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Meow Wolf barks up the wrong tree seeking a rave review News 7 DAYS, METROGLYPHS AND THIS MODERN WORLD 8 BRIEFS 9

Recycling rates on the rise; RIP Rob DeWalt CASHCOASTER 11

City Council takes aim at fiscal shortfall SIGN OF THE TIMES 13

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BLUE CORN me to do that. But look, maybe I’m waiting for an interview with George RR Martin, the uber-famous celebrity who was a major force in Meow Wolf becoming a reality. You’re supposed to dangle something like that in front of me if you want coverage.

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It’s worth a try. One hand washes the other in the news game. I give a plug to Meow Wolf, and George gives me some inside dope on upcoming plot twists in Game of Thrones.

Yeah, I’m that guy on the plaque …

You’re kind of stupid, aren’t you? If you want plot twists, maybe you should just read the books.

Wait. There are books?

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Sigh.

If he talks to me, I’ll quote him in my column.

ello, may I please speak to the smartass who writes that “Blue Corn” column?

Maybe. Who’s calling?

That’d be swell! He’d just love to get his name in a

I’m with the Santa Fe Tourism office.

Okay. This is Bob Basler. What do you want?

smartass column in a free newspaper! Mr. Martin can’t buy that kind of publicity!

Now you’re just being sarcastic.

So, when can we expect you to visit Meow Wolf ?

I already have. I’ve just been messing with you here.

It’s totally unbelievable. I’ve never seen anything like it. Santa Fe should be immensely proud of this clever space, and I really mean that.

Thank you! That means a lot, coming from such a curmudgeon. Say, it almost seems like you’re being too nice here. Just what are you holding back, anyway? Come clean.

Well, I did see a plaque when I was out there that said one of the big donors was a guy named Bob Balzer.

Seriously. That’s close enough to my name that I figured maybe I could get some credit for it. You know, tax deductions, public admiration, free drinks, a Ben and Jerry’s flavor named after me, all without actually lifting a finger.

You’re practically a Mother Teresa, aren’t you, what with all your philanthropy?

Hey, I’ve been thinking it was time for me to give something back to the community, but if somebody else is doing it for me, who am I to complain?

I’d like to talk to you about Meow Wolf, the fabulous new attraction for young and old alike that opened here last month. It’s like a museum, a haunted house, a celebration of human creativity, a visit to the future, all rolled into one! It’s pure magic!

Can it get rid of warts?

If you’ll just write something nice, we will have achieved 100 percent media saturation. Can you give me a Blue Corn comment we can use as an advertising blurb?

Sure. “Anybody who doesn’t appreciate Meow Wolf should be pushed off a tall cliff …”

Do you have warts?

Nah, I’m just asking for a friend. I haven’t written about Meow Wolf at all. Not a word.

That is precisely why I’m calling. Our records indicate you are the only journalist in New Mexico who hasn’t raved about it yet. What the hell is wrong with you?

Well, for one thing, I don’t rave.

I almost always make fun of the stuff I write about. It’s what I do.

That’s kind of dark. I don’t know how that will look in our advertisements.

Take it or leave it.

We’ll take it. Hey, Eddie, get in here!

I just got the featured quote for our new billboards!

Don’t you ever say positive things in your column?

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Since adding new types of plastic and paper to what Santa Feans can toss in their blue bins, the city’s recycling rate has increased an average of 12 percent.

The numbers likely would have been better, says Shirlene Sitton, director of the city’s Environmental Services Division, had they been able to precede that change with the release of much larger curbside rollaway carts, which is expected at the end of the year.

“We’re kind of proverbially putting the horse before the cart—the recycling before the cart,” Sitton says.

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significantly the materials change will affect how much Santa Feans recycle remains to be seen.

“Not having the carts or the volume to hold it in, there’s a lot of unknowns,” she says. Elsewhere, cart collection has spurred up to an 80 percent increase in recycling volume. The planned transition will bring still more shifts to the program, she says: “There’s just no way we can accept glass curbside anymore.”

Instead, residents will be able to drop off glass at locations that have not yet been determined.

September saw the largest increase, with 108 more tons recycled, or 19 percent more compared to the previous year. The expanded collections could move the needle on Santa Fe’s weak overall recycling rate, which has hovered at around 9 percent of the total waste volume for residential and commercial clients combined.

When cart distribution approaches, she says, they’ll ramp up outreach, but the carts themselves will also have a graphic on the molded lid, showing all the recyclables accepted, making life all the easier. (Elizabeth Miller)

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A music and food lover, DeWalt was perhaps best known for his longtime music column, “Soundwaves,” for Pasatiempo, the Santa Fe New Mexican’s weekly arts and culture magazine, a position he used to champion local music of all styles for nearly 10 years “He was so smart and so funny,” DeWalt’s Pasatiempo colleague and freelance writer Laurel Gladden tells SFR. “He was just so supportive of the community.”

Since 2014, he’s been a regular contributor to SFR as a food critic and as the creator of our food newsletter, The Fork. DeWalt’s writing style was personable and came with an effortless flow. A chef himself, his insight into the inner-workings of food and restaurants was an invaluable asset to readers near and far.

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DeWalt, 46, is survived by his husband, Jason Hopper, his mother, Sharon Doyle, and many other relatives.

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Budget plan relies on money that’s not really there yet and finding $4 million or more to cut

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anta Fe city councilors have tried and tried.

As recently as their March 30 meeting, the governing body continued to hammer out the details of a deficit-closing framework to balance the budget for the fiscal year that begins in July.

Yet the process has seen officials swinging widely from plan to plan. Increase gas taxes? Never mind.

Increase property taxes? Not enough votes. Squeeze out a few more bucks some way? Somehow? They’re on it.

They still don’t appear to have landed on a solution. And ideas like taxes on part-time residents are still popping up.

Take that last council meeting, for example, when Finance Director Oscar Rodriguez literally got out a marker and drew lines through previous calculations as a hush fell over the crowd in the room.

The final numbers he jotted down outlined $10.7 million to $11.5 million in increased taxes and fees or cuts, with reserves covering the balance remaining between what the city estimates it will earn and what it needs to spend.

City administrators are now facing a mandate to recommend $4 million in cuts as prescribed by a “budget framework” plan that the council adopted.

City councilors failed to approve a property tax that was on the agenda but did vote to increase the gross receipts tax on goods and services by ¼ cent on Jan. 1, 2017, enacting a tax that replaces one that expires then, taking a net-zero effect on local pocketbooks. As a marker of just how fluid these talks were, though, the expected cashflow from that change was the first edit

Rodriguez made to the figures at the last City Council meeting, walking in and making notes to show the hunt was on for another $800,000.

A franchise fee for the water fund is also expected to generate somewhere between $700,000 and $1.5 million. It’s another bureaucratic move that isn’t due to have an immediate effect on ratepayers. The remaining roughly $3.5 million of the projected $15 million deficit in the city’s general fund will be covered by cash reserves.

Plugging that hole with cash isn’t necessarily prudent, Councilor Carmichael Dominguez, who chairs the finance committee, tells SFR. “I don’t think that it’s necessarily a wise choice in creating a balanced budget,” Dominguez says, yet he called the approach “plausible” since it’s a “one-time expenditure.”

The plan also makes a big assumption: that revenues largely dependent on luxury spending will continue to increase as projected. If that doesn’t pan out, they’ll have to look at other sources of increasing revenue, such as increasing fees or borrowing even more from the water department, or additional cuts, Dominguez says.

As the night wore on, councilors floated ideas on the fly that left City Attorney Kelley Brennen shaking her head and saying, “No…”—as in no, the govern-

I don’t think that it’s necessarily a wise choice in creating a balanced budget.

ing body can’t pass a resolution with a range instead of a set number. The debate even earned a muttered “This is crazy,” from recently elected Councilor Renee Villarreal.

A property tax failed on a 4-4 vote, with Mayor Javier Gonzales explaining he voted against it “because I don’t think it’s right to use a property tax to fix the deficit,” but he added that doesn’t mean the city shouldn’t pursue a more balanced revenue stream.

That keeps the city on the financial rollercoaster ride it’s been on since the recession hit and gross receipts taxes dropped, and it continues a tax that councilors often concede is regressive—hitting the poorest in the community hardest.

“What got us into this mess is reliance on gross receipts taxes and how they don’t perform. It’s a fluctuating revenue source,” property-tax supporter Councilor Joseph Maestas said during last month’s meeting. “We’re kind of using the same bad medicine to correct this problem, and that’s why diversifying our revenue enhancements will help protect us in the future.”

Maestas is not alone.

Recently elected Councilor Mike Harris, who also voted in favor of the tax, says the city needs to do a better job of establishing “an understanding on the part of citizens” about how it would work. “Over time, that’s what we really have to move towards to have something we can anticipate with a little more confidence certainly than we have now,” Harris said at the meeting.

That 73 percent of the city’s revenue comes from gross receipts tax, and less than 10 percent from property taxes, fails to provide the blend of revenue sources that would stabilize the government during economic downturns, the mayor agreed, but he pointed to challenges with property tax increases pricing out people on low or fixed incomes. He indicated a tax that takes aim at the 4,000 homes owned by people who don’t live in New Mexico full time, but see the same level of city services delivered to full-time residents, might be more in order.

Finding cuts to programs and operations is not expected to be easy, with months already having passed since officials started talking about bridging a serious gap and not many such cuts emerging.

The work to balance the city’s checkbook will also continue during budget hearings, in which the public will be invited to weigh in.

Former city councilor Karen Heldmeyer compared the discussion to throwing darts at a board.

“They wanted to correct the budget, but they didn’t want to do anything that might offend somebody, so everything that was suggested that might offend some subgroup was rejected—and they ended up not balancing the budget,” Heldmeyer says. “The savings amounts that they were predicting were going to be difficult to reach as it was, and by increasing the amount of savings, they’ve made it even more difficult.”

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Sign of the Times Pro-Palestine sign on private property drums up neighborhood tension as the Middle East meets the Southwest

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n July 12, 2015, activists plastered about a dozen posters over an adobe wall at the intersection of E San Mateo Road and Old Pecos Trail. The pictures were of Palestinian children who died during Operation Protective Edge, an Israeli military campaign in Gaza that claimed the lives of 2,177 people, including 72 Israelis and 2,104 Palestinians, most of whom were civilians. It was the one-year anniversary. Someone placed roses at the base of the wall.

The posters didn’t last long. An anonymous dissenter tore them down, setting off a chain of actions and reactions that continues today. For about eight months now, on this residential street corner thousands of miles away from the Middle East, Santa Feans are hashing out one of the longest-running and bloodiest conflicts of our time. Their weapons are posters, paintbrushes and plywood. Pro-Palestine signs come up, neighbors complain, and someone tears the signs down. The cycle repeats.

Most recently, the message took the form of a 4x8 plywood board, fastened to rebar stakes cemented to the ground. Two steel chains secured the sign to a 5-gallon bucket of cement on the other side of the wall, which belongs to a retired physicist named Guthrie Miller. Remy Fredenberg, an artist who specializes in advocacy works, painted a Palestinian flag over the board and overlaid it with white text, announcing: “Stop $45 billion to Israel. Don’t support apartheid.

Justice for Palestinians.”

The sign draws attention to a major peg in US foreign policy around the post-World War II agreements over the region’s borders. More than half of all US foreign military aid goes to Israel, yet there’s a growing belief that the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, the partitioning of East Jerusalem, and a blockade surrounding the Gaza Strip all amount to state-sanctioned discrimination against Palestinians.

Michael Peleg, a University of Miami dentist vacationing in Santa Fe with his wife, was so offended when he saw the sign that he emailed City Manager Brian Snyder to air his grievance. “We would like to think there is no room in your state filled with a mosaic of cultural backgrounds and such a rich heritage for this type of behavior,” Peleg wrote. “We ask you in your position to help right what we believe is a bigoted wrong.” Peleg also noted that he had spent “many

A pro-Palestine sign on a wall along Old Pecos Trail got painted over with a pro-Israel message, then painted again.

This person is well within their first amendment rights to use the sign. thousands of dollars” in the city and planned to contact the police, local media and the American Israeli Political Action Committee, widely considered one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the country.

Locals also took note. Robert Willis, who lives just down the street on Old Pecos Trail, contacted SFR to complain, saying he believes “in freedom of expression, but this is a neighborhood, and to scar a neighborhood with this particular message is inappropriate.”

Willis claims to have seen four college-aged men with “dark complexions” installing the makeshift billboard. He reported it to his rabbi. “I think it’s a very hateful sign,” says Rabbi Berel Levertov of the Chabad Center for Jewish Life of Santa Fe. The US plays a pivotal role in protecting Israel as the only democracy in the Middle East, Levertov says before asserting the importance of a Jewish state after a history of per-

secution. Levertov added, “Besides, it is probably illegal to put up such a sign.”

On that last point, Levertov is wrong.

Prompted by complaints, the city sent an inspector to Miller’s property to determine whether the display violates any ordinances. It doesn’t.

“Even if we would prefer a different method of participating in community discourse, this person is well within their first amendment rights to use the sign in the way that they are using it on private property,” says city spokesman Matt Ross.

If you drive to the spot in question today, you won’t see any words, though. Shortly after the Palestinian flag appeared, someone painted over the sign with light blue, a white Star of David fixed in the center. And then, on Easter, someone covered the star’s six points with green paint.

Jeff Haas, a civil rights lawyer, claims responsibility for that last modification. “The idea was I want the sign to be neutral right now,” Haas explains. His group, Santa Feans for Justice in Palestine, claimed responsibility for everything else: the fliers, the plywood, and all the construction on Miller’s property.

