Santa Fe Reporter back issues from January 2008:
THE ORACLE
Jan 02, 2008; ... Lumari (www. lumari.com) has been a professional pyschicfor approximately 20 years. How did being psychic manifest itself in your youth? I knew and would see things. I was corrected in conversations; people would say, 'Don't say those things.' I just assumed it was more of the ...
ROCKY ROAD
Jan 02, 2008; ... Guadalupe merchants balk at messy holiday construction. The road is completely chewed up. Orange barrels offer silent warnings to would-be motorists. And blinking signage proclaims road construction up ahead-yet there is not a single construction worker in sight. That's been the ...
7 days
Jan 02, 2008; ... 1 Motor Vehicle Division may have incorrectly suspended driver's licenses and will give drivers 45 days to prove it was wrong. How about MVD gets 45 days to fix its mistakes? 2 Santa Fe Police find a suspicious body organ in the street. As opposed to an ...
SUPERMARKET SWEEP
Jan 02, 2008; ... Whole Foods suspends chemical spraying. One Tuesday a month, a truck marked AAA Organic pulls into the Whole Foods Market parking lot offCerrillos Road. An exterminator unloads his tank and sprays a chemical around the perimeter, including the welcome mat. Surely, the wind must ...
Winners & Losers
Jan 02, 2008; ... The Holiday Season Santa Fe police There are at least 15 local kids (and their families) who have nothing but praise for the Santa Fe police officers who recentiy morphed into surrogate Santas. The , department's "Shop with a Cop" program, a volunteer effort led by Chief Eric ...
SURVEY SAYS
Jan 02, 2008; ... If not Bill, who? Come primary night in Iowa, if a Democratic caucus-goer's candidate doesn't look like he or she will make the 15 percent threshold to stay in the game, the voter can switch affiliation. Bill Richardson is still polling in the single digits in Iowa, and as the ...
SNOW DAZE
Jan 02, 2008; ... Is there anyone (besides drivers of buses and municipal plows) who doesn't like a snow day or at least a delay on account of the white stuff? All the kids and adults I like live for the moment when their schools' names flash across the bottom of the television screen like a really favorable ...
GOING TO EXTREMES
Jan 02, 2008; ... STORIES OF ADVENTURE AND RECKONING FROM THIS YEAR'S WRITING CONTEST WINNERS. ?Nonfiction This year's topic for the nonfiction category of SFR's Writing Contest was "Going to Extremes." Writers were asked to tell us about their best-or worst-outdoor adventures. 1st ...
PLAY A SONG FOR ME
Jan 02, 2008; ... Close-knit working musicians who play together and support one another in a variety of band lineups and solo projects are the lifeblood of any local music scene. But traveling bands get all the attention, often at the expense of local talent. One of these locals, singer-songwriter and Americana ...
We Sing Only of Blood or Love
Jan 02, 2008; ... DAX RIGGS We Sing Only of Blood or Love Fat Possum Records The influence of industrial-music artists such as Ministry and Skinny Puppy can be seen all over contemporary rock. The generously programmed sound, aggressive drum blends and distorted vocals bolstered an image ...
WASTE NOT, WANT NOT
Jan 02, 2008; ... WASTE NOT, WANT NOT A now-and-then look at textiles. Sadly, the thought of Hillary Clinton bent over a sewing machine, piecing together a party dress for Chelsea or furiously knitting socks for Bill, is a little ridiculous. In today's world the word "seamstress" has become a ...
PLAYING KETCHUP
Jan 02, 2008; ... Perhaps some of you have been traveling over the holidays. Perhaps some of you have recently returned home to 3,300 e-mails about Viagra, a refrigerator full of Tupperware-encased mold experiments and a funny smell coming from the hamper. Welcome back! So what did you miss? Don't worry, not too ...
DID YOU HEAR?
Jan 02, 2008; ... DID YOU HEAR? Lunch just got better. YUMMY CAFE 1616 St. Michael's Drive, Suite A, 466-1681 An elegant dining room, careful presentation and pleasant service elevate Yummy Cafe beyond the "cheap Chinese food" moniker that it would otherwise earn for such ...
