The New Mexican’s Weekly Magazine of Arts, Entertainment & Culture
2014
SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL
May 2, 2014
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“Perla Batalla, a Los Angelina of Mexican descent, is possessed of a vocal gift so deeply expressive as to belong in a class alongside some of the best singers of our age.” —Amazon.com Editorial Review “A Chicana Joni Mitchell, a gutsier Joan Baez” —Los Angeles Times
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Kol BeRamah Invites You to Meet Our Rabbinic Candidates Rabbi Ilan & Rebbetzin Sarah Fuchs THURSDAY, MAY 8 “Can You Save One Life by Taking Another?” 7pm
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Rabbi Adam & Rebbetzin Shoshana Dubin THURSDAY, MAY 22 “How Closely Does HaShem Guide Our Lives?” 7pm FRIDAY, MAY 23 “Love: Torah, Psychology & the Giving of the Torah” for Women, 3pm Kabbalat Shabbat & Ma’ariv Services, 7pm SHABBAT, MAY 24 Morning Services, 8:30am Lunch & Discussion: “Science & Torah”
Bios & more info at KolBeRamah.org 551 West Cordova Road, Suite F 505-216-6136 • email@kolberamah.org
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THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN
May 2 - 8, 2014
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ON THE COVER 28 Through a glass shortly: Santa Fe Film Festival Every film festival has its marquee titles, usually features showing in advance of their wide release. This year’s Santa Fe Film Festival has a few of those in prominent slots on the schedule, but the festival also caters to those who prefer their celluloid (or, more likely, digital) entertainment in smaller servings. Seven different collections of shorts fill the screens at the Center for Contemporary Arts and the Jean Cocteau Cinema through Sunday, May 4, including programs devoted to documentaries, animation, and horror. Our cover image is from Sheltered Love, which shows as part of the Love Is Strange Romcom Shorts Program. From left, stars Mike Reasor, Erica Renee Smith, and Brendan Guy Murphy.
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In Other Words Strange Bodies Sandra Steingraber The long view of fracking
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24 Pasa Tempos CD Reviews 26 Terrell’s Tune-Up New old-fashioned duets 34 Listen Up Chatter in Albuquerque 37 Onstage Andre Thierry’s zydeco sounds
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ART 20 38
Pasa Pics
Comics country Local artists draw together The Black Place Walter W. Nelson’s images
Mixed Media Star Codes Restaurant Review: Bert’s Burger Bowl
CORRECTION: Because of an editing error, a restaurant review in our April 25 issue mistakenly assigned a 3.5 chile rating to Wow Dawgs Eatery. The rating should have been 2.5 chiles.
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WE DO DENTAL HYGIENE… AND WE DO IT RIGHT!
NO GIMMICKS E JUST GREAT CAR FREE FAMILY EVENTS ALL YEAR LONG Friday, May 30 6 pm, “Santa Fe Poets 5,” a reading hosted by Jon Davis with Chee Brossy, Joan Logghe, Carol Moldaw, Henry Shukman, and Farren Stanley. Sunday, June 1 1–4 pm “The Poetry of Light,” a writing workshop with Santa Fe Poet Laureate Jon Davis. Reservations, 505-476-5096. Saturday, June 14 2 pm, “Pinhole Photography—Projections, Contraptions, Thoughts and Afterthoughts,” a lecture by photographer Scott McMahon. Sunday, July 20 2–4 pm, “Make a Camera Obscura,” a hands-on, family-friendly workshop with Santa Fe photographer Jackie Mathey. Reservations, 505-476-5087. Friday, August 8 6 pm, “Pinhole to Pixel,” a lecture by pinhole artist Peggy Ann Jones. Sunday, October 12 2 pm, “From Pinholes to Black Holes,” a lecture by Los Alamos National Laboratory astrophysicist Ed Fenimore. Sunday, October 26 2–4 pm, “Cameras from the Kitchen,” a drop-in, family-friendly workshop. Bring a coffee can, oatmeal box, potato chip can or shoebox with lids. We will provide the rest.
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and other Santa Fe nonprofits on Tuesday, May 6, at GiveGrandeNM.org On May 6, the statewide day of giving, your donations to local nonprofits through GiveGrandeNM.org will be magnified by matching funds. Bring your Lensic donation receipt to Osteria d’Assisi at lunch or San Francisco Street Bar & Grill at dinner and save on your meal on May 6!
See Lensic.org or call 505-988-7050, ext. 1203, for details.
Give Grande is a project of the Community Foundation Coalition of New Mexico
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SangredeCristo Sangre de Cristo Chorale Dr. Maxine Thévenot -‐ Artistic Director
2014 Spring Concert
Baroque Fireworks!
Los Alamos: Friday, May 9 at 7:00 p.m. Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church 2390 North Road 87544 Santa Fe: Saturday, May 10 at 5:30 p.m. First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Avenue 87501
Creating
Join the Chorale, with the orchestra led by Debra Terry and guest soloists Kate Winchester, Drea Pressley, Jason Vest and Edmund Connolly, as they perform selections from Baroque masterworks:
− G.F. Handel’s Coronation Anthems − J.S. Bach’s Cantata # 78 − G.F. Handel’s Messiah – Part 3
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Help Support Santa Fe Mothers
Join Us May 9th Sharing Wisdom With Many Mothers Spirited Conversation with Families Served and Their Volunteers Silent Auction* Hors d’oeuvres & Refreshments 5-7pm Santa Fe Women’s Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail Santa Fe, NM 87505
$40 per person Tickets may be purchased online at www.manymothers.org
*THE place to find Mother’s Day gifts. PREMIER SPONSORS Anonymous • Brindle Fund, Santa Fe Community Foundation • New Mexico Bank & Trust SPONSORS Ann Mackinnon, CPA PC • Con Alma Health Foundation • Emily Garcia, Sotheby’s International Realty • Los Alamos National Bank IN KIND SPONSORS Art of Celebration • First Citizens Bank • Southwest Airlines Many Mothers provides free in-home support to any Santa Fe family with a newborn. Our experienced volunteers nurture a mother so she can better nurture her child. Many Mothers’ “village”approach creates a brighter future for our children and our community.
P.O. Box 4462, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502 | www.sdcchorale.org
Curing the Incurable A Free Healing Lecture by Elise Moore
An international speaker on spiritual healing, Moore has been in the Christian Science healing practice for over 25 years.
When: Saturday, May 3rd, 11am to noon Where: Christus St. Vincent Hospital
Main Entrance, Southwest Conference Room 455 St. Michaels Drive, Santa Fe 87505
Come and explore with us how to overcome fear and experience permanent cure! Hear healings of arthritis, anorexia and cancer. Sponsored by the First Church of Christ Scientist, Santa Fe For more information or if you need a ride call: 982-1342 christiansciencesantafe.org elisemoore.com 10
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For Giving Productions Presents
A Joyous Celebration of Parenthood
A showcase of fine food and drink on the exclusive 5th floor patio of the Eldorado Hotel & Spa May 9, 10 7pm and 11 4pm
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MEET Susan R. Rose – NY Co Conceiver of Show for Q and A At Everyday Center for Spiritual Living • New Space • 1519 5th Street
Food • Drink • Music You’ll LOVE this summer series!
May 9 June 12 July 11 August 15 September 19 October 8
Santa Fe Spirits Patrón Tequila New Mexican Summer Beer Fest Best of Santa Fe KGB Spirits Small Batch Whiskey Showcase (Beam Inc.)
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Mother’s Day Brunch Sunday, May 11 11:30am –3pm Make your reservations today 505.982.4353 653 Canyon Road compoundrestaurant.com
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Mother’s Day Brunch
May 11, 10am-2:30pm Our Mother's Day Brunch is a culinary dream Reservations 505.995.4508
Total Tap Takeover
May 16, 5:30pm With Santa Fe Brewing Co. Specials on beer flights, pints and bites
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May 17, 6:30pm 5-Course Dinner Featuring North Coastal Brewing Reservations 505.995.4530
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Tuesday-Saturday, 4-10pm Meet Chef Taka Ayamoto Enjoy fresh oysters, sashimi, the Eldorado Gold Roll & more!
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Tap inTo The ouTside Bike & Brew FesTival wiTh Three vip days oF Bikes, Beer and Food.
May 14Th – 5:30 TO 7:30Pm VIP PARTY @ THE DRAFT STATION
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Annual Spring
CONTEMPORARY CLAY FAIR Saturday & Sunday May 3–4, 2014 • 10am – 5pm At the Santa Fe Woman’s Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail • Between San Mateo & St. Michaels
Can Kesim: wire frame interactive installation for Outdoor Vision Fest, 2014
Artfully designed: Film, music, and video art at SFUAD Live performances, interactive multimedia installations, sculpture and video installations, projected motion graphics, and more are featured during the Santa Fe University of Art and Design’s fourth annual Outdoor Vision Fest, a free self-guided program of innovative, collaborative projects by students from various university departments. This year’s event, held on the SFUAD campus (1600 St. Michael’s Drive), includes projections on the side of the university’s Visual Arts Center; performances by dance, music, and film students; and media displays in an 18-foot hemispheric dome provided by Lumenscapes Illumination Media. SFUAD music and dance students also perform work by student composer Angelo Harmsworth and visiting artist and choreographer Jocelyne Danchick. In addition, a pop-up shop sells work made by graphic-design students. The festival runs from 8:45 to 10:45 p.m. on Friday, May 2. SFUAD’s inaugural student-run CineVision Film Festival shows narrative films, documentaries, and animation at The Screen on the university campus. Films include Hateship Loveship (6 p.m. on May 2), a drama starring Kristen Wiig, and Cinema Six (10 p.m. on May 3), a comedy co-directed by Taos native Mark Potts, plus films by SFUAD alumni Matt Page, Tristan Love, and Seth Fuller. CineVision also features question-and-answer sessions with filmmakers in person and via Skype. On Friday, events begin at 2:15 p.m. with the SFUAD Student Shorts Program; screenings and associated events continue through Sunday, May 4. For a complete schedule and to purchase tickets ($10 per film or $20 for a weekend pass), visit www.thescreensf.com or call 505-473-6494. On Wednesday, May 7, SFUAD kicks off its 2014 Ensemble Concert Series with performances by the school’s African Drum Ensemble, Acoustic Americana Ensemble, and University Chorus, all at the O’Shaughnessy Performance Space on campus. The concert begins at 8 p.m. The series continues through Thursday, May 15, with performances at various campus locations. The shows are free to the public; see www.santafeuniversity.edu. — Michael Abatemarco
New works by:
Lee Akins · Michelle Arterburn · Luisa Baldinger · Maggie Beyeler Karin Bergh Hall · Elaine Biery · Mary Sharp Davis · Adel deValcourt · Miya Endo Sean Fairbridge* · Liz Fiset* · Jackie Gerstein · Phil Green Sandra Harrington · Linda Hayden* · Kathleen Koltes · Alex Kurtz Marcos Lewis · Carolyn Lobeck · Pat Marsello · Karen Milstein* Anne Russell · Joey Serim* · Barry Slavin · Esther Smith* · Rusty Spicer* Marilu Tejero · Mike Walsh · Frank Willett · Mary Yee · Ginny Zipperer *New Artist
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FUN FOR EVERYONE!
HIS HOLINESS SAKYA TRIZIN 41st Head of the Sakya Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism
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Saturday May 3, 2014 11 am - 3 pm SFChristianAcademy Santa Fe Christian Academy 4601 Mission Bend (off Richards Ave, S of Rodeo Rd)
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 Santa Fe Convention Center 201 W Marcy Street BUDDHA DHARMA IN DAILY LIFE Talk 9.30 am THE THREE BODHISATTVAS 2 pm Blessing / Empowerment of Wisdom, Compassion & Power
APPRECIATION DINNER with H.H. Sakya Trizin 7 pm with Performance by Potala Tibetan Dance Troupe of Santa Fe Morning Session $25 / $15 Afternoon Session $35 / $25 Both Sessions $50 / $40 Grand Appreciation Dinner $40 Online Registration & Info: tsechennamdrolling.wordpress.com Tickets at: The Ark, Bell & Dorje, Project Tibet Email: santa.fe_sakya@yahoo.com
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sions to make and work to do as thoughtful Mercury and the energized sun, both in Taurus, oppose serious, structure-building Saturn. These aspects help us create new things and plant our fields. It’s not all hard work. A flirtatious spring fever sets off sparks as Venus enters brave, ardent, Mars-ruled Aries, while Mars dances in Venus-ruled Libra. Venus in Aries isn’t interested in feeling vulnerable; it encourages us to love what we love and to release what we don’t. The volume turns up on our own raw experience, our emotional highs and lows, but we can tap into renewed bravery. Venus in Aries adds fire to territorial conflicts. Nothing is simple or straightforward this season. Everything is layered with conflicting interactions as Mars challenges Jupiter, Pluto, and Uranus. It helps to know what we love so that we can find a healthy balance between our needs and the needs of others. After a verbal Friday, the moon enters domestic, introverted, and selfprotective Cancer for the weekend, tap-dances on Mars’ ongoing grand square, and requires us to keep an eye on long-range goals. Monday the moon enters stubborn, expressive Leo, which can be great for romance and tough on politics.
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IN OTHER WORDS Strange Bodies by Marcel Theroux; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 304 pages Imagine being resurrected inside the tattooed body of an odd-smelling stranger with big feet and a prodigious appetite. Such is the plight of the protagonist of Marcel Theroux’s bizarre and original new novel. Musing on the manifold complications of hypothetical eternal life, Nicholas Slopen, a Samuel Johnson expert living in presentday London, recites a stoic Russian lament: “My ne zhivem, my sushchestvuem — we don’t live, we exist.” The thought is inspired during a conversation with the Russian scientist who helped pioneer the resurrection procedure but lived through such hardship that he questions the very idea that endless life is desirable. As Slopen observes, “He was from a time and generation for whom existence was something to be survived.” Theroux is the British author of five novels, including the National Book Award finalist Far North (2009). Strange Bodies is a unique Frankenstein of a book
SUBTEXTS Brush up your Shakespeare Forget the cinquain, the sestina, and the villanella. With the possible exception of its coarse cousin the limerick and the syllabically limited haiku (the tweet of prosody), the sonnet rules, and it has since before William Shakespeare began laying bare his soul in beats associated with burlesque (da-DUM, da-DUM) in 14 rhyming lines of five counts — or feet — each. On Thursday, May 8, in the Santa Fe Shakespeare Society’s second annual Sonnet-a-Thon, volunteers will read Shakespeare’s sonnets — all 154 of them — beginning at 5:30 p.m. on the stage of the Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma Ave.