The group is not composed of darkskinned college students, as Willis described, but a mix of locals, including a retired professor and half-Arab store clerk. They once called themselves Another Jewish Voice but changed their name after growing in scale and demographic scope. “The media just doesn’t cover the Palestinian situation, and as I understood it better, I basically felt obligated to step forward,” said Cheri Ibes, a 68-year-old rehabilitation therapist. Ibes joined in October 2014 after meeting Haas at a speaking event featuring Max Blumenthal, the author of two books on the conflict, and Amy Goodman, the host of Pacifica’s progressive news program Democracy Now! Recently, Santa Feans for Justice in Palestine raised money for a village in Gaza called Khuza’a, which was heavily damaged during the 2014 war.

Funds went to installing a water purification tank and rebuilding a bombed-out kindergarten. All in all, they have donated $11,489, according to a spokesperson for the Middle East Children’s Alliance, the Californiabased nonprofit that was the group’s beneficiary.

Haas, 73, says his support for Palestine naturally extends off a lifetime of activism, including involvement in the Civil Rights movement and opposition to US invasions of Vietnam and Iraq. As a Jew, he bristles at a suggestion Willis made that his sign amounts to anti-Semitism. “They want to make criticizing Israel illegal. Why should it be? … Aren’t we entitled to raise some criticism?” he says.

As for his sign, Haas says he hopes it will encourage people to do more research on the Israel-Palestine conflict but adds, “no one thing changes minds completely.”

Jamie Lapan, who lives near the disputed corner, witnessed each incarnation of Haas’ installations, as well as the various defacements. Her takeaway: “Somebody’s spending a lot of time in their garage.”

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Growing Pains HOW MONEY FLOWS FROM A NONPROFIT CANNABIS PRODUCER IN SANTA FE TO A FOR-PROFIT ARIZONA COMPANY

BY PE T E R ST. CY R @ Pe ter _S t Cyr

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hen Vincent Contrastino first started buying marijuana on the streets and getting stoned in Queens, New York, in the early 1970s, it was just for fun. As a teenager, he never expected that he’d later need cannabis to curb the noxious side effects of a potent three-drug cocktail for his daily battle against AIDS. The negative side effects of the prescription are a constant source of irritation, but Contrastino says he’s more irriated by the stress of five years that he served on the board of directors for a nonprofit cannabis producer in Santa Fe. Nearly a year after he was booted from his vol-

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unteer post at New Mexico Top Organics, Contrastino, 58, and others are expressing concerns about a trend for licensed producers to contract with health management service firms intent on snagging a slice of the state’s emerging cannabis industry.

“The original grassroots market has become too lucrative for moneyed interests to ignore,” says Contrastino.

New Mexico cannabis producers are required to operate as nonprofits, but the model is more of a myth than a reality.

An SFR investigation shows that for at least one major cannabis producer, the nonprofit distinction is now in name only, as an out-of-state company has moved in to take over the business here—effectively circumventing New Mexico’s competitive

ANSON STEVENS-BOLLEN

Ultra Health’s Santa Fe dispensary is one of five locations in New Mexico managed by the Arizona-based company.

Sales rocketed past

$42 million for 21 months between Jan. 1, 2014, and Oct. 31, 2015.

Harvest yields topped

4.2 tons in that same time period, and the number of active patients

8,200 to almost 23,000. jumped from

process to pick new producers.

While some producers have learned to navigate without help from outside firms, others are still experiencing growing pains. They say the agreements present the perfect solution to keep up with market demand and to prepare for what they hope is the eventuality of legalized cannabis here.

The scenario is already playing out. On Sept. 11, 2014, about four years after it earned one of the first nonprofit producer’s license in the state and set up shop in Santa Fe, New Mexico Top Organics founders—Peter Ferrara, Mark Baker, and their wives, Christina Ferrara and Annie Campbell—signed over 100 percent of the nonprofit dispensary’s revenue to Ultra Health, LLC, a for-profit management firm working in three states. At the helm of the Arizonabased business is Duke Rod­riguez, a former chief financial officer for Lovelace Medical Center, who helped transition the hospital from a nonprofit facility to a for-profit organization and who also served as Human Services Department cabinet secretary under then-Gov. Gary Johnson.

Dispensary and cultivation management contracts provided to SFR by the New Mexico Department of Health show that the parties agreed to a 30-year deal granting Ultra Health use of the nonprofit’s license to staff, manage and operate dispensaries around the state in exchange for Ultra Health returning up to $12,500 per calendar year to the nonprofit entity for its “exclusive use and/or charitable purposes.”

Ultra Health wouldn’t say how the money was used last year, which individuals make that decision, or whether any other sums changed hands.

Rodriguez maintains the terms of the deal are “consistent with other models being used around the country.” The Ferrara and Baker families declined to be interviewed for this story, but Rodriguez says they are not alone in the decision to leave the industry.

“I’ve seen it in large numbers of individuals gladly walking away because it didn’t simply meet their lifestyle, whether it was personal, professional, economic, or whatever else. I respect boards that transitioned with an eye toward a better solution to take care of their patients,” he says.

But Contrastino says he thinks the New Mexico Top Organics shared management arrangement “was just a way to sell the company.”

“When they determined they couldn’t sell their nonprofit producer’s license, they figured another way to get out,” says Contrastino. “Peter [Ferrara] told me a management company was going to come in, but it was none of my business.”

When Contrastino pressed to see a copy of the agreements, he claims he was completely shut out.

“I just didn’t like the idea of a big grow facility, and I was concerned about an infection wiping out the entire crop. I asked them to come back with more information but never saw any of the details,” he says.

After the contracts were inked, the Ferarras and Bakers voted to remove themselves and Contrastino from the board of directors. Leonard Salgado, Ultra Health operations manager and a longtime business colleague of Rodriguez, and four others replaced them. Contrastino, who filled the state requirement that a patient serve on the board, says now, “I was just a piece put in place so they could get their license. My role on the board was just a façade.”

Today, he is relieved that he’s no longer involved.

“It really was driving me crazy,” says Contrastino.

“Whatever they were doing wasn’t supposed to be happening. I contacted the health department, but they just let it happen.”

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Contrastino says he’s tired of hearing cannabis producers grumble about investments in “their businesses.”

“No one can own a nonprofit,” he says. “These guys were already making money selling the medication, earning salaries, and getting paid interest on the loans they made to the nonprofit.”

Larry Love, the host of the Medical Marijuana Radio Show podcast, agrees with Contrastino. He says that he doesn’t think most management deals are good for patients. Love favors the program’s patientcentric focus, “because it gives patients and health care workers a say in how they operate.”

“The health department isn’t doing its job regulating these companies, and some of them have run amuck,” Love tells SFR. “Many other people waited five or six years for the opportunity to put in an application and go through the official vetting process and be chosen on their merits.”

Love argues that if small dispensaries like New Mexico Top Organics are undercapitalized, their licenses should revert to the health department and be reassigned to nonprofits willing to operate in underserved areas. The department received more than 80 applications for new licenses and only granted 12 of them last year. Some of the rejected proposals were for rural areas that still have few or no options for legal cannabis.

But Rodriguez says his company has invested millions to expand Ultra Health’s distribution network, revitalized an abandoned greenhouse in Bernalillo, hired dozens of new employees and opened four new dispensaries.

He tells SFR it was “a business decision” not to compete for one of the new licenses awarded last year.

Business appears to be booming. Late last month, Ultra Health opened its fifth state location in the back of a self-described hippie smoke shop in Albuquerque’s Nob Hill neighborhood. In February, the company announced plans to construct two medical cannabis facilities and a cultivation and production facility for the Paiute Tribe in Las Vegas, Nev. The firm says it also hopes to announce deals with New Mexico tribes in the future and just last week sent out a press release about a research project in partnership with an Israeli company.

FLAWED CONCEPT Even though the state health department won’t talk about its criteria for approving management deals like the one that turned New Mexico Top Organics into Ultra Health, plenty of critics will.

Steve Erickson, a retired certified public accountant who help found one of the state’s largest audit firms, claims some producers establish for-profit management entities, essentially “to get around the law.”

Erickson contends that nonprofit officers and directors could have a conflict of interest in any transaction in which the director personally profits or has a personal interest.

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viduals that have a conflict of interest. In my opinion, all the board members have a fiduciary responsibility to the organization, and as such all transactions should be conducted at arm’s length, and conflicts of interests should be mitigated,” says Erickson. “The only reason there is a business in the first place is because there is a law that allows nonprofit producers to grow and dispense.”

Before her sudden death in February, Health Department Secretary Retta Ward repeatedly declined to discuss the department’s rationale for the nonprof-

its program rules, says they were developed by lawyers in the governor’s office and by contract attorneys who wanted the program limited to medical cannabis, with a focus on registered patients.

“My speculation is that it was a way to keep it a community-based activity. Once you allow it to be for-profit, then you get into doing this for money, and that begins to break up the focus on humanitarian efforts,” Vigil tells SFR. Despite that focus, industry stakeholders say the nonprofit model comes with flaws, because it limits access to capital and bank loans, which are needed for expansion and product innovation.

“It’s the worst of both worlds,” says Albuquerque attorney Colin Hunter. “There’s all kinds of contradictions in how these things work.”

Whatever they were doing Hunter says he wants New Mexico to follow Colorado, which he says has “a good example of a marketwasn’t supposed to be driven model, since it lowers cannabis prices and improves quality for patients.” happening. I contacted the But Colorado laws allow legal recreational use of cannabis for all adults. That’s not the case in New health department, but they Mexico, at least not yet.

William Ford, who founded both the nonprofit just let it happen. producer R. Greenleaf Organics and the for-profit consulting firm Reynolds Greenleaf Associates, says it appears some people are biding their time until cannabis is fully legalized.

While Ford defends his management of several it requirement. But drug policy advocates who lob- other nonprofits as an efficiency, he says he believes bied for the program remember the nonprofit model Ultra Health’s management agreement with New was suggested after California Gov. Jerry Brown, who Mexico Top Organics “is for all intents and purposes was then the state’s attorney general, released guide- a de facto for-profit license situation” and that “the lines there to rein in scores of for-profit dispensaries 100 percent revenue requirement should have been that had cropped up and become neighborhood nui- rejected by the state.” sances.

“It’s despicable when management companies Dr. Alfredo Vigil, who was Gov. Bill Richardson’s are structured to move large amounts of cash out of a health secretary at the time New Mexico established nonprofit,” says Ford, adding, “I think they’re predatory, in a sense. I think Ultra Health and others are coming into New Mexico to gather some real estate in this industry in preparation for legalization rather than focusing on patients.”

Ford claims he waited to incorporate his consulting firm until he could show evidence of a beneficial relationship for multiple nonprofit groups. Today, Ford says RGA collects a 45 percent management fee from gross revenues to help run Medzen, G and G Genetics and Elemental, an edibles and cannabis-derived products firm in development.

“The nonprofits save money on salaries by splitting the management salaries and buying supplies in bulk,” says Ford. “It’s simply more efficient.”

To avoid conflicts of interest, Ford tells SFR that he recuses himself from some board votes and has a separate chief executive officer at R. Greenleaf Organics who does all the financial negotiations for the nonprofit.

While all producers have to submit an annual audit to the health department, Ford claims those documents don’t show revenues compared to expenses, costs to Vincent Contrastino says his role on the board of New Mexico Top Organics was “just a façade.” patients or even a flowchart of the financial structure. But he says they should.

COURTESY OF LYRA BARRON

“They should show that an organization is operating as a nonprofit, and if it doesn’t, your license should be in question,” he says.

fortunately, it is still much more expensive than traditional funding from an FDIC-insured bank,” Shortes says.

Shortes, who became president FINANCIAL BARRIERS of the Cannabis Producers of New As the industry matures, Ultra Mexico this year, is upset that regHealth’s Rodriguez says he expects ulators require New Mexico prothat the nonprofits will be legally ducers to operate as nonprofits in allowed to convert to for-profit enthe first place. The Internal Revetities. His prediction may happen nue Service doesn’t recognize that sooner than later. In March of 2015, classification because of its view members of the Cannabis Producthat the plant is a prohibited drug, ers of New Mexico sued the health and thus the cannabis nonprofits department to amend the rules and are not subject to the same kind of allow them to reorganize. public reports, including public ac“The nonprofit rule is a barrier cess to tax reports called 990s, that to raising the capital necessary to can instill confidence in how well form or expand a medical cannabis an organization is performing. producer business,” says the group’s Shortes refutes contentions attorney, Jason Marks. that he’s “building a profitable emMarks points to a report prepire” and welcomes a discussion pared by University of New Mexico with patients, “once my wife and I economist David S Dixon, which stop supporting the business with shows the department’s nonprofit our own retirement savings.” restriction increases costs and pricHe says despite the financial es to patients by adding to the cost of obstacles, he hasn’t raised prices at capital and limiting the types of enSacred Gardens once in six years. tities that could otherwise compete “Let’s stop complaining about in the marketplace. this charade and work to get state He also argues that regulators and federal government on the exceeded their statutory authority same page, so prices can drop and when they made the rule, because patients can save more money,” lawmakers didn’t specifically inShortes adds. clude the nonprofit requirement in Not all producers are frustrated their legislation. with the nonprofit model.

Jennifer Hall, a private attorney Fruit of the Earth Organics at Miller Stratvert, who represents founders Lyra and Juan Barron the health department in the case, run a debt-free family operation contends the 2007 law “never inand insist they’re not interested in tended to create a free market for shared management companies or Lyra Barron, of Fruit of the Earth Organics, says the nonprofit model is working just fine for her. medical cannabis.” outside capital.

