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IRONING THE BUDGET

CATCHING UP WITH HIM

City Council doesn’t have it exactly wrinkle free yet, but plans to increase taxes and shuffle money from the water company are part of the plan to get Santa Fe’s bottom line toward being in the black.

Former state Sen. Phil Griego vows to fight the nine criminal charges filed against him by the attorney general. From fraud to bribery and perjury, the case springs from a shady real estate deal.

Give Up on Your Stupid Dream

BY MIL J E N ALJ I N OVI C

“Like a death of the heart Jesus, where do I start?

But you’re still the one pool where I’d happily drown.”

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he time has come, friends, for me to move on. It’s hard to put into words what the last couple of years have meant to me, both in returning to the home I’d once abandoned and in being able to share my thoughts on that home with all of you. As I’ve told every one of you who has reached out to share a beer or a few words throughout the run of “Born Here,” hearing from you, meeting with you, and finding out that there are those who not only grokked my words, but looked forward to them every two weeks, has been the most rewarding experience of my young life. But like all such experiences, it’s now time to pack it into a cherished memory and move on to what’s next.

You’ll be glad to know that, while I’m once again leaving our enigmatic little city in the sky, unlike last time, I’m not doing it with any bitterness or resentment in my heart. I’ve always thought of Santa Fe as that old couch in your parents’ living room. It’s comfortable, it’s familiar. It’s yours in a way, but you didn’t really pay for it. I have spent large chunks of my life just sitting on that couch (both literally and metaphorically), smoking joints, playing video games and waiting to grow up. But eventually, you have to get off the couch, go into the world and do things. And as I prepare to begin this next chapter of my life, I figured I’d leave you with a few personal wisdoms I’ve gleaned from the last.

The most important thing I learned from the last five years is the title of this

column. In our society, where “anyone can grow up to be whatever they want,” nobody would ever try to give that advice as a form of encouragement, but that’s exactly how I mean it. It took me 28 years to realize that just because you “want” to be something doesn’t mean you’re qualified or, more importantly, that you’d even enjoy it. I always wanted to be a rock star. But I’m neither skilled enough nor committed to all the bullshit outside playing music with your friends that goes into making a rock star. Of course, this didn’t stop me from half-heartedly following arbitrary steps that felt like they might lead me to that goal, for the better part of a decade.

My point is that, instead of having some grandiose vision of who or what you’re “supposed to be,” try just doing things for a while. My mantra over the last few months has been, “Do the thing.” Don’t think about the outcome or reward, don’t hope you do a good job, just do the thing. Did you enjoy doing the thing? Shut up and do it again.

Because if you do something that you love the act of doing, the results stop mattering. And suddenly, you’re free.

The other thing I learned is to remove the word “forever” from my vocabulary. Of all the things you promised you’d never do in life, there is not one you won’t try immediately, the moment you realize it might make you happy. So while I’m leaving, and I plan to do a lot of things before I return, don’t think for a second I won’t be back one day. That’s how Santa Fe works.

Eventually, we all come home.

Until then, thank you for this, my Dudes. And abide.

Follow Miljen on his future adventures at santafegonzo.blogspot.com, or email him when you’re sad at flyingpenguin157@gmail.com

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NEWS be that I think I see myself as an agent of change, and I saw things that really needed to be changed. I stuck with it.

What do you hope people remember about your service? What is your legacy?

A Q&A with Santa Fe’s recordsetting city councilor

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atti Bushee’s era as the longest-serving councilor in the city’s history is over. With a role so much greater than one declarative sentence can explain, she was first appointed to council in 1994 by firecracker Mayor Debbie Jaramillo, then elected five times, serving a total of 22 years on the council. Even as the task of cleaning out her office at City Hall still isn’t quite done, Bushee cast her final vote from the dais on Feb. 24. By the time you read this, voters will have picked a new representative for District 1.

On the eve of the election, SFR caught up with Bushee over a glass of sangria to say goodbye.

SFR: Kim Jong-Il also took power in 1994; what was your strategy for hanging onto it?

Bushee: Power! You use a very strong word.

That’s also the same year that Debbie came on [as mayor], if you want to keep it on the local level. What was the question?

What was your strategy for lasting so long?

Oh, my staying power? I guess I just forgot to look at the calendar and didn’t realize that I had given up my mid-30s to my mid50s to this little town. Honestly, I took every four-year term as if it were a new college degree for myself, you know, learning who I was within the context of my community, just different accomplishments that I wanted to achieve. … At a certain point, I believe I became more invested. I often thought, It doesn’t have to be me to do this job; if there is somebody really good that wants to do this job and is very passionate about it, I want to relinquish this seat. I never really kind of encountered that. I didn’t find people running for the right reasons very often. They were often just kind of like, I don’t know, the same stuff we had forever, and I really wanted to effect change. So I guess the answer in the end would

You still have to make decisions, and I hope that people grow into positions and really develop their strengths, and let’s hope they develop a backbone, whatever that means to them.

Do you have any regrets?

As much as you guys like to sell papers and say OK, I had no big ambitions. Honestly. The two shots at the council was at odds—we really, most of the time mayor, the first time I got in the race last and spent the least, and it was really to raise the issue about wathat I can remember, didn’t take it ter. I don’t know why I wanted to, at personally, came back around and the time. In fact, I almost regret this said, “All right, we have to get this last run, just timing-wise with everydone.” I guess my legacy, if you have thing, with my dad dying and everySometimes to point it, is that I hope that we thing. That was very hard. That was put our water conservation in good hard. I wish I could kind of have that you just kind of stead, because we didn’t have anytime back. thing in place, and also civil rights have to listen to of all kinds … and quality of life, like Are the councilors today facing our trails. your gut more a different world than you were facing when you first came on the Did you change your mind about than any other council? anything? Had a major reversal?

The economic times have shifted. But thing and just I can remember when Café Estethat has been for the last seven years, van asked for a license on Agua Fría, so you should have had some time to go with it. and the neighbors were just against adjust to that. In fact, I think we have any commercial activity, not done as good of a job as we could and that Guadalupe have. We have not said no enough neighborhood, it times.

Really.

I tried where I could … I spent a lot of was tough. This is not a huge earthtime talking about the tale of two cities, and a lot of it shattering issue, but when I got was educating the northern part of my district about to visit with Estevan and took my what was or was not happening on the Southside. I time and visited with the different would love to see us come together around some of groups of people … he convinced these really touchy issues, but with no money, there’s me that it was not going to be a not going to be a lot that gets done. problem, that it was good to have a business there. … I tried to do my research before I went in so that What needs to happen to have Santa Fe turn the I had a solid basis for the deci- corner and get on better economic footing? sion. But sometimes you just The last two mayors, generally speaking, have had kind of have to listen to your kind of a government bureaucrat mindset, and that gut more than any other thing is not reality. And so when it comes to balancing the budget or running an enterprise fund like the water and just go with it. company, you really have to approach it differently.

It cannot be that it is just a slush fund. It is not susWhat other advice do you have for the people who tainable. And that is what I mean about not saying no to some big things; systemically, I really wanted come after you, serving on the City Council? to change how we did business over there. And noYou need to listen for body wants to, nobody really wants to make change your first year, at least, that way. … To some degree, people inherit jobs over more than you talk. there. I am not saying that is only the case, but that And really absorb. kind of system has to change. That old pattern of cronyism, that is also the not-saying-no.

So what is next for you? Are you thinking about retirement?

I am 56, so if you put “semi” in front of it, it sounds more like what I’m going to do.

You’re not going to run for Phil Griego’s seat?

No, I don’t live in that district. Name one seat, and I will tell you no. I am running for the border. Literally, Mexico is on my list. I have a long list of places to go. I have friends with places in Nicaragua, and I’m gonna bring my Spanish back out and brush it up, and I’ve got two dogs, so if anybody is looking for two little dogs to take care of [over] the summer ...

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ast year, when medical cannabis harvest yield reports confirmed chronic shortages around the state, New Mexico Health Department Secretary Retta Ward settled on two approaches to provide safe access to thousands of registered patients.

In February 2015, Ward authorized the state’s 23 current producers to triple the number of plants they could grow. In March, she sent pot prospectors scrambling to compete for a dozen new producer licenses after she opened the application process for the first time since Gov. Susana Martinez was elected in 2010.

It’s that second step in Ward’s action plan that is raising eyebrows about potential cronyism and conflicts of interest in the awarding of the licenses.

While fewer than 15 percent of those who applied were tapped to become commercial cannabis producers, an SFR investigation reveals that one of the winning nonprofits had ties to Michal Hayes, an attorney who worked for the Department of Health at the time.

Public records show that even though Hayes was on the board of directors of Keyway Inc. when the Santa Fe nonprofit applied to the department in May, she didn’t move to another state job until more than a month after the nonprofit learned in October that it had made the cut.

SFR confirmed Hayes’ role with Keyway after reviewing the nonprofit’s bylaws. Hayes signed that public document, along with Keyway’s executive director Matt Clarke, before it was recorded with the New Mexico Corporations Bureau, just before the license application deadline.

After a two-month investigation, it’s still unclear if Hayes, who transferred to another assistant general counsel job at the Aging and Long-Term Services Department, ever disclosed her involvement to Ward or her supervisors before the applications were evaluated, scored and ranked last summer.

Kenny Vigil, a spokesman for both departments, would not answer SFR’s specific questions about whether Hayes made the disclosure.

Vigil, who routinely denies requests for interviews and instead demands written inquiries, declined to make Ward or Hayes available to talk about the situation and dodged our yes-or-no question: Did NMDOH know Michal Hayes was serving on Keyway’s board during the application evaluation process?

Instead, Vigil claims that Ward “did not look at names of applicants” prior to making her final selections. Vigil also insists Hayes never “provided the [medical cannabis] program any legal advice” and “was not involved in the evaluation of applications,”

even though the department has acknowledged Hayes’ general contributions in the agency’s overall strategic planning report for fiscal years 2014-2016.

Hayes, a Humboldt State University history graduate who later earned a law degree in Vermont and spent more than three years at NMDOH, also did not respond to SFR’s request for interviews before publication. Clarke, a private attorney in Santa Fe, did not reply to email and phone inquiries about why he put a health department employee on his board.

The nonprofit bylaws explain that Hayes doesn’t earn compensation for her work on the board, yet

An SFR investigation reveals that one of the winning nonprofits had ties to Michal Hayes, an attorney who worked for the Department of Health at the time. her involvement with Keyway is raising red flags for some lawmakers, as well as would-be growers whose own license applications were rejected.

Karen DeSoto tells SFR the plans she submitted to grow and dispense cannabis were denied, even though she was preparing to set up in a rural part of the state.

“They told us that was their priority last year,” says DeSoto, who hoped to open a shop in Grants.

“No one on our all-Hispanic-women team is politically connected,” she says, wondering aloud if those facts dampened their chances. Evaluators who hold high positions in the health department, she says, “don’t know me from Adam.”

DeSoto says she suspects her application was set aside to make room for Hayes and another high-profile application backed by former state Public Safety Secretary Darren White. She doesn’t buy the depart-

ment’s claim that Hayes was completely separated from the process.

“Of course there is going to be some bias. If you see a name of a person you work with on the application, it’s human nature to want to score them higher,” says Soto.

She claims the health department employees and their family members should have been ineligible to apply for a license or sit on a nonprofit’s board.

“It looks bad,” says Jason Marks, an attorney and former public regulation commissioner, who helped Southwest Wellness Center in Taos with their winning application. “But the way the health department has described the process, it doesn’t appear to be a conflict of interest.”

“It’s the kind of thing that looks funny to the public and undercuts confidence in the process that should ensure that nobody gets special treatment,” Marks adds, before suggesting a counterargument: “State employees don’t give up their rights to associate with people to form a nonprofit.”

But state Rep. Deborah Armstrong, D-Albuquerque, tells SFR she thinks Hayes’ role with Keyway has the appearance of a conflict of interest.

“Her interests should be fully disclosed, and (the health department) should assure the public that Ms. Hayes did not inappropriately influence the selection of cannabis producers,” says Armstrong.

SFR asked the governor’s staff if they believe Hayes’ board position violated the Code of Conduct but never received an answer.

The policy requires employees to make a “full disclosure of real or potential conflicts of interest” as a “guiding principle for determining appropriate conduct.” When the new code was instituted in April 2011, Scott Darnell, a senior advisor to the governor, said Martinez “believes that public officials should be motivated by a desire to serve—not by a desire to make money based on contacts or influence that is developed while working in state government.”

While the state health department says it needs more time to provide documents about all the nonprofits that applied for licenses last year, a rule change that went into effect Monday led officials to publish information about existing commercial cannabis producers and those still undergoing the license process.

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AT WISE FOOL’S TRAPEZE CLASS, FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER

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here’s a special kind of terror when holding your own weight for an extended period of time, while hanging inverted from a trapeze. Loosen your grip, and gravity’s takeover will be swift and punishing.

