Pasatiempo, Jan. 4, 2013 by The New Mexican

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January 4, 2013

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THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN

January 4 - 10, 2013

On the cOver 25 turn up the volumes Pasatiempo’s first issue of 2013 is devoted to those who supply Northern New Mexico (and in some cases, the rest of the world) with printed books — those eternally miraculous marvels of 15th-century technology that enable us to travel far and wide, meet fascinating characters, learn almost anything, and revel in the sheer pleasure of language anywhere and anytime. The weight and texture of a book engages our sense of touch, and occasionally a book offers an aromatic experience as well. And you never have to plug in a book or recharge it. On our cover is Library 17, a 2012 archival pigment print by Danae Falliers. The Santa Fe-based artist has studied and taught photography intensively; and she considers the work of painters Gerhard Richter and Ed Ruscha as influential. Many examples of her work may be viewed at her website, www.studiotodo.com. Image courtesy Robischon Gallery, Denver.

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in Other Words Robin Sloan’s latest novel The Graphic Canon More classics illustrated alchemy of the soul Carl Jung’s library meet the booksellers 15 pages worth the list Find a publisher or bookseller Full houses Santa Fe-based publishers the meter’s running The poetry scene

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Open Forum: Jung in the World: Psyche and Politics Friday, January 11th 7-9pm $10 2 CEUs Presenting challenging perspectives based on Jungian psychology, four panelists will launch our discussion with brief provocative remarks about the current political scene. The panel will reflect, from a Jungian perspective, on the post-election phenomena and realities facing us. Titles for these brief presentations include: “General Petraeus Dances with Wolves: Power and Eros in Politics and the Military Attitude;” “What Has God Got to Do With It?” (previously personal issues are being debated with religious fervor and the totalistic attitudes of the archetypal realm are polarizing our conversation); “Inclusivity and the Changing God Image in Alchemy, Dreams, and the World;” and “Back to the Future: Plutocrats, Egalitarians, and Shadow Projection.” The evening will conclude with an opportunity for general discussion by audience members and panelists.

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The good Earth The Santa Fe Art Institute inaugurates a new year of programming with Shifting Baselines, a gallery talk and exhibition by artists in residence Cynthia Hooper and Hugh Pocock. Curated by Ecoartspace founder and West Coast curator Patricia Watts, Shifting Baselines explores human interactions with landscapes and ecosystems, underscoring regional and global environmental issues. Hooper’s video work addresses the need for international cooperation for the preservation and restoration of three artificial Mexican wetlands in the Colorado River Delta. The wetlands are the result of human activity on the land. Her installation includes three videos from her interdisciplinary project Humedales Artificiales: Three Transitional Wetlands as well as watercolor paintings. Four additional videos by Hooper are included in the show; they deal with water issues such as the effects of damming along the Klamath River in Oregon and California on native salmon populations. Pocock, an instructor at the Maryland Institute College of Art, presents One Thing, Constantly Changing, a sculptural installation that filters water collected from snow here in New Mexico and Baltimore rainfall to provide gallery visitors with drinking water. The installation includes a sample of Arctic ice left to evaporate inside the gallery, intended to call attention to how droughts experienced in the Southwest and melting polar ice caps are connected. Shifting Baselines is part of Contested Space, SFAI’s ongoing series of programs dealing with the contemporary landscape. The gallery opening and talk are on Monday, Jan. 7, at 6 p.m. There is no charge for admission to the exhibition. The talk is $10, $5 for students and seniors, and tickets can be purchased at the door. The Santa Fe Art Institute is at 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, on the Santa Fe University of Art and Design campus. Call 424-5050. — Michael Abatemarco

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CLOSING PROGR AMS Sunday, January 6 · 1:30 – 4:00 pm 1:30 Gallery Talk with exhibition Curator Bobbie Sumberg, Ph.D. 2:00 Slide Lecture on Aprons by Joyce Cheney, author of Aprons: Icons of the American Home 3:00 Open Discussion: Bring an Apron and its Story By museum admission New Mexico Residents with I.D. free on Sundays. Youth 16 and under and MNMF members always free. Program support provided by the International Folk Art Foundation.

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We’re getting ready for a green light, and like horses stomping at the gates, we may be stepping on one another’s toes as a Mars-Jupiter trine brings up our willingness to jump in the game or get back to our goals. This post-holiday work binge can be hard on relationships. Connections need a little extra sensitivity and love as Venus semisquares Saturn. The busier we get, the more our dear ones (young and old, two- or four-footed) need an occasional moment at the center of our attention. Enjoy one another’s company as the weekend begins under a sociable Libra moon. On Sunday the moon enters introspective and sometimes misanthropic Scorpio and calls us to take a moment of solitude and contemplate our priorities. Check in with beloveds and communicate our needs rather than expect them to guess. Notice body language; connect with a touch and waft of the heart. We’re unusually intuitively receptive now as the sun semisquares Neptune, so we don’t want to overwhelm them with too much (they’ll just get grumpy), but they can pick up subtle signals when the message is clear. Also, check in on those who tend to brood. Don’t drift too far away; we may need to help one another with some pragmatic challenge or support one another through a low-energy time when Mars squares Saturn. Forces push off on one another — redirect any “us against them” or “age versus youth” oppositional illusions and invite help to solve the problems. On Wednesday Venus enters Capricorn and sextiles Neptune, offering a pragmatically intuitive and creative approach, but we have to tap into its subtle inspiration.

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Friday, Jan. 4: The mood is tactful and determined as resolute Mars trines expansive Jupiter under an egalitarian, peace-loving Libra moon. Be assertive but not aggressive. Work gently around a sensitive afternoon as the moon squares Pluto. Stay gentle tonight; we may want to connect with one another, but work or low energy can challenge plans. Saturday, Jan. 5: Enjoy the meandering but don’t get caught into the cross winds; differing needs pull at our attention. Talk things out and tend to relationships in peaceful moments this afternoon; evening grows musky and taut as the moon enters Scorpio. Sunday, Jan. 6: Navigate this internal, intense, uncertain day with care. A Mercury-Pluto conjunction brings our mind deep; either to investigate, find our power, or just stare in the mud — it’s our choice. A sun-Neptune challenge tempts us to escape, but we can choose to harness Neptune’s imagination instead. Monday, Jan. 7: If people are in a mood, keep conversation to the point and give them space. Restraint is needed; wrestling between opposite elements can produce good results if we believe it’s possible. Breathe through frustration, tend health, and send love where possible.

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Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 288 pages Do you have a Kindle, a Nook, or an iPad? Or are you one of the die-hard print readers who loves the heft of a hardback book and the smell of ink on paper? In this smart, sweet, engaging, highly topical novel from Robin Sloan, internet-age technology and musty-dusty old-fashioned publishing cross paths amid the towering shelves of a mysterious bookstore, in the dark halls of a secret literary society, and at the offices of Google. After graduating from art school, protagonist Clay Jannon landed a job as the web designer for a start-up bagel company in San Francisco founded by a group of Google ex-pats (they “wrote software to design and bake the platonic bagel,” he says). After what Clay refers to as “the great food-chain contraction that swept through America in the early twenty-first century,” his bosses closed up shop and moved to Costa Rica, and Clay found himself unemployed. When he wasn’t scouring help-wanted ads (or Craigslist — according to him, that’s what “legitimate employers” use), Clay takes long walks around the city. That’s how he ends up seeing the help-wanted sign in the window of a bookstore owned by the peculiar gray-haired Mr. Penumbra. It’s in the neighborhood of Broadway Street — where, notably, the famed City Lights bookstore is located, as are most of San Francisco’s strip clubs and adult theaters. “I was pretty sure ‘24-hour bookstore’ was a euphemism for something,” Clay admits. Nevertheless, Clay takes the job. Though Mr. Penumbra’s really is a bookstore, it’s no Barnes & Noble or Collected Works. For one thing, the store never closes, and Clay works the night shift, from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. The front portion of the shop includes a few shelves of wellknown or popular books, but most of the store’s collection is located in the back, on towering shelves that require a ladder to access. Clay calls this part of the store the Waybacklist, and many of the books there are written in a mysterious code. The store’s clientele consists almost exclusively of a handful of eager, eccentric characters who never actually buy anything. They just present unusual ID cards and borrow books from the Waybacklist — they are, apparently, out to crack the code. Is this just the world’s weirdest book club, or is something very important going on here? This is the first novel from Sloan, who has worked for Twitter and created a popular app, a “tap essay” called Fish. He stirs up questions about the ongoing battle between technology and tradition, but he doesn’t choose sides (even tech-geek Clay admits, “It was paper that saved me”), and he doesn’t provide any clearcut answers. He doesn’t suggest that technology is killing everything that’s good, nor does he propose that clinging to tradition is bad. He clearly loves — and is happy making fun of — both viewpoints. He seems to know that whether you prefer a traditional bound-paper format or an e-book reader, we’re all into reading for the love of language, characters, and ideas. Though this is one of the more enjoyable, engaging books I’ve read in a while, let’s be clear. It’s no opus with aspirations of becoming the newest member of the literary canon. You’ll get no existential angst, no family dysfunction, no bemoaning the loss of innocence. Sloan gives us a funny cross-sectional cast of Bay Area characters: Mat, a special-effects artist at Industrial Light and Magic; clean-cut Ashley, an account executive at a PR firm whose underwear always matches her twinset; Neel, Clay’s uber-dorky best friend since sixth grade, who founded a “boob-simulation” software company and is now a billionaire; Kat, the adorkable Google employee Clay falls for; and more. Each one is unusual and intriguing, if not especially complex or well developed. Characters take a back seat to the plot, which is far-fetched and fantastical. The story has an enjoyably brisk pace, but there’s very little real suspense or tension — as soon as a conflict or problem arises, Sloan resolves it, sometimes too quickly, conveniently, and neatly. Some may find his language irritating. At times it’s overly clever and can veer dangerously close to “quirky for quirk’s sake” territory, but I found it generally funny, smart, and charming. Overall, this is engaging, imaginative fun — something I can picture grownups enjoying and then reading to their children, nieces and nephews, or pint-sized friends. And then the epilogue nearly ruins everything. Sloan resorts to that convention used by so many of Hollywood’s romantic comedies, giving a one- or two-sentence summary of what has happened to each main character after the official story ended. It feels lazy and trite. Thank goodness for the final dozen lines or so, a conclusion so poignant, sage, and concise it brought tears to my eyes. I won’t spoil it by reprinting it here. You’ll have to read it for yourself. — Laurel Gladden

January 4-10, 2013

SubtextS Byte me Sometimes what a book says is more important than how it says it. Case in point: Paul Tice’s fifth title, This Is a Book, published by The Book Tree. It’s easy to dismiss this slim volume because of its amateurish look, screaming cover (“Look! There are real pages inside”), and overuse of italics, hyperbole, and sarcasm to pound home its point — that printed books are far superior to e-books. Tice’s stated objective is “to remind everyone of the long-standing, cherished tradition” of book publishing. Which he does, lauding “real” books’ beauty, utility, durability, and affordability. And, while he claims his book is not an “attack” on e-books, Tice does just that at great length, with statements like “It’s not a book! It’s just a bunch of electronic bytes that are masquerading as a book.” He also belittles people who read e-books with lines like “What are you, idiots?” and “People in general are lazy and that is a big reason why e-books have begun to flourish.” Tice hits his stride when his target expands to technology itself. “The further you move away from simplicity, the more you needlessly complicate your lives,” he writes. Later, he claims that “all this new technology is just another offshoot of the neurosis of mankind.” In this extended rant, Tice espouses conspiracy theories and indulges in capitalism-bashing, and there are dire predictions galore. Much of which is fairly funny, unless Tice is right — that “it is not only the printed book that is dying — it is the very fabric of our thinking.” Nah. — Wayne Lee

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Heems Wild Water Kingdom (Greedhead) The new generation of New York rappers had quite the year, with releases by Action Bronson, Le1f, Mr. MFN eXquire, and many others, thrilling listeners on what seemed like a weekly basis. Better yet, many of the releases are free mixtapes, easy to find and download from the internet, so you can enjoy the wealth of material even if you don’t have much wealth yourself. Heems caps off this year with his second mixtape of 2012 and what may be the most fully realized work he’s ever done, either solo or in his former group, Das Racist. Harry Fraud’s production strengthens the mix on two songs, as the rising star puts his own spin on the Eastern strings and futuristic beats that Timbaland popularized a decade ago. “Medium Green Eyes” even taps into a pop vein with easygoing, PM Dawn-esque rhythm and nice singing by Safe. The Le1f-produced “Deepak Chopra” evokes the album’s loose aquatic theme with its psychedelic bubble effects and muffled, underwater-sounding percussion. It’s a perfect backdrop for Heems’ plodding flow. Heems’ lyrics are often silly, bending hip-hop boasts around curious metaphors and displaying a childlike stream of consciousness. There’s a mild controversy among hip-hop heads over how seriously one should take the occapiece cooked up sional prankster Heems. My response: How seriously should anyone take any pop music? — Robert Ker good decade after

Ex-Cult (Goner) With its repetitive one-minute songs and largely inaudible lyrics, hardcore punk has always been a hard sell to all but its most die-hard fans. Ex-Cult, however, has extended its hand out of the mosh pit and found a lifeline in heavy metal and surf rock to enliven its tightly wound tracks of bare-bones early-’80s hardcore punk rock. With song names like “Young Trash,” “Future Victims,” and “Knives on Both Sides,” the album has a consistent schlock-horror vibe that is both unnerving and unintentionally comedic. Lead singer Chris Shaw snarls his way through fist-pumping collisions of guitar and drums. The songs remain more melodic than most punk while treading into lyrical territory as dark as anything in heavy metal. Anger, isolation, and cruel stories of cops and murder pervade the songs. Given that most punk listeners are 16-year-olds, or at least healthily in touch with their inner rebellious teenagers, this Memphis band is merely delivering the goods that its fans want to hear. Sonically and lyrically, there is nothing new under the sun here, but as a nostalgia piece cooked up by kids born a good decade after the birth of punk, it’s a growl-filled primer on a As a nostalgia lost decade’s defiant sound. — Casey Sanchez

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Dave DouGlas Quintet Be Still (Greenleaf) tom tykwer, JoHnny klimek, anD The trumpeter Dave Douglas took a commission the birth of punk, ‘Ex-Cult’ is reinHolD Heil Cloud Atlas Original Motion from his dying mother to play a half-dozen favorite Picture Soundtrack (water tower music) One hymns and folk songs at her funeral. That was done a growl-filled primer on a lost of the half dozen plot lines in the wonderfully in the summer of 2011, following her death from tangled film Cloud Atlas follows the lives of a famous ovarian cancer. This album is a second generation decade’s defiant sound. composer and the young man who becomes his of the music: first written for brass band and some amanuensis. A theme comes to the composer in a congregational singing, it was reworked for his new dream. Those poorly recalled phrases, as expanded by quintet and guest artist Aoife O’Donovan, singer in the the young transcriber, become a leitmotif that haunts the bluegrass band Crooked Still. It opens with “Be Still, My entire film’s narrative. A series of melodic phrases that turn Soul,” from Sibelius’ Finlandia. Over a gentle pulse from on an unexpected note here and there, it surfaces in a variety of bassist Linda Oh, soprano O’Donovan sings reverently, breathily, formats but is most recognizable when played simply by piano. When Douglas alternately soloing and supporting her; the mix fills out with the protégé makes it a symphonic-sized piece, The Cloud Atlas Sextet for the contributions of saxophonist Jon Irabagon, drummer Rudy Royston, Orchestra, it is at once grand, moving, and worthy of the jealousy that and pianist Matt Mitchell. A more exuberant note is sounded in “High enrages the famous composer. At times, in mood and orchestration, it on a Mountain,” featuring short, fine sax and piano parts. Douglas’ recalls Samuel Barber’s lush Adagio for Strings, op. 11, which itself tendency toward a rather sad-sack, low-toned virtuosity fits perfectly has appeared in a number of film soundtracks. Much of the rest of on “God Be With You,” although later in, his playing is more the long program is equally distinguished (the soundtrack has declarative, even fanfare-like. “Going Somewhere With You” been nominated for a Golden Globe in the Best Original Score is the first of three new Douglas compositions on the album, category), though some of it, especially when with wonderful work by the two horn accompanying chase scenes, reverts to formuplayers and Mitchell, stepping out laic rhythmic pulsing and dynamic sweeps. Tom of initial melancholy to a spirited, Tykwer, leader of the three-man composing positive vibe. This is a highlight, as is team, was also among the film’s three writerDouglas’ “Middle March,” an impresdirectors. Maybe it was these shared duties sionistic, rhythmically dynamic, and that resulted in the music’s central, slightly wild tribute to drummer Paul entrancing role in the film. Motian, who also died in 2011. — Bill Kohlhaase — Paul Weideman

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A former Santa Fe police detective says he believes he was fired because he was working on a federal investigation into cocaine involving City Manager Robert Romero and U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M. Romero and Luján, who both grew up in the Pojoaque Valley, denied the allegations, saying they know of no such investigation and believe it is a ruse to distract the public from the former detective’s problems. James Vigil, 31, made the allegations at a Tuesday arbitration hearing at which he seeks reinstatement as a police detective. The off-duty officer was charged with driving while intoxicated after he was stopped by a state police officer for swerving between lanes on N.M. 599 on May 29, 2010. His blood alcohol level was tested at 0.15 — nearly twice the legal limit for driving.

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Crowded south side may get new K-6 Funding school at Tierra Contenta could delay work at other sites By Robert Nott The New Mexican

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Santa Fe Public Schools is considering a plan to build a new elementary school on the south side of town as the city’s population continues to grow in that area, but funding the project could affect renovations and expansions planned at other school sites. The district would pay for the $19 million project with funds from current general obligation bonds. The Board of Education is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a recommendation by the district’s Citizens Review Committee — an advisory board comprising 11 citizens — that would re-prioritize the financing of some current school-construction projects to pay for the new building. The new site would ease overcrowding at southside elementary schools, eliminate most of the portables on south-side campuses and diminish the need to expand other sites. “It will relieve overcrowding in a part of the district that has needed a new facility, and it should have a cascading impact on the school population and den-

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On opposite sides of the broad basin between the Sangre de Cristo and Jemez mountain ranges, Nambe Pueblo and Bandelier National Monument are dealing with the aftermath of summer wildfires and recent floods. Rains in the last couple of weeks sent tons of massive logs, whole trees, ash and branches into Nambe Lake, the 56-acre reservoir in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The reservoir is owned by the pueblo and provides water for more than 700 downstream irrigators. A thunderstorm in the Jemez Mountains over the weekend sent a wall of water down Frijoles Canyon, turning over concrete barriers and threatening to flood into the Bandelier National Monument visitor center. Crews were at both places Tuesday, removing debris, taking stock of the damage and trying to prepare in case another deluge arrives.

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Garcia Richard (D) Hall (R) Elida Tarango of Santa Fe, center, sister-in-law of Patricia Cisneros, is comforted Tuesday by friends and family outside Casitas de Santa Fe mobile-home park. Police say Cisneros was shot and killed early Tuesday by her ex-boyfriend. lUIS SÁNCHeZ SAtURNo/tHe NeW MeXICAN

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atricia Cisneros celebrated her 34th birthday on Monday night. The working mother of three spent the evening out with family and then enjoyed a snack of red-chile enchiladas — her favorite dinner prepared by her mother — early Tuesday morning in her home off Airport Road. It was her last meal. Police say her ex-boyfriend, José MeléndezTrillo, 39, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who used the name Jose Soto when working around Santa Fe and on his state-issued driver’s license, shot and killed Cisneros around 3 a.m. Tuesday. Her family says the shooting caught them off guard, as Meléndez-Trillo was having a conversation with Cisneros — who had been

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at her home, watching their three children for the evening — when he walked out to his truck, retrieved a rifle and returned to shoot the woman before abducting their 5-year-old son, César. “In a second he came back in [the home] with a rifle and shot her,” said Josefina Durán, Patricia’s mother. “Oh God, it was awful. I froze and saw my daughter fall to the ground, covered in blood.” An arrest warrant charging one open count of murder has been issued for Meléndez-Trillo. Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Lt. Adan Mendoza admits investigators are still trying to pinpoint a motive for the shooting, as Meléndez-Trillo has no known criminal history and the family members report they are unaware of any physical harm he has committed in the past. Cisneros and Meléndez-Trillo are both from

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MINERAL, Va. — Buildings emptied, monuments closed, trains and planes were halted, and people ran in terror into the streets after a rare earthquake measuring 5.8 jolted the Eastern United States, stunning millions who consider temblors a California problem and who, in many cases, simply couldn’t believe what was happening. “This is an ACTUAL EARTHQUAKE ALERT,” read a notice posted on New York’s emergency management website minutes after the quake sent the city’s high-rises and bridges swaying and prompted rumors that the Washington Monument was tilting. “Simply not correct,” said Bill Line of the National Park Service, which closed the monuments on Washington’s National Mall just in case. But late Tuesday

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Desiree Romero’s bridesmaids help her prepare for her wedding day at her mother’s home in Tesuque. Desiree and Ryan Hanson, who both have Down syndrome, were married Sept. 3 at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi. Hanging on the wall to the left are three of the 100 Special Olympics medallions Desiree has won over the last 18 years. PHotoS BY NAtAlIe GUIllÉN/tHe NeW MeXICAN

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ASHINGTON — President Barack Obama rolled to reelection Tuesday night, vanquishing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney despite a weak economy that plagued his first term and put a crimp in the middle-class dreams of millions. In victory, he confidently promised better days ahead. Obama spoke to thousands of cheering supporters in his hometown of Chicago, praising Romney and declaring his optimism for the next four years. “While our road has been hard, though our journey has been long, we have picked ourselves up, we have fought our way back and we know in our hearts that for the United States of America, the best is yet to come,” he said. Romney made his own graceful concession speech before a disappointed crowd in Boston. He summoned all Americans to pray for Obama and urged the night’s political winners to put parti-

san bickering aside and “reach across the aisle” to tackle the nation’s problems. Still, after the costliest — and one of the nastiest — campaigns in history, divided government was alive and well. Democrats retained control of the Senate with surprising ease. Republicans did the same in the House, ensuring that Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, Obama’s partner in unsuccessful deficit talks, would reclaim his seat at the bargaining table. At Obama headquarters in Chicago, a huge crowd gathered waving small American flags and cheering. Supporters hugged each other, danced and pumped their fists in the air. Excited crowds also gathered in New York’s Times Square, at Faneuil Hall in Boston and near the White House in Washington, drivers joyfully honking as they passed by. With returns from 84 percent of the nation’s precincts, Obama had 53.7 million, 49.6 percent of the popular vote. Romney had 53 million, or 48.9 percent.

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s young children, Desiree and Ryan Hanson both dreamed of finding love and getting married. Yet, when each was born, doctors provided little hope for the child’s future, let alone for dreams. It was the norm back then to expect that a child born with Down syndrome would never walk or talk. In 1983, the year Desiree was born, the life expectancy for a person with the disorder was only 25. With the support of their families, however, the newly married Desiree, 28, and Ryan, 25, are looking forward to a long future together. When Ryan talks about Desiree, words aren’t enough. He clutches his chest, squeezes his hands into fists and pumps the air. He looks at her adoringly, holds her hand in both of his, then strokes her arm. “She lets my soul come out,” he says. Desiree and Ryan’s wedding has served as an inspiration for parents who have children

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Ryan helps Desiree with her dress before they take their wedding vows at the cathedral. Their ceremony, attended by about 700 people, was followed by a reception at the Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino in Pojoaque.

with Down syndrome, such as Gay Romero, a friend of Desiree’s mother, Magdalena Romero. “The wedding is more of an illustration that these things are possible and to not let someone else tell us or tell her that her dreams and ambitions are limited,” Gay Romero said of her 11-year-old daughter, Elena.

