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CARELESS AND CARE LESS My family walks, drives, and bikes around Santa Fe and what should be pleasant is frequently unsettling to terrifying. Please follow up your article with some more information about vehicular manslaughter charges in Santa Fe. I read in the Santa Fe New Mexican this morning that all charges had been dropped against Jerry Hicks’ murderer (the man run over while riding his motorcycle during a blackout). How exactly can a driver not be charged with anything after killing someone with multiple witnesses at the scene? Do the weak penalties for this type of incident and DWI cases make drivers careless and care less? It makes me angry to know that if a driver runs over me or my child they could get off scott-free by claiming distraction or “thinking about her ex-husband.” Keep up the good work.

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ennifer Padilla has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute meth in return for a two-year federal prison sentence.

If a federal judge accepts the plea deal, the 39-year-old mother of five could be free in less than a year because of the 13 months she’s already spent in the Santa Fe County jail. Friday’s proposed sentence represents a significant reduction from the 10 or more years Padilla was facing behind bars.

The plea agreement, negotiated between Padilla’s Santa Fe-based lawyer, L Val Whitley, and federal prosecutors came less than two months after Padilla alleged misconduct by a confidential informant in a 2016 operation conducted by the federal bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

New Mexico In Depth and the Santa Fe Reporter detailed Padilla’s allegations last month in a story that included her claims of entrapment and “outrageous government conduct”—two legal arguments Whitley made in a pair of court motions in late July. The informant convinced her that he was her boyfriend, even having sex with her at the government-funded halfway house where she was living after heroin addiction led to a string of burglaries and 15 months in state prison, Padilla said.

He spent time with her children, too, all the while keeping his government work a secret.

Padilla is not backing off her allegations, Whitley said, although as a condition of the plea agreement she has withdrawn the court motions.

“She truly feels that she was entrapped, and we stand by the facts in our motions,” Whitley tells SFR and NMID. “But she made a personal decision to take out some of the uncertainty of going to trial.”

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Woman arrested in ATF sting drops claims about confidential informant in exchange for reduced sentence

Asked whether prosecutors had offered Padilla a plea deal prior to the court motions and news story, Whitley said in an interview after the hearing: “There had been some discussions, but nothing concrete, and certainly nothing as favorable to my client as what we have now.”

Whitley believes the court motions and the story published last month led to the offer of substantially less prison time, he said.

And a legal expert who reviewed aspects of the case agrees. Concerns that are made public about confidential informants and their behavior can have a “gravitational pull” on the outcomes of cases, including plea negotiations, said Alexandra Natapoff, a former federal public defender.

Natapoff, a professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, is a nationally recognized expert on confidential informants. “If things go bad, or the informant can’t be called as a witness for whatever reason, or the government learns something new about their snitch, cases often fall apart,” Natapoff says.

“There’s no good data on how many cases rely on informants, so we don’t know how often that happens, but we do know that it happens.”

That said, Natapoff adds, 95 percent of cases in the federal system are resolved through pleas rather than trials. And there are numerous factors that can impact plea deals. “We may never know why that deal was offered in this case,” she said. “But this is an example where external forces related to the informant—media attention, defense motions—appear to have changed the negotiations for prosecutors.”

The US Attorney’s Office did not respond to questions or requests for comment following Friday’s hearing.

But Elizabeth Martinez, a spokeswoman for the office, issued a news release touting Padilla as the 77th person in the sting to plead guilty. The operation netted 103 arrests and federal officials praised it as a success in taking the “worst of the worst” off Albuquerque’s crime-ridden streets.

A multipart NMID investigation has called some of the government’s claims about the operation—and its tactics— into question. Like many swept up in the sting, Padilla did not have the sort of lengthy, violent criminal history offi-

cials have said they used as a prerequisite for targeting people. Nor was she moving large quantities of guns and drugs in the city.

A review of hundreds of federal court documents also showed the ATF arrested a highly disproportionate number of black people in the sting. Hispanics also were overrepresented among those arrested, while whites were heavily underrepresented.

Those findings have drawn scrutiny from a federal judge, as well as outrage and calls for reform in policing methods from Albuquerque’s black community and a resolution from a city councilor demanding a rebuke of the ATF and a conJennifer Padilla contends an informant gressional investigation. entraped her into committing crimes. She Padilla contended in the court mowas facing up to 17 years in prison but got tions and in interviews that only after a plea deal for 13 months and time served. she and the informant were in what she believed to be a relationship did he pressure her to call old acquaintances and set up drug deals.

NMID and SFR independently verified some, but not all of Padilla’s claims.

Padilla’s prison term, had she been convicted at trial, would have been between 11 and 17 years depending on how federal sentencing guidelines were calculated, Whitley said. In negotiating the plea agreement, prosecutors abandoned most of those requirements and agreed to consider -Alexandra Natapoff, University of Padilla’s limited role in the California, Irvine School of Law drug transactions: She never touched the meth and was not present when her acquaintances made sales to undercover ATF agents.

She was arrested Aug. 10, 2016 and has been incarcerated at the Santa Fe county jail since.

US District Judge William P “Chip” Johnson must accept the deal and the prescribed 24-month sentence or reject it entirely. A hearing is expected in the next two months. If Johnson rejects the agreement, Whitley says Padilla likely would withdraw her guilty plea and he would refile the motion to dismiss her case.

“We had people who initially corroborated Jennifer’s account who, for various reasons, were not able to come forward to testify,” Whitley says. “That would’ve strengthened our position, for sure. Still, the government would have to respond to our claims and put their informant on the Attorney L Val Whitley says Jennifer Padilla stand. We assume he would have denied struggled with her decision to plead guilty in everything, but she stands by her story exchange for substantially less prison time. and it is very compelling.”

This is an example where external forces related to the informant— media attention, defense motions—appear to have changed the negotiations for prosecutors.

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t’s an ugly equation.

A tiny rental vacancy rate (3 percent) plus a stagnant stock of rental properties equals an increase in rental prices that outpaces wage growth and a serious squeeze for newcomers and young people just entering the workforce.

The latest numbers compiled by the city bear out what many in Santa Fe have been feeling for years. While the city has a robust system to move financially qualified people into homeownership, it has major issues when it comes to multi-family housing.

“Our vacancy rate is way too low for our market to be considered healthy,” says Alexandra Ladd, the city’s affordable housing director. “Unless you happen to be the landlord of a multi-family complex.”

There’s little in the way of new multi-family projects both at the low-income level and at what’s known as the market rate—what a renter who gets no public assistance pays for a lease. That means there’s less incentive for landlords to improve their property. There’s also less downward pressure on rental prices because no one has to compete with the shiny new building.

“The city’s never going to use resources to support market-rate renters because they don’t have adequate inventory to choose from,” Ladd tells SFR, “[but] they’re competing with lower-income renters for the same units, driving the rents up and excluding the more moderate-income renters

from having any choices.”

Ladd will present the city’s latest numbers on the rental market, fair housing and community development block grant spending to the City Council on Wednesday night.

The lack of inventory is not just driving rent up, but it’s chipping away at a link between attracting new residents—or keeping younger ones—and getting them to buy homes.

“Homeownership is an incredible value to a community because it changes the dynamic,” Donna Reynolds, governmental affairs director for the Santa Fe Association of Realtors, tells SFR. “People are more committed to the community, to the schools, when they own a home. It’s well-documented nationally.”

Homeowners vote, they make policymakers feel good and they have an entry— maybe the best chance of their lives—into a primary form of building wealth.

“There’s pent-up demand that we’re not meeting,” says Reynolds. “Having a good solid entry rental market is really helpful [for people entering the housing market]. … There are not really plac-

es for people to come and experiment, to take a good job, make friends and develop a social network.”

The Realtors are hot to trot on the Midtown LINC project in Santa Fe. “LINC” is short for a local innovation corridor overlay district, making it little wonder those in favor of the project rushed to find a ready acronym. The point of the thing is to adjust the normal way of doing business enough that developers can’t help but give the area a second look.

The LINC stretches along St. Michael’s Drive from Cerrillos Road to St. Francis Drive. Within the boundaries of the district, the city wants to streamline the approval process for multi-family developments. Buildings can be four stories tall—even higher in some spots—and the city promises not to get picky about things on top of the buildings like elevator overruns or solar and wind-based energy equipment. Buildings can be closer to the road, which will ultimately include on-street parking. And many fees will be waived; potentially $475,000 on a 60-unit development.

The day after Ladd presents her findings to the City Council, the Realtors are putting on a day-long conference on multi-family housing, in part to generate interest among developers but also to potentially foster conversations about how

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to bring the kind of investment money to Santa Fe that can ease the housing shortage.

Daniel Werwath, a Santa Fe-based community development consultant, says the Midtown LINC is a good first step, but the fact that all of the land along the corridor—except the city-owned campus of the Santa Fe University of Art and Design—is in private hands makes it harder to attract developers who have an eye on affordable housing.

For 15 years, Werwath says, the city has failed to keep up with demand in the rental sector. His latest studies show half the city’s workforce commutes into town.

He’s currently leading the development of an affordable live-work complex called Siler Yard Arts and Creativity Center. It’s one of a few multi-family projects around town, but with a deficit of more than 2,400 units, they amount to a drop in the bucket.

For Reynolds, though, it’s an encouraging drop. “I definitely think there’s some momentum,” she says, “people who are trying to work collaboratively and saying, ‘What can we do?’”

Werwath says one of the things the city would do well to do is to seek out conversations and listen; the affordable rental constituency isn’t vocal about the problem. In the past decade, he says, Santa Fe has lost 6,000 residents under age 50.

And it can happen before planners realize what’s going on.

“They don’t say anything,” he says.

“They just move to Rio Rancho.”

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nough radioactive material to endanger the whole city in the wrong hands.

That’s what was inside an 80-gallon plastic drum secured with duct tape and Velcro, left in an abandoned building on Airport Road as recently as last year.

The old Eberline Instruments facility sits behind a fence near where the southwest Santa Fe thoroughfare intersects South Meadows Road.

Sweeney Elementary School is less than 500 feet away, and some homes and businesses are even closer.

The global company that owns the land says the radioactive material called americium-241 was further encased inside a smaller steel drum and sealed air-tight before someone finally took it away. But a letter state officials sent to Thermo Fisher Scientific last summer indicates some toxic material may still remain unaccounted for.

What’s bad for Santa Fe is that nearly everything the public knows about the property’s potential contamination has come from the company itself, a Massachusetts-based world manufacturer of laboratory instrumentation and high-tech equipment with a spotty track record for following safety regulations at its Eberline facility.

It’s not just 2 grams of americium-241, a radioactive nuclide resulting from decayed isotopes of plutonium forged in nuclear reactors, that was left sitting around. There was a long list of other similarly toxic radioactive materials used when manufacturing occurred there.

Until a decade ago, the Eberline plant made radiation detection equipment that it shipped to nuclear facilities all over the world. The plant’s founder, Howard Clayton Eberline, had imagined in the 1950s that Santa Fe would supply the instruments to facilitate the nuclear energy revolution.

The facility’s trajectory from the front lines of this industry to a poison-packed shell on the city’s edge is as much a story about local industrial decline as it is about a lack of accountability. A review by SFR of half a century’s worth of newspaper reporting as well as records from the state Environment Department suggest that Eberline’s role as a large employer and the stature of

its corporate leadership allowed it to cut corners.

A full account of Eberline’s impact on human health has never been conducted. Former workers and those who knew them describe working conditions that could be conducive to radiation poisoning. But it isn’t clear whether workers qualify for federal reparations that have been paid to others hurt in the uranium industry, and proving harm would be extremely difficult.

For now, the red building at 5981 Airport Road shrouded by overgrown flora remains empty, lingering like a question about its impact on those who passed through its doors and live near its walls.

Radioactive elements like americium and californium, both of which were handled by workers at Eberline, are carcinogenic. They emit alpha particles which can’t penetrate skin but can be inhaled or ingested and lodged in bones and organs, where they destroy nearby cell matter. Americium-241 clings to soil particles and most of it ends up in the dirt, according to the federal Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry.

