Vision Magazine for January 1, 2015

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JANUARY 1, 2015

Dracula

The Roswell Community Little Theatre presents Also Inside:

The Second Saturday Art Program

Tony Furtado

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Second Saturdays

By Rey Berrones Vision Editor The Second Saturday program at the Roswell Museum and Art Center returns in January.

According to Miranda Howe, who co-directs the program along with Jessica Parham, "The Second Saturday is a nine-month art program at the Roswell Museum and Art Center that provides a free art lesson for kids from the third grade through the twelfth grade."

The lessons are on the second Saturday of every month, from 10 a.m. noon.

"It was started in 2008 by Elaine Howe, who had the idea that our community and our museum needed a cool, innovative, creative program to provide to kids. It uses creative expression and local artists along with

The popular art classes return to the RMAC on January 10. professional artists from outside the region to come in with their specialty and giving a high quality art experience for kids.

"The original goal for the program in the beginning was to increase youth arts literacy through the study of art in the museum collection followed by hands-on art activities that link art concepts with technical skills.

"The Second Saturday program is sponsored by the RMAC Foundation.

There are no costs. The foundation pays our artists and directors so that we are able to secure professional artists to provide these experiences. It was important to keep this free and open to any in the third grade through twelfth grade age range.

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"The program is open to the entire range of our community, be it private school, public school, or home school.

"One of the goals of the Second Saturday program was to educate the kids on the museum's collection. It is a layered experience, giving kids the opportunity to walk through the galleries, look at art, they are guided through an exhibition, or they focus on a partic-

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ular work in the museum. So they can look and talk about artwork in the collection, and go back into the classroom for a hands-on activity.

"So their experience builds their visual language and knowledge of art terminology.

It provides a base on how to look at art and how to listen to people talk about art, and then be able to have a quality experience in a variety of mediums.

"We try to partner with artists that will have an exhibition in the museum when the Second Saturday program is going on. So they get a different perspective directly from the artist and then are able to learn some of their techniques, or their approach to creative problem solving in art-making. It really is a unique experience for kids.

"These are developing our future museum-goers. By developing the kids like this, they will be the professionals when they bring their parents in to the museum and look at paintings and sculptures in the museum collection. “The first Second Saturday in January is particularly

exciting, because the artist is Rachel Hayes, who was on the past cover of Vision with her Flutter Fence. She will be making Flutter Flags with all of the kids. Students will be looking at paintings in the museum and using that as inspiration to make their own personal flag. They will talk about collaboration and public art and how that differs from an individual piece. The kids will have the opportunity to be part of a public art piece by stringing all of these banners in front of the museum for a week. Family, parents and the community will be able to see that driving by.

That is a nice new facet that is being incorporated.

"In October, in conjunction with the RMAC Block Party, we have an art exhibition that showcases every month of the Second Saturday program, so that the kids and their parents can see what has been done."

Space for the classes is limited, so please call the Roswell Museum and Art Center at 624-6744, extension 22, two weeks prior to each class to reserve a spot.

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Country legend Willie Nelson to perform Jan. 2 at Lea County Events Center ountry music legend Willie Nelson will perform Friday, Jan. 2, at the Lea County Events Center.

The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. and is part of the concert venue’s Hobbs Road Trip Concert Series.

So far, B.B. King, Alan Jackson, Gabriel Iglesias, Phillip Phillips, Larry the Cable Guy and, most recently, Chris Isaak, have been featured in the series.

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when progressive rock band Foreigner takes the stage.

Now 81, Nelson is widely recognized as an American icon, not only as a musician who has worked with just about country twanger in Nashville and a f ew rock starts to boot, but also as an actor who has appeared in more than 30 films. He also is an activist who supports Amer ican f armers and the legalization of marijuana.

Nelson was inducted into the Country Music Hall of

Fame in 1993 and he received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1998. In 2011, he was inducted to the National Agricultural Hall of Fame, for his labor in Farm Aid and other fund risers to benefit farmers.

He has released a new album with his sister, Bobbie, called “December Day — Willie’s Stash — Volume 1.”

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Ongoing Events Roswell

Every Week, Mon - Sat

Lest We Forget: Roswell Army Airfield - The Early Years This Walker Aviation Museum display will remain through the end of the year. This exhibit features a short history of the base and many items from the WWII era, as well as information about the planes that flew at Roswell Army Airfield from 1941-1945. The museum is open from 10 a.m.

- 3:30 p.m. For more information, call 347-2464 or visit wafbmuseum.org.

Every Week, Mon - Sat

Peace Through Strength This Walker Aviation Museum exhibit is a tribute to the 579th Strategic Missile Squadron assigned to Walker Air Force Base during the early 1960s. The squadron was responsible for operating

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and maintaining 12 Atlas missile silos around the greater Roswell area. The exhibit was funded through a grant from the Association of Air Force Missileers. The museum is open from 10 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

For more information, call 347-2464 or visit www.wafbmuseum.org.