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Beating the odds by defying the doctor When a doctor told Magdalena Romero that her newborn, Desiree, had Down syndrome, she had never heard of the condition.

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Republicans are lining up against a Democraticbacked proposal for redistricting New Mexico’s utility regulatory agency. Republicans complained Saturday that proposed district boundary changes for the Public Regulation Commission will make it harder for GOP candidates to compete in some parts of the state. The House Judiciary Committee endorsed the proposal on a party-line vote and sent it to the full House for consideration. Speaker Ben Luján said the House may debate the measure on Sunday. Two Republicans and three Democrats currently serve on the PRC, which regulates utilities, telecommunications and insurance. “I believe quite firmly that we should make it possible for voters to elect their elected representatives and not have elected representatives basically predetermine the outcome,” said Rep. Cathrynn Brown, R-Carlsbad. “I really believe there could have been an effort, if there had been a spirit to do it, of making

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Visions russ Kick’s graphic anthologies of the classics

Above, from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice adapted by Huxley King and Terrence Boyce; below, Lisa Brown’s adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women

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ou can view The Graphic Canon: The World’s Great Literature as Comics and Visuals in a number of ways. You might see the series as an expansive chronology of writing and storytelling through the ages in the style of The Norton Anthology of Literature. Or you could see it as a meeting between some of the world’s greatest writers and a host of today’s best graphic artists. Or you might consider it just the biggest, burliest comic you’ve ever owned. Of course, the three-volume set, in the words of late-night television hucksters, is all of these things and more! Series editor Russ Kick said in a phone call that he thought of all those different aspects when conceiving the canon. “But the main purpose was really always to be an art project. I realized that something like this could have great educational value, that it would be a good introduction and overview of literature, but what I always pictured was getting great artists together with the works and letting them do their thing using the best works ever written as source material. I knew amazing things would happen if you let them do that.” Volume 1 of the series, From “The Epic of Gilgamesh” to Shakespeare to “Dangerous Liaisons,” and Volume 2, From “Kubla Khan” to the Brontë Sisters to “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” were released in 2012; Volume 3 is scheduled for March. The illustrators include previously unknown, neverbefore published artists as well as some of the best-known names in comics and graphic novels. The literature, nearly 200 selections, begins with the 2,000-year-old Mesopotamian text The Epic of Gilgamesh and will end with David Foster Wallace’s novel Infinite Jest. In between, you’ll find adaptations of Shakespeare’s King Lear and Voltaire’s Candide, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. Not all the selections are so well-known. In the first volume, Kick includes an Incan play, Apu Ollantay, illustrated with Caroline Picard’s fine-lined, adolescently primitive mix of black-and-white and color drawings. Popol Vuh, a sacred text of the Quiché Maya of Guatemala, adapted and colorfully illustrated by Roberta Gregory, is a creation myth with a few false starts. Outlaws of the Water Margin, a classical novel from 14th-century China, features pen-and-ink portraits of some of the 108 “righteous outlaws” who take on the corrupt empire. The books include a panoply of illustration styles, including realistic, classic cartoon drawing; wood-block prints; highly decorative panels; and surreal abstractions. Kick is especially excited about the works’ innovative aspects. “Caroline Picard’s style in the Incan play is just amazing,” he marveled. “Each page looks like this unified work of art, and there really aren’t defined panels as such. But as you read, it’s sequential, like a comic. Each page has a narrative flow and tells a story, but it all just melts together. I’ve never seen anything like it.” The idea for the series came to Kick when he happened upon an adaptation of Franz Kafka’s The Trial while browsing the graphic-novel section of a Tucson bookstore. Kick previously published 100 Things You’re Not Supposed to Know and other collections of hidden social, political, and scientific information for the Disinformation Company. His now-defunct website, The Memory Hole, named after the document disposal system in George Orwell’s 1984, published forgotten, overlooked, and repressed documents. (Kick gained notoriety after publishing photos of the coffins

of soldiers killed in Iraq.) The idea of graphic literature put him on a new track. “I was always a fan of graphic novels and comics, always had a kind of overall interest in art and visual communication and graphic design, but I’d never done anything professionally with them. Doing the kind of books that I did was getting depressing, dealing with that kind of

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The Graphic Canon, continued from Page 17 material for 10 years, it was too much. I had to switch gears. I had minored in English and always had a love of literature. I needed to switch gigs, and it all just clicked.” The first step was to find a publisher, a frustrating experience that went on for months. Finally, he emailed the head of Seven Stories Press, who happened to be friends with his publisher at Disinformation. Seven Stories immediately got back to him, in favor of the project. Gathering the material turned out to be tedious. “I first went out and tried to hunt down everything that had been done along these lines, find the best of it, and try to get permission. But there wasn’t much of it.” There were multiple adaptations of The Odyssey and some others, but for the most part, Kick ended up commissioning new works. He estimates that 75 percent of the material in the collection was newly commissioned. Before he did that, he had to decide what to include. “There was definitely a core list of works that had to be in there; The Odyssey, something from The Canterbury Tales, one or two major pieces from Shakespeare. Otherwise, there would have been glaring absences. But beyond that, I went with what I thought had great visual potential, like the Book of Revelations, which is one amazing visual after another.” The artists also helped select material. “Some artists had a favorite piece of literature they had wanted to adapt for years but never had a reason to. A lot of artists were interested but didn’t know exactly what to do. I’d send them my wish list with things that I thought would be great when visually adapted, and a lot of the artists chose from that list.” Selecting artists was easy — getting them to take on the project not always so. “I either approached or attempted to approach every A-list name out there. There were a lot of dead ends. I think some [of the better-known artists] aren’t interested in being in another anthology, or they have big book deals with a big corporate publisher that limits them. Then you have people like [Robert] Crumb, who was great and very generous with terms. No problem at all.” Crumb contributed a detailed, finely lettered take on James Boswell’s London Journal in his famously risqué style (which might keep Volume 1 out of high school libraries). Other established, even famous contributors include Will Eisner, who adapted Don Quixote; Kim Deitch, who contributes to a gallery of Lewis Carroll illustrations; and the underground master S. Clay Wilson, whose illustrations for “The Emperor’s New Clothes” are almost three-dimensional in their tangled detail. “Overall,” observed Kick,” it’s the big-name artists from that first generation, the originators of the underground comics movement, who were willing to participate, more so than the latest generation of big names.” Maybe the biggest thrill provided by The Graphic Canon is the chance to discover the work of new and unfamiliar artists, such as Molly Kiely’s swirling, fullpage illustrations for The Tale of Genji, Michael Lagocki’s panels-within-panels treatment of The Aeneid, Matt Kish’s schematic abstractions for Moby-Dick, J.T. Waldman’s exotic Book of Esther, Seth Tobocman’s stern illustrations for Frederick Douglass’ “The Message From Mount Misery,” and Jasmine Becket-Griffith’s Bosch-inspired, big-eyed rendition of Carroll’s Alice. The amount of Aliceinspired material suggested to Kick that he need further 18

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volumes of the canon. “There will definitely be a Volume 4, though there’s no firm release date. It will be open to everything and anything again, but within any given time period. And there will definitely be a volume devoted to [Walt Whitman’s] Leaves of Grass, with each artist taking a different poem.” Until then, or until Volume 3 comes out, the 1,000 pages of the first two volumes will have to suffice. ◀ “The Graphic Canon,” edited by Russ Kick, is published by Seven Stories Press.

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his quest for a deep understanding of the human condition, psychotherapist Carl Gustav Jung pored over old manuscripts, taught himself ancient languages, and studied St. Augustine, Meister Eckhart, ancient texts of alchemy and gnosticism, the Upanishads, and the Tao Te Ching. Among his dozens of books are Psychological Types (1921) and Mysterium Coniunctionis: An Inquiry Into the Separation and Synthesis of Psychic Opposites in Alchemy (1956). He also contributed a foreword for a popular 1949 translation of the I Ching, and a foreword and psychological commentary for an ancient Taoist text published in 1932 as The Secret of the Golden Flower.

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“His view was that there was something living in these texts that could be reanimated by psychology,” says Sonu Shamdasani. The Jung scholar is a professor in the department of clinical, educational, and health psychology at University College London, where he established the Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines. Shamdasani has authored many books on Jung and was editor of The Red Book (2009), which Jung began nearly a century ago and which was never before published. W.W. Norton calls The Red Book “possibly the most influential hitherto unpublished work in the history of psychology.” In it, Jung laid down myriad ideas and feelings that manifested themselves during a period of personal upheaval and that he would thenceforth attempt to organize and grasp. “My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me,” he later wrote. Jung assembled The Red Book based on material from his Black Book journals. The intensity of this period of self-examination can be felt in a caption from Shamdasani’s most recent book, C.G. Jung: A Biography in Books. The caption appears next to a photograph of two pages from Jung’s Black Book 6. “These pages depict a dialogue between Jung’s ‘I’ and his soul on September 21, 1916. He wrote that the ground of suffering is inexhaustible. His ‘I’ went to the dark ones and offered them blood so they they could tell him what they wanted from him, so that he could live his life. His soul said that his suffering is due to the fact that it has been too long since he spoke to her. He wanted his life back.” This cryptic expression was one of the topics Pasatiempo discussed with Shamdasani in a phone call to his London home. Pasatiempo: Much of what Jung entered into his Black Books had to do with his fantasies, is that right? Sonu Shamdasani: Yes. In 1913, he underwent a crisis in which he realized he had lost the meaning of his life and that he’d lost his soul and began a prolonged period of self-experimentation in which he studied his fantasies and memories. He did this through provoking and developing his fantasies in a waking state, writing down occurrences, and entering into dialogue with the figures that appeared and then attempting to understand what had ensued in relation to general principles of mental function-

ing in himself and the culture at large. In The Red Book, the main sections of which were written in 1914-1915, he transcribed about 35 main episodes from the Black Books, which were notebooks of self-experimentation. The Red Book was a psychological work in literary form that he made out of his fantasies in the Black Books, adding a secondary layer of lyrical elaboration and commentary. Pasa: He had a very active and dynamic interior life. As a boy, he had neurotic fainting spells to avoid school and homework — and relished having time to wander, daydream, draw, and “plunge into the world of the mysterious,” which meant nature and his father’s library. He also divided his life into “personality No. 1” and “personality No. 2,” each of which read different sorts of books for different reasons. Shamdasani: What he’s attempting to do there is to enter into his fantasies and actively engage with the figures and to attempt to let them instruct him. It is the development of what we call a personal cosmology with the figures of his fantasies. Out of this he then tried to view these as general components of the personality and their interactions, so the task is in differentiating the figures and differentiating the voices, and then attempting to integrate them and in particular the aspects of his life and his personality that he’d neglected. This was the process of individuation, or becoming whole. Pasa: The first chapter in your new book focuses on Jung’s dream of an unknown library, and the continued on Page 22

Above, Jung’s personal library in 1909 Left, two pages from the Swiss psychotherapist’s copybooks Images courtesy Sonu Shamdasani

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fourth is titled “The Collective Unconscious: The Library Within.” Shamdasani: What I was trying to explore is the mode in which Jung constructed his theories — in that specific instance the collective unconscious — and the mode in which he was drawing upon classical scholarship, the history of religion, and so forth in a sort of paradoxical way because, whilst a fine scholar and indebted to 19th-century scholarship, he was at the same time inverting the debate, i.e. saying that this is not purely scholarship: these things spontaneously arise from within the individual. Pasa: You write that Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason “formed the basis for Jung’s understanding of the boundaries of the knowable.” Can you expand on that? Shamdasani: Jung sees himself as taking his orientation through Kant’s critical philosophy, that we frame the world in specific ways and specific categories, and that constitutes what’s known. What the world is in itself we don’t know. What things are in themselves, what Kant called the noumena, we simply can’t tell, but what we can know is there are certain categories that form our understanding. Jung saw these categories as the archetypes. They’re inborn figures, structures that made experience possible and constrained us to experience the world in particular ways that make us quintessentially human. Pasa: What were Jung’s alchemy copybooks, more than 20 pages of which you reproduce near the end of your book? Shamdasani: It was like an encyclopedia that he constructed that generated his studies in alchemy. Around 1935, he began to note down excerpts from

Above, pages from Sermons by Christian mystic Meister Eckhart (1260-1327) Left, in Jung’s library, the Oxford University Press edition of Sacred Books of the East, published between 1879 and 1910

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the alchemical texts he was studying, and he would underline recurring terms and realize this was like a symbolic lexicon which he could interpret through psychology, and he was able to establish regularities in terms of deciphering the symbolism of alchemy. Pasa: Why was he so interested in alchemy and alchemists such as Paracelsus [1493-1541]? Shamdasani: He felt that what had happened in Western civilization and culture was that there had been a split between science and religion after the time of figures such as Paracelsus and that had been to the detriment of a unified knowledge. He saw his psychology as attempting to heal that split or returning back to an earlier tradition in natural philosophy when these things weren’t separated. Interestingly enough, one of the things that figures such as Paracelsus had been exploring would in contemporary terms be seen as the precursor of depth psychology. Pasa: Twenty-five years before Jung was born, Mary Atwood wrote that “self-knowledge is at the root of all alchemical tradition.” Shamdasani: Yes, there was in that sense a certain number of figures reviewing alchemy as a moral, ethical, and spiritual practice in the 19th century. And in the 20th century Herbert Silberer and Théodore Flournoy begin to shift to reviewing this in a psychological manner, and that’s where Jung takes his initial orientation, because a stage further in saying what the alchemists were ultimately engaged in was similar to what he himself was engaged in with his patients, the individuation process. Pasa: Jung’s investigations also hinged on his desire to interpret symbols that came up in his patients’ dreams, in order to help them, is that right? Shamdasani: Most definitely. That connection was what reanimated scholarship for him. It was a research that was oriented toward practical ends. “C.G. Jung: A Biography in Books” by Sonu Shamdasani was published by W.W. Norton & Company in April 2012. ◀

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IFYOU’RE A KID WHO LOVESTO READ, you probably love bookstores. The smell of new bindings and paper and all those stories waiting for you. But not all bookstores are created equal. Some are too big, or it’s too hard to find what you’re looking for, or the music and steaming of lattes are too loud, or it just doesn’t seem like it would be OK to sit down with a stack of books for a while until you find the one you want to purchase. But some bookstores are perfect. Some bookstores are like cozy cottages, with a special room just for you, with chairs to sit on and plenty of natural light, and a shopkeeper who will answer every question you have and then leave you alone to explore for as long as you please. Bee Hive Books is just such a store, and it recently celebrated its one-year anniversary. Owner Christian Nardi had been thinking about opening a kids-based business for some time, and when Borders closed, she noticed the lack of an extensive children’s book selection pretty quickly. (She has two children younger than 5 years old, both of whom love to read.) “I decided this was the most important kids-based business I could open.”

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Nardi is originally from Los Angeles; she earned a degree in literature from the University of New Mexico. Prior to opening Bee Hive Books, she worked as a magazine editor in New York for some Family Circle publications and then in Santa Fe for Outside magazine. As a kid, she was an avid reader. “I loved the Richard Scarry books and Goodnight Moon. When I got older, it was Pippi Longstocking, The Borrowers, Anne of Green Gables. I read voraciously. It was my world.” Bee Hive stocks picture books and stories for very young children, and there are separate rooms devoted to books for elementary- and junior-high-school-age kids, with another room for young-adult books. The young-adult genre — known as YA — has gotten much grittier in tone and subject matter since a generation ago, since Judy Blume wrote Forever in 1975 (though Blume still sells relatively well). Novels by Ellen Hopkins, Sara Zarr, John Green, and David Levithan, among many others, cover such topics as drug addiction, sex, death, and violence in brutally realistic fashion — or sometimes in surreal, experimental fashion. With so much choice, is it difficult for parents to know what is appropriate for their children? “It’s interesting because kids are reading at such a high level at such a relatively young age,” Nardi said. “A lot of the kids that pick from our young-adult books

It’s important for kids to read at all ages. To build their imaginations, their sense of who they are, and where they are in the world. — owner Christian Nardi

are in middle school. Clearly, some of the YA books aren’t appropriate for fifthgraders, but in terms of reading level, that’s where they’re at. There are certainly plenty of YA adventure-type books that aren’t so gritty but are challenging reading. We try to figure out what a kid’s interests are and then go from there.” Nardi notes the popularity of dystopic fiction since the success of The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins — which, incidentally, is aimed at high-schoolaged readers but is devoured by kids as young as 12 as well as adults. In general, books in the sci-fi and fantasy genre have really taken off in recent decades, spurred by the overwhelming response to the Harry Potter series. Nardi thinks kids embrace these books because of the rather depressing state of current events. “All you see in the news is the underdogs not necessarily winning out, but in dystopic books, the characters are empowered. They conquer society or authority. Kids cannot get enough, and I can see why. A lot of the characters are female, and they’re super badass, strong. They go for it, and they win out in the end. How can you resist?” Younger children are enamored of the Ladybug Girl series by David Soman and Jacky Davis, William Joyce’s Guardians of Childhood series, and the Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne. The Wildwood Chronicles by Colin Meloy and

The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznik sell well among the middle-school set. “The kids catch on to an author or a series and they read every book — and some of them seem to go on forever,” Nardi said. She also has a well-stocked classics section that includes such favorites of generations past as A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Catcher in the Rye, and To Kill a Mockingbird. “They’re still popular, but even if they weren’t I’d still carry them because they’re part of the canon of what you need to read to be ushered into adulthood. When people come in shopping for kids who are 7 or 8, I suggest a classic to read to them or with them. The classics are just as engaging now as they were then, and you can draw kids into those books. Even if it doesn’t catch on now, they might go back to them when they are in high school or college. “It’s important for kids to read at all ages,” Nardi added. “To build their imaginations, their sense of who they are, and where they are in the world. Going into a different place is hugely important so that they can build their opinions, points of view, perspective, and thirst for more.”— Jennifer Levin Bee Hive Books: 328 Montezuma Ave., 780-8051, www.beehivekidsbooks.com PASATIEMPO

André Dumont Dumont Maps and Books of theWest

Even in the cold, Dumont Maps and Books of theWest smells comfortingly of aging paper, the scent you get when you stick your nose into a library book and take a deep breath.

ON A COLD MORNING IN DECEMBER, André Dumont bent over a map set on a glass display case at the front of his shop in an old adobe complex on West San Francisco Street. The map depicted the southwestern United States and Mexico, circa 1862, and was yellowed and coming apart at the folded creases. The man who hoped to sell the map to Dumont looked on expectantly. “I also have autographs,” the man said, holding up a folder. “You interested?” Dumont shook his head. “I never deal in autographs.” Even in the cold, Dumont Maps and Books of the West smells comfortingly of aging paper, the scent you get when you stick your nose into a library book and take a deep breath. The books, maps, fine art, and prints are organized chaos across two rooms (plus two office/storage rooms behind closed doors) covering every surface but neatly cataloged. They bear arcane yet intriguing titles, like Jeff Milton; A Good Man With a Gun and “Map Exhibiting the Lines of March Passed Over by the Troops of the United States During the Year Ending June 30th, 1858.” It’s easy to imagine spending an entire afternoon paging through old opera programs and tourist brochures (the shop also specializes in ephemera, items that were never supposed to last) and studying old folios and maps — careful not to rip the thin pages. A sign on a display case near the front reads “Dreadfully Expensive Maps.” Dumont studied the history of colonial America at New York University as an undergraduate and that of the Southwest as a graduate student at the University of New Mexico. He’s been a collector for many years and has had a business license for 25. Along with his wife, Carol, Dumont has run the shop for the past 15 years in several downtown locations. “Historically, the antiquarian book trade was an apprenticeship system, though that’s much less the case now,” Dumont explained. He never was an apprentice himself and has never had one. “But I hung out a lot with people who knew what they were doing, and I asked a lot of annoying questions. It’s very hands-on.” Dumont said that people bring him books (he described the occasional and unfortunate “Antiques Roadshow phenomenon,” in which someone discovers an old

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map in their mother-in-law’s closet and thinks it’s worth much more than it really is), but he also sometimes buys entire collections, and he sources books on eBay. When eBay came along in the mid-1990s, Dumont said, people around the country emptied their basements and attics, and the historic maps, books, and ephemera market was saturated with new material. The eBay flood has long since dried up, and “a lot of the good stuff is gone,” Dumont said of scouring online auctions, but he is still surprised by what he sometimes finds off- and online. “The fun part is finding new stuff,” Dumont said. He pointed to the map the customer brought in earlier. “I’ve never seen a border like this on a J.H. Colton map.” Even before he was a pro, Dumont had an eye for the unusual and overlooked. “When I was still a grad student, I visited Argosy, one of the old established stores in New York on 59th Street. The map room was lorded over by a couple of fussy old ladies. I’d go to look at maps and admire them, but I rarely bought anything. One day, in the Mexico folder, I found an 1810 map by Baron von Humboldt. It showed the route from Mexico City to Santa Fe, the Camino Real, and I thought, Holy cow.” It’s a story he’s told many times. “The map was $50. I was a lowly grad student, but even I could afford $50. One of the old ladies said ‘You know, it would be much more valuable if it showed part of the United States.’ ” Dumont explained that American collectors typically collect American maps. “She missed the whole historic significance of Camino Real. I love exercising knowledge to spot things that other people don’t see.” While Dumont said that maps and print sales were not hit nearly as hard as book sales when the internet took off, he still had to adapt. “This used to be our bread and butter,” he said gesturing toward a shelf filled with ordinary-looking books. “You can get these on Abe Books [a discount online retailer] starting for a dollar. The books will have no dust jackets; someone will have highlighted all the good parts. We’re not replacing this kind of book.” Dumont said he will always prefer pages to pixels. “We specialize in hand selling, pointing out the significance of something to somebody.” The shop focuses on Americana in general and offers a good deal of Southwestern material, with an emphasis on government documents and expedition reports. “You can trace the political evolution of the Southwest through the old maps,” Dumont said.

We hand select each book you see on the shelves and treat each one as a piece of art, an investment. — owner Noemi de Bodisco

Noemi de Bodisco Op. Cit.

Even for those who don’t know much about antiquarian maps and books, the store is a treasure trove, filled with old color illustrations from Harper’s magazine, sugar rationing posters from World War I, and maps that depict Arizona in its initially proposed location south of New Mexico. The act of finding and understanding antique documents is important, particularly as they become scarce. Dumont’s work describes who we were and explains how we arrived where we are. — Adele Oliveira Dumont Maps and Books of the West: 407 W. San Francisco St., 988-1076, www.dumontbooks.com

DERIVED FROM THE LATIN PHRASE opere citato, the abbreviation op. cit. is often used in scholarly endnotes and footnotes to refer to a previously cited title. It’s also the name of a Santa Fe bookstore located next to Counter Culture Café on Baca Street. Opened in June 2011 by Noemi de Bodisco and Sierra Logan, Op. Cit. offers something for everyone, and its strength lies in its eclectic selection, with a strong emphasis on cookbooks, mysteries, children’s books, modern first editions, and newer hardcover titles. The store also boasts a section devoted entirely to the Lannan Foundation’s Readings and Conversations series, with titles by Joan Didion, Zadie Smith, David Mitchell, David Suzuki, Colson Whitehead, Amy Goodman, Russell Banks, Isabel Wilkerson, and others. De Bodisco and Logan have books in their blood. In fact, the two friends met in a used bookstore in San Francisco. De Bodisco, who worked for the state of New Mexico after moving here from California, called on Logan when she decided to open Op. Cit. Logan left San Francisco to join de Bodisco in the venture. “I’ve worked my entire adult life in bookstores,” Logan said, “and Santa Fe is easy to fall in love with.”

