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Superintendent to Exit SFPS Santa Fe Public Schools Superintendent Joel Boyd has received an offer that, as they say, he couldn’t refuse, and he will leave the district for the private sector by the end of the summer. He announced his departure Tuesday for what he calls a “compelling and unique opportunity” to work as senior vice president of BrightBytes, a San Francisco-based research organization that analyzes and synthesizes the sea of overwhelming and even at times unintelligible school performance data and research.

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Boyd says, “What we’re talking about here is if we can hit a home run in supporting all schools across America to do great work for kids. That’s the home run. So I’m going to keep swinging for it.”

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simmering drumroll builds to the eruption of a 21-gun salute fired at midnight on the Plaza the evening of Sept. 15, 1835. The chapel bells bellow endlessly, a beckoning call to the citizens of Santa Fe. City councilors, musicians and military officers parade around the perimeter of the square, stopping on each corner to share a few words on this momentous occasion. The people dance and sing until the sun rises, and still the party carries on, stretching into the next day, culminating in a dance to the death between matador and bull.

Whether this celebration of Mexican Independence Day, also known as El Grito, actually played out as described has been lost to history, but it’s the way five local resident organizers intended for it to go. “We have explanations of the planning,” says New Mexico State Historian Rick Hendricks.

“We don’t have anybody commenting about, ‘Wow, what a great party that was.’”

Father Miguel Hidalgo issued his legendary Grito de Dolores, or “Cry of Dolores,” on Sept. 16, 1810, beseeching the people of Mexico to rebel against Spain. Re-enactments take place every year. In Mexico City, the president steps out on the National Palace balcony, shouting, “¡Viva Mexico!” The teeming crowd echoes, “¡Viva Mexico!” in response.

Ask any gringo about this year’s planned El Grito celebration on the Plaza, and they’re likely to respond, “What’s that?” Americans often mistake Cinco de Mayo, the commemo-

Diana Montoya moved to Santa Fe from Juarez, ration of Mexico’s victory over the French, for the celebration of Mexican independence. “It’s almost like Mexico, when she was 3 years old. She says the El Grito gathering in Santa Fe is typically “huge,” which we’ve got them flipped around,” Hendricks says.

Mayor Javier Gonzales says the Consulate of makes the parks a preferable location. “I think some Mexico in Albuquerque requested that the celebra- people are going to feel like we’re invading,” Montoya tion be held on the Plaza on Friday, Sept. 16. “When says.

Gonzales has zero concerns about the number of they came up to Santa Fe and asked me, I loved the idea,” Gonzales tells SFR. While El Grito is not an of- celebrants, saying, “I think it would be a wonderful ficial part of the mayor’s “People to the Plaza” initia- thing to see the Plaza packed.”

Barbara Lopez, the special events coordinator tive, he says it is in line with its spirit “to gather as one community and to do so where we can all celebrate for the Parks and Recreation Department, says she has yet to receive any detailed plans from organiztogether.”

El Grito follows Santa Fe’s annual Fiesta celebra- ers but thinks the venue change will be an improvetion the week before, and the burning of Zozobra the ment. When held at city parks, she says, “a lot of times week before that, but the mayor says he isn’t worried neighbors will complain of noise because they do go about a festival overload. “We have markets that are after hours.” huge, and the summer Bandstand initiative. All of Estrada-Flores says the typical celebration conthose we’ve been able to develop with very conve- sists of “everything you have to have in a big Mexican fiesta: Mexican music, mariachis, Mexican food and nient ways for people to get to the Plaza.” drinks, bounce houses for children It’s difficult to say whether and a lot of prizes for children and any modern celebration of El youth.”

Grito took place on the Plaza How about an old-fashioned bullbefore the 1990s. Like during the state’s sparsely documentfight? “I doubt if the people of Santa I remember 20 Fe are ready for that,” says city Couned Mexican period, records of the event are hard to find. cilor Peter Ives. “You’ve probably noyears ago, nobody “I remember 20 years ago, ticed there is a very strong animal nobody was doing anything rights group within Santa Fe.” was doing anything for Sept. 16,” says Cesar Araiza, Gonzales suggests a mechanical who owns Panaderia y Tortibull as a more humane alternative. for Sept. 16.

Lopez takes the question a little too lleria on Airport Road. He used seriously. “I can’t guarantee that’s to attend El Grito celebrations going to happen,” she tells SFR. “We in Mexico, but has yet to do so need to be presented with that rein the United States where he’s lived since 1989. quest, and then we go from there and Alicia Estrada-Flores helped organize Santa make sure it goes with what’s allowed on the Plaza.”

Fe’s El Grito celebration for 10 years, starting in City Councilor Chris Rivera says the Plaza is more 1994, in the hopes of bringing attention to this restrictive than other city parks, and party planners significant moment in Mexican history. “The “will have to follow all the rules.” Otherwise, he says Mexican Independence Day celebration in those he believes the celebration should resemble those of days was a wonderful celebration for our Mexi- previous years. “The venue is really the only thing that’s different.” can/Latino community,” Estrada-Flores says.

The locale may mean more than Rivera or the conShe says El Grito was held on the Plaza once before she became involved but otherwise took sulate realize. “A Mexican independence celebration place in locations like Franklin E Miles and requires several things,” Estrada-Flores tells SFR. “A Ragle parks. Estrada-Flores estimates that dur- big, open space that is family friendly, with easy acing the years she organized the event, 4-5,000 cess, where you are in your comfort zone. … Although, people filled city parks to celebrate Mexican in- undoubtedly, La Plaza de Santa Fe is a beautiful and historical place, it is not the ideal place to present the dependence.

Araiza says that while the Plaza would Mexican independence celebration.”

Still, Gonzales hopes to attract members of Santa be a traditional location if held in Mexico, “I don’t think they have enough space. I Fe’s Mexican community, who typically spend more think it is one of the reasons they do time on the south side of town. “Even if they’ve only been here for a week, we want them to come down to it at parks.” the Plaza and be able to participate,” Gonzales says.

“There needs to be more bridges built between the Mexican community in Santa Fe with the rest of the community. … I think El Grito on the Plaza is a good opportunity.”

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Water Faux Fight Miscommunication, vandalism spiked tensions between city and Nature Conservancy, but end resolution could mean a better river for all

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hen the Public Service Company of New Mexico gave The Nature Conservancy the emptied basins where two city dams once held a frontier town’s supply of water, the gift’s quality posed a mystery: Just how much could be made of a bare stretch of earth with a bathtub ring that’s still visible, decades later, as a line where the piñóns stop growing?

“These pond ecosystems have been almost completely removed from the desert Southwest,” says Terry Sullivan, state director of The Nature Conservancy. “It’s pretty easy to remove these features, and it’s almost impossible to recreate them.”

The conservancy started with a little water and a goal of restoring the historic route of the river, and everything else came to it, he says, including beaver families that, by anyone’s best guess, migrated downriver to build dams and create stepped ponds ringed in cattails that are topped on summer mornings with red-winged blackbirds. Deer, osprey, a reintroduced northern leopard frog, and even mountain lions and bobcats have also arrived, all of them clustering around this rare beacon of water in the Southwestern landscape.

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Terry Sullivan walks through the nature preserve at the end of Upper Canyon Road to retell what he’s dubbed “the Milagro beaver pond war.” BELOW: Releases from the city reservoirs have helped restore a pond ecosystem.

The microclimate shifted from a baked and sunny expanse to a bosque and wetlands with a shady, meandering path past mushrooms, the summer snow of cottonwood seeds, orange mallow, milkvetch and penstemon.

And all of it is fed by a trickle of a river that runs over the top of a series of stones stacked next to a diversion gate. Close the gate, and the water backs up, flowing into the preserve instead of downstream to the acequia system. Leave it open, and the preserve runs dry. Which is what happened in May this year, when a third lock appeared among the two already on the gate, which belonged to the city and The Nature Conservancy. Robert Findling, director of land protection and stewardship for the conservancy, spotted the lock and called the city to ask about it, but he never got a call back. So two weeks later, he hiked up with bolt cutters and removed it.

“Thus began the Milagro beaver pond war,” Sullivan jokes.

It turned out, the third lock belonged to the city, installed over suspicions that someone was changing the gate to channel more water into the preserve.

But that had never been communicated to the conservancy, Sullivan says. When it was cut, the city assumed the conservancy had become adversarial and responded by bringing in a dump truck and sandbags and completely blocking the flow-over dam to the preserve, cutting off its water supply.

It’s not unusual to go without water for a few days this time of year, Sullivan says, but after a while, they started to panic and assumed, having heard nothing else, that the city was trying to cut off water to the preserve. Then someone—both parties say they have no idea who—responded to the presence of the sandbags by moving them to block the city’s outtake, cutting off

water to downstream acequias and the river in an act of “vandalism.” Someone also appears to have used a shovel to widen the channel to the preserve.

All of this unfolded over May and early June. It was June 23 by the time the city’s governing body held a legal session to discuss a course of action in private, and June 28 before the mayor, city attorney and Sullivan met to sort out what at that point had blossomed into a massive chain of miscommunications.

“It wasn’t until I sat down with Javier Gonzales and Kelley Brennan and she showed us pictures … and I emphasized to the city that we hadn’t done that— that was the big ‘Aha!’ moment,” Sullivan says. “We realized, OK, this is ridiculous. We’ve made a mountain out of a beaver dam.”

Had they all made the three-quarter-mile hike from the parking lot to the little dam, the pool behind which is barely knee-deep, to take a look at what was happening and talk, the trouble might have stopped there, Sullivan says. Instead, they weathered an ugly series of finger-pointing over water theft and deprivation, lawsuit saber-rattling and closed-door meetings that only served to heighten concerns that the city was cutting off water to the preserve.

To analyze the situation and receive direction from the governing body took more than six weeks, which city spokesperson Matt Ross called “pretty speedy and efficient.”

“We are confident and pleased that both parties are ready to put this issue behind us and forge a true partnership around a collaborative vision, not just for this section of the river but for the entire corridor,” Ross wrote in a press release. “This was a problem that arose primarily from communication breakdowns following acts of vandalism committed by unknown persons at a flow gate. It led to unfortunate accusa-

NEWS tions of water theft on one side and of a desire to cut off all water flow into the preserve on the other, accusations that were unfounded and only served to escalate an unnecessary conflict.”

When asked by the mayor to summarize the content of an executive session discussion of the issue during the June 29 City Council meeting, City Attorney Kelley Brennan characterized the conversation with The Nature Conservancy as “very cordial.”

“We had agreement on most of, actually I’d say on all the points, and agreed to work on any agreements that we needed to make any lack of clarity clear,” she said. The parties planned to meet again in the next week.

The events prompted Councilor Joe Maestas to suggest City Manager Brian Snyder establish or reiterate the need for voicemail etiquette, including messages that clarify if someone will be out of the office, and refer the public to a second option who may be available in absence of the person initially dialed.

Snyder replied that he already stresses that practice with city employees.

We realized, OK, this is ridiculous.

We’ve made a mountain out of a beaver dam.

“It’s sort of unfortunate, because it really just came down to miscommunication,” Sullivan says. “But it puts the preserve on the top of everyone’s mind.”

Now there’s a concern that the preserve will see almost too much attention.

There’s not a parking space left in the lot that serves the preserve and a portion of the Dale Ball trail system by 10 am on a Friday morning, though hikers disappear rapidly into willows that have grown to above head-height.

Clusters of children from the Randall Davey Audubon Center and Sanctuary day camp (more than 4,000 students visited the preserve last year) vanish among the sagebrush, howling to find one another again.

“One of the big challenges we’re facing is that the preserve doesn’t get loved to death, and the vandalism is

one sign of that,” Sullivan says.

Part of the solution could be to create similar ecosystems downriver, so people throughout the city have a little piece of water and shade close to their homes. The conservancy wants to roll the attention from this controversy into enthusiasm for making that vision a reality.