Documents provided to SFR Lyra says the nonprofit requireshow producers tried to negotiate ment keeps the focus on patient a face-to-face deal with Health Secretary Ward last “With the passage of time and the maturity of the service rather than profit goals, “which is really a summer to settle the issue.

Medical Cannabis Program, many licensed produc- greed factor.”

First, Ward signaled she would lift the nonprofit ers have grown to a scale that makes this scenario “We have a totally different model than everybody requirement if the group agreed to drop its lawsuit, unmanageable,” Goodman says. “These are no longer else. I want to maintain the integrity of what we’re but by the end of August, Marks was telling producers small mom-and-pop business operations, and yet, doing and maintain a sustainable harvest,” she says. that the health department appeared “overly inter- from a financing perspective, we must operate as just “We grow everything outdoors. It’s completely organested in the views of the anti-MJ drug warriors” and that.” ic and sustainable, so we don’t need to spend millions seemed to “disregard pro-medicine views of producof dollars building out big warehouses. Having an obers, patients, and advocates.”

PROFITABLE EMPIRES scene carbon footprint is not where our direction lies Hall fired back that the state intends to “keep the Ultra Health might not be done expanding its market at all.” focus of the program on patients and their medi- share in the state. Before the company closed its deal While Barron says that Ultra Health never apcal needs” and “limit profiteering by producers that with New Mexico Top Organics, its executives made proached Fruit of the Earth Organics, she claims that could affect the cost and accessibility of medical can- similar management proposals to several other New other groups have contacted her with offers to infuse nabis to patients.”

Mexico producers, including Sacred Gardens in San- cash into the company.

With negotiations at a standstill, the lawsuit— ta Fe. “We are, frankly, not interested,” she says. “We which also argues for eliminating a 70 percent THC “We didn’t like their approach,” says co-founder just grow steadily with our own capital.” cap in cannabis-derived products, the withdrawal of Zeke Shortes.

The for-profit management approach and flow of certain plant testing requirements and other patient Sacred Gardens also considered setting up a man- “outside money” has her concerned. licensing issues—is pending in state district court. agement company with Toronto-based Nutritional “It’s like a gold rush, and rather disheartening and Len Goodman, who founded New MexiCann High’s chief executive officer, David Posner, in 2014. disappointing, but then that’s the trend everywhere,” Natural Medicine in 2009 in Santa Fe, says he hopes That deal would have provided a $1.7 million capital in- she says. “What a crazy world, where helping an epithe producers prevail. A one-time reorganization, he fusion to expand Sacred Gardens’ facilities, but it was demic of people trying to recover from sicknesses says, would “go a long way to alleviate” banking and called off after a local investor stepped up with a loan. predominantly caused by environmental and food credit obstacles.

“It was a much better fit for Sacred Gardens. Un- toxicity is used to create another profit industry.”

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JEFFREY BROUSSARD & THE CREOLE COWBOYS 4/9 • LO’ JO 4/19 TORTOISE 5/14 • RISING APPALACHIA 5/17 & 18 • JOHN MAYALL 6/19 JAMES McMUTRY 6/25 & 26 • ALABAMA SHAKES 8/6 LILA DOWNS & MICHAEL FRANTI 8/28

The C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe presents

Jung

In the World

SUNDAY, APRIL 24 3:00 PM

Public Lecture

Mark Winborn, Ph.D., NCPsyA Jungian analyst, Memphis, TN

Lecture: Deep Blues: Human Soundscapes for the Archetypal Journey Friday, April 8th • 7-9pm • $10 • 2 CEUs or 2 Cultural CEUs

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT www.ticketssantafe.org

The speaker will explore the archetypal journey of the human psyche through an examination of the blues as a musical genre. The genesis, history, and thematic patterns of the blues are examined from an archetypal perspective and various analytic theories – especially the interaction between Erich Neumann’s concept of unitary reality and the blues experience. An understanding of psychological and cultural influences which led to the development of the blues as a distinct genre of music will also be discussed. Mythological and shamanistic parallels will be used to provide a deeper understanding of the role of the bluesman, the blues performance, and the innate healing potential of this music. The speaker believes that blues music can be understood through C.G. Jung’s concept of participation mystique, and that universal aspects of human experience and transcendence are revealed through the creative medium of the blues.

Emotional themes permeating daily life and the process of psychotherapy will become more apparent through sensitization to these themes in blues music.

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The presentation will be augmented by visual images, audio recordings, and video to deepen the audience’s involvement in the themes explored.

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Event takes place at Center for Spiritual Living, 505 Camino de los Marquez, Santa Fe Lecture tickets at the door.

For details and information, call Jerome Bernstein, 505-989-3200 For expanded program details go to www.santafejung.org

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THE PAINTED DESERT If the only words you use to describe the desert are “hot” and “boring,” you clearly haven’t seen Rachel Houseman’s visionary paintings. Her ColorScapes, opening this Friday at Eye on the Mountain Gallery, are vividly bright, glowing with color and life yet calm in the still of the desert. For Houseman, her paintings reflect spiritual experiences inseparable from her surroundings. “In my best moments while painting, I’ve disappeared into the landscapes,” she says. Houseman insists that everyone is capable of these powerful experiences, with the right mindset.

So don’t be surprised if you find yourself with a new vision after seeing these paintings. (Cole Rehbein)

COURTESY EYE ON THE MOUNTAIN GALLERY

COURTESY NÜART GALLERY

ART OPENINGS

ColorScapes: 5-9 pm Friday, April 8. Eye on the Mountain Gallery, 614 Agua Fría St., (928) 308-0319.

Through May 27.

SELFIE

MUSIC ART OPENINGS

Sacramento-based hip-hopper Mr. P Chill would like to remind all y’all to keep it positive. “I’m all about the unity of people, because there are so many things we’re separated by,” he says. “I want for people to come together, and I want positivity in my life, so I try to put that positive energy out into the universe so it comes back to me.”

A political rap veteran of more than two decades, homeboy knows what it is to bring a dash of R&B into his old-school production and lyrical style. This means you’re going to have fun, but also maybe use your brain.

Word. (Alex DeVore)

It’s Alive ...

Alive!

Old signage becomes a bittersweet memory the last I thought of it. But then 25 years or so later, I called him up and said, ‘I finally know what to do with that.’ It’s a linear element that I now use in my work.”

The notion behind the word “nostalgia” is a sweet pain that’s mixed with a happy longing for the old days. Every piece of Reid’s art has an almost wistful quality. Whether it’s a juxtaposition of old-school jets, or a faded lid to an early ’60s chemistry set, there’s palpable connection to a bygone boyhood. “When I’m working in my studio, I think of my past quite a bit. I think about what I did in school or things that happened to me or different friends. It seems that I can remember those times more clearly than other times in my life. It was just a happy time.” (Ben Kendall)

FIELDS OF COLOR: Opening Reception: 5-7 pm Friday, April 8. Free. Nüart Gallery, 670 Canyon Road, 988-3888

Mr. P Chill: 8 pm Friday, April 8. Free. Mine Shaft Tavern, 2486 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743

MUSIC HEARTWORK All right, Santa Fe, you all love DJs and electronic music more than anything, and we’ve come to accept that. But why should you heart tech as much as the folks behind We <3 Tech? Well, according to Mayrant, the DJ who promotes/plays the event, “My guest DJ P.F.F.P is a fantastic reason for people to come to the show, and patrons can count on a night of evolving playlists that play to the crowd and create a collective experience through cuttingedge music.” Yeah, that’s a pretty good one.

Or maybe you just already loved tech-house jams. Either way, if you’re a fan of DJ music, this one’s for you. (ADV)

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There’s a treasure-trove of art falling apart in attics, tucked away in antique shops or moldering away in a field— maybe in north Texas—covered by 50-plus years of detritus. Texas artist Randall Reid scoops up these lost pieces of ephemera and resurrects them by turning them into art pieces.

It’s like if Dr. Frankenstein were more fascinated by the themes of form and nostalgia and less about bringing life to dead flesh. Old signs and other brica-brac are rejuvenated under Reid’s hands with hammer and chisel, grinder and welding torch, to produce something entirely new yet reflecting the old. You can catch this love letter to the past at his Fields of Color solo show inside Nüart Gallery this Friday. “What it’s really about is reconnecting with the past,” Reid says. “I’m evoking the mineral, or inner spirit that the piece has. It’s almost like it’s there waiting for me to discover.”

He’s been collecting this stuff for years, but it all started when Reid was 14 years old in Amarillo, when he found an old surveyor’s tape and started playing with it. “I gave it to my dad when I left for school, and that’s

YES YES, Y’ALL

We <3 Tech: 9 pm Saturday, April 9. $7.

Skylight, 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775

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Poems d e t n wa

Submissions accepted now through April 15 for SFR’s

SPRING POETRY SEARCH

The grand prize winner takes home $200

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$2 entry fee. The best haiku gets $100 prize money.

Prize-winning poems and our other favorites will be featured in the April 27 issue.

sfreporter.com/poem Our special Guest Judge is Hakim Bellamy, Albuquerque’s inaugural poet laureate.

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COURTESY TANSEY CONTEMPORARY

THE CALENDAR

Lesley Richmond’s “Moonlight Mandala” is on view at Tansey Contemporary, beginning Friday.

Want to see your event here? Send info to calendar@ sfreporter.com. And now you can enter your events online at calendar.sfreporter.com (submission doesn’t guarantee inclusion).

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WED/6 BOOKS/LECTURES LANNAN FOUNDATION: IN PURSUIT OF CULTURAL FREEDOM Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Juan Cole, who has written extensively on modern Islamic movements in Egypt, the Persian Gulf and South Asia, speaks with Phyllis Bennis.

7 pm, $3-$6

NATIVE ARTS ARTIST TALK Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po, 428-5813 Learn all about the process from IAIA Artists in Residence Rory Wakemup and Natalie Ball.

3-5 pm, free SONIA SOTOMAYOR St. John’s College 1160 Camino de Cruz Blanca, 984-6000 Uh, yeah—it totally IS a big deal that the US Supreme Court associate justice is here to speak. College President Mark Roosevelt follows with a Q&A. 7:30 pm, free

DANCE WINGTIPS & WINDSORS Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Swing-a-ding-ding, all y'all weirdos and swing dancers!

6:30 pm, $3-$5

EVENTS CITY SILENCE MEDITATION PRACTICE Railyard Performance Green Railyard Park The City Silence Project presents its first no-cost meditation gathering.

6 pm, free DHARMA TALK WITH BRIAN BYRNES Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 Upaya's vice abbot and Zen priest Bryan Byrnes helps you on your road to enlightenment.

6:30 pm, free SANTA FE GHOST TOURS Liquid Outpost 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 995-0165 There are tons of haunted buildings around here, and John Lorenzen will show you where they are. Reservations are encouraged.

5:30 pm, $20

SUPPORT GROUP FOR STROKE SURVIVORS Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center 455 St. Michael's Drive, 820-5202 If you or a loved one has suffered a stroke, this group offers some support.

11 am, free

MUSIC BRANDEN JAMES Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Pianist/vocalist Branden James joins Australian cellist James Clark for a residency that's just like, chock-full-o' music.

7 pm, free CALVIN HAZEN El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Classic and modern flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free

CATHY FABER La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country covers and country originals. Just lots of country, really. And it's good, too.

7 pm, free DALLAS BURROW Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Folk, rock and blues as played all singer-songwriter-y.

8 pm, free DREADNOUGHT, FUTURE SCARS, DEVIL’S THRONE AND OL’ DAGGER Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Denver’s atmospheric metal crushers Dreadnought bring the pain alongside local postpunks, punk-punks and other crushers. Why are we saying “crusher” so much? Because metal obviously rules. Duh. 8 pm, $10

ELECTRIC JAM WITH NICK WYMETT AND ALBERT DIAZ Tiny’s 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 It’s a jam. With electricity.

8:30 pm, free JUKEBOX KARAOKE The Palace 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 All the fun of the empty orchestra without the hassle of human interaction ... at least until you're a few beers in. Then you can say, “Wow, Diane, that version of ‘Crazy’ you sang really moved me!”

9 pm, free NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS ORCHESTRA Immaculate Heart of Mary Retreat Chapel Center 50 Mount Carmel Road, 988-1975 Grieg and Vivaldi from the NMSA student players.

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UnShakeable I N C O M M E M O R AT I O N O F THE SHAKESPEARE 400

A new opera composed by Joseph Illick with libretto by Andrea Fellows Walters. Follow Meridian and Wyatt, on a star-crossed journey guided by their wishing stars.

WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMANCES A Forty-Five Minute Opera SATURDAY APRIL 9, 2016 6:00 PM

SUNDAY APRIL 10, 2016 2:00 PM

Scottish Rite Masonic Center 463 Paseo De Peralta • Santa Fe, New Mexico Tickets: $10 For more information or reservations, please contact The Santa Fe Opera Box Office: 505-986-5900 or 800-280-4654 or boxoffice@santafeopera.org

The Santa Fe Opera In collaboration with Performance Santa Fe Special Thanks to The Scottish Rite Masonic Center

A selection from Jil McGurn’s Colour and Light exhibit, opening Friday at Java Joe’s.

TAKEOVER WEDNESDAY WITH MANDY MAS The Underground 200 W San Francisco St., 819-1597 Hip-hop that cannot and will not stop.

9 pm, free TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria D’Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 988-5858 Piano bar action to soothe your soul.

6 pm, free

RENESAN INSTITUTE LECTURE St. John’s United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-9274 Noel Pugach takes to the stage for the Renesan Institute, portraying NobelPrize-winning author John Steinbeck and talks about the awesome author’s life and his writing.

1-3 pm, $10

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EVENTS

BOOKS/LECTURES THE CULINARY TWAIN Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Author and Twain scholar Lois Rudnick talks about Pudd'nhead Wilson.