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Op. Cit. could be considered an online old-timer. De Bodisco has been selling books online since 1994, and the web remains an important sales venue for the business. The 1,500-square-foot bricks-and-mortar location is not only a buysell-trade shop; you can also rent a book for a dollar a day with a credit card on file. With more than 10,000 books to choose from on the shelves, it’s easy to treat yourself to something special. Op. Cit. buys books for store credit, not cash, and gives you the option of donating your credit to anyone you choose: friends, family, teachers, students, and fellow book freaks. “We’re very frugal and thorough in how we select books,” de Bodisco said. “We hand select each book you see on the shelves and treat each one as a piece of art, an investment. Santa Fe appreciates beauty and books, so we have a great clientele. Between all of us on the staff, we see so many books and want to offer genuine guidance to the buyer. We’re not just scanning bar codes, which you see too much of in larger nonindependent stores.” Logan is the resident sci-fi/fantasy go-to person, while de Bodisco’s cookbook selection is any food enthusiast’s book-browsing dream come true. “I love to cook,” de Bodisco said, “and there’s almost a fantasy thing that goes along with reading a cookbook. You lose yourself in the ingredients.” Logan stressed that the book business is something you really have to know before jumping into it on your own. “You also have to be an avid reader. If you don’t treasure books, people know.” Selling only new titles in a physical shop is an obsolete practice, de Bodisco added, because everything’s there on the internet. “We do deal in new titles online, but we also offer rare books on the website. You can look up every book we carry.” In the spring, Op. Cit. will relocate to the new Luna mixed-use development in the 500 block of Cerrillos Road, near Sandoval Street (the former home of HealyMatthews office supplies and Club Luna). In a smart business move, de Bodisco and Logan plan to be situated near another café, Ohori’s Coffee, which relocated to the Luna development in November. — Rob DeWalt Op. Cit. Books: 930-C Baca St., 428-0321, www.opcit.com PASATIEMPO

Travel is vitally important. It’s a war on provincialism, and it’s punctuation to everyday life. — owner Greg Ohlsen

INSIDE TRAVEL BUG, a maps, books, and travel accessories store on Paseo de Peralta, it’s quiet and smells like fresh coffee. Travel Bug is more colorful than the average bookstore: bold, familiar colors line the shelves — blue for the Lonely Planet series of books, orange for Rough Guides, and burgundy for Frommer’s. Topographical maps are tacked up on free wall space, and magnets depicting dozens of the world’s flags adorn every metal surface near the cash register. Though it’s a lot for the eyes to take in at once, Travel Bug is surprisingly serene. The glass-topped tables (which have maps or photographs of old Santa Fe and New Mexico underneath) and functional black café chairs are the perfect place to plan your next adventure — and you can even pick up a collapsible wide-brimmed nylon hat and a universal travel adapter for your trek to a solar hut in Argentina on your way out the door. “I first got into the book business after working in construction and contracting, and I got sick of being outside in the cold,” said owner Greg Ohlsen, who runs

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Travel Bug with his wife, Ellen, who keeps the accounts. “It’s a real mom-and-pop operation, a little like a social club,” Ohlsen said. “It’s the social center of my life, and it’s important in the lives of an awful lot of people.” Twenty years ago, Ohlsen owned and operated Garcia Street Books, and he did so until 2001. After leaving Garcia Street, he decided to focus on a niche market and chose travel books. Travel Bug’s first location was in the Guadalupe Station building on Montezuma Avenue. “A month after we opened, they put up Borders right outside our door,” Ohlsen said. He has a dry sense of humor, and often smiles right after he says something cynical about the future of books and reading. Since moving to its current location about 10 years ago, Travel Bug has expanded, both physically and in terms of what it sells and offers. There’s the coffee bar, which also features light food items like burritos, sandwiches, and bagels. The store has 10-week language courses in French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian, and it also hosts slideshows and travel lectures every other Saturday, during which volunteers from the community deliver hour-long talks. Ohlsen said there have been about 500 such talks over the course of the store’s life. “The best slideshows are of the worst trips. They lost their luggage or got mugged, yet they wax rhapsodic about the trip.”

IT’S A CHALLENGETO ENTER The Ark and leave empty-handed. The array of items covering a spectrum of wisdom traditions and topics on spiritual development makes it a haven for seekers of all kinds. In addition to popular titles such as Elizabeth Gilbert’s bestseller Eat, Pray, Love and Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, you will find plenty of books on astrology, the tarot, and life teachings by prominent spiritual teachers such as Deepak Chopra and Ram Dass. You can also find books on psychology, biographies, and novels as well as music and jewelry and plenty of little things to lighten hearts and moods. The Ark does a steady business in inspirational gifts: everything from Tibetan prayer flags and singing bowls to decorative boxes, Buddhist and Hindu figurines, journals, meditation aids, and wind chimes. “We started 30 years ago as, primarily, a bookstore that focused on well-being,” said owner Joan Aon. “They call them New Age bookstores, but I’m not really keen on that. So we always called ourselves an alternative bookstore, or a bookstore of body, mind, and spirit, which covers a lot of health and healing, and all the great religions like Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity. I feel that we all are searching for meaning within our lives, so we try to have things that have depth and a little bit of substance.” Aon opened The Ark in 1981 on Johnson Street before moving to the current Romero Street location two years later. There she focused on books and music without all jewelry and extras, she said. Off the beaten track, tucked along a narrow street between West Manhattan Avenue and Agua Fría Street, The Ark is a destination store, as inviting to devoted adherents of spiritual faiths and practices as it is to the casual peruser. “After a certain amount of time, the Railyard grew up around us,” Aon said. “Now we have all these wonderful things really close. It’s more accessible to pedestrians, but they did close off Manhattan. You used to be able to drive right through Manhattan and park in the Railyard. So, they kind of rearranged everything, and it took people a while to figure out what was here. All in all, I was really happy when I knew that there was more activity coming here.” The Ark offers book signings and talks and hosts occasional tarot readings. The online monthly newsletter (see www.arkbooks.com) is a good way to keep abreast of events at The Ark, new titles, and featured gift items. Long-time Santa Feans might remember the cat who made The Ark her home for more than 20 years, and the aviary that greeted visitors when they entered the store. The cat has since passed away and the first aviary — there have been two — was destroyed in a fire in 1986. Tragedy struck again when the birds in the second aviary were killed by a stray cat who managed to sneak in through an open window. Now, there are no more pets. Bookstores face uncertain times as people eschew print publications in favor of e-books or seek out online purchases from companies such as Amazon (which came under criticism last year for its pricecheck app that allowed the retail giant to undercut its competitors by allowing consumers to scan in-store items and check prices against Amazon’s inventory). “Amazon is the big impacter for books,” Aon said. “We realized about five or six years ago that if we stayed in just books we would not make it any longer. It’s really difficult to make it just on book sales. Unfortunately, we’ve had to cut down a little on books and expand the gift items and the other things that people love anyway — you know, all the incense, meditation pillows, the candles, and the jewelry. It’s been fun, and I think its really what has kept us alive.” — Michael Abatemarco

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Greg Ohlsen Travel Bug

The explosion of online book retailers in the mid-’90s (led by Amazon and the virtual stores of national chains like Barnes & Noble) was difficult for bricks-andmortar booksellers, and Travel Bug was no exception. Ohlsen regards the advent of e-readers like Apple’s iPad and Amazon’s Kindle “with sadness,” but he noted, “Travel books are a little more resistant to digital reading. Digital readers are good at things that are very linear, but if you’re thumbing through a book, looking for inspiration, and don’t really know what you’re doing, you want a real book.” Ohlsen’s top travel tip is to plan just one event per day. “Don’t try to go to two museums,” he said. His own favorite journeys are walking tours, particularly in Europe, and he often points customers who ask in that direction. “Travel is vitally important,” Ohlsen said. “It’s a war on provincialism, and it’s punctuation to everyday life. Otherwise, things tend to run together. You mark your life by the children you had and the trips you made.” — Adele Oliveira

Travel Bug: 839 Paseo de Peralta, 992-0418, www.mapsofnewmexico.com

The Ark: 133 Romero St., 988-3709, www.arkbooks.com PASATIEMPO

The more you look, the more you realize the difference between a well-designed book and a thrown-together book. — owner Nicholas Potter

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THEWEBSITEWWW.NICHOLASPOTTERBOOKS.COM is ridiculously, wonderfully simple. It’s a single, screen-size page bearing all the shop’s pertinent information: address, hours, phone number, and e-mail address. The assertion “An Old-Fashioned Bookstore” is underlined at the top, and under that are three statements that tell the whole story: “Find something that isn’t available on the internet.” (This writer estimates that “something” translates to “thousands of books.”) “Talk books and authors with a true Santa Fe bookman.” (Just hang out near the desk on a busy day and listen. This guy knows a lot about his bailiwick.) “A world to explore where serendipity still exists, where books can be browsed, touched and discussed.” Actually, a few of the books — like valuable editions of Pipes and Smoking Customs of the American Aborigines by Joseph D. McGuire, Tony Hillerman’s People of Darkness, and the rarity Two Little Hopi by Elizabeth Willis De Huff — can’t be touched without a key to a locked cabinet. Are rare books a big part of the shop? “That’s a very small percentage of what I do,” Nicholas Potter said. “There are only two locked cases here. I go to the California International Antiquarian Book Fair every February, and I can take rare books there, but I consider myself more a used-book store.” And he prefers such shops to those selling new books. “In a used-book store, the inventory is more diverse and reflective of the proprietor.”

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His favorite store in the world is Bookman’s Alley in Evanston, just north of Chicago. Unfortunately, owner Roger Carlson has been closing his 32-year-old business since last spring. (On Facebook, he said his remaining stock will be available into February on his only remaining open days: Saturdays.) The time between Christmas and New Year’s Day is always busy for Potter. He likes the season but lamented, “I didn’t get the wreath on the front door this year; it must be in storage.” During a visit on the Friday afternoon before Christmas, the store gets busier and busier. Some visitors bring in books to sell, and he takes turns buying and deciding not to. He doesn’t often sell anything on consignment, because negotiating prices can get “clumsy,” he said. One customer that day is artist Gabriel Abeyta, who tells Potter he also loves Bookman’s Alley. A woman asks Potter to select a jazz CD as a gift for her husband. (He also handles classical CDs.) The proprietor chooses a Dave Brubeck album. This place smells good, at least to someone who loves old papers, and all the shop’s nooks and crannies are a delight to peruse. Labels on some shelf edges inform the browser about subject areas: Photography. Architects. Design and Interiors. Classics. Philosophy. Science. Amid these tall shelves is a cranny, a former closet in this 1920s house. Inside are books lined up above the labels “Composers” and “Opera.” Around another two corners are shelves holding Two Thousand Years of Oriental Ceramics, Buddhist Book Illuminations, and Ethiopian Icons. On Potter’s big desk, layered in some places a foot deep with books and papers, is a copy of the splendid Notes on a Cellar-Book (1935) by George Saintsbury. On

top of a pile nearby is a humble and beautiful little copy of Dashiell Hammett’s The Glass Key; this Pocket Book first printing, 1943, is marked $35. On a wooden step stool sits Peter Churchmouse by Margot Austin (35th printing, 1944) for $15. A shelf labeled “Modern First Editions” holds The Man From the U.S.S.R. by Vladimir Nabokov and The Ghost in the Machine by Arthur Koestler. “Leather Bindings” is the shelf label on another packed section; one of its inhabitants is an 1850s edition of Poetical Works of E.A. Poe, $85. Wonderful books. Witness the tactile and visual variety in papers, covers, colors, typefaces — it inflames the seeking mind. “In used books, you see a much broader cross-section than in a new-book store, because there are centuries’ worth of books, and designers. The more you look, the more you realize the difference between a well-designed book and a throwntogether book.” Potter has had his business since 1975. His father was in the book business in Chicago after World War II, and when the family moved to Santa Fe in 1969, he set up shop on East Palace Avenue — a few doors west of the current location. Potter took over the business from his father. “When I moved in here, I sold [novelist and bookseller] Larry McMurtry 150 boxes of books that wouldn’t fit,” he recalled. It was a fun project converting the house to a bookstore. Most of the bookshelf units were made by his younger brother, Richard, who was forced to confront Santa Fe Style. “He made a lot of the shelves at home and installed them here. At one point he said, ‘I don’t think there’s a right angle in this whole building.’ Just about everything had to be shimmed.”

Of course, Potter is a great advocate of reading, although he prefers used books to new books, not to mention electronic books. “There is a sameness to all of that, and part of the book’s art has been a distinctiveness that creative people have applied to bookmaking. Just seeing a book with a two-color title page is just ... not so plain. It has elegance.” Regarding the reading habits of young people today, he said their appreciation for books is reliant on their parents. “My thought is that reading to your children should be a wonderful interactive experience. I remember my daughter sitting in my lap [and] reading to her and her pointing to the pictures. It has to happen at home.” Asked about favorite books or categories, he said, “From the get-go I always focused on hardback, because I thought the book should have permanence. If I’m asking them to pay money, it should be a book they still want to own 10 years from now. That’s one reason I don’t do the bestsellers and the trendy kinds of things.” Potter sometimes gets customers referred from Collected Works or Garcia Street Books, which stock new books, and he sends people to these stores when he suspects they’ll have what the customer seeks. And he exults in the fact that that’s possible. “The point is it’s walkable here, and we are all colleagues.” — Paul Weideman

Nicholas Potter Bookseller: 211 E. Palace Ave., 983-5434, www.nicholaspotterbooks.com PASATIEMPO

It’s all a crapshoot, what’s going to sell. — bookstore director and director of publications John Macker

THE INVENTORY AT GERALD PETERS GALLERY BOOKSTORE is nothing if not eclectic. Sure, you will find monographs and exhibition catalogs on many of the latest artists featured in the gallery, but you’ll also find a selection that covers art from the Civil War period, the cut-ups of William S. Burroughs, and the architecture of John Gaw Meem. “It’s historic, it’s ancient art, it’s anywhere from cave paintings up to Georgia O’Keeffe and newer,” said John Macker, the gallery’s director of publications and of the bookstore. “Gerald Peters’ idea was to have a book selection that complemented the exhibit schedule and to have books that would be available for scholarly research as well as entertainment.” Macker described the bookstore’s purview as developing from several components. “The first is we carry new books, monographs on everybody from van Gogh to Brancu¸si. And we also carry art surveys — everything from Chinese silks to Persian architecture, textiles, Russian impressionists, Joseph Cornell, and the latest Motherwell. We also carry a bit of photography, although there’s stores that do a better job in that — we just don’t have that much room. We do just a little bit of architecture. We highlight Western and Southwestern art books.” In addition, Gerald Peters offers a selection of titles published in-house to promote its own artists and exhibits. “We’ll do a catalog, not for every exhibition, but for about half the exhibitions. They’re printed elsewhere, but we have a designer, and we use scholars writing essays for the books — academics, people that are experts in their field — as well as having great reproductions. These are for nationally known, regional, local, and internationally known artists.” The list of artists is equally diverse and includes 19th-century painter and illustrator Frederic Remington, modernist Andrew Dasburg, and contemporary artists such as landscape painter Woody Gwyn. The in-house publications reflect the broad range of exhibition themes — naturalism, contemporary and classic regional art, and the Taos and Santa Fe art colonies. Titles that are otherwise unavailable or hard to find are another component. “We promote a healthy out-of-print section. General art books as well as Native

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American and Spanish Colonial, and some real specialized collectible books: first editions, signed copies, rare editions — that type of thing.” Gerald Peters also carries titles by local publishers such as the Museum of New Mexico Press and books by local authors such as Michael Pettit’s Artist’s of New Mexico Traditions, featuring artists who have received National Heritage Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts for their dedication to the preservation of traditional arts such as saint-making, pottery, and straw appliqué. The challenge for Macker, who does the bookstore’s buying, is to keep the selection relevant and with broad appeal — not an easy task in a specialized market. “Obviously, I don’t buy every art book that’s published, but I try and be selective and try and get a title that’ll be popular. It’s all a crapshoot, what’s going to sell. There are some books that have a built-in popularity factor, a fine book on an interesting subject, like this book on the photographer Edward Steichen.” The Bitter Years: Edward Steichen and the Farm Security Administration Photographs is prominently displayed on a table featuring new and popular titles. “The Steichen is just a wonderful collection of iconic photographs of the Great Depression as well as stuff that you’ve never seen before. It’s the kind of book that’s for everybody: for someone interested in the Depression, photography, a Steichen aficionado, loves American history — it’s all in a book like that. These kinds of books, I think, have a built-in relevance.” Because the store is inside the Gerald Peters Gallery, space is limited, but the bookstore has a built-in source of topics for its own publications. For new books, however, even in a niche market such as that for art books, it faces competition not only from other stores but from online retailers as well. “Bookstores are up against a lot,” Macker said, “but I think that the nature of the written word in book form will always be popular. Fine-art books, fine-photography books, will always have a place. We’re not as many as we used to be, but bookstores serve a valuable purpose.” — Michael Abatemarco Gerald Peters Gallery Bookstore: 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5757, www.gpgallery.com/pages/books

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IN A TINY STRIP MALL TUCKED OFF CERRILLOS ROAD, across the street from College Plaza, sits Book Mountain, Santa Fe’s only paperback-book exchange. Swing open the screen door, and you will discover roughly 30,000 titles stacked horizontally and arranged by genre: popular fiction, science fiction, romance, mystery, true crime, children’s, etc. The stacks tower overhead, with duplicate titles shelved even higher up. There seem to be books everywhere. Walking in for the first time, you might feel as though you’ve discovered the bookstore from The Neverending Story. If they are in, the owner, Peggy Frank, or her partner, Tom Juster, will ask if they can help you find anything. If they’re not around, manager Rick Salazar will assist you. You can say you’re just browsing, but you’ll make the owners laugh if you insist they’ve probably never heard of the book you’re looking for. During an interview with Pasatiempo, Frank gestured around the store with a soup spoon. “How would they know?” she chuckled. “People find books here they wouldn’t find anywhere else. Books they read long ago and always wanted to reread; books by an author they didn’t know the author had written. One time we got a Sanskrit dictionary, and I thought that was the ultimate, but then we got a hieroglyphics dictionary.” The way a paperback-book exchange works is that people bring in their old books and receive store credit. Used books are sold at 40 percent of the cover price, whether that’s $13 or $1.50. If you’re buying on credit, the books cost about 20 cents each. Anyone else is bound to get a book for six bucks or less. You could buy one book for cash and then, conceivably, work on a one-book trade that lasts forever, never owing the store more than a quarter here and there. To a retailer, this might seem like a difficult way to turn a profit, but Frank just shrugged and said not to ask her about “sustainable business models.” “We have reasonable rent. We’re not doing this for the money. We’re able to live. We have inventory that costs nothing and that we have no control over. We are an archive of what the people of Santa Fe have bought, read, and decided to part with.”

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After graduating from the University of Minnesota in 1962 with a degree in zoology, Frank got a job as a lab technician for the Indian Health Service. She worked in Bakersfield, California, and then moved to Santa Fe in 1973 to work at the Santa Fe Indian Hospital. By 1976, she was at the College of Santa Fe, earning her secondary teaching credential, but soon found out that teaching wasn’t for her. She returned to the lab-tech field. She was driving home from her job at a clinic in Cuba, New Mexico, on a Sunday afternoon, when a drunk teenager swerved his truck across the median and hit Frank’s car head-on. She broke every bone in her body. “At first they thought I wasn’t going to live, but I lived,” Frank said. “Then they thought I wouldn’t walk again, but I walked. Then they said I wouldn’t be walking for more than eight or 10 years, and it’s 34 years later and I’m still walking. With my original knees.” Though the doctors were able to put her back together again, her lab-tech career was effectively over, because one of her eyes was lacerated, impairing her vision. She’s had multiple surgeries and is permanently disabled. “I can’t count on my legs,” she said. After the accident, she frequently traveled to Albuquerque for medical treatments and began going to a paperback-book exchange owned by a man named Don. In 1980, as she healed and tried to decide what she wanted to do with the rest of her life, she realized that Santa Fe could use such a store. “Tom and I discussed it and we found this building that’s just a few blocks away from our house. Don showed us how to keep records and arrange our inventory, and my dad lent me $5,000, although it only cost $3,000 to open the store. The secret to our success — and people found out about us immediately — is that Santa Fe is a town that reads. Santa Feans are bibliophiles. The whole town.” Sometimes Book Mountain will take box after box of books in trade, and other times they are more selective. It all depends on the stock and space in the store at any given time. The books have to be in reasonably good shape, and they must be paperback. “Lots of times, we’ll have a number of copies of one book or one author, and we can’t sell them, and something will happen and suddenly everyone wants to buy them,” she said, such as when a writer who’s been writing for years suddenly has breakthrough success and everyone wants to go back and read the earlier work, which can be hard to find because books go out of print so quickly. Frank is now stocking books by local authors, many of whom are self-published. Though those books sell for full price, all proceeds revert to the author. Frank has attempted to chart which seasons bring in the most readers but found that she has “better ways to spend her time.” She doesn’t care about trends or profits or strategy. She doesn’t have a cash register and only recently got a notebook computer to keep in the store. She’s been in business long enough to know that some people play hard all summer and then when winter comes want to hunker down and read, and some people work hard all winter and then when summer comes they read their way through a huge pile of books. “Teachers like to read in the summer, and anyone who might go on vacation.” Her favorite part of running the store all these years has been meeting the readers of Santa Fe. “Readers are wonderful people. They’re intelligent and interesting. They come in because they don’t have much money and our books don’t cost much, or they have plenty of money but they like our selection or the way we have the books arranged. People like that you don’t have to tilt your head to read the title. We stay in business because of word-of-mouth. Santa Fe is a social town. If you’re reading at a restaurant or at the laundromat, some stranger will ask you about the book, where you got it, and suddenly one person is telling the other person about Book Mountain.” — Jennifer Levin Book Mountain: 2101 Cerrillos Road, 471-2625, www.bookmountainsantafe.com PASATIEMPO

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BEGUN IN 1979 IN AUSTIN as a mail-order photo book business, Photo-eye Bookstore found a new home in Santa Fe in 1991. The business has always been at the same general location on Garcia Street, but a few moves from one building to another over the years were necessary to accommodate the needs of the bookstore’s complementary art space, Photo-eye Gallery. Photo-eye founder and director Rixon Reed, a former employee of New York’s Witkin Gallery, has a university background in film, photography, and natural science. He launched the bookstore’s website in 1997, making Photo-eye one of the first independent e-commerce bookstores. Since adding digital sales to its business format, Photo-eye has become the world’s largest online retail source for photography books, and Reed, who carefully oversees the various operational arms of Photo-eye, is still using the internet to bolster the business’s retail position for the years ahead. “We’ve always been a photo and photo-book business,” Reed told Pasatiempo in his photo gallery on Christmas Eve while fielding walk-in customer inquiries, “but it became impossible to do both in the same space. The phones, computers, and foot traffic didn’t combine to create the best viewing or browsing environment, so we rented a building, a classic Santa Fe Style space, which over the

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years has housed either the gallery or the bookshop.” When Reed desired to exhibit larger photographs in a more contemporary setting, he switched spaces and moved the gallery, along with a handful of monographs, to its current location. In light of self-publishing, e-books, and books on demand, Reed said that “everyone’s a bookseller now. There was a time in brick-and-mortar photo-book retail that you could afford to stock every selection available, but now that’s impossible.” Each year a Photo-eye panel of photography curators, publishers, and others in the photo field selects 25 best-of-the-year photo books. But because of the large number of photo books produced these days, it’s difficult to sift through each and every existing title. Considering the size of the space, the physical bookstore contains a staggering number and variety of photo books. At about 800 square feet, it’s one of Santa Fe’s smaller walk-in book retailers, but the shelves hold more than 4,000 titles — and many of them are signed. “There are so many images available for viewing online,” Reed said, “that it competes with the desire to go out and actually buy more images. The result is that we have become much more curatorial about what we hold in stock in the physical Photo-eye store.” Reed boosts his local retail business with frequent exhibitions, book signings, talks, and presentations by photographers and curators, as well as collaborations with other venues, such as the Santa Fe University of Art and Design’s Marion Center for Photographic Arts.

