Pasatiempo September 19, 2014

The New Mexican’s Weekly Magazine of Arts, Entertainment & Culture

September 19, 2014

Ysabel LeMay at Verve Gallery of Photography

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David Ondrik, Untitled Photogram (detail) 2014, six gelatin silver prints. Courtesy of the artist.

Sunday, September 28, 1–4 p.m.

Family Fun Day: “Upstairs/Downstairs” Explore the museum’s galleries and behind the scenes to learn how the museum works. Visitors can make their own solar photograph in the museum’s patio. Instruction and supplies provided. Free.

Also enjoy “Día de la Familia”/Family Day at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum from 1 to 4 pm. Visitors create shadow puppets, masks and flowers. Free.

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ON THE COVER 36 Recording artists: Irving Greines and Ysabel LeMay Works of two photographers, worlds apart in technique and imagery, show at Verve Gallery of Photography through Oct. 25. In Portraits, Irving Greines captures the beauty of urban decay through the unaltered images he shoots of posters in varying states of environmental evolution due to weather and taggers. Ysabel LeMay’s Gracia photomontage series offers otherworldly visions of flora and fauna that she produces digitally from hundreds of images of natural elements. On our cover is LeMay’s Azul, a 2012 chromogenic print mounted on Dibond.

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In Other Words Problems With People The Moor’s Account Laila Lalami imagines a life

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Mixed Media Star Codes Restaurant Review: La Merienda at Los Poblanos

22 Pasa Tempos Album Reviews 24 Terrell’s Tune-Up Benjamin Booker 29 Random Acts Foxygen

Irving Greines’ Untitled, 2014 (detail)

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Jimmy Santiago Baca: Never going back Jimmy Santiago Baca was sentenced in 1973 to five to 10 years in an Arizona prison on a drug conviction. Just days into his incarceration, an illiterate Baca landed himself in isolation after a violent attack on another inmate. Daniel Glick’s powerful new documentary film about Baca’s triumph over the soul-crushing circumstances of his young life is about to have its U.S. premiere in Santa Fe. A Place to Stand is a searing look at Baca’s troubled upbringing, incarceration, and ultimate evolution into a renowned spoken-word poet, novelist, and screenwriter after teaching himself to read and write in prison.

In advance of the screening, the James A. Little Theater (1060 Cerrillos Road; 505-476-6429) hosts a series of events beginning with a daylong writing workshop with Baca on Thursday, Sept. 25. Space is limited, and participants are asked to make a $1,500 donation that will support distribution efforts. Also on Thursday, the theater presents “With Eyes Wide Open: A Gathering of Poets” at 7 p.m.; the event includes readings by poets Seema Reza, Natalie Diaz, Jaime Chavez, Tim Z. Hernandez, and Tony Spiller.

A Place to Stand shows at 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 26, at an event that includes performances by Santa Fe High School’s vocal ensemble and Wise Fool New Mexico, promoters of social justice through circus, puppetry, and theater. It screens again at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 27, followed by a conversation with Glick, Baca, and Theaterwork director David Olson. At 7 p.m. on Saturday, Theaterwork company members and guests present “Sunlight and Shadow: From the Poetry of Jimmy Santiago Baca” — a staged reading of selections from Baca’s writings, including poems he wrote for his daughter Lucia. In addition, an exhibition of drawings by Albuquerque native Eric Christo Martinez called Dust/Rock/Blades/ Bones, made for inclusion in the film, are on view through Saturday in the theater’s Pat Payne Room. All events are pay-what-you-wish. Proceeds go toward the film’s distribution to U.S. prisons, schools, community centers, and national public television stations. — Michael Abatemarco PASATIEMPOMAGAZINE.COM

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The weekend begins under a more sociable, dramatic Leo moon and then turns more empathic and productive on Sunday as the Virgo moon sends us back to our chores and our self-improvement projects.

We may question what we’re doing next as active Mars squares intuitive, confusing Neptune. While this aspect can soften our heart and help us let go of an old anger or outmoded ambition we’ve been carrying, it can take the steam out of our progress when it has us perhaps overthinking our goals on a more subtle and creative level.

Early next week we search for new equilibrium at the fall equinox and under a new moon in Libra. Jupiter trines Uranus midweek and heralds exciting new opportunities and technological breakthroughs. We may be low on common sense, but we’ll be unusually rich in intuition, ingenuity, and scientific skills.

Friday, Sept. 19: We can get a lot done if we respect the heart and pay attention to the right people as the Leo moon trines Mars. It’s a friendly, competent workday, but there’s a dramatic story line in the news.

Saturday, Sept. 20: An indulgent, friendly morning slows down and grows serious midday as the moon squares Saturn and calls for focused energy. Tonight, intriguing connections abound. People might tend to be high maintenance, but they prove to be worth the effort.

Sunday, Sept. 21: Our immune system may be tender and our energy levels variable, but our sense of responsibility deepens as active Mars squares intuitive, confusing Neptune. Forgiving foibles is good for our health. Arguments sprout easily around philosophies unless we focus on common goals.

Monday, Sept. 22: Go gently and attend to digestive issues this sensitive, prickly morning. Hidden troubles may surface, but that can let us get at the real problem as Pluto turns direct. Magic can shimmer tonight as day and night find a balance and the autumn season begins.

Tuesday, Sept. 23: Use this pleasant day to open doors. We can just drift, but instead let’s engage our longing for more justice and romance under tonight’s new moon in Libra. The planets create openings, but we have to walk through them.

Wednesday, Sept. 24: A new chapter begins in relationships, legal matters, and efforts to live in more peaceful, beautiful, and egalitarian ways. Support this Libra vision tonight as the moon squares Pluto and reminds us of what makes our heart ache. Don’t give in to withholding manipulation.

Thursday, Sept. 25: Conflicting needs and hopes can stir up trouble — but they also stimulate growth — as Jupiter trines Uranus. The world is changing. Rather than resisting that, let’s be spacious, inclusive, and inventive. ◀

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IN OTHER WORDS book reviews Problems With People by David Guterson, Alfred A. Knopf, 166 pages David Guterson’s first book, a collection of short stories titled The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind, was published 25 years ago. After five novels, including the wildly successful Snow Falling on Cedars (and the 1999 movie it inspired with Ethan Hawke, Youki Kudoh, and Max von Sydow), Guterson is back with his third collection of stories. Like Guterson’s first book, Problems With People is obsessed with the past but in a different way than its predecessor. That first book’s stories were constructed of memories and told in nostalgic, often dark tones. In one, a man recounts an opening day of duck season spent with his father and grandfather and the different enthusiasms that the men bring to the autumn ritual. Another is a bittersweet remembrance of a boy’s love of baseball and his attraction to a bookish young woman. Another is of a tension-filled encounter two brothers have with three hunters that suggests James Dickey’s Deliverance.

The best story in Guterson’s first collection is its first, “Angels in the Snow.” It’s told from a place in the present — a gathering of siblings and their spouses at Christmas — that’s influenced by the past. This is the form many of the stories take in Guterson’s new collection: the past is ever present in the telling.

The characters can’t escape it even when they think they have, and each character’s history drives the lives of others. Past experiences are no less real than what we call “real time,” and the past often is more present than the present. “Angels in the Snow” presents a husband, fueled by champagne, recounting a strange sexual proposition made to him when he was a teenager visiting Las Vegas with his family — an offer he refused.

The telling of that story supplies the momentum that ends his marriage.

In Problems With People, the past also haunts the present and shapes the future. Its opening story, “Paradise,” is about two middle-aged people who meet through an online dating service. Both have grown children and the kind of sad and common personal history that has them seeking companionship long after they thought they would be in a settled relationship. The story takes a turn while the couple spends a weekend of dismal weather in a lodge on Mount Rainier. The woman reveals the tragic story of her first love affair. What begins as a simple tale of vulnerability becomes a complex entanglement of unfulfilled promise and grief. Guterson suggests that we’re condemned to continual reminders of our past, even as our current lives take different directions. Nowhere is this more true than in “Photograph,” the story of a fishing captain who 16

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visits the family of a young man who was lost at sea while under his charge.

The baggage of personal history in these stories is rivaled only by that of the collective past. In “Krassavitseh,” a Jewish father and son visit Germany, stopping at holocaust memorials as they head to the father’s boyhood neighborhood. Their guide is a German woman — a non-Jew — who excuses the father’s suspicion and seeming hostility by saying he has every right to be that way. In “Feedback,” a high school teacher runs into a former colleague who left his job under suspicion of improper sexual conduct.

The meeting results in different reactions from her current co-workers, and the idea of living with a false past consumes her.

Other themes are at play in these stories as well.

The challenges of aging make these melancholy stories even more so. In “Shadow,” a man just retired experiences changes in the frontal lobes of his brain that result in short-termmemory loss. The consequences surface while he and his wife travel on a cruise ship. In “Hush,” an elderly man is so desperate for companionship that he keeps a mean, unruly dog.

Technology influences our social relationships, as with the couple in “Paradise,” by creating an unsurmountable distance between people.

A landlord with a single tenant named Lydia Williams tries to contact her by email in ways that first suggest care but then border on desperation. Solitude takes on phobic proportions and characters go to mundanely desperate lengths to avoid it. A writer in Nepal maps a route through a Maoist insurgency with help from Google in an attempt to reach his ex-wife, a journalist who’s been severely injured in an auto accident. As is often the case with technology-generated directions, the going isn’t as easy as it appears on the screen. Nor is the reuniting.

Guterson is expert at creating settings that define his characters. That lonely landlord sits down in front of the television with scrambled eggs, peanut butter on toast, and a glass of beer, finding the TV’s remote control on the ottoman among advertising circulars and dental picks he got from his hygienist. The man with the unstable Rottweiler, using an aluminum walker, moves through a garage that looks like a junk sale.

Many of the stories seem dependent on their depressing settings and blue-mood circumstances.

We find ourselves reading with the hope of some happy resolution that often doesn’t come. Some of the stories offer no relief at all. And when endings are less gloomy, as when the Jewish father remarks on the “nice tuchus” of their guide, they seem a trifle. Maybe Guterson is suggesting that’s all we can expect from life: trifles. — Bill Kohlhaase

SUBTEXTS Personal best In the world of contemporary poetry, there’s something of an intellectual battle between poets whose primary focus is how words sound next to one another and poets who feel that what their words mean, alone and in relation, is just as important as how they’re pushed and pulled for the music they can make. The second type of poem is not as easy to understand or digest as the first because more than a reader’s personal reaction is at stake: the writer’s point of view must be considered as well. The reward is that enjoyment of these poems tends to deepen with repeated readings and analysis. The Muse Times Two poetry series, now beginning its fifth year, favors poetry with meaning. In the first reading of the season, 4 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 21, at Collected Works Bookstore (202 Galisteo St.), Erin Belieu and Henry Shukman read from their new books. Though very different in tone, style, and scope, the work of both poets takes on culture and history. In Slant Six, her fifth book of poetry, Belieu uses humor to explore the modern American condition and question our received morality. Archangel is Shukman’s second book of poetry; he has also written novels, short stories, and nonfiction. Most of the poems in Archangel center around Shukman’s grandfather and great-uncle, who were among several thousand Jewish tailors deported from England to the Russian Empire in 1917. Muse Times Two pairs a poet from outside New Mexico with a local one. In this case, Shukman lives in Santa Fe and is the resident teacher at Mountain Cloud Zen Center. Belieu, who lives in Tallahassee, Florida, is the co-founder and director of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is the artistic director of the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference. For more information, call 505-988-4226. — Jennifer Levin

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OF COLOR

LAILA LALAMI imagines the life of a Moori sh ex pl orer

AN EXPEDITION OF 600 MEN AND ONLY FOUR MAKE IT OUT ALIVE?

Paul Weideman I The New Mexican

It sounds like a sci-fi horror story set in outer space. But this is actually the survival tally of a true exploratory voyage led by Pánfilo de Narváez — a veteran of the conquests of Jamaica and Cuba — in 1528. Although the Spanish conquistador was not among the living a year later, the four survivors included a Moorish slave named Mustafa al-Zamori and the expedition’s treasurer, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, who chronicled the adventure in his 1542 book, La Relación.

In The Moor’s Account, a 2014 work of historical fiction, writer Laila Lalami tells the story from the perspective of the slave, whom his master, Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, calls Estebanico. Obliged to follow a foot behind Dorantes, Estebanico often witnesses moronic or obscene pronouncements and actions in his captors, but he reminds himself, “The elders teach us: a living dog is better than a dead lion.” Not long after Narváez’s armada lands in Florida, his men find themselves battling an indigenous tribe. Over the next 50 weeks or so, the explorers’ situation worsens. The handful of survivors ultimately make a transformative journey across America.

Lalami, born and raised in Morocco, previously authored Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, a collection of related short stories, and the novel Secret Son as well as essays and opinion pieces in The Washington Post, The Guardian, and other journals. She earned her bachelor’s degree in English language and literature at Université Mohammed V, Morocco; her master’s in linguistics at University College London; and her Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Southern California. She is an associate professor in the creative writing department at the University of California-Riverside.

Pasatiempo found Lalami at home in Los Angeles.

Pasatiempo: Tell us about your motivation for writing The Moor’s Account.

Laila Lalami: Basically the idea for the book came several years ago when I was reading a book about Moorish Spain and there was a mention of Estebanico, who was said to be the first black explorer of America.

I thought, wait a minute, I went to school in Morocco, I remember I had history classes, and I never heard of this guy. I was curious and I went out and got Cabeza de Vaca’s book about the Narváez expedition, which was the first narrative we have of Spanish exploration of America. One reason is that the expedition failed. We always hear about Cortés conquering Mexico [in the early 16th century], but there were so many other expeditions that went nowhere. I was enthralled.

I was also amused because if you read Cabeza de Vaca’s book, periodically he’ll say things like, my raft was the first one to hit the shore and I went and I looked. He’s always placing himself right at the front of the action.

But above all I wanted to know more about this black guy. The only thing Cabeza de Vaca says about Estebanico is that he was an Arabic-speaking black man born in Azemmour in Morocco, and that’s all we know. The novel grew out of that. What if Estebanico got to write his own version?

What things would he notice that the others wouldn’t notice?

Pasa: The book is fascinating and even gripping, but it’s also an indictment of the Spanish colonizers — for example the profound arrogance of the party’s notary reading a document after the landing of the armada, instructing presumably all Indians, who are not even present, in their new obligations under king, queen, and pope.

Lalami: And that document was read every time an expedition landed.

It was essentially a legal justification from the Spanish king and queen, saying, well, we warned them, we told them. And it felt very modern. It’s

like what’s happening today with people going into other countries and saying, we have a right to do this. That was another reason that attracted me: it’s a story of transformation. These people arrive so convinced that they’re superior. They have the horses and all this technology, and within a year they have nothing. They think the Indians are savages and cannibals, and by the end you see who has become the cannibal.

Pasa: Narváez’s quest for gold is similar to our story here in New Mexico, with Coronado’s quest for the Seven Cities of Cibola.

Lalami: Yes, that’s the connection with New Mexico. Many years later, after they had wandered and crossed the continent, they were brought to Mexico to speak about what happened. We don’t know exactly what happened, but what we do know is that Estebanico ended up being hired to go to New Mexico as part of the advance party for the Coronado expedition.

Pasa: We sympathize with Mustafa and we learn a little about Islam between the lines in your book. Did you have any intention to try to counter Islamophobia?

Lalami: The answer is no. I feel like in fiction you can’t really write with a message in mind, because readers are smart and they can see when you’re trying to tell them something like that. However, one of the byproducts of writing a book where you have this guy who happens to be Muslim but he’s also exploring and doing other things — it probably does do something that enriches people’s perspectives.

Pasa: It’s easy for the reader to wonder how much is historical reportage and how much is your storytelling embellishment — like the time when a group of flute players emerges from the pine trees ahead of the Narváez expedition. Or when a giant reptile kills another slave and the governor pronounces it el lagarto. Was this part of the record?

Lalami: The flute players are mentioned by Cabeza de Vaca. He Laila Lalami mentions that the chief who told them to go in a certain direction to look for the gold had an advance party with flute players. Everything else I made up and embroidered.

I did know that alligator was derived from the Spanish el lagarto, so I took some liberty with that. The book basically asks you to consider how much about history is fiction, because it is taking what we know of the history and presenting it in the form of a novel.

If Cabeza de Vaca had written it as a novel, no one would have disputed it, even though it’s such an incredible story, because it was entered into the historical record and the chronicles about the conquest of New Spain.

Pasa: What new ground did you break, personally, with The Moor’s Account?

Lalami: It’s definitely a big departure, because the other two novels were set in the modern era and in Morocco. The majority of this one is set in America. It was so much fun to write. I decided that with this book I was just going to have fun with it. After I had the idea, I just set it aside for several months. I thought, there’s no way I can do this, it’s historical, I don’t write historical, it involves a lot of research, it’s too much work, I can’t do it. But the story wouldn’t let go of me, and I thought, you know what? I’m just going to take a jump and, as Ray Bradbury put it, just build my wings on the way down. ◀

details ▼ Laila Lalami reads from & discusses The Moor’s Account

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Miguel covarrubias: Drawing a cosmopolitan Line/ Trazando una Línea Cosmopolita SEPtEMbEr 27, 2O14 – January 18, 2O15

ExhibitiOn OPEning LEcturE Miguel Covarrubias, Artist, Archaeologist, and Curator: Modernism from Mexico City to New York and Back. Khristaan D. Villela, PhD, Professor of Art

History and Scholar in Residence at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design, presents the opening lecture for the new exhibition, Miguel Covarrubias: Drawing a Cosmopolitan Line/Trazando una Línea Cosmopolita. In addition to writing a chapter for the exhibition catalog, Villela has published several books on the topic of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican art and its reception the modern world.

Saturday, September 27, 2O14, 4 PM Santa Fe Community Convention Center, 201 W. Marcy Street Admission: $5; Members, FREE Reservations: 505.946.1039 or online at okeeffemuseum.org

This exhibition and related programming were made possible in part by a generous grant from The Burnett Foundation. Additional support was provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the Consulate of Mexico in Albuquerque; Linda Marcus; New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts; and the Santa Fe Arts Commission and the 1% Lodgers’ Tax. Miguel Covarrubias, Self-portrait, ca. 1937. Ink on paper, 28 x 21.5 cm. Courtesy Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress LC-DIG-ppmsca-10848. © María Elena Rico Covarrubias. LOC 1

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Liberal Education in America and the Cold War Walter Sterling, Dean of St. John’s College, Santa Fe Dean’s Lecture & Concert Series Great Hall, Peterson Student Center Rational Animal Launch Party St. John’s new digital magazine 7-11 p.m Junction Bar & Grill 530 S. Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe The first 50 people to arrive and show that they have downloaded the magazine on a digital device will receive a complimentary Rational Animal signature cocktail.

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Dream Lecture: “All that Matter of the Living Air: Dreams and the Western Tradition” St. John’s College alum Lael Gold, Ph.D. 3-4:30 p.m.

St. John’s College Junior Common Room, Peterson Student Center Lael Gold will share simple, yet powerful tools for making good use of our dreams.

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Chile-Themed Chocolate Class St. John’s College alum Lauren Gockley 2 -4 p.m.

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THE RARE FRUITS COUNCIL Scottish Songs by Haydn and Geminiani (Ludi Musici) With all eyes trained on Scotland just now, it would be an opportune moment to give the sounds of that nation a spin — and we don’t mean the bagpipe (not that there’s anything wrong with that, unless you live next door to one).

In the 18th century, the popularity of poet Robert Burns spurred widespread interest in Scottish culture. Among the Continental composers caught up in the Scottish craze was Franz Joseph Haydn. During his visits to London in the 1790s, he grew friendly with the Scottish violinist and publisher William Napier, for whom he arranged 150 Scottish songs, fitting them instrumental accompaniments, preludes, and postludes. Other arrangements would follow for other publishers; eventually Haydn would produce 429 of them, plus some Welsh and Irish selections. Eleven of Haydn’s Scottish settings receive bracing performances here from The Rare Fruits Council, an instrumental ensemble much applauded for its historically informed interpretations of Baroque chamber music. (About its name, the less said the better.) The recorded acoustic favors the instruments over the singer (pure-toned Scottish soprano Susan Hamilton), but following the texts in the handsome booklet helps bring the voice part into focus. Obscure but delightful Scottish settings made almost a half-century earlier by Handel’s colleague Francesco Geminiani — some with voice, some strictly instrumental — round out this fascinating collection. — James M. Keller CASTANETS Decimation Blues (Asthmatic Kitty) Raymond Raposa has the soul of an outsider artist in a world where everything is in the internet and nothing is outside.