OPRAH-TIC
Jan 02, 2008; ... OPRAH-TIC An Oprah-produced historical tale is powerful, but over-polished. BY EMILIANO GARCIA-SAR NOFF screener@sfreporter.com The new film The Great Debaters is produced by Harpo Productionsthe name of Oprah, the great racial equalizer, spelled in reverse. The ...
SONIC YOUTH
Jan 02, 2008; ... SONIC YOUTH Juno is hip to a fault. Much like the recent film No County for Old Men, the new film Juno sets up the audience's expectations and then pulls the rug out from under diem. But, where No County sets up genre standards intended to promote conjecture and then diverges ...
Winners & Losers
Jan 09, 2008; ... Campaigns Don Wiviott and Harry Montoya It's about time candidates reacted to House Bill 1156-an election reform that requires candidates to receive 20 percent of their party's pre-primary nomination delegates to get on the primary ballot [Outtakes, Oct. 17: "The 20 Percent ...
7 days
Jan 09, 2008; ... 1 Following Iowa, Gov. Bill Richardson stays in the presidential race. 'Cuz it's not like he has anything better to do? 2 City of Santa Fe will start picking up the recycling every week. Phew! These beer bottles are really starting to pile ...
SENATE SERVING
Jan 09, 2008; ... Lenore Naranjo is the deputy chief clerk of the New Mexico State Senate. A part-time employee of the Senate for 31 years, Naranjo hopes to assume the chief clerk position on Jan. 15, succeeding longtime Senate Chief Clerk Margaret Larragoite, who retired last year. SFR: Where are you ...
VOTER BEWARE
Jan 09, 2008; ... Secretary of State may lack adequate personnel. An intense 2008 election cycle looms for New Mexico, but the state may not be prepared to handle it. SFR has learned that none of the three employees listed by the Office of the secretary of State (SOS) as voting machine supervisors ...
The Paperless Chase
Jan 09, 2008; ... The Citizen Muckraker's Guide to New Mexico. If Sherlock Holmes were alive today, he'd trade his magnifying glass for an iPhone, replace Dr. Watson with an IT specialist and neither of them would have to leave the Baker Street flat. In the information age, humans leave digital ...
INTELLIGENCER
Jan 09, 2008; ... INTELLIGENCER Woody Harrelson prowls Washington, DC, in The Walker. THE WALKER Written and directed by Paul Schrader With Woody Harrelson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lauren Bacall, Moritz Bleibtreu and Ned Beatty CCA 108 min. R In The Walker, Carter ...
FRENCH CONNECTIONS
Jan 09, 2008; ... Laurent Rea is the 30-year-old executive chef at O'Keeffe Café. Born and raised in France, he came to Santa Fe two months ago, after spending seven years cooking at L'Étoile, a popular French restaurant in San Antonio, Texas. We spoke recently about his plans for the cafe's menu and the ...
CAMERA CLIQUES
Jan 09, 2008; ... Death and life in photography education. In case you haven't been paying attention, photography is dead. Or at least this is what various exhibitions and articles have proclaimed as of late. Well-known critic Peter Plagens posed the question, "Is photography dead?" as the tide to a ...
RADIOHEAD
Jan 09, 2008; ... Web Check RADIOHEAD Scotch Mist http://current.com/items/88803042_radiohead_s_scotch_mist The guys from Radiohead can't seem to stop giving it away. First it was the new album, In Rainbows, and now it's an intimate free concert. In October the band put ...
THINK BIG WITH VIG
Jan 09, 2008; ... THINK BIG WITH VIG If he builds it, will they come? THE MONASTERY Directed by Pernille Rose Grdøkjasr With Sister Amvrosija and Jørgen Lauersen Vig The Screen 84 min. NR All of my attempts to write about The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun have come ...
