The New Mexican’s Weekly Magazine of Arts, Entertainment & Culture
October 3, 2014
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Make, Listen, Learn October family events “Broken by Secrets: Robert Oppenheimer and the Early Atomic Age” Friday, October 3, 6 pm Dr. Jon Hunner, interim director of the museum, delivers a Free First Friday Talk in the Meem Community Room. Free admission 5–8 pm.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3 DJ Quico presented by
Albuquerque Baroque Players Sunday, October 5, 2 pm Enjoy a performance of 17th- and 18th-century chamber music as part of the exhibit Painting the Divine: Images of Mary in the New World. Free with admission; Sundays free to NM residents. Closing date for Historical Downtown Walking Tours Saturday, October 11 Monday through Saturday, learn about the history of Santa Fe from a museumtrained guide. Meet at the Blue Gate on Lincoln Avenue at 10:15 am. $10; children 16 and under free.
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“From Pinholes to Black Holes” Sunday, October 12, 2 pm Astrophysicist Ed Fenimore explains how pinhole cameras reveal the workings of gamma-ray bursts, black holes and more. Part of Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography. Free with admission; Sundays free to NM residents. Celebrating Creativity in Elder Care: A Day of Learning Saturday, October 25, 9–4 pm Learn new techniques of reaching people with memory illnesses through the performing and visual arts. $35. Register at www.dementiaarts.com. “Cameras from the Kitchen” Sunday, October 26, 2–4 pm Bring an empty coffee can, oatmeal carton or shoebox (with lid), and turn it into a take-home camera obscura. A drop-in workshop for all ages. Free with admission; Sundays free to NM residents. “Fred Harvey, the Hotel Castañeda, and Railroad New Mexico” Wednesday, October 29, noon Stephen Fried, author of the acclaimed Appetite for America, delivers a Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture in the Meem Community Room. Free.
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In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom
A lecture series on political, economic, environmental, and human rights issues featuring social justice activists, writers, journalists, and scholars discussing critical topics of our day.
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FRIDAY 10 OCTOBER AT 7PM LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER In 2000, in one of his last interviews, Edward Said remarked to the Israeli journalist Ari Shavit, “I never use terms like ‘balance of power.’ But I think that even the person doing the kicking has to ask himself how long he can go on kicking. At some point your leg is going to get tired. One day you’ll wake up and ask yourself, ‘What the f- - k am I doing?’” Thirteen years later, Israel’s system of institutional discrimination and occupation had only grown more entrenched, with its administrators, ambassadors, and arbiters confronting every challenge thrown in their way with unsentimental determination.
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Saturday, October 11, 2014 • 6:00 pm Don’t miss this delicious event! Get your tickets now! Share your love of the Farmers’ Market and sustainable agriculture in Northern New Mexico at our annual harvest celebration.
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THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN
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ON THE COVER 32 Under a blanket of hues In his realistic depictions of aspen groves, Tim Althauser’s perspective is from the ground, looking straight up. His images pay homage to the trees’ stately presence and the quiet sense of awe we experience in nature. Althauser’s first solo exhibition, A Walk in the Woods, on view at William and Joseph Gallery, is a bold series of near-photographic works by a self-taught painter, a relative newcomer to the world of art who overcame a debilitating illness and discovered he had a gift for painting in the process. On the cover is Althauser’s Glory, an oil on canvas from 2013.
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In Other Words The Silent History Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh Tennessee Williams
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MUSIC AND PERFORMANCE
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24 The hidden Haydn St. Lawrence String Quartet 26 Terrell’s Tune-Up The Soul of Designer Records 28 Pasa Tempos Album reviews 31 Random Acts The Two Gentlemen of Verona 38 Raga time pals Zakir Hussain and company 40 Pasa Reviews Fusion Theatre
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Art in Review ¡Orale! The Kings & Queens of Cool
Mixed Media Star Codes Restaurant Review: Gabriel’s
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Broken by secrets Jon Hunner on Oppenheimer
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Gods and Heroes is organized by the American Federation of Arts and the École des Beaux- Arts, Paris. This exhibition is generously supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities, the JFM Foundation, and Mrs. Donald M. Cox. Funding for the catalogue is provided by the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. In-kind support is provided by Barbara and Richard S. Lane and Christie’s.
October 11, 2014 to January 4, 2015 David d’Angers, Pain (detail), 1811, plaster, 26 5/8 x 12 x 10 1/4 in. École des Beaux-Arts, Paris (TES 4) Courtesy American Federation of Arts 2000 Mountain Road NW (in Old Town) 505-243-7255 or 311 • Relay NM or 711
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Every year, the Santa Fe Community Foundation holds a special dinner to honor the winners of its Piñon Awards, which are given to outstanding nonprofit organizations and individual philanthropists who support the people of Santa Fe, Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, and Taos counties. The 2014 ceremony takes place on Tuesday, Oct. 7. The arts leadership collaborative Creative Santa Fe receives the Courageous Innovation Award (which recognizes an organization finding new solutions to ongoing community problems) for its work in strengthening and sustaining the local economy by developing opportunities for young artists. Creative Santa Fe is spearheading the founding of Santa Fe Arts + Creativity Center, an affordable live-work space that will allow Santa Fe’s creative workforce to combine its skills in art projects and business ventures. SFPS Adelante receives the Quiet Inspiration Award (which recognizes an organization working quietly and respectfully with a large portion of the community) for helping homeless public-school students in Santa Fe succeed in their studies. The Tried & True Award goes to the Food Depot, a food bank serving nine Northern New Mexico counties, for offering consistently high-quality programming despite increased need and other external pressures. The Nature Conservancy takes the Visionary Award for anticipating the needs of future generations with its Río Grande Water Fund, which invests in the restoration of wildfire-damaged forests to ensure that clean water is available to communities downstream. The nonprofits were nominated by people in the community, then narrowed down to four from a pool of 22. Philanthropic Leadership Awards, chosen by the Santa Fe Community Foundation’s board of directors, go to longtime board member Ruth M. Ortega and to the Brindle Foundation, which supports the needs of infants and families. — Jennifer Levin
The Lensic & The International Folk Art Alliance present
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October 6 | 7 pm | $10
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Join renowned linguists Anderson and Harrison as they discuss the language extinction crisis and their efforts to save threatened languages around the world. See the documentary about their work
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Harvest Festival!
Saturday and Sunday, October 4 and 5, 2014 10 am – 4 pm
Fun for the whole family at an old Spanish ranch and living history museum! Bring in the harvest with the villagers of El Rancho de las Golondrinas, crushing grapes for wine by foot, grinding sorghum with burros, stringing colorful chile ristras and much more.
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Just south of Santa Fe at 334 Los Pinos Road. I-25 Exit 276, Follow signs for “Las Golondrinas.” Admission: Adults, $8 Seniors (62+) and teens (13–17), $6 Children 12 & Under: FREE! Food available! No pets please. 505-471-2261 / golondrinas.org for more information and a schedule of events.
• Eat chile fresh from the horno and tortillas hot off the comal • Enjoy stories by local favorite Joe Hayes, and hear the tale of La Llorona - told by the wailing woman herself - on Saturday • See fabulous Flamenco and Matachines dances on Sunday • Paint a retablo with master santero Frankie Nasario Lucero and buy traditional crafts from New Mexico artists • Take a ride on a mule-drawn wagon and try your hand at archery • Participate in a San Isidro Mass & outdoor procession on Sunday ... ¡ y mucho mas! Adventures in History!
Support provided by the Santa Fe County Lodgers Tax Advisory Board, New Mexico Humanities Council, the Santa Fe Arts Commission and New Mexico Arts
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We’re cooking with astrological dynamite later this week as a total lunar eclipse is joined by Uranus, so let’s consider what we want to shift. Mars in restless and forthright Sagittarius moves into a grand trine with Jupiter and Uranus this week to lower our impulse control and give us the energy to make a difference. A succession of minor earthquakes and volcanoes around the globe demonstrates that Earth herself is moving and shaking. Surely we can take her advice to shift our own tectonic plates — and, like her, do so through a series of smaller efforts rather than through built-up moments of major upheaval. This doesn’t mean things will move easily. This Saturday, Mercury retrogrades and asks us to slow down and reconsider. Look out for misunderstandings, and make sure to straighten them out quickly. Confirm reservations and carefully keep track of papers, keys, orders, and appointments. Look for unexpected opportunities in detours and delays. Mercury retrograde takes us back to old friends, unfinished projects, and work that needs to be revised. Mars in brutally honest Sagittarius, along with Mercury retrograde in suspicious and inquisitive Scorpio, may be wonderful for penetrating down to what’s really going on — but if we don’t keep our hearts compassionately open, a debate over past crimes can degenerate into a fight. Before speaking, ask yourself if what you’re about to say is true, kind, and necessary. Friday, Oct. 3: Work through some communication glitches this morning. Collaborate. Be honest, but keep that useful midday. A sociable moonVenus trine helps us deal with the underlying rumbles tonight. Saturday, Oct. 4: A tricky, restless, renovating, even revolutionary day. Delays are likely midday as the moon squares Saturn. The mood gets wild tonight; our hearts can feel stormy and urgent. Sunday, Oct. 5: Hold still and emote as the moon enters sensitive Pisces. Catch up with an emotional backlog. Avoid radical action: dream, empathize, meditate, get teary-eyed, putter, and find a gentle escape instead.
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Monday, Oct. 6: We resent people who make it feel unsafe for us to stay open; we resent work that pushes us out of bed. Go gently this morning. Get organized midday as the moon trines Saturn; bring flexible structure to a chaotic situation. Tuesday, Oct. 7: Sparks fly as the moon enters feisty Aries and the sun opposes Uranus. Activity accelerates over the next few days; it could change history. We want to make things happen, but we may be less picky about what they are. Don’t say or do anything unforgivable tonight. Wednesday, Oct. 8: A complex lunar eclipse occurs just before sunrise. We could see some general contrariness that leaves our hearts hurting. We are challenged to balance individuality with relationship. Say goodbye to people, places, and habits that are no longer relevant, but don’t throw out more than you have to. Stay cool, get physically tired, and be safely wild.
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IN OTHER WORDS book reviews The Silent History by Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby, and Kevin Moffett; Farrar, Straus & Giroux Originals; 528 pages Co-written in part by Eli Horowitz, the former managing editor and publisher of McSweeney’s, The Silent History is a fantastically original story that challenges our assumptions about human communication. Its premise is straightforward: for reasons no one knows, a percentage of the world’s children never develops the ability to understand or express language. They’re called “phasic-resistant,” or “silents.” At less politically correct moments they’re referred to as “mutards.” As the children grow into adulthood, they gravitate toward one another, communicating via a mysterious system of subtle facial movements and expressions called “face-talking.” Various diagnoses and treatments, though well-meaning, are ultimately misguided. The book, which begins in 2011 and ends in 2043, is told through dozens of first-person, three- to four-page accounts related by various individuals — teachers, parents, politicians, and food vendors among them — with the condition. These people’s lives intersect throughout the story in unexpected ways. Written in a conversational, easy-to-read style, the book’s 120 testimonials are refreshingly frank. My favorite character is the hilariously neurotic Francine Chang. At the start of the book, Francine is a kindergarten teacher who hates her job. She calls her students “little need-machines” who are “all missing teeth” and have “chaotically spelled names like Jaylenne and Beauxregard.” Francine wonders why Colin, her favorite kid in class, is the one who doesn’t talk. When he moves away over holiday break, Francine quits the school. Some of the most powerful testimonials come from oddball David Dietrich. As a child, he pretends to be silent when starting at a new school, but his mom finds out and makes him confess. David remains doggedly preoccupied with silent kids — an obsession that initially seems born of sheer curiosity but is later shown to be motivated by something more sinister. Despite his moody, often disturbing testimonials, David’s insights are some of the most memorably weird and funny. “People talk too much anyway,” he says at one point. “A life of talking and you say probably three good things.” Driving across the country, for example, he complains that “Indiana smells like condoms and scorched birds” and vows to stop visiting “silent-porn sites.” 18
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I read The Silent History after its paperback release in 2014, but the book began in 2012 as an app, written and designed for the iPad and iPhone. Purchasers of the app received a testimonial a day, amounting to a fast-paced modern serial novel. Woven throughout it are bizarre, often very funny peeks into a future that nobody will have too much trouble imagining. A wellmeaning entrepreneur develops a mouth-exercising implant for silent children called the Chatter, which claims to stimulate speech — and which parents manipulate via remote control. Characters nonchalantly describe places like “Rumpus Run, that restaurant with the illuminated treadmill,” or an afternoon spent at “a pet-friendly gambling park.” For entertainment, young people visit “virtual action booths,” which simulate extreme, unpleasant physical sensations like falling down a well or being attacked by gorillas. For the most part, however, we’re privy to poignant, deeply personal bits of insight, like when Francine tries to explain face-talking by describing a silent girl’s expressions: “I’d be reminded of a meal, a feeling, a memory, weather … a wharf at dusk.” A particularly beautiful passage is told by Lithuanianborn Gorton Vaher, now “chief of edible ice art” on a cruise ship where the theme is environmental disasters. The sculptor carves “dessert-size replicas of famous ecosystems and oil spills, colored with flavored syrups,” which, of course, makes him melancholy. Gorton falls in love with fellow cruise ship employee Persephone, which makes him feel “unstable, like my heart was pulverizing itself into mush.” Kissing her at last, he “inhaled her breath and froze and didn’t exhale for a long time,” and he observes that “everywhere she had touched, pulsed.” In assigning such poetic language to nonverbal experiences, the authors emphasize just how difficult it is to try to describe the myriad ways we communicate without saying a word. The book’s testimonials, in turns self-deprecating, fearful, and blisteringly emotional, force us to examine the huge amounts of things we think about (and often verbalize). But they also encourage us to examine what life would be like without our constant internal dialogues. If anything, the inability to verbally communicate must certainly enhance other, more subtle means of expression. This entertaining and brilliantly conceived novel may begin with a disturbing and futuristic diagnostic, but it ultimately makes us question the true nature and objectives of human interaction. — Iris McLister
SUBTEXTS Wait — there was a word for that According to linguists, 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, half of which could disappear by the end of the century if steps aren’t taken to save them. With them will go some of what we know about cultures, our history, the natural world, and even some aspects of the human brain. Because they are so isolated, some populations have words in their vocabulary for concepts existing only within that culture — for example, the Tofa people of Siberia, reindeer herders whose local language is highly specific to this activity. New Mexico is in one of two endangered-language hot spots in the United States; the Southwestern area covers New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. (At even higher risk are languages in the Pacific Northwest.) In some cases, only a handful of people still speak a given Native language — Wichita, for instance, is a Caddoan language with fewer than three speakers. Greg Anderson and David Harrison, leading experts on declining languages, were the subject of a 2008 documentarytitledTheLinguists.Harrisonisalsothe author of The Last Speakers: The Quest to Save the World’s Most Endangered Languages, a book published by National Geographic in 2010. Anderson and Harrison, who both work for the National Geographic Enduring Voices Project, also run the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving languages via technology. The Lensic Performing Arts Center and the International Folk Art Alliance present a multimedia overview of the two scholars’ efforts, “Saving Endangered Languages: Greg Anderson and David Harrison,” at the Lensic (211 W. San Francisco St.) on Monday, Oct. 6, at 7 p.m. The evening features photos and video clips of speakers of some of the world’s most endangered languages and includes a question-andanswer session. Tickets are $10. Call 505-988-1234 or visit www.lensic.org. In conjunction, the New Mexico History Museum (113 Lincoln Ave., 505-476-5200) hosts a free screening of The Linguists at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 7. — Jennifer Levin Linguists David Harrison, left, and Greg Anderson, center, with Charlie Mungulda, who speaks Amurdag
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Jonathan Richards I For The New Mexican
LIKE A ROAD THROUGH MOUNTAINS T he life ofTennesseeWilliams The life that Lahr has collected in these pages is as full and fascinating as the one Williams mined and poured into his greatest plays. It can be messy — irreconcilable breakups with people like Frank Merlo are followed by the re-emergence of those characters as if nothing had happened, and the cycle of ecstasy, betrayal, despair, triumph, and despond repeats like a pendulum — but it’s the messiness of a complex life lived to the hilt.
