Santa Fe Reporter back issues from November 2008:
AN EARLY, HARD FREEZE
Nov 05, 2008; ... Whatever planet we all find ourselves on the week after the 2008 US election, there will be no going back to normal. Perhaps, by the time you read this, we will live on an icy planet of faux-maverick mayhem in which our economy crumbles into a pathetic police state. Or, maybe, little ...
DA FEET
Nov 05, 2008; ... On 83rd Street off Second Avenue in Manhattan, my wife Lala and I stopped to stare at a movie of two pinkish feet being massaged by hands stronger than I'd seen in any Baby Einstein video. We'd been hoofing it all day from the apartment where we were staying: north 60 blocks to Harlem, ...
HUMAN FRAILTY
Nov 05, 2008; ... When human trafficking came up in the New Mexico Legislature earlier in the 2008 session, victims' advocates had to tread carefully: State officials were hesitant to get involved in enforcing federal immigration laws. However, as Assistant Attorney General Maria Sánchez-Gagne explains, the focus ...
POLITICAL POSTMORTEM
Nov 05, 2008; ... Companies bid farewell to election, dollars. For the last two years, New Mexican voters have been bombarded with the sights and sounds of the 2008 election. And the companies responsible for all the election collateral have been enjoying the influx of cash. Conservative talk ...
7 days
Nov 05, 2008; ... 1 City finance committee approves water-rate hike. It's part of a city-wide plot to make people shower less often. 2 Railyard parking machines aren't working. Sometimes it's good when things break. 3 Pojoaque will soon get a post ...
GOD COMPLEX
Nov 05, 2008; ... Monument enters church/state debate. Santa Fe's top teenage-make out spot is now part of the great debate of the separation of church and state. The city of Santa Fe has teamed up with a group of conservative Utahan legislators to support the Utah Highway Patrol Association's ...
Winners & Losers
Nov 05, 2008; ... Health Amateur astronauts In late October, Gov. Bill Richardson announced that a partnership between Rocket Racing Inc. and Armadillo Aerospace could mean commercial space flights from Spaceport America as early as 2010, for as cheap as $100,000. Still too pricey for Joe Six ...
Leaders 2.0
Nov 05, 2008; ... Meet the next generation of movers and shakers. By the time you read this, the election will be (hopefully, barring any 2000-like debacles) done and over. The robocalls will cease, Sen. Barack Obama's campaign will stop texting its supporters and soon little holes will dot Santa Feans' ...
THE ROAD CONQUERS ALL
Nov 05, 2008; ... Hit the road with Boris McCutcheon. "When I was 19, I worked for this guy named Ralph Rinzler," Boris McCutcheon tells SFR. "He was a music collector who worked for the Smithsonian Institution and discovered Doc Watson. At the time, I really didn't know what folk music was. I was ...
City of Refuge
Nov 05, 2008; ... Review CASTANETS City of Refuge Asthmatic Kitty Records The easiest words to describe Castanet's fourth studio album, City of Refuge, are "sparse" and "atmospheric." These are both apt but only skim the surface of what Ray Raposa set out to do when he recorded the ...
FROM DARKNESS: LIGHT
Nov 05, 2008; ... FROM DARKNESS: LIGHT Gunderson pulls visual tactility from pure black. "Black is the color of objects that do not emit or reflect light in any part of the visible spectrum; they absorb all such frequencies of light. Mixing paints, inks or other pigments of all colors in theory ...
TERRA NOVA
Nov 05, 2008; ... TERRA NOVA Encantado redefines Santa Fe as a culinary destination. There is a half an hour window when the molten coral sunset bathes the bar and dining room of Terra in a burnished copper glow. Here, at Encantado, the latest jewel in a modest lineup of Auberge Resorts' ...
GOBBLE, GOBBLE
Nov 05, 2008; ... Turkey Day treats. THE BIG DINNER Our perennial favorites for traditional Thanksgiving dinners done one better are Rio Chama (414 Old Santa Fe Trail, 955-0765'. $18-$44) and The Compound (653 Canyon Road, *982-4353. $20-$70). At the Rio Chama, enjoy Chef Tom Kerpon's asada of ...
