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Shooters at Hooters?

A contender for the Bad Idea Olympics

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et’s face it, all of us have some bad ideas now and then.

“Hey, I think I’ll order the Cheesecake Factory Bistro Shrimp Pasta! I can use an extra 3,120 calories.”

“Hey, Lamar! Take a picture of me picking up these cute little bear cubs! Their mama won’t mind.”

“I think I’ll just stay home on Election Day, because I’m pretty sure Hillary can win without my help.”

Awful ideas, for sure. But every so often, an idea comes along that is so ghastly, it makes me wonder why there isn’t a Batshit Crazy Idea Hall of Fame somewhere. If there were such a place, here’s an idea that would deserve its own entire wing: You may have seen recent news reports revealing that the Albuquerque Police Department’s union is still giving officers involved in a shooting up to $500 to help them “decompress.” News of the practice emerged four years ago. People were shocked back then, and while the union modified the system and now reimburses officers for expenses deemed legitimate, the money continues to change hands.

Albuquerque is a city where the police have been involved in more than 50 shootings since 2010, many of them fatal, thus earning a wide load of whoop-ass from the US Department of Justice. Sort of picture Mayberry, if Barney Fife got all the ammo he wanted and Sheriff Taylor went away for the weekend.

In 2014, a Justice Department investigation found that “Albuquerque police officers often use deadly force in circumstances where there is no imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm to

officers or others.” In light of that, this revelation that union reimbursements continue seems a fairly significant shoe to drop.

Two days after an officer shot and killed a 19-year-old woman suspected of stealing a car that year, he went for lunch at Hooters and then for a Chinese massage, according to depositions made in connection with a lawsuit against the city by the young woman’s family.

There is no indication that union funds paid for this particular spree, but it offers a disturbing view of unwinding after a shooting.

I’ve never shot anybody, and I can’t even imagine how horrible it must be to have to do that, but if it ever happens to me, I think I’ll unwind in a counselor’s office or maybe a church, as opposed to Hooters and a massage parlor.

But here’s where it gets really weird. In 2012, an Albuquerque police union official said of the money-for-decompression practice, “Let me be clear: This was never about a bounty.”

Sweet Little Baby Jesus, I would fricking hope it’s not a bounty! If the union has to defend these reimbursements by explaining that they are not actually paying their members a bonus to go out and blow people away, then we’ve sunk to a whole new sublevel of insanity. I mean, how would that even go down?

“Hey, Sarge, check out this awesome gas grill. I’d sure love to get me one of these bad boys!”

“Well, Jimmy, you know what you have to do, right?”

“Yeah, but the grill costs more than $500.”

“Then I guess you’ll have to do some math, Jimmy There’s more than one bad guy out there, you know.”

“I guess you’re right, Sarge. Heck, maybe I’ll be able to get that new Weber, after all, and a new Harley, too.”

“Now you’re talking, Jimmy. And don’t forget something for the wife and kids.”

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n independent New Mexico book publisher wants to know why the state’s Public Education Department is shunning local authors and their books in favor of out-of-state titles.

But getting answers to how books were selected for Gov. Susana Martinez’ 2016 First Grade Reading Initiative isn’t easy.

Barbe Awalt, the co-publisher and owner of LPD Press/Rio Grande Books in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, claims that she’s requested public documents from the Instructional Material Bureau multiple times, hoping the records would give her insights about the agency’s decision to spend $197,000 on books from publishers in South Carolina, New York and Arizona despite getting lower bids from New Mexico publishers.

Martinez’ reading program provides free books to all public schools and most charter schools (religious schools are excluded). Awalt claims the department has spent over $1 million on books for the program over the past five years, but less than one-tenth of that total has been spent on New Mexico storybooks. In fact, she says, only two state publishers have received orders in previous years, totaling about $100,000, including Rudolfo Anaya’s How Chile Came to New Mexico, but no state publishers received a purchase order this year.

After being stonewalled for weeks about how the agency selected a book from Arizona’s Salina Bookshelf, which was submitted in the wrong format and past the original procurement deadline, Awalt filed an open records lawsuit against the department in the 2nd Judicial District on July 8. She’s seeking $51,000 in damages.

Awalt has also enlisted the help of Rep. Christine Trujillo, D-Albuquerque, a former American Federation of Teachers national vice president and six-term president of the New Mexico AFT chapter.

Last month, Trujillo asked New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas to investigate PED’s purchasing program and determine if the depart-

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ment’s alleged procurement violations “were fraudulently or criminally based.”

“This is important because the books selected were bought with New Mexico tax money from non-New Mexico publishers and [were] not the low bids,” writes Trujillo. “We have perfectly good books published in New Mexico, and it would have been nice to keep the money in New Mexico. Publishers who followed the rules feel they have been misled and lied to. The law has already been broken.”

Students, Trujillo says, should be exposed to more than Southwestern history books.

“They need to learn more about New Mexico authors,” notes Trujillo.

Trujillo tells SFR that for the past six years, the education department has made decisions without sharing information about their process with lawmakers or anyone else.

“They just do what they want,” says Trujillo, adding she’s upset that Education Secretary Hanna Skandera never attends interim legislative committee meetings, where she could be questioned.

“That’s been the biggest joke,” says Trujillo. “I’ve learned a lot over the course of this administration. People throw up their hands in disgust and dismay.”

Last year, the Public Education Department was ordered to pay $14,000 to National Education Association attorneys after the department withheld documents to support a statement by Skandera that 99 percent of state teachers were rated ineffective under the state’s old educator evaluation system.

PED spokesman Robert McEntyre did not immediately respond to SFR’s inquiry about Awalt’s claims.

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m I breaking the rules?” asks Amy Tischler. She has strayed into the center of a workshop in the Santa Fe Opera’s brand-new props department. The rest of the tour group clusters at one edge of the cavernous room, snapping photos with their phones as she poses beside statues of massive winged figures that will appear in this season’s production of Romeo et Juliette. The tour guide, Maya Rose Tweten, directs Tischler back onto their sanctioned route with a good-natured wave. Such shenanigans are expected from this gang: They are avid contributors to the unbridled photography app-cum-social experiment known as Instagram.

“Social media is like the Wild West,” says Tischler.

“There really aren’t a lot of rules, so you’re not boxed in with this traditional method of what you should be doing. We’re only limited by our imaginations.” It’s an apt observation for an event with a strong spaghetti Western flavor. Later this evening, the group will view and photograph a rehearsal performance of La Fanciulla del West. Puccini’s opera in three acts, which premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in 1910, follows frontierswoman Minnie on a series of gunslinging adventures during the California Gold Rush. Tischler and her collaborator Caitlin Elizabeth Jenkins have also mastered the art of the quick draw, albeit with their iPhone cameras.

The duo founded the Instagram account @SimplySantaFeNM in December 2014, challenging photographers to label their best local shots with the tag #SimplySantaFe. Less than two years on, they’ve shared more than 1,000 of their favorite photos from

Getting permission to shoot backstage at SFO (above) and in the prop room (below) is a rare feat.

an ever-growing pool of nearly 50,000 images. Their account boasts over 16,000 followers, and that number grows with every post. The success of the project inspired Tischler and Jenkins to launch a social media consulting business called Simply Social Media.

For their flagship events, referred to as “Instameets,” Tischler and Jenkins convince local businesses to let them gallop around behind the scenes with their camera-wielding friends.

The concept is a new frontier for the Santa Fe Opera. “It’s all about giving Instagrammers an opportunity to have access to something that is not open to everybody,” says Jenkins. “That’s one of the reasons we love the opera Instameets. Backstage tours are open to other people, but photography is not usually allowed. For our events, it’s encouraged.”

On a sprawling deck that hides just behind the opera’s famous open-air stage, the photographers hover around set pieces for tonight’s show. There are several sections of a saloon that will interlock onstage, and a cross-section of a two-story cabin where Minnie will rendezvous with a mysterious lover. They look surreal on this concrete expanse, as though they were deposited here by a high desert dust devil. “You never know what can happen, the possibilities that come from Instagram,” Jenkins says with amazement.

It all started when Jenkins reached out to Tischler—through Instagram, of course—to arrange a photography excursion. They had been aware of each other’s posts for a while (Tischler’s personal account is @amytischler, and Jenkins promotes her freelance photography business through @caitlinephoto), though Tischler never thought of her hobby as something that could launch a business. “I was just editing photos and trying to see what I could do with my phone,” says Tischler. “Smartphones and Instagram gave me new access to creating images. Then I realized that this is more than just an editing tool, it’s actually a community.”

“I had started the @SimplySantaFeNM account before we even met,” Jenkins continues. “I had only

done one post, and we started brainstorming about what it could become.”

Local businesses and organizations caught on too, and soon they were working with the Canyon Road Merchants Association, Santa Fe Paws and Modern Folkware.

The Santa Fe Opera contacted Tischler and Jenkins before their 2015 season, with an interest in collaborating. The subsequent deal was a coup for both sides: The opera wanted to connect with a younger audience, and @SimplySantaFeNM’s fans wanted to explore hidden corners of the opera. Projects with the Santa Fe Arts Commission, David Richard Gallery, Art.i.fact and other local organizations followed. “It’s absolutely possible to create legitimate art with and through Instagram,” Tischler says. “It’s much more than a platform for selfies.”

Later on the tour, the photographers settle into the opera’s balcony seating and peer down at the Polka Saloon, now assembled onstage. “Please be aware this evening’s performance contains multiple gun shots,” read the surtitle screens in front of each seat.

The opera’s public relations team looks more nervous about flashbulbs than gunpowder, but Tischler and Jenkins have some good news for them: In addition to hundreds of images that have already appeared on Instagram, under the tag #sfoinstameet, the event is also trending on Twitter. The opera’s guerrilla marketing experiment has undoubtedly paid off.

A voice booms over the intercom: “No photography or video recording is permitted during the performance.” Tischler, Jenkins and their friends grasp their phones and grin like outlaws as the stage lights come up. In the Wild West, the rules were made to be broken.

The Instameet at the opera takes place on Thursday, July 14, at 5:30 pm, and features a rehearsal performance of Romeo et Juliette. It’s RSVP only, so email hello@simplysocialmedianm.com to get on the waiting list.

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What is taking the county so long to finalize a plan for La Bajada Ranch?

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former La Cienega-area ranch has been in public hands for more than seven years, yet Santa Fe County officials still appear to lack a vision about its best use.

Back in 2009, the county shelled out $7 million to buy La Bajada Ranch and announced plans to try to lease out at least part of the area. But those negotiations kicked off a year ago, and Hollywood producer Frank Mancuso, on the other end of the table, says he’s getting fed up with the wait.

Mancuso wants to convert part of the area into a community farm to bolster local agriculture. He already owns 850 acres of adjacent property, which he purchased from the same private owner who sold La Bajada Ranch to the county. His land acquisition nixed plans to build an 18-home subdivision in the area.

Efforts to secure a lease on the rest of the canyon property have not been as easy.

“This process has been difficult and frustrating, and I am embarrassed that it has taken this long to get into an agreement and a project we can share with the community,” says Mancuso in a statement read to SFR by his attorney, Kyle Harwood. “There is not a clear and obvious pathway for when individuals and governments try to cooperate in a unique endeavor such as this.”

Deputy county manager Tony Flores tells SFR, “County staff is proceeding methodically and deliberately to ensure that the county’s interests are protected and that as many policy objectives for the ranch as possible are met.”

Several months of delay came from the county’s appraisal process, according to Harwood. Figur-

The property that cost $7 million in taxpayer funds isn’t doing jack for the public yet.

ing out how to factor in a new program that allows property owners to sell development rights is also complicating the process. Both Harwood and Flores declined to offer more specific details regarding the stalled negotiations.

La Bajada Ranch stretches along I-25, from La Cienega’s western edge to the Sandoval County line.

Juniper trees, short grass and shrubs dot the sprawling woodland. Experts have identified 54 archeological sites on the property, 38 of which are considered significant. A winding gravel road connects the entrance to a 4,229-square-foot house.

At one point, developers planned to build 174 houses on the property under the name “Santa Fe Canyon Ranch,” but they failed to secure the necessary water rights. Santa Fe County officials received praise from neighboring residents and conservationists when they purchased the former cattle ranch with taxpayer dollars. In 2012, the County Commission convened a citizen’s advisory group, officially called the La Bajada Ranch Steering Committee, to help brainstorm and evaluate ideas for the property: an RV yard, a sculpture garden, a kite park.

When Mancuso submitted his offer for the ranch during an open bidding period in late 2015, the committee voted to endorse his proposal. (An organization that wants La Bajada Mesa designated a national monument did not file its paperwork by the deadline.) From that point, the future of La Bajada Ranch rested in the hands of elected officials.