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Sing Out Loud at Club Revue Sing Out Loud, Wednesdays, from 9pm to 11:30pm, at Club Revue, located at 3905 SE Main. Enjoy karaoke night with no cover charge and drink specials. Sing Out Loud is a 21 and over event. For more information call 6238557

Every Week, Tues, Wed, Thurs

Games at Pair-A-Dice Pair-A-Dice game shack, located at 309 N. Main St., holds weekly gaming events.

Tuesday from 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. is Trading Card Game night, featuring free play of games like Pokemon, Yu Gi-Oh!, Card Wars, My Little Pony and collectible card games.

Wednesday from 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. is board game night.

Thursday is Miniature Night, featuring paint and play for games like Warhammer from 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. Friday nights

feature Magic: The Gathering from 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. Saturday afternoons have special featured games, which change weekly. For more information, call 575-623-4263, or email vbriseno@pairadicegameshack.com

Every Week, Wed

Weekly Knockout The Roswell Fighting Game Community presents Weekly Knockout at The Unity Center located at 108 E. Bland every Wednesday from 7 p.m. midnight. Dragonpunch with Ken, slash with Sabrewulf and smash with Kirby all night long without disturbing your neighbors. Casual and competitive gamers are welcome.

Bring your favorite games and set up. All games are welcome. For more information, visit facebook.com/RoswellFGC.

Every Week, Wed, Sat

Karaoke at Billy RayĘźs Restaurant and Lounge Karaoke at Billy RayĘźs Restaurant and Lounge at 118 East Third St. from 9 p.m - until people stop singing.

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David and Tina at El Toro Bravo David and Tina plays El Toro Bravo at 102 S. Main St. from 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. For more information, call El Toro Bravo at 622-9280.

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Cuic Gonzales at El Tapatio Cuic Gonzales plays Latin Pop and Country music at El Tapatio at 3012 N. Main from 6 p.m - 9 p.m. For more information, call El Tapatio at 5781915.

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Open Mic at Ginsberg Music Ginsberg Music opens up the stage every Saturday from 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. P.A. system and drums are provided, all other instruments must be brought by the musician.

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Open Jam at Dragon and Rose Open Jam Every Saturday from 7 p.m. - 11 p.m. at Dragon and Rose music studio located at 4504 W. Second St. For more information, call 575-840-5744.

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Sandbox Sundays Sandbox Sundays, every Sunday, from 1pm to 5pm, at CarmineĘźs Italian Eatery, lo-

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Karaoke at Cree Meadows Lounge Karaoke with DJ Pete, every Thursday evening from 6 p.m.

- 11 p.m. at Cree Meadows Lounge. There is also an all you can eat taco bar for $5.95 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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Carlos Kemm The Roswell Artist-in-Residence program and the Roswell Museum and Art Center present Carlos Kemm.

Over several decades, Kemm has explored numerous techniques along with various methods of assemblage and applications that have evolved and represented in his current works. Each piece has emerged out of spontaneous play and may been looked upon as having been borne out of an experiment, and active dreaming. The use of dimensional space from images adhered at various heights and depths within the visual plane add a visual intimacy. His works are also painted and inked, adding yet 7 >>

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Jekyll & Hyde

November 26 - January 17

Michael Hurd Exhibit: Drawings and Watercolors A special exhibition of Michael Hurdʼs drawings and watercolors featuring works not previously seen by the public.

Michael is the artist/owner of the Sentinel Ranch and The Hurd Gallery and Guest Homes. He is the son of the celebrated artists, Peter Hurd and Henriette Wyeth. For gallery hours and more information, visit wyethartists.com.

Roswell

January 15

Photographic Arts Society of Roswell Club Meeting The Photographic Arts Society of Roswell will hold its December meeting at 6:30 p.m. in room 28 at the Roswell Adult Center, located at 807 N. Missouri. We will share and discuss photos from this monthʼs challenge “first and last light of the day.” As always, free coffee, and with this being the December meeting, it is also the annual potluck party. Interested in photography? Come join the PASR. For more information, call Cliff Powell at 626-2529.

Roswell

December 31

New Yearʼs Eve Party Way Out West is celebrating New Yearʼs Eve with a 21 and over party. Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets are $12.50 - $15 and include party favors and a champagne toast at midnight. For more information, visit wayoutwestroswell.com.

Roswell

December 31

Thursday January 15

Spencer Theater

“Jekyll & Hyde” is the Broadway musical phenomenon that will sweetly haunt patrons with power and passion for years to come. Both enthralling and evocative, this award-winning production, based on Robert Louis Stevensonʼs allegorical tale, is at once a tale of the epic battle between good and evil, and the terror of romance thatʼs often sacrificed in between. Featuring a book and lyrics by the Oscar & Grammy winning lyricist Leslie Bricusse and a score by Grammy & Tony nominated composer Frank Wildhorn, “Jekyll & Hyde” is set in old Victorian London where the brilliant Dr. Henry Jekyll is the toast of the town. Starring a cast of 30 with Columbia Artists Theatricals, the absolute thrill of“Jekyll and Hyde” is complete with a fantastic pop-rock score (including the hits “This Is the Moment,” “Someone Like You” and “A New Life”) that thoroughly evokes the duality of the soul and the symbolic struggle of every man. The performance starts at 7 p.m., with a chicken buffet before the show at 5 p.m.

