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NEWS OPINION 5 NEWS 7 DAYS, METROGLYPHS AND THIS MODERN WORLD 8 TO PROTECT AND TROLL 11 Santa Fe Police Sgt. Troy Baker used to have a public Facebook profile MUD TRACKS 13 It’s almost hiking season and mud season. How can adventurers reconcile the two? COVER STORY 14 BEYOND THE BAN Our president rose to office on a campaign based largely on Islamophobia and xenophobia. Read about the experiences of members of Santa Fe’s Muslim community THE ENTHUSIAST 19 NATIVE REVIVAL Telluride Mountainfilm on Tour comes to the Lensic this week
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ing over eight months for the results of Wells Fargo’s arbitration process. Even if some Wells Fargo employees did not directly participate in lying and stealing from millions of customers, I bet they were aware of it. Let’s not forgive and forget corruption on such a grand scale. Wells Fargo should not be in business after proving it has no integrity.
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NO MORAL COMPASS Victoria Erhart, I truly mean no disrespect for the local employees of Wells Fargo, and the good volunteer work you all do in our community. I thank you. But there are huge issues at stake here. Native Americans from many different tribes have been camped out in freezing weather in peaceful protest of this pipeline across their land, threatening the water supply of thousands. Though they have been peaceful, they have suffered serious harm at the hands of government authorities because they are standing in the way of oil industry profits. Wells Fargo corporation and our new authoritarian government are not moved by non-violent protest. They don’t have a moral compass guiding their actions, the way their employees here in Northern New Mexico are guided to do good work. They will trample the people who get in their way in service to an industry that threatens the future of their own children and grandchildren. (70-degree temps in February?) The only thing they understand is a loss of income. I hope you do not lose your job because of their greed. But I would like to see the city and individuals take their banking elsewhere, to financial institutions that have the same desire to do good work that you and your coworkers share.
DAVID CAMP SANTA FE
POINTING FINGERS I most certainly blame local Wells Fargo employees for the corruption at this bank. Every time I went to Wells Fargo, they would push me to open more accounts. I knew there was something criminal going on and I would tell them so, every time. Tired of my complaining, they made a false report to the police to retaliate for my perceptiveness, claiming that I threatened them. Lucky for me, the responding officer saw through their slander, but it was another clear case of Wells Fargo’s dishonesty and abuse of power. Prevented from seeking justice in court, I have been wait-
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WE JUST DIDN’T GET IT? We are fortunate Santa Fe devotes so many movie screens to the international scene. There is no better movie-watching town anywhere. The Salesman by Ashgar Fahradi … has been nominated for over a dozen international awards, and is Iran’s latest Oscar foreign film selection. I’d describe it as an enticingly layered drama that draws the viewer onward effortlessly. Your reviewer claims it’s boring. In it, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is presented by a Tehran theater company. Here’s evidence of Iranians relating to our humanity; why don’t more Americans relate to theirs? The Salesman deals with the universal subjects of temptation and revenge. We are invited to watch as a man indulges his righteous indignation past the point of good sense. That’s an especially relevant topic these days. Last week, Iran’s military conducted a ballistic missile test. Our leadership issued dire warnings. Your film writer skipped an opportunity to foster mutual understanding at a critical time, opting for lazy self-absorption instead. World cinema invites us to see that most everyone on earth, even our so-called “enemy,” is at least as moral, intelligent, and culturally well-endowed as we.
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NON-LETHAL APPROACH I am writing regarding the current status of wolves. Wolves have been trapped, poisoned, and shot into near-extinction at taxpayer expense to accommodate ranchers and other special interest groups. In 1998 there were only seven left. Last year alone they were reduced again by 20 percent. There are currently 97 left in two states. I hike in the White Mountains. I have found two wolves that have been shot even with the Endangered Species Act still in effect. We need to introduce new wolves in an effort to deal with inbreeding. The primary complaint is from ranchers. Ranchers pay approximately $14 a year to graze a cow and a calf on public land. Basically a free lunch. Keep the cows off public land. That is our land and it is where the wolves are released. There are numerous non-lethal ways to deal with this problem. Please consider them.
PATRICK STOCKS SHOW LOW, ARIZONA
ETHICALLY DEPLORABLE ”More Wolves!” was just one of many chants from about 200 people who gathered at the Roundhouse to convey their exasperation and outrage at Governor Martinez’ obstinate refusal to allow wolves to be released. The lack of introducing unrelated wolves into the wild is a death knell for the struggling lobos. ... The debilitating effects on their population are smaller pup litters and lower survival rates, a direct result of wolves that are all interrelated. Captive-bred wolves have genes not represented in the wild, and are the lobos’ only hope for recovery. Wolves deserve better. It is ethically deplorable that they be held hostage and used as political pawns by a governor who prefers to appease special interest groups. ... Gov. Martinez and her minions have continuously ignored science as well as the majority of New Mexicans who support wolf recovery. Without the genetic diversity that new, unrelated wolves would provide, our lobos remain on the precipice of a second extinction. Ultimately, the governor must reconcile her self-serving choices at the expense of what is moral and just.
BARBARA STRACK GARCIA ALBUQUERQUE
DO WOLVES ROOST? Thank you Elizabeth Miller for accurate and balanced reporting, and for a realistic assessment of the attendance numbers. Wolves may be coming home to roost if public support is any indication, and as the move away from animal proteins continues—especially beef. The frustration with politics and private interests, and the failure of a compromised business model to recognize consumer prowess with their purchasing options, will continue to favor wildlife interests. A healthier society on a number of levels will emerge. Factor in the struggling New Mexico economy and the need for revenues, the actual cash cow is tourism. Tourists will come to see, or hope to see, indigenous wildlife, especially a rare Mexican gray wolf. Like it or not, a paradigm shift is inevitable. The opposition against this progress will be unable to overcome the momentum. It’s not just coexisting favorably with indigenous wildlife, but hoping that some coexistence is still possible with consumers, who have the real leverage.
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BALANCED FOREST I am writing to urge you and your readers to support the immediate introduction of the Mexican gray wolf to our national forests. I live in Tucson, Arizona, and have spent most of my life hiking and camping in our forest lands and I’ve passed this experience to my son and, now, my grandson. I’m proud to say, we all cherish the idea of wild animals, such as the Mexican gray wolf, living freely in our forests. We believe a healthy forest must include a balance of wildlife predators, such as wolves. Please help to maintain this balance by continuing the introduction of these wonderful animals to our forests!
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DAY WITHOUT IMMIGRANTS SHUT DOWN INNUMERABLE SANTA FE BUSINESSES, MOSTLY RESTAURANTS Let this be a lesson to everyone who likes good food.
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STATE CONSIDERS UPDATING OIL AND GAS POLLUTER RULES FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 1935 Couldn’t we wait another 83 years and see if the industry just does the right thing on its own?
TRUMP ASKS ISRAEL’S NETANYAHU TO “HOLD OFF ON SETTLEMENTS A BIT” Oh man! How did no one ever think to just straight up say that? Problem solved!
HOUSE BILL WOULD ADD GREEN CHILE CHEESEBURGER TO OFFICIAL STATE SYMBOLS Let ‘er rip, vegans. The #SFRFoodie meat cabal is behind this plan too.
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Baker says personal views expressed on his Facebook post do not affect his on-duty behavior. “I’m not bringing it to work,” he tells SFR. “You find one person I am not giving appropriate community service to due to their gender, race or ethnicity. Find one.” Baker frequently uses his page to express views on immigration—and the investigation comes at a time when Santa Fe city councilors are considering proposals to reaffirm local policies that limit police cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. Baker says in the interview that the police union does not have an official position on the proposals. His personal opinion seems more clear. One meme on his wall says, “If an illegal immigrant is allowed to stay because they’ve stayed hidden for a while, is it okay to keep a stolen car because you’ve kept it hidden for a while?” He posted news about a US Congressional bill that would pull federal funding from so-called “sanctuary cities,” an issue likely to draw extensive public testimony at Wednesday’s City Council meeting. Although he does not endorse the bill on his
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he Santa Fe Police Department’s internal affairs unit on Monday opened an investigation of the local police union president for incendiary messages shared on his formerly public Facebook page, including posts disparaging Muslims, African Americans, women, protesters, immigrants, transgender people and others. The investigation comes after SFR emailed Police Chief Patrick Gallagher Facebook, Baker tells SFR, “Why should a seven screenshots taken from Sgt. Troy city be rewarded for violating federal law? Baker’s Facebook page, representing a I have a lot of friends who are here illegalsmall sample of questionable posts shared ly. I am absolutely against the criminal by the officer over several years. Baker has element and making the city an absolute not been placed on leave. safe haven.” Most of Baker’s posts take the form Several of Baker’s posts are overtly of “memes,” or content tailored for the racist, sexist or transphobic. Internet that juxtaposes images and text One post referencing the resettlement for laughs. For example, a recent post of Syrian refugees in the United States portrays a minimalist drawing of a vehishows an image of two unidentified, darkcle running over protesters. Text over the skinned men with the text, “We have image says, “All Lives Splatter,” a referenough money to support 500,000 inbred ence to Black Lives Matter, the national savages, but not enough for our senior citmovement formed in response to a spate izens to get a cost of living increase?” of police killings of unarmed black men. Explaining that post, Baker “Nobody cares about your protests,” the says, “I don’t have anti-Muslim meme continues. “Moral views. I have anti-radical Islam of the story.. Stay off the views. I have friends that are road!” Muslim. It’s not against a reliAsked over the phone gion. It’s against radical Muswhether his post condones lims. The people in that photo violence, Baker says, “That are from ISIS.” is a joke and taken as such. Another post of Baker’s We don’t need to be runshows an unidentified protester, ning over people intentionbent over, clearly in pain. A capally, but people shouldn’t be tion over the image says, “When blocking roadways either.” you get shot in the groin by a The Santa Fe Police Derubber bullet and your madepartment does not have a up gender doesn’t protect your social media policy, but the willie.” department personnel code Asked to explain whether does prohibit “conduct unhe believes this message to be becoming of an officer.” offensive, Baker says, “Your When asked whether gender is what you’re born Baker’s posts reflect broader with. You can’t change it just positions of the police debecause you say you are what partment, Chief Gallagher you say. By that logic, I am tells SFR, “Emphatically, no.” royalty, right? Because I say He adds: “Posts such as this I am. And I’m black because have the potential to make that’s what I am.” officers’ jobs more difficult by Baker, a sergeant on the Visit sfreporter.com to see screenshots of Facebook eroding police-community reposts described in this story, as well as several others. graveyard shift, directly sulationships.”
pervises seven officers. A year ago, he was elected president of the Santa Fe Police Officers Association, a union that counts roughly 150 sworn officers and civilian employees among its membership. He also earned the distinction of 2016 Supervisor of the Year. He briefly lost his job after a 2010 incident in which a man claimed he and four other officers used excessive force during a disorderly conduct arrest in a Walmart parking lot. An external review board reinstated Baker and another officer, Steve Cosban. Santa Fe is hardly the first police department to conduct internal investigations over content shared or posted by officers on social media. Just 50 miles south, the Albuquerque Police Department became one of the first in the nation to implement a social media conduct policy after journalists flagged offensive posts made by officers. Three years later, the Department of Justice described a “culture of aggression” among Albuquerque police officers that led to widespread excessive force and one of the highest rates of police shootings in the nation. More recently, the Department of Justice also cited discriminatory social media posts by officers in a scathing report on civil rights violations by the Chicago Police Department. After coming across Baker’s Facebook page, SFR reviewed the Facebook pages of the rest of the Santa Fe Police Department roster. Of those who set their pages to public, we could not find any posts with the same tenor, tone or offensive content as Baker’s. Baker set his page to private after SFR called him for comment.