Books are art objects, and there will always be a niche for them. — founder and director Rixon Reed

Rixon Reed Photo-eye Bookstore

“These photo books are really paper-based art projects,” Reed said, as visitors viewed Pentti Sammallahti’s Here Far Away exhibit in the gallery (it remains on view through Feb. 9). Sammallahti’s monograph of the same name sits on display nearby. “The smell of the ink, the composition, the paper selection, the craftsmanship … it’s a much different experience than that of the e-book. I don’t think the digital book craze has taken hold yet with people who love photo books. Over time, I think that will change to a certain degree. Books are art objects, and there will always be a niche for them. Whether that can sustain bookstores in the long run is another thing to ponder altogether.” Reed also runs Photo-eye Editions, which publishes limited-edition books and portfolios of contemporary photography. Current titles include Dreaming in Reverse: Soñando Hacia Atrás by Tom Chambers, Cranach Series by Carla van de Puttelaar, Hiroshi Watanabe’s Suo Sarumawashi, and Habitat Machines by David Trautrimas. People’s response to books will continue to evolve, Reed said, but there is a commanding physical presence to photo books that even computer-focused millennials can’t easily dismiss. Reed has tapped into that market through a number of digital avenues, including online videos and book teasers, web hosting for photographers, and an online magazine. Reed’s most ambitious digital project is his media-rich online Art Photo Index (www.artphotoindex.com), a global, keyword-searchable database of photographers and their work that currently showcases more than 2,900 photographers from

85 countries. Four years in the making, the project was launched on Dec. 19, 2012, and Reed sees the site’s detailed index format as the future of photographic resourcing. “The index is stored in the cloud,” Reed explained, “so uploading pages is very fast. You can search by photographer, image name, artist website, organization, or other keyword, such as subject matter. An artist’s page contains a publications link, which sends viewers back to our Photo-eye online bookstore. For each publication, there’s a sneak peek of its contents from Book Tease. “For example, bring up Nick Brandt’s page, and you can see his book of elephant photography titled On This Earth, A Shadow Falls. The tease lets you look inside Nick’s book and then redirects you to the point of purchase. The site is also useful for educators, collectors, students, and photo editors. We want to be completists with each entry. I don’t want to be vetting. I want to index the indexes and then index them again, and cross-reference everything to make the site a tool that anyone can use easily.” Playing on the website makes it clear that while Reed is a man of books and photography and sees both as works of art, he knew a long time ago he would have to embrace — if not command — digital platforms to ensure continued survival and prosperity in the book world. — Rob DeWalt Photo-eye Bookstore: 370 Garcia St., 988-5152, www.photoeye.com/bookstore PASATIEMPO

I’ve always been addicted to books, and I consider all those years of hanging out in bookstores my on-the-job training. — Bob Kanner, Silver Wolf Trading

Steve Kalminson Maya Jones Imports Book Showroom

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TAKING UP MORE THAN 10,000 SQUARE FEET in the DeVargas Center, Traveler’s Market presents tribal and folk art, textiles, books, clothing, antiques, and other objects from a variety of countries and cultures in 35 exhibition spaces. Among the many vendors who rent space within the market are three booksellers. All have been at it for quite some time, and all bring something unique to their respective offerings and business approaches.

Steve Kalminson/Maya Jones Imports Book Showroom Many locals and collectors know Steve Kalminson, whose Maya Jones Imports — once a popular shop in Santa Fe — still enjoys a robust internet business. Kalminson, a Bard College graduate who went on to study anthropology at Stanford University (he also drove a yellow cab in San Francisco for a while), continues to sell books at a physical location because he loves the human interaction it provides. Speaking with Pasatiempo at his retail space at Traveler’s Market the morning after a harrowing car accident, Kalminson (in obvious pain) said there was nowhere he’d rather be than talking to customers about the books in his collection. “I deal a lot in Latin American books — art, architecture, history — and it’s all out of print,” Kalminson said. “Maya Jones Imports had a book room, and when we started winding down the larger import business, I continued to be fascinated with the written history of other cultures.” Kalminson has had a presence at Traveler’s Market since it opened six and a half years ago, and he’ll soon expand his retail space at the market. He has no clue how many titles he has on display in his showroom, but he manages a 12,000-book business through website links at www.mayajones.com. “One thing in the book biz that we have to contend with now is the graying of our clientele,” Kalminson 38

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said. But he notes that, “I also do the flea market at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, where I run into a lot of younger students who appreciate rare and antique books on a number of subjects.” Kalminson is far from a codger, especially when it comes to technology. He is El Museo’s webmaster and uses Square, a credit-card transaction application for the iPhone. Up until recently, each bookseller at Traveler’s Market used his or her own credit-card machine, but starting this year, one central machine will serve all three book vendors. Bob Kanner/Silver Wolf Trading Perusing Bob Kanner’s collection at Traveler’s Market, with its large emphasis on Asian and Greek esoterica, is truly a trip back in time. Behind glass one can spy a 17th-century Shingon Buddhist text, papyrus fragments from ancient Greece (probably accounting and shipping documents, Kanner believes, based on the characters used), and a 19th-century multi-folding manuscript of Burmese magical charms. Kanner is especially proud of his 1890 original-edition Muskogee-English dictionary. There is only one other known copy, he said, and it’s under glass at Princeton University. His collection also includes many books about Asian art, such as John Ayers’ The Baur Collection, a catalog of Chinese ceramics from the ’70s, which is valued at around $2,000, and the 1980/81 Edward T. Chow Collection ceramics catalogs. “I’ve always been addicted to books,” Kanner said, “and I consider all those years of hanging out in bookstores my on-the-job training. My first transaction was at an Albuquerque flea market in 1984, when I brought in a box of books and doubled my money. After that, I was hooked, but it wasn’t the money. It was the books.” Kanner, who holds a degree in biomedical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, has lived in Albuquerque since 1976 but

GIFT SHOPS ARE A STAPLE IN MOST MUSEUMS, and the Museum of International Folk Art boasts two shops: one for handicrafts and the other a bookstore. In addition to MUSEUM OF titles documenting exhibitions at the museum, past INTERNATIONAL FOLK and present, the bookstore offers a range of tomes on folk and fine art through the ages. ART BOOKSTORE You’ll find books on home altars, silversmithing, Middle Eastern architecture, Mata Ortiz pottery, beaded objects, jewelry, embroidery, textile designs, and glass. You’ll find books on art made from recycled materials, on archaeology, on myths and symbols from around the world, and books that reflect the depth of the museum’s extensive collections. There are cookbooks, too; histories such as Luce Boulnois’ Silk Road: Monks, Warriors and Merchants; and surveys such as Handmade in India: A Geographic Encyclopedia of Indian Handicrafts. The children’s section is impressive, with titles by notable authors such as Rudolfo Anaya and Aldous Huxley, a Day of the Dead paper doll book, and Chuck Fischer’s pop-up book Christmas Around the World. You’ll also find a small selection of young adult novels. While most artwork is available in the gift shop, across the lobby from the bookstore, a few works, such as Australian Aboriginal paintings, hang on the bookstore wall. The bookstore also sells a variety of world music, as well as traditional Mexican paper cutouts called papel picado. Books and gift items are also available online at www.worldfolkart.org. The bookshop is operated by the Museum of New Mexico Foundation and is one of several shops located inside Santa Fe’s four state museums. You do not have to pay museum admission to visit the shops. — Michael Abatemarco

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Bob Kanner SilverWolfTrading

Museum of International Folk Art Bookstore: 706 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 476-1200, www.worldfolkart.org COLLECTED WORKS, A FULL-SERVICE GENERAL BOOKSTORE, is among Santa Fe’s more popular venues for those seeking new and in-print titles in literature, true crime, local and Southwestern history, U.S. and world history, travel, and poetry. If a book is in print and Collected Works doesn’t have it, they’ll order it for you. The shop also sells gift items such as journals, bookmarks, and calendars. Collected Works offers something for everyone: new fiction, classics, science fiction, and mystery. You’ll also find children’s books and toys and young-adult literature. Since making the move from San Francisco Street to Galisteo Street a few years back, Collected Works has added tables and chairs and a coffee bar. In the warmer months you can sit on the outdoor patio. With free wireless internet service and a few comfy couches to plop down on, you might want to make a morning or an afternoon of it, perusing new titles while sipping your latte, cappuccino, or herbal tea. The café also sells pastries and confections from Cocopotamus and the Tesuque Village Market. The store hosts book signings, lectures, and panel discussions with local and international authors, as well as live music, poetry readings, and art openings. You can keep abreast of events at Collected Works by signing up for the online newsletter at www.collectedworksbookstore.com. Ongoing programs include children’s story time every Wednesday and Thursday from 10:45 to 11:30 a.m. Collected Works is also the venue for Muse Times Two, an ongoing series of poetry readings (sponsored by the Santa Fe University of Art and Design’s creative writing department) that pairs local and national poets. Such programs help make Collected Works more than just a bookstore; it’s a community voice. — Michael Abatemarco

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COLLECTED WORKS BOOKSTORE AND COFFEEHOUSE

has kept a business presence in Santa Fe since 1985. He also sells online through www.abebooks.com under the moniker Silver Wolf Books. Rita Robbins/Rita Robbins Books Retired New York architect Rita Robbins carries a large selection of antique, used, and rare children’s books, as well as books on architecture, New Mexico, and the American Southwest. Hailing from a family of antiques dealers, Robbins is passionate about English transferware ceramics, whose designs closely mimic patterns found in the engraved prints of many antique books. “I have quite a few of these books under the category ‘Travel As It Used to Be,’ ” Robbins said. “They’re items published between 1890 and 1910. They don’t have dust jackets, and women designed many of them.” Robbins offers an eclectic selection of books on local and regional personalities. She has an entire section devoted to Lew Wallace’s Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, including an illustrated “player’s edition” (with scenes and characters from the play) and culinary herb tins with the Ben-Hur logo. She also has books by Ernest Thompson Seton (a founder of the Boy Scouts of America) as well as a copy of his daughter Anya Seton’s 1946 high-society novel The Turquoise. Selections by Willa Cather and D.H. Lawrence also grace the shelves, as does an incredible collection of Native American-themed children’s books. Robbins, who has been in New Mexico for 20 years, doesn’t do business online. She’s too fascinated by the stories that Santa Fe and its characters have to tell to worry about the internet. — Rob DeWalt Traveler’s Market: 153 Paseo de Peralta, 989-7667 Steve Kalminson: www.mayajones.com Bob Kanner: www.abebooks.com/silver-wolf-books-albuquerque-nm-u.s.a/789681/sf

Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse: 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226, www.collectedworksbookstore.com PASATIEMPO

Kevin Drennan Big Adventure Comics

Rob DeWalt

We want everyone who comes in the store to leave with something, no matter how much they have in their pockets to spend. — owner Kevin Drennan

WE’RE LONG PAST BELIEVING THAT COMICS ARE ONLY FOR KIDS. Those still needing proof that adults, too, love illustrated narratives can find it any afternoon at Big Adventure Comics. There, before school is out, you’ll see a demographic of mostly male adults, both young and well-beyond, perusing the display of monthlies, classics like Batman and The Amazing Spider-Man, spin offs like X-Treme X-Men and cool, innovative comics you’ve probably never heard of, as well as shelves of graphic novels. After school or on Saturdays you’ll find, in addition to adults, teens, middle-schoolers, and grade-schoolers with their parents, all going their own way among the shelves and display cases. On a recent visit, a family arrived with specific questions on playing Big Adventure’s featured trading card fantasy game, Magic: The Gathering. But they soon dispersed through the store in pursuit of other interests. Dad wanted to know if you could still find Weird War Tales, Sgt. Rock and other battle-happy titles (yes, in collections, was the answer). Mom discovered bound collections of Buffy the Vampire Slayer comics. Their son was checking out the latest Fantastic Four, while little sister found something pre-school appropriate near the door. Big Adventure is unique among comic stores for what it doesn’t have as well as what it does. Looking for manga? You’re out of luck here. And while many comic shops have turned over large display areas to action figures and other comic-related toys, Big Adventure has only a modest rack of caped and well-muscled dolls at the end of long, double-sided shelves stuffed with graphic novels and collections. Most comic shops proudly display rare back issues, some of them sporting price tags of $50 to $100 and more, kept in protective sleeves and housed under glass. Big Adventure hosts neat file boxes of more recent back issues, all in sleeves and all costing $1. “We want everyone who comes in the store to leave with something,” said owner Kevin Drennan, “no matter how much they have in their pockets to spend.” To that end, there’s a vintage vending machine that dispenses Magic game cards for 25 cents. Drennan, who began reading Marvel Comics — The Incredible Hulk, The Fantastic Four, The Uncanny X-Men — around the age of 11, has been into them ever since. He was an employee-partner and did the ordering at the comic shop, formerly known as True Believers, for a number of years until he bought the store in September 2011 with help from family and friends. “Banks don’t make loans to

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comic-book stores,” he said. He quickly made a few changes, including the store’s name. He did away with the DVD collection and expanded the selection of graphic novels. He also added Magic: The Gathering cards and opened the store on Friday and Saturday nights to gaming tournaments that are surprisingly well-attended. To facilitate participants in the tiny space, he clears three tables of new releases and graphic novels. “It’s good to have the store open late while Magic goes on,” he said. “We have some chefs and other guys who come in those nights to browse comics after they get off work.” Browsing here is super. The collection is comprehensive and eclectic and reflects the vast array of styles and subject matter captured by today’s comic artists. The store-length rack along the far wall carries the full array of monthlies from Marvel, DC, Image, Dark Horse, and others. Hand-lettered “New This Week” tags signal fresh releases, and older issues follow right behind. The top row, where your little brother can’t reach them, holds “adult” releases including Brian K. Vaughn’s fantastic Saga and Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ horrific noir series Fatale. The two back tables host stand-up displays of featured graphic novels, everything from the latest superhero trades to off-beat books from master graphic novelists including Charles Burns (The Hive), Jaime Hernandez (God and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls), and Craig Thompson (both his controversial love story Habibi and his autobiographical coming-of-age tale Blankets). Last time we looked, there was even a copy of Gilbert Shelton’s The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Omnibus for those who remember the heyday of the underground comic movement in the 1960s. Behind them is a large bookshelf of used editions at half-price, everything from The Dark Knight Rises to Rutu Modan’s moving cross-cultural love story Jamilti and Other Stories. The fine condition of these volumes reflect the respect comics readers have for the craft. New volumes on two-sided shelves contain the latest superhero series from Marvel and DC and collected compilations of vintage comics including EC Comics’ Tales of the Crypt. Tintin rubs shoulders with Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, and there are must-have graphic novels including Art Spiegelman’s Maus and Will Eisner’s A Contract With God. There’s also a good selection of works from New Mexico-based comic illustrators. Drennan and employee Danny Green (a comic-strip illustrator) know their stuff. Give them a hint of your interests, either narrative or artistic, and they’ll steer you to something your eyes won’t believe. — Bill Kohlhaase Big Adventure Comics: 801-B Cerrillos Road, 992-8783, www.bigadventurecomics.com

Allá 102W. San Francisco St, 988-5416 Rare Spanish-language books, limited-edition handmade books from Central America, Native American books, English translations Noon-6 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays, closed Sundays The Ark 133 Romero St., 988-3709, www.arkbooks.com Religion, healing, and spirituality titles, books by select local authors 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sundays

Margolis & Moss 982-1028, www.margolisandmoss.com/shop/margolis/ index.html Rare 19th-century American imprints, children’s and illustrated books, decorative bindings, books from Mexico and Latin America, prints, photography, maps Online inventory and by-appointment visits only Museum of International Folk Art Bookstore 706 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 476-1200, www.worldfolkart.org Books on folk art and exhibition-related art, culture, and history 10 a.m.-5 p.m.Tuesdays-Sundays, closed Mondays

Bee Hive 328 Montezuma Ave., 780-8051, www.beehivekidsbooks.com Nicholas Potter Bookseller 211 E. Palace Ave., 983-5434, www.nicholaspotterbooks.com Children’s books, young-adult novels Used and rare books, Southwestern Americana 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays, noon-4 p.m. Sundays 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays Big Adventure Comics 801-B Cerrillos Road, 992-8783, www.bigadventurecomics.com Op. Cit. Books 930-C Baca St., 428-0321, www.opcit.com Comic books, graphic novels, games, toys New books, modern first editions, children’s books, cookbooks, Noon-7 p.m.Tuesdays-Sundays, closed Mondays mysteries, select remainders Big Star Books 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Sundays, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Mondays, 8 a.m.-7 p.m. 329 Garfield St., 820-7827, www.abebooks.com/ Tuesdays-Saturdays big-star-books-santa-fe-nm/2453276/sf Palace of the Governors Print, Book, and Photo General used fiction and nonfiction Archive Shop 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Mondays-Sundays 100 E. Palace Ave., 988-3454, www.newmexicocreates.com Book Mountain New Mexico History, books by New Mexico authors, and digital 2101 Cerrillos Road, 471-2625, prints from the Photo Archives www.bookmountainsantafe.com 10 a.m.-5 p.m.Tuesdays-Thursdays & Saturdays-Sundays; Santa Fe’s only paperback exchange; titles by select local authors Fridays 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; open Mondays from Memorial Day 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mondays, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.Tuesdays-Fridays, to Labor Day 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturdays, closed Sundays Photo-eye Bookstore Books and More Books 370 Garcia St., 988-5152, www.photoeye.com/bookstore 1343 Cerrillos Road, 983-5438, www.booksandmorePhoto books, bestsellers, books by New Mexico artists, bookssantafe.com signed editions, auction items New, used, and rare books 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Mondays-Fridays, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Santa Fe School of Cooking Saturdays, closed Sundays 125 N. Guadalupe St., 983-4511, Books of Interest www.santafeschoolofcooking.com 311 Aztec St., 984-9828, www.booksofinterestsf.com Regional Southwest and Mexican cookbooks, Overstock, out-of-print, and used books, cookbooks, art titles many by New Mexico authors 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays, some Sunday hours 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Mondays-Fridays, 9:30-5 p.m. Saturdays, noon-4 p.m. Sundays Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226, www.collectedworksbookstore.com School for Advanced Research General fiction and nonfiction, local travel, Southwest and 660 Garcia St, south entrance, 954-7206, www.sarweb. Native American history, art and architecture, poetry, and org/index.php?sar_press children’s books Anthropology and archaeology, indigenous arts and issues, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Sundays American Southwest

Dumont Maps and Books of the West 407W. San Francisco St., 988-1076, www.dumontbooks.com Antique and out-of-print Americana, rare maps, and prints 11 a.m.-5 p.m.Tuesdays-Saturdays and by appointment Garcia Street Books 376 Garcia St., 986-0151, www.garciastreetbooks.com General fiction and nonfiction, bestsellers, New Mexico titles and authors, art and photography books 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Mondays-Sundays

Gerald Peters Gallery Bookstore 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5757, www.gpgallery. com/pages/books Artist monographs and surveys: photography, Southwestern architecture, and Native American titles; Gerald Peters Gallery artist and exhibition catalogs; out-of-print titles, first editions, and rarities 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays, closed Sundays Gunstock Hill Books 239 Johnson St., 983-0088, www.gunstockhillbooks.com Rare and antiquarian books 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays, Sundays by appointment

8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Fridays, closed Saturdays and Sundays; please call ahead

St. John’s College Bookstore 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, 877-752-2665, www.stjohnscollege.edu/admin/SF/bookstore.shtml Ancient classics, history, literature, classic math and sciences, philosophy, languages, textbooks, children’s books with selections translated into Latin and Greek 8:45 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays, 8:45 a.m.-5 p.m. Fridays, 2-8 p.m. Sundays, closed Saturdays Travel Bug 839 Paseo de Peralta, 992-0418, www.mapsofnewmexico.com International and local travel guides and maps, classes, slide lectures 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sundays Traveler’s Market 153 Paseo de Peralta, 989-7667; 10 a.m.-5 p.m.TuesdaysSaturdays, noon-5 p.m. Sundays, closed Mondays • Silver Wolf Trading Company/Bob Kanner: rare and antiquarian books, Asian and ancient classics; www.abebooks. com/silver-wolf-books-albuquerque-nm-u.s.a/789681/sf

• Maya Jones Imports/Steve Kalminson: out-of-print specialist; Latin America, archaeology, art, and history; www.mayajones.com • Rita Robbins: used and rare books; architecture, New Mexico, the Southwest, antique children’s books William R. Talbot Fine Art, Antique Maps, Prints, and Books 129W. San Francisco St., 982-1559, www.williamtalbot. com/books.html Rare and Western Americana, Western exploration, natural history, antique maps, rare prints 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays, closed Sundays, please call ahead

CHAIN BOOKSELLERS Hastings 542 N. Guadalupe St., DeVargas Center, 984-2857 General fiction and nonfiction, bestsellers, cookbooks, children’s books 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Sundays-Thursdays, 9 a.m.-11 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays REI Santa Fe 500 Market Street, Suite 100, in the Santa Fe Railyard, 982-3557 Outdoor adventure, travel guides, maps 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Mondays-Fridays, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturdays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sundays Sam’s Club 4201 Rodeo Road, 471-8825 General fiction and nonfiction, bestsellers, children’s books, assorted special collections 10 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Saturdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sundays Target 3550 Zafarano Drive, 471-9600 General fiction and nonfiction, bestsellers, romance 8 a.m.-10 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays, 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Sundays

PUBLISHERS

Aurora Press www.aurorapress.com, 982-8321 Astrology, New Age practice and wisdom

Axle Contemporary Press www.axleart.com/index/Publications.html, 670-7612, 670-5854 Limited-edition art and photography books La Sombra Books www.lasombrabooks.com Architecture, education, the American Southwest Museum of New Mexico Press www.mnmpress.org, 476-1155 Books on collections of the Museum of New Mexico and the culture of the Southwest; fine art, folk art, photography, Native Americana, the Hispanic Southwest, nature, gardening, architecture, design Ocean Tree Books www.oceantree.com, 983-1412 Peacemaking titles, regional travel and history, cookbooks Photo-Eye Editions www.photoeyeeditions.com, 988-5152 Limited-edition photo books and portfolios Radius Books www.radiusbooks.org, 983-4068 Fine art and photography, limited editions Red Mountain Press www.redmountainpress.us, 983-8449 Contemporary memoir and poetry School for Advanced Research Press www.sarweb.org/index.php?sar_press, 954-7206 Anthropology, indigenous arts and issues, the American Southwest, archaeology Sherman Asher/Western Edge Press www.shermanasher.com, 988-7214 Poetry; regional, Latin American, Southwestern, and Native American nonfiction; Jewish and gender studies Sunstone Press www.sunstonepress.com, 800-243-5644 Fiction and nonfiction, strong Southwestern focus Twin Palms Publishers/Twelvetrees Press www.twinpalms.com, 800-797-0680 New, limited-edition, and out-of-print photography and art books PASATIEMPO