Ross echoes that interest on behalf of the city: “There’s a broad collaborative vision there about how we can work together with The Nature Conservancy as partners to move that forward—the health of the entire river corridor, not just this one section of the upper river.”

In the years since the Living River Ordinance was passed in 2012, the city has already seen its river revived.

Before the ordinance, which calls for releasing 1,000 acre-feet of water into the river on wet or normal years, the riverbed was a veritable junkyard.

“It was a spot, and still is in places, where people threw their debris. There was sort of an ‘It’s just a ditch’ attitude to it,” says Andy Otto, executive director of the Santa Fe Watershed Association, which campaigned for the ordinance. Water in the riverbed, he says, has fueled care and concern over the resource.

“People will own it if they can see it,” Otto says.

He watched this dispute between the city and the conservancy with some trepidation.

“Our concerns were that the Living River Ordinance was not brought into this, or somehow relegated to a minor roll,” he says. “The Living River Ordinance of February 29, 2012, is a very valid document and can help guide us on this, so that’s what we’d like to see, as well as a full open discussion in public.”

But parts of the document are “not as detailed as they could be,” he concedes, and that includes specifying allocations to the preserve and to the acequias.

The ordinance is a good start, Sullivan says, but it may not do enough to restore the river in a “string of pearls” approach, with a few linked ecosystems like those found at the preserve. That’s primarily because it’s not stocked with enough money for the kind of infrastructure and water rights purchasing likely required.

It certainly hasn’t been enough to reconnect the Santa Fe River with the Rio Grande. Though how much water would be required to achieve that isn’t yet known, by some estimates, it would require two or three times the annual allotment now of 1,000 acre-feet.

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hree summers ago, a Santa Fe mother read in a newspaper that New Mexico would immediately stop vital federal payments to 15 mental health providers, including an organization that cared for Athan, her autistic son.

“The first thought I had was, Oh my God. This is going to be bad,” she recalls, asking SFR to keep the family’s identity confidential. “We had just got everything worked out. We just found the right combination of people. It took us about 10 years to really assemble a team of behavioral health providers that knew our child.”

Born at 25 weeks, Athan lived his first four months at Phoenix Children’s Hospital in Arizona. There

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were no neonatal intensive care beds available in New Mexico. After discharge, he wore an oxygen mask for a year.

Doctors diagnosed Athan with a host of mental illnesses and developmental disabilities, including ADD, ADHD, OCD and pervasive developmental disorder. By 12, he was diagnosed with autism.

At home and at school, he exhibited typical behaviors associated with autism and learning disorders.

Athan still has trouble understanding facial expressions and figures of speech. He doesn’t socialize much with others, sometimes dropping out of conversations midsentence. He excels with computers but struggles with math.

In 2008, Athan’s parents took him to see Dr. Lorraine Freedle, at the time the only board-certified pediatric neuropsychologist working in Northern New Mexico. Freedle and her husband, Shannon, operated

a nonprofit called TeamBuilders that oversaw about 125 clinicians statewide. Part of that organization was a program called Zia that provided outpatient therapy to children.

TeamBuilders used a “system of care” approach to treatment, a philosophy popularized in the ’90s holding that children with special needs require a network of dedicated services and natural support to thrive.

“It’s not just about combining professional services, but mobilizing a community to meet the needs of a child,” Freedle says.

The psychologist evaluated Athan and referred his family to providers she felt would aid his development, among them, a speech therapist, physical therapist and occupational therapist. TeamBuilders also provided behavioral management specialists who accompanied Athan at a special school run by Zia, at the time a partnership between the organization and Santa Fe Public Schools.

Whenever Athan’s parents noticed a new issue with their son’s development, they called Freedle for help. For example, when he started falling over more than usual, Freedle referred the parents to a sensory integration therapist to help him with his balance. If Athan had a meltdown in public, his parents would call on TeamBuilders for one-on-one coaching.

“They provided us with, not just our own child’s individual needs, but also our family’s as well,” Athan’s mother says. “How would I know sensory issues are even a thing, unless I talked with someone who did know that?”

The news that TeamBuilders would no longer receive payments for Medicaid meant fallout for everyone. Even though the family had private insurance to help pay for services, the nonprofit shut down less than two months after the freeze.

“Right when he needed a level of consistency and support, it fell apart,” she says.

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Ever since the so-called “behavioral health shakeup” rocked the core of New Mexico’s mental health network, the timeline of events that led up to the disruption has been carefully chronicled by media across the state.

In 2012, OptumHealth, a company contracted by the state to manage Medicaid funds for mental health services, claimed that it had uncovered suspicious billings among 15 providers, prompting Gov. Susana Martinez and her Human Services Department to invite the Massachusetts-based Public Consulting Group to audit the organizations in question. On June 24, 2013, the department informed each provider that they were under investigation for fraud and that it would suspend Medicaid payments while the attorney general’s office got to work.

The next day, the department hired five Arizonabased providers to quickly move in and pick up the monumental caseload left by the audited organizations, accounting for about 87 percent of all Medicaid and state-funded non-Medicaid mental health spending.

For many of the affected providers, the shakeup meant the end of business. Survivors, with the exception of two that settled with the state, exist as shells of their former selves, either drastically reducing services or running solely for administrative purposes. An estimated 30,000 Medicaid clients, plus an unknown

Dr. Lorraine Freedle

number of private-payer or out-of-pocket patients, had their services disrupted or cut during the hand­ over to the Arizona firms.

Further scrutiny by media, lawmakers and the attorney general’s office has raised serious questions about the Martinez administration’s role in the debacle. Just a month after the news broke, New Mexico In Depth spoke with experts who say the administration jumped the gun on freezing payments, pointing to federal regulations that grant states considerable discretion in determining whether to suspend Medicaid services from mental health providers, even during fraud investigations.

The Santa Fe New Mexican revealed in 2014 that the state started paying one of the Arizona providers, Agave Health, before Public Consulting Group even began its audit. And a 2015 investigation by SFR unveiled how United Healthcare, OptumHealth’s parent company, quietly donated $25,000 to the state Repub-

Right when he needed a level of consistency and support, it fell apart. lican Party Committee before the Martinez administration awarded the company its contract to manage Medicaid funds for mental health providers.

In May, three members of New Mexico’s federal congressional delegation called on the US Justice Department to find out what happened and why, citing state actions that “prevented thousands of New Mexicans from getting the care they needed, wasted millions of taxpayer dollars, and cost hundreds of New Mexicans their jobs.” Meanwhile, many of the providers have taken their own cases to federal court, filing due process lawsuits against the Human Services Department.

Outrage amplified in April when Attorney General Hector Balderas cleared the last two providers accused of fraud, including TeamBuilders, of any criminal wrongdoing. Building on an investigation initiated by former Attorney General Gary King, Balderas’ office found regulatory violations and $1.6 million in overbillings—the PCG audit initially claimed $33.8 million. It did not find evidence of fraud by any of the 15 providers.

The Martinez administration maintains it did nothing wrong, but a spokesman for the Human Services Department did not respond to SFR’s request for an interview or answer questions about the disruption for patients. Instead, spokesman Kyler Nerison emailed this statement: “Access to behavioral health

services has increased by 75 percent for New Mexicans since 2013, and our top priority is protecting that access and maintaining care for those who need it.”

Indeed, state data provided by Nerison shows that the number of individuals receiving mental health treatment increased from 86,229 in 2013 to 153,031 in 2015. The Human Services Department attributes much of the growth to the state’s 2014 Medicaid expansion, which resulted from the Affordable Care Act. But some providers and clients say the Medicaid freezes dismantled a network decades in the making in New Mexico, leaving a vulnerable population in the hands of organizations unfamiliar with the communities they were assigned to care for.

“These service providers had a comprehensive approach to meeting the full needs of individuals,” says Mark Johnson, CEO of Easter Seals el Mirador in Santa Fe, another one of providers accused of fraud. “Today, what you have is money available, but they don’t take a comprehensive approach to service delivery.”

“All these relationships were severed,” says Freedle of TeamBuilders. “It will take generations to repair.”

Shortly after Agave took over TeamBuilders’ Northern New Mexico patients, Athan’s caseworker left. (A memo obtained by SFR in 2014 found that Agave shortly fell into financial trouble, cutting employee pay and demanding greater productivity.)

Since Agave offered certain services solely to Medicaid patients, Athan no longer had access to afterschool respite programming that was previously offered at a wellness center across from the Zia School.

But what really hurt the most was a loss of expertise—the “system of care” network that Athan’s family relied on for years. Athan’s mother no longer had Dr. Freedle to turn to, and generally, the staff at Agave, she felt, was simply not up to par.

“The new people who came in were so poorly trained and so poorly paid that it just created more chaos for us as a family,” she says. “His providers were coming and going, and there wasn’t any stability there.”

The instability couldn’t have come at a worse time.

Around the time of the shakeup, Athan’s behavior worsened. Then 13, his outbursts became more frequent and violent. School staff had to restrain him three or four times a day.

“There is nobody [at Agave] that knows him,” Athan’s mother says. “There is nobody that knows us.

There is no history. There is no one there anymore that could really be our safety net for our family.”

In July 2014, Athan encountered a crisis. His parents took him to Agave, but the organization did not have someone on staff who could conduct the right kind of evaluation. Following a referral, the family took Athan to the University Neuropsychiatric Institute in Salt Lake City, where he stayed for three weeks.

After a doctor determined that Athan would be best served in a residential treatment facility, a hospital social worker searched for an appropriate place.

“In New Mexico, there was no other alternative for us to get the help he needed,” she says. “We looked and we tried, and we did all we could to keep him in the state. We saw with the crumbling infrastructure of the behavioral health system that it would be so much more difficult for us to find the right place to provide for him what he needed.”

Athan moved to a residential treatment facility in Utah, where he’s lived ever since.

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The move actually avoided another potentially disruptive transition. In April of this year, Agave announced it would leave New Mexico, the third Arizona provider to pull out since signing a contract with the state in 2013. Presbyterian Medical Services, one of two organizations that settled its litigation with the Human Services Department, picked up Agave’s caseload this month—the third provider in three years for thousands of mental health patients in Northern New Mexico. It’s a revolving door the spins all over the state.

Donna first came into contact with Southwest Counseling in 1988, after she tried to kill herself by swallowing Tylenol. She had been distraught over “boyfriend issues.”

After a stay at Memorial Medical Center in Las Cruces and some time on a waiting list, Donna moved into Transitional Living Center, a group home for people with substance abuse problems and mental illness. She lived there for about a year, then cycled in and out of the home, returning periodically after breakdowns and suicide attempts.

Donna, who asked SFR not to publish her real name, didn’t mind living at the group home when she did.

At Transitional Living Center, she learned basic life skills like cleaning and setting goals. She became a decent cook, skilled enough that staff paid her to prepare meals for other residents.

Covered by Medicaid, Donna also started using other services offered

by Southwest Counseling. During her

first stay at the group home, she received psychosocial rehabilitation, treatment aimed at helping people with mental illness function in a community. Clients simply called it PSR. Five days a week, Donna hitched a ride or rode a shuttle to the clinic.

Along with seeing a case manager and a counselor, Donna also attended a number of groups that Southwest Counseling paid for out of pocket.

She’d paint nails during women’s group and get fresh air during walking group. Meditation group taught her a new coping skill.

Over the years, she started going to the hospital less frequently, moved into her own apartment, and achieved a level of self-sufficiency she had never had before. But she never stopped going to groups. “It is what I did the most,” she tells SFR over breakfast at The Village Inn Restaurant in downtown Las Cruces.

Donna, who was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder and borderline personality disorder by Southwest Counseling staff, has dark skin and cropped hair. She compulsively chews bubble gum and punctuates her sentences with the phrase, “You know what I mean?”

One day during the summer of 2013, she says she went to the clinic on Griggs Street and saw staff members leaving the building with boxes.

