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A Manufactured Crisis

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here’s a saying where I come from that warns those seeking to stir up trouble in peaceful and productive situations: Don’t start nothin’, there won’t be nothin’.

Folks with common sense on the receiving end of these words take the cue to weigh the consequences of instigating a fight just for the sake of fighting. Usually, the statement is enough to diffuse a situation and secure the peace. But sometimes an issue is important enough that the parties involved step over the warning and simply throw down.

It’d be nice if New Mexico’s elected officials used this efficient approach to conflict. But alas, many of them seem content to snipe at one another for political points rather than implementing solutions. New Mexico’s ongoing legislative battles over undocumented immigrants having access to driver’s licenses, and the recent showdown with the feds over Real ID compliance reeks of political grandstanding of the worst kind.

In light of the fact that New Mexico, and half the states in the union, are still considered noncompliant with the Department of Homeland Security’s Real ID deadline set for Jan. 15, the agency recently announced that it has delayed compliance enforcement for Real ID on air travel to 2018. This means that all state-issued driver’s licenses, New Mexico included, will be accepted as identification for domestic air travel.

Hence, the fear-mongering, blamegaming and political wrangling which foretold civic collapse and an air travel apocalypse (done by the same folks entrusted with solutions) should now end, right? Wrong!

Our legislators are still at it. In fact, no sooner had the news broken about extending the travel-compliance deadline than the games began, again. Dueling statements from Gov. Susana Martinez, Republican House Speaker Don Tripp and Democratic House Minority Leader Brian Egolf appear to have devolved into a verbal relay of I know you are, but what am I? Each of them claim that now it’s up to the other side to compromise—something they haven’t

pulled off in the many years since the federal law was adopted in 2005 and it was clear that our state’s ID policies didn’t meet it. I offer this a reminder: By definition, elected officials are all expected to compromise. So I’ll say what I’m sure many New Mexicans are thinking: Stop stating the obvious and do your job.

Real ID compliance and immigrants having driver’s licenses are not mutually exclusive outcomes. It is baffling to me why our officials seem so determined to make nothin’ somethin’ to score political points. Figure it out.

Governance should be for the greater good for all the people in this state.

Surely there are plenty of other problems that need our officials’ attention (child poverty and hunger, homelessness, schools that are in trouble, a recent spate of high-level political corruption and on and on …).

Here’s the Thing: The rhetoric and rancor of the past several years over undocumented immigrants having access to New Mexico state driver’s licenses is a clear case of starting nothin’ for nothin’, for personal political gain. If we must call it something, let’s call it ridiculous. The decision by the feds to extend the deadline for Real ID enforcement points to the fact that they are finally willing to confront the problems that strict enforcement of the original deadline would have created. Though it’s still uncertain at federal facilities and national labs (read more about this in Thomas Ragan’s news story on page 11), the latest move from Homeland Security gives our officials time to find the political will to once and for all address this particular administrative and logistical challenge. Several solutions already exist, they need only be implemented with cooperation.

Andrea L Mays is an American Studies scholar and a Santa Fean. Her twicemonthly column addresses 20th-century and contemporary culture and politics through the everyday experiences of living in Santa Fe. Write the author: andrea@sfreporter.com

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lustered in core packs of their own, nearly 100 supporters of the federal Mexican Gray Wolf Recovery Program line the back wall and fill the seats of a New Mexico Game Commission meeting in Santa Fe on Jan. 14.

They’re here to encourage the state-appointed commissioners to overturn an earlier decision that had forced the privately owned Ladder Ranch to stop holding wolves for release into the wild—an essential piece of the federal program that’s reintroducing the animals in the Southwest.

The commission isn’t allowing public comment sioners, occasionally nodding or resting an index finon that decision, so when the agenda turns to wolves, ger against his mustache.

Phillips nods again when Kienzle says that if the activists silently hold up small yellow signs with the Turner Endangered Species Fund decides to reapply, words “More Wolves, Less Politics.”

After the unanimous vote to uphold the decision he might put it on the agenda as soon as April.

The vote doesn’t mark an end, says Kienzle: “I preand reject the permit, forced laughter fills the room when two different commissioners say the state isn’t fer to get things done cooperatively, rather than butt heads.” opposed to the program itself.

Phillips nods again.

In response to the noise—short bursts of bitter And then he gets to work. cackling that sound like a cross between Dr. Evil in By the next day, he has drafted a new letter to Game Austin Powers and the deer head in Evil Dead II— and Fish Director Alexa Sandocommissioners Robert Espinoza val, asking her to let Turner bring and William Montoya both tell wolves back onto the ranch. people in the audience to laugh The compromise? The US Fish all they want. and Wildlife Service has agreed it “Our job is the management won’t release any wolves that are of wolves, not to just hold the older than two months. door open and say, ‘Here they In his letter, Phillips asks Sancome,’” Montoya says. “It’s prodoval to allow eight wolves onto gressing, whether you want to the ranch: an adult pair and three believe that or not.” puppies currently in Washington During all of this, Mike Philthat are scheduled for release in lips, director of Turner EndanMexico, and three other males— gered Species Fund, sits alongnone of which would be released side department employees in within New Mexico. the front row. Over the course “I’m hopeful,” he says. “This is of nearly two decades, Turner’s a way forward. Ladder Ranch can 156,000-acre Ladder Ranch has come back online and advance held about 100 wolves, more Mexican wolf recovery in a way than 30 of which have been rethat’s respectful to the needs and leased into the wild. concerns of the citizens of New His light-colored hair is Mexico.” pulled back in a ponytail beSince 1998, the US Fish and neath a baseball cap, which gives Signs serve as testimony during a Wildlife Service and its state and Game Commission hearing. the longtime Montana state sentribal partners have been releasator a relatively bedraggled look. ing wolves into Arizona and New Mexico, with the He and his youngest daughter are currently growing hope of bringing back a species that had been extirout their hair in support of a classmate with cancer.

Following the vote, Chairman Paul Kienzle ad- pated from the US by the 1950s. The program itself traces back to the 1980s, though it’s never run pardresses Phillips directly.

“You have an entire year to—not to go back to the ticularly smoothly. There have been problems with drawing board, because it’s not that dire, as I see it,” inbreeding and kerfuffles with ranchers who oppose the program.

Kienzle said, “but to find some middle ground.”

While scientists have tried to put down their heads Throughout the meeting, Phillips has remained still and quiet, looking straight ahead at the commis- and get to work—and environmental organizations

have cheered for the predator’s recovery—the political gap between the state and the feds has often been cavernous.

During the Bush administration, for example, when the US Fish and Wildlife Service implemented a new procedure requiring them to kill wolves that were repeatedly preying on livestock, it was the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish that spoke against killing some of those wolves.

Then, as recovery took a higher priority under Obama, Republican Gov. Susana Martinez pulled back the reins. In June 2011, the Game Commission voted to end the state’s participation in the program.

Last year, the commission refused to give the feds permission to release wolves here.

While the feds can move forward without the state’s approval, the agency prefers to have it. That’s why the agency says it has not released any wolves in New Mexico since June.

According to its most recent numbers, the wild population is at about 110 animals. That number has been growing since 2010, says Sherry Barrett, coordinator for the federal wolf program, but that’s not the only concern.

“Our releases right now are not targeted toward growing the population, but toward improving the genetic health of the wild population,” Barrett says.

“Because right now, the genetic diversity of the captive population is greater than the wild population.”

When Sandoval denied Turner’s permit in May, she cited the federal government’s inability to come up with a new recovery plan for the wolves. The Turner Endangered Species Fund appealed that decision, saying the private ranch was being singled out unfairly. (Captive wolves are still allowed at Sevilleta National Wildfire Refuge and Albuquerque’s BioPark.)

But publicly, and in interviews with SFR, commissioners say they are willing to work with Turner.

Speaking to SFR at the meeting, Commissioner Elizabeth Ryan said a new request would allow the commission to better debate the program’s merits.

“So then we can have an open discussion about the middle ground approach, a compromise,” Ryan said.

“We want wolves with a plan. We don’t just want to be releasing wolves willy-nilly in New Mexico.”

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Real ID drama looms while federal facilities make their own rules about access for now

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fter watching a series of opening day ceremonies, then listening to pat-on-the-back introductions and to Gov. Susana Martinez’ lengthy state of the state speech, legislators are finally getting to work. Up next, they’ll see how their ideas fare in the session that lasts until March 18 and promises to tackle ethics and campaign finance reform, along with the balancing the state budget.

They’re also entering an arena where already a number of proposals seek to address what federal officials say is the state’s noncompliance with the Real ID Act. The big drama is for the state’s thousands of undocumented residents. Many of them have been driving legally in the Land of Enchantment but living illegally in the US. The next month could prove pivotal in the highly politicized debate that has had a real effect, no just on the undocumented but on citizens alike. Up until a few weeks ago, no one knew whether they’d be able to use their New Mexico driver’s licenses to board airlines or even enter a federal courthouse.

The situation isn’t as urgent as it was around Christmas, in light of the federal government’s recent two-year extension, in which it made clear that our licenses would still be valid for airplanes, provided travel is within the US. But their use at federal facilities is still flapping in the wind. Sandia National Laboratories and White Sands Missile Range have turned license-wielding civilians back at their gates, and while Los Alamos National Laboratories is still accepting state IDs for visitors, they could just as easily follow suit.

Which is why Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard, DLos Alamos, says she wants to solve the problem now.

She’s introduced a bill to grant the Taxation and Revenue Department the immediate right to distribute Real ID-compliant licenses to those who qualify, via the state Motor Vehicle Department.

“It’s now or never,” says Garcia Richard, some of whose constituents work at the lab as contractors and use their current state driver’s licenses to gain entry. They’re waiting for the hammer to drop at any moment, federal reprieve or not. “We just don’t know what’s going to happen next.”

So with my newfound freedom, I decide to pay a visit to Los Alamos National Laboratory, which put an end to World War II with its atom bomb. Today, in addition to weapons projects, scientists there study everything from groundwater to water on Mars.

As I drive up the hill, I think about wildfires that have crept onto the lab property twice in the last two decades and how much everyone freaks out. The last thing you want is fire on the mountain. That, or a jihadist bomb.

LANL visitors aren’t suffering from New Mexico’s Real ID non-compliance yet, but a lawmaker says that could be coming.

After about a half-hour’s drive from Santa Fe, I stop such musings as I come to a row of gates in front of LANL off NM Hwy. 501, a place I expected to resemble a future Trump checkpoint along the USMexico border.

I saunter right in, without even having to show any form of ID. And I’m driving a beat-up pickup with a large tinted camper shell. But the guard waves me through. He forgets to ask me for an ID. I think I sidetracked him by telling him I was with the media and I was hoping to talk to someone in public affairs, but nobody was expecting me.

It’s now or never. ... We just don’t know what’s going to happen next.

In his willingness to help, he just forgot. He tells me to report the Otowi Building. I park, walk downstairs, leave public affairs a message by dialing them from the reception desk there, wait about 15 minutes for a callback, and then scram.

But on the way out, I decide to use the restrooms on the second floor. Then I notice there’s a cafeteria.

Closed, dammit. But the back patio isn’t, nor were the mountains, so I walk outside and took them in. It’s hard to shut down the southern tail of the Rockies, ID or no ID. And of course, there are signs everywhere that proclaim I’m under video surveillance, the logic always mystifying me, informing the very evildoers that they’re being watched.

Kevin Roark, a spokesman with the lab, later tells me via email that the Otowi Building and the J Robert Oppenheimer Study Center are open to the pub-

lic. But he cautioned that all visitors need to let LANL know they’re coming, something I didn’t do, and that they need to be escorted at all times, something I wasn’t, and that they can’t be wandering around the grounds, which I kind of did but just a little, inside an isolated area.

Technically, he says, visitors could be cited for trespassing, if they’re not there on official business, which I was.

My point isn’t to make LANL look bad, or me, for that matter.

The good news is I’m a US citizen, and both my parents were born on US soil, and my mother gave birth to me on the South Side of Chicago, her water breaking on the brand-new living room carpet, which makes me a terrorist in my own right.

But it also qualifies me for the US presidency more than Ted Cruz, at least at the moment.

