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MARCH 22-28, 2017 | Volume 44, Issue 12

NEWS OPINION 5 NEWS 7 DAYS, METROGLYPHS AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6 INTO THE FIRE 9 After a delay, SFR’s lawsuit against Gov. Martinez finally heads to trial

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THERE’S NO ESCAPE 10 The Interstate Stream Commission sucks in all light, hope and public information, never to relinquish a scrap to citizens THE ENTHUSIAST 11 BACKYARD CANYONEERING Why climb down into a slot just to hike back out? Because it’s there COVER STORY 12 THE POETRY ISSUE Gearing up for National Poetry Month (that’s April), we’ve brought you the winners of SFR’s annual poetry contest, as judged by former Santa Fe poet laureate Arthur Sze

MIND GAMES Painter and Santa Fe native Reyes Padilla sees sounds.

Armed with hip-hop’s clear beats and white walls to play with, he shows us what his world looks like at the Beals & Co. Showroom.

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SFR PICKS 17 The reality of portraiture, 1900s lady art-lovers, the infinite jest and art of drag and the kickoff to Native American Week in the City Different

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Coyotes, wolves and other wildlife are just the scapegoats for spoiled ranchers, who receive millions of dollars each year in subsidies from the government in reimbursements, cheap grazing fees and free wildlife slaughter. ... Wild animal populations are struggling due to senseless killing and increasing climate change. They urgently need protection.

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7 DAYS MARTINEZ THREATENS TO CALL SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE SESSION...

So that lawmakers can block the death penalty rebound one more time before she leaves office.

...EVEN WITH THAT TORN ACL FROM HER UTAH SKIING ACCIDENT We assume she’ll only take five days to recover—y’know, just like she’d want teachers to do.

AND YOU CAN STILL TAKE A GUN INTO THE ROUNDHOUSE Don’t shoot!

CITY COUNCILORS WANT TO BRING BACK SPEEDVANS Only this time with no bribery.

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TRUMP TARGETS MEALS ON WHEELS FOR CUTS The death of so many former MoW recipients probably will save money in the long run.

FORMER TEN THOUSAND WAVES EMPLOYEE SUES OVER CASE OF ‘HOT TUB LUNG’ He was researching his forthcoming book 10,000 Waves to Die.

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Into the Fire Three years later, SFR’s anti-secrecy and free expression case against Gov. Martinez heads to court ANSON STEVENS-BOLLEN

BY MARISA DEMARCO

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fter years of legal wrangling over press freedoms and the public’s right to know, the Santa Fe Reporter is set to finally have its day in state District Court at the end of this month.

At the heart of the case: Is it a violation of the paper’s free expression rights under the state Constitution if Gov. Susana Martinez blacklists SFR for critical coverage?

Martinez’ press secretary refused to comment on pending litigation. And the governor’s high-powered private attorney, Paul Kennedy, says he’s “not authorized to comment on this matter.”

Katherine Murray, one of the lawyers representing SFR, says the tensions rising nationally between President Donald Trump and the press highlight the dangers of government officials playing favorites. “To a certain extent, when you choose the messenger, you’re also getting to shape the message,” she says. “We need our press to be unpopular, to pursue the topics nobody wants to talk about.”

The case already has made some history, Murray says. Laws on the books are one thing, but until they’re tested in court, how they work can remain a mystery. Freedom of the press is protected under New Mexico’s Constitution, she says, but a paper’s right to access public information without facing discrimination is a novel issue for New Mexico courts.

The three-day bench trial is slated for March 29-31 before District Court Judge Sarah Singleton in Santa Fe. (Court dates scheduled for last November were vacated when Murray had to travel unexpectedly to receive her adopted son.) Marti-

nez is not scheduled to testify, although several of her current and former staffers are. SFR journalists past and present also are expected to take the stand.

When reporter Joey Peters came to SFR from Washington, DC, he was surprised at how difficult it was to reach anyone at the governor’s office. “Responsiveness was better from the federal government,” he says. Peters remembers writing in emails to the governor’s spokesman, “Get back to me ASAP,” a naive turn of phrase that makes him laugh today. “I came in expecting that spokespeople for government agencies would contact you back.”

In 2012, SFR documented the unfolding story of Martinez’ leaked emails, the inner-workings of her administration and public business conducted on private email accounts. In December, the paper published a cover story headlined “The Year in Closed Government,” digging into those emails and juxtaposing them against the governor’s promise to run the most transparent administration in state history.

“After that, I think they just cut us off and wouldn’t respond to us at all, not even emails or anything,” says Peters, now a reporter for New Mexico Political Report.

In the absence of direct communication, SFR increased its reliance on public records requests, Murray says. That also proved fruitless, and the paper contends the administration repeatedly violated the state’s Inspection of Public Records Act (IPRA)—New Mexico’s sunshine law that allows everyone access to documents and other records.

So in the fall of 2013, SFR sued. Murray says the serial IPRA violations created an either/or scenario: “Either this is a deliberate withholding of information that

I came in expecting that spokespeople for government agencies would contact you back.

-Joey Peters, journalist

the governor’s office thinks is potentially politically embarrassing, or something about the way they handle IPRA requests is just flawed and results in us not getting the public records.”

After rulings from Singleton on some of the issues in the original court filing, claims stemming from five alleged IPRA violations will be contested at trial.

Kennedy wrote in a brief that the state’s public records law is an “unfunded mandate” that’s hard on the state’s limited resources.

The lawsuit also says the governor’s office interfered with a free press by stonewalling SFR. The paper’s reporters weren’t receiving even basic information the administration was providing to other news organizations. It was retaliatory “viewpoint discrimination,” according to the lawsuit, and it happened because the governor’s office didn’t like the tone and content of the paper’s coverage.

The lawsuit doesn’t say the governor has to give a sit-down interview to every paper that wants one or offer comment on every single issue. But that decision has to be based on the issue at hand, Murray says, not whether the news organization seeking comment covers the governor in a favorable light.

Kennedy also argues that evidence shows it wasn’t viewpoint discrimination when the governor’s office didn’t respond to SFR, and that the paper isn’t the same thing as the Associated Press or the Albuquerque Journal. It has a smaller staff and it doesn’t distribute breaking news, he wrote.

But Murray will tell you this lawsuit gets at the heart of the media’s role in a democracy, and SFR brought it not just to ensure the paper’s own rights, but because the ability to gather and report news is essential to a free press.

“I certainly don’t want the Washington Post or the New York Times to start being gentler on President Trump because they just want access to the room,” she says.

“That doesn’t benefit any of us.”

Problems like this don’t often get to the lawsuit stage, which can be expensive and time-consuming, according to Gregg Leslie, the legal defense director for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in Washington, DC. “So often reporters just feel kind of helpless when they’re confronted by something like this,” he says, “so it’s good to see that somebody’s really pushing for their rights.”

Marisa Demarco is covering the trial jointly for KUNM radio and SFR as an independent journalist. Contributing editor Jeff Proctor is supervising her coverage for SFR, including planned daily reports from the courtroom that will be published at SFReporter.com.

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NEWS

There’s No Escape New Mexico water agency covered by SFR wins national ‘award’ for secrecy

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hanks to what a national journalism group calls “outright contempt of the public’s right to know,” the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission has a new distinction to hang on the wall at its Santa Fe office: the Black Hole Award.

Don’t look for the agency to go shopping for a frame anytime soon.

Handed out annually by the Society of Professional Journalists, the award singles out the most secretive government agency or elected official of the year and highlights the importance of access to public information.

In a series of stories in SFR and other publications, journalist Laura Paskus covered the ISC’s plans to divert water from the Gila River in southwestern New Mexico. The commission has routinely stonewalled Paskus when she’s asked for comment and for information to back up claims made by ISC employees in support of agency positions, and she’s the one who nominated the commission for the award.

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has stood out in terms their reluctance not only to talk to me as a reporter and to comment on really important issues like US Supreme Court cases, but also their reluctance to release data,” Paskus tells SFR. In an SFR web extra story on the commission (“Ta-Da,” Feb. 14), Paskus explained just how much public money rests on the information the ISC has kept hidden: “New Mexico is scheduled to receive about $100 million in federal subsidies to build the diversion. With no real plan yet in place, the agencies have already spent more than $10 million of that money. The final price for the diversion itself is expected to exceed $500 million.”

SPJ’s Freedom of Information Committee Chair Gideon Grudo underscored the dissonance of the commission’s behavior in a statement announcing the award: “Making these sorts of heavy decisions and citing data to back those decisions but refusing to produce this data is ridiculous.”

SFR caught up with Grudo this week.

“There’s this idea with a lot of public agencies that if they don’t comment, they can’t be written about,” he says. If a boss thinks clamming up can put a lid on what the agency perceives to be an out-of-control situation, Grudo says, that sentiment spreads quickly among employees.

“That’s wrong on many levels. A public agency doesn’t get to choose to be

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non-public,” he says. “You are public. You are beholden to the people; and one of the channels through which you are beholden is the media.”

The award is more than just an outlet for frustrated journalists to namedrop recalcitrant public officials. It also spotlights agencies that cash in the trust earned by hardworking career public servants for political gain by elected officials and their appointees.

“The people of New Mexico don’t have a good idea of the work that the agency does, which is really important, especially in an arid state. … There are employees at the agency who do good, important work,”

A public agency doesn’t get to choose to be non-public.

-Gideon Grudo, SPJ Freedom of Information Committee chair

Paskus explains. “When the agency’s political appointees and spokeswoman act in a way that isn’t transparent, it degrades the work of the employees.”

Without having data that would let her double check the ISC’s rhetoric, Paskus says it’s impossible to know if the agency is making accurate claims based on numbers it won’t release—or if it’s making bogus claims that could be disproven if the ISC released the public information.

What’s the takeaway of the ignominious distinction?

Paskus worries it won’t be much. She certainly doesn’t expect a better relationship with the ISC after a public shaming.

She also doesn’t think a sarcastic-sounding award matters to an agency that seems habitually hunkered-down.

She may be right: SFR contacted the commission’s spokeswoman and two officials for comment about the secrecy award they’d just received. Spokeswoman Melissa Dosher sent an email calling the award “ridiculous” and repeating the mantra that under Gov. Susana Martinez, “the ISC is more transparent than ever before.”

Dosher cited as evidence the commission’s policy of posting meeting notices 10 days in advance and draft agendas 72 hours prior to meetings. State law only requires “reasonable notice” of meetings. The attorney general recommends 10 days. The 72hour agenda posting is actually required, though, and the law says the ISC must post a final agenda by that time, not a draft.

The commission’s spokeswoman did not respond to follow-up questions or a request to interview ISC Director Deborah Dixon, and the director herself did not return an email.

“I think by and large it’s hard for people who aren’t journalists or open government advocates to get excited about issues like this,” Paskus says. “But I think there is a segment of our society in New Mexico who is watching, in particular, the Gila diversion issue and thinking, ‘Why is this happening the way that it is? And why is this money being spent the way that it is?’”

Ultimately, those are the questions Paskus wants to answer through her reporting. If the award does anything to help her do that, then just maybe it was worth the effort.

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Backyard Canyoneering Explorations in local slots seek out the best of what New Mexico canyon country has to offer

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he first time Brett Kettering and Daniel Creveling lowered themselves into Pajarito Gorge near White Rock, they had only a vague image of what they were getting into. The committed canyoneers were searching for home-turf, a place they could train and practice with others members of Los Alamos Mountaineers. They’d stared at what looked like a gigantic drop while climbing nearby, wondering what waited off the edge, and hiked either end of the gorge, peering down and up its extremities.

“We finally decided one day, ‘Oh, let’s go do it,’” Kettering says.

They used natural features to build an anchor, secured a rope and tossed one end down, leaning over to see it touch the next ledge. Then they rappelled into the narrow chambers of rock, lit by the ambient glow of sun striking the far canyon wall and baking the thread of the Rio Grande flanked by piñon and sand far below.

Three times, they’d have to set gear, rappel—sometimes into and around potholes carved deeper than anyone has yet to determine—then pull the ropes down after them, eventually arriving at the bottom of a boulder field. The hike out meant scrambling up heaped black basalt to reach nearby trail systems.

The canyon catches rainy season runoff and the detritus that comes with it, car parts and mangled bicycles among the garbage. But still, it’s like a beautiful secret, a space few visit, reachable only by those trained in the technical aspects of canyoneering and willing to brave the

possibility of stuck ropes, flash floods and rattlesnakes as well as the near certainty of wet boots.

Their first descent may have been the first time anyone dropped into that canyon in this style, but now, Creveling revisits it to see traces of others having traveled there. It’s becoming popular.