“People were acting different. So I said, ‘What’s going on?’ There were rumors and stuff. And they said, ‘Don’t worry about it.’ And I said, ‘What do you mean, don’t worry about it?’ And I took my computer, and I looked it up,

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n Thursday, workers affixed a sign bearing the logo of Presbyterian Medical Services to a family wellness center off Camino Entrada, the third organization’s name to grace the facility in three years.

Painters rolled pale-yellow pigment over the interior walls, while parents signed their children up for services. A bulletin board, a remnant from the facility’s previous occupant, celebrated the “awesome teamwork” and propensity to “go above and beyond” of former Agave Health employees.

The dismantling of New Mexico’s mental health infrastructure, and subsequent departure of threefifths of the Arizona providers called in to do damage control, has raised questions about how the state plans to rebuild the network of services for people with mental illness.

The exodus of Agave, a nonprofit selected in 2013 to take over mental health clients in Northern New Mexico, is just the latest move in three turbulent years that has forced the state to once again search for organizations to fill service gaps stemming from the so-called “behavioral health shakeup.”

This time around, the payors who administer behavioral health contracts for the Martinez administration looked in-state for relief.

Presbyterian Medical Services, one of the 15 providers investigated for fraud by the Martinez administration, agreed in April to pick up most of the mental health patients treated by Agave. Earlier, it picked up clients from La Frontera and Turquoise.

(The organization, not to be confused with the statewide Presbyterian Healthcare system, settled with the Human Services Department in November 2013.

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and I saw what was going on.”

Southwest Counseling was caught up in fraud allegations, and the Martinez administration had tapped La Frontera, another Arizona-based mental health provider, to take over its clients and facilities.

The changes were drastic. La Frontera scrapped all of Donna’s groups and dropped her therapist. The Transitional Living Center closed. Citing financial troubles, the organization laid off about 14 percent of employees. Donna says, of the services she used, only case management and medication management remained. She felt stressed during this period, her hair falling out and stomach acting up. With her community stripped away, “I just basically stay home most of the time,” Donna tells SFR. It’s not just the clients who felt uncomfortable with La Frontera’s takeover. In a lawsuit filed against Optum’s parent company, UnitedHealth, the organization itself states that prior to coming to the state, it “consistently voiced its reluctance to expand into New Mexico for reasons related to complexity, timing and cost.” The lawsuit accuses UnitedHealth of fraud and misrepresentation, alleging that the organization failed to provide adequate cash and resources to help with the transfer.

La Frontera officials did not respond to a request for comment.

Last summer, Donna was feeling depressed. She tried calling a crisis line run by La Frontera, but nobody picked up. “So I took a bunch of pills, and then I called them back and said I took a bunch of pills.” La Frontera staff drove over to her apartment and called 911. She went back to Memorial Medical Center.

“Do they know that a lot of us are hurting? That it doesn’t help us that we don’t have things to do? Because it helps us physically and mentally, these things to do,” she says.

La Frontera left the state in July 2015. La Clinica de Familia, a community primary care provider, took over its facilities and client list. In contrast to Presbyterian Medical Services’ takeover in Northern New Mexico, La Clinica did not have much experience with mental health care. It had to build from the ground up and got off to a slow start. As the Las Cruces Sun-News reports, the organization struggled to fill enough positions to meet the high demands of the community.

Donna says she has a new therapist and is doing better now. She hasn’t been back to the Memorial Medical Center since last summer.

A PMS sign is already mounted on the Camino Entrada building that formerly housed TeamBuliders, then Agave.

It paid the state $4 million in alleged overbillings, although the organization maintains it did not commit fraud.)

Steven Hansen, CEO of Presbyterian, tells SFR the organization picked up approximately 1,200 clients and 75 staff, with plans to hire an additional nine. But, Hansen adds, “Licensed therapists are hard to find, as many have left the state.”

“Our biggest concern is making sure there is continuity of care,” Hansen says. “Second is, most of these people we are hiring, and have hired, have gone through this trauma of getting nervous about losing a job, getting a job. We are working on calming their fears and letting them get to know us as an organization.”

Terry Sine, clinical services director for Presbyterian’s new location on Camino Entrada, says the organization has already initiated an outreach campaign to Agave’s former clients, making phone calls, writing letters and even knocking on doors. Inside the building, he showed SFR a respite room, where children can “chill and hang out,” filled with old couches that will also be cycled out during the ongoing transition.

“I don’t know whose furniture that is,” Sine says.

“It could even be TeamBuilders’ furniture,” he adds, referring to the organization that originally developed this center.

For organizations that didn’t recover from the shakeup, it’s been more difficult to restart mental health services in the state. Despite the attorney general’s decision not to pursue fraud charges against providers implicated in a 2013 audit, the state is still demanding payment from the affected organizations before it will reinstate their Medicaid certifications. Most of the providers relied on Medicaid funding to keep the lights on.

TeamBuilders co-founder Lorraine Freedle says that on April 7, a week after Agave’s announcement that it would leave the state, she and her husband expressed interest in picking up some of the organization’s caseload. But they were not contacted when the state’s contractors who manage Medicaid funds released a request for information soliciting interested providers.

A spokesman for the state Human Services Department said its Medicaid contractors are in charge of that process.

“Our hands are tied at this point,” Freedle tells SFR. Easter Seals el Mirador, another nonprofit that had its Medicaid funding cut after five years of providing mental health care for children, also has interest in reopening those services. (A separate wing of the organization focusing on developmental disabilities is in operation.)

“None of the other providers that are decertified, so to speak, are allowed to re-enter the system as a Medicaid provider. What we’re hearing from the department is they still haven’t resolved the issue of overpayments,” says Patsy Romero, the organization’s chief operating officer. “If we’re able to, would we want to help rebuild the behavioral health structure? Well, yes. Our hearts are in it. But right now, we are not allowed to.”

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“I hope to convey the wonderful relationship we have with the natural world around us,” Brad Stroman tells SFR. The local artist manipulates his medium with mastery, creating roughly textured backgrounds that force the viewer’s eye to the realistic subject in his work’s forefront: sometimes a gear or a feather or flower. Stroman says he combines cultural influences like the Japanese Zen philosophy of wabi-sabi and Native American influence, and his new show, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, opens July 7 at Convergence Gallery, in conjunction with Motor Maids—a women’s motorcycling group founded in the 1940s, the first of its kind. (Maria Egolf-Romero)

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The Las Vegas, Nevada-based artist applies his unique style of cultural reclamation to the lowrider community. “The car is a symbol of American progress,” Favela tells SFR. “For Chicanos and Latinos to take this symbol and make it their own, I thought was powerful.”

Favela assembled a full-scale 1964 Chevy Impala lowrider piñata for an exhibition called Chop Shop at Crystal Bridges Museum of Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. Kate Ware, the curator of photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art, saw Favela’s creation and asked if it could be included in the museum’s lowrider show. Unfortunately, the piñata had already been cut into pieces, in line with the Chop Shop theme.

In lieu of presenting the original, Favela agreed to come to Santa Fe to construct something new. He leads a workshop July 8-10 in which volunteers can assist in constructing a halfscale Chevy Impala lowrider piñata.

“Whenever I have a big project, I have family and friends helping me in the studio,” Favela says. “With this, I don’t have to beg people to help me.”

Favela typically uses cardboard as a base for the piñatas and then layers on papier-mache and tops it off with colored tissue paper. “I used the piñata style to represent my Latino American identity in the easiest way,” Favela says. “A lot of our culture has been stripped away from us and made American. That’s one of the themes of my work.” In addition to his destructible paper vehicles, Favela applies the same aesthetic to two-dimensional landscape paintings. “I’m taking all these paintings by one of my favorite artists, José María Velasco,” Favela says. “They’re these really fluffy, romantic paintings of Mexico, and I take them a step further in piñata form.”

Favela’s work sure sounds unique, but what SFR really wants to know is, does he fill these things with candy? “I do not,” Favela says. “In the tradition of a true piñata maker, I leave the candy to you.” (Andrew Koss) LOWRIDER PIÑATA WORKSHOP WITH JUSTIN FAVELA: 2-4 pm Friday, July 8, 10 am-4 pm Saturday, July 9, and 1-4 pm Sunday, July 10. Free with museum admission Friday and Saturday, and free to New Mexico residents Sunday.

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“Women nowadays don’t really lie around on beds eating grapes,” artist Catherine Ferguson jokes of her upcoming show at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, Daughter of Rooms. Across 20 paintings in oil and acrylic, Ferguson depicts various women reclined on beds. They’re beautiful portraits of her friends and an interesting new direction for a painter who traditionally works in the medium of retablo. Ferguson came by painting honestly, as the daughter of artist parents (her mother, who died in 2014, studied with Frida Kahlo in the ’40s and will also have work in the show), and tells SFR she had never really done such a series before. (Alex De Vore) Daughter of Rooms: 1-5 pm Friday, July 8. Free.

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

6 pm, free SANTA FE BANDSTAND: LISA CARMEN AND GREG BUTERA Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail, Carmen plays folk rock, and Butera layers a variety including honky-tonk, Cajun and bluegrass. And a bit of Romanian swing.

6-9 pm, free SKY SMEED AND JOE MACK Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana, folk and country from Smeed. Folkadelic bluegrass from Mack.

8 pm, free TIM NOLEN AND RAILYARD REUNION Radish & Rye 548 Agua Frîa St., 930-5325 They cover classics, played in their true bluegrass form. Plus, have you tried the piñon milk punch at this place?

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

6 pm, free

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OPERA LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST Santa Fe Opera 309 Opera Drive, 986-5900 A Western tale of love with pistol-drawing characters and soprano Patricia Racette as heroine Minnie.

8:30 pm, $49-$243

THU/7 ART OPENINGS GRANT KOSH Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Photo-realistic portraiture is this artist’s jam. See some of his newer painted and airbrushed works, including a portrait of Tyrion Lanister.

Through Aug. 3.

5:30 pm, free

“In Da Club” by Yon Hudson, is part of his Coded World, which opens Friday at Santa Fe Collective.

BRAD STROMAN: ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE/2016 MOTOR MAIDS CONVENTION OPEN HOUSE Convergence Gallery 219 W San Francisco St., 986-1245 Stroman’s acrylic paintings on wood panels depict gears, hardware and flowers against textural backgrounds. He employs the wabi-sabi philosophy, which meditates on our relationship with the world and its change over time.

1 pm, free

DANCE

EVENTS

FILM

ENTREFLAMENCO 2016 The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 Antonio Granjero and Estefania Ramirez bring their troupe to the Maria Benitez Cabaret.

8 pm, $25-$50 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Flamenco dancing goes well with Spanish wines and tapasinspired food.

6:30 pm, $25

MAMADOU KELLY: INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART MARKET CELEBRATION Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail The Malian group performs their ethnic music on a variety of instruments on the Bandstand stage. Kelly first picked up a guitar during his childhood in Mali’s Niger River delta and has been transforming musical traditions since.

Enjoy food and a procession of artists participating in the annual market.

6 pm, free

THE PEOPLE VS. FRITZ BAUER Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 A historical thriller starring German actors Burghart Klaussner and Ronals Zehrfeld.

The story displays postwar tensions in Germany when a man receives a letter from an Argentinian who is convinced his daughter is dating the son of infamous Nazi Adolf Eichmann, and the search begins.

