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Detecting the pattern of the debauchery on the balcony Born Here 9 CHAIN OF COMMAND

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Pizzagate!

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BLUE CORN It’s filled with every possible combination of food, drink, afflicted relative and balcony projectile. Mixand-match modular elements, like some grotesque version of the board game, Clue.

“I’m the governor of the state of New Mexico, and we’re in a room eating Jello Surprise, buffalo jerky, kung pao chicken, succotash…”

“We’re drinking Goldschlager, Southern Comfort, rubbing alcohol, free shampoo from the bathroom…”

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his happened a few weeks ago, so you may already know the basics. I believe portions of it made the newspapers, but not the entire story.

It seems New Mexico’s governor, Susana Martinez, attended a rowdy holiday pizza party at the Eldorado Hotel here. Things got out of hand, she used her authority to bully the local police, and she later apologized.

There were allegations of boisterous pizza consumption, and foreign objects—anvils, grand pianos, bottles, snowballs or whatever—dropping from her balcony in some bacchanalian demonstration of gravity.

The governor’s problems multiplied when recordings of her lengthy early morning telephone conversation with the police were made available for citizens to listen to at their own rowdy holiday pizza parties around the state.

Lazy journalists totally missed the bigger story here, but before I get to that, I think it’s worth reminding you of the two most incredible sentences from the whole embarrassing conversation with the dispatcher: Martinez: OK. So we’re sitting in there. I’m the governor of the state of New Mexico, and we’re in there with my sister, who’s disabled, along with about six other people, who are having pizza.

Um. What does the fact that your sister is disabled have to do with anything? Are you invoking the state’s little-used 2004 Pizza for the Disabled Act? Or are you just the kind of relative who includes that tidbit in conversations as often as possible?

But here’s my favorite passage from the transcript.

Remember, this is word-for-word.

Martinez: I’m sorry, there’s no one on the balcony

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“I’m here with my brother who has head lice, my aunt with halitosis, my niece with cellulite…”

“Some stuff may have gone off the balcony, but it was six hours ago. You know, a frozen side of beef, an elderly Estonian gentleman, flaming bags of poop…”

I personally read every single transcript and picked out what I think is the very best. It’s from last June, at La Fonda.

Martinez: Okay, we’re just sitting in here eating Vienna Sausages with our fingers and drinking Bailey’s from the bottle, with my uncle who has shingles.

Dispatcher: But Governor, the front desk is complaining!

Martinez: No furniture has gone off our balcony, and if it did, it was a week ago Thursday! (she covers the mouthpiece) Hey! Save some of them pot-stickers for me!

Dispatcher: I’m sorry, I can’t understand what you’re saying, Governor…

Martinez: I was just telling you … (excited voice is heard in background) What in holy hell was going on in that room, and what kind of debauched balcony bozos does the governor have on her payroll, anyway? Couldn’t they save this sort of behavior for the Governor’s Mansion, which after all is just a couple of miles from the hotel?

Through three weeks of exhaustive investigation, I’ve discovered what other journalists missed: a pattern. It turns out this sort of thing happens so often that police dispatchers have a bulging manila folder labeled “Wacky Hotel Room Calls from Susana, Volume I.”

“Governor! Come quick! Help us push this sectional sofa over the balcony!”

“Can it wait? I’m on the damn phone!”

“It’s urgent, Governor! A bunch of environmentalists are walking below the balcony!”

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’ve been talking a lot recently about how much more progress we could make, as a community, if we stopped bickering about the things we disagree on and started taking proactive action on subjects where there is consensus. What does a grassroots groundswell actually look like in Santa Fe? Well, we saw one culminate just last summer.

I spoke with Thomas Rivera of the Chainbreaker Collective, a memberrun group that has been around since 2004. “We have about 400 dues-paying members here in Santa Fe,” Rivera explains, “the bulk of whom are low income people and people of color, mostly residing in Hopewell-Mann neighborhood and the Airport Road corridor.”

Chainbreaker’s longest running and most well-known initiative has been the Bicycle Resource Center, which, in its 12 years, has provided over 2,000 bikes to people in the community who cannot afford cars. For the past several years, the group has primarily focused on public policy regarding transportation, being integrally involved in fighting the regularly proposed cuts to Santa Fe’s already bare-bones transit system. Rivera says, “Transit is always at the top of the list for cuts, and that’s something we’re going to do our best to make sure doesn’t happen, because it would devastate our community.”

“The reason we need more transit service is because people can’t afford to live in areas that are walkable and bikeable,” he adds, “so we’re getting pushed farther and farther out to the outskirts of town. And what that does is it locks people into car dependency.”

Primarily, transportation boils down to an economic issue. “[Within walking distance of these areas] you’re not going to find a job, you’re not going to find access to healthy food, you’re not going to find sidewalks,” Rivera explains. “We had to

fight tooth and nail just to get the first phase of one park in the Airport Road corridor. Just one.”

Their greatest victory to date was last July, when a yearlong campaign resulted in the City Council unanimously adopting a resolution based on a Residents’ Bill of Rights drafted by the group.

“Our members were saying, ‘How do we address this as a whole?’” Rivera remembers. “How do we deal with larger environmental justice issues? How do we talk about housing, urban planning—and how do we talk about it from a people’s perspective and not an outsider planning/policy perspective?”

Developed with the input of hundreds of members of the group and the community they serve, the Bill of Rights established five pillars of value around which they would like to see Santa Fe’s development progress.

But what effect can one nonbinding resolution have on the direction of a town with such firmly entrenched economic and political interests? The values expressed in the bill, including affordability, sustainability and community control, sound like great ideas we can all get behind, but what’s to stop the politicians and greedheads from ignoring them and conducting business as usual? Rivera has an interesting take: This is only the beginning.

“First of all,” he claims, “it opens a conversation in a way that hasn’t happened before. It also gives us the ability as a community to hold our elected officials accountable.”

Moving forward, City Council have to back up their lip service with action that follows the tenets they voted for.

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fter just 15 or 20 minutes of driving from the Plaza, a hiker can plant boots on a dirt trail nearly any cardinal direction from town. Ski Santa Fe’s powder-covered slopes, just a half hour away, often call from the hoEven with skiing, biking and hiking close to town, no one is taking up Santa Fe on its pitch to relocate outdoor businesses here. rizon. The great outdoors surrounding town are undoubtedly one of the best things about living in Santa Fe, but the city and county would like to make sure it’s quality of life for your employees, and that’s where we and Outside Magazine, to make the pitch on moving not the area’s best-kept secret. can sell ourselves.” to Santa Fe. “Santa Fe has done a great job of promoting arts On top of bountiful recreation opportunities that “The reason the outdoor industry is a particular and culture. Everybody knows that 40 percent of rev- fuel tourism, Colorado and Utah are home to offices focus of recruitment is because to grow it, we actuenues coming into our community are related to arts for outdoor brands including Scarpa, Black Diamond, ally do need to bring in companies,” Noble says. “We and culture,” says David Griscom, economic develop- Mountainsmith, SmartWool, Pearl Izumi, Gregory don’t have enough of a base right now to grow it orment manager and film liaison for Santa Fe County. Mountain Products, Kühl, Petzl and La Sportiva. In an ganically.”

“But we could probably do a better effort to get a toe into that market, in The package of incentives includes possible grants job of promoting other elements of 2014 and 2015, the city, county, RDC for land, buildings and infrastructure, a high-wageour economy such as outdoor recreand New Mexico Partnership sent jobs tax credit and an investment tax credit for manuation, which is something that we’ve staff to Outdoor Retailer, an out- facturers, as well as the lowest per capita property tax The reason never done before.” door recreation-focused trade show rate in the US. Economic development staff from in Salt Lake City. Though Griscom So far, no takers. the outdoor the city, county, the Regional Develsays Santa Fe enjoyed increased One of the questions he’s gotten during the trade opment Corporation and state-run recognition on their return trips to show comes down to where these employees would industry is a parNew Mexico Partnership are workthe show, no company has yet com- find affordable housing, Griscom says. ing to not just entice tourists to drop mitted to a site visit. Still, Griscom But the short supply of affordable rentals and the ticular focus ... is into town for a weekend but also lure plans to return to the August edi- median home price of $278,400, well above what the outdoor industry businesses to relobecause to grow tion of the twice-yearly show to run median income of $52,917 can afford, Noble concate their headquarters or light manthe campaign trail again. tends, may not even come into play here. it, we actually do ufacturing operations to Santa Fe. “The outdoor industry makes “The need, according to the housing needs as“We all have seen the stats on city sense, and when you talk to people, sessment, is greatest actually at the lower income of need to bring in of Santa Fe and Santa Fe County,” to business owners, to policy mak- the spectrum, so that’s not what we’re talking about says Griscom, referencing the city’s ers, to economic development of- here,” she says. companies. median age of 43, ahead of the US ficials, absolutely everybody gets it, Salaries for these jobs would be closer to $60,000 average of 37, and the recent drop in and when something like that hap- or $70,000, she guessed (and salary data aggregator population between the age of 22 and pens, it’s a great opportunity to take PayScale agrees). Following the suggestion that a 55. “It’s very important that we have advantage of,” says Kate Noble, in- mortgage max out at two and a half times annual ina pipeline of youth coming in to our terim director for the city’s Housing come, that’s a $120,000 to $175,000 house. community, of people moving in, of businesses mov- and Community Development Department.

For those coming from New York City or the Bay ing in to keep our economy fresh and vital, and part Noble says she’s inclined to agree with a suggestion Area, which might be a fertile ground for grabbing of that is attracting the millennial generation. So by that the city broaden its approach to search for any companies, the housing situation looks comparademonstrating that we have some really high quality business leaders who are outdoor enthusiasts, which tively better, she says, adding that the numbers may outdoors infrastructure, we think that we can make came out of a conversation during Outside Bike & be skewed by a few very expensive homes. that sales pitch a little easier. … What we’re really sell- Brew, a week of bike, beer, art and music events.

“There are a lot more options than looking at the ing is quality of life.”

“Santa Fe’s greatest advantage in recruiting com- macro statistics would have you believe,” Noble exThe Outdoor Industry Association estimates the panies is that bosses fall in love with this commu- plains. industry’s economic impact in New Mexico is $6.1 nity and decide they want to be here, and we underOutdoor industry companies reached during the billion. Colorado and Utah still dwarf that number, stand that advantage and really want to leverage it,” latest Outdoor Retailer show say, simply, they’re reporting a $13.2 billion and $12 billion economic im- Noble says. happy where they are. Others point to New Mexipact, respectively.

The city’s big focus this year will be the third in- co’s image; it’s not generally known as an outdoorsy “We’re not trying to out-compete Utah or Colora- stallment of Bike & Brew; last year, cold temps and state. Snow-based companies in particular aren’t do. We’re just trying to get a foothold into what we see snow thwarted efforts for a serious ramp-up. The city convinced that relocating from notoriously wintery as an emerging opportunity,” Griscom says. “There’s and county organized a luncheon for gear exhibitors, states to one better known for its sandstone-spotted a big movement to get outdoors and to increase the many recommended by bike parts distributor BTI deserts would do much for their reputation.

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Homes as Hotels Is getting rid of the cap on short-term rentals a good way for the city to pad the coffer?

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anta Fe, we’ve got a problem: Our high desert sunshine and blue skies are too popular, our adobe skyline still a marvel, our artist colony on Canyon Road and Ski Santa Fe too irresistible.

Even as officials try to lure more tourists, they’re wrestling with how to capture the maximum tax revenue. The problem, as some see it, is that Internetbased home rentals are providing lodging without giving the city a cut. And recent calculations indicate that if they were, the city could be collecting another $2.3 million each year.

But it’s more than just a collections issue. Under the city’s current ordinance, only 350 licenses can be issued to those who want to get into the short-term rental bix, leaving an estimated additional 500 or so properties used for that purpose without a license— most of them advertising availability through websites like AirBnB, VRBO and Home Away.

Now the city’s land use staff, led by its department director, Lisa Martinez, and Randy Randall, the director of the city’s tourism department, are set to take the pulse of city councilors on the topic. Back in September, at the urging of Councilors Peter Ives and Joseph Maestas, councilors passed a resolution that ordered staff to study various options and make recommendations, and the result of that is a agenda item or the City Council meeting Wednesday, Jan. 13.