“Those of us on the committee really don’t know what is going on. We haven’t received any official communications in almost a year,” says committee member Claire Fulenwider. “It makes us feel unvalued, or at least it makes me feel that way.”

The steering committee last met in April 2015.

Chair Eric Blinman says he occasionally asks county officials whether the group should formally disband.

“And they sort of say, ‘Well, you know, not necessarily yet.’ It has just been in suspended animation,” Blinman says.

Further confusion arose in May when the commissioners’ biweekly meeting agenda included a resolution to enter a lease agreement with Mancuso for 293 acres of La Bajada Ranch. Officials tabled the item days before the meeting, but not before La Cienega area residents saw it.

Carl Dickens, president of La Cienega Valley Association, tells SFR he is alarmed that the agenda item did not account for about 40 percent of the ranch, leaving the door open for other ideas. “We’re horribly concerned,” Dickens says. As of now, the county maintains development rights for the property.

Commissioner Kathy Holian says she is “not surprised” that the saga over La Bajada Ranch has stretched over so many years.

“The county had never done anything like this before. I think we were all a little bit at sea as to how to proceed over the years,” says Holian. “We’re sort of feeling our way forward.”

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Comics in New Mexico are a bigger deal than you might think

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ome people are platform-agnostic when it comes to how they get their stories,” Bram Meehan says of comic books and graphic novels. The longtime employee of Big Adventure Comics, Santa Fe’s only shop dedicated to the medium, also teaches intro and advanced classes in comic-making for Santa Fe University of Art and Design and is a member of 7000 BC, a local comics education nonprofit—he’s an authority, to be sure.

“I think they hit, in a way, with particular sorts of people who interpret information in particular ways,” Meehan continues, “and you’ll get some people who are very intensive readers who maybe aren’t that into the art, or other people who are way more into the visuals, and what comics do well is that they intersect with both.”

It’s maddening that comics and other nontraditional storytelling formats, like video games, get marginalized or hastily classified and dismissed as nerd-centric. Meehan, however, can see the books and strips for what they are: a boundless vessel through which unlimited genres, stories and ideas are funneled.

“People begin to identify with characters, or they grow attached to certain characters and stories,” he says. “When it comes to comics, this goes back to the level of action required of the reader, and usually, on a subconscious level, they’re participants in the story.”

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written word, regardless of genre, so why do we view comic books in a different light than we would visual-free literature? Like the heroes and villains found in, for lack of a better term, traditional books, comic characters become the readers’ cipher, and stories become escapist experiences, a means to experience the extraordinary.

Look to the boom in superhero movies of the last 15 years or so. With no shortage of Marvel Comics and DC Comics films already released and dozens more in the pipeline, celebrated writer Alan Moore’s (Watchmen, Promethea) insistence that the rise of the superhero film is a “cultural catastrophe” seems less like the ravings of an eccentric hermit and more like a keen observation from someone who has spent decades bringing artistic merit to comics. It would almost be safe to say that societal

acceptance for the stories themselves has reached an all-time high, and yet, according to Meehan, the cinematic superhero explosion has not translated to increased sales or any noticeable boom in fandom for the actual comics.

“In many ways, the movies and the books don’t interact, and what we’re seeing is that movies are forcing comics people to differentiate themselves from the fans of the films,” he tells SFR. “It forces comics to rely a little bit less on the tropes they usually associate with.”

Indeed, the medium has evolved to a point where much of the true magic now comes from everyday artists and writers—the self-taught, the autobiographical, those who lack a vested interest in superheroes. This is perhaps most apparent with the fervor over Moore’s deconstructed superhero mythos

in Watchmen (read it if you haven’t, seriously … at this point, it’s really on you).

Conversely, the X-Men will never go anywhere—ditto for stalwarts such as Batman and Captain America. Similarly, don’t forget the grittier take on superheroes created by comic book royalty like Frank Miller or Ed Brubaker, or even those within the film industry like Christopher Nolan. Yet the real reason behind the mass commercialization of these properties does not lie with any movie studio’s burning desire to bring good characters from comics to life—they’re a big fat money grab. And so, if Meehan’s point about real fans searching for means of distinction rings true, then it would only make sense that less sensational or arguably indie titles would slowly leak out into the mainstream.

And so they have. The term “comic book” begins to feel hyperbolic, and thus, the more serious descriptor, “graphic novel,” becomes more applicable: These things aren’t just for kids, nor have they been for some time, if ever they were.

More contemporary creators like Art Spiegelman, Max Allan Collins, Harvey Pekar or Daniel Clowes, introduced more grounded tales like Maüs, Road to Perdition, American Splendor or Ghost World, and in the process, these artists who once worked in relative obscurity inspired a generation of homespun artists and writers.

Those who had been converted to the religion of comic books through big-name heroes, and who maybe felt left out by their übermasculine leanings, began to mature and diversify their interests, and more importantly, they began to discover that creating their own titles was a possibility. This is how the world was gifted with such memorable works as Jeff Smith’s self-published masterpiece Bone or Craig Thompson’s unforgettable Blankets, and even these books would achieve dizzying heights of success. But search toward the fringes of the popular, and one can unearth a grassroots graphic novel movement led by everyday people—even if they didn’t realize that’s what they were doing. These artists and writers aren’t in it for the money (though some do make their living in comics) so much as they have stories to tell and the talent to tell them.

What follows is a small crosssection of local artists and writers from right in our own backyard (and one who got away). There are droves more (see 3 Questions, page 29) here in New Mexico and all across the world. With the medium reaching a much wider audience than even 15-20 years ago, it can definitely feel strange for something you love to become popular, but for fans of comics, this should be viewed as an exciting time.

“I’ve been thinking about the story of Alcheringa for 15 years,” Stephanie Alia says as she fidgets nervously. It would seem that even though the local writer has made serious headway on her original title that explores the concept of dream-based duality, she has difficulty discussing her work.

“I wanted to do it in comics form because when you write without that visual … a traditional book can become overly complicated when you try to get your ideas out there— you can spend pages and pages describing a single thing or place—but with comics, the reaction is instant; the visual component does a majority of the storytelling.”

Alcheringa follows a young girl named Madelyn who begins to understand her ability to phase in and out of dreams. The title itself is derived from an Aboriginal word which literally translates to “in the Dreamtime,” and Alia herself says she has been lucid-dreaming since she was a teenager. Even though the concept of traversing the bizarre landscape of the subconscious has been explored richly before (Winsor McCay’s seminal and indescribably brilliant Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland comes to mind), Alia and her crew have taken their story further than a simple standalone book. Lead artist Adam Frank, who lives in Seattle, has created a detailed world for Alia’s complex tale, and composer Michael Dulaney wrote and produced a companion soundtrack to listen to while you read it. Alia also says they’re in the process of developing an app that would enable users to solve puzzles and delve deeper into CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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the fiction. It’s a fantastic example of creative multimedia but, when you think about it, an almost inevitable interactive evolution for the medium.

Alia also represents an important minority from within the world of comic books in that she is a woman. Similar to music, it’s annoying when that becomes a selling point, but Alia’s work is proof that it doesn’t matter who you are when it comes to the creation of comics. “It’s mostly male dominated, I believe,” she says, “and I’ve even had interactions with men who are like, ‘Oh wait, you’re a girl—you don’t know what you’re doing!’ whereas I feel like if I was a male, my experiences and communications would be less patronizing.” She even says she has almost quit a few times, but she regrouped and continued. “I have a choice, a vision,” she says, “and that’s what’s going to make Alcheringa more interesting.”

Stephanie Alia’s Top 3 Titles for Newcomers 1. Sandman Series by Neil Gaiman 2. L’Incal by Alejandro Jodorowsky 3. Transient by Justin Coro Kaufman

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“I drew all the time when I was a kid, but when I was 12, I started playing guitar, and it kind of dropped off,” says Dave Jordan, the Albuquerque-based author of Sadman and Where Do We Go from Here? “It was only in the last maybe two years that a friend asked when I was going to do my own book, and I kind of shrugged it off but figured I’d start drawing again since I’d be doing something I enjoy. The floodgates were opened.”

Jordan’s work is part of an important shift in creativity that all but forms the nexus of the new wave of comics: He’s just a guy who loves ’em and started to make them. Furthermore, he explores the dynamics of everyday relationships and self-awareness through the comic lens. Within the realm of storytelling, this isn’t new, but it proves that there is more to comic books than “Bam!” and “Whiz!”

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“I was reading them voraciously, and just because I’m the type of person I am, I treat the consumption of things like a sort of study,” Jordan says. “We all do it with music or art, I was just doing it with comics, and—not that I’m any sort of authority—it was like I had all these years of selfimposed homework, so I already knew about story flow. I just needed to work on my art.”

Working in strip form with Sadman allowed Jordan the constant regimen of drawing improvement, and to read the story of his superhero full of self-doubt is to see his style tighten and his voice become more focused. “When I started, there was definitely no unified vision, it was just silly ‘let’s watch this guy fail’ gags,” Jordan says.

“As it developed, there was definitely an element of existential dissection of myself in there, but largely I felt like it became an existential dissection of everyone; how we navigate through life, relationships, personal and universal meaning, etc.”

With Where Do We Go from Here?, Jordan took the lessons learned while working on Sadman and applied them to the concept of interpersonal relationships.

“Objectively, a lot of our early friendships are based strictly on superficial things,” he says.

“Similar interest in punk records, horror movies, cartoons, whatever it might be, so it’s about how we transition from that [or] if we can transition from that; maybe in some cases, we can’t or shouldn’t.”

These may not sound very exciting when compared to superhero stories, but life’s not all about the action. Jordan’s view aligns with Bram Meehan’s point that there is room for platform agnosticism, so long as well-written stories are there. His look into the mechanics of relationships is stark and honest and, like most good stories, provides readers with a relatable cause to think about their own situations. Not too shabby for a comic book, right?

Dave Jordan’s Top 3 Titles for Newcomers 1. Bone by Jeff Smith 2. Love and Rockets by the Hernandez Brothers 3. Building Stories by Chris Ware

Artist Turner Mark-Jacobs takes on Edgar Allan Poe’s Masque of the Red Death for the locally produced Myx #5.

“I feel like I’m coming at creation from sort of being an art school reject,” Turner MarkJacobs says. A New Mexican who graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago, Mark-Jacobs spent several years in New York City working as a studio assistant for various artists, in museums and for galleries, but ultimately left that life behind to return to Santa Fe and work on his own comics-based stories. “I started to feel like the art world is so full of BS posturing and identity politics, and I just felt like comics were a more honest expression,” CONTINUED ON PAGE 18

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he tells SFR. “I was always drawn to the imaginative reality—comics were more real than going to a movie for me—and there are no limits to what you can do. You’re only limited by your imagination.”

Currently, Mark-Jacobs (who also designed and drew this week’s cover, by the way) has been commissioned by the Palace of the Governors for a book titled The Massacre of Don Pedro de la Sur, a historical fiction account of a mysterious and gruesome occurrence from our region’s history, circa 1720.

According to Mark-Jacobs, a corrupt governor sent a poor military strategist on a reconnaissance mission that resulted in the deaths of nearly two-thirds of Santa Fe’s military forces at the time.

I started to feel like the art world is so full of BS posturing and identity politics, and I just felt like comics were a more honest expression.

“Nobody really knows what the facts are, so the more I learned about the event, the more I wondered how to tell the story,” Mark-Jacobs says. “I met with a New Mexico state historian who pointed out a couple of books where you can read letters that were written back and forth about the event between the New Mexico governor and the Spanish in Mexico City, but the facts got mixed up by the fog of war, I guess.”

Mark-Jacobs is working around the confusion by providing three separate point-of-view narrative storylines from the perspective of the Spanish, the French and a Pueblo Native. The hand-drawn/ watercolor aesthetic cleverly contrasts some of the shocking truths and imagery of the story, and frankly, it’s also an interesting direction for a museum to commission such a project. He’s also in the planning stages of a semi-autobiographical and satirical ac-

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LEFT: One of Austin Eichelberger’s own creations.

ABOVE: A glamorous day in the life of comics artist Liz Prince.

count of his time in the NYC art world, stocked with characters who are all anthropomorphized animals.

“I started to wonder what kind of art certain species would make,” he says. “Would there be a consensus when it comes to what’s good, or would it be a Tower of Babel situation where nobody can agree?”