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AmericAn Voices

Featuring two world premieres by leading American composers July 19 24m 29 August 4 Christ Church Santa Fe Cathedral Church of St. John, Albuquerque Joshua Habermann, Conductor; Debra Ayers, Piano; Kathlene Ritch, Piano

sephArdic legAcy

July 26 31m August 2 New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe Led by Joshua Habermann; Vanessa Paloma, Vocalist; Fattah Abbou, Oud and Percussion; Polly Tapia Ferber, Percussion

“sounds And sweet Airs”

Commemorating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death July 28 30 August 3 7m The Church of the Holy Faith, Santa Fe Richard Sparks, Guest Conductor; Nathan Salazar, Piano; Anna Farkas,* Actor

pergolesi stabat mater

August 1 7 10 Loretto Chapel, Santa Fe Harry Bicket,** Guest Conductor David Felberg, Violin; Ruxandra Marquardt, Violin II; Shanti Randall, Viola; Sally Guenther, Cello; Jean-Luc Matton, Bass

SOL FIRE El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock, pop and Latin music from the local group.

8:30 pm, free TIM NOLEN AND THE RAILYARD REUNION AT DERAILED Derailed at the Sage Inn 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 Good tunes, a country vibe and a comfy patio.

6:30 pm, free TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Smooth piano action, the smoothest around.

6 pm, free

THEATER DRIVING MISS DAISY Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 An unlikely friendship develops between a wealthy widow and her chauffeur in the Pulitzer-winning play.

7:30 pm, $20 SANTA FE PRO MUSICA LAUGH OUT LOUD Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Silent movies and live comedy may have you belly-aching in the best way.

7:15 pm, $25

FRI/8 ART OPENINGS AFRICAN METAL/AFRICAN FORM Taylor Dale Tribal Art 129 W. San Francisco St., 670-3488 Antique coins, weapons and sculptures.

Noon, free

CHIAROSCURO CONTEMPORARY ART

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BOB FINNIE Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Classics played by a true talent at his nearly nightly spot.

7 pm, free CS ROCKSHOW La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock 'n’ roll tunes from the local group who put the classic in rock.

7:30 pm, free DAVID GEIST: GEIST CABARET Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Piano tunes from the orchestra veteran and local gem of worldly talent who has composed alongside musical legend Stephen Sondheim.

6 pm, $2 JEEZE LAWEEZE Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Covers of Leonard Cohen, Elvis Costello and David Bowie from the trio of fun-loving songbirds.

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

And then even more of that.

9 pm, $7 LILLY PAD LOUNGE Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Old-school funk, hip-hop and soul with Rebel Frog at the helm. Ribbit, ribbit.

10 pm, $7

rAchmAninoV all-night vigil August 11 13 14m Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis, Santa Fe Cathedral Church of St. John, Albuquerque Joshua Habermann, Conductor

m denotes matinee performance. *Anna Farkas is the Associate Director of the International Shakespeare Center. ** Maestro Bicket’s appearance is courtesy of The Santa Fe Opera.

Tickets range from $75-$20 in Santa Fe $55-$40 in Albuquerque Student discounts (with ID) available for most concerts.

Purchase your tickets today by calling our Box Office at (505) 988-2282 ext. 1 or online at www.desertchorale.org

Gayle Crites’ “Beautiful Imperfect” is part of her Ancient Colors exhibit on display at Chiaroscuro Contemporary.

ART SANTA FE Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W Marcy St., 955-6590 A curated selection of artwork from emerging artists around the world.

11 am-5 pm, $10-$25 BRYAN WHITNEY: TINTYPE PORTRAITS David Richard Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St., 983-9555 Tintype portraits from the 1860s (which resemble mug shots) are enlarged in this exhibit and installed to form a semicircle around the viewer.

5 pm, free CATHERINE FERGUSON: DAUGHTER OF ROOMS El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 A spatial installation brings viewers into Ferguson's world as a child and her life with her mother, artist Susan Ferguson.

Through July 31 (see SFR Picks, page 19).

1 pm, free CHRIS GUSTIN, TONY MARSH AND SUNKOO YUH Santa Fe Clay 545 Camino de la Familia, 984-1122 The trio of ceramicists shows the versatility of the medium.

Through Aug. 27.

5 pm, free FATHOMS Radical Abacus 1226 Calle de Comercio Paintings by Ginny Casey, Heidi Hahn, Jared Weiss and others. The sizable group represents a variety of techniques. Through Aug. 14.

7 pm, free FOLK FACES: MASKS OF THE WORLD Steve Elmore Indian Art 839 Paseo de Peralta, 995-9677 Rare folk art masks from around the world highlight the diversity present in the traditional artform. Through Aug. 26.

5 pm, free GAYLE CRITES: ANCIENT COLORS Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art 558 Canyon Road, 992-0711 Crites uses natural material to create her art, including bark and natural pigments that she makes herself. Through Aug. 7.

5 pm, free GIGI MILLS: THE SURRENDER GF Contemporary 707 Canyon Road, 983-3707 Oil paintings that feature scenes from everyday life with simplified elegance. Through July 22.

5 pm, free JEAN RICHARDSON AND REBECCA TOBEY: FORCES OF NATURE Ventana Fine Art 400 Canyon Road, 983-8815 Richardson sticks to equine figures, while Tobey creates small-scale bronze figurines that depict wildlife. Through July 22.

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MUSIC

It Takes Two

Texas’ Voodoo Boogaloo is the answer to all your problems.

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pon a first listen to Voodoo Boogaloo, there are certain comparisons you are bound to make. Personally, thus far, I’m thinking of acts like the super-rad/super-weird Portishead, the catchy/sexy Peaches and the poetry/shoegaze-meets-sick-ass-beats of Advisory Committee-era Mirah, but if I’m trying to just slap a simple genre on ’em, it might be more apt to label it “trip-hop” and call it a day. That’d be a disservice to the product created by young lovers Logan Woodyard and Stephanie Cardona, though, because there is so much more going on under the hood, and frankly, the term “triphop” summons pictures of some seriously obnoxious shit in my brain. But I digress.

“We’re very method,” Woodyard says via phone from his home in Canyon Lake, Texas, conveniently located somewhere between Austin and San Antonio. “We both eat vegan, don’t drink, meditate, we love to adventure .… Everything we’re doing is so we can live healthy, and then I download— which I mean more spiritually—that energy and lifestyle into the writing.”

Woodyard sounds a little more newagey than one might expect from a duo that creates hip-hop infused and extremely dancey post-rock-meets-hiphop. His mother runs a foster home, though, so maybe that positivity and

becoming attuned to nature and your fellow man runs in his blood. As for the music, it fucking bumps. There’s no mind-numbing repetition like we find in so many other similar electronic music styles (though everything is created using Abelton software; everything is very hip; everything makes your damn head bounce) because while you’re busy blasting the album and having your mind blown, Woodyard is tied up while field-recording the sounds of his convertible going up and down at the beach for use on his next beat.

Cardona is, for lack of a better term, the star of the show. Her voice is dropdead gorgeous and, Woodyard says, she lives in that spotlight, son. But it doesn’t bother him any; he’s really more of a beat-smith and sonic curator, even if he does rap from time to time like he did in the old days, back before the pair joined forces and he’d spit rhymes on the streets of Las Vegas (not New Mexico) as performance art.

That was a lifetime ago, though, and Woodyard lives in the now. “The shows are very cinematic to me because I think of it like designing an atmosphere,” he says. “One of my favorite things to do on this earth is to mix sounds and arrange sounds; sounds have such an impact on our system, and if I can organize them in such a way that reaches out to someone in an audience …,” he trails off. But hell, he’s got a lot on his mind. This is a guy who grew up on a horse ranch and who came by hip-hop completely organically. Cardona, he says, played in garage punk bands and came from a more musically rich background before he “stole her for this project.”

And it’s a good thing he did. No more garage for her, no more street beats for him. And we’re reaping all the benefits.

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THE CALENDAR MARK WHITE: MY WORLD AND WELCOME TO IT Mark White Fine Art 414 Canyon Road, 982-2073 The artist focuses on the meeting of land and water, which he paints on a variety of materials, from linen to wood.

Through Aug. 31.

5 pm, free MICHAEL FALCO: ECHOES OF THE CIVIL WAR David Richard Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St., 983-9555 A series of photographs compiled by the artist throughout his journey to historic battle fields from the Civil War. Through Sept. 3.

5 pm, free NAGAKURA KENICHI TAI Modern 1601 Paseo de Peralta, 984-1387 Kenichi makes vessels out of organic material, drawing inspiration from traditional Japanese baskets and vases.

Through July 24.

5 pm, free PAST IS PRESENT: ALTERNATIVE PROCESSES IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY David Richard Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St., 983-9555 See works in presented in photographic-methods, from tintype to platinum palladium by artists Kathleen Bishop, Luther Gerlach, Jackie Mathey and others. Through Sept. 3.

5 pm, free PAUL STEINER: THE WORLD I LIVE IN Back Street Bistro 513 Camino de los Marquez, 982-3500 Rugged landscapes are this artist's thing. We are guessing he is inspired by his surroundings. Through Aug. 21.

5:30 pm, free RUMI VESSELINOVA: OVERWRITE Catenary Art Gallery 616 Canyon Road, 982-2700 Familiar storylines depicted in contemporary settings meditate on the ways technology has altered our lives.

5 pm, free

DANCE

BOOKS/LECTURES

CHRISTOPHER HENLEY First Presbyterian Church SF 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Becker, Bach, Owens, Guilmant and Franck from the organist who is an active member of the American Guild of Organists.

5:30 pm, free CONTROLLED BURN El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 A mix of rock ’n’ roll and blues with a bit of outlaw country sprinkled in.

8:30 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

JOSÉ SKINNER Allå 102 W. San Francisco St., 988-5416 The author signs copies of his new book The Tombstone Race: Stories. We are hoping he is Brendan Fraser's character in The Mummy brought to life.

5 pm, free JUSTIN FAVELA: ARTIST GALLERY TALK New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 The artist-in-residence at the museum and Las Vegas, Nevada, native continues the Summer of Lowriders and creates a small-scale, piñatastyle lowrider to hang from the ceiling in the museum’s lowrider exhibit (see SFR Picks, page 19).

2 pm, free

DANCING IN A HARD PLACE Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 A contemporary dance performance conceived and directed

by Ground Series members Micaela Gardner and Sarah Ashkin, which relies on the ensemble’s engagement in a group dream of embodied connection to Northern New Mexico (see A&C, page 29).

8 pm, $25 ENTREFLAMENCO 2016 SUMMER The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 World-renowned flamenco dancer Antonio Granjero and Estefania Ramirez, featured in the legendary Maria Benitez Cabaret.

8 pm, $25-$50 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Enjoy Spanish wines and tapas, close your eyes real tight and pretend you’re on vacation in Barcelona.

6:30 pm, $25 INVADERS OF THE HEART: TRANSCENDANCE James A Little Theater 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429 A night of dance by Mosaic Dance Company, with special guest Elsanne Barrows of San Miguel de Allende.

7 pm, $25

EVENTS WILD SPIRIT WOLF SANCTUARY FUNDRAISING PARTY Gerard Vachez Gallery 418 Montezuma Ave., 577-8339 Raise money to help wolves!

Artworks by many artists, including Nathalie Fradet, McCreery Jordan and Antonio Weiss. Receive a free tour of the wolf sanctuary with purchase of any wolf-related artwork. $10 raffle tickets with a chance to win great prizes.

5 pm, free

MUSIC

DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Supremely smooth piano stylings.

6:30 pm, free GREG BUTERA & BAND Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Honky-tonk and country from the dreamy, local musical heroes.

7 pm, free JAKA Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Afro-pop played by some talented African drummers.

Major beats.

6 pm, free DJ POETICS Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 All the top 40 hits your dancing-pants desire. Hip-hop, mainstream and EDM. 9 pm, free RUSSEL JAMES PYLE Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Alternative country and folk from a guy who has shared the stage with big names like Reverend Horton Heat.

5 pm, free SANTA FE BANDSTAND: THE RIFTERS Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Laid-back folk and country tunes from the band that feels at home in a mountain town bar or on a concert stage.

6 pm, free THE SANTA FE REVUE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 A band that plays covers and does it well.

8:30 pm, free TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Smooth piano action that you can enjoy with a glass of wine in hand.