One of them: Lift the cap and make the sky the limit for any number of Santa Feans who are interested in turning their houses into de facto hotel rooms, provided they pay the city the $325 for a license to operate and the $100 for the application fee.

The windfall in millions of recouped revenues could, at the very least, help pay down the balance of the $41 million that the city owes on the the Santa Fe Community Convention Center, with its 33,000 square feet of space.

“We could use some of that money,” Randall tells SFR this week.

Whether the recommendations eventually take the form of a rule change depends on how many, if any, councilors are convinced that the toll on neighborhoods is worth the cash.

Randall made the same point on Jan. 7 at a daytime public meeting where more than 200 people crowded into the Lamy Room in the Convention Center to deliver their feedback on the saga.

Emotions ran high and were about eclectic as the amount of lodging you’d find on the Internet right now if you went looking.

There was confusion over who would have to apply for a license. There was anger among residents who don’t want any more congestion or noise in their neighborhood, which served as the catalyst for the current ordinance eight years ago.

And there was frustration, particularly among those who are operating under the city radar and whose days of making a buck off their sweat equity would appear to be limited, or at least under scrutiny, unless they kick back $7 on every $100 that they charge their customers.

The idea, Randall says, is bring all violators into the fold and make sure they ante up their share, which is what hotels and motels and bed and breakfasts do every quarter when they remit their lodger’s taxes to the city.

Current rules say license holders may only rent homes 17 times per year and can entertain no back-to-back renters in a given week.

But a draft ordinance change from staff that’s part of the packet for councilors to consider calls for erasing that provision. The proposal

It’s my house, after all. does, however, attempt to beef up the enforcement of city rules on inspections and taxes, adding a fine of $500 for operators who fail to comply.

“Times are changing,” Randall says. “It’s not just occurring in Santa Fe. It’s an international phenomenon, and and it’s time to get on board and make some changes to the ordinance.”

On angry man, who operates a short-term rental out of his house on his own terms, rose to his feet in anger, and addressed Randall.

“What do I get out of all this?” he says.

The answer: He gets to legally rent out his house on a short-term basis, something that he’s not supposed to be doing at the moment.

Another resident, AJ Kleinman, who occasionally rents his four-bedroom house, was hoping that the city would carve out a niche for him and others like him, seeing as he only does so during certain holidays, and at the most at two weeks at a time. Because the children have got to get back to school. And he’d never rent to irresponsible renters.

“It’s my house, after all,” he says.

On the other side of the coin, people who live in neighborhoods with multiple short-termers say the

city hasn’t been honest about enforcement efforts and outright ignored their cries after the rules went into place. The report on the Council agenda indicates complaints “were resolved without having to issue any violations.”

Councilor Patti Bushee, who was on hand to talk to some of the residents, notes that theshort-term rental ordinance, which started out as a land-use issue, has now moved into the circle of tourism. And she’s at a loss as to exactly why, or how, or the reason for the sudden mandate to make money off the matter. Yet Bushee is leaving her council seat in March and might not have a chance to consider whatever proposals come forward.

The city of San Francisco, with similar struggles on a larger scale, instead of opening up the number of rentals, tried to place restrictions on short-term rentals, but the people voted it down by 55 percent in last November’s election.

Santa Fe isn’t San Francisco, and this vote might not even be going to the City Council, unless councilors are persuaded by the report’s results to go ahead and draft a proposed ordinance.

As for Randall, he’s already struck up a dialogue with AirBnB, which operates from San Francisco. It took him weeks to finally get them on the phone after weeks of emailing. And right now airbnb, he reports, is willing to collect the lodger’s taxes from the shortterm rental operators and remit them to the city.

“But first we need to get to the bottom of what the ordinance will say,” says Randall.

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BALANCING CORRUPTION WITH THE BUDGET From ethics reform to campaign finance, this month’s short session has its work cut out for legislators

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s the New Mexico Legislature prepares to convene for this year’s session on Jan. 19, all eyes are upon the House and Senate, as members introduce a dizzying number of bills to try to curb the propensity for corruption while balancing a $6.5 billion budget to meet the needs of the state’s 2 million residents.

At political stake are legislators’ very positions in power. All 112 seats are up for grabs in the June primaries and general elections in November. By that time, a push for ethics and campaign finance reform either will have failed again—another near miss in a long line of them over the last two decades—or have been a direct hit.

Whether the actions, or inactions, of the Legislature serve as a motivator to unseat incumbents depends on voter turnout, which has political science professors, former legislators and at least some voters closely monitoring what’s about to unfold in the following months.

“Usually when there is scandal of this magnitude, then there is a great deal of anger, and that can lead to an anti-incumbent fever that really does have an effect at the ballot box,” Dede Feldman, a former Democratic state senator, tells SFR. “Of course, the deck is always stacked in favor of the incumbents, but the countervailing pressure is the mood of the public, and if the public believes that there are certain politicians who aren’t exactly helping matters, then there will be a move to ‘throw the bums out.’”

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refer to just one case in particular. It happens every year, the latest fall from grace, that of former Secretary of State Dianna Duran.

Now a convicted felon, Duran spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the very office she promised to clean up and then skated in a plea bargain, serving 30 days for a crime that carries a sentence of up to seven years. She’s due to be released from the Santa Fe County jail in a little less than a week, her state pension still intact, even though the Legislature passed a law in 2012 designed to eliminate that kind of “golden parachute” scenario.

Duran’s virtual free pass rankled more than a few people as the New Year approached. From the beauty salons to the grocery stores to the coffee shops, it was the talk of the town as New Mexicans wondered out loud how such a thing could occur.

“You’ve got normal people who break the law, and they get the book thrown at them, and you’ve got someone in the upper class who breaks the law, and nothing happens,” says Mitch Buszek, a Santa Fe resident and political coordinator for MoveOn, an online petition advocacy group. “We’ve got to start holding their feet to the fire, or else the bad stuff is condoned, and it just keeps on occurring.”

And if Duran’s sentence wasn’t a tailor-made example of the proverbial “slap on the wrist,” now enters Gov. Susana Martinez, in the early morning hours of Dec. 13, upstaging everything, with a holiday afterparty at the Eldorado Hotel, where responding Santa Fe police officers ended up being a buzz kill.

According to audio recordings, Martinez, in slurred words, demanded emergency dispatchers cough up the name of the person who complained about their

ruckus inside a fourth-floor room and downplayed the scenario when confronted by cops in the hotel lobby.

In the end, Martinez, a former prosecutor who apparently forgot that all dispatch calls are recorded, put New Mexico on the viral map. Her pronunciation of “pizza” has been deconstructed at length and has become the butt of jokes, but that took a back seat to her inebriated treatment of public servants and what some say was obstruction of justice through intimidation.

While the New Mexico Legislature certainly has no control over passing bills that would clamp down on the social transgressions of its governor or keep tabs on the possible addictions of those who hold state offices, it does have the capacity to pass ethics and campaign finance reform, the core of the problem, often rationalized as a “few bad apples” in a citizen Legislature mostly made up of hard-working, ethical members.

Abuse of office has persisted for years, but it seemed to reach its apex late last year, and now it’s safe to say that the stage is set for some soul searching at the Roundhouse and another debate about trying to legislate morality.

But they better make it quick. It’s only a 30-day session, traditionally dedicated to deciding how the state is going to balance its budget, and Martinez, a Republican, calls all the shots on which nonbudgetary bills will be heard.

There are ways, however, of circumventing her consent, and it comes in the form of passing a resolution to put certain issues before the voters as constitutional amendments. And a freshman Republican senator from Albuquerque, Jim Dines, is leading the

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Tracking legislation during the 30-day session can feel like a game of capture the flag.

charge with a resolution calling for the establishment of an independent ethics commission.

“We seem to have an unfortunate number of situations of ethical violations, and the commission would have the authority to not only initiate, but investigate the violations that may be occurring, then adjudicate them or refer them to the appropriate agency,” says Dines, a retired attorney who says he received no PAC money or contributions from lobbyists during his campaign.

On the House side, Minority Whip Brian Egolf, a Santa Fe Democrat, has introduced a series of bills, including one that died last year that would establish an ethics commission by state law.

While the bills seem simple enough, the process is anything but that.

“It’s like watching a three-dimensional game of chess on Star Trek,” says Santa Fe’s Peter Wirth, a Senate Democrat who’s held office for more than a decade.“Why do you think nothing ever gets done in US Congress?”

Or, in the case of the proposed amendment, it’s like a “Who’s on First?” sketch: A measure originating in the House of Representatives, for

example, has to pass there, and then there has to be a similar resolution in the Senate. And if the Senate decides to add on to the House resolution, then it has to go directly back to the House for a look-see; if the House doesn’t like what the Senate has added, then it rewrites the document, at which point it could be referred to a conference committee, where, behind closed doors, anything goes. It can even be entirely rewritten in a process where bills can be outright hijacked, sometimes scarcely resembling the first draft.

It sounds a lot like the game of Telephone, where everybody gathers around in a circle and what’s uttered into the first ear takes on a whole new meaning when it comes out the last mouth at the conclusion of the game.

Now add a 42-member Senate controlled by Democrats and a 70-member House with a Republican majority, and the game just got more complex, with all sorts of special interests and lobbyists and hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions that have all but paid for the predetermined votes, and what you’ve got is more like puppeteering.

What’s more, Dines’ resolution needs a majority of votes from mem-

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BALANCING CORRUPTION WITH THE BUDGET bers of both chambers, not just the majority of those present, a big distinction where a full quorum is often hard to summon, especially during a monthlong session. And you can bet, Wirth says, that plenty of legislators will be off tending to their own particular bills and interests.

This year, Wirth is working on a bi-partisan attack to shine a light on “dark money.” While New Mexico, like other states, tried to cap campaign spending, the US Supreme Court in 2010 ruled that political action commitees can spend as much as they want, that money is free speech.

The measure, also carried by Rep. Jim Smith, RSandia Park, would expose who exactly is behind the massive donations. Voters have a right to know, as they see it.

“We cannot limit the contribution amounts, but we can require disclosure of donors,” Wirth says.

Not only would that law mandate that PAC donors reveal themselves, it stipulates that PACs may not directly coordinate with political candidates or political parties while emptying their deep pockets.

Reform isn’t the only issue. Another big one is bringing the state into compliance with the Real ID

Meet your 2016 Legislators From the pomp and circumstance that kicks off the session on Jan. 19 to the final gavels at noon on Feb. 18, New Mexico’s 112 legislators are on tap to plan the state’s budget and consider other proposals. Remember, they’re working for us. Help them earn their $165 per day per diem by weighing in. Here’s a list of those elected to represent all or part of Santa Fe County:

Sen. Carlos Cisneros

District 6, Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Santa Fe and Taos counties

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Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard

District 43, Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval and Santa Fe counties

Occupation: Teacher 986-4464, stephanie.garciarichard@nmlegis.gov

Rep. Nick Salazar

District 40, Colfax, Mora, Rio Arriba and San Miguel counties

Occupation: Insurance

Occupation: Government relations

986-4362, carlos.cisneros@nmlegis.gov

986-4433, nick.salazar@nmlegis.gov

Sen. Peter Wirth

Rep. James E Smith

Occupation: Attorney

Occupation: Teacher

District 25, Santa Fe County

986-4861, peter.wirth@nemlegis.gov

District 22, Bernalillo, Sandoval and Santa Fe counties

986-4840, jim@jimsmithnm.com

Sen. Nancy Rodriguez

Sen. Jim R Trujillo

District 24, Santa Fe County

District 45, Santa Fe County

Occupation: Consultant

Occupation: Businessman

986-4264, nancy.rodriguez@nmlegis.gov

986-4336, jimtrujillo@msn.com

Rep. Carl Trujillo

Luciano “Lucky” Varela

District 46, Santa Fe County

District 48, Santa Fe County

Occupation: Engineer

Occupation: Retired

986-4215, carl.trujillo@nmlegis.gov

986-4433, lucky4st@msn.com

Rep. Brian Egolf

Sen. Ted Barela

Occupation: Attorney

Occupation: Project Manager/Trainer

District 47, Santa Fe County

986-4757, brian.egolf@nmlegis.gov

District 39, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Bernalillo, Lincoln, Valencia and Torrance counties

384-4307, ted.barela@nmlegis.gov

Legislative committee hearings and sessions of the House and Senate are open to the public, and legislators just love it when you attend to scowl or smile at them, as the situation dictates. Be forewarned that some committee rooms have extremely limited seating, and Roundhouse personnel are typically very serious about making sure the fire marshal is happy. That means if you care, you should arrive early and maybe bring a jar to pee in. Learn about schedules, track bills and much more at nmlegis.gov

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Act. Designed to curb terrorism, the federal law was enacted in 2005, but its implementation has languished, only now reaching critical mass.

