Contents ALL THE INCENTIVE YOU NEED THE LINE 01 THREAD 04 Cyborg Assasins Drive Ducatis 18 The Cuff is in the Calling Wonderland EP Jeanne Allgood Get an up-close look at a new discusses making Terminator: generation of artists whose work Salvation, a tale of mad machines will not just be associated with and fery humans, at Albuquerque being Native American or from the Dear Readers, Studios. Southwest, but will be seen as having national and even international This is the third installment of Boom the By Ellen Berkovitch Albuquerque Film guide, a lot to report appeal. to you about, an issue of past present and future. THE LINE 02 By Heidi Ernst We get you back out of the highway with Dennis Hopper and the 40 year 08 Bill Richardson and the reunion of Easy Rider and launch right Sundance Kid into the future with the executive producer of the Terminator: Salvation, Sundance has found a second home. Governor Bill Richardson and we have also highlighted a couple of TONE business that make Albuquerque unique Robert Redford are building on a as well as ensuring that you have the strong foundation, New Mexico. 21 Some Like It Hot most up to date resource guide for all of your flm needs. By David D’Arcy “You come here to suffer,” Bikram Get out and enjoy the movies! likes to say. “If you don’t suffer, you don’t get anything out of it.” Cheers, FORM AND FUNCTION By Stephanie Pearson 10 Grusin on Grusin True to his Jazz roots Grammy award Missy Penor, Publisher winner Dave Grusin lends his talents to a ever growing New Mexico Jazz Fest. MOVE ABOUT THE COVER — By Groovey 23 High on Oxygen ??? Tired of art galleries, mineral spring spas, and quaint cafes? Consider a THE STAFF — BITE New Mexico outdoor adventure. Publisher 12 Bravo to the Bistro Missy Penor By Maeve Nevins [email protected] Jennifer James 101 has made the Editor basics fancy without overmuch fuss. Ellen Berkovitch [email protected] By Ellen Berkovitch Creative Director ©Wes Naman Michelle M. Gutierrez [email protected] (yes, dezign with a “z”) BEAT SHEET SWIG Director of Sales 24 Head Out on the Highway to Taos Angie Clements Drinking in the Q [email protected] 15 This is the 40 year anniversary of Contributor at Large Take time to sit back and enjoy the Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper in his Gail Smerigan beverage...Albuquerque has plenty of sometimes home Taos Albuquerque Studios places to belly up, here are some of [email protected] our favorites places and some of our By Tom Collins Copy Editor favorite people serving them up. Jillian Oaks [email protected] By Missy Penor

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CYBORG ASSASSINS DRIVE DUCATIS Wonderland EP Jeanne Allgood discusses making Terminator: Salvation, a tale of mad machines and fery humans, at Albuquerque Studios by Ellen Berkovitch

The machines are furious. Their red eyes grabbing humans. is up to Connor to navigate his obligations The flm was shot entirely in and around to be able to capture a post- apocalyptic playing John Connor made so much menace, their heads roar, their tectonic As shown by the smoky, deadened landscape, to country —-he is a sometime ally Albuquerque Studios in a synergy that world in the US —-and the landscape sense. I agree with McG he’s the most hands clamp and vise onto vulnerable Terminators have been decimating humanity of the government —- with those of Allgood described as “perfect,” because of in New Mexico allowed us to create that credible actor of his generation, and he human bodies, shredding them like paper. with their malevolent plan and insatiable his conscience. The resistance leader the serendipity of New Mexico landscapes environment so beautifully. Even fying in really brought a gravitas to the role.” Yet as a Resistance helicopter rises out of violence for a long time now. Resistance remains above all a man who voices and nearby locations ftting the movie’s for the frst time we all realized it was the The legendary McG, for whom Allgood’s the fray of a frefght, twisted steel skeletons fghter Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin) —-the what distinguishes human beings from theme. perfect place to shoot the movie. So we is “producing partner” at McG’s Sony- sprawl in disarray across the burned-out character who back in 1984, the year of the machines: ethics. And, she added, with credit to the were thrilled.” based production shingle, Wonderland ground. Some of the enemy have been frst Terminator, was sent from the future In May Terminator: Salvation swept multitalented New Mexico crew base This Terminator, tagged “Salvation,” is the Sound & Vision, directed this new felled. to protect Sarah Connor against the