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Charlotte, your article was brilliant. Back in the day, Gloria Steinem would switch subject and action in a way that was attention-grabbing. In American culture, I’m sure men are also nervous about dating but the idea of men taking a self-defense class in preparation is laughable. Margaret Atwood is credited with saying that men are afraid that women will laugh at them and women are afraid of being killed by men. Our culture is in deep need of the female voice and your story is some good medicine. The American people chose the current president who embodies all the entitled aggressive and assaultive behavior that self-defense classes were created to combat. Thanks for shedding some light.
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Dope Discretion Cannabis arrests in Santa Fe are down, but can still have steep consequences
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epartment records show Santa Fe police are still issuing criminal citations and arresting people for marijuana possession, despite an August 2014 city ordinance designating the act as the city’s “lowest law enforcement priority” and establishing a civil fine for possession of an ounce or less and drug paraphernalia. Even so, decriminalization advocates point to a drop in criminal charges for possession since 2015 as a sign of progress. The city policy still gives offers discretion under a state statute to charge people with a criminal misdemeanor for holding cannabis. As Albuquerque implements its own decriminalization ordinance that, like Santa Fe’s, reduces the penalty for possession to a non-criminal $25 ticket, SFPD’s approach to possession may serve as a model for other New Mexican cities considering similar changes, for better or worse. In the first four months of 2018, Santa Fe police leveled criminal charges against five adults for small-time possession of marijuana, compared to four during the same time last year. Nearly all were issued while the person suspected of holding marijuana was inside a car or standing in public. Three of the five people charged this year were jailed because they already had active warrants for their arrests. And in the case of three individuals charged in the first five months of both 2017 and 2018 for possession, weed citations snowballed into bench warrants. In one example from January of this year, an unemployed man who already had a warrant was arrested a block away from the downtown Plaza for possession and paraphernalia—in this case, pipes to smoke marijuana. He pleaded no contest to both charges in March, but by April 13, the Magistrate Court issued a bench warrant for his arrest for failure to pay $426 worth of fines and fees.
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One reason why we worked so hard to decriminalize marijuana possession is that collateral consequences [of possession charges] are no joke. -- Emily Kaltenbach, executive director, Drug Policy Alliance New Mexico
In another case from last February, a man who had been staying at the Interfaith Homeless Shelter was criminally cited for possessing “a small amount of marijuana in a sandwich baggy” and a glass pipe. The man was confronted by
police after someone reported he had been masturbating or urinating behind a tree, though Officer Lucero Gregory wrote he was unable to confirm either. County records indicate the man spent 14 days incarcerated at the Santa Fe County Adult Detention Center at various points between February and December because he missed court appearances and meetings with his probation officer, and was unable to pay his court fees on time. Prosecutors eventually dropped the paraphernalia charge, and by Dec. 7 the man’s fines were reduced, resulting in his completion of probation for the possession charge. A third man also arrested last February for possession and disorderly conduct had a bench warrant issued two months later for failure to appear in court, only to have all charges dismissed in August. “Cases like that are very concerning to me,” says Emily Kaltenbach, the executive director of Drug Policy Alliance New Mexico, which helped draft the Santa Fe ordinance and advocated for its passage. “One reason why we worked so hard to decriminalize marijuana possession is that collateral consequences are no joke … [the] inability to pay fines and fees is something we should be looking at very closely.”
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Still, Kaltenbach says, that only five people were criminally cited for possession of cannabis so far this year “sounds like a lot of progress” when compared to the 51 who were criminally cited in the first eight months of 2015. She also lobbied for Albuquerque’s City Council and Mayor Tim Keller to pass its decrim ordinance, which is modeled on Santa Fe’s. An investigation by SFR published in August 2016 found that 36 people had been arrested and jailed by SFPD solely for possession of small quantities since the passage of Santa Fe’s directive. A total of nearly 70 were arrested for possession concurrent with other charges or in the execution of bench warrant arrests. The decision by an officer to issue a criminal instead of civil citation depends on a number of circumstances, including an officer’s personal views on cannabis, as well as pressure for officers to create a paper trail after receiving calls for service. One man, who asked his name not be used due to his open case, was criminally cited in March for possessing cannabis after an officer approached his car following a suspicious vehicle call. The man tells SFR he was smoking in his car with a friend outside his apartment complex. Although he was charged with having less than an ounce, the man tells SFR he was actually in possession of two ounces for personal use, and that he “buys in bulk because it’s cheaper than buying little amounts.” The city decriminalizes possession of an ounce or less, and though this amount is based on emerging cannabis law elsewhere, it is basically arbitrary, Kaltenbach says. In the police report, Officer Kyle Elliot says he explained to the man that “it is still illegal to smoke marijuana contrary to popular belief.” Elliot also wrote that he let the man off with a criminal citation rather than taking him to jail because he was “honest” about possessing marijuana. But the man tells SFR he only admitted to it because he didn’t believe there was any problem with what he was doing. He recently submitted his application for a medical marijuana card to the Department of Health, which he hopes will help his case if it goes to trial. “I don’t think I did anything wrong that day,” the man tells SFR, “That’s why I pleaded not guilty [and why] I’m trying to fight it.” SFREPORTER.COM
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Newly released document reveals budget, other details of ATF sting that netted large number of black people
Federal officials have repeatedly refused to talk about the operation, but newly released documents lay out its pride over what ended with arrests of mostly low-level drug users rather than organized crime kingpins.
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ederal law enforcement’s goal was to “infiltrate” local gun- and drug-dealing organizations supplied by Mexican cartels when they descended on Albuquerque in 2016. But the four-month sting, the cost of which likely topped $1 million in taxpayer money, rounded up mostly low-level drug users and few, if any, hardcore dealers. The result didn’t stop the federal bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) from pushing the operation as a “template for future operations” nationwide. And Damon Martinez—US Attorney for the District of New Mexico at the time, and current candidate for the state’s 1st Congressional District—was so pleased he “asked and offered to travel to the city selected for the next” operation to “sell the … product” to that city’s top federal prosecutor. The stated purpose, the budget and Martinez’ enthusiasm are among the revelations found in a heavily redacted “executive summary report” about the 2016 operation—named “Gideon IX”—obtained by New Mexico In Depth after a federal judge ordered its release. The document answers some questions NMID raised in a multi-part series published over the past year that, until
now, have gone unanswered because federal officials have repeatedly refused to talk about the operation. Martinez, the only official to sit for an interview, did not answer most questions put to him during an interview with NMID and New Mexico in Focus last year, including whether he would’ve recommended the operation to other US attorneys. Another revelation: The five out-oftown confidential informants ATF used to scour an impoverished, heavily minority section of Albuquerque for potential arrest targets likely were put up in subsidized housing provided by the federal department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The name of the office that provided housing for the operation is blacked out in the executive summary document provided to NMID, but clerk’s notes from a court hearing on April 9 show discussion about the informants living in HUD housing. HUD typically provides “decent and safe rental housing for eligible low-income families, the elderly and persons with disabilities,” according to the department’s website. Martinez did not return telephone messages seeking comment for this story. The US Attorney’s Office, which is prosecuting the cases that arose from the sting, declined to comment. And Jerry Brown, a spokesman for HUD based in Washing-
ton, DC, declined to comment “because we don’t want to endanger anything or anyone.” Taken as a whole, the summary report paints a rosy picture of the operation and its lofty, public-safety-oriented goals. But NMID’s review of hundreds of pages of court records and analysis of the operation turned up few, if any, links to established drug- and gun-trafficking organizations among the 103 people arrested—let alone ties to “Mexican DTOs,” a phrase used in the summary report that is commonly associated with the cartels. The vast majority of those arrested, including a highly disproportionate share of black people in a city with a small black population, were charged with either selling or arranging the sales of relatively small amounts, by federal standards, of methamphetamine, heroin or cocaine, and in some cases, illegally possessing guns. Further, soaring violent crime rates in the city—cited in the summary report as the reason for ATF’s focus on Albuquerque—have remained high since the operation concluded in August 2016. In a section of the report titled “Investigative Successes,” the authors touted the solving of two homicides, locating a storage location for stolen merchandise and arresting a suspect in several home invasions thanks to the ATF’s presence and help from federal agents.
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The report does not mention the arrests of anyone connected to drug cartels, despite one of the operation’s stated goals. However, it cites the arrest of several members of the so-called “Memphis Mob” street gang as part of the operation’s success. Public defenders representing some of those suspects question the gang’s significance in Albuquerque’s drug trade, and whether it even exists. Twenty-eight of the 103 people arrested in the operation were black—that’s 27 percent in a city with a 3 percent black population. Fourteen of them have been labeled “Memphis Mob” members or associates by ATF agents. The highly disproportionate number of black people swept up in the operation has led to allegations of racial profiling. The summary report makes no mention of those allegations, which continue to play out in court. It was through one such case, involving accusations of racial profiling by two defendants, that NMID obtained the executive summary report. Then-US District Chief Judge Christina Armijo in February ordered the release of the document, at NMID’s request, as part of selective enforcement litigation filed by Lonnie Jackson and Diamond Coleman. The cost of the controversial operation remains somewhat vague. The executive summary puts the original budget just north of $750,000, but an approved increase pushed it to $879,603. But that amount doesn’t include per diem and lodging requests for the team of more than 30 agents who came to Albuquerque or the salaries and bonuses for informants. Also blacked out in the executive summary is the amount of money other federal agencies spent on the operation, including the Drug Enforcement Administration, and how much cash went for narcotics and firearms purchases. Officials even blacked out the total amounts of various narcotics and firearms they allegedly seized in the operation — even though they’ve touted those figures in news conferences, media interviews and news releases. Most of the redactions came at the request of James Tierney, a longtime federal prosecutor who served as acting US Attorney for New Mexico for more than a year and is supervising many of the ATF sting cases. Allowing the public to see that HUD had housed the informants, Tierney argued in court April 9, would “allow access to rental information of informants,” thus potentially endangering them. Releasing the various costs of the operation, meanwhile, would “produce negative publicity that the government will be unable to respond to and may influence potential jurors,” Tierney said. SFREPORTER.COM
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It’s been months since Santa Fe unveiled an embarrassing fraud review. Why don’t we know more about city plans for a fix?
The city leaders who huddled before reporters in the City Council conference room explained that they were already at work fixing some of what the report pointed out. Finance Director Adam Johnson had called for the review after he and senior staff noticed potential problems. City Manager Brian Snyder was on board and helped find the money to pay for the assessment. The city was in the middle of implementing a new software system to plug holes in vulnerabilities. Today, however, Santa Fe’s public information officer is the only city official left from that meeting who still holds his job. The city attorney retired. Johnson left to work for St. John’s College. Snyder resigned from his post in late April. And, of course, there’s a new mayor. The city’s reaction to the fraud analysis has been slow to crystallize. More than any other single factor, the McHard report defined Alan Webber’s campaign for mayor. It has the potential to define his term in office, too. Webber will have to leverage his position as a true outsider at City Hall with few established allies without triggering enough land mines to trip up any meaningful reform effort. Time and again, the new mayor has said he wants to make Santa Fe the most user-friendly city in the country. His response to the McHard report is the key.
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he response—an official one—is coming. Sometime. There’s still an awful lot to do. This past weekend marked seven months since the city of Santa Fe shamefacedly, albeit publicly, let its citizens know that things were not well when it comes to handling cash, tracking money and making sure no one’s up to anything untoward with city finances. On September 28, 2017, the city manager, finance director, attorney and public information officer gathered together a group of three reporters—one from each of the newspapers in town—and explained that the city had hired McHard Accounting Consulting to assess Santa Fe’s financial procedures with an eye toward fraud prevention. They suspected things were amiss. The three-woman team at McHard hand12
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ed them a report that said things were worse than that. City ledgers were full of temporary fixes that belied a general mystery behind cash handling and other ways to track city money. The processes for balancing the city’s books were fraught with opportunities to fudge the numbers. Too many people had too much access to a com-
puter system that is hopelessly outdated and designed not for government work, but for a manufacturing company. Improperly trained employees had created workarounds that were needlessly complex and stunningly exposed to fraud. The accounts payable division showed thousands more vendors than Santa Fe has residents.