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t was the Friday before Christmas two years ago. Highs in the mid40s, lows in the mid-20s. Just a touch of wind. Not a bad day for a mountain bike ride, if you were dressed right. Brent Bonwell was up early and getting a few miles in on the trails at the Galisteo Basin Preserve before they started to thaw. What he saw as he hopped on his bike was a growing mess at the trailhead. As people, pets, horses and bicyclists made their way into the preserve’s 28 miles of trails, they’d created a mud pit. The problem continued further back, as horses and hikers and bikers had turned smooth singletrack into what would become a pockmarked path once it dried. It’s an understandable phenomenon. After a few days of cold and snow or rain, people are anxious to get out. The roads are dry, the sun is shining—why not? But if you’ve hiked, biked or hopped on your horse on one of those days, you know it can be a muck-filled slog that threatens to suck the boots off your feet. Each year, it costs thousands of dollars and wasted hours to fix, all falling upon the people who take care of the hundreds of miles of trails in and around Santa Fe. Bonwell knew what he’d find that morning. A member of the Santa Fe Fat Tire Society, a mountain biking group, he was trying to make a case for educating people about the impact of using muddy trails. He snapped pictures of the mess and sent them to Gretchen Grogan, who manages trails for the nonprofit Commonweal Conservancy, which runs the Galisteo Basin Preserve. Grogan knew the problem, too. The nonprofit pays contractors thousands of dollars to regrade the dirt parking lots at popular trailheads. Use on muddy days can deepen ruts to the point that it can be a challenge just finding a place
Above: A mountain biker heads up the Cooka’s Loop trail at the Galisteo Basin Preserve. Below: (1) Horse hooves have some of the deepest impacts on muddy trails. (2) Dogs, people and mountain bikers also widen the trail significantly.
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to park that won’t bottom out your car. “If it’s like that at the parking lot, you can bet it’s like that on the trails. You’re better off just turning around,” she says. While the vast majority of maintenance on the trails themselves—at the preserve and elsewhere around Santa Fe—is done by volunteers, Grogan tells SFR, “We like to use them to build new trails instead of fixing old ones.” For its part, the city of Santa Fe spends $50,000 every year to maintain its soft-surface (unpaved) trails through a contract with the Santa Fe Conservation Trust. The problem is what trail stewards call cupping. If it sounds a little dirty, it is. Tramping or riding through a muddy trail sloshes mud to the edges. Then it dries. When it rains again or when snow
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melts, instead of a well-designed trail shedding that water, the higher edges trap it in a sort of cup. The water has nowhere to go but down the trail, creating a channel that exposes underlying rocks that get loosened the next time someone passes over them. Do it enough times on the same section, trail pros say, and you have a problem. “It’s not rocket science,” Bonwell says. Which means the mess can be fixed with some time and training. The Fat Tire Society has nine members who have gone through crew leader training with the US Forest Service. For trail-repair
days around Santa Fe, the group matches new members with experienced ones. Bonwell says the result is productive. The Forest Service says our abnormally warm February hasn’t presented any unusual problems. Trail gurus there ask people to use common sense when confronted with a muddy trailhead. If you have to get past the mud, they say, suck it up and go through the middle rather than making the “dry” edges worse. Ultimately, word of mouth has proven to be the most successful tool for combating muddy trail usage. The Fat Tire Society has started to use #SFTrails on social media to highlight both good conditions and trails that are too muddy to ride. Most bike shops around town keep track, too. And like Bonwell did that December morning two years ago, they encourage riders to get out before the temperature warms enough to turn hard trails into mushy ones. It’s the theory behind the group’s signs urging trail patrons to “use dirt trails, not mud trails” at popular trailheads on the city’s La Tierra system and at the Galisteo Basin Preserve. It wasn’t hard to convince Grogan to let the signs be posted at the preserve. It hasn’t stopped the problem, but it has helped. So, too, have efforts to bring trail users together for maintenance work. It’s not often you see hikers and riders of both mountain bikes and horses doing something together. As Bonwell saw, all three can do damage to the trails, so it makes sense that all three should help keep them in good shape.
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anta Fe is home to a small Muslim community of about 450 people in the greater county area, according to estimates in a private survey called the 2010 US Religious Census. Despite those modest numbers, Muslims in the City Different tell SFR they received an outpouring of support when federal officials enacted an executive order last month suspending all refugee resettlement and temporarily banning travelers—including visa holders—from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States. As some people remained stranded at international airports thronged with protesters, more than 130 locals from Christian churches, Jewish synagogues and other groups packed the Mosque of Al Rahma in Santa Fe’s South Capitol neighborhood to stand with their neighbors. Mayor Javier Gonzales and the Santa Fe Police Department phoned mosque officials, according to Joe Hamad, a volunteer and worshipper, and personal phone lines also rang to the tune of solidarity. “We keep getting calls from people we don’t know just to say, ‘If you guys need anything, let us know,’” says Azher, an Iraqi-American who works in a local school. “This kind of support is what gives us hope that, in the end, good will prevail.” Yet, Azher and his wife May asked that SFR not publish their last names. All that support can’t counteract their instinct toward self-preservation. A federal court in California recently held up a temporary restraining order on Trump’s ban. That move followed a deluge of lawsuits and impromptu demonstrations at airports across the country, including the Albuquerque International Sunport. As of press time, the Trump administration was exptected to release a new version that targets the same seven countries, but exempts green card holders.
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While the executive order shocked many Americans, people from some of those nations who now live in Santa Fe tell SFR they weren’t surprised. After all, Trump originally proposed a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” back in 2015. His chief strategist, Steve Bannon, ran Breitbart, a news site that often traffics in fear of Muslims. Trump brought the same rhetoric to New Mexico in May, falsely accusing Gov. Susana Martinez of allowing “large numbers” of Syrian refugees to relocate to New Mexico. “If I was governor, that wouldn’t be happening,” he said to cheers. At the time of Trump’s speech, fewer than 10 Syrians had resettled in the Land of Enchantment. Martinez, meanwhile, opposed President Barack Obama’s plan to accept a limited share of Syrian refugees fleeing ISIL (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) and the bloody civil war in their country, stating that there must be “a very clear plan in place to properly vet” them. Martinez didn’t mention that such a federal policy already exists. Refugees seeking entry into the United States encounter a painstaking screening process that includes interviews, background checks and fingerprinting. Jumping through those hoops, installed by the United Nations and multiple federal agencies, takes up to two years. But contrary to the messages coming from the White House and the Fourth Floor of the Roundhouse, not to mention a recent rash of hate crimes directed towards mosques across the country, Muslims in Santa Fe say they have yet to encounter any Islamophobic sentiment in their hometown. During his annual State of the City speech last week, Mayor Gonzales reaffirmed his earlier stance that Santa Fe remains a place for refugees “fleeing the world’s most oppressive and most violent places and looking to our country to honor the promise engraved on the Statue of Liberty.”
The city’s demographics mean that most of the recent political discourse, however, is focused on thousands of immigrant residents from Latin American countries who lack permission from the federal government to be here. The concerns of our small Muslim population, most of whom aren’t facing the same paperwork complications, may seem myopic in comparison to the threats that loom for undocumented people that make up a large swath of the local workforce. But Trump’s policies dictating who comes in and out of this country—whether it’s a deportation plan or travel ban— feed off fears in the same vein. Only the target changes. SFR spoke with Muslim locals from three of the seven countries listed in Trump’s travel ban, all of whom are naturalized American citizens. Their experiences in this country differ widely, but each story holds unique significance in this moment. May pulls out her phone and loads up a video showing the University of Mosul, before and after ISIL invaded the city and transformed the historic research institution, her alma mater, into a battlefield. As the Iraqi-American woman peers at the screen from her perch in a Southside coffee shop, the sequence jarringly transitions from scenes of student life to black-clad militants shooting machine guns over rubble and piles of ashen books. May recounts how not just this place, but her entire country, transformed over decades of war and terror, most recently under the control of ISIL. When ISIL took over the city of Mosul in the fall of 2014, militants forced her family and all their possessions out of her childhood home. They fled to central Asia. Three of May’s friends, one doctor and two lawyers, didn’t get a chance to escape before they were killed. Some of Azher’s relatives, her in-laws, also fled for refuge in Europe and East Asia. Others
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Sally Tavassoli’s father, a shopkeeper, brought his family to the US amid the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Sally, pictured here as a child, lives in Santa Fe today.
stayed in the city, living for months without electricity or running water. “Those people were running for their lives. They’ve lost everything: their homes, their livelihoods, their businesses,” Azher says. “Can you imagine anyone who would want to abandon everything behind and go thousands of miles away to a place where they don’t know the language or culture, unless they had a very powerful reason to do so?” When Azher left Iraq back in the ’80s, he did so under relatively peaceful circumstances. He decided to study in the United States after reading about the country’s strong education system. “As a young man, anybody would like to investigate the world and see what is going on,” he explains. After studying at the University of Mosul, Azher arrived in Arizona on a student visa and chose to pursue a graduate degree at the state’s flagship university in Tuscon. The warm weather reminded him of Iraq and helped him acclimate to his new surroundings. So did the warm people. “I was very impressed with the way people dealt with me as an individual who doesn’t speak very good English,” he says. “They didn’t even know where I came from. People were very friendly.” After the Iraq-Iran war broke out, killing many of his friends, Azher did not feel compelled to return to his home country. “You don’t want to kill or get killed,” he says. “I just don’t believe in violence or in war or killing. That’s something I feel very strongly about.” Azher instead completed his Master of Science degree. He then got to work teaching at a local community college before returning to the University of Arizona as a staff instructor. He says he never felt unwelcome or discriminated against during his time at the college. Not even in the immediate wake of 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, when early media reports had speculated that the perpetrator was Muslim. A stu-
dent approached him and asked, “Why are you people so violent?” He chose to make the news a teachable moment. “When we found out it was committed by Timothy McVeigh, who was an American, I called her and said, ‘See? Now you said to me something not very nice.’ I told her not to rush to judgment in the future,” he says. In the mid-’90s, Azher visited Jordan, where he met another University of Mosul grad, May. They moved back to the United States together and got married. In August 2001, the couple relocated to Santa Fe. Three weeks later, terrorists from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Leb-
anon and the United Arab Emirates flew two planes into the World Trade Center, sending America into two wars, creating a pretext for a surveillance state and ushering in an era of Islamophobia unseen in modern history. However, Azher says he didn’t personally encounter any of the hate that pervaded post-9/11 America. “On the contrary, the support I got from people at work was overwhelming—even from some of the students,” he says. He felt the same support when Trump rose to power, pledging to ban Muslims from entering to the United States. The outpouring came again when the presi-
dent carried out his promise on his 10th day in office. “We have received so many phone calls,” he says. “The support from this community was overwhelming, and in my opinion, [that is] what makes America great.” Still, Azher is keenly aware of the fear that swept other parts of the country— the same fear Trump fed off of in his bid for the White House, claiming without evidence that the Syrian refugee resettlement programs could be the “ultimate Trojan horse” for ISIL and other terror groups. Azher chafes at the irony. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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“Muslims have suffered more from [ISIL] than anyone else,” he says. “We’re talking about my hometown. My university, which housed over 30,000 students, has been literally destroyed by these criminal individuals.”
into war, sparked by a violent crackdown ordered by President Bashar al-Assad. Rebel groups rose against a government with little regard for civilian lives. The war came to Aleppo in 2012, when rebels took control of the city. Some of Sassila’s family escaped through Greece and Turkey before eventually finding refuge in Germany, but two of his cousins died during air strikes. Late last year, the city capitulated to government forces, creating a vacuum for Assad’s soldiers to commit atrocities. The United Nations warned of “a complete meltdown of humanity.” When asked whether he worries for the safety of family members in Syria, Sassila tells SFR: “We Muslims have a very strong belief that we don’t worry. We believe that Allah, the only God, decides when we ex-
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When Gary Johnson, the former New Mexico governor, held a campaign rally on the Plaza in the fall, Mohamed Sassila walked a couple blocks from his rug shop to see the Libertarian presidential candidate speak. Johnson had recently flubbed when asked what he would do about the conditions in Sassila’s hometown in Syria, Aleppo, a city considered by international observers as the site of the greatest humanitarian crisis of the decade.
“I always excuse American ignorance of the Middle East, Syria or the Arab world in general. They don’t have access to the right information,” Sassila says. “Johnson shocked me, though, because Aleppo had been mentioned in the media so much.” Still, Sassila attempted to shake hands with the candidate, but didn’t manage to get his attention. “I have nothing personal against the guy,” he says. For many Americans, Aleppo became a buzzword most associated with Johnson’s failed campaign. But for Sassila, who has lived in Santa Fe for more than three decades, his living connection to the city’s real human tragedy is deep. When the Syrian revolution broke out years ago, Sassila was optimistic about his country’s future. But protest descended
Mohamed Sassila’s rug shop off the Santa Fe Plaza is a long way from his hometown of Aleppo, Syria.