6 pm, free EL SANTUARIO DE CHIMAYÓ IN HISTORY AND TODAY Museum of Spanish Colonial Art 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 William Wroth talks about Chimayó in conjunction with the exhibit, A Pilgrimage Through Two Centuries.

Noon, free INDIAN ARTS RESEARCH CENTER SPEAKER SERIES School for Advanced Research 660 Garcia St., 954-7200 Consumption and the Market: The Paris Auction explores the 2015 sale of Native American artifacts. Speakers include Anthony Moquino, former governor of Ohkay Owingeh, and Leigh Kuwanwisiwma, director of the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office.

6 pm, free

MEDICINE WATER WHEEL CEREMONY Frenchy's Field Osage Avenue and Agua Frí­a Street Remember when you were a kid and your whole family would head on down to the ol' medicine water wheel ceremony? Of course you do—we all do, really, and you can relive those salad days (and the new moon) again now.

4 pm, free

MUSIC BRANDEN JAMES Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Pianist/vocalist Branden James joins Australian cellist James Clark for a residency that's just, like, chock-full-o' music.

7 pm, free CATHY FABER La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country covers and country originals. Just lots of country. And it's good, too. Good country.

7 pm, free

DADOU Pizzeria da Lino 204 N Guadalupe St., 982-8474 Accordion songs, y’all, played by a longtime local favorite.

6:30 pm, free DJ INKYINC. The Matador 116 W San Francisco St., 984-5050 Soul, punk, ska, keepin’ it real ... stuff like that.

9 pm, free GARY VIGIL Living Room Lounge at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7905 Guitar and vocals in the Living Room ... not yours, silly, the Loretto’s.

6 pm, free GERRY CARTHY Bar Alto at the Drury Plaza 828 Paseo de Peralta, 424-2175 Irish music, tons of instruments, good times and great oldies.

7 pm, free THE GREYHOUNDS Center Stage 505 Camino de los Marquez, 800-838-3006 Country, blues, rock and soul that have been described as Hall & Oates meets ZZ Top. If there’s a better-sounding combo than that, we’ve never heard of it.

7:30 pm, $19-$23 LATIN NIGHT WITH VDJ DANY Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 VDJ Dany channels the energy he would have used on a second letter N in his name to bring all y'all the best in Latintinged dance jams, hip-hop, reggaeton and more.

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Operatic

A locally composed opera is out to change your mind on the medium ALEX DE VORE @teamalex

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ook, kids, we get it. Opera ain’t for everyone, and it certainly ain’t easy. It’s all foreign languages and intricate plot lines and hunchbacks and sometimes super long.

But when we take away that visceral, sitcom-esque response to the artform and really try to look beyond our knee-jerk societal conditioning, we also see that there is beauty and a grand tradition dating back to God only knows when. Yes, opera can be accessible, and a ragtag handful of musicians and singers are out to prove that with an upcoming performance of a new and original work called UnShakeable. This piece by local musician/composer Joseph Illick and librettist Andrea Fellows Walters tells the tale of Wyatt and Meridian, former lovers/Shakespearean actors in the not-too-distant future who have fallen victim to Erasure, a viral pandemic that causes memory loss. Separated from his love, Wyatt has been searching every theater they performed in over the years, and when we join him, he’s just found her. Using Shakespearean language (stay with us), UnShakeable examines the importance of memory and song as well the power of love. So hell yeah, it’s cool, but in case you need a little more convincing, here are a few important reasons to be there when the curtain rises.

It’s not all stuffy …

According to Boston-based soprano Jacquelyn Stucker, who plays Meridian, the production may share a lot with the opera tradition, but musically, it is still very contemporary. Of course, we’re not talkin’ Philip Glass levels of minimalism by any means—this production is going to be fun.

“We go to live theater to experience something, and there’s a great deal of vulnerability in this line of work,” Stucker says. “People can have fun with [UnShakeable], they can find a way in, something to connect with and maybe leave feeling a little more complete. If we’re doing our job, the audience will be having fun.”

Beautiful people, beautiful music, beautiful story. If you’re not sold yet, you may be dead inside.

… because they’re thinking about you, young folks and opera novices.

Fellows Walters, who celebrates a decade of writing librettos this year, is more than aware how some perceive the opera and had this in mind when writing the book. “It’s trying to create pieces that are what I like to call more ‘nimble’ and trying to tell stories that have a more contemporary context or setting,” Fellows Walters says. “Our production is part of the Santa Fe Opera’s Opera for All Ages initiative, through which we try to present work for that person who may be more reluctant to think that opera is for them.” What the hell is a libretto, you ask? Those are the words. Word?

Word.

Science fiction (oooh-ooooh-oooooh)!

The story picks up three years after the pandemic and exists within a dystopian hellscape. That’s the whole reason, and it should damn well be enough.

Don’t be an opera hater, be an intramural song participator.

Composer Illick, a graduate of the Royal College of Music in London, points out that UnShakeable was written in English; unlike most other operas, it offers the audience a chance to get directly involved. “For the audience to learn a song is unusual in this medium,” Illick says.

And furthermore, Shakespeare rules. Duh. “The other factor here is that Shakespeare’s writing includes hundreds of phrases that are now a common part of everyone’s verbal culture,” Illick adds.

“Like when we say someone wears their heart on their sleeve or something was a wild goose chase. …

People take for granted that our language is full of Shakespeare, and this piece will bring some of that out.” See? You already know this stuff! It’s kind of like how you know a bunch of ELO songs without realizing it. If you’re thinking, “No, I don’t!” trust me—you do; look it up.

It’s new!

I get that you probably think opera is all these old songs and words, but this thing is new as hell, OK? This is actually the world premiere, and that suits Houston-based baritone Samuel Schultz just fine.

“To have the first shot at a character and explore ideas fresh is always exciting,” Shultz tells SFR. “You can make the most of exploring your own choices without taking someone else’s performance into account.”

UNSHAKEABLE: 6 pm Saturday, April 9, and 2 pm Sunday, April 10. $10.

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director

— PRESENTS —

A Spring Concert Jan Gaynor, conductor

Friday, April 8, 2016 at 7:00 pm — FEATURING — Carmina Burana, Cajun Folk Songs, Mambo fromWest Side Story, Les Miserables arr. by Bob Jones, and much more!

St Francis Auditorium • New

Mexico Museum of Art 107 West Palace Avenue ~ Santa Fe FREE ADMISSION: DONATIONS WELCOME Find out more about the Band at these handy websites!

www.santafeconcertband.org www.facebook.com/SantaFeConcertBand The Santa Fe Concert Band is a not for profit organization.

LILLY PAD LOUNGE Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Hip-hop, funk, old-school and more, yo. On the second floor in the Lounge 10 pm, $7 LIMELIGHT KARAOKE WITH MICHÉLE The Palace 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 OK, so you guys know how karaoke works, just do us a favor and relax about it. It’s about fun. And friendship.

And beer.

10 pm, free LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES Evangelo’s 200 W San Francisco St., Dancey rock and R&B covers.

9 pm, free MISS SHEVAUGHN AND YUMA WAY Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Psychedelic Americana.

8 pm, free PAT MALONE El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Solo jazz guitar so smooth you'll be hard-pressed to remember anything as smooth anyplace else.

7 pm, free TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria D’Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 988-5858 Piano bar action to soothe your soul and facilitate your pizza and pasta eating.

6 pm, free

THEATER THE CHILDREN’S HOUR Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E DeVargas St., 988-4262 Attempting to get what she wants, a young girl creates a lie, and the subsequent spiral of events threaten to destroy her teachers in this play written by Lillian Hellman and directed by Larry Glaister.

7:30 pm, $15 TO FEEL IS IN QUESTION St. Francis Auditorium 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 A one-woman show featuring Isabelle Kesslern, followed by a Q&A. Noon, free with museum admission WELCOME TO ARROYO'S Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Family, community, grief and hip-hop in early 2000s New York City.

7:30 pm, $12-$18

FRI/8 ART OPENINGS JIL McGURN: COLOUR AND LIGHT Java Joe’s 2801 Rodeo Rd., 795-7005 New paintings on display at Joe’s.

5 pm, free

LESLIE RICHMOND Tansey Contemporary 652 Canyon Road, 995-8513 Richmond, from Vancouver, prints photographs on cotton and silk and then adds layers of paint and metal patina.

Through April 29 5 pm, free RACHEL HOUSEMAN: COLORSCAPES Eye on the Mountain Gallery 614 Agua Fría St., (928) 308-0319 Ch-check this opening reception featuring Houseman's landscapes with mondo color, man (see SFR Picks, page 19).

5 pm, free RANDAL REID: FIELDS OF COLOR Nüart Gallery 670 Canyon Road, 988-3888 Antique materials broken down, repurposed and enlivened with color (see SFR Picks, page 19).

5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES DEEP BLUES: HUMAN SOUNDSCAPES FOR THE ARCHETYPAL JOURNEY Center for Spiritual Living 505 Cmino de los Marquez, 989-3200 Mark Winborn explores the journey of the human psyche.

7 pm, $10 NATIVE ARTS ARTIST TALK IAIA MoCNA 108 Cathedral Place, 922-4242 You learned all about the process from IAIA Artists in Residence Rory Wakemup and Natalie Ball on campus already, now go even further at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts.

3-5 pm, free UNM PRESS AUTHORS JAMES TERRY AND LYNN MILLER Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Huzzah for books!

6 pm, free

EVENTS CREATIVEMORNINGS TACKLES RISK Iconik Coffee Roasters 1600 Lena St., 428-0996 Artist Rose B Simpson talks about the concept of risk and hangs out to network with all y'all.

9 am, free

MUSIC ALCHEMY WITH DJs POETICS AND DYNAMITE SOL Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Hip-hop, Top 40, dance jams, and plenty more. It's seriously a lot, all right? I mean, you try DJing if you think it's easy.

9 pm, $7 BONE ORCHARD Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 alt.Americana. And more.

Really just lots of great Americana-y sounding superjamz.

8 pm, free

BRANDEN JAMES Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and cello and vocals with Branden James (from the television program America's Got Talent) and James Clark.

8 pm, free DENA DeROSE Museum Hill Café 710 Camino Lejo, 983-6820 Jazz vocals and piano up on Museum Hill.

7 pm, $25 JIMMY STADLER La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock 'n’ roll from a Taos-based rocker and a, well, you know, roller.

8 pm, free MR. P CHILL Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Hip-hop might not be what first crosses your mind when it comes to Madrid, but since weed is, it all lines up nicely (see SFR Picks, page 19).

7 pm, free NOSOTROS The Palace 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Latin funk-jazz and salsa.

You'll dance, probably.

10 pm, $7 PAW & ERIC Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Get out on the deck, dammit, and bluegrass/Americana around with these dudes.

5 pm, free REVIVA Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Say, “¡Que viva!” for Reviva, a sort of Ozomatli-meetsFishbone kind of thing.

7 pm, $7 SAN MIGUEL CHAPEL MUSIC SERIES San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-3974 Baroque chamber music courtesy of Elizabeth Blumenstock, Kathleen McIntosh, Carol Redman and Mary Springfels.

7:30 pm, $20 TGIF: GRISHA KRIVCHENIA First Presbyterian Church SF 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Everybody's favorite local composer performs original songs plus Bach, Chopin and Schubert.

5:30 pm, free THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Three guys, three faces, three reasons to like jazz. Have three drinks (but don't drive), eat three foods, bring three friends ... other things with three in them, and so forth.

7:30 pm, free TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria D’Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 988-5858 Piano bar action to soothe your soul and facilitate your pizza and pasta eating.

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Visions

A trippy temple in the woods

BY MARIA EGOLF-ROMERO m a r i a @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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orget over the rainbow. Here in the hills of Northern New Mexico, you can get inside one. Giant prisms in the walls and apses project a natural light show at the the Dwan Light Sanctuary (that’s Dwan, like its creator, not a misspelling of dawn, like the morning), a cylindrical and completely unadorned building located on the campus of United World College in Montezuma, northwest of Las Vegas. Its clean white walls are decorated only by light refractions.

“It is a place of quiet and beauty where students can go to meditate, to play music, to do yoga. Those are the main things. It is a retreat that students and anyone else can access,” says Jonathan Ehrlich, vice president of finance and operations at the school.

Aside from being a pretty spectacular site, he says, the light sanctuary functions as a space for non-denominational worship its students, who hail from more than 70 different countries.

“It seems to be about its place on the hill engaging with the sunlight in New Mexico, which is a near constant. The point is to sort of connect you to the seasons and to the trajectory of the sun,” says Sam Gilbert, a lifelong New Mexican and freelance journalist who recently visited.

It may be referred to as a temple, a sanctuary or a church, but the vibe this place gives off is art-installation-esque. And since it is the conceptual baby of Virginia Dwan, patron of budding artists in the ’60s

and champion of the avant-garde, that feeling makes sense.

The mother of the light sanctuary had long been influential in the art world when she completed the sanctuary in 1996. As the daughter of a mining mogul with an estate worth over $22 million, Dwan had the resources to overcome almost any hurdle. She owned galleries in both Los Angeles and New York City, from 1959 to 1972. Her relationship with artist Yves Klein was integral to the popularity of French post-

war avant-garde art, and her gallery in Los Angeles is known as one of the first venues for pop art.

The prominent mover and shaker of the 1960s art scene purchased property in New Mexico in the late ’90s and had a vision. And, with the help of Santa Fe architect Laban Wingert and light-inspired artist Charles Ross, Dwan made that vision a reality in the light sanctuary.

In March of 2015, the sanctuary reopened after being closed for repair to rectify damage caused by a severe storm the year before. And vistors are welcome daily.

