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In my design business we work to ensure customer satisfaction. The lenders at Century Bank made sure that my business loan was the right fit. Century is MY BANK.
NEWS 7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6 WEED FOR PEOPLE 9 A new documentary chronicles the lengths families go to in order to treat pediatric cancer with cannabis FULL STEAM AHEAD 11 The oil and gas boom has put tons of money into rainy-day funds; like Office Space, but with state coffers—and totally legal COVER STORY 12 SFR WRITING CONTEST The winners shouldn’t have said this, but ... luckily for us, they did THE ENTHUSIAST 21 TRAIL QUEEN Heather Anderson has hiked all three of America’s scenic trails in one calendar year— the first ever woman to do so
28 THRIFT STORE TREASURE When Santa Fean JJ Frank bought an old reel-toreel tape at a Goodwill in California 20 years ago, he had no idea it was a real-deal unreleased Carole King album. Now, with some help from Jono Manson, it might finally see the light of day. Cover design by Anson Stevens-Bollen artdirector@sfreporter.com
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THE INTERFACE, NOV. 28: “SHOP ‘TIL THEY DROP”
ARE YOU NOT OUTRAGED? I never buy from Amazon. I think of all the small businesses that Amazon has put out of business; I think of all the abuse Amazon workers have endured just for a job; I wonder why one person needs so much money at the expense of so many others; I hate when I am trying to buy something online and all that comes up is Amazon or I read reviews of products and then they just want to bring me to Amazon. There are other companies out there. Does this bother other people too? Do people care about or want a monopoly?
ment every paycheck. Now it seems as though I won’t get my retirement back. The ERB system doesn’t let you cash out or roll your retirement into an IRA until you leave the profession. So basically what you pay in is being held hostage. I should be able to roll my money into an IRA and pay into it what I want. I’m pretty fed up with the sad state of affairs in education. More accountability with less compensation.
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LIVING’S EXPENSIVE “A few years ago, the state diverted money designated for pension funds to help patch huge holes in the state budget.” And therein lies the problem. Why should we public retirees take the hit for something we aren’t responsible for? ... When I retired, I went three and a half years before I saw a COLA. And the idea that COLAs are too low is laughable. Has anyone priced peanut butter or eggs lately? Not to mention vehicles!
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Artist Michal Rovner is a woman, and her work SFR referenced in last week’s AC (“Digital Underground,” Nov. 28) is titled “Dahui.” SFR misidentified her gender and misspelled the title of the work; we regret the errors.
TEACHERS DESERVE MORE I am a 23-year veteran teacher. It seems everyone wants to keep taking from us. A decrease in cost of living funds? Our miniscule salary bumps don’t even come close to the increasing cost of living. I pay lots into retire-
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SANTA FE EAVESDROPPER “Oh, what a cute little downtown.” —Overheard from a patronizing tourist outside the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi “In those days, they didn’t have a hospital in Los Alamos, so I had to come to Santa Fe to be born.” —Overheard at a local gym Send your Overheard in Santa Fe tidbits to: eavesdropper@sfreporter.com SFREPORTER.COM
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TUMBLR TO BAN ALL ADULT CONTENT AS OF DEC. 17 And so it was that tumblr ceased to have any relevance.
SEATTLE DEVELOPER BUILDING HOMES IN SANTA FE You can’t afford them, but now you know it’s happening.
SANTA FE ARCHDIOCESE FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY Is this the part where we’re supposed to feel bad for an entity that knowingly harbored sexual abusers?
GEORGE HW BUSH DIES Cue revisionist history and postdeath respect for a champion of homophobia.
SANTA FE PRIDE KICKS OFF NEW COMMUNITY CENTER OFF RUFINA STREET Sorry, Bush!
ALBERTSON’S AT DEVARGAS CENTER IS ALL FANCY NOW It’s kind of like a poor man’s Meow Wolf, but with produce.
NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS CONTINUES SANBUSCO RENOVATIONS We assume we probably can’t just go hang out there and read comics like when Borders was around, right?
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Weed for People Medical cannabis gets the Ricki Lake treatment in new documentary
LEFT: Chico Ryder, a boy diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, used cannabis oil to successfully treat his cancer. BOTTOM: The family of Sophie Ryan, a baby diagnosed with optic pathway glioma, gathers around cannabis plants to pray.
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f you’re a regular reader of SFR, the subject of medical cannabis can feel innocuous, or even passé. Fact is, however, that even though 32 states have medical cannabis, a certain aversion to it still exists among some medical professionals. Even worse is the generalized ignorance in the scientific community about how cannabinoids interact with the body. Enter filmmakers Abby Epstein and Ricki Lake, who’ve spent the last six years working on a film called Weed the People. Yes, it’s that Ricki Lake, the one who hosted the daytime namesake talk show in the late ’90s and early aughts, and with whom independent documentary filmmaker Epstein has worked in the past. In their latest contribution to cinema, both women have immersed themselves in the trend wherein high-profile celebrities lend their social clout to cannabis in an effort to wash away the stigma it’s carried for nearly a century. Others in this camp include Sanjay Gupta, the neurosurgeon and CNN contributor who has sung the praises of medical cannabis since 2013, and dozens of former professional-league athletes. Lake says the idea for the film began with her late husband, a native of Farmington, New Mexico. Back in 2012, Lake’s husband “was on a mission to relieve chronic pain and emotional ailments, and researching the medicine himself,” Lake tells SFR. After
stumbling across the story of a young girl on a similar mission, Lake says Epstein approached her about the possibility of turning the idea into a film. Weed the People follows the journeys of five families, most of whom are unfamiliar with medical cannabis, as they seek treatment for their children suffering
If we have a natural substance that might potentially be a serious tool against cancer, how in the world could it be taken away and suppressed from people? -Abby Epstein, filmmaker
from various kinds of cancers. Josh and Tracey Ryan, for example, were adamantly opposed to using any form of cannabis for their baby Sophie, who suffered from optic pathway glioma, until they found a pro-cannabis community of parents on Facebook and decided to give it a try. The struggles of some children featured in the film are difficult to watch. We see Chico, for example, a preteen with a chest full of tumors, doped up on methadone and sobbing in pain during chemotherapy. Another boy, AJ, had already had so many surgeries as a child that the fingers on one of his hands had semi-permanently curled inward by the time he was 17, so that he had to modify a computer game for accessibility. In the end, both kids end up cancerfree. Chico has one of the fastest recovery rates of the kids in the film. After less than a year on a cannabis regimen closely monitored by his mother and a selfdescribed cannabis pediatric physician, all his tumors are gone. His hair has grown back and the 14-year-old is nearly unrecognizable as a camera follows him to class on his first day of school (where, ironically enough, a teacher advises students not to wear any clothing that may feature cannabis leaves). The trajectories of other children featured in the film, almost all of whom live in California, aren’t all happy. Filmmakers follow the tragic story of a different AJ, the only African-American child in the film, as his parents relocate to California from Chicago for easier access to cannabis. The boy’s diagnosis is diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, a highly fatal form of cancer in the brain stem, and by the film’s end the family has buried him. Epstein explains that filmmakers took “a gamble” with this kind of film, in which any of the children could have died—but
the fact that the only person to die was black felt like a missed opportunity to delve into how non-white people are systemically underserved by the medical profession, with or without cannabis. Baby Sophie also has an uneven experience, with her tumor actually growing after initial trials with cannabis. The parents are tearfully forced to subject Sophie to chemo, which she responds to well, and a doctor later tells them her rapid improvement may well be due to the combination of chemotherapy and cannabis oil. Then, an unexpected twist: Tracey takes what she’s learned from the amateur cannabis specialist who’d been helping Sophie, and starts her own line of cannabis oil. The filmmakers captured the transition from desperate parent to cannagrifter exceptionally well, adding texture usually missing from a genre stuffed with warmand-fuzzy affect. In between filming the medical battles of the five families, the filmmakers also travel to Israel and Spain to speak with top medical experts, where there are no federal limits on research into cannabis—unlike in the US. This is ultimately the film’s greatest contribution: Pulling together the latest research from some of the sharpest minds on the subject, telling it through a premium lens on an issue whose time has come. “If we have a natural substance that might potentially be a serious tool against cancer,” Epstein tells SFR, “how in the world could it be taken away and suppressed from people?” WEED THE PEOPLE SCREENING AND PANEL 7 pm Wednesday Dec. 5. $15. The Screen, 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, 428-0209. Guests to include Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino, Emily Kaltenbach and the filmmakers.
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ew Mexico lawmakers may have created a monster. It’s called the Tax Stabilization Reserve Fund, and it’s what would have happened had Dr. Frankenstein tightened those bolts all the way and made the big guy more of a giver. The fund has long existed in some form as a way to scale down the peaks and valleys of New Mexico’s economy, which rides on the waves of oil and gas revenue. But recent changes to state law and how the fund’s money adds up over time have made it a much more meaningful way to surf the waves without getting swamped once the ride is over. In a June opinion letter dutifully published by the Albuquerque Journal, Gov. Susana Martinez wrote that the state was set to deposit more than $20 million into the fund “a year ahead of expectations.” The governor and others may have been off by more than an order of magnitude, doubled. A frenetic run-up of oil prices at the end of the fiscal year that ended just three weeks after the governor wrote her op-ed means the state expects to push about $500 million into the fund from last year’s revenue alone. How much money the fund gets is determined by the size of the state budget and existing “operational” reserves. Since the budget year starts a few months after the Legislature leaves the Capitol, lawmakers are always looking into the future. Operational reserves are a hedge. Any revenue collected beyond those reserves gets marked for the fund—a backup to a backup. State Sen. John Arthur Smith, D-Deming, says as soon as lawmakers left the building after the legislative session last February, they started to get wind of the growing oil boom, and the funding windfall that might come along with it.
Full Steam Ahead New Mexico’s emergency reserves are flush with cash for the next recession
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“I immediately got a call from a person in oil and gas who said, ‘I can’t tell you exactly how much you’re going to get from oil and gas, but I can tell you it’s going to be a sinful amount,’” Smith tells SFR. His tipster looks to have been right. The fund is in line for another infusion because of a change made by lawmakers in 2017. It directs a tax on oil and gas drilling into the fund, and is likely to send another $135 million its way this year. And when legislators gather next week to hear new revenue estimates, they’re likely to get still more good news: A continued oil boom—though prices are down now—may still pump hundreds of millions more into the fund. Instead of having $15-$20 million as expected, the Tax Stabilization Reserve Fund could amass much more than $1 billion in just two years to help weather an economic storm. To show how wildly beyond expectations that is, consider that in 2017, the late Rep. Larry Larrañaga, R-Albuquerque, pitched lawmakers on the plan by telling them at the end of a string of relatively lean years that the state would have had $365 million to put
toward a downturn, had the plan been in place for the past decade. That kind of financial security could have helped prop up the state’s bond ratings, saving money on the hundreds of millions of dollars New Mexico borrows each year to pay for things like schools, senior centers and libraries. That $365 million over 10 years looks like a comparative drop in the bucket now. It doesn’t seem likely lawmakers will allow all that cash to make its way to the fund after they’ve put together next year’s budget. By design, it’s a true rainy day fund. The money is much harder to get at, giving the Legislature a reason to spend it rather than letting it grow indefinitely. To access the fund requires one of two scenarios. The governor can make an emergency declaration and a majority of both houses of the Legislature votes to support her. Or, lawmakers can cobble together a two-thirds majority in both houses and get at the money. At the very least, though, the money from last year and the expected tax revenue this year will go into the fund, boosting its total to more than $600 million in just two years.
These are projections, but with each passing day, analysts and economists become more certain of those numbers. The fund may grow even more. Right now, the State Treasurer’s Office invests it and earns about 2 percent. The advantage of that system is the money is ready at a moment’s notice. The disadvantage is that it’s not earning as much as it could. “It has been suggested by several [people] that we should consider investing this on behalf of the state. And we’re happy to do that if that is your will,” State Investment Officer Steve Moise told a legislative panel last week. Moise’s office manages almost $24 billion in permanent funds for the state. Because they can look a bit further down the road for investments, his analysts think they could keep the money accessible and double the return, if not more, without taking on much more risk. Moise made a point of saying he’s not advocating a takeover, only offering the services of his office. The Investments and Pensions Oversight Committee agreed to endorse a bill to let Moise’s office do that, and also to put any earnings back into reserves instead of generating money to spend immediately. “Right now, it actually becomes part of the general fund,” State Rep. Tomás Salazar, D-Las Vegas, tells SFR. He chairs the committee and plans to carry the bill next month. “There’s nothing wrong with that, that’s great as well, but I think the hope was to reinvest in the rainy day fund.” It’s not clear Moise’s bosses at the State Investment Council will be completely on board with taking over, but the difference could mean an extra $20$30 million in earnings every year on the fund—adding each year to a fund that could weather the rainiest of days and provide financial backup for the state for years to come.
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Writing Contest 2018
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ome years, the theme of SFR’s annual writing contest is flippant, and we get jovial responses that reflect how much fun it can be to write your heart. Not so this year. The theme “I shouldn’t say this, but …” evoked some serious and deep reflections. This is how our hearts are right now; it’s part of the highs and lows of life. We’re honored that our readers showed this courage, vulnerability and creativity. Blind judges picked the same fiction winner as last year’s contest, and again we’re treated to a sort of tangled romance from Jennifer Edelson. Second-place winner Tori Shepard grapples with suicide and a beloved Santa Fe ritual. Darlene Goering’s piece is a cautionary tale with just enough left undone. In the nonfiction category, Isaiah Cisneros gets raw with his personal essay, in which he discusses the emotional scars of military service and the definition of masculinity. Mario Gonzales focuses on feminine energy as he tells of his “two Marias,” and lastly, Mario Montoya hits on life with humans when you’re not exactly what society expects. Special thanks to all who entered, and we look forward to hearing from more of you again in the spring poetry contest, or for next fall’s fiction and nonfiction contests. First place winners receive $100; second place winners get $50 in gift certificates from Chocolate Maven; third place winners receive gift certificates from Macalicious.
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Existential Love Story BY JENNIFER EDELSON
The cedar sauna is pitch black inside, like an ink stain that never dries despite the heat. To navigate, I keep one hand on planks of blistering grooved wood, until I find a flat surface directly in front of me. Evan plops down and pulls me up against his body and the jolt loosens a little air bubble from between my lips. “Do you love me?” He asks. I want to say I think so, but don’t answer. He kisses my neck, and my mind wanders from song lyric to song lyric, following a chain of associations. I sing, “Love, love will tear us apart again …” until Evan kisses me quiet. His hands explore fleshy planes of fat and skin. And though I feel him tangibly, in the hot dark sauna, I can’t help wondering if he’s a figment of my imagination. My pounding heart fills the boxy room. The space feels like it’s expanding, but my skin still puckers in anticipation. Evan’s touch is electrifying, and as he lays me back against the hot bench and rests his weight on top of me, my body arches up to meet him. Evan says my heart is like a motel vacancy sign; sometimes the lights are on, sometimes nothing. That I should care more about who or what occupies each room. It’s soul-crushing to think he questions my commitment. He’s more a part of me than anyone. “What are you thinking about?” He
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asks. “You’re not just some transient lodger,” I whisper. “You sure?” “Yes. Plus, the ‘motel’ is in ruins. Maybe now it’ll shut down permanently.” I want Evan to know he’s the only person who makes sense of life in a way I understand. That we may not agree on things like God or children, but that he exists in a way I respect, and that because of it, I admire him. But it’s really late and knowing I may never be able to tell him makes me want to run as far away as possible. Evan kisses me again. His kisses travel down my neck along with his hand, which scrunches up my tee shirt above my stomach. I really need him to know how I feel, so though I only mean to take off my shirt, somehow, he manages to get me naked beneath him. He takes off his own clothes, then takes my hand and shows me his soft spots until all sorts of agreeable emotions come flooding out of me. In the dark Evan’s body makes no sense. Muscle and bone push against tight skin like well-placed padding, defining long limbs and slender torso. Under my fingers they’re like guideposts; staking out boundaries between voyage-worthy destinations. “Don’t worry,” he says, “I know you’re not into it tonight. I just want to touch you.” “You think I’m empty?” I whisper. “No, baby. I think you’re amazing.” Evan closes my eyes with his fingertips and traces a pattern across my upper chest with his index finger, back and forth between the hollows above my collarbone. He recites travel facts from National Geographic as he walks his fingers over my stomach, and it’s so sexy. For a moment, we are one. The ghost
in Evan is the ghost in me, if ghost is what it is. Evan knows my ghosts better than anyone. We move against each other, but my mind goes into hyperdrive. Instead of focusing on Evan’s touch, I think about my dinner earlier, about the life my cod probably lived—swimming thousands of miles, chasing Russian submarines. It’s upsetting knowing I snuffed out those memories. Just like that, I destroyed another unique, irreplaceable thing. I think about the difference between me and Jupiter. How she’s composed of the same electrical impulses that travel through my body; how I’m made up of the same iron, and oxygen, and energy. It makes me sad. Four billion years of inertia would drive me crazy. I think about snowmen. How futile it must feel to sit paralyzed while your body melts away, and just when you’ve started living. I think about petrified trees and the millions of years’ worth of experiences they’ll never share with me. I think about how small I am, about how little space must care that I’m out here. I obsess about relativity and it screws with my head, because knowing I’m so inconsequential sometimes makes it hard to endure. I think about ghosts, and aliens, and ESP. How thousands of people can’t all be liars, how my inner skeptic excels at canceling out belief. I think about Jack the Ripper and the Zodiac Killer. Did they believe in anything? I think about how every day, someone dies in a car accident, or drowns in the shallow end of their pool, or chokes on a carrot. How it’s all completely random. I worry about people dying from yellow fever and food-borne germs. I worry about environmental diseases. I think about earthquakes destroying California and a 30-mile-wide asteroid hitting earth while I sleep. I wonder if a tidal wave can make it all the way from the beach to the city. Then I realize I really should quit thinking. I’m more likely to worry myself to death, which would be its own catastrophe. “Maybe we should stop,” Evan says softly, interrupting my ruminating. “I can tell you’re somewhere else.” “I’m trying,” I whisper. “I’m just anxious tonight.” “Try for you,” he says sort of thoughtfully. “I’ll be here no matter what as long as you’re honest with me.” He props himself up and rests rigidly on his elbows, feeling around my body for a box of cigarettes. “Open your heart, babe,” he says as he sits up. “Whatever it is you’re looking for, you’ll find it eventually.” “What if I die in a car crash before I do?”
