Pasatiempo, December 20, 2013

The New Mexican’s Weekly Magazine of Arts, Entertainment & Culture December 20, 2013

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On the cOver 44 real Space-Age fun “SEE: The Martians Kidnap Santa! Santa’s North Pole Workshop! The Fantastic Martian Toy Factory! Earth Kids Meeting With Martian Kids! Space-ship Journey From Earth to Mars! Santa Turn Mars-Robot Into a Mechanical Toy!” In short, see Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, a campy 1964 cult classic that advertised these attractions.

The Jean Cocteau Cinema braves an onslaught of critical snowballs as it screens the film on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 20 and 21. On the cover is film poster from Mexico.

BOOKS

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12 In Other Words Flannery O’Connor 38 eating history Repast

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Art 14 the velarde of the dolls Native Barbies 30 Saints & shoppers Patrick McGrath Muñiz

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Pasa reviews Ding-dong merrily terrell’s tune-Up El Paso rock Pasa tempos CD reviews Onstage Susan Abod Shepherding in the holidays Santa Fe Pro Musica Sound Waves Música Antiqua de Albuquerque

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Stringed tradition Gustave Baumann (1881-1971) originally crafted his wooden marionettes to entertain his daughter, Ann, as well as friends and neighbors, with performances on his hand-built stage, replete with painted backdrops.

For many Santa Feans, Baumann’s delightful puppets are synonymous with the holiday season. Replicas of the marionettes are brought out every December to perform in holiday-themed plays for the New Mexico Museum of Art’s annual Holiday Open House. Vignettes showcase a selection of the many marionettes Baumann made and feature his popular Miguelito, Freckles, and Warts. The open house falls on Sunday, Dec. 22, and includes two half-hour marionette segments at 1 and 2:30 p.m.

Performances take place inside St. Francis Auditorium. Puppet-making activities in the lobby occur throughout the afternoon. Photo ops with Santa Claus, at 1:30 and 3 p.m., give kids a chance to have their pictures taken with a Baumann marionette — Santa sitting on their laps instead of the other way around. Kids can also try to “Find Freckles,” looking for the hiding place of one of Baumann’s most endearing characters.

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STAR CODES

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Now begins winter and the winter holiday season, the worst of times

and the best of times. Bring heart to any celebration.

Friday resonates with a sociable, active buzz with the sun and moon both in fun-loving and energized fire signs. The sun enters tradition-oriented, foundation-building Capricorn on Saturday, and thoughtful Mercury follows on Christmas Eve — these two aspects bring our thoughts home to serious subjects, like family and traditional rituals. Venus retrogrades and focuses our attention on the past, but we can make it a creative, healing review.

Two strong aspects color the rest of the week. Both the sun and Mercury form a lovely, softening, and magical sextile with Neptune to feed the romance of the season.

This can help deal with a more turbulent aspect, as Mars, though now in gentle Libra, opposes Uranus and begins to square Pluto and Jupiter, intensifying the great era-changing aspects of our time. Here it lowers impulse control and adds an accident-prone and technologically challenging edge. But it also energizes us for anything we want to do.

Although the mood may be lovely, expect the unexpected, and take a few extra safety precautions. Make decisions a day at a time until the holidays are over. Keep eyes open for a sudden call to service, a friend in need, or a neighbor stuck in a ditch. Know that generosity of support is the best present money can’t buy.

Friday, Dec. 20: People need attention and may exaggerate their situation to get it, but they can give attention just as generously. Early-morning confusion clears up midday for a positive, productive spell. There’s a stubborn but open-minded, funny if restless mood around dinnertime as the moon trines Uranus; be open to last-minute plans.

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Monday, Dec. 23: We can feel like we don’t have enough stuff, time, food, money, and friends as the moon trines Pluto this morning. Take a minute to quiet down and plan carefully. People tend to get critical or pointed under stress. Breathe, organize, reconnect, and proceed. Tonight glimmers warmly.

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Tuesday, Dec. 24: We’re getting serious now as Mercury enters thoughtful Capricorn. Honor the traditions of the season but do not put the details of ritual above heart-to-heart connections. Find odd moments of healing.

Later, we can be touchy and willful. Rein in expectations and enjoy one another’s presence. Be a careful driver tonight, and don’t give schnapps to difficult relatives.

Wednesday, Dec. 25: The moon enters lyrical Libra and encourages kindness and camaraderie, which we will need as Mars opposes Uranus, amping up our willfulness and resistance to restraint. Everyone may need a tantrum moment or a brisk walk. Find neutral corners late afternoon and reconvene in the evening.

Thursday, Dec. 26: A magical Mercury/Neptune sextile can open up lines of intuition. Hold boundaries firmly and with love. Feel the strange quivers of insecurity underneath any misbehavior, and address that directly. Talk about the future, but leave decisions alone.

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In Other wOrds book reviews A Prayer Journal by Flannery O’Connor; edited

by W.A. Sessions; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 96 pages In 1952, Flannery O’Connor’s novel Wise Blood introduced American readers to ultra-nihilist street preacher Hazel Motes and his anti-chapel, The Church Without Christ.

A profoundly philosophical and wickedly funny book, the work attracted and befuddled readers.

Many were unsure what to make of the cynical Motes and his need to escape a Christ-haunted childhood, where “he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and come off into the dark where he might be walking on the water and not know it and then suddenly know it and drown.”

Now some 60 years later, we can begin to get a sense of the need to succumb to the divine that tormented a young O’Connor as she wrote the first drafts of the novel, while a student at the famed Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. Her recently discovered prayer journal, written as a series of daily devotionals in 1946 and 1947, during her first two years in the program, is an almost scandalously intimate look at O’Connor’s relationship with God and her struggle to rid herself of every temptation that would lead her away from either the Lord or her writing. “Work, work, work. Dear God, let me work, keep me working, I want so to be able to work,” she wrote in a November 1946 entry. “If my sin is laziness I want to be able to conquer it.”

The writer’s religiosity was an anachronism in the canon of post-World War II literature. Many of her secular readers failed to grasp the religious crisis on display in her stories, preferring to think of these vignettes as odd and cruel species from the Southern Gothic tradition. The truth is that O’Connor wrote her stories in the manner of Old Testament parables, the violence that took place within them serving to illuminate sin and the possibility of God’s grace. If her Catholicism was served Southern-fried, it was merely because her family’s farm in rural Georgia was largely what she had seen of the world.

As these journals explain, O’Connor was far from traditionally pious. Nearly every day brought a fresh opportunity to question the underpinnings

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of her faith, at one point declaring “I don’t want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness.” There are passing references to the writers her stint in Iowa exposed her to, though she seems to roundly condemn Freud, Proust, and D.H. Lawrence as modern men, “isolated from faith, from raising [their] desire for God into a conscious desire, [and] sunk into the position of seeing physical love as an end in itself.” Of the 20th century’s high modernists, only Kafka emerges unscathed, though she felt she had encountered a fellow artist whose vision of sin, grace, and redemption was more severe than her own. She laments, “Please give me the necessary grace, oh Lord, and please don’t let it be as hard to get as Kafka made it.”

At times her need for a martyrlike encounter with her faith rings eerily prophetic. O’Connor would be dead of complications stemming from lupus by age 39; her first attack afflicting her during her senior year at college, leaving her “drawn and bent like an old man.” On other occasions, her religious vision can veer into a snobby misanthropy, as when she frets that she must suffer a life of loneliness because “people only make us lonelier by reminding us of God.” Likewise her derision of carnal relations can come across as cold and unfeeling, particularly for a religion whose texts give us the exquisitely sensual poetry of the Song of Solomon. Instead we get, “The Sex act is a religious act & when it occurs without God it is a mock act or at best an empty act.” For the sin of being a glutton “for Scotch oatmeal cookies and erotic thought” O’Connor castigates herself as being “so far away from God. He might as well not have made me.”

I doubt this slim volume would make sense to anyone unfamiliar with O’Connor’s writings. But for fans of her work it shows the sensitive young woman and the stark spiritual concerns behind her short stories, which, while unfashionably religious in their time, have endured as some of America’s most sensational and probing fiction.

The book includes a page-by-page reproduction of her hand-written journal; so clear is her cursive that its contents can be easily read in their entirety. But the most valuable bit of O’Connor marginalia may be the photo of the author posed in the far-flung snow of Iowa, wearing a poodle skirt and Georgia Bulldogs sweater. It’s as if America’s writer of darkly comedic gothic parables were also a character from a Judy Blume novel.

But then again, O’Connor may have been more comfortable in her contradictions than she let on.

“I want so to love God all the way,” she wrote.

“At the same time I want all the things that seem opposed to it.”

— Casey Sanchez

SubtextS Presents tense The winter holidays are a great time to give the gift of the written word. Whether you buy books for everyone on your list or indulge in a few titles for yourself, local book sellers are eager to help you find the volume that keeps you turning pages all the way to the end. Pasatiempo asked Santa Fe merchants to recommend books that would make nice presents for friends and loved ones.

Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 505-988-4226 Blowback by Valerie Plame & Sarah Lovett (signed copies available) White Fire by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (signed copies available) The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers Cowgirl Creamery Cooks by Sue Conley & Peggy Smith Bee Hive (books for kids) 328 Montezuma Ave., 505-780-8051 The Little Blue Box of Bright and Early Board Books

by Dr. Seuss The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman, illustrated

by Skottie Young Divergent Trilogy box set by Veronica Roth The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (for adults) Garcia Street Books 376 Garcia St., 505-986-0151 Vegetable Literacy by Deborah Madison Modern Nature: Georgia O’Keeffe and Lake George by Bruce Robertson, Erin B. Coe & Gwendolyn Owens Breakfast With Lucien: The Astounding Life and Outrageous Times of Britain’s Great Modern Painter by Geordie Greig Jerusalem: A Cookbook by Yotam Ottolengi & Sami Tamimi Before They Pass Away by Jimmy Nelson One Good Dish: The Pleasures of a Simple Meal

by David Tanis Gerald Peters Gallery Bookstore 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 505-954-5757 The Malpais Review edited by Gary L. Brower Amiri Baraka & Edward Dorn: the Collected Letters edited by Claudia Moreno Pisano Art of the National Parks: Historic Connections, Contemporary Interpretations by Susan Hallsten McGarry, Jean Stern & Terry Lawson Dunn A Conspiracy of Images: Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold War by John J. Curley El Greco: Life and Work — A New History by Fernando Marias — compiled by Jennifer Levin

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Pint-sized effigies depict Native people in traditional, stereotypical ways

From top, Laura Walkingstick: Cherokee Mother and Child, 2013, fabric, leather, glass beads, horsehair, and metal; Kay Bennett: Maker or Artist, circa 1995, leather, beads, and feathers; Kay Bennett: Traditional Navajo Woman (detail), circa 1980, wool, silver, beads, acrylic, and mixed fibers

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sk almost any woman about her favorite childhood doll, and out of her mouth, without hesitation, will come a tale: the doll that got left behind; the doll that was so overloved that her legs eventually fell off; the doll she yearned for but never got; the doll whose hair she cut off; the doll who talked, walked, peed, or pooped; the doll that had belonged first to her grandmother, then to her mother, then to her.

Dolls can be little girls’ best and most loyal friends, practice babies, and characters in never-ending made-up stories.

Onto their dolls girls project themselves, their friends and family members, their upsets and excitement. They play house, go to school, get married, have babies, forge careers — in short, they act out all their imagined futures through plastic, wooden, porcelain, and fabric effigies of themselves.

And when they outgrow their dolls as playthings, some continue to act out a deep connection to dolls by creating collections of them.

Gathering of Dolls: A History of Native Dolls at the Pablita Velarde Museum of Indian Women in the Arts explores the fascinating history of dolls made to represent Native Americans. It’s the second exhibit mounted by the museum, which opened in September 2012. Included are a handful of dolls made by Velarde, a Santa Clara Pueblo woman credited with being the first Native woman to achieve success as a fine art painter.

The exhibit comprises 200 dolls: some made by Native women for their children, including a Plains doll dating to the mid-19th century; dolls made by Native women for sale to non-Native people; and dolls created by non-Native people for the commercial market. Some are very simple, small homemade stuffed figures with hand-drawn facial features, dolls of unknown origin probably made by mothers for their daughters. Others are large, elaborately detailed dolls in authentic tribal garments, moccasins, jewelry, and even underclothes, created by artists with doll collectors in mind. None of the dolls in the exhibit was made for ritual or spiritual use.

The museum also invited contemporary Native women artists to create dolls or two-dimensional doll imagery specifically for the exhibit, said interim director and curator Amber-Dawn Bear Robe, who is of Siksika/Blackfoot descent. (Bear Robe has resigned her position as interim director since she spoke with Pasatiempo.)

The exhibit was prompted by the donation to the museum of eight Kay Bennett dolls created in the 1970s and ’80s. Bennett, a Navajo, was a contemporary and friend of Pablita Velarde, Velarde’s granddaughter Margarete Bagshaw, a museum founder, recalled. The donor was an Arizona woman who had an international doll collection and was downsizing, Bagshaw said.

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Bagshaw — a painter of Santa Clara Puebloan, Mexican, and Euro-American descent — and Bear Robe put their heads together to develop the exhibit. Along the way, the two women discovered they shared a guilty secret: both loved Native Barbies, dolls issued by toymaker Mattel Inc. beginning in 1981 that purported to represent women of North American Indian cultures.

“So we went shopping online,” Bear Robe said. The pair found and purchased eight Barbie dolls, including a 1981 Eskimo Barbie from the first edition of Native Barbies.

Native Barbies are — like sports teams called the Indians or the Braves or the Redskins — politically controversial, as Maureen Trudelle Schwarz explains in “Native American Barbie: The Marketing of Euro-American Desire,” a 2005 article in the journal American Studies. The dolls represent Native American women as “classic Indian princess stereotypes’’ and were intended for adult doll collectors, not children, she claims. Editions such as the 2002 Spirit of the Water Barbie appeal to non-Native people who hope through the dolls to gain a spiritual currency they believe is represented by Native cultures but has been lost by their own racial or ethnic group.

“There are so many things wrong with [Native Barbies],’’ conceded Bear Robe, “but it is so much fun. I love Native Barbie.’’ Bear Robe said she was about 8 years old when her aunt gave her an Eskimo Barbie.

Bagshaw never owned a Native Barbie — they came along after she was grown — but she had a classic blond Barbie.

Though as a little girl she didn’t have the intellectual capacity to understand the ethnic issues at stake, “I always knew blond Barbie was not related to me.” But Native Barbie wasn’t all bad, Bagshaw said. She was the first mainstream doll that offered Native girls a strong image with which to identify.

In a way, Native Barbie was the cultural progeny of the Skookum doll, created in 1913 by Mary McAboy, a Montana widow. Based on dolls McAboy’s mother had made, the Skookum eventually was mass-produced in Denver for sale to collectors. The doll had a molded plastic head, tan skin, and painted-on eyes that looked to the right, creating a caricature effect. They were wrapped in Pendleton-like blankets, concealing their lack of arms, and had black braids. The museum exhibit includes several Skookums.

They, too, perpetuated stereotypes of Native Americans as the “noble savage,’’ Bear Robe said.

Bennett’s dolls, at about 18 inches tall, may attract the most attention. Made of fabric and felt, with exquisitely detailed, authentic garments, they represent realistic portraits of Native people in traditional attire. Bennett’s female Navajo dolls wear tiered velveteen skirts, concha belts, and squash-blossom necklaces. One holds a needlepoint facsimile of a red, black, gray, and white Navajo rug. A female Puebloan doll wears a woven manta and a traditional tricolored belt, with evergreen wreaths around her upper arms as if she is prepared for a dance. A Plains doll’s dress is made of hide and elaborately beaded and fringed. Tiny

Top, H.H. Tammen Co.: Skookum With Earrings, circa 1930, human hair, plastic, leather, wood, and mixed fibers; middle, from left, Mattel Barbie: Western Plains Barbie; Mattel Barbie: Princess of the Navajo Barbie; bottom, Laura Walkingstick: Copper Cherokee Warrior, 2013, fabric, leather, metal, horsehair, glass beads, feathers, wood, and stone

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Native dolls, continued from Page 15 accessories add charm: a painted rattle, a spool with wool, a bird feather, and miniature earrings, rings, and bracelets.

Among the contemporary women artists whose work is included in the show is Sheridan MacKnight (Chippewa, Lakota, and Anglo), who paints images on hide. She has created a series of tiny portraits of doll-like figures and, by placing them in vintage plastic frames, fetishized them.

The exhibit remains on display into May so families who visit Santa Fe during spring break can see it, Bagshaw said. Partners in Education is funding visits to the museum by Santa Fe schoolchildren. A resource area offers books and activities for children and adults to explore the meanings of dolls.

For women, especially, the exhibit is likely to stir many memories. After all, many have had their own “gathering of dolls.” Sock figures lovingly stuffed by a grandmother, a coveted Chatty Cathy or Cabbage Patch or Strawberry Shortcake, and even the anatomically impossible Barbie, Native or not, still occupy a corner of their hearts — and houses. ◀

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PASA REVIEWS Santa Fe Women’s Ensemble First Presbyterian Church, Dec. 14 Santa Fe Desert Chorale Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, Dec. 14

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here I sat last Friday night at the Lensic Performing Arts Center, laughing with the rest of the audience at comedian Paula Poundstone’s wholesale slaughter of sacred cows. She somehow veered into memories of the classroom music teacher at her grade school, who would arrive pushing a cart of glockenspiels for the kids to play. There were never enough to go around; and while scarcity increased their desirability, Poundstone acknowledged that even that didn’t make them all that tantalizing. They were just glockenspiels, after all, and, as she observed, “It’s not like anybody ever gives a glockenspiel recital.”

That rang true. In numerous years of concertgoing, I do not recall ever hearing an unaccompanied rendition of anything on the glockenspiel. But I’ll be a monkey’s uncle. The very next afternoon I opened my program book for the Winter Festival of Song concert by the Santa Fe Women’s Ensemble (at First Presbyterian Church) and saw that we were to be treated to … yes, a glockenspiel solo. When its moment arrived, percussionist Angela Gabriel Goulden informed the audience that, in all her years as a percussion soloist, she had never before been invited to play an unaccompanied glockenspiel solo and that the item listed in the program was the only one she had been able to locate. But, she continued, the more she worked on that piece, the less she liked it. “I didn’t feel it represented the instrument well,” she said. So instead, she substituted her charming, chiming arrangement of the “Carol of the Bells,” which she played most adeptly, using mallets of varied construction to draw out lines from the preponderantly three-voiced texture.

The Santa Fe Women’s Ensemble is now in its 33rd season, and Linda Raney is in her 25th year as

its director. Although the group’s 12 members are not professional musicians, they often surpass what one would expect of an amateur ensemble. Their selections for this outing were all short and mostly sweet, the latter being practically a corollary for music conceived for just sopranos and altos. The most substantial item on the program was Daniel Pinkham’s “Company at the Creche,” an appealing seven-movement mini-cantata (from 1977) in which a surprising lineup of animals — stork, dove, caterpillar, rooster, porcupine, spider, and lion — successively describe their perspective on the Nativity. In addition to the chorus, Pinkham’s piece calls for glockenspiel and harp, which is why the whole glockenspiel business came about. The harpist, David Glen Ponder, also offered a pleasing, rubato-filled rendition of Marcel Grandjany’s transcription of a movement from a Handel violin sonata.

The chorus revisited a work titled “Listen,” a fatherdaughter collaboration by composer Kinley Lange and poet Charlotte Lange that the group commissioned in 2009 and premiered on its holiday concert that year.

A gentle exhortation to pay attention to the sounds of the moment, it was arresting in its deployment of tone clusters, whispering, and purely voiced chords.

Another of the concert’s high points was a setting of the Marian antiphon text “Salve Regina Mater” by the Swiss composer Ivo Antognini (a world premiere, although the group did not commission it). Antognini is noted for his work in jazz, but this is not a jazz composition. It was, however, bright and alive, its mixed meters (often alternating measures of three and four beats) infusing the singers’ rich-textured homophony with a skipping, buoyant spirit.