book reviews that stitches sci-fi twists and complex philosophical ruminations into a highly literary text. Its title hints at the many fascinations of the novel — besides the strange corpse-body in which Slopen’s consciousness is reawakened, the narrative incorporates suspicious bodies of proof and people and is itself set into motion by the investigation of an unusual body of literary work. As told through the frame narrative of Slopen’s diary (posthumously discovered by a former lover), Slopen is called to authenticate a trove of letters said to be written by Johnson. Though the content and style of the work is undoubtedly Johnson’s, Slopen concludes to his nefarious odd-couple clients — an American media mogul and a Dagestani aristocrat — that the letters are forgeries, because they were composed on modern paper. But Slopen, descending into midlife crisis, his interest piqued, meddles where he should not. Soon he discovers that the composer of these letters is a living hulk of a man named Jack, whose brain has been revived and reprogrammed to give new life to Johnson. The procedure involves encoding a person’s entire existence and identity based on his or her record of written works (appropriately enough for a piece of literature), making Johnson an ideal test subject, since he penned an entire English dictionary in addition to numerous works of poetry, fiction, biography, and Some of the sonnets are familiar, such as Sonnet 18, in which Shakespeare compares the object of his desire to a summer’s day. In it, he also shows how to come up with an idea and run with it: Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimm’d; But thy eternal summer shall not fade ... In Sonnet 55, he gives us reason to believe in the immortality of art while reinforcing our belief in the vanity of artists:
criticism. “The job of words is to construct the fiction of our separate identity,” Slopen comes to accept. As his quest and moral outrage deepen, his own identity separates and is reawakened in the tattooed body. The elaborate plot (it gets weirder) is matched by an accumulating number of philosophical and literary considerations — from doppelgängers, doubles, and robots to the distinction between individual versus collective reality. These potentially esoteric topics are modified by a tone that alternates between the wistful and the whimsical. Here a postprocedure Slopen reflects on the inevitability of his own second death: “This stranger inside me is a creature like every other: obsessed with the limits of his existence, haunted by the spectacle of his passage through time, the blossoming and deterioration of his relationships with other creatures, the unutterable sadness of a finite life on a beautiful planet.” And here we get Theroux’s lighthearted take on how Johnson might have expressed his appreciation for such modern-day marvels as pizza: “Depend on it, sir, many a rich man dining tonight upon roast swan would as lief exchange his vittles for a plate of this cooked cheese!” From the meaning of life to the deliciousness of pizza, Strange Bodies enlivens with extreme originality and depth some of the oldest of metaphysical quandaries and consistently leaves the reader sated. — Loren Bienvenu Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme ... Indeed, Shakespeare’s sonnets are monuments, enduring these 400-plus years despite their quaint language and syntax. The joy in hearing these poems aloud comes from their music, from their boundless associations, and from identifying our contemporary fears and desires with those of people of the Elizabethan era. And then there is the sonnets’ great ageless mystery: who was the “fair youth” that he addressed in such loving terms? Admission to the Sonnet-a-Thon is $10. Visit www. sfshakespeare.com or call 505-490-6271. — Bill Kohlhaase
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THE LONGVIEW ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST SANDRA STEINGRABER
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andra Steingraber is a mother, biologist, ecologist, science writer, poet, and cancer survivor. She is aware that it’s easier to dismiss her as hysterical — overly concerned with the potential for environmental contaminants to make us deathly ill — than it is to take action. Some people might call her an alarmist, but Steingraber knows what the science shows — and she’s been through the wringer since her diagnosis 35 years ago, when she was just 20. Bladder cancer, known as a quintessential environmental cancer, recurs in 70 percent of patients, sometimes multiple times, which means constant medical monitoring and a lifetime medical bill that Steingraber will never be able to fully pay off. She doesn’t want future generations to live like this while people and corporations reap profits today. “I have an obligation to protect my children from harm and plan for their future,” Steingraber told Pasatiempo. “It seems to me that those are the two basic responsibilities of being a parent. I can’t do that if there are neurotoxicants, asthma-inducing agents, and pesticides linked to early puberty circulating in the environment. Children’s bodies are made up of the rearranged molecules of the air, food, and water [they take in]. That’s how they build their bodies, and those building blocks are contaminated. It’s wrong to kill people by exposing them to toxic chemicals that can add to their burden of cancer. I can’t afford to be a good German about this.” Often compared to Rachel Carson, who wrote Silent Spring, the seminal 1962 book on the subject of toxic chemicals in our environment, Steingraber is the author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment, which was originally published in 1997, with a second edition released in 2010 by Da Capo Press and made into a documentary film the same year. She’s also the author of numerous articles and publications on the risk of environmental contamination of children’s bodies, including Having Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey to Motherhood (Da Capo Press, 2001); “The Organic Manifesto of a Biologist Mother,” published by Organic Valley in 2003; and Raising Elijah: Protecting Our 18
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Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis (Da Capo Press, 2011). Steingraber speaks about her research and activism on Wednesday, May 7, at the Lensic Performing Arts Center, as part of the Lannan Foundation’s In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom series. She will be joined by Laura Flanders, founder and host of GRITtv with Laura Flanders and author of Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species and Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics From the Politicians. There are many reasons to be frightened by the information Steingraber wants to give you. Cancer is scary. And it’s terrifying to consider both how deeply connected human bodies really are to the natural world and how cavalierly we treat the power of that world. “One of the lessons of ecology is that scale matters,” Steingraber writes in Raising Elijah. “And when you add another organism to the ecosystem, the complexity of interactions increases exponentially. At the very least, moving into a four-square family from a two-parentsand-a-kid triangle meant changes to the food chain, the laundry cycle, the infectious disease rate, and the ambient noise level.” She was talking here of the impact having another child would have on her household, but she used a similar argument when explaining the effects high-volume hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has on the immediate welfare of communities, as well as its potential ramifications for public health and the very safety of the ground upon which we walk. In fracking, a vertical shaft is drilled a mile or more into the ground and then turned horizontally through the earth. Into this, water is injected at extremely high pressure, shattering shale and releasing tiny bubbles of methane, a nonrenewable fossil fuel. Silica sand and thickening and thinning agents are mixed with the water, as are agents used to kill off organisms that live in shale, so they do not grow in gas pipes. “So now you’ve got a whole chemical cocktail of stuff that goes into fracking, and all of these wells are bisecting our drinking-water aquifers,” Steingraber said. “They drill through the aquifers and line the holes with steel and cement, and they hope there are never any leaks or cracks or accidents. But now we’re learning that the cement well casings begin to shrink. That’s what cement does as it ages. It cracks. It crumbles. You can end up creating passageways through which fracking chemicals, or naturally occurring toxic chemicals that
are found at these deep levels, can find their way into drinking water or the atmosphere. “Wherever fracking goes,” she continued, “you see high levels of water and air pollution. Trucks carrying materials to the sites fill rural roads with diesel traffic, which creates smog and raises traffic fatalities. The sites bring in lots of out-of-state workers, who often live in ‘man camps.’ Crime and social blight come into the community — increased rape, increased number of children in foster care, increased drug abuse, increased drunk driving. Fracking can bring temporary profit to a few, until the wells run dry, but it can bring permanent ruin to many people.” Steingraber advocates for bypassing natural gas and going straight to wind, solar, and water power for our energy. Fracking requires a large infrastructure that will have to be replaced eventually anyway, and we are perfectly capable of making the switch to renewable energy sources now. But it would require divorcing the country’s economy from fossil fuels and reducing our dependence on energy. Climatologists have a plan, but there is industry to contend with, and the two are at odds. For example, Steingraber explained, there is a proposal to build an ethylene “cracker” north of Pittsburgh, an industrial site that would turn ethane, a toxic gas that has to be separated from methane during fracking, into the kind of plastic used in the flimsy bags you get at the grocery story (although many cities, including Santa Fe, have passed plastic-bag bans or restrictions in an effort to reduce the amount of plastic that ends up in the ocean, and consumers are being asked to bring their own reusable bags to the store). “This is a craziness. It’s an irrationality,” Steingraber said. “We’re making stuff not because there’s a human need for more plastic bags but because we’re solving a waste-disposal problem for the energy industry. The word nonrenewable is attached to fossil fuels because they’re running out. God is not putting any more of them in the ground, whereas wind, water, and solar have an infinite ability to continue to provide us energy. This is a transformation required of us as a human race. We need to put our ingenuity, imagination, creativity, and engineering toward this. The hard work of doing this belongs to the people who are adults now, instead of placing that burden on our children and grandchildren, who will have to do that project in times of water shortages, food shortages, chaos, and social unrest. It’s the grown-up thing to do, and I’m ready for those of us who are grown-ups to start acting like it.” ◀
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Above, from Down by the River, by Turner Mark-Jacobs
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It’s a recent Saturday afternoon in the gaming room at Big Adventure Comics, and members of the New Mexican independent comics organization 7000 B.C. are gathered at the tables, drawing, sharing artwork, and examining the latest edition of String, an anthology of their work that will be given away at the store during national Free Comic Book Day, Saturday, May 3. The collection includes meticulously drawn pages from Turner Mark-Jacobs’ new self-published book, Down by the River, based on a story by 19th-century American writer Bret Harte, and a new installment of Bram and Monica Meehan’s Raised by Squirrels, a spy-superhero thriller about a shadowy covert organization. Other anthology selections, from simplistically drawn meditations on making art to surreal sketches and detailed adventure stories, share space with a pair of 7000 B.C. “jams” — short narratives in which each panel is written and drawn by a different member. Altogether, the selections display the wide range of subject matter and drawing styles represented among 7000 B.C. members while reflecting the diverse and unpredictable realm of the illustrated sequential-narrative form of storytelling popularly known as comics. In a world that’s seen the rise of a corporatecomics industry spurred by movies pulled from long-running superhero titles — as well as an explosion of independently produced comics published on the web, often without superheroes — Northern New Mexico is home to a particularly active independent comics scene. While many of the artists in 7000 B.C. have a presence on the internet, most look forward to publishing their material (which usually means self-publishing) on paper media of various sorts, from traditional-looking comics on slick stock to “ashcan” versions on roughcut, folded, and stapled copy-machine paper. “I’m looking to appreciate my stuff on a real physical page,” said Mark-Jacobs, who does his original work on poster board in watercolor. “It’s not real until you see it on a printed page,”
added one of the group’s most prolific — and eclectic — comic artists, Enrique Martinez. “That’s the reward for all your work: the book.” Wearing an S.Q.R.L. T-shirt (referring to the Meehans’ mysterious creation), 7000 B.C. president Chuck Larntz said the organization is all about the how-to and resources for getting work into print. A computer engineer who harbored a desire to be a novelist, Larntz joined the organization in 2006 along with his son, who wanted to be a comic artist. His crimefiction work evolved into a comic series, Savage Investigations. The first edition, “Goodbyes,” with artwork by Nathan Hendricksen, has been published in ashcan format. His series My Name Is André, with artist Peter Ziomek, described by Larntz as a three-part morality tale for kids, has been distributed to schools and libraries. He explained, “7000 B.C. is all about getting work published and out there.” Members take suitcases of books to comic conventions and offer them for sale. Bram Meehan reports that a trip to the Staple! Independent Media Expo in Austin in March resulted in a near sell-out. Meehan, the board secretary of 7000 B.C., teaches “Creating Comics: The Design of Sequential Art” at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. A graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology, Meehan is one of the prime movers on the Santa Fe comics scene.
Above, from “The Red Death” by Turner Mark-Jacobs
In addition to the scripts he’s written for Raised by Squirrels (Monica does the illustrations), he’s collaborated with artist Jamie Chase on The Darkness From Warsaw and Death, Cold as Steel, two independently published books attached to the S.Q.R.L. stories. He’s also written pieces included in Chase’s Myx collections of strange and supernatural tales. “Storytelling and illustrating are two different skills,” said Meehan, who advises his students that a comic’s action takes place in the “gutters,” the space between panels where the reader’s imagination goes to work. “I found that I was better at writing than drawing.” Chase is probably the most visible of the area’s comic artists. He both writes and illustrates stories. Noting that Chase has transcended his independent beginnings, Larntz remarked, “All of us want to be like Jamie Chase.” The intriguing style of his self-published work earned him attention from major comics producers, and his graphic novel The Hound of the Baskervilles, with Martin Powell adapting Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s story, was released last year by Dark Horse/Sequential Pulp. Dark Horse will soon release his strange and fantastic art for Edgar Rice Burroughs’ novel At the Earth’s Core. “I joined 7000 B.C. when I was first getting involved in comics,” Chase said. “It was always good to hang out with like-minded people, getting to learn more about comics and gathering more understanding. I think a lot of them are more independent and more underground than I am now. But I’m still friends with a lot of them and still go to meetings when I can.” For a forthcoming edition of Myx, Chase has involved various area writers and illustrators, including Mark-Jacobs, who has done a modern take on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death.” A product of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mark-Jacobs said he spends much of his time “working, throwing away pages, and developing continuity.” He was inspired to illustrate the Bret Harte story because he “felt the imagery in the story is so compelling. It’s like a dream. I wanted to make it a more meditative story.” Down by the River is his first published comic. Contrast Mark-Jacobs’ assured and detailed work with that of Martinez, a writer-illustrator who’s done everything from the all-ages Comboy, a “super space-fun adventure,” to the adultsonly Sykscript series, which includes simple, wide-eyed stories that defy easy description. The story he writes for Nanotech Laundromat, with illustrations by Tyrell Cummings, is “a love story between a woman and her robot servant in the future,” he said. Martinez, who worked as a designer of pop-up books and tours as part of Española band The Imperial Rooster, said that the simplistic, even crude design of James Kochalka’s American Elf, along with Larry Marder’s Beanworld, gave him the inspiration to tell his often twisted stories. “I realized it doesn’t matter what your drawing skills are, as long as From “The Tourist Trap” by Jamie Chase, a story in Myx; top, from Chase’s “Aftermyth”
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you can tell a story.” Martinez’s piece “Birthmarks,” about his experiences with a pregnant girlfriend, is included in 24 Hour Comics Day Highlights 2005, a selection of stories from an annual event in which artists have one day to create a complete comic. “That’s a big deal,” Larntz said. While much of the work done by 7000 B.C. artists is strange and fantastic, little of it — Raised by Squirrels is the exception — is of the superhero variety. Some of the more intriguing stories, like “Birthmarks,” are pulled from real life. Willow Tomeo, a sophomore at the Institute of American Indian Arts, has just finished her first comic, drawn in pen and ink on plain white 8½ x 11 paper. The story, about two inmates sharing a room in a psychiatric ward, is entitled “You Don’t Belong Here.” Tomeo has been inspired by Charles Burns’ Black Hole, a sci-fi thriller about Seattle teens with a strange infection, as well as Harvey Pekar’s Cleveland, a depiction of a regular guy’s love for his hometown. “I like sci-fi and superheroes,” Tomeo said. “I think they’re great, but they’re like food. There’s always different kinds to try. I like it when people talk about their own life and their own culture.” Her simple character renditions placed in front of spare backgrounds make her story all the more poignant. Much of comic work, with its writing, illustrating, inking, coloring, and lettering, is collaborative. The most obvious example in this group involves the Meehans. Monica described how an issue of Raised by Squirrels comes together, detailing the skills — artistic, technical, and personal — required to create a single
comic. “Bram comes up with scripts and writes down what’s said, with notes about this and that. I might try to work in something different and just kind of experiment. In the past I would set rough lettering and he would do final rewrite and then scan it in the computer. Now I do that. I draw thumbnails from his rough sketches, and I tighten them up and do background thinking, things like what’s in the office where the action takes place. Is it appropriate to have, say, a Herman Miller chair in the scene or something else? I work out where word balloons go and draw the panel borders based on my thumbnails and then size them on the page. We just draw the outlines and add the gray tones on the computer with Photoshop, then put the whole thing together in InDesign and then generate a PDF for the web.” It doesn’t have to be that complicated, as the members show when they put together yet another “jam.” One in the Free Comic Book Day edition of String entitled “Who Knows?” begins innocently enough but goes seriously strange in just four panels. A women wearing hoop earrings complains about a boyfriend moving to Phoenix as her friend furiously texts on her cellphone. Then a nosebleed begins, and, well, you should check it out for yourself. ◀ Free Comic Book Day is celebrated locally at Big Adventure Comics (801 Cerrillos Road, 505-992-8783) and Hastings (542 N. Guadalupe St., 505-988-3973) on Saturday, May 3. See www.freecomicbookday.com. To download back issues of “String,” visit www.7000bc.org.
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MICHAEL HERA WITH WOLLNY TRIO HAMID DRAKE Seven Weltentraum (Act Music) The Lines (Multikulti Project) For European jazz piano trio, recognized its third album, the Polish band Hera by its sensitivity, minimalism, and classical expands to septet form, including Chicago impressionist influences, has become somedrummer Hamid Drake, in a live set from thing of a cliché. German pianist Michael the Krakow Jazz Autumn festival. “Sounds Wollny’s Weltentraum (from a line attributed of Balochistan,” the first of four pieces to Mahler: “Wir suchen den weltentraum” over 15 minutes long, opens with deep — “We search the dream world”) is of this harmonium tones and then features wonschool yet is an offbeat exception. Wollny’s play on tunes credderfully odd, dissonant hurdy-gurdy; Maciek Cierli´nski plays the ited to Alban Berg, Edgard Varèse, and others has the attractive, hand-cranked string instrument more commonly encountered in dreamy quality that denotes European piano trios, but it also touches European folk music. The group builds to a glorious extended tumult, on a variety of recognizable approaches: ballads, blues, backbeat. replete with horn honking and trills by leader Wacław Zimpel on clarinet Melodies are accessible; nothing is hard to follow. Yet nothing’s played and Paweł Postaremczak on soprano. At the end, the chaos clears for some exactly straight either. The rhythms from drummer Eric Schaefer often gentler frenzies from Raphael Rogi´nski’s guitar and from the hurdy-gurdy. stagger, and embellishments fall where you don’t expect them. Schaefer’s “Roofs of Kyoto” is another free-improv fest, this time with gagaku ( Japanese snare accents on “Be Free, a Way” seem to work at a slightly faster tempo classical music) references. The album’s title refers to a Tibetan Buddhist than the piano. Tim Lefebvre’s bass serves as a dependable anchor, prayer, which Drake sings on “Temples of Tibet,” accompanying himpulsing behind the considered chords and off-time accents of self, intensely, on hand drum. Others ultimately join in, with the “Lasse!” and going gutbucket on “In Heaven.” The results can two horn players making especially dramatic contributions. be heard on two levels: as warm, melodic readings or as a Zimpel’s “Afterimages” is the only piece not oriented to a rhythmically quirky challenge to the same old thing. The particular place or tradition. It has a peaceful beginning, last song, “God Is a DJ,” with guest Theo Bleckmann’s the leader passionate and plaintive alongside Rogi´nski’s On a few a cappella vocal and with humming electronics, is different in gentle guitar. There is a wonderful, sprightly horns/guitar other ways. It’s a bit of Aquarian fluff with its Eastern interlude and a beautiful section of bowed hurdy-gurdy, tracks, Santa Fe influences and third-eye references. Not what you’d but the greater part is pure jam mode. Altogether fasciexpect from a European piano trio. — Bill Kohlhaase nating, and often ferociously feral.— Paul Weideman singer-songwriter PINK MARTINI & THE VON TRAPPS Dream a Little Will Schreitz (self-released) Santa Fe singer-songwriter Will Schreitz layers Dream (Heinz Records) The von Trapp family embodWill Schreitz crafts emotionally raw originals that ied uncoolness so completely as to become oddly cool resonate with the work of outsider musician Daniel howls over wails. again. This is the sort of thing that does not escape the Johnston. His self-titled album comes packaged in a brown notice of Thomas Lauderdale, founder and director of the paper bag and features colorful crayon-and-ink cover art. nouveau-Euro-lounge ensemble Pink Martini, who lassoed The 11 songs were recorded on Boss digital eight-track, with four young members of the family — Sofia, Melanie, Amanda, the emphasis on capturing vocal intensity and ardently imprecise and August von Trapp — to collaborate on his group’s newest CD. guitar strumming over perfect takes. “The recording process was The four siblings have been performing as a quartet since 1997, and they mostly me recording in Maryland at my parents’ house after dropping out prove worthy adjuncts to Pink Martini’s wry, multi-culti style. The CD offers of school,” Schreitz explained. Lyrically these songs take unexpected turns songs in English, Japanese, Swedish, Hebrew, French, Rwandan, and Chinese, and often draw on real and imagined animal kingdoms. “I am the gargoyle,” but a special frisson inhabits the rendition of “Die Dorfmusik” (The Village Schreitz declares in “Lion Eyes.” Then, in “Sperm Whale (American Music), in which the German doggerel is enhanced by outbursts of Dream),” he recounts a dream encounter between a sperm whale and “Hei didel dideldei didel dideldum.” As a counterbalance, the quartet a squid: “It was love at first sight, so I took a big bite/And carried her follows up with a lovely show of dense harmony in Brahms’ “In up to my home in the sunlight.” On a few a cappella tracks, Schreitz stiller Nacht.” Selections from The Sound of Music are de rigueur, of layers howls over wails. Other songs, like “I Live in a Cave,” vacillate course. Guest Wayne Newton brays his way through “The Lonely between a state of mellow reflection and beat-oriented drive. That Goatherd,” and septuagenarian Charmian one, despite its rhythmic jaggedness and Carr, who portrayed Liesl von Trapp in the out-of-tune-ness, is oddly evocative of 1965 movie, makes a solo appearance in Thom Yorke’s solo work. “Silent” brings “Edelweiss.” If you order this CD through this deeply sentimental album to a close the von Trapps’ website (www.vontrapps. with words that capture the dreamlike net), you can get a gift pack that includes, desolation of the work as a whole: “All among other allurements, the family’s your lucky stars have fallen down.” Look brochure on schnitzel making, which for Schreitz busking at the Santa Fe you probably ought to have. Farmers Market on Saturdays. — James M. Keller — Loren Bienvenu
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If you miss good old-fashioned male-female honkytonk duets — the he-said, she-said storytelling of George Jones and Tammy Wynette on “Golden Ring”; the sexually charged barbs between Johnny Cash and June Carter on “Jackson”; the sweet teasing between Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty on “You’re the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly”; the breathtaking harmonies of Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris on “Hearts on Fire” — here’s a new album that proves the art form isn’t dead. Before the World Was Made is the name of the record, and Brennen Leigh and Noel McKay, both of whom split their time between Austin and Nashville, are the singers. And as with those venerated duos of old, virtually all of their songs are full of heartache, humor, and spunk. Though the music honors the time-honored form of the country lovebird duet, the songs — all original and most written by Leigh and McKay — are fresh. Producer Gurf Morlix, who plays some pedal steel and lap steel here, keeps it nice and simple, nice and country. This is the second album of country duets involving Leigh that I’m familiar with. Back in 2007, she teamed up with Texas honky-tonker (and Rob Zombie crony — but that’s another story) Jesse Dayton on an excellent little album called Holdin’ Our Own and Other Country Gold Duets. That was a collection of mostly original tunes, though there was a liberal sprinkling of covers, among them versions of “Back Street Affair,” “Take Me,” and “Long-Legged Guitar Pickin’ Man.” There are some real standouts on Before the World Was Made. The first one to grab me was “Let’s Don’t Get Married.” After each singer declares undying love for the other, the chorus goes, “Let’s don’t get married, let’s stay in love. ... ’Cause what we have is just too good to go and mess up with all that stuff.” However, just a couple of songs later, Leigh and McKay are begging for holy matrimony on “Be My Ball and Chain.” McKay pledges, “I’ll hold your purse while you try on dresses.” Leigh responds, “I’ll clean up all your little nasty messes if you’ll be my ball and chain.” She just wants him to “meet me at church and don’t ’cha be drinkin’.” “Before We Come to Our Senses” is a classic hillbilly Romeo and Juliet, “We love each other even though our parents say we’re bad for each other” song. As they contemplate eloping, Leigh sings, “My daddy says you’re a no-good so-and-so, and you come from a long, long line of good-for-nothin’s, never even learned 26
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how to earn themselves a worn-out dime.” McKay responds, “My mama says your folks are the kind who treat everybody real mean and they walk around town with their noses in the air like they think they was king and queen.” “Let’s Go to Lubbock on Vacation” sounds like it might be about the same couple, still married, a few years down the line. “This city life has got me in a panic. You’ve got to take me somewhere more romantic.” Apparently, Lubbock is the answer. “Then we’ll know we’re really in love.” “Please Reconsider” is a straightforward, yearning plea that sounds like something Felice and Boudleaux Bryant would have written for the Everly Brothers
50-some years ago. Leigh and McKay go Hawaiian on “Salty Kisses in the Sand.” (That’s McKay on the ukulele.) The album ends with an acoustic song called “Great Big Oldsmobile,” about a couple growing old together. “When you’re 92, know that I’ll still wanna fool around in the afternoon with you,” Leigh sings. A touching thought — just don’t think about it too much. I do believe that several of the tunes here could have been bona fide C & W hits back in the day. One thing is for certain — it’s songs like this that made me love country music in the first place. Leigh and McKay are scheduled to do a show in Santa Fe on June 9. According to www.brennenleighandnoelmckay. com, they’ll be at Duel Brewing (1228 Parkway Drive, 505-474-5301) that night.