“I don’t think I know how to love you, Evan.” I flick my lighter to see his face better. Tainted by an orange glow, it looks strange and distant—like he sees through me and doesn’t exactly like what’s behind the veil. “Do you regret anything?” he asks. “I regret lots of things,” I say softly. “Marrying me?” “No.” I shrug. “I don’t think so.” “You won’t at all, one day,” he whispers. “How do you know?” “Because I do. One day we’ll be an epic story. I’ll be that enigmatic boy who played the guitar and won your heart over a pool table. Tonight, right here, will be the first time you looked outside yourself and saw it all clearly. The thing is, babe, everyone has to lose it a little to move forward. Someday, I promise you, you’ll understand there isn’t a thing in this world you’d rather do than live in it with me.” In the dark, as he grasps my hand and uses it to stroke his cheek, I already know in this amorphous way that though the road ahead is my own, I really don’t mind sharing. We may be opposites. But we can love each other differently. I just have to find a way to show him I want it to work. I flick my lighter again and hold it up, meeting his eyes. If I remember anything about tonight, it will be this moment. The way Evan looks in the glow of my flame. I will remember he looks happy. I will remember that I love his smell—a mix of cigarettes, leather, sweat and wood—and what it does to me. We exchange gazes void of awkward pauses or paralyzing insecurity. It’s all there in his eyes. Evan already knows I believe we’re an epic story. He’s just waiting for me to voice the ending. Jennifer Edelson is a local artist, writer, former attorney, Bollywood fanatic and pizza connoisseur. You can find her art and some of her writing on all the finest refrigerator doors in New Mexico.
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“That’s what you’re thinking about?” Evan lights a cigarette. Orange flecking glows in the pitch room, leaving a stubborn imprint. We sit and stare at it in silence for a minute, until his hand searches for me on the wooden ledge, finding a space for his thumb right between two of my ribs. “What if?” He asks. “You’re looking for absolutes that don’t exist. Statistically speaking, 94 percent unlikely may be the best you ever get. And I’d take those odds, honestly.” “Statistics are meaningless when it comes to humans. That 6 percent still represents flesh and blood people. And given all the horrible things out there, there’s a whole lot of numerically improbable slots to fill.” “That’s partly what makes life exciting, don’t you think?’ “No, it’s too uncertain. What if there really is a right path and I never find it? I need a guidebook,” I tell him. Evan laughs. “Guess you’re out of luck, babe. But it’s not okay to wait and do nothing until you figure it out. You have to play to win. Meaning is a romantic notion, but it’s also pretty academic when it’s still just a word.” “I’m going to screw up, Evan.” “If you didn’t screw up, I’d worry about you.” I hesitate, because I know I shouldn’t say it. “Maybe I’m not the kind of person who can love someone.” “Do you love me?” Wiping little beads of sweat off my chin, I say, “I love the way saltwater feels when it’s tacky and foul after it dries on my skin. And the way sunburned skin feels snug, like it’s holding everything inside me together. I love peeing when I’ve waited for an eternity. I love the smell of hot tar on a hot day. And the way the airport smells all the time, but especially airplane exhaust in winter. I love the way orange and blue look together. I love the words ‘discipline’ and ‘debris.’ And I really love Taco Bell tacos. But I honestly don’t know what it feels like to love a human.” “This.” He grasps my arm gently. “This is what it feels like.” I frown again, then sigh. It’s Evan all the way for the win. “What’s really in that head of yours, sandwiched between all your fear and uncertainty? What’s so important you can’t just lie back and stop thinking?” The stubby end of my own cigarette burns all the way down to the filter. I take another one out of its box and then scoot away from him, because I don’t want to be close enough to feel it when I hurt his feelings.
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The Burning of Zozobra BY TORI SHEPARD
We gathered on the bridge and cast half my son’s ashes over the edge. God knows I tried to hold him back! We fought, then screamed for him not to jump when he shucked me off, old coat. His hand wrenched out of mine. I cradle the other half of his ashes, and I can never sleep. Unnatural mother. All the old concerns that were about losing Zack are now about me. That I am too needy and my desolation must come to an end. You’ll get past it. “Pull up your socks.” I’ve stopped listening to them. Please be gentle with me about this. My friends have dropped me. These days, I talk to strangers. One reminded me, “Fiesta is next week.” I’m happy to get my mind away from myself and to contemplate the simplicity of the processions and Masses celebrating New Mexico’s 1692 Spanish Reconquista. All Spanish still alive when the Pueblo Indians rampaged fled into a 12-year exile, carrying their willow-wood statue of the Blessed Virgin which their Captain Don Diego de Vargas solemnly promised to restore as the true Mistress of Santa Fe if She would lead them back. She was renamed La Conquistadora. “You remember how we burn the celebrated effigy, Zozobra, first? Then there is a Gran Baile–dancing all night,” the excited stranger explains. “Each day we have ceremonies to venerate the statue of La Conquistadora.” If I were Catholic, I, for one, would certainly trust the Mother of God—or any
other mother who has lost a son. “Everyone especially loves Zozobra,” he says. “He’s ‘Old Man Gloom’ and when he burns, he takes our sorrows with him.” I nod. Smile. Zozobra is Spanish for sorrow. He is a 50-foot giant puppet fashioned to be his own kindling. He turns troubles to ash. Setting fire to misery strikes another chord in me. I smile again. “Zozobra is a great show: He moans. He is made to burn; he’s our pain; he is all of our nemeses.” Odd that they burn Gloom now at the rich end of summer when the weather is sweetest, no longer bleak and frozen. But that’s the way of this town, and tomorrow we will gather in a field for the bonfire yelling “Burn Him! Kill Him!” And, once Zozobra and our troubles are destroyed, the revelry commences: Viva La Fiesta! A week of dancing and drunken songs will burst forth uncomplicated by the morning Masses and candlelight processions. I intend to go. For company, I called Ashleigh to join me. “No way! I hate Zozobra,” Ashleigh said. “It’s just a mob scene. Dumb.” “But everyone loves it!” “I hate crowds!” she said, and I step back. I need crowds. My relationships (even with myself ) have slowly shifted so that I can no longer be alone. Ten thousand tickets have been pre-sold. “Call me if you change your mind,” I said. No way Ashleigh can know I have actually pinned my hopes on that trick, trumped-up Zozobra, counting on that newspaper-stuffed marionette to dull the feel of losing hold of my son’s hand and his endless scream bursting out, growing more complex the farther he fell into the gorge. I remember it as a searing pitch echoing off the granite CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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sides, echoes compounding his screams, echoes answering those echo-screams until the last hopeful crescendo began the echoes’ demise; the echoes, manifold echoes fading. Fading until human ears fail, the tangled sounds cease. Stopped. Except in my head, in my skull bones, in my hairs. Ashleigh is from Dallas. She never speaks of my terrible loss but she’s heard the whispers. “Poor dear …” I still feel rudderless—wandering the streets— finding Zack in each passing car. I admit I’m crazed. At first, they said, “Get it out—talking is good.” Later, they wearied and backed off, murmuring, “Stop beating yourself up.” I have been told, “Get a grip on yourself.” They accuse me of indulging myself. “It’s been over two years.” To comply, I swallowed worthless Ativan, Ambien, Aleve, anything to still echoing screams. Zack became a forbidden word. I could not utter his name. “Get rid of his clothes! Call Goodwill. You’ll be so relieved.” I’ll be relieved when Zozobra burns … So, I wrote his name on a prayer flag slip of silk and gave it to man tightening long metal wires, Zozobra’s stays. “May I give you my sadness to burn?” “Yeah. Okay, okay,” he said, looking up from his work. He stood, his hand open. He expects people to bring him requests. “Here,” I said, “can you tie it to the wire with the Roman candles?” Before the end, and causing the end, these candles flame and run flashing up the wire, each igniting each, a length of silvery flame to mercifully put an end to Zozobra and his wild moaning. ”Yeah, that’ll work. No problem.” He took my scribbled silk and tied it. After he did, he smiled kindly at me. “Death in the family,” I said. “Happens a lot,” and he nodded, “yeah, a lot these days.” This night, virtually half the town has turned out. I hear no murmurs about me.
No one here knows me and if I need to, I can talk about Zack. Although people often wander off before I finish my story. I talk of my shame, even before they shake me off. Zack was 17, a difficult age for boys. Sure he was difficult, teenagers are difficult. But mine died. His stuff is still in the house. Skateboards in the shed. Half his ashes … My heart grieves; my plans have not worked out. Nothing drowns the echoes of his scream. I am frozen, hoping for relief when I launch myself among these 40,000 neighbors, their children on their shoulders riding high above for the view. Their children in strollers.
Their children who are alive. I follow. Watching. The Fiesta Queen smiles to all of us, crowned as much for her family line as her black-haired beauty. She stands regally with this year’s appointed FiestaConquistador, Don Diego de Vargas, a vanquisher of hearts in his tin helmet. Across the crowd, rock boom-boom music surges. Where are the mariachi? I need songs to help me hound my ghosts. Everyone knows boy ghosts hate mariachi. Screens pulse colors and video patterns hit me but the boom box droning drags me back to the day on the gorge
bridge, to the families driving past—their music pounding. Seven low-riding cars, slowing but not stopping, deaf to the huddle at the railing, pleading, arguing, “No Zack, DON’T!” Their windows open, they could not hear our shrieking. “Yo!” they signaled, accelerating on the far side, their music pounding the asphalt. “Zack, come back!” Two senseless months waiting for the stupid OMI to certify the cause of death. I grew hoarse repeating how he slipped my grip, falling backwards into his scream. How his body exploded. Painlessly, I interrupt. P.A.I.N.L.E.S.S.L.Y. do you hear me? Ahh, Zozobra! The crowd is restless. BURN HIM, BURN HIM! Get this show off the fucking ground. “BURN HIM!” Zozobra moans, stalling. I join in. As a mob we call for fire, for cremation. Cremated like Zack after the rescue workers winched up his parts yard by yard up to the bridge and me. At last, the Fire Dancer comes to execute Zozobra. She flings her torch at him. Fire! Strings of flares run groundup and my silken ribbon catches. These downward candles spill their sparkles in fountains. But the 50-foot effigy is slow to catch. “Burn him, for God’s sake!” Fireworks. Bright silver tourbillon comets splash the sky in splinters of prism colors. Gold, ruby, sapphire and emerald. Stretching always up, I regard the dazzled sky. I can breathe now. I can almost bear the present. Large golden willow fireworks and dancing butterflies are set off. Next the thunder candles. BURN HIM, BURN HIM. Missiles, parachutes and wheelies tease the crowd waiting for the Hasta La Vista Baby fountain. And underneath the luster, Zozobra burns; his wire frame is now an X-ray. Our sorrows and depression turn to ash. It is exhilarating. I am floating up. My brother was sailing one night un-
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Writing Contest der the Golden Gate Bridge when he saw a man falling, his clothes flapping like a shot bird. His screams, if there were any, were lost in the roar of the wind and the heavy rushing the water. Charlie came about swiftly. “Take the tiller!” he ordered, and dove into the churning bay tides. On the rise of a wave, he caught a
I grew hoarse repeating how he slipped my grip, falling backwards into his scream.
view of the body slipping away, down a trough. His wife threw him a rope and masterfully, they managed the difficult rescue. Was he drowned? Blankets were brought, they stripped the body, undressed and wrapped him. His carotid artery weirdly palpitated. Charlie shivered, exultant, and tugged his own sodden clothes off. “Unbelievable! Call 911—get an ambulance!” They made for the closest dock. Hours, days passed. No one knew his name. Splinted and restrained, he shed his coma, and a white room organized into his focus. All heavenly white. He heard choirs, the music of the Spheres. When an angel drifted in, her shoes squeaked like a rubber bath toy. His mirage sickened. “Please tell me I died.” He pleaded with her. “No, you’re lucky to be alive, buddy.
Damned lucky.” “Lucky?” As soon as he fled the hospital, he fired a gun into his mouth. I feel like crying. Crying for me. Zozobra has turned to ashes, the crowd is ecstatic. They were never blood-thirsty. The grand finale bouquet shoots a ransom of jewels, taunting the star-crowded sky now. Forty thousand people cheer, shoulders to my shoulder. The heart-ratcheting thrills will fade tomorrow, lingering in the mind. Like Zack, lost but still in me. His terror screams soften some. They pulse a new note of promised rapture, staking out his bed in the leaves and flowers of poetry, warmed by flames of blistering love. This is all a trick of my mind, more of my madness. I do know that much. For me, it’s less Zozobra than the fireworks. In them I see fresh-dead souls streaming up, flashing back to rejoin the stars of their birth. They light the route. Marvelous that rockets take their splendid colors from Zack’s young bones—his potassium makes violet, calcium is the orange, yellow is sodium and iron makes gold. White is his magnesium. I see him abandon my grip, falling, floating into the retreating galaxies; he is part star now. Yes, even on moonless nights, I pick out shadows under the trees from the light that comes from light years away. Stars are that mighty. Tori Shepard has a masters degree in writing and has published articles, short stories and two historical novels about Santa Fe, where she has lived since the ’70s.