Last Saturday evening, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale (directed by Joshua Habermann) unveiled its principal holiday program, Carols and Lullabies, at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi. The 24-voice chorus is a professional group, and its polished technique was indeed of a professional standard.

One might nonetheless have wished for more warmth in general from the altos, which might have made the group’s rendition of Morten Lauridsen’s much-loved “O Magnum Mysterium” a degree finer than it already

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Several works apart from Lauridsen’s made particularly strong impressions. “Child of Mary, Softly Sleeping,” a carol text by the hymn-writing Anglican bishop (retired) Timothy Dudley-Smith, proved affecting through the sustained four-part harmony of a setting by the British organist and conductor Malcolm Archer. An arrangement by Cary John Franklin of “God Rest You Merry Gentlemen” made the clever disclosure that this familiar tune can be sounded against itself in diminution — that is, it can be sung simultaneously by two voice parts with one voice singing the melody twice as fast as the other. (You can try this at home.) Lovely indeed was a lilting lullaby titled “Sleep, Little Baby, Sleep,” by the American composer Jake Runestad, which spanned the choir’s breadth with simple elegance. (Unfortunately, a baby in attendance did not heed the text’s suggestion.) The concert opened and closed with Africa-flavored selections: Brad Holmes’ arrangement of a Central African “Noel” and Ben Allaway’s Kenya-style “Alleluyah Sasa!” Both were rendered with polite enthusiasm, greatly enlivened by the drumming of James Goulden.

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Out in the West Texas town of El Paso Two recent compilations from Norton Records hit close to home. Well, two or three hundred miles or so from home. El Vampiro, which is all instrumental surf rock from 1963 and 1964, and Sand Surfin’, which includes surf music as well as garage-band snot-rock from the mid-1960s, are the latest entries in Norton’s El Paso Rock series (Volumes 8 and 9, respectively).

The name of this series isn’t quite accurate. These “El Paso” albums include several New Mexico bands as well as labels and recording studios from our enchanted land. Indeed, these impressive collections provide a great introduction to the rock ’n’ roll side of three influential southern New Mexico record labels operated by giants of New Mexico’s musical history.

Let’s start off with Goldust Records of Las Cruces, which was owned and operated by Emmit Brooks, who still runs the Goldust recording studio, releasing more than 100 singles in its day. A 2011 profile in the Las Cruces Sun News noted that Brooks is a country musician himself, playing bass and singing with a touring band called The Aggie Ramblers from 1957 to 1975. Before he opened the studio, Brooks recorded an original country song called “Peach Blossoms” at Petty Studios in Clovis (most famous for recording the lion’s share of Buddy Holly’s hits).

Goldust was the home of a Las Cruces band called The Four Dimensions, which provides the title song of Sand Surfin’. It’s about the joys of riding plywood planks down the gypsum dunes of White Sands National Monument: “Down in the wastelands of New Mexico/Where there’s a definite lack of H2O/The

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kids get their kicks in this barren land/When they go surfin’ on pure white sand.”

In an interview for www.garagehangover.com a few years ago, Dimension Jack Starkey recalled his Goldust days. “We had a great relationship with Emmit, and he shared in the cost and profit of the record (I don’t think there was any profit). We backed other performers at the studio also.”

Goldust is also the label that released “Don’t Need You No More” by The Outer Limits, also on Sand Surfin’. The liner notes say the (unidentified) lead singer was frequently compared to Roky Erickson. I don’t hear 13th Floor Elevators in the song so much as I hear the melancholy folk rock of The Beau Brummels (“Laugh Laugh,” “Just a Little”). Though not included on the Norton compilations, Santa Fe’s Morfomen also recorded at least a couple of tracks for Goldust in the ’60s.

Starkey, in that Garage Hangover interview, also talks about hanging out with other Las Cruces and El Paso rockers of the day at The Lobby in Juárez, where he watched and undoubtedly picked up licks and tricks from bluesman Long John Hunter, who recorded with Yucca Records of Alamogordo.

A couple of years ago, Norton Records acquired Yucca’s entire catalog, including music that never saw the light of day. Nortonville’s blog describes Yucca as “a star in Norton's ever growing constellation of able labels. Yucca’s output in the 1950’s and 1960’s is equaled by the number of world-class recordings that sat in the can for fifty years.” It was headed by the late Calvin Boles, who, like Emmit Brooks, was a country musician. With a voice like Ernest Tubbs’, he played in a band called The Rocket City Playboys. Yucca recorded some great rock, country, and blues sounds in the 1950s and ’60s.

The best-known artist to record with Yucca was an El Paso singer named Bobby Fuller, who released two singles on the label in 1962. Not long afterward, Fuller would hit it big with “I Fought the Law.” Fuller’s music makes up the first three volumes in the El Paso Rock series.

Among Yucca’s classics is a politically incorrect 1961 rockabilly single by Big Lloyd Dalton & The El Paso Trail Blazers called “Thees Plane Ees Mine.” It was inspired by Antulio Ramirez Ortiz’s hijacking of a National Airlines flight to Cuba that year, eight years or so before hijacking planes to Cuba became a national plague. Unfortunately Dalton’s song hasn’t yet been reissued by Norton.

I hope they rectify that situation.

El Vampiro has five tracks, some previously unreleased, from Yucca by The Monarcs, featuring guitarist Tim Taylor. The best Monarcs song is the slow, eerie, whammy-bar heavy “Forever Lost.”

The other Yucca acts represented on these recent El Paso Rock compilations are: Steve Cooper & The Avantis, whose stinging 1966 instrumental “Sky Diver” is on Sand Surfin’; Las Cruces guitarist Chuck Sledge, who has three previously unissued instrumentals, including his version of “La Bamba,” on El Vampiro; The Pitiful Panics, whose low and slow “Why I Cry” on Sand Surfin’ is as full of teenage yearning as the title suggests; and The Fortunes, an Alamogordo band whose “Chi-Wa-Wa,” which is on El Vampiro, was a favorite of the late Steve Crosno, a DJ on the popular KELP station in El Paso (a religious station these days). Crosno used it as the background music leading up to the news breaks during his show.

Crosno was perhaps El Paso’s major go-to rock ’n’ roll figure of the ’60s. In addition to his radio show, he had an American Bandstand-like TV show in El Paso and promoted concerts in the area. And he’s also responsible for the third New Mexico label and studio to be featured on these albums, the slightly more obscure Frogdeath Records. Yes, decades before New Mexico had Frogville Records, it had Frogdeath Records.

Crosno, who died of cancer in 2006, operated Frogdeath out of his home in University Park (part of the Las Cruces area). Crosno’s goofy sense of humor was apparent in Frogdeath’s logo. It was a parody of RCA-Victor’s logo — Nipper the dog listening to “his master’s voice” on a Victrola. Frogdeath had a frog instead of a dog. And right above the poor creature’s head was a boot, apparently ready to stomp.

Sand Surfin’ includes the first Frogdeath single, “Wipe In” by The Imposters. This is basically a parody of The Surfaris’ hit “Wipe Out,” down to the crazy laugh that opens that record. (There’s another song on this album, “Bogus” by The Scavengers, which sounds like a slowed-down version of “Wipe Out.”) Also on Sand Surfin’ is the instrumental “Mr. Big”

by The Four Frogs. According to the liner notes of the album, one of the Four Frogs, Colin Flannigan, also has a song here — “You Came to Me,” a Beatles-ish rocker he recorded for a different label, Suemi, under the pseudonym Dave Caflan. Frogdeath also released “When Will I Find Her,” a fuzzy garage rocker by Mike Renolds (real name Reynolds) backed by The Infants of Soul. And while its records weren’t released on Frogdeath, a Las Cruces band called The Key Men was produced by Crosno. The group’s instrumentals “Sun-Burstin’” and “Up to News” are on El Vampiro.

Southern New Mexico and El Paso are very rarely, if indeed ever, mentioned as major rock ’n’ roll meccas of the ’60s. But these compilations show that this area was bursting with crazy energy back in those days. ◀

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STRAIGHT NO CANADIAN BRASS CHASER Under the Christmas Time Is Here Influence: Holiday Edition (Steinway & Sons) & DALLAS (Atco /Atlantic) Straight No Chaser, WIND SYMPHONY Horns for the a 10-voice male a cappella group Holidays (Reference Recordings) Either that formed in the 1990s at Indiana you are a fan of the Canadian Brass or you University, has some big-name colare not. Probably the latter. Then again, laborators on its 2013 holiday EP. many of us let our taste down during the There’s a lot to enjoy in its 27 minutes, but skip the Christmas season, and this CD might be just the thing to opener, “Every Day Is Christmas” with Colbie Caillat, play while you model that aesthetically questionable red-andunless “The Wave” radio-style soul is your sort of thing. green sweater you wouldn’t dream of wearing except for one day CeeLo Green brings the spirit with “White Christmas,” and Paul a year. There’s no questioning this brass quintet’s capabilities. Each McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmas Time,” with the composer member is a top virtuoso, and together they (and their percussion taking lead vocals, is festive enough to win the hearts of those who helper) achieve a blend born of long familiarity. They know what their still believe Santa doesn’t peroxide that beard. The best guest here audience likes and they provide it here in abundance: arrangements is Otis Redding, dubbed from a 1967 recording of “Merry Christmas of familiar seasonal tunes (including several from “popular animated Baby” and all wrapped up in SNC’s harmonies. “Home by Christmas Day” specials created for the holidays”), mostly infused with jazz-lite inflections, is pure finger-snapping, street-corner doo-wop, and “Song for Santa“ some offering neoclassical allusions to compositions by the masters, swings like a Salvation Army bell. “Amazing Grace” comes others giving voice to momentarily vulgar sounds — the musical with a clap track and a few twists. But the best number equivalent of the album’s cover image, in which the tuba here, worth the price alone, is a take on The Nutcracker player takes a pratfall on ice. The sound engineering is with lyrics written by SNC members Walter Chase and splendid, as typifies releases on the Steinway & Sons ‘Festivus 2’ features Seggie Isho: “Hooray it’s Christmastime. But there’s one label. (Though more famous for its pianos, Steinway lousy tradition. . . . Sure it’s fun if you are four.” One also owns the Conn-Selmer line of brass instruments; 16 indie pop bands (mostly small quibble: it’s not just guys who’d rather watch the package notes that “Canadian Brass performs football than ballet. Hilarious. — Bill Kohlhaase exclusively on 24-karat gold-plated Conn-Selmer British and often obscure) instruments.”) Rudolph, Frosty, and Mr. Grinch all Festivus 2 (Highline Records) Anyone whose 2014 get their moments on this 51-minute disc, which you who contribute covers resolutions include devoting more time to the carecan then pack away with that sweater for another year. ful study and enjoyment of well-crafted music has For more engaging variety, wind aficionados might and originals to what amounts one last chance to binge, thanks to the release of turn to Horns for the Holidays with the Dallas Wind the Festivus 2 compilation. Sixteen indie pop bands Symphony, conducted by Jerry F. Junkin. This excelto the prepackaged audio (mostly British and often obscure) contribute covers lent wind benefits from playing in the fine acoustics of and originals to what amounts to the prepackaged the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas and, on a few equivalent of junk food. audio equivalent of junk food. Some selections seem tracks, from employing the impressive C.B. Fisk organ heartfelt, like Western Lows’ “Silent Night,” which housed there. The repertoire is again rather predictable layers ethereal strings, synths, and vocals over generic but isn’t dragged down by the sameness that overtakes the programmed drums. Others are lightly irreverent, like Glam Canadian Brass recital. Leroy Anderson’s “Sleigh Ride” gets a Chops’ “Baby Jesus Was the First Glam Rocker.” The juxtaposicharming workout, an arrangement of Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s tion from track to track can be jarring — a sentimental ballad by Desiring” is glacially paced but nonetheless moving in its sincerity, Dodgy called “Christmas at the Food Bank” follows the Glam Chops’ and a clever piece titled “Minor Alterations: Christmas Through the Looking quirky anthem and concludes with the plaintive lines “Hope they’re Glass” (by David Lovrien) amusingly transposes major-key Christmas tunes having Christmas at the food bank/They didn’t do anything last year.” into the minor mode, such that (for example) “Here Comes Santa Claus” The album’s title seems to be a bit of a misnomer, as pretty much and “Jingle Bells” take on the flavor of Shostakovich. The opening numevery track is explicitly about Christmas, not Festivus (a secular, ber is a roof-raiser: John Wasson’s “Festival Fanfare for Christmas,” semifictitious holiday that entered in which the orchestra’s trumpeters let loose the popular vernacular through a with abandon and the organ provides seriSeinfeld episode). Nevertheless, these ous oomph, yielding an imposing sense of songs could provide an adequate grandeur and celebration. For added value, soundtrack for most traditional you get a charismatic program essay that Festivus activities like the “Airing grapples with the peculiarities of a Lone Star of Grievances,” “Feats of Strength,” Christmas (“Unlike everything else in Texas, and family gatherings ’round the real Texas snowmen are really, really small”) unadorned aluminum Festivus pole. before wishing “Merry Christmas, y’all!”

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ON STAGE Jazz collective: Susan Abod

Jazz standards and original songs are on the menu at the Museum Hill Café (710 Camino Lejo) as vocalist Susan Abod takes the stage at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 20. Abod earned her degree in music composition at DePaul University, Chicago; was lead singer and bassist in the Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band; and worked in the Windy City as a concert promoter and music engineer.

In the 1980s, she sang in the Boston area and did a tour of Europe. She has been a Santa Fe resident since 2005. Backing her on Dec. 20 are Bert Dalton, piano; Andy Zadrozny, bass; and John Trentacosta, drums. This is a fragrancefree event; Abod suffers from a physical intolerance to chemical scents and has made two films about living with multiple chemical sensitivities. Tickets for this Santa Fe Music Collective event are $25 at the door (food and drink available). For information and reservations, call 505-983-6820.

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With visions of sugar-plums: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s The Nutcracker

Always drowning in self-doubt concerning his creations, Tchaikovsky had little hope for the success of his ballet The Nutcracker, which the Maryinsky Theatre of St. Petersburg commissioned in 1891 in hopes of capitalizing on the recent success of his Sleeping Beauty. The Nutcracker was beset by delays and production squabbles, and it did not score a success when it was unveiled the following year.

Not until the mid-20th century did it gain a toehold in the repertoire, but after that rough start it snowballed in popularity to become what must be the most frequently produced of all ballets. Aspen Santa Fe Ballet offers its annual staging of this classic in four performances at the Lensic Performing Arts Center (211 W. San Francisco St.): at 2 and 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 21, and at 1 and 5 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 22. Although the group dances to a recorded soundtrack, the choreography (by the company’s artistic director Tom Mossbrucker and executive director Jean-Philippe Malaty) generously puts some 60 dancers on the stage, including many youngsters from the company’s school. Tickets ($36 and $55) are available through www.ticketssantafe.org and by calling 505-988-1234.

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Chancel bells and harps herald in the latest holiday-themed installment of First Presbyterian Church’s weekly TGIF music series on Friday, Dec. 20. The church’s bell choir dates back to the 1950s, founded as a result of a fortuitous visit paid by a traveling handbell salesperson to the Rev. Kenneth Keeler. Friday evening opens with a performance by the estimable High Desert Harp Ensemble and continues with the Chancel Bell Choir playing “Once in Royal David’s City,” “Gentle Mary Laid her Child,” and “Fum, Fum, Fum.” Both groups combine to close the show with a rousing rendition of “O Holy Night.” The music begins at 5:30 p.m. There is no admission charge, though donations are appreciated. First Presbyterian is at 208 Grant Ave. Call 505-982-8544, Ext. 16.

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Doris Baizley’s meta-adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic novella is about a theater troupe that must cope with a mutiny on the part of its actors during its own production of the Dickens’ tale. Reluctant crew members, including a grumpy stage manager enlisted for the part of Ebenezer Scrooge, rise to the occasion to verify the maxim “the show must go on.” This Santa Fe Playhouse (142 E. De Vargas St.) production was itself rattled when director Dan Gerrity passed away on Nov. 20, but its scheduled three-week run proceeded in tribute to him. Closing weekend shows are at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 20 and Dec. 21, and at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 22. Tickets are $20, $15 for children, and can be reserved in advance by calling 505-988-4262 or visiting www.santafeplayhouse.org.

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Shepherding in the Christmas season A BAROQUE HOLIDAY WITH SANTA FE PRO MUSICA

or whatever reason, a great many musiclovers find that Baroque music makes an excellent soundtrack for the holiday season. In particular, it seems to be music from the late Baroque period, roughly the first half of the 18th century, that strikes a Christmas chord. Perhaps it’s the solid dependability of the harmony that reigned over scores at that time, thoroughly grounded in modern notions of tonality and rarely straying too far from the note designated as home. Perhaps it’s the comforting predictability of recurring melodic strains and textural devices, or the elemental physical appeal of compositions that developed out of dance forms — both of which often inform the music of the late Baroque. To be sure, the music of that era can also reach to a point of great complexity, particularly in terms of its counterpoint, which is the way discrete musical lines are made to sound simultaneously one against the other; this was, after all, the heyday of the fugue, potentially the most fantastically inventive of contrapuntal genres. But there is something about the sort of simplistic music that late-Baroque composers also spun out by the yard that fits the spirit of the holidays most cozily — if not the holidays as they really are, at least as we imagine they should be, comfortable and secure, quiet and classy, reliable and warmhearted.

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variety, offering two go-rounds of Bach’s complete Brandenburg Concertos, a collection that is dizzying in its melodic, contrapuntal, and formal invention as well as in the variety of the instrumental timbres it puts into play. But before those concerts arrive, the group will offer no fewer than 10 performances of A Baroque Christmas, the latest installment of its annual Christmas-week presentations in the Loretto Chapel. From Friday, Dec. 20, through Tuesday, Dec. 24 (which, of course, is Christmas Eve), the Santa Fe Pro Musica Baroque Ensemble visits the same program at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Apart from several carol arrangements, most of the group’s repertoire for A Baroque Christmas has nothing specific to do with the holiday: a couple of arias from Handel operas (featuring either Deborah Domanski or Dianna Grabowski — mezzo-sopranos both — depending on the performance you attend), a fantasy by Purcell, a double concerto (spotlighting flute and recorder) by Telemann. But the opening number on this year’s program is very definitely a Christmas piece: the Concerto pastorale by Johann Melchior Molter.

Though his name is not constantly on the lips of music-lovers, it will ring a bell for Santa Fe Pro Musica regulars. Last March, the group offered a trumpet concerto of Molter’s as part of its Holy Week concerts, also at Loretto Chapel. His chief claim in musical posterity is that he wrote concertos for instruments that were otherwise underserved, so practitioners of those instruments (which include flute, flauto d’amore, oboe,

clarinet, bassoon, horn, and trumpet) occasionally have a go at his music. A slightly younger contemporary of Bach, Molter (1696-1765) hailed from Bach’s hometown of Eisenach, although when he was born Bach had just moved away to take up residence with an older brother in Ohrdruf, 20 miles distant, after their father died. Although we lack evidence that the two ever met, it is certainly possible that their paths crossed as their respective careers careered from city to city in central Germany. Unlike Bach, who never left the confines of Germany, Molter traveled twice to Italy, from 1719 to 1721 and again from 1737 to 1738, to absorb the latest advances of the musical masters in Venice, Rome, Bologna, and other cities.

It is easy to imagine that his Concerto pastorale resulted from experiences he had during those trips. In a tradition that reaches deep into history, Italian peasant musicians would travel into towns at Christmastime to perform their rustic pastorali in the streets. (Pastori are literally shepherds; the pastorali they played were therefore “shepherds’ pieces.”)

The practice was especially common in central-tosouthern Italy, and there was apparently a considerable seasonal flow into Rome and Naples of peasants from Marche, Abruzzo, Molise, Lazio, and Campania. These peasant-musicians were known as the pifferari, and the instruments they most commonly played were the piffero (a shawm) and the zampogna (a kind of bagpipe). They continue to materialize in cities to this day; I myself have encountered pifferari playing on the streets of Rome on Christmas Eve.