Weighing in at 200 pounds, I’m not exactly svelte. I don’t have what might pop into mind when you think “trapeze body.” My hands quickly shed the chalk I’ve applied to absorb sweat and help me hang on. Soon, they’re bleeding. And my goodness, do they ache. I can trace the line of my fifth, fourth and third metacarpal bones via the linear bruises on my palms. My triceps are completely exhausted, and I have difficulty holding my weight in any position. The back of my knees and my oblique abdominals silently protest when I walk.

And it’s only the end of my first class.

I wonder if I will be able to use my hands tomorrow. Carrying my substantial weight for an hour and a half (off and on) did a number on them. I can feel the intense build-up of lactic acid in my forearms. Closing my fists is a chore. I wasn’t afraid of the work that a sixweek trapeze class entailed, but I was afraid of injuring myself. In my mind’s eye, I could see myself toppling off the bar and landing face-first onto the floor, my body folding up over my neck to the tune of a sickening crunch. I still can.

A certain romantic appeal accompanies the circus. To many, it’s a big-top escape, always on the periphery of town, concealing a motley group of theatrical rogues, high-wire athletes and Eldritch mysteries behind a tent flap in dust-diffused twilight. If there’s ever somewhere to run away to, the circus is always waiting in the wings of life, if only in the foggy recesses of an adult imagination.

It certainly captured mine. I always wanted to run away with the circus, and really, who wouldn’t? But beneath the glamour of performance was a personal battle with fear and self-expectation.

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art and skills of the big top to anyone. At $98 for the six-week term, it’s a little bit of an investment, but that’s understandable. It’s easy to get excited about an adventure, but most people aren’t prepared for the work involved.

The first time I approach the trapeze bar, I admit there is a fair amount of concern in the back of my mind. Though the rope that connects the bar on either end looks sturdy enough, there’s that splinter in my brain that bothers me with, “You’re too heavy.

You’re out of shape.” It also didn’t help that my shoulder had been previously injured. Even that wasn’t from some athletic feat. I just slept on it wrong.

At 33, I already have a long line of healed and semi-healed injuries from my old pastime of Brazilian jiujitsu, and from exercise mishaps. As I rub the chalk on my hands one last time to make sure that my grip finds purchase, I begin mentally tabulating them. Will my elbows be able to hold my weight?

They haven’t been working too well lately. My neck and shoulders feel pretty tight, which is usually how they feel right before I hear that pop that lets me know I’ve just hurt myself—worse.

I look up to the friendly, expectant eyes of one of our co-instructors, Zeke Farrell. A young man, tall and without an ounce of fat on him, he seems like a coil of wiry strength with a grace that exceeds his shape, as if that’s possible; he’s nearly superhuman.

He’s also something like 10 years younger than me. I feel a little ashamed. I should be more like that guy.

“It’s all right, I’m here to help,” Farrell says.

It’s a small consolation. I outweigh Farrell by maybe 60 pounds, and despite his strength, I begin to wonder about just how he’d stop my head from careening into the ground. There’s a thick crash

pad on the floor, but my worries begin to accumulate.

I’m dubious that it would stop me from getting grievously injured if I took a nose-dive into it.

I grip the bar and hang, ready to push off the ground, aiming to hoist my legs in front of my face and connect the backs of my knees to the bar. I fail. The blood rushes to my face as I feel intense embarrassment. It must look like I’m just a flailing child, or somebody having a seizure. Grunts of effort escape my mouth, when I’m not holding my breath. And this wasn’t even the hardest part.

SECRET ORIGINS Wise Fool has its roots in social justice, explains founder Amy Christian as she sits in the small office area of the warehouse that makes up the studio. Beginning as a puppet-oriented street theater in San Francisco, the performers who comprise Wise Fool traveled in 1997 to rural Mexico to provide food and entertainment during the Zapatista rebellion. They were scheduled to perform in the village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas on Dec. 22, 1997, but never got the chance. That day would go down in infamy when the paramilitary group Red Mask massacred 45 people. Instead, Wise Fool gave succor to the refugees of the violence in San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico, after government forces confiscated the troupe’s passports and kept them away from Acteal.

“We were performing basically for kids that had literally dug themselves out from underneath their dead families, and that’s the only reason they were alive,” Christian says.

“We founded Wise Fool New Mexico as a fresh company that had roots in San Francisco, but we really came to it with an intentional perspective. But

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the work in Chiapas really was the spark that [started Wise Fool New Mexico]. It really played a big role in our company coming here.”

It was in Mexico that the troupe performed as a true circus, with puppets, aerialists and a ring to perform in. “We look at circus as being a way for people to recognize their own power and move beyond what they think is possible, or to do something to help make their voice bigger—to make the image you want to create bigger than life, so people will pay attention,” Christian says, explaining the transition.

Wise Fool isn’t just a circus arts studio; it’s also a social justice-oriented organization—a social circus that’s been recognized by the American Youth Circus Organization as having a positive impact in the lives of at-risk youth and the disenfranchised.

“We can stand in the street and protest, and people will ignore us,” Christian says. “But if we make a big, giant, beautiful puppet, people want to know what you’re doing. And then you can initiate a dialogue.”

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NO MAN IS AN ISLAND I’m one of four dudes in the room and the only one wearing tights. The makeup of the class definitely skews young and female. Out of roughly 40 people, about 14 of us are here for the trapeze class. The remaining are beginners on aerial silks. Two of the three other men appear to be close to 50, if not older.

The warmups aren’t as intense as I expected, but the true work begins once you get up on the bar.

When people think about trapeze, they think about the “flying” version, swinging back and forth. I imagined being clad in a rhinestone-studded leotard and joining the club of ultraathletic men and women catching each other in death-defying feats of skill and courage.

Much to my disappointment, this is not the trapeze that Wise Fool teaches.

It’s a static bar suspended above the ground. You toss yourself (or, if you’re good enough, another person) around a stationary bar and rope. In retro-

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spect, just getting close to comfortable with this much air-time is enough.

The fear is still there, and when you get up on a 5-foot trapeze, it’s much higher than you think. At 6 feet tall, my point-of-view is 11 feet from the ground. And that’s not the highest trapeze. There’s an 8-foot rig suspended from the ceiling, away from the beginners, coiled away in the rafters, like a resting spider waiting to ensnare another victim.

Standing up on the trapeze comes about midway through the first class.

To stand, you have to be hanging from your knees with your hands on the rope and lunge one leg in front of you, for your foot to gain purchase on the bar.

When I first place both feet down, I feel like a gimbal moving in all directions.

My body reflexively starts making micro-corrections in my stance. I guess you could say I was shaking. Standing on a 1-inch-circumference piece of pipe suspended between two long ropes is apparently going to take some

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Zeke Farrell (standing) is a badass. Just saying.

After just a few weeks, it’s possible to muddle along in a presentable fashion and almost look like you know what you’re doing. Here are a few of my favorite poses that I’ve learned.

1. The Archer is accomplished by pulling yourself up the ropes and weaving your legs around the front. Push and pull and look cool.

2. The Mermaid (or in my case, merman) is pretty easy; hook your feet behind a rope and let go with one hand. The trick is trying to figure out how to take weight off of your one hand and distribute it to your feet.

3. The Dreaded Lyra Lyra. Climbing up inside it is the

difficult part. I’m just a little too big for the Man in the Moon.

4. My second favorite favorite, The Coffin. Despite its

macabre name, it’s remarkably simple. It seemed to me the least dangerous of the four.

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A TALE OF TWO DAVES My classmates include two middle-aged Daves—at least at first. In my internal monologue, I think of them as Medium Dave and Silver Dave. Silver Dave is so named for his near-flattop haircut that’s a shock of silvery-gray. His mustache is reminiscent of every highway patrol officer you ever met. Soon, he’s huffing and puffing; he may have an old knee injury, considering the difficulty he’s having standing on the bar or maneuvering beneath it. His wife is trying the aerial silks.

We don’t see them after the first class.

Neither large nor small, Medium Dave Jackson, 51, and his girlfriend, Elizabeth Jeffreys, 49, appear again at the second class. The couple is outside the dominant age demographic, but they’re keen to step up for every new pose the instructors teach us. “We have desk jobs, and it’s taking its toll on us. We needed an interesting way [to work out]. We tried running, but Dave fell out of love with running—he never fell in love with running,” Jeffreys says over drinks at Cowgirl.

“They didn’t mention we were going to be hanging from our arms. I had some issues with the class, because my shoulders kept hurting. And when you’re our age, and we’re roughly middle aged, it tears your muscles down, and it takes longer to recover,” Jackson adds. “If you haven’t been hanging from the ceiling for work, you’re using muscles that you haven’t used in a while. But there was something charming about going back to kindergarten, in a way, and looking at your toes.”

Jackson had a self-described problem with heights before he started the class. “I’d been working on it for a couple of years, and I thought I was over it, until a few days before the first class. It’s not that I had a fear

of heights, I just have a fear of falling. But the moment I went in and saw the process the instructor was going through, I just thought, I’m going to go up there and have fun.”

I was impressed that the couple continued to show up, only missing one or two sessions. It’s true that each passing year can affect your ability to be physical in any capacity. It doesn’t have to be so connected.

Trapeze seems to have this leveling effect. It’s hard for all of us.

The second class introduces us to the lyra, a suspended hoop. The lyra is a completely different animal, and my sworn enemy. With no hard angles to control, even getting on one is a serious challenge. It takes me the entire class (and a remarkable amount of cursing) to hop up inside one. The pose we learn on the lyra is called man in the moon. You place the bar more or less between your buttocks and place your feet higher within the hoop. The effect is that of a gentle repose. It feels like anything but.

VIGILANT GAZE I caught the creeping crud. It had been making its rounds in the area and put me flat on my back for a class, and so I decide to make up for it by getting a private lesson. This time, it takes place on the eight-foot trapeze. Grasping the bar and hauling my rear end toward my face somehow seemed easier, despite the added challenge of height. When you’re on the higher

bar, there isn’t much that an instructor can do to spot you. If you fall, the only thing they can do is bear witness to your impending doom. Every shake and tremble seems to become more amplified with the height.

With focused attention, I make small adjustments here and there. Before I know it, all the small adjustments add up to one moderate improvement: I don’t need help up the bar any longer. I am relieved. This meant I could work on embarrassing myself in other ways.

By the time we get to the last class, its size has exponentially decreased. Out of the 14 or so people who started, only five remain. Circus arts are for everybody, but they’re not “for everybody.” It can be a mentally difficult process, as it challenges your fears and ego. There’s a resistance to looking ridiculous that I experienced which I haven’t felt since junior high school. We all bring our personal demons to any type of adventure that pushes us out of our comfort zone.

However, I can attest that it is some of the most fun that I’d had in a very long time. There’s more possible than I imagined when I began. There’s a challenge between yourself and the bar, and a little bit of a charge knowing that you’re in a dangerous situation, with only yourself to count on. I might not be ready to run away with the circus yet, but I’m eager to continue to test myself. Maybe one day, I’ll be a “Flying Kendall.”

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practice and time, something the co-instructor Ilana Blankman calls “getting used to the view.”

Blankman, who doubles as the youth and adult programs director at Wise Fool, is a legit circus performer with experience in a traditional red-tent circus touring around England. “After I turned 30, I quit my job and went to circus school in England for a year. I left early because I got a job touring with a traditional company, and we would go to the smallest little towns in England. I mean, they would have, maybe, a pub.

And that’s it. It was the most boring job I’d ever had, and I was a grant writer before that,” says Blankman.

After a short while living the circus life, Blankman said goodbye to the big red tent and moved back to the States, where she started teaching circus arts in New Mexico. “I love teaching. I love to see the little victories of my students every day. It’s about watching the joy in someone’s face when they go upside down for the first time in 50 years.”

As a performer, she adds, “I love the endless ways that you can twist yourself up, and fall, and fly, and also create meaning with your body.”

The techniques have names like dolphin, angel, half-angel and bird’s nest. Watching experts move from one pose to the next, their grace belies the strength and coordination involved. I have this persistent feeling that I should be learning faster, I should be in better shape than I am, or I shouldn’t have gotten as far out of shape as I have. Trapeze demands that I confront how I look at myself, especially my self-talk.

There’s no room for anything but total concentration when you’re suspended above the ground. Anything less is taking too much of a risk.

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SISTER, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME BAG? Don’t let the subject matter fool you, none of this is too serious. That’s what Nonnie Thompson made clear about her upcoming exhibit at Eye on the Mountain Gallery, Suppression Creates Desire.

It’s an examination of powerful cultural icons and the connotations they carry. “I’m attracted to cultural statements. We’re bombarded with them, and they contradict,” Thompson says. “I approach my paintings with a sense of humor and whimsy. … I add a little edge, a little twist.” Thompson’s vivid and light-hearted paintings make it okay to giggle a bit while working through the confusion.

