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SANTA CLAUS VISITS PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL VIA HELICOPTER “But why didn’t Santa come by reindeer-propelled sleigh, Mater and Pater?” ask wide-eyed, innocent children who shall ne’er, e’er be the same.

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I mean, they aren’t ‘official’ cowgirl boots.

I got them at Aldo.

Don’t meditate— medicate! It’s quicker.

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—Overheard in Santa Fe Spa locker room, Jan. 1

Life is what happens when God makes other plans.

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Man: He was, like, this prince from the Renaissance era …

Woman: That did a lot of weird, kinky shit?

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No, I don’t want to grow chiles! What part of ‘I don’t want to grow chiles’ don’t you understand?

—Overheard at Agua Fría Nursery, Feb. 27

I don’t get why vegans can’t eat eggs. I mean, eggs are meat that hasn’t happened yet.

—Overheard at Railyard Flats, Mar. 13

I’ll take an Adderall spritz!

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Sorry I’m late; my mom got stabbed in the neck this morning.

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I don’t know why anybody would go to Chipotle when they have a perfectly good burrito at Allsup’s.

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He was just your average frat boy, you know—I kind of wrote him off when we were in school, and I can’t say many of us thought he’d make much of himself, and now he’s our president!

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—Overheard at Low ‘n Slow, Aug. 21

Do you want to stop and get our blood pressure checked before we buy these bags of tater tots?

—Overheard at Market Street, Sep. 11

Without women, it’s just testosterone and bullshit.

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I really don’t feel like having my aura palpated right now.

I don’t have a job.

I’M GOING TO VEGAS, BITCHES!

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Man to bus driver: How do you feel about the upcoming End of Days?

Bus driver: Eh, so-so.

—Overheard on the bus, Oct. 9

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If you keep interrupting me, we are going to have to get married.

Tourist Man: This place is like the Spanish New Orleans.

Wife: Tom Petty’s dead, right?

Tourist Woman: It really is just like that.

Husband: Was that a racecar driver or something?

I’ve been shaking it off this whole trip, Mom!

—Overheard at Dinner for Two, May 8

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I’d love to go up in a hot air balloon. It’s on my basket list.

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Person A: Oh my God Angel, it’s a bidet! I’ve never tried one.

Person B: You should try it, it’s fun.

Person A: It’s not gonna do anything without my permission, right?

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NEWS

IN 2019, ALL THE EARTH WAS A STAGE New Mexico took steps forward and backward on environmental issues this year

ew Mexico officials made big promises to tackle climate change this year, starting with a slew of environmentally friendly bills adopted by the Legislature in January and February. But the question of how those good intentions play out inspired enough drama to be worthy of a soap opera, especially when it comes to shutting down the coal fired San Juan Generating Station.

It was also a record-breaking year for the oil and gas industry, causing youth activists to raise the irony of a state trying to go green even as it

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In July, the Public Regulation Commission decided to handle abandonment and financing proceedings under a docket opened by the commission in January, before the law went into effect. The move was a signal that the PRC questioned whether the Energy Transition Act applied to the closure of the plant.

In the following months, PNM petitioned the New Mexico Supreme Court to enforce the new law on the closure plan, while New Energy Economy petitioned the court to rule that the law was unconstitutional because it shouldered ratepayers with the costs of closure. The court denied both petitions, and lawmakers questioned the PRC’s ability to do its job.

Some suggested restructuring the commission to an appointed rather than an elected board.

The drama continued into December as the PRC began hearings on the closure of the plant, and lawmakers who crafted the law— plus Gov. Lujan Grisham and Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez— once again asked the Supreme Court to intervene.

Meanwhile, the city of Farmington and a company called Enchant Energy Corp. have an entirely different plan: They want to keep the facility running and produce low-carbon, coal-powered electricity by turning it into the largest carbon-capture and sequestration facility in the world.

However, critics, including PNM, say it’s an extremely risky endeavor.

further mining activities, and predicted that the project would begin before the end of the year.

But the company severely underestimated the pushback from people who live in and love Pecos, and how long it would take to navigate the bureaucratic process to get the application approved.

In August, Santa Fe County amended its Sustainable Land Development Code to include stricter regulations for mineral resource exploration, extraction and processing.

As the months passed into fall, Pecos residents, environmental groups, local farmers, acequia associations and surrounding pueblos joined together to stop the project.

At the beginning of December, the CEO of the company showed up to a public meeting hosted by the Forest Service, and US Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, D-NM, introduced legislation to change federal mining laws.

The project must go through environmental and cultural assessments and receive permits from the Santa Fe National Forest as well as the New Mexico Minerals and Mining Division before it can move forward.

The application to the Forest Service is undergoing the scoping process and public comment period to determine what kinds of environmental protections will be required. The agency has prohibited any drilling until the end of the spotted owl breeding season in fall of next year.

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San Juan Generating Station Saga Season 1 just ended. Stay tuned for Season 2 In the spring, New Mexico’s Energy Transition Act became law. It’s one of the most progressive—and controversial—energy-related laws in the state’s environmental history.

The new law sets New Mexico on track to transition from fossil fuels to 100% renewable energy by 2045.

It also lays out a plan for shutting down the coal powered San Juan Generating Station including $40 million in workforce aid and allows owners to refinance the plant through bonds that eventually get paid off by ratepayers.

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2 Pecos community says ‘Not another mine’

In April, the Australian mining company New World Cobalt submitted an application to begin prospecting for gold, copper and zinc on the slopes of Jones Hill, just a few miles away from the site of the old Tererro Mine near the Pecos Wilderness. The firm wants to drill 30 “exploratory” holes in the to assess the potential of the site for

3 Oil, gas, and methane, oh my!

New Mexico has experienced a windfall of cash from the oil and gas boom in the Permian Basin that allowed for a little extra spending in the last legislative session. But expanded oil and gas production also means a spike in CO2 and methane emissions emanating from the state—posing a seri-

ous problem for Gov. Lujan Grisham, who has both promised to lower the state’s carbon footprint and support the oil and gas producers.

Eventually, environmental advocates say, the state will have to cut its dependence on oil and gas revenues to truly meet the challenge of climate change. But for now, the governor has set her sights on solving the state’s massive methane problem.

In January, Lujan Grisham ordered the state’s Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department and Environment Department to jointly develop a statewide, enforceable regulatory framework for laws that would limit methane emissions in the future.

In September, the state partnered with Santa Fe-based data processing lab Descartes Labs to use information from space-based satellites and other public and private sources to detect, map and model methane emissions and get an accurate assessment of the problem for the first time.

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Los Alamos National Lab plans to expand, but the safety violations just keep coming Los Alamos National Lab has accrued multiple violations of toxic waste safety regulations in the last year, as has the company the labs hired to clean up and dispose of toxic waste from past operations that is still on site. The company, N3B, received 29 safety citations this year.

In November, the lab announced it would place a bid to develop an administrative complex at the Midtown campus in Santa Fe. In December, analysis of the state’s yearly report on hazardous waste permit violations found that the company responsible for cleaning up the Los Alamos site lost track of 250 barrels of waste that were being

shipped to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad. A few days later, the US House of Representatives passed a military spending bill that nearly doubles the cash for the lab to produce new plutonium pits.

The lab has said it plans to hire 1,000 new workers per year for the next few years.

The City Council is due to vote on Midtown projects in the coming year.

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Youth strike and rise

In 2019, the youth climate movement became a worldwide phenomenon, led in part by 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg. The young activist inspired hundreds of thousands of other young people to protest the failure of global governments to solve the climate crisis, which led Time magazine to name her person of the year.

In May, youth from Santa Fe schools joined the movement and organized a climate strike in solidarity with other students in cities across the country.

Over the summer young organizers joined forces to create Youth United in Climate Change Action (YUCCA), the youth-led arm of Santa Fe-based organization Earth Care. In September, YUCCA organized a second climate strike, this time aimed directly at the oil and gas industry.

In October, the activists once again occupied the Roundhouse.

They asked New Mexico lawmakers to declare a climate emergency and presented a list of demands to the governor that include funding and research for a plan to transition away from fossil fuels in a way that is inclusive of historically marginalized groups, finds alternative funding sources for education, and helps communities recover from the loss of fossil fuel jobs. Their demands also included a moratorium on fracking and community solar legislation.

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tate Rep. Javier Martinez spent his early December making a list and checking it more than twice—ticking off items as he and other lawmakers put together the bill that could launch legal cannabis in New Mexico in 2020.

Martinez, D-Albuquerque, and others, including Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who is a staunch supporter of the effort, say they feel fairly confident they can get it to the floor for a vote in both houses despite the short 30-day session and even though a bill (HB 356) in the last session failed to make it out of the Senate Finance Committee. To give the new bill its best shot, Martinez and other lawmakers have been preparing to pre-file this week, which will give the bill a low number and make it one of the first to be heard, they say.