REELED IN
Nov 05, 2008; ... REELED IN Changeling is hopefully not the Best Picture of the year. CHANGELING Directed by Clint Eastwood Written by J Michael Straczynski With Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan, Amy Ryan, Jason Butler Hamer and Eddie ...
LOCH NESS WEIRDO
Nov 05, 2008; ... LOCH NESS WEIRDO Celebrate creepiness at the movies. MISTER FOE Directed by David Mackenzie Written by David Mackenzie, Ed Whitmore, based on the novel Halliia Foe by Peter Jinks With Jamie Bell, Sophia Myles, Ciarán Hinds, Maurice Roëves and Claire ...
DEMOCRACY'S ILLUSION
Nov 12, 2008; ... Voting is not the means to bettering our society. Imagine, for a moment, that you have purchased a service contract with a private company. Six months into the contract you receive a letter informing you that your rates are being increased. Miffed, you call the company and inform it that ...
THE NEXT X
Nov 12, 2008; ... In September of 2006, Bill Ford, the grandson of auto pioneer Henry Ford, resigned from his position as CEO of Ford Motor Company. His mistake was trying to do the right thing. In an attempt to revive his grandfather's flagging legacy, Ford had earlier proposed moving away from the ...
WILD AT HEART
Nov 12, 2008; ... A self-proclaimed lone wolf, resiliency expert, wilderness guru and passionate communicator, Larry Glover is the founder and director of the Wild Resiliency Institute (wildresiliency.com). His fascination with wilderness brought him to the revelation that aspen groves are a metaphor for the ...
POLITICAL FUTURES
Nov 12, 2008; ... It's time for the next New Mexico shake-up. Not to overstate the obvious, but change has absolutely come to New Mexico-and President-elect Barack Obama is just the beginning. When US Sen. Pete Demenici, R-NM, announced the end of his 36-year Senate career and the state's entire ...
7 days
Nov 12, 2008; ... 1 Barack Obama elected president of the United States. We haven't tired of repeating that yet. 2 New Mexico's entire congressional delegation is now Democratic. Thanks Sen. Domenici-couldn't have done it without you. 3 Anonymous letter warns God will destroy Santa ...
STOP PAYMENT
Nov 12, 2008; ... Chamber lobbies for wage freeze. Seeing opportunity in an economic crisis, the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce has begun quietly lobbying the City Council to delay the next annual increase to the living-wage ordinance. The city's minimum hourly wage, now $9.50, is scheduled to rise ...
Winners & Losers
Nov 12, 2008; ... Lost causes Yankees Dem voters in Eldorado woke up Nov. 5 to a post-election O'bummer: Their McCain-supporting neighbor, Steven Ruud, had replaced his Old Glory with a dag blum Confederate flag. Ruud removed the flag-temporarily, he says-after the New Mexican ran some angry ...
THE DREAM TEAM
Nov 12, 2008; ... IDEAL PICKS FOR OBAMA'S ADMINISTRATION. Barack Obama's victory in last week's election was celebrated around the world. But within 24 hours, the speculation began regarding who the heavyweights of Obama's administration will be. (In New Mexico, those questions hit close to home: Will ...
BAD NEWS BEARS
Nov 12, 2008; ... For Minus the Bear, a W21 show isn't just another tour stop. It's inevitable. Kids grow up, leave home and, if everything goes as planned, make something of themselves. Thus, in 1999 Cory Murchy left his hometown of Santa Fe for the music scene of Seattle. "I moved the ...
ELECTRIC REMIX
Nov 12, 2008; ... ELECTRIC REMIX Just add bass. "TABLOID SORES (NOSAJ THING REMIX)" By Health Health//Disco In its unremixed version, "Tabloid Sores" sounds nothing like a dance tune. But add some dirty beats, and the cacophony and Cookie Monster screams become a disjointed ...
Dropping Science Fiction
Nov 12, 2008; ... THE MIGHTY UNDERDOGS Dropping Science Fiction Definitive Jux Records Sometimes when seasoned musicians and lyricists get together the chemistry is instant. Such is the case with Oakland-based super group The Mighty Underdogs. Comprised of Blackalicious' Gift of Gab, ...