Turner Mark-Jacob’s Top 3 Titles for Newcomers 1. Zapp Comics 2. MAD Magazine circa ’50s and ’60s 3. Heavy Metal

“I love comics for so many reasons … they engage my ADD mind,” says Austin Eichelberger, vice president of Plume Snake, a digital distribution platform. He’s freshly back from a convention in Houston, where, he says, “so many creators saw what we were doing and wanted to get onboard immediately.”

Plume Snake’s affordable subscription model throws a wrench in the cogs of major publishers like DC or Marvel by being creator-driven and, almost shockingly, leaving the majority of profits and 100 percent of the rights in the hands of the writers and artists themselves. It currently provides digital

distribution for nearly two dozen titles—including Stephanie Alia’s Alcheringa—and their roster is growing all the time.

“As indie guys, the CEO [Alex Odom] and I are used to being on the periphery of the industry, but indie is strong,” Eichelberger says. “We’re not going to take over the industry by any means, but we’re going to give the big guys a run for their money.”

It is, perhaps, due to Eichelberger’s own work as a writer of comics that he is uniquely positioned to identify and circumvent the pitfalls of big box comics. He has collaborated on a number of titles such as Last Stop til Earth, a sci-fi tale of the inhabitants of an alien waystation that exists on the edge of our galaxy.

“It’s like an intergalactic truckstop,” he says excitedly. “It’s looking at what unfettered capitalism can do on a universal scale.”

Plume Snake’s titles are digital-only for the time being, but Eichelberger says they’re hoping to begin a line of print editions soon. It’s obviously a fledgling model, but a promising one, especially if it’s exciting to the folks behind the books. Eichelberger, who’s also written a few pieces for SFR, says they’re open when it comes to content but adds that they find themselves drawn to more human stories. Either way, the team is fighting the good fight when it comes to cementing comics’ ability to claim actual artistic and literary merit.

“Here we have these beautiful pieces of literature that are treated like trash because they have pictures in them,” Eichelberger says. “What the fuck is that?”

Austin Eichelberger’s Top 3 Titles for Newcomers 1. Promethea by Alan Moore 2. Pretty Deadly by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Ríos 3. Black Science by Rick Remender and Matteo Scalera

“I think literary snobs like to use the term ‘graphic novel’ so they feel OK about reading comics,” creator Liz Prince tells SFR. Prince is the talented artist/writer behind numerous strips and anthologies as well as Tomboy, a painfully funny autobiographical retelling of her youth. Prince has, as they say, “made it,” and the Ignatz Award-winner who once called Santa Fe home actually now lives in Massachusetts. Drawn to comics from a young age, her earliest forays came in the form of Donald Duck.

“Comics represent my two favorite things coming together—books and cartoons,” she says. “I’d read superhero comics sometimes, but I’ve always liked artwork that’s more simple or classically cartoony.”

And while her style certainly aligns with this mantra, Prince’s willingness to portray her own experience through her work as startlingly honest or hysterically self-effacing is a downright joy to read.

She can take something as simple as the everyday interactions of a relationship or the difficulty of coming of age and suss out the funnier elements thereof.

Furthermore, her “comics are for everyone” attitude invalidates obsolete ideas of culture ownership (known more colloquially as being a “fanboy”) and opens up possibilities for the medium.

“I have never wanted comics to be this secret thing or this club,” she cautions, “and I think there’s this unfortunate fetishism of nerd culture.”

Truth.

Liz Prince’s Top 3 Titles for Newcomers 1. Smile by Raina Telgemeier 2. Bone by Jeff Smith 3. Monsters by Ken Dahl

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NUEVO Y MEJORADO “I definitely cannot play traditional flamenco,” D’Santiago Nava jokes. “I come from more of a rhythm background.” But you know what?

That’s OK, all y’all psycho flamenco purists.

Not only is Nava a pretty excellent guitarist, the songs on his debut CD—which he releases on Thursday—are six clever odes to his siblings. “I’ve been lucky enough to have people be very open and curious about the music,” Nava adds, “and to have so much support from my family and wife.” There’s no cover, but $5 from every album sale goes right to the fine folks at Santa Fe’s Human Rights Alliance, the organization behind Pride. (Alex De Vore)

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Western Romance

How fashion photography moved outside, thanks to a cowboy larged digital prints, the show features silver prints produced by Markus. The printing art is dying in an age that doesn’t value process; it’s also timeconsuming and involves chemicals and a hell of a lot of skill. “I’ve worked this long in film, and I feel like I’ve just started to know something about it; to be more intuitive, more adventuresome,” he says.

Markus adds that the concept for The Fashion Years was his idea and that he wanted to show something fashionrelated. He acknowledges that photos of scantily clad ‘90s supermodels is “out of step with landscape photography” and the howling coyote we have all seen in Santa Fe, a thousand times too many. “I am kind of curious what this audience will think,” Markus says.

“Will they think, ‘It’s just fashion photography, who cares about that?’”

They will probably think something like, “Damn, those are some beautiful photographs.” (Maria Egolf-Romero) KURT MARKUS The Fashion Years Reception: 5-7 pm Friday, July 15. Free.

Verve Gallery, 219 E Marcy St. 982-5009

When Lipbone Redding purses his lips, don’t search the room for a hidden trombone—it’s all vocal work, baby. “Some of the sounds I make, I don’t know if there is an instrument,” he tells SFR. Redding can dip from smooth, New Orleans jazz vocals into a froggy growl. The eclectic minstrel attunes his style as needed. “If it’s a story that takes place somewhere in the Amazon in the 1930s, I play the appropriate music,” he says. Though Redding has an enormous song catalog, he says there’s “a few, they’re like cream—they always seem to rise to the top.” (Andrew Koss) Lipbone Redding: 8-10 pm Monday, July 18. $10. Odd Fellows Hall, 1125 Cerrillos Road, 983-7493

EVENTS TWIST AND DRINK Mikki Trowbridge and Melissa Klimo-Major teach quite a boozy/bendy event. It starts with an hour of all-levels Vinyasa flow, which means some movement is involved (in non-yoga speak), and commences with a pint, included in the class price. Trowbridge says the shared pint “gives a chance for connection.” And the promise of beer is always a good draw. “The idea of doing yoga at a brewery makes it approachable for people who haven’t done it before,” she says. The Beer Yogis are driving their yogaparty on a cross-country tour and say Santa Fe “made sense on the map, and we’ve heard great things.” Maybe their new mantra will be “Namaste here”? (MER)

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Black-and-white photography has an inherently dignified quality. The way milky white light sits up against a void of darkness forces the eye to see something it might miss in color. The juxtaposition places the subject smack in the face of the viewer and highlights whatever was already great about it, if it’s done right. And Kurt Markus is king of doing it right. You may recognize Markus’ iconic photos of early supermodels like Christy Turlington and Cindy Crawford, draped in silks or sporting a Western hat (or nothing at all). He got into fashion photography in the late ’80s when he was recruited

by Levis Strauss & Co. to shoot their cowboy-cut jeans campaign, and then, partially in the hands of the former cowboy, fashion photography moved outdoors.

The champion of film tells SFR his retrospective show, which opens Friday, July 15, at Verve Gallery, “afforded me this chance to go back into my archives and pull out contact sheets from different shoots, [and] the heavy mining was to find a picture that represented something timeless.”

There are less than a dozen photos in the exhibit, and aside from a few en-

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Drew Tal’s “Farewell” is on display as part of Circumspect, opening Tuesday at Turner Carroll Gallery.

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WED/13 BOOKS/LECTURES ANA CASTILLO Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Presenting Black Dove: Mama, Mi'jo and Me, the author speaks about her experiences as a minority and single mother.

6 pm, free DAVID EICHELBERGER Santa Fe Clay 545 Camino de la Familia, 984-1122 The professor and potter talks ceramic technique, specifically the best way to mold midlevel porcelain clay.

7 pm, free JANE HIRSHFIELD: POEMS AND PRACTICE Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 A poetry reading with comments from Hirshfield’s book, Ink Dark Moon.

5:30 pm, free

LESLEY POLING-KEMPES: THE HARVEY GIRLS AND THE SANTA FE RAILWAY Community Gallery 201 W Marcy St., 982-0436 Hear about the lives of Fred Harvey, the railroad tycoon, and his adventuresome daughters in the golden era of the West, from Kempes, author of Ladies of the Canyons.

6 pm, free TALIA KOSH: APPROPRIATION AND COPYRIGHT Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Kosh details legal cases involving visual artists, filmmakers and musicians who utilize copyrighted materials without seeking permission.

6-8 pm, free

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO 2016 The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 Antonio Granjero presents a summer performance with Estefania Ramirez.

8 pm, $25-$50

EVENTS TAPS AND TABLETOPS Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 It's a happy hour and a tabletop game night in George RR Martin’s theater. A perfect nerdly gathering opportunity.

6 pm, free

MUSIC BOB FINNIE Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 The world-class pianist works the keys for your auditory entertainment.

7 pm, free GOLDEN DAWN ARKESTRA Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Expect some spacey tunes, since these guys claim they are from a small planet in the Cygnus constellation and play unique instruments, like the vibraphone.

8 pm, $15 LAURA JOY Georgia 225 Johnson St., 989-4367 The Oklahoma native plays her unique take on acoustic pop.

7:30 pm, free MUSIC ON THE HILL: THE TRACEY WHITNEY QUINTET St. John's College Green 1160 Camino de Cruz Blanca, 984-6199 This installation of the weekly outdoor music event brings classic jazz and sophisticated soul from a musician who performed with Ray Charles. And even more great news ... there will be a shuttle service from Museum Hill, so the park-andhoof-it days are over.

6 pm, free

PALOMINO SHAKEDOWN Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Country, soul and rock 'n' roll from the Austin-based band who draw inspiration from classics.

4 pm, free RUNA Gig Performance Space 1808 Second St. Celtic roots music made by women.

7 pm, $20 SANTA FE BANDSTAND: HALF BROKE HORSES AND EILEN JEWELL Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail, 471-1067 Half Broke Horses kicks off the evening with dance-paced honky tonk. Jewell follows with blues, country and folk.

6 pm, free TIM NOLEN AND RAILYARD REUNION Radish & Rye 548 Agua Fría St., 930-5325 Covering classics and playing some originals in their true bluegrass form. Plus, have you tried the piñón milk punch at this place?

6 pm, free TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Smooth piano action. So. Damn. Smooth.

6 pm, free

WAIT FOR WHAT? Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Folk, rock and country by the singing pair who hate waiting so much, they named their band about it.

8 pm, free

OPERA DON GIOVANNI Santa Fe Opera 309 Opera Drive, 986-5900 The womanizer who gave his name to all womanizers (Don Juan) sits at the center of the tale as his life falls apart before the audience because he can’t keep it in his pants. And we don’t need to mention how great Mozart is, right?

8:30 pm, $15-$307

THU/14 ART OPENINGS XENOBIA BAILEY: XENOBIA'S CROWNS Patina Gallery 131 W Palace Ave., 986-3432 The fiber artist crochets hats, which have been worn in movies by celebrities like Samuel L Jackson and featured in fashion magazines like ELLE. Her work is simultaneously in the SITE Santa Fe Biennial. Through Aug. 14.

5 pm, free

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO 2016 The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 World-renowned dancer Antonio Granjero presents a summer performance with Estefania Ramirez and his company in the Maria Benitez Cabaret.

8 pm, $25-$50 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Enjoy tapas and Spanish wines; close your eyes and pretend you are on vacation.

6:30 pm, $25

MUSIC BOB FINNIE Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Finnie does his classic thing on the keys and does it well.

7 pm, free DAVID GEIST: GEIST CABARET Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Piano tunes from the orchestra veteran who has worked with legends like Sondheim.

6 pm, $2 DENMARK VESSEY Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 Local openers Benzo, Wolfman Jack and others join the allages hip-hop event.

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oin us for a special SPIRIT OF LIFE summer series event, Friday July 22nd held at beautiful Santa Fe Rail Yard Park’s Community Room, on the corner of Paseo de Peralta and Guadelupe. Starting at 6:30 pm, come and hear a compelling message entitled WHAT IS A JEZEBEL NATION ? Consider for yourself what Bible history can teach us as a nation. Enjoy powerful testimony of the miraculous, and experience great music by Jose Vasquez, Margaret Houghton, Olie Hodges and Charlie Freeman. Need a miracle? Then don’t wait, come! He is the God of the miraculous.

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D’SANTIAGO NAVA CD RELEASE Starlight Lounge at the Montecito 500 Rodeo Road, 428-7777 The Santa Fe native releases his first CD of original nuevo flamenco music. A portion of proceeds from CD sales are donated to SF Pride.

6 pm, $5 FAUN AND A PAN FLUTE Fresh Santa Fe 2855 Cooks Road, 270-2654 Cello, marimba and guitar are some of the instruments these guys rock out on. Eggbone opens.