“I’m still tinkering a little with some of the percentages,” Martinez, the bill’s lead author, tells SFR. “I’m trying to find a way to include startup companies or to find some funding for small startups, but we’re not sure how that will play out yet. We’re still working on some of the language, but it’s a good bill and I don’t think there will be any surprises.”

Lawmakers are adding pretty much all of the priority suggestions that came from Gov. Lujan Grisham’s Working Group on Cannabis Legalization, he says. And Rep. Antonio “Moe” Maestas, D-Albuquerque, says he thinks the bill has a better than 5050 chance of passing.

“It’s a fantastic template for public policy,” Maestas says. “The key for me is eliminating the underground market. We think we’ve hit the key spot for taxation that will do that.”

Sen. John Arthur Smith, D-Deming, head of the Senate Finance Committee, tells SFR he’s not so sure about those odds. The reason the 2019 efforts to legalize recreational use of cannabis didn’t make it out of the committee, he says, is because the bill wouldn’t have passed, and two sponsors asked him to pull it.

“We had two bills that ended up in my committee last year in Senate Finance,” Smith says. “Two sponsors of one of the bills asked me not to hear it, and the other author never came by and even asked me about it. There was no ini-

tiative by the sponsors of either to move forward.”

Smith, who supported the state medical cannabis program, says he is “not enthused about” a recreational program. In his four-county area in the southern part of the state, there are Border Patrol issues with illegal cannabis, he adds.

Smith says he’s also concerned the state won’t get the amount of cannabis tax revenues that proponents are touting.

“Advocates for anything will try and overcome that by earmarking funds,” Smith says. “But in states like Colorado, when push comes to shove, the taxes didn’t generate what they said they would.”

The proposed 17% tax rate in the 2020 bill is lower than several other cannabis states, but would still provide New Mexico with revenues to run the system and allocate some funds to law enforcement and other areas, Maestas says.

“Prohibition simply does not work, so we’ve been working with law enforcement, economists from the University of New Mexico, social justice advocates and all the stakeholders,” Maestas says. “We’ll only be the third state to legalize through the Legislature, and we have the opportunity to learn and not duplicate the mistakes of other states.”

Other recreational states with higher tax rates have failed to eliminate their black markets, and that’s been especially challenging for states that legalized through a voter referendum rather than through their legislatures, he says.

“States that legalized overnight by referendum, they’ve had to go back and build their legislation after the fact,” Maestas says. “We’ve had the chance to build the legislation before the system, and that will help us.”

Martinez says he also believes some lawmakers’ stances have evolved.

“Our Legislature’s understanding of cannabis has greatly improved over the last couple of years,” Martinez says.

“There’s not as much opposition based on ideology anymore. Now it’s more about making sure law enforcement has the resources it needs to adapt to this reality.”

Smith says there is also concern about drug abuse and the possibility that cannabis could exacerbate some mental illnesses.

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New Mexico legislators are rushing to pre-file a new bill to legalize recreational cannabis in the state

“Last year there were a few members of Finance that were opposed that surprised me,” Smith says. “One had family members with drug problems. I won’t say who the members were, but I went back after talking to them to tell the bill sponsors the votes just weren’t there.”

Still, Martinez and Maestas say they’re hopeful the bill will make it through this time around, especially after looking at and incorporating suggestions from around the state as part of the governor’s task force.

One lesson they learned during that process is that licenses should not become re-sellable commodities. That lesson stems from liquor license issues that plague the state, Maestas says.

“Liquor licenses have become a marketable commodity because we let licensees sell or lease their licenses,” Maestas says. “The last two sold for about $500,000.

So we wanted to learn from that. No cannabis licenses will ever be sold or leased to another person. That was a disaster on the liquor side.”

Maestas says he agrees that the opposition has evolved. In the last House session, he thought he would see more debate over legalization, but it ended up being mostly an up or down vote.

“Even the law enforcement community has acknowledged that arresting someone for cannabis is a waste of a cop’s time,” Maestas says. “We educated the vast majority, and we just hope the constituents continue to educate policy makers, because constituents know a lot more than the policy makers about this.”

The bill is also likely to include a provision that would expunge previous criminal records for people guilty of marijuana posesssion and related offeneses.

Both Maestas and Martinez say they expect the bill to move.

“It’s not going to run out of time—it will be a vote up or down,” Maestas says.

“And I’m hopeful people will realize it’s time, and that the bill’s not going to get any better, because it’s fantastic.”

Martinez declined to give his prediction on odds of the bill passing, but Maestas took a stab at it.

“Better than 51%, I suppose?” he says.

Smith says he’s really not sure what to expect in the vote.

“My guess,” he says, “is on the Senate side, it will be very close.”

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ust inside Nina Otero Community School, a group of students works on a paper mural, spread across the wall and held up by tape. They discuss next steps, loudly, as they bring to life their own versions of alebrijes, fantastical creatures first created in Mexico.

This mural, and two others in progress at Ortiz Middle School and Camino Real Academy, are part of the Visiting Artist Programs provided for local schools by ARTsmart, a nonprofit that supports art programming for youth in Northern New Mexico.

But this semester’s murals are just the beginning for Santa Fe’s Southside.

Starting next year, ARTsmart will prioritize Title 1 and Southside middle schools for Visiting Artist Programs to address a gap in middle school art options in Santa Fe. Title 1 schools are institutions with a large concentration of low-income students that receive federal funds.

The focus is possible because of the Hestia Fund, money pledged by a group of women who want to increase what’s

available for that age group in Santa Fe. ARTsmart agreed that students between 11 and 13 in Santa Fe were not getting the same access to art instruction as other age groups.

In the mural program, says Amanda Thomas, executive director at ARTsmart, “the students work with a client in mind.

In this particular setting, it’s the school.

They make designs typically, each program has a variance, typically students make proposals or meet with the client to see needs, they come up with a variety of designs, narrow it down, then the client selects. Then they work in a team setting, executing something creative as a group, which a lot of them haven’t experienced.”

Thomas tells SFR the program will get “extra emphasis” soon.

“It’s really beautiful because it supports the local artists economy, connects students to local artists in our community, exposing them to different art forms and techniques, media, different cultures, all while exposing them to potential careers in art and design,” she says.

ARTsmart’s programs are in every Santa Fe public elementary and middle school in the district. They alternate between Capital and Santa Fe high schools each year. ARTsmart also operates in the Española school district, Genoveva Chavez Community Center and at the county’s juvenile detention center.

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ARTsmart sends visiting artists to work with students at Nina Otero Community School with the help of funders who also plan to target middle schools with extra art programs next year.

artist and ARTsmart instructor Mariel Garcia joined the nonprofit in 2014 with a background in ceramics, drawing and painting, among others.

The nonprofit is raising additional funds for El Camino Real’s Visiting Artist Program because the school has proposed a more comprehensive program with multiple visiting artists for the future.

The students at El Camino Real are currently working on a series of projects with different artists called Creating Along the Camino. Artists from SITE Santa Fe visit

I think that art gives students an outlet to express not only who they are as a person, but in this instance of the mural, it’s about Nina as a community.

-Angelina Moore, principal at Nina Otero Community School

the classrooms at Camino Real and work on projects on the themes of immigration, migration and freedom. The students also get to visit SITE Santa Fe regularly.

The mural program at Camino Real does more than introduce students to the arts.

The nonwhite students at El Camino Real trust their white teachers more than before thanks to this year’s theme and the

bridge visiting artist Israel Haros Lopez built with art between the students and their teacher, according to Sarah Mandala, the program director at ARTsmart.

Haros Lopez is an artist with the Alas de Agua Art Collective.

Students at Capital High School in the ARTsmart program worked with artists Kevin and Jennifer Box. They went to the artists’ solar-powered studio, set up on 35 acres outside of the city. The students created their own origami sculptures from cast metal with guidance from the Boxes.

ARTsmart also provides weekly arts instructors and workshops after school at Sweeney Elementary School and El Camino Real Academy through a separate program.

Angelina Moore, principal at Nina Otero Community School, was the client for the students at her school. She’s happy to see the children working together and proud to hang the mural at Nina.

“I think that art gives students an outlet to express not only who they are as a person, but in this instance of the mural, it’s about Nina as a community,” Moore says. “There’s a sense of students as individual artists but also as storytellers for what’s important to our school.”

The students from Nina Otero and Ortiz will get to see their work displayed at the Southside Library in the fall as part of the program, according to Mandala, the program director. The murals will then return to their respective schools to hang indefinitely.

Yatziry, a middle school student at Nina Otero Community School working on the alebrije mural when SFR visits, loves the time she gets to paint.

“We can be creative and do it our own way,” Yatziry says.