He’s toiled for an admirably long time, both as Castanets and under other guises, occasionally coming into vogue but not for long. Thankfully, he’s still at it, and he remains as creatively restless as ever. Decimation Blues finds him accenting his world-weary blues and folk with what sounds like a thrift-store haul of Casio keyboards.

“Be My Eyes” devolves into a surf-guitar breakdown set against a burping bass and a rapid-fire programmed beat, while “Black Bird Tune” is a lushly produced waltz in the vein of Leonard Cohen.

“Out for the West,” set to a windshield-wiper-like beat and a slick Hammond organ, is prone to computerized solos (including one that appears to come from a cheapie keyboard’s “trumpet” setting). Like Neil Young’s left-field opuses, the song blends thoughts both mundane and profound in odd ratios, as he discusses a Sean Penn cover story in Vanity Fair and details of a Trail Blazers-Mavericks basketball game before reflecting on the pioneers of the West and the dying out of trains before bringing it back to Penn with the mantra, “Oh Harvey Milk, what a wonderful man.” The album rarely reaches those heights, but as with Raposa’s career, the pleasure is in the journey.

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TERRELL’S TUNE-UP Steve Terrell

Youth well spent

I’ve been a huge fan of Benjamin Booker ever since his early days. In fact, I became a devoted, drooling Bookerhead right after the release of his very first album — last month. It all started when a friend, whose musical tastes are pretty close to mine, emailed me to ask, “Are you a fan of this guy?” The email included a forwarded press release about Booker’s self-titled debut from ATO records, which called the twenty-five-year-old artist “a young New Orleansbased singer-songwriter, influenced by The Gun Club, Blind Willie Johnson, and T. Rex.” I’ve learned that record company hype almost always leads to disappointment.

But there were two videos embedded, so I played them and immediately went to Amazon.com and ordered the CD. I hardly ever do that, but I urge you to do the same, as soon as you finish reading this column.

A discerning ear probably can hear subtle references to The Gun Club, Blind Willie Johnson, and T. Rex — as well as to others from the realms of primitive rock, raw blues, and gritty soul — in Booker’s music, though, there is no obvious imitation at work here.

(And surprisingly, he offers few audible clues that he lives in New Orleans, other than a suggestion of some second-line drumming in the middle of “Have You Seen My Son.” Maybe that’s because he’s a relative newcomer to NOLA, having spent his formative years in Tampa, Florida.)

Booker builds on the foundations of the music he loves and creates a sound that’s fresh, though somewhat familiar. On the album, he saved his best for the first track. “Violent Shiver” is breathtaking from the get-go, starting off with a teasing, swampy guitar lick that sounds like some mysterious Stax Records outtake; seconds later Max Norton’s crazed drums and Jem Cohen’s bass come in and kick the song into warp drive. With his growling voice and devil-may-care delivery, Booker sounds like a man going nowhere fast. “Where I’m going, I’ll never know,” he sings with unshaken, youthful confidence. (“What are you rebelling against, Johnny?” “Whad’ya got?”)

Nearly every song here is a wild ride. “Chippewa” is a scuzzed-out garage rocker that features an electric organ. “Wicked Waters” is pure punk ’n’ soul. “Happy Homes” has a melody that could have been written by Blind Willie Johnson, though the instrumental backing sounds almost like a rougher version of Bob Seger’s “Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man.” “Old Hearts” is thunder 24

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on wheels, and while “Spoon out My Eyeballs” starts out slow, it eventually explodes into the craziness promised in the title. (Does this remind anyone else of that gruesome story out of the Santa Fe County jail in the early ’80s?)

The album also has a handful of soulful ballads.

“Slow Coming” is one of these, though it gradually builds up to louder volumes. You might expect a song titled “I Thought I Heard You Screaming” to be a raucous screamer. It’s not. I could imagine the late Venice Beach troubadour Ted Hawkins doing this one.

There were two videos embedded, so I played them and immediately went to Amazon.com and ordered the CD. I hardly ever do that, but I urge you to do the same.

With a debut as good as this, it’s hard to imagine anything but a stellar career ahead of this artist. To watch an interview with Booker and an impressive live-in-the-studio performance on KEXP-FM 90.3 in Seattle by Booker and his band, check out http://you tube/-HAzhEEjMkY. Also recommended: Manipulator by Ty Segall. Here’s another recently released crazy-good screaming guitar album by a

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wild-eyed youngster in his mid-twenties. But, unlike Booker, Segall is no spring chicken when it comes to the recording game. He’s released about a dozen albums since his debut in 2008, including his various side projects and collaborations.

His previous album, Sleeper, which could have been called “Snoozer,” was mostly acoustic. But on the new one, he goes back to the metaphorical garage, doing high-velocity rockers with touches of folk rock, power pop and, in a few spots, even soul. Talk about someone being influenced by T. Rex: Segall, who once released an EP of Marc Bolan covers called Ty-Rex, seems to be channeling the ghost of that band on several songs. And some of the tunes here — the psychotic-electro stomper “The Connection Man,” for instance — clearly pay homage to his San Francisco cronies and latter-day psychedelic rangers, Thee Oh Sees.

The title song starts with chiming keyboards that might remind oldtimers of Pet Sounds-era Brian Wilson and his teenage symphonies. “I used the telephone to sneak inside your home, my finest friend,” he sings with all the charm of a stalker. Then the guitar and the electronic weirdness kick in. That’s followed by Segall employing his finest falsetto on “Tall Man, Skinny Lady,” an infectious blend of bubblegum, funk, and raw noise.

My favorites here are the noisy ones, like the rip-roaring monster “The Crawler,” which might be the closest Segall has ever come to Black Sabbath.

This 17-song album is no rock opera, but it has one recurring character: Susie Thumb. She’s the title character of one crazy rocker, then she appears on the follow-up, a song that starts off as an acoustic ballad called “Don’t You Want to Know?

(Sue).”

Segall even has a proper goodbye song called “Stick Around.” That’s a pretty invitation from a musician worth sticking around for.

Marc Maron recently interviewed Segall on his WTF podcast. Like me, Maron became a Ty fan a couple of years back, after the 2012 release of Slaughterhouse.

It’s a great conversation anyway, but even more entertaining for us locals to hear Segall talk about eating “Christmas” enchiladas in Santa Fe when he played here last March. (But I was shocked that Maron, who grew up in Albuquerque, didn’t know what “Christmas” is, at least as it pertains to enchiladas.)

Listen to it here: http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/ episodes/episode_526_-_ty_segall. ◀

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AN IBERIAN-FLAVORED REN AISSANCE FAIR

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the Days of Yore — those merry times when knights and ladies cavorted with belly dancers, minstrels, and fairies, and vendors sold silver rings, tie-dyed garb, and barbecued turkey drumsticks. Opportunities to spend a while in Yore abound at Renaissance festivals across the land, held at dedicated (and often muddy) village-themed parks as well as high school gyms and college quads. The seventh annual Santa Fe Renaissance Fair takes place Saturday, Sept. 20, and Sunday, Sept. 21, at the 200-acre living-history museum El Rancho de las Golondrinas. The event is a fundraiser for the museum, and a portion of the proceeds benefits the Interfaith Community Shelter.

All of the usual Renaissance fair staples are on tap: music and dance performances, juggling, arts and crafts vendors, food vendors, and a tavern with beer, wine, and mead. But there’s a Santa Fe twist: while most Renaissance festivals are imagined to take place in Elizabethan England, Las Golondrinas will evoke Spain between 711 and 1492, a time when the Jews, Muslims, Christians, and Gypsies of the Iberian Peninsula embraced art, science, and politics, and travelers from the Middle East and Asia came to trade via the Silk 26

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Road. A stand-in for Queen Isabella (the real one, with her husband, King Ferdinand, came in at the end of this period and proceeded to upset the relative tolerance they found there) will, accompanied by a large “royal” court, interact with the fair’s visitors.

These events abound now from coast to coast, but the first Renaissance fair opened in 1963 in Santa Barbara, California. The Southern California Renaissance Pleasure Faire was started by Phyllis and Ron Patterson, although where Phyllis’ inspiration came from is a matter of historical debate. According to multiple online sources, Phyllis, a former English teacher, began volunteering as a drama instructor at a local youth organization. There, she started the fair as a living-history demonstration for fifth- and sixth-graders, replete with Punch and Judy puppet shows. When the event grew in popularity, she expanded it into the Pleasure Faire with sponsorship from a local left-leaning radio station, KPFK-FM 90.7, and help from her free-spirit neighbors.

According to Santa Fe resident Myra Krien, a belly dancer and owner of Pomegranate Studios, it was those bohemian neighbors who really invented the Renaissance fair concept, which was then adapted for the mainstream. Krien’s grandparents, Bobby and Floppy Hide, founded the Mountain Drive neighborhood of Santa Barbara, which is widely acknowledged

as the first truly “bohemian” community in the United States.

“They had all kinds of amazing events,” Krien told Pasatiempo. “The potters got together every year and sold their wares, and they made their own wine. People would bring out all kinds of instruments and come in Renaissance clothing, and at the end of the fair, after they’d had a lot of wine, the potters would fling very intellectual Shakespearean insults at each other while breaking the rest of their pottery that hadn’t sold.”

Shakespearean insults are still popular at the fairs.

Among the favorites are “You scullion! You rampallian!

You fustilarian! I’ll tickle your catastrophe!” (Henry IV, Part II); “Your brain is as dry as the remainder biscuit after voyage” (As You Like It); and “Come, come, you froward and unable worms!” (The Taming of the Shrew).

Over the years, the bohemian potters’ event became more raucous and well known, attracting attention from the wider Santa Barbara community. Krien recalled that the Pattersons held the first Pleasure Fair as a fundraiser for KPFK-FM. She had never heard the story of the living-history demonstration and Phyllis’ background as a teacher. Though the nuances of the Pleasure Faire’s founding may be lost to the sands of time, it’s true that the Hides, and eventually their children and grandchildren, were heavily involved in the event for many years. Krien grew up going to

Renaissance fairs — which proliferated quickly in the 1970s — and now performs, along with dancers from her Pomegranate Studios classes, at the Santa Fe Renaissance Fair.

Belly dancers weave through the crowd and perform at specific times at the many stages located throughout Las Golondrinas ranch. The fair is rich with dance and song, including performances by Belisama (Irish dance), Sadaqah (Middle Eastern music), Rumelia (Balkan music), Flamenco Nuevo Mexico, the High Desert Harp Ensemble, and the Santa Fe University of Art and Design Madrigal Singers. The family circus Clan Tynker juggles fire and swallows swords, and there are magic shows, a fairy dance school, and a variety of sword-fighting demonstrations. (For a full performance schedule, visit www.sfrenfair.org.)

Fairgoers are encouraged to come in costume and consider themselves part of the entertainment — a Renaissance fair tradition. A costume can be anything from a flower garland to a complete outfit of period-appropriate garments. At the larger, for-profit fairs around the country, vendors — many of whom make their living traveling from fair to fair — distinguish dressed-up guests out for a day of fun from “playtrons,” whose costumes outdo many the vendors and fair employees wear and who try to insert themselves into scenes and performances. Blogger Kenny Klein, who has played music at Renaissance fairs for 30 years, has even seen people dress as Star Trek characters, pretending that the vendors and employees are a holodeck program.

This kind of historical whimsy is unacceptable to members of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA). Founded in 1966, in Berkeley, California, as a social group for people interested in researching and re-creating the Middle and Renaissance ages, the SCA is now an international organization with 30,000 members divided into 19 kingdoms. Santa Fe is located in the Kingdom of the Outlands, in the Shire of Drygestan. Because the SCA emphasizes period accuracy in its re-creations, at the Santa Fe Renaissance Fair its members populate a special Medieval village that adheres to SCA’s parameters. Demonstrations in the Medieval village include rapier, livesteel, and armored combat, as well as a Fight a Knight game for kids and demonstrations of historical clothing, embroidery, and cooking. Fairgoers are also welcome to check out the SCA campsite, which, to its best ability, will be historically accurate.

The Society for Creative Anachronism is divided into 19 kingdoms — Santa Fe is located in the Kingdom of the Outlands, in the Shire of Drygestan.

“That means someone might have bought a cot at Target instead of building a wooden bed, but you won’t see any pop-up campers,” Kate Daniel, exchequer (treasurer) for the Shire of Drygestan, told Pasatiempo. Though the campsite is open to visitors, they are asked not to enter someone’s tent without an invitation.

Whether you have an interest in the Renaissance era that is deeply rooted in historical research or just love the bawdy revelry such fairs offer, these events, now more than 50 years old, represent some of the first widespread “cosplay” gatherings. (Cosplay, short for “costume play,” is a lifestyle subculture, now going mainstream, whose devotees painstakingly dress in character, down to the last detail, to impersonate the things they adore, whether that’s something from a historical period or an obscure Japanese cartoon character or a particular type of toy.) At Renaissance fairs, you can put on a costume, adopt an accent, get your face painted, chow down on roasted corn, and pretend to be someone else for the day. You might want to learn a few Shakespearean insults before you go. ◀

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Ludwig van Beethoven liked to use the key of C minor for tumultuous works, like his ever-so-famous Symphony No. 5 (its opening ta-ta-ta-taaaaah being first visited upon the world in 1808) and his Piano Concerto No. 3 (premiered in 1803), the uneasiness of which strikingly parallels what Mozart, to Beethoven’s great admiration, had done 17 years earlier in his C-minor Piano Concerto.

Thomas O’Connor conducts the Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra in both of these Beethoven works, with pianist Melissa Marse, pictured, serving as soloist in the concerto. A product of the University of Texas-Austin, Yale, and Juilliard, Marse served as head of the piano department at Houston Baptist University from 2006 to 2011, and also performs as a vocalist, singing regularly with the Austin-based professional chorus Conspirare. Performances are at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 20, and 3 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 21, at the Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St. Tickets ($20-$65) are available through Pro Musica (505-988-4640) or www.ticketssantafe.org (505-988-1234). — James M. Keller

Around the world in two days

Cuba’s Afro-Cuban All Stars, Ghana’s Rocky Dawuni, pictured, China’s Liu Fang, France’s Lo’Jo, and Hungary’s Söndörgö are just a few of the acts performing Friday and Saturday, Sept. 19 and 20, at the annual Globalquerque! celebration. Other acts hail from Guatemala, Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, the Czech Republic, Turkey, and Mali, as well as New York, Texas, and New Mexico.

Also part of the festival are international crafts and food booths, a silent auction, and screenings of A Thousand Voices and We Are Together. It’s all happening at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 Fourth St. S.W., Albuquerque. Tickets are $42 for one day and $69 for both days, with discounts for children. See www.globalquerque.org or call the center’s box office at 505-724-4771. — Paul Weideman Mark Bennington

Everyone knows it’s windy

Victor Sjöström (aka Seastrom) is most recognizable to moviegoers for playing the lead in Bergman’s Wild Strawberries (1957), but long before that he had been a notable film director in the silent era. The Wind, released by MGM in 1928, came right at the end of that period. A 95-minute Symbolist romantic drama, it stars Lillian Gish as an impoverished but strong-willed young woman who moves to the middle of nowhere in West Texas (it was actually shot mostly in the Mojave Desert), gets involved in personal entanglements, and is irked by the ever-present wind. The Center for Contemporary Arts (1050 Old Pecos Trail) screens it at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 25, with an accompanying score performed live by The Invincible Czars, an Austin-based electro-acoustic ensemble that has been gaining national notice for its work with silver-screen masterpieces. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door. For more information, visit www.ccasantafe. org or call 505-982-1338. — J.M.K.

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There are bands with obvious musical influences, and then there are fluegel boy bands you might regard as revivalist — so enamored of music from Dmitri Matheny, who is known the past (swing or disco, for instance) that they bring it back with for his warm-toned improva modern twist. And then there’s Sam France and Jonathan Rado isations on the fluegelhorn, is of Foxygen: neo-1960s psychedelic rockers who serve up a dollop of back at the Museum Hill Café, Bob Dylan and a huge helping of emo-indie-pop. Both members 710 Camino Lejo, on Friday, of the musical duo are only in their early twenties, but they’ve been Sept. 19. This concert with his playing together since they were fifteen — and France and Rado’s quartet celebrates the release skilled and symbiotic of his new CD, Sagebrush instrumentation is the Rebellion. This is his 10th result. Foxygen evokes album as leader and features The Beatles, The Rolling both original compositions and Stones, Pink Floyd, David covers of tunes by the likes of Bowie, and others, giving Charlie Haden, Nat Adderley, it an eclectic but recogand Duke Ellington. The show starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $25; call nizable, cohesive sound.

983-6820 or email Linda@SantaFeMusicCollective.org. — P.W. The band is on tour to promote a new album, ...And Star Power, scheduled to appear on Oct. 14. The pair’s first release, We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic, came out last year. Foxygen plays at Skylight (139 W. San Francisco St.) at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 25. Tickets for the all-ages show are $18; doors open at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call 505-982-0775 or visit www.skylightsantafe.com. — Jennifer Levin

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ONE OF SANTA FE’S most recognized residents, George R. R. Martin has been big news in recent years — and not just for his work on the HBO series Game of Thrones and the addictive series of fantasy novels, A Song of Ice and Fire, that inspired it. His

CHANGE & CHALLENGE

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A FUSION OF STRAW appliqué technique and retablo painting gives Jean Anaya Moya’s tradition-based artwork a modern flair. Straw appliqué is a variation on European marquetry, an embellishment method used to decorate surfaces with small pieces of contrasting material, such as wood, metal, or bone. The first Spanish settlers in New Mexico brought crosses and religious objects inlaid with gold and other fine metals. Straw appliqué, which uses less expensive materials to achieve a similar effect, became popular during the colonial period but died out in the early 19th century before famously being revived by Eliseo Rodriguez in the 1930s.

A fourth-generation artist from Galisteo, Moya has been using this technique since the mid-1990s. She studied at Santa Fe Community College with Jacqueline Nelson, from whom she learned the art of retablo. Felix Lopez taught her how to carve saints, and she counts Spanish colonial furniture maker Matthew Duran among her mentors. Moya learned straw appliqué from Charlie Sánchez at the Museum of International Folk Art. Moya, who also identifies as a santera, carves pine bultos for the background of her pieces, which is the traditional method, but she often uses modern commercial glue, varnish, and paint for the requisite glossy finish. Her inspiration comes from family and cultural traditions, as well as her Catholic faith, to which she welcomes change and challenge — the same tension she creates in her work by mixing old and new. Moya has won several awards for her work, including Santa Fe High School Artist of the Year in 1978. She won first place for painted bultos at

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or artists and contributors to the arts, the Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts is the state’s greatest honor. The award focuses on the roles, both cultural and economic, that the arts play in New Mexico and the ways in which they make our state a destination for art aficionados and creative types of all kinds. This year’s award ceremony takes place in the New Mexico Museum of Art’s Saint Francis Auditorium (107 W. Palace Ave.) at 5:15 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 19, following a 3:30 p.m. reception and exhibit opening in the Governor’s Gallery on the fourth floor of the state Capitol.

Award recipients are nominated by members of the public, and nominees are reviewed by a committee of the New Mexico Arts Commission, which sends its recommendations to the governor. In past years, awards have been granted to a diverse selection of artists, writers, actors, poets, musicians, philanthropists, and others whose work has helped shape and define the state’s artistic heritage. The list has included San Ildefonso Pueblo potter Maria Martinez (1887-1980); painter Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986); mystery writer Tony Hillerman (1925-2008); and actor, director, and environmentalist Robert Redford. Joining their ranks for the 41st annual award ceremony are this year’s recipients: musician Robert Mirabal; straw appliqué artist Jean Anaya Moya; sculptor Donald Redman; artist Robert “Shoofly” Shufelt; and major arts contributors Dr. Kent Jacobs and Sallie Ritter, Dave Warren, and George R.R. Martin.

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reopening of the Jean Cocteau Cinema in 2013, closed since 2006, provided a venue for an eclectic mix of offbeat films in all genres. On any given day you might see him there, even to apologize when a film or event is sold out.The Jean Cocteau, a local landmark, features talks and performances and screens first-run and revival films. Writers who have participated in events at the theater include Mystic River author Dennis Lehane; Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides; and British novelist Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods.

