January 10, 2018 Santa Fe Reporter

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7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6 HERE THEY COME 9 The state Legislature gets to work on Jan. 16 SMOKE SESH 11 Rants abound about the Sessions memo, but the New Mexico cannabis program seems safe COVER STORY 12 IN DEEP WATER Texas and the feds are both after a Supreme Court ruling that would spell big trouble for New Mexico THE INTERFACE 17 TOP TO BOTTOM Math and unanswered questions about ranked-choice voting

23 VOICE AND WORDS At this point, if Oregon singer-songwriter Anna Tivel asked us to run away with her, we’d totally do it.

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WEDNESDAY 24 JANUARY AT 7PM LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER US hegemony and the strength of Wall Street have been closely aligned for more than a century, during which certain private bankers have achieved a position of greater power than the presidency (or central banks). The crises of the past decade were a manifestation of what happens when US bankers operate beyond the control of government, often enabled by the highest political office in the world.

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WEDNESDAY 31 JANUARY AT 7PM LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Colum McCann is the author of six novels and three collections of stories, including Let the Great World Spin, TransAtlantic, and Thirteen Ways of Looking. In a 2013 interview the author said, “I believe in the democracy of storytelling. That stories can cross all sorts of borders and boundaries. I don’t know of a greater privilege than being allowed to tell a story or to listen to a story.” McCann’s books cover a wide range of topics, including The Troubles in Northern Ireland, the life of Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, the first attempted nonstop flight across the Atlantic in 1919, New York of the 1970s, and the tightrope walker who crossed the gap between the Twin Towers.

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NOTHING NEW I would say Martinez has a long history of denying citizens’ rights to government documents. This was the policy when she was the DA of the 3rd Judicial District in Las Cruces.

When the city and the Las Cruces Public Schools denied repeated requests for documents, I went to her office requesting help through the Inspection of Public Records Act. Her representative told me to “go tell the newspaper [the Sun-News].”

As the saying goes, this was the straw that forced the filing of the 2003 federal lawsuit Chavez/Weinbaum v. Las Cruces Public Schools [over] Christianity in the public schools. When that lawsuit was intentionally delayed by federal magistrate Lourdes Martinez, the 2005 federal lawsuit Weinbaum/Boyd v. City of Las Cruces, et al, for using government funds and properties to promote Christianity was filed.

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STEP BACK The letter exchange resulting from Elizabeth Miller’s article “Huntress” somewhat misses the point as far as killing animals. ... Indeed, while hunting is on a long-term decline in the US, Americans have available about 180 lbs of meat of all types per year each (USDA) and are ravenously killing chickens and eating more meat, even as red meat consumption decreases (Rabobank data).

While a lot of the meat sold at upscale stores may be advertised as grass-fed, free-range, antibiotic-free, etc. in order to attract the healthy living market in the City Different, I don’t know of any “no-kill meat.”

So unless one is a vegan (milk, cheese and eggs support animal agriculture), one is killing animals with one’s wallet rather than a gun or bow, and sometimes under deplorable conditions found in “animal factories.”

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MORE TO CONSIDER Although I still think too many trees were cut at Leonora Curtin—you did a really thorough job on the article and we appreciate the coverage.

I just wish [the Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve] would have tried removing a smaller area [of Russian olive trees] first, and waited to see how the area recovers and whether native plants get established.

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7 DAYS MEOW WOLF TO OPEN MASSIVE DENVER LOCATION IN 2020 “Why visit Santa Fe when the Denver one is newer and bigger and in a city that doesn’t shut down at 8:45 pm?” asks every potential tourist.

PROPOSED PUBLIC TOILET DOWNTOWN WOULD BE SAME SIZE AS A PARKING SPOT No word yet on estimated user charge per minute.

REPEAT DRUNK DRIVER SCOTT OWEN GETS FIVE-MONTH SENTENCE AFTER RECENT DWI Dude. It really should not be this hard.

FLU IS COMING ON ALL HARD Our New Year’s resolution to stop licking door handles was well-timed.

OPRAH WOWS WITH GOLDEN GLOBES SPEECH But do we really want another TV president?

NORTH KOREAN ATHLETES TO COMPETE AT UPCOMING WINTER OLYMPICS IN SOUTH KOREA We look forward to the Disney movie version of this uplifting tale, Rocketmen.

SANTA FE MAN BURNS DOWN HIS OWN HOME BECAUSE HE WAS “UPSET AND ANGRY” There’s a valuable lesson in there about not burning down your own home because you’re upset and angry.

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LETTERS Birds use Russian olives, and because so much riparian habitat has been lost all over the Southwest, it’s still important to leave areas of shade and cover, even near cienegas.

Because developments and groundwater wells are responsible for most of the water depletions of springs and cienegas, it seems that they are over-relying on this tree removal to bring the water level back up. …

Hopefully the area will recover and not just dry out more because of no shade and evaporation. The water level goes down in the spring and summer because of warmer temps, more evaporation, water use upstream, etc. and not completely from the trees. ...

I hope the birds will find some suitable nesting and feeding habitat next spring somewhere; though this is just one less place available for the warblers and other migratory songbirds.

Please visit the area next spring if you get a chance—even with the trees gone. At least the area around the pond is intact and beautiful.

JOANIE BERDE LLANO

TOXIC CHOICES I read with dismay your article about the removal of 6 acres of mature Russian olive trees at the Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve, managed by the Santa Fe Botanical Gardens. This was accomplished thanks to a grant provided by the State of New Mexico to the tune of $20,000.

Russian olive was established in our area over 100 years ago. As a tree it is invasive, but it also provides beneficial fruit for birds, deer, bears and other animals. In addition to cutting down the trees, the Botanical Gardens also applied gallons of Habitat herbicide (banned by European countries) to the stumps. While the agency promotes protecting our “delicate ecosystem,” I’m trying to understand how cutting down acres of trees and applying toxic herbicide to the ground qualifies as responsible ecological management? A much more beneficial program could have utilized all that money

to re-establish native vegetation, instead of an ill-advised eradication program. Leonora Curtin migrated here as a naturalist. She was fascinated by the benefits of medicinal plants and our curanderas. Interestingly, the medicinal benefits and uses of Russian olive are well documented.

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Here They Come LEGISLATORS HEAD TO THE CAPITOL WITH MONEY TO SPEND AND A LONG LIST OF CASH-STARVED PUBLIC PROGRAMS B Y M AT T G R U B S |

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n Tuesday Jan. 16, New Mexico’s 112 lawmakers will descend on the Roundhouse like a plague of well-intentioned locusts for the annual legislative session. It’s an even-numbered year, so they are constitutionally limited to passing and paying for a budget and whatever else the governor decides to put on their plates for the next 30 days.

While she hadn’t released her agenda by press time, Gov. Susana Martinez has revealed her budget plans and anti-crime wishlist. Many of those crime bills won’t go anywhere because she and the Democrats who control the Legislature are fundamentally at odds. We’ve mined her other proposals and talked to Republicans and Democrats in the Legislature to get a handle on what else to expect.

Check out the big budget After two years of turning over the proverbial couch cushions to find every last cent, New Mexico legislators will have an extra $200 million to spend, and possibly more.

Despite efforts by Gov. Susana Martinez to diversify the state’s economy away from the government and oil and gas, we’re still largely dependent on both. Oil prices have rebounded and seem to have stabilized (SFR will have more on that next week), so there are whispers that the budget could get quite a bump when economists update lawmakers in February.

“What a difference a year makes,” says a relieved-sounding Senate Majority Leader Peter Wirth, D-Santa Fe. “Literally, we were sitting here a year ago with a $69 million shortfall in the current year’s budget and a huge hole to fill for 2018.”

“We’ve had to make some pretty tough decisions,” Sen. Stuart Ingle, R-Portales, explains on the phone as he’s driving back to his eastern New Mexico district. “But this year, we should be able to fund raises for state employees and schools and things like that. …

And I think we’re going to have enough to get our reserves built back up to 10 percent.”

Election year sessions like this one can be controversial, but the budget rolled out by the governor and the one proposed by lawmakers are eerily similar. Both suggest across-the-board raises for state employees—Martinez suggests 1 percent and lawmakers add an additional half a percent to that. They both provide extra money for

government-funded health care, though at different amounts.

Martinez wants to raise taxes on nonprofit hospitals and use that money to leverage matching dollars from the feds. Republicans have bristled at that suggestion, and Democrats might be actually be closer to the governor on the issue. They see it as a way to potentially boost Medicaid reimbursement rates to those very same hospitals, thereby giving a nod to medical providers who’ve been complaining about those rates for years.

Expect more than $60 million to go toward stuffing money back into the couch cushions to replenish various accounts that were cleaned out in tough times.

“There’s a bunch of money we have to put back into all these funds so that they can fulfill their functions,” says Speaker of the House Brian Egolf, D-Santa Fe. Both he and Wirth pointed to the need to restore the public financing fund that pays for campaigns of Public Regulation Commissioners and judicial races. Money will also go back into reclamation funds for environmental cleanup.

“Anything beyond a flat budget would be a bonus. It would be gravy,” Egolf tells SFR. “And anything above that should go to public education, public safety and health care.”

Like Ingle, the Speaker says he’s anticipating a relatively calm legislative session.

“My Spidey sense for conflict and rancor has not been going off,” he says. Other longtime legislators have told him they expect an angry governor who intends to go out with a bang, but, he says, “I didn’t get any indication from her that she’s going to do that.”

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Learn ‘em up Last year, the big issue was how much to scrape from cash balances maintained by schools. Districts keep fairly robust cash accounts to do things like pay for insurance, utilities and unexpected costs during the school year. The governor urged lawmakers to sweep those accounts to pay for the budget. They negotiated, but ultimately complied.

This year, lawmakers will try to provide money to help bring those accounts back up to a more comfortable level.

Teachers also stand to see a pay increase. Martinez is proposing a 2 percent raise for teachers, with bonuses for highly effective educators.

Lawmakers have offered a 1.5 percent hike, plus a boost to the base salary for all three levels of the state’s tiered teacher-pay structure.

“We’re in trouble in our educational system because we’re not paying very well and yet our expectations are very high,” says Albuquerque Democratic Sen. Mimi Stewart. She points out that fewer college students are on track to become teachers, and current teachers are leaving for greener pastures or greener paychecks.

Lawmakers have proposed $27 million more for early childhood education programs, including the governor’s pet K-3 Plus program, which tries to narrow the achievement gap for at-risk students by lengthening the school year from kindergarten through third grade.

Martinez has focused her additional funding on material for classroom instruction as well as some of her other favorite programs. The state will be rolling out new science standards for the first time in 15 years, and there’s a significant cost that goes along with that.

The governor has also proposed spending $6 million to install security systems in some schools.

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Before you grab your pitchfork and torch and head to the Roundhouse, allow us to explain—because, in fact, there is now a true rainy day fund that you and every other policy-minded person should know about.

The permanent funds, the two largest of which total about $22 billion, aren’t there for rainy days. They’re in place for every day; hence the name “permanent fund.” They deliver a ton of money (likely about $965 million this year) to the state and save us a lot of tax in doing so.

Spending more from them requires a constitutional amendment.

The real rainy day fund is called the Tax Stabilization Reserve. It’s so sexy you may not be able to handle reading further, but please do.

The general principle is that whenever oil and gas revenue to the state exceed the five-year rolling average, the excess gets lopped off the top and tossed into a savings account.

During the last special session, lawmakers eliminated the possibility that extra money could be automatically refunded to taxpayers if it reached a certain level. That may not sound like a good thing, but the reality is that, wary of losing revenue, the Legislature never—not one single time—allowed the reserve fund to get that high. They spent everything they had.

Now, they can only spend it if there’s broad agreement between the governor and the Legislature. If they’d done this a decade ago, there would have been $365 million to help bail out the state instead of cutting budgets and clearing out reserves.

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egally, the one thing keeping US Attorney General Jeff Sessions from cracking down on New Mexico’s marijuana industry is an amendment tacked on to federal spending bills since 2014. But practically, the infrastructure that has developed over the last 10 years here has created a momentum that would be hard for the feds to dismantle, advocates and industry insiders tell SFR. On Jan. 4, Sessions issued a memo that rescinded “previous nationwide guidance specific to marijuana enforcement.” While most national coverage has focused on what it means for the eight states were recreational use is legal, the memo also targets states with medical cannabis programs like New Mexico, where there are currently 46,645 card holders. Temporary measures and stateside resistance prevent the Department of Justice from going after medical cannabis patients and their suppliers, but as of now, they have no permanent legal safeguard.

In a footnote, the memo cancels out two guiding documents from the Obama years. In the first, from 2009, then-Deputy Attorney General David W Ogden advised attorneys that states should not focus federal resources “on individuals whose actions are in clear and unambiguous compliance with existing state laws providing for the medical use of marijuana.” The second, a 2011 memo, clarified the guidance was never intended to shield “large-scale, privately operated industrial marijuana cultivation centers” from federal prosecution.

Until 2014, there wasn’t anything stopping the feds from raiding dispensaries and production facilities that were legal under state law. They never crashed New Mexican facilities like they did elsewhere. Before they could, Congress added a provision, now known as the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment, to its federal spending bill in Dec. 2014. It prohibited the federal government from using funds to prosecute cannabis facilities that were legally sanctioned in a state for medical purposes. The amendment still

protects New Mexico and other states from a crackdown.

“So if we want that to continue, they have to re-up that amendment every time the budget is passed,” says Emily Kaltenbach, the executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance in New Mexico. US legislators have previously introduced a similar amendment for recreational cannabis markets, but it has yet to pass, Kaltenbach says. The current protection is in place until Jan. 19, by which point Congress will need to pass another spending bill to avoid a government shutdown.

US Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, an Albuquerque Democrat who is running for governor, voted in favor of the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment in 2015, the last time Congress visited the provision. In a statement to SFR, the gubernatorial candidate says it’s “ridiculous that Attorney General Sessions believes more resources need to be used to interfere in regulated, statebased medical and recreational marijuana systems instead of other priorities.”