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ne autumn day, a Hollywood screenwriter on an errand made his way up to the second floor of 54 E. San Francisco St. When he reached the top of the well-worn staircase he spotted the offices of Jack Woody’s Twin Palms Publishers and Twelvetrees Press. In the manner of a tourist discovering the London Bridge in Arizona, he exclaimed, “They are located here!” Indeed, since 1991, Santa Fe has been home to the publishing house widely renowned for its exquisitely designed and produced art and photography books. According to photographer and curator Elizabeth Avedon, “Jack Woody is one of the world’s most important photo-book publishers yet remains relatively unknown.” Twin Palms is not the only publishing enterprise toiling away out of sight in Santa Fe. Tucked behind adobe walls, in second-story offices, and even in spare rooms of homes, at least 10 book-publishing companies operate here, and more if one includes authors who have taken to self-publishing their work. “Santa Fe,” said Richard Polese of Ocean Tree Books, “is a very lively writing, publishing, and book producing community.” The output is a profusion of topics that could fill the walls of a bookshop: vade mecums on astrology; manuals for cooking; compendiums of poetry; extensively researched works of anthropology; guides for tourists; primers on architecture; volumes of humor; activity books; biographies; autobiographies; memoirs; history; fiction; historical fiction; fantasy; and fictional fantasies. You get the idea. Here then is a Baedeker to Santa Fe’s publishers row. stucco-covered brick house with Victorian windows on Johnson Street that was employed as officers quarters in the 19th century and a nursing home in the 20th serves in this century as the editorial and business offices of Sunstone Press. Maybe the most recognizable imprint of the city’s publishing firms, Sunstone has been cranking out books since it was established in 1971 by Jody Ellis, a musician who co-founded the Santa Fe Community Orchestra, and Marcia Muth, an artist known for her memory paintings. In 1976, the two women invited a vacationing neighbor over for coffee and cake. The object of their invitation was Mississippi-born Jim Smith, whose career had taken him from working as a chemical engineer to success as a New York City advertising executive. Smith couldn’t resist the coffee cake — the kind with icing 42

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and pecans — and evidently couldn’t resist buying 500 shares of Ellis and Muth’s young company. Within five years he purchased the remaining portions of the firm and has run it since. At first Sunstone concentrated on Southwest-related titles, which remain the mainstay of the list. Among its early successes were books by local literary lion Oliver La Farge and Living Legends of the Santa Fe Country by Alice Bullock. In 1987, the firm brought out Adobe Architecture, a slim volume by Myrtle Stedman and Wilfred Stedman. Adobe has been good for the company. Its Adobe Houses for Today by Laura Sanchez and Alex Sanchez is currently one of its three bestselling books. The other two are Dichos, a 32-page collection of Spanish proverbs and sayings compiled by Charles Aranda, a Las Vegas educator, and Create a Yoga Practice for Kids by Yael Calhoun and Matthew R. Calhoun, who live in Utah and New York City respectively. The yoga book is an example of the eclectic nature of Sunstone’s offerings and the willingness of its publisher to bring out a wide variety of works from chapbooks to handbooks, from cookbooks to guidebooks. “I look for what sells,” Smith said, sitting in his high-ceilinged office filled with immense dark-wood bookcases. Those portions of the plaster wall not supporting a bookcase are so completely adorned with art and mementos that Smith would be at a loss as to where to hang any new acquisition. The company has roughly 1,000 books on its list, Smith said, and he and his staff of two are now bringing out as many as 100 a year. Smith credited his firm’s efficiency and recent technological changes for being able to sustain such a large output of new titles. All of the editorial work is performed by Smith and Carl Condit, who has been with Sunstone for eight years, and long-time art director Vicki Ahl. But, Smith noted, the real key to sustaining the firm in these perilous times for publishers has been making use of the latest print-on-demand technology from a company called Lightning Source. Instead of maintaining an expensive inventory of books sitting for months or years waiting for customers, Lightning Source prints tiny quantities of books and can even print a single copy of a book when the customer places an order. “Publishing today, if you do it right, is easy,” Smith said. continued on Page 44

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Publishing today, if you do it right, is easy. — Jim Smith, Sunstone Press We are simply in a period of transition of how we are going to deliver the product. — Lynn Thompson Baca, SAR Press

Images collected in a book made with fine fabrics, papers, and printing are objects of desire to someone like me. Publishing comes out of my obsession to have and to hold a book. — Jack Woody, Twin Palms Publishers and Twelvetrees Press

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Santa Fe publishers, continued from Page 42 f Sunstone is the Santa Fe equivalent of Random House, then SAR Press is the city’s Oxford University Press. For more than a century, SAR Press has served as the publishing arm of the School for Advanced Research, a not-for-profit center for the study of human culture and evolution. Most of its books are scholarly works on anthropology, archaeology, Native American art, and the Southwest. They are intended for a limited audience, mostly graduate students. Housed in a compact adobe structure on the campus-like collection of buildings off Garcia Street that make up SAR, the offices of SAR Press are neat and luminous, infused with a sense of seriousness about its publishing mission: “Influencing thought, creating change.” Since 2005, Lynn Thompson Baca has been at the helm of SAR Press as its director. As a child she became hooked on anthropology after spending countless evenings in her father’s classroom watching National Geographic films about Jane Goodall’s work with chimpanzees. After earning an advanced degree in anthropology from the University of New Mexico and more than a decade’s work in the field as an archaeologist, Baca now works as an intellectual midwife, bringing out deeply conceived works that find devoted readers. “SAR Press is really well known within anthropology [circles], and our books are widely used.” Among its offerings last year were The Futures of Our Pasts, which examines the ethical implications of collecting antiquities, and Forces of Compassion, an anthropological look at the practices, tensions, and beliefs in humanitarian efforts at addressing crises such as war and natural disasters. The words “serious,” “thoughtful,” and “challenging” would come to the mind of a reader picking up any of these tomes on display in SAR Press’ front hall. That does not mean, however, that enjoying SAR Press’ books is limited only to a small intellectual cadre. Locals by the droves have bought Santa Fe: History of an Ancient City, edited by David Grant Noble, a successful author who previously worked for SAR as a photographer and staff member. His career as a photographer and writer is even better represented in another SAR Press book, In Places of the Spirits. The book, a collection of his photographs interwoven with personal reflections, has found a wide readership beyond the confines of academia. Baca is assisted by a staff of six to do the editing, copyediting, proofing, indexing, and design of the 8 to 12 new books that SAR Press publishes a year. Unlike Sunstone, making money is not an imperative. Rather, its work is part of the overall mission of SAR and so, like a university press, the larger institution makes up the publisher’s financial shortfalls. etween Sunstone Press and SAR Press, the Santa Fe publishing landscape is dotted with smaller companies. Aurora Press, for instance, has approximately three dozen books in print focused primarily on astrology and topics that might be grouped on the New Age shelf, such as Crystal Healing or Silver Dental Fillings: The Toxic Time Bomb. Its most well-known authors include Dane Rudhyar. A mentor and friend of Aurora publisher Barbara Somerfield, Rudhyar gave up his native France (and his WITH THE REORGANIZATION OF Pennywhistle Press and the demise of Clear Light Publishing, one could conclude that making poetry books in Santa Fe is a dying industry. And one could be wrong. True, there might not be as many players as there once were, and the number of new titles might be down from a few years ago, but there remains a cadre of dedicated, persevering publishers who continue to produce the work of many of the finest poets from Santa Fe and beyond. Sunstone Press‘ catalog boasts more than 1,000 titles, encompassing an esoteric range of topics and styles. Despite poetry’s limited profitability and perennially“small slice of the publishing pie,” Sunstone’s owner Jim Smith said that poetry collections continue to be a company priority. Sherman Asher Publishing is the general-literature imprint of Western Edge Press, which, like Sunstone, built its reputation on Western-related nonfiction.

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birth name, Daniel Chennevière) for the United States and a series of influential astrology books. Radius Books, on East Palace Street, is a not-for-profit company founded in 2007 by David Chickey, Darius Himes, Joanna Hurley, and David Skolkin that publishes a mix of art and photography books. In large format, often in color, the books are lovingly assembled like gallery art exhibits but with pages rather than walls. Last May, Radius brought out My Dakota by Rebecca Norris Webb, an elegiac collection of photographs of her native state of South Dakota that she published after the death of her brother. “One of the things that eased my unsettled heart was the landscape of South Dakota,” she writes in the book’s afterword. “I began to wonder — does loss have its own geography?” Bart Kaltenbach and Barbara Anschel got into publishing when the economic downturn caused their publisher to back out of its contract for their book on adobe construction and return the rights to their book to them. “Even though this was initially a shock,” Anschel said, “it was a blessing in disguise. We were free to shape this complex book in ways that are often limited within the normal editing and design patterns of the world of an established press.” So the pair, who live in Madrid, established La Sombra Books and last year published their jointly authored Sun, Sticks and Mud: 1000 Years of Earth Building in the Desert Southwest, with photographs by Steve Fitch, who teaches at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. “In many ways, being new to both writing books and publishing them, we learned as much about the publishing world as the writing and are now embroiled in the difficulties of distribution.” The knowledge may be put to further use, according to Anschel. The company is considering other books to publish. “It may be difficult to step away from the process of making books after these last years working on Sun, Sticks and Mud.” One local publisher who also got his training by doing is Richard Polese. “I cut my teeth in printing right here in Santa Fe, learning the tricks of the trade and getting my fingers inky at Jack Rittenhouse’s Stagecoach Press in the 1960s,” Polese said. (The old letterpress equipment is now part of a working exhibit at the Palace of the Governors.) In 1981, Polese launched Ocean Tree Books with the publication of Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words. Compiled by five people, including Polese, the book tells the story of a penniless woman from New Jersey known only as the Peace Pilgrim, who walked and spoke her way across the United States from 1953 until her death in 1981. Since its publication, more than a quarter of a million copies of Peace Pilgrim have been printed in several languages, according to Polese. Ocean Tree has about 20 active titles on peacemaking, regional travel history, and cooking, Polese said. One of his firm’s most popular and enduring books is Chaco Astronomy: An Ancient American Cosmology by Anna Sofaer, the woman who discovered a sun-dagger pictograph atop Fajada Butte in Chaco Canyon. “The significance of that find was at first ridiculed by many in the archaeological establishment,” Polese said, “but now Sofaer’s work is considered cutting edge in understanding the sophistication of deliberate celestial alignments in the Chaco region of Northwestern New Mexico.”

Owner Jim Mafchir, who described himself as “a publisher of poetry and other things,” started Western Edge in 1995, and then bought Sherman Asher in 2002 to accommodate the influx of creative nonfiction, poetry, and other non-Western submissions. Mafchir ascribed the poetry-publishing ebb to a combination of factors, including advances in self-publishing technology and the continuing decline of print media, resulting in fewer book reviews — the lifeblood of the publishing industry. Other publishing sorrows? “You mean, not getting rich?” Mafchir said. “Poetry doesn’t sell well, even though I select fairly well. But probably my biggest sorrow is having to turn down somebody’s work that I think is good.” Nonetheless, Mafchir doesn’t seem worried.“Santa Fe’s a real creative town, always has been.” So, despite its incumbent risks, the publisher looks forward to“discovering new work and designing books — and I enjoy the authors.” The publishing downswing hasn’t fazed the three chicas who foundedTres Chicas Books: Miriam Sagan, Joan Logghe, and Renée Gregorio.They kick-started the small, cooperative press in 2004 with Logghe’s Rice, and produced their 12th title last year. The three poets continue to“offer a model we are happy to pass along of how to launch a collaborative press,” said Logghe, former Santa Fe poet laureate.That model consists of meeting a few times a year, enjoying a meal together, and brainstorming.

“We are based on the quirky tastes of the three of us. We do not take unsolicited manuscripts, but instead rely on each of us coming up with a project that delights us.We want this press to be a place of pleasure and fun, not a chore.” Red Mountain Press is the newest and fastest-growing house in town. Publisher R.D. Ross and editor and designer Susan Gardner launched RMP in 2006 with Gardner’s art/poetry tome Stone Music. The couple pressed on with less than one title per year for its first four years.“A couple years ago, we took off and managed to increase our capacity,” Ross said. RMP now publishes four or five poetry and “poet memoir”titles a year, and its stable has expanded to some 10 authors. Red Mountain’s blueline for success is being“very selective”in choosing authors who have “the ability and determination to self-market their book, to use social media to the max, and a willingness to work with us through the editing process.” Despite its growth, which includes sponsoring the Red Mountain Press Poetry Prize, Ross admitted that it’s“hard to penetrate that poetry market, so a lot of hard questions have to be asked. We’re into it more for the love of doing it rather than trying to make any money off of it. The joy comes with each new book that comes out that meets our standards.” Sunstone’s Smith concurred.“We wouldn’t judge a poet’s work by whether it can sell or not. It can’t be driven by dollars. It has to be a labor of love.” —Wayne Lee

The Santa Fe publishing houses, along with others around the state, maintain an active organization. In fact, Polese compiled a book in 2006 on the state’s publishers, New Mexico’s Book World. Now a more current listing is maintained by the New Mexico Book Association (www.nmbook.org), a statewide nonprofit organization serving book professionals. ith the advent of print-on-demand books, the growth in self-publishing, the decline of bookstores, and the explosive growth in e-books, it is a challenging time to be a publisher in any locale. In fact, last year Clear Light Publishing, a 30-year-old Santa Fe publisher, gave up the fight and declared bankruptcy. “Our learning curve has been so gigantic in the last 12 years,” admitted Sunstone’s Jim Smith. A publisher today, he said, must remain nimble, look everywhere for efficiencies, and make all possible use of new technologies. For Sunstone, for example, using the print-on-demand service has permitted it to bring back into print classics in facsimile editions as part of the firm’s Southwest Heritage Series. As the books are old and in the public domain, there are no royalties to pay to authors. SAR Press is also reviving long-out-of-print books as print-on-demand paperbacks. Ultimately, adapting to the e-book may be the biggest challenge facing small independent publishers like those that make Santa Fe their home. Traditional books displayed in a bookstore “enable the act of discovery,” SAR Press director Lynn Thompson Baca said. Like many who run publishing companies, she worries that electronic sale of books will tilt the marketplace further toward brand-name authors and favor firms with marketing might. However, Baca is by no means discouraged about the future of her press. In fact, the company is about to bring out its first e-book. “We are still going to need content We are simply in a period of transition of how we are going to deliver the product.” If the city has one publishing house that may be immune to the digitization of books, it would have to be Twin Palms. At first its owner, Jack Woody, obsessively maintained the celebrated quality of his black-and-white photographic books with gravure printing, a painstaking process of using etched and inked copper plates that became obsolete with the introduction of offset printing. When the last printer ceased using this process in 1999, Twin Palms switched to color. “It’s like that moment in the Wizard of Oz,” Woody told an interviewer, “when the door opens and the film goes from black and white to color!” But Twin Palms still make books that are, well, books. “I think art books are relatively immune to the e-book format,” Woody said. “Images collected in a book made with fine fabrics, papers, and printing are objects of desire to someone like me. Publishing comes out of my obsession to have and to hold a book.” When he first decided to publish books, Woody was living in Los Angeles. He was told he would have to move to New York City to be successful. Instead he remained in California, working out of his house. His first book, George Platt Lynes Photographs 1931-1935, collecting the work of an almost forgotten artist, was an immediate success. It was soon followed by other compendiums of work by photographers and artists. “Several years later I was sitting in my backyard under the avocado trees with Robert Mapplethorpe,” Woody said. “Robert was all in black leather, and looking at him framed against the turquoise blue of the swimming pool, I realized New York had come to me.” Undoubtedly the company is best known for a riveting book that it published in 1996 called The Killing Fields. The work is a collection of photographs of Cambodian prisoners as they were checked in to a death camp during the late 1970s, when the Khmer Rouge executed more than 200,000 of its citizens. The book was selected as Photography Book of the Year by the International Center for Photography and American Photo Magazine. In the years since Woody launched his company — including the imprint Twelvetrees, named for his grandmother, the Hollywood actress Helen Twelvetrees — he came back to New Mexico, where he had spent part of his youth and where family members still remained. In 1988 he bought a house in Santa Fe, and three years later he moved his company here. “It is easy to work here, and there is an art community that recognizes and supports creative enterprises around town,” Woody said. “Our audience is worldwide, but communication has become so streamlined I think you could publish from most anywhere these days.” ◀

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opera, which is broadcast live from the Met. 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, with a 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 6, encore. Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed)

Like a rolling stone: John Magaro in Not Fade Away, at Regal Stadium 14 in Santa Fe

opening this week THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE This documentary examines an infamous case in which a 28-year-old white female jogger was brutally beaten and raped on a 1989 spring evening in New York City. Five black and Latino teenagers who were in the park at the time gave false confessions, and each spent between six and 13 years in prison for crimes they didn’t commit — until the real perpetrator came forward in 2002. His confession and DNA evidence exonerated the five. Directed by Ken Burns, his daughter Sarah Burns (who wrote the book on which the film is based), and her husband, David McMahon, the film delivers a complex and detailed portrait of systematic racial and class inequality. Not rated. 119 minutes. Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. (Adele Oliveira) See review, Page 50. HYDE PARK ON HUDSON In June 1939, King George VI (Samuel West) and Queen Consort Elizabeth (Olivia Colman) flew to President Franklin Roosevelt’s estate in upstate New York to make sure they had support in the upcoming war. This bit of history could have made for a gravely serious film, but instead director Roger Michell (Notting Hill) cast Bill Murray as FDR 46

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and Olivia Williams as his wife, Eleanor. Murray is never fully believable, and the meeting of the powers is staged as an easygoing weekend in the country. Much of the drama actually stems from Roosevelt’s distant cousin Margaret “Daisy” Suckley (Laura Linney), with whom the president had an affair. Rated R. 95 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. (Robert Ker) THE IMPOSSIBLE On the day after Christmas 2004, a tsunami of horrific proportions swept through a swath of Southeast Asia, killing almost a quarter of a million people. Among the relatively lucky survivors were a vacationing family of five, played by Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, and a trio of sons. (The real-life family on which this ensemble is based is Spanish.) The rampaging wall of water smashed through the luxury seaside resort where they were staying and separated them. The movie follows their desperate struggle to stay alive and find one another again. It must have been an experience of unparalleled terror. But despite fine work by Watts, McGregor, and the oldest boy (Tom Holland) and a remarkable orchestration of digital effects by director Juan Antonio Bayona’s production team, the movie treads water and never catches the wave. Rated PG-13. 97 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. ( Jonathan Richards) THE MET LIVE IN HD: LES TROYENS Deborah Voigt, Susan Graham, Marcello Giordani, and Dwayne Croft star in this staging of Berlioz’s

NOT FADE AWAY David Chase earned a fortune, gathered acclaim, and changed television with The Sopranos, the HBO show he masterminded starting more than a decade ago. It has taken him a while to parlay that cred into a feature film, but here’s his debut: a semi-autobiographical tale of the rock band he started as a teenager in New Jersey in the 1960s. It’s clearly Chase’s self-indulgent attempt to romanticize his youth, but that would be forgivable if (as the title suggests) he didn’t seemingly run down a checklist of every cliché about rock ’n roll and the 1960s. There’s the power struggle between the guitarist and singer, the goofy pot-smoking moments, the flashes of tragedy, and the father (a warm James Gandolfini) who thinks his son ( John Magaro) looks like a “queer” when he comes home from college with long hair. It’s a heartfelt film with great music, a nice cast of barely known actors, and a killer final scene, but it’s a renter; perhaps Chase is better on the small screen after all. Not rated. 117 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe. (Robert Ker) PERFORMANCE AT THE SCREEN The series of high-definition screenings of performances continues with a showing of La Sylphide, choreographed by Johan Kobborg (after August Bournonville), from Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet. Ekaterina Krysanova, Vyacheslav Lopatin, and Denis Savin star. 11 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 6, only. Not rated. 88 minutes, with one intermission. The Screen, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) PROMISED LAND If there ever was a movie that had its heart in the right place (at least if you’re an environmentalist), it’s Promised Land. It deals with one of the most fractious issues on the contemporary menu: fracking. And it comes down on the side of the environment. It has a good cast, headed by Matt Damon and John Krasinski (The Office), who co-wrote the screenplay (Gus Van Sant directed). But for all its good qualities and good intentions, it squanders its promise in a wallow of sentimentality, improbability, and preachiness. A little girl with a lemonade stand teaches Damon’s character a lesson about honesty, if that gives you some idea. Rated R. 97 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe. ( Jonathan Richards). See review, Page 54. STEP UP TO THE PLATE Michel Bras, chef of a highly lauded restaurant in southern France, is going to retire. His son Sébastien, who has been by his side in the kitchen since the 1990s, is the heir apparent. This transition is at the heart of Paul Lacoste’s documentary, which explores professional discipline and dynasty by delving into

the career of an intelligent, gifted, painstaking chef who must hand his toque down to a new generation, even though he’s obviously not ready to do so. Too bad it feels half-baked. Not rated. 86 minutes. In French with subtitles. The Screen, Santa Fe. (Laurel Gladden) See review, Page 52. TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D Someone in Hollywood had a brainstorm about what object might look compelling when coming out of the screen directly at your 3-D glasses. Late at night, it came to them: chainsaws, of course! Thus, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise was revved up again. Vrin, vrin, vrin! In this latest chapter, several new teenagers go in for a trim and get just a little off the sides. Rated R. 92 minutes. Screens in 3-D and 2-D at Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed)

now in theaters ANNA KARENINA This is not like any Anna Karenina you’ve ever seen before. Director Joe Wright (Atonement) and screenwriter Tom Stoppard have reimagined and restructured the classic story with a stunningly original vision that treads the border between triumph and disaster and manages to keep miraculously to the side of the angels. An Anna Karenina soars or sinks with its heroine, and while Keira Knightley can charm, swoon, and rage, when it comes to plumbing the depths of Tolstoy’s tragic heroine, she shows the strain of acting. She hits all the notes, but she doesn’t manage to play between them. Rated R. 129 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. (Jonathan Richards) ARGO Ben Affleck takes a true story by the throat and delivers a classic seat-squirming nail-biter. In 1980, as the world watched the hostages in the U.S. embassy in Tehran, a small group of Americans made it to the Canadian ambassador’s residence and hid out there while the White House and the CIA desperately tried to figure out how to spirit them out of the country. The plan? Pretend to be making a sci-fi film and disguise the Americans as members of a Canadian locationscouting crew. A terrific cast is headed by Affleck as the CIA operative, with Alan Arkin and John Goodman at the Hollywood end. Rated R. 120 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. ( Jonathan Richards) CHASING ICE Director Jeff Orlowski follows environmental photographer and one-time climate-change denier James Balog as he launches and maintains his Extreme Ice Survey, a long-term photography project that gives what Balog calls a “visual voice” to the planet’s rapidly receding glacial ice sheets. Visually

stunning and horrifying in scope and context, Chasing Ice is at its best when the talking heads of climate-change activism — of which there are way too many here — are not in the picture. At times the film appears to be more about Balog than the planet he’s attempting to save, and although his story and passion are compelling, the ice should be the true star here. The screening at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 4, includes short film Ocean Keeper, with filmmaker Eileen Torpey in person. The screenings at 3:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 5 and 6, include Citizens Climate Lobby discussion with Harvey Stone. Rated PG-13. 75 minutes. Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. (Rob DeWalt) DJANGO UNCHAINED Quentin Tarantino’s first film since 2009’s Inglourious Basterds is an homage to the Spaghetti Western, but it mixes, matches, and mismatches ideas, themes, and music from a lot of other movies as well. Django ( Jamie Foxx) is a freed slave who partners with a bounty hunter (Christopher Waltz) to find and free Django’s still-enslaved wife. The performances are solid and often quite terrific (as with Leonardo DiCaprio’s foppish Southern plantation owner), and the blood and humor flow openly throughout. Still, it’s about 25 minutes longer than it ought to be. Rated R. 165 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española; Storyteller, Taos. (Robert Nott) THE GUILT TRIP Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen play an overbearing mother and a neurotic son who travel across the country on a business trip and bond over the standard road-movie high jinks. Fortunately, the gags in the movie are much better than the pun in the title, as the comedy of Babs’ Broadway showmanship and Rogen’s snark blend surprisingly well. The overarching plot, which is expanded well beyond the basic framing device needed to get us from one laugh to the next, is not particularly effective or welcome. It’s a forgettable but funny film. Rated PG-13. 96 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Robert Ker) HITCHCOCK Anthony Hopkins dons a fat suit to play the Master of the Macabre during a critical period in Hitchcock’s career, the making of Psycho (1960). Nobody liked the idea — the studio wouldn’t finance it — so Hitch mortgaged his house and went a little crazy making what many consider his masterpiece. Was this the real Hitchcock? Nobody seems to have known him very well. In the end what matters is how well this movie makes its case. For the most part it entertains. But there are lapses in judgment, timing, and artistry that keep reminding us that great movie-making isn’t as simple as it looks. Rated PG-13. 98 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. (Jonathan Richards)