Martin was nominated for the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts as a major contributor to the arts by Jacques Paisner, executive director and co-founder of the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival. A Santa Fe resident since 1979, Martin is a prolific writer in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, where he’s accumulated numerous awards, including several Nebula and Hugo awards, and a Bram Stoker Award. Martin’s first novel, Dying of the Light, was published in 1977. Since then he has published more than 30 novels, novellas, and short stories and edits the short-story collections New Voices in Science Fiction, Wild Cards, and the anthology Dangerous Women.

He is also a seasoned television writer, contributing to the CBS series The Twilight Zone and Beauty and the Beast in the 1980s and the 1990s-era Canadian Showtime series The Outer Limits — a revival of the 1960s series of the same name. Today, he serves as the co-executive producer of Game of Thrones, penning one episode per season. Martin and his wife, Parris, support Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary, an organization that rescues captive-bred wolves. He is working on the sixth installment of A Song of Ice and Fire: The Winds of Winter. — Michael Abatemarco

the 2012 Spanish Market, and first place in straw appliqué at Expo New Mexico in 2010. Moya is a member of the Galisteo Volunteer Fire Department and has served as its chief. — Jennifer Levin

ELEMENTAL INTERACTIONS

SO MANY GIFTS

THE STURDY SCULPTURES of Donald Redman are often incomplete without the elements of wind and light, which makes them perfect as outdoor public art. Redman’s career spans more than three decades. After graduating from Houston’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, he attended the University of Houston to study sculpture.

His works are made using a variety of media, including stone, fiberglass, metal, wood and carbon steel. Redman is an experimenter, working with kinetic sculpture and light-emitting diode, or LED, technology, such as in his 2012 piece Storm King, an installation designed to move with the wind. Storm King was developed for TIME (Temporary Installations Made for the Environment), part of the Art in Public Places Program of New Mexico Arts. The sculpture was carefully produced to harness the wind and produce

HE’S A PAINTER, actor, poet, and two-time Grammy Award-winning musician, but Taos Pueblo artist and resident Robert Mirabal lives a traditional life with his family at the foot of Taos Mountain. Mirabal has recorded albums of traditional Native flute music, rock, and spoken-word performances.

His first Grammy was for 2006’s Sacred Ground, a compilation album that included music by Bill Miller, Joanne Shenandoah, Walela, and Primeaux & Mike, among others. Two years later, he won a second Grammy for Johnny Whitehorse: Totemic Flute Chants, an album he released under a pseudonym. “ People ask me why I recorded under a different name, and it was because I wanted to collaborate with as many people as I could with the flute,” he writes on his website (www.mirabalnativeflutes.com). “I was always interested in doing so, and this album allowed me to do it.” His follow-up, 2009’s Johnny Whitehorse: Riders of the Healing Road, was a Grammy nominee.

As an actor, his credits include the role of Tony Lujan, the husband of arts patron Mabel Dodge Luhan, in the 2009 television biopic Georgia O’Keeffe, which starred Joan Allen in the title role and Jeremy Irons as Alfred Stieglitz.

As a flutist, Mirabal’s compositions reflect an interest in world music. His arrangements fuse rock, folk, hip-hop, African, and techno sounds in a heady brew. Mirabal, an expert craftsman, has been making traditional Native flutes since the age of nineteen; some are included in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution. His self-titled debut

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years as the United States representative to the InterAmerican Indian Institute. Warren was also the first Native American to serve on the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities. In 2013, Warren, now in his eighties, was recognized as a Santa Fe Living Treasure, an honor awarded to Santa Fe residents seventy and older who serve and inspire their communities. — M.A. continued on Page 34

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electricity. Redman has a talent for blending art, engineering, and physics; his works are often constructed with structural integrity and consideration of natural laws such as gravity and, in the case of Storm King, centrifugal force. His art is often large in scale and made with an eye for its appearance on the landscape, while staying respectful of the environments in which it is placed.

In the 1970s and‘80s Redman apprenticed with a number of well-known artists, including sculptors James Surls and Luis Jiménez (1940-2006). From 1995 to 1999 he was the artist in residence for the Georgia O’Keeffe estate. Redman, a former instructor at the University of Houston and the San Francisco Art Institute, has received numerous commissions, including his 2010 piece Willow, commissioned for The Willows, a lakeside retreat in northeast Missouri. The near-15-foot-tall sculpture was made in honor of the retreat’s first resident. More recently, Redman’s site-specific installation Obscura was featured in New Mexico Arts’ Centennial Project Space in 2012. Cyndi Conn, executive director of Creative Santa Fe, nominated Redman for the Governor’s Award. — M.A.

DAVE WARREN, a recipient of the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts as a major contributor to the arts, is an indisputable force in education and the development of Native cultural institutions. He worked as a historian and educator in the fields of Latin American and indigenous studies — work that extended to local institutions such as the Institute of American Indian Arts, where Warren served in various positions, including as director of curriculum in 1968 and as acting president from 1978 to 1979. He now holds an honorary doctorate from IAIA. Warren served as acting director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the mid-1970s. He’s the founding deputy director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., which was established as a living memorial to Native American culture and traditions. With Chippewa and Santa Clara heritage, Warren is a member of Santa Clara Pueblo, where he is recognized for his efforts to preserve the Santa Clara headwaters. Originally an education major, Warren’s graduate work at the University of New Mexico was in history. He also studied anthropology, ethnohistory, and language at the University of the Americas in Mexico City. Warren received his Ph.D. in 1955.

Warren’s teaching experience includes positions in Albuquerque Public Schools, the University of Nebraska, Colorado College, and Oklahoma State University. In 1994, he received an award from the New Mexico Commission on Indian Affairs for his commitment to the preservation of indigenous languages and cultures and served for several

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album, financed by his grandmother, was released in 1988.

His writings have been published in his collection A Skeleton of a Bridge (1994), and his coming-of-age novel about a young Native musician, Running Alone in Photographs, was published in 2008. His Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts comes on the heels of a long list of honors that include two Native American Music Awards for Artist of the Year and awards from NAMA for Songwriter of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Male Artist. — M.A.

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BIG NAMES, LITTLE BITES George R.R. Martin is a prolific writer in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, where he’s accumulated numerous awards. His reopening of the Jean Cocteau Cinema in 2013, closed since 2006, provided a venue for an eclectic mix of offbeat films in all genres.

Jean Anaya Moya studied at Santa Fe Community College with Jacqueline Nelson, from whom she learned the art of retablo. Felix Lopez taught her how to carve saints, and she counts Spanish colonial furniture maker Matthew Duran among her mentors.

Robert Mirabal has recorded albums of traditional Native music, rock, and spoken-word performances.

An expert craftsman, he has been making traditional Native flutes since the age of nineteen; some are included in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution.

In 2013, Dave Warren, now in his eighties, was recognized as a Santa Fe Living Treasure, an honor awarded to Santa Fe residents seventy and older who serve and inspire their communities. Warren was also the first Native American to serve on the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.

Dr. Kent Jacobs and Sallie Ritter’s estate bequest to the Museum of New Mexico — their 6,750-square-foot adobe home south of Las Cruces, which contains a priceless collection of American Indian pottery and textiles, as well as contemporary art — will become a satellite museum called the Jacobs-Ritter Compound.

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DR. KENT JACOBS, a writer and retired physician, and Sallie Ritter, a painter, were recognized this year as Major Contributors to the Arts for their estate bequest to the Museum of New Mexico. Eventually, their 6,750-squarefoot adobe home south of Las Cruces, which contains a priceless collection of American Indian pottery and textiles, as well as contemporary art, will become a satellite museum called the Jacobs-Ritter Compound. The planned gift includes an endowment to be used for public programming to ben-efit the Las Cruces region. Ritter’s landscapes, still lifes, and paintings are included in museum and private collections.

Jacobs bought one of Ritter’s paintings before they knew each other, but they soon met and — so the couple has said publicly — Ritter used the proceeds of the sale to buy Jacobs’ wedding ring. Jacobs practiced as a dermatologist and worked for the U.S. Public Health Service as unit director for Laguna and Zuni pueblos, which is when he developed his interest in Indian art. He is a longtime supporter of the state’s museum system and has served on the board of regents of the Museum of New Mexico for many years, including as president of the board for five years.

Jacobs helped bring the Neutrogena Collection to the Museum of International Folk Art. Jacobs and Ritter grew

up in Las Cruces; as children, they’d wished for museums to visit. They see their gift as a way to enhance the arts and cultural offerings in the area and attract visitors to the Mesilla Valley. — Jennifer Levin

SKETCHES FROM THE SADDLE

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ROBERT“SHOOFLY”SHUFELT grew up in Illinois in the 1940s and ‘50s. After attending Lake Forest College and the University of Illinois, he briefly played professional football and then tried his hand at race-car driving before joining a Chicago advertising agency. He was a gifted illustrator and draftsman, so he rose up the ranks, but his heart wasn’t in it. In 1976, he gave up his career and moved with his wife to Arizona to become a rancher and artist. They eventually settled in Hillsboro, New Mexico.

Shufelt is a legend of Western regional art and a master of graphite. His black-and-white drawings, sold as limitededition lithographs and giclée prints, depict the cowboy way of life without romanticizing it, using a hyper-real sense of light and shadow. In pieces like Trappings, in which a man sits on horseback, the sun-bleached grass and bristly horsehair are so realistic that they practically conjure dry heat. In Lost and Found, a cowboy herds a calf down a rocky incline in what looks like a still from a Western movie.

Shufelt has said that cowboys do a rough and thankless job.

When Southwest Art magazine included him in a roundup of 20 “legends of fine art,” he said that creating fine art is “brain-crushing, finger-throbbing hard work.” Shufelt is represented by Legacy Gallery, in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Jackson, Wyoming, and Settlers West Galleries in Tucson, Arizona. His work has been shown in museums, including the Desert Caballeros Western Museum in Wickenburg, Arizona; the Tucson Art Museum; the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and the Albuquerque Museum. In 2013, Shufelt and his wife donated more than 130 framed pieces of his art to the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces. — J.L. ◀

James Helphill

Robert Shufelt’s black-and-white drawings, sold as limited-edition lithographs and giclée prints, depict the cowboy way of life without romanticizing it, using a hyper-real sense of light and shadow.

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Donald Redman has a talent for blending art, engineering, and physics; his works are often constructed with structural integrity and consideration of natural laws such as gravity and, in the case of “Storm King,” centrifugal force.

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Michael Abatemarco I The New Mexican

RECORDING Irving Greines: from left, Madonna (Triptych) A, B & C, archival pigment ink print; next spread, Ysabel LeMay: top, Wander, 2014; bottom, The Summer Nest, 2010; both are chromogenic prints mounted on Dibond

messages,” Greines told Pasatiempo. “Those areas are usually avoided. People don’t pay attention to what’s on the walls, really. It was challenging to me to be able to isolate parts of that urban chaos and make a statement that I hope is somewhat beautiful.”

TWO PHOTOGRAPHERS DOCUMENT CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS

Greines’ Madonna, a triptych, is a trio of shots of the same poster taken in three Los Angeles locales, each one altered by the elements or human intervention. One image is embellished with a spraypainted eye mask. Another is peeling away to reveal text from previously affixed material that’s been covered over. “I tried,” photographer Greines explained, “to capture the exact same positioning of the eyes and mouth to show how you’ll find that image again and again in different ways.”

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hough Irving Greines and Ysabel LeMay, photographers with work currently on view at Verve Gallery of Photography, have quite different approaches to creating their images, both consider their projects to be expressions of the organic. The pieces in LeMay’s Gracia show are constructed compositions, photomontages of many elements. Greines’ Portrait series, his latest installment in an ongoing body of work exhibited under the title Urban Wilderness — Chaos Transformed, is a selection of straightforward, unaltered photography. “Where I like to wander is in the blighted areas of cities, and the walls are often filled with layer upon layer of writing — political messages, personal

Greines began his Urban Wilderness — Chaos Transformed series in the early ’90s, shooting first in San Francisco and later in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, and Rome. The photographer focused on major cities because of their abundance of structures bearing affiches plastered on with wheat paste. Wheat paste degrades over time to reveal layers upon layers of paper, paint, and plaster from such ads and posters.

“In New York, in particular, and certain areas in Los Angeles where most of this show was shot, you can see the evolution of an image. I’ve recorded changes over time. Sometimes, over the course of three or four days, you can see a transformation from one thing into a completely different thing, and it can also happen overnight. I will sometimes show that in photographs.”

For Greines, these sites where numerous people interact with printed materials on city walls — either by defacing them or adding embellishments with spray paint and markers — represent a public venue for self-expression, the record of humans interacting with their immediate environments. In addition, the elements take their toll. “These walls are like living organisms, and they change almost in the same way as nature changes,” he said. “I’m hiking through the urban wilderness and trying to capture the changes.”

Urban renewal also brings changes to the environments Greines shoots in, but the results are often an

erasing of the interactions and mark making he documents. What’s more, gentrification doesn’t always make an urban landscape more attractive. During the decades Greines has spent wandering around innercity streets and alleys, he has seen his share of such “improvement.” “The stuff I photograph is basically condemned by most people. You know: graffiti artists are basically bad guys. The question is whether graffiti adds something interesting and beautiful to the sameness that’s being built in everywhere around us. There are things of beauty you can find if you simply stop and take the time to look. I’ve met a number of the taggers. I’m interested in what they’re doing, and they’re interested in what I’m doing. I once had a show in Atlanta with all of these former New York taggers, all of whom had been arrested at some point and are now doing their work on canvas. My work captured the kind of stuff they did when they were still street taggers.”

Greines’ portraits are all photographs of people.

His Madonna, a triptych, is a trio of shots of the same poster taken in three Los Angeles locales, each one altered by the elements or human intervention.

One image of the fameous singer and dancer’s face is embellished with a spray-painted eye mask. Another is peeling away to reveal text from previously affixed material that’s been covered over. “I tried to capture the exact same positioning of the eyes and mouth to show how you’ll find that image again and again in different ways. I must have 50 variations of that image, but chose only three for the show.” continued on Page 38

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My work, as soft as it can be, is bold as far as verbal language.

Greines/LeMay, continued from Page 37 Ysabel LeMay combines elements in her symphonic visionsofnaturethatcomefromherownphotographs— but, unlike Greines, she does not frame and crop photographs as she shoots them or present her works as she found them. LeMay’s technique is painstaking and time consuming. “I take a trip four times a year and focus on getting images,” she told Pasatiempo.

is to create — using photographs — compositions that have a painterly feel. “The reason is that, before touching a camera for the first time, I was a painter for almost 10 years. All of my understanding of space and composition was learned through painting techniques. When I moved to digital components, a photographer who documented my life as a painter offered me a small camera. When I came to photography, I created landscapes that had a strong reference to the history of art — the Flemish painters.”

“In a very serene landscape,” artist LeMay explained, “I put in elements that put you on your toes. I’m playing with polarity — from very soft to something that puts you out of your comfort zone. It’s an expression of what it is to try to break new ground, the chaos behind creating new work.”

“I go to different environments where I know I will find new things. I just create a lot of images and work over a period of three to four months.” After gathering photographs, LeMay works digitally, removing backgrounds from her shots and extracting elements such as flowers, birds, and trees for later use. Her aim 38

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LeMay, a former minimalist, cites two painters as influences. “One of the painters is Martin Johnson Heade.

He was born in 1819. His influence was Romanticism, but he brought Surrealism into his work. He was part of the Hudson River School, but he took the classic approach of that school — the light and landscape quality — and he was playing with the size of the forms, and it was very Surrealist. It was a strong influence in terms of color palette. Another influence — and, strangely enough, her work has nothing to do with mine — is Joan Mitchell. The reason I was inspired by this person is the energy behind her brushstrokes.

She’s a woman who managed to rise with the boys during the Abstract Expressionist period. My work, as soft as it can be, is bold as far as verbal language goes. You can recognize my work a mile away, just as with Joan Mitchell’s.”

LeMay’s imagery has a baroque quality: it is intricate and has ornate details. The compositions are cohesive and their components are carefully selected to exist with one another in a way that appears natural.

“Extractions are the work of a month. This takes the most time. Flowers are easy to extract, but when I get to trees or foliage, it can be very complex.” Much of her work is full of light that penetrates through pale flowers or saturates sections of a piece, washing out the imagery around it. In Cosmic Nursery, white paint drips appear to be pouring from a light-filled sky. “When I created that one, I had promised myself to have a breakthrough in my imagery. I wanted to be bolder. I struggled terribly with that piece. In a very serene landscape, I put in elements that put you on your toes. I’m playing with polarity — from very soft to something that puts you out of your comfort zone.

It’s an expression of what it is to try to break new ground, the chaos behind creating new work.” ◀

details ▼ Irving Greines: Portraits (part of the ongoing Urban Wilderness — Chaos Transformed series) & Ysabel LeMay: Gracia ▼ Opening reception 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19; exhibit through Oct. 25 ▼ Gallery talk 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20 ▼ Verve Gallery of Photography, 219 E. Marcy St., 505-982-5009, www.vervegallery.com

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James M. Keller I The New Mexican

Fred Harvey’s lasting influence on American tourism

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Images courtesy Millicent Rogers Museum and the family of Fred Harvey New Mexican

ore than a century after his death, Fred Harvey continues to command such fascination that in New Mexico alone he is the focus of two new museum exhibitions this year. The second will not open until Dec. 7: a show at the New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe titled Setting the Standard: The Fred Harvey Company and Its Legacy, which promises a comprehensive look at a business that left an enduring impact on the American tourism industry. It has been

preceded by an entirely separate exhibition that opened in August at the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos and can be viewed through January 2015: Fred Harvey and the Making of the American West. This show offers a glimpse of the man behind the Harvey Houses by way of rarely seen memorabilia passed down through his family.

Harvey traveled the sort of rags-to-riches trajectory that helped fuel the 19th-century American religion of entrepreneurism. Born in London in 1835, he came to the United States in 1853 and found work as a busboy and pot scrubber at a New York restaurant. He worked his away up in the dining industry and became his own boss when he and a friend established a successful café in St. Louis. That venture came to an uncomfortable end when the Civil War split the partners asunder: Harvey supported the Union, while his friend ran off to fight for the Confederacy. After that debacle, Harvey decided to seek his fortune in the railroad industry, and as he climbed the corporate ladder, he found himself traveling about on trains as part of his job. It didn’t take him long to realize that the intersection of his two fields of expertise — food and railroads — had plenty of room for improvement.

Harvey’s efforts addressing this niche crystallized in a handshake agreement he struck in 1876 with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company that allowed him to open badly needed restaurants at some of the railroad’s depots. It was viewed as a mutually agreeable proposition, and neither party paid the other for the arrangement. The undertaking proved spectacular for both businesses. At its height, the Fred Harvey firm ran 47 Harvey House restaurants (staffed with its famous Harvey Girl waitresses), 15 hotels, and 30 dining cars catering to the hospitality needs of travelers. The Harvey name became synonymous with not only restaurants and hotels but also travel-related publishing, tourist excursions, and vacation souvenirs.

Left, trastero, circa 1900-50, polychrome on wood, design attributed to Mary Colter; right, mixed-wood bench, circa 1920-30, with wool needlework, circa 1890-1910, attributed to Minnie Harvey Huckel

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The ATSF fared just as well through the bargain, gaining a reputation for luxury train travel that was unrivaled in the United States. As late as 1964, we find the famous impresario, designer, and railroad aficionado Merle Armitage proclaiming in his memoir, Merle Armitage’s Accent on Life: “Despite the speed of jet planes, it’s remarkable how many people prefer the service and limitless amenities found only on the great Santa Fe trains. The Super Chief is the train that still carries more celebrities than can be seen in Hollywood or on Fifth Avenue, and the Chief, San Francisco Chief, and Texas Chief are institutions that will hold their own for the foreseeable future.” The future turned out not to have been very foreseeable, but at least the railroad hospitality business had ceased being Fred Harvey’s concern long before then. He died in 1901, leaving the company to be managed by his children and their children. They did so through the mid-1960s, after which operations were assumed by corporations less personally invested in the family brand.

The Millicent Rogers Museum is named after — and, to some extent, spotlights — the socialite, fashion icon, Standard Oil heiress, and Taos resident who was a prominent international fixture from the 1920s through the 1940s. The Fred Harvey enterprise was still enjoying its golden years during that period, which makes the current show a logical fit for the museum. Peter S. Seibert, who became the museum’s executive director two years ago, harbors a long-standing interest in the Harvey business empire. “You can latch onto any part of it and be fascinated,” he said, “whether it’s the business itself, the railroads, the hotels, the Harvey Girls, or the company’s promotion of Native American art. It’s a complex story but a fun one. When I began at the Millicent Rogers Museum, I was introduced to one of the family members, who lives in Santa Fe, and I asked if we could borrow some of the materials that had come down through the generations. Then I lucked into two other private collections of Harvey materials, plus the E. Irving Couse collection here in Taos — and selecting from those provided us with the materials for the show. I like to do shows that include pieces from private collections, pieces that are out of view from the public and that they may not ever see again.”

