Sunday, October 17, 2010 THE NEW MEXICAN C-5
Zumbathon
NEIGHBORS
Living Treasures: Four residents honored for contributions to Santa Fe
Bill Field, a designer who has worked on Spanish Market, is one of the newest Living Treasures. PHOTOS BY JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN
Lifetimes to cherish
By Ana Maria Trujillo
The New Mexican
F
our Santa Feans recently joined the
ranks of the admired Living Treasures
of Santa Fe. Bill Field, Jean and Buzz
Bainbridge and Lee Feitelson will be
honored at 2 p.m. Oct. 24 at United Church
of Santa Fe.
Bill Field
If there’s a popular logo for a Santa Fe
organization that’s easily recognizable,
chances are that Bill Field designed it. His
favorite is the logo for the Santa Fe Children’s
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L
ocal Ali MacGraw was featured on
Oprah last Tuesday, reuniting with her
Love Story co-star, Ryan O’Neal. The
two starred in the 1970 film as star-
crossed lovers — he preppy, she blue-collar,
both college students. As always, MacGraw
looked gorgeous. Of particular interest to
locals was her necklace, a Bittersweet Designs
ethnic long labradorite. Bittersweet Designs is
a creation of Laurie Lenfestey, whose shop is
at 901 Canyon Road. Her husband, promoter
Jamie Lenfestey, tells La Mitotera, “Ali is a
great friend and supporter of Laurie’s and an
astonishingly dear person, but she had no idea
Ali was going to wear anything of hers on the
show.” More designs at Laurie’s http://www.
bittersweetdesigns.com/.
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All around town: U.S. Sen. Tom Udall and
his wife, Jill Cooper, spotted leaving the mov-
Section editor: Bruce Krasnow, 986-3034, brucek@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Elizabeth Herrera Lauer, ehlauer@sfnewmexican.com
ABOVE: Buzz and Jean Bainbridge, who first came to New Mexico as ski instructors,
established a low-cost ski program. LEFT: Lee Feitelson, a music lover, has volun-
teered with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.
Museum, he said, with the children holding
hands and running around.
“One of the reasons I’m getting this award
is because I’ve done a lot of design pro bono
work here in Santa Fe,” Field said. “I’ve
always felt that design is something that all
businesses and charitable organizations need.
It’s also one thing I can give them. I can’t give
them a lot of money, but I can give them my
services as a designer.”
When Bill Field left Santa Fe to attend col-
lege and start his career, he always knew he
wanted to come back to his hometown.
He also knew that he wanted to get
involved with the Spanish Colonial Arts Soci-
ety. Preserving Spanish Colonial art runs in
ies at DeVargas Center
last Saturday. On Sunday,
that was County Asses-
sor Domingo Martinez
checking out at Walmart.
Also on Sunday, this year’s
Ali MacGraw Don Diego de Vargas,
Manuel Garcia, took in
another fiesta — he was
attending the early morning mass ascension at
the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.
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Shooting Fright Night must be exhausting
— no wonder Colin Farrell and his assistant
turned up several weeks ago at Estrellas
Moroccan Spa. He liked the Rhassoul Clay, a
Dead Sea salt steam scrub.
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Best sighting ever: Susan LaPointe is used
to celebs — they shop all the time at Back at
the Ranch, the shop she manages. But this one
was special. Shakira was in town, eating at
Burro Alley last Sunday night. LaPointe and
her daughter, Gabby, were heading downtown
and were on San Francisco heading to Back
Weddings, births
and anniversaries.
Celebrations, C-7
Field’s family.
His mother, Lois Field, helped revive the
Spanish Colonial Arts Society and start Span-
ish Market back in the late 1920s.
When Field moved back to Santa Fe in
the mid-1970s after an 18-year career at the
Polaroid Corporation, he immediately got
involved. After starting his own company,
William Field Design, he got involved in the
Spanish Colonial Arts Society.
“I just got drafted into doing things for (the
Society) and Spanish Market,” Field said.
“When I came back, it was run by two people
and they were getting tired and they wanted
somebody else to do it.”
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at the Ranch when Gabby spotted the singer.
The two gave a shout out to Shakira, who
agreed to have her photo taken with her fans.
“She was delightful,” writes LaPointe.
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In and out of El Palacio, a yummy coffee
shop and café across the street from the old St.