This fall, confusion reigned over whether airports and federal facilities would accept New Mexico IDs after early January. While federal officials said recently that our state’s driver’s licenses are valid for domestic flights for two more years, White Sands Missile Range and Sandia Labs this month stopped accepting them.

The Real ID Act is supposed to put the Department of Homeland Security at ease by making sure all states comply with federal standards that call for proof of US citizenship with a birth certificate, Social Security card, passport and/or proof of residency.

Caught in the middle are the estimated 20,000 undocumented residents who need to drive and for more than a decade have been able to get a New Mexico driver’s license.

One solution is to issue them a driver’s privilege card with a disclaimer across the bottom.

Pro-immigrant rights groups argue that would merely stoke fear in immigrants in cities where police work in conjunction with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Like in Farmington, where immigrants who work in the gas and oil fields are scared to death every time they see a police officer in the rearview mirror, according to Somos Un Pueblo Unido, a labor rights organization in Santa Fe. The Martinez administration has taken the stance for the last several years that repealing the state law would prevent fraud and identity theft among those who flock to New Mexico to apply for easy IDs. “But what’s going to happen is we’re going to start stigmatizing law-abiding citizens,” says Marcela Diaz, executive director of Somos. “Thousands of immigrants have lived here for years. They are members of this community. They pay taxes. They work hard.

They’ve done nothing wrong and just about everything right, and yet we’re going to try to make life even more difficult for them.”

Also on the table is Senate Republican William Sharer’s annual tax reform measure, which seeks to rid the state of personal and corporate income tax while lowering the gross-receipts tax rate.

This session, Sharer says, he will concentrate on trying to squeeze a half-million bucks for a pair of studies on the ramifications of knocking down the state’s portion of the GRT rate to 2 percent from 5 percent.

“We do know that our current system is a nightmare; only big business can maneuver through it, and the locals are left paying the bill,” says the San Juan County politician, a small business owner who represents Farmington. “This is not good for local business or for the people of the state. We must fix this, but most legislators are afraid the cure will be worse than the disease.”

It’s something to keep on the radar, because on Jan. 4, in a carefully orchestrated press conference in a crime-ridden neighborhood in Albuquerque, Martinez made her budget priorities known. They include spending $100 million on public safety, education and job creation.

Once that dog-and-pony show ended, Joe Kabourek, executive director of the Democratic Party of New Mexico, issued this statement: “Until we address the culture of corruption in the

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Whatever happens or doesn’t happen in the chambers of the Roundhouse could influence voters this year.

Martinez administration, no budget proposal will be able to take us from being the worst-run state in the country to being the thriving economy that New Mexicans deserve.”

And so the partisan onslaught begins in another case of political deja vu. Gov. Bill Richardson became the focus of a federal investigation for a “pay to play” scheme, forcing Richardson to withdraw his nomination as US commerce secretary. Martinez, who ran on a promise to clean up the residue left from the Richardson administration, has now come under scrutiny for her own questionable governance, including the wholesale outsourcing of behavioral health providers, weak stances on environmental protection and open records, and discrepancies in campaign contributions that made her top political strategist the focus of an FBI investigation.

Is it just politics as usual in what some like to refer to as “Old Mexico,” a fact of life that’s unavoidable in the oldest state capital in the country? Or is the New Mexico Legislature’s tendency for shenanigans a mere microcosm of American politics at work in every legislature across the country?

Maybe it’s a semblance of the two: It is, after all, a temporary part-time job, where common folks get a shot at holding political office but are only paid $165 for each day they’re actually at the Roundhouse, which makes them all the more susceptible to kickbacks, bagmen, movidas or backroom deals.

Gabriel Sanchez, an associate professor of political science at the University of New Mexico, says in order for things to truly change, it’s up to the legislators themselves, because normal, everyday residents have resigned themselves to scandal.

“It’s gotten to the point where New Mexicans are saying, ‘What’s the point of voting?’” Sanchez says.

“The bigger picture is that the reforms that we’re talking about require members of the Legislature to actually relinquish their power and authority and go against their inherent self-interests.”

It sounds more like the first step in a 12-step pro- eteering in November 2005 and admitted to taking gram, where admitting your problem is the most cru- bribes as far back as 1995. cial.

Since Vigil, nearly 50 bills have been introduced But if past actions are a predictor of future be- over the last decade to curb what some view as widehavior, then an independent ethics commission is spread corruption, but to no avail, according to Felddoomed to failure, and New Mexico will continue to man, who chronicled various scandals in her 2014 be one of nine states that doesn’t have one. book, Inside the New Mexico Senate: Boots, Suits and The Wall of Shame is rife with the names of those Citizens. whose accomplishments in elected office have been And lost in the sensationalism, and the undeniable upstaged by incarcerations or joy that more than a few get from shameful resignations. witnessing the missteps of othPhil Griego, a Democratic ers, is that pesky constitutional State senator and former mandate to balance the budget.

Santa Fe city councilor, was Alongside the governor’s spendThe reforms that involved in legislation to sell ing plan is a different approach a state-owned building on the from legislators. we’re talking about front end and then brokered “We need to first meet the prithe sale later on the back end, orities of the state’s current prorequire members of the in what was clearly a conflict grams and plan and priotize for of interest. But Griego pleaded the future,” says Peter Campos, Legislature to actually confusion and ignorance, and a Democrat who’s on the Senate relinquish their power he still collects a pension afFinance Committee. “I know it ter voluntarily stepping down sounds like a platitude, but it’s and authority and go amid an ethics inquiry just betrue.” fore the end of last year’s sesMedicaid has to be paid for. against their inherent sion.

Something has to be done about Manny Aragon served a the 30 percent vacancy rate in self-interests. four-year stint in federal prisjobs at the state’s correctional faon after serving three decades cilities, and a big issue these days as a Democrat in the state Senis trying to stem the exodus of ate. He’d always championed nurses from public health facilithe underdog. The epitome of ties by paying them a little more. a powerbroker, Aragon rose from poverty and virtu- Same goes for a boost in the yearly salaries of entryally ran the Roundhouse for a number of years, only level teachers. to be convicted of defrauding the state of nearly $4.5 So from the balancing the budget to balancing cormillion in the construction of the Bernalillo County ruption, from passing bills that would usher in tax Metropolitan Courthouse in Albuquerque. He plead- reform to figuring out how to handle the Real ID Act, ed guilty to fraud and conspiracy in 2008. legislators have their work cut out for them.

Robert Vigil, a Democrat, served as the state treaThen there’s gun bills, and proposals to alert the surer up until his resignation in October 2005; he was community when someone who’s mentally ill has eventually sentenced to 37 months in prison on one gone missing, and legalizing agricultural hemp and count of attempted extortion. His predecessor, Mi- the effort to get rid of daylight saving time. chael Montoya, pleaded guilty to one count of rackHow about time for serious reform?

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Surf’s Up You bring take car to work, I’ll take my board Dear rock ’n’ roll: Oh, how we love thee. And even more so how some of your purveyors like Built to Spill, Wavves or Jay Reatard have chosen to tap into a charming throwback mélange of Nirvana or Weezer-esque deceptive simplicity with underlying surf and/or punk elements and a whole lot of subtle complexity when it comes to guitar riffs, vocal melodies/harmonies, et al. This is kind of why we’re freaking out about Florida quartet Surfer Blood and their upcoming Santa Fe show. Y’see, not only has the band won the acclaim of critics and consumers alike, their pop-rock/punkrock/surf-rock balancing act leans more toward the sublimely listenable than the victimhood of one-hit-wonders like Foster the People. This is a band with staying power, rock ’n’ roll—the kind of dudes who polished a garage band mentality and aesthetic into a super-poppy yet intelligent style with the power to appeal to snobs and noobs alike. It’s through the catchy vocal work, rock ’n’ roll, and the pleasant tone of the guitars that we are drawn in, but also in singer John Paul Pitt’s uncanny ability to phase between emotionally charged clean vocals and passionately meaningful pseudo-screams. We know he really effing means it, and we know that he’s just the guy to perfectly encapsulate those gnawing feelings of love, loss, hope and want. Don’t think we haven’t noticed how they’ve gone from promising and fresh on 2010’s Astro Coast to straight-up delightful and confident on last year’s 1000 Palms. We also respect them for ditching the major-label route in favor of artistic freedom, working with Fleet Foxes producer Phil Ek and constantly touring the globe to bring their message to the masses. There’s a lot of pressure for rock bands to either innovate or go completely retro these days, we know, but riding the fence between these options and creating a fresh sound is not only impressive but also exciting; well, that’s just magical.

Santa Monica indie-pop quintet Cayucas opens the show, rock ’n’ roll, and we’re pretty much just as excited for that.

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Taps and Tabletops: 6-9 pm Wednesday, Jan 13. Free Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528

The fine folks from the Axle Contemporary mobile art gallery are throwing a birthday party for art. Crazy, right?

Right. So here’s the deal: Apparently in 1963, Fluxus artist Robert Fillou decided that 1 million years prior, the abstract concept of the visual interpretation of emotion (y’know, art) had been created when a dry sponge was dropped into a bucket of water. Oh, and it’s Fillou’s birthday as well, so since art enriches the lives of anyone who happens to draw breath, it’s a pretty big deal. Artists Rita Bard, Kathryn M Davis and Axle itself will show new work when they pull up to the New Mexico Museum of Art, and they’ll also provide cakes that were baked by local artists. All right, so maybe it isn’t the most serious of art shows to come down the pike, but since when has whimsy been a bad thing? (ADV)

There is something so beautiful about the world of handcrafted print media.

From concert posters and re-creations of fine art, to deeply personal original compositions lovingly crafted in a painstakingly precise fashion, printed artwork surely beats the soulless output of the stupid computer any day of the week. For his upcoming show, Printed Matter, local artist/curator Tim Jag will prove this tenfold by showcasing nondigital works that run the gamut from street art to commercial graphics, all of which were created 100 percent by actual living, breathing humans or collaborated on by Southwest print shops. The real beauty of the process is in the flaws and imperfections that provide the sense that a real person was behind the piece, and in the throwback charm of an ancient artform still relevant after all these years. (ADV)

Take over the nearest continent and rule it with and iron fist. Jump on your Battle Dino (yes, that is a proper noun,

by God) and fire its chemical lasers of retribution into your foe’s tank. Crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentations of their chosen partners. Chuck some dice and fling some cards at the Jean Cocteau Cinema’s weekly Taps and Tabletops event. Belly up to the table and play all kinds of hobby board games, card games, and maybe even some role playing games if you can gather the requisite party in search of gold and glory. “All we ask is that you bring your sense of adventure, your imagination and have fun,” says Jean Cocteau Cinema General Manager David Sidebottom. All ages, and all drinks are a dollar off. Just watch your coin purse, there may be some grabby halflings about.

Huzzah! (Ben Kendall)

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WED/13 ART OPENINGS KAREN COLE: GEO, ECO AND ATMOSPHERES Back Street Bistro 513 Camino de los Marquez, 982-3500 Cole reveals her new paintings at Back Street Bistro. Call for hours.

All day, free

EVENTS TAPS AND TABLETOPS Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 George RR Martin’s little theater that could now does tabletop gaming. That’s right, nerds—your ship has come in and it is a Galaxy Class starship. (see SFR Picks, page 19).