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is shaped as much by its failures as by its successes. The life of Tennessee Williams, as illuminated in John Lahr’s engrossing biography, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, was a pilgrim’s progress of spectacular peaks and desperate valleys in pursuit of dreams professional and artistic, sexual and romantic. Lahr starts off with two seats on the aisle at Williams’ brilliant leap into the big time, the March 1945 opening night of The Glass Menagerie, as the fledgling playwright and a companion sat nervously watching from the sixth row of a theater “on the unfashionable side of Broadway.” How Lahr got there is a story in itself. The biographer on whom Williams had settled his blessing for the telling of his story was Lyle Leverich, a West Coast theater producer and director who had never written a book. They had become friends during Leverich’s production of Williams’ Two Character Play in 1976. Leverich completed a first volume, Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams Williams, which was published in 1995 to critical praise after the resolution of a long and frustrating battle over the rights to Williams’ papers, which were being held up by Lady Maria St. Just, a trustee of the estate. Tom (Williams’ given name) brought the playwright’s story up to the triumphant opening of The Glass Menagerie. His intended second volume, Tenn, would have taken it to the end
of Williams’ life, in 1983. Leverich had four chapters completed at the time of his death in 1999. “It was then that Georges Borchardt, the literary agent for Leverich, and I negotiated a contract for the John Lahr biography,” said Don Lamm, the former president of W.W. Norton, Lahr’s publisher. “It was understood that Lahr had to write his own book, that he would respect what Leverich had written in Tom but not be bound by it. In fact, Lahr had a rather different outlook. His would be the viewpoint of a theater critic, implying that it would be more interpretative, more with his own voice in the account.” Which brings us to those sixth-row aisle seats at The Glass Menagerie, with delicate Laurette Taylor creating theater legend as Tennessee Williams finds himself catapulted into the front ranks of American dramatists. It might not have happened that way. A few years earlier, working as a screenwriter at MGM, he had submitted a version of Menagerie as a screenplay, and it had been turned down; a few years later, the film rights would sell to Hollywood for the highest figure ever yet paid for a Broadway play (only to be “systematically mangled by Warner Brothers’ screenwriters,” Lahr observed). If some bright executive had greenlighted the young writer’s screenplay, how differently might things have turned out for Williams’ career? “I’d reached the very, very bottom,” he recalled later of the days before that first success. “I couldn’t have made it for another year, I don’t think.” And the period following Menagerie’s success, as indeed
every period of Williams’ career, was a minefield of self-doubt. He was convinced his talent had dried up. He was sure he was dying of stomach cancer after an emergency appendectomy in Taos a few months after the Menagerie opening. “I get depressed about my work or something and feel as if I were about to give up the ghost,” he lamented in a 1946 letter to his agent, Audrey Wood, as he struggled with “Chart of Anatomy” (later Summer and Smoke) before turning his attention to the other play he was working on at the time, “The Poker Night,” which would become A Streetcar Named Desire. And if success was treacherous, failure was even worse. By 1953 Williams was lacerating himself over the debacle of Camino Real’s Broadway flop: “I must not whip myself for not doing what I’ve stopped being able to do. continued on Page 22
Opposite, Tennessee Williams arrives on the Queen Mary, August 12, 1948, AP Photo; top left, sailor Frank Merlo and a friend in San Francisco, 1943; top right, the playwright with “Pancho” Rodriguez y Gonzalez (this and previous image courtesy Tennessee Williams Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University); right, Williams’ telegram to his parents after The Glass Menagerie’s opening night on Broadway, by permission of the University of the South/Tennessee Williams, Manuscript Collection, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin PASATIEMPOMAGAZINE.COM
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Top left, William Liebling and Audrey Wood, 1942, by Edward Lynch; center, Williams with Elia Kazan and Cheryl Crawford (this and previous image courtesy World-Telegram Photo, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, New York WorldTelegram & Sun Photograph Collection); top right, Williams with his parents, MSThr553(42), Harvard Theatre Collection, Harvard University
Tennesee Williams, continued from Page 21 Whether the failure be only a while, or longer, or always.” The struggle to create seems to have continually surprised and dismayed him; a few years later he was bewailing “the unaccountable collapse of my power to work.” He had become, Lahr writes, “a connoisseur of his own collapse.” As Williams sinks into these welters of self-pity, the reader does the mental calculation and takes heart from the triumphs yet to come, including 22
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classics like Streetcar, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Sweet Bird of Youth, and Night of the Iguana. Things were just as tempestuous in his personal life. As important as it was, Williams came late to the discovery of his homosexuality. His first consummated sexual experience was with a girl in college, and before that he was a tinderbox of adolescent sexual yearning, erupting at the touch of a girlfriend’s bare shoulder. His first gay love was a dancer, and he had two important extended relationships. The first was with a handsome, volatile Mexican named Amado “Pancho” Rodriguez y Gonzalez, upon whom he modeled the character of the brutish Stanley Kowalski in Streetcar. His most enduring relationship, with Frank Merlo, lasted almost a decade and a half, despite terminal-seeming breakups that are recorded by Lahr on what seems like every 20 pages or so. (“In the battle of attrition with Merlo, Williams officially waved the white flag on January 2, 1961.”) Sooner or later Williams broke with most of the important people in his life. In 1970, he fired Wood in a paranoid, drug-fueled fit backstage at the final Chicago preview of Out Cry (a reworked version of his earlier Two Character Play). Wood had discovered and nurtured the unknown Williams, and their relationship had lasted more than 30 years. “In that shocked and shocking moment,” Lahr writes, “Williams made probably the worst decision of the rest of his life.” His most important creative collaboration was with the director Elia Kazan, whose forceful input helped shape the final versions of Streetcar, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Sweet Bird of Youth, among others. Lahr leaves little question that many of Williams’ plays would have turned out very differently without Kazan. Williams depended on him and repeatedly cajoled Kazan to take on his next play. But the relationship was fraught with
conflict and Williams’ scapegoating of his friend in interviews when things went badly; in April 1960 Kazan withdrew as director of Period of Adjustment, effectively terminating their work together. It was “a seismic blow,” Lahr records, “that ended the most important theatrical collaboration of twentieth-century American theater.” As he grew older and more addled with drugs and paranoia and more battered by souring critical reception (some of it shockingly personal), Williams became even more unstable. Play after play was panned, newer critics were not receptive to the new works, and even some of his staunch supporters (like Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times) saw little to admire. Lahr feels this was attributable in part to bad productions, virago actresses like Tallulah Bankhead and Bette Davis who devoured the work alive, and uncertain directors. Alan Schneider, who helmed the 1966 Broadway double bill The Mutilated and The Gnadiges Fraulein, “didn’t have a clue to what the [latter] play was about,” according to its Tony-winning star Zoe Caldwell. Lahr suggests that some of the later work is better than it appeared in the context of the times and the changing mood of the American theater; one thinks of Norma Desmond’s immortal words from Sunset Boulevard: “I am big. It’s the pictures that got small!” In 1969 Williams was hospitalized for several months by his brother Dakin in the psychiatric ward of the Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. Williams never forgave Dakin and “adopted the posture of a shanghaied victim, dragooned into a hell of his brother’s making,” Lahr writes; he goes on to stress “the indisputable ... fact that the medical team he vilified gave him back his life and another decade of writing.” Above all else, Tennessee Williams was a writer, not just of some of the most important plays in the American canon but of poetry, stories, novels, essays, a memoir, voluminous notebooks, and letters — torrents of letters in the way that people used to write letters, full of literary insights and observations and details about his life. These journals and letters are what Lady St. Just (“neither a lady nor a saint nor just,” Lahr quipped in his 1994 New Yorker profile of her) had locked in her executor’s death grip, stymieing Leverich’s publication for years. Lahr has had full access to the Williams material and made rich work of it. The life that Lahr has collected in these pages is as full and fascinating as the one Williams mined and poured into his greatest plays. It can be messy — irreconcilable breakups with people like Merlo are followed by the re-emergence of those characters as if nothing had happened, and the cycle of ecstasy, betrayal, despair, triumph, and despond repeats like a pendulum — but it’s the messiness of a complex life lived to the hilt. Williams invested himself and his family in his work; they “formed what the novelist and man of letters Gore Vidal astutely called ‘his basic repertory company,’ ” Lahr notes. “Williams’s romance with the theater allowed him to get his insides out and to act out the warring fragments of family madness to which he had been an understudy all his life.” Long before the final curtain, it is Tennessee Williams who stands astride the theater world like a colossus, with his “repertory company” in supporting roles. ◀ “Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh,” by John Lahr, W.W. Norton & Co., 784 pages
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THE HAYDN ST. LAWRENCE STRING QUARTET set to ‘reset the ears of the audience’
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he St. Lawrence String Quartet, an acclaimed Canadian ensemble established in 1989, includes in its 25th-anniversary season a stop this weekend in Santa Fe. The foursome has instigated numerous important additions to the quartet repertoire, including John Adams’ String Quartet and Absolute Jest as well as Osvaldo Golijov’s Qohelet, which is included on the Santa Fe program. But they are also in demand for their interpretations of classics by such composers as Haydn and Beethoven, whose Third “Razumovsky” Quartet concludes their program here. Haydn, in fact, is an SLSQ specialty. If you visit the ensemble’s home page, you will find that the sound 24
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From left; Christopher Costanza, Lesley Robertson, Geoff Nuttall, and Mark Fewer
file posted there by way of musical introduction is a Haydn quartet. Their Santa Fe program will open with that composer’s Quartet in F minor (Op. 20, No. 5). First violinist Geoff Nuttall is one of the group’s founding members, along with violist Lesley Robertson; cellist Christopher Costanza joined the group in 2003, and second violinist Mark Fewer took his position full time this year, although he had previously substituted in both the first and second violin chairs to fill in during paternity leaves. If you want to hear somebody speak passionately about Haydn, Nuttall is your man — as Pasatiempo discovered when we caught up with him by phone at Stanford University in California, where the SLSQ is the long-standing ensemble in residence.
Pasa: Would it be fair to call you a Haydn enthusiast? Geoff Nuttall: Actually, it’s more like a Haydn evangelist. Really, there’s a certain evangelistic quality I have, the belief that Haydn’s string quartets are the best that have ever been and that an important part of our job as musicians is to convey that. It’s like a religious belief. I harbor no doubt. Everybody who plays in a string quartet says they love Haydn, but not many quartets act all that forcefully on it. Take the Op. 20 quartets; all quartets know them, but they hardly ever program any of them. But this set is stupendously inventive. Being a Haydn evangelist becomes a long, frustrating process. It’s not that we want to force down people’s throats what we think is great, but rather that we want to share it. Pasa: Concertgoers may think of Haydn and Mozart as a pair — they were, after all, friends and mutual admirers — but many would express a preference for Mozart. Why do you think that is? Nuttall: I love Mozart, but those two composers are quite different. They had different strengths. Haydn really wanted to be an opera composer, but he didn’t have the lyric gift for it that Mozart did. Mozart was a total genius when it came to piano concertos and operas — I could listen to Così fan tutte all day, it’s so sublime — but when he wrote string quartets, it wasn’t as effortless for him. I think it has to do with his relationship to Haydn. Even as great a genius as Mozart was, he felt the pressure from Haydn when it came to quartets. He struggled. Except for maybe K. 421 [Mozart’s D-minor Quartet, one of six he dedicated to Haydn], there is nothing in Mozart’s string quartets that comes close to Haydn. Actually, Mozart’s quartets don’t even come close to his own string quintets, K. 515 and K. 516, that he wrote late in his career. Nothing comes close to the one in G minor [K. 516]. Why this was, I can’t say. It’s as if Mozart sensed he could never quite compete with Haydn when it came to string quartets. But the impact Haydn’s quartets made on Mozart was tremendous — and on Beethoven, too. Just the effect he had on those two guys is a very strong recommendation of Haydn! He basically created the genre of the string quartet and identified it as the perfect vehicle for his creativity. Pasa: Haydn was not a virtuoso string player himself. How do you think he came to write so well for strings? Nuttall: It reflects the powerful virtuosity of the great players he chose to work with. Prince Esterházy, for whom he worked, let him go hire whoever he wanted. Haydn picked great players like the violinist Tomasini and the cellist Kraft — incredible virtuosos. The SLSQ has built relationships with a number of contemporary composers, so we know that there is a constant give and take between composers and their interpreters. I’ll bet there was similarly a lot of back and forth between Haydn and his players, and they could show him what would be most effective on their instruments. His cello writing was unprecedented. He single-handedly took the cello from being a subservient basso continuo player to being a fully active virtuoso. Look at Op. 55, No. 2: he has the cello playing way up in the stratosphere. Nobody did that before Haydn. And his violin writing is so idiomatic: bariolage, leaps, cantabile writing. It’s all so full of life yet so effortless, natural, just how it should be. Oh, Haydn can get tricky, but it ends up working so well. That’s actually a good lesson
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for composers today — that you don’t have to play every instrument, but you should be comfortable seeking advice from people who do. Pasa: Haydn wrote a lot of quartets, from the mid-1750s to the end of the century, so over a span of about 45 years. At what point did he really take off as a quartet composer? Nuttall: Let’s say there are 68 completed quartets. Before Op. 20 [from 1772] you encounter moments of genius, but it’s not uniform. There are some amazing things in Op. 17, No. 4, and in Op. 9, No. 4 [both probably from 1771], but the inarguable genius starts with Op. 20. Everything after that is genius. Well, about the Op. 42 Quartet I’m still not so sure, but everything else. Pasa: That means your “genius file” includes 44 Haydn string quartets, from Op. 20 through his last completed set, Op. 77. But, honestly, the only ones that get played very much are the ones with nicknames: the “Joke” Quartet, the “Bird,” the “Frog,” the “Emperor,” the “Razor,” the “Lark,” the “Rider,” the “Fifths,” the “Sunrise.” Nuttall: Absolutely true. The SLSQ runs a program for younger quartets at Stanford, and every year we try to have the participants play all 68 of the Haydn quartets. For me, it’s so joyous. Every year people come up and say they had no idea how incredibly interesting Haydn quartets were, and often these are people who have played in quartets for some time. It’s a luxury to be able to discover great “new” pieces by Haydn. But nicknames do make pieces popular. The same thing is true of his symphonies. Marketing is everything. As a musicologist, you should make a project of providing nicknames for the rest of them. Pasa: Let’s do it together, starting with the one the SLSQ will play in Santa Fe, the Quartet in F minor, Op. 20, No. 5. What should its nickname be? Nuttall: Devastation. Pasa: The “Devastation” Quartet? Nuttall: Not even. Just “Devastation.” When you say “Op. 20, No. 5,” it sounds so antiseptic. But F minor is Haydn’s personal key for pain and suffering, so it gives rise to affetuoso writing, to a really powerful emotional statement. Pasa: Haydn also has an intellectual streak, though. How would you describe his particular balance of “head” and “heart” in this piece? Nuttall: For me, Haydn represents a perfect juxtaposition of emotion and intellect. Take the last movement of Op. 20, No. 5: a fugue with two subjects, which could hardly be more intellectual, using a theme from Handel’s Messiah. But he keeps everything quiet throughout, sempre pianissimo, and then gets loud just at the end — an incredibly effective ending. It’s a total package of conceptual and mathematical genius, but keeping it quiet adds a great deal of tension. And before we get to that movement, the first movement and the minuet are so heart-wrenching, so painfully felt; and the siciliana is an otherworldly slow movement. This is Haydn — the juxtaposition of the simple and the sublime. Pasa: When music lovers think of Haydn, they don’t usually think immediately of pieces in the minor mode, do they? Nuttall: No, they follow the Romantic idea of who the guy was. Mozart was the fun-loving party animal who wrote without effort. Beethoven was the gruff, tortured genius. Haydn — he was supposed to be jovial “Papa Haydn,” who loved everybody and was supportive of his musicians: a nice old guy. A lot of people approach his music with that idea in mind. But it’s possible that Haydn feels and expresses music even more deeply than Mozart and Beethoven. Our job is to reset the ears of the audience, to help them understand that encountering Haydn can be a life-changing experience, one that is both emotional and intellectual, a journey that will make them laugh and make them cry. ◀
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On his 1968 “comeback special” on NBC, Elvis Presley made the following observation: “I’d like to talk a little about music. Very little. ... I like a lot of the new groups, you know. The Beatles and ‘the beards’ and the whoever. But I really like a lot of the new music. But a lot of ... rock ’n’ roll music is basically gospel or rhythm and blues. Or it sprang from that.” Elvis said it. I believe it. That settles it. The blues and R & B connection to rock ’n’ roll is widely acknowledged, but the influence of gospel often gets overlooked. And that’s despite the church roots of major rock and soul icons like Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Solomon Burke, and The Staples Singers. I believe the problem is that way too many people who consider themselves rockers aren’t acquainted with the joys of old-time gospel music. They hear the word gospel and they think of that sappy excuse for music that passes as contemporary gospel, not realizing that this vanilla dreck is to real gospel what Coldplay is to Iggy & The Stooges, what Rascal Flatts is to Hank Williams, what Kenny G is to John Coltrane. There is a brand-new collection of exciting, shouting, holy spirit-raising, fire-and-brimstone-testifying gospel music — the kind Elvis was talking about — that I’ve been enjoying immensely in recent weeks. It’s called The Soul of Designer Records, and it features 101 songs on four compact discs packaged to resemble an old 33 rpm album.