Tickets for the performance are $39, $65, $69 and $72. Preshow buffet tickets are $20. For more information, call 1888-818-7872 or visit spencertheater.com.

New Yearʼs Eve Bash Third Street Station, located at 301 N. Railroad, is hosting a New Yearʼs Eve Bash with live music by Kingdoms Fall, Klas (from Secret Circus) and the Cosmic Purple Carrot.

Tickets are $25, which includes hor dʼouvres, party favors, complimentary champagne toast and half price cab rides home. This is a 21 and over event that begins at 8 p.m. For more information, call 575-910-7395.

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Rio Celebration Ring in the New Year with great music, delicious food and an unforgettable evening at Inn of the Mountain Godʼs New Yearʼs Eve Rio Celebration December 31 at 7 p.m.

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Hobbs

January 2

Willie Nelson Willie Nelson is playing the Lea County Event Center.

The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. and is part of the concert venueʼs Hobbs Road Trip Concert Series. Now 81, Nelson is widely recognized as an American icon, not only as a musician who has worked with just about country twanger in Nashville and a few rock starts to boot, but also as an actor who has appeared in more than 30 films.

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he last time we caught up with Tony Furtado in the pages of Vision Magazine, he was on tour, and using his time on the road to personally deliver copies of his album to f ans that had paid for that perk on his Kickstarter campaign.

It has been a couple of years, but it seems that Furtado is back at it.

For the past 6 months Tony has been diving in and out of the studio working tirelessly to finish what promises to be his strongest, most personal album to date. The album is called "The Bell," a self-produced, all original tour de force featuring many of Portland's finest roots and Americana musicians, and he has just finished a successful Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign to finish the disc and release in early 2015.

While equally dazzling on banjo as he is on slide guitar, the powers-that-be have always pushed the banjo to become secondary. Furtado set out on this new selfproduced project to reverse that. Songs range from fiery banjo instrumentals to introspective singer-songwriter ballads. No matter what your pleasure you will be struck by his playing as f ellow multi-instrumentalist David Lindley says, “Tony Furtado is a major musical f orce without a doubt. He has his black belt in voice, bottleneck guitar and his banjo playing scares the crap out

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Tony Furtado previews tracks from his forthcoming release “The Bell” on his current tour of me.”

“The Bell” features Furtado’s band which is comprised of some of Portland’s finest, including current National Fiddle Champion Luke Price (fiddle/electric guitar) and drummer Russ Kleiner (Shook Twins, Curtis Salgado). Both will be joining Tony

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Portland, Oregon-based Tony Furtado (two-time National Banjo Champion, slide guitarist, singer-songwriter, and sculptor), has wandered through genres and styles, never growing static and always evolving

musically. He has toured tirelessly f or more than two decades and has garnered a great deal of respect from his peers, and has recorded with, opened for, and toured with acts such as Greg Allman, Susan Tedeschi, Alison Krauss, Taj Mahal, Leftover Salmon, Eric Johnson, Sonny Landreth, Keith Richards, David Lindley, Derek Trucks, Norah Jones, among many others. Like his vast catalogue of recordings (16 to date, not including the upcoming album), a Tony Furtado show has some-

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Whether he’s playing with a band, or recording as a solo artist, his playing and considerable skills as a multi-instrumentalist and his strong songwriting prowess have led him to be embraced on record and on stage.

For more information on Furtado or his music, visit tonyfurtado.com. For tickets or more information on the Roswell show, visit pecosflavorswinery.com.

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BaBa presents A Buster Keaton Experience

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BaBa plays music to classic Buster Keaton Films during the Xcellent Music Series aBa, which is short for TuBA and BAnjo, is one of the most original bands that has come along in recent years, and they have been playing for years in the Albuquerque area.

The banjo player and vocalist, Steven Rober Allen, lays down a century-old style of early jazz and fiddle with a modern take that pairs up perfectly with tuba player Mark Weaver.

The duo has recently put the finishing touches on a soundtrack to the Buster Keaton film "The Scarecrow." They plan on giving the public the first taste of this soundtrack at the next Xcellent Music at AMoCA event on Jan. 10 at 7 p.m. at the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art located at 409 E. College Blvd.

BaBa is giving modern audiences the uncommon opportunity to see â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;20s era silent films with a live music bed in much the same way that they were screened a century ago.

Weaver is passionate about the live music experience, and was excited to explain the concept in an interview. He said, "There are a few groups that specialize in this ... touring silent films while they play live music to it. I first did some of this ten years ago with Chris Jonas. We did live music for a feature-length Buster Keaton film, as well as a feature-length film silent film called 'The Man Who Laughed.'

"He wrote out the music, scored it out, and practiced with the film to get the synchronization. It is not done a lot, but there are bands out

there that are doing that sort of thing, and I love doing music for film."

He went on to explain that music is a two-way experience, and in his opinion, live music is a more interactive experience than people realize. He added, "I'm a live music person, and that's what I think of as music, people together playing music."

This particular experience is adding the live music interaction with the audience over a silent film that was designed to have a live music component.