So if I’m elected, I’d get rid of the Real ID Act and, since we’re already being watched, put Big Brother to use by monitoring the Internet, which is often the source for homegrown radicalization. Leave the states and their citizens alone.

There are reasons why only 22 states so far have met federal standards and the rest are still working on them: It’s complicated.

What’s more, quite a few states disagree with the Real ID Act on principle, because the information on their residents will soon be shared in a national database.

And there’s a reason why a dozen states allow their undocumented residents to legally drive: because it was the only solution in the absence of US Congress passing comprehensive immigration reform, which would have made all things uniform.

Now such weighty decisions are in the hands of the legislators in the Roundhouse, where Gov. Martinez, a Republican, has been hell-bent on repealing the state’s rules on driver’s licenses for those lacking proof of US citizenship. And, already, in addition to Garcia Richard’s bill, three other ID proposals have been introduced in the House.

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t a time when minds usually wander far from classrooms, the start of winter break this year instead saw students, parents and teachers anxiously gathering to discuss whether their school would even survive to see another autumn. In the first days of their weeks off, about 30 people took seats at tables in the Capshaw Middle School library, alongside two of the district’s five-member board, Maureen Cashmon and Steve Carrillo. They asked questions and talked about their opinions on the proposed merger of their school with De Vargas Middle School.

Capshaw’s interior hallways were lined with posters covered in points from class discussions, where students and teachers wrangled with the pros and cons of the proposal. The list of negatives often stretched far longer.

“I’ve heard from hundreds and hundreds of people,” Santa Fe Public Schools Superintendent Joel Boyd said weeks later, at the Jan. 12 school board meeting. “There is not a popular decision to be made. There is not consensus on any one side of this issue.”

The discussion of what’s happening to these schools has been circulating as a series of dominoes have fallen. De Vargas, in particular, saw it coming— its enrollment having dropped to a third of capacity and leaving room to share its campus with Mandela International Magnet School, the district’s recently launched International Baccalaureate program.

For Capshaw, the announcement that an out-ofstate consulting company had recommended combining the school with De Vargas came as a shock.

So Board of Education members agreed to sit down with concerned teachers, parents and students, who were sent off to their holiday break with word that the school would likely close. The Capshaw session was one of a dozen to gather feedback on the proposal in the month between the board meeting debuting the plan and the one in which board members would try to determine the next steps for these schools.

Enrollment at the district’s three middle schools, Capshaw, De Vargas and Ortiz, has hovered below capacity in recent years. De Vargas has the highest

rate in the district of students transferring out and use that space for the in-demand school to add saw enrollment drop from 325 seventh and eighth grades and increase class sizes.

The Board of Education initially suggested it graders last year to 234 this year—in a school building with a capacity for 653. That’s almost as many would make a decision on the proposal during its middle schoolers as are enrolled in Capshaw and Jan. 12 meeting, but that quickly began to look De Vargas together, which has fueled the conversa- hasty despite pressure to act in time to appropriately draft the 2017 bond to pay for school projects. tion about joining the schools.

“I don’t feel that I can make the decision to make “We have a total of 660 kids. We can’t have two schools,” Carrillo told meeting attendees. “The an- this big of a change in this short of a time,” Board swer is yes, we’re going to combine the two schools.” of Education member Linda Trujillo said that day.

It’s not a question of whether this happens, he “I quite honestly haven’t heard how this is going to improve academics. I’ve heard said, it’s when and how and at how it’s going to save operationwhich campus. He’s an outlier al money, and I’ve heard how it’s on the school board, however, going to increase choices, but where members have hesitated those in my mind don’t connect to commit to a course of action. to how it’s going to improve aca“We look at the facilities, and demics.” we know Capshaw is in need of Public testimony, a presensome major improvements, and tation from school district staff then we look at where our stuanalyzing the proposed changes dents are,” said Cashmon, whose and discussion among board daughters went to Capshaw. “De members, all told, lasted more Vargas, I think everybody knows, than seven hours. In the end, is a small community in a school the board decided consolidating far too big.” the schools in time for the next The meeting took place under school year is too soon. a banner naming Leah Harvey Carrillo challenged the Middle School and Harrington choice.

Junior High, schools closed and “I don’t think we’re moving merged in 1976 to make Captoo quickly,” he said, arguing shaw Middle School.

Superintendent Joel Boyd the changes should begin in fall In a Dec. 14 presentation of 2016. “Otherwise, we’re conto the Santa Fe Public Schools sciously leaving another class Board of Education, Atlantic Research Partners, a consulting firm that focuses behind.”

Pointing to the Algebra 1 scores, which show sinon education issues, suggested consolidating Capshaw and De Vargas into one middle school at the gle-digit percentages for proficient scores of stumore centrally located De Vargas campus on Llano dents at De Vargas and Ortiz, and 16 percent (eight Street, both as a cost-saving measure and as a way total students) at Capshaw tested as proficient, he to increase the number of “high-performing seats” said, “There’s always risk, but with risk comes gain. in the district. That school would have enough stu- If we don’t do anything, those are the numbers we dents to offer a breadth of programs, from band to can expect over coming years.”

Boyd tells SFR his takeaway from the meeting is robotics, and save the district the overhead of running separate schools when the per-student fund- that the board wants him to find the funds to continue subsidizing the middle school program, not ing doesn’t fully support both.

The Mandela International Magnet School, the yet view the schools as in a transition period, and district’s only International Baccalaureate Pro- consider hiring a principal for a full year of program gram, would then move to Capshaw’s campus and development before the new school opens. The toELIZABETH MILLER

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tal cost of that approach, he estimates, is $650,000.

“They brought me in here to initiate change and generally when we determine that change is warranted, then everybody wants to remain the same,” says Boyd, who also points out that this study of kindergarten to eighth grade school programs was commissioned because of guidance from the board.

“Every time we’ve done something large-scale in terms of our change agenda, there’s been an enormous amount of resistance. Then after we do it, everybody celebrates it.”

As evidence, he points to the success of schools like Engage, Mandela and Nina Otero.

“I think if we move too fast, and haven’t put the proper thought, research, planning into the academic programming, that we could end up with basically just the merging of two schools and no better quality than what we have now,” Board of Education President Susan Duncan tells SFR. “You can’t just put the two schools together and assume or hope that the merged school is going to be more successful than the two we have now.”

Duncan was working at Kaune Elementary when the district decided to close that school and merge it with three others to create Aspen Community Magnet School on the site of Alameda Middle School. Then, she worked at Aspen. The response to this proposal sounds all too familiar.

“A lot of what we’re hearing from Capshaw is fear, fear of the other, that those kids are different. … Kids are kids, and they were all friends,” Duncan says. “The social and cultural concerns about mixing the communities were not a big problem, even though there may have been, in the beginning, some concerns about that. Kids are

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very resilient, and they’re open to new experiences and new people, so the students adjusted very quickly. Parents were a little slower.”

Aspen struggled as a school for reasons she attributes to lack of a clear academic plan. Though it took time for people to forget Alameda’s reputation and forge a new identity, that did come and, in a lot of ways, faster and easier than expected, she says. For those parents who were on board and positive about the change, it came even faster, and their kids picked up on those emotions—as they did with the opposite.

The district’s recently launched “I love SFPS. There’s a lot to love” campaign came up at the last school board meeting, as a Capshaw parent turned that around on the board, saying, “We love Capshaw. There’s a lot to love.”

“Capshaw has been around for a long time. We have a core of teachers who have established traditions, customs that we know work,” Aaron Abeyta, a Capshaw teacher, said during the last board meeting. “We consider ourselves experts on middle school. Middle school is a tough time for a lot of students. We feel like we’ve figured out a way to make that transition smooth. …

We embrace change, but don’t change something that’s working.”

They cite their test scores, some of the best of any middle school in the area, as reason to preserve their program and argue that combining the schools could jeopardize those successes. They’ve enjoyed smaller class sizes, too, and a school packed to capacity with 660 kids doesn’t sound appealing to some parents.

“Why should we move Capshaw? It makes more sense to have Mandela expand into the De Vargas campus,” said Elaine Blaser, a teacher at Capshaw whose son also attends there. “Move

Capshaw students, parents and teachers were surprised with the news the school could close.

Stuck in the Middle the lower performing school into the higher performing school, not vice versa.”

But Capshaw’s building, with a capacity of 525, can’t fit the 655 students and is past due for repairs and upgrades, like those needed to address structural integrity issues in the school gym and remove the burlap wall coverings used to hang student work that have since been deemed a fire hazard.

Capshaw, like the other middle schools in the district, was passed over by recent bond issues, which instead went largely to building new K-8 schools. Efforts concentrated on overcrowded Southside schools. With property taxes down, that income stream has also diminished. So Capshaw has languished with a growing number of concerns, including an ongoing need for lighting in the school parking lot, and it has been peppered with odd problems like an animal, perhaps a feral dog or coyote, taking up residence underneath one of the modular units.

“Since the new superintendent came on board, the district has done a tremendous amount of work at the elementary and high school level, and I think less at the middle school level,” Duncan tells SFR. “Middle school hasn’t had the total renovation focus that elementary and high school had. … It’s really time now to focus on the middle schools.”

The dream was to see the now 40-year-old campus scrapped and rebuilt from the ground up, but tearing down and starting over with a new building could cost up to $35 million.

Unless the school board decides to ask for a tax increase, the next bond issue will provide less than $100 million, chipping away at a list of more than $200 million in needs. Long promised renovations at middle schools including Capshaw may finally be completed with the 2017 bond issue, in time for Mandela to move in.

“My question with this proposal is, they’ll put a certain amount of money in the school for Mandela. Why not us?” says Theresa Anaya Burney, who has taught and coached at Capshaw since 1998.

None of the options considered are free. Whatever happens, De Vargas needs about $11.4 million in improvements and Capshaw needs $9.6 million. Whether the schools are consolidated or not, the district expects to spend those respective sums on those two campuses. But combining middle schools is expected to keep the facilites’ cost around $24.5 million, compared to the estimated $30.6 million to $59.5 million if schools stay separate.

Laura Jeffery, principal of Capshaw, has said she stands by, willing and able to fill out the board’s directives, once their decision is made, and trusts they’ve listened to the members of the community.

Maybe it was the rezoning two years ago that redistributed hundreds of kids who would have gone to De Vargas to other schools, or the opening of the K-8 schools on the Southside that drew students, or the move to place Mandela on their campus. But with just some 230 kids in a school big enough for

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Upgrades at De Vargas Middle School to accommodate Capshaw’s students would be mostly cosmetic.

three times that many, De Vargas knew change must be coming.

“We started here in October, fighting the imaginary fight for our life, because we knew that something had to happen,” Zanet Ramos-Benavidez, a De Vargas math teacher, said at the January Board of Education meeting. “Our school has reached the size of too small.”

Low enrollment makes it difficult to find enough kids to fill all the available programs, and so some have disappeared. Plus, running two underfilled middle schools essentially requires a $500,000 subsidy from the district.

“We can continue to subsidize them,” Boyd said during the January school board meeting, “but that means it’s going to be subsidized on the backs of other programs, because we don’t have cash anymore.”

The fight for De Vargas’ future began with calls to rezone that would send more kids back to De Vargas, Ramos-Benavidez says, but they’ve thrown every idea they could come up with on the table, searching for ways to get more kids into the building. The wish is still to keep both schools open, Ramos-Benavidez later tells SFR, and the latest alternative suggested is to add sixth grade to each school to increase enrollment.

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“Something has to happen, because it’s financially irresponsible for our district to keep both the schools open without doing something to improve their enrollment,” she says. “So are we willing to work with the option of doing the merger? Absolutely—if that is our only option.”

“Grow us or put us together, and it’s hard to grow us when the majority of the population is moving south. I think that’s really the killer,” says Marc Ducharme, principal of De Vargas. “It’s going to have to happen, because if it doesn’t happen now, Capshaw is going to be in the same situation we are four or five years from now.”

Ducharme says he has hope for what a new middle school could achieve. Of the resistance from some of the Capshaw community, he says, “They’re just not looking at the possibilities. They need to say, ‘OK, we can do this.’”

For the principal of that new school, he advises a listening tour to gather input from teachers, staff and parents. And even before that new school opens its doors, he says, some groundwork should be laid for that community, like bringing parents, teachers and students together to get to know one another, build connections and craft programs.