cyborg the box offce. Wonderland executive that choreographed such a complex frst to star Christian Bale as hero of the Terminator. Allgood has been McG’s The year is 2018, the endgame of a long and assassins, led by Arnold Schwarzenegger producer Jeanne Allgood, interviewed production into six stages at Albuquerque Resistance. Explained Allgood: “I came producer since Wonderland recruited painful war. Powerful Terminators, those —-is still alive. Reese is now a young man, in June’s second week by phone at her Studios: “We relied a lot on New Mexico to this picture as a huge Terminator fan.” her from Dreamworks in 2005 (She had fearsome killers of the uber-control apparatus with a mute black child as his sidekick. California offce, declared, “We were crew who were all fantastic.” (Her brother sneaked her in to the R-rated been there two years, and worked on Wes Skynet, zip around on Ducatis. They use John Connor (Christian Bale), leader of the number one worldwide for the weekend. “We had been looking at Budapest,” said picture, her frst, when she was 13.) Craven’s Red Eye and Dreamer, with their terrifyingly fexible steel limbs to pop resistance, has become Sarah’s grown son. It That’s a pretty good feeling.” Allgood, “ but ultimately we really wanted “So for me the idea of Christian Bale Kurt Russell.) And she sees her creative out of riverbeds and swoop through ravines, www.miscpubs.com 5 CABQFilm_1125x1125.qxd 7/21/09 2:49 PM Page 1

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6 BOOM: The Albuquerque Film Guide By David D’Arcy Redford said, “I want to make a with prominent Hispanic talent. the economic impact fgure refected undance has found a new home, difference on a personal level, and Gov. Richardson, in an interview in his Park City’s extortionate towing fees.) or at least a second home, in New feel I’m uniquely qualifed for this offce in late May, suggested that the Yet infrastructure is just what New Mexico. With New Mexico’s one on a professional level. I like that Institute’s Native lab, with an eventual Mexico seems to be holding under S it’s something new that hasn’t been purchase of the 148-acre Cabot ranch, added focus on Hispanic flmmakers, Sundance’s nose. In an axis taking Los Luceros, in the Rio Grande valley done before in this particular way: might be a better ft for New Mexico shape from south to north, New Mexico near the village of Alcalde, Sundance State involvement from the start, at than the Institute’s current mountain offers new sound stages with a trained anticipates creating a new headquarters this particular time with such major outpost at the Sundance Resort, an hour labor force and a range of urban and for the Sundance Institute’s Native socioeconomic challenges in New north of Park City, Utah. In fact, the desert locations in Albuquerque, near American and Indigenous Programs. Mexico and across the country.” migration southward has already begun. Albuquerque Studios. Closer to Santa The program will produce Native Diversity also infuenced the decision to This year’s Sundance Native Lab was Fe is the former state prison, a massive American flms and train Native select Los Luceros, Redford told Variety. held in May, both in Santa Fe and on modernized hulk where science fction, American talent. In the late 1970s ““I love the dance of cultures in New the Mescalero Apache tribal homeland horror and prison flms have been Robert Redford created Sundance as a Mexico. Los Luceros has a rich history of N. Bird Runningwater, who heads the shot. The Santa Fe area served as a refuge from the commercial pressures and spirit that will certainly inspire Native program. prehistoric location and impersonated something, as creative people gather.” of Hollywood. The now-diverse feld of So, is Redford’s latest move an effort to ancient Rome for The Year One, now independent flm fowed in large part The project seems to have united two escape from Utah’s political climate? in theaters. (As a desirable place not from Sundance’s nurturing of movies men eager to establish their personal only to make flms, but for talent to made outside the studio system. legacies. Since last year’s passage of Proposition stay, New Mexico has become the third 8 in California, rumors warning that the largest concentration of flm production The Los Luceros-based project is an “It’s not an Institute-driven initiative, flm industry would boycott Sundance initiative of New Mexico Gov. Bill although we will certainly play a in the US.) At Los Luceros, the same 2009 in Park City failed to come true. ranch that will house the Native Lab Richardson, who said the purchase role in helping program it as much There was also talk that