6 pm, free

MUSIC ARTICLE 15, TWO TON STRAP, MY FIRST RODEO, OL' DAGGER Taos Mesa Brewing 20 ABC Mesa Road, (575) 758-1900 Punk-punk, cow-punk, thrashpunk, metal-punk and a supercool hard-rockin’ time for all.

There may also be some punk.

Just so you know.

8 pm, $5 BRANDEN JAMES Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Pianist/vocalist James joins Australian cellist James Clark for a residency that’s just, like, chock-full-o’ music.

7 pm, no cover CALVIN HAZEN El Mesón 213 Washington Ave, 983-6756 Flamenco guitar.

7 pm, no cover CHARLIE MILO Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St 982-2565, We searched the Internet for info on this guy, and as far as genres go, he apparently plays "jamcore." Good news for some, better news for others.

Sad news for maybe a few of you but, y'know, that's how it goes.

8 pm, no cover FLASH FORWARD WITH DJ POETICS Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 1980s!? 1990s!? Top 40!?

DISCO!?!? What!?!? Where are my boogie shoes?

8 pm, no cover

MATTHEW ANDRAE La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St, 982-5511 Solo smooth jams with Andrae and his guitar.

6-8:30 pm OF VOICE AND VIOLIN San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-3974 Soprano Tara Khozein and violinist Benjamin Beames for works by Holst, Kurtag, Beames himself and more.

7 pm, $12 SYDNEY WESTAN Tiny's 1005 S St Francis Drive, 983-9817 He’s a singer, he’s a songwriter, he holds a guitar and touches your heart.

5:30 pm, no cover TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria D’Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano and vocals.

6 pm, no cover

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THU/14 BOOKS/LECTURES NEW MEXICO BOOK ASSOCIATION WINTER FIESTA The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 The Richard Harris Award is presented to, we assume, a writer of some kind.

5 pm, $25

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

7 pm, no cover BROOMDUST CARAVAN Tiny’s 1005 S St Francis Drive, 983-9817 Country-western tunes with a whole mess of local talent.

8 pm, no cover DJ INKYINC. The Matador 116 W San Francisco St., 984-5050 Soul, punk, ska and a roomful of super-cool posters run by some seriously cool dudes who are pretty punk rock.

8:30 pm, no cover DOME DWELLERS, SAGE HARRINGTON The Underground 200 W San Francisco St, 819-1597 Dome Dwellers move into your dome (by which we mean they lodge themselves in your brain) with rock ‘n’ such. Folk act Harrington opens.

8 pm, $5 LATIN NIGHT WITH VDJ DANY Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 VDJ Dany bring all y’all the best in Latin-tinged dance.

10 pm, $7

Monte Coleman’s “Single Blue Skull” is on view this Friday at the new Pacheco Street location of the David Richard Gallery.

LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES Evangelo’s 200 W San Francisco St. This band will rock your face.

9 pm, no cover NACHA MENDEZ AND FRIENDS La Boca 72 W Marcy Street, 982-3433 Latin and world music with Nacha and her musically inclined friends.

7 pm, no cover

PAT MALONE El Mesón 213 Washington Ave, 983-6756 Jazz guitar.

7 pm, no cover RUBEDO WITH FOAM AND SAND Ghost 2899 Trades West Rd. If you’re looking for bands of skinny people who probably use keyboards, this is it.

8 pm, no cover

SAMANTHA CRAIN Taos Mesa Brewing 20 ABC Mesa Road, (575) 758-1900 Melodic, moody folk-rock.

8 pm, $5 SIERRA La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St, 982-5511 Classic country and rock. It’s possible there will be Bad Company covers. Or maybe Steely Dan. Both classic.

7-10 pm, no cover

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Dome Dwellers will rock The Underground this Thursday.

ACADEMY FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING Discovering Personal and Collective Story Participants explore the “other sides” of their selves —those stories that have the power to touch others, build understanding, and restore ourselves and the world. Designed for teachers and families, including children of any age.

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SILVER CROW ASYLUM Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Here’s a blues duo, which is great because you like the blues and a lot of other things.

Because this year, you’re going to keep an open mind. They may or may not be trying to save an orphanage.

8 pm, no cover TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria D’Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Enjoy Italian food while listening to Binkley’s piano and vocals. Both seem like an awesome option.

6 pm, no cover

FRI/15 ART OPENINGS

DAVID RICHARD GALLERY RE-OPENING David Richard Gallery 1570 Pacheco St., Ste. A1., 983-9555 David Richard Gallery opens in a new location and shows multimedia pieces from all kinds of talented artists.

Check it out!

Noon, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

BARON WOLMAN: WOODSTOCK Photo-Eye Bookstore 376 Garcia St., 988-5152 Former Rolling Stone photographer Baron Wolman unveils and signs copies of his new book on 1969 music fest Woodstock.

5 pm, free LOVING THE POET’S POEMS La Cocina de Balam 1406 3rd St., Ste. C, 820-0020 Did somebody say an uplifting night of poetry from the likes of Rumi, Mary Oliver and more, and that also comes with a fancy dinner menu? We did. We said that. Go forth, couples ... and love, dammit.

Love.

5:30 pm, $24-$40

FOOD

WINTERBREW 2016 Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-7726 Food from local restaurants and 15 New Mexico breweries pouring their products for your tasting enjoyment.

4:45 pm, free

MUSIC BILL HEARNE TRIO Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 2nd St., 982-3030 Well, isn’t it just pretty next level that Hearne and his cronies are taking their country style all over town this week.

6 pm, no cover BRANDEN JAMES Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and cello and vocals with James (from America’s Got Talent) and James Clark, for a residency that’s just, like, chock-full-o’ music.

8 pm, no cover DJ DANY’S LATIN FRIDAYS Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Every dang Friday, Skylight and DJ Dany blast y’all with cumbia, bachata, reggaeton and more from within the upstairs Skylab.

9 pm, $7 DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Show tunes, standards, love ballads, torch songs, special guests like Julie Trujillo, awesomeness, food, wine, fun, Geist really has it all. Oh, and don't forget the piano!

6 pm, no cover DETROIT LIGHTNING Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 What happens when beloved local musicians join forces to form a Grateful Dead cover band?

7 pm, no cover

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FUTURE SCARS WITH JOBS AND LAST SEASON Ghost 2899 Trades West Rd. Future Scars (see Music, page 23) was born from As In We, Jobs travels from Brooklyn and Last Season is a bunch of young musicians who just want to rock faces. We’re talkin’ math rock and jazzy rock and indie rock and more.

8 pm, $5 THE GRUVE El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock, y’all.

9 pm, $5 IRIS DEMENT James A Little Theater 1060 Cerrillos Rd., 476-6429 Country and folk music come alive when the legendary singer-songwriter takes the stage (and it’s a really nice stage, too) at the James A Little Theater.

7:30 pm, $35 KAMIKAZE KARAOKE Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 You know what karaoke is all about, so will tonight finally be the night that you get up and belt out that one B52s song?

Pro tip: They shorten “Love Shack” for some reason.

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Future Scars’ Eliza Lutz might be the most interesting musician in town

BY ALEX DE VORE @teamalex

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et’s talk Eliza Lutz, the guitarist for local bands As In We and GRY GRDNS, the sole purveyor of folk-punk tunes as the sadly defunct Prolly and, most recently, the mastermind behind brand new As In We offshoot, Future Scars. Homegirl commands serious respect as the band’s frontwoman, which is totally understandable given that there isn’t actually a whole lot of difference between her new project and the widely celebrated math-rock-lite of AIW. In fact, outside the notable absence of second guitarist Haven Willis and the honest-to-God truth that neither band is as mind-bogglingly complex as folks seem to think, Future Scars creates a similar yet less full, Explosions in the Sky/Pelican-ish sound. Now, before anyone starts losing their shit and composing diatribes about how ol’ Alex doesn’t know a thing about music, try to understand one very important truth— this is not a bad thing. Where is it written that rock music, specifically atmospheric indie and postpunk, can only achieve validity through complicated use of quantum mathematics and inaccessibly dense instrumentations?

“With Future Scars, we’re stripped down, so we’re trying to be so much more simple, which is almost scarier in a way,” Lutz says. “But if you could say everything you felt in one sentence or word, how much more powerful would that be?”

See, there’s this unfortunate assumption when it comes to music that technically impressive automatically equals excellence. Lutz, however, shines in the inverse moments. Like during one of Future Scars’ new songs, during which she readily admits she picks one chord repeatedly while bassist Gunnar Lyon provides the nuance to the melody. And it’s through this, as well as her experimental habit of devising her own custom guitar tunings and chords, that she has built a local name for herself as a songwriter who has mastered the single hardest thing a musician can: Her

stuff just plain sounds good, overly complicated or not.

Meanwhile, Lutz is in the final stages of launching her own imprint called Matron Records (Matronrecords.com). In addition to putting out albums from her own projects and/or other local bands she likes, Lutz’s label will offer a more full-service educational component that teaches bands how to be more professional when it comes to the business side of things.

There’s no fate but what we make with Eliza Lutz and Future Scars.

“It seems that in DIY there’s this weird undercurrent or attitude where people think, ‘Let’s just not worry about it,’ and this makes me wonder since qualifier “experimental” and opens up new avenues when is DIY not thinking about filing taxes or about of appreciation. Here we have a small-town musician how cool copyright law is?” she says with a laugh. “If who could easily move someplace where there are you’re serious about music and want to make it your more like-minded people, who would help her sharplife, these are things to think about, and besides— en her craft into something a little more special than marginally exciting to a small and select group of keeping receipts is fun!”

To run her new business, Lutz quit her day job drunk 20-somethings who think they invented music and took out a loan in order to pay it the proper level appreciation, all the while acting like they’re saving of attention. This is probably the punkest thing I’ve culture one fucking PBR at a time, and she chooses to heard in some time, and she estimates that her first live here and work hard for the benefit of our scene. release—a debut LP from her piano-driven indie act, I guess it’s just time for the rest of us to get on board with that and realize there are people here with GRY GRDNS—will be available sometime this fall.

In the meantime, Future Scars plays Ghost, along- fresh ideas and stellar music that can be enjoyed by side Brooklyn indie act Jobs and up-and-coming San- us all, no matter how much we think we know about ta Fe rock trio Last Season. It’s a great opportunity for anything.

Santa Fe to not only be supportive of an independent venue space that warmly embraces the spirit of do-ityourself, but to see Lutz perform through fresh eyes.

Knowing now that she invents her own chords and FUTURE SCARS WITH JOBS AND LAST SEASON has allowed herself the luxury to stress feeling over 8 pm Monday, Jan. 15. $5. technique, it’s like hearing her compositions for the Ghost, 2889 Trades West Road first time. It lends a certain level of credibility to the

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As a queer man of color—I’m Asian—I feel wounded whenever I am exposed to gay men in New York City, Toronto, or any city where white gay men dominate. Gay men, mostly whites and Asians, reject me because of my race and no one admits to their sexual racism. I understand that sexual attraction is subconscious for many people. But it is unfair for a gay Asian like myself to be constantly marginalized and rejected. I fight for gay rights, too. I believe in equality, too. I had the same pain of being gay in high school and the same fears when coming out. Why is there no acceptance, no space, no welcome for me in this white-painted gay community? I’m six-foot-one, 160 pounds, fit, and very goodlooking. What can I do? I might as well be a sexless monk.

-Enraged Dude Details Infuriating Experience “I relate to a lot of what EDDIE is feeling here,” said Joel Kim Booster, a Brooklyn writer and comedian. “The double-edged sword of living in a city with a large gay community is that the community gets so large that we finally have the opportunity to marginalize people within it.”

Jeff Chu, a writer who also lives in Brooklyn, can relate: “Racism still thrives in the gay community, just as in broader society,” said Chu. “Many of us who are Asian American come out of the closet and walk into this weird bamboo cage, where we’re either fetishized or ignored. Many times I’d go into a gay bar and see guys playing out some gross interracial porno in their heads—with me playing the part of their Chinese pocket gay. Others (the ones I was interested in, to be candid) would act as if I were wearing an invisibility cheongsam.”