Lujan Grisham has indicated a tepid interest in recreational cannabis, only a few steps away from current Governor Susana Martinez’ outright opposition to the idea. Kenny Vigil, who runs the state’s medical cannabis program under Martinez, did not respond to SFR’s request for comment on the Sessions memo.

Other gubernatorial hopefuls who have expressed strong support for cannabis, including a recreational market, said Sessions’ memo likely wouldn’t have a big impact on their policy position.

Peter DeBenedittis, who once described himself to SFR as “neutral” on the issue of medical cannabis, now says he wants New Mexico to become a nationwide “mecca” for cannabis banking.

He’ll do this, he says, by creating a publicly owned state bank exclusively for individual and commercial deposits related to the cannabis industry.

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Zeke Shortes, owner of the Sacred Garden dispensary in Santa Fe, echoed this sentiment. “I think a lack of resources [to prosecute] makes it incomprehensible back to really go backwards,” he says.

“Why do you want to waste re time and resources and money on something that hasn’t proven to be a problem?”

Shortes also argues Mex that police in New Mexico “appreciate cannabis,” and that the feds wouldn’t have a sympathetic police force here. But a four-page prelimi preliminary report from the Drug Policy Alliance and the New Mexico ACLU pub published in July found some police in New Mexico not LEN only continue to arrest OL B S VEN people for pot, but do so in ST E ON ANS a disproportionate way.

Overall, the DPA and ACLU found that Hispanic and black people in Bernalillo County—the place they focused high their study—were booked at a much highmari “I fully expect er rate for drug charges, including marithere will be legal juana, than white men and women. The challenges [from the short report notes that New Mexico’s case federal government], but tracking system “does not meet current that will be a good thing,” DeBenedittis federal guidelines for race and ethnicity in tells SFR via phone. “These are legal busi- data collection,” and says that better information gathering is necessary to assess nesses licensed by the state.” prohibi Another candidate, Jeff Apodaca, who the disparate impact of cannabis prohibitold SFR last May that his plan for lifting tion in the state.

Kaltenbach says Sessions’ memo may state restrictions on hemp and cannabis could create up to 32,000 jobs, offered a ultimately be aimed at people already lukewarm defense of his own cannabis most susceptible to arrest and prosecution for cannabis, not the well-capitalized plank following the Sessions news.

“If the federal government comes in medical weed network. She also warns and starts cracking down on these state that New Mexico’s US Attorney’s office policies, it’s something we’ll have to take could “go rogue” and pursue pot arrests a look at,” he says. “It’s something the with greater verve, though feds usually country will have to figure out. We can’t don’t arrest for simple possession. The ofbe changing it with every [presidential] fice is currently filled by an interim prosecutor, James Tierney, while Trump nomadministration.”

People working in New Mexico’s med- inee John Anderson awaits confirmation ical cannabis network aren’t worked up by the US Senate.

“I don’t believe [possession for any about the memo. Kathleen O’Dea, owner of Scepter Labs, the busiest cannabis test- amount of cannabis] should be criminaling facility in the state, says it will “have ized,” she says. “As we wait for a state-regvery little impact over what we do on a ulated system in New Mexico, we need to stop arresting people for personal use. daily basis.”

“We’re operating in full compliance And that’s easy to do; we can stop doing with state law,” she says. “It’s unfortunate that tomorrow if we can pass something [the Trump administration] has taken through the legislature and get someone to sign it.” this approach.”

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In Deep Water US Supreme Court to decide how states share the drying Rio Grande, and New Mexico could lose big

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s severe drought returns to New Mexico, farmers and skiers alike fret over the state’s lack of snow. Meanwhile, on a cold, cloudy Monday morning in Washington, DC, attorneys for New Mexico, Texas, Colorado and the United States government grappled over the muddy waters of the Rio Grande.

In its US Supreme Court case against New Mexico and Colorado, the State of Texas says that by letting farmers in southern New Mexico pump from wells near the Rio Grande, our state has failed to send its legal share of water downstream. The water fight has some New Mexicans gnawing their nails—and not just southern farmers whose water rights could be cut if Texas prevails.

Monday’s oral arguments before the court, over whether the feds can intervene under the Rio Grande Compact, drew a large crowd from the Land of Enchantment. Watching the proceedings from the

audience were some of the state’s most prominent water attorneys, as well as Attorney General Hector Balderas, State Engineer Tom Blaine, an entire crew of employees from the Office of the State Engineer, officials from the City of Las Cruces and the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority, and US Sen. Tom Udall.

Like everyone else, New Mexico’s senior senator, a Democrat, had to check his coat and belongings before entering the court, and after arguments, Udall said he wanted to be there because the case will affect the management and division of water use by farmers and communities for decades.

“Regardless of the ultimate decision, it’s critical that we understand that one of the root causes of the dispute is the increasing scarcity of water in the Southwest, and climate change is making that worse,” he said. “We must seek cooperative solutions or there will be more disputes over water—not fewer.”

There’s a lot at stake: The state has already spent $15 million on staff and legal

OYEZ, OYEZ, OYEZ After the marshal opened court to session (though not with the sonorous “Oyez!

Oyez! Oyez!” that podcast listeners might be familiar with from Radiolab’s More Perfect), the nine justices handled initial business then turned their attention to the Southwestern water case.

When New Mexico signed the Rio Grande Compact, the feds say, it agreed to protect the Rio Grande Project and allow

water to Mexico—and therefore it wants to be a party to the case, representing federal interests, rather than being an impartial amicus. “The court’s standard for intervention is that intervention of the United States is appropriate where there are dis-

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INTERVENING INTERESTS Now entering its sixth year, No. 141, Original: Texas v. New Mexico and Colorado stems from a deal two irrigation districts signed with the federal government during the drought of the 2000s.

After the relatively wet decades of the ’80s and ’90s ended, the Elephant Butte Irrigation District and El Paso County Water Improvement District No. 1 watched reservoir levels drop. In 2008, they decided to share water through dry times. The two signed a new agreement with the US Bureau of Reclamation, operator of the Rio Grande Project, which is anchored by Elephant Butte Reservoir.

But the two states weren’t parties to that agreement—and then-New Mexico Attorney General Gary King sued the federal government, alleging too much water was being given to Texas.

In 2013, Texas fired back against New Mexico and Colorado, pointing out that by allowing farmers to pump groundwater connected to the Rio Grande, New Mexico had for decades taken more than its legal share of water under the Rio Grande Compact of 1938.

That’s the case moving through the US Supreme Court. But things are even more complicated than they seem.

That’s in part because under the compact, New Mexico doesn’t deliver Texas’ water at the state line. Rather, water goes to Elephant Butte Reservoir, about 100 miles north of Texas. From there, the Bureau of Reclamation delivers it to farmers in both southern New Mexico and Texas.

Now, the United States says that by allowing farmers to pump groundwater, New Mexico has harmed its ability to deliver water under the compact, as well as under the international treaty with Mexico.

And that brings us to Monday’s oral arguments before the Supreme Court.

Reclamation to release water to meet treaty and compact obligations.

“Where the compact protects specific federal interests that are at stake in the dispute that’s been filed in this court, then we believe the United States can intervene

ABOVE: Elephant Butte Dam under construction circa 1914. BELOW: For much of the year, the only flows in the Rio Grande near Mesilla are from effluent.

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fees. And if the Supreme Court decides in favor of Texas, New Mexico could owe a billion dollars or more in damages and be forced to curtail groundwater pumping around places like Hatch, Las Cruces and Mesilla.

as a plaintiff and bring claims against New Mexico that are based on that compact,” said Ann O’Connell, assistant to the solicitor general with the US Department of Justice.

She later added that the federal government’s interests are at stake in delivering

tinctive federal interests at stake that are best presented by the United States,” she said.

Speaking Monday night, John Stomp, chief operating officer of the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority, said he worries about federal overreach

and states’ water rights. Along with the City of Las Cruces, the authority had filed amicus briefs in the case, opposing the position of the US. If the Supreme Court allows the federal government to intervene in the case under the compact—which seems likely, just based on questions justices asked on Monday—and Reclamation can start making decisions about groundwater pumping in the Lower Rio Grande, that could be a “real problem” for New Mexico, Stomp said.

“It seems simple enough to say, ‘Okay, what’s the next step for the feds? Do they own the groundwater in the Middle Rio Grande also? Or in other areas where they have reservoirs or compact deliveries?’” he said. “We don’t know where it stops.”

A CLEAR CASE? There’s no doubt that the federal government, Texas and Colorado drew big guns for oral arguments, including previously mentioned assistant to the solicitor general O’Connell; Scott Keller, solicitor general of Texas; and Frederick Yarger, solicitor general of Colorado.

Of the four parties, New Mexico was the only one to have a private attorney stand before the mahogany bench. Marcus Rael Jr. of Robles, Rael & Anaya in Albuquerque represented New Mexico; his former law partner, the New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas, watched from the gallery. Rael may be politically connected, but he’s not a water attorney. And until Monday, he also lacked experience before the high court.

During the fast-paced arguments, seven of the nine justices questioned each of the attorneys, parsing their way through Western water rights and the role Reclamation plays in both Texas and New Mexico. (Clarence Thomas stayed characteristically quiet and Samuel Alito asked no questions.) Many asked questions about the compact, the Reclamation Act of 1902 and treaty rights.

For Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, however, the case was clear.

In response to Colorado’s opposition of federal intervention, Breyer cited the US Constitution, which allows the federal government to intervene in cases in its own interest.

“Obviously, the founders who wrote this wouldn’t want three or four or five or six states to enter into some compact that might wreck the Union,” Breyer said.

“So doesn’t that suggest that they do have a right, the United States, to intervene, at least where there is a federal interest?”

It seems “quite simple,” he said: “The Constitution foresees that they can intervene where there’s an interest. They have CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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LAWSUIT WAS ‘A BOTTOM-FEEDER’ In a way, this is familiar ground for New Mexico.

In the 1970s, Texas sued New Mexico over the Pecos River, alleging that for decades New Mexico shorted it on water deliveries under the Pecos River Compact of 1948.

That case was “vigorously litigated by New Mexico,” says Jay Stein, of the Santa Fe firm Stein and Brockmann, which, in this case, represents Las Cruces and Albuquerque’s water utility. During the Pecos showdown, Stein worked for the Office of the State Engineer.

New Mexico disputed the magnitude of Texas’ claims, he says, with hydrological evidence and legal motions—and reduced the shortfall it owed by about 70 percent.

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several interests. End of case, unless there is something that I don’t see.”

Colorado and New Mexico don’t see it that way, of course.

New Mexico doesn’t object to the US joining the case; in fact, the state argues it is a necessary party to the suit. But New Mexico doesn’t want the federal government to raise a claim under the Rio Grande Compact.

After questions from multiple justices, including Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, New Mexico’s Rael tried to clarify that distinction, noting that the US doesn’t own water rights itself under the compact or through the Rio Grande Project.

“Those water rights are owned by the landowners themselves who are represented by their individual states as parens patriae,” he said to Kagan. “And so the United States has an interest in the project, and they can certainly sue to enforce to make sure that we’re meeting our—that we’re not interfering with its project obligations, but it can’t sue us under the compact.”

A large contingent of lawyers and public employees from New Mexico traveled to the nation’s capital for the hearing before the US Supreme Court.

ico ended up paying just $14 million.

As part of the Pecos settlement agreement, implemented after New Mexico lost the case in the US Supreme Court, the state also spent about $100 million buying water rights and drilling augmentation wells, all to make sure it complies with the compact and makes its deliveries to Texas.

In a 2002 book on the case, High and Dry: The Texas-New Mexico Struggle for the Pecos River, G Emlen Hall writes that no winner emerged in that suit. “The lawsuit was a bottom-feeder, sucking up an entire river basin, the institutions built for it, the communities dependent on it and the human lives devoted to it,” writes Hall.

“The lawsuit didn’t so much chew up and spit out in pieces the things with which it came into contact as it swallowed them whole, leaving only the outlines of its victims, distended and struggling, in its maw.”

Stein uses less colorful language, but warns that No. 141 is important—especially if the Supreme Court agrees with O’Connell’s arguments on Monday. In that event, New Mexico will face not only Texas’ claims, but the federal government claiming ownership or administrative control over groundwater in the Lower Rio Grande, Stein says.

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This is just the beginning.

After the Supreme Court decides on the federal role, the real work starts: parties filing answers and counterclaims, presenting factual defenses on the record, performing hydrologic studies and more.

Much more.

STILL TIME TO RECOVER Outside the courtroom, there’s another reality to acknowledge—one that people in Albuquerque wearing short sleeves on

Contract attorney Marcus Rael Jr. argued the case for New Mexico.

Christmas or Santa Feans looking up at the snow-starved Sangre de Cristos already know. As the region keeps warming, ground and surface water supplies are already under pressure. Last year was the warmest on record for New Mexico, and that trend will continue. Recent studies show that flows on the Colorado River and Rio Grande are expected to decrease, and that warming affects groundwater supplies. That’s in part because when rivers and streams are low, people try to get more water from below ground.

Where there are conscious efforts to protect or supplement aquifers, groundwater levels can start to rebound. But in many other places, from Hobbs to Gallup, groundwater levels are dropping at alarming levels—and even still show the impacts of being overpumped during the drought of the 1950s.

In a 2015 report to the New Mexico Legislature, scientists wrote that the Mesilla Valley aquifer “may no longer have the capacity to provide a reliable, supplemental supply during extended drought conditions and with the current levels of intensive use of groundwater.” Between 1985 and 2010, they found, water users in Doña Ana County depleted the aquifer by 2.5 million acre-feet. They also found that between 2002 and 2015, groundwater pumping in the Mesilla Valley resulted in a 26-foot water level decline in one location.

