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LOCAL NEWS Fighting hunger: Nonprofit

Guide offers a woman’s take on fishing lifestyle
Española author
self-published book
By Karl Moffatt
For The New Mexican
Got fat, lazy kids dominated by
cell phones, captivated by video,
stupefied by TV?
Maybe it’s time to drag them
out of the house and teach them
one of New Mexico’s favorite
outdoor pastimes, like how to
fish the old-fashioned way, with a
simple pole and some bait down
aims to end food insecurity
in Santa Fe. Page C-5 C
Documentary
at the local fishing hole.
If so, then Española author and
angler Clarissa Lopez has got the Fisher- panel urges
passion, guts
fishing guide for you. The book Chick
offers simple, easy-to-understand author
Clarissa
instructions on how to cast, fish,
Lopez is
use bait, handle a fish and, more shown at
importantly, where to go. the White
The self-published book is
titled Fisher-Chick: A Female
Rock Over-
look above
Discussion focuses on issues
View of Family Fishing in North- the Rio affecting aspiring filmmakers
ern New Mexico and Southern Grande
Colorado for Good Old Fashion earlier this By Robert Nott
Fun Bait Fishing. It was 2009 month. The New Mexican
finalist for the New Mexico Book PHOTO
COURTESY
KARL F. Aspiring documentary filmmakers have to place
Please see GUIDE, Page C-3 MOFFATT faith in both their own passion and their need to tell a
story that hasn’t yet been told.
That was the main point to come forth from the
Santa Fe Film Festival panel discussion “Getting the
Message Out,” which took place Saturday at David

Hundreds savor traditional flavors at matanza fundraiser Richard Contemporary Gallery.

About 25 people attended the event, which was
moderated by Nick Durrie, who recently completed
Cane & Able: Hope in Hispaniola, a documentary on
Haitian immigrants who work in slave-like conditions
in Dominican Republic sugar-cane fields.
The panelists were an agreeably disparate group that
included Santa Fean Eric Maddox, a first-timer who
has yet to start post production on his film about how
Mexican/American border issues impact families; Jason
Silverman; director of the Center for Contemporary
Arts Cinematheque, and Debra Anderson, a Colorado
native who, along with researchers Mitchell Marti and
Matt Vest, shared an Emmy award for research for the
film Split Estate. That documentary covers the environ-
mental hazard posed by “fracking” (injecting chemicals
into the ground to stimulate natural gas production).
With documentary filmmaking becoming increas-
ingly popular among both film artists and the public
(The International Documentary Association reports
that 3,000 documentary filmmakers applied for grants
from PBS last year), the discussion seemed appropri-
ate, particularly given the film festival’s emphasis on
screening documentaries.
Please see PANEL, Page C-4

Pulitzer winner
explores world
without nukes
Pete Argo from Santa Fe prepares a batch of pork ribs during a matanza, a traditional pig roast, Saturday at the Museum of Spanish
Colonial Art. More than 250 people attended to enjoy carnitas, chicharrones and other fare. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN By Roger Snodgrass
For the New Mexican

Going whole hog

The question posed by a Pulitzer Prize-winning
historian Saturday at the end of a talk about his most
recent book was this: Can we, should we, will we get
to zero nuclear weapons?
The book, The Twilight of the Bombs, is the final
volume in a quartet of books on the nuclear age by
author Richard Rhodes, which begins with the end
of the Cold War and carries the story up to President
Barack Obama’s speech in Prague, where he vowed
“to seek, clearly and with conviction, America’s com-
By Sandra Baltazar Martínez all topped with red chile, beans and potatoes, reasons, the slaughter occurred at a process- mitment to seek the peace and security of a world
The New Mexican and accompanied with flour tortillas, water, ing plant on Tuesday. The pig weighed about without nuclear weapons.”