One of the most striking pieces stands right at the exhibition’s entrance: an ottoman upholstered with needlepoint hand-stitched near the turn of the 20th century by Minnie Harvey Huckel, Fred Harvey’s daughter. The ottoman is described as being in the Spanish Revival style, but one might be tempted to

represent the covering as neo-medieval Victorian, its fanciful embellishments of flora and fauna being realized with impressive refinement. It was Minnie who, shortly after her father’s death, pressed for the company to expand into the market of Indian arts and crafts, which would become one of its signature ventures. The first step in that direction was a display of Indian artworks she installed in the newly opened Harvey hotel in Albuquerque, the Alvarado. This inspires a portion of the exhibit where visitors pass through a couple of small rooms displaying souvenir jewelry manufactured for sale in Harvey outlets — bracelets, pins, pendants, mostly of silver and turquoise, and all lent by the Dennis June Gallery.

(In addition to being a dealer in Scottsdale, June authored a book about such merchandise, Fred Harvey Jewelry: 1900-1955, which was issued by collectibles-oriented Schiffer Publishing in 2013.) Visitors also encounter an assortment of Native American pottery produced for the tourist market, including some pieces by the Hopi-Tewa artist Nampeyo and a group of plates and bowls made around 1920 by renowned San Ildefonso potters Maria and Julián Martinez.

An abundance of published material and ephemera suggests the breadth of what travelers would have encountered on the Harvey circuit and what might have lured cash out of their wallets: books like American Indians: First Families of the Southwest, by son-in-law J.F. Huckel, published by the Harveys in 1926 and sure to turn heads with the vividly contrasting colors of its cover illustration. Playing cards designed by Diego Rivera, also issued by the company and for sale during the 1920s and 1930s in Fred Harvey stores. Calendars illustrated with lithographs reproduced from E. Irving Couse’s paintings of Taos Indians. Tableware (some of it designed

by Mary Colter, Harvey’s staff architect); matchbooks; an ashtray from the Turquoise Room, the Super Chief’s dining car — along with a 1950 Super Chief cookbook that travelers could purchase in hopes of reproducing the Harvey culinary magic at home. A working desk from an ATSF station, standing just as it did during the 1910s, its shelves and cubbyholes packed with tickets, baggage checks, and such giveaways as balloons and chewing gum to delight the younger customers.

The exhibit includes perhaps 150 items, not counting everything that adorns a whooshing small-scale train layout from the 1950s constructed around a miniature Santa Fe Super Chief — the model that today remains the bestseller at Lionel, the beloved toy-train manufacturer in operation since 1900. The show proves most memorable, though, in the personal glimpses it affords visitors through the items that stayed in the family. A couple of these pieces were once used in Santa Fe’s own Harvey hotel, La Fonda: a wooden valence from about 1900 embellished with folk-arty star pendants; a chest from an unknown maker that was decorated by Bruce Cooper (most famous for his tinwork painting) with a leaf motif over a bright green background and that was used at the hotel sometime between the 1920s and ’40s. Museum-goers cannot hope to see again anytime soon a hat owned and worn circa 1950 by Stewart Harvey. A hat is just a hat, to be sure, but this one invites viewers to consider the sort of history that lurks uneasily in even the most flourishing of family trees. A grandson of the patriarch, Stewart flunked out of Yale and worked as a car salesman in Texas before committing to the family business, settling in Santa Fe and serving as a company vice president from the 1940s through the 1960s.

After admiring the breadth of the materials on display, one might return to the first room to take a repeat look at an unsigned miniature watercolor of Fred Harvey himself, a man who capitalized on a business opportunity and changed the face of America. ◀

details ▼ Fred Harvey and the Making of the American West ▼ Exhibit through Jan. 31, 2015 ▼ Open daily 10 a.m.-5 p.m. through Oct. 31; closed Mondays, beginning Nov. 1, and on major holidays, including the Feast of San Geronimo (Sept. 30) ▼ Millicent Rogers Museum, 1504 Millicent Rogers Road, Taos (four miles north of Taos Plaza and one-half mile south of Highway 64) ▼ For more information, call 575-758-2462 or visit www.millicentrogers.org

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ART OF SPACE Paul Weideman

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Meem’s meme: Los Poblanos ighty years ago, John Gaw Meem tied the knot on a singular architectural achievement. With La Quinta at Los Poblanos Ranch in Albuquerque and the Federal Emergency Recovery Act Building (now called the Villagra Building) in Santa Fe, his elaboration of a new style, the Territorial Revival, was fully realized. The form — which modified the dominant Spanish-Pueblo Revival style with sharper corners, brick-coped rooflines, and white-painted wood on portáles, windows, and doors — is named for New Mexico’s territorial era. It was developed following the American takeover of the New Mexico Territory in 1846, when new residents began building a version of the Greek Revival style that had been popular in the East.

In the brick coping for his 1925 house for Ashley Pond in Santa Fe, Meem first employed a touch from that frontier Greek Revival vocabulary. Other stately Santa Fe homes showing further developments of the style include the 1926 house at 614 Acequia Madre St. (designed by Eva Scott Fényes, Leonora Scott Muse Curtin, and Leonora Francis Curtin Paloheimo) and Meem’s 1929 Tilney House on Old Santa Fe Trail.

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But his designs for the FERA and La Quinta commissions in 1934 “purified the style of rustic finishes and Spanish details, instead emphasizing crisp corners, white classical details, and symmetrical compositions,” writes Chris Wilson in Facing Southwest: The Life and Houses of John Gaw Meem.

Territorial Revival — with its tone of earthy, Santa Fe-style formality — soon came to be the preferred form for many of the capital city’s buildings — especially large buildings, and more especially large government buildings. Among them are the 1936 Santa Fe Public Library (Meem), 1937 New Mexico Supreme Court (Gordon Street), the Bataan Memorial Building (a 1951 Willard Kruger remodel of the 1900 state Capitol designed by Isaac Rapp), and a round version of the style: the 1966 state Capitol (Kruger).

Los Poblanos Ranch in the Rio Grande Valley was Meem’s chance to sport his skills in Albuquerque, where he would go on to design nearly three dozen buildings on the University of New Mexico campus. The property record dates back to the Elena Gallegos land grant, circa 1716, and then to owners Ambrosio and Juan Cristobal Armijo in the 19th century. The fate of the property in its modern form was sealed with the marriage of

two members of the U.S. House of Representatives: Albert Gallatin Simms of New Mexico and Ruth Hanna McCormick of Illinois. After purchasing Los Poblanos, Ruth Simms contacted Meem. He added to the existing L-shaped house to provide a full courtyard, which he ringed with portáles. In the center, a blue-tiled, star-shaped fountain was installed. “The older portion of the house retained many colonial details such as multiple fogónes [corner fireplaces], exposed vigas with corbels and lintels above a large double wooden door suggestive of an historic carriage, or zaguan entry,” according to David Kammer’s Buildings Designed by John Gaw Meem, 1925-1959. But the Territorial Revival features “conveyed the Classicism that the Americans brought to New Mexico.”

In 1934, Meem (who was completing his Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and beginning work on the UNM Administration Building) collaborated with Ruth Simms on the design for a cultural center, La Quinta, just south of the house. For the ballroom’s cross-beam ceiling, the designer consulted a 1920 monograph titled Decorated Wooden Ceilings in Spain. continued on Page 49

Bill Tondreau, courtesy Los Poblanos

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Los Poblanos has 20 guest rooms, including some in the old farm buildings that were remodeled in 2011 by the California firm Moule & Polyzoides. Every room has windows and a fire-place. Guests have access to a chlorine-free saltwater pool and can wander the gardens and relax beneath shady portรกles.

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Los Poblanos, continued from Page 46

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“Meem specified that the light California sugar pine [ceiling wood members] be sanded, wire brushed, and carved with New Mexican decorative motifs: a Franciscan cord molding around the perimeter, geometricized Pueblo rain clouds on the underside of the beams, and a herringbone pattern in the decking,” as Wilson describes it. Also part of the La Quinta project were a fine parquet dance floor and Albuquerque’s first swimming pool. There’s a fresco by Peter Hurd, carved doors and mantels by Gustave Baumann, tinwork by Robert Woodman, and ironwork by Walter Gilbert as well as landscape architecture by Rose Greely. Exhibitions were frequently staged in the building’s art gallery; today it boasts more than a dozen Laura Gilpin photographs of the property and framed Meem renderings.

A lecture series initiated in 1937 brought literary celebrities like Thornton Wilder and Elmer Rice.

Los Poblanos was the original home of Creamland Dairies, boasting a herd of Holsteins (from Ruth) and Guernseys (from Albert), and it was also an experimental farm — for example, cultivating sugar-beet seeds with the optimistic idea of ending American dependence on imported sugar beets. The greenhouse was used to develop new varieties of roses and chrysanthemums. Education was also important to the couple, who were founders of Manzano Day School, Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque Academy, and Albuquerque Little Theatre.

Penny and Armin Rembe purchased Los Poblanos in two phases, in 1976 and 1999. (The Rembes also own the José Dolores Garcia House at 533 Garcia St., one of the oldest homes in Santa Fe’s Eastside neighborhood.)

In 2004, son Matthew Rembe became executive director at Los Poblanos, and he has since added guest rooms and fine dining and expanded the lavender-products business. Nearly 3 acres of lavender are cultivated on the property; between those fields and the inn is a big lotus pond. ( July is a great time to visit. That’s when the lotuses bloom and the lavender is harvested.) The lavender is distilled for essential oil that’s used in a line of products available in the Farm Shop housed in one of the old dairy buildings. Most popular are the lavender salve and lotion; these are also sold at other retailers, including the A Store in Nob Hill and J.Crew.

Los Poblanos has 20 guest rooms, including some in the old farm buildings that were remodeled in 2011 by the California firm Moule & Polyzoides. Every room has windows and a fireplace. Guests have access to a chlorinefree saltwater sunning pool and can wander the gardens and relax beneath shady portáles.

Inside, the public spaces have comfortable seating, including in Meem’s alcoves with window seats, which often elegantly disguise radiators.

Los Poblanos serves dinner, by reservation, Wednesdays through Sundays, as well as daily breakfasts for guests. The kitchen makes full use of an on-site organic farm and honey from bees kept by Armin Rembe. The head chef is Jonathan Perno, a New Mexico native and 2014 James Beard Foundation Award semifinalist for best chef in the Southwest. Also on staff are Nancy Kinyanjui of Nairobi, Kenya, who is director of hospitality and sustainability, and Fergus Whitney, a native of Leitrim, Ireland, who is farm manager. Crops are flood-irrigated from acequias off the Rio Grande a quarter-mile to the west. ◀

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A FREE SYMPOSIUM in honor of the new exhibit Painting the Divine: Images of Mary in the New World SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 8:30 am – 5 pm SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 9 am – 4 pm Learn from leading scholars on Spanish colonial devotional art, hear Renaissance music and take a peek into La Conquistadora’s closet during a special tour at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi. Come for a little or stay both days.

Full schedule at our website; click on the Painting the Divine image.

This event is free thanks to the generous support of the New Mexico Humanities Council, the Consulate of Mexico in Albuquerque, and Roberta and Dick Huber.

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a fullish slate of violence here, but none of it feels gratuitous, and Lehane’s needle-sharp dialogue plays like a constant bass note through the deadpan deliveries of the excellent cast. Rated R. 106 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. ( Jonathan Richards) See review, Page 58.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS After a breakup, Jenny (Anna Kendrick) moves into the tiki bar in her older brother’s basement in Chicago. She drinks, dates, and grows closer to her sister-in-law. The script is entirely improvised, which works well in discrete scenes and less so when you consider the movie as a whole. Performances by Kendrick, Joe Swanberg (who also wrote and directed), Melanie Lynskey, and Lena Dunham are solid, but the plot flounders without much momentum or depth.

Rated R. 88 minutes. The Screen, Santa Fe. ( Jennifer Levin) See review, Page 60.

Christoph Waltz and Mélanie Thierry in The Zero Theorem, at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe

opening this week BECKETT ON FILM When Michael Colgan, artistic director of Dublin’s Gate Theatre, and Alan Moloney decided to capture Samuel Beckett’s repertoire on film, they rounded up an impressive collection of movie and stage directors and stars. The second season of the Beckett cycle will be shown in free screenings at 11 a.m. on Sundays in September, with free admission courtesy of the Lannan Foundation.

Breath and Waiting for Godot screen Sunday, Sept. 21, only. Not rated. Running times vary.

The Screen, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) COPENHAGEN A young American (Gethin Anthony) is researching his family’s lineage in Denmark and going through a personal crisis until a young woman (Frederikke Dahl Hansen) comes along and helps him with both.

This indie drama stretches its material a bit further than it can go, but it’s made engaging by the photography of the city, the unusual dynamic between the two leads, and the charm of the central actors — one of whom (Anthony, best known for Game of Thrones) will be at the 6:10 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 24, screening

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along with director Mark Raso. Not rated. 98 minutes.

Jean Cocteau Cinema, Santa Fe. (Robert Ker) THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY: THEM Writer and director Ned Benson attempts to shake up the stale rom-com genre by telling the typical story — in which a couple (Jessica Chastain, who plays the title character, and James McAvoy) meet cute, fall in love, and then grow apart — from both the man’s and the woman’s perspective. Each character gets a separate film treatment later this year (which may or may not screen in Santa Fe), but this one edits them both together. Not rated. 122 minutes.

Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) THE DROP The feature-film farewell tour of James Gandolfini ends with his sharply honed performance as a small-time Brooklyn hood in this taut, subtle, and satisfying drama from crime writer Dennis Lehane and Belgian director Michaël R. Roskam. Gandolfini plays Cousin Marv, the former owner of a Brooklyn bar that still bears his name but has been taken over

by Chechen mobsters. The bar now doubles as a “drop” — a depository and laundry for mob earnings.

The dominant performance in this darkly funny, slyly creepy tale comes from Tom Hardy, the British actor who plays Bob, Marv’s cousin and bartender. There’s

A LETTER TO MOMO In the wake of her father’s death and shortly after her mother moves her to a remote island, eleven-yearold Momo passes her time getting to know the local kids and trying to puzzle out what her dad wanted to say with an unfinished letter that simply reads, “Dear Momo.” Soon, strange spirits enter her life and help solve the mystery. The colorful pastoral artwork of this anime film is beautiful enough that you can let yourself behold it and fall into reverie. The story, however, isn’t as enthralling. The plot makes some interesting turns, but they take too long to come, and the central concept — of a lonely, sad girl who makes some supernatural friends — has been overdone in anime. Not rated. 120 minutes. In Japanese with subtitles. Jean Cocteau Cinema, Santa Fe. (Robert Ker) THE MAZE RUNNER The latest young-adult-novel series to work its way through the labyrinthine twists and turns from author’s pen to silver screen is this story about a boy named Thomas (Dylan O’Brien), who wakes up in a giant maze with some other boys, none of whom remember their lives before. One day, a girl (Kaya Scodelario) appears. Thomas can read her thoughts, and there’s one they share: “Let’s get the heck out of here!” Rated PG-13. 113 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española.

(Not reviewed) THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU Jason Bateman plays a man who discovers his wife is having an affair with his boss and then learns his father has died. Per his father’s final request, he must sit shiva and stay in his childhood home with his siblings (Tina Fey, Adam Driver, and Corey Stoll), all of whom have their own issues to work through, for a week. Together they learn that life is unpredictable and should be savored

and that family means a whole lot. Rated R. 103 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed) TUSK Filmmaker Kevin Smith successfully transitioned to horror with 2011’s Red State, and now he gets all weird with his newfound genre. Justin Long plays a podcaster who travels to rural Manitoba to interview an old man (Michael Parks), who then captures him and plans to genetically transform him into a walrus. An all-grown-up Haley Joel Osment co-stars. Rated R. 102 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES In 1987’s Lethal Weapon, Danny Glover famously said of action and gunfights, “I’m too old for this [stuff].” Liam Neeson is much older now than Glover was then, and he’s only getting warmed up. Here he plays an ex-cop who is hired by a drug kingpin to get revenge on the men who murdered his wife. Rated R. 113 minutes.

Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) THE ZERO THEOREM A scarily stunning visual environment — melding crumbling Art Nouveau architecture and the aesthetics of a Facebook newsfeed as filtered through Times Square — isn’t enough to lift Terry Gilliam’s new dystopian fantasy out of conventionality. Qohen Leth (Christoph Waltz) is a high-level “number cruncher” in a cubicle where work is a cross between playing a video game and going to the gym. Though acting performances are solid, Gilliam doesn’t distinguish between archetypes and individuals, so it’s hard to know what the point of the story is. Anyone already alarmed by the growing technological takeover of society won’t find anything new here. Rated R. 107 minutes. Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. ( Jennifer Levin)

now in theaters AS ABOVE, SO BELOW Some crazy kids who have done some really bad things are exploring the catacombs beneath Paris when they come across something supernatural. Pretty soon they find themselves haunted by their pasts. Rated R. 93 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed) BOYHOOD Richard Linklater’s extraordinary achievement has been to take one boy, a six-year-old named Ellar Coltrane, and film him for a few days every year

for a dozen years. He wrote each screenplay segment based on talks with his cast, which includes Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette as the boy’s parents.

We watch as the boy grows up and makes his way safely through childhood’s adventures and discoveries: his limbs lengthen, his cheeks hollow, his mind grows, his heart breaks and mends, and he arrives on the brink of young adulthood as the movie ends.

It’s not just that 12 real years pass and Linklater holds the whole thing together. It’s the way it happens, the way he tells the story. It’s a life. Rated R. 166 minutes. Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. ( Jonathan Richards) CALVARY On a Saturday in a small church in the west of Ireland, Father James (Brendan Gleeson) listens in the confessional as a parishioner describes his repeated sexual abuse as a child by a now-deceased priest. The man then promises to kill Father James the following Sunday, to execute a good priest as retribution for the sins of the bad one. Writer-director John Michael McDonagh (The Guard) salts his tragicomic pyramid of weighted metaphor and indelible characters with a soundtrack of keenly appropriate vintage music.

Gleeson is magnificent, and the supporting cast is scarcely less so. This is a concept with many facets and a ground strewn with mines, and it makes a terrific movie. Rated R. 100 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. ( Jonathan Richards) CHEF Writer-director Jon Favreau stars as Carl Casper, an L.A. chef with a successful restaurant and a failed marriage. Carl gets into a war of words with a critic (Oliver Platt); loses his job; and with the help of his ex-wife (Sofia Vergara), her ex (Robert Downey Jr.), and an amiable line cook ( John Leguizamo) heads to Miami with his son (Emjay Anthony), hoping to start over.

Rated R. 114 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. (Laurel Gladden) DOLPHIN TALE 2 Nathan Gamble, Ashley Judd, Kris Kristofferson, Morgan Freeman, and Rufus the Pelican return for this sequel to the 2011 hit. This time, one of the dolphins’ names is Hope. As with the first film, the plot is based on true rescue stories from Florida’s Clearwater Marine Aquarium; in that respect, let’s hope there are many sequels to come.

Rated PG. 107 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed) EXPEDITION TO THE END OF THE WORLD This documentary by SwedishDanish director Daniel Dencik chronicles a contemporary research expedition to the remote extremes of northeast Greenland. Those aboard the

three-masted schooner include scientists from a wide range of disciplines, with a few strong-willed artists thrown in for variety’s sake. Miraculously, everyone gets along. Less about the research and the participants’ résumés than their thoughts on life, the film is often profound, occasionally stilted, and always visually stunning, thanks to the jagged beauty of the Arctic backdrop. In English and Danish with subtitles. Not rated. 90 minutes. The Screen, Santa Fe. (Loren Bienvenu) FRANK Jon Burroughs (Domhnall Gleeson) is an aspiring songwriter who can’t overcome his own mediocrity, so he joins a tumultuous band led by a genius (Michael Fassbender) who wears a papier-mâché head at all times. As the band works for many months on a record, director Lenny Abrahamson exhaustively explores the process of creation and the question “Do you need to have a tortured past to be a brilliant artist?” The result is a thoughtful and moving film that utilizes deadpan wit and is frequently chuckleout-loud funny. Rated R. 95 minutes. Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. (Robert Ker) THE GIVER Lois Lowry’s 1993 children’s novel was widely read and won a Newbery Medal. The story — about a boy named Jonas (Brenton Thwaites) who lives in a dystopian future and learns the value of free will — has finally come to life in theaters. Jeff Bridges plays the wisdom-bestowing title character, and Meryl Streep plays the chief elder, who opposes Jonas’ awakening. Rated PG-13. 97 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) GOD HELP THE GIRL This movie, written and directed by Stuart Murdoch, the lead singer of Belle & Sebastian, has the potential to be annoyingly twee and self-involved but is actually pretty good. A young musician with anorexia nervosa meets two other young musicians in a coming-of-age story that never quite devolves into predictability. Murdoch integrates his Scottish indiepop sensibility with the genre of musical theater.

