Pasatiempo, Nov. 30, 2012

The New Mexican’s Weekly Magazine of Arts, Entertainment & Culture November 30, 2012

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ON THE COVER 36 The Nutcracker Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s holiday performances of The Nutcracker begin Saturday, Dec. 1, at the Lensic Performing Arts Center. The character of Drosselmeyer — a mysterious and dark figure in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, the original impetus for the ballet — is danced by Steven Cook. The veteran performer spoke with Pasatiempo about the role and its various interpretations. On the cover is ASFB guest dancer Zhongmei Li; photo by Rosalie O’Connor, courtesy ASFB.

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November 30 - December 6, 2012

The 2012 Santa Fe Film Festival officially gets underway on Thursday, Dec. 6, with a screening of Hyde Park on Hudson. Unofficially, however, the fun begins at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, with a gala celebration at the Hotel Santa Fe and Spa (1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200). Join festival organizers and fellow cinephiles for an evening of international cuisine, entertainment by accordionist Ron “Dadou” Romanovsky, and live and silent auctions to benefit the festival. Tickets, $150 per person, are available at the hotel, Constellation Home Electronics (215 N. Guadalupe St., 983-9988), and online at www.santafefilmfestival.com.

At 5 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5, the festival presents a screening of Now, Forager: A Film About Love and Fungi, a meditative, beautifully shot romance directed by Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin, at the New Mexico History Museum (113 Washington Ave.). Cortlund will be on hand and will take questions from the audience. Following the screening, at 7:30 p.m., Coyote Café chef/owner Eric DiStefano and his kitchen staff present a three-course tasting menu at the restaurant (132 W. Water St., 982-2454).

The menus is inspired by the film, with wine pairings provided by Oregon’s Domaine Serene winery, local wine and spirits distributor Fiasco Wines, and Santa Fe Spirits. Tickets for both the screening and dinner are $135 per person, $20 for the film only. Coyote Café will donate a portion of the proceeds to support festival programming. Tickets to the dinner and screening are available at www.santafefilmfestival.com.

Hyde Park on Hudson shows at The Screen (1600 St. Michael’s Drive, Santa Fe University of Art and Design Campus) at 7 p.m. on Thursday.

The film, directed by Roger Michell, stars Bill Murray (as Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and Laura Linney. Tickets, $15, are available from Tickets Santa Fe at the Lensic (www.ticketssantafe.org, 988-1234). Call the festival at 988-7414, Ext. 102 for information.

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To market, to market There’s holiday cheer aplenty at the 24th annual Winter Spanish Market, which takes place Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 1 and 2, at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center (201 W. Marcy St.). An offshoot of the Traditional Spanish Market, held on the Plaza in summer, Winter Spanish Market presents more than 100 artists from across New Mexico who exhibit and sell holiday-themed items and other crafts. Entertainers include local musician Michael Combs and Los Tres Rios, among others. The market runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday; there is no charge for admission. Winter Spanish Market, which is sponsored by the Spanish Colonial Arts Society, includes a Sunday Market Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi (131 Cathedral Place). The mass begins at 8 a.m.

If you want to shop early, try the WinterNite preview party, which kicks off the market from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 30, at the convention center.

Besides the chance to meet artists and browse their works, there party offers entertainment and refreshments. Tickets for WinterNite are $40, and reservations are required. Call 982-2226 to purchase tickets. See www.spanishcolonialblog.org.

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STAR CODES Heather Roan Robbins

Donate The stars encourage us to build momentum as energized Mars and Pluto conjunct in industrious Capricorn and sextile creative Venus while Saturn conjuncts in serious Scorpio. Whatever we’re doing, it’s time to do it well even if no one is looking — do it to plant seeds for the future and to create a difference within one’s soul.

As the weekend begins, a grand trine in water signs takes our feelings deep, maybe so deep we can’t find words for them. If we tap into this grand trine, our fondness for a mate may deepen. If we want to make our home cozy, it will echo with history and love. If we want to hold onto a grudge, it can become a dangerous swamp.

Strong feelings need to be heard and need a safe place to be expressed, but they don’t have to dominate us. We can listen to their deep rolling waves, acknowledge them, and then search for an empathic response.

This deep feeling can build expectations, but we may be just too busy for that right now. People can love us and still not be available. Meet in the quiet moments.

This weekend nests under a domestic Cancer moon. Sunday and early next week we are encouraged to reach out and celebrate under an extroverted Leo moon, and then get back to work. All next week, our hearts and brains may disagree, and this conflict can send out mixed signals. Let’s see if we can listen to that deeper need, and give ourselves and others a more direct way to express themselves.

Friday, Nov. 30: Although the morning is sleepy, the world calls for our active participation. Cooperation may be difficult midafternoon; make sure last-mute changes aren’t just a protective reaction. Cuddle into something familiar around dinnertime as the moon trines Saturn. If people get crabby later, go to neutral corners and discuss issues tomorrow.

Saturday, Dec. 1: Venus quincunxes Jupiter in the morning and stirs our affections and aesthetics, until a cranky Moon opposes Mars midday, and then softens as the moon trines Venus. The evening leaves us brilliant if endangered — open and sociable wherever we’re safe enough to shine.

Sunday, Dec. 2: After an internal morning, the afternoon sends us a sense of anticipation and indulgence as the moon enters extroverted, celebratory Leo. Monday, Dec. 3: Egos and a social atmosphere with competitive undertones can complicate our morning — be generous but don’t be a pushover as the Leo moon squares restrictive Saturn. We can count on better intentions and less psychological undertow later today, though people will still need to be recognized in order to be cooperative.

Tuesday, Dec. 4: Even though our hearts are in the right places, some at-odds aspects can cause an inconvenient disconnect that takes humor and empathy to circumvent. Walk around a problem rather than try and push through it. Create bonding moments out of minor inconveniences, and look for the joy in it all.

Wednesday, Dec. 5: Work toward finding solutions to difficult matters as the moon enters persnickety, health-conscious Virgo. Sadness or willfulness can affect our thinking unless we let that river flow by and reach for a deeper connection. Think through a conundrum tonight as the moon trines Pluto.

Thursday, Dec. 6: Go with what intuition and logic tell you is best and move forward on some pragmatic work issue as the Virgo moon trines Mars and Pluto. Don’t be mad if others doubt your vision. We can feel taxed if we’re too cerebral; check in with the body’s needs. ◀ www.roanrobbins.com

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IN OTHER WORDS We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy, a Very Oral History by Yael Kohen, Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 308 pages On a recent episode of 30 Rock, Tracy Morgan’s character, Tracy Jordan, delivers a statement we’re heard a zillion times since John Belushi uttered it to Gilda Radner back in the ’70s: women aren’t funny. The claim is so ludicrous that Tracy’s boss, Liz Lemon (Tina Fey), on the brink of twitchy rage, says she’s not even going to engage the question. But later in the episode, when Tracy brings a tiny monkey dressed in a suit to the show and says it is funnier than any lady comedian, Liz goes ballistic and resurrects her old stand-up act for the whole crew. Fey’s point is that even though many of us are long past the point of asking whether or not gals can be hilarious (um, duh), our culture seems insistent on continually posing the question.

A new book, We Killed, by Marie Claire contributing editor Yael Kohen traces the history of women in American comedy: from pioneering ’50s and ’60s female comics Phyllis Diller and Elaine May to the subversive blue-collar routines of Lily Tomlin, the 1975 birth of Saturday Night Live and the ’90s alternative grunge stylings of Janeane Garofalo, and finally to modern major media players, like Fey and her pal Amy Poehler (star of Parks and Recreation).

The book begins with an overwhelming 17-page-long “cast of characters” (One Hundred Years of Solitude and Anna Karenina have nothing on We Killed) that identifies not only the female comedians interviewed but writers, producers, agents, managers, and male comedians, too. The encyclopedic introduction is emblematic of the rest of the book. We Killed is organized in chronological chapters and told in the voices of the people who were there — Kohen essentially went crazy with cut-and-paste, putting together dozens of interviews into a more or less logical sequence.

The tales are told in a tone that suggests swapping stories over an afternoon beer or a late-night cup of coffee (though many of them took place over the phone), and this is both an asset to the book and a detriment. The casual language and insider details are appealing, but by the time we get from May’s first gig at The Purple Onion nightclub in San Francisco to Kathy Griffin’s life on the D list, we’ve heard the same stories about madly pasting flyers around New York (or Chicago or Los Angeles), dealing with male agents and writers who just don’t get it, and bombing the first stand-up show again and again.

That’s not to say these stories aren’t important — female comedians have fought hard to enjoy the recognition they do today — but Kohen might have edited them more aggressively. There are anecdotal gems, but you have to dig through lots of throwaway chatter (detailed discussions of who called whom to make what happen) to find them. In a very brief chapter, Carol Burnett relays one such story about Lucille Ball, who was guest-starring on Burnett’s show in the late ’60s, and telling Burnett how she needed to learn to stand up for herself in the writers’ room once she and Desi Arnaz divorced. As Burnett tells it, Ball said: “I told the writers what I thought, and, kid, that’s when they put the s on the end of my last name.”

Kohen does leave out certain notables, both historic characters like Ball and Mae West (who, to be fair, aren’t alive to be interviewed) and the blowing-up-right-now Mindy Kaling (of NBC’s The Office and more recently, Fox’s The Mindy Project), Lena Dunham (the controversial 26-year-old force behind HBO’s Girls), and the refreshingly un-perky Lizzy Caplan (of Bachelorette and Starz’s under-seen Party Down). It’s also curious that the seminal Golden Girls doesn’t warrant a mention (the show still holds up in endless Lifetime re-runs, plus there’s Betty White’s late-career renaissance), but perhaps that’s a personal preference. The problem is that Kohen doesn’t make important choices between being comprehensive or focused, and by offering scant analysis the narrative feels undirected.

While Kohen acknowledges that comedy — and media in general — is still dominated by men, she is not as incisive or specific as she might be. An annual study conducted by the San Diego State University’s Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film revealed that, among those who work behind the scenes in prime-time television, women account for only 30 percent of the writing staff, while 68 percent of the programs surveyed employ no female writers at all. It’s even worse in latenight TV: most shows have only one or two women in the writers’ room, and Bill Maher has none at all.

We Killed is valuable because it discusses the extra red tape, reluctant producers, and neasaying network execs that funny women must deal with in order to perform and achieve legitimacy. But Kohen, along with the rest of us, should do Liz Lemon one better and stop dignifying the question, Are women funny? We already know the answer.

— Adele Oliveira

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book reviews

SUBTEXTS How-to lowdown Some very different how-to books written by local authors: Asian Martial Arts: Constructive Thoughts and Practical Applications edited by Michael A. DeMarco, Via Media Publishing, 183 pages Michael A. DeMarco has edited the Journal of Asian Martial Arts for more than 20 years. As he ends publication of the magazine, he has collected in a new book essays from a wide variety of practitioners and scholars in the field, the majority former contributors to the journal. This is a compendium of articles on history, spirituality, and healing in the martial arts as well as practical applications.

Versions of karate, judo, jujitsu, tai chi, and tae kwon do are covered in the text and photo sequences as well as more arcane arts such as Chinese mantis boxing and Russian Combat Systema.

The book explains what goes on spiritually and mentally in the practices, stressing ethics and responsibilities, emphasizing that the forms are something much deeper than just sports as many people consider them. DeMarco teaches tai chi in Santa Fe. Top-Bar Beekeeping: Organic Practices for Honeybee Health by Les Crowder and Heather Harrell, Chelsea Green Publishing, 175 pages Beekeeping today in the United States is agribusiness. Commercial hives are fumigated with pesticides, the bees’ diet supplemented with syrup. Because of this, and modern pesticides, hives are collapsing across the country. Husband-and-wife team Les Crowder and Heather Harrell have a different and more holistic way to raise bees. Not written for the armchair hobbyist, their new book tells in detail how to construct hives, place top bars that bees attach their combs to, install the bees, check the hives, and harvest the honey.

Clear diagrams and photos will assist the beginning beekeeper.

The couple lives in the Peñasco area and sells honey at the Santa Fe Farmers Market.

Mixed Media Revolution: Creative Ideas for Reusing your Art

by Darlene Olivia McElroy and Sandra Duran Wilson, North Light Books, 144 pages Mixed-media art can involve paper on paper, paint on Plexiglas, rusted metallic scraps, stencils, glued-on buttons, and anything else in an artist’s imagination. Darlene Olivia McElroy, who shows at La Posada, and Sandra Duran Wilson, who shows at Pippin Contemporary, have collected dozens of techniques in their new book. Clear text and numerous color illustrations make the book easy to follow for beginning hobbyists and experienced artists alike.

— Robin Martin

Holiday Spa Special Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon, Harper/HarperCollins, 468 pages Michael Chabon’s new novel is all about nostalgia and the consequences that come of change, both threatened and realized. It’s also centered on that other favorite Chabon theme: friendship. Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe run Brokeland Records, a vinyl mecca of jazz, funk, and soul LPs located at the far end of the book’s namesake avenue, which connects Berkeley with Oakland. By now, 2004, much of that famous avenue has been co-opted by coffee-house franchises and corporate retail. Archy is black; Nat is white. Their wives, Gwen and Aviva, are dedicated midwives working together as the Berkeley Birth Partners. Both Brokeland and Birth Partners struggle to survive in the 21st century. Those struggles strain the relationship between each set of business partners as well as the couples themselves. Other couples complicate the story. There’s Luther Stallings, Archy’s father, a once John Shaft-like blaxploitation film hero, and his leggy aging co-star Valletta Moore. Luther exists largely in hiding — there’s something unseemly in his past — and his future is hooked on producing and starring in a new film. Then there’s Archy’s son Titus, whom Archy has just recently admitted to having fathered. Titus is having a relationship with Nat and Aviva’s son Julie, a brother despite his name.

Into this mix comes former NFL quarterback Gibson “G Bad” Goode, an entrepreneur who wants to build a Berkeley edition of his Los Angeles Dogpile megastore, an extravagant cultural mall that will include, in addition to a multiplex theater, a giant record store. Goode, whose past holds more than football, has the support of Councilman Chan Flowers, once Luther’s friend. Flowers is anxious to find out where Luther is keeping himself these days, something to do with the never-solved Black Panther-linked shooting of Popcorn Hughes at the Bit o’ Honey Lounge in 1973. Add to this Pynchonesque cast venerable jazz organist Cochise Jones and his musical parrot, a memorabilia dealer named Mr. Nostalgia, a feckless attorney and a couple of toughs, and you’ve got more characters than you can follow in a plot that’s not as complicated as it sounds: if the megastore is built, it will spell the end of Brokeland.

That Chabon makes us comfortable in this tangle is a testament to his abilities.

The book turns as smoothly as an old Isaac Hayes LP, complete with pops and clicks. Chabon is expert at making music meaningful to his story, as he does when describing the effect John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme has on Archy. His dialogue is both smart and streetwise at once. He makes the most absurd circumstances work, as when Goode tries to sway Archy by taking him up on his private zeppelin.

Like Chabon’s 2000 Pulitzer prize-winning novel The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, this unlikely buddy novel makes retro a religion. Archy, the most troubled of the characters — caught cheating on his pregnant wife and failing all those years to mention that he had a son — finds salvation in a decades-old “Dream of Cream” pastry, still good after all these years. The postracial relationship difficulties in the story seem uncomfortable in that race is never mentioned as part of the problem. The only ones who seem above all this colorblind nonsense, Titus and Julie, are from the next generation. When the story finally winds down like a record to its last groove, it’s a disappointment — not because of the way it ends but because, like the last sweet sounds on your favorite album, it does end.

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The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human by Jonathan Gottschall, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 248 pages What do all religions and cultures have in common? A canon of stories, told and retold down the generations, that identifies their heroes, tells of triumph over adversity, illustrates their moral values, and often describes how they are uniquely supreme to all others. When children play, they play pretend, spontaneously acting out improvised stories. When we sleep, we dream a surreal world of our mind’s creation. We tell stories, read stories, listen to stories set to music or watch them on our electronic devices, the stage, or the big screen. Some of us even act them out in video games, virtual worlds, and live-action role-playing games. “This book is about the primate Homo fictus (fiction man), the great ape with the storytelling mind. You might not realize it, but you are a creature of an imaginative realm called Neverland,” writes Jonathan Gottschall, a professor of English at Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania. In explaining these claims, he references studies from biology, psychology, neuroscience, and history, leavening them with the observations of poets, literary figures, and elementary-school teachers.

From children’s games filled with monsters, bad guys, and misbehaving babies to opera’s tragic or comedic heroes, all stories have a central theme of conflict — without it there is no story (despite modernist efforts to prove otherwise).

The protagonist overcomes the conflict or adversity to triumph or find true love. Is it possible that we need fiction like pilots need flight simulators? The discovery of mirror neurons in the brain that fire whether we do something or watch someone else do it has led some neuroscientists to think so. Children vanquishing monsters in this fashion are, like lion cubs stalking butterflies, preparing for adult occupations. “Fiction is a powerful and ancient virtual reality technology that simulates the big dilemmas of human life,” Gottschall writes.

Peter Pan clung to Neverland, and as Gottschall attests with disturbing statistics and historical examples, so do we. Hitler saw himself as a Wagnerian hero. Neverland isn’t only outside us, but within us, too.

Memory is unreliable and easily influenced, altering our own history over time, while our mind subtly crafts self-image so that the story of our lives makes us the superior protagonist in our own (perhaps only mildly) heroic tale.

“Neverland is our evolutionary niche. ... It nourishes our imaginations; it reinforces moral behavior; it gives us safe worlds to practice inside.

Story is the glue of human social life — defining groups and holding them together. ... Neverland is our nature.” If this is true, and Gottschall builds a persuasive case, he wonders if stories, once our evolved strength, are becoming our weakness, with escape into virtual worlds all too easy, but surely Don Quixote illustrates that that potential disadvantage was ever-present.

The bigger danger of story, I suspect, lies in other circumstances: when the archaic stories we tell ourselves as a culture blind us to the destructive reality of their consequences. E.O. Wilson, an early advocate of a scientific exploration of human behavior and the humanities, would probably agree.

— Susan Meadows

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N G I E FOR E G N A H C X E HAMID DABASHI ON IRAN AND THE U.S.

In the context of a totalitarian regime, any movement of students, women, or labor unions is a threat. Any group that aggregates individuals outside of the state is a threat.

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HOME TO ONE OF THE WORLD’S OLDEST CIVILIZATIONS, the Persian state of Iran has been at times a world empire, a colonized country, and an Islamic Republic.

For much of the past four decades, the maneuvers of its theocratic government have preoccupied U.S. foreign policy, often with disastrous consequences for both countries. The result is that peoples from opposite ends of the globe have clashed over religion, art, and culture and have come to know each other largely through the lens of the military threats they pose to one another.

“I wish for Americans to have as full-bodied a picture of Iran as Iranians to have a full-bodied picture of the U.S.,” said Columbia University professor Hamid Dabashi. “Most of these perceptions are currently politically modulated and by no stretch of the imagination represent a wholesome picture.” On Wednesday, Dec. 5, Dabashi speaks on Iranian history, culture, and politics at the Lensic Performing Arts Center as part of the Lannan Foundation’s In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom series.

Raised in Iran, Dabashi has lived in the United States for the past 40 years.

He has written 18 books that range in scope from Islam in the Middle Ages to the aesthetics of art to political and cultural interpretations of Iranian and Palestinian film. He is known as both a fierce critic of Iran’s repressive government and an often withering commentator on U.S. foreign policy in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East. “Iran is as native to me as the U.S., though, as you know, very precious few [are] left of Native Americans, so I am just one among a million other immigrants who have come to these shores and now call the U.S. home — a father of four American children all born and raised here and never set foot in Iran,” Dabashi said.

In the U.S., he has frequently found himself in the cross hairs of controversy.

His views on the current Iranian regime have kept him from traveling to the

country since the election of Mohammad Khatami, who served as president from 1997 to 2005. “It would not be safe to enter the country. I’m sure I can go, but I’m not sure I can come back.”

Dabashi said that his talk will look at how Iran’s revolutionary stirrings have been rewritten in light of the Arab Spring of 2011. “We have entered a new phase where what we see is neither an open-ended revolution nor a traditional civil rights movement. The period of grand unified social movements is over in my view. Current social movements in Iran and elsewhere are defined by the nitty-gritty specifics of demands for civil liberties.” The result, Dabashi said, is that today’s Iranian revolutionary looks a lot less like a bearded Che Guevara hiding in the hills of Cuba and more like a mom in New York who pushes off homework time so she and her children can attend Occupy Wall Street rallies in Zuccotti Park.

In Iran, the vanguard of revolutionaries has come to include middle-class residents who have grown frustrated with the regime’s grip over even the most basic of everyday liberties. Dabashi cites the example of the 2009 movie No One Knows About Persian Cats, an exploration of Tehran’s underground music scene, in which brave hipsters evade police and state authorities, while navigating a world of counterfeit visas, simply to play open concerts and record music.

In like manner, Dabashi said that the central struggle of progressive Iranians these days is to win recognition and freedom of association for three groups that are often jailed, tracked, or otherwise persecuted for organizing in the public sphere. “In the context of a totalitarian regime, any movement of students, women, or labor unions is a threat. Any group that aggregates individuals outside of the state is a threat, for it could have the potential to assemble people to fight totalitarianism.” Dabashi doesn’t see an easy way out for Iranians. “Over the past 33 years, the Islamic Republic has tyrannically tried to put a straitjacket on this culture to produce a generation to their liking.”

Yet he is deeply skeptical of the U.S.’s ability to improve the situation. “It’s so entangled in the politics of Saudi Arabia and Israel. It’s still in the DNA of the American government that we have a military strike on the table and crippling economic sanctions in place.”

Raised in Iran and educated in Farsi for his first 20 years, before spending 40 years in the United States as an academic and cultural critic, Dabashi feels that neither country is tapping into the right resources to fight for civil liberties in Iran. “I believe in the help of American civil society, student organizations, and women’s groups. American civic groups and the American civil-rights movement can provide a better counterpart to American foreign policy.”

He cites the example of The Iran Job, a U.S. documentary, released this fall, about an African American athlete who enters the Iranian Basketball Super League. From female colleagues who risk jail time for the “crime” of having tea with the athlete to the movie’s director, who is taken into custody at one point, the film presents a devastating picture of Iranian society, torn between its connection to a freer, cosmopolitan world and the strictures under which its government places its citizens. “What it does is make a distinction between a robust, healthy society and its decrepit, tyrannical government.”