Eberline workers also interacted with unstable isotopes of uranium, plutonium, caesium and strontium, which can cause deformities and cancer and remain in the environment for years.

Angelo Gallegos worked at Eberline for about 18 years, until the early 1990s. He advanced from the assembly line to become a technician, where he calibrated company equipment against radioactive material. He wore protective clothing and gloves lined with lead to conduct tests on samples that he raised and lowered from a subterranean room.

“Safety was always an issue, making sure everything was safe around us and not getting over-exposed,” says Gallegos, who still lives in Santa Fe. He worked long and grueling hours, but the pay was good.

In the rushed assembly environment, Gallegos says he and his colleagues basically trusted the company to keep them safe, but it appears that wasn’t always the case. Assembly line workers would handle radioactive material with their bare skin, he says. He remembers a pregnant woman working there.

Jeff Aquino’s mother and father met at Eberline during the Cold War’s nuclear buildup. Aquino, a tribal member of the Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, suspects both of his parents developed radiation sickness from their careers in the nuclear industry, which included stints at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His mother is still alive at 91, and recently gave up on trying to receive compensation from the federal government for heart disease she’s since developed—possibly, the family believes—from radiation poisoning.

Aquino’s father, who died at 56 in 1993 from pulmonary fibrosis (lung scarring), was one of Eberline’s most famous employees: Juan Aquino’s woodcarvings were displayed for a time in the Smithsonian, and his art was nationally renowned.

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A Place to Play SANTA FE COUNTY’S SOUTH MEADOWS OPEN SPACE PLAN PAID LITTLE ATTENTION TO A BUILDING THAT HOUSED RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL The large field framed by South Meadows and Airport Road in southwest Santa Fe, where families have strolled to watch sunsets for generations, seemed like a perfect place for the county to develop a natural playground, with life-sized Lincoln Logs replacing plastic slideand-swing fare.

Sure, the Eberline Instruments facility happened to be adjacent to the open field, but the county says it had considered the possible presence of radioactive material at the old plant and never found cause for concern— not even after the company ran afoul of nuclear storage regulations or after the state removed a drum of the stuff from the site just last year.

The idea that the county should buy the property and turn it into a public area, complete with hiking trails, a dog park, a community garden, and an outdoor classroom and theater for students, originated with members of the Tiempos Lindos Homeowners Association, whose homes surround the property. There are five nearby schools: Ramirez Thomas Elementary, Sweeney Elementary, Chavez Elementary, Ortiz Middle School and Capital High School.

Helen Wunnicke, who worked in the civil engineering field and moved next to the South Meadows open space in 1996, applied at the persuasion of her neighbors for a grant from the county’s open space and trails division to purchase properties at 3740 and 3600 South Meadows Road. She had a leading role in convincing the county to purchase the properties from two private citizens for a little over $1 million in 2001.

“I was very proud,” says Wunnicke. “The criteria were a variety of things, [like] historical import, room for open space for families. The fact is, in southwest Santa Fe, it’s

an underserved community that tends to get neglected, and there is no … open space there. And so we were determined to save this land.”

Wunnicke had already moved from Santa Fe to Denver to take care of her sick mother by the time the purchase took place, but she still owns property here. She says she wasn’t aware that radioactive materials had been stored at the EberOfficials set aside $400,000 for park planning line plant for years. but have not designated construction funds.

“My personal knowledge of Eberline is that it’s just kinda like a scary It’s unclear if Hrabosky spoke ghost up there on the hill,” she says. up at the community meeting, or “It’s really unacceptable in a heavily whether he was involved any further populated area that’s growing furwith the county’s plans to landscape ther, that’s close to schools.” the South Meadows space. Two Paul Olafson, the director of residents who were there that day, the county’s Growth Management Johnny Ray Smith and Tiempos LinDepartment, tells SFR that the county did a standard environmental dos HOA president Joanna Garcia, tell SFR they do not recall Hrabosky assessment before it purchased the introducing himself to residents at two properties. the meeting.

“It was noted there was no regHowever the county decides to ulatory information indicating there deal with the possibility of radioactivwas any contamination from that ity near the South Meadows field, it site to our property,” Olafson says.

“We have not had any new informa- will have to figure out what to do on tion from any regulatory agencies at an already-stretched budget. Officials set aside about $400,000 for initial this time.”

Throughout the planning process, planning, but county Open Space and Trails Division Senior Planner Maria neighbors met with architects and Lohmann says there are currently no members of the county open space plans to fund construction. and trails division to discuss plans For Helen Wunnicke, who plans for the South Meadows space. According to minutes from the county, to move back to her Santa Fe home in a few years after her husband present at one community meetretires, the fact that everybody ing on Sept. 12, 2012, was Stefan Hrabosky, the radiation safety officer seemed to overlook the nuclear facility throughout an otherwise for Thermo Fisher Scientific who, rigorous planning process speaks to a year later, would write the state about a plan to transport radioactive a problematic lack of institutional memory. material from the Eberline facility “Eberline—they’ve got tons to Los Alamos. Hrabosky’s planning would eventually cost Thermo Fisher of dough, tons of lawyers, all this stuff,” she says. “And they have an around $6 million after the New agenda, and they just are focused on Mexico Environment Department found the company to be in violation the agenda. And the public has to re-fight the fight again and again and of several regulations for maintainagain, because there isn’t instituing americium-241 and other toxic tional memory.” nuclides.

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State officials found that Thermo Fisher misrepresented the amount of radioactive material left at the Eberline plant after closure.

serving for a time as its governor and designing the seal that the tribe uses today.

For 15 years he also designed company Christmas cards for Eberline, where he worked until 1977, advancing to the role of electronic technician. In his short autobiography, Aquino says he “performed touch up work on” Eberline’s technical manuals.

“I remember he told us one time that they had spilled some chemicals there and they didn’t have nothing to clean, no protection to clean it up,” says Jeff Aquino. “They ended up cleaning it without any protection or safety.”

Radiation exposure in occupational environments can lead to the development of pulmonary fibrosis, which results in the same thickening of lung tissue described in Juan Aquino’s medical records.

The labs were “the main employer, more or less, that employed a lot of the Natives and Hispanics; a lot of people developed a lot of illness,” Jeff Aquino says.

“In the end [my father] couldn’t even walk 15 feet without having to stop to catch his breath. That’s what really kinda had me worried, because I mean, he’s only 56 years old.”

The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act passed in 1990 guarantees payouts for those who worked for or lived near uranium mines or mills in 11 states, including New Mexico, prior to 1971 and developed radiation illness from the government’s nuclear program. With each passing year, the few Eberline workers who may qualify for the program gets smaller.

Howard Clayton Eberline, who started off at LANL and was later part of the

after it was purchased in 1979 by Thermo Electron Corporation, which merged with Fisher Scientific in May 2006 to become a multibillion-dollar behemoth. By that September, the global company announced plans to close the Santa Fe plant, terminating 40 manufacturing jobs.

Operations substantially shut down by the next year, but some workers remained to continue marketing and sales activities. The Santa Fe site also continued to receive millions of dollars’ worth of government contracts until 2011.

What’s less clear is why radioactive material remained at the facility for several years after the closure of its manufacturing arm. Documents show the New Mexico Environment Department has been—in fits and starts—urging proper cleanup ever since.

After finding in 2007 that Thermo Fisher failed to maintain adequate records of radioactive material going in and out of the Eberline building, New

team that designed and built devices to measure the world’s first hydrogen bomb test, told the local press that his new private company would become “part of the great adventure that is atomic energy,” from prospecting to mining, from power reactors “to miracles yet unseen.” When he left the company in 1963, Eberline workers had measured radiation from nuclear explosions at the Nevada nuclear testing site and at the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

By 1982, The Santa Fe New Mexican described Eberline as the city’s largest private employer. That gave more clout to its already-powerful corporate leadership. John Dendahl, the late descendant of a prominent local family who would later become chairman of New Mexico’s Republican Party, was named president of Eberline Instruments in the 1970s and held prestigious board memberships at the First National Bank of Santa Fe and the Santa Fe Opera Foundation, among others.

In those days, the company was able to bully the city into rubber-stamping a plan for expansion by threatening to move its operations to AlbuquerPrimary Transp que, after officials Vehicle ort requested more time to review Eberline’s use of radioactive These photos, obtained through a public records materials. It still laid request, show the vehicles the state Environment off dozens of people Department planned to use to move americium out of the Santa Fe city limits in February 2016.

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Mexico’s Environment Department allowed the company to supply radiation monitors to city government and emergency workers around the state in lieu of a $51,000 fine.

Thermo Fisher provided inventories to the state in 2015 that reported nearly all radioactive isotopes had been transported out of the facility by June of 2011, but they offer incomplete details about where the materials were removed to, or how. A year later, Thermo Fisher and the New Mexico Environment Department decided that removing a drum of americium from Eberline was a serious matter, and sent an urgent letter requesting the federal Department of Energy’s Los Alamos Site Office help remove it.

Internal communications between Thermo Fisher and New Mexico’s Radiation Control Bureau, housed in the Environment Department, show that even though the state had accused the company of not following safety regulations in the past, the company was initially allowed to guide the decision for how to remove the americium.

The state would eventually find, again, that Thermo Fisher violated several nuclear regulations. Among other things, the company misrepresented the amount of radioactive nuclides left in the Santa Fe plant after closure.

Thermo Fisher made three proposals for handling the americium in 2013.

The company’s Radiation Safety Officer Stefan Hrabosky wrote to the bureau that the company formed the ideas in consultation with officials at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The first was just to leave the radioactive material on Airport Road, which Hrabosky acknowledged “poses the greatest risk of inadvertent exposure to workers and the public.”

Because the quantity was too high for bulk movement under safety rules, the

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federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

A plan of action from the Environmental Department shows it was planning to transport the americium in a pickup truck with a boxy steel storage frame.

“If they just bypassed all the regulations and took it to Los Alamos, it’s not the proper thing to do, but was probably the safest thing to do to get that shit out of Santa Fe,” Blanch says.

The reported amount of stored americium was enough to deliver millions of fatal radiation doses via a “dirty bomb.”

Victor Dricks, the senior public affairs official for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Region IV, says the NRC was not involved in the incident because New Mexico has an agreement with the federal agency granting the state jurisdiction in licensing and overseeing the use of radioactive materials.

But in 2015, the state found Thermo Fisher to be in violation of several rules after the Environment Department issued the company a license in 2012 to transport the americium. In addition to

Both of Jeff Aquino’s parents worked at the Eberline plant and LANL.

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alleging that Thermo had labeled containers as containing radioactive material and then claimed they were empty, the Radiation Control Bureau also cross-referenced Federal Express shipping data to find a discrepancy between the amount of californium Thermo Fisher said it disposed of and the amount it actually did dispose. Its inpectors found levels of radiation at Eberline to be higher than what Thermo Fisher’s unlicensed contractor had reported.

Last February, the Environment Department said Thermo Fisher would not have to admit guilt for the violations in exchange for the company paying for the state to transport the americium to LANL. A settlement between the parties also says there was an unspecified amount of californium left at the facility, and correspondence obtained by SFR in a public records request indicates that the state additionally inquired last summer about radioactive cobalt and carbon at the site that Thermo Fisher had failed to disclose until after the settlement.

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second was for an outside contractor under LANL supervision to construct a new containment facility on-site at Eberline. That would allow workers to remove americium from the steel container—where it’d been stored since it arrived to Eberline in 2000—and repackage it into at least 200 smaller packages that passed federal safety regulations set by the Department of Transportation. After repackaging, Thermo Fisher would then transport the americium to LANL with an eventual destination of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant site near Carlsbad.

Hrabosky argued that this option, too, would have presented grave risks to the surrounding environment.

The final option, which Thermo Fisher preferred, was to transport the material along the same route but without those pesky rules. Getting an exemption from federal regulations and placing the plastic drum with the americium inside two additional large steel containers in a truck seemed like the best plan, Hrabosky said.

And that’s what the state did. It reports that the Environment Department with law enforcement assistance moved the materials in February 2016, and in a press conference in June of that year, Environment Secretary Ryan Flynn and Gov. Susana Martinez lauded the effort as a good solution.