Vincent’s has been Tiger Eyes and children’s
book author Judy Blume. The film version
of Tiger Eyes is currently being filmed, with
(reportedly) Willa Holland (Gossip Girl) and
Tatanka Means (Comanche Moon) in the leads
of Davey and Wolf. The book is set in Los Ala-
mos and deals with 15-year-old heroine Davey’s
coping with the death of her father. Wolf is the
mysterious stranger she meets in the canyons
around the Atomic City. In a leap forward for
Hollywood casting, Means is a Native (from the
Lakota tribe) playing a Native. He’s also the son
of activist Russell Means.
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Taos fashion designer Patricia Michaels has
been busy with a photo shoot in Taos for ELLE
France featuring her PM Waterlily Designs.
She also will be participating on Nov. 6 in a fash-
will benefit
breast cancer
foundation
100 percent of proceeds will go
to Susan G. Komen for the Cure
By Ana Maria Trujillo
The New Mexican
Students in Cindy Coulter’s Zumba class know
they’re in for a good time when they enter the gym at
Fort Marcy Complex.
The spunky fitness instructor with red hair walked
into the gym last Friday, sporting a pink Zumba
Breast Cancer Awareness shirt and a smile. She laced
up her black sneakers and put on her black sweat-
band before getting everybody started.
“Hello everybody!” she yelled happily to her stu-
dents. She asked if anybody was there for the first
time, and when two newcomers raised their hands,
she teased them about being in the back row. “Don’t
you know first-timers come to the front row? Don’t
worry what foot you’re on and don’t worry about
what your hands are doing. Enjoy the music and break
a sweat — those are the only rules.”
Coulter’s enthusiasm for Zumba is contagious. The
Santa Fe fitness instructor has been teaching Zumba
classes for the past two years.
On Friday, Coulter and her seven other Zumba
instructors will host a Party in Pink Zumbathon
to benefit Susan G. Komen For the Cure at the
Genoveva Chavez Community Center community
room. Zumbathons have been popular around the
country for the last few years as fundraisers for chari-
ties.
“It’s a phenomenon,” she said of Zumba before her
11 a.m. Friday class at Fort Marcy began. Zumba is a
dance-fitness class that is inspired by Latin dance and
music.
Coulter was one of hundreds of instructors to be
selected to host the Party in Pink Zumbathon, after
applying through Zumba’s corporate offices. The
two-hour event will be packed with sizzling dance
moves, upbeat Latin music and laughter — if it’s any-
thing like Coulter’s Friday class.
“Love, love, love, I want your love,” she sang along
to a Lady Gaga song as her class warmed up by doing
shoulder rolls to the beat. “Remember, singing is
encouraged.”
Everyone is welcome to Friday’s event and people
don’t need any previous Zumba experience under
their belts to enjoy themselves.
“I tell (my students) to have fun, break a sweat
and it becomes a party atmosphere,” Coulter said
happily. She tells them to imagine it’s Saturday night
and “you’re out with your friends, wearing your hot
clothes, your miniskirt — that always gets a laugh
— and your green spandex.
“I try and make them forget about what they’re
doing and enjoy the time.”
One of the great things about Zumba is it isn’t like
other traditional exercise and aerobics classes, said
loyal Zumba student Ron Romanovsky.
“What I like about it is it’s good exercise but it
doesn’t feel like work,” Romanovsky said. “My boy-
friend tried to get me to go to the gym for years and
years but it’s just not my thing. It is important to exer-
cise and move around and Zumba is a fun way to do
it. And Cindy rocks.”
Romanovsky is planning to attend the Party in Pink
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Cindy Coulter, center, teaches Zumba at the
Genoveva Chavez Community Center on Tuesday.
On Friday, Coulter will host a Party in Pink Zum-
bathon. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN
ion show and fundraiser for New Mexico Tribal
Libraries at Isleta Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.
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Spotted walking through DeVargas Center
last Sunday: wrestler John Cena.
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Albuquerque’s Neil Patrick Harris is mak-
ing his feature directorial
debut with the romantic com-
edy Aaron and Sarah, starring
Emma Roberts and Josh
Hutcherson. The Hollywood
Reporter says that the indie
film follows a geeky guy and
a popular girl who become
friends during their fresh-
man year of high school. Both Neil Patrick
stars have New Mexico ties Harris
— Emma is Julia Roberts’
niece, and Josh is starring in
the remake of Red Dawn (originally made in
New Mexico).
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