Seventeenth-century composers began to imitate the pifferari in works intended to enhance holiday celebrations, and in the early 18th century, sinfonie pastorale and concerti pastorali became common currency. The idea first took hold among Italian composers, who used pifferari-inspired sounds in compositions slated to be played at services or banquets on Christmas Eve. Such works were charmingly appropriate to their occasions, suggesting as they did the music of shepherds — and shepherds, of course, play a part in the Christmas story itself. Usually the topical reference was limited to a single movement of a concerto or sinfonia, the rest of the piece being of the more standard-issue sort. The “pastoral” movement, however, was distinct and unmistakable in its sound. In this section, the orchestra — typically comprising just strings and basso continuo — emulated the simple peasant style. The melody usually flowed leisurely in a lilting meter (normally 6/8 or 12/8 time), with the tune often harmonized by the interval of the third, which is about as basic as a harmonization can get. Underpinning the piece would be long-held “pedal tones” or “drone notes,” providing exactly the kind of unvarying foundation the zampogna did in shepherd ensembles.

Of the famous late-Baroque “pastoral symphonies,” the earliest is the Concerto fatto per la notte di Natale (Concerto composed for Christmas Night) by the Roman composer Arcangelo Corelli (it was published posthumously in 1714). Already in 1709 an analogous piece had been published by Giuseppe Torelli in Bologna, and a host of their contemporaries and successors would add to the roster of Christmas concertos and sinfonias, including stillperformed figures like Francesco Manfredini, Pietro Locatelli, and Francesco Geminiani. Italian music was widely considered the touchstone of taste during the Baroque period, and dozens of composers from elsewhere in Europe (like Molter) descended on Italian musical capitals to absorb the latest trends.

Before long, similar Christmas pieces were appearing in Northern Europe, too — in Germany, Austria, France, Poland, and the Czech lands.

The most frequently heard of all these Baroque “pastoral symphonies” is the one that figures in the oratorio Messiah, which Handel composed in 1741.

It is worth recalling that, although Handel was born and bred in Germany, he spent more than three apprentice years, from late 1706 to early 1710, in Italy.

He passed most of that time in Rome, in the circles of precisely the sort of aristocrats and ecclesiastics who were listening to Italian Christmas concertos when the time rolled around; and it is impossible to think that Handel could have avoided hearing the pifferari and zampognari on the Roman streets.

There they are in Messiah, playing in a movement actually titled Pifa, Handel’s orchestra momentarily reduced to just two violin parts exhaling a gentle tune in 12/8 time, harmonizing in innocent thirds above a bass consisting mostly of drawn-out drones. A classic of its type, it serves as a prelude to a sung narration that begins “There were shepherds abiding in the field,” thereby introducing the shepherds themselves.

Molter’s Concerto pastorale consists of three movements, and usually we would expect only one of them to display pastoral characteristics overtly.

Molter, however, puts his own twist on things. He presents his pastoral music at the very outset, returns to it later in the first movement, and then brings the whole piece to a close by revisiting that opening pastoral tune in the final pages of the third movement. In this sense, his Concerto pastorale displays a more consistent “Christmas character” than almost any other such piece in the repertoire. As the concerto unrolls, Pro Musica’s audiences will therefore have three opportunities to reflect on how this work reflects a charming ancient custom and on how a piece of music can serve as common ground to connect people of widely separated times, places, and traditions. ◀

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SOUND WAVES Loren Bienvenu

Sounds from the darkness

Art Sheinberg believes Renaissance music is undergoing a second renaissance. The oversold house at Christ Lutheran Church for Música Antigua de Albuquerque’s performance in Santa Fe on Sunday, Dec. 15, was a testament to his assertion; but though the music was masterfully brought to life, this reviewer must confess to feeling stuck in the dark ages.

A few days prior to the show, the founding member of the early-music ensemble told Pasatiempo, “One of the indicators of how popular [medieval and Renaissance] music has become is that now they’re making violas da gamba in China.” Sheinberg himself plays the instrument, a six-stringed viol that dates back to the 15th century. He estimated that he and his wife Colleen Sheinberg (also a founding member of the ensemble) possess about 80 reproductions of early-music instruments — besides gambas, lutes, rebecs, and other stringed instruments, their collection includes reeded instruments like the rankett, cornemuse, and shawm, as well as flutes, recorders, percussion instruments, and more.

Música Antigua formed in 1978 with an initial focus on Spanish music. Now the group’s ever-evolving and expanding repertoire (“I’m sure we must have done 4,000 different tunes in the repertoire altogether,” Sheinberg said) covers a number of European countries and about seven centuries of music, primarily from the medieval and Renaissance periods, but occasionally including “that modern stuff, the Baroque.”

In addition to putting together four programs a year, the group engages the community through educational outreach, mentorship, and free performances in places like retirement homes. The six members are all accomplished musicians with solid educational and performance backgrounds, and it shows. Most

are comfortable with a wide range of period instruments. Their faculty is particularly impressive given the uniqueness of each instrument even compared to others of its kind. There was little standardization in instrument manufacture in the medieval and Renaissance periods, “so there’s no end to the variety.”

In other words, each sackbut, crumhorn, and hurdygurdy has its own idiosyncrasies.

As an added challenge, the music notation gives little to no clue about instrumentation and usually lacks the indicators, like dynamic and tempo markings, that most contemporary musicians rely on. “That’s one of the big joys of playing this music,” Sheinberg said.

“A huge amount is not told to you as a performer.” The players resolve these mysteries by making compositional judgments of their own and improvising.

Most Música Antigua programs focus on secular material, with the exception of the annual Christmas concert, which is thematically sacred. This year’s concert was entitled Marvel Not, Joseph. Here the piece must take a swerve, because though Joseph’s wonderment may have been appeased by the music, I was left marveling — primarily, at the fine line between intrigue and unease when one is immersed in the unfamiliar.

It must be emphasized that the music was wellperformed, thoughtfully selected, and truly evocative.

Perhaps overly so for me — as the first distant notes emanated from the back of the church to my rigid perch in the front pew, I was surprised by the ominous mood thus created. Wearing robes of deep red, the group made a solemn processional down the aisle, chanting an anonymous 10th-century piece called “Ludicii signum,” which foretells the coming of Christ.

Though this was a recital, not a religious service, it was fraught with enough ceremony and anciently rooted spirituality to place the uninitiated in that

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uncomfortable position of feeling constantly on the edge of making some misstep — coughing, twitching, or laughing out of nervousness. When compounded by the brain’s paranoia, the act of imagining such scenes can lead to the resignation that such a thing is destined to occur. Fortunately, neither I nor any other audience member lapsed in our task of maintaining solemnity.

After shifting my focus from such concerns to the music, I was rewarded by the richness of the vocal arrangements in pieces like “Ave maris stella,” based on a manuscript preserved in Italy in a Benedictine abbey. As the group moved through the 20 pieces in the first act (some instrumental, some vocal, and a few recitative), it was fascinating to hear the changes of timbre introduced by the numerous instruments arrayed onstage. But upon considering the origins of these instruments and the music composed for them, the weight of history descended with some of the ominousness elicited by the recital’s opening notes.

With their sundry inquisitions and crusades, the pre-Renaissance and Renaissance were periods of intolerance and of struggling to overcome its manifestations.

Sacred and secular early-music compositions from that period may be likened to the rare sparks of humanity emanating from the dark tumult of misery. Preserving and sharing these sparks does seem a worthy undertaking, but though the program for Marvel Not, Joseph was celebratory by nature — being devoted to the birth of Christ — even the most beautiful melodies retained a disquieting melancholy, bringing with them echoes of the anguish that has burdened them for centuries.

The same could be said of the occasional narration read at the pulpit by a convincingly severe and ministerial Phil Bock. Some lines were aimed at lightening the mood, like an excerpt from a mid-14th-century English Passion play in which an amazed Joseph exclaims “Her body is great, and she with child!/By me she never was defiled.” The program notes indicate that the theme of cuckoldry was a common source of humor during that period. At the same time, the lines are a reminder that the concept of female purity is not just a quaint vestige of older times, and even if it elicits mirth in some people, it elicits discomfort in others.

Overall, the experience might well have been powerfully uplifting for those with backs more accustomed to the pew and ears more accustomed to the gamba.

For me, it provided an occasion to reflect on the power of music to transport us, sometimes into waters of untried depths. If we flounder, it is probably because of our own temperament as much as that of our surroundings.

Música Antigua has an exciting and diverse season planned for 2014, including a March program devoted to Hans Leo Hassler and the German Renaissance.

I look forward to attending another of the group’s performances, even if (or maybe, because) this time around I exited the church in search of the sanctuary of the familiar. ◀

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SaintS and ShoPPerS Patrick McGrath Muñiz and his compromised subjects

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ike their counterparts in 17th and 18th century New Mexico, Puerto Rican santeros, or saint makers, and painters of the Spanish colonial period painted and carved in a tradition derived from the Spanish Baroque and Rococo. José Campeche, among the best known colonial-era painters in Puerto Rico, learned much from Spanish court painter Luis Paret y Alcázar, who lived in exile in Puerto Rico in the late 18th century. Campeche painted stately portraits of dignitaries as well as portraits of saints.

His influence is still felt today in the work of Patrick McGrath Muñiz, whose exhibition Devocionales: Neo-Colonial Retablos From an Archetypal Perspective is the inaugural show at Tansey Contemporary (formerly Jane Sauer Gallery). “Campeche had a very specific color palette and way of representing figures,” Muñiz told Pasatiempo. “I take a lot of inspiration from his work. What I do is insert all these contemporary elements into the work which bring them to our time, make them more relevant. I even get some influence and inspiration from astrology, tarot, and some mystery traditions to give them more of an esoteric perspective.”

Muñiz’s retablos (Catholic devotional paintings) represent a continuation of the religious themes that dominated the Spanish colonial era.

He adds plenty of pop-culture references and imagery that relates to contemporary times including Disney characters, references to popular films, billboard signs, and smartphones. “What I see in my work and what I tend to present is a response to pop culture, consumerism, the mass media, and how these agents of neocolonialism are echoing past colonization narratives in the history of the Americas. What I see today is the same system of indoctrinating people into believing in one system and trying to convert people into blindly following this new religion of consumerism. As the title implies, it’s from an archetypal perspective.

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So I try to be broad and reach into different narratives and patterns that have been repeating themselves throughout history.”

Muñiz grew up in Puerto Rico and attended the School of Plastic Arts of Puerto Rico in San Juan, where he saw firsthand the merging of Spanish and American heritages in traditional arts and crafts. “What you see in Puerto Rico is a mixed culture where you have all the American influence — fast food, Wal-Mart, and the economy — but, at the same time, you have all this long-held tradition in Catholicism and Spanish colonial art. You see that in the churches and the way people see, think, and view life and religion and culture. There’s almost like a syncretism between the new and the old, which is really important in my work, and I think it reflects directly on that.”

Giving the work a more historic appearance, Muñiz constructs gilded frames and swinging panels, painted on the outside, that open to reveal painted scenes within. “It’s all part of the visual vocabulary I’m trying to transmit.”

Muñiz does not necessarily craft pieces that relate specifically to Catholic religious traditions, although he appropriates religious imagery. His themes, including social justice, obsession with celebrities, the media, and guns, to name a few, are timely, seemingly drawn from today’s headlines. “I feel like the work is multilayered. It has a lot of levels and meaning. There’s also the hidden meanings behind the symbols. That brings a new layer to that narrative of social awareness. There’s also a spiritual side to that. It took me over a year to produce this work, if you count the research behind it: correspondences between signs, symbols, social issues, global issues, and environmental concerns.” Gun violence and America’s fascination with weapons is the subject of Fire Arms Nation. A modern-day, bullet-ridden martyr, St. Sebastian, represented in the familiar pose and loincloth of more traditional depictions seen in religious iconography, is tied to a post while military warplanes and helicopters fly overhead.

The exhibit includes paintings from an earlier body of work on the subject of modern archetypes. Muñiz gives them titles such as The Emperor, The Protester, The Media, and The Politician, blending imagery from different time periods and cultures into singular figures. “If you take the image The Emperor, this is the archetype of someone in authority, someone who has power — a leader, a president — and everything that’s related to that power: abuse, anything that has to do with social injustice, social inequality. ... Venus, the goddess of love, beauty, that’s one archetype that’s reflected in the painting The Empress.”

There’s a great deal of humor in Muñiz’s work as well. In his painting Hercules and the Virtues, he depicts the mythological figure standing stoically with club in hand amid shoppers in a mall-like setting. Among the shoppers are such recognizable figures as Ronald McDonald and an armed Sarah Palin. Planet of the Apps shows Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, ignoring each other, distracted by their cellphones.

A cherub in the branches of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil happily listens to an iPod or similar device, earphones dangling from his head.

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Bill Kohlhaase I The New Mexican

eating history what menus tell us about our forefathers and ourselves

Photos from Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century, 19001910 by Michael Lesy and Lisa Stoffer, published by W.W. Norton & Company

his introduction to Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century, 1900-1910, author Michael Lesy quotes the 19th-century French epicure and philosopher Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin: “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” Leslie and co-author Lisa Stoffer take that statement a step further, gaining all sorts of social and cultural insight into the first decade of the American century, a time when the number of restaurants in the U.S. increased by 78 percent. Their examination of where and what people of the time were eating not only tells us a lot about them but also a lot about us.

Lesy’s inspiration and original window into that world was a collection of menus held at the New York Public Library. It was assembled in the late 1800s and

early 1900s by Miss Frank Buttolph, as she signed her name. When Lesy came upon the collection online, he was fascinated by both its visual appeal and what it said about America. “The stuff is so astonishingly beautiful,” he said. “You think of the quality and the printing and the beauty of the illustrations, and you’re just taken. Looking at the collection online, you can see the menus year by year.” Lesy suggests clicking on the menu covers to see what lies within them. “You get the bill of fare, which can be quite astonishing.

Looking through these brings the times to life. It’s strange and wonderful and crazy.” The collection can be viewed at the New York Public Library’s Digital Gallery website.

Lesy, a professor of literary journalism at Hampshire College with a doctorate in American cultural history,

has a reputation for mining photographs and other archival documents to produce detailed and personal looks into specific aspects of American culture and history. His first book, Wisconsin Death Trip, published in 1973, centers on the strange and difficult circumstances of life in and around Black River Falls, Wisconsin. It was based on a collection of photographs and newspaper accounts produced in the 1890s. The book inspired James Marsh’s disturbing 1999 docudrama of the same name.

For the current volume, Lesy used menus from the first 10 years of the 20th century pulled from the Buttolph collection as a springboard for a discussion of a number of food-centric issues. “Here’s what happened in my head, what I saw. It’s the reason I continue continued on Page 40

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Meeting of the Teddy Roosevelt look-alike club: Hotel Astor, Dec. 7, 1904, Byron Company photo

Eating history, continued from Page 39 to do books on photos. You get the optical experience; you see what it was like. You can experience the menus 100 years later in a sensual, in a sensory way — not just the beauty of the front page, but you can begin to taste the beauty of the past. And it completely links up to the present. It’s like music. You can listen to Beethoven the way it was played and composed much like you can when he composed it. But you’re sitting in Orchestra Hall in Chicago in 2013. It’s the same with the menu.

There you are today, tasting what’s on the menu. It’s time travel.”

Like much of the book, the first chapter seems to reverberate in the present day. ”Pure Food” examines the canned-meat scandal reflected in Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel The Jungle. American meat-packers working without government oversight were canning just about everything they could sweep from the slaughterhouse floors and preserving it, as charged in the day, with embalming fluid. Poet Carl Sandburg, who was served the stuff as an enlisted Army man during the Spanish American War, described the canned product years later as having “a putridity of odor more pungent than ever reaches the nostrils of a properly embalmed cadaver.”

One description Lesy quotes, says that officers found “cans of beef with pieces of rope and dead maggots in them.” Soldiers were sickened, and Theodore Roosevelt, then governor of New York, was called to testify before a federal commission in 1899. “The terrible thing about this is that they were feeding it to the military,” Lesy said.“That really burned Roosevelt. The only reason that Swift and Armour [among the implicated packing companies] didn’t collapse after it was taken off market here and in Europe was that they got to sell it to the Japanese army.” That last year of the 1890s saw a number of investigations into tainted foods, and the battle for passage 40

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of “pure food” bills consumed the new century’s first several years.

As president, Roosevelt would sign the Pure Food and Drug Act into law in 1906, just months after Sinclair’s influential novel on the meat-packing industry’s practices and exploitation of its workers was published.

That first chapter contrasts with the book’s last, “Splendid Food,” written by Stoffer. In it, she describes the conspicuous consumption of the rich during a time when, as Lesy points out in the introduction, a third of one percent of the U.S. population controlled 75 percent of the country’s wealth. The menus, long and inclusive, are particularly illustrative here, with breakfast menus offering veal kidneys and salmon meunière; this at a time when the poor were being sold water-downed milk; coffee beans made of compressed flour, sugar, molasses, and ground coffee; and that sickening canned beef. The menus here also remind us of foods no longer available due to various reasons, golden plover and San Francisco oysters among them. Fine dining eventually spread down the economic ladder, as restaurateurs discovered that working-class Americans liked to see themselves as the equals of their economic betters.

Lesy and Stoffer address other social issues of the times. They consider the rise of fast food as factory workers stopped bringing their lunches and started buying them at lunch counters and automats. As more women entered the workforce, they too

needed places for quick lunches. The problem was that they were excluded from most dining establishments unless accompanied by a man. This resulted in lawsuits and women opening their own establishments. Lessee agrees that it took a sort of civil rights movement — the lunch counter sit-ins of the 1960s come immediately to mind — but that it was different in key ways from the racial equality struggles. “The civil rights movement was different because of a sense of conscious discrimination and guilt that motivated the change.

Working women faced something different. The moral and ethical pressure for things to change in their favor came because they were middle or even upper-middle class women. To work, they had to be nourished. We can never imagine that things changed simply because it was the right thing to do.”

One of the more fascinating chapters has to do with the effect immigrants and their cuisines made on the country. Lesy points out that anti-immigrant clichés didn’t stop city dwellers from enjoying immigrant food. Not only was it cheap, but it provided them with an experience outside their usual world.

Discovering the food of immigrants, even as it was Americanized, provides a view to assimilation. “Chinese food is especially representative of that. Other than the early railroad work and mining, there were only a few ways [for Chinese immigrants] to make money; laundry service and food. That’s all part of the opening of the West, and it leads to all kinds of other subjects, to opium and addiction, to gambling and prostitution in Chinatowns, and that leads you to Americans’ fondness for bohemian lifestyles, walking on the wild side.

Chinese food, the embrace of chop suey, was part of that adventurous desire.”

The book is framed on a story offered by Stoffer, one that ties the past of Repast to the present while it underscores the title’s double meaning. It’s about Jeremiah Tower, one of the first chefs to work at Alice Water’s celebrated Chez Panisse in Berkeley. In the introduction, Tower is quoted from his autobiography California Dish as saying that menus spoke to him ”as clearly as any childhood fantasy novel.” When Tower was looking to create a new sort of American cooking, he turned to an old source, Charles Ranhofer’s extensive cookbook The Epicurean. Ranhofer presided for years over New York’s Delmonico’s Restaurant, the bastion of “pure food” that catered to America’s aristocracy. But Ranhofer wasn’t afraid of integrating new techniques or ingredients — he was among the first chefs to served dishes with “alligator pear,” the fruit we know today as avocado — and he brought different regional and ethnic styles, including Hungarian, Indian, and Creole, into his cooking.

Though The Epicurean was published in 1894, Lesy uses the story to show how food — and history — can influence the present. “Ranhofer did these things in the 1800s, and here they come back again to bring inspiration to a modern chef. It’s like working in the arts, knowing the history of painters, potters, using their work to discover something new.” ◀

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Jennifer Levin I For The New Mexican

oogle “why do Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas,” and you will learn from a plethora of sources that at the turn of the 20th century in New York City, which was where most American Jews lived at the time, Chinese restaurants were the only eateries open on Christmas Day. And Jews, though they had the day off from work and school, had no celebrations planned, yet they still needed to eat. Jews’ continuing need to eat on Dec. 25 has made Chinese food a long-standing Jewish Christmas-day tradition.