“While it was stable and secure, there was not an appropriate pathway for ultimately disposing of this material,” Flynn was quoted as saying in the Los Alamos Monitor.

Flynn, now the executive director at the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association, declined to speak with SFR about the removal of americium.

After reviewing the plans to transport the americium out of the area, nuclear energy expert and whistleblower Paul Blanch tells SFR the state’s Radiation Control Bureau appears to have defied strict safety standards established by the

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Despite repeated requests, neither officials with Thermo Fisher or with the Environment Department would confirm whether all the known toxic materials have been removed from the building as of press time.

Unless the state says more about what’s inside 5981 Airport Road, there’s little way of knowing whether anybody should be concerned about what Thermo Fisher left behind.

Angelo Gallegos, the former Eberline technician, was surprised to hear that radioactive material had been there for years after its closure.

“There shouldn’t have been anything left in there, really,” he says.

Joanna Garcia, who has lived near Eberline for 20 years, says she and her neighbors in the Tiempos Lindos Homeowners Association were never told about the state’s plans to transport americium last year or whether the site poses a health hazard. Even her cousin, who worked at Eberline for a time, refuses to talk about what went on there.

“We were never educated,” Garcia tells SFR. “No one ever discussed the Eberline space. We just know that it was booming at one point, then all of a sudden it was shut down.”

For now, the facility is a haunting presence over a suburban landscape, faded from memory if not the environment.

In his small home where multiple family members live, Jeff Aquino says Eberline—now Thermo Fisher—has still not accounted for all his father gave to the company. He points to a black and white photograph on his wall of Juan Aquino presenting a framed piece of tribal artwork to an Eberline executive. Both men in the photo are smiling proudly.

Jeff Aquino asks: “If he would have lived a lot longer, who knows how much more he could have done?”

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installation The Infinity Engine by Lynn Hershman Leeson, one of 10 acclaimed artists who will exhibit in SITE Santa Fe’s Oct. 7 Future Shock show, part of the museum’s much-anticipated grand reopening weekend.

Hershman Leeson’s work replicates a science laboratory in which viewers can experience, confront and ponder, through a range of mediums, the field of bio-engineering and genetic modification and its concomitant ethical and legal ramifications. Among other features, the laboratory includes colorful wallpaper presenting multiple transgenic species and crops; video interviews Hershman Leeson has conducted with leading scientists in the field; and interactive facial recognition software that analyzes various elements of the viewer’s face.

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n the future depicted in Margaret Atwood’s 2003 novel Oryx and Crake, bio-engineering has gone awry. Dogs and wolves have been spliced together, as have skunks and raccoons. Scientists, in quests to both remedy various human plights and satisfy human desires, instead wreak havoc.

Dystopia ensues.

I spoke with Atwood in 2009 when Year of the Flood—the sequel to Oryx and Crake and the second book in what became a trilogy was published—asking her specifically about the novel’s message regarding bio-engineering. She said when she spoke with scientists in the field, she described genetic engineering as “… a tool, and what we choose to use that tool for is up to us, the human beings, not to the tool itself.”

I thought of Atwood’s book and words during an early look at the upcoming

tled at characterization of her work as science fiction, preferring the term “speculative”—the type of genetic experiments described in her novel aren’t fantasy; they are grounded in the real-world of bioengineering. The novelistic consequences—the catastrophic obliteration of most of humanity—is Atwood’s particular spin.

Hershman Leeson’s work at SITE also doesn’t traffic in science fiction. The lab replica was built in consultation with scientists. The mesmerizing wallpaper depicts real-world species hybrids. I was particularly drawn to the various glowin-the-dark animals, created through splicing varied species with jellyfish: a rabbit (Alba), a cat and the Glo Fish, the last of which SITE promises to have for live viewing during the show.

Yet while the lab’s contents are from the real world, stepping into the space (which was still under construction when I visited) engenders the sensation of entering a parallel universe—the scientific shadowland in which few of us are directly involved but which creates undeniable impact for us all. Hershman Leeson’s art, unlike Atwood’s writing, isn’t existentially foreboding. Instead, the work illuminates the scientific endeavors geared at addressing any number of environmental

and human challenges—from crop eradication to human disease.

Hershman Leeson’s art does have futuristic aesthetic appeal, but it is driven by the artist’s lifelong interest in science.

Her mother was a biologist, her father a pharmacist, her daughter is a doctor.

“I was a throwback,” Hershman Leeson says during a phone interview. “I always felt that science was like magic.” She also sees science, like art, as a creative process, citing inventions such as the use of 3-D printers to create human organs (an ear of this sort will be on display in the show).

The work is intended to educate and spark discussion, and includes a table of file folders of legal cases related to the field. Hershman Leeson’s pieces provide access to the general public, through an aesthetic experience, of what she describes as “the crucial issue of today,” and a way of thinking about the impact of the post-humanist era: “the identity of anything living.”

Future Shock was the title of a 1970 book by Alvin Toffler and describes the state of unrest people experience in response to rapid societal and technological changes. In a time such as now, in which so much doubt has been cast on facts and science, Hershman Leeson’s work is a nuanced riposte of the power of information and investigation to mitigate fear with curiosity and understanding.

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For the dance crowds, however, they’ve brought good old punk know-how to the table; is “dirty” the right word? Kind of. But with subtle disco nods and 20-ish years of albums, tours and countless fans under their belt, it’s no wonder they’re one of the bigger acts to peer out from the underground, seduce all kinds of weirdos and escape unscathed into the night with something wholly original. How often can we say that anymore? (ADV)

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EVENT SAT/30-SUN/1 HARVEST THE GOOD TIMES On the outskirts of town lies living history in the form of El Rancho de las Golondrinas. Part museum, part historical site, Golondrinas is known for annual events like the Renaissance Fair, the Santa Fe Wine Festival and, this week, the Harvest Festival. Taste fresh sorghum syrup, smash grapes with your feet, sample tortillas just made a few minutes ago and learn about the lives and culture of people who lived in the area. Yes, it’s educational, yes, it’s fun and no, you haven’t had close to enough sorghum in your life before now. Oh, and kids under 12 get in free. Do it. (ADV) Harvest Festival: 10 am-4 pm Saturday Sept.

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Outside the Box Broken Boxes Podcast goes physical with limited-edition catalog release In case you haven’t zeroed in on local artist Ginger Dunnill’s podcast Broken Boxes (brokenboxespodcast.com), you should. A glorious interview-based experience focused on artists and activists who, according to Dunnill, aren’t part of the hetero-patriarchy (read: subjects are feminist, queer, trans, intersectional champions), Broken Boxes practically defines the term cutting-edge.

“And I’m friends with 99 percent of the people I’ve interviewed,” Dunnill says.

“I’m really lucky to know so many fucking cool people.”

But it doesn’t end with the interviews.

Broken Boxes has hosted a physical exhibit at form & concept Gallery since August (it runs through Oct. 21), but Dunnill plans to up the ante this weekend with a catalog release party. Clocking in at 67 pages, the catalog was funded with a grant from 516 Arts’ Fulcrum Fund, a gift bestowed to New Mexico artists through the Andy Warhol Foundation. And rather than being a simple run-of-the-mill artist resource, Broken

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“I really wanted to document the whole experience,” Dunnill says, “and instead of just having generic bios, I invited each artist to tell us how they break the box through their work; each page has a narrative.” Dunill says the catalogs are gorgeous, but extremely limited (there will only be about 50 copies available when all is said and done), and, at just $20, they’re a steal.

“It’s like a more beefed-up version of a zine,” Dunill adds. The event itself also features a poetry reading, a short film and what Dunnill describes as a “queer rock opera.” (Alex De Vore)

BROKEN BOXES CATALOG RELEASE PARTY: 5 pm Friday Sept. 29. Free. form & concept Gallery, 435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111

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Margaret Randall The Morning After: Poetry & Prose in a Post-Truth World, and Bryce Milligan Take to the Highway: Arabesques for Travelers WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4

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Marina Weber & Joanna Whysner The Global Warming Express

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Jennet Conant Man of the Hour: James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist

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Nathaniel Tarn Gondwana

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Iris Keltz Unexpected Bride in The Promised Land

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WED/27 BOOKS/LECTURES BETWEEN THE HUMAN ANIMAL AND THE ANIMATE EARTH Mountain Cloud Zen Center 7241 Old Santa Fe Trail, 988-4396 Cultural ecologist David Abram and center director Henry Shukman explore the complicated and integral relationship between humanity and the natural world.

7 pm, free BOOK STUDY: THE GOOD AND BEAUTIFUL GOD St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-5397 Get ahold of The Good and Beautiful God by James Bryan Smith and talk about it with your contemporaries.

10 am, free DHARMA TALK BY SENSEI JOSHIN BYRNES Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 Presented by Sensei Joshin Byrnes, Upaya's Vice Abbot and Zen Priest.

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DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO FALL SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 Antonio Granjero presents a new show along with co-director Antonio Hidalgo Paz and his company, Entreflamenco.

7:30 pm, $25-$40

EVENTS FARMS, FILMS, FOOD Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Anyone who likes to eat and likes movies should get to the CCA for a little of everything.

Get your fill from food trucks, see a cooking demonstration, screen films and more.

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The Only Way Out is Through opens at Freeform Art Space on Thursday. Featuring the work of Cyrus McCray (pictured), Tim Reed, Jared Weiss and Todd White and curated by Niomi Fawn, it’s basically a who’s-who of Santa Fe counterculture.

GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Do you basically know everything about everything? Put it to good use. Quiz results can win you drink tickets for next time.

8 pm, free TAPS AND TABLETOPS Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Bring your own game or play one of the cinema's. Stop complaining that you have no friends and go make some.

6 pm, free

MUSIC BOK CHOY Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Eclectic simmerin' soul and bokin' fun. What does bokin' entail? We assume it’s just what bok choy does. Go listen.

8 pm, free

DJ OBI ZEN Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 It's Wine Down Wednesday with the DJ spinning a fusion of chill music with synchronistic drumming.

10 pm, free DANIELE SPADAVECCHIA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Mediterranean gypsy guitar.

7 pm, free GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and vocals.

7 pm, free LIMELIGHT KARAOKE Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 You know the deal. If you don't, hostess Michèle Leidig will show you. Learn from our mistakes: Don’t decide on Patsy Cline after three margaritas. You (I) don’t sound as good as you (I) think you (I) do.

10 pm, free

MEGAN BEE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Homegrown Appalachian folky Americana from a singer-songwriter based in Ohio but who is basically a highway disciple.

8 pm, free SANTA FE CROONERS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Get serenaded by all your favorite golden classics from Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra and others of their ilk.

7 pm, free SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock ‘n’ roll, yo.

7:30 pm, free SYDNEY WESTAN Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Folky Westerny singery-songwritery tunes.

5:30 pm, free

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THE FUTURE OF ENERGY DESIGN STORM Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 A public interactive event encourages discussions about renewable energy potentials in and around Santa Fe. Led

by Andrea Polli and Madeline Bolding with participation from UNM students of Computational Sustainability.

6 pm, free

DENISE FORT: BEFORE AND AFTER St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-5397 Fort, an environmental activist and professor emerita at the UNM School of Law, discusses the beginnings of the environmental movement beginning in the 1960s with the first Earth Day and the environmental legislation such as the Clean Air Act. 1 pm, $10 MICHAEL F BROWN La Sala de Galisteo 5637 Hwy. 41, Galisteo, 466-3541 Michael F Brown, president of the School for Advanced Research and author of The Turbulent Life and Times of an Amazonian People, speaks about encounters with the Indigenous people of Peru and contested zones of the Amazonian frontier.

7 pm, free

THU/28 ART OPENINGS THE ONLY WAY OUT IS THROUGH Freeform Artspace 3012 Cielo Ct., 692-9249 Niomi Fawn curates the works of Cyrus McCray, Tim Reed, Jared Weiss and Todd White.

5 pm, free

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ENTREFLAMENCO FALL SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 Check out an all-new fall dance production.

7:30 pm, $25-$40

!!! WITH ALGIERS Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 You pronounce that "chk chk chk," and they pronounce music like dance-punk and California-style party rock (see SFR Picks, page 19).