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THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY This is the first of Jackson’s three films based on Tolkien’s 1937 children’s novel about a hobbit named Bilbo (Martin Freeman) who is recruited by the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and 13 dwarfs to help slay a dragon. The Hobbit is a breezier book than the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and so the movie is more lighthearted than Jackson’s earlier adaptations — sometimes awkwardly so. Still, the attention to detail, the magnificent effects, the warm cast, and the heartfelt themes make The Hobbit a journey full of expected delights. If you’re a longtime fan of J.R.R. Tolkien, you’ll be thrilled just to return to Peter Jackson’s imagining of Middle Earth. Rated PG-13. 169 minutes. Screens in 3-D and 2-D at Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española; Storyteller, Taos. (Robert Ker) JACK REACHER Tom Cruise plays the title character of this movie, which looks as generic as the character’s name. Reacher is one of those former Army specialists that you get when you need something fixed. When a former Army sniper ( Joseph Sikora) is arrested for murder, possibly on false charges, it’s time for some fixing. Robert Duvall and Werner Herzog are among the co-stars. Rated PG-13. 130 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española; Storyteller, Taos. (Not reviewed) continued on Page 48

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LES MISÉRABLES The stage musical version of Victor Hugo’s great novel is the longestrunning musical of all time. It has been seen by more than 60 million people in all sorts of languages and countries. This movie could put an end to all that. In the hands of director Tom Hooper, who guided The King’s Speech with such subtlety and grace, it is garish, shrill, and breathtakingly over the top. The songs are still there, up close and personal like you’ve never seen or heard them. The cast (headed by Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe) performs bravely, if not always wisely or too well. Rated PG-13. 158 minutes. Regal Stadium 14 and Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española; Storyteller, Taos. ( Jonathan Richards) LIFE OF PI Ang Lee’s adaptation of Yann Martel’s best-selling novel is an intriguing exercise in going toward, intense being, and going away. The first and last are the frame in which the story, of a boy on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger in a wild ocean, is set. That middle part is a fabulous creation of imagination and CGI, and it is riveting. The lead-in sets it up with a promise of a story “that will make you believe in God.” The recessional discusses what we have seen, what it means, what may or may not be true, and what we’ve learned. Whether or not it makes you believe in anything is up to you. Suraj Sharma and Irrfan Khan play Pi, young and older. The real star is a collection of electronic impulses that will make you believe in tigers, at least. Rated PG. 127 minutes. Screens in 3-D and 2-D at Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe. Screens in 2-D only at DreamCatcher, Española. ( Jonathan Richards) LINCOLN Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln is a surprisingly small film, considering its subject. With the Civil War as background, it focuses on the passage of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution and what was required, politically, to achieve it. The president deals with the false choice of ending the war and ending slavery, criticism from his political enemies, and dysfunction in his own family. Daniel Day-Lewis looks and sounds the part of the 16th president, though sometimes his words and the cadences at which they come feel self-conscious. Sally Fields as Mary Todd Lincoln and Tommy Lee

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Jones as abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens stand out from the ensemble cast. Rated PG-13. 149 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; Storyteller, Taos. (Bill Kohlhaase) MONSTERS, INC. Pixar’s 2001 outing — about two beasts (voiced by John Goodman and Billy Crystal) who accidentally bring a young girl (Mary Gibbs) into their monster world — lacks the instant-classic charm of some of Pixar’s more beloved films. But it’s had staying power, in part because of the plush-toy-ready design of the creatures and the loving tribute to movie magic, which is evoked through the monsters’ scare factory. This rerelease expands that magic to three dimensions. Rated G. 92 minutes. Screens in 3-D and 2-D at Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. Screens in 3-D at Storyteller, Taos. (Robert Ker) PARENTAL GUIDANCE Billy Crystal and Bette Midler play an aging couple who try their hand at helping to raise their grandkids, often to comic effect. Rods are spared, children are spoiled, and everyone learns life lessons. Expect observations about the evolution of parenting techniques across generations, coupled with shots of Crystal getting hit in the groin. Rated PG. 105 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española; Storyteller, Taos. (Not reviewed) A ROYAL AFFAIR In the 1760s, wellread English princess Caroline Mathilde (Alicia Vikander) is betrothed to Christian VII (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard), the mentally unstable king of Denmark and Norway. Christian hires a German physician, Johann Friedrich Struensee (Mads Mikkelsen), who comes to court, tends to the king’s health, and (ahem) cures what’s ailing the queen as well. This is an exemplary — if not gripping — period melodrama, with dewy-complexioned women, steely-eyed heroes, and a sweeping score. Rated R. 137 minutes. In Danish, German, and French with subtitles. The Screen, Santa Fe. (Laurel Gladden) SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN Malik Bendjelloul’s film about the search for a talented musician named Sixto Diaz Rodriguez is a portrait of a humble man, a rock documentary, and a detective story all in one. It follows the triumphs and frustrations of a journalist and a record-store owner in their efforts to shed light on the mystery surrounding Rodriguez, a superstar in South Africa but virtually unknown in his native United States. The film packs an emotional wallop. Rated PG-13. 85 minutes. Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. (Michael Abatemarco)

SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK This film centers on Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper), who after being released from a mental institution moves in with his parents ( Jacki Weaver and Robert De Niro) and vows to win back his estranged wife. When friends invite him to dinner, he meets Tiffany ( Jennifer Lawrence), who also has a couple of screws loose. She agrees to help him patch things up with his wife — but only if he will agree to be her partner in a dance competition. The story swerves hilariously around clichés, and finely honed dialogue, attention to detail, and impressive performances make the film a nearperfect oddball comedy. Rated R. 122 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. (Laurel Gladden) STARLET In this low-key, oddly affecting drama from director and co-writer Sean Baker, young Jane (Dree Hemingway) is bored and has time to kill, so she leaves her bare-bones apartment with her dog and heads out to some local yard sales. At the home of grumpy elderly Sadie (Besedka Johnson), she buys a thermos she thinks will make a nice vase; back at home, she discovers rolls of $100 bills inside it. Guided by guilt, sympathy, or something else, Jane follows Sadie, and the two eventually become friends. This is no Harold and Maude, though. The performances and dialogue are easy, natural, and believable; and cinematographer Radium Cheung nails the ambience of lazy, wasted youthful summers and the brilliantly blown-out sunniness of the San Fernando Valley. Not rated (contains explicit sexual content). 103 minutes. The Screen, Santa Fe. (Laurel Gladden) THIS IS 40 Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann), characters spun off from Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up (2007), are turning 40, and their lives are not much fun. Sex can sometimes be good, but just as often it’s not. They have money problems. They have different tastes. They still love each other, but the spark is gone. Mann is Apatow’s wife, and with their two children playing Pete and Debbie’s kids in this movie, it’s no stretch to hazard a guess that Rudd is standing in for Apatow in a story based at least in part on his family life. This may be more about the Apatows than you really want to know. This midlife comedy has a smattering of good laughs, but stretched over two hours and a quarter, they wear thin. Rated R. 134 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. ( Jonathan Richards)

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Untrue confessions Adele Oliveira I The New Mexican The Central Park Five, documentary, not rated, Center for Contemporary Arts, 3.5 chiles On the night of April 19, 1989, a 28-year-old white woman named Trisha Meili was brutally beaten and raped while jogging in New York City’s Central Park. Five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem (Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana Jr., Yusef Salaam, and Korey Wise), all between the ages of 14 and 17, were arrested, gave false confessions, and were later convicted of the crime. Each member of the “Central Park Five” spent between six and 13 years in prison before being released when the man who actually assaulted Meili, Matias Reyes (a convicted murderer and rapist serving a prison sentence for other crimes), came forward. His confession and DNA were sufficient to exonerate the Five. These are the plain facts of a new documentary from PBS auteur Ken Burns, his daughter Sarah Burns, and her husband, David McMahon. (Last year, Sarah Burns wrote The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding, on which the film is based.) But while the film is easy to synopsize, it is difficult to unravel. Using contemporary interviews with the Five, interspersed with archival footage of a turbulent late-’80s New York, the Five’s filmed confessions, interviews with journalists, and news footage of officials such as then-New York district attorney

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Robert Morgenthau, the documentary delivers a complex and detailed portrait of systematic racial and class inequality. In hindsight, it’s difficult to believe what happened when the Five were taken to the Central Park precinct after being picked up in the park. It brings to mind the bumper-sticker sentiment “If You’re Not Outraged, You’re Not Paying Attention.” Throughout the film, the Five walk us through the events of 1989 and bring us up to the present. The men are candid, occasionally emotional, and disarmingly straightforward. They explain how they were hanging out in the park on April 19, with a group of more than 25 boys, harassing and assaulting late-night joggers and others. The film glosses over what the Five were doing in the park that night a little too quickly, but it’s clear that they weren’t in the section of the park where Meili was attacked. Maggie Nelson addresses this aspect of Burns’s book in a New York Times Book Review article from 2011. Nelson writes: “In its fervent desire to protest the wrongful convictions of the teenagers for the rape of Meili, the book is blurry on the question of what role they may (or may not) have played in the attacks on several others in the park that evening. ... Directly confronting the complexity of the situation would not have diminished Burns’ critique; it would have helped us imagine forms of justice that don’t rely on oversimplified narratives of innocence.” While this is an important point, and a fair assessment of the film too, there’s no question as to the injustice in how the police and city handled the Five. After being picked up by the police, the boys were questioned for hours before being fed false confessions that made themselves look better (saying things like “I just watched”) while implicating their friends. Grainy, black-and-white police-station footage shows tired, scared teenagers who want to go home as soon as possible. While the confessions are imprecise and contradict one another (and though there was no physical evidence linking the Five to the crime scene), they were enough for two juries to send all five boys to prison.

Social psychologist Saul Kassin explains in the film that confessions are hard to ignore. “Confession trumps everything else,” he says. “It’s irresistibly persuasive.” Jim Dwyer, a journalist at The New York Times, points out that the media readily accepted the confessions and helped paint the Five as “wildlings,” dehumanized hooligans who were the problem. The Five lent a face to the chaos, racial tension, and violence of the city in 1989. They were in the wrong place at the wrong time and — being young, brown, black, and poor — were very easy to blame. It is abundantly clear throughout the film that the Five have suffered and lost their youth, yet none of them appear bitter or vengeful. “It felt like the whole world hated us,” says McCray, who, to protect his privacy, does not appear on camera in the present day. In 2003, after Reyes came forward, Morgenthau and the City of New York vacated the Five’s convictions. The Five then sued the city for wrongful imprisonment and $50 million each. The case remains unresolved, and police (and prosecutors) maintain that they did nothing wrong. Late in the film, Dwyer says that in terms of institutional responsibility, it comes down to whether or not we’re willing to face up to our mistakes. “The media hasn’t and the police department hasn’t,” Dwyer says. “The truth is unbearable. We need to remember what happened that day and be horrified by ourselves. We need to realize that maybe we’re not very good people.” The Central Park Five seeks to set the record straight and spends little time on pure art, ostensibly because there are more important agendas at hand. But a short, silent scene from the end of the film demonstrates the filmmakers’ eye for detail and deep understanding of the power of images. Korey Wise, the eldest of the Five, rides the subway aboveground. Weak winter light filters through the windows as the train moves east. Wise has sunken cheekbones, and he looks irredeemably sad. Though it sounds trite, you can see everything on Wise’s face — most of all, the impossibility of taking back what happened to him. ◀

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Passing the fork Laurel Gladden I For The New Mexican Step Up to the Plate, documentary, not rated, in French with subtitles, The Screen, 2.5 chiles Michel Bras, chef of the highly lauded Restaurant Bras in southern France, is going to retire. His son Sébastien, who has been by his side in the kitchen since the 1990s, is the heir apparent. This transition is at the heart of Paul Lacoste’s first full-length documentary, Entre les Bras (which someone stateside gave the goofily punny, more-appropriate-for-asports-movie title Step Up to the Plate). Much like Jiro Dreams of Sushi, another food- and family-centric documentary, this film explores professional discipline and dynasty by delving into the career of an intelligent, gifted, painstaking chef who must hand his toque down to a new generation, even though he’s obviously not ready to do so. In comparison, though, Step Up to the Plate feels half-baked. It’s not that Lacoste doesn’t include the requisite “food porn.” The film’s second scene depicts the delicate composition, with narration by Michel, of his restaurant’s famed gargouillou de jeunes légumes — you could call it a salad, but it’s more like a tiny garden on a plate. It’s mesmerizing. We see Séba (as he’s known to his family) devoting hours, even days, to a new multicomponent dessert that involves milk skin, chocolate, blackberry jam, fried bread, and cheese. But Lacoste focuses on the landscape of southern France and the relationship between father and son rather than the food. His film comes off like a case study in family

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Like père, like fils: Sébastien Bras and Michel Bras

psychodynamics that just happens to be set in a professional kitchen. Lacoste has a fresh approach in that he uses interviews and talking heads sparingly. As a result, though, the film lacks cohesion, and we don’t really learn much about Michel or Séba. We hear a few tales and see news clippings about Michel’s beginnings as a chef (he joined his mother in the family’s restaurant kitchen early on), but we glean nothing about his specialties or his surely arduous path to earning three Michelin stars. We never see a customer enjoying a meal. We get lots of shots of Séba standing and staring — at a bowl of milk, at a partially composed plate, at sketches of possible dishes. It’s a little like watching a painter contemplating a canvas, adding a brushstroke here, a dab of color there. It’s a slow, solitary, near-silent process, and it tells us very little. In the end, we don’t know enough about either man to get an idea of what’s going on behind their steely, determined eyes. The film includes several gorgeous, artful shots of the Aubrac region, but the camera lingers there far too long. The movie loses its momentum when Lacoste follows Michel and Séba on their daily runs. Again, the camera pauses to show Séba, standing in the middle of the road, staring at his surroundings and a small hill he is about to jog up. What is he thinking about? Does it have anything to do with food? You and I will never know. Clearly, this is a difficult transition for both men. Michel, his success due at least in part to his control-freakishness, has to let go of the reins, learn not to micromanage, and pass on his legacy to his

hardworking, independent-minded son. Séba wants to carry on the family tradition of culinary greatness, but he also wants to step out of his father’s shadow and make a name for himself. Séba may not really have had a choice about going into the family business in the first place. He has bristly, head-butting conversations with his father — about everything from what time the sun is going to come up to where sauce is best spread on a plate. When the family is out on a hike, Séba announces at a fork in the trail, “It’s actually better that way,” but his father summarily ignores him. When Séba presents a new dish — one he has spent an entire day composing — Michel looks at the plate for several minutes before deigning to take a bite, and then one of the very few positive comments he can muster is, “It’s tasty. I didn’t expect that.” You may find yourself wishing Michel would just give Séba a break. The score can feel appropriately dramatic or melancholic, but at other times it comes across too forcefully — like something better suited to a mystery or thriller. Either way, I got the sense that Lacoste was trying to use music to tell his audience how to feel. He also gets ham-handed when he uses the natural world — particularly sunrises and sunsets — symbolically. Out on a contemplative morning stroll, Séba pauses, sits, and says, “Look, here comes the sun.” (Does he mean here comes the son?) In a later scene, Michel discusses his “leaving the work environment” as the sun sets behind him. This is a lovely, if flawed, little film, and I’ll willingly digest its subtle pleasures and messages. Paul Lacoste, you don’t need to shove it down my throat. ◀

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No fracking way Jonathan Richards I For The New Mexican Promised Land, drama, rated R, Regal Stadium 14, 2.5 chiles If there ever was a movie that had its heart in the right place (at least if you’re an environmentalist), it’s Promised Land. It deals with one of the most fractious issues on the contemporary menu: fracking. And it comes down on the side of the environment. It does this with good acting and a thoughtful screenplay, both of which contributions come, in part, from the same people. If all that isn’t enough, well, it will have to do for now. Fracking refers to hydraulic fracturing, a process used to release natural gas from subterranean shale. It involves pumping huge quantities of water and chemicals at enormous pressure deep underground to pulverize the shale and release the abundant natural resource. Where this becomes a contentious issue is the condition in which it can leave the land and the water table. The worst-case situation, a nightmare landscape of dead land, dead animals, and tap water you can use to light a barbecue, is not a pretty picture. Promised Land takes an interesting approach to the issue. It casts Matt Damon as the chief pro-fracking advocate. If you know anything about Damon, you know he plays good guys. Even his Jason Bourne has a bit of the boy-next-door about him. As Steve Butler, the crack salesman for energy giant Global Crosspower Solutions, he goes into economically wounded rural communities where Global’s research shows a promise of profitable subterranean natural gas deposits and buys up the drilling rights.

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When we first meet Steve, he’s being marked for promotion by a grateful corporation. He is, an executive tells him admiringly, its number-one closer by a wide margin. How does he do it? Shucks, says Steve, blushing, I’m just a country boy. He’s just like the people he’s pitching, and they recognize and trust him. But it’s hard to see what he brings to the job, other than a certain naive idealism and a trust in the goodness of what he’s selling. He’s from a small town, he’s seen it go bust, and he genuinely wants to save these people from a similar fate by offering them a big-time payday for land that can no longer turn a profit in the old ways. “I’m not selling them natural gas,” he says. “I’m selling them the only way to get back.” But Steve doesn’t have that hard-shelled, selfconfident polish a slick number-one salesman ought to have. He’s not as sure of himself as a huckster ought to be. And a corporation like Global isn’t really going to trust its prime territories to a gullible true believer. When Steve and his partner, the laconic, pragmatic Sue Thomason (Frances McDormand), hit the rural farming town of McKinley, they stick out like sore thumbs. They go to the general store to buy “local” clothes to blend in. “You’re the natural-gas people,” says the owner (Titus Welliver), sizing them up on sight. And when Steve puts on the clothes he’s bought, he neglects to remove a tag. So much for the farm boy who just naturally fits in. Even when he’s bribing local politicians, Steve believes in the goodness of what he’s doing. “I’m not a bad guy,” he tells pretty schoolmarm Alice (Rosemarie DeWitt), evoking echoes of Richard Nixon’s signature line. But when at a town meeting

a crusty high-school science teacher (Hal Holbrook) raises questions about the dangers of fracking, things start to unravel. It gets worse when a crusading environmentalist comes to town. Drawn like a shark to blood by the scent of an environmental fight, Dustin Noble ( John Krasinski) shows up with pamphlets and pictures of dead cows and proceeds to lobby the locals, and soon “Global Go Home” yard signs are popping up like mushrooms after a spring rain. Krasinski and Damon co-wrote the screenplay (based on a story by Dave Eggers that originally dealt with wind farming), and Damon was originally slated to make his directing debut with the film. The strategy of Promised Land is to balance its approach by giving the pro-fracking arguments to the trustworthy Damon and the anti-fracking evangelism to the glad-handing interloper played by Krasinski, who even tries to steal the girl. The real moral center of the film is Holbrook, who first shines the light of environmental science on Global’s murky practices but recognizes that Steve is a good person at heart. “I wish we had more young people with your qualities,” he tells him. “It’s a shame you’re on the wrong side.” Promised Land is a modern Frank Capra movie, and few in the audience will doubt where it, and Steve, are headed. But whereas in a Capra film it all makes a kind of exhilarating sense, this team (headed by director Gus Van Sant, who directed Damon’s writing and acting breakthrough Good Will Hunting) loses its way. For all its good qualities and good intentions, it squanders its promise in a wallow of sentimentality, improbability, and preachiness. A little girl with a lemonade stand teaches Steve a lesson about honesty, if that gives you some idea. ◀

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Chez Mamou French Bakery and Café

217 E. Palace Ave., 216-1845 Brunch 8 a.m.- 5: 30 p.m. Tuesdays-Sundays Takeout Noise level: serenity set to a French soundtrack Vegetarian options Wheelchair-accessible Credit cards, no checks

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The Short Order Paul Perrier and Rahera Perrier, formerly of Café Paris, are back baking and cooking, respectively, at Nöella Milko’s brand-new Chez Mamou French Bakery and Café. Le brunch, borrowed from America, is all the rage in Paris these days, and Chez Mamou keeps up with the times with its all-day brunch menu. The core selection of French classics — including quiches, crêpes, omelets, salad, soup, charcuterie, and cheese, plus pastries and coffee drinks — offers an ideal combination of sweet and savory. And the menu continues to expand. The serene atmosphere invites you to enjoy conversation with a friend or read a newspaper. A patio is in the planning stages. Inexperienced (though charming) service and slip-ups in the kitchen on made-to-order items should decrease as the café hits its stride. The soup-bowl-size double cappuccino with a cloud of foam will warm both your hands on a cold winter day. Recommended: quiche Lorraine, spinach crêpe, mushroom omelet, mini-pastries, tarte au citron, and chocolate truffles.

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In a recent New Yorker cartoon, a typical American breakfast of eggs, bacon, and the works taunts a typical French breakfast of a croissant and coffee. At Chez Mamou French Bakery and Café, you can have your croissant and eat your eggs and bacon, too. The pastry cases are temptingly filled with some of Santa Fe’s finest French pastries, while the “all day brunch” menu features omelets, house-made quiches, croque madame, and croque monsieur, as well as spinach crêpes, onion soup, a charcuterie and cheese plate, and a salade Mamou. Sides include bacon, sautéed mushrooms, and Provençal tomatoes. By the time you read this, the menu may also include various pasta dishes and mussels. Paul Perrier, former owner-chef of Café Paris, which closed its doors after 15 years in 2011, is the man behind the pastry case — or rather the patisserie baking at Chez Mamou — while his former wife and former partner at Café Paris, Rahera Perrier, does the cooking. Chez Mamou opened in late October 2012 inside the Nöella Jewelry Couture gallery on E. Palace Ave. A tile table under a graceful chandelier alongside an aubergine divan is the focal piece of the elegant décor, while a long ecru banquette with small tables lines one wall and mirrors reflect light from several windows. A French soundtrack murmurs seductively in your ear. The servers compensate for their inexperience with such friendly charm that most of the café crowd will probably ignore minor mishaps along the learning curve. The relaxed atmosphere jibes with the brunch-all-day ethos, though if you are in a hurry or on a tight schedule, this may not be your perfect café. But once you settle in on the banquette or divan with a double cappuccino in a soup-bowl-size mug, big enough to warm both your hands and filled with a towering thundercloud of milk foam, while all those gorgeous pastries wink at you from across the room (one is even called tentation, which means “temptation”), you may just forget why you were in such a hurry. The lace-edged crêpe aux épinards bulges with freshly sautéed spinach, while the wild mushroom omelet bursts with earthy oyster and shiitake mushrooms. I’ve always wanted to know Perrier’s secret for his high, fluffy quiches, epitomized by the gold standard quiche Lorraine. I’ve never found any to compare in flavor — many a soufflé would envy it. Fully cooked garlicky potatoes, with rosemary and a small salad or Provençal roasted tomatoes, ride alongside. Alas, one quiet morning my croque madame arrived on untoasted bread and lacking the promised Swiss cheese. The perfectly cooked egg, nestled in rich béchamel atop the bread and ham, hid these sins from view, and the dish was delicious

despite them. But many would find unpleasant, as I did, the soggy bread that resulted. This kind of avoidable slip-up in the kitchen troubled my relationship with Café Paris, whose extensive menu seemed to overreach, so I had hopes that Chez Mamou’s onepage bill of fare (at the time of this review) would prove that less is often more. On a relatively busy Saturday morning, everything was perfectly prepared. The kitchen ran out of bacon but served a lovely crumple of paper-thin ham instead. A selection of miniature pastries allows you to indulge before or after your meal. The papillons are buttery butterflies of crisp pastry, like miniature palmiers. The succès (call it a mini-mousse puff) is a must for chocolate-mousse fans, while the miniéclair is filled with sweet vanilla custard. Chocolate truffles can be bought individually for a perfect treat with coffee. Cocoa dusts your fingers as you crunch through the hard chocolate shell into the dense darkchocolate cream. And then there are individual tarts and gâteaux, such as the tarte au citron with its crisp buttery crust and lemony custard. Ignoring the pastry cases is possible, I suppose, but keep in mind that life is short. A patio is planned for summer, with light and shadow playing over pots of flowers “like in Provence,” owner Nöella Milko assured me with a dreamy look in her eye. So look out American breakfast: le brunch is here. Tant mieux. ◀

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Brunch for three at Chez Mamou: Quiche Lorraine ............................................. $7.95 Spinach crêpe ................................................. $9.95 Mushroom omelet .......................................... $8.95 Two mini-pastries ........................................... $5.50 Lemon tart ...................................................... $3.95 Two double cappuccinos ................................ $7.50 Tea .................................................................. $2.75 Two espressos ................................................. $5.90 TOTAL .......................................................... $52.45 (before tax and tip)

Brunch for one, another visit: Croque madame ............................................. $8.95 Chocolate truffle ............................................. $1.95 Double cappuccino ......................................... $3.75 TOTAL .......................................................... $14.65 (before tax and tip)

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pasa week 4 Friday gallery/museum openings

adobe gallery 221 Canyon Rd., 955-0550. Paintings by Quincy Tahoma (1920-1956), through Feb. 14. art exchange gallery 60 E. San Francisco St., Suite 210, 603-4485. Paintings by Al Bahe, through January. Back pew gallery 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544. Mixed-media group show of work by members of First Presbyterian Church, reception 6-7 p.m., through January. Bill Hester Fine art 830 Canyon Rd., 660-5966. Homage to the Strong Woman/Joy, bronze sculpture by David Unger, reception 5-7 p.m., through January. manitou galleries 123 W. Palace Ave., 986-0440. Calendar Art Show, reception 5-7:30 p.m., through Jan. 18. marigold arts 424 Canyon Rd., 982-4142. New works by gallery artists, reception 5-7 p.m., through January. Vivo Contemporary 725-A Canyon Rd., 982-1320. Giving Voice to Image, collaborative exhibit between New Mexico poets and gallery artists, reception and readings by Lauren Camp and Barbara Rockman 5-7 p.m., through March 26.