3rd PLACE
Remember BY DARLENE GOERING
I woke to the sounds of screaming machinery in the street below. As I opened
my eyes, I was relieved to find myself in my own bed that morning. When I woke on those other mornings, I was overcome with dread and unable to hide my desperation. The not knowing was the hardest part. Not knowing how I left the bar. Not knowing how many drinks. Not knowing her name. Not knowing where I put his watch. The nights would remain a blur, long after the awkward “good morning” and the obligatory “I’ll call you sometime.” I looked across my dimly lit bedroom toward the windows and the noise, and winced at the sunlight peeking around the curtains. What time was it and where was that watch? I wished I had closed the curtains all the way the night before. That last night. What happened that last night? When I sat up, I realized I was naked. My head pounded as if to remind me to try to remember the night before. My mouth felt like it was filled with cotton. My face hurt. I needed water and some ibuprofen but first I needed to find my watch, the only thing my dad left me. My clothes were strewn across the room, my wrinkled shirt by the bed, my pants over the chair, my shoes by the window. Everything had the air of being removed with haste and placed without thought. My watch was on the floor by my shoes. I rose to retrieve it, trying not to aggravate my head even more. I moved like my dad used to, after the chemotherapy’s aggressive assault on his body. Throughout it all, his mind and spirit had stayed strong, but his body failed him. As habit after one of these nights, I started to berate myself for drinking like I had no need for this body anymore. Like I had given up my life for whatever comes next. My dad would not be proud. I walked across the floor eyeing my clothes, as if they emitted clues. I remembered buying a round of drinks at the bar for me and my buddies. One
round turned into two which turned into I don’t remember much more than that. As I reached down for my watch, I saw the blood spattered on my shoes. That’s when I remembered the woman in the bar. I noticed her despite the close crowd and the distracting music. She had the most perfect smile I’d ever seen. I remembered staring at her mouth as she sipped her wine. She wore a ruby red lipstick that left a perfect impression on the rim of her glass. I watched as the shape of her lips shifted with every word she spoke. In my drunken state, I had a sudden urge to kiss her. And that hair, that long beautiful black hair. So black, it reflected blue from the overhead lights. There was a man with her. They were leaning into each other and talking, intimate and flirty, taking turns talking into each other’s ear. He noticed me looking at her but I didn’t care. I felt emboldened by the vodka. “Where are you going?” my friend Charlie said as I rose from the table. I downed the remainder of my drink, waved a hand in his direction, and stumbled through the crowd. As I approached her, I tucked in my shirt and pushed the hair out of my face. I wasn’t sure what I was going to say to her but I would figure that out when I opened my mouth. What came out is not what I expected. “Excuse me.” It was slurred and wet. I tried to compose myself, tried to stand without swaying, tried to speak without spitting. “I shouldn’t say this, but you are the most beautiful woman I’ve ever laid eyes on.” They had stopped talking to each other. He was glaring at me through thick glasses, which made his attempt at fierceness almost comical. She was smiling. “I hope this guy you’re with,” I said as I gestured to her friend without taking my eyes off of her, “shows you the kind of respect a woman like you deserves. If he CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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doesn’t, I’ll be sitting right over there, waiting for you.” I pointed to the table where all of my friends were staring at me, drinks held mid-air, mouths agape. That’s when the man punched me in the face. I didn’t see it coming. I didn’t think he had it in him. I remember the bright light from the instant pain of his fist hitting me solidly in the nose. The blood on my shoes was my own. I pushed the curtains aside. The sun was already intense, the room was already too warm. I turned around and that’s when I saw her. I was startled because I didn’t remember bringing anyone home last night. It was the woman from the bar. I would recognize that hair anywhere. I looked at her still, naked back. Her skin seemed to glow, illuminated by the sunlight filling the room. I didn’t remember her name, assuming we were even properly introduced. I had a feeling we didn’t talk much, although I didn’t remember the sex either. I would let her sleep, maybe make us some coffee. When she woke up, at least we would have cups in our hands to direct our awkward looks. I slipped on my pants and walked around the bed. I wanted to see that mouth that led me to this moment in time. That’s when I saw the pool of blood on the floor. It was coming from her once-beautiful mouth that was now frozen in a scream. I screamed. The air in the room became suffocating. I struggled to breathe, instead, gulping in the thick and rancid smell of clotting blood that filled my mouth and nostrils. I forgot about my pounding head as I stumbled backwards to the bathroom and threw up on the floor. I stood on shaky legs that didn’t want to support my weight anymore. I grabbed a towel from the rack and wiped my mouth. I wanted some water but I knew there would be no washing away the taste of vomit and drying blood, not that morning. Using the edge of the sink for support, I looked at her reflection in the mirror. She was so still. I forced my gaze away from her and looked at my face. I wasn’t surprised to see I had several bruises on my cheeks and nose. I was surprised to see the fresh scratches on my face and neck. I reached up to touch them, trying to trigger my memory. Nothing. My heart started racing again, this time in reaction to how much trouble I was facing. I have done some inane and even dangerous exploits while drunk. I pretended to be a movie star
so I could kiss a girl in a restaurant parking lot. I passed out at my cousin’s wedding reception after vomiting on his bride’s dress. I borrowed my neighbor’s bike and rode it into a lake. I slept with countless women with no intention of calling any of them. But nothing like this. I took a deep breath and turned around to face her. My head was spinning. I was sure she was dead but I needed to do something. I was afraid to go back into the bedroom but I couldn’t stay in the bathroom, surrounded by the stench of vomit and my pathetic reflection. As I approached the bed, I felt like I was floating. I had no sense of my feet touching the carpet until I stepped in the wet pool of blood by the bed. I cringed as it seeped between my toes. I suppressed my urge to throw up again. I willed my hand down toward her face and pushed the hair away from her neck. She was not as cold as I thought she would be. I had to call someone. Anyone. I left a bloody footprint as I walked around the bed to the nightstand to get my phone. I jumped when it started to ring as I reached for it. The caller identification said it was Charlie. He was probably calling to see if I made it home, like he did every time. I would call him later. I hit the call reject button and pushed the phone icon. I don’t recall what I said to the emergency operator. I remember saying the words “not breathing” and “blood” and “so still.” I remember looking at my bloody footprint, fading with each step as I paced the room, waiting, not wanting to leave her but not wanting to stay either. I remember the police arrived first, then the paramedics. I remember the questions “what happened” and “how long” and “what is her name.” I remember the shame of answering “I don’t know” to all of them. I remember watching through thick tears as she was draped with a sheet and wheeled away. Never to smile again. I remember succumbing to being handcuffed and put into the back of a police car while my neighbors gawked and shook their heads in unanimous disgust. I remember the relief that it was over. I remember wearing my watch. My dad would be proud. Darlene Goering is an up-and-coming writer who is working on obtaining her creative writing certificate from Santa Fe Community College. One of her stories was published in Accolades as part of the 2018 SFCC Katie Besser Writing Awards.
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Nowhere Feels Like Home
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NONFICTION
Writing Contest
BY ISAIAH CISNEROS
I feel things. Sometimes feeling things doesn’t feel comfortable, and I am very aware of how redundant that sounds. Feeling feels uncomfortable. I’m a New Mexico native. My father grew up working the fields and animals on the lands his family had worked for generations. In his teens and young adult years he toiled in the mines of Colorado and Northern New Mexico. His hands were rough, calloused from years of hard work for little pay. During the summers we would ride up to the local reservoir in his old rusted Chevy to fish. I’d be bouncing around riding shotgun while he would casually steer, occasionally taking pulls from the small brown bottle he carried with him (“It’s medicine,” he would tell me when I’d ask). We would sit on the bank, mostly listening to the sounds of the water. I must have been about 7 when he started telling me his stories. Stories about working in the mines, about being in the Army and working the fields with the older men when he was a boy. He would cast, reel in the slack off his line, and tell me how his father would punch him across the face at the dinner table when he, a boy of no more than 9, would accidentally forget to say please or thank you. He would take another pull from his bottle and tell me stories about men being crushed to death by falling boulders in the depths of the mine. He told me of a man being crushed by a rock at least twice his size and how his limbs twitched and fluttered, fading echos from a misfiring nervous system. I never asked him why he told me these stories; it never occurred to me to ask. Years went by, I grew up, he and I became estranged. I left that small town and created my own stories. They come from the dust of Camp Pendleton and 29 Palms, from run-down cheap motels and bars in California, and from the wastelands of Iraq. I came home and had children of my own, like my father. Also like my father, my marriage ended in resentful indifference. One day I looked in the mirror and saw his face staring back at me. Except this time I didn’t see my father; I saw the man he was trying to hide. I saw his desperation for release, his need to be understood. I saw that silent living death, writhing on the bathroom floor trying not to vomit. But mostly, I saw the wall. I have no doubt that every man has a wall of one kind or another. It comes in sullen silence, plastic smiles, casual
avoidance. We carry them like one would carry a backpack. Some days the backpack is empty and easier to carry. Other days the backpack is full and it weighs on you, as if you are carrying the weight of ages on your mortal shoulders. And like a backpack, you feel like everyone can see it, and maybe it is something you should be ashamed of. You want to drop this load. You want to free yourself of this unseen burden. There are people you know who would gladly help carry this load, who would be there to relieve you of this terrible weight. But you can’t let them. As a boy, you fall and scrape your knee. “Be tough,” they would say, “boys don’t cry. Be a man.” So you don’t. You swallow your tears and laugh it off. You laugh it off when you get rejected. You laugh it off when you lose your job. You laugh it off when everything depends on you. When you get your heart broken. When you want to fall to the floor, curl up, and weep like a child. You take your feelings and you put them in a box. Then you throw that box into the deepest, darkest hole that is your ocean of secrecy. You keep them there because boys don’t cry. Suck it up. Nobody cares. Deal with it. As time goes on, you forget how to cry. You become conditioned to not feel. When you’re at war you have to become different. You must be as hard, cold and unrelenting as the wasteland in which you are fighting. If you hesitate during the moment of truth you will come home in a thick black bag with a heavy zipper. After being immersed in that environment, you learn how to turn off your soft side. With-
in a couple weeks you forget how to feel the loneliness. The soft negative feelings disappear. It is through this hard mental conditioning that you survive. You wake up day after day, night after night, and somehow you make it home. Somehow you survive the horror and the terror. The wheels of the plane bounce and screech on the runway in Maine and everyone sings a chorus of “mama, I’m coming home” way better than Ozzy ever did. You see your family when you get off the bus, you have that first cold beer and that first American cigarette and nothing has ever tasted so sweet. You find that one special girl and it feels like the first time again. The greens are greener, the water is fresher, and for a moment the war feels like a million years ago. You can finally breathe again. It doesn’t last. They teach you how to kill, how to switch off your heart. You become a merciless weapon, exactly how they want you to be. And when you become no further use to them, they cast you out. There is no simple way to understand how the world works when you have been somewhere nobody understands. It’s easy to not feel; it’s feeling again that is nearly impossible. Getting my first job felt empty. Being with my family again was meaningless. When I held my newborn daughter for the first time, I felt nothing. A decade spent struggling to just feel again. The depression was there, but knowing how to handle it the right way isn’t there. The depression becomes rage; at least that you know how to channel. But it comes out on your friends and family. You buy a $13 bottle of vodka at the gas station and half of it’s gone before you even walk in your front door. You pour yourself shot after shot of cheap whiskey, ignoring the concerned looks on everyone’s faces. Then the morning comes and you feel sick and confused. You are on the floor of a jail cell, wearing that thick green smock so you can’t hang yourself. It all comes rushing back. The bottle, the pills, the gun with a single hollow point bullet in the chamber. “You’ll have to shoot me,” you said right before they tased you. Now the loss is real: your children, your job, and a possibility of spending three years in the state penitentiary. Recovery is hard, but admitting you need help is harder. Pride is a bitter mistress and she refuses to let go. You find it eventually. You get help and bit by painful bit you learn how to actually smile again. Maybe all the darkness and guilt isn’t everything you are. Maybe you are more than a man on a sinking ship screaming into the storm. But there is always something worse. “You volunteered, didn’t you? Nobody
made you do it.” Suck it up. Nobody cares. Deal with it. I see my father in myself every day. Only now can I understand why he had to share, why he drank. I remember him putting his fists to me and his rationale, while disgusting, is something I can finally conceive. His stress, his fears, his lost dreams. He could be very well-spoken when he wanted to; he was a charmer. But now I realize he never had an outlet for his feelings because, naturally, he wasn’t supposed to have them. I never understood the phrase “toxic masculinity” until it was broken down for me. Only then did it occur to me that I was emotionally hamstrung as a child. “Real men don’t cry,” they would say. What they didn’t teach me was to expect the breaking point. There was no warning of the isolation, the feeling of falling into a gray void and feeling totally alone. I was never told about the way bad emotions never truly just go away; at some point they will rage to the surface. Why can we not just be allowed to cry, to feel that we don’t have to choke on the vice grip of emotions that most of us carry? A few months ago I wept on the leg of a friend while I laid on her couch, my face buried in her thigh. There was no sadness or grief in it, but there was no joy either. It was stress; it was fear. It was my body finally being able to let go and give itself that sweet fleeting release. Why had I denied myself that for so long? Because it’s not ok for a man to be vulnerable? Because it’s not acceptable for a man to be the little spoon? I’m a man. My childhood lessons were taught with belt and fist. My adolescence was a crucible of grappling with trying to be hard when I was too young to know what that even meant. My young adulthood was written in blood and fear. I’m not supposed to say this, but I want to be able to cry and still be a man. Isaiah Cisneros lives in Los Alamos with his friends and family. Isaiah served in the United States Marine Corps and deployed twice to Iraq in the mid-2000s. He is currently a student at the University of New Mexico. In his free time, Isaiah enjoys hiking, camping and meeting new people.
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The story of creation BY MARIO J GONZALES
This is the story of creation. A true story of light created by the Marias. It’s true like the smoke in dreams. And like ice in winter, the heat in summer. It’s real and straight and final. This is how it goes: The Marias were my aunt and mother who raised me in a small rural California town. The daughters of immigrants, their parents, my grandparents, were born in 1888, and shaped by early 20th-century Mexican morals. Values ruled in iron-fisted ways by family. Dominated by men, yes, but brutally enforced daily by older women like my grandmother whose word was law. Her name was Guadalupe Beltran Rojas and she looked exactly like an abuelita should: small and plump, a long silver braid of hair cascading down to her waist which she wore as a symbol of age and authority. As a young girl, she and her family were forced to hide in caves, to go hungry and eat wild grasses during the Mexican Revolution when the state of Jalisco was war-ravaged. Experiences like those made my grandmother tough like a stone cutter’s grip, as my uncle used to say. Tough and quick-minded, feared and loved, my grandmother’s greatest gift was an ease with words. Spoken in rapid-fire Spanish, that gift became a cutting weapon of disapproval. With undiminished velocity, she was critical of any social slight and particularly of any potential disturbance to the family name and reputation. It should be said now that the Marias lived good lives. Worked hard. Never married but bore children anyway. Something impossible to hide in their small town. Verguenza arrived in the form of family shame which, for my grandmother, was like a disease without social remedy or personal recourse. In short, my grand-
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mother was furious when her daughters became unwed mothers. A fury that lasted throughout her life. With all this, one Maria, my mother, broke. She said she saw men rain-covered and still, waiting at bus stops for her. She cried nonstop each morning and said her tears were like rain-melted snow stepped upon by strangers. Some days animals in trees spoke to her. They promised love but then withdrew at dawn. My grandmother had no choice but to hospitalize my mother. There she saw light as bright as a thousand suns in the form electric shock therapy sessions. Her mind became lesioned and she lost the memory of what she had done wrong. When she returned home, my mother’s memory returned and so there were many visits to curanderos. “You have no reflection,” one said in a room dominated by elliptical shadows and a profile of Christ on the cross. Later in the 1960s and well into the ’70s, glassyeyed psychiatrists would prescribe her lithium, heavy-set doctors speed. The other Maria, my aunt, gave birth to a son at 16. Soon after, adults intervened and the baby was gone. Given away, and she never saw her child again. I now wonder that when she combed my 6-yearold hair and washed my play-soaked face; that when she held me with tender affection, if each thought running through her head and ending in her heart was about her own lost child. She never spoke about it and neither did anyone else until one day when my Aunt Cuca blurted out, “Pobrecita, your Tia. I wonder where her boy is now.” I think about the Marias often. Their lives and all they did and all they might have done without the weight of shame. Robert Louis Stevenson writes that we can “love upon a higher ground.” When our virtues are challenged for even if we fail them, the failures will find us better, honest to what is true in our real selves. I can’t sleep and hear the Marias speaking to me in a strong voice, one used before they had become frail, old
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and sick. The Marias say their foreheads are feverish. I get a wet wash cloth to cool their skin but when I return they have gone. I sit outside. The moon is outpacing the wind and the stars feel like storms whirling at my feet. I think about how the Marias fought and were menaced. How they fought and went weak. How they fought and lost. But they fought to create and having done so understood what loving on a higher ground truly is. In the Quiche Maya creation myth, the Popol Vuh, a young woman is impregnated when a head hanging from a tree spits on her lap. The unplanned pregnancy angers her father and she must leave. Exiled and alone, she eventually gives birth to twins: the Hero Twins who battle the evil lords of hell in a ballgame and defeat them. This is the story of creation. The story of light. It involves two women who, over the course of their lives, battled against the lords of hell, the lords of shame. For a while they lost themselves but they knew that our days—yours, mine and everyone’s—are laid out before us like a long desert highway. They knew that we are all supernovas about crash on that road. But most of all they knew that when we love truly, the world is given to us whole and happy, broad and starry-eyed. Mario J Gonzales lives and works in Santa Fe.