8 pm, $15-$17 ALTO STREET Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Local folk rock.

6 pm, free BERT DALTON AND MILO JARAMILLO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 This jazzy duo features Dalton on keys and Jaramillo on bass and vocals.

7 pm, free BOB ANDREWS La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Andrews grew up in the thick of the ‘60s and ‘70s British music scene. Today, he brings his piano prowess to Santa Fe. 7 pm, free

EVENTS A-I-R FAREWELL RECEPTION Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2351 After dinner in the Academic Building, Visit the A-i-R studios to view the work the artists during their residency, and bid farewell to Janice George, Leanne Campbell and Martha Nielsen.

5 pm, free NEW HOMEBUYER NIGHT Homewise 1301 Siler Road, Bldg. D, 983-9473 Achieve your dream of owning your own home. Get control of your finances, choose the right home and get the right mortgage. It's all doable.

5 pm, free

BROTHERHOOD SOUND SYSTEM Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Don’t be a bumbaclot. Get irie on reggae Thursday.

10 pm, free DANIEL MURPHY Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Blues 'n' rock, yo.

8 pm, free DANIELE SPADAVECCHIA L'Olivier Restaurant 229 Galisteo St., 989-1919 Mediterranean Gypsy jazz.

6 pm, free FREAKS OF THE INDUSTRY WITH DJ POETICS Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Get dancin’, industry types.

Hip-hop, old-school, funk ‘n’ disco.

9 pm, $5-$7 GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and vocals in the classy restaurant we’d love to be taken to for our birthdays.

7 pm, free

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Get it Covered Unexpected covers you might not know ... yet

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

D

uring a recent conversation with one Red Cell (a Santa Fe arts giant, blogger, promoter and all-around champ), we broached the topic of weird song covers.

It started with some trash-talk of Björk’s newest music, led to a joke about how if she and Beck did an album together they could call it Bjeck and wound up with the idea that unexpected covers are cool.

Also, frankly, I was really busy this week and didn’t have a whole mess of time to go around conducting interviews and stuff.

Anyway, here we go: ELLEN PAGE “Lost Cause” by Beck In the 2013 video game Beyond: Two Souls, developer Quantic Dream continued their mission to craft experiences that blur the lines between game and cinema.

In Beyond, Ellen Page plays the hero (seriously, they captured her face and movements; Willem Dafoe, also), and during a section that finds her homeless, there’s a scene with her busking. Sitting in the snow in Minneapolis with a guitar borrowed from a street performer, Page launches into one of the most starkly stripped-down and heart-wrenching renditions of the Beck breakup classic from 2002’s Sea Change. Even casual Beck fans ought to give this one a listen.

REEL BIG FISH “Gigantic” by The Pixies Yeah, yeah—you hate third-wave ska and Reel Big Fish is too goofy. Fine, go on hating them, just know you’re missing

out on one of the most unexpected and bizarrely excellent covers of all time from the 1999 Pixies tribute album, Where is My Mind. By adding a throwback Eurotechno beat and a vocals-through-abullhorn touch to the beloved Kim Deal number, RBF not only forges into dance territory (which, let’s face it, third-wave ska was pretty good at already), they demolish genre lines and add a hefty dose of fun. This one might even sound better than their “Take On Me” cover, which is also awesome.

SEATTLE SCHOOL OF ROCK “Transitions From Persona to Object”

By Botch OK, so you won’t find this on any album, and I’m sure a great number of you are thinking, “Who the hell is Botch?”

Well, first of all—Botch rules. The sadly defunct Seattle band practically invented metalcore before there was a term for it (and before it sucked) with mathy hardcore explosions and bizarre

experimentation. In 2014, students from Seattle’s School of Rock realized this with a plucky rendition of this particularly excellent (and pretty complex for kids) cover. It’s admittedly sloppy and not for everyone, but the selection of such a song shows they probably had cool teachers and, most importantly, they really mean it. Lucky you.

HEATHER TROST “Me and My Arrow” By Harry Nilsson 1971’s The Point was this ultra-weird, post-Yellow Submarine psychedelic animated film that attempted to marry pop music with cartoons without aiming it specifically at children. The criminally underrated Harry Nilsson provided the songs, all of which were excellent but, perhaps, none of which have endured quite like “Me and My Arrow,” a peppy tune about the friendship through the eyes of the film’s protagonist and his dog, Arrow. Cue Albuquerque’s Heather Trost, who has performed with Neutral

Milk Hotel, Hawk and a Hacksaw and, on her debut release from earlier this year, Agistri, did Nilsson justice with her own version. It isn’t that the song is a secret by any means, more like it’s not very often that you’ll hear a Nilsson cover, at least one this well-done.

HARRY NILSSON The entirety of A Little Touch of Scmilsson in the Night While we’re talkin’ Nilsson, it’s important to mention that in 1973, good ol’ Harry once recorded an entire album of standards and love songs. Timeless classics like “It Had to Be You” and “As Time Goes By” plus many others made their way onto this bad boy, and it’s basically the perfect mellow-out record. Nilsson, we’d also point out, has one of the most beautiful voices in the history of rock. Go forth and become obsessed now. And while the songs on this record aren’t really “weird” in the strictest sense, they’re still surprising. And cool. Deal with it.

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the wedding. My mom is 75 and wears cute pink lipstick. Is it wrong if both my mom and I wear the pink in solidarity?

I had a blast hosting Savage Lovecast Live at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts. Audience members submitted questions before the show, and I consumed a large pot edible right after the curtain went up and then raced to give as much decent sex advice as I could before it took effect. Here are some of the questions I didn’t get to before my judgment became too impaired to operate a sex-and-relationship-advice podcast.

I’ve been on the dating apps a while. What’s up with serial first daters?

Back when people primarily met at parties, bars, clubs, etc., we established baseline physical/ chemical attraction before learning someone’s name and long before a first date. (We eyeballed ’em, we said hello, we made a moment’s small talk.) With apps, however, we can’t establish baseline physical/chemical attraction until our first face-to-face meeting—until after that “first date,” which itself comes after we’ve swapped flirty messages, sent additional pics, and made a plan to meet. Since apps mean more “first dates,” it feels like we’re meeting a lot more “serial first daters” these days. We aren’t—it’s just that now we have to meet up with people to eyeball ’em, say hello, and make small talk. Don’t think of that first meeting with someone you met via an app as a “first date,” think of it as the preinterview before the first date.

What is the appropriate amount of side boob?

This is outside my area of expertise/giving a shit.

So I’m going to pass this question on to Tim Gunn.

I’ll let you know what Tim has to say should he respond.

My best friend is in a relationship with a really jealous, controlling guy. He guilt-trips her constantly and gets passive-aggressively mad whenever she tries to hang out with people besides him. When she complains about him, I want to say fuck him, he’s a dick, except… she’s having a full-on affair with another guy and seems not to feel bad about it! I don’t know what advice to give or how to make sense of the situation. What’s my responsibility to her? To her boyfriend?

Maybe your best friend’s boyfriend is jealous and controlling because he senses—or because he knows—his girlfriend is cheating on him. Or maybe it didn’t occur to your best friend to cheat on her boyfriend until after he accused her of cheating for the millionth time—maybe she figured she might as well commit the crime since she was already being punished for it. Or maybe they’re both terrible people who deserve each other and neither is your responsibility.

My partner and I are a straight couple in our 20s/30s. We’re curious about straight PDA in gay bars. She feels it should be kept to a minimum, but a little is okay. He feels it shouldn’t happen, as it may make people uncomfortable. Thoughts?

I think this is something you and your opposite-sex partner should discuss over drinks in one of the thousands of straight bars in the San Francisco Bay Area.

I feel like all my friends resent me for getting married. How do I make them feel less insecure about my new relationship?

Ask yourself which is likelier: All of your friends— every single one of them—are so petty and insecure that they resent you for getting married or you were a megalomaniacal bride-or-groom-ornonbinary-zilla and behaved so atrociously that you managed to piss off all your friends? If it’s the (less likely) former, make better friends. If it’s the (more likely) latter, make amends.

You should absolutely wear your mom’s shade in solidarity—and send me a pic of you two at the wedding, please! (Hey, person who asked the previous question, did you pull this kind of shit? Did you order your friends around the way this woman’s future DIL is ordering her around?)

Since my man and I got engaged, we’ve been fighting about wedding planning. We never fought until now. How can we move forward with the wedding without ruining our relationship? Best sex of my life, BTW. Elope. For your own sake, for the sake of friends and family members who will inevitably be sucked into your conflict about your wedding plans, for the sake of all that excellent sex… just fucking elope.

We are two lesbians in our 20s and ready to start a family. Will you be our sperm donor?

Nope!

You’ve recommended marijuana to help women have better sex. I’ve tried it, but I often get so high that time seems to fracture. When that happens, I worry I’m missing orgasms. What should I do?

Less!

I want to try the new cannabis lubes. Should I tell my girlfriend first or just do it? It’s expensive, and I’m afraid she’ll say no since she doesn’t smoke the ganja.

Do not dose your girlfriend without her consent.

If it’s smoke she doesn’t like, ask her how she feels about experimenting with pot edibles and spreadables. And if the answer is no, the answer is no. Spiking your girlfriend’s twat with pot lube without her consent is not an option—it would be an unforgivable and very likely criminal violation of her bodily autonomy. DO NOT DO IT. You are always talking about adult children coming out to their fundamentalist parents about being queer, poly, kinky, etc. But how should older adults handle coming out to their batshit fundamentalist adult kids, especially when these kids control access to grandchildren?

Just as an adult child’s presence is their only leverage over their parents, your presence is your only leverage over your adult children. (Unless you’re sitting on a large family fortune, of course, and you can threaten them with disinheritance.) And just as queer kids are sometimes forced to lie to their parents—they sometimes have to tell hateful parents what they want to hear in order to avoid being cut off or thrown out—you may have to tell your kids what they want to hear (or not tell them what they don’t want to hear) in order to avoid being cut out of your grandchildren’s lives. It sucks, and I’m sorry—but once your grandchildren are grown, you can say whatever you like and tell your batshit fundamentalist adult kids to go fuck themselves.

When is the best time to tell my married, ostensibly straight coworker that I want to have sexy gay times with his bubble butt?

Hmm… maybe once you’ve updated your résumé, seeing as your gay trouble butt may get fired after you grab his straight bubble butt?

What are some ways to overcome shyness and tell your partner what you want?

Think how soon you’ll be dead (soon!) and how long you’re gonna stay dead once you’re dead (forever!). Then tell your partner everything. Do it in an e-mail if you can’t do it face-to-face—but do it! Donald Trump is president and we could all be dead tomorrow. Don’t delay!

On the Lovecast, Eli Finkel, author of The All-orNothing Marriage: savagelovecast.com

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HALF BROKE HORSES Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Country and Americana with deep ties to music and the community.

7 pm, free JOHN KURZWEG BAND El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n' roll with a guy who made enough money producing Top-40 music that he can now play whatever he wants whenever he wants.

And we love him for it.

9 pm, free KARAOKE Camel Rock Casino 17486 Hwy. 84/285, Pojoaque, 984-8414 It’s a competition!

7:30 pm, free MIAMI NIGHT WITH VDJ DANY Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Bachata, merengue and reggaeton.

9 pm, $5-$7 PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Live solo jazz guitar.

6 pm, free STIG AND RUSA Zephyr Community Art Studio 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 STIG, an all-instrumental, progressive jazz/funk band, accompanies neo-soul band Rusa, which excels in jazzy chords and soulful melodies.

8 pm, $5-$10 SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock ‘n’ roll.

7:30 pm, free SMOKESTACK RELICS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Swamp rock on the deck.

5 pm, free

WORKSHOP SONAQUA Biocultura 1505 Agua Fría St. Data and water and art all coincide with cross-disciplinary artist Scott Kildall ans Andrew Erdmann, water resources coordinator with the City of Santa Fe’s Water Division.