While downed drones, secret nuclear programs, and ongoing threats of military strikes cloud U.S. headlines about Iran, what Dabashi hopes to draw attention to are ordinary Iranians forced to become everyday revolutionaries in an era when normal acts of conversation and social meetings may come with jail threats and treason charges. “At this particular moment, the most urgent fact to know is that Iranians are engaged in their own struggles for liberty and in terms domestic to their own history and political culture, neither of which are understood under the duress of economic sanctions and or military strikes.” ◀

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WILLIAM BYRD MEDESKI, The Great Ser vice MARTIN & WOOD (Hyperion) Aficionados of choral Free Magic: Live (Indirecto singing should not miss the latest Records) Medeski, Martin & effort from The Cardinall’s Musick, Wood, the groove-centric jam formed in1989 to explore works of the band that’s pulled legions of fans English Renaissance. The musicians’ from the Phish-loving, extendedrepertoire has ranged more broadly rock-and-improv set, started out since then, but at their hearts’ core has as an avant-garde post-post-bop been the sacred music of William Byrd, trio centered on keyboardist John to which they have devoted more than Medeski’s Cecil Taylor-like leanings a dozen recordings. Here they take on his The Great Service, one of and bassist Chris Wood and drummer Billy Martin’s well-challenged the towering summits of Renaissance music. Byrd was a Catholic in support. Don’t believe it? Check out the threesome’s 1992 debut, Notes an England riven by Christian sectarianism, and although most of his From the Underground. While the musicians never completely abansacred music is in Latin, he did not entirely neglect the musical needs doned the outer edges of improvisational jazz, their reputation rests on of the Protestant sector, which is to say the Church of England. A lavish work in-the-pocket, pop-friendly tunes powered by accessible rhythms. Free for 10-part chorus drawing on texts from the Anglican services of Matins, Magic, a collection of live recordings made in 2007, is a return to their roots. Yes, they still groove, and drummer Martin’s clanky time-keeping Evensong, and Communion, The Great Service rolls forth on waves of brilliantly is as tight and driving as ever, but these five acoustic excursions interlocked contrapuntal lines and exciting textural interplay between are long cause-and-effect improvisations with an emphasis the full chorus and sub-ensembles. Conductor Andrew Carwood on percussive patterns. Wood’s “Doppler” is a playground elicits a vigorous, muscular performance of unstoppable propulsion and uplifting optimism. Filling out the CD are of sound, with wood blocks, something that sounds like five selections from Byrd’s sacred-song collections of 1589 kalimba, toy piano, arco bass, and other noise makers. and 1611, English-language works for less grandiose ensemThe group makes a jazz-funk mash of Charles Mingus’ bles, apparently intended for private devotions. Highlights “Nostalgia in Times Square” and Sun Ra’s “Angel Race,” Jessica Pratt’s layered vocals include “Make Ye Joy to God All the Earth,” with bubwith plenty of free-form harmonics. Best is Medeski’s bling text-painting in madrigal style, and the Christmas “Where’s Sly,” with its rumbling piano intro, catchy seem to creep from a dark theme, and — there’s no other way to say it — groove. carol “This Day Christ Was Born,” which brings this No matter which of their approaches and collaborations gratifying CD to an ebullient close. — James M. Keller forest, and the guitar carves you’ve liked in the past, you’ll like this. — Bill Kohlhaase wintery landscapes that feel Jessica Pratt (Birth Records) With the black-and-white, FATIMA AL QADIRI Desert Strike (Fade to Mind) uncomfortably close photo on the cover of this album like distant memories.

Enya and Björk would be among the last artists picked and the opening lines — “Some days are long and summer to contribute music to the video game Call of Duty, but if days are hard/I was dragging my feet across my parking lot/ they were, the result might sound like this unusual EP. Born I remember sad faces in the mirror behind me” — Jessica Pratt in Senegal and raised in Kuwait, Al Qadiri says on her website casts herself as a haunted, old soul. Her brand of acoustic folk is that her messy mix of synths, ethereal sculpted vocals, and pretty and fragile — the layered vocals seem to creep from a dark British grime-rap beats is a meditation on the U.S. invasion of Kuwait rest, and the guitar carves wintery landscapes that feel like distant in the early 1990s, which she lived through as a child. Even the name of memories: a childhood afternoon, perhaps, of sipping cocoa, listening to folk the album references Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf, a Sega video game records, and watching snowflakes stick to the windowpane. If you listened that she and her sister played obsessively as teens to process their lived to folk in the 1960s or ’70s, you’ll find familiar footsteps to walk in here. war experience. Al Qadiri, now a New York performance artist, knows The way Pratt’s voice slithers in a husky midrange before making startling that the back story is integral to enjoying the music. Without it, the leaps up an octave will no doubt remind you of early Joni Mitchell. multi-tracked choral pieces, sampled gunfire, and repurposed videoThe opening chords of the gem “Hollywood” even recall Mitchell’s game sounds can fall a little flat. “Oil Well” comes across like “Little Green.” Other Pratt songs bend in weirder directions; a defanged M.I.A. song, agit-prop “Half Twain the Jesse” sounds like on muscle relaxers. The closing a less verbose Joanna Newsom, and track, “Hydra,” with its mélange a mystical Vashti Bunyan influence of steel drums, martial synthesizer permeates much of it. However, the riffs, and Enya-like angelic vocal tonal similarity makes the album fragments, is as close as this ambifeel redundant. It seems suited for tious if underpowered album vinyl, where the warm, Laurel Canyon comes to conjuring up the realvibe can shimmer, and you can listen life violence and surreal media to one gorgeous side at a time. In coverage of the first Gulf War. small doses, it’s nearly perfect.

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TERRELL’S TUNE-UP Steve Terrell The great transformer Bettye LaVette is considered a late bloomer. And, as her new album Thankful N’ Thoughtful shows, she’s still blooming.

She’s been in the show-biz game since the 1960s, but stardom alluded her. By the ’90s, she had established a fan base in Europe and was beginning to amass a cult following in the U.S. Then in 2005, with the release of I’ve Got My Own Hell to Raise (in which she covered songs by Lucinda Williams, Sinéad O’Connor, Dolly Parton, and Joan Armatrading), LaVette finally began receiving the recognition she long deserved. At the age of 66, she’s a soul star. And she’s not showing any signs of slowing down. Sometimes her voice is full of sex and fire. Sometimes it’s a voice of weary wisdom.

It’s a voice that will not be ignored.

LaVette is an interpreter, not a writer. But there’s no question that she puts her own stamp on the songs she covers. And in Thankful N’ Thoughtful, she and producer Craig Street came up with some material for LaVette to transform. Here she performs songs by some of the most venerated veteran songwriters around — Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, and Neil Young — as well as some surprising new interpretations of tunes by more contemporary artists like The Black Keys and Gnarls Barkley.

The album begins with a swampy take on Dylan’s “Everything Is Broken.” It is one of the best songs on Dylan’s 1989 album Oh Mercy.

But LaVette makes it sound as if it were written especially for her. As she does with other songs here, she takes liberties with the lyrics — instead of “broken voices on broken phones,” her “broken voices” are singing “broken songs.” She even sneaks in an obscenity that isn’t in Dylan’s original.

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Bettye LaVette’s voice is sometimes full of sex and fire.

Sometimes it’s a voice of weary wisdom.

Lord! Oh Lord!” pleading in desperation for divine intervention before her whole world breaks.

She turns Young’s “Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere” from a country-rock romp into a soulful meditation on frustration and nostalgic yearning.

She does Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” as if it were an Al Green song. And, for the title song, she takes a little-known gem from Sly and The Family Stone’s 1973 album Fresh and turns it into a sacred affirmation.

The best song on this album is so good, there are two versions. I’m talking about “Dirty Old Town,” a tune written by British folk singer Ewan MacColl, but probably better known for its version

by The Pogues. (Pixies singer Frank Black did a good rockabilly-tinged version a few years ago, too.) There’s a funky four-minute slow-groove take and an even slower seven-minute version. LaVette recently told The Washington Post that she prefers the long version. “I liked the one that sounded like a funeral dirge, because the song is about a city that’s dying.”

LaVette changed some of the lyrics to make the song about her childhood home of Detroit instead of a town in England. In the second verse, she adds a little crime action. Cats “prowling their beat” as MacColl and The Pogues have it, become cops patrolling in LaVette’s version. And then, “A shot rang out, and that changed it all.” And in the earlier renditions, the singer dreams of taking “A big sharp ax/Shining steel tempered in the fire” and chopping down the dirty old town like “an old dead tree.” But LaVette turns it around, singing that the town took the ax and tried to chop her down. “But they couldn’t,” she snorts defiantly.

Also recommended: ▼ Sinner Man: The Lost Session by Esquerita.

Perhaps you haven’t heard of Eskew Reeder Jr., better known by his loving cult as “Esquerita.”

Like Bettye LaVette, he started out decades ago — the 1950s, in his case — but never got a break from the music industry. He actually got signed to Capitol Records in the ’50s — allegedly to be Capitol’s answer to Little Richard. But he never caught fire. Dan Epstein explained it best years ago on eMusic: “A one-eyed, six-and-a-half-foot transvestite who [claimed to have] taught Little Richard how to play piano (and copied Richard’s

mile-high pompadour in return), the late Esquerita was simply too ‘out there’ for mass consumption during the Eisenhower era.” Well, he’s got a point.

But I’d argue that Little Richard’s look and sound was just as crazy, and somehow he did make it big in the “I like Ike” days.

With fame and success passing him by, Esquerita’s career went into decline. Reportedly by the ’80s he was working as a parking-lot attendant and at one point was spotted washing car windows for tips in Brooklyn. He died of AIDS in 1986.

Years ago, Norton Records — a label that specializes in wild, primitive rock ’n’ roll rarities — released an Esquerita collection called Vintage Voola. But to my ears, that compilation doesn’t have half the crazed energy of Sinner Man. This new album comes from sessions recorded in New York City in 1966. Esquerita sings and plays piano and organ, sometimes switching back and forth during the course of a song. He’s accompanied only by a drummer, whose name has been lost to history.

The fiery eight-minute title track, which opens the album (there’s also a shorter version later) should be required listening for any student of soul music. Inspired by Nina Simone’s take on the old spiritual, Esquerita pounds the piano as frantically as his drummer pounds the skins. He sings “Running to the Lord/He told me to go on to the devil” like someone who had just had that conversation a few minutes before. And when he sings “Went to the devil/The devil he was waiting,” you can almost smell the brimstone.

This is definitely a case of saving the best for the first. But all the subsequent songs are loaded with fun. Esquerita plays around with some of the standards of the day — “On Broadway,” “C.C. Rider,” and the blues classic “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out.” But more interesting are some of the more obscure songs like “Letter Full of Tears,” a song by Gladys Knight & The Pips, and “Leave Me Alone,” recorded by a little-known singer called Baby Washington. Both of the originals are far more sedate and sweetened by strings. Esquerita, with his frantic, bare-boned approach, goes straight to the raw nucleus of these songs. This is powerful music from an artist who deserved much better out of life. ◀

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ON STAGE The music is now: SFUAD ensembles strut their stuff Santa Fe University of Art and Design’s contemporary-music department has a number of free concerts worth checking out. On Saturday, Dec. 1, the department’s Jazz Ensemble performs with trombonist and composer Christian Pincock and his trio. On Sunday, Dec. 2, the Balkan/Middle East Ensemble performs as does the Gamelan Ensemble, which recently replaced its 200-year-old gamelan with a new one manufactured in Java, specifically for SFUAD music students and faculty. The African Drum Ensemble and the Rock Ensemble hit the stage on Monday, Dec. 3. All concerts begin at 7 p.m. and are at SFUAD’s O’Shaughnessy Performance Space inside Benildus Hall (1600 St. Michael’s Drive, 473-6196).

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Stringed community: Robert Capocchi In a 2010 interview, Brazil native, Santa Fe resident, and classical guitarist Roberto Capocchi told Pasatiempo, “You can’t ignore that there is a culture within the classical guitar world of self-segregation. In the U.S. there is a tradition of guitar societies — you know, people who appreciate the instrument and the music, get together, and organize concerts. Since many local concert associations won’t do it, classical guitar lovers do it themselves.”

In that vein, at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, Capocchi, who recently passed his comprehensive oral exams as a doctoral candidate in performance and music theory at the University of Arizona, performs at fellow guitarist Bruce Dunlap’s intimate and acoustically wondrous Gig Performance Space (1808-H Second St., www.gigsantafe.com). Capocchi plays music of Astor Piazzolla, Mauro Giuliani, William Walton, and others.

Tickets are $15 at the door.

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Teachers’ choice: keeping in tune At 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 1, Santa Fe Public Schools Music Faculty and Friends Cabaret presents a fundraising concert that features local educators at their musical best. The performance is part of an initiative that provides a range of music-education programs for K-12 students. For the show, teachers gather to perform classical and Broadway tunes. Expect to hear music by Lerner and Loewe, Puccini, and Bach performed by Santa Fe High choral director Marilyn Barnes and Jay Christopher Williams, orchestra director of Capshaw Middle School, and others. The concert is at The Lodge at Santa Fe (750 N. St. Francis Drive). Tickets are $15, $25 for couples, and are available at www.sfpsmusicfest.org. Tickets may be purchased online until 3 p.m.

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From Dylan Thomas to hunky actor Ioan Gruffudd (Horatio Hornblower), Wales has produced a plethora of talent in the last century — and really, who doesn’t love a Welshman?

Karl Wallinger, originally from Prestatyn, on the country’s northern coast, brings his musical skill to the fore as sole member of the band World Party, which released its debut album (Private Revolution) in 1987. Comfortably labeled as “alternative rock,” World Party takes inspiration from The Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Motown. Wallinger also contributed to Sinéad O’Connor’s debut album, The Lion and the Cobra. World Party comes to Santa Fe Sol Stage and Grill (37 Fire Place, www.solofsantafe.com) at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 4. Tickets are $21, available from Tickets Santa Fe at the Lensic (988-1234, www.ticketssantafe.com), and $25 at the door.

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was 1981, give or take a year. Alejandro Escovedo was playing a gig in Austin, at the University of Texas. His band, Rank and File, was second on the bill, before Joe King Carrasco and after Los Lobos. It was the heyday of Carrasco, but he’d never heard of Los Lobos.

“This band of big Mexican guys pulled up in a station wagon with a trailer towing behind them,” Escovedo told Pasatiempo. “And they just blew everybody away. Without a doubt, Los Lobos was the best band of the evening. Just real, real intense and great players. And great guys.”

The next time Los Lobos came to Austin, they’d signed a deal with Slash Records and released an EP, And a Time to Dance, but they still needed a place to sleep, so they stayed with Escovedo. “I had this little house in northeast Austin. It was a bunch of guys crashed out all over the place, and we’ve been friends ever since. When I was in True Believers, with my brother [ Javier], we toured quite a bit with Los Lobos. Once, we did like 43 shows in 45 days, hitting it hard. They’ve always been like family to us, like brothers.”

Escovedo and David Hidalgo, the singer and lead guitarist of Los Lobos, spiritual brothers, have voices that sound like they could be your brothers — or uncles, or cousins — singing to you. Their voices are big and rich, warm and comforting, welcoming you into rock songs you’ve heard before, even when you’re sure you never have, right before surprising you with a New Wave-infused melody or ranchera tune.

Escovedo and Hidalgo appear at the Lensic Performing Arts Center on Thursday, Dec. 6, as part of the Songs & Stories series of events arranged

by Heath Concerts. The format of the show is loose, but Escovedo said he didn’t anticipate a shortage of things to talk about onstage. “I imagine it will be something like us playing on each other’s tunes, talking about songwriting, talking about where songs come from. We want to give a presentation about the songwriting experience, more than anything.”

Both musicians are known as excellent lyricists, weavers of complicated, poetic narratives that employ extended metaphors but are nearly always grounded in eminently relatable imagery. Musically, neither is easily pigeonholed by genre, although they both epitomize rock ’n’ roll in its most classic sense. Escovedo comes from a punk background, which still influences his music.

He was in the punk scene in San Francisco in the late 1970s, but originally he wanted to be a filmmaker. “I was 24, and I was making a movie about the worst band in America, who couldn’t play at all. We became that band, and that’s really how my musical career started.” Coming from a musical family didn’t exactly hurt Escovedo’s chances for success. His brothers, Coke and Pete, are both musicians; Javier and Mario were punk rockers; and Pete’s daughter is Sheila E. But it was his father who had the most important musical influence when he was a child: “My father was a great storyteller, and there were always stories being told in songs. The

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Pix of the Week kind of music my father liked was called corridos, which is storytelling music.”

Escovedo, who first played with The Nuns, recalled the early punk scene as a rebellion not against the participants’ parents or their values, but against the “complete garbage” they were hearing on the radio. “When it started for us, it was all about expression. If you had something to say, it didn’t matter how you said it — you could go bang on some pieces of metal you’d found that day, and if your message was clear and true, then it was good. There were also a lot more females in punk rock when I started. It was quite equal. I noticed that after the Sex Pistols show at [the Winterland Ballroom, in 1978], it became much more about testosterone and suburbia.”

In Austin during the 1980s, Escovedo played with Rank and File and then with True Believers before releasing his first solo album, Gravity, in 1992. He has 14 albums now, including Big Station, released in June. He doesn’t really care what people call his music — Texas garage rock, cowpunk, roots rock. He considers himself a rock ’n’ roll songwriter. “You could use the term singer/ songwriter,” he said, “but you could say that about Ray Davies or David Bowie as well as you could say it about Woody Guthrie or Hank Williams.”

Howling with the wolves idalgo is from East Los Angeles and has been playing with Los Lobos since 1973, when he and Louie Pérez, the band’s drummer, met in high school. (They co-write many of Los Lobos’ songs.) In addition to Los Lobos, Hidalgo is a member of Los Super Seven as well as the Latin Playboys, which is a Los Lobos side project with some of the members of the band. Los Lobos toured nationally for the first time in 1984, after the release of And a Time to Dance, from which the musicians earned enough money to replace their station wagon and trailer with a van. They became known to a wider audience in 1986, when they recorded Ritchie Valens songs for the soundtrack to La Bamba. The group’s second album, By the Light of the Moon, came out the following year. Los Lobos’ sound is rock with some Tex-Mex and blues and plenty of traditional Mexican folk influences, all infused with a deep, abiding love of Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead. A more experimental angle entered the band’s music with the release of Kiko in 1992. Los Lobos’ music has appeared on many film soundtracks and received three Grammy awards.

Los Lobos and Escovedo play regularly in New Mexico. Los Lobos opened for Neil Young and Crazy Horse on the first night of Young’s American tour in Albuquerque in August. Escovedo’s daughter lives in Santa Fe; his ex-wife is the poet Kim Christoff, who co-wrote a couple of songs on 2006’s Boxing Mirror, “Dear Head on the Wall” and “Notes on Air.” He met Christoff in Arizona in 2003, around the time he became incapacitated by hepatitis C, a brush with mortality that changed his priorities. For instance, he can’t party like he used to. “You eliminate those things in your life that kind of cloud you and make your perspective a little askew, let’s say. You snap out of it; you’re forced to see the world. I began to make better choices about what was important in my life. I took much better care of myself, and I took much better care of the relationships I had with the musicians I played with. After I was ill, suddenly it was obvious that the high was really the music. That became the most important thing.” Many songs since then have tackled death and illness. “Golden Bear,” a Bowie-tinged track from 2008’s Real Animal, addresses hepatitis C, although anyone unaware that hepatitis sufferers turn yellow from jaundice might not immediately get the symbolism.

“There’s a creature in my body/there’s a creature in my blood,” he sings.

“Don’t know how long he’s been there/or why he’s after us./Golden Bear is burning down, Golden Bear is burning down,/Oh, why me?” ◀

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ALONE IN A DARKENED ROOM

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count named Dracula is coming for dinner, and the people in a home for the mentally ill outside London are agitated.

His handshake is as cold as a corpse, says the doctor in charge of the asylum, referring to the mysterious neighbor who lives alone in a decrepit castle. The count has never been seen outside in daylight. The villagers are afraid of this newcomer from Transylvania. The dogs bark and the wolves howl when he is about. How many clues will it take for the distracted characters in this play to stop ignoring, rationalizing, and minimizing the peril they are in? Some are sick and some are just out to lunch. What will happen when they realize what the audience already knows full well — that they are in the clutches of one of the greatest monsters of all time?

Beginning Friday, Nov. 30, at the Greer Garson Theatre, Santa Fe University of Art and Design presents a new production of Ted Tiller’s Count Dracula, one of many adaptations of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, which inspired a canon that includes many more novels, television series, and movies. Guest director Shepard Sobel, who founded the Pearl Theatre Company in New York and teaches theater history at SFUAD, said he chose this version from more than a dozen plays that range from bare-bones productions and loose reflections to full-blown literal translations of the novel for the stage. Sobel’s pick is a humorous melodrama that was first performed in West Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1972.

“It’s the best kind of melodrama, both funny and dramatic,” he said at a rehearsal. “It’s an engaging story with a hero and a lady in distress. All good theater is about the human comedy, how we deal with the triumphs and disappointments of our lives, and I’m hoping we have found a play that will help tell us what we are made of.”

Tiller’s play telescopes and conflates the Stoker plot, discards the shifting first-person perspectives, and shrinks the cast of characters to nine. Sobel took A TED TILLER PLAY • DIRECTED BY SHEPARD SOBEL advantage of the flexibility in this version of the play to change the gender of some of the characters. Dr. Van Helsing, for example, a physician from the NethWhat will happen when erlands, is male in the novel and in Tiller’s play. But in the SFUAD production, THE VILLAGERS ARE they realize that they are in AFRAID ! the clutches of one of the Danielle Reddick plays a female Dr. Van Helsing, which equalizes the number of student roles by gender. Reddick’s doctor connects the medical history and !

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L OW H are very slow to believe her. Three other characters — a mentally disturbed patient S E OLV W (Avery Breyne-Cartwright), the victim Mina (Shenyse Harris), and Dr. Seward’s E TH addlepated sister Sybil (Porscha Shaw) — have more stereotypical female roles.

Victor Talmadge, a member of SFUAD’s performing-arts faculty, plays the title role, and a glimpse of his rendition of Dracula during rehearsal was especially promising. He is a veteran actor of stage and screen as well as a playwright, director, and educator. In the late 1990s, he played the King in the touring production of The King and I, opposite Hayley Mills and later Marie Osmond.

He played Scar in the Los Angeles production of The Lion King. Among dozens of television roles, Talmadge portrayed the alien Asahf in a 2003 Star Trek: Enterprise episode.

Talmadge’s experiences have special relevance for the radical otherness of Dracula, whose extraordinary popularity with young people nearly defies explanation. The fascination seems to represent an extension of the contemporary Goth subculture, which began in England in the 1980s, grew into a global style associated with medieval Central Europe, and has increased its cultural territory to include adjacent symbols of alienation, such as necromancy and the occult.

Literary critics have identified the period in which Stoker wrote Dracula as the beginning of the British Empire’s decline. The British Great Depression of 1873 to 1896 was barely over, and powerful nationalistic rivalries were looming on the horizon. Writing on Stoker in the American Historical Review in Oct. 2002, Louis S. Warren wrote, “The later nineteenth century saw widespread concern about slowing birth rates, the steady loss of international competitiveness ... and a general decline of English political and industrial power, all accented by the diminishing fortunes of the nation’s aristocracy and upper classes.”

“How do we talk about good and evil? How do we say something is good or bad?” Sobel asked. “People who are cut off from their myths have a yearning for stories that explain what we are. Without our myths and biblical stories, A L we are at sea.” ◀ U C A

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he reputations of pianist Doug Montgomery and the restaurant venue Vanessie Santa Fe are just about inseparable. How could it be otherwise, with a shared existence three decades long? Vanessie’s (which now includes the Inn at Vanessie, formerly the Water Street Inn) celebrates its 30th anniversary in December, and Montgomery has been there for the whole ride, playing and singing.