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FR cover artist Anson Stevens-Bollen worries that maybe you are feeling dreary already this season, so to cheer us all, he summoned Old Man Gloom for a winter appearance. SnowZobra can tell you that this year gave him plenty to moan about: Politics were dark, the sky was dark—it’s been sad. But as we roll along toward the end of another year, we tried our best to see change on the horizon, and that this time of the year is about giving, helping, togetherness and, frankly, beer. In the following pages, learn how to show compassion to feral cats (page 17), get the lowdown on escape-rooming (page 22), ditch at least some of the capitalism for the holidays (page 27) and get recs for a trio of seasonappropriate beers from near and far (page 28). There’s more inside as well, including a local-centric gift guide. Otherwise, we remind you to love each other, Santa Fe. And remember: 2020 can’t possibly be worse, can it?

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his is a story of how one can become a crazy cat lady, despite being categorically opposed to the concept, let alone the practice. In many ways, it’s a story just like A Christmas Carol or It’s a Wonderful Life, except instead of ending with people celebrating the true meaning of Christmas and the innate goodness of humanity, it ends with a woman feeding a bunch of cats in the freezing cold while talking to herself.

The tale began last summer when I returned home from vacation to discover a feral orange cat had given birth under my porch. The kittens were already scampering about—when they weren’t lying on top of one another in an orange heap— and Momma Cat was prowling around for food and bolting every time I attempted to investigate the situation (the underside of my porch is not particularly easy to access and bears an unfortunate resemblance to the Upside Down in Stranger Things).

Truth be told, I fervently wanted to ignore the entire situation, but my supportive friend group urged me not to with statements like, “If you don’t do something, those kittens will die and it will be all your own fault.”

I found it hard to reconcile my lifelong status as an animal lover with the

putative title Kitten Killer, so I asked The trapping went on for a few days around for tips and was directed toward and, by the end of the week, Mason had the Santa Fe Animal Shelter and Humane caught all four kittens, Momma Cat and a Society’s Gatos de Santa Fe program male cat I decided was Baby Daddy. The (sfhumanesociety.org/our-programs/ kittens indeed went into foster care and gatos-de-santa-fe).

I tracked them through the system until The five-year-old free program is a they were adopted.

Trap, Neuter, Return (TNR) initiative But what to do about Momma Cat and for the city’s feral cats. When kittens are Baby Daddy? involved, if they are young enough to be Mason told me they might decide my socialized, they’re put into foster care yard wasn’t safe and take off (what with and then up for adoption. Adult cats are neutered and then re-released into their neighborhoods to continue being cats who no longer make more cats.

And so it was I found myself in my driveway at 5 am (prime cat-catching time, apparently) waiting for Gatos de Santa Fe’s Mike Mason (who has since retired) to meet me and set the traps. For the record, you don’t have to meet them— they will set the traps while you remain in bed—but I ABOVE: was worried he might have Jasmine, trouble locating the spot adopted from where Momma Cat and the the shelter five years ago, kittens had decided to take tolerating a up residence. pre-nap photo.

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from the shelter who spends most of her life trying to sit on my lap.

SF Animal Shelter Executive Director Jennifer Steketee, a veterinarian, says the Gatos de Santa Fe program “has dramatically changed the number of homeless cats in our community. The number of cats coming into the shelter has been drastically reduced.” As a result of increased space, the shelter has even been able to take cats from elsewhere.

Feral cats are very unlikely to ever become pets, she told me. But enlisting Gatos de Santa Fe is the humane option for helping cats who live outdoors, who will generally live longer lives if they are fixed, she says. And it’s better for the people living with feral cats, since spayed or neutered cats are less of a nuisance.

“Some people don’t like that male cats are peeing around their yard,” she says. “When they’re neutered, they don’t do it as much, so it can be a benefit to the homeowner.

They also won’t have loud cat sex, and sometimes that’s annoying to people.”

Are there people who do like male cats peeing in their yards and listening to loud cat sex? A story for another season …

BELOW: Momma Cat, the outdoor feral cat, eating her morning meal while looking at me suspiciously.

the kidnapping and all), but they might not. He offhandedly suggested I might put some food out, noting they would particularly appreciate it post-surgery.

Fast forward six months to now, winter, where I am greeted by Momma Cat and Baby Daddy each day at 7:30 am as they await their food. “Greeted” is a bit of a stretch. They stand several feet away until I put their food out and run if I move even slightly toward them.

That’s OK. I don’t need love from random cats. I have a domesticated cat, Jasmine, whom I adopted five years ago

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From Consumer to Connoisseur Up your tea and coffee game with classes and tastings

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offee shops cover almost every corner of the City Different, from national chains to holein-the-wall-one-offs to our particular breed of local chains. Old-school darkroasting Ohori’s has three downtown locations within a mile of each other, and third-wavers Iconik Coffee Roasters just opened a third location of its own last year on Guadalupe Street.

This being a city of culture, folks work hard to elevate coffee and tea above the dictates of our addictions, including many at the establishments named above. Warm bevs are a highlight of winter with experience to be had with every drink and a community with which to engage no matter where the indulgence takes place—whether it’s after a shred sesh on the slopes or with colleagues on a weekday.

Two prominent examples of such beverage innovators are located downtown and practically on top of each other.

On the street level, Artful Tea (101 W Marcy St. Ste. 4, 795-7724) invites customers to sample teas and browse dozens of varieties of gourmet looseleaf; just upstairs, REMIX Audio Bar (101 W Marcy St. Ste. 201) serves up crafted coffee along with the freshest up-and-coming DJ talent in town.

Displays are arranged by tea type downstairs, with shelves dedicated to black, green, white, oolong and herbal varieties. Small glass bottles of looseleaf line the shelves, standing in front of larger containers and bags. I like white teas, so the shop assistant offered a glass bottle of silver needle to sniff as she described the caffeine levels and how to brew it. The tea comes packed in 3.5-ounce bags with prices ranging from around $10 for common blends to $35 (or more) for the top-shelf varieties.

For some, the various colors and brewing methods are a total enigma.

While other businesses might leave these folks to their Lipton, Artful Tea opens up the shop for introductory classes ($20) regularly to explain and sample the different varieties. Another upcoming class covers tea cocktails ($25), or how to incorporate tea with alcohol to create next-level beverages.

The focus isn’t on just selling tea, it’s about building a community around an appreciation of the leaf. To this end, Artful also offers poetry readings and guided meditation sessions (with tea of course, $15) around regular business hours.

Upstairs, REMIX offers classes, too, but of a different kind: Owners Justin Ray (Laguna/Acoma Pueblo) and Julie Grace are serving up vinyl and DJ techniques for low costs ($25) at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. The day I stopped by, Head Barista Gong Szeto explained the concept.

“Even though music and coffee beverages are not obviously the same, our approach to quality and care for the product are,” he said.

Owner Ray wanted to establish a place where he could share his creativity and expertise in coffee and music with others while improving their palates

REMIX’s small but comfortable location thumps with local DJ and barista talent.

and ears. While the quality and process might stymie some, Ray and Szeto are dedicated to making REMIX accessible.

Besides the tens of thousands of dollars in sound equipment packed into the small space, REMIX brews up specialty lattes and espresso drinks with thirdwave precision, using scales, thermometers and timers for every drink.

“I’m not afraid to serve a latte in an $80 hand-blown glass mug,” Szeto says, walking me through the intricacies of the basic Americano ($3). “I love to watch people turn from a consumer into a connoisseur.” roastSzeto tells me my beans were roast ed in Silver Lake, California, about 10 days earlier, while he pulls out a curve graph showing the flavor development over time. Cafecito Organico was chosen for several reasons, above all the sheer quality of flavor; there isn’t anything what REMIX ofelse in town quite like what REMIX of fers. The roast profile on the espresso is grounded in an herbaceous, almost acidwoody quality, with a sweet, subtle acid ity that brings a floral hint rather than any A jar of jasbitterness.

There’s mine silver espresmore than espres needle awaits so, however: Some of a hearty sniff. popuREMIX’s most popu lar (and cozy) drinks are mushroom-based.

“I like to offer these in the afternoon as an alternative to coffee,” Szeto says, pointing to a list of four drinks ($5 each) that incorporate adaptogenic mushroom blends from Santa Fe’s own Mushroom Mama. In fact, REMIX partners with local companies for ingredients at every opportunity, including Artful Tea and Fleur d’Henri for a CBD-infused latte ($12), along with national supplier GT’s Living Foods for kombucha on tap.

While we chat, Szeto serves local veterinarian and newly-minted professional DJ Callie Jones, who started taking classes at REMIX after reading about it in SFR this spring. Five months later, she’s getting paid for gigs.

“This is the craziest idea I’ve had in my life,” she says about becoming a DJ, “but I did it.” Now, she’s there to mentor a beginner DJ, another adult learner.