Also recommended: ▼ Only Me by Rhonda Vincent. Speaking of material that made me love country music in the first place, this album is nothing short of a doozy, by a talent that deserves wider recognition. Vincent has to be one of the most undeservedly underrecognized musicians in Nashville today. Starting out in the world of bluegrass, she has a pure, beautiful voice, and she’s not afraid to wail. She also knows her way around a mandolin. This album is divided into two six-song discs (needlessly, because everything would easily have fit on one). The first is a bluegrass set — acoustic, with only traditional instruments — while the second is country. Both discs are full of impressive tunes. The best bluegrass tracks are “I Need Somebody Bad Tonight,” a sweet weeper in which Vincent explains, “ ’cause I just lost somebody good”; “It’s Never Too Late,” a song about a wife killer winning redemption through Jesus; and a duet with Daryle Singletary on “We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds,” an old Melba Montgomery song that she recorded with George Jones in the pre-Tammy days. Not quite as strong is the title song, featuring guest vocals by Willie Nelson and guest guitar by Willie’s trusty Trigger. The second disc, the country one, features steel guitar, electric guitars, and drums instead of banjos, etc. It starts off with the only Vincent original on the album, “Teardrops Over You,” a good, slow cry-in-your-beer tune. It’s also got a rousing cover of the country classic “Drivin’ Nails,” written by Jerry Irby and made famous by Ernest Tubb. There are not one but two songs written or co-written by “Whispering” Bill Anderson, both sweet honky-tonk sawdust-floor shuffles: “Once a Day” and “Bright Lights and Country Music.” “Beneath Still Waters,” a steel-heavy weeper written by Dallas Frazier, is nothing short of stunning. This tune was recorded by George Jones back in the ’60s. While it’s virtually impossible to match Jones’ voice in his prime, Vincent truly does it justice with her simple, guileless approach. I bet Jones would have loved this version. Find more information at www.rhondavincent.com. Country lovebirds: On The Santa Fe Opry, I’ll be playing an entire set of country duets, including some classics and more recent offerings. That’s 10 p.m. Friday, May 2, on KSFR-FM 101.1, streaming at www.ksfr.org. ◀
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present. “As a mother of an 11-year-old son, familyfriendly events are important to me. As for the rest of the festival, there’s just so, so much. I wouldn’t know what to highlight.” Festival programmer Aaron Leventman, on the other hand, had plenty to highlight. He first became involved with SFFF as its volunteer coordinator in 2004, and this is his first year programming the festival. Previously he was the programmer for the Santa Fe Film Center at the now-defunct Cinemacafé. He said it took nearly four months to review the submissions for this year’s festival. “We had about 400 submissions, which is more than we’ve had in the past, I believe. So I essentially watched all the submissions with a team of volunteers, both shorts and screeners, and selected the films I was most passionate about and thought were the most appropriate for Santa Fe.”
by it.” Queens and Cowboys is scheduled for 8:30 p.m. Saturday, May 3. Another documentary high on Leventman’s list is Let the Record Show, made by “a mother-daughter team that lived in Taos and recently moved to L.A. It’s about how the New York artist community in the ’80s and ‘90s crafted performance art as a reaction to the AIDS crisis and the birth of the red-ribbon movement. The director [Demetrea Dewald] will be at the screening,” which is at the Jean Cocteau at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 3. Leventman considers one of this year’s strongest narrative selections to be Beneath the Harvest Sky. The film tells a dark coming-of-age story about two teenagers affected by the drug smuggling trade between their rural Maine town and Canada. “It was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival, and we were given
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“Everything’s coming together just in time,” she told Pasatiempo. “It’s definitely challenging with the time limits and financial strain, but we’ve raised a lot of in-kind contributions. It’s been a miracle of support from the community. We have a quarter of a million dollars in our hands, so it’s just incredible what the community is doing to make this happen. It’s exciting. Everything’s getting worked out just in time. I’m not getting any sleep, but it’s great seeing everything come to fruition.” Rivera, who studied film at the College of Santa Fe, became involved with the festival after attending it during the 2007 season. In the years since she has moved steadily up the ladder. “I’ve been volunteering at the film festival as a screener, as a photographer, and ended up as the office manager. Eventually, when they were looking for a director [last year], I stepped in as managing director. While we were looking, I said, Give it to me. I’ll make it work!” Founded in 1980 by Bill and Stella Pence, who also founded the Telluride Film Festival and the Taos Talking Picture Film Festival, SFFF languished when the Pences stopped running the festival after four years, but it was revived in 1999. This year, for the first time, the festival takes place in late spring; the last one occurred in December 2012. “I’m absolutely already thinking about 2015,” Rivera said. “I’m in the middle of discussing a plan for a post-festival meeting to map out a strong, robust structure to make the festival stronger next year.” Asked for her list of highlights for the 2014 festival, which began on May 1, Rivera singled out a special event called Stargazing With the Stars. Scheduled for 7-10 p.m. Friday, May 2, at Santa Fe Studios (1 Santa Fe Studios Road, off N.M. 14, 505-954-2400), the event invites people of all ages to view the night sky through telescopes. A light show, DJ, and refreshments are also part of the $10-per-person event, and Rivera hinted that guest celebrities participating in the festival are likely to be
Leventman aimed for “a mix of something for everyone — adult films, kid films, shorts, fun movies.” However, he said his programming is slightly lopsided in the documentary direction. “It’s more challenging to find really high-quality narrative films. With documentaries, if the subject matter is interesting enough and it’s the right feel for the community, there is more leeway. A narrative has to have good pacing, good characters, and a good script, and so it can be more challenging.” In the end, he and his team whittled the program down to about 60 films. “But a lot of those are short films. We have seven short-film programs.” These include international shorts (1 p.m. Friday, May 2, at the Jean Cocteau Cinema), rom-com shorts (3:30 p.m. Friday, May 2, at CCA), GLBT shorts (8:15 p.m. Friday, May 2, at the Jean Cocteau), horror shorts (10:45 p.m. Saturday, May 3, at the Jean Cocteau), documentary shorts (1 p.m. Sunday, May 4, at CCA), and New Mexico shorts (4:45 p.m. Sunday, May 4, at the Jean Cocteau). Of the full-length films, Leventman first singled out Peter McCarthy’s Death & Taxes. “McCarthy produced Repo Man and Sid and Nancy in the 1980s and has done really interesting movies in the years since. This is a comedy — adult, sort of edgy — that was shot all in Santa Fe with a lot of local actors. It’s a locals’ sneak preview.” McCarthy will be in attendance when Death & Taxes screens at 8:30 p.m. Friday, May 2, at CCA. Two other films Leventman highlighted are McConkey, a documentary about the late Shane McConkey, a charismatic pioneer of extreme sports like free-skiing and BASE jumping (6 p.m. Saturday, May 3, at CCA, with director Rob Bruce in attendance), and Queens and Cowboys: A Straight Year on the Gay Rodeo. “The movie is really about gay men and women who choose to live in a rural area rather than a big city and how they survive by putting on events like the gay rodeo and bond over these common interests. Anyone who’s interested in social justice films will be moved
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his year’s Santa Fe Film Festival tells us that “dreams are the sneak preview of the movies of our lives.” This is also the slogan of Dream Awake, a promotional campaign and photography project put together by SFFF board member Darrell Wilks and photographer Bill Stengel that shows 32 Santa Feans with their eyes closed. The project highlights the reverie-inducing qualities of film and speaks to the experience of finding refuge from routine within the darkened environment of the cinema. Festival director Nani Rivera has been dreaming awake — or at least sleeping on her feet — for the last week or so while taking care of the festival’s final logistics.
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special permission by Tribeca Films to show it here.” Beneath the Harvest Sky plays at the Jean Cocteau at 6 p.m. on Friday, May 2. Also significant this year is SFFF’s retrospective of producer Michael Fitzgerald. The festival lineup includes three Fitzgerald films, all of which screen at the Jean Cocteau on Saturday, May 3: The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (11 a.m.), The Pledge (1:15 p.m.), and Closer to the Moon (6 p.m.), a 2014 drama about a bank heist in 1950s Romania. Fitzgerald attends the final screening, along with fellow producer Richard Romero and actor Harry Lloyd. He also appears at “Mimosas with Michael,” a 10 a.m. brunch event on Sunday that offers guests a chance to converse with the producer in an informal setting. The event is at La Posada de Santa Fe Resort & Spa (330 E. Palace Ave., 505-986-0000) and costs $25. The whirlwind comes to an end Sunday night, culminating in a traditional awards ceremony with a twist. “It’s juried, but we also have a group of film students from IAIA and Santa Fe Community College that are going to be watching every movie. They’re going to pick their favorites in each category, and we’re going to present those in conjunction with the juried awards at the Jean Cocteau at 8 p.m. Sunday night.” When the ceremony comes to an end, Leventman, Rivera, and their cadre of volunteers might finally have a chance to catch a short nap before it’s time to start planning next year’s festival. ◀
Let the Record Show
Death & Taxes
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Queens and Cowboys: A Straight Year on the Gay Rodeo
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On the Nature of Hotness, part of the GLBT Shorts Program
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uther “Sick Boy” Maryboy isn’t a bad guy, but he gets in a lot of trouble when he drinks. When he drinks, he can’t control his anger. In Drunktown’s Finest, Sydney Freeland’s new film about Navajo young people seeking a way out of an impoverished New Mexico town that borders the Navajo reservation, Sick Boy has a single weekend to sober up before entering basic training in the Army. Felixia aspires to be a model and competes with other girls for a spot in a swimsuit calendar shoot. But Felixia has a secret. She’s transgendered, and she fears that the truth will disqualify her. A third character, Nizhoni Smiles, is the adopted daughter of a white family, home from school for the summer and engaging in community service to fulfill a scholarship requirement. The only community-service option open to her is picking up roadkill with a crew of older men. Over the course of the film, these characters’ lives connect in unexpected, emotionally rich ways. Inspired by an episode of 20/20 in which Gallup, New Mexico, the director’s hometown, was referred to as“Drunktown, U.S.A,” Freeland sought to bring nobility to her characters, and she succeeds. Sick Boy, Felixia, and Nizhoni are looking to escape a world of rampant alcoholism, prejudice, and violence, but they find the love and respect they seek in their own backyards. Sick Boy, played by Jeremiah Bitsui Bad), is increasingly drawn into (Breaking Bad his buddies’ plan for a robbery, not for the thrill of the act itself but because his scuffles with the law threaten his Army career plans and robbery offers an easy-money alternative. Sick Boy has a pregnant girlfriend at home and a sister preparing for a puberty rite that will mark her transition into womanhood. Felixia, played by transgendered actress Carmen Moore, feels the pain of being rejected by other young people in her town. She’s drawn to promiscuity, flirting with older men online and prostituting herself. She meets Sick Boy, who is attracted to her but does not know that she’s transgendered. Freeland cast Moore in the role after seeing her in a YouTube video. Despite a handful of scenes with stilted dialogue, Moore’s naturalism is a standout. One senses the desperation driving the character’s actions. Nizhoni’s story is different. She wasn’t raised on the reservation but was sent out of state for schooling as a young child. Her return to the town of Dry Lake, the film’s setting, is spurred by another agenda. Nizhoni, played by Morningstar Angeline, hopes to find her birth parents — a proposition that upsets her adoptive parents, who refuse to let her biological family have any contact with her. Raised as a Christian, she is ignorant of Navajo spirituality, dismissing it as superstition. Freeland weaves aspects of traditional Navajo life into the film with subtlety and grace. Felixia’s grandfather, a medicine man, speaks words of wisdom and officiates over Sick Boy’s sister’s coming-of-age ceremony, an event that holds meaning for all the central characters — even Nizhoni, who is revealed to have a past connection to Felixia’s family. What starts as a bleak portrait of reservation life takes a critical turn just at the point where the characters’ actions could result in tragedy, and the film becomes a thoughtful, moving tale. As tough as life can be for the three main characters, love of family and a connection to place put them all in the position of reevaluating their motives and coming to an understanding of their personal identities within a greater social context. Freeland, who wrote and directed the film, avoids proselytizing. The trio’s elders don’t have all the answers, but they do offer love and, here and there, a little guidance. In one example, Felixia learns from her grandfather about the nádleehí, a name for third-gendered people among the Navajo. Implicit in the grandfather’s story is his tacit acceptance of her transgenderedness. His position is at odds with what we might expect from a man who lives his life by tradition. Never is Felixia seen as an outsider or outcast, at least not by her family. Freeland brings to these fine characters a sense of dignity and self-worth that inspires. ◀
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Saturday & Sunday, May 3-4, 2014, 10 am to 4 pm Civil War battle reenactments at 2 pm Re-enactments of the battles of Glorieta Pass and Apache Canyon, fought near Santa Fe in 1862!
Lensic Presents BroAdcAsT in Hd
King Lear by William Shakespeare
May 15, 7 pm $22
Skirmishes and cannon fire • Union and Confederate Camps • Music by the Territorial Brass Band • Display of Civil War documents • Demonstrations of Civil War era medicine and Victorian Life ... And much more!
Starring Simon Russell Beale Directed by Sam Mendes
Just south of Santa Fe: 1-25 exit 276, follow “Las Golondrinas” signs. Children 12 & under always admitted free!
“Riveting. Simon Russell Beale is extraordinary.” —Daily Express (UK)
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Joan Myers, Kilauea, Hawaii (Halema'uma'u Crater), 2008. Pigment print. Courtesy of the artist.
GALLERY TALK Sunday, May 18, 2–3 p.m. Curator Kate Ware talks about the photography now on exhibit in Grounded, examining, literally, the ground beneath our feet. Free with museum admission.
BOOK EVENT Friday, May 30, 6–7 p.m. Presented in conjunction with the publication of Bruce Nauman: The True Artist (Phaidon Press), the author Peter Plagens and educator/consultant Juliet Myers (Nauman’s assistant since 1985) will talk about Nauman and his importance in international contemporary art. Free.
DOCENT TOURS Daily, 10:30 a.m. & 2 p.m. Wednesday tours will focus on specific artists. May 7: Photographer Joan Myers; May 14: Santa Fe master Gerald Cassidy; May 21: New Mexico Modernist Cady Wells; May 28: Photographer David Scheinbaum. Free with museum admission.
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Painting the Land of Enchantment PAPNM Members’ Annual Juried Exhibition May 2–17, 2014
Peggy Immel, Seven Below, 2013
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Six Shooters Exhibit at Eggman & Walrus Gallery, May 2 - 25 An opening reception is scheduled for 5-9pm on Friday, May 2. A panel discussion will be held on Saturday, May 3. A figure study drawing/photography workshop is scheduled for each of the three following Sundays.
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READINGS & CONVERSATIONS brings to Santa Fe a wide range of writers from the literary world of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to read from and discuss their work.
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WEDNESDAY 21 MAY AT 7PM LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Lovely, understated and powerfully sad, The Testament of Mary finally gives the mother of Jesus a chance to speak. And, given that chance, she throws aside the blue veil of the Madonna to become wholly, gloriously human. — Annalisa Quinn NPR Colm Tóibín is one of the most distinct and multi-layered voices in modern Irish fiction, noting, “I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.” Aside from being a novelist, he is also a playwright, essayist, editor and journalist. Two of his books, The Blackwater Lightship and The Master, a novel depicting the interior life of writer Henry James, were shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and his play The Testament of Mary was nominated for a 2013 Tony Award. Tóibín’s Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature considers the topic through the lives and works of notable cultural figures such as Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Bishop and Pedro Almodóvar. TICKETS ON SALE NOW
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its heyday, the hangerlike expanse of the Blacksmith Shop in the Albuquerque Rail Yards was a deafening locale, its 25,000 square feet ringing with clangorous noise as laborers repaired locomotive frames and forged replacement parts to keep the trains in working order. On Saturday, May 3, the long-abandoned space will again resonate, this time with sounds of a gentler sort, as the ensemble Chatter inaugurates the renovated building with a concert of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Alfred Schnittke, and Arvo Pärt. The strange harmony of contrasts is not lost on violinist David Felberg, the group’s artistic director. “I find it very stimulating, coming into this place where they used to cast iron, a place of hot ovens and metal and hammers, and making music with these very delicate stringed instruments crafted out of wood.” The event has been eagerly anticipated as the initial public offering in a site that holds great potential for the Duke City. The Rail Yards occupies a 27-acre plot in the city’s Barelas neighborhood, immediately south of downtown, not far from the National Hispanic Cultural Center and the ABQ BioPark Zoo. It began serving as a center for train repairs in the 1880s, and for decades it kept cars of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad and the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway in working order. The Yards, as it became known, underwent terrific expansion from 1915 to 1925. Eighteen of its surviving buildings were constructed during those years, when it was the city’s largest employer and operated as a self-sustaining industrial complex, generating its own power and drawing its water from a bend in the Río Grande less than a half mile distant.