The siren song of kung pao chicken and shredded pork with garlic sauce is loudest to Jews on Christmas — even to those who keep kosher the rest of the year — and it has spread far outside New York City.

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The other thing Jews do on Christmas is go to the movies, and showing Mel Brooks films on Christmas has also become something of a tradition in some cities, possibly because he is widely considered the patron saint for Jews, which is quite a feat considering that he’s still alive. This year, Santa Fe starts its own Jewish Christmas Day tradition with the first annual Flix & Chopstix, hosted by the Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival at the Center for Contemporary Arts. A Mel Brooks double-feature of Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein is followed by a dinner catered by Yummy Café. The films were selected by vote on the film festival’s website and by audiences at the festival screenings.

Some people might call the idea of Jewish people eating Chinese food on Christmas a stereotype, but

it’s not a hateful one. Diane Karp, a former director of the Santa Fe Art Institute, grew up in 1950s and ’60s Philadelphia in a family of kosher butchers. “Jews eating Chinese food on Christmas has become a stereotype because it’s founded in reality,” she said. “So many things close down for the Christmas holiday. We didn’t have [Christmas-day] traditions that were part of home, and so what do you do? The running line in my family is that if the Jewish calendar is now at 5774 and the Chinese calendar is at 4712, what did the Jews eat on Christmas for the first thousand years?

Karp’s family kept mostly kosher at home, but like many other immigrant families who eventually gave up strict adherence to religious dietary laws, they occasionally indulged in nonkosher food — known

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in Yiddish as treif — that was well disguised by being chopped up and mixed with other ingredients. Shellfish is treif, but Karp’s father’s favorite Chinese dish was shrimp and lobster sauce. “Double treif,” she recalled. Today, in some large cities, there are certified kosher Chinese restaurants where Jews can eat guilt-free.

Karp’s favorite Chinese dish was dumplings, which have been likened historically to kreplach, which are Jewish-style dumplings, thus cementing the connection between Jews and Chinese food. “In my family, the biggest difference between Chinese dumplings and kreplach is that my grandmother, who was the meanest woman alive, made the kreplach, and in every single one there was always a piece of gristle or a bit of chicken bone,” Karp said.

“My mother said she couldn’t see very well, but I don’t know about that.”

Karp described her feelings for Mel Brooks, the writer and director of such classics as History of the World: Part I and High Anxiety, as worshipful. “He’s one of those people who exemplifies comedy from my perspective — and that is that you have to be able to make enough fun of yourself, that you beat all of the other people to the punch. Self-deprecation has to be part of the Jewish identity. It’s how I grew up. If you grow up a child of immigrants, you’re always starting behind the eight ball. You lack the connections, you lack the history, and you have to make up for it somehow. So you make fun.”

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The running line in my family is that if the Jewish calendar is now at 5774 and the Chinese calendar is at 4712, what did the Jews eat on Christmas for the first thousand years? — Diane Karp Neal Rosendorf grew up in New York and moved to Santa Fe five years ago.

When he was a boy, his family went to Chinatown every year on Christmas day, to the Hong Fat Noodle Company, where his favorite dish was moo goo gai pan — although as an adult he has found another option for his Christmas meal: Indian food. He said that though he appreciates the selections made by the Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival, his personal favorite Mel Brooks film is The Producers, with an honorable mention for The Twelve Chairs. (For those crying foul, the film festival wants you to know that The Producers came in a close third place in the voting.)

Rick Ferber’s favorite Mel Brooks film is Silent Movie. Ferber grew up in San Diego and has lived in Santa Fe for almost 40 years. Not only did his family eat Chinese food on Christmas day, but they ate it “on a lot of Sundays and all Christian holidays. We used to go to this place that’s now gone I guess, called Jimmy Wong’s — my aunt and uncle and me and my parents. And I’ll tell you this: the very worst Chinese food I ever had in my life was in Jerusalem.”

Ferber’s son, Ambrose — whose favorite Mel Brooks films are Blazing Saddles and Spaceballs — grew up in Santa Fe but lived in Fort Collins, Colorado, during college. The first year he and his wife stayed there for the holiday break instead of coming back to Santa Fe, they had a small Hanukkah celebration and then planned to get Chinese food on Christmas day. “It seemed like this fun, sort of traditional thing to do. But we could not find any Chinese restaurants open. All the people who own Chinese restaurants in Fort Collins celebrate Christmas I guess, and they were all closed. It’s not like there are a lot to choose from, like in New York. So the next year we bought Chinese food on Christmas Eve, a whole mess of it, and didn’t eat any of it that night. We stuck it in the refrigerator and reheated it the next day so we could have the Christmas-day Chinese-food experience. Some people would argue that it’s even better that way.” ◀

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Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, cult children’s comedy, not rated, Jean Cocteau Cinema, 2 candy canes

So far, there have been no media reports suggesting that riots have broken out near any of the Long Island movie cinemas that recently screened the 1964 cult classic Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. Surely if New Yorkers can take a lump of cinematic coal like that in their stockings then so can New Mexicans. The Jean Cocteau Cinema screens the film as part of its late-night series on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 20 and 21.

The movie has been named one of the worst ever made, which means it has popped up on Mystery Science Theater 3000, with lots of people no doubt enjoying watching it repeatedly for reasons that are best left unexplained. But really, there are other films that are clearly much worse — I can think of three or four other titles just off the top of my head.

Reportedly shot in four days for about $200,000 at the Michael Myerberg Studios in Long Island, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians was basically made by a who’s who of nobodies, though much has been made of the fact that a young Pia Zadora plays one of the sour-pussed Martian children. She’s doing pretty well these days as a nightclub singer and recording artist, and her official website proudly lists many of her accomplishments, including a Grammy nomination and working with Orson Welles, but she doesn’t have much to say about Santa Claus there.

Joseph E. Levine — another somewhat familiar name from that period — released Santa Claus Conquers the Martians through Embassy Pictures, the studio also responsible for Billy the Kid vs. Dracula and Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter. But no, these are not the same people responsible for inflicting Snow White and the Three Stooges upon the unsuspecting public. Still, that would make a heck of a quadruple bill, wouldn’t it?

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Real space-age fun!

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians!” You know how it ends, so let’s have some fun giving away some of the inane parts along the way. The movie opens with Martian children watching a flat-screen television as a chilly newscaster broadcasts live from the North Pole, where he is visiting Santa Claus. “Living up here all we been eating is frozen food,” the newsman complains. Santa is an amiable old sweetie who can’t recall the names of his reindeers. When he smiles his face lights up like a bemused Jon Bowman, the manager of the Jean Cocteau. The dour Martian kids, who have been raised on technology and electronics (“By the time they walk, they are adults!” one Martian old-timer cautions), are fascinated with Santa Claus, so some Martian adults decide to nab Old St. Nick and have him set up a toy shop on their planet. They also grab a couple of meddling Earth children. Somehow or other The Daily Tribune gets wind of the story and blasts it all over the front page: “Martians Kidnap Santa Claus!” I bet if Spaceport America was set up in New Mexico in the mid-1960s, The New Mexican would have gotten the scoop instead.

Once the gang hits Mars, high jinks ensue. A naughty Martian repeatedly tries to kill Santa and the kids and even sets up an invisible “nuclear curtain” to keep the tubby troublemaker in line. A dopey Martian dresses up like Santa Claus and gets mistaken for the real thing (laughs galore here), while another Martian becomes obsessed with a Slinky.

Meanwhile, the only toys Santa turns out on Mars are the type of cheap gift offerings you’d find at the Dollar Store. Santa doesn’t seem too anxious to get back to Earth, but then again Mrs. Claus is portrayed as a nag, so maybe that’s understandable. Yet with a title like Santa Claus

The laugh’s on somebody: John Call as Santa with Pia Zadora (third from left); opposite page, left to right, Leonard Hicks, Call, Victor Stiles, Donna Conforti, and Bill McCutcheon

Conquers the Martians, you just know it will end happily, and it does, with the ensemble joining in a spirited rendition of the catchy tune “Hooray for Santa Claus!” The lyrics are shown on-screen at the end so you can join in, by the way.

The movie opened in November 1964 and by some accounts made some money over time through rereleases. Then-contemporary reviews of the picture provide some critical insight. Boxoffice magazine suggested that posting a lobby card with “No One Admitted OVER 16 Years of Age” might be appropriate. Film Daily’s critic astutely noted that the movie “yields little in the way of substance.” But The New York Times liked the movie, calling it a “Christmasy little movie with science-fiction trimmings for fledgling astronauts.” Keep in mind that in the early 1960s, most fledgling astronauts sent into space were chimpanzees. There is no evidence that The New Mexican sent a reviewer to the film back then, but with the film being rereleased this holiday season, how could we resist, and boy did we enjoy it — to some degree. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians reminds us of a time when aliens were friendly, space exploration didn’t involve weapons of mass destruction, and there really was a toy shop at the North Pole. Somehow, a chile rating just doesn’t seem appropriate. Let’s give it two candy canes, because it’s sweet. Not too sweet, just sweet enough. But remember, if eaten in excess, candy canes can cause toothaches, so maybe you should just watch it once. And then never again. ◀ “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians” screens at 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 20 and 21, at the Jean Cocteau Cinema (418 Montezuma Ave., 505-466-5528, www.jeancocteaucinema.com).

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Battle of the saxes Loren Bienvenu I For The New Mexican The Girls in the Band, documentary, not rated, The Screen, 3.5 chiles Director Judy Chaikin gives an overdue ovation to female jazz instrumentalists past and present in her touching music doc The Girls in the Band. The product of five years of effort (funded in part by grants from Hugh Hefner and Herb Alpert), the film offers the perfect blend of sometimes grainy, sometimes vivid archival footage and thoughtful interviews with both the surviving pioneers of the early years and those who have carried the baton in each subsequent generation. Since premiering in 2011 at the Vancouver International Film Festival, the movie continues generating acclaim, having since netted audience-choice awards at the Omaha, Palm Springs International, Victoria, and other film festivals.

The Girls in the Band employs as an effective linchpin the iconic photograph A Great Day in Harlem, a 1958 black-and-white image of 57 leading jazz artists spilling down the steps of a brownstone on East 126th Street. Only three are women: nestled between Thelonious Monk and Oscar Pettiford are Marian McPartland and Mary Lou Williams, two prodigious pianists who are discussed at length in the film. (The other woman in the photograph is vocalist Maxine Sullivan.)

Seeking to counter the disparity epitomized in the image, the film closes with a contemporary photo shoot at the same location that includes today’s top female jazz artists intermingled with

International Sweethearts of Rhythm sax section

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Spotlight serenade: Anna Mae Winburn, right

those from past years who never got the recognition they deserved.

Only McPartland (who died in August at age 95) is in both photos. In the original, she and Williams stand together amid a sea of their male contemporaries, looking slightly ill at ease. As McPartland recalls in the film, this was the era when television hosts would invite her to perform on air and then spend more time talking about her gender than her playing. We see footage of one such host asking her if she finds it disadvantageous to be a woman and then butting in to state his own opinion: “It’s an advantage, because you’re so decorative.”

Such verbal slights were only part of a larger system of bias and talent exploitation, made worse in many cases (for male and female African American musicians) by manifold racial affronts. Back in the 1920s and ’30s, female musicians were considered an oddity, best relegated to vaudeville houses. In the years leading up to World War II, when big bands reigned supreme, society and media entertained an open debate over whether women were capable of playing instruments other than the harp, piano, and violin, let alone improvising. Because few big bands would hire female players, some women formed allfemale bands, such as the International Sweethearts of Rhythm. This unusually prominent group included some of the best players around and was notable for being racially integrated.

One of the only white players in that group, Roz Cron, remembers the challenges faced when touring through the South during the Jim Crow era. The alto sax player says she put her bandmates at risk by traveling, lodging, and appearing onstage with them.

In some towns she would hide on the tour bus or attempt to convince suspicious enforcers of segregation laws that she was of multiracial parentage. She recalls in the film, “We tried different face powders [to darken my skin] ... I just turned orange.”

World War II substantially (though temporarily) eased working conditions for women players. With

the men gone, venue owners more frequently booked bands like the International Sweethearts. That group in particular was barraged by fan mail from overseas servicemen, which helped it launch a lengthy tour of various USO camps. Trumpeter Clora Bryant remembers the most memorable performance being for the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American pilots in U.S. military history. (One member of this unit — bassist Percy Heath — would himself go on to jazz stardom.)

Though the film includes a lengthy catalog of the inequities experienced by women players before and after the war, it is more celebratory in spirit than indignant. Many of those interviewed exhibit lingering excitement from having participated in something as pivotal as the advent and evolution of jazz. Others offer humorous anecdotes. Jessie Bailey recounts, “When I was playing trombone, Tommy Dorsey was it. And then I met him. I had a onenighter with Tommy Dorsey — how about that?”

Bailey then glances away from the camera, adding coyly, “Not the best I ever had.”

Traveling through time to the present, the film considers the impact of numerous historical benchmarks such as the civil rights and women’s liberation movements, the British Invasion, and the launching of the Kansas City Women’s Jazz Festival in 1978.

Most of the musicians who were active from that point on acknowledge that, even if the odds remain stacked against female players in some ways, the situation has since become more equitable.

“I think jazz is a real clear metaphor for what is best about humanity,” contemporary pianist Geri Allen says toward the end of the film. Both are about “the way we improvise, the way we share, the way we trust.” Her comment, being aimed at the nature of jazz itself, indirectly implies progress regarding the central assertion voiced by many of the film’s participants: these women may be female jazz musicians, but they are first and foremost jazz musicians. ◀

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The rebirth of cruel Laurel Gladden I For The New Mexican Some Velvet Morning, drama, not rated, Center for Contemporary Arts, 3 chiles While Neil LaBute’s characters talk about love, their idea of it is definitely twisted — more like obsession than affection. Not that you should be surprised by a bleak view of love coming from LaBute, who gave us Your Friends and Neighbors and In the Company of Men. His production company is called Contemptible Entertainment, and he specializes in telling stories about the terrible things people do to one another.

As LaBute’s startling, provocative new drama opens, Velvet (Alice Eve) is relaxing and listening to music on a couch in her tastefully furnished town house. The insistent ringing of the doorbell rouses her. Standing on her stoop is a man (Stanley Tucci) with a suitcase in each hand. “It’s me, Fred!” he announces. We can tell from Velvet’s expression that Fred’s visit is unexpected and that she is less than thrilled to see him. She invites him in but insists that she will have to go out later for a lunch date.

We quickly come to understand that Fred and Velvet (that’s not her real name, though we never learn what it is) have a romantic past. Fred claims to have left his wife to be with Velvet after a four-year hiatus. Further details of their complicated, possibly dark past come to light through conversations, some of which are heated, some of which are almost tender. From the outset, though, a sense of menace gurgles just beneath the surface, and you feel pretty certain that things between Fred and Violet are going nowhere good. For better or worse, this is a return to misanthropic form for LaBute, whose recent filmic detour found him directing a Chris Rock comedy (Death at a Funeral) and the Wicker Man remake with Nicolas Cage.

Some Velvet Morning takes place in real time and never strays from Velvet’s home. LaBute’s decision to confine the action to one place lends the film the feeling of a play — a sort of No Exit for modern lovers. This isn’t particularly surprising, given LaBute’s background in theater and the fact that several of his films were originally written and produced as plays. In the closing credits, Some Velvet Morning is dedicated to playwright and author August Strindberg “with love.”

Tucci seems like a ticking time bomb, and he moves easily from teenager-like petulance to lashing out with shocking, almost psychotic vitriol. Eve holds her own, looking powerful in her bright red dress (which pops all the more amid the calming natural tones of her home) and at times towering over Fred in her four-inch stilettos. She’s not above launching her fair share of emotionally loaded verbal barbs, either.

To discuss what happens beyond this, particularly the ending, would spoil your experience of the film. It’s shocking at first, then surprising, and then, if you’re not completely offended, thought-provoking. Say what you will about Neil LaBute, but you should expect nothing less from him. ◀ PASATIEMPOMAGAZINE.COM

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Go fly a kite Robert Nott I The New Mexican Saving Mr. Banks, drama, rated PG-13, Regal Stadium 14, 2.5 chiles To the best of my knowledge, there is no Mary Poppins-themed attraction at either Disney World or Disneyland. In that sense, perhaps Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers won at least one round in her often-contentious battle with Walt Disney regarding his 1964 film adaptation of her famous literary work. For as the story of the not-so-sweet collaboration between the two plays out in John Lee Hancock’s film Saving Mr. Banks, the shrewd businessman/animator took Travers for quite a ride as he turned her creation into — as Travers puts it — “one of your silly cartoons.”

Saving Mr. Banks is a heartfelt if somewhat disturbing look at the story of Disney and Travers, and of her tough childhood in the Australian outback, her love for her wastrel father, her loathing of the Magic Kingdom, and of a lot of other things that just can’t fit comfortably into the screenplay by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith. The film does work in spurts, particularly because of beautiful acting by Emma Thompson as Travers and the easygoing charm of Tom Hanks as Disney. But as the story moves back and forth between the harsh reality of Travers’ early life and the surreal fairy-tale environment of the Disney studio, Saving Mr. Banks fails to sustain a narrative arc strong enough to carry the two tales. The flashback sequences work best, with Colin Farrell (as Travers’ dad), Ruth Wilson (as her mom), and Annie Rose Buckley (Travers as a little girl) all beautifully conveying the pain and hope of a life that continually gets reduced thanks to daddy’s drinking and dreaming.

Surprisingly, it is the scenes set in 1960s Hollywood that fail as Travers attempts to collaborate with Disney’s trio of song- and screenwriters — played by B.J. Novak, Bradley Whitford, and Jason Schwartzman in a way that suggests they could have all switched parts and nobody would have noticed. Their bits of business spotlight a Disneyfied version of events, though it’s to the screenwriters’ credit that, as the story rolls out, you gain more sympathy for the coolly unyielding Travers as you lose empathy for the somewhat devious Disney. As for the 1964 movie, Saving Mr. Banks is bound to alter whatever nostalgic view you have of that picture given how it ties into Travers’ personal backstory. Certain moments will move you, as when Travers watches the film for the first time during its Hollywood premiere.

Mr. Banks, in case you don’t know, is the father figure in Mary Poppins, and if nothing else, Ol' Walt did indeed save him, though it is doubtful that Travers appreciated the gesture. ◀

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Do the hustle Jonathan Richards I For The New Mexican American Hustle, crime drama, rated R, Regal Stadium 14, 3.5 chiles When Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale) and Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) meet at a party, they bond over Duke Ellington. This is appropriate, because David O. Russell has orchestrated his wild and wonderful riff on the 1978 Abscam sting operation like an Ellington suite. American Hustle is an extended cinematic jazz composition, weaving themes and rhythms, tight ensemble work and electrifying solos, and building to a foot-stomping climax.

Irving is a con man. We first see him working a con on his own appearance, plying comb, brush, and pot of glue to arrange long strands of hair over a balding pate, and buttoning a vest over his substantial paunch. “He wasn’t necessarily in good shape,” Sydney tells us drily, “and he had a comb-over that was rather elaborate.”

Irving’s front is as a legitimate businessman with a chain of dry-cleaning stores, but his real money, and satisfaction, comes from taking dupes to the cleaners. When Sydney finds out about his true calling, she’s in heaven. She’s a girl from Albuquerque whose dream in life is to be somebody, anybody, other than who she is. Teaming with Irving, she adopts a peculiar British accent and the persona of Lady Edith Greensly, a London socialite with banking connections. With her wardrobe enhanced by unclaimed

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articles from Irving’s dry cleaning establishments, she works with him to fleece the suckers.

Irving and Sydney become partners in romance as well as business. Irving also has a wife at home, Rosalyn ( Jennifer Lawrence), a sexy, cagey, dumbsmart blonde whom Irving semi-admiringly calls “the Picasso of passive-aggressive karate.” She’s tough and vulnerable, childish and shrewd, and she has about her something of the dangerous loose cannon. As she becomes aware of Irving’s wandering affections, she defends her turf with feral cunning.

She favors scented nail polish that smells “sweet and sour, like flowers, but also garbage.” It’s not a bad description of the lady herself.