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Love Story Rock ‘n’ roll ‘n’ love, how sweet it is the light meeting the dark, an unexpected combination that can brilliantly tell a love story without losing the allimportant bittersweet notion of such a tale. Yes, as songwriters, their styles are quite different, but despite genre differences, they still do complement one another.

“We’re definitely independent thinkers and independent songwriters, but we’re playing off each other,” Leon says. “I’ll write a song about her, she’ll write a song about me, and those come together.”

In case you haven’t seen what either of these musicians are capable of, this is the perfect chance. Truly we’re losing some special songwriters here, folks, which would make their upcoming Palace show a do-not-miss.

“I just love that red velvet room,” Leon adds wistfully. “Anyway, Santa Fe is home, so it might just be a temporary leaving.”

Fingers crossed, Santa Fe. (Alex De Vore) ANTHONY LEON AND PAIGE BARTON: 10 pm Wednesday, March 2. Free.

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How does an individual affect a community? This is the driving question behind The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, a play opening this Thursday and showing through the weekend. Leonard, a flamboyant 14-yearold, goes missing from a sleepy New Jersey town, and the community struggles to understand what is left behind. Definitely not a tragedy, the one-person show is a celebration of identity and what other people reveal about us. “It’s really about showing us what our ripple is,” says producer Cecile Lipworth. Within this framework, the piece makes a poignant statement about our perceptions of LGBT+ people and what the youth in that community can teach us. (CR) The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey: 7 pm Saturday, March 5. $25. Adobe Rose Theatre, 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688

MUSIC GO, BRAH Local troubadour Gerry Carthy is about as Irish as it gets— more so, even. But really, that’s basically what you want from a man who is out to bring Irish music to the masses with a mix of vocals and multiple instruments.

“My influences would be the innovative folk from the Irish music of the ’60s,” Carthy says.

“Even the American folk movement, which was very popular in Ireland, because there was a lot of crossover.” It makes for a lively time steeped in tradition, yes, but definitely full of energy and good vibes in an intimate setting.

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Sad news, Santa Fe: Musicians Anthony Leon and Paige Barton’s days playing music in town are numbered, as they’ll be heading to greener pastures in Florida at the end of March. But it’s not all bad, as there are still chances to catch these stellar musicians before they go. Leon is, of course, best known for his work with his band The Chain, a rollicking take on country rock that has proven one of the most energetic and ass-kicking shows in town. For her part, Barton’s membership in Americana act Hot Honey perfectly counterbalances Leon’s whiskeysoaked and cigarette smoke aesthetic with a sweeter sound best described as pretty. Together, they’re practically unstoppable, the kind of rock ’n’ roll pairing that dreams are made of.

“We tell the story of rock star love,” Leon tells us from someplace on the road with The Chain. “We play a lot of my songs and a lot of Paige’s songs, there are a lot of originals in there, and it’s the story of falling in love, breaking up, getting back together.”

Vocal harmonies will obviously play a major role in a Leon/Barton performance, with Paige’s flawless pitch pulling Anthony’s Hank Williams-esque croon into a new light. It’s almost like

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WED/2 BOOKS/LECTURES DAVID GUZZLER Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W Marcy St., 955-6590 Santa Fe Watershed Association presents Guzzler, professor of meteorology and climatology at UNM, who explains how climate change is killing the environment.

5:30 pm, free DAVID STEWART School for Advanced Research 660 Garcia St., 954-7200 UNM’s Stewart gives a talk titled Four Families and Their Quest for the American Dream Part II: 1770s-1940.

Noon, free

DANCE WINGTIPS & WINDSORS Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Despite the war crime that was Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, swing dancing lives on, and you can participate. There's a dance lesson, too.

6:30 pm, $3-$5

EVENTS FREE TAX PREPARATION Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 SFCC accounting students are among 75 volunteers willing to assist anyone with their taxes.

8:30 am, free SOCIETY FOR CREATIVE ANACHRONISM Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 Learn about the arts and sciences of the medieval-ish era with lots of other history dorks and culture nerds just like you.

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

11 am, free TAPS AND TABLETOPS Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 This event will cast a level five awesome spell on all y'all as tabletop gaming in the theater owned by George RR Martin is, like, number one on your ultranerd scavenger hunt. Excelsior!

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“Horse Kachina” by John Farnsworth is part of the Essential Visions exhibit at Sorrell Sky Gallery, beginning Friday.

WORLD TAVERN POKER Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 It's poker. You know poker.

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MUSIC ANTHONY LEON AND PAIGE BARTON The Palace 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Country and bluegrass; come and check ‘em out before they leave town. Yeehaw! (See SFR Picks, page 19.)

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BRANDEN JAMES Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Pianist/vocalist Branden James (from the television program America’s Got Talent) joins Australian cellist James Clark for a musical residency that's just, like, so chock-full-o' music.

7 pm, free CS ROCKSHOW La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock, other rock, rock covers, rockin' rock and rocky rock rockers who rock that rock. ¡Rawk!

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FLASH FORWARD WITH DJ POETICS Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 It’s like a musical version of the Tom Hanks movie Big, in that you’re given a grim glimpse into a potential future.

But it’s not all bad. This is about ’80s Top 40 covers and groovin’ at the Skylight.

8 pm, free JOAQUIN GALLEGOS El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Flamenco guitar and other surprises from the legendary local.

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RAMON BERMUDEZ JR. TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Latin and smooth jazz guitar.

6 pm, free RUSSELL JAMES PYLE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana that’ll probably be a perfect pairing with that ice cream baked potato thing they do. That thing is nuts. Try it, you’ll like it, we bet.

8 pm, free TAKEOVER WEDNESDAYS WITH MANDY MAS The Underground 200 W San Francisco St. Hip-hop and more from Evangelo’s subterranean lair.

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TAO: SEVENTEEN SAMURAI Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Japanese taiko drummers? So rad, you guys.

7 pm, $20-$55 TINY’S ELECTRIC JAM WITH NICK WYMETT AND ALBERT DIAZ Tiny’s 1005 S St. Francis Dr., 983-9817 Perform with your colleagues but secretly believe you’re much better than they are.

8:30 pm, free TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria d’Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano and vocals.

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In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom is a lecture series on political, economic, environmental and human rights issues featuring social justice activists, writers, journalists and scholars discussing critical topics of our day.

Clay Balsamo’s untitled photo is from Cairo, on display at Java Joe’s on Rodeo Road, beginning Friday.

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WEDNESDAY 23 MARCH AT 7 PM LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER From dwindling resources and a volatile climate to persistent inequality and societal upheaval, the signs are clear: we need to reinvent growth. First, the new growth model must generate value for the many, instead of a small elite...Second, we must stop sacrificing the living standards of future generations to preserve today’s wastefulness. And third, we must rebalance the relationship between mankind and nature, so that prosperity need no longer involve laying waste to the environment that ultimately sustains us.

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Gabrielle Walker is an expert on climate change and the energy industry. She holds a Ph.D. in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and has taught at Cambridge and Princeton Universities. She is the author of four books, most recently, Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of a Mysterious Continent and the best-selling The Hot Topic: What We Can Do About Global Warming (co-written with David King). She is currently Chief Scientist at Xyntéo, an advisory firm that seeks to enable businesses to grow in a manner which is responsive to the resource, climate, and demographic challenges of the 21st century.

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THU/3 BOOKS/LECTURES THE ART OF THE SUBMISSION Santa Fe University of Art & Design 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, 473-3011 Our first thought was that this was about BDSM, but it turns out that it’s actually a talk from the center’s executive director, Laura Pressley, on how to prep your photo portfolio for grants and awards.

6:30 pm, $10 K PAUL JONES St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-9274 Jones gives a talk called President Roosevelt and the Holocaust: Could He Have Done More To Save The Jews?

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EVENTS FREE TAX PREPARATION Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 SFCC accounting students assist you with your taxes.

8:30 am, free OPEN STUDIO SESSION IAIA 83 Avan Nu Po, 424-2387 See IAIA artists-in-residence Jonathan Thunder and Royce and Debbie Manuel at work.

3 pm, free

MUSIC BOOKOO El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Bookoo plays original rock, blues, soul and pop music.

8:30 pm, free BRANDEN JAMES Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Branden James joins Australian cellist James Clark for a residency that's just, like, chock-full-o' music.

7 pm, free

CS ROCKSHOW La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock, other rock, rock covers, rockin' rock and rocky rock rockers who rock that rock. ¡Rawk!

7:30 pm, $5 DADOU Pizzeria & Trattoria da Lino 204 N Guadalupe St., 982-8474 The inimitable accordion hijinks of the criminally underappreciated and internationally accomplished Dadou.

6:30 pm, free DJ INKYINC. The Matador 116 W San Francisco St., 984-5050 Soul, punk, funk and ska, and other horn-based musical styles.

9 pm, free GERRY CARTHY Bar Alto at the Drury Plaza Hotel 828 Paseo de Peralta, 424-2175 Irish musician Gerry Carthy melts brains with tenor guitar, flute and a traditional style of music that’ll make you wish you were in Carraig Fergus so bad it hurts (see SFR Picks, page 19).

7 pm, free JOE WEST AND LORI KATHLEEN OTTINO Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 West and Ottino come together for a special dinner show. Find out what all the fuss is about when it comes to these Americana/country/ folky musicians. Here's a hint—they're really, really, really good.

5 pm, free JOHN RANGEL & FRIENDS El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Rangel blasts those keys like one might blast something at which one is super-good.

7 pm, free

KRISTIN HERSH Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 The founder of Throwing Muses plays a solo set alongside 50 Ft Wave, a band we've heard described as "bone crushing." Sweet.

8 pm, $15 LATIN NIGHT WITH VDJ DANY Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 VDJ Dany channels the energy he would have used on a second letter N in his name to bring all y'all the best in Latintinged dance jams.

10 pm, $7 LILLY PAD LOUNGE Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Hip-hop, funk, old-school and more, yo.

10 pm, $7 LIMELIGHT KARAOKE The Palace 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Yes, you too can be in the spotlight for one brief moment and hear things from your friends like, "Wow, Sandra, you're like, a really good singer and should go pro!"

10 pm, free LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES Evangelo’s 200 W San Francsico St. Dancey rock covers and other such things.

9 pm, free MOON HONEY Ghost 2899 Trades West Road The folks at Ghost keep on rockin’, this time with Louisiana prog-rock outfit Moon Honey.

7 pm, free NACHA MENDEZ La Boca 72 W Marcy St., 982-3433 Latin world fusion.

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Musculature

Feel the post-hardcore pump

BY ALEX DE VORE @teamalex

was just up there for a weekend, so you can take my word when I tell you that Denver is a-sploding. And it’s not just because of the whole Super Bowl thing—I’m talking musically. It’d be pretty difficult to get into a whole thing about who’s best or what’s what up there, but there is one band that stands out, and they’re coming to Santa Fe to play alongside metal heavy-hitters Carrion Kind and Fields of Elysium.

I’m talkin’ about Muscle Beach, a post-hardcore/ post-punk/garage trio that follows proudly in the seminal footsteps of Refused’s impossibly brilliant, genre-defying 1998 record The Shape of Punk to Come with an added dash of Blood Brothers’ weirdness and subtle nods to the likes of neo-garage bands such as Polaris (of Pete & Pete theme song fame) or newcomers like Wavves. Most of this can be easily attributed to guitarist/singer Justin Sanderson’s affinity for banshee-screech vocals á la Dennis Lyxzén, but they sure do cram a lot of grungy heaviness into a neat package. They’re good. Really good. Like, “Whoa, can you even believe these guys are coming?” good.

Think of Muscle Beach as part of the Colorado new guard of bands who know what it means to properly reach into the golden era of artsy or über-heavy indie-punk and convey inspiration without resorting to emulation. They also know how to rock so hard. In a category that might also feature Denverites such as the Big Business-y craziness of In the Whale or the Jawbreaker-esque antics of Cowcatcher, Muscle Beach has set themselves apart in a sea of killer bands by touring and recording extensively in their mere three years of existence (three tours, three records), but also by wearing their influence on their collective sleeve. When asked about the obvious similarities to Refused or Blood Brothers, Sanderson seems more honored than not.

“We’ve been hearing [we sound like] those bands a lot, and we couldn’t be more stoked,” he says. “When we did our record release, our first cover we ever at-

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tempted was Shape of Punk to Come; we love that album!”