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ist and when to end our lives. This is out of our control. So we don’t worry about death.” When Sassila came over from Syria in 1984, it was two years after the ruling Ba’ath Party cracked down on a years-long rebellion against the government. Sassila obtained a student visa and flew to Miami, Florida. The culture shock immediately overwhelmed him. “You don’t know what to expect. Coming here, the people are very liberal. What do you see? Topless beaches and night clubs,” Sassila says, letting out a hearty laugh. “It was a huge difference. You have strip clubs on every corner. To them, that’s normal. But for us, women cover themselves.” Sassila attended the University of Miami for one semester. But tuition was too expensive, so he enrolled at Florida International University, where he pursued a degree in electrical engineering. There wasn’t a mosque in town, so he and other Muslim students used a university classroom for prayers. After graduating, Sassila moved to Santa Fe to help another Syrian man run Desert Blossom, a jewelry store on the Plaza. Seven months later, in 1991, he opened his own shop. Sassila sold jewelry and run-of-themill gift shop products at first, but eventually swapped the turquoise earrings for oriental rugs. His hometown, after all, had produced generations of weavers tracing back centuries. “Rugs are a passion of mine,” he says. “It’s something I have knowledge of.” Sassila traveled the world—Afghanistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan—picking hand-woven rugs for wealthy tourists. He named his store Silk Road Collections, after the ancient trade network that for centuries connected many of the civilizations from which Sassila buys his products. Sassila became an American citizen in 1999, after passing what he says was a “piece of cake” test and taking an oath of
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Santa Fe’s Muslim worshipers gather at a mosque in South Capitol.
allegiance at the Albuquerque Convention Center. The first time Sassila cast a vote, he did so for for Barack Obama in 2008. But the president fell out of Sassila’s favor for what he viewed as ineptness when confronting the crisis in Syria. The Obama administration provided arms to moderate rebel groups, but some analysts believe he could have done more to prevent catastrophe. “He is one of the worst presidents in American history for foreign affairs,” Sassila says. That disenchantment led Sassila not to vote in the last presidential election. And he wasn’t surprised when Donald Trump announced his travel ban last month. “American policy has always been hostile to Muslims and Arabs,” Sassila says. “What he is saying is not new to me.” When Syrian refugees started arriving in Albuquerque, Sassila drove down to help them get oriented. When asked for specifics, Sassila demurs, saying he does not want to insult the five families he’s reached out to by bragging about his deeds. “When you do something good, you do it softly, quietly,” he says. “I feel like that’s my duty, without any question, to help as much as I can. It’s a must. It’s not leisure. It’s not an option. I think most Syrians feel the same way.” Sally Tavassoli’s father, a shopkeeper, had high hopes for life after the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Those hopes quickly dissolved. Not long after the Ayatollah Khomeini took control of the country, Tavassoli’s uncle was captured and struck with lashes. Agents burned down his record store for selling Western music. “That’s when we realized that it would be totally different,” says Tavassoli, who was 4 years old at the time. “We realized
the new regime would be an Islamic Republic, so we left.” Fearing persecution from the country’s new, ultra-conservative rulers, millions of Iranians fled, forming large diasporas in Germany, Sweden and the United States. Tavassoli, along with her mother and father, wound up in Houston, Texas. They applied for and received asylum under President Jimmy Carter’s State Department. (As opposed to refugees, who apply for residency before arriving in the United States, asylees are granted protective status after living in the country for some time.) Immediately, Tavassoli’s father started thinking about business. His steakhouse failed after two years. A roller rink in the Houston suburbs proved more successful. Around that time, Islamic militants stormed the US embassy in Tehran and held Americans hostage for more than 400 days. Backlash against Iranian immigrants followed. “One time, a falling-out happened and someone got fired” at her father’s business, Tavassoli recalls. “I remember coming into work with my dad the next morning, and spray-painted across the parking lot were the words ‘Iranians eat shit.’” Suddenly, Tavassoli became conscious of her own national and ethnic identity in a way she hadn’t before. “I think I was about 6 or 7 then, and I had a really good friend that was Hispanic. I even started to lie to her. I told her my family is Greek. I reconnected with her 10 years ago on Facebook, and she still thought I was Greek. I totally had forgotten about that. There’s probably a whole group of people who still think I’m Greek.” When Tavassoli turned 12, her parents divorced and she moved to Orange County, California, with her father, who opened a successful men’s clothing store.
[Santa Fe] is a very openminded town. -Sally Tavassoli, IranianAmerican Santa Fean
“And that’s when I saw other people were like me,” Tavassoli says. “We spoke Farsi in school together, and then it just became okay. It was very liberating. We had a secret language.” After graduating from high school, Tavassoli attended college on and off. She was living in Texas on Sept. 11, 2001, and was dating a white man at the time. “George Bush sent troops to Iraq. I was very scared because my whole distant family is in Iran. I remember saying to my boyfriend, ‘Oh man. That’s really close. I hope they don’t unleash nuclear weapons.’ His answer to me was, ‘If it has to be done, it has to be done. In order to tell people not to mess with America.’ And I was like, Okay. Same old story. That’s when I became more politically aware.” Tavassoli became even more engaged as she pursued an education degree at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. She worked on the side for an outreach program called the Center for Human Origin and Cultural Diversity, where she facilitated student field trips to a facility exploring
the human race’s common ancestry. “My mentor encouraged me to speak up about being Muslim. At that point, I had never really associated with being Muslim.” In 2011, Tavassoli moved to Santa Fe with her husband, a Syrian physician. She immediately got to work at the Dragonfly School as an elementary teacher. Moving from the Midwest, she was happy with the city’s diversity. “It’s a very open-minded town,” she says. When President Trump came along on the campaign trail, she didn’t take him seriously. “I was, like everybody else, kind of entertained by it,” Tavassoli says. Another part of her underestimated the people of her own country. “C’mon, this isn’t America,” she thought. “This isn’t the people. This is just some loon.” When Trump announced his travel ban last month, Tavassoli didn’t worry too much about her father, who’s a dual Iranian-American citizen currently living in his birth country, “chasing money.” Her mother and sister, also dual citizens but living in the US, plan on visiting Iran for a wedding this summer. But when SFR spoke with Tavassoli before the federal courts acted on Trump’s order, she feared disconnection from another close family member: “my grandmother, who has never been granted citizenship because she kept failing her test. I probably won’t see her again unless I go over there,” she says. “Recently people have been coming up to me to say, ‘Oh, I’m sorry. Our hearts are with you. I’ve been thinking about you all weekend.’ It takes me off guard a little bit, because I’m not directly affected. What I want to say is, I’m sorry for all of us. Don’t be sorry just for me. This is a reflection on all of us in this country,” Tavassoli says. “I say thank you. I try to be gracious. But, really, deep inside, we’re all in this together.”
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Film focuses on the power of place in preserving Indigenous wisdom
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ach autumn when Tonisha and Tonielle Draper leave their farm in Canyon de Chelly, the sisters grab cottonwood leaves from the trees, kiss them, and toss them into the stream. It’s not a Navajo tradition, but it’s among the blended traditional and contemporary practices that merge on the farm where their family continues to plant corn in fields with ancestral ruins and petroglyphs in sight. “They’re a strong family. They care about the land, they understand very much about what makes their culture unique and they’re working hard to preserve it directly through their children,” says Amy Marquis, founder and co-director of National Park Experience, a film series created to highlight the diversity in America’s national parks. One of those films screens in Santa Fe on Feb. 24 as part of the Telluride Mountainfilm on Tour. That short film, “Canyon Song,” explores the Navajo history of separation from culture, language and land, and how return to one renews another. Canyon de Chelly offered one of the last hideouts from the Navajo Long Walk, a forced exodus of Native people that sent hundreds on foot for 500 miles to Fort Sumner, New Mexico. The national monument later created around the red sandstone canyon is the rare example of a national park where Native Americans were allowed to continue living in and farming on the land, rather
than being ushered out in the name of preserving that landscape for other values. On the first visit Marquis and “Canyon Song” director Dana Romanoff made to Canyon de Chelly, in addition to watching the first snow of the season fall in the canyon from a hogan, they attended a cultural night at a local high school where a Navajo pageant was taking place. The contest tests cultural knowledge, ability to butcher a sheep and make tortillas and frybread, and mastery of the Navajo language. “Without fully knowing where the story would lead us, we just knew that we wanted to follow a family—and these young girls, especially, that were involved in the pageants and really interested in continuing their heritage and learning their culture,” Romanoff, who is also co-director of National Park Experience, says. They found that story in the Drapers, one of about 40 families still farming in the canyon in much the same way their ancestors did. “To the Draper family, having that land, farming it, is everything. It’s been in their family for a long time,” Marquis says. “You can tell their childhood memories are very connected to their farm, and it’s a really important source of food for them.” Above the rim, they’re a typical American family, with kids playing sports and a
The short film “Canyon Song” depicts an ancestral life in modern times at Canyon de Chelly.
mom in nursing school. Once in the canyon, the pace changes. “Everything just slowed down a little bit, and they’re always smiling and laughing,” Marquis says. “Something really clicked in with all of them when they’re in the canyon.” Marquis and Romanoff began working on the project as part of a series of films to celebrate the National Park Service centennial anniversary in August 2016. “The average face of the national park visitor doesn’t reflect the face of America,” Romanoff says. “We need to redefine what that face looks like and who feels welcome in the parks for the next hundred years.” That effort to record and share Native stories resurfaced again in more recent work that brought Marquis and Romanoff to the Santa Fe area, filming on a section of the Rio Grande that’s been designated a Wild and Scenic River, a congressional marker similar to a wilderness area. That film, “Avanyu,” follows a family leading an annual “feast and float” raft trip with Los Rios River Runners. “We tried to bridge the gap between the way the white person is educated and the way a Native person learns and is educated, so mixing stories and culture with some
of the facts of the area, just to bring people outdoors and into that environment in hopes of having people listen more to the Indigenous voice,” Romanoff says. As Tesuque Pueblo member Louie Hena, its central figure, declares: “This is my office and my church.” That film will be released online on Feb. 24 as part of the American Rivers effort to celebrate 2018’s 50th anniversary of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. At Telluride Mountainfilm, “Canyon Song” will appear amid stories of a 90-year-old ice skater, surfers riding river waves in Montana, the first Bangladeshi to climb the highest peaks on all seven continents, and multi-sport aficionados linking a first ascent of a desert tower with fat biking through slot canyons and pack rafting near the Four Corners. TELLURIDE MOUNTAINFILM ON TOUR: A BENEFIT FOR WILDEARTH GUARDIANS 7 pm Friday Feb. 24. $17. Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 The Enthusiast is a twice-monthly column dedicated to the people in and stories from our outdoor sports community.
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LECTURE THU/23 THE S STANDS FOR SWEET When you’re the kind of dude who created NATO and the CIA, become an accomplished pianist, dropped nuclear bombs and reportedly read so many books you lost track of them all, you’re bound to have claimed a few starry-eyed fans. Such a man is Harry S Truman, 33rd President of the United States and topic of an upcoming lecture from Noel Pugach, professor emeritus of history at the University of New Mexico. Pugach reportedly delivers his lecture as Truman; everyone else reaps the benefits. (Alex De Vore) Noel Pugach: Harry S Truman: 1 pm Thursday Feb. 23. $10. St. John’s United Methodist Church, 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-9274.
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THEATER FRI/24 THE IN-BETWEEN Just about a year ago, we told you about roots/rock songwriter Cidny Bullens, and we bring him up again for a number of reasons. Bullens not only has a storied career working with icons like Elton John, he’s a deeply confessional lyricist/performer who touches on all aspects of his journey in his one-man show, Somewhere Between. Whether it’s living as a trans man, the loss of his daughter to cancer or the trials and tribulations of working in the music industry, nothing is off-limits. Get ready to feel inspired, but also to hear some damn fine songs. (ADV) Cidny Bullens: Somewhere Between: 7:30 pm Friday Feb. 24. $20. Adobe Rose Theatre, 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688.
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PHAT TUESDAY Some years ago I found myself standing on Guadalupe Street during Mardi Gras, drunk as all get-out. I thought I’d imagined the faint sounds of beats and brass traveling up the street, but as the cacophony grew, so too did my curiosity. Like some sort of magical ghost band, The Hill Stompers Band appeared—fanciful outfits, drum line, horn section and stilts— playing the funky jazz of New Orleans. They’ll be out again this year, starting at the Cowgirl then moving along through the downtown area to places like Secreto, Low ’n’ Slow and the Palace. (ADV) Mardi Gras Pub Crawl: 6:30 pm Tuesday Feb. 28. Free. Starts at Cowgirl, 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565.