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You won’t find any big stars of the genre here. No Mahalia Jackson or Sister Rosetta Tharpe or Rev. James Cleveland or The Blind Boys of Alabama or any other state. But even though you’ve probably never heard of The Dynamic Hughes Singers, The Mighty Blytheville Aires, The Fantastic Alphonzo Thomas, or The Christian All Stars of Akron, Ohio, that doesn’t mean these obscure tracks lack power. Designer Records, which operated in Memphis in the 1960s and ’70s under the ownership of J.C. “Style” Wooten, was pretty much an under-the-radar operation that specialized in black gospel. Wooten would charge a group a relatively modest fee ($469.50 was the advertised price in the late 1960s) to cut a few songs. “He’d bring those groups in there, they’d come in from Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, St. Louis, all over the place,” said Roland Janes, interviewed in the box set’s liner notes. Janes was the owner of Sonic Studios, which recorded all of Designer’s records in the company’s early days. (He also played guitar on early hits by Jerry Lee Lewis and Billy Lee Riley.) “Every weekend we’d cut maybe five different groups.[Wooten would] cut four songs on each group, he’d put a single out, and then he’d hold one in the can. ... They’d pay him a little bit at a time; then when they had enough to press a record, [Wooten would] press the record, give ’em X number of copies, then when they needed more, they’d buy ’em from him.” The weekend was the busiest time because so many of the singers had to work during the week. As Janes
said, “See, these gospel guys, man, they’re doing it for the love of what they’re doing. They used to get in their cars — maybe two or three car loads of ’em, say from Detroit — and they’d come down south, and they’d work here all Friday night and Saturday and Sunday. ... While they was here, they’d do a recording session and they’d play a bunch of different churches and take up the love offerings and everything. They just did it for the love of it; that’s what it boiled down to.” Yes, love is the key here. And it’s hard not to love these songs back. Take “Clean up Your Life” by the Jackson Trumpeteers. Were they from Jackson, Mississippi, or were they a family named Jackson? The liner notes offer no clue. All I know is that they were a vocal group led by a high-voiced singer and backed mostly by an electric guitar, organ, and drums. This is a fast-tempo tune with the singer warning against being a “playboy” and living in sin. The Gospel Songbirds, a group from Mississippi led by a tenor named Andrew Cheairs, remind me of another gospel group from that state, The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, which was led by Archie Brownlee. (Cheairs, however, is backed by no “boys” at all. It’s a female quartet.) The Songbirds’ “Tone the Bells Easy” is a slow burner that allows Cheairs to work himself into a sanctified frenzy, as Brownlee was known to do. Alberta Powell has two songs — “Trusted” and “The Same God” — both of which prove that the line between gospel music and the blues is thin. The Rev. Leon Hamner’s infectious, stomping “I’ve Got the Love of Jesus,” punctuated by the Cincinnati preacher’s throat-shredding screams, will make a listener feel like shouting, “Hamner time!” Meanwhile, the guitar on George Shields’ “God’s Word Will Never Pass Away” makes me wonder whether Ry Cooder studied this guy’s picking style. The headlines of the day work themselves into one of the songs: “Viet Nam” by The Dynamic Hughes Singers. The song basically is an emotional prayer for the soldiers fighting that war. But at one point, lead singer Jerry Hughes shouts, “No more segregation in this land!” The music of the day seeps in too. While most of the album proves Elvis’ point that gospel is the root of rock ’n’ roll, other tracks show the influence of rock on gospel. For instance, the minor-key “Do Yourself a Favor” by Souls of Solomon, a group from Buffalo, New York, starts out with a throbbing bass that sounds straight out of The Temptations’ “Papa Was a Rolling Stone” and has an electric guitar that sounds like a venomous snake about to strike. This collection can be seen as a big love offering. Constituting somewhere between a quarter and a fifth of Designer’s catalog, The Soul of Designer Records is a galaxy of great American musical treasures most of us never knew we had. ◀
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STILE ANTICO From the Imperial Court (Harmonia Mundi) Aficionados of Renaissance choral music eagerly anticipate new releases from the conductorless British vocal ensemble Stile Antico. The group’s eight previous CDs have regularly figured as contenders and winners in international recording competitions. This ninth offering will doubtless follow suit. It is a compellingly programmed, hold-your-breath beautiful recital of 16thcentury masterworks written for, or especially associated with, a succession of Hapsburg rulers, principally Maximilian I, Charles V, and Philip II. Eleven of the era’s all-star composers contribute to the playlist through works specifically attached to certain monarchs or political events. Highlights? Really, there are no highlights; everything is at the same elevated level of quality in both composition and performance. The ensemble, which ranges here from 12 to 15 singers, brings flawless blend and balance but also scores expressive points through delicate shading of a cappella tone color. The earliest work in the collection visits King David’s lament on the loss of his son Absalom, here in a stately motet Pierre de la Rue wrote on the passing of Hapsburg favored son Philip the Handsome in 1506. Heinrich Isaac’s kaleidoscopic “Virgo prudentissima,” from the following year, celebrates Maximilian’s installation as Holy Roman Emperor. Greatness inhabits every track by way of (among others) Netherlanders Josquin and Gombert, Spaniards Morales and Lobo, and even Englishman Tallis (since Mary I Tudor married a Hapsburg). — James M. Keller MARCO BELTRAMI Snowpiercer: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Varese Sarabande Records) Marco Beltrami’s music for director Bong Joon-ho’s ice-suffused allegory doesn’t completely avoid the weighty, dystopian clichés of many doomsday films. Nail-scratching string blends, run-for-your-life tempos, and occasional frightful electronics are duly employed. But Beltrami, composer for Wes Craven horror films and for such eclectic pictures as The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, can be surprisingly thoughtful even as he generates tension. The story is set on a hurtling train, and the score’s sweeping rhythms, steel-on-steel synthesizer effects, and steam-whistle sounds recall both Alan Silvestri’s work on The Polar Express soundtrack and Trevor Jones’ on Runaway Train. The best music here avoids clicketyclack altogether and concentrates on moody orchestral touches. In the opening number, “This Is the End,” winsome piano lines disappear behind tympani rolls and anxious violins. Cellos and violas strike somber chords in “Go Ahead.” “Sushi” is a simple, melancholic piano melody with a quick, equally melodic resolution. “Stomp” starts with a crushing drum strike and a deeply sounded piano tone, while “We Go Forward,” a song in the style of Bernard Herrmann, features nervous violin lines accented with the clank of metal. Not everything is tense and dark. The insistent choo-choo beat of “Seoul Train” might even make you get up and dance. Snowpiercer isn’t easy listening by any means. But its varied, sometimes violent emotional content has a sort of guilty-pleasure appeal. — Bill Kohlhaase
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The Encaustic Art Institute October Events
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Shakespeare’s romantic romp
Best friends stop being so when they both fall in love with the duke’s daughter in Milan. Complicating the situation is that one of the fellows is already engaged to a girl back home in Verona, and the other doesn’t stack up to the duke’s exacting standards. Marauding outlaws, a chase through the woods, a case of crossdressed mistaken identity, betrayal, banishment — it all adds up to The Two Gentlemen of Verona. The Royal Shakespeare Company offers an almost-live high-definition telecast from its theater in Stratfordupon-Avon on the penultimate day of the seven-week run of a modern-dress production by Simon Godwin. Reviews from the British press have repeatedly turned to the word delightful. In Santa Fe, the transmission is relayed to the Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma Ave., at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 5, and Oct. 12, and at 7 p.m. on Oct. 14; to reserve $25 seats, call 505-466-5288. Note to dog lovers: this is the comedy that includes a star turn for Crab the Dog, and the thespian hound of this production (named Mossup) has been singled out for special praise. — James M. Keller
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Michael Abatemarco I The New Mexican
Under a blanket of hues Tim Althauser’s intimate view of trees
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“When I cut timber, I was always looking up to see which way the trees were going to fall. Now I look at them to admire them.” — Tim Althauser
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aking in the aspens of Northern New Mexico is a major delight during the autumn season. In October, groves of the trees tinge the landscape with their leaves’ golden colors, giving the impression that they’ve been lit from within. To spend time walking beneath them is to learn a sort of reverence. Tim Althauser’s detailed paintings of aspen groves, which he suffuses with ambient light, capture this sensation of being in the deep woods and experiencing such awe. His perspective is from the ground, looking straight up into the sky — just how we experience viewing tall trees up close in person — rather than at a distance, which is often how Southwestern forests are rendered. “Walking in an aspen grove is, to me, unbelievable,” Althauser told Pasatiempo. “It’s just the silence and the solitude and being able to look up.” A Walk in the Woods, Althauser’s first solo exhibition, opens on Friday, Oct. 3, at the William and Joseph Gallery. Althauser is a man with a second chance at life — and a new career to go with that. A former logger, he has spent much of his time in forests. The artist eventually left the industry to work in home construction because, he said, “I became very disillusioned with the logging industry because I thought they were overdoing it and didn’t really care that they were. This was 15, 20 years ago. The forest needs to be used, and it needs to be used correctly so it can be sustained for future generations.” While building log-cabin homes, again in the forests, Althauser started having severe headaches. The headaches turned out to be a precursor to a debilitating cerebral hemorrhage that left him, at 38, with partial paralysis. “I couldn’t go back to building homes. There’s a lot of things I can’t do anymore. I don’t have the balance. It left me paralyzed on the whole right side of my body. I got most of my function back, but my brain still does not work quite right — there’s some permanent damage. With painting, I can relieve a lot of that. I can concentrate on it and put my heart into it. I had no experience with painting but always adored art.” Althauser began to devote himself to his new practice of painting. He is entirely self-taught — a remarkable thing when one considers the expertise with which he renders his images, so vivid and lifelike that the experience of being among them is second only to being in the forest itself. “I’ve been painting for about 10 years. For the past five years I really pushed on it hard and realized it was kind of like my destiny to do it.” He credits his wife, Loretta, with inspiring him to keep at it. “For me to have a
teacher, I get frustrated very fast and walk out. I had one teacher for a couple of hours, and by the time I got home I was shaking. I never went back. Loretta was the biggest influence in my life. She was working as a waitress and bringing in enough to sustain us to allow me to learn to paint. With her believing in me, I pushed to get good at something as fast as I could.” Though Althauser’s works, particularly those featuring gnarled limbs and the bare, reaching branches of wintertime, recall some of the landscapes of the German Romantic painter Caspar David Freidrich (1774-1840), his vision is inspired more by a pure love for his statuesque subjects than by any artist or genre. “The reason I paint aspens is that they’re the forestrenewal trees. They’re the first ones whose leaves come in, and they give shade to the mixed conifers.
Tim Althauser: Shadow Dance, 2014, oil on canvas; opposite, Intertwined, 2014, oil on canvas
When they start to die off, the firs and spruce trees move in and take over. When you walk into a grove of aspens, they’re basically all the same tree. They have one big root system. They’re all interconnected and are basically clones of one another. It’s a giant organism.” Aspens contribute to forest renewal even after devastating fires because the root system reaches deep into the soil. Each of Althauser’s portraits of the majestic aspens are, in effect, different extremities belonging to the same beast. From a distance, the imagery has a photorealistic quality. But closer inspection reveals a more painterly technique and myriad colors that
aren’t necessarily characteristic of the aspen but that, in Althauser’s deft hands, work together to appear entirely natural. While aspens have been the painter’s sole focus in recent years, Althauser’s first artistic attempts included Southwestern genre painting and used New Mexico churches for subjects. His depiction of the Rosario Cemetery chapel in Santa Fe, made for a fundraiser to repair the building, was one of his first and last attempts at painting the human figure. “It was the worst painting I had ever done. I haven’t spent any time learning to draw people or faces.” He does, however, paint what he knows. “It’s when I
started painting aspens that I found out I could paint. When I cut timber, I was always looking up to see which way the trees were going to fall. Now I look at them to admire them.” ◀
details ▼ Tim Althauser: A Walk in the Woods ▼ Opening reception 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3; exhibit through Nov. 10 ▼ The William & Joseph Gallery, 727 Canyon Road, 505-982-9404
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skin as the canvas. And because tattoos are designed in concert with their wearers as a permanent addition to their bodies, they’re instances of personal expression and meaning. Artists like Rich Ives create realistic images. Creating a composition that depicts a seascape teeming with life — as Ives did on a man’s arm, from shoulder to wrist — takes a considerable amount of artistic skill. Such artists are underrepresented in that most esteemed repository for highbrow cultural artifacts: the museum. Despite the surge in tattoos and piercings that took off in the 1990s, marking an entire generation with the inky pigmentation of permanently wearable art, there’s still an aura of illicitness around tattoos. Like lowrider culture, tattoos are an art form of the street. So, too, is pinstriping. Examples of skateboard designs by Toby Morfin, Albert Neri, and Jonathan Mercado are included in Pinstripe Madera. The board shape lends itself to symmetry, and Mercado’s work especially recalls the symmetrical, linear quality of Art Deco aesthetics. Without the usual market interests that have commodified art and diluted its raw impact, the “lowbrow” genre has flourished. In Nuevo Lowbrow: Pop Culture in the West, there are examples of the ironic, discomforting type of work that stands as a mirror, not necessarily to “good” taste but to the idea of taste itself. Post-Pop is comic, satiric, anarchic, and subversive. Marion Peck’s Bunny Love, for instance, is a lush depiction of an idyllic landscape and a riff on the easy comforts of genre painting and wildlife-themed art in particular. Right in the middle of the canvas, a cute bunny couple mates with fervor — hence the title.
The influence of celebrated cartoonists R. Crumb and Chester Gould (Dick Tracy) are discernible throughout ¡Orale! Examples of their strips, along with art by Pogo comic creator Walt Kelly and Peanuts’ Charles M. Schulz, are a reminder that the popular medium of the comic is among Post-Pop’s greatest legacies. Zap Comix contributor Robert Williams’ 1977 painted sign Hey Pal, Nothin’ Is Free!, which depicts the leering, manic face of Ed “Big Daddy” Roth’s hot-rod character Rat Fink, stands as the antithesis of Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse. If the comic is the granddaddy of lowbrow art, its unsung heroes are cartoon characters and B-grade movies and its villains are such tropes as retro images of gender inequality, the well-adjusted nuclear family, and ads from the ’50s and ’60s (unless they sell products like Twinkies — Margaret Kasahara’s portrait Twinkie the Kid is a memorial to the snack cakes whose production was temporarily ceased in 2012). Soto’s Twelve Armed Octopus has a retro, cartoonlike appeal. In Nuevo Lowbrow, Conrad Cooper’s painting Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is a baffling re-envisioning of Francisco Goya’s The Third of May 1808. Gone are the executioners from the Spanish painter’s original; they’ve been replaced with the massive disembodied head of Star Wars robot C-3PO. You can almost hear him exclaiming “Oh dear!” In Lowbrow Insurgence, Howard Hallis’ The Picture of Everything presents a mind-blowingly encyclopedic amalgam of pop-culture references. Many of them come from the realms of film and television and are crowded on a panel that’s divided into eight sections. How much of “everything” is contained in The Picture of Everything? Here’s a partial accounting:
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akir Hussain’s touring trio embraces both the tradition and the evolution of Indian classical music. Tabla maestro Hussain joined with violinist Kumaresh Rajagopalan and veena instrumentalist Jayanthi Kumaresh to explore forms of music thousands of years old — but with the twists, variations, and experiments that come naturally to a music that involves improvisation. The two string instruments have similar sounds but different heritages. The veena is the ancient predecessor of the sarod and sitar. The Western violin is a more recent phenomenon in Indian classical music, dating back only a couple of centuries. “I wanted to see how a Western classical instrument played by a traditional Indian musician would connect to the instrument — the veena — through which most of Indian music was conceptualized. To have them interact together is like seeing and hearing both sides of a time warp,” Hussain told Pasatiempo in a call from Orlando, Florida, one part of the tour that brings him to the Lensic Performing Arts Center on Tuesday, Oct. 7. Hussain is popularly known in the U.S. as a master percussionist who has welded his sound to jazz, Western classical, rock, and other ethnic traditions. He is riding a wave of popularity for Indian music that resembles the one started in the 1960s by sitarist Ravi Shankar and Hussain’s father, tabla player Alla Rakha. Shankar and Rakha crossed stylistic boundaries when they brought the music west, and that ignited something back home. “When they arrived back in India, they were seen as conquering heroes. It was like they’d won the World Cup. That gave a whole new breath to the popular and classical Indian music. Young people of that time started to take it on. And it became a very respectable and honored profession to make classical music.” Shankar and Rakha broke through barriers in their own country as well. At the time, the divisions between North Indian and South Indian musical traditions were distinctly drawn. Shankar and Rakha, both trained in the northern Hindustani tradition, began to adopt elements of the southern Carnatic style. “Before them, it was not something that one would get involved in,” Hussain explained. “Here’s the border, and never the twain shall meet. Each had its own way of forming ragas. Things were different in the styles, and some went to great lengths to keep it that way.” Hussain’s ensemble, through its instrumentation, combines north and south traditions in ways first carved out a generation ago. “The violin has mainly been adapted into the Carnatic style,” he said. “There are only a handful of violinists playing in the northern style, while there have been hundreds and hundreds in the southern history. It’s very popular, too, for accompanying Carnatic singers. Of course, I am from the northern tradition. Another interesting thing is that the veena is one instrument that’s part of both north and south traditions.” The renewed interest in classical traditions is part of an “incredible renaissance for all the arts in India,” said Hussain. “And I’m happy to say it has allowed us to have a launch pad to great success.” Propelled by social change, a growing middle class, and the availability of
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Tradition evolves in the music of Zakir Hussain recordings, YouTube included, the music is building its audience and expanding its range. Some traditionalists worry that the audience’s lack of knowledge about musical form and history is cheapening the music, but Hussain doesn’t see it that way. “Evolution is part of the tradition,” he said. “The new breed of young musicians have not only grown up with traditional music but have also had the great fortune to have the entire world available to them. Our musical influences aren’t limited ... to only what we Indians think is music. We have to find a way to respect our traditions but also find a way to have some common ground so that we can express ourselves to our cousins around the world.” Hussain is a pioneer of melding his tradition with music from around the globe. He was 18 when he arrived in New York for the first time. “I got a call from Shankar — I called him ‘uncle’ — and he said,
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‘Get on a plane and come to America. We have three or four concerts. Your dad isn’t feeling well. Come fill in for him.’ America was an easy place to travel to in those days. We were doing some concerts in Munich, and I just walked into the embassy and, no questions, they stamped my visa and suddenly I was in America. We played the concerts and it was time to go home, but Shankar felt I needed to broaden my horizons. I’d been offered a teaching position at the University of Washington in Seattle, and he felt that it was a golden opportunity for me to study music at the same time. At that point I had no idea of ethnomusicology. I didn’t know that there were other musics as refined as India’s.” In Seattle he experienced classical Japanese, Chinese, and Indonesian music as well as jazz and Western classical. Hussain teaches his students what he learned: that other forms of music can profoundly affect one’s own music. “I ask them to turn off the metronome. Then I ask them to practice ... by playing along with James Brown. That rhythm section was such a well-oiled machine, a human click track; the ebb and flow of the rhythms is like breathing. And it’s always right on, correct, and in the pocket. Let’s see if they can find the groove.” A large part of Hussain’s international fame comes from his participation in world-fusion projects of various sorts, including a major role in producer-bassist Bill Laswell’s Tabla Beat Science project, different incarnations of Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart’s band, and the collaboration with guitarist John McLaughlin known as Shakti. “Shakti was important in combining North and South Indian traditions,” said Hussain. “There was some criticism when I first started playing with John [an Englishman], but the music prevailed. Now it’s common to find performances in both styles in concert halls all across India.” India’s appreciation for its own musical traditions grew with changing norms. Rigid social structures once limited musical opportunities to those born to musical families. Hussain’s current trio mirrors this history. Jayanthi is a seventh-generation musician. Kumaresh Rajagopalan and his brother Ganesh, both violinists, were trained as youngsters by their father, a violinist who supported his family by selling insurance. Hussain’s father pursued music outside the family on his own, as did Shankar, whose father was a barrister. “Now the new generation can do anything, which allows a lot of students to come forward and study music. When I was growing up, when my father was growing up, we had to work outside this system of taboos. It’s the generation that came before me that opened up this Pandora’s box and let all these great musicians out.” Hussain’s chosen instrument, the tabla, is the heartbeat of both traditional Indian music and its fusion with many ethnic and rhythmic styles. Distinctive among percussion instruments for its melodic and rhythmic potential, it has fit into everything from new jazz to electronica in Hussain’s hands. “The tabla has tone. It has resonance. It has texture,” he said. “The whole melodic scale can be played on it. It allows you to play with [pianists] Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Herbie Hancock, if you like. That’s because it can speak in all languages. Once you learn its technique, you can find plenty to say no matter what kind of music you’re working with. You play it like you would talk to another human being; you can feel the nuances of the language being spoken. It’s the speaking of those languages that makes it magical.” ◀
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books, including Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community (2004) and J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Cold War, and the Atomic West (2009). Hunner grew up in Las Cruces until his family moved north. “My father was in the Air Force,” he said, “and we were assigned to Albuquerque in 1957 because he was administrating nuclear weapons for the Air Force.” Today Hunner is a professor of history at New Mexico State University and interim director of the New Mexico History Museum/ Palace of the Governors. Pasatiempo interviewed him in his office at the museum. Pasatiempo: What is your take on Mr. Oppenheimer? Jon Hunner: He was an enigmatic person. I studied him for four or five years for my book about him. My interest is how the West impacted Oppie as a young man. He came here at 18 for his health, and then he came back and bought a house in Cowles. Pasa: Up north of Pecos? What was that like? Hunner: It was a log house with no electricity and no running water. It was an escape. He called it Perro Caliente, because that’s what he said when he bought it: hot dog! Pasa: Where did he grow up? Hunner: In New York City, the Upper West Side. He earned a B.A. in chemistry from Harvard and got his Ph.D. in physics in Europe. Originally he was in
experimental physics, but he was a disaster in the lab. Pasa: Why? Was he too reckless? He didn’t have the patience for it? Hunner: Probably a little of both. He was a person who loved intellectual stimulation and challenges. How challenging is it to coat a slide over and over and over? So after one year at Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory, he went to the University of Göttingen, which was one of the premier universities in theoretical physics, and he thrived there in the 1920s, working in quantum mechanics and black holes. After his Ph.D. he wound up teaching physics at the University of California at Berkeley and Cal Tech. He worked with the new cyclotron at UC Berkeley. He worked with Ernest Lawrence, an experimental physicist, and produced some interesting work on atomic theory. Pasa: At what point did they have in mind that they could harness power? Hunner: It was the team working at the University of Berlin in 1938. Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann used one of these cyclotrons to bombard uranium, and they didn’t understand the results. Pasa: Were they bombarding all kinds of things? Hunner: Yes, and it was the rare part of uranium, the 1 percent of naturally occurring uranium that has the U-235 isotope, that eventually was the unstable element
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World War II, was keeping tabs on him, because of his left-wing activities. His wife [had been] a Communist Party member, and he gave money for an ambulance for the communists fighting the fascists in Spain. Pasa: So why did Groves pick him? Hunner: Gen. Groves’ own people didn’t want to give Oppenheimer a clearance until Groves ordered them Jon Hunner
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said, “They’ve split the atom.” Frisch was working for Niels Bohr in Copenhagen. He told Bohr, and Bohr went to a physicists convention in Washington, D.C., and told them a Nazi physicist had split the atom. They knew that if they could harness the energy for a weapon, it would be incredibly powerful. Pasa: It’s interesting he would just tell everyone at the convention. We think of how much secrecy there always was about these things. Hunner: This was an incredible discovery. Maybe Niels Bohr was just excited about something that had been dreamed about since the ancient Greeks — dividing the atom, which in Greek [atomos] means indivisible. Maybe he didn’t think the Nazis were such a threat. Maybe he wasn’t too worried about the military application. Maybe they were just thinking in the spirit of science as nonpolitical. Oppenheimer comes into the story around now. He was at that conference, and he started working on it and came to the notice of Gen. [Leslie] Groves. He had been searching for a civilian director of the lab and chose Oppenheimer, who had ridden through Los Alamos on horseback. They originally were looking at Jemez Springs, but Oppie said, “I know a better place in these mountains.” They met in the evening at La Fonda for a steak dinner and said Los Alamos is it. That was November 1942. So Oppie was the civilian laboratory director, even though it was an Army post. Pasa: What is the focus of your talk? Hunner: It’s part of the life story of Oppenheimer and then the surprising turn of events, of how this hero of World War II, who created a bomb that ended the most horrific war in human history, was vilified and lost his government security clearance just nine years later. Pasa: What was the reason? Hunner: After the war was over, there was some talk about sharing nuclear secrets and whether one country should have a monopoly on this weapon. Oppie was part of the nuclear establishment. He was on some powerful government committees, but he did advocate against the hydrogen bomb; he thought the atomic bomb was enough. Why should we have something that was a thousand times more powerful than that? That got the Air Force angry. The FBI, even before
to. I think Groves saw him as more ambitious and hungry, where perhaps more senior physicists wouldn’t work so hard. There’s a famous train ride in the spring of 1942 when Oppie spent the night explaining to Groves what they were trying to do. Another reason why he was attacked in 1953 and lost his clearance had to do with the head of the Atomic Energy Commission, Lewis Strauss. Oppenheimer could sometimes say the wrong thing at the wrong time, and he did that with Strauss a couple of times. One was at a congressional hearing on shipping very small amounts of radioactive isotopes overseas for medical research. Pasa: Could a potential enemy use a small amount to figure out how to make it? Hunner: No. During the war more people worked on the Manhattan Project than were turning out jeeps continued on Page 44
He did advocate against the hydrogen bomb; he thought the atomic bomb was enough. Why should we have something that was a thousand times more powerful than that?