For their newest effort, a tightly produced 11-track self-titled ass-kicker released in December, Muscle Beach blasts right out of the gate with neck-wrecking head-bangery and never stops rockin’. Even in transitional moments or the build-ups, there’s always something exciting on the horizon, but it is somehow never predictable, even to the punk snob elite. Take “Eagle Wizard,” a darkly ominous number that toys with a deceptively simple and dissonant backbone that all at once recalls an In Utero-era Nirvana at their most brutal (“Milk It,” anyone?) and the early mathy insanity of lesser-known Militia Group acts like Blueprint Car Crash. Or look to the bass-crunching opener bleeding into the kind of speedy guitar riff that would be perfectly at home on a Fugazi single on “Gnarlitude.” It all points to something very serious but also very fun.

“We take our music seriously, but we don’t take ourselves seriously,” Sanderson says. “We’re not really sure what the ultimate goal is, but we do know

that we want to keep writing and recording as much as we can.”

This is good news for anyone who still has a foot firmly planted in the early-aught awesomeness that Muscle Beach so deftly recalls. By all reports, their live show is mind-boggling as well. This is hardly surprising, given the intensity of their recorded material, but it is still impressive. If nothing else, the trio is an excellent reminder of the way things used to be before (almost) everyone gave up on hardcore and a pretty important feather in local entertainment collaborative Kronos Creative’s cap. By bringing a band that is absolutely heavy but not metal in the traditional sense of the term, they show respect to the musical palate of a certain cross section of Santa Feans, and we are, at last, given a little variety. For the love of God, don’t miss this band.

MUSCLE BEACH WITH CARRION KIND AND FIELDS OF ELYSIUM 9 pm Saturday, March 5. $5 The Underground 200 W San Francisco St., 819-1597

Are We Alone in the Universe?

Saturday, March 12, 7:00-9:00 pm Unitarian Universalist Congregation 107 W. Barcelona Road, Santa Fe Dr. Pia Orleane & Cullen Smith present Laarkmaa, a Pleiadian group (Not a Unitarian Universalist activity.)

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To schedule an appointment call (505) 471-8575 Located at , in Santa Fe next door to Southwestern College

THE CALENDAR PAT MALONE New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Malone performs in conjunction with that super-rad Medieval to Metal exhibit that explores the history of the guitar.

6 pm, free SIRSY Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Country rock.

8 pm, free TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria d’Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano and vocals.

6 pm, free

THEATER THE 39 STEPS Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Adapted by Patrick Barlow from the Alfred Hitchcock film.

7:30 pm, $20-$25 THE ABSOLUTE BRIGHTNESS OF LEONARD PELKEY Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 B Parkway Drive, 629-8688 A play from Duncan Sheik and James Lecesne follows a New Jersey town that fills with inspiration and power after a local boy goes missing.

7 pm, $25

FRI/4 ART OPENINGS CAIRO Java Joe's 2801 Rodeo Road, 795-7005 Photography by Clay Balsamo.

5 pm, free ESSENTIAL VISIONS Sorrel Sky Gallery 125 W Palace Ave., 501-6555 A collection of works by John Farnsworth and Michael Tatom.

5 pm, free NONNIE THOMPSON Eye on the Mountain Gallery 614 Agua Fría St., (928) 308-0319 An exhibition titled Suppression Creates Desire focusing on the social commentaries surrounding religion and pop culture (see SFR Picks, page 19).

5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES ALAN LEVINE St. John's College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, 684-6000 Levine discusses the idea of America in European political thought.

7:30 pm, free REN AND HELEN DAVIS Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 George Alexander Grant is an unknown elder in the field of American landscape photography, and the Davises’ Landscapes for the People shares his story through his remarkable images.

6 pm, free

DANCE SPRING INTO MOTION NDI Dance Barns 1140 Alto St., 983-7646 NDI’s most advanced dancers dance for your enjoyment.

7 pm, $10-$15

EVENTS FIRST FRIDAY ART ACTIVITY Georgia O'Keeffe Museum 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 Explore the use of color in modern artwork while creating your own drawings in the galleries.

5 pm, free FIRST FRIDAY OPEN HOUSE Ralph T Coe Foundation for the Arts 1590 B Pacheco St., 983-6372 Behind-the-scenes access to the collection of global Indigenous art.

1 pm, free FREE TAX PREPARATION Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 SFCC accounting students are among 75 volunteers willing to assist anyone with their taxes.

8:30 am, free FRIDAY AFTERNOON ART Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 An arts and crafts program for children of all ages.

4 pm, free

MUSIC THE ALCHEMY PARTY Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 DJs Dynamite Sol and Poetics turn your otherwise leaden night into pure gold with hiphop, reggae, Top 40 and so much more.

9 pm, $7 BRANDEN JAMES Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and cello and vocals with Branden James and James Clark.

8 pm, free THE BUS TAPES Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 2nd St., 982-3030 Folk rock.

6 pm, free CLAUDIA SCHMIDT GiG Performance Space 1808 2nd St., 989-8442 Michigan’s Claudia Schmidt is a powerful vocalist and adventurous artist, who combines lively folk, jazz and blues with rich poetry and playful humor.

7:30 pm, $20 DETROIT LIGHTNING Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 This Grateful Dead cover band has almost a cult following in Santa Fe. You should go see why!

7-10 pm, $10 DJ DANY'S LATIN FRIDAYS Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Bachata, cumbia, reggaeton, dancing—all that good stuff.

9 pm, $7

ETERNAL SUMMER STRING ORCHESTRA OF SANTA FE First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 A TGIF concert of the music of Mozart and Haydn to remind you that summer exists.

5:30 pm, free GREG BUTERA & BAND Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Country western.

6 pm, free JAY BOY ADAMS AND ZENOBIA The High Note 132 W Water St., 919-8771 Funky blues and R&B fun.

8 pm, $10 JEFFREY JONES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Rock meets blues and R&B out Madrid way, where things maybe move a little slower, but also there's an old-timey soda shop, so that rules.

5 pm, free JIR PROJECT BAND Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 A rock, pop and blues group from down south in Albuquerque. Boxcar might just be the venue to watch in the coming months. They’re quietly getting better and better all the time.

10 pm, free JOSH BREAKSTONE Museum Hill Café 710 Camino Lejo, 984-8900 Jazz guitar, bass, and drums.

7 pm, $25 MARCH NIGHT SKY SHOW Los Alamos Nature Center 2600 Canyon Road, 662-0460 Discover all the objects visible in the night sky this month.

Objects like Jerry the Cowboy and Alan the Cowboy.

7 pm, $6 NACHA MENDEZ Staab House at La Posada 330 E Palace Ave., 986-0000 Latin world fusion.

6:30 pm, free OPEN MIC WITH STEPHEN Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Even Madrid does open mics.

They also have stores, houses ... almost everything.

7 pm, free PLEASURE PILOTS La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Swingin’ R&B and other such dance tunes.

8 pm, free THE SEAN HEALEN BAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Folk rock and more.

8:30 pm, free SURF BY SOUTHWEST The Palace 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 You can practically hear the twang of the spring reverb now.

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ITM FILM INC.

Free Yourself Banff film tour means a chance to renew your adult-level commitment to playtime

BY ELIZABETH MILLER e l i z a b e t h @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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e can wander into the woods now on foot, on bikes or on skis; ride ocean and river waves on surfboards or paddleboards; tear down dirt hillsides and ride wingsuits through canyons. It’s a wealth of options that borders on an embarrassment of riches.

The Search for Freedom, scheduled for Monday at the Lensic, delves into the core of why people ski and bike.

But in conversations with icons who built their lives around being outdoors, filmmaker Jon Long heard them returning to the sensation they found in those once again hosts the Banff film festival stop in Santa in nature, whether it be mountain or ocean, and have Fe. The lineup also includes A Line Across the Sky, a relatively individual experience or un-crowded moments, not of adrenaline, but of freedom.

“When you’re doing something where you’re com- which tells the story of climbers Alex Honnold, who experience. So if anything, I feel like the number of pletely focused on the activity that you’re doing and became famous for free-soloing big walls in Yosem- people has made it a little bit of a different experience just immersed in that flow … in a sense, it frees you ite, and Tommy Caldwell, who recently drew national for some people.”

What’s been gained, however, is that many more from all the other things in your life that might pull attention for climbing the Dawn Wall, also in Yosemyou down, or worry you, or thoughts of the past or fu- ite, completing the first traverse of a series of peaks people are doing things that should make them feel ture,” says Long, who talked to athletes and outdoor in Patagonia. Other films feature two female climbers happier and healthier.

Mainstream acceptance means the idea of begear makers to track the evolution of action sports crushing the speed record for an ascent of El Capitan, coming a professional snowboarder, skateboarder or cowboys herding wild mustangs from Mexico to Canfrom counterculture to mainstream in his film, The windsurfer is no longer unthinkable. Long defers to ada, kayakers running rivers in China before dams Search for Freedom. shut them down and a son raft- a segment from a TEDx talk by Logan LaPlante, then “I think that’s what the basis of the ing through the Grand Canyon 13 and already a competitive freeskier: If you ask a popularity of these sports is—it’s just kid that overworn question, “What do you want to to reconnect with his father. fun, and it’s just play,” he says. “It alThe Search for Freedom, be when you grow up?” LaPlante says, responses like lows people to continue playing, not just It’s just an which claims one of the rare “neurosurgeon” and “astronaut” are far less likely when they’re kids, but as they grow up.” longer segments for a 45-min- than “pro skier” or “pro skateboarder.”

The film screens in Santa Fe on Monopportunity for “Us kids are going to answer with something we’re ute runtime (sliced in half from day, March 7, at the Lensic, as part of the the full 90 minutes to fit the stoked on—what we think is cool, what we have expetwo-day Banff Mountain Film Festival them to just be Banff format), chimes in with rience with,” he says. “But if you ask a little kid, someWorld Tour, joining a lineup of films the ethos that’s at the core of times you get the best answer, something so obvious dedicated to chronicling, celebrating in the moment so many of these sports and and really profound: When I grow up, I want to be and exploring outdoor sports achieveprovides a testament to why happy.” ments, from unprecedented alpine and do something Of course, for most people, getting outside is not they’ve proven so magnetic. routes to the inspiration that drives ulWhen he started filmmak- about money or a career. It’s about that latter piece: that they love. trarunners. The Santa Fe Conservation ing in the late 1980s, Long says, happiness.

Trust, which campaigns for trails and “It’s just an opportunity for them to just be in the only a handful of people were cultural and historic land preservation, participating in these sports. moment and do something that they love to do that’s Now, they are a cultural phe- fun,” Long says.

Whether conditions are good or bad, the point is nomenon.

“When a lot of the people, just to go. As we’re increasingly caught up in a day-tothe pioneers, had started out, day grind that’s heavy on technology and light on sunthey were just doing activities shine, it’s all the more important to seek that balance they were passionate about. In through a dose of nature (and there’s more on that in a lot of cases, they tried to build another short film that screens at Banff: Nature Rx).

The thing is, while some of the gear is expensive, it their world, their work, their lifestyle around those activi- doesn’t have to cost more than a pair of comfortable ties, whether it be rock climb- shoes and the gas to get just a couple miles past city ing or surfing,” Long says. “In limits and to a trailhead to partake in that medicine. my lifetime, I’ve seen such a So basically, the cost of getting out there is exactly huge growth in a lot of these what it makes the people who do it—free. sports. I think probably what was lost is the feeling you could BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL WORLD TOUR get in a lot of very accessible 7 pm Monday, March 7, and Tuesday, March 8. $16. places, even close to huge popuLensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W San Francisco St., lations, where you could go out 988-1234 SFREPORTER.COM

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THE CALENDAR

Are you incapable of concision? Your answers are too long! You blather on, often rehashing the problem (unnecessary!) before giving four words (at most!) of (rarely!) useful advice. I’ve heard you say you have to edit letters down for space. Try this instead: Edit yourself! I want more of the letters—more from the people asking questions—and less of YOU. -Keep It Short, Savage, Expressed Sincerely Feedback is always appreciated, KISSES. I’m 30, happily married, with my husband since I was 17. First boyfriend, kiss, etc. I never had sex with anyone else. This never bothered me because I wasn’t really into sex—but there have been big changes in the last year. I guess I am having a sexual awakening. My sex drive increased, and I’ve started reading erotica and fantasizing about getting kinky. I’ve also been having very strong urges to fuck someone else. As someone who always had strong values and opinions when it comes to sex and marriage and cheating, these feelings really confused me! So I found a safe and harmless outlet: Second Life. I created a hot avatar and have been role-playing, talking dirty, and banging people across the world for six months. I love it. I get to experience scenarios I fantasize about but would never do in real life. Before your readers start pulling the cheater card: I have talked about this with my husband, and I have his blessing.

He knows I have an SL account and I’m having cybersex. Here’s where it gets murky. Most of my SL friends haven’t asked if I’m taken in RL, and I haven’t told them that I am. I flirt as if I’m single, though, because I’m worried people will treat me differently if they know I’m married. I do not wish to meet or have RL sex with anyone I meet on SL, and I make that clear to everyone. I don’t do photos/voice chat/Skype. But if someone asks me if I’m married in RL, I always tell the truth. I’m writing because I’m worried about this one guy.