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A Maverick Portrait Maker This gal’s lens has seen it all When your lens has stared down some of the most well-known faces in the world (think Cher, Tom Hanks and Bill Murray), you can easily consider yourself a maverick. And that’s probably what Karen Kuehn was thinking when she created her new book, Maverick Camera. The photographer now lives on a ranch in Peralta, New Mexico, but the images in her book, and an upcoming exhibit at photo-eye Bookstore and Project Space opening on Friday, are from her time in New York City in the late ’80s amidst the rise of punk rock and an art awakening—think Basquiat around the time he was dating Madonna. “It’s probably the same as shooting someone like you, or your mom and dad, if you’re not affected by people like that,” Keuhn says of snapping celebrities. “For me, everybody is on an equal plane; I try to give the same amount of respect to somebody whether they’re a celebrity or the guy next door.” Portraits aren’t Keuhn’s only projects. She’s had photos in publications like Vanity Fair, National Geographic
and The New York Times and says she relies on collaboration in her storytelling endeavors. “It’s really about co-creating instead of about an individual ego creating something,” she says. “I try to capture something that’s a little different, to tell a story.” Keuhn does tell SFR there was one time she was starstruck. “I was only in awe of one and it’s because I grew up on his music: ... James Taylor,” she says. “In seventh grade I had his Sweet Baby James album and it came with a poster; I had it up for years in my room, and when I met him it was like getting to meet my hero.” Each copy of Maverick Camera is signed, and there are only about 300 left, so they won’t last forever. Keuhn says she ultimately hopes people walk away from her work learning “to care about people.” (Maria Egolf-Romero) MAVERICK CAMERA OPENING RECEPTION 3-5 pm Saturday Feb. 25. Free. photo-eye Bookstore, 376 Garcia St., 988-5152
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JOE BADAL AND HESTER YOUNG Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Hear from two award-winning mystery authors: Badal reads from his newest, Bad Angel, and Young reads from The Shimmering Road. 6 pm, free MARY MAURICE Harry's Roadhouse 96 Old Las Vegas Hwy., 989-4629 This local author reads from her newest novel, Fruit Loops the Serial Killer. 5 pm, free
ROCK THE ARTS: ROCK AND GLOW COCKTAIL FUNDRAISER Cafe Fina 624 Old Las Vegas Hwy., 466-3886 Raise funds to benefit the El Dorado Community School at this cocktail party featuring a silent auction and hors d'oeuvres. 6 pm, $15 TAPS AND TABLETOPS Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Bring your favorite board game with you, or play one already at George RR Martin's theater. 6 pm, free
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HEALING CLINIC Center for Inner Truth 1807 Second St., Ste. 84, 920-4418 Heal a specific problem, or just your general ick, at this event, which offers help from staff and students at the center. 5:30 pm, free
CHILDREN’S STORY HOUR Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 The weekly event offers an hour of stories and picture book adventures about crayons, princesses, dragons and more appropriate for infants, toddlers and kiddos up to age 5. 10:45 am, free MATT DONOVAN: SANTA FE DREAMERS PROJECT BENEFIT Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 The local poet reads from his collection of works titled Rapture and the Big Bam and members of the Project are present to accept donations. 6 pm, free NOEL PUGACH: HARRY S TRUMAN St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-9274 Pugach, professor emeritus of history at the University of New Mexico, gives a lecture in character as Truman. This is the closest you'll get to meeting the late president (see SFR Picks, page 21). 1 pm, $10
THU/23 ART OPENINGS GLOBAL PRESPECTIVES: CENTER'S INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC AWARD WINNERS Marion Center for Photographic Arts, Santa Fe University of Art and Design 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 473-6341 These photographs document important environmental and social issues like animal welfare and the construction of the Keystone Pipeline. Each is taken by a winning photographer from CENTER's international photographic contest. See works by Angie Keller, Eric Kayne, Eva Fazzari and more. Through April 7. 5 pm, free
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MUSIC ALTO ESTILO El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Acoustic soul. 8:30 pm, free CATHY FABER BAND La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Swingin’ country tunes. 7:30 pm, free JERRY FENN Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 The multi-instrumentalist and composer plays a set of soothing piano tunes. 6:30 pm, free JOHN RANGEL DUET SERIES El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Rangel is joined by a surprise special guest as they combine forces to play jazz. 7 pm, free
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GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Be a geek and play against teams of other geeks to see who knows most. 8 pm, free ORANGETHEORY FITNESS GRAND OPENING PARTY Orangetheory Fitness 516 W. Cordova Road, 395-7100 Drop by this opening party to sip on drinks and enjoy free snacks as professional coaches answer questions. You still have time to take advantage of pre-opening savings. 5 pm, free
FOOD SQUASH BLOSSOM SUPPERS Inn of the Anasazi 113 Washington Ave., 988-3030 This monthly dinner series happens in a different spot each time. On this go-around, enjoy a five-course meal by chef Edgar Beas including local ingredients and wine. 7 pm, $75
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THEATER ENFRASCADA Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Written by Tanya Saracho, this ensemble-directed play tells the tale of a woman scorned and explores the dangers of obsession. 7:30 pm, $20 UNNECESSARY FARCE Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 See what happens in this comedy by Paul Slade Smith that makes the audience think about corruption in politics and what can happen when power goes unchecked. 7:30 pm, $15-$25
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LATIN NIGHT WITH DJ DANY Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Latin-influenced electronica. 9 pm, $7 LILLY PAD LOUNGE WITH DJ REBEL FROG Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 DJ Rebel Frog mixes up the electronica dance tunes. 10 pm, $7 LIMELIGHT KARAOKE Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Stop in, grab the mic, do your vocal best. 10 pm, free MARIA CARRELLI Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Country folk. 8 pm, free PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Malone plays jazz guitar. 6 pm, free REGGAE NIGHT: BIG TOE’S HIFI Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 This Las Vegas-based reggae group brings the dancehall vibes to reggae night. 10 pm, free
“Figure 72” by Linda Stojak is on view at LewAllen Railyard as part of a solo exhibit opening Friday.
ALBUQUERQUE ACADEMY JURIED EXHIBITION Turner Carroll Gallery 725 Canyon Road, 986-9800 Paintings, drawings and more by Albuquerque Academy students. Through Feb. 26 (see A&C, page 27). 5 pm, free JAMES MARSHALL: BLACK INTERFUSION Peters Projects 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5700 This work represents Marshall‘s quest to find the ideal "liminal object," which is fueled by minimalist aesthetics. Through May 6. 5 pm, free CONTINUED ON PAGE 26
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Local troubadour/ producer/champion Jono Manson announced via Facebook that he would no longer perform at the Cowgirl after the restaurant wrote a vaguely threatening internal letter to waitstaff addressing why it would stay open during recent town-wide business closures for Day Without Immigrants. Cowgirl has reportedly lost no employees. That’s pretty cool of Jono, wouldn’t you say?
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aos’ Vanilla Pop is kind of mysterious. Yet, as far back as most everyone can remember, they ’ve always been there: Al Dente and Lester Moore, creeper mustaches, emotionless faces, shiny outfits and all. But from whence did this lounge act-meets-cover band come, and how have they kept it going for 17 years? “We started off just as a side project,” Al Dente, who was interviewed under the condition that his actual identity remain a secret. “Our girlfriends at the time were working together in a bookstore, and they had suggested we get together and see what would transpire.” What followed was, according to Al Dente, “light and airy,” and a new cover band was born. “But with a twist,” he continues. “Just so it wasn’t two guys doing the same old stuff—I truly believe that any creative endeavor needs to have its own life and time to develop.” Moore was a longtime musician, whereas Al Dente had always gravitated toward the theater. With these forces combined, and a mandate to never take the band too seriously, a concept evolved. “I remember the first time we said, ‘Hey, let’s put on mustaches,’” Al Dente recalls. “And then a few months later, we thought, ‘How about a sign? What about a Las Vegas style-cruise ship vibe?’”
It was meant to be fun, above all else. With keyboards, sequencing and synths layered beneath live guitar and vocals, Vanilla Pop would tackle rock and R&B hits from various eras with a lively panache few local acts seem to have tuned into. Having grown tired of low-energy, corner-of-the-bar bands and blues-rock nonsense even then in the early aughts (let this be a lesson to all y’all), Vanilla Pop set to work nailing down a more cohesive musical vision. “I thought, how many fucking bar bands can there be? And for the longest time, we just stuck to the ’80s, and we still have an ’80s core,” says Al Dente. “But that doesn’t really tell you a lot about what we’re actually like, so on the road one time I came up with ‘Frank Sinatra makes out with Michael Jackson.’ So, technically, they are orchestrated versions and covers with strings and horns, but they’re very tongue-in-cheek in the little things; the nuances like set design and costumes. It’s not just throwing on a wig and a mustache—though we’re interesting to look at, I think—it’s an artistic and interpretive vision.” This is how they pack dance floors at weddings, private events, corporate gigs and regional shows on the regular. Al Dente says they’ve become completely self-sufficient at this point, which is no small feat for any band, and especially huge for New Mexico, where countless
Nearly two decades later, Vanilla Pop keeps it going musicians must hold down day jobs to indulge their passions. Al Dente can empathize. “We’re all just trying to keep our wheels spinning … paying our mortgage and keeping our phones on, and that doesn’t always allow for us to reflect on what’s happening in the world,” he says. “But when I sometimes step outside myself and look at the whole [Vanilla Pop] production, I’m impressed. Would I come and see me if I wasn’t in the band? I think the answer is definitely yes.” So this goes out to all you dance fans and all you fans of songs you already know. Just keep in mind that while Vanilla Pop is technically a cover band, they make the jams their own. “We do songs we like, and we’re never going to do songs because people request them,” Al Dente says. “We’re going to do songs that make me think, ‘Oh my God! I totally forgot about that song!’ And we’re never fucking playing ‘Mustang Sally,’ not now—not ever.” See, there’s just something you’ve really gotta respect about that.
VANILLA POP 10 pm Friday Feb. 24. $10. The Palace, 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690
Albuquerque glam metal/kinda punk rockish act Chicharra recently signed with local imprint Matron Records and plans to release something soon. They’ve got two drummers, you guys. Two. Visit matronrecords. com for all the latest.
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And while we’re talkin’ New Mexico labels, metal outfit Apewhale recently picked up Central California’s Peasant Hands. We can also apparently expect upcoming EPs from Georgia/Indiana duo Nouns and Summon the Ancients, also from Indiana, any time now. They all play metal jams but, as we all know, that can mean a lot of things given the out-of-control nature of that particular genre’s subgenrification. Check out apewhale.com for more info.
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The virtuoso jazz vocalist (and five-time Grammy winner) returns to The Lensic!