The native Chicagoan had basically given up music for modeling before coming to Santa Fe in the early 1980s. This in spite of the fact that he had earned a master’s degree from the Juilliard School of Music.

“The modeling was a fluke thing, where I walked into this agency with my sister. They said, ‘Hey, can you be over at this studio in like three hours?’ and I started working every single day, at $90 an hour! That was the pay in 1981 in Chicago for print modeling for Marshall Field’s, J.C. Penney, and all those catalogs.

I had just left Juilliard and I had no money and no confidence. Modeling was the perfect distraction from the fact that I was a failure as a pianist.”

It is rather amazing to believe that Montgomery could ever have considered himself a failure, but he said his teachers made him feel that way. The camel’s back was broken when he auditioned for the composer Samuel Barber. After he played the Schumann Sonata in G Minor, Barber asked him how many concerti he had at his fingertips. Five, the student replied. Not enough, Barber said.

“Then he asked how many large-scale works I had.

I said the Brahms Handel Variations, the Schumann Carnaval, the Chopin D-Minor Sonata, then he started naming things and I had to say no, no, no, no. I really feel like he was trying to break me, and that was the beginning of the end. And he was right. At Juilliard, there was always someone in the next practice room who was playing louder and faster and better than you. It was a lot of Russians, and they had the technique and the repertoire. And there were no angels to say it doesn’t matter, you have talent.”

When it came to making a living with the piano, there were only so many private parties to play. Then came the modeling gig, and his hands never touched the keys for six months. He did, however, pay off his debts. One evening, he went out to a piano bar and had a bit of an epiphany: he realized he could play those songs in his own way — after all, he thought, many popular arrangements are based on classical techniques. “What was big then were themes like ‘Ice Castles,’ ‘Memory,’ ‘Evita’ — movie themes and Broadway shows. I had the ability to sit down and play almost anything, and with a little work I could come up with a really cool arrangement.” Montgomery came to Santa Fe, began playing at Vanessie’s, and the rest is history. Over the years he has played for Princess 32

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Celebrating Vanessie’s 30th anniversary with Doug Montgomery Margaret and Diane Sawyer and at the inauguration of George H.W. Bush. He has appeared with the Kansas City Philharmonic and the Chicago Chamber Orchestra; and was selected to represent the United States in a festival honoring Christopher Columbus in Genoa, Italy.

His other regular performance venue these days is Vicky’s of Santa Fe, in Indian Wells, California. There he holds forth for about a hundred days in February, March, and April. In the midst of his always-busy schedule, he still can recall the start of his love for music and the smell of the mimeographed song sheet his fifth-grade teacher passed out in his first music class. “It was for ‘Yellow Bird,’ ” he said, and launched into a strain. “But it was the teacher’s accompaniment that grabbed my ear: those big, lush chords.” Early on, he was only interested in learning popular music.

A deep love for the classical realm — especially for Bach and Mozart — came quickly, though; his teacher emphasized studying the foundations of music.

During his college years, he won top prizes in contests including the Musical Arts Competition in Chicago and the Cleveland International Piano Competition.

A few years after starting his gig at Vanessie’s, he began singing as well as playing the piano. “People used to hold up a sign that said, ‘Play, Doug, don’t sing,’ so I started to listen to more of the great singers.

What I didn’t want to do was do a full-scale study of voice, because I knew from my piano experience that you can become overtrained and never find your true, natural voice.”

He loves the music of George Gershwin, and improvisation is an important part of his act, but he doesn’t play like the straightahead jazz pianists, people like Errol Garner and Dave Brubeck. “When I was studying those guys, I realized that’s not where I lived. I loved it and appreciated it, but that’s not where I lived. The piano bar just fit perfectly for what I did.

“I add new songs all the time. I try to learn Dougappropriate material, things that I love and that I can sell, then I do the perfunctory things like ‘New York, New York’ and The Phantom of the Opera. They pay a lot of bills. I try to stay contemporary. I like Norah

Jones and Diana Krall. I love Jobim. I did a couple of tributes last night, in my show in Dallas, to Marvin Hamlisch and Andy Williams.

“I try to do something for everybody in my audience. I have [fans of] all ages, although many are older; they’ve followed me, and they’re now in their 70s and 80s. Thank God for loyalty. And they also have a history of growing up with a piano in the living room. We also get a lot of newlyweds who come in, and they absolutely love it.”

Montgomery’s repertoire is pretty huge. “How many songs do I have in my head? I tell people two thousand. It’s a nice number, and who’s going to question it?” There’s a small handful of originals among the thousands. About eight years ago, he set himself a task. Each night for about six weeks, he focused on coming up with an original song as he was falling asleep. “Sure enough, I’d wake up in the middle of the night and I’d have a melody. I’d go to the piano and play it and jot it down. If I thought it was good in the morning, I’d test it on friends and see if I wasn’t remembering something from a symphony I’d heard a long time ago.”

That project resulted in the CD A Pianist Dreams.

But it was “too much work,” he said. “Now I really rely on mustering the energy to go and flip my switch every night so that I’m fresh with a lot of old songs I’ve played time and time again. And if I know there’s one person out there who’s loving it and digging it, I’m going to give it 110 percent. I’m not just a musician; I’m an entertainer. If I feel like it’s getting a little too serious, I may throw in a funny song like ‘I Don’t Look Good Naked Any More.’

“I think Samuel Barber actually helped me, in a strange kind of way. Now I have a really great career.

I’m busy all the time, and it’s fun, and my next performance does not depend on whether I hit a few wrong notes or whatever. It’s about communicating the power in this repertoire I’ve committed myself to: everything from Rhapsody in Blue to ‘Moondance’ and my own arrangements of Pachelbel’s Canon, and a lot of novelty show pieces, plus the Great American Songbook, which I love singing now, because I’ve found my register and I know what I can sing and what I can’t sing.”

When I asked him if he knows “Lush Life,” he sang the first few lines, beautifully. “Yeah!” he laughed. “I’m a crooner now, you know.” ◀

details ▼ Doug Montgomery ▼ 7 p.m. Sunday-Tuesday, Dec. 2-4 (for Montgomery’s regular schedule visit www.vanessiesantafe.com); 4:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 3 Vanessie Santa Fe’s 30th-anniversary ribbon-cutting ceremony ▼ Vanessie Santa Fe, 427 W. Water St., 982-9966

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you attend the Santa Fe performance of bassist Curtis Lundy’s quartet — at a Water Street hangout renamed, for this concert, for the landmark New York jazz club Sweet Basil — you just might be able to claim bragging rights in years to come. Like those who saw Lundy, then a relative unknown, some 30 years ago with singer Betty Carter or as a member of drummer Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers (with a kid trumpeter out of New Orleans named Wynton Marsalis), those attending the show on Friday, Nov. 30, may recall it as the night they first saw, under Lundy’s leadership, guitarist Rahsaan Pickett or saxophonist Stacy Dillard. Just like Lundy when he first started out, Pickett and Dillard, along with drummer Jason Brown, are jazz instrumentalists whose promise bodes well — for their future and the future of the music as well.

Like most jazz musicians of his generation and before, Lundy came up through the ranks. As a young man in Miami, he hung out with a group of like-minded musical friends who coached and encouraged him and provided opportunities to play. He went to New York, where he polished his craft and gained hands-on experience in the bands of the music’s most seasoned professionals, Blakey and Carter among them. Now it’s Lundy, among the jazz world’s most solid and oftenrecorded bassists, giving young musicians a chance to gain from his experience while polishing their chops on stage. This is the way it’s always worked, Lundy will tell you, and no amount of arts-school or conservatory training, as valuable as they can be, will ever replace what can be learned up on the bandstand.

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“Yes, I consider myself a mentor for those looking for the information,” Lundy said, on the road from Atlanta. “Some of the young players today don’t believe they need the tutelage, that they can just go out and get a record contract. But the ones that are willing to listen and to work their way up will do best. And that gives me the opportunity to give back what I got. It works the other way, too.

When you teach, you learn. That’s good for me.” As a young man, Lundy was one of those willing to listen. But not right away. “I started out as a percussionist in the junior-high band. But I couldn’t find the discipline you need to be a music student. So I got kicked out of the band. That band director, he’s still one of my favorite people. I can’t thank him enough for teaching me the lesson about the discipline it takes to be a musician.”

Lundy is the son of a gospel singer. His sister is the well-known vocalist Carmen Lundy. He claims he was only “kind of” from a musical family. “It’s not that cut and dried. But growing up in the South, the gospel music was definitely there.” The bass, an electric bass, came to him as a Christmas present when he was 12. “It was on my shortlist, but mom decided it was better than my first choice, a minibike.”

He began teaching himself to play, but a love of football took over while he was in high school. After graduation, he made a change. “Football’s like a religion in Florida, and I had a complete dedication to it while I was playing. But I had to make a choice. It was easy. I could make money playing music. And I loved doing it.“ While at the University of Miami, he surrounded himself with musicians who would go on to big-time jazz careers. Among them was saxophonist Bobby Watson, with whom he still plays. Another was the great bassist Jaco Pastorius, who

became something of a cult figure for bassists because of his standout work with the Joe Zawinul-Wayne Shorter ensemble Weather Report. (Pastorius died in 1987.) “Jaco and I used to hang out extensively,” Lundy said. “He was five years older than me, but we were really tight. People don’t realize how much he was the real foundation of so much of the bass playing you hear today.”

Lundy started garnering attention himself, and eventually pianist Walter Davis Jr., who had heard about Lundy from saxophonist Watson, called him to come to New York and join saxophonist Dexter Gordon’s band. “I had just started playing upright, and I was floored,” Lundy said. “[Davis] said Dexter was looking for some new young cats, so I packed all my stuff in the car and left Florida for New York. Of course, by the time I arrived the gig wasn’t there.” But Lundy wasn’t deterred. He started hanging out with musicians, writing music and sitting in. His first job was with the progressive drummer Beaver Harris. “[Long-time Charles Mingus pianist] Don Pullen was in that band, so I was kind of cutting my teeth on the avant-garde thing.”

In 1978, bassist Dennis Irwin, whom Lundy would follow in Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, recommended him for the Carter band. Carter, a singer renowned for the instrumental qualities of her voice, has often been credited with running something of a jazz university, taking in young players who later went on to greater things. “I went in to audition and got the gig,” Lundy said. “You could learn the total musical experience with Betty. She wasn’t your typical singer. The way she arranged music, the things she demanded of her players, it was more like working with a horn player than a singer.”

Another benefit of working with Carter was the chance to team with pianist John Hicks. “Working with him took me to another level on the bass. He was one of the greatest. I got stuff from him that you just can’t get in academia.

He was a force in the music, so many people learned from him.” (Hicks remained a frequent Lundy collaborator until his death in 2006.)

Lundy’s first recording under his own name, Just Be Yourself, was released in 1988. It included saxophonist and old friend Watson, the renowned pianist Hank Jones, and his sister Carmen Lundy on a pair of vocals. In turn, the bassist appeared on his sister’s first recording, Good Morning Kiss, which also featured Watson. “My sister and I were pretty close growing up — we were only 11 months apart, but we never really connected musically until after college. She had her own direction. I started playing in R & B bands when I was 14; she studied opera in college. So I really wasn’t an influence on her.”

Lundy has also been recognized for his arrangements for the ARC (Addicts Rehabilitation Center) Choir. The choir’s performance of Lundy’s arrangement of “Walk With Me” became a gospel hit after it was sampled by Kanye West for his Grammy-winning “Jesus Walks.” Lundy got involved with the Harlem-based choir as he struggled with cocaine addiction. “A friend grabbed me off the streets and took me up there and said, here’s where you can get yourself together. So I went back in a couple days. Unlike a lot of rehabilitation centers, this one had a choir that was renowned for its sound.

The executive director was a frustrated musician and a pretty big Betty Carter fan. So he asked me to join the choir to give me something positive to do.

I didn’t have any real desire to sing, so he found me a niche doing arrangements. I never sang in the choir as a kid, but I did sit there and listen and heard the harmonies, and I guess it was embedded in me.”

Lundy had just finished recording with vocalist Mark Murphy the week before he talked to Pasatiempo. He was putting the finishing touches on a trio recording of his own that features pianist George Cables and drummer Lewis Nash. He is especially excited about the young musicians that will appear with him in Santa Fe. “I’ve known [drummer Jason Brown] for a while. I got him the gig with my sister. And I’ve been keeping up with [saxophonist Stacy Dillard] since he broke on the scene. Everybody enjoys what he’s doing. I don’t keep guys around who won’t motivate me. That’s part of the whole thing.” ◀

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Lightness and darkness of being Drosselmeyer in The Nutcracker

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isions of sugarplum fairies. Dancing snowflakes. Stout toy soldiers. A magical Christmas tree. Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s annual holiday confection, The Nutcracker, contains enough sugar and spice to satisfy every balletic sweet tooth.

And then there’s dear old Uncle Drosselmeyer. More about him in a moment.

The two-act production, revamped for the company in 2004 by artistic director Tom Mossbrucker and executive director Jean-Philippe Malaty, tells the tale of young Clara, who receives a nutcracker doll for Christmas from her uncle, the mysterious toymaker Drosselmeyer. That night, she dreams of an eerily expanding Christmas tree and an animated nutcracker who, with his battalion of toy soldiers, wages war with a seven-headed rat king and his rodent army before turning into an archetypal handsome prince. The prince then transports Clara to the twinkling Kingdom of Snow and on to the Land of Sweets (in this production, a fair with a carousel), where a troupe of rare and exotic characters (and circus performers) entertains her.

Behind all that eye candy, though, there is a decidedly darker side to this story. This and all other Nutcracker productions — whether classical ballet, jazz dance, puppet theater, an ice show, theater in the round, or cinema — owe allegiance to the classic not-for-children story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) .

In that 1816 work, Godfather Drosselmeyer, who had been the official rat catcher to the king and queen, is part mysterious uncle (why the eye patch?) and part enigmatic, sinister magician (how did he get his mystical powers?). The back story tells readers that an evil spell had transformed his nephew into the Nutcracker, but the old man breaks it, and his spellbound nephew springs to life. With help from young Marie (named Clara in many productions), the rat king and his minions are slain. The story has ample bloodshed, erotic overtones, grotesque transformations, and moments of sheer terror — and no clichéd happy ending. Not exactly the stuff of childhood entertainment.

In the early 1890s, Ivan Alexandrovitch Vsevolojsky, director of St. Petersburg’s Imperial Theatres, commissioned choreographer Marius Petipa and composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky to create a ballet based on the story. Their production for the Imperial Ballet, however, relied more on Alexandre Dumas’ fluffy rewrite of the story, The Nutcracker of Nuremberg, than on Hoffmann’s nightmarish original. Despite the premiere’s lukewarm reception, the ballet, including its myriad interpretations and spinoffs, has become a beloved holiday standard on stages (and screens) across Europe and North America.

The legacy of the production hasn’t satisfied everyone, though. In the introduction to the book he illustrated of the Hoffmann story, Maurice Sendak, who designed

Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Nutcracker wrote: “[Vsevolojsky and Petipa’s] version ... is smoothed out, bland, and utterly devoid not only of difficulties but of the weird, dark qualities that make [Hoffmann’s work] something of a masterpiece.” PNB artistic director Kent Stowell’s choreography, along with Sendak’s neoclassic costumes and sets, featured a more foreboding atmosphere, an uneasier relationship between the pubescent Clara and her godfather, and a Drosselmeyer who comes across as an edgier, more threatening personage than most prior characterizations.

This was a bit of a departure from many previous Nutcrackers. Shaun O’Brien, who danced the role for many years with New York City Ballet, is quoted in the book Repertory in Review as saying that NYCB co-founder George Balanchine danced the Herr Drosselmeyer role rather like “a very dotty old doctor, with glasses” in the company’s 1950’s televised version. Character dancer Alexander Grant, who was Drosselmeyer for years with the Joffrey Ballet, played the role as a likable showman and magician.

Steven Cook has taken on the role of Drosselmeyer in the ASFB productions for the past nine years. “Certainly there’s darkness [in the character], but it’s more complex than that. In the real-life part of the ballet, he’s a lonely uncle who’s trying to be liked. In Clara’s dream, that’s where the sorcery comes out. She’s working out her life in her dream.”

Cook played a toy soldier in Pennsylvania Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker when he was 9 years old and immediately became enchanted not only with the ballet, but with the make-believe world of the theater.

He went on to dance with Ballet Chicago and Houston Ballet before moving to New York where, for the past eight years, he has taught movement at the storied Stella Adler Studio of Acting.

Creating the role of Drosselmeyer from scratch “made me fall in love with the ballet again,” said Cook, who studied the Hoffmann story as part of his preparation.

He chose to make his character much less ominous than his literary archetype, however. “Yes, I use dark images,” he said of his theatrical approach to the role. “But it’s the ballet world; it’s not the acting world. Of course, there’s a dark side, but I try to be in the play I’m in. As John Gielgud said, ‘Style is knowing what play you’re in.’ In the end, it’s not Hoffmann’s [book], it’s a ballet.” ◀

details ▼ Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s The Nutcracker ▼ 2 & 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1; 1 & 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2 ▼ Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St. ▼ $25-$72; 988-1234, www.ticketssantafe.org

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker; above, Steve Cook as Drosselmeyer; photos Rosalie O’Connor; courtesy Aspen Santa Fe Ballet; opposite page, silhouette illustrations by Else Hasselriis

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t might be fun to get inside Maye Torres’ head and see what makes her tick.

Her predominantly recent sculpture and two-dimensional work on view in the exhibit Unbound at the Harwood Museum of Art are possessed of a certain sanctity. Dominating the gallery space on the museum’s second floor are spiritlike beings rendered in ceramic and woven reeds that hang suspended from the ceiling, appearing to float. The hands and faces of these sculptures are hardened clay, and their bodies — made from the reeds — are hollow and wispy, trailing from their torsos as the figures appear to rise into the air.

Torres, a Taos native, seems to draw her inspiration from a variety of sources including yoga, myth, and religion. The sculptures are archetypal and come with a host of symbolic imagery. Merman, for example, is identified by a large shell on his chest, and El Diablo has his requisite horns. Their wovenreed bodies and their floating presence give the sense that they represent generalized spirits or energies, not so much beings of flesh and blood.

Kundalini Rising is a light and airy being ascending from a ceramic egglike vessel. Kundalini Rising references the latent yogic female energy, or shakti, thought to lie coiled at the base of the spine and capable of being awakened through yoga or other meditative practices.

Torres has established her own mythology in Unbound, and she peoples the exhibit with figures that cut across a spectrum of traditions. Her fourpaneled acrylic and pencil work Samba Pa Tí depicts a male figure with a host of Mesoamerican iconography flowing out of his head in a continuous stream toward his heart. Another two-dimensional work, The Deposition, draws its inspiration from Christian depictions of Christ’s removal from the cross and entombment after the crucifixion. Helmeted men on ladders ease the figure down. The image is rendered in black and white save for bright red streaks of blood that flow from wounds.

There is an anonymity to the characters depicted in Torres’ work — they are mostly hairless individuals with solemn features.

The key to their appeal is their commonality. Though distinct from one another by posture and by the objects they hold on or inside their woven bodies, they speak to humanity as a whole, on inclusive human terms. Torres brings a sense of time and history to Unbound as well. Headless ceramic sculptures, some placed like sentinels at the entrance to the show, hark back to antiquity, like something salvaged from the ruins of a dead civilization.

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Where the spirit meets the soil

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he first photograph inside the covers of Eliot Porter: In the Realm of Nature is a symphony of textures and colors in a detail-rich closeup of rocks, lichens, and mosses. It’s the photographer’s 1972 image Lichen on Round Stones, South Coast, Iceland. Turn the page for another revelation in texture: Peeling Birch Bark, Great Spruce Head Island, Maine, from 1969.

Both front and back covers of the new book, from Getty Publications, hold vibrant landscapes — one looking through aspen trees to a Colorado lake and the other a rather claustrophobic view of the steep rock walls of Dungeon Canyon at Glen Canyon, Utah.

Another subject, one that was profoundly important to Porter, can be found in the book’s final 17 full-page plates: birds. These are extraordinary portraits of birds, among them crystal-clear pictures of a pinyon jay, a golden-winged warbler, a yellow warbler, and a winter wren, all caught in flight.

The nature photography of Eliot Porter

Elliot Porter: Yellow Warbler (Dendroica petechia), Maine, 1971, dye transfer print, 10.375 x 8.375 inches; Amon Carter Museum, bequest of the artist; ACMAA P1990-52-465 Images courtesy The J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Publications

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Porter, who lived in the Santa Fe area for the last half of his life, was one of the pioneers in the use of color photography, and the pioneer in portraying birds and other elements of the natural scene in color. It was his use of the dye-transfer (formerly known as “wash-off relief”) printing process that attracted the attention of author Paul Martineau, an associate curator in the photography department at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Two other photographers are the subjects of earlier books from Martineau: Paul Outerbridge: Command Performance (2009) and Herb Ritts: L.A. Style (2012).

Why Eliot Porter now? “Because I was interested in the dye-transfer process,” he said. “I had worked on one project previously that featured Guy Stricherz’s dye-transfer work for his Americans in Kodachrome portfolio. Also, I’m in charge of the collection at the Getty, and I saw these really beautiful landscapes by Eliot Porter, so I proposed doing an exhibition. We had a show in 2006, and then I worked on this book.

“I like that this book includes Porter’s black-andwhite and color work from both New England and the Southwest, plus the birds. It’s very comprehensive, which is unusual.”

Porter was born in 1901 in Winnetka, Illinois, 20 miles north of Chicago on Lake Michigan. He was the son of an amateur biologist father and a social-activist mother.

He later wrote of a childhood roaming and exploring the forest, acquiring not just a knowledge of the local plants and birds, but “a feeling for the life out of doors, a sympathy with the feel and smell of the spring woods.”

At 11, he began taking pictures with a Kodak box camera.

By 1930, he had a medical degree and was teaching biochemistry and working as a research scientist at his alma mater, Harvard University. He also had graduated to a Leica camera, which he used to capture architectural details and splash patterns in water. Porter wed artist Aline Kilham in 1936; their union lasted more than half a century.

Also in the mid-1930s, he met and was encouraged by photographers Alfred Stieglitz and Ansel Adams.

Porter was awe-struck by the clarity of Adams’ prints and subsequently switched to a medium-format Linhof camera. He had a successful exhibition, featuring expertly conceived silver prints, at Stieglitz’s An American Place gallery in New York. Among those black-and-white photographs were two that appear in the new book’s 91 plates: the intimate Song Sparrow’s Nest, Great Spruce Head Island, Maine and the twilight seascape East Penobscot Bay, Maine. Martineau recounts a high compliment the show elicited from Stieglitz: “Some of your photographs are the first I have ever seen which made me feel, ‘There is my own spirit.’ ” Porter decided to change his career emphasis and to focus on birds, a passion from his childhood. He figured out a way to use fast shutter speeds and synchronized strobe flash to capture the quick movements of birds, which he often photographed from high platforms of his own design. “His great determination to spend all this time to hunt down certain species of birds was impressive,” Martineau said. “He would set up his camera and other equipment and spend half the day there, and if he didn’t find what he wanted, he’d take it all down and then go up the next day.”

