL OWL Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana. 8 pm, free
G.ALLEN Pizzeria & Trattoria da Lino 204 N Guadalupe St., 982-8474 Transgressive rhythm structures born from the spirit of blues. 7 pm, free PAT KEEN AND ADELYN STREI Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Rally for a special Tuesday night show from musicians from Minneapolis, self-described as “folk porg rok exoremoontal parg farlk roke”—we’re willing to translate that as “folk, prog-rock, experimental, prog-folk-rock.” A rip rap ribbity roo! 6:30 pm, free PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Live solo jazz guitar. 6 pm, free
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GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 Journey to Center: New Mexico Watercolors by Sam Scott. Through Nov. 1. HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 Helen Gene Nichols: Industrial Paisley. Through Feb. 25. Work By Women. Erin Currier: La Frontera. Jolene Nenibah Yazzie: Sisters of War. All through May 13. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 IAIA 2018 BFA Exhibition: Breaking Ground. Through May 12. Art & Activism: Selections from The Harjo Family Collection. Through May 13. The Abundant North: Alaska Native Films of Influence. Through June 3. Action Abstraction Redefined. Through July 27. Without Boundaries: Visual Conversations. Through July 29. Rolande Souliere: Form and Content. Through Jan. 27, 2019. MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART 623 Agua Fría St., 989-3283 American and international encaustic art. MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Frank Buffalo Hyde: I-Witness Culture. Through April 30. Stepping Out: 10,000 Years of Walking the West. Through Sept. 3. Lifeways of the Southern Athabaskans. Through Dec. 31.
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To kick off the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture’s Archaeology 101 lecture series on Saturday, investigate what we can learn about children and culture through the types of toys found in archaeological digs. MUSEUM OF INT’L FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Negotiate, Navigate, Innovate. Through July 16. Crafting Memory: The Art of Community in Peru. Through March 10, 2019. MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 Time Travelers: and the Saints Go Marching On. Through April 20. NM HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5019 Voices of Counterculture in the Southwest. Through Feb. 11. A Mexican Century: Prints from the Taller de Gráfica Popular. Through Feb. 18. NM MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Contact: Local to Global. Through April 29. Shifting Light: Photographic Perspectives. Through Oct. 8. Horizons: People &
Place in New Mexican Art. Through Nov. 25. PALACE OF THE GOVERNORS 105 W Palace Ave., 476-5100 Tesoros de Devoción. POEH CULTURAL CENTER AND MUSEUM 78 Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3334 In T’owa Vi Sae’we. SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDENS 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Dan Namingha: Conception, Abstraction, Reduction. Through May 18. SITE SANTA FE 1606 Paseo De Peralta, 989-1199 Luke DuBois: A More Perfect Union. Through April 4. Future Shock. Through May 1. WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 704 Camino Lejo, 986-4636 Beads: A Universe of Meaning. Through April 15.