Like so many outdoor sports, stare too long at canyoneering and its contrivances prompt existential crises. Why climb to the top of a cliff just to be lowered back to its bottom? Why seek out a route through slot-like canyons and jumbled terrain with mandatory rappelling and views deliberately limited to the stretch of rock wall right in front of you? Why descend a canyon just to hike back out of it?

“I sometimes say canyoneering is like hiking through canyons with some rappelling thrown in, so you get to hike through canyons and see some interesting things,” Kettering says. “But there’s a little bit more adventurous aspect to it in that you get to rig a rope and rappel. I like also the fun of figuring out, ‘How am I going to build a good anchor here?’”

That problem-solving is appealing, Creveling echoes, but so is the sense of adventure and exploration.

“You get to see things that aren’t usually accessible, so they’re usually more pristine than other areas because not a lot of people go through there,” he says.

Heavy rains in September 2013 sent huge columns of water through Pajarito Gorge, and a boulder the size of a small Volkswagen they used as an anchor disappeared.

“It’s completely gone. There’s no sign of it,” Kettering says, surmising that it shattered on the canyon floor. “Those kinds of

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things happen, right? The canyon changes.

You get these big water events, and all the sudden what used to be an anchor is no longer there.”

The two connected through Los Alamos Mountaineers, where both instruct and lead trips. The gorge is now a test piece for those looking to get on board with that organization’s outings.

Kettering enrolled in one of their courses looking for more skills to pursue his hobby of “high pointing,” visiting the tallest summit in every state. But canyoneering hooked him, and he and Creveling began exploring nearby options rather than traveling all the way to the well-known canyon country in southern Utah.

After venturing into Chavez Canyon, near the Monastery of Christ in the Desert in Abiquiú, Kettering recounts, “We thought, ‘There’s got to be some more interesting stuff maybe closer to home.’”

That fueled poking around nearby canyons. The process for setting a new route starts with hiking either end of it, taking GPS readings and comparing elevations from the top and bottom to estimate the number of rappels required. Those explorations are still underway. If the trip goes poorly—if a rope gets stuck or the route dead-ends—there’s equipment to ascend the rope, and plenty of stories about the time someone climbed up only to discover the rope holding their bodyweight on some breathtakingly small feature. Hair-raising near-misses aside, the buzz online about get-togethers through Meetup.com and new routes points to a growing interest.

So, why? At the bottom of the gorge, still shady on a day with temperatures rapidly ramping up, it’s quiet and cool beside the murky pool left from recent rain.

There, the scenery functions like a haiku, made richer by its brevity.

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SFR’S 2017 SPRING POETRY SEARCH WINNERS

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ow, Santa Fe. You are really into poetry right now. This year’s Spring Poetry Search blew us away with hundreds of entries that ran the gamut from short and sweet, long and funny to downright beautiful and moving. For a contest judge, we tapped Arthur Sze, renowned wordsmith and Santa Fe’s first-ever poet laurate. First published in the 1970s, Sze has won the Lannan Literary Award, the American Book Award and even made it to the finalist round for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize with his book, Compass Rose. In other words, poets, your offerings were deemed excellent by someone who absolutely knows a thing or two about excellence.

“I think the [poetry] audience is small, and it’s always been small, but it’s a passionate audience [and], in many

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wayes, there’s almost a renaissance of poetry,” Sze says. “There are so many different styles and it’s not like there is one prevailing trend—there are so many talented poets working in so many different styles.”

Sze gravitated toward poetry for its sense of discovery and, he says, he often uncovers a feeling or insight about the world that hadn’t occurred to him as he reads or writes.

“The creative process is a mysterious one, but it’s about continual growth,” he says. “I’m as excited writing today as I was over 40 years ago when I first started.”

Sze’s next collection, dubbed Sight Lines, is slated for a 2019 release through Copper Canyon Press. “For the first time I’m looking into things in American history, our country and our context in the world,” Sze says of the

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recently completed manuscript. “One of the things I’m working with is how disorienting the world can appear to us but, fundamentally, like it or not, all things are moving together.”

Things converge, such as the following locally-scribed pieces from you, our dear readers.

“I’m always interested in imaginatively forceful and compelling writing,” he says. “I was delighted to read the sestina by Caleb Thompson; he wrote in a particularly difficult form.”

Of course, whittling down the many submissions was no easy task, so in addition to three winners who are awarded cash prizes, you’ll also find honorable mentions plus a few faves from the SFR staff.

“Poetry is language at its most intense,” Sze says. “I love how so much can be said with so few words.”

The Judge Arthur Sze

2nd

The Fox

By Ioanna Carlsen

Whiskey and Blood

1st

By Caleb Thompson

I sat at my desk cleaning my service pistol, A Smith and Wesson. Outside, it was pouring rain.

It was the kind of a night for drinking whiskey.

Fitzpatrick was free now, out on bail for murder.

He was no fool; he knew I had the evidence To put him away for good. He was out for blood.

Mine. My head ached badly; my temples throbbed, blood Pounding in my veins. I needed a good whiskey Shot. When the door opened, I reached for my pistol.

It was a woman, her dark hair wet from the rain.

Her husband, she said, was a victim of murder.

She said, if I came, she would show me evidence.

She was badly shaken; there was good evidence Of that, her eyes wild, her face taut, drained of blood.

Tears glistened on her cheeks. Or were they drops of rain?

I took out the bottle and poured her a whiskey.

“Why not go to the cops,” I said, “if it’s murder.”

The phone on the desk exploded like a pistol.

I let the phone ring, and re-holstered my pistol.

She told me her story, to the drip of the rain.

She had married rich, a man named Astor, blue blood.

But lately he had started hitting the whiskey.

He was nervous, on edge, looking for evidence Of intrigue. Dark thoughts flocked to him like a murder Of crows. When he disappeared she assumed murder.

She had come home late Tuesday, delayed by the rain.

He left no note. There was no sign, no evidence Of a struggle; no telltale trail of human blood.

No empty shells casings from his Browning pistol.

In the drive sat his Porsche, a Targa in whiskey.

When she stopped, my immediate thought was Whiskey, Tango Foxtrot. “You said you had the evidence.”

“I do,” she said. “It’s right here.” She pulled a pistol.

“Fitz wants to talk, dick. Let’s take a walk in the rain.”

The nails on her hand were the color of blood, The color of a crime scene, after a murder.

The puddled neon streets glowed, evidence of rain.

She’d fought like murder to hold on to that pistol.

She’d punched hard; my mouth tasted like whiskey and blood.

Caleb Thompson has lived in Santa Fe since 1996. When he is not reading Raymond Chandler novels, he teaches at St. John’s College.

Fox, you said, is written on the wall of my bedroom— and there it was, FOX low down on the wall, between your bookcase and the door.

Night Yard

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By Barbara Rockman

“It is hard to find the right way in or out”

I laugh now at this relic, the first word you learned your first day of school, and you slyly mention that I got mad when you did it then.

You can have which flower you want though the penstemon will no longer ring its bells if you pluck it.

Thinking how fast you grew into a foxy sixth grade eleven I wish now I’d let you fill all the walls with your childish scrawls.

And the roses, pale as antique linen will fall into your cupped palm, break into frail layers.

Close your hand or the breeze will rob you.

But no. This is perfect.

This one word fox.

I’ll never paint it out as long as we live in the house this F O X— who sits there by the door waiting for you in capital letters as, clever, you worked your way, up and out, into the adult behaviors your sister’s already driving around in.

Ioanna Carlsen is a published poet whose work has been featured in several literary magazines and in her book, The Whisperer. In 2015 the book won second place in the New Mexico Press Women Communications Contest.

-Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Take the coreopsis. True, its green feathers will rash your hands. Its bright suns shrink at your touch.

Dear sweetling, I call the black dog as we turn our heads to stars.

3am, the flowers dead to us, garden disappeared by night rebels but our feet steady on invisible earth.

The Dipper pours her milk upon the dog’s back; she’s suddenly star freckled and frisky.

Blessed the only way out of the ring of fire in which we live, one kindness here, one shared joke. Helpless we wake and pace abandoned yards.

We wander as if we had a destination but the heart’s accordion folds, roads and green ranges creased so often, trace no scenic byways.

Do not ignore beauty’s markers: the dog at the dark door, the lover who sleeps through your going out and your coming in.

Barbara Rockman teaches creative writing at Santa Fe Community College and in private workshops. As Workshop Coordinator for WingSpan Poetry Project, she brings poetry to victims of domestic violence. She is author of Sting and Nest, which received the National Press Women Poetry Book Prize and the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. A new collection is forthcoming from University of New Mexico Press.

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No one said anything in class after that, all the American students having been fed Western definitions from Cliff’s Notes versions of Odysseys and Oedipi.

As the teacher, I am required by pedagogical law to fill silences with open ended questions or affirming hums, sounds to cushion sadness and atonal beats of the human heart but that day something had already broken inside of me something fragile, like an ancient vase from some far off dynasty.

Lungs of the Earth

By Gabe Gomez For Hilary According to the bulletin board the Amazon is known as the lungs of the Earth Where tenured tucum palms are meaningless Save their spiny bark and industrious fiber The place, and I‘m quoting, is full of life We begin to forget this moment as it begins Our disappointing sleep on planes bookend the hours apart Reading into things you’ve photographed and eaten In seven seconds, something new will begin We dream of echoing folding chairs Over parquet floors of Versailles or mom and dad’s Its own moment cracks the sky And its collusion with sense

Now I remember: That wasn’t the assignment at all— I wanted the students to write about the opposite of tragedy, not tragedy itself, because everybody knows the sad stuff already.

How it will travel from the lungs, exit the lips, Then slip quietly into the ears to confuse Consequence of order, vertical lift, recycled air The science is soft but alarmingly good

In needle-perfect English, the Chinese exchange student continued: “The opposite of tragedy must be something held close or kept whole by love.”

We dream of ourselves as puzzles and quarks Your face takes shape in the curtains We are its sun-bleach stains Safety webbing in the glass

I reached out with my arms to illustrate her point but managed only to knock a dictionary onto the floor which startled almost everyone

A crane afloat in my breathing You land in its fiery wind Ignite the atmosphere Then sleep beautifully, if not, sheepish to the Violence shared by the markings Left on our bodies after coming home

except the Chinese exchange student who was too busy dreaming of home.

Robert Wilder lives and works in Santa Fe.

Gabe Gomez has two published collections of poetry: The Outer Bands and The Seed Bank. He lives in Santa Fe.

Staff Picks Letter to an Amateur Anthropologist

The SFR staff also painstakingly pored over the nearly 300 submission to choose a few of our favorites. These are the works that stood out among many stellar others.

Dad casts the line for me, The way he always did, when I was Still shorter than him.

By Margaret Wack

Do not only take photographs of beautiful women. This is your impulse, the eyes naturally gravitate to the sweet milk skins, the awkward and elegant curve of bone.

Take photographs of everything, you are not an artist but a historian: remember this, the way the hair emerges from a leg, infinitesimal, the way flesh accumulates against your hands.

Study delicate black pores, gasping and gentle, dark windows into the body’s mechanisms. The mouth flushed and curving, teeth sturdy like a horse’s, something to love.

This is important, the diet, the habits, the peculiar dialects invented or assumed.

At what frequency was language spoken, sung, whispered. What was worshiped, what gods were prayed to, what rituals. What dreams.

Take photographs. The way the bleary eye is asleep still, the sunlight across the bed,

Called Cabresto after the rope and halter Of the burros the Spanish needed To climb the steep trails that led there.

the weird, warped flesh. Round hands, smooth jugular. In action: making breakfast, converted to still life. The myths, the history, each delicate and convoluted story with meaning or no meaning. Write everything down, each colloquial phrase, document the coughs and hiccups, messy excretions, blood, tears.

This is after all a science, with primary sources: x-rays, so intimate, bones sloping gently inward, the heart palpitating slightly too fast. The colorful brain is alight, is ablaze, unable to save itself from itself or from diagrams of anatomy, numbers, facts.

I admit you are a specialist, devoted but nearly irrelevant: this is important, the way we held hands by the reservoir, when I am gone there must be someone to tell everyone exactly how I was, someone to remember beyond remembering.

Cabresto

By Andrew John Wilder Father pulls me from the mud Left by a lake shrunk by drought, And I follow him back to our fishing rods.

We step in together, the caked mire on my legs Diffusing as we wade to the place Where the river mouth cuts through the shore.

Lazy brook trout, ready to spawn, Glide in the cool mountain water That feeds their lake,

When a fish is hooked, he hands the rod to me, And I play the trout clumsily Until he nets it deftly from the water.