Things take a turn when Irving and Sydney run their con on another con artist. Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper) turns out to be an FBI agent, and he puts the screws to the couple, pressing them into working with the Feds to set up a sting operation to entrap corrupt politicians. Cooper, who maintains a hilarious intensity while putting his hair up in curlers and romancing Lady Edith, is a driven, ambitious career climber. At the hub of the entrapment hustle is Carmine Polito ( Jeremy Renner), a decent, altruistic New Jersey mayor who has nothing on his agenda but improving the lives of his constituents and the economy of his state, which is just putting a toe into casino gambling. Regrettably, in that particular area, it can occasionally be necessary to dirty one’s hands a little.

Historically, Russell’s movie is loosely draped around the shoulders of the post-Watergate FBI sting operation that employed the services of a real con artist, a guy named Melvin Weinberg (with whom Bale spent some time to get a feel for his character).

Using an elaborate setup involving a phony Arab sheikh with millions to invest, the Abscam operation landed a few notable politicians in the late 1970s.

The decade plays a big part in the ambience of American Hustle, with Michael Wilkinson’s costumes and Judy Becker’s production design contributing wonderfully to the atmosphere, along with a great jukebox soundtrack of period hits.

Russell has been establishing himself as a great actors’ director, and the work he gets from his actors here is a joy to watch. He has assembled much of the cast from his recent movies. Adams and Bale did fabulous work in Russell’s 2010 The Fighter, and Lawrence and Cooper have moved over from their triumph in last year’s Silver Linings Playbook, along with an uncredited Robert De Niro in a delicious cameo appearance. Bale, who lost 62 pounds 10 years ago for The Machinist, larded on 40 pounds of potbelly for Irving, developed a slouching posture, and got a couple of herniated disks for his trouble.

The excellent work doesn’t fall off as you move further down in the cast, and special mention must be made of Elisabeth Röhm as the wife of Renner’s Mayor Polito and Louis C.K. as Cooper’s longsuffering FBI boss.

“People believe what they want to believe,” Irving philosophizes. “We’re all conning ourselves, one way or another, just to get through life.” In the excellent screenplay by Russell and Eric Singer, everybody’s conning everybody, each other, and themselves — the audience included — and the operation leads through some unexpected turns and reversals.

American Hustle has the feel of a well-executed caper movie, blended with the Scorsese model of a mob picture like Goodfellas. The facts of the actual Abscam operation shouldn’t be taken too much to heart. “Some of this actually happened,” a title card announces modestly at the outset.

Probably not much. What’s important is that it actually happens on the screen, and that’s a hustle worth being taken in by. ◀

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The think from another world Paul Weideman I The New Mexican Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? documentary, not rated, Center for Contemporary Arts, 3.5 chiles French director Michel Gondry’s new documentary profile of linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky vibrates with energy. The filmmaker chose to frame their conversations with wonderfully lively, colorful, and complex (but casual in its hand-drawn character) animation.

Rather than standing as the complete story of Chomsky’s life and mind, Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? offers powerful glimpses. At one point Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Green Hornet) invokes René Descartes’ methodological skepticism, his protocol of doubt. “That ought to be the ideal of teaching, whether it’s children or graduate students. They should be taught to challenge and to question,” responds Chomsky, an MIT professor of linguistics since 1955 and the author of more than 100 books.

“Every stage of science or even just learning, serious learning, comes from just asking, Why do things work like that? Why not some other way? The world is a very puzzling place, and if you’re willing to be puzzled, you can learn.”

Chomsky attended a no-grades school that encouraged students to pursue their interests. He read Hebrew classics and 19th-century literature with his father from age 10, and as a young boy he rode a bicycle all over the countryside with a friend and took subway trips to Philadelphia’s science and natural-history museums.

Plato, Aristotle, Galileo, Huygens, Bernoulli, Newton, and Hume pop up in his dialogues with Gondry. Conversation points include generative grammar, natural selection, cognitive endowment, the mechanism of inspiration, the growth and generational transmission of farming knowledge by women, Asperger syndrome, pre-World War II anti-Semitism in Philadelphia, contemporary Holocaust-denial in France, and the repression of the Kurds in western Asia.

His objectivity is profound. In fact, he sometimes sounds like a person from outer space observing humans. One involved recitation begins with, “We do not identify dogs in terms of their physical characteristics [but rather] in terms of a property of psychic continuity. ... So they’re basically mental objects. So that means the whole referentialist concept has to be thrown out, and you have to look at the relation of language to the world in some different fashion.”

In several instances, the film preserves the director’s struggles to communicate with Chomsky — sometimes because the philosopher doesn’t let him complete his questions. And Gondry sweats the mammoth task of creating nearly an hour and a half of animation drawings. “The truth is I am frantically going through this animation, and it has been two years since I started, so Norm is now 84.”

His achievement is a worthy portrayal of this mountain of knowledge. ◀

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Sweethearts of Rhythm all the way up to the most sensational players of today, the film makes the case that these women may be female jazz musicians, but they are first and foremost jazz musicians. Not rated.

87 minutes. The Screen, Santa Fe. (Loren Bienvenu) See review, Page 46.

GRUDGE MATCH Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro rose to fame playing iconic boxers. That was more than 30 years ago. Now the two men play ex-boxers who hate each other’s guts but agree to get back in the ring for a payday and — for one of them — payback.

Alan Arkin and Kevin Hart costar in this comedy.

Opens Wednesday, Dec. 25. Rated PG-13. 114 minutes.

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I’d like to thank all the gullible rubes of this fine country: Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street, opening on Wednesday, Dec. 25, at Regal Stadium 14 in Santa Fe and DreamCatcher in Española

opening this week AMERICAN HUSTLE Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale) and Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) bond over Duke Ellington at a party. This is appropriate, because David O. Russell has orchestrated his wild and wonderful riff on the 1978 Abscam sting operation like an Ellington suite.

The film is an extended cinematic jazz composition, weaving themes and rhythms, tight ensemble work and electrifying solos, and building to a foot-stomping climax. Irving and Sydney are con artists who get ensnared into working with an unscrupulous FBI agent (Bradley Cooper). The performances are terrific, including Jennifer Lawrence as Irving’s sexy, cagey, dumb-smart wife. Rated R. 138 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. ( Jonathan Richards). See review, Page 52.

BIG SUR Jack Kerouac’s semiautobiographical 1962 novel is brought to life in this indie drama starring Jean-Marc Barr as Kerouac and Kate Bosworth as his love interest, Billie. The two spend time in Big Sur in the wake of Kerouac’s newfound fame, when all drinking and no work make Jack an unstable boy.

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A CHRISTMAS STORY If Norman Rockwell had been a filmmaker, he’d probably have made something like Bob Clark’s 1983 film about Christmas in the 1940s Midwest and a boy named Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) who really wants Santa to bring him a Red Ryder BB Gun. The movie has long since evolved into holiday comfort food, if not an annual tradition for many families, and newcomers may be surprised to find that many iconic film moments (the Santa chute, the “you’ll shoot your eye out” joke, the tongue stuck to the frozen pole) found their genesis here. Rated PG. 94 minutes. Jean Cocteau Cinema, Santa Fe. (Robert Ker) 47 RONIN In this Eastern-styled action movie, Keanu Reeves plays a half-Japanese man who was once booted from his samurai clan due to his heritage.

But when the clan is broken up by deadly warlords, shapeshifters, and general villainy, it comes crawling back to Keanu. Whoa. Opens Wednesday, Dec. 25.

Rated PG-13. 127 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed) THE GIRLS IN THE BAND Director Judy Chaikin gives an overdue ovation to female jazz instrumentalists past and present in this touching music doc, which offers the perfect blend of sometimes grainy, sometimes vivid archival footage and thoughtful interviews. From the vaudeville performers of the 1920s and ’30s and pioneering all-female big bands like The International

IS THE MAN WHO IS TALL HAPPY? What a cool way to frame intellectualist conversations with linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky: in an astounding sequence of colorful, hand-drawn animations that vibrate with energy. Director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) endeavors to illustrate and elucidate Chomsky’s talks about generative grammar, the challenge of science, women’s knowledge of farming, and the repression of the Kurds in western Asia with squiggly animated drawings — while also attempting to simply communicate with the man. Brilliant effort! Not rated. 88 minutes. Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. (Paul Weideman) See review, Page 53.

MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM The timing of this film’s release may seem like a cheap cash-in on the death of one of the world’s greatest men (Nelson Mandela, played here by Idris Elba), but rest assured it was already in the pipeline. It should help educate the young’uns who didn’t know who he was until the obits ran. Opens Wednesday, Dec. 25.

Rated PG-13. 139 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) PERFORMANCE AT THE SCREEN The series of high-definition screenings continues with a showing of Bizet’s Carmen from Sydney Harbor.

Rinat Shaham, Dmytro Popov, and Andrew Jones star. 11 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 22, only. Not rated.

141 minutes, plus one intermission. The Screen, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS Martians kidnap Santa Claus and two meddling Earth children to make their Martian kiddies happy. A guy in a polar-bear suit chases the kids around the North Pole, and another guy in a cheap robot outfit knocks some elves down in Santa’s toy shop, but oh is it fun — to some degree. Somehow, a chile rating just doesn’t seem appropriate. Let’s give

this 1964 cheapie two candy canes, because it’s sweet.

Not too sweet — just sweet enough. But remember, if eaten in excess, candy canes can cause toothaches, so maybe you should just watch it once. 11 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, Dec. 20 and 21, only. Not rated.

80 minutes. Jean Cocteau Cinema, Santa Fe. (Robert Nott) See story, Page 44.

SAVING MR. BANKS Fans of Mary Poppins (the film and the book series) will probably find this biopic depicting the often contentious struggle between Walt Disney and author P.L. Travers fascinating, if disturbing. But as the film moves back and forth between the harsh reality of Travers’ childhood in the Australian outback and the fairy-tale environment of Disney’s studio, the screenplay’s arc just isn’t strong enough to carry the two tales. Still, Emma Thompson gives a beautiful turn as the strong-willed Travers, while Tom Hanks is all easygoing charm as Disney. Rated PG-13. 125 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe. (Robert Nott) See review, Page 50.

THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY James Thurber’s 1939 short story about an unimportant man who daydreams big was once a staple of middle-school English class. Now, Walter’s dreams are even bigger in this CGI-crazy blockbuster starring Ben Stiller in the title role (and in the director’s chair).

Kristen Wiig, Shirley MacLaine, and Sean Penn costar.

Opens Wednesday, Dec. 25. Rated PG. 114 minutes.

Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española.

(Not reviewed) SOME VELVET MORNING For better or worse, this is a return to misanthropic form for writer-director Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men), who specializes in stories about the terrible things people do to one another. One afternoon, Fred (Stanley Tucci) arrives unannounced at the tastefully furnished town house of Velvet (Alice Eve) with a suitcase in each hand. He claims to have finally left his wife, and Velvet is less than thrilled to see him. Further details of their complicated, possibly twisted past come to light through conversations, all of which take place in real time and never stray from Velvet’s home. A sense of menace gurgles beneath the surface, and you feel pretty certain that things between Fred and Violet are going nowhere good. Not rated. 82 minutes. Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. (Laurel Gladden) See review, Page 47.

WALKING WITH DINOSAURS This film, based on the BBC documentary series of the same name, attempts to use animation to present dinosaur life in the way that a Disneynature documentary might educate us on chimpanzees — by following a young creature through life and telling its story, although the dinos here are voiced by actors (including John

Leguizamo and Justin Long). Rated PG. 87 minutes.

Screens in 3-D and 2-D at Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed) THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Director Martin Scorsese and his cohort Leonardo DiCaprio team up for a tale about a stockbroker (DiCaprio) who learns from a sleazy mentor (Matthew McConaughey) that greed is good and founds a brokerage firm to bilk clients. Jonah Hill plays a geek who signs on for a piece of the pie. Based on Jordan Belfort’s memoir.

Opens Wednesday, Dec. 25. Rated R. 179 minutes.

Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed)

now in theaters ALL IS LOST A man (Robert Redford) is stranded on a crippled vessel somewhere in the Indian Ocean in this often-enthralling drama from writer and director J.C. Chandor (Margin Call). All Is Lost is basically Robert Redford against the sea, and it relies on good old-fashioned storytelling to keep you involved. It’s a gutsy project that trusts its audience to trust it back, but be warned: the final third of the film gets a bit repetitious — in a most soggy manner. Rated PG-13. 106 minutes. The Screen, Santa Fe. (Robert Nott) ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES We hope you’ve stayed classy, Santa Fe, because Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) is back, and he’s got the whole Channel 4 news team (Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, David Koechner, and Christina Applegate) with him. This sequel to the 2004 comedy finds the gang headed to cable news and the 1980s. Don’t act like you’re not impressed. Rated PG-13. 119 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed) BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR Abdellatif Kechiche’s emotionally rich drama tells the story of Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos), a high school student whose burgeoning sexuality leads her on a journey of self-discovery after she meets Emma (Léa Seydoux), a lesbian whose openness brings Adèle out of her shell.

Raw passion ignites the screen, and despite its graphic sex scenes, Blue Is the Warmest Color never strays into gimmicks or sentimentality. It’s as honest a film as you are likely to see this year. Rated NC-17. 179 minutes.

In French with subtitles. Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. (Michael Abatemarco) DALLAS BUYERS CLUB In 1985, a cocky homophobic sex-, booze-, and drug-addicted Texas redneck named

Ron Woodroof was diagnosed as HIV-positive, at a time when AIDS was known almost exclusively as a gay disease. His reaction to the diagnosis, and his battle against the big-hospital/big-pharma/FDA cartel that put profit ahead of patients, is the basis for this remarkable story. Taking it to the next level are the terrific performances of Matthew McConaughey as Woodroof and Jared Leto as his sweet but steely transvestite sidekick Rayon. Rated R. 117 minutes.

Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe. ( Jonathan Richards) ENOUGH SAID Fans of Woody Allen’s rom-coms for adult audiences should embrace this charmer about two divorced empty-nesters (Julia Louis-Dreyfus and, in his final performance, James Gandolfini) who fall for each other and then find that middle-age relationships come fraught with baggage and defense mechanisms.

Louis-Dreyfus shows more depth and Gandolfini more softness than either one’s iconic TV roles would suggest; the two head a terrific cast. Nicole Holofcener directs them all with a generous spirit. Rated PG-13.

93 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. (Robert Ker) FAUST This is the final film in what director Aleksandr Sokurov (Russian Ark) calls a tetralogy of power. The first three entries dealt with historical subjects — Hitler (Moloch), Lenin (Taurus), and Hirohito (The Sun).

This one takes on the root of all that evil, in the Goethe tale of the human lust for power. A tetralogy in classic Greek theater consisted of three tragedies followed by a bawdy burlesque. Sokurov’s quartet fills that bill. Despite a heavy, permeating darkness, the film is a ribald and sometimes almost slapstick rendering of the Faust myth, set in a Bruegel landscape of poverty and squalor. Not rated. 134 minutes.

In German with subtitles. The Screen, Santa Fe. (Jonathan Richards) FOLLOWING THE NINTH: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF BEETHOVEN’S FINAL SYMPHONY Karry Candaele’s film takes viewers around the world in pursuit of finding out what makes Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony so universally loved. Not rated.

90 minutes. Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) FROZEN Disney’s latest animated fable is a strange one: it is a tale of misunderstanding with a complicated setup but no real villain or central conflict. Two princess sisters in a fantasy kingdom are split apart when one is revealed to have magical powers to summon cold, snow, and ice. With the help of a big lug ( Jonathan Groff), the younger woman (Kristen Bell) must pull her older sis out of her wintery withdrawal from society. The continued on Page 56 PASATIEMPOMAGAZINE.COM

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film is a breeze, despite the awkward first act and uneven songs. Rated PG. 108 minutes. Screens in 3-D and 2-D at Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; 2-D only at DreamCatcher, Española. (Robert Ker) GRAVITY You’ve never seen a movie like this before. Tense and gripping but also tranquil and meditative, this thriller from director Alfonso Cuarón centers on two astronauts (George Clooney and Sandra Bullock) whose shuttle is destroyed while they are on a space walk. The resulting struggle to survive — like the special effects of the film itself — showcases humankind’s vast resourcefulness and potential. Cuarón’s story also celebrates how small, yet still important, we all are. Rated PG-13. 91 minutes. Screens in 3-D only at Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe. (Robert Ker) THE GREAT BEAUTY Paolo Sorrentino’s (Il Divo) breathtaking excursion through Roman high life is a sad, funny, sexy, heartbreaking, and exquisite look at a society dancing as fast as it can to keep up with a past that can’t be caught or even quite remembered.

Our guide through this funhouse labyrinth of beauty, debauchery, pretension, and yearning is Jep Gambardella (Toni Servillo), an aging writer and bon vivant who made a literary splash with a slim novel 40 years ago and hasn’t been able to think of anything worth writing about since. La Grande Bellezza is a conscious and masterful updating of Fellini.

Not rated. 142 minutes. In Italian with subtitles.

Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. (Jonathan Richards) THE HOBBIT: DESOLATION OF SMAUG As if in reaction to criticism that The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was too slow, director Peter Jackson keeps the action pumping at a brisk pace in this sequel. Given that the film is nearly three hours long, it can get exhausting. But it feels shorter than many 90-minute films thanks to the exquisite attention to detail that is standard with the Lord of the Rings series. The story almost entirely abandons the source material and is the usual “quest to vanquish evil and preserve peace” plot. The results boast swashbuckling action, operatic drama, psychedelic sequences, and a jim-dandy of a dragon (voiced by Benedict

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Cumberbatch). Rated PG-13. 160 minutes. Screens in 3-D and 2-D at Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; 2-D only at DreamCatcher, Española. (Robert Ker) THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE This is a rare case of a movie that’s just as good as the book on which it’s based. Defiant Katniss ( Jennifer Lawrence) has unwittingly inspired unrest in Panem, a dystopian nation where a totalitarian government punishes its citizens for their rebellion by forcing children to compete in an annual televised battle to the death. To dampen Katniss’ fire, sinister President Snow (Donald Sutherland) and a new Head Gamemaker (Philip Seymour Hoffman) force her back into the arena.

Thankfully, the phony-looking costumes and clumsy camerawork of the first film are long gone.

Rated PG-13. 146 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Laurel Gladden) THE LAST DAYS ON MARS That title sounds like a metaphor, suggesting a possible indie psychodrama. Unfortunately, the film’s name is entirely literal, which makes it boring but also fitting, because the movie is really boring. There are astronauts, and they are on Mars. No one likes one another, and everyone’s tone of voice sounds either tired or annoyed. Then suddenly there are zombies, a turn of events not ridiculous enough to offer any campy fun. The talented cast, which includes Liev Schreiber and Olivia Williams, also seems really bored. Rated PG-13. 98 minutes. Jean Cocteau Cinema, Santa Fe. (Jennifer Levin) NEBRASKA Woody Grant (Bruce Dern) has won a million dollars, or so his letter from Publishers Clearing House says, and he’s determined to go to Lincoln, Nebraska, to claim his prize. His son David (Will Forte) agrees to drive him. This is the slender setup for Alexander Payne’s (The Descendants) sweet, biting, funny, comedydrama of a receding American Midwest. As important as any of the characters is the gorgeous black-andwhite photography, which renders the landscape in muted, evocative charcoal washes and brings out the lonely feeling of an era and a generation disappearing into the past. It’s like The Last Picture Show revisited 60 years later, with the teenagers now in their dotage.

Rated R. 115 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. (Jonathan Richards) OUT OF THE FURNACE Originality is not the strong suit of this tough, gritty Rust Belt revenge melodrama of two brothers caught in the cold quicksand of the dead American dream, but some startlingly good performances give it life.

Christian Bale is Russell, who does time for a DWI with tragic consequences, and Casey Affleck is his kid brother Rodney, a damaged veteran of four tours in Iraq whose life is in tatters and whose fists are his

only resource. Director Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart) knows how to direct actors, but he has trouble with the subtleties of storytelling. Rated R. 116 minutes.

Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe. ( Jonathan Richards) PHILOMENA Steve Coogan plays a down-on-his-luck journalist who takes on a human-interest story by bringing an Irish woman ( Judi Dench) to America to find her long-estranged son. The film is marketed as a lighthearted, odd-couple comedy — and there are laughs — but the material runs much deeper and darker than that. Before director Stephen Frears (The Queen) is done taking us on all of his unpredictable and often rewarding turns, we’ve pondered aging, forgiveness, the existence of God, and how different perspectives paint a distorted picture of one’s life. Rated PG-13.

98 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. (Robert Ker) 12 YEARS A SLAVE Director Steve McQueen takes us into America’s slave trade with the same clinical observation and exquisite composition that he used in his previous features, Hunger and Shame. Alas, he tarnishes his adaptation of Solomon Northup’s 1853 autobiography — about the free-born man’s stint as a slave after being captured and shipped south — with too many movie moments, blunting the impact and putting his intentions into question. There’s fine acting all around, from Chiwetel Ejiofor’s star turn as Northup and Michael Fassbender’s landowner to newcomer Lupita Nyong’o’s portrait of suffering. Rated R. 133 minutes.

Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. (Robert Ker) TYLER PERRY’S A MADEA CHRISTMAS What would Christmas be without a new Tyler Perry’s Madea movie? Fortunately, we’ll never have to find out, because there is seemingly a new one every year. Here, Madea (Tyler Perry) takes guff from nobody once more — this time at Christmas. Rated PG-13. 105 minutes.

Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española.

(Not reviewed)

other screenings Center for Contemporary Arts 2 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 25: Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, followed by a Chinese dinner catered by Yummy Café (see story, Page 42).

Jean Cocteau Cinema 6:20 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 22: The Dark Matters Film Festival Animated Shorts.

8:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 22: The Dark Matters Film Festival Sci-Fi Shorts.

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Following the Ninth: In The Footsteps of Beethoven’s Final Symphony (NR) Fri. to Sun.

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The Great Beauty (NR) Fri. to Sun. 1:15 p.m., 7:30 p.m. Mon. 1:45 p.m., 4:45 p.m., 7:30 p.m.

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Tue. 2 p.m. Thurs. 4:15 p.m., 6:30 p.m.

Some Velvet Morning (NR) Fri. to Sun. 12:15 p.m., 8:30 p.m. Mon. 8:30 p.m. Thurs. 8:30 p.m.

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A Christmas Story (PG) Fri. to Sun. 4:15 p.m.

Tue. 6:20 p.m. Thurs. 6:20 p.m.

Dark Matters Film Festival (NR) Sun. 6:20 p.m., 8:30 p.m.

The Last Days on Mars (R) Fri. and Sat. 8:30 p.m.

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12 Years a Slave (R) Fri. and Sat. 12:50 p.m., 3:50 p.m., 6:50 p.m., 9:45 p.m. Sun. to Tue. 12:50 p.m., 3:50 p.m., 6:50 p.m.

The BookThief (PG-13) Fri. and Sat. 12:30 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m., 9:25 p.m. Sun. to Tue. 12:30 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m.

Captain Phillips (PG-13) Fri. and Sat. 12:40 p.m., 3:40 p.m., 6:40 p.m., 9:35 p.m. Sun. to Tue. 12:40 p.m., 3:40 p.m., 6:40 p.m.

Enough Said (PG-13) Fri. and Sat. 12:35 p.m., 3 p.m., 5:15 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 9:50 p.m. Sun. to Tue. 12:35 p.m., 3 p.m., 5:15 p.m., 7:30 p.m.

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47 Ronin 3D (PG-13) Wed. 1:10 p.m., 4:10 p.m., 7:15 p.m., 10:15 p.m. Thurs. 10 a.m., 1:10 p.m., 4:10 p.m., 7:15 p.m., 10:15 p.m.

American Hustle (R) Fri. to Mon. 10:20 a.m., 1:25 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 7:35 p.m., 10:40 p.m.

Anchorman 2:The Legend Continues (PG-13) Fri. to Mon. 10:50 a.m., 11:20 a.m., 1:40 p.m., 2:10 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 4:50 p.m., 7:20 p.m., 7:40 p.m., 10:10 p.m., 10:30 p.m.

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Grudge Match (PG-13) Wed. and Thurs. 11 a.m., 2 p.m., 5 p.m., 7:50 p.m., 10:35 p.m.

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The Hobbit:The Desolation of Smaug (PG-13) Fri. to Sun. 11:30 a.m., 12 p.m., 4 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 8 p.m., 11 p.m. Mon. 11:30 a.m., 12 p.m., 4 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 8 p.m., 11 p.m.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG-13) Fri. to Mon. 12:50 p.m., 4:05 p.m., 7:25 p.m., 10:45 p.m.

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (PG-13) Wed. and Thurs. 12:45 p.m., 4:05 p.m., 7:20 p.m., 10:35 p.m.

Out of the Furnace (R) Fri. to Mon. 7:15 p.m., 10 p.m. CC-Closed Captions Saving Mr. Banks (PG-13) Fri. to Mon. 11 a.m., 1:55 p.m., 4:50 p.m., 7:45 p.m., 10:40 p.m.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG) Wed. 1 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m., 10 p.m. Thurs. 10:15 a.m., 1 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m., 10 p.m.

Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas (PG-13) Fri. to Mon. 12:10 p.m., 2:40 p.m., 5:15 p.m., 7:45 p.m., 10:20 p.m.

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Anchorman 2:The Legend Continues (PG-13) Fri. 4:45 p.m., 7:20 p.m., 9:55 p.m. Sat. 2:10 p.m., 4:45 p.m., 7:20 p.m., 9:55 p.m. Sun. 2:10 p.m., 4:45 p.m., 7:20 p.m. Mon. 4:45 p.m., 7:20 p.m.

Tue. 2:10 p.m., 4:45 p.m.

Frozen (PG) Fri. 4:35 p.m., 7:05 p.m. Sat. and Sun. 2:05 p.m., 4:35 p.m., 7:05 p.m. Mon. 4:35 p.m., 7:05 p.m. Tue. 2:05 p.m., 4:35 p.m.

Grudge Match (PG-13) Opens Wed. The Hobbit:The Desolation of Smaug (PG-13) Fri. 4:25 p.m., 6:55 p.m., 9:25 p.m. Sat. 2:20 p.m., 4:25 p.m., 6:55 p.m., 9:25 p.m. Sun. 2:20 p.m., 4:25 p.m., 6:55 p.m. Mon. 4:25 p.m., 6:55 p.m.

Tue. 2:20 p.m., 4:25 p.m.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG-13) Fri. 6:50 p.m., 9:50 p.m. Sat. 2:30 p.m., 6:50 p.m., 9:50 p.m. Sun. 2:30 p.m., 6:50 p.m. Mon. 6:50 p.m.

Tue. 2:30 p.m.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG) Opens Wed. Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas (PG-13) Fri. 4:50 p.m., 7:25 p.m., 9:50 p.m. Sat. 2:15 p.m., 4:50 p.m., 7:25 p.m., 9:50 p.m. Sun. 2:15 p.m., 4:50 p.m., 7:25 p.m. Mon. 4:50 p.m., 7:25 p.m.

Tue. 2:15 p.m., 4:50 p.m.

Walking With Dinosaurs (PG) Fri. 4:30 p.m., 7 p.m., 9:35 p.m. Sat. 2 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 7 p.m., 9:35 p.m.

Sun. 2 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 7 p.m. Mon. 4:30 p.m., 7 p.m.

Tue. 2 p.m., 4:30 p.m.

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RESTAURANT REVIEW Laurel Gladden I For The New Mexican

Better off red

The Shed

113½ E. Palace Ave., 505-982-9030 Lunch 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m., dinner 5:30-9 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays, closed Sundays Vegetarian options Takeout available Handicapped-accessible Noise level: festive but not deafening Full bar Credit cards, checks accepted

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The Short Order Once you’re inside the wonky-looking adobe hacienda that houses The Shed, a friendly staff member will eventually guide you through the restaurant’s ant-colony-like complex of colorful rooms to your table.

The menu includes quesadillas, a variety of fresh salads, and bowls of warm and comforting things like green chile stew and mushroom soup, as well as steaks and burgers. But chile is the thing here — The Shed’s red is consistently voted best in town.

Any New Mexican classic — enchiladas, tacos, burritos, or huevos rancheros — can be doused in the stuff, and you’ll be satisfied by nearly any dish you choose.

Recommended: green chile stew, mushroom soup, Shedburger, huevos rancheros, blue corn enchiladas, Shed Silver margarita, and mocha cake.

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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Let’s pretend you’re a tourist or you’ve just moved to Santa Fe. You’re strolling down Palace Avenue, and as you notice a colorful, almost psychedelic-looking wooden sign overhead announcing The Shed, you peer around the corner into a courtyard. It’s crammed with people waiting, some more patiently than others, for a table at one of Santa Fe’s stalwart dining establishments, founded by the Carswell family in the 1950s.

Once you’re inside the lavender doors of the wonkylooking adobe hacienda (the bones of the building date to the 1690s), you may be in for a bit of a wait. The restaurant takes reservations at dinner — and making one is highly recommended — but not at lunch. Soften the blow of a 30-plus-minute holding pattern with a potent margarita like the Shed Silver, made with Hornitos and Triple Sec, or the Silver Spur, with Espolón Blanco and Cointreau. Around this time of year, a fire is likely to be crackling in the small kiva fireplace, and the waiting room can fill up quickly, but a little tequila usually contributes to a jovial ambience. In warmer months you can linger in the brick- and flagstone-paved patio with its lush vines and cluster of surrounding shops.

A friendly staff member will eventually guide you through the restaurant’s ant-colony-like complex of colorful rooms (you might have to duck in one or two places). Food and drinks are typically delivered surprisingly rapidly — you may not have time to finish snacking on the buttery guacamole and concentrated ruby-red tomato salsa — and with a businesslike brevity and efficiency. The servers don’t have much time to chat, though, since the restaurant is nearly always at full capacity.

Meals can begin with a bowl of something warm and comforting. The green chile stew, loaded with potato and pork, packs a punch. Mellower is the mushroom soup, a rich, filling cream-based elixir with a light-brown tint from pureed button mushrooms. Also on the tamer side are colorful, serviceable veggie and chicken quesadillas and a garden salad that includes a variety of fresh, healthy-tasting greens, a haystack of grated carrot, a scattering of sunflower seeds, a few green beans, cucumber rounds, and tomatoes.

The Shed accommodates those who prefer more “allAmerican” menus, offering a few steaks and burgers. The Shedburger was an unexpected pleasure. It’s topped with pico de gallo and your choice of cheese and served on a lightly toasted bun with a brioche-like softness. Even cooked to a perfect medium, as we ordered it, it was moist and juicy, without turning into a gloppy, sloppy mess.

But really, chile is the thing. The green is fine and spicy, if a bit soupy, but The Shed’s red is consistently voted best in town. (To help with the occasional at-home craving, you can even buy it by the jar.) Any New Mexican classic — enchiladas, tacos, burritos, huevos rancheros — can be doused in the stuff, and you’ll be satisfied by nearly any dish you choose.

Most dishes can be ordered à la carte or as a platter, which includes tender, savory pinto beans (vegetarian) and posole studded with niblets of falling-apart pork.

My go-to is huevos rancheros. Here, two blue-corn tortillas are topped with tangy cheddar cheese and two eggs cooked “to order.” But the over-medium eggs I requested consistently

arrived at the table completely runny, so I’m going to stop ordering them that way. I feel like the kitchen’s scolding me for asking for anything besides over-easy.

The carne adovada impressed me — the kind of low-andslow stewing required to achieve that level of tenderness is hard to maintain, and the meat had intriguing hints of herbs and aromatics. (Oregano and maybe clove?) The enchiladas are the rolled sort — blue-corn tortillas filled with cheddar and onion and blanketed with chile. It’s far from the most artful plate you’ll be presented with in Santa Fe, but you’ll quickly be riding a wave of chile-induced euphoria, feeling full and satisfied.

Bring yourself back down to earth with something sweet.

My dining companions opted for the delicate-but-cleansing citrus and intense creaminess of the lemon soufflé, but for me, the mocha cake is a clear winner. Served cold, it’s a block of something like powerful chocolate mousse with a slight (but not unpleasant) sugary graininess and an undercurrent of coffee.

A word to the uninitiated: these desserts will have to stand in for the more traditional New Mexican dining finale, the sopaipilla. At The Shed, a basket of garlic bread accompanies every meal instead. If you can’t fathom a lunch or dinner in Santa Fe without a sopaipilla drizzled with honey, save yourself the heartache and eat elsewhere. Or, better yet, step outside your comfort zone and dunk a hunk of buttery, salty bread in the remnants of red chile on your plate. Your world just might change for the better. ◀

Check, please Dinner for four at The Shed: Chips, salsa, and guacamole ..............................$8.25 Cup, mushroom soup ........................................$5.25 Bowl, green chile stew .......................................$8.50 Large mixed green salad ....................................$8.25 Vegetable quesadilla ..........................................$7.75 Chicken quesadilla ............................................$8.00 Huevos rancheros ............................................$12.75 Enchilada and taco (No. 11) ............................$11.75 Shed Silver margarita ........................................ $8.75 Sangria ...............................................................$6.00 Mocha cake ........................................................$4.75 TOTAL .............................................................$90.00 (before tax and tip) Lunch for three, another visit: Chips, salsa, and guacamole ..............................$8.25 Enchilada plate (No. 5) ...................................$10.00 Carne adovada plate ........................................$12.00 Shedburger ........................................................$9.00 Three Silver Spur margaritas ($9.75 each) ......$29.25 TOTAL $68.50 (before tax and tip)

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every first and third Friday of the month, Dance Station, 910 W. Alameda St., $5, full schedule available online at dancestationusa.com.

Pueblo of Tesuque Flea Market Friday-Sunday through the year, 9 a.m.4 p.m., 15 Flea Market Rd., no charge, pueblooftesuquefleamarket.com.

GALLERY/MUSEUM OPENINGS

Abbate Fine Art 713 Canyon Rd., 505-438-8881. Winter’s Walk: A Fortnight With Jono Tew, reception 5-8 p.m., through Dec. 29.

Betterday Coffee 905 W. Alameda St., Cartoons of My Mind, work by Jacqueline (Jax) Manhoff, reception 4-6 p.m., through Dec. 27.

Heidi Loewen Porcelain Gallery 315 Johnson St., 505-988-2225. Treasures in Red & Gold, work by Loewen, reception 5-7:30 p.m., through January.

Matthews Gallery 669 Canyon Rd., 505-992-2882. Deck the Walls, rare and notable works on paper, reception 10 a.m.-5 p.m., through December.

Patina Gallery 131 W. Palace Ave., 505-986-3432. Delicacies, jewelry by Barbara Heinrich, reception 5-7 p.m., through Jan. 12.

Tansey Contemporary 652 Canyon Rd., 505-995-8513. Devocionales: Neo-Colonial Retablos From an Archetypal Perspective, paintings by Patrick McGrath Muñiz, reception 5-7 p.m., through January. (See story, Page 30).

NIGHTLIFE

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Chuscales Local flamenco guitarist in Forever in My Heart, holiday concert, chuscales. com, 7:30 p.m., El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, 555 Camino de la Familia, $30 in advance at brownpapertickets.com.

Santa Fe Desert Chorale The 2013 Winter Festival continues with Carols and Lullabies, 8 p.m., Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, 131 Cathedral Place, $15-$65; student discounts available, desertchorale.org, 505-988-2282.

(See review, Page 18).

Santa Fe Pro Musica Baroque Ensemble A Baroque Christmas, featuring mezzo-sopranos Deborah Domanski and Dianna Grabowski, 6 and 8 p.m., Loretto Chapel, 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, $20-$65, advance tickets available at the SFPM box office, 505-988-4640, Ext. 1000, santafepromusica.com, or at the Lensic box office, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org, encores through Christmas Eve. (See story, Page 26).

TGIF recital: Chancel Bells and High Desert Harp Ensemble Traditional Christmas selections, 5:30-6 p.m., First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe, 208 Grant Ave., 505-982-8544, Ext. 16, donations accepted.

IN CONCERT

Nedra Matteucci Galleries shows work by Leon Gaspard, 1075 Paseo de Peralta

THEATER/DANCE

Music Café Vocal Series Susan Abod with Bert Dalton on piano, Andy Zadrozny on bass, and John Trentacosta on drums, 7 p.m., Museum Hill Cafe, 710 Camino Lejo, $25, 505-983-6820, santafemusiccollective.org.

Pasa’s Little Black Book......... 62 Elsewhere............................ 64 People Who Need People..... 64 Under 21............................. 64 Pasa Kids............................ 64

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A Christmas Carol Santa Fe Playhouse presents Charles Dickens’ classic adapted by Doris Baizley, 7:30 p.m., Santa Fe Playhouse, 142 E. De Vargas St., $20; discounts available; santafeplayhouse.org, 505-988-4262, final weekend.

Annie Presented by Musical Theatre Works Santa Fe, 7 p.m., Greer Garson Theatre, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., $15 in advance at musicaltheatreworks.net, student discounts available, $20 at the door, 505-946-0488, Friday-Sunday through Dec. 29.

In the Wings....................... 65 At the Galleries.................... 66 Libraries............................. 66 Museums & Art Spaces........ 66 Exhibitionism...................... 67

OUTDOORS Glow Special outdoor lighting event running Thursday-Saturday through Jan. 4; includes an exhibit by ceramic sculptor Christy Hengst, 5-8 p.m., Santa Fe Botanical Garden, 725 Camino Lejo, $8 in advance and at the door, children 12 and under no charge, santafebotanicalgarden.org, 505-471-9103.

EVENTS

DJ at Dance Station Varied DJ’d music, class 7-7:30 p.m., dancing 7:30-9 p.m.

(See Page 62 for addresses) Café Café Guitarist Michael Tait Tafoya, 6 p.m., no cover.

Chispa! at El Mesón Three Faces of Jazz, 7:30 p.m., no cover.

Cowgirl BBQ John Craigie, folk songs, 5 p.m.; Busy & The Crazy 88 present Jingle Jangle Jazz-O-Rama, 8 p.m., no cover.

Duel Brewing Holiday special with Anthony Leon and Joe West, 7 p.m., no cover.

Evangelo’s Local cover band Chango, 9 p.m., call for cover.

Hotel Santa Fe Guitarist/flutist Ronald Roybal, 7-9 p.m., no cover.

Iconik Coffee Roasters Billy Miles Brooke’s Big Birthday Bash, ’70s glam and CBGB rock and roll, 8 p.m., call for cover, 21+.

La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda Nosotros, salsa music, 8 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.

Low ’n’ Slow Lowrider Bar at Hotel Chimayó Revolver Trio with Loren Bienvenu on drums, Robin Holloway on piano, and Jon Gagan on bass, 9:30 p.m., no cover.

Mine Shaft Tavern DJ Sass-a-Frass, 5 p.m.; Ashley Raines, Americana, blues, and roots country, 8 p.m., no cover.

Pranzo Italian Grill Faith Amour and John Rangel, 6-9 p.m., call for cover.

Second Street Brewery Country Blues Revue, 6 p.m., no cover.

Second Street Brewery at the Railyard Hot Honey, country and Americana, 7 p.m., no cover.

The Palace Restaurant & Saloon Rising Lion, reggae, 10 p.m., call for cover.

Upper Crust Pizza J. Michael Combs and EagleStar, country and folk, 6 p.m., no cover.

Vanessie Zenobia, Jay Boy Adams, and Mister Sister, R & B/gospel, 7 p.m., call for cover. ▶▶▶▶▶▶▶▶

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21 Saturday GALLERY/MUSEUM OPENINGS

Heidi Loewen Porcelain Gallery 315 Johnson St., 505-988-2225. Treasures in Red & Gold, work by Loewen, reception noon-5 p.m., through January.

William R. Talbot Fine Art 129 W. San Francisco St., second floor, 505-982-1559. Under a Western Sky, photographs by Craig Varjabedian, reception 3-5 p.m., through Jan. 10.

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Coro de Camara Christmas Lights, choral performance, 2 p.m., First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe, 208 Grant Ave., no charge.