8 pm, $15 JEEZE LAWEEZE Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Covers of Elvis Costello, Leonard Cohen and David Bowie from the trio of funloving gals who are quite the songbirds.

6 pm, free LATIN NIGHT WITH VDJ DANY AND DJ SAEWHAT Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 All the bachata, cumbia and reggaeton you can handle.

9 pm, $7 PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo guitar from a guy who know his way around the strings.

6 pm, free SANTA FE BANDSTAND: GRYGRDNS AND BENZO III Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail, 471-1067 Haunting harmonies are GRYGRDNS’ staple. The supremely talented ladies, who dabble in a variety of genres, are joined by drummer Ben Durfee and bassist Cyrus Campbell for the special performance. Benzo III is a songwriter who brings his lyrical skills and hip-hop to the stage at 7:15 pm.

6 pm, free

SHARI ALISE, KEELY RHODES AND DEBRA AYERS: DESERT CHORALE First Presbyterian Church SF 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Be serenaded for half an hour by the lovely sopranos and pianist.

5 pm, free SOL FIRE El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Maybe the guitar-playing duo will set your soul on fire? Was that a really bad one?

8:30 pm, free TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Smooth piano action. So smooth.

6 pm, free

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OPUS Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 B Parkway Drive, 629-8688 Directed by Staci Robbins, the play follows a quartet of musicians who replace their male violinist with a young, talented girl. Written by Michael Hollinger.

7:30 pm, $15

FRI/15 ART OPENINGS GRETCHEN EWERT: TOUCHES OF GRACE Patina Gallery 131 W Palace Ave., 986-3432 Hand-polished ceramic pieces inspired by textiles. Through Aug. 14.

10 am-5 pm, free JOSEPH BREZA: SEASONAL LIGHT Canyon Fine Art 205 Canyon Road, 955-1500 Featuring impressionist landscapes that evoke the feeling of being at one with nature.

Through Aug. 5.

5 pm, free

KURT MARKUS: THE FASHION YEARS Verve Gallery 219 E. Marcy St., 982-5009 The prolific fashion photographer shows a retrospective of his work. This guy was integral in fashion photography’s evolution, and his black-and-white images are iconic. Through Aug. 27 (see SFR Picks, page 21).

5 pm, free LINO TAGLIAPIETRA Tansey Contemporary 652 Canyon Road, 995-8513 The artist’s masterful glassblowing skills pretty much make him the daddy of contemporary glass art. Through Aug. 5.

5 pm, free MICHELLE TORREZ Sage Creek Gallery 421 Canyon Road, 988-3444 Impressionist and figurative paintings by Torrez. Through July 28.

11 am, free RANDY CHITTO True West Gallery 130 Lincoln Ave., 982-0055 Chitto’s cheerful and charming turtle Koshare storytellers and bear sculptures have been collected around the world for over 30 years.

5-7 pm, free SHADOW MEMORY First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Students of Marcel Perez, a photography professor at Santa Fe Community College, come together for a group show.

6 pm, free VARIED VOICES: CONTEMPORARY VISIONS The Owings Gallery 120 E Marcy St., 986-9088 Artists with strong ties to the Southwest show their work in different mediums from sculpture to painting. Through Aug. 12.

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Delivering Da Don

KEN HOWARD

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Mozart’s go-to-hell opus

makes an even greater impression here. Her ferocious attacks ant a cutting-edge, new-fangled take in “Or sai chi l’onore,” the confion Mozart’s Don Giovanni? Check out dant, swift coloratura and prea few recent notorieties: the crazily cise acuti of “Non mi dir” provide dysfunctional family in Dmitri Tcher- a searing characterization.

Keri Alkema, in an SFO debut, niakov’s version, seen first at Aix in 2010. Or Michael Haneke’s 2006 production for Paris, all about the sings the unhappy Donna ElviDon’s soulless, ruthless corporate life. Or go further ra—by turns furious and forlorn, back to Calixto Bieito, his notorious 2001 English Na- mocked and abandoned—with tional Opera show, replete with body fluids and oral a fresh vitality we encounter only rarely. Her passionate acsex.

Well, never mind. The Santa Fe Opera’s mostly companied recitative (Mozart’s conventional new production, with Ron Daniels as greatest), “In quali eccissi, o stage director, won’t ruffle a feather. Expect pow- Numi,” and aria, “Mi tradi,” are dered wigs and period costumes; there’s not a flaming in themselves worth a visit to the dumpster in sight. With one or two glaring exceptions, Crosby Theatre.

Welsh soprano Rhian Lois the visuals are sufficiently inoffensive, reminding us that when you get right down to it, opera’s about only makes her American debut as a three things: Voice. Voice. And voice. In this, the com- warm, clear-voiced Zerlina, who pany’s 60th anniversary outing of Don, the ears defi- charms and delights by turns.

In “Batti, batti” and “Vedrai carinitely have it.

All three Mozart/Lorenzo Da Ponte collaborations no,” she simply caresses her arias have been key to the company’s repertory ever since with convincing sweetness, de’57’s Così fan tutte (11 productions to date), with Le spite draggy tempos from John nozze di Figaro (17 productions) in top place as the Nelson’s orchestra. Her Masetto, Woah. SFO’s production of Don Giovanni looks pretty goth, right? most-performed piece in SFO’s history. Don Giovanni Jarrett Ott, though billed as an apprentice singer, is anything lagged behind with only eight showings here.

A possible excuse? Note Caruso’s famous quip but. A solid actor and a deeply impressive baritone, Ott’s on his way. about casting Il Trovatore: “You As noted, Nelson’s orchestra is a sometime thing.

The oft-dismissed role of Anna’s His overture lacked balance and accuracy. Woodonly need the four greatest suitor, Don Ottavio, receives the winds shine throughout, but Joseph Johnson’s cello singers in the world.” For Modeluxe treatment from Lithuanian obbligato to “Batti, batti” was nearly inaudible. Nelzart’s Don? More like five or six. tenor Edgaras Montvidas, in another son keeps things moving along, but blares from the Plus a brilliant orchestra. And SFO debut. His noble stage pres- brass vulgarize the damnation scene, and those scary all able to traverse a stylistic Incidentally, ence is enhanced by a “Dalla sua D minor scales go for little. minefield sowed almost indismy low-brow pace” that grows and gleams, and a criminately with the tragic, the And then—Daniels’ directorial touches: Why isn’t supple, surpassing account of “Il mio Giovanni’s identity hidden, as it has to be, at the opencomic and the terrifying—all sensibilities relish tesoro.” As the Commandante, Solo- ing? Must Giovanni bathe center-stage in a gilded played beneath a dark cloud of man Howard contributes a glower- bathtub? What happened to the nodding statua gendivine retribution. the moment when ing basso profundo, grimly effective tilissima? And, come on: powdered flunkies providing Figaro, the first Mozart/ as the Stone Guest.

Da Ponte collaboration, used the demonic chorus?

Giovanni’s goingKyle Ketelsen, an antic Leporello Beaumarchais’ play as an armaScenic designer Riccardo Hernandez provides who nearly walks away with the show, a flashy, monumental death’s-head that, alas, upture just begging for Da Ponte to-hell howl fills deserves a special word, as I’ve never stages the action. Emily Rebholz’s costumes, despite to fashion a libretto. No simple heard nor seen better in the role. He’s Giovanni’s black shorties, get the job done handtask, that, but a deal less comthe theater. got the vocal goods, sure enough, plus somely. Credit also Marcus Doshi’s effective lighting plicated than concocting a text he’s a thoroughbred theatrical ani- and Peter Nigrini’s often puzzling projections onto to freshen up the worn-out, mal in the bargain. Leers and sneers, that omnipresent momento mori. old-hat Don Juan story. Not to pratfalls, cynical asides—Ketelsen all worry—Da Ponte and Mozart Incidentally, my low-brow sensibilities relish the but swallows up the scenery. had their way with Giovanni, moment when Giovanni’s going-to-hell howl fills the Enter Daniel Okulitch, familiar here as both The theater. Who can forget Cesare Siepi’s manly gargle creating a dramaturgical potpourri that happens to be, in many opinions, the greatest opera ever, libretto Last Savage and Count Almaviva, who now embod- or George London’s frenzied shriek? So, Mr. Okuies the Don. He’s a youthful, lithe and busy libertine litch—more time in the studio, I’m afraid. and all.

SFO’s youthful cast, radiating energy and aplomb, (has he had time for his 2,065 enumerated conquests sails through the score, with six of the eight principal already?), swashbuckling about the stage with admisingers making their SFO debuts. First among equals, rable energy and an aristocratic air. Okulitch’s engagDON GIOVANNI: Leah Crocetto sings Donna Anna, Giovanni’s venge- ing bass-baritone makes for a suave, silken character8:30 pm Wednesday, July 13. $15-$307. ful pursuer. We recall her smashing debut in 2010’s ization, nowhere more effective than in his honeyed Santa Fe Opera House, 301 Opera Drive 986-5900 Maometto II; Crocetto’s generous, fearless soprano serenade, “Deh vieni.”

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DANCE ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET: PROGRAM A Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Travel to a dreamworld with the company this summer as they premiere Little Mortal Jump, choreographed in 2012

by Alejandro Cerrudo.

8 pm, $25 ENTREFLAMENCO 2016 The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 World-renowned Spanish flamenco dancer Antonio Granjero presents a summer performance with featured artist Estefania Ramirez and his company.

8 pm, $25-$50 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Eat tapas, drink Spanish wines, watch the flamenco show, close your eyes real tight and pretend you are on vacation.

6:30 pm, $25

EVENTS ACCESS! YOUTH CELEBRATION PARTY Youth Shelters and Family Services 3205 Richards Lane, 428-0965 Access!, a program that provides opportunities for youth who have been involved in the juvenile justice system, celebrates its members’ achievements and unveils a new mural painted by participants of the program.

4:30 pm, free

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THE AUTEURS: BAND OF OUTSIDERS Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 The plot of the last film in this series becomes one of robbery when two boys learn the object of their affection has a bag of cash stashed in her Parisian home. Michel Legrand and Raoul Coutard put a romantically gangster lens on the film.

7:30 pm, $10 BECAUSE OF WINN DIXIE Railyard Park Cerrillos Road and Guadalupe Street, 982-3373 When a young girl's mother dies, she finds friendship and comfort in her four-footed friend. Whomever doesn't already know that dogs are better than humans should go see this film. And it's outside in a grassy park. Summer for the win!

8 pm, free

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BOB FINNIE Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 The world-class pianist works the keys.

7 pm, free CLOACAS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Originals from the tiny mountain folk group.

5 pm, free

DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Piano tunes from the orchestra veteran who has worked with legends like Sondheim. We heart Geist so hard.

6 pm, $2 JAKA Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Afro-pop played by some talented locals who jam on the drums and marimba.

10 pm, free THE JOSH MARTIN TRIO Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Martin is a household name around the Santa Fe music scene, and you can see why if you catch him play this Friday night gig.

7 pm, free NOSOTROS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 A band that jams some New Mexican favorites with their own twist on traditional sound.

8:30 pm, $5 DJ POETICS Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 The DJ’s name promises something poetic; see if he delivers.

9 pm, free SANTA FE BANDSTAND: WHITE BUFFALO AND FRONTERA BUGALÚ Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail, 471-1067 Led by George Adelo, White Buffalo plays a litany of classic rock. Frontera Bugalú does something new with Caribbean and big city mambo.

6 pm, free SEAN HEALEN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Healen shows off his songwriting skills and plays originals, which mostly fall in the folk genre.

8:30 pm, free TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Smooth piano action. So. Damn. Smooth.

6 pm, free

OPERA LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST Santa Fe Opera 309 Opera Drive, 986-5900 A story of Western romance that takes place in old-timey saloons with pistol-drawing characters and soprano Patricia Racette as heroine, Minnie.

8:30 pm, $15-$286

THEATER CARLOS MEDINA Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Apparently this guy plays country and makes jokes.

6:30 pm, free

THE LION KING James A Little Theater 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429 Hakuna Matata! Santa Fe’s youth theater, Pandemonium Productions, brings you Disney’s award-winning hit musical. And it’s pretty impossible to resist singing along.

7 pm, $10 MAX KRAUSE Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Prepare to be amazed by the magic, humor and tricks that Krause performs.

9 pm, $15 OPUS Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 B Parkway Drive, 629-8688 Staci Robbins directs an impressive cast, including Eli Goodman (who has been on shows like Dexter and The Mentalist). The play follows a quartet of musicians who replace their male violinist with a young, talented girl.

Written by Michael Hollinger.