Just last week, the National Weather and Climate Center released its water supply projections. For the Rio Grande Basin, snowpack and precipitation are at or near record lows. “While there is still time to recover, the snowpack deficits are already large, and chances for spring and summer streamflow being anywhere near normal are highly unlikely,” the forecast hydrologist wrote in his email with the preliminary forecasts. “For many forecast points, there is a better chance of setting a low runoff volume record than there is of seeing near normal runoff.”

In DeepWater SOUTHERN FARMERS IN LIMBO That’s bad news for everyone, especially farmers in southern New Mexico who feel they’re not represented by any of the interests—New Mexico, Texas, Colorado or the federal government—duking it out over the Lower Rio Grande.

Recall that New Mexico’s water deliveries to Texas are complicated under the Rio Grande Compact: New Mexico doesn’t deliver water across the state line, but to Elephant Butte Reservoir. Downstream of the reservoir, but north of the state border, there are about 60,000 acres of fields and orchards.

The Elephant Butte Irrigation District tried unsuccessfully to intervene in the Supreme Court case, and while the district’s attorney, Samantha Barncastle, had tried to be optimistic, Monday’s arguments left her nervous.

“We don’t know who is going to look out for EBID’s interests,” she says. The state engineer, she says, has historically protected cities over the interests of farmers. The federal government has its own interests and is now setting its sights on groundwater pumping. And during oral arguments, Texas’ attorney said his state didn’t agree with the 2008 Operating Agreement EBID had signed with Reclamation and the Texas irrigation district—the agreement New Mexico opposed all along.

That puts EBID back on the chopping block, she says.

“It’s absolutely imperative that our ag economy continue to have access to the groundwater, our savings account, when there’s not water in the reservoir, which is our checking account,” Barncastle says. “Farmers, like every other water user, have no interest in seeing the savings account run dry.

We don’t want to harm it. We just want to be able to rely on it in times of need.”

She also worries that if the justices decide that the US can assert a federal interest in a case between states, that could affect other interstate river compacts.

What Barncastle seems to want more than anything, though, is an end to fighting. It would be better for people to control their own destiny, she says, and work together instead of litigating.

“When you’re talking about a multi-billion dollar agricultural economy and municipalities and colonias, and all these different water users, you have got to look at other solutions beyond pure litigation,” she says. As interesting as it was for everyone to come to the Supreme Court this week, she says, how things might shake out is scary.

Leaving the court later that day, past the contemplative figure of Justice and her scales, the gray sky starts to spit freezing rain. Women flip open umbrellas, men hunker down into their scarves. New Mexicans, though, lift their faces to the rain.

This story was reported in partnership with NM Political Report, New Mexico In Focus and KUNM-FM. To read the background documents on Texas v.

New Mexico and Colorado visit scotusblog.com/ case-files/cases/texas-v-new-mexico-and-colorado

Does No. 141, Original: Texas v. New Mexico and Colorado have you befuddled?

It’s okay. Things are complicated.

1902 – The United States Reclamation Service

2013 – Texas sues New Mexico and Colorado in the US Supreme Court over violations of the compact. Texas alleges that by allowing farmers to pump groundwater connected to the Rio Grande, New Mexico has been taking more than its share of compact water. Texas wants the court to make New Mexico pay for the water it has been taking, over the course of many decades.

1906 – The United States and Mexico sign a con-

2014 – Special Master A Gregory Grimsal is appointed in the case and directed to submit reports to the court.

Here’s a timeline to help you keep track of the Supreme Court lawsuit New Mexico is facing on the Lower Rio Grande.

(now the US Bureau of Reclamation) is established to study and develop water resources in Western states.

vention to ensure the Rio Grande’s waters are shared equitably between the two countries.

1906 – Construction begins on dams and canals

on the Rio Grande. Leasburg Diversion Dam and Canal is completed in 1908, Elephant Butte Dam in 1916 and Caballo Dam in 1938. The Rio Grande Project, operated by the Bureau of Reclamation, provides irrigation water to farmers in southern New Mexico and Texas.

1938 – Colorado, New Mexico and Texas work

out the Rio Grande Compact in a desire to “remove all causes of present and future controversy” among states and their citizens. The treaty was ratified by the three states and passed by Congress in 1939, and amended in 1948.

1950s – Drought strains water supplies along the

Rio Grande. Farmers along the Rio Grande in Southern New Mexico and Texas drill about 1,000 new irrigation wells to supplement surface water supplies with groundwater.

2014 – US Bureau of Reclamation intervenes in the case, alleging that by allowing farmers to draw water from the river and below ground, New Mexico is allowing people to use more water than they legally should. And it says New Mexico’s diversions interfere with water deliveries to Mexico.

2014 – New Mexico makes a motion to dismiss Texas’ complaint. (The court denies this in 2017.)

2015 – In a report to the New Mexico Legislature,

scientists note that the Mesilla Valley aquifer “may no longer have the capacity to provide a reliable, supplemental supply during extended drought conditions and with the current levels of intensive use of groundwater.”

2016 – The special master releases his draft re-

port, which indicates Texas has the upper hand in the lawsuit and recommends the high court reject New Mexico’s motion to dismiss.

2003 – After decades of relatively wet conditions,

September 2016 – US Bureau of Reclamation releases its final decision and environmental studies related to the 2008 Operating Agreement, which outlines operations through 2050.

2006-2007 – US Bureau of Reclamation cre-

January 2017 – New Mexico Office of the Attorney General, Office of the State Engineer and the Interstate Stream Commission announce they are working together on the case and also enter into joint defense agreements with New Mexico State University, PNM, the New Mexico Pecan Growers Association, Southern Rio Grande Diversified Crop Farmers Association, the City of Las Cruces and Camino Real Regional Utility Authority.

drought hits New Mexico, putting a strain on Rio Grande water supplies and reservoir levels.

ates a new operating procedure, which water users in southern New Mexico (Elephant Butte Irrigation District) and Texas (El Paso County Water Improvement District No. 1) sue over.

2008 – US Bureau of Reclamation, the Elephant Butte Irrigation District, and the El Paso County Water Improvement District No. 1 come to an agreement over water deliveries and sharing. The states of Texas and New Mexico are not a part of this new operating agreement for the Rio Grande Project.

2011 – Then-New Mexico Attorney General Gary King sues the US Bureau of Reclamation in New Mexico federal district court over the 2008 Operating Agreement, alleging that too much water was being given to Texas—water that should have stayed in New Mexico.

February 2017 – Special Master finalizes his first interim report. Parties have the chance to reply and/or file exceptions to his report.

January 2018 – Oral arguments occur in

US Supreme Court. Justices hear from attorneys for Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and the federal government.

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his is not rocket science.”

So said Cris Moore when I tracked him down by phone at a conference last week to talk about ranked-choice voting, which the City of Santa Fe will employ in its March 6 municipal election. Moore served two terms as a city councilor for District 2 starting in 1994 and, while he’s not a rocket scientist, he is a professor at the Santa Fe Institute and works, as his homepage says, “at the interface of physics, computer science and mathematics.”

After a week of talking to various folks about RCV, I decided Moore was my best bet for posing questions about the math behind ranked-choice voting, although arithmetic is significantly below his normal area of expertise.

Sometimes for fun, I examine previous election results and occasionally import them into spreadsheets to try to predict future election outcomes (note to self: get life). My algorithmic methods are clumsy and lack rigor, but seem nonetheless safer than throwing a dart at a board, given my lack of hand-eye coordination.

As the mayoral race heats up in Santa Fe, my errant number-crunching seems less useful than ever.

Ranked-choice voting requires a winning candidate to receive at least 50 percent plus one vote of the total votes cast.

Should no winner emerge on the first go-around, the candidate with the fewest number of first-place votes is eliminated and his or her second-place ranked candidates are redistributed. And so it goes until the 50 percent-plus-one mark is reached. That 50 percent-plus-one figure will be tallied based on the number of ballots remaining should an instant runoff scenario take place and some voters have not ranked a second-place candidate.

In March, five candidates will be ranked for mayor, and three of the four council seats have contested races. So preparing to vote means not just picking a first or second choice, but—to fully participate—ranking from top to bottom. I’ve heard a slew of theories this week about not just who will be #5, but who #5’s firstplace voters will choose for their secondand third-choice ranks. The math in play once votes are cast isn’t particularly complicated, but the psychology of assessing the field in this new system has a crapshoot element to it that makes me yearn for some current poll numbers.

Brian Sanderoff, president of Albuquerque-based Research and Polling, says his company has not been hired by any candidate as of yet in the city’s election, nor has the company previously polled for a ranked-choice election. But in this scenario, Sanderoff says, “you would add some additional questions to try to replicate the voter’s Save M this e Fro ballot experience.”

Hel m l Those responses would be used to simulate a calculation using the same

math RCV requires. Like most elections, the poll’s conclusion would vary depending on when voters were polled and the ever-present “undecided” voter factor.

Maria Perez, director of FairVote New Mexico and a party in the lawsuit that forced the city’s hand on the issue, confirmed that her organization is working on a poll, but says none of the questions have been finalized. At the national level, FairVote—an advocate for ranked-choice—has amassed data assessing voters’ reactions and experiences in response to such elections.

As for the city, it is now in a countdown to educate voters prior to when they cast ballots. Last week, officials convened three meetings to share information with civic organizations. I attended one Jan. 4 at the Southside public library, where city Public Information Officer Matt Ross walked attendees from groups such as the Santa Fe Community Foundation and the League of Women Voters through FAQs Absentee voting begins Jan. 30 and early voting starts Feb. 14.

This week, the city kicks off another series of forums for the general public to allow them to ask questions as well as practice-vote on a ballot with animal characters. The actual ballot isn’t ready yet, but will be modeled on the California ballot from jurisdictions using the same Dominion Voting machines and software.

The city’s emphasis on the voter experience makes sense, as the process will be quite different. Voters who choose not to rank the entire roster, for instance, will receive some sort of message (as yet unreleased) giving them the opportunity to redo their ballots. Twice as many poll

workers will be on hand to help voters.

And voters will be allowed unlimited ballots should they make mistakes and need to start again.

Advocates say ranked-choice voting also changes candidates’ strategies and experiences. As Moore points out, the Green Party (of which Moore was a notable member during his City Council tenure) was more active in New Mexico a decade ago, when city voters approved the charter amendment to allow its use in city elections. Ranked-choice voting was seen as a way of allowing voters to choose candidates without worrying about a spoiler effect. This seems less pertinent in non-partisan races such as the city’s, but running for a rank may diminish candidates’ motivation to attack or alienate opponents and their constituencies.

“It gives the candidates an incentive,” Moore says. “You don’t want the other candidates’ supporters to think of you as a bitter, angry person. What it lets voters do is vote for philosophies in addition to people.”

As for election night, it remains to be seen what that will look like. Dominion Voting spokeswoman Kay Stimson confirms that the city will have a staff training on Jan. 16 to review all the system’s options “and help city officials decide what reporting functionality they want on election night.”

The city held a special election in March in which voters cast ballots for the first time at convenience centers rather than precinct-based polling places. The city clerk presented tallies that broke down votes by district from each center as they came in. It’s not clear how RCV results will be reported.

The city, Stimson says, “has not yet provided a determination to us on how they want to release results on election night, but we are actively in collaboration to identify all workable options and help the clerk’s office thoroughly vet those options to select the best choice.” SFR was unable to reach City Clerk Yolanda Vigil prior to deadline, but an employee in the clerk’s office confirmed decisions about election night reporting are still pending.

The one prediction I’ll stand by is that, whatever happens election night, the more information the public receives in real time, the better.

PUBLIC FORUM ON RANKED-CHOICE VOTING

At forums starting this week, voters can practice ranked-choice voting for a variety of animal candidates. The winner in that race will be announced before Jan. 30.

6 pm Tuesday Jan. 16. Free.

Santa Fe Public Library Southside, 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820.

More dates: votedifferentsantafe.com

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MUSIC WED/10 ALL THAT JAZZ SFR is no stranger to odd Facebook event co-hosting requests from one Daniele Spadavecchia— which we always thought was kind of funny. Right up until we actually took a moment to listen.

Spadavecchia’s tunes are throwback, sure, but in a glorious Django Reinhardt sort of way. Like that fun intersection between alternating bass notes and upbeat jazzy riffage that you’d probably hear in your head if you ever feasted with Italian people. It’s a little bit swingin’, it’s a little bit technically marvelous and, best of all, you can either dance to the stuff or stuff your face. Give it a try.

We did. (ADV) Daniele Spadavecchia: 7 pm Wednesday Jan. 10.

Free. El Mesón, 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756.

NIKESHA BREEZE: “DINAH”; COURTESY KRISTIN BARENDSEN / THE FURIES

ART OPENING FRI/12 SOUND AND FURY “When Trump got elected, I thought, ‘This is gonna be good for artists,’” says curator Kristin Barendsen.

“If we’re all just sitting here making pretty things in our complacency, it’s just not as interesting.’”

Birthed of that idea is a collection of the work of 12 women and non-binary artists that explores literal and figurative assaults on the bodies of women and the Earth. The show is formidable—with paintings, photography, sculpture and installation—but it’s also raw and enraging. Art in a vacuum can’t affect change, but it sure can help the people who will; “The exhibition isn’t going to impeach Trump,” Barendsen says, “but … the one thing keeping me sane this year is to have this way to channel my frustration and fear and fury.” (Charlotte Jusinski) The Feral Howl: A Feminist Response to Our Time: Opening Reception: 5 pm Friday Jan. 12. Free.

Performance: 6 pm Saturday Jan. 20. $5-$10. Freeform Artspace, 3012 Cielo Ct., 692-9249.

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ART OPENING SAT/13 THE FEMALE BODY Santa Fe-based painter Helene Wilder gets one thing so incredibly, almost unbearably right that it’s worth mentioning above all else: the eyes. In Wilder’s newest series, Women—a sort of play on Mexican retablos and the virgin—the life that shines from behind her subjects’ eyes clocks in someplace between jaw-dropping realism achieved with utter simplicity and soul-touching emotion. The pieces, it seems, stare back from their plainly adorned canvas homes. There’s a beauty in the minimalism of the backgrounds and an overwhelmingly powerful energy at work. Don’t miss this show, whatever you do. (ADV) Helene Wilder: Women: 1 pm Saturday Jan. 13.