Porter taught himself a color-printing process and, with help from a Guggenheim fellowship, had his work featured in Birds in Color: Flashlight Photographs by Eliot Porter, an exhibition, curated by Nancy Newhall, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

He moved to Tesuque in 1946. His images of the natural world tended to emphasize the near, narrowing the scope of landscape photographers like Adams while revealing more of the closely observed patterns and hues in rock, water, leaf, flower, and forest. In 1962, the Sierra Club published In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World, pairing Porter’s pictures with text by the naturalist philosopher Henry David Thoreau — a project idea that Kilham had suggested to her husband some time earlier.

Martineau said the book’s positive reception gave Porter, who was 61 at the time, a renewed sense of confidence. His campaign to have color photography accepted as art — like Stieglitz’s campaign 60 years earlier to have photography itself accepted as art — appeared continued on Page 44

Eliot Porter: White Boulder, Black Place, New Mexico, September 1945, gelatin silver print; 7.5 x 9.5 inches, Amon Carter Museum, bequest of the artist; ACMAA P1990-54-579 Top, Laura Gilpin (American, 1891-1979): Eliot Porter Setting Up His Photographic Equipment, 1952, gelatin silver print, 9.5 x 7.5 inches; gift of the artist; Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum of American Art; P1978-92-29

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Top left, Poplars with Lichens, Great Spruce Head Island, Maine, negative: July 7, 1968; print: 1988, dye transfer print, 23.5 x 18.875 inches, gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser; JPGM 2005.93.29 Birch Tree and Bridge, Great Spruce Head Island, Maine, August 7, 1940, gelatin silver print, 9.4375 x 7.375 inches; Amon Carter Museum, bequest of the artist, ACMAA P1990-54-303-1

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to be a success as well. Accordingly, Porter became less conservative about pigment intensity. His 1962 photograph Green Reflections in Stream, Moki Canyon Creek, Glen Canyon, Utah “accentuated the acid-color green in the final print, heightening its brilliance so that it plays against the soft orange and blues reflected in the center and in the dark, muddy terrain,” Martineau writes. “Although Porter’s colors were never garish, their rich, often jewel-like hues were a surprise to those unfamiliar with the clarity and saturation of the dyes used to make the prints.”

Green Reflections in Stream was published in a second Sierra Club book, The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon on the Colorado, whose images strengthened protest over (but did not stop) the construction of a hydroelectric plant on the Colorado River. Porter’s photography was instrumental in the passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964. “His desert landscapes of Utah and Colorado were published in The Place No One Knew, and when David Brower, the Sierra Club’s director, sent it to all members of Congress, they were so moved that it inspired them to pass the act,” Martineau said. Porter was an active member of the club from 1965 to 1971. In 1972, he was gratified to have 75 of his avian portraits published in the book Birds of North America: A Personal Selection.

His career encapsulated not only the development of fine color photography but the debates (both artistic and political) about its appropriateness for

various subjects. “One of the interesting things is that for Porter’s early black-and-white prints, he had different darkroom recipes, and he would vary them to achieve different tones,” Martineau said. “Some of the prints have a reddish or yellowish tone that are beautiful when you see the original prints. I find it very interesting that he was looking for coloristic effects in his black-and-white prints.”

By the early 1950s, Porter had slowly begun to phase out his black-and-white photography. One day in the early 1980s, he was surprised when his studio assistant, Janet Russek, said he should do something to bring his black-and-white work back into the public eye. He responded by hiring David Scheinbaum to make three sets of prints of some of Porter’s favorite photos of adobe churches, cloud formations, mining towns, and nature abstractions. Those images appear in the 1985 book Eliot Porter’s Southwest.

The New Mexico Museum of Art is one of five U.S. museums that received contributions of photographs — 166 prints, in this case — from Porter. The photographer died in 1990. ◀ “Eliot Porter: In the Realm of Nature” by Paul Martineau was published by the J. Paul Getty Museum/Getty Publications in November. Porter’s work may be seen in an exhibit at Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd. (812 Camino Acoma, 988-5116) through Jan. 4.

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A Square Foot of Humor at Zane Bennett

ì If it is oneí s lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.î — Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo ather than beat you over the head with a jester’s bauble, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art intends to tickle your funny bone with art. Gallery artists were invited to consider the theme of humor in their work and submit pieces no larger than 12 inches. The exhibit, A Square Foot of Humor, isn’t all funny ha ha; sometimes its humor is sinister, and sometimes it is just implied.

Holly Roberts’ imagery has a whimsical quality. Roberts peoples her work with odd characters, chimeric half-human and half-animal creatures in absurd combinations. Picture, for instance, a big fat crow with skinny human arms or a deer with a human head and bandy human legs. While her mixedmedia paintings might get you to laugh, they also get under your skin. “For good or for bad, my work is always very dark,” Roberts told Pasatiempo. “I just don’t think the real stuff comes unless it’s coming from that darker, more mysterious place. It’s that whole idea that if you don’t accept your dark side then you start to project it onto other people and other things. That’s why I think fundamentalists get into so much trouble; by denying their own dark sides, they’re seeing evil in everything and everybody.” Roberts is one of several gallery artists whose work appears in A Square Foot of Humor. The show also includes pieces by Roger Atkins, Dunham Aurelius, Stephen Buxton, Susan Davidoff, Engels, James Havard, Matthew Troy Mullins, Ron Pokrasso, Heidi Pollard, Joshua Rose, Donald Woodman, Denise Yaghmourian, and Karen Yank.

Roberts has one piece in the show — artists were invited to submit up to three — called Adam and Eve (With Big Snake). Her work has a narrative or allegorical sense, and biblical themes are not uncommon in her paintings.

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totally junk up the works forever. It’s a story that still resonates thousands of years later.”

Roberts’ imagery is a combination of original photography and abstractly painted backgrounds. “I come from two different ends,” she said. “I make these abstract paintings, and then I have these photographs of the things that interest me, and then, somehow, I have to marry them. I never know how that’s going to happen — it’s always a big mystery to me until it falls into place. At the end of the day, I think I’m really a story teller. The stories I tell are about events in my life. You just hope that it meets a bigger audience.”

Other work in the exhibit is more subtle. Rose, whose acrylic paintings are rich tapestries of color, was inspired by Shakespeare’s character Yorick, from Hamlet, and the historic figure of Will Sommers, court jester to Henry VIII. But his paintings are not traditional portraits. Yorick and Will Sommers convey a sense of these jesters through motley abstractions of harlequin and patchwork patterns. Sculptor Atkins’ Open ... Close, on the other hand, might just make you laugh out loud. Constructed as a box with a hinged door, the interior of the piece is scrawled with the opening lines of a series of jokes. The viewer must provide the punchlines. The list starts off with “Little Johnny walks in on his mom & dad ...”

Big red reindeer antlers adorn the head of a hapless canine in Christmas Pug, a painting by Mullins. “Last year I started this project,” Mullins said. “I was going to make 100 paintings of friends’ Facebook profile pictures. I was using the profile pictures as a lens to look at people of our generation and how we share our photos with each other. I was interested in Facebook as a medium, as a way to show other people who we are and as a way to share information. I made about seven or eight paintings, and it was getting too involved, and I bit off more than I could chew. But Christmas Pug was one I actually did make before I abandoned the project.”

Mullins often deals with the subject of human intervention on the natural world — painting greenhouses and items from natural-history collections as well as details of human-altered landscapes and interiors. “I’ve worked with that theme consistently for a few years. It keeps coming up. It’s a combination

of things I’m interested in at the time and places I have access to.” Mullins’ paintings can be considered realist, but he takes the realist appearance of the work only so far. “I kind of like them to look almost like photorealism from across the room, but as you walk toward the painting you can start to see the brushstrokes and start to see the handmade structure behind it. I like how that unfolds as you get closer. With photorealism, I feel like it impedes the viewer from really looking at the painting because it becomes like this test. Did the artist really achieve photorealism?”

Mullins’ watercolor Green Sweater, also included in the exhibit, is not as playful as Christmas Pug. Rather, it’s a warm portrait of the artist’s friend. “It’s just a really happy image. Very lighthearted and simple, and I thought it would be good for this show.”

The artists featured in the exhibit take a nuanced approach to their subjects.

The exhibit touches on impersonal history, as in the work of Rose, and the personal, as in that of Roberts. Atkins takes the more literal approach by referencing jokes, but the bawdiness is only implied. A Square Foot of Humor is a (mostly) serious treatment of the lighter side of art. ◀

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—The Washington Post

details ▼ A Square Foot of Humor ▼ Opening reception 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30; through Jan. 8, 2013 ▼ Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, 435 S. Guadalupe St., 982-8111

Below, Matthew Troy Mullins: Christmas Pug, 2011, watercolor on canvas mounted to panel, 16 x 12 inches; opposite page, Denise Yaghmourian: Laughing at the Rulers, 2012, rulers on wood panel, 12 x 12 inches

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City. Based on Sachs’ past romantic relationship with literary agent Bill Clegg, the film paints Paul as a crack addict and doesn’t spare audiences the harsh realities of addiction’s impact on loving relationships. As years go by, Erik begins to realize that, despite his love, Paul will perhaps always be less important to him than the drug.

Sexually charged and brutally honest in its depiction of human failings, Keep the Lights On soars even higher with a score crafted almost entirely from works by composer Arthur Russell. Not rated. 101 minutes.

The Screen, Santa Fe (Rob DeWalt) KILLING THEM SOFTLY A criminal (Vincent Curatola) hires two simpleminded thugs (Scoot McNairy and Ben Mendelsohn) to rob a rival’s card game. They succeed at first but, this being a movie, things eventually go wrong. Ray Liotta and Brad Pitt play two of the rivals, who aim to get their money back. Uh-oh. Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) directs.

Rated R. 97 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española; Storyteller, Taos. (Not reviewed) I’m glad you called: Thure Lindhardt and Zachary Booth in Keep the Lights On, at The Screen in Santa Fe

opening this week ADDICTED TO FAME The creators of the late sexpot Anna Nicole Smith’s final film — called Illegal Aliens — produced this aptly titled documentary. It doesn’t totally work, though, because its comedic tone ultimately revolves around the tragedy of Smith’s death, just as Illegal Aliens was set to have its premiere. The behind-thescenes footage, as well as the array of talking-heads who recall the crazy, low-budget production of Smith’s last picture, should appeal to Smith’s fans (don’t assume she doesn’t have any) and those who like really bad movies. And the film poses a really good question: Aren’t we are all addicted, in one form or another, to fame? Not rated. 89 minutes. Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. (Robert Nott) ANNA KARENINA This is not like any Anna Karenina you’ve ever seen. Director Joe Wright (Atonement) and screenwriter Tom Stoppard have reimagined and restructured the classic story with a stunningly original vision that treads the border between triumph and disaster and manages to keep miraculously to the side of the angels.

An Anna Karenina soars or sinks with its heroine. Keira Knightley can charm, she can swoon, she can rage, but when it comes to plumbing the depths of Tolstoy’s tragic heroine, she shows the strain of acting. She hits all the notes, but she doesn’t manage playing between 50

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the notes. Rated R. 129 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. ( Jonathan Richards) See review, Page 56.

THE CIRCUS The holiday celebration of the films of Charlie Chaplin continues with his 1928 picture, in which The Tramp accidentally joins the circus.

Screens in 35 mm. Not rated. 72 minutes. Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) HYDE PARK ON HUDSON In June 1939, King George VI (Samuel West) and Queen Consort Elizabeth (Olivia Colman) flew to Franklin Roosevelt’s estate in upstate New York to make sure they had U.S. support in the upcoming war. This bit of history could have made for a gravely serious film, but instead director Roger Michell (Notting Hill) cast Bill Murray as FDR and Olivia Williams as his wife, Eleanor. Murray is never fully believable, of course, but the meeting of the powers is staged as an easygoing weekend in the country. Much of the drama actually stems from Roosevelt’s distant cousin Margaret Suckley (Laura Linney), who has an affair with the president. Rated R. 95 minutes. Screens one night only as part of the Santa Fe Film Festival, 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6. The Screen, Santa Fe (Robert Ker). See review, Page 54.

KEEP THE LIGHTS ON Director Ira Sachs’ emotionally dense drama follows Danish filmmaker Erik (Thure Lindhardt) and closeted publishing attorney Paul (Zachary Booth) through a 10-year relationship that begins with a phone-sex encounter in late-’90s New York

NOW, FORAGER: A FILM ABOUT LOVE AND FUNGI Married Basque-American chefs Lucien (Cortlund) and Regina (Tiffany Esteb) hunt for edible mushrooms and supply Manhattan restaurants with their bounty. As romantic as the foraging lifestyle seemed to Regina during the couple’s courtship, she no longer shares her husband’s unwavering enthusiasm for roaming the woods, and longs for a more stable and fulfilling life. Cortland, the editor of the New York Mycological Society newsletter, and cinematographer Jonathan Nastasi present a visual feast that fills the hunger left by Cortlund’s meager screenplay. Cortlund is scheduled to attend the screening at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 5, only, as part of the Santa Fe Film Festival. Not rated. 93 minutes.

New Mexico History Museum, 113 Lincoln Ave. See www.santafefilmfestival.com. (Rob DeWalt) THE OTHER SON It’s an idea so perfect and, sadly, topical, that it’s a wonder nobody has done it yet: an Israeli family and a Palestinian family realize that their sons ( Jules Sitruk and Medhi Dehbi, respectively) were separated at birth. The ensuing kerfuffle proves that, hey, maybe the people on both sides of the conflict are not so different after all? Rated PG-13.

105 minutes. In French with subtitles. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) PERFORMANCE AT THE SCREEN The series of high-definition screenings of performances from afar continues with a showing of the ballet The Pharoah’s Daughter, choreographed by Pierre Lacotte, danced by members of Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet. Svetlana Zakharova and Ruslan Skvortsov star. 11 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, only. Not rated. 175 minutes (including two intermissions). The Screen, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed)

now in theaters ARGO Ben Affleck takes a true story by the throat and delivers a classic seatsquirming, pulse-pounding nail-biter.

In 1980, as the world watched the hostages in the U.S. embassy in Tehran, a small group of Americans made it to the Canadian ambassador’s residence and hid out there while the White House and the CIA desperately tried to figure out how to spirit them out of the country. The plan? Pretend to be making a sci-fi film and disguise the Americans as members of a Canadian location-scouting crew. A terrific cast is headed by Affleck as the CIA operative, with Alan Arkin and John Goodman at the Hollywood end and a spot-on bunch of unknowns as the hiders. Rated R. 120 minutes.

Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. ( Jonathan Richards) BLESS ME, ULTIMA In lesser hands, the film adaptation of Rudolfo Anaya’s classic novel could have been cloyingly precious magical realism. But Bless Me, Ultima, directed by Carl Franklin, was shot in and around Santa Fe with Spanish-speaking actors, which imbues the story of murder and witches in World War II-era Northern New Mexico with authenticity. Antonio (played by Luke Ganalon), is 6 years old when his grandmother Ultima (Miriam Colon), a curandera, comes to stay with his family. Antonio sees too much for a kid his age, but he is brave in the face of grown-up pressures.

Rated PG-13. 105 minutes. In English and Spanish, no subtitles. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe. ( Jennifer Levin) CLOUD ATLAS If you see only one film this year, perhaps it should be Cloud Atlas. Not that it’s the best movie, but it’s six movies for the price of one. It serves up some of your favorite actors in a half dozen different roles apiece, sometimes heavily disguised. David Mitchell’s centuries-spanning 2004 bestseller is a complex challenge that the author thought could never be translated into a movie, and as he himself recently admitted, “I was half right.” Still, there’s no denying the film’s entertainment value and its technical accomplishment. Rated R. 172 minutes.

Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. ( Jonathan Richards) DIANA VREELAND: THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL The legendary Diana Vreeland — fashion editor for Harper’s Bazaar for more than 25 years and longtime editor-in-chief of Vogue — is the focus of this entertaining, reverential documentary, written and directed by Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt, Frédéric Tcheng, and Lisa Immordino Vreeland (the subject’s granddaughter-in-law).

Vreeland was born in 1903 and died in 1989, and any story about her life ends up also being a chronicle of significant 20th-century cultural events. The film

is full of interviews with designers, models, photographers, and celebrities — so many it begins to get dizzying. Anyone who is not familiar with Vreeland or who questions her impact on popular culture should watch and listen closely. Rated PG-13. 86 minutes.

Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. (Laurel Gladden) FLIGHT In director Robert Zemeckis’ first live-action film since 2000’s Cast Away, Denzel Washington plays a pilot who pulls off a miracle of an emergency landing. The ensuing investigation into the nearcrash turns up troubling facts — some of which implicate the pilot in the disaster, tearing his life apart.

Rated R. 139 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed) A LATE QUARTET Cellist Peter Mitchell (a sublime Christopher Walken) is diagnosed with Parkinson’s, which also eats away at the string quartet that he started a quarter century earlier with violinists Daniel Lerner (Mark Ivanir) and Robert Gelbart (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and his violist wife Juliette (Catharine Keener). Fissures and fault lines are exposed, and the group threatens to self-destruct.

This beautifully acted gem of a movie is intelligent melodrama set to Beethoven’s late masterpiece, the Quartet in C-sharp Minor, a number in seven movements designed to be played at breakneck speed, without a pause. Rated R. 105 minutes.

Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. ( Jonathan Richards) LIFE OF PI Ang Lee’s adaptation of Yann Martel’s best-selling novel is an intriguing exercise in going toward, intense being, and going away. The first and last are the frame in which the story, of a boy on a lifeboat with a maneating Bengal tiger in a wild ocean, is set. That middle part is a fabulous creation of imagination and CGI, and it is riveting. The lead-in sets it up with a promise of a story “that will make you believe in God.” The recessional discusses what we have seen, what it means, what may or may not be true, and what we’ve learned. Whether or not it makes you believe in anything is up to you. Suraj Sharma and Irrfan Khan are Pi, young and older. The real star is a collection of electronic impulses that will make you believe, at least, in tigers. Rated PG. 127 minutes.

Screens in 3-D and 2-D at Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española; Storyteller, Taos. ( Jonathan Richards) LINCOLN Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln is a surprisingly small film, considering its subject. With the Civil War as background, it focuses on the passage of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution and what it took, politically, to achieve it. The president deals with the false choice of ending the war and ending slavery, hearty criticism from his political enemies, and dysfunction in his own family.

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Daniel Day-Lewis looks and sounds the part of the 16th president, though sometimes his words and the cadences at which they come feel self-conscious. Sally Fields as Mary Todd Lincoln and Tommy Lee Jones as radical abolitionist Thaddeus Jones stand out from an otherwise unremarkable ensemble cast.

Rated PG-13. 149 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Bill Kohlhaase) THE LONELIEST PLANET Nica (Hani Furstenberg) and Alex (Gael García Bernal) are free-spirited backpackers on a trip to the Caucasus Mountains in Georgia, where they hire a local guide (Bidzina Gujabidze) to lead them on a trek. Director Julia Loktev effectively builds subtle tension; we spend the first half of the movie waiting for something to happen. When something finally does, it is not what we expect, and afterward, everything is different. The Loneliest Planet is disquieting and memorable but would have benefited from less obscurity. Not rated. 113 minutes.

The Screen, Santa Fe. (Adele Oliveira) RED DAWN This revamp of John Milius’ 1984 film is a serviceable action flick, but that doesn’t mean it needed to be made. When North Korean forces invade Spokane, Washington, a group of teens, led by Iraq War veteran Jed (Chris Hemsworth) organize as a ragtag group of guerilla fighters, calling themselves the Wolverines. The performances are mostly fine, but there are unsettling racist and procitizens-militia undertones. Rated PG-13. 93 minutes.

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RISE OF THE GUARDIANS This animated adventure stars a super team made up of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and the Sandman. They join together with newbie Jack Frost (Chris Pine) to combat an evil spirit named Pitch (Jude Law). The plot is tightly woven, the jokes hit, the character animation is captivating, and the world is realized with great depth and wonder. I would even go so far as to say the film is magical — for adults and children alike.

If you’re open to a sword-wielding Santa this holiday season, you’ll be won over by this fable. Rated PG. 97 minutes. Screens in 3-D and 2-D at Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española.

Screens in 2-D only at Storyteller, Taos. (Robert Ker) A ROYAL AFFAIR In the 1760s, wellread English princess Caroline Mathilde (Alicia Vikander) is betrothed to Christian VII (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard), the mentally unstable king of Denmark and Norway. Christian hires a German physician, Johann Friedrich Struensee (Mads Mikkelsen), who comes to court, tends to the king’s health, and (ahem) cures what’s ailing the queen as well. This is an exemplary — if not gripping — period melodrama, with dewy-complexioned women, steely-eyed heroes, and a sweeping score.

Rated R. 137 minutes. In Danish, German, and French with subtitles. The Screen, Santa Fe. (Laurel Gladden) SAMSARA This documentary’s narrative and message are conveyed by director Ron Fricke’s (Baraka) sequence of stunning images, filmed in 70 mm and gathered from 25 countries on five continents. The visuals are extraordinary, but much of the time you may find yourself wondering where you are, even as you bathe in the beauty of nature’s abundance and culture’s triumphs or squirm at the robotic cruelty and soullessness of the modern world. Rated PG-13.

99 minutes. Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. (Jonathan Richards) SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN Malik Bendjelloul’s film about the search for a talented musician named Sixto Diaz Rodriguez is a portrait of a humble man, a rock documentary, and a detective story all in one. It follows the triumphs and frustrations of a journalist

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and a record-store owner in their efforts to shed light on the mystery surrounding Rodriguez, a superstar in South Africa but virtually unknown in his native United States. The film packs an emotional wallop.

Rated PG-13. 85 minutes. Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. (Michael Abatemarco) THE SESSIONS Mark O’Brien ( John Hawkes), a West Coast poet and journalist, has spent most of his life confined to an iron lung. He has a working head attached to a useless rag doll of a body, and he decides at the age of 38 to experience sex with a woman before his use-by date runs out. This movie tells the true story of his sessions with a sex surrogate (Helen Hunt) and recalls, with wry humor and touching tenderness, something of the extraordinary bond of connection and self-awareness that the sex act can access. Rated R. 95 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. (Jonathan Richards) SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK This story, based on Matthew Quick’s novel, centers on Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper), who after being released from a mental institution moves in with his parents ( Jacki Weaver and Robert De Niro) and vows to win back his estranged wife. When friends invite him to dinner, he meets Tiffany ( Jennifer Lawrence), who also has a couple of screws loose. She agrees to help him patch things up with his wife — but only if he will agree to be her partner in a dance competition. The story swerves hilariously around clichés, and finely honed dialogue, attention to detail, and impressive performances make the film perfect oddball comic relief for the holiday season. Rated R. 122 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe. (Laurel Gladden) SISTER The acting in this unflinching portrayal of a little boy’s need for love is superb. Simon, age 12, steals for a living. He lives in the valley of a Swiss ski town with his sister, Louise, who isn’t much inclined toward mothering her little brother. Sister asks what the difference is between love and obligation. What does it mean to be wanted? And when we know that we are not, what becomes of us? The answers are among the most emotionally brutal ever captured on film. Not rated. 97 minutes. In French and English with subtitles. The Screen, Santa Fe. ( Jennifer Levin) SKYFALL In Daniel Craig’s third outing as James Bond, a terrorist declares war on MI6, and the agents go underground, holing up beneath the streets of London. Javier Bardem makes for a memorable if campy villain, and the acting from the British cast (including Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes, and Ben Whishaw) is superb, but the crisp dialogue holds up better than the overall plot. Cinematographer Roger Deakins gives the film a

polished, sumptuous look. Rated PG-13. 143 minutes.

Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española; Storyteller, Taos. ( Jeff Acker) THE STORY OF FILM: AN ODYSSEY Breathtaking and audacious, this series boasts more depth and breadth than any previous effort to chronicle the history of cinema.

Episodes 13, 14, and 15 screen at 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6. Not rated. Each episode runs approximately 60 minutes. The Screen, Santa Fe. (Jon Bowman) THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN — PART 2 With this final installment of As the Vampire Turns, we can finally put the Twilight franchise in its grave. Our newly bloodsucking heroine Bella (Kristen Stewart) learns to hunt and discovers that her werewolf pal Jacob (Taylor Lautner) has “imprinted” on her newborn daughter, which means they will be mates for life. Twi-hard fans will appreciate the film’s fidelity to the novel and Lautner’s obligatory removing-of-the-clothes moment. The rest of us should thank our lucky stars for the levity screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg injects into the story and a gripping battle scene. Rated PG-13. 115 minutes.

Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española; Storyteller, Taos. (Laurel Gladden) WRECK-IT RALPH With its many nods to old-school video games, Wreck-It Ralph initially seems like a cartoon that panders to ex-geek parents. And then the story — about a villain (the title character, voiced by John C. Reilly) who breaks out of his video game to become a hero — kicks in, and the action shifts to the fictional “Sugar Rush” racing gam, where the film becomes a psychedelic swirl of adventure and imagination.

Wreck-It Ralph may be too long, but it racks up a high score when it comes to heart, cleverness, and humor.

Rated PG. 120 minutes. Screens in 2-D only at Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española; Storyteller, Taos. (Robert Ker)

other screenings Center for Contemporary Arts 8 p.m. Friday & Saturday, Nov. 30 & Dec. 1: 28 Hotel Rooms.

Friday to Sunday, Nov. 30 to Dec. 2. Portrait of Wally.

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Addicted to Fame (PG-13) Fri. 6 p.m. Wed. and Thurs. 8:15 p.m.

The Circus (G) Sat. and Sun. 12:30 p.m.

Conditions to Flourish (NR) Sun. 7 p.m.

Portrait of Wally (NR) Fri. to Sun. 4:15 p.m. Tue. 7:30 p.m. Wed. and Thurs. 4:15 p.m., 6:15 p.m.

Samsara (PG-13) Fri. 1:30 p.m., 3:45 p.m. Sat. 1:15 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 5:45 p.m. Sun. 12:45 p.m., 2:45 p.m., 4:45 p.m.

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Cloud Atlas (R) Fri. to Thurs. 12:50 p.m., 4:15 p.m., 7:40 p.m.

Diana Vreeland:The Eye Has to Travel (PG-13) Fri. to Thurs. 3:25 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 7:45 p.m.

A Late Quartet (R) Fri. and Sat. 12:55 p.m., 10 p.m.

Sun. to Thurs. 12:55 p.m.

The Other Son (PG-13) Fri. and Sat. 1:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m., 9:45 p.m. Sun. to Thurs. 1:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m.

The Sessions (R) Fri. and Sat. 1:05 p.m., 3:20 p.m., 5:35 p.m., 7:50 p.m., 10:05 p.m. Sun. to Thurs.

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Flight (R) Fri. to Thurs. 12:50 p.m., 4:05 p.m., 7:20 p.m., 10:25 p.m.

Killing Them Softly (R) Fri. to Thurs. 12:20 p.m., 3 p.m., 5:25 p.m., 8 p.m., 10:30 p.m.

Life of Pi (PG) Fri. to Sun. 1:45 p.m., 7:45 p.m.

Mon. to Thurs. 1:45 p.m., 7:45 p.m.

Life of Pi 3D (PG) Fri. to Thurs. 1:15 p.m., 4:15 p.m., 4:45 p.m., 7:15 p.m., 10:15 p.m., 10:45 p.m.

Lincoln (PG-13) Fri. to Thurs. 12:10 p.m., 3:45 p.m., 7:10 p.m., 10:30 p.m.

Red Dawn (PG-13) Fri. to Thurs. noon, 2:35 p.m., 5:15 p.m., 7:55 p.m., 10:35 p.m.

Rise of the Guardians (PG) Fri. to Sun. 12:10 p.m., 2:40 p.m., 5:10 p.m., 7:40 p.m., 10:10 p.m. Mon. to Thurs. 12:10 p.m., 2:40 p.m., 5:10 p.m., 7:40 p.m., 10:10 p.m.

Rise of the Guardians 3D (PG) Fri. to Thurs. 2 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 7 p.m., 9:30 p.m.

Silver Linings Playbook (R) Fri. to Thurs. 1:55 p.m., 4:45 p.m., 7:35 p.m., 10:25 p.m.

Skyfall (PG-13) Fri. to Thurs. 12:55 p.m., 4:10 p.m., 7:25 p.m., 10:35 p.m.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (PG-13) Fri. to Thurs. 1 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 7 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 10 p.m., 10:30 p.m.

Wreck-It Ralph (PG) Fri. to Thurs. 1:30 p.m., 4:20 p.m., 7 p.m., 9:45 p.m.

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Hyde Park on Hudson (R) Thurs. 7 p.m.

Keep the Lights On (NR) Fri. to Wed. 7:15 p.m.

The Loneliest Planet (NR) Fri. to Wed. 4:45 p.m.

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Lincoln (PG-13) Fri. 4 p.m., 7 p.m. Sat. and Sun. 12:40 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m. Mon. to Thurs. 4 p.m., 7 p.m.

Red Dawn (PG-13) Fri. 4:05 p.m., 6:55 p.m., 9:45 p.m. Sat. 1:15 p.m., 4:05 p.m., 6:55 p.m., 9:45 p.m. Sun. 1:15 p.m., 4:05 p.m., 6:55 p.m.

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Rise of the Guardians (PG) Fri. 3:40 p.m., 6:35 p.m., 9:15 p.m. Sat. 1:05 p.m., 3:40 p.m., 6:35 p.m., 9:15 p.m. Sun. 1:05 p.m., 3:40 p.m., 6:35 p.m.

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Let’s make a (new) deal Robert Ker I For The New Mexican Hyde Park on Hudson, historical dramedy, rated R, The Screen, 3.5 chiles In June 1939, members of the British monarchy set foot on U.S. soil for the first time. The visit was of utmost importance to the United Kingdom: World War II was months away from officially erupting, and the royals needed to confirm that a reluctant United States would offer support. King George VI and Queen Consort Elizabeth flew to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s estate at Hyde Park in upstate New York, where they met with the president and his wife, Eleanor.

Hyde Park on Hudson, the delightful picture that opens the 2012 Santa Fe Film Festival (at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 6), has its camera trained on more than just international diplomacy. Screenwriter Richard Nelson drafted the script from letters and diaries written by Roosevelt’s distant cousin Margaret Suckley (embodied here by Laura Linney), whose affair with Roosevelt took her through the visit by the Brits. Much of the film is seen through Suckley’s eyes as she takes in world affairs as fairly commonplace occurrences and experiences the romantic affair as a series of expectations raised and dashed that she eventually comes to terms with.

One might think that director Roger Michell would cast a thespian of great gravity in the role of the revered Roosevelt, as he must navigate foreign policy and tumultuous matters of the heart with equal care. Instead, Michell fitted Bill Murray for FDR’s wheelchair. The former Saturday Night Live

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cutup who smirked his way through films like Stripes, Ghostbusters, and Groundhog Day — and is now having a drily comic three-quarter-life crisis across the canvas of Wes Anderson — seems an odd casting choice when you look at the posters for Hyde Park on Hudson. When you watch the film, however, the choice makes perfect sense.

This is, above all, a comedy. Michell’s CV is wideranging; his most successful film was the 1999 Julia Roberts rom-com Notting Hill. Hyde Park on Hudson is a lighthearted romp through a pleasant summer weekend in the country, as easygoing as iced tea on a front porch despite taking place in a world that’s in the midst of depression and on the brink of war.

Certainly, some moments are tense or sad, but this is nonetheless a movie in which the climactic scene prominently involves a hot dog.

Much credit goes to the actors, who take their roles quite seriously while allowing a degree of silliness to seep in. Murray is never remotely believable as FDR — how could he be? — but he has a natural command of the screen. It’s easy for him to play somebody that many people are drawn to, and he gives a terrific performance. So much of Murray’s late-career resurgence has involved characters that are beaten down by life that it’s revelatory to watch him effectively portray a historical figure who was seen by many as a beacon of hope. Olivia Williams (who brilliantly played across Murray in Rushmore) realizes Eleanor with a sharp tongue and a quick wit; she may be much smarter than her husband but is smart enough to cater to his ego when necessary and to demonstrate immeasurable patience at pretty much all times.

Their British counterparts fare equally well. As Queen Elizabeth, Olivia Colman serves as a fine

counterpart to Williams’ Eleanor; she’s equally sharp but a bit more skittish behind closed doors, in keeping with her new position in the family and on the world stage. King George VI was recently celebrated in The King’s Speech, for which Colin Firth took home an Oscar. Samuel West’s take on the king is less regal but significantly funnier. West pulls off the neat trick of speaking with a stutter and still nailing his comic timing. The scenes in which George and Franklin, two great leaders — one who can’t talk very well and one who can’t walk at all — bond over their handicaps serve as some of the film’s strongest moments.

And then there’s Suckley, a woman who at times seems to be stronger and more confident than the prominent people around her and at other times seems meek and lost. She serves as an audience surrogate. As a plotline, Suckley’s story can’t help but be less interesting than the meeting of the superpowers, if only because it’s the sort of story we’ve seen more often. Linney excels in a role in which she’s rarely allowed to have as much fun as her co-stars, who bounce repartee off one another and blend into what comes across like a stage play at times.

Hyde Park on Hudson is a perfect film to see at a festival — one full of small chuckles that blossom into hearty laughs when shared with an enthusiastic audience. The story is often silly and frivolous in a mid-period Woody Allen way, while also offering enough nutritional content that you feel you’ve seen something of substance. I saw it at the New York Film Festival, and the audience was aglow afterward. It promises to be the first bright light in Santa Fe’s festival as well. ◀

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No regrets Jonathan Richards I For The New Mexican Anna Karenina, literary adaptation, rated R, Regal DeVargas, 3.5 chiles Anna Karenina has been around. Trips to the screen

by Tolstoy’s doomed adulteress outnumber trips to the altar by Zsa Zsa Gabor, Elizabeth Taylor, and Larry King combined. Greta Garbo flung herself under the train twice — first silently, then with sound. Anna has been catnip for the TV miniseries industry. So you may be thinking, oh, another Anna Karenina.

Believe me, this is not like any Anna Karenina you’ve ever seen. Director Joe Wright (Atonement) and screenwriter Tom Stoppard have reimagined and restructured the classic story with a stunningly original vision that treads the border between triumph and disaster and manages to keep miraculously to the side of the angels.

The movie opens in an ornate theater in imperial Russia in 1874. The story begins to unfold on the stage, then dives backstage, into the wings, up into the lighting grid and catwalks, and then sweeps out the loading doors at the back of the theater into the vast frozen reaches of a Russian winter. It moves back and forth between its various settings and conceits with dizzying elegance. It morphs from a child’s toy train set to a real train coming into the Moscow station, where a grease-smeared worker is crushed beneath the wheels in a grisly accident. Trains will figure again in the plot.

The action is sometimes conventional, sometimes stylized, sometimes impressionistic, sometimes cinematic, and sometimes stagey. Ballrooms full of beautifully choreographed aristocrats dissolve and the principals dance, entranced, alone. As the gimmicks

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start to tumble in and pile up, you think, uh-oh, this isn’t going to work. But it does.

Wright and Stoppard explode conventions with the exuberance of Bolsheviks tossing bombs, and when the dust settles, you find that the story has you in its thrall. The story, of course, is Tolstoy’s epic tale of a woman who loved not wisely, but, well, disastrously.

Anna (Keira Knightley) is contentedly married to Karenin ( Jude Law), an uprightly moral, conventionally wise imperial minister. They have a young son on whom Anna dotes. They are one of those happy families that are all alike. She’s a model of virtue, simply by virtue of her circumstances. She even visits her sister-in-law Dolly (Kelly Macdonald) to counsel her on how to deal with the infidelities of her genial scapegrace brother, Prince Oblonsky (Matthew Macfayden).

Anna preaches love and forgiveness, qualities that will be in short supply from her aristocratic society when she falls for Count Vronsky (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and begins her slide from grace.

Vronsky is the link between the two love threads of this story. Swaggering and impossibly handsome in his white regimental uniform, he turns the heads of Muscovite maidens, and none more so than the princess Kitty (Alicia Vikander of A Royal Affair), Dolly’s younger sister. So when Oblonsky’s friend Levin (Domhnall Gleeson), an honest, unassuming aristocrat, comes to Moscow from his country estate to propose to Kitty, she turns him down. But Vronsky’s head is soon turned by the beautiful Anna, and the rest is, if not history, certainly the stuff of immortal literature.

The visual impact of this Anna is splendid. Sarah Greenwood’s production design is heart-stoppingly rich, the costumes by Jacqueline Durran are gorgeous,

and the cinematography by Seamus McGarvey, guided

by Wright’s inspired direction, is a feast.

The performances are mostly impeccable, with special mention due to Vikander, Macfayden, and Olivia Williams as the Countess Vronsky, mother of the home-wrecking count. The countess gets a signature line of Stoppard dialogue: chatting on a train with Anna about life’s adventures in the untroubled early stages of the story, she remarks “I’d rather end up wishing I hadn’t than wishing I had — wouldn’t you?”

And Taylor-Johnson gives his character something more than just a pretty face – watch him inhale a cigarette, and if you smoke, you’ll be sneaking off and trying it out.

Law is remarkable. Not long ago he would have been ideally cast as Vronsky. Now he shows new depths of his talent as the upright, indecisive, cold but vulnerable Karenin. Hidden behind a beard, spectacles, and long-skirted coats, the old Jude Law almost disappears.

An Anna Karenina soars or sinks with its heroine, and Knightley fills the role with her dazzling, sometimes awkward beauty. She can charm, she can swoon, she can rage, but when it comes to plumbing the depths of Tolstoy’s tragic heroine, she shows the strain of acting. Knightley hits all the notes, but she doesn’t manage playing between the notes.

So when the story ends badly, as you know it must, there is not that kick to the emotional solar plexus that Anna Karenina ought to deliver. Still, it’s a remarkable rendering of one of the world’s great love stories.

As Kitty, when she is rejected by Vronsky, says bitterly to her sister, “Why do they call it love, anyway?”

Dolly, holding her baby, smiles with tender compassion. “Because it’s love,” she says. ◀

“A front-runner for best American film of the year.”

-ERIC HYNES, THE VILLAGE VOICE

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RESTAURANT REVIEW Susan Meadows I For The New Mexican

Terra incognito

Terra 198 N.M. 592 (Four Seasons Resort Rancho Encantado Santa Fe), 946-5700 Breakfast 7-11:30 a.m. Mondays-Fridays, 7-11 a.m. Saturday & Sunday; lunch 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Mondays-Fridays; dinner 5:30-10 p.m. daily; brunch 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Saturdays & Sundays Noise level: pleasant despite oddly chosen background music Vegetarian options Patio dining in season Handicapped-accessible Full bar Credit cards, no checks

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The Short Order Four Seasons Resorts and Hotels assumed management of Encantado Resort in June, and Four Seasons chef Andrew Cooper transferred from Hawaii in September to Terra, the restaurant at the newly named Four Seasons Resort Rancho Encantado Santa Fe. While Cooper admittedly hasn’t had much time to prove himself, the previous high standards that, under chef Charles Dale, garnered Terra a AAA Four Diamond rating have flagged. Some wine selections are frankly disappointing. Both setting and service provide reasons to visit, though.

Recommended: house biscuits and lavash, green salad, scallops with risotto, halibut with polenta, and chocolate cake with lime sorbet.

Ratings range from 0 to 4 chiles, including half chiles.

This reflects the reviewer’s experience with regard to food and drink, atmosphere, service, and value.

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Last June, the luxury boutique Auberge Resorts quietly relinquished Encantado resort. It’s now Four Seasons Resort Rancho Encantado Santa Fe — a mouthful that references the historic Rancho Encantado, though only the stunning location is recognizable to those who knew it. Furthermore, Charles Dale, the executive chef of Encantado’s restaurant Terra when it garnered a AAA Four Diamond rating, didn’t stay long after the transition, and rumor has it he will open his own restaurant where owner-chef Brian Knox’s now-closed Aqua Santa used to be, though that purchase has not been officially announced. When Terra was under Dale’s supervision I filed it under “flawless,” for flavor, presentation, execution, and the little flourishes that elevated it beyond most other fine Santa Fe restaurants. Chef Andrew Cooper, who transferred in September from a Four Seasons resort in Hawaii to head the kitchen at Terra, has inherited a rather large toque.

The Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts website names no chefs at any of its properties, giving the impression that they change frequently or are considered interchangeable. Previous experience with hotel kitchens having a revolving staff door caused my expectations to be lowered before I even tasted a morsel.

I wasn’t terribly surprised when our first courses arrived looking ready for a photo shoot but proved the adage about appearances being deceiving. Chewy baby octopus, though cute, offered no flavor, while accompanying roasted peppers tasted only of salt. The dish was nearly saved by the patatas bravas — here really mashed-potato croquettes that were perfectly crunchy on the outside and boasted a tasty little ham surprise in the unfortunately goopy center. The accompanying brava sauce lacked garlic; the romesco sauce, though tastier, also played it safe. Crab cakes, crisp on the outside and moist in the center, also suffered from blandness. I resorted to the still-superior breadbasket selection, which includes crisp, spicy lavash and excellent biscuits and butter.

Fresh salads with perfect greens saved greenbacks and proved better choices on a different evening. The small Caesar came with tasty white anchovies, shavings of Parmesan, and a flavorful dressing. An off-menu green salad comprised a good mix of young organic greens.

Pumpkin mole with a flavor profile more like East Indian curry than a traditional Mexican dish complemented a generous serving of crisp-skinned roast duck.

The accompanying “Aztec rice” — wild and conventional rice with chopped vegetables — suffered from the same problem as some first courses: no distinguishing flavor. The braised short ribs, a Terra specialty during Dale’s tenure, came closer to former standards. The tender, flavorful meat was served with good macaroni and cheese, though the “whiskey barbecue sauce” failed to suggest much of anything. Four grand, meaty diver

scallops bathed in foaming butter atop an excellent risotto cooked in the Italian style and boosted by salty bits of chorizo and sweet corn won me over, however.

This dish and a generous serving of halibut with ham and creamy polenta made me consider that perhaps Cooper simply needs a bit more time in Terra’s kitchen to reach his stride.

A signature sundae priced in two figures shocked me: limp and tepid churros supported two tiny balls of dulce de leche ice cream, all finished with a drizzle of caramel sauce so scant it made me wonder if the kitchen was running out of it. A dense chocolate cake served with lime sorbet was more aligned with the price and my expectations.

A taste of the Chianti offered by the glass convinced me to order the Chianti only available by the bottle; the latter thankfully showed character, but it also made me wonder why the former appeared on the list at all.

A Coteaux d’Aix rosé demonstrated less minerality than I am accustomed to in this appellation.

Servings seem more generous at the new Terra, but there’s less flourish, surprise, and precision. As time goes by, Cooper seems to be reaching terra firma, but the heights of the past don’t seem to be his goal. Still, the spectacular sunset views from window tables and the terrace, a refined ambience with a contemporary industrial feel, and the excellent service are all good reasons to go. ◀

Check, please Dinner for two at Terra: Crab cake ....................................................... $ 14.00 Baby octopus with romesco ........................... $ 14.00 Roast duck ..................................................... $ 32.00 Braised short ribs ........................................... $ 30.00 Signature sundae ........................................... $ 13.00 Bottle, Chianti ............................................... $ 45.00 TOTAL ........................................................... $148.00 (before tax and tip)..........................................

Dinner for two, another visit: Small Caesar salad ......................................... $ 9.00 Small green dinner salad ................................ $ 9.00 Diver scallops with risotto ............................. $ 31.00 Halibut with polenta ...................................... $ 33.00 Chocolate cake with lime sorbet ................... $ 8.00 Bottle, rosé ..................................................... $ 38.00 TOTAL............................................................ $128.00 (before tax and tip)

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2012 HOLIDAY ART TOUR & SALE

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An exhibition honoring 2012 as the Year of the Remarkable Woman New Mexico Committee of The National Museum of Women in the Arts Juried by Carolyn Kastner, Associate Curator, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum

826 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM www.red-dot-gallery.com

Exhibition Dates: November 16 through December 7, 2012 Public Reception: 2 to 4 p.m., December 1, 2012 Remarkable is sponsored by: ï The Christopher Foundation for the Arts, www.CFFTA.org ï Century Bank The Red Dot Gallery is made possible through the generous support of Zane Bennett Contemporary Art Learn more. Call 505-820-7338

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PAN EL DI SCU SSI ON : Wri ter/ Direc tor G eorge J ecel is join ed by Co-Writer B rook Ful l er; Veteran Di st ri buto r Ma rc Ha lperin ; P u blic ist Ma rla Ha lperin and U.N . Of f i ce of Drugs and Cr im e Repres en t at ive Piero B on a deo.

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From left: G. Russell Case,Tower Canyon, oil, 11 x 14 inches. Logan Maxwell Hagege, Turquoise Sky, oil, 9 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. Leon Loughridge, Trampas Chapel, pastel on paper, 12 x 12 inches.

Matt Smith, Sierra Spires, oil, 12 x 9 inches. All Images © 2012 courtesy, Gerald Peters Gallery.

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2012 Writing Contest for All Seasons Tell Us a Story in Poetry or Prose Storytelling is an honored New Mexico pastime.

Here is your chance to be part of that tradition.

Write about a memory, a special place, or a person who has had an impact on your life. Fiction, nonfiction, parody, or fantasy; in the style of Thurber or Ferber, Sedaris or Seuss, Hillerman or Cather — it’s up to you.

Winning entries will be published in Pasatiempo on Friday, Dec. 28

Adults (ages 19 and up): 1,000 words maximum Teens (13-18): 1,000 words maximum Children (5-12): up to 500 words

Rules: Entries must be received by 4 p.m. Monday, Dec. 3.

No exceptions.

Prizes to the winners courtesy: The Ark Bookstore, Bee Hive Children’s Book Store, Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, Garcia Street Books, Osteria D’Assisi, Santa Fe Bar and Grill, San Francisco Street Bar and Grill

Deadline: 4 p.m. Monday, Dec. 3

We reserve the right to edit work for publication.

Submissions must include name, address, telephone number, email address, and age; entries from schools should include grade and teacher’s name.

Mail entries to: 2012 Writing Contest c/o The Santa Fe New Mexican, 202 E. Marcy St., Santa Fe, N.M. 87501 ï Phone: 505≠ 986≠ 3096

Email entries to: writingcontest@sfnewmexican.com Electronic submissions are highly recommended.