Much Clearer Down Below, by Eric Zener, Turner Carroll Gallery, 725 Canyon Rd.

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TgiF recital Organist Linda Raney and pianist Victoria Hudimac perform music of Langlais, Thiman, and Niles, 5:30-6 p.m., First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe, 208 Grant Ave., donations appreciated, 982-8544.

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(See Page 59 for addresses) ¡Chispa! at el mesón The Three Faces of Jazz and friends, featuring Bryan Lewis on drums, 7:30 p.m., no cover. Club 139 at milagro DJ Alchemy, sol therapy and Chicanobuilt, 9 p.m., $5-$7 cover. Cowgirl BBQ Americana/rock band The Kinky Fingers, 5-7:30 p.m., no cover. Sean Healen Band, Western-tinged rock ’n’ roll, 8:30 p.m., no cover. el Cañon at the Hilton Gerry Carthy, tenor guitar and flute, 7-9 p.m., no cover. Hotel santa Fe Ronald Roybal, flute and classical Spanish guitar, 7-9 p.m., no cover. la Casa sena Cantina Best of Broadway, piano and vocals, 6-10 p.m., no cover.

Pasa’s Little Black Book......... 59 Exhibitionism...................... 60 At the Galleries.................... 61 Libraries.............................. 61 Museums & Art Spaces........ 61

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la Fiesta lounge at la Fonda Americana band Boris & The Salt Licks, 8-11 p.m., no cover. la posada de santa Fe resort and spa Nacha Mendez Trio, pan-Latin rhythms, 6:30-9:30 p.m., no cover. pranzo italian grill Geist Cabaret with pianist David Geist, 6-9 p.m., $2 cover. second street Brewery Swing Soleil, Gypsy jazz and swing, 6-9 p.m., no cover. second street Brewery at the railyard Pollo Frito, New Orleans jazz and funk, 6-9 p.m., no cover. Tiny’s Classic-rock band The Jakes, 8:30 p.m.-close, no cover. Vanessie Pianist Doug Montgomery, selections from the Great American Songbook, 6-8 p.m., no cover.

5 Saturday opera in Hd

The met live in Hd Berlioz’s Les Troyens, 10 a.m., Lensic Performing Arts Center, $22-$28, discounts available, ticketssantafe.org, 988-1234.

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The Flea at el museo 8 a.m.-3 p.m. El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, 555 Camino de la Familia, santafeflea.com, 982-2671, weekends through April. santa Fe artists market 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturdays through March at the Railyard plaza between the Farmers Market and REI, 310-1555. santa Fe Farmers market shops 8 a.m.-1 p.m., 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-4098.

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(See Page 59 for addresses) ¡Chispa! at el mesón Noche de Flamenco, with the Conpaz Troupe, 7-10 p.m., $10 cover. Club 139 at milagro DJ Poetics, hip-hop/house/Latin, 9 p.m., $5-$7 cover. Cowgirl BBQ Pollo Frito, New Orleans jazz and funk, 2-5 p.m., no cover, Anthony Leon & The Chain, rockabilly, 8:30 p.m., no cover. Hotel santa Fe Ronald Roybal, flute and classical Spanish guitar, 7-9 p.m., no cover. la Casa sena Cantina Best of Broadway, piano and vocals, 6-10 p.m., no cover.

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la Fiesta lounge at la Fonda Americana band Boris & The Salt Licks, 8-11 p.m., no cover. la posada de santa Fe resort and spa Jazz vocalist Whitney and guitarist Pat Malone, 8-11 p.m., no cover. The mine shaft Tavern Paw & Erik Sawyer, alt. bluegrass, 3-7 p.m., no cover. Paula Nelson Band, 7 p.m., $10 cover. pranzo italian grill Pianist David Geist with vocalist Julie Trujillo, 6-9 p.m., $2 cover. second street Brewery Blues/rock band The Attitudes, 6-9 p.m., no cover. second street Brewery at the railyard Eric George & Man No Sober, roots-rock duo, 6-9 p.m., no cover. stats sports Bar & nightlife DJ Feathericci spinning cross-genre dance music, 10 p.m.-2 a.m., no cover, 21+. Taberna la Boca Nacha Mendez Duo, pan-Latin rhythms, 6:30-9:30 p.m., no cover. Tiny’s Showcase karaoke with Nanci and Cyndi, 8:30 p.m.-close, no cover. Vanessie Pianist Doug Montgomery, selections from the Great American Songbook, 6-8 p.m., no cover. Andy Kingston Trio with Paula Rhae McDonald, jazz, 8:30 p.m.close, call for cover.

6 Sunday opera in Hd

The met live in Hd Berlioz’s Les Troyens encore, 2 p.m., Lensic Performing Arts Center, $22-$28, discounts available, ticketssantafe.org, 988-1234.

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performance at The screen The series continues with a broadcast of the Bolshoi Ballet’s production of La Sylphide, 11 a.m., Santa Fe University of Art & Design, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., $20, discounts available, 473-6494.

Books/Talks

diane Wood and rick lass Common Cause’s voting rights director and the former Green Party candidate discuss legislative issues with Faren Dancer, 11 a.m., Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226. museum of international Folk art exhibit talk Bobbie Sumberg and Joyce Cheney speak in the closing program for

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Young Brides, Old Treasures: Macedonian Embroidered Dress, 1-4 p.m., 706 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, by museum admission, 476-1200.

events

the Flea at el Museo 9 a.m.-3 p.m. El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, 555 Camino de la Familia, santafeflea.com, 982-2671, weekends through April. International folk dances 6:30-8 p.m. weekly, followed by Israeli dances 8-10 p.m., Odd Fellows Hall, 1125 Cerrillos Rd., $5, 501-5081, 466-2920, beginners welcome. Railyard Artisans Market 10 a.m.-4 p.m. weekly. Live music: saxophonist Brian Wingard 10 a.m.-1 p.m., acoustic guitarist David Williams 1-4 p.m., Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion, 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-4098, railyardartmarket.com. santa Fe Farmers Market shops 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-4098.

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(See addresses below) Cowgirl BBQ Zenobia and company, R & B and gospel, noon3 p.m., no cover. Jazz trumpeter Russell Scharf and Jazz Explosion, 8 p.m.-close, no cover. el Farol Nacha Mendez and guests, pan-Latin rhythms, 7 p.m.-close, no cover. la Casa sena Cantina Best of Broadway, piano and vocals, 6-10 p.m., no cover. la Posada de santa Fe Resort and spa Wily Jim, Western swingabilly, 7 p.m., no cover.

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the Mine shaft tavern Americana guitarist Gene Corbin, 3-7 p.m., no cover. vanessie Pianist Doug Montgomery, selections from the Great American Songbook, 7 p.m.-close, no cover.

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santa Fe Art Institute Santa Fe University of Art & Design, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., 424-5050. Shifting Baselines, works by Cynthia Hooper and Hugh Pocock, reception and gallery talk 6 p.m., through Jan. 25. $10, student discounts available.

Books/tAlks

Breakfast With o’keeffe Staff members discuss careers in museums, 8:30-9:45 a.m., Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 217 Johnson St., by museum admission, 946-1039.

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Weekly all-ages informal swing dances Lesson 7-8 p.m., dance 8-10 p.m., Odd Fellows Hall, 1125 Cerrillos Rd., dance only $3, lesson and dance $8, 473-0955.

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(See addresses below) Cowgirl BBQ Cowgirl karaoke with Michele Leidig, 9 p.m., no cover.

la Fiesta lounge at la Fonda 100 E. San Francisco St., 982-5511 la Posada de santa Fe Resort and spa 330 E. Palace Ave., 986-0000 the legal tender at the lamy Railroad Museum 151 Old Lamy Trail, 466-1650 lodge lounge at the lodge at santa Fe 750 N. St. Francis Dr., 992-5800 the Matador 116 W. San Francisco St., 984-5050 the Mine shaft tavern 2846 NM 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Molly’s kitchen & lounge 1611 Calle Lorca, 983-7577 the Palace Restaurant & saloon 142 W. Palace Ave, 428-0690 the Pantry Restaurant 1820 Cerrillos Rd., 986-0022 Pranzo Italian grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Rouge Cat 101 W. Marcy St., 983-6603 san Francisco street Bar & grill 50 E. San Francisco St., 982-2044

el Farol Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night, 7 p.m., no cover. la Casa sena Cantina Best of Broadway, piano and vocals, 6-10 p.m., no cover. la Fiesta lounge at la Fonda Country band Sierra, 7:30-11 p.m., no cover. taberna la Boca Flamenco guitarist Chuscales, 7-9 p.m., no cover. vanessie Pianist Doug Montgomery, selections from the Great American Songbook, 7 p.m.-close, no cover.

8 Tuesday events

International folk dances Lesson 7-8 p.m., dance 8-10 p.m., Odd Fellows Hall, 1125 Cerrillos Rd., $5, 501-5081, 466-2920, or 983-3168, beginners welcome.

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(See addresses below) ¡Chispa! at el Mesón Argentine Tango Milonga, 7:30-11 p.m., $5 cover. Cowgirl BBQ José Antonio Ponce, Americana/jazz/blues, 8 p.m., no cover. el Farol Canyon Road Blues Jam, with Tiho Dimitrov, Brant Leeper, Mikey Chavez, and Tone Forrest, 8:30 p.m.-midnight, no cover. la Casa sena Cantina Best of Broadway, piano and vocals, 6-10 p.m., no cover.

santa Fe sol stage & grill 37 Fire Pl., solofsantafe.com second street Brewer y 1814 Second St., 982-3030 second street Brewer y at the Railyard Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion, 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 the starlight lounge RainbowVision Santa Fe, 500 Rodeo Rd., 428-7781 stats sports Bar & nightlife 135 W. Palace Ave., 982-7265 taberna la Boca 125 Lincoln Ave., Suite 117, 988-7102 thunderbird Bar & grill 50 Lincoln Ave., 490-6550 tiny’s 1005 St. Francis Dr., Suite 117, 983-9817 the underground at evangelo’s 200 W. San Francisco St., 577-5893 upper Crust Pizza 329 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0000 vanessie 427 W. Water St., 982-9966 Zia Diner 326 S. Guadalupe St., 988-7008

la Fiesta lounge at la Fonda Country band Sierra, 7:30-11 p.m., no cover. second street Brewery at the Railyard Acoustic open-mic nights with Case Tanner, 7:30-10:30 p.m., no cover. tiny’s Open-mic nights presented by 505 Bands, 7:30 p.m.-close, no cover. vanessie Pianist Doug Montgomery, selections from the Great American Songbook, 7 p.m.-close, no cover.

9 Wednesday events

storycorps MobileBooth tour The national nonprofit organization will record interviews with residents daily through Feb. 9, (look for the airstream trailer parked at Palace Avenue on the Plaza) collecting stories to be archived at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Segments of interviews will air on KSFR 101.1 FM. Call 800-850-4406 or visit storycorps.org to make reservations.

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(See addresses below) Club 139 at Milagro DJ MayRant and friends, electronic dance music, 9 p.m., $5-$7 cover. Cowgirl BBQ Two-Bit Shotgun, countryoriented variety band, 8 p.m., no cover. el Farol Salsa Caliente, 9 p.m., no cover. la Boca Nacha Mendez, pan-Latin chanteuse, 7-9 p.m., no cover. la Fiesta lounge at la Fonda Bill Hearne Trio, roadhouse honky-tonk, 7:30 p.m., no cover. the Pantry Restaurant Acoustic guitar and vocals with Gary Vigil, 5:30-8:30 p.m., call for cover. tiny’s 505 Jam hosted by Synde Parten, John Reives, and M.C. Clymer, 7:30 p.m.-close, no cover. vanessie Pianist David Geist and friends, Broadway tunes, 7 p.m.-close, call for cover. Zia Diner Americana singer/songwriter Eryn Bent, 6-9 p.m., no cover.

10 Thursday In ConCeRt

greg Brown Americana singer/songwriter, 7:30 p.m., St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave., $29 and $39, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Books/tAlks

santa Fe Botanical gardens Winter lecture series Brothers of the Spade, Bonnie Joseph discusses botanical interchange between Europe and North America, 2-4 p.m. Museum of International Folk Art, 706 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, $5 at the door, call 471-9103 for reservations, continues on the second Thursday of the month through April.

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Club 139 at Milagro Noches Latinas with DJ Dany, 9 p.m., $5-$7 cover. Cowgirl BBQ Sean Healen songswap, 8 p.m., no cover. la Casa sena Cantina Best of Broadway, piano and vocals, 6-10 p.m., no cover.

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A peek at what’s showing around town

miguel martinez: Saint Marianna, 2012, oil pastel on canvas. Manitou Galleries (123 W. Palace Ave.) presents an exhibition of art featured in its 2013 calendar. The exhibit includes work by Miguel Martinez, Jerry Jordan, and Star Liana York. The show opens Friday, Jan. 4, with a reception at 5 p.m. The gallery is at 123 W. Palace Ave. Call 986-0440.

martin J. Desht: Lumberyard Worker and Won. Former Industrial Worker. Southeastern Pennsylvania, 1993, silver gelatin print. Faces of an American Dream is an exhibition of black-and-white photographs by Martin J. Desht documenting the effects of deindustrialization in Pennsylvania in the last decades of the 20th century. The exhibition is up through January in the Tybie Satin Davis Gallery of the Santa Fe Public Library (145 Washington Ave.). Call 955-6780.

Robert highsmith: Lake Powell Cliffs, 2012, watercolor. Marigold Arts presents an exhibition of new work by gallery artists including the paintings of Robert Highsmith, the turned-wood vessels of Jim McLain, and the tapestries of Barbara Marigold. The show opens with a 5 p.m. reception on Friday, Jan. 4. Marigold Arts is at 424 Canyon Road. Call 982-4142.

January 4-10, 2013

ben saucier: Wet Paint, 2012, acrylic on canvas. Balance is an exhibition of abstract expressionist paintings by Ben Saucier. This is the artist’s first exhibit in Santa Fe. The show is at the Southside branch of the Santa Fe Public Library (6599 Jaguar Drive) through January. Call 955-2810.

Jane Rosemont: Remembering, 2012, photograph. Vivo Contemporary (725 Canyon Road, 982-1320) explores the relationship between words and pictures in Giving Voice to Image, a two-part exhibition pairing poems by New Mexico poets with artwork by Vivo’s gallery artists. The first part features the work of seven artists including that of Ro Calhoun and George Duncan. Poets include Barbara Rockman and Lauren Camp. A reception and poetry reading takes place on Friday, Jan. 4, at 5 p.m. A second reception and poetry reading is scheduled for 5 p.m. on Feb. 1.

At the GAlleries Arroyo Gallery 200 Canyon Rd., 988-1002. Chuck Voltz: Winter Impressions, paintings, through Wednesday, Jan. 9. Eight Modern 231 Delgado St., 995-0231. Strong Winds May Exist, gouache paintings on paper by Siobhan McBride, through Saturday, Jan. 5. Gerald Peters Gallery 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5700. Nests, works by Bale Creek Allen and Malu Byrne, through Friday, Jan. 4. Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery 602-A Canyon Rd., 820-7451. Navajo Saddle Blankets circa 1890-1930, through Friday, Jan. 4. Meyer East Gallery 225 Canyon Rd., 983-1657. Holiday Show, work by Michael Workman, through Friday, Jan. 4. New Concept Gallery 610-A Canyon Rd., 795-7570. Winter Scenes, group show of paintings and photographs, through Jan. 19. Sideshows, group show of small works presented by Jay Etkin Gallery, through Jan. 11. Nüart Gallery 670 Canyon Rd., 988-3888. Figurations, group show of paintings, through Sunday, Jan. 6. Santa Fe Arts Commission Community Gallery Santa Fe Community Convention Center, 201 W. Marcy St., 955-6705. Fine Folk of New Mexico, group show, through Jan. 26. Santa Fe Clay 545 Camino de la Familia, 984-1122. Beginning to End, works by Christine Golden, Aisha Harrison, and Clayton Keyes, through Jan. 19. Santa Fe Public Library — Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780. Faces From an American Dream, black-and-white photographs by Martin J. Desht, through January. Selby Fleetwood Gallery 600 Canyon Rd., 992-8877. Winter Gathering 2012, group show, through Monday, Jan. 7. Turner Carroll Gallery 725 Canyon Rd., 986-9800. Contemporary Terrain, group show of landscapes, through Jan. 20. William & Joseph Gallery 727 Canyon Rd., 982-9404. Connectivity, new paintings by Marci Erspamer, through Saturday, Jan. 5. Zane Bennett Contemporary Art 435 S. Guadalupe St., 982-8111. A Square Foot of Humor, annual group show, through Tuesday, Jan. 8.

liBrAries Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Library Marion Center for Photographic Arts, Santa Fe University of Art & Design, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., 424-5052. Open by appointment only. Catherine McElvain Library School for Advanced Research, 660 Garcia St., 954-7200. Open Monday-Friday, call for hours. Chase Art History Library Thaw Art History Center, Santa Fe University of Art & Design, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., 473-6569. Open Monday-Friday, call for hours. Faith and John Meem Library St. John’s College, 1160 Camino de Cruz Blanca, 984-6041. Visit stjohnscollege.edu for hours of operation. $20 fee to nonstudents and nonfaculty. Fray Angélico Chávez History Library Palace of the Governors, 120 Washington Ave., 476-5090. Open 1-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday.

Laboratory of Anthropology Library Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, 476-1264. Open 1-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, by museum admission. New Mexico State Library 1209 Camino Carlos Rey, 476-9700. Upstairs (state and federal documents and books) open noon-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday; downstairs (Southwest collection, archives, and records) open 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. Quimby Memorial Library Southwestern College, 3960 San Felipe Rd., 467-6825. Rare books and collections of metaphysical materials. Open Monday-Friday, call for hours. Santa Fe Community College Library 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1352. Open MondayFriday, call for hours. Santa Fe Institute 1399 Hyde Park Rd., 984-8800. Open 1-5 p.m. Monday-Friday to current students (call for details).Visit santafe.edu/library for online catalog. Santa Fe Public Library, Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780. Open 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.6 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Santa Fe Public Library, Oliver La Farge Branch 1730 Llano St., 955-4860. Open 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Wednesday, 10 a.m.6 p.m. Thursday-Saturday. Closed Sunday. Santa Fe Public Library, Southside Branch 6599 Jaguar Dr., 955-2810. Open 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.6 p.m. Friday-Saturday. Closed Sunday. Supreme Court Law Library 237 Don Gaspar Ave., 827-4850. Online catalog available at supremecourtlawlibrary.org. Open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.

MuseuMs & Art spAces refer to the daily calendar listings for special events. Museum hours subject to change on holidays and for special events. Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338. Forget Your Perfect Offering, installation (and rotating performance series) by Sydney Cooper and Edie Tsong, through Jan. 27. Gallery hours available by phone or online at ccasantafe.org, no charge. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum 217 Johnson St., 946-1000. Georgia O’Keeffe and the Faraway: Nature and Image, through May 5. Open 10 a.m.5 p.m. Saturday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Fridays. $12; seniors $10; NM residents $6; students18 and over $10; under 18 no charge; NM residents free 5-7 p.m. first Friday of the month. Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Pl., 983-8900. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday and Wednesday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Adults $10; NM residents, seniors, and students $5; 16 and under and NM residents with ID no charge on Sundays. Museum of Indian Arts & Culture 710 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 476-1250. Woven Identities: Basketry Art From the Collections • They Wove for Horses: Diné Saddle Blankets, Navajo weavings and silverworks; exhibits through March 4 • Margarete Bagshaw: Breaking the Rules, 20-year retrospective, through 2013 • Here, Now, and Always, artifacts, stories, and songs depicting Southwestern Native American traditions. Let’s Take a Look, free artifact identification by MIAC curators, noon-2 p.m. the third Wednesday of each month. Open

El Oratorio de Lorenzo López, Santa Fe, New Mexico, neon by Jan Beauboeuf, photograph by Donald Woodman, in the exhibit Altared Spaces: The Shrines of New Mexico, New Mexico history Museum

10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. NM residents $6; nonresidents $9; ages 16 and younger no charge; students with ID $1 discount; school groups no charge; NM residents no charge on Sundays; free to NM residents over 60 on Wednesdays. Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 476-1200. New World Cuisine: The Histories of Chocolate, Maté y Más, through Jan. 5, 2014 • New Mexican Hispanic Artists 1912-2012, installation in Lloyd’s Treasure Chest, through February • Young Brides, Old Treasures: Macedonian Embroidered Dress, closing Sunday, Jan. 6 • Folk Art of the Andes, work from the 19th and 20th centuries • Multiple Visions: A Common Bond, international collection of toys and traditional folk art. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. NM residents $6; nonresidents $9; ages 16 and under no charge; students with ID $1 discount; school groups no charge; NM residents over 60 no charge on Wednesdays; no charge for NM residents on Sundays. Museum of Spanish Colonial Art 750 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 982-2226. Metal and Mud — Iron and Pottery, showcase of works by Spanish Market artists, through April • San Ysidro Labrador/St. Isidore the Farmer, bultos, retablos, straw appliqué, and paintings on tin • Recent Acquisitions, Colonial and 19th-century Mexican art, sculpture, and furniture; also, work by Spanish Market youth artists • The Delgado Room, late Colonial period re-creation. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. $8; NM residents $4; 16 and under no charge; NM residents no charge on Sundays. New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5200. Altared Spaces: The Shrines of New Mexico, photographs by Siegfried Halus, Jack Parsons, and Donald Woodman, through Feb. 10 • Tall Tales of the Wild West: The Stories of Karl May, collection of photographs and ephemera in relation to the German author, longterm • Telling New Mexico: Stories From Then and Now, core exhibition of chronological periods from the pre-Colonial era to the present. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday; 5-8 p.m.