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The City of Albuquerque finally acquired the site in 2007, just in time for the economic downturn. Plans for eventual redevelopment began to take form all the same, and by 2011 the city was developing a master plan for the Rail Yards as a public/private partnership with Samitaur Constructs, a Los Angeles-based urban development and property management firm that specializes in community revitalization. Over time, the Yards will be transformed to include corporate and industrial facilities, workforce housing, retail spaces, a café, an amphitheater, perhaps a hotel, and certainly a cultural component. Albuquerque’s point man for the project is Gabe Rivera of the city’s Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency. He pointed with pride to the fact that this winter the master plan was awarded honorable mention in the Progressive Architecture (P/A) Awards from the American Institute of Architects. Said Rivera, “It has taken two years and a million dollars to get to this point — rehabilitating the Blacksmith Shop, doing essential roof repairs, reestablishing the water system.” Another $2 million is in the budget for 2015, and that will fund improvements to infrastructure that will gradually make more areas accessible for public use. The project is picking up momentum. The plan is on the agenda for partial city council review on May 14, and in June it will be presented to the full council. The Blacksmith Shop is the only building in the Yards that has been reclaimed to a state where it can receive visitors. Completed in 1917, the brickand-steel building is 76 feet wide and four times that in length, making it as long as a football field. Railroad tracks run like a spine down its center — that’s how the train cars were moved in and out — and the soaring walls shimmer with a massive floor-to-ceiling patchwork of yellow, green, and clear glass panes. Albuquerque’s mayor, Richard J. Berry, held a by-invitation event there last fall, but Chatter’s concert will be the first presentation that is open to the public. Although Felberg is an Albuquerque native, he had not set foot inside
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he music for Chatter’s program has been chosen with attention to the space in which it will be heard. “Someone described Schnittke’s Concerto Grosso No. 1 as ‘post-apocalyptic,’” Felberg said. It was composed in 1977 — 13 years before the composer emigrated from the Soviet Union to Germany. “The concerto grosso was an old form, but Schnittke reappropriated it. He filled it with edgy rhythms and turned the old form into something for a new era. That reflects, in a way, what is happening with the development of the Yards.” (Bach’s beloved Concerto for Two Violins exemplifies the Baroque concerto grosso style that Schnittke used as a model. Violinist Ruxandra Marquardt will join Felberg in the solo parts.) A related idea is encapsulated in Pärt’s composition Tabula Rasa, also a product of 1977, a contemplative, 15-minutelong double concerto for two violins with prepared piano, harpsichord, and strings. “Tabula Rasa means ‘clean slate,’ ” Feldberg said, “and that echoes what the Blacksmith Shop has become — a place that has been reclaimed to the point where it is a clean slate, ready and waiting for something to happen. Pärt sounds great in big, open spaces. I remember an interview with him in which he said, ‘My music is just there to fill large spaces.’” The building really is a clean slate. It is a handsome amalgam of industrial cool and haunted nostalgia, but it is empty. Everything for the event must be brought in: a raised stage large enough to accommodate 22 musicians, chairs for the 625 audience members (a limit that should ensure some degree of intimacy), a reception area for deep-pocketed patrons, a green room for the players, and even an area where local railroad enthusiasts will erect displays. Chatter’s board chair, Pamela Michaelis, has been busily coordinating all of this as well as getting requisite approvals from city agencies — all of it uncharted territory — which leaves Felberg free to concentrate on artistic matters. “Acoustics,” he said. “That is our primary concern right now.” He removed his 1829 Vuillaume violin from its case and launched into the Bach concerto. Music filled the space, which somewhat resembles the nave of a very large church. But here there are no side chapels, no sculptures of saints, no pillars, no pews — none of the accouterments notorious for trapping sound in big churches and turning it into a clutter of echoes. Bach filled the Blacksmith Shop with focus and clarity, and even from the farthest corners the music sounded immediate, not needing any more force than Felberg would apply in a far more modest hall. “We would love to do more concerts here,” Felberg said. “For the moment, it’s a tabula rasa.” ◀ Chatter performs at the Albuquerque Rail Yards (800 Market Road S.W., at the intersection of First Street S.W. and Hazeldine Avenue S.W.) at 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 3. Tickets, $15 to $100 (which includes a reception), are reportedly scarce. Check Chatter’s website (www.chatterabq.org) for availability.
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Debate swirls around deafness. Would the hearing-deprived be happiest living mostly among other deaf people? Should they adapt as much as possible to the hearing world? Should they learn sign language, master the art of lip-reading, or pursue some other form of communication? English playwright Nina Raine, a great-niece of novelist Boris Pasternak, began musing on these matters after watching a documentary about a deaf couple who were expecting a child and expressed the strong desire that their baby be deaf. “I was struck by the thought that this was actually what many people feel, deaf or otherwise,” she wrote on the website of London’s Royal Court Theatre. “Parents take great pleasure in witnessing the qualities they have managed to pass on to their children. … The family is a tribe: an infighting tribe but intensely loyal.” These thoughts evolved into her play Tribes (first produced at the Royal Court Theatre), about a British family — part hearing, part not — that grapples with these serious issues in a context of comical dysfunction. Fusion Theatre Company brings Tribes to the Lensic Performing Arts Center on Friday, May 2, at 8 p.m. and on Saturday, May 3, at 2 and 8 p.m. Tickets ($20 to $40) can be had by calling 505-988-1234 or visiting www.ticketssantafe.org. — J.M.K.
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Accordionist Andre Thierry grew up in northern California, not Louisiana, but he was surrounded by traditional zydeco music nonetheless. His grandparents hosted French Creole dances at the local church, often bringing in some of the best musicians in the country to play and stay with the family. Thierry started his first band, Zydeco Magic, at age 12, and the name stuck. His reputation has grown along with his talent — in 2013 his collaboration with Corey Ledet, Nothin’ but the Best, was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Regional Roots Music Album category. Andre Thierry and Zydeco Magic play at El Paseo Bar & Grill (208 Galisteo St., 505-992-2848) at 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7. There is a $5 cover. — L.B.
Bach and beyond: organist James David Christie
James David Christie, the longtime organist of the Boston Symphony, also serves as professor of organ at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and is a leading exponent of his instrument on the recital circuit — which next month will include his playing five major works for organ and orchestra to open the national convention of the American Guild of Organists at Boston’s Symphony Hall. He assumes the console of the C.B. Fisk organ at First Presbyterian Church (208 Grant Ave.) for an hourlong concert at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, May 2. His program climaxes in Bach’s early Praeludium in G Major (BWV 550), but it gets there by way of a dozen movements by slightly earlier figures whose works helped mold Bach’s musical language: Heinrich Scheidemann, Nicolas de Grigny, Dieterich Buxtehude (whom Bach visited for three months in 1705 and 1706), Johann Pachelbel (whose music Bach copied out when he was first learning the art), Georg Böhm (who may have been one of Bach’s teachers and is known to have been a sales agent for several Bach compositions), and Johann Adam Reincken (some of whose themes Bach developed into otherwise original keyboard pieces). Admission is free, though donations are welcome. Call 505-982-8544, Ext. 16. — J.M.K.
Dominated by Bach: Canticum Novum Chorus & Orchestra
Canticum Novum Chorus & Orchestra, directed by Kenneth Knight, offers a wide-ranging program that includes choral selections by Pietro Yon, Henri Sauguet, and Ruggero Leoncavallo. Two works by Bach dominate the program: his Cantata No. 78, Jesu, der du meine Seele, admired as one of the most outstanding cantatas he wrote for Lutheran congregants in Leipzig; and his Keyboard Concerto in F Minor (BWV 1056), in which pianist Peter Vinograde appears as soloist. Vinograde is also featured in the premiere of Connections: Four Folk Songs for Piano and Orchestra by Hal Campbell. Performances take place at 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 3, and at 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 4, at St. Francis Auditorium (New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave.). Tickets, $30, are available through Tickets Santa Fe at the Lensic (505-988-1234, www.ticketssantafe.org). — J.M.K.
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here is a region of the Bisti Badlands, in northwestern New Mexico, that looks like the surface of a remote planet. It is almost totally devoid of life and is made up of strangely furrowed hills. In some areas, the chaotic tumble of rocks and stones is punctuated by large, smooth, bulbous projections that resemble the backs of whales. There are whites, greens, yellows, and purples, but the dominant color is black. This is the museland that Georgia O’Keeffe called the Black Place. The artist made many trips there, beginning in the 1930s, and created a handful of luminous, bizarre paintings based on what she witnessed. Among the people inspired by these works is photographer Walter W. Nelson, whose images made over the past three decades populate the pages of The Black Place — Two Seasons (Museum of New Mexico Press) and hang at Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art in a show opening Friday, May 2. On Saturday, May 3, Nelson has an opening at Café Pasqual’s, which shows his sculptural paintings made from materials harvested at the Black Place. An early interest in fine art led Nelson to a special focus on O’Keeffe, and he left New York to seek out some of her painting locations. “I first went there 30 years ago in search of this mysterious place,” Nelson told Pasatiempo. “Nobody knew where it was.” After he moved to Abiquiú, he also mimicked her long trips, sojourning to the Black Place, although in her day the entire 120-mile drive was on dirt roads. When working as a commercial photographer in New York and Texas, Nelson took sabbatical trips to the Southwest, carrying a big metal studio view camera. By the time he was photographing in the Black Place, he had acquired a collapsible wooden Deardorff camera. That was better suited to tramping around New Mexico, although he still hauled a hefty tripod, a brace of 8 x 10 film holders, and other supplies as well. “For about 20 years I was photographing in there with the 8 x 10 camera. Then about seven years ago I began using a digital camera, a Canon D5. I didn’t think I would ever do that. One day about four years ago, I made the long drive from Abiquiú, and it was drizzling rain all day long. Periodically I’d have to wipe the lens off on the camera, because I couldn’t focus.” That day’s results convinced him of the validity of shooting digital and shooting in color. “It was all moisture, clouds, and a very soft gray light, and magic happens with color when you get into that situation. “It’s all about light. When I was in there with the 8 x 10, shooting black-and-white, for some reason I didn’t want clouds. I wanted hard light, and it was all about the subtleties of the grays. Then, when I started using color, I preferred soft light.” Photographs in the new book show that when shooting color digitally, he often gravitates to wide expanses and realms rather messily strewn with rocks. By contrast, with the big camera, shooting black and white, he focuses on more austere landscape elements, producing perhaps finer compositions. Writer Douglas Preston, in an essay in the book, describes this extraordinary place in detail. It dates back 60 million years, when it contained a forest of magnolias, figs, and other lush trees. Now it offers
“the richest fossil beds of early mammals ever found on Earth,” Preston writes. The landscape today is built up of layers and layers of river sediment, mud, clay, sand, and volcanic ash. The area is littered with petrified wood, red and yellow jasper, and chert; there is evidence of flint knapping, of ancient Indians making tools from the chert. The black surfaces of the hills come from oxidized iron ash, while the whites are quartz sand from ancient riverbeds. O’Keeffe was attracted to geology, and regardless of the degree to which she abstracted what she saw, “she never departed from the geological reality of what she observed,” Preston writes. The Black Place was, for her, “a landscape of enormous significance to her own artistic vision.” Some of what we see in Nelson’s photographs is cryptic, not only because the landscape is so foreign but also because it’s hard to tell what the scale is. One black-and-white portrayal of those hills — whose “fluidity of form” mesmerizes Nelson — could have been photographed from a helicopter. Rather, it was taken from a ridge, looking down at a 45-degree angle. “You do a tremendous amount of walking there. This was mid-afternoon, I remember.” Some of the surface is made of crackled, age-textured montmorillonite clay, which geologists have nicknamed “popcorn.” Footprints in the soft material can remain for a decade. “It’s very fragile,” Nelson said. “You have to be conscious of where and how you’re walking.” Nelson’s works at Café Pasqual’s all refer to the place and represent variations on the “two seasons” idea: in one (spring, summer, and fall), the colors are black continued on Page 40
Walter W. Nelson: Untitled 34A; below, Untitled 5A; opposite page, Untitled 74C; all 2012; images from The Black Place — Two Seasons; courtesy the artist /Museum of New Mexico Press
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and subtle, and in the other (winter), white dominates. The restaurant has a 5½-foot-tall wooden sculpture-relief painting called The Dance of the Two Seasons, large oil-on-canvas works, and several sculptural paintings from a series he conceived using earth and red jasper from the Black Place. Nelson has been harvesting bits of red jasper from the landscape for two decades. He used it in nearly 20 shrines he built in New Mexico, Texas, and Europe, dedicated to his canine companion, a red heeler named Darwin Augustus Perth, who died in 1999. “This is the only place in all my travels I’ve seen red jasper, and I incorporated it into the earth paintings at Café Pasqual’s. I hand-crushed 60 gallons of dirt. Then I made frames with metal lathing and canvas on Masonite. Then I cut templates out of plywood, and I mixed the black earth with damar resin, linseed oil, turpentine, and cobalt drier.” Each one is 40 by 33 inches and about 3½ inches deep. “I wasn’t going to do this. I’m a painter and a sculptor, but her Black Place paintings, out of respect ... I thought there’s no way in hell I can compete with that, so I’m not going to do any paintings at this location. But it’s had such an impact on my life. It didn’t go out of my subconscious, and one day I started doing drawings. Then I expanded on it, and because of the impact of black and white in this place, it came to me to do these paintings.” He well remembers the day he located a particular rock on which O’Keeffe was once photographed sitting. “I was photographing in there for 20 years but not knowing for certain that this was her Black Place. Then I went in search of that rock, and I looked up and saw this formation, the depression and drainage coming down, and it just blew me away: this is her painting.” That is Black Place II, 1944, a dramatic, outlandish sonata of forms in black, white, and subdued colors. It is reproduced in the book, and on the next page is Nelson’s photograph of the same landscape. It’s a fascinating comparison. Both versions are more than a little spooky. About the Black Place the photographer said, “It’s very mysterious. It kind of puts you in awe.” ◀
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realities of reservation life. The lives of father-to-be Luther “Sick Boy” Maryboy; the transgendered and promiscuous Felixia; and college hopeful Nizhoni Smiles, the adopted daughter of a non-Native family, intertwine as they learn the value of family, culture, and tradition without sacrificing their individual identities. The title was inspired by an episode of 20/20 in which the writer/director’s hometown of Gallup was referred to as “Drunktown, U.S.A.” Freeland turns the tables on Native stereotypes and brings dignity and depth to her characters. 10:15 p.m. Friday, May 2, only. Not rated. 95 minutes. Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. (Michael Abatemarco) See review, Page 30. FOLLOWING THE NINTH: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF BEETHOVEN’S FINAL SYMPHONY Kerry Candaele’s film takes viewers around the world to find out what makes Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony so universally loved. Benefit screenings for Santa Fe Symphony at 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 7, only. Not rated. 90 minutes. Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) A cheeky sequel: Andrew Garfield (or his stunt double) in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, at Regal Stadium 14 in Santa Fe and DreamCatcher in Española
opening this week THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 The machine that pumps out Spider-Man movies must be about to blow a gasket, as we’ve now got our second one in less than two years. Andrew Garfield returns as Peter Parker, the unassuming wisecracker whose wall-crawling alter ego is tangled in a web of intrigue between the Green Goblin (Dane DeHaan) and Electro ( Jamie Foxx). It’s a rushed sequel to a remake, it’s well over two hours, and it has seven credited writers — what could go wrong? Rated PG. 142 minutes. Screens in 3-D and 2-D at Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe. Screens in 2-D only at DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed) A BIRDER’S GUIDE TO EVERYTHING Rob Meyer’s debut feature is a comingof-age comedy that rehashes Stand by Me — with a rare bird in place of a dead body — with the eccentric melancholy of Wes Anderson’s work. Kodi Smit-McPhee heads a cast of gifted young actors as a boy who sees birdwatching as the only connection to his dead mother. He sets out to find a thought-to-beextinct duck on the weekend of his father’s wedding to his new beau. Ben Kingsley plays a veteran birder, and he lends weight to the proceedings whenever things get too whimsical. Some of the humor probably played 42
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better on the page than the screen, but Meyer shows a gift for getting the most from his teenage actors. Rated PG-13. 86 minutes. Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. (Robert Ker) CINEVISION FILM FESTIVAL This student-run festival includes narrative films, documentaries, shorts, and animation and runs through Sunday, May 4. Hateship Loveship (6 p.m. Friday, May 2) features a purely dramatic turn from Kristen Wiig, while Misfire (6 p.m. Saturday, May 3) examines the 1990s indie-film distribution company The Shooting Gallery. For a complete schedule and to purchase tickets ($10 per film or $20 for an all-access pass), visit www.thescreensf.com or call 505-473-6494. The Screen, Santa Fe. (Michael Abatemarco) DOM HEMINGWAY Jude Law stretches his acting muscles, obscuring his good looks behind weird facial hair and playing a cockney hoodlum of the type that Michael Caine used to embody. In this comedic crime caper, Law’s Dom Hemingway is a safecracker who is fresh out of prison and looking to get what’s coming to him. Rated R. 93 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) DRUNKTOWN’S FINEST The first feature by Sydney Freeland is a moving coming-of-age tale that follows the lives of three Navajo youths struggling to escape the harsh
MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS: MASTERPIECES OF POLISH CINEMA This series of Polish classics, most of them seldom seen in the U.S., covers three decades, from the mid-’50s to the mid-’80s. The 21 films include work by Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Munk, and Krzysztof Kieslowski. Wajda’s The Promised Land (1974, 170 minutes) is shown on Tuesday, May 6, at The Screen, Santa Fe. Krzysztof Zanussi’s Camouflage (1976, 101 minutes) screens on Thursday, May 8, at the Jean Cocteau Cinema, Santa Fe. Not rated. In Polish with subtitles. ( Jonathan Richards) THE RAILWAY MAN Colin Firth plays a World War II veteran who has found love but not peace. He remains emotionally traumatized by the torment he suffered at a Japanese labor camp. His wife (Nicole Kidman) and a friend (Stellan Skarsgård) locate one of the men who tortured him (played by Hiroyuki Sanada), and a confrontation ensues. Rated R. 116 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) REDWOOD HIGHWAY Shirley Knight puts in a strong performance as Marie, a curmudgeonly retirement-home resident who sets off on an 80-mile journey on foot to attend her granddaughter’s wedding on the Oregon coast. Along the way, she meets the usual assortment of oddball characters and gains some insight into her stubborn ways, but we’ve seen this situation before. Redwood Highway mostly avoids the mawkish old-age jokes that usually accompany films about last hurrahs, but it can’t avoid slipping into sentimentality. Still, its heart is in the right place. As Marie treks through the gorgeous landscape toward a predictable conclusion,