Unlike most spots in the music scene, REMIX bills itself as “zero-proof,” or alcohol-free.

“It’s nice to hang out in a place without alcohol,” Jones says.

Both REMIX and Artful Tea abound in opportunities for gifts, but each offers way more than material things: They offer experiences, whether you want to learn a little more about your hidden passions or just to escape from the cold for a while with a hot, comforting drink.

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aos Ski Valley bustles on opening weekend. A cold, late fall and several rounds of storms brought enough snow coverage for many New Mexico resorts to open on Thanksgiving.

The holiday weekend is the first big moneymaker of the season, but this far south, it’s never a sure thing.

There’s one lift spinning and only about half a dozen runs open. Temperatures hit the teens and a wind announces itself with a bitter sting where the lift crests the first ridge—but the sun is shining and the snow is dry, soft and pliable.

David Norden looks like a happy man.

Sipping tea by the fireplace in the restaurant of the resort’s new slopeside hotel, The Blake, the 59-year-old CEO of Taos Ski Valley says he’s “a good halfway” through a transformation of Taos that promises to take at least a decade and sport a price tag of $300 million or more.

Once a low-key warren of shops, smallish condo projects and coffee carts at the base of epically steep terrain, Taos has started to look more like a resort. It’s a cautious transformation that seeks to balance new lifts, new hotels and new restaurants with an old vibe.

“Taos is a classic,” Norden tells SFR. The Long Island native has just enough accent left to perk up one’s ears, and while he gained his US Coast Guard captain’s license

David Norden, CEO of Taos Ski Valley

early on, he’s spent a lifetime in the mountains. He’s a development guy, good enough to be called upon to shepherd projects in Japan, South Korea, Argentina, Colorado and Vermont. When the founding Blake family sold Taos Ski Valley to financier Louis Bacon in 2013, Norden started the explosive revamp.

The skiing has always been the thing here. Founded in 1955, the resort’s salad days of the 1960s and ’70s fostered a reputation for steep-and-deep powder tracked only by locals and those willing to endure a long road trip into mysterious New Mexico or a flight to Albuquerque and a threehour trek north. Those brave enough—and skilled enough—to peel off their skis and kick their way to the ridges above the highest lift were rewarded by truly remarkable runs that attained legendary status.

But the kind of people who can ski— and, since 2008, snowboard—that terrain can’t sustain a resort. Taos has always had enough tame territory to accommodate novices, and the ski school was so good that locals from Santa Fe were known to sign up to hone their skills. The mountain saw skier days dwindle, though, from a high of more than 300,000 in the mid-1990s to around 200,000 in an average year.

The massive project under Norden’s purview has the stated goal to “grow better, not bigger.” He’d like to see Taos hit that high again. Last year’s season drew 265,000 visits, even with a midseason avalanche tragedy (a US Forest Service review said the resort’s safety work was in line with industry best practices, and Taos installed a remote detonation system this year on part of the mountain to further enhance its avalanche-control measures).

Ever protective of the mountain, locals seem to have given the effort at least a satisfactory grade so far. While the opening act was a chairlift to the shoulder of the revered hike-to slopes of Kachina Peak, Taos has added faster new lifts around the mountain and a small gondola system on its redesigned beginners’ slopes.

The resort protects its ethos, too. Taos spent money to attain B Corporation status, a designation that attempts to pair profit with purpose. It’s the only ski resort with the distinction shared by companies like Patagonia and Ben & Jerry’s.

Norden says Taos has donated more than $1 million to the community and partnered with nonprofits on water conservation measures. They happen to have the side effect of producing more refined

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glade skiing at Taos, but that’s part of the trick. So, too, with the introduction of resort-owned Taos Air. Yes, it brings visitors from Texas and Southern California.

Without it, though, who knows when the Taos airport would have been able to build the crosswind runway it had been coveting for years?

Taos is poised to ski better, eat better, sleep better. Old favorites like The Bavarian, St. Bernard and Tim’s Stray Dog Cantina are still there. The Blake takes its named from founders Ernie and Rhoda, and its restaurant, 192, pays homage to the tail number on Ernie’s plane. It’s smart marketing, sure, but Norden promises it’s respect as well.

A spiffed-up resort should draw more looks not only from skiers and snowboarders, but from real estate developers. The pre-sold units at the under-construction Blake Residences already command premium prices. Homes wedged along the Lake Fork of the Rio Hondo as it cascades down from Williams Lake easily fetch upwards of $1 million. Land and condos can go for a quarter million or more.

Ski companies will also watch the revamp with a keen eye. It’s a fact of life at independent resorts, and one that makes some locals nervous. What if Alterra

(Squaw Valley, Steamboat), Powdr Corp.

(Copper Mountain, Snowbird) or Vail Resorts (Vail, Breckenridge, Whistler Blackcomb) comes calling?

“I know a lot of people here who will work really, really hard to make sure that doesn’t happen,” Norden says. “I think what [visitors] find here is that authenticity of experience, of being in the mountains.”

It’s worth pointing out that Stowe, Vermont—the project of his he compares most closely to Taos Ski Valley—is now part of the Vail Resorts empire. Taos boasts better snow. Stowe is on the other side of its high-end revamp. It’s more an apples-to-aprés comparison at this point, but walking up to the ticket window to buy a single-day lift ticket this season costs $110 at Taos and $149 at the Vermont resort (Pro tip: Buy your ticket ahead of time and online).

There will always be questions about Taos’ future. It’s the nature of an independent ski area. The quaint old lifts are disappearing, sure. The slopes, though, are unquestionably legendary. Getting to ski more of them, faster, with better food and a little more life at the end of the day, might ensure Taos Ski Valley’s future looks more like the glory days of its past.

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ou enter the dungeon!” the disembodied voice bellowed.

“You grab the torch!”

As the narration continued from the light-up machine, myself and a handful of SFR staffers whispered hurriedly about our next steps. Laid out on a grid before us was a changeable series of three-dimensional shapes emblazoned with items like a torch, a sword, a shield and a rope, among others. The goal was to fit the shapes into corresponding holes in the correct order within the grid to unlock another clue in our ongoing puzzle room. We’d entered the faux pizza parlor 25 minutes earlier, and having already solved a series of physical, mathematical and brain-bending

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puzzles together, we still had an entire other room to unlock—and solve—and a mere 35 minutes in which to complete the entire escape room. It was hard to believe that earlier that day we were all trying to weasel out of going.

We visited Puzzah! (500 Market St., 501-7228), the newest of Santa Fe’s two escape rooms, this one located in the Railyard. Both Denver and Broomfield, Colorado, also have Puzzah! locations, and the company, which was founded in 2014, is based in Englewood, Colorado. Over the few months prior to our visit, co-founder Ryan Pachmayer had patiently tried to coax us out for a visit—we should have listened sooner.

“I was looking for something I could fully immerse myself into that was fun and rewarding,” Pachmayer tells SFR. “People that come to visit us are looking for a fun and exciting time, so it’s truly a pleasure to deal with almost everyone that walks through our doors. And then to see what

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we’ve created from the ground up be played by thousands of players is really neat, it makes it much easier to pour yourself into the next game build.”

The escape room fervor has certainly subsided a little since the nationwide craze of just a few years back, but now that the hipsters have moved on to whatever it is they’re doing, the rest of us can finally reserve a room and go to town with our smartest friends. And you’ll need smart friends. There’s always an extra twist or layer to the puzzle that doesn’t present itself immediately, there’s always something at play that seems not quite right.

The puzzle we experienced was one of three at Puzzah! and its newest, Knight Shade ($25 per player).

“It just came out this fall,” Pachmayer says. “It is our first non-linear game, so it can accommodate more players—closer to eight or nine versus the typical six max on our other games.”

Non-linear, Pachmayer explains, means there’s no one correct way or order in which to solve the two rooms. From within a pizza parlor, participants are tasked with decoding clues, solving puzzles and ultimately banishing a ghost who’s also a

knight for some reason. What that has to do with a pizza parlor I’ll never know, but it honestly doesn’t matter—it’s goofy and it’s fun and, perhaps most importantly, the puzzle evolves in realtime based on how teams complete it and in what amount of time. I won’t spoil the solution for the shape-based puzzle, nor will I mention the others in the following room, that would be cheating, but suffice it to say it was a complete blast to work out solutions with my buds.

“We’ve really fine-tuned our approach over the years and we really build experiences more than anything else,” Pachmayer notes. “In the early days, we saw that the competitive nature of some [rooms] was going to limit their audience and we saw through trial and error that players respond much better to an adventure experience versus a game show type challenge.”