Free. BODY of Santa Fe, 333 W Cordova Road, 983-0362.

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Hey! Georgio!

It’s fitting that DIY musician Georgio Valentino’s nickname is “The Dove.”

He’s a bit of a migrator himself, a sort of post-mainstream nomad who took a look around the American music world and lit off for Europe, specifically Belgium and Luxembourg, where he’s lived for the last decade, self-releasing albums and essays.

“There are certain good and bad things about everywhere, I guess,” Valentino says via phone from Florida, his home state and where he’s just spent the holidays. “But they treat the artists better over there in general.”

Sound-wise, it’s not unheard of for a genre-defying musician like Valentino to toil in relative obscurity. Elements of indie rock, surf, pop, rockabilly and art rock bubble up slowly behind his Bowie-esque vocal timbre, but rather than fizzle out in a hail of two-minute bubblegum bullshit, compositions take their time in setting a tone, almost like soundtrack music or the score to a feeling. Think late-era Leonard Cohen meets the theatricality of a musical written by a pop champion like Roy Orbison.

“When I was younger, I tried to jump through all the usual hoops, and it was such a waste of time that I learned not to worry so much,” Valentino continues. “I figured, if I was going to fail, I was going

to fail on my own time, in my own way, and it was liberating—I’ve done whatever I’ve wanted for the past 10 years.”

Such DIY ethics aren’t uncommon, within the world of underground music, but Valentino’s move to Europe and subsequent self-publishing career is notable in that he made real a career style that most musicians angrily vent about attempting yet rarely actually do. It isn’t all wine and roses, though. “Most times people are most interested in the final product and how it sounds—aesthetics over mechanics—which is sad, because I think the mechanics are very interesting and frustrating, very ugly and very beautiful,” Valentino says. “Whatever opportunities I’ve had have been the product of being willing to go out and play anywhere I was asked, even for nothing. Then things happen.”

Discover such things at Valentino’s upcoming show alongside Fox White and Swords of Fatima. (Alex De Vore)

GEORGIO “THE DOVE” VALENTINO WITH FOX WHITE AND SWORDS OF FATIMA 8 pm Saturday Jan. 13. $8.

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WED/10 BOOKS/LECTURES DHARMA TALK BY SENSEI SHINZAN PALMA Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 This week's talk is presented

by Sensei Shinzan Palma, a Zen priest and teacher at the Carlsbad Zen Community and Sweetwater Zen Center. The evening begins with a 15-minute meditation, so please arrive by 5:20 pm to be polite.

5:30 pm, free WINTER READERS GATHERING: DEREK PALACIO, JOAN NAVIYUK KANE AND TERESE MAILHOT Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2351 Writing faculty members read their work in the auditorium in the Library and Technology Center. It's presented by the college's low-res MFA writing program, which is directed by poet Jon Davis.

6 pm, free

We are so immensely jazzed about The Feral Howl at Freeform Artspace, which opens Friday—not only did we want to show you this badass painting (Sarah Stolar’s “Her Existence”), but we talked a bit about the show in a SFR Pick (page 19). There’s also an associated performance on Saturday Jan. 20 at the gallery.

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Do you basically know everything about everything? Put it to good use. Quiz results can win you drink tickets for next time.

8 pm, free

MUSIC BOB FINNIE Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards, Broadway tunes and contemporary music on piano and vocals.

6:30 pm, free DJ SAGGALIFFIK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 House, electronica, hip-hop and reggaeton.

10 pm, free

DANIELE SPADAVECCHIA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Acoustic jazz, swing, Latin and Italian classics (see SFR Picks, page 19).

7 pm, free DAVID GEIST Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Broadway tunes and standards on piano.

6:30 pm, free DUO RASMINKO Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Bohemian pop.

8 pm, free THE PLEASURE PILOTS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Original and classic R&B. 7:30 pm, free

RAMON BERMUDEZ TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Latin and smooth jazz guitar.

6 pm, free SANTA FE CROONERS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 All the best hits from the golden years—think Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday and other swinging crooners.

6:30 pm, free SYDNEY WESTAN Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Country bluesy folky Americanaey and Westerny singer-songwritery tunes at the bar that lives in a state of constant happy hour—until the music starts, that is. So arrive a little early, get gleeful, then enjoy the tunes.

5:30-7:30 pm, free

THU/11 BOOKS/LECTURES WINTER READERS GATHERING: JAMES THOMAS STEVENS, ISMET PRCIC AND ML SMOKER Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2351 Faculty and visiting writers read their work in the auditorium in the Library and Technology Center. Visiting poet Smoker is a member of the Sioux and Assiniboine tribes, and draws influence from John Steinbeck, James Welch and Philip Levine. She composes free-verse poems that focus on personal struggle and identity and engage Native American history, language and culture.

6 pm, free

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BOB FINNIE Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards, Broadway tunes and contemporary music on piano and vocals.

6:30 pm, free BROTHER E CLAYTON El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Soul and blues.

7 pm, free HOGAN & MOSS Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 Original scorch-folk songs with old souls.

6 pm, free JOE WEST'S HONKY-TONK EXPERIENCE Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Are you experienced? You can get that way.

8 pm, free

COUNCIL CANDIDATE FORUM Santa Fe Woman's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail, 983-9455 The Santa Fe Neighborhood Network hosts a forum for City Council candidates in which candidates are asked audience questions about important issues in Santa Fe. 6:30 pm, free

MUSIC ANNA TIVEL Kitchen Sink Recording Studio 528 Jose St., 699-4323 A touring artist with a deep love of quiet stories, a particularly expressive timbre and a strong lyrical sense, Tivel plays her Pacific Northwest-flavored rootsy folky tunes (see Music, page 23).

7:30 pm, $15

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THE CALENDAR LIMELIGHT KARAOKE Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Today’s suggestion: “Stacy’s Mom” by Fountains of Wayne. You can make it good.

10 pm, free MARC SANDERS Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6:30 pm, free PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Live solo jazz guitar.

6 pm, free THE PLEASURE PILOTS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Original and classic R&B. 7:30 pm, free REGGAE THURSDAY Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 The band's TBA, but the genre sure ain't.

10 pm, free SHANE WALLIN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Soulful blues.

8 pm, free

FRI/12 ART OPENINGS THE FERAL HOWL: A FEMINIST RESPONSE TO OUR TIME Freeform Artspace 3012 Cielo Ct., 692-9249 Rabid feminist art featuring the work of 12 women and non-binary artists, the show includes painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video and installation. Lead curator Kristin Barendsen is a member of the Furies, a feminist arts collective that is guest curating the show at Freeform (see SFR Picks, page 19).

5 pm, free

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LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 If we all try hard enough, maybe we can manifest some moisture. A show of art works celebrating snow in all its lovely forms should be a big help. It's in the Back Pew Gallery, the Presbyterian Church's very own art gallery.

Though Feb. 11.

6 pm, free MADELIN COIT: TREE PAPER ART Axle Contemporary Find the mobile art gallery parked in the Railyard to see the exhibit of works by Coit, who uses paper and other objects to create a multi-layered installation, which includes the viewers’ portraits (how? Perhaps magic)—all seen through the rear glass panel of the truck. Through Feb. 4.

5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES WINTER READERS GATHERING: SANTEE FRAZIER, RAMONA AUSUBEL AND STERLING HOLYWHITEMOUNTAIN Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2351 A formidable series presented each year by IAIA, faculty and visiting writers read their work in the Library and Technology Center. Visiting writer HolyWhiteMountain grew up on the Blackfeet Reservation, where he lived the first part of his life according to the laws of the local basketball religion. He broke on through, though, and nowholds a BA in English Creative Writing from the University of Montana, a masters in creative writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and is working on a collection of novellas and stories.

6 pm, free

FOOD WINTERBRW 2018 Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-7726 The seventh annual New Mexico Brewers Guild WinterBrew festival goes down today, so say hi to folks from Blue Corn, Marble, Duel, La Cumbre, Tractor and many other local breweries.

5 pm, $10-$25

MUSIC ANGELA MEADE MASTERCLASS St. Francis Auditorium 107 W Palace Ave., 982-1890 Performance Santa Fe has invited a few aspiring sopranos from Santa Fe to participate in a masterclass with Meade in advance of her Sunday Jan. 14 concert, and the public is invited to be flies on the wall.

10:30 am, free ATALAYA AND MISS PAVLICHENKO Zephyr Community Art Studio 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 Atalaya debuts a set of new arrangements and songs described as "bounding across the cosmos like a herd of buffalo in high heels."

Miss Pavlichenko creates cosmic soundscapes with agile vocals drawing from contemporary indie folk and the traditional music of the Balkans. They create an ambiance in tune with the visual art of Charlotte Thurman, whose work is inspired by lucid dreaming and dream recording.

7:30 pm, $5-$10 BOK CHOY Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Bok rok (aka, eclectic groovin' jams—they're looking to create a new genre).

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Voice and Words

Anna Tivel tells the stories at Kitchen Sink Studios

Anna Tivel loves two things: Music and tree-lurking.

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omething happened to me when I heard Portland, Oregon-based singer-songwriter Anna Tivel’s “Letter to a Mountain.” It was in a YouTube video from the 2014 Folk Alliance International Conference in Kansas City, Missouri. Her gorgeous, whisper-quiet voice and flawed guitar reached into my soul. The song is simple, the performance stripped down and Tivel’s eyes remain closed throughout its running time. It’s raw passion and riveting. Everything shifted. It’s been on repeat for a week.

At first I believed this just to be about the expressiveness in her voice, but with obsessive listens to other songs like “Dark Chandelier” and “Saturday Night,” Tivel’s style revealed itself to be sneakily genre-defiant. Folk and Americana shine out in the forefront, yes, but she’s got indie elements a la Jeff Mangum as well, though maybe early Avett Brothers might be more readily comparable. Still, her voice belies folk and country convention; quiet like Vashti Bunyan but powerful and clear and just a little bit whismsical like any one of The Roches.

Tivel, however, doesn’t seem to take herself entirely seriously—at least not in a self-promotional way. She’s never tak-

en guitar or vocal lessons and, during our interview, she seemed less into talking about herself than her work, stating, “The showmanship of performance doesn’t really feed me.” She’s in it for the storytelling, after all; she’s a fan of Didion and Steinbeck.

Tivel grew up in a tiny town in northern Washington state, where she learned violin and fiddle (Suzuki Method during the school year, fiddle in the summer, she says) and gravitated toward folk and country. “My folks play, my sister plays, my mom was total child of the ’60s guitar—Phil Ochs, Joni Mitchell—and my dad was in the bluegrass world,” she says.

“I lucked out.” And though music was al-

ways there, it wasn’t until she left nursing school nearly 10 years ago that she chose to make a serious go of it. “To me, [music] is like this beautifully connective thing where you can use a few photographs you made with words and somebody else can hear that and think, ‘Oh, man. I’ve totally had that experience!’,” she says. “The color of that makes me feel in a different way.”

All things considered, Tivel’s six-ish years spent touring (both solo and as a fiddle for hire) cover a relatively short amount of time, but she is the veritable musical equivalent of an old soul. “I’m a huge sucker for … the darker, the better,” she says of her style. “I just don’t trust happy songs as much, and there’s some really great ones out there; or I’ll go to shows with great bands that are just rocking out and people feel so good and I think, ‘Damn. What am I doing? What an asshole! I’m just writing the darkest shit I can!’, but those stories and those images from the darker corners need to be told. They’re real and people need to feel them and hear them and talk about them.”

So maybe it’s in how relatable her storytelling aspects are, or maybe it’s just in the sheer beauty of a songwriter who creates without pretense. Either way, Tivel’s upcoming appearance at The Kitchen Sink Recording Studio is a must. And not just for fans, but for local songwriters as well. There’s something so endearing about a writer who’s willing to put it all on the line, expressing her deepest fears and connecting with audiences through mutual pain. Plus, she sounds so great it’s impossible to ignore. Go ahead. Look her up. I double dog dare you.

ANNA TIVEL 7:30 pm Thursday Jan. 11. $15.

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THE CALENDAR THE BUS TAPES Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Alternative folk-rock.

6 pm, free CHANCEL CHOIR OF FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 A performance of "Requiem"

by John Rutter features soloists on cello, organ and voice.

5:30 pm, free CHANGO Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock 'n' roll covers.

8:30 pm, free DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Santa Fe's consummate Broadway pianist.

6 pm, $2 DOUG MONTGOMERY AND BOB FINNIE Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards, classical and Broadway tunes on piano.

Doug starts, Bob takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free DUO RASMINKO Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 Covers from everywhere on guitar, bass, accordion and percussion—you might call it Bohemian pop.

4-7 pm, free FRITZ & THE BLUE JAYS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n' roll.

9 pm, $5 JESUS BAS La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Spanish and flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free MAVERICK MUZIK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Teddy No Name and her fellow DJ friends spin all kinds of mavericky tunes to dance to.

10 pm, free NATHAN FOX Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Berklee College of Music grad Fox brings us original songs that draw from Americana, blues, country and folk.

5 pm, free NEXT 2 THE TRACKS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Outlaw rock and renegade blues.

10 pm, $5 PALM IN THE CYPRESS Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Alt.folk from the Mississippi watershed of music.

6 pm, free PHYLLIS LOVE Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

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SEAN HEALEN BAND Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Rock 'n' folk 'n' roll 'n' country.

8 pm, free SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country tunes to dance to.

8 pm, free THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 This musical institution often welcomes a fourth guest, so the number is negotiable, but it's always jazzy piano music.

7:30 pm, free THE TIMEWRECKERS, HUMAN SOUND AND BUCK MEEK Ghost 2899 Trades West Road Buck Meek (space country from Brooklyn) is joined by ABQ's The Timewreckers (cosmic alt.country) and Human Sounds (a convergence of the talents of Michael Chavez, Jaco Foster and Riley Walker).