Alan Webber was on the phone with SFR in late September when he heard about the assessment. To a guy who spent a great deal of his working life paying attention to organizations that worked well—for employees, customers and the public—it sounded more than a little interesting. He has a dog-eared, underlined and sticky-noted copy of it in his office now, and it was never far from his reach on the campaign trail. “The perception in the world is that it’s very hard to do business with the city. It’s not well-managed, historically,” Webber tells SFR in a recent interview at his City Hall office. As they’ve been for the six weeks since he took office, the
They did it at the perfect moment … I thought it was a remarkable description of all the things the city needed to fix. -Alan Webber, Mayor of Santa Fe
right now to 15 minutes,” Joshua Elicio, the interim director of city’s Information Technology and Telecommunications Department, tells SFR. “From a technical standpoint, if you have 100 applications online and they’re approved in 15 minutes, that’s roughly a day or two … versus what would take a month to do.” The city’s current ERP was designed for private-sector companies. The version the city runs uses terminals that have basic green-screen displays. It’s beyond outdated. In fact, there’s a sizeable chunk of the population right now that has no idea what a green-screen display looks like. At a presentation to the City Council in March, Martinez, the deputy city manager, told the governing body that the ERP would also address 83 different
issues brought up by the McHard review. Many of them are security and access issues that she’s working on with Elicio. Those will further tighten the security net around the all-too-broad sphere of people at the city who can get into parts of the financial structure where they have no business being. The city will define access by each person’s job title, rather than the individual who holds it, giving employees “access to things that you need for your job, but nothing more than that,” Martinez explains to SFR on a recent afternoon. That work is happening now, and, to some extent, was happening even as McHard was completing its assessment. “A lot of that is going to get done with the implementation of the ERP, but the
ERP is 12-18 months away. So that’s longterm,” says former City Manager Brian Snyder. “That’s part of the reason why we’ve struggled to get a true management response. But there’s a lot of these things with [respect to] security or training that we need to do now.” The city has sought out a select group of employees to help with the transition to the new software system. They’ll lead construction of the software models for their part of the city and others will serve as subject matter experts. For the extra work, Martinez suggested a pay bump of 10 to 15 percent. Snyder agreed on the raises and OK’d them the day Webber was sworn in as mayor. The pair of city managers didn’t tell the City Council, though, and when word of the raises spread, Webber caught flak for it. The mayor says that, like the council, he wasn’t told of the pay hikes. At first, he called it poor communication, but when City Councilor JoAnne Vigil Coppler pointed out that it might—and did—violate city policy that required letting the City Council know about such pay increases, Webber asked Snyder to resign. He did. Martinez still has her job, though Webber has said that with a fulltime mayor, he no longer sees a need for a deputy city manager. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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walls are mostly bare. There’s a big whiteboard—that great corporate expositor of ideas—on the wall opposite his desk. Webber appears to work mainly off a series of three-ring binders and a laptop, befitting his image as a man on the go. He’s running about 10 minutes behind, though it’s mid-afternoon and he fares better than most physicians in that regard. “The McHard report was a big part of the campaign. Not just my campaign, but the campaign texture of virtually everyone who ran in the last election,” Webber says of the race that ended in March and began, coincidentally, almost exactly with the review’s release. “When the McHard report came out in September, one reaction was that this was a protective measure to cover your rear end,” the mayor surmises. He thinks that sells short the political capital expended by the city to undertake such a review. “They did it at the perfect moment, when the city was pivoting to a different governing structure and at a time when there’s a great deal of interest in the community for change and for evaluating the ongoing operations of the city … [and] how the city does business,” he says. “I thought it was a remarkable description of all the things the city needed to fix.” The public doesn’t know much about what those fixes will look like because officials have offered few specifics. What’s come to light in the seven months since the report is that much of what the city will do to respond to the fraud prevention assessment depends on new computer software that impacts every part of city operations. Deputy City Manager Renée Martinez is in charge of implementing the city’s enterprise resource planning software. Most everyone just calls it the ERP. The project went out for bid in January 2016 and currently has a price tag of $4.2 million. The city decided on a three-part solution, one part of which has been completed. Most city employees now use an automated timekeeping system called Kronos. The other two parts are programs called Munis and EnerGov. Together, they comprise the ERP and promise to dramatically modernize the way the Santa Fe goes about its business behind the scenes. If it works, the new suite of software programs will also reshape the way people interact with their government. For example, it promises a way to apply for business licenses online. “Online business licenses mean you go from something that takes two weeks
The fraud prevention assessment by the Albuquerque firm showed cash-handling practices at City Hall and elsewhere throughout Santa Fe left taxpayer money dangerously exposed to fraud.
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As the city prepares whatever formal response it plans to give to the McHard report, it does so with a temporary city manager, city attorney and city finance director. SFR asked the city for written departmental responses to the McHard assessment. A city spokesman initially said no such documents existed, then later acknowledged that departments and divisions mentioned in the report were asked to reply to the report’s findings. The city has not provided those responses.
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The city’s auditor had already been looking at some of Santa Fe’s processes. Kerr raised her own red flags about the cashier’s office that were underscored by McHard. There, supervisors were maintaining a “jar” of cash that they’d use to resolve shortages in cashier’s drawers. Any overages went in the jar. At the end of the month, if there was money left over, the staff would go out to lunch. On the taxpayer dime. Many employees weren’t blind to the problems, but when they began asking questions about internal controls that could protect against fraud or loss, the report says they were bullied by Finance Department personnel. That’s a huge red
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The breadth of the mismanagement of the city’s financial tracking system detailed by the report is staggering. When staff from McHard showed up in Santa Fe, among the first things they asked to see was the the audit trail for Santa Fe’s accounting software. Not only was the audit trail not available, but it had never been turned on. Apparently, reviewers found, the city wanted to speed up the system’s performance and save memory. City staff now disputes this claim, saying the audit trail function for the financial software has always been turned on. They acknowledge, though, that using it effectively would take a herculean effort. “It would take weeks, if not months” to decipher the audit trail code, says Elicio, the IT department head. The software is too complex to be useful. “You just don’t go and say, ‘Show me the audit file.’” With alarming regularity, employees were changing the city’s books to match bank account statements. What’s more, without adequate procedures or oversight, they were doing so without investigating why there was a discrepancy. Accounts which should have been closed long ago were still being used, reviewers said, and reconciling the city’s books at the end of the year couldn’t happen without creating accounts to hold money that didn’t match what should
be in the ledger. In short, it was a mess, the reviewers said—and all those workarounds made the city’s books ripe for fraud. Some of what McHard found was tragicomic. The city’s Internal Audit Department consists of one person in a rented office outside of City Hall, which she has outfitted with an ad hoc yoga studio and where she was using the kitchen to roast root vegetables when McHard staffers arrived. They said Liza Kerr told them she didn’t like to go to City Hall. Kerr did not return calls from SFR, though she’s challenged both the report’s findings and its tone in other press accounts.
Mayor Alan Webber says getting employees to buy into new ways of doing business will be a key part of making certain that reforms after McHard will become a new normal.
flag for fraud examiners, because bullying is often the telltale sign of large-scale fraud. So, too, was the fact that a number of employees never seemed to take vacation. When fraud’s at play, experts say those involved are reluctant to step away from their jobs for fear of losing control of the scheme. The city forwarded its findings to the Office of the State Auditor. Since the report wasn’t a true audit, it’s now in the hands of the independent public accountant who is preparing the city’s latest annual review, which the law requires. Santa Fe has asked for two separate extensions, pushing the deadline to later this month. “It’s always a concern when government entities don’t have the right checks and balances and the proper procedures in place to safeguard taxpayer money from corruption,” State Auditor Wayne Johnson tells SFR. He gave credit to Santa Fe for doing its own review. The city says it hasn’t found proof of fraud. McHard recommended that it dig deeper, and it has in some areas. Snyder has said Santa Fe isn’t finished with its review and hiring a forensic auditor to look beyond the red flags for actual crimes still isn’t out of the question. In fraud examination circles, three things have to be present for fraud to occur: opportunity, rationalization and pressure. The first two are self-explanatory, but the term pressure refers to a need for cash. Often that’s secret, and often there’s an urgency that drives behavior. Meanwhile, senior city staff has been working hard to ensure the city’s formal response to the report comes down far harder on specific processes than it does on specific people. “There were definitely some hurt feelings. I heard from people in the Finance Department who said, ‘I feel like we look like failures,’” Martinez says of the weeks
JAW-DROPPERS The city of Santa Fe spent $50,000 on the report that has come to define the problems that weave their way through nearly every part of how the city does business and handles cash. The McHard Firm wasn’t hired to audit the city’s finances, rather it was brought on board to assess the risk of fraud. What the three-woman team from McHard discovered was, at times, routine sloppiness. At other times, however, the team’s findings were jaw-dropping. SFR pulled a selection of such instances from the 37-page report.
Much of what The McHard Firm exposed was a city in which processes for handling cash and accounting seemed made up by employees who hadn’t been told what the city expected of them, other than to get the job done.
The cashier’s office at the city collects payments for the various services Santa Fe provides. But the McHard team found it had been used for free lunches if there was more money in cash drawers than what showed on the books.
The review found well-meaning workarounds by employees at the Genoveva Chavez Community Center could easily be exploited.
It took little imagination for The McHard Firm to come up with a fraud scenario for the city’s vendor database. The city’s books showed more than 93,000 vendors for a city with 84,000 people.
after the report was released. “I can understand that. … The important thing is not to have that stop you in your tracks, but to understand that criticisms are really to incentivize us to improve the way we do things.” Snyder and Martinez say they’ve seen firsthand the ability of line-level city staff to sit down, analyze a payment process and change it for the better. Along with the mayor and, presumably, other department heads, they’ve been working to frame the McHard findings not as indictments of specific people, but criticisms of processes that are outdated and desperately need modernization. But while city managers have been trying to depersonalize the process, it’s impossible to avoid some fallout. The day they announced the report in September, they also revealed that two employees were being placed on paid administrative leave. Teresita Garcia, the city’s assistant finance director, has since returned to work, though she’s now on medical leave. Garcia is suing the city for the release of information related to her suspension. Robert Rodarte, the purchasing officer, is still on leave. The city has paid him more than $47,000 for that time. The report singled him out for failing to ensure the people he supervised understood basic procurement rules laid out by the state. Rodarte, the report says, told reviewers there hadn’t been any training in the past 10 years. He called some employees “untrainable.” Meanwhile, he had been traveling throughout the state to conduct training for other agencies. It’s likely the city will act on Rodarte’s position soon, and in the process, reveal more about his suspension. For the rest of the city employees, the fallout from McHard will primarily be in the way they go about their jobs. Webber says gaining employee buy-in is fundamental to the city’s response. That will be a major challenge, regardless of how many bells and whistles are attached to the new software system. “Everybody’s in favor of change. Nobody’s in favor of being changed,” Webber says, using an idiom from his days at the Harvard Business Review. “People have worked here for 20 years or 10 years or however long, and they have a sense of ‘I know how hard I’m working. I know what I’m doing.’ And then along comes a new mayor who says we’re going to do it differently.” There will no doubt be a cost to the city in both cash and human capital as it decides how to officially address McHard. The cost of doing nothing, however, could be far greater.
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Deliberately Kept in the Dark
Stars above the mission as captured by a visitor.
‘Tis the season for gazing at the stars, and Salinas Pueblo Missions offers the closest official stop for a dark-sky park 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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rom the star and moon symbols in petroglyph panels at Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument northeast of Socorro, it’s clear that people have been staring up at the sky from the 360-degree views visible from its pueblos for centuries. But the park has committed to preserving that experience for the future and to sharing that view each year, in a season that starts in April for some
out-of-state visitors, with city goers who might not otherwise get to see the Milky Way. Stand in Gran Quivera, once a city of multiple pueblos of tens or hundreds of rooms, and views stretch in nearly every direction, some reaching 100 miles to distant mountains. By day, the site where Spanish Colonial mission churches were built atop the pueblos is a testament to New Mexico’s culturally layered and complicated history, a place where Spaniards and Natives coexisted until drought forced them all out. But at night, eyes turn upward toward an experience that, because of a remote location and little light pollution, is similar to what Native residents had there centuries ago. “The skies that we’re looking at today, in one way or another, closely resemble those that our ancestors used to stare into.