Knight elicits sympathy and a smile or two. Opens Tuesday, May 6. Rated PG-13. 90 minutes. Jean Cocteau Cinema, Santa Fe. (Michael Abatemarco) SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL This year’s festival screens more than 60 films through Sunday, May 4. Friday, May 2, highlights include Beneath the Harvest Sky (6 p.m., Jean Cocteau Cinema) and Death & Taxes (8:15 p.m., Center for Contemporary Arts). A retrospective honoring producer Michael Fitzgerald takes place Saturday, May 3, at Jean Cocteau, with The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (11 a.m.), The Pledge (1:15 p.m.), and Closer to the Moon (6 p.m., with Fitzgerald in attendance). Additional Saturday offerings include McConkey (6 p.m., CCA), and Queens and Cowboys (8:30 p.m., CCA). Sunday brings another full day of film and culminates in an 8 p.m. awards ceremony at the Jean Cocteau. Visit www.santafefilmfestival.com or call 505-988-7414. (Loren Bienvenu) See story, Page 28. WRENCHED Well into producer-director M.L. Lincoln’s Wrenched, its central figure, the late writer and environmental activist Edward Abbey, defines the difference between sabotage and terrorism. “Monkey wrenching,” the term that gives the movie its name, is closer to the former. The meme is pulled from Abbey’s book The Monkey Wrench Gang, about a group of eco-meddlers who seek to stop the road-building, mining, and damming that persist in the American Southwest. The other central figure is Tim DeChristopher, who disrupted a 2008 auction of oil and gas leases. Part Abbey bio, part history of the radical environmental movement, and part ecological call to arms, Wrenched shows as part of the Santa Fe Film Festival. Writer and activist Jack Loeffler attends the showing, at 1 p.m. Sunday, May 4, only. Not rated. 93 minutes. Jean Cocteau Cinema, Santa Fe. (Bill Kohlhaase)
now in theaters BEARS The Disneynature documentary series adds narratives to the lives of animals and presents the natural world in a kid-friendly way. Here, John C. Reilly tells the story of a bear and her two cubs in the Alaskan wilderness. Rated G. 77 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) BRICK MANSIONS If you fall anywhere in the Venn diagram of those who rallied around the 2004 French action film District B13 and those who were crushed by the death of Paul Walker, you must see this District B13 remake, which stars Walker in one of his final roles. He plays an undercover cop whose task is to infiltrate
dangerous, walled-off housing projects in a dystopian Detroit. RZA is the villain, and District 13 star David Belle co-stars, in a flurry of punching, kicking, running up walls, jumping down stairwells, and so on. Rated PG-13. 90 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed) CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER Following the events in The Avengers, the star-spangled superhero (Chris Evans) returns to fight an evil plan that is ridiculous even by funnybook standards. There are some neato action effects, and some supporting characters work — Robert Redford, as a world security council leader, proves he still looks better than you do in a vest, while Scarlett Johansson once more makes the case for a Black Widow solo film. Otherwise, the humor is missing, the film is too violent for a theater full of kids, and there’s too much story — by the time it’s over, you’ll feel like you’ve been frozen in ice since the 1940s. Rated PG-13. 135 minutes. Screens in 2-D only at Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Robert Ker) DIVERGENT In postapocalyptic Chicago, society is organized into five factions. Teenagers take a test to determine the group for which they’re best suited, but some, such as Tris (Shailene Woodley), can’t be easily sorted. Tris keeps her “divergence” hidden as she begins her training, senses romantic sparks with an instructor (Theo James), and learns that one faction is plotting to overthrow the government. The performances are solid, the pace engaging, but the way the story unfolds is predictable. Rated PG-13. 143 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe. (Laurel Gladden) DRAFT DAY Kevin Costner has played many men with difficult jobs, from hitmen to secret-service agents, but none more difficult than this: the general manager expected to turn around the NFL’s Cleveland Browns. This film shows us the pressure he faces balancing big egos, strong personalities, and gifted players on draft day. Rated PG-13. 103 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) FINDING VIVIAN MAIER Photography fans were astounded when the previously unknown work of Vivian Maier was discovered in the late 2000s. Here, director John Maloof interviews dozens of acquaintances of the late nanny-photographer, filling out the story of a most peculiar woman. Not rated. 83 minutes. Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. (Paul Weideman) GOD’S NOT DEAD Kevin Sorbo plays a college professor who loses his faith and teaches his students that God is dead until a plucky freshman (Shane
Harper) challenges him. Willie Robertson, one of the Duck Dynasty dudes, appears as himself. Rated PG. 113 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed) THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL It is truly a joy to witness the work of Wes Anderson, who devotes such attention to his creative vision that he crafts his own singular world. This time, Anderson tells a tale of an Eastern European hotel manager (Ralph Fiennes) who is willed a priceless painting by a former lover (Tilda Swinton). This angers a relative (Adrien Brody), who feels he should be the true heir. For some of his new tricks, Anderson adds suspense worthy of Hitchcock or Carol Reed to his impeccably designed “dollhouse” aesthetic. Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Edward Norton, Jude Law, and Harvey Keitel co-star in this caper, which plays out like a youth novel or a board game. Rated R. 100 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. (Robert Ker) A HAUNTED HOUSE 2 In the 2000s, we had an endless string of lame Scary Movie films, in which some of the Wayans brothers spoofed the latest horror flicks. Now we have the lame A Haunted House films, in which one of the brothers spoofs the latest horror flicks. Rated R. 87 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed) HEAVEN IS FOR REAL This movie, based on the book Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back (co-written by Lynn Vincent, who helped Sarah Palin write Going Rogue), recalls the account of the young son (Connor Corum) of a Nebraska pastor (Greg Kinnear) who dies on an operating table, goes to heaven, and comes back to tell the tale. Rated PG. 100 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed) JODOROWSKY’S DUNE Visionary filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s efforts to bring an adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel Dune to the screen are the subject of this engaging documentary. Jodorowsky assembled a first-class group of artists to realize his vision and recruited some of his own idols, including Orson Welles and Salvador Dalí, for the cast. Based on the director’s storyboards, Dune would have been a wonder to behold. But pressure to cut its excessive length pitted Jodorowsky against the studio, and the film was never made as he intended. Its failure leaves you aching to see what Dune could have been if it had been. Rated PG-13. 90 minutes. In English, French, German, and Spanish with subtitles. Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. (Michael Abatemarco) continued on Page 44
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JOE Actor Nicolas Cage and director David Gordon Green have individually frustrated audiences with their combination of highbrow talent and lowbrow taste. Here they collaborate on a sweltering slice of Southern gothic. Cage brilliantly plays the title character, an ex-con who oversees a rural landscaping crew. A boy named Gary (Tye Sheridan) approaches him for a job, and Joe — impressed by Gary’s work ethic and troubled by his abusive home life — takes the kid under his wing. Together, they try to adhere to the goodness in their hearts rather than their angry impulses. Rated R. 118 minutes. The Screen, Santa Fe. (Robert Ker) LE WEEK-END Meg (Lindsay Duncan) and Nick ( Jim Broadbent) are a not-veryhappily-married couple from Birmingham, England, who have decided to perk things up for their 30th anniversary by returning to Paris, where they spent their honeymoon in happier days. The movie’s turning point comes when they run into an old Cambridge friend of Nick’s, a successful American economist ( Jeff Goldblum). For the most part, it’s an engaging story, although we are occasionally aware of manipulative button-pushing from director Roger Michell and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi. A conscious homage to Jean-Luc Godard’s New Wave classic Band of Outsiders is at work, providing a bittersweet perspective on aging. Rated R. 93 minutes. The Screen, Santa Fe ( Jonathan Richards) THE LUNCHBOX A woman (Nimrat Kaur) who seeks to connect with her distant husband prepares a meal to be delivered to him in a lunchbox, but the food is mistakenly sent to a man (Irrfan Khan) who is mourning the loss of his wife. By exchanging notes in the lunchbox, the two begin to build a relationship. Rated PG. 104 minutes. In Hindi with subtitles. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) THE MONUMENTS MEN During World War II, the U.S. put together a team of art scholars and academics under the aegis of the military to try to locate treasures looted by the
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Nazis. As the war wound down, it became apparent that the Germans were prepared to destroy these works if they couldn’t keep them. This is gripping, funny, and moving material, and George Clooney, wearing the hats of writer, director, producer, and star, has crafted a hugely enjoyable old-fashioned war movie. Rated PG-13. 118 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. ( Jonathan Richards) NOAH Darren Aronofsky follows his decorated Black Swan by turning to the Old Testament and reimagining the story of Noah’s ark. The result is an ambitious, odd movie. The first half combines elements of classic Bible epics, Lord of the Rings blockbusters, and Terrence Malick’s art films; in the more-pensive back half, Noah (Russell Crowe) ponders the full ramifications of God’s message to him. Concepts of faith, servitude, environmental preservation, and the responsibilities of dominion give viewers a lot to meditate on, even if these ideas are burdened by more-generic subplots of romance and revenge. As expected, Noah is often dreary, grim, and monochromatic, but Crowe wears the gravity well, and many thematic and visual aspects of the film linger long after the water recedes. Rated PG-13. 138 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe. (Robert Ker) THE OTHER WOMAN Mark (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau of Game of Thrones) is such a ladies’ man — and such a big jerk — that not only does he have a wife (Leslie Mann), but he has another woman (Cameron Diaz) and another other woman (Kate Upton). What happens when the women in this comedy all find out about each other? Nothing good for Mark, that’s what. Rated PG-13. 109 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed) PARTICLE FEVER Director Mark Levinson filmed events at the Large Hadron Collider as they unfolded during the most expensive scientific experiment to date, during which scientists from many nations sought to prove or disprove the existence of the Higgs boson, a theorized particle that would help explain how matter is given mass. The discovery of the boson is a dramatic and entertaining story that opens wide the door on a mystery of the universe that has been perplexing scientists since the 1960s, and it leaves you fascinated. Not rated. 99 minutes. Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. (Michael Abatemarco) THE QUIET ONES Jared Harris (Mad Men) plays a college professor who seeks to disprove the existence of the supernatural. He and some students retreat to an old country house (bad sign #1), where there’s a
toddler that only one of them sees (#2). As they try to transfer their negative energy to a creepy doll (#3), some of them develop strange symbols on their bodies (#4). How many bad signs do you need? Get out of there! Rated PG-13. 98 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed) RIO 2 In this sequel to the 2011 hit, a macaw from Minnesota (voiced by Jesse Eisenberg) and his family are relocated to the Amazon rainforest, where they encounter zany characters and crazy music. Rated G. 96 minutes. Screens in 2-D only at Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed) TRANSCENDENCE Johnny Depp plays a scientist who, when faced with death, has his consciousness uploaded into a computer, where he soon becomes all-powerful and highly corrupt. But does he hook up with Scarlett Johansson’s operating system from Her? Rated PG-13. 119 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) UNDER THE SKIN In Jonathan Glazer’s visually stunning, unsettling, and very loose adaptation of Michel Faber’s 2000 debut sci-fi novel, an alien takes the form of a human female (Scarlett Johansson) and cruises the streets of Glasgow in a van, preying on men. Her human emotions are learned and not pervasive. As the story wears on, however, we begin to see a gradual slide toward something approaching human empathy in the alien creature. It may be that after all, the most contagious thing in the universe is humanity. Rated R. 107 minutes. Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. ( Jonathan Richards)
other screenings Jean Cocteau Cinema 7 p.m. Monday, May 5: Measure of a Man (episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation). 8:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, May 6- 8: Rotgut. 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 7: Alan Partridge. Regal Stadium 14 7 p.m. Thursday, May 8: Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return. 8 & 10 p.m. Thursday, May 8: Neighbors. 2 p.m. Sunday, May 4; 2 & 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 7: Ben-Hur (1959). The Screen 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 7: Chef, screening followed by simulcast Q & A with writer/director Jon Favreau. ◀
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Call theaters or check websites to confirm screening times. CCA CINEMATHEQUE AND SCREENING ROOM 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 505-982-1338, www.ccasantafe.org A Birder’s Guide to Everything (PG-13) Sat. 1:30 p.m. Sun. 12:30 p.m. Tue. 4 p.m. Thurs. 4 p.m. The Club (NR) Fri. 6 p.m. Death & Taxes (NR) Fri. 8:15 p.m. Drunktown’s Finest (NR) Fri. 10:15 p.m. Finding Vivian Maier (NR) Fri. and Sat. 4 p.m. Sun. 4:15 p.m. Mon. and Tue. 5:15 p.m. Wed. 4 p.m. Thurs. 5:15 p.m. Following the Ninth (NR) Wed. 4:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. Growing Pains:Adolescent Short Films for Adults Sat. 1 p.m. I Am Bialik (NR) Sun. 5:30 p.m. Jodorowsky’s Dune (PG-13) Mon. and Tue. 7:15 p.m. Wed. 1:45 p.m. Thurs. 7:15 p.m. Light Me Up:Animated Shorts Sun. 3 p.m. Love Is Strange: Romcom Shorts Fri. 3:30 p.m. McConkey (NR) Sat. 6 p.m. Moving From Emptiness (NR) Sat. 3:30 p.m. Nothing in Los Angeles (NR) Sun. 8 p.m. The Other Brother (NR) Fri. 1 p.m. Particle Fever (NR) Fri. 12:30 p.m. Sat. 11:15 a.m. Tue. 3 p.m. Wed. 2:15 p.m. Thurs. 3 p.m. Queens & Cowboys:A Straight Year on the Gay Rodeo (NR) Sat. 8:30 p.m. Real People: Documentary Shorts Sun. 1 p.m. Under the Skin (R) Fri. 6:45 p.m. Sat. and Sun. 7 p.m., 9:15 p.m. Mon. to Thurs. 6 p.m., 8:15 p.m. JEAN COCTEAU CINEMA 418 Montezuma Avenue, 505-466-5528 www.jeancocteaucinema.com Alan Partridge (NR) Wed. 4:30 p.m. Beneath the Harvest Sky (NR) Fri. 6 p.m. Boogie Stomp! (NR) Fri. 3:30 p.m. Camouflage (NR) Thurs. 1 p.m. Children of Internment (NR) Sun. 10:45 a.m. Closer to the Moon Sat. 6 p.m. The Horror!The Horror! Shorts Program Sat. 10:45 p.m. Jardin de Amapolas (NR) Fri. 10:45 a.m. Let the Record Show (NR) Sat. 3:30 p.m. Life During Wartime: International Shorts Fri. 1 p.m. New Mexico Shorts Sun. 4:45 p.m. Nothing in Los Angeles (NR) Sun. 8 p.m. On the Nature of Hotness: GLBT Shorts Fri. 8:15 p.m. The Pledge (R) Sat. 1:15 p.m. Redwood Highway (PG-13) Tue. 6:30 p.m. Wed. 2:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m. Thurs. 3:30 p.m. Rotgut (NR) Tue. to Thurs. 8:30 p.m. Star Trek:The Next Generation — Measure of a Man (NR) Mon. 7 p.m. Tatanka (NR) Sat. 8:45 p.m. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (R) Sat. 11 a.m. Wrenched (NR) Sun. 1 p.m. REGAL DEVARGAS 562 N. Guadalupe St., 505-988-2775, www.fandango.com Dom Hemingway (R) Fri. and Sat. 1:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 9:55 p.m. Sun. to Thurs. 1:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. The Grand Budapest Hotel (R) Fri. and Sat. 1:50 p.m., 4:40 p.m., 7:40 p.m., 10 p.m. Sun. to Thurs. 1:50 p.m., 4:40 p.m., 7:40 p.m. The Lunchbox (PG) Fri. and Sat. 1:40 p.m., 4:20 p.m., 7:20 p.m., 9:45 p.m. Sun. to Thurs. 1:40 p.m., 4:20 p.m., 7:20 p.m. The Monuments Men (PG-13) Fri. and Sat. 1:10 p.m., 3:50 p.m., 7 p.m., 9:40 p.m. Sun. to Thurs. 1:10 p.m., 3:50 p.m., 7 p.m. The Railway Man (R) Fri. and Sat. 1:20 p.m., 4:10 p.m., 7:10 p.m., 9:50 p.m. Sun. to Thurs. 1:20 p.m., 4:10 p.m., 7:10 p.m. Transcendence (PG-13) Fri. and Sat. 1 p.m., 4 p.m., 6:50 p.m., 9:30 p.m. Sun. to Thurs. 1 p.m., 4 p.m., 6:50 p.m. REGAL STADIUM 14 3474 Zafarano Drive, 505-424-6296, www.fandango.com The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG-13) Fri. to Sun. 12 p.m., 1 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 7 p.m., 8 p.m., 10:30 p.m. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG-13) Fri. to Sun. 10 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 5 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 8:30 p.m., 11 p.m.
Bears (G) Fri. to Sun. 10:20 a.m., 12:25 p.m., 2:45 p.m., 5:05 p.m., 7:10 p.m., 9:20 p.m. Ben-Hur (G) Sun. 2 p.m. Wed. 2 p.m., 7 p.m. Brick Mansions (PG-13) Fri. to Sun. 10:15 a.m., 12:35 p.m., 3 p.m., 5:20 p.m., 7:40 p.m., 10:10 p.m. Captain America:The Winter Soldier (PG-13) Fri. to Sun. 10:10 a.m., 1:10 p.m., 4:20 p.m., 7:25 p.m., 10:25 p.m. Divergent (PG-13) Fri. to Sun. 10:30 p.m. Draft Day (PG-13) Fri. and Sat. 10:25 a.m., 1:15 p.m., 4:40 p.m., 7:20 p.m. Sun. 10:25 a.m., 7:20 p.m. God’s Not Dead (PG) Fri. to Sun. 12:05 p.m., 2:40 p.m., 5:15 p.m., 7:50 p.m. A Haunted House 2 (R) Fri. to Sun. 10:25 p.m. Heaven Is for Real (PG) Fri. to Sun. 12:05 p.m., 2:40 p.m., 5:15 p.m., 7:50 p.m., 10:25 p.m. Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return (PG) Thurs. 7 p.m. Neighbors (R) Thurs. 8 p.m., 10:20 p.m. Noah (PG-13) Fri. to Sun. 12:50 p.m., 4:05 p.m., 7:25 p.m., 10:25 p.m. The Other Woman (PG-13) Fri. to Sun. 10:20 a.m., 1:10 p.m., 4:10 p.m., 7:15 p.m., 9:50 p.m. The Quiet Ones (PG-13) Fri. to Sun. 12 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 5:10 p.m., 7:45 p.m., 10:10 p.m. Rio 2 (G) Fri. to Sun. 10:45 a.m., 1:20 p.m., 4:45 p.m., 7:35 p.m., 10:10 p.m. THE SCREEN Santa Fe University of Art & Design, 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, 505-473-6494, www.thescreensf.com 120 Days (NR) Sun. 2 p.m. Animated Shorts Program (NR) Sun. 8 p.m. Bipolarized (NR) Sat. noon Chef (R) Wed. 7 p.m. Cinema Six (NR) Sat. 10 p.m. Documentary Shorts Program I (NR) Sat. 4 p.m. Documentary Shorts Program II (NR) Sun. noon Hateship Loveship (R) Fri. 6 p.m. Joe (R) Fri. and Sat. 8 p.m. Sun. 6 p.m. Mon. 2:30 p.m., 7 p.m. Tue. 4:30 p.m. Wed. 2:30 p.m. Thurs. 2:30 p.m., 7 p.m. Live Action Shorts Program (NR) Fri. 4 p.m. Misfire:The Rise and Fall of The Shooting Gallery (NR) Sat. 6 p.m. The Promised Land (R) Tue 7 p.m. Rabid Love (NR) Sun. 10 p.m. Sex(ed) (NR) Sun. 4 p.m. Student Shorts Program (NR) Fri 2:15 p.m. The UFOlogist (NR) Fri. 10:30 p.m. Le Week-End (R) Fri. 12 p.m. Sat. 2 p.m. Sun. 10 a.m. Mon. 5 p.m. Tue. 2:40 p.m. Wed. and Thurs. 5 p.m. MITCHELL DREAMCATCHER CINEMA (ESPAÑOLA) 15 N.M. 106 (intersection with U.S. 84/285), 505-753-0087, www.dreamcatcher10.com The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG-13) Fri. 4:45 p.m., 6:45 p.m., 7:45 p.m., 9:45 p.m. Sat. 1:45 p.m., 3 p.m., 4:45 p.m., 6:45 p.m., 7:45 p.m., 9:45 p.m. Sun. 1:45 p.m., 3 p.m., 4:45 p.m., 6:45 p.m. Mon. to Thurs. 4:45 p.m., 6:45 p.m. Brick Mansions (PG-13) Fri. 4:55 p.m., 7:10 p.m., 9:40 p.m. Sat. 2:10 p.m., 4:45 p.m., 7:10 p.m., 9:40 p.m. Sun. 2:10 p.m., 4:55 p.m., 7:10 p.m. Mon. to Thurs. 4:55 p.m., 7:10 p.m. Captain America:The Winter Soldier (PG-13) Fri. 4:40 p.m., 7:40 p.m. Sat. and Sun. 1:50 p.m., 4:40 p.m., 7:40 p.m. Mon. to Thurs. 4:20 p.m., 7:20 p.m. God’s Not Dead (PG) Fri. 4:55 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 9:55 p.m. Sat. 2:20 p.m., 4:55 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 9:55 p.m. Sun. 2:20 p.m., 4:55 p.m., 7:30 p.m. Mon. to Thurs. 4:55 p.m., 7:30 p.m. A Haunted House 2 (R) Fri. 5 p.m., 7:35 p.m., 9:40 p.m. Sat. 2:30 p.m., 5 p.m., 7:35 p.m., 9:40 p.m. Sun. 2:30 p.m., 5 p.m., 7:35 p.m. Mon. to Thurs. 5 p.m., 7:35 p.m. Heaven Is for Real (PG) Fri. 4:45 p.m., 7:15 p.m., 9:35 p.m. Sat. 2:15 p.m., 4:45 p.m., 7:15 p.m., 9:35 p.m. Sun. 2:15 p.m., 4:45 p.m., 7:15 p.m. Mon. to Thurs. 4:45 p.m., 7:15 p.m. The Other Woman (PG-13) Fri. 4:30 p.m., 7 p.m., 9:55 p.m. Sat. 2 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 7 p.m., 9:55 p.m. Sun. 2 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 7 p.m. Mon. to Thurs. 4:30 p.m., 7 p.m. The Quiet Ones (PG-13) Fri. 4:50 p.m., 7:25 p.m., 9:50 p.m. Sat. 2:25 p.m., 4:50 p.m., 7:25 p.m., 9:50 p.m. Sun. 2:25 p.m., 4:50 p.m., 7:25 p.m. Mon. to Thurs. 4:50 p.m., 7:25 p.m. Rio 2 (G) Fri. 4:35 p.m., 7:05 p.m., 9:30 p.m. Sat. 2:05 p.m., 4:35 p.m., 7:05 p.m., 9:30 p.m. Sun. 2:05 p.m., 4:35 p.m., 7:05 p.m. Mon. to Thurs. 4:35 p.m., 7:05 p.m.
