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NEWS OPINION 5 NEWS 7 DAYS, METROGLYPHS AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6 UNEASY SANCTUARY 9 Amidst a national discussion on immigration and federal funds, Santa Fe holds fast to its “sanctuary” ideals

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MAN WITH A PLAN 10 State Sen. Joseph Cervantes eyes a gubernatorial bid, but nothing’s official yet COVER STORY 12 BORDER PATROL Can art affect political conversation? Indigenous artist collective Postcommodity revisits a 2015 land art installation on the eve of the Whitney Biennial and a border wall

Any political climate calls for introspection and historical study. This political climate downright demands it. Brush up on the Civil Rights Movement with a flawless documentary about James Baldwin.

Cover photo courtesy of Postcommodity

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NEWS, FEBRUARY 1: “PICKING A FIGHT WITH BIG SODA”

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DAMN LEFTIES I’m really beginning to hate living in this leftist town. I like government that is non-intrusive, and that’s not Fanta Se land.

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PROPS The sugar tax is a win/win for kids. If people buy these drinks, kids win with decent early education. If people avoid these drinks, their kids win by escaping obesity and Type 2 diabetes.

What complete BS from the Coke employees, whining around about how they might lose their jobs. This tax is inevitable; it is to pay for kids going to pre-K. It is not a sin tax, and not meant to prevent nor to penalize obesity. I remember the same objections about losing jobs were heard in the New Mexico legislature 10 years ago about banning aspartame, the artificial sweetener. ...

[Aspartame lobbyists] will be replaced in this coming battle with the mayor by many earnest-acting Coke employees. Santa Fe’s City Council, and then the voters in the special election, must see right through them.

Coke is monstrously profitable. ... Our children need pre-K, and there will not be any drop in sales for Coca-Cola, no matter what whimpering lies their lobbyists tell you.

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MORE HARM THAN GOOD This tax is ridiculous! Coca-Cola in Santa Fe isn’t owned by “Big Soda,” it’s a family-run company. It’ll end up hurting our already pricey economy. ... I think the mayor can do better, this tax will end up causing more harm than good.

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EW, GROSS Not that the Reporter cares about this one person’s opinion, but I am unfollowing the Reporter right this second. “Don’t feel ashamed if you’re not ready for group sex”?

This is a weird type of backwards brainwashing and I can’t believe this is considered newsworthy journalism.

Editor’s Note: At SFR, stories in a special issue devoted to Love & Sex which promote and encourage consensual, legal fun are always newsworthy.

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SFPS BOND ISSUE PASSES WITH RECORD VOTER TURNOUT Thanks, Negative Unattributed Last-Minute Campaign Postcard Guys.

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SEVERAL TEAM MEMBERS FROM SUPER BOWL-WINNING NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS WON’T VISIT THE WHITE HOUSE When NFL players seem like the reasonable heroes, something is clearly amiss.

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Uneasy Sanctuary Advocates say local policies are strong, but they don’t always keep cops from calling immigration

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he Santa Fe Police Department generally prefers to make its own law enforcement decisions. On paper, that means leaving federal immigration authorities in the dark on cases involving people who are potentially in the country illegally, even as President Donald Trump threatens cities’ funding if they don’t cooperate in fulfilling his campaign promise to cleanse the nation of “criminal illegal aliens.”

But during the past two-plus years, SFPD has tipped off Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at least three times about suspected undocumented immigrants.

In the case of Ronald Ayala-Santos, according to police, that notification took some doing on his part.

Since mid-2015, the 20-year-old has admitted to making a false report about “heavily armed men” in a Santa Fe neighborhood and phoning in bogus bomb threats that led to the chaotic clearing of the Violet Crown Cinema and the Plaza, police say and prosecutors say.

He was arrested last September, but it wasn’t until he posted bond, was released from jail and created yet another bomb scare—this time at the Plaza Café Southside—that city police say they decided to tell ICE that Ayala-Santos may be in the country illegally.

“At some point, enough is enough,” SFPD Sgt. Craig Ernst says in an interview, emphasizing what he calls Ayala-Santos’ ongoing, escalating pattern of behavior and the mayhem his threats have caused.

“The agency does have a responsibility to safeguard the community.”

Ernst did not know whether ICE has pursued him, and the agency did not respond to requests for comment for this story. On Jan. 31, prosecutors dropped

the case stemming from the incident on the Plaza although the charges could be refiled later.

The case represents a rare but not unheard of practice for a police department that reports to a mayor who has become a prominent figure in the national “sanctuary city” movement.

More than 200 people packed the City Council chambers on Monday night to advocate for passage of even stronger policies to support the immigrant community and a reaffirmation of a 1999 decision for Santa Fe to adopt that stance, though two dueling proposals both remove the word “sanctuary” from the discourse.

Meanwhile, Santa Fe County has never embraced the “sanctuary” label, though its policies and practices hew closely to jurisdictions that do. For example, the county jail does not honor so-called “ICE detainer requests,” in which the federal agency asks locals to detain suspected undocumented immigrants beyond when they could otherwise have been released.

“The way I look at it, for liability and litigation purposes, I can only hold someone until a release order comes from a [state] judge,” says Derek Williams, the jail’s new warden. “It’s a potential civil rights violation otherwise.”

Marcela Díaz of the immigrant rights group Somos Un Pueblo Unido says the local polices and practices are strong. But with a relatively new chief at SFPD (Patrick Gallagher took over the post permanently a year ago), a new warden at the jail and the Trump administration promising federal dollars for cooperation in enforcement, there is work to do to maintain the delicate balance in Santa Fe. “We’ve had good experiences in the past, and I want to believe that these individuals want what our community wants: a sense of belonging and safety,” Díaz says.

“But when I read a quote from the new police chief saying, ‘We’re not going to turn anyone over to ICE unless they’re a criminal,’ well, he just said what Donald Trump said. And we all know that’s bullshit.”

Of course, entering the US without documentation is technically a crime in itself—one Díaz says city and county officials in Santa Fe have largely shielded immigrants from, regardless of status.

Learning about Ayala-Santos’ case from SFR raised some concerns for Díaz, though she declined to comment in detail without reviewing the entire case file. So did the two other cases in which SFPD has, according to Deputy Chief Mario Salbidrez, recently cooperated with ICE:

Carlos NavarreteMay, left, told officers in December he was connected to a Mexican drug cartel, and Ronald Ayala-Santos got reported to ICE after admitting to bomb threats.

By policy, the Santa Fe County jail does not honor Immigration and Customs Enforcement requests to detain inmates.

Once after a bike shop burglary suspect told officers in December he was connected to a Mexican drug cartel, and another time when a SFPD officer saw Jorge Serrano-Nevarez at the burning of Zozobra in September 2015. Serrano-Nevarez had been deported after serving federal prison time for property crimes, and the officer called ICE to obtain a warrant for illegal re-entry. The agency issued the warrant, and the officer later arrested him.

Despite these cases, the department’s policies prohibit officers from making arrests solely based on a person’s immigration status—or from notifying ICE that a criminal suspect is in the country illegally, except in cases involving certain felonies, most of them violent crimes.

That doesn’t mean ICE won’t come looking on its own. And an executive order signed during the new president’s first week in office seeks to deputize local police and sheriffs to assist in deportation efforts while withholding federal funds from cities and counties that don’t.

That may create difficult decisions for officials who have resisted aiding ICE, particularly in these cash-strapped times.

Santa Fe County Commissioner Robert Anaya tells SFR that the county’s federal funding has come through rigorous request for proposals and grant writing processes, and officials remain undeterred.

“It would be ludicrous for the president or anyone else to come in and say ‘You won’t get this funding anymore’ when we complied with the terms of those processes,” he said. “I would expect there would be all kinds of litigation if they tried to take those dollars back. There would be due process and other issues, but now that you mention it, I guess some of that may be out the window now.”

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Man With a Plan Long rumored to have his eye on higher office, Sen. Joseph Cervantes is sketching designs to reach the governor’s mansion Primary elections for governor are 16 months away, in June 2018. With Gov. Susana Martinez termed out, the field of contenders for the next executive is already starting to unfold. Cervantes is in a good position. He has done well for himself as an attorney. A jury recently granted one of his clients a $165.5-million wrongful death award, a state-record payout of which he’ll get a big piece. While the money won’t roll in before campaign season—the defendant, FedEx, is appealing the decision—along with other legal victories and real estate investments, it gives Cervantes the kind of freedom needed to wage a lengthy, expensive primary campaign against a significant slate of challengers.

Cervantes thinks New Mexico’s next governor should focus on what works: natural advantages like the state’s border location and its wealth of renewable energy resources. “Those things are never going to change,” he says.

If it’s worth betting on those resources, it’s also worth acknowledging when the bet doesn’t come in as hoped. For example, Cervantes eventually supported the construction of Spaceport America, but says a $225-million in-

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The most important qualification of a governor is a vision.

-Joseph Cervantes

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oseph Cervantes went to school to become an architect.

“You see a building, as an architect, before it’s built,” he says of his draw to the discipline. “You see people in the building and you see it in use. And it’s just in your mind. It’s a dream that you then begin to make happen.”

At age 56—three decades on from his life as a professional architect—he looks for all the world like he’s still designing, still sketching out a dream that would be the capstone for a political career. It’s a long way from then to now; from an architecture student to a presumptive Democratic candidate for governor.

In 1983, Cervantes took his bachelor’s degree from the University of New Mexico and headed west. A few years later, he had a license and a job working for modernist architect Dale Naegle in his studio north of San Diego. Then, though Cervantes admits it was hard to trade in the mild rays of the La Jolla coastline for the baking sun and unrelenting glare of the Chihuahuan Desert, he went home to build elementary schools in the town of Gadsden, south of Las Cruces.

The plan was always to come back to New Mexico, he says. Six years of study and a handful of years as a practicing architect left their mark on Cervantes: “I don’t do anything without a plan.”

He was soon headed to law school—a plan born from an attraction to the legal side of getting a building constructed— and building a successful 25-year career as an attorney. He served a few years on the Doña Ana County Commission and won stints as a Democratic legislator in both the New Mexico House of Representatives and the state Senate.

Now, Cervantes sounds an awful lot like a guy who plans to run for governor.

“The most important qualification of a governor is a vision,” he tells SFR in an interview between a Senate floor session and late afternoon meetings at the Roundhouse. “An ability to create a vision for our state. And then the second step of being governor is developing a plan to execute that vision.”

vestment in renewable energy programs at New Mexico State University and UNM would have been a smarter play for the state’s money. “There’s no doubt in my mind that we would have programs at the forefront of those industries without wondering if it was going to pay off.”