And there’s the rub—the experience of it all. What businesses like Puzzah! and Escape Room Santa Fe (505 Cerrillos Road, 303-3876) offer is the kind of experience that bonds families (and co-worker families) and gets the ol’ brain going. As fatigue and cabin fever set in this season, assembling a team for a se-

This chair almost ruined our lives, but when it comes to wintertime fun, Puzzah! is now permanently on our list.

ries of puzzles not only staves off the wintertime sadsies, it’s the sort of thing that creates memories. For days after our experience, we traded stories from our time with Knight Shade, and knowing that Puzzah! also has a secret agent-themed room and an alien mystery-themed room will surely mean our return.

“Everyone seems very happy that there is another entertainment/activity option in the area,” Pachmayer says.

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How to weather winter

I’ve lived my entire life in the tropics, until now — let the lessons on winter begin B Y K AT H E R I N E L E W I N k a t h e r i n e @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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’ve only been in New Mexico for six months, and this will be the first full winter I have ever experienced.

Arriving in the city in May as an almost-26-year-old, I had spent my entire life in the tropics until then, moving between Florida and Hawaii. To say that I was unprepared for winter would be an understatement—I had no idea what was coming and, to be honest, was perfectly content pretending the glorious Santa Fe summer would last forever.

It didn’t.

The first snow in November popped my summer and autumn bubble. It was cold. It was wet. It made me want to pee my pants out of fear of driving (Brakes don’t work well on ice?!). And I couldn’t figure out how to get into my car without getting the seats covered in snow.

Luckily, there’s someone who I call for almost everything when I need advice—my mom. Also born and raised in Florida, she moved to Colorado and then to the Pacific Northwest, where she lives now. As a Florida girl, she learned how to survive snowy and icy winters. I figured if she could, I definitely could, too.

She came to visit me for Thanksgiving, which turned out to be perfect timing because it was a week of snow and ice. I set her up with a straw and a bottomless margarita from Harry’s Roadhouse and asked for advice on how to survive winter.

“F*@!ing layer”

To say my mom is tired of my calling and complaining about how cold I am all the time would be an understatement. I wish I had a dollar for every time she told me to “shut up and layer.” When she visits, she makes me put on so many pairs of tights underneath my jeans I look like I’ve been bulking for weight lifting.

“Tights. You can never own enough tights to put under your pants,” my mom says, one margarita in. “It’s called layering! I would wear tights, jeans, long sleeve shirt, sweater along with scarf, hat, gloves and coat. Don’t forget to buy a scarf, hat and gloves. I forgot that one until the first freeze. I had a really cool leather coat—but that doesn’t fix anything when it’s 16 below zero.”

I own a 2018 Honda Civic, born and raised in Orlando. Both of us had a hard time adjusting to snow and ice. My mom has little sympathy for either one of us and insists that more driving practice in bad weather is the answer.

“Practice driving in an empty driving lot. Brakes and starts are completely different in the snow than they are on the hot Florida streets. Get chains for your tires. I bought them—never could put them on, but hey! I own them just in case,” mom says via email. “Have a supply box in your car in the event you get stuck on a road with a blizzard and same at your house. The supply box should be good for two days and have peppermint schnapps … that alcohol tends to warm the blood!

LOL.”

Your house needs winter love too

I settled onto the couch to read and 30 seconds later a piece of log rolled out of the fireplace and burned my carpet in multiple places. I don’t own any type of poker, so I used a spatula from my kitchen, and that was a fun $75 to spend getting my carpet fixed and a new spatula.

Again, my mom was not sympathetic. “[Get a] fireplace set for your fireplace,” she says. “The long spatula in your kitchen drawer doesn’t do it when trying to turn wood. [Get] flannel sheets for your bed. A real luxury is a plug-in blanket warmer. I found a mattress cover that you plug in and you could set each side to its own level of heat. Cool.”

Keep your pets warm My mom loves my dog, Sancha, more than she loves me. I know because she gives me money to send Sancha to doggy daycare twice a week but not for utilities or food. It’s fine.

Over Thanksgiving, I got a long lecture about taking care of Sancha in the winter. She’s a good-tempered, shorthaired American bulldog (Sancha, not my mom).

“You do need a snow shovel or you can’t get out of your house or even get your car dug out of the snow,” my mom tells me. “I even used the shovel to make poop paths for the dogs when the snow was 12 inches and higher.”

Such a good dog mom.

Sancha also has a lovely new coat, courtesy of my mom.

If you’ve lived many wonderful, warm years in the tropics but now you live in New Mexico, may the gods bless you and godspeed as January approaches. Don’t forget a fireplace set and a coat for your dog.

I’ll be in Miami for Christmas, though, so don’t worry about me too much.

I was excited about building a fire in the fireplace in my apartment. Like, really excited.

In Florida during the winter, when we’re out on the boat or tanning at the beach, we complain about the heat and halfheartedly say we wish we had seasons, while knowing full-well it’s not true but it’s something to talk about.

Needing a fire in the fireplace seemed like an adventure to me. So there I was, putting logs into the fireplace, with zero kindling or a starter log, super eager. And it took me an hour and a half and 10 tons of discarded newspapers (thank goodness I work at SFR) to actually get the logs to start burning.

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onsumer-capitalist interests have hijacked no other holiday more than Christmas, and that makes this the perfect time of year to practice resisting the billions of dollars worth of corporate messaging that tells you to define yourself and your relationships through the things you buy.

When I was a kid, the best things about Christmas often didn’t have to do with presents at all. What I remember in most detail are the cozy, cheerful, adventurous activities we did as a family.

Among the most magical was an annual trip into the mountains to cut down our own Christmas tree. Every year, we drove the winding road to Truchas to the house of family friends where we strung together popcorn and fresh cranberries into wreaths that would later adorn the trees surrounding the stump of the tree we cut down, an offering left for the birds (if you’d like to do this with your family, make sure to get the proper permits from the Forest Service and only harvest trees in designated areas).

To reclaim Christmas, start with the traditions you already have that are about community—not consumption—and work from there.

This is about bringing conscious intention to the practice of gift giving so that we stop mindlessly wasting our hard-earned cash on objects that make rich CEOs even richer at the expense of human workers and the environment.

But changing the system is also about actively creating an alternative. Now is the time to start new rituals and traditions that emphasize different values, such as creativity and equity, and to strengthen the bonds of community crucial to recognizing the common interests of the 99%.

Santa the Trojan Horse

Oh, Santa. What could possibly be a better embodiment of patriarchal capitalism? While most midnight intruders would probably be met with a shotgun, we tell kids not to be afraid of the cheerful old white dude breaking into the house on Christmas, even if he kisses them in their sleep or asks them to sit on his lap at the mall.

Gross.

We train kids to believe possessions are a mark of moral worthiness by telling them Santa only brings presents to “nice” kids. If good people get more stuff, then people who have more stuff must be good. Families with bigger houses than yours must have worked harder, be more deserving, or just be better people for Santa to have brought

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their kids iPads while your kids got sweaters, right?

Worst of all, we tell kids the presents were made by magical slaves (elves) who love their work because it is what they exist to do, which alienates kids from understanding there are real people laboring to make these objects, often in conditions that are harmful to the workers and to the environment.

Stop giving Santa undue cred.

Rethink Presents

The most memorable gift my dad ever gave me was a trip to the grocery store where I got to fill the basket with whatever foods my little heart desired. It worked because as a kid I was an adventurous eater and I loved trying new things. We all love get getting and giving presents; that doesn’t mean they have to be mass-produced objects.

Teach your kids to be resourceful and creative and make your own presents! Host crafting parties and invite your friends to each teach a project to the group. Give the means of creation to someone else with a membership to studio or classes, or supplies for building their dream projproj ect. Give gifts that are empowering and increase a person’s agency, like a tool to fix their car, and then teach them the basics of how to use it.

Wonderful experiences can cost thousands of dollars or nothing at all. You could give concert tickets or a massage, or you could throw a surprise theme party for your best friend, help your musical nephew record and mix their first track, or convince your firefighter friend to take your kid on a ride-along.

Buy things made locally and boycott any company whose workers went on strike for better conditions this year, like Amazon, which doesn’t allow its warehouse workers (the people shipping your package) adequate time to drink, pray or pee.

Create your own rituals and build community

Instead of bringing gifts, have everyone make the favorite dish of someone else in the group and have a potluck.

Throw a neighborhood tamale-making party. Teach your kids that this holiday is not about getting things but about givgiv ing back by volunteering as a family at a homeless shelter, or writing letters to prisoners, or shoveling snow from an elderly neighbor’s driveway. Better yet, refocus your holiday altogether on the eternal aspects, whether you spend more time at church or decide to celecele brate solstice instead.