7:30 pm, $15 ROMEO AND JULIET Santa Fe Performing Arts Armory for the Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 474-8400 The teen ensemble brings the tragic tale of star-crossed lovers to life. Directed by Megan Burns.

7 pm, $8 SANTA FE SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY’S ROMEO AND JULIET Monte Del Sol Charter School Courtyard 4157 Walking Rain Road, 490-6271 The Santa Fe Shakespeare Society presents its sixth season with all of their performances happening in the school's courtyard.

6 pm, $5 SHORT-HAIRED GIRLS WITH A LOT TO SAY Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 A solo play written by Lisanne Cole and poetry readings from Karen Machon and Kat Sawyer.

7 pm, $5

SAT/16 ART OPENINGS DRAWN THAT WAY Offroad Productions 2891-B Trades West Road, 670-9276 Featuring works by artists Michael Bergt, Richard Campiglio, John Fincher and more in the show dedicated to the medium of drawing and all its glory. Through July 23.

6 pm, free LEA ANDERSON: CAVERN OF CURIOSITIES Freeform Art Space 1619 C de Baca Lane, 692-9249 The artist employs materials in inventive ways, like the neon-colored synthetic fibers she uses in her central installation piece. Through Aug. 14.

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JONATHAS DE ANDRADE

The Race in This Face

Photographer’s project zeroes in on what we still haven’t learned about racism

BY ELIZABETH MILLER e l i z a b e t h @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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hat’s shocking about Jonathas de Andrade’s photography project, which reignites a study on race and class in Brazil that was completed in the 1950s, isn’t the difference made by shifting centuries and continents, it’s how little has changed.

A friend introduced the Brazilian photographer, who often works with existing texts or archival images, to Race and Class in Rural Brazil, completed by Columbia University professors at UNESCO’s behest.

Their charge was to explore the ostensibly subdued racial prejudice and discrimination found in Brazil, despite sharing the United States’ situation as home to Native Americans, African Americans and Caucasians. Researchers showed photographs of white, black and mixed-race Brazilians to other Brazilians who were then asked to evaluate the subject’s attractiveness, work ethic and morality.

The study is, at best, befuddling in its contradictions and the uncertain footing with which it situates Brazil as a “lesson in racial democracy for the rest of the world.” That claim is followed by pages detailing, for example, eight designations for people of mixed African descent living in the plantation-adjacent villages in Bahia. The study describes classifications based on various physical criteria including how kinky and unmanageable their hair is, how flat their noses, and how thick their lips, and then a run-through of how each is associated with a series of character attributes, from irritability to humility to laziness. Those visible qualities, once tied to invisible ones, trickled down to affect the socioeconomic opportunities for these people. This study of racial democracy is, in other words, a treatise on racism’s potent and insidious presence, even in places where we imagine it is not found.

“It studies the process of judging people, which is something completely controversial in our day, so I was shocked to see the naturality in which the text runs through the terminology in Portuguese and how it was describing and trying to understand the criteria of these judgments,” de Andrade says. “Something also impressive was how still, today, we would see these types of terminology with racist connotations being used in Brazil in daily life. The terminologies of the ’50s, which could sound out of date or completely past, were not at all. They still somehow look familiar.”

De Andrade made his own foray with A Study on Race and Class: Bahia><Santa Fe by spending a week in Santa Fe photographing about 60 Santa Feans; it follows a similar project he completed in New York City in 2015.

“I thought it could be interesting to go to the United States and understand, in a sort of boomerang effect, how these race issues happen there today,” he

The many faces of Santa Fe as captured by photographer Jonathas de Andrade.

says. Making portraits was just a conversation-starter.

Working in the cosmopolitan Big Apple left him wanting to try somewhere inland and closer to the Mexican border, he says, and Santa Fe became that destination when SITE Santa Fe Biennial curatorial team member Kiki Mazzucchelli invited him to develop a project for the Biennial. The project saw him spending a week in Santa Fe’s community centers, schools (including the Institute of American Indian Arts) and library, and even on the street corner where immigrants seek day labor jobs.

New York’s multiplicity, complexity and crowdedness could camouflage some of the racism lingering there, he says, but on the whole, he found it far more common for Santa Feans to report having had direct contact with racism. He left with hundreds of images of faces in motion as people spoke about their lives, their experiences and the prejudices they’ve survived.

The photographs debut Saturday, July 16, when the Biennial opens to the public. The 2016 Biennial, Much Wider than a Line, continues SITE’s now more than 20-year-old tradition, which has focused in recent years on art from the Americas. Much Wider than a Line explores shared experiences in the Americas— those phenomena that cross the lines far from border country and tie our continents together, like the legacies of Indigenous eradication, slavery and oppression. The shinier remnants of those legacies, like ongoing influence of Indigenous cultures, a relationship to the landscape and an appreciation for vernacular art and craft, comprise the core of the exhibition.

De Andrade’s more than 250 photographs are interspersed with text from the original UNESCO study as well as notes from his conversations with the sub-

jects of his photographs, the total piece stretching more than 37 feet long and 9 feet tall.

“The text and the photographs, they create a friction together of what is yesterday, what is today,” he says.

Sometimes, text that looks out of date isn’t very old at all.

“I hope people would be able to make a connection between these two very different historical times, but also to have this realization of how much race is still an issue in the contemporary world, in spite of all the advances,” Mazzucchelli says. “Certain prejudices and behaviors are repeated throughout history.”

Given recent headlines, she says, a conversation on how an idealized version of multiracial society fails to correspond with reality seems particularly relevant.

De Andrade will decide what the next step for his work and this project on race and class should be after he sees the response to this piece, he says, but it’s likely time to bring it back home to Brazil. He’s sure it’ll produce different results than the original UNESCO study, but why that is could break at a complicated point over what people have simply learned not to say.

“There is a point of being politically correct, even in the economic studies, that would make it impossible to have a study that would explicitly be made on judgments, and the procedure of the study itself is to offer possibilities for judging, and these must be studied. …

For me, this is fascinating, what is acceptable and not acceptable in common sense, even in the academy, in the research and in daily life,” he says. “Not saying such things doesn’t mean that people don’t feel or people are less prejudiced. … Actually, people, they keep judging very similarly.”

SITELINES 2016: MUCH WIDER THAN A LINE 10 am-5 pm Saturday July 16. Free.

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I’m in my mid-40s, straight, never married.

Ten months ago, my girlfriend of three years dumped me. She got bored with the relationship and is generally not the marrying type.

The breakup was amicable. I still love her and miss her. Last week, I wrote her a letter saying that I still love her and want us to get back together. She wrote me a nice letter back saying she doesn’t feel passion for me and we’re never getting back together. Over the past few months, I’ve started dating another girl. She’s pretty, smart, sexy, and kind. If I proposed, she’d probably say yes. I want to get married. The problem is that I don’t have the passion for her that I had for my previous girlfriend. So do I “settle” for Girlfriend #2 or start my search all over? Please don’t give me the bullshit that love can happen at any age. At my age, the number of single women without kids is low. How many married people “settle” for someone who is a good person but not their true love?

-No Clever Acronym There is no settling down without some settling for. Please make a note of it. Also, NCA, while passion is a great feeling—totally intoxicating—it also tends to be ephemeral. It’s a hard feeling to sustain over the long haul, and marriage is theoretically the longest of long hauls.

You felt strongly about your ex, but she didn’t share your feelings. You don’t feel quite as strongly about your current girlfriend, but you would like to be married—to someone, maybe her—and Girlfriend #2 seems like a good candidate. I wouldn’t suggest proposing, as you’ve been seeing her for only a few months and most sane women view early, impulsive proposals as red flags.

And finally, NCA, the specter of a “true love” waiting for us out there somewhere, either lost or not yet found, snuffs out more good-andloving-and-totally-worth-settling-for relationships than anything this side of cheating.

My girlfriend has started seeing other partners. It makes her happy, and in turn I’m happy for her. It’s taking me a bit of time to adjust to the new situation, but she’s happier than she’s been in ages. We love each other and are crazily compatible. Today she came back from a hotel with bite marks on her breasts. I know she’s been with a few people over the last few weeks, but being reminded of it each time I look at or touch her makes me uncomfortable. What’s more, the guy who did it knew she was part of a long-term couple. Do I need to get over it for the sake of my girlfriend or do I make an issue of hickeys?

-Boy Really Unnerved In Seeing Evidence If you and the girlfriend have a don’t ask, don’t tell policy about her hookups with others, BRUISE, then hickeys and other kinds of slow-fading marks violate the spirit of that agreement. Those kinds of marks amount to a nonverbal “tell.” You have a right to calmly point that out to your girlfriend, and she has a responsibility, in the future and in the moment, to remind/warn her outside sex partners that leaving slow-fading marks on her breasts, neck, thighs, forehead, insoles, eyelids, etc., is out of bounds.

For your part, BRUISE, don’t inspect your girlfriend post-hookup for the kinds of marks that fade quickly after sex, as that would amount to a nonverbal ask.

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me to lose my erection. I was in a relationship and wasn’t using condoms anymore by the time I figured this out, so it was just generally good times—I’d blow my load, take less than a minute to catch my breath, and be ready to go again. But now that I’m single and entering the dating pool, I’m going to be wrapping it again. Obviously. But I’m not 100 percent sure it’s safe to blow two loads into one condom. I’m not sure how much ejaculate I’m producing the second time I come, but it’s surely less than the first time. I’m not confident that “second” erection would survive the whole taking-off-the-condom-and-tying-it-up-andthen-putting-on-another-condom exercise, but I would like to avoid that rigmarole if possible. So is it safe to blow two loads in a single condom?

-Two Pump Champ The failure rate for condoms when used correctly is low (2 percent), TPC, but the failure rate for condoms when used incorrectly is high (18 percent). Leaks are the most common way condoms fail, and slamming your cock in and out of someone with a fully loaded condom wrapped around it will result in leaks.

Even if your second load consists of nothing but good intentions, TPC, reusing a condom the way you describe is a recipe for disaster, impregnation, disease transmission, or all of the above.

I have to put my two cents in about Heartbroken And Devastated, the man who discovered that his wife has been cheating on him the entire time they have been together.

Her constant and selfish betrayal is egregious. Instead of being honest and giving him a chance to be in an open relationship, she chose to make a fool out of him. She is selfish and a slut. Not to mention that she could have given him an STD, AIDS, you name it. I disagree with you about the concept of monogamy—I don’t think it is a fantasy. I believe there is something that separates us from the animals, and that’s called integrity and selfcontrol. I am happily married to a beautiful woman. I am a singer in a band, I get hit on all the time, but I don’t act on it. Because some of us have a conscience and don’t betray the ones we’ve made a COMMITMENT TO. I wish HAD the best of luck, but I hope he moves on and finds someone who will appreciate him.

-Monogamous And Proud In Portland I have a few questions for you, MAPIP, but first: I agree that HAD’s wife betrayed him in an extreme and egregious way, and I made that clear in my response. (“The scale, duration, and psychological cruelty of your wife’s betrayals may be too great for you to overcome.”) Now here’s my question for you: What did you make a COMMITMENT TO? Was it to your wife or was it to an ideal? Did you commit to a fallible human being or did you commit to a principle?

Let’s say your wife screwed up and cheated—which happens all the time, it could happen to you (you do realize you’re whistling past the world’s most densely populated graveyard), women cheat now at pretty much the same rate men do—and let’s say it was a far less egregious betrayal than the one HAD is suffering through. Let’s say it was a one-off, years from now, or maybe a two-off. Would you stay and try to save your marriage or would you leave your wife? Staying and trying to save your marriage says, “I committed myself to this person,” leaving says, “I committed myself to this ideal.”

If your ideals are more important to you than your spouse, I think you’re doing marriage wrong. But you’re free to disagree.

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MUCH WIDER THAN A LINE SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 The second installation in the Biennial series depicts relationships within the Americas and the human connection to the land through the eyes of 35 artists from 16 different countries. Through Jan. 8, 2017 (see A&C, page 27).

Noon, free

BOOKS/LECTURES JANIE CHODOSH AND CALLUM BELL: ELEPHANTS OF ASSAM Travel Bug Coffee Shop 839 Paseo de Peralta, 992-0418 Chodosh and Bell spent time with the group Elephants on the Line, a protection group operating in the Assam region of India, where a population of elephants is trying to survive amid prolific tea production.

5 pm, free

DANCE ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET: PROGRAM A Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Travel to a dreamworld with the company this summer as they premiere Little Mortal Jump, choreographed in 2012

by Alejandro Cerrudo.

8 pm, $25 ENTREFLAMENCO 2016 The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 World-renowned dancer Antonio Granjero presents a summer performance with featured artist Estefania Ramirez and his company in the Maria Benitez Cabaret, built specifically for flamenco performance.