Sundance price for the ranch was $2.6 million as Mr. Redford wants us to,” said and other future Sundance activities is might seek to sever its ties to the ripe for shooting flms, television and – low even in today’s depressed real Brooks Addicott, spokesperson for Mormon-dominated state, from which estate market. It has been described by the Sundance Institute. “Certainly it commercials, which could mean jobs millions of dollars fowed to infuence and training for larger communities Sundance as a personal deal between makes sense to move the Native lab Prop 8‘s mandate in California that the governor and Redford. Private down there. Currently we don’t have throughout Rio Arriba county, such as marriage can only unite a man and a Espanola. developers reportedly offered the Cabot a Hispanic lab, per se, but it is an area woman. family more than what the state paid for that (New Mexico is) keen to explore, Any flming north of Santa Fe would the ranch, but the family elected to sell for job creation and to involve people in Downplaying any chance that Sundance mean additional post-production work Los Luceros to New Mexico, exacting the flm community down there.” could abandon Utah for more liberal for Albuquerque Studios, said Eric Witt. surroundings (the Sundance Film the promise that the ranch would be “Right now it’s (being) called Sundance The Richardson-Redford Los Luceros preserved as a heritage site, said the Festival has a contract to remain in in New Mexico, but I don’t know if that infrastructure-impaired Park City deal was struck as Sundance Festival’s governor’s deputy chief of staff, Eric name is going to stick,” she noted. longtime director Geoff Gilmore left for Witt. through 2018), Brooks Addicott noted Redford’s ties to New Mexico date back that a new study measured the festival’s the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, Redford is said to be building a new decades. His 1988 flm The Milagro annual economic impact at $92.1 and the Sundance Institute’s director, home in the Santa Fe area (designed by Beanfeld War, about local opposition million, which she said could bring the Ken Brecker, stepped down. So possibly Pedro Marquez). to resort development, was shot in annual event additional support from this opens up the Institute leadership to In a report in Variety on June 24, northern New Mexico. He flled the cast the state. (Skeptics wondered whether the feld of New Mexico as well.

THE LINE 02 Bill Richardson and the Sundance Kid Grusin on Grusin by Groovey

Dave Grusin is a very soft-spoken man but when you have where I was living. (Laughter.) So, shortly after fnishing the I know some guys right now who live in New Mexico and entrepreneurial opportunity in building some more high-end had his kind of career—he has worked in more than 100 movie, I moved out here. I also met my wife here—so that work in the flm industry as composers, like myself. I think recording facilities in New Mexico. Then, of course, we will flms, won both the 1988 Oscar and Grammy for his flm was another great reason to move to New Mexico. You know it’s a new era now but I’m way late for this (laughter), and need the cooperation of flm makers to score the flm where score for The Milagro Beanfeld War, along with two how beautiful New Mexico is. Doing my job here is a real I’m way too old to be talking about this. But I really think they shot it.” Grusin observes he’d love to see the director additional Grammys later on—people come to you to listen. treat.” you have to be much more entrepreneurial now to do “mindset” change to make that happen. A master of the piano and smooth jazz, Grusin, who lives While Grusin’s credits, prior to Milagro Beanfeld War, anything in the flm business.” In addition to his scoring life, Grusin also has a very prolifc in Santa Fe, is considered one of the top 10 flm scorers of had included scoring such tremendous movies as Tootsie Having been around the New Mexico music scene now for solo music career, with a couple dozen CDs to his name his generation. And he keeps true to his jazz roots in playing and On Golden Pond, since 1989 he has gone on to score two decades, Grusin has a rock solid knowledge of what the and collaborations with the likes of Billy Joel, Quincy Jones, gigs such as his upcoming July 17th performance with his The Fabulous Baker Boys, winning The Grammy; as well state’s musicians need to do to land the flm-scoring gigs, and Al Jarreau. A true master of the piano he also frequently brother, Don Grusin and Quartet, part of the New Mexico as the subsequent flms Havana, The Firm, The Cure, In what their chances are in a very competitive market, and performs with his younger