The three lead actors — Emily Browning, Olly Alexander, and Hannah Murray — deliver excellent performances. Not rated. 111 minutes. Jean Cocteau Cinema, Santa Fe. ( Jennifer Levin) GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY The best film yet from Marvel Entertainment is this satisfying space opera, which injects much-missed fun back into the science-fiction genre. Chris Pratt plays Star-Lord, the leader of a gang of intergalactic misfits and outlaws continued on Page 54

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that includes a talking raccoon and a tree (voiced

by Bradley Cooper and Vin Diesel, respectively).

They learn to overcome their differences and become unlikely friends, just in time to guard the galaxy.

Great music, loads of heart, a superb cast, and a healthy dose of irreverence and humor overshadow even the wild special effects and the intricate world building. Rated PG-13. 121 minutes. Screens in 3-D and 2-D at Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe. Screens in 2-D only at DreamCatcher, Española. (Robert Ker) THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY This movie hits many of the check marks for art-house cinema: it takes place in France, it involves a restaurant, the plot centers on cross-cultural understanding, Lasse Hallström (Chocolat) directs, and Helen Mirren is prominently involved. She plays a restaurateur who must learn to coexist with the Indian family that sets up an eatery across the street. Rated PG. 122 minutes.

Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) IF I STAY Mia (Chloë Grace Moretz) is a teenage cello prodigy who has a shot at getting into Juilliard and starting a new romance with an indie-rock heartthrob (Jamie Blackley). But then she and her family are in a car accident, and she is the only survivor. Now in a coma, Mia has an out-of-body experience that informs her “decision” to live or die. Rated PG-13.

106 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed) LET’S BE COPS Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. play two losers who decide to dress up as cops for a costume party. They enjoy the illusion of authority so much they decide to keep the charade going for as long as they can. When they end up having to fight actual bad guys, they realize they may have taken it a bit too far. Rated R. 104 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed) LUCY Scarlett Johansson is Lucy, a woman who works as a drug mule until an experimental drug leaks into her body and unleashes the full potential of her brain. What does she do with this power? It’s never quite clear, but it is compelling. Director Luc Besson balances stylish action with goofy pseudoscience about evolution

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and the brain’s capacity, but it all blends together in a movie that is original and highly unpredictable.

Morgan Freeman also stars. Rated R. 90 minutes.

Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe. (Robert Ker) MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT In Woody Allen’s latest, Colin Firth is Stanley, a celebrated English illusionist who travels the world and astounds audiences. He’s also a committed debunker of charlatans, so when an old friend (Simon McBurney) asks him to help expose a young medium (Emma Stone), Stanley accepts the challenge. Allen may not have a soft spot for psychics, but he does understand the magic of romance. He knows that rigid rationality isn’t everything and that only a fool would reject the possibility that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in his philosophy. Rated PG-13. 97 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. ( Jonathan Richards) A MOST WANTED MAN Nobody did rumpled like the late, lamented Philip Seymour Hoffman, who haunts this movie as German intelligence officer Günther Bachmann in John le Carré’s Hamburg-set spy tale of honorable people working in a dishonorable world.

The time restrictions of feature-length films don’t do justice to le Carré’s plotting, but director Anton Corbijn moves the story efficiently. The film never achieves white-knuckle excitement, but it manages good storytelling and has a solid cast. Rated R. 121 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. ( Jonathan Richards) NO GOOD DEED Idris Elba trades on his charm to play Colin Evans, a fugitive who’s wanted for severely abusing and murdering women. When he’s in a car accident and stranded in a rural area, a mother (Taraji P. Henson) who’s home alone with her daughter takes him in. What happens next will be a fun time at the movies! Rated PG-13. 84 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed) THE NOVEMBER MAN Pierce Brosnan gets back in the spy game to play Peter Devereaux, an old hand who’s called out of retirement to protect a gorgeous witness (Olga Kurylenko). When the CIA sics Devereaux’s most talented protégé (Luke Bracey) on him, a globe-trotting game of cat and mouse ensues.

Rated R. 108 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) THE ONE I LOVE Ethan (Mark Duplass) and Sophie (Elisabeth Moss) are sent off for a couple’s weekend by their marriage counselor (Ted Danson), and their getaway quickly takes a turn for the surreal. What they are meant to discover about themselves and each other remains a mystery, but this highly original movie

doesn’t play tricks on the audience, even as it becomes more complex. Duplass and Moss have excellent chemistry and turn in nuanced, convincing performances. Rated R. 91 minutes. Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. ( Jennifer Levin) TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Back in 1990, the TMNT craze hit its apex among Generation Y with the reptilian quartet’s first movie, in which the leads were brought to life through Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. Michael Bay produced this comeback movie, which animates the turtles using computers and gives their latest bout with Shredder the overthe-top action treatment. Rated PG-13. 101 minutes.

Screens in 2-D only at Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe, and DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed) THE TRIP TO ITALY Director Michael Winterbottom’s follow-up to 2010’s The Trip is nearly identical in plot but set in Italy, providing ample opportunity to take in stunning vistas and, as before, sumptuous meals — laughing all the way. On their second outing as food reviewers, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, playing fictional versions of themselves, reverse roles; this time Coogan is the more settled of the two. The improvised tête-à-têtes and (mostly) spot-on impersonations that made the first film a delight haven’t changed. Not rated. 108 minutes.

The Screen, Santa Fe. (Michael Abatemarco) WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL This movie, “based on actual events,” is about a team that went from obscurity to winning 151 games straight. The story centers on the personalities and the many challenges they faced. Jim Caviezel and Laura Dern star. Rated PG. 115 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed)

other screenings Center for Contemporary Arts, 505-982-1338 Exists; Life in New Mexico Media Project; Citizens Climate Lobby’s Sustainable Sunday presents Pump, with co-director Josh Tickell by Skype; The Wind, silent film with live music by The Invincible Czars.

Jean Cocteau Cinema, 505-466-5528 Bullitt (1968); The Company of Wolves (1984); Dead Poets Society (1989); Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004).

Regal Stadium 14, 505-424-6296 Box Trolls in 2-D and 3-D; Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964); The Equalizer. ◀

WHAT’S SHOWING Call theaters or check websites to confirm screening times.

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1050 Old Pecos Trail, 505-982-1338, www.ccasantafe.org Boyhood (R) Fri. and Sat. 12:30 p.m., 4:15 p.m., 7:30 p.m. Sun. 4:15 p.m., 7:30 p.m. Mon. and Tue. 5 p.m. Wed. and Thurs. 2:15 p.m., 5 p.m.

Exists (R) Thurs. 8:15 p.m.

Frank (R) Fri. 11:45 a.m., 6 p.m. Sat. 6 p.m.

Sun. 11:45 a.m., 6 p.m. Mon. to Thurs. 5:30 p.m., 8:15 p.m.

Life in New Mexico Media Project (NR) Sat. 11:30 a.m.

The One I Love (R) Fri. to Sun. 3:45 p.m.

Pump (PG) Sun. 12:30 p.m.

The Wind (NR) Thurs. 7 p.m.

The ZeroTheorem (R) Fri. to Sun. 1:45 p.m., 8 p.m.

Mon. and Tue. 7:45 p.m. Wed. 2:45 p.m., 7:45 p.m.

Thurs. 2:45 p.m.

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418 Montezuma Avenue, 505-466-5528 Bullitt (PG) Thurs. 6 p.m.

The Company of Wolves (R) Fri. and Sat. 8:40 p.m.

Sun. 9:20 p.m.

Copenhagen (NR) Wed. 6:10 p.m.

Dead Poets Society (PG) Mon. 8 p.m.

Tue. 8:30 p.m. Wed. 3:30 p.m. Thurs. 3 p.m.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (R) Fri. and Sat. 11 p.m.

God Help the Girl (NR) Fri. to Sun. 4 p.m.

A Letter to Momo (NR) Fri. and Sat. 6:20 p.m.

Sun. 1:40 p.m. Tue. 6:10 p.m. Wed. and Thurs.

8:30 p.m.

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562 N. Guadalupe St., 505-988-2775, www.fandango.com Calvary (R) Fri. to Thurs. 1:20 p.m., 7:20 p.m.

Chef (R) Fri. to Thurs. 1:40 p.m.

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby:Them (R) Fri. and Sat. 1 p.m., 3:50 p.m., 6:50 p.m., 9:50 p.m.

Sun. to Thurs. 1 p.m., 3:50 p.m., 6:50 p.m.

The Drop (R) Fri. and Sat. 1:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 10:05 p.m. Sun. to Thurs. 1:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m.

The Hundred-Foot Journey (PG) Fri. and Sat. 1:05 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m., 9:50 p.m. Sun. to Thurs.

1:05 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m.

Magic in the Moonlight (PG-13) Fri. and Sat. 4:40 p.m., 7:40 p.m., 10:05 p.m. Sun. to Thurs.

4:40 p.m., 7:40 p.m.

A Most Wanted Man (R) Fri. and Sat. 4:20 p.m., 9:45 p.m. Sun. to Thurs. 4:20 p.m.

Tusk (R) Fri. and Sat. 1:15 p.m., 4:15 p.m., 7:15 p.m., 9:50 p.m. Sun. to Thurs. 1:15 p.m., 4:15 p.m., 7:15 p.m.

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3474 Zafarano Drive, 505-424-6296, www.fandango.com As Above, So Below (R) Fri. to Tue. 10:05 p.m.

Wed. 10:35 p.m.

The Boxtrolls 3D (PG) Thurs. 9 p.m., 10 p.m.

The Boxtrolls (PG) Thurs. 7 p.m., 9:30 p.m.

Dolphin Tale 2 (PG) Fri. to Wed. 12 p.m., 2:35 p.m., 5:10 p.m., 7:45 p.m., 10:20 p.m.

Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (PG) Sun. 2 p.m. Wed. 2 p.m.,

7 p.m.

The Equalizer (R) Thurs. 7:10 p.m., 10:15 p.m.

The Giver (PG-13) Fri. to Wed. 12:30 p.m.,

2:55 p.m., 5:25 p.m., 7:55 p.m., 10:15 p.m.

Guardians of the Galaxy 3D (PG-13) Fri. and Sat.

1:05 p.m., 4:10 p.m., 7:15 p.m. Sun. 7:15 p.m.

Mon. and Tue. 1:05 p.m., 4:10 p.m., 7:15 p.m.

Guardians of the Galaxy (PG-13) Fri. to Wed.

1:30 p.m., 4:40 p.m., 7:35 p.m., 10:20 p.m.

If I Stay (PG-13) Fri. to Wed. 12:15 p.m., 2:40 p.m.,

5:15 p.m., 7:45 p.m., 10:20 p.m.

Let’s Be Cops (R) Fri. to Wed. 1:25 p.m., 4:15 p.m.,

7 p.m., 9:50 p.m.

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Jimmy Santiago Baca Theaterwork and Catamount Films present the world premiere of "A Place to Stand," a documentary about celebrated poet and NM native Jimmy Santiago Baca. The following events will be presented: Poetry Reading: Natalie Diaz, Jaime Chavez, Seema Reza, Tim Hernandez, Carlton Spiller September 25 @ 7pm Gala Premiere of "A Place to Stand" September 26 @ 7 pm Before the screening WISE FOOL New Mexico is appearing in a celebratory parade outside the theater and Bel Canto Singers from Santa Fe High School will be performing.

Matinee Screening of "A Place to Stand" September 27 @ 2 pm followed by Q&A with Jimmy Santiago Baca, and film makers Daniel Glick and Gabriel Baca.

Staged readings, Poems of Jimmy Santiago Baca by New Mexico Actors September 27 @ 7pm Dust/Rock/Blades/Bones:An exhibition of drawings by Eric Christo Martinez. 9/25 - 27 At the James A. Little Theater, Santa Fe, New Mexio. There is no set admission fee. Donations accepted to support distribution of the film to schools and prisons. Reservations are recommended for Friday night. website: www.theaterwork.org; Phone: (505) 471-1799; email: pmolson@cybermesa.com Made possible in part by The McCune Foundation; New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and friends of Theaterwork and Catamount Films.

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MOVING IMAGES film reviews Still barkeeps run deep Jonathan Richards I For The New Mexican The Drop, crime drama, rated R, Regal De Vargas, 3.5 chiles The feature-film farewell tour of James Gandolfini ends with his sharply honed performance as a smalltime Brooklyn hood in The Drop, a taut, subtle, and satisfying drama from the pen of crime writer Dennis Lehane, directed by Belgian director Michaël R. Roskam (2012 foreign language Oscar nomination for Bullhead). It’s Gandolfini in the ghettoized world from which his physical type seldom allowed him to escape, but it’s a good parting shot from this excellent actor, who paints his character with delicate strokes on an oversize canvas.

Gandolfini plays Cousin Marv, the former owner of a Brooklyn bar that still bears his name but has been taken over by Chechen mobsters. The capo of this vicious outfit is a silky serpent named Chovka (Michael Aronov). And Cousin Marv’s, while it still operates as the local watering hole for the scruffy denizens of the neighborhood who gather to nurse shots and grievances, rub elbows, drown sorrows, and toast the departed, now doubles as a “drop” — one of a network of sleazy neighborhood joints that serve as depository and laundry for mob earnings.

Marv lives with his sister (Ann Dowd) in a cluttered little house. She dreams of travel to Europe. Marv looks at her blankly. His dreams are of a more twisted, less romantic stripe. But the dominant performance in this darkly funny, slyly creepy tale comes from Tom Hardy, the British actor who made a stunning impression as the sole occupant of the screen in this year’s alone-in-a-car drama, Locke. Here Hardy plays Bob, Cousin Marv’s cousin and the guy behind the bar at Marv’s. Bob is quiet, often to the point of near-

I’m just sayin’: James Gandolfini in his final role as Cousin Marv

muteness, but Hardy infuses his mumbling deliveries with a persuasive Brooklyn flavor. There is a lot about his presence here that reminds the viewer of Terry Malloy, Marlon Brando’s coulda-been-a-contender character in On the Waterfront.

Things get complicated for Marv and silent Bob when a couple of cheap crooks knock over the bar and take the accumulated loot. As it turns out not to be drop night at Cousin Marv’s, the till has only $5,000. But the Chechens still want the money back. The crooks were wearing Halloween masks, and there was nothing about them to recognize except for a broken watch, a detail that Bob lets slip. And of course, in a story like this, any detail worth mentioning comes with consequences.

Successful movies, including Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone, have been made from Lehane’s books, but this is his first screenplay, adapted from his short story Animal Rescue. Lehane is a writer deeply identified with the Boston area, and both the story and the novel he later fashioned from his screenplay are set in those parts. The movie migrated to Brooklyn. Go figure.

Puppy love: Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace with one of the five dogs playing Rocco

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The animal rescued is a cute pit bull pup. On his way home from the bar late one night, Bob hears a whining sound from a garbage can. He investigates and finds the dog, bloodied and abused, but still ticking. He adopts the dog and names him Rocco after the saint of the same name, and Rocco serves as a totem for innocence in a tale otherwise steeped in anything but. Bob winds up sharing custody of Rocco with Nadia (Noomi Rapace, the original Girl With the Dragon Tattoo), a pretty Russian immigrant whose garbage can was the drop for the injured dog.

There’s a fullish slate of violence in The Drop, but none of it feels gratuitous, even when Bob finds himself matter-of-factly wrapping a severed body part in foil and plastic wrap. Bob is a still water, but as the movie goes on we begin to suspect that he runs pretty deep. So does Detective Torres ( John Ortiz), the cop who investigates the robbery at Marv’s and other assorted incidents, one of which is a disappearance that stretches back a number of years. Popular wisdom has it that the victim was done in by a guy named Deeds (Matthias Schoenaerts), who turns out to be the psychotic ex-boyfriend of Nadia. Torres has his work cut out for him, especially in a neighborhood where giving information to cops is a form of communication not much practiced. The detective attends the same Catholic church as Bob, a church slated to be taken over by developers, and turned, Torres predicts, into “condos with stained-glass windows.”

The humor in this movie is not overt. But Lehane’s needle-sharp dialogue plays like a constant bass note through the deadpan deliveries of this cadre of excellent actors. Of the principals, the only one who might legitimately come from Cousin Marv’s neighborhood is Marv himself, Gandolfini. Rapace is Swedish, Schoenaerts is Belgian, and Hardy is a Londoner. But you would never know it.

There’s a bittersweet note to this final curtain in Gandolfini’s career, but the real takeaway from this movie is the great work by Hardy. ◀

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MOVING IMAGES film reviews Homies for the holidays Jennifer Levin I The New Mexican Happy Christmas, improvisational dramedy, rated R, The Screen, 2.5 chiles After going through a breakup, Jenny (Anna Kendrick) moves into her older brother’s basement on the north side of Chicago. The brother, Jeff, is played by Joe Swanberg, who also wrote and directed this film. Jeff is a filmmaker, and his wife, Kelly (Melanie Lynskey), is a writer with a novel under her belt. A new mother, she lacks the time and focus to work on her next one.

The couple has a two-year-old son, Jude, who is played

by Swanberg’s real-life son of the same name. The father-son scenes feature some of the best acting by a child in cinematic history. Happy Christmas was shot without a traditional script and depends entirely upon improvisation. Jude is a naturally gregarious kid who seems to enjoy playing off his dad and the other actors.

Jenny’s friend Carson (Lena Dunham) is similarly outgoing, making her a natural for this kind of acting.

The film is in the “mumblecore” genre of independent films, which are shot on very small budgets and often use amateur actors who improvise off a screenplay that more closely resembles an outline.

The script might indicate that two characters have a conversation in a certain room; sometimes, but not always, they are given a topic of conversation. In this genre, character development and lifelike interactions supersede story lines. The term mumblecore comes from critics, who have pointed out that the naturalistic dialogue in these films is typically peppered with ums and uhs and can often be difficult to hear, and it isn’t necessarily embraced by the genre’s practitioners.

But it has stuck nonetheless, even as the method has matured and become more nuanced. Happy Christmas features experienced actors who are adept at impro-

The doubtful guest: Anna Kendrick

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Love will keep us together: Melanie Lynskey and Joe Swanberg

visation. In contrast to many of these movies (Quiet City, Funny Ha Ha, and Mutual Appreciation are some earlier examples), there is also a semblance of a plot.

Ostensibly, the story is about the way that Jenny puts a spark back in Kelly’s writing life by urging her to take time for herself and then joining her and Carson in a somewhat risqué writing project, which is the basis for many of the funnier scenes. The more serious plotline is Jenny’s self-destructive streak and how it’s affecting those around her now that she, at twenty-seven, is getting too old for her behavior to be considered a “phase” or the least bit adorable.

Kendrick is a bit of a cipher in the role, which would have been an effective starting point if she had had the opportunity to change. Change doesn’t require hitting bottom and becoming a better person, but it does require a character to have forward momentum, and some sort of self-awareness must enter the story.

Jenny starts seeing Jeff and Kelly’s friend Kevin (Mark Webber). Kevin seems like an easygoing guy — and he has excellent taste in music — but when he’s insistent about just one very reasonable thing, it sends Jenny off the deep end. Her inability to take criticism, rejection, or even mild disappointment is well portrayed, but since there are basically no consequences for what happens, despite a series of very powerful scenes, it feels like watching a talented actress showcase a deeply flawed character in one of her acting classes. Kendrick plays depressed and addicted with an awareness of the dissociation made possible by technology. Almost never fully present in a room, she stares at her laptop screen while others talk.