Chu feels there’s plenty of blame to go around for this sad state of affairs. “It’s the gay media,” said Chu. “It’s Hollywood. (Even with all the LGBT characters we have on TV now, what images do we have of Asian American ones?) It’s that LGBT-rights organizations still haven’t diversified enough, especially in their leadership. And it’s all of us, when we’re lazy and don’t confront our own prejudices.”

Booster and Chu are right: Racism is a problem in the gay community, some people within are unfairly and cruelly marginalized, and we all need to confront our own prejudices.

Even you, EDDIE. You cite your height (tall!), weight (slim!), and looks (VGL!) as proof you’ve faced sexual rejection based solely on your race. But short, heavy, average-looking/ unconventionally-attractive guys face rejection for not being tall, lean, or conventionally hot, just as you’ve faced rejection for not being white. (The cultural baggage and biases that inform a preference for, say, tall guys is a lot less toxic than the cultural baggage and biases that inform a preference for white guys—duh, obviously.)

“As a stereotypically short Chinese guy, my first reaction to reading EDDIE’s letter? Damn, he’s six-foot-one! I’m jealous,” said Chu. “And that’s also part of the problem. I, like many others, have internalized an ideal: tall, gymperfected, blah blah blah—and, above all, white.”

Booster was also struck by your stats. “It’s hard for me to wrap my head around any sixfoot-one, fit, VGL guy having trouble getting laid,” said Booster. “On paper, this is the gay ideal! I don’t really consider myself any of those things—and I have a perfectly respectable amount of sex.”

Booster, who somehow manages to have plenty of sex in New York’s “white-painted gay community,” had some practical tips for you.

“EDDIE should stay away from the apps if the experience becomes too negative,” Booster

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said. “If logging on to a hookup app bums him out, take a break. Being a double minority can be isolating, but living in a big city can be great.

There are meet-ups and clubs and activities for all stripes. Join a gay volleyball league— truly where gay Asian men thrive—or find one of the many gay Asian nights at one of the gay bars around the city. They’re out there.”

Chu has also managed to find romantic success in New York. “I’ve been where EDDIE is, except shorter, less fit, and less good-looking, and somehow I found a husband,” said Chu. “The monastery wasn’t my calling, and I suspect it’s not EDDIE’s either.”

A quick word to gay white men: It’s fine to have “preferences.” But we need to examine our preferences and give some thought to the cultural forces that may have shaped them. It’s a good idea to make sure your preferences are actually yours and not some limited and limiting racist crap pounded into your head by TV, movies, and porn. But while preferences are allowed (and gay men of color have them, too), there’s no excuse for littering Grindr or Tinder or Recon—or your conversations in bars— with dehumanizing garbage like “no Asians,” “no Blacks,” “no femmes,” “no fatties,” etc.

And while racism is a problem in the gay community (sometimes thoughtless, sometimes malicious, always unacceptable), according to 2010 US Census data, as crunched by the Williams Institute at UCLA, same-sex couples are far likelier to be interracial (20.6 percent) than opposite-sex couples (13.9 percent). So there’s hope—and I don’t mean “hope that EDDIE will one day land a magic white boyfriend,” but hope for less racism in the gay community generally and fewer racist Grindr profiles specifically.

The last word goes to Booster: “A note to the rice queens who will undoubtedly write in about this man: We like that you like us.

But liking us solely because our race can be uncomfortable at best, and creepy as hell at worst. In my experience, it’s perfectly okay to keep some of those preferences behind the curtain while you get to know us a bit as humans first.”

Jeff Chu is the author of Does Jesus Really Love Me?: A Gay Christian’s Pilgrimage in Search of God in America. Follow him on Twitter @ jeffchu. Follow Joel Kim Booster on Twitter @ ihatejoelkim.

I am an Italian bisexual 25-year-old guy. I’m in love with a great guy, but he lives far away, and we see each other only one time per month and sometimes less. A few weeks ago, I had sex with a female university colleague.

It wasn’t anything special: She was somewhat drunk and hurt me with her teeth during petting, so I didn’t have a good erection and I didn’t come. But I liked having sex with a woman. I want to do it again, but I love my boyfriend and I don’t want to hurt him. Am I destined to be unfaithful?

-More Or Less Italians pet with their teeth? Good to know.

Also good to know: yourself. Now, I would never suggest that bi guys can’t honor monogamous commitments—even though I routinely say just that about straight guys, gay guys, straight women, and lesbians—but it would be foolish for you to make a monogamous commitment. Not because you’re “destined to be unfaithful,” MOL, but because you’ve already been unfaithful.

Here’s what you know about yourself: You’re bisexual, you want to have sex with women and men, and you don’t want to cheat.

Which means you’ll have to either renegotiate the terms of the relationship you’re in now— get your boyfriend’s okay to have sex with a woman once in a while—or end the relationship and find a boyfriend (or girlfriend) who will give you their okay.

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MARK YAXLEY; LEAH LEVA AND THE BAND Tiny’s 1005 S St Francis Drive, 983-9817 Yaxley kicks it off and Leva and her band close it down.

5:30 pm, no cover THE MOSCOW MULES Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Classic pop country. For y’see, whereas jerks like Brooks & Dunn tried way hard to ruin it for the Willie Nelsons and George Joneses of the world, bands like The Moscow Mules grab the brass ring (or cup, as it were) and go for it all.

6 pm, no cover SIERRA La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St, 982-5511 Country, rock, blues and more.

7-10 pm, no cover TGIF: JAMES DAVID CHRISTIE First Presbyterian Church SF 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Organ performances of works

by Bach, Praetorius and Sweelnick.

5:30 pm, no cover THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave, 983-6756 It’s three dudes with a face each, and they’re playing jazz.

7:30 pm, no cover

SAT/16 ART OPENINGS EMERGE SANTA FE INSTAMEET David Richard Gallery 1570 PachecoSt., 983-9555 Meet cool new friends and check out all the awesome art.

Noon, free PRINTED MATTER Offroad Productions 2891-B Trades West Road, 670-9276 Printers and print shops and print aficionados come together to celebrate nondigital printmaking. Can we fit the word “print” in this listing again? Oh, look at that, we just did. Nick Benson, Thais Mather, Todd Christensen, Penumbra Letter Press, Burning Books Press and many more will be on hand (see SFR Picks, page 19).

6 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES JOYCEGROUP SANTA FE Santa Fe Public Library 145 Washington Ave, 955-6780 Discuss the works of James Joyce with renowned Joyce scholar Adam Harvey.

10 am-12:30 pm, free

DANCE ARGENTINE TANGO MILONGA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave, 983-6756 Every Tuesday you can dance the dance of super-close-tosomeone-dancingness. Make sure you smell nice.

7:30 pm, $5

EVENTS ART OF THE SKETCH Artisan Santa Fe 2601 Cerrillos Rd., 954-4172 Get sketchy with artist Bob Jacob, who is pretty confident that he can make an artist out of you yet. Pencils and paper provided. Take your kids, probably.

1:30 pm, free SPA DAY: HEALTH INSIDE AND OUT Natural Grocers 3328 Cerrillos Rd., 474-0111 Nutritional Health Coach Shane Hamby teaches you how to rejuvenate without gross chemicals as well as how to coexist with the sun sans the potential Leatherface pitfalls.

11 am, free

FOOD

INGRAINED Blue Corn Brewery (Southside) 4056 Cerrillos Rd., 438-1800 Food ’n’ beers from local food ’n’ beer makers like Old Windmill Dairy, Sweet Grass Co-op Beef, Blue Corn itself, Duel Brewing, Chama River, Second Street and more.

Noon, $35 NEW MEXICO WINE HISTORY/MYSTERY WINE TASTING Estrella Del Norte Vineyard 106 Shining Sun, 455-2826 Learn about NM wine history in the early afternoon. Later, hone your palettes, oenophiles and budding oenophiles, with six wines in a blind tasting.

1 and 3 pm, $10-$15 SANTA FE FOODIE CLASSIC GRAND TASTING Santa Fe Convention Center 201 W Marcy St., 955-6200 Over 35 food and bevvie booths featuring the best New Mexico food and, uh, drinkness. Plus, you get a souvenir tasting glass.

2:30 pm, $75

MUSIC BRANDEN JAMES Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and cello and vocals with James (from America’s Got Talent) and James Clark, for a residency that’s just, like, chock-full-o’ music.

8 pm, no cover DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Show tunes, standards, love ballads, torch songs, special guests like Julie Trujillo, awesomeness, food, wine, fun, partying, glasses ... Geist really has it all. Oh, and don't forget the piano!

6 pm, no cover FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Flamenco and food sounds fun, friends.

6:30 pm, $25 FOX WHITE Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St.,988-7222 Neo-classic rock.

9 pm, no cover

JOHN RANGEL QUARTET El Meson 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 It’s some kind of baby grand piano-driven jazz odyssey.

7:30 pm, no cover KEN VALDEZ CD RELEASE PARTY Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Blues-rock musician Valdez joins blues-rock musician Alex Maryol to release his newest record and party like crazy back in his hometown, which is here.

7 pm, no cover THE LENSIC AND SANTA FE OPERA PRESENT THE MET LIVE IN HD: LES PECHEURS DE PERLES Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Bizet gets all romantic which, if you’re smart, you will too.

I mean, opera in HD with a date? We’re talkin’ score city.

11 am and 6 pm, $22-$28 LES GENS BRUYANTS Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo De Peralta, 989-3278 Head down to the Railyard for Cajun music that you'll love.

We gare-own-tee! Oh God, nobody sue us!

6 pm, no cover MADRID WINTER PROM WITH DJ GINGER Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Bust out the ballgowns and watch that wildly uncomfortable scene in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire wherein Maggie Smith makes that chump Ron Weasley dance with her. Yikes. Anyway, DJ action and prom theme?

Enchantment-under-the-seayou-there!

8 pm, no cover MEOW WOLF PRESENTS: THE LAB Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Bilagána (aka Andrew Bowen) joins Muffintop and Experimental Housewife (which, frankly, sounds like a movie, not that we’re saying that’s bad) in the Skylab to keep 2016 all dancey with house and techno and dub and such.

10 pm, no cover OMAR VILLANUEVA La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Villanueva is a New Mexico classical guitarist, and La Fonda is a New Mexico classical locale.

6-8:30 pm, no cover REVIVA Taos Mesa Brewing 20 ABC Mesa Rd., (575) 758-1900 Reviva, we hear, is more than just a band. They are uplifting, reportedly. Naw, but for real they play a reggae/rock-ish/ hip-hop-esque style akin to Sublime.

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SUN/17 ART OPENINGS AXLE CONTEMPORARY: ART’S BIRTHDAY New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Axle Contemporary, a superrad mobile art gallery, celebrates the birth of art and has cake and stuff. Say what!?

They’ll be at the NM Museum of Art (see SFR Picks, page 19).

Noon, free

EVENTS ERIN SANBORN Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 A discussion on Northern New Mexico politics with Sanborn, Democratic chair of Taos County and a longtime public servant.

11 am, free POETRY READING/OPEN MIC FOR ASHRAF FAYADH Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-6021 Help raise money for the Palestinian poet/artist who has been condemned to death in Saudi Arabia.

5 pm, free

MUSIC SURFER BLOOD Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Indie-rock/semi-pop/kinda punk act Surfer Blood comes to town with the indie-pop stylings of Cayucas. Dude, you guys, this band rules for real, so don’t miss it. I’m serious. If you miss it, I know a certain somebody who’ll be very disappointed in you. Also, give her a call, for pete’s sake.

You never do. (see SFR Picks, page 19).

7 pm, $13

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SHOWCASE KARAOKE WITH CYNDY AND NANCI Tiny’s 1005 S St Francis Drive, 983-9817 It’s karaoke—you know what to do.

8:30 pm, no cover SO SOPHISTICATED WITH DJ 12 TRIBE Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Hip-hop, reggae, house, oldschool, electro, R&B and basically all those kinds of music that sound pretty good while you're dancing and that like, come out of a big ol' set of speakers and stuff. Apparently it's a "Saturday thing." Don't forget.