The cybersex is super hot, and he’s sweet.

He’s my go-to guy, and I’m his go-to girl. He knows I have cybersex with other people in SL, and I have told him he is obviously allowed to have sex with others too. But I’m worried our SL relationship has become a bit more.

He leaves me messages when I’m not online, telling me he misses me and “loves being with me,” and I’ve said the same to him. I’ve also made it clear I have no intention of meeting anyone from SL in RL, ever. Regardless of my intentions, I’m worried that I’m crossing the line and being unfair to my husband.

I’m also worried that I’m being unfair to my guy in SL, because I’m sure he must think I’m single, even though he has never asked.

Am I crossing the line and at risk of hurting my husband/SL guy? Or am I just having some harmless fun that helps me satisfy this strange new itch that’s driving me crazy?

-Second Lifer And Spouse Haver P.S. It’s important to note that SL has not negatively impacted my RL sex life and, if anything, has made it better. It has also made me happier and less cranky at home.

You’re doing nothing wrong, SLASH. I am a kinkster. I have been since I can remember (I am now 21 years old), and I’ve never told anyone about my deep dark desires until the last year. During my time at university, I made good friends with a guy who I was able to open up to about my preferences, as he had similar desires. We created a beneficial arrangement. I suddenly no longer felt like I

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needed to suppress my “fucked up” masochistic needs and became extremely happy and more comfortable with them. I keep a journal, and naturally I wrote about this arrangement and a lot of the explicit details. Last summer, my mother read my entire journal and was horrified. After she read it, I received a very nasty text message from her about how our relationship was over, she couldn’t believe what I had done, and she was no longer going to help pay for my postgraduate courses, etc.

She was deeply disturbed to learn that some money she had given me for my 21st birthday was spent on a hotel room where I met up with my kinky friend. (It wasn’t like we could meet in my family home!) I never wanted my mother to know about any of this, and I feel bad for how it upset her, but this was also a huge violation of my privacy. The only way to resolve the situation was for me to pretend that I deeply regretted everything, tell her I can see now how messed up those “weird” sex practices are, and say that I’m cured and will never engage in them again. Months have passed and I’m still angry with her for having read my diary. I feel sad about the lies I told and having to pretend—still—that I regret what I did. Because the truth is I’ve never felt more like myself than when I am doing BDSM. It’s not my entire world, but it is an important part of who I am. How do you think I should take things from here? She’ll never understand, so telling her isn’t an option, but that means suppressing my deep upset at her as well.

Mother Unfairly Destroyed Daughter’s Libido Entirely Fuck mom; be you, MUDDLE.* My husband and I met our “soul-mate parents” at our daughter’s preschool a few years ago, i.e., that rare couple with a kid the same age and the same artistic interests and political values. Our kids instantly bonded and are now BFFs. They have sleepovers, go trick-ortreating together, sled together—little girl heaven. Early on, the guy called my husband and they had a hard-drinking lunch. The guy spilled his guts about a painful previous relationship. It was weird, but we wrote it off.

Three years of normal interactions and a kid later, we’re really good friends with the wife, while the guy stays in the background. I decided to start up a FetLife profile for fun— my husband and I are monogamish, and this is with his okay—and I find the guy’s profile, which clearly states that his wife does not know he’s on this site. What do I do? Pretend I never saw it? What if the wife finds out I knew? Do I tell him that I know? Most of all, I worry about the strain this would place on my daughter’s friendship. Her heart would be broken.

-Has Evidence Louse Parent Making Arrangements Mind your own business, HELPMA. * Shit, I really can’t do this one in four words.

Confront your fucking mother, MUDDLE, once you’re out of grad school (priorities!), about the awful, shitty things she did to you: reading your journal; shaming you for your sexual interests and your private, consensual, respectful, and healthy sexual explorations; and her unforgivable acts of emotional and financial blackmail. And you should wave the results of this study under her nose when you confront her: livescience.com/34832-bdsm-healthypsychology.html. It’s just one of several studies showing that people who practice BDSM— not just fantasize about it but actually practice it—are psychologically healthier than vanilla people.

On the Lovecast, Dan chats with Seattle journalist Eli Sanders: savagelovecast.com mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter

WRECKLESS ERIC El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Eric Goulden is a singer-songwriter, best known for his 1977 single "Whole Wide World."

You are a cosmopolitan boulevardier out for a good time and a few good tunes. Ta-da!

9 pm, $5

THEATER THE 39 STEPS Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Four local actors portray 130 characters in this play adapted by Patrick Barlow from the Alfred Hitchcock film.

7:30 pm, $25 THE ABSOLUTE BRIGHTNESS OF LEONARD PELKEY Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 B Parkway Drive, 629-8688 A play from Duncan Sheik and James Lecesne follows a New Jersey town that fills with inspiration and power after a local boy goes missing. Fundraising benefit for NM Gay Straight Alliance Network.

7:30 pm, $75 MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Squid Inc. presents Shakespeare's raucous comedy featuring a cast of all NM School for the Arts students.

7 pm, $5-$10 POLAROID STORIES Greer Garson Theatre 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 473-6439 Naomi Iizuka's play examines street kids by way of Ovid's Metamorphoses, a visceral and true look at dreamers and dealers longing for camaraderie. Directed by Brian Gillespie.

7 pm, $5-$15 SOMEWHERE BETWEEN: A ONE WO/MAN SHOW Railyard Performance Center 1611 Paseo de Peralta, 982-8309 Somewhere Between is an autobiographical solo show that was written and performed by Cidny Bullens and directed by Tanya Taylor Rubinstein.

7:30-9:30 pm, $20

SAT/5 BOOKS/LECTURES COOKING AND POLITICS IN MEXICO Travel Bug Coffee Shop 839 Paseo de Peralta, 992-0418 A slide show by Judith Cooper Haden about the culture and cuisine of Oaxaca.

5 pm, free ESSENTIAL WELLNESS: NATURE'S OILS FOR HEALTH Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Sniff some oils and discover how they help with your holistic health.

3 pm, free

OPERA BREAKFAST LECTURE SERIES: PUCCINI'S MANON LESCAUT Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Opera expert Tom Franks will discuss Puccini's Manon Lescaut prior to The Met Live in HD presentation at The Lensic.

9:30 am, $5

DANCE FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Experience an intimate dinner and authentic Spanish cuisine.

6:30 pm, $25 THE RIGHT TO EMBODY: DANCE THERAPY WORKSHOP Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Never underestimate the healing power of dance. Work through your stuff with certified dance/movement therapist Amber Elizabeth Gray.

2:30-4:30 pm, $20 SPRING INTO MOTION NDI Dance Barns 1140 Alto St., 983-7646 NDI’s most advanced dancers dance for your enjoyment.

7 pm, $10-$15

EVENTS GEOCACHING 101 Los Alamos Nature Center 2600 Canyon Road, 662-0460 Discover the fun of geocaching in this hands-on class.

10:30 am, free HOLLY HOLM VS. MIESHA TATE Camel Rock Casino 17486 US Route 84/285, 984-8414 Oh my God, you guys, the fighter Holly Holm is from this state, which somehow means that you, as someone also from this state, can totally horn in on her glory! Thank goodness; life might have been meaningless otherwise.

5 pm, $20 MASONIC OPEN HOUSE Scottish Rite Temple 463 Paseo de Peralta, 982-4414 The Freemasons open up their beautiful lodge, answer your questions and maybe share with us the greatest secrets in American history. Naw, they probably won’t, but still, this building is gorgeous, and secret societies are cool.

10:30 am and 12:30 pm, free OPEN STUDIO AND TALK IAIA MoCNA 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 MoCNA's current Local Artist in Residence, Heidi Brandow, speaks on her work and then shows you how it's done.

Noon, free RING MAKING Sorrel Sky Gallery 125 W Palace Ave., 501-6555 Watch Navajo jeweler Ray Tracey make some rad pieces of finger jewelry.

10 am, free

FILM FEATURE FILM: EXOPLANETS Los Alamos Nature Center 2600 Canyon Road, 662-0460 A film about the planets outside our solar system, aka alien abodes.

2 pm, $6

MUSIC BRANDEN JAMES Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and cello and vocals with Branden James and James Clark.

8 pm, free CHANGO Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Rock and roll and more.

10 pm, free COWBOYS & INDIANS The Palace 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Country.

10 pm, $5 CS ROCKSHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Blues and rock and rock and blues and covers and more.

9 pm, $5 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Experience an intimate dinner and authentic Spanish cuisine.

6:30 pm, $25 THE JAKES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Classic rock from one of the longest-running and most beloved local bands around.

8 pm, free MARK'S MIDNIGHT CARNIVAL SHOW Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Indie rock from Colorado.

8:30 pm, free THE MET LIVE IN HD Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Puccini’s Manon Lescaut.

11 am, $22-$28 MUSCLE BEACH, CARRION KIND, FIELDS OF ELYSIUM The Underground 200 W San Francisco St., 819-1597 If Refused and Blood Brothers were to have a child, it would probably be this band (see Music, page 23).

9 pm, $5 PLEASURE PILOTS La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Pleasure Pilots ride again in R&B style.

8 pm, free THE SANTA FE CHILES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Dixieland jazz band.

1 pm, free SHOWCASE KARAOKE Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Cyndy and Nanci karaoke it up with all y'all on a weekly basis.

8:30 pm, free

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THEATER THE 39 STEPS Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Adapted by Patrick Barlow from the Alfred Hitchcock film.

7:30 pm, $25 THE ABSOLUTE BRIGHTNESS OF LEONARD PELKEY Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 B Parkway Drive, 629-8688 A play from Duncan Sheik and James Lecesne follows a New Jersey town that fills with inspiration and power after a local boy goes missing (see SFR Picks, page 19).

7 pm, $25 THE BELLA SHOW Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Santa Fe's biggest and brightest drag queen holds court in Skylab at Skylight the first Saturday of every month.

She's funny, and damn, she's got some fine vocal chops! Accompanied by different monthly guest performers and local DJ legend Melanie Moore.

9 pm, $10 MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Squid Inc. presents Shakespeare's raucous comedy featuring a cast of all NM School for the Arts students.

7 pm, $5-$10 POLAROID STORIES Greer Garson Theatre 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 473-6439 Naomi Iizuka's play examines street kids by way of Ovid's Metamorphoses, a visceral and true look at dreamers and dealers longing for camaraderie. Directed by Brian Gillespie.

7 pm, $5-$15

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9 pm, $7 SWING SOLEIL Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 2nd St., 982-3030 Jazz manouche band.

6 pm, free THE TODD TIJERINA PROJECT The High Note 132 W Water St., 919-8771 The talented trio from Duke City plays R&B and blues.

8 pm, free WELSH & WATT Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Put on your explorer hat and get ready for some explorative jams.

6 pm, free

Director Janet Davidson—Hollywood veteran and founding member of New Mexico Women in Film—brings Rapture, Blister, Burn to Center Stage (505 Camino de los Marquez, 438-6078) for two performances to benefit Emerge New Mexico, which aims “to increase the number of Democratic women in public office.” Performances are 7 pm Saturday, March 5, and 4 pm Sunday, March 6. (Brianna Stallings) What of the contemporary American female experience do you think Rapture, Blister, Burn best captures?

The play highlights differences in generational thinking by having four female characters represent three generational views: one in her 60s, two in their 40s, and one twenty-something. Using the device of a summer class on feminism, our characters explore their differences.

A twenty-something woman has many challenges that, on the surface, may not seem to relate to feminism, rendering it obsolete. But is it? The characters in their forties grew up being told they could have it all, but reality has struck, and they’re both dissatisfied. Meanwhile, the sixty-something woman is in awe of the idea that they can even choose the paths their lives might take, because she [couldn’t].

What do you value most about organizations like Emerge New Mexico?

As a female director, I can point to recent headlines on diversity in Hollywood—or the lack thereof. A recent poll showed that films with a diverse cast did better than those with solely white cast members. So would not our political system also do better as well, with diversity leading the way? Emerge New Mexico is right there, trying to make this a reality. To have a group like Emerge support women in their pursuit of a political career has value for all of us.

How do you feel about Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign?

Many in my generation were taken off guard by the reaction to both Madeleine Albright and Gloria Steinem’s remarks. These remarks were rallying forces [and] inspired us to move forward. There’s a gulf in understanding between young female Sanders supporters and the women supporting Hillary. I don’t think this was missed by the Clinton camp. What is she not speaking to that Bernie is? Those of us in the Hillary world grew up in a very different time. Perhaps our values don’t resonate with younger women—perhaps they should.

RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN Center Stage 505 Camino de los Marquez, 438-6078 A play about the women's movement in three different generations (see 3 Qs, above).