6 pm, free

FRI/29 ART OPENINGS ANGEL WYNN: FLORA FAUNA FRIDA 7 Arts Gallery 125 Lincoln Ave., 437-1107 Wynn's new work uses mixed media that combines photography, textiles and vintage papers to create smaller works of collage featuring Frida Kahlo.

5 pm, free

BEN ARONSON LewAllen Downtown 1613 Paseo de Peralta, 988-8997 Impressionist painting meets urban landscape. Through Oct. 22.

5 pm, free BROKEN BOXES CATALOG RELEASE PARTY form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111 Broken Boxes features the art and ideas of over 40 visual artists, filmmakers, sound artists, activists, performance artists and community organizers from around the world who are effecting change through their work. The show runs through Oct. 28, but keep it forever with the catalog (see SFR Picks, page 19).

5 pm, free CLAIRE B COTTS: YEAR OF THE ECLIPSE Nüart Gallery 670 Canyon Road, 988-3888 Working with acrylic, Cotts manipulates her surface using a process that creates layers and interacting patterns. Through Oct. 15.

5 pm, free GLORIA GRAHAM: EARTH MOVES SHADOWS 5. Gallery 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700, Gloria Graham, a New Mexico-based artist, is inspired by science, patterns of nature, time and social justice issues. She presents a new series of work.

5 pm, free JIM VOGEL: VISTAS, VIGNETTES & VECINOS Blue Rain Gallery 544 Guadalupe St., 954-9902 New Mexico artist Jim Vogel presents new paintings full of unique characters and bright colors.

5 pm, free LAUNCH! Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 The inaugural exhibition of SFCC’s Sculpture Union features work by the members of this new art club. It's a recently formed group of students, faculty and staff with diverse experience, ages and backgrounds, who pursue work in a variety of aesthetic styles. Through Nov. 1.

5 pm, free LEE PRICE: DISILLUSION Evoke Contemporary 550 S Guadalupe St., 995-9902 With impeccable technical skills and an eye for the unsettling, Price focuses on the solitary female figure, often eating, and always in private, intimate, unusual settings. An aerial perspective creates an illusion or feeling of an out-of-body experience, as if the subject is looking down at herself.

We are kind of really into this show. Through Oct. 28.

5 pm, free

MICHAEL WISE: IMPRESSIONS OF THE WESTERN LANDSCAPE Sage Creek Gallery 421 Canyon Road, 988-3444 Brilliantly painted ponds, lakes and forest landscapes.

Through Oct. 12.

5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES DEAN'S LECTURE SERIES: THE BEAUTY AND COMPLEXITY OF ISLAMIC GEOMETRIC PATTERNS St. John's College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, 984-6000 In his new book, Jay Bonner details the fascinating relevance of Islamic tile work to specific aspects of mathematics. The lecture will be followed by a book signing with the author. Great Hall, Peterson Student Center.

7:30 pm, free

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO FALL SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 The dinner-and-dancing shows will feature Antonio Granjero and his award-winning company in an all-new fall production.

7:30 pm, $25-$40 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Catch a dinner dance performance by the National Institute of Flamenco at Santa Fe's oldest bar.

6:30 pm, $25

EVENTS DREAM OF SNOW GEESE AND TATTOOED WOLVES Worrell Gallery 103 Washington Ave., 989-4900 Singer-songwriter Sam Baker features some of his newest works in various mediums such as oil on canvas and board, postcards and music.

He also perofrms his original songs at the gallery. The show hangs through Oct. 6.

5 pm, free MANTALITY: PERFORMANCES BY MEN Railyard Performance Center 1611 Paseo de Peralta, 982-8309 A 16-member, all male-identified cast expresses a variety of social, emotional, political and spiritual perspectives on masculinity (see 3 Questions, page 25).

8 pm, $20 NEW WORKS: 7 LOCAL CONTEMPORARY PRODUCT DESIGNERS Molecule 1226 Flagman Way, 989-9806 Get an inside look at contemporary design with these local designers who share tips and tricks about their aesthetic process.

5 pm, free

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MUSIC AL HURRICANE JR. Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Latin music legend Al Hurricane Jr. brings the flavor.

8 am, $10-$15 ALEX MARYOL Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Rock 'n' roll and Americana.

7:30 pm, free ALI RYERSON Museum Hill Café 710 Camino Lejo, 984-8900 Renowned jazz flutist Ryerson is joined by Santa Feans Bert Dalton on piano, Rob "Milo" Jaramillo on bass and John Trentacosta on drums.

7 pm, $20-$25 BROTHER E CLAYTON Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 R&B from a Santa Fe regular.

6 pm, free DJ DYNAMITE SOL Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 House, funk, reggaeton and hip-hop.

10 pm, free DANIELE SPADAVECCHIA Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Acoustic jazz, swing, Latin and Italian classics.

7 pm, free DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Piano standards and Broadway favorites.

6 pm, $2 DAVID SOLEM First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Solem performs Prokofiev and Persichetti on the organ.

5:30 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Gotta get that smooth, smooth piano.

6 pm, free DWIGHT SMITH, DREAMCASTLE AND DOGEATER Zephyr Community Art Studio 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 SFR fave Dreamcastle (densely layered soundscape songs by local indie singer-songwriter Jake Trujillo) and Smith, who plays indie folk and baroque pop, join forces for awesomeness.

8 pm, $5-$10 GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and vocals.

8 pm, free HIDDEN WHALE Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 Witty lyrics, R&B-style guitar riffs and a funky blend of rock and world rhythms. Wahoo!

7 pm, free

JJ AND THE HOOLIGANS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock, blues, Americana—and some shenanigans.

9 pm, $5 JESUS BAS La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Spanish-language ballads and amorous folk songs. Bas, a wizard, has been said to make couples fall in love just by breathing on them.

7 pm, free JIMMY STADLER La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Americana, country and rock.

8 pm, free

JOHNNY AZARI Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Azari, who's based in New Orleans, plays his own mutant form of the Mississippi Delta blues. His live shows blend music with storytelling and comedy, so we're thinking the deck is the place to be this afternoon.

5 pm, free LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Know the rock 'n' roll and the rock 'n' roll shall set you free.

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Tyger “Tyler” White does’t have a theater or arts background, but he does have a strong inclination toward the creative, he says, because he grew up in Santa Fe (where people, like, really like art). Cue Mantality, an event through which White hopes to examine the concept of what it means to be masculine and creative (while avoiding toxicity). A 16-member force, the show explores energy and expression through dance, poetry, performance and more as performed by a diverse and inclusive cast of male-identifying Santa Feans. Pop by the one-off event yourself (8 pm Friday Sept. 29. $5-$20. Railyard Performance Center, 1611 Paseo de Peralta, 982-8309) to learn more and feel good that proceeds go to the Solace Rape Crisis Treatment Center and Reel Fathers.

(Alex De Vore) What are you doing exactly for the event? Are you performing?

I am not. I’m the director of the show; an organizer, an emailer. I’m the person with the idea behind the show.

I had the inspiration to gather these men to create something for our community.

Do you think it’s hard for men to feel OK about being creative?

I do, especially with what’s being presented in the mass media like Instagram and YouTube and even our president. Expressions of creativity and vulerability are often seen as weaknesses, and this can lead to isolation or men feeling they can’t express themselves. We’re in a time where it’s difficult for most men to express themselves. Part of the gift of this show is we’re in this time, and we need more creativity.

Do you have a main goal or desire for the show?

No main goal. Just building community, going through the process as men—that’s revolutionary—and giving back.

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7:30 pm, $42-$66 THE PORTER DRAW Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Alt.country and Americana.

8 pm, free RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar.

7 pm, free ST. RANGE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Outlaw desert rock 'n' roll.

8:30 pm, free THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Swinging jazz.

7:30 pm, free VERY BE CAREFUL AND NOSOTROS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Colombian vallenato, cumbia, Caribbean beats and infectious danceable music from Los Angeles' VBC pairs perfectly with the catchy Latin tunes of local faves Nosotros.

10 pm, $7

THEATER SOTTO VOCE Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 German-born novelist Bemadette Kahn, now in her 80s, sees her past resurface when a young Jewish-Cuban writer named Saquiel contacts her in his research of the shipwreck that killed her love.

As their relationship deepens, they are enveloped by a transcendent romance.

7:30 pm, $12-$20

WORKSHOP GARDEN SPROUTS PRE-K ACTIVITIES Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 A hands-on program for 3-5 year olds and their caregivers.

Listen to a book and participate in interactive activities.

9 am, $5

SAT/30 ART OPENINGS JURIED ENCAUSTIC AND WAX EXHIBITION Museum of Encaustic Art 623 Agua Fría St., 989-3283 An exhibition curated entirely on the basis of artistic creative integrity with the only requirement being that wax was an influencing medium.

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DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO FALL SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 Did you miss flamenco all summer? Or maybe you saw a bunch but want even more!

Check out an all-new fall production.

7:30 pm, $25-$40 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Catch a dinner dance performance by the National Institute of Flamenco.

6:30-9 pm, $25

EVENTS DAY OF THE DOG Berardinelli McGee Event Center 1320 Luisa St., 984-8600 Celebrate your creatures with pet adoptions, food and craft vendors, business booths, a pet costume contest, a pet memorial service, pet blessing, music and entertainment, bounce houses (for humans—dogs won't like those), and crafts for kids. It’s family-friendly and open to all leashed pets.

Noon-4 pm, free FALL CABARET Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Rd. Suite B, 992-2588 Wise Fool’s students and pros will present feats of aerial hoops, silks, unicycling, trapeze, clowning and spoken word. Two performances, no excuses!

4 and 8 pm, $5-$15 FALL PLANT SALE Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 A variety of unique and staple plants will be available, including ornamental grasses (autumn embers! apparently that's a big deal?), native trees and shrubs.

9 am-5 pm, free GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Celebrate the opening of Second Street’s massive new taproom with an all-day Oktoberfest happy hour, plus music starting at 7:30 pm from Rusa, Liv Lombardi and Joie Flare (in that order).

11 am-midnight, free HARVEST FESTIVAL El Rancho de las Golondrinas 334 Los Pinos Road, 471-2261 Fall is the best, as is Golondrinas (see SFR Picks, page 19).

10 am-4 pm, $6-$8 JEMEZ MOUNTAINS ELK FESTIVAL Valles Caldera National Preserve 39201 Hwy. 4, Jemez Springs, 575-829-4100, ext. 3 Bring a sack dinner, blanket, and binoculars to enjoy the sounds of bugling bulls. We think Rocky Mountain elk kind of sound like velociraptors.

2-6 pm, free

PLEIN AIR PAINTING FESTIVAL Ski Santa Fe 740 Hyde Park Road, 982-4429 It's the peak of the changing colors of autumn. No better time for a day of painting, music and festivities at the heart of the aspen grove.

Also: live music from JJ and the Hooligans, refreshments and general merriment.

10 am-3 pm, free SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET Santa Fe Railyard Market Street, north of the water tower, 310-8766 See works by local artists representing a ton of different mediums, and enjoy the sunshine.

8 am, free SKY RANCH OPEN STUDIO AND GALLERY Sky Ranch 20 Vista Del Mar, Cerrillos, 474-7564 New work by Barbara Harnack, whose two-year exploration of mixed-media paintings has not been exhibited in New Mexico.

Also showing is sculpture and pottery by Michael Lancaster.

It's just south of Cerrillos— Madrillos, for those in the know. Just follow the signs.

For more information you can visit harnacklancaster.com.

Noon-5 pm, free

MUSIC ANDY KINGSTON JAZZ TRIO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Andy Kingston (piano), Justin Bransford (bass) and Milton Villarrubia III (drums) slay the jazz game.

7:30 pm, free THE BARB WIRES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Soulful blues on the deck.

3 pm, free BELOVED Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Country-Western.

8 pm, free THE BUS TAPES Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 There aren’t too many basses more funky than Case Tanner’s, so get down for some rock ‘n’ roll over here.

6 pm, free DANA SMITH Upper Crust Pizza 329 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0000 Original country-tinged folk songs.

6 pm, free DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Broadway standards on piano from Santa Fe’s expert.