Its architecture promotes billowing acoustics that help it double as a concert hall. Gilbert says it reminds him of an observatory, “because the windows sort of connect and move upwards. It’s almost as if it’s a stargazing space.”

The circular floor of the sanctuary is divided by metallic lines into 12 pie-shaped pieces, which pull attention to the light’s movement across it. “Everyone lies down as soon as they get in there. Something draws you to the ground, and that’s the canvas for the light show,” Gilbert says.

In a 45-minute period on a sunny spring afternoon, the rainbows move up the walls as the sun rises in the sky like a sundial, with a splash of psychedelic color. Rainbows bend the corners of the china-white benches, and you can almost touch them. Glowing, they saturate your mood. Sitting on a smooth white bench, bathed in indigo light, you feel very much in a temple. And it’s the perfect spot for a selfie.

DWAN LIGHT SANCTUARY

Not just great light, but great sound too.

Open daily from 6 am to 8 pm. Free United World College-USA, Hwy. 65, Montezuma 454-4260

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“Not in six million years.”

I am a twentysomething, straight, cis-female expat. How long do I have to wait to ask my German lover, who is übersensitive about the Holocaust, to indulge me in my greatest—and, until now, unrealized—fantasy: Nazi role-play?

He is very delicate around me because I am a secular Jew and the descendant of Holocaust survivors. (Even though I’ve instructed him to watch The Believer, starring Ryan Gosling as a Jewish neo-Nazi, to get a better grasp on my relationship with Judaism. To be clear, I am not actually a neo-Nazi—just your garden-variety self-hating Jew.) This persists even though we’ve spoken about my anti-Zionist politics.

Evidently he was indoctrinated from a young age with a hyperapologetic history curriculum.

I appreciate that he thinks it was wrong for the SS to slaughter my family, but it’s not like he did it himself. I know it sounds really fucked up, but I promise this isn’t coming from a place of deep-seated self-loathing. Even if it were, it’s not like we’d be hurting anybody. We’re both in good psychological working condition, and neither of us is an actual bigot. I would try to get to know him better, but we are so different (there’s a big age difference) and I don’t really see our relationship being much more than ze sex.

-National Socialist Pretend Party “Sex writers get all the really good religion questions,” said Mark Oppenheimer. “Can we trade mailboxes sometime soon? I’m tired of dealing with all the questions about why evangelicals support a thrice-married misogynist reality-TV star who never goes to church.”

Oppenheimer writes the Beliefs column for the New York Times and is cohost of Unorthodox, an “irreverent podcast about Jews and other people” (tabletmag.com/unorthodox). I invited Oppenheimer to weigh in because I am, sadly, not Jewish myself. (Jewishness is conferred through matrilineal descent, your mom—or, if you’re Reform, either parent—has to be Jewish for you to be Jewish, so all those blowjobs I gave to my first Jewish boyfriend were for nothing. No birthright trip for me.)

“First off, I think that Die Fraulein should make her kinky proposal ASAP,” said Oppenheimer. “Given the ‘hyperapologetic’ curriculum that her Teutonic stud has absorbed, he is probably going to freak out no matter when she asks him to incinerate—er, tie her up and fuck her. On the other hand, if he’s open and kinkpositive, he’ll probably be down for whatever.

But it’s all or nothing in a case like this. She can’t win him over by persuading him that she’s not one of those uptight, unforgiving Jewesses who is still hung up on the destruction of European Jewry.”

While your kink didn’t really faze Oppenheimer (it’s not exactly unheard of), NSPP, your discomfort with your own Judaism did.

“In her letter, she assures us that she is ‘secular,’ ‘anti-Zionist,’ and ‘garden-variety self-hating’—then jokingly compares herself to the Jewish white supremacist (played by Ryan Gosling in that movie) who in real life killed himself after the New York Times outed him as a Jew,” said Oppenheimer. “Now, all of us (especially homos and Yids) know something about self-loathing, and I think Jews are entitled to any and all views on Israel, and—again—I am not troubled by her kink. That said, I do think she needs to get to a happier place about her own heritage. Just as it’s not good for black people to be uncomfortable with being black, or for queer people to wish they weren’t queer, it’s not healthy, or attractive, for Jews or Jewesses (we are taking back the term) to have such obvious discomfort with their Jewish heritage.”

And finally, NSPP, I shared your letter with a German friend of mine, just to see how it might play with someone who benefited from a hyperapologetic history curriculum. Would he do

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I am fresh out of a gay relationship, which started monogamous, opened up, dabbled with polyamory, but ran out of steam. I’m heartbroken and I need you to weigh in on a disagreement we had about polyamory, which is one of the things that led to our expiration.

I believe polyamory to be a small group of people all in love with each other, all sleeping together. He believes polyamory to be different pairings, where a relationship between two people would be lived and enjoyed separately from that couple’s pairings with other people.

He thinks my definition would be impossible to find and sustain. I think his definition sounds like child custody in a divorce dispute. Who is right?

-Reexamining Relationship Remnants “They’re both right,” said Allena Gabosch, a poly activist, educator, and podcaster (The Relationship Anarchy Show). “What the letter writer describes—a small group of people who love each other and all sleep together—is sometimes called ‘polyfidelity.’ It’s less common, and yet I’ve seen it work. His ex’s definition is more common: a primary couple with secondary and sometimes even tertiary partners. There is no ‘one true way’ to do poly, no matter what anyone says.”

I’ve been in a fantastic monogamous relationship for almost eight years, but I used to be like a lot of your other readers. I had what I would consider an adventurous sex life, with lots of partners who were GGG, and I enjoyed continually pushing my sexual boundaries as long as everything was consensual and honest. Fast-forward to my current life: I’m now married to a wonderful vanilla woman. The transition to monogamous and vanilla was difficult at first, and I had fears about not being sexually content. As it turns out, it was a great move and I’m a better man for it. My desire to have every kind of sex under the sun has settled down considerably, and the benefit is that I have much more energy and mental focus for other areas of my life. I want your readers to know that the answer to their happiness may not be the pursuit of more outlandish sex—for some, it just might be less.

-Monogamous In Montana Your letter reminded me of Saint Augustine’s prayer as a young man: “Lord, make me pure— but not yet!”

You’re pure now, MIM, but first, like Augustine of Hippo (354–430), you had yourself some impure fun. Perhaps you would be just as satisfied, happy, and smug if you’d been in a monogamous/vanilla relationship all along.

But it’s possible you wouldn’t be satisfied and happy now if it weren’t for the adventures and experiences you had then. To paraphrase St. Agnes Gooch of Mame (1966): You lived! You lived! You lived! You see all that living as time wasted, MIM, but it’s possible—it may even rise to the level of probable—that the perspective and self-awareness you gained during the fuck-anything-that-moves stage of your life made you the man you are today, i.e., a guy who was ready to make a monogamous commitment and capable (so far) of honoring it.

Finally, monogamous/vanilla types routinely cross over into the ranks of the sexually adventurous/nonmonogamous and vice versa. (And monogamous/vanilla and sexually adventurous aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive categories.) Instead of disparaging the choices others make—or disparaging the choices we once made—we’re better off encouraging people to make the choices that are right for them. And choices that are right for someone now may not be right for them always—and that goes for you too, MIM, even now.

On the Lovecast, Dan chats with the filmmakers of the documentary Give Me Sex Jesus: savagelovecast.com mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter

THEATER

DANCE

THE CHILDREN’S HOUR Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E DeVargas St., 988-4262 Attempting to get what she wants, a young girl creates a lie, and the subsequent spiral of events threaten to destroy her teachers in this play written by Lillian Hellman and directed by Larry Glaister.

7:30 pm, $15 WELCOME TO ARROYO'S Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Mixing hot jams and comic relief, this play deals with family, community, grief and hip-hop as it transports you to 2000s New York City.

Playwright Kristoffer Diaz was a 2009 Pulitzer finalist.

7:30 pm, $12-$18

DUNDUN DANCE & PERCUSSION WITH SORIBA FOFANA Railyard Performance Center 1611 Paseo de Peralta, 982-8309 Learn the dance and rhythms of this African fusion of drumming and movement with Fofana, who hails from Guinea.

2 pm, $20

SAT/9 BOOKS/LECTURES CREATIVITY IN ELDER CARE New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 The New Mexico History Museum and the Alzheimer's Poetry Project come together for a workshop on dance and movement-based techniques for elder care. Also, there's breakfast!

10 am, $25 THE PIMENTAL BROTHERS IN CONVERSATION New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 World-renowned luthiers (yeah, it's a word—look it up.

Crack a book once in awhile.

Jeeze.) Rick, Robert and Victor Pimentel talk about guitars in conjunction with that supercool Medieval to Metal guitar exhibit. Free with museum admission.

1 pm, free PRUNING AND FERTILIZING ROSES IN SANTA FE Cornell Rose Garden Galisteo Street and Cordova Road Are you sitting down? Maybe you should sit down. We just don't want you to pass out from the excitement associated with this hands-on demonstration of pruning, fertilizing and landscaping.

Also, if you aren't sure what the Cornell Rose Garden is, you might know it better, or perhaps more colloquially, as Rose Park. Bring bypass pruners, loppers and gloves, as well as an appreciation for all things floral.

9 pm, free SFR BOOKMARKS PRESENTS HELEN MacDONALD: H IS FOR HAWK Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 If you're part of our super-cool SFR Bookmarks club (which you can register for on our website and get all kinds of cool goodies), you'll get VIP seating for this reading/signing.

6 pm, free

EVENTS SANTA FE GHOST TOURS Liquid Outpost 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 995-0165 There are tons of haunted buildings around here and John Lorenzen will show you where they are. Reservations are encouraged.

5:30 pm, $20

FOOD SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Santa Fe Farmers Market 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-4098 Food and veggies and other things that farmers grow and make and bake and such. I mean, y'all should know what a farmers market is by this point in your lives.

8 am, free

MUSIC AN AMERICAN HALLELUJAH Christ Lutheran Church 1701 Arroyo Chamiso, 467-9025 Beat it, Leonard Cohen—Coro Santa Fe is here with gospel and spiritual songs.

4 pm, $20 BIRDS OF CHICAGO Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Members of Po' Girl and JT and the Clouds in one band together? Where do we sign up?

7:30 pm, $17-$22 BRANDEN JAMES Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and cello and vocals with Branden James (from the television program America's Got Talent) and James Clark.

8 pm, free BUS TAPES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Folk rock and rock rock and basslines you probably won’t hate.

8:30 pm, free CHIEF SANCHEZ QUARTET El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 The good, uh, trumpet ... guy and his buddies jazz it up.

7:30 pm, free DIANE RICHARDSON AND FRIENDS GiG Performance Space 1808 Second St., 989-8442 This is pretty much as jazzy as it gets.

7:30 pm, $20

THE DUSTJACKETS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Here comes more Americana with a band that presumably likes books. Did somebody say day drinking? We did. We said day drinking.

1 pm, free JESSIE DELUXE Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 More rock and more effing roll, OK? OK! 8 pm, free JIMMY STADLER La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock it with a Taos mainstay.

8 pm, free NATE HINOJOSA Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Flamenco y jazz.

3 pm, free SFUAD SENIOR SHOWCASE CONCERT: ERIC CURENO O'Shaughnessy Performance Space 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 473-6200 This graduating senior showcase features guitar and oud from Eric Cureno.

8 pm, free SO SOPHISTICATED WITH DJ 12 TRIBE Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Hip-hop, mainstream, EDM and more.

9 pm, $7 TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria D’Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 988-5858 Piano bar action to soothe your soul and facilitate your pizza and pasta eating.

6 pm, free WE <3 TECH Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Mayrant hits the decks with P.F.F.P. (who is connected to Meow Wolf in some way) for a night of tech house, house house and other house-related musical styles (see SFR Picks, page 19).

9 pm, $7

OPERA UNSHAKEABLE Scottish Rite Center 463 Paseo de Peralta, 986-5900 Lauded as an opera for all ages, this dystopian tale examines true love and memory following a pandemic called Erasure (see Music, page 23).

6 pm, $10

THEATER THE CHILDREN’S HOUR Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E DeVargas St., 988-4262 In an attempt to get what she wants, a young girl creates a lie and spreads it through her school, and the subsequent spiral of events threaten to destroy her teachers in this play written by Lillian Hellman and directed by Larry Glaister.

7:30 pm, $15

THE CALENDAR Experience a Traditional Buddhist Training april 6-27

WELCOME TO ARROYO'S Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A gala performance wherein family, community, grief and hip-hop come together in early 2000s New York City in this gripping play.

7:30 pm, $25

Spring Practice Period: Timeless Spring

with James Reich

SUN/10 BOOKS/LECTURES

COMMUNITY GUITAR DAY New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 Even though every single guitar player in the entire world only got into it to meet chicks, they're still cool, and you can learn all about 'em while checking out the Medieval to Metal exhibit, taking part in the community jam, enjoying the madcap antics of the All-Star String Band, learning how to make a cigar box guitar with traditional New Mexican musician Cipriano Vigil and lots more, as if that’s not enough guiter stuff.

1 pm, free SUNDAY RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Railyard Plaza Market and Alcadesa streets, 414-8544 Jewelry and photos and art and artisans and lots more "ands."

10 am, free

MUSIC THE BARBWIRES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Bluesy blues rock and more.

3 pm, free BRUNCH WITH BORIS McCUTCHEON Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 He’s one of those Americana superstars they go nuts for over in Holland, and now he’s brunchin’ it up with you.

Noon, free

Is it daunting to become a sort of caretaker for beloved characters?

In the case of Kurtz, I’m engaged in a dialogue with the literary canon, with notions of “high” modernism, class, and vulgarity. I have too little reverence to be daunted.