LINDA STOJAK LewAllen Railyard 1613 Paseo de Peralta, 988-3250 In this solo exhibit, Stojak presents palette-knife-applied oil paintings that explore the convergence between corporeal and ethereal in the context of the female form. Through March 26. 5 pm, free MADODA FANI: MIRRORED EARTH Peters Projects 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5700 Fani is a ceramic artist born in Cape Town, South Africa, and he specialzes in the old traditions of tribal poetry creating pots and vases as a reference to the fermented beverage utshwala. Through May 6. 5 pm, free MARK NEWPORT: MENDING form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111 Newport presents torn muslin sewn back together using intricate embroidered patches representing the scars that life etches on every body and every psyche. Through May 20. 5 pm, free SHIFTING LANDSCAPES form & concept 435 South Guadalupe St., 982-8111 This exhibit includes works by artists from the Surface Design Association featuring felt, cotton, silk and more, created using traditional and contemporary techniques. Through May 20. 5 pm, free SONYA KELLIHER-COMBS: REMNANT Peters Projects 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5700 Kelliher-Combs, an Inupiaq artist, presents her series of shadow boxes containing objects from the natural world, such as bones and feathers. Through May 6. 5 pm, free WATER IS LIFE PUSH PIN SHOW Poeh Cultural Center and Museum 78 Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3334 See works honoring the ongoing efforts of water protectors of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe with participating artists of all mediums expressing their interpretations of “water is life” through two-dimensional art. 5 pm, free
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OUR EXISTENCE IS RESISTANCE Tipton Hall at Santa Fe University of Art & Design 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, 473-6011 Local Indigenous artist Cannupa Hanska Luger hosts an evening of positive social change. 6 pm, free
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DANCE EMIARTE FLAMENCO Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Vicente Griego and La Emi present an evening of flamenco performances with guest artists Elena Osuna, Ricardo Angled, Mario Febres and the EmiArte Flamenco Academy. 8 pm, $15-$30
FILM TELLURIDE MOUNTAINFILM ON TOUR Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 WildEarth Guardians presents this evening of outdoor adventure on film from Telluride Mountainfilm (see the Enthusiast, page 19). 7 pm, $17
MUSIC BETH LEE AND THE BREAKUPS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Sultry blues, honky-tonk and no-nonsense rock 'n' roll. 7 pm, free CHANGO Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock and covers from some local guys who can always get the crowd dancing. That Andy Primm sure is handsome. 8 pm, free CHARLES LIEOU St. John's College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, 684-6000 The pianist, originally from Hong Kong but now working as a scholar and scientist at Los Alamos National Labs, plays some lesser-known Beethoven sonatas in the Junior Common Room. 12:10 pm, free DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Enjoy piano standards by this former Broadway professional. 6 pm, $2 DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Montgomery plays pop, standards, classical and other familiar tunes on piano. 6 pm, free HORACE ALEXANDER YOUNG Santa Fe Center for Spiritual Living 505 Camino de los Marquez, 983-5022 Young plays a diverse set of jazz tunes on the saxophone and flute. 7 pm, $20-$25 JERRY FENN Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Soothing piano tunes. 8 pm, free
JOHN KURZWEG El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n' roll. 8:30 pm, $5 KINETIC FRIDAYS Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Bass-heavy electronica. 10 pm, $7 LORI OTTINO AND ERIK SAWYER Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Bluegrass and Americana. 5 pm, free MUSIC ON BARCELONA Unitarian Universalist Congregation 107 W Barcelona Road, 982-0439 Hear Brahms’ Serenade No 1, op. 11 arranged for string and woodwind instruments in an intimate concert. 5:30 pm, free NM 430 First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 This week’s TGIF recital features musicians with serious skills. Let them play you into the weekend with pleasant quartets from the 1800s. 5:30 pm, free THE PARKER QUARTET St. John's College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, 684-6000 The young, energetic—and did we mention Grammywinning?—quartet plays works by Mendelssohn, Gill and Shostakovich in the college's Great Hall. 7:30 pm, $20 SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock, oldies, Latin and funk. 8 pm, free THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Get this—it’s jazz. 7:30 pm, free TOMAS AND DJ SATO Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Global house music. 10 pm, free VANILLA POP Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Pop and rock covers and plenty of sequins (see Music, page 25). 10 pm, $10 WOUNDVAC, CARRION KIND AND CRIPPLE The Cave 1226 Calle de Commercio WOUNDVAC hails from Phoenix and is metal as hell. Carrion Kind and Cripple are totally from here. It’s, like, so much metal, you guys. Just so very much metal all up in your face. 8 pm, free CONTINUED ON PAGE 28
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Albuquerque Academy senior Sophie Long created this totally utilitarian art broom.
missions department isn’t told how much financial aid families are requesting until after students are accepted. According to Garber, more than half of the school’s students are female, and 51 precent self-identify as people of color. “This show is a political statement, and a social statement, that different peoples’ voices are important,” Turner Carroll says. “I’m happy to do it for this school because they embrace that and demonstrate it.” For their part, the featured artists seem just as bewildered about their appearance on Canyon Road as the gallery’s customers. Eighteen-year-old Ian Conley,
I’m like, ‘I’m hanging out with the best, that’s really cool.’ -Ian Conley, senior at Albuquerque Academy
a senior at Albuquerque Academy, won a spot in last year’s exhibition and returns with two photographs this year. His uncle is Richard Lampert, owner of Zaplin Lampert Gallery, which is just down the street from Turner Carroll Gallery. “Until last year, I never imagined showing there,” says Conley. “I see a lot of really famous people in my uncle’s gallery. I’m like, ‘I’m hanging out with the best, that’s really cool.’”
Conley started taking art classes in eighth grade, and initially focused on painting and drawing. “I would get frustrated because I always wanted to get forms really perfect, so I felt like photography was the way to go,” Conley tells SFR. “There’s so much more access with photography. You can take a picture of whatever you see.” He says Albuquerque Academy feeds his desire to directly interface with the world on a wide array of topics. The school encourages students to explore fields of knowledge in a similar manner to college freshmen who are picking a concentration. “I just found my way to photography, and I feel like there’s not a lot of other schools that allow you to do that,” Conley tells SFR. He wants to study engineering in college, but his experience in the academy’s visual arts department has solidified his commitment to maintaining an art practice. Sophie Long, 17, is a senior who also appeared in last year’s show, with a wind chime made from her brother’s old baseball bats. She set a relatively high price for the sculpture, hoping it wouldn’t sell. It didn’t. “It reminds me of him whenever I hear it, and it’s really nice to have a reminder of him around,” says Long. Her brother graduated from Albuquerque Academy two years ago and studies mechanical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Long isn’t sure what she’ll study in college, but she’s not planning on following in her brother’s footsteps. For now, she’s focused on a series of sculptures for her AP concentration. “My idea is to put comical or surreal twists on everyday objects, so you see them differently,” she says. “I
have a shower head with hair coming out of it. Everybody hates it so much, it’s so funny.” One of Long’s contributions to the Turner Carroll show is a push broom with a rainbow of crayons in place of its bristles. She got the idea when her art teacher, Timothy Mullane, showed her the school’s vast archive of stubby Crayolas. “I was like, ‘I want to draw with all of these at once,’” she says. “Mr. Mullane is very excited to help us figure out exactly what vision we want to work towards, which can be really difficult sometimes. Every once in a while, we get ideas that involve abilities or materials that aren’t really accessible.” For the crayon challenge, the sculptural broom was Long’s charming solution. She wants to bring this approach to real-world problem solving as she leaves high school. “It’s really nerve-wracking, actually, to look at the state our society is in,” Long says. “It’s really going to be a challenge for everybody to find a way to accept other peoples’ differences. People need to know that someone will stand up for them.” Fresh perspectives on the world abound in the Turner Carroll show in mediums including video, painting, photography and sculpture. “I want to show as many people as I can what young people are able to communicate through art,” says Turner Carroll, “if they’re given the opportunity to learn the skills.”
ALBUQUERQUE ACADEMY EMERGING ARTISTS JURIED EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION 5 pm Friday Feb. 24. Free. Turner Carroll Gallery, 725 Canyon Road, 986-9800
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I am a straight married man. My wife and I have a 4-year-old and a 3-month-old. We’ve just started having intercourse again. For Valentine’s Day, we spent the night in a B&B while grandma watched the kids. We had edibles, drank sparkling wine, and then fucked. It was amazing. After we came and while we were still stoned and drunk, my wife mentioned she was open to inviting others into our sex life. I asked about getting a professional sex worker. She said no. But maybe if we were in a bar (we’re never in bars) and met someone (a unicorn), she might be into it. Anal came up. She’s always said she’s up for trying anything once. I have a desire to experiment with anal. (Not just me entering her, but her pegging me as well.) I asked if she would use the vibrator we brought on me, just to experiment. She said she was too high to do anything. I felt let down. I feel she unknowingly teased me with fantasies I have, not knowing I actually have them. We have a good sex life, and I’m willing to write off the fantasies we discussed while high and drunk. It’s the teasing that drove me crazy. -Having And Realizing Desires P.S. I’m in no hurry. We just had a baby, and I don’t want to pressure my wife right now. My fear is that she may only like the idea of exploring our sexuality together and not the reality of it. Some people think about, talk about, and masturbate about certain fantasies without ever wanting to realize them. Let’s call them Team Fantasize. Some people think about, etc., certain fantasies and would very much like to realize them. Let’s call them Team Realize. There’s nothing wrong with either team. But when someone on Team Fantasize is married to someone on Team Realize, well, that can be a problem. Knowing your spouse is turned on by fantasies you share but rules out realizing them—or sets impossible conditions for realizing them—can be extremely frustrating. And sometimes a frustrated Team Realize spouse will say something like this to their Team Fantasize mate: “Talking about these fantasies together—this kind of dirty talk—it gets my hopes up about actually doing it. If it’s never going to happen, we have to stop talking about it, because it’s frustrating.” The problem with that approach? Swingers clubs, BDSM parties, and the strap-ondildo sections of your finer sex-positive sextoy stores everywhere are filled with couples who used to be on opposite teams—one from Team Fantasize, the other from Team Realize—but they’re both on Team Realize now. And what got them on the same team? Continuing to discuss and share fantasies, even at the risk of frustrating the Team Realize spouse. So if you ever want to have that threesome or experiment with anal, HARD, you need to keep talking with your wife about these fantasies—and you need to tell her your fantasies too! Tell her you’re not pressuring her, of course, but let her know these are things you would actually like to do, and the more you talk about them, the more you want to do them. If she keeps talking with you about them, that’s a sign. Not a sign that she’s a cruel tease, HARD, but a sign that she’s inching closer toward pulling on a Team Realize jersey. P.S. If your wife doesn’t know you have these fantasies—and is consequently teasing you “unknowingly”—that’s your fault, HARD, not hers. I wanted to tell you about something that happened to my friend. (Really!) She was going to bang this dude from OkCupid but wasn’t getting a great feeling, so she went
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to bed and let him crash on the couch. She woke up the next day to find her underwear drawer empty on the floor and all of her underwear wrapped around this dude’s feet. She stealthily removed all the panties from his perv hooves and put her shit away. When the morning actualized itself, they parted amicably with no mention of the underwear slippers. -Men In Alaska Ask yourself which is the likelier scenario, MIA. Scenario 1: This guy stumbled around your friend’s dark apartment in the middle of the night, managed to find her underwear drawer, pulled it out and set it on the floor, made himself a pair of pantie-booties, had himself a wank, and fell back to sleep. All without waking your friend. Then your friend got up in the morning, saw her panties wrapped around his hooves, peeled them off one by one, and returned her panties to their drawer. All without waking Perv Hooves up. Scenario 2: Your friend got pervy with this guy, wanted to tell you about this guy’s kink, but was too embarrassed to admit that she played along and possibly got into it. My money is on Scenario 2, MIA, because I’ve heard this song before: “I met this pervert who did these perverted things in front of me while I was asleep, and I wasn’t in any way involved and I wasn’t harmed. Isn’t that pervert crazy?” Yeah, no. In most cases, the person relaying the story played an active roll in the evening’s perversions but edited the story to make themselves look like a passive bystander, not a willing participant. I’m a 30-year-old straight woman who has been with the same guy (high-school sweetheart!) for the last 13 years. We love each other deeply, best friends, etc. The problem isn’t that the sex isn’t good—he’s very good at making me come. But the sex is vanilla and routine, and I would like us to go beyond that. Nothing extreme, I just want to switch things up a bit. Talking about sex makes my husband REALLY uncomfortable. If I ask him what he’d like me to do to him while we’re having sex, he shuts down. He’ll say, “Everything you do is good,” and leave it there. In the very few conversations we’ve had about this stuff, he’s said that he feels intimidated and doesn’t know what to say. This is incredibly frustrating for me. How do I get him to loosen up and feel more comfortable about talking to me so that we can eventually progress to some new experiences? -Why Husband Is Prudish Have you told him what you want? If you haven’t—if you’re as vague in your conversations with him as you were in your letter to me—you’re essentially asking your husband to guess at your undisclosed interests or kinks. Your husband is probably terrified of guessing wrong. He doesn’t know what to do, he doesn’t know what to say—but he’s told you he’s fine with whatever you want to do. So stop asking him what he wants to do to you, WHIP, and start doing whatever it is you want to do. Take the initiative, be the change you want to see in the sack, lean in or bend over or whatever. From your sign-off, WHIP, I’m guessing you’re interested in some type of BDSM play, most likely with you in the sub role. So lay your kink cards on the table and offer to dominate him first. A lot of subs do some topping, i.e., doing unto others as they would like done unto them, and some subs become tops exclusively. But take baby steps, it’s mild before wild, you gotta nail those junior-varsity kinks before moving up to varsity-level kinks, etc.