Cervantes’ politics are at times progressive, but he’s not reflexively liberal.

His view of recreational marijuana legalization, for example, seems to be evolving.

He was concerned that early adoption would turn the state into a destination for those looking to get high. “I think as we see other states this last year enacting that choice for adults, any reservations I had in the past are being resolved.”

Still, he says just passing a law legalizing pot could catch New Mexico off guard, leaving employees who test positive for marijuana in workplace drug tests wondering if they’ll lose jobs or leaving police

He’s not quite declaring candidacy, but Cervantes is not not running either.

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uncertain how to properly cite someone who they suspect of being too high to drive.

Former colleagues say Cervantes is known for that kind of careful consideration. Dan Foley, a former Republican state representative who frequently sparred with Democrats during his time as House Minority Whip, says, “He’s a very cerebral human being and not emotional about issues. He’s highly approachable.”

While Foley says the pair disagreed on plenty of issues, an often pragmatic approach to dealmaking served Cervantes well.

“In a body of 112 elected officials where the most dangerous place to be was between a legislator and a camera, Joseph was happy to be in the background working on deals,” Foley says.

Perhaps because of that legislative experience, Cervantes is slow to criticize governors who have worked hard to convince lawmakers—and the public—that their agenda is worth pursuing.

But not having that leadership, Cervantes warns, can lead to a state that’s treading water. That’s how he sees the last eight years—slyly including the post-presidential run years of former Gov. Bill Richardson in the figure he cites.

Decades as a lawyer and legislator have given Cervantes a deft touch for criticism.

An understated delivery lets harsh words wash over you almost before you realize what’s been said.

Of Gov. Susana Martinez’ tenure, he wonders: “Is the most that can be said for the vision of the last six years that we have a state where we don’t issue driver’s licenses to undocumented citizens?”

When asked if US Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s December entry into the race gave him second thoughts about running, he says, “I thought it was important, since we were just elected this last November, that we show the public a willingness to do the job that we were elected to do for a period of time before starting a run for the next race. … I really do believe that the people who elected me to the Senate deserve better than that.”

It’s lining up to be a crowded field for Democrats, with names such as Attorney General Hector Balderas and Santa Fe Mayor Javier Gonzales in the conversation, but there is no one, Cervantes says, whose mere entry into the race could force him out. That is, of course, assuming he decides to get in at all. So much of politics is timing. Talking to Cervantes, you get the feeling that he thinks his time is now. He has a vision, and he’s working on that plan.

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the The field is by no means set, but these names are often mentioned by the political class as likely candidates for governor in 2018.

REPUBLICANS RJ BERRY The current Albuquerque mayor has a legislative résumé and strong business backing, but will have to work hard to distance himself from Albuquerque’s beleaguered police department. There’s also the question of whether his vaunted bus rapid transit system will flop or fly.

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STEVE PEARCE Representing the 2nd Congressional District, Pearce has proven his statewide appeal to Republican voters by besting Heather Wilson in the 2008 US Senate primary. But he was trounced by Tom Udall in the general election. Pearce’s office says he’ll make a decision on a run in the next few months.

JOHN SANCHEZ The current lieutenant governor says he’s weighing his options. Sanchez lost to Bill Richardson in 2002, so the party faithful may decide he’s had his chance at governor. But Sanchez might be the man Republicans favor to retake the 1st Congressional District seat being vacated by Michelle Lujan Grisham.

DEMOCRATS JEFF APODACA If the surname is familiar, it should be. The son of former Gov. Jerry Apodaca is a longtime media executive who says he’s “strongly considering” a run. He currently operates a venture capital consulting firm. It would be his first elected office, though calling him a political outsider would be a stretch.

HECTOR BALDERAS New Mexico’s attorney general has been targeting higher office since winning a state House seat in 2004, then two terms as state auditor and finally AG in 2014. He lost a 2012 bid for the Democratic US Senate nomination to Martin Heinrich. A spokeswoman says Balderas “believes a robust primary benefits the Democratic Party.”

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MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM The 1st Congressional District representative is the first one at the party. She used a slick internet video to announce her candidacy for governor in December.

The former New Mexico Health Department Secretary and Bernalillo County Commissioner may have winnowed the field by planting her flag early.

JAVIER GONZALES Santa Fe’s mayor has confirmed he’s been talking to people about a potential run. He’s outspoken, progressive and to say Gonzales warms to the spotlight is like saying summer warms to the sun.

ALAN WEBBER The co-founder of Fast Company magazine ran an unsuccessful race for the Democratic nomination in 2014.

Since then, he’s turned his policy attention toward 1NM, a nonprofit focused on innovation and business. He tells SFR he’s gauging potential support statewide before deciding on a run.

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tep into the room, and you’re caught in a centrifuge of whirring fence posts. Dark barriers slide across every wall, changing speed from one surface to the next like an ersatz carnival ride that’s about to burst at its bolts. The growl of tires on rocky soil, the hum of the passing barricade and a cacophony of industrial screeches, hisses and roars echo around the room. Between the fence slats, desert landscapes and sun-drenched suburban streets spin past. It’s a dizzying vision of the US-Mexico border, as seen from the American side.

This is A Very Long Line, an art installation featuring four wall-to-wall video projections and a soundtrack that debuted at Center for Contemporary Arts last April.

Its creators are Raven Chacon (Navajo), Cristóbal Martínez (mestizo) and Kade L Twist (Cherokee), Southwestern artists who comprise the American Indian arts collective Postcommodity. Starting on March 17, the installation is scheduled to appear at the Whitney Biennial in New York City, one of the world’s most influential exhibitions of contemporary art. A documentary film (Through the Repellent Fence) about

Postcommodity’s work on the border premieres at the Museum of Modern Art’s Doc Fortnight film festival this weekend.

The group’s recent achievements mark the tail end of a journey that spans a decade. The project that inspired A Very Long Line, a monumental work of land art titled Repellent Fence, culminated in an international effort to subvert the border fence for a brief but remarkable moment.

In the process, two cities on either side of the divide forged a powerful new connection.

The projects have caused a ripple effect that will soon reach a global stage, at a moment when isolationist sentiment has gripped a large portion of the American electorate—and the upper echelons of the federal government. Policies shaped by a new nationalism will likely affect the borderlands more than any other region in the United States. A wall stands between much of the US and Mexico, but the cultural and economic fates of cities on both sides of the line are inextricably tied.

THE ROAD Postcommodity’s members have spent more hours than they can count roaming a road called International Avenue, an unpaved passage running along the American side of the border. “It’s only called that when it’s near a city, when it has public access,” says Chacon. “Outside of that it doesn’t have a name, because it intersects with private land.” The trio sees the route’s geographically dependent title as an intentional misnomer. “That’s a strategic rhetorical move, to project a discourse of diplomacy,” says Martínez. “A border is really a barrier, a filter. It’s meant to allow certain things to pass while keeping others from passing.”

This is what Postcommodity does best: cracking into sociopolitical structures to illuminate their intricacies. They explore the gargantuan but often invisible forces of globalization that have defined the 21st century—and their violent, colonizing effect on Indigenous people and nations.

The most trafficked and policed border in the world was an obvious target.

The collective’s expeditions along a stretch of Arizona’s border fence started in 2013, in the midst of the Repellent Fence project. Their mission was to install a line of 26 giant helium balloons that spanned the border, forming a visual breach that would spark conversations between communities from both nations. The idea for the project had been evolving since the collective’s founding in 2007.

Throughout its 10-year history, Post-

commodity has staged visual and sonic interventions in art institutions and public spaces across the world. Twist, who now lives in Santa Fe, was working on his MFA at Arizona State University in Tempe when he conceived of Postcommodity with Oklahoma artist Nathan Young (Pawnee/Delaware/Kiowa) and Phoenix artist Steven Yazzie (Navajo/Laguna).

One evening, Twist and Yazzie were having a beer in Twist’s backyard when they noticed a peculiar ornament in a nearby fig tree. Twist’s wife, Andrea R Hanley, had purchased a “scare-eye” balloon to frighten birds away from the tree’s fruit. The little yellow globe was emblazoned with several red, black and blue icons that matched the Indigenous iconography of the “open eye.” The balloon

The cyclonic A Very Long Line, at the Center for Contemporary Arts’ Spector Ripps Project Space in 2016. The installation is set to appear in the Whitney Biennial next month.

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LEFT: Peering skyward at Repellent Fence, Postcommodity’s 2015 land artwork that traversed the border.

RIGHT: Repellent Fence soars above the US-Mexico border fence. The barrier is a patchwork of different styles. There are vertical pylons (shown here), interlinked X’s, and lines of upright and inverted crosses.

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“We traversed almost the entire span of the Arizona-Sonora border looking for where we could do this,” Chacon says. After years of searching, they chose the cities of Douglas, Arizona, and Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico, as the sites for Repellent Fence. The communities touch on the border line, and they have an official port of entry between them that connects their downtowns. “There was a memorandum of understanding between the two cities to support bi-national collaboration around social policy objectives,” says Twist. “That’s what got us there.”

Many border cities maintain agreements with communities across the fence, though most of them center on the people and goods that pass through the customs gate. Douglas and Agua Prieta’s exceedingly rare social policy accord was a lucky break for a project that initially seemed impossible—at least if the group was going to complete it with government approval.

In 2012, Postcommodity began to secure grant money for Repellent Fence. Every two weeks, at least one member of the group traveled to Douglas and Agua Prieta to work on the project. The collective began holding community meetings in both towns, in search of ways to leverage municipal power that might push the project over federal hurdles. They connected with Jenea Sanchez and Martina Rendon, Douglas residents who have family on both sides of the border.

did little to repel its intended targets, but Yazzie and Twist imagined that this technically useless object with coincidental cultural significance could serve a different purpose.

Yazzie, Young and Twist flew a 10-footwide vinyl replica of the balloon at a European artist residency in 2007, and again above the Phoenix skyline in 2008. The eye in the sky became a marker of Indigenous presence, an ephemeral watchtower above the neocolonial landscape more ominously monitored by swarms of drones and invisible digital surveillance networks. It was made to be seen, but also to symbolically view—and confront—the world around it.

Yazzie and Young have both since retired from Postcommodity. Chacon joined the group in 2009, and Martínez became a member a year later. Chacon, an internationally renowned experimental musician from Albuquerque, was drawn to the group because of its emphasis on mediums that weren’t typically used by Indigenous artists he saw in art galleries, such as sound and performance art. Martínez, who grew up in Santa Fe and resides in Phoenix, first encountered Postcommodity’s work as a PhD student at ASU. “They took these conventions, tore them apart and wove them back together again in a way that was brown, that was Indigenous.