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Use It or Lose It BY MARIO MONTOYA
Bad Question, Bad Answer The bus is alive with passengers. It’s Friday, during rush hour in the fall, and everybody is anxious to get home. A group of teenagers sit in back, giggling and playing rap music. A baby wails tears over a multitude of conversations. Across the aisle, an old lady is having quiet conversations with herself. The young lady in front of me has earbuds in, ignoring the world by
glaring at her phone. The man behind me is whistling, stopping periodically to converse with me. But I never look back to see what he’s saying. Instead, I pull my hoodie over my head and look outside. I’m tied to the floor by straps hooked onto my wheelchair, which means I’m not sitting next to anyone. Which also means I’m not obligated to interact with people. I’m in no mood for conversation. Not tonight. Out the window, I watch Albuquerque pass by, busy with cars and on-foot commuters. Horns honk and sound systems thump on congested Central Avenue, dotted with orange barrels and everlasting closed lanes. The bus stops overflow with people, some there to actually catch a bus. Sirens scream as emergency vehicles push through traffic. A man is ringing a bell on a pushcart, selling paletas for a buck. The city’s alive, in full color, but inside I’m gray and dead. I’m in no place for small talk since receiving the news. Through a text message, not even by actual phone call. Mario. It’s your mother. I might have cancer. I’ll explain. Call you tonight. I erased the text in my early stages of denial, yet the memory of the words remain fresh. They are only an hour old and weigh heavy on me like flash floods. I lost my leg to infection, and family to street life. I’m not sure I can lose my mom to cancer. I’ve seen enough fatal illness in my 36 war-torn years. A robotic voice announces: “Stop requested,” as if the bus knows how to speak. The air brakes hiss as we pull to the curb, then stop completely. People fill the aisle, ready to get off. A woman yells “Backdoor!” and the driver swings it open. A handful of customers exit single-file. New passengers pile on, first paying their fare, then having a seat quickly. A new commuter is sitting directly in front of me now. He looks to be Chicano, like me, although darker, more like the shade of my brother or dad. I can see he looks hungry, all beanie and bones. He smells like booze and dusty concrete, his belongings stuffed into a large plastic bag. He glances back, nods his head, ac-
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Writing Contest knowledges me sitting there, in my chair. He proceeds to spread some of his belongings over two empty seats. “What happened to you?” he asks me. It’s the wrong question. I pretend I don’t hear him at first. “Hey, what happened to your leg?” he asks again. “Nothing.” “No, what happened to you, bro?” “An alligator ate it,” I exaggerate. “Osi, there’s no alligators in New Mexico.” “You don’t know me,” I say. “What’s your name?” “Mario.” “I’m Manny. Will you tell me what happened now?” “Look, just leave me alone. I’m not in the mood,” I say. “Alright, relax. I’m only making conversation, bro.” He’s finally quiet, and for a brief second, the bus seems peaceful and empty, until Manny turns back and asks his favorite question once more: “Just tell me what happened to your leg?” “What happened to your face?” I blow my top, like I’m swallowing hand grenades. I’m in Manny’s face, yelling with no control, spit flying everywhere. A few passengers attempt to calm me down, yet the comments are pouring uncontrollably, like water from a collapsing dam. “Ask me again, motherfucker,” I dare him. “You’ll be in a wheelchair next.” “You can’t do shit,” Manny tells me. “Say it again, I swear. I’ll lose my other foot up your ass.” I shouldn’t have said it, but I did. The driver interjects, addressing us through his rearview mirror. “No fighting or get off,” he tells us. We both become silent and still in our seats, looking in opposite directions. We stay that way for the rest of the trip, but I watch the man carefully at every single stop. Do We Look Hungry to You? We’re in front of Smith’s grocery store, like seemingly half the zip code, as if everyone’s buying groceries at once. Ghetto Smith’s, as it’s commonly called. The building is jumping with customers, exhaling people, and inhaling them just as fast. Shopping carts are stacked behind each other like a train at the entrance. We smell bread baking from the parking lot, making my hungover stomach talk. Employees in red vests chat while on cigarette breaks, about 20 steps away from the automatic doors. Near where Mia and I hang out, waiting for my girlfriend, Claire. Mia sits calm and upright, her leash loose in my hand, her coat golden in the sun. She’s a proud pit and I’m just as proud of her. I’m doing a wheelie in my chair, wearing the same clothes from the night before, with the addition of dried
toothpaste. Not exactly high fashion, but fitting since we’re only purchasing brew. I smell a whiff of cigarette and suddenly get a craving. “Any way I can bum a smoke?” I ask an employee finishing hers, the glowing embers down to the butt. “Sure,” she says, and reaches into her pocket. She hands me a menthol, and a lighter too. I’m not used to the minty aftertaste of Kools. But when you need a smoke, you need a smoke. I light it, return the lighter and thank her. Then I turn away, to enjoy the cigarette and watch the parking lot, in peace. Cars are moving, some parking, some leaving, traffic jammed as two cars back out simultaneously. A blonde lady with a big purse stands at her BMW, one hand at her bangs, blocking the sun. She’s wearing slacks and a pitiful look, staring at the entrance, behind my right shoulder. Her eyes are fixated and concerned. Then I realize she’s not looking at the entrance at all. She’s staring at me and my dog, actually, looking right at us and even through us. I glance over my shoulder, in case I’m mistaken. But sure enough, no one else is there. Even the workers have finished their smokes and returned to work. It’s just me and Mia, and her. She locks her car, then heads towards me. I get tense, wondering what in the hell she might want. She digs into her purse and gets out her wallet. She opens it and produces a $10 bill. “Here,” she says. “Get you and your dog some food.” “What?” I know what she said. But I want to make her say it again. “Here’s 10 bucks for you and your dog.” “Do we look hungry to you?” “Just take the money and go,” she says. “As long as you don’t buy drugs.” “Stick that money up your ass, lady.” “Fine. Don’t take it, I don’t care. Starve to death.” She’s not doing this just to be kind. Why is this privileged lady attempting to act charitable? What’s in it for her? This isn’t about helping us out. “We don’t need help.” I respond. “My girl’s inside buying food.” Mia also adds her two cents to the argument, barking at the lady from the curb. Of course, I’m lying about Claire getting groceries, yet the lie could bare truth. We need a six-pack and smokes, not grub. But if we wanted food, we could afford it. It’s just not our priority right now. “Whatever. Lazy war vet,” the lady says, not loud, but loud enough. Her high heels click on the tile as she struts into the store. “I shouldn’t say this, but kiss my crippled ass, lady.” I yell. “Don’t waste time feeling sorry for us.” The lady looks forward, avoiding my every word, but I still try.
“I’m not even a vet, you ignorant piece of shit.” This is the assumption most people make and it’s understandable. It’s a reasonable mistake. At 36, I’m at the right age to have been enlisted in the Iraq War. But I lost the limb at 14, before I could join the military. If not that, some assume it happened in gang violence. I also hear I lost it in a drug deal gone wrong. People seem disappointed when I tell them it was a result of bone infection. They want drama and tragedy. People want war. What’s bothering me most is that these things keep happening, little altercations that escalate into more. It’s no coincidence when it keeps happening, regularly, every disrespectful gesture another possible argument. Somehow, I’ve lost my empathy and patience for humans. I have one leg— people are going to ask. I figure, if I don’t exercise compassion for others then I can lose it, like an injured muscle. Use it or lose it, like everything else. Use It or Lose It My mother is cancer-free. She tells me this over a long phone conversation. I’m pushing myself to school in celebration, although I’m struggling. The sun warms my neck and shoulders anyway. I’m humming a jazz tune to myself. Nothing has the power to bring me down. I’m almost to campus, when a man rolls up in his motorized wheelchair. He’s faster and about to run me off the curb. “Beep. Beep,” he says, slowing down to chat. “Want to race?” “You’ll smoke me in seconds,” I tell him. “Well, why don’t you get one of these?” “I don’t want one of those.” “Well, why not? They’re easier than pushing around that thing.” True, motorized chairs have benefits, but at what expense? To be confined and reliable on electricity, simply for convenience, feels like another level of giving in. If I can do it, I’d rather do it, perhaps stubbornly. There’s something about commuting on my own, able to fully use what’s left of me, to control what direction I go. I enjoy the tearing and flexing of my biceps and shoulders, my chest, my neck and my back. The exercise reminds me of the body I still have, able to work, and play, and develop strength. Perspiration drips from my forehead, down my cheeks. I swallow bitter sweat, but somehow it tastes like sweet victory. “Use it or lose it,” I tell him. But the man speeds off, getting way ahead of me.
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and has written a book about her PCT record-setting hike called Thirst: 2,600 Miles to Home, that’s due out in March. Completing the triple crown in a calendar year was still in the back of her mind. “I definitely know better than to be like, ‘What will I do to top the things that I’ve done?’ but ‘What are the unfinished dreams I have from the past?’” she says. “This came to mind. That was my first big dream.” She chose this year for her attempt to align with the 50th anniversary of the National Trails System Act, the legislation enabling hikers to piece together walking paths that bisect the nation. People usually start these trails from their southern ends and hike north with the spring, but Anderson needed more time than that. So she started the AT in March, hiking through drifts of snow as winter lingered. The corridor of Virginia often called “the green tunnel” she found leafless and its views expansive.
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Instead of the sweltering heat and humidity she’d previously experienced on that trail, she was met with freezing temperatures. Where crowds often pack the path, she passed whole days with the trail to herself. After reaching New Hampshire and the forbidding White Mountains in May, she flew to Albuquerque and took a bus to Grants. The destination was selected as much for its ease of access from the airport as anything, she says, but it set her eventual finish line. For nine days, she walked the Continental Divide Trail, where it winds past the lava fields of El Malpais and into the Gila National Forest, camping amid ponderosa pines and hiking in the sunshine. New Mexico marks the southern portion of a trail that then follows the spine of the continent through Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana. “They say that the rainbow is God’s promise not to flood the Earth again,” she wrote on Instagram as she hiked through
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hat she’d wanted was to hike for a year—a whole year on the trail, sleeping in a tent, walking across the country. When the idea first struck Heather Anderson to hike the three major national scenic trails, the Appalachian, Pacific Crest and Continental Divide trails, in a single calendar year, part of the allure was that it would take most of the months of that year. That was how long it had taken Brian Robinson when he became the first person ever to acompliance that feat in 2001. Seventeen years later, in Grants, New Mexico, Anderson became the first woman to achieve that goal, hiking more than 7,000 miles in just over eight months. Anderson, known among the thru-hiking community by her trail name, “Anish,” has logged more than 20,000 miles on trails, including hiking all three major national scenic trails, the so-called triple crown of hiking, twice already since her first AT thru-hike in 2003. She set speed records on the Pacific Crest (PCT) and Appalachian (AT) trails in 2013 and 2015, finishing them in 60 days, 17 hours and 12 minutes and 54 days, 7 hours, and 48 minutes, respectively. Most people take six months for those hikes, not two. She works now as a personal trainer, coaching other people toward their own hiking goals,
the desert in May. “I think that a river flowing through the desert is a far more tangible promise. One that I can lie down in with nothing but my face above the surface and smooth stones pressing into my back.” Once she’d reached the southern end of that trail, she moved to California’s starting line for the Pacific Crest Trail. Unlike the others, which she’d piece together, these 2,600 miles she walked straight through—and with company. Her fiancé is still working on his first triple crown and she wanted to walk this one with him. That trail starts in southern California’s desert before climbing into the high Sierras, then to Oregon and Washington. She started the CDT south from Montana, trying to beat winter as it moved into the Rocky Mountains, then leaving briefly to finish the AT, before picking back up in Southern Colorado on the CDT. Her last trail miles were from the Colorado border south to I-40 last month. After completing the triple crown for the first time from 2003 to 2006, and then for a second time from 2013 to 2017 amid some major upheaval in her life, this year brought her to them in new seasons and new ways, revisiting paths that had shaped and directed who she’d become. She says what struck her was how she could now see past their obvious differences to the similarities among them all. In some ways, her sort of randomly selected finishing points are a little strange, she says, “and in other ways, I found that to be really refreshing and meaningful in a different way. I feel like we put a lot of focus in our lives on destinations, whether it’s getting the perfect picture or having the perfect finish location, like finishing on [the AT’s northernmost point, Mount] Katahdin, and focusing on the end instead of the journey. Having very arbitrary finishes and a very arbitrary finish to this whole thing makes it less about getting to a specific spot and more just about the process.”
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FILM TUE/11 MISS REPRESENTATION Only 33 of 2017’s top 100 films had a woman in the leading role, according to a USC study. The 2011 documentary Miss Representation, featuring Katie Couric, Condoleezza Rice, Gloria Steinem and Margaret Cho, dives into the under-representation of women in mainstream media. “These films are a great way to show issues that pertain to feminism and start a conversation about issues that we women are dealing with,” Dana Middleton, film committee chair for the Santa Fe chapter of the National Organization for Women, tells SFR. Students from Capital High School, feminist radio show host Cecile Lipworth and several women filmmakers will join an after-film discussion led by SFR contributor Julia Goldberg. It’s the last movie of the year in Santa Fe NOW’s Women’s Film Series. (Sarah Eddy) Women’s Film Series: Miss Representation: 7 pm Tuesday Dec. 11. $10. Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-1338
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tute of the American Indian Arts, Gray has been shown in galleries like Peyton Wright and LewAllen, he’s been collected by museums and private estates and, almost most importantly, he says he’s never had a job “where I had to clock in and work a shift.” Instead, he focused on the work and playing music with musicians both local and from afar, a process with which he’s still involved thanks to his experimental jam band, Righteous Renegades. This weekend, Gray presents a bit of a retrospective alongside his current exhibit at IAIA’s Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Expanding Horizons. He’ll speak on his work and perform with the band. “I’m feeling pretty good,” Gray says of the journey so far. “I’ve learned how to vibrate at the highest level that I’ve ever vibrated as a human being. I’m trying to stay on a frequency that’s flying high as much as possible.” (Alex De Vore)
DARREN VIGIL GRAY: ARTIST TALK AND PERFORMANCE 1:30 pm Saturday Dec. 8. Free. IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Art, 108 Cathedral Place, 428-5907
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FLO AEVEIA MAGDALENA: MOTHER EARTH SPEAKS Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar (Apothecary) 133 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 Mother Earth is requesting to speak with us, and it seems that we can do so with Magdalena as a conduit. Who knew? Get instruction from the Earth itself on how to bring forth the peace of a million years of dreaming. 7 pm, $20 SANDIA: SEASONS OF A MOUNTAIN Garcia Street Books 376 Garcia St, 986-0151 Author Ruth Rudner and photographer David Muench discuss their new book. 5:30 pm, free THE NEW DEAL IN NEW MEXICO: PRESERVING HISPANO CULTURE THROUGH MUSIC & LORE New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 Aural historian, author and generally beloved dude Jack Loeffler speaks about his experience documenting New Mexico folk music. Noon, free
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WED/5 BOOKS/LECTURES ALFREDO CORCHADO: HOMELANDS Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Corchado, a prominent Mexican American journalist, tells the story of Mexican immigration to the United States over the last three decades, focusing on four friends who meet in 1987 at a Mexican restaurant in Philadelphia. 6:30 pm, free CAREER TALKS FOR TEENS Santa Fe Public Library LaFarge Branch 1730 Llano St., 955-4860 Expose high school students to interesting, in-demand careers and give them the opportunity to network with professionals, about what they do and how they got started, then time for questions, discussion, and/or a hands-on demonstration of their work. 4:30-5:30 pm, free DEVELOPING MEANINGFUL COMMUNICATIONS SKILLS WITH YOUR DOG Santa Fe Public Library LaFarge Branch 1730 Llano St., 955-4860 Join dog trainers David Crosby and Gaia ("Gen") Richards for a 60-minute discussion on how to be the leader your dog needs, and how to advocate for your dog. (Please do not bring your dog!) 6:30-7:30 pm, free
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DANCE FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Make a dinner reservation for a show by the National Institute of Flamenco. 6:30 pm, $25