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Blue Jean Babies New Mexico-based thrifted denim company is sheer genius STO RY BY M A R I A EG O L F - RO M E RO I L L U S T R AT I O N S B Y T H E A M I L I N A I R É

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e’ve all done it: the jump ’n’ shake to squeeze into an uncomfortable, stiff pair of jeans. Done squats and wiggles and worn them wet while praying they give a little. That move where you lay down on the bed to zip the last inch, and then consider never getting up to start your day because your pants are just too painful.

Grace and Adelina Prochnow are sisters and co-founders of thrifted denim company Desert Denim, based in Albuquerque. The three of us are laughing about these tried tactics when Adelina sums up the general feeling about the denim dance: “You’re like, ‘Is this worth it?’”

We can all relate—no pants are the best pants—but a good pair of denim is a staple in every closet, and a great pair is the crème de la crème, something you’ll wear through every season.

The Prochnow sisters have a mission, and it’s to help you find a really good pair of denim. That dream pair that’s made of 100 percent cotton and hugs your butt so well they’re like your skin, only better. “This idea of something that’s soft to wear, and easy to have on,” Adelina says.

“When we came to denim, it was like that idea of a soft pair of jeans that kind of molds around you.”

Not only do Adelina and Grace want to find you a pair of jeans, they want you to be able to afford them—the average price of their reclaimed jeans is only $68.

Grace says Desert Denim kicked off a year ago, in the summer of 2016. “We decided we wanted to pursue it after we’d

just been looking online and a lot of the places that were selling reclaimed denim were really expensive—like, hundreds of dollars,” Grace says. Adelina agrees, adding, “It wasn’t accessible.”

The sisters are the youngest of five and grew up in hand-me-downs inherited from older siblings. Their appreciation for broken-in jeans probably started there and, with practice, it’s turned into a gift. These gals know what they’re doing when it comes to curating a selec-

tion of denim in the softest iterations of cool blue hues.

“We categorize them by color, texture and then size. So, we’re looking for specific markers that will make them the most comfortable,” Grace says.

The Desert Denim founders have only hunted in Albuquerque thus far, and say they have their hometown mapped out in a style grid. “If we were specifically looking for a Levis Mom Jean fitted look, we go to a certain area of town,” says Adelina. “When you think about where you’re getting your denim supplies, you have to think about the demographic that’s donating them.”

Part of thrifting is spending strange hours peering through windows of small donation centers wondering, “Are you open?” or “Am I in the right place?” But all hunters know there’s time involved.

“We wanted to help people skip that process,” Grace tells SFR. With Desert Denim, “you can just look at the tag and

try it on. If it works, it works.” They tag their denim with its true measurements (waist by inches and inseam by inches) so you don’t have to do any guesswork.

“We try to be all-inclusive within sizing,” Adelina says. “And everything we’ve ever carried has been unisex.” They also do hand distressing, and look for pairs with special details, like a wallet or cigarette pack worn into the pocket. Says Adelina, “There is always a story behind a pair of jeans.”

You probably want to peruse their inventory for yourselves now; you can do so in a few ways. You can head to Spur Line Supply Co. (800 20th St. NW, Albuquerque) and shop part of their collection in person, including jeans, shorts and denim jackets. Soon you’ll be able to head to their online shop at etsy. com/shop/denimdesert or keep an eye on their Instagram (@desertdenim) — they’re both quiet right now, but stay tuned to catch limited releases.

Grace and Adelina have a lot on the drawing board when it comes to the future of this thrifty company, including baby-soft unisex tees. If they’re anything like their pants (in which I now live), I can’t wait And, by way of disclosure: The author purchased a pair of Desert Denim jeans (at full price, of course) after falling in love with them at the interview. She has worn them every day since.

Nothing beats 100 percent cotton denim, especially when it’s been made extra soft for you.

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DIABLORENZO, SIDESHOW59, JOVANI DANTE GRIEGO AND JM RUIZ Zephyr Community Art Studio 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 Energetic acoustic with a fistful of dynamic acts, all from Northern New Mexico.

8 pm, $5-$10 DOS GATOS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Americana, blues, cumbia, jazz, swing and zydeco.

9 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Gotta get that smooth, smooth piano.

6 pm, free GERARD'S HOUSE POP MUSIC FESTIVAL Casa España at the Eldorado Hotel & Spa 340 W San Francisco St., 988-4455 Check out energetic Denverbased Dueling Pianos in a benefit for Gerard's House, which provides peer-based grief support for children, teens and families who've experienced the loss of someone they love.

5:30 pm, $100 GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and vocals.

8 pm, free HALF BROKE HORSES Derailed at the Sage Inn 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 Country and Americana.

6:30 pm, free JIMMY STADLER La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Americana, country, rock and one heck of a marg.

8 pm, free KITTY JO CREEK Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Bluegrass.

1 pm, free LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 One truth about these guys: Their rock is solid.

8 pm, free PAT MALONE Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Live solo jazz guitar.

7 pm, free RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar.

7 pm, free SCOTTY AND THE ATOMICS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 ABQ folks who play original material with elements of rock, reggae, funk, blues, Latin and jazz, plus a few covers.

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SHOWCASE KARAOKE Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Not only is this the only karaoke we know of on a weekend, but Tiny’s was voted as one of the best karaoke nights in Santa Fe, so get ready to rock.

8:30 pm, free SNEAKY PETE AND THE SECRET WEAPONS Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Channeling original music through a lens of hazy funk, these Wyoming-based dudes bring the jams and the dance moves from The Hole (that's Jackson Hole) to Santa Fe. 10 pm, free STILETTO SATURDAYS WITH DJ 12 TRIBE Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Dance, damn you, dance!

9 pm, $5-$7 WILLIAM STEWART La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Country-Western singin'.

7 pm, free

THEATER SOTTO VOCE Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A German novelist in her 80s meets a young writer. The thread that ties them together is a 1940s shipwreck; soon, they are enveloped by romance. Tonight is the special gala performance, complete with refreshments and a reception after the show.

7:30 pm, $25

WORKSHOP SUCCESS WITH YOUR ORCHIDS Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Having trouble getting your orchids to rebloom? Learn the do’s and don’ts of growing these legendarily finnicky flowers. The best part: You can pot your very own orchid to take home (and hopefully keep alive). Don’t go hungry— bring a sack lunch to enjoy in the garden.

10 am-2:30 pm, $40-$45

SUN/1 ART OPENINGS HERE NOR THERE CLOSING RECEPTION NO LAND 54 1/2 E. San Francisco St., Ste. 7, 216-973-3367 Barbara Justice and Adriana Barrios returned to New Mexico for a show of experimental prints and photographs. Both artists reflect on presence and displacement, competing forces that they must contend with as emerging artists. Celebrate the closing of their exhibit.

6 pm, free

EVENTS COMMUNITY DAY AT THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM Santa Fe Children's Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 989-8359 Celebrate the existence of Santa Fe's funnest (most fun?) museum with a portable planetarium, performances by local youth groups, hands-on activities, food trucks, face-painting, music and more.

Noon-4 pm, free FALL ACTIVITIES AT THE SANTA FE SKI BASIN Ski Santa Fe 740 Hyde Park Road, 982-4429 Listen to live music from the Wild Marimbas, savor a cold beer (or glass of wine), play disc golf, take in the beautiful scenery, ride the chairlift, get discounts on ski gear—do it all, guys. Visit skisantafe.com for more details.

10 am-3 pm, free HARVEST FESTIVAL El Rancho de las Golondrinas 334 Los Pinos Road, 471-2261 Fall is the best, as is Golondrinas, so you know what to do: Eat sorghum (see SFR Picks, page 19).

10 am-4 pm, $6-$8 MODERN BUDDHISM: INSPIRING SOLUTIONS FOR DIFFICULT TIMES Zoetic 230 St. Francis Drive, 292-5293 Through the technology of mediation, attain and retain the purpose and meaning of our life—the source of true happiness. Now with teachings given by American Buddhist nun Gen Kelsang Inchug.

10:30 am, $10 SANTA FE COMMUNITY FARM STAND Santa Fe Community Farm 1829 San Ysidro Crossing, 983-3033 These local producers produce local produce.

Noon-2 pm, free SKY RANCH OPEN STUDIO AND GALLERY Sky Ranch 20 Vista Del Mar, Cerrillos, 474-7564 Barbara Harnack's two-year exploration of mixed-media paintings has not been exhibited in New Mexico.

Also showing is sculpture and pottery by Michael Lancaster.

Check out new works by Harnack in this rare open studio. For more information you can also check online at harnacklancaster.com.

Noon-5 pm, free

MUSIC CHRIS ABEYTA El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Easy-listening Latin tunes.

9 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Gotta get that smooth, smooth piano.

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WINE

¡Pour Vida!

Hooked on a feeling

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eople ask me if expensive wines are ever “worth it.” Unlike cars or clothes or other goods that, with enough craftsmanship (or hype) behind them, become “luxury,” wine is not outwardly demonstrative—it should taste good, but how do you know what it tastes like without buying it first?

Critics use a language of wine terms to describe wine to consumers and to predict how wines will age, but those terms can be confusing; having to do with either smells and tastes or textures. If you’re wondering about the mark of a truly fine wine, I believe the “feel” of the wine must make me take pause. Even beyond aromas and flavors, textures can lace together all the disparate elements of a wine into something balanced, the harmonics of the palate resolved into one clear tone.

When a wine is silky or velvety, soft or firm, racy or chalky, there is an additional sensation that makes it a unique experience to imbibe.

So here I’m going to talk about three wines that have an unmistakably sophisticated and harmonious texture. They are speciality wines that are available in most speciality wine shops, and there are many wines produced in these styles that will make a similar impact.

Acidity can take many forms in wine—it can be broad, chalky and stony, or racy and delicate, like the horsehair in the bow of a violin; capable of speaking volumes, and balanced by a light body and plethora of fruit and flower flavors. The 2015 Merkelbach “Ürziger Würzgarten” Spätlese riesling retails for $22 and is from a top estate in the village of Ürzig in the Bernkastel district of the Mosel Valley. The soils of the Würzgarten are red volcanic slate with a high iron content, perfect for an especially tropical and mineral-driven riesling.

Drinking this wine is the perfect way to illustrate what “raciness” feels like.

And then there is silky. A silky wine possesses marked acidity, buttressed by a weightier body and alcohol levels, but unimpeded by high tannin. A perfect expression of silky textured wine is pinot noir from the Russian River Valley.

The 2015 Ürziger Würzgarten from Merkelbach is an affordable vintage with a pretty serious mouthfeel. Mmmm ... mouthfeel. $22

This 2015 Merry Edwards pinot noir may not be cheap, but with notes of black cherry, fig and hazelnut, it sure is good. $48-$65

The 2014 Château Gazin clocks in with a hefty price tag as well, but can you really put a dollar amount on incredible wine? $94

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This Sonoma County viticultural area is characterized by rolling hills and a cooler climate. One of the top producers in the area is Merry Edwards, a woman who paved the way for female winemakers at the University of California, Davis, and went on to make wine for five decades and counting. Her entry-level pinot noir is not cheap ($65 a bottle at specialty shops), although it can be purchased directly from the winery for $48. However, it is well-crafted, from six different clones vinified in separate lots, and its slinky body is balanced by notes of ripe black cherry and fig, hazelnut and plum, vanilla and cocoa. In contrast, a pinot noir without this depth of flavor and texture will taste weak and insipid. But as the weather turns cooler and the days get a little crisper, a pinot noir with this finely grained style really hits the spot.

That’s fine for silk, but what if you like a more velvety wine? A lot of people don’t like to drink merlot (Paul Giamatti ruined it for everyone back in the 2004 movie Sideways), but in certain expressions it can be some of the most appealing textured wines on the market. In fact, replace a lot of people see pinot noir as a replacement for merlot in point of practice, but the best expressions of both wines serve totally different purposes. For example, the 2014 Château Gazin from Pomerol, a right bank Bordeaux appellation with some famous neighbors (think Petrus), practic utilizes sustainable viticultural practices, made from grapes grown on clay and gravel soils; this wine possesses a velvety mouthfeel—completely different than the silkiness of a top-tier pinot noir. It is relatively expensive at $94, but it is also possesses plenty of voluptuous cassis and black plum flavors with hints of truffle, pencil shavings and savory herbs. This is the kind of wine with structure that will sec age well; the fruit will dry and the secondary flavors will become much more pronounced. It can be drunk now, but in a few years it will be even better. But if you do drink it now, pay attention to that rich, luxurious texture that imparts a con velvety sensation on your tongue. In contrast, merlot without the firm backbone of structure characteristic of a classic wine from a place like Pomerol will taste inter jammy and plummy, with nothing interesting or remarkable standing out.