I hook its gill to a stringer hanging From my belt and let the fish rest in the water By my leg. Dad casts for me again, and again, Until my stringer is heavy with trout, Females bloated with roe and tired males Whose jaws are beginning to hook and rot.

When he’s caught our limit, We turn and wade back to shore, Where a boy still struggles in the mud.

An Alternate Route

By Miles Merritt

Nature (unlike some huge metropolis) treats us like adults: we must discover all its glory by ourselves.

Imagine how disheartening if wandering inside this intricate wood we came upon small placards reading— TURN LEFT for Quaking Aspen.

MERGING STREAM AHEAD. SLOW DOWN: Strawberries

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IT’S A DRAG All the glitz and glamour of the music-heavy, dance-laden world of drag explodes onto the Skylight stage with that long-beloved local troupe, Jewel Box Cabaret. Fabulous drag heroes such as Madame Marie Antoinette Du Barry, CoCo Caliente and Lucy Fur will be there presiding over song and comedy routines and, at least for everyone who loves fun and friendship, good times shall be had.

Bring your sense of humor and a love for kitschy camp, they’ll bring the bonkers high heels, beautiful dresses and, we can only assume, glitter. (Alex De Vore)

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Jewel Box Cabaret: 8 pm Saturday March 25. $20. Skylight, 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775.

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EVENT MON/27 DANCE, SPEAK, LISTEN Were you aware that Native American Week kicks off in Santa Fe this week? Well, it does, and the Santa Fe Community College is the place to be for the opening action. Dancers from Pueblos including Cochiti and Pojoaque will be in attendance, and lecturers Charles Van Pelt, Cassandra Perez and Benjamin Shendo Jr. provide a glimpse into today’s issues, including language, colonization, decolonization, Standing Rock, identity and much more. Learn more about this fascinating culture while maintaining our social conscience? Sold! (ADV) Native American Week Celebrations: 10 am-3 pm Monday March 27. Free. Santa Fe Community College, 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000.

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LECTURE TUE/28 SANTA YAY No big—just one of Santa Fe’s most talented writer-historians closing out the Las Golondrinas winter lecture series with a talk on the cultural significance of Santa Fe women who contributed to the arts during the 1900s, including the founding of Las Golondrinas itself.

OK, so maybe it is big. Join Carmella Padilla (who wrote the fascinating 1999 book Low ’n Slow: Lowriding in New Mexico and others) as she tells the tale of social butterflies Eva Scott Fényes, Leonora Scott Muse Curtin and Leonora Frances Curtin Paloheimo. “They certainly were not dilettantes,” Padilla says. “They didn’t just come and visit museums, they invested in the arts and culture community.” (ADV) Carmella Padilla Lecture: 6 pm Tuesday March 28. Free. St. Francis Auditorium, 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072.

ART OPENING FRI/24

Never-Moments Renowned realist paints things that don’t exist Looking at one of Daniel Sprick’s portraits is like looking into the eyes of someone you know; when you can see a feeling move across their irises and, without a word, know what they’re thinking. Sprick’s oil paintings feature human faces, still-life scenes and skeletons in a manner that is familiar, yet ethereal and haunting all at once.

Sprick has that scattered-thinker thing going on during a phone interview: He rustles and moves constantly, speaking about his stunning works of realism quietly and carefully over the background noise. “It’s interesting to take something, to take your visual stimuli and internalize them, and form something that’s based on reality but nothing that ever quite existed,” he says. “I think that’s even the purpose of art: to make some sort of exaggerations on what’s there and to take out things.”

The deductions he makes and the magic he adds to his scenes transform them into elevated versions of reality.

“It forays into some other world that I am sort of in touch with that I don’t necessarily know how to articulate,” Sprick

says. So, he articulates it through painting. “It’s kind of a non-verbal response to the poetry of things.”

The Colorado artist was 18 when he started practicing his craft. “It’s really the only thing I’ve seriously done,” he tells SFR. His upcoming solo exhibit at Peters Projects features 18 new works painted in the past few years, but nothing created more recently than one year ago; he prefers to sit with his work for at least that long before letting it out into the world.

And though his visions are inspired by reality, the people and moments on his canvases have never been, and will never be. “It’s this kind of moment that could be a composite of moments, but it’s not one that ever really existed. It’s kind of made-up, but based on reality,” Sprick says. “And it kind of takes you somewhere else.” (Maria Egolf-Romero)

DANIEL SPRICK: RECENT WORKS 5 pm Friday March 24. Free.

Peters Projects, 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5800

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WED/22 BOOKS/LECTURES DHARMA TALK: DOLPO TULKU RINPOCHE Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 This week's talk is presented

by Dolpo Tulku Rinpoche, who is recognized by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche to be the reincarnation of the third Dolpo Nyingchung Drubthob, which is probably a big deal you should take extremely seriously.

5:30 pm, free TOP SECRETS TO SUCCESSFUL SMALL BUSINESS GROWTH Santa Fe Business Incubator 3900 Paseo del Sol, 424-1140 Drop by this networking event to learn tricks of the start-up trade.

11:30 am, $29

EVENTS COMMUNITY-STYLE ACUPUNCTURE Southwest Acupuncture College 1622 Galisteo St., 438-8884 Receive community-style acupuncture in a group rather than a private setting. Make sure to call ahead to schedule.

5:30-9:30 pm, $17 GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Geek out and play other teams of know-it-alls to win the honor of wearing the figurative geek crown. Not much feels better than that. Nannynanny-boo-boo.

8 pm, free SPRING BREAK FUN FEST Georgia O’Keeffe Museum 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 The museum hosts a day of family fun in the courtyard, which includes a scavenger hunt. Bring the kids to see art and pack a bit of education into their break. Free for families.

1-4 pm, free

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TAPS AND TABLETOPS Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Bring your favorite board game or play one already waiting for you.

6 pm, free WORLD WATER DAY OPEN MIC Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar 102 W San Francisco St., 690-2383 Esme Olivia hosts this open mic night dedicated to water. Drop in and rap, sing and talk about the liquid that keeps us all alive: water.

7 pm, $5

THE CALENDAR

MUSIC DANIEL ISLE SKY The Dragon Room 406 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-7712 Folk rock originals.

5 pm, free DANIELE SPADAVECCHIA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Gypsy jazz.

7 pm, free DAWES Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Upbeat country folk and modern Americana (see Music, page 21).

7:30 pm, $24-$34 JERRY FENN Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Fenn plays soothing songs on piano.

6:30 pm, free SAGALIFFIK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 House and acid tunes get the dance party going.

10 pm, free SEAN FARLEY Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Bluesy, looping music from a passionate singer-songwriter.

8 pm, free

THEATER CARLOS MEDINA COMEDY SHOW Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Watch this evening of standup comedy by Medina and enjoy a musical performance by his group, Los Gallos.

Laughing and dancing, what a lovely humpday combo.

Maybe you’ll forget you still have half the week ahead of you.

8 pm, $10

Angela Fraleigh’s “And then we’ll walk right up to the sun” is on view at Peters Projects as part of a solo exhibit The Breezes at Dawn Have Secrets to Tell, opening Friday. Through May 13.

WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY PAINTING WORKSHOP Mantecon Studio 123 A Camino Teresa, 503-473-2786 The cost includes all the materials you need to join this painting class. Learn to use pastels, acrylic paints, encaustic wax and more.

1:30 pm, $55

THU/23 ART OPENINGS ALICE BAILEY: HANDWOVEN ORIGINALS Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 988-5531 Bailey is a beadwork artist who presents her recent works.

4-6 pm, free

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MARK KANE: ANCIENT MEMORY Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 This retrospective exhibit includes both photography and paintings by the late artist who lived and created works in Santa Fe for over 30 years.

Through April 14.

4 pm, free

CHICK KELLER: PLANTS OF THE JEMEZ MOUNTAINS Christ Lutheran Church 1701 Arroyo Chamiso, 467-9025 Keller worked at Los Alamos National Labs and started the Jemez Mountain Herbarium.

He speaks about local plant life in this Native Plant Society lecture.

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LILLY PAD LOUNGE WITH DJ REBEL FROG Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 DJ Rebel Frog spins oldschool funk and hip-hop tunes with a hoppy pace.

10 pm, $7 LIMELIGHT KARAOKE Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Stop in and grab the mic to do your vocal best.

10 pm, free PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Jazzy guitar goodness by this solo performer.

6 pm, free THE TROY BROWNE DUO Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana.

8 pm, free TODO: DADAN 2017 Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Witness the art of the taiko, a traditional Japanese drum, in the hands of musicians who have mastered it.

7:30 pm, $20-$55

THEATER MOONLIGHT AND MAGNOLIAS Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 This comedy shows how the screenplay of Gone With the Wind was written by three guys in five days.

7:30 pm, $20 THE SHAPE OF THINGS Greer Garson Theatre at Santa Fe University of Art and Design 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 473-6439 This play, written by Neil LaBute and directed by Triston Pullen, explores relationships and love.

7 pm, $5-$15

FRI/24 ART OPENINGS ANGELA FRALEIGH: THE BREEZES AT DAWN HAVE SECRETS TO TELL Peters Projects 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5700 See oil and mixed-media paintings depicting obscured forms as Fraleigh re-examines female nude figures. Through May 13.

5 pm, free

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CHILDREN’S STORY HOUR Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 The weekly event offers an hour of stories and picture book adventures read by the bookstore staff. They tell tales about knights, fairies, magic and more, appropriate for infants, toddlers and younger kiddos up to age 5.

10:45 am, free KARL KREGOR: THE ART OF COLLAGE St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-9274 In this Renesan Institute Lecture, Kregor takes the audience through the history and development of collage art, concluding with the world’s largest collage, created by James Sicner in San Antonio, Texas.

1 pm, $10 PI LUNA: WRITING FOR PROFIT Unitarian Universalist Congregation 107 W Barcelona Road, 982-0439 This hands-on workshop is led by Luna, an award-winning author and educator.

Learn about the process of writing a book, including production costs and marketing strategies.

6 pm, $25-$30 SANTA FE WRITERS LAB: WORDS & IMAGES WITH BILL DeBUYS & TONY O'BRIEN Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 These two creative professionals discuss the relationship between the written word and visual representation as part of the Writers Lab presented by the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops.

6 pm, free

MUSIC ALTO ESTILO El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 This duo plays soul tunes and acoustic R&B. 7:30 pm, free BROTHER E CLAYTON El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Rhythm and blues, soul tunes and a killer voice.

7 pm, free HALF BROKE HORSES Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Americana and honky-tonk.

7 pm, free JERRY FENN Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 This multi-instrumentalist and composer plays a soothing set of piano classics.

6:30 pm, free

“Untitled” by Jared Antonio-Justo Trujillo is on view at Keep Contemporary as part of the group exhibit Killer of Giants, opening Friday.

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MUSIC

FIRST

TRACKS

HEAR, HERE We’ve got our ears to the ground in search of interesting tidbits of music-related information, Santa Fe. Are you recording an album? Hitting the road to tour?

Thinking of going major-label? We want to know about it, so email your best friend Alex De Vore at alex@sfreporter.com.

Santa Fe-based MC Raashan Ahmad (of Oakland’s Crown City Rockers) has been traipsing the globe like some kind of goddamn rap-based Indiana Jones. Ahmad told us that after his recent sojourn to Europe, he’s got South America, Greece and more on the docket, but that he also hopes to throw down with some DJ gigs next time he’s back home. Let’s all become obsessed right now.

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Dawes-some Los Angeles’ Dawes rolls with the punches

BY ALEX DE VORE a l e x @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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awes is evolving. Or has already.

Either way, the Los Angeles band has shed at least some of their folky pop gestalt for patient ruminations on the usual suspects—loss and love and mortality—with their fifth studio album, We’re All Gonna Die. This time out, the boys have crafted songs a little more layered (if not more grown-up) than previous outings; Die is, in fact, more Dire Straits or Hall & Oates than it is Jackson Browne, but we’re talking more soulful, too, or perhaps a little more rock ’n’ roll and sexy.

Of course, previous elements that put the band on the map, such as melodic style, killer vocal harmonies or heartfelt lyricism (think All Your Favorite Bands-era Dawes) remain intact as well, and the aforementioned evolution seems far more organic happenstance than a band that set out to purposefully rebrand itself in a misguided attempt at chasing success (or trends).

“It’s kind of just what happened,” drummer Griffin Goldsmith says. “I think the songs Taylor [Goldsmith, Griffin’s brother and Dawes’ front man/main songwriter] is writing are obviously very different than the previous batch.”