A TON OF SIMPLE
Nov 12, 2008; ... A TON OF SIMPLE Or, a show fit for simpletons. Helpful hint: If you're going to create an art exhibition and call it Occam's Razor, try to avoid cluttering it with a bunch of disparate, clashing work that ranges in quality from excellent to eye-rolling. The nominal notion, after ...
BREAD ALONE
Nov 12, 2008; ... Take a peek into the restaurant tradition of bread service. In Saudi Arabia, the word for bread is "Aaysh," which simply means 'life.' The staff of life is the stuff of life. It's the other white meat. In much of the world, bread is what's for dinner. With bread on the brain, I ...
WESTERN MEDICINE
Nov 12, 2008; ... WESTERN MEDICINE Cut deep into tender, dysfunctional familial flesh. All good drama puts a mirror and a scalpel to us, its viewers. Good drama allows us not only to reflect upon ourselves but to reflect upon those subcutaneous, ugly parts of ourselves that so often remain ...
BOND, SAD BOND
Nov 12, 2008; ... BOND, SAD BOND Bond is in mourning. But he still kills people. The debut of Daniel Craig as 007 in Casino Royale marked the first worthwhile James Bond movie in nearly two decades but, as with most franchise reboots, it carried a whiff of apology for the sins of an earlier era ....
LOCALIZE IT
Nov 19, 2008; ... High Coss of Living? Is the mayor crazy? Or maybe just stupid? These questions swirl around the quiet corners of City Hall these days as our local politicians, like their national counterparts, jockey for position wearing costumes created by the Baroque absurdity of the global economic ...
FROM LEAN TO GREEN
Nov 19, 2008; ... Following a long career in construction, Kim Shanahan left his volunteer position as president of the Santa Fe Area Home Builders Association to become its paid interim executive officer. The SFAHBA and its Green Building Council partnered with the City of Santa Fe and other organizations to ...
FEAR ITSELF
Nov 19, 2008; ... Local economy hinges on spending in coming months. Whether stuffing their mattresses with cash or swapping their stock portfolios for gold bullion, Santa Feans want to know: Where's the local economy headed? Truth is, nobody knows whether we'll all be rationing bread in a few ...
PARTING GIFTS
Nov 19, 2008; ... Enviros brace for Bush's last acts. It's fair to say the Bush administration has wreaked havoc on the nation's environmental laws, opened up previously closed areas to energy development and actively thwarted regulations meant to protect clean air and water. Now, in a rush to ...
Winners & Losers
Nov 19, 2008; ... Power Children of the sun New Mexico's renewable-energy firms are salivating at the prospect of an Obama-era solar- and wind-farm windfall. Last week, Environment New Mexico reported that developers have already proposed 60 gigawatts worth of new "concentrating solar power" ...
Out in the Cold
Nov 19, 2008; ... Build a snow cave for a night in an outdoor icy cage. John Becker and I look ridiculous. The chairlifts have stopped at Ski Santa Fe, and the last skiers of the day aie all heading downhill, toward Totemoff's bar for a midmountain beer or to tailgate parties in the parking lot ....
Laugh at the Cold
Nov 19, 2008; ... Bikram kicked my butt (and other tales). I consider myself rather hearty - I've run Ove marathons, including Boston on a dare, completed a 6,000-foot-elevation international distance triathlon, climbed two 14ers, hiked a couple centuries, completed five-pitch climbs in Yosemite and slept ...
Hot Rocks
Nov 19, 2008; ... Getting stoned guarantees relaxation this winter. Since human beings can't hibernate, every year we're forced to brave the winter elements. Sometimes that's fun (skiing down mountains and sipping hot chocolate), sometimes not so much (scraping off the old windshield and driving on ...
End the Draft!
Nov 19, 2008; ... Winterizing is a sound domestic policy. "Winterizing" sounds like a therapy term. I can picture it now. I'm sitting on the sofa and, across from me, an analyst with a calm, soothing voice says, "I hear what you're saying, Zane, but I want you to ask yourself if you're being 100 percent ...