Sky High BY MARY FRANCIS CHEESEMAN a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m
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affeine is arguably humanity’s most beloved psychoactive drug, and coffee is its most favored form. A strong case can be made that tea is more ubiquitous and equally refined, and while chocolate, mate, kola nuts or cassina pack a hell of a buzz, no other form of caffeine delivery system inspires the level of obsession and artistry that is brewing a great cup of coffee. Coffee is many things: artistic, stimulating, expressive … but in the wrong hands, it is a drug of inequity and exploitation; grown in mass quantities, it is as harmful to its point of origin as bananas, sugar and oil. But there is a new wave of coffee shops and roasters that aim to free coffee consumers from participating in a outdated, archaic system. “When farmers can no longer grow coffee, a way of life that has been sustained for generations is lost, setting off a cascade of miserable consequences, including accelerated urbanization in producing countries,” God in a Cup scribe scribe Michaele Wiessman writes. “Coffee lovers lose out too, for it is these small shareholders, rather than the world’s large plantations, who grow many of the world’s best coffees.” While the third wave coffee movement has been gaining momentum since the early 1990s, Santa Fe has been slow to adopt the trend. First on the scene was the Betterday Coffee Shop (Solana Center, 905 W Alameda St., 780-8059),, featuring the brews of Portland, Oregon-based Stumptown Coffee Roasters; in 2013, Iconik Coffee Roasters opened its flagship Lena Street Lofts location (1600 Lena St., Ste. A2, 428-0996),, branching out over the
years to a second location (at Collected Works Bookstore at 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226) and a thriving wholesale business with local restaurants as well. Since then, a handful of new roasters and shops have sprung up elsewhere in the state as well, notably Albuquerque’s Prismatic, which roasts in-house, and Deep Space, which sources its house coffees from Colorado’s Sweet Bloom and Arizona’s Presta Coffee Roasters. Similar to the rise of microbreweries in the beer industry, third wave coffee is the fastest-growing segment of the coffee industry (which grosses roughly $74.2 billion a year) and shows no sign of slowing. Which brings us to Sky Coffee (the little adobe right across from the water tower at 1609 Alcaldesa St.). Sky occupies a premium spot. With brick walls and a tin ceiling that lend a rustic feel to the space, the interior is airy, light and minimalist. This multi-roaster coffee bar has been open just shy of five months and features a rotating selection of beans sourced from small-
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Railyard multi-roaster Sky Coffee expands Santa Fe’s horizons batch roasters, all selected by director of coffee and godfather of Santa Fe’s third wave coffee scene, Todd Spitzer—with help from Violet Crown Cinema founder Bill Banowsky—who also brought us Iconik and up-and-coming Baca Streetarea coffee shop and eatery Opuntia (922 Shoofly St.). Sky’s sources include the requisite Iconik roasts as well as offerings from Ruby Coffee Roasters and Máquina Coffee Roasters. The latter is a microroaster based out of Pennsylvania which focuses on cultivated relationships with growers and delivering accessible, approachable expressions of small-batch roasted coffee, while Ruby, based in Nelsonville, Wisconsin, delivers a kind of coffee with a direct point of origin. To think: A pound of fully washed Ethiopian Guji Uraga comes lightly roasted from an operation based in a town of less than 200 people. Sourcing and roasting the beans is only half the battle. The other half is brewing and serving it. As is par for the course with coffeeshops
of this ilk, the espresso shot has to be the correct weight and tamped out perfectly, while the pour has to be well-timed and the water has to be the right temperature. The steamed milk used to make a pretty, swirling design atop a latte isn’t just for aesthetics; it’s a sign that the barista has prepared the milk and espresso in the best way possible. The beans are ground to order, the shots are small and everything behind the bar can be no more than two weeks old (and frequently is younger than that). There are pastries on hand from Dolina Bakery (402 N Guadalupe St., 982-9394) with plans to expand the menu selection sometime this spring—but for now, quality coffee is the focus. Certainly, the crux of the altruism, the lofty ideals and the obsessive attention to detail that categorize the third wave all hinge on constantly improving the level of quality inherent in a good cup of coffee, and Sky certainly delivers in that respect. I had the pour-over ($4), which is drip coffee made from freshly ground beans in a kalita dripper, featuring the roast of the Mira day (Máquina’s Colombian Finca el Mirador.) There are pounds of coffee available for purchase as well. But it isn’t all about obsessing over the small details. roast “Third wave isn’t always about roasting light coffees, but rather different roasting profiles and signatures for the drinks to appeal to a wide variety of palettes,” Spitzer says. “I think Santa Fe itself can and will support more third wave roasters, each doing their own original take on the craft. Sky Coffee is one company exploring this idea.” SKY COFFEE 1609 Alcaldesa St. 8 am-6 pm daily