brother, keyboardist Don Grusin. Jazz Festival lineup, at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe. (See the Gloaming and Serena. His most recent Grammy came what needs to change to advance their prospects. “Mindset” Don has released 14 albums of his own and was awarded Cool Jazz Fest, in this issue of BOOM, for more on the in 2002 for best instrumental arrangement, accompanying and “entrepreneurial” spirit are the two key things, he said. Colorado University Alumni Association’s 2006 George festival.) vocalist James Taylor on the singer’s “Mean Old Man” from “There’s no lack of talent locally. I know some guys that have Norlin Award for distinguished lifetime achievement. In an interview in early July, Grusin described how his October Road. Telling the whole Grusin biography here made their own careers. Sometimes doing commercials. Dave Grusin seemed to be really enjoying the rehearsals love affair with New Mexico actually started long before he would run out my word count, so I would challenge readers Sometimes doing documentaries. It would be great to for his upcoming gig with his brother, which marks a frst showed up in El Norte to work with Robert Redford on The to consult IMDB and Wikipedia to learn more about this have more work come — and that’s part of the aim of the full-evening show that the two of them are collaborating Milagro Beanfeld War. He grew up in Littleton, Colorado, amazing musician. He is probably the only man in the world New Mexico Film Commission, to attract more work for to produce: “I’m not somebody who really gets off on a suburb of Denver. Since Grusin’s parents had good whose resume lists a 1965 episode of The Jack Benny Hour flmmakers.” performance or being on stage,” says the understated and a 2007 episode of Family Guy. friends in Albuquerque, Grusin explained the whole family Still, said Grusin, “ The truth is most of the flms that are musician. “ I really just like to play, especially when I get to would frequent New Mexico during summer vacations and While always keeping a hefty work load, Grusin described shot in New Mexico don’t get scored here and I would love play with good musicians. That’s one of the key things about holidays. Grusin eventually moved to New York to be closer himself as a great supporter of the New Mexico flm scene in to see that change too.” jazz and one of the most fun things about jazz is that you get to the action, but found himself moving to New Mexico general and its prospects for post-production. to play with the good players like Don. I’m very excited about What does he think is needed to get there? permanently 20 years ago. “I know there’s been a big push, a big effort, in promoting it.” “We were shooting the movie in 1987. At the time I was flm-making in New Mexico, and I think there’s been some “We need the recording facilities to do that — which is Believe it, so are we. living on West 56th Street in New York, and going out there good progress. There is a lot of opportunity, but flmmakers what is great about Albuquerque and Santa Fe, because they to that beautiful country made me ask why I was living will have to be very entrepreneurial to achieve these projects. have some facilities that can handle it. Again, there’s a great

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Like many people, I love a good accessory. I’m not really one to be seen as having national and even international appeal—even follow the crowd when it comes to clothes, but even though I as their heritage makes their work more compelling to many.” tend toward the classics (black, denim, and more black), I still like Pruitt also makes thinner cuffs inlaid with copper, silver, and/ one part of my outft to make some sort of modern statement— or 24kt gold (from $420 to $900), and here’s where you’ll usually an accessory. In my book, you can’t beat jewelry. Compare notice some of the Native infuence in his work. He says me (please!) with that perennial style icon Audrey Hepburn in I hit the nail on the head when I tell him I saw rivers and Breakfast at Tiffany’s, wearing an understated monochrome mountains represented in the thin undulating lines. Often, ensemble paired with a killer necklace or large costume earrings. though, he bucks conventional design in favor of what he calls So when I recently sauntered through the jewelry side of “badassedness.” Says Pruitt, “I take a different approach to my the shop, Avanyu, at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in work because with stainless steel there is no tradition.” Albuquerque, I was mesmerized by the work of Pat Pruitt and Aaron Brokeshoulder, on the other hand, creates designs very Aaron Brokeshoulder. I started