The Last Woodlot
Nov 19, 2008; ... Finding piñons and stories on Canyon Road. Last winter, after failing yet again to borrow a truck and chain saw to cut my own firewood, I headed over toward Woodcutters' Corner on Old Las Vegas Highway. Even in these enlightened times, I wasn't too happy at the prospect of standing by ...
Blaze of Glory
Nov 19, 2008; ... Keep toasty and save money with wood-burning stoves. For all its quaintness, Santa Fe has some chinks in its charming armor. Oh sure, that 550-square-foot, 200-yearold adobe casita you live in is chock full of character. The floors feature the familiar glow of ancient-looking ...
Winter Angel
Nov 19, 2008; ... Spreading warmth, one house at a time. I stumbled upon Kitchen Angels by accident. In' September, 2005, while still a student at the College of Santa Fe, I attended a volunteer-oppor- tunity fair and stopped at a table manned by a person wearing an animal shelter T-shirt. I had planned ...
The Big Freeze
Nov 19, 2008; ... Ice fishing needs no defense, but here's one anyway. Let's face it: Winters in northern New Mexico can be brutal. Foot upon foot of snow. Seemingly endless cold. Bone-chilling wind. For most people, the preferred metiiod of coping is on the slopes, as there are few better ways to shake ...
Ristra Madness
Nov 19, 2008; ... Keep deliciously warm all winter long. So you bought a ristra. Now what? Are you just gonna hang it from your faux viga and watch as the pods slowly dry in the warm winter sun? Aw, come on! You gotta cook with those chiles! Stringing chiles into ristras wasn't originally invented ...
Warming Up to Winter
Nov 19, 2008; ... Seasonal libations keep our pilot lights going. A nip in the air brings brandy for nipping. What's your poison? When the season's first flurries are aflutter, consider lending a little luxury to your typical tipple. Toss your stiff, creased packets of Swiss Miss and her chalky chocolate ...
Winter Must Haves
Nov 19, 2008; ... Ignoring the recession? Start here. Blistering Boots One look at these boots through a darkened window had us racing back in the early morn to politely wait for the doors to open before we knocked over old ladies to get the deets and check the tag. True to rock star fashion, ...
Hot/Cold
Nov 19, 2008; ... Find winter movies that will leave you feeling cold in SFR's Winter Movie Preview. In most languages, warmth is associated with good stuff and cold with bad stuff. You feel warm toward someone (and even hot lot them) or someone can have an icy personality. Movie stars, bands or companies ...
RECYCLED SOUNDS
Nov 19, 2008; ... Meow Wolf howls again. LATE SEVERA WIRES, YODA'S HOUSE AND ATMOSPHERIC DIVER 7 pm Friday, Nov. 21 $5 MILTONMEVIN CROISSANT III, DUGOUTCANOE, HIS HOLINESS AND MODERN WITCH 7 pm Saturday, Nov. 22 $5. Meow Wolf 1800 ...
All Dressed Up...and Nowhere to Go
Nov 19, 2008; ... Review BILLY MILES BROOKE All Dressed Up ...and Nowhere to Go Toad Ranch Records. The '70s might be long over but its influence endures in the oddest places. Disco is dead, but glam still cleaned up its act. Santa Fe's Billy Miles Brooke goes for glitter ...
INCOMPLETE WORKS
Nov 19, 2008; ... The Railyard Park will, happily, never be finished. THE RAILYARD PARK AND PLAZA Guadalupe Street and Paseo de Peralta It wouldn't really be fair to critique a painting that had only its base coat and its rough composition laid out and to pass judgment before the work was ...
HOT BUTTERED LOVE
Nov 19, 2008; ... Butter makes the world better. If buttering up is what you have in mind, here's a thought: use butter. Everyone likes olive oil, and for daily cooking many of us turn to it most often. But this is about butter and the particular fruits of its labor: beurre noisette, caramel, hollandaise ....
ART OF HAPPINESS
Nov 19, 2008; ... ART OF HAPPINESS Mike Leigh gets at the heart of joy and pain. HAPPY-GO-LUCKY Written and directed by Mike Leigh WWiSaIIy Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Alexis Zegerman and Samuel Roukin UA DeVargas 118 min. R "It's not easy being you, is it?" Mike Leigh's ...