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Jon Hunner, continued from Page 43 and trucks for the Army. It takes an incredible industrial process to make the stuff. But Strauss was against exporting those isotopes. Oppie testified after him, and he said it takes a lot to develop an atomic weapon. It takes this and that, and it takes a shovel, and it takes a bottle of beer once in a while. All the congressmen laughed, but Strauss’ face was beet red. During the war, Groves told [FBI Director J. Edgar] Hoover, “Hands off Oppie.” But after the war, Hoover tapped Oppie’s phones. When I was researching my book, I found that there were three rolls of microfilm at New Mexico State University. There are thousands of documents the FBI compiled on Oppenheimer, including transcripts Oppenheimer, left, and Gen. Leslie R. of phone conversations. It was an amazing find for someone researchGroves with vestiges of the Trinity test in September 1945. Both men ing him for a book. wore overshoes to keep fallout from Pasa: During the project at Los sticking to their soles. Alamos, Oppie and other scientists would visit Edith Warner down at Otowi for the excellent pies she made on a wood stove. Hunner: And chocolate cake. To visit Edith Warner, you didn’t have to have an off-site pass, but you had to make reservations. Oppie knew her from before the war, and soon after they picked Los Alamos he stopped by to see Edith and told her there were big changes coming. She had tried to get as far as possible from a complicated lifestyle, living on a tiny corner of an Indian reservation. Part of the difference of my story from other accounts is how the West influenced Oppie as a young man and then how with the Manhattan Project he transformed New Mexico and eventually the rest of the West in being at the forefront of this new source of energy. It’s not only nuclear weapons; it’s 20 percent of U.S. power, and nuclear medicine, then also computers, the genome project, alternative energy. Pasa: What happened in his personal life after his clearance was jerked? Hunner: He and his wife, Kitty, said they were like ghosts in New Jersey. Some people say he became a better director of the Institute for Advanced Study [in Princeton] because he wasn’t always rushing off to Washington. And he would give lectures. He went to England and just talked about science and the modern man, and they had overflow crowds. They had to put up loudspeakers outside, and the BBC taped it and aired it on BBC radio around the world. Pasa: He was a visionary. Hunner: I think so. I think the path he was trying to steer the country [on] in the 1950s was saying the arms race doesn’t make sense. He wrote an article for the journal Foreign Affairs saying the U.S. and U.S.S.R. were like two scorpions in a bottle. Many years after the bombings, Oppenheimer toured Japan. A journalist asked him if he didn’t feel bad about developing something that killed so many Japanese. He said, the question is not do I feel bad about it; the question is do I feel worse today than I did yesterday. ◀
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When in Rome Jonathan Richards I For The New Mexican The Conformist, rated R, in Italian and French with subtitles, The Screen, 4 chiles Marcello Clerici wants to be normal. Ordinary. Just like everybody else. Marcello is the title character in Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1970 masterpiece The Conformist. As beautifully played by Jean-Louis Trintignant, he is essentially an empty suit. He’s a man morally, sexually, and politically conflicted. His life has been traumatized by a childhood incident when a chauffeur tried to rape him — an episode that ended with little Marcello grabbing the man’s pistol and shooting him.
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Since then, all Marcello has wanted to do is blend in, escape notice. And in Italy in the late 1930s, blending in means, among other things, being a good fascist. It also means getting married to a nice, simple, pretty bourgeois girl, Giulia (Stefania Sandrelli), whom he describes to a priest in confession as “all bed and kitchen.” It’s the first confession of his life, undertaken at the wishes of his fiancée as a pro forma prenuptial cleansing sacrament (“Nobody believes in it,” she assures him, “not even the priests”). He admits in the confessional to shooting the chauffeur, but he discovers that the priest wants to hear not about murder but about sex. When Marcello’s best friend, a fascist named Italo ( José Quaglio), asks him why he’s getting married, he replies that when he looks in the mirror he sees someone who is different; he hopes getting married to Giulia will help him to seem the same as everyone else. He has also joined the Fascist Party, been drafted as an agent by Mussolini’s secret police, and accepted an assignment to assassinate his former university philosophy instructor, Professor Quadri (Enzo Tarascio), a committed anti-fascist activist now living in exile in France. As the movie opens, Marcello is on his honeymoon, bathed in red neon light that pulses through the window of his Paris hotel room, sitting on the bed next to a sleeping Giulia and waiting for the phone to ring
with the order to execute his mission. When it does, he grabs his gun, poses with it before the mirror, draws a sheet over his wife’s naked bottom, and heads down to meet his driver. Much of the rest of the movie is told from this point on in flashback, in the course of the drive toward the forest where the assassination will be carried out. We see the youthful molestation episode, which leaves Marcello riddled with guilt over the shooting and ashamed and confused by the sexual feelings the incident aroused in him. We meet Marcello’s drug-taking mother and his institutionalized, mentally ill father (not a hereditary mental illness, Marcello assures his fiancée’s mother). And we travel with Marcello to Paris to meet the professor and his beautiful young wife, Anna (Dominique Sanda). This is where Marcello’s conflicts are thrown into stark relief. He admires the professor, who at first remembers Marcello only dimly from his university days. They talk about Marcello’s course thesis on Plato’s cave, which describes chained men looking at shadows cast on the wall by the firelight and mistaking the shadows for reality. Marcello doesn’t want to kill his old mentor, who observes that he does not even seem to be a particularly committed fascist. Marcello also finds himself aroused by Anna. Anna reciprocates, up to a point, although it becomes clear to Marcello and to us (although not to the vacuous Giulia) that it is his wife who excites her primary sexual interest. There is a scene, ravishing in its painterly perfection, in which Anna kneels, caressing the knees of Giulia, who is sprawled naked on the bed in an ecstasy of consumerism, exhausted from shopping and trying on new clothes. (“Women shop,” Anna has noted drily earlier. “Men pay.”) Giulia is scarcely aware of the erotic attention. But Marcello, watching from the shadows of the doorway, knows what’s going on. And Anna knows he knows and baits him with it. In a later tango in a Parisian dance hall, with Anna leading and Giulia melting in her arms, Bertolucci doubles down on the theme and shows the contrast between the sapphic assurance of the politically and sexually self-confident Anna and the passive, vacillating Marcello. Bertolucci fills the screen with contrasts between dark, furtive shadows and the epic monumentalism
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of the fascist ideal, reminiscent of the classicism of the ancient Rome that Mussolini dreamed of restoring. In the assassination scene, Marcello watches with us, in astonishment, as dark-coated men emerge from the woods and, in a sequence evocative of Julius Caesar, stab the professor repeatedly. At the end of The Conformist, as fascism and its leader are toppled in Italy, Marcello blows with the wind and resets his sails to conform to the new order. And an unexpected revelation increases his sexual turmoil. Bertolucci’s screenplay, adapted by the director from a novel by Alberto Moravia, is complex and fascinating, but the visuals of this movie make the most enduring impression. The cinematography is by the great Vittorio Storaro, who would later win Oscars for his work on Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, Warren Beatty’s Reds, and Bertolucci’s visually stunning The Last Emperor in 1987. He should have gotten his first one here. The color scheme and saturation, the use of light and shadow, the dim haunting interiors, and the majestic exteriors are extraordinary. The film was restored under Storaro’s supervision a few years ago, and it looks fresh and magnificent. It seems both contemporary and timeless. The Conformist appeared when Hollywood was breaking the mold of the old studio system, and it had a profound influence on the work of Coppola and the other “Young Turks” of the 1970s, just as this film, with its lavish production values and American financing, marked Bertolucci’s break from the influence of his idol Jean-Luc Godard. ◀
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music in the film, so writer and director John Ridley had to get creative and focus on the era of Hendrix’s life when he went to London and became the star we know today. Rated R. 118 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) KELLY & CAL Juliette Lewis plays Kelly, a suburban mother who meets Cal ( Jonny Weston), a surly young neighbor in a wheelchair who inspires her to tap into her punk-rock past and prove she’s more than just a lame mom. Before long, they fall in love, but will they end up together? Not rated. 107 minutes. Jean Cocteau Cinema, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) LEFT BEHIND Nicolas Cage has had a strange career, but this may be his strangest role choice yet: the lead in the latest adaptation of the Christian novel series about the end times and what happens to those who have not been “raptured.” Christian-based movies are frequently lucrative, so is Cage following his muse or the money? Heaven only knows. Rated PG-13. 110 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed)
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opening this week ANNABELLE The creepy doll from 2013’s The Conjuring gets its own spinoff movie; Chucky from Child’s Play is apparently taking a break. Annabelle Wallis and Ward Horton play a young couple who thought it was a good idea to buy their unborn child a scary-looking vintage doll in a wedding dress. Spoiler alert: it was not a good idea. Rated R. 98 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed) THE CONFORMIST Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1970 masterpiece was lovingly restored a few years ago under the supervision of its great cinematographer, Vittorio Storaro. Adapted from the novel by Alberto Moravia, it tells the story of Marcello Clerici (JeanLouis Trintignant), traumatized sexually as a boy and desperate to fit in as an adult. In Italy in the late 1930s, this drives him to join the fascists, become a secret agent, and accept an assignment to assassinate an exiled anti-fascist who was his philosophy professor. Bertolucci’s screenplay is complex and fascinating, but the visuals make the most enduring impression. The
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performances are consistently excellent, including those from Stefania Sandrelli, Enzo Tarascio, and Dominique Sanda. Rated R. 111 minutes. In Italian and French with subtitles. The Screen, Santa Fe. ( Jonathan Richards) See review, Page 46. GONE GIRL The bestselling thriller makes its way to the big screen thanks to an all-star team of writer Gillian Flynn, director David Fincher, and actors Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Tyler Perry, and Neil Patrick Harris. Pike plays the girl who gets gone, and Affleck is the husband who’s suspected of murder. The film supposedly breaks from the book, so even its many readers will be surprised by the plot twists. Rated R. 149 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed) A GOOD MARRIAGE This thriller — adapted from a 2010 Stephen King novella — centers on a woman named Darcy (Joan Allen) who discovers that her husband (Stephen Lang) has a dark past. Rated R. 97 minutes. Jean Cocteau Cinema, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) JIMI: ALL IS BY MY SIDE André Benjamin of the hip-hop duo Outkast picks up a guitar to play Jimi Hendrix in this movie based on the rock icon’s life. The Hendrix estate refused to allow any of Jimi’s
NO NO: A DOCKUMENTARY It’s one of the oddest urban legends in baseball: on June 12, 1970, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis threw a no-hitter against the San Diego Padres while high on LSD. This documentary looks into that event and also widens its lens to take in Ellis’ career and, to a lesser extent, that whole era of colorful characters in baseball. Not rated. 100 minutes. Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) THE NOTEBOOK János Szász’s bleak drama-cum-horror-film is an allegory intent on showing the dehumanizing effects of war. When young male twins from a bourgeois family are sent to live with their grandmother in a Hungarian border village during World War II, they begin a desperate existence, learning to endure the evil around them by studying it. At their father’s behest, the twins keep a notebook and record all their experiences. They face molestation, hunger, cold, and physical abuse. They also witness the rounding up of Jews and the terrible predicaments of those who, like themselves, are forced to compromise their better natures to survive. The Notebook elicits little sympathy for its protagonists, who act as one person. In the end, it’s unclear exactly what the film is trying to achieve, other than to leave its audiences disaffected and numb. Rated R. 112 minutes. In Hungarian with subtitles. Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. (Michael Abatemarco) PERFORMANCE AT THE SCREEN The series of high-definition screenings continues with a showing of Prokofiev’s War and Peace from the Mariinsky Opera in
Russia. Andrei Bondarenko and Aida Garifullina star. Screens at 11:15 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 5, only. Not rated. 240 minutes with one intermission. The Screen, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) REEL NEW MEXICO The monthly series showcasing independent films with a New Mexico connection returns with “Made in New Mexico,” an evening of clips from films shot in and around Santa Fe, including The Texas Rangers (1936), Ride the Pink Horse (1947), Fancy Pants (1950), Billy Jack (1971), Red Sky at Morning (1971), and Lust in the Dust (1985). Screens at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, only. La Tienda Performance Space, 7 Caliente Road off Avenida Vista Grande, Eldorado. (Not reviewed) ROCKS IN MY POCKETS In this ambitious, independent film, Latvian-American filmmaker Signe Baumane uses animation to address the depression, schizophrenia, and suicidal thoughts that generations of women in her family have suffered from. It’s an admirable effort, but the animation is ordinary and Baumane’s narration much too stiff. Even though the story clearly touches on important themes and takes some fascinating turns, it fails to justify existing in this particular format. Not rated. 88 minutes. The Screen, Santa Fe. (Robert Ker)
now in theaters BOYHOOD Richard Linklater’s extraordinary achievement has been to take a six-year-old named Ellar Coltrane and film him for a few days every year for a dozen years. Linklater wrote each screenplay segment based on talks with his cast, which includes Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette as the boy’s parents. We watch as the boy grows up and makes his way through childhood’s adventures and discoveries, arriving on the brink of young adulthood as the movie ends. It’s not just that 12 real years pass and Linklater holds the whole thing together. It’s the way it happens, the way he tells the story. Rated R. 166 minutes. Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. ( Jonathan Richards) THE BOXTROLLS Stop-motion animation makes a welcome return to the cinema thanks to this feature offering from some of the creators of ParaNorman and Coraline. Isaac Hempstead-Wright voices a plucky orphan who was raised by trash-collecting trolls. When his adopted family comes under threat from an exterminator (voiced by Ben Kingsley), he has to fight back. The heroes aren’t
developed enough for audiences to feel fully invested in the story, but the tone is delightfully macabre, and the world inhabited by these characters — with its twisting back alleys and toothy scoundrels — reflects the considerable effort that went into building it. Rated PG. 96 minutes. Screens in 3-D and 2-D at Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe. Screens in 2-D only at DreamCatcher, Española. (Robert Ker) DOLPHIN TALE 2 Nathan Gamble, Ashley Judd, Kris Kristofferson, Morgan Freeman, and Rufus the Pelican return for this sequel to the 2011 hit. This time, one of the dolphins’ names is Hope. As with the first film, the plot is based on true rescue stories from Florida’s Clearwater Marine Aquarium; in that respect, let’s hope there are many sequels to come. Rated PG. 107 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) THE DROP The feature-film farewell tour of James Gandolfini ends with his sharply honed performance as a small-time Brooklyn hood in this taut, subtle, and satisfying drama. Gandolfini plays Cousin Marv, the former owner of a Brooklyn bar that doubles as a “drop” — a depository and laundry for mob earnings. The dominant performance in this darkly funny, slyly creepy tale comes from Tom Hardy, who plays Bob, Marv’s cousin and bartender. There’s a fullish slate of violence here, but none of it feels gratuitous, and Dennis Lehane’s needle-sharp dialogue plays like a constant bass note through the deadpan deliveries of the excellent cast. Rated R. 106 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. ( Jonathan Richards) THE EQUALIZER Director Antoine Fuqua reteams with Denzel Washington, the actor he helped win an Oscar with Training Day, for a thriller about a retired special-operations agent who decides to dust off his skills and pick up his guns when he meets a helpless young woman (Chloë Grace Moretz) who is under the control of Russian gangsters. Rated R. 131 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed) GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY The best film yet from Marvel Entertainment is this satisfying space opera, which injects much-missed fun back into the science-fiction genre. Chris Pratt plays StarLord, the leader of a gang of intergalactic misfits and outlaws that includes a talking raccoon and a tree (voiced by Bradley Cooper and Vin Diesel, respectively). They become unlikely friends, just in time to guard the galaxy. Great music, loads of heart, a superb cast, and a healthy dose of humor overshadow even the wild special effects and the
intricate world building. Rated PG-13. 121 minutes. Screens in 2-D only at Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe. (Robert Ker) THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY This movie hits many of the check marks for art-house cinema: it takes place in France, it involves a restaurant, the plot centers on cross-cultural understanding, Lasse Hallström (Chocolat) directs, and Helen Mirren is prominently involved. She plays a restaurateur who must learn to coexist with the Indian family that sets up an eatery across the street. Rated PG. 122 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) IF I STAY Mia (Chloë Grace Moretz) is a teenage cello prodigy who has a shot at getting into Juilliard and dating an indie-rock heartthrob ( Jamie Blackley). But then she and her family are in a car accident, and she is the only survivor. Now in a coma, Mia has an out-of-body experience that informs her “decision” to live or die. Rated PG-13. 106 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) LET’S BE COPS Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. play two losers who decide to dress up as cops for a costume party. They enjoy the illusion of authority so much they decide to keep the charade going for as long as they can. Rated R. 104 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed) LOVE IS STRANGE This film is a variation on the old theme of the problems that can beset a relationship when it transitions from cohabitation into marriage. Ben ( John Lithgow) and George (Alfred Molina) have been living happily together in Manhattan for nearly 40 years, but their marriage costs George his job as a music teacher at a Catholic school. With George out of work, the two men can no longer afford their apartment, so they find temporary separate accommodations with friends and relatives. Director Ira Sachs handles all of this with quiet, understated compassion, but the movie seldom rises above a workmanlike armature of social pathos. Rated R. 94 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. ( Jonathan Richards) MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT In Woody Allen’s latest, Colin Firth is Stanley, a celebrated English illusionist who travels the world and astounds audiences. He’s also a committed debunker of charlatans, so when an old friend (Simon McBurney) asks him to help expose a young medium (Emma Stone), Stanley accepts the challenge. Allen may not have a soft spot for psychics, continued on Page 52
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but he does understand the magic of romance, and he knows that rigid rationality isn’t everything. Rated PG-13. 97 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. ( Jonathan Richards) THE MAZE RUNNER The latest young-adult-novel series to work its way from author’s pen to silver screen is this story about a boy named Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) who wakes up in a giant maze with some other boys, none of whom remember their previous lives. One day, a girl (Kaya Scodelario) appears. Thomas can read her thoughts, and there’s one they share: “Let’s get the heck out of here!” Rated PG-13. 113 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed) MY OLD LADY Veteran playwright Israel Horovitz makes his feature-length-film directorial debut with this comedy about a man (Kevin Kline) who inherits an apartment in Paris and intends to liquidate it only to find he cannot do so until the current tenant dies. Sadly for him, the tenant is played by the immortal Maggie Smith, so he has a long wait. He’ll just have to pass the time falling in love (with a character played by Kristin Scott Thomas). Rated PG-13. 107 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) NO GOOD DEED Idris Elba trades on his charm to play Colin Evans, a fugitive who’s wanted for severely abusing and murdering women. When he’s in a car accident and stranded in a rural area, a mother (Taraji P. Henson) who’s home alone with her daughter takes him in. Rated PG-13. 84 minutes. DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed) THE ONE I LOVE Ethan (Mark Duplass) and Sophie (Elisabeth Moss) are sent off for a couple’s weekend by their marriage counselor (Ted Danson), and their getaway quickly takes a turn for the surreal. What they are meant to discover about themselves and each other remains a mystery, but this highly original movie doesn’t play tricks on the audience, even as it becomes more complex. Duplass and Moss have
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excellent chemistry and turn in nuanced, convincing performances. Rated R. 91 minutes. Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. ( Jennifer Levin) SAGRADA: THE MYSTERY OF CREATION The church of La Sagrada Família, the most imposing tourist magnet in Barcelona, is actually a construction site. Begun in 1882 by architect Antoni Gaudí, it remains a half-completed exercise in artistic astonisment. Apart from some unnecessary incursions of modern-dance commentary, Stefan Haupt’s 2012 documentary serves as an intriguing biography of the building, its story made personal through interviews with spiritually invested architects and artisans working on the project. Says one, “The important thing about Sagrada Família isn’t finishing it, it’s building it.” Not rated. 89 minutes. Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. ( James M. Keller) THE SKELETON TWINS Saturday Night Live alums Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig play estranged twins — he a gay screenwriter who failed in Hollywood and she a homebody trapped in a failing marriage (to a man played by Luke Wilson). The twins get back together to attempt to heal their relationship and figure out where things went wrong. Rated R. 93 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES In 1990, the TMNT craze hit its apex among Generation Y with the reptilian quartet’s first movie, in which the leads were brought to life through Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. Michael Bay produced this comeback movie, which animates the turtles using computers and gives their latest bout with Shredder the over-the-top action treatment. Rated PG-13. 101 minutes. Screens in 2-D only at Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe, and DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed)
stunning vistas and, as before, sumptuous meals — laughing all the way. On their second outing as food reviewers, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, playing fictional versions of themselves, reverse roles; this time Coogan is the more settled of the two. The improvised tête-à-têtes and (mostly) spot-on impersonations that made the first film a delight haven’t changed. Not rated. 108 minutes. The Screen, Santa Fe. (Michael Abatemarco) A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES In 1987’s Lethal Weapon, Danny Glover famously said of action and gunfights, “I’m too old for this [stuff].” Liam Neeson is much older now than Glover was then, and he’s only getting warmed up. Here he plays an ex-cop, hired to avenge a drug kingpin whose wife was murdered. Rated R. 113 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe. (Not reviewed) ZULU This near-classic 1964 British adventure film earned a beautiful restoration job on its 50th anniversary and is now making its rounds at screenings in select cities. It’s based on the real-life story of 150 soldiers who successfully held off an attack by 4,000 Zulu warriors, and the second half offers nonstop grittily filmed action with a rousing score by John Barry. It’s easy, though, to find the faults in the first half — too much stilted dialogue, clichéd characters, and an unnecessary turn from Jack Hawkins as a crazed preacher. But it’s bound to be fun to watch on the big screen. Not rated. 138 minutes. Jean Cocteau Cinema, Santa Fe. (Robert Nott)
other screenings
THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU Jason Bateman plays a man who discovers his wife is having an affair with his boss and then learns his father has died. Per his father’s final request, he must spend a week in his childhood home with his siblings (Tina Fey, Adam Driver, and Corey Stoll), all of whom have their own issues to work through. Together they learn that life is unpredictable and should be savored and that family means a whole lot. Rated R. 103 minutes. Regal Stadium 14, Santa Fe; DreamCatcher, Española. (Not reviewed)
Jean Cocteau Cinema, 505-466-5528 Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989), Mood Indigo, Royal Shakespeare Company: The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
THE TRIP TO ITALY Director Michael Winterbottom’s follow-up to 2010’s The Trip is nearly identical in plot but set in Italy, providing ample opportunity to take in
Regal Stadium 14, 505-424-6296 Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day; Dracula Untold; The Judge; M*A*S*H* (1970). ◀
Center for Contemporary Arts, 505-982-1338 Song of the New Earth with producer Betsy Chasse in person at the 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, screening; Walking the Great Divide (2008) with director Mark Flagler in person at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 5.