And the same constellations, the same images, and the magic that they experience, I think, is shared by folks from our generation,” says Scott Feierabend, executive director of the International Dark Sky Association, which added Salinas Pueblo Missions to its list of dark sky parks in 2016. It’s now the closest dark sky park to Santa Fe. Park superintendent Tom Betts had been with the National Park Service for 35 years, six of which were at Bandelier National Monument. In 2016, he took the job at Salinas Pueblo Missions and visited the site for the first time. “When I got here, my jaw just dropped,” he says. “The missions on top of the pueblos are just an incredible viewing site. … It took me at least a week to get my jaw up off the floor because it’s so beautiful and so inspiring here.” Betts arrived just in time for the official dark sky park designation and an event that saw about 50 attendees taking star tours guided by laser pointers and peering through telescopes. Since then, the park has hosted roughly half a dozen nighttime viewing events each year, often staffed and equipped with telescopes by volunteers from the Albuquerque Astronomical Society. Telescopes park in the plaza areas, close to the missions and convento, but in an open-air setting to allow for unencumbered viewing. Members of the Lake County Astronomical Society near Chicago also make an annual trip to the site. They came first to see Halley’s Comet, and have been returning for the 32 years since. “You just kind of take these things for granted because it’s in your backyard,” says Norma Pineda, a ranger at Salinas Pueblo Missions. “These men from Chicago are coming every year just to look through their telescopes because they don’t have that in Illinois.” She points to night lights imagery maps from NASA that show the eastern side of the US lit up, but the West still relatively
dark. How long it’ll stay that way is something of a question. “As the years go and places get populated, we’re going to lose that if we don’t educate the public,” she says. In addition to hosting events, the requirements for a dark sky park include shielding lighting to prevent diluting the view, and the park has put some lights on motion sensors. “Our ability to reconnect with the stars and skies above us and realize just how incredibly insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things is something that’s really important, and for some people really spiritual,” Feierabend says. “Truly dark skies are just a real important resource that’s shrinking every day.” It’s fun and it’s beautiful, but a growing body of research also shows that dark skies have critical health effects for people and wildlife. Lighting can affect nocturnal pollinators, as well as bird migration and health, with recent research finding that house sparrows infected with West Nile virus who were exposed to dim light at night remained infectious for a longer period of time. For people, spending time in the dark can help re-sync circadian rhythms and improve physical and mental health. The state’s dark skies were identified among its most endangered cultural resources in 1999, and the Night Sky Protection Act has mandated that outdoor fixtures installed after 2000 protect those views. Both Santa Fe County and the city have ordinances to reduce light pollution. If more people have a chance to get in touch with that experience, Feierabend says, coming years might see less light pollution, not more. “I think we have the capacity to begin reclaiming dark skies,” he says, “once people understand the beauty and magnitude of having a dark sky.” Star viewing events at Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument are planned for Saturday, June 9 and Saturday, July 14, and will keep the park open until 10 pm. For more information visit nps.gov/sapu or call 847-2585.
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SINCE THE FLOOD In a confrontation of toxicity—both culturally (the show-business rat race) and internally (codependence and manipulation)—playwright Jane Martin’s H2O is an intimate glimpse at personal interaction as social commentary. Starring Julian Fox and Jessica Haring, musician and all-around artsy-type Paris Mancini tries her hand at directing for the stage for the first time. The show is “interesting, challenging and really badass,” Mancini says; “It’s not cutesy. There’s a lot of rough subject matter. … It’s inside a Hamlet-like character’s mind. It’s a crazy, heavy ride.” Despite the intensity, Mancini realized in a preview with friends, “Most of this play is jokes! I didn’t even know!” she says with a laugh. With an ethereal set and dedicated actors, she assures, “I trust the levity to come through, even if I don’t see it.” (Charlotte Jusinski)
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H20: 7 pm Thursday-Saturday May 3-5. $25 suggested donation. Zephyr Community Art Studio, 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2, jessicaharing.com/h2o
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ART OPENING FRI/4 EVENT SAT/5 SHARED EXPERIENCE East of West hosts a variety of Middle Eastern and North African artists in Artummah, a show that shares a name with a social media collective dedicated to art of the region (facebook.com/ artummah). Blending elements of traditional and contemporary life, the resulting show is not only beautiful, but culturally significant. “It is important to showcase multiple narratives to give a more nuanced view of people and communities who often are the target of bigotry [and] racism,” says gallery owner LE Brown. “This exhibition helps tell a distinct story that is both familiar to those from MENA and relatable to universal experiences.” (Pema Baldwin) Artummah Opening Reception: 5 pm Friday May 4. Free. East of West, 2351 Fox Road, 570-7708.
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MUSIC TUE/8 BILL ME We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again—local troubadour Bill Palmer really gets the whole singer-songwriter thing. With multiple solo releases and countless shows under his belt, Palmer’s boiled down song craft and performance into an easily accessible formula wherein he’s unafraid to get personal, skirts the line between gritty and beautiful and meticulously blurs divisions between alt.country, blues, rock and folk. For more on this, check Palmer’s A Whisper in the Trees from earlier this year. Did we not mention he’s also a kickass producer? Even better, you can get to supporting Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery, one of the best new stages in town. (ADV) Bill Palmer: 5-7 pm Tuesday May 8. Free. Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery, 2791 Agua Fría St.
There’s actual history there, but you’re just looking for a good time Setting aside the actual roots of Cinco de Mayo—the Mexican Army’s victory over France at the 1862 Battle of Puebla—the holiday has morphed into the having of fun. We asked around, and it turns out that’s OK (so long as you don’t do that cultural appropriation thing that people seem to love). But what’s it gonna be? SFR chose a whole day’s worth of cool stuff just for you. For example, say you’re more of a daytime person; no problem, because it also happens to be Free Comic Book Day at Big Adventure Comics (10 am-7 pm. Free. 418 Montezuma Ave., 992-8783). It’s just what it sounds like and everything! To really get you in the mood, pop by the Cinco de Mayo Celebrations at Zalma Lofton Gallery (5 pm. Free. 407 S Guadalupe St., 670-5179) to see paintings from gallery owner Alberto Zalma, photography by Vic Macias and multimedia works by Carlo Martinez. By early evening you’ll no doubt be ready to get the party started, so swing by Las Magueyes for a killer Mexican meal and the cabaret stylings of pianist/satirist
Charles Tichenor’s Le Chat Noir (6 pm. Free. 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304). Maybe grab a margarita? Follow this up with DJs Mayrant and Sherdon’s Root Down at the newly opened Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery (7 pm. Free. 2791 Agua Fría St.), sampling from any of their beers or spirits. If you’ve got the time and the will, Norteño-slash-ranchero trio Lone Piñon appears out in Madrid at the Mine Shaft Tavern (8 pm. Free. 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743), and if there’s one thing we know about these dudes, it’s that they’re all about tradition. Otherwise, close out your night with burlesque troupe Zircus Erotique’s sixth annual ¡Cinco de Mayhem! party at The Palace Saloon (10 pm. $15-$25. 142 Palace Ave., 428-0690), a veritable cornucopia of sexy good times and a special guest performance from drag queen Dr. Lucky, one of the most infamous performers on the circuit. Install Uber of Lyft on your phone, too, please, and remember to be safe, respectful and prepared for the next day’s nodoubt-bonkers hangover. (Alex De Vore) SFREPORTER.COM
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ROBERT J TORREZ: LEGACY OF THE RIO ARRIBA COUNTY COURTHOUSE RAID St. Francis Auditorium 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 The former state historian reviews the events of the 1967 raid in Tierra Amarilla. Noon, free
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WED/2 BOOKS/LECTURES BUILDING ONLINE SUCCESS FOR YOUR BUSINESS PART 2: NAVIGATING SOCIAL MEDIA Santa Fe Business Incubator 3900 Paseo del Sol, 424-1140 Learn how to use social media to compete against large retailers and help your business grow. 6 pm, free CANINE FUN, BOUNDARIES & SAFETY Santa Fe Public Library LaFarge Branch 1730 Llano St., 955-4860 Join dog trainers David Crosby and Gaia Richards for an exploration of fun games ideas, summer safety tips and clues on dog body language and boundaries. (Only service dogs allowed in the library.) 6:30 pm, free CLIVE HAMILTON WITH LISA SIDERIS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Hamilton, author of Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene, is joined in conversarion by Sideris, associate professor of religious studies at Indiana University. 7 pm, $5-$8 DHARMA TALK BY NATALIE GOLDBERG Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 A talk by author and Zen practitioner Natalie Goldberg is entitled "True Secret of Writing (I of II)." Bring a notebook and pen. 5:30 pm, free POST-WILDFIRE FLOODING: THINKING AHEAD OF THE FIRE REI Community Room 500 Market St., 982-3557 The Greater Santa Fe Fireshed Coalition presents a seminar about a little-considered side effect of big burns. 6 pm, free
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NEW GARDEN VOLUNTEER TRAINING Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Learn the ropes around the garden at this class that’s mandatory for all volunteers. 9-10 am, free RESPIRATORY CARE DEPARTMENT MEET 'N' GREET Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 If you're down for good job prospects, attend a meet-andgreet with SFCC Respiratory Care Program Director Rebecca Jeffs in the Health and Sciences Center, room 442. 3-6 pm, free SFCC GLASS CLUB SALE Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 Art students sell glass art and functional pieces created by the college's Glass Club. 10 am-4 pm, free
FOOD DIGEST THIS!: FUTURE SHOCK CULINARY CREATIONS AND THE CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF DIGITAL ART SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 Chef Tharon Weighill, executive sous chef at Colt & Gray in Denver, presents culinary creations related to the themes of SITE's exhibit while Vanessa Ferdinand, Omidyar postdoctoral fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, discusses the cultural evolution of digital art. 6 pm, $5-$10
MUSIC DJ SAGGALIFFIK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 House, acid lounge, half-time and dance tunes. 10 pm, free ELECTRIC JAM Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Plug it in and rock out. 8 pm, free GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards. 6:30 pm, free
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JIM ALMAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Jazzy R&B. 8 pm, free RAMON BERMUDEZ JR. TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Latin and smooth jazz guitar. 6 pm, free SANTA FE CROONERS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Golden Age standards. 6:30-9:30 pm, free SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country and rock 'n' roll. 7:30 pm, free SYDNEY WESTAN Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Folky rock. 5:30-7:30 pm, free
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THU/3 ART OPENINGS JENNIFER B THORESON Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Photographer Thoreson creates narrative, engaging pieces that are also creepy and unsettling as hell (and that's a good thing). 5:30 pm, free SFCC 2018 STUDENT EXHIBITION Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 The community college’s School of Arts, Design and Media Arts presents the best of this year's student work in the Visual Arts Gallery. Through Aug. 22. 4:30 pm, free
BOOKS/LECTURES ALEXIS ROCKMAN: ARTIST TALK SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 Rockman, best known for large-scale futuristic painted landscapes that address global existential threats, discusses his hybrid of art and scientific research. SITE Santa Fe has published the book Alexis Rockman: New Mexico Field Drawings. 6 pm, $5-$10 JOSHUA WHEELER: ACID WEST Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Alamogordo author Wheeler writes about New Mexico with nuance and an eye for strangeness in his new collection of essays. 6:30 pm, free SFCC SPRING READINGS Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 Enjoy some work from the faculty and staff of the college. 5 pm, free
Nikesha Breeze’s “Dinah - Within this Skin” is an oil painting on wood doors. Her intense show at the Harwood Museum in Taos opens this weekend, and we’re excited for its depth.