I’m a critic of archetypes and archetypal thinking.

My role is, actually, to steal Kurtz from his traditional ­caretakers, to make the reader uncomfortable, but to do it in ways that are justifiable, not mere wishful thinking.

ECONARCHY, SORRY GUERO AND PAIN IDOL Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Metal from ABQ meets metal from here (with ex-Logical Nonsense, by the way), and the whole world sighs with relief that dudes around here still know how to party.

7 pm, $5 JIM ALMAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Blues meets country meets Americana, and everyone should love this guy because he’s incredible. Seriously.

8 pm, free

NACHA MENDEZ El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Latin world fusion.

7 pm, free OMAR VILLANUEVA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Classical guitar.

6 pm, free SFUAD SENIOR SHOWCASE CONCERT: JORDAN SOLIS O'Shaughnessy Performance Space 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 473-6200 Featuring Jordan Solis on bass, percussion and vocals.

7 pm, free

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Your book fills in the blanks for Kurtz; why did you zero in on this character?

The best novelists read culture through writing, so when you take a figure like Kurtz, and write through a text like Heart of Darkness, you’re adopting and testing a philosophical position, and by interrogating the silences in Conrad’s work, the present scene emerges. You have to be dispassionate. You can’t do this if you are infatuated with Conrad. Our familiarity with Kurtz, even as a cipher, or under Marlon Brando’s contortions, lends itself to a flattening of our affect toward the facts—for me, this is dangerous.

Can you give us an idea of the tone?

Mistah Kurtz! is a confessional narrative, the chronicle of a tragedy. Kurtz’s wounded psychopathology and his hyperawareness, not only of the Belgian Congo, but also of London and the other stations on his journey, determine the intensity of his voice, particularly as he deteriorates. Of course, it’s a disintegration that also brings an ironic, vivid clarity to his ideas.

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Chair of Creative Writing and Literature at Santa Fe University of Art & Design, James Reich, is the kind of multifaceted artist to which we all aspire. For these purposes, however, he’s the author of Mistah Kurtz!, an original novel that serves as a prelude to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Reich reads from his new book on on Tuesday at SFUAD’s O’Shaugnessey Performance Space (7 pm, 1600 St. Michael’s Drive), so we’re like, “Hey man, here’s some Qs!” (Alex DeVore)

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april 8-10 = Bodhidharma Weekend april 9 = Bodhidharma Daylong april 15-17 = Bodhidharma Through Himalayan Eyes april 22-27 = Sesshin: The Great Way Is Not Difficult santa fe, nm

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CREATIVITY IN ELDER CARE New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 The New Mexico History Museum and the Alzheimer's Poetry Project come together for a workshop on dance and movement-based techniques for elder care. Also, there's breakfast!

10 am, $25 GERALD McFARLAND Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 The author of the Buenaventura series stops by.

2 pm, free STUART WOODS: FAMILY JEWELS Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Woods reads from his new thriller and then signs his new thriller. He’s signing thrillers!

Thrillers at night. And no one’s gonna save you from that thriller gettin’ signed!

4 pm, free

with Joshin Brian Byrnes, John D. Dunne, PhD, Sensei Irène Kaigetsu Kyojo Bakker, & Genzan Quennell.

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Emerging Diseases, Deadly Lessons Carlos Castillo-Chavez tuesday, april 12 7:30 p.m.

The lensic Performing arts Center 211 W. san Francisco street, santa Fe

Lectures are free and open to the public. Seating is limited. Reserve tickets at www.santafe.edu/community

It has been more than two years since the Ebola hemorrhagic fever outbreak in West Africa. Now, we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn from the experience. The global impact of that epidemic, and recent outbreaks of SARS and influenza, offer critical insights on preventing future such crises. Mathematical biologist Carlos Castillo-Chavez illustrates the crucial roles ecological, social, political, and economic factors play in the spread of devastating diseases and their implications for preventing future epidemics.

Carlos Castillo-Chavez is an SFI external professor and a Regents Professor and professor of mathematical biology at Arizona State University. He is a member of the Board of Higher Education at the National Academy of Sciences and serves on President Barack Obama’s Committee on the National Medal of Science.

SFI’s 2016 Community Lecture Series is generously supported by Thornburg Investment Management. Additional thanks to the Lensic Performing Arts Center for its support.

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VIVALDI'S FOUR SEASONS Santa Fe Symphony Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 If ever a piece of music so perfectly encapsulated its subject matter, it's this one. There's a palpable feeling to each movement/season. Get down on this, y'all!

7 pm, $25-$80

OPERA UNSHAKEABLE Scottish Rite Center 463 Paseo de Peralta, 800-280-4654 Lauded as an opera for all ages, this dystopian tale presented by the Santa Fe Opera examines true love and memory following a pandemic called Erasure. It’s short, it’s sweet; there’s information about it in this week’s music column.

2 pm, $10

THEATER

more live music this month Broomdust Caravan • April 8th N at h a n H i n o j o s a & C h r i s K r a n a y a k • A p r i l 9 t h D e l ta p h o n i c ( N e w O r l e a n s ) • A p r i l 1 0 t h Boomroots Collective • April 15th Chango • April 16th Fun AdDix • April 23rd A-Mac DZ • April 24th Razzvio • April 26th Chango • April 29th Hartless • April 30th

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IN TRIBUTE

Rob DeWalt SFR Food Writer

October 29, 1962 – April 5, 2016

Rob DeWalt’s first story for the Reporter was a music preview written in May 2014.

His restaurant reviews and recipe column “DeWalt’s Dish” have been an integral part of SFR’s food coverage, and he will be sorely missed.

THE CHILDREN’S HOUR Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E DeVargas St., 988-4262 In an attempt to get what she wants, a young girl creates a lie and spreads it through her school, and the subsequent spiral of events threaten to destroy her teachers in this classic play written by Lillian Hellman and directed by Larry Glaister.

2 pm, $15 WELCOME TO ARROYO'S Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Mixing hot jams and comic relief, this play deals with family, community, grief and hip-hop as it transports you to 2000s New York City.

Playwright Kristoffer Diaz was a 2009 Pulitzer finalist.

2 pm, $12-$18

MON/11 BOOKS/LECTURES ANCIENT SITES ANCIENT STORIES II Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Archaeologist Eric Blinman speaks on his field, the Galisteo Basin and whips. Just kidding. Archaeologists probably hate that.

6 pm, $12 MUSE TIMES TWO: COLLEGE POETRY WINNERS Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 The survivors of some sort of old-fashioned poetry rumble show us what they poem about.

4 pm, free

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MONDAY NIGHT SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, 470-7077 You could say, "Bella! Bella!", even say, "Wunderbar!" Each language only helps you tell folks how grand this dance, uh ... are. Sorry. We're so sorry.

7 pm, $3

EVENTS DAYSTAR ROSALIE JONES: LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Indigenous dancer and former IAIA faculty member Daystar Rosalie Jones will be honored for basically ruling.

7 pm, free HISTORICAL DOWNTOWN WALKING TOURS New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 Join in the ambulatory walking/learning madness with trained museum guides. Kids under 16 free.

10:15 am, $10

MUSIC BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Flat-pickin' country tunes.

7:30 pm, free COWGIRL KARAOKE WITH MICHÉLE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Michele Leidig, Queen of Santa Fe Karaoke, hosts this night of amateurish fun.

9 pm, free METAL MONDAYS: DEVIL'S THRONE AND MOTHER CRONE The Underground 200 W San Francisco St., 819-1597 Rhyming aside, these are actually two bands. Metal bands.

Mother Crone hails from Seattle, Devil's Throne from right in your backyard.

9 pm, $5

TUE/12 BOOKS/LECTURES SFUAD FACULTY READING: NEW PUBLISHED WORK FROM MATT DONOVAN AND JAMES REICH O'Shaughnessy Performance Space 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 473-6200 A reading by Matt Donovan and James Reich from their latest published works.

7 pm, free

DANCE ARGENTINE TANGO MILONGA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 A tango dance event.

7:30 pm, free

MUSIC BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Flat-pickin' country tunes from the man who just won’t quit ... not that we want him to.

7:30 pm, free BRANDEN JAMES Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and cello and vocals with Branden James (from the television program America's Got Talent) and James Clark.

8 pm, free

CACTUS SLIM AND THE GOATHEADS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Rock, blues, massive beard enthusiasm ... yeah, this band has it all.

7 pm, free CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 The long-running and oftbeloved blues jam rides again.

8:30 pm, free DEBORAH CROOKS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Are you guys sitting down?

You are? OK, good. Prepare yourselves. Ready? Here goes: It’s Americana. Whew. We made it through. I love you guys.

8 pm, free LARA HOPE AND THE ARK TONES Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Tony Wilson and the Sugar Skulls opens the night with this reportedly awsome rockabilly act.

8 pm, $5 LOUNGE SESSIONS WITH DJs GUTTERMOUTH AND DYNAMITE SOL Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 No cover and cheap beer/ food. Plus the music for which you long and pine (hip-hop and dance jams et al.).

10 pm, free OPEN MIC NIGHT WITH PAUL WAGNER The Palace 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 It's exactly what you think it is.

9:30 pm, free PAT MALONE Terra Cotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo jazz guitar.

6 pm, free SANTA FE BLUEGRASS JAM Derailed at the Sage Inn 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 All levels of players and all acoustic bluegrass instruments are welcome.

6 pm, free

ONGOING GALLERIES

136 GRANT 36 Grant Ave, 983-0075 John Boland, Mustangs and Other Wild Horses of Northern New Mexico.

ACADEMY FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING 133 Seton Village Road, 955-1860 Archives on Display.

ADOBE GALLERY 221 Canyon Road, 955-0550 Pablita Velarde & Helen Hardin: Tradition & Innovation. Through April 30 ARGOS STUDIO & SANTA FE ETCHING CLUB CONTINUED ON PAGE 31

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ROB DE WALT

DeWALT’s DISH

English muffins are easy to make—if you have the right potato B Y R O B D e WA LT @ Th e Fo r k S a n t a Fe

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any moons ago, when I was but a wee cook at a local bistro, I tried flexing my creative muscle to impress the chef by making English muffins from scratch. It was an arduous two-day process of rising and punching down a gooey batter multiple times, scooping the batter into biscuit-cutter rings over a hot griddle to brown and then finishing the muffins in the oven.

Since those days, I’ve learned to impress others less and instead try to find ways around tricky or time-consuming recipes without sacrificing taste or texture. The secret to these muffins, which are made from dough instead of a sourdough batter, is a small batch of mashed Yukon gold potatoes. All decent English muffin recipes call for mashed potatoes of some sort, and while russets would work for this recipe, I find I get a better texture in the final product by using Yukons.

To accompany these beauties, I whipped up an easy, slow-cooked freezer jam of raspberries, blueberries and blackberries. This jam could be jarred and preserved, but at home, I simply freeze what we don’t plan to use right away.

ENGLISH MUFFINS

(makes nine 3-inch muffins)

3 cups all-purpose flour (plus more if needed) 1 tablespoon sugar ½ teaspoon kosher salt ½ tablespoon active dry yeast ½ cup plain (no milk, salt or butter) smooth, mashed Yukon gold potatoes ¾ cup whole milk, slightly tepid (about 120 degrees Fahrenheit) 2 tablespoons water, slightly tepid 1 tablespoon melted butter 1 egg ½ teaspoon vegetable oil (for rising dough in a bowl) cornmeal for coating In a stand mixer fitted with the dough-hook attachment, mix together 1 cup of the flour, sugar, salt, yeast and mashed potatoes on low for three minutes.

Add the tepid milk, water, butter and egg to the dry

The secret to good English muffins are potatoes and a little bit of love.

ingredients and mix on medium speed until a batter forms, about four minutes. Set the mixer back on low and add the remaining 2 cups of flour in batches, mixing until a dough forms. Remove dough from mixer, place on a well-floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic, about 10 minutes, adding more flour as needed. Lightly grease a large, clean bowl with the vegetable oil, place dough in it, cover with a clean towel and let rise until doubled, about one hour.

Punch down dough and let rise one more time until doubled, about one hour. Roll out the dough to halfinch thickness. Using a 3-inch round biscuit cutter, cut out discs of dough and place on parchment-lined cookie sheets dusted liberally with cornmeal. Sprinkle tops of muffin discs with cornmeal. Cover cookie sheets with clean towels and let muffins rise for 45 minutes. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a dry castiron skillet set to mediumlow, cook the muffins on one side until lightly browned, about five minutes. Note: It’s important to be gentle with the dough to preserve those famous English muffin “nooks and crannies.” Gently flip the muffins and cook until slightly browned on the other side, about five minutes.

Remove cornmeal from the parchment-lined cookie sheets, place muffins on the sheets and bake muffins for 15-20 minutes, or until tapping on one produces a hollow sound. Cool muffins

on wire racks. When ready to serve, split muffins with a fork, toast until golden brown and serve with butter and jam.

BERRY FREEZER JAM (makes about 4 cups)

3 cups rinsed berries (raspberries, blueberries and blackberries) 2 cups granulated sugar juice and zest of one lemon half a cinnamon stick ½ cup water Add all ingredients to a heavy-bottomed saucepan.

Crush berries with a wooden spoon and stir the mixture well. Cook uncovered on medium until it reaches a simmer, then reduce the heat to low. Cook mixture for 45 minutes, stirring often, until thickened. Cool the jam completely, remove the cinnamon stick and store jam in canning jars or freezer bags.

The jam will last up to four months in the freezer.

Rob DeWalt’s first story for the Reporter was a music preview written in May, 2014. He died Tuesday, April 5, 2016.