BARBICIDE
Jan 09, 2008; ... Blue Monkey says goodbye. After seven years of chops and dye jobs on Montezuma Avenue, the Blue Monkey Salon and cosmetology school-a regular winner of SFR readers' Best of Santa Fe prize for best hair salon-will shut its doors on Jan. 15. Co-owner Nicole Carter wrote a letter to SFR on ...
PRESIDENT OF SPIN
Jan 09, 2008; ... THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT BILL Never give up, never surrender. Gov. Bill Richardson is hardly the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, but that hasn't stopped him from putting his best rhetorical foot forward. "We made the final four and we're on to New ...
FAST BLOG NATION
Jan 09, 2008; ... Remember the guy in high school who had the latest music from bands you had never heard of who got pissy when the bands became popular? And remember him saying, "I knew them first, but now they suck," as if mass consumption somehow spoiled the music? Well, as much as I would like to deny huge ...
SHIFTING FOCUS
Jan 16, 2008; ... A transformative look at public education. Men do not all prize most highly the same virtue, so naturally they differ also about the proper training for it. -Aristotle, The Politics New Mexico's rich cultural heritage and diverse community resources offer a unique ...
HUMAN PLIGHTS
Jan 16, 2008; ... WITH SUSAN TARMAN Antiques appraiser Susan Tarman re-opened the Santa Fe chapter of Amnesty International in April 2007. Members meet at 5:30 pm on the last Monday of the month at the College of Santa Fe's Social Sciences building. SFR: Hadn't there been an Amnesty International ...
ELECTION SHUFFLE
Jan 16, 2008; ... Secretary of State fills positions, but questions remain. The state's top elections official says her office is on track for a successful election season, following the addition of new personnel. However, Secretary of State Mary Herrera denied SFR's requests for interviews with ...
7 days
Jan 16, 2008; ... 1 The Legislature is in session. Yay: cheap gas. 2 Legislators won't push to expand the Roundhouse. They'll just spend more time at Rio Chama. 3 US Sen. Pete Domenici, R-NM, endorses US Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., for president. And ...
OUT WITH THE OLD
Jan 16, 2008; ... Advocates push for mining reform. When President Ulysses S Grant signed the 1872 Mining Law, the law was meant to encourage settlement of the West's vast public lands. It tempted entrepreneurs westward by offering land to miners at $5 an acre. So what does that seemingly ancient ...
Winners & Losers
Jan 16, 2008; ... Legislature '08 New Mexico filmmakers Like nerds flocking to a Star Wars premiere, New Mexico's film community packed the house at the Legislative Finance Committee's weekend hearing on Jan. 12. As the lawmakers considered whether to cap the state's tax credit for film ...
COULDA, SHOULDA, WOULDA
Jan 16, 2008; ... THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT BILL Last Bill and testament. Wyndam Makowsky was a true Bill Believer. The floppy-haired freshman at Stanford University had been video blogging his support since December at Richardsoncampus.blogspot.com. In an interview on Jan. 16, Makowsky told SFR ...
THE OUTSIDERS
Jan 16, 2008; ... FOR SANTA FE'S HOMELESS IMMIGRANTS, LIFE IS A CONSTANT SEARCH FOR SHELTER. El Capitan's spot is barely a stone's throw from Burger King. He says it's not bad in the summer. In the winter, it must be the ultimate bitch. But you won't hear 29-year-old Alejandro Moreno Cortez, aka El ...
MR. SUNSHINE
Jan 16, 2008; ... It's not the things that make us laugh, but the things that we think are funny that say the most about us. Often it's the most clever and witty observers of our culture who wrestle with the most vicious personal demons. The therapeutic properties of laughter are one thing, but carving the humor ...
MARAH: Angels of Destruction
Jan 16, 2008; ... MARAH Angels of Destruction Yep Roc Records A band that sells itself as the "last rock 'n' roll band" is probably one of two things: deluded or possibly right; the latter seems to be the case with Marah, a band whose new album, Angels of Destruction, fine-tunes rock's ...
SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS
Jan 16, 2008; ... SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS An exhibition that is as light as air. Weather balloons hang from the ceiling and protrude from the far wall of the Spector Ripps Project Space at the CCA. Aside from two wooden spheres in a corner, that's it. And yet the simplicity of Bubbles creates a complex ...