That was exciting,” says Martínez.

THE PORT From their first conversation about the balloon, Twist and Yazzie dreamed of using it for a border installation. Early on, the collective envisioned a row of balloons running parallel to the fence, but they came to realize that crossing the border was essential to their goal of advancing a conversation. “There was no organizational infrastructure that existed to facilitate a proper dialogue across the border among Indigenous people, mestizos, and non-Indigenous stakeholders and collaborators,” says Twist.

The City of Douglas donated the local airport as a base of operations for the installation of Repellent Fence.

Opposite: The artists at a recent performance at the Center For Contemporary Arts.

THE FENCE Sanchez remembers a time when there was no fence—at least not in her neighborhood. When she was a child living in Agua Prieta, she could see her aunt’s house across the border from her yard. “My dad would stand outside and say, ‘Okay, go!’” she says. “We would run, and cross illegally to visit my aunt’s house. That’s how interconnected these communities are.”

Twist knew Sanchez from Arizona State, where they were both in the MFA program for intermedia. She spent most

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of her childhood living between Agua Prieta and Douglas. When Postcommodity chose her native cities for Repellent Fence in early 2012, Twist made a trip to Douglas and pitched the project in person. “Honestly, I was concerned about the idea of it crossing the border,” Sanchez says. “I just thought in my mind, ‘Border Patrol is going to come up with something that is not going to allow this project to go through.’”

These days, if Sanchez sent her own children on an impromptu dash to see their family in Agua Prieta, they wouldn’t get very far. Between cities, there’s an 18-foot steel fence that runs for six miles. Completed in 2012 at a cost of $14.2 million, it replaced a weaker fence that had stood more than 20 years.

“I’ve seen three iterations of the fence in my lifetime,” Sanchez tells SFR. “Many of us have grown up with this revamping or reimagining of the border.”

Outside of town, where Postcommodity conducted its first scouting trips, the border fence is much more porous.

Rural sections of the barrier are intended to prevent vehicles from crossing, but people can (and do) easily slip through.

The border stretches roughly 2,000 miles, from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. The Rio Grande forms a natural divide between Texas and Mexico, but from California to Arizona there’s a patchwork of fencing that covers 700 miles of the line. Some of the newest sections were erected by the George W Bush administration, which funded a $4 billion border wall project that ran from 2006 to 2010 and completed 640 miles of fence. Today, US Customs and Border Protection employs over 20,000 agents, and a vast majority work along the US-Mexico border.

On their long drives, Postcommodity encountered coyotes (men hired to escort illegal immigrants across the border) with ghillie suits and guns. The Border Patrol often informed them that

drug cartels were discussing their presence over the radio waves. In some places, flash floods had completely washed away sections of the barricade. “The kind of totalitarian control that an ideal border seeks is thwarted very easily by Mother Nature,” notes Martínez.

In order to pull off Repellent Fence, Postcommodity needed to gain some measure of approval from leaders throughout the intricate power structures of the borderlands. Sanchez and her husband Robert Uribe got to work, in Douglas, turning the downtown cafe they own into a base of operations for the project. “We were getting grants, our idea was becoming more focused, and Jenea was helping us set up meetings with major stakeholders,” says Twist. “It was all becoming real.”

THE FILTER Some things don’t pass as easily across the border as others. Crossing can alter the value of money in your pocket, and change your legal status from citizen to alien. A port of entry might open wide for a bus full of people or a carload of art—or it might slam shut. The day Rendon met Postcommodity and Sanchez, she’d spent part of her morning at the customs gate. “They have an art walk in Douglas, and she brought her paintings across the border to show them here,” says Twist. “She had to deal with the people at the border taking her paintings out and searching them for contraband in front of her kids.”

Rendon takes painting classes at Agua Prieta’s community center, Casa de la Cultura. She lives in Douglas, but many of her family members reside in Agua Prieta, where she spends most of her weekends. When she and Sanchez struck up a conversation at the art walk in spring 2014, they sensed value in uniting their respective networks.

Almost immediately, they started planning an art walk that would span both

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sides of the border, to coincide with the launch of Repellent Fence.

“I always felt it was going to be possible,” Rendon writes in an email. “They already had everything very well planned out, including collaboration by Douglas city officials and the local Mexican consulate. The only thing left was making contact with Agua Prieta officials.” Rendon arranged high-level meetings for Postcommodity with the local government in Agua Prieta. Officials in both cities were finally on board with the project, but a barrier still loomed between these small centers of power. Douglas and Agua Prieta are socially and economically intertwined, but legally divided.

“A big thing we learned about the wall is that it’s economically chauvinistic,” Twist notes. “It’s a chauvinism towards the way dollars flip in a community.” Sanchez chronicles these disparities in her video art. One of her projects demonstrated how residents of Agua Prieta carefully recycle water. Houses in the outskirts of the city don’t have plumbing or electricity, a reality that seems foreign to Douglas residents, just a few miles away. Another video captured the painstaking process of crossing from Mexico to the United States for visa holders who bus over ever day.

“That’s what I knew from her work: the desocialization part, the dehumanization part,” says Twist. “There’s a bubbling frustration there.” Postcommodity crossed the border multiple times a day using their American passports, but a Mexican citizen would need a visa to perform the same feat. Twist says, “Depending on the length of your stay and what your objectives are, a visa could cost $500.

So there’s a class of society that has visas, and the rest don’t.”

Douglas and Agua Prieta were once tied by a copper mining operation in the region, but that industry dried up in the 1980s. A railroad connecting the cities is long gone. Now there are two primary economic drivers in the region. In Agua Prieta, manufacturing plants—maquiladoras—offer residents low-paying jobs with long hours. On the American side, the Border Patrol provides career jobs in another otherwise depressed market.

“Border security has become its own market system that people are dependent on,” says Martínez.

It’s a push-and-pull dynamic, considering that Douglas deeply relies on Agua Prieta economically. “They contribute 75 percent of sales tax in our city,” says Sanchez. “If we disrupt the relationship any further, our city will die. Literally, we will not survive.”

As political tensions mount between the governments of the United States and

Mexico, the value of the peso is declining and fewer residents of Agua Prieta are able to afford shopping trips across the border. Sanchez says about four businesses have closed in downtown Douglas during the past three months. Like many borderland towns, Douglas and Agua Prieta’s isolation from larger centers of commerce means that even small fluctuations in either of their economies can force a dramatic impact for both.

THE CAGE Repellent Fence flew from Oct. 9 to 12, 2015, in the midst of the United States presidential primary campaign. On Oct. 10, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump held a campaign rally in Norcross, Georgia. “Every time I say we’re going to build a wall, everybody loves me,” Trump said to the roaring crowd. “This is going to be a Trump wall, this is going to be a wall that people aren’t going over.”

“The fence came to represent a lot of complexity, which is funny because a lot of public discourse is centered around oversimplified cultural models of what it actually is,” says Martínez. “There’s an economy that’s happening at a local level, and then the border becomes a mediator of the global economy.”

The collective’s local alliances were

Repellent Fence was comprised of 26 balloons, each 10 feet in diameter, which flew 50 feet above the earth. The line stretched for two miles, from Douglas, Arizona, to Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico.

For me, it rendered the fence invisible,” says Sanchez. “The balloons were a visual reminder of how futile the fence really is. It’s a physical barrier that is man-made, and government officials can decide whether to build it higher or tear it down.

vital to the completion of Repellent Fence.

About three months before the project launched, the drug lord El Chapo escaped from a Mexican prison and Border Patrol went on high alert. They closed off the intended site for Repellent Fence, leaving Postcommodity scrambling to find another location. “It turns out the project was only possible in one place,” Twist explains. “It had to be on city land, where the Border Patrol didn’t have jurisdiction, so they couldn’t tell us no.”

Postcommodity completed the project almost entirely through verbal agreements with local government officials on both sides, though Douglas required that they purchase a $20 million insurance policy. In the last few months before launch, even the Border Patrol had warmed to the idea. The border-spanning art walk and a series of public presentations coincided with Repellent Fence. Sanchez and Rendon arranged for a shuttle to travel between the two cities, with expedited security checks at the port of entry.

“For me, it rendered the fence invisible,” says Sanchez. “The balloons were a visual reminder of how futile the fence really is.

It’s a physical barrier that is man-made, and government officials can decide whether to build it higher or tear it down.”

Repellent Fence has had a lasting impact on Douglas and Agua Prieta. Sanchez and Rendon, the local artists, continue to collaborate on events that engage both communities. Sanchez’s husband Uribe, who is an immigrant from the Dominican Republic, is now mayor. Inspired by Postcommodity, he ran on a platform of collaboration with communities in Mexico.

Despite the successes of Repellent Fence, the piece only conquered the wall for a moment—and that fence might get much taller in the coming years. Chacon, Martínez and Twist don’t consider themselves activists: They’re using art to shine light on complex socioeconomic dynamics, but they aren’t presenting solutions.

In a two-day shoot on International Avenue in 2016, Postcommodity captured footage of the passing fence from a car. Using images and sounds from the drive, they built the spinning birdcage of A Very Long Line and added a chaotic soundtrack. Stepping into the installation is intended to be a tumultuous sensory experience, mirroring the impact of the border wall itself.

“We’re prisoners of our own ideas and concepts; we’re imprisoned by our own discourse,” Martínez says. “That violence is disorienting, and it has a dizzying and unsettling effect. That’s precisely the effect the fence has on people along the border, and it radiates outward from there.”

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HOT HOT HEAT There are those legendary Santa Fe bands that everyone just kind of knows and loves because they’ve practically carved their names into the concrete of our shared culture. Clumsy metaphors aside, Sol Fire is one such band. With a high-energy mix of poppy rock and jazz fused with dancey Latin rhythms—and no small amount of institutional cachet—Sol Fire knows what the fine people of this town want, and they deliver.

Hell, that’s how they’ve been around since the dawn of time and how they continue to pack ‘em in at places like El Farol; you want to go to there. (Alex De Vore)

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(ADV) Tacocat: 7 pm Monday Feb. 20. $10. Meow Wolf, 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369.

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OOH LA LA An offshoot of the so-totally-famous and beloved Cirque du Soleil, Les 7 Doigts (that’s The 7 Fingers for you non-French speakers) take the concept of circus performance to a whole new level with Cuisine and Confessions, a dizzying array of sights, sounds and smells meant to pique all your senses. We’re talking death-defying feats of acrobatics, narrative elements and musically based movement pieces, but also live cooking—which, as far as we know, is a pretty original component.