9 pm, $7 SWING SOLEIL Second Street Brewery 1814 2nd St., 982-3030 Hi folks, Alex De Vore here to say that even though my roommate Elektra and I were embroiled in one of the most awkward friend dates of all time with some, uh, friends of ours recently, we still all totally loved the gypsy jazz/swing sound of this band.

6 pm, no cover

In August of 1969, former chief photographer for Rolling Stone, Baron Wolman, attended Woodstock to capture the essence of musically driven harmony through candid photos of the musicians, of course, but also through countless photos of the hundreds of thousands of fans who made history together. Wolman’s new book, aptly titled Woodstock, comes out on Friday, Jan. 15, and Wolman will be on hand at Photo-eye Bookstore (376 Garcia St., 988-5152) signing copies from 5-7 pm, so we gave him a call. (ADV) What was more satisfying, the show itself or satisfying your artistry?

It was a little of both. It was an unbelievable concert, because nobody had seen all those bands together at one time. The music was phenomenal, but the event itself was also phenomenal, and what was more interesting to me was all the people who were there; 300,000 people and no violence, no branded T-shirts, people caring for each other. It really was the end of an era.

Is there a particular photo you feel perfectly encapsulates the fest?

There’s one of this woman, and I don’t know if she was high or what, but she’s dancing like a maniac lost in music euphoria. There’s one very significant shot of a National Guard evac chopper, and it’s important to me because these military guys were there to help out the counter-culture hippies, even though there was a lot of differences between the military and the counterculture.

Do you have any advice for musicians when it comes to photographers?

I do! Musicians treat photographers like pariahs, and I don’t care if we’re groupies at heart, there’s no photographer whose good shots won’t help a band. I was never there to take anything away from a musician, and these days, we are thrown in a pit and get to shoot maybe two songs at the beginning of a set, when the most exciting stuff happens toward the end. Plus, we’re all standing next to each other and wind up with the same picture.

Bands and managers need to understand that photographers can actually help them.

ZOOGA MALAGA La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Jazz, funk, and hip-hop tunes.

Zooga’s trademark is a unique style of guitar playing.

6-8:30 pm, no cover

MON/18 EVENTS BRING IT HOME MLK SERVICE DAY EVENT Zona del Sol 6600 Jaguar Way, 983-6896 Get out there and enact some positive change, with this kickoff to a semester of service and action. 10 am-2 pm, free

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. BIRTHDAY COMMEMORATION State Capital Rotunda 490 Old Santa Fe Trail, 867-5340 Join the Santa Fe branch of the NAACP to commemorate the civil rights crusader. The theme is “Pursuing Justice in the Face of Injustice.”

Noon, free

MUSIC THE BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country-western jams by the master of such things.

6 pm, no cover

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— From the forthcoming #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is assistant professor at the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University. She writes about Black politics, housing inequality and issues of race and class in the US. Her articles have been published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, Jacobin, New Politics, The Black Commentator, Black Agenda Report, Ms., and elsewhere. Her book, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation is forthcoming in early 2016.

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7 pm, no cover MELLOW MONDAYS WITH DJ OBI ZEN Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 One DJ with live drums playing hip hop, Top 40, and dance music.

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ARGENTINE TANGO MILONGA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 This is where the tango-ing happens.

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RECEPTION FOR JOE FEDDERSEN AND DREW MICHAEL Institute of American Indian Arts 83 A Van Nu Po, 424-2300 A reception for new IAIA Artists in Residence followed by studio tours.

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THE BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Flat-pickin’ country songs about being sad and probably drinking whiskey and horses and trains and so forth.

6 pm, no cover BRANDEN JAMES Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and cello and vocals with James (from America’s Got Talent) and James Clark, for a residency that’s just, like, chock-full-o’ music.

8 pm, no cover CACTUS SLIM AND THE GOATHEADS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Rock and blues and blues and rock and blues-rock and all that jazz. No jazz, actually, but there is—get this—rock and blues.

7 pm, no cover CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 It’s a blues jam, OK!?

8:30 pm, no cover DJ PRAIRIEDOG The Matador 116 W San Francisco St., 984-5050 Surf, garage, rockabilly, oldschool country and more.

9 pm, no cover LOUNGE SESSIONS Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Get loungin' with the kind of songs that make you think that maybe you won't go back to work tomorrow.

8 pm, no cover

OPEN MIC NIGHT WITH JOHN RIVES AND RANDY MULKEY Tiny’s 1005 S St Francis Drive, 983-9817 We like Leonard Cohen, too.

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ONGOING GALLERIES

136 GRANT 36 Grant Ave, 983-0075 John Boland, Mustangs and Other Wild Horses of Northern New Mexico. Through Jan. 31 ACADEMY FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING 133 Seton Village Road, 955-1860 Archives on Display.

ADOBE GALLERY 221 Canyon Road, 955-0550 Holiday Cochiti Pueblo Storyteller Collection. Through Jan. 31. The Marvin and Betty Rubin Collection. Through Feb. 16.

ART EXCHANGE GALLERY 60 E San Francisco St., Ste. 210, 603-4485 Santa Fe Six, Fall/Winter Show.

Through Jan. 31 ART GONE WILD GALLERIES 203 Canyon Road, Ste. B, 820-1004 Doug Bloodworth, Photo Realism.

ART.I.FACTORY 930 Baca St., Ste. C, 982-5000 Todd Christensen, Observing the Withdrawn.

BACK STREET BISTRO 513 Camino de los Marquez, 982-3500 Karen Cole. Geo, Eco, and Atmospheres. Through March 5 BINDLESTICK STUDIO 616 1/2 Canyon Road, (917) 679-8080 Jeffrey Schweitzer, The Biography of an Eccentric Gentleman.

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

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

CCA 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Micol Hebron. Gallery Tally.

Through Jan. 17.

CHARLOTTE JACKSON FINE ART 554 S Guadalupe St., 989-8688 Group show, All that Glitters.

Through Jan. 18 CHIAROSCURO CONTEMPORARY ART 558 Canyon Road, 992-0711 Peter Millett. Venus. Holiday Group Show. Both through Jan. 23. Winter Group Show.

Through Feb. 6 COMMUNITY GALLERY 201 W Marcy St., 955-6707 Narcissus. Through Jan. 15 DAVID RICHARD GALLERY 544 S Guadalupe St., 983-9555 Christian Haub, Float.

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 Soft.

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

EYE ON THE MOUNTAIN GALLERY 614 Agua Fría St., (928) 308-0319 Guadalupe Art Show.

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. IAIA 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2387 Graduating Seniors Exhibition.

JAMES KELLY CONTEMPORARY 1611 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1601 Bill Jacobson, Lines in My Eyes.

LEWALLEN RAILYARD 1613 Paseo de Peralta, 988-3250 Michael Roque Collins, The Venetian.

LYN A FOX POTTERY 806 Old Santa Fe Trail, 820-0222 Lyn Fox, Whistlestop.

MANITOU GALLERIES 225 Canyon Road, 986-9833 Holiday Small Works.

MARIGOLD ARTS 424 Canyon Road, 982-4142 Carolyn Lankford, Robert Lyn Highsmith and Jim McLain.

MONROE GALLERY 112 Don Gaspar Ave., 992-0800 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. THE OWINGS GALLERY 120 E Marcy St., 982-6244 Holiday Treasures. Historic Selections. Both through Jan. 23 PATINA GALLERY 131 W Palace Ave., 986-3432 Claire Kahn.

PEYTON WRIGHT GALLERY 237 E Palace Ave., 989-9888 Group show, The Art of Devotion. Through March 11.

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

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f you find yourself standing in the 1200 block of Parkway Drive and take a look around, you’ll see the kinds of nondescript businesses that tend to reside in an industrial area: hardware, surveying, technology consulting, car repair and theater.

Wait, what? Theater?

Yes. That’s right. It’s the latest arts venture to spring up in the neighborhood along the Siler Road metamorphosing before our eyes.

The Adobe Rose Theater is slowly powering-up for its inaugural show, Luna Gale, by Rebecca Gilman, hitting the stage next Wednesday, Jan. 21.

“I really love socially relevant theater. [Gilman] really attacks social issues. You will see everybody in the play is imperfect and doing their best,” says Maureen Joyce McKenna, founder of the Adobe Rose. “Theater at its best is a visceral experience. It’s not two-dimensional like television. It’s an intimate space, and the audience becomes a character in the play.”

The gist of Luna Gale is: Meth heads have baby, baby is given to social services, social services temporarily places baby with mother of meth head, meth heads hate the religious bent of said mother, social worker caught in the middle, drama ensues. It’s a story arc that would be well suited to a Law and Order episode or a neo-noir film. Taking aim at child protective services and the religious right at the same time, it’s a heavy subject for a new theater right out of the gate.

“Gilman wanted people to look at the system, and to see how hard everybody is trying to make it work, but without funding, and without backing, and there’s always strings attached,” says Sabina Dunn, who plays the beleaguered social worker, Caroline. “And with the Christian thing, which is often the only kind of support poorer people have, without access to expensive mental health care, that there are strings attached to that too. People have very little [in the way of ] resources to turn to.”

“Good theater teaches empathy. You get to understand somebody that you might not like; gives you the

To Maureen Joyce McKenna, founder of the Adobe Rose, “theater matters.”

chance to walk in somebody else’s shoes,” says McKenna.

The evangelical Christian church features prominently in the production. Adam Harvey plays a minister with good yet skewed intentions toward the child.

“The issue, of course, that we’re dealing with now is that there’s a massive mistrust of any government agency in general. It’s pretty clear that these faithbased organizations are emboldened and empowered to take control. They have a lot more resources at their fingertips,” says Harvey.

The design of the theater itself is compelling. Intended as a “green” theater, the waste it would otherwise generate by set production is reduced via reusable and reconfigurable props and digitally projected mise-en-scène. This allows for a shift of perspective without the necessity for constructing separate scenery flats.

“It’s an incredibly wasteful process. A show runs for five or six weeks, unless you’re Phantom of the Opera and then you run for years, and then everything is just trashed. There’s got to be a better way,” says veteran theater designer Geoff Webb, who created the sets.

The solution was to use small digital projectors to cast still images against two screens suspended from the ceiling. “There’s no painting involved; the screens can be used show after show.”

For the initial show, all wardrobe and set furniture (aside from a clever table that has been custom-made for Transformer-like mutability) either belongs to the

cast or is bought from Goodwill, with plans to re-donate them after the show runs its course.

Adobe Rose also plans to offer classes in acting, directing, theater tech and other aspects of stage production starting in February, a plan that McKenna says allows for an organic growth of talent coming from inside its own walls. That, combined with a proposal to pay actors an Equity-level salary and offer more union opportunities, is part of how she aims to take Santa Fe theater to a whole new level.

“As an actor, I know how important it is to pay your actors. I would like it to be possible to put a life together here. So far, that’s not possible. Everybody has at least one job, rehearsals can only happen at night,” McKenna says. “Community theater is great, but that’s not what we’re doing here.”

McKenna takes no salary in an effort to keep administrative costs low. For her, the stage is a labor of love.

“The capital investment here is my own. My husband [Adobe Rose president and screenwriter Bruce McKenna] and I made this ourselves as a gift to our community.”

LUNA GALE 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, Jan. 21-Feb. 6 3 pm Sundays, Jan. 24 and 31 Adobe Rose Theater 1213 Parkway Drive, Ste. B 629-8688

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SPICE UP YOUR PANTRY, KEEP IT SUPER LOCAL Los Poblanos Historic Inn & Organic Farm is proud to unveil its latest small-batch product: hot sauce! Made by the kitchen staff at the inn using organic peppers grown on the farm, this stuff won’t stay on the shelves for long.

WANT MORE CONTROL OF YOUR CSA? There’s an app for that. Community Supported Agriculture programs, or CSAs, are fantastic. You pay up front to the local farmer of your choice, and a weekly or biweekly cornucopia of fresh produce from the farm is assembled and brought to a place nearer to you. The problem is, most CSA programs don’t allow consumers to choose what they get. It’s sort of a grab bag albeit of great stuff. The folks who created Farmigo want to give people more choice in their purchases by directly connecting farmers and consumers. It might even save both the farmer and the buyer some money.