EVENTS A-I-R OPEN STUDIOS Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2351 IAIA's artists-in-residence Adrian Wall (Jemez Pueblo), and Tahnibaa Naataanii (Navajo), Kenneth Johnson (Muscogee [Creek]/Seminole) and Melanie Sainz (Ho-Chunk) open their studios. 3-5 pm, free CHILDREN’S CHESS CLUB Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Join other kids to play against. 5:45 pm, free JOURNALISM UNDER FIRE Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W Marcy St., 955-6590 Join the Santa Fe Council on International Relations to explore the essential connections between journalism and democracy. Visit sfcir.org/ journalism-under-fire for info. 10 am-6 pm, $14-$299
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The great driving force of artist Peter Rogers’ life was his deeply felt sense of spirituality. In a poignant show at Gerald Peters Gallery, the last 12 paintings the artist made before his death this year are on exhibit, including “The Dream,” above. See full listing on page 26. MINE SHAFT BINGO Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Boards are $1, prizes are dope, and it benefits medical funds for local Steve Braddock's motorcycle accident. 7 pm, free VINYASA FLOW Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 One hour of yoga is followed by one of Duel's core beers, all for one price. BYOM (mat). 6:30 pm, $15 WAYWARD WEDNESDAYS Chili Line Brewing Company 204 N Guadalupe St., 982-8474 Local comedy—and an open mic! Signup starts at 7:30 pm. 8:30 pm, free
MUSIC BOB FINNIE Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards. 6:30 pm, free CANDYMAN STUDENT SHOWCASE Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. The budding bands of Rock School have been rehearsing since September to put on the best concert in the universe. 5:30 pm, free THE DAN MARTIN BAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Acoustic folky Americana. 8 pm, free
JOAQUIN GALLEGOS El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Soulful flamenco guitar. 7 pm, free NEW MEXICO GAY MEN'S CHORUS: PEACE ON EARTH Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Celebrate the holidays with the New Mexico Gay Men's Chorus as they spread goodwill toward all. 7:30 pm, $20-$45 SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country tunes to dance to, and two-stepping for sure. 7:30 pm, free
TINY'S ELECTRIC JAM Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Plug it in and rock out. 8:30 pm, free
WORKSHOP BUILD-A-BEAST TOY WORKSHOP Museum of Interactive Art 1508 Bishops Lodge Road, 988-8001 Why buy impersonal toys for your holiday gifts when you can assemble unique toys from a selection of heads, bodies and limbs? Assemble a creature from disparate plastic toy pieces; you can take it home for anywhere from $2-$5 (depending on how many parts you use). 9 am-5 pm, $5
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THU/6 ART OPENINGS TAZ: LOVE, LIGHT AND AWAKENING Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 In an art collection presented by local hero Shontez “Taz” Morris, Love encompasses a variety of strong and positive emotional and mental states; Light is the natural agent that stimulates sight and makes things visible; and Awakening is coming into existence or awareness. These three components to a positive spiritual journey will be displayed by Morris in her conscious art showcase that explores her self-discovery as well as her personal heritage as a woman of African descent. 8 pm, free
BOOKS/LECTURES POWER PATH SCHOOL OF SHAMANISM: TRENDS 2019 The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 982-8732 Join Jose and Lena Stevens to explore the energies, major themes, opportunities and challenges of 2019. Arrive an hour early for the org's annual Indigenous crafts sale, a favorite holiday event for many local folks. 7 pm, $20-$25
DANCE COUNTRY-WESTERN AND TWO-STEP LESSONS Dance Station 947-B W Alameda St., 87501 Show off your best moves at your favorite honky-tonk. All levels welcome. 6:30 pm, $15 O2 SWING NIGHT Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar (Apothecary) 133 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 Get a lesson from 8-9 pm, too! 8 pm-midnight, $10
EVENTS GLOW PREVIEW PARTY Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Stroll along the Botanical Garden’s festive paths and enjoy live entertainment, food and beverages. 5:30-7:30 pm, $45-$50 GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP Temple Beth Shalom 205 E Barcelona Road, 982-1376 Anyone over 18 years can join and participate. Register with Ya’el Chaikind at 303-3552. 1-2 pm, free JOURNALISM UNDER FIRE Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W Marcy St., 955-6590 Explore journalism and democracy. Visit sfcir.org/ journalism-under-fire for info. 10 am-6 pm, $14-$299
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NMSA FIRST THURSDAYS form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111 The New Mexico School for the Arts presents a special performance of outstanding student performers and poets. 6-7 pm, free
MUSIC BOB FINNIE Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards. 6:30 pm, free CHRIS ISHEE DUO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Eclectic classic and not-soclassic jazz. 7 pm, free DANIEL MURPHY Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana and rock. 8 pm, free DAVID GEIST Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards and Broadway faves. 6:30 pm, free FOOL'S PLAY Starlight Lounge at Montecito 500 Rodeo Road, 428-7777 A jazzy trio featuring Jean McCray on sax, Diana Ristenpart on piano and Julia Spinelli on drums. 6 pm, $2 JULIE STEWART AND ROD WELLES Chili Line Brewing Company 204 N Guadalupe St., 982-8474 Rock 'n' blues. 7:30 pm, free LATIN THURSDAY Café Mimosa 513 Camino de los Marquez, 365-2112 VDJ Dany spins salsa, merengue, bachata, cumbias y más. 9 pm, $5 PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo jazz guitar. 6 pm, free ROLL, BOUNCE, SK8 JAM AND ROLLER-OKE WITH DJ RAASHAN AHMAD Rockin' Rollers 2915 Agua Fría St., 473-7755 It’s a roller party special for grown-ups! Get pizza too— and an additional $5 gets you skates or a scooter (see 3Q, page 31). 7 pm, $5 SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country. 7:30 pm, free WOMEN'S CIRCLE CONCERT: ZARINA NAZARI Santa Fe Jewish Center Chabad 509 Camino de los Marquez, Ste. 4, 983-2000 The Jewish center hosts its annual Chanukah bash with latkes, donuts and a concert with soprano and pianist Nazari, who is based in Taos. 6 pm, $10
THEATER THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 In Oscar Wilde's popular play, subtitled A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, two young gentlemen in London each live a double life, creating elaborate deceptions in order to escape burdensome social obligations. 7:30 pm, $20-$25 PERFECT LOVE Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 The world premiere of a new comedy by local thespian Talia Pura. 7:30 pm, $15-$25 THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS SHOW (ABRIDGED) Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 It's the Annual Holiday Variety Show and Christmas Pageant at St. Everybody’s Non-Denominational Universalist Church, and only three folks showed up. It's on them, then, to perform every holiday story they can think of to their best of their ability. 7 pm, $10-$25
WORKSHOP BUILD-A-BEAST TOY WORKSHOP Museum of Interactive Art Shidoni, 1508 Bishops Lodge Road, 988-8001 Why buy impersonal toys for your holiday gifts when you can assemble unique toys from a selection of heads, bodies and limbs? Once you assemble your creature, you can take it home for anywhere from $2-$5. 9 am-5 pm, $5
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FRI/7 ART OPENINGS ART OF DEVOTION: HISTORIC ART OF THE AMERICAS Peyton Wright Gallery 237 E Palace Ave., 989-9888 The world's largest and most significant collection of 17th- to 19th-century Spanish Colonial Viceregal artwork around. Through Feb. 28. 5-7 pm, free CAROL TIPPIT WOOLWORTH: THE MUSEUM OF TREES Smilow Mathiesen 708 Canyon Road, 557-6418 Woolworth creates paintings that attempt to capture an intense moment that rings true: complex simplicity. 5 pm, free CELEBRATIONS OTA Contemporary 203 Canyon Road, 930-7800 In a group show, artists express their struggles with the creative process and life in general—yet something beautiful always emerges. Through Jan. 27. 5:30 pm, free
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IRENE SALAS: FABRIC OF THE WORLD El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road, 982-0016 Salas has traveled the world looking for exotic and wellmade fabrics. In this exhibition, the artist presents some of the varied textiles that she produces and works with daily. Through Dec. 28. 5 pm, free NEXT!: CLIENT ART EXHIBITION Dino's Drive-In Barber Shop 1300 Luisa St., Ste. 8, 570-0014 Dino's presents a series of monthly exhibits of paintings and photographs by clients; this month features paintings by Bob Hosko. 6 pm, free PETER ROGERS Gerald Peters Gallery 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5700 Rogers (1933-2018), a prolific artist in New Mexico for more than 50 years, was a steady creative force in the Southwest. Through Jan. 12. 5 pm, free
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BOOKS/LECTURES DEAN'S LECTURE SERIES: THE SWINE AND THE CHATTERBOX: WITTGENSTEIN AND AUGUSTINE ON TALKING (AND NOT TALKING) ABOUT GOD St. John's College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, 984-6000 Caleb Thompson of St. John’s College discusses Augustine’s communication paradoxes. It's in the Peterson Student Center's Great Hall. 7:30 pm, free
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DANCE DANCE STATION HOLIDAY PARTY Dance Station 947-B W Alameda St., 989-9788 That $5 admission gets you a dance lesson, free dancing, a special performance and light refreshments all night. 7 pm, free FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Make a rezzie for the National Institute of Flamenco. 6:30 pm, $25
EVENTS ADELANTE WINTER FUNDRAISER Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. The Adelante Program hosts music, an arts and crafts fair, silent auction, raffle and more (see SFR Picks, page 23). 6-9 pm, $10-$20
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DON JOSÉ RUIZ: THE FIFTH AGREEMENT AND THE WISDOM OF THE SHAMANS Unity Santa Fe 1212 Unity Way, 989-4423 Enjoy a talk and book signing with shaman and author Ruiz. 6:30 pm, free SFR WRITING CONTEST WINNERS READING Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Enjoy this week's cover story with our writing contest winners' works? Hear them read, live and in person (see Cover, page 12). 6 pm, free
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Family-friendly healthcare across the life span Accepting all insurance plans. Sliding-fee discount program available. Much of the art featured in Peyton Wright’s annual Art of Devotion show comes from secluded chapels and private collections, and is rarely seen. See full listing, page 25.
CHRISTMAS AT THE PALACE Palace of the Governors 105 W Palace Ave., 476-5100 Hot cider, cookies, live music, antique printing press demos, old-fashioned activities, and a visit from Mr. and Mrs. Claus. Donations of non-perishable food are welcome. 5-8 pm, free FIRST FRIDAY ART ACTIVITY Georgia O'Keeffe Museum 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 At a drawing event for art lovers of all ages. Free with museum admission, and admission is free for New Mexicans on the first Friday of the month. (That's today.) 5-7 pm, $11-$13 FULL MOON WATER WHEEL CEREMONY Frenchy's Field Osage Ave. and Agua Fría St. Pray for moisture, bless the waters and offer up items for blessings. 4 pm, free GARDEN SPROUTS PRE-K ACTIVITIES Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 In a program for 3-5 year olds and their caregivers, listen to a book and participate in garden-related activities. 10-11 am, $5 HOLIDAY ART SHOW AND SALE Canyon at Palace Fine Art 901 Canyon Road, 817-992-8894 Nancy Silvia says her first visual memory was of the horizon line. A shared passion for landscape painting connects her to Chuck Volz. The two invite you to view their new work and celebrate the holidays. 4-6 pm, free JOURNALISM UNDER FIRE Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W Marcy St., 955-6590 Join the Santa Fe Council on International Relations to explore the essential connections between journalism and democracy. Visit sfcir.org/ journalism-under-fire for the full schedule. 10 am-6 pm, $14-$299 LOS ALAMOS WINTERFEST Various Locations, Los Alamos Head northward for a family-oriented holiday weekend, much of which is free. Today's specialties are an art show and a night sky event at the planetarium. Get info at LosAlamosMainStreet.com/ Events/WinterFest. 1-9 pm, free SITE SCHOLARS INAUGURATION SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 Celebrate the nominated students recognized by SITE Santa Fe as high-achieving leaders within their schools, who are given opportunities to network and work on projects that help them transition from student to pro artist. 6 pm, free CONTINUED ON PAGE 30
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Thrift Store Treasure BY LUKE HENLEY a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m
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f one person’s trash is another’s treasure, then the inverse is not only true but far more common. For every hyper-rare Velvet Underground acetate found in the bargain bin—you may remember the buzzed-about story of such a thing being found for 75 cents and selling for around $25,000 back in 2006—there must be thousands of musical relics lost to the milk crates of time, buried in dust or outright destroyed through ignorance. Luckily, of those thousands of could-be-lost pieces of history, one recently found its way into the hands of Harmonia Piano School founder JJ Frank: two inauspicious boxes of reel-toreel tape with track listings, running times, studio information and the name of pop music giant Carole King. Frank found the boxes in a dollar bin of records in a Goodwill in Marin County, California, in 1999. Inside each box was a tape reel which looked to be masters for a
studio album, but he had no means to listen to them. They remained mysterious until just this year, when he caught the attention of Jono Manson, owner of the Kitchen Sink Recording Studio here in Santa Fe, a longtime professional musician and engineer. Manson’s daughter takes regular piano lessons with Frank, and during one of these lessons, he let Manson know about his ancient treasure. The two met at the Kitchen Sink and listened to the find. Frank describes his shock at hearing not rough tracks but a sequenced and polished full album. “I thought they had probably de-magnetized; the last thing I thought is that we would put them on the reels and they would play and be this phenomenal album,� Frank tells SFR. “I went down there and we put them on the reels and we were just blown away, because there was an entire in-full analog fidelity. It was a really stunning moment not only experiencing an analog-sourced recording from back in the days of tape
ABOVE: The album cover for Carole King’s Tapestry. BELOW: Jono Manson with King in New York, circa 1988.
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Santa Fe’s JJ Frank and Jono Manson unearth pop history: a full-length unreleased Carole King album
and all the richness, but the fact that her music just spoke through these decades of darkness and all of a sudden were in the light and playing. It was very moving.� In his studio, Manson explains the telltale signs that what they held was likely a complete two-track master of a full-length album. “It was immediately clear that these weren’t demos, this was a fully produced record,� Manson explains in his studio. “The levels from song to song and the spacing between them and everything about it was consistent with how you would prepare a reel to go to master to cut an acetate for a vinyl album. Everything about it said this is a master reel.� The question he shared with Frank was what to do next. Manson,
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MUSIC who even played in a band that King would occasionally sit in with in New York City in the 1980s, made use of his professional connections to try and get the attention of the tapes’ owner or possibly even King herself. “I posted a very short video [on Facebook] of me just playing the tape for maybe 20 seconds,” Manson says. “I wanted to get people’s attention, and I did.” Within hours, King’s management had contacted Manson requesting that he remove the video and images of the tapes because the master was indeed the intellectual property of someone else—Lou Adler, the Grammy award-winning producer of King’s iconic 1971 album Tapestry and founder of Ode Records. Speaking to SFR by phone, Adler corroborated Manson’s theory that this was a complete unreleased album, though not exactly the only copy of the record in existence. “A few months ago we ran across a cassette that had most of these songs on it which we then called The Lost Album because that album was never released,” Adler says. In 1984, he remixed the album with Hank Cicalo, who engineered several of King’s albums, including Tapestry. “We mixed the album not knowing that there were any other mixes, and have talked about plans to release the album as a lost album,” Adler tells SFR. “Then not too long ago comes Jono’s story and what would be considered two-track masters of the album if I hadn’t remixed it.” As far as how the tape wound up in a Goodwill in California, Adler offers the theory that it happened when Crystal Mastering, the company that oversaw the mastering of the album, went out of business. “Albums that they had and tapes that they had probably ended up in weird places like this one did,” he says. “The key to us is that it falls in the hands of someone like Jono who knows what they are and realizes these might be the masters of an album and tries to get it to who owns these masters. It just falls into the history of this lost album if and when
we decide to release it.” It seems like the time is right for the recordings to be brought into the light. With the smash success of the Carole King Broadway musical Beautiful continuing to fill seats, and King receiving Kennedy Center Honors in 2015, she continues to resonate with listeners. SFR was able to hear some snippets of the songs, and they fit the bill for King’s signature style of sublime ’70s California pop. The sound is crisp, the instrumentation immaculate, and her voice cuts through everything in her sunny, truthful timbre. It’s an excellent addition to her oeuvre, and hopefully can be heard by a mainstream audience. While the mystery remains surrounding the disappearance and resurfacing of these tapes, and likely will not be solved any time soon, what is certain is that without JJ Frank’s curiosity combing the bargain bin records in a Marin County Goodwill—only to sit on his curious find for almost two decades before
It was immediately clear that these weren’t demos, this was a fully produced record. ... Everything about it said this is a master reel. -Jono Manson
making the appointment with Manson—we likely would not be talking about this album at all. A lost album to Ode Records could have been an album lost to everyone. Manson and Frank have mailed the tapes back to Adler, and we have yet to see the conclusion of the story. “In the old days you’d … sit and listen to the whole record,” Frank says, describing that first listening experience with Manson. “It’s not like today where you listen to tracks and pieces here and there. It was like that; just two guys hanging and listening to a Carole King record in 1976.”