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JACOB JONAS THE COMPANY Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 The Los Angeles-based dance company combines breakdance, acrobatics, modern dance and contemporary ballet in a way that is astounding and unabashedly original. 7:30 pm, $26-$56
NMSA YOUNG MASTERS form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111 New Mexico School for the Arts presents a performance by student musicians, creative writers and poets. 6 pm, free SFCC GLASS CLUB SALE Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 Art students sell glass works. 10 am-4 pm, free
YOUTH MARIACHI BENEFIT DINNER AND CONCERT WITH CARLOS MEDINA El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Help preserve the Mariachi tradition in Santa Fe. Mariachi Sonidos del Monte and the Santa Fe Youth Symphony Association host; get dinner (catered by Tortilla Flats) and a concert, all emceed by local comedian Carlos Medina. 6 pm, $20
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BIRD THOMPSON The New Baking Company 504 W Cordova Road, 557-6435 Original dharma songs. 10 am, free DJ INKY The Matador 116 W San Francisco St., 984-5050 Punk, funk, soul, rock 'n' roll, old-school country y más. 9 pm, free DJ TOMAS & TERRA WATTS Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Reggae, R&B, dancehall and Afro-pop. 10 pm, free GOT SOUL El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Soulful jazz. 10 pm, $10 GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards. 6:30 pm, free THE GUNSELS Tiny’s Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Americana and honky-tonk. 7 pm, free THE LONG GONE Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Americana. 10 pm, free McJAZZTRIO Red Sage at Buffalo Thunder 20 Buffalo Thunder Trail, 819-2056 Jazz—a trio, even! 5-7 pm, free OPEN MIC WITH STEPHEN Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Show off what your mama gave ya. If she gave ya talents of some sort, that is. 7 pm, free PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo jazz guitar. 6 pm, free RON ROUGEAU The Dragon Room 406 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-7712 Acoustic rock ‘n’ folk covers. 5:30 pm, free SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country and rock 'n' roll. 7:30 pm, free SIRSY Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock and soul. 8 pm, free SUNSET IN THE GARDEN: SHINERS CLUB JAZZ BAND Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 'Tis the season once again for a stroll in the garden, accompanied by some ragtime 'n' vaudeville jazz. 5 pm, $3-$10
H2O Zephyr Community Art Studio 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 Two strangers chase salvation in post-9/11 NYC (see SFR Picks, page 19). 7 pm, $25 THE PASSION OF ETHEL ROSENBERG Studio Center of Santa Fe 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 A one-woman play is based largely on actual letters exchanged in prison between Ethel and Julius Rosenberg (see Acting Out, page 29). 7:30 pm, $15-$25
FRI/4 ART OPENINGS ARTUMMAH East of West 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 600, 570-7708 Middle Eastern artists use history and nostalgia to explore their personal practice. Through July 1 (see SFR Picks, page 19). 5 pm, free CREATING THE FOREST FOR THE TREES Studio WFC 1704 Lena St., Ste. B1, 87505 Two artists team up for the second show here, based strongly in tree imagery from painter Mark Frossard and collage artist Wendy Foster. Through May 26. 5 pm, free DIANA MOORE: EARTH ETCHING Nüart Gallery 670 Canyon Road, 988-3888 Inspired by the landscape as viewed from high above, Moore presents landscape as a geometric configuration. Through May 20. 5 pm, free FEDOR ZAKHAROV: REFLECTIONS FROM RUSSIA Gallery 901 708 Canyon Road, 428-0279 Impressionist painter Zakharov (1919-1994) never followed the official USSR dogmatic style of socialist realism and never allowed his art to be used as the instrument of ideological and party propaganda. Through June 1. 5 pm, free GENNEXT: FUTURE SO BRIGHT Museum of Spanish Colonial Art 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 Examine the future of New Mexico’s traditional arts. Through Nov. 25 (see AC, page 26). 5:30 pm, free GRAND OPENING Modernist Frontier 713 Canyon Road, 557-6896 Join the new art gallery for new work by gallery artists Jono Tew (photography) and Cody Brothers (painter). 5 pm, free
PENNY TRUITT: CONFLUENCE Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art 558 Canyon Road, 992-0711 Santa Fe-based sculptor Truitt presents a solo show of a dozen new steel sculptures. Through June 2. 5 pm, free RESPIRATION Aqua Regia 627 W Alameda St., 988-5005 More than 100 greeting cards on the relationship between plants and animals. Through May 31 (see AC, page 26). 5 pm, free ROBERTA PARRY 7 Arts Gallery 125 Lincoln Ave., 437-1107 Along with scenic Southwest landscapes, Parry exhibits works from her Monument Valley and Frida Kahlo Garden series. Through May 31. 5 pm, free SANTA FE PLEIN AIR FIESTA JURIED SHOW Sorrel Sky Gallery 125 W Palace Ave., 501-6555 You saw them working all around town, now check out the show. Through May 18. 5 pm, free SPRING GROUP SHOW David Rothermel Contemporary 142 Lincoln Ave., 575-642-4981 Contemporary works by gallery artists Stan Berning, Stephen Buxton, Danielle Procaccio and David Rothermel. Through May 31. 5 pm, free TOM KIRBY: VEILS OF LIGHT Winterowd Fine Art 701 Canyon Road, 992-8878 Painter Kirby says that his paintings' light effects are symbolic of illuminated consciousness. Get your art with a side of transcendence— sounds good to us. 4:30 pm, free NIKESHA BREEZE: WITHIN THIS SKIN Harwood Museum of Art 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 A series of oil paintings that began as a response to a deep exploration into Breeze’s ancestral heritage and expand to tell stories of lynchings, rape, slavery, fear and oppression, alongside something deeper. 2-4 pm, free
BOOKS/LECTURES GENJI: THE SHINING PRINCE AND A RAINY NIGHT Santa Fe Business Incubator 3900 Paseo del Sol, 424-1140 Jay Smith of St. John’s College lectures in the Great Hall, Peterson Student Center. 7:30 pm, free SANTA FE OPERA SPOTLIGHT: FUNNY MUSIC Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Conductor and educator Oliver Prezant explains how composers create music to match plot twists and clever dialogue created by librettists. 6 pm, free
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E CLAYTON WEST Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Solo soul from a sole soul. 5:30-8 pm, free ED MASUGA Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Head to the deck for moon-croonin' finger-pickin' love songs. 5 pm, free THE JAKES Tiny’s Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Rock ‘n’ roll. 8:30 pm, free LAS CANTANTES First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 The UNM women's ensemble presents a program of music by your fave composers (think Mendelssohn, Connolly and Hatfield and the like). 5:30 pm, free LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock 'n' roll for dancin' to. 8 pm, free LONE PIÑON Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Ranchero, huasteco and Norteño tunes. 6 pm, free
FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Make a dinner reservation for a show by the National Institute of Flamenco. 6:30 pm, $25
EVENTS AUM CHANT Santa Fe Community Yoga Center 826 Camino de Monte Rey, 820-9363 Aum is the sound of Ganesh—let it help remove obstacles and increase your well-being. 7:30 pm, free GARDEN SPROUTS PRE-K ACTIVITIES Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Weather permitting, head to the outdoor classroom. Listen to a book and participate in interactive nature and garden-related activities. 10-11 am, $5
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ANTHONY TORRES The Dragon Room 406 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-7712 Country. And popcorn. 6:30 pm, free CALEB GARVIN New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Jazz, blues 'n' pop. 5 pm, free CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 Local musician Charles Tichenor and pals get together for a musical respite from the outside world. 6 pm, free CONTROLLED BURN El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n' roll 'n' blues. 9 pm, $5 DJ LUNA & YOUR BOY RE-FLEX Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 House and EDM from Luna, and general hip-hop influenced entertainment from the artist otherwise known as Felix Cordova. 10 pm, free DK AND THE AFFORDABLES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Jump-and-swing blues. 8:30 pm, free DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Broadway faves and standards on piano. 6 pm, $2 DOUG MONTGOMERY AND GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards: Doug starts, Greg takes over at 8 pm. 6 pm, free
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Glass Key Trio is all about process
Like most avant-garde bands, Glass Key Trio hangs out in the fields outside the town where they live.
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usic obviously serves many purposes, from the stuff you like because it makes you dance, to songs that you feel someplace deep in your gut. There exists, however, music that becomes less about an outside catalyst for feeling and more about the processes at play in its creation. Such
music can become more participatory or, perhaps, more educational; it requires a higher level of focus or understanding and can extract more energy to appreciate in meaningful ways. But it also has the power to be revelatory and eye-opening. The Glass Key Trio rests on the cusp of just that. The trio consists of local heavy-hitters Jeremy Bleich (guitar), Casey Anderson (bass) and Loren Bienvenu (drums),
each known for varying projects from jazz and rock to avant-garde composition, but each is beyond-talented and in search of something more than simple time signatures or played-out licks. For the new band, Bleich, Anderson and Bienvenu have conceived a strange combination of folk, gospel, spirituals, ragtime, jazz and experimental curiosities, all without adhering too intensely to any one, and without an easy means to genre-fy. Still, they pull from enough of the familiar as to sneak in the freer elements of their compositions without the listener really even noticing. “I started writing some of these tunes in the ’90s,” Bleich says, “but I just never did anything with them.” Bleich is perhaps best-known locally as the composer for Wise Fool’s annual Circus Luminous acrobatic event but, for his personal writing, tends toward the more avant-garde. This exists within Glass Key Trio’s work right down to its core, though alongside certain compositional necessities is a commitment to improvisation. Experimental might be a great term if it weren’t so loaded. “Composing can be really funny,” Bleich says. “You can take it very seriously or you can play games with it, and I have this funny relationship with jazz because I was more into the world of free-playing, and it can be hard to live in the jazz world unless you’re interested in staying in ‘that’ box.” Bleich enlisted Anderson, a graduate of the Berklee School of Music in Boston and a celebrated improvisationalist in his own right, after last year’s Circus Luminous for which Anderson served in the band. “Jazz is a quirky vehicle for improv, but a sweet one,” Anderson explains of his own contributions to Glass Key Trio. “I think it’s scratching at something more intimate and sincere and the interaction between people. I think people want to see musicians either go on a journey or go along with them for that journey, and if I’m magnetic enough about how I present that, I know I’ve got them.”
For Bienvenu’s part, percussion is minimal yet vital. He plays with time and tone in a way that might otherwise feel masturbatory, but beneath Anderson’s almost exotic bass work and Bleich’s wild guitar movements, it provides structure and drive without getting in the way. “It’s a hard thing to do as a drummer, but to Loren’s credit, he has an incredibly keen sense of keeping the dynamic range while still pushing the music,” Anderson says. Thus far, recordings are sparse, though Bleich did provide some rough cuts recorded at his studio in Chupadero. The songs are strange yet familiar, with roots in finger-picky guitar that vacillates between feeling jazzy and moody to almost Middle Eastern takes on Spanish-style strumming patterns. With Anderson’s own composition and improv layered beneath this, there’s an unspoken trust at play that’s obvious. “It’s an organic process, for sure,” Bleich assures. “I kind of decided on this idea of working through styles, and it’s easy to get up and play free—it’s invariably more fun.” Both guitar and bass are acoustic and, for the upcoming show at San Miguel Mission, the band plans to go without amplification of any kind. This should prove interesting, or at least captivating—like when someone whispers and you have to lean in to hear them properly. Regardless, with the improvisational angle, it should certainly be unlike anything else you’ve heard of late. “For me, it’s never been about a destination,” Anderson adds. “It’s about the walking, and if you can walk with your friends, all the better. We’re talking about exploration, and that’s key: Whatever vehicle we’re using to materialize [the music], it is driven by that fuel of exploration.” GLASS KEY TRIO 8 pm Saturday May 5. $10-$20. San Miguel Mission, 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-3974
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THEATER H2O Zephyr Community Art Studio 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 Two strangers chase success and salvation (see SFR Picks, page 19). 7 pm, $25 THE PASSION OF ETHEL ROSENBERG Studio Center of Santa Fe 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 Edward Morris’ one-woman play is based largely on actual letters exchanged in prison between Ethel and Julius Rosenberg (see Acting Out, page 29). 7:30 pm, $15-$25
SAT/5 ART OPENINGS CINCO DE MAYO CELEBRATIONS Zalma Lofton Gallery 407 S Guadalupe St., 670-5179 One of our favorite new galleries for underground, slightly off-kilter and undeniably modern work presents a celebratory show. 5 pm, free GROUP 284 EXHIBITION Vista Grande Public Library 14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado, 466-7323 A unique show from a diverse group of photographers who met over the years while taking Marcia Reifman’s Media Arts 284: Advanced Digital Projects classes at SFCC. 2-4 pm, free JOSEPH GRIFFO AND GINA TELCOCCI City of Mud 1114A Hickox St., 954-1705 Griffo, known for his abstract canvases, also shows selected works on paper. Telcocci shows mixed-materials sculptures that often use found and salvaged wood. 3-5 pm, free SOUNDS, SIGNS, SIGHTS & NON-LINEAR TIME: CLOSING RECEPTION Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery 614 Agua Fría St., 928-308-0319 It's your last chance to catch mixed-media artist Michael Godey's solo exhibit, based on time (not the clock kind). 5 pm, free
BOOKS/LECTURES FREE COMIC BOOK DAY Big Adventure Comics 418 Montezuma Ave., 992-8783 It's exactly what it sounds like: All around the world, participating stores give away more than 3.3 million comics aimed at showing readers the wide range of titles being published. Head to bigadventurecomics.com for more info. 10 am-7 pm, free