SMILES AND SANDWICHES
Jan 16, 2008; ... So the other morning I was driving down Paseo de Peralta toward Marcy Street-my regular commute-and I saw something out of the ordinary: a good-looking young guy in a long white apron, holding a chalkboard that read, "Free Cup of Coffee" and smiling like he was showing off a new set of teeth ....
WHEN JACK MET MORGAN
Jan 16, 2008; ... WHEN JACK MET MORGAN Rob Reiner's new comedy contradicts itself with star power. THE BUCKET LIST Directed by Rob Reiner Written by Justin Zackham With Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Sean Hayes and Rob Morrow Dreamcatcher, Regal Stadium ...
SCARY MOVIE
Jan 16, 2008; ... SCARY MOVIE Bayona brings the thrill of a classic ghost story. THE ORPHANAGE Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona Written by Sergio G Sánchez With Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Princep and Edgar Vivar UA DeVargas 110 ...
FRANCOFILM
Jan 16, 2008; ... A cinemaphile triple feature. L' ARMÉE DES OMBRES (ARMY OF SHADOWS) NR, 145 min. Jean-Pierre Melville's 1969 L' Armée Des Ombres follows subplots of the French Resistance. Rather than focus on the fight with the Nazis, the subversive underground is portrayed as a complex system ...
ONE FOR ALL
Jan 23, 2008; ... Jennifer Rose is afield organizer for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Mexico, working in collaboration with Equality New Mexico to pass a domestic-partnership law in the 2008 Legislature. At press time, HB 9 was slated to be heard on the House floor. A lobbying day for the bill ...
BALLOT BUSTERS
Jan 23, 2008; ... Will the state's election software be reliable? There's no doubt presidential election season is in full swing: Candidates are plowing through the primaries, supporters are forking over cash and voters are eager to cast their ballots. Most importantly: Election problems are a thing of ...
Santa Fe Eavesdropper
Jan 23, 2008; ... "He bought a double-wide. Only in northern Hew Mexico! He won $25 million, and he didn't buy a mansion. He bought a double-wide." -Overheard at the bar at Rio Chama Steakhouse. Guy: "At least five people called in because they didn't have water and said they couldn't take a ...
7 days
Jan 23, 2008; ... 1 Gov. Bill Richardson is growing a beard. Next he plans to make a movie and try to stop global warming. 2 Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson backs Republican Ron Paul for president That should lock up at least 12 votes for Paul ...
SHOT IN THE DARK
Jan 23, 2008; ... A New Mexico man is set for execution in Texas. A manila folder lies in Mu'ina Arthur's lap, filled with a visual history of her oldest of nine children, Karl Chamberlain: His yearbook photos, his Army portrait and, finally, Polaroid snapshots of his family crammed against the reinforced ...
Winners & Losers
Jan 23, 2008; ... Legislature '08 New Mexico's uninsured Gov. Bill Richardson opened the 30-day legislative session with universal health care at the top of his agenda. In the immediate aftermath, many cited sticker shock as a major liability of his plan. Still, four major proposals have already ...
Is the Wilderness TOO DANGEROUS For Skiers? No
Jan 23, 2008; ... Early Tuesday morning on Jan. 8, a pair of helicopters flew a search grid over the national forest and Pecos Wilderness, east of Santa Fe. Two snowboarders had gone missing in a storm that Saturday and, for the past two days, three search-and-rescue teams had been attempting to reach a steep ...
DANCE REVOLUTION
Jan 23, 2008; ... When the rave scene hit the US in the '90s, ravers participated in a kind of communal bonding experience complete with its own language, rituals and transcendent quests. But raves ultimately stalled out as nothing more than elaborate parties. The most interesting element of the scene was the ...
We Brave Bee Stings and All
Jan 23, 2008; ... THAO We Brave Bee Stings and All Kill Rock Stars Let's face it, these days pretty much any female singer-songwriter with acoustic backing is going to be compared to Cat Power. It's as if Cat Power's Chan Marshall was the first woman to pick up a guitar and sing ...