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Stuck in the Middle There’s potential at De Vargas’ campus, he says, pointing to space for greenhouses and a home economics room that could be a feeder to the culinary program at Santa Fe High. Easy access to the Llano Street campus from the high school could allow for student mentors and professional coaches to work with middle schoolers.

“The only challenge in bringing these people together is that people are not looking at the possibilities and opportunities it provides and are only looking at, oh, this is going to hurt,” Ducharme says. “The only problem is negativity.”

Among the alternatives proposed to merging De Vargas and Capshaw is the suggestion that De Vargas join instead with Ortiz, a school located in the heart of Tierra Contenta on the Southside. But with a new principal and much work underway to address test scores and truancy, Ortiz is seen as needing to do what it can to right its own ship before adding students.

Atlantic Research Partners argues that following all its proposals, including adding grades and increas-

ing enrollment at Tesuque, Atalaya, El Dorado and Gonzales, will provide “equitable access to high quality instruction” to nearly 1,300 students.

Mandela is already recognized as a successful program that’s desired in the community, and the report suggests supporting that program with a campus of its own, rather than shared quarters at De Vargas, and giving it room to grow. The Academy at Larragoite campus has been proposed for the magnet school, but also comes with a multi-million-dollar price tag.

“I recognize there are a lot of good things going on with the other schools and a lot of things to balance,” one Mandela parent told the board during its Jan. 12 meeting. “I just hope you’ll take this opportunity to give Mandela a permanent home, which it really needs to reach full accreditation and reach its full potential as a school.”

The aim is to add the full curriculum for an International Baccalaureate school, which means including sixth grade, even though many of the elementary schools are K-6 instead of K-5.

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Look at the choices made in the last decade, and it’s hard to think this situation was a surprise to anyone.

There’s little question that students who would have come to De Vargas and Capshaw rerouted to Nina Otero and El Camino Real Academy when those new K-8 schools opened. But the other reality is that those schools are located in neighborhoods that still have families living in them. Ducharme, who lives near De Vargas and Capshaw, both in the central part of the city, jokes that he no longer needs to buy Halloween candy. No one with small children lives in those neighborhoods anymore.

There’s also an expectation that, reaching the scary age of middle school (read: puberty) and leaving the comfort of a place like an elementary school, where children have an existing support group, for a middle school means a voyage into dark, unknown country.

Each year, hundreds of parents decide against that option. Over 20 percent of children in SFPS elementary schools, some 300, exit to private or charter schools instead of attending public middle schools, and perhaps 50 of them return for high school, according to school district staff.

Board members have expressed the expectation that combining the schools will cost the district more students—and remember, given the state funding model that grants money for each pupil, that really is a cost.

“It’s very hard to convince people that have a strong attachment to one school or the other and strong feelings that somehow their school is better or their culture is better,” Duncan says.

With a year and a half of community discussions and planning, she says, they might be able to craft a program people can get excited about.

Boyd says his priority is with making good choices for students.

“There are some kids who are doing well. Unfortunately there’s a lot more kids who aren’t doing well, and despite our best attempts to say we can do something that will serve all kids, there are still some families in this process, some adults in this process, who feel like they’re losing something and there’s a fear of loss,” Boyd says, suggesting there’s a silent majority who support making the changes necessary for increased student success. “What was clear to me is that there’s a lot of fear of change, and there’s nothing you can do to counteract that fear until you actually implement it and people see how it’s working.”

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While we’re still all freaking out over The Revenant, it might be a good time for people who perhaps don’t know much about the western genre to start stockpiling screenings.

Y’know, for upcoming conversations. Might we suggest the Kirk Douglas vehicle, Lonely Are the Brave? Douglas stars as Jack Burns, a guy who just kind of doesn’t fit in, probably because he’s brave. Regardless, he does all the cool lonesome stranger stuff you might want, like gettin’ into saloon fights and getting his ass beat by George Kennedy. Oh, and Walter Matthau is in it, too, so no excuses, you guys.

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Artist combines historical themes, current media the use of figure drawing learned at Parsons School of Design in New York City, she’s created a niche all her own.

The work can be sometimes wild in premise, like And We Will Live Off the Fat of the Land (above), a gorgeous Steadman-esque procession of dung beetles in Native garb and carrying what appears to be ceremonial ephemera alongside a shopping cart full of various sundries. It’s light on use of color but deeply detailed and rich, the longer one looks. There is, in fact, a lot to notice throughout the body of Morse’s work, and to do so is a delight.

Take the time to note every small detail, from the painstakingly drawn wispiness of a feathered headdress to the jagged shape of a beetle’s mandible. The work practically begs for your undivided attention, and we’re betting it’ll get just that from you, should you be smart enough to check it out.

(Alex De Vore) ELIZA NARANJO MORSE: FORWARD. Museum hours. $10. Jan. 22-July 31.

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We say it in the calendar this week, but we really mean it—way to go, whoever is booking shows at Madrid’s Mine Shaft Tavern. For their newest foray into non-Americana/ country/blues, the coolest bar in the littlest town around hosts the high-energy hip-hop/ electronica weirdness of Tempe, Ariz. duo Snailmate. Yeah, it’s cute as hell and fun as hell, but composition-wise, it also works for the music snobs. Think bands like Peachcake or the lusty first lady of club jams herself, Peaches, but with enough accessibility and good-spirited good times to go around. Yes, Mine Shaft, more of this, please. (ADV) Snailmate: 7 pm Friday, Jan. 22. No cover. Mine Shaft Tavern, 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-3743

THEATER THE PLAY’S THE THING

A lot of Shakespeare revolves around the intricacies that arise when jealousy takes hold of someone, usually a king or duke or noble dude of some kind. Take King Leontes from The Winter’s Tale. Jealousy causes Leontes to poison his homeboy King Polixenes. Of course, it doesn’t work; an escape is made and a daughter is born and abandoned and … actually, we won’t spoil it, even though we think a bazillion years is kind of past the statute of limitations. All the same, it’s a timeless lesson that we should all probably communicate with our partners better and also that everyone is weird. The best part about the upcoming Santa Fe production is that it’s performed by the young kids of the Upstart Crows of Santa Fe. (ADV)

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The folks over at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ Museum of Contemporary Native Art (MoCNA) have been knocking it out lately. Now, this isn’t to say it hasn’t always been a perfectly fine museum, but rather to illustrate (boom—art jokes) that the revitalized progressive bent and nonstop stream of some of today’s best and brightest Indigenous artists has been nothing short of breathtaking and goes a long way to solidify their reputation as a showcase for important Native arts happening right now. Enter Eliza Naranjo Morse. The Santa Clara Pueblo member has a new show, Forward, opening on Jan. 22 at MoCNA. Informed by tradition and information passed down from her Pueblo’s elders, Morse utilizes modern mediums such as drawing, clay and even cartoons to create a stunning and emotional intersection between the roots of her people’s art, history and lore, and the progressive nature of her own mediums. Morse comes from an artistic background—both her mother and grandmother are wellknown ceramics artists—but through

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WED/20 BOOKS/LECTURES KEEANGA-YAMAHTTA TAYLOR WITH DONNA MURCH Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 An assistant professor at Princeton’s Center for African American Studies, Taylor will discuss the Black Liberation Movement and the historical struggles of African Americans with police violence, issues of equal rights and more.

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BRANDEN JAMES Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Pianist/vocalist James joins Australian cellist James Clark for a residency that's just, like, chock-full-o' music.

7 pm, no cover CONNIE LONG The Palace 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Country and rock.

8:30 pm, no cover FLASH FORWARD Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 DJ Poetics wants you to dance and hates song covers almost as much as you do. Booty shaking is optional.

9 pm, no cover JAZZ ENSEMBLE CONCERT St. John's College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, 984-6000 New Mexico School for the Arts' Student Jazz Ensemble plays, uh, jazz, probably. Get down on it.

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EVENTS GARDENING FOR CATERPILLARS: THE WHYS AND HOWS Christ Lutheran Church 1701 Arroyo Chamiso, 467-9025 The Native Plant Society of New Mexico presents a free talk on how to garden it up in a caterpillar-friendly fashion from Steven J Cary who, believe it or not, is known as New Mexico's unofficial "Butterfly Guy." 6:30 pm, free TAPS AND TABLETOPS Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 This event will cast a level 5 awesome spell on all y'all as tabletop gaming commences in the theater owned by George RR Martin. Excelsior!

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JOAQUIN GALLEGOS El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Passionate flamenco guitar with flowing hair and blowing wind and everything else you can imagine.

7 pm, no cover JOHN CLIFTON Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Singer-songwriter action done right because, like, BBQ and acoustic music kind of go together, y’know?

8 pm, no cover STEVE ROSE La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 He’s a little bit country; end of list.

6 pm, no cover SYDNEY WESTAN; TINY'S ELECTRIC JAM Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Singer-songwriter Sydney Westan kicks off a full evening of music, which also includes an electric jam with host Nick Wymett.

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BOOKS/LECTURES NAVIGATION AND THE LOST ART OF WAYFINDING New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 JRR Tolkien said, "Not all who wander are lost." This went double for Vikings and other explorers who developed, according to the PR here, "navigational schema that relied on a person's relation to the environment to find one's way."

Neat, right? Right. So anyway, John Huth is gonna tell us all about it, which should be quite interesting. Fire up you compasses and sextants!

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7 pm, no cover DON CURRY AND PETER SPRINGER Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock and/or roll.

8 pm, no cover JOHN RANGEL: DUETS El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Rangel, ever the jazz piano master, welcomes his musician pals for super-cool duets.

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FILM LONELY ARE THE BRAVE La Tienda Performance Space 7 Caliente Road, Eldorado, 465-9214 Kirk Douglas stars in this celebrated western film about a manly-man out west (see SFR Picks, page 19).

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few days before Christmas, my roommate Elektra and I forced ourselves to leave the house. It was harrowing for plenty of reasons, but usually, if we are left to our own devices, we won’t brave the cold for non-work things. It was challenging. Sue us. Anyway, the reason we were able to accomplish such a Herculean feat was because of a (mostly) metal show at Skylight.

Yeah, I know, they get a lot of ink, but they’re doing the bulk of good shows around here lately. So maybe y’all should look at improving your own shit before you worry about who’s getting the most coverage.

Anyway, it was a metal event with Fields of Elysium, Intronaut and others put on by those dudes at Kronos Creative, who you may recall because I’ve columned about them before.

Cut to a couple nights ago, and we were at a different metal/punk show with new local band Ol’ Dagger and Taos punk trio Article 15 at The Underground.

This thing was just as packed as Skylight, if not more so, and a thought occurred to me: Kronos and their ilk are doing pretty much the best job promotions-wise in town, and everybody else should probably look to the way these guys are doing it. After all, that feeling we’ve all had the past year or so about great things happening here musically is so close we can taste it; we just need to make that last push.

Metal shows at DIY spaces and officially sanctioned venues have been consistently pulling in some of the highest audience numbers of late. This isn’t, like, an official statement … more like I eyeballed the situation and was all, “Holy shit, look at this sea of humans!”

“There was kind of a lull with Warehouse 21 [temporarily] and Corazón [permanently] closing, with only a few bands carrying the torch, but they were divided,” Kronos Creative’s Augustine Ortiz says.

“Luckily, we’ve seen a steady rise in attendance

Article 15 and ‘Ol Dagger ritualistically sacrifices your sensibilities to the blood god at The Underground.

over the past two years on average, with the last few months being some of the biggest shows we’ve had yet, and many in attendance were people I haven’t seen before, and that is excellent.”

Local metal fans have proven to be a tight-knit community of supportive and musically obsessed people who get out to pretty much any metal event.

A lot of that could be blamed on friendships and/or how boring Santa Fe can be (especially in winter), but the people behind shows with Santa Fe bands like Future Scars and Dysphotic or Albuquerque’s Bathhouse have attained that all-important goal live music-wise: They’re consistent. If promoters consistently provide good shows—and no, I don’t mean they drill a band nobody cares about into the minds of the populace through nonstop performances week in and week out—people start to think, Oh wow, those dudes always do good shows, so I will go one way or another, and it’ll probably be rad. It’s about actual support, not the sad realization that you’ve got nothing better to do, and said actual support comes from worthwhile events. “[Metal shows] gave us purpose, and the commu-

nity gave us a lot of support,” David Ahern-Seronde, of DIY venue The Cave, tells SFR. “We have such a solid metal scene, but it still wouldn’t work without people who know what they’re doing.”