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1050 Old Pecos Trail, 505-982-1338, www.ccasantafe.org Boyhood (R) Fri. to Thurs. 4:15 p.m. No No:A Dockumentary (NR) Fri. to Sun. 5:15 p.m. The Notebook (R) Fri. to Sun. 3 p.m., 8 p.m. Mon. and Tue. 5:15 p.m., 8 p.m. Wed. 8:15 p.m. Thurs. 5:15 p.m., 8 p.m. The One I Love (R) Fri. to Sun. 1 p.m. Sagrada:The Mystery of Creation (NR) Fri. 2 p.m., 7:30 p.m. Sat. and Sun. 12 p.m., 7:30 p.m. Mon. to Thurs. 3:15 p.m., 7:30 p.m. Song of the New Earth (NR) Sat. 2 p.m. Sun. 11 a.m. Walking the Great Divide (NR) Sun. 2 p.m. JEAN COCTEAU CINEMA
418 Montezuma Avenue, 505-466-5528, www.jeancocteaucinema.com Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (PG) Fri. and Sat. 11 p.m. A Good Marriage (R) Fri. 6:10 p.m. Sat. 8:30 p.m. Sun. 4:30 p.m. Mon. 6:10 p.m. Tue. 7:30 p.m. Wed. 8:30 p.m. Thurs. 6:10 p.m. Kelly & Cal Fri. 8:30 p.m. Sat. 6:10 p.m. Sun. 7 p.m. Mon. 8:30 p.m. Wed. 6:10 p.m. Thurs. 8:30 p.m. Mood Indigo (NR) Sat. 1:30 p.m. Wed. 4 p.m. Royal Shakespeare Company:The Two Gentlemen of Verona (NR) Sun. 1 p.m. Zulu (NR) Fri. and Sat. 3:30 p.m. Thurs. 3:30 p.m. REGAL DEVARGAS
562 N. Guadalupe St., 505-988-2775, www.fandango.com The Drop (R) Fri. and Sat. 1:25 p.m., 4:25 p.m., 7:25 p.m., 9:55 p.m. Sun. to Thurs. 1:25 p.m., 4:25 p.m., 7:25 p.m. The Hundred-Foot Journey (PG) Fri. and Sat. 1:05 p.m., 4:05 p.m., 6:50 p.m., 9:40 p.m. Sun. to Thurs. 1:05 p.m., 4:05 p.m., 6:50 p.m. Jimi:All Is by My Side (R) Fri. and Sat. 1 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m., 9:45 p.m. Sun. to Thurs. 1 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m. Love Is Strange (R) Fri. and Sat. 4:40 p.m., 9:45 p.m. Sun. to Thurs. 4:40 p.m. Magic in the Moonlight (PG-13) Fri. to Thurs. 1:40 p.m., 7:40 p.m. My Old Lady (PG-13) Fri. and Sat. 1:15 p.m., 4:15 p.m., 7:15 p.m., 9:50 p.m. Sun. to Thurs. 1:15 p.m., 4:15 p.m., 7:15 p.m. The SkeletonTwins (R) Fri. and Sat. 1:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 9:55 p.m. Sun. to Thurs. 1:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. REGAL STADIUM 14
3474 Zafarano Drive, 505-424-6296, www.fandango.com
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (PG) Thurs. 7 p.m., 9:30 p.m. Annabelle (R) Fri. and Sat. 12:40 p.m., 3:10 p.m.,
5:35 p.m., 7:20 p.m., 8 p.m., 9:50 p.m., 10:25 p.m. Sun. to Wed. 12:40 p.m., 3:10 p.m., 5:35 p.m., 8 p.m., 10:25 p.m. The Boxtrolls 3D (PG) Fri. to Wed. 12 p.m., 5 p.m. The Boxtrolls (PG) Fri. to Wed. 2:25 p.m., 7:25 p.m., 10 p.m. DolphinTale 2 (PG) Fri. and Sat. 12:45 p.m., 3:45 p.m. Sun. to Wed. 12 p.m., 2:35 p.m., 5:10 p.m., 7:45 p.m., 10:20 p.m. Dracula Untold (PG-13) Thurs. 8 p.m., 10:25 p.m. The Equalizer (R) Fri. to Wed. 1 p.m., 4:05 p.m., 7:15 p.m., 10:20 p.m. Gone Girl (R) Fri. to Wed. 12 p.m., 12:20 p.m., 3:25 p.m., 3:50 p.m., 6:45 p.m., 7:05 p.m., 10 p.m., 10:20 p.m. Guardians of the Galaxy (PG-13) Fri. to Wed. 1:30 p.m., 4:40 p.m., 7:35 p.m., 10:20 p.m.
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If I Stay (PG-13) Fri. and Sat. 12:15 p.m., 2:40 p.m.,
5:15 p.m., 7:45 p.m., 10:20 p.m. Sun. 5:15 p.m., 7:45 p.m., 10:20 p.m. Mon. and Tue. 12:15 p.m., 2:40 p.m., 5:15 p.m., 7:45 p.m., 10:20 p.m. Wed. 4:30 p.m., 9:40 p.m. The Judge (R) Thurs. 10 p.m. Left Behind (PG-13) Fri. to Wed. 12 p.m., 2:40 p.m., 5:15 p.m., 7:50 p.m., 10:25 p.m. Let’s Be Cops (R) Fri. to Wed. 1:25 p.m., 4:15 p.m., 7 p.m., 9:50 p.m. M*A*S*H (PG) Sun. 2 p.m. Wed. 2 p.m., 7 p.m. The Maze Runner (PG-13) Fri. to Wed. 1:10 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m., 9:50 p.m. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (PG-13) Fri. to Wed. 12:20 p.m., 2:50 p.m., 5:20 p.m., 7:50 p.m., 10:20 p.m. This Is Where I Leave You (R) Fri. to Wed. 12 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 5 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 10:05 p.m. A Walk Among the Tombstones (R) Fri. to Wed. 1:15 p.m., 4:20 p.m., 7:10 p.m., 10 p.m. THE SCREEN
Santa Fe University of Art & Design, 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, 505-473-6494, www.thescreensf.com The Conformist (R) Fri. and Sat. 1:10 p.m., 7:40 p.m. Sun. 4 p.m. Mon. to Thurs. 1:10 p.m., 7:40 p.m. Mariinsky Opera:War and Peace (NR) Sun. 11:15 a.m. Rocks in My Pockets (NR) Fri. 5:45 p.m. Sun. 6:20 p.m. Mon. to Thurs. 5:45 p.m. The Trip to Italy (NR) Fri. and Sat. 3:35 p.m. Mon. to Thurs. 3:35 p.m.
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the maze runner 1:50** 4:25 6:55 the boxtrolls 2d 2:00** 4:30 7:00 let’s be cops 2:35** 5:00 7:30 the equalizer 1:45** 4:30 7:15 left behind 2:10** 4:45 7:10 this is where i leave you 2:30** 4:55 7:25 gone girl 2:15** 6:45 no good deed 2:25** 4:40 7:35 ninja turtles 2d 2:05** 4:35 7:05 annabelle 2:20** 4:50 7:20 **saturday & sunday only *friday & saturday only times for friday, october 3 - thursday, october 9
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15 N.M. 106 (intersection with U.S. 84/285), 505-753-0087, www.dreamcatcher10.com Annabelle (R) Fri. 4:50 p.m., 7:20 p.m., 9:50 p.m. Sat. 2:20 p.m., 4:50 p.m., 7:20 p.m., 9:50 p.m. Sun. 2:20 p.m., 4:50 p.m., 7:20 p.m. Mon. to Thurs. 4:50 p.m., 7:20 p.m. The Boxtrolls (PG) Fri. 4:30 p.m., 7 p.m., 9:30 p.m. Sat. 2 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 7 p.m., 9:30 p.m. Sun. 2 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 7 p.m. Mon. to Thurs. 4:30 p.m., 7 p.m. The Equalizer (R) Fri. 4:30 p.m., 7:15 p.m., 10 p.m. Sat. 1:45 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 7:15 p.m., 10 p.m. Sun. 1:45 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 7:15 p.m. Mon. to Thurs. 4:30 p.m., 7:15 p.m. Gone Girl (R) Fri. 6:45 p.m., 9:50 p.m. Sat. 2:15 p.m., 6:45 p.m., 9:50 p.m. Sun. 2:15 p.m., 6:45 p.m. Mon. to Thurs. 6:45 p.m. Left Behind (PG-13) Fri. 4:45 p.m., 7:10 p.m., 9:35 p.m. Sat. 2:10 p.m., 4:45 p.m., 7:10 p.m., 9:35 p.m. Sun. 2:10 p.m., 4:45 p.m., 7:10 p.m. Mon. to Thurs. 4:45 p.m., 7:10 p.m. Let’s Be Cops (R) Fri. 5 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 10 p.m. Sat. 2:35 p.m., 5 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 10 p.m. Sun. 2:35 p.m., 5 p.m., 7:30 p.m. Mon. to Thurs. 5 p.m., 7:30 p.m. The Maze Runner (PG-13) Fri. 4:25 p.m., 6:55 p.m., 9:45 p.m. Sat. 1:50 p.m., 4:25 p.m., 6:55 p.m., 9:45 p.m. Sun. 1:50 p.m., 4:25 p.m., 6:55 p.m. Mon. to Thurs. 4:25 p.m., 6:55 p.m. No Good Deed (PG-13) Fri. 4:40 p.m., 7:35 p.m., 9:35 p.m. Sat. 2:25 p.m., 4:40 p.m., 7:35 p.m., 9:35 p.m. Sun. 2:25 p.m., 4:40 p.m., 7:35 p.m. Mon. to Thurs. 4:40 p.m., 7:35 p.m. Teenage Mutant NinjaTurtles (PG-13) Fri. 4:35 p.m., 7:05 p.m., 9:55 p.m. Sat. 2:05 p.m., 4:35 p.m., 7:05 p.m., 9:55 p.m. Sun. 2:05 p.m., 4:35 p.m., 7:05 p.m. Mon. to Thurs. 4:35 p.m., 7:05 p.m. This Is Where I LeaveYou (R) Fri. 4:55 p.m., 7:25 p.m., 9:40 p.m. Sat. 2:30 p.m., 4:55 p.m., 7:25 p.m., 9:40 p.m. Sun. 2:30 p.m., 4:55 p.m., 7:25 p.m. Mon. toThurs. 4:55 p.m., 7:25 p.m.
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RESTAURANT REVIEW Alex Heard I For The New Mexican
The trouble with angels
Gabriel’s 4 Banana Lane, off U.S. 84/285 505-455-7000, www.gabrielsofsantafe.com Lunch and dinner 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. MondayThursday, 11:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Friday-Sunday Vegetarian options Patio dining in season Handicapped-accessible Noise level: quiet Full bar & wine list Credit cards, no checks
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The Short Order A roadside fixture north of Tesuque for more than 20 years, Gabriel’s doesn’t have a lot to recommend it these days. The promise is authentic Southwestern cuisine, made using the best ingredients. But the food on your plate says that the restaurant is more about affordability and portion size than freshness and preparation. The setting is nice, especially the roomy patio, which is a great place to try a drink and an appetizer on a sunny day. But if you’re serious about Northern New Mexico cooking, you’re in for a letdown. Recommended: Guacamole Especial, Enchiladas Verduras, La Rosarita cocktail, La Granada cocktail.