6 pm, free VAIN MACHINE AND DIVERJE Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Vain Machine plays gothic dance tunes, and Diverje does the synth-pop thing.

8:30 pm, $5

THEATER DRIVING MISS DAISY Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 An unlikely friendship develops between a wealthy widow and her chauffeur in the Pulitzer-winning play.

7:30 pm, $20 ENTREFLAMENCO 2016 SUMMER The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 Antonio Granjero and Estefania Ramirez, featured in the Maria Benitez Cabaret.

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Hellooooo, Ragazzi!

BY JOH N STEG E

uiz up: When’s the last time you heard “Oh, doo-da-day” sung in an opera house? How about last Friday night at the Crosby Theatre, when Puccini’s ode to America’s Western wilderness, La Fanciulla del West, opened the Santa Fe Opera’s 60th season. Want “Camptown Races”? You got it.

Given the super-colossal popularity of the composer’s big three—La Bohème, Madama Butterfly and Tosca—this 1910 Gold Rush epic gets neglected by audiences nowadays despite its long-standing appeal for music cognoscenti. But as SFO’s brash and bountiful new production happily proves, it’s time to fall in love Patricia Racette takes on Puccini’s Minnie during Fanciulla del West at the Santa Fe Opera. with Puccini all over again, complete with his doo-das and Italianate shout-outs for “Whiskey per tutti!”

Frankly and fortunately, Fanciulla’s libretto tran- murdered at recess on the playing fields of Tularosa.

Chorus master Susan Sheston’s all-male crowd of scends its source, David Belasco’s 1905 blockbuster That’s all been pretty much purged from Fanciulla. hyper-energetic miners hits the big time, vocally and of a mellerdramer, The Girl of the Golden West.­ Some- In its place, find a plethora of Puccini’s jolliest tunes gymnastically. And SFO’s heroic orchestra gets better how or other, Puccini found in that hackneyed far- (you will exit, whistling), embedded in his most gor- every year, here led by Emmanuel Villaume, whose rago of racism, sentimentality and cardboard charac- geous Technicolor orchestration to date (echoes of enthusiasm for the score can occasionally overwhelm terization the germ of a show that Catherine Clément Debussy and R Strauss, maybe a few hints of Janáček his singers. laughably (I hope) dubbed “Mimì’s revenge.” Pucci- to come). There’s a heap of virile choral writing for This production, a joint collaboration with the ni’s “Girl,” Minnie, strong-willed and those unruly miners, and example af- English National Opera, won an Olivier Award, Britkind-hearted, vulnerable and pistolter example of the composer’s love af- ain’s highest honor for operatic achievement, for dipacking, can teach the Psalms and fair with the human voice. rector Richard Jones. It shows. Jones clearly loves still pull three aces and a pair from From SFO’s last Fanciulla outings this show, detail by penetrating detail, and the feelinside her bodice. in ‘91 and ’95, we recall a terrific Mary ing’s mutual. Miriam Buether’s sets provide a surThink serious 19th-century opera Jane Johnson in the title role. Now prising mix of Wild West with, yes, Ikea that forgoes Faniculla heroines, and take your pick: Lucia, it’s on to Patricia Racette for her fresh the immensity of California’s landscape for a nearremains say, or Norma, or Violetta. Likewise, take on Minnie, tender and multidi- claustrophobic focus upon character.

Puccini’s Mimì or Cio-Cio-San or mensional, soft of heart and secure of Nicky Gillibrand’s costumes dress the miners an opera Floria Tosca. Doornail dead, every voice. Although Racette’s still growing with solid individuality, birthmarks and all. Lighting one of them. Then there’s Minnie, into the role, her top notes soar with by Mimi Jordan Sherin and choreography by Lucy that wears vital, canny, a life force and (back to warmth and luminosity, and as a con- Burge never fail to satisfy.

Clément) “made for tomorrow. Tosummate actress, she’ll have you forDespite the effervescent energy of acts 1 and 3 in melancholy morrow she will set out, lit by the getting you’re in an opera house. particular, Fanciulla remains an opera that wears brilliance of her victory.” And so That burly Welshman, Gwyn melancholy on its sleeve, its main characters being on its sleeve. she does, after vanquishing that vile Hughes Jones, sings the unhappy immigrants and palpably homesick—strangers in a lecher, Jack Rance, in a crooked card highwayman-by-inheritance Ramer- strange land. As here, the American dream has been game, rescuing her beloved bandido, rez, aka Dick Johnson, who captures the immigrant’s dream, fulfilled or not. There’s a Dick Johnson, from a mob of miners, Minnie’s heart by comparing her face sad, omnipresent two-word refrain in Fanciulla, cliand then heading off with the boyto an angel’s. Well, Jones’ voice is maxing in the opera’s final notes: “Mai più” (“Never friend for parts unknown. mighty angelic, too, especially in its more”).

Before anything else, Puccini and his librettists, easy stratospheric range. His powerful last-act aria, In the opera’s last measures, Minnie and Dick Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini, had to rescue “Ch’ella mi creda,” describes, touchingly and sadly, a Johnson bid a regretful addio to the Golden West, Minnie from the purulent racism of Belasco’s play. farewell to love and happiness. perhaps aware that “the only true paradise,” in Stage directions for Billy Jackrabbit describe him as Mark Delavan plays odd-man-out in Puccini’s Proust’s phrase, “is the paradise lost.” “a full-blooded Indian, lazy, shifty and beady-eyed,” love triangle, the randy sheriff Jack Rance. It’s pretty who scavenges for cigar butts and steals drinks in much a hiss-the-villain, Scarpia-in-a-Stetson role, Minnie’s Polka Saloon. Wowkle, her servant, repre- but Delavan’s warm and nuanced baritone humansents “the lax, un-corseted, voluptuous type of squaw izes the part as best he can. Among the myriad lesser . . . utterly unreliable and without any ideas of moral- roles, note in particular Alan Glassman’s Nick the LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST: ity.” The bigoted miners of Cloudy Mountain, Cali- bartender, Craig Verm’s fine, sympathetic Sonora, 8:30 pm Wed. July 6 and Sat. July 9. $35-$243. fornia, immigrants all, characterize Hispanics with Nicholas Davis as the minstrel Jake, and Raymond Santa Fe Opera, 301 Opera Drive an epithet that would have got a gringo salado like me Aceto’s vigorous Ashby, the Wells Fargo agent.

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My wife and I have been married for 14 years and in a committed (I assumed) relationship for 17 years. Sex between us (often kinky) has always been great. We have a wonderful life together and two perfect children. I thought we were good; turns out things were too good to be true. I learned recently that my wife has been unfaithful to me throughout our marriage. She began an affair with an older man soon before we were married, and they were physically intimate for five years, including bondage and a Master/ sub relationship. The physical sex stopped, but phone sex and online flirting continued up until I discovered this two weeks ago.

This is a man I know. She has introduced our children to him. There’s more: She slept with another man (just once, more bondage) but also flirted with him online and met up with him while I was away. She slept with yet another man she works with (just once, vanilla this time). She had phone sex with at least two other men and flirted with still more on Facebook. This came out because I was jealous about something that now seems minor and checked her e-mail. (Not proud of that.) She is repentant and relieved that I finally know, and she promises that she will be faithful from now on. I’ll always love her, and I know she loves me. We had one session with a counselor and another is scheduled.

Results were mixed. One thing that came out was that she has never been faithful to a romantic/sexual partner. I could forgive a one-time drunken fling, but this is a consistent pattern of infidelity that runs from the beginning of our marriage, and I had no idea.

I cannot process it. I thought she had always been as loyal as I’ve been, which is to say completely. I can’t put my wedding ring on— it feels like a lie. I have no one to talk to. For the sake of our future, the love we still share, and our children, we are committed to fixing things, but we’re not sure how.

-Heartbroken And Devastated I’m going to preface my response with what someone in my position is expected to say and what, given the circumstances, may even be true: Your marriage is over. The scale, duration, and psychological cruelty of your wife’s betrayals may be too great for you to overcome.

But you didn’t need me to tell you that, HAD. You knew that already. So I can only assume you wrote wanting to hear something else. You don’t need me to outline the reasons you should leave, and you don’t need my permission to go. You wrote because you’re looking for a reason to stay.

I’ll give it my best shot.

A long-term relationship is a myth two people create together. It’s not chemistry, it’s not math, it’s not engineering. It’s a story, HAD, a story we tell each other, a story we tell others, and a story we tell ourselves.

And sometimes it’s a story we have to revise.

Right now, it feels like the story you’ve been telling yourself and others about your marriage is a lie: not partly, but wholly. You thought your marriage was a loving, committed, and “completely loyal” one, but it’s not— it can’t be, and it never was, because she was cheating on you from the beginning.

But loyalty isn’t something we demonstrate with our genitals alone. Your wife wasn’t loyal to you sexually, HAD, and that’s painful. And the conventional “wisdom” is that people don’t cheat on partners they love. But you were married to this woman, and you describe your marriage as good, loving, and wonderful. And it somehow managed to be all those things despite your wife’s betrayals.

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She must have been loyal to you in other ways or you would’ve divorced her long before you discovered her infidelities. Think back over the last 17 years: every kind and loving gesture, every considerate action, every intimacy, every moment you took care of each other— was it all a lie?

I’m not trying to exonerate your wife, and I’m not trying to minimize her betrayal or your pain. But if you want to stay together, HAD, you’re going to have to tell yourself a new story, one that makes room for contradiction (loves you, cheated on you), betrayal (shitloads), apologies (shitloads from her), forgiveness (shitloads from you), and… some accommodations going forward. If I may paraphrase Maya Angelou: When someone finally shows you who they are—after you found the incriminating e-mails—you should believe them. Your wife has never been faithful to you or to anyone else, HAD, at least not sexually. Adjusting your expectations and making accommodations accordingly is more realistic than expecting your wife to become a different person.

Finally, HAD, a little bonus advice. I ran into Esther Perel, author of Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence, the day your letter arrived. Perel is a psychotherapist and couples counselor whose most recent TED Talk (“Rethinking Infidelity”) is one you’re going to want to watch. I shared your letter with Perel and asked her what she thought: Based on her vast experience working with couples confronting infidelity, did she think your marriage was doomed?

“No, I don’t,” said Perel.

Perel’s response honestly surprised me.

We spoke for 10 minutes, and I recorded the conversation. It won’t fit in this space—so I’m going to post Perel’s thoughts as the Savage Love Letter of the Day when this column comes out. So you’re going to get a second opinion from an actual expert, HAD, and— spoiler alert—it’s a hopeful one.

I’m a cis woman in my late 20s. About three months ago, I had my first one-night stand.

I’ve noticed my thoughts have continued to gravitate toward this man ever since— despite having other sexual partners in the interim. I recently ran across his profile on Tinder—however, I’m fairly sure he hasn’t logged on for a while as certain things weren’t up to date. While I obviously swiped right, I’m curious as to whether it would be seen as inappropriate or possibly invasive if I were to reach out via the powers of social media. The night we had went well—it was all incredibly comfortable sexually, and I found him very interesting to talk to both before and after we hooked up. I should mention that I left rather swiftly that evening without grabbing his number in an attempt to “play it cool.” I definitely don’t want to cross social or personal boundaries, but I’d like to see him again.

-Creep There’s nothing creepy about letting someone you fucked know you wanna fuck ’em again or, hey, maybe even date ’em for a while. It gets creepy only if they don’t respond, or if they politely decline, and you keep letting them know you would like to fuck/date them some more.

You liked him, you had a nice time, the sex was good—and you left, stupidly, without his number for fear of looking clingy or uncool.

Social media has come with costs—trolls, bullying, Donald Trump’s Twitter feed—but the ability to locate someone and ask for a doover/screw-over is one of the benefits. So look him up on Facebook or Instagram and send him a note. If you don’t hear back, consider yourself swiped left and move on.