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wintertime hankering for an adult beverage is likely to send most of you walking, lurching or sashaying toward a peaty scotch, a proper rye or some fancy Malbec. Not me, dammit. I’m primarily a beer man, m’self, and dedicated SFR readers might remember that typically means a faceful of hoppy IPA every chance I get. But that chill we’ve been feeling in our marrow of late—complete with some actually remarkable snowfall— inspires me to peruse the seasonal menu upon entering a saloon. This time of year, that means something darker, something more ill-tempered, something that more closely resembles a meal in a glass than my usual proclivities.

So for this-here Winter Guide, I sampled a pair of Santa Fe cold weather beauties along with the best seasonal beer on the planet, which, to all of our good fortune, is celebrating three decades of existence and is available in some of our city’s finer spirits shops. Bottoms up!

Second Street Brewery

Santa Fe Brewing Company

Samuel Smith Old

Jack Plane Porter 8.0 ABV 60 IBU

Winter Warmer Brown-Style Ale 6.0 ABV 18 IBU

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35 Fire Place, 424-3333 The Brakeroom 500 Galisteo St., 780-8648 santafebrewing.com

Brewery Tadcaster 6.0 ABV 32 IBU England or something samuelsmithbrewery.co.uk

Second Street doesn’t expressly bill this as a cold-weather seasonal, but the brewery’s menu-advertised admonition that it pairs best with “winter adventures and holiday feasts” got it close enough for me to have a crack. It’s a truly unique porter. Sure, the appearance in the glass is an impenetrable darkness, and the malts overwhelm at least three of the drinker’s senses as the full-mouth feel does its thing. But this beer is all about the cherry wood—and we ain’t talkin’ maraschinos. Real, tart cherries are the main event, so much so that the promise of hops at the end of a sip show up as a mere afterthought. I had a Cuban sandwich and Second Street’s cajun tots as a food pairing, which turned out to be an odd but quality choice. Drink. This. Beer.

Cocoa and red chile. The words are right there on the beer list behind the bar tempting drinkers to sample this, what we believe is the truestto-form winter ale brewers in the City Different are churning out in Santa Fe this year. Let’s just get it out of the way now: I had two of these at a recent “lunch.” Two wildly disparate drinking experiences ensued. First pint, first sip: chocolate, chocolate, chocolate, straight from the introduction of ale to tongue. Five to eight seconds later …

Is that really red chile? Why, yes, it is! Then I hold my pint up to the light. It almost looks like an amber, but the overall feel in the mouth is a true brown-style ale: not sticky, but enough time on the tongue to know this ain’t no Sam Adams claptrap. Pro tip: Do as I did and drink two of these.

You’ll feel the chile on your lips as you wait for the second one, which offers the true blend of cocoa and proper spice. As with that Second Street porter, you gotta work for the hops. But this is a brown-style ale, so who gives a damn? Santa Fe Brewing Company is canning this gem, so you don’t have to hit a taproom to enjoy. A prayer to the powers that be at Santa Fe’s OG craft brew shop: Forget the Nut Brown Ale and make this one all year. Please and thank you.

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As I’m approaching my word count here, I’ll leave some to the imagination. In short, this is an amber-colored ale that’s richer than that Bezos guy who owns The Washington Post. Not much by way of hops, but unbelievably well-balanced caramel, brown sugar and maybe even some banana just destroy the palate in the best way. This year’s edition marks the 30th anniversary of this treasure, and I personally don’t care if you wanna toss rotten vegetables at me for reviewing a non-Santa Fe beer. Instead, you should visit Susan’s Fine Wine and Spirits (1005 S St Francis Dr Ste 101, 984-1582), Total Wine and More (3529 Zafarano Drive, 428-4262) or Kelly’s Liquor Barn (2885 Cerillos Rd, 471-3960) and pick up a 550 mL bomber. Now. They go fast. William Shakespeare is quoted on the label, for the love of God: “Blessing of your heart, you brew good ale.”

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Guide Hanukkah starts on Dec. 22 and Christmas, as always, hits Dec. 25. In other words, you’re gonna need gifts. We’ve compiled some of our favorite local options to help you shop for a variety of personality types. You’ve got roughly a week—better hurry.

Shoes and a new economy with XOLOriginal xoloriginal.org SFR first spotted this vendor at the Recycle Santa Fe Art Festival earlier this year with breathtaking shoes made from 100% recycled materials, including tire rubber for soles, reclaimed upholstery leather and

colorful, traditional clothing materials from Mayan women in southern Mexico. It’s not just about footwear, though: Instead of buying the product outright and commodifying the art, customers have the option to support the Indigenous artists behind Xol directly throughout the year, opting to pay $5, $10, $15 or $20 a month. The $5 level comes with a pair of custom-made shoes every two years, and the $20 level provides a new pair of kicks every six months.

SFR Tip: Even though vegans might balk at wearing leather, all the hides come from recycled or repurposed sources, so the shoes can be thought of as cruelty-free.

Give the gift of glowing skin Santa Ana Skin Care Clinic 2205 Miguel Chavez Road, 954-4422 santaanaskincare.com Passive-aggressively tell your loved one their skin is dry by giving them the gift of a facial. Each one is customized to work with your individual type of skin. Whether you or your loved one need a hydrating facial or something to cleanse your pores, Santa Ana offers it. They also have teen facials for the pimply young ones. Price ranges from $125 to $145.

SFR Tip: Add on microdermabrasion. It vacuums the dead skin cells off your face and leaves your cheeks feeling as smooth as a baby’s bum.

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Wear the art with Future Fantasy Delight and Obsidiopolis The quickest way to bring stunning artworks to that gift exchange also happens to be a utilitarian thing. We’re talkin’ clothing designed by local artists like Nico Salazar and Janell Langford, the artists behind Future Fantasy Delight and Obsidiopolis, respectively.

Salazar’s black and white chic style ($30-$85 for most tees and sweatshirts) borrows from pop and toy culture, anime and that party life, while Langford’s bright and breezy Obsidiopolis ($30-$65) clothing celebrates black girl culture and a retro, throwback aesthetic for ’80s fans and beyond; both operate under Meow Wolf’s umbrella. Either way, your giftee’s gonna look good. Get both.

SFR Tip: Wondering where the “gift” part comes into this free experience? Stop at Artisan to pick up the supplies the recipient will need: an 18-by-12 inch Strathmore Newsprint Pad, $6.29; Art Alternatives Vine Charcoal 3 Pack, $1.95; Faber-Castell Kneaded Eraser, $1.50.

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What could be cooler and sexier than having one’s own custom scent? Make an appointment to consult with master perfumer Roxana Villa who, for $90/hour, will start helping one develop their very own “scent portrait.” For $250, Villa will guide participants through the history of perfume and send them away with special alchemical mementos. For real enthusiasts, she offers a two-day workshop to learn the craft, currently on sale for $395. Her perfumes are all made from natural, plant-based materials, and spending an afternoon in her studio is like entering a magical alternate universe where fairytales and ancient wisdom come alive through smell.

SFR Tip: Both brands have killer tees, but look deeper for sweaters, hoodies, prints, pins and more.

SFR Tip: Roxana also has a line of custom-made scents for purchase for $60, but you’ll still have to make an appointment to come in.

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The short version? If you need a gift of some kind for almost anyone on your list, you’ll surely find it at Sub Rosa.

SFR Tip: Zinn’s an expert on every last item in the shop—ask for guidance and ye shall receive.

Artisan 2601 Cerrillos Road artisansantafe.com The Muse Art Project offers free figure drawing meet-ups on Wednesday mornings at Artisan, a locally owned art supply store that has been around since the 1970s. This isn’t a class exactly because there’s no teacher, but the groups are led by the models (clad in skin tight clothes) and participants themselves. Artisan staff tell SFR these meetups sometimes turn into lively social events and are a great place to learn to draw or touch up on ones skills.

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Adorable kitsch from Sub Rosa Mercantile Sub Rosa Mercantile proprietor Madeline Zinn grew up in Santa Fe, and after years of running the shop in Denver, she brought it home to roost—everything in there is a Southwestern dream, from handmade bandanas courtesy Last Chance Textiles and Apprvl ($27-$55) to a wide range of ceramics, candles,

Smell almost too good with custom perfume

For all those relatives who moved away and friends from out of town who swoon about how much they love New Mexico, get stickers, hats, clothing and more from newly minted local outfit FS2 Supply Co. Where else can you find a T-shirt emblazoned with an endangered Rio Grande cutthroat trout?

We’re also partial to the cap with a state patch, which comes in shades of red, black and camo. Wait! Where did you go?

SFR Tip: We recommend getting anyone who lives in Colorado one of FS2’s green chile shirts.

Stick it to ’em.

Get moving at Thrive 947 West Alameda St., 930-5923 santafethrive.com Give the gift of movement this holiday season. Thrive, located in the Solana Center, is offering a $45 unlimited week of yoga and indoor cycling that can be used anytime before January 31st. Thrive is the only place in town offering vinyasa-style classes in a super-heated room, which can feel mighty good during these icy months. New Year’s resolution, anyone? Or, at the very least, it’s an excuse to escape the family for an hour or two. Sometimes committing to a week of exercise can feel daunting, so give somebody a hand and do it for them. This is the perfect gift for that friend who’s been “meaning to get into yoga” but can’t seem to make the stretch.