8 pm, $5-$10 ZIA SINGERS: THE STORM IS COMING THROUGH Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel 50 Mt. Carmel Road, 988-1975 The Santa Fe community women’s choir sings about heavy weather—both literal and figurative. The program begins with the Quaker hymn “How Can I Keep from Singing?" (which is our favorite Quaker hymn, for what it's worth) and continues with many other selections, both contemporary and traditional.

7 pm, $10-$20

SAT/13 ART OPENINGS HELENE WILDER: WOMEN BODY of Santa Fe 333 W Cordova Road, 986-0362 With an extensive background in printmaking, Wilder's newest series harkens to Mexican folk art retablos. She paints her larger-than-life contemporary Madonnas with subtle, metallic halos and mischievous eyes. Through Feb. 28 (see SFR Pick, page 19).

1-3 pm, free LIZ BRINDLEY: GARLIC NO LAND 54 E San Francisco St., Ste. 7, 216-973-3367 A solo exhibition and residency for artist, educator, writer and farmer (and occasional SFR visual arts writer) Brindley. It features drawings, prints, a wall mural and installations of garlic skins, and incorporates all facets of her practice as a creator, educator and cultivator.

6 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES JOE LEWIS: WALKING & DINING IN BRITTANY, FRANCE Travel Bug Coffee Shop 839 Paseo de Peralta, 992-0418 In a slide show, Lewis shares stunning images of the wild coastline of Brittany and tells of his adventures eating fresh mussels, foraging blackberries, finding ancient burial sites, dancing at Celtic music festivals, camping in the rain and a citywide nine-pig roast—all experienced while speaking very little French.

5 pm, free WINTER READERS GATHERING: KIMBERLY BLAESER, TOMMY ORANGE AND JUSTIN TORRES Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2351 Faculty and visiting writers read their work in the auditorium in the Library and Technology Center. Visiting writer Torres' debut novel, We the Animals, released in 2011, has already been translated into 15 languages and is being adapted into a film. In addition to his first novel, Torres has written a number of pieces of short fiction and essays, which appeared in pubs like the New Yorker, Harper's and the Guardian. He is currently assistant professor of English at UCLA. 6 pm, free

DANCE CONTRA DANCE Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, 470-7077 Join the New Mexico Folk Music and Dance Society for a contra dance with music from the SF Megaband and caller Will McDonald. Arrive at 7 pm for instruction, if you're just starting out or if your footwork is a little rusty.

7:30 pm, $8-$9 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 A performance by the National Institute of Flamenco.

6:30 pm, $25 NOCHE DE FLAMENCO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Reservations are needed for this puppy, so get your name on the list.

7 pm, $15

EVENTS ZAZENKAI: A DAY-LONG SILENT MEDITATION RETREAT Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 Experience deep periods of uninterrupted meditation and an opportunity to become familiar with Zen meditation and Zen forms (don’t worry, instruction is provided if you're a little lost).

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Snyder layers her personal story into these mixed media paintings by collaging her used makeup pads alongside imagery from women’s style magazines of the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. She describes how her transition to female began with the application of makeup every single day, which then led her to purge all of the male clothing in her closet to build a new wardrobe of women’s

fashion. Her process mirrors this journey, revealing parallels between creating her art and her self. “There’s such a strong correlation between my actual painting of my face on a daily basis with makeup and what I’m painting on these surfaces,” she says.

Such surfaces are often reclaimed wood with knots that Snyder repurposes into the eyes of her portraits. Wide eyes appear on each face in the series and emit a sense of power that pleads with viewers to be fully witnessed. The surrounding colors Snyder applies are abrasive and garish tones that scream out with an honest story that asks to be heard.

In “So New to the City,” a painting from the series, a floating hairless face stares with blank eyes that have the faintest hint of an iris and pupil, but are overshadowed by a sea of sclera surrounded by pink and purple eyeliner. It is unclear if the subject is male or female, but that no longer seems to matter as the seemingly empty gaze commands attention and stares openly out at unknowns with trepidation and courage.

Snyder shares that this was the first painting she created when she moved to Santa Fe in 2015 when she was “just gazing out, wondering what lies ahead in this new life of being single, changing genders, moving to a new city, and really beginning to paint full-time.”

About Face blurs the line between male and female in androgynous images that leave viewers questioning not only who they are seeing, but also why we assign the labels that we do. “I’m looking forward to the day when the labels are gone,” Snyder tells SFR. “We’re all just people and it really doesn’t matter how we look.”

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intimately personal works are exposed to the public eye. In this act of vulnerability, Snyder believes viewers will question how we define “gender” and “normal” because, she says, “The word normal has no meaning when it comes to people—there is no such thing as normal. It’s a term some people think defines the masses, but it doesn’t.”

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magine that you wake up tomorrow and look in the mirror and see a male face,” self-taught local painter Steven Snyder says, creating a scenario to help me understand her perspective, “but you don’t want to be male and you don’t want to be seen as male. What do you do to change that?”

In 2015, at 66 years old, Snyder moved to Santa Fe from Denver, Colorado, for a fresh start. After she ended a 30-year marriage, left the real estate business and transitioned to the Southwest, Snyder also began the transition from male to female. She documented this process through a series of painted portraits created from 2015 to 2017.

The 22 works make up About Face: The Journey to Female at 7 Arts Gallery, an art space that opened its doors on Lincoln Avenue in April 2017 thanks to a team of— get this—seven artists who wanted a collaborative studio with a public interface.

The original seven (now five) split overhead costs, so artists keep 100 percent of their sales, though Snyder says she plans to donate 15 percent of her profits to local nonprofit Girls, Inc. In 2017, the works on view at 7 Arts were primarily created by the founding artists (Angel Wynn, Tom McGee, Dayna Fisk-Williams, Cecilia Robertson and Karen Waters), but the group collectively decided to create opportunities for other local creatives through a series of monthly exhibitions in 2018. “It keeps us moving,” Wynn explains. “It’s all about energy. New artists bring new people. It’s a win-win for everybody.”

Snyder is the selected artist for the month of January and Wynn shares how her art is a change in perspective for the gallery as well; Snyder’s mixed-media materials, transgender focus and colorful aesthetic differ from the work 7 Arts showed in 2017, which included landscape paintings and fiber arts.

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it lasts, and if things start to get creepy—if he starts shopping for an apartment in Bucharest— then you’ll have to pull the plug. But if this turns into a loving, lasting, healthy, and unconventional LTR, DAD, then one day he’ll get to pull your plug.

(When that day comes, which hopefully won’t be for a long, long time.)

I’m a 67-year-old gay man. After a breakup 15 years ago, I believed the possibility of emotional and sexual intimacy with a partner was over for me. Then a couple of months ago, my desire for sexual contact increased dramatically. For the first time, I began using apps, and I felt like the proverbial kid in a candy store; it seemed strangely similar to when I first came out in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood in the early 1970s. Also, I was surprised—not unpleasantly—by the whole Daddy phenomenon, never imagining that this old face and body would interest younger men. You can probably guess what happened next: I was contacted by a 22-year-old man who revealed himself to be mature, intelligent, sweet, and, fatally, the physical type that arouses me most. I fell hard, and he seems to like me too. Am I a creep? A fool?

Is my judgment impaired?

-Dumb And Daddy The sexy “Daddy” thing—which has always been with us—seems to be undergoing a resurgence.

Perhaps our omnipresent abusive orange father figure is giving us all daddy issues that are manifesting (in some) as a burning desire to service kinder, sexier, more benevolent daddies. Or perhaps the internet is to blame—not for creating more people interested in intergenerational sex and/or romance, but for making it easier for people to anonymously seek out the kind of sex and kinds of sex partners they truly want. Even if the initial looking is anonymous, DAD, discussing one’s desires with others who share them helps people grow more comfortable with their desires and themselves—nothing melts away shame quite like knowing you’re not alone—and more people are coming out about their non-normative sexual desires, partner preferences, relationship models, etc., than ever before.

That said, DAD, if the affections of a consenting adult 40-plus years your junior is your particular perk of aging, go ahead and enjoy it. Keep your expectations realistic (a successful STR is likelier than a successful LTR), don’t do anything stupid (see Father Clements, below), and reacquaint yourself with my constantly updated and revised Campsite Rule: When there’s a significant age and/or experience gap, the older and/or more experienced person has a responsibility to leave the younger and/or less experienced person in better shape than they found them. No unplanned or planned pregnancies, no sexually transmitted infections, no leading the younger partner to believe “forever” is likely. Do what you can to boost their knowledge, skills, and self-confidence while you’re together, and do your best to stick the nearly inevitable dismount—the chances that you’ll be together forever are slim, but you can forever be a friend, mentor, and resource.

While the age difference will creep some out, DAD, that doesn’t mean you’re a creep. Don’t want to be a fool? Don’t do anything foolish (see Father Clements, below). Worried about infatuation-impaired judgment leading you to do something foolish? Ask a few trusted friends to smack you upside the head if you start paying his rent or lending him your credit cards. And just as you don’t want to take advantage of this young man, DAD, you don’t want to be taken advantage of either. We associate age with power, but youth and beauty confer their own kinds of power, and that power can be abused—it can also lead seemingly sensible men to sign their life savings over to 24-year-old Romanian “models.”

For example: “A 79-year-old retired priest has been left heartbroken and homeless after his 24-year-old husband left him just after their home was put into his name,” LGBTQ Nation reported.

“Philip Clements sold his home in Kent, England, for £214,750, before moving to Romania and purchasing an apartment for the couple to live in in Bucharest. He signed over the property to Florin Marin, so that Marin would have security after he passed away… Marin broke things off just weeks after the apartment was put in his name, and Clements found himself homeless.”

Keep Father Clements’s sad story in mind, DAD, but don’t be paralyzed by it. Because there are lots of examples of loving, lasting, non-creepy, non-foolish relationships between partners with significant age gaps out there. So enjoy this while

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Someone at work—not my boss—asked me to fuck his wife. He’s a nice guy, his wife is hot, and I’m single. This is a first for me. Besides STI status, what questions should I ask?

-Help Interested Straight Boy z Understand Lust’s Limitations 1. “Are you a cuckold or is this a hotwife thing?”

(Considering your sign-off, HISBULL, either you’ve assumed he’s a cuckold or he’s told you he is one. If he is a cuck, he may want dirty texts and pictures— or he’ll want to be in the room where it happens. Is that okay with you?)

2. “Have you done this before?” (The reality of another person sleeping with your up-to-now-monogamous spouse can dredge up intense emotions, e.g., jealousy, sadness, anger, rage. If they’ve done this before and enjoyed it, you can jump right in. If they haven’t, maybe start with a make-out session at a time or in a place where you can’t progress to sex.)

3. “Can I speak directly with your wife?” (You’ll want to make sure she isn’t doing this under duress and that she’s into you, and you’ll want to independently verify the things he’s told you about their arrangement, health, experiences, etc.)

I recently started seeing a gorgeous 24-year-old woman who’s smart and sweet and also happens to have a few out-there fetishes. There’s not much I’ll say no to, Dan, but one of the things she’s into is formicophilia (a sexual interest in being crawled on or nibbled by insects). I offered to get some ants and worms to crawl on her body while I fuck her, but she wants me to put earthworms in her vagina. Is there a safe way to do this? Female condom? I want to help, but putting worms in your vagina seems like it will end with an embarrassing trip to the ER. -Worries Over Really Messy Scenario “I thought I had heard everything,” said Dr. Jen Gunter, an ob-gyn in San Francisco. “Apparently not.”

Dr. Gunter, “Twitter’s resident gynecologist,” first went viral when she urged women not to put jade eggs in their vaginas, just one of the many idiocies pushed by the idiots at Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow’s idiotic “lifestyle” website. Last week, Dr. Gunter had to urge women and men not to shoot coffee up their butts, also recommended by Goop.

So I thought she might have something to say about stuffing earthworms in your girlfriend’s vagina.

“This is obviously unstudied,” Dr. Gunter said, “but anything that lives in soil could easily inoculate the vagina with pathogenic bacteria. Also, I am not sure what earthworm innards could do to the vagina, but I am guessing the worms would get squished and meet an untimely demise during sex.

How would you get the pieces of dead earthworm out of her vagina? I can think of a lot of ways this could go very wrong. I would advise against it.”

I’m with Dr. Gunter (and, no doubt, PETA): Don’t stuff earthworms in your girlfriend’s vagina.

That said, WORMS, tucking a few earthworms into a female condom and carefully inserting it into your girlfriend’s vagina without shoving your cock in there too… is a thoroughly disgusting thing to contemplate and blech. But while it would most likely kill the earthworms (maybe switch ’em out for gummy worms at the last second?), it probably wouldn’t damage your girlfriend or land you both in the ER. Even so, WORMS, don’t do it. Because blech.

Read Dr. Gunter’s blog (drjengunter.wordpress. com), follow her on Twitter (@DrJenGunter), and check out her new column in the New York Times (The Cycle).

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MUSIC ALTO ESTILO Ski Santa Fe 740 Hyde Park Road, 982-4429 Timeless American, Latin American, and Caribbean melodies have a distinct and modern color.

11 am-3 pm, free CHANGO Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Rock 'n' roll covers from the '80s, '90s and now.

10 pm, $5 CHATTER SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 The Albuquerque institution brings its slightly weird, really interesting and comfortably informal contemporary chamber music north for a spell. This performance features David Felberg on violin, Judy Gordon on piano and a reading from poet Damien Flores as they bring to life works by Nico Muhly (“Drones”), David Lang (“Illumination Rounds”), John Cage (“Nocturne”) and John Adams (“Road Movies”), It’ll run about an hour, so expect intellectual sustenance that is also highly digestible.

10:30 am, $5-$15 DAVID GEIST AND JULIE TRUJILLO Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Broadway tunes and standards on piano and vocals.