Ratings range from 1 to 5 chiles, including half chiles. This reflects the reviewer’s experience with regard to food and drink, atmosphere, service, and value. 5 = flawless 4 1/2 = extraordinary 4 = excellent 3 1/2 = very good 3 = good 2 1/2 = average 2 = fair 1 1/2 = questionable 1 = poor
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Gabriel’s is nestled inside a compound that hugs the east side of the 84/285 frontage road in casino country, just south of the Towa Golf Club links. Tucked away behind thick walls and coyote fencing, with big elms and cottonwoods swishing in the wind, it gives off a peaceful rancho vibe. You’ve probably driven past it many times on your way to or from Taos, Ghost Ranch, or Bandelier National Monument, and if you have out-of-town visitors in the car, chances are somebody will notice its distinctive leaping-critter sign and ask, “Is that place good?” Excellent question: Is it? I’ve been to Gabriel’s a few times over the years — dating back to its early days in the 1990s — and my takeaway has been that it serves average food and not much more, closer to chain-restaurant quality than what you’re promised in its advertisements. “The freshest ingredients,” Gabriel’s home page boasts. “The right spices. The perfect presentation.” With some exceptions, Gabriel’s doesn’t honor this covenant with your stomach. The menu here is affordable — a carne asada plate costs $11.50, a seafood combination plate is $14.95 — and the portions are generous. But you can’t hit those prices (and payloads) without taking a few shortcuts on ingredients, and I think this is what Gabriel’s is really about: economical, familiar Northern New Mexico comfort food. Gabriel’s has some strengths. The patio is a nice place to be on a sunny New Mexico day — a roomy sprawl of poolside-style furniture, a central fountain, and shadegiving umbrellas with a clear view of the Sangre de Cristos to the east. There’s also cheerful indoor seating, which is a better choice if you go on a cooler night. On a recent lunchtime visit, we started with the bestknown offering: the Guacamole Especial, made fresh at the table with two avocados (they use the Bravocado brand), minced garlic and jalapeño, chopped tomatoes, onion, cilantro, salt, and lime juice. Don’t be shy about asking for extra jalapeño. The guac we got was creamy enough, but it needed more heat. Beyond that, not much turned our heads, and one dish could use an intervention: the Lone Star ribs. The menu describes these as fresh baby-back ribs that have been “baked until tender, and then mesquite smoked and basted with our own special barbecue sauce.” The only accurate part of that cooking description is “baked.” The ribs had been dry-rubbed — with trace amounts of some kind of sweet and savory spices — but I can’t imagine they were smoked. The “special” sauce served in a side bowl was a sweet, thin, oily mix that wouldn’t be recognized as barbecue sauce in Texas or Tennessee. We also ordered huevos rancheros — a good way to take the measure of a place, as the dish’s simple elements (corn tortilla, fried egg, chile sauce, and cheese) need to be fresh and of high quality for it to work. Gabriel’s version was
big and cheesy, with a nice green chile sauce, a so-so red, and three decent sides — refried beans, Mexican corn, and Mexican rice. It was heavy going, though, with a rubbery egg at the center. At dinner on a different night, the best things we had were two cocktails: La Rosarita — which blends prickly pear juice, tequila, Cointreau, and lime — and La Granada, which has tequila, Cointreau, pomegranate juice, and hibiscus. Again, though, the food was mediocre. The best entree was a platter of vegetarian enchiladas with roasted yams. We also tried the chile relleno, another good test dish, because making it right requires putting effort into the batter. Gabriel’s was heavy, and the dish had an unpleasant, fishy taste. I suspect the oil had been used a few times too many. Under the “Mesquite Grill” heading on its dinner menu, Gabriel’s offers five different fajita options. We ordered a combo that came with beef, chicken, and red snapper. If the fish really was red snapper, then both its taste and its texture were lost during long meditation periods in the freezer. The beef and chicken were blah and, once more, there was no indication that any of this food had been authentically grilled. Bottom line? Gabriel’s is a nice place to have a drink and some chips and guac. But if you’re looking for the real New Mexico, keep driving. ◀
Lunch for two at Gabriel’s: Guacamole Especial .......................................$ 11.95 Lone Star ribs .................................................$ 13.95 Huevos rancheros ..........................................$ 8.75 Iced tea ...........................................................$ 1.95 TOTAL............................................................$ 36.60 (before tax and tip) Dinner for four, another visit: Tortilla soup ...................................................$ 6.95 Caesar salad....................................................$ 7.95 Chile relleno...................................................$ 14.50 Enchiladas verduras .......................................$ 11.25 Fajita combination .........................................$ 18.50 Taos combination ...........................................$ 11.95 La Rosarita cocktail ........................................$ 10.00 La Granada cocktail........................................$ 9.50 TOTAL............................................................$ 90.60 (before tax and tip)
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet sunday, october 12 | 4:00 pm
mozart, hindemith, thuille With 1997 Van Cliburn gold medalist, pianist Jon nakamatsu tickets: $27–100 location: lensic performing arts center
“Astonishing in its purity and unity.” — Aberdeen Press and Journal
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ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT CALENDAR
October 3-9
CALENDAR COMPILED BY PAMELA BEACH
FRIDAY 10/3
Patina Gallery
131 W. Palace Ave., 505-986-3432 Measure of Days, paintings by Daniel Kosharek, reception 5-7:30 p.m.
Gallery & Museum Openings Blue Rain Gallery
Peyton Wright Gallery
130-C Lincoln Ave., 505-954-9902 New work by blown-glass and mixed-media sculptor Rik Allen, reception 5-7 p.m., through Oct. 18.
237 E. Palace Ave., 505-989-9888 Absolute Conviction, paintings by Paul Burlin (1886-1969), reception 5-7 p.m., through October.
Brigitte Bruggemann Studio
Pop Gallery
667 Canyon Rd., 505-614-5762 Paintings by Bruggemann, reception 5-7 p.m.
125 Lincoln Ave., 505-820-0788 Pop Femme Sugar Coated Strange, works by Women of New Brow Contemporary Art; benefit for Southwest CARE Center; reception 5-7 p.m., through October.
Eggman & Walrus
130 W. Palace, second floor, 505-660-0048 Forbidden, paintings by Nonnie Thompson; figurative work by John Barker; reception and gallery going-away party 5:30-9 p.m., through Oct. 10.
S.R. Brennen Galleries
Gallery 901
124 W. Palace Ave., 505-467-8295 The Uncanny, works by Teresa Oaxaca, David Gluck, and Katherine Stone, reception 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Henington Fine Art
130 W. Palace Ave., 505-982-0340 Oil paintings by Heather Neill, reception 5-7:30 p.m., through October.
901 Canyon Rd., 505-780-8390 Kimono, mixed-media work by Gina Marie Erlichman, reception 5-8 p.m.
Sugarman-Peterson Gallery
802 Canyon Rd., 505-690-9160 West by Southwest, works by S.J. Shaffer, Peter Robbins, and Kim Robbins, reception 5-8 p.m.
The William & Joseph Gallery
727 Canyon Rd., 505-982-9404 A Walk in the Woods, paintings by Tim Althauser, reception 5-7 p.m., through Nov. 10. (See story, Page 32)
Intrigue Gallery
238 Delgado St., 505-820-9265 Face It!, paintings by Pamela Frankel Fiedler, reception 5-7 p.m., through Nov. 14.
Ventana Fine Art
400 Canyon Rd., 505-983-8815 Beauty group show of landscapes, Native Beauty, reception 5-7 p.m., through Oct. 15.
Liquid Outpost
Inn at Loretto, 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 505-983-6503 A Walk Through Southern France, photographs by Michael Gallagher, reception 4-6 p.m., through Oct. 16.
Worrell Gallery
103 Washington Ave., 505-989-4900 Contemporary Western Land and Cloud Scapes, paintings by Robert S. Brown, reception 5-7 p.m.
Little Bird at Loretto
Classical Music
211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 505-820-7413 New paintings by Michael Horse and Mary Hunt, reception 3-6 p.m.
Chamber music by Mozart and Ravel
Great Hall, Peterson Student Center, St. John’s College, 1160 Camino de Cruz Blanca Performers include violinist David Felberg and cellist Dana Winograd, 12:15 p.m., no charge.
Manitou Galleries
123 W. Palace Ave., 505-988-0440 Sculpture and Structure,, new works by Liz Wolf and Roger Hayden Johnson, reception 5-7:30 p.m., through Oct. 17.
TGIF EPIK recital
First Presbyterian Church, 208 Grant Ave. Performance of Santa Fe EPIK program musicians, 5:30-6 p.m., donations welcome, 505-982-8544, Ext. 16.
Marigold Arts
424 Canyon Rd., 505-982-4142 Winds Maps and Mind Shadows, handwoven rugs and tapestries by Connie Enzmann-Forneris, reception 5-7 p.m., through Oct. 29.
McLarry Fine Art
225 Canyon Rd., 505-988-1161 New oil paintings by Raymond L. Knaub, reception 5-7 p.m., through Oct. 24.
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Blue Rain Gallery shows work by blown-glass sculptor Rik Allen, 130 Lincoln Ave.
Theater/Dance
Meyer Gallery
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
225 Canyon Rd., 505-983-1434 Celebrating the Artist, paintings by Robert Daughters, reception 5-7 p.m.
Monroe Gallery of Photography
112 Don Gaspar Ave., 505-992-0800 Joe McNally, retrospective exhibit of photojournalistic works, reception 5-7 p.m., through Nov. 23.
Santa Fe Playhouse, 142 E. DeVargas St. Paul Zindel’s 1964 play, directed by Quinn Mander, 7:30 p.m., $20, 505-988-4262, Thursdays-Sundays through Oct. 19.
Swiss Bakery Pastries and Bistro
Books/Talks
Harvest Festival El Rancho de las Golondrinas
Broken by Secrets: Robert Oppenheimer and the Early Atomic Age
Meem Community Room, New Mexico History Museum, 113 Lincoln Ave., 505-476-5200 Free First Friday Evening Talk with Dr. Jon Hunner of New Mexico State University, 5-8 p.m., no charge (See story, Page 42)
Living and Aging With Spiritual Strength
Santa Fe Center for Spiritual Living, 505 Camino de los Marquez, 505-983-5022 A talk by Anyen Rinpoche, founder and director of the Santa Fe Center for Spiritual Living, 7 p.m., $10-$15 donation.
Events ShowHouse Santa Fe preview gala
Casa la Luna, 10 Altazano Dr. Cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, live entertainment, auction, and first purchase options on furnishings; proceeds benefit the Lensic’s education programs and Dollars4Schools, $125, contact David Naylor Design for tickets, david@davidnaylorinteriors.com, 505-988-3170.
Nightlife
(See addresses at right)
Café Café
Trio Los Primos, 6 p.m., no cover.
¡Chispa! at El Mesón
Three Faces of Jazz, featuring guest saxophonist Brian Wingard, 7:30-10:30 p.m., no cover.
Cowgirl BBQ
Folk/Americana singer Jaspar Lepak, 5-7:30 p.m.; progressive-rock band Drastic Andrew, 8:30 p.m., no cover.
El Farol
Sean Healen Band, rock, 9 p.m.-close, call for cover.
Evangelo’s
Rock/blues band Dusk, 9 p.m., call for cover.
Hilltop Bar at The Lodge at Santa Fe
Friday night salsa dancing, with DJ Aztech Sol, 9:30 p.m., call for cover.
La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa
Tiny’s
Singer/songwriter Chris Abeyta, 5:30-8 p.m.; classic-rockers The Jakes, 8:30 p.m.-close; no cover.
Vanessie
Doug Montgomery, 6-8 p.m.; Estar Hana, 8 p.m.-close; call for cover.
SATURDAY 10/4
Santa Fe Playhouse, 142 E. DeVargas St. Paul Zindel’s 1964 play, directed by Quinn Mander, 7:30 p.m., $20, 505-988-4262, Thursdays-Sundays through Oct. 19.
Books/Talks Max Talley
Hastings Books, Music & Videos, 542 N. Guadalupe St., 505-984-2857 The Santa Fe author reads from and signs copies of Yesterday We Forget Tomorrow, 3 p.m.
Thomas Fox Averill
Op. Cit. Books, Sanbusco Center, 500 Montezuma Ave., 505-428-0321 The author reads from and signs copies of A Carol Dickens Christmas, 5 p.m.
William Cather Hook
Meyer Gallery, 225 Canyon Rd., 505-983-1434 The local artist signs copies of William Cather Hook: A Retrospective, 11 a.m.
Events Corazón de la Tierra
Petchesky Conservation Center, 5430 Richards Ave. New Mexico Land Conservancy’s annual celebration; including an authentic chuckwagon buffet and music by The Rifters, 3-8 p.m., $75, 505-986-3801, nmlandconservancy.org.
Harvest Festival
El Rancho de las Golondrinas, 334 Los Pinos Rd. Museum re-enactors crush grapes for wine, string chile ristras, make tortillas, and bake bread, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., $8, discounts available, children 12 and under free, golondrinas.org, continues Sunday.
Perspectives on Healing the Body
Muñoz Waxman Gallery, Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 505-982-1338 Naomi Gibbons leads a vinyasa yoga class among Chuck Ginnever’s sculptures, 2 p.m., $10.
Santa Fe Model Train Show
Pranzo Italian Grill
ShowHouse Santa Fe
Second Street Brewery
Second Street Brewery at the Railyard
Müshi Trio, jazz, 7-10 p.m., no cover.
Skylight
Alchemy Party, with DJs Dynamite Sol and Poetics, 9 p.m., call for cover.
Noche de Flamenco, with Flamenco Conpaz, 7-9:30 p.m., call for cover.
Cowgirl BBQ
Railyard Reunion Bluegrass Band, 2 p.m.; dance band Chango, 8:30 p.m.-close; no cover.
Duel Brewing
Grand Emporium, Anthony Leon and Paige Barton, honky-tonking rock, 7:30 p.m.-close, no cover.
La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa
Pat Malone Jazz Trio, featuring vocalist Whitney Carroll Malone and bassist Jon Gagan, 6-9 p.m., no cover.
Low ‘n’ Slow Lowrider Bar at Hotel Chimayó de Santa Fe Irish multi-instrumentalist Gerry Carthy, 7:30 p.m.-close, no cover.
Theater/Dance
Santa Fe County Fair Grounds, 3229 Rodeo Rd. Presented by the Santa Fe Model Railroad Club, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., no charge, continues Sunday.
New Orleans-style funk and jazz band Pollo Frito, 6-9 p.m., no cover.
El Farol
Classic-rock band Controlled Burn, 9 p.m., call for cover.
¡Chispa! at El Mesón
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Nacha Mendez Quartet, 6:30-9:30 p.m., no cover.
Geist Cabaret, pianist David Geist, 6-9 p.m., call for cover.
Nightlife
(See addresses below)
Casa la Luna, 10 Altazano Dr. Twenty Santa Fe designers transform a residence, based on the theme Ancient Future; proceeds benefit the Lensic’s education programs and Dollars4Schools, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. today and Sunday, continues Oct. 11-12, $25, showhousesantafe.com, tickets available at ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234.
Outdoors Ski Santa Fe chairlift
16 miles north of town on NM 475, 505-992-5082 Enjoy fall colors on the Super Chief Quad chair, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., $12 round-trip, $8 one way, discounts available.
Check with venues for updates and sp ecial events Agoyo Lounge
at the Inn on the Al Mine Shaft Tavern ameda 303 E. Alameda St. 28 46 NM 14, Madrid, , 505-984-2121 505-473-0743 Anasazi Restauran Mu seum Hill Café t & Bar 113 Washington Av 710 Camino Lejo, Mi e., 505-988-3030 lner Plaza, 505-984-8900 Betterday Coffee 905 W. Alameda St. Music Room at Ga , 505-555-1234 rrett’s Desert Inn 311 Old Santa Fe Tra Bishop’s Lodge Ra il, 505-982-1851 nch Resort & Spa 1297 Bishops Lodg e Rd., 505-983-6377 Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Rd., Burro Alley Café 505-473-0955 207 W. San Francisc Omira Bar & Grill o St., 505-982-0601 1005 St. Francis Dr Café Café ., 505-780-5483 500 Sandoval St., 50 Palace Restaurant 5-466-1391 & Saloon 142 W. Palace Ave., ¡Chispa! at El Mesó 505-428-0690 n 213 Washington Av Pranzo Italian Grill e., 505-983-6756 540 Montezuma Av Cowgirl BBQ e., 505-984-2645 319 S. Guadalupe St. Santa Fe Bar & Grill , 505-982-2565 187 Paseo de Peral Duel Brewing ta, DeVargas Cente r, 505-982-3033 1228 Parkway Dr., 505-474-5301 Santa Fe Commun El Cañon at the Hi ity Convention lton Center 100 Sandoval St., 50 5-988-2811 201 W. Marcy St., 50 Eldorado Hotel & 5-955-6705 Spa Santa Fe Sol Stage 309 W. San Francisc & Grill o St., 505-988-4455 37 Fir e Place, solofsantaf El Farol e.com Second Street Brew 808 Canyon Rd., 50 er y 5-983-9912 1814 Second St., 50 El Paseo Bar & Grill 5-982-3030 Second Street Brew 208 Galisteo St., 50 er 5-992-2848 1607 Paseo de Peral y at the Railyard Evangelo’s ta, 505-989-3278 Shadeh Buffalo Th 200 W. San Francisc under o St., 505-982-9014 Reso rt & Casino High Mayhem Em erging Arts Pojoaque Pueblo, U.S 2811 Siler Lane, 50 . 84/285, 5-438-2047 505-455-5555 Hotel Santa Fe Sk ylight 1501 Paseo de Peral ta, 505-982-1200 139 W. San Francisc o St., 505-982-0775 Jean Cocteau Cinem a Sweetwater Harves 418 Montezuma Av t Kitchen e., 505-466-5528 1512-B Pacheco St. , 505-795-7383 Junction Swiss Bakery Pastr 530 S. Guadalupe St. ies , 505-988-7222 401 S. Guadalupe St. and Bistro , 505-988-5500 La Boca Taberna La Boca 72 W. Marcy St., 50 5-982-3433 125 Lincoln Ave., 50 5-988-7102 La Casa Sena Cant ina Tin y’s 25 E. Palace Ave., 50 5-988-9232 1005 St. Francis Dr ive, Suite 117, La Fiesta Lounge 505-983-9817 at La Fonda 100 E. San Francisc o St., 505-982-5511 The Undergro und at Evan La Posada de Sant a Fe Resort and Sp 200 W. San Francisco St. gelo’s a 330 E. Palace Ave., 505-986-0000 Upper Crust Pizza Lensic Performing 329 Old Santa Fe Tra Arts Center il, 505-982-0000 211 W. San Francisc o St., 505-988-1234 Vanessie Lodge Lounge at Th e Lodge at Santa Fe 434 W. San Francisco St. , 505-982-9966 750 N. St. Francis Dr ., 505-992-5800 Veterans of Foreign Wars Low ’n’ Slow Lowr 370 Montezuma Av ider Bar e., 505-984-2691 at Hotel Chimayó de Santa Fe Wa rehouse 21 125 Washington Av e., 505-988-4900 1614 Paseo de Peral ta, 505-989-4423 The Matador Zia Dinner 116 W. San Francisc o St. 326 S. Guadalupe St. , 505-988-7008
C L U B S, R O O M S, V E N UES
10/4
Irish multi-instrumentalist Gerry Carthy, on the patio, 7-10 p.m.
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The Two Gentleman of Verona
Jean Cocteau Cinema Screening of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production, 1 p.m., $25, jeancocteaucinema.com, continues Oct. 7, 12, and 14.
Books/Talks Alan Webber
Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., 505-988-4226 The former gubernatorial primary candidate discusses the New Mexico governor’s race and the progressive agenda, presented by Journey Santa Fe, 11 a.m.
Artist talk
Manitou Galleries, 225 Canyon Rd., 505-986-9833 Painter Anda Styler discusses her work, 2 p.m.
Claudette E. Sutton
Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., 505-988-4226 The author reads from Farewell Aleppo: My Father, My People and Their Long Journey Home, 3 p.m.
Events Harvest Festival The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Annex hosts a discussion titled Discover Ghost Ranch on Monday, 123 Grant Ave. Photo by Mitch Tillison.
Mine Shaft Tavern
Dandelion Liberation Front, folk and alternative country, on the deck, 3 p.m.; Westin McDowell, jazz-swing dance band, 7 p.m.; no cover.
Pranzo Italian Grill
Geist Cabaret, pianist David Geist, 6-9 p.m., call for cover.
Santa Fe Bar & Grill
OrnEtc. Jazz Quartet, Noah Baumeister, Dan Pearlman, Lee Steck, and Dave Wayne, 8:30 p.m., no cover.
Second Street Brewery
Pigment, jam rock, 6-9 p.m., no cover.
Second Street Brewery at the Railyard
MVIII Jazz Project, 7-10 p.m., no cover.
St. Lawrence String Quartet
St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave. Music of Beethoven and Haydn; 3 p.m., $20-$65, discounts available, ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234; dinner with the musicians 5:30 p.m., contact the Santa Fe Pro Musica box office for reservations, 505-988-4640, Ext. 1000. (See story, Page 24)
In Concert Santa Fe Symphony
Lensic Performing Arts Center Music of Scott Joplin, proceeds benefit the Friendship Club and Children First, 3 p.m., $10-$50, ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234.