FROM TRUCK TO BRICK Albuquerque food truck operators Ryan Seabrook (the Greek Geek) and Michele Haskins (Hot Off the Press) are ringing in the New Year with a brickand-mortar restaurant called the Olive Branch, set to open at 6910 Montgomery Blvd. NE in February. Mediterranean and American food will be the stars of the menu, and while Haskins’ truck is up for sale, Seabrook hopes to continue operating the Greek Geek when the new joint opens.

GO HOME, UNITED KINGDOM, YOU’RE DRUNK The UK’s chief medical officers have some bad news for British citizens who like to imbibe: Drinking is just awful for you, and you need to cut it way back or just quit. Citing recent research that there is an increased risk of some types of cancers in alcohol consumers as just one reason to cut back or get on the wagon, it may be a recommendation that everyone should consider.

SANDWICH ME Have you been looking at the sandwich porn on Santa Fe Culinary Academy’s Facebook page? If not, get over there sometime soon. The students have been ramping up their mad sammy skills in anticipation of the reopening of the student restaurant on the campus (on Thursday, Feb. 11). The menu is still a work in progress, but there is no denying these serious cooks have been doing the work of sandwich angels in anticipation of your arrival next month.

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Follow-up visit to Tune-Up delivers a breakfast of champions

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estled away on Hickox Street in a residential area sits the Tune-Up Café (1115 Hickox St., 983-7060). It’s a squat building with a covered patio seating area that lies unused due to the inclement weather—that is, unless you wish to take your repast in the snow and ice, in which case I applaud you. I’m sure there’s a game show where you can apply those talents.

Walking into the Tune-Up Café (formerly home to Dave’s Not Here) at 5:30 pm for dinner, I’m greeted

by Bob Marley. Not his ghost (though that would be interesting), but his music. It would be indicative of the chill atmosphere for the rest of my dining experience. The restaurant is sparsely populated at this point in the evening, which isn’t shocking considering the hour. The few people who did wander in found their way to the bar in the back.

There’s only one table occupied, and I’m invited to sit wherever I like. The atmosphere is cozy and eclectic.

Multicolored urchin pendant lights hang from the ceiling over each table, providing illumination and a likely trap for the tall or gesticulating jacket doff.

After hearing about the specials, I decide to attack the El Salvadorian combo ($12.95). Preceded by a side salad coupled with a delightful dressing, the main dish arrives: corn chicken tamal, flank steak pupusa and rice with a colorful cabbage relish called cortido as garnish—all served on a huge banana leaf. I have to admit that the tamal didn’t do it for me. It was remarkably soggy and fell apart when I looked in its general direction. It tasted

Steak and eggs and eggs and steak; it’s what’s for breakfast.

a bit mealy and didn’t want to stay on the fork. The rice was bland, and there wasn’t much on the plate to mix it with to provide some new taste sensations.

The pupusa, however, was killer. Filled with juicy steak and cheese, it poured from the crisp and wellformed dough shell. The texture was just right, with an amount of flakiness that has been dialed in to perfection. It’s clear that this is the specialty of the dinner menu. It’s just too bad that the rest of the plate couldn’t match its strength.

I topped it all off with a slice of carrot cake, which hit my table with a veritable thud, covered in a king’s ransom of cream cheese frosting. Unfortunately, the cake was a tad dry, despite having been baked that morning. I’m not sure what I was expecting in this department, so I wasn’t taken aback when I experienced “standard.”

Another weak spot in the meal was service. It’s lamentable that I wasn’t able to check with my server about refills for water or, really, anything. After I was given my dish, I was largely ignored until my plate was cleared. After the somewhat underwhelming dinner, I resolved to go back the next morning for breakfast.

I’m sure glad I did.

Steak and eggs ($9.95) is the go-to meal for all oldtimey bodybuilders everywhere. If you were to take a time machine back to the turn of the 20th century, steak and eggs is the best choice for fortifying your

constitution, followed by squat-thrusts and overhead dumbbell presses. It just so happens that getting this particular meal is also one helluva way to come back from an unfortunate dinner showing.

The eggs were perfect, gazing up at me (over easy) on a bed of Christmas chile, flanked by an excellent cut of cow, a small halved tortilla, and the best damn hash browns I have ever had in my entire life. All of these facets commingled together on the plate so well that I wished it would never end. The hash browns were stuffed with cheese, scallions and, apparently, love. Mixed with the juices from the steak, chile and egg yolk, it created a concoction that had its own gravitational pull. I ate the whole thing. I didn’t even feel bad about it.

The service was much better too, with prompt coffee delivery and smiles all around. Yet the lack of follow-up after servers deliver items ordered from the counter (that’s twice in a row now) made me wonder whether the restaurant—kind of a cafeteria hybrid— doesn’t intend to be full service.

I paid for my meal and left with a smile on my face.

Which is the best you can hope for from any breakfast experience. I decided against the squat-thrusts. With ice on the ground, it may have been a good way to pull a hamstring.

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PHOTO-EYE GALLERY 541 S Guadalupe St., 988-5152 Chaci Terada, Between Water & Sky. POP GALLERY 125 Lincoln Ave., Ste. 111, 820-0788 Winter Salon. Through March 31 RANGE WEST GALLERY 2861 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 474-0925 Shelly Johnson, Cirque de la Vie. RIEKE STUDIOS 416 Alta Vista St., 913-1215 Serena Rieke, Memento.

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

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

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

SANTA FE CLAY 545 Camino de la Familia, 984-1122 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.

SFUAD 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, 473-6440 Valerie Rangel, Don’t Kill the Messenger.

SORREL SKY GALLERY 125 W Palace Ave., 501-6555 Group show, Winter Wonderland. Jim Bagley, Deep into Nature. Gerald Balciar.

TRESA VORENBERG GOLDSMITHS 656 Canyon Road, 988-7215 Heyoka Merrifield, The New Treasures.

VERVE GALLERY OF PHOTOGRAPHY 219 E Marcy St., 982-5009 Micky Hoogendijk, New Works.

Aline Smithson, Self & Others.

Maggie Taylor, Well Then. All through Jan. 23 VIVO CONTEMPORARY 725 Canyon Road, 982-1320 Material Matters.

WAITS STUDIO WORKS 2855 Cooks Road, Ste. A,

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WIFORD GALLERY 403 Canyon Road, 982-2403 Barry Thomas, Voices of the West.

WILLIAM SIEGAL GALLERY 540 S Guadalupe St., 820-3300 Kathryn Keller.

EL ZAGUÁN 545 Canyon Road, 983-2567 Carolyn Riman, Advent.

MUSEUMS EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS 334 Los Pinos Road, 471-2261 Villagers clothed in the styles of the times depict life in early New Mexico.

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 From New York to New Mexico: Masterworks of American Modernism from the Vilcek Foundation Collection.

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Whereas there are any number of standout western films that occupy the pantheon of filmmaking, there has been an almost unnoticeable resurgence in postmodern, cerebral storytelling within the genre over the past two decades.

Films like Unforgiven, True Grit or even Ravenous took the stripped-down good guy rides horse to the showdown with bad guy trope and replaced it with concepts like obsession, racism, revenge, murder and intrigue that play out in the untapped frontier of a burgeoning na-

tion in fascinating ways.

Director Alejandro González Iñárritu—the man behind 2014’s brilliant Birdman—tackles these ideas in the new Leonardo DiCaprio-driven western, The Revenant. Set in 1800-something, DiCaprio plays Hugh Glass, a homesteader/survivalist type who, in a post-Civil-War American melting pot of violence and tense race relations, lives between conflicting planes of existence. We know little of Glass’s past other than he fathered a son with a Native American woman who was killed during the war. This death continues to haunt Glass some years later as he

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flight in a way that only serves to illustrate his drive. The real horror is found within the cruelty of man and the indifference of nature. And it is beautiful.

The stark contrasts between establishing shots of ominous towering trees or the fractured chaos of an icy river bend make the imagery of cold-blooded murder, survivalism and even rape seem far more startling than they already are, and as we struggle and fail to understand Fitzgerald’s motives, a point is reached where we too begin to relent to Glass’s bloodlust.

DiCaprio gives the performance of his career as a man who rarely speaks but can still convey more than his fair share of hurt. Even in something as simple as the vocalization of pain, he conveys a labored sense of life to which he clings only to achieve his goal.

The Revenant takes its time and forces us to confront its violence in almost uncomfortable ways, but this is actually refreshing. No scene or exchange seems unnecessary. Every last moment is riveting, and as far as the po-mo western is concerned, it sets a new standard in terms of the assumption that audiences can be intelligent and truly savor a slow burn.

THE REVENANT Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu With DiCaprio and Hardy Violet Crown 156 min.

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assists a hunting party from the Rocky Mountain Fur Company during a harsh winter on the wild and wooly American frontier.

Based on true events (Glass really did exist, y’all), the men must contend with the elements as well as a pursuing sortie of Native warriors hell-bent on finding the kidnapped daughter of their leader.

During the expedition, Glass is brutally mauled by a grizzly bear and ultimately left for dead by the villain of the piece, John Fitzgerald, a gutless wonder of self-absorption and greed who also murders Glass’s son right before him.

Against all odds, our hero survives and, propelled only by his thirst for revenge, traverses hundreds of miles while physically and mentally broken and alone.

It is intense, a twisted sort of love letter to a father’s love for his son. The constant solitude and indifference found in the vast unsettled expanses are crushing, and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki (Gravity, Children of Men) captures the bleak cold and hopelessness in such stunning detail that one can almost feel the frozen expanses looming ever closer; the closing darkness suffocating; the brisk winds clawing from all sides; the perils that lurk behind every tree and over every distant hill.

This is an exceptionally violent film in ways that may shock even the most desensitized viewer. But it is never gratuitous. Rather, with each decision Glass must make to survive, we are shown the true meaning of fight-or-

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STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS “the next chapter can’t come soon enough”

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THE HATEFUL EIGHT “one of 2015’s best films”

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Here’s the thing about Amy Poehler and Tina Fey (and most actors, with notable exceptions): They’re great at what they do, and they’re not so great at what they don’t do. I know, I know, shocker! This was precisely my problem with Sisters. Poehler plays to her strong suit or, rather, perhaps the suit that we’re all used to seeing her in: that of an overachieving, slightly overbearing professional person who more or less has her shit together in such a way that it hides her extreme insecurity. At least, that has been the character she’s been typecast as in television and now in this film. But in playing to Poehler’s strength, we see Fey’s weakness in performing an over-the-top party mom who can’t seem to figure her life out or to find a place of balance and, therefore, security for her child. Every line of Fey’s bellowing and bravado seems to be delivered without any believability. It comes across more like a half-hearted caricature and less like an actual person.

Sisters seemed somehow miscast, and there were some lost opportunities as a result. And while I’m all for performers pushing against the boundaries of what they’ve historically delivered, sometimes they end up failing to reach that goal. The chemistry between Poehler and Fey could not save the script they were working with, nor could the SNL alumni (and James Brolin), who lent their talents to the film.

When the leads’ childhood home goes up for sale to a snooty rich couple, the two go back to clean out their old bedrooms and decide for one last (or, as in the case of Poehler’s character, her first) night of youthful debauchery on their old stomping grounds. In an otherwise cliché script, there is some interesting commentary on the nature of changing identity in the face of age, but the examination of faded glory is short-lived.

The plot isn’t all that important, as the premise is merely a vehicle to get us to the raging second act party that serves up all the shenanigans. It’s this element that provides the comedy, aside from a wry smile now and then from the beginning and the (thankfully) short third act.

That’s not to say that the movie was a total failure. The second act is where I actually laughed out loud. It’s a fact that when a comedy movie gives that kind of reaction, it has succeeded. The laughs were hard won, however, in that the audience has to endure the lengthy establishment of relationships that do more to illustrate the connections between characters than is needed to pull off the gags. This is worth noting, considering that the heartstring payoffs the aforementioned relationshipbuilding segments ramp up to fall flat. A shame, that.

The cinematography was serviceable, though there were a few shots that were

poorly framed or entirely too soft to be used, but those cuts were only used for a couple of seconds. It’s just another piece of evidence that points to the possibility that the production may have been a little rushed.