7 pm, $20 SOMEWHERE BETWEEN: A ONE WO/MAN SHOW Railyard Performance Center 1611 Paseo de Peralta, 982-8309 Somewhere Between is an autobiographical solo show written and performed by Cidny Bullens and directed by Tanya Taylor Rubinstein.

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SUN/6 BOOKS/LECTURES GORDON BUNKER ArtfulTea 117 Galisteo St., 795-7724 Bunker reads from and signs copies of Momma's Little Harry.

4 pm, free ONA PORTER Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Porter directs an organization that assists with middle-class development.

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THE CALENDAR CATE MARVIN AND GARY WORTH MOODY Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 New or under-known poetic voices from around the nation present their original works alongside local wordsmiths.

4 pm, free PANCHO VILLA AND THE US ARMY: A TRAINING GROUND FOR WWI New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 Author Jeff Lowdermilk and the granddaughter of General George Patton, Helen Patton, speak on the 1916 attack on Colombus, NM. 2 pm, free

DANCE SPRING INTO MOTION NDI Dance Barns 1140 Alto St.,983-7646 NDI’s most advanced dancers dance for your enjoyment.

2 pm, $10-$15

EVENTS RING MAKING Sorrel Sky Gallery 125 W Palace Ave., 501-6555 Watch Navajo jeweler Ray Tracey make some rad pieces of finger jewelry.

10 am, free SUNDAY RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Santa Fe Railyard Plaza Guadalupe Street and Paseo de Peralta Quality local art, jewelry, ceramics, textiles, live music and more.

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FEATURE FILM: EXOPLANETS Los Alamos Nature Center 2600 Canyon Road, 662-0460 A film about the planets outside our solar system, aka alien abodes.

2 pm, $6

MUSIC BROOMDUST GOSPEL QUARTET Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Kind of like going to church on Sunday, except it's at Cowgirl, and it's not actually gospel.

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7 pm, free JACKIE MYERS BAND Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 They've really been opening things up over at the Mine Shaft, genre-wise. Here's some jazz for all y'all.

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9 pm, free JUSTIN BRANSFORD PROJECT The High Note 132 W Water St., 919-8771 Soulful jazz from a brilliant bassist.

7 pm, $7 NACHA MENDEZ El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Latin world fusion.

7 pm, free

THEATER THE 39 STEPS Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Adapted by Patrick Barlow from the Alfred Hitchcock film.

2 pm, $20-$25 THE ABSOLUTE BRIGHTNESS OF LEONARD PELKEY Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 B Parkway Drive, 629-8688 A play from Duncan Sheik and James Lecesne follows a New Jersey town that fills with inspiration and power after a local boy goes missing.

2 pm, 7 pm, $25 MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Squid Inc. presents Shakespeare's raucous comedy, featuring a cast made up of NM School for the Arts students.

2 pm, $5-$10 POLAROID STORIES Greer Garson Theatre 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 473-6439 Naomi Iizuka's play examines street kids by way of Ovid's Metamorphoses, a visceral and true look at dreamers and dealers who are longing for camaraderie. Directed by Brian Gillespie.

2 pm, $5-$15 RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN Center Stage 505 Camino de los Marquez, 438-6078 A play examining the women's movement in three very different generations. Get ready to laugh.

4 pm, $20

MON/7 BOOKS/LECTURES AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 It’s the inaugural edition of the JCC’s new author series with a couple of locals and one from lands far to the east: former SFR columnist Robert Wilder, Anne Valente and Alison Wellford.

7 pm, free

EVENTS BREAKFAST WITH O'KEEFFE: RE-VISIONING: A NEW CENTURY OF ART IN THE PARKS Georgia O'Keeffe Museum 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 A presentation on the National Parks Arts Foundation by Tanya Ortega.

9 am, $15 CONNECTION, CARE AND TENDING: WOMEN OF COLOR LEADERS IN SANTA FE Santa Fe Community Foundation 501 Halona St., 988-9715 Shut the hell up and listen to the experiences and unique needs of our women of color.

5 pm, free FREE TAX PREPARATION Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 SFCC accounting students will assist you with your taxes.

8:30 am, free

FILM BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL WORLD TOUR Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 The environment and extreme sports are the stars in the short flicks presented by the Santa Fe Conservation Trust (see A&C, page 25).

7 pm, $16

MUSIC BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country.

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

9 pm, free METALACHI Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 All your favorite metal hits of the past bunch of decades as played by a bunch of mariachi dudes. It's fun, OK!?

7:30 pm, $15-$20 METAL MONDAYS The Underground 200 W San Francisco St., 819-1597 Hey, metalheads—this thing's for you. You can thank host Pascual Romero for keepin' it metal all the dang time.

9 pm, free

TUE/8 BOOKS/LECTURES SALLY DENTON Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Denton, the bestselling coauthor of The Money and the Power, presents The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World, the inside story of the Bechtel family and the empire they’ve controlled since the construction of the Hoover Dam. 6 pm, free CONTINUED ON PAGE 31

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FOOD

Chapatti Challenge in the Time of Lent A freezer raid turns up a batch of stew—and bread gets flattened

B Y R O B D e WA LT @ Th e Fo r k S a n t a Fe

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hroughout the year, our kitchen is a flurry of activity on Saturdays and Sundays, as we prepare and freeze batches of soups and stews to dine on at some later time. There are days when even rabid cooks like myself and my better half just need to defrost, heat up and dig in.

We also have a bean and lentil fetish that just won’t quit. Our pantry is lined with glass jars of everything from green lentils and black-eye peas to Zuni Gold beans and favas picked and dried right out of the home garden. Digging though the freezer recently, I spied a plastic container of curried lentil stew that we had put away in mid-February. Voila. Dinner. But what to serve with it?

It seemed appropriate to serve it with chapatti, an Indian flatbread—but that meant I’d have to do some cooking. Twist my arm. The trick with chapatti, like all flatbreads, is patience and not overworking the dough. You can use traditional atta, a fine durum flour synonymous with chapatti, or a fine-ground semolina flour, available at specialty markets in Santa Fe such as Talin Market (in the Luna complex on Cerrillos Road). The ingredient list is short, but there are a few important steps regarding covering the dough and cooking the flatbread that must not be overlooked. Try to serve the chapatti within a half an hour, before it dries out too much.

MINI CHAPATTI

(makes six 5-inch flatbreads)

1 cup durum atta (durum flour) or fine-ground semolina flour ½ cup warm water (plus a little more, if needed to help bind the dough) ½ teaspoon salt ¼ cup melted ghee (clarified butter) or olive oil, room temperature

Looks good enough to eat. Lucky for us, it is.

In a large bowl, mix flour with salt until well-combined. Add ½ cup warm water to the flour in two batches, stirring the mixture at the same time with either your (clean) free hand or a wooden spatula.

Knead the dough inside the bowl until a ball forms (be patient, it’ll look crumbly for a while), and then knead on a lightly floured surface for at least 10 minutes, or until very smooth. Place dough back into the bowl, cover with a clean cloth at room temperature and let rest for 20 minutes. Rub a little ghee or olive oil on your hands and then knead the dough for another five minutes, until smooth and silky. Using your hands, roll the dough ball into an even log about 1½ inches wide. Cut into six equal pieces. Working quickly, roll dough pieces into 5-inch circles, placing them under a towel as you work. Preheat a dry griddle or cast iron skillet to medium-high heat. Cook the chapatti on one side until you see the top bubble up. Using a clean towel, press down on the dough circle to make sure the heat is evenly distributed. Flip the circle when it begins to blister and brown on the bottom, like a tortilla. Cook the other side until blistering and browning also occurs. Place justcooked chapattis in a deep container (like a soup

pot) and wrap with a clean towel to keep warm. Serve within 30 minutes.

EASY-PEASY CURRIED LENTIL STEW

(serves 2-4)

2 tablespoons olive oil half a large yellow onion, peeled and chopped 1 large carrot (about ¾ cup), peeled and chopped 2 stalks celery, chopped ¾ cup finely diced fresh tomato 2 tablespoons minced ginger 2 tablespoons garam masala or your favorite prepared curry powder half-pound of lentils (brown and green work best), rinsed 4 cups vegetable stock or chicken-flavored vegetable stock, plus more, if needed salt and pepper to taste Heat the olive oil in a large soup pot over medium heat. Sauté onion, carrot, celery, tomato and ginger until aromatic and the onions become translucent, about five minutes. Meanwhile, toast the curry powder or garam masala over medium-low heat in a dry pan, stirring constantly, until aromatic, about four minutes (be careful not to burn). Place toasted curry powder into the sautéed vegetables, add vegetable or chicken stock and lentils, stir, and bring to a boil. Immediately at the boil, reduce pot to a simmer and stew until lentils are tender, about 40 minutes. Season to taste, let rest for 10 minutes, reheat and serve.

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ome called it a Cinderella story. Others muttered in disbelief, “What the [expletive] just happened?” As for the six of us from New Mexico, well, we just celebrated.

Last Slinger Standing is the bartending competition of the Southwest. It happens during Arizona Cocktail Week, in February, in Scottsdale. This is its fifth year, and the first time New Mexico had a team.

Two of the event founders, Kim Haasarud and Layla Linn (an Albuquerque native), came to Santa Fe last June for New Mexico Cocktails & Culture to teach the mixology seminars and oversee the parties. Teamwork is how a community grows, and I have been thrilled to be part of Arizona’s festival since it began. A few months ago, when the ladies asked if New Mexico could participate in this competition, my answer was a wholehearted, “Hell yes!”

After local bartenders submitted recipes, hoping to make the team, the final four were chosen: Chris Milligan (Secreto Lounge), David Vega-Hernandez (Zacatecas in Albuquerque), Andrew Roy (Radish & Rye and Coyote Café) and Michael Sebree (Radish & Rye). I served as team coach for our weekly practices.

The New Mexico team went up against Utah, Nevada, Colorado and Arizona. To say we were an underdog is an understatement.

Those states have well-known bartenders with proven track records in competitions. Slinger is run “sweet 16” style, so winners from each round went head-to-head with each other until there were only two left. In this case, that was Les Baker from Colorado and Andrew Roy of Santa Fe. In each round, competitors were given a surprise spirit, modifier, and a required technique. In the final round, they got rye whiskey and Guinness beer, and the drink had to be smoked.

The New Mexico team concentrated with sweaty anticipation as Roy muddled amarana cherries and added a little maple syrup and two ounces each of Guinness and rye whiskey. He also used cherry wood in the smoker. Now intrigued by the out-of-nowhere finalist, hundreds of spectators cheered “Andy, Andy, Andy!” instead of “Andrew,” because his name was shortened on the board. It didn’t matter.

We’d take it.

When the judges held up their voting cards, reflecting a unanimous decision that Roy won, the entire place erupted. As for us, we screamed, cried, jumped around and hugged. Flashes popped on cell phones as the momentous victory blew up Facebook, and word spread like wildfire through the Santa Fe bar scene. Roy was bringing home the trophy.

On a personal note, I’ve known Roy since the summer he was old enough to bartend.

Today, not quite 26 years old, he’s already a second-level sommelier and popular local barkeep. A former St. John’s College student, this kid knows how to study, and when not slinging drinks, he’s reading about wine and spirits. And that, my friends, is how a champion is made: hard work, knowledge, practice and nerves of steel. I know I speak for all of Santa Fe when I say we couldn’t be more proud of you, Andrew.

THE CALENDAR DANCE ARGENTINE TANGO MILONGA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Head downtown for this tango dance event.

7:30 pm, free ECSTATIC DANCE FOR SANTA FE The Dance Space 3208 Richards Lane, Ste. A, 670-4432 Join a moving meditation to fun.

6 pm, $7-$10

EVENTS BOOKS AND BABIES Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 A program to present books organized around a theme to babies from 6 months to 2 years. Awww.

10:30 am, free FREE TAX PREPARATION Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 SFCC accounting students are among 75 volunteers willing to assist anyone with their taxes.

8:30 am, free SOLAR ECLIPSE VIEWING Los Alamos Nature Center 2600 Canyon Road, 662-0460 Observe a live feed of the total solar eclipse in Indonesia.

5 pm, free

FILM BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL WORLD TOUR Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 The environment and extreme sports are the stars in the short flicks presented by the Santa Fe Conservation Trust (see A&C, page 25).

7 pm, $16

MUSIC BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country.

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

8 pm, free CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Canyon Road Blues Jam every Tuesday? You bet there's a Canyon Road Blues Jam every Tuesday. And when you're at the Canyon Road Blues Jam every Tuesday, you know you love the Canyon Road Blues Jam. Every Tuesday.

8:30 pm, free DJ PRAIRIEDOG The Matador 116 W San Francisco St., 984-5050 Surf, garage, rockabilly, oldschool country and more.

9 pm, free

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

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

6 pm, free RUMELIA/DIRTY DISHES Zephyr 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 Balkan jams from Rumelia and soulful alt.pop from NYC’s Dirty Dishes.