The movie was shot in Chicago, and the city is shown on a human scale — residential neighborhoods and real Chicago-style apartments are the locales rather than high-rise condos and dramatic skyline backdrops. Kevin’s apartment is basically undecorated; you get the idea that it might be cold in his living room. Jeff and Kelly have bought a house whose previous owner rehabbed the basement into a tiki bar. This is where Jenny lives. In a marvelous brother-sister scene, Jeff asks Jenny what it’s like to live in his basement and whether it feels like a cave. The question goes unanswered.

Happy Christmas is a series of discrete scenes that are more like little plays (or filmed acting exercises) than a complete movie. If you appreciate experimental storytelling, this may be enough to satisfy the moviegoer in you. The improvisational process is obvious.

When the actors are less successful in a given scene, it can feel like a painful night of amateur theater as they strain to remember their lines and look at each other knowingly — the equivalent of looking directly at the camera and shrugging. But here the actors are engaging enough to elicit audience empathy. Perhaps this is deliberate on the part of Swanberg: his film becomes an unusually interactive viewing experience. Even as one scene makes you roll your eyes, you know a solid, moving scene will come along again soon, giving you a stake in the story’s outcome.

In the end, Happy Christmas has no big finish, no emotional payoff. There’s no sense of the future. It’s as if Christmas, because it’s in the title, is the implicit ending, and that has to be enough. ◀

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RESTAURANT REVIEW Laurel Gladden I For The New Mexican

The trip to bountiful

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The Short Order Some of the food at La Merienda at Los Poblanos — the historic 25-acre farm and inn in Albuquerque’s North Valley — is nearly perfect. Nestled on a corner of the inn’s hacienda-style courtyard, the neat, impeccably maintained dining room has a sophisticated rusticity to it, boasting the classic architectural elements for which New Mexico and the inn’s architect, John Gaw Meem, are famous. Service is knowledgeable, gracious, polite, and professional. Executive chef Jonathan Perno, a native New Mexican and James Beard Award semifinalist, oversees the planting and harvesting of some of the foods used in his kitchen, which means that a lot of what ends up on your plate is about as fresh as you can get.

Recommended: watermelon salad, cheese plate, pork belly, tagliatelle, berry tart, and “peaches & cream.”

Ratings range from 1 to 5 chiles, including half chiles.

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Heads up, Santa Fe restaurants. Of the half-dozen best meals I’ve eaten in recent memory, only two were in Santa Fe — and those were from a taco truck. Luckily, two others were served by a restaurant not far off: La Merienda at Los Poblanos, the historic 25-acre farm and inn in Albuquerque’s North Valley.

La Merienda is nestled on the northwest corner of the inn’s hacienda-style courtyard, with its flowering vines and burbling Moorish fountain. The dining room has a sophisticated rusticity to it — boasting the classic architectural elements for which New Mexico and the inn’s architect, John Gaw Meem, are famous — and it’s clean, neat, and impeccably maintained. Service is as knowledgeable, gracious, polite, and professional as in Santa Fe’s highest-end establishments. A brilliant peacock might parade by a window — or your table, if you’re lucky enough to secure one on the patio. As you stroll back to your car, you might see a frilly white peahen roosting in one of the towering cottonwood trees.

A simple salad — watermelon, feta, mint chimichurri, and speck — introduced us to the superiority of La Merienda’s kitchen. The jewel-like fruit was ideally ripe and juicy; the snowy cheese crumbly and saline; the sauce both refreshingly brisk and tinglingly spicy; and the thinly sliced meat creamily fatty and mouthwateringly salty. It was practically a perfect dish. To test their consistency, we ordered the salad again on a subsequent visit. The kitchen had substituted jewel melon — similar in color to a honeydew but in texture to a pear. The ingredients may have changed, but their quality and the balance of flavors hadn’t.

Slightly less successful was the oddly named bean salad. True, there were bias-cut bean pods tossed with crisp cucumber and a creamy dill dressing, but the real attraction was the glorious trio of thick, über-fresh, ruby-red tomato slices, on which the beans were piled. The dressing was an alkaline counterpoint to the vegetal acidity, but it was too sweet, and the dish lacked salt — something its occasional black olives couldn’t fix.

Los Poblanos is a farm, and while it can’t supply the kitchen entirely, executive chef Jonathan Perno, a native New Mexican and 2014 James Beard Award semifinalist, oversees the planting and harvesting of some of the foods he uses, which means that a lot of what ends up on your plate is about as fresh as it gets in a restaurant. Figs are among the foods grown on-site; the ones topping crostini along with caramelized shallots, chèvre, and honey were ripe to the point of being cloying and overly soft. Better was the well-considered cheese plate.

A variety of house-made crackers are offered with a tangy goat cheese and a sweet-and-spicy green-chile jam, a buffalo-milk blue paired with apple butter, and Gouda beside a slab of Los Poblanos honeycomb.

A word to the wise if you plan to order the rib-eye: La Merienda serves grass-fed beef, which means this steak lacks the characteristic fatty marbling, may be somewhat tougher, and has a distinctive taste that is, frankly, grassier. The custom cut, one our server described as “an eye of rib-eye,” makes the steak seem more like a filet mignon; that’s not a bad thing, of course, provided you know what you’re getting in advance. The steak has a lovely aromatic herb crust, is

accompanied by a gorgeous hunk of heirloom tomato, and is topped with trendy fried pickle spears. You’ll have to set the pickles aside to cut into your steak, but be careful not to let them drown in the overabundant sauces that cover your plate.

The tagliatelle is the epitome of a summertime pasta dish, ideally al dente house-made noodles tossed with a sauce of mellow roasted garlic and minimally cooked bright-red tomatoes along with garden-fresh herbs and thin shavings of pecorino. Equally approachable but less exciting was the moist but snoozily mild chicken roulade. The miraculously tender and not overly fatty pork belly was the star of the show, tucked between a perky plum compote and an addictively salty-sweet green-chile blue-corn cake.

If you passed on it earlier, you can sample the cheese plate at dessert — or fight your dining companions for the tangy but creamy blueberry and plum tart, with its rich brown-butter filling. The “peaches and cream” is a minimally elegant composition, a skillfully poached half-peach sitting like a beautiful golden-orange dome atop neat squares of fior di latte gelato and burnished puff pastry.

As we sipped the last of our fruity but flinty Château de Paraza Minervois and moved on to French-press coffee, I felt a little sorry for Santa Fe. In culinary circles, the City Different typically overshadows Albuquerque, but perhaps we’ve been resting on our laurels lately. In almost every way, La Merienda achieves what restaurants here only aim for. Maybe this is a nudge we need. ◀

Dinner for two at La Merienda at Los Poblanos: Watermelon salad.................................................$ 8.00 Bean salad.............................................................$ 9.00 Rib-eye..................................................................$ 36.00 Tagliatelle .............................................................$ 20.00 Bottle, 2011 Château de Paraza Minervois...........$ 36.00 “Peaches and cream” ............................................$ 10.00 Coffee (2) .............................................................$ 10.00 TOTAL..................................................................$ 129.00 (before tax and tip) Dinner for four, another visit: Artisanal cheese plate...........................................$ 15.00 Watermelon salad.................................................$ 8.00 Pork belly (2) .......................................................$ 56.00 Chicken roulade ...................................................$ 26.00 Rib-eye..................................................................$ 36.00 Berry tart ..............................................................$ 10.00 Bottle, 2013 Triennes rosé....................................$ 34.00 “Peaches and cream” ............................................$ 10.00 Coffee (4) .............................................................$ 20.00 TOTAL..................................................................$ 215.00 (before tax and tip)

SANTA FE METROPOLITAN

PEDESTRIAN MASTER PLAN PUBLIC INPUT MEETINGS Saturday, September 20 Southside Library 6599 Jaguar Dr

10:30 - 12:30 pm

information: design office 505.983.1415 santafepmp@do-designoffice.com santafempo.org/pedestrian-master-plan

Wednesday, September 24 5:00 - 7:00 pm Gonzales Community School - Library 851 West Alameda Persons with disabilities in need of accommodations, contact the MPO office at 955-6625 five (5) working days prior to the meeting date.

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The Lensic & Four Bridges Traveling Permaculture Institute present

Los Masis: The Andean Experience MusIc And dAncE FroM BoLIvIA

SEASON OPENING Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra Thomas O’Connor, conductor Melissa Marse, piano

Saturday, September 20 at 4pm (new time) Sunday, September 21 at 3pm Lensic Performing Arts Center

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No.3inC Minor,Op.37 BEETHOVEN Symphony No.5 in C Minor, Op. 67 MEET THE MUSIC with Thomas O’Connor and special guest John Clubbe one hour before each performance.

Learn more about the music you love!

october 2 | 7 pm | $15–$25 Discounts for students, seniors, and Lensic members

Direct from Sucre, Bolivia, Los Masis perform traditional music and dance from the Andes, working to preserve the indigenous Quechua language and culture.

Tickets: 505-988-1234 www.TicketsSantaFe.org SERVICE CHARGES APPLY AT ALL POINTS OF PURCHASE

ARTIST DINNER: Sunday, Sept. 21 at 5:30pm with Melissa Marse*

*Limited seating, reservations through the Pro Musica Box Office required

$20, $35, $45, $65 Discounts for students, teachers, families, and groups available through the Santa Fe Pro Musica Box Office.

Santa Fe Pro Musica Box Office: 505.988.4640 Tickets Santa Fe at the Lensic: 505.988.1234 www.santafepromusica.com The 2014-2015 Season is partially funded

by New Mexico Arts (a Division of the Department of Cultural Affairs) and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT CALENDAR

September 19-25

CALENDAR COMPILED BY PAMELA BEACH

FRIDAY 9/19 Gallery & Museum Openings Addison Rowe Fine Art

229 E. Marcy St., 505-982-1533 American Landscapes and Portraits, group show including works by Anna Keener, Andrew Dasburg, Emil Bisttram, and Jan Matulka, reception 5-7 p.m.

Axle Contemporary

Look for the mobile gallery parked in front of Baca Street Studios, 926 Baca St. Tools, group show of mixed media, reception 5-7 p.m., visit axleart.com for daily locations through Oct. 12.

Canyon Road Contemporary

403 Canyon Rd., 505-983-0433 Mark Horst: On India, paintings, reception 5-7 p.m., artist talk 5:30 p.m.

Catenary Art Gallery

616 ½ Canyon Rd., 505-982-2700 Personal Winds, mixed-media paintings

by Larisa Ilieva, reception 5-7 p.m.

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Annex

123 Grant Ave., 505-946-1000 Group show of works by museum docents, reception 5-7 p.m., through Sept. 26.

Giacobbe-Fritz Fine Art

702 Canyon Rd., 505-986-1156 Warpaint, paintings by Craig Kosak, reception 5-7 p.m., through Oct. 5.

Governor's Gallery

Fourth floor, State Capitol 2014 Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts, works by award recipients Jean Anaya Moya, Donald Redman, and Robert "Shoofly" Shufelt, reception 3:30-4:30 p.m., through November.

(See story, Page 32)

Hunter Kirkland Contemporary

200-B Canyon Rd., 505-984-2111 Work by sculptor T. Barny; encaustic and mixed-media paintings by Laura Wait, reception 5-7 p.m., through Oct. 5.

Jane Hamilton Fine Art

200-D Canyon Rd., 505-465-2655 September Song, paintings by Pat Parkinson, reception 5-7 p.m., through September.

New Concept Gallery

610 Canyon Rd., 505-795-7570 Landscape paintings by Linda Petersen, reception 5-7 p.m., through Oct. 13.

Nüart Gallery

670 Canyon Rd., 505-988-3888 Una Noche sin Ornamento, paintings by Alberto Gálvez, reception 5-7 p.m., through Oct. 5.

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Three Houses, by Emil Bisttram, Addison Rowe Fine Art, 229 E. Marcy St.

Pippin Contemporary

200 Canyon Rd., 505-795-7476 Monotypes and More, group show of works by Timberwick Studios members, reception 5-7 p.m., through Oct. 7.

Santa Fe Arts Commission Community Gallery

201 W. Marcy St., 505-955-6707 Common Ground, group show of multimedia two- and three-dimentional works, reception 5-7 p.m., through Oct. 10.

Verve Gallery of Photography

219 E. Marcy St., 505-982-5009 Urban Wilderness — Chaos Transformed Portraits and Gracia, works by photographers Irving Greines and Ysabel LeMay, reception 5-7 p.m., through Oct. 25; gallery talk 2 p.m. Saturday. (See story, Page 36)

Yares Art Projects

123 Grant Ave., 505-984-0044 Metamorphosis, sculpture by Paul Bloch, reception 5:30-7:30 p.m., through Nov. 3.

Classical Music Santa Fe Pro Musica

The Lensic The orchestra's 33rd season opens with Beethoven‘s Symphony No. 5 and Piano Concerto No. 3, 10 a.m., featuring pianist Melissa Marse, no charge.

TGIF recital: Joel Becktell

First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe, 208 Grant Ave., 505-982-8544, Ext. 16.

The cellist performs music of Bach, 5:30-6 p.m., donations welcome.

Duel Brewing

EmiArte Flamenco at Skylight

El Farol

C.S. Rockshow, with Don Curry, Pete Springer, and Ron Crowder, 9 p.m.-close, call for cover.

Hilltop Bar at The Lodge at Santa Fe

Friday night salsa dancing, with DJ Aztech Sol, 9:30 p.m., call for cover.

La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda

In Concert Dmitri Matheny

Museum Hill Café, 710 Camino Lejo The flugelhornist celebrates the release of Sagebrush Rebellion, 7 p.m., $25, 505-983-6820, a Santa Fe Music Collective jazz concert.

Theater/Dance EmiArte Flamenco

Skylight With guest artists Chuscales, Juan Siddi, and Kina Mendez, 8 p.m., $10 in advance at holdmyticket.com.

Outdoors Star Party

Blues band Night Train, 8 p.m.-close, no cover.

La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa

Palace Restaurant & Saloon

Band With No Name and DJ Saewhat, 10 p.m.-close, call for cover.

Pranzo Italian Grill

Pianist John Rangel and vocalist Barbara Bentree, 6-9 p.m., call for cover.

Second Street Brewery

Country band The Tumbleweeds, 6-9 p.m., no cover.

Skylight

Eldorado Community Improvement Association, 1 La Hacienda Loop Open house held by the square-dance club, 6:30-9 p.m., visit xoweb.com for information.

St. John's College 50th anniversary celebration: Homecoming 2014

Junction Launch party for the college's digital magazine Rational Animal, 7-10 p.m., no charge. Call Chris Aamot for details about events continuing through Sunday, 505-984-6114.

Nightlife

(See addresses at right)

Bishop’s Lodge Ranch Resort & Spa

Jazz guitarist Pat Malone, 6-9 p.m., no cover.

Café Café

Trio Los Primos, 6 p.m., no cover.

¡Chispa! at El Mesón

Three Faces of Jazz, featuring guest saxophonist Arlen Asher, 7:30-10:30 p.m., no cover.

Cowgirl BBQ

Gary Reynolds, folk/country, 5-7:30 p.m.; juke-joint, honky-tonk, biker-bar band Broomdust Caravan, 8:30 p.m., no cover.

Junior Common Room, Peterson Student Center, 1160 Camino de Cruz Blanca A lecture by school alumna Lael Gold titled All That Matter of the Living Air: Dreams and the Western Tradition, 3 p.m., no charge.

Call Chris Aamot for details, 505-984-6114.

Sallie Bingham

Garcia Street Books, 376 Garcia St., 505-986-0151 The author reads from The Blue Box, 2 p.m.

Check with venues for updates and sp ecial events Agoyo Lounge

Connie Long & Fast Patsy, 8 p.m., call for cover.

Events

Eldorado Depot Dancers

Main Branch, 145 Washington Ave., 505-955-6780 Discounted and specially priced books, noon-4 p.m.

Mine Shaft Tavern

Requiem Mass and In the End, 9 p.m.-4 a.m., no cover.

St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave. Recipients: flutist Robert Mirabal; artists Jean Anaya Moya, Donald Redman, and Robert "Shoofly" Shufelt; contributors to the arts Kent Jacobs and Sallie Ritter, George R.R. Martin, and Dave Warren, ceremony 5:15 p.m., no charge.

(See story, Page 32)

Books/Talks Friends of the Santa Fe Public Library book sale

St. John's College 50th anniversary celebration: Homecoming 2014

Nacha Mendez Quartet, 6:30-9:30 p.m., no cover.

Cerrillos Hills State Park, about 16 miles south of Santa Fe off NM 14, 505-474-0196 A green-laser tour of stars and constellations, followed by views through telescopes, 7:30 p.m., $5 per vehicle. Meet at the main parking lot, a half mile north of Cerrillos village on County Road 59.

2014 Annual Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts

The Jewel Box Cabaret

Armory for the Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail Las Vegas-style gender-bending performances, 8 p.m., $25, 505-988-1234, ticktetssantafe.org, proceeds benefit the Street Homeless Animal Project.

Second Street Brewery at the Railyard

New Orleans-style funk and jazz band Pollo Frito, 7-10 p.m., no cover.

Shadeh

Alchemy Party, with DJ Dynamite Sol, 9 p.m., call for cover.

Tiny's

Classic-rock band The Jakes, 8:30 p.m., no cover.

Vanessie

Doug Montgomery, 6-8 p.m.; Jess Godwin, 8-10 p.m.; call for cover.

SATURDAY 9/20 Classical Music Santa Fe Pro Musica

The Lensic The orchestra's 33rd season opens with Beethoven‘s Symphony No. 5 and Piano Concerto No. 3, 4 p.m., featuring pianist Melissa Marse $20-$65, ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234, Sunday encore.

Serenata of Santa Fe

First Presbyterian Church, 208 Grant Ave. The chamber music ensemble's 2014-2015 season opens with Other Worlds, music of Osvaldo Golijov, Kinan Azmeh, and David Krakauer, 7:30 p.m., $15-$30, ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234, discounts available at the door, serenataofsantafe.org.

Theater/Dance Dream Jungle: Equinexus

Railyard Performance Space, 1611 Paseo de Peralta Multimedia show featuring singer Taressa Bell, cellist Wedan Depansai, and percussionist Halle, as well as video art by Agramzu and aerial-dance performances from Amina Re and Cecil Sparrow, $15 in advance at holdmyticket.com and at the door.

at the Inn on the Al The Matador ameda 303 E. Alameda St. 11 6 W. San Francisco , 505-984-2121 St. Anasazi Restauran Mi ne Shaft Tavern t & Bar 113 Washington Av 2846 NM 14, Madr e., 505-988-3030 id, 505-473-0743 Betterday Coffee Museum Hill Café 905 W. Alameda St. 710 Camino Lejo, Mi , 505-555-1234 lner Plaza, 505-984-8900 Bishop’s Lodge Ra nch Resort & Spa 1297 Bishops Lodg e Rd., 505-983-6377 Music Room at Garrett’s Desert Inn 311 Old Santa Fe Tra Burro Alley Café il, 505-982-1851 207 W. San Francisc Odd Fellows Hall o St., 505-982-0601 1125 Cerrillos Rd., Café Café 505-473-0955 500 Sandoval St., 50 Omira Bar & Grill 5-466-1391 1005 St. Francis Dr ¡Chispa! at El Mesó ., 505-780-5483 n 213 Washington Av Palace Restaurant e., 505-983-6756 & Saloon 142 W. Palace Ave., Cowgirl BBQ 505-428-0690 319 S. Guadalupe St. Pranzo Italian Grill , 505-982-2565 540 Montezuma Av The Den at Coyote e., 505-984-2645 Ca 132 W. Water St., 50 fé Santa Fe Commun 5-983-1615 ity Convention Center Duel Brewing 201 W. Marcy St., 50 1228 Parkway Dr., 5-955-6705 505-474-5301 Santa Fe Sol Stage El Cañon at the Hi & Grill lton 37 Fire Place, solof 100 Sandoval St., 50 santafe.com 5-988-2811 Second Street Brew Eldorado Hotel & er Spa 1814 Second St., 50 y 309 W. San Francisc 5-982-3030 o St., 505-988-4455 Second Street Brew El Farol er 1607 Paseo de Peral y at the Railyard 808 Canyon Rd., 50 ta, 505-989-3278 5-983-9912 Shadeh Buffalo Th El Paseo Bar & Grill under Resort & Casino 208 Galisteo St., 50 5-992-2848 Pojoaque Pueblo, U.S Evangelo’s . 84/285, 505-455-5555 200 W. San Francisc o St., 505-982-9014 Sk yli ght Hilltop Bar at The Lodge at Santa Fe 139 W. San Fra ncisco St., 505-982 750 N. St. Francis Dr -0775 ., 505-992-5800 Sweetwater Harves t Kitchen Hotel Santa Fe 1512-B Pacheco St. , 505-795-7383 1501 Paseo de Peral ta, 505-982-1200 Swiss Bakery Pastr ies Jean Cocteau Cinem 401 S. Guadalupe St. and Bistro a , 505-988-5500 418 Montezuma Av e., 505-466-5528 Taberna La Boca Junction 125 Lincoln Ave., 50 5-988-7102 530 S. Guadalupe St. , 505-988-7222 Tiny’s La Boca 1005 St. Francis Dr ive, Suite 117, 72 W. Marcy St., 50 505-983-9817 5-982-3433 La Casa Sena Cant The Underground ina at Evangelo’s 25 E. Palace Ave., 50 200 W. San Francisc 5-988-9232 o St. La Fiesta Lounge Upper Crust Pizza at La Fonda 100 E. San Francisc o St., 505-982-5511 329 Old Santa Fe Trail, 505-982-0000 La Posada de Sant a Fe Resort and Sp Vanessie a 43 330 E. Palace Ave., 4 W. San Francisco 505-986-0000 St., 505-982-9966 Lensic Performing Veterans of Foreign Arts Center Wa rs 211 W. San Francisc o St., 505-988-1234 370 Montezuma Ave., 505-984-2691 Lodge Lounge at Th e Lodge at Santa Fe Warehouse 21 750 N. St. Francis Dr 1614 Paseo de Peral ., 505-992-5800 ta, 505-989-4423 Low ’n’ Slow Lowr Zia Dinner ider Bar at Hotel Chimayó 326 S. Guadalupe St. de Santa Fe , 505-988-7008 125 Washington Av e., 505-988-4900

C L U B S, R O O M S, V E N UES

9/19

Luke Sweeney, pop/folk/rock, 7:30 p.m.-close, no cover.