There’s a constant influx of touring bands, both national and regional, that bring with them a positive sense of throwback community and a reminder that we may live in a bubble, but we can still let people inside once in a while. What does that mean exactly? It means that when we are given a chance to see one-off shows with traveling acts, it recalls the good old days when locals were excited to open for out-of-towners, as opposed to the new-ish trend of entitlement born of some weird fear of irrelevance. I’ll make this easy: You’re all irrelevant, because the music industry never once cared about you, and those “fans” of yours are just people who frequent the same bars, despite your appearances. Haha! Swish!

“I urge other promoters to think about the whole package; put together a show that is fun and organized and that the bands love playing as much as the fans love watching,” Ortiz says.

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Romeo & Juliet: Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Master Class: Clues on Creating Character Finding Meaning in the Text Shakespeare’s First Folio Tuesday • February 16 • 5 p.m.

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Lloyd Kiva New’s Art, Design, and Influence exhibit begins Friday Jan. 22.

LATIN NIGHT WITH VDJ DANY Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 VDJ Dany channels the energy he would have used on a second letter N in his name to bring all y'all the best in Latintinged dance jams.

10 pm, $7 LILLY PAD LOUNGE Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Hip-hop, funk, old-school and more, yo.

10 pm, $7 LIMELIGHT KARAOKE WITH MICHÉLE The Palace 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Yes, you too can be in the spotlight for one brief moment. Have fun, y'all!

10 pm, no cover RAMON BERMUDEZ La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 New Mexico music. And that’s a real thing, kind of like a melding of certain Latin music styles. Real pretty, too.

6 pm, no cover SANTA FE REVUE Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Country, Americana, rock-ish elements and lots more.

8 pm, no cover TRIO BIJOU Zia Diner 326 S Guadalupe St., 988-7008 We all know there's something really nice about jazz that is based in strings. Trio Bijou knows this as well.

6:30 pm, no cover

THEATER LUNA GALE Adobe Rose Theater 1213 B Parkway Drive, 629-8688 Hidden motives, buried secrets and moral ambiguity?

How could you not want to see this?

7:30 pm, $20

UPSTART CROWS OF SANTA FE: THE WINTER'S TALE Scottish Rite Center 463 Paseo de Peralta, 982-4414 The Upstart Crows of Santa Fe provide youths with the power to appreciate Shakespeare, which is important because homeboy ruled the land. The troupe delves into The Winter’s Tale.

7-10 pm, $5

FRI/22 ART OPENINGS

KAREN COLE: GEO, ECO AND ATMOSPHERES Back Street Bistro 513 Camino de los Marquez, 982-3500 New works from artist Karen Cole.

All day, free OBSESSION ViVo Contemporary 725 Canyon Rd., 982-1320 New works by Ilse Bolle, Joy Campbell and more.

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AKUNNITTINNI: A KINNGAIT FAMILY PORTRAIT IAIA MoCNA 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Curated by IAIA's own Andrea Hanley, this exhibition looks at the personal and cultural histories of three generations of Inuit women. Loosely translated, the word "Akkunnittinni" means "between us," and that's pretty nice.

Museum hours, $10 DAVID O’BRIEN: IN THE GARDEN OF EXTERNALITIES Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 New paintings and a massive video installation that examine the ground we walk on and the forgotten debris that surrounds us.

5-7 pm, free FORWARD: ELIZA NARANJO MORSE IAIA MoCNA 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Hailing from Santa Clara Pueblo, artist Eliza Naranjo Morse navigates the human experience in search of balance. Call for hours (see SFR Picks, page 19).

Museum hours, $10 JUAN CARLOS CUCALON JUAREZ: INNERLIGHT Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 Abstract expressionist photography.

5 pm, free

NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS WINTER DANCES James A Little Theater 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429 Four world premiere dance events including Talley Beatty's Mourner's Bench.

7 pm, $5-$10

MUSIC BRANDEN JAMES Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Branden James and James Clark.

8 pm, no cover CASH'D OUT: A TRIBUTE TO JOHNNY CASH Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 This is literally exactly what it sounds like.

7:30 pm, $18 CHRIS ABEYTA AND GERRY CARTHY Low 'n' Slow Lowrider Bar 125 Washington Ave., 988-4900 Abeyta and Carthy join forces to make sweet traditional Northern New Mexican music.

7 pm, no cover CHRIS ABEYTA; THE JAKES Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Tiny's continues its method of singer-songwriter jams early and rockin' rock bands afterwards. Huzzah.

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THE CALENDAR CS ROCKSHOW WITH DON CURRY, PETER SPRINGER AND RON CROWDER El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Here comes the rock, fans of the rock.

9 pm, $5 DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Show tunes, standards and more with Geist and sometimes special guests. We've said it before, and we'll say it again—get a dang date night goin' at this thing.

6 pm, no cover DJ DANY'S LATIN FRIDAYS Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Bachata, cumbia, reggaeton.

9 pm, $7 FUN ADIXX The Palace 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 It's as if to say they're addicted to fun. That's cool. I mean, it's important ... blowing off steam and such.

10 pm, $5 GET DOWN/CYPHER Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 In conjunction with the Berklee City Music Network and Inspire Santa Fe, this event wants young musicians and dancers to get in the same room and go nuts.

6 pm, no cover JJ AND THE HOOLIGANS The High Note 132 W Water St., 919-8771 Rock, R&B, jams to which one might dance and other such things.

8 pm, $5 MARK’S MIDNIGHT CARNIVAL SHOW Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Do you guys remember that arcade game called Carn-Evil?

You’d shoot at zombie clowns and stuff. This is basically that, but more rockin’/musical.

There probably aren’t many clown zombies there. But our information could be wrong.

8 pm, no cover SNAILMATE Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Hip-hop and electronica comes to Madrid (see SFR Picks, page 19).

7 pm, no cover SYD MASTERS La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Swingin’ country-western music. You know the kind, it’s like, the same as that band from those mattress commercials a few years ago.

6 pm, no cover THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Three guys, three faces, three reasons to like jazz. Have three drinks (but don't drive), eat three foods, bring three friends.

7:30 pm, no cover

TONY FURTADO Taos Mesa Brewing 20 ABC Mesa Road, El Prado (575) 758-1900 Americana, roots and something called a cello-banjo.

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8 pm, $10

THEATER LUNA GALE Adobe Rose Theater 1213 B Parkway Drive, 629-8688 Hidden motives, buried secrets and moral ambiguity?

How could you not want to see this?

7:30 pm, $20 UPSTART CROWS OF SANTA FE: THE WINTER'S TALE Scottish Rite Center 463 Paseo de Peralta, 982-4414 The Upstart Crows of Santa Fe provide youths with the power to appreciate Shakespeare, which is important because homeboy ruled the world 7-10 pm, $5

SAT/23 ART OPENINGS GEORGIA O’KEEFFE: THROUGH THE LENS Scheinbaum & Russek 812 Camino Acoma, 988-5116 Scheinbaum & Russek continues its exhibit of candid O’Keeffe photos. By appointment, call for hours.

All day, free

BOOKS/LECTURES CAIRO TO KHARTOUM Travel Bug Coffee Shop 839 Paseo de Peralta, 992-0418 Ever thought about the pyramids of Sudan? John and Christy Gervers have.

5 pm, free GLASS ALLIANCE OF NEW MEXICO: MEET THE MAESTRO Barbara Meikle Fine Art 236 Delgado St., 992-0400 Master glass-blower David Shanfield from Tesuque Glassworks presents a slide show about his work.

9:30 am, $10 JOYCEGROUP SANTA FE Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Discuss the works of James Joyce with renowned Joyce scholar Adam Harvey.

10 am-12:30 pm, free

DANCE NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS WINTER DANCES James A Little Theater 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429 Four world premiere dance events, including Talley Beatty's iconic Mourner's Bench.

2 pm, $5-$10

EVENTS 2016: TIME TO REJUVENATE The ART.i.factory 930 Baca St., Ste. C, 982-5000 Yoga instructor Cynthia Machado, and essential oils champ Joan Lucci soothe you into the new year.

Noon, free

EL MUSEO CULTURAL WINTER MARKET El Museo Cultural 555 Camino de la Familia, 250-8969 A gathering of vendors and artisans ply their wares in a swap meet sort of way. If you manage to find and old rug with a genie trapped in it, don’t wish for world peace.

We all know what happened when Special Agent Fox Mulder did that. Just sayin’.

8 am-3 pm DRAWING IN THE GALLERIES Georgia O’Keeffe Museum 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 Create pencil drawings based on the artworks throughout the galleries.

5-7 pm, free with admission SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN VOLUNTEER FAIR Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Find out how to volunteer with the Botanical Garden.

1 am, free

MUSIC AWAKEN Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar 102 W San Francisco St., 690-2383 Local vocalist Madi Sato joins musical ultra-genius David Tardy and composer DJ Sato.

8 pm, $10 BRANDEN JAMES Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and cello and vocals with Branden James (from the television program America's Got Talent) and James Clark at the classy Vanessie.

8 pm, no cover CHRIS ABEYTA AND GERRY CARTHY Low 'n' Slow Lowrider Bar 125 Washington Ave., 988-4900 Abeyta and Carthy join their considerable talents at the Hotel Chimayó to make sweet, sweet traditional Northern New Mexican music.

7 pm, no cover DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Show tunes, standards and more with Geist and sometimes special guests. We've said it before, and we'll say it again—get a dang date night goin' at this thing.

6 pm, no cover FAMILY PROGRAM: CLOSEUP COMPOSITIONS Georgia O’Keeffe Museum 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 Get your family together and learn to create in the style of O’Keeffe herself. Did y’all know she painted some beautiful cityscapes? Well, she did.

9:30 am, free FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 It's flamenco, it's dinner, it’s El Farol. Dine and dance away.

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Serious, Not Serious

Comedian Paula Poundstone talks about her comedy style, origins

BY BEN KENDALL c u l t u r e @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

After two years (and some change) away from Santa Fe, Paula Poundstone is set to arrive for another show at the Lensic Performing Arts Center on Feb. 4. SFR caught her on the phone for a brief interview about writing stand-up and the showbiz journey from her home in Los Angeles.

stantly infusing new material in my act. Largely, the reason no two shows are the same is … my favorite part is just talking to the audience. I start it off by asking, “Where you from, what do you do for a living,” and little biographies emerge. On a good night (and I like to think that some of them are), probably about a third of the stuff that’s said is because of the audience that’s there. And therefore, no two shows are the same. Part of that came [about] because I couldn’t memorize stuff. I just, I would get so nervous when I would get on stage that everything that I had prepared, that I had planned to say, would fly right out of my head. And then I would be stuck working the room. Originally, I felt this was a big liability and a really bad thing. And eventually, it dawned on me that it was really where the heart and soul of the night lie, where the sort of excitement and fun was. When I was living in San Francisco, when I was first start-

SFR: How’d you get your start doing stand-up?

Paula Poundstone: I started doing open mic nights in Boston in 1979. And I was lucky enough to be 19 years old when that, sort of resurgence of, you know, stand-up comedy started taking place. There were a bunch of cities that started having open mic nights right around the same time, and I’ve never understood why. There was some sort of werewolf-type pull or something. I mean, obviously stand-up comedy has been around since we’ve come out of the cave.

I worked in Boston for maybe a year or so before I took a Greyhound bus around the country to see what clubs were like in different cities.

How has the business changed since you started?

I haven’t worked clubs in years, thank goodness. I work mostly theaters and mostly by myself, really, because I’m selfish. I have such a great audience, and I have no desire to share even a minute with them with someone else. I have a pretty isolated view. I don’t know how it is now, but there was a period of time that some comics told me that to do open mic that you had to pay, or you had to bring audience members with you, neither of which could I ever have done.

You’ve said no two of your shows are ever the same. How does that affect your writing process?