Santa Fe Desert Chorale The 2013 Winter Festival continues with Carols and Lullabies, 8 p.m., Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, 131 Cathedral Place, $15-$65; student discounts available, desertchorale.org, 505-988-2282.

(See review, Page 18).

Santa Fe Pro Musica Baroque Ensemble A Baroque Christmas, featuring mezzo-sopranos Deborah Domanski and Dianna Grabowski, 6 and 8 p.m., Loretto Chapel, 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, $20-$65, advance tickets available at the SFPM box office, 505-988-4640, Ext. 1000, santafepromusica.com, or at the Lensic box office, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

(See story, Page 26).

Santa Fe Women’s Ensemble Winter Festival of Song, 3 p.m., Immaculate Heart of Mary Retreat and Conference Center Chapel, 50 Mount Carmel Rd., $25, students $10, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

(See review, Page 18).

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IN CONCERT

Solstice Dance Party Cathy Faber’s Swingin’ Country Band and The Rifters, 6:30-10:30 p.m., Odd Fellows Hall, 1125 Cerrillos Rd., $15 at the door; $8 for those 21 and under; cathyfaber.com.

Chuscales Local flamenco guitarist in Forever in My Heart, holiday concert, 7:30 p.m., El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, 555 Camino de la Familia, $30 in advance at brownpapertickets.com.

THEATER/DANCE

A Christmas Carol Santa Fe Playhouse presents Charles Dickens’ classic adapted by Doris Baizley, 7:30 p.m., Santa Fe Playhouse, 142 E. De Vargas St., $20; discounts available; santafeplayhouse.org, 505-988-4262, final weekend.

Annie Presented by Musical Theatre Works Santa Fe, 7 p.m., Greer Garson Theatre, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., $15 in advance at musicaltheatreworks.net, student discounts available, $20 at the door, 505-946-0488, Friday-Sunday through Dec. 29.

The Nutcracker Aspen Santa Fe Ballet presents the holiday favorite, 2 and 7:30 p.m., the Lensic, $25-$72, aspensantafeballet.com or ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234, Sunday encore.

OUTDOORS

Glow Special outdoor lighting event running Thursday-Saturday through Jan. 4; includes an exhibit by ceramic sculptor Christy Hengst, 5-8 p.m., Santa Fe Botanical Garden, 725 Camino Lejo, $8 in advance and at the door, children 12 and under no charge, santafebotanicalgarden.org, 505-471-9103.

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Holiday Star Party Explore the night sky above the park and see the green laser tour of bright stars and constellations, then enjoy close-up views of star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies through telescopes. Meet on the terrace behind the historic Hyde Park Lodge, call 505-983-7175 for information, 6-8 p.m., Hyde Memorial State Park Visitor Center, 740 Hyde Park Rd., $5 per vehicle.

EVENTS

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

Santa Fe Farmers Market 8 a.m.-1 p.m., Railyard Plaza and Farmers Market Pavilion, 1607 Paseo de Peralta, santafefarmersmarket.com.

Trader Walt’s Southwestern & International Marketplace More than 100 vendor booths with antiques, folk and fine art, books, jewelry, and snacks, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, 555 Camino de la Familia, no charge.

Winter Solstic Festival Hundreds of farolitos light a giant labyrinth; plus bonfires, food, music, and storytelling, 6-9 p.m., Santa Fe Children’s Museum, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, $5; free for children under 1; santafechildrensmuseum.org.

NIGHTLIFE

(See addresses below) Anasazi Restaurant & Bar Guitarist Jesus Bas, 7-10 p.m., no cover.

Low ’n’ Slow Lowrider Bar at Hotel Chimayó de Santa Fe 125 Washington Ave., 505-988-4900 The Matador 116 W. San Francisco St., 505-984-5050 Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 NM 14, Madrid, 505-473-0743 Museum Hill Café 710 Camino Lejo, Milner Plaza, 505-984-8900 Garrett’s Desert Inn 311 Old Santa Fe Trail, 505-982-1851 Omira Bar & Grill 1005 S. St. Francis St., 505-780-5483 Palace Restaurant & Saloon 142 W. Palace Ave., 505-428-0690 The Pantry Restaurant 1820 Cerrillos Rd., 505-986-0022 Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 505-984-2645 Rouge Cat 101 W. Marcy St., 505-983-6603 San Francisco Street Bar & Grill 50 E. San Francisco St., 505-982-2044 Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W. Marcy St., 505-955-6705

Chispa! at El Mesón Tierra Soniquette, jazz and flamenco crossroads with J.Q. Whitcomb and Joaquin Gallegos, 7:30 p.m., no cover.

Cowgirl BBQ The Bill Hearne Trio, classic country, 2-5 p.m.; David Borrego & Friends, rock and roll dance band, 8:30 p.m.-close, no cover.

Duel Brewing Alex Maryol, indie rock and blues, 7 p.m., no cover.

Evangelo’s Led Zepplin tribute band Moby Dick, 9 p.m., call for cover.

Hotel Santa Fe Guitarist/flutist Ronald Roybal, 7-9 p.m., no cover.

La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda Nosotros, salsa music, 8 p.m., no cover.

La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa Pat Malone Trio, 6-9 p.m., no cover.

Low ’n’ Slow Lowrider Bar at Hotel Chimayó Isabella and Her Fellas, R & B, 9:30 p.m., no cover.

Mine Shaft Tavern Jim & Tim, soulful blues, 3-7 p.m.; Todd & the Fox, 7 p.m., no cover.

Palace Restaurant & Saloon C.S. Rockshow with Don Curry, Pete Springer, and Ron Crowder, 9:30 p.m., call for cover.

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

Second Street Brewery Mystic Lizard Band, traditional bluegrass, 7 p.m., no cover.

Second Street Brewery at the Railyard Singer/songwriter Eryn Bent, 7 p.m., no cover.

Sweetwater Harvest Kitchen Hawaiian slack-key guitarist John Serkin, 6 p.m., no cover.

Second Street Brewer y 1814 Second St., 505-982-3030 Second Street Brewery at the Railyard 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 505-989-3278 Steaksmith at El Gancho 104-B Old Las Vegas Highway, 505-988-3333 Sweetwater Harvest Kitchen 1512-B Pacheco St., 505-795-7383 Taberna La Boca 125 Lincoln Ave., 505-988-7102 Thunderbird Bar & Grill 50 Lincoln Ave., 505-490-6550 Tiny’s 1005 St. Francis Dr., 505-983-9817 The Underground at Evangelo’s 200 W. San Francisco St., 505-819-1597 Upper Crust Pizza 329 Old Santa Fe Trail, 505-982-0000 Vanessie 427 W. Water St., 505-982-9966 Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 505-989-4423 Zia Diner 326 S. Guadalupe St., 505-988-7008

Tiny’s Showcase karaoke with Nanci and Cyndi, 8:30 p.m., no cover.

Vanessie JEM, Jay Cawley, Ellie Dendahl, and Michael Umphrey, guitars and vocals, followed by classical and jazz guitarist Marc Yaxley, 6-11 p.m., call for cover.

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performance at The Screen Bizet’s Carmen at Australia’s Sydney Harbour Opera House, The Screen, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr. $18 and $20, at the door or online at thescreensf.com.

CLaSSiCaL MUSiC

Santa Fe pro Musica Baroque ensemble A Baroque Christmas, featuring mezzo-sopranos Deborah Domanski and Dianna Grabowski, 6 and 8 p.m., Loretto Chapel, 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, $20-$65, advance tickets available at the SFPM box office, 505-988-4640, Ext. 1000, santafepromusica.com, or at the Lensic box office, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

(See story, Page 26).

Schola Cantorum of Santa Fe The sacredmusic ensemble presents O Holy Night, concert preview with Billy Turney 6:30 p.m., concert 7 p.m., Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 417 Agua Fria, donations accepted.

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A Christmas Carol Santa Fe Playhouse presents Charles Dickens’ classic adapted

by Doris Baizley, 4 p.m., Santa Fe Playhouse, 142 E. De Vargas St., $20; discounts available; santafeplayhouse.org, 505-988-4262.

Annie Presented by Musical Theatre Works Santa Fe, Friday-Sunday through Dec. 29, 2 p.m., Greer Garson Theatre, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., $15 in advance at musicaltheatreworks.net, student discounts available, $20 at the door, 505-946-0488.

The Nutcracker Aspen Santa Fe Ballet presents the holiday favorite, Sunday encore, 1 and 5 p.m., Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $25-$72, aspensantafeballet.com or ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234.

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Gustave Baumann marionettes The New Mexico Museum of Art presents its annual free event including a children’s treasure hunt, photo op with a marionette, and an arts & crafts project, 1-4 p.m., 107 W. Palace Ave., 505-476-5072. israeli folk dancing Weekly on Sundays, 8 p.m., Odd Fellows Hall, 1125 Cerrillos Rd., $5 donation at the door, 505-466-2920. pueblo of Tesuque Flea Market Friday-Sunday through December, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 15 Flea Market Rd., no charge, pueblooftesuquefleamarket.com. railyard artisan Market Local artists, food, and entertainment; plus seers and mystics, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion, 1607 Paseo de Peralta.

Trader Walt’s Southwestern & international Marketplace More than 100 vendor booths with antiques, folk and fine art, books, jewelry, and snacks, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, 555 Camino de la Familia, no charge.

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(See Page 62 for addresses) Cowgirl BBQ Zenobia, gospel, R & B, and soul; noon-3 p.m.; Parker Millsap, folk, roots, and blues, 8 p.m., no cover.

Santa Fe, circa 1948, by Harold D. Walter, courtesy Palace of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA), Neg. 154268.

el Farol Pan-Latin chanteuse Nacha Mendez, 7-10 p.m., no cover. evangelo’s Blues/rock/R & B jam band Tone & Company, 8:30 p.m., call for cover.

La Casa Sena Cantina Jazz Sunday: Ramon Bermudez Trio, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., no cover.

La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda Weekly classic movie night, 6-10 p.m., no cover.

La posada de Santa Fe resort and Spa Cowboy singer and guitarist Wiley Jim, 7 p.m., no cover.

Mine Shaft Tavern Gene Corbin, Americana, 3-7 p.m.; Gypsy Christmas Show with belly-dancers, 8 p.m., no cover.

The palace restaurant & Saloon Tango Milonga, 6 p.m., call for cover.

Vanessie Pianist/vocalist Doug Montgomery, 6:30-10:30 p.m., call for cover.

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Santa Fe Desert Chorale The 2013 Winter Festival continues with Carols and Lullabies, 8 p.m., Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, 131 Cathedral Place, $15-$65; student discounts available, desertchorale.org, 505-988-2282.

(See review, Page 18).

Santa Fe pro Musica Baroque ensemble A Baroque Christmas, featuring mezzo-sopranos Deborah Domanski and Dianna Grabowski, 6 and 8 p.m., Loretto Chapel, 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, $20-$65, advance tickets available at the SFPM box office, 505-988-4640, Ext. 1000,

Sing-off party with Deke Sharon Meet Deke Sharon, music producer of NBC’s The Sing-Off, for a viewing of the final episode of the a cappella talent program, 6:30-9 p.m., Inn and Spa at Loretto, 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 505-988-5531, no charge.

Weekly all-ages informal swing dancing Lessons 7-8 p.m., dance 8-10 p.m., Odd Fellows Hall, 1125 Cerrillos Rd., dance only $3, lesson and dance $8, 505-473-0955.

Santa Fe Concert association Family Concert Series SFCA Orchestra dress rehearsal; 2 p.m., Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $10, 505-984-8759 or 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Santa Fe pro Musica Baroque ensemble A Baroque Christmas, featuring mezzo-sopranos Deborah Domanski and Dianna Grabowski, 6 and 8 p.m., Loretto Chapel, 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, $25-$70, advance tickets available at the SFPM box office, 505-988-4640, Ext. 1000, santafepromusica.com, or at the Lensic box office, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

(See story, Page 26).

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eVenTS

santafepromusica.com, or at the Lensic box office, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

(See story, Page 26).

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(See Page 62 for addresses) La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda Buffalo Nickel, country music, 7:30 p.m., no cover.

Vanessie Pianist/vocalist Doug Montgomery, 6:30-10:30 p.m., call for cover.

24 Christmas Eve GaLLerY/MUSeUM OpeninGS

Gallery 822 822 Canyon Rd., 505-989-1700. Group holiday show, reception 5-8 p.m.

CLaSSiCaL MUSiC

Christmas eve with the Santa Fe Concert association Orchestra Caroline Goulding, violinist, music of Beethoven, 5 p.m., Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $25-$95, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Canyon road Christmas eve walk Around dusk, revelers in good cheer gather along the farolito-lit streets; numerous galleries and shops remain open late to join in the festivities.

Polar Express screening and art auction Chalk Farm Gallery hosts a fundraiser in support of the National Resources Defense Council’s efforts to save polar bears; beverages and food served, screenings 5 and 6:45 p.m., 729 Canyon Rd., 505-983-7125, chalkfarmgallery.com.

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(See Page 62 for addresses) Cowgirl BBQ The Swinging Ornaments, hip holiday instrumentals and sing-alongs, 5 p.m.; The Kenny Skywolf Band, Memphis blues, rock, soul, and funk, 8 p.m., no cover.

Den at Coyote Café Buddha Bass CD release party, 8 p.m., call for cover. ▶▶▶▶▶▶▶▶ PASATIEMPOMAGAZINE.COM

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El Farol Canyon Road Blues Jam, 8:30 p.m., no cover.

La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda Buffalo Nickel, country music, 7:30 p.m., no cover.

Pranzo Italian Grill Christmas Eve singalong with David Geist, 6 p.m., call for cover.

Vanessie Pianist/vocalist Doug Montgomery, 6:30-10:30 p.m., call for cover.

25 Christmas Day EVENTS

Flix & Chopstix Hosted by the Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival: screening of Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, followed by Chinese dinner catered by Yummy Café, screenings begin at 2 p.m., Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, $8.50-$36 in advance, santafejff.org. (See story, Page 42).

26 Thursday CLaSSICaL muSIC

Schola Cantorum of Santa Fe Away in a Manger, Gregorian chant, Renaissance polyphony, and a cappella settings of familiar carols, 7 p.m., Loretto Chapel, 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, $20, discounts available, schola-sf.org.

BOOKS/TaLKS

Loo’k Closer: art Talk at Lunchtime Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s curatorial department leads a 15-minute exhibit discussion, 12:30 p.m., 217 Johnson St., by museum admission, okeeffemuseum.org, 505-946-1039.

EVENTS

Glow Special outdoor lighting event running Thursday-Saturday through Jan. 4; includes an exhibit by ceramic sculptor Christy Hengst, 5-8 p.m., Santa Fe Botanical Garden, 725 Camino Lejo, $8 in advance and at the door, children 12 and under no charge, santafebotanicalgarden.org, 505-471-9103.

NIGHTLIFE

(See Page 62 for addresses) Café Café Los Primos Trio, traditional Latin rhythms, 6 p.m., no cover.

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

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

La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa Pat Malone Trio, 6-9 p.m., no cover.

Low ’n’ Slow Lowrider Bar at Hotel Chimayó de Santa Fe Gerry Carthy, tenor guitar and flute, 9 p.m., call for cover.

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

The Palace Restaurant & Saloon Limelight karaoke, 9:30 p.m., call for cover.

Vanessie Pianist/vocalist Doug Montgomery, pianist David Geist, 6-11 p.m., call for cover.

▶ Elsewhere Abiquiu

abiquiú’s annual Holiday Party Music by Don Bernardo y Los Ultimos Band, books and handmade ornaments for sale, 4-6:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 21, Pueblo de Abiquiú Library and Cultural Center, 29 County Rd. 187, $15; couples $25; children $5; tickets available in advance and day of event, 575-685-4884.

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Snow Barn, Vermont, by Joe Long, Red Dot Gallery, 826 Canyon Rd.

AlbuquErquE Events/Performances

Nutcracker Ballet in the Land of Enchantment Festival Ballet Albuquerque and the Figueroa Project present the holiday classic set in late-1800s New Mexico, 7 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Dec 20-22, Albuquerque Journal Theatre, National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 Fourth St. S.W., $14-$47; discounts available, festivalballetabq.org.

Chatter Sunday Aaron Copland’s Concerto for Clarinet, Strings, Piano, and Harp; George Crumb’s A Little Suite for Christmas, A.D. 1979; a reading by poet Billy Brown follows, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 22, The Kosmos, 1715 Fifth St. N.W., $15; discounts available; chatterabq.org.

The New mexico Philharmonic Home for the Holidays, with soprano Kisma Jordan and several Albuquerque choirs, 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 21, UNM Campus, 203 Cornell Dr. S.E., $20-$68, nmphil.org. música antiqua de albuquerque Marvel Not, Joseph, medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 21, All Angels Episcopal Church, 601 Montaño Blvd. N.W., $16, discounts available, 505-842-9613.

(See Sound Waves, Page 28).

EspAnolA

Bond House museum 706 Bond St., 505-747-8535. Visions of the Heart, Images of the Road: Three Views From El Rito, works by Susan Guevara, Nicholas Herrera, and David Michael Kennedy, through Friday, Dec. 20. Historic and cultural treasures exhibited in the home of railroad entrepreneur Frank Bond (1863-1945). Open noon-3:30 p.m.

Monday-Wednesday, noon-4 p.m. Thursday and Friday, no charge.

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Bradbury Science museum 1350 Central Ave., 505-667-4444. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m.

Sunday-Monday, no charge.

Pajarito Environmental Education Center 3540 Orange St., 505-662-0460. Exhibits of flora and fauna of the Pajarito Plateau; herbarium, live amphibians, and butterfly and xeric gardens.

Open noon-4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.1 p.m. Saturday, no charge, pajaritoeec.org.

mAdrid

madrid Christmas & holiday festivities Weekends through December; Christmas parade, Town of Lights display, and mule/stagecoach rides, visitmadrid.com.

sipApu

World Snowboard Day Free demonstrations and lessons with purchase of full-day lift tickets, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 22, Sipapu Ski Resort, 20 miles southeast of Taos on NM 518, sipapunm.com, 800-587-2240.

TAos

Harwood museum of art 238 Ledoux St., 575-758-9826. Ninetieth-anniversary exhibits: The Paintings of Burt Harwood • Single Lens Reflex: The Photographs of Burt Harwood • Peter Parks: New Works, all through Jan. 26 • The Taos Municipal Schools Historic Art Collection, through Feb. 2. 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; no charge Sunday for Taos County residents with ID. millicent Rogers museum 1504 Millicent Rogers Rd., 575-758-2462.

Open 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday through March, NM residents $5; nonresidents $10; seniors $8; students $6; ages 6-16 $2; Taos County residents no charge.

Taos art museum and Fechin House 227 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, 575-758-2690.

The Animal World of Eugenie Glaman, etchings and paintings, through March 2. Open 10 a.m.4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, no charge.

▶ people who need people artists

Call for sculpture One-inch-high sculptures sought for The Royal Breadshow; sculptures will be exhibited and then baked into breads; March 31 deadline; works received by Dec. 31 to be considered for the SITE Santa Fe exhibit Feast: Radical Hospitality; see theroyalbreadshow.com or axleart.com for submission guidelines.

Master Gardener Training Master Gardener class forming; 16-week training starts in early February; application deadline Dec. 31, visit sfmga.org or call 505-471-4711.

Santa Fe Humane Society and Animal Shelter Dogs need individuals to take them on daily walks; all shifts available, call Katherine at 505-983-4309, Ext. 128.

Santa Fe Stories Project The Santa Fe V.I.P. seeks submissions of material on the post-World War II era in Santa Fe; to submit stories or images, visit santafestories.com; submissions accepted until April.

Smith’s Food & Drug Stores Now through Dec. 28, customers can add a donation of $1, $5, or $10 to their grocery purchases; all contributions will be converted to Smith’s gift cards and given to The Food Depot; call 505-471-1633, Ext. 10, for details.

Sprouts Farmers Market Purchase a premade grocery bag through December to donate to The Food Bank; available at both locations, 199 Paseo de Peralta, DeVargas Center, and 3201 Zafarano Dr. St. Elizabeth Shelter Help with meal preparation at residential facilities and emergency shelters; other duties also available; contact Rosario, 505-982-6611, Ext. 108, volunteer@steshelter.org.