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ALMOST, MAINE El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 This play, written by John Cariani, is a classic that explores love and relationships through a series of nine vignettes. Directed by Janet Davidson, the play stars Patrick Briggs, Debrianna Mansini, Robyn Rikoon and Hania Stocker. 7:30 pm, $15-$20 CIDNY BULLENS: SOMEWHERE BETWEEN Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 This one-man autobiographical show, directed by Tanya Taylor Rubinstein, is a poignant story about perseverance, tragedy and triumph (see SFR Picks, page 21). 7:30 pm, $20 DAVID IVES SHORT PLAYS Greer Garson Theatre at Santa Fe University of Art and Design 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 473-6439 Christina Duarte directs these plays by the acclaimed one-act comedic playwright. 7 pm, $5-$15 ENFRASCADA Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 This play, written by Tanya Saracho, is ensemble-directed by the cast. It tells the timeless tale of a woman scorned and explores the boundaries of friendship and the dangers of obsession. 7:30 pm, $20 UNNECESSARY FARCE Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 See what happens next in the comedy by Paul Slade Smith that makes the audience think about corruption in politics and what can happen when power goes unchecked. 7:30 pm, $15-$25
DESIREE MAYS: OPERA BREAKFAST SERIES Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 This renowned lecturer speaks about Dvorak’s Rusalka in this lecture, which precedes a broadcast of the opera at the Lensic Performing Arts Center at 11 am. 9:30 am, free JANIE CHODOSH: CODE RED Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 This young adult author reads from her latest book, Code Red, which is the second installment in her Faith Flores teen mystery series. 6 pm, free
BETH LEE AND THE BREAK UPS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Country-fried rock and soul. 1 pm, free THE BUS TAPES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Folk rock and girl power and more Tanners than you can shake a stick at. 8:30 pm, free CS ROCKSHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n' roll from Don Curry and Pete Springer, a couple Santa Femous Santa Feans. 8:30 pm, $5 DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Piano standards. 6 pm, $2 DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Pop, standards and classical on piano. 6 pm, free GARNER SLOAN Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Gothic Americana with a bit of blues. 7 pm, free JERRY FENN Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 The multi-instrumentalist and composer plays a set of soothing piano tunes. 8 pm, free JIM AND TIM Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Soulful blues on the deck. 2 pm, free LONE PIÑON San Miguel Mission 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-3974 The Mexican/New Mexican trio welcomes special guests like Greg Butera and Leticia Gonzales for the release of their sophomore album, Días Felices. 7:30 pm, free MOBY DICK: 48TH ANNIVERSARY BASH Evangelo's 200 W San Francisco St., 982-9014 Led Zeppelin covers and nearly 50 years of Evangelo’s. Don’t ask for Budweiser. Trust us. 9 pm, $5 PRIESTS Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Lo-fi post-punk mixed with a little pop from the headliners with supporting pop performances from Olivia Neutron John and Red Light Cameras. 8 pm, $13
WORKSHOP MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID TRAINING Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 Call to register for this course that can give you the tools to help an individual in crisis. 8 am-5 pm, free
SAT/25 ART OPENINGS KAREN KUEHN: MAVERICK CAMERA Photo-Eye Bookstore 376 Garcia St., 988-5152 Kuehn is a portrait photographer who presents a selection of her work alongside her book Maverick Camera at this opening event. Through Feb. 25 (see SFR Picks, page 21). 3-5 pm, free
DANCE FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Escape for an evening of flamenco with traditional Spanish tapas and wine in a romantic setting. You’ll be feeling the vacation vibe in no time, even if this is your hometown. ¡Olé! 6:30 pm, $25
EVENTS ELAINE RITCHEL CLOSE LOOKING: INTERFACE Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Ritchel, a museum educator, takes a close look at Madelin Coit's work in the solo exhibit Interface with guided looking activities and relaxed conversation designed to take you further into the artwork. 11 am, $12 OPERA MAKES SENSE Santa Fe Children's Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 989-8359 The Santa Fe Opera presents this children's program for kiddos ages 3-5. 10:30 am, free ROCK THE ARTS: ROCK AND GLOW El Dorado Community School 1 Hacienda Loop, 501-9238 Student performances, craftmaking stations, glowsticks and a special glow room round out the options at this day of family fun that invites the whole community. 2-6 pm, free
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SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Latin, pop, rock and funk. 8 pm, free SO SOPHISTICATED WITH DJ 12 TRIBE Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 The newest hits in rap, hiphop and R&B. 9 pm, $7 TRASH DISCO WITH DJ OONA Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Head to the Skylab to hear the mostly electronica and house music set. 9 pm, $7
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UNNECESSARY FARCE Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Two cops. Three crooks. Eight doors. See what happens next in the comedy by Paul Slade Smith that makes the audience think about what can happen when power goes unchecked. 7:30 pm, $15-$25
WORKSHOP PAUL WYLIE SKATE CLASS Genoveva Chavez Community Center 3221 W Rodeo Road, 955-4000 The Olympic silver medalist teaches this all-levels and all-ages class. 12:15 pm, $20
SUN/26 BOOKS/LECTURES A VIEW FROM WITHIN Temple Beth Shalom 205 E Barcelona Road, 982-1376 At 10 years of age, Avishai Mekonen started on a 400mile journey from Ethiopia, crossing Sudan and making his way to Israel. Witness this talk recounting his own experience, which includes walking through rebel-held territory and being kidnapped from a refugee camp, and that of Jewish Ethiopian activists. 2 pm, $8
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THEATER ALMOST, MAINE El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 This play, written by John Cariani, is a classic that explores love and relationships through a series of nine vignettes. Directed by Janet Davidson, the play stars Patrick Briggs, Debrianna Mansini, Robyn Rikoon and Hania Stocker. 7:30 pm, $15-$20 CIDNY BULLENS: SOMEWHERE BETWEEN Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 This one-man autobiographical show, directed by Tanya Taylor Rubinstein, is a poignant story about perseverance, tragedy and triumph. Bullens, a trans man, discusses everything from personal hardships to “making it” in the music industry to family tragedy. While his life has been extraordinary, you’ll likely find relatability in his humanity. 7:30 pm, $20 DAVID IVES SHORT PLAYS Greer Garson Theatre at Santa Fe University of Art and Design 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 473-6439 Christina Duarte directs these plays by the acclaimed comedic playwright who has written more than 30 one-acts. 7 pm, $5-$15 ENFRASCADA Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 This play by Tanya Saracho is ensemble-directed by the cast and it tells the timeless tale of a woman scorned. 7:30 pm, $20 THE MET: LIVE IN HD – RUSALKA Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Kristine Opolais stars in a new production of the opera that first won her international acclaim: Dvorak’s fairy tale opera about the tragic water nymph Rusalka. See it on the big screen. 11 am and 6 pm, $22-$28
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We’re pretty psyched for Brandi’s Ninth Annual Oscar Benefit going down this Sunday at the Eldorado Hotel (5 pm. $150-$1,200. 309 W San Francisco St., 988-4455). Each year, the local queen compiles all the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, but rather than simply celebrating rich people handing out golden statues to one another, she raises money for a good cause through ticket sales, a silent auction and an upscale raffle. This year’s cause is Kitchen Angels, a local nonprofit that prepares and delivers meals to New Mexicans in need. So while we might not usually feature such a pricey event, we like the helping aspect. Why not pick up some tickets through holdmyticket.com, throw on something fancy and spend a night feeling like royalty while doing something nice for the community? (Alex De Vore) Are you so excited? I am! I’ve got a ton to get done still, but for the most part I’m ready. I don’t have a committee; I’m a committee of one. ... I’m predicting it’s going to be a very colorful evening. What will the event itself be like? Pretty fancy, huh? Oh, yes. The red carpet starts at 5 pm—I’m saying to be there at 5:05 to check out the silent auction and raffle. In the raffle we’ll have a $1,200 restaurant package, an $1,100 turquoise necklace; there is over $22, 000 worth of stuff I’ve collected. And we’ll have mariachi music from Mariachi Sonidos del Monte. I’ll have a gold statue guy there for pictures. And we’ll have great food and wine and the Eldorado is doing $99 rooms for the night, so maybe book a room and have a great time. Do you have any predictions for this year’s winners? No. No predicitions. I’ve only seen two of the films for this year: Hidden Figures and Moonlight. Moonlight was so good! I didn’t go to the movies much before Violet Crown. Now I can take in some wine and put my feet up on those ottomans in the first row.
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THE CALENDAR JOURNEYSANTAFE: JULIANNA KOOB Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Koob, a legislative advocate for Planned Parenthood, speaks about the new direct threats to the organization. 11 am, free
EVENTS BRANDI’S NINTH ANNUAL OSCAR BENEFIT Eldorado Hotel and Spa 309 W San Francisco St., 988-4455 We wouldn’t normally list such a pricey event, but this one is kind of a big deal and all the proceeds go to Kitchen Angels. 5-10:30 pm, $150-$1,200 RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Santa Fe Farmers Market 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-4098 See work by local artists. 10 am, free
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CHRIS ABEYTA El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Americana and folky originals. 7 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Pop on piano. 6:30 pm, free GERRY & CHRIS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Traditional Irish and Latin tunes. 6 pm, free LONE PIÑON Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Latin-inspired traditional music. 2 pm, free THE MIRUS TRIO Christ Lutheran Church 1701 Arroyo Chamiso, 467-9025 Violinist Hyungi Kim, cellist Kayoing Kim and pianist Namhee Lim perform a repertoire of Beethoven, Shostakovich and Schoenfield. 2 pm, $5-$12 THE RIVER ARKANSAS Zephyr 1520 Center Drive #2 Mountain folk. 8 pm, $5-$10 ROBERT CLINE JR. Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana. 8 pm, free
THEATER ALMOST, MAINE El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 This play, written by John Cariani, explores love and relationships through a series of nine vignettes. 5 pm, $15-$20
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CIDNY BULLENS: SOMEWHERE BETWEEN Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 This one-man autobiographical show, directed by Tanya Taylor Rubinstein, is a poignant story about perseverance, tragedy and triumph. 3 pm, $20 DAVID IVES SHORT PLAYS Greer Garson Theatre at Santa Fe University of Art and Design 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 473-6439 Christina Duarte directs these plays by the acclaimed comedic playwright, who has written more than 30 one-acts. 2 pm, $5-$15 DIANNE REEVES Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 This acclaimed five-time Grammy-winning jazz vocalist is known for her virtuosity, improvisational prowess, and unique jazz and R&B stylings. 7:30 pm, $39-$59 ENFRASCADA Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 This play, written by Tanya Saracho, is ensemble-directed by the cast. It tells the tale of a woman scorned. 3 pm, $20 UNNECESSARY FARCE Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Nudity and bagpipes in the comedy by Paul Slade Smith. 2 pm, $15-$25
WORKSHOP SUNDAY MEDITATION HOUR Center for Inner Truth 1807 Second St., Ste. 84, 920-4418 Explore a topic through guided mediation. 10 am, free TRANSFORMATIONAL BREATHWORK Center for Inner Truth 1807 Second St., Ste. 84, 920-4418 Experience the healing that comes with conscious deep breathing. Bring two blankets and call ahead to register. 1 pm, $20
MON/27 BOOKS/LECTURES ANCIENT SITES AND ANCIENT STORIES: NORMAN YOFFEE Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Yoffee is a professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan and he speaks about historic trade routes in his lecture "New Perspectives on Ancient Trade in Mesopotamia and Beyond." 6 pm, $12
DANCE MONDAY NIGHT SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, 470-7077 Arrive on time for a dance class or an hour later for open dance time. Jump ’n’ jive the evening away. 7 pm, $8
EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Draft Station 60 E San Francisco St., 983-6443 Bring your smartest friends along and compete against other teams for victory. 7 pm, free
MUSIC BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Hearne is honky-tonk-tastic and he performs Americana. 7 pm, free COWGIRL KARAOKE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 This night of amature fun is hosted by Michéle Leidig and it’s just begging you to let your inner star shine. 8:30 pm, free CHUSCALES La Boca 72 W Marcy St., 982-3433 This guitarist is a flamenco legend. 7 pm, free DJ OBI ZEN: MELLOW MONDAYS Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Mellow hip-hop. 10 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Pop on piano. 6:30 pm, free
TUE/28 DANCE ARGENTINE TANGO MILONGA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Bring your best tango moves to this weekly dance. 7:30 pm, $5
EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Pub-quiz action. 8 pm, free
MUSIC FIFTH ANNUAL JOHNNY CASH TRIBUTE NIGHT The Matador 116 W San Francisco St. The fifth annual Johnny Cash tribute night comes around to celebrate the man in black. 9 pm, free CONTINUED ON PAGE 32
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n November, chef Greg Menke quietly opened The Root Cellar (101 W Marcy St., 303-3879), a new restaurant to join his other business adventures along the block. His other eatery, The Beestro, is only a few doors down, and the new space lives within his Hive Market. Menke’s new menu is simple with panini and soup. Drinks are local beer, wine and mead. My dinner date got one of their creative beer cocktails—a variation on a snakebite using Bosque Lager and apple cider. I grabbed a Marble Wildflower Wheat. We did taste their mead options, brewed locally by Falcon Meadery, but mead is one of those love-or-hate things. I find it too sweet to drink a whole glass. For dinner we decided to order two sandwiches and share them: the Cubano ($12.95) and Dutch chicken ($12.50) panini. As we ordered I remembered hearing that the French onion au gratin ($6.50) was a highlight and added a bowl to the order.