SFR Tip: Classes fill up quick so encourage your friends to sign up early online.

Delight with chocolate drink mix, candybars and education

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Cacao Santa Fe: The Art of Chocolate 3201 Richards Lane, 471-0891 cacaosantafe.com

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Take your chocolate lovers to tour this Midtown chocolate factory to get the whole “bean to bar” experience, then nosh on premium snacks guaranteed to have them rolling their eyes in ecstasy. Banish the thought of Hershey Kisses wrapped in gaudy colored foil and embrace the idea of artisan bars topped with crunchy cacao nibs. We love making fun-flavored drinking chocolate at home and on the go for camping trips, which is how we ended up talking to Cacoa’s chocolate historian this fall for a podcast about ancient practices of hot cocoa.

Tools can be ridiculously expensive to buy, but for only $20 a year you can borrow anything from a simple shovel to power tools and how-to books for a week at a time.

Lending libraries are a smart way to build community and support accessibility while getting the most out of limited resources (your money, the materials it takes to make tools). This is a great gift for anyone who works on gardening, mechanical or construction projects often enough to need tools but not often enough for it to make sense to buy them.

SFR Tip: Drink mixes make great host gifts for parties when you don’t want to support the bottle-of-wine culture.

Bestow a beautiful table Mabel’s Table 1010 Marquez Place, Suite C www.mabelsantafe.com Mother and daughter Diane Hanson and Holly Tunkel, founders of Mabel’s Table, provide beautiful antique, vintage and rare textiles all year long. For the holidays, they have an array of affordable gift sets with exquisite individually-sewn cotton art coasters, table runners, sparkly cocktail napkins, placemats and bespoke dinner linens that will make your favorite host or hostess very happy upon receipt (and perhaps earn you an invitation to a swanky cocktail party with actual cocktail napkins).

Find beautiful items 20 to 80% off on Saturdays throughout December (or by special appointment).

SFR Tip: You can put your own mixand-match gift set together, as Mabel’s Table offers individual dessert, cocktail and dinner napkins for $2 to $4 each, or individual coasters for $3 on its sample table.

MAKE Something Together at MAKE Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road, 819-3502 makesantafe.org The feeling of accomplishment and emotional returns are aplenty when we make something our damn selves, and with an entire nonprofit in Santa Fe dedicated to giving you the tools to do so, there’s little excuse to not gain some know-how. Gift something experiential and with plenty of togetherness by booking a workshop for you and a friend or family member at MAKE Santa Fe. We’re talking woodworking, lasers, 3D printing and so much more, and with classes starting at $40, it’s more affordable than whatever doodad you’re thinking of handing over that probably doesn’t have any lasers at all.

SFR Tip: Donations always feel good, too, especially for organizations like this that make our town rule so hard.

Keep it traditional with MAIDA 108 Don Gaspar Ave., 988-9558 maidagoods.com/shop spiritoftheearth.com This year, look to MAIDA goods for your holiday jewelry and pottery needs.

Megan Branch, the woman behind MAIDA, works with Native artists using traditional techniques to create exquisite handmade pieces that reflect Indigenous rituals and cultures. The price point varies, with giant stone-cast arrowhead and Naja pendants on the higher end and nativity scene figurines and burros made of locally foraged micaceous clay on the lower. Visit her web shop for all the options or stop by Spirit of The Earth on Don Gaspar for a smaller, curated selection.

SFR Tip: Some pieces are made-to-order, so get a head start if you can.

SFR Tip: For a bonus, help that person brainstorm a project, take them to the ReStore to buy materials, and dedicate a weekend to helping them get started. The money you spend will help Habitat for Humanity build homes for Santa Fe families in need.

Access to the experts at Big Adventure Comics 418 C Montezuma Ave., 992-8783

We know what you’re thinking—a gift certificate can be so impersonal. But when it comes to the kind that come from Big Adventure Comics, Santa Fe’s best (and, to be fair, only) comic book shop, you’re not just giving your friends a key to the wide world of comics, trades, one-offs, special issues, graphic novels and Magic: The Gathering cards—you’re giving them access to people like owner Kevin Drennan and employee Bram Meehan. Not only are they super-rad dudes, they’ll help your giftee find the perfect item without all the nerd gatekeeper crap. Put at least $50 on that cert.

SFR Tip: Cut out the extra steps and just buy someone the complete Bone by Jeff Smith.

Get it catered by YouthWorks santafeyouthworks.org/aboutyouthworks-catering Celebrate someone special by throwing them a party catered by YouthWorks. The local nonprofit engages in a range of outreach and job training programs for “at-risk” and disadvantaged youth in Santa Fe. In the culinary arts program, young people learn professional food preparation, event organization, catering and business skills. Costs for a party range from $8-40 per person with an average cost of $14 per person, which comes to about $500 for a party of 30 people.

SFR Tip: This is also a great gift for someone going through a hard time, such as a serious illness or injury, a divorce, or a death in the family. Make their life a little easier by having Youthworks deliver a meal once a week for a cost of $5-40 per person.

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Limited edition sound from Curated at SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo De Peralta 989-1199 In the 1940s, industrial designers Charles and Ray Eames developed designs for several radio cabinets.

One of them, however, was perhaps too futuristic for its time, and never got made.

Until now. Vitra teamed up with the Eames’ estate and has rolled out a limited edition—only 999—of the Eames Radio, with up-to-date technology and transcendent sound. Only 100 are for sale in the US, and Curated, the museum store at SITE Santa Fe, has four left of the six it originally received. This $999 radio is a collectors’ item, and bound to be a hit with any sound/design lover you want to spoil.

SFR Tip: Curated’s curator, Yon Hudson, keeps SITE’s store stocked with items one can’t find elsewhere, with an eye toward beauty and wit. Anything in the store would make a good gift or stocking stuffer, but be sure to pick up some of the locally made chocolates from Chamisa Chocolate, all vegan and gluten-free. The Santa Fe biscochito flavor is a good pick for this time of year.

Original works from SFR Art Director Anson Stevens-Bollen, stellar photographs and other art that’s landed on the cover of the Reporter can also land on your home or office wall. Get a glossy, 17 X 22 inch poster for $40 delivered in the United States, and, you guessed it, support the mission of local culture and news journalism from an alternative voice. So far, the “Georgia O’Crow” cover from winner of our Illustrator’s Cup, Ellen Gregor, has sold the most copies of any poster. But have you seen the “Cat Vermeer” from Nov. 13?

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RAINBOW EATER: THE BED BAND, HERETICAL SECT, LUKE NUTTING AND DEAD HARE PRODUCTIONS 7 pm Friday Dec. 20. Free. form & concept, 435 S. Guadalupe St., 780-8312

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his musical influences reflect his art and vice versa.

“It’s an immersive music experience that uses each room of the show for a different performance or presentation,” White says, “so it should be a nice way to experience lots of different bands in a short amount of time.”

Said bands include Luke Nutting, Dead Hare Productions, The Bed Band and White’s own crushing black metal band, Heretical Sect, which rolls up genres spanning from singer-songwriter to psychedelic pop rock to extreme metal and beyond.

“It’s exciting to juxtapose different types of music with each other so there isn’t that kind of separation that comes with most shows that are booked by genre,” White says. (Allison Sloan)

If you’ve enjoyed a movie from the Center for Contemporary Arts in the past year and a half, you’ve benefited from the work of Mara Padilla, a projectionist and box-office worker who also creates stunning graphic novels. What you might not realize is that Padilla has battled a rare cancer since she was 20; what you certainly do know is that experimental cancer treatments can be very expensive. Luckily, the community has a plan: to put together a night of food, live music and storytelling, with all proceeds going towards Padilla’s bills. “It’s completely in the holiday spirit,” she tells SFR. “It’s going to be a really fun party.”

Mara’s Night 7-9 pm Wednesday Dec. 18. $20.

CCA’s The Screen; 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, 428-0209

Local bands celebrate the works of Todd Ryan White Chances are you’ve seen the works of artist Todd Ryan White out there in the world—maybe on a Burton snowboard or an album cover or even in a museum. But this Saturday, go deeper with an immersive and sprawling musical celebration of Rainbow Eater, White’s current solo show at form & concept gallery.

Rainbow Eater itself spans 10 years of White’s career, and features music, installation, collage, watercolor, ink drawing and wood and glass sculpture. White spans the bright and colorful as well as the dark and confrontational with tapestry-like paintings composed of hundreds of smaller works and immensely detailed black and white drawings. According to form & concept’s press materials, the exhibition “offers a glimpse into a world filled with drunken gods and mythical mishaps,” which we think sounds pretty cool.