Weaver said, "Our duo has done a soundtrack to a Buster Keaton short entitled 'The Goat' and we performed that a few times in Albuquerque, and we have prepared another one, 'The Scarecrow.' They are both shorts, they are two-reel-

ers. They are from the 1920s, and they are classic Buster Keaton films. They are really well done.

"People really love it. We haven't done 'The Scarecrow' yet, but people really love to see 'The Goat.'

"We have done a number of film projects with other groups, and Steve is a longtime Buster Keaton fan. We worked up these two soundtracks that we will be performing, plus a few other songs, because we are a regular band here in Albuquerque, and we play regular gigs.

"Everybody seems to love it,

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from young people to old people. Buster Keaton has a broad appeal. It is a way to refresh people on the genius of Buster Keaton, when you present it with new music. It is something that deserves to be seen over and over again.

"Steve has written a song about Buster Keaton that we will be performing."

Admission to this event is free, and made possible by Xcel Energy and the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Foundation. For more information, visit roswellamoca.org or call 575623-5600.

All meals are served with your choice of regular, low fat or chocolate milk. Menu subject to change.

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>>7 ceived the Kennedy Center Honors in 1998. In 2011, he was inducted to the National Agricultural Hall of Fame, for his labor in Farm Aid and other fund risers to benefit farmers. He has released a new album with his sister, Bobbie, called “December Day — Willieʼs Stash — Volume 1.” For tickets and more information visit hobbsroadtrip.com or come directly to Lea County Event Center and we will be glad to help you.

Roswell January 3

Through the Gates Through the Gates is a Dardcore (Deathcore/Post-Hardcore) band from Albuquerque, is playing the Unity Center, located at 108 E. Bland. Also playing are Rivalry and Wagoner. Doors open at 6 p.m.

For more information, visit facebook.com/theunitycenter.

Roswell January 7

Mardi Gras Dinner and Dance The annual Mardi Gras Dinner and Dance is set for Saturday, Feb. 7 from 6 - 11 p.m., at the Roswell Convention Center located at 912 N Main St. Music is by DJ Louis Najar, cash bar, silent auction, and door prizes. Donʼt

forget to wear a mask or costume to be entered in a special drawing. Limited child care available. Tickets are $35 per person. Call 575-4203691 or 575-627-5744 for information and reservations.

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January 9

Ken Barbe Ken Barbe and Friends play Pecos Flavors Winery at 7 p.m. Admission is $5. For more information, call 6276265.

January 9 - 10

CW Ayon One Man Band Las Cruces musician C.W. Ayon is a One Man Band that sings and plays blues, (electric and acoustic), while playing harmonica and operating a kick drum and snare with his feet. He mainly played in and around the Las Cruces and El Paso area for the past couple years. He has also played in Blues Festivals from New Mexico to Mississippi and had a few shows in Australia, too. For more information, visit graceomalleys.com.

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Saturday January 10

The Unity Center

Silent Planet, So It Begins, Wagoner, Witness the Recreant, XVIA , Rivalry and more play a Unity Center Show. Silent Planet is an American metalcore band from Los Angeles, California. The band is currently signed to Solid State Records. To date they have recorded two EPs and a fulllength album. Doors open at 5 p.m. Admission is $12. For more information, visit facebook.com/theunitycenter.

The Second Saturday program returns to the Roswell Museum and Art Center from 10 a.m. - noon. This is a free program that is open to all children in the third grade to 12th grade age ranges. The first program is “Fabric Flutter Flags.” Students will work with textile artist and Artist-inResidence, Rachel Hayes, and Art Educator, Dietta Hitchcock, to create their own personal flag out of fabric, vinyl, and colored foam shapes. Kids will look at paint-

ings from the Roswell Museumʼs permanent collection as inspiration for their own works. The concepts of ʻcollaborationʼ and ʻpublic artʼ will be discussed during this lesson and these banners will hang as a group piece along the entrance to the Roswell Museum for 1 week. Come be part of this colorful, creative collaboration. Space is limited to 30, so please call and reserve a spot for your child by calling Curator of Education, Claudia Gonzalez, at the Roswell Museum

Polar Party The Polar Party is from 2 p.m.

- 4 p.m. at the Girl Scout Center located at 1307 E College.

This is open to all girls in grades k-12. Cost is and $5 per girl. Come meet the new Girl Scout Cookie Mascot Coco and celebrate the new cookie season, play games make awesome polar crafts and check out the awesome incentives for the sale this year, RSVP 575-622-7801.

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January 10

Silent Planet Silent Planet, So It Begins, Wagoner, Witness the Recreant, XVIA , Rivalry and more play a Unity Center Show.

Doors open at 5 p.m. Admission is $12. For more information, visit facebook.com/theunitycenter.

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Hobbs

January 12

Southwest Symphony The Southwest Symphony Orchestra and Tour of Schools Orchestra members and the Artistic Director, Dr. Mark Jelinek, will perform Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 by Prokofiev at 7 p.m. at Tydings Auditorium. The beloved classic has been delighting adults and children alike all over the world with a musical journey where each character Peter meets in the story is represented by an instrument in the orchestra!