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ALL-AGES SK8 SESSION Rockin' Rollers 2915 Agua Fría St., 473-7755 Hit up pizza, a snack bar and DJ tunes—that $5 get you skates or a scooter, too. 6 pm, $5 ART LANDE, BRUCE WILLIAMSON AND KHABU YOUNG GiG Performance Space 1808 Second St. This trio blurs distinctions between chamber and orchestral, written and spontaneous, sublime and ridiculous. 7:30 pm, $20 BIRD THOMPSON The New Baking Company 504 W Cordova Road, 557-6435 Adult contemporary. 10 am, free BUSY McCARROLL’S SAGITTARIANS UNITE BIRTHDAY PARTY Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 The local Americana and gothic pop songstress invites other centaurs to the party. 7 pm, free CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 Snazzy piano and vocals. 6 pm, free DJ DYNAMITE SOL Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 House, funk, reggaeton y más. 10 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND BOB FINNIE Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards. 6 pm, free JESUS BAS La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Spanish and flamenco guitar. 7 pm, free JOHANNA BEEKMAN Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar (Apothecary) 133 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 Conscious music and devotional chants. 7-9 pm, $10
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JOHN KURZWEG BAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock 'n' roll. 8:30 pm, free JULIAN DOSSETT TRIO Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Delta blues. 8 pm, free LEFT BANK Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Ragtime jazz. 7 pm, free LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock 'n' roll. 8 pm, free LORI OTTINO AND ERIK SAWYER Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Americana and folk on the deck. 5 pm, free MYSTICAL Z Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Experimental musician and ceremonial singer Lyndsey McAdams plays some tunes and shares stories. 7 pm, $15 PAT MALONE AND JON GAGAN Manitou Galleries 123 W Palace Ave., 986-0440 Jazz amid the art. 5 pm, free REGIONAL/LIQUID Shadeh Nightclub 30 Buffalo Thunder Trail, 819-2338 VDJ Dany has your cumbia, huapangos, Norteñas and more; DJ Poetics has hip-hop, top 40, dancehall, EDM, reggae, old-school ‘n’ funk. 10 pm, free RON CROWDER BAND El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n' roll and funky covers. 9 pm, $5 RON ROUGEAU Beer Creek Brewing Company 3810 Hwy. 14, 471-9271 Acoustic songs from the '60s, '70s and beyond. 5:30 pm, free RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar. 7 pm, free SANTA FE WOMEN'S ENSEMBLE: SONGS OF HOPE AND LIGHT Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0092 The beloved choir brings together music from many centuries and of many styles, inspired by Emily Dickinson’s poem “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.” Head to sfwe.org for more info. 6:30 pm, $10-$35
SWEATER BEATS Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Antonio Cuna presents a melding of the sensuality of contemporary R&B with the immediacy of dance music. 9 pm, $15-$18 TGIF RECITAL: HIGH DESERT HARP ENSEMBLE First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Enjoy holiday selections from the ensemble. 5:30 pm, free THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Swinging jazz. 7:30 pm, free TONIC JAZZ SHOWCASE Tonic 103 E Water St., 982-1189 Get some late-night stylings with host Loren Bienvenu (drums), featuring Christine Fawson (vocals and trumpet), Andy Kingston (keys) and Michael Burt Jr (bass). 9:30 pm, free TREVOR BAHNSON AND ATALAYA San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-3974 Bahnson is often recognized for his dynamic, emotive voice and contemplative lyrics; he’s joined by Atalaya’s dynamic vocals and eager songwriting. 8 pm, $10
THEATER A MUSICAL PIÑATA FOR CHRISTMAS VI Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 If you've never been to a Musical Piñata, SFR recommends you get your tickets soon; it's one of the most warm-and-fuzzy feel-good holiday events we have. 7 pm, $5-$10 THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 In Oscar Wilde’s popular play, two young gentlemen in London each live a double life, creating elaborate deceptions in order to escape burdensome social obligations. 7:30 pm, $20-$25 PERFECT LOVE Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 The world premiere of a new comedy by local thespian Talia Pura explores the imperfections of relationships. 7:30 pm, $15-$25 THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS SHOW (ABRIDGED) Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 It's the Annual Holiday Variety Show and Christmas Pageant at St. Everybody’s Non-Denominational Universalist Church, and only three folks showed up. It's on them, then, to perform every holiday story they can think of to their best of their ability. 7 pm, $10-$25
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WORKSHOP BUILD-A-BEAST TOY WORKSHOP Museum of Interactive Art Shidoni, 1508 Bishops Lodge Road, 988-8001 Why buy impersonal toys for your holiday gifts when you can assemble unique toys from a selection of heads, bodies and limbs? Once you assemble your creature, you can take it home for anywhere from $2-$5. 9 am-5 pm, $5 CONSCIOUS MENOPAUSE The Inner Vision Institute 205 Hwy. 399, Española, 747-0741 An inspiring evening to reframe what it means to go through menopause. 7 pm, $40
SAT/8 ART OPENINGS ARTISANS OF THE SOUTHWEST Addison Rowe Gallery 229 E Marcy St., 982-1533 This exhibition focuses on Navajo artists associated with the Peach Tree Project, as well as Santa Fe artists Matthew Rowe and Molly Burger. 3-7 pm, free GRAND OPENING AND COMMUNITY CONVERSATION La Escuela Del Cuervo Azul 1406 Third St., 551-2345 A new Triangle District art space wants your input on forming an artists and writers' co-op, and see the current show (see AC, page 33). 6 pm, free GUADALUPE GROUP SHOW Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery 614 Agua Fría St., 928-308-0319 The gallery's most popular show of the year enters its fifth iteration. The opening features electric harp by Roark Barron (see AC, page 33). Through Feb. 17. 5-9 pm, free OPEN STUDIO AND HOLIDAY SALE Gail Buono Studio 1364 Rufina Circle, Ste. 3, 629-6568 Check out small paintings and prints by artist Buono. Noon-5 pm, free
BOOKS/LECTURES MARTHA COLLINS AND VERONICA GOLOS: POETRY ON RACE AND RACISM IN AMERICA op.cit Books DeVargas Center, 157 Paseo de Peralta, 428-0321 An afternoon with two white women whose poems use documentary as well as lyric modes to delve into America’s racial—and racist—past. The poets also talk about their current work and answer questions. 2 pm, free
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As a DJ, MC, producer, member of Crown City Rockers and all-around purveyor of arts and music, Santa Fe is lucky to have Raashan Ahmad living among us. Six years ago, Ahmad moved to Santa Fe, and he’s been making moves ever since. From live shows and charity events to some super-secret projects in the works, Ahmad is exactly the kind of community-minded artist we need. So y’all need to be aware of his DJ residency at Rockin’ Rollers, the Roll, Bounce SK8 Jam and Roller-Oke (7 pm Thursday Dec. 6. $5. 2915 Agua Fría St., 473-7755) and his appearance during AudioOmen at Meow Wolf this weekend (8 pm Saturday Dec. 8. $17-$20. 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369). We caught up with Ahmad to see what’s up. (Alex De Vore) You could probably be based anywhere. Why Santa Fe? My short answer is the sky and the dirt, honestly. I came out here one Christmas, and even before I moved here I’d visit the Southwest and Santa Fe and I always loved it. I rented a house near Madrid for Christmas, and there were bunny rabbits and coyotes howling and the snow was falling. ... I just need to be close to an airport, but this is my favorite place on the planet. This is the only place where not-hippies talk about it like hippies. Do you think hip-hop is a viable thing here? Can people make a go of it? I think it kind of depends on what your idea of ‘a go’ and ‘success’ is. I know a bunch of people in different cities who say, ‘What I wanna do is my music, work in the community, hang out with my friends,’ and that’s dope. For me, it would be much harder making an actual living, but I get so much juice from the hip-hop artists here. I go into Trader Joe’s and my homegirl Alex is an MC, and she’ll start rapping when she sees me. You see the love and the passion for the culture which is super strong here. You’ll see Anthonius Monk and a bunch of cats who are super inspiring. They have passion for the cultural aspect of it, wanting to just be better kind of gets lost in it. The bigger artists ... sometimes you’re doing so many shows, and you can get lost in the routine of it all and you forget how it was when you were 19. I went to the album release for Anthonius Monk at Second Street [Brewery], I think, and watching Anthonius Monk perform and Alex perform—it’s really dope. I’m just making my new album, planing for tours; it’s so great to see hungry, passionate, humble MCs.
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ARTIST TALK AND PERFORMANCE: DARREN VIGIL GRAY IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Gray (Jicarilla Apache/Kiowa Apache) talks ‘n’ performs (see SFR Picks, page 23). 1:30 pm, free COCHITI LAKE ART FAIR Cochiti Lake Fire House 6515 Hoochaneetsa Blvd., Cochiti Lake, 465-0217 Head down La Bajada for art, a bake sale and holiday crafts for kids. 11 am-2 pm, free EL MUSEO WINTER MARKET El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Part fine arts market, part flea market, all full of treasures. 8 am-3 pm, free HOLIDAY ARTS AND CRAFTS FAIR Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 For the 29th year running, in the college’s main hallway and campus center, meet and support 75 artists. 9 am-4 pm, free HOLIDAY HOME TOUR Santa Fe Woman's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail, 983-9455 Get ideas for your own decadent holiday decorations, or just enjoy seeing how the other half lives at six of Santa Fe's most festive homes. The self-guided tour begins at the Santa Fe Woman’s Club; pick up a map and go at your own pace. santafewomansclub.org has more info. 10 am-4 pm, $25 KINDRED SPIRITS ANIMAL SANCTUARY HOLIDAY PARTY Kindred Spirits Animal Sanctuary 3749-A Hwy. 14, 471-5366 KSAS is dedicated to providing hospice for older, unwanted dogs, horses, and poultry in a sanctuary setting. Tour the sanctuary and visit with the senior animals; take part in a meditation and enjoy vegan refreshments and hot cider. 3:30-6:30 pm, free LIGHT AMONG THE RUINS Jemez Historic Site 18160 Hwy. 4, Jemez Springs, 575-829-3530 More than 1,500 farolitos light up the Giusewa Pueblo and San Jose de los Jemez Mission ruins in Jemez in what may be the most beautiful event in New Mexico all season. The site is now staggering admission times, so get your entry-specific ticket ASAP at ampconcerts.org. 5-9 pm, $5-$10
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LOS ALAMOS WINTERFEST Various Locations, Los Alamos Today's specialties are the North Pole Workshop and Breakfast with Santa; don’t miss the Main Street Holiday Lights Parade and the tree lighting at Ashley Pond. Get the full schedule at LosAlamosMainStreet.com/ Events/WinterFest. 7 am-9 pm, free NEW MEXICO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION HOLIDAY TEA Hotel St. Francis 210 Don Gaspar Ave., 983-5700 Tea sandwiches, scones with clotted cream, sweets and tea or coffee are all on offer. Hats and gloves are optional (if you want to be extra posh), and men are encouraged to attend. Tea ain't just for the ladies any more. Proceeds benefit the New Mexico Children's Foundation; get tix at nmchildren.org. 11 am and 2 pm, $60 SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET Santa Fe Railyard Market Street at Alcaldesa Street, 310-8766 Find pottery, paintings, photography, jewelry, sculpture, furniture, textiles and more. 8 am-2 pm, free SANTACON Low 'n' Slow Lowrider Bar 125 Washington Ave., 988-4900 Wear your best Santa suit, elf outfit, tree trimmings or ugly sweater and get ready to spread cheer. Crawl to three or four bars with the horde and finish back at Low 'n' Slow for more revelry. 6:30 pm, free SICILY AND BEYOND: IMAGES AND INSIGHTS INFO SESSION Travel Bug Coffee Shop 839 Paseo de Peralta, 992-0418 Learn more about Santa Fe Community College's continuing education trip to Italy (it goes down in May 2019). 10 am, free STRING OF LIGHTS: A HOLIDAY MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-7726 Weird, off-kilter, exquisite and incredibly awesome works of more than 50 local makers (see AC, page TK). 5-9 pm, free TRUNK SHOW: ATELIER DANIELLE AND ROBIN HILLIARD Shelby House 220 Shelby St., 216-0836 A pop-up trunk show of handwrought jewelry and one-ofa-kind garments. 10 am-6 pm, free WELLS PETROGLYPH PRESERVE PUBLIC TOUR Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project 1431 Hwy. 68, Velarde, 852-1351 Docents lead visitors through an insightful two-hour tour. Pre-register online at mesaprietapetroglyphs.org. 9:30-11:30 am, $35
FOOD SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-4098 Not only the place to see and be seen in Santa Fe, this is one of the oldest, largest and most successful growers’ markets in the country. 8 am-1 pm, free
MUSIC ANTHONY TORRES AND THE REGULATORS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Country. 9 pm, $5 AUDIO OMEN MASQUERADE BALL WITH ROY DAVIS JR. AND RUMBLEJUNKIE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Electrovibe hosts its sixth annual bash to benefit St. Elizabeth Shelters. Bring with you gently worn winter clothing, blankets, socks, toiletries, jackets, and/or an unwrapped toy for a child. Masks are not required, but encouraged. 8 pm, $17 BILL HEARNE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Country and honky-tonk. 1 pm, free THE BUS TAPES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Alternative folk-rock. 8:30 pm, free CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 Modeled after 19th-century Parisian cabarets, enjoy firstrate piano and vocals from Charles Tichenor and friends. 6 pm, free 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. 10:30 am, $5-$15 CHRISTMAS CAROL SING-ALONG The Candyman Strings & Things 851 St. Michael's Drive, 983-5906 Belt your faves with one of the amazing music teachers at the music store's education center, plus cookies and hot cocoa, too. 4:30-5:30 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND BOB FINNIE Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 PIano standards: Doug starts, Bob takes over at 8 pm. 6 pm, free FELIX Y LOS GATOS Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Americana, blues, cumbia, jazz, ranchera, swing, TexMex and zydeco. 10 pm, free CONTINUED ON PAGE 34
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New spaces, new maker goods, new images of Guadalupe—now that’s what we call a Saturday!
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There’s something shifting in Santa Fe as our local arts collective scene continues to explode. And we can now add another space to the growing list of collectives who got sick of waiting around and took fate into their own hands: La Escuela y Galleria del Cuervo Azul aims to be a workspace and resource center for fledgling or longtime artists not interested in the blue chip gallery game who instead want to just get down to business. “We’re trying to create— we will create—a co-op,” says co-founder W Azul la Luz. We’re sitting in the space, once Cocina de Balam, once Cuba Fe, now a sunny, open room with paintings dotting its walls. Beside la Luz sits Jo Ann Garcia, a former master printmaker who has since gotten into painting. Her series, Dancing on the Clouds, hangs nearby. It’s a reaction, Garcia says, to a mysterious illness that claimed one of her feet earlier this year. La Luz’ paintings can be found on the opposite wall, a mix of cubist and abstract elements that feature the birth of Christ or Gestas the impenitent thief. “We don’t want it to be like other places,” la Luz continues,
“so what we’re trying to decide is, how do we do it? And we’re looking at other co-ops around the US— they’ll usually charge a fee, but we haven’t decided what that fee is. We’d like to draw in artists who can’t afford to be anywhere else.” Garcia says it will probably come down to a percentage split between the artist and space. “We’re trying to keep it at 15 percent,” she says, pointing out that such a split would skew in favor of the artist. La Luz also envisions workshops in topics like CPR and hypnotherapy, both with small costs of admittance. He’s got a doctorate in medical sociology from UNM, where he formerly taught premed. For now, La Escuela y Galleria del Cuervo Azul consists of five core members, but it will officially open up to the community this weekend with a public conversation about the future. All are welcome to attend, inquire about membership or try to set up time to show their work. “We’ll collect information,” Garcia says. “How much of a longterm commitment they can make, for example—we need their ideas, we need feedback. We’re new, but we want this to survive.”
Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery hosts its fifth annual Guadalupe Group Show on Saturday Dec. 8—definitely the most popular show the Agua Fría Street gallery hosts each year. We’re talking 20-plus artists working with the imagery of Santa Fe favorite Guadalupe in mediums like painting, carving, textiles and beyond. “The theme of the show is the sacred feminine,” says gallery manager RevAWL Jones, “because [Guadalupe] is a symbol, and probably the most NEW VENDORS ubiquitous symbol through the Americas of the The After Hours Alliance’s annual sacred feminine.” maker’s fair, String of Lights, returns While visiting Eye on the Mountain earlier for the third year with a streamlined this week, SFR caught the show mid-installation. experience and, somehow, even Jones’ work in stainless steel with programmed more vendors. According to AHA colored LED light strips was particularly captivisual art coordinator Ginger Dunvating, though we also viewed intricate woodnill, who co-organizes each year, the work, abstract but recognizable interpretations, third iteration is all about addresssacred plant sculpture and other styles. The jewel ing what has or hasn’t worked. of the show, however, may just be a hybrid paint“We curate 50 percent [of the ing and carving from Los Angeles-based artist Paz vendors] so we know there’s going to Winshtein. Winshtein is no stranger to controverbe a strong representation for Indigsy, having received criticism for his provocative enous, queer, local artists who are depictions of Guadalupe before, but his piece in the giving to the community in a strong upcoming show—a representation of three godway,” Dunnill tells SFR. “We have desses, Guadalupe, Shiva and Isis—is a stunning an open call for the other 25 spots testament to the powerful imagery at play. The or so, and we have a jury that selects Guadalupe group show isn’t about staid iconograthem.” phy or adhering to ancient narrative, though those Dunnill says that she and coelements are certainly a piece of the puzzle. It’s organizer Lisa Evans received about new avenues and a broader understanding around 100 applications for this of the subject. year’s market, and that in addition “What’s beautiful about the world is that we can to long-standing String of Lights have different perspectives,” Jones says. “This has vendors like Izzy Squared Producbeen a way to celebrate an archetype.” tions, we’ll see booths from jeweler Todichiinii Rudeboy, ceramics from GRAND OPENING Whiskey and Clay, artwork from AND COMMUNITY CONVERSATION Bang! as well as clothing, self-care 6 pm Saturday Dec. 8. Free. services and more. Throw in alcoLa Escuela y Galleria del Cuervo Azul, hol sales from Tumbleroot Brewery 1406 Third St., 551-2345 and Distillery, a photo booth, food STRING OF LIGHTS: A HOLIDAY MARKET from Madre Foods and The Clarified 5-9 pm Saturday Dec. 8. Free. Kitchen—plus a carefully curated Farmers Market Pavilion, DJ Miss Ginger playlist—and you’ve 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-4098 really got a party going. GUADALUPE GROUP SHOW “We take the time to represent 5 pm Saturday Dec. 8. Free. some real, true makers,” Dunnill Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery, says. “I really don’t want people to 614 Agua Fría St., 928-308-0319 miss it.” SFREPORTER.COM
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FIRE SATURDAYS Shadeh Nightclub 30 Buffalo Thunder Trail, 819-2338 VDJ Dany spins cumbia, reggaeton, bachata, salsa y más; DJ 12 Tribe has your hip-hop, top 40, EDM, R&B and more. 10 pm, free HALF BROKE HORSES Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Honky-tonk 'n' swing. 7 pm, free HIGH DESERT HARP ENSEMBLE New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Soothing holiday selections. 1 pm, free HIGHER GROUND BLUEGRASS GiG Performance Space 1808 Second St. New Mexico's premier bluegrass band is known for its tight harmonies and tasteful instrumentation. Performing both original material and a variety of traditional and contemporary selections, the band aims to add something new and unique to standard bluegrass tunes. 7:30 pm, $20-$23 THE JAKES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Southern rock ‘n’ roll. 7 pm, free JOHN PIZZARELLI AND CATHERINE RUSSELL: BILLIE & BLUE EYES Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Two of the greatest interpreters at work in jazz today, join forces to celebrate Frank Sinatra and Billie Holiday. 7:30 pm, $29-$110 JONATHAN RODRIGUEZ TRIO Tonic 103 E Water St., 982-1189 The Albuquerque-based drummer leads a jazz trio. 9:30 pm, free KARAOKE Golden Cantina Lounge 10-B Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3313 Today’s suggestion: “Let Me Roll It” by Wings. 9 pm, free LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock 'n' roll. 8 pm, free THE LONG GONE Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. Americana. 8 pm, free MINERAL HILL Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 High energy mud country-gypsy-Eastern Europeanpunkgrass pirate music on the deck. 3 pm, free
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PAT MALONE TRIO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Malone provides the sweet melodic jazz guitar, and is joined by Kanoa Kaluhiwa on saxophone and Jon Gagan on bass. 7:30 pm, free RON ROUGEAU The Dragon Room 406 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-7712 Acoustic classic rock. 5:30 pm, free RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar. 7 pm, free SANGRE DE CRISTO CHORALE HOLIDAY CONCERT First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Artistic Director Fred Graham leads the chorale in a program that captures the reverence and joy of the holiday season. Hear music of Poulenc and Culloton, a newly commissioned piece by Bradley Ellingboe, and seasonal favorites for the group’s 41st season. 4 pm, free SANTA FE WOMEN'S ENSEMBLE: SONGS OF HOPE AND LIGHT Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0092 The choir brings together music from many centuries and of many styles. Head to sfwe.org for more info. 6:30 pm, $10-$35 STEPHANIE HATFIELD WITH VONNIE KYLE Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Rock 'n' roll from a couple powerful local women. 7:30 pm, free TONE RANGER Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar (Apothecary) 133 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 Electronica dance music ‘n’ pedal steel guitar. 7-9 pm, free
THEATER THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 In Oscar Wilde’s popular comedy, two young gentlemen in London each live a double life. 7:30 pm, $20-$25 A MUSICAL PIÑATA FOR CHRISTMAS VI Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Featuring music, theater, poetry, dances and more from actors in preschool through senior citizens, this is a true community production. The celebration culminates with a piñata for the children. 2 pm, $5-$10
PERFECT LOVE Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 The world premiere of a new comedy by local thespian Talia Pura explores the imperfections of relationships, proving once again that love is usually messy and far from perfect. 7:30 pm, $15-$25 THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS SHOW (ABRIDGED) Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 Just like last year, the immensely talented Dylan Reilly Fitzpatrick, Mariah Olesen and Koppany Pusztai go nutso with music, improvisation and audience participation in a holiday event not to be missed. (Seriously. We love this one.) 7 pm, $10-$25
WORKSHOP BUILD-A-BEAST TOY WORKSHOP Museum of Interactive Art Shidoni, 1508 Bishops Lodge Road, 988-8001 Why buy impersonal toys for your holiday gifts when you can assemble unique toys from random heads, bodies and limbs? You can take your creature home for anywhere from $2-$5. 9 am-5 pm, $5 FREE YOUR VOICE, FREE YOUR SOUL Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar (Apothecary) 133 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 Create and explore lighthearted chants and songs. 11 am-1 pm, $25 HERBS FOR THE FEMININE SPIRIT: YELLOW POND LILY The Inner Vision Institute 205 Hwy. 399, Española, 747-0741 Explore the different ways plants weave their magic. 1-3 pm, $48 HOMEBUYER EDUCATION Homewise 1301 Siler Road, Bldg. D, 983-9473 Better understand the home buying process. 9 am-4 pm, free
SUN/9 ART OPENINGS OPEN STUDIO HOLIDAY SALE Gail Buono Studio 1364 Rufina Circle, Ste. 3, 629-6568 Small paintings and prints. Noon-5 pm, free
BOOKS/LECTURES CHRISTINE HICKMAN: GNOCCHI SOLO GNOCCHI Garcia Street Books 376 Garcia St., 986-0151 Explore the chef and writer's years of research about the history of gnocchi, plus dozens of recipes. 4:30 pm, free CONTINUED ON PAGE 36
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BE POLITE Seems like it would be a no-brainer, but diners often forget. For example, if a waiter asks how everyone is doing and the first words out of your mouth are a curt “iced tea,” you’ve already set a negative tone. A smile don’t cost a thing, baby, nor does a simple “We’re fine, thanks.” In case you were wondering, the level of service you’ll get absolutely suffers when you treat servers like they’re less than human. So be polite.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, TIP! So you’ve read cute stories online about people who gave their server a hard time while dangling a tip like a carrot on a stick, and now you wanna try? You’re a jerk. Terrible service exists, but we still live in a world that allows for jobs that rely on tips (if you ever want to go down the sadness rabbit hole, look up tipping’s horribly racist origins). So, short of them being complete monsters, try to imagine a long, awful day full of rudeness that ends with a trifling amount of money. People deserve to make a living, live in houses, go to the doctor and so forth, and
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this includes waiters. Oh, and that one tale about people who put out five singles and then add or subtract to them during their meal is one of the most ludicrous and mean things one could possibly do. So don’t. Not ever. DON’T SPLIT THE BILL WEIRD The current era of restaurant point of sale systems is glorious and full of ways to split checks in a way that didn’t always exist. Still, if you’re the type of diner who insists that you won’t pay a red cent more than you ate when out with a group of friends, you either need to make better
friends with whom you don’t mind splitting things, or you need to hear the following: It’s OK to spend a couple cents, even a couple bucks more, when you’re out to eat with people. Obviously this doesn’t account for the person who just had a side salad, and we’ve all been there when a huge table wants to split the bill and you barely ate anything, but any server can tell you of the tables they’ve had who make a big stink over who is or isn’t going to pay that extra three cents. ACCEPT THERE ARE SOME THINGS YOU CAN’T CONTROL Think about your own job here and ask yourself: Have you been able to access and pull off your A-game at all times, through all shifts and during crises? Of course not. One thing that’s important to remember is that lots of servers have to work two or more jobs to get by. Plenty of restaurants don’t offer health or dental insurance either, and in most cases, your server or busser is getting by on tips without the promise of an hourly wage. Sometimes they’re tired, sometimes they’re in the weeds, sometimes they’ve served table after table of bad tippers, angry patrons and snobby “foodies” who think their YouTube habits make them some kind of amateur Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain was an apt example, too, as a one-time chef turned celebrity traveler who appreciated a good hot dog or that gross-looking street food just as much as he did upscale $40-per-plate nonsense. Think of the golden rule, think of the adage of walking a mile in another’s shoes—think of how your waitstaff are human beings, and then do your best to be one yourself.