8 pm, $25-$50 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Drink Spanish wine and be entertained by the flamenco show. It's like you're in Spain, almost.

6:30 pm, $25

EVENTS BEER YOGIS The Bridge at Santa Fe Brewing Co. 35 Fire Place, 424-3333 A 60-minute all-levels Vinyasa flow followed by post-practice pints, included in the class ticket price (see SFR Picks, page 21).

10-11 am, $25 SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Santa Fe Railyard Plaza Guadalupe Street and Paseo de Peralta 473-4253 A great selection of local produce, meats and cheeses you can get directly from the farmer. Plus all the fresh ingredients for a lovely weekend dinner. Grab an apple cider snowcone for a real summer treat!

7 am, free

SANTA FE SOCIETY OF ARTISTS Santa Fe Society of Artists 122 W Palace Ave. The outdoor market highlights local artists.

9 am-5 pm, free SUPERKICK LUCHA LIBRE El Rancho de las Golondrinas 334 Los Pinos Road, 471-2261 ¡Viva Mexico! presents a day of food, crafts and culture and, of course, a live lucha libre show.

10 am, $8

FILM THE AUTEURS: BAND OF OUTSIDERS Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 A girl-chasing game turns into a lust for money when two boys learn the object of their affection has a bag of cash stashed in her Parisian home.

Michel Legrand and Raoul Coutard put a romantically gangster lens on the film.

7:30 pm, $10

FOOD ARROYO VINO FARM STAND Arroyo Vino 218 Camino La Tierra, 983-2100 Grab farm-fresh produce or starter plants along with a freshly baked croissant and a cup of coffee. A joyous Saturday morning jaunt.

9 am, free

MUSIC ALEX MARYOL Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 The local guy knows his way around a guitar and earned international recognition for it. See him jam in his hometown on a summer weekend evening.

7 pm, free AMERICAN JEM Rio Chama Steakhouse 414 Old Santa Fe Trail, 955-0765 The trio plays eclectic Americana.

6:30 pm, $15 BOB FINNIE Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 The pianist does his nearly nightly thing. Classic.

7 pm, free DECKER Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Soulful indie-folk.

8:30 pm, free GREG BUTERA & BAND Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Honky-tonk and country on the deck from the dreamy, local musical heroes.

3 pm, free HALF BROKE HORSES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana music at a pace that makes it really tempting to get up and dance.

1 pm, free

LONESOME SHACK Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 The elemental rock group makes haunting music in the tavern.

7 pm, free ROBIN HOLLOWAY Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Holloway rocks piano tunes in classic style at the local pasta and martini spot.

6 pm, $2 RUMELIA San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-3974 Four women perform contemporary Balkan songs of peace and harmony.

7 pm, $20 SANTA FE BANDSTAND SOUTHSIDE: BLACK PEARL BAND San Isidro Plaza 3462 Zafarano Drive, 470-1607 The Santa Fe Bandstand series moves south with country and ranchero songs from the ninepiece ensemble, which is horn driven. Toot toot!

6 pm, free SISTER MARY MAYHEM Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 A rock 'n' roll cover band from Albuquerque that has a feisty name.

8 pm, free SO SOPHISTICATED WITH DJ 12 TRIBE Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Hip-hop, mainstream and EDM. A lot of top 40, a lot of remixes.

9 pm, $7 SWING SOLEIL Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 The harmonious group plays gypsy swing on real instruments. Fancy that.

6 pm, free TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Smooth piano action.

6 pm, free

OPERA ROMÉO ET JULIETTE Santa Fe Opera 309 Opera Drive, 986-5900 Soprano Ailyn Pérez sings Juliette and tenor Stephen Costello sings opposite her as the star-crossed lover, Roméo.

The love story of all love stories is augmented by the Gounod’s composition.

8:30 pm, $15-$307

THEATER A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM: CITY DIFFERENT PLAYERS Armory for the Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 474-8400 See the classic tale of love and magic played out by 6to 12-year-olds. Directed by Corbin Albaugh.

2 pm, $8

THE CALENDAR THE LION KING James A Little Theater 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429 Hakuna Matata! Santa Fe’s youth theater group, Pandemonium Productions, brings you Disney’s awardwinning musical.

2 pm, $10 OPUS Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 B Parkway Dr., 629-8688 A quartet of male musicians are joined by a young, talented girl. Written by Michael Hollinger and directed by Staci Robbins.

7:30 pm, $15 ROMEO AND JULIET Santa Fe Performing Arts Armory for the Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 474-8400 The tragic tale of star-crossed lovers is performed by the teen ensemble. Directed by Megan Burns.

7 pm, $8 SANTA FE SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY: ROMEO AND JULIET Monte Del Sol Charter School Courtyard 4157 Walking Rain Road, 490-6271 The local Shakespeare folk present the tragic tale as part of its sixth season.

6 pm, $5

SUN/17 ART OPENINGS INTO THE FUTURE: CULTURE POWER IN NATIVE AMERICAN ART Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Think of this super-rad exhibit as a one-stop look into multiple periods of Native arts.

They'll cover everything from clothes and jewelry to comic stips, video, cyberspace and beyond. Love it.

1 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES BEV MAGENNIS Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Artist-turned-author Magennis reads from and signs copies of her first book, Alibi Creek.

3 pm, free JOURNEYSANTAFE: CREATIVITY FOR PEACE Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Executive director Francis Salas speaks about bringing students of the war-torn countries of Palestine and Israel together.

11 am, free

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO 2016 The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 World-renowned Spanish flamenco dancer Antonio Granjero presents a summer performance with featured artist Estefania Ramirez and his company.

8 pm, $25-$50

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with Andy Kuhn There are so many comic book people in our state that we couldn’t even begin to include everyone we had hoped in our cover story. As such, Albuquerque’s Andy Kuhn winds up here in the 3 Questions section. Kuhn is a 20-year veteran who has worked on innumerable projects such as TMNT and Mars Attacks: Occupation. He is also the co-creator of Firebreather, a story that was adapted into an animated film by Cartoon Network and directed by Peter Chung of Aeon Flux (the cartoon, not the terrible movie) fame. Kuhn is pretty much the coolest. (Alex De Vore) What is it you love about comics?

Ever since I was a little kid, I was fascinated by cartoons and cartooning. I remember being in grade school and cutting out this strip called The Phantom all the time. …

I have no idea what I thought I’d do with them, but I did that. When I was in high school, I met this guy who was really into comics and comic fan-dom and zines, and he kind of got me into them, and I realized: This is what I was born to do. One of the most awesome things about comics, and honestly, it’s such a small world, weird medium … if you make something good, you can blow up. There are a million great stories out there, especially now. I think that in 40 years from now, this will be known as a golden age for comics.

You weren’t drawing before high school?

I really hadn’t drawn that much, but then somehow I did it. I got into it fairly quickly, and I became one of the two dudes who were known as the “artist guys.” I’d try to draw superheroes. … I liked Barry Smith, who did Conan, and after he left Marvel, he started doing these fine art prints, along the lines of Conan, like, kind of fantasy. My dream was to become Barry Smith Jr. He has this delicate, intricate style that was very complex.

What are you working on now?

I’m working on some creator-owned stuff that I can’t announce just yet, but I was aching for creator-owned.

I wish I could tell you, but I can’t yet. I’m working with this method where I can pencil, ink and color all in about a month or five weeks. It’s tough; just penciling a book in five weeks is very hard, so my pencils are very loose.

One of the things I definitely believe is that not all the best ideas come up at once, and sometimes, you may be too far into something to change it. This way, if I come up with a better idea, I can implement that.

FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Drink Spanish wines, eat tapas and catch the flamenco show.

It's almost like you're in Spain, almost.

6:30 pm, $25 MOLISSA FENLEY AND COMPANY Railyard Performance Center 1611 Paseo de Peralta, 982-8309 Three duets by Fenley and her dance company, all relating to the idea of pure water.

8 pm, $15

EVENTS DUEL THIRD ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 Celebrate the brewery's birthday with games and, duh, beer.

1 pm, free SANTA FE SOCIETY OF ARTISTS Santa Fe Society of Artists 122 W Palace Ave. Take a stroll and a gander at the art by local artists.

9 am-5 pm, free

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SUPERKICK LUCHA LIBRE El Rancho de las Golondrinas 334 Los Pinos Rodd, 471-2261 ¡Viva Mexico! presents a day of food, crafts and culture, which includes a lucha libre show.

10 am, $8

THE SUGAR MOUNTAIN BAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Lunchtime country rock tunes.

Noon, free

FILM

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM: CITY DIFFERENT PLAYERS Armory for the Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 474-8400 See the classic tale played out by 6- to 12-year-olds. Directed

by Corbin Albaugh.

2 pm, $8 THE LION KING James A Little Theater 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429 Hakuna Matata! The youth theater ensemble, Pandemonium Productions, performs the Disney musical.

2 pm, free OPUS Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 B Parkway Drive, 629-8688 Directed by Staci Robbins with an impressive cast. The play follows a quartet of musicians who replace their male violinist with a young, talented girl, and the story unfolds. Written

by Michael Hollinger.

3 pm, $15 ROMEO & JULIET Armory for the Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 474-8400 The teen ensemble brings the tragic tale of star-crossed lovers to life. Directed by Megan Burns.

7 pm, $8 SANTA FE SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY: ROMEO AND JULIET Monte Del Sol Charter School Courtyard 4157 Walking Rain Road, 490-6271 The Santa Fe Shakespeare Society presents the tragic tale as part of its sixth season.

6 pm, $5

THE AUTEURS: BAND OF OUTSIDERS Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 The final film in the series is a vision of Jean-Luc Godard.

7:30 pm, $10

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CHRIS ABEYTA El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 The local singer-songwriter shows off his skills.

7:30 pm, free THE DEVON ALLMAN BAND Railyard Plaza Market and Alcadesa streets, 414-8544 Son of legendary Gregg Allman, Devon creates his own sound with a mix of funk, blues and rock.

7 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Doing his thing on the piano nearly every night.

6:30 pm, free HILLARY SMITH & SOUL KITCHEN The High Note 132 W Water St., 919-8771 Shake all that stress off to dance tunes provided by these R&B makers, who have a soul vibe going on.

8:30 pm, free JIM ALMAND Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 The bluest of blues on the tavern deck.

1 pm, free JOE WEST, LORI OTTINO AND ERIK SAWYER Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 West and friends lull you into your afternoon with their own brand of country.

3 pm, free SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL St. Francis Auditorium 107 W Palace Ave., 982-1890 Hear the classics from musicians with major gifts.

Neeikrug, Mozart and Tchaikovsky on this evening.

6 pm, $15 SEPTICEMIA RECORDS: THE INDEPENDENCE TOUR The Underground 200 W San Francisco St., 819-1597 A variety of genres and artists like Spunky Killa, Dr. Gloom and Horrorcore.

9 pm-1 am, $5 THE SHINERS CLUB Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Ragtime and vaudeville from guys who look like they know what's up in that scene.

7 pm, free

THEATER

MON/18 BOOKS/LECTURES SHERRY ROBINSON Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 The journalist and author talks about the Apache nation in her lecture titled Apache Voices: Their Stories of Survival as Told by Eve Ball. A Voices from the Past lecture.

6 pm, $12

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO 2016 The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 World-renowned dancer Antonio Granjero presents a summer performance with Estefania Ramirez.

8 pm, $25-$50 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Drink Spanish wines, eat tapas, watch the flamenco show and be merry.

6:30 pm, $25

FILM THE AUTEURS: BAND OF OUTSIDERS Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail , 982-1338 Two boys learn the object of their affection has a bag of cash stashed in her Parisian home.

7:30 pm, $10

MUSIC THE BLACK MARKET TRUST El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 This ensemble includes a stand-up bass, and that always spikes our interest.

8:30 pm, free COWGIRL KARAOKE WITH MICHÉLE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Michéle Leidig, queen of the local karaoke scene, hosts this night of amateurish fun.

9 pm, free DJ OBI ZEN Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 This inventive disc jockey throws some live percussion in the mix.

10:30 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Nearly nightly key action.

6:30 pm, free LIPBONE REDDING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, 983-7493 The one-man band comes to the weekly swing dance event. He plays the guitar and a trumpet without a trumpet and makes swell music (see SFR Picks, page 21).

8 pm, $10 MATTHEW FRANTZ Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Original indie-rock and folk.

4 pm, free SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: YOUTH CONCERT St. Francis Auditorium 107 W Palace Ave., 982-1890 See and hear the future of music from youngsters who play the violin and cello.