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Someplace between the joyous celebration of all things African culture and the tremendous principal cast of all black actors in Black Panther lies a fairly run-of-the-mill comic book movie narrative, but it almost seems at this point that if we’re hitting any Marvel Studios movie in search of the non-formulaic, we’re going to be sorely disappointed. We enter the fictional African nation of Wakanda as its prince, the mighty T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman, 42), is set to take the throne following his father’s murder (which you may have seen in Captain America: Civil War). For hundreds of years Wakanda has thrived thanks to the also-fictional vibranium, a metal so precious and powerful that it can make any far-fetched sci-fi dreams come true; a metal that just so happens to exist only there. Up until now, pretty much no outsiders have entered Wakanda, but when a mysterious former US soldier (Michael B Jordan, Creed) starts poking around and trying to find his way in for nefarious reasons, T’Challa must confront heavy truths about his country, his people and the heartbreaking past of African Americans. Fill things out with utterly badass women like Nakia (Lupita
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Nyong’o) and Okoye (Danai Gurira), and we’re really getting somewhere. From a purely aesthetic standpoint, Black Panther is a complete triumph. The costuming and hair, the production design and, frankly, the hotas-fire score and soundtrack (thanks for the hit jams, Kendrick Lamar!) are all glorious. Where it falters, however, is in its attempts at a deep story. At the very edges of the action lies surface information about colonization and racism, but we never dive deep enough into these concepts in any meaningful way. Rather, they’re mentioned briefly between kickass fight scenes which, yes, are kickass, but how refreshing and potentially valuable it might be to see a comic book film dissect something real.
Still, the requisite explosions and shaky morality plays are there, along with the always-fantastic character actor Andy Serkis. Perhaps director-writer Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station) is simply dipping his toes into the concept of a heavier (or more grounded) direction, and we really hope he gets there with a sequel. For now, though, Black Panther is still a gorgeous film and the most culturally significant Marvel outing to date—that’s something all on its own. BLACK PANTHER Directed by Coogler With Boseman, Jordan, Nyong’o, Gurira and Serkis Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 134 min.
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ming and beyond. Wain somehow encapsulates the era in a completely accessible way, forming a subtle biopic of Kenney (SNL alum Will Forte) along the way and proving that the very funny and too-smart-for-their-own-good are often haunted and tragic, hiding from their demons behind a thin wall of jokes. National Lampoon is obviously a name known to many, perhaps depressingly so by this point (thanks for nothing, Van Wilder), but how many comedy titans started formidable careers there— and even how Saturday Night Live owes much, if not all, of its iconic status to poaching Kenney’s staff—is both fascinating and heartbreaking. Forte makes a perfectly fine Kenney, though the legendary Martin Mull as the could-havebeen narrative device steals much of his thunder. Star Wars’ Domhnall Gleeson may be the most surprising performance, however, slowly gaining traction as Henry Beard, a wonderfully hysterical straight-guy counterpoint to Kenney’s absurdities and a charming example of how deadpan sells satire so much better than off-thewall does. Other famous faces show up as well, from Joel McHale’s not-quite-right Chevy Chase and Natasha Lyonne’s boundary-breaking Anne Beatts to Thomas Lennon’s pitch-perfect asshole CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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Rosamund Pike gets to blastin’ fools in Hostiles. performance as the explosively dark and outrageous writer Michael O’Donoghue. The takeaway, though, may be in A Stupid and Futile Gesture’s willingness to never take itself too seriously, even as it calls out drug abuse, toxic work environments and the inherent pressures of extreme popularity. Still, it’s a riveting watch for comedy fans who fall anywhere on the spectrum and a loving portrayal of the men and women who forever changed the game. (Alex De Vore) Netflix, TV-MA, 111 min. HOSTILES