On the Lovecast, the devastatingly hilarious comedian Emily Galati: savagelovecast.com mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter

SAT/9 ART OPENINGS AFRICAN METAL/AFRICAN FORM Taylor Dale Tribal Art 129 W. San Francisco Street, 670-3488 Antique coins, weapons and sculptures from tribal art traditions in Africa.

Noon, free ART SANTA FE Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W Marcy St., 955-6590 A curated selection of artwork from emerging artists from around the world.

11 am-5 pm, $25 YON HUDSON: CODED WORLD Santa Fe Collective 1114 Hickox St., 670-4088 A premiere solo show for the artist who makes collages using textiles and incorporates elements of sound into his work. Through July 30.

6 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES DAY HIKES IN THE SANTA FE AREA 8th EDITION CELEBRATION Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 The Sierra Club hosts the party to launch the newest edition of the guide, which highlights beautiful hikes close to the City Different.

11 am, free JUSTIN FAVELA: ARTIST GALLERY TALK New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 The museum’s artist-in-residence and Las Vegas, Nevada, native continues the Summer of Lowriders with a smallscale, piñata-style lowrider.

2 pm, free with admission LUTHER GERLACH DEMONSTRATION David Richard Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St., 983-9555 In conjunction with his mammoth plate ambrotypes and tintypes, Gerlach leads a demonstration in his customized traveling-darkroom bus.

3-5 pm, free MICHAEL FALCO ARTIST TALK AT DAVID RICHARD GALLERY David Richard Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St., 983-9555 Falco discusses the process of documenting the historic sites and recreated events of the American Civil War. 1-2 pm, free

DANCE DANCING IN A HARD PLACE Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 A contemporary dance performance conceived and directed

by Ground Series members Michaela Gardner and Sarah Ashkin, which relies on the ensembles’ engagement in a group dream of embodied connection to Northern New Mexico.

2 pm, $25

ENTREFLAMENCO 2016 SUMMER The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 World-renowned Flamenco dancer Antonio Granjero and Estefania Ramirez, featured in the legendary Maria Benitez Cabaret.

8 pm, $25-$50 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Flamenco comes with a side of Spanish wine and tapas at the dinner-show.

6:30 pm, $25

EVENTS INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART MARKET: EARLY BIRD MARKET Museum Hill 710 Camino Lejo, 984-8900 Get up super early on a Saturday to grab the folky treasures that us late-sleepers could miss.

7 am, $75 INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART MARKET: SATURDAY MARKET Museum Hill 710 Camino Lejo, 984-8900 With a much better start time (and ticket price), we are betting this is the best chance to feast your eyes on folk art from around the globe.

9 am, $10 LAVENDER FESTIVAL Purple Adobe Lavender Farm P.O. Box 939, Abiquiú, 685-0082 Spend the day at the herbal oasis nestled in the Chama River Valley, at the community-centric event.

10 am, free SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Santa Fe Railyard Plaza Guadalupe Street and Paseo de Peralta A great selection of local produce, meats and cheeses you get directly from the farmer.

All the yummy, fresh ingredients for a lovely weekend dinner.

7 am-1 pm, free

FILM THE AUTEURS: THIRST Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 A marriage disintegrates as a couple travels though wartorn Europe in a story that utilizes the power of memory and integrates the past into the story by showing flashbacks.

7 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 BOXCAR BANDITS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 The Texas-based group melds bluegrass, old-time, Western swing and country to create their own southern sound they call skunkgrass.

1 pm, free BROOMDUST CARAVAN Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Cosmic Americana is what they're calling what they play.

Far out, man.

7 pm, free CHANGO Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Rocking a mixture of covers from the ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s and today, they’re bound to play something you like.

8 pm, free DJ GTFO, TLUXX, NICK NIGEL AND PEZZ Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 Young teen musicians bring a variety of genres and styles to the stage.

7 pm, $5 DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Smooth piano jams make a romantic soundtrack. Get down with your dinner.

6:30 pm, free IYAH BAND Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Good vibes from the reggae group that focuses on positivity in their music.

3 pm, free KIERSTON WHITE Georgia 225 Johnson St., 989-4367 White is a master of her instrument, which is the guitar.

7:30 pm, $10 LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Bad-ass dance music with comedic flare. So laugh and bust a move, if you can do both at the same time.

8:30 pm, $5 ORNETC. JAZZ QUARTET Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Dan Pearlman, Lee Steck, Dave Wayne, Noah Baumeister and Chris Jonas bring their jazz talents to the stage.

7:30 pm, $5 RAY MATTHEW Upper Crust Pizza 329 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0000 Varied styles of guitar and vocals to soundtrack your pizza-eating session.

6 pm, free

SANTA FE BANDSTAND: SON COMO SON Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Albuquerque’s hottest salsa band, directed by renowned trombonist, vocalist, percussionist, composer and arranger César Bauvallet, who began performing in the cabarets of Havana, Cuba, as a teenager.

Serious jams.

6-9 pm, free SANTA FE HOUSE COLLECTIVE Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 A whole lot of house music.

Like, a whole lot.

10 pm, free SO SOPHISTICATED WITH DJ 12 TRIBE Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Hip-hop and EDM. 9 pm, $7 TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Smooth piano action to facilitate your pizza and pasta eating.

6 pm, free WESTIN McDOWELL Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 McDowell knows what he is doing when its comes to making rockabilly music, ask anyone in town.

3 pm, free

THEATER DRIVING MISS DAISY Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 An unlikely friendship develops between a wealthy widow and her chauffeur in the Pulitzer-winning play.

7:30 pm, $20

SUN/10 ART OPENINGS ART SANTA FE Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W Marcy St., 955-6590 The contemporary art show claims to be the second largest art market in the country.

11 am-5 pm, $10-$25 SUNDAY RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Santa Fe Railyard Plaza Guadalupe Street and Paseo de Peralta Buy local art from the artists and enjoy the summer weather.

10 am, free

BOOKS/LECTURES JOURNEYSANTAFE: GREG MELLO AND DENISE FORT Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Mello, the executive director and co-founder of Los Alamos Study Group, and Fort, an attorney, talk policy research and environmental analysis.

11 am, free

ELIZABETH DeCICCO

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with Jason Silverman

Jason Silverman is the Cinematheque Director at the Center for Contemporary Arts, one of the masterminds behind Sembene!, a documentary about African director Ousmane Sembene, and one of the architects of CCA’s soon-to-beover Auteuer series, which has explored some of cinema’s most talented directors. He’s eveything lovable about film, so we said, “Hey man, tell us about movies.” (Alex De Vore) Why are you so into movies, Jason Silverman?

I’m interested in storytelling in a broader sense, and movies are a huge part of how we have that conversation. There’s a lot of commodity-driven storytelling that exists one way or another to sell you something, whereas there’s all these other amazing movies—and novels and art—that exist not for the money, but for the story ... I hope to increase awareness of that.

Tell us a little about the Auteurs series.

For most of cinema’s history, there have been artists working outside the profit-driven model, and theirs are the films that continue to speak to us today. When you see a film like Sembene’s Black Girl played in a theater that also has newer movies ... take Love & Friendship, which we recently played, you can see there’s this continuum of film. The series started up at St. John’s College, and while they won’t have the seminars this year as they have before, we’re very happy to show the films.

Is there anything in the series left that you would call “don’t-miss”?

Well, there are only two left, so I would say to see them both. I mean, anytime you can see an Ingmar Bergman film like Thirst in 35mm, you should do it. The Godard film, Band of Outsiders, is a film-lover’s film made at a time when there were a lot of creative rules to be broken. It’s lively and weird and energetic, and all that comes across in the film.

JUSTIN FAVELA: ARTIST GALLERY TALK New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 The artist-in-residence at the museum and Las Vegas, Nevada, native continues the Summer of Lowriders and creates a small-scale, piñata-style lowrider to hang from the ceiling within the exhibit.

2 pm, free LAMA CHOEDAK: HEALING RELATIONSHIPS Unitarian Universalist Congregation 107 W Barcelona Road, 982-0439 We could all use some goodnatured advice to help us navigate our lives, especially when it comes from the mouth of a monk.

3 pm, $20

DANCE DANCING IN A HARD PLACE Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 A contemporary dance performance conceived and directed

by Ground Series members Micaela Gardner and Sarah Ashkin, which relies on the ensemble’s engagement in a group dream of embodied connection to Northern New Mexico.

2 pm, $25 ENTREFLAMENCO 2016 SUMMER The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 Antonio Granjero presents a summer performance with his troupe at the Maria Benitez Cabaret. Expect castanets, we do.

8 pm, $25-$50

THE LAVENDER FESTIVAL OF 2016 Featured artist for the 2016 Lavender in the Valley Festival poster is Santa Fe photographer Woody Galloway. Woody will be at the festival signing this year’s Lavender Poster.

Gluten-free lunch and desserts in the tea house Complimentary tours — play with lavender at the craft tables Sit and have some gelato while listening to music of the southwest Stroll the lavender fields, shop in the lavender store, or visit with the wonderful artists from around New Mexico under the cottonwood trees

Have a fun day for the whole family — a day you will remember for years to come!

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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 14 dancers and musicians to the Santa Fe stage. Fancy footwork.

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COMMUNITY FUN DAY New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 A chance to explore the summer exhibits free of charge.

Bring the family to the inclusive event with an all-ages treasure hunt and a dress-up photo booth.

1 pm, free INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART MARKET: SUNDAY MARKET AND FAMILY DAY Museum Hill 710 Camino Lejo, 984-8900 The final day of the annual market comes with the lowest ticket prices and activities for the family, like African drum and flamenco performances (see SFR Picks, page 19).

9 am, $15 LAVENDER FESTIVAL Purple Adobe Lavender Farm P.O. Box 939, Abiquiú, 685-0082 Spend the day at the herbal oasis, nestled in the Chama River Valley, at the community-centric event.

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2 pm, free

MUSIC THE BARBWIRES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Soulful blues from a trio of musical dudes.

3 pm, free CHRIS ABEYTA El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 The veteran singer-songwriter plays songs over drinks .

7:30 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 The piano master does his nearly nightly thing on the keys and makes it look easy.

6:30 pm, free GENE CORBIN Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 American tunes from an American dude and his guitar on the outdoor deck.

2 pm, free

GT GARZA, SILENCER AND YUNG JAY: THE NEXT LEVEL TOUR Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 A whole lot of hip-hop from a heafty lineup of talent currently touring the country together.

8 pm, $20 HOT TUNA: MADRID FOLK AND BLUES FEST Oscar Huber Memorial Ballpark State Hwy. 14, Madrid, 474-4893 Food from Mineshaft and entertainment from Boris McCutcheon and the Salt Licks. Fest it up, you guys, it’s summertime.

2 pm, $35 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 DRIVING MISS DAISY Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie,424-1601 An unlikely friendship develops between a wealthy widow and her chauffeur in the Pulitzer-winning play.

2 pm, $20 REVOLUTION Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie,424-1601 A staged reading of a play about gender identity in the Mexican Revolution, written

by Alix Hudson.

7 pm, free

MON/11 BOOKS/LECTURES JAMES F BROOKS: MESA OF SORROWS Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 The professor talks about the Awato'ovi massacre, which took place in Arizona on the Hopi Reservation. This event is part of the Voices from the Past series of lectures.

6 pm, $12 LAMA CHOEDAK: BUDDHISM; FROM ANCIENT WISDOM TO MIND SCIENCE Thubten Norbu Ling Tibetan Buddhist Center 1807 Second Street, Ste. 35, 660-7056 We could all use good advice in our lives, especially when it comes from a monk.

7 pm, $20

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO 2016 SUMMER The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 Antonio Granjero and Estefania Ramirez, featured in the Maria Benitez Cabaret.

8 pm, $25-$50 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Flamenco and tapas. Yum. 6:30 pm, $25

MUSIC COWGIRL KARAOKE WITH MICHÉLE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Michéle Leidig, reigning queen of karaoke, hosts the amateurish fun.