10 am, free

TUE/19 ART OPENINGS DREW TAL AND KAREN YANK: CIRCUMSPECT Turner Carroll Gallery 725 Canyon Road, 986-9800 The artists bring perspective to the idea of consideration.

Yank is American, Tal is Israeli.

Through Aug. 9.

10 am, free

DANCE ARGENTINE TANGO MILONGA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Tango is one of those things that’s supposed to make you feel sexy but rarely does.

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Sweet Cherry Surprise

GWYNETH DOLAND

FOOD

Summertime is cherry time!

BY GWYNETH DOLAND t h e f o r k @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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idsummer is cherry season, when cherries fill the markets and humans wage war with birds over picking rights. Sour cherries are what everyone wants for cooking; they seem too tart to eat out of hand, but their flavor becomes deep, complex and addictive in jams and pies. But sweet cherries are much easier to find; I bought some this week for $1.99 a pound. Those of you with sweet cherry trees know how hard it is to eat so many fresh cherries at once, so finding another way to use them is a blessing. Also, it’s a big eff-you to the birds you’ve been battling for weeks, so that’s nice.

Right now, while they’re so big, so sweet and so abundant, you should eat as many cherries as you want. Pig out. But don’t resist the urge to cook with sweet cherries, because it can be done. Here’s one good use: Easy little cherry pastries, scented with almond. They’re gorgeous, and the sweet cherries hold their own. The only hassle with this fruit is the pitting.

The easiest way to prepare a small number of them for cooking is to break them apart with your fingers, pulling the pits out with a fingernail. That way, you’re pitting and halving at the same time. But homegrown cherries, especially slightly underripe ones, can be reluctant to give up their pits. If you’ve got your own tree or you’re processing a bunch of fruit, you should definitely invest in a pitter, but not just any pitter. Years ago, I bought a stainless steel model that never really worked. When pitting quarts of just-picked cherries, I would usually abandon it. The Oxo Good Grips pitter, which is probably less expensive than the one I had, is a vast improvement and costs about $12.

My mom, who has two big sweet cherry trees, upgraded this year to a more advanced model from Williams-Sonoma that she says makes good on its promise to pit 25 pounds in an hour. It costs about $30. If your neighbors have trees, you can pass it around. Meanwhile, save some cherries for these sweet little pies I call galettes (because it makes them sound fancier).

They say life is like a galette dough pastry full of cherries.

MINI CHERRY-ALMOND GALETTES Ingredients:

10. Bake for 20 minutes or until the edges are golden.

Allow the galettes to cool slightly on a wire rack.

-- ½ pound sweet cherries

11. Serve with whipped cream, crème fraiche or ice cream.

-- 1 tablespoon sugar -- ½ teaspoon lemon juice -- ¼ teaspoon almond extract -- 1 pinch salt -- 2 teaspoons cornstarch -- galette dough (below) -- 1 egg, for egg wash -- sugar, for sprinkling -- sliced almonds 1. Combine the cherries, sugar, lemon juice, almond extract, salt and cornstarch in a bowl and toss to combine. Crush a few cherries with the back of a spoon to help release more juice.

GALETTE DOUGH Makes enough for four mini galettes This is my basic pie crust recipe, which uses a combination of butter (tastes good) and lard or shortening (makes it flaky). Your favorite one-crust recipe will make about four galettes, too. If you want to skip the gluten, you can make the dough with almond flour.

Here I sprinkled the crust with some fancy big sugar sprinkles I had left over from holiday cookie baking, but I usually use regular sugar—or some of that rough demerara sugar that comes in the brown packets at the coffee place.

-- 1 cup all-purpose flour -- ½ teaspoon kosher salt

2. Preheat oven to 400° F.

-- ½ teaspoon sugar

3. Divide the chilled galette dough into four parts.

Gently press one into a ball.

-- 4 tablespoons butter

4. Roll it out on a floured surface, into a circle about 6 inches around and a little less than ¼-inch thick.

5. Using a bench knife or spatula, transfer the circle to a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.

6. Repeat with the other three circles.

7. Put one-quarter of the cherry mixture in the center of a circle and fold the dough up over the edges of the filling, leaving the center exposed. Repeat with the other three circles.

8. Crack the egg into a small bowl, add about 1 tablespoon of water and mix it up with a fork. Use a pastry brush or your fingers to brush the egg wash over the pastry.

9. Sprinkle the edges with sugar and almonds.

-- 2 tablespoons lard or vegetable shortening -- 4 or more tablespoons ice water -- ½ teaspoon almond extract (optional) 1.

Put the flour, salt and sugar in a large bowl and stir together well with a fork.

2. Using a pastry blender, your hands or two butter knives, work the butter and lard into the flour until it resembles coarse meal with some big, peasized chunks.

3. Sprinkle the water 1 tablespoon at a time over the flour, tossing with a fork in between each addition. Add just enough water so that the mixture comes together and can be gathered into two balls of equal size.

4. Press the ball into a disc about 1 inch thick.

Wrap the disc with plastic wrap and refrigerate while you make the filling, at least ½ hour.

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THE CALENDAR ENTREFLAMENCO 2016 The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 Antonio Granjero presents a summer performance.

8 pm, $25-$50 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Enjoy tapas-inspired food with a side of fancy footwork and a glass of Spanish wine.

6:30 pm, $25 JUAN SIDDI FLAMENCO SANTA FE Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Lead dancer and choreographer Siddi brings his ensemble of talented dancers and musicians to the historic Santa Fe stage.

8 pm, $25

EVENT SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET SOUTHSIDE Santa Fe Place Mall 4250 Cerrillos Road,473-4253 Grab farm-fresh fruits, vegetables and starter plants.There are flowers and honey too!

3 pm, free

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FILM THE AUTEURS: BAND OF OUTSIDERS Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Two boys learn the object of their affection has a bag of cash stashed in her Parisian home. A cinematic vision of innovative director Jean-Luc Godard.

7:30 pm, $10

MUSIC CANYON ROAD BLUES JAMS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Bring your instrument and jam along.

8:30 pm, $5 MATTHEW FRANTZ Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Original indie-rock and folk.

10 pm, free

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PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo guitar with style.

6 pm, free SANTA FE BANDSTAND: JAKA AND POLYRHYTHMICS Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail, 417-1067 Afro-pop from the local talent in Jaka, who jam on marimbas to create an authentic African sound. Polyrhythmics booms with bright sounds as the eight-piece orchestra makes you rethink the term funk. They take the stage for the later slot at 7:15 pm.

6 pm, free SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL St. Francis Auditorium 107 W Palace Ave., 982-1890 Shulamit Ran and Beethoven, both played by the Pacifica Quartet.

Noon, $15 TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Smooth piano action. So smooth.

6 pm, free

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SANTA FE GARDEN CLUB: BEHIND ADOBE WALLS Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Visit four gardens and take a peek behind some of the most affluent adobe walls.

12:10 pm, $75

Jason Garcia’s “Tewa Tales of Suspense No. 44” is part of Into the Future: Culture Power in Native American Art, is on display at MoCNA. EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS 334 Los Pinos Road, 471-2261 GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 Far Wide Texas; Georgia O’Keeffe.

HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 Ledoux St., Taos, (575) 758-9826 Mabel Dodge Luhan & Company: American Moderns and the West. Ken Price, Death Shrine I.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ART 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Into the Future: Culture Power in Native American Art. Lloyd Kiva New: Art, Design and Influence. Through July 31.

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Adriel Heisy, Oblique Views. The Life of Innovative Native American Artist and Designer Lloyd Kiva New.

Lanscape of an Artist: Living Treasure Dan Namingha.

MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Multiple Visions: A Common Bond. Flamenco: From Spain to New Mexico. Both through Sept. 11. Sacred Realm. The Morris Miniature Circus.

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 Chimayó: A Pilgrimage Through Two Centuries. The Beltrán-Kropp Art Collection from Peru.

NM HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5019 Lowriders, Hoppers and Hot Rods: Car Culture of Northern New Mexico. Through March 2017.

NM MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Anne Noggle, Assumed Identities. Alcoves 16/17.

PALACE OF THE GOVERNORS 105 W Palace Ave., 476-5100 Fractured Faiths: Spanish Judaism, The Inquisition and New World Identities.

POEH CULTURAL CENTER AND MUSEUM 78 Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3334 Ashley Browning, Perspective of Perception. The Past of the Govenors.

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

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Tickled Review: Global Tickling Phenomenon by julie ann grimm editor@sfreporter.com That old saying, “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is,” must apply to the scenario in which an internet chat turns into an envelope of cash from FedEx, a trip to LA and an eight-hour session of being tied to a bed while four hunky guys in neat Adidas athletic gear tickle you with cameras rolling.

For a football star with a family finance problem, the decision to follow

through with the absurd proposition of “Competitive Endurance Tickling” and an effort to later strike it from the merciless records of YouTube led to retaliation from the filmmaker.

What first seemed a quirky TV story for New Zealand pop culture journalist David Farrier quickly took a turn into the control fetish of a well-heeled (and perhaps even dangerous) recluse.

Combining forces with hacker companion Dylan Reeve, Farrier barrels ahead with an investigation in the

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you not want to step away to refill your drink. Building on the work of other journalists and connecting the dots in a new way, the pair also delivers an eye-popping look into the little-known kink of tickling on camera in what at least some of the fans claim is a totally nonsexual thing. True to that point, the clips feature nothing that’s outright pornography. Even though there’s no epic finish or overt genital contact and no sound except for giggles and gasps for breath, the scenes are still squirmy.

Turns out, it’s madly liberating to watch a hairy chest wriggle under one finger in the armpit, feet in stocks and wrists bound over his head. At least one entrepreneur has made a great living at the tickle video trade. His “talent” seems perfectly happy. Not like the football guys who tangled with the wrong tickler. That dude, devious and manipulative as he is, has like $5 million in the bank and is probably right this moment arranging for a Minnesota track star to have an awkward day and a life of regret. Don’t fall for it, fellas. (Julie Ann Grimm)

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face of threatened litigation, personal attacks and other hurdles. Who they allege the mastermind of the global tickling phenomenon is turns out to be worth the wait. And kudos to the duo for digging in despite a barrage of threats that apparently continue to this day. “Someone has to confront this bully,” Farrier says in the film. “Lawsuits or not.”

The documentary reveals a degree of stomach-churning misrepresentation and what appears to be abuse of young men as well as a healthy dose of failing by the justice system over a yearslong period. Though the filmmakers are not due to appear at the Santa Fe screening, their targets showed up for an ugly public confrontation at a Los Angeles premiere last month. One official with the company that runs the “competition” has called the film “a pack of lies” and produced a number of videos and blog posts attempting to refute it, as well as threatening lawsuits again. The Los Angeles Times reports that two lawsuits were filed after the film began screening, but both were “voluntarily dismissed.”

Tickled is no feat of filmmaking elegance. It’s a fairly straightforward approach to a riveting thesis, including some great airport ambush footage, audio-only tracks recorded in secret, a stakeout and even one scene shot from inside a coffee cup. But the unfolding story has built-in plot twists that make

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THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS One begins to wonder how many “this is what the toys/pets/cars/planes/appliances do when you aren’t watching” films we’re expected to suffer through at this point, and The Secret Life of Pets isn’t helping. One of those odd-couple stories, Pets follows Max, a stereotypically dog-ish dog voiced by Louis CK—who we think probably just took the role because he has young daughters. Max totally loves his owner, Katie (a flat Ellie Kemper from Kimmy Schmidt), but when she brings home a dog named Duke (Modern Family’s Eric Stonestreet), he has a hell of a time adjusting. Sure, they work it out after a series of zany adventures, but once the initial sickeningly cute factor has finished its full-frontal assault, Pets cracks under the pressure of how many times we’ve already seen this movie.

There’s an impressive cast featuring usually very funny actors and comedians like Albert Brooks, Jenny Slate, Steve Coogan and Dana Carvey, but not even they can save this movie from itself, and the formulaic drag of learning to love others for who they are remains tired. Most performances are fine, just fine, but Kevin Hart as an insane bunny (are we supposed to find it hilarious that a bunny probably wouldn’t talk or act like that?) is, at the risk of putting too fine a point on it, the absolute worst. Illumination

Entertainment can be commended for their gorgeous and detailed New York City and for trying to throw in some weird stuff (like a psychedelic dreamland of living sausages singing from Grease), but even children will probably feel insulted by how utterly unfunny the final product winds up being.

(Alex De Vore) Violet Crown, Regal, DeVargas, PG, 87 min.

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Watching Icelandic yarn graffiti artist and sheep rancher Tinna Pórudóttir Porvaldsdóttir release her vibrant knitted objects into the world is so calming and profound that I found myself getting a little misty-eyed. Was I really feeling this way in the middle of a documentary about yarn?