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At about the 10th scene that finds its principal cast gathered around a campfire silently distrustful of one another, it starts to feel like Hostiles, the new Western from Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper, could have focused more effort elsewhere. It is late-1800s New Mexico; a post-Wounded Knee, post-Little Big Horn world where the white settlers simply take whatever land they want and the Indigenous people are understandably (like, 100 percent understandably) pissed. But when aging US Army Captain Joe Blocker (Christian Bale) is forced to free and transport a dying Native prisoner named Chief Yellow Hawk (hometown hero Wes Studi) to Montana so he can die of cancer in peace and among his people, the divisions between mankind slowly fade and everyone involved learns valuable lessons—or dies trying. Along for the ride are various other soldiers and Yellow Hawk’s family, plus the recently widowed and childless Rosalie Quaid (Rosamund Pike), whose family was cut down by Natives not of Yellow Hawk’s ilk. Every step of the way is rife with further terror, and every mile gained seems to present new obstacles; from racial tensions and violent fur trappers to ruthless fellow soldiers and the unforgiving elements. Hostiles is an absolutely gorgeous view of New Mexico and the hardscrabble way of life during the era, but when it comes right down to it, the bigger picture it tries to present winds up feeling diluted. Yes, Bale is the draw here, and we get how the business of movies works, but Studi’s performance as the once-formidable Yellow Hawk could have hit much harder had they given him a few more lines or some definitive moment. We’re honestly left to believe that Bale’s character just kind of comes to release his hatred toward Indigenous people by the end with very little input from Yellow Hawk, other than a thoughtful word here or there. Seriously, though, one solid monologue from Studi could have completely turned this thing around. Which isn’t to say it’s all bad. Breaking
Bad alum Jesse Plemons comes in with a solid supporting role, and Ben Foster (Hell or High Water) shows up briefly as an unexpected villainous type who does have an interesting point about who ought cast the first stone. Even Pike’s ultimate badass moment makes some otherwise bizarre missteps with her character totally worth it. Sad, though, that the narrative skews more toward the white folk, even if they’re presented as monsters more often than not—but we certainly won’t say our perspective on a number of things didn’t shift. (ADV) Violet Crown, R, 134 min. PHANTOM THREAD
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s newest film reunites him with There Will Be Blood star Daniel DayLewis, but the bulk of its promotion has had something or other to do with Day-Lewis’ announcement that it would be his final film. Le sigh. Fitting, then, that they’d go out with a bang and healthy dose of Anderson’s patented tortured-genius narrative style. Day-Lewis is Reynolds Woodcock, a highly sought-after and eccentric dress designer in London circa 1950-something. The dresses are gorgeous, his ego less so, and his relationships with his sister (Lesley Manville) and modelmuses both are strained, if not downright abusive and fleeting. Strange, then, that he’d fall so quickly and deeply for young Alma (Vicky Krieps). The pair becomes inseparable, though neither is truly who the other believes; the work suffers, the relationship falters, the price of genius is laid bare. Day-Lewis, as always, disappears completely into the role, bringing equal parts intensity and narcissistic charm to the talented yet childish Reynolds. The man always gets his way, even as those around him take great, pained strides to accommodate his nonsense. Alma becomes his match, though, proving there are nearly no depths to which she won’t sink to render him helpless in her care. Krieps shines in her more vulnerable moments, transitioning from starryeyed country girl to sneakily cutthroat hangeron. Is she in awe of Reynolds’ work and ethics, or does she simply gravitate toward him because it seems he could live without her? Even she can’t decide, perhaps, but even in her darker moments we understand—or at least try to—how she could hurt so bad and act so recklessly. Anderson, of course, wrote and directed the film, and music from Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood (who also scored There Will Be Blood) is so subtle yet so essential that it drives us in a way few other scores really can without us ever noticing, moving seamlessly from