So the next time you’re tasting wine, pay attention to the palate. You might notice the fruits and flavors of the wine; you might notice the aromas, the bouquet, even the color. But pay attention to the way the wine feels in your mouth, and you might walk away from your tasting with a new level of appreciation for the pleasures of wine.

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8 pm, $5-$10 JIM ALMAND AND SEAN HEALEN Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Santa Fe's rocky-bluesy greats team up on the deck.

3 pm, free NACHA MENDEZ La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Expand the definition of Latin music with one of Santa Fe’s most prolific cantadoras.

7 pm, free NATE HINOJOSA Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Flamenco guitar.

1 pm, free NECROT, BLACK TABLE, HEXIS, CRIPPLE AND PAIN IDOL The Cave 1226 Calle de Comercio With names like those, do we even have to tell you these are metal bands? More specifically, party thrash and experimental metal, if you want to get finnicky about words. Whatever, \m/ 8 pm, free SERENATA OF SANTA FE: STRING INFLUX First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Serenata's first concert of the fall season features works by Frank Bridge, Bohuslav Martinu and Richard Strauss. With David Felberg and Ruxandra Marquardt, violin; Shanti Randall and Laura Manko, viola; and Sally Guenther and Dana Winograd, cello.

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PARSIFAL The Screen 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, 473-6494 Catch a screening of Wagner's 4-ish-hour opera about an Arthurian knight's quest for the Holy Grail. It'll have English subtitles and two short intermissions, so don't sweat it. Presented by the Wagner Society of Santa Fe. Noon, free

THEATER SOTTO VOCE Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 An octogenarian novelist meets a young Cuban writer through a strange narrative thread. Soon they are enveloped by romance.

2 pm, $12-$20

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MON/2 BOOKS/LECTURES LINDSAY MARTEL MONTGOMERY: WE TAKE OUR PLACE WITH US Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Assistant professor at the School of Anthropology and American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona, Montgomery (Muskogee) presents a lecture as part of Southwest Seminars' Native Culture Matters series.

6 pm, $15 MONDAY STORY TIME Bee Hive Kids Books 328 Montezuma Ave., 780-8051 Get kids out of the house and see other real live grown-ups at one of Santa Fe's sweetest little book stores.

10:30-11 am, free

EVENTS BOARD GAME MEETUP Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Get together at the spacious Rufina Taproom for strategy, card, and party games. Bring a game you want to teach or jump in with the vast library and learn a game that someone else is excited to play.

6:15 pm, free GEEKS WHO DRINK Draft Station Santa Fe Arcade, 60 E San Francisco St., 983-6443 Stellar quiz results can win you drink tickets for next time.

7 pm, free INDIVISIBLE SANTA FE MONDAY NIGHT MEETINGS Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road,, 467-8514 Indivisible Santa Fe is part of a grassroots progressive political movement to coordinate local efforts across the country with a national strategy. Its mission is to create a community of intelligent, activist citizens and become effective advocates for progressive ideas at local, state, and national levels.

7 pm, free NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS OPEN HOUSE New Mexico School for the Arts 275 E Alameda St., 310-4194 Prospective students and parents have the opportunity to learn about the tuition-free arts high school offering programs in dance, music, theatre and visual arts. Get all the info you need this eve.

6:30 pm, free

MUSIC COWGIRL KARAOKE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Michèle Leidig hosts Santa Fe's most famous night of karaoke.

9 pm, free

DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Gotta get that smooth, smooth piano.

6:30 pm, free MELLOW MONDAYS Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Mondays are lame. Chill out this evening with DJ Sato. We also super like the chicken fingers with honey mustard they have here. Get sweet potato waffle fries. Trust us.

10 pm, free

TUE/3 BOOKS/LECTURES POETRY AND PROSE IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Poet Margaret Randall (newest collection: The Morning After) grapples with ageless concerns and unexpected details. She has a conversation with fellow poet Bryce Milligan, whose book Take to the Highway features an memory map of human consciousness, written while driving across the expanse of Texas.

6 pm, free

DANCE ARGENTINE TANGO MILONGA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Head to the downtown Spanish tapas-style restaurant and show off your best tango moves.

7:30 pm, $5

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 This quiz can win you drink tickets for next time. As ever, it's hosted by the kindly Kevin A. 8 pm, free INDIVISIBLE SANTA FE ACTION TUESDAY Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Okay, so last night you talked about your good ideas.

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8:30 am, free METTA REFUGE COUNCIL Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 This gathering is for people who are struggling with loss in a variety of its forms.

10:30 am, free PARENT VISITOR MORNING Santa Fe Waldorf School 26 Puesta del Sol, 983-9727 Curious about the Waldorf style of education for your kids? Tour the campus, meet with faculty and get the big picture. Call ahead to reserve a spot.

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MUSIC CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Santa Fe's legendary night of blues and friendship (see SFR Picks, page 19).

8:30 pm, $5 DOUG MONTGOMERY AND BILL FORREST Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Gotta get that smooth, smooth piano. Doug starts, Bill takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free

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ETHEL WITH ROBERT MIRABAL: THE RIVER Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Daring string quartet ETHEL and Grammy-winning flute musician Robert Mirabal of Taos Pueblo join forces for a cross-cultural concert inspired by water and its essential role in life on earth.

We saw Mirabal perform at the Red River Folk Festival last weekend and damn, this dude is legit. Get tickets to this show STAT. 7:30 pm, $25-$45

PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Live solo jazz guitar.

6 pm, free RONALD ROYBAL El Flamenco De Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 2nd floor, 209-1302 Native flute and Spanish classical guitar.

7:30 pm, $20 VINTAGE VINYL NITE The Matador 116 W San Francisco St. Garage, surf, rockabilly and old-school country.

9 pm, free

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The Museum of Encaustic Art opens a new juried show this week, and we love Cristi Branum’s “Jumping Mouse” just as much as we loved last week’s “Horsey.”

EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS 334 Los Pinos Road, 471-2261 Living history. This weekend: Harvest Festival, 10 am-4 pm Saturday and Sunday (see SFR Picks, page 19).

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 O’Keeffe at the University of Virginia. Through Oct. 28.

HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 Ken Price: Death Shrine I from Happy’s Curios.

Ongoing.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place,

983-8900 American Traditional War Songs: The Ethnopoetic Videos of Sky Hopinka.

Through Oct. 27. Daniel McCoy: The Ceaseless Quest for Utopia; New Acquisitions; Desert ArtLAB: Ecologies of Resistance; Connective Tissue: New Approaches to Fiber in Contemporary Native Art. All through Jan. 2018.

Action Abstraction Redefined.

Through July 27, 2018.

MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART 623 Agua Fría St., 989-3283 Juried Encaustic and Wax Exhibition. Through Oct. 29.

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Into the Future: Culture Power in Native American Art. Through Oct. 22. Jody Naranjo: Revealing Joy. Through Dec. 31. Frank Buffalo Hyde: I-Witness

Culture. Through Jan. 7, 2018. Stepping Out: 10,000 Years of Walking the West.

Through Sept. 3, 2018.

MUSEUM OF INT’L FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Flamenco: From Spain to New Mexico. Through Sept.

2017. Sacred Realm; The Morris Miniature Circus; Under Pressure. Through Dec. 2017. Negotiate, Navigate, Innovate: Strategies Folk Artists Use in Today’s Global Marketplace.

Through July 16, 2018.

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 Mirror, Mirror: Photographs of Frida Kahlo. Through Oct. 29.

NM HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5019 Sleeping During the Day: Vietnam 1968. Through Oct. 1. Out of the Box: The Art of the Cigar. Through Oct. 14.

Voices of Counterculture in the Southwest. Through Feb. 11, 2018.

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Within a few minutes of the opening scene of Kingsman: The Golden Circle, we’re reminded just how over-the-top director Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass, X-men: First Class) can get, for better and for worse. The CGI camera zooms in on the hideout of drug kingpin Julianne Moore (Still Alice), a Disney-esque 1950s theme park carved into the Cambodian jungle. The eccentric touch weaves a stylistic and thematic thread through the entire movie, thanks in part to an assist from Elton John (Elton John! How else would you know him?). Mere moments later, Vaughn’s megawatt world turns upside down as the meat mincer in a diner hums to life—before it ends a life. For all its violence (and there’s plenty here), the movie doesn’t touch the stunning gore of the first installment of the Kingsman series. That’s a good thing.

At its best, Vaughn’s film approaches Dr. Strangelove territory in its gleeful self-awareness. It can both wink at the audience (literally, in Sir Elton’s case) and pull off the tension of a real spy movie. The art direction, set design and

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costume work are impeccable. Mark Strong (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) is on point as Merlin—the Kingsman’s equivalent of James Bond’s Q—and Pedro Pascal (Narcos) is brilliant as a Burt Reynolds-esque American agent from the Kingsman’s counterparts across the pond, the Statesmen.

Taron Egerton (Eddie the Eagle) plays streetpunk-turned-agent Eggsy with a mixture of confidence and disbelief that’s endearing.

At its worst, the movie makes repeated tonedeaf references to landmines in Cambodia.

Vaughn and co-writer Jane Goldman would have to work hard to find a more literal way to trip over their own wit. The script falls flat when it comes to roles for Halle Berry, Channing Tatum and

Jeff Bridges—who reprises once more his marble-mouthed Western/Southern accent. And the way-too-far scene in which Eggsy plants a tracking device in a female mark is, well, way too far.

All in all, though, this is an enjoyable romp for adults (not kids) that rates well when compared to what it could be and promises a sequel sometime in the not-so-distant—but surely fantastical—future.

KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE Directed by Matthew Vaughn With Colin Firth, Moore, Pascal, Egerton and Strong

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The latest LEGO flick is what skeptics initially feared the franchise would be, before Phil Lord and Christopher Miller elevated The LEGO Movie into something witty and poignant.

Charlie Bean applies his safe Cartoon Network sensibility to this spinoff about young ninjas protecting the land of Ninjago. Each ninja embodies an earth element—fire, water, lightning, etc.—and offers little character development. The exception is Lloyd Garmadon, the Green Ninja, whose life is complicated by the fact that his estranged father, Lord Garmadon, is Ninjago’s would-be conqueror (basically, imagine walking around high school with the name “Lloyd bin Laden”). After he unwittingly unleashes a live-action cat named Meowthra, contrivance joins the ninjas with Lord Garmadon on a quest concocted by sensei Master Wu (Jackie Chan) for “the ultimate ultimate weapon.” But it’s just a Star Wars-esque device to help Lloyd find the good in his father. We’re left to make do with weak puns, weary pop-culture references, and a waning sense of discovery. (Neil Morris) Regal, Violet Crown, 101 min.

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Is filmmaker Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler) attempting to diffuse the concept of May-December relationships in Mother! (like his own with the film’s star, Jennifer Lawrence, for example)—or is he simply ruminating on the idea that creativity and creative types thrive on non-reciprocal adoration and eat up everything good in their path? Either way, he’s strayed into far weirder territory than perhaps even 2000’s Requiem for a Dream, though the imagery and unstuck-in-time nature of Mother! is at least more disconcerting.

J-Law is some nameless woman, apparently Beetlejuiced into never leaving her countryside home which she shares with Javier Bardem, a similarly nameless man whom we discover is a poet who can’t write anymore after other, also nameless people (played excellently and beyond creepily by Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer) show up mysteriously to hang around to love on his older work. This doesn’t sit well with Lawrence, who spends the entirety of the film sinking deeper into the fever dream from a vantage of powerlessness; at all times she is cleaning, renovating, worrying, while Bardem and crew shirk CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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throngs now inhabiting her home, the more their numbers grow and the more Bardem attempts to calm her—which is maddening.