9 pm, free DJ OBI ZEN Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Electronic talent meets drum talent, as Obi Zen combines the methods to make his own blend of music.

10:30 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 The piano man does his nearly nightly thing on the keys.

6:30 pm, free

TUE/12 BOOKS/LECTURES LAMA CHOEDAK: INSIGHT OF TIBETAN BUDDHIST CULTURAL SYMBOLISM Museum of Int’l Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 In Choedak’s last lecture in his trip to Santa Fe, he speaks about Tibetan Buddhism.

12:30 pm, free MARTIN PADGET: THE RADICAL SOUTHWEST Georgia O'Keeffe Education Annex 217 Johnson St., 946-1039 The lecturer speaks about the influential photographs of Paul Strand, which he took in New Mexico during a break from his mentor, Alfred Stieglitz.

6 pm, $5

DANCE ARGENTINE TANGO MILONGA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Tango is one of those dances that makes you think about being sexy and graceful. We aren’t good at being those things but these dancers are.

7:30 pm, free ENTREFLAMENCO 2016 SUMMER The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 Flamenco dancer Antonio Granjero and Estefania Ramirez, featured in the Maria Benitez Cabaret.

8 pm, $25-$50 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Spanish tapas, Spanish wines and flamenco dancing makes you feel like you are in Barcelona, maybe.

6:30 pm, $25

EVENTS SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET SOUTHSIDE Santa Fe Place Mall 4250 Cerrillos Road, 473-4253 Farm-fresh fruits, vegetables, starter plants and snacks plus local meats, cheeses and breads. Flowers and honey, too!

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Footloose Dance show takes viewers on a contemplative ride at the CCA

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or all the contemporary forms of art Santa Fe has to offer, there’s a decisive lack when it comes to dance. Valiantly filling that hole is Ground Series, an effort spearheaded by Sarah Ashkin and Micaela Gardner. They perform their next project, Dancing in a Hard Place, in the gallery of the Center for Contemporary Arts, with the sculptural works of Ellen Babcock and Cannupa Hanska Luger comprising the set.

Dancing in a Hard Place reflects on the devastation of climate change. Ashkin and Gardner began by congregating the dancers and collectively piecing together a document with quotes by poets, scientists and authors, all centered on environmentalism. From there, the group split up and created several individual and small-group vignettes based on the collection of quotes. Ashkin and Gardner then stitched the piece into a congruent whole that leads audience members Everybody’s doing the stump! on a contemplative ride through the relationships among landscape and home and self.

Ashkin is a dancer, choreographer The dancers—Brittany Delany, and faculty member at the New MexAdam McKinney, Ehren Kee Natay, ico School for the Arts. She co-foundAndrew Primm, Sophia Rog, Paolo ed Ground Series in 2012 in Oakland, Speirn and Spencer Toll, as well as Dancing in California, at the Temescal Arts CenAshkin and Gardner—draw from difter, with Brittany Delany, who still ferent backgrounds. McKinney, for a Hard Place is performs with the group and who has instance, currently heads the dance been rehearsing for the current projdepartment at the New Mexico School a conversation ect via Skype. When Ashkin moved for the Arts and had a prior career back to her native Santa Fe, she met dancing for several notable compawith folks who Gardner, also a dancer and chorenies, including Alvin Ailey American ographer, who had co-directed the Dance Theater, Béjart Ballet Lausare hurting and Temescal Arts Center for 10 years. anne and Alonzo King LINES Ballet.

They found in each other a similar McKinney says the choreographers worried. aesthetic and approach to dancehave “crafted an exceptional vision for making. dance-making in taking their time to Their first collaborative project create work that is evocative and conwas Federal Dances in 2014. Presentnected to community.” ed at Federal Park, over 200 people Primm, another member of the came to watch each performance. “The work was collective, is a local musician, theater director and vidabout colonialism in New Mexican history through a eographer. He contacted Gardner about participating modern dance lens,” Ashkin recounts. “That was a re- in Ground Series and can now add “dancer” to his really inspiring start.” sume. “That Micaela and Sarah offered me the opporLast summer’s creation, 123, cemented Ground Se- tunity to be part of this dance has changed my entire ries as a local dance collective. Due to the necessity of routine; in addition to our rehearsals, in the last six working around several dancers’ schedules, the group months I have begun to study ballet and exercise in a created one solo, two duets and three trios. The model local gym,” Primm explains. worked so well Ashkin and Gardner applied the apThe dancers’ experiences also range in background; proach to Dancing in a Hard Place. some come from classical training, while others have “We started by collecting quotations, environmen- studied improvisational modalities. Rog, for instance, tal writings and statistics, and we doled those out and has ample experience in contact improvisation, while made small dances in groups based on the writings,” Toll draws on his familiarity with gaga, a form develAshkin says. “Then we came back together and sewed oped by Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin. it into a cohesive hour-long show. The piece explores “Coming back to New Mexico from California, I nostalgia for landscapes that no longer exist, as well as wasn’t sure where I might find dancers,” Gardner rewhat our bodies might need to become in order to con- calls. “Adam McKinney was my first meaningful dance tinue existing among dwindling resources.” connection here in Santa Fe. Through him, I met Sarah

Ashkin. It’s grown into a homemade effort.”

Dancing in a Hard Place also marks an important turning point in Ground Series. Ashkin is departing for the University of Roehampton in London this fall to complete a master’s degree in dance, politics and sociology. McKinney is likewise departing to Fort Worth, Texas, to take on a tenure-track position in the dance department at Texas Christian University.

“I see Ground Series as having a future. The people we’ve been able to connect with are really amazing collaborators. Even though Adam and I aren’t going to be in Santa Fe, I’m not worried about us not making dance together again. Micaela plans to keep the snowball rolling, and we’re going to keep making a piece a year,” says Ashkin.

McKinney adds, “I will absolutely stay connected to Ground Series and plan to continue to perform with the collective, because I believe the work affects the world in new and positive ways.”

As for Dancing in a Hard Place, Ashkin and Gardner want audiences to take away the idea that art based on critical issues like climate change are an important contribution to how we collectively face those challenges. “When you read the news, you realize we’re in trouble,” Gardner reflects. “Dancing in a Hard Place is a conversation with folks who are hurting and worried.

But I want people to leave feeling there’s hope.”

DANCING IN A HARD PLACE 8 pm Friday, July 8; 2 pm and 8 pm Saturday, July 9; 2 pm Sunday, July 10 $25 ($20 in advance) Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail 982-1338

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THE CALENDAR MUSIC CANYON ROAD BLUES JAMS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Bring an instrument along and join the jam session.

8:30 pm, $5 DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 The piano man does his nearly nightly thing on the keys.

6:30 pm, free ERYN BENT Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Country, folk and Americana with powerhouse vocals.

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14TH ANNUAL SANTA FE BANDSTAND: PARTIZANI BRASS BAND AND TERRANCE SIMIEN Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail New Orleans street brass and beyond from the local group that follows the tradition of NOLO gypsies. Simien, a twotime Grammy Award-winning artist, has shattered myths about Zydeco roots music and created his own sound.

6-9 pm, free TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Smooth piano action for your pizza and pasta eating.

6 pm, free

VOODOO BOOGALOO Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 They say their music is in the trip hop, neo-soul, horror pop and dreamcore genres. We are totally familiar with all of those, totally (see Music, page 23).

10 pm, free

THEATER ENTREFLAMENCO 2016 SUMMER The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 Antonio Granjero and Estefania Ramirez, featured in the Maria Benitez Cabaret.

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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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e were anxious when we heard that the owners of Georgia were remodeling the dining room to accommodate 30 beer taps and shifting to a more approachable focus. Taproom? Bar food? That’s not what SFR loved about Georgia back in late 2014, when executive chef Brett Sparman was running the kitchen, and it’s not what wowed us when we named it Restaurant of the Year in October 2015.

The website now invites diners to “Santa Fe’s favorite downtown gastro pub” for “casual dining.” But just last year, we raved about a creative fine dining menu that offered short rib pasta with wild mushrooms, lamb satay with mint basil pesto and chimichurri-marinated tenderloin. Now there’s a happy hour menu that includes pot pie, mac and cheese, onion rings and chicken wings, all for $6 or $7. The dinner menu boasts a chicken club sandwich.

The change was intended to shift Georgia (225 Johnson St., 989-4367) away from being a destination for tourists and a once-in-a-while splurge for locals, according to chef Leroy Alvarado, who took over the kitchen more than a year ago. In that time, Georgia has also added lunch service (the menu is mostly less-expensive versions of the salads, appetizers and bar food on the dinner menu).

“It feels a little more comfortable,” Alvarado says, especially “coming here with kids, they can hang out on the patio and everything.”

The chef says in the weeks since the new concept debuted, business has noticeably changed. “We’re definitely getting probably another 10 people who come in a least two or three times a week just to have beers,” he says. Although this new contingent of regulars has been attracted to the expanded taproom and more inexpensive food options, the restaurant hasn’t given up on serving an audience interested in fine dining, according to Alvarado.

Much of the menu remains the same, and the familiar shrimp and grits are still there, along with the pan-seared duck breast.

What’s with the sauce, bro?

But the soundtrack to the new Georgia is BB King.

Bwow-pwow-bwow: The thrill is gone, babe.

Like BB said, now that it’s all over, all we can do is wish her well.

This is probably a great business plan. There really aren’t enough places in Santa Fe, or downtown, where you can choose from among so many different beers, including many local and regional craft brews. So this addition to our beer world is a good thing.

And so is creating a place that’s affordable enough to visit once a week. That middle tier of restaurants really should be bigger in Santa Fe. Good move there.

The fact that a beautiful spot downtown, one that had been traditionally the domain of well-heeled tourists and Santa Fe 1-percenters, is now welcoming to rugrats? That’s rad. Parents need more places where they can eat something besides chicken fingers.

So if you’re looking for a place downtown to meet a friend for a drink and a light dinner, maybe catch a little of the game on a massive TV over the bar, then this is probably great news for you. You can get a plate of fish and chips and a couple of beers, plus tip, for $20.

The French fries have been improved; they’re now made in-house and handcut, with a little skin left on and fried very crispy. They’re great.

But some of you will be disheartened to find that Georgia is no longer the kind of place that makes a foodie’s heart sing. On a recent visit, a side of Brussels

sprouts ($8) lacked the promised crispiness, needed salt and were too vinegary.

An appetizer of plump Stone IPA-battered shrimp ($14) was delightful, but it came with a sauce made of bottled sweet chile sauce and mayonnaise that tasted … like it was made of bottled sweet chile sauce and mayonnaise.

That same sweet chile sauce coated an order of slightly soggy wings ($14) that weren’t good enough to warrant finishing.

A housemade salmon burger ($12.50) was dense, dry and fishy, but otherwise tasteless. It came with two different kinds of housemade pickles, which is a cool idea. But the pickles were soggy, and the predominant flavor was vinegar. They lacked salt, spice or a hint of sweetness.

We over-ordered for this meal (as we often do), but we left more food on the table than usual.

Serving a menu of casual plates and bar food is a fine idea, we just wish Georgia could have kept more of the quality and creativity that made us fall in love with it the first time.

AT A GLANCE: Open: 11:30 am-2 pm daily; Happy hour 5-9 pm, Sunday-Thursday Best Bet: Stone IPA battered shrimp and a pint Don’t Miss: Happy hour on the patio

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Something about knitting graffiti generates a joyful energy. When it shows up on stop-sign poles and narrow trees, or as a scarf on the prairie dog of the St. Francis sculpture in front of City Hall, passersby know that someone—and likely a woman who learned the skill from another woman—not only took the time to work the yarn into a piece, but then carried it to the spot and stealthily secured it with a final row of stitches.

Her subversion is a gift. Unlike paint

With nary a sock or sweater, doc spins unexpected stories

that can mar with its permanence, these colorful strands of fiber seldom last one more twirl around the sun. They are like blooms on the cholla. Appreciate them between the spines of the rest of the scene. Know they will fade.