Service was perfect. Food was fast. First impressions: • The sandwiches were not pressed to a flat hell, a feat of panini-making not to be taken lightly • The soup was gorgeous. Like, magazine-ready gorgeous • The chips looked store-bought • The salad was in an oddly small bowl, but was a really decent sized portion The Cubano was a delicate balance of flavors with excellently cooked pork, and the pickles didn’t overtake everything. The only complaint is that the housemade mustard vanished a bit in the mix. It needs to be pumped up. I like my Cubano with a little kick. Our second sandwich, the Dutch chicken, was such a weird and wonderful combination of flavors I feel like you’d have to taste it to understand. A lime/serrano marinated chicken with havarti, arugula and apple butter! It was sweet and fresh and satisfyingly easy to eat. French onion soup is hard to mess up. It’s broth with bread and cheese. Menke’s version is rich in flavor and the bread was soft but not soggy, topped with a thick lay-
er of gooey cheese. It was just what I needed this week as winter reasserted itself. The big, giant, looming issue with The Root Cellar isn’t the food or drink, though—it’s execution and lack of awareness. Both issues seem to be endemic to that space since this is, after all, the same spot in which bars like Rouge Cat and Blue Rooster both recently failed. This space is awkward. Really awkward. You enter into a honey/candle store and then have to make your way down a staircase. There are attempts to make sense of the set-up by calling the restaurant a “speakeasy,” but it still feels odd. This isn’t 2004, and unless there are secret codes and moonshine... The spaces simply aren’t connected aesthetically, and the downstairs isn’t quite hidden enough for this disconnect to work. This is a travesty, because once you’re there it’s a great little bar. High booths and dark wood make it all feel like it’s been there decades, and I was instantly reminded of the sadly renovated Hotel St. Francis bar (known now as Secreto) and found myself nostalgic for that type of downtown haunt.
But awkwardness can be overcome. No one knowing you exist, however, is a more serious hurdle. I made a reservation since it was Valentine’s Day, but I was shocked when my date and I arrived to a ghost town. In 90 minutes, only three other tables sat down, leaving me horrified for the one waiter and cook working. We do think The Root Cellar could be a great post-work hangout or regular bar to grab drinks. There’s a TV on one wall, and a mix of ’80s and ’90s hits played that would have been perfect if the place was even half-filled. In its empty state, though, it felt a bit sad. On our way back to the car we passed by the recently relocated gelato and coffee spot Ecco (128 E Marcy St., 986-9778) which, at 8 pm on a Tuesday in winter, had more patrons. Poet Theodore Roethke described a root cellar as being a place where nothing gives up life, where even the dirt breathes. With a few tweaks I think Menke could have something just as lively; open 4:309:30 pm Tuesday-Friday with an extra half hour taking them to 10 pm on Saturdays, it doesn’t feel like the night spot it could be.
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JJ & THE HOOLIGANS Cowgirl 319 Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Dancey rock for Mardi Gras. 8 pm, free MARDI GRAS PUB CRAWL (starts at) Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Join the Hillstompers Marching Band and take a tour of night spots in Santa Fe. Wear your Mardi Gras finery, and get your Fat Tuesday on (see SFR Picks, page 21). 6:30 pm, free
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AFRICAN GUITAR SUMMIT James A Little Theatre 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429 Musicians from Ghana and Madagascar. 7:30 pm, $22-$27 BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country tunes. 7 pm, free CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Literally a blues jam. 8:30 pm, free
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“Buffalo Dancers Study” by Frank Buffalo Hyde is on view as part of I-Witness Culture at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture through Jan. 2018.
EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS 334 Los Pinos Road, 471-2261 Living history. GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 O’Keeffe at the University of Virginia. Through summer. HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 Ken Price, Death Shrine I. Agnes Martin Gallery. Continuum, Through May. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ART 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Athena LaTocha: Inside the Forces of Nature. Through March. New Impressions: Experiments in Contemporary Native American Printmaking. Through June. Daniel McCoy: The Ceaseless Quest for Utopia. Through Jan. 2018.
MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Frank Buffalo Hyde: I-Witness Culture. Through Jan. 2018. Into the Future: Culture Power in Native American Art. MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Flamenco: From Spain to New Mexico. Through Sept. Sacred Realm. The Morris Miniature Circus. Under Pressure. Through Dec. MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 Chimayó: A Pilgrimage Through Two Centuries. The Beltran Kropp Collection. The Delgado Room. NM HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5019 Agnes Martin and Me. Through Aug. Lowriders, Hoppers and Hot Rods: Car Culture of Northern New Mexico. Through March. Out of the Box: The Art of the Cigar. Through Oct.
NM MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Alcoves 16/17. Small Wonders. Through March. Conversations in Painting. Through April. PALACE OF THE GOVERNORS 105 W Palace Ave.,476-5100 Treasures of Devotion/ Tesoros de Devoción. POEH CULTURAL CENTER AND MUSEUM 78 Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3334 Ashley Browning, Perspective of Perception. The Past of the Govenors. SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDENS 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Bill Barrett: Visual Poetry. Through March. Ojos y Manos. WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 704 Camino Lejo, 986-4636 Eveli: Energy and Significance.
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Picture it: a bunch of mostly white mercenary types from various countries set aside their differences to journey to China in seach of black powder—a most poweful weapon that’ll basically make ’em rich, or at least help them with a cool fireworks show. Pursued by desert-dwelling maniacs, said mercenaries wind up either dead or captured by a Chinese army inhabiting the Great Wall which, as it turns out, wasn’t built to keep Mongol hordes at bay, but rather a bizarre meteor-propelled alien species of quadruped lizards that emerge every 60 years from some glowing mountain to eat everything in the world/ feed everything else in the world to their gigantic lizard queen. Yeesh. So anyway, Matt Damon is William, an Irishman (maybe, because he phases in and out of whatever accent he’s trying to convey, like, every couple seconds) who, along with his Spanish pal Tovar (Pedro Pascal of the Netflix hit series Nar-
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how William and Tovar are strangers in a strange land just looking for gunpowder, but c’mon—let’s call a spade a spade here. By the time we’ve had our fill of female-led bungee jumping units and crazy-ass lizard explosions, what’s left is a pretty thin premise despite truly gorgeous sets and some midly enjoyable action sequences. Hats off especially to the character Lin Mae (Tian Jing from the upcoming Kong: Skull Island) who proves a strong female lead without a tacked-on love story. But, sadly, even she can’t save this movie from itself. THE GREAT WALL Directed by Zhang With Damon, Pascal and Jing Violet Crown, Regal PG-13, 103 min.
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You’d never know it was Samuel L Jackson reading the words from activist and writer James Baldwin’s unfinished work, Remember This House, in the new documentary I Am Not Your Negro, but it mostly works. The downside, of course, is that Baldwin’s emphatic and lilting voice, so brilliantly strong and effortlessly convincing, doesn’t take center stage. Still, Jackson’s reserved cadence conveys the importance of the man (as well as his observations on explosive race relations) who, during the 1960s after years living in Paris, returned to America to fight the good fight alongside his friends and fellow crusaders, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. and Medgar Evers. How inexplicably awful it must have been to watch as your friends, your loved ones, your very people were killed as they pursued simple rights that ought to be extended to all humans. As we know, these particular men never did make it to the mountaintop, but their contributions—not to mention Baldwin’s, offered through literature— were obviously vital. With the text of Remember This House as narration, director Raoul Peck weaves footage
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from then and now deftly throughout the film, reminding us of the brutality black people have faced throughout all of recorded history, even more unforgivable now. In the span of mere minutes, we see the bodies of 60s-era leaders and snapshots of Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and other modern-day victims of racist oppression. This is painfully difficult to watch, yet riveting, especially within the juxtaposition of Baldwin’s gorgeous prose and ugly images of Klansmen, the violent police and the everyday racists. These days they’re growing bold once more, and though I Am Not Your Negro remains timeless in its message, it is particularly needed right now. Take your children or your students; take yourselves for a refresher course in the tragic absurdity of such racially charged hatred. Prepare to be blown away. (ADV) CCA Cinematheque, Violet Crown, PG-13, 95 min.
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It’s slightly jarring that Staying Vertical from French director Alain Guiraudie (Stranger by the Lake) just sort of starts out of nowhere, even more so when it jumps from scene to scene in
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a loosely structured series of vignettes tied to one another by a main character and seemingly little else. Said main character is Léo (Damien Bonnard), an in-over-his-head filmmaker who somehow fathers a child with a young shepherdess named Marie (India Hair) as he trawls the countryside searching for inspiration. Fatherhood and farm girl sex are great ways to avoid deadlines to be sure, but their initial meeting boils down to opposing views on wolves as living creatures. Interesting foreplay, sure, but do we buy it? We do not. Before you know it, we’re smack-dab in the middle of actual filmed sex acts and, gulp, a real-life birth (it’s a close-up, by the way) which is, like, we know—the beautiful miracle of life and all that; just be aware you will observe a woman shit if you see this film. The rest relies on the subsequent troubles Léo faces for his procrastination, and while Staying Vertical is not boring per se—more tedious—it is the kind of slow-moving tripe that may only impress young film school students looking to round out their “I’ve seen foreign films!” cred. For the rest of us, however, we’re left with a lot of scenes lacking dialog, numerous sunbleached shots of sad-eyed French folk and, perhaps most egregiously, the misinformation that this was somehow supposed to be a
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comedy. We know Americans can err toward the low-brow, and maybe we just watched this thing wrong, but when one inevitably asks themselves why they bothered to direct their eyeballs at such a film, Staying Vertical seems to answer back: “We don’t know, either.” (ADV) Jean Cocteau Cinema, NR, 98 min.
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Iranian director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation) hasreceived much praise for his newest movie, The Salesman, but it’s difficult to understand why. We follow Rana and Emad Etesami (Taraneh Alidootsi and Shahab Hosseini), a young couple acting in a production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman who unknowingly rent an apartment formerly inhabited by a prostitute. Rana is attacked in their home by a man looking for its former tenant, and Emad sets out to figure out who he was and how to exact revenge. It sounds like a relatively exciting premise, but it plays out as anything but. As the plot unfolds at sub-snail speed and Emad descends further into obsession—even at the potential CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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cost of his relationship with his wife—we can’t help but wonder why they won’t, oh, I don’t know, call the police or something. Rana seems to be stuck in a shame spiral, not wanting her neighbors or friends to perceive her as weak, and though we might assume this has something to do with cultural translation, it mostly leads to more questions: Why wouldn’t she want support? Why won’t Emad at least try to understand her wishes rather than ignore her at every turn in his own quest for answers? Why would anyone presume to tell an attack victim how to feel? At a certain point, it isn’t even about justice so much as it’s about Emad’s misguided need to slake his revenge thirst, but even as he closes in on the attacker, the pacing is so painfully slow that we simply begin to not care. The Salesman is currently up for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar but, and we’re just being honest here, that’s a tough pill to swallow given how boring it gets. As of this writing, Farhadi won’t be able attend the Academy Awards thanks to our idiot prezzie, and that’s some serious bullshit. But, if we’re just talkin’ the movie itself here, most people probably won’t like it unless they’re the kind of person who pretends they like boring movies so their friends think they’re smart. (ADV) CCA Cinematheque, 125 min.
if he were taught long ago to never rock the boat. Jarmusch hides clues from his past throughout the film, such as a photo of Paterson in a Marines uniform or an obsession with the poet William Carlos Williams, whom we learn also hails from Paterson, but our hero seems more content to quietly drink in the world moving around him rather than engage or affect it in any particular way. It’s almost unnerving at first, but as coworkers complain and former lovers clash and his girlfriend perpetually changes her dream from interior decorator to country music superstar to cupcake master, we begin to appreciate his introverted nature for its dignified simplicity; Paterson is a good man. There’s a comfort in his soft existence, and though Paterson ends with a whimper—and it would have been helpful to get a clearer idea of his origins—Jarmusch has tapped into an often-overlooked type of storytelling that favors relating a simple tale told well over spectacle or, even worse, the assumption that audiences can’t enjoy a film without nonstop explosions or CGI. Of course, that’s kind of Jarmusch’s whole deal, but whereas previous films in his repertoire have had some sort of borderline fantastic
element lurking in the background (like vampires or mistaken identity), Paterson is a patiently executed microcosm that serves to remind us how sometimes the most beautiful minds toil in obscurity. (ADV) Violet Crown, R, 118 min.