What’s entirely baffling is that for an R-rating, the movie seems a little tame.

Maybe it was shot with the intention of being PG-13 but missed its mark.

Sometimes a film needs to bake a little bit longer to be just right, and it honestly feels like Sisters was pulled out of the oven a little too early. (BEN KENDALL) Violet Crown, R, 118 min.

THE BIG SHORT

What’s that old saying about how if you’re not pissed off, you’re not paying attention?

Obviously, this sentiment rings especially true in America, where the rich literally steal from the poor, and we know and allow it. The new film from director Adam McKay (Anchor Man), The Big Short, proves this beyond a possible doubt as we follow various bankers and fund managers who predicted and invested in the economic collapse of 2008. The true charm of the film isn’t in the stellar performances from big names like Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling or Christian Bale, but in the unspoken assumption that our heroes (or anti-heroes, as it were) believe they operate within a system that works. There is true doubt and disbelief as the characters finally absorb CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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ok Sisters, Sisters, something something something, Sisters. that the top brass at our nation’s banks not only were fraudulent criminals, they didn’t even care. This causes visceral and emotional reactions to these real-world events and reminds us as an audience, or as the American public, that there may not be an end when it comes to greed. Some of the imagery errs more toward the heavy-handed, and the true morality of the main players is nebulous at best. Additionally, the breaking of the fourth wall, while enjoyably humorous, recalls The Wolf of Wall Street perhaps a little more than the filmmakers should have been comfortable with, but given the lengths to which The Big Short goes to make its tedious and tiresome subject matter accessible, it becomes something akin to a PSA. This is the kind of film that should be shown in high school economics classes and a Cassandraesque warning that these fuckers are still out there preying on your dreams to this day, despite that all-important truth that is all too often lost on the soulless and the greedy: You can’t take it with you. (ADV) Regal, Violet Crown, R, 130 min.

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS

As Thursday wore on, SFR Art Director Anson Stevens-Bollen and I felt our Star Wars tickets burning holes in our respective pockets. Obviously the new installment from sci-fi overlord JJ Abrams had been highly anticipated by a couple of super-nerds like us, but even more than that, it represented a possible turning point for the series after the garbage of the prequel trilogy.

Now that we’ve seen the film, I am happy to report that it has essentially erased any concerns we may have had about the franchise while opening an exciting new chapter in the operatic space tale of love, loss and lasers.

Turns out the only thing Star Wars really needed was less George Lucas, and JJ Abrams has cobbled together an exciting mélange of the old and the new into a tight and action-packed story. The Empire, as we all know from Return of the Jedi, is no more, but a new shady and evil sect has risen in their place. The First Order is basically the same thing—maybe a little more Nazi-like—right down to the storm troopers, the mysterious and monstrous puppet master who pulls the strings from his throne and is like, I dunno, royalty or something, maybe, and the masked super-villain, Kylo Ren, who is so totally evil, but maybe there’s something about his past we don’t know yet that might explain why, and we’ll just have to be patient and find out.

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Anyway, everyone is looking for Luke Skywalker, who has disappeared under mysterious circumstances, and the fate of the galaxy rests on the shoulders of a precocious BB-8 droid that gives R2-D2 a serious run for his money, a beautiful lady scavenger who also has a mysterious past and a storm trooper in the midst of a crisis of conscience. Yeah, it’s badass. And far more complex than most of what Lucas had going on, not counting the baffling and pointless intergalactic political intrigue stuff we all had to suffer through. … Jar Jar Binks in the Senate? Shut up.

We shan’t delve into further details so as to not spoil it for those who haven’t been yet, but suffice it to say that some serious shit goes down. The true genius of Abrams’ vision is in the mirroring of certain aspects from the original trilogy while constantly expanding the details in satisfying ways. The battle of light vs. dark is the oldest story in existence, but through artfully executed moments of fan service via cameos, blink-and-miss-it background moments and the use of CGI as enhancement rather than focus, The Force Awakens solidifies itself in the canon while blasting its way into a league of its own. For every harrowing dogfight in space or samurai-esque light saber duel, there is a tantalizing emotional thread to follow or legitimately funny exchange to enjoy; for every gasp-inducing reveal or unbelievable plot twist, there is a beautiful vista or solid performance. Seriously, this movie is far better than you were probably prepared to hope for.

Of course, this is only the first chapter of a trilogy, so questions remain, but the heartwrenching final moments provide a satisfying conclusion while leaving the door wide open to take the story in any direction its caretakers desire. Longtime fans and initiates will find more than enough to love here, and no matter where you fall on the Star Wars love spectrum, one thing’s for sure—the next chapter can’t come soon enough. (ADV) Regal, Violet Crown, PG-13, 135 min.

THE HATEFUL EIGHT

Filmgoers have been champing at the bit for The Hateful Eight—director Quentin Tarantino’s eighth film and second Western— since he announced it in 2013. This visceral mystery, set a decade or so after the Civil War in rural Wyoming, was definitely worth the wait.

Over the course of three hours, The Hateful Eight tells the tale of bounty hunter John “The Hangman” Ruth (Kurt Russell) as he escorts

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Cinematographer Robert Richardson filmed The Hateful Eight in anamorphic 70mm for better picture quality, although most theaters will get the digital release. Nevertheless, the shots—whether panoramic and snowy or close-

up and blood-soaked—are all pitch-perfect for the genre. Tarantino’s entire career is built on homage, so it’s nice to see his usual flourishes in place here again, including the music.

Hateful features an original score by legendary composer Ennio Morricone, his first for a Western in 40 years. Although Morricone once said he’d never work with Tarantino again after Django Unchained, and Tarantino claimed that The Hateful Eight score is “absolutely abysmal,” it’s a perfect fit, brilliantly capturing the film’s moments of stillness, tension and fear.

Morricone’s score, Tarantino’s screenplay and Leigh’s conniving, feral performance as Domergue have already earned Golden Globe nominations. And rightfully so: The Hateful Eight is one of 2015’s best films. (Brianna Stallings) Jean Cocteau, Violet Crown, R, 192 min.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) You love autonomy. You specialize in getting the freedom and sovereignty you require. You are naturally skilled at securing your independence from influences that might constrain your imagination and limit your self-expression. But here’s a sticking point: If you want the power to help shape group processes, you must give up some of your autonomy. In order to motivate allies to work toward shared goals, you need to practice the art of interdependence.

The next test of your ability to do this is coming right up.

all over the body. You can kiss yourself to sleep.” I invite you to temporarily adopt this expansive obsession, Libra. The astrological omens suggest that you need more sweet slippery sensual tender interaction than usual. Why? Because it will unleash sweet slippery sensual tender emotions and sweet slippery sensual tender thoughts, all of which will awaken a surge of dormant creativity. Which you also need very much.

DR. JOANNA CORTI, DOM SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) “Everything has been said Powerful medicine, powerful before,” said French author André Gide, “but since results. Men’s health, prostatitis, TAURUS (April 20-May 20) “Nothing is really work nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginunless you’d rather be doing something else.” So said Removal of internal scarring. ning all over again.” I am happy to inform you that you’re Taurus writer James M. Barrie (1860-1937), who created about to be temporarily exempt from this cynical formu- Therapies: Transmedium psychic the Peter Pan stories. Your challenge and invitation in surgery, past life healing, lation. According to my reading of the astrological the coming months is to increase the amount of time homeopathy, acupuncture. omens, you will be able to drive home certain points you spend that does not qualify as work. In fact, why parasite/ liver and whole body that you have been trying to make over and over again don’t you see how much and how often you can indulge for quite a while. The people who most need to hear cleanse. 505-501-0439 in outright play? There’ll be no better way to attract them will finally be able to register your meaning. (P.S. Workman’s comp accepted. grace and generate good fortune.

This breakthrough will generate optimal results if you don’t gloat. Be grateful and understated.)

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Here’s my proposal: Get in touch with your madness. And don’t tell me you have no SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Do you want more madness. We all do. But listen: When I use the word money, Sagittarius? Are there treasures you wish you “madness,” I don’t mean howling rage, hurtful lunacy, or could have, but you can’t afford them? Do any exciting out-of-control misbehavior. I’m calling on the experiexperiences and life-enhancing adventures remain offmental part of you that isn’t always polite and reasonlimits because of limited resources? If your answer to able; the exuberant rebel who is attracted to wild truths any of these questions is yes, now would be an excellent rather than calming lies; the imaginative seeker who time to formulate plans and take action to gather pines for adventures on the frontiers of your underincreased wealth. I don’t guarantee total success if you standing. Now is an excellent time to tap into your inner do, but I promise that your chance to make progress will maverick. be higher than usual. Cosmic tendencies are leaning in

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) Here’s an excerpt from Dorianne Laux’s poem “Antilamentation”: “Regret nothing. Not the cruel novels you read to the end just to find out who killed the cook. Not the insipid movies that made you cry in the dark. Not the lover you left quivering in a hotel parking lot. Not the nights you called god names and cursed your mother, sunk like a dog in the living room couch, chewing your nails.” I’m giving you a good dose of Laux’s purifying rant in the hope that it will incite you to unleash your own. The time is favorable to summon an expanded appreciation for the twists and tweaks of your past, even those that seemed torturous in the moment. Laux doesn’t regret the TV set she threw out the upstairs window or the stuck onion rings she had to sweep off the dirty restaurant floor, and I hope you will be that inclusive.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “Modesty is the art of drawing attention to whatever it is you’re being humble about,” said Alfred E. Neuman, the fictitious absurdist whose likeness often appears on the cover of Mad magazine.

I’m here to tell you, Leo, that now is an excellent time to embody this aphorism. You are in a perfect position to launch a charm offensive by being outrageously unassuming. The less you brag about yourself and the more you praise other people, the better able you will be to get exactly what you want. Being unegotistical and nonnarcissistic is an excellent strategy for serving your selfish needs.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) “To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s,” says a character in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment. I don’t agree with that idea 100 percent of the time. Sometimes our wrong ideas are so delusional that we’re better off getting interrupted and redirected by the wiser insights of others. But for the near future, Virgo, I recommend Dostoyevsky’s prescription for your use. One of your key principles will be to brandish your unique perspectives. Even if they’re not entirely right and reasonable, they will lead you to what you need to learn next.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) “I love kissing,” testifies singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens. “If I could kiss all day, I would. I can’t stop thinking about kissing. I like kissing more than sex because there’s no end to it. You can kiss forever. You can kiss yourself into oblivion. You can kiss

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) “It’s a terrible thing to wait until you’re ready,” proclaims actor Hugh Laurie. He goes even further: “No one is ever ready to do anything.

There is almost no such thing as ready.” His counsel is too extreme for my tastes. I believe that proper preparation is often essential. We’ve got to get educated about the challenges we want to take on. We need to develop at least some skills to help us master our beloved goals.

On the other hand, it’s impossible to ever be perfectly prepared and educated and skilled. If you postpone your quantum leaps of faith until every contingency has been accounted for, you’ll never leap. Right now, Capricorn, Laurie’s view is good advice.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Fate has transformed a part of your life that you didn’t feel ready to have transformed. I won’t offer my condolences, though, because I’ve guessed a secret that you don’t know about yet. The mythic fact, as I see it, is that whatever you imagine you have had to let go of will ultimately come back to you in a revised and revivified form -- maybe sooner than you think. Endings and beginnings are weaving their mysteries together in unforeseen ways. Be receptive to enigmatic surprises.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Good news: Your eagerness to think big is one of your superpowers. Bad news: It’s also one of your liabilities. Although it enables you to see how everything fits together, it may cause you to overlook details about what’s undermining you. Good news: Your capacity for intense empathy is a healing balm for both others and yourself. At least potentially, it means you can be a genius of intimacy. Bad news: Your intense empathy can make you fall prey to the emotional manipulation of people with whom you empathize.

Good news: Your willingness to explore darkness is what makes your intelligence so profound. Bad news: But that’s also why you have to wrestle so fiercely with fear.

Good news: In the next four weeks, the positive aspects of all the above qualities will be ascendant.

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