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minimalist, noise-adjacent moments of tension to light and airy jazz-like tunes during brief happy respites. Day-Lewis has remained adamant that he doesn’t wish to discuss his retirement with the world at large, and that’s fine—but it really is a shame he’s chosen to call it quits. Reynolds may not prove to be his most-remembered role, though it certainly does allow him to go out strong. Phantom Thread is jarring and challenging, but unlike almost anything else out there. Surely that’s worth your attention. (ADV) Violet Crown, R, 130 min. THE POST
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How hopeful for our future that Hollywood produced a prequel that’s not fiction about a galaxy far, far away. Released 42 years after Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman won hearts for journalism on the big screen, The Post is what happened just before All the President’s Men—the story of the story that finally took United States troops out of Vietnam. At its locus is Daniel Ellsberg (Matthew Rhys), who you could think of the Edward Snowden of the analog era. The sheer mechanics of his leaking thousands of pages of top-secret Pentagon files to the New York Times required months of late-night copy sessions on a machine half the size of a Volkswagen. (From typewriters to rotary phones, hot lead setters and the printing press, it’s a kick to watch the machines in the movie—all thrummed along by an emotional score from John Williams.) When the paper was halfway through a front-page series, a judge enjoined the Times against printing any more about the top-secret documents, and the competing Post got in on the story. Director Steven Spielberg focuses on the evolution of publisher Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep) at the side of pirate editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) as they navigate the choppy waters that ensue. Streep’s Graham is more heroine in our book than Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman, and we’d make the argument that her courage as the head of her father’s newspaper, a woman in a man’s world, is a bigger stride for feminism than swordfighting in a skirt. It’s her newspaper now. (Or it was, until it went public—and now, um, Amazon has it or something, but that’s another story.) Hanks brings to Bradlee the gravely voice and straight-from-the-newsroom aggression that the editor was known for, and Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul) is a treasure as tenacious reporter Ben Bagdikian. We can’t wait to hear some of these iconic lines again. (Julie Ann Grimm) Violet Crown, PG-14, 116 min.
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Guillermo del Toro sure does like his fairy tales. But like 2006’s Pan’s Labyrinth or even the Hellboy series, though, they’re never really aimed at children so much as they’re dark and twisted—y’know, like the original fairy tales wherein people die, the good guys don’t always win and flawed and fragile characters are thrust into extraordinary circumstances. The Shape of Water falls somewhere in there, though it straddles any number of genres from love drama, science fiction, old-timey Hollywood musical, etc. It is the 1960s, and Elisa (Sally Hawkins) works as a custodian for some clandestine military facility that’s big on experimentation
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): When you’re playing poker, a wild card refers to a card that can be used as any card the cardholder wants it to be. If the two of hearts is deemed wild before the game begins, it can be used as an ace of diamonds, jack of clubs, queen of spades, or anything else. That’s always a good thing! In the game of life, a wild card is the arrival of an unforeseen element that affects the flow of events unpredictably. It might derail your plans, or alter them in ways that are at first inconvenient but ultimately beneficial. It may even cause them to succeed in an even more interesting fashion than you imagined they could. I bring this up, Aries, because I suspect that you’ll be in the Wild Card Season during the next four weeks. Any and all of the above definitions may apply. Be alert for unusual luck.
outside, they found the wedding ring floating in the blackness of space. Duke was able to grab it and bring it in. I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will recover a lost or missing item in an equally unlikely location, Virgo. Or perhaps your retrieval will be of a more metaphorical kind: a dream, a friendship, an opportunity. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to British philosopher Alain de Botton, “Maturity begins with the capacity to sense and, in good time and without defensiveness, admit to our own craziness.” He says that our humble willingness to be embarrassed by our confusion and mistakes and doubts is key to understanding ourselves. I believe these meditations will be especially useful for you in the coming weeks, Libra. They could lead you to learn and make use of robust new secrets of self-mastery.