It also sounds delicious. (ADV) Cirque! The 7 Fingers: Cuisine and Confessions: 7:30 pm Tuesday Feb. 21. $19-$85. Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234.

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Avian Awe Staten Island painter gives birds the spotlight Herb Smith paints birds in such detail, they seem physically present on the page—like you could touch their wings and feel individual feathers brush your fingertips. “I will use just about anything to get texture,” Smith says. “I start off with a simple drawing and then from there I will do light washes of paint, almost like a watercolor instead of an oil painting; the paint will get thicker and more oily, so you hope to create depth with it, after a while at least.”

A native of Staten Island, New York City, Smith tells SFR he sees more birds than you might suspect in the city at the center of the world. “One would think that, in Manhattan, you wouldn’t see a lot of nature. But for a lot of birds in a migratory pattern, when they fly south, their line is pretty much over Manhattan,” he says. Due to coastal migration routes, “we actually do get a large amount of species in the area.”

Smith has painted for much of his life, though he grew more formal once his grandmother started paying for art lessons when he was about 11 years old. He says the portrait-like portrayal

found in his avian series is inspired by the masters of the Renaissance and the Dutch Golden Age. “I was always fascinated by the portraits of Dutch painters, like Rembrandt and Jan Van Eyck—the guys from, like, the 1400s to 1600s,” Smith explains. “With most of my work, and with this show, I wanted the birds to be the portraits, to be the paintings and the main focal point, kind of using a normal portrait painting composition, but replacing it with a bird instead of a person.”

Reference comes to Smith in many forms, including taxidermy, birds he owns or photographs he takes out in nature. Expect snowy owls and giant hawks in his upcoming show at the Beals & Co. Showroom, but he says his favorite piece is a blackpoll warbler. “That one seems to jump out at me the most,” Smith says. (Maria Egolf-Romero)

HERB SMITH: INHABITANTS 5 pm Friday Feb. 17. Free.

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See Meghann O’Brien’s “Sky Blanket” as she demonstrates her weaving techniques at the Ralpt T Coe Foundation for the Arts as part of IAIA’s Artist in Residence: Creating Side-By-Side lecture series at 5 pm Friday.

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DAVID JOHNSON: FRÈRE ARSÉNE, NEW MEXICO'S FORGOTTEN BOTANIST Christ Lutheran Church 1701 Arroyo Chamiso, 467-9025 This lecture, presented by the Native Plant Society of New Mexico, covers the life of the early-20th century botanist who contributed more than 40,000 species of plants to 48 different herbaria around the world.

6:30 pm, free DENNIS ROSS: FROM TRUMAN TO TRUMP James A Little Theatre 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429 Ross, a special assistant to former President Obama, speaks about the relationship between the United States and Israel—a subject he covered in his book, Doomed to Succeed.

7 pm, $20-$25

DHARMA TALK: NATALIE GOLDBERG Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 This week's talk is presented

by Goldberg, a local author.

5:30 pm, free EILEEN MYLES WITH DAN CHIASSON Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Listen to this conversation between two acclaimed poets as part of the Lannan Foundation's lecture series.

7:30 pm, $3-$6 MAURICE DIXON Museum of Spanish Colonial Art 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 Dixon, a master tinsmith and author, presents an overview of the original and innovative tinworks by José Maria Apodaca and Higenio V Gonzales.

Noon, $8

DANCE SWING NIGHT Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 If you need some new moves, catch the lesson, which happens before the floor opens for dance time.

6:30 pm, $5

EVENTS +1 TO MISCHIEF Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Stop by to see what happens in this improv comedy show based on a role-playing game.

6 pm, $10 2017 STATE OF THE CITY Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W Marcy St., 955-6590 Stay connected with the current state of our city by attending this evening update.

5:30 pm, free

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COMMUNITY-STYLE ACUPUNCTURE Southwest Acupuncture College 1622 Galisteo St., 438-8884 Receive community-style acupuncture in a group rather than private setting. Call ahead to schedule.

5:30-8:30 pm, $17 THE HEART FOR GENDER JUSTICE: A LEGISLATIVE RECEPTION Rio Chama Steakhouse 414 Old Santa Fe Trail, 955-0765 This year's event features Dani McClain, a fellow at the Nation Institute, writer, and commentator on gender justice, race policy and politics; Corrine Sanchez, executive director of Tewa Women United; and Beva Sanchez-Padilla, Southwest Organizing Project’s New Mexico Con Mujeres organizer, who opens the evening with an invocation.

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BROTHER E CLAYTON El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Classic rhythm and blues.

8:30 pm, free DJ SATO Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 House and acid lounge.

10 pm, free DANIELE SPADAVECCHIA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Italian gypsy jazz.

7 pm, free IDEAL GENERATION: THE IDEAL LIFE SHOW Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 Each member of this ensemble, all high school students, contributes their own skill— like creating clothing, music and photography—to the multi-dimensional performances.

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THE CALENDAR 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 LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock ’n’ roll and dance music covers by Leroy and his pack.

7:30 pm, free RAMON BERMUDEZ JR. TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Bermudez performs a passionate set of Latin and smooth jazz guitar.

6 pm, free TINY'S ELECTRIC JAM HOSTED BY NICK WIMETT & ALBERT DIAZ Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Wimett and Diaz host the open jam session. Drop by with your instrument and play familiar tunes with other local musicians.

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“And Still I Rise...”

AMERICAN MASTERS: MAYA ANGELOU. Journey through the prolific life of the ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ author, poet and activist who inspired generations with lyrical modern African-American thought. Features new interviews with Oprah Winfrey, Common, the Clintons and others.

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THU/16 BOOKS/LECTURES ARLENE GOLDBARD: AMERICA NEEDS ARTISTS Unitarian Universalist Congregation 107 W Barcelona Road, 982-0439 Goldbard lays out 10 important reasons why our country needs artists more than ever.

The only upside of a terrible time in history is a great period for creativity.

7 pm, $10-$18 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. The stories—geared toward kiddos up to age 5—change each week are are read by the book store’s staff. Instill in them a love of reading while you still have the chance.

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SANTA FE WRITER’S LAB SERIES: ICONS WITH MARGARET WRINKLE AND SALLY DENTON Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 This new division of Santa Fe Photographic Workshops expands to offer educational programs for writers, too.

Wrinkle and Denton speak about their involvement with the new division.

6 pm, free

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Be a geek and play teams of other geeks to see who knows the most about the chosen subjects of the week. Not much feels better than knowing how much more you know about Game of Thrones than everyone else. Nanny-nannyboo-boo.

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This coming together of talent represents a rather interesting end product—a contemporary composer with varying influences and an ultimately original sound (and ideals) melding ideas with a singer who we’ll call “weird,” for lack of a better term (Kohzein is trained, so don’t be upset—she just doesn’t stick to plain old straightforward vocal work is all).

Don’t let any of this information dissuade you, though, because these musicians are both quite accessible. Not only are Khozein and Krivchenia masters in their respective fields with countless hours, projects and performances under their belts, but you may have already seen some of these songs performed, both at a fundraiser for the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (moas.eu) at DIY space Radical Abacus (radicalabacus.com) called Refuge, and a similar event at the Railyard Performance Space benefitting Mercy Corps (mercycorps.org), both of which occurred last year.

We can technically call the song cycle “classical music,” though, as Krivchenia wisely puts it: “If classical music is going to survive, it has to be a living tradition.”

In other words, he’s taking cues from the grand classical tradition, just not emulating it outright; nor does he adhere to the stuffy nature for which classical music is sometimes known.

Finding Refuge itself is his brainchild, born of a Washington Post article he came across that detailed the Syrian refugee crisis from the perspective of the Syrians themselves. “It followed these families around as they made their lives in other countries,” Krivchenia says. “Their actual words, their quotations … were really moving [and] you get some sense of what their lives are like.” He then took the stories and converted them into poems that quote extensively from the refugees.

The song structures came together quite quickly. “It all happened within a couple hours,” Krivchenia explains. “I woke up the next morning at 4:30 and by noon I had all the ideas down, either recorded roughly or written, [and] it’s the refugees telling their stories.”

The album, currently in progress, comes next. Krivchenia and Khozein tapped local musician/producer Jono Manson for help. Rather than record at Manson’s Kitchen Sink Studios, they set up shop at local nonprofit, the Academy for the Love of Learning in the Seton Village area outside town. “They have a piano that Grisha really likes and it’s a beautiful space, so we sort of built a little recording studio out there,” Khozein says.

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D J Te n n i s Fe at h e r i c c i R i F F x G ra e m e B oy u s

SAT 2/18 9PM

Ta c o c at Daddy Issues T h e S i m p l e P l e a s u re

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James Whiton L e e c h e s o f L o re

FRI 2/24 8PM

The Wild Reeds Blank Range Dear Lemon Trees

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P r i e st s O l i v i a N e u t ro n - Jo h n R e d L i g ht C a m e ra s

SAT 2/25 8PM

Nosotros DJ Aztech Sol Baracutanga

SAT 3/4 9PM

Grisha Krivchenia and Tara Khozein help keep Syria in our minds with their new song cycle.

At this writing, Krivchenia and Khozein are continuing the recording process, and they’ve turned to crowdfunding to help with its completion. Interested parties can visit the Kickstarter campaign to donate towards the $4,100 goal and, if all goes according to plan, the finished record should be available sometime this spring.

In the meantime—and especially given the hotly contested sanctuary status of American cities of late—it would probably be good for all of us to remember the situation in Syria. Yeah, this is just a music column, and I’m not aiming to get super-po-

litical, but I would point out that tragedies such as the refugee crisis or Standing Rock seem to have become almost passé in the minds of many. Krivchenia and Khozein continue to shine a light on this very important issue, and help is obviously still needed.

Can you think of a better way to achieve more awareness and maybe even enlighten the masses than original music?

Of course you can’t.

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BERT DALTON AND MILO JARAMILLO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Dalton on piano and Jaramillo on bass. Together they make beautiful jazzy tunes.

7 pm, free JASON VIEAUX Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Vieaux—a Grammy Awardwinning classical guitarist— presents an epic recital of works by composers from Bach to Duke Ellington.

7 pm, $22-$80 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 LATIN NIGHT WITH DJ DANY Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Latin influenced dance tunes.

9 pm, $7 LILLY PAD LOUNGE WITH DJ REBEL FROG Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 DJ Rebel Frog mixes up the dance tunes to keep you hopping along.

10 pm, $7 LIMELIGHT KARAOKE Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Stop in, grab the mic and do your vocal best to impress everyone without breaking any ear drums. Do your best Mariah, it’s probaby better than Mariah’s best Mariah.