This generally takes the form of autobiographical pieces from Taylor—like “Roll With the Punches,” wherein he tells us: “The separation was logistical/Deciding what belongs to whom/How dying love manifests in a rug or a chest”—but also contains some pretty solid advice about living,

like on “Quitter” where we are advised: “Quit talking to God if your prayers don’t get answered/Or if you don’t exactly notice when they do.”

Regardless, the overall message seems timeless and worthwhile, yet it bears repeating: Live while you can. This is what we mean when we say “grown-up.” After all, if we’re all gonna die, why do we spend so much time focused on not living? That’s from Shawshank Redemption … basically.

It’s really invigorating to go out there and play for hours and really stretch out with the songs.

-Griffin Goldsmith “I think that’s sort of the sentiment that comes across,” Griffin explains, “but what I really like about it is that it’s a polarizing title—some people think it’s a sad thing, or some people think it’s hilarious. I think, for me, it speaks to the place of the record or this band or the industry, pop music. … Obviously we’re not pop music, but I mean in the grand scheme of things.”

For Dawes’ upcoming Santa Fe appearance at the Lensic Performing Arts Center,

We can only speculate that the truck is a 4x4

Nathan Smerage and Daniel Mench-Thurlow, both formerly of rock act Venus and the Lion, have joined forces once again for a new yetunnamed band. We’re pumped because they’re both basically music geniuses. In fact, Smerage’s solo work (which can be heard at nathansmerage.bandcamp.com) is so good, we listen to it even when we don’t have to—a reality we don’t afford to plenty of local bands/musicians.

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they’ll play without an opener, the first such tour in their career. This may sound daunting for a band, but with five albums under their belt and tour after tour in the rearview mirror, it’s more of a chance for them to spread out, provide a bit of a retrospective feel for longtime fans but also to really dig into the newer material.

“We can finally play for two-plus hours, which I know is a lot of music to ask the listener to be there for,” Griffin says. “But it’s really invigorating to go out there and play for hours and really stretch out with the songs. The emphasis is on listening.”

If nothing else, Dawes has a proven knack for staying power and a willingness to experiment and continually challenge themselves and their listeners. Even if you think you know this band, their newer stuff is a departure of sorts; yes, you’ll recognize Taylor’s croon and the spirit stays the same, but rather than stay satisfied with mid-level success and the repackaging of the same old, same old, they’ve transformed into something new enough and bright enough as to be engaging, yet deep enough and bittersweet enough as to seem like whatever song they’re playing may just be about us and our own bullshit. And that ain’t easy.

“Nobody comes to the table with a fully realized song, and I think that’s why we’ve been able to be on tour and make five different records,” Griffin adds. “It wasn’t like we set out to do whatever; the process is a real collaboration.”

DAWES 7:30 pm Wednesday March 22. $24-$34.

Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234

Happy 10th b-day to AMP Concerts! The Santa Fe/ ABQ promotions-based nonprofit that brings your ass free (and notfree) concerts all the time would be a fifth-grader—yikes. If you pop in at Whole Foods next Wednesday (that’s March 29), know that 5 percent of the day’s proceeds will go to helping AMP bring Red Elvises and Metalachi back to town for the bazillionth time. They’ll probably use the money to do other stuff, too.

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Does anyone know where we landed on hating SxSW? Like, did they turn a bunch of international bands in to ICE or what? All we know is that we think the obsession is silly, and our friends in bands who’ve played the annual music fest mostly have “Our slot was at 8:15 am in the bathroom of a slaughterhouse and literally only the sound guy was there!” stories.

Did you go? Lemme know if I should continue shaking my fists in outrage.

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SPRINGING

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CARMEN VETTER AND SAMMY PETERS: SURFACE LANGUAGE LewAllen Railyard 1613 Paseo de Peralta, 988-3250 This exhibit is a visual experiment that looks to define the comparisons and contrasts of surface texture in the context of two mediums: mixed media on canvas and studio glass. Vetter delves into texture using multiple layers of glass and firings to create her works. Peters creates extreme texture on his canvases by mixing painting with collage.

Through April 23.

5 pm, free DANIEL SPRICK: RECENT WORKS Peters Projects 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5800 Sprick is a contemporary realists. His landscape and portraiture paintings blur the lines between realism and abstractions, leaving the viewer with a haunting sense of familiarity and longing. He presents his newest portraiture and still life paintings in this exhibit curated by Peter Marcelle. Through May 13 (see SFR Picks, page 17).

5 pm, free KILLER OF GIANTS Keep Contemporary 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 102, 702-9460 This group show features contemporary, perhaps irreverent works by more than 25 emerging and established artists based in New Mexico.

See paintings, prints and more at the opening party with a live electronica set by DJ Saggaliffik and refreshments by La Fogata Grill.

5 pm, free REYES PADILLA: AN INTRODUCTION Beals & Co. Showroom 830 Canyon Road, 357-0441 The bold lines and visual movement on Padilla's canvases represent the melodies he sees when he listens to music. As a synesthete, Padilla sees forms when he hears sounds, and he tries to translate and represent what he sees in these works.

Though April 14 (see A&C, page 23).

5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES JOHN HAGEN AND CRAIG DAN GOSEYUN: IAIA ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE TALK IAIA Musem of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Head to the second floor of the museum and join this lecture in which Hagen, a photographer, and Craig Dan Goseyun, a sculptor, speak about their respective techniques and practices.

12:30 pm, free

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DANCE 30th ANNUAL CHOREOGRAPHER'S SHOWCASE Railyard Performance Center 1611 Paseo de Peralta, 982-8309 The New Mexico Dance Coalition presents an evening of original dances by choreographers Myra Krien, Mike Garcia, Elli Hindmarch and many more.

7:30 pm, $10-$15

MUSIC DK AND THE AFFORDABLES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rockabilly.

8:30 pm, free DANA SMITH Upper Crust Pizza 329 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0000 Country originals by this singer-songwriter.

6 pm, free DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Standards on piano.

6 pm, $2 DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Montgomery plays classics on piano.

6 pm, free JERRY FENN Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Fenn soothes the audience with his classic piano set.

8 pm, free JUSTIN EVAN THOMPSON Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Americana.

6 pm, free KARAOKE WITH McLAIN Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 It’s that time again ... The mic-grabbing, not ear drum-breaking time.

8 pm, free KINETIC FRIDAYS Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 If you manage to shake your booty in time to these electronica beats, you can call it dancing. See, it is fun and doesn’t take even an ounce of talent.

10 pm, $7 NOSOTROS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Cumbia, salsa, Latin jazz and more.

10 pm, $7 SEAN FARLEY Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Original blues.

5 pm, free

SEAN HEALEN El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Americana and rock 'n' roll from a local fave.

8:30 pm, $5 THE STRINGMASTERS Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Steel-string guitar jazz.

6 pm, free THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Swinging jazz by this trio who welcomes a different special guest each time.

7:30 pm, free

THEATER MOONLIGHT AND MAGNOLIAS Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 See this comedy, which chronicles the making of beloved film Gone With the Wind, written by Ron Hutchinson and directed by Staci Robbins.

7:30 pm, $20 THIS IS OUR YOUTH Greer Garson Theatre at Santa Fe University of Art and Design 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 473-6439 Timeless issues, like maturity and adolescence, are confronted as the story follows 20-somethings in New York.

Directed by SFUAD student Bryson Hatfield.

7 pm, $5-$15

SAT/25 BOOKS/LECTURES HIDA VILORIA Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Viloria, an intersex activist and chairperson of the organization Intersex International, presents her candid memoir Born Both, which follow a gender identity journey.

6 pm, free OPERA BREAKFAST CLUB: TOM FRANKS ON IDOMENEO Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Franks discusses Mozart's famed opera.

9:30 am, $5

DANCE 30th ANNUAL CHOREOGRAPHER'S SHOWCASE Railyard Performance Center 1611 Paseo de Peralta, 982-8309 The New Mexico Dance Coalition presents an evening of original dances by choreographers Myra Krien, Mike Garcia, Elli Hindmarch and many more.

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MIND GAMES

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Seeing sounds with the synesthetic brain of Reyes Padilla

BY J O R DA N E D DY @jordaneddyart

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magine for a moment you can see every sound around you. The clink of a coffee cup produces a burst of blue triangles, a passing car is accompanied by rolling yellow polka dots and a barking dog emits bright red rectangles.

That’s Reyes Padilla’s reality and, for part of his life, he thought everyone saw the world that way.

“I remember saying, ‘Oh, this song is blue,’” Padilla says. “People would be like, ‘What?’” One day, he snuck into his friend’s music appreciation class at University of New Mexico and heard a lecture on synesthesia. The neurological phenomenon occurs when one sensory or cognitive pathway triggers an involuntary response in another. For synesthetes, numbers and letters might trigger flashes of color, or certain sounds evoke tactile sensations. “I was like, ‘Holy cow, that’s what I have,” Padilla says. In his new exhibition at the Beals & Co. Showroom, Reyes Padilla: An Introduction, the artist will recreate the synesthetic experience through an immersive art installation.

Padilla was born in Santa Fe in 1988.

In the ’90s, Canyon Road was his shortcut on the drive to school. He started drawing in kindergarten and spent his early teen years playing guitar in garage bands. At 17, he took up painting. “I liked the inde-

pendence of it. You didn’t have to organize people to do it,” he says.

Padilla’s uncle is the well-known contemporary santo sculptor Luis Tapia, and his aunt, author Carmella Padilla, encouraged his early exposure to the arts. Still, the surrealist and hyperrealist imagery he was turning out didn’t seem to have a place in Santa Fe’s art scene. “We’d drive through Canyon Road and I remember looking at the sculptures,” he says. “I wasn’t really drawn into it, but as I got older and started thinking about what I was going to do with my life, I realized that my uncle was a successful artist. I knew it was a possibility.”

Just a few weeks after he graduated high school, Padilla moved to Albuquerque. “At a certain point as a teenager, you’re like, ‘I’ve got to get the hell out of here,’” he says. “I had no idea what I was going to do.” His sister convinced him to enroll in painting classes at Central New Mexico Community College, and he got his asssociate degree in 2010.

The next year, Padilla rented a studio at The Factory on 5th Art Space in Albuquerque. That’s where he made an artistic breakthrough with his synesthesia. After finishing a series of particularly grueling hyperrealistic paintings, he made an impromptu abstract painting on his studio door. “I needed to get something out of my system, so I just started painting whatever I felt,” he says. As his brain fired off synesthetic shapes to the music he was playing,

he worked them into the composition.

Friends who visited Padilla’s studio responded enthusiastically to the exploratory painting. That was about two years ago, and it was the beginning of a brand new body of work.

Using synesthesia as a painting tool allowed Padilla to reap the benefits of an experience that can be painful. “I see every sound,” he says. “I can kind of block it out in a way, but if I’m having a conversation and cars are going by in the background, I see every car.” Occasionally, Padilla will get intense migraines, and any sounds around him produce “bright, chaotic” visuals that are agonizing. The artist started honing his ability to capture his visions by listening to different types of music: rock from his high school days, electronica, jazz. He found that hip-hop’s clear beats were particularly effective at stirring up distinct forms.

“My gestures are almost simplified versions of what I’m seeing,” Reyes Padilla tells SFR. “They’re the ‘cave painting’ version of what’s in my head.”

It’s a sunny Friday morning on Canyon Road, and Padilla’s show is partially installed at the Beals & Co. Showroom.

Canvases filled with bold abstract forms, all in a palette of black, white and gray, line every wall of the space. Some of Padilla’s squiggles recall the exuberant street art of Keith Haring. His style is more painterly, though, with forms layered one atop the other and at times vanishing behind hazy veils of pigment. “He chooses to do it in black and white, because he wants to emphasize the movement that he experiences,” says Bobby Beals, who founded the space in 2016. “He paints with headphones on, and it’s almost like a dance.”

Beals met Padilla through another Beals & Co. artist, David Santiago, and swiftly offered the Santa Fe-born artist his firstever Canyon Road show.

Beals describes the next step of the installation, which will place viewers in Padilla’s shoes. “He’s going to paint directly on the wall to intertwine these canvases,” he says, strolling through the space and into a small adjoining room. “Then he’ll cover every surface of this room with a mural.” A hip-hop playlist compiled by Padilla accompanies the room, giving gallery visitors a complete synesthetic experience.

“I think to give people the closest understanding of what it’s like to have synesthesia. That’s my goal,” says Padilla. “I hope that this room will give people this feeling of being separated from the world.

I’m interested in making paintings that really suck people in.”

REYES PADILLA: AN INTRODUCTION OPENING RECEPTION 5 pm Friday March 24. Free. Beals & Co. Showroom, 830 Canyon Road, 357-0441

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I recently spoke at Curious Minds Weekend in Toronto at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema.