Filmmakers/Performers/Writers

Call for writers Poems, aphorisms, stories, and essays about bread sought for The Royal Breadshow; March 31 deadline; works received

by Dec. 31 might be included in the SITE Santa Fe exhibit Feast: Radical Hospitality; visit the royalbreadshow.com for guidelines; submit writings to info@axleart.com.

Reel New Mexico Independent Film Series New Mexico filmmakers may submit shorts, narrative and documentary features, student films, and works-in-progress through 2013; for more information or to submit a film, contact reelnewmexico@gmail.com.

▶ under 21 Rapz at the Traxx DJ showcase including Nickell, Dmize, Atlas, and King Ace, 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 21, Warehouse 21, 1614 Paseo de Peralta, $5 at the door, 505-989-4423.

▶ pasa Kids Winter Solstice Tea Party Hosted by Annie Rose, the Flower Fairy.

Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion, 11:30 a.m.

Saturday, Dec. 21, 1607 Paseo de Peralta, no charge, santafefarmersmarket.com.

Nite Nite Baby Sees the Day Sound Healing presents a concert with crystal bowls for relaxation and healthy sleeping patterns, noon Sunday, Dec. 22, Warehouse 21, 1614 Paseo de Peralta, $8; no charge for babies and toddlers, 505-989-4423, warehouse21.org.

Gustave Baumann marionettes show The New Mexico Museum of Art presents its annual free event including a children’s treasure hunt, photo op with a marionette, and an arts & crafts project, 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 22, 107 W. Palace Ave., 505-476-5072.

Winter Solstic Festival Hundreds of farolitos light a giant labyrinth; plus bonfires, food, music, and storytelling, 6-9 p.m., Santa Fe Children’s Museum, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, $5; free for children under 1; santafechildrensmuseum.org. ◀

In the wings MUSIC

Santa Fe Concert Association Family Concert Series SFCA Orchestra dress rehearsal; music of Poulenc and Brahms; plus music from Camelot and Guys and Dolls, 2 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 31, Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $10, 505-984-8759 or 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Serenata of Santa Fe Harpsichord Fandango featuring Kathleen McIntosh, with special guest mezzo-soprano Consuelo Sañudo, 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 5, El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, 555 Camino de la Familia, $25, ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234, discounts for seniors and students available at the door.

The Barber of Seville The Santa Fe Concert Association presents Rossini’s opera, dress rehearsal 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 8; performances 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 10, and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 11-12, Scottish Rite Center, 463 Paseo de Peralta, no charge, santafeconcerts.org.

The Sing-Along of the Nibelung Santa Fe Concert Association conductor Joseph Illick leads a sing-along through Wagner’s Ring Cycle; experienced Wagnerians and beginners are all welcome; 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 16, United Church of Santa Fe, 1804 Arroyo Chamiso, $20, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Mardi Gras/Carnival Concert Enchantment Chamber Music presents a program of traditional New Mexican, Latin American, and European music; featuring violinist Ellen Chávez de Leitner and guitarists Lynn McGrath and Genevieve Leitner; 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 18, Immaculate Heart of Mary Retreat and Conference Center Chapel, 50 Mount Carmel Rd., $25; seniors $20; students $15; chavezdeleitner.com.

Pink Martini Latin, jazz, and classic pop orchestra, 7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 20, Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $54-$84, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Joshua Roman The cellist performs with pianist Andrius Zlabys; presented by the Los Alamos Concert Association, 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 24, Los Alamos High School Campus, 1300 Diamond Dr., $30, ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234.

Santa Fe Pro Musica Classical weekend with music of Vaughan Williams, Barber, and Beethoven, featuring violinist Cármelo de los Santos, 6 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 25, 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 26, the Lensic, $20-$65, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Music on the Hill Elevated St. John’s College hosts its annual jazz series beginning Jan. 25 and running monthly through March 29; performers include Kathy Kosins, Alan Pasqua, and Chase Baird, concerts begin at 7:30 p.m., $25, 505-984-6118, Great Hall, Peterson Student Center, 1160 Camino de Cruz Blanca, $25, 505-984-6000.

Ray Wylie Hubbard Country, folk, and blues artist, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 26, St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave., $25 in advance, brownpapertickets.com, $29 at the door.

Santa Fe Concert Association Family Concert Series Mozart and Mendelssohn violin concertos with soloists Ezra Shcolnik and Phoenix Avalon, 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 26, United Church of Santa Fe, 1804 Arroyo Chamiso, $10, 505-984-8759 or 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Upcoming events performing works by Mozart, Poulenc, and others, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Mar. 19, St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave., $20-$40, ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234.

THEATER/DANCE

Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys The bluegrass legend’s farewell tour, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 30, Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $29-$79, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Canticum Novum winter concerts The chorus and orchestra perform works by Mozart, Schubert, Cimarosa, Hovhaness, and Holst; preconcert lecture by Oliver Prezant one hour ahead of show, 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1, 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 2, St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave., $25 and $35, ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234, discounts available.

George Winston R & B piano recital, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1, Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $28-$52, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

The Met Live in HD Dvoˇrák’s Rusalka, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 8, Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $22-$28, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Serenata of Santa Fe Twists and Turns, music of Brahms, Herrmann, and Tower, 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 9, Scottish Rite Center, 463 Paseo de Peralta, $25, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings Soul and funk; Valerie June opens, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Mar. 18, Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $34-$54, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Curtis on Tour The Santa Fe Concert Association presents students from the Curtis Institute of Music,

A Holiday Circus Cabaret Presented by local circus arts and puppetry troupe Wise Fool New Mexico, 2 and 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 29, Wise Fool Studio, 2778 Agua Fría St., $10-$20 sliding scale in advance and at the door, ages 12 and under $7, brownpapertickets.com, 505-992-2588.

I Can Hear You ... But I’m Not Listening Jennifer Jasper presents her unscripted one-woman show, 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Jan. 9-10, Teatro Paraguas Studio, 3205 Calle Marie, $18, $15 seniors and students, 505-424-1601.

King Laz Susana Guillaume’s one-woman show about negotiating the rocky terrain of old age, sickness, and death, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 17-19, Santa Fe Playhouse, 142 E. De Vargas St., 505-988-4262, santafeplayhouse.org.

Salt and Pepper Los Alamos playwright Robert Benjamin’s comedy about maturing, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 17-19, Teatro Paraguas Studio, 3205 Calle Marie, $18, seniors and students $15, 505-424-1601, teatroparaguas.org.

Anna in the Tropics New Mexico School for the Arts Theater presents Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play set in a 1929 Florida Cuban-American cigar factory, 7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Jan. 23-25, James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf, 1060 Cerrillos Rd., $10, discounts available, nmschoolforthearts.org.

National Theatre Live in HD Coriolanus, Donmar Warehouse’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy, 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31, Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $22, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Benchwarmers 13 Eight 15-minute playlets by local playwrights, Feb. 6-March 2, Santa Fe Playhouse, 142 E. De Vargas St., santafeplayhouse.org.

Colin Quinn The stand-up comedian shares his political views in Unconstitutional, 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7, the Lensic, $15-$35, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses Playwright Christopher Hampton’s adaptation of the novel about seduction and revenge, 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m.

Sunday, March 7-16, Greer Garson Theatre, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., $12-$15, discounts available, ticketsantafe.org, 505-988-1234.

HAPPENINGS

35mm Archival Film Series The Lensic and the Academy Film Archive present the 1954 musical White Christmas at 2 p.m. and the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia at 7 p.m., Friday, Dec. 27, the Lensic, 211 W. San Francisco St., $7, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

New Years Eve Gala Four-course dinner, champagne toast, and entertainment by Doug Montgomery, David Geist, Julie Trujillo, and John Randal, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 31, Vanessie, 427 W. Water St., $135 per person, 505-982-9966.

IAIA Writers Festival Graduate students and instructors, including Santa Fe Poet Laureate Jon Davis, author Sherman Alexie, screenwriter and poet Ken White, author Sherwin Bitsui, and novelist Ramona Ausubel, read from and sign copies of their works, 6 p.m. daily, Jan. 4-10, Institute of American Indian Arts, 83 Avan Nu Po Rd., no charge.

Lannan Foundation In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom series Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative in conversation with Liliana Segura, editor at The Nation magazine, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 15, the Lensic, $6; seniors and students $3, ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234.

Armistead Maupin The author reads from his new book The Days of Anna Madrigal, 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 24, Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $10-$15, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Winterbrew Annual festival of craft beers and food presented by New Mexico breweries and local chefs, 4-9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 24, Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion, 1607 Paseo de Peralta, $20 includes commemorative pint glass and $5 tokens, 505-660-2951.

Souper Bowl XX Annual Food Depot fundraiser; local-chefprepared soups and recipes, noon-2 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 1, Santa Fe Community Convention Center, 201 W. Marcy St., $30 in advance, $35 at the door; children ages 6-12 $10, 505-471-1633.

Lannan Literary Series Author George Saunders in conversation with New York Times Magazine deputy editor Joel Lovell, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12, the Lensic, $6; seniors and students $3, ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234.

Edible Art Tour (EAT) Members of the Santa Fe Gallery Association team with local restaurants; stroll from doorway to doorway or take shuttle buses between downtown and Canyon Road; 5-8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21, EAT $35; EAT and Fashion Feast dance party $70, artfeast.com, 505-603-4643.

pink martini performs at the Lensic Jan. 20.

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AT THE GALLERIES Argos Gallery/Eli Levin Studio 1211 Luisa St., 505-988-1814. Whistler and Company, etchings and lithographs by J.A.M. Whistler with a selection of works by his contemporaries, through Jan 4.

Eight Modern 231 Delgado St., 505-995-0231. Part and Parcel, paintings by Rebecca Shore, through Jan. 11.

Ellsworth Gallery 215 E. Palace Ave., 505-989-7900. Kathryn Stedham: Alluvium, gestural abstract paintings, through Jan. 4.

Gebert Contemporary 558 Canyon Rd., 505-992-1100. Colin Cochran: Matter and Spirit, through Jan. 4.

Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 505-466-5528.

Surrealistic landscapes by Mark Kane, through Jan. 23.

Marji Gallery 453 Cerrillos Rd., 505-983-1012. Horse Games, new work featuring horses by H Margret, through December.

Monroe Gallery of Photography 112 Don Gaspar Ave., 505-992-0800.

The Life Photographers, through Jan. 26.

Phil Space 1410 Second St., 505-983-7945. A Roswell Sojourn/A Prairie Return, paintings by Jerry West, through December.

Pop Gallery 142 Lincoln Ave., 505-820-0788.

Wild Rumpus, 50th-anniversary tribute to author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, through December.

Red Dot Gallery 826 Canyon Rd., 505-820-7338. Third annual show featuring work by IAIA and SFCC students and faculty, through Feb. 15.

Scheinbaum & Russek 812 Camino Acoma, 505-988-5116. Santa Fe Legacy, prints and photographs by Gustave Baumann, Gerald Cassidy, Louie Ewing, Laura Gilpin, Kate Krasin, Eliot Porter, and Todd Webb, through January.

Than Povi Fine Art Gallery 6 Banana Ln., 10 miles north of Santa Fe off US 84/285, 505-301-3956. Linda Lomahaftewa: Works on Paper, through Jan. 10.

Verve Gallery of Photography 219 E. Marcy St., 505-982-5009. La Rêve, works

by Susan kae Grant, Kamil Vojnar, and Krzysztof Wladyka, through Jan. 11.

Ward Russell Photography 102 W. San Francisco St., second floor, 505-231-1035. Down Mexico Way, through Jan. 4.

Zane Bennett Contemporary Art 435 S. Guadalupe St., 505-982-8111. Ruminative Figures, sculpture by Dunham Aurelius, through Dec. 27; Privacy and Secrets, through Jan. 10.

LIbRARIES Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Library Santa Fe University of Art & Design, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., 505-474-5052.

Open by appointment.

Catherine McElvain Library School for Advanced Research, 660 Garcia St., 505-954-7205.

Open Monday-Friday, call for hours.

Chase Art History Library Santa Fe University of Art & Design, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., 505-473-6569.

Open Monday-Friday, call for hours.

Faith and John Meem Library St. John’s College, 1160 Camino de Cruz Blanca, 505-984-6041. Visit stjohnscollege.edu for hours of operation, $40 fee to nonstudents and nonfaculty.

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Scheinbaum & Russek shows work by Gustave baumann, 812 camino Acoma

Fray Angélico Chávez History Library Palace of the Governors, 120 Washington Ave., 505-476-5090. Open 1-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday.

Laboratory of Anthropology Library Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, 505-476-1264. Open 1-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, by museum admission.

New Mexico State Library 1209 Camino Carlos Rey, 505-476-9700.

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. MondayFriday.

Quimby Memorial Library Southwestern College, 3960 San Felipe Rd., 505-467-6825. Rare books and collections of metaphysical materials. Open Monday-Friday, call for hours.

Santa Fe Community College Library 6401 Richards Ave., 505-428-1352. Open Monday-Friday, call for hours.

Santa Fe Institute 1399 Hyde Park Rd., 505-984-8800. Open 1-5 p.m. Monday-Friday to current students (call for details). Visit santafe.edu/library for online catalog.

Santa Fe Public Library, Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 505-955-6780. 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., 505-955-4860. 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., 505-955-2810. 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., 505-827-4850. Online catalog available at supremecourtlawlibrary.org.

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

MuSEuMS & ARTSpAcES MUSEUMS & ART SPACES

Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 505-982-1338. Atomic Surplus, multidisciplinary group exhibit surveying the global nuclear legacy • Tony Price and the Black Hole, exhibit of ephemera from the Los Alamos Black Hole salvage yard and works from the estate of Tony Price, through Jan. 5.

Call for hours or see ccasantafe.org.

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum 217 Johnson St., 505-946-1039. Modern Nature: Georgia O’Keeffe and Lake George, through Jan. 26. Open 10 a.m.5 p.m. Saturday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday; $12; seniors $10; NM residents $6; students 18 and over $10; under 18 no charge; no charge for NM residents first Friday of each month.

Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place, 505-983-1666.

Changing Hands: Art Without Reservations 3/ Contemporary Native North American Art From the Northeast and Southwest, group show • Steven J. Yazzie: The Mountain • Jacob Meders: Divided Lines; Cannupa Hanska Luger: Stereotype: Misconceptions of the Native American; exhibits continue through December.

Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; noon-5 p.m. Sunday; closed Tuesday. Adults $10; NM residents, seniors, and students $5; 16 and under and NM residents with ID no charge on Sundays.

Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-476-1200.

Let’s Talk About This: Folk Artists Respond to HIV/AIDS, collaborative community exhibit, through Jan. 5 • Tako Kichi: Kite Crazy in Japan, exhibition of Japanese kites, through March • New World Cuisine: The Histories of Chocolate, Mate y Más • Multiple Visions: A Common Bond, international collection of toys and folk art • Brasil and Arte Popular, pieces from the museum’s Brazilian collection, through Aug. 10. 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; no charge for NM residents over 60 on Wednesdays; no charge for NM residents on Sundays; school groups no charge.

Museum of Spanish Colonial Art 750 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-982-2226.

Filigree & Finery: The Art of Adornment in New Mexico, through spring 2014 • BeltránKropp Peruvian Art Collection, exhibit of gift items, including a permanent gift of 60 art pieces and objects from the estate of Pedro Gerardo Beltrán Espantoso, through May 27 • San Ysidro/St. Isidore the Farmer, bultos, retablos, straw appliqué, and paintings on tin • Recent Acquisitions, colonial and 19thcentury Mexican art, sculpture, and furniture; also, work by young Spanish Market artists • The Delgado Room, late-colonial-period re-creation. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. TuesdaySunday. $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., 505-476-5200. Water Over Mountain, Channing Huser’s photographic installation • Cowboys Real and Imagined, artifacts and photographs from the collection, through March 16 • Tall Tales of the Wild West: The Stories of Karl May, photographs and ephemera in relation to the German author, through Feb. 9 • Santa Fe Found: Fragments of Time, the archaeological and historical roots of Santa Fe. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday; 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; Fridays free admission 5-8 p.m.

New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W. Palace Ave., 505-476-5072.

Renaissance to Goya: Prints and Drawings from Spain • Collecting Is Curiosity/Inquiry • A Life in Pictures: Four Photography Collections, through Jan. 19 • 50 Works for 50 States: New Mexico, through April 13 • Back in the Saddle, collection of paintings, prints, photographs, and drawings of the Southwest, through Jan. 12 • It’s About Time: 14,000 Years of Art in New Mexico, through January. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday; 5-8 p.m. Fridays. NM residents $6; nonresidents $9; 16 and younger no charge; students with ID $1 discount; school groups no charge; NM residents over 60 no charge on Wednesdays; Free to NM residents on Sundays.

Pablita Velarde Museum of Indian Women in the Arts 213 Cathedral Place, 505-988-8900. Gathering of Dolls: A History of Native Dolls, through April 27. (See story, Page 14). Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. $10 admission.

Poeh Museum 78 Cities of Gold Rd., 505-455-3334. Doing Being Sharing Laughing, group show, through January. Open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday; 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday; donations accepted.

SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 505-989-1199.

Alan Shields’ installation Maze, accompanied by the film Into the Maze, through Jan. 12.

Open Thursday and Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Friday 10 a.m.-7 p.m., and Sunday noon-5 p.m. $10; seniors and students $5; no charge 10 a.m.-noon Saturday; no charge Friday.

Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian 704 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-982-4636. The Durango Collection: Native American Weaving in the Southwest, 1860-1880, through April 13. Open 10 a.m.5 p.m. daily, donations accepted.

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A peek at what’s showing around town

Jennifer McCurdy: Articulated Wind Bowl, 2013, porcelain.

Santa Fe Clay (545 Camino de la Familia) presents Staff Picks, a show of ceramic works chosen by its employees, Each week’s Staff Picks is on a different theme. The exhibition runs concurrently with Small Treasures, a group show of sculptural and functional objects. Both shows are up through Jan. 4, 2014. Call 505-984-1122.

Rachel Phillips: Pleasant Hill, 2013, pigment transfer diptych to antique envelopes. Photo-eye Gallery (376-A Garcia St.) continues its group exhibition Photo Objects and Small Prints, which includes small-format photography and photo transfers onto rocks, tin cans, layered silk, and other objects. The show contains work by Jo Whaley, Rachel Phillips, and Raymond Meeks and includes pieces made with a variety of processes, such as gelatin silver prints, albumen prints, and daguerreotypes. Photo Objects and Small Prints is on view through January 2014. Call 505-988-5159.

enelia Díaz: Where Are They? (¿Dónde Están?), 1997, fabric and thread.

In response to the horrors of the Pinochet regime in Chile, many women created complex fabric works of appliquéd burlap (arpillera) and sackcloth depicting scenes of pain and hardship. Stitching Resistance: The History of Chilean Arpilleras, on exhibit at the National Hispanic Cultural Center (1701 Fourth St. S.W., Albuquerque), continues through Feb. 2, 2014. Also on exhibit at the center is En la Cocina With San Pascual, featuring depictions of the popular “saint of the kitchen.” The show is on view through June 2014. Entrance to the exhibits is by center admission. Call 505-246-2261.

Brian Coffin: Beyond the Sunrise, 2009, oil on canvas.

Winterowd Fine Art (701 Canyon Road) presents Artists Inspired, with work by Jamie Kirkland, Charlie Burk, Sarah Bienvenu, and other gallery artists, all of whom find inspiration in nature. The exhibit continues through January 2014. Call 505-992-8878.

Ansel Adams (1902-1984): Telephone Wires and Snow, Yosemite, 1930, silver gelatin print. © 2013 Trustees of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust.

A series of small shows of Ansel Adams’ photographs from the collection of Texas oilman David H. Arrington are on view at Andrew Smith Gallery (122 Grant Ave.).

Included are works from the mini-exhibits On Closer Inspection, The Sierra Club Photographs, Trees, and Gems of New Mexico. The shows contain well-known and lesser-known works by Adams, including photographs he made as a teenager. They remain on view through spring 2014. Call 505-984-1234.

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