JULIAN GRESSER: PILOTING THROUGH CHAOS op.cit Books DeVargas Center, 157 Paseo de Peralta, 428-0321 Gresser explores the new field of Big Heart Intelligence and its applications in helping reach enhanced health. 2 pm, free MYRA KRIEN: THE COLLECTED LETTERS OF ALAN WATTS The Ark 133 Romero St., 988-3709 Explore the remarkable arc of Watts’ colorful and controversial life. 6 pm, free TUFF GURLZ: IAIA GRADUATING SENIOR CREATIVE WRITING READING IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Head to the Allan Houser Art Park for a reading from graduating seniors of the BFA creative writing program. 2 pm, free
DANCE FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Make a dinner reservation for a show by the National Institute of Flamenco. 6:30 pm, $25
EVENTS ADOBE BRICK MAKING New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 Head to the courtyard to see how it's done with Cornerstones Community Partnerships. Make your own adobe brick if you so desire. 9:30 am-1 pm, free BIRD WALK Randall Davey Audubon Center 1800 Upper Canyon Road, 983-4609 Head to the hills for a guided birding hike with experienced bird nerds. 8:30-10 am, free CINCO DE MAYO CELEBRATION Railyard Park Cerrillos Road and Guadalupe Street, 982-3373 An art show, vendors, live music, mariachis, food, and general camaraderie—you could ask for more, but that would be greedy. 11 am-5 pm, free CORRALES ART & STUDIO TOUR Various Locations Head down to Corrales Village for 34 open studios featuring 79 artists. The preview Gallery is at Casa Vieja Event Center (4541 Corrales Road); a map and list of artists is available there, at the studios, and at the website corralesartstudiotour.com. 10 am-5 pm, free
FOLK ART FLEA Museum of Inte’l Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 From toys to textiles and jewelry to masks, get your fill of well-priced folk art treasures. 10 am-3 pm, free FUNDRAISER FOR LUCIO VELASCO Molly's Kitchen and Lounge 1611 Calle Lorca, 983-7577 Party into the night in support of Velasco, a beloved brother and friend who's battling Stage 4 colon cancer. It’s a raffle, a Spanish dinner, music and dancing! Raffle tickets are only $2. 5 pm, $3-$8 GRAND OPENING: PHOTO-EYE BOOKSTORE + PROJECT SPACE photo-eye Bookstore + Project Space 1300 Rufina Circle, Ste. A3, 988-5152 One of our favorite venues for contemporary photography kicks off events at its new project space and bookstore in that giant new reddish-colored building on Rufina. The show features Robert Stivers’ Polaroids used for creative idea brainstorming and lighting/ composition tests; each is placed next to their finished artworks. 5 pm, free IAIA SPRING POWWOW Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2351 In addition to Powwow and drum contests, enjoy food and arts and craft vendors. 10 am-7 pm, free MASTER GARDENER GARDEN FAIR Santa Fe County Fairgrounds 3229 Rodeo Road The best plant sale in Santa Fe has perennials, annuals, vegetables, herbs and more. Demonstrations, tool-sharpening, a kid’s corner and food trucks make it a grand fete. 9 am-1 pm, free NATIONAL WILDFIRE PREPAREDNESS DAY St. John's College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, 984-6000 Join the City of Santa Fe Fire Department to learn about how to prepare this wildfire season. Refreshments and lunch are provided, so RSVP at santafefireshed.org/blog. It's in the Junior Common Room upstairs in the Peterson Student Center. 10 am-2 pm, free NEW VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Head to a monthly introductory training for prospective volunteers at the garden. Get all the resources you need about the history, future, mission and the sites of the garden, and decide what volunteer opportunity best suits you. 1-3 pm, free
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SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET Santa Fe Railyard Market Street at Alcaldesa Street, 310-8766 Find pottery, paintings, photography, jewelry, sculpture, furniture, textiles and more. 8 am-2 pm, free WANNA PLAY? EXPERIENCE The Candyman Strings & Things 851 St. Michael's Drive, 983-5906 Telling yourself you don’t have time to learn an instrument? Break out of the negative thought rinse cycle and head to Candyman to break into the world of making music. 10 am-4 pm, free ¡CINCO DE MAYHEM! Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Burlesque troupe Zircus Erotiquee presents its sixth annual Cinco de Mayo show—this time with special guest, drag queen Dr. Lucky. 10 pm, $15-$25
MUSIC ALAM KHAN GiG Performance Space 1808 Second St. The Indian musician plays ancient ragas (classical improvisation from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan). 7:30 pm, $27-$32 ALPHA CATS Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Jazz. 6 pm, free AMERICAN JEM Rio Chama Steakhouse 414 Old Santa Fe Trail, 955-0765 Jaunty Americana. 6:30 pm, $20 CALI SHAW Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Folk nuevo on the deck. 3 pm, free CHANGO Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rockin' cover tunes. 8:30 pm, free CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 87505, 992-0304 Modeled after 19th-century Parisian cabarets, local musician Charles Tichenor and pals get together. 6 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards: Doug starts, Greg takes over at 8 pm. 6 pm, free EQUINOX DUO Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Catch the Geist Cabaret debut of Lou Levin on piano and Gayle Kenny on bass. 6 pm, $2
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We stumbled upon artist Sienna Luna’s Instagram account (@s.luna.art) purely by happenstance, but given her illustrative prowess, we’re glad we did. Luna’s a Santa Fe native but spent the last chunk of years living in Phoenix, Arizona, and picking up an associate’s degree in fine art from the community college there. Luna’s take on portraiture and wildlife recalls an Alphonse Mucha-esque aesthetic, though there’s an emotive playfulness at work. She’s without gallery representation for now, but let’s see if we can’t change that. (Alex De Vore) What brought you back to Santa Fe? I really love it here. I just realized this was a special place and I wanted to set down roots here. I wanted to grow somewhere. The art scene in already so established in Santa Fe, but I think there’s going to be an influx of new people who are going to make their own scene.
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Are you one of those lifelong artists? I’ve been creative my whole life, but I just like to learn in general. I just happen to be really good at drawing. I went to school for design originally, and I started to focus more on my fine art career when people started reaching out to me; anytime I made something, people would buy it. I think if you have some kind of talent or intelligence or propensity for it, you should go for it. I start with a sketch of some sort, usually digital, and I’ll transfer it to a board or piece of paper. From there I start to outline everything with colored pencil, seal it with acrylic medium; start putting in washes of color with gouache and acrylic together. I like this process because it layers. ... It makes it glow. I started working with gouache in the last year via my experience with [Santa Fe artist] Michael Bergt. I’m such a huge fan of his work. That’s how I took the dive into gouache. Are you, as an artist, concerned at all with selling art in a culture less into permanence—like Uber, Airbnb, etc.—a culture that seems less interested in longterm ownership of things? I don’t know. You’re eventually gonna hit a wall and be completely overwhelmed with the change in the world, and I’m lucky that I got a very well-rounded education. I’m confident in my ability to learn. I see a big need in being able to take care of myself. Art is a lot of different things and I’m OK bending what that means to me. I have the balance of people who find me to make work for them. In addition to creating my own fine art, I’m interested in the textile business— creating patterns to be printed on functional items, like a shirt or wallpaper. I want to be making really beautiful things with the eye of an artist.
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before, but it closed in 2009. When Bodelson, who is Goldleaf’s showroom manager, approached Horowitz about reprising the gallery portion of the shop last month, however, the owner didn’t hesitate. “I said, ‘If you have the energy, let’s do it,’” Horowitz says with a chuckle. In addition to projects which have intermittently flung him to Barcelona, Brooklyn and San Francisco, Bodelson was half of the local art collective SCUBA, along with artist Sandra Wang, for years. For Aqua Regia’s premiere show, “I started thinking about plants, and our relationship with them,” Bodelson explains. This thought bloomed into thinking about how we “greet” spring. “The tradition of greeting cards made me think about ushering in the season. I wanted to kind of take the greeting card back to a more personal place,” he says. The next step was asking people not only to design artwork, but to also include a textual component and write personal, secret messages to plant life. The gallery provided two 4-by-5-inch cards to artists, with one for artwork and the other for a message of the artist’s choosing. Bodelson COURTESY AQUA REGIA
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ver avocado toast and pu-erh tea at Opunita Café, the artist Crockett Bodelson—in his characteristically wry but hyper-focused manner—explains the impetus behind Respiration, his inaugural exhibit at Aqua Regia, a new gallery space inside Goldleaf Framemakers in Santa Fe. “Aqua Regia is an eighth-century term,” Bodelson says. “It’s the only compound that will dissolve gold, so I thought that was an interesting play on words for Goldleaf.” “I always loved the idea of having a gallery here,” shop owner Marty Horowitz tells SFR by phone. “When I first got to town, you could walk down Canyon Road with a cocktail in your hand; things have changed, and people stopped going out as much.” Horowitz further explains that Goldleaf attempted an exhibition space
then sealed the two cards with wax, which means that if you buy a card (as of publication date, there are around 80 participating artists), you either open it up to see what’s inside, or you leave it alone. “I like the idea of people altering their surroundings, of altering objects,” Bodelson muses. “Something as simple as a piece of paper; you fold it over, now it’s a card, and then you seal the edges and it’s a puzzle, a mystery. People are confronted with a decision: whether to break the seal or not.” As coincidence has it, I spoke to Bodelson on Earth Day. At Opuntia, we continued our conversation, the light filtering in through large panes of glass, the buzz-inducing black tea contrasting nicely with the calm, plant-laden vibe of the café. “The wax I used to seal the cards is local,” says Bodelson. “It’s from New Mexico bees, which I thought was important.” We giggle, we can’t help it. This is silly and fun, but also wonderfully thought-provoking. Aqua Regia already has a handful of other shows slated through August, featuring local artists like Edie Tsong, RJ Ward and Marta Lea Andersson. “Ideas are easy; it’s manifesting them that’s hard,” Bodelson points out. “We’ll just take it as it goes.”
RESPIRATION 4 pm Friday May 4. Free. Aqua Regia, 627 W Alameda St. (inside Goldleaf Framemakers), 988-5005
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n its excellent new show GenNext: Future So Bright, which opens Friday night, the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art examines and dismantles what we associate with traditional Hispanic art practices. Alongside innovative Hispanic artists like Luis Tapia, Nicholas Herrera and Marian Martinez, museum-goers can see works by 20 younger talents. In its focus on newer or otherwise emerging artists, the exhibition is a first for the museum. “I tried to find artists who are really working off of tradition,” curator Jana Gottschalk tells SFR. “The art in Santa Fe is so special—not like anywhere else—and it also needs a chance to grow.” The Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, one of four on Santa Fe’s Museum Hill, contains hammered tin artwork, fancy portraits of Spanish mucky-mucks, lots of Catholic saints and, obviously, plenty of European influences. So how does this jive with contemporary Hispanic artists like Thomas Vigil, for example, who uses materials like road signs and license plates as backdrops for his portraits? “I wasn’t sure if my work would fit in at a Spanish Colonial museum,” he acknowledges. Born and bred in Española, Vigil, who is now in his early 30s, says, “Growing up, I wasn’t really exposed to contemporary art. Santeros, retablos— that’s all I knew. But when I discovered graffiti, well, I guess I just never was able to put down the spray can.”
Still, Vigil cites a broad range of important influences in his creative practice. “Nicholas Herrera, for sure; I grew up knowing who he was,” Vigil remarks. “And even though he’s a traditional santero, he does it in this raw, more edgy way that’s really attractive to me.” One of the more established exhibitors is Patrick McGrath Muñiz, who was born in Puerto Rico but now lives in Houston. Politically charged and often very funny, his work builds on centuries of traditionally modeled retablos, which historically were devotional, reverential depictions of important saints or members of the Holy Family. But a big part of what makes this The Museum of show so enchanting Spanish Colonial is in how newer artArt welcomes the new guard of ists look to the past Hispanic artists, with respect, but like Brandon also with a strong Maldonado (this is “El Mojado”). impulse to shake up the old guard. Brandon Maldonado, who lives and works in Albuquerque, is self-taught. “My grandparents were artists, so I was around art, but I wasn’t really encouraged by my family to paint,” he says. Intriguingly, though Maldonado has deep regional roots, his meticulously configured, often darkly witty paintings rely heavily on Mexican folk art traditions. “I get a lot of inspiration looking at colonial Mexican stuff,”
he tells SFR. “If you imitate the past, you can only go so far. You have to find ways to bring it forward and make it your own.” Provocative and often sharply intelligent, this is a show you don’t want to miss. Luckily, it will be up through Nov. 25—but you should probably try to make it to Friday’s opening party, which features beverages from New Mexico Hard Cider (who also partially sponsored the
exhibit), a selection of classic lowriders, and live music from Stephanie Hatfield and Bill Palmer. GENNEXT: FUTURE SO BRIGHT 5:30 pm Friday May 4. Free. The Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226
Placitas Studio Tour Mother’s Day Weekend Saturday & Sunday May 12 & 13 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Placitas Studio Tour is celebrating its 21st year showcasing the artists of this unique community nestled in the foothills of the Sandias. The Tour offers a wide array of fine art and craft at forty-eight studio locations where you can meet the artists, see their work and perhaps take home a treasure. Visit our website www.placitasstudiotour.com for information to plan your route through Placitas to enjoy the beautiful vistas and fascinating studios around every corner.