The orchestra will also perform Overture to “The Creatures of Prometheus” Op. 43 by

Beethoven. The next day, Dr. Jelinek, the musicians and staff will take the magical production to third and fourth grade classrooms in Lovington, Tatum and Hobbs, NM for the annual Tour of Schools Youth Outreach Program which educates students in Lea County each year about the wonderful world of symphonic orchestra and the performing arts. Adult tickets $20.

18 & Under FREE and College Students with ID are free at door. Tickets can be purchased prior at Music World and Center for the Arts in Hobbs or online at www.swsymphony.org

Roswell

January 13

Tony Furtado Tony Furtado brings his band and a slew of new tunes to Pecos Flavors Winery in advance of his new album “The Bell.” The show starts at 7 p.m. Admission is $20. For more information, call 6276265.

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January 15

Jekyll & Hyde “Jekyll & Hyde” is the Broadway musical phenomenon that will sweetly haunt patrons with power and passion for years to come. Both enthralling and evocative, this award-winning production, based on Robert Louis Stevensonʼs allegorical tale, is at once a tale of the epic battle between good and evil, and the terror of romance thatʼs often sacrificed in between. Featuring a book and lyrics by the Oscar & Grammy winning lyricist Leslie Bricusse and a score by Grammy & Tony nominated composer Frank Wildhorn, “Jekyll & Hyde” is set in old Victorian London where the brilliant Dr. Henry Jekyll is the toast of the town. Always working in pursuit of medical advancements, Dr. Jekyll experiments on himself to show there are two dynamics to every soul, shadow and light. His goal is altruistic: to rid the world of evil. But the

dicey experiment backfires, as Dr. Jekyll gives life to an evil alter ego that is charismatic, villainous and very deadly. Before our very eyes, Dr. Jekyll evolves from a self-absorbed scientist into the pompous and creepy Mr. Henry Hyde. The latter is full of terror that Jekyll finds he cannot control. Romance and passion resonates in this musical as Jekyll battles against his beastly shadowside and violates the love in his life. The latter comes in the guise of two women: Jekyllʼs sophisticated fiancée and the unlucky dancehall prostitute, who gets involved with both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Starring a cast of 30 with Columbia Artists Theatricals, the absolute thrill of“Jekyll and Hyde” is complete with a fantastic pop-rock score (including the hits “This Is the Moment,” “Someone Like You” and “A New Life”) that thoroughly evokes the duality of the soul and the symbolic struggle of every man. The performance starts at 7 p.m., with a chicken buffet before the show at 5 p.m. Tickets for the performance are $39, $65, $69 and $72. Pre-show buffet tickets are $20. For more information, call 1-888-818-7872 or visit spencertheater.com.

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January 15

Yesterday: A Tribute to the Beatles Concho Resources presents Yesterday: A Tribute to the Beatles. Performing all eras of Beatles music in their original key, wearing drainpipe trousers and playing authentic instruments, Yesterday - The Beatles Tribute has performed on five continents. Beginning with the British Invasions in 1964, the mop tops from Liverpool began the first wave of Beatlemania. The Beatles forever changed the face of pop music with such songs as “Hard Dayʼs Night,” “Help,” “I Wanna Hold Your Hand,” “Sgt. Pepperʼs Lonely Hearts Club Band,” and Revolution.” Yesterday recreates note for note the music of the Fab Four. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. at the Ocotillo Performing Arts Center located at 310 W. Main. Tickets are $25 - $15. For more information, visit artesiaartscouncil.com.

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Looking forward to new independent music projects New New Mexico Sounds

by Klas Ă&#x2026;hman

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014 was a good year for the Roswell Music Scene. There's been a significant increase in the frequency of live music around town, a couple of new music venues have opened their doors to local bands with original music (Stellar Coffee Co. and Third Street Station), several new local bands are emerging on the scene, big national acts putting on shows, etc. To help make 2015 even better for our local scene I've started a Facebook group to organize and connect the "Roswell Music S c e n e " Fa c e b o o k . c o m / g r o u p s / RoswellMusicScene, please join if you are interested in staying updated with shows and bands in Roswell and the surrounding area!

I've spent the last quarter of 2014 traveling around our land of enchantment

immersed in my quest to boost the New Mexico music scene, equipped with a scheme of infiltrating all the micro scenes in the towns of New Mexico and connecting them with the Roswell Music Scene. My main medium for making friends and allies has become video.

When I come to a new town to play a show, often I'm booked to share the stage with a local artist or band.

Many of these artists and bands are really great...

Some are seasoned touring acts, some haven't had a chance to venture very far away from their home towns, and don't have much of an online representation. In any case, when I come across true talent and good vibes, I try to create an opportunity to capture it on video with a simple field sound

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recording rig and a couple of DSLR cameras. I post these videos to my channelYo u T u b e . c o m / S e c re t C i r cusVideo. In the past month I've posted live indie music by Jim Dixon from Hobbs (at Secret Circus Studio), Dustin Hamman from the band Run On Sentence from Silver City/Portland (in Dustin's studio in Silver City), and Jones and Miles (live in a Tipi up in the hills of Ruidoso)... New videos posted continually!