7:30 pm, free

ONGOING GALLERIES

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

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

ADOBE GALLERY 221 Canyon Road, 955-0550 Holiday Storyteller Collection.

ARGOS STUDIO & SANTA FE ETCHING CLUB 1211 Luisa St., 988-1814 Prints about Prints ART EXCHANGE GALLERY 60 E San Francisco St., 603-4485 Group show, Faces.

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

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

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

AXLE CONTEMPORARY 513 Camino de los Marquez, 982-3500 Karen Cole. Geo, Eco, and Atmospheres. Through March 5 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 Group show, Getting Real.

David O’Brien. In the Garden of Externalities. Through March 20 COMMUNITY GALLERY

201 W Marcy St., 955-6707 Narcissus.

DAVID RICHARD GALLERY 1570 Pacheco St., Ste. A1, 983-9555 Group, Happy Birthday, Meow Wolf.

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

EDITION ONE GALLERY 1036 Canyon Road, 422-8306 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. JAMES KELLY CONTEMPORARY 1611 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1601 Bill Jacobson, Lines in My Eyes.

LEWALLEN RAILYARD 1613 Paseo de Peralta, 988-3250 Forrest Moses, The Monotypes: Reflections of a Painter. Michael Roque Collins, The Venetian; Dirk De Bruycker, Memorial Exhibition.

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. OFFROAD PRODUCTIONS 2891-B Trades West Road, 670-9276 Nick Benson, Thais Mather, Todd Christensen, Penumbra Letter Press, Burning Books Press, Printed Matter.

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

PETERS PROJECTS 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5700 Garo Antreasian, Systematic Abstraction.

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Bea Varnedoe Verrillo’s “Subfields” is on display at Axle Contemporary, the moving museum.

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.

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

Alan Friedman and Douglas Levere, Fire & Ice. Chaci Terada, Between Water & Sky. POP GALLERY 125 Lincoln Ave., Ste. 111, 820-0788 Winter Salon. Through March 31 RADICAL ABACUS 1226 Calle de Comercio, 577-6073 Group show, Raylets.

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 Group show, The Figure in Clay.

Amanda Jaffe and Suzanne Kane, Cups.

SANTA FE WEAVING GALLERY 124 Galisteo St., 982-1737

Judith Bird, Handwoven Shibori Tunics and Shawls.

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

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.

TANSEY CONTEMPORARY 652 Canyon Road, 995-8513 Thomas Roth, White. Through March 4.

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.

VIVO CONTEMPORARY 725 Canyon Road, 982-1320 Material Matters.

WAITS STUDIO WORKS 2855 Cooks Road, Ste. A, 270-2654 Laura Wait.

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.

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

IAIA/MoCNA 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Lloyd Kiva New, Pitseolak Ashoona and Eliza Naranjo Morse, Winter/Spring 2016 Exhibition. Visions and Visionaries. Through July 31, 2017; Akunnittinni: A Kinngait Family Portrait. Through April 1; Forward: Eliza Naranjo Morse.

Through July 31. Lloyd Kiva New: Art, Design and Influence.

Through July 31.

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Turquoise, Water, Sky: The Stone and Its Meaning. Through May 2, 2016. Here, Now and Always and The Buchsbaum Gallery of Southwestern Pottery.

Adriel Heisley, Oblique Views: Archaeology, Photography and Time. Through May 25, 2017 MUSEUM OF INT’L FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Multiple Visions: A Common Bond. Flamenco: From Spain to New Mexico. Both through Sept. 11, 2016. Sacred Realm.

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 The Beltrán-Kropp Art Collection from Peru; Early 20th Century Artists of New Mexico; Conexiones: The Delgado Room.

NM HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5019 Fading Memories: Echoes of the Civil War. Through Feb. 26.

Lowriders, Hoppers, and Hot Rods: Car Culture of Northern New Mexico. Through March 5. Painting the Divine: Images of Mary in the New World.

Through March 13. Along the Pecos: A Photographic and Sound Collage. Through June 19, 2016.

Setting the Standard: The Fred Harvey Company and Its Legacy.

NM MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 That Multitudes May Share: Building the Museum of Art. Through March 20, 2016 WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 704 Camino Lejo, 986-4636 Connoirship and Good Pie: Ted Coe and Collecting Native Art. Through April 17, 2016

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It Is Your Destiny Does it bother anybody else that it’s in English?

BY BEN KENDALL culture@sfreporter.com

When Netflix announced it would produce a sequel to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the news was a bit confusing. It seemed as though the aforementioned film had come to a slightly confusing, and dissatisfying end, but an end nonetheless. This

film is part of a genre of kung fu flicks called “wuxia,” which literally translates in English to martial (wu) hero (xia). Common elements include sorcery, martial arts, and the wire-fu that director and fight choreographer Yuen Wo Ping is so famous for. It seems that the nostalgia bug has bitten Netflix, and they somehow greenlit this film, adapted by John Fusco from a series of

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Michelle Yeoh reprises her role as Yu Shu Lien, and her performance is adequate. In the first film, she was the owner/operator of a successful security firm, but now, after the death of her true love Li Mu Bai, she just quits and wants solitude for the rest of her life.

This doesn’t really make a whole lot of sense for her character. She’s strong willed and balanced but then gets overdramatic about the loss of the one she loves, instead of learning to live with loss (a lesson she’s already had to deal with, and she even mentions it) and moving on her with her life.

Donnie Yen does a great job as Silent Wolf, the brother of Li Mu Bai (and Lien’s original fiancé). The trouble is, why did he come back? Why even use his character at all? It could have been anybody else. Instead, a hackneyed love story is tacked onto an otherwise lackluster plot that seems overwrought and underthought.

Ultimately, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny is a film that shouldn’t have been made. But hey, the kung fu was good.

CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON: SWORD OF DESTINY With Yeoh, Yen, Lee Netflix Exclusive PG-13, 96 min.

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novels written in the ’40s.

Fusco has a great deal of scriptwriting experience and is responsible for crafting the story arcs a few you may have heard of (Young Guns, Hidaglo, The Forbidden Kingdom, Marco Polo: One Hundred Eyes). The overall quality of these films isn’t necessarily the subject, but it’s obvious that they do have excellent narrative lines—beginning, middle and end—with characters that follow their clear-set motivations and goals.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny’s structure, on the other hand, is problematic. There are too many characters whose motivations are obscure and not very well fleshed out, most notably with the villain. Somehow, the martial world is in turmoil, and Hades Dai (a stupid Western fusion-y name and played by Jason Scott Lee) wants Li Mu Bai’s (Chow Yun Fat from the first film, now dead) Green Destiny Sword, and intends to rob the house where it is secreted away.

And why does he want to do this? Because he’s evil. That’s it. There are a few lines that go something like, “He’ll subjugate the land” with the power of the Green Destiny Sword, but he already has a magic sword. Why can’t he just become an ultra-powerful warlord with the sword he already has? This is weak motivation, and it sets the tone for tenuous connections and half-baked characterizations for the rest of the film.

SWORD OF DESTINY

“overwrought and underthought”

THE LADY IN THE VAN “one can almost smell the sadness (and nastyness) in Smith’s portrayal”

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GODS OF EGYPT “a film not only bad by this specific sub-genre’s already low standards, but compared to pretty much anything”

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“a plodding slog of a movie bereft of

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DEADPOOL “it hits home, somehow”

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THE LADY IN THE VAN

Long venerated actor Maggie Smith frowned her way into today’s pop culture American heart and seems quite at home.

We’re all hooked on her recent delivery of stodgy, strong, wittily smart, usually sort of evil characters who are also somewhat loveable, from the Harry Potter franchise to the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Just as Downton Abbey draws to its tear-jerking conclusion on PBS, you can get one more glimpse of her familiar puckered face.

Perhaps having the aristocratic Dowager Countess on the brain makes The Lady in the Van even more crushing. And you sort of favor her from the get-go.

It’s as if the movie version of the longrunning play by Alan Bennett was meant to bust Smith from this typecasting while still holding her regally in the place of an accomplished elder. But in reality, Smith has been an accomplished actor longer than most of our readers have been potty trained. She appeared in the stage version of the show in the late 1990s.

One can almost smell the sadness (and the nastyness) in Smith’s portrayal of Mary Shepherd, or we’re not sure what her real name is. At first viewers might feel like the character of Bennett (Alex Jennings) aims to bore us to death with a tired, boring depiction of the boring life of a tired writer.

The slow-moving opening leaves you yearning for connection and also trying to

figure out if he’s got a grumpy twin or sort of schizophrenic tendencies. But as the story unfolds in his driveway, more about his own struggles with family and foundations begin to show through the cracks.

Shepherd’s van lands in front of Bennett’s home in north London, where she lives there in a fetid collection of plastic bags for 15 years, chasing away children, shunning music and social workers. The movie carries moments of joy and little redemptions and an in-your-face unavoidable question about what the presence of “the lady’s” ilk means in our communities—how harboring and caring for those on the fringe matters, even as it reveals our ugly prejudices. And how you never, ever really know the whole story. (Julie Ann Grimm) Violet Crown, PG-13, 104 min.

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Poor Geoffrey Rush. Poor, poor, poor Geoffrey Rush. Even an accomplished, Academy Award-winning thespian of his caliber (who somehow made a role in the absurd Pirates of the Caribbean seem excellent) could not save the abysmal Gods of Egypt. We journey back to time immemorial, before recorded history, when the gods lived amongst the humans, even if they were 11 feet tall and all looked like fucking supermodels. Osiris, ruler of the lush Nile-adjacent capital, is to step down from the throne and his son Horus (Game of Thrones’ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) is

supposed to take his place. But nope—Set, god of the barren desert wastes (Gerard Butler, who will apparently be in any ridiculously CGI’d action movie based in ancient history/mythology), ain’t havin’ it. He shows up to ruin everyone’s lives and sets into motion a pain-ridden fascist regime marked only by death, ostentatious monuments and a logistics change in the underworld. A young thief named Bek (Brenton Thwaites) gets fed up with the bullshit, though, and along with his girlfriend, he sets out to change things up and restore Horus to power.

And oh, how they journey and fight.

There is no obstacle too powerful to overcome them, be it windswept deserts, humongous fire-breathing snakes, the murderous Set or Chadwick Boseman’s (42) criminally awful British accent as Thoth. The baffling nature of all movies assigning British accents to any/all nonAmericans aside, the above points come together to become a film not only bad by this specific sub-genre’s already low standards, but compared to pretty much anything you can think up. The gods all transform into robotically exaggerated versions of themselves, for some reason; the main guy’s wisecracks fall far short of humor again and again, until you just kind of wish he’d die; the journey to the ultimate showdown is ludicrous (and in some cases straight-up lifted from the video game CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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ok Maggie Smith brightens the screen in The Lady in the Van. series God of War); and perhaps most painful of all, Rush’s phoned-in performance as sun god Ra is so inconsequential that even a laserspear battle with a cosmic Sarlacc wouldn’t be enough of a reason to see this hot garbage.

Why have you forsaken us, Gods of Egypt? And why do people keep allowing movies like this to happen? (Alex De Vore) Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 127 min.

THE WITCH

With focused attention on historical accuracy and A-game production values, it’d be hard not to hit The Witch out of the park. Unfortunately, the care given to the aforementioned aspects of the film was not paid to the writing—at least, not in the way of structure or plot.

Director Robert Eggers reportedly visited museums for four years to better understand and bring life to the subject. It shows in everything the audience lays eyes on, with period dress, architecture and dialogue all outstandingly crafted with a loving touch that brings the time in which the story takes place to life.

The Witch is a 17th-century puritanical folktale wherein the protagonist family’s patriarch William (wonderfully performed by Ralph Ineson) is banished from the village for nigh-heretical religious beliefs. It must be said that William’s religious beliefs don’t seem to be outside what the common theatergoer would construe as “not puritanical.” But apparently, William just wasn’t the town’s brand of Christian and was thrown out to the woods because of it. The family then moves to the outskirts of a forest and tries to scrape a meager living out of the land.

Then, all hell breaks loose after the mysterious disappearance of their baby at the edge of the tree line. Or rather, it insidiously crawls its way into their lives, sowing the seeds of paranoia and psychological terror. Well, that’s what it says on the tin.

What really happens is a plodding slog of a movie bereft of theme or bearable pace. Calling The Witch a slow-burn isn’t as close to the mark as saying it is “glacially painful.” The point of view switches so often that you’re not given enough time with the character to form any kind of attachment, were that attachment possible.

And it isn’t. It seems that every character’s motivations are so steeped in religion that forming a connection with a largely secular audience is a difficult task at best.