10 pm, free LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Dance music covers by Leroy and his pack.

7:30 pm, free PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Malone does his solo guitar thing at the wine-filled venue.

6 pm, free PAUL DAVID, HOMER GODS AND STILL LOOKING FOR COSMO Zephyr 1520 Center Drive #2 Three rock acts bring the angst, and let you expel it thorough musical experience.

7:30 pm, $5-$10 REGGAE NIGHT: REBECCA ARSCOTT & ONE HEART Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Island vibes can have you feeling beachy and peachy in no time, and this total babe of a songstress belts reggae like the best of them. Relax and let the reggae heal you.

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SOL FIRE El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Pop, rock and Latin-influenced tunes (see SFR Picks, page 19).

8:30 pm, free

FRI/17 ART OPENINGS HEARTFELT EXPRESSIONS Alexandra Stevens Gallery 820 Canyon Road, 988-1311 This annual show celebrates love in all its greatness. See paintings by established gallery artists like Katrina Horwath, GE Griffith, Phil Epp and more. Through Feb. 28.

5:30 pm, free HERB SMITH: INHABITANTS Beals & Co. Showroom 830 Canyon Road, 357-0441 Smith, a Staten Island native, presents his meditation on birds, which he paints in extraordinary portrait-style detail, creating a sense of familiarity for the viewer (see SFR Picks, page 19).

5 pm, free MICAELA GARDNER: TOMORROW'S YESTERDAY HOME Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Never-before-seen works by Gardner, a local painter who works on large alder panels, display her ideas about the future dystopian world.

Through June 4.

5 pm, free PATRICK McFARLIN: FRESH OIL/CRAZY QUILTS/WORD PICTURES Phil Space 1410 Second St., 983-7945 See McFarlin's newest paintings, which include passages from great books, psychedelic imagery and works that were originally conceived as quilt designs (see A&C, page 25).

5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES BILL DONAHUE: KEPLER FEST St. John's College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, 684-6000 Donahue—who is head of the college’s lab department— presents a lecture titled "A Page of Kepler" in the Great Hall. Expect to hear about planetary movement and space stuff.

7:30 pm, free EMMI WHITEHORSE IAIA Musem of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 This Brown Bag lunchtime lecture presents Whitehorse, a painter and printmaker who grew up in Gallup. The artist reflects on her techniques and inspiration.

12:30 pm, free

KIM HOWE: THE FREEDOM BROKER Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Howe authored The Freedom Broker with David Morrell, and she talks about its upcoming release and the book’s plot, which follows a hostage crisis.

6 pm, free LEN KRAVITZ: CHAMPIONSHIP TEACHING Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 This lecture covers communication and skills that enhance one's teaching ability, whether you do it in a classroom or a gym.

2 pm, free LEN KRAVITZ: THE 12 TRUTHS OF FAT LOSS Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 In his second lecture of the day, Kravitz covers fat loss and the essentials like metabolism and physiology.

Attendees receive 10 workout plans for optimizing fat loss.

3:30 pm, free MEGHANN O'BRIEN: IAIA ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: CREATING SIDE-BY-SIDE Ralph T Coe Foundation for the Arts 1590 B Pacheco St., 983-6372 O'Brien, a textile artist, speaks about the inspiration and technique behind her woven works in the context of the foundation's massive collection of global Indigenous art. This is a great opportunity to hear directly from the artist about her process.

5 pm, free

MUSIC ALAN ECKERT, JULIANNA GILBERT AND ROBERT COOMBE First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Three pianists join forces and perform compositions by Debussy.

5:30 pm, free AUDIOBUDDHA: DEEP SPACE EXPLORATION Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 ClubCar presents this evening of deep house tunes.

10 pm, free BUSY McCARROLL BAND Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Trippy-dippy surf sounds and pop noir.

6 pm, free DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Enjoy standards by the former Broadway professional, and eat pasta while you're at it.

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Painter Patrick McFarlin contemplates mortality and art supplies in his Santa Fe studio.

Fresh Oil

Patrick McFarlin begins again in an impromptu exhibition at Phil Space

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old on, I may have tucked it back here,” Patrick McFarlin says. He’s rustling around in the corners of his studio, in search of a small oil painting that’s just popped into his head. McFarlin emerges with a canvas that’s bursting with colorful block letters.

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking 13,” he reads. It’s the first line of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984. “I should put that in the show, since Trump has brought back 1984.”

The longtime Santa Fe artist’s new solo show is slated to open at Phil Space on Friday. At a studio visit last week, its creation was still very much in progress. James Hart, who runs Phil Space in a gallery adjoining his photography studio, emailed McFarlin on Jan. 4 and offered him a Feb. 17 show. McFarlin was preparing for a 10-day trip to Mexico, but he took the opportunity. “I decided it would do me some good, no matter what,” he says. “It’s kind of a dark time of the year in Santa Fe.”

After his vacation, McFarlin immediately got to work. The show’s hodgepodge title, Fresh Oil/Crazy Quilts/Word Pictures, reflects the frenetic process of preparing an artistic statement in less than a month. McFarlin isn’t complaining, though: The challenge embodies his kinetic approach to creativity. After a year of battling severe health issues, he was more than ready to get the paint moving again.

Inside McFarlin’s lofty, naturally lit studio on Old Galisteo Way, colorful artworks are piled everywhere.

He’s tacked two un-stretched canvases to the wall meant to anchor the show. “This one’s called ‘Annual Report,’” he says, gesturing to a gloomy self-portrait that shows McFarlin surrounded by jesters and anthropomorphic paint tubes. The piece originally featured a pie chart split into a variety of comical categories such as “wasted art materials,” but he painted over it and added a bundle of red balloons above his head.

A single black balloon rises from the flock.

“In my annual report, I’m not in the black and I’m not in the red,” he says, gesturing to the balloons. “I’m just floating away.”

McFarlin has been battling tonsil cancer since last spring, and he’s only recently regained the energy to make a full return to his art practice. “It wasn’t a Beach Boys summer,” he says.

The second large canvas he’s been working on for the show is a bit more op-

timistic, depending on how you look at it.

It shows McFarlin wheeling a cart of art supplies off the edge of a barren planet.

He’s headed towards a smaller globe, from which a small child emerges to greet him.

“That’s the new world, I guess,” he says.

“Maybe the child represents the hope of rebirth or something like that.” Does the composition chronicle McFarlin’s return to health, or is it an allegory for a journey

Art supplies are not going to get out of those jars and tubes and cans if you don’t do something. I say, ‘Waste ‘em.’

-Patrick McFarlin

to the next life? “I’ve been thinking about, you know, mortality,” the artist says. He declines to elaborate.

He does kindly indulge a line of questioning about his artistic career. McFarlin is originally from Little Rock, Arkansas.

His first solo show was in San Francisco in 1968, and he’s mounted over 20 since then, from New York City to Houston. He moved to Santa Fe in 1990. In the City Different, he’s well-known for a monumental

portrait series that he exhibited at SITE Santa Fe in 1997.

The works in Fresh Oil/Crazy Quilts/ Word Pictures are all taken from bodies of work completed in the past few years. “I’m definitely not a serial painter,” he says. “I tend to work two or three years on a series, and then go on to something else.” The Fresh Oil pieces are the canvases tacked to the walls in his studio, which McFarlin plans to display in the same way at Phil Space. His Crazy Quilts are oil paintings on paper that show quilts overlaid with wild tangles of figures and objects. He unfurls one of the giant sheets on the floor, which depicts the outlines of guns atop a colorful patchwork pattern. The work was a reaction to the Sandy Hook shooting, and is titled “Sleep Tight.”

Word Pictures is the most intricate series in the show. Completed between 2014 and 2015, it incorporates passages from famous novels into impasto fields of color.

McFarlin props several of these around the studio, all of which feature paragraphs from Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. Like Kerouac’s propulsive prose, McFarlin is always tumbling towards the next brushstroke. “That comes from getting into the realm of what I call ‘It Paints,’ where a painting takes off in itself,” he says. “Art supplies are not going to get out of those jars and tubes and cans if you don’t do something. I say, ‘Waste ‘em.’”

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I’ve been reading your advice column in the Coast in Halifax for a while, and it seems that most solutions to relationship problems revolve around sex. Everyone wants it or needs it, we should fuck before dinner, or we can spice up our sex life in this certain way to be happy. What about someone who doesn’t want to have sex, ever? I’ve asked other people for advice, and the answer is usually “take one for the team,” have sex to keep them happy.

Is that the only way I could find happiness in a relationship? It’s not something I want to do— but at this point, I don’t see any other options.

-All Alone Ace I’m a sex-advice columnist. Consequently, AAA, people tend to write me when sex (needing it, wanting it, getting it but not the kind you want, etc.) is the problem, and sex (in some new and improved form) is often-butnot-always the solution. I also get and respond to questions from asexuals, and I’ve urged sexuals not to regard asexuals as defective—or, for that matter, to view committed-but-sexless relationships as defective. So long as both people in the relationship are content and happy, it’s a good and healthy and functional relationship, whether the sex is vanilla or spicy or nonexistent. Strictly companionate marriages can be good marriages.

As for “taking one for the team,” that’s not advice given only to asexuals. A woman who’s married to a foot fetishist, for instance, may be advised to “take one for the team” and let her husband perv on her feet. A vanilla guy married to a woman corrupted by Fifty Shades of Grey (it’s baaaaaack) may be advised to “take one for the team” and tie the wife up once in a while. And while there are certainly lots of asexuals out there taking one for the team—having sex to please/keep/shut up their partners (or allowing their partners to seek sex elsewhere)—you know who doesn’t have to take one for the team, ever? Asexuals with other asexuals.

Dating another asexual is the other option, the obvious option, and may be the best option for you, AAA. (Don’t want to take one for the team, ever? Don’t draft anyone onto your team who wants one, ever.) A quick Google search brings up several asexual dating sites: Asexualitic.com, AsexualMatch.com, Ace-Book. net, AsexualPals.com. You can also choose to identify as asexual—and search for other asexuals—on mainstream dating sites like OkCupid and Match.

I can already hear you composing your response, AAA: Asexuals are just 1 percent of the population. There are 400,000 people in Halifax, which means there are 3,999 other asexuals. Sounds like a lot, but most will be too young, too old, or unappealing for political or personal reasons (loves Kevin O’Leary, hasn’t seen Moonlight, picks their nose with an oyster fork). And a significant chunk of that number may not be aware—yet—that they’re asexual.

So realistically, AAA, your local dating pool is much smaller than 3,999.