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RESTAURANT REVIEW Bill Kohlhaase I The New Mexican
Meat meets heat
Bert’s Burger Bowl
235 N. Guadalupe St., 505-982-0215 Breakfast 8-10:30 a.m. Mondays Fridays; lunch & dinner 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mondays-Fridays, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays; closed Sundays Takeout available Patio dining in season No alcohol Vegetarian options Noise level: background traffic Credit cards, no checks
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The Short Order Bert’s Burger Bowl has been grilling up green-chile cheeseburgers and other fare for 60 years. It’s a classic drive-in with a regional menu that includes tacos, breakfast burritos, chile dogs, and Frito pies as well as burgers, fries, and shakes. The classic chile cheeseburger is notable for its consistently spicy green chile. In a nod to contemporary trends, they also offer bison, lamb, and Kobe-style beef burgers as well as sweet-potato fries. The rest of the offerings tend to be better than nationalfranchise quality, though the fries are disappointing. And where else can you get fried chicken gizzards or livers to snack on as you drive down the street? Recommended: #6 green-chile cheeseburger, bison burger with green chile and cheese, ground-beef tacos, carnitas tacos, onion rings, chicken gizzards.
Ratings range from 0 to 4 chiles, including half chiles. This reflects the reviewer’s experience with regard to food and drink, atmosphere, service, and value.
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It’s hard to imagine a time before the advent of the green-chile cheeseburger. Yet our town’s signature burger may be barely as old as some of us eating it. This year marks the 60th anniversary of Bert’s Burger Bowl, which first opened on Cordova Road in 1954. The proprietors say that Bert’s is the creator of the green-chile cheeseburger in Santa Fe, making the claim on the menu that hangs above the grill where burgers flame. (The Santa Fe part is important — Blake’s Lotaburger opened in Albuquerque in 1952 and claims to have invented the burger there.) It’s probably safe to assume that Bert’s longevity has something to do with the goodness of its burgers. Even as new, quality-minded takeout joints open and more-expensive designer burgers proliferate in what’s arguably one of the most competitive burger markets in the country, Bert’s #6 burger, the one with green chile and cheese, more than holds its own. That burger is as fine as any you’ll find in the under-$5 price range. The beef has a smoky, flame-grilled taste, and the cheese is always perfectly melted, soft and gooey while still holding its shape. But it’s the chile that makes the burger special and worth repeat visits. No matter the season, it consistently packs mouth-watering heat. It’s firm and chewy, with that good mineral-like flavor that chile connoisseurs love, and it’s not sparingly applied. To get the full effect, ask them to hold the lettuce and tomato. And don’t wait to get it home before you indulge. Eat it right there, at one of the patio tables or in your car. With a little imagination, the experience becomes something akin to time travel, taking you back to your first burger, enjoyed probably well before you were old enough to drive. Bert’s burgers don’t measure up in all categories when compared to the Johnny-come-latelies out there. The bun isn’t exceptional, and the quarter-pound patty is usually cooked to a generous definition of medium — to the point where you don’t have to worry about anything dripping onto your lap. Comparing Bert’s burgers to something more substantial and twice as expensive wouldn’t really be fair. Yet Bert’s has generally been ahead of the times: hidden in a regional menu that offers tacos, burritos, and grilled ham-and-cheese sandwiches are lamb, bison, and Kobe-style beef burgers. These high-end offerings are served on kaiser rolls, a distinct improvement over the average bun. The Kobe is not, of course, actual Kobe beef from the Japanese prefecture of Hyogo but an American-raised knockoff that’s eminently flavorful and even a bit crumbly when ordered medium. (Order it medium-rare for the full flavor effect.) The bison is lean and chewy, excellent when quickly charred on the outside and pink throughout. The lamb burger is the real thing, gamy in taste and firm in texture. Mustard, spread on all the burgers, is a plus on the lamb, combining nicely with the cheese, its spiciness contrasting with the chile’s heat.
The menu’s other items are just what you’d expect from a classic New Mexico drive-in. The ground-beef tacos are better than anything you’ll get at a franchise with taco in its name. The carne adovada burrito is plump and a bit heavy on the beans, but the pork is wonderful. The carnitas tacos — big chunks of crispy pork served simply in corn tortillas with chopped onion and cilantro — are outstanding, especially with the addition of red chile that is unsparingly hot and a bit oily. The fried chicken is just OK (and not always available), the breading thin and crisp. Hard to find these days and something of a Midwestern delicacy, fried chicken livers and gizzards aren’t for everyone. The gizzards weren’t as tough as many I’ve had but were still chewy, the livers crunchy, with that characteristic dusky flavor accented by a surfeit of salt. The frying here can be inconsistent. The onion rings were crisp, golden, and excellent most of the time but were a deep brown and overly crunchy at other times. The crinkle-cut fries were seldom crisp enough. On the other hand, the sweet-potato fries were excellent. The shakes are made with scooped ice cream but blended a bit more than I prefer. Still, slurping one up between bites of a green-chile cheeseburger brings up a lifetime of wonderful drive-in memories and a taste of burgers past. ◀
Lunch for three at Bert’s Burger Bowl: #6 green-chile cheeseburger ............................. $ 4.35 Small fries ......................................................... $ 1.55 Lamb burger with green chile and cheese ........ $10.75 Bison burger with green chile and cheese ........ $12.00 Chocolate shake ............................................... $ 4.50 16-ounce soda .................................................. $ 1.25 TOTAL ............................................................. $34.40 (before tax and tip) Lunch for two, another visit: Carne adovada burrito...................................... $ 5.84 Carnitas tacos ................................................... $ 5.90 Ground-beef taco ..............................................$ 1.80 Onion rings ...................................................... $ 2.38 Pint, chicken gizzards ...................................... $ 4.75 TOTAL ............................................................. $20.67 (before tax and tip)
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A lecture series on political, economic, environmental, and human rights issues featuring social justice activists, writers, journalists, and scholars discussing critical topics of our day.
final week! Book & lyrics by Steven Sater Music by Duncan Sheik Directed by Gail Springer
May 2, 3—7pm; May 4—2pm
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Madrid, $15 in advance at Candyman Strings & Things, Mine Shaft Tavern, or by calling 505-471-1916. Paja & the Peanut A musical performed by Playhouse Children’s Theatre Productions, 7 p.m., Santa Fe Playhouse, 142 E. De Vargas St., $10, ages 17 and under $5, 505-988-4262. Spring Awakening A musical based on Frank Wedekind’s once-controversial play, 7 p.m., Greer Garson Theatre, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., $12 and $15, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org, final weekend. The Lilac Minyan A play by Debora Seidman, presented by Metta Theatre, 7:30 p.m., Teatro Paraguas Studio, 3205 Calle Marie, $18, discounts available, 505-424-1601, teatroparaguas.org, through Sunday. Tribes Fusion Theatre Company presents Nina Raine’s drama, 8 p.m., the Lensic, $20-$40, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org, Saturday encore.
GALLERY/MUSEUM OPENINGS
Axle Contemporary Mobile gallery, 505-670-7612 or 505-670-5854. The Royal Breadshow, group show of miniature sculpture, reception 5-7 p.m. outside SITE Santa Fe, 1606 Paseo de Peralta, visit axleart.com for van locations through May 11. Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art 702½ Canyon Rd., 505-992-0711. The Black Place: Two Seasons, Walter W. Nelson’s photographic landscape series, reception 5-7 p.m., through May. (See Story, Page 38) Downtown Subscription 376 Garcia St., 505-983-3085. Fantastical Forms, abstracts by Emily Van Cleve, reception 5-6 p.m., through May 30. Eggman & Walrus Art Emporium 130 W. Palace Ave., second floor, 505-660-0048. Unbounded: The Six Shooters + Two, group show of figurative photographs and drawings and a workshop series, reception 5-9 p.m., through May 25. Java Joe’s 2801-C Rodeo Rd., 505-474-5282. The Art of the Auto, work by photographer James T. Baker, reception 4-6 p.m. Little Bird at Loretto Inn and Spa at Loretto, 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 505-820-7413. Jewelry by Michael Horse and Ray Tracy, reception 5-7:30 p.m., through May 30. Manitou Galleries 123 W. Palace Ave., 505-986-0440. Aspens & Sunsets: New Work by Jerry Jordan and Tom Perkinson, reception 5-7:30 p.m., through May 16. Marigold Arts 424 Canyon Rd., 505-982-4142. New woodcut prints by Nancy Frost Begin, reception 5-7 p.m., through June 4. Patina Gallery 131 W. Palace Ave., 505-986-3432. Work by jeweler Harold O’Connor, reception 5-7:30 p.m. Santa Fe Public Library Southside Branch, 6599 Jaguar Dr., 505-955-2820. Spring Into Abstraction, paintings by Emily Van Cleve, through May. Santa Fe University of Art & Design Fine Arts Gallery and Fogelson Library 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., 505-473-6500 and 505-473-6440. BFA group shows, reception 5-7 p.m., in the gallery. Steven Boone Gallery 714 Canyon Rd., 505-670-0580. City Water, mixed-media paintings by J.E. Boc.
CLASSICAL MUSIC
TGIF organ recital James David Christie performs music of Scheidemann, de Grigny, and Pachelbel,
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First Friday Curator Talk Join Palace of the Governors photo archivist Daniel Kosharek in a discussion of the exhibit Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography, 6 p.m., New Mexico History Museum, 113 Lincoln Ave., no charge, 505-476-5200. Natalie Goldberg The author discusses and signs copies of The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life With Language and Living Color: Painting, Writing and the Bones of Seeing, 6 p.m., Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., 505-989-4226.
OUTDOORS
Singer/songwriter Perla Batalla performs Monday, May 5, at the Lensic.
5:30-6:30 p.m., First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe, 208 Grant Ave., donations welcome, 505-982-8544, Ext. 16.
IN CONCERT
Music at the Museum of Art Local musicians perform on the patio and in the galleries weekly on Fridays through June 27; this week: Kitty Jo Creek Band, bluegrass and cowboy-jazz, 5:30 p.m., 107 W. Palace Ave., no charge, 505-476-5072.
THEATER/DANCE
Broadway Bound! Performances by National Dance Institute students, 5 and 7 p.m., NDI Dance Barns, 1140 Alto St., $10-$15, 505-983-7661, Thursdays-Saturdays through May 10.
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I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts’ musical on dating, love, and marriage, 7:30 p.m., Los Alamos Performing Arts Center, 1670 Nectar St., $12, discounts available, lalt.org, 505-662-5493, Fridays-Sundays through May 11. In the Heights Presented by Santa Fe High School Musical Theater, 7:30 p.m., 2100 Yucca St., $10 at the door, discounts available, santafehigharts.org, final night. Joe West’s Theater of Death Original one-act plays; includes musical guests Busy McCarroll, Anthony Leon, and Lori Ottino, 8 p.m., Engine House Theater, 2846 NM 14,
Enchanted Hikes The City of Santa Fe Recreation Division offers monthly easy to moderate treks along the following trails: Dale Ball, Dorothy Stewart, Tesuque Creek, and Galisteo Basin Preserve; Session I, 9-11 a.m. Fridays through May 30, Genoveva Chavez Community Center, 3221 Rodeo Rd., preregister at the center, $6.50 per hike or $20 for full session, contact Michelle Rogers for registration information, 505-955-4047, chavezcenter.com.
EVENTS
CineVison Film Festival SFUA&D student-run event; includes Q & A sessions with filmmakers via Skype, events begin at 2:15 p.m., The Screen, Santa Fe University of Art & Design, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., $10 per film, weekend pass $20, thescreensf.com, 505-473-6494, runs through Sunday. Outdoor Vision Fest Multimedia event; includes SFUA&D Design Entrepreneur students’ line of products on display and for sale, 8:45 p.m., O’Shaughnessy Performance Space, Santa Fe University of Art & Design, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., no charge. ▶▶▶▶▶▶▶▶
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Santa Fe Film Festival 2014 Documentaries, shorts, feature films, and accompanying events; hosted at Jean Cocteau Cinema and CCA Cinematheque; tickets available online at santafefilmfestival.com, 505-988-7414, Ext. 102, concludes Sunday. (See story, Page 28)
NIGHTLIFE
(See addresses below) Café Café Trio Los Primos, dance to Latin favorites, 6 p.m., no cover. Cowgirl BBQ Americana/blues guitarist Jim Almand 5-7:30 p.m.; Railyard Reunion Bluegrass Band, 8:30 p.m.-close; no cover. The Den Ladies night with DJ Luna, 9 p.m., call for cover. Duel Brewing Boris McCutcheon and The Salt Licks, 7-10 p.m., no cover. El Farol C.S. Rockshow, with Don Curry, Pete Springer, and Ron Crowder, 9 p.m., call for cover. La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda Syd Masters & the Swing Riders, Western swing, 8-11 p.m., no cover. Omira Bar & Grill Guitarist Marquito Cavalcante, Brazilian jazz, 6:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m., no cover. Pranzo Italian Grill Robin Holloway, piano and vocals, 6-9 p.m., call for cover. Second Street Brewery Roots-rock guitarist Jono Manson, 6-9 p.m., no cover. Vanessie Pianist/vocalist Kathy Morrow, 6:30 p.m., call for cover.
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3 Saturday GALLERY/MUSEUM OPENINGS
Café Pasqual’s Gallery 103 E. Water St., second floor, 505-983-9340. The Black Place: Earth Paintings, works on canvas, paper, and wood by photographer Walter W. Nelson, reception and signing of Nelson’s book The Black Place: Two Seasons 1-4 p.m., through June. (See story, Page 38) Eggman & Walrus Art Emporium 130 W. Palace Ave., second floor, 505-660-0048. Unbounded, the Six Shooters + Two, group show of figurative photography and drawings, artists meet-and-greet 2 p.m. La Tienda Exhibit Space 7 Caliente Rd., Eldorado, 505-428-0024. Twenty-third Annual Eldorado Studio Tour preview exhibit, through May 18.
CLASSICAL MUSIC
Canticum Novum The chorus and chamber orchestra present a piano concerto by Hal Campbell; plus, music of Bach, Leoncavallo, and Pietro Yon; performers include soprano Cecilia Leitner, tenor Andre Garcia-Nuthmann, and pianist Peter Vinograde, 7 p.m., St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave., $30, discounts available, ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234, preconcert lecture by Oliver Prezant held one hour before concert, Sunday encore.
IN CONCERT
Donald Rubinstein Singer/songwriter, 7:30 p.m., Gig Performance Space, 1808-H Second St., $20 at the door, gigsantafe.com.
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Broadway Bound! Performances by National Dance Institute students, 2 p.m., gala performance ($250) 5:30 p.m., NDI Dance Barns, 1140 Alto St., performances only $10-$15, 505-983-7661, Thursdays-Saturdays through May 10. Cinderella Confidential Presented by Santa Fe Performing Arts City Different Players, ages 7-12, 2 p.m., Armory for the Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, $8, 505-984-1370, sfperformingarts.org, Sunday encore. Consider This Theater Grottesco presents a light-hearted showcase of theatrical styles through history, 7:30 p.m., Warehouse 21, $10, students $5, theatergrottesco.org, 505-474-8400, Sunday encore. I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change Jimmy Roberts’ musical on dating, love, and marriage, 7:30 p.m., Los Alamos Performing Arts Center, 1670 Nectar St., $12, discounts available, lalt.org, 505-662-5493, Fridays-Sundays through May 11. Joe West’s Theater of Death Original one-act plays, includes musical guests Busy McCarroll, Anthony Leon, and Lori Ottino, 8 p.m., Engine House Theater, 2846 NM 14, Madrid, $15 in advance at Candyman Strings & Things, Mine Shaft Tavern, or by calling 505-471-1916, final night. The Lilac Minyan A play by Debora Seidman, presented by Metta Theatre, 7:30 p.m., Teatro Paraguas Studio, 3205 Calle Marie, $18, discounts available, teatroparaguas.org, 505-424-1601, concludes Sunday.
Lodge Lounge at The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N. St. Francis Dr., 505-992-5800 Low ’n’ Slow Lowrider Bar at Hotel Chimayó de Santa Fe 125 Washington Ave., 505-988-4900 The Matador 116 W. San Francisco St. Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 NM 14, Madrid, 505-473-0743 Molly’s Kitchen & Lounge 1611 Calle Lorca, 505-983-7577 Museum Hill Café 710 Camino Lejo, Milner Plaza, 505-984-8900 Omira Bar & Grill 1005 S. St. Francis Dr., 505-780-5483 Palace Restaurant & Saloon 142 W. Palace Ave., 505-428-0690 The Pantry Restaurant 1820 Cerrillos Rd., 505-986-0022 Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 505-984-2645 Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W. Marcy St., 505-955-6705
Paja & the Peanut A musical performed by Playhouse Children’s Theatre Productions, 2 p.m., Santa Fe Playhouse, 142 E. De Vargas St., $10, ages 17 and under $5, 505-988-4262. Spring Awakening A musical based on Frank Wedekind’s once-controversial play, 7 p.m., Greer Garson Theatre, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., $12 and $15, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org, Friday-Sunday through May 4. Tribes Fusion Theatre Company presents Nina Raine’s drama, 2 and 8 p.m., the Lensic, $20-$40, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
BOOKS/TALKS
2014 North x South New Mexico Pollinator Benefit Lecture Series: Habitat, Honeybees and Health Swarm Intelligence, with Thomas Seeley, followed by the documentary The Art of Mayordomía, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Great Hall Peterson Student Center, St. John’s College, 1160 Camino de Cruz Blanca, $15 in advance at survivorqueenbees.org, part of a series of lectures occurring throughout New Mexico. The Ancient Art of Fresco A lecture by SFUA&D alumnus Frederico Vigil, 4 p.m., Tipton Hall, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., no charge, santafeuniversity.edu. Santa Fe Opera 2014 Spotlight Series Lecturer Oliver Prezant discusses opera themes and previews the SFO season, 2-3:30 p.m., Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., no charge, 505-989-4226. Tidal: Spilling Breakers IAIA Creative Writing Program seniors Gaelyn Hite, Shasha LaPointe, and Christin Trudeau read from their works, 2-4 p.m., Institute of American Indian Arts, 83 Avan Nu Po Rd., no charge, iaia.edu.