Writing is a strong word for what I do. I try to be con-

ing out and working there, I worked behind the counter at a little club called The Other Café. It was only there for six years. I worked behind the counter in the mornings mostly, and I would hear the waitresses complain about the comics, even the open mic comics, who had every reason to be bad. They would say, “Oh my God, we have to listen to the same stuff day after day.” I really wanted to have an act that wouldn’t trouble the waitresses.

How do you deal with hecklers?

I never get hecklers. It’s been years since somebody just shouted something out. I often get somebody that just wants to join in. But it never seems like a hostile gesture. I also don’t work in clubs; there’s generally not a whole lot of alcohol where I am, although it’s possible.

The drunk are the best and the worst audience.

They are. Yeah … mostly the worst. I’ll tell you, when I quit drinking, a lot of times I was still mostly [working] in clubs. It was like a temperance lecture every night. Sometimes you feel like you’re missing something, and maybe it would be good to have a drink. Work in a club with people drinking, you don’t hold that thought for very long. Instead you go, “Oh thank God. Oh my God, I looked like that.”

What’s been your biggest challenge?

You know, I’m not, like, a big huge star. I don’t think I could do my parenting job [if I was a big huge star]. The job that I do is so much fun, and God knows I have no other skills. I don’t know that it feels challenging. I honestly feel pretty lucky.

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I am no longer sexually active, but I have a significant collection of sex toys from earlier years. I’m thinking of getting rid of most of them, and it seems such a waste for them to end up in the landfill. What’s an environmentally responsible way to dispose of dildos? I wish there was a place I could donate the dildos where they could be used again. Many of them are quality silicone types, they’ve never been used on a person without a condom, and they’ve been thoroughly cleaned. I’d be happy to donate them to impoverished dildo users in need, if only I knew where to send them.

-Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

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monogamous pretense/facade/fraud, i.e., pretending they don’t at least think about fucking other people—either you’re living in some sort of poly parallel universe where nonmonogamy is the default setting or you’re not giving others the same benefit of the doubt you’ve given yourself. You wanna fuck other people and you don’t seem to think that disqualifies you from making, honoring, and genuinely wanting both a monogamous commitment and a monogamous sex life.

(The two don’t always go hand in hand.)

If you’re breaking up with people for admitting to the same things you’ve admitted to in your question—you might think about fucking other people, but you don’t want to actually fuck other people—then you’re the reason your quest to find a partner has been so frustrating.

I’m 33, blah blah blah, and live in a big city.

I’ve been dating an age-appropriate person for a year and a half. Everything seemed fine (great sex, common interests and hobbies, similar work ethic, we even talked about raising children), but my partner is so damn angry and full of hate. Mostly it manifests itself in racism, and I really don’t like it. He says that I “don’t understand,” like he’s gone through experiences that would justify wholesale prejudice against entire groups of people. The passing of David Bowie has accentuated these differences between us. I want to live better and brighter, to love more, but my boyfriend just keeps hating. He’s unrelentingly racist.

I shouldn’t have children with him—right?

Better to be 33 and alone—right? This racist stuff is a deal breaker—right? DTMFA—right?

-Racist Anger Gradually Ends Relationship

Your question comes up frequently, RRR, and there really isn’t a satisfactory answer.

In Seattle, where I live, a community tool bank recently opened in my neighborhood— but they don’t collect and lend the kind of tools you’re looking to donate. I’ve heard about dildo graveyards in other cities (spots in parks where people bury their used sex toys), but burying sex toys isn’t environmentally responsible. And while high-quality dildos can be cleaned and safely reused, most people are pretty squeamish about the idea. Which is odd, considering that we routinely reuse actual cocks that have been enjoyed by others—so why not the fake ones?

But even if I can’t tell you what to do with your dildos, RRR, I can tell you what not to do with them: Do not ship your used dildos to the anti-government militia currently occupying a federal wildlife refuge in rural Oregon. After militia members asked supporters to send them supplies—via the US Postal Service—their spokesperson complained bitterly about all the dildos they were getting in the mail. So if you decide to put your used dildos in a box and send them somewhere, RRR, please make sure the address on the box doesn’t read: Bundy Militia, c/o Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, 36391 Sodhouse Lane, Princeton, OR, 97721.

I oppose bachelorette parties in gay bars—or anywhere else, QAQ, and I feel the exact same way about bachelor parties.

I understand that monogamy is not something people are good at—and that’s fine. In fact, most of the people I know are in healthy poly or monogamish relationships. Here’s the thing: I’m monogamous. Not the “I’m attracted to other people but won’t act on it because it makes me uncomfortable or believe it’s wrong” kind of monogamous, but the “I genuinely have ZERO desire to fuck anyone but my partner” kind of monogamous. Fantasizing about others is fun, so is looking, so is porn and role-play. There’s a world of deliciously kinky, weird, and wonderful sex stuff I’d LOVE to explore until my sexy bits fall off. But I want to do those things with one partner and one partner only in a monogamous, intimate relationship. Here’s the kicker: I’d like my partner to feel the same way. I don’t want someone to enter into a monogamous relationship with me if in their heart/groin they’d genuinely like to fuck other people. Am I a lost cause? Surely I can’t be the only genuinely monogamous person there is? I’m 31 and still turn heads, but I worry my quest for a partner who feels as I do is impossible and a waste of my time.

-One 4 One

A few weeks ago, you answered a letter from Seeks Discreet Call Service, a woman in an open marriage who was having Tinder hookups in hotel rooms while traveling for work. She was concerned about her safety and wanted to have someone check in on her, but she couldn’t tell her partner about her hookups (DADT arrangement) or her friends (she’s not out about her open marriage). She specifically asked if there was an app that might help, and you told her there wasn’t an app for that. You were wrong, Dan! There are actually several apps. PCWorld published a roundup of a few of them a couple of years ago (“5 Personal Safety Apps That Watch Your Back,” by Amber Bouman), and there’s an app called Kitestring (kitestring.io) that has gotten some glowing reviews. The gist is that you use the app to set a timer, and when it goes off, you have to alert the app that you are okay. Otherwise, the app automatically contacts emergency services or a predetermined contact and lets them know you are in trouble at your location. So technology does have a solution for SDCS’s problem!

-Technological Enhancements Can Help

You value monogamy, you want a monogamous commitment, and you want someone who feels the same. That great, O4O, and you have my full support. But you do acknowledge that fantasies about others can be fun, as can looking, as can porn (watching others) and role-play (pretending to be others). So while you may wanna fuck other people—hence the looking and fantasizing and role-playing—you have no desire to actually fuck other people.

If you’re having a hard time finding partners who want what you want—a monogamous commitment without the stress of maintaining the

Man, I really blew that response—so thanks to TECH and everyone else who clued me in to Kitestring, StaySafe, Watch Over Me, bSafe, and all the other apps out there that are exactly what SDCS was looking for.

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My best female friend is marrying her boyfriend in March and wants to go on a gay bar crawl on the night of her bachelorette party.

She says it won’t be a problem because, as a bi woman, she’s part of the LGBT community too and because gay people can get married now. As a gay man, Dan, do you oppose bachelorette parties in gay bars?

-Queer And Questioning

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GARY REYNOLDS; BONE ORCHARD Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Get brunchin’ with Americana songs from Gary Reynolds.

Then, later on, the ol’ C-Girl goes goth-ish with even more Americana from Bone Orchard.

1 pm; 8:30 pm, no cover HAVANA SON The High Note 132 W Water St.,919-8771 Cuban and Latin dance jams and jazz jams.

8 pm, $5 JESSIE DELUXE Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 OK, who's booking shows out at the Mine Shaft, because you're killin' it. We oughtta shake your hand.

8 pm, no cover JUKEBOX KARAOKE The Palace 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 If you don't know what goes down at karaoke, we can't really help you.

10 pm, no cover LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock covers.

9 pm, $5 MOBY DICK Evangelo's 200 W San Francisco St., 982-9014 The Led Zeppelin tribute band wants you to know that oh, oh-oh-oh-oh, you should probably go ... to their show ... ummm, on this night. Yeah.

Sorry, everyone—we got into a serious thing.

9 pm, $5 MOONHAT, BANDWIDTH NO NAME Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 We hear Moonhat plays "booty-jazz." We don't really have to say anymore, probably. If they were also wearing “booty shorts,” that’d be fantastic.

6 pm, $5 NOCHES DE FLAMENCO Taberna 125 Lincoln Ave., Ste. 117, 988-7102 Oh, it’s a noche of flamenco, all right, as Carlos Lomas and Fernando Barros Lirola flamenco it up ... en el noche, amigos.

8 pm, $30 THE REBBE’S ORKESTRA KLEZMER & JUDAIC BAND: THE STORY IS ENOUGH San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, 243-6276 A celebration of Judaic music passed down through the generations.

7:30 pm, $15-$20 RIO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Brazilian jazz, samba and bossa nova.

7:30 pm, no cover

RUMELIA Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 Balkan jams? We Balkan do it!

Haha! Oh wow, sorry. Rumelia slays traditional songs from the region in both the native tongue and in English.

7 pm, no cover SANTA FE PRO MUSICA: CLASSICAL WEEKEND ORCHESTRA Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Works by Beethoven and Grieg (see 3 Questions, page 27).

4 pm, $12-$69 SHOWCASE KARAOKE Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Join hosts Cyndy and Nanci for all of the hard-hitting karaoke madness.

8:30 pm, no cover SO SOPHISTICATED WITH DJ 12 TRIBE Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Hip-hop, old-school, soul and more.

9 pm, $7 SYD MASTERS La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Swingin’ country-western music.

6 pm, no cover TONY FURTADO GiG Performance Space 1808 2nd St., 989-8442 He slayed last night at Taos Mesa Brewery, and now Tony Furtado brings his high-energy roots/Americana style to Santa Fe. 7 pm, $29-$32 TRASH DISCO WITH DJ OONA Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 This is pretty much the longest running dance party in this dang town.

9 pm, $7

THEATER LUNA GALE Adobe Rose Theater 1213 B Parkway Drive, 629-8688 Hidden motives, buried secrets and moral ambiguity?

How could you not want to see this? Go for the theater, stay for the crushing knowledge that “the system” is remarkably broken.

7:30 pm, $20 UPSTART CROWS OF SANTA FE: THE WINTER'S TALE Scottish Rite Center 463 Paseo de Peralta, 982-4414 The Upstart Crows of Santa Fe provide youths with the power to appreciate Shakespeare, which is important because homeboy ruled the land.

The troupe delves into The Winter’s Tale (see SFR Picks, page 19).

7-10 pm, $5

SUN/24 BOOKS/LECTURES JOURNEY SANTA FE PRESENTS MAGGIE TOULOUSE OLIVER Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 The Bernalillo County Clerk (running for secretary of state) talks accountability and transparency for public officials.

11 am, free

DANCE NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS WINTER DANCES James A Little Theater 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429 Four world premiere dance events including Talley Beatty's Mourner's Bench.

2 pm, $5-$10

EVENTS EL MUSEO CULTURAL WINTER MARKET El Museo Cultural 555 Camino de la Familia, 250-8969 A gathering of vendors and artisans ply their wares in a swap meet sort of way.

8 am-3 pm, free SUNDAY RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Santa Fe Railyard Plaza Guadalupe & Paseo de Peralta, 231-5803 Local art, live music, photography, glassworks, jewelry, drinks and lots more. Let’s all just face it: The Railyard rules.

10 am, free

FILM MOUNTAIN Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Written and directed by Yaelle Kayam.

11 am, free

MUSIC MATTHEW ANDRAE La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 His music is featured in movies, television shows, blogs and events such as the Winter Olympic Games, the World Expo, and Imogen Heap's latest international tour, in which he performed an a cappella duet with Imogen. One man— one guitar—one voice.

6-8:30 pm, no cover NACHA MENDEZ El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Latin and world music.

7 pm, no cover NEIL YOUNG TRIBUTE BAND; JIM ALMAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 You’ve been to Redwood, you’ve been to Hollywood, you’ve been all over for a Neil Young tribute band of gold.

They walk a fine line, but it’s a fine, something something for a heart of go-o-old! Then, come evening, you can party with the man, the legend himself, Jim Almand. He does Americana and country.

Noon; 8 pm, no cover

THE CALENDAR SANTA FE PRO MUSICA: CLASSICAL WEEKEND ORCHESTRA Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Works by Beethoven and Grieg (see 3 Questions, right).