Audience members submitted questions on cards before the show—anonymously—but the moderator, Lisan Jutras of the Globe and Mail, and I were having so much fun talking with each other that we didn’t get to many cards. So I’m going to quickly answer as many of the questions from the audience at Curious Minds as I can this week.

My husband and I have been seeking a third for a threesome. After a very palpable night of flirtation, I asked a mutual friend (as we shared a cab) if he would be down for a threesome. He said yes, but I was not about to spring him on my husband that night. So I texted him later about it, and he has ignored me. What should I take from this?

The hint.

please explain to her that it’s normal for a man my age to “slow down” and it’s not her?

Happy birthday. And, yes, it’s normal for a man to slow down as he ages—it’s not her—and there are younger men who take a long time to come. But such men need to take their partners’ physical limitations into consideration. To avoid wearing out their partners’ jaws, fingers, etc., they need to take matters into their own hands.

They should enjoy that blowjob, handjob, twatjob, or assjob, take breaks to stroke their own dicks, eventually bring themselves to the point of orgasmic inevitability, and end by plunging back into that mouth, fist, twat, or ass to blow their load.

Dude? Trump? WTF? ITMFA (ITMFA.org).

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I have been reading your column since the early 1990s. Since that time, what has struck you in the kind of problems people write you about?

People don’t ask me about butt plugs anymore.

I used to get a letter once or twice a week from someone who needed to have butt plugs explained to them. But butt plugs have their own Wiki page now, so no one needs me to explain them anymore. But for old times’ sake: They look like lava lamps, they go in your butt, they feel awesome, and they typically don’t induce gay panic in butt-play-curious straight boys.

Would you share your thoughts on our prime minister, Justin Trudeau?

If your friend’s BF doesn’t know oral is the only way she can orgasm, she should tell him. If she told him and he doesn’t care, she should dump him. If she told him and he doesn’t care and she won’t dump him, you’re not obligated to listen to her complain about the orgasms she’s not having.

When are you going to move to Canada already?

I’m a bisexual 42-year-old female with an extremely high sex drive who squirts with every orgasm. How do I deal with friends—even people at a sex club—who think you’re a freak because “women aren’t supposed to be horny all the time.”

I’m a submissive gay boy. I saw you walk into the theater tonight wearing combat boots. Is there any way I could lick your boots clean after the show?

My very Christian friend is about to get married.

Though she is socially very liberal, she is pretty sexually repressed. I want to do something to encourage her to explore her sexuality a bit before she takes a try at partnered sex. How weird would it be to buy her a vibrator as a shower present?

Don’t give your friend a vibrator at her shower—gifts are opened in front of guests at showers—but go ahead and send her one. Tell her it’s a pre-bachelorette-party gift.

Two guys divorced in order to bring a third man into their relationship on equal terms, and they now plan to start a family with their sisters acting as surrogates. Thoughts?

Mazel tov?

I am 31. My husband (newly married) is 46, almost 47. He takes FOREVER to come, no matter what I do. How do we speed up this process?

My jaw, fingers, etc., are all very sore.

Your husband speeds up the process by incorporating self-stimulation breaks into the blowjobs, handjobs, etcetera-jobs you’re giving him. He strokes himself while you take a quick breather and/or an Advil, he gets himself closer, you get back to work.

I think Justin needs to stop fucking around and legalize weed already, like he promised.

See above.

Polyamory after marriage—is it okay?

For some.

Sadly, I didn’t see your question until after I got back to my hotel.

Straight male here. My best male friend of 20 years transitioned to female. I’ve been super supportive since day one, but her transitioning is all she ever talks about, and it’s getting tiresome. I miss our discussions of bicycle repair and Swedish pop music. How can I tell her to give it a rest while remaining supportive?

If she began transitioning last week, then of course it’s all she can talk about. If she transitioned five years ago and it’s still all she ever talks about, then you’ll need to (gently) be the change you want to see in the conversation. Listen supportively when she discusses trans issues and seize opportunities (when they arise) to change the subject (“So how do you think Sweden will do in Eurovision this year?”).

Why are so many lesbians into astrology?

All the lesbians I know are strict empiricists.

So the more pertinent question would be this: Whose sample is skewed—mine or yours?

My male partner never masturbates and we have sex only once a week. We’ve been together four years. I’m a woman. I would like to have sex just a little more, but he isn’t into it. Is there something weird about me masturbating a bunch during the week and just having weekend sex?

Nope.

I’m 47 and my wife is 31. I take a lot longer to come and recover than she would like. Could you

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EVENTS RENDER BENDER: A COLLISION OF ARTISTIC WONDERMENT Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 This drawing-themed community fundraiser supports CCA's visual arts program.

Watch as artists create oneof-a-kind works on the spot, which you can purchase upon completion. Listen to a live vintage jazz performance

by The Shiners Club, and enjoy food and drink.

5 pm, $10 SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET Railyard Park Cerrillos Road and Guadalupe Street, 982-3373 Santa Fe artists present their works in mediums like ceramics, painting and photography.

8 am-1 pm, free SOLIDARITY SHAKEDOWN PARTY FOR JAMBO CAFÉ The Bridge @ SF Brewing Co. 37 Fire Place, 424-3333 Support Jambo Café with live performances

by DJ Clemente and the BoomRoots Collective, and enjoy a meal from the Jambo food truck at a time when they need the community more than ever as they try to repair the damage made by the car that plowed into their brick-and-mortar location.

7 pm, $20 SPRINGING FORWARD AT SHIDONI Shidoni 1508 Bishop’s Lodge Road Tesuque, 988-8001 Celebrate the return of spring and longer days at this party featuring live music by the Key Frances Band and food by the High Altitude Food truck.

Noon, free YOGA & CHAMPAGNE BRUNCH Joseph's Culinary Pub 428 Agua Fría St., 982-1272 Emily Branden teaches an hour of vinyasa flow with soundscapes by DJ Dr. John, followed by a champagne toast and three-course brunch.

11 am, $60

A friend’s BF won’t go down on her no matter how much she asks. She still won’t break up with him, even though she told me that oral is the only way she has ever had an orgasm. How do I get her to realize her sexual pleasure is a priority?

If your friends—presumably people you aren’t fucking—complain that you’re horny all the time, maybe it’s because you don’t talk about anything other than the sex you just had or the sex you hope to have soon. If people at sex clubs (!) are complaining about how horny you are… either you’ve accidentally wandered into a yacht club or even people at a sex club wanna talk about something other than sex every once in a while.

FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Traditional tapas and flamenco are a pair made in Spain. Close your eyes real tight and pretend you’re on vacation.

6:30 pm, $25

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ALEX CULBRETH Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Alt.country originals.

3 pm, free

ALPHA CATS Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 These cats like to stick to the jazz alley.

6 pm, free THE BUS TAPES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Local folk rock.

8:30 pm, free DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Broadway piano tunes.

6 pm, $2 DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano jams including classics and pop hits.

6 pm, free DUO RASMINKO Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Gypsy folk.

6 pm, free JERRY FENN Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Soothing piano tunes.

8 pm, free KIKIMORA Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Neo-jazz and soul tunes by this Texas-based group.

10 pm, free MOBY DICK The Underground 200 W San Francisco St. Santa Fe's Led Zeppelin cover band rocks the house.

9 pm, $5 THE PAT MALONE JAZZ TRIO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Malone leads this jazz trio.

7:30 pm, free ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S CHOIR Santa Fe Children's Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 989-8359 This kiddo chorale from Denver, Colorado, brings children ages 6 to 18 together to sing and read music, nurturing self-confidence and inclusivity. The performance is free with museum admission.

2 pm, free SHEILA JORDAN AND ALAN PASQUA Unitarian Universalist Congregation 107 W Barcelona Road, 982-0439 Jordan is a jazz original. She sang with the likes of Charlie Parker and won the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Award in 2012.

Her insanely rad vocals are accompanied by Pasqua, a pianist she's played with since the ’70s.

6 pm, $25-$30

SILVER STRING BAND Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 The band gives a nod to their past with some old time references, but truly hits its stride playing a combination of originals, traditional bluegrass favorites and creative covers.

7 pm, free SO SOPHISTICATED WITH DJ 12 TRIBE Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 The newest hits in rap, hiphop and R&B. So, just in case you haven’t tuned into KISS 97.3 today, you won’t miss the current Top 40.

9 pm, $7 STANLIE KEE & STEP IN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Blues.

1 pm, free TRASH DISCO WITH DJ OONA Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Oona plays a dancey set of electronica and house music in the upstairs section of this venue, the Skylab.

9 pm, $7

THEATER JEWEL BOX CABARET Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 This Las Vegas-esque variety revue brings the arts of gender illusion and burlesque.

The night features Madame Marie Antoinette Du Barry, Krisha Licious, CoCo Caliente and Lucy Fur (see SFR Picks, page 17).

8 pm, $20 THE MET LIVE IN HD: IDOMENEO Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 James Levine conducts a rare Met revival of Mozart’s Idomeneo, set in the aftermath of the Trojan War. And it’s so nice you can see it twice, because there are two screenings happening today.

11 am and 6:30 pm, $22-$28 MOONLIGHT AND MAGNOLIAS Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 See this comedy, written

by Ron Hutchinson, which chronicles the making of beloved film Gone With the Wind.

7:30 pm, $20 THE SHAPE OF THINGS Greer Garson Theatre at Santa Fe University of Art and Design 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 473-6439 Written by Neil LaBute and directed by Triston Pullen, this play explores relationships and love.

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THIS IS OUR YOUTH Greer Garson Theatre at Santa Fe University of Art and Design 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 473-6439 Timeless issues, like maturity and adolescence, are confronted as the story follows 20-somethings in New York, who explore the consequences of their wealthy childhoods. Directed by SFUAD student Bryson Hatfield.

2 pm, $5-$15

WORKSHOP PRANIC HEALING Thubten Norbu Ling Tibetan Buddhist Center 1807 Second St., Ste. 35, 660-7056 Pranic healing is a form of energy medicine developed by the Grand Master Choa Kok Sui. It utilizes prana and balance to harmonize the body's energy, bringing you back to a natural state of existence.

2 pm, free

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SUNDAY MEDITATION HOUR Center for Inner Truth 1807 Second St., Ste. 84, 920-4418 Spend an hour in silence reaching for enlightenment.

10 am, free TRANSFORMATIONAL BREATH WORK Center for Inner Truth 1807 Second St., Ste. 84, 920-4418 Reconnect with your mind and body through concentrated breath work in this guided workshop. Bring two blankets and call ahead to register.

1 pm, $20

FILM ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN SPECIAL SCREENING Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Join SFR editors for a talk on politics, journalism and a screening of the classic movie.

4 pm, $8-$9 IN BETWEEN Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Follow three Palestinian women as they live their lives in Tel Aviv, Israel (see 3 Questions, page 25).

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SUN/26 BOOKS/LECTURES ELMER MAESTAS: NEW MEXICO'S STORMY HISTORY Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Elmer is a 10th-generation Spanish descendant who speaks about his family’s long history in the state.

2:30 pm, free ERIC BLINMAN AND JOHN WARE Santa Fe Woman's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail, 983-9455 Blinman lectures on the role agriculture plays in maintaining a stable society in his lecture "Florescence and Crisis in the New Mexican Southwest: AD 900-1300.”

Ware covers climate changes of the 12th and 13th centuries in his lecture "Bridge to the Present: Migrations and Cultural Adaptations."

1 pm, $45 JOURNEYSANTAFE: JERRY ORTIZ Y PINO Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Get an in depth look at the legislative session with Ortiz y Pino and his lecture, "On The Roundhouse Whirlwind and the Resulting Debate."

11 am, free

EVENTS RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Santa Fe Farmers Market 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-4098 Hit the market and peruse a variety of handmade artworks, representing mediums like painting and pottery, all made by artists in Santa Fe. 10 am-1 pm, free

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Usually, life in the Middle East through the lens of documentary filmmakers and journalists is focused on the political struggles and the pain of war. But in In Between, viewers see everyday life as experienced by three young women, each with their own set of beliefs and goals independent of the political turmoil that infects their country.

This weekend, the Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival screens In Between (11 am Sunday. $8-$15. 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338). We spoke with Marcia Torobin, the festival’s director, to ask why she’s stoked about this film. (MER) Is the Jewish Film Festival something that ends?

No, it never ends. We work a bit differently than most film festivals because the market is a smaller market, so we screen all year-round. Then, we do a four or five film mini-fest that is based around a theme and, when we do that the films are shown over a week or two, and then we continue with about one film a month.

So, there is something going on almost year-round.

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What do you think viewers may learn about life there through these women?