Santa Fe Sol Stage & Grill 37 Fire Place, solofsantafe.com Second Street Brewer y 1814 Second St., 505-982-3030 Second Street Brewer y at the Railyard 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 505-989-3278 Shadeh Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino, Pojoaque Pueblo, U.S. 84/285, 505-455-5555 Sweetwater Harvest Kitchen 1512-B Pacheco St., 505-795-7383 Taberna La Boca 125 Lincoln Ave., 505-988-7102 Tiny’s 1005 St. Francis Drive, Suite 117, 505-983-9817 The Underground at Evangelo’s 200 W. San Francisco St. Upper Crust Pizza 329 Old Santa Fe Trail, 505-982-0000 Vanessie 434 W. San Francisco St., 505-982-9966 Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 505-989-4423 Zia Dinner 326 S. Guadalupe St., 505-988-7008
OUTDOORS
Duel Brewing Jazz pianist Glen Neff, 5-8 p.m., no cover. El Farol Chanteuse Nacha Mendez, 7:30 p.m., call for cover. La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa Guitarist Wily Jim, Western swingabilly, 7-10 p.m., no cover. Molly’s Kitchen & Lounge Blues band Gary Farmer & The Troublemakers, 6-9 p.m., call for cover. Vanessie Pianist/vocalist Kathy Morrow, 6:30 p.m., call for cover.
Enchanted Hikes The City of Santa Fe Recreation Division offers monthly easy to moderate treks along the following trails: Dale Ball, Dorothy Stewart, Tesuque Creek, and Galisteo Basin Preserve; 9:30-11:30 a.m. Saturdays through May, Genoveva Chavez Community Center, 3221 Rodeo Rd., preregister at the center, $6.50 per hike or $20 for full session, contact Michelle Rogers for registration information, 505-955-4047, chavezcenter.com.
EVENTS
21st Annual Contemporary Clay Fair Works by more than 30 ceramicists, 10 a.m.5 p.m. today and Sunday, Santa Fe Women’s Club, 1616 Old Pecos Trail, no charge, contemporaryclayfair.com. American Sign Language & Deaf Culture Day ASL workshop and storytelling, student exhibit, games, and information booths, 10 a.m.3 p.m., Connor Hall Gymnasium, New Mexico School for the Deaf, 1060 Cerrillos Rd., no charge, www.nmsd.k12.nm.us. Battlefield New Mexico: The Civil War and More Military drills, lectures, demonstrations, and reenactments, 10 a.m.4 p.m. today and Sunday, El Rancho de las Golondrinas, 334 Los Pinos Rd., $8 at the gate, discounts available, golondrinas.org. Free Comic Book Day Celebrated locally at Big Adventure Comics, 801 Cerrillos Rd. and Hastings Books, Movies, and Videos, 542 N. Guadalupe St., DeVargas Center, visit freecomicbookday.com for details. (See story, Page 20) Hats and Heels Party DJ Joe Gauthreaux spins in support of Human Rights Alliance/Santa Fe Pride, 9 p.m.-1:30 a.m., Palace Restaurant & Saloon, $20, VIP tickets $50, tickets available online at dthomasproductions.com. Santa Fe Film Festival 2014 Documentaries, shorts, feature films, and accompanying events; hosted at Jean Cocteau Cinema and CCA Cinematheque; tickets available online at santafefilmfestival.com, 505-988-7414, Ext. 102. (See story, Page 28)
NIGHTLIFE
(See Page 50 for addresses) ¡Chispa! at El Mesón Noche de Flamenco, 7-10 p.m., call for cover. Cowgirl BBQ Dance cover band Chango, 8:30 p.m., no cover. Duel Brewing Rumelia, contemporary Balkan folk tunes, 7-10 p.m., no cover. El Farol Rock band Controlled Burn, 9 p.m., call for cover. La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda Syd Masters & the Swing Riders, Western swing, 8-11 p.m., no cover. La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa Pat Malone Jazz Trio, 6-9 p.m., no cover. Pranzo Italian Grill David Geist and Julie Trujillo, piano and vocals, 6-9 p.m., call for cover. Second Street Brewery 16th Annual Crawfish Boil; 2-5 p.m. Boris & The Saltlicks, 6-9 p.m. Greg Daigle Band, no cover. Sweetwater Harvest Kitchen John Serkin, Hawaiian slack-key guitar, 6 p.m., no cover. Tiny’s Showcase karaoke with Nanci and Cyndi, 8:30 p.m., no cover.
5 Monday IN CONCERT
Perla Batalla Singer/songwriter, 7:30 p.m., the Lensic, $15-$35, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org. Santa Fe Women’s Club, 1616 Old Pecos Trail, hosts the 21st Annual Contemporary Clay Fair on Saturday; shown, a vessel by Adel deValcourt.
4 Sunday GALLERY/MUSEUM OPENINGS
Marion Center for Photographic Arts Atrium Gallery 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., 505-473-6341. BFA photography show, reception 3-5 p.m.
CLASSICAL MUSIC
Mike Butterfield The local author discusses and signs copies of his monograph New Mexico’s High Peaks: A Photographic Celebration, 3 p.m., Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St. Storyteller Joe Hayes Tales inspired by the MOIFA exhibit Wooden Menagerie: Made in New Mexico, 2-4 p.m., Museum of International Folk Art, 706 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, by museum admission, 505-476-1200.
Canticum Novum The chorus and chamber orchestra present a piano concerto by Hal Campbell; plus music of Bach, Leoncavallo, and Pietro Yon; performers include soprano Cecilia Leitner, tenor Andre Garcia-Nuthmann, and pianist Peter Vinograde, 4 p.m., St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave., $30, discounts available, ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234, preconcert lecture by Oliver Prezant held one hour before concert.
Layers of Rock, Layers of Time A guided hike highlighting the mining history in the hills surrounding the village of Cerrillos, 2-3:30 p.m., Cerrillos Hills State Park, 16 miles south of Santa Fe off NM 14, meet at the main parking lot, a half mile north of the village, $5 per vehicle, 505-474-0196.
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Cinderella Confidential Presented by Santa Fe Performing Arts City Different Players, ages 7-12, 2 p.m., Armory for the Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, $8, 505-984-1370, sfperformingarts.org. Consider This Theater Grottesco presents a light-hearted showcase of theatrical styles through history, 2 p.m., Warehouse 21, $10, students $5, theatergrottesco.org, 505-474-8400. I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change Jimmy Roberts’ musical on dating, love, and marriage, 2 p.m., Los Alamos Performing Arts Center, 1670 Nectar St., $12, discounts available, lalt.org, 505-662-5493, Fridays-Sundays through May 11. The Lilac Minyan A play by Debora Seidman, presented by Metta Theatre, 2 p.m., Teatro Paraguas Studio, 3205 Calle Marie, $18, discounts available, 505-424-1601, teatroparaguas.org. Spring Awakening A musical based on Frank Wedekind’s once-controversial play, 2 p.m., Greer Garson Theatre, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., $12 and $15, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
BOOKS/TALKS
Journey Santa Fe Presents Update on Fracking in Mora County, a discussion with community organizer Kathleen Dudley, 11 a.m., Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., 505-988-4226.
OUTDOORS
21st Annual Contemporary Clay Fair Works by more than 30 potters and artists, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Santa Fe Women’s Club, 1616 Old Pecos Trail, contemporaryclayfair.com, no charge. Battlefield New Mexico: The Civil War and More Military drills, demonstrations, lectures, and reenactments, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., El Rancho de las Golondrinas, 334 Los Pinos Rd., $8 at the gate, golondrinas.org, discounts available. Europe Day in Santa Fe The Council on International Relations and World Affairs Councils of America host a dinner and a screening of Philippe Lioret’s 2009 film Welcome, 5-9 p.m., Bishop’s Lodge Ranch Resort & Spa, dinner and movie $35, Monday panel discussion and luncheon $50, both days $75, 505-982-4931, sfcir.org. Santa Fe Film Festival 2014 Documentaries, shorts, feature films, and accompanying events; hosted at Jean Cocteau Cinema and CCA Cinematheque; tickets available online at santafefilmfestival.com, 505-988-7414, Ext. 102. (See story, Page 28)
NIGHTLIFE
(See Page 50 for addresses) Cowgirl BBQ The Fallen Stars, Americana/rock, 8 p.m., no cover.
BOOKS/TALKS
Santa Fe Council on International Relations panel discussion Featured speaker Ambassador Nuno Brito of Portugal, luncheon follows, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Bishop’s Lodge Ranch Resort & Spa, $50, 505-982-4931, sfcir.org. Southwest Seminars lecture The series continues with Songscapes: Trails and Song Culture of the Akimel O’odham, with archaeologist J. Andrew Darling and Barnaby Lewis, 6 p.m., Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo de Peralta, $12 at the door, 505-466-2775, southwestseminars.org.
EVENTS
Swing dance Weekly all-ages informal swing dance, lessons 7-8 p.m., dance 8-10 p.m., Odd Fellows Hall, 1125 Cerrillos Rd., dance $3, lesson and dance $8, 505-473-0955.
NIGHTLIFE
(See Page 50 for addresses) Cowgirl BBQ Karaoke night with Michele Leidig, 8 p.m., no cover. El Farol Tiho Dimitrov, R & B, 8:30 p.m., no cover. Vanessie Pianist/vocalist Kathy Morrow, 6:30 p.m., call for cover. ▶▶▶▶▶▶▶▶
Talking Heads
New Mexico’s High Peaks: A Photographic Celebration New Mexico author Mike Butterfield discusses and signs copies of his monograph at 3 p.m. on Sunday, May 4, at Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., 505-989-4226.
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LOS ALAMOS
Fuller Lodge Art Center 2132 Central Ave., 505-662-1635. Things With Wings, group show, reception 5-7 p.m. Friday, May 2, through June 13. Los Alamos Symphony Orchestra Music of Verdi, Bizet, and Franck, 7 p.m. Friday, May 2, Crossroads Bible Church, 97 East Rd., donations appreciated, losalamossymphony.org. Mesa Public Library Gallery 2400 Central Ave., 505-662-8254. Our Favorite Quilts, works by Los Alamos Piecemakers Quilt Guild members, reception 4-6 p.m. Friday, May 2, through May. PEEC 14th Annual Earth Day Festival Entertainment by juggling/fire-eating/magic troupe Clan Tynker and New Orleans-style brass band The Hill Stompers, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, May 3, Pajarito Environmental Education Center, 3540 Orange St., no charge, 505-662-0460.
EVENTS
International folk dances Weekly on Tuesdays, lessons 7 p.m., dance 8 p.m., Odd Fellows Hall, 1125 Cerrillos Rd., $5 donation at the door, 505-501-5081 or 505-466-2920.
NIGHTLIFE
(See Page 50 for addresses) ¡Chispa! at El Mesón Argentine Tango Milonga, 7:30 p.m., no cover. Vanessie Pianist David Geist, 6:30-9:30 p.m., call for cover. Zia Diner Weekly Santa Fe bluegrass jam, 6-8 p.m., no cover.
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TAOS
SFUA&D Spring Ensemble Performances Series opener: African Drum and Acoustic Americana ensembles and University Chorus, 8 p.m., O’Shaughnessy Performance Space, Santa Fe University of Art & Design, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., no charge.
BOOKS/TALKS
Joan Myers The docent-led Artist of the Week series continues with a discussion of the photographer’s works, 12:15 p.m., New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave., by museum admission, 505-476-5075. Lannan Foundation In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom series Author Sandra Steingraber discusses the relationship between environmental factors and cancer with GRITtv host Laura Flanders, 7 p.m., the Lensic, $6, discounts available, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org. (See story, Page 18) School for Advanced Research lecture Empowering Women Amidst Conflict and Contesting Power in Chaos: Palestinian Women, Local Councils, and Democracy on the West Bank and Gaza, by Islah Jad of Birzeit University, Palestine, noon-1 p.m., School for Advanced Research, 660 Garcia St., no charge, 505-954-7203.
Art Spring 2014 opening night New Mexico School for the Arts year-end performances featuring dance, theater, visual arts, and music, 6 p.m., the Lensic, $5 and $15, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org, encore May 9. Broadway Bound! Performances by National Dance Institute students, 6 p.m., NDI Dance Barns, 1140 Alto St., $10-$15, 505-983-7661, Thursdays-Saturdays through May 10.
NIGHTLIFE
BOOKS/TALKS
(See Page 50 for addresses) ¡Chispa! at El Mesón Flamenco guitarist Joaquin Gallegos, 7-9 p.m., no cover. Cowgirl BBQ Therianthrope, with flamenco guitarist Dusty Brough and tabla artist Miles Shrewsbery, 8-10 p.m., no cover. Duel Brewing Folk singer Gary Paul, 7-9 p.m., no cover. El Paseo Bar & Grill Andre Thierry & Zydeco Magic, 9:30 p.m., call for cover. La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda Bill Hearne Trio, classic country, 7:30-11 p.m., no cover.
8 Thursday GALLERY/MUSEUM OPENINGS
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Education Annex 123 Grant Ave., 505-946-1039. Seventeen Kites of Discord and Delight, works by students of New Mexico School for the Arts Visual Arts Department, reception 7-9 p.m., through May 18.
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Evoke Contemporary shows paintings by the late Louisa McElwain, 550 S. Guadalupe St.
Los Alamos National Bank 301 Griffin St., 505-954-5400. Historic Churches of New Mexico, photographs by Jim Gautier, reception 6-7:30 p.m., through May 30.
THEATER/DANCE
Michael McGarrity The novelist discusses and signs copies of Backlands, 6-7 p.m., Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., 505-989-4226. Santa Fe Shakespeare Society Sonnet-a-Thon Readings (all 154) begin at 5:30 p.m., Jean Cocteau Cinema, $10 at the box office, sfshakespeare.org. (See Subtexts, Page 16)
EVENTS
Astrophotography Presentation in the SFCC Planetarium and outdoor viewing, 8-9 p.m., Santa Fe Community College, 6401 Richards Ave., $5 at the door, discounts available, 505-428-1744.
NIGHTLIFE
(See Page 50 for addresses) ¡Chispa! at El Mesón Río, Brazilian jazz ensemble, 7-9 p.m., no cover. Duel Brewing Indi-funk/sufi-surf fusion band Pray For Brain, 7-10 p.m., no cover. La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa Pat Malone Jazz Trio, 6-9 p.m., no cover. The Matador DJ Inky Inc. spinning soul/punk/ska, 8:30 p.m., no cover.
▶ Elsewhere ALBUQUERQUE
Eureka! National Dance Institute of New Mexico celebrates 20 years with a student showcase, 6:30 p.m. Friday, May 2, 3 and 5:30 p.m. Saturday, May 3, Hiland Theater, 4800 Central Ave. S.E., $10, 505-340-0219, continues ThursdaysSaturdays through May 10. Chatter at the Rail Yards Violinists David Felberg and Ruxandra Marquardt and pianist/harpsichordist Conor Hanick perform music of Bach, Pärt, and Schnittke in a special event that includes an exhibit of photographic etchings by Eric Thelander and model-train displays, 5 p.m. Saturday, May 3, Blacksmith Shop at the Albuquerque Rail Yards, 800 Market Rd. S.W., $15; discounts available; VIP tickets $100; advance tickets available online at chatterabq.org. (See Listen Up, Page 34) Chatter Sunday Trio Arriba; pianist Conor Hanick, violinist David Felberg, and cellist Sally Guenther perform Brahms’ Opus 8, 10 30 a.m. Sunday, May 4, the spoken-word portion of the program includes a reading by Albuquerque Poet Laureate Hakim Bellamy, the Kosmos, 1715 Fifth St. N.W., $15 at the door, discounts available, chatterabq.org. New Mexico Symphonic Chorus & Orchestra The season closes with Orff’s Carmina Burana, 3 p.m. Sunday, May 4, National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 Fourth St. S.W., $18-$60, discounts available, NHCC box office, 505-724-4771. The Tribute Trio Local jazz musicians pianist John Rangel, bassist Michael Glynn, and percussionist Cal Haines pay tribute to the late jazz pianist John Lewis, preconcert reception 6 p.m. Saturday, May 3, concert 7:30 p.m., South Broadway Cultural Center, 1025 Broadway Blvd. S.E., $20, discounts available, holdmyticket.com.
2014 North x South New Mexico Pollinator Benefit Lecture Series: Habitat, Honeybees and Health Feral Bees and What We Can Learn From Them, a talk and guided nature walk presented by Thomas Seeley of Cornell University, 1-4 p.m. Sunday, May 4, SMU-in-Taos, Fort Burgwin, 6580 NM 518, for more information and to register visitsurvivorqueenbees.org. Aspen Gallery Taos 115-D E. Plaza, 575-751-3260. Grand-opening reception 5-8 p.m. Saturday, May 3.
▶ People who need people Artists
Taos Art Glass Invitational Glass artists may submit sculptural, functional, wearable works for international, biennial exhibit held Oct. 11-Nov. 9; entries and artists’ statements must be received by June 1; details and forms available online at tiganm.org.
Performers
New Mexico Dance Coalition Student Scholarships 2014 Two scholarship awards distributed in time for fall tuition; available to state residents ages 8 and up; application forms and guidelines available online at nmdancecoalition.org; apply by Friday, Aug. 15.
▶ Under 21 Warehouse 21 benefit concert Autumn Faulkner, Almost a Lie, Strawberry Riot, and On Believer, 7 p.m. Friday, May 2, $5 at the door, 505-989-4423.
▶ Pasa Kids Cinderella Confidential Presented by Santa Fe Performing Arts City Different Players, ages 7-12, 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, May 3-4, Armory for the Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, $8, 505-984-1370, sfperformingarts.org Paja & the Peanut A musical performed by Playhouse Children’s Theatre Productions, 7 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday, May 2-3, Santa Fe Playhouse, 142 E. De Vargas St., $10, ages 17 and under $5, 505-988-4262. ◀
In the wings MUSIC
Sangre de Cristo Chorale The ensemble presents Baroque Fireworks, 5:30 p.m. Saturday, May 10, First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe, 208 Grant Ave., $20 in advance and at the door, discounts available, sdcchorale.org. The Met at the Lensic The HD broadcast series continues with Rossini’s La Cenerentola, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Saturday, May 10, the Lensic, $22 and $28, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org. Leni Stern African Trio Jazz ensemble; featuring Senegalese musicians Mamadou Ba and Alioune Faye, 8 p.m. Sunday, May 11, Gig Performance Space, 1808-H Second St., $20 at the door, gigsantafe.com. The Cave Singers Roots/folk band, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 13, Santa Fe Sol Stage & Grill, 37 Fire Place, $12, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org. J.Q. Whitcomb & Five Below Santa Fe trumpeter; with Ben Finberg on trombone, Dimi DiSanti on guitar, Andy Zadrozny on bass, and Arnaldo Acosta on drums, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 15, Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale Blvd. S.E., Albuquerque, $20, student discounts available, holdmyticket.com. Jenny Bird Taos singer, with Omar Rane on guitar, Andy Zadrozny on bass, and John Trentacosta on drums, 7 p.m. Friday, May 16, Museum Hill Café, 710 Camino Lejo, $25, 505-983-6820, santafemusiccollective.org. Seventh Annual Crawdaddy Blues Fest Includes Mississippi Rail Company, Junior Brown, Desert Southwest Blues Band, and Felix y Los Gatos, Saturday and Sunday, May 17-18, Madrid, $15 daily, kids under 12 no charge, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org. Santa Fe Symphony Beethoven’s Ninth wraps up the 30th anniversary season, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 17, the Lensic, $22-$76, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org. Dave Grusin & Friends Santa Fe Waldorf School presents the jazz pianist/composer; accompanied by John Rangel, Michael Glynn, and Ryan Lee; vocals by Barbara Bentree, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 22, James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf, 1060 Cerrillos Rd., $25-$65, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org. Outpost Performance Space gala fundraiser Funk and jazz saxophonist Maceo Parker, 6:30 p.m. Friday, May 23, Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale Blvd. S.E., $150, holdmyticket.com. Austin Piazzolla Quintet Tango ensemble, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 24, Gig Performance Space, 1808-H Second St., $20 at the door, gigsantafe.com. Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey Saxophone and percussion, 8 p.m. Thursday, May 29, Gig Performance Space, 1808-H Second St., $20 at the door, gigsantafe.com. Santa Fe Women’s Ensemble The choral group’s 33rd season continues, 3 p.m. Saturday, June 7, First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe, 208 Grant Ave., $25, students $10, ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234, visit sfwe.org for details. Xavier Rudd Australian singer/songwriter, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 11, Santa Fe Sol Stage & Grill, 37 Fire Place, $20, ticketssantafe.org, 505-989-1234.