3 pm, $12-$69

with Per Tengstrand

LUNA GALE Adobe Rose Theater 1213 B Parkway Drive, 629-8688 Hidden motives, buried secrets and moral ambiguity?

How could you not want to see this?

3 pm, $20 UPSTART CROWS OF SANTA FE: THE WINTER'S TALE Scottish Rite Center 463 Paseo de Peralta, 982-4414 The Upstart Crows of Santa Fe provide youths with the power to appreciate Shakespeare, which is important because homeboy ruled the land.

2 pm, $5

MON/25 BOOKS/LECTURES ARTFUL AFTERNOON WITH CHARLOTTE JACKSON Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 554 S Guadalupe St., 989-8688 A free-wheelin' discussion on art and entrepreneurship with Charlotte Jackson, Laura Addison, Kymberly Pinder, Martha Tuttle and Cristina Gonzales.

3 pm, $35

EVENTS 2016 CHAMBER LEGISLATIVE RECEPTION Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W Marcy St., 955-6590 Business professionals and governmental policymakers are gettin' together before the nitty-gritty of politickin’ takes place at the Roundhouse.

5 pm, free

FILM DOUBLE FEATURE: NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH AND RED CARPET BURN La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Santa Fe indie filmmaker Mark Shepherd screens two of his movies, which one might describe as dark comedy documentaries.

5 pm, free

MUSIC THE BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Here comes the country music, friends, and it's good.

7-10 pm, no cover COWGIRL KARAOKE WITH MICHÉLE LEIDIG Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Just about the most popular karaoke around.

9 pm, no cover

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THEATER

Masterful, haunting, virtuosic. These are the words that come to mind when listening to Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16, written in 1868 when Grieg was only 25 years old. The concerto, which oscillates between a tremendous amount of depth and incredible lightness, demonstrates his sensitivity as a composer and his remarkable ability to weave together intricate melodic lines.

This coming Saturday (4 pm) and Sunday (3 pm), during Santa Fe Pro Musica’s Classical Weekend at the Lensic, Swedish pianist Per Tengstrand tackles this remarkable piece of music. Tengstrand spoke with SFR about his preperformance routine, what inspires him and how he knows when a piece is ready to be performed. (Anna Mae Kersey) How do you prepare for a performance?

I try to take a walk during the day and play through the piece in my head, without the piano.

What inspires you to play?

Music is what gives me inspiration, because it’s a never-ending discovery. The music is so rich that you will never cease to discover new things in it. In a way, it’s frustrating, because you never feel like you’re ready and done with a piece. There is always more to do, more to work on, more to discover. It’s an inspiring challenge.

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How do you know when you’ve mastered a piece of music?

That’s a good question, because you could almost call it a curse of the performing musician, of the performing classical musician, that you can never walk onstage knowing that everything will go well. You can always mess up something; you can always forget some notes.

You can feel that you’re ready to perform it, but there’s always the risk that something can go wrong. When you feel that you’re playing it in a way that you’re mastering it enough to give some musical experience to the audience, I think it’s ready to go.

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BOOKS/LECTURES DESTINY ALLISON: "THE ROMANCE DIET: BODY IMAGE AND THE WARS WE WAGE ON OURSELVES" Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Basically, you should stop being mean to yourself because you're super attractive, OK? 6 pm, free

DANCE ARGENTINE TANGO MILONGA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Hey, all y'all tango fans— here's this thing. Gomez and Morticia would go to this thing if they weren’t fictional.

7:30 pm, $5

IS YOUR CELLPHONE MAKING YOU SICK? La Montañita Co-op 913 W Alameda St., 984-2852 Find out about electro-magnetic radiation.

6 pm, free ROE V WADE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION The Roundhouse Rotunda 490 Old Santa Fe Trail., 986-4589 Celebrate the landmark 1973 abortion case with the New Mexico Coalition for Choice.

2 pm, free

MUSIC BIG HEAD TODD AND THE MONSTERS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Still rocking since the 1980s.

7:30 pm, $30-$49

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BRANDEN JAMES Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and cello and vocals with Branden James and James Clark.

8 pm, no cover CACTUS SLIM AND THE GOATHEADS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Blues-rock.

7 pm, no cover CANADIAN BRASS Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi 131 Cathedral Place, 982-5619 They've been around since 1970 and have won a Grammy.

7:30 pm, $20-$65 CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Blues, man.

8:30 pm, no cover DJ PRAIRIEDOG The Matador 116 W San Franciso St. Surf, garage, rockabilly, oldschool country and more.

9 pm, no cover LOUNGE SESSIONS WITH DJs GUTTERMOUTH AND DYNAMITE SOL Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 No cover and cheap beer/ food. Plus the music for which you long and pine.

8 pm, no cover OPEN MIC NIGHT WITH JOHN RIVES AND RANDY MULKEY Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 We wonder if anyone is going to do The Beatles.

7 pm, no cover OPEN SONGS NIGHT WITH BEN WRIGHT Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Wright performs solo acoustic (OK, and sometimes with friends).

7 pm, no cover PAT MALONE Terra Cotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo jazz guitar.

6 pm, no cover THE BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Here comes the country music, friends.

7-10 pm, no cover

ONGOING GALLERIES

136 GRANT 36 Grant Ave, 983-0075 John Boland, Mustangs and Other Wild Horses of Northern New Mexico. Through Jan. 31 ACADEMY FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING 133 Seton Village Road, 955-1860 Archives on Display.

ADOBE GALLERY 221 Canyon Road, 955-0550 Holiday Cochiti Pueblo Storyteller Collection. Through Jan. 31. The Marvin and Betty Rubin Collection. Through Feb. 16.

ART EXCHANGE GALLERY 60 E San Francisco St., Ste. 210, 603-4485 Santa Fe Six, Fall/Winter Show.

Through Jan. 31 ART GONE WILD GALLERIES 203 Canyon Road, Ste. B, 820-1004 Doug Bloodworth, Photo Realism.

ART.I.FACTORY 930 Baca St., Ste. C, 982-5000 Todd Christensen, Observing the Withdrawn.

BACK STREET BISTRO 513 Camino de los Marquez, 982-3500 Karen Cole. Geo, Eco, and Atmospheres. Through March 5 BINDLESTICK STUDIO 616 1/2 Canyon Road, (917) 679-8080 Jeffrey Schweitzer, The Biography of an Eccentric Gentleman.

CANYON ROAD CONTEMPORARY 402 Canyon Road, 983-0433 Craig Mitchell Smith, The Winter Garden.

CATENARY ART GALLERY 616 1/2 Canyon Road, 982-2700 Nicolai Panayotov, Sans Frontiéres.

CCA 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 David O’Brien. In the Garden of Externalities. Through March 20 CHARLOTTE JACKSON FINE ART 554 S Guadalupe St., 989-8688 Group show, All that Glitters.

Through Jan. 18 CHIAROSCURO CONTEMPORARY ART 558 Canyon Road, 992-0711 Peter Millett. Venus. Holiday Group Show. Both through Jan. 23. Winter Group Show.

Through Feb. 6 COMMUNITY GALLERY 201 W Marcy St., 955-6707 Narcissus. Through Jan. 15 DAVID RICHARD GALLERY 1570 Pacheco St., Ste. A1., 983-9555 Christian Haub, Float.

DOWNTOWN DAY SPA OF SANTA FE 624 Agua Fría St., 986-0113 Sharon Samuels, One-Woman Show.

EDITION ONE GALLERY 1036 Canyon Road, 422-8306 Soft.

ELLSWORTH GALLERY 215 E Palace Ave., 989-7900 Tim Klabunde.

EYE ON THE MOUNTAIN GALLERY 614 Agua Fría St., (928) 308-0319 Guadalupe Art Show.

FINE ART FRAMERS 1415 W. Alameda, 982-4397 Renée Vogelle, Will Schmitt, Tati Norbeck and Chad Erickson, Like ... You Know.

FREEFORM ARTSPACE 1619 C de Baca Lane, 692-9249 Jody Sunshine, Tales from the Middle Class.

GALLERY 901 708 Canyon Road, 780-8390 Eddy Shorty, Sculptures.

GREENBERG FINE ART 205 Canyon Road , 955-1500 Dennis Smith, Lighter than Air. IAIA 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2387 Graduating Seniors Exhibition.

JAMES KELLY CONTEMPORARY 1611 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1601 Bill Jacobson, Lines in My Eyes.

LEWALLEN RAILYARD 1613 Paseo de Peralta, 988-3250 Michael Roque Collins, The Venetian.

LYN A FOX POTTERY 806 Old Santa Fe Trail, 820-0222 Lyn Fox, Whistlestop.

MANITOU GALLERIES 225 Canyon Road, 986-9833 Holiday Small Works.

MARIGOLD ARTS 424 Canyon Road, 982-4142 Carolyn Lankford, Robert Lyn Highsmith and Jim McLain.

MONROE GALLERY 112 Don Gaspar Ave., 992-0800 They Broke the Mold.

NATCHEZ ART STUDIO 201 Palace Ave., 231-7721 Stan Natchez, Indian without Reservation.

NEDRA MATTEUCCI GALLERIES 1075 Paseo de Peralta, 983-2731 Robert Lougheed, A Brilliant Life in Art. OFFROAD PRODUCTIONS 2891-B Trades West Road, 670-9276 Nick Benson, Thais Mather, Todd Christensen, Penumbra Letter Press, Burning Books Press, Printed Matter THE OWINGS GALLERY 120 E Marcy St., 982-6244 Holiday Treasures. Historic Selections. Both through Jan. 23 PATINA GALLERY 131 W Palace Ave., 986-3432 Claire Kahn.

PEYTON WRIGHT GALLERY 237 E Palace Ave., 989-9888 Group show, The Art of Devotion. Through March 11.

PHIL SPACE 1410 2nd St., 983-7945 Donald Rubinstein, Music Fields/Energy Lines. Aaron Rhodes, Eye Candy.

PHOTO-EYE GALLERY 541 S Guadalupe St., 988-5152 Chaci Terada, Between Water & Sky. POP GALLERY 125 Lincoln Ave., Ste. 111, 820-0788 Winter Salon. Through March 31 RANGE WEST GALLERY 2861 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 474-0925 Shelly Johnson, Cirque de la Vie. RIEKE STUDIOS 416 Alta Vista St., 913-1215 Serena Rieke, Memento.

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LA CARMINA

FOOD

ODYSSEY The confounding intersection of David Bowie and food

B Y R O B D e WA LT @ Th e Fo r k S a n t a Fe

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know, I know. The Bowie tributes are getting tiresome, and the grief machine has moved on to veteran actor Alan Rickman. Perhaps by presstime, there will be another huge loss to the creative universe to clog up your Facebook feed. But hear me out: The Thin White Duke has influenced pop culture, fashion, music and art in countless ways, but he is a blip on the radar when it comes to the culinary world.

There is nary a song title in his canon that gives a nod to food. Instead of trying to get to the “why” of that, I choose to dig deep for notable food references from the past that mention him and share a few of them with you. Also, in trying to cope with the loss of an icon who impacted my life in ways too complex to explain here, I do the only thing that calms me—I go into the kitchen and cook one of his favorite dishes: shepherd’s pie, a UK comfort food of the highest order, and a dish that his wife (now widow, damn), supermodel, entrepreneur and actress Iman, prepared for him often.

In the first few decades of his astounding career, Bowie was notorious for more than music. For instance, during his Thin White Duke phase (mid1970s), it was reported that he temporarily subsisted on a diet of milk, red peppers and cocaine. According to a 1999 interview with Brian Eno and Bowie, published by UK rock music media outlet Uncut, Bowie didn’t have much of an appetite while on a creative streak. To quote Eno from the article: “He gets into a very peculiar state when he’s working. He doesn’t eat. It used to strike me as very paradoxical that two comparatively well-known people would be staggering home at six in the morning, and he’d break a raw egg into his mouth and that was his food for the day, virtually.”

And then there is the curious case of his minimal recipe contributions to the publishing world, many of which may be hoaxes. To wit: A late1970s recipe for shrimp tempura attributed to Bowie surfaces in Monique Van Vooren’s cheekily titled book The Happy Cooker, while a charity cookbook out of Philly published in the 1980s claims he was a fan of penne puttanesca.. But the Bowie food

The Thin White Duke is among the angels.

reference to end all food references (save for his stunning Pepsi commercial with Tina Turner and a mind-bending, careerspanning French ad for bottled water) comes to us from Tokyo.