mentally fipping through my much rooted in tradition. I’m drawn instantly to a polished closet to remember what I have that would work with the dozen sterling-silver cuff ($1,800) that has rectangular coral inlays pieces each of them has on display. along the length, a center medallion of a raised coral, and Native They have such different styles, but each in his own way takes symbols stamped into the inside and outside of the metal. themes or techniques from traditional jewelry design, both Native The symbolic storytelling is integral to Brokeshoulder’s work -- American and other, and modernizes them. The gift shop’s manager, and fts the jeweler who has plays more of the roadie personality Ira Wilson—guitarist and lead vocalist for Albuquerque’s award- to his friend Pruitt’s lead guitar. One bracelet tells of dancers winning rock band Red Earth for more than a decade—likens Pruitt asking a turtle for the blessing of rain. Another depicts two and Brokeshoulder to groundbreaking classic-rock guitarists such as spiders meeting for mating. “I heard stories from my great- Eddie Van Halen. “Those guitarists started with a Fender or a Les grandpa before he passed away, and I incorporate that stuff into Paul, and see how innovative they were,” says Wilson. “With Aaron my jewelry,” says Brokeshoulder, who works in his garage studio and Pat, the basics are the same, but they’re fnding a way to express in Albuquerque. He learned smithing from his father on his themselves that’s uniquely them.” home of Santo Domingo Pueblo. Working his way up until he Of the two, Pruitt has the rock-star personality, and not just because began designing on his own, Brokeshoulder now has many art- of his hot-rod hobby. He started learning the silversmithing trade market awards—and a national following. 20 years ago under traditional jewelers on the Laguna reservation “Aaron’s jewelry is a combination of a continuing approach to in Paguate, N.M., an hour west of Albuquerque, but for the past 15 tradition that doesn’t necessarily stay in the box,” says Avanyu years Pruitt has made body-piercing jewelry of all shapes and sizes. manager Wilson. “He likes to hang on the edge.” And that’s He works in stainless steel, so when he began his own jewelry line exactly where the next cuff I see goes. Also in a traditional shape, (because he couldn’t fnd a whole lot of what he calls “cool guy stuff” this one ($578) has a dark, pebbled surface: oxidized silver. out there), he stayed with that material. It’s a new technique for him, one that resembles sand-casting. Pruitt is one of the few fne jewelers to work in stainless steel Brokeshoulder retains the stamped symbols on the inside, but exclusively. And he does it well: He was presented with the national the outside has three raised lines—rivers—and four raised dots, Couture Jewelry Award in 2007 in the alternative metals category. His which stand for the four directions (as in north, south, east, and stuff is undoubtedly cool. I love a great cuff bracelet, so I was really west, traditional Native symbolism). attracted to the large ones on display at the Cultural Center, one with There are also two pendants in the case, so Brokeshoulder a timing belt along the top, another with stingray skin (both $630). evidently possesses terrifc ability to forecast the next big thing. In Pruitt’s materials take the shapes to a whole new modern edge. fact he nailed two of summer’s top accessory trends, according to “I am always looking for work that pushes the envelope. I loved Pat’s In Style: pendants and coral touches. work immediately because his quality of workmanship was superb, Both Brokeshoulder and Pruitt are nailing so many trendsetting because it is based on the traditional but goes to the extreme,” says edges in their work—in techniques, design, and materials. I’ll be Victoria Price, owner of Victoria Price Art & Design in Santa Fe and prowling galleries and art markets for their next breakthroughs. daughter of flm legend and noted art collector Vincent Price. Her gallery showcases contemporary home décor, art, and jewelry and has featured Pruitt’s work for three years. “He’s part of a new generation of artists whose work will not just be associated with being Native American or from the Southwest, but will