Fridays. NM residents $6; nonresidents $9; 16 and younger no charge; students with ID $1 discount; school groups no charge; no charge on Wednesdays for NM residents over 60; no charge on Fridays 5-8 p.m.; NM residents no charge on Sundays. New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W. Palace Ave., 476-5072. Alcove 12.7, revolving exhibit of local artists’ works, through Jan. 13 • Chromatic Fusion: The Art of Fused Glass; Emerge 2012: A Showcase of Rising Talents in Kiln Glass; through Sunday, Jan. 6 • It’s About Time: 14,000 Years of Art in New Mexico, through January 2014. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday; 5-8 p.m. Fridays. NM residents $6; nonresidents $9; 16 and younger no charge; students with ID $1 discount; school groups no charge; NM residents over 60 no charge on Wednesdays; free for NM residents on Sundays. New Mexico National Guard Bataan Memorial Museum and Library 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 474-1670. Housed in the original armory from which the 200th Coast Artillery Regiment was processed for entry into active service in 1941. Military artifacts and documents. Open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, by donation. Poeh Museum 78 Cities of Gold Rd., Poeh Center Complex, Pueblo of Pojoaque, 455-3334. Núuphaa, works by Pueblo of Pojoaque Poeh Arts Program students, through March 9. Open 8 a.m.5 p.m. Monday-Friday; 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday; donations accepted. SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199. More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness, group show, closing Sunday, Jan. 6. Open 10 a.m.5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday; 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday; noon-5 p.m. Sunday. $10; seniors and students $5; Fridays no charge. Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian 704 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 982-4636. A Certain Fire: Mary Wheelwright Collects the Southwest, 75th anniversary exhibit • New work by Orlando Dugi and Ken Williams, Case Trading Post. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. MondaySaturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Docent tours 2 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays.

PASATIEMPO

In the wings MUSIC

KSFR Music Café The series continues with Clifford Brown/ Max Roach Revisited, with J.Q. Whitcomb on trumpet, Brian Wingard on saxophone, Bob Fox on piano, and John Trentacosta on drums, 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 11, Museum Hill Café, 710 Camino Lejo, Milner Plaza, $20, 428-1527. The Met Live in HD Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, Saturday, Jan. 19; Verdi’s Rigoletto Wednesday, Feb. 16; all screenings 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Lensic Performing Arts Center, $22-$28, discounts available, ticketssantafe.org, 988-1234. Music on the Hill Elevated Jazz series presented by St. John’s College; pianist Julian Waterfall Pollack, Saturday, Jan.19; vocalist Lori Carsillo with Straight Up, Saturday, Feb. 16; both performances begin at 7:30 p.m., doors open at 7 p.m., Great Hall, Peterson Student Center, 1160 Camino de Cruz Blanca, $25 in advance starting Monday, Jan. 7, 984-6199. Zia Singers Traditional winter concert mixing classical and contemporary choral music; 7 p.m. Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 26-27, Immaculate Heart of Mary Retreat and Conference Center Chapel, 50 Mount Carmel Rd., $20 at the door, ziasingers.com.

7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 6 p.m. Saturday, March 28-30, Loretto Chapel, 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, $20-$65, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org. Richard Goode The pianist plays music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $20-$75, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org. Tracy Grammer Multi-instrumentalist/singer, 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 12, Gig Performance Space, 1808-H Second St., $20 at the door, gigsantafe.com. Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra April Joy, Mozart and Dvoˇrák, 4 p.m. Sunday, April 21, pre-concert lecture 3 p.m., Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $20-$70, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org. Monterey Jazz Festival 55th anniversary tour featuring Dee Dee Bridgewater, Christian McBride, Benny Green, Lewis Nash, Chris Potter, and Ambrose Akinmusire, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25, Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $25-$55, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org. Signum Quartet Music of Haydn, Schubert, and Suk, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25, St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave., $20-$50, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

THEATER/DANCE

matisyahu performs at 7:30 p.m. thursday, Jan. 31, at the Lensic.

Matisyahu Reggae and alt. rock songwriter, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $29-$47, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org. Paper Bird Crunk/lounge band; He’s My Brother, She’s My Sister opens; 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19, doors open at 6:30 p.m., Santa Fe Sol Stage & Grill, 37 Fire Pl., $12, holdmyticket.com. Brentano String Quartet Music of Haydn, Bartók, and Brahms, 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 1, St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave., $20-$65, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org. Serenata of Santa Fe The chamber music ensemble presents the Apple Hill String Quartet in Outliers, featuring oboist Pamela Epple and pianist Debra Ayers, music of Brahms, Grieg, and Ligeti, 6 p.m. Friday, March 22, Scottish Rite Center, 463 Paseo de Peralta, $20 in advance at serenataofsantafe, $25 at the door, 989-7988. Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra Baroque Holy Week, featuring mezzosoprano Deborah Domanski and trumpeter Brian Shaw, music of Bach, Telemann, and Leclair, 62

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National Theatre of London in HD The series continues with Arthur Wing Pinero’s Victorian farce, The Magistrate, 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 17, Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $15 and $22, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org. ‘Just a Gigolo’ Santa Fe Playhouse presents Stephen Lowe’s drama set in New Mexico, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 18-20, 142 De Vargas St., $20, discounts available, santafeplayhouse.org, 988-4262. ‘Some Kind of Love Story’ and ‘Elegy for a Lady’ Teatro Paraguas presents Arthur Miller’s two one-acts, 8 p.m. Friday, 7 p.m. Saturday, 2 and 6 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 25-27, 3205 Calle Marie, $12; discounts available; matinee pay-what-you-wish, 424-1601. ‘Benchwarmers 12’ Annual showcase of New Mexico talent presented by Santa Fe Playhouse; eight fully staged playlets running Feb. 7 through March 3; 142 E. De Vargas St., $10-$25, 988-4262, santafeplayhouse.org. Bill Maher Political comedian, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17, Santa Fe Community Convention Center, 201 W. Marcy St., $47-$67, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org. Belisama Irish Dance Company Rhythm of Fire; performers include Michael Patrick Gallagher and regional championship and top 10 world finalist dancers from Santa Fe and Los Alamos, 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 15, Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $10-$20, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Upcoming events ‘Buried Child’ Ironweed Productions in co-production with Santa Fe Playhouse presents Sam Shepard’s comedy, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, March 28-April 14, 142 De Vargas St., $20, discounts available, santafeplayhouse.org, 988-4262. Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo Men dancing en pointe in a playful parody of classical ballet, 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 15, Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $20-$70, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org. ‘Once on This Island’ Santa Fe University of Art & Design Documentary Theatre Project students present Lynn Ahrens’ musical, 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, April 19-28, Greer Garson Theatre, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., $12 and $15, discounts available, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

HAPPENINGS

Art on the Edge 2013 Friends of Contemporary Art + Photography’s biennial juried group show hosted by the New Mexico Museum of Art, includes work by Santa Fe artists Donna Ruff and Greta Young, public opening Jan. 18, through April 14, 107 W. Palace Ave., by museum admission, 476-5072. Images of Life, Spyglass Field Recordings: Santa Fe, Summer Burial, and Thicker Than Water The Museum of Contemporary Native Arts hosts three solo exhibits for Tryee Honga, Nathan Pohio, and Jason Lujan respectively; and one group show, opening reception 5-7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18, 108 Cathedral Pl., 983-8900. Filigree and Finery: The Art of Spanish Elegance An exhibit of historic and contemporary jewelry, garments, and objects, public opening Saturday, Jan. 26, runs through May 27, Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, 750 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, by museum admission, 982-2226. Souper Bowl XIX The Food Depot’s annual fundraiser continues the tradition of offering local-chef-prepared soups and selling cookbooks with recipes

for the creations from noon to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26, at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center, for information call 471-1633. Lannan Foundation Events In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom series: Palestinian human-rights activist Omar Barghouti with Amy Goodman, Friday, Feb. 1; climate scientist James Hansen with Subhankar Banerjee, Wednesday, Feb. 20; social critic/author Barbara Ehrenreich with David Barsamian, Wednesday, March 13; Lannan Literary series: actor David Mills in Dreamweaver, a one-man dramatic rendition of Langston Hughes’ poems and short stories, Wednesday, Feb. 27; novelists Russell Banks and Stona Fitch, Wednesday, March 27; all events begin at 7 p.m., Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $6, discounts available, ticketssantafe.org, 988-1234. Telluride Mountainfilm on Tour Annual environmental- and conservation-themed film screenings presented by WildEarth Guardians; 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 6, Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $15, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org. Back in the Saddle 20th-century paintings, photographs, prints, and drawings depicting the Southwest on exhibit at the New Mexico Museum of Art from Feb. 8 to Sept. 15, 107 W. Palace Ave., by museum admission, 476-5072. Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage Lecture and discussion benefiting the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12, Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $35-$75, discounts available, ticketssantafe.org, 988-1234. 16th Annual ARTfeast A weekend of art, food, wine, and fashion, Friday-Sunday, Feb. 2224; Art of Fashion Runway Show and luncheon; gourmet dinner and auction honoring Star Liana York; Artists’ Champagne Brunch and auction; Edible Art Tour on Canyon Rd. and downtown; Feast or Famine dance party with music by DJs Dynamite Sol and Joe Ray Sandoval. Tickets and details available at ARTsmart, 603-4643 and online at artfeast.com, proceeds benefit ARTsmart, a local nonprofit that supports art programs in area organizations and schools.

mezzosoprano Joyce DiDonato in the metropolitan opera’s production of Maria Stuarda; live HD broadcast at the Lensic, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. saturday, Jan. 19.

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10 Thursday (continued) La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda Bill Hearne Trio, roadhouse honky-tonk, 7:30 p.m., no cover. La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa Pat Malone Jazz Trio with Kanoa Kaluhiwa on saxophone, Asher Barreras on bass, and Malone on guitar, 7-10 p.m., Staab House Salon, no cover. Taberna La Boca Nacha Mendez, pan-Latin chanteuse, 6:30-9:30 p.m., no cover. Vanessie Jazz pianist Bert Dalton and his ensemble, 8:30 p.m.-close, call for cover.

▶ Elsewhere albuquErquE Museums/Art Spaces

Albuquerque Museum of Art & History 2000 Mountain Rd. N.W., 505-243-7255. ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness, international group show of prints, interactive installations, and sculpture, part of the International Symposium of Electronic Art, through Sunday, Jan. 6. Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday; adults $4 ($1 discount for NM residents); seniors $2; children ages 4-12 $1; 3 and under no charge; the first Wednesday of the month and 9 a.m.1 p.m. Sundays no charge. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center 2401 12th St. N.W., 866-855-7902. 100 Years of State & Federal Policy: The Impact on Pueblo Nations, through February • Challenging the Notion of Mapping, Zuni map-art paintings, through August. Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily; adults $6; NM residents $4; seniors $5.50. National Hispanic Cultural Center 1701 Fourth St. S.W., 505-246-2261. Via Nuestros Maestros: The Legacy of Abad E. Lucero (1909-2009), paintings, sculpture, and furniture, through January • Stitching Resistance: The History of Chilean Arpilleras, a collection of appliqué textiles crafted between 1973 and 1990, longterm • ¡Aquí Estamos!, items from the permanent collection. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday; adults $3; seniors $2; under 16 no charge; Sundays no charge. New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science 1801 Mountain Rd. N.W., 505-841-2804. ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness, international group show of prints, interactive installations, and sculpture, part of the International Symposium of Electronic Art, through Sunday, Jan. 6 • Dinosaur Century: 100 Years of Discovery in New Mexico, showcases of new finds change monthly through 2012. Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily; adults $7, seniors $6, under 12 $4; NM seniors no charge on Wednesdays. Weyrich Gallery 2935-D Louisiana Blvd. N.E., 505-883-7410. Long-Time Co-Conspirators, works by fiber artist Karen Simmons and jeweler Jas Simmons, reception 5-8:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 4, through Jan. 28.

Events/Performances

Albuquerque Chamber Soloists Figueroas, Felbergs & Friends IX, second concert of The Immortals Series, music of Schoenberg, Brahms, and Mendelssohn, 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 6, St. Paul Lutheran Church, 1100 Indian School N.E., $15, discounts available, tickets available at the door, 505-206-3417.

Española

Bond House Museum 706 Bond St., 505-747-8535. Historic and cultural treasures exhibited in the home of railroad entrepreneur Frank Bond (1863-1945). Open noon-4 p.m. Monday-Friday, no charge. Misión Museum y Convento 1 Calle de los Españoles, 505-747-8535. A replica based on the 1944 University of New Mexico excavations of the original church built by the Spanish at the San Gabriel settlement in 1598. Open noon-4 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, 11 a.m.3 p.m. Saturday; no charge.

los alamos

‘Frost/Nixon’ Los Alamos Little Theatre presents Peter Morgan’s portrayal of the postWatergate interviews between David Frost and Richard Nixon, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Jan. 4-19, 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13, Performing Arts Center, 1670 Nectar St., $12, discounts available, 662-5493.

madrid

Johnsons of Madrid 2843 NM 14, 471-1054. Group show of works by gallery artists, reception 2-5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, through Jan. 29. Madrid Old Coal Town Mine Museum 2846 NM 14, 438-3780 or 473-0743. Madrid’s Famous Christmas Lights & Toyland, ephemera related to the town’s 30-year history of celebrating the holidays, through Jan. 13. Steam locomotive, mining equipment, and vintage automobiles. Open 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. $5, seniors and children $3.

Americana singer/songwriter Greg Brown (left) performs at St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 10.

taos

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Museums/Art Spaces

Actors

E.L. Blumenschein Home and Museum 22 Ledoux St., 575-758-0505. Hacienda art from the Blumenschein family collection, European and Spanish Colonial antiques. Open 10 a.m.5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Adults $8; under 16 $4; children under 5 no charge; Taos County residents no charge on Sunday. Harwood Museum of Art 238 Ledoux St., 575-758-9826. Maye Torres: Unbound, drawings, sculpture, and ceramics • Three exhibits in collaboration with ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness — Curiosity: From the Faraway Nearby • Falling Without Fear • Charles Luna. All exhibits through Jan. 27. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Sunday. $10; seniors and students $8; ages 12 and under no charge; Taos County residents with ID no charge on Sunday. La Hacienda de los Martinez 708 Hacienda Way, 575-758-1000. Cultural Threads: Nellie Dunton and the Colcha Revival in New Mexico, through Jan. 30. Open 10 a.m.5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, noon-4 p.m. Sunday. Adults $8; under 16 $4; children under 5 no charge; Taos County residents with ID no charge on Sunday. Millicent Rogers Museum 1504 Millicent Rogers Rd., 575-758-2462. Unknown Was a Woman, group show of pottery, baskets, and weavings, through Monday, Dec. 31. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. $8, Taos County residents with ID no charge on Sunday. Taos Art Museum and Fechin House 227 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, 575-758-2690. Visual Impressions, paintings by Don Ward, weekend artist demonstrations through Sunday, Jan. 6, in Fechin Studio. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday. $8, Taos County residents with ID no charge on Sunday.

Casting call Teatro Paraguas seeks four female actors ages 20-30 and 40-60 for The Time of the Butterflies by Caridad Svich; open auditions 4-8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 4; Teatro Paraguas Studio, 3205 Calle Marie; call 424-1601 to set up an appointment.

Artists/Craftspeople/Photographers

62nd Annual Traditional Spanish Market 2013 Artists may submit work for jurying on Feb. 2; applications due by Jan. 25; guidelines available upon request; visit spanishcolonial.org for details and applications, 992-8212, Ext. 111. Call for photographers Submissions sought for Center’s Choice Awards and Review Santa Fe by Wednesday, Jan. 23; details available online at visitcenter.org; 984-8353. CURRENTS 2013 call for entries The Santa Fe International New Media Festival runs June 14-30; all submissions must be received online or postmarked no later than Friday, Feb. 1; entry forms and more information available online at currentsnewmedia.org. MasterWorks of New Mexico 2013 Entries open to New Mexico artists for the 15th Annual Spring Art Show, April 5-27, Expo New Mexico Hispanic Arts Building Fairgrounds, Albuquerque; miniatures, pastels, watercolors, oil/acrylics; deadline Friday, Jan. 25, details and prospectus available online at masterworksnm.org; for additional information contact Barbara Lohbeck, 505-260-9977. Santa Fe Arts Commission Community Gallery New Mexico artists are encouraged to donate two original pieces to the community gallery for Silver, an art auction/exhibit (Feb. 8-22) to raise funds in celebration of the Santa Fe Arts Commission’s 25 years of service; all works must fit into a 25-inch square to be pinned to the

walls or hung with clips on wires; deliveries accepted from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7; all works will be for sale; contact Rod Lambert at rdlambert@santafenm.gov for digital submission forms, 995-6705.

Poets/Writers

2012 PEN Literary Awards Send in submissions or nominate someone to be considered in the fields of fiction, science writing, essays, sports writing, biography, children’s literature, translation, drama, or poetry; deadline Friday, Feb. 1; visit pen.org or write to awards@pen.org for more information.

Volunteers

Santa Fe Botanical Garden General help needed to guide garden tours, organize events, and help in the office; planners sought to organize the 2013 grand opening of the new garden at Museum Hill during a three-day period in July; 471-9103 or santafebotanicalgarden.org.

▶ short people Santa Fe Public Library Children’s Programs Books and Babies, 10:30-11 a.m. Wednesdays, La Farge Branch, 1730 Llano St., and 10:30-11 a.m. Thursdays, Southside Branch, 6599 Jaguar Dr.; Family Story Hour, 6:30 p.m. the first Wednesday of every month; no charge, visit santafelibrary.org for other events. Winter-Break Reading Program Hosted by all branches of the Santa Fe Public Library; pick up reading logs Friday and Saturday, Jan. 5. ◀

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Regularly $46.99 ...................................................... SALE $25.00

Knives

Regularly $11.99 ................................. SALE $5.00

Regularly $5.99 to 69.99 .......................................... SALE 40% off

Diatomaceous earth food grade 10lbs.

Regularly $23.99 to $14.99 ...................................... SALE 30% off

Sunshine performance potting soil 2.5 cu ft

Regularly $37.99 ......................................................... SALE $19.99

Safer Garden Dust 8oz

Regularly $27.99 ...................................................... SALE $15.00

Bond Tree and shrub systemic 32oz

Regularly $14.99 ........................................................ SALE $6.99

Weed fabric black woven 3’ X 100

Gilmour flexogen garden hose

Regularly $19.99 ............................... SALE $11.99

Kodiak professional shovel

Round up pump and spray 1.33gal. Regularly $33.99 ............................... SALE $20.00

Round up pull n’ spray 1.33 gallon Regularly $24.99 ................................. SALE $9.99

Black gold organic potting soil 1.5 cu. ft. Regularly $15.99 ................................. SALE $9.99

Black gold organic potting soil 2 cu. ft.

Regularly $19.99 ............................... SALE $15.99

Bond hedge shear

Regularly $10.99 ................................. SALE $7.00

Bond 2 piece pruner set

Regularly $17.99 ............................... SALE $13.00

Black and decker poly rake

Regularly $18.99 ............................... SALE $14.99

Redwood window box 24” Regularly $17.99 ................................. SALE $7.00

Redwood window box 26” Regularly $19.99 ............................... SALE $10.00

Regularly $49.99 ............................... SALE $24.99

Redwood window box 28”

Regularly $36.99 ............................... SALE $16.99

Redwood planter tub

Weed fabric grey 4’ X 100’

Regularly $10.99 ........................................................ SALE $4.99

Corona 7” folding razor tooth saw

Regularly $49.99 ............................... SALE $20.00

Regularly $22.99 ...................................................... SALE $14.99

Weed fabric grey 3’ X 50’

Regularly $15.99 ........................................................ SALE $7.00

Regularly $14..99 ................................ SALE $5.00 Mole Max gopher repellent 10lbs Regularly $19.99 ............................... SALE $15.00

Leather pruner scabbard

Bond fiberglass handle hoe

Round up 25oz rtu

Regularly $13.99 ........................................................ SALE $6.00

Regularly $27.99 ............................... SALE $10.00

Garden measuring cup Regularly $1.69 ...................................... SALE 50¢

Redwood trellises

Regularly $6.99 ................................... SALE $4.00

GARDEn ART, BEnChES, STATuES, FounTAinS ETC.

3 tier fountain with base

Regularly $699.99 ........................... SALE $450.00

Saint Joseph statue

Regularly $89.99 ............................... SALE $35.00

Saint Joseph statue

Regularly $122.99 ............................. SALE $50.00

Cement garden bench

Regularly $99.99 ............................... SALE $65.00

Cement table/ 3 benches

Regularly $699.00 ........................... SALE $300.00

Cement garden table 2 benches large

Regularly $399.99 ........................... SALE $175.00

Small jug fountain

Regularly $199.99 ............................. SALE $40.00

Girl with jug fountain

Regularly $199.99 ............................. SALE $40.00

Large Colonial fountain

Regularly $899.99 ........................... SALE $699.99

Cement Bird bath

Regularly $99.99 ............................... SALE $55.00

Ceramic bird bath

Large iron wall cross

Regularly $9.99 ................................... SALE $5.00

Select Blue Spruce

Regularly$2.99 to $8.99 ................... SALE 60% Off

Giant Austrian pines #25

Regularly $9.99 ................................... SALE $7.00

Austrian Pine

Metal Kokopelli

Large Kokopelli

Regularly $149.99 .................................................. SALE $100.00 Regularly $199.99 .................................................. SALE $140.00 Regularly $399.99 .................................................. SALE $200.00

#15

Regularly $129.99 .................................................... SALE $79.99

Regularly $23.99 ............................... SALE $13.00

Austrian Pine #5

Regularly $299.99 ........................... SALE $199.99

Topiary Alberta Spruce over 6’

Regularly $1200.00 ......................... SALE $799.99

Topiary Juniper #20

Regularly $999.99 ......................... SALE $600.00

Globosa spruce #10

Regularly $199.99 ............................. SALE 100.00

Atlas Cedar #15

Regularly $269.00 ............................ SALE 100.00

Tam Junipers #5

3 piece bistro set aluminum Large 4 tier fountain Large wall fountain

iron and metal bench

Garden bench poly and metal Metal bird bath

Our annual SALE in January is the best time to stock up on gardening items for the upcoming planting season. Keep in mind that this is the only time certain items will go on sale. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Regularly $23.99 ............................... SALE $13.00

iron hanging brackets

Pete Moss’ Garden Tip:

EVERGREEnS

Pinon Trees .................................................. Entire collection 25% off Select Blue spruce #20

Small iron wall cross

Regularly $129.99 ............................. SALE $70.00

Regularly $16.99 to $64.99........................ SALE 30% off

Regularly $26.99 ...................................................... SALE $14.99 Regularly $299.99 .................................................. SALE $179.99 Regularly $179.99 .................................................... SALE $99.99 Regularly $148.99 .................................................... SALE $99.99 Regularly $179.99 ...................................................... SALE 99.99 Regularly $28.99 ...................................................... SALE $17.00

Regularly $139.99 ............................... SALE 75.00

Family Owned & Operated Since 1974 ALWAYS FRIENDLY PROFESSIONAL NURSERY SERVICE

7501 Cerrillos rd. 471-8642

Hours 10:00 to 5:00 • 7 days a week Good thru 1/10/13 • while supplies last • stop by today and see our Great selection.

January 4-10, 2013