6 pm, $2 DOUG MONTGOMERY AND BOB FINNIE Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards and classical music on piano. Doug starts, Bob takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free ESCHER STRING QUARTET St. Francis Auditorium 107 W Palace Ave., 982-1890 Inspired by artist MC Escher's depictions of interplay between individual components working together to form a whole, this string quartet creates a unique, rich sound.

4 pm, $12-$75 FOX WHITE, SWORDS OF FATIMA AND GEORGIO “THE DOVE” VALENTINO Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Los Angeles-based Swords of Fatima evolves rock and punk into a fierce version of banjo-based exotic Tibetan spy music and Bollywood disco funk, all of which are A-OK in our book. Valentino swings by from Luxembourg with art rock and post-punk, and locals Fox White round out the evening with everything from opera to hip-hop to rock to punk to rockabilly (see SFR Picks, page 19).

8 pm, $8

HALF BROKE HORSES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Country and Americana.

1-4 pm, free MICHAEL UMPHREY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6:30 pm, free THE PALM IN THE CYPRESS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Americana and rootsy styles.

8 pm, free PAT MALONE Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Live solo jazz guitar.

7 pm, free RED NINJA Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Electronica dub, reggae and synth-based soundscapes.

6 pm, free SHANE WALLIN Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Soulful blues on the deck.

3 pm, free SHOWCASE KARAOKE Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 You know the drill. Today’s suggestion: “Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting” (but don’t actually fight).

8:30 pm, free SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country tunes to dance to.

8 pm, free SISTER MARY El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n' roll from folks who aren't actually nuns.

9 pm, $5 THE SURF LORDS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock ‘n’ roll.

8:30 pm, free SWING SOLEIL Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Swingin' gypsy jazz.

6 pm, free ZIA SINGERS: THE STORM IS COMING THROUGH Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel 50 Mt. Carmel Road, 988-1975 The Santa Fe community women’s choir sings about heavy weather—both literal and figurative. The program features traditional tunes, hymns and contemporary works, including "Winter Song" (Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson) and Karl Jenkins' "Rain Dance," among many other selections.

3 pm, $10-$20

SUN/14 BOOKS/LECTURES CHANGE YOUR MIND, CHANGE YOUR WORLD Zoetic 230 St. Francis Drive, 292-5293 Begin the new year on a new path by shedding old habits of mind, like views and responses that bind us to unhappiness. Our mind creates our world moment by moment; reap the benefits of these simple but profound meditations and transform your reality.

10:30 am-noon, $10 DARRYL LORENZO WELLINGTON, ISRAEL FRANCISCO HAROS LOPEZ AND DIANE CASTIGLIONI Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Three poets navigate the zeitgeist, asking questions like: What is it to “defend literature” or to write “literary” poetry? Is spoken-word poetry, performance poetry or Instagram poetry “anti-literary” (and if so, for better, or for worse)? Can poets be literary or anti-literary—and who decides? The poets explore these landscapes, and Wellington releases his new book, Life's Prisoners.

5:30 pm, free JOURNEYSANTAFE: FRED NATHAN Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 The executive director of Think New Mexico speaks about innovative approaches to state school funding that can help address the funding disparity between administrative costs and classroom spending.

11 am, free SOUTHWEST SEMINARS: LAND BELOW GROUND: EXPLORING HUMAN EXPLOITATION OF THE UNDERGROUND GEOLOGIC REALM Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Southwest Seminars presents a special event with Ian Stewart, geologist and chair of the Sustainable Earth Institute at Plymouth University, United Kingdom.

6 pm, $15 VICTOR SHAMAS: DEEP CREATIVITY Santa Fe Center for Spiritual Living 505 Camino de los Marquez, 983-5022 Author and psychologist Shamas believes that the secrets to creativity and happiness are one and the same. His fourth book, the product of three decades of research and thought, integrates art, psychology, philosophy and mysticism to offer a new view of both the creative process and the human condition.

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WALTER JON WILLIAMS: QUILLIFER Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 New York Times bestselling author Walter Jon Williams presents his latest fantasy book, Quillifer,, an adventurous epic fantasy about a man who is forced to leave his comfortable life and find his fortune among goddesses, pirates, war and dragons. George RR Martin hosts an intimate discussion with Williams, fol-lowed by audience Q&A and book signing.

3 pm, $10-$28

EVENTS DHARMA DISCUSSION GROUP Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 A chance to meet and become better acquainted with fellow Buddhist practitioners and share thoughts, feelings, and experiences related to the practice.

7 pm, free YOUNG PROFESSIONALS FOR ALAN Paloma 401 S Guadalupe St., 467-8624 Santa Fe youth, millennials and young professionals are invited to learn more about mayoral candidate Alan Webber. Music, food and conversation—plus a cash bar, so don't forget that wallet.

5-7 pm, free

MUSIC ANGELA MEADE St. Francis Auditorium 107 W Palace Ave., 982-1890 American soprano Meade’s 57 wins in vocal competitions and her professional debut at the Metropolitan Opera are impressive, but it is her voice and complete command over it that regularly bring audiences to their feet. Hearing Meade’s wealth of volume and stunning agility (she is a rare dramatic soprano d’agilità—she has an ability to be both airy and rich, light and dramatic in her vocal acrobatics) in recital is an otherworldly experience.

4-5:30 pm, $40-$90 BORIS McCUTCHEON Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Gothic Americana from everyone's favorite local farmer-cum-musician.

Noon, free DANIELE SPADAVECCHIA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Gypsy jazz on acoustic guitar.

6 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Classical, standards, pop and original tunes on piano and vocals.

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Civilization clashes with the outdoors in a mural showing a semi-nude woman and an animal-headed human joined in nature. Artist KB Jones completed the work almost entirely in charcoal, and finished it with varnish last August at Biocultura (1505 Agua Fría St.). Jones had less than a week to complete the mural before she hopped back on a plane to her home in New York. She based the painting on photographs of a mock wedding she arranged at Otero Mesa. We questioned Jones about her mural, which analyzes traditional marriage and the pressure one feels to complete the ritual by a certain age.

(Sara MacNeil) How did your idea for the mural begin and how did the mural end up at Biocultura?

I was in my early 30s and had never been married, but I had been a bridesmaid in nine weddings. I was interested in wedding ceremonies after having observed so many. I staged the mock wedding on a camping trip at sunset [in 2012]. I was traveling with a group of about 12 people for several weeks, as part of the UNM Land Arts program. The wedding was actually a pretty slapdash photoshoot. At the end of that semester, we put together a group show at the Center for Contemporary Arts, and I turned the photos into a 12-by-25-foot wall drawing. Years later, [Biocultura Director] Andrea Polli remembered my drawing. She invited me to recreate the mural at Biocultura.

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Can you talk about how being born in Africa and raised in America influences your work?

I was actually born in Texas, but my parents and I moved to Kenya when I was 9 months old. I was baptized in Nairobi. Africa is a massive continent with so many different cultures and traditions. I lived in Kenya and Senegal. As a foreigner, I was on the outside, looking in; observing is an important trait for any artist. I remember Africans being friendly and welcoming. They often had very little, but were extremely generous. I grew so much from my experiences there, but don’t feel like I gave much back to Africa. America exports its consumer culture, and weddings here are sadly often dominated by that too. I think that artists right now need to figure out new ways of doing things, be that through ceremonies, new relationships to each other or to the planet.

Can you talk about the importance of the mock wedding being set at Otero Mesa?

Staging a fake wedding was a way to study the cultural shaping of ritual, but more importantly, it was a way to study a place. Otero Mesa is magical. It’s sort of ironic that it’s near the border but the landscape never ends. There is a true openness and freedom to push the edges of what is real and what is possible. The event and my artwork could not have existed without this unique and beautiful wilderness. The final product expressed genuine feelings of joy and freedom, which did not come from the “marriage” of two people, but from the experience of living and working in this rare natural environment.

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NEW MEXICO PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY FRANZ VOTE, Music Director & Conductor

FIRST ANNUAL CONCERT Music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Franz Schubert with La Catrina Quartet

Bach

New Mexico State University String Orchestra and New Mexico Bach Society Winds

Sunday, January 21, 2018 at 1:30 pm Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel 50 Mount Carmel Road, Santa Fe

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THE CALENDAR GARY GORENCE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Classic rock and singer-songwriter jams.

8 pm, free THE KEY FRANCES BAND Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Soulful blues up on the deck.

2 pm, free MICHAEL UMPHREY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6:30 pm, free NACHA MENDEZ La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Creative but rooted takes on Latin music from around the world from Santa Fe's most buttery-voiced cantadora.

7 pm, free OPEN MIC Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Show off the new jams you've been working on.

3-7 pm, free PAT MALONE AND JON GAGAN El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Jazz with bluesy notes.

7 pm, free ZIA SINGERS: THE STORM IS COMING THROUGH Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel 50 Mt. Carmel Road, 988-1975 The Santa Fe community women’s choir sings about heavy weather—both literal and figurative.

3 pm, $10-$20

MON/15 BOOKS/LECTURES BILINGUAL BOOKS AND BABIES Santa Fe Public Library LaFarge Branch 1730 Llano St., 955-4860 A bilingual (English and Spanish) program for babies 6 months to 2 years old and their caregivers. It's a play and language group featuring books, songs and finger games.

10:15-10:45 am, free BILINGUAL BOOKS AND BABIES Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 See previous listing; here’s an evening session.

5:30-6 pm, free SOUTHWEST SEMINARS: RELIGION AND REBELLION: FRANCISCAN INFLUENCE IN THE PUEBLOS Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Historian and archaeologist Matthew Barbour discusses a hotly contested part of New Mexico's history.

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EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Draft Station Santa Fe Arcade, 60 E San Francisco St., 983-6443 Stellar quiz results can win you drink tickets for next time. Isabel is your host, and she's wicked smaht.

7 pm, free THE SANTA FE HARMONIZERS REHEARSAL Zia United Methodist Church 3368 Governor Miles Road, 471-0997 Have you been itching to start singing again? The local choral group invites anyone who can carry a tune to its weekly rehearsals. Join in on any of the four-part harmony parts (tenor, lead, baritone or bass).

For all the deets, call Lynda Gomez at (310-0224) or Bill Clyde (424-9042).

6:30 pm, free

MUSIC BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Honky-tonk and Americana.

7:30 pm, free COWGIRL KARAOKE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Michèle Leidig hosts Santa Fe's most famous night of karaoke. This is especially fun when there’s a conference group in town.

9 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Classical, standards, pop and original tunes on piano and vocals.

6:30 pm, free MELLOW MONDAYS Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 DJ Sato can help you chill.

We’re pretty sure no one would judge you for wearing flannel pants to this one.

10 pm, free MICHAEL UMPHREY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6:30 pm, free

TUE/16 DANCE ARGENTINE TANGO MILONGA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Put on your dancing shoes and join in.

7:30 pm, $5

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 This quiz can win you drink tickets for next time. As ever, it's hosted by the kindly Kevin A. 8 pm, free

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METTA REFUGE COUNCIL Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 A gathering for those who are struggling with illness and loss in a variety of its forms, and an opportunity for the sharing of life experiences in a setting of compassion and confidentiality.

10:30 am, free PUBLIC FORUM ON SANTA FE LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTED DIVERSION PROGRAM Santa Fe Public Library LaFarge Branch 1730 Llano St., 955-4860 The public is invited to learn more about Santa Fe’s innovative and nationally recognized Law EnforcementAssisted Diversion (“LEAD”) Program, a pre-arrest jail diversion program that has been operating in Santa Fe for three years.

5:30 pm, free

MUSIC BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Honky-tonk and Americana from a Santa Fe legend.

7:30 pm, free CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 A night of music, improv and camaraderie. Sign up if you want to join in, but be forewarned: This ain't amateur hour.

8:30 pm, $5 CHUSCALES La Boca (Original Location) 72 W Marcy St., 982-3433 Exotic flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND BOB FINNIE Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards, classical and Broadway tunes on piano from two fine fellows: Doug starts, Bob takes over at 8 pm.

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FULL OWL Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana.

8 pm, free MICHAEL UMPHREY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6:30 pm, free OPEN MIC Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Show off the new jams you've been working on. Hosted by John Rives and Randy Mulkey.

7 pm, free

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PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Live solo jazz guitar.

6 pm, free

WORKSHOP BEGINNING EXCEL Santa Fe Business Incubator 3900 Paseo del Sol, 424-1140 Microsoft Excel is capable of great things, and Pi Luna hosts a hands-on workshop about its glory. No laptop or tablet? Let WESST know you need a loaner at wesst.org.

10 am-12:30 pm, $29

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Geometrician and abstract illusionist painter Ronald Davis’ work is on view at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos as part of the museum-wide multipart exhibit Divergent/Works. The show closes Sunday, so hop to it if you want to check it out.

Other included artists are Jami Porter Lara, Paul Pascarella, Sam Scott, and a collection of Taos-based works in Landschaft/Paisaje.

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 Journey to Center: New Mexico Watercolors by Sam Scott. Through Nov. 1, 2018.

HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 Divergent/Works. Through Jan. 14, 2018.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Daniel McCoy: The Ceaseless Quest for Utopia; New Acquisitions; Desert ArtLAB: Ecologies of Resistance; Connective Tissue: New Approaches to Fiber in Contemporary Native Art. All through Jan. 2018.

Action Abstraction Redefined.

Through July 27, 2018.

MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART 623 Agua Fría St., 989-3283 American and international encaustic art.

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Stepping Out: 10,000

Years of Walking the West.

Through Sept. 3, 2018.

Lifeways of the Southern Athabaskans. Through Dec. 31, 2018.

MUSEUM OF INT’L FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Quilts of Southwest China.

Through Jan. 21, 2018.

Negotiate, Navigate, Innovate. Through July 16, 2018. Crafting Memory: The Art of Community in Peru.

Through March 10, 2019.

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 Time Travelers: and the Saints Go Marching On. Through April 20, 2018.

NM HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5019 Voices of Counterculture in the Southwest. Through Feb. 11, 2018. A Mexican Century: Prints from the Taller de Gráfica Popular. Through Feb. 18, 2018.