That many of the struggles they face are struggles that women, in particular in the US, maybe in an earlier generation, also faced. They’re coming from a much more traditional society. The Arab world is much more traditional, and yet each of them is trying to strike out a life on their own. So they meet many of the same hurdles women here met.

What made the film festival choose this particular film?

I think it was because it does have this universal aspect to it, that was one thing. This film was refreshing because it is dealing with the daily lives of Israeli Arabs. So, it was a glimpse into a segment of society, a part of the world, that is looking at it through a more normal lens, not one that is so highly focused on the politics of the region.

March 23 through April 14, 2017 Main Hallway Santa Fe Community College 5401 Richards Ave. Opening Reception 4 to 6 p.m., Thursday, March 23

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THE CALENDAR MUSIC AJ WOODS, BARNABY HAZEN, WILL SHRIETZ AND LESLIE ROBERTS Zephyr 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 This evening presents a collection of musical performances and readings by local artists.

7 pm, $5 AIR & HAMMERS Christ Lutheran Church 1701 Arroyo Chamiso, 467-9025 Acclaimed British baritone Edmund Connolly and organist and pianist Maxine Thévenot perform a repertoire of compositions by Vaughn Williams, Finzi, Britten and Andrew Ager.

3 pm, $5-$15 ALEX CULBRETH Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Alt.country with a little rock ’n’ roll.

8 pm, free CHRIS ABEYTA El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Abeyta performs folky originals.

6:30 pm, free DERVISH: MAGICAL MUSIC FROM IRELAND Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 One of Ireland’s most acclaimed bands, featuring the haunting voice of Cathy Jordan and award-winning instrumentalists Tom Morrow on fiddle, Liam Kelly on lute, and Shane Mitchell on accordion. Over its 20-plus-year career, the band has performed in every corner of the globe and onstage with such greats as James Brown, Oasis, Sting, Beck and many more.

7:30 pm, $20-$45 ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S CHOIR Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-7726 This kiddo chorale from Denver, Colorado, brings children ages 6 to 18 together to sing and read music, nurturing self-confidence and inclusivity. They perform during the Railyard Artisan Market for this special morning concert.

10:15 am, free SERENATA SANTA FE: PARIS First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Featuring works by Olivier Messiaen, Alexandra du Bois and Gabriel Fauré performed by David Helberg and Ruxandra Marquardt on violin, Shanti Randall on viola, Dana Winograd on cello and pianist Yi-heng Yang, this program lets the audience experience the auditory greatness of the City of Lights.

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THE BARB WIRES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Soulful blues.

2 pm, free THE SANTA REVUE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana.

Noon, free

THEATER MOONLIGHT AND MAGNOLIAS Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 See this comedy, which is based on the making of Gone With the Wind, written by Ron Hutchinson and directed by Staci Robbins.

3 pm, $20 THE SHAPE OF THINGS Greer Garson Theatre at Santa Fe University of Art and Design 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 473-6439 This play, written by Neil LaBute and directed by Triston Pullen, takes place on a university campus as students explore relationships and what it means to be in love.

2 pm, $5-$15

MON/27 BOOKS/LECTURES GINO SEGRE AND BETTINA HOERLIN Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 These co-authors hit the bookstore to present their collaborative biography, The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age. 6 pm, free JOHN A WARE: ANCIENT SITES AND ANCIENT STORIES III Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Ware, an anthropologist and archaeologist and the founding director at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, speaks about Pueblos in his lecture titled "A Pueblo Social History: Kinship, Sodality, and Community in the Northern Southwest."

6 pm, $15

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Draft Station 60 E San Francisco St., 983-6443 Bring your smartest friends along and compete against other teams for trivia knowledge victory. Only one team can be crowned king of nerds, so make sure to leave your dummy associates at home.

7 pm, free

NATIVE AMERICAN WEEK CELEBRATIONS Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 Kicking off with ceremonial dances by traditional dance groups from Cochiti and Pojoaque Pueblos, the celebration continues with lectures from guest speakers Charles Van Pelt, Cassandra Perez and Benjamin Shendo who speak about current issues like their experiences at Standing Rock, decolonization and language loss (see SFR Picks, page 17).

10 am-3 pm, free

MUSIC CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Bring your instrument and join this blues jam session.

8:30 pm, free COWGIRL KARAOKE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 You know what to do.

9 pm, free MELLOW MONDAYS WITH DJ OBI ZEN Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Mellow electronica and live drums.

10 pm, free T-REXTACY, EMMA LEE TOYODA, SIRENS AND MAGIC FLOORS Zephyr 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 T-Rextacy performs highly vocal rock, Toyoda plays sad girl rock. Psirens presents her ethereal rock originals, and Magic Floors performs psychedelic rock.

8 pm, $5-$10

WORKSHOP TRANSCENDENTAL RHYTHM: DRUMMING WORKSHOP Studio Nia 851 W San Mateo Road, 989-1299 Johanna Nelson teaches you how to bang on a drum.

7:15 pm, $20

TUE/28 BOOKS/LECTURES CARMELLA PADILLA New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Padilla speaks about Santa Fe’s social butterflies (see SFR Picks, page 17).

6 pm, free JAMES McGRATH MORRIS Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 McGrath Morris presents his new nonfiction work, The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos and a Friendship Made and Lost in War. 6 pm, free CONTINUED ON PAGE 29

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Both Sides Dueling locations in a city of 70K those great businesses in town that I always forget about. This isn’t a dig at the food—it has more to do with Santa Fe’s weird indoor shopping spaces.

The original location sits in the middle of the Design Center, not quite downtown, not quite not downtown. You can drive right by and not even notice the building.

Lunchtime on a Wednesday, I figured it would be busy. Only a few people milled about. There was a family eating at The Kitchen Window next door. A few down the walkway at Pizza Centro. Otherwise it was quiet. I got sheesh tewook ($7.50)

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recently had a long conversation with a visitor from Denver about how Santa Fe has a north/south divide. For us, this isn’t shocking or new to say. I find it hard to articulate beyond the racial, economic, political and historic divides that are common everywhere. Divisions in Santa Fe are invisible.

There are spheres of culture that we exist in and you can exist in yours without ever coming into contact with the other ones.

This isn’t to say that there isn’t crossing. There definitely is. And it isn’t even hard to do. You just have to move outside the circles you travel once in awhile. That, however, takes effort and drive. This is a long intro to something that has always interested me about Santa Fe: restaurants with downtown and Southside locations.

Plenty of cities have restaurants with more than one location, but this isn’t the interesting thing. It’s the clear distinction of downtown vs. Southside that makes this something to think about.

In the early 2000s, a sudden boom on the Southside mostly took the form of suburban sprawl, strip malls and chain stores. A surprising number of local places have carved out a space: Plaza Café or Blue Corn. Many of them are a second location to a downtown business. I wanted to see if they did different things for the different sides of town.

I didn’t survey all of the doubled businesses, of course. I picked one—Cleopatra’s Café (Design Center, 418 Cerrillos Road, 820-7381). Cleopatra’s is one of

and dolmas ($5.95) and found a small table in the corner to read while I waited. Not that it ever takes long.

The server soon brought me two plates. The tewook was great. Large bits of chicken grilled to a crisp on the outside and melty inside. Caramelized onion and tomato, and a traditional aioli on top. There was a little too much paprika sprinkled across this dish, but I soon finished my meal and went for the dolmas.

Tangy, sweet and soft. One of my favorite clean tastes. They were just perfect and not overly oily like the canned versions most of us have from grocery store salad bars. The only real off-note is that you are

sitting in a caged-in seating area in the middle of a mostly-empty mall. I read a chapter in my book, dropped off a pair of pants to be hemmed at Santa Fe Seamstress and went on with my day.

A week earlier I had gone to the Southside Cleopatra’s (3482 Zafarano Drive, 474-5644) on a whim with a group of friends and had ordered the same thing. That was where the idea came from to compare the two. The tewook and dolmas were both the same price and almost exact in their taste. The Southside location put less paprika on top, and the sauce was maybe a little less tangy, but otherwise they were identical down to the plates they were served on.

SURPRISES: 1 Prices: I expected the downtown version to be more expensive.

2 Consistency: It’s spot-on—a feat even for a single location.

Cleopatra Plate with sheesh tewook (chicken); lamb gyros with rice; Greek salad. You can now make puns like, “Sheesh tewook here, but not anymore.”

The big change is that the Southside location has a large room to itself, though it’s no less odd. It feels like a cafeteria with high tabletops spaced loosely in the large, echoey room. They’ve managed to re-create the feeling of sitting in a food court at a mall in both of their spaces. Which is part of the charm, I suppose. It certainly doesn’t make the food less delicious.

So why two Cleopatra’s? With parking downtown as terrible as it is, and the realities of the divides in this city, it’s almost as if the Southside would miss out if there weren’t two. I would guess this applies to most of the dueling location businesses in town; downtown isn’t the only place that exists. The restaurants noticed and stepped in to serve the growing city that we are.

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DANCE ARGENTINE TANGO MILONGA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Bring your best tango moves.

7:30 pm, $5

MUSIC AN AMERICAN FORREST Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Country and folk originals by this talented Western songwriter.

8 pm, free BUCKLEY Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Classic rock and country.

5 pm, free

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DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano classics.

6 pm, free PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Jazzy guitar goodness by this solo performer.

6 pm, free

THEATER MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 9881234 This theatrical celebration of women who find themselves at any stage of “the change” is set in a department store and includes parodies of pop tunes from the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s.

7 pm, $25

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“Agnes Martin” by Donald Woodman is on view as part of the exhibit Agnes Martin and Me at the New Mexico History Museum, through August.

EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS 334 Los Pinos Road, 471-2261 Living history.

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 O’Keeffe at the University of Virginia. Through summer.

HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 Ken Price, Death Shrine I. Agnes Martin Gallery.

Continuum, Through May. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ART 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Athena LaTocha: Inside the Forces of Nature. Through May. New Impressions: Experiments in Contemporary Native American Printmaking.

Through June. Daniel McCoy: The Ceaseless Quest for Utopia. Through Jan. 2018.

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Frank Buffalo Hyde: I-Witness Culture. Through Jan. 2018. Into the Future: Culture Power in Native American Art. MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Flamenco: From Spain to New Mexico. Through Sept.

Sacred Realm. The Morris Miniature Circus. Under Pressure. Through Dec. No Idle Hands: The Myths and Meanings of Tramp Art. Through Sept. 16.

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 Chimayó: A Pilgrimage Through Two Centuries. The Beltran Kropp Collection. The Delgado Room.

NM HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5019 Agnes Martin and Me. Through Aug. Out of the Box: The Art of the Cigar. Through Oct.

NM MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Meggan Gould and Andy Mattern: Light Tight. Through Sept. 17. Cady Wells: Ruminations. Through Sept.

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Through April. Be With Me: A Small Exhibition of Large Paintings. Through April.

PALACE OF THE GOVERNORS 105 W Palace Ave.,476-5100 Treasures of Devotion/Tesoros de Devoción.

POEH CULTURAL CENTER AND MUSEUM 78 Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3334 Water Is Life Pushpin Show.

Through June.

SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDENS 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Bill Barrett: Visual Poetry.

Through March. Ojos y Manos.

WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 704 Camino Lejo, 986-4636 Eveli: Energy and Significance.

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Beauty and the Beast Review

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s your masculinity feeling fragile? Fear not, delicate dudes, for the fraternity of frivolous bros in Disney’s newest live-action movie-musical has enough beefcakes and bestiality for audiences of all ages.

Director Bill Condon’s (Dreamgirls, Kinsey) adaptation of the 1991 animated film of the same name illustrates the story of a cursed narcissistic prince (Dan Stevens of Downton Abbey) and a thoughtful, young woman (Emma Watson) who inevitably falls in love despite the meager machismo and brutish advances of resident asshole Gaston (Luke Evans from Fast & Furious 6). With the help of his house staff, Lumière (Trainspotting’s Ewan McGregor), Cogsworth (Lord of the Rings’ Ian McKellen) and Mrs. Potts (Love Actually’s Emma Thompson), the Beast is able to prove he’s worthy of Belle’s love through manipulation and coercion. Spoiler alert: The two lead characters inevitably fall in love and Gaston is the winner of

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The Beast, who never once gives his real name and doesn’t correct anyone when they call him such, tears Belle from her ailing father, falsely imprisons her, uses threats of violence and withholds food to convince her he’s “not like most guys,” only to triumphantly win her over with his extensive collection of leather-bound books.

Modern romance.

While the introduction of new songs, bright colors and subtle hints of Lafou’s queerness (portrayed by Book of Mormon’s Josh Gad) were distracting from the ragtag bunch of feeble fellas this film has to offer, Belle’s line rang true that “there must be more than this provincial life.” Perhaps

maybe a plot point that doesn’t center around the alienation or objectification of women who make their own choices? Just a suggestion.