A VANISHING VISION
Jan 23, 2008; ... Travels with the nomadic Nevada Wier. The images are almost too beautiful to be real: silhouetted bicyclists crossing a bridge in Myanmar at sunset, a Thai woman carrying a yoke through an impossibly green forest, Buddhists in Ladakh prostrating in the snow toward a Lamayuru monastery ....
WINTER INSPIRATION
Jan 23, 2008; ... Sometimes, when the creative urge hits me, I like to play a little imaginary game of Iron Chef. OK! Everybody has access to boneless, skinless chicken breast and white rice. The secret ingredient is: star fruit. That's pretty much how I came up with this recipe for grilled chicken with star ...
READ IT
Jan 23, 2008; ... READ IT BRRR ... Stories for the season. CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER By Ann Beanie Back in 1976, when this book was first published, men were men, winter was winter and you could actually go 10 minutes without hearing the phrase "global warming." Or so we've ...
THICKER THAN WATER
Jan 23, 2008; ... THICKER THAN WATER Paul Thomas Anderson brings out the devil in Daniel Day-Lewis. THERE WILL BE BLOOD Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson Written by Paul Thomas Anderson band on the novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair With Daniel DayLewis, Paul Dane and David ...
MY LEFT LID
Jan 23, 2008; ... MY LEFT LID Take a dive into the mind. THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY Directed by Julian Schnabel Written by Ronald Harwood, based on the memoir Le scaphandre at le papillon by Jean-Dominique Bauby With Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, MarieJosée ...
Whack a Pol!
Jan 30, 2008; ... SFR's guide to the Feb. 5 democratic caucus. It's difficult to fathom nine months remain until the 2008 general election. Between the ongoing debates, the high-profile early caucuses in states such as New Hampshire, Iowa and Sotith Carolina and, of course, the local coverage of the ...
7 days
Jan 30, 2008; ... 1 City of Santa Fe trying to figure out how to handle frozen water meters. Hopefully not by consulting the department in charge of frozen roads. 2 Former state treasurer Michael Montoya sentenced to four years in prison. And he didn't even have to run a ...
READY, SET, CAUCUS
Jan 30, 2008; ... NM dems prepare to pick a nominee. In 2004, New Mexico Democrats held their first presidential caucus, choosing John Kerry as the state's nominee. Next week, on Feb. 5, voters will weigh in as the state participates in Super Tuesday, in which more than 20 states will vote for ...
ON OUR OWN
Jan 30, 2008; ... Politics can't fix our schools. One of my goals for winter break-along with not reading anything written in illegible handwriting-was to get a handle on the presidential horserace that developed while I was busy coaching corner kicks and correcting apostrophes this fall. Lucky ...
Winners & Losers
Jan 30, 2008; ... Legislature '08 Women's right to safely choose Rep. Gail Chasey, D-Bernalillo, introduced House Memorial 14, a public condemnation of what amounts to pro-life terrorism: three attacks on abortion and contraceptive clinics in Albuquerque in December. Chasey doesn't muddle the ...
NEW ROYALTY
Jan 30, 2008; ... WITH KHADIJA CHUDNOFF Khadija Chudnoff, 18, was elected homecoming queen on Jan. 17 at Monte del Sol High School. SFR: Where is your family from originally? KC: My father is from Israel. He's from a village in the mountains, lots of farmlands and stuff. And my mother was ...
FUTURE CRAFT
Jan 30, 2008; ... This ain't grandma's knitting. KNITPRO www.microrevolt.org/knitPro There are times when the same old pattern just doesn't cut it anymore. KnitPro is a handy Web application that lets crafters of all kinds-from needlepointers and cross stitchers to crocheters and ...
Women As Lovers
Jan 30, 2008; ... Review XIU XIU Women As Lovers Kill Rock Stars There are a few very rare albums that feel like an old favorite the first time they come blasting through a set of headphones. Everything is as it should be, there are no surprises and yet the excitement exists in ...