Swing Lesson and Dance

Lesson: 7 pm
Dance: 8 pm
Every Monday night

$8 for lesson & dancing; $3 for dancing alone

Oddfellows Hall
1125 Cerrillos Road
690-4165

A few weeks ago, Alex De Vore’s column about the meanies at El Mesón’s tango milonga caused quite the uproar in our Letters to the Editor section (as well as the Calls to Alex’s Cell Phone section). Some claimed that tango dancers are actually really nice; some claimed that Alex is right, that tango dancers are jerks; some claimed that Albuquerque’s tango community is much nicer than its Santa Fe foil; and still more claimed that everyone should ditch tango and come to swing dancing nights instead.

We find the last option most enticing. Conveniently, editorial intern Ramón A Lovato is a regular at Santa Fe Swing’s Monday night swing dancing at Odd Fellows Hall, and he hooked us up with a sweet batch of pictures from the most recent monthly swing event with live music (swing dancing lessons are every Monday, and on the first Saturday of every month the group brings in a live band for an 8 pm lesson followed by dancing until 11:30 pm; the next Saturday night concert is May 1). And guess what? No one objected to him snapping some snaps! (For sure, these people look pretty friendly & appear to be having a marvelous time.)

All photos by Ramón A Lovato

On Friday, Oct. 2, the Mine Shaft Tavern hosted the annual He-She Bang, which could be called the biggest event in Madrid all year. The Bang, traditionally a mix of variety show, talent show and drag show, invites the eternally creative residents of Madrid to come out and perform to benefit charity. This year’s proceeds from the event’s $20 tickets went to the Madrid Emergency Medical/Dental Fund (in lieu of that healthcare reform we’ve all been waiting on). The evening was organized and hosted by Sleam.

SFR was there to capture the event; check out the slide show below, and past the jump are videos of some of the best acts.

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Show us what has left the back of your eyelids burning. Send pictures
of visual trespass and peculiarities to copyeditor [at] sfreporter.com,
subject “eyedropper.”

This is a very special edition of the Eyedropper. We brought our cameras along for SFR’s 35th Anniversary Summer Blast Block Party at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center, where there was so much to see. If you weren’t there, you should have been. Try harder next time. Here’s the best of what you missed.

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What does the guv do now that he has all that free time not being secretary of state or commerce? Dance! Dance like he’ll never dance again.

He fails to mention his new passion on twitter, only saying something about “1st annual state tribal summit at Acoma Pueblo,” and everyone knows there’s no such thing as a 1st annual anyway. Come clean Bill.