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pasa week 30 Friday GALLERY/MUSEUM OPENINGS 12th annual Baca Street Arts Tour Baca Street Studios, 926 Baca St. Maps and details available at Liquid Light Glass, 820-2222. More than 20 artists open their studios showcasing jewelry, pottery, handblown glass, sculpture, and paintings, 5-9 p.m., continues Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 1-2, 5 percent of proceeds benefits Santa Fe Children’s Museum.

A Sea in the Desert Gallery 407 S. Guadalupe St., 988-9140. Holiday gift group show of gallery artists, reception 5-7 p.m.

AVA/A Virtual Artspace 316 Read St., 795-8139. The Myth of Abstraction, video, photographs, and 3-D prints by Tony Buchen and Jeralyn Goodwin, reception 5-8 p.m.

Axle Contemporary 670-7612 or 670-5854. Books on Wheels, sale of the gallery’s publications, exhibit of art from the books, and a celebration of Axle’s newest release, Landings: Birds in the Park, a monograph of artist/co-author Christy Hengst’s global site-specific installations, reception 5-9 p.m., look for the mobile gallery’s van at Baca Street Studios, 926 Baca St., visit axleart.com for van locations through Dec. 9.

Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 554 S. Guadalupe St., 989-8688. Beyond, paintings by Max Cole, reception 5-7 p.m., through Dec. 30.

Eight Modern 231 Delgado St., 995-0231. Strong Winds May Exist, gouache paintings on paper by Siobhan McBride, reception 5-7 p.m., through Jan. 5.

Gerald Peters Gallery 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5700. Nests, works by Bale Creek Allen and Malu Byrne, reception 5-7 p.m., through Jan. 4.

Lucky Bean Café 500 Montezuma Ave., Sanbusco Center, for information call Jennie Cooley, 490-1155.

Cirque de Cooley, Act II, pop-up group show, reception 5-7 p.m., through Dec. 23.

Santa Fe University of Art & Design Fine Arts Gallery 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., 473-6508. Useless Things & Other Stuff, video and sculpture installations by Bachelor of Fine Arts student Sandra Halpin, reception 5-7 p.m., through Dec. 14.

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Santa Fe 107 W. Barcelona Rd., 982-9674.

Faces of the Elderly, photographs by Hal Kahn, reception 5-7 p.m., through Dec. 26.

Vivo Contemporary 725 Canyon Rd., 982-1320. 14 Exceptions to the Rule, group show, reception 5-7 p.m., through Jan. 1.

Zane Bennett Contemporary Art 435 S. Guadalupe St., 982-8111. A Square Foot of Humor, annual group show, reception 5-7 p.m., through Jan. 8 (see story, Page 46).

Pasa’s Little Black Book......... 64 Exhibitionism...................... 66 At the Galleries.................... 67 Libraries.............................. 67 Museums & Art Spaces........ 67 In the Wings....................... 68

Hearing Versus Listening, by Danielle Wood, Red Dot Gallery, 826 Canyon Rd.

CLASSICAL MUSIC

THEATER/DANCE

Roberto Capocchi Solo classical guitar, music of Barrios, Piazzolla, and Albéniz, 8 p.m., Gig Performance Space, 1808-H Second St., $15 at the door.

Winter concert Santa Fe Community College Chorus, 5 p.m., Jemez Complex, 1401 Richards Ave., no charge, 428-1000, encore performance Saturday, Dec. 1.

‘Count Dracula’ opening night Greer Garson Theatre presents an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s tale of horror, 7 p.m., Santa Fe University of Art & Design, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., $15, discounts available, ticketssantafe.org, 988-1234, continues Friday-Sunday, Dec. 7-9 (see story, Page 30).

‘Peter Pan’ opening night Eldorado Children’s Theatre and Teen Players present the musical, 7:30 p.m., James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf, 1060 Cerrillos Rd., $15, discounts available, eldoradochildrenstheatre.org, 466-4656, continues Dec. 7-9.

‘The Pink Panther’ opening night Santa Fe Performing Arts Teen Ensemble presents its take on the 1963 film, 7 p.m., 1050 Old Pecos Trail, $8, 984-1370; continues Friday-Sunday, Dec. 7-9.

IN CONCERT Curtis Lundy Quartet New York City-based jazz bassist, 6 p.m., Sweet Basil (The Den at Coyote Café), 132 W. Water St., $55-$250, presented by the SFé Jazz Club Festival, 670-6482 (see story, Page 34).

Harmonia/3 Cellist Michael Fitzpatrick, storydancer Zuleikha, and percussionist Issa Malluf, 7:30 p.m., Railyard Performance Center, 1611-B Paseo de Peralta, $25, discounts available, harmonia3.brownpapertickets.com, proceeds benefit Esperanza Shelter for Battered Families, Solace Treatment Center, and The Storydancer Project.

Santa Fe Youth Symphony Association Winter Concert Series Elementary Strings, Mariachi Garibaldi, and Mariachi Estrella, 6:30 p.m., St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave., no charge.

BOOKS/TALKS On Wine and Storytelling Local winemaker Abe Schoener speaks, 3:15 p.m., Great Hall, Peterson Student Center, St. John’s College, 1160 Camino de Cruz Blanca, no charge, 984-6070.

EVENTS 12th annual Santa Fe Film Festival Gala Silent auction 7-9 p.m., live auction 8:30 p.m.,

compiled by Pamela Beach pambeach@sfnewmexican.com

Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo de Peralta, $150 in advance. Screenings continue through Sunday, Dec. 9, schedule and tickets available online at santafefilmfestival.com, 988-7414.

130th annual St. Nicholas Bazaar — Twice Blessed sale preview Upscale rummage sale in conjunction with the weekend bazaar, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Palen Hall, Holy Faith Episcopal Church, 311 E. Palace Ave., $10, for information call 914-471-2297.

Inaugural SITE Scholar Program Ceremony honoring regional undergraduate and graduate visual arts students, 6-7 p.m., SITE Santa Fe, 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199.

Museum of New Mexico Press’ Annual Book Sale 40- to 90-percent discounts, select out-of-print titles, noon-4 p.m., second floor, Stuart L. Udall Center for Museum Resources, 725 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 982-6366, continues Saturday, Dec. 1.

Pueblo of Tesuque Flea Market 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 15 Flea Market Rd., 670-2599 or 231-8536, pueblooftesuquefleamarket.com, Friday-Sunday through December.

WinterNite Party!

Preview sale of works by Spanish Market artists participating in the Winter Spanish Market, 6-9 p.m., Santa Fe Community Convention Center, 201 W. Marcy St., $40, sponsored by the Spanish Colonial Arts Society, 982-2226, market runs Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 1-2.

NIGHTLIFE (See Page 64 for addresses) ¡Chispa! at El Mesón The Three Faces of Jazz and friends, featuring Bryan Lewis on drums, 7:30 p.m., no cover.

Cowgirl BBQ Barnyard Stompers, country/punk/rock, Americana/blues/rock, 8:30 p.m., $5 cover.

El Cañon at the Hilton Gerry Carthy, tenor guitar and flute, 7-9 p.m., no cover.

Hotel Santa Fe Ronald Roybal, flute and classical Spanish guitar, 7-9 p.m., no cover.

La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda Americana Band Boris & The Salt Licks, 8-11 p.m., no cover.

La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa Nacha Mendez Trio, pan-Latin rhythms, 6:30-9:30 p.m., no cover.

Pranzo Italian Grill Geist Cabaret with pianist David Geist, 6-9 p.m., $2 cover.

Second Street Brewery Hot Club of Santa Fe, Gypsy jazz, 6-9 p.m., no cover. ▶▶▶▶▶▶▶▶

Elsewhere............................ 70 People Who Need People..... 71 Under 21............................. 71 Short People........................ 71 Sound Waves...................... 71

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Second Street Brewery at the Railyard Broomdust Caravan, juke joint honky-tonk and biker bar rock, 6-9 p.m., no cover.

Tiny’s Synde Parten & Nick Wimet Duo, 5:30-8 p.m., no cover. Americana duo Todd & The Fox’s album-release party, with Cali Shaw Band and accordionist Mansi Kern (Todd’s grandmother), 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. no cover.

The Underground at Evangelo’s Reggae Dancehall Fridays with Brotherhood Sound and DJ Breakaway, 9 p.m., $5 cover.

Vanessie Jazz pianist Jon Rangel and vocalist Faith Amour, 7 p.m.-close, no cover.

1 Saturday GALLERY/MUSEUM OPENINGS 12th annual Baca Street Arts Tour Baca Street Studios, 926 Baca St. Maps and details available at Liquid Light Glass, 820-2222. More than 20 artists open their studios showcasing jewelry, pottery, handblown glass, sculpture, and paintings, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., continues Sunday, Dec. 2, 5 percent of the proceeds benefits Santa Fe Children’s Museum.

El Zaguan 545 Canyon Rd., 983-2567. Annual holiday group show, reception noon-4 p.m., through Dec. 16. Reading by resident writers 7 p.m.

Independent Art Gallery 102 W. San Francisco St., 983-3376. Affordable Art for the Holidays, featuring work by Marcie Lofgren, through December.

Red Dot Gallery 826 Canyon Rd., 820-7338.

Remarkable, group show of contemporary works, through Dec. 9.

CLASSICAL MUSIC Santa Fe Men’s Camerata and the Zia Singers Holiday readings and carols, 7 p.m., Scottish Rite Center, 463 Paseo de Peralta, $20 at the door, discounts available.

Santa Fe Public Schools Faculty and Friends Cabaret Fundraiser for SFPS’s K-12 Music Education Programs, 7 p.m., María Benítez Theatre, The Lodge at Santa Fe, 750 N. St. Francis Dr., $15, couples $25, drinks and dinner available at the cash bar, tickets available in advance at sfpsmusicfest.org until 3 p.m. Friday or at the door, 231-7869.

Santa Fe Community College Chorus Winter concert, 2 p.m., Jemez Complex, 1401 Richards Ave., no charge, 428-1000, encore performance Saturday, Dec. 1.

IN CONCERT High Desert Harps Holiday tunes, 1-3 p.m., Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., no charge, 988-4226.

Santa Fe University of Art & Design Jazz Ensemble With guest artists The Christian Pincock Trio, 7 p.m., O’Shaughnessy Performance Space, Benildus Hall, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., no charge, 473-6196, presented by the Contemporary Music Department.

Santa Fe Youth Symphony Association Winter Concert Series Jazz performance, 7 p.m., Warehouse 21, 1614 Paseo de Peralta, no charge.

Songwriters Picking on Each Other: Volume 3 George Breakfast, Terry Diers, and Jono Manson, 7:30 p.m., Gig Performance Space, 1808-H Second St., $15 at the door, gigsantafe.com.

Talking Heads

THEATER/DANCE ‘Count Dracula’ Greer Garson Theatre presents an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s tale of horror, 7 p.m., Santa Fe University of Art & Design, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., $15, discounts available, ticketssantafe.org, 988-1234, continues Friday-Sunday, Dec. 7-9 (see story, Page 30).

‘The Nutcracker’ Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s annual holidayseason performance, 2 and 7:30 p.m., Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $25-$72, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org (see story, Page 36).

‘Peter Pan’ Eldorado Children’s Theatre and Teen Players present the musical, 2 p.m., James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf, 1060 Cerrillos Rd., $15, discounts available, eldoradochildrenstheatre.org, 466-4656, continues Dec. 7-9.

‘The Pink Panther’ Santa Fe Performing Arts Teen Ensemble presents its take on the 1963 film, 7 p.m., 1050 Old Pecos Trail, $8, 984-1370; runs Friday-Sunday, Dec. 7-9.

BOOKS/TALKS Art, Tourism, and Identity in New Mexico UNM anthropology professor Sylvia Rodriguez speaks in conjunction with the group exhibit

On Wine and Storytelling Local winemaker Abe Schoener discusses the relationship between wine and the preservation of moments in history at 3:15 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, in the Great Hall at the Peterson Student Center on St. John’s College campus, 1160 Camino de Cruz Blanca. There is no charge for admission. Call 984-6070 for more information.

Light, Wood, Wax, Fire, La Tienda Exhibit Space, 7 Caliente Rd., Eldorado, 231-4270.

Camino de Santiago de Compestela Illustrated talk on Spain by Bob McCarthy, 5 p.m., Travel Bug Books, 839 Paseo de Peralta, 992-0418.

Paul Slaughter The local photographer signs copies of The Bahá’i Faith: in Words and Images, 2 p.m., Ark Books, 133 Romero St., 988-3799.

EVENTS

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La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa 330 E. Palace Ave., 986-0000 The Legal Tender at the Lamy Railroad Museum 151 Old Lamy Trail, 466-1650 Lodge Lounge at The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N. St. Francis Dr., 992-5800 The Matador 116 W. San Francisco St., 984-5050 The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 NM 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Molly’s Kitchen & Lounge 1611 Calle Lorca, 983-7577 Ore House at Milagro 139 W. San Francisco St., 995-0139 The Palace Restaurant & Saloon 142 W. Palace Ave, 428-0690 The Pantry Restaurant 1820 Cerrillos Rd., 986-0022 Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Pyramid Café 505 W. Cordova Rd., 989-1378 Rouge Cat 101 W. Marcy St., 983-6603

Santa Fe Sol Stage & Grill 37 Fire Pl., solofsantafe.com Second Street Brewer y 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Second Street Brewer y at the Railyard Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion, 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 The Starlight Lounge RainbowVision Santa Fe, 500 Rodeo Rd., 428-7781 Stats Sports Bar & Nightlife 135 W. Palace Ave., 982-7265 Taberna La Boca 125 Lincoln Ave., Suite 117, 988-7102 Tiny’s 1005 St. Francis Dr., Suite 117, 983-9817 Tortilla Flats 3139 Cerrillos Rd., 471-8685 The Underground at Evangelo’s 200 W. San Francisco St., 577-5893 Upper Crust Pizza 329 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0000 Vanessie 427 W. Water St., 982-9966 Zia Diner 326 S. Guadalupe St., 988-7008

130th annual St. Nicholas Bazaar Handmade gift items, ornaments, kitchen decor, and food, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Palen Hall, Holy Faith Episcopal Church, 311 E. Palace Ave., for information call 914-471-2297.

A Very Chaplin Holiday Center for Contemporary Arts presents a Charlie Chaplin film festival through Jan. 2, The Circus, 12:30 p.m., 1050 Old Pecos Trail.

Complete screening schedule available online at ccasantafe.org, $9.50 general admission, series pass $30 (discounts available for both), tickets and passes available in advance by calling the box office, 982-1338.

Eldorado Holiday Craft Fair and Flea Market 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Ken and Perry Adam Senior Center, 14 Avenida Torreon, 466-1039.

The Flea at El Museo Holiday Market 8 a.m.-3 p.m. El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, 555 Camino de la Familia, santafeflea.com, 982-2671, weekends through Dec. 30.

Museum of New Mexico Press’ Annual Holiday Book Sale 40- to 90-percent discounts; plus, select out-of-print titles, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., second floor, Stuart L. Udall Center for Museum Resources, 725 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 982-6366.

Pueblo of Tesuque Flea Market 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 15 Flea Market Rd., 670-2599 or 231-8536, pueblooftesuquefleamarket.com, Friday-Sunday through December.

Santa Fe Artists Market 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays through December, at the Railyard between the Farmers Market and REI, 310-1555.

Santa Fe Farmers Market 8 a.m.-1 p.m., 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-4098.

Santa Fe Public Library book sale Hardcover books, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Southwest Room, Main Branch, 145 Washington Ave., cash and checks only, 955-6788.

Santa Fe Waldorf School Holiday Faire Handmade gifts, food, Children’s Wonder Shoppe, Artisan Market, and entertainment by the juggling/fire-eating/magic troupe Clan Tynker, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., 26 Puesta del Sol, details available online at santafewaldorf.org.

Tribute to Susan Berk: A Community Legacy Hosted by the New Mexico Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts; 5-8 p.m., La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa, 330 E. Palace Ave., $25 and $100, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Winter Spanish Market Annual sale presented by the Spanish Colonial Arts Society; 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Santa Fe Community Convention Center, 201 W. Marcy St., no charge, 982-2226, continues Sunday, Dec. 2.

World AIDS Day program AIDS memorial quilt panels on view, HIV information, and light refreshments, 6 p.m., Santa Fe Center for Spiritual Living, 505 Camino de los Marquez, 983-5022.

NIGHTLIFE (See Page 64 for addresses) ¡Chispa! at El Mesón Flamenco Conpaz, 7-10 p.m., $10 cover.

Cowgirl BBQ Kitty Jo Creek, bluegrass and countrified jazz, 2-5 p.m., no cover.

Dance band Jaka, 8:30 p.m., $5 cover.

El Farol Tumbao, salsa, 9 p.m.-close, $5 cover.

Hotel Santa Fe Ronald Roybal, flute and classical Spanish guitar, 7-9 p.m., no cover.

La Casa Sena Cantina Best of Broadway, piano and vocals, 6-10 p.m., no cover.

La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda Americana Band Boris & The Salt Licks, 8-11 p.m., no cover.

The Mine Shaft Tavern Hot Honey, alt. country, 7-11 p.m., call for cover.

La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa Jazz vocalist Whitney and guitarist Pat Malone, 8-11 p.m., no cover.

Pranzo Italian Grill Jazz pianist Robin Holloway, 6-9 p.m., $2 cover.

Taberna La Boca Nacha Mendez Duo, pan-Latin rhythms, 6:30-9:30 p.m., no cover.

Tortilla Flats Singer-songwriter Dave Maeslon, 6-9 p.m., no cover.

Vanessie Andy Kingston Trio, jazz, 6:30 p.m.-close, call for cover.

2 Sunday GALLERY/MUSEUM OPENINGS

12th annual Baca Street Studio Tour Baca Street Studios, 926 Baca St., for maps and details call Liquid Light Glass, 820-2222.

More than 20 artists open their studios showcasing jewelry, pottery, handblown glass, sculpture, and paintings, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Marji Gallery 217 W. Water St., 983-1012. Snow Poems, group show of digital prints, readings by locally recognized poets, art raffle, and reception 3-5 p.m., proceeds benefit a community poetry project of the same name presented by the Cut + Paste Society and Santa Fe Art Institute. The public is encouraged to dress in white.

Local photographer Paul Slaughter signs copies of The Bahá’i Faith: In Words and Images at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, at Ark Books; (Bahá’i House of Worship, New Delhi, India).

Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 476-1200.

Gallery of Conscience/AIDS Awareness Day, an afternoon of programs and a sneak preview of a new exhibit lab; visitors are encouraged to lend a hand in developing the exhibit Let’s Talk About This: Folk Artists Respond to HIV/AIDS, 1-4 p.m., by museum admission.

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Coro de Cámara The chamber chorus in A Christmas Songbook, 4 p.m., First Presbyterian Church, 208 Grant Ave., donations welcome.

Santa Fe Men’s Camerata and the Zia Singers Holiday concert of readings and carols, 4 p.m., Scottish Rite Center, 463 Paseo de Peralta, $20 at the door, discounts available.

Santa Fe Youth Symphony Association Winter Concert Series Youth Symphony Orchestra, Youth Philharmonia, and Intermezzo String Orchestra, 7 p.m., St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave., no charge.

Schola Cantorum of Santa Fe and the Monks of the Monastery of Christ in the Desert The sacred music ensemble is joined by the monks’ chorale in conjunction with the New Mexico History Museum exhibits Illuminating the Word: The St. John’s Bible and Contemplative Landscapes, 2-3 p.m., 113 Lincoln Ave., by museum admission, 476-5200.

IN CONCERT Santa Fe University of Art & Design Ensembles Javanese gamelan, and Balkan Middle East, 7 p.m., O’Shaughnessy Performance Space, Benildus Hall, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., no charge, 473-6196, presented by the Contemporary Music Department.

THEATER/DANCE ‘Count Dracula’ Greer Garson Theatre presents an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s tale of horror, 2 p.m., Santa Fe University of Art & Design, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., $15, discounts available, ticketssantafe.org, 988-1234, continues Friday-Sunday, Dec. 7-9 (see story, Page 30).

‘The Nutcracker’ Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s annual holiday-season performance, 1 and 5 p.m., Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $25-$72, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org (see story, Page 36).

Performance at The Screen Pierre Lacotte’s ballet The Pharoah’s Daughter

by Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet, 11 a.m., Santa Fe University of Art & Design, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., $20, discounts available, 473-6494.

‘Peter Pan’ Eldorado Children’s Theatre and Teen Players present the musical, 2 p.m., James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf, 1060 Cerrillos Rd., $15, discounts available, eldoradochildrenstheatre.org, 466-4656, continues Dec. 7-9.

‘The Pink Panther’ Santa Fe Performing Arts Teen Ensemble presents its take on the 1963 film, 2 p.m., 1050 Old Pecos Trail, $8, 984-1370; runs Friday-Sunday, Dec. 7-9.

BOOKS/TALKS Red Mountain Poets Robyn Hunt, Elizabeth Raby, Gary Worth Moody, and Susan Gardner read from their books, 3-5 p.m., reception and signing follow, Meem Room, New Mexico History Museum, 113 Lincoln Ave., by museum admission, presented by Red Mountain Press, 983-8449.

Richard Sober The poet/artist discusses and reads from Adjusting to the Light, which incorporates paintings and prose poetry, 11 a.m., followed by a conversation with Art Guild Press founder Robert Erlichman, Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226, presented by JourneySantaFe.

EVENTS 12th annual Baca Street Arts Tour Baca Street Studios, 926 Baca St. Maps and details available at Liquid Light Glass, 820-2222. More than 20 artists open their studios showcasing jewelry, pottery, handblown glass, sculpture, and paintings, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 5 percent of the proceeds benefits Santa Fe Children’s Museum.

A Very Chaplin Holiday Center for Contemporary Arts presents a Charlie Chaplin film festival through Jan. 2, The Circus, 12:30 p.m., 1050 Old Pecos Trail. Screening schedule available online at ccasantafe.org, $9.50 general admission, series pass $30 (discounts available for both), tickets and passes available in advance by calling the box office, 982-1338.

The Flea at El Museo Holiday Market 9 a.m.-3 p.m. El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, 555 Camino de la Familia, santafeflea.com, 982-2671, weekends through Dec. 30.

International folk dances 6:30-8 p.m. weekly followed by Israeli dances 8-10 p.m., Odd Fellows Hall, 1125 Cerrillos Rd., $5, 501-5081, 983-3168, beginners welcome.

Pueblo of Tesuque Flea Market 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 15 Flea Market Rd., 670-2599 or 231-8536, pueblooftesuquefleamarket.

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EXHIBITIONISM

A peek at what’s showing around town

Bale Creek Allen and Malu Byrne: Untitled, 2012, bronze and glass. Nests, an exhibition of sculptures in the form of birds’ nests by Bale Creek Allen and Malu Byrne, opens at Gerald Peters Gallery (1011 Paseo de Peralta) with a 5 p.m. reception on Friday, Nov. 30. Byrne fashions glass eggs that rest in Allen’s bronze nest sculptures. Call 954-5700.