But! Good news! There are 7.5 billion people on the planet! And 75 million of them are asexual!

I have a good friend with a unique array of kinks—a crazy, specific, and rare constellation of kinks—and he cast a wide net on kink dating apps. After he met someone on the other side of the world with all the same kinks and they hit it off via Skype and the guy provided my friend with references (put my friend in touch with friends who could vouch for him), my friend flew to the other side of the world to go on a first date. Two months later, he went back, stayed for a few months, and then moved abroad to be with Mr. Kink Match On The Other Side Of The World. My friend did things

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people are typically advised against—who gets on a 12-hour flight to go on a first date?— because he knew there weren’t many lids out there for his particular pot.

Asexuality isn’t a kink, I realize, but you can and should cast a wide net, AAA, like my kinky expat friend. Don’t let geography limit you in your search. You may not be able to afford to do what my friend did—fly halfway around the world for a first date—but you can get your ass to the next province over if you hit it off with an asexual in New Brunswick or Quebec. Good luck.

I’m a 22-year-old lesbian living in Utah. I’m finally going back to college this fall. I have autism (high functioning), and I couldn’t handle going to school full-time while working.

Thus I will be stuck living at my parents’ house, as I couldn’t afford rent and living expenses on my own. The problem is, my parents are super Republican and religious. While I live at home, I can’t date (they are against me being gay), I can’t drink, and I can’t watch movies with swears. They also force me to participate in daily scripture study, which I hate. I don’t know what to do. I can’t be myself or have any fun while I live at home because I’m afraid my parents will kick me out. But I can’t afford to move out, either. I’m shy and socially nervous, so I don’t have any friends who could help me out, and I can’t see living with roommates who are strangers. I’ll be 29 by the time I graduate, and I don’t want to live like this for that long.

Any advice? Maybe I could work something out with my parents, but they are set in their ways and I don’t want to hurt them.

-Under Their Authoritarian Homophobia If they were just enforcing “their rules” about booze in their house, that would be one thing.

But requiring your adult daughter not to date anyone, or not to be a lesbian at all, is just mean. (A lot of insane religious people believe homosexuality is an act, not an identity, so someone who isn’t currently having gay or lesbian sex isn’t actually gay or lesbian. By that standard, I haven’t been gay for hours.) And leveraging their daughter’s autism and social isolation and economic dependence against her in order to control her? Meaner still.

You say you don’t want to hurt your parents—you’re a good daughter—but it’s clear your shitty parents don’t care if they hurt you.

Typically my advice would be to tell your mean and shitty parents what they want to hear—to feel free to lie to them under duress— and then lean on your friends, do your own thing outside of the house, and be careful not to get caught. But that’s not an option for you.

So you’ll have to ask yourself what you value more: freedom now or getting your degree sooner rather than later. If it’s your freedom, move out, get a job, go to community college, and take your time getting that degree. If it’s getting your degree before turning 30, knuckle under, spend a lot of late nights “studying in the library,” and go to the student resource center on your campus and ask if there are any campus services/support groups for students with autism or Asperger’s syndrome. Who knows? You might meet some people who you could see yourself living with, as roommates and friends, and be able to get out of your parents’ house sooner rather than later.

P.S. You’re in Utah, UTAH. If there’s an LGBT student group on your campus, go to the meetings and share your story. You might meet a gay Mormon boy with parents like yours— shitty and mean—who could use a fake girlfriend until he graduates, and you could use a fake boyfriend until you move out of mom and dad’s.

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DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Montgomery plays a standard repertiore of pop hits and piano classics.

6 pm, free ERYN BENT BAND Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Folk and Americana originals written by this local songbird.

7 pm, free THE GRUVE La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Soul and R&B. 8 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 KATY P & THE BUSINESS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Funk, soul and rock 'n' roll.

10 pm, $7 KINETIC FRIDAYS Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Get up and move your butt to the electronica beats.

10 pm, $7 STEPHEN PITTS AND FRIENDS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Americana.

5 pm, free THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 This weekly concert features a different special guest each week who performs with the swinging jazz trio.

7:30 pm, free

THEATER ALMOST, MAINE El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 This universally loved 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 SAINT JOAN: LENSIC PRESENTS NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE IN HD Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 From the torment of the Hundred Years’ War, the charismatic Joan of Arc carved a victory that defined France. Bernard Shaw's classic play depicts a woman with all the instinct, zeal and transforming power of a revolutionary.

7 pm, $22

WORKSHOP

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KEPLER FEST: PLOTTING EARTH'S ORBIT St. John's College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, 684-6000 Take this opportunity to learn more about astronomy through the eyes of Johannes Kepler.

3:30 pm, free

AKEEM AYANNIYI Southside Branch Library 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 This Nigerian drummer demonstrates traditional drums including the ashiko, djembe and bata. He also shares Yoruba mythology through his storytelling performances.

1:30 pm, free DJ TENNIS Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 This Italian DJ is based between Miami and Berlin, where he is constantly rocking the electronica scene.

His innovative progressions keep him at the top of his genre.

9 pm, $19 DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Enjoy standards by the former Broadway professional, and eat pasta while you're at it.

6 pm, $2 DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Montgomery plays pop songs and standards on piano.

6 pm, free FUN ADDIX Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Pop, funk and soul tunes.

10 pm, free HALF BROKE HORSES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana and honky-tonk.

1 pm, free JJ AND THE HOOLIGANS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Dance tunes and a little rock ’n’ roll.

8:30 pm, $5 JERRY FENN Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 This multi-instrumentalist and composer plays soothing piano tunes.

8 pm, free JOHN RANGEL QUARTET El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Let this jazz quartet blow you away with their skills.

7:30 pm, free MUSICA ANTIGUA DE ALBUQUERQUE: KEPLER FEST St. John's College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, 684-6000 This ensemble performs music from Kepler's time as part of the weekend which celebrates the ancient mathematician.

7:30 pm, free

SAT/18 BOOKS/LECTURES 7000 BC Big Adventure Comics 418 Montezuma Ave., 992-8783 Local writers and artists who are members of nonprofit comic collective 7000 BC present their books.

1 pm, free OWEN GINGERICH: KEPLER FEST St. John's College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, 684-6000 Gingerich speaks about the movement of the heavenly bodies in his lecture, "Kepler's Elusive Eccentricity."

2 pm, free

DANCE FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Dinner and dancing allows the flamenco professionals to show you what is up.

6:30 pm, $25

EVENTS 1905 MAGAZINE BENEFIT SHOW Strangers Pop-Up 54 1/2 E San Francisco St. This fundraising event, hosted by Strangers Collective, offers artwork and merchandise from 1905 Magazine, a fashion publication founded in Santa Fe in 2014 (see Bed Head, page 29).

7 pm, free LOVE YOUR RIVER DAY Frenchy's Field Osage Avenue and Agua Frí­a Street Show your love for the natural beauty of the Santa Fe River and spend a few hours cleaning it up before the snow can melt to fill it. Bring gloves and a warm coat to the 11th annual event.

10 am, free 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 to 5 to explore the world of opera through games involving poetry, props and costumes.

Participants move from one station to another based on their level of personal interest.

10:30 am, free

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PATRICK BALL, LISA LYNNE & ARYEH FRANKFURTER: LEGENDS OF THE CELTIC HARP Unity Santa Fe 1212 Unity Way, 989-4423 A musical journey into the heart of the harp. Three of the premier Celtic harpists in the world have created a dramatic ensemble that takes you deep into the myths, stories, magic and fabled history of this most captivating instrument.

7:30 pm, $20 RALPH WHITE Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 A roots musician in the truest sense, White channels his love of traditional American genres like folk, country and blues through a variety of instruments including banjo, fiddle and guitar.

2 pm, free SO SOPHISTICATED WITH DJ 12 TRIBE Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Hip-hop and R&B. 9 pm, $7 THE GRUVE La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Soul and R&B. 8 pm, free TRASH DISCO WITH DJ OONA Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Head to the Skylab and get down to a mostly electronica and house music set.

9 pm, $7 TRUCK STOP HONEYMOON Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Bluegrass and jazz.

7 pm, free

THEATER ALMOST, MAINE El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 This universally loved 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

SUN/19 BOOKS/LECTURES JOURNEYSANTAFE: JAMES BURBANK Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 This photographer and journalist presents his insights about life in the lecture, "Poetry, Nature and the Politics of Experience."

11 am, free

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KIRK AND SHEILA ELLIS: PULLING BACK THE VEIL: A CONVERSATION ON IRAN Museum of Int’l Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Kirk, an award-winning screenwriter, and his wife Shelia, a board member at the museum, speak about Iran and the fantastic architecture, clothing and lifestyle that exists there. See stunning everyday images of life in the country many of us know little about, which depict another side of the Middle East.

The lecture and slide show is free with museum admission, so you get a double bang for your buck.

2 pm, free

SANTA FE FREE THINKERS FORUM Unitarian Universalist Congregation 107 W Barcelona Road, 982-0439 If you wake up bright-eyed, bushy-tailed and feeling like you need to do some free thinking with a bunch of other free-thinking individuals, this event is for you. This month's discussion is titled "What Do Humanists DO, Politically and Socially," so come with free ideas concerning those things and have some coffee first. Everything is better post-coffee.

8:30 am, free

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Writer/producer Kirk Ellis (John Adams) and his wife Sheila recently spent two weeks in Iran photographing pretty much anything that caught their eyes: youth culture, the art, the people, monuments, etc. It became a massive project that not only carries significant cultural heft, but conveys an extra importance given the current political climate and often-misinformed US perception of the region. The Ellises present their photography and conduct what Kirk calls an “illustrated conversation” at 2 pm this Sunday at the Museum of International Folk Art (706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200) during “Pulling Back the Veil: A Conversation on Iran.” (Alex De Vore) What will the program be like?

What we are not going to do is talk about holiday snaps. This is a chance for us to introduce people to Iran in a way beyond the politics or the picture painted by the media. Rather than talk about it in a ‘this happened, this happened way,’ we decided to theme it around concepts like the role of women or youth, which we’ll talk about. There will be a Q&A after we speak.

Did you find that people seemed concerned about your traveling to the area?

It’s something we wanted to do for many years, and when it finally became a reality and we told our friends we were going to Iran, people seemed to be scared and asked us if we were going to be safe.

Having spent two weeks there, I can tell you it’s one of the safest countries. At no point did we feel scared.

We happened to be traveling before and during the election and, like many countries, the people could differentiate between a country’s people and its leadership.

As someone with a film background, did you go in with a narrative in mind?

We wanted to experience the country firsthand, and we had the benefit of a terrific female guide who gave us undiluted insight into the country that helped refine our experience. There was no set narrative in mind.