The simple answer is yes.

The short-running Yarn follows four takes on the topic, and each is surprising and delightfully outside-the-box.

Porvaldsdóttir’s sharing happens, too, as she delicately decorates glass buoys and sends them afloat into the ocean. She strolls the streets of Barcelona and Havana, sometimes withdrawing a small hammer from her roomy purse and using her lips to hold extra nails while she works.

Polish artist Olek crochets full body suits and then follows four models around the city (and in lava flows and forests) to photograph their interactions with people and the

environment—the faceless, skinless beings embodied in a thicker, softer skin of repeating loops and clashing shades of orange and yellow and blue. Before that, she covers four railroad cars completely in crochet work and then helps make a mermaid swim with marine animals in Hawaii. When the camera cuts to her hands, they’re literally moving fast enough to blur.

The observation and reverence for the rhythmic nature of these artforms from new director Una Lorenzen serves to naturally knot together the work. And even though that sentence was contrived, the arc of story in the film does not feel that way. Lorenzen seems to capture the essence of how her subjects connect to their art and how they see it as that and not simply craft, clothing or kitsch.

Children who climb and bounce on a swaying knitted play structure make fiber sculptor Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam contagiously happy as she explains how she transitioned from art that hung untouched to art meant to serve a deep human need.

The inclusion of a profile of the co-ed Cirkus Cirkör’s show with yarn as a theme adds enough masculine energy to the storylines to keep the balance. And balance they do, on tiny tightropes, all the while relating that the meaning of the act, the meaning of life, is in the striving, the changing. (Julie Ann Grimm) CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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Film newcomers Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert are collectively known as “Daniels” for some reason, and the pair has come out swingin’ with Swiss Army Man, an indie-ish film about what it is to be alive. It’s a lesson that Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine) learns, ironically, from a corpse played by Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter, duh) who, over the course of the film, becomes one of the strangest characters we’ve ever seen. Hank is stranded on the coast someplace, but when Manny washes up on the shore in all his decaying glory, Hank begins to use the body as a means to sort through all his self-perceived personal failings and mental issues. Manny starts to come to life (sort of) and simultaneously acts as water spigot, firearm, wood-chopper and, oddly, fartpropelled jetpack/jet ski. It is definitely fun to see his “powers” revealed over the course of the story, but ultimately, they are about the best thing one can say for this tale. Swiss Army Man isn’t like anything else you’ve ever seen, that’s for sure, but it lags throughout and is almost painfully self-aware. It becomes hard to differentiate between the kids-playing-in-theyard aesthetic and the seriously sad realization that Hank is probably just insane and hasn’t realized it. The premise itself is interesting enough, and Dano does find an oddly perfect balance between relatable neurotic and unhinged lunatic wherein we feel along with him despite ourselves and see our own shortcomings in his openness. But everything is just so preciously self-indulgent that by the time the credits roll and the “twist” ending begins to sink in, the whole journey just seems kind of silly. Or monumentally depressing—we can’t really decide.

Radcliffe, however, is practically perfect, and his mostly motionless take on a 20-something dead guy who is also basically a newborn provides some brilliantly timed laughs. There’s a fine line between legitimate eccentricity and forced weirdness, and though it’s hard to pinpoint exactly where Swiss Army Man falls on that spectrum, it’ll probably only be enjoyed by a very specific kind of moviegoer. This isn’t to say it isn’t worth a watch, more like it’s really just only OK and pretty much everyone else can just wait for it to hit Netflix in the coming months. (ADV) Violet Crown, R, 97 min.

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Confederate soldier Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey) is sick and tired of fighting a losing battle for wealthy landowners, and when a young family member is conscripted and then killed right before his eyes, he just sort of leaves. Like, seriously—he just walks away and heads home to Jones County, Mississippi, and his wife Serena (The Americans’ Keri Russell).

She’s pretty bummed out by his hero complex, though, and after watching him stand up to the Confederate envoy that comes to tax local farms (by taking all of their crops and livestock) for the bazillionth time, she leaves him. This somehow lands him in a nearby swamp with a small group of runaway slaves, and together they become a sort of safe haven for deserters and runaways.

Knight develops an even stronger sense of what’s right, becomes buddies with the slaves, fights for the poor and downtrodden and falls for a beautiful young slave named Rachel (Gugu Mbatha-Raw of Jupiter Ascending). The whole thing is reportedly based on actual events, but once Jones starts to toggle between the events of the 1860s and a descendent of Knight’s struggles with outdated and racist marriage laws 85 years in the future, it becomes hard to continue paying attention. If the goal here was to prove to us that Southern white people were just the worst in those days, we didn’t need a whole other subplot going down to prove it—everyone already knows! This adds painfully unnecessary length and overshadows more important story elements such as Knight’s buddy Moses (played excellently

by Benjamin Button’s Mahershala Ali) working to provide black people and former slaves with the power to vote.

The whole thing smacks of the unfortunate white savior trope in film, and even if these were actual events, it diminishes the role that black people had in their own storyline during and after the Civil War. McConaughey continues his reign of being a super-intense dude, but if he’s not careful, he’ll have used up all of his True Detective/Dallas Buyer’s Club goodwill before he knows it.

It is conceivable that future high school history classes will be shown this film, but it’s just as possible it will be forgotten entirely due to its extra (read, boring) padding. It’s a damn shame they didn’t do better, too; Civil War films don’t exactly grow on trees, and we had high hopes.

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According to Last Cab to Darwin, it’s not just America where we suck at this. People in Australia are also bad at dying. Rex (Michael Caton) knew all that when he realized he had stomach cancer. And when a surgery that leaves a foot-long scar across his belly doesn’t get it all, he’s not interested in the hospital.

What does pique his interest is a doctor on the other side of the continent who’s trying to

establish the country’s test case on euthanasia.

That leaves much of Last Cab to pass by as a kind of morbid road-trip flick, with Rex picking up a random, handsome aboriginal companion named Tilli, then Tilli (Mark Coles Smith) picking up a random blonde barkeep from London, who happens to be a nurse on hiatus from her real job (Emma Hamilton) and can help Rex stay alive long enough to get permission to kill himself using a medical device rigged with morphine. While these are the kind of relationships that really only happen on TV, Rex has meanwhile left a real relationship in the dust. This plotline, greased by the charming rough edges on Ningali Lawford-Wolf as Polly, explores not only the deep racial divide between white Aussies and Australia’s Indigenous people, but also how abruptly abandoning those who really know and love you isn’t any better of a way to die than the aforementioned beeping hospital scenario. And you don’t have to drive across the bush to figure out how it ends. (JAG) 123 min., NR, The Screen

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Upcoming adventures might make you more manly if you are a woman. If you are a man, the coming escapades could make you more womanly. How about if you’re trans? Odds are that you’ll become even more gender fluid. I am exaggerating a bit, of course. The transformations I’m referring to may not be visible to casual observers. They will mostly unfold in the depths of your psyche. But they won’t be merely symbolic, either. There’ll be mutations in your biochemistry that will expand your sense of your own gender. If you respond enthusiastically to these shifts, you will begin a process that could turn you into an even more complete and attractive human being than you already are.

grab for glory. Thirty-eight percent disapprove, eighteen percent remain undecided, and eleven percent wish you would grab for even greater glory. As for me, I’m aligned with the eleven-percent minority. Here’s what I say: Don’t allow your quest for shiny breakthroughs and brilliant accomplishments to be overly influenced by what people think of you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) I’ll name five heroic tasks you will have more than enough power to accomplish in the next eight months. 1. Turning an adversary into an ally. 2. Converting a debilitating obsession into a empowering passion. 3. Transforming an obstacle into a motivator. 4. Discovering small treasures in the midst of junk and decay. 5. Using the unsolved riddles of childhood to create a living shrine to eternal youth. 6.

Gathering a slew of new freedom songs, learning them by heart, and singing them regularly—especially when habitual fears rise up in you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Your life has resemblances to a jigsaw puzzle that lies unassembled on a kitchen table.

Unbeknownst to you, but revealed to you by me, a few of the pieces are missing. Maybe your cat knocked them under the refrigerator, or they fell out of their storage box somewhere along the way. But this doesn’t have to be a problem. I believe you can mostly put together the puzzle without the missing fragments. At the end, when you’re finished, you may be tempted to feel frustration that the picture’s not complete. But that would be illogical perfectionism. Ninety-seven-percent success will be just fine.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You are at the pinnacle of your powers to both hurt and heal. Your turbulent yearnings could disrupt the integrity of those whose selfknowledge is shaky, even as your smoldering radiance can illuminate the darkness for those who are lost or weak. As strong and confident as I am, even I would be cautious about engaging your tricky intelligence. Your piercing perceptions and wild understandings might either undo me or vitalize me. Given these volatile conditions, I advise everyone to approach you as if you were a love bomb or a truth fire or a beauty tornado.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Here’s the deal: I will confess a dark secret from my past if you confess an equivalent secret from yours. Shall I go first? When I first got started in the business of writing horoscope columns, I contributed a sexed-up monthly edition to a porn magazine published by smut magnate Larry Flynt.

What’s even more scandalous is that I enjoyed doing it.

OK. It’s your turn. Locate a compassionate listener who won’t judge you harshly, and unveil one of your subterranean mysteries. You may be surprised at how much psychic energy this will liberate. (For extra credit and emancipation, spill two or even three secrets.)

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) What do you want to be when you grow up, Capricorn? What? You say you are already all grown up, and my question is irrelevant? If that’s your firm belief, I will ask you to set it aside for now. I’ll invite you to entertain the possibility that maybe CANCER (June 21-July 22) If you are smoothly attuned some parts of you are not in fact fully mature; that no matter how ripe you imagine yourself to be, you could with the cosmic rhythms and finely aligned with your unconscious wisdom, you could wake up one morning become even riper—an even more gorgeous version of your best self. I will also encourage you to immerse and find that a mental block has miraculously crumbled, instantly raising your intelligence. If you can find yourself in a mood of playful fun as you respond to the following question: “How can I activate and embody an it in your proud heart to surrender to “God,” your weirdest dilemma will get at least partially solved dur- even more complete version of my soul’s code?” ing a magical three-hour interlude. And if you are able AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) On a summer day 20 to forgive 50 percent of the wrongs that have been years ago, I took my five-year-old daughter Zoe and done to you in the last six years, you will no longer feel her friend Max to the merry-go-round in San like you’re running into a strong wind, but rather you’ll Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Zoe jumped on the elefeel like the beneficiary of a strong wind blowing in the gant golden-maned lion and Max mounted the wild same direction you’re headed. blue horse. Me? I climbed aboard the humble pig. Its squat pink body didn’t seem designed for rapid moveLEO (July 23-Aug. 22) How often have you visited hell ment. Its timid gaze was fixed on the floor in front of it. or the suburbs of hell during the last few weeks?

According to my guesstimates, the time you spent there As the man who operated the ride came around to see was exactly the right amount. You got the teachings you if everyone was in place, he congratulated me on my bold choice. Very few riders preferred the porker, he needed most, including a few tricks about how to steer clear of hell in the future. With this valuable information, said. Not glamorous enough. “But I’m sure I will arrive at our destination as quickly and efficiently as everyyou will forevermore be smarter about how to avoid one else,” I replied. Your immediate future, Aquarius, unnecessary pain and irrelevant hindrances. So congratulations! I suggest you celebrate. And please use has symbolic resemblances to this scene. your new-found wisdom as you decline one last PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Early on in our work invitation to visit the heart of a big, hot mess. together, my psychotherapist confessed that she only VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) My friend Athena works as a works with clients whose problems are interesting to her. In part, her motivations are selfish: Her goal is to masseuse. She says that the highest praise she can receive is drool. When her clients feel so sublimely serene enjoy her work. But her motivations are also altruistic. that threads of spit droop out of their mouths, she knows She feels she’s not likely to be of service to anyone with whom she can’t be deeply engaged. I understand she’s in top form. You might trigger responses akin to this perspective, and am inclined to make it more unidrool in the coming weeks, Virgo. Even if you don’t work as a massage therapist, I think it’s possible you’ll provoke versal. Isn’t it smart to pick all our allies according to rather extreme expressions of approval, longing, and curi- this principle? Every one of us is a mess in one way or another, so why not choose to blend our fates with osity. You will be at the height of your power to inspire potent feelings in those you encounter. In light of this sit- those whose messiness entertains us and teaches us the most? I suggest you experiment with this view in uation, you might want to wear a small sign or button the coming weeks and months, Pisces. that reads, “You have my permission to drool freely.”

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