NM MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Shifting Light: Photographic Perspectives. Through Oct. 8, 2018. Horizons: People &

Place in New Mexican Art. Through Nov. 25, 2018.

Contact: Local to Global.

Through April 29, 2018.

PALACE OF THE GOVERNORS 105 W Palace Ave., 476-5100 Tesoros de Devoción.

POEH CULTURAL CENTER AND MUSEUM 78 Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3334 In T’owa Vi Sae’we: Coming Home Project.

SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDENS 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Dan Namingha: Conception, Abstraction, Reduction.

Through May 18, 2018.

SITE SANTA FE 1606 Paseo De Peralta, 989-1199 Future Shock. Through May 1, 2018.

WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 704 Camino Lejo, 986-4636 Beads: A Universe of Meaning.

Through April 15, 2018.

AUM CHANT January 19 • 7:30-8:30pm FREE ADMISSION Santa Fe Community Yoga Center 826 Camino de Monte Rey, Suite B-1

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Jambo Café was nearly indetectable, chicken and goat served on opposite sides of the plate were made more delicious when mopped up with roti flatbread. Jambo also has plenty of dry wines imported mostly from South Africa. My glass of Mulderbosch cabernet rosé ($8) went well with everything. I took home the jerk chicken sandwich (wrapped in a pita, not bread) for lunch the next day, as well as the mix of sweet and regular fries. If you can’t make it here as often as you’d like, don’t worry: You can order Obo’s cookbook online. (Aaron Cantú) 2010 Cerrillos Road, 473-1269 Lunch and dinner Monday-Saturday jambocafe.net

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without the haughty vibe; alternately, the best brewery fare sans grease or regret. To finish, a few scoops of blackberry ice cream ($3) made with the fruit left over from the summer’s brewing had just enough yeasty funk (we say that lovingly). It finished off a meal with great company that, I must admit, could probably only be improved by a beer crafted by a Los Alamos National Lab scientist (aka John Rowley). Maybe next time. (Charlotte Jusinski) 1405 Maclovia St., 428-0719 Lunch and dinner daily rowleyfarmhouse.com

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ccording to Dan Barber, famous proprietor of Blue Hill in Manhattan, “When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology.” You see evidence of it everywhere now: in small charcuterie plates, in fresh green salads, in house-made sausage, in fresh-roasted green chile in the fall. It’s all an offshoot of the farm-to-table movement, and it is not new. Its American roots lie in the post-Silent Spring alternative food movements of the ’60s, and globally in the food movement first delineated by Austrian scientist and philosopher Rudolf Steiner as a response to the burgeoning industrialized farming methods that were an offshoot of the chemical engineering improvements brought about during World War I. Early on, though, all of this was seen as hippie-style counterculturalism, as the convenience of processed food was not yet considered problematic in terms of nutrition. Nowadays, the counterculture has gone mainstream. Concerns over personal health and damage to the environment have spawned a more holistic approach. The city that is dependent on food trucked in from California or Florida has fallen out of fashion. Why not build a strong local economy out of supplying basic needs of citizens, and maybe generate some food that actually tastes good while we’re at it?

Because the money to be made through supplying national chains and larger institutions is too big of a draw, large-scale farming remains much more prevalent (and profitable, from a farmer’s perspective) than small-scale. Local

institutions like schools and hospitals have trouble supporting locavore habits without legislation helping to achieve them. But a restaurant can convert to this change by turning to local suppliers for food, or even growing their own, and create a flavorful and positive experience for its customers.

“Collaborating with chefs is thrilling, if you know what they’re looking for,” says Lauren Kendall Shane, head gardener at Arroyo Vino (218 Camino La Tierra, 983-2100) and wife of Chef Colin Shane.

“Chefs look at food totally differently. It’s a whole other level of creativity. I like to focus on the energy of the field, and then I show it to Colin and he puts it on a plate and shares it with people.”

Lauren’s point stands that sourcing locally for food means adopting more creative expectations for what can be made. A smallscale farm that rotates its crops for the health of its soils won’t always consistently bring wheat or corn to the table, but perhaps millet or barley instead. A creative restaurateur will take advantage of this seasonality to constantly change the menu, even though this means that certain favorite items won’t always be available. This means that by giving up our dependency on certain foods, we can encourage farmers to adopt more sus-

Great flavor.

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“Not everyone loves kohlrabi or beets,” says Noela Figueroa of midtown eatery Bodega Prime (1291 San Felipe Ave., Ste. A, 303-3535), “but I think we have a responsibility to make those intimidating items more approachable.”

As an example, Figueroa took celery root and pickled it, turning it into a workable ingredient for her Reuben.

It’s hard to make sweeping generalizations about improvements regarding farming or restaurant practices.

After all, it takes a lot of labor to run either type of i n st i t u t i o n , and the smaller the scale, the harder it is to operate with total efficiency. Because of the costs of energy and labor, it is still cheaper for a restaurant to buy produce from California than New Mexico, putting the grower-farmer at a decided disadvantage. But a restaurant that is willing to pickle and preserve, or even process its own meat, shoulders some of that work.

Killer fast-casual eatery Dr. Field Goods Kitchen (2860 Cerrillos Road, 471-0043) has a butcher shop and bakery that proudly sources as much as possible from local farms and supplies other restaurants with locally processed meats.

Even the in-house charcuteries at highend restaurants such as 315 Restaurant

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and Wine Bar and Radish and Rye contribute to a food system that ensures a strong local economy, not to mention that what is served on the table is as fresh and low-carbon as possible. Both restaurants also make their own mustards, preserves and chutneys, extending the bounty of the summer growing season. It is too naive to expect the same access year-round to local foods, but it can be a powerful marketing draw in the wintertime to experience eating preserved foods sourced locally.

There are food hubs that provide both to institutions and directly to consumers, such as the Santa Fe Farmers Market and La Montañita Co-op, and community-supported agriculture memberships (CSAs) from Beneficial Farms and Squash Blossom Farm. All of these are laying the groundwork for a strong local food system, taking care of the hard work that is processing and distribution. They also provide access to ingredients beyond produce and proteins, such as local flours and honey. But many restaurants that have taken matters into their own hands and grow some of their own food directly.

Perhaps the best local example is Arroyo Vino; Plants of the Southwest also seasonally caters to its customers in The Kitchen; and State Capital Kitchen grows some of its own ingredients in raised beds outside the door.

The early writings about the health of the soil and the farm put forth by Steiner (the scientist and philosopher), mainly the idea of a farm as a complete organism, are now more widely entertained—if not outright accepted. There is a language for what works in the field that can be extended to what works for our own town. If we free ourselves from dependency on outside sources for our foods, starting with restaurants and hopefully extending to what our kids eat in schools and what patients eat at their hospital beds, what is to say that the health of our community cannot be improved as well?

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By 1940, the outlook of WWII was bleaker than ever as German U-boats decimated military and civilian ships at sea. The allies struggled to adapt at home and abroad, but an unlikely inventor set about solving the problem from Hollywood: actress Hedy Lamarr. Alongside avant-garde composer George Antheil, Lamarr devised a method for wirelessly controlling torpedoes via radio wave called frequency hopping, which would have allowed then unheard-of control over the explosives by communicating between rapidly alternating radio frequencies, thereby circumventing enemy attempts to jam transmissions. It was a low-key brilliant deduction that was unfortunately never used by the US Navy, but it does have myriad practical applications today (do you like wi-fi, GPS and shuttle launches?) and raises a rather interesting point: Lamarr was a straight genius who was often underestimated because of her staggering beauty.

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Hedy Lamarr Story, ultimately gaining an understanding of the downsides of stardom and the not-so-glamorous private life of Lamarr, who was once considered the most beautiful woman alive.

From her beginnings starring in underground Austrian erotica to disastrous marriages with everyone from Nazi-sympathizing munitions manufacturers to philandering screenwriters, Lamarr’s was not always a charmed life. Through a once-lost phone interview with a Forbes reporter from the ’90s, we glean that Lamarr perhaps resented superficial stardom and family life, inventing in her free time and navigating a world that seemed more than prepared to use her at every turn.

Ultimately, Bombshell provides a message of hope—not least of which for a greater appre-

ciation of Lamarr’s intelligence—with interviews from historians, family members, friends and fans. Like the consummate “don’t judge a book” lesson or fascinating underdog story, Bombshell sidesteps expectations almost always, shining a light on the seedy underbelly of Hollywood’s star factory and never canonizing its subject; Lamarr was far from perfect, and we see some of her darkest days, but we gain new understanding for her contributions to humanity, many of which define our society to this day.

That’s the type of thing everyone ought to know.

BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY Directed by Dean Center for Contemporary Arts, NR, 90 min.

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You might love this movie. It’s an interesting twist on the love triangle trope and features a lovely pace that draws as much as possible out of its lush, rainy Mexican jungle setting without dwelling on it. But you may also wonder what exactly director Ernesto Contreras and writer Carlos Contreras were after in I Dream in Another Language, a drama turned fantasy.

We’re introduced immediately to Evaristo, Isauro and María. The three Mexican teenagers are clearly friends, but there’s something intentionally not quite right in the opening vignette.

Without it being immediately obvious, we fast forward to the present day, when young linguist Martín (Fernando Álvarez Rebeil, The Incident) shows up in the village where an elderly Evaristo lives. Martín is trying to document and preserve the dying Indigenous language of the Zikril tribe, and Isauro and another woman are the only two people who speak Zikril, as far as Martín knows.

He soon learns Evaristo speaks it, too, and it’s the beginning of a thread that weaves throughout the movie: What have we chosen to forget and what will it cost us?

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has been living outside the village, banished by Evaristo. The pair is reunited as Martín and Evaristo’s granddaughter, Lluvia (Fátima Molina, El Hotel), work to save a friendship and a language that are rapidly going extinct. As the past comes to be known in the present, the characters deepen and seemingly obvious plot twists almost

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Ultimately, though, this is a fantasy movie that would do better without the fantasy. While it provides a lovely moment in the film, we don’t need to know that animals respond preternaturally to Zikril. And the Zikril’s afterlife concept seems to exist solely to provide a somewhat

happy ending. The movie trips over itself in these parts, and it’s better as a story about life, love, anger and regret. (Matt Grubs) Jean Cocteau Cinema, R, 103 min.

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Special Agent Daria Francis (12 Monkeys’ Amanda Schull) was never much for small towns, so when a woman and her son go missing from the rural North Dakota community of Devil’s Gate (hey, that’s the name of the movie!), she chooses to go with a combination of painfully bored and overconfident/glib. It is tiresome. But then again, Francis was never much for anything beyond cracking the case, the kind of cop who likes her whiskey neat, her gun loaded and her relationships at arm’s length. This is also tiresome. This whole movie is tiresome.

See, Devil’s Gate has an identity problem, never knowing whether or how to settle into a genre. Is it horror? X-Files caliber sci-fi (the bad episodes)? Gritty cop drama/thriller?

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cops, has a checkered past, but doesn’t let this dilute her dickish approach to everything and everyone when she shows up from some big city to investigate the disappearance. Even friendly local cops like Conrad (Shawn Ashmore, The Following) can’t pierce Daria’s jerk armor, but one thing’s for sure: Amanda Schull is a bad actress.

For a time, it appears that the culprit is totally the husband Jackson (Heroes alum Milo Ventimiglia, who puts way too much into a stupid role, though maybe that’s to be commended). To be fair, he has a spooky basement and a property full of death traps in the middle of nowhere, but just when we’re ready to admit Daria may be right, we discover this is actually a movie about aliens. Jesus. What follows are some pretty terrible special effects, a couple mildly gruesome deaths and the sweet relief of only 90 minutes’ running time.

It’s sad, really, because Devil’s Gate could have made a perfectly fine B movie if only it had embraced its camp, but director Clay Staub (whose credits include a whole lot of secondunit stuff in dumb movies like 300) opts for the too-serious. We feel bad for the actors— especially Ashmore, because we kind of like him otherwise—and our minds wander; the sequel setup at the end cuts deep. (Alex De Vore) Jean Cocteau Cinema, NR, 94 min.

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Guillermo del Toro sure does like his fairy tales. But like 2006’s Pan’s Labyrinth or even the Hellboy series, though, they’re never really aimed at children so much as they’re dark and twisted—y’know, like the original fairy tales wherein people die, the good guys don’t always win and flawed and fragile characters are thrust into extraordinary circumstances. The Shape of Water falls somewhere in there, though it straddles any number of genres from love drama, science fiction, old-timey Hollywood musical, etc.

It is the 1960s, and Elisa (Sally Hawkins) works as a custodian for some clandestine military facility that’s big on experimentation and decidedly lacking in scruples. Hawkins is adorable as a young mute who lives a very routine life until a mysterious fishman (yup) is shipped to the facility, along with a formersoldier-turned-security-exec/asshole (played by the ever-overbearing and uncomfortable Michael Shannon). Cue extraordinary circumstances and a change in Elisa who, for the first time in her life, feels true kinship for another living being. Like her, the fishman can’t

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-Poe (Oscar Isaac) is fighting the good fight, even if it gets pretty much everyone around him killed almost always.

The resistance at large is in disarray and the New Order—literally just The Empire led by yet another deformed magic-wielding geriatric named Snoke (Andy Serkis is all his mo-cap glory)—has seemingly regrouped from previous defeats, though their new Darth Vader, Kylo Ren (Adam Driver, who is the best part of this movie), is at odds with himself, having done some fairly ghastly things the last time he left the house.

Last Jedi is mostly a whole lot of obvious setup for the next numbered entry and a so-very-thinly veiled allegory-lite about the power of love, but even with Leia Organa herself (Carrie Fisher, RIP) and Luke Skywalker (the delightful Mark Hamill) back in the mix, it drags with misplaced exposition, a few too many characters and an overemphasis on grand set pieces rather than character development.