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RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Santa Fe Farmers Market 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-4098 Peruse a variety of handmade artworks at this indoor market from mediums like sculpture, painting and ceramics, all made by artists living in Santa Fe. Support your art habit and the community simultaneously.

10 am, free

ALMOST, MAINE El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 This universally loved play, written by John Cariani, is a classic that explores love and relationships through a series of nine vignettes, each showing a different relationship with its own set of problems.

Directed by Janet Davidson, the play stars Patrick Briggs, Debrianna Mansini, Robyn Rikoon and Hania Stocker.

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AKEEM AYANNIYI Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 This Nigerian drummer demonstrates traditional drums including the ashiko, djembe and bata drums. He also shares Yoruba mythology through his storytelling performances.

1:30 pm, free THE BARBWIRES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Blues played with a ton of soul by this local ensemble on the heated deck. Get some vitamin D while you jam out.

2 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Montgomery is an uber-talented pianist and he sticks to pop hits, piano standards and classic ballads during his solo set.

6:30 pm, free OMAR VILLANUEVA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Villanueva performs a set of flamenco guitar tunes with talent and flare. Plus, this bar knows its way around lime juice and tequila.

6 pm, free THE SANTA FE SYMPHONY: RODRIGO, DVORAK AND SCHUBERT Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Conductor Guillermo Figueroa leads the orchestra as they perform a repertoire of classic compositions by the three renowned composers with a special guest performance

by Grammy-winning guitarist Jason Vieaux.

4 pm, $22-$80 WEI ZHONGLE, I HEART METAL AND PSIRENS Zephyr 1520 Center Drive #2 Wei Zhongle brings their rhythmic brand of indie pop, I Heart Metal bears his soul in his rock songwriting endeavors and PSIRENS performs long vocal melodies which invited comparisons to the likes of CocoRosie and Bjork.

8 pm, $5-$10

MON/20 BOOKS/LECTURES ANCIENT SITES AND ANCIENT STORIES: STEVE LEKSON Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Lekson is curator of archaeology at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History. He discusses ceramics from Chaco Canyon in his lecture "Mimbres Pots: Dimples, Slip Slop & Clapboard."

6 pm, $12

DANCE MONDAY NIGHT SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, 470-7077 You know what’s a great remedy for your Monday blues?

Swing dancing. Arrive on time for a dance class, or an hour later for open dance time.

Jump 'n' jive, it feels real good to be happy.

7 pm, $8

DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Montgomery does pop tunes, classic hits and soulful songs on piano.

6:30 pm, free SANTA FE GREAT BIG JAZZ BAND Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Enjoy a cacophony of tunes from this 16-piece big band with vocalist Joan Kessler.

7 pm, free TACOCAT Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Bright pop-punk with melodic hooks that are hard to get out of your head (see SFR Picks, page 19).

7 pm, $10

TUE/21 BOOKS/LECTURES MARTY GERBER Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Gerber presents his newest book, Fascinating Facts of New Mexico: Aliens, Artists, Atoms.

6 pm, free

DANCE ARGENTINE TANGO MILONGA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Bring your best tango moves to this weekly dance.

7:30 pm, $5

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GEEKS WHO DRINK Draft Station 60 E San Francisco St., 983-6443 Bring your smartest friends along and compete against other teams for trivia knowledge victory. Not much feels better than knowing you know more than everyone else.

7 pm, free

GEEKS WHO DRINK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Battle others for the throne as king of knowing everything about trivia.

8 pm, free

MUSIC BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 It’s a honky-tonk country extravaganza.

7 pm, free CHUSCALES La Boca 72 W Marcy St., 982-3433 Flamenco by this legend.

7 pm, free DJ OBI ZEN: MELLOW MONDAYS Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 This DJ mixes live percussion into his hip-hop sets.

10 pm, free

MUSIC BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Honky-tonk and Americana by the guy who’s been doing it for 25 years at this spot.

7 pm, free CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Bring your instrument and join the jam. Celebrities have been known to drop by when they’re in town, so get ready.

8:30 pm, free CASH'D OUT Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Listen to Johnny Cash covers by the band that finally does 'em justice.

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There’s Something Stylish Brewing in Santa Fe

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

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anta Fe has the global reputation of an artistic mecca, but notably lacks representation in one creative area: fashion. And that’s something Darnell Thomas and Mariah Romero want to change with their quarterly fashion and lifestyle publication, 1905 Magazine.

The pair had the idea to start the online publication after they met at Santa Fe University of Art and Design in 2014, where they were both graphic design majors.

Surrounded by a creative student body, Thomas and Romero frequently collaborated with their schoolmates on photo shoots and DIY fashion projects. 1905 was the sensible next step and, two years in, they are still learning.

The magazine began as a monthly online-only publication pushed out through social media, but the commitment at first overwhelmed Romero and Thomas, who were full-time students with part-time jobs. 1905 instead shifted to a quarterly publishing schedule in the fall of 2015, a model it still follows today. “It’s kind of matured in the past few years, since we

went quarterly,” says Romero. “It allowed us to slow down, and really think about the curation and the content we’re putting into it. It’s felt a lot better in this past year.”

The focus remains squarely on individuality and self-love, and topics often venture outside the realms of fashion and design. “We come up with whatever seems relevant at the time,” Romero tells SFR. “It can be a little political, it can be about selfcare and self-love—it’s so many different writers and it has to do with their interests as well. We’ve even had some articles about fair trade and environmentally friendly living.” Thomas echoes these sentiments, adding, “We really love the idea of having all these views through the millennial eye, because we are millennials.”

While fashion may not be a booming industry in Santa Fe, there is inspiration aplenty. “Just looking at how other people express their style here is really interesting,” Thomas says. “I love the way women dress here, it’s really sophisticated and top-notch; I don’t want to say bougie, but confident. I will see a woman walking

down the street in a big fur coat, and she doesn’t have a care in the world, she feels fabulous.”

That feeling is something 1905 hopes to spread further. “We love promoting having your own spin on things: If you’re a guy and you want to wear lipstick or eyeliner one day, that should be okay; that’s your own style, that’s your own projection

of your self,” Thomas tells SFR. Knowing that someone can read your work and get some kind of personal affirmation, he says,“that’s really great.”

Romero stresses accessibility. “We are not trying to sell fashion. A lot of what we try to promote is thrift shopping and borrowing your friends’ clothes and making your own clothes. It’s what we do—we’re college students.”

Thomas and Romero have big plans for the next six months, which include building a website to pull 1905 out of the social media sphere and, hopefully, toward print. But, as we all know, growth requires funds. Cue the upcoming benefit event hosted by Strangers Collective in their new pop-up location on E San Francisco Sreet. The local group has nothing to do with the fashion fundraiser, other than providing the ideal space, so don’t arrive expecting to see Strangers’ work or thinking you’re giving them money. This one is all about supporting the budding fashion mag. Think of it like a debut party where you can peruse and purchase artwork by 1905 contributors (including painter and Best of Santa Fe 2016 Best Man Bun honorable mention David Grey), get the first look at a cookbook created with their food guru Andie Fuller and—of course— have a reason to dress up!

“We feel like we haven’t really come out to Santa Fe,” Romero says excitedly, “so we feel this will be a good way to come out to the city we’ve been hiding in for two years.”

If you’d like to see more of these fashion-forward individuals, or maybe get inspired to wear something daring to this benefit party, browse their Instagram accounts: @mriah_rose @dudeitsdarnell @1905magazine @andiejanefuller.

1905 MAGAZINE BENEFIT SHOW 7 pm Saturday Feb. 18. Free.

Strangers Collective Pop-Up, 54 E. San Francisco St., Ste. 7

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DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Pop and classics on piano performed by a talented fellow.

6 pm, free PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Malone does his solo guitar thing, which includes jazz hits and classic songs, at the wine-filled venue.

6 pm, free

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THEATER CIRQUE! THE 7 FINGERS: CUISINE AND CONFESSIONS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Performance Santa Fe presents this Montreal-based circus, many of the founders of which spent years working with Cirque du Soliel. Expect flips, dancing and more (see SFR Picks, page 19).

7:30 pm, $19-$85

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See original tinworks by José María Apodaca and Higenio Gonzales at the Museum of Spanish Colonial Arts during a lecture by Maurice Dixon on Wednesday at noon.

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.

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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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Pie Quest 2017:

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BY MICHAEL J WILSON t h e f o r k @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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n the ancient Japanese tradition of Nara, there are 72 micro-seasons.

The cycle begins, roughly, on Feb. 4 with the lengthening of days and beginning stages of thaw as we emerge from the cold of January. Real signs of spring in Santa Fe are probably a month away, last week’s heatwave notwithstanding, but then again, if the last few weeks in America have taught me anything, it is that one must take pleasure where and whenever possible. What better time, then, to seek out one of my favorite guilty pleasures: meat pie. It has nothing to do with Japan or spring, but does have everything to do with sustaining through the cold days until spring.

I grew up in England. The mix of flaky pie crust, seasoned and gravied meat and spices found in traditional meat pies conjures my childhood. It’s fireplace in a crust. They are stupid-hard to find in the US, though. If you go looking for meat-based pastries in America, you will mostly find the shepherd’s pie version. It forgoes the crust and is instead baked in a pan and topped with a layer of mashed potatoes. Even this version is difficult to find in Santa Fe. Zia Diner had shepherd’s pie, but they’ve gone into that great vacant business park in the sky. A quick call to Loyal Hound (730 St. Michael’s Drive, 471-

0440) confirmed the rumors that it has a shepherd’s pie special (made with lamb and probably delicious), but it isn’t scheduled in advance. Loyal Hound posts its specials on Facebook, so I’ll be keeping an eye out.

Betterday Coffee (905 W Alameda St., 780-8059) has added sausage and egg hand pies to its growing list of foodstuffs. The crust is flaky and golden, they are baked to a perfect shiny gold and stuffed with Betterday’s housemade sausage and an insane amount of eggs.

Just the right amount of cheddar mixed throughout finishes off this simple pastry. I ate mine cold. It was delightful, and at $5.40, not a bad price for a really great snack. I could have had three of them— but still, meat pie this was not.

It turns out only one menu in Santa Fe (that I could find) regularly offers shepherd’s pie, and although it wasn’t the version of meat pie I wanted, 2017 needs to be a year of self-care and small pleasures.

After making sure I had enough change for the meters, I headed downtown to Blue Corn Café (133 Water St., 9841800) to check it out. On my way, I texted my friend Lefty, who only joined me because he also has a love of the absurd and I promised to pay.