In other news for 2015, my band Secret Circus will be joining me in a couple of weeks for another U.S. tour and some studio sessions to finish our coming album. First off on the that tour we've dubbed the "Tales from the lower divisions" Secret Circus tour of 2015, is a series of showcase shows at the Sundance festival in Park City as part of the Atticus Indie Fresh Brew. We're going up there together with several of our New Mexico friends such as

Gleewood from Ruidoso and Q and the Current from Clovis, and working with many other indie bands and artists from around the country. After running into some incorporated resistance arranging the Atticus Indie Fresh Brew series in the past, the locals are pushing back, we're joining them trying to stir up the revolutionary spirit of the Park City Indie community and local small businesses to march with us under the flags of #realindie and #taking-

backsundance to bring Indie back to Independent. After that Secret Circus is hitting the trails of the west playing shows all around the Southwest. Secret Circus is also to open for American Idol winner David Cook on Friday, Feb. 20, at The Liberty in Roswell (tickets available at thelibertyinc.com or at Pecos Flavors).

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By Rey Berrones Vision Editor he Roswell Community Little Theatre is bringing Dracula to life with the upcoming production of the classic play from 1924. The play is by Hamilton Deane, and is an adaptation of the Bram Stoker novel of the same name.

Peter Powell, a RCLT player that the Roswell audience knows and loves, is taking up the director's duties. He is also getting help from the crew at ThrenodyRadio.com, who are helping to bring a high quality fantasy production to the stage.

According to Powell, Threnody Radio is excited to sink their teeth into this production because it fit right into their sensibilities. He explained, "We broadcast and we do scripts in the old 1930s live radio style. We write the scripts and do the sound effects. It is basically a dark fantasy radio drama.

"We are already adept at creating our own world.

"We have bats that fly

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The RCLT brings this classic 30â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play to back to life. around, and we do the crypt scene, and the set is coming along very well. It is going to be phenomenal. We are making it as period as possible, and making the crypt really feel like they are in a crypt.

"We are bringing everyone into our world. The costuming is basically heavy in goth and steampunk."

Many people might also recognize Powell and the Threnody Radio crew from their appearances at fantasy and comic conventions, including the Roswell Cosmicon, where they put on a steampunk workshop.

Powell said, "We did a steampunk goggle workshop for this past Cosmicon. We sold out and had people that were standing around watching, just to be able to watch, which was great. This coming year, we are doing an entire steampunk day with a steampunk ball at the end of it for the Cosmicon.

We have a lot of crews coming in for that."

In addition to the regular productions, the crew is preparing for a special vampire night where everyone is encouraged to come in costume.

Powell explained, "On the 23rd, there are two shows.

There is a 7:30 p.m. show, and an 11:30 p.m. show. The 11:30 show is also a 'come dressed as your favorite Dracula character show.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; It is a vampire night.

"Also on the 23rd, there are two different Draculas. One for each peformance. They are Jaxon Wilson and Cody Whittington.

"We want to see fun. We want everybody to get into a costume, step out of the mundane for a while, slip some fangs in and dress like Dracula. No sparkly vampires... we will be checking for sparkles at the door, and there will be a prize for the best vampire."

Wilson is the primary Dracula, and Whittington is the understudy, and Powell is

enthusiastic about working with both of them. He said, "This is Jaxon's first play, and Cody's second play, having just come off of Arsenic and Old Lace. We have people that go from theater to film that are always yelling, and Jaxon is the opposite because he is more used to film. People would recognize Jaxon from either 'Tailed' or 'The Tie Dye Man Movie,' which are two local film productions."

Dracula opens on Jan. 16, it then plays on Jan. 17 and 18, 23, 24 and 25. Friday and Saturday performances begin at 7:30 p.m. with Sunday performances beginning at 2 p.m.

There are two performances on Jan. 23, the regular 7:30 p.m. performance, and a special 11:30 p.m. performance. For reservations, visit roswelltheatre.com.

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Happy New Year

By Sara Mitchell YPAC Board President

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love the beginning of the year. Time to make those resolutions. Time to think about how to make ourselves better, how to make the next year brighter, grander and healthier, more adventurous, more fun and more educational. The gyms will be packed. Juicers and scales and running shoes will come out of hiding. Writers may actually sit down to do some writing. Change is in the air and it may be cliché, but I love it.

I am by nature a goal-setter.

Even though I always eventually lose my resolve and start handing myself I.O.Us for those long runs and word

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counts by early Spring, I still get excited about sitting down on January 1 with a pen and paper to start over. What will my goals be this year?

How will I challenge myself?

How do I want to grow?

Of course, I always want to be more fit. But that’s too vague. To have a shot at success, goals need to be specific. Sure, I want to be stronger and leaner, but a goal is something you can do. Something you can check off. Run three times a week. Do yoga every morning. Cut out sugar.

Sign up for a race. Those are goals. Specific. Doable. Realistic. Not vague.

When people ask me about YPAC, I tell them we support the arts. Sometimes that’s all you have time to say. Yes, I am

aware that it sounds pretty open-ended. Supporting the arts could mean anything.

“Way to go, arts!” we cheer.

“Looking good today, arts!”

Sounds like the start of another brilliant cartoon. But YPAC doesn’t just talk about supporting the arts. We do it in concrete, specific ways. We volunteer. We raise money to put it back into the arts. And we show up at art events. Like actually show up. Buy tickets and stay for the show and maybe even stack chairs when it’s over.