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Duel Brewing

Blues/funk band Markland, 7:30 p.m.-close, no cover.

9/21

El Farol

The Gruve, funk and soul, 9 p.m., call for cover.

La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda

Hank 3 at Santa Fe Sol Stage & Grill

Blues band Night Train, 8 p.m.-close, no cover.

La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa

Guitarist Pat Malone‘s jazz trio, 8 p.m., call for cover.

Low ‘n‘ Slow Lowrider Bar at Hotel Chimayó de Santa Fe Troubadour Gerry Carthy, 7:30 p.m.-close, no cover.

Mine Shaft Tavern

Green Billies, bluegrass, on the deck 3 p.m., no cover.

Palace Restaurant & Saloon

Bluegrass band Railyard Reunion, 2-5 p.m.; Jarana Beat and Nosotros, 10 p.m.; call for cover.

Pranzo Italian Grill

Geist Cabaret with David Geist, 6 p.m., call for cover.

Second Street Brewery

Folk singer/songwriter Eryn Bent, 7 p.m.-close, no cover.

Second Street Brewery at the Railyard

Afro-pop ensemble Jaka, 7-10 p.m., no cover.

Shadeh

DJ 12 Tribe, 9 p.m.-4 a.m., call for cover.

Skylight

Meow Wolf party, with DJs Nicolatron, P.F.F.P., Dirt Girl, Muffin Top, and Billiam, 9 p.m., call for cover.

Sweetwater Harvest Kitchen

John Serkin on Hawaiian slack-key guitar, 6 p.m., no cover.

Tiny‘s

Showcase karaoke, with Nanci and Cyndy, 8:30 p.m.-close, no cover.

Contemporary Tapestry Gallery shows weavings by Bengt Erikson, 835 W. San Mateo St.

Shedding Skin: Reconstructing Our Relationship to Art

Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, 108 Cathedral Place, 505-983-1777 Free public symposium; keynote address

by Jolene Rickard 9:30 a.m.; panel discussions: Indigenous Art Manifesto 10:30 a.m. and Creativity Is (Still) Our Tradition 2 p.m.

Events Monotype workshop

Pippin Contemporary, 200 Canyon Rd., 505-795-7476 Led by Ron Pokrasso of Timberwicks Studio, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., $25.

Native American film series

Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, 710 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-476-1250 Trudell, Heather Rea's 2005 documentary about poet/activist John Trudell, noon and 3 p.m., by museum admission.

Red-Hot Latin Dance

Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion, 1607 Paseo de Peralta A benefit in support of court-appointed special advocates, First Judicial District; with Ivon Ulibarri & Café Mocha, 7:30 p.m., $15 at the door or online at casafirst.org, 505-820-1500.

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Santa Fe Renaissance Fair

El Rancho de las Golondrinas, 334 Los Pinos Rd., 505-471-2261 Including juggling/stilt-walking/magic troupe Clan Tynker, medieval combat reenactments, Pomegranate Belly Dance troupe, Belisama Irish Dance, Balkan-music ensemble Rumelia; also, kids‘ games and food vendors, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. today and Sunday, $10, discounts available.

(See story, Page 26)

Ski Santa Fe chairlift

16 miles north of town on NM 475, 505-992-5082 Enjoy fall colors on the Super Chief Quad chair, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., $12 one way, discounts available, 505-982-4429.

Vanessie

Doug Montgomery, 6-8 p.m.; Jess Godwin, 8-10 p.m.; call for cover.

SUNDAY 9/21 Classical Music

Chris Spheeris: Facets of Love

Hank 3

Santa Fe Chiles Dixie Jazz Band, 2-5 p.m.; End of Summer Party, with The Surflords, 8:30 p.m.-close; no cover.

Events International World Peace Day

Frenchy's Park, Agua Fría St. Labyrinth walk, 1-3 p.m., contact Mudman Johnson for details, 505-954-4495.

Santa Fe International Folk Dancers

Odd Fellows Hall, 1125 Cerrillos Rd. Beginners and families welcome; line dances of the Balkans, Greece, and the Middle East; 6:30-8 p.m.; Israeli dances 8-10 p.m., $5 donation, 505-501-5081 or 505-466-2920.

St. John's College 50th anniversary celebration: Homecoming 2014

Dining Hall, 1160 Camino de Cruz Blanca Chile-themed chocolate-making class led by alumna Lauren Gockley, 2-4 p.m., no charge.

Call Chris Aamot to register, 505-984-6114.

Santa Fe Renaissance Fair

Ski Santa Fe chairlift

Café Café

Cowgirl BBQ

Turquoise Perspectives and Meanings

Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, 710 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-476-1250 Dan Simplicio discusses traditional Zuni turquoise design, 1 p.m., by museum admission.

In Concert

Santa Fe Pro Musica

(See Page 65 for addresses)

Chris Ishee Quartet, jazz, 7:30-10:30 p.m., call for cover.

Muse Times Two

Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., 505-988-4226 The series continues with readings by poets Erin Belieu and Henry Shukman, 4 p.m.

(See Subtexts, Page 16)

The Lensic The orchestra's 33rd season opens with Beethoven‘s Symphony No. 5 and Piano Concerto No. 3, 3 p.m., featuring pianist Melissa Marse $20-$65, ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234

Nightlife

¡Chispa! at El Mesón

Main Branch, 145 Washington Ave., 505-955-6780 Discounted and specially priced books; bag day in the Tatum Community Room, 1-3:30 p.m.

El Rancho de las Golondrinas, 334 Los Pinos Rd. 505-471-2261 Including juggling/stilt-walking/magic troupe Clan Tynker, medieval combat reenactments, Pomegranate Belly Dance troupe, Belisama Irish Dance, Balkan-music ensemble Rumelia; also, kids‘ games and food vendors, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., $10, discounts available. (See story, Page 26)

Santa Fe Center for Spiritual Living, 505 Camino de los Marquez Piano/guitar/vocal recital, 7 p.m., $25 suggested donation at the door.

Jazz/blues guitarist Ramon Bermudez, 6:30 p.m., no cover.

Books/Talks Friends of the Santa Fe Public Library book sale

Santa Fe Sol Stage & Grill Country singer, 6 p.m., $20 in advance at holdmyticket.com.

Theater/Dance Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer Show

Jean Cocteau Cinema Another Night of Random Stuff, 7 p.m., $80, 505-466-5528, proceeds benefit Warehouse 21.

16 miles north of town on NM 475, 505-992-5082 Enjoy fall colors on the Super Chief Quad chair, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., $12 one way, discounts available; listen to live music by Glazed Highway at the beer garden, noon-4 p.m.; 505-982-4429.

Nightlife

(See Page 65 for addresses)

Cowgirl BBQ

The Santa Fe Revue, all-star Americana, noon-3 p.m.; soul band Hello Dollface, 8 p.m.; no cover.

Duel Brewing

Acoustic-folk duo Spruce Street, 5-7 p.m., no cover.

El Farol

Chanteuse Nacha Mendez, 7:30 p.m., call for cover.

Evangelo‘s

Tone and Company jam band, 8:30 p.m., call for cover.

La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa

Country singer Wiley Jim, 7 p.m., call for cover.

Mine Shaft Tavern

Folk singer Lucy Barna, on the deck 3-7 p.m.; blues band The Barbwires, inside 3-7 p.m.; no cover.

Second Street Brewery at the Railyard

Watermelon Mountain Jug Band, 1-4 p.m., no cover.

Vanessie

Pianist Doug Montgomery, 6:30 p.m., call for cover.

MONDAY 9/22 Gallery and Museum Openings Kristin Johnson Fine Art

323 E. Palace Ave., 505-780-5451 Artophelia, paintings by C.J. Wells, reception 6-8 p.m.

Books/Talks Kirk Ellis

Marcus Hamilton: Unsettled Landscapes?

What This Means to Be an Anthropologist

Armory for the Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail A talk by the Santa Fe Institute fellow, 6 p.m., $10, discounts available, call SITE Santa Fe for reservations, 505-989-1199.

750 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-982-2226 Hispanic and Genizaro Sacred and Secular Rock Art, by University of Michigan professor emeritus Arthur F. Thurnau, 2 p.m., $10.

Southwest Seminars lecture

Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo de Peralta Pueblo Ritual Landscapes: Archaeology of Blessing Places and Pilgrimage Pathways, by Kurt Anschutz, 6 p.m., $12 at the door, southwestseminars.org, 505-466-2775.

Singer/songwriter open mic, 7-11 p.m., no cover.

Vanessie

Doug Montgomery, 6-8 p.m.; Jess Godwin, 8-10 p.m.; call for cover.

Events

WEDNESDAY 9/24

Santa Fe International Folk Dancers

In Concert

Odd Fellows Hall, 1125 Cerrillos Rd. Beginners and families welcome; line dances of the Balkans, Greece, and the Middle East; lessons 7-8 p.m., dancing 8-10 p.m., $5 donation, 505-501-5081 or 505-466-2920.

Nightlife

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¡Chispa! at El Mesón

Argentine Tango Milonga, 7:30-11 p.m., call for cover.

Cowgirl BBQ

C.S. Rockshow, with Don Curry, Pete Springer, and Ron Crowder, 8 p.m., no cover.

El Farol

Canyon Road Blues Jam, 8:30 p.m., call for cover.

Jean Cocteau Cinema La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda Behind-the-scenes stories by the Santa Fe television Bill Hearne, pure country, 8 p.m.-close, screenwriter, 5:30 p.m., $15, jeancocteaucinema.com. no cover.

Museum of Spanish Colonial Arts lecture

Tiny‘s

Second Street Brewery at the Railyard

Open-song night with Ben Wright, 7 p.m., no cover.

Skylight

The World Beat Party, reggae, Latin, and jazz, 9 p.m., call for cover.

Buckwheat Zydeco

Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion, 1607 Paseo de Peralta Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural Jr. performs in support of KSFR Radio, 7:30 p.m., $25 in advance at brownpapertickets.com, $30 at the door.

Sister Carol

Skylight Reggae, 7:30 p.m., $18 in advance at holdmyticket.com.

Events 24th Annual Santa Fe Wine & Chile Fiesta

Various local restaurants Annual event with tastings, luncheons, and wine seminars beginning today and running through Sunday, visit santafewineandchile.org to purchase tickets and view event schedule.

Nightlife

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¡Chispa! at El Mesón

Flamenco guitarist Chuscales, 7-9 p.m., no cover.

Cowgirl BBQ

Alternative funk-rock band Otis Heat, 8 p.m., no cover.

El Farol

Midweek rock with the John Kurzweg Band, 8 p.m., no cover.

Junction

Karaoke night with Michelle, 10 p.m., no cover.

La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda

Railyard Reunion Band, bluegrass, 8 p.m.-close, no cover.

La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa

Country singer Wiley Jim, 7 p.m., call for cover.

Palace Restaurant and Saloon

Trash disco with DJ Oona, 10 p.m.-close, no cover.

Tiny‘s

Electric jam session, 8:30-11:30 p.m., no cover.

Vanessie

Pianist Jess Godwin, 6:30-9:30 p.m., call for cover.

THURSDAY 9/25 In Concert Foxygen

Skylight Songwriting duo Sam France and Jonathan Rado, with Dub Thompson, 7:30 p.m., $18, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

The Invincible Czars

Cinematheque, Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail The ensemble plays a live soundtrack to the 1928 silent film The Wind, 7:30 p.m., $10 in advance online at ccasantafe.org, $12 at the door.

Events Santa Fe Swing Dance

Odd Fellows Hall, 1125 Cerrillos Rd. Weekly all-ages informal swing dance, lessons 7-8 p.m., dance 8-10 p.m., dance $3, lesson and dance $8, santafeswing.com.

Nightlife

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Cowgirl BBQ

Karaoke with Michele Leidig, 9 p.m., no cover.

El Farol

Mondays with Hilary Smith and Company, 8 p.m., call for cover.

La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda

Bill Hearne, pure country, 8 p.m.-close, no cover.

Vanessie

Doug Montgomery, 6-8 p.m.; Jess Godwin, 8-10 p.m.; call for cover.

TUESDAY 9/23 Books/Talks Laila Lalami

Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., 505-988-4226 The author reads from The Moor's Account, 6 p.m.

(See story, Page 18) The High Road Art Tour is held on Saturdays and Sundays, Sept. 20-21 and 27-28. Shown, Sheep on the Edge, by Leigh Gusterson.

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Nightlife

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¡Chispa! at El Mesón

The Trampled Underground, jazz interpretations of Led Zeppelin songs, 7:30-10:30 p.m., no cover.

El Farol

Los Alamos

Cowgirl BBQ

J.J. & The Hooligans, blues/rock/Americana, 8 p.m., no cover.

Duel Brewing

Guitarras con Sabor, Gypsy Kings-style rhythms, 8 p.m., no cover.

La Boca

Chanteuse Nacha Mendez, 7-9 p.m., no cover.

La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda

Railyard Reunion Band, bluegrass, 8 p.m.-close, no cover.

La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa

Pat Malone Jazz Trio, 6:30-8:30 p.m., no cover.

Theater/Dance The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

Santa Fe Playhouse, 142 E. DeVargas St. Paul Zindel's 1964 drama, directed by Quinn Mander, 7:30 p.m., $20, discounts available, 505-988-4262.

Books/Talks Pablita Velarde Museum of Indian Women in the Arts lecture series

24th Annual Santa Fe Wine & Chile Fiesta

Various local restaurants Tastings, luncheons, and wine seminars through Sunday, visit santafewineandchile.org to purchase tickets and view event schedule.

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Los Alamos Little Theatre, 1670 Nectar St., 505-662-5493 A comedy by local playwright Tess Light, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturdays Sept. 19-20, $14 at the door and at C.B. Fox, 1735 Central Ave., discounts available, lalt.org.

Madrid Annual He-She Bang: Cowboys and Aliens

Second Street Brewery at the Railyard

Vanessie

Nambé Pueblo

Pranzo Italian Grill

Pianist Robin Holloway, 6 p.m., call for cover.

Bill Hearne Trio, pure country, 6-9 p.m., no cover.

Pianist Jess Godwin, 6:30-9:30 p.m., call for cover.

OUT OF TOWN Albuquerque ¡Globalquerque!

National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 Second St. S.W. The 10th annual celebration of world music and culture begins at 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19; lineup includes Beto Jamaica Rey Vallento (Colombia), 7:20 p.m.; Calypso Rose and Kobo Town (Trinidad and Tobago) 10 p.m.; and headliners Afro-Cuban All-Stars, 11 p.m.; Saturday line up includes Robert "Tree" Cody & Native Wisdom Dance Theatre, Oumar Konaté (Mali), and Lo'Jo (France); $42-$69, tickets available online at globalquerque.org or at the box office; visit the website for performance schedule.

213 Cathedral Place, 505-988-8900 Jemez Farming, by Justin Casiquito of Jemez Pueblo, Chatter Sunday The Kosmos, 1715 Fifth St. N.W. 1-3 p.m.

The ensemble performs composer John Kennedy's A Place to Stand Partners in Time, 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 21, James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School $15 at the door only, discounts available, for the Deaf, 1060 Cerrillos Rd. chatterabq.org.

Theaterwork's 19th season opens with a series of Amjad Ali Khan & Sons events held in conjunction with A Place to Stand, a film based on the life of local poet Jimmy Santiago Simms Auditorium, Albuquerque Academy, 6400 Wyoming Blvd. N.E., 505-828-3200 Baca: poets including Natalie Diaz, Jaime Chavez, Sarod artist, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 23, $10-$20. and Carlton Spiller read from their works 7 p.m.; opening of Dust/Rock/Blades/Bones, an exhibit of When the Stars Trembled in Río Puerco drawings by Eric Christo Martinez; call 505-471-1799 National Hispanic Cultural Center, for reservations, visit theaterwork.org for details, 1701 Second St. S.W. donations accepted, events continue through Santa Fe's Teatro Paraguas opens the Siembra: Sept. 27.

Latino Theatre Festival with a presentation of Shebana Coelho's play based on oral histories Renesan Institute lecture collected by Nasario García, 7:30 p.m. ThursdaySt. John‘s United Methodist Church, Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 25-28, $18, 1200 Old Pecos Trail discounts available, 505-724-4771, nhccnm.org.

Join Elizabeth O'Brien in an illustrated talk about Maya Angelou, 1-3 p.m., $10, 505-982-9274.

Events

Tower of Magic

Engine House Theatre and Mine Shaft Tavern Gender-bending performances in support of Southwest Care Center and the Madrid Emergency Medical and Dental Fund; with mistress of ceremonies Guava Chiffon, 8 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 20, $20 at the door (includes after-party); funk band The Sticky, 10 p.m., $10.

Lodge Lounge at The Lodge at Santa Fe

Troubadour Gerry Carthy, 7-9:30 p.m., call for cover.

This year's 21st tour opens with a preview exhibit shown at Than Povi Fine Art Gallery (north on US 285/84, Exit 176) and a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19. The self-guided tour of 16 studios runs 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 20-21. Visit pojoaqueriverarttour.com for links to artist' sites and details, maps available at Santa Fe hotels and B&Bs, Than Povi Fine Art Gallery, and online.

10th Annual ShortGrass Music Festival Kiva Cimarroncita Ranch Retreat at Ute Park, Colfax Tavern, and United Methodist Church of Cimarron Jarana Beat, 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19, $10; Randy McAllister, Hwy 38 Houndogs open, 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, $20, 21+; violist Matthew Lipman and pianist Yi-Fang Huang, 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 21, $10; 575-376-2417, shortgrassfestival.com.

Jazz pianist Bert Dalton's trio, 7:30 p.m., no cover.

POJOAQUE RIVER ART TOUR

Cimarron

Cerrillos

Fiesta de Cerrillos

About 16 miles south of Santa Fe, off NM 14 Food and beverages, live music, classic car show, and children's activities, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, cerrillosnewmexico.com.

17th Annual High Road Art Tour

single channel, and multimedia performance (full list of categories available online at currentsnewmexico.org); submission guidelines and forms available online; deadline Dec. 1.

Community Awesome Foundation Santa Fe grant

A $1,000 microgrant will be awarded to an individual or a group with a plan to create local projects in the areas of science, technology, art, education, entertainment, or social good; applications due by Wednesday, Oct. 1; apply online at awesomefoundation.org.

Flower Angels

Help out weekly as a Flower Angel for Presbyterian Medical Services Hospice Center; contact Mary Ann Andrews for information, 505-988-2211.

Food for Santa Fe

The nonprofit needs help packing and distributing groceries at 6 and 8 a.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, 505-471-1187 or 505-603-6600.