However, the performances are absolutely stellar. Anna Taylor-Joy’s depiction as the oldest child, Thomasin, was excellent. And here, the writing was uncomfortably deep, as her

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blossoming womanhood is a temptation for her younger brother on the cusp of puberty. And while this is unsettling, it does reasonably set up her story arc towards the middle of the second act. Kate Dickie as the mother had outstanding moments being driven to grief-stricken madness.

This is supposed to be a horror movie. What is built up in the first two acts of the film fails to resolve in any way. The soundtrack is utilized to say, “Hey, there’s something scary about to happen,” and then something only mildly untoward occurs 20 minutes later. Before that, you have to wait through pseudo-religious exposition and puritanical farming techniques. This film really reached for the stars, and it’s hard to chastise the filmmakers, who so carefully constructed a visually striking and well-researched project.

But films at their core are meant to tell a story— meant to connect with the audience—and in the context of a horror film, scare the hell out of them. The Witch does none of these things.

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Violet Crown, Regal, R, 90 min.

DEADPOOL

It was hard to imagine how 20th Century Fox and Marvel Studios were going to accomplish bringing a the lesser-known cult-status character of Deadpool into motion picture territory.

How could the two major studios backing the production possibly create a film with a lead who frequently breaks the fourth wall, who may be aware that he’s a fictional person (possibly pan-sexual), and whose wisecracking has the same lowbrow comedic resonance as it does in the comic series? Against all odds, it seems that this herculean task of mainstream cinema was completed marginally well, especially considering the current precedent regarding the glut of the nostalgia-driven licensing nightmares the US studio system is fond of churning out these days.

It’s important to touch upon the meta aspects of this character, since in a way, that’s the whole basis of his motivations. Self-referential and turgid with pop-culture call-backs, with even subtle jibes from almost all the film’s characters at the thin plot, the movie is a snide and sophomoric attempt at the superhero genre.

But for some reason, that’s its charm. It’s as if a couple of young guys who loved comics wrote a movie starring one of their favorite characters, and the studio, somehow being cognizant of the source material and target audience, just let it all happen. The opening credits even lampoon the Hollywood system, declaring that it was directed by “an overpaid tool” and produced by

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barf Fly, you fools, far away from Gods of Egypt. “asshats.” Bundle up, because it might just be a cold day in hell.

A former Special Forces soldier, Wade Wilson/Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds), is a leg-breaker for hire who contracts cancer after falling in love with the classic “hooker with a heart of gold.”

He is offered a way out: undergo extreme stress combined with chemical cajoling to activate dormant mutant genes in his DNA and, hopefully, evade cancer and death. All is not as it seems, and when the transformation occurs, everything goes south. Ed Skrein turns in a functional performance as Ajax, a British villain. And hey, there’s MMA fighter Gina Carano as the evil super-muscle, Angel Dust. End of plot explanation.

It’s not really all that important, and it seems like everyone knows it. There’s even a line in the film that goes something like, “You should talk to that guy. It may deepen the plot.”

The ultra-violence wasn’t distasteful, since

it was so over the top and typically used as a comedic device. It hits home, somehow. This movie is sort of a miracle-mile in filmmaking.

It shouldn’t work—it shouldn’t be entertaining, but it is. It’s dumb fun, with an ironic patina of intelligence that quickly wears away after mere moments.

Deadpool, much like your socially inappropriate and yet (against your better judgment) still hilarious uncle, isn’t for everybody. If you’re a guy 18-35, you may like it. If you like meta satire on the Hollywood system, comic book movies, pop culture and ham-handed witticisms, it might just be for you. It’s chock full of full-frontal nudity for both genders, F-bombs and dismemberment, with a surface level of snappy dialogue that’s reminiscent of Kevin Smith’s Jersey Trilogy (Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy). If that’s your cup of tea, then go for it. (BK) Regal, R, 108 min.

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CRITTER CORNER HORTENSE This little 6.5 lb kitty is Hortense, who anxiously awaits her new home after coming here from a shelter in Los Angeles. She is a gentle and quiet 2-year-old orange and white tabby cat, with huge eyes and heart to match.

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Buttons found her way to the Shelter because her previous family could not care for her anymore.

Buttons is very sweet and is dog tolerant, according to our Behavior Team and has been used as a helper in doggie playgroups.

MILLICENT This little gal is Millicent, a 4-year-old, 7.5 lb, mixed breed pup, who is certainly part Chihuahua. Millicent has shown to be friendly and outgoing and also plays well with others.

KEY LIME Key Lime is a new guest at our shelter: just arrived here from Los Angeles.

She is a lovely gray and white tabby cat who weighs about 9 lbs and is about 3 years old. Key Lime loves attention. She is a friendly little cat who is ready and waiting for a new chance in a new environment.

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CILLIA Cillia is playful with other dogs and loves going for long walks with volunteers. She’s a sweetie pie that is patiently waiting for the right person to come and scoop her up. She came to the shelter as a stray. She is about 10 months old, she loves people and is willing to please.

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NAMI-SANTA FE WILL HOLD AN INFORMATION MEETING on Monday, March 14 at 6 pm at The Life Link, 2325 Cerrillos Road in Santa Fe. Speaker Rhonda Romero, Public Affairs Specialist for the Social Security Administration, will present information about SSA covered programs, eligibility specifics, and how to sign up for a MY-SSA account.

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THE NAMI SANTA FE Family-to-Family 12-week class is scheduled to begin in Santa Fe on March 6, 3:00pm 5:30 p.m. This is a FREE class for family members and caregivers of persons living with mental illness. It meets once a week for approximately 2½ hours. Trained, volunteer family members in teams of two facilitate these classes.

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FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE, Lisa Johnson and Daniel Rios, Petitioner/ Plaintiff, vs. Devin Rios and COUNTY OF BERNALILLO STATE OF NEW MEXICO Adrianna cruz, Respondent/ SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COUNTY OF SANTA FE Defendant.

COURT IN THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT Case No.:D-101IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE No.D-202-CV-2015-8264 DM-2015-00563 OF DOROTHY DOLORES KUSTER, J.D.B. ACCEPTANCE NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF SUIT CORPORATION OF NEW Deceased.

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Petitioner/Plaintiff, has filed Representative of this NOTICE OF SUIT a civil action against you in estate. All persons having STATE OF NEW MEXICO to both the above-entitled Court and claims against this estate above-named Defendants: are required to present their cause, The general object GREETINGS: claims within two months thereof being: Permanent You are hereby notified that after the date of the first pubGuardianship. the above-named Plaintiff has lication of this notice or the Unless you enter your appearfiled a civil action against you ance in this cause within thirclaims will forever be barred. in the above-entitled Court Claims must be presented ty (30) days of the date of the and cause, the general object either to the undersigned thereof being a Complaint On last publication of this Notice, Personal Representative in A Contract And For Debt And judgment by default may be care of Karen Aubrey, Esq., entered against you.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Actress Blythe Baird writes about the problem that arises when her dog sees her eating a peanut butter and chocolate chip bagel. Her beloved pet begs for a piece and becomes miserable when it’s not forthcoming. Baird is merely demonstrating her love, of course, because she knows that eating chocolate can make canines ill. I suspect that life is bestowing a comparable blessing on you. You may feel mad and sad about being deprived of something you want. But the likely truth is that you will be lucky not to get it.

should be attending to this tough but glorious task.

Although the work might be hard, it won’t be anywhere near as hard as it usually is. And you are likely to make more progress than you would be able to at other times.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) “I do not literally paint that table, but rather the emotion it produces upon me,” French artist Henri Matisse told an interviewer. “But what if you don’t always have emotion?” she asked him.

This is how Matisse replied: “Then I do not paint. This morning, when I came to work, I had no emotion. So I took a horseback ride. When I returned, I felt like painting, and had all the emotion I wanted.” This is excellent advice for you to keep in mind, Taurus. Even more than usual, it’s crucial that you imbue every important thing you do with pure, strong emotions. If they’re not immediately available, go in quest of them.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Some night soon, I predict you’ll dream of being an enlightened sovereign who presides over an ecologically sustainable paradise. You’re a visionary leader who is committed to peace and high culture, so you’ve never gone to war. You share your wealth with the people in your kingdom. You revere scientists and shamans alike, providing them with what they need to do their good work for the enhancement of the realm. Have fun imagining further details of this dream, Gemini, or else make up your own. Now is an excellent time to visualize a fairy tale version of yourself at the height of your powers, living your dreams and sharing your gifts.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) It’s not always necessary to have an expansive view of where you have been and where you are going, but it’s crucial right now. So I suggest that you take an inventory of the big picture. For guidance, study this advice from philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche: “What have you truly loved? What has uplifted your soul, what has dominated and delighted it at the same time? Assemble these revered objects in a row before you and they may reveal a law by their nature and their order: the fundamental law of your very self.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) “The other day, lying in bed,” writes poet Rodger Kamenetz, “I felt my heart beating for the first time in a long while. I realized how little I live in my body, how much in my mind.” He speaks for the majority of us. We spend much of our lives entranced by the relentless jabber that unfolds between our ears. But I want to let you know, Scorpio, that the moment is ripe to rebel against this tendency in yourself. In the coming weeks, you will have a natural talent for celebrating your body. You’ll be able to commune deeply with its sensations, to learn more abut how it works, and to exult in the pleasure it gives you and the wisdom it provides.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) In his “Dream Song 67,” poet John Berryman confesses, “I am obliged to perform in complete darkness operations of great delicacy on my self.” I hope you will consider embarking on similar heroics, Sagittarius. It’s not an especially favorable time to overhaul your environment or try to get people to change in accordance with your wishes. But it’s a perfect moment to spruce up your inner world — to tinker with and refine it so that everything in there works with more grace. And unlike Berryman, you won’t have to proceed in darkness. The light might not be bright, but there’ll be enough of a glow to see what you’re doing.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Here’s the dictionary’s definition of the word “indelible”: “having the quality of being difficult to remove, wash away, blot out, or efface; incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten.” The word is often used in reference to unpleasant matters: stains on clothes, biases that distort the truth, superstitions held with unshakable conviction, or painful memories of romantic break-ups. I am happy to let you know that you now have more power than usual to dissolve seemingly indelible stuff like that. Here’s a trick that might help you: Find a new teacher or teaching that uplifts you with indelible epiphanies.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) According to poet Tony Hoagland, most of us rarely “manage to finish a thought or a feeling; we usually get lazy or distracted and quit halfway through.” Why? Hoagland theorizes that we “don’t have the time to complete the process, and we dislike the difficulty and discomfort of the task.” There’s a cost for this negligence: “We walk around full of halffinished experiences.” That’s why Hoagland became a poet. He says that “poems model the possibility of feeling all the way through an emotional process” and “thinking all the way through a thought.” The coming weeks will be a favorable time to get more in the habit of finishing your own feelings and thoughts, Aquarius. It will also be more important than usual that you do so!

(Hoagland’s comments appeared in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts.)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Sportswear manufacturer Adidas is looking for ways to repurpose trash that humans dump in the oceans. One of its creations is a type of shoe made from illegal deep-sea nets that have been confiscated from poachers. I invite you to get inspired by Adidas’s work. From an astrological perspective, now is a good time to expand and refine your personal approach to recycling. Brainstorm about how you could convert waste and refuse into useful, beautiful resources — not just literally, but also metaphorically. For example, is there a ruined or used-up dream that could be transformed into raw material for a shiny new dream?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Unless you work at night and sleep by day, you experience the morning on a reguVIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) “There isn’t enough of anything as long as we live,” wrote Raymond Carver. “But at lar basis. You may have a love-hate relationship with it, intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance, pre- because on the one hand you don’t like to leave your comfortable bed so early, and on the other hand you vails.” According to my analysis of the astrological enjoy anticipating the interesting events ahead of you. omens, Virgo, you’ll soon be gliding through one of these intervals. Now and then you may even experience But aside from your personal associations with the the strange sensation of being completely satisfied with morning, this time of day has always been a potent symbol of awakenings and beginnings. Throughout history, the quality and amount of sweetness that arrives. To ensure optimal results, be as free from greed as you can poets have invoked it to signify purity and promise. In myth and legend, it often represents the chance to see possibly be. things afresh, to be free of the past’s burdens, to love life LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) “For a wound to heal, you unconditionally. Dream interpreters might suggest that a have to clean it out,” says author HYPERLINK “http:// dream of morning indicates a renewed capacity to trust www.amazon.com/s/ref=cm_cr_pr_pdt_bl_ oneself. All of these meanings are especially apropos for sr?ie=UTF8&field-keywords=Yasmin+Mogahed” Yasmin you right now, Pisces.

Mogahed. “Again, and again, and again. And this cleaning process stings. The cleaning of a wound hurts. Yes. Homework: Imagine gazing into the eyes of the person Healing takes so much work. So much persistence. And you were ten years ago. What do you want to say to the so much patience.” According to my analysis, Libra, you Old You? Freewillastrology.com.

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