DeWalt’s Dish and food reviews were integral to SFR’s food coverage. He will be sorely missed.

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eer and burgers. Chocolate and whipped cream. Tacos and cider. These are combinations that win every time. OK, maybe not that last one. But if both are selected from the menu at this northside gastropub, the chances are good that culinary victory is still in sight. While the restaurant serves entrees, its small plates seem to better match the feel of what’s in and around the kitchen. Share the flavorful and tender Kalua pork tacos with kimchi, radish and green onion ($9 for three) paired with a dry Santa Sidra local apple cider ($10). You might not want to share the poutine, though. The pile of handcut fries ($9) smothered in green chile gravy with cheese curds and bacon will have you pulling it closer to your own plate. Bonus: Mom will be proud of you for eating the surprisingly delicious crispy Brussels sprouts tossed with lime juice and fish sauce to finish ($7), which we’re sure retain all their nutritional value despite the whole “fried” part.

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Enjoy a journey to France through its wine and food.

Come taste the Côtes du Rhône wines paired with Chef’s Xavier Grenet special dishes.

4 courses – 4 wines: $75

Cote du Rhone Blanc E. Guigal, 2014 Tarte Friande with Tomato, Basil and Goat Cheese

Gigondas, E. Guigal, 2012 Spring Lamb Stew/Navarin d’Agneau Printanier, with Spring vegetables

Crozes-Hermitage, Les Launes Delas, 2014 Sole with Fennel and Artichoke and Saffron Broth

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THE CALENDAR 1211 Luisa St., 988-1814 Prints about Prints ART EXCHANGE GALLERY 60 E San Francisco St., 603-4485 Group show, Faces.

ART GONE WILD GALLERIES 203 Canyon Road, Ste. B, 820-1004 Doug Bloodworth, Photo Realism.

ART HOUSE 231 Delgado St., 995-0231 Group show, Luminous Flux 2.0.

ART.I.FACTORY 930 Baca St., Ste. C, 982-5000 Patti Levey and Laura Stanziola, Body of Work.

BACK STREET BISTRO 513 Camino de los Marquez, 982-3500 Frances Ehrenburg-Hyman and Mary Olivera, Catching the Light.

BINDLESTICK STUDIO 616 1/2 Canyon Road, (917) 679-8080 Jeffrey Schweitzer, Into the Moonlight and The Biography of an Eccentric Gentleman.

CANYON ROAD CONTEMPORARY 402 Canyon Road, 983-0433 Craig Mitchell Smith, The Winter Garden.

CAPITOL COFFEE 507 Old Santa Fe Trail, 398-4113 Mark Steven Shepherd, Exterior and Interior Landscapes.

Through April 30.

CATENARY ART GALLERY 616 1/2 Canyon Road, 982-2700 Nicolai Panayotov, Sans Frontiéres.

CCA 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Group show, Getting Real.

David O’Brien.

CHARLOTTE JACKSON FINE ART 554 S Guadalupe St., 989-8688 Edith Bauman, The Unseen.

CITY OF MUD 1114A Hickox St., 954-1705 Under See: Subliminal and Sublime.

COMMUNITY GALLERY 201 W Marcy St., 955-6707 Banned. Through May 12 DAVID RICHARD GALLERY 1570 Pacheco St., Ste. A1, 983-9555 Ronnie Landfield, Irresistible Force. Group show, Happy Birthday, Meow Wolf.

DOWNTOWN DAY SPA OF SANTA FE 624 Agua Fría St., 986-0113 Sharon Samuels, One-Woman Show.

EDITION ONE GALLERY 1036 Canyon Road, 422-8306 Group show, Woman. Miracle.

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ED LARSON GALLERY 821 Canyon Road, 983-7269 Grand Finale.

ELLSWORTH GALLERY 215 E Palace Ave., 989-7900 Tim Klabunde.

EYE ON THE MOUNTAIN GALLERY 614 Agua Fría St., (928) 308-0319 Nonnie Thompson, Suppression

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FINE ART FRAMERS 1415 W. Alameda, 982-4397 Renée Vogelle, Will Schmitt, Tati Norbeck and Chad Erickson, Like ... You Know.

FREEFORM ARTSPACE 1619 C de Baca Lane, 692-9249 Jody Sunshine, Tales from the Middle Class.

GALLERY 901 708 Canyon Road, 780-8390 Eddy Shorty, Sculptures.

GREENBERG FINE ART 205 Canyon Road, 955-1500 Dennis Smith, Lighter than Air. JAMES KELLY CONTEMPORARY 1611 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1601 Bill Jacobson, Lines in My Eyes.

Tom Miller, Set to Topple and Equivalent Architecture.

JAVA JOE’S 2801 Rodeo Rd., 795-7005 Jil McGurn, Colour and Light.

Through April 30 JEAN COCTEAU CINEMA 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Taylor Oliver, Photopaintings.

LEWALLEN RAILYARD 1613 Paseo de Peralta, 988-3250 Forrest Moses, The Monotypes: Reflections of a Painter.

Michael Roque Collins, The Venetian; Dirk De Bruycker, Memorial Exhibition. Jivan Lee, Landscapes.

LYN A FOX POTTERY 806 Old Santa Fe Trail, 820-0222 Maxine, Camilla and Dominique Toya, A Family Affair. Lyn Fox, Whistlestop.

MANITOU GALLERIES 225 Canyon Road, 986-9833 Spring Show.

MARIGOLD ARTS 424 Canyon Road, 982-4142 Linda Running Bentley and Kipp Bentley, Art Carpets.

Carolyn Lankford, Robert Lyn Highsmith and Jim McLain.

MONROE GALLERY 112 Don Gaspar Ave., 992-0800 Spring Fever. Group show, Vintage Photojournalism. They Broke the Mold.

NATCHEZ ART STUDIO 201 Palace Ave., 231-7721 Stan Natchez, Indian without Reservation.

NEDRA MATTEUCCI GALLERIES 1075 Paseo de Peralta, 983-2731 Robert Lougheed, A Brilliant Life in Art. OFFROAD PRODUCTIONS 2891-B Trades West Road, 670-9276 Nick Benson, Thais Mather, Todd Christensen, Penumbra Letter Press, Burning Books Press, Printed Matter.

PATINA GALLERY 131 W Palace Ave., 986-3432 Claire Kahn.

PETERS PROJECTS 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5700 Kent Monkman, Failure of Modernity. Group show, Spectrum.

PHIL SPACE 1410 2nd St., 983-7945 Donald Rubinstein, Music Fields/Energy Lines. Aaron Rhodes, Eye Candy.

PHOTO-EYE GALLERY 541 S Guadalupe St., 988-5152 Baron Wolman, Woodstock.

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SAGE CREEK GALLERY 421 Canyon Road, 988-3444 Winter Show.

SANTA FE COLLECTIVE 1114 Hickox St., 670-4088 Cruz Salazar. Tom Appelquist.

SANTA FE ART COLLECTOR 217 Galisteo St., 988-5545 Ken Bonner, Land of Enchantment.

SANTA FE CLAY 545 Camino de la Familia, 984-1122 Tom Sather, Praying Without Words. Group show, The Figure in Clay. Amanda Jaffe and Suzanne Kane, Cups.

SANTA FE WEAVING GALLERY 124 Galisteo St., 982-1737 Judith Bird, Handwoven Shibori Tunics and Shawls.

A SEA IN THE DESERT GALLERY 836 A Canyon Road., 988-9140 Friedrich Geier.

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SORREL SKY GALLERY 125 W Palace Ave., 501-6555 Cynthia DeBolt and Merrri Ellen Kase, A Close Look and the Far View. John Farnsworth and Michael Tatom, Essential Visions. Group show, Winter Wonderland. Jim Bagley, Deep into Nature. Gerald Balciar.

STUDIO CENTRAL 508 Camino de la Familia, 947-6122 Ross Chaney. Frank Buffalo Hyde. Courtney M Leonard.

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Food critic Jonathan Gold opens the doors to LA’s nosh by ben kendall culture@sfreporter.com Los Angeles is home to about 20 million people. Its greater metropolitan area stretches in all directions for around 500 square miles. When people think of Los Angeles, they think of horrible traffic, gangster rap, urban sprawl, Hollywood, Disneyland and maybe the beach. But what they might not think about is the full range of gastronomical options that are available to the average foodie. City of Gold shows us that LA is one hell of a place for food, and nobody

else can take us on that journey so well as food critic Jonathan Gold.

Written and directed by Laura Gabbert, the filmmaking style tends to be remarkably raw at times, with a verite feel of mildly shaky handheld camera (obviously shot on pro-sumer level cameras, with only a few interviews shot on a more technically impressive camcorder), and some shots are soft or poorly framed. That’s hardly noticeable unless you’re a filmmaker yourself, and it really doesn’t matter anyway. Gold as a character (and writer) is an intriguing and candid individual, and his open-

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ness regarding himself and his work carries the film splendidly.

Gold, an LA native, has been doing some form of journalism or another since 1982 and has a preternatural talent to find the tiny hole-in-the-wall eateries that have been the mainstay of his career. In every segment, we’re given entree into the life of a so-called celebrity food reviewer, but if you had only a passing familiarity with his writing, the persona of the man himself is somewhat different from what you might expect—rotund, aging, urbane— and altogether a human being. “I very rarely take notes at a restaurant. I’m more involved in the music of a meal,” Gold says in the film. “I mean, you could take notes during sex too, but I feel like you’d be missing something.”

We’re frequently shown how he frustrates himself and his editors by having the “attention span of a gnat,” with columns coming in late or otherwise exasperating his bosses; it’s a breath of fresh air to watch somebody so successful in his field fall prey to the same pitfalls that plague all journalists at one time or another. This isn’t schadenfreude, but a feeling more akin to commiseration, regardless of your profession. It’s a wonderful point of connection that never ceases to sock you right in the heart, especially when Gold speaks about his hometown, which is perhaps the true main character in this documentary.

Whether it’s a little pho joint down

in the San Gabriel Valley or a street taco truck downtown, the well-hidden personality of the true Los Angelino comes to the forefront of every interaction Gold has with the people who live and cook in Southern California’s great megalopolis.

That’s where the connection comes from, really, in City of Gold. In a sea of people and asphalt, there’s a laser-like focus on the immigrants and restaurateurs who make up the culinary scene in LA. There’s real heart and soul behind every morsel they create, and it is through this medium that we can touch just a small portion of who they are as people.

And yet, through this connection, we get the sense of what it is to live in such a large city and the very real and ironic personal isolation of being one drop in a vast ocean of people.

“In this neighborhood, most of us are just passing through, transients on our way to more permanent homes, in Long Beach or Huntington Park,” Gold says. “We are all citizens of the world.

We are all strangers together. The landlords keep to themselves. And so do I. I often wish that they’d invite me over to dinner.”

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THEY WILL HAVE TO KILL US FIRST “if ever there were an argument for music’s ability to connect ... it’s found in this gorgeously shot film”

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EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT “amid the pursuit of riches and survival men lost their lives and their sanity”

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ZOOTOPIA “is cool as hell and looks beautiful”

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THEY WILL HAVE TO KILL US FIRST It may be visible every day for most, but those who would dare question the power of music need look no further than filmmaker Johanna Schwartz’ triumphant 2015 documentary, They Will Have to Kill Us First. Set in the aftermath of a 2012 revolution spearheaded by the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), alongside Islamic jihadi extremists, the film examines the crushing realities of a country beset by harsh Shariah law and the subsequent banning of music, both live and recorded, in the northern areas of Mali. Schwartz follows musicians as they navigate exile, homesickness and the continuation of their craft which, by all accounts, was/is as essential to Mali’s social fabric as anything else imaginable.

Through candid interviews with singers like Khaira Arby or bands like Songhoy Blues (recently made popular through Damon Albarn’s Africa Express project), live performances and melancholy tales related, we begin to learn that music was an interwoven necessity in terms of education, social exchange and cultural heritage. While the particulars of the MNLA uprising become lost in the shuffle and the brief glimpses into the lives of musicians each seem to cut to the next

before we have a true sense for their plight on an individual level, the stories we learn of their journeys thus far are tragic and powerfully moving. If ever there were an argument for music’s staggering ability to connect across borders or to stand up against oppression and evil, it’s found within this gorgeously shot film. Mixing both harrowing footage of real-life street warfare with behind-the-scenes looks into recording sessions or live shows, They Will Have to Kill Us First presents an overall picture of a reality unthinkable to most of us. Some moments do err toward the emotionally manipulative, but that can ultimately be forgiven, as the film does show the everyday life of misplaced Malians who must navigate outdated and hypocritical religious beliefs for something as simple as the creation of the most universally and arguably important artform on the planet. And though one might wish they’d been given more information on the artists overall, it’s an important documentary and one that serves as a tremendous opportunity to learn about the inestimably positive elements of music. (Alex De Vore) The Screen, NR, 105 min.

THE PREPPIE CONNECTION There’s a major problem at the heart of writer/director Joseph Castelo’s The Preppie

Connection that’s hard to put a finger on until it begins to wrap up, but is so glaring by the time you realize it. It basically makes you feel as if you’ve wasted the last 90-ish minutes of your life—you just don’t give a shit about these people. Based on the real-life story of Derek Oatis (he’s called Tobias in the film and is played capably by character actor Thomas Mann), a young prep school misfit who in 1984 was caught smuggling $300,000 worth of cocaine from Colombia into the country, Connection attempts to examine the bleak realities of morally bankrupt teens with a surplus of cash and a deficit of authority, and the subsequent drug problems they develop. Tobias comes from a poor family and just plain doesn’t belong at this dang boarding school, to which he’s received a scholarship, but a love-at-first-sight situation with the apparently beautiful Alex (a dead-eyed Lucy Fry, from a bunch of things you’ve never heard of) and the realization that drugs equal popularity lead him on a series of Colombian cocaine-procuring mishaps, courtesy of his diminutive classmate Fidel, whose father is an ambassador of some kind. In the scenes that find Tobias in an alien land attempting to navigate the rough-and-tumble drug trade, there are moments of authentic suspense, but the overall nonchalance he displays during these escapades, right up to CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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Music is truth, and truth will set you free in They Will Have To Kill Us First. the moment it hits him that he’s 17 and as such probably doesn’t know anything, paints the portrait of some dumb kid not in love so much as unaware of his own mortality.