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When the guru teaches, he strips down open invitation to immigrate here as a thank and dandayumana bibhaktapada similar, yet opposing, methods have become to a Rolex and a Speedo. He refers to his you for curing his dastardly illness on a trip paschimottaasana. known as Bik V. Bar. 105-degree heated studio as a “torture abroad. Today Bikram lives in Beverly Hills, Rossi and all of her instructors were trained “Hot vinyasa is very unlike Bikram in that chamber.” And, just in case the 26 mostly where his brand of yoga has been hot for by Bikram, the method she has been there’s more freedom within the practice,” very diffcult yoga poses he demands you more than a decade, but the former National teaching for six years, but last December says Rossi. “There’s no one standing there perform in perfect succession over the India Yoga Champion was born in Calcutta, Rossi and her business partner, Bruce Sher, saying that in order for it to be hot vinyasa course of 90 minutes aren’t hard enough, which goes a long way toward explaining his made a conscious decision to divert from the you have to do X,Y, and Z. It’s more natural. he’ll remind you that you’ve come to philosophy that physical suffering is the path strict Bikram teaching style. It’s for people who really want a push.” class to suffer. Welcome to Bikram’s Yoga to mental transcendence. “Bikram has trained some amazing There’s a misconception in the West about College of India. If the 63-year-old guru isn’t “You come here to suffer,” Bikram likes available, one of his 1,200 franchise owners teachers,” says Rossi, “and we still teach the what yoga is and how yoga should be taught to say. “If you don’t suffer, you don’t get Bikram method, but we were beginning and how yoga students should act,” she says. worldwide, all of whom he has personally anything out of it.” trained, will happily lead you through his to feel like after doing this one theory for “We say do the best you can, but we push rigidly copyrighted, questionably tortuous, Today more than a million yogis and yoginis years and years and years, a different kind of you to fnd your limit. We want people to be pleasurably detoxifying brand of yoga. worldwide practice Bikram’s Yoga. It’s a rigidity began to set it, so we’ve changed up their best.” calorie blaster, for sure. But the 90-minute the poses, and allow people to use props”—a This might not sound like a practice any That philosophy seems to sit well for class, which will look and sound exactly big no-no for serious Bikram devotees. creative types, like the actor Bryan Cranston, sane individual would want to embrace the same whether you’re practicing in during the midsummer swelter of high- Rossi has found that her studio’s hot vinyasa who maintained a regular practice at Hot Albuquerque, Bangkok, or London is also fow class, a more creative, free-fowing Yoga Downtown while flming the TV series, altitude Albuquerque. Especially since weirdly relaxing—especially when it’s fnally there seem to be as many disciplines of form of hot yoga that is often accompanied “Breaking Bad.” Kyra Sedgwick also drops in over. Clothes are soaked, the body is loose, by music, is the most popular, attracting when she’s in town, and there are a number yoga to choose from as there are states in and your soul feels purged. India: Iyengar, Hatha, Anusara, Vinyasa, as many as 50 students per class. Not of movie industry regulars like carpenters Kundalini, Ashtanga, Tantric, Bikram, and “Heat makes it easier for your muscles surprisingly, hot vinyasa was born out of and grips who practice at the studio multiple Core Power, to name a few. But if you like to stretch and the 105- to 110-degree the Bikram method, by a former senior times per week. to sweat and drain your body of toxins, a temperature with 50 percent humidity makes Bikram instructor, Jimmy Barkan. Based “The movie industry is pretty stressful,” says Bikram’s or Bikram’s-inspired hot vinyasa the workout a lot more cardiovascular,” in south Florida, Barkan taught Bikram’s Rossi, “which is why this studio is so good fow practice might be the perfect ft for you. says Molly Rossi, the 31-year-old co-owner method for 20 years at which point he for people who work in it,” says Rossi. “The of Hot Yoga Downtown, a studio with a started introducing a few extra poses like L.A. transplants to Albuquerque have most anonymity factor may not be there because wall of north-facing windows that allow downward dog. Bikram didn’t approve and it’s a small town, but a lot of people don’t likely tried and survived at least one Bikram’s its roughly 6,000 students to gaze out on the two parted ways. Since then, Barkan has class. Yogiraj Bikram Choudhury brought even notice a celebrity because they’re too Central Avenue as they contort themselves developed his own devoted following and focused on themselves, wondering if their his sweaty practice to the U.S. in the 70s into padan gustasana, trikanasana, teacher training series. In yoga circles the after President Nixon reportedly gave him an butt looks too big.”

