Santa Fe Pride 2015 Celebrating the diversity that makes this “the City Different,” Santa Fe Pride 2015 welcomes the LGBT community and friends to hit the streets and fly their flags this weekend. Presented by the Santa Fe Human Rights Alliance, which supports the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community through social action, this event is all about visibility via out-loud pride. Extravagantly decorated floats, exquisitely costumed walkers,
cyclists,. dogs, and a rainbow of personal expressions will be on display. The parade starts at the old PERA building parking lot across from the Capitol Building and meanders to the South Federal Plaza. After the parade, Mayor Javier Gonzales and the Gay Men’s Chorus open the festivities at the Santa Fe Plaza, followed by live entertainment by Sandy B. and Zhana Saunders, among other acts. The parties continue into the night at various venues, and include a comedy show featuring lesbian stand-up legend Cameron Esposito at Skylight.—Cristina Olds Santa Fe Pride Parade, free, 1 pm, PERA Parking Lot, Festival, 2–6 pm, Santa Fe Plaza, June 27, santafehra.org
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Jurassic World became the first film to gross $500 million worldwide during its opening weekend.
Presents Indominus Rex.” The mistake is not in the cloning of dinosaurs; it’s in getting too ambitious with the cloning and making a species nature never intended. Jurassic World, therefore, has utterly missed the point of its beloved source material. If the original concept is followed, this park could not exist; and there’s no way the hero could ride his motorcycle through the jungle while trained raptors sprint alongside him in formation. The stakes are tamped too far down when the dinosaurs are less dangerous. You couldn’t have survived in the open air with raptors in the original film, and you needed a Jeep to outrun the T-Rex. In Jurassic World, you don’t even need sensible shoes.—Phil Parker
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The raptors in Jurassic World are trained like dogs, and a woman wearing high heels outruns a T-Rex. For analysis, we return to rockstar Jurassic Park mathematician Ian Malcolm: “The lack of humility before nature that’s being displayed here, uh, staggers me.” Me too. Jurassic World is fun but it’s also very stupid; and that’s a shame, because of all the blockbuster franchises assaulting our senses this summer, this one ought to be smart. That Malcolm quote comes from the original Jurassic Park, directed by Steven Spielberg and released in a long-ago era (1993) when huge special effects weren’t ubiquitous. Spielberg clearly revered his dinosaurs as beautiful and dangerous wild animals; his classic had brains and heart, and he respected the science behind it. Malcolm says that chaos theory predicts certain failure when humans attempt to control something as powerful and unpredictable as cloned dinosaurs—which can’t possibly be controlled. They escape their pens, breed, hunt, kill, and expand their territory. Jurassic Park’s quick collapse in the original film proves him right. Yet Jurassic World would have us believe the park worked and has been expanding and improving, with 20,000 visitors per day and dinosaurs playing as nicely as imprisoned whales in Sea World. The action starts when a new dinosaur, made of different genes mixed together, springs itself and goes berserk. Revived dinosaurs This cloning misstep is and cross-cloning: karmically compounded What could go by attempts to sell wrong? The plot, says reviewer naming rights to the Phil Parker. new attraction. They’re thinking of calling it “Verizon Wireless