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Over 35 interactive indoor and outdoor exhibits, including , our . portable planetarium
COME PLAY WITH US! 1050 Old Pecos Trail
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FRITZ AND THE BLUE JAYS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n' blues. 9 pm, $5 GARRY BLACKCHILD Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Americana. 6 pm, free GLASS KEY TRIO San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-3974 Jeremy Bleich (guitar), Casey Anderson (bass) and Loren Bienvenu (drums) explore stylized compositions inspired by folk, jazz, country y más (see Music, page 23). 8 pm, $5-$10 HIGH DESERT WINDS SPRING CONCERT James A Little Theatre 1060 Cerrillos Road, 913-7211 The ensemble presents the works of Persichetti, Grieg, Shostakovich, Gimenez and others. 4 pm, free KING TUFF Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Garage rock and neo-psychedelia from a reformed rockand-roll misfit who's working with the aftermath of hitting rock bottom. With support from Cut Worms. 7 pm, $18-$20 LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock 'n' roll for dancin' to. 8 pm, free LONE PIÑON Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Norteño, ranchera and huasteca jams. 8 pm, free LOS PRIMOS MELØDICOS Cava Lounge Eldorado Hotel, 309 W San Francisco St., 988-4455 An Afro-Cuban, romantic and traditional Latin music trio recreates the authentic sound of Latin America, Cuba and Puerto Rico, as well as flamenco, traditional and pop. 8 pm, free PAT MALONE Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Solo jazz guitar. 7 pm, free QUINTESSENCE WITH BETTMAN & HALPIN St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-5397 To join the smooth choral stylings of the renowned Albuquerque choir, the Californian bluegrass-roots duo of Stephanie Bettman and Luke Halpin bring their high-energy, upbeat tunes and their beautiful ballads. 7 pm, $10-$20
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RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar. 7 pm, free ROOT DOWN Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fria St. DJs Mayrant and Sherdon bring a soundgarden of electronic music to the new Rufina District locale. 7 pm, free SANTA FE CHILES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Dixieland-style jazz. 1 pm, free SHOWCASE KARAOKE Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Today: “Unchained Melody.” 8:30 pm, free SMOOTH Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 This Santana tribute band is just like the ocean under the moon. 10 pm, free
OPERA MET LIVE IN HD: CENDRILLON Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Massenet's operatic take on a storybook classic (Cinderella, that is). 6 pm, $20-$28
THEATER H2O Zephyr Community Art Studio 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 In this dark comedy by Jane Martin—and in a first for venue Zephyr, which seems to have done pretty much everything but theater so far—two strangers compelled by chance intimacy chase success and salvation in post9/11 NYC (see SFR Picks, page 19). 7 pm, $0-$25 THE PASSION OF ETHEL ROSENBERG Studio Center of Santa Fe 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 Edward Morris’ one-woman play, performed by maven Talia Pura, is based largely on actual letters exchanged in prison between the Rosenbergs, famously executed for espionage in 1953 (see Acting Out, page 29). 2 pm and 7:30 pm, $15-$25
WORKSHOP COMPOST CLINIC Santa Fe County Fairgrounds 3229 Rodeo Road As part of the Master Gardener Garden Fair, learn how to compost your yard and food waste with proper techniques. Bring hats, gloves, study shoes, water, and a pitchfork if you have one. 9 am-1 pm, free
SUN/6 ART OPENINGS ART ON BARCELONA: ROBERTA PARRY Unitarian Universalist Congregation 107 W Barcelona Road, 982-9674 Parry exhibits scenic Southwest landscapes in her Southwest Serenity series. 2-4 pm, free
BOOKS/LECTURES ARTIST TALK: TERI GREEVES Museum of Indian Arts & Culture 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Greeves speaks about her beading process and her contributions to the Stepping Out footwear exhibition. Free with museum admission; and it’s free for New Mexico residents every first Sunday. Opa! 1 pm, $6-$12 ARTIST TALK: TOM KIRBY Winterowd Fine Art 701 Canyon Road, 992-8878 Painter Kirby discusses his transcendent process, and the techniques and ideas that are at his paintings’ essence. 4 pm, free DAVID MUTSCHLECNER: ICON op.cit Books DeVargas Center, 157 Paseo de Peralta, 428-0321 Help launch Los Alamos poet Mutschlecner's new collection of poetry. 2 pm, free ENLIGHTENED COURAGE Thubten Norbu Ling Tibetan Buddhist Center 1807 Second St., Ste. 35, 660-7056 With Geshe Thubten Sherab’s wisdom on how to be committed to the peaceful and courageous path of full awakening, explore the ideas in The Way of the Bodhisattva. 10 am-noon, free JOURNEYSANTAFE: DEDE FELDMAN Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Author and former Senator Feldman paints a picture of non-traditional community development in New Mexico based on social equity. 11 am, free
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on their activities are still ongoing; the consensus among historians seems to be that the Rosenbergs, proud Communists and fierce political activists, weren’t necessarily angels, but shouldn’t have been killed over it. As portrayed in this show, they evoke a Winston-and-Julia 1984 usagainst-the-world kind of idealism, and it is hard not to empathize with the sentiment. The show paints a rosy and sympathetic picture of Ethel, raised by a harsh mother in the shtetl of the Lower East Side of Manhattan. She describes her WILLIAM PURA
hen you start paying attention to Santa Fe’s theater calendar, you soon notice a trend: solo acts. Based on no statistics or science whatsoever, I believe that, for a “metro area” (ha) of about 80,000, for Santa Fe to have access to six to eight one-person productions, particularly one-woman productions, each year is nothing to sneeze at. I credit this to three things: Santa Fe is, as we all know, a bit of a spiritual mecca for those seeking to know themselves a little better; whether or not it actually works is up in the air, but folks (particularly of the 50-plus age bracket) certainly do like to talk about it once they get here. Secondly, having renowned memoir/solo performance coach Tanya Taylor Rubinstein and her Global School of Story based here is a huge boon to the genre. Lastly, there’s the relatively new addition of jane-of-all-trades Talia Pura. (You know you have a small scene when two individuals can influence it so profoundly, but these are also two remarkable individuals.) Pura, as I’ve discussed in this column before, is a prolific writer, actress, director and educator (and the list goes on). In addition to having written dozens of her own plays, she regularly participates either onstage or in the wings around town, and one of her specialties is one-woman affairs. Last November saw her original Metamorphosis, and now she’s done something slightly different for her: She is performing someone else’s script, with Nashville playwright Edward Morris’ The Passion of Ethel Rosenberg. Passion is based on letters exchanged in jail between Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, young parents accused of spying for Russia during the Cold War and executed in 1953. Even the Pope tried to intervene on their behalf, and studies
childhood as an aspiring actress and singer, how deeply in love she fell with Julius, being framed by her brother and his awful-sounding wife, and the ways in which she and Julius tried to make the world a better place. In her description, they simply wanted the world to be run by laborers and workmen—you know, the people who actually do things. Let’s get one thing straight: Even as a rabid feminist and a hopeless theater junkie, I can still find some one-woman shows a little exhausting. They tend toward the formulaic. Tell stories from your past, sing a little song here and there, have at least two lines that start as a laugh then dissolve slowly into tears, have a prop or two (not too many), plead with the audience for something at least once—boom, there’s your basic script. Morris’ script follows much of this formula, and I was often tired by it. That’s not to say it was bad—he does a marvelous job of working in a very detailed history lesson through Ethel’s monologue. That was where the script did its best work: communicating facts and illuminating undeniable corollaries to modern-day so-called “un-American activities.” I won’t whip out the tired line, “He’s a man, of course he can’t write a woman’s emotions,” because I think that’s a lazy criticism. However, the way in which
Ethel spoke of her children was just what we’d expect from an incarcerated ’50s housewife, and entirely lacked nuance. The sections about her humanness could have been saved by cutting the motherly appeals and simply letting her speak as a passionate yet trapped person—which a man could easily write. But instead, heartstrings were tugged. “How often can you rehearse saying goodbye to your kids without going crazy?” Ethel asks at one point. (One audience member in particular crooned a heartfelt “mmm” after most lines like this; it only served to make me more irritated with the syrupy sentimentality.) Much more interesting than weepiness would have been how Ethel balanced badass activism with having two young kids, or how she seemed an early adopter of modern “alternative parenting” methods, allowing her kids to be messy humans rather than perfect angels. That kind of detail about her love for her family was far more illustrative than a line telling us that she had love for her family. But it’s important to separate the actor from the script. Pura, who recently became a grandmother yet reads easily as the spritely 37-year-old Rosenberg, also looks remarkably like Ethel in a short wig and prison-chic retro costuming. Her Ethel is plenty sympathetic, though she did keep the audience on our toes, wondering how much we were being manipulated. The bouncing, optimistic Ethel of the first scene contrasts marvelously with the quavering Ethel of the second, and the finally dejected Ethel of the third, attempting to buoy herself with gallows humor, ultimately failing. At one point, she dabs her eyes and mutters with a weak laugh, “I seem to be leaking courage.” It’s clearly a line she said jauntily in better days; now, hope is gone. The Rosenbergs were executed on June 19, 1953. “Julius, the weaker, went first,” read a June 20, 1953 Washington Daily News article. “He died with a grotesque smile on his lips. … It took three shocks of 2,000 volts each to electrocute Mr. Rosenberg. Four jolts swept through Mrs. Rosenberg and still she was not dead. A fifth was ordered.” And, despite my hang-ups with the script, when I read of Ethel’s death after having seen Passion, I felt a little more hurt—slightly more like I knew her; like she was perhaps my friend.
THE PASSION OF ETHEL ROSENBERG Talia Pura, as Ethel Rosenberg, is a fun gal pal who could also perhaps be manipulating us— though a more emotionally complex script would have done wonders for our investment in the character.
7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday May 3-5; 2 pm Saturday and Sunday May 5 and 6. $15-$25. Studio Center of Santa Fe, 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423.
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THE CALENDAR MOTHER'S DAY GIFT FAIR Santa Fe Woman's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail, 983-9455 There's a free gift for the first 25 folks through the door! 10 am-5 pm, free
FOOD PINTS FOR PARKINSON’S Rowley Farmhouse Ales 1405 Maclovia St., 428-0719 Rowley Farmhouse Ales donates 15 percent of the day’s beer sales to Pints for Parkinson's New Mexico. 11:30 am-10 pm, free
MUSIC DOUG MONTGOMERY AND ELIZABETH YOUNG Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Montgomery provides the standards on piano, and Young joins in on violin. 6:30 pm, free GARY VIGIL La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Easy-listening acoustic guitar. 6 pm, free IRENE ADAMS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Classic rock, folk ‘n’ country. 8 pm, free NACHA MENDEZ La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Creative but rooted takes on Latin music. 7 pm, free OPEN MIC Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Bring your listenin' ears and your playin' fingers to this mic hosted by Mike Montiel. 3-7 pm, free PAT MALONE AND JON GAGAN El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 A jazz duet. 7 pm, free QUINTESSENCE WITH BETTMAN & HALPIN St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-5397 The smooth choral stylings of the renowned Albuquerque choir meld with the Californian bluegrass-roots duo’s upbeat tunes. 3 pm, $10-$20 SONGS OF STRENGTH AND INSPIRATION First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 The Santa Fe Women's Ensemble performs songs that bear witness to courage. 3 pm, $10-$25 THE BARBED WIRES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Soulful blues on the deck. 3 pm, free THE SANTA FE REVUE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Country and Americana. Noon, free
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THEATER NO EXIT St. John's College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, 984-6000 The Chrysostomos Players, present Jean Paul Sartre’s tale of three damned souls in Hell. Great Hall, Peterson Student Center. 7:30 pm, free THE PASSION OF ETHEL ROSENBERG Studio Center of Santa Fe 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 Edward Morris’ one-woman play is based largely on actual letters exchanged in prison between the Rosenbergs (see Acting Out, page 29). 2 pm, $15-$25
MON/7 BOOKS/LECTURES GENOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE FIRST MIGRATION INTO THE AMERICAS Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Jeffrey C Long (professor and evolutionary anthropologist at UNM) and PhD student Sara Niedbalski speak as part of Southwest Seminars' Ancient Sites and Ancient Stories lecture series. 6 pm, $15 SFUAD SENIOR READING Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Graduating seniors Rose Hutson, Danell Horan and Ivy Stover read from their work created at the university. 6:30 pm, free
EVENTS SANTA FE INDIVISIBLE MEETING Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Join the politically progressive group for group activism. Newcomers are always welcome, so fight the good fight. 7 pm, free THE SANTA FE HARMONIZERS REHEARSAL Zia United Methodist Church 3368 Governor Miles Road, 699-6922 The local choral group invites anyone who can carry a tune to its weekly rehearsals. 6:30-8 pm, free
MUSIC ANNA McCLELLAN WITH STAFFERS Zephyr Community Art Studio 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 McClellan (smirk-sad and heart-smart piano-driven pop) is joined by Staffers (fuzzy-catchy plinky tunes). 7:30-10:30 pm, $10 COWGIRL KARAOKE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 This week’s suggestion: “Feelin’ Alright” by Joe Cocker. 9 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY
Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards. 6:30 pm, free MELLOW MONDAYS Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 DJ Sato spins some jams to calm you down. 10 pm, free PARTIZANI BRASS BAND Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 New Orleans-style raucous street jazz. 7 pm, free SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country and rock 'n' roll. 7:30 pm, free