Blue Corn’s New Mexican shepherd’s pie is a respectable $12.95 and was described as beef, calabacitas and mashed potatoes topped with green chile and cheese. It would do. Service was quick and friendly. The music was a weird mix

of ’90s classics across all genres. The pie’s presentation was excellent, arriving in a pristine skillet, smothered in oven-baked cheese and chile, with a few tortilla chips planted firmly in the surface. It looked like loaded nachos. It was odd, but food should always be fun.

First impressions are a big deal.

Here are mine: 1

This is just cheese and chile

2 Wow, this chile is insanely hot 3 Oh there’s the meat. It is literally hamburger 4 There’s a few kernels of corn in here too. Interesting 5 This chile is really too hot

Green chile in a meat pie should make sense. It should be a no-brainer. Meat pie is made up of all the things that go best

Traditional comfort food this is not, unless you were born in Hatch and have a strong tolerance for capasicin.

with chile: starches, dairy, meat. But this was not working. This was Frito Pie without Fritos. There was no taste but chile.

Localizing dishes is a great way to evolve them, but certain things are not better when New Mexico’ed to Hatch and back. Ingredients need to be balanced.

The meat, potatoes and calabacitas were bland and hid under the heat of the chile.

Even the cheese was lost. In a good meat pie you should be able to taste the spice and cook of the meat, the potatoes should not be an afterthought and the vegetable choices should pop.

So, my quest continues. Someone, for the love all things holy, open a meat pie restaurant. Or a hand pie truck. My birthday is in March, around the time the ancient Japanese calendar says hibernating creatures open their doors. Nothing would make me happier than to find a meat pie waiting for me.

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* Old Santa Fe Inn

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* Las Palomas Hotel

* Collected Works Bookstore

* La Posada de Santa Fe

* Eldorado Hotel & Spa

* Residence Inn

* Eye Associates

* Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi

* Fitness Plus

* Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce

* Fort Marcy Recreation Complex

* Santa Fe Convention Center

* Garrett’s Desert Inn

* Santa Fe Plaza (east side and south side)

* Genoveva Chavez Community Center * Harold Runnels Building

* Santa Fe Public School Administration Building

* Hilton Santa Fe

* Santa Fe Sage Inn

* Hotel St. Francis

* Santa Fe Southside Library

* Hotel Santa Fe

* Santa Fe Spa

* Hyatt Place

* Santa Fe University of Art and Design

* Inn and Spa at Loretto * Inn at Santa Fe * Inn of the Governors * Inn on the Alameda * Kokoman Liquors, Pojoaque * Manhattan Street and Guadalupe Street corner

* Santa Fe Visitor's Center * SFCC (main entrance) * Sports Medicine Center * State Capitol Building * State Education Building * State Employees Credit Union

* Mesa Public Library, Los Alamos

* State History Library

* La Montañita Co-op

* Rancho Viejo Village Market

* Montoya Building

* Vitamin Cottage

* NM State Library

* Water Street (by parking lot)

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I Am Not Your Negro Review: Required Viewing The words of James Baldwin are needed as much as ever

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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

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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 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, especial-

ly 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.

I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO Directed by Peck 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 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

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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 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 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.

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Architecture in the 1950s was pretty cool. The Founder, not as much. 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.

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Everyone has eaten at a McDonald’s at least once, but the actual story of how the mega-chain came to exist within a few miles of wherever you happen to be right now is slightly darker than the family-friendly style they’re selling. And even if you know the name Ray Kroc—the famous CEO of McDonald’s—from whatever secondhand history lesson, The Founder gives us the unabashedly true history of his rise to fast food billionaire: He was a blindly ambitious bastard

who didn’t really care who he stole from or hurt as he single-mindedly pursued his own distorted version of success.

Michael Keaton practically disappears into Kroc, and we almost root for him as the film begins. But as he devolves from seemingly decent man into megalomaniacal cutthroat, even his wife Ethel (Laura Dern) is forced to ask him when enough will be enough. “Honestly?” he asks.

“Probably never.”

It’s our first clue that his desire to be a big shot borders on an unhealthy obsession. When Kroc happens upon Dick and Mac McDonald (Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch) selling burgers at a then-unheard of speed, we do understand why he falls victim to his own impatient vision, but our sympathies soon fade. Within a couple years, Kroc manages to sneakily wrest control out from under the McDonald brothers and completely crushes their decent ideals and business practices; there is seemingly nothing he won’t do, even stealing a franchisee’s wife (Freaks and Geeks’ Linda Cardinelli) while inwardly believing himself to be the hero of his own story.

Though interesting enough as a semi-unknown piece of Americana, The Founder tends to lag, dwelling too long on certain elements and flat-out glossing over others. If the goal was for us to understand Kroc’s behavior, we simply don’t. As a cautionary fable on the dangers of business and the aggressively ambitious, however, it’s perfectly fine—just don’t expect to feel much of anything for its key players. (ADV)

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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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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 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

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Jamie isn’t your average teenage boy raised by a single mom and coming of age in 1979. Or maybe he is. We join the unorthodox family in 20th Century Women as Jamie’s mom Dorothea (Annette Bening) is riddled with insecurity when she suddenly realizes she knows her teenage son (Lucas Jade Zumann) less every day.

So she enlists the help of seemingly every friend the two can claim. This includes their two housemates—Abbie (Greta Gerwig), a punkrock feminist with a killer record collection, and William (Billy Crudup), a hot hippie handyman with a sensitive streak. She also recruits Julie (Elle Fanning), Jamie’s longtime friend.

Together, they forge a sort of Montessori school wherein Jamie gets all kinds of manbuilding experiences and some straight-up doses of Life Ain’t Easy.

We were relieved Dorothea’s character comes across more like a real person than the overdramatized TV mom she threatened to be. We want to be invited to one of her dinner parties.

We admire her tenacity. Her deeply wrinkled, mostly make-up-free face annotates the raw pain of her aloneness. As Jamie begins the move from boy to man, she’s more aware that there’s not one in her life.

It’s tiresome, though, to always see Dorothea with a cigarette clamped between two fingers.

We get it—people smoked all the time and wherever they wanted in the ’70s. Just maybe make it feel less like a dramatic crutch so we can laugh harder when she has to sneak one during William’s attempt to teach her how to meditate. It makes us sigh with relief when Julie tries to teach Jamie how to “look cool” and he replies, after a few minutes of failed lessons: “Smoking’s gross.”

Some other jokes in this film elicit laughs not because you see, but because you know. What diagrams does Jamie see in his new copy of Our Bodies, Ourselves? What happens when he explains his newfound knowledge of the clitoris to his high-school peers? In the end, it’s clear they’re all raising each other—but then again, we kind of all are. (Julie Ann Grimm) CCA, Violet Crown, R, 119 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 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

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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.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) By my estimates, 72 percent of you Aries are in unusually good moods. The world seems friendlier, more cooperative. Fifty-six percent of you feel more in love with life than you have in a long time. You may even imagine that the birds and trees and stars are flirting with you. I’m also guessing that 14 percent of you are weaving in and out of being absurdly, deliriously happy, sometimes without any apparent explanation. As a result of your generosity of spirit, you may be the recipient of seemingly impossible rewards like free money or toasted ice cream or unconditional tenderness. And I bet that at least ten percent of you are experiencing all of the above.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) The ancient Roman rhetorician Quintilian authored a twelve-volume textbook on the art of oratory. As ample as it was, it could have been longer. “Erasure is as important as writing,” he said.

According to my reading of the astrological omens, that counsel should be a rewarding and even exciting theme for you in the coming weeks. For the long-term health of your labor of love or your masterpiece, you should focus for a while on what to edit out of it. How could you improve it by making it shorter and more concise?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Do you know about the long-running kids’ show Sesame Street? Are you familiar with Big Bird, the talking eight-feet-tall yellow canary TAURUS (April 20-May 20) I am launching a campaign who’s one of the main characters? I hope so, because to undo obsolete stereotypes about you Bulls. There are your horoscope is built around them. In the Sesame still backwards astrologers out there who perpetrate the Street episode called Don’t Eat the Pictures, Big Bird lie that many of you are stingy, stolid, stubborn slowsolves a riddle that frees a 4,000-year-old Egyptian pokes. As an antidote, I plan to heighten everyone’s prince from an ancient curse. I think this vignette can awareness of your sensual, soulful sweetness, and your serve as a model for your own liberation. How? You can tastefully pragmatic sensitivity, and your diligent, finally outwit and outmaneuver a very old problem with dynamic productivity. That should be easy in the coming the help of some playful, even child-like energy. Don’t weeks, since you’ll be at the height of your ability to assume that you’ve got to be relentlessly serious and express those superpowers. Luckily, people will also dour in order to shed the ancient burden. In fact, just the have an enhanced capacity to appreciate you for who opposite is true. Trust blithe and rowdy spirits. you really are. It will be a favorable time to clarify and SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Your lessons in comstrengthen your reputation.. munication are reaching a climax. Here are five tips to GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Will Giovanni surreptitiously help you do well on your “final exam.” 1. Focus more on replace Allesandra’s birth control pills with placebos? listening for what you need to know rather than on Will Camille take a hidden crowbar to her rendezvous expressing what you already know. 2. Keep white lies with the blackmailer? Will Josie steal Jose’s diary and and convenient deceptions to a bare minimum. 3. Tell sell it on eBay? Given the current astrological omens, you may have an unconscious attraction to soap opera- the truth as strong and free as you dare, but always—if possible—with shrewd kindness. 4. You are more likely type events like those. The glamour of melodrama is to help your cause if you spread bright, shiny gossip tempting you. But I’m hoping and predicting that you instead of the grubby kind. 5. Experiment with being will express the cosmic currents in less toxic ways.

Maybe you’ll hear a searing but healing confession after unpredictable; try to infuse your transmissions with midnight in the pouring rain, for instance. Perhaps you’ll unexpected information and turns of phrase. break an outworn taboo with ingenious grace, or forge a CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) The meaning of the Latin fertile link with a reformed rascal, or recover a lost phrase crambe repetita is “cabbage reheated, twicememory in a dusty basement. cooked.” I urge you to avoid partaking of such a dish in CANCER (June 21-July 22) All naturally-occurring matter on earth is composed of 92 basic elements arranged in various combinations. Since some of these appear in trace amounts, they took a long time for humans to discover. In the 18th and 19th centuries, chemists were exuberant when they tracked down seven of the 92 in a single location: an underground mine on the Swedish island of Ytterby. That small place was a mother lode.

I’m predicting a metaphorically similar experience for you, Cancerian: new access to a concentrated source that will yield much illumination.

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