DR. JOANNA CORTI, DOM, Powerful Medicine, Powerful Results. Homeopathy, Acupuncture. Micro-current (Acupuncture without needles.). Parasite, Liver/cleanses. Nitric Oxide. Pain Relief. Transmedium Energy Healing. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If you gorge on ten pounds SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): During the next four weeks, Worker’s Compensation and of chocolate in the next 24 hours, you will get sick. Please there are three activities I suspect you should indulge in Auto Accidents Insurance don’t do that. Limit your intake to no more than a pound. at an elevated rate: laughter, dancing, and sex. The Follow a similar policy with any other pleasurable activity. astrological omens suggest that these pursuits will bring accepted 505-501-0439 Feel emboldened to surpass your normal dosage, yes, but avoid ridiculous overindulgence. Now is one of the rare times when visionary artist William Blake’s maxim is applicable: “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” So is his corollary, “You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.” But keep in mind that Blake didn’t say, “The road of foolish, reckless exorbitance leads to the palace of wisdom.” GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Have you ever had a rousing insight about an action that would improve your life, but then you failed to summon the willpower to actually take that action? Have you resolved to embark on some new behavior that would be good for you, but then found yourself unable to carry it out? Most of us have experienced these frustrations. The ancient Greeks had a word for it: akrasia. I bring it up, Gemini, because I suspect you may be less susceptible to akrasia in the next four weeks than you have ever been. I bet you will consistently have the courage and command to actually follow through on what your intuition tells you is in your best interests. CANCER (June 21-July 22): “There is no such thing as a failed experiment,” said inventor Buckminster Fuller, “only experiments with unexpected outcomes.” That’s an excellent guideline for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks. You’re entering a phase of your astrological cycle when questions are more important than answers, when explorations are more essential than discoveries, and when curiosity is more useful than knowledge. There will be minimal value in formulating a definitive concept of success and then trying to achieve it. You will have more fun and you will learn more by continually redefining success as you wander and ramble. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): During World War II, British code-breakers regularly intercepted and deciphered topsecret radio messages that high-ranking German soldiers sent to each other. Historians have concluded that these heroes shortened the war by at least two years. I bring this to your attention, Leo, in the hope that it will inspire you. I believe your own metaphorical code-breaking skills will be acute in the coming weeks. You’ll be able to decrypt messages that have different meanings from what they appear to mean. You won’t get fooled by deception and misdirection. This knack will enable you to home in on the elusive truths that are circulating—thus saving you from unnecessary and irrelevant turmoil.
you even more health benefits than usual. They will not only give your body, mind, and soul the precise exercise they need most; they will also make you smarter and kinder and wilder. Fortunately, the astrological omens also suggest that laughter, dancing, and sex will be even more easily available to you than they normally are.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The little voices in your head may have laryngitis, but they’re still spouting their cracked advice. Here’s another curiosity: You are extra-attuned to the feelings and thoughts of other people. I’m tempted to speculate that you’re at least temporarily telepathic. There’s a third factor contributing to the riot in your head: People you were close to earlier in your life are showing up to kibitz you in your nightly dreams. In response, I bid you to bark “Enough!” at all these meddlers. You have astrological permission to tell them to pipe down so you can hear yourself think.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In her novel The Round House, writer Louise Erdrich reminisces about how hard it was, earlier in her life, to yank out the trees whose roots had grown into the foundation of her family’s house. “How funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong place,” she says. Then she adds, “ideas, too.” Your first assignment in the coming weeks, my dear Pisces, is to make sure VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In April 1972, three that nothing gets planted in the wrong place. Your secAmerican astronauts climbed into a spacecraft and took ond assignment is to focus all your intelligence and love a trip to the moon and back. On the second day of the on locating the right places for new seeds to be planted. 11-day jaunt, pilot Ken Mattingly removed and misplaced his wedding ring. In the zero-gravity conditions, it drifted Homework: Is it possible there’s something you really off and disappeared somewhere in the cabin. Nine days need but you don’t know what it is? Can you guess later, on the way home, Mattingly and Charlie Duke did what it might be? Go to Freewillastrology.com and a space walk. When they opened the hatch and slipped click on “Email Rob.”..
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