Skylight
Houston-based DJs Rockwell and Remix, 10 p.m., call for cover.
10/5
Sweetwater Harvest Kitchen
Saturdays with John Serkin on Hawaiian slack-key guitar, 6 p.m., no cover.
Tiny’s
Música Antigua de Albuquerque
Showcase karaoke with Nanci and Cyndy, 8:30 p.m.-close, no cover.
Vanessie
Doug Montgomery, 6-8 p.m.; Estar Hana, 6:30 p.m.-close; call for cover.
SUNDAY 10/5 Classical Music Albuquerque Baroque Players
New Mexico History Museum, 113 Lincoln Ave. MaryAnn Shore (oboe and recorder), Mary Bruesch (viola da gamba), and Susan Patrick (harpsichord) perform 17th- and 18th-century chamber music from Italy, Germany, and France, free with admission to the exhibit Painting the Divine: Images of Mary in the New World, 2 p.m.
Música Antigua de Albuquerque
Christ Lutheran Church, 1701 Arroyo Chamiso Scholars and Dropouts, music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 4:30 p.m., $16, discounts available, 505-842-9613.
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Theater/Dance Breaking the Silence: Testimonies of Israeli Soldiers Who Served in the Occupied Territories
Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie Staged readings from the book Breaking the Silence, followed by a Poets for Peace open mic, 4 p.m., no charge; donations welcome, 505-424-1601.
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Santa Fe Playhouse, 142 E. DeVargas St. Paul Zindel’s 1964 play, directed by Quinn Mander, 2 p.m., $20, discounts available, 505-988-4262, Thursdays-Sundays through Oct. 19.
El Rancho de las Golondrinas, 334 Los Pinos Rd. Museum re-enactors crush grapes for wine, string chile ristras, make tortillas, and bake bread, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., $8, discounts available, children 12 and under free, golondrinas.org.
Santa Fe Model Train Show
Santa Fe County Fair Grounds, 3229 Rodeo Rd. Presented by the Santa Fe Model Railroad Club, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., no charge.
ShowHouse Santa Fe
Casa la Luna, 10 Altazano Dr. Twenty Santa Fe designers transform a residence, based on the theme Ancient Future, proceeds benefit the Lensic’s education programs and Dollars4Schools, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., continues Oct. 11-12., $25, showhousesantafe.com, tickets available at ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234.
Outdoors Ski Santa Fe chairlift
16 miles north of town on NM 475, 505-992-5082 Enjoy fall colors on the Super Chief Quad chair, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., $12 round-trip, $8 one way, discounts available.
Nightlife
(See Page 57 for addresses)
Cowgirl BBQ
Anthony Leon & His Grievous Angels, alternative country, noon-3 p.m.; singer/ songwriter Arielle Nicole, 8 p.m.; no cover.
El Farol
Chanteuse Nacha Mendez, 7:30 p.m., call for cover.
Evangelo’s
Tone and Company jam band, 8:30 p.m., call for cover.
La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa
Country singer Wiley Jim, 7 p.m., call for cover.
Mine Shaft Tavern
Soulful-blues band The Barbwires, 3 p.m., no cover.
Second Street Brewery at the Railyard
Drastic Andrew & The Cinnamon Girls, Neil Young tribute, 1-4 p.m., no cover.
Vanessie
Estar Hana, 6:30 p.m.-close, call for cover.
MONDAY 10/6 Gallery & Museum Openings Santa Fe Weaving Gallery
124 ½ Galisteo St., 505-982-1737 Week of Indigo, textile exhibit curated by Catherine Legrand, author of Indigo: The Color That Changed the World, 4 p.m. book signing, exhibit through Oct. 11.
Books/Talks Breakfast With O’Keeffe
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Education Annex, 123 Grant Ave. Discover Ghost Ranch, presented by Karen Butts, 8:30-9:45 a.m., by museum admission, reservations required, 505-946-1039.
Saving Endangered Languages
Lensic Performing Arts Center An illustrated lecture by K. David Harrison and Gregory Anyderson of the National Geographic Society and Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, 7 p.m., $10, ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234. (See Subtexts, Page 18)
Southwest Seminars lecture
Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo de Peralta Akimel O’odham Warfare and Projectile Point Design Along the Middle Gila River, 1500-1900, by Dr. Chris Loendorf, 6 p.m., $12 at the door, southwestseminars.org, 505-466-2775.
Outdoors Ski Santa Fe chairlift
16 miles north of town on NM 475, 505-992-5082 Enjoy fall colors on the Super Chief Quad chair, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., $12 round-trip, $8 one way, discounts available.
Nightlife
(See Page 57 for addresses)
Cowgirl BBQ
Karaoke with Michele Leidig, 9 p.m., no cover.
El Farol
Mondays with Hilary Smith and Company, 8 p.m., call for cover.
La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda
Bill Hearne, pure country, 8 p.m.-close, no cover.
Mine Shaft Tavern
Felix y los Gatos, zydeco/swing/Tex-Mex, 2-6 p.m., no cover.
Vanessie
Estar Hana, 6:30 p.m.-close, call for cover.
TUESDAY 10/7 In Concert Zakir Hussain
The Lensic Classical music of India; Zakir Hussain, tabla; Kumaresh Rajagopalan, violin; and Jayanthi Kumaresh, veena, 7 p.m., $20-$50, discounts available, ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234. (See story, Page 38)
Books/Talks Anne Germanacos
Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., 505-988-4226 The author reads from Tribute, 6 p.m.
Catherine Legrand
Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, 704 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill The author of Indigo: The Color That Changed the World discusses her textile travels and collection,
Joseph F. Marshall
Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., 505-988-4226 Educator and author Marshall presents a display of Lakota star quilts, 6 p.m.; quilts on view at the bookstore through October.
The West Changes Everyone: Looking at the Life and Work of Writer Esther McCoy
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center, 135 Grant Ave. A lecture on the 20th-century architectural writer, 6 p.m., $5, 505-946-1039 for reservations.
Outdoors Ski Santa Fe chairlift
16 miles north of town on NM 475, 505-992-5082 Enjoy fall colors on the Super Chief Quad chair, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., $12 round-trip, $8 one way, discounts available.
Nightlife
(See Page 57 for addresses)
Cowgirl BBQ
INDIGO: THE COLOR THAT CHANGED THE WORLD Author Catherine Legrand discusses her book, detailing her textile collection and travels, at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, 704 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, followed by a screening of Mary Lance’s film Blue Alchemy: Stories of Indigo. This event is free. Call 505-690-6695 for information.
4 p.m., followed by a screening of Mary Lance’s film Blue Alchemy: Stories of Indigo, no charge, call 505-690-6695 for information.
Las Tejedoras Fiber Art Guild
Westminster Presbyterian Church, 841 W. Manhattan Ave. Guild meeting and lecture with weaver and author Jennifer Moore, 9:30 a.m., 505-466-4297.
Events Piñon Awards Ceremony
La Fonda on the Plaza, 100 E. San Francisco St. The Santa Fe Community Foundation honors the award winners: SFPS Adelante, The Food Depot, Creative Santa Fe, The Nature Conservancy in New Mexico, and the Ruth M. Ortega Brindle Foundation, 6 p.m. ceremony; dinner follows, $35, contact santafecf.org or 505-988-9715 for reservations.
Outdoors Nature hike
Santa Fe Canyon Preserve, near the intersection of Upper Canyon Road and Cerro Gordo Road Guided nature hike, 1-2:30 p.m., no charge, reservations required, email robert_martin@tnc.org or call 505-946-2029.
La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda
Bill Hearne, pure country, 8 p.m.-close, no cover.
Mine Shaft Tavern
Duo Rasminko, Gypsy jazz, on the deck, 2-6 p.m.; Timbo jam session, 7 p.m.; no cover.
Second Street Brewery at the Railyard
Open-song night with Ben Wright, 7 p.m., no cover.
Skylight
The Independents, punk-ska; Antique Scream, psychedelic blues/rock; Octaveleven, progressive rock; and Disasterman, rock, 9 p.m., call for cover.
Vanessie
Estar Hana, 6:30 p.m.-close, call for cover.
WEDNESDAY 10/8 Books/Talks Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Psychiatry
Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 505-982-1338 Presented by Marlene P. Freeman of the University of New Mexico, 6 p.m., no charge.
Myths, Facts, and a Great Scoop on Competing in the Creative World of the Arts
Santa Fe Business Incubator, 3900 Paseo del Sol, Workshop with Rod Lambert, Talia Kosh, and Carol Cooper, 6-8 p.m., no charge, call 505-474-6556 to register.
Events Gallery Nights Kick-off
Muñoz Waxman Gallery, Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 505-982-1338 Geometric paper shape-making workshop with Angie Rizzo; plus, food, art, and entertainment, 5-9 p.m., $5, Gallery Nights continue every second Thursday of the month.
Outdoors Ski Santa Fe chairlift
16 miles north of town on NM 475, 505-992-5082 Enjoy fall colors on the Super Chief Quad chair, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., $12 round-trip, $8 one way, discounts available.
Nightlife
Blues duo Joe Price and Vickie Price, 8 p.m., no cover.
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El Farol
Django Mex, Gypsy swing and zydeco, 8 p.m., no cover.
Junction
Guitarras con Sabor, Gypsy Kings-style rhythms, 8 p.m., no cover.
Midweek rock with the John Kurzweg Band, 8 p.m., no cover. Karaoke Wednesdays with Michelle, 10 p.m., no cover.
La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa
Cowgirl BBQ
El Farol
La Boca
Country singer Wiley Jim, 7 p.m., call for cover.
Chanteuse Nacha Mendez, 7-9 p.m., no cover.
Tiny’s
La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa
Electric jam session, 8:30-11:30 p.m., no cover.
Vanessie
Estar Hana, 6:30 p.m.-close, call for cover.
THURSDAY 10/9 Theater/Dance The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Santa Fe Playhouse, 142 E. DeVargas St. Paul Zindel’s 1964 play, directed by Quinn Mander, 7:30 p.m., $20, discounts available, 505-988-4262, Thursdays-Sundays through Oct. 19.
Books/Talks Juan Estevan Arellano
Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., 505-988-4226 The Embudo writer reads from Enduring Acequias: Wisdom of the Land, Knowledge of the Water, 6 p.m.
Pat Malone Jazz Trio, 6-9 p.m., no cover.
Lodge Lounge at The Lodge at Santa Fe
Irish multi-instrumentalist Gerry Carthy, 7-9:30 p.m., call for cover.
Mine Shaft Tavern
Blues duo Jim & Tim, 2 p.m.; no cover.
Palace Restaurant and Saloon
Limelight karaoke, 10 p.m., no cover.
Pranzo Italian Grill
Kari Simmons and Todd Lowry, vocals and piano, 6 p.m., call for cover.
Second Street Brewery
Afro-pop band Jaka, 6-9 p.m., no cover.
Tiny’s
The Santa Fe Revue, 9 p.m.-close; no cover.
Vanessie
Estar Hana, 6:30 p.m.-close, call for cover.
Ski Santa Fe chairlift
16 miles north of town on NM 475, 505-992-5082 Enjoy fall colors on the Super Chief Quad chair, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., $12 round-trip, $8 one way, discounts available.
Nightlife
(See Page 57 for addresses)
¡Chispa! at El Mesón
Argentine Tango Milonga, 7:30-11 p.m., call for cover.
Cowgirl BBQ
David Vidal, Americana and blues, 8 p.m., no cover.
El Farol
Canyon Road Blues Jam, 8:30 p.m., call for cover.
Monroe Gallery of Photography shows work by Joe McNally, 112 Don Gaspar Ave.
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Native Artists Fellowships
The Indian Arts Research Center at the School for Advanced Research offers three artist-inresidence fellowships in diverse creative disciplines, submission deadline Jan. 15, 2015, visit sarweb.org for application and guidelines.
Pastels Exhibit
Prospectus and details for the Nov. 1-30 show held at Albuquerque Expo New Mexico are available online at pastelsnm.org.
Community Fight Illiteracy
Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe will train individuals willing to help adults learn to read, write, and speak English; details available online at lvsf.org or call 505-428-1353.
Flower Angels
Help out weekly as a Flower Angel for Presbyterian Medical Services Hospice Center; contact Mary Ann Andrews for information, 505-988-2211.
Food for Santa Fe
The nonprofit needs help packing and distributing groceries at 6 and 8 a.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, 505-471-1187 or 505-603-6600.
Many Mothers
Help new mothers and families, raise funds, plan events, become a board member, and more; requirements and details available online at manymothers.org.
Santa Fe Botanical Garden
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology exhibit, Archeology on Ice, opens Friday, Oct. 3, 1 University Blvd. N.E., UNM.
OUT OF TOWN Albuquerque Archeology on Ice
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, 1 University Blvd. N.E., UNM Exhibition exploring climate change in the Arctic, including tribal artifacts emerging as the ice melts, reception 6:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 3, no charge.
Sunday Afternoon Classics
National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 Fourth St. S.W. Violinists Krzysztof Zimowski and Ruxandra Simionescu-Marquardt perform music of Bach and Vivaldi, 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5, $24-$68, nmphil.org.
The Cookers
Johnny Boyd
Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale Blvd. S.E. Hard bop jazz, 7:30 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 5, $25-$30, holdmyticket.com.
Jesús Muñoz Flamenco
The Dirty Bourbon, 9800 Montgomery Blvd. N.E. Foulane Bouhssine and his band perform funk, Afropop, and roots music, Wednesday, Oct. 8, $17 in advance, $22 day of show, ampconcerts.org and holdmyticket.com, 21+.
The Cooperage, 7220 Lomas N.E. Singer/songwriter, 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3, $17, ampconcerts.org or holdmyticket.com, $20 day of show, come early for a preshow swing dance lesson. National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 Fourth St. S.W. The dance company explores the concept of techarí, one of flamenco’s most profound and mysterious rhythms, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 3-4, $35-$55, discounts available, nhccnm.org or 505-724-4771.
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
Ribab Fusion
Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom
Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale Blvd. S.E. New York City-based drummer and her band, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 9, $15-$20, holdmyticket.com.
Cerrillos/Madrid Madrid & Cerrillos Studio Tour
Balloon Fiesta Park, 4401 Alameda Blvd. N.E. Glows, mass ascensions, live entertainment, and fireworks, Saturday, Oct. 4, though Sunday, Oct. 12, see balloonfiesta.com for a schedule of events and other information.
One-half hour south of Santa Fe on NM 14 Ninth annual tour; more than 30 artists open their studios to the public on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 4-5 and Oct. 11-12, preview auction 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3 at the Engine House Theater, 2846 Hwy 14, 505-469-7767.
Second Annual Albuquerque American Indian Arts Festival
Fourth Annual Encaustic/Wax Exhibition
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, 2401 12th St. N.W. Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 4-5, including hourly Native American dance performances, music, artwork, and artist demonstrations, contact indianpueblo.org for ticketing information and schedule of events.
Chatter Sunday
The Kosmos, 1715 Fifth St. N.W. Performance by Breaking Bass Quintet, followed by a reading by poet Don McIver, 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 5, $15, discounts available, chatterabq.org.
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Encaustic Art Institute, 18 County Rd. 55A (General Goodwin Rd.) Group show, reception noon-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, through Nov. 2, gallery open noon-5 p.m. weekends only or by appointment, 505-424-6487, eainm.com.
Galisteo Galisteo Village Bicentennial Celebration
South of Eldorado off US 285/84 Parade, antique-car show, history exhibits, food, silent auction, and live entertainment, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 4-5, visit lasaladegalisteo.org for details.
Taos Joshua Breakstone
Aurthur Bell Auditorium, Harwood Museum of Art, 238 Ledoux St., 575-758-9826 Jazz guitarist, 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3, $25, harwoodmuseum.org.
Third World
KTAOS Solar Center, 9 State Road 150, El Prado Jamaican roots reggae music, 8:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3, $15 in advance, $20 day of show, holdmyticket.com.
Taos Artist Collective Gallery
106-A Paseo del Pueblo Norte, 575-751-7122 Emphasis on Abstracts, works by Mary Stratton and Danielle Domenic, reception 4-7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, through October.
The Wool Festival at Taos
Help out by working in the admissions tent at the Museum Hill garden; free training; 505-471-9103, info@santafebotanicalgarden.org.
Santa Fe Children’s Museum
Join the Teen Volunteer Program and help in the visitor services department and in the museum; must be 15 or older; for more information call 505-989-8359, Ext. 115; applications available online at santafechildrensmuseum.org.
Performers Santa Fe Bandstand 2015
Outside In Productions is accepting applications through midnight Dec. 31; apply online at santafebandstand.org; for information email info@santafebandstand.org.
PASA KIDS
Garden Sprouts
Kit Carson Park, 211 Paseo del Pueblo Norte Regional wool market with live animals, demonstrations, contests, workshops, food, music, and kids activities, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4; 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5, no charge, taoswoolfestival.org.
Santa Fe Botanical Garden, 725 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill Storytelling and hands-on activities for children ages 3-5 accompanied by an adult, 9-10 a.m. weekly on Fridays, $5 suggested donation.
PEOPLE WHO NEED PEOPLE
Santa Fe Public Library, Main Branch, 145 Washington Ave., 505-955-6783, and Vista Grande Public Library, 7 Avenida Vista Grande, Eldorado, 505-466-7323 Stories, rhymes, and crafts, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Friday, Oct. 3, Main Branch; songs and crafts, 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 3, Eldorado; children must be accompanied by an adult.
Artists Currents 2015: International New Media Fiesta
Accepting work in the areas of new-media installation, video mapping, animation, single channel, and multimedia performance (full list of categories available online at currentsnewmedia.org); submission guidelines and forms available online; deadline Dec. 1.
National Juried Encaustic Small Works Exhibition
Presented by Gallery 901, artists working in encaustic/wax are encouraged to apply, deadline for application Oct. 17, visit juriedartservices.com for application and fees.
Preschooler story times
Harvest Festival
El Rancho de las Golondrinas, 334 Los Pinos Rd. Museum re-enactors crush grapes for wine, string chile ristras, make tortillas, and bake bread, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, $8, discounts available, children 12 and under free, golondrinas.org.
Santa Fe Model Train Show
Santa Fe County Fair Grounds, 3229 Rodeo Rd. Presented by the Santa Fe Model Railroad Club, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 4-5, no charge. ◀
Ziggy Marley
Santa Fe Community Convention Center, 201 W. Marcy St. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, $33, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
Tinariwen
Skylight Tuareg-Berber musicians, 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 3, $30 and $47, holdmyticket.com.
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MUSIC
Skylight Hip-pop duo, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, $18, VIP tickets $60, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
Gig Performance Space, 1808 Second St. Jazzy folk-pop quintet, with Allison Miller on drums, Myra Melford on piano, Todd Sickafoose on bass, Kirk Knuffke on cornet, and Jenny Scheinman on violin, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, $20 at the door, gigsantafe.com.
James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf, 1060 Cerrillos Rd. Singer/songwriter, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, $48, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
Boom Tic Boom
Santa Fe Community Orchestra
St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave. Fall concert with music of Brahms, Mozart, Franceschini, and Saint-Saëns, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12, with trumpeters Chris Nierman and Victor Perry, donations accepted.