To help promote the Sony-backed release of Bowie’s 2013 album The Next Day in Japan (it was released on different labels in different territories), the label opened a Bowie-themed restaurant at its Tokyo headquarters. Club Cardinal was a pop-up masterpiece, complete with a Bowie-track listening room and plenty of memorabilia. And shepherd’s pie.

Sigh. Let’s make some and chow down in the name of Ziggy Stardust.

SHEPHERD’S PIE, BOWIE STYLE (simple version, serves 6-8) 4 large russet potatoes, peeled and quartered 4 tablespoons room-temperature butter ½ cup whole-milk, full-fat, plain Greek yogurt 3 cups seasoned, cooked pinto beans 4 stalks celery, washed and chopped into halfinch pieces 4 carrots, peeled, washed and chopped into halfinch pieces 1 medium white onion, peeled and chopped into half-inch pieces 2 cloves minced garlic ⅛ cup chopped fresh green herbs (thyme, marjoram, sage, parsley, etc.)

2 tablespoons vegetable or grapeseed oil ¼ cup ketchup (yes, ketchup) 2 tablespoons New Mexico red chile powder ⅛ cup light brown sugar Salt and pepper to taste Butter for baking Boil the potatoes until fork-tender. Drain. While still hot, mash the taters with butter and yogurt to a smooth consistency. Season with salt and pepper to taste. In a separate pan, sauté carrots, garlic, onion, celery and fresh herbs over medium heat with the oil until the carrots are al dente. Adding a bit of water to prethe pan after sautéing speeds up the process and pre vents burning. Add ketchup, brown sugar and chile anpowder to the pan and cook on medium-low for an other eight minutes, stirring frequently. Mix beans with sautéed vegetables and herbs. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Generously butter a 12-inch pie pan.

Add bean-veggie mixture and top with mashed potatoes. Brush top with melted butter, if desired. Bake at 400 degrees for 40 minutes, or until hot in the center.

Serve hot with a side of David Bowie’s greatest hits.

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For some, winter sports means whooshing down a powdery mountain, leaving a feathery flurry of snow fluttering behind, tickling the whiskers of El Niño as he visits our neck of the woods. Others work up a sweat by shouting at the television and tallying fantasy football payoffs and losses, declaring their luck or misfortune. A bubbly brew is a handsome reward for such exertion, and who says that fun has to stop with beer alone? Score a touchdown with friends at upcoming Super Bowl parties with beer “cocktails.” No matter who wins the game, you’ll rack up points as “Most Valuable Entertainer of the Year.”

SNAKEBITE This drink combines beer and hard cider, and the creative combinations are practically endless. My favorite mixtures include lager with apple cider, amber beer and pear cider, and a rich, dark brew with cherry cider.

BLACK FOG I love flavorful ambers and dark beers, and most often, I default to Guinness on tap, where available. Add an ounce of Chambord raspberry liqueur, and it’s like sipping a raspberry chocolate truffle with a bit of a boozy kick.

SAKE BOMB Sushi would be my “death row meal” of choice, and it’s hard to imagine not washing it down with a scintillating sake and icy Japanese beer. Although I’m intrigued with learning about (and drinking) the higher levels of that elixir, I’m also not beyond dropping a little white cup of the cheap stuff into my beer glass and chugging the whole dang thing.

BOURBON BABY SHANDY Brandishing a bottle of bourbon, this is my twist on the English Shandy (a mixture of beer and lemon soda). Mix with an ounce of bourbon, and top with a few dashes of aromatic bitters to enhance the rich caramel whiskey notes.

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Adding tomato juice to beer originates in Mexico, but the refreshing drink has taken on its own personality all over the US. I created this hangover-killing version, which celebrates the oh-so-nice spice of New Orleans. (Keep this one in mind for the day after Mardi Gras, too, y’all!)

3 dashes Tabasco Chipotle 3 dashes Tabasco Original 2 ounces tomato juice ½ ounce lime juice (½ freshly squeezed lime) salt, pepper, ground Cajun spice mix (to taste) 1 8-ounce bottle Mexican beer red chile-salt rim Garnish: Grind the red chile flakes and sea salt in a coffee grinder to make chile-salt rim. Rub a cut lime around the rim of a tall glass to moisten, then dip it into the chile-salt mixture. Pour all ingredients into a tall, chilled glass. Add Cajun-spice rubbed grilled shrimp on a skewer (optional).

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SATURDAY JANUARY 23rd 8 to 10pm $30 “Man in Safari Hat Walking in Mall” by Warren Keating, part of the Obsessions exhibit at Vivo Contemporary.

MUSEUMS EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS 334 Los Pinos Road, 471-2261 Villagers clothed in the styles of the times depict life in early New Mexico.

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 From New York to New Mexico: Masterworks of American Modernism from the Vilcek Foundation Collection.

HARWOOD MUSEUM 238 Ledoux St., Taos (575) 758-9826 Group show, Pressing through Time. Charles Strong, A Celebration of Life and Spirit.

Lisa Burge. All through Jan. 24. Collection of Contemporary Art; Hispanic Traditions Gallery; Ken Price, Death Shrine I from Happy’s Curios.

IAIA/MoCNA 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Moving Image Classification X Winners. Through Feb. 14.

Visions and Visionaries. Through July 31, 2017; Akunnittinni: A Kinngait Family Portrait.

Through April 1; Forward: Eliza Naranjo Morse. Through July 31.

Lloyd Kiva New: Art, Design and Influence. Through July 31.

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Indian Country: The Art of David Bradley. Through Jan. 16. Turquoise, Water, Sky: The Stone and Its Meaning. Through May 2, 2016. Here, Now and Always and The Buchsbaum Gallery of Southwestern Pottery.

Adriel Heisley, Oblique Views: Archaeology, Photography and Time. Through May 25, 2017 MUSEUM OF INT’L FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Multiple Visions: A Common Bond. Flamenco: From Spain to New Mexico. Both through Sept. 11, 2016 MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226

The Beltrán-Kropp Art Collection from Peru; Early 20th Century Artists of New Mexico; Conexiones: The Delgado Room.

NM HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5019 Fading Memories: Echoes of the Civil War. Through Feb. 26.

Lowriders, Hoppers, and Hot Rods: Car Culture of Northern New Mexico. Through March 5. Painting the Divine: Images of Mary in the New World.

Through March 13. Along the Pecos: A Photographic and Sound Collage. Through June 19, 2016. Setting the Standard: The Fred Harvey Company and Its Legacy.

NM MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 An American Modernism.

Through Feb. 21. That Multitudes May Share: Building the Museum of Art. Through March 20, 2016 PALACE OF THE GOVERNORS 105 W Palace Ave., 476-5100 Along the Pecos: A Photographic and Sound Collage. Through June 19, 2016 TAOS TOWN HALL 400 Camino de la Placita, (575) 751-4459 Under a Common Sky. WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 704 Camino Lejo, 986-4636 Connoirship and Good Pie: Ted Coe and Collecting Native Art. Through April 17, 2016

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SANTA FE COLLECTIVE 1114 Hickox St., 670-4088 Tom Appelquist.

SANTA FE ART COLLECTOR 217 Galisteo St., 988-5545 Ken Bonner, Land of Tom Enchantment.

SANTA FE CLAY 545 Camino de la Familia, 984-1122 Amanda Jaffe and Suzanne Kane. Cups.

SANTA FE WEAVING GALLERY 124 Galisteo St., 982-1737 Judith Bird, Handwoven Shibori Tunics and Shawls.

A SEA IN THE DESERT GALLERY 836 A Canyon Road., 988-9140 Friedrich Geier.

SFUAD 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, 473-6440 Valerie Rangel, Don’t Kill the Messenger.

SORREL SKY GALLERY 125 W Palace Ave., 501-6555 Group show, Winter Wonderland. Jim Bagley, Deep into Nature. Gerald Balciar.

TRESA VORENBERG GOLDSMITHS 656 Canyon Road, 988-7215 Heyoka Merrifield, The New Treasures.

VERVE GALLERY OF PHOTOGRAPHY 219 E Marcy St., 982-5009 Micky Hoogendijk, New Works.

Aline Smithson, Self & Others.

Maggie Taylor, Well Then. All through Jan. 23 VIVO CONTEMPORARY 725 Canyon Road, 982-1320 Material Matters.

WAITS STUDIO WORKS 2855 Cooks Road, Ste. A, 270-2654 Laura Wait.

WIFORD GALLERY 403 Canyon Road, 982-2403 Barry Thomas, Voices of the West.

WILLIAM SIEGAL GALLERY 540 S Guadalupe St., 820-3300 Kathryn Keller.

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Kung Fu movies are awesome. When given the opportunity to review Ip Man 3, it’s advisable to jump-kick at the chance. Unfortunately, Ip Man 3 disappointed in everything but the Kung Fu department.

It’s a known story principle that a fight scene only has meaning if the characters involved in the fight have some sort of relationship. Unfortu-

nately, these relationships are erratic and poorly defined, as the story jumps back and forth between several different plots that fail to resolve adequately (or at all) during the course of the film.

And there’s Mike Tyson.

Yes, the sport of boxing’s favorite ’80s bad-boy woodenly acts his way through some bizarre scenes as a crime lord in 1959 Hong Kong. He even has his strange facial tattoo. I don’t have to be so harsh, Tyson is misued by the script.

We know that’s Mike Tyson, lines for

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his character aren’t nescessary. But then, why is Tyson a crime boss in 1959 Hong Kong, anyway? He doesn’t fit.

“Inexplicable” isn’t a strong enough word. There’s also a badly executed “my Kung Fu is better than your Kung Fu” plot line that weaves its way through the A-plot of crime lords taking what they want in a campaign of muscle and fear. At the same time, Ip Man’s (Donnie Yen) wife has cancer and keeps getting interrupted in delivering the bad news. This thread takes up most of the third act, and just when it seems like there’s some sort of theme emerging, the film ends. That’s the problem with this movie: There’s no damn story, no resolution, no point.

What is this movie about? Is it standing up for what you believe? Is it “the rich and powerful don’t rule the world, but those pure of heart”? Or maybe the theme is “there’s nothing more important than having the love of your life at your side”? We don’t know. Ip Man 3 suffers from an all-toocommon film sin: The script isn’t written well enough to provide emotional content. I will concede, however, that the scenes in which Man cares for his dy-

ing wife did tug on my heartstrings a little. Abandoning the crime lord story in favor of greater depth in the feuding Kung Fu schools and its effect on Man’s tenuous marriage in the face of mortality would have been a better way to go.

Egregiously, there’s almost no Bruce Lee in this film, either (historical note: Bruce Lee learned Kung Fu from Ip Man in real life during this time of history). If you had added some of Bruce’s hot-headed badassery coupled with Ip Man’s level-headed (and ultimately successful) attempts to control Lee’s furious skill against the backdrop of warring rivals … man, that would have been awesome. If you’re going to go all out in fabricating the life of a historical figure, at least make it good. Let’s be honest, Donnie Yen didn’t look 67, either.

Overall, this movie is just a bunch of missed opportunities wrapped in slick production values. The fighting, taken alone, is well executed and filmed with a wide enough angle to provide an ample view for all the stunts. That isn’t enough to carry a film.

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THE REVENANT

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THE REVENANT

Whereas there are any number of standout western films that occupy the pantheon of filmmaking, there has been an almost unnoticeable resurgence in postmodern, cerebral storytelling within the genre over the past two decades. Films like Unforgiven, True Grit or even Ravenous took the stripped-down good guy rides horse to the showdown with bad guy trope and replaced it with concepts like obsession, racism, revenge, murder and intrigue that play out in the untapped frontier of a burgeoning nation in fascinating ways.

Director Alejandro González Iñárritu— the man behind 2014’s brilliant Birdman— tackles these ideas in the new Leonardo DiCaprio-driven western, The Revenant. Set in 1800-something, DiCaprio plays Hugh Glass, a homesteader/survivalist type who, in a post-Civil-War American melting pot of violence and tense race relations, lives between conflicting planes of existence. We know little of Glass’s past other than he fathered a son with a Native American woman who was killed during the war. This death continues to haunt Glass some years later as he assists a hunting party from the Rocky Mountain Fur Company during a harsh winter on the wild and wooly American frontier.