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IF YOU’RE GONNA SEND SOMETHING BACK, SEND IT THE HELL BACK ALREADY Your servers absolutely want you to enjoy your experience; there’s just more money in it for them like that. So if you take a bite of something and discover you dislike it or it was cooked wrong, they’re going to do everything in their power to make it right. They understand you’re paying to eat. They’ll help. However, if you eat an entire meal you don’t like and then expect it to be free, you’re probably a jerk. A service was offered and delivered—you’ve consumed the food. Fulfill your end of the verbal contract or stop eating out.
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DON’T HAGGLE Weirdly enough, it isn’t like the servers set menu prices, and the little numbers on the menu account for a number of things—ingredient cost, overhead, payroll, maintenance, etc.—none of which have to do with your server. Announcing that you think something is too expensive is silly and pointless. They can’t help you. Also, there’s something new out there called “the internet” that allows you to peruse a menu without even putting your shoes on. Imagine that. Regardless, it’s a well-established fact that eating out is more expensive than preparing food at home, and if you’re looking for cheapness, a sit-down spot should not be on your list.
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THE CALENDAR JOURNEYSANTAFE: PETER WIRTH AND BRIAN EGOLF Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 The New Mexico senator and speaker of the house host a town hall meeting. 11 am, free NAVAJO WEAVERS OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST op.cit Books DeVargas Center, 157 Paseo de Peralta, 428-0321 Peter Hiller, Ann Lane Hedlund and Ramona Sakiestewa discuss the art of Navajo weaving. 2 pm, free YOUNG ADULT BOOK CLUB: CITY OF SAINTS & THIEVES Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Teens ages 14-18 discuss Natalie C Anderson’s murder mystery set in Kenya. 4-5:30 pm, free
DANCE BEGINNING SALSA CLASS Dance Station 947-B W Alameda St. Drop in to try your hand (or feet and body, as it were) at some salsa dancing. 5 pm, $12
EVENTS ARTIST DEMO: CHARLENE HOLY BEAR Museum of Indian Arts & Culture 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 A beading demonstration by Charlene Holy Bear (Standing Rock Lakota Sioux). Free with museum admission, and admission is free today for New Mexicans. 1-4 pm, $6-$12 CHANUKAH ON ICE Genoveva Chavez Community Center 3221 W Rodeo Road, 955-4000 Skate around the menorah to Chanukah music. Enjoy latkes, sufganiyot, dreidels and chocolate gelt. Get in for free, enjoy off-ice acitivities if you're not into skating, or rent skates for $3 if you want to get down. 2 pm, free EL MUSEO WINTER MARKET El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Part fine arts market, part flea market, all full of treasures. 9 am-5 pm, free LAS POSADAS Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail In a Northern New Mexico tradition, join crowds on the Plaza for a procession from "inn" to "inn" as Mary and Joseph seek shelter. Sing carols, light candles, and get some cookies and cider. Last year the jeering rooftop devils were nixed for a return to a more old-fashioned event— but don't despair. THIS YEAR THEY ARE BACK! 5-7 pm, free
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LEARN TO MEDITATE Zoetic 230 St. Francis Drive, 292-5293 Explore and deepen your understanding of The Stages of the Path. 10:30 am-noon, $10 LOS ALAMOS WINTERFEST Various Locations, Los Alamos An alternative giving fair (where you can donate, buy charitable gifts and invest in experiences), as well as an Irish dancing performance. Get the full schedule at LosAlamosMainStreet.com/ Events/WinterFest. 9 am-2:30 pm, free POTTERS FOR PEACE FUNDRAISING SALE Santa Fe Hemp 105 E Water St., 984-2599 Check out Nicaraguan pottery and jewelry from the nonprofit's artist partners; PfP (pottersforpeace.org) provides low-tech, high-efficiency ceramic water filters for communities with marginal access to clean water. 9:30 am-6 pm, free SUNDAY RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-4098 A unique opportunity to enjoy local art and music inside (no blustery breezes here). 10 am-4 pm, free TRUNK SHOW: ATELIER DANIELLE AND ROBIN HILLIARD Shelby House 220 Shelby St., 216-0836 Hand-wrought jewelry from Robin Hilliard Designs and garments from custom clothier Atelier Danielle. Noon-5 pm, free ¡CHISPA! La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 If you weren't in gift-buying mode at Spanish Market and now regret it, here's your chance to remedy the situation! Book signings by New Mexico authors and live music also go down throughout the day. 10 am-4 pm, free
FILM MADE ON ROUTE 66 Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 New Mexico film historian Jeff Berg presents a motion picture road trip along Route 66 featuring lecture, stories and film clips. 2 pm, free URANIUM FILM FESTIVAL Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Since its inception in 2011, this fest has specialized in documentaries and movies about the risks of nuclear power and uranium. This year, its wide range of films represent more than 10 countries, and several international filmmakers are scheduled to take part in panel discussions. 7 pm, free
FOOD LATKE LUNCH AND ART SHOW Temple Beth Shalom 205 E Barcelona Road, 982-1376 Check out an art show and sale from the artists of Temple Beth Shalom (you do have at least eight gifts to get everyone, right?), and stick around for the beloved annual latke lunch at noon. The art show is free, lunch is $8-$12 (kids under age 3 are free), and Los Klezmerados provide the tunes while you dine. 10 am-2 pm, free SFR'S SECRET BRUNCH Location is s secret, duh Get brunch and a mimosa for $40, a price that includes tax and gratuity (see SFR Picks, page 23). 11 am, $40
MUSIC BAILE DOMINGUERO Golden Cantina Lounge 10-B Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3313 The best cumbia, Norteña, pasito satevo and reggaeton tunes with DJ Quico. 9 pm, free BILL HEARNE TRIO Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Americana and honky-tonk. 6 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards. 6:30 pm, free DYLAN EARL AND WILL CARLISLE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Country 'n' Western straight outta Fayetteville, Arkansas. 8 pm, free GERRY CARTHY La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Traditional Irish tunes. 6 pm, free THE PALM IN THE CYPRESS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Old-timey country music. Noon, free PAT MALONE AND JON GAGAN El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 A jazz duet on what's become known as Civilized Sunday. 7 pm, free SANTA FE SYMPHONY: CHRISTMAS TREASURES Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 A much-revered tradition of Christmas favorites and family-friendly seasonal tunes. 4 pm, $22-$80 STEPHANIE HATFIELD STUDENT SHOWCASE Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. The local songstress shows what her teachings can do. 2 pm, free
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THEATER THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 In Oscar Wilde’s popular play, subtitled A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, two young gentlemen in London each live a double life. 2 pm, $20-$25 A MUSICAL PIÑATA FOR CHRISTMAS VI Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Featuring music, theater, poetry, dances and more from actors in preschool through senior citizens, this one’s a true community production. The celebration culminates with a piñata for the children. 2 pm, $5-$10 PERFECT LOVE Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 The world premiere of a new comedy by local thespian Talia Pura explores the imperfections of relationships. 2 pm, $15-$25 THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS SHOW (ABRIDGED) Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 It's the Annual Holiday Variety Show and Christmas Pageant at St. Everybody’s Non-Denominational Universalist Church, and only three folks showed up. Shit gets weird. 3 pm, $10-$25 UPSTART CROWS: A CHRISTMAS CAROL La Tienda Performance Space 7 Caliente Road, Eldorado, 465-9214 Five casts of three readers from the classical theater troupe perform Dickens' own dramatic reading script. 2 pm, $10
WORKSHOP HERBS FOR THE FEMININE SPIRIT: QUEEN ANNE'S LACE The Inner Vision Institute 205 Hwy. 399, Española, 747-0741 Explore the different ways plants weave their magic through telling their story in relation to their cultural uses, appearance, habitat and energetic makeup. 1-3 pm, $48
MON/10 BOOKS/LECTURES JAMES REICH: THE SONG MY ENEMIES SING Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Reich's book is a surreal science fiction set on Mars. A rich cast of characters includes a missionary, a teenage Black Panther and a wannabe terrorist, all with fading memories of Earth. 6:30 pm, free
SOUTHWEST SEMINARS: ROCK ART AND HORSES Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Larry Loendorf of New Mexico State University lectures as part of Southwest Seminars' lecture series. 6 pm, $15 WEEKLY STORY TIME Bee Hive Kid's Books 328 Montezuma Ave., 7808051 A special story time for all ages goes down every Monday. 10:30-11:30 am, free
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 SANTA FE INDIVISIBLE MEETING Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Join the politically progressive group for group activism. 7 pm, free
MUSIC BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 9825511 Honky-tonk and Americana. 7:30 pm, free COLTER WALL Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Folk outta Saskatchewan. 7 pm, $18-$22 COWGIRL KARAOKE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Today’s suggestion: “Memory” from Cats. 9 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards. 6:30 pm, free JAMIE RUSSELL Chili Line Brewing Company 204 N Guadalupe St., 982-8474 Americana, pop and rock. 7 pm, free SANTA FE CONCERT BAND HOLIDAY CONCERT Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 The band performs its best traditional holiday music and invites the audience to sing along. 7-8:30 pm, free
THEATER THE LAST WIGWAM CHRISTMAS The Oasis Theatre 3205 Calle Marie, Ste. A, 917-439-7708 A staged reading of the comedy by Alison Crane is a fundraiser for Theatre Santa Fe. 7:30 pm, $20 donation
TUE/11 BOOKS/LECTURES BOTANICAL BOOK CLUB: LIFE IN THE GARDEN Stewart Udall Center 725 Camino Lejo, 983-6155 Join other botanical book enthusiasts over tea, cookies, and great conversation about Penelope Lively’s memoir. 1-2:30 pm, free THEATRE LOVERS CLUB: SUZANNE LEDERER Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Accomplished and talented Santa Fe actress Lederer shares her views on acting from her long career on Broadway and in television. 6 pm, free
DANCE ARGENTINE TANGO MILONGA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Put on your best tango shoes and join in (or just watch). 7:30 pm, $5
EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 This pub quiz can win you drink tickets for next time. 8 pm, free SANTA FE INDIVISIBLE MEETING Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Join the politically progressive group to put into action the planning you did last night. 8:30 am, free
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MUSIC AL ROGERS Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards 'n' jazz on piano. 6:30 pm, free ALIEN SPACE KITCHEN AND DILDON'TS Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Draft Punx presents a paranormal music experience and garage space rock. 8 pm, $5 BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Honky-tonk and Americana. 7:30 pm, free
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THE CALENDAR BILL PALMER Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. Rock 'n' roll, dirty country and acoustic ballads galore. 5-8 pm, free BLUEGRASS JAM Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 Yup—it's a bluegrass jam. 6 pm, free CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Sign up to sing or play if you desire, but be forewarned— this ain't amateur hour. 8 pm, $5
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CHUSCALES La Boca (Original Location) 72 W Marcy St., 982-3433 Exotic flamenco guitar. 7 pm, free JULIAN DOSSETT Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Delta tunes. 8 pm, free LEY LINE Kitchen Sink Recording Studio 528 Jose St., 699-4323 A global soundscape blends rhythms and influences from Brazil, Latin America and West Africa. 7:30 pm, $20
PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo jazz guitar. 6 pm, free
WORKSHOP INTRODUCTION TO IMPROV Santa Fe Improv 1213 Mercantile Road, Suite D, 395-0580 Find out why improvisation is not only fun, but good for you, at a 2.5 hour workshop. Info at SantaFeImprov.com. 6-8:30 pm, $25
CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Three Image Makers. Shelley Horton-Trippe: A Greater Sublime: 8 Poets / 8 Paintings. The Wanderer: The Final Drawings of John Connell. All through Jan. 6. GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 Jo Whaley: Echoes. Through Feb. 24. The Candid Camera. Through April 22. HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 Peter Chinni: Inside/Out. Pop Chalee: Blue Flower Rooted. Through Jan. 13. The Legacy of Helene Wurlitzer: Works from the Harwood Collection. Through May 5. IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Holly Wilson: On Turtle’s Back; Rolande Souliere: Form and Content. Both through Jan. 27. Darren Vigil Gray: Expanding Horizons; Meeting the Clouds Halfway. Both Through Feb. 16. Action/ Abstraction Redefined. Through July 7. MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART 632 Agua Fría St., 989-3283 National and international wax artists. MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Stepping Out: 10,000 Years of Walking the West. Through Dec. 30. Maria Samora: Master of Elegance. Through Feb. 28. What’s New in New: Selections from the Carol Warren Collection. Through April 7. Lifeways of the Southern Athabaskans. Through July 7. MUSEUM OF INT’L FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Beadwork Adorns the World. Through Feb. 3, 2019. Crafting Memory: The Art of
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Learn more about music inspired by New Mexico and the people who wrote it at the New Mexico History Museum’s The Land that Enchants Me So. Community in Peru. Through March 10. MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 GenNext: Future So Bright. Through March 29. NM HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5019 The Land That Enchants Me So: Picturing Popular Songs of New Mexico. Through Feb. 28. Atomic Histories. Through May 26. On Exhibit: Designs That Defined the Museum of New Mexico. Through July 28. The First World War. Through Nov. 11, 2019. NM MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Good Company: Five Artists Communities in New Mexico. Through March 10. Shots in the Dark. Through March 31. Wait Until Dark; Night Life Imagination Station. Both through April 21. PALACE OF THE GOVERNORS 105 W Palace Ave., 476-5100
Closed for renovations. POEH CULTURAL CENTER AND MUSEUM 78 Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3334 In T’owa Vi Sae’we. EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS 334 Los Pinos Road, 471-2261 Closed for the season; to reopen June 1, 2019. SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDENS 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Dan Ostermiller: Gardens Gone Wild! Through May 11. SITE SANTA FE 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 Casa Tomada (House Taken Over). Through Jan. 6. WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 704 Camino Lejo, 986-4636 LIT: The Work of Rose B Simpson. Through Oct. 6.