Running a nearly unbearable two hours-plus, this film has all the fun-loving problematic characters we know and love from the original animated version. However, the best review for this film is probably a vague “ehhhh” noise and a noncommittal wiggly hand gesture.

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Directed by Condon With Watson, Stevens and Evans Regal, Violet Crown, PG, 129 min.

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British writer/producer/filmmaker Louis Theroux’s look into the church of Scientology could have been fascinating. Even Theroux himself, as narrator, asserts that he has little interest in pigeonholing the massive religion, founded by science fiction author L Ron Hubbard, and its followers, but this winds up being a bald-faced lie. My Scientology Movie buckles under a lack of information, sensationalist baiting techniques and, frankly, some seriously boring and shoddy filmmaking.

Along with former church bigwigs, Theroux attempts to work out the mysterious inner-workings of Scientology because, he says, he’s genuinely interested. Sadly, this means painfully long scenes with secondhand accounts of Scientology’s shadowy leader, David Miscavige, and constant reminders, for some reason, that Tom Cruise is all about Dianetics.

As Scientology is notoriously clandestine, Theroux sets out to cast Miscavige, Cruise and other church members in “reenactments,” though we never actually see the final product of filming, instead watching glimpses into the

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filming process that don’t hack it as behind-thescenes interesting and, further, don’t give as any insight into what these people actually believe or the hoops they reportedly must jump through to enter the church’s good graces. Instead, Theroux repeatedly travels to a Scientology compound outside Hemet, California, where he is

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This smacks of desperation or, at the very least, a filmmaker who had little to go on and chose to manufacture conflict rather than provide any actual facts.

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The most recent Hollywood take on the giant ape himself, King Kong, should have left us with a monstrous hunger for more. Instead, it feels like a souped-up version of Honey I Shrunk the Kids meets the third or fourth Jurassic Park all set to the soundtrack of Good Morning, Vietnam.

Knowing this movie was heavier on the action than the plot, and wanting the throat-shaking sounds and sights to feel even closer, we went to a 3D showing and don’t regret it. Seeing Kong bat choppers out of the air and smash them together in a fiery explosion was pretty badass, and we were entertained by not just Kong but the surprising other monsters that emerge from the forbidden jungle, splendid in its CGI majesty.

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was the thought of seeing Samuel L Jackson take on the biggest gorilla this side of the galaxy and John Goodman as a government monster-chaser.

Whether it’s the silly script or their shallow characters, neither leaves a remarkable impression.

The story is not supposed to be complicated, but did it have to be so predictable? Did the filmmakers have to write in one more female journalist (Brie Larson, Rampart) who seems to have brought too few clothes for a jungle mission? Why on earth didn’t she put her hair in ponytail while she tried to take pictures from the open door of the ‘Nam helicopter? And, oh no, why does she go from detesting to flirting with the ex-military expedition leaders in a matter of minutes? Wait for it: Why is she looking so lovingly into Kong’s terrifying red eyes?

These and more questions are sure to get non-answers as it seems all but certain there will be a sequel. Maybe even more than one. Plus, do yourself a favor and get your $11 out of the deal by staying through to final scene at the end of the credits. (Julie Ann Grimm) Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 120 min.

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On paper, Darius McCollum is the kind of repeat offender that our crime-and-punishment elected officials want to use as reason for harsher sentences. He’s been arrested 19 times and has served more than 30 years behind bars. Every time he gets out, he does it again. But in this documentary, he is a poster boy for the unadulterated failure of our ill-named “corrections” system and of our collective inability to find a place in society for those who don’t fit the mold.

McCollum’s true love is transit. From an early age, he displayed a savant’s proficiency at understanding the tangled web of the New York City subways and buses. He found solace from schoolhouse bullies and welcome in the routine, and befriended drivers who encouraged his interest.

In an era before Asperger’s syndrome was part of the mental health parlance, his first incarceration at a hospital didn’t lead to help or coping skills, but a heavy dose of Thorazine. And since trains seem to be the best medicine, his parents sprung him from the psych ward. His first arrest came at age 15, though, and even though he had made all the stops and announcements on the subway he drove, the law didn’t take kindly to his volunteer service.

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transit workers, driving trains and buses or using keys he’d acquired to enter restricted areas like dispatch towers never resulted in anyone getting hurt—just him being what the newspapers called “a train in the neck” to enforcers.

What’s the most tragic about McCollum’s story is that if, at age 17, someone had overlooked his differentness enough to give him a job driving a bus or a train or some other task as part of a cog in the system that held his passion, he might have spent his life truly serving. It’s easy to imagine seeing this guy every day on your way to work and letting his smile drive you along.

Instead, he’s caught in the revolving door of prison, probation and poverty. He doesn’t steal trains for money—he does it because it feels good to him. It makes him happy. That’s the ticket. (JAG) Jean Cocteau Cinema, NR, 86 min.

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You know when Clint Eastwood got old and made Million Dollar Baby and it finally sunk in that even he too would wither and fade right in front of us on the big screen? At first, you feel this way about Hugh Jackman in the latest—and they promise us, sorta, the last—Wolverine movie. But then you realize that Logan is getting old, only he’s not going to go quietly into that good night.

While this is really the bajillionth in a series

of long, sometimes-overproduced and complicated tales in the X-Men franchise, it’s true that you don’t really need a lot of backstory to follow along. Wolverine is tired. He coughs and limps.

He works as a chauffeur and carries businessmen and bachelorette parties in a limo around a city that resembles El Paso. But like a lot of those battling the marching of time (read: all of us), he’s got some bigger fights ahead.

It’s not just ol’ Wolvie who’s aging, but also Professor X (Patrick Stewart). Once the teacher/ savior/organizer for mutants, now it’s X who needs protecting. But what happens when a man whose brain can stop time develops dementia?

It’s what one character says is “degenerative brain disease in the world’s most dangerous brain.”

This, and so much more, is on Wolverine’s scarred-yet-still-shapely shoulders. Although “new mutants” were supposed to be a thing of the past, a child with killer instincts and familiar metallic claws arrives in need of saving.

After that, maybe their fights have less in common with our fights. Rated R for violence, there’s a ton of gore in the story—no shortage of decapitations, impalements and claws through the head, eyes, neck and every other bloody part you can think of. Yet somehow when a little girl (a great performance, BTW, from a mostly otherwise silent Dafne Keen) lets out a grunt as she delivers it, you’re rooting for her along with the familiar man with the muscles. He’s old. But he’s still got it. (JAG) Regal, Violet Crown. R, 137 min.

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Much of the draw of Get Out is in seeing its writer/director Jordan Peele (of legendary comedy duo Key and Peele) strike out of the genre for which he’s known. But the film proves to be far more than a simple foray into uncharted territory from a talented comic mind, and instead becomes one of the most original and well-executed horror films in generations.

A young photographer named Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) is set to visit his girlfriend’s parents for the weekend. “Do ... they know I’m black?” he asks her nervously beforehand, and we honestly believe Rose (Girls’ Allison Williams) when she answers, “They are not racist.” And at first this seems to be all well and good, though Allison’s doctor-father Dean (a brilliantly disarming Bradley Whitford) and therapist-mother Missy (a wildly discomforting Catherine Keener) seem a bit off, they still appear to at least be trying in that I-swear-I’m-totally-not-racist kind of way.

But something is just not right at the Armitage house. It could be Rose’s obviously sociopathic brother Jeremy (Caleb Landry Jones), a far-toochipper maid (Betty Gabriel) who stands silently smiling at all times or the ominous and terrifying groundskeeper (Marcus Henderson) who speaks like he just so totally has something to hide. Regardless, it’s creepy as hell up in there, but Chris seems to be the only one who can feel it.

Get Out shines in its metered examination of tokenism, conditioned racism and even our societal expectations. Peele neatly pulls this off without ever resorting to overt explanations, however, instead allowing the actions of its characters to slowly unfold the goings-on at Rose’s spooky family home. He trusts his audience will be patient, which is a sadly lacking quality of modern filmmaking. By the time all is revealed, we share in Chris’ realization that it may be too late, but we savor the slow burn right up to the shocking truth. (ADV) Regal, R, 103 min.

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to visit a human friend in her apartment. At an outdoor flea market across town, young and old cats alike sleep amongst the wares. The camera pans along the port and cranes up over the gorgeous Golden Horn, revealing the massive labyrinth of a city. This is Kedi, a new documentary on the street cats of Istanbul from director Ceyda Torun, and it is awe-inspiring.

We follow the seemingly ordinary lives of various cats who live throughout the sprawling Turkish metropolis on the sea. From a rather polite comrade who haunts a deli patio (but is never so rude as to go inside), a beat-up old tabby who rules her perceived turf with an iron paw, a portside puffer who keeps the mouse population under control and beyond, the brief windows into the lives of cats come together to prove one thing: Cats are beloved in Istanbul.

Through this, Kedi sneakily becomes perhaps more about the humans in the cats’ lives rather than the opposite. A sailor, for instance, who once lost everything but was saved by a cat who led him to a hidden cache of money, spends his days roaming the port feeding feral kittens with a bottle. Elsewhere, a baker forms an unlikely alliance with a cat who unwittingly gives his life meaning beyond his work. In a nearby home packed to the rafters with countless strays, two women cook for and feed dozens of street cats daily.

Even those who aren’t in love with these fascinating creatures will find a captivating human story here. And rather than linger on the more cutesy aspects of felines, Kedi instead proves an inspiring treatise on the enriching aspects of animals and a satisfying glimpse into the beauty of the city itself. (ADV) Center for Contemporary Arts, Violet Crown NR, 80 min.

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You’d never know it was Samuel L Jackson reading the words from activist and writer James Baldwin’s unfinished work, Remember This House, in the new documentary I Am Not Your Negro, but it mostly works. The downside, of course, is that Baldwin’s emphatic and lilting voice, so brilliantly strong and effortlessly convincing, doesn’t take center stage. Still, Jackson’s reserved cadence conveys the importance of the man (as well as his observations on explosive race relations) who, during the 1960s after years living in Paris, returned to America to fight the good fight alongside his friends and fellow crusaders, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. and Medgar Evers.

How inexplicably awful it must have been to watch as your friends, your loved ones, your very

people were killed as they pursued simple rights that ought to be extended to all humans. As we know, these particular men never did make it to the mountaintop, but their contributions—not to mention Baldwin’s, offered through literature— were obviously vital.

With the text of Remember This House as narration, director Raoul Peck weaves footage from then and now deftly throughout the film, reminding us of the brutality black people have faced throughout all of recorded history, even more unforgivable now. In the span of mere minutes, we see the bodies of 60s-era leaders and snapshots of Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and other modern-day victims of racist oppression.

This is painfully difficult to watch, yet riveting, especially within the juxtaposition of Baldwin’s gorgeous prose and ugly images of Klansmen, the violent police and the everyday racists.