All the same, the utter lack of development for any one character outside of “Oh hey, kids do stupid shit!” means Tobias’ journey feels way more like he’s living as a less charming Ferris Bueller in a faux-gritty Mean Girls world rather than within the gut-wrenching anxiety of Midnight Express. Hell, the guy who the film is based on is a lawyer today and back then got off with 5,000 hours of community service, raising the question, what’s the real crime here: drug trafficking or that preppie rich kids can basically do whatever the hell they want? (ADV) The Screen, R, 95 min.

BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is a poorly constructed pastiche of disparate scripts slapped together with the thinnest of pretense and has more guest stars than an episode of The Simpsons. And it was bad. There, we said it. What at first seemed like an ill-advised expedition into film mistakes that held the distant possibility of an improbable success has revealed itself to be what everyone thought it would end up to be. This film is like your screwup cousin who decided to go to college and everybody was really hoping he’d pull his shit together after that (commuted) arson charge, but then drops out of college before the end of the first month and is now awaiting trial for an unrelated crime. And for some reason, despite all the “I don’t like Ben Affleck” hoo-haa that was the main complaint from fans, the performances are not the issue (aside from Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor). Zack Snyder and the writers seem to have little understanding about the characters, how they would act or how they’re interrelated, and the evidence behind this is the God-awful, “throw a few major DC Comics universe events at the page and hope that something sticks” method.

Overall, this movie is a bunch of missed opportunities wrapped in desperation, driven by a studio that by all indications has no idea what it’s doing with these franchises in the context of motion pictures. It’s evident that they wanted to catch Marvel and begin to have a competitive chance at deposing them from their superhero-movie throne. That’s not going to happen in the foreseeable future. You see, they forgot to add the elements that made the

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(BK) Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 151 min.

EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT

The bloody history of rubber exploitation and colonization in the Amazon is brought into stark relief in writer/director Ciro Guerra’s new film, Embrace of the Serpent. During this era, the rubber boom was in full effect and (with modern eyes) a large-scale humanitarian and ecological disaster. Western Europe spared no perversion in stripping the land of rubber, gold and other resources. Period explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett (who would disappear with his son and his friend in the Amazon in 1925) referred to the South and Central American jungle as “a green hell.” It was a lawless time, rife with abuses and atrocities of nearly every flavor; man was just as dangerous as the suffocating canopy. Amid the pursuit of riches and survival, men lost their lives as well as their identity, and this is the crux of the film from the remarkably fresh perspective of an Indigenous person, Karamakate, “the mover of worlds” and the last of his people.

The plot has a nonlinear focus, moving between a time near 1907 and an undefined point in the future (somewhere around WWII), through the experiences of two explorers who seek cures to their respective ailments. One is terminally ill, and the other cannot dream; juxtaposed against the younger Karamakate’s anger at his tribe’s destruction by Europeans and the elder Karamakate’s inability to remember his cultural identity, the primary character’s motivations mirror each other.

Embrace of the Serpent proceeds at a sedentary pace. But even the timing serves the theme of the narrative, as it slowly cooks the story in such a way that you almost feel yourself lost in it, in a sense, becoming your own chullachaqui.

This may or may not be a good thing, and it might not be appropriate for a theatergoing public that is used to trite characterizations or easily consumed narratives. Yet this film does not disappoint. Serpent has collected a bunch of accolades from all over the world, including Sundance and Cannes, and there’s a good reason for that. (BK) CCA, Unrated, 125 min.

ZOOTOPIA

Not everyone is enamored with the saccharinesweet films from the admittedly fine folks at Pixar, and not everyone loves CGI-produced animated films the way they love good oldfashioned cell animation. Still, it would be hard to deny that the field has come light-years since Toy Story unleashed its truly terrifying concept on the world, and every so often a sincerely

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meh “We do a drug called cocaine. It’s pretty underground,” in The Preppie Connection special animated movie comes along. Zootopia is one of those. A genuinely clever take on very adult topics like race relations, sexism, strained relationships and the corrupting nature of power, the newest outing from Walt Disney Animation Studios is not only a triumph in terms of storytelling for kids and parents simultaneously (which is actually much harder than you might think), but a wise step from a company that has traditionally/unfortunately often told little girls all over the world to just take it easy already, because a man is on the way to fix everything.

Zootopia, by the way, is cool as hell and looks beautiful the first time we see the city through Judy’s eyes, via brief aerial shots of dizzying rainforest treetop canopies, scorching deserts, miniature rodent neighborhoods and so on. The attention to detail is staggering, and unlike most Pixar films, there is an actual feeling that the city lives and breathes.

Judy, a rabbit, has plans to join the police

force. No one takes Judy seriously, though, and she winds up working as a mere meter maid.

Still, she does her job well, and through a series of right place, right time moments, she is thrust into the midst of a clandestine plot alongside Nick, a slick con artist fox (played amazingly by Jason Bateman) with a tragic past, and the pair must fight the odds to find the bad guys and return order to their city.

Allowing the legitimately funny moments to eclipse whatever paint-by-numbers plot points one would expect from a kid’s movie is the way to go here, and the important lesson we’re helped to relearn is that you should never judge a book by its cover (unless that book is about sloths). Sorry if that sounds cliché, but the greatest hits are the ones that ring true forever.

If nothing else, we can all be reminded that we may need help from time to time, regardless of age, even when we truly do believe in ourselves. (ADV) Violet Crown and Regal Cinemas, PG, 108 min.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) French artist Henri Matisse (1869-1954) is regarded as one of the greats, in the same league as Picasso and Kandinsky. Even in his eighties, he was still creating marvels that one critic said seemed “to come from the springtime of the world.” As unique as his work was, he was happy to acknowledge the fact that he thrived on the influence of other artists.

And yet he also treasured the primal power of his innocence. He trusted his childlike wonder. “You study, you learn, but you guard the original naiveté,” he said. “It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.” These are good, sweet thoughts for you to keep in mind right now, Aries.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) In his book Strange Medicine, Nathan Belofsky tells us about unusual healing practices of the past. In ancient Egypt, for example, the solution for a toothache was to have a dead mouse shoved down one’s throat. If someone had cataracts, the physician might dribble hot broken glass into their eyes. I think these strategies qualify as being antidotes that were worse than the conditions they were supposed to treat. I caution you against getting sucked into “cures” like those in the coming days. The near future will be a favorable time for you to seek healing, but you must be very discerning as you evaluate the healing agents.

ry. Yet he also had an irrational fear of being poisoned, which made him avoid food unless his wife cooked it.

One of the morals of his story is that reason and delusion may get all mixed up in the same location. Sound analysis and crazy superstition can get so tangled they’re hard to unravel. The coming week will be an excellent time to meditate on how this phenomenon might be at work in you. You now have an extraordinary power to figure out which is which, and then take steps to banish the crazy, superstitious, fearful stuff.

as rich, even marvelous, despite the fact that it may initially evoke some intense poignance. Be glad for this crisp revelation about a strong longing whose fulfillment would be no damn good for you!

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Therapies: Transmedium psychic SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) In his poem “The surgery, past life healing, TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Taurus-born Kurt Gödel Snowmass Cycle,” Stephen Dunn declares that everyone homeopathy, acupuncture.

(1906-1978) was among history’s greatest logicians. His “should experience the double fire, of what he wants parasite/ liver and whole body mastery of rational thought enabled him to exert a and shouldn’t have.” I foresee a rich opportunity coming cleanse. 505-501-0439 major influence on scientific thinking in the 20th centu- up for you to do just that, Scorpio. And yes, I do regard it Workman’s comp accepted.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) For a time, pioneer physicist Albert Einstein served as a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. On one occasion, a student complained to him, “The questions on this year’s exam are the same as last year’s.”

Einstein agreed that they were, then added, “but this year all the answers are different.” I’m seeing a similar situation in your life, Gemini. For you, too, the questions on this year’s final exam are virtually identical to last year’s final exam—and yet every one of the answers has changed. Enjoy the riddle.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) “When I look at my life I realize that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgment but failures of feeling.” Writer Jeanette Winterson said that, and I’m passing it on to you at the exact moment you need to hear it. Right now, you are brave enough and strong enough to deal with the possibility that maybe you’re not doing all you can to cultivate maximum emotional intelligence. You are primed to take action and make big changes if you discover that you’re not feeling as much as you can about the important things in your life.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Psychotherapist Jennifer Welwood says that sadness is often at the root of anger.

Feelings of loss and disappointment and heartache are the more primary emotions, and rage is a reflexive response to them. But sadness often makes us feel vulnerable, while rage gives us at least the illusion of being CANCER (June 21-July 22) Your personal oracle for the coming weeks is a fable from 2600 years ago. It was orig- strong, and so most of us prefer the latter. But Welwood suggests that tuning in to the sadness almost always inally written by the Greek storyteller Aesop, and later translated by Joseph Jacobs. As the tale begins, a dog has leads to a more expansive understanding of your predicament; and it often provides the opportunity for a more discovered a hunk of raw meat lying on the ground. He’s profound self-transformation. I invite you to apply these clenching his treasure in his mouth as he scurries home to enjoy it in peace. On the way, he trots along a wooden meditations to your own life, Capricorn. The time is right. plank that crosses a rapidly-flowing stream. Gazing down, AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) “The causes of human he sees his reflection in the water below. What? He imagactions are usually immeasurably more complex and ines it’s another dog with another slab of meat. He tries varied than our subsequent explanations of them.” to snatch away this bonus treat, but in doing so, drops his Fyodor Dostoyevsky said that in his novel The Idiot, and own meat. It falls into the stream and is whisked away. now I’m passing it on to you just in the nick of time. In The moral of the fable: “Beware lest you lose the subthe coming weeks, it’s especially important for you to stance by grasping at the shadow.” not oversimplify your assessments of what motivates LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “I never get lost because I don’t people—both those you respect and those you don’t know where I am going,” said the Japanese poet known fully trust. For your own sake, you can’t afford to naively as Ikkyu. I stop short of endorsing this perspective for full- assume either the best or the worst about anyone. If you time, long-term use, but I think it suits you fine for right hope to further your own agendas, your nuanced empanow. According to my astrological projections, you can thy must be turned up all the way. gather the exact lessons you need simply by wandering PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Believing love is work is ceraround playfully, driven by cheerful curiosity about the tainly better than believing it’s effortless, ceaseless sparkly sights—and not too concerned with what they bliss,” says author Eric LeMay. That’s advice I hope you’ll mean. P.S. Don’t worry if the map you’re consulting keep close at hand in the coming weeks, Pisces. The doesn’t seem to match the territory you’re exploring. time will be right for you to exert tremendous effort in VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) “If literally every action a behalf of everything you love dearly—to sweat and human can perform was an Olympic sport,” Reddit.com struggle and strain as you create higher, deeper versions asked its users, “which events would you win medals of your most essential relationships. Please remember in?” A man named Hajimotto said his champion-level this, though: The hard labor you engage in should be skill was daydreaming. “I can zone out and fantasize for fueled by your ingenuity and your creative imagination. hours at a time,” he testified. “This is helpful when I am Play and experiment and enjoy yourself as you sweat waiting in line.” You Virgos are not typically Olympicand struggle and strain! class daydreamers, but I encourage you to increase your Homework: Comment on Bertrand Russell’s statement, skills in the coming weeks. It’ll be a favorable time for your imagination to run wild and free. How exuberantly “The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting can you fantasize? Find out! for our wits to grow sharper.” Freewillastrology.com.

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TAKE YOUR NEXT STEP Positive Psychotherapy • Career Counseling

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*IMPROVE YOUR PRUNING AND HEALTH* FERTILIZING ROSES DR. HAROLD STEINBERG, IN SANTA FE

DEADLINE: NOON TUESDAY

CHIROPRACTOR AND WHEN: SAT., APRIL 9, NUTRITIONIST 9 A.M -12 NOON SPECIAL: Computerized Wellness Analysis NOW $50.00 (test only) reg.$150.

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Members receive front-door delivery of a newly released hard-cover book, signed by the author, four times a year.

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Hands on demo and lecture on pruning and fertilizing roses 9:00 -12 noon. Practice your skills pruning in Santa Fe’s historic rose garden.

Bring bypass pruner, lopper and gloves. Rose pruning instruction from 9:00 to 9:30 a.m.

Fertilizing roses will be covered at the end from 11:30-Noon. Handouts also available.

• SFR Bookmarks T-shirt • Our custom SFR bookmark and notebook • A membership card with 10% discount to Collected Works • Plus, special invitations to readings by the selected writer, including VIP seating and one-on-one conversations.

Santa Fe Master Gardeners Association

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downtown location , call Azul 505-920-8908 or azul108@cybermesa.com for info 1st class free

Santa Fe Rose Society

IYENGAR STYLE YOGA NEW LOCATION NEW CLASSES Tuesday 7:15-8:30 pm Beginning level, Saturday 8:00-9:30 am level 1-2

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Hooray! Our 20th Anniversary

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HAPPY HOUR: Mon-Sat 5-7pm and ALL DAY SUNDAY!