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Great art is made by any means possible, and the new documentary Meow Wolf: Origin Story takes that idea, opens a fridge and disappears into a portal with it, flying into a frontier of infinity. The idea of Meow Wolf, now a bona fide cultural phenomenon and “beast,” as described by the founders, is dissected and presented in the film. Passion, brilliance, improvisation and love are all stressed in the beast’s creation, where anything from a painted razor to a ship can be used in ways never imagined before. Meow Wolf’s endeavors have of course evolved into many different forms since starting—a rundown warehouse venue in Santa Fe’s Triangle District morphed into a stage play and then into interactive exhibits and, finally, the one-time bowling alley turned massive monument to interactivity, neon and walking sim-esque narrative experience. This, obviously, was the game-changer in the collective’s history. The founders of the project are successfully presented as the unique individuals they are, much more of an intense family than a gaggle
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of colleagues. Co-founder Vince Kadlubek, for example, is cast as the visionary, always thinking 10 steps ahead of everyone else. His emotions are on his sleeve, even in talking about simple aspects of the group’s past, present and future vision. There’s also a heavy emphasis on the abolition of any type of hierarchy within the founders, especially in its inception. Everyone’s input was reportedly valuable and necessary. A special mention, then, must be given to early member David Loughridge, whose art, friendship and personal strife are beautifully captured. His ultimate death and resounding influence are easily the most moving parts of the documentary. Directors Morgan Capps and Jilann Spitzmiller’s biggest strengths lie in illustrating the mechanics of the endeavor. The how of the art is painstakingly captured, though it leaves the viewer longing for more of a why? For someone unfamiliar with the specific style of Meow Wolf’s artists, it’s easy to get lost in the narrative. Origin Story is also filled with loads of animation. Occa-
sionally jarring, sometimes frivolous, the visuals are a constant within the entire experience. The most fascinating visual creations, then, are to the credit of co-founders Benji Geary and Emily Montoya; a sort of inter-dimensional Batman and Robin pair. Whether Benji is applying yellow paint to his face and drinking a FourLoko, dancing in a computer simulation or impersonating a middle-aged patron behind a monitor, he is captivating. And so it seems like the sky’s the limit for Meow Wolf’s immediate future, their sights set to expansion in Nevada and Colorado. As the documentary reaches its conclusion, the achievements pale in comparison to what lies ahead, almost presenting a big question mark. When one engages in organized chaos, is the journey ever really over? MEOW WOLF: ORIGIN STORY Directed by Capps and Spitzmiller Jean Cocteau Cinema, NR, 98 min.
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Filmmaker Tom Volf’s Maria by Callas works a bit like an opera itself—wildly fascinating for longtime fans and aficionados, dense and not particularly inviting for newcomers. Through narrated writings and recorded audio from the famed Greek-American opera singer Maria Callas, we get an intimate view of her career, her home life and her trials and tribulations in her own words—but by adding numerous full-length performances throughout the film, Volf slows things to a snail’s pace fairly often. Again, if you love opera, you’ll probably love that; if you’re trying to learn more or understand its popularity—tough luck. Callas was, we learn, like the preeminent rockstar of her day, or perhaps even bigger. We see numerous TV interviews or footage of her being mobbed by fans and paparazzi in the 1950s, and we realize just how gigantic she truly was. Of course, this was as much about talent as it is the world’s bizarre fascination with the famous, and it is proven time and time again that Callas’ effortless style was unparalleled, and has surely never been matched since. Try
The new documentary film Maria by Callas goes intimate with audio from the famed singer— it’s not always pretty, nor is it always engrossing, especially for opera noobs.
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to name even one living opera singer real quick, though … probably only a few of you reading this can. And though we feel for Callas as we observe her first marriage crumble or watch her adoring public turn on her when she was forced to cancel a performance due to bronchitis, we also get the sense that she was a bit of a prima donna—y’know, in the bad sense of the term. Callas dances around this idea by erring toward showcasing the pressures of her career and fame; however, we feel as we follow the journey that there is no question that too much was expected of the woman. That makes scenes of her yachting or hitting the town or even just being a normal person at home all the more interesting, and Volf does manage to humanize her throughout the film. But somewhere around the third or fourth complete aria, we kind of zone out despite Callas’ gorgeous voice and stirring interpretations. If opera’s your thing, you’re going to love this portrayal of a 20th-century icon. If you aren’t already familiar with the world, though, this won’t be the thing that converts you. (Alex De Vore) Center for Contemporary Arts, PG, 113 min. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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If there was ever a founding father who most exemplified that title in both look and manner, it might have been Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion. The 2016 documentary BenGurion, Epilogue, directed by Yariv Mozer (Snails in the Rain, Invisible Men) takes an illuminating look at one of the 20th century’s most influential leaders. The film focuses on a six-hour interview conducted in 1968, 20 years after Israel declared its independence and five years after Ben-Gurion abruptly resigned from government work. Living in a small desert community, the squat 82-year-old would spend his days writing, going on long walks and shoveling manure. His living situation was so modest that the British film crew that conducted the interview constructed an elaborate library set in which to do it. We’ll admit it—we had to pause and do a quick Wikipedia brush-up on the Israeli War of Independence and the Six-Day War while watching this film. Beyond the occasional news clip, Epilogue doesn’t give the viewer much context for some of the topics of conversation. The fact that interviewer Clinton Bailey was a young Jewish American living in Israel limits the documentary; when Ben-Gurion says, “I believed we had a right to this country. Not taking away from others, but recreating it,” he goes
predictably unchallenged. Where it falls short in giving a multifaceted look at Israel’s foundation, Ben-Gurion, Epilogue succeeds as a portrait of its eponymous subject. The viewer becomes familiar with the man’s steady, religious thought process, and when the history lesson gets too heavy or monotonous, the film successfully switches gears to showcase some of Ben-Gurion’s quirkier qualities. He gleefully meets Einstein, takes a doctor’s advice and learns to stand on his head; he publicly disses telephones the day they arrive at his kibbutz. Even if you’re not a history buff, Ben-Gurion, Epilogue‘s short run time makes it worth the watch. As part of the Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival, the documentary shows on Sunday Dec. 9 at 11am at The Screen (1600 St. Michael’s Drive). Ben-Gurion’s grandson, Alon Ben-Gurion, participates in a post-film discussion. (Sarah Eddy) The Screen, NR, 70 min.
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Scruggs. Six disparate tales of the Wild West are told from various genre standpoints, from the dark comedy of a sing-songy gunslinger or the robber ever-destined for the gallows to the sparse and ultimately triumphant tale of the aged prospector and the subtle scares of a mysteriously populated stagecoach bound for who-knowswhere. The episodes, as it were, are at turns quite funny or heartbreaking or, in one case, almost Tolstoyan—though without a singular narrative thread interwoven throughout, it’s challenging to carry the events or lessons of one tale with us into the next. This is by design, and Scruggs almost never stumbles in its pacing, but it can cause a sort of disconnect or cognitive dissonance when we’re presented with such emotionally differing material in such a rapid-fire manner. Special mentions abound, however, to the likes of Tim Blake Nelson as the titular Buster Scruggs, as funny and layered a performance as we’ve ever seen from the O Brother, Where Art Thou? vet. Kudos go as well to Harry Melling, whose turn as a limbless actor tethered to a Liam Neeson-run traveling theater act far surpasses what we know of the Harry Potter alum. Neeson, as always, is pretty damn good in the quieter moments. But it’s not all good news, especially in the case of Big Sick actor/writer Zoë Kazan’s too-long and too-slow installment wherein a woman traveling by covered wagon caravan loses everything to the unforgiving era and region. Still, by the time we reach the final entry and are thrust into the capable hands of talented actors like Brendan Gleeson, Tyne Daly and Saul Rubinek, all is mostly forgiven.
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Have you watched the first Fantastic Beasts movie lately? You probably should if you’re planning to see the follow-up, because even as someone who saw that movie, I felt pretty lost coming into The Crimes of Grindelwald. As I recalled, when we last left the beastmaster himself, Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), he and his friends—some wizards, some muggles, the treasure platypus—had discovered that Colin Farrell’s character (whose name I forget) was actually the evil Grindelwald (Johnny Depp, an actor who can apparently beat up women and smuggle dogs into Australia with nary a professional consequence) and this was bad for … some reason. We discover in the latest film that it’s bad because Grindelwald is basically Voldemort 1-point-oh, and he’s totally escaped wizard custody to start doing wizard crimes and make the wizard world better for wizards. To do this, he’ll need help from this guy Credence (Ezra Miller), a non-muggle who is just now realizing his outrageously strong powers, and any number of other evil baddies. Newt, who amounts to a magical zookeeper, is somehow thrust into the fight once more, and he does the fantastic beast dance with some pretty OK CGI monsters while doing cute sidelong glances and being all adorable-awkward with his haircut and everything. Along the way we get pained connective threads to the overarching Harry Potter universe in the form of Voldemort’s snake’s origin tale (which feels pointlessly tacked on), a hint at young Dumbledore’s sexuality as portrayed by Jude Law, and a little more baby murder than you’d probably expect. But we also get bored by too much crammed in, a confusing retelling of the past and one or two too many characters thrown in. JK Rowling herself penned the script, which definitely could have used a bit of polish, particularly for scene transitions that don’t land well at best or are straight up mind-boggling at CONTINUED ON PAGE 43
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conversion therapy actually lives through. The characters have been renamed, but photos just before the credits reaffirm that they’re modeled on Conley and his real family. While Kidman’s character inexplicably moves from a blind obedience to the Baptist church to courageous protection of her son (and we want to praise her when this moment arrives at long last), there’s more to her emotional journey that we missed learning about. Likewise with Dad. Crowe’s depiction of the preacher and car salesman is well-executed and doesn’t slip into stereotype, yet what’s really in his heart, even as it seems to change ever so slightly, is closed to the audience. It’s Jared’s strength and fight for survival that redeems the telling. Its flaw is the almost unavoidable trap of boiling a complicated cultural situation into a shallow Hollywood stew. That’s not to say it’s unworthy of being seen. Bearing witness isn’t just for the Baptists. (Julie Ann Grimm) Violet Crown, R, 115 min.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): When I write a horoscope for you, I focus on one or two questions because I don’t have room to cover every single aspect of your life. The theme I’ve chosen this time may seem a bit impractical, but if you take it to heart, I guarantee you it will have practical benefits. It comes from Italian author Umberto Eco. He wrote, “Perhaps the mission of those who love humanity is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.” I swear to you, Aries, that if you laugh at the truth and make the truth laugh in the coming days, you will be guided to do all the right and necessary things.
using words, although your forte will be potent profundity rather than sheer speed. I encourage you to prepare by making a list of the situations where your enhanced powers of persuasion will be most useful.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In May of 1883, the newly built Brooklyn Bridge opened for traffic. Spanning the East River to link Manhattan and Brooklyn, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world. But almost immediately people spread rumors that it was unstable. There was a growing fear that it might even crumble and fall. That’s when charismatic showman P. T. Barnum stepped in. He arranged to march 21 elephants across the bridge. There was no collapse, and so the TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You have a cosmic mandate rumors quickly died. I regard the coming weeks as a and a poetic license to stir up far more erotic fantasies time when you should take inspiration from Barnum. than usual. It’ll be healthy for you to unleash many new Provide proof that will dispel gossipy doubt. Drive away thoughts about sexual experiments that would be fun to superstitious fear with dramatic gestures. Demonstrate try and novel feelings you’d like to explore and people how strong and viable your improvements really are. whose naked flesh you’d be interested to experience slidSAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Robert Louis ing and gliding against yours. But please note that the Stevenson published his gothic novel Strange Case of cosmic mandate and poetic license do not necessarily Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in 1886. It was a bestseller, and extend to you acting out your fantasies. The important thing is to let your imagination run wild. That will catalyze quickly got turned into a theatrical production. In the ensuing 132 years, there have been well over a huna psychic healing you didn’t even realize you needed. dred further adaptations of the story into film and GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In my continuing efforts to stage productions. Here’s the funny thing about this help you want what you need and need what you want, I’ve influential work: Stevenson wrote it fast. It took him collected four wise quotes that address your looming three feverish days to get the gist of it, and just anothopportunities. 1. “What are you willing to give up, in order er six weeks to revise. Some biographers say he was to become who you really need to be?” —author Elizabeth high on drugs during the initial burst, perhaps cocaine. Gilbert 2. “Leave the door open for the unknown, the door I suspect you could also produce some robust and into the dark. That’s where the most important things interesting creation in the coming weeks, Sagittarius— come from.” —Rebecca Solnit 3. “You enter the extraordiand you won’t even need cocaine to fuel you. nary by way of the ordinary.” —Frederick Buechner 4. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A blogger on Tumblr “Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is named Ffsshh composed a set of guidelines that I think always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, will be apt and useful for you to draw on in the coming may alight upon you.” —Nathaniel Hawthorne weeks. Please study these suggestions and adapt them CANCER (June 21-July 22): I’ve called on author Robert for your healing process. “Draw stick figures. Sing offHeinlein to provide your horoscope. According to my key. Write bad poems. Sew ugly clothes. Run slowly. astrological analysis, his insights are exactly what you Flirt clumsily. Play video games on ‘easy.’ OK? You do need to focus on right now. “Do not confuse ‘duty’ with not need to be good at something to enjoy it. what other people expect of you,” he wrote. “They are Sometimes talent is overrated. Do things you like doing utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to just because you like doing them. It’s OK to suck.” fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian athlete Michael to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the Jordan is the greatest basketball player who ever lived. reward is self-respect. But there is no reward at all for He was also the first to become a billionaire. But when doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is he was growing up, he didn’t foresee the glory that not merely difficult, but impossible.” awaited him. For example, in high school he took a home LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What does “beauty” mean to economics class so as to acquire cooking abilities. Why? He imagined that as an adult he might have to prepare you? What sights, sounds, images, qualities, all of his own meals. His ears were so huge and ungainly, thoughts, and behavior do you regard as beautiful? he reasoned, that no woman would want to be his wife. Whatever your answers might be to those questions right now, I suggest you expand and deepen your def- So the bad news was that he suffered from a delusion. initions in the coming weeks. You’re at a perfect pivot The good news was that because of his delusion, he learned a useful skill. I foresee a similar progression for point to invite more gorgeous, lyrical grace into your life; to seek out more elegance and charm and artist- you, Aquarius. Something you did that was motivated by misguided or irrelevant ideas may yield positive results. ry; to cultivate more alluring, delightful magic. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You know the expiration dates that appear on the labels of the prescription drugs you buy? They don’t mean that the drugs lose their potency after that date. In fact, most drugs are still quite effective for at least another ten years. Let’s use this fact as a metaphor for a certain resource or influence in your life that you fear is used up or defunct. I’m guessing it still has a lot to offer you, although you will have to shift your thinking in order to make its reserves fully available. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran rapper Eminem is renowned for his verbal skill. It may be best exemplified in his song “Rap God,” in which he delivers 1,560 words in six minutes and four seconds, or 4.28 words per second. In one stretch, he crams in 97 words in 15 seconds, achieving a pace of 6.5 words per second. I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will also be unusually adept at
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Bible does not say that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute or even a “sinner.” There’s no mention of her sexual proclivities at all. Delusional ideas about her arose in the Middle Ages, instigated by priests who confused her with other women in the Bible. The truth is that the Bible names her as a key ally to Christ, and the crucial witness to his resurrection. Fortunately, a number of scholars and church leaders have in recent years been working to correct her reputation. I invite you to be motivated and inspired by this transformation as you take steps to adjust and polish your own image during the coming weeks. It’s time to get your public and private selves into closer alignment. Homework: Imagine that one of your heroes comes to you and says, “Teach me the most important things you know.” What do you say? FreeWillAstrology.com.
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