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In ’69, Captain America and Billy got there riding their Chamisal, on to Peñasco. Sugar Nymph’s restaurant in of the gorge. Just slow down as you get ready for the choppers in from the west-- aptly, over the majestic Peñasco is unlikely good, featuring locally grown and ridiculously melodramatic panorama of Rio Grande Ultra-charming, the movie icon in his sometime Rio Grande Gorge Bridge (featured nicely in “Natural raised vegetables and meats from the many organic Gorge, Taos Mountain, the Taos Valley and beyond to Head Out On The Highway To Taos hometown looks dapper, and like he’s ready to head Born Killers” and lately, scarily, in Terminator:Salvation). farms nearby. (Dixon boasts the largest population of present itself as you come out of the “horseshoe” curve. over to Taos Country Club as soon as he’s finished with There are in actuality many approaches to Taos: from organic farmers in the state.) this rough bit of press. Hardly the Dennis the Menace the north, through Questa, from the east, through Stuff happens, things change and neither Taos nor counter culture bad lad of 1969, the year his iconic, Cimarron and Raton, and by air, the way Julia Roberts From Sugar Nymph it’s pretty much all downhill through Dennis are as they were when “Easy Rider” first hit town ground-breaking “Easy Rider” was released. sees it. Vadito to 518 through Kit Carson National Forest, over and the silver screen. And maybe that’s for the best. BEAT SHEET | BY TOM COLLINS U.S. Hill down into Talpa and Ranchos de Taos. 1969 was Easy Rider summer and the summer Dennis But if the Captain and Billy were heading to Taos today, Then, his presence was, shall we say, colorful, and his entourage moved into Mabel Dodge Luhan’s I’d tell ‘em what the second ex-wife of a very famous The low road (SR 68) along the Rio Grande takes half highlighted by periodic armed standoffs with locals. house in the shadow of sacred Taos Mountain. This film director actually said to me some years ago: the time (from Santa Fe) but doesn’t skimp on the Now, 40 years later, Taos is having a “Summer of Love” summer of 2009, Taos Mountain Music Festival “László Kovács told me that I absolutely must take the scenery, either. with the son who was a hippie radical 40 years ago. celebrates the four decades since the film’s release. But High Road to Taos. (Pause). Where is that?” The Harwood Museum has a show he curated and will if you’re mapping points of interest in Taos with Easy At Velarde, hugging the river on the left for the next 13 host some lectures (by Dave Hickey) in August. Even Rider history, based on what Dennis tells ya - well, you The High Road, mi’lady, (as it’s known), is one of two miles winds you up through the spectacular Rio Grande the staid Taos Ski Valley is getting into the reformer might need a salt cellar. southern inbound routes. You can hit the High Road Gorge to Pilar. Keep an eye out for falling rock (see act with the first Taos Mountain Music Festival an Easy early, just beyond Cities of Gold Casino in Pojoaque some? too late!), and look for the charming Embudo Rider homage, on Saturday, August 15. According to I overheard Dennis telling some reporter that he and at Rte. 503, or a few miles further on down the road Station Restaurant a few miles in, or Sugar’s BBQ, a taosmountainmusicfestival.com, Joan Osborne, The “Easy Rider” got to Taos accidentally because Peter in Española at Rte. 76. There you can stop at El Parasol faster, funkier stop. Wailers and Ozomatli are the first acts to be confirmed Fonda made a wrong turn (instead of going to Santa taco cart (next to El Paragua Restaurant) and grab a killer and the lineup is growing. Fe). Once in Taos, they ended up on the Plaza, where carne asada burrito or chicken-and-avocado tacos. The temperate climate and centuries-old colonial Dennis met a prophetic Pueblo native. A nice story, Spanish irrigation system of acequias has made the One truth however remains. The journey to Taos is but at least partially fiction. They really ended up in Both roads lead to the tough, holy village of Chimayó Embudo Valley, a significant fruit and grape grower. not the long strange trip it was. Many of Taos’s former Taos because they were planning on making a classic and the Santuario with its miraculous healing dirt and Where there are grapes there is wine—Black Mesa hippies play real estate. Dennis is a Republican. Western road flick (in the spirit, according to Fonda, of picturesque abandoned crutches. From there the two- Winery in Velarde, Vívac at the junction of 68 and SR John Ford’s classic road’n’raiders film, “The Searchers,” laner climbs steeply to the absurdly gorgeous vistas of 75, and La Chiripada one mile up 75 in the charming Truchas, where Robert Redford filmed “The Milagro village of Dixon. Pop into the great little Dixon Market

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