TUE/8 BOOKS/LECTURES BOTANICAL BOOK CLUB: A BOOK OF BEES Stewart Udall Center 725 Camino Lejo, 983-6155 Get together with fellow plant-loving and book-loving folks to discuss Sue Hubbell's book. 1 pm, free IAIA MFA GRADUATE RESIDENCY READINGS Lannan Foundation 313 Read St., 986-8160 Hear from those about to graduate from IAIA with a MFA in creative writing. 7:30 pm, free NAACP MONTHLY MEETING: HEALTH SECURITY FOR NEW MEXICANS CAMPAIGN Montecito 500 Rodeo Road, 426-1753 The monthly meeting features speaker Dana Millen, the manager of the NMDOH Comprehensive Cancer Program with the Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Bureau. More info: naacpsfnm@gmail.com. 6:30 pm, free SFUAD SENIOR READING Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Graduating seniors read from their work created at the university. 6:30 pm, free
EVENTS METTA REFUGE COUNCIL Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 A confidential Buddhist support group for people who are struggling with loss. 10:30 am, free SANTA FE INDIVISIBLE MEETING Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Join the politically progressive group to put into action the planning you did last night. 8:30 am, free CONTINUED ON PAGE 32
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Cruising for a Juicing Verde keeps the juice, adds the food 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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erde Organic Café and Juice’s space on San Mateo Road is a cool, clean and almost clinical affair, with high ceilings, large windows, minimal decorations and an unfussy line of tables matched with brightly colored chairs along the dining area window. The major pop of color in the room is a cold case lined with rainbow-colored rows of juices; they evoke something spa-like or medicinal in their parallel lines of bright orange, beet red and earthy green vials with matching white labels. This makes sense, considering the origin point of the company has always been personal wellness. Founder Kelly Egolf recuperated from jaw surgery by cold-pressing her own juice when she required a liquid diet that had previously made it difficult for her to ingest all the nutrients she needed. Soon she began sharing the results of her efforts with family, friends and colleagues. Eventually, the business version of Verde was born in 2014, offering cold-pressed juices that are unpasteurized, unfiltered and additive-free. Cold-pressing involves gently pressing fruits and vegetables without using the metal blades of a traditional juicer, which can heat up its contents and negatively impact any nutritional value. Instead, the juice is shredded and pressed by hydraulic pump, which preserves more of the good stuff present in the raw material and ex-
tends the shelf life of the juice for up to five days. Verde’s signature juice line winds up heartier than the average juice and is an intriguing mix of traditional ingredients like kale, carrot and beet backed by other ingredients that usually come in smoothie form, such as banana, flaxseed and almond milk. The complete range of offerings are staggering, from small shots of tonics at 2 ounces ($3.95), such as the Allergy, a mix of greens like watercress, parsley, fennel and asparagus spiked with astragalus and local bee pollen. There are simpler juices as well, like the Pink Apple, a concoction of apple juice, hibiscus and lemon, priced
at $3.75 for 8 ounces. And then there are the signature juices, a mix of roughly 2 pounds’ worth of fruits, vegetables and nuts whittled down to 16 ounces of juice served in a glass container for $9—although you can also get it in plastic for $8.50 (but you can return the glass jars for a little bit off your next purchase). Signature juices also come in 12-ounce containers ($6.75), and select recipes are available in smaller formats. I treated myself to a 12-ounce Verde Almond Chai, which is a mix of housemade almond milk, kale, black tea, banana, wheatgrass, local honey and housemade chai spices. It was much earthier than I expected but not vegetal, with the tea and the spices doing the heavy lifting against the wheatgrass and kale. Despite the addition of honey and banana, it was not at all sweet and the texture was appealingly thicker than the average vegetable juice. I found it surprisingly filling and substantial for a tea-based juice drink. Verde now also offers a food menu with options for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I ordered a Juice Burger ($11.95) and the Spicy Sunrise ($9). The latter is a juice
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based in carrot, beet and orange with apple, ginger, lemon, flax and pumpkin seeds and a little kick of cayenne pepper. The carrot, ginger and cayenne flavors dominated the drink in a pleasant way, and it was easy to suck down thanks to the bright, refreshing and crisp taste; the kind of thing to drink in the morning to start your day. While I enjoyed the juices, the food left something to be desired. The concept of the burger was cool enough—the roughage left over from the juices make up the base, combined with sweet potatoes, black beans and seeds. It also comes with a side of spicy beet ketchup and cashew mustard cream, along with either roasted sweet potatoes or creamy sunflower slaw. But the burger itself was cold and rather nondescript, especially given all the interesting flavors and textures of the juices. The sides, however, were excellent additions. I also had a roots juice spritzer (a carrot and beet-based juice diluted with sparkling water, $1.95), which proved a cheap way to get a little hit of juice and added a nice pop to the meal. There’s a certain appealing new-agey symmetry to a juice bar sharing a building with Studio Nia Santa Fe and being nextdoor to YogaSource, as it offers a healthy pick-me-up for the thirsty post-workout cravings. The sum total of Verde is a bright and healthy experience, and although the food is a welcome addition, it could improve. Besides, the real star of the show is the juice.
VERDE Midtown (juice and café): 851 W San Mateo Road, 780-5151 8 am-8:30 pm Monday-Friday; 9 am-3 pm Saturday; closed Sunday Downtown (juice and snacks only): 105 E Marcy St., 983-8147 8:30 am-4:30 pm Monday-Friday; 10 am-4 pm Saturday; closed Sunday
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CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Santa Fe's historic night of music and camaraderie. 8 pm, $5 CHUSCALES La Boca (Original Location) 72 W Marcy St., 982-3433 Exotic flamenco guitar. 7 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND DAVID WOOD Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards: Doug starts, David takes over at 8 pm. 6 pm, free
PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo jazz guitar. 6 pm, free SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country and rock 'n' roll. 7:30 pm, free VINTAGE VINYL NIGHT The Matador 116 W San Francisco St., 984-5050 DJs spin the best in garage, surf, country and rockabilly. 8:30 pm, free
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The contemporary photographs of Michael Namingha are displayed with Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings of a New Mexico landscape she called “the Black Place;” the works, created nearly a century apart, are on view together at the O’Keeffe Museum.
GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 The Black Place: Georgia O’Keeffe and Michael Namingha. Through Oct. 28. Journey to Center: New Mexico Watercolors by Sam Scott. Through Nov. 1. HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 Nikesha Breeze: Within This Skin. Opens Friday; Through May 27. 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 632 Agua Fría St., 989-3283 From Ancient Beeswax to the Modern Crayon. MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Stepping Out: 10,000 Years of Walking the West. Through Sept. 3. Lifeways of the Southern Athabaskans. Through Dec. 31. Maria Samora: Master of Elegance. Through Feb. 2019. MUSEUM OF INT’L FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Negotiate, Navigate, Innovate: Strategies Folk Artists Use in Today’s Global Marketplace. Through July 16. Artistic Heritage: Syrian Folk Art. Through July 29. No Idle Hands: The Myths & Meanings of Tramp Art. Through Sept. 16. Beadwork Adorns the World. Through Feb. 3, 2019. Crafting Memory: The Art of Community in Peru. Through March 10, 2019. MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 GenNext: Future So Bright. Opening Friday; through Nov. 25.
NM HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5019 The Land That Enchants Me So: Picturing Popular Songs of New Mexico. Through Feb. 24, 2019. NM MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 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 Future Shock. Through June 10. WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 704 Camino Lejo, 986-4636 Center for the Study of Southwestern Jewelry.
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Avengers: Infinity War Review
RATINGS BEST MOVIE EVER
10 years of Marvel = Thanos’ wrinkly chin
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You might consider some of the following to contain spoilers, but they’re MILD, all things considered. It’s all been leading to this—y’know, not counting some of those X-Men movies. Or Spiderman. Or the Spiderman reboot. Anyway, all the Marvel Studios movies we’ve been watching since Jon Favreau and Robert Downey Jr. gave us a decent Iron Man flick in 2008 have been leading to this, and while it might not disappoint from an action standpoint or a tying-plotlines-together standpoint, Avengers: Infinity War is basically a bazillion scenes of explosions layered between melodrama, a whole lot of “remember when?” moments, and the kind of CGI that makes your moviegoing companion say, “Damn, that’s really good CGI.” When last we left the Avengers, the team was split and ultra-villain Thanos was hanging around the galaxy trying to get his absurdly gigantic hands on the six infinity stones forged in the crucible of the Big Bang—stones that would give him dominion over time, power, soul, earth, wind and fire ( jay kay about the last three—he just really likes that band). See, the plan is to snuff out half the universe’s population so nobody suffers as much anymore—which Thanos sees as mercy—but, since they’re apparently good and all, the Avengers (and their offshoot pals like Spider Man, Dr. Strange, the Guardians of the Galaxy and pretty much anyone else who can hold a gun or use mind powers or blast lasers from their fingers) set out to
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stop him. Caught up? Cool. Obviously, this film was bonkers-expensive to make and, as such, comes with some of the best special effects of all time. Thanos alone looks far better than trailers have led us to believe, and it’s hats-off to Josh Brolin for bringing the heat with both voice and mo-cap work. The odd thing is his utter calmness in the face of his own genocide plan, but this makes him far scarier than he had any right to be; the wrinkled chin thing doesn’t do him any favors, though. The rest of the cast boils down mostly to the quips for which they’re known. Iron Man (Downey Jr.) is, of course, his arrogant self, while Spider-Man (Tom Holland) cracks cutesy and wise in the vicinity of Dr. Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), who does his whole stoic-master-of-theuniverse thing; Star Lord (Chris Pratt) gets goofy while Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is still a little more silly after his last outing in Thor 3: The Search for More Money. The problem, however, is that for every scene that kicks off amping up the audience with a superhero we feel we know, there’s such a brief window in which to provide exposition before it’s on to the next. It’s exciting at first, but grows a little tiresome without enough screen time for … well, for much of anything. Fight scenes are cool, alright, they’re just stuffed in alongside so
many other things that the pace feels frantic and the overall oomph of the ending feels pointless. I mean, if we really wanna talk spoilers, here’s the elephant in the room: They’ll probably win. Still, it’s Thanos’ show, and Brolin doesn’t disappoint. It’s another story altogether for flat jokes from Groot, Paul Bettany’s over-the-top drama as Vision and Peter Dinklage’s mind-bogglingly awful British accent and ham-fisted performance as a space dwarf (their words, not ours) who makes crazy weapons for gods with a forge powered by a dying star. Scarlett Johansson may as well not even be in this thing, as she pretty much just punches a space monster or two. Elizabeth Olsen is fine as Scarlet Witch. She’s fine. We’ll definitely hand out points for directors Anthony and Joe Russo’s ability to smartly capture the differing tones of the multiple Marvel films in a cohesive way, we just hope the sequel (did you doubt there’d be one?) slows its roll a little or at least gives us a chance to catch our breath with a bit more character development. AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo With so many actors we can’t name them all Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 149 min.
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What kind of movie-goer are you? Do you like the setup or the payoff? If you’re a fan of the former and are looking for an hour and 40 minutes of that, then I have a sweet suggestion for you. Philip Gelatt’s third feature film, They Remain, follows two scientists, Keith (William Jackson Harper) and Jessica (Rebecca Henderson), as they conduct research on behalf of a mystery corporation that has sent them to an eerie part of the woods. This area, as we (very, very) slowly learn, was inhabited by a murderous cult. Eventually, whether it’s due to some supernatural power or sheer isolation, both members of the team go crazy. Sean Kirby’s cinematography work is great, adding suspense to lifeless scenes with off-
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putting framing and unconventional technique. Meanwhile, Tom Keohane’s score capably sets the tone with its glitchy, string-heavy style. Unfortunately, though, the music ultimately falls into the same trap as the rest of the movie—it grows boring and repetitive. You can only string so many “suspenseful” scenes that lead nowhere together before you lose an audience. The first 30 minutes are slow, but they are obviously building tension and leading to something. And though the early acts are genuinely intriguing and full of possible avenues the movie could have explored, those 30 minutes of setup turn into 40 minutes and then 50 and then an hour as the suspense dissipates. I stopped caring. That’s the main problem with this film— nothing seems important. There’s hardly any attempt at building the characters, and even when there is, the dialogue feels forced, clunky and unintentionally hilarious. In one scene, CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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“What the hell is this picture from?” we asked our art director. “Super Troopers 2,” he said. Jessica says, “Look at you, you’re weak as a kitten,” to which Keith replies, “Don’t worry about me. I’m as fit as a farm hand.” Like, what?! Who talks like that? It’s just so weird. That, along with the fact that the last 40 minutes of the film, are an incongruous mix of fever dreams and reality, results in an uneventful story with an unimportant ending. While the film captures the mood of anxious paranoia quite well, it never makes an effort to progress beyond that, and we’re just left with what seems like a half-baked idea that’s twice as long as it should be. (Pema Baldwin) Jean Cocteau Cinema, R, 102 min.