Based on true events (Glass really did exist, y’all), the men must contend with the elements as well as a pursuing sortie of Native warriors hell-bent on finding the

kidnapped daughter of their leader. During the expedition, Glass is brutally mauled by a grizzly bear and ultimately left for dead by the villain of the piece, John Fitzgerald, a gutless wonder of self-absorption and greed who also murders Glass’s son right before him. Against all odds, our hero survives and, propelled only by his thirst for revenge, traverses hundreds of miles while physically and mentally broken and alone.

It is intense, a twisted sort of love letter to a father’s love for his son. The constant solitude and indifference found in the vast unsettled expanses are crushing, and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki (Gravity, Children of Men) captures the bleak cold and hopelessness in such stunning detail that one can almost feel the frozen expanses looming ever closer; the closing darkness suffocating; the brisk winds clawing from all sides; the perils that lurk behind every tree and over every distant hill.

This is an exceptionally violent film in ways that may shock even the most desensitized viewer. But it is never gratuitous. Rather, with each decision Glass must make to survive, we are shown the true meaning of fightor-flight in a way that only serves to illustrate his drive. The real horror is found within the cruelty of man and the indifference of nature. And it is beautiful. The stark contrasts between establishing shots of ominous towering trees or the fractured chaos of an icy river bend make the imagery of cold-blooded

murder, survivalism and even rape seem far more startling than they already are, and as we struggle and fail to understand Fitzgerald’s motives, a point is reached where we too begin to relent to Glass’s bloodlust.

DiCaprio gives the performance of his career as a man who rarely speaks but can still convey more than his fair share of hurt.

Even in something as simple as the vocalization of pain, he conveys a labored sense of life to which he clings only to achieve his goal.

The Revenant takes its time and forces us to confront its violence in almost uncomfortable ways, but this is actually refreshing.

No scene or exchange seems unnecessary.

Every last moment is riveting, and as far as the po-mo western is concerned, it sets a new standard in terms of the assumption that audiences can be intelligent and truly savor a slow burn. (ALEX DE VORE) Violet Crown, R, 156 min.

THE BIG SHORT

What’s that old saying about how if you’re not pissed off, you’re not paying attention?

Obviously, this sentiment rings especially true in America, where the rich literally steal from the poor, and we know and allow it. The new film from director Adam McKay (Anchor Man), The Big Short, proves this beyond a possible doubt as we follow various bankers and fund managers who predicted and invested in the economic collapse of CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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2008. The true charm of the film isn’t in the stellar performances from big names like Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling or Christian Bale, but in the unspoken assumption that our heroes (or anti-heroes, as it were) believe they operate within a system that works. There is true doubt and disbelief as the characters finally absorb that the top brass at our nation’s banks not only were fraudulent criminals, they didn’t even care. This causes visceral and emotional reactions to these real-world events and reminds us as an audience, or as the American public, that there may not be an end when it comes to greed. Some of the imagery errs more toward the heavy-handed, and the true morality of the main players is nebulous at best. Additionally, the breaking of the fourth wall, while enjoyably humorous, recalls The Wolf of Wall Street perhaps a little more than the filmmakers should have been comfortable with, but given the lengths to which The Big Short goes to make its tedious and tiresome subject matter accessible, it becomes something akin to a PSA. This is the kind of film that should be shown in high school economics classes and a Cassandraesque warning that these fuckers are still out there preying on your dreams to this day, despite that all-important truth that is all too often lost on the soulless and the greedy: You can’t take it with you. (ADV) Regal, Violet Crown, R, 130 min.

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS

As Thursday wore on, SFR Art Director Anson Stevens-Bollen and I felt our Star Wars tickets burning holes in our respective pockets. Obviously the new installment from sci-fi overlord JJ Abrams had been highly anticipated by a couple of super-nerds like us, but even more than that, it represented a possible turning point for the series after the garbage of the prequel trilogy.

Now that we’ve seen the film, I am happy to report that it has essentially erased any concerns we may have had about the franchise while opening an exciting new chapter in the operatic space tale of love, loss and lasers.

Turns out the only thing Star Wars really needed was less George Lucas, and JJ Abrams has cobbled together an exciting mélange of the old and the new into a tight and action-packed story. The Empire, as we all know from Return of the Jedi, is no more, but a new shady and evil sect has risen in their place. The First Order is basically the same thing—maybe a little more Nazi-like—right down to the storm troopers, the mysterious and monstrous puppet master who pulls the strings from his throne and is like, I dunno, royalty or something, maybe, and the masked super-villain, Kylo Ren, who is so totally 34

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evil, but maybe there’s something about his past we don’t know yet that might explain why, and we’ll just have to be patient and find out.

Anyway, everyone is looking for Luke Skywalker, who has disappeared under mysterious circumstances, and the fate of the galaxy rests on the shoulders of a precocious BB-8 droid that gives R2-D2 a serious run for his money, a beautiful lady scavenger who also has a mysterious past and a storm trooper in the midst of a crisis of conscience. Yeah, it’s badass. And far more complex than most of what Lucas had going on, not counting the baffling and pointless intergalactic political intrigue stuff we all had to suffer through. … Jar Jar Binks in the Senate? Shut up.

We shan’t delve into further details so as to not spoil it for those who haven’t been yet, but suffice it to say that some serious shit goes down. The true genius of Abrams’ vision is in the mirroring of certain aspects from the original trilogy while constantly expanding the details in satisfying ways. The battle of light vs. dark is the oldest story in existence, but through artfully executed moments of fan service via cameos, blink-and-miss-it background moments and the use of CGI as enhancement rather than focus, The Force Awakens solidifies itself in the canon while blasting its way into a league of its own. For every harrowing dogfight in space or samurai-esque light saber duel, there is a tantalizing emotional thread to follow or legitimately funny exchange to enjoy; for every gasp-inducing reveal or unbelievable plot twist, there is a beautiful vista or solid performance. Seriously, this movie is far better than you were probably prepared to hope for.

Of course, this is only the first chapter of a trilogy, so questions remain, but the heartwrenching final moments provide a satisfying conclusion while leaving the door wide open to take the story in any direction its caretakers desire. Longtime fans and initiates will find more than enough to love here, and no matter where you fall on the Star Wars love spectrum, one thing’s for sure—the next chapter can’t come soon enough. (ADV) Regal, Violet Crown, PG-13, 135 min.

THE HATEFUL EIGHT

Filmgoers have been champing at the bit for The Hateful Eight—director Quentin Tarantino’s eighth film and second Western— since he announced it in 2013. This visceral mystery, set a decade or so after the Civil War in rural Wyoming, was definitely worth the wait.

Over the course of three hours, The Hateful Eight tells the tale of bounty hunter John “The Hangman” Ruth (Kurt Russell) as he escorts accused murderer Daisy Domergue (Jennifer

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Jason Leigh) to her execution. Their stagecoach pulls up on another bounty hunter, Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L Jackson), followed by “Rebel Renegade” fighter and small-town sheriff Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins). A blizzard forces them to take shelter at a stagecoach passover, where they find four strangers (Demian Bichir, Bruce Dern, Michael Madsen and Tim Roth) and a whole helluva lot of unanswered questions. We soon learn that, while the weather outside is frightful, inside isn’t looking too much better for anyone.

Cinematographer Robert Richardson filmed The Hateful Eight in anamorphic 70mm for better picture quality, although most theaters will get the digital release. Nevertheless, the shots—whether panoramic and snowy or closeup and blood-soaked—are all pitch-perfect for

the genre. Tarantino’s entire career is built on homage, so it’s nice to see his usual flourishes in place here again, including the music.

Hateful features an original score by legendary composer Ennio Morricone, his first for a Western in 40 years. Although Morricone once said he’d never work with Tarantino again after Django Unchained, and Tarantino claimed that The Hateful Eight score is “absolutely abysmal,” it’s a perfect fit, brilliantly capturing the film’s moments of stillness, tension and fear.

Morricone’s score, Tarantino’s screenplay and Leigh’s conniving, feral performance as Domergue have already earned Golden Globe nominations. And rightfully so: The Hateful Eight is one of 2015’s best films. (Brianna

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) The next four weeks could potentially be a Golden Age of Friendship… a State of Grace for Your Web of Connections… a Lucky Streak for Collaborative Efforts. What can you do to ensure that these cosmic tendencies will actually be fulfilled? Try this: Deepen and refine your approach to schmoozing.

Figure out what favors would be most fun for you to bestow, and bestow them. Don’t socialize aimlessly with random gadabouts, but rather gravitate toward people with whom you share high ideals and strong intentions.

my analysis, you heterosexual Libras are now more prone to this accidental experience than usual. And in general, Libras of every sexual preference must be careful and precise about what seeds they plant in the coming weeks. The new growth you instigate is likely to have far-reaching consequences. So don’t let your choice be reckless or unconscious. Formulate clear intentions.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) I was a rock musician for years, which meant that I rarely went to bed before TAURUS (April 20-May 20) On a clear day, if you stand dawn. I used to brag that my work schedule was from 9 at the summit of Costa Rica’s Mount Irazú, you can see to 5—9 p.m. to 5 a.m., that is. Even after I stopped perboth the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It’s not hard to get forming regularly, I loved keeping those hours. It was there. You can hop a tourist bus in the nearby city of San exhilarating to be abuzz when everyone else was asleep.

José, and be 11,200 feet high two hours later. This is a But two months ago, I began an experiment to transform good model for your next assignment: Head off on a my routine. Now I awake with the dawn. I spend the stress-free jaunt to a place that affords you a vast vista. entire day consorting with the source of all life on earth, If you can’t literally do that, at least slip away to a fun the sun. If you have been contemplating a comparable sanctuary where you’ll be inspired to think big thoughts shift in your instinctual life, Scorpio—any fundamental about your long-range prospects. You need a break from alteration in your relationship to food, drink, exercise, everything that shrinks or numbs you. sleep, perception, laughter, love-making—the next few weeks will be a favorable time to do it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) A filmmaker working on a major movie typically shoots no more than four pages of SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You Sagittarians are the script per day. A director for a TV show may shoot often praised but also sometimes criticized for being eight pages. But I suspect that the story of your life in such connoisseurs of spontaneity. Many of us admire the near future may barrel through the equivalent of 20 your flair for unplanned adventure, even though we may pages of script every 24 hours. The next chapter is flinch when you unleash it. You inspire us and also make especially action-packed. The plot twists and mood us nervous as you respond to changing circumstances swings will be coming at a rapid clip. This doesn’t have with unpremeditated creativity. I expect all these issues to be a problem as long as you are primed for high to be hot topics in the coming weeks. You are in a phase adventure. How? Take good care of your basic physical of your cycle when your improvisational flourishes will and emotional needs so you’ll be in top shape to enjoy be in the spotlight. I, for one, promise to learn all I can the boisterous ride. from the interesting detours that result from your CANCER (June 21-July 22) The city of Paris offers delight in experimentation. formal tours of its vast sewer system. Commenting at an CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Capricorn world-changer online travel site, one tourist gave the experience five Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail on stars. “It’s a great change of pace from museums full of 29 different occasions. His crimes? Drawing inspiration art,” she wrote. Another visitor said, “It’s an interesting from his Christian faith, he employed nonviolent civil detour from the cultural overload that Paris can disobedience to secure basic civil rights for African present.” According to a third, “There is a slight smell Americans. He believed so fiercely in his righteous but it isn’t overpowering. It’s a fascinating look at how cause that he was willing to sacrifice his personal Paris handles wastewater treatment and clean water comfort again and again. The coming months will be a supply.” I bring this up, Cancerian, because now is a favorable time for you to take a break from bright, shiny favorable time to devote yourself to a comparable goal, Capricorn. And now is a good time to intensify your pleasures and embark on a tour of your psyche’s commitment. I dare you to take a vow. subterranean maze. Regard it not as a scary challenge, but as a fact-finding exploration. What strategies do you AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) The birds known as have in place to deal with the messy, broken, secret stuff mound-builders are born more mature than other species. in your life? Take an inventory.

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