Who is Snoke, anyway? Why does he do these things? We may never know. Why do powerful women like Leia and Rey continually balk at their better judgement and allow men to make

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It’s mid-December, which apparently will be Star Wars time for the rest of our lives (though filmmakers could probably take a cue from the gaming industry wherein annualized franchises tire fans and have an adverse affect on the work), and the far, far away galaxy from long ago continues to face turmoil that somehow mirrors its past turmoils with preposterous levels of coincidence. For example: -Rey (Daisy Ridley), who fully awakened to The Force last time, is in a faraway land seeking training from a reluctant retired Jedi.

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much speak, and is perhaps misunderstood; the pair obviously hit it off. But, as is always the way, the brass has other plans—namely, they wanna dissect this creature despite warnings from a facility scientist (the always understated and excellent Michael Stuhlbarg) who may have a secret of his own. del Toro expertly recalls the tone of his previous works with seeming nods to the works of Jean-Pierre Jeunet (City of Lost Children) for good measure. Elisa is quirky and charming, as are her neighbor Giles (Richard Jenkins) and co-worker Zelda (a completely on-point Octavia Spencer), while the pleasant-yetbizarre and distorted version of Anytown, USA, makes the perfect backdrop and counterpoint to the dark dealings of the military base.

Shannon, however, seems to be stuck in his character from Boardwalk Empire in his overthe-top bad guy way. The best villains have some sympathetic trait or backstory that allow us to at least try and understand their nonsense; Shannon, however, has neither, and he deserves everything that’s coming to him (some of which is super-gross, by the way).

But in the end it’s the age-old story of love against all odds that shines through. Perhaps it’s a bit predictable at this point, but The Shape of Water still wrests out something sweetly original and exciting nonetheless. Hawkins, however, is the true prize found within. It’s brave to take a role with no lines whatsoever, yet her nuanced and emotional performance is staggering in its authenticity. This one will be big come Oscar season, without a doubt.

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Perhaps it’s something to do with a rushed production schedule and Disney knowing we’ll all line up for tickets no matter what but, regardless, Last Jedi feels like a stumble.

With The Force Awakens, there was almost an unspoken agreement that we’d all do our best to like it because, hey, it was Star Wars coming back for the first time in ages.

The newest installment, however, fails to reach the reckless fun of last year’s offshoot, Rogue One, and advances the overarching story incrementally in barely meaningful ways. BB-8 is amazing, though, and it’s always fun to catch up with Chewie and Ar-Too. Of course Last Jedi is a jaunty romp through space-splosions and soap opera-caliber drama; just don’t think about any of it too hard or try to convince yourself it’s anything but. (ADV) Regal, Violet Crown, PG-13, 152 min.

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When famed paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey sent a 26-year-old Jane Goodall into the wilds of Tanzania’s Gombe Park in Africa to study chimpanzees in the wild in the late 1950s, she’d never conducted field research and did not hold a degree—she simply loved animals passionately. And though Goodall’s work with chimps is the stuff of legend and the sort of thing everyone just knows about, until a massive archive of footage feared lost for years was rediscovered in 2014, the scope of her time in Gombe was mostly speculative. Not any more.

In Jane, director Brett Morgen (2015’s Cobain: Montage of Heck) sifts through over 100 hours of footage taken during Goodall’s time in Gombe and, later, the Serengeti. It’s an unprecedented and fascinating look into her early days gaining the trust of chimpanzee communities, falling in love with wildlife photographer and cameraman Hugo van Lawick, mothering a son and learning then-unknown information about the habits of chimps. Goodall changed everything.

Morgen wisely stays out of the way during the film, letting Goodall herself narrate and the pictures and film do the talking. Frustrations abound, however, from media-led ridiculousness of the day amounting to “Pretty Girl Does Thing” headlines and the underlying concerns of academic communities who felt her lack of education damaged her credibility. Still, her seatof-the-pants study is the sort of radical thing

that would probably never happen today, and the information she learned in the bush proved anthropologically, zoologically and scientifically invaluable. In the end, it’s that she did it at all—never mind so meticulously and persistently—that matters, and Morgen’s assertion that our broadened understanding of the natural world had much to do with Goodall’s research is spot-on.

The Philip Glass score accentuates highlights from her meager beginnings as bright-eyed newcomer to the establishing of a research center, still in existence, flush with students and scientists. Glass’ compositions nudge us toward how we might feel without ever forcing us, though it is worth noting we might not have cried quite so hard without them.

Regardless, to observe the lifelong efforts of a young woman from their earliest inception is inspiring and emotional, and an absolute mustsee experience for animal lovers, documentary aficionados and anyone with even the slightest proclivity for living things. At just about 90 minutes, it is captivating throughout and a strong contender for best documentary feature this year. (ADV) Center for Contemporary Arts, NR, 90 min.

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Week of January 10th

ARIES (March 21-April 19): I’m happy to inform you that life is giving you permission to be extra demanding in the coming weeks -- as long as you’re not petty, brusque, or unreasonable. Here are a few examples that will pass the test: “I demand that you join me in getting drunk on the truth;” “I demand to receive rewards commensurate with my contributions;” “I demand that we collaborate to outsmart and escape the karmic conundrums we’ve gotten ourselves mixed up in.” On the other hand, Aries, ultimatums like these are not admissible: “I demand treasure and tribute, you fools;” “I demand the right to cheat in order to get my way;” “I demand that the river flow backwards.”

move some of that old stuff right out the door and haul it to the dump or the thrift store. Hopefully, this will get you in the mood to launch a sweeping purge of anything else that lowers the morale and élan around the house: dusty mementoes, unflattering mirrors, threadbare rugs, chipped dishes, and numbing symbols. The time is ripe, my dear homies, to free your home of deadweight.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When he was 16 years old and living in New York, Ralph Lifshitz changed his name to Ralph Lauren. That was probably an important factor in his success. Would he have eventually become a famous fashion designer worth $5.8 billion dollars if he had retained a name with “shitz” in it? The rebranding TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Are you familiar with the made it easier for clients and customers to take him phrase “Open Sesame”? In the old folk tale, “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” it’s a magical command that the seriously. With Ralph’s foresight as your inspiration, hero uses to open a blocked cave where treasure is hid- Scorpio, consider making a change in yourself that will den. I invite you to try it out. It just may work to give you enhance your ability to get what you want. entrance to an off-limits or previously inaccessible place SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1956, the prolific where you want and need to go. At the very least, Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez was awarded the Nobel speaking those words will put you in a playful, experiPrize for Literature. The award committee praised his “high mental frame of mind as you contemplate the strategies spirit and artistic purity.” The honor was based on his last you could use to gain entrance. And that alone may pro- thirteen books, however, and not on his first two. vide just the leverage you need.

Waterlilies and Souls of Violet were works he wrote while GEMINI (May 21-June 20): While thumping around the young and still ripening. As he aged, he grew so embarInternet, I came across pointed counsel from an anony- rassed by their sentimentality that he ultimately tried to mous source. “Don’t enter into a long-term connection track down and eradicate every copy. I bring this to your with someone until you’ve seen them stuck in traffic,” it attention, Sagittarius, because I think it’s a favorable time declared. “Don’t get too deeply involved with them until for you to purge or renounce or atone for anything from you’ve witnessed them drunk, waiting for food in a resyour past that you no longer want to be defined by. taurant for entirely too long, or searching for their phone CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Three centuries ago, or car keys in a panic. Before you say yes to a deeper Capricorn genius Isaac Newton formulated principles bond, make sure you see them angry, stressed, or that have ever since been fundamental to scientists’ scared.” I recommend that you take this advice in the coming weeks. It’ll be a good time to deepen your com- understanding of the physical universe. He was also a pioneer in mathematics, optics, and astronomy. And yet mitment to people who express their challenging emohe also expended huge amounts of time and energy on tions in non-abusive, non-psychotic ways. the fruitless attempt to employ alchemy to transform CANCER (June 21-July 22): My high school history base metals into solid gold. Those efforts may have teacher Marjorie Margolies is now Chelsea Clinton’s been interesting to him, but they yielded no lasting benmother-in law. She shares two grandchildren with Hillary Clinton. Is that something I should brag about? efits. You Capricorns face a comparable split. In 2018, you could bless us with extraordinary gifts or else you Does it add to my cachet or my happiness? Will it could get consumed in projects that aren’t the most proinfluence you to love me more? No, nah, and nope. In ductive use of your energy. The coming weeks may be the big scheme of things, it’s mildly interesting but crucial in determining which way you’ll go. utterly irrelevant. The coming weeks will be a good time for Cancerians like you and me to renounce any AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A rite of passage lies desire we might have to capitalize on fake ego points ahead. It could and should usher you into a more soulful like this. We Crabs should be honing our identity and way of living. I’m pleased to report that this transition self-image so they’re free of superficial measures of won’t require you to endure torment, confusion, or pasworth. What’s authentically valuable about you? sive-aggressive manipulation. In fact, I suspect it could LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If I were your mentor or your turn out to be among the most graceful ordeals you’ve guide, I’d declare this the Leo Makeover Season. First I’d ever experienced -- and a prototype for the type of hire a masseuse or masseur to knead you firmly and breakthrough that I hope will become standard in the tenderly. I’d send you to the nutritionist, stylist, dream months and years to come. Imagine being able to learn interpreter, trainer, and life coach. I’d brainstorm with valuable lessons and make crucial transitions without the people who know you best to come up with sugges- the prod of woe and gloom. Imagine being able to say, tions for how to help free you from your illusions and as musician P.J. Harvey said about herself, “When I’m infuse your daily rhythm with twenty percent more hap- contented, I’m more open to receiving inspiration. I’m piness. I’d try to talk you out of continuing your associa- most creative when I feel safe and happy.” tion with anyone or anything that’s no damn good for PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Kalevala is a 19th-cenyou. In conclusion, I’d be thorough as I worked to get tury book of poetry that conveys the important mytholyou unlocked, debugged, and retooled. ogy and folklore of the Finnish people. It was a wellVIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “It takes an extraordinary spring of inspiration for English writer J. R. R. Tolkien as person to carry themselves as if they do not live in hell,” says writer D. Bunyavong. In accordance with the he composed his epic fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. To enhance his ability to steal ideas from *The astrological omens, I nominate you Virgos to fit that Kalevala,* Tolkien even studied the Finnish language. description in the coming weeks. You are, in my estiHe said it was like “entering a complete wine-cellar mation, as far away from hell as you’ve been in a long time. If anyone can seduce, coax, or compel heaven to filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavor never tasted before.” According to my reading of come all the way down to earth for a while, it’s you. the astrological omens, Pisces, in 2018 you will have Here’s a good way to get the party started: Gaze into the potential of discovering a source that’s as rich for the mirror until you spy the eternal part of yourself. you as Finnish and The Kalevala were for Tolkien.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In accordance with the astroHomework: I’ve gathered all of the long-term, big-picture logical omens, I encourage you to move the furniture around. If you feel inspired, you might even want to horoscopes I wrote for you: http://bit.ly/YourGloriousStory2018.

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE PROBATE COURT SANTA FE COUNTY No. 2017-0226 IN THE MATTER OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN ESTATE OF Colin Alexander THE PROBATE COURT SANTA FE COUNTY Pharr, DECEASED. No. 2017-0219 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THE ESTATE OF Juliet L. that the undersigned has Campbell, DECEASED. been appointed personal NOTICE TO CREDITORS representative of this estate.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN All persons having claims that the undersigned has against this estate are required been appointed personal to present their claims within representative of this estate. two (2) months after the All persons having claims against this estate are required date of the first publication of this notice, or the claims to present their claims within will be forever barred. Claims four (4) months after the date of the first publication must be presented either to of this notice, or the claims the undersigned personal will be forever barred. Claims representative at the address must be presented either to listed below, or filed with the the undersigned personal Probate Court of Santa Fe, representative at the address County, New Mexico, located listed below, or filed with the at the following address: Probate Court of Santa Fe, 102 Grant Ave., County, New Mexico, located Santa Fe, NM 87501. at the following address: 102 Dated: Jan 2, 2018.

Grant Ave., Santa Fe, NM Jo Burdeau 87501. Dated: Dec. 12, 2017.

9546 Calle Diaz Way #515 A. Rachel Pfiefle Carolina, PR 00979 P.O. Box 213 Loon Lake, WA 99148 505-660-6994 505-577-5384 STATE OF NEW MEXICO STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF COURT A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF IN THE MATTER OF A NAME OF Stanley Louis Smith PETITION FOR CHANGE OF Case No.: D-101-CV-2017-03583 NAME OF Kimber Lee Marsin NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME Case No.: D-101-CV-2017-03601 TAKE NOTICE that in NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME accordance with the provisions TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. seq. the Petitioner Stanley 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq.

Louis Smith will apply to the Petitioner Kimber Lee the Honorable GREGORY S. Marsin will apply to the SHAFFER, District Judge of Honorable RAYMOND Z. ORTIZ, District Judge of the the First Judicial District at the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 9:00 a.m. on New Mexico, at 10:00 a.m. on the 31st day of January, 2018 the 12th day of January, 2018 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Stanley Louis OF NAME from Kimber Lee Smith to Shawn Louis Smith.

Marsin to Nameh Kimber STEPHEN T. PACHECO, Marsin.

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LEGAL NOTICES ALL OTHERS Region IX Education Cooperative on behalf of the New Mexico Public Education Department’s Indian Education Division seeks to contract with a Native American Talent Scout who will play a significant role in realizing the NMPED’s Indian Education Division’s vision and mission through active recruitment.

They will perform the steps and leadership necessary to build the Native American Educator Pathway program to address the issue of Native American teacher shortage in NM PED’s (23) Nativeserving school districts dispersed across the state of New Mexico. ?For more information and details on submitting interest, please see the posting on our website: https://www.rec9nm.org/ RFP18006 STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF PAUL WILLIAM GRACE, Deceased.

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Jan 19 7:30-8:30pm FREE Santa Fe Community Yoga Center 826 Cam. de Monte Rey Suite B-1 If you like Ganesh, chant AUM Where are you stuck?

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