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Here’s the thing—it’s kind of hard to not like Hidden Figures, at least insofar as it’s the simultaneous story of uncredited black women who were so awesome at their jobs that they literally made safe space flight possible, yet they were treated so poorly amidst the racist atmosphere of 1960s Virginia that we’re all kind of like, “What the hell, man?!” That said, the overall tone seems a tad breezy for the subject matter. It could be that director/screenwriter Theodore Melfi wanted to tell the story, which was based on the book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly, in a palatable fashion, but you just know that the actual story was far more intense.
We mostly follow Katherine Goble/Johnson (Taraji P Henson), a lifelong math ultra-genius who works as a human computer for the space program at NASA with dozens of other black women. Along with her close friends/fellow NASA employees Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), Katherine attempts to deduce the incredibly complex science needed to launch John Glenn into space. Of course, it’s the ’60s, and white people are basically the absolute worst, so even though Katherine can do any math that comes her way and Dorothy teaches her damn self how to program NASA’s newly-minted (and roomsized) IBM supercomputer and Mary is some kind of goddamn engineering phenom, they have to fight some pretty nasty racism on the part of people like lead engineer Paul Stafford (The Big Bang Theory’s Jim Parsons) and supervisor Vivian Mitchell (a perfectly condescending and bitchy Kirsten Dunst). Henson’s performance exists in the sweet spot between vulnerable mother and widow and complete badass, unafraid to excel at math or to fight for her race and gender. And though Spencer and Monáe prove indispensable to the pacing
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When I was a kid, my aunt bought an 1980s-era Mercedes; her dream car, and I started to notice them everywhere. A similar catalyst occurs in the life of Paterson (Star Wars’ Adam Driver) in the new film Paterson from auteur Jim Jarmusch (Only Lovers Left Alive, Dead Man), a sort of love letter to the New Jersey city of the same name, but also an examination of the enormity hidden in everyday human existence. The mere suggestion of twins from Paterson’s live-in girlfriend Laura (Golshifteh Farahani) causes him to notice similar pairs everywhere, and it’s like a doorway to his constant observation of the beauty discoverable within the commonplace or mundane. Paterson carries with him what he calls a “secret notebook” which he fills with poems based on the seemingly inconsequential moments and objects found in his day-to-day. Something as simple as a box of matches flips a switch in Paterson’s mind, causing him to draw connections between the potentially ignited match and an almost painful love for Laura. Yet Paterson isn’t exactly what you’d call emotional, nor does he appear willing to open up to anyone. It’s almost as
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“Yeah, well I think wolves usually prove to be a bunch of stupid idiots and ... oh man, there’s one right behind me, isn’t there?” and other French problems in Staying Vertical. and overall feel of Hidden Figures, some of the impact of the real-world achievements made by the women they portray winds up dissipated as they’re relegated to periodic bits of comic relief. Still, it is Katherine’s story, and there’s much to enjoy here. The sting of racism cuts deep even now, and we must never forget that these people literally had to be complete geniuses and fight their asses off to receive even a modicum of respect. Don’t be surprised if Hidden Figures becomes required viewing for students down the road at some point and, we hope, we start to get other films about the incredible people of color throughout history who perhaps didn’t get the recognition they so obviously deserved. (ADV) Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 127 min.
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Forget Frozen. Just let it go. And ditch your heartbreak-turned-fury over the role sexism likely played in the recent presidential election. Instead, let your thrill for a 13-year-old Mongolian girl named Aisholpan Nurgaiv soar above the ice-covered steppes of Mongolia in The Eagle Huntress, which has to be the girlpower movie of the year. The new Sony Pictures Classics documentary, narrated by Star Wars newcomer Daisy Ridley, tells the story of the traditional hunting bond between golden eagles and men from the Kazakh, a nomadic tribe that’s been around since before the days of Genghis Khan. But more than that, it’s how this young girl breaks the glass ceiling between verdant expanses and craggy mountains. You see, like being president of the United States, eagle hunting in Mongolia is just for men. And, boy howdy, even if you stopped reading the subtitles for a few minutes, you’d know how the men interviewed for the film really feel about Aisholpan’s interloping on their sausage fest. Women are weak; they don’t have the courage to hold the bird; they should stay home and make tea for the hunters. Her father, to be congratulated on his forward thinking and bold dedication to his daughter, sees past the gender barrier. “It’s not choice,” he explains, “it’s a calling that has to be in your blood.” And it’s in hers. Aisholpan thus shows no fear, strapping on her fur-lined hat and trotting into town on her sturdy horse, arm extended as it becomes a perch for the avian predator. The bird’s wingspan is wider than she is tall, dwarfing the ruddy-cheeked girl with each restless flap. She pets its head as if it were a house cat, talking
all the while with praise and comfort. Oh, and by the way—she had to rappel down a cliff side and snatch the eaglet from its nest. Then months of training. No bigs. What majestic footage: the grace of the powerful wings alighting from the edge of the mountain, the expressions on the old dudes’ faces as she earns perfect scores at the region’s annual eagle festival as the youngest competitor and the first-ever female. It is a trip for the imagination to look inside yurts and back to stone goat enclosures, across barren snowscapes and through villages with stumpy homes and smoky corridors. See too the textures of the textiles, the steam from the mouths of beasts, and the expressive faces not just of the starring eagles, but the scruffy horses and bleating lambs. We dare you to watch impassively as father and daughter ride off together after Aisholpan passes the ultimate test of recognition for a hunter: catching a fox in the snowy mountains. The Eagle Huntress is a great winter movie that stands to touch the coldest chambers of heart with fierce inspiration. Grab it with your talons. (Julie Ann Grimm) Violet Crown, G, subtitles, 87 min.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19) My astrological radar suggests there’s a space-time anomaly looming just ahead of you. Is it a fun and exotic limbo where the rules are flexible and everything’s an experiment? That might be cool. Or is it more like an alien labyrinth where nothing is as it seems, you can hear howling in the distance, and you barely recognize yourself? That might be weird. What do you think? Is it worth the gamble? If so, full speed ahead. If not, I suggest a course correction.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) How would Buddha ask for a raise or promotion? How would Jesus tinker with his career plans as he took into consideration large-scale shifts in the economy? How would Confucius try to infuse new approaches and ideas into the status quo of his work environment? Ruminate deeply on these matters, dear Libra. Your yearning to be more satisfyingly employed may soon be rewarded—especially if you infuse your ambitions with holy insight. How would Joan of Arc break through the glass ceiling? How would Harriet Tubman deal with the inefficiencies caused by excess testosterone? How would Hildegard of Bingen seek more emotional richness on the job?
first vacation in 18 months. At first glance it might seem odd for an astrologer like myself to have selected two Sagittarians to be my housesitters. Members of your sign are reputed to be among the least home-nurturing people in the zodiac. But I’m confident that by the time I return, raccoons won’t be living in my kitchen, nor will my plants be dead or my snailmail stolen or my TV broken. The current astrological omens suggest that most of you Centaurs, at least for the foreseeable future, will display an uncommon aptitude for the domestic arts.
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EVOLUTIONARY ASTROLOGER TERRI ZEE has TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Someone on Reddit.com recently moved to Santa Fe asked readers to respond to the question, “What is the and is now welcoming new most liberating thought you’ve ever had?” Among the clients. She is certified by replies were the following six: 1. “If new evidence presboth schools of Evolutionary SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) I suspect you would benefit ents itself, it’s okay to change my beliefs.” 2. “I get to Astrology, Steven Forrest’s from acquiring a new bedroom name, my dear. But should choose who’s in my life and who isn’t.” 3. “I am not my Apprenticeship Program, and I be the one to give it to you? I’m not sure. Maybe you history.” 4. “You can’t change something that has Jeffrey Wolf Green’s School could invite a practical dreamer you adore to provide you already happened, so stop worrying about it.” 5. “I am of Evolutionary Astrology. with this crazy sweet new moniker. If there is no such not, nor will I ever be, conventionally beautiful.” 6. “I Terri has over seventeen person to do the job (although given the current astrologdon’t have to respond to people when they say stupid years of experience in soulical omens, I bet there is), I’ll offer the following array of s— to me.” I hope these testimonies inspire you to come based astrology and offers amorous aliases for you to choose from: Wild Face… Kiss up with several of your own, Taurus. It’s a perfect time consultation either in person Genius… Thrill Witch… Freaky Nectar… Boink Master… or via Skype. Please visit her to formulate liberating intentions. Lust Moxie…. Pearly Thunder… Peach Licker… Painkiller… website http://terrizee.com/ GEMINI (May 21-June 20) It has been a while since I Silky Bliss… Slippery Diver… Swoon Craver. or email zee2@airmail.net or told you that I love you. So I’m doing it now. I LOVE call 214-912-3126. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Soon I’ll be off on my YOU. More than you could ever imagine. And that’s why I continue to offer these horoscopes to you free of charge, with no strings attached. That’s why I work so hard to be a playful therapist and an edgy mentor for you. That’s why I am so tenacious in my efforts to serve you as a feminist father figure and a kindly devil’s advocate and a sacred cheerleader. Again, I don’t expect anything in return from you. But if you would like to express your appreciation, you could do so by offering a similar type of well-crafted care to people in your own sphere. Now would be an excellent time to give such gifts.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22) “I like the word ‘bewilderment’ because it has both ‘be’ and ‘wild’ in it,” says poet Peter Gizzi. I propose that you go even further, Cancerian: Express a fondness for the actual experience of bewilderment as well as the word. In fact, be willing to not just tolerate, but actually embrace the fuzzy blessings of bewilderment. In the coming weeks, that’s your ticket to being wild in the healthiest (and wealthiest) ways. As you wander innocently through the perplexing mysteries that make themselves available, you’ll be inspired to escape formalities and needless rules that have kept you overly tame.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) The near future will be mutable, whimsical, and fluky. It’ll be serendipitous, mercurial, and extemporaneous. You should expect happy accidents and lucky breaks. Your ability to improvise will be quite valuable. Do you believe in lucky numbers? Even if you don’t, yours will be 333. Your sacred password will be “quirky plucky.” The cartoon characters with whom you will have most in common are Bugs Bunny and Roadrunner. The place where you’re most likely to encounter a crucial teaching is a threshold or thrift shop. Your colors of destiny will be flecked and dappled. (P.S.: I suspect that an as-yet-undiscovered talisman of power is crammed in a drawer full of junk.)
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Are you familiar with psychologist Carl Jung’s concept of the shadow? It’s the unflattering or uncomfortable part of you that you would prefer to ignore or suppress. It’s the source of behavior about which you later say, “I wasn’t acting like myself.” Jungians say that the shadow hounds you and wounds you to the degree that you refuse to deal with it. But if you negotiate with it, it leads you to beautiful surprises. It prods you to uncover riches you’ve hidden from yourself. I mention this, Leo, because any shadow work you do in the coming weeks could generate rather spectacular breakthroughs.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Treat your body like a sublime temple, please. And regard your imagination as a treasured sanctuary. Be very choosy about what you allow to enter in to both of those holy places. This strategy is always a wise idea, of course, but it’s especially so now, when you are extra sensitive to the influences you absorb. It’s crucial that you express maximum discernment as you determine which foods, drinks, drugs, images, sounds, and ideas are likely to foster your maximum well-being—and which aren’t. Be a masterful caretaker of your health and sanity.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You could make a vow like this: “Between now and April 15, I will be relentless in getting my needs met. I will harbor a steely resolve to call on every ploy necessary to ensure that my deepest requirements are not just gratified, but satiated to the max. I will be a dogged and ferocious seeker of absolute fulfillment.” If you want to swear an oath like that, Virgo, I understand. But I hope you will try a softer approach— more like the following: “Between now and April 15, I will be imaginative and ingenious in getting my needs met. I will have fun calling on every trick necessary to ensure that my deepest requirements are playfully addressed. I will be a sweet seeker of unpredictable fulfillment.”
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) What would your best mother do in a situation like this? Please note that I’m not asking, “What would your mother do?” I’m not suggesting you call on the counsel of your actual mother. When I use the term “your best mother,” I’m referring to the archetype of your perfect mother. Imagine a wise older woman who understands you telepathically, loves you unconditionally, and wants you to live your life according to your own inner necessity, not hers or anyone else’s. Visualize her. Call on her. Seek her blessings.
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