SIDE SPLITTER
Nov 19, 2008; ... SIDE SPLITTER Try three love affairs and a murder. A GIRL CUT IN TWO Directed by Claude Chabrol Written by Claude Chabrol and Cécile Maistre With Ludivine Sagnier, Benoît Magimel, François Berléand and Mathilda May The Screen 115 min ....
SNOW NIGHTS
Nov 19, 2008; ... Hunker down with new DVDs. SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO R, 121 min. Director Takashi Miike, who gained a cult-following with ultraviolent flicks such as lchi the Killer and Audition, speaks no English, yet has a cameo role in the 2005 gorefest Hostel and made his very own ...
PHILOSOPHY WITHOUT A PARTY
Nov 26, 2008; ... Traditional conservatism is still popular. Conservatives think the election results prove conservatism is in trouble. Actually, conservatism is fine. It's the Republican Party that's in trouble. For the sake of argument, however, let's posit that Obama represents a dramatic ...
INDIAN SCHOOL STRIP MALL?
Nov 26, 2008; ... If the sudden demolition of historic buildings on the Cerrillos Road campus of the Santa Fe Indian School has an upside, it's the newly exceptional view. When driving down the densely developed Cerrillos Road corridor, a sudden expanse blos- soms beyond the low piles of rubble, and the Jemez and ...
TOUGH ENOUGH
Nov 26, 2008; ... WITH LEA REKOW Former cultural advisor to the Australian Consulate in New York, associate of La Lutta Media Collective and member of New York Women in Film and Televisión, Lea Rekow has recently been announced as the new executive director of the Center for Contemporary Arts. She begins ...
BLOCKGATE CONTINUES
Nov 26, 2008; ... State auditor opens file on newest PRC commissioner. The country's youngest statewide elected official, State Auditor Hector Balderas, has his sights set on New Mexico's youngest public regulation commissioner, Jerome Block Jr. Days before the Nov. 4 general election, Balderas ...
SLOW GOING
Nov 26, 2008; ... Bikers say city needs to step it up. Gas is cheaper than it has been since the start of W's second term. Mission accomplished! And yet ... cars don't seem to have the same old charm. Maybe it's the sunny winter days or the death-stink emanating from Detroit, but we're finding ...
Winners & Losers
Nov 26, 2008; ... Media City of Santa Fe The city's Public Information Office just keeps getting sawier and sawier. At the end of October, the city's Web site (santafenm.gov) beat out 51 other small cities to win the Communications Technology Award at the City-County Communications and Marketing ...
FICTION FIRST PLACE
Nov 26, 2008; ... Jesus Sleeping The Amtrak was forty-five minutes late pulling into Lamy station when Jimmy Glass finally awoke from his stupor. He had been riding since Newton, Kansas, a thirteen hour trip, and was still half-drunk, He was wasted when he got on the train and quickly passed out in his ...
RINGMASTER
Nov 26, 2008; ... Come one, come all, to a circus that's only slightly bizarre. As we sit in his living room surrounded by instruments from around the world, sheet music and cables, it's easy to conclude that Jeremy Bleich is the perfect person to play the wizard behind the curtain of Circus ...
The Secret History of Underground Rap
Nov 26, 2008; ... SOLE The Secret History of Underground Rap Anticon Records Anticon Records founder Tim Holland, aka Sole, is an unstoppable wrecking ball of politically charged energy. His stream-of-consciousness lyrical style has a tendency to deconstruct common hip-hop themes until ...
A LONG DRAW
Nov 26, 2008; ... A LONG DRAW We don't need no stinking pencils. Shake up When a major international art fair, such as Art Miami, rolls around, and galleries need to adjust the work they plan to take in response to the shifting tides of the economy and the often fickle whimsy of the art ...
PICTURE THIS
Nov 26, 2008; ... PICTURE THIS Critical comic understanding. WATCHING THE WATCHMEN By Dave Gibbons, Geoff Spear and Mike Essl Titan For those who can't wait until March of next year for their big-screen Watchmen fix, the graphic novels' original artist, Dave Gibbons, along ...