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- ANNOYING CANADIAN ACCENTS
We really weren’t expecting much. But for the same reason that tens of thousands of diehard fans flocked to the eighth Star Wars movie or the decades-later sequel to Blade Runner, we were kind of excited about Super Troopers 2. Yes, we laughed when the opening scene showed a bus getting tailed by a car with bubblegum lights—even before a single glimpse of the old gang of goofy highway patrol officers— and yes, the laughs kept coming. But the groans came too. Along with sneak peeks at the phone to see how much longer it would last. The drug-smuggling plot of the long-awaited sequel closely mirrored the first Troopers flick from Broken Lizard in 2001, only this time it stars unidentified pills rather than bricks of weed. And instead of infighting between city and county cops, this one was about a turf war between Canadian Mounties and US patrolmen. It’s also more than remarkable that the same core cast of characters came through for continuity—though an insane multimillion-dollar crowdfunding campaign is mostly responsible for that. Yet, it’s disappointing the jokes are pretty much the same, too. Right down to the liter’a cola. Everybody still hates Farva, and this time the schtick from Kevin Heffernan saves the show; the script from writer-director-actor Jay Chandrasekhar doesn’t give any of the other characters much to remember. Chandreskhar’s amazing mustache as patrolman Thorny just isn’t enough this time to make him the fan favorite. And his main storyline is full of annoying sexist tropes. We loved the idea that Linda Carter would make an appearance, but her actual performance is wonderless. Thank goodness, then, that Rob Lowe’s bigger role as the mayor of a Canadian town is sharp and funny. This movie is mostly worth seeing for the nostalgia. And we’re sure we know some people
who will quote it over shots for the next 17 years, too. (Julie Ann Grimm) Regal, Violet Crown, R, 103 min.
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- EXECUTED MILDLY, BORINGLY
Amy Schumer continues with her oh-socool-girl shtick in I Feel Pretty, a nominally funny twist on the Big/Freaky Friday-esque formula wherein a young woman named Renee (Schumer) injures her head, which somehow causes her to see herself as super good-looking while the rest of the world still perceives her as the perfectly normal, actually-probably-a-littlebit-more-attractive-than-most-people person she is. Seems Renee’s wildest dreams have been to attain unapproachable beauty. Dating’s been rough, but her “normie” friends (a dimensionless Busy Philipps of Freaks and Geeks and the ultra-charming and tragically underused Aidy Bryant) have stood by her despite how she’s not a supermodel. What good people they must be! Anyway, once Renee thinks she’s beautiful, her confidence skyrockets, landing her a cushy job at the makeup company where she works and a dorky-hot boyfriend named Ethan (Rory Scovel) with absolutely no character development whatsoever outside of a singular line about how he wants to be a cameraman. But even Rory spends his first few scenes being weirded out that Renee would be confident (y’know, because she’s apparently hideous) before her winning personality tricks him into falling in love. The gorgeous family that helms the makeup empire also gives her a chance, though in a kind of mean-spirited way and more because they’re launching a line aimed at women who shop at Target (y’know, who are apparently hideous and poor). Of course, though, she sustains another blow to the head, sees herself regularly again and we’re given a final act wherein she realizes the real problem was probably hers. Sacre bleu! But of course she was gonna learn to love herself. Obviously. What more adequately sums up film’s problems is that almost anyone who interacts with Renee is, like, flabbergasted that she’d find herself attractive and isn’t afraid to show it. And then they don’t learn anything or change their ways. In fact, it seems they’re really only psyched on her because she knows just how to market to everyday makeup consumers. Ugh. From there on out, it’s a beyond-predictable happy ending with a 40-second speech from Renee about how people really should be nicer to each other. OK, so there’s obviously truth to that, and Michelle Williams is actually pretty
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funny as the CEO of the makeup empire. It’s just that everyone else is so horrible, the jokes are so stale and the themes at play are so under-analyzed that one can’t help but wonder what the point was. Stop judging people? Cool. Thanks, I guess. (Alex De Vore) Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 110 min.
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+ KILLER CGI; FAB FOR FANS OF GODZILLA AND THE ILK - OH. EM. GEE. IT’S SO DUMB.
OK, hear me out: Rampage, based on the ’80s arcade game of the same name, ain’t that bad. Oh, it’s dumb alright, no question, from beginning to end. But at its core you’ll basically find an overthe-top Godzilla-like movie—and there’s nothing wrong with that, at least not in the summertime blockbuster sense. Dwayne Johnson is Davis Okoye, a soldier-turned-primatologist for the San Diego Zoo. Davis doesn’t much care for people because of something-or-other about poachers he used to hunt for the Army in his previous life (morality!), but he totally gets along with his albino gorilla pal George (friendship!), possibly because George knows ASL and has a weird sense of humor (complexity!), possibly because Johnson is not entirely unlike a gorilla himself (muscles!). Either way, it’s bad news when a black ops science project carried out in space (not kidding) crash lands to Earth, transforming George into a towering behemoth of an ape with rage issues who—get this—goes on a total rampage across heartland America and Chicago. Elsewhere, other fallout from the spacebased experiments winds up mutating a wolf and a crocodile. They also rampage, with their particular mutations providing them with super powers, like flight or spikes they can shoot out of their bodies or super speed; George, meanwhile, just gets huge. What a ripoff. Turns out the culprit is some mega-corp run by an evil sister-brother team (Watchmen’s Malin Akerman and Jake Lacy of The Office), who both suck so hard in this movie it’s particularly notable. Lucky, though, a beautiful geneticist named Kate (Naomie Harris) who was tricked into developing the rampage-inducing experiment (which was in space, remember) teams up with Johnson to stop the, um, rampaging. Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Walking Dead) also appears as some shadowy government operative, but his role is literally just him saying stuff like “whirlybird” and “grandpappy” and “this old cowboy” while The Rock is busy asking monsters if they can smell what he’s cooking. You bet your ass they can. Explosions ensue. Everyone runs places. Helicopters are flown, guns are fired and, like the game itself, buildings are punched into piles of rubble. And then, in a way that isn’t so much subtext as it is a tacked-on, barely-there sentiment, we get the idea that humans don’t always treat animals very nicely. We probably should, lest we become victims of a rampage. Still, there’s no denying Dwayne Johnson’s immutable charm, and not every movie can be Citizen Kane. In fact, sometimes we just gotta see gigantic beasts tear shit up. Rampage, if you will. (ADV) Note: Rampage also comes in 3-D, though SFR saw the standard version. Regal, Violet Crown, PG-13, 107 min. A QUIET PLACE
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horror/sci-fi flick set in post-apocalyptia that finds a man and his family forced into constant silence to stay alive. Mysterious creatures have appeared in Farmland, USA, and seeing as they’re blind, they navigate and hunt by sound—kind of like bats, only not adorable. Krasinski’s clan thus adopts a million neat survival tricks to stay ahead of the game. It’s a simple but smart idea, from the clever pathways laid with sand to the series of color-changing lightbulbs strung up around the farm to soundlessly warn of imminent danger. Krasinski plumbs surprisingly moving emotional depths as a father facing loss who must also prepare his kids for the new world order. Ditto for Emily Blunt, also his real-world wife, who conveys terror sans dialogue in very meaningful and downright stressful ways. The children (Noah Jupe, Suburbicon, and Millicent Simmonds, Wonderstruck) are another story altogether, both in terms of the hammy expressions they lean into and the annoying plot lines with which they’re saddled. Jupe is fine as the token “I’m a-scared!” kid, but Simmonds is particularly bothersome as a melodramatic pre-teen who is deaf (handy, though, since the entire family knows sign language because of it) and definitely blames herself for the film’s harrowing opening sequence. While believable that a young girl would be defiant and moody and self-absorbed, it feels false that she would prioritize these feelings over, say, continuing to breathe. Regardless, both Krasinski and Blunt nail the family dynamic, demonstrating just how far a parent would go to protect their brood. The creature, meanwhile, is the true star of A Quiet Place—a spookily designed monstrosity that harks back to creature-feature horror while asserting its own identity, even if it does owe a debt of gratitude to movie monsters from classics like Alien and Predator. Krasinski and company must be commended for keeping the monster under wraps in the trailers, and trust us—it’s definitely scary. Still, the ultimate resolution isn’t quite as satisfying as it could be, and the no-sound shtick comes perilously close to outstaying its welcome, even if it is relatively inventive. As far as simple, atmospheric horror goes, though, you could do a hell of a lot worse than A Quiet Place. Just be prepared for them jump-scares. (ADV) Regal, Violet Crown, PG-13, 90 min.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): I hate rampant consumerism almost as much as I hate hatred, so I don’t offer the following advice lightly: Buy an experience that could help liberate you from the suffering you’ve had trouble outgrowing. Or buy a toy that can thaw the frozen joy that’s trapped within your out-of-date sadness. Or buy a connection that might inspire you to express a desire you need help in expressing. Or buy an influence that will motivate you to shed a belief or theory that has been cramping your lust for life. Or all of the above! (And if buying these things isn’t possible, consider renting.)
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting,” said twentieth-century abstract expressionist painter Willem de Kooning. “Cézanne did it. Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell.” In de Kooning’s view, these “destructive” artists performed a noble service. They demolished entrenched ideas about the nature of painting, thus liberating their colleagues and descendants from stale constraints. Judging from the current astrological omens, Libra, I surmise the near future will be a good time for you to wreak creative destruction in your own field or sphere. What progress and breakthroughs might be possible when you dismantle comfortable limitations?
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): These days you have an enhanced ability to arouse the appreciation and generosity of your allies, friends, and loved ones. The magnetic influence you’re emanating could even start to evoke the interest and inquiries of mere acquaintances and random strangers. Be discerning about how you wield that potent stuff! On the other hand, don’t be shy about using it to attract all the benefits it can bring you. It’s OK to be a bit greedier for goodies than usual as long as you’re also a bit more compassionate than usual. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I bet that a healing influence will arrive from an unexpected direction and begin to work its subtle but intense magic before anyone realizes what’s happening. I predict that the bridge you’re building will lead to a place that’s less flashy but more useful than you imagined. And I’m guessing that although you may initially feel jumbled by unforeseen outcomes, those outcomes will ultimately be redemptive. Hooray for lucky flukes and weird switcheroos! CANCER (June 21-July 22): Born under the astrological sign of Cancer, Franz Kafka is regarded as one of the twentieth century’s major literary talents. Alas, he made little money from his writing. Among the day jobs he did to earn a living were stints as a bureaucrat at insurance companies. His superiors there praised his efforts. “Superb administrative talent,” they said about him. Let’s use this as a take-off point to meditate on your destiny, Cancerian. Are you good at skills you’re not passionate about? Are you admired and acknowledged for having qualities that aren’t of central importance to you? If so, the coming weeks and months will be a favorable time to explore this apparent discrepancy. I believe you will have the power to get closer to doing more of what you love to do. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If you really wanted to, you could probably break the world’s record for most words typed per minute with the nose (103 characters in 47 seconds). I bet you could also shatter a host of other marks, as well, like eating the most hot chiles in two minutes, or weaving the biggest garland using defunct iPhones, or dancing the longest on a tabletop while listening to a continuous loop of Nirvana’s song “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” But I hope you won’t waste your soaring capacity for excellence on meaningless stunts like those. I’d rather see you break your own personal records for accomplishments like effective communications, high-quality community-building, and smart career moves. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Isaac Newton (1643-1727) was among history’s three most influential scientists. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) has been described as the central figure in modern philosophy. Henry James (1843-1916) is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English literature. John Ruskin (1819-1900) was a prominent art critic and social thinker. What did these four men have in common? They never had sex with anyone. They were virgins when they died. I view this fact with alarm. What does it mean that Western culture is so influenced by the ideas of men who lacked this fundamental initiation? With that as our context, I make this assertion: If you hope to make good decisions in the coming weeks, you must draw on the wisdom you have gained from being sexually entwined with other humans.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Mayflies are aquatic insects with short life spans. Many species live less than 24 hours, even though the eggs they lay may take three years to hatch. I suspect this may be somewhat of an apt metaphor for your future, Scorpio. A transitory or short-duration experience could leave a legacy that will ripen for a long time before it hatches. But that’s where the metaphor breaks down. When your legacy has fully ripened—when it becomes available as a living presence —I bet it will last a long time. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When a critic at Rolling Stone magazine reviewed the Beatles’ Abbey Road in 1969, he said some of the songs were “so heavily overproduced that they are hard to listen to.” He added, “Surely they must have enough talent and intelligence to do better than this.” Years later, however, Rolling Stone altered its opinion, naming Abbey Road the fourteenth best album of all time. I suspect, Sagittarius, that you’re in a phase with metaphorical resemblances to the earlier assessment. But I’m reasonably sure that this will ultimately evolve into being more like the later valuation—and it won’t take years.
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AUM CHANT
MAY 4, 7:30-8:30 PM FREE Santa Fe Community Yoga Center 826 Camino de Monte Rey, Suite B-1 AUM is the sound of Ganesh and is of the causal world. Let AUM help remove obstacles and increase your well being. Think of it as a one note sing along with benefits.
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