There may be more questions than answers by the time Mother! ends, and the imagery and symbolism are a mite on the nose for anyone who cares to Google its stars and director. Having said that, it still sticks with you long after it’s over and will surely cause plenty of conversations. No, this isn’t a horror movie in the traditional sense; more like challenging, high-concept satire—though we’d point out very little is funny in a ha-ha sort of way.

Whatever else, though, it’s dark and scary with more than enough of Aronofsky’s trademark directorial touches to make it worthwhile. Just prepare to feel sort of … off. (Alex De Vore) Violet Crown, R, 121 min.

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off her obviously mounting frustrations. Bardem, it seems, loves the attention from strangers despite Lawrence’s concerns that he’s allowing outsiders into their paradise.

And oh, how it gets worse. A pregnancy spurs momentary calmness, not to mention inspiration in Bardem and, in defeating his writer’s block, an opening is provided for every insane fan, agent, publisher and hanger-on to appear, thereby transforming a would-be dream house into a labyrinthian hellscape of illogical proportions.

Like Lawrence, we begin to question the reality of the situation. Is she going mad, or is her adjacency to fame and bright-burning creativity simply more than anyone can handle? Regardless, there is magical realism afoot, albeit born of black magic. The more she pulls against the

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third. This script takes enough liberties with the original work that it’s both annoying and intriguing to see what’s next, but it feels like planned obsolescence. Still, we’ll be there on opening night again to see where it goes all the same.

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The third edition of this combination buddy pic/ travel documentary franchise is neither a box office nor critical darling. But actor-comedians Steve Coogan (Philomena) and Rob Brydon (Cinderella) have found a mostly satisfying recipe.

Like the first two Trip movies, this one is

concocted from a six-episode BBC television series. Director Michael Winterbottom (A Mighty Heart) parted-out the first offering admirably, and beats the second edition here.

The premise is the same: Coogan and Brydon pair up to review a half-dozen restaurants and we’re privy to their mealtime banter, as well as their often more reflective road-trip dialogue about what it means to be successful and happy, how we get there and with whom we choose to share the journey. It always includes impressions—the Michael Caine exchange from the first film is an absolute classic—and this time around the two are at their best when swapping takes on Mick Jagger and David Bowie. There’s Brando and De Niro and John Hurt. And more Michael Caine. There’s even Brydon doing Mick Jagger doing his own Michael Caine impression, which is a feat that’s over before you realize how smart it was.

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Filmmakers have been having a go at Stephen King’s horror honor roll stories since half the people in the audience were in diapers, and the newest rendition has echoes of blood-soaked Carrie (both the 1976 and 2013 versions) and kid bonding that recalls Stand by Me (1986).

What it doesn’t do is bring up the 1990 version of itself. The new It for the big screen is not It made for TV. And it’s not a straight line from the book either.

Among King’s best works are those that hold central a group of children, and the young actors who take on these roles in Mama director Andy Muschietti’s new effort are a convincing, cohesive bunch. Jaeden Lieberher leads the pack as Bill Denbrough, whose brother Georgie famously dies in the unchanged classic opening scene involving a paper boat and a yellow slicker. After the disappearance of dozens of children and after the end of school, the story joins “the losers’ club” on their misadventure of summer.

Punchy dialog like “yo-mama” one-liners from the group of boys meets the obvious adolescent fun of the only girl in the gang; Sophia Lillis (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) has amazing eyes as Beverly Marsh. Few adults even utter substantial lines in the telling, and most of them are bruised and shadowy characters. They can’t see even see the clown monster, Pennywise (a justifiably terrifying and CGI-enhanced Bill Skarsgård).

The club discovers a pattern—that Pennywise feeds on fear and returns every 27 years to feast on children in the town. What a great setup for another movie, right? And, if they follow the latest scheme of turning one book into three movies a la The Hobbit, maybe even a

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When your job is eating your way through Spain, like in The Trip to Spain, no one ever has to feel bad for you again.

This is familiar ground—all of it—but it’s also comfortable ground. There’s a bit of Curb Your Enthusiasm to the pair’s interaction, and this is largely entertaining, often hilarious and not afraid to veer into the awkward. But occasionally it falls flat, such as when Brydon and Coogan lapse into Roger Moore impressions. We’re supposed to be in on the joke that they sometimes can’t stop themselves, but even still, we’re left feeling like they should have.

Winterbottom’s ending is patently weird, and he would have done well to give us more of back-of-the-house restaurant meal prep that so ably set the tone for the series. Still, you’ll walk away hungry and, for the most part, happy.

(Matt Grubs) Violet Crown, NR, 115 min.

in the eyes of his brethren. But observing constant humiliation driven by his boss, his brother, his rabbi or at arranged dates makes us root for him, even as he struggles to pay rent, feed his son and get to work on time.

Menashe is presented primarily in Yiddish, and Weinsten goes so far as to cast ultra-orthodox New Yorkers, most of whom perform without a film credit. Not only does this add unprecedented authenticity to the film, it surprises with each natural performance; this is as real as it gets.

Add fantastic examples of traditional Jewish music and just enough humor and heart, and we’ve got one of the most fascinating and engrossing films of the year. (ADV) Center for Contemporary Arts, PG, 82 min.

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Director Joshua Weinstein presents an intimately heartbreaking and painstakingly accurate depiction of the Hasidim living in Brooklyn in Menashe, a tale loosely based on the life of its star, Menashe Lustig. Menashe lost his wife a year prior to the events of the film, and Hasidic law dictates his son Rieven must be raised with a complete family (we even learn that should Menashe remarry, the stepmother wouldn’t be allowed to touch his son). Thus, Rieven is sent to live with Menashe’s brother, a decidedly humorless stickler for rules who affords Menashe little respect and imposes the strictest of upbringings on his nephew.

Thematically, the film could have played out in any sort of community—love, loss and the underdog are universal—but by delving deep into the laws, customs and everyday lives of Hasidic Jews in New York, we are given a rarely-seen glimpse into a sect that operates in plain view but whose inner-workings remain unknown to most.

Lustig is phenomenal as the downtrodden father figure caught between his religion and love for his son. He’s far from perfect, and his penchant for cracking jokes damages his credibility

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Week of September 27th

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats likes to play along with the music of nature. On one occasion he collaborated with Mandeville Creek in Montana. He listened and studied the melodies that emanated from its flowing current. Then he moved around some of the underwater rocks, subtly changing the creek’s song. Your assignment, Aries, is to experiment with equally imaginative and exotic collaborations. The coming weeks will be a time when you can make beautiful music together with anyone or anything that tickles your imagination.

Master the simple details and practical actions. Work on achieving easy, low-risk victories. In this way, you’ll prepare yourself for more epic efforts in the future.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Some newspapers publish regular rectifications of the mistakes they’ve made in past editions. For example, the editors of the UK publication The Guardian once apologized to readers for a mistaken statement about Richard Wagner. They said that when the 19th-century German composer had trysts with his chambermaid, he did not in fact ask her to wear purple underpants, as previously reported. They were pink underpants. I tell you this, Taurus, as encouragement to engage in corrective meditations yourself.

Before bedtime on the next ten nights, scan the day’s events and identify any actions you might have done differently—perhaps with more integrity or focus or creativity. This will have a deeply tonic effect. You are in a phase of your astrological cycle when you’ll flourish as you make amendments and revisions.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Be realistic, Libra: Demand the impossible; expect inspiration; visualize yourself being able to express yourself more completely and vividly than you ever have before. Believe me when I tell you that you now have extra power to develop your sleeping potentials, and are capable of accomplishing feats that might seem like miracles. You are braver than you know, as sexy as you need to be, and wiser than you were two months ago. I am not exaggerating, nor am I flattering you. It’s time for you to start making your move to the next level.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to take extra good care of yourself during the next three weeks. Do whatever it takes to feel safe and protected and resilient. Ask for the support you need, and if the people whose help you solicit can’t or won’t give it to you, seek elsewhere.

Provide your body with more than the usual amount of healthy food, deep sleep, tender touch, and enlivening movement. Go see a psychotherapist or counselor or good listener every single day if you want. And don’t you dare apologize or feel guilty for being such a connoisseur of self-respect and self-healing.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A queen bee may GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It’s high time to allow your keep mating until she gathers 70 million sperm from yearnings to overflow… to surrender to the vitalizing many different drones. When composing my horopleasures of nonrational joy… to grant love the permisscopes, I aim to cultivate a metaphorically comparasion to bless you and confound you with its unruly ble receptivity. Long ago I realized that all of creation truths. For inspiration, read this excerpt of a poem by is speaking to me all the time; I recognized that Caitlyn Siehl. “My love is honey tongue. Thirsty love. My everyone I encounter is potentially a muse or teacher. love is peach juice dripping down the neck. Too much If I hope to rustle up the oracles that are precisely sugar love. Sticky sweet, sticky sweat love. My love can’t suitable for your needs, I have to be alert to the posride a bike. My love walks everywhere. Wanders through sibility that they may arrive from unexpected directhe river. Feeds the fish, skips the stones. Barefoot love. tions and surprising sources. Can you handle being that open to influence, Sagittarius? Now is a favorable My love stretches itself out on the grass, kisses a nectime to expand your capacity to be fertilized. tarine. My love is never waiting. My love is a traveler.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): One of the oldest houses in Northern Europe is called the Knap of Howar. Built out of stone around 3,600 B.C., it faces the wild sea on Papa Westray, an island off the northern coast of Scotland. Although no one has lived there for 5,000 years, some of its stone furniture remains intact. Places like this will have a symbolic power for you in the coming weeks, Cancerian. They’ll tease your imagination and provoke worthwhile fantasies. Why? Because the past will be calling to you more than usual. The old days and old ways will have secrets to reveal and stories to teach. Listen with alert discernment.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’re approaching a rendezvous with prime time. Any minute now you could receive an invitation to live up to your hype or fulfill your promises to yourself—or both. This test is likely to involve an edgy challenge that is both fun and daunting, both liberating and exacting. It will have the potential to either steal a bit of your soul or else heal an ache in your soul. To ensure the healing occurs rather than the stealing, do your best to understand why the difficulty and the pleasure are both essential.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1901, physician Duncan MacDougall carried out experiments that led LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The United States has a bizarre him to conclude that the average human soul weighs 21 grams. Does his claim have any merit? That quessystem for electing its president. There’s nothing like it tion is beyond my level of expertise. But if he was in any other democratic nation on earth. Every four years, the winning candidate needs only to win the elec- right, then I’m pretty sure your soul has bulked up to at least 42 grams in the past few weeks. The work toral college, not the popular vote. So theoretically, it’s you’ve been doing to refine and cultivate your inner possible to garner just 23 percent of all votes actually state has been heroic. It’s like you’ve been ingesting a cast, and yet still ascend to the most powerful political position in the world. For example, in two of the last five healthy version of soul-building steroids. Congrats! elections, the new chief of state has received significant- PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): There are enough authorily fewer votes than his main competitor. I suspect that ties, experts, and know-it-alls out there trying to tell you you may soon benefit from a comparable anomaly, Leo. what to think and do. In accordance with current astroYou’ll be able to claim victory on a technicality. Your logical factors, I urge you to utterly ignore them during effort may be “ugly,” yet good enough to succeed. the next two weeks. And do it gleefully, not angrily. Exult in the power that this declaration of independence gives VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I found this advertisement you to trust your own assessments and heed your own for a workshop: “You will learn to do the INCREDIBLE! intuitions. Furthermore, regard your rebellion as good Smash bricks with your bare hands! Walk on fiery coals practice for dealing with the little voices in your head unscathed! Leap safely off a roof! No broken bones! No that speak for those authorities, experts, and know-itcuts! No pain! Accomplish the impossible first! Then alls. Rise up and reject their shaming and criticism, too. everything else will be a breeze!” I bring this to your Shield yourself from their fearful fantasies. attention, Virgo, not because I think you should sign up for this class or anything like it. I hope you don’t. In fact, Homework: Would I enjoy following you on Twitter or a very different approach is preferable for you: I recom- Tumblr? Send me links to your tweets or posts.

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