These days they’re growing bold once more, and though I Am Not Your Negro remains timeless in its message, it is particularly needed right now. Take your children or your students; take yourselves for a refresher course in the tragic absurdity of such racially charged hatred. Prepare to be blown away. (ADV) CCA Cinematheque, Violet Crown, PG-13, 95 min.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Of course you want to get the best of everything. But that doesn’t mean you should disdain cheap thrills that are more interesting and gratifying than the expensive kind. And of course you enjoy taking risks. But there’s a big difference between gambling that’s spurred by superstitious hunches and gambling rooted in smart research. And of course you’re galvanized by competition. But why fritter away your competitive fire on efforts to impress people? A better use of that fire is to use it to hone your talents and integrity.

that’s your choice right now. Which will it be? The latter, I hope. P.S.: The reversals that you consciously co-create may not be perfect. But even if they are baffling, I bet they will also be amusing and magnificent.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) If you own an untamable animal like a bull, the best way to manage it is to provide a fenced but spacious meadow where it can roam freely. So said famous Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki, using a metaphor to address how we might deal with the unruly beasts in our own psyches. This is excellent advice for you right now, Taurus. I’d hate to see you try to quash or punish your inner wild thing. You need its boisterous power! It will be a fine ally if you can both keep it happy and make it work for you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) If I were to provide a strict interpretation of the astrological omens, I’d advise you to PARTY HARDY AND ROWDY AND STRONG AND OFTEN! I’d suggest that you attend a raging bash or convivial festivity once every day. And if that were logistically impossible, I’d advise you to stage your own daily celebrations, hopefully stocked with the most vivacious and stimulating people you can find. But I recognize that this counsel may be too extreme for you to honor. So I will simply invite you to PARTY HARDY AND ROWDY AND STRONG at least twice a week for the next four weeks. It’s the medicine you need.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) When I was 24, I lived in rural North Carolina and had a job washing dishes in a city four miles away. I was too poor to own a bicycle, let alone a car. To get to work I had to trudge down backroads where hostile dogs and drunk men in pick-up trucks roamed freely. Luckily, I discovered the art of psychic protection. At first I simply envisioned a golden force field surrounding me. Later I added visualizations of guardian animals to accompany me: two friendly lions and two sheltering wolves. Maybe it was just the placebo effect, but the experiment worked. My allies made me brave and kept me safe. You’re welcome to borrow them, Scorpio, or conjure up your own version of spirit protectors. You’re not in physical danger, but I suspect you need an extra layer of protection against other people’s bad moods, manipulative ploys, and unconscious agendas.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) I’m not suggesting you should listen to your heart with rapt attention every waking minute for the next four weeks. I don’t expect you to neglect the insights your mind has to offer. But I would love to see you boost your attunement to the intelligent organ at the center of your chest. You’re going to need its specific type of guidance more than ever in the coming months. And at this particular moment, it is beginning to overflow with wisdom that’s so rich and raw that it could unleash a series of spiritual orgasms.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) You are on the verge of achieving a sly victory over the part of you that is unduly The serene hiatus you just glided through comes to you courtesy of Healing Silence, an ancient form of meek and passive. I believe that in the coming weeks you will rise up like a resourceful hero and at least half- do-it-yourself therapy. Healing Silence is based on the conquer a chronic fear. A rumbling streak of warrior luck underappreciated truth that now and then it’s restorwill flow through you, enabling you to kill off any temp- ative to just SHUT UP and abstain from activity for a while. (As you know, the world is crammed with so tation you might have to take the easy way out.

Congratulations in advance, my fellow Cancerian! I have much noise and frenzy that it can be hard to hear yourself think—or even feel.) With Healing Silence, rarely seen our tribe have so much power to triumph you bask in a sanctuary of sweet nothingness for as over our unconscious attraction to the victim role. long as you need to. Please try it sometime soon.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Leo journal entry, Thursday: Am Wrap yourself in the luxurious void of Healing Silence. too settled and stale and entrenched. Feeling urges to get cheeky and tousled. Friday: So what if I slept a little AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) I hope you won’t feel the need to say any of these things: 1. “I’m sorry I gave you longer and arrived late? Who cares if the dishes are everything I had without making sure you wanted it.” 2. piling up in the sink? I hereby refuse law and order.

“Will you please just stop asking me to be so real.” 3. “I Saturday: I’m fantasizing about doing dirty deeds. I’m thinking about breaking the taboos. Sunday: Found the long for the part of you that you’ll never give me.” Now here are things I hope you will say sometime soon: 1. “I strangest freshness in a place I didn’t expect to.

Sometimes chaos is kind of cute and friendly. Monday: thrived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.” (This declaration is lifted from novThe nagging voice of the taskmaster in my head is elist Joshua Graham.) 2. “I’m having fun, even though gone. Ding-dong. Let freedom ring! it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) William Boyd writes novels, (Borrowed from author C.S. Lewis.) 3. “I’m not searching which require him to do copious research about the for who I am. I’m searching for the person I aspire to real-world milieus he wants his fictional characters to be.” (Stolen from author Robert Brault.) inhabit. For example, to ensure the authenticity of his PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Are you fantasizing more book Waiting for Sunrise, he found out what it was like about what you don’t have and can’t do than what you to live in Vienna in 1913. He compares his process of searching for juicy facts to the feeding habits of a blue do have and can do? If so, please raise the “do have” and “can do” up to at least 51 percent. (Eighty percent whale: engorging huge amounts of seawater to strain out the plankton that are good to eat. Ninety percent of would be better.) Have you been harshly critiquing the information he wades through is irrelevant, but the yourself more than you have been gently taking care of rest is tasty and nourishing. I suspect you’ll thrive on a yourself? If so, get your self-care level up to at least 51 percent. (Eight-five percent is better.) Are you flirting similar approach in the coming weeks, Virgo. Be with a backward type of courage that makes you nerpatient as you search for what’s useful. vous about what everyone thinks of you and expects LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Here’s a new word for you: from you? If so, I invite you to cultivate a different kind enantiodromia. It’s what happens when something turns of courage at least 51 percent of the time: courage to into its opposite. It’s nature’s attempt to create do what’s right for you no matter what anyone thinks equilibrium where there has been imbalance. Too much or expects. (Ninety percent is better.)

NO becomes YES, for example. A superabundance of Homework: What’s the part of you that you trust the yin mutates into yang, or an overemphasis on control generates chaos. Flip-flops like these tend to be messy if least? Could you come to trust it more? Testify at Freewillastrology.com. we resist them, but interesting if we cooperate. I figure

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All persons having claims against this estate are required to present their claims with four (4) months after the date of first publication of this notice, or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either to the undersigned personal representative at the address listed below, or filed with the Probate Court of Santa Fe, County, New Mexico, located at the following address: 102 Grant Ave, Santa Fe, NM, 87501.

Dated: 3-1-2017 Paul Kavanaugh 997 Camino Rizo Santa Fe, NM 87505 STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF Anthony Nixon Case No.: D-101-CV-2017-00650 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. the Petitioner Anthony Nixon will apply to the Honorable SARAH M. SINGLETON, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 1:00 p.m. on the 14th day of April, 2017 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Anthony Nixon to A.P. Jack Nixon.

STEPHEN T. PACHECO, District Court Clerk By: Jessica Garcia, Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Anthony Nixon Petitioner, Pro Se

OF NAME from Roger Montoya Lobato to Roger Raymond Lovato.

STEPHEN T. PACHECO, District Court Clerk By: Jessica Garcia Submitted by: /s/ John P. Faure Attorney for Petitioner STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF JONATHAN LUTZ Case No.: D-101-CV-2017-00664 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordnace with the providisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. the Petitioner Jonathan Lutz will apply to the Honorable Sarah M. Singleton, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 1:00 p.m. on the 14th day of April, 2017 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Jonathan Lutz to Jamil Lutz.

Stephen T. Pacheco, District Court Clerk By: Gloria Landin, Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Jonathan Lutz, Petitioner, Pro Se

STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT No.: D-101-PB-2017-00033 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT LAURENCE ANDREN, Deceased.

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All persons having claims against this estate are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either to the undersigned Personal Representative in care of Karen Aubrey, Esq., Law Office of Karen Aubrey, Post Office Box 8435, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87504-8435, or filed with the First Judicial District Court, Santa Fe County Judicial Complex, Post Office Box 2268, Santa Fe, New FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Mexico 87504-2268 Dated: March 9, 2017.

COUNTY OF SANTA FE Odette Hall Andren STATE OF NEW MEXICO Cause No.: D-101-CV-2017-00531 Law Office of Karen Aubrey By: /S/ Karen Aubrey IN THE MATTER OF THE P.O. Box 8435 PETITION OF ROGER Santa Fe, New Mexico MONTOYA LOBATO 87504-8435 FOR CHANGE OF NAME NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME (505) 982-4287; facsimile (505)986-8349 TAKE NOTICE that in ka@karenaubreylaw.com accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 STATE OF NEW MEXICO through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA IN THE PROBATE COURT 1978, et seq. the Petitioner, SANTA FE COUNTY Roger Montoya Lobato will No.: 2017-0039 apply to the Honorable IN THE MATTER OF THE Francis J. Mathew, District ESTATE OF Ernest Martinez, Judge of the First Judicial DECEASED. District at the Santa Fe NOTICE TO CREDITORS Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN New Mexico, at 1:00 p.m. on that the undersigned has been appointed personal the 31st day of March, 2017 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE representative of this

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF VIRGINIA KATHERINE HEIDEL Case No.: D-101-CV-2017-00696 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Se. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq., the Petitioner Virginia Katherine Heidel will apply to the Honorable Raymond Z. Ortiz, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, COUNTY OF SANTA FE New Mexico, at 8:30 a.m. on STATE OF NEW MEXICO CAUSE NO.: D-101-CV-2017-00615 the 21st day of April, 2017 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF IN THE MATTER OF NAME from Virginia Katherine THE PETITION OF LISA Heidel to Katherine Virginia LARRANAGA Heidel. Stephen T. Pacheco, FOR CHANGE OF NAME NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME District Court Clerk By: Maxine Morales, TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: of Sec. 40-8-1 through Virginia Katherine Heidel, Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, Petitioner Pro Se et seq. the Petitioner, Lisa Larranaga will apply to the Honorable David K. Thomson, First Judicial District Court State of New Mexico District Judge of the First County of Santa Fe Judicial District at the Santa In the Matter of a Petition for a Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, Changeof Name of Arthur Maes.

New Mexico, at 10:00 a.m., on Case No.: D101CV2017-00596 the 10th day of May, 2017 for NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accoran ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Lisa Larranaga to dance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 Lisa Noriega.

NMSA 1978, the Petitioner Stephen T. Pacheco, Arthur Maes will apply to the District Court Clerk Honorable David K. Thomson, By: Gloria C. Landin, District Judge of the First Submitted by: Judicial District at the Santa Fe /s/ John P. Faure Judicial Complex at Santa Fe, Attorney for Petitioner New Mexico at 8:30 a.m. on the IN THE FIRST DISTRICT COURT 4th day of April, 2017 for an STATE OF NEW MEXICO ORDER FOR CHANGE OF COUNTY OF SANTA FE NAME from Arthur Maes to NO. D-101-PB-2017-00013 Anthony Arthur Avan Maez.

IN THE MATTER OF THE STEPHEN T. PACHECO, District ESTATE OF DEBORAH A. Court Clerk SPEAR, Deceased.

By: Maxine Morales, Deputy NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY Court Clerk PUBLICATION Submitted by: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Arthur Maes that the undersigned has been appointed personal representa- Petitioner, Pro Se tive of this estate. All persons having claims against this LEGAL NOTICES estate are required to presALL OTHERS ent their claims within two months after the date of the NOTICE OF SALE ON first publication of this Notice FORECLOSURE/ or the claims will be forever D-101-CV-2016-00151 barred. Claims must be presented either to the undersigned Angel Onwardo, LLC Personal Representative, DAVID STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNT OF SANTA FE ADELSON, c/o PADILLA LAW FIRM, P.A., P.O. Box 2523, Santa FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT Fe, New Mexico 87504-2523, or No. D-101-CV-2016-00151 filed in the First Judicial District Villas De Santa Fe Court, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Condominium Association, Inc. Plaintiff, v. Angel PO Box 2268, Santa Fe, New Onwardo, LLC,; JOHN Mexico, 87505.

DOES I-V, inclusive; JANE Dated: March 14, 2017 DOES I-V, inclusive; BLACK DAVID ADELSON, Personal CORPORATIONS I-V, incluRepresentative of the Estate of DEBORAH A. SPEAR, Deceased sive; WHITE PARTNERSHIPS I-V, inclusive; Unknown Heirs PADILLA LAW FIRM, PA and Devisees of each of the By: /s/ ERNEST L. PADILLA above-named Defendants, if ERNEST L. PADILLA deceased, Defendant(s).

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FORECLOSURE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the above-entitled Court, having appointed me or my designee as Special Master in this matter with the power to sell, has ordered me to sell the real property (the “Property”) situated in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, commonly known as 400 Griffin Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, and more particularly described as follows: 1 Timeshare Interest consisting of 1 undivided 1152 interest in fee simple as tenant in common in and to the belowdescribed Condominium Unit, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Condominium Unit, as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right every calendar year to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit of the same Unit Type described below within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the reserved in accordance with the provisions of thencurrent Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc., all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195-294, as thereafter amended (the “Declaration”).

Unit Number: 2220 Vacation Week Number: 12 Unit Type: 1 Bedroom Timeshare Interest: Floating Annual Year Timeshare Interest The sale is to begin at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 26, 2017, on the front steps of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, City of Santa Fe, County of Santa Fe, State of New Mexico, at which time I will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash in lawful currency of the United States of America, the Property to pay expenses of sale, and to satisfy the Judgment granted to Villas De Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc. (“Villas De Santa Fe”).

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NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the purchaser at such sale shall take title to the above described real property subject to a one (1) month right of redemption. PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS AT SALE ARE ADVISED TO MAKE THEIR OWN EXAMINATION OF THE TITLE AND THE CONDITION OF THE PROPERTY AND TO CONSULT THEIR OWN ATTORNEY BEFORE BIDDING. By: Robert Doyle, Special Master P.O. Box 51526 Albuquerque, NM 87181 505-417-4113

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