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet
The Lensic Music of Hindemith, Mozart, and Thuille, 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12, $13.50-$100, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
Ali Ryerson
Museum Hill Café, 710 Camino Lejo Jazz flutist, 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17, $25, 505-983-6820, a Santa Fe Music Collective concert.
Serenata of Santa Fe
First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe, 208 Grant Ave. Temporal Light, music of Britten, Dohynáni, and Reinecke, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17; The Art of Bach, with violinist L.P. How, violist Christof Huebner, and cellist Felix Fan, 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16; $15-$30, ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234.
Dave Mason’s Traffic Jam
KTAOS Solar Center, 9 S.R. 150, in El Prado Veteran singer/songwriter, 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, $35, holdmyticket.com.
Santa Fe Symphony
The Lensic Fall Gold, featuring guest conductor Oriol Sans and guitarist Jason Vieaux, music of Tchaikovsky, Rossini, and Márquez, 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 19, $20-$76, discounts available, 505-983-1414 or 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
Of Montreal
Skylight Indie pop-rock band, with Pillar Point, 8 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 19, $20, holdmyticket.com.
Atrium String Quartet
Great Hall, St. John’s College, 1160 Camino de Cruz Blanca Russian ensemble, music of Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Shostakovich, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24, $45, students $22.50, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
Ralph Alessi Baida Quartet
Gig Performance Space, 1808 Second St. Jazz trumpeter, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, $20 at the door, gigsantafe.com.
Patty Griffin
Senegal Gospel Choir
The Lensic 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11, $15-$35, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
Judy Collins
The Lensic 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16, $42-$62, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
California Guitar Trio
María Benítez Theater, The Lodge at Santa Fe Instrumental acoustic blues, Americana, and rock ensemble, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 19, $25 in advance online at brownpapertickets.com, $29 at the door.
THEATER/DANCE
The Met Live in HD
The Lensic Verdi’s Macbeth, with soprano Anna Netrebko, 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 11; Mozart’s Le Nozze de Figaro, 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 18; Bizet’s Carmen, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1; $22-$28, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
Royal Ballet of Cambodia
The Lensic 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28, $40, discounts available, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
Lannan Foundation events
The Lensic The In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom series continues with author Max Blumenthal, discussing his book Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel, 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, a talk with Amy Goodman follows; the Readings and Conversations series continues with author Alice McDermott and Michael Silverblatt, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22; $5, discounts available, ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234.
Native Treasures Collectors Sale
Santa Fe Independent Film Festival
Center for Contemporary Arts, Jean Cocteau Cinema, the Lensic, and the Screen The sixth annual event begins on Wednesday, Oct. 15 and closes on Sunday, Oct. 19, festival pass $250, schedule available online at santafeiff.com; SFIFF awards ceremony honoring George R. R. Martin, Hampton Sides, Shirley MacLaine, Ted Hope, and Imogene Hughes 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, $15-$150; 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
Transformation of Cultural Studies
Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, 710 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-476-1250 MIAC’s annual fundraising sale including Native-American jewelry, pottery, rugs, paintings, and baskets, early bird shopping 9-10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 11, sale continues 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, no charge, nativetreasures.org.
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, 710 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-476-1250 MIAC and the Institute of American Indian Arts honor Dave Warren with a symposium held at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 16, and 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17, no charge, register online at eventbrite.com.
Farmers Market ¡Fall Fiesta!
Architecture: Materials & Craft
1607 Paseo de Peralta Champagne, cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, dinner prepared by local chefs, and silent and live auctions, 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11, $135, 505-983-7726, farmersmarketinstitute.org.
Mayor’s Ball 2014
Santa Fe Community Convention Center, 201 W. Marcy St. Silent and live art auction of a piece by Ramón José López, Spanish tapas dinner, and live entertainment, 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11, $150, contact Ron Ruybal for tickets, 505-983-8360, ron.ruybal@bbbs.nnm.org, proceeds benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northern New Mexico.
Leading by Being
The Lensic A conversation with Gloria Steinem, Alice Walker, Chung Hyun Kyung, and Aaron Stern, 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11, $35 and $100, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
The Evolution of Medicine to Integrative Medicine The Lensic UNM Center for Life presents a lecture by Dr. Andrew Weil, 6:15 p.m. Monday, Oct. 13; $20, ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234.
St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave. Architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien discuss the integration of art and architecture, 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 16, $30, ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234.
Unabridged: Lambda Literary Authors Series
Armory for the Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail Readings and panel discussions with authors Ana Castillo, Andrew Holleran, and Justin Torres, 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25, general admission $25, VIP seating and after-party $150, 505-984-1370, sfperformingarts.org.
Lunafest
New Mexico History Museum, 113 Lincoln Ave. Girls Inc. of Santa Fe presents its third annual film festival showcasing films by, for, and about women; kick-off reception at Pop Gallery 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, screenings follow at 7:30 p.m., reception and festival $35, festival only $25, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
Patrick Nagatani and Lucy Lippard
Armory for the Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail The artist and the author in conversation, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18, $10, discounts available, call SITE Santa Fe for tickets, 505-989-1199.
King Lear
The Lensic Presented by Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, $13.50-$100, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
BodyTraffic
The Lensic Los Angeles-based contemporary dance company, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 7-8, $15-$35, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
Sacred Body
The Lensic Presented by New Mexico Dance Coalition, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14, performers include Julie Brette Adams, Saltanah Dancers, and Harambe Hip Hop Crew, tickets $25-$60, VIP tickets $75, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
HAPPENINGS
SITE Santa Fe Innovative Thinker lecture
Armory for the Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail Shared Authority in the Art Museum: Precedents, Process and Propositions, with Kim Kanatani, deputy director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, $10, discounts available, 505-989-1199.
Jazz musician Ali Ryerson performs on Oct. 17 at Museum Hill Café.
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run through December • looping screenings of the documentary Bert & Wei Wei: TIME 2014 by Daniel Hyde and Blackhorse Lowe through Oct. 16; iaia.edu/museum; closed Tuesdays.
Museum of Indian Arts & Culture
710 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-476-1250 Footprints: The Inspiration and Influence of Allan Houser, five monumental works by the late Chiricahua Apache sculptor displayed outdoors; accompanied by works of other sculptors including Houser‘s sons Bob Haozous and Philip Mangas Haozous, plus Doug Hyde, Estella Loretto, and Robert Shorty; through May 2015 • Turquoise, Water, Sky: The Stone and Its Meaning, highlights from the museum‘s collection of jewelry, long term • Native American Portraits: Points of Inquiry, vintage and contemporary photographs, through January 2015 • The Buchsbaum Gallery of Southwestern Pottery, traditional and contemporary works • Here, Now, and Always, artifacts from the museum collection; open daily; indianartsandculture.org.
Museum of International Folk Art
Wedding Portrait (Birdbrain), self-portrait by
Scott McMahon, 2009-2010, in the New Mexico History Museum exhibit Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography; courtesy of Palace of the Governors Photo Archives; neg. # HP.2012.15.1285
AT THE GALLERIES
Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art
702 ½ Canyon Rd., 505-992-0711 Ocean/Desert, work by photographer Renate Aller, The Edges, works by tapestry artist Rebecca Bluestone and painters Chris Richter and Jay Tracy; through Saturday, Oct. 4.
Contemporary Tapestry Gallery
835 W. San Mateo Rd., 505-231-5904 Work by Bengt Erikson, through Saturday, Oct. 4.
James Kelly Contemporary
1611 Paseo de Peralta, 505-989-1601 Paintings and sculpture by Matt Magee, through Oct. 25.
Santa Fe Community College Visual Arts Gallery
6401 Richards Ave., 505-428-1501 Precognition/Recognition: Examining the Reciprocal Gaze in Godfrey Reggio's film "Visitors," still photographs, through Wednesday, Oct. 8.
MUSEUMS & ART SPACES Santa Fe Center for Contemporary Arts
706 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-476-1200 Between Two Worlds: Folk Artists Reflect on the Immigrant Experience, exhibit on immigration • Wooden Menagerie: Made in New Mexico, early 20th-century carvings, through Feb. 15, 2015 • Brasil and Arte popular, items from the museum's collection, through Jan. 4 • Multiple Visions: A Common Bond, international collection of toys and folk art. Open daily; internationalfolkart.org.
Museum of Spanish Colonial Art
750 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-982-2226 Secrets of the Symbols: The Hidden Language of Spanish Colonial Art • San Ysidro/St. Isidore the Farmer, bultos, retablos, straw appliqué, and paintings on tin • Recent Acquisitions, colonial and 19th-century Mexican art, sculpture, and furniture; also, work by young Spanish Market artists • The Delgado Room, late-colonial-period re-creation; spanishcolonial.org; closed Mondays.
New Mexico History Museum/ Palace of the Governors
113 Lincoln Ave., 505-476-5200 Painting the Divine: Images of Mary in the New World, rare Spanish colonial paintings, through March 29, 2015 • Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography, through March 29, 2015 • Transformed by New Mexico, work by photographer Donald Woodman, through Oct. 12 • Water Over Mountain, Channing Huser‘s photographic installation • Telling New Mexico: Stories From Then and Now, core exhibit • Santa Fe Found: Fragments of Time, the archaeological and historical roots of Santa Fe; nmhistorymuseum.org; open daily through October.
New Mexico Museum of Art
107 W. Palace Ave., 505-476-5072 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 505-982-1338 Syncretism, photographs by Delilah Montoya; New Perspectives, installation by sculptor Cameraless, group show of photograms; Chuck Ginnever (Muñoz Waxman Gallery); The Photo Lab, mixed-media photographs Messages From the Wounded Healers, paintings from the museum collection; Alcove Shows by Sam Scott (Spector Ripps Project Space); 1917-1927, works from the museum collection; through Nov. 2. Open Thursdays-Sundays; through Dec. 7 • Local Color: Judy Chicago in ccasantafe.org. New Mexico 1984-2014, focusing on public and personal projects, through Oct. 12 • Focus on Georgia O‘Keeffe Museum Photography, rotating exhibits • Beneath Our 217 Johnson St., 505-946-1000 Feet, photographs by Joan Myers • Grounded, Permanent collection of paintings. landscapes from the museum collection • Photo Okeeffemuseum.org; open daily. Lab, interactive exhibit explaining the processes used to make color and platinum-palladium Museum of Contemporary Native Arts prints from the collection, through March 2015 108 Cathedral Place, 505-983-1777 Level/Land, work by ceramicist Courtney M. Leonard, • New Mexico Art Tells New Mexico History, including works by E. Irving Couse, T.C. Cannon, through October • Rattlebone, paintings and prints by Ric Gendron; The Desert Never Left "The City," work and Agnes Martin, through 2015 • Spotlight by painter Mario Martinez; Saligaaw (it is loud-voiced), on Gustave Baumann, works from the museum‘s mixed media by Da-ka-xeen Mehner; Breach: Log 14, collection, through 2015; nmartmuseum.org; open daily through October. video installation by Courtney M. Leonard; exhibits
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Pablita Velarde Museum of Indian Women in the Arts 213 Cathedral Place, 505-988-8900 Harvesting Traditions, work by ceramicist Kathleen Wall, through Jan. 4. Closed Mondays; pvmiwa.org.
Poeh Cultural Center and Museum
78 Cities of Gold Rd., 505-455-3334 The P‘osuwäegeh Ówingeh Story: Scarcity & Abundance, contemporary pottery, sculpture, and jewelry, through Nov. 14 • The Kee …, 2-D and 3-D video installation by Ehren Kee Natay, through Nov. 14 • Nah Poeh Meng, 1,600-squarefoot installation highlighting the works of Pueblo artists and Pueblo history; poehcenter.org; closed Saturdays and Sundays. Also, ongoing sculpture exhibits in the Tower Gallery, 505-455-3037; roxanneswentzell.net; closed Sundays.
SITE Santa Fe
1606 Paseo de Peralta, 505-989-1199 SITElines 2014: Unsettled Landscapes, biennial exhibit of contemporary works, through Jan. 11. Open Thursdays-Sundays; sitesantafe.org.
Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
704 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-982-4636 Works by Diné photographer Will Wilson, through April 19, 2015. Core exhibits include contemporary and historic Native American art. Open daily; wheelwright.org.
Albuquerque Albuquerque Museum of Art & History
2000 Mountain Rd. N.W., 505-243-7255 Everybody‘s Neighbor: Vivian Vance, family memorabilia and the museum‘s photo archives of the former Albuquerque resident, through January • Arte en la Charrería: The Artisanship of Mexican Equestrian Culture, examples of craftsmanship and design distinctive to the charro. Closed Mondays; cabq.gov/cultural services/albuquerque-museum.
Holocaust and Intolerance Museum of New Mexico
616 Central Ave. S.W., 505-247-0606 Exhibits on overcoming intolerance and prejudice; nmholocaustmuseum.org; closed Sundays and Mondays.
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center
2401 12th St. N.W., 866-855-7902 Our Land, Our Culture, Our Story, historical overview of the Pueblo world, and contemporary artwork and craftsmanship of each of the 19 pueblos. Weekend Native dance performances; indianpueblo.org.
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
UNM campus, 1 University Blvd. N.E., 505-277-4405 Archaeology on Ice, exhibit exploring climate change in the Arctic, including tribal artifacts emerging as the ice melts, reception 6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3. The museum’s collection includes individual archaeological, ethnological, archival, photographic, and skeletal items. Closed Sundays and Mondays; maxwellmuseum.unm.edu.
National Hispanic Cultural Center
1701 Fourth St. S.W., 505-604-6896 ¡Papel! Pico, Rico y Chico, group show of works in the traditional art of papel picado (cut paper). Closed Mondays; nationalhispaniccenter.org.
UNM Art Museum
1 University of New Mexico, 505-277-4001 David Maisel/Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime, photographs by Maisel; Beautiful Disintegrating Obstinate Horror Drawing and Other Recent Acquisitions and Selections
From the UNM Art Museum's Permanent Collection; The Gift, woodcut prints by John Tatschl (1906-1982). Open Tuesday-Saturday; unmartmuseum.org.
Española Bond House Museum and Misión Museum y Convento
706 Bond St., 505-747-8535 The Second Farm Show, group show, through October. Historic and cultural objects exhibited in the home of railroad entrepreneur Frank Bond (1863-1945). Call for hours; plazadeespanola.com.
Los Alamos Bradbury Science Museum
1350 Central Ave., 505-667-4444 Environmental Research and Monitoring, an interactive exhibit covering research projects on how to preserve archaeological sites, local wildlife, and fragile ecosystems. Core exhibits on the history of Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project as well as over 40 interactive exhibits. Open daily; lanl.gov/museum.
Los Alamos Historical Museum
1050 Bathtub Row, 505-662-4493 Tradition and Change in Córdova, New Mexico: The 1939 Photographs of Berlyn Brixner & the López Family of Wood Carvers. Core exhibits on area geology, homesteaders, and the Manhattan Project. Housed in the Guest Cottage of the Los Alamos Ranch School. Open daily; losalamoshistory.org.
Pecos Pecos National Historic Park
NM 63, 505-757-7241 Exhibits portraying the history of the Pecos Valley; including ruins, traces of the Santa Fe Trail, and artifacts from the Civil War Battle of Glorieta Pass. Open daily; nps.gov/pecos.
Taos E.L. Blumenschein Home and Museum
222 Ledoux St., 575-758-0505 Hacienda art from the Blumenschein family collection, European and Spanish colonial antiques. Open daily; taoshistoricmuseums.org.
Harwood Museum of Art
238 Ledoux St., 575-758-9826 ¡Orale! Kings and Queens of Cool, a four-part exhibit focusing on Post-Pop and lowbrow art movements, including works by Robert Williams, Gary Baseman, Ron English, and R. Crumb, through Jan. 25. (see review, Page 36) Open daily through October; harwoodmuseum.org.
La Hacienda de los Martinez
708 Hacienda Way, 575-758-1000 One of the few Northern New Mexico-style Spanish colonial “great houses” remaining in the American Southwest. Built in 1804 by Severino Martinez; taoshistoricmuseums.org; open daily
Millicent Rogers Museum
1504 Millicent Rogers Rd., 575-758-2462 Looking at Taos Pueblo: Albert Martinez, Juan Mirabal, and Albert Lujan, paintings, through January • Fred Harvey and the Making of the American West, objects drawn from the Harvey family, through January. Historical collections of Native American jewelry and paintings; Hispanic textiles, metalwork, and sculpture; and contemporary jewelry. Open daily through October; millicentrogers.org.
Taos Art Museum at Fechin House
227 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, 575-758-2690 Housed in the studio and home that artist Nicolai Fechin built for his family between 1927 and 1933. Closed Mondays; taosartmuseum.org.
Teresa Oaxaca: Old Man With Daisies 2014, oil on canvas S.R. Brennen Galleries 124 W. Palace Ave. 505-467-8295 The Uncanny is a group show that explores the strange and the beautiful. The exhibit includes works by Teresa Oaxaca, David Gluck, and Katherine Stone. The artists use traditional techniques to render haunting, figurative imagery that edges into the surreal. The gallery hosts a champagne reception for the artists on Friday, Oct. 3, at 5:30 p.m.
Gina Marie Erlichman: Jungle Kimono 2014, mixed media on cradled board Gallery 901, 901 Canyon Road, 505-780-8390 Gina Marie Erlichman’s multimedia pieces merge abstraction and figurative elements and mediums such as kiln glass, encaustic, plaster, and metal into intricately patterned and textured forms inspired by the traditional Japanese kimono. Kimono, an exhibit of her works, opens with a 5 p.m. reception on Friday, Oct. 3.
Connie Enzmann-Forneris: Wind Map 2012, textile Marigold Arts, 424 Canyon Road, 505-982-4142 Wind Maps and Mind Shadows is a solo exhibit of Connie Enzmann-Forneris’ double-woven rugs and tapestries. The artist refers to her weavings as “abstracted drawings of land formations” and draws her imagery from landforms of the American West. Her work is custom dyed, which lends it spontaneous fields of color. The opening reception for the show, which runs through Oct. 29, is at 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 3.
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Daniel Kosharek: February 19, 2012 2012, acrylic on maple panel Patina Gallery, 131 W. Palace Ave., 505-986-3432 Daniel Kosharek’s paintings in Measure of Days, the third exhibit of Patina’s Drawn to the Wall series celebrating the gallery’s 15th anniversary, are meditations on the day they were created. The gestural works give the sensation of viewing abstracted landscapes that are framed by stage curtains or filtered through windows. Foreground and background elements suggest depth and space, and the loose brushwork adds a sense of dynamic movement. The artist will be present at the opening reception, which is at 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 3. Measure of Days runs through Oct. 26.
Robert S. Brown: Cloud Portrait #6 Study 2014, oil on canvas Worrell Gallery, 103 Washington Ave., 505-989-4900 Robert S. Brown’s Contemporary Western Land and Cloud Scapes is an exhibit of works inspired by the beauty of the mountains, valleys, and canyon lands of the American West. The painter’s expressionistic canvases are rendered with a palette knife, lending them a raw, rugged, dynamic quality. The show opens with a 5 p.m. reception on Friday, Oct. 3.
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