Siobhan McBride: Ball, 2010, gouache on paper on panel. Siobhan McBride’s paintings of landscapes and interiors combine figurative and abstract imagery that suggests a human presence, although human figures are absent from the work. An exhibition of her work, Strong Winds May Exist, opens at Eight Modern (231 Delgado St., 995-0231) on Friday, Nov. 30, with a reception at 5 p.m.

Tony Buchen: Leda and the Swan C2, 2012, archival ink on canvas.

AVA/A Virtual Artspace (316 Read St.) presents The Myth of Abstraction, an exhibition of video work, photography, and prints by Tony Buchen and Jeralyn Goodwin. Buchen and Goodwin create virtual imagery that conveys a sense of sculptural form. The show opens Friday, Nov. 30, with a 5 p.m. reception.

Call 795-8139.

Max Cole: Somerset Fall IV, 2012, acrylic on linen. Beyond is an exhibition of new works by Max Cole. The artist’s smooth, multilayered paintings of vertical bands and lines are rendered with precision by hand. Beyond opens on Friday, Nov. 30, with a 5 p.m. reception at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art (554 S. Guadalupe St.). Call 989-8688.

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Hal Kahn: Mike, 2012, digital print. Faces of the Elderly is an exhibition of powerful and moving portraits of New Mexicans by photographer Hal Kahn. The exhibit includes biographical sketches of Kahn’s subjects and is at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Santa Fe (107 W. Barcelona St.).

There is a reception Friday, Nov. 30, at 5 p.m. Call 982-9674.

AT THE GALLERIES Art Exchange Gallery 60 E. San Francisco St., Suite 225, 603-4485.

New paintings by Jeff Tabor, through Dec. 7.

Blue Rain Gallery 130-C Lincoln Ave., 954-9902. Launch, new sculpture by Rik Allen, through Friday, Nov. 30.

Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art 702½ and 708 Canyon Rd., 992-0711. The Lost Christmas Gift: Images & Artifacts, work by Andrew Beckham; Holiday Group Show, gallery artists; through Dec. 29.

David Richard Gallery 544 S. Guadalupe St., 983-9555. Optic Drive, paintings by Gabriel Evertz; Color Interference, paintings by Matthew Kluber; What a Long Strange Trip, acrylics by Jay Davis; through Dec. 15; Optic Drive, abstracts by Gabriele Evertz; paintings by Sanford Wurmfeld; through Dec. 22.

Eclectics Art Gallery 7 Caliente Rd., Suite A-10, Eldorado, 603-8811. Paintings by David Friday, through Friday, Nov. 30.

Eggman & Walrus Art Emporium 130 W. Palace Ave., second floor, 660-0048.

Paint Forward, work by John Barker, through January.

Evoke Contemporary 130-F Lincoln Ave., 995-9902. Ozymandias, paintings by Sergio Garval, through Friday, Nov. 30.

Heidi Loewen Porcelain Gallery 315 Johnson St., 988-2225. Cooking With Fire, smoked-porcelain work by Loewen, through Friday, Nov. 30.

James Kelly Contemporary 550 S. Guadalupe St., 989-1601. To Tease a Hummingbird, new drawings by Wes Mills; I’ve Lost Control Again, new sculpture by Aldo Chaparro; through Dec. 8.

Pop Gallery 142 Lincoln Ave., Suite 102, 820-0788. Ted Geisel originals and production work from the 1966 film How the Grinch Stole Christmas, through Jan. 1.

Radius Books 227 E. Palace Ave., Suite W, 983-4068. Sharon Core: Early American, exhibit of photographs, through mid-December.

Red Dot Gallery 826 Canyon Rd., 820-7338. Remarkable, group show of contemporary works, through Dec. 9.

Santa Fe Clay 545 Camino de la Familia, 984-1122. Handle With Care, group show of mugs; Selections From the Hazel Greenberg Collection; teapots and contemporary ceramics; through Dec. 8.

Santa Fe University of Art & Design — Marion Center for Photographic Arts 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., 473-6341. Atrium Gallery: Origins, group show of pinhole and alternativeprocesses photographs; Alumni Gallery: Michael Webb, photographs; through Dec. 7.

Santa Fe Weaving Gallery 124 ½ Galisteo St., 982-1737. Time Capsule, group show of textile designs, through Dec. 8.

Turner Carroll Gallery 725 Canyon Rd., 986-9800. Contemporary Terrain, group show of landscapes, through Jan. 20.

William R. Talbot Fine Art, Antique Maps & Prints 129 W. San Francisco St., second floor, 982-1559. Landscape Dreams, a New Mexico Portrait, photographs by Craig Varjabedian, through Dec. 29.

Winterowd Fine Art 701 Canyon Rd., 992-8878. Illumination and Alchemy, new paintings by Tom Kirby, through Dec. 14.

Yares Art Projects 123 Grant Ave., 984-0044. Mysteries: Full Circle, paintings by Kenneth Noland, through Dec. 8.

By the Sea: Paintings on Paper 1948-1955, work by Byron Browne (1907-1961), through December.

LIBRARIES Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Library Marion Center for Photographic Arts, Santa Fe University of Art & Design, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., 424-5052. Open by appointment only.

Catherine McElvain Library School for Advanced Research, 660 Garcia St., 954-7200. Open Monday-Friday, call for hours.

Chase Art History Library Thaw Art History Center, Santa Fe University of Art & Design, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., 473-6569. Open Monday-Friday, call for hours.

Faith and John Meem Library St. John’s College, 1160 Camino de Cruz Blanca, 984-6041.

Visit stjohnscollege.edu for hours of operation. $20 fee to nonstudents and nonfaculty.

Fray Angélico Chávez History Library Palace of the Governors, 120 Washington Ave., 476-5090. Open 1-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday.

Laboratory of Anthropology Library Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, 476-1264.

Open 1-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, by museum admission.

New Mexico State Library 1209 Camino Carlos Rey, 476-9700. Upstairs (state and federal documents and books) open noon-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday; downstairs (Southwest collection, archives, and records) open 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday.

Quimby Memorial Library Southwestern College, 3960 San Felipe Rd., 467-6825. Rare books and collections of metaphysical materials.

Open Monday-Friday, call for hours.

Santa Fe Community College Library 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1352. Open MondayFriday, call for hours.

Santa Fe Institute 1399 Hyde Park Rd., 984-8800. Visit santafe.edu/library for online catalog. Open 1-5 p.m. Monday-Friday to current students (call for details).

Santa Fe Public Library, Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780. Open 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.6 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday.

Santa Fe Public Library, Oliver La Farge Branch 1730 Llano St., 955-4860. Open 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Wednesday, 10 a.m.6 p.m. Thursday-Saturday. Closed Sunday.

Santa Fe Public Library, Southside Branch 6599 Jaguar Dr., 955-2810. Open 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.6 p.m. Friday-Saturday. Closed Sunday.

Supreme Court Law Library 237 Don Gaspar Ave., 827-4850. Online catalog available at supremecourtlawlibrary.org.

Open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.

MUSEUMS & ART SPACES Refer to the daily calendar listings for special events. Museum hours subject to change on holidays and for special events.

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338. Stitch Thought, installation of felt living room furnishings by Tamara Wilson, Spector Ripps Project Space, through Dec. 9. Gallery hours available by phone or online at ccasantafe.org, no charge.

Bookcover in the exhibit Tall Tales of

the Wild West: The Stories of Karl May, New Mexico History Museum

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum 217 Johnson St., 946-1000. Georgia O’Keeffe and the Faraway: Nature and Image, through May 5. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday-Thursday, open 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Fridays. $12; seniors $10; NM residents $6; students18 and over $10; under 18 no charge; NM residents free, 5-7 p.m. first Friday of the month.

Governor’s Gallery State Capitol Building, fourth floor, Old Santa Fe Trail and Paseo de Peralta, 476-5058. Works by recipients of the Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts, through Dec. 7.

Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Pl., 983-8900. 50/50: Fifty Artists, Fifty Years ï Dual(ing) Identities, work by Debra Yepa-Pappan ï Grab, screenings of a film by Billy Luther ï Red Meridian, paintings by Mateo Romero ï Vernacular, work by Jeff Kahm; all exhibits through December. Open 10 a.m.5 p.m. Monday and Wednesday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Adults $10; NM residents, seniors, and students $5; 16 and under and NM residents with ID no charge on Sundays.

Museum of Indian Arts & Culture 710 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 476-1250.

Woven Identities: Basketry Art From the Collections ï They Wove for Horses: Diné Saddle Blankets, Navajo weavings and silverworks; exhibits through March 4 ï Margarete Bagshaw: Breaking the Rules, 20-year retrospective, through 2013 ï Here, Now, and Always, artifacts, stories, and songs depicting Southwestern Native American traditions. Let’s Take a Look, free artifact identification by MIAC curators, noon-2 p.m. the third Wednesday of each month. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. NM residents $6; nonresidents $9; ages 16 and younger no charge; students with ID $1 discount; school groups no charge; NM residents no charge on Sundays; free to NM residents over 60 on Wednesdays.

Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 476-1200.

New Mexican Hispanic Artists 1912-2012, installation in Lloyd’s Treasure Chest, through February ï Young Brides, Old Treasures: Macedonian Embroidered Dress ï Folk Art of the Andes, work from the 19th and 20th

centuries ï Multiple Visions: A Common Bond, international collection of toys and traditional folk art. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Tuesday-Sunday. NM residents $6; nonresidents $9; ages 16 and under no charge; students with ID $1 discount; school groups no charge; NM residents over 60 no charge on Wednesdays; no charge for NM residents on Sundays.

Museum of Spanish Colonial Art 750 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 982-2226.

New Deal Art: CCC Furniture and Tinwork; Transformations in Tin: Tinwork of Spanish Market Artists; through December ï Metal and Mud — Iron and Pottery, showcase of works by Spanish Market artists, through April ï San Ysidro Labrador/St. Isidore the Farmer, bultos, retablos, straw appliqué, and paintings on tin ï Recent Acquisitions, Colonial and 19th-century Mexican art, sculpture, and furniture; also, work by Spanish Market youth artists ï The Delgado Room, late Colonial period re-creation. Open 10 a.m.5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. $8; NM residents $4; 16 and under no charge; NM residents no charge on Sundays.

New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5200. Illuminating the Word: The St. John’s Bible, 44 pages from two of seven volumes, a page from the Gutenberg Bible, and early editions of the King James Bible; Contemplative Landscape, exhibit featuring work by photojournalist Tony O’Brien; through Dec. 30 ï Altared Spaces: The Shrines of New Mexico, photographs by Siegfried Halus, Jack Parsons, and Donald Woodman, through Feb. 10 ï Tall Tales of the Wild West: The Stories of Karl May, collection of photographs and ephemera in relation to the German author, through Feb. 9, 2014 ï Telling New Mexico: Stories From Then and Now, core exhibition of chronological periods from the pre-Colonial era to the present. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. TuesdaySunday. No charge on Fridays 5-8 p.m.; Open 5-8 p.m. Fridays. NM residents $6; nonresidents $9; 16 and younger no charge; students with ID $1 discount; school groups no charge; no charge on Wednesdays for NM residents over 60; NM residents no charge on Sundays.

New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W. Palace Ave., 476-5072. Alcove 12.6, revolving series of group exhibits, through Sunday, Dec. 2 ï Chromatic Fusion: The Art of Fused Glass; Emerge 2012: A Showcase of Rising Talents in Kiln Glass; through Jan. 6 ï Treasures Seldom Seen, works from the permanent collection, through December ï It’s About Time: 14,000 Years of Art in New Mexico, through January 2014. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. Open 5-8 p.m.

Fridays. NM residents $6; nonresidents $9; 16 and younger no charge; students with ID $1 discount; school groups no charge; free for NM residents over 60 on Wednesdays; NM residents free on Sundays.

SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199. More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness, group show, through Jan. 6. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday; 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday; noon-5 p.m. Sunday. $10; seniors and students $5; Fridays no charge.

Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian 704 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 982-4636. A Certain Fire: Mary Wheelwright Collects the Southwest, 75th anniversary exhibit ï New work by Orlando Dugi and Ken Williams, Case Trading Post. Open 10 a.m.5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday.

Docent tours 2 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays.

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In the wings MUSIC The Mountain Goats Folk-rock trio, Matthew E. White opens, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7, Santa Fe Sol Stage & Grill, 37 Fire Place, $18, ticketssantafe.org, 988-1234.

The Met Live in HD Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera, Saturday, Dec. 8; Verdi’s Aida, Saturday, Dec. 15; screenings 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito, 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 29 (no encore); Lensic Performing Arts Center, $22-$28, encores $22, discounts available, ticketssantafe.org 988-1234,.

Horse Feathers Acoustic folk band, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, Santa Fe Sol Stage & Grill, 37 Fire Pl., $12, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Santa Fe Community Orchestra Winter Concert, music of Rachmaninoff, Vivaldi, and Santa Fean Keith Allegretti, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9, St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave., donations appreciated, 466-4879, sfco.org.

Washington Saxophone Quartet 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9, Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $15-$30, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Weiss-Kaplan-Newman Trio join SFSOC in a celebration of Beethoven, 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16; pre-concert lecture 3 p.m.; Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $20-$70, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Emily Bear and the Santa Fe Concert Association Orchestra Jazz, classics, and original compositions by the young pianist, 5 p.m. Monday, Dec. 24, Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $25-$95, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Sutton Foster Broadway artist, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 27, Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $20-$75, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Carlton Pride and Mighty Zion Reggae, doors 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 29, music 10 p.m., Santa Fe Sol Stage & Grill, 37 Fire Pl., $12, holdmytickets.com.

Serenata of Santa Fe The chamber music ensemble presents Harpsichord-Centric featuring Kathleen McIntosh, 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 20, $20, 989-7988.

Louis Lortie The French-Canadian pianist performs Liszt’s transcriptions of Wagner’s and Mozart’s operas, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24, Q & A follows, St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave., $20-$50, discounts available, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

THEATER/DANCE ‘Kiss Me Kate’ St. John’s College faculty, staff, and students present the Cole Porter musical, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, 3 and 8 p.m. Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 7-9, Great Hall, Peterson Student Center, 1160 Camino de Cruz Blanca, $5 at the door.

‘The Weir’ Santa Fe Playhouse presents Conor McPherson’s tale set in Ireland, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 7-23, 142 E. DeVargas St., gala opening $25, general admission $15 and $25, Dec. 6 sneak preview and Dec. 13 performance $10, 988-4262.

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Sacred Music, Sacred Dance Performance by the Drepung Loseling Monks of Tibet, 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf, $20, advance tickets available at Ark Books (133 Romero St., 988-3799), Project Tibet (403 Canyon Rd., 982-3002), and at the door.

‘Birth of Humanity’ Collaborative staged presentation reflecting on the winter solstice and the end of the Mayan calendar presented by Oracle Theater in association with Santa Fe Performing Arts; performers include actors Heather Roan Robbins and Kathleen Fontaine, dancer Myra Krien and troupe, and singer/songwriter Laurianne Fiorentino; 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, Armory for the Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, advance tickets $20, discounts available, ticketssantafe.org, 988-1234, $20 requested donation at the door, 920-0199.

Golden Dragon Acrobats Chinese troupe in the premiere Cirque Ziva, 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 1 and 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 20-22, Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $20-$35, discounts available, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

HAPPENINGS Souper Bowl XIX The Food Depot’s annual fundraiser continues the tradition of offering local chef-prepared soups and selling cookbooks with recipes for the creations from noon to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26 at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center, for information call 471-1633.

HOLIDAY FARE ‘The Truth About Santa’ Southwest Rural Theatre Project of Albuquerque presents an apocalyptic, melodramatic holiday tale by Greg Kotis, 7:30 p.m. Friday, 7 p.m.

Saturday, 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 7-9, Teatro Paraguas Studio, 3205 Calle Marie, $10 and $12, 424-1601, teatroparaguas.org.

Christmas at the Palace The 27th anniversary of this free, family event includes hot cider, live music with High Desert Harps, Enchanted Strings, and others; a piñata for kids, and quality time with Santa and Mrs. Claus; 5:30-8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7, Palace of the Governors, 105 W. Palace Ave., 476-5200.

Santa Fe Women’s Ensemble A Winter Festival of Song 2012: 7 p.m. Dec. 7, 9, and 14, Loretto Chapel; continues at 3 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 15, Immaculate Heart of Mary Retreat and Conference Center Chapel; visit sfwe. org for full schedule and details, call 954-4922 for tickets.

Chanticleer A cappella men’s chorus, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7, Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, 131 Cathedral Place, $10-$50, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Santa Fe Skating Club Holiday Ice Show Let’s Go to the Movies, performances by the SFSC, Desert Ice Figure Skating Club, Chavez Center Learn-To-Skate participants, and special

UPCOMING EVENTS guests, 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, 1 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9, Genoveva Chavez Community Center, 3221 Rodeo Road, $10, ages 2-12 $6, under 2 no charge, 955-4033, santafeskatingclub.org.

Sangre de Cristo Chorale The 45-member chorale celebrates its 35th anniversary with a holiday concert, 2:30 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 9, Church of Santa Maria de la Paz, 11 College Ave., $20, discounts available, ticketssantafe.org, 988-1234.

Lighting of the Menorah Rabbi Berel Levertov invites the community to join in a Chanukkah celebration on the Plaza; live music, latkes and hot chocolate; 3-4:30 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 9, (candles on the giant candelabrum will be lit each night at sunset through Dec. 16), 983-2000 or 699-7934.

Las Posados Annual candle-lit procession traveling around the Plaza and concluding at the Palace of the Governors’ Courtyard (105 W. Palace Ave.); stay afterwards for carols and refreshments; 5:30-7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9, no charge, 476-5100.

Aaron Neville Christmas Soul and R & B artist. 7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 10, Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $35-$62, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

The Romeros With Concerto Málaga The guitar quartet and the chamber ensemble offer seasonal favorites, 7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 10, St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave., $20-$50, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Santa Fe Opera’s holiday concert Soprano Mary Jane Lee and Tenor Matthew Grills, joined by flutist Valerie Potter and members of Young Voices (the opera’s program for teens) in Arias, Carols, and Songs, classical and sacred works, 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13, Cristo Rey Parish, 1120 Canyon Rd., no charge, 986-5955.

Santa Fe Desert Chorale Carols and Lullabies, 8 p.m. Dec. 14, 18, 20, and 22, Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, $15-$65; The Big Holiday Sing, members of Desert Chorale with the University of New Mexico Concert Choir and the Rio Grande Youth Chorale, 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, Cristo Rey Parish, $20 and $25; The Lighter Side of Christmas, concert preceded by champagne, hors d’oeuvres, and a silent auction benefitting the chorale’s education programs, 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 19, LewAllen Galleries Downtown, $80; ticketssantafe.org, 988-1234.

Young Native Artists Show and Sale Children and grandchildren of the Palace of the Governors’ Portal artists display their works in the museum’s Meem Community Room (enter for free through the Washington Avenue door), 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 15-16, 476-5200.

New Mexico Women’s Chorus Everything Possible: A Backpack of Holiday and Kids’ Music, 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, Santa Fe Center for Spiritual Living, 505 Camino de los Marquez, $10 in advance at online at nmwomenschorus.org or at Café Olé, 2411 Cerrillos Rd., or $12 at the door, discounts available.

‘A Musical Piñata for Christmas’ Bilingual evening of live music, carols, and Oscar Hijuelos’ short play Fantasia de Navidad presented by Teatro Paraguas, 4 p.m. Saturday, 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15-23, Teatro Paraguas Studio, 3205 Calle Marie, donations welcome, 424-1601, teatroparaguas.org.

Schola Cantorum of Santa Fe The sacred music ensemble in Schola Christmas at the Loretto Chapel, concert preview 6:30 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 17, performance 8:45 p.m., tickets available at schola-sf.org; Noël Nouvelet — The First Christmas, 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 23, Shrine of our Lady of Guadalupe, no charge; Gregorian chant during Christmas Eve Mass, 5 p.m. Monday, Dec. 24, San Miguel Mission, no charge.

Santa Fe Concert Band Annual holiday performance, 7 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 17, Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., no charge, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Santa Fe Pro Musica Baroque Orchestra A Baroque Christmas, music of Purcell, Vivaldi, and Corelli, 6 and 8 p.m. Thursday and Monday, Dec. 20 and 24, Loretto Chapel, $20-$65 ($5 premium for Christmas Eve); A Mozart Holiday, performers include soprano Kathryn Mueller and violinist Stephen Redfield, St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 29, 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 30, $20-$65, discounts available; 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Santa Fe Children’s Museum event Winter Solstice Festival, nightime farolito-lit labyrinth, flying farolitos, storytelling, and warm snacks, 6-8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 21, $6, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 989-8359.

Annual Christmas Farolito Walk Join the revelers on Canyon Rd. and soak up some holiday cheer from roving carolers while sipping hot cider at participating galleries. around dusk.; pedestrian-only event.

22nd annual Light Up a Life The Hospice Center of Santa Fe’s sale and lighting of hundreds of farolitos celebrating the lives of loved ones past and present, ceremony 5:30-6 p.m. Dec. 31, on the Plaza, farolitos advance sales available by calling 988-2211, or purchase at the event, bring a photo of a loved one to personalize your farolito.

Soprano Lisesl Odenweller performs in Santa Fe Pro Musica’s production, A Baroque Christmas Dec. 20-24, at the Lensic.

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La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda Curry, Springer, & Primm, classic rock, 8-11 p.m., no cover.

Second Street Brewery at the Railyard Acoustic open mic with Case Tanner, 7:30-10:30 p.m., no cover.

Vanessie Pianist Doug Montgomery, selections from the Great American Songbook, 7 p.m.-close, no cover (see story, Page 32).

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1 Saturday (continued) Railyard Artisans Market 10 a.m.-4 p.m. weekly; live music: singer/ guitarist Carlos Aguirre 10 a.m.-1 p.m., classical guitarist David Yard 1-4 p.m., Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion, 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 670-6544.

Winter Spanish Market Annual sale presented by the Spanish Colonial Arts Society; market mass (Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assissi, 131 Cathedral Pl.) 8 a.m., market 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Santa Fe Community Convention Center, 201 W. Marcy St., no charge, 982-2226.

5 Wednesday BOOKS/TALKS

NIGHTLIFE (See Page 64 for addresses) Cowgirl BBQ Psychedelic/surf-rock band Thee Dang Dangs and local dirt-rock band Tree Motel, 8 p.m., no cover.

El Farol Nacha Mendez and guests, pan-Latin rhythms, 7-10 p.m., no cover.

La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa Wily Jim, Western swingabilly, 7-10 p.m., no cover.

The Mine Shaft Tavern Blues band The Ruebarbs, 3-7 p.m., call for cover.

Vanessie Pianist Doug Montgomery, selections from the Great American Songbook, 7 p.m.-close, no cover (see story, Page 32).

3 Monday IN CONCERT Santa Fe University of Art & Design African Drum and Rock ensembles 7 p.m., O’Shaughnessy Performance Space, Benildus Hall, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., no charge, 473-6196, presented by the Contemporary Music Department.

BOOKS/TALKS Fire in the Jemez Province Forest archaeologist Mike Bremer speaks, 6 p.m., part of Southwest Seminars’ lecture series, Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo de Peralta, $12 at the door, 466-2775.

Valentine Day Bed, by Don Kennell, Lucky Bean Café, 500 Montezuma Ave.