Carrie Rodriguez Fiddler/songwriter, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 14, Gig Performance Space, 1808-H Second St., $25 in advance at brownpapertickets.com, $29 at the door. Rodney Crowell Country singer/songwriter, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 17, the Lensic, $35-$45, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org. Santa Fe Opera 2014 Festival Season The season opens with a new production of Bizet’s Carmen and includes the American premiere of Dr. Sun Yat-sen by Huang Ruo, as well as Beethoven’s Fidelio and Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol, June 27-Aug. 23, schedule of community events available online, Santa Fe Opera, 301 Opera Dr., 505-986-5900, santafeopera.org. The Soulshine Tour Michael Franti and Spearhead, SOJA, Brett Dennen, and Trevor Hall, 6 p.m. Saturday, July 5, The Downs of Santa Fe, 27475 W. Frontage Rd., $44 and $61, kids $12, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org and holdmyticket.com. Ninth Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival July 11-27 in Albuquerque and Santa Fe; Terri Lyne Carrington’s Mosaic Project, Jack DeJohnette Trio, Claudia Villela Quartet, Henry Butler with Steven Bernstein & The Hot 9, newmexicojazzfestival.org. Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival July 20 marks the beginning of the 42nd season; performers include the Mark O’Connor String Quartet, the Orion String Quartet, pianist Inon Barnatan, and violinist William Preucil, visit santafechambermusic.com for details. Tony Bennett With Antonia Bennett, 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 24, Santa Fe Opera, 301 Opera Dr., advance tickets available online at santafeopera.org, 505-986-5900. Lila Downs Singer/songwriter, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 27, the Lensic, $39-$69, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
UPCOMING EVENTS Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune A play by Terrence McNally, 7:30 p.m. ThursdaysSaturdays, 4 p.m. Sundays, May 30-June 8, Santa Fe Playhouse, 142 E. De Vargas St., gala opening $30; general admission $20; discounts available; 505-988-4262, contains nudity. John Hodgman Comedian, 7 p.m. Monday, June 2, Jean Cocteau Cinema, $20 at the box office and online at jeancocteaucinema.com. The Sound of Music Musical Theatre Works Santa Fe presents the musical, 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, June 6-15, Greer Garson Theatre, Santa Fe University of Art & Design, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., $17 in advance, students $12, musicaltheatreworks.net, $20 at the door.
HAPPENINGS
Fantase Dome Fest Outdoor multimedia interactive light installation presented by Creative Santa Fe, 6-11 p.m. Friday, May 9, De Vargas Park, W. Alameda and S. Guadalupe streets, no charge, 505-989-9934, creativesantafe.org. 2014 IAIA Pow Wow Gourd dancing 10-11 a.m. Saturday, May 10, grand entry 11 a.m.; dancing contests continue to 7 p.m., Institute of American Indian Arts, 83 Avan Nu Po Rd., no charge, 505-424-2300. 2014 Mother’s Day Tour Historic Santa Fe Foundation hosts its annual event, 1-4 p.m. Sunday, May 11, School for Advanced Research, 660 Garcia St., $5 at the gate, 505-983-2567. Lannan Foundation Literary Series Irish novelist Colm Tóibín in conversation with Michael Silverblatt, 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 21, the Lensic, $6, discounts available, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org. Tenth Annual Native Treasures More than 200 Native artists selling handcrafted works; benefit preview party with a reception for 2014 Living Treasures artists Joe Cajero and Althea Cajero, hors d’oeuvres, champagne,
and jazz, 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 23; early bird show 9 a.m. Saturday, May 24, art show and sale 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Santa Fe Community Gallery, Santa Fe Community Convention Center, 201 W. Marcy St., early bird admission $20 at the door, Saturday show $10 at the door, no charge on Sunday, preview party $100 in advance online at nativetreasures.org (includes early bird ticket for Saturday admission). New Mexico History Museum Fifth Anniversary Bash Highlighting objects from the permanent collection with Toys and Games: A New Mexico Childhood, games held in the Palace of the Governors Courtyard, 2-4 p.m. Sunday, May 25, New Mexico History Museum, 113 Lincoln Ave., by museum admission, 505-476-5200. Santa Fe Opera Insider Day Saturdays from June 7 through Aug. 23, refreshments 8:30 a.m., staff-member-led backstage tours and talks 9 a.m., Santa Fe Opera, 301 Opera Dr., no charge, 505-986-5900. Currents: Santa Fe International New Media Festival 2014 Exhibits; outdoor video projections, and digital dome screenings beginning Friday, June 13, with events scheduled through Sunday, June 29, at various venues including El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, Railyard Plaza, Jean Cocteau Cinema, and Warehouse 21, for details visit currentsnewmedica.org. ¡Viva la Cultura! Hispanic cultural festival running Tuesday, July 22, through Saturday, July 26; including performances by Cipriano Vigil y la Familia Vigil and Nosotros, a Spanish Market preview, lunch and dinner events, and film screenings; hosted by the Spanish Colonial Arts Society, Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, 750 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, call 505-982-2226, Ext. 109 for advance tickets. Santa Fe Opera Ranch Tours Offered at 10 a.m. Fridays, June 27, July 25, and August 22, Santa Fe Opera, 301 Opera Dr., $12, combined backstage tour $20, tickets available at the box office, 505-986-5900.
THEATER/DANCE
Spring Dance Concert Student showcase with choreography by SFUA&D faculty and guest artists, 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 14, Greer Garson Theatre, Santa Fe University of Art & Design, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., $12 and $15, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org. Flexion Wise Fool New Mexico’s touring stilt and aerial performance, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 16-17, Santa Fe Railyard Park, 740 Cerrillos Rd., donations accepted, wisefoolnewmexico.org. The Sad Room Playwright Patricia Crespín’s drama, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, May 23-25, Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie, $12, discounts available, 505-424-1601, teatroparaguas.org.
Jenny Bird performs at Museum Hill Café on May 16.
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AT THE GALLERIES Adobe Gallery 221 Canyon Rd., 505-955-0550. Paintings by former Santa Fe Indian School student artists Gerald Nailor, Allan Houser, Quincy Tahoma, Pablita Velarde, and others, through June 4. Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 554 S. Guadalupe St., 505-989-8688. Heaven and Earth: Interference Paintings, work by David Simpson, through Monday, May 5. Ellsworth Gallery 215 E. Palace Ave., 505-989-7900. Mind Gears, paintings by Timothy Nero, through May 14. Evoke Contemporary 550 S. Guadalupe St., 505-995-9902. Spring Fever, paintings by the late artist Louisa McElwain, through May 23. Hunter Kirkland Contemporary 200-B Canyon Rd., 505-984-2111. Three Painters Paint, works by Peter Burega, Gregory Frank Harris, and Rick Stevens, through Wednesday, May 7. Jean Cocteau Cinema Gallery 418 Montezuma Ave., 505-466-5528. Works by Taos Pueblo silversmith and photographer Wings, through May 11. Marion Center for Photographic Arts Atrium Gallery Santa Fe University of Art & Design, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., 505-473-6341. Kevin O’Connell: Everything Comes Broken, through May 17. Phil Space 1410 Second St., 505-983-7945. Split Second in the Real World, works on paper by John Andolsek, through May 9. Turner Carroll Gallery 725 Canyon Rd., 505-986-9800. Altered, group show, including works by Ann Weiner and Rusty Scruby, through May 19. Zane Bennett Contemporary Art 435 S. Guadalupe St., 505-982-8111. Dual Realities, works on paper by Ian Ratowsky, through May 24.
MUSEUMS & ART SPACES SANTA FE
Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 505-982-1338. The Armory Show, multimedia group exhibit and program series in celebration of CCA’s 35th anniversary, Muñoz-Waxman Gallery, through May • Enveloping Space: Walk, Trace, Think, Jane Lackey’s immersive site-specific installation, Spector-Ripps Project Space, through May. Open Thursdays-Sundays; ccasantfe.org. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum 217 Johnson St., 505-946-1000. Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: The Hawaii Pictures • Abiquiú Views; through Sept. 14. Paintings, drawings, sculptures, sketches, and photographs by O’Keeffe in the permanent collection. Open daily; okeeffemuseum.org. Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place, 505-983-1777. BFA Student Exhibit, traditional and contemporary showcase of works, through May 18 • Articulations in Print, group show, through July • Bon à Tirer, prints from the permanent collection, through July • Native American Short Films, continuous loop of five films from Sundance Institute’s Native American and Indigenous Program. Closed Tuesdays; iaia.edu/museum.
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes: Don Tadeo Bravo de Rivero, in the Albuquerque Museum of Art & History exhibit Behind Closed Doors: Art in the Spanish American Home.
Museum of Indian Arts & Culture 710 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-476-1269. Turquoise, Water, Sky: The Stone and Its Meaning, highlights from the museum’s collection of jewelry • Native American Portraits: Points of Inquiry, vintage and contemporary photographs, through January 2015 • The Buchsbaum Gallery of Southwestern Pottery, traditional and contemporary works • Here, Now, and Always, more than 1,300 artifacts from the museum collection. Indianartsandculture.org; closed Mondays through Memorial Day. Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-476-1200. Wooden Menagerie: Made in New Mexico, early 20th-century carvings, through Feb. 15, 2015 • Tako Kichi: Kite Crazy in Japan, exhibition of Japanese kites, through July 27 • New World Cuisine: The Histories of Chocolate, Mate y Más • Multiple Visions: A Common Bond, international collection of toys and folk art • Brasil and Arte Popular, pieces from the museum’s collection, through Aug. 10. Closed Mondays; internationalfolkart.org. Museum of Spanish Colonial Art 750 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-982-2226. Filigree & Finery: The Art of Adornment in New Mexico, through May • Window on Lima: Beltrán-Kropp Peruvian Art Collection, through May 27 • San Ysidro/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 young Spanish Market artists • The Delgado Room, late-colonial-period re-creation. Closed Mondays; spanishcolonialblog.org. New Mexico History Museum/ Palace of the Governors 113 Lincoln Ave., 505-476-5200. Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography, through March 29, 2015 • Transformed by New Mexico, work by photographer Donald Woodman, through Oct. 12 • Water Over Mountain, Channing
Huser’s photographic installation • Telling New Mexico: Stories From Then and Now, core exhibit • Santa Fe Found: Fragments of Time, the archaeological and historical roots of Santa Fe; nmhistorymuseum.org; closed Mondays. New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W. Palace Ave., 505-476-5072. Southwestern Allure: The Art of the Santa Fe Art Colony, including early 20th-century paintings by George Bellows, Andrew Dasburg, Marsden Hartley, and Cady Wells, through July 27 • Focus on Photography, rotating exhibits • Beneath Our Feet, photographs by Joan Myers • Grounded, landscapes from the museum collection • Photo Lab, interactive exhibit explaining the processes used to make color and platinum-palladium prints from the collection, through March 2015 • 50 Works for 50 States: New Mexico. Closed Mondays; nmartmuseum.org. Poeh Cultural Center and Museum 78 Cities of Gold Rd., 505-455-3334. Nah Poeh Meng, 1600-square-foot installation highlighting the works of Pueblo artists and Pueblo history. Closed Saturdays and Sundays; poehcenter.org. SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 505-989-1199. Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art, through May 18. Closed Mondays-Wednesdays; sitesantafe.org. Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian 704 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-982-4636. Contemporary and historic Native American art; wheelwright.org; open daily.
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Albuquerque Museum of Art & History 2000 Mountain Rd. N.W., 505-243-7255. Everybody’s Neighbor: Vivian Vance, family memorabilia and the museum’s photo archives of the former Albuquerque resident, through January 2015 • Behind Closed Doors: Art in the Spanish American Home, 1492-1898, works from the Brooklyn Museum, through May 18 • Arte en la Charrería: The Artisanship of Mexican Equestrian Culture, more than 150 examples of craftsmanship and design distinctive to the charro • African American Art From the Permanent Collection, installation of drawings, prints, photographs, and paintings by New Mexico African American artists, through Sunday, May 4. Closed Mondays; cabq.gov/culturalservices/albuquerque-museum/ general-museum-information. Indian Pueblo Cultural Center 2401 12th St. N.W., 866-855-7902. Our Land, Our Culture, Our Story, a brief historical overview of the Pueblo world, and contemporary artwork and craftsmanship of each of the 19 pueblos. Weekend Native dance performances; indianpueblo.org. New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science 1801 Mountain Rd. N.W., 505-841-2804. Timetracks, core exhibits offer a journey through billions of years of history. Open daily; nmnaturalhistory.org. National Hispanic Cultural Center 1701 Fourth St. S.W., 505-604-6896. En la Cocina With San Pascual, works by New Mexico artists. Hispanic visual arts, drama, traditional and contemporary music, dance, literary arts, film, and culinary arts. Closed Mondays; nationalhispaniccenter.org. Maxwell Museum of Anthropology UNM campus, 1 University Blvd. N.E., 505-277-4405. The museum’s collection includes individual archaeological, ethnological, archival, photographic, and skeletal items. Closed Sundays and Mondays; maxwellmuseum.unm.edu.
UNM Art Museum 1 University of New Mexico Blvd., 505-277-4001. Melanie Yazzie: Geographies of Memory, works by the printmaker and sculptor • 400 Years of Remembering and Forgetting: The Graphic Art of Floyd Solomon, etchings by the late artist • The Blinding Light of History: Genia Chef, Ilya Kabakov, and Oleg Vassiliev, Russian paintings and drawings • Breakthroughs: The Twentieth Annual Juried Graduate Exhibition, all through May 17. Closed Sundays and Mondays; unmartmuseum.org.
LOS ALAMOS
Bradbury Science Museum 1350 Central Ave., 505-667-4444. Information on the history of Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project, as well as over 40 interactive exhibits. Open daily; lanl.gov/museum. Los Alamos Historical Museum 1050 Bathtub Row, 505-662-4493. Edith and Tilano: Bridges Between Two Worlds, photographs and artifacts of the early homesteaders, through May. Core exhibits on area geology, homesteaders, and the Manhattan Project. Housed in the Guest Cottage of the Los Alamos Ranch School. Open daily; losalamoshistory.org. Pajarito Environmental Education Center 3540 Orange St., 505-662-0460. Exhibits of flora and fauna of the Pajarito Plateau; herbarium, live amphibians, and butterfly and xeric gardens. Closed Sundays; pajaritoeec.org.
TAOS
E.L. Blumenschein Home and Museum 222 Ledoux St., 575-758-0505. Hacienda art from the Blumenschein family collection, European and Spanish colonial antiques. Open daily; taoshistoricmuseums.org. Harwood Museum of Art 238 Ledoux St., 575-758-9826. Ken Price: Slow and Steady Wins the Race, Works on Paper 1962-2010, drawings by the late artist • Charles Mattox: Poetry in Motion, works on paper from the 1970s • Art for a Silent Planet: Blaustein, Elder and Long, works by local artists Jonathan Blaustein, Nina Elder, and Debbie Long, exhibits up through Sunday, May 4 • Highlights From the Harwood Museum of Art’s Collection of Contemporary Art • Death Shrine I, work by Ken Price • works of the Taos Society of Artists and Taos Pueblo Artists. Open daily through October; harwoodmuseum.org. Kit Carson Home & Museum 113 Kit Carson Rd., 575-758-4945. Original home of Christopher Houston “Kit” and Josefa Carson displaying artifacts, antique firearms, pioneer belongings, and Carson memorabilia. Open daily; kitcarsonhomeandmuseum.com. La Hacienda de los Martinez 708 Hacienda Way, 575-758-1000. One of the few Northern New Mexico-style, Spanish-colonial “great houses” remaining in the American Southwest. Built in 1804 by Severino Martin. Open daily; taoshistoricmuseums.org. Millicent Rogers Museum 1504 Millicent Rogers Rd., 575-758-2462. Native American jewelry, ceramics, and paintings; Hispanic textiles, metalwork, and sculpture; and a wide range of contemporary jewelry. Open daily through October; millicentrogers.org. Taos Art Museum at Fechin House 227 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, 575-758-2690. Intimate and International: The Art of Nicolai Fechin, paintings and drawings, through Sept. 21. Housed in the studio and home that artist Nicolai Fechin built for his family between 1927 and 1933. Closed Mondays; taosartmuseum.org.
EXHIBITIONISM
A peek at what’s showing around town
Ricardo Gutierrez: Four Directions #5, 2014, acrylic. Liquid Outpost Coffeehouse & Art Space (211 Old Santa Fe Trail, Inn & Spa at Loretto) presents Four Directions, an exhibition of paintings by Ricardo Gutierrez. The show’s title is taken from a series of 9-by-9-inch acrylic abstractions on view. The reception is May 10 at 4 p.m. The show is up through May. Call 505-983-6503.
Cy DeCosse: Argentine Giant Cactus, 2012, platinum/palladium print. Verve Gallery of Photography (219 E. Marcy St.) presents solo exhibits by photographers Cy DeCosse and Van Chu. DeCosse’s The Midnight Garden is a series of luminous, pristine photographs of nightblooming flowers captured in gray scale. Photographic Brushstroke is an exhibit of Chu’s large-scale, layered images of pigment spreading in water. The Midnight Garden and Photographic Brushstroke open Friday, May 2. A reception is scheduled for May 16 at 5 p.m. Call 505-982-5009.
Nancy Frost Begin: Mission Theatre, 2014, woodcut print. Marigold Arts (424 Canyon Road) presents New Woodcut Prints, an exhibit of works on paper and three-dimensional art by Nancy Frost Begin. Begin’s woodcuts contain narrative elements, animals, and landscape imagery rendered in earthy colors and black and white. The exhibit includes her brightly colored, functional Monster Boxes as well as whimsical sculptures. The opening reception is at 5 p.m. Friday, May 2. Call 505-982-4142.
Eric Wiswell: Torso, 2014, silver gelatin print. Unbounded: The Six Shooters + Two is an exhibit of photographs and drawings of the nude figure by six local photographers and two visual artists. Live figure drawing by Santa Fe University of Art and Design students takes place during the opening reception, at 5 p.m. on Friday, May 2, at Eggman and Walrus Gallery. Figure-drawing workshops are held in conjunction with the exhibit at 9 a.m. on three consecutive Sundays, beginning on May 4. The cost for one workshop is $50; each additional workshop is $35. Eggman and Walrus is at 130 W. Palace Ave., second floor. Call 505-660-0048.
Michael Scott: 222, 2013, transparent pigment on stainless steel. Michael Scott explores the female figure in religious iconography in the exhibition Found. Scott’s photographic montages of images of the Virgin Mary and contemporary women consider the role of Mary in a range of contexts: as saint, mother, cultural icon, and political figure. Scott’s photomontages are printed on steel, burnished, and overpainted in a complex process. The show is on view at David Richard Gallery (544 S. Guadalupe St.) through June 7. Call 505-983-9555.
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