Saying our goal is to support the arts is like saying my goal is to be more fit. It’s true, but it’s not something you can check off a list. They’re ambitions that you can always get closer to achieving but not

ones that you can ever complete. There’s always a little more you can do. Get a little more definition in your abs or pack out more performances.

You can’t ever say “I did it,” when your goals look more like dreams. So break it down.

As an organization, we’ve broken our goal down into three things we can check off every year. As members of YPAC and as members of the community, we can get even more specific. How about this? Go to at least one local theater performance this year. Go to two live music shows. Sign up for one painting class at Main Street Arts or at RMAC. Volunteer at one event with your YPAC action team. Buy one piece of art, even if it’s just a teeny-tiny

I don’t want it’ because it means a lot to me. It’s very important,” Evans said. “And they had been after me for two or three years. ‘Let’s do you,’ and I said well it’s gonna be awkward. Mr. Evans is recognizing Mr. Evans. It’s like I wrote the check to myself.

But I’m pleased to have it.”

As former activities director for all levels of Roswell schools, a post he held twice, Evans gave birth to the annual honoree tradition.

“The Poe Corn Tournament has a soft place in my heart,” said the 78-year-old retired coach and educator. “It started in 1947. It’s the oldest tournament in the state, and after I was transferred from the athletic directorship to the elementary school the

tournament was dropped for a while, and while I was there (the first time) I started a process where we would recognize retired educators who had made a contribution to our district and to our young people.

“When I came back to the athletic directorship I reinstituted that process, and to date I believe we have recognized 14 people, both men and women, and this year I was unable to attend their planning meeting of the Sunrise Optimist and I got nominated.”

A Roswell High School graduate of 1954 — “last group out of the old high school,” he says — Evans has worked at schools from El Paso to Grand Junction, Colorado. But it’s Roswell where

he stays connected to cronies and the extra-curricular programs of both high schools.

Not long after leaving his first stint as activities director he was recruited back into the office.

“I’m not sure that’s ever been done in this state before, for a second time.”

Evans said. “Next to the superintendent it’s the most difficult position in the city when you have two high schools. You’re never always correct. I did that and ultimately retired about 2004.

“I pretty much devoted my life to that and I did for several years to the jazz festival.

And I play golf about four days a week.”

When Evans was a Roswell Coyote the activities director was Poe Corn himself, and

one. Paint bowls with YPAC for AMOCA’s upcoming Soupand-Bowl. Write a poem.

Learn a new instrument. Create something.

Start 2015 with this goal: become a member of the Young Professionals for the Arts Collective. If you join by Jan. 17, it will only cost you $35 for the year. Our next meeting will be at the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art on the 17th at 10 a.m.

Join our mailing list at ypacroswell.org and we’ll send you an Evite for the event. As a member, you will get to know interesting people you might never have bumped into and you will quickly start checking off those New Year’s resolutions.

The Poe Corn Tournament honors Duane Evans

By Jeff Jackson Record Staff Writer n addition to playing a lot of golf, Duane Evans has spent the last several years serving an integral role with the Sunrise Optimist Poe Corn Basketball Tournament.

The main responsibility for Evans, a former activities director of the Roswell Independent School District, has been to select the annual honoree from the historic tournament.

When the Optimists were meeting and planning this year’s tournament they figured they had Evans right where they wanted him — out of town and unavailable.

That gave the Optimist Club the perfect opportunity to make Evans this year’s award recipient.

“I would’ve looked unappreciative if I’d have said ‘No

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Evans’ connection to him traces back even further. His father and Cor n played against each other when they were in high school at Ruidoso and Roswell, respectively.

“He’s kinda of a legend here in town. When I was a little kid he would let a lot of us little guys who didn’t have the money to go swimming every day,” Evans remembers. “They would drain the Cahoon Park pool once a week and we little guys would get to come in there with brooms and sweep all the rocks and pennies down to the drain. And we got to swim free that week. He was really a good man. Very thoughtful.”

Spotlight on Education

By Sara Woodbury RMAC Curator of Collections and Exhibitions

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ormally when I write for Vision I describe hidden gems from the Roswell Museum’s permanent collection, but this month I’d like to highlight the activity coming from our outstanding education department. The museum, after all, has always been dedicated to both maintaining a high-quality collection and offering fine educational programs to the public, and with winter classes soon commencing, it only seems appropriate to share with you some of our current offerings.

The RMAC’s winter class schedule will be a full and varied one. Clay remains a popular subject for both adults and children, with classes happening during the day and evening, but several other courses in different media will be offered as well, which I’d like to highlight here.

One of these is an adult beginning and intermediate watercolor class with Barbara Rizzo, which will take place on Tuesday evenings from 7 - 9 p.m. from Jan. 27 to March 3.

Students will not only learn essential watercolor techniques, but also the fundamentals of planning and completing paintings. If drawing is more to your liking, Barbara Posuniak will teach an intermediate adult drawing course on Thursday evenings, 7 - 9 p.m., from Jan. 29 to March 5.