The New Deal Is Still a Good Deal Lecture by Kathryn A. Flynn, 2 p.m., Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, 750 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, $10, reservations 982-2226.

Sharyn R. Udall The author of Dance and American Art: A Long Embrace in conversation with Catherine Oppenheimer, co-founder of the National Dance Institute of New Mexico, 6 p.m., Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226.

EVENTS Weekly all-ages informal swing dances Lesson 7-8 p.m., dance 8-10 p.m., Odd Fellows Hall, 1125 Cerrillos Rd., dance only $3, lesson and dance $8, 473-0955.

NIGHTLIFE (See Page 64 for addresses) Cowgirl BBQ Cowgirl karaoke with Michele Leidig, 9 p.m., no cover.

El Farol Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night, 7 p.m., no cover.

La Casa Sena Cantina Best of Broadway, piano and vocals, 6-10 p.m., no cover.

La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda Curry, Springer, & Primm, classic rock, 8-11 p.m., no cover.

BACA STREET Arts Tour

The 12th annual Baca Street Arts Tour includes more than 20 local artists showcasing jewelry, pottery, handblown and fired glass, sculpture, and paintings available at the Baca Street Studios off Cerrillos Rd. at 926 Baca St. The tour begins at 5-9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, and continues 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 1-2. Maps and details are available at Liquid Light Glass, 820-2222, 5 percent of the proceeds benefits Santa Fe Children’s Museum.

Flyover, by Raya

Taberna La Boca Flamenco guitarist Chuscales, 7-9 p.m., call for cover.

Vanessie 30th anniversary celebration 4:30 p.m.; pianist Doug Montgomery, selections from the Great American Songbook, 7 p.m.-close, no cover (see story, Page 32).

4 Tuesday IN CONCERT World Party Alt-rocker Karl Wallinger’s one-man band, 7:30 p.m., Santa Fe Sol Stage & Grill, 37 Fire Pl., $21 and $25, ticketssantafe.org, 988-1234.

BOOKS/TALKS Karen Berg The author discusses and signs copies of To Be Continued: Reincarnation and the Purpose of Our Lives, 6 p.m., Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226.

EVENTS A Very Chaplin Holiday Center for Contemporary Arts presents a Charlie Chaplin film festival through Jan. 2; The Circus, 6 p.m., 1050 Old Pecos Trail.

Screening schedule available online at ccasantafe.org, $9.50 general admission, series pass $30 (discounts available for both), tickets and passes available in advance by calling the box office, 982-1338.

International Folk Dances Lesson 7-8 p.m., dance 8-10:30 p.m., Odd Fellows Hall, 1125 Cerrillos Rd., $5, 501-5081, 466-2920, or 983-3168, beginners welcome.

NIGHTLIFE (See Page 64 for addresses) ¡Chispa! at El Mesón Argentine Tango Milonga, 7:30-11 p.m., $5 cover.

Cowgirl BBQ Roots music singer/songwriter George Breakfast, 8 p.m., no cover.

El Farol Canyon Road Blues Jam, with Tiho Dimitrov, Brant Leeper, Mikey Chavez, and Tone Forrest, 8:30 p.m.-midnight, no cover.

La Casa Sena Cantina Best of Broadway, piano and vocals, 6-10 p.m., no cover.

Gallery talk Leigh Anne Langwell and Jennifer SchlesingerHanson discuss their photographs in Origins, a group show of pinhole and alternativeprocesses photographs, 6 p.m., Tipton Hall, Santa Fe University of Art & Design, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., 473-6341.

How Do Museum Curators Develop Collections? Panel discussion moderated by curator Arthur Lopez in conjunction with the exhibit The Fine Folk of New Mexico, 6 p.m., Santa Fe Arts Commission Community Gallery, Santa Fe Community Convention Center, 201 W. Marcy St., 955-6705.

Lannan Foundation Pursuit of Cultural Freedom Series Hamid Dabashi discusses Iran with Alternative Radio host David Barsamian, 7 p.m., Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $3 and $6, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org (see story, Page 18).

Ricardo Caté The cartoonist from Santa Domingo Pueblo talks about his work and signs copies of his book Without Reservations, 6:30 p.m., Santa Fe Public Library, Main Branch, 145 Washington Ave., 955-6788.

Santa Fe Council on International Relations lecture The Fire Next Door: Mexico’s Drug Violence and the Danger to America, by author/writer Ted Carpenter, 5:30 p.m., Santa Fe Woman’s Club, 1616 Old Pecos Trail, $20, students no charge, 982-4931.

EVENTS Santa Fe Film Festival pre-festival screening and dinner 5 p.m. screening of Now, Forager: A Film About Love and Fungi, Q & A with co-director Jason Cortlund follows, New Mexico History Museum; three-course dinner created by chef Eric DeStefano 7:30 p.m., Coyote Café, $135 includes screening and dinner, $20 film only, a portion of the proceeds from dinner benefits the festival, 988-7414, santafefilmfestival.com, festival continues through Dec. 9.

NIGHTLIFE (See Page 64 for addresses) ¡Chispa! at El Mesón Americana guitarist Jim Almand, 7-9 p.m., no cover.

Cowgirl BBQ Americana singer/songwriter Zach Broocke, 8 p.m., no cover.

El Farol Salsa Caliente, 9 p.m., no cover.

La Boca Nacha Mendez, pan-Latin chanteuse, 7-9 p.m., no cover.

La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda Bill Hearne Trio, roadhouse honky-tonk, 7:30 p.m., no cover. ▶▶▶▶▶▶▶▶

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Taberna La Boca Jazz guitarist Pat Malone, 7-9 p.m., no cover.

Vanessie Pianist Robert Finnie, pop/Broadway hits, 6:30 p.m.-close, call for cover.

Zia Diner Americana singer/songwriter Eryn Bent, 6-9 p.m., no cover.

6 Thursday IN CONCERT David Hidalgo and Alejandro Escovedo Singer/songwriters, 7:30 p.m., Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $32-$62, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org (see story, Page 28).

New Mexico School for the Arts Winter Showcase Vocal and instrumental soloists, NMSA Choir, Instrumental Ensemble, and Orchestra, 6:30 p.m., Scottish Rite Center, 463 Paseo de Peralta, $10 at the door, discounts available, 982-6124.

BOOKS/TALKS Muse Times Two poetry series Poets Martha Collins and Connie Voisine read from their collections, 6 p.m., Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226.

EVENTS 12th annual Santa Fe Film Festival Screenings continue through Sunday, Dec. 9, schedule and tickets available online at santafefilmfestival.com, 988-7414.

‘Tis the Season Illustrated presentation and explanation of the Christmas Star, ranging from meteors and comets to exploding stars and the conjunction of the planets, 7-8 p.m., Santa Fe Community College Planetarium, 1401 Richards Ave., $5, discounts available, 428-1744.

Poetry workshop Slowing Into Space: Where Detail Meets Creativity, led by Lauren Camp, 2-4 p.m., St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave., no charge, email snowpoemsproject@gmail.com to register, presented by the Santa Fe Art Institute, 424-5050, poetry series continues Dec. 8 and 12.

NIGHTLIFE (See Page 64 for addresses) ¡Chispa! at El Mesón Pianist John Rangel in duets, 7-9 p.m., no cover.

Cowgirl BBQ Greg Daigle Band, Americana/roots/blues, 8 p.m., no cover.

El Farol Roots-rock duo Eric George & Man No Sober, 9 p.m.-close, no cover.

La Casa Sena Cantina Best of Broadway, piano and vocals, 6-10 p.m., no cover.

La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda Bill Hearne Trio, roadhouse honky-tonk, 7:30 p.m., no cover.

The Matador DJ Inky spinning soul/punk/ska, 8:30 p.m., no cover.

La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa Pat Malone Jazz Trio with Kanoa Kaluhiwa on saxophone, Asher Barreras on bass, and Malone on guitar, 7-10 p.m., Staab House Salon, no cover.

Santa Fe Sol Stage & Grill Americana singer/songwriter Zach Broocke, 7 p.m., $7 cover.

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Dynasties, by Hung Liu, Turner Carroll Gallery, 725 Canyon Rd.

Taberna La Boca Nacha Mendez, pan-Latin Chanteuse, 6:30-9:30 p.m., no cover.

Vanessie Pianist Robert Finnie, pop tunes and Broadway hits, 6:30 p.m.-close, call for cover.

Zia Diner Swing Soleil, Gypsy jazz and swing, 6:30-8:30 p.m., no cover.

▶ Elsewhere ALBUQUERQUE Museums/Art Spaces 516 Arts 516 Central Ave. S.W., 505-242-1445. ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness, international group show of interactive installations, prints, and sculpture, through Jan. 6.

Holocaust and Intolerance Museum of New Mexico 616 Central Ave. S.W., 505-247-0606. Disturbing, But Necessary, Lesson, scale model of a WW II prisoner transport to Auschwitz ï Hidden Treasures, 158-year-old German-Jewish family heirloom dollhouse belonging to a family that fled to the U.S. and settled in New Mexico. Open 11 a.m.3 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, donations accepted.

Indian Pueblo Cultural Center 2401 12th St. N.W., 866-855-7902. 100 Years of State & Federal Policy: The Impact on Pueblo Nations, through February ï Challenging the Notion of Mapping, Zuni map-art paintings, through August. Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily; adults $6; NM residents $4; seniors $5.50.

National Hispanic Cultural Center 1701 Fourth St. S.W., 505-246-2261. Via Nuestros Maestros: The Legacy of Abad E. Lucero (19092009), paintings, sculpture, and furniture, through January 2013 ï Stitching Resistance: The History of Chilean Arpilleras, a collection of appliqué textiles crafted between 1973 and 1990, through January 2014 ï ¡Aquí Estamos!, items from the permanent collection. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Tuesday-Sunday; adults $3; seniors $2; under 16 no charge; Sundays no charge.

New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science 1801 Mountain Rd. N.W., 505-841-2804. ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness, international group show of prints, interactive installations, and sculpture, part of the International Symposium of Electronic Art,

through Jan. 6 ï Dinosaur Century: 100 Years of Discovery in New Mexico, showcases of new finds change monthly through 2012. Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily; adults $7, seniors $6, under 12 $4; NM seniors no charge on Wednesdays.

UNM Art Museum Center for the Arts Building, 505-277-4001. Dancing in the Dark, Joan Snyder Prints 1963-2010, prints spanning 47 years of moments in Snyder’s life ï The Transformative Surface, film and digital works by faculty; both exhibits through Dec.15. Open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday; $5 donation.

Events/Performances Sunday Chatter Clarinetist James T. Shields and pianist Pamela Viktoria Pyle, also, reading by poet Anthony Hunt; 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, Factory on 5th, 1715 Fifth St. N.W., chatterchamber.org, $15 at the door.

Chatter Cabaret Revel, music of Piazzolla, Mendelssohn, and Vivaldi, 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, Casablanca Room, Hotel Andaluz, 125 Second St. N.W., $20, brownpapertickets.com, chatterchamber.org.

Steve Figueroa & Friends The Native (Laguna Pueblo) pianist is joined by César Bauvallet, Hillary Smith, Glenn Kostur, and others, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6, Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale Blvd. S.E., $10 and $15, 505-268-0044.

ESPAÑOLA Bond House Museum 706 Bond St., 505-747-8535. Historic and cultural treasures exhibited in the home of railroad entrepreneur Frank Bond (1863-1945).

Open noon-4 p.m. Monday-Friday, no charge.

Misión Museum y Convento 1 Calle de los Españoles, 505-747-8535. A replica based on the 1944 University of New Mexico excavations of the original church built by the Spanish at the San Gabriel settlement in 1598.

Open noon-4 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, 11 a.m.3 p.m. Saturday; no charge.

LOS ALAMOS Bradbury Science Museum 15th and Central Avenues, 667-4444. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m.

Sunday-Monday; no charge.

Pajarito Environmental Education Center 3540 Orange St., 662-0460. Exhibits of flora and fauna of the Pajarito Plateau; live amphibians, an herbarium, and butterfly and xeric gardens.

Open noon-4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Saturday, no charge.

MADRID 30th Annual Madrid Christmas Open House Enjoy Santa & Mrs. Claus, more than 40 shops and galleries, and holiday lights; Christmas parade 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, festivities continue weekends through December, details available online at visitmadridnm.com.

Johnsons of Madrid 2843 NM 14, 471-1054. Wearables & Wallables, group fiber show; group show of gallery artists, reception 2-5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2, through Jan. 29.

Madrid Old Coal Town Mine Museum 2846 NM 14, 438-3780 or 473-0743. Madrid’s Famous Christmas Lights & Toyland, ephemera related to the town’s 30-year history of celebrating the holidays, opens Saturday, Dec. 1, through Jan. 13. Steam locomotive, mining equipment, and vintage automobiles. Open 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday. $5, seniors and children $3.

TAOS Museums/Art Spaces E.L. Blumenschein Home and Museum 22 Ledoux St., 575-758-0505. Hacienda art from the Blumenschein family collection, European and Spanish Colonial antiques. Open 10 a.m.5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Sunday.

Adults $8; under 16 $4; children under 5 no charge; Taos County residents with ID no charge on Sunday.

Encore Gallery Taos Community Auditorium, Taos Center for the Arts, 133 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, 575-758-2052. Force of Nature, group show of Taos-based contemporary artists, through Sunday, Dec. 2.

Harwood Museum of Art 238 Ledoux St., 575-758-9826. Maye Torres: Unbound, drawings, sculpture, and ceramics ï Three exhibits in collaboration with ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness — Curiosity: From the Faraway Nearby ï Falling Without Fear ï Charles Luna. All exhibits through Jan. 27. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Sunday. $10; seniors and students $8; ages 12 and under no charge; Taos County residents with ID no charge on Sunday.

Kit Carson Home & Museum 113 Kit Carson Rd., 575-758-4945. Original home of Christopher Houston “Kit” and Josefa Carson. Open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. daily, $5; seniors $4; teens $3; ages 12 and under no charge.

Events/Performances Yuletide in Taos Caroling and tree lighting at sundown Friday, Nov. 30, holiday activities run through Friday, Dec. 14; 575-758-4160.

▶ People who need people Volunteers Santa Fe Botanical Garden General help needed to guide garden tours, organize events, and help in the office; planners sought to organize the 2013 grand opening of the new garden at Museum Hill during a three-day period in July; 471-9103 or santafebotanicalgarden.org.

Donations Canyon Road — Giving Back to the Community The Canyon Road Merchants Association and participating galleries will provide food-collection barrels for The Food Depot through Dec. 14; drop off nonperishable food at Canyon Road Contemporary Art, Darnell Fine Art, Dominque Boisjoli Fine Art, William & Joseph Gallery, and Ventana Fine Art; contact Mary Bonney for information, 982-9404.

Coat Drive Drop off used coats in wearable condition at Warehouse 21 for St. Elizabeth Shelter; 3-7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1; 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423.

Smith’s Holiday Program Smith’s Food & Drug invites customers to donate $5, $10, or $15 to their purchases for gift cards to be given to The Food Bank through Thursday, Dec. 29.

Sprouts Farmers Market Purchase pre-filled grocery bags ($10-$15 range) through Dec. 28 at both locations for distribution by The Food Depot.

Whole Foods’ Grab & Give program Donate $5, $10, and $25 tags at checkout counters for food distribution by The Food Depot; through December.

Actors/Filmmakers Benchwarmers 12 auditions All ages, all types invited at 1 p.m. Saturday, 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15-16, for cold readings; Santa Fe Little Theatre, 142 E. DeVargas St.; call 988-4262 for more information.

Taos Shortz Film Fest call for entries Held March 7-10 at the Taos Center for the Arts; deadline Dec. 15, $33; taosshortz.com.

Artists/Craftspeople 2012 PEN Literary Awards Send in submissions or nominate someone to be considered in the fields of fiction, science writing, essays, sports writing, biography, children’s literature, translation, drama, or poetry; deadline Feb. 1; visit pen.org or write to awards@pen.org for more information.

62nd Annual Traditional Spanish Market 2013 Artists may submit work for jurying on Feb. 2; applications due by Jan. 25; guidelines available upon request; visit spanishcolonial.org for details and applications, 992-8212, Ext. 111.

MasterWorks of New Mexico 2013 Entries open to New Mexico artists for the 15th Annual Spring Art Show, April 5-27, Expo New Mexico Hispanic Arts Building, fairgrounds, Albuquerque; miniatures, pastels, watercolors, oil/acrylics; deadline Jan. 25, details and prospectus available online at masterworksnm.org; for additional information contact Barbara Lohbeck, 505-260-9977.

Poets/Writers Pasatiempo 2012 Writing Contest Contribute a story on any subject in poetry or prose. Prizes for winning entries. Three categories: Ages 19 and up 1,000 words maximum, ages 13-18 1,000 words maximum, and ages 5-12, 500 words maximum. (A great holiday classroom activity!) Mail entries to: 2012 Writing Contest, c/o The Santa Fe New Mexican, 202 E. Marcy St., 87501. Email entries to: writingcontest@sfnewmexican.com.

Electronic entries are highly recommended.

Deadline 4 p.m. Monday, Dec. 3, winning entries will be published in Pasatiempo on Friday, Dec. 28.

Snow Poems SITE Santa Fe’s SPREAD 3.0 winning community poetry project stenciling selected lines of poetry onto public windows, buildings, and schools throughout the city; one poem per person may be submitted online at snowpoemsproject.com through Monday, Dec. 17; presented by the Cut + Paste Society (cargocollective.com) and the Santa Fe Art Institute (sfai.org).

▶ Under 21 Metal concert Polarization, Dissonance In Design, All Hail The Yeti, Cassovita, and Carrion Kind, 6:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, Warehouse 21, 1614 Paseo de Peralta, $10 at the door, 989-4423.

▶ Short People ‘Peter Pan’ Eldorado Children’s Theatre and Teen Players present the musical, 7:30 p.m. Fridays, 2 p.m.

Saturdays and Sundays, Nov. 30-Dec. 9, James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf, 1060 Cerrillos Rd., $15, discounts available, eldoradochildrenstheatre.org, 466-4656.

Santa Fe Waldorf School Holiday Faire Handmade gifts, food, Children’s Wonder Shoppe, Artisan Market, and entertainment by the juggling/fire-eating/magic troupe Clan Tynker, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Dec.1, 26 Puesta del Sol, details available online at santafewaldorf.org, 983-9727.

A Very Chaplin Holiday Center for Contemporary Arts presents a Charlie Chaplin film festival continues with The Circus, 12:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 1-2, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4, continuing through Jan. 2; 1050 Old Pecos Trail. Screening schedule available online at ccasantafe.org, $9.50 general admission, series pass $30 (discounts available for general admission and passes), all tickets available in advance by calling the box office, 982-1338.

Sant Fe Botanical Garden’s annual kids’ craftmaking event 1-3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, cookies and refreshments served, Genoveva Chavez Community Center, 3221 Rodeo Road, no charge, 471-9103. ◀

Just the Fox, ma’am Some months ago, local musician Todd Eric Lovato of drum ’n’ banjo duo Todd and the Fox reached out to Sound Waves in anticipation of the release of its self-titled debut fulllength album.

Under normal circumstances, a Santa Fe-based artist might be expected to unleash the album here, where the fan base is already established and willing to shell out some dough to Todd Eric Lovato in South Korea support its more musically inclined townsfolk. But you have to understand something: Todd Eric Lovato is not normal. And I mean that in the best sense.

Forgoing the commonplace is a trademark of Lovato and his band mate, drummer Erik Sawyer, who — using a drum kit, string instruments, electronic bass pedals, samples, a vocal mic, and some crafty loop-based sequencing (via Abelton Live software) — conjure up a curious cocktail of indie folk, electropop-inflected bluegrass, and esoteric Brian Eno/Cluster-style ruminations on the lovelorn, quirky, and absurd.

Lovato and Sawyer first took their new album to Gangneung, South Korea, for the 2012 Inter-City Intangible Cultural Cooperation Network’s World Intangible Cultural Festival in October, and Lovato tells me the response was overwhelming. Could it be one of those odd cultural-exchange circumstances where the U.S. Southwest’s music scene takes South Korea by storm, much the way greaser music enchanted Japanese kids in the late ’80s? Hardly. Todd and the Fox is just damn good music, an infused boba smoothie of open-tuned banjo and percussion and weirdness that refuses to respect industrydefined genre boundaries.

Produced by Lovato over a two-year period, the album was mixed and mastered by Andrew Click (formerly of Stepbridge Studios) and tracked by singer-songwriter/Kitchen Sink studio head Jono Manson, with guest appearances by Bryan Highhill, aka Lumpy (on organ), and Española gonzo-roots freaks The Imperial Rooster, among others. Leadoff track “Amanda” sets the tone for the album: a darkly rendered ode to a lonely, spoiled tabloid queen in a mess of weekend trouble, stumbling in a whirlpool of depravity and bad decisions. Not surprisingly, Lovato and company frame the sad tale with a loping rhythm and a jingle-jangly glimmer of hope. Thanks to Todd and the Fox, South Koreans think we’re bat-squeeze crazy now. And I’m fine with that.

Catch Todd and the Fox’s Santa Fe CD-release show at 8 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 30, at Tiny’s, 1005 St. Francis Drive, Suite 117, 983-9817. Cali Shaw, Mansi Kern & Family, and DJ Spaghetti are also on the bill. The gig is 21-and-older — and there’s no cover.

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La Hacienda de los Martinez 708 Hacienda Way, 575-758-1000. Cultural Threads: Nellie Dunton and the Colcha Revival in New Mexico, through Jan. 30. Open 10 a.m.5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, noon-4 p.m. Sunday.

Adults $8; under 16 $4; children under 5 no charge; Taos County residents with ID no charge on Sunday.

Taos Art Museum and Fechin House 227 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, 575-758-2690.

Visual Impressions, paintings by Don Ward, weekend artist demonstrations through Jan. 6, in Fechin Studio. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Wednesday-Sunday. $8, Taos County residents with ID no charge on Sunday.

Snuggies bug me, metal hugs me I haven’t been to Warehouse 21 (1614 Paseo de Peralta, www.warehouse21.org) in a while. Here’s why: the last time I went to a concert there, someone asked me if one of the performers was my kid. Thanks, random stranger wearing a Snuggie for no apparent reason, for making me feel older than the dirt beneath the W21 teen center’s foundation.

It wasn’t the question that bothered me. It was the question brewing in my own head: Why does everyone insist on pegging W21 concerts as teen-only events? At least 85 percent of the bands that perform there are made up of card-carrying adults who would love to see other adults coming out to support a potentially vibrant all-ages scene.

On that note, at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, Warehouse 21 hosts a must-see all-ages metal show that requires you to shed your Snuggies and ageist preconceptions and brace yourselves for some serious bleeding of the tympanic cavity at the hands of guitar-shredding maniacs.

L.A. prog-metal outfits Polarization and All Hail the Yeti are on the bill, as are Colorado technical/death metal ensemble Dissonance in Design and New Mexico proggers Carrion Kind and Casso Vita.

Look, I may not be anyone’s baby daddy, but I know where my shredbread is buttered in the 505. Let’s make metal toast together. Tickets are $10 at the door.

— Rob DeWalt rdewalt@sfnewmexican.com Twitter: @Flashpan @PasaTweet

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