Many Mothers

Help new mothers and families, raise funds, plan events, become a board member, and more; requirements and details available online at manymothers.org.

Santa Fe Children's Museum

Join the Teen Volunteer Program and help in the visitor services department and in the museum; must be 15 or older; for more information call 505-989-8359, Ext. 115; applications available online at santafechildrensmuseum.org.

U.S. 285/84 north to NM 503 to Nambé Pueblo, follow signs leading to villages along state roads north to Taos More than 50 artists and craftspersons participate in this self-guided tour held 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, Sept. 20-21 and 27-28, for information, links to artists websites, and maps, call 888-866-3643 or visit highroadnewmexico.com.

Warehouse 21, 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 505-989-4423 Percussionist John Trentacosta discusses the CBS 1957 television documentary Sound of Jazz, screening 7 p.m., no charge.

Pojoaque

PASA KIDS

21st Annual Pojoaque River Art Tour

North of Santa Fe off U.S. 285, from Pojoaque Pueblo, through Nambé and Pojoaque Preview reception 5-8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19, Than Povi Fine Art Gallery (Exit 176 in Cuyamungue), silent auction runs all day Saturday; self-guided tours of 16 studios run 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; links to artists' sites and details available online at pojoaqueriverarttour.com, maps available at Santa Fe hotels and B&Bs, Than Povi Fine Art Gallery, and online.

Sipapu Fifth Annual Music on the Rocks

Sipapu Ski and Summer Resort, 5224 NM 518, 800-587-2240 Including Santa Fe-based bands Sean Healand Band and Boris & The Salt Licks, no charge, visit sipapunm.com for lineup.

Taos Harwood Museum of Art

238 Ledoux St., 575-758-9826 ¡Orale! Kings and Queens of Cool, free block party with custom cars, glam-trash fashion show, and live music, 4-9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20.

PEOPLE WHO NEED PEOPLE Artists Currents 2015: International New Media Fiesta

Accepting work in the areas of new-media installation, video mapping, animation,

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Santa Fe Music Collective Jazz Series

Garden Sprouts

Santa Fe Botanical Garden, 725 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill Storytelling and hands-on activities for children ages 3-5 accompanied by an adult, 9-10 a.m. weekly on Fridays, $5 suggested donation.

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail, 505-989-8359 Open art studio 2:30-4:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19; Saturday, Sept. 20: Dialing in the Sun, learn to use shadows and chalk to track the sun's motion and create a sundial, 11 a.m.-noon; Go With the Flow, a class on water catchment and water issues in the desert, 2-3 p.m.; Sunday, Sept. 21, 2-3 p.m Leaf No Trace, make leaf rubbings and start a field guide to trees; by museum admission.

Star Party

Cerrillos Hills State Park, about 16 miles south of Santa Fe off NM 14, 505-474-0196 A green-laser tour of stars and constellations, followed by views through telescopes, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 19, $5 per vehicle. Meet at the main parking lot, a half mile north of Cerrillos village on County Road 59.

Fiesta de Cerrillos

About 16 miles south of Santa Fe, off NM 14 Food and beverages, live music, classic car show, and children's activities, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, cerrillosnewmexico.com.

Musical Story Time

Bee Hive Kids Books, 328 Montezuma Ave., 505-780-8051 Songs, dancing, and books for ages 2 and up, 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, call for more information. ◀

Sickafoose on bass, Kirk Knuffke on cornet, and Jenny Scheinman on violin, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 10, $20 at the door, gigsantafe.com.

Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet

The Lensic Music of Hindemith, Mozart, and Thuille, 4 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 12, $13.50-$100, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Serenata of Santa Fe

MUSIC

Anne Phillips

Vanessie The jazz vocalist performs in Gonna Lay My Heart on the Line, 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26, a singalong of the Great American Songbook follows, $20, 505-438-8186.

Madrid Blues Fest

Oscar Huber Memorial Ballpark, NM 14 The lineup includes Todd Tijerina Band, Albuquerque Blues Connection, Memphis, and P’Tails, gates open at 1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28, concert runs 2-6 p.m., $20 in advance at nmjazz.org, discounts available.

Los Alamos Concert Association

Duane Smith Auditorium, Los Alamos High School, 1300 Diamond Dr. The 69th season at a glance: Anderson & Roe Piano Duo, Sept. 28; Salzburg Marionette Theater, with pianist Orion Weiss, Nov. 1; and Red Priest, Jan. 9, visit losalamosconcert.org for details.

Santa Fe Men's Camerata

United Church of Santa Fe, 1804 Arroyo Chamiso Vive L' Amour!, choral concert, 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28, $20 in advance and at the door, students under 18 no charge, 225-571-6352.

Matalachi

First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe, 208 Grant Ave. Temporal Light, music of Britten, Dohynani, and Reinecke, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17, $15-$30, discounts available, ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234.

Dave Mason's Traffic Jam

KTAOS Solar Center, 9 S.R. 150, in El Prado Veteran singer/songwriter, 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, $35, holdmyticket.com.

Atrium String Quartet

Great Hall, St. John's College, 1160 Camino de Cruz Blanca Russian ensemble, music of Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Shostakovich, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24, $45, students $22.50, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

J.D. McPherson

Skylight R & B singer/songwriter, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25, $16 in advance at holdmyticket.com.

Ralph Alessi Baida Quartet

Gig Performance Space, 1808 Second St. Jazz trumpeter, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, $20 at the door, gigsantafe.com.

Ziggy Marley

Santa Fe Community Convention Center, 201 W. Marcy St. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, $33, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Skylight Heavy-metal mariachi quintet, 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 1, $15 in advance at holdmyticket.com, 21+.

Tinariwen

Santa Fe Music Collective jazz concerts

THEATER/DANCE

Museum Hill Café, 710 Camino Lejo Thursday, Oct. 2, guitarist Joshua Breakstone; Friday, Oct. 17, flutist Ali Ryerson; performances begin at 7 p.m., $25, 505-983-6820.

St. Lawrence String Quartet

St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave. Music of Beethoven and Haydn; 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5, $10-$65, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org; dinner with the musicians 5:30 p.m., contact the Santa Fe Pro Musica box office for reservations, 505-988-4640, Ext. 1000.

Santa Fe Symphony

The Lensic Music of Scott Joplin; performed in support of The Friendship Club and Children First, 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5, $10-$50; Fall Gold, featuring guest conductor Oriol Sans and guitarist Jason Vieaux, music of Tchaikovsky, Rossini, and Márquez, 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 19, $20-$76, discounts available, 505-983-1414 or 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Zakir Hussain

The Lensic Classical music of India, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, $20-$50, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Boom Tic Boom

Gig Performance Space, 1808 Second St. Jazzy folk-pop quintet, with Allison Miller on drums, Myra Melford on piano, Todd

HAPPENINGS

Saving Endangered Languages

The Lensic An illustrated presentation by linguists Greg Anderson and David Harrison, 7 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 6, $10, ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234.

Piñon Awards and Ceremony

La Fonda An annual event recognizing contributions of local nonprofit organizations; this year's award winners are Santa Fe Public Schools Adelante program, The Food Depot, Creative Santa Fe, The Nature Conservancy, and Ruth M. Ortega and the Brindle Foundation; 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, $35 includes dinner, 505-988-9715, santafecf.org.

Lannan Foundation: In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom

The Lensic The series continues with author Max Blumenthal, discussing his book Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel, 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, a talk with Amy Goodman follows, $6, discounts available, ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234.

SITE Santa Fe Innovative Thinker lecture

Armory for the Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail Shared Authority in the Art Museum: Precedents, Process and Propositions, with Kim Kanatani, deputy director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, $10, discounts available, 505-989-1199.

Mayor's Ball 2014

Santa Fe Community Convention Center, 201 W. Marcy St. Silent and live art auctions of a piece by Ramón José López, Spanish tapas dinner, and live entertainment, 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11, $150, contact Ron Ruybal for tickets, 505-983-8360, ron.ruybal@bbbs.nnm.org, proceeds benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northern New Mexico.

Leading by Being

The Lensic A conversation with Gloria Steinem, Alice Walker, Chung Hyun Kyung, and Aaron Stern, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 11, $35 and $100, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

The Evolution of Medicine to Integrative Medicine

The Lensic UNM Center for Life presents a lecture by Andrew Weil; 6:15 p.m. Monday, Oct. 13; $20, ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234.

Architecture: Materials & Craft

St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave. Architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien discuss the integration of art and architecture, 6 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 16, $30, ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234.

Santa Fe Independent Film Festival

Center for Contemporary Arts, Jean Cocteau Cinema, the Lensic, and The Screen The sixth annual festival begins on Wednesday, Oct. 15 and closes on Sunday, Oct. 19, early-bird passes $200, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Transformation of Cultural Studies

Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, 710 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-476-1250 MIAC and the Institute of American Indian Arts honor Dave Warren with a symposium held at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 16 and 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17, no charge, register online at eventbrite.com.

Unabridged: Lambda Literary A uthors Series

Armory for the Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail Readings and panel discussions with LGBTQ authors Ana Castillo, Andrew Holleran, and Justin Torres, 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25, general admission $25, VIP seating and after-party $150, 505-984-1370, sfperformingarts.org.

Skylight Tuareg-Berber musicians, 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 3, $30 and $47, holdmyticket.com.

Aurora

Black Box Theater, Warehouse 21 Performance by violinist Tracy Silverman and dancer Zuleikha, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, $15 in advance at brownpapertickets.com, $25 at the door.

Outside Mullingar

The Lensic Fusion Theatre Company presents the play by John Patrick Shanley, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, $20-$40, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

National Acrobats of China

The Lensic 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 1, $15-$45, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

The Met Live in HD

The Lensic Verdi's Macbeth, with soprano Anna Netrebko, 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 11; Mozart's Le Nozze de Figaro, 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 18; $22-$28, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Royal Ballet of Cambodia

The Lensic 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28, $40, discounts available, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

King Lear

The Lensic Presented by Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, $13.50-$100, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Heavy-metal mariachi band Matalachi performs on Oct. 1 at Skylight.

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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; open daily through Oct. 7.

New Mexico Museum of Art

Ventana Fine Art shows paintings by Tanya Price, 400 Canyon Rd.

AT THE GALLERIES

Charlotte Jackson Fine Art

554 S. Guadalupe St., 505-989-8688 In the Light, paintings by Florence Miller Pierce (1918-2007), through September.

LewAllen Galleries at the Railyard

1613 Paseo de Peralta, 505-988-3250 Branches, glass sculpture by Hiroshi Yamano and paintings by Pedro Surroca, through Sept. 21.

Peters Projects

1011 Paseo de Peralta, 505-954-5800 Paintings by Suzanne Caporael; photographs

by Laura Wilson; through Sept. 27.

Tansey Contemporary

652 Canyon Rd., 505-995-8513 Women in Cultural Context, group show including Teri Greeves, Patrick McGrath Muñiz, and Irina Zaytceva, through Tuesday, Sept. 23.

MUSEUMS & ART SPACES Santa Fe Center for Contemporary Arts

1050 Old Pecos Trail, 505-982-1338 New Perspectives, installation by sculptor Chuck Ginnever (Muñoz Waxman Gallery); Messages From the Wounded Healers, paintings

by Sam Scott (Spector Ripps Project Space); through Nov. 2. Open Thursdays-Sundays; ccasantafe.org.

Georgia O‘Keeffe Museum

217 Johnson St., 505-946-1000 Paintings, drawings, and sculpture by O'Keeffe; and works by her peers. O'keeffemuseum.org; open daily.

Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

108 Cathedral Place, 505-983-1777 Rattlebone, paintings and prints by Ric Gendron; The Desert Never Left "The City," work by painter Mario Martinez; Saligaaw (it is loud-voiced), mixed media by Da-ka-xeen Mehner; Breach: Log 14, video installation by Courtney M. Leonard; exhibits run through December • looping screenings of the documentary Bert & Wei Wei: TIME 2014 by Daniel Hyde and Blackhorse Lowe through Oct. 16; iaia.edu/museum; closed Tuesdays.

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Museum of Indian Arts & Culture

710 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-476-1250 Footprints: The Inspiration and Influence of Allan Houser, five monumental works by the late Chiricahua Apache sculptor displayed outdoors; accompanied by works of other sculptors including Houser‘s sons Bob Haozous and Philip Mangas Haozous, plus Doug Hyde, Estella Loretto, and Robert Shorty; through May 2015 • Turquoise, Water, Sky: The Stone and Its Meaning, highlights from the museum‘s collection of jewelry, long term • 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, artifacts from the museum collection. Let's Take a Look, bring in found objects for identification by curators, noon-1 p.m. Wednesdays at no charge.

Open daily; indianartsandculture.org.

Museum of International Folk Art

706 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-476-1200 Between Two Worlds: Folk Artists Reflect on the Immigrant Experience, exhibit on immigration • Wooden Menagerie: Made in New Mexico, early 20th-century carvings, through Feb. 15, 2015 • Brasil and Arte popular, items from the museum's collection, through Jan. 4 • Multiple Visions: A Common Bond, international collection of toys and folk art. Open daily; internationalfolkart.org.

Museum of Spanish Colonial Art

750 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-982-2226 Secrets of the Symbols: The Hidden Language of Spanish Colonial Art • 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; spanishcolonial.org; closed Mondays.

New Mexico History Museum/ Palace of the Governors

113 Lincoln Ave., 505-476-5200 Painting the Divine: Images of Mary in the New World, rare Spanish colonial paintings, through March 29, 2015 • Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography, through March 29, 2015 • Transformed by New Mexico, work by photographer Donald Woodman, through

107 W. Palace Ave., 505-476-5072 Syncretism, photographs by Delilah Montoya; Cameraless, group show of photograms; The Photo Lab, mixed-media photographs from the museum collection; Alcove Shows 1917-1927, works from the museum collection; through Dec. 7 • Local Color: Judy Chicago in New Mexico 1984-2014, focusing on public and personal projects, through Oct. 12 • 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 • New Mexico Art Tells New Mexico History, including works by E. Irving Couse, T.C. Cannon, and Agnes Martin, through 2015 • Spotlight on Gustave Baumann, works from the museum‘s collection, through 2015; nmartmuseum.org; open daily through Oct. 7.

Pablita Velarde Museum of Indian Women in the Arts 213 Cathedral Place, 505-988-8900 Harvesting Traditions, work by ceramicist Kathleen Wall, through Jan. 4. Closed Mondays; pvmiwa.org.

Poeh Cultural Center and Museum

78 Cities of Gold Rd., 505-455-3334 The P‘osuwäegeh Ówingeh Story: Scarcity & Abundance, contemporary pottery, sculpture, and jewelry, through Nov. 14 • The Kee …, 2-D and 3-D video installation by Ehren Kee Natay, through Nov. 14 • Nah Poeh Meng, 1,600-squarefoot installation highlighting the works of Pueblo artists and Pueblo history; poehcenter.org; closed Saturdays and Sundays. Also, ongoing sculpture exhibits in the Tower Gallery, 505-455-3037; roxanneswentzell.net; closed Sundays.

UNM Art Museum

1 University of New Mexico, 505-277-4001 David Maisel/Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime, photographs by Maisel; Beautiful Disintegrating Obstinate Horror Drawing and Other Recent Acquisitions and Selections From the UNM Art Museum's Permanent Collection; The Gift, woodcut prints by John Tatschl (1906-1982).

Open Tuesday-Saturday; unmartmuseum.org.

Española Bond House Museum and Misión Museum y Convento

706 Bond St., 505-747-8535 The Second Farm Show, group show, through October. Historic and cultural objects exhibited in the home of railroad entrepreneur Frank Bond (1863-1945). Call for hours; plazadeespanola.com.

Los Alamos Bradbury Science Museum

1350 Central Ave., 505-667-4444 Environmental Research and Monitoring, an interactive exhibit covering research projects on how to preserve archaeological sites, local wildlife, and fragile ecosystems. Core exhibits 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 Tradition and Change in Córdova, New Mexico: The 1939 Photographs of Berlyn Brixner & the López Family of Wood Carvers. 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; also, butterfly and xeric gardens. Closed Sundays and Mondays; pajaritoeec.org.

Pecos

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Pecos National Historic Park

Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian

Taos

1606 Paseo de Peralta, 505-989-1199 SITElines 2014: Unsettled Landscapes, biennial exhibit of contemporary works, through Jan. 11.

Open Thursdays-Sundays; sitesantafe.org.

704 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-982-4636 Works by Diné photographer Will Wilson, through April 19, 2015. Core exhibits include contemporary and historic Native American art.

Open daily; wheelwright.org.

NM 63, 505-757-7241 Exhibits portraying the history of the Pecos Valley, including ruins, traces of the Santa Fe Trail, and artifacts from the Civil War Battle of Glorieta Pass.

Open daily; nps.gov/pecos.

La Hacienda de los Martinez

Albuquerque

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 Martinez; taoshistoricmuseums.org; open daily.

Albuquerque Museum of Art & History

Millicent Rogers Museum

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 • Arte en la Charrería: The Artisanship of Mexican Equestrian Culture, examples of craftsmanship and design distinctive to the charro. Closed Mondays; cabq.gov/cultural services/albuquerque-museum.

Indian Pueblo Cultural Center

2401 12th St. N.W., 866-855-7902 Our Land, Our Culture, Our Story, historical overview of the Pueblo world, and contemporary artwork and craftsmanship of each of the 19 pueblos.

Weekend Native dance performances; indianpueblo.org.

1504 Millicent Rogers Rd., 575-758-2462 Fred Harvey and the Making of the American West, objects drawn from the Harvey family, through January (see review, Page 42) • Looking at Taos Pueblo: Albert Martinez, Juan Mirabal, and Albert Lujan, paintings, through January. Historical collections of Native American jewelry and paintings; Hispanic textiles, metalwork, and sculpture; and 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 Sunday, Sept. 21. Housed in the studio and home that artist Nicolai Fechin built for his family between 1927 and 1933. Closed Mondays; taosartmuseum.org.

Laura Wait: Pasticcio I 2014, encaustic mixed-media print Hunter Kirkland Contemporary, 200-B Canyon Road, 505-984-2111 A two-person show of sculpture by T. Barny and encaustic and mixed-media works by Laura Wait opens Friday, Sept. 19, with a 5 p.m. reception. Barny brings fluidity of motion and line to his Möebius-strip-like bronzes and stonework. Wait’s calligraphic forms emerge through layers of encaustics like fragments of history reasserting themselves in the present.

Christy Georg: Nips, 2014, mixed media Axle Contemporary 505-670-7612 or 505-670-5854 Axle Contemporary’s exhibit Tools, a group show that includes works by Michael Bisbee, Andrew Davis, Christy Georg, Zachariah Rieke, and others, opens Friday, Sept. 19, with a 5 p.m. reception at Gray Matter, a new store of old tools located at Baca Street Studios (926 Baca St.).

The show’s theme centers on the tools that make art and the artists who make tools. The reception features live music by Grannia, Damon, and Sabina Griffith. Visit www.axleart.com for updates on the mobile gallery’s daily location.

Alberto Galvez: Veronica 2014, oil on linen Nüart Gallery 670 Canyon Road 505-988-3888 Alberto Gálvez’s paintings capture the power of the human gaze and symmetric beauty of the human face in ethereal, large-scale portraits.

His show Una Noche sin Ornamento opens Friday, Sept. 19, with a 5 p.m. reception.

Mark Horst: Injambakkam 6 2014, oil on canvas Canyon Road Contemporary Art, 403 Canyon Road, 505-983-0433 On India is an exhibit inspired by artist Mark Horst’s recent stay at the studio of Indian painter V. Vishwanadan in the Cholamandal Artists’Village in India. Horst’s paintings depict scenes of daily life in that region.

“In all of this there is, for me, a feeling of warmth and mystery,” he writes, “a sense that in all this activity something deep and beautiful and strong is at work.” The show opens with a 5 p.m. reception on Friday, Sept. 19, and includes a talk by Horst at 5:30 p.m. on his travel experiences and art.

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Kari Rives: Kindness of Cows 2014, ceramic Santa Fe Community Gallery 201 W. Marcy St., 505-955-6707 The City of Santa Fe Arts Commission’s annual juried show, Common Ground: Art Prize and Exhibit, opens at the Community Gallery on Friday, Sept. 19, with a 5 p.m. reception.

The work that wins first place will be featured on a City of Santa Fe notecard. Common Ground includes two- and three-dimensional pieces in a variety of mediums — such as painting, photography, sculpture, glass, jewelry, and metalwork — from more than 80 New Mexico artists.

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