T
he flies are gone, and winter is clos-
ing in. That’s how Steven Otero
knows it’s time for a matanza.
This annual hog killing was
part of a family’s preparation for the winter
months, but several generations later, the
matanza has become a reason to get together
and celebrate, Otero said.
On Saturday, this family event extended
into a community fundraiser at the Museum
of Spanish Colonial Art in Santa Fe. More
than 250 people showed up to eat carnitas,
carne adovada, chicharrones, steak and ribs,
soda or beer.
“It’s such a traditional thing in most of New
Mexico, but it hasn’t been done much in pub-
lic,” said Donna Pedace, executive director of
the Spanish Colonial Arts Society. Saturday’s
event was to raise money that will primarily
be used for advertising the annual Winter
Market event, Pedace said. In Northern New
Mexico, the matanza is a forgotten tradition,
but it has managed to survive in central and
southern parts of the state, Pedace said.
In a traditional matanza, the pig is shot
between the eyes, stabbed in the heart and
cut to pieces on-site, but for health and safety
250 pounds.
Shortly after 8 a.m. the jarrillas, large metal
pots, and the woks, known as discos, made
from 40-inch industrial plow disks, were
starting to simmer with the pig parts, and the
smoke from the cedar wood filled a portion
of the museum’s patio.
Around 9 a.m., the first guests arrived,
curious about the process. Peter and Beth
Shumway, who moved from Oklahoma to
Santa Fe this summer, were intrigued and
looked forward to lunchtime to taste “a little
Please see HOG, Page C-3
During an event Saturday sponsored by the Santa
Fe Council on International Relations at the Santa
Fe University of Art and Design, that life-and-death
question about the possibility of eliminating nuclear
weapons was taken up by a panel of nuclear weapons
experts and managers.
“There is no sunset to ride out toward,” said Steve
Younger, former head of the Defense Threat Reduc-
tion Agency and president of the company that man-
ages the Nevada test site.
Younger suggested rephrasing the question to,
“What is the safest future we can create?” based on
Please see NUKES, Page C-4

In brief
Hunters, others warned
of delays over roadblocks
ALBUQUERQUE — The state Game and Fish
Department is warning hunters and other out-
door lovers that they may meet with delays dur-
ing hunting seasons because of roadblocks.
The roadblocks are being used around New
Mexico to collect harvest data and to apprehend
fish and wildlife regulation violators.
The agency says that department officers will
begin conducting the roadblocks this fall.
They may get help from other law-enforce-
ment agencies, including the U.S. Forest Service
and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
At the roadblocks, conservation officers will
check for compliance with hunting and fishing
laws, and registration requirements and safety
provisions of the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle
Act.
Drivers of vehicles hauling wood products will
be asked to produce documentation required by
the Forestry Conservation Act.
Albuquerque police
search for girl’s kidnapper
ALBUQUERQUE — Albuquerque police are
on the lookout for a man they say lured a little
girl to his vehicle with a dollar bill and snatched
her from the street before she was able to get
away.
Police Sgt. Trish Hoffman says the incident
occurred at about 2 p.m. Saturday when a man in
a white van with a taped window on the passen-
ger side pulled up near a 9-year-old girl.
Hoffman says he offered the girl a dollar bill,
and when she approached to get it, he grabbed
her and threw her into the van.
The girl escaped and police are now looking
for the man.
He is described as 5-foot-10, heavyset, and
white with balding dark hair and a black
beard.
Hoffman says she has no further information.
CIA-operative biopic
to premiere at Lensic
The Santa Fe premiere of the new biographi-
cal thriller Fair Game takes place at 7 p.m. Nov.
5 at the Lensic Performing Arts Center. Directed
by Doug Liman of The Bourne Identity fame and
starring Naomi Watts as Valerie Plame Wilson
and Sean Penn as her husband, Joe Wilson, the
film documents Plame’s outing as a CIA opera-
tive.
Both Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame Wilson
will join director Liman for a post-screening dis-
cussion.
A champagne reception at Milagro 139 on San
Francisco Street precedes the film.
Tickets for just the film are $20. Tickets for
the reception (which includes admission to the
movie and a copy of Plame Wilson’s book Fair
Game) benefit the Military Religious Freedom
foundation, National Dance Institute of New
Mexico, Partners in Education, and the Santa Fe
Institute.
Call 988-1234 for more information.
Wrestling organization
filming movie in N.M.
Gov. Bill Richardson and World Wrestling
Entertainment announced this week that the
film Blood Brothers has begun shooting in Albu-
querque.
The action-adventure film will star wrestler
John Cena, Ethan Embry and Amy Smart.
The film will employ about 140 New Mexicans
in the cast and crew.
Staff and wire reports

400 Facts Today’s question: Which building in

on Santa Fe
Courtesy of the 400th
Anniversary Committee
Santa Fe is named for a Native American
president and where is it?
Check back tomorrow for the answer.
Yesterday’s question: What popular Spanish Colonial art form is
referred to as “the poor man’s gilding”?
Answer: Straw applique can be as shiny as gold.
To learn more about this topic, read Conexiones: Connections in Spanish Colo-
nial Art, by Carmella Padilla and Donna Pierce, Museum of Spanish Colonial Art,
2002.

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