For those who’d like to have the whole family take a class together, check out Amy Lynn Bondourant’s charcoal sketching course. This class is open to all ages and levels, and will occur on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 7 - 8 p.m., from Jan. 20 to Feb. 12. Sheila Ortega will be teaching a four-part weekend workshop called

Crafty Kids, from 10 - 11 a.m.

This class is designed to help children further develop their motor skills, and will take place on Jan. 24 and 31, and Feb. 21 and 28.

The museum is also venturing into the world of music by offering its first beginning guitar class this winter, with instructor Jonathan Gomez teaching from 11 a.m. - noon on Saturdays, Jan. 17 - March 7.

Second Saturdays, the Museum’s popular nine-month morning program for children, will resume in January.

Many community members have happily noticed that the Planetarium has reopened and resumed regular programming, which has greatly benefitted both the museum and city of Roswell. Since its reopening in July, the Planetarium has significantly helped to increase visitation to the RMAC, and under its new director, Marcus de

Thouars, it now offers an array of current, scientifically-accurate programs that appeal to visitors of all ages. This winter, in addition to its well-received space science and children’s shows, the Planetarium will be featuring several new, original programs, including Dark Cosmos, which explores two of the most mysterious subjects in astronomy today, dark energy and dark matter. The Planetarium has also begun hosting “Birthday Parties under the Stars,” which we hope will become a popular activity in the future for children and families.

All of this activity reflects the museum’s long-term plan for the public. Since the arrival of new Executive Director Michael Hall last February, the museum has begun placing greater emphasis on providing high-quality, multi-generational programming to families. This new initiative has impacted all of the museum’s

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departments, and how we approach our work. As curator of Collections and Exhibitions, I strive to create shows with broad appeal in order to make our holdings more accessible to visitors of all ages and interests. In the case of the Planetarium, shows are designed to not only entertain visitors, but also to introduce them to current developments in astronomy and demonstrate the ways in which they impact our daily lives.

In the educational branch of our mission, we’re expanding our impact by not only continuing to offer high-quality daytime and evening classes, but also by launching new programs that will better serve the needs of the community.

One of these is an after-school program that will take place on the first and third Wednesday afternoons of January, February, and March from 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

The museum is also collabo-

rating with the New Mexico Autism Society to offer a new class on the last Saturday of the month for autistic children and their families. Thanks to a grant from Xcel Energy, we’ll also be launching a mentoring program for high school students interested in pursuing careers in the arts. We hope that these initiatives will only be the beginning of a new array of activities that will serve the different needs and interests of our community.

If you have any questions or would like to register for classes, please contact Claudia Gonzalez, curator of education, at 575-624-6744 x 22 or e d u c a t i o n @roswellmuseum.org. For any questions about the Planetarium, contact Marcus de Thouars at marcus@roswellmuseum.org. As always, we’re proud to serve you here at the RMAC, and hope to see you soon.

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UFOLOGY

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Could government UFO secrecy actually be illegal?

Looking Up

FO investigators have realized for many years that the government knows much more about the UFO phenomenon than it has ever acknowledged. But we’re supposed to be a nation of laws, so what is the legal basis for the government’s insistence upon keeping practically all UFO-related information hidden?

Arguably, it may be that there is no legal justification at all. As I see it, there are two major problems with the legality of secrecy.

The first problem is that, however necessary it is for some genuine national security matters to remain classified, there is no clear basis in either constitutional or statu-

tory law for the government’s “right” to keep so many other things secret. The only reference in the Constitution to withholding information from the public is found in Article I, Section 5, and this only specifies that the houses of Congress can sometimes exclude parts of the journals of their proceedings from publication. Otherwise, the authority for official secrecy comes exclusively from executive orders issued by various presidents. (For example, President Clinton’s Executive Order 12958 defines the terms “confidential,” “secret,” and “top secret.”)

And that’s where the difficulty lies. It has never been definitively established (not

in my view, anyway) that executive orders constitute law the way legislative actions do. Executive orders have long been treated as if they were proper law, but that doesn’t necessarily establish that they really are. It is possible to argue that letting them function as law violates the fundamental principle of separation of powers.

The second problem (I did promise you two) is that withholding information from the people may plausibly be interpreted as a due process issue, in terms of constitutional law.

The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution declares, as is well known, that no person shall be “deprived of life, lib-

erty, or property without due process of law.” The point is, we have come to live in an age in which there is abundant precedent for regarding information as property. Companies buy and sell lists of names and addresses, and such entities as novels and screenplays are commonly referred to, in contract law, as “intellectual property.”

Indeed I wouldn’t be surprised to find that much larger sums of money accrue from abstract informational property than from property of the more traditional, tangible sort.

So one can argue that if information about unidentified flying objects is concealed from the public, that

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amounts to depriving us all of property (vital information about life in our universe) without due process of law.

The two problems I have described are interrelated. If it turns out that presidential executive orders do not legitimately amount to law, and if (as is demonstrably true) these are the only basis for keeping everything classified, then the withholding of UFO information (a type of property) technically has to be without due process of law, simply because there is no law, in the legislative sense, authorizing such secrecy.

Some constitutional lawyer could make history by challenging all this in the courts.

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