Watching Icelandic yarn graffiti artist and sheep rancher Tinna Pórudóttir Porvaldsdóttir release the 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.

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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.

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

Adding another layer are sparse bits of narration from Barbara Kingsolver. The writer, known for her foray into hyperlocal eating with Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: A Year of Food Life and novels like The Poisonwood Bible, which put complex female characters at the center, has written a piece of prose about knitting. The lines that you hear from Where It Begins include her creation story (of sorts): “Everything starts, of course, with the sheep and the grass. Beneath her greening scalp the earth frets and dreams, and knits herself wordless.”

And it’s that wordless thing, that feeling of making and sharing, that’s so powerful.

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

SWISS ARMY MAN

“Everything is just so preciously self-

indulgent”

FREE STATE OF JONES

“The whole thing smacks of the unfor-

tunate white savior trope”

LAST CAB TO DARWIN “You don’t have to drive across the bush to figure out how it ends”

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

“Now we see Taymor’s genius”

NOW YOU SEE ME 2

“It isn’t that the performances are bad per se”

SWISS ARMY MAN 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, fart-propelled 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-the-yard 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 selfindulgent 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 only OK, and everyone else can just wait for it to hit Netflix. (Alex De Vore) Violet Crown, R, 97 min.

FREE STATE OF JONES

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, seri-

ously—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 CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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ok They seriously could have called this movie Swiss Army Farts. 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.

(ADV) Violet Crown, DeVargas, Regal 14, R, 139 min.

LAST CAB TO DARWIN With a few notable exceptions, our modern culture does a piss-poor job of confronting mortality. We’re bad at dealing with our own impending death, and we’re worse when the death of a loved one is looming. Medical advances mean we try to keep ourselves (and each other) alive as long as possible, even if it involves long stretches bedridden in hospitals with weird machines keeping the Grim Reaper at bay. Despite that, we can grasp the concept that letting a loved one die, or helping him, is OK—as long as that loved one is a dog or cat or horse.

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

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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

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Endless billows of chiffon, surreal lighting and flexible bamboo stilts—no, it’s not Cirque du Soleil, it’s acclaimed director Julie Taymor’s (The Tempest) interpretation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The work is known as a comedic fairy tale already, but Taymor adds her own special style, bringing the story to a higher, more ethereal level.

Dream opens in darkness, with a lone light shining on a comfy bed. A mime-like Puck appears and lies down on the bed, which is then mechanically lifted up toward the top of the stage. Now we see Taymor’s genius: Four construction workers appear onstage, and a chainsaw separates the real world from fantasy. And so it starts, as if the viewer has been split between worlds.

“Fantasy” hardly describes this production, as Taymor revamps the presentation using theatrical techniques such as puppetry, mime, dance and music, along with aerial work.

Taymor is well-known for her original concepts in film, and here she stages the blissful comedy about love and its many obstacles in both earthly and spirit worlds. In doing so, she creates an illusion of light and dark, with all that each side encompasses.

The audience is offered originality at its finest, and Taymor’s imagination is over the top; she uses bamboo poles to represent the simple backdrop of the dark forest where the disenchanted lovers take flight. She reminds us of the hurdles that love must sometimes endure.

After all, “the course of true love never did run smooth,” especially in the Bard’s plays.

Taymor stretches the imagination and presents a unique take on one of the canon’s most enchanted comedies. As she presents Shakespeare’s fantasy of immortal and mortal lovers who become lost in the woods, Taymor mesmerizes the audience and invokes visions that can only be found in the safety of sleep. After all is done, it is Taymor who is the true star of the movie. She puts everything into this production, but with some restraint to the message of love and the hoops that have to be jumped through to achieve it.

(Rose Antonelli-Fatton) CCA, NR, 164 min.

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meh A white dude saves the day in Free State of Jones. Snooze.

NOW YOU SEE ME 2 In Now You See Me 2, much of the original cast is reunited (save Isla Fisher, who is replaced here by the always enjoyable Lizzy Caplan of Mean Girls) to once again use magic as a means of exacting social justice on millionaires and tech moguls who have no respect for anything more than their bottom line. Our heroes are The Horsemen, a four-magician squad, led from the shadows by Mark Ruffalo, whose team is way good at big-spectacle tricks and stealing things to expose jerks.

The Horsemen have been in hiding, waiting for orders from The Eye, some kind of clandestine society of magicians that operates in secrecy and from whom Ruffalo siphons out magic-related missions. It’s fairly absurd, but God help us, it sure is fun. Each of the magicians has their own special ability. Jack Wilder (Dave

Franco of the ill-fated and just awful wind-down of Scrubs), for example, is awesome at card tricks while Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson) can hypnotize just about anyone. Danny Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg) is more of an all-around trickster and is sort of the first mate of the crew, and newcomer Lula (Caplan) … actually, she mostly just acts boy-crazy and says minimally feminist things like, “Did you ask the guys if they could ride a motorcycle, or was it just me?”

It isn’t that the performances are bad per se, rather that so many little twists and turns are packed into Now You See Me 2 that no one is allowed any room to do much outside of exist. Still, the movie wants us to root for The Horsemen, so we do, and by the time we hit the prestige, we had a fairly enjoyable ride and saw a couple neat magic tricks along the way. (ADV) Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 129 min.

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DOUG was 6 weeks old when he and his siblings were found running around the yard of a person who had been trying to catch his mama, a wild stray cat. This kind person took them all in.

Now Doug has a taste what it’s like having a loving, comfortable, warm home. Doug is 9 weeks old and ready to find his forever family and home.

LITTLE MAN has quite the big heart; he’s a fantastic little dog with a lot of love to share. When he arrived he had just been hit by a car and had a horrific break in his leg that wasn’t repairable.The Vets amputated his leg and now he’s on the fast-track to recovery.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Events in the coming week may trick your mind and tweak your heart. They might mess with your messiah complex and wreak havoc on your habits. But I bet they will also energize your muses and add melodic magic to your mysteries. They will slow you down in such a way as to speed up your evolution, and spin you in circles with such lyrical grace that you may become delightfully clear-headed. Will you howl and moan? Probably, but more likely out of poignant joy, not from angst and anguish. Might you be knocked off course? Perhaps, but by a good influence, not a bad one.

aspect with your Moon. The psychic surgeons cut and splice according to your specifications, enabling you to be re-coded with the destiny you desire. Unfortunately, the cost of this pioneering technology is still prohibitive for most people. But here’s the good news, Libra: In the coming months, you will have an unprecedented power to reconfigure your life’s path using other, less expensive, purely natural means.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) In high school I was a good athlete with a promising future as a baseball player. But my aspirations were aborted in sophomore year when the TAURUS (April 20-May 20) In the book A Survival Guide coach banished me from the team. My haircut and wardto the Stress of Organizational Change, the authors tell you robe were too weird, he said. I may have been a skillful how to raise your stress levels. Assume that others are shortstop, but my edgy politics made him nervous and responsible for lowering your stress levels, they say. mad. At the time I was devastated by his expulsion.

Resolve not to change anything about yourself. Hold on to Playing baseball was my passion. But in retrospect I was everything in your life that’s expendable. Fear the future. grateful. The coach effectively ended my career as a jock, Get embroiled in trivial battles. Try to win new games as steering me toward my true callings: poetry and music you play by old rules. Luckily, the authors also offer sugand astrology. I invite you to identify a comparable twist gestions on how to reduce your stress. Get good sleep, in your own destiny, Scorpio. What unexpected blessings they advise. Exercise regularly. Don’t drink too much caf- came your way through a seeming adversary? The time is feine. Feel lots of gratitude. Clearly define a few strong ripe to lift those blessings to the next level. personal goals, and let go of lesser wishes. Practice forSAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Do you remember that giveness and optimism. Talk to yourself with kindness. turning point when you came to a fork in the road of Got all that, Taurus? It’s an excellent place to start as you your destiny at a moment when your personal power formulate your strategy for the second half of 2016. wasn’t strong? And do you recall how you couldn’t GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Normally I’m skeptical about muster the potency to make the most courageous miraculous elixirs and sudden cures and stupendous choice, but instead headed in the direction that seemed breakthroughs. I avoid fantasizing about a “silver bullet” easier? Well, here’s some intriguing news: Your journey that can simply and rapidly repair an entrenched problem. has delivered you, via a convoluted route, to a place not But I’m setting aside my caution as I evaluate your prostoo far from that original fork in the road. It’s possible pects for the coming months. While I don’t believe that a you could return there and revisit the options—which sweeping transformation is guaranteed, I suspect it’s far are now more mature and meaningful—with greater more likely than usual. I suggest you open your mind to it. authority. Trust your exuberance.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) As I gaze into my crystal ball and invoke a vision of your near future, I find you communing with elemental energies that are almost beyond your power to control. But I’m not worried, because I also see that the spirit of fun is keeping you safe and protected. Your playful strength is fully unfurled, ensuring that love always trumps chaos. This is a dream come true: You have a joyous confidence as you explore and experiment with the Great Unknown, trusting in your fluidic intuition to guide you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “You can only go halfway into the darkest forest,” says a Chinese proverb. “Then you are coming out the other side.” You will soon reach that midpoint, Leo. You may not recognize how far you have already come, so it’s a good thing I’m here to give you a heads-up. Keep the faith! Now here’s another clue: As you have wandered through the dark forest, you’ve been learning practical lessons that will come in handy during the phase of your journey that will begin after your birthday.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) I love writing horoscopes for you. Your interest in my insights spurs my creativity and makes me smarter. As I search for the inspiration you need next, I have to continually reinvent my approach to finding the truth. The theories I had about your destiny last month may not be applicable this month. My devotion to following your ever-shifting story keeps me enjoyably off-balance, propelling me free of habit and predictability. I’m grateful for your influence on me! Now I suggest that you compose a few thankyou notes similar to the one I’ve written here. Address them to the people in your life who move you and feed you and transform you the best.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) After an Illinois man’s wife whacked him in the neck with a hatchet, he didn’t hold a grudge. Just the opposite. Speaking from a hospital room while recovering from his life-threatening wound, Thomas Deas testified that he still loved his attacker, and hoped they could reconcile. Is this admirable or pathetic? I’ll go with pathetic. Forgiving one’s allies and VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) My devoted contingent of priloved ones for their mistakes is wise, but allowing and vate detectives, intelligence agents, and psychic sleuths is enabling their maliciousness and abuse should be taboo. constantly wandering the globe gathering data for me to Keep that standard in mind during the coming weeks, use in creating your horoscopes. In recent days, they have Aquarius. People close to you may engage in behavior reported that many of you Virgos are seeking expansive that lacks full integrity. Be compassionate but toughvisions and mulling long-term decisions. Your tribe seems minded in your response. unusually relaxed about the future, and is eager to be emancipated from shrunken possibilities. Crucial in this PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Can water run uphill? Not wonderful development has been an inclination to stop usually. But there’s an eccentric magic circulating in your obsessing on small details and avoid being distracted by vicinity, and it could generate phenomena that are comtransitory concerns. Hallelujah! Keep up the good work. parable to water running uphill. I wouldn’t be surprised, Think BIG! BIGGER! BIGGEST! either, to see the equivalent of stars coming out in the daytime. Or a mountain moving out of your way. Or the LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) After years of painstaking trees whispering an oracle exactly when you need it. Be research, the psychic surgeons at the Beauty and Truth alert for anomalous blessings, Pisces. They may be so Lab have finally perfected the art and science of Zodiac different from what you think is possible that they could Makeovers. Using a patented technique known as be hard to recognize.

Mythic Gene Engineering, they are able to transplant the planets of your horoscope into different signs and Homework: Imagine that thanks to scientific astrological houses from the ones you were born with. breakthroughs and good luck, you’re alive in 2096.

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