SFR interrupted White’s band practice to ask about the musical element of the evening, which is his way of showing how

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WINTER WITCHCRAFT There’s nothing better than a little witchcraft for the new year, right? Maybe you need some spiritual guidance to settle on a resolution, or maybe you need some holiday soul healing? Whatever it may be, Rebecca Ferreira Troy, our local Santa Fe witch is here to help. Troy reads from from her new book Healing and Witchcraft in a Conformist World and summons the tarot spirits at op.cit Books to answer your otherworldly questions.

Her book is about her quest to move out of the negative frequencies of our contemporary world and into authentic expression by way of Mother Nature and witchcraft. It’s a guide to alternative healing methods fusing together modern psychotherapy and ancient wisdom from the Goddess Hecate. (AS) Rebecca Ferreira Troy: Healing & Witchcraft in a Conformist World 2 pm Saturday Dec. 21. Free. op.cit Books, 157 Paseo de Peralta, 428-0321

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By now, if you’ve been missing out on the preeminent Led Zeppelin cover band of our town, you’re either under 45 or, like, you hate fun and friendship. We joke because we love, and because otherwise members of Moby Dick like Mikey Baker and Andy Primm would be more egomaniacal than they already are. Anyway, they play all the Zeppelin hits, plus Albuquerque’s Pink Freud (they do Beatles—jay kay, it’s obviously Pink Floyd) joins the lineup to remind us all of a simpler time when hallucinogenic drugs paved the way for shreddy music, progressive weirdness and a good old-fashioned long-ass hairdo. Ah, ’twas a simpler time. Anyway, get rocked.

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Moby Dick and Pink Freud 7 pm Saturday Dec. 28. $12.

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With the decade closing out and everyone everywhere looking to party so hard they nearly die, Santa Fe’s nightlife offerings are aplenty. From more laidback options like the Santa Fe Botanical Gardens’ GLOW and the last of the year’s Flamenco Winter Series events at The Lodge, to New Age goodness like Soul Activation 2020’s dance-party-meetsyoga event at Caribe Dance Studios, Casa España’s DJ Oona-led NYE party and a jam-packed night of DJs at Meow Wolf, you’ll go into the following year right. These events plus many more are described online at sfreporter.com/cal and on page 36. Pick one, avoid FOMO, see y’all next year! (ADV) New Year’s Eve All night Tuesday Dec. 31. Various locations.

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We all know Homer’s Iliad or the Holy Bible, but what do you know about the Popol-Vuh? Like those other classic texts, the “Book of the People” was passed orally among the ancient K’iche’ people in the highlands of southern Guatemala for centuries, until Spanish colonizers transcribed it upon arrival.

The story preserves the Mayan creation myth and the adventures of the Hero Twins, Hunahpú and Xbalanqué, but converting from an oral story to a written account meant some things were lost.

In 1943, however, Guatemalan artist Carlos Mérida produced a fresh interpretation of the myth in a portfolio of 10 illustrations dubbed Estampas del Popol-Vuh. “In certain ways, [Mérida’s version] is more accurate,” Hecho a Mano owner Frank Rose tells SFR. “They’re living stories. So putting it into a visual form puts it back into seeing this abstract realization of these characters, these

beings.”

Some of the forms Mérida portrays are inspired directly by pre-contact Mayan glyphs, but the composition and color reveal a sort of “abstract expressionism,” according to Rose. The question of how to navigate a world in which the ancestors have been muted or appropriated by Western colonialism is present in the prints; at the same time, the pieces are imbued with a dynamism that denies attention to historical contradictions in favor of a new, decontextualized approach to the images and deities.

Alongside the full portfolio, Rose shows 26 prints from Mérida’s Trajes Regionales Mexicanos series which depicts various clothing styles from across Mexico. (Cole Rehbein) CARLOS MERIDA ESTAMPAS DEL POPUL-VUH 5-7 pm Friday Dec. 27. Free. Hecho a Mano Gallery, 830 Canyon Road, 916-1341

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GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Pub trivia with prizes.

8 pm, free

INTRODUCTION TO ZEN Mountain Cloud Zen Center 7241 Old Santa Fe Trail, 988-4396 Everyone is welcome to explore the basics and finer points of Zen meditation.

5 pm, free MARA'S NIGHT: A BENEFIT FOR A BELOVED SANTA FE ARTIST The Screen 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 428-0209 Support the brilliant and talented Mara Padilla—an artist, graphic novelist and CCA projectionist—whose ongoing medical treatments require significant funds. Mara's Night features a community-cooked dinner and a show with live music, storytelling and short videos. (see SFR Picks, page 35) .

7-9 pm, $20

NEW MEXICO PINBALL MEETUP The Alley 153 Paseo De Peralta, 557-6789 Meet people who enjoy pinball and learning more about the hobby. Bring cash or quarters for the machines.

6-11 pm, free WAYWARD WEDNESDAYS Chili Line Brewing Company 204 N Guadalupe St., 982-8474 The freshest, small-batch, locally roasted, sustainably sourced, organic local comedy, including the occasional friend from the road … and an open mic! Signup starts at 7:30 pm, jokes start at 8:30 pm.

7:30 pm, free

MUSIC BOXCAR KARAOKE: UGLY X-MAS SWEATER EDITION Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Confidence at the mic is cute, no matter what your sweater looks like.

10 pm, free GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, plus pop, rock and contemporary favorites— with vocals too.

6:30-9:30 pm, free JOAQUIN GALLEGOS El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Flamenco guitar.

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MATTHEW ANDRAE Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Rhythmic covers and originals of a folky bent on guitalele.

6-9 pm, free PAT MALONE El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 A jazz guitar set, special for the holiday season.

6-8 pm, free SANTA FE MEGABAND REHEARSAL Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, 470-7077 This open community band provides an opportunity for musicians to get together and play acoustic string band music.

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SHELTON ROHLING Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana guitar.

8 pm, free TINY'S ELECTRIC JAM Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Plug in and rock out. Hosted by Nick Wimett and Albert Diaz.

8:30 pm, free

WORKSHOP PWD OPEN STUDIO Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 An all-ages choice-based art studio for people with developmental disabilities. Skip the line, come directly to the David Loughridge Learning Center.

1-3 pm, free

THU/19 BOOKS/LECTURES AUDIOBOOK RELEASE FOR WILDEST OF THE WILD WEST Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Written by the late Albuquerque journalist and historian Howard Bryan in 1988, the story of the incredibly violent and lawless history of Las Vegas, New Mexico, during its railroad boom years has sold tens of thousands of copies and continues to be a Southwest best seller.

Celebrate its release as an audiobook, voiced by Jim Terr, a native of Las Vegas.

5:30-6:30 pm, free

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Santa Fe Brewing Company 35 Fire Place, 424-3333 Pub trivia with prizes.

7 pm, free STATE SURPLUS SALE State Agency for Surplus Property 1990 Siringo Road The state has extra stuff for you to buy, like furniture and government vehicles and knives surrendered to the TSA at the airport.

9 am-4 pm, free

MUSIC A BAROQUE CHRISTMAS Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0092 The Pro Musica Baroque Ensemble presents this favorite holiday tradition in the festively decorated Loretto Chapel. Step back into the 18th century and experience chamber music as it is meant to be heard— in intimate, resonant spaces.

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CHRIS CHICKERING DINNER CONCERT Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar (Apothecary) 133 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 The award-winning musician produces uplifting music that, among other things, is licensed for use by Deepak Chopra.

6-8 pm, free DAVID GEIST W/ JAMIE RUSSELL Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Solo instrumental piano.

Second set features Mr. Russell on drums.

6-9 pm, free GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, plus pop, rock and contemporary favorites—with vocals, too.

6:30-9:30 pm, free JESUS BAS Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Amorous and romantic Spanish and flamenco guitar.

6-9 pm, free JUBAL Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Touring folk.

7 pm, free KIRK KADISH AND JON GAGAN El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Inventive jazz on piano and bass.

7-9 pm, free MARIO FEBRES El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Flamenco guitar.

6-8 pm, free MR.BILL.GATES; ZEE; BOGTROTTER Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Psychedelic electronic bass, 21+.

9 pm-2 am, $19-$22 PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo jazz guitar.

6 pm, free STORM LARGE: A HOLIDAY ORDEAL Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 In her signature Christmas show, Large loves you, leaves you, delights you and abuses you with a wicked charm and stunning vocals that will have you begging for more.

7:30 pm, $35-$55 TROY BROWNE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Dextrous Americana.

8 pm, free

THEATER NO NUMBER HOME Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Written by Santa Fe resident Tencha Avila and inspired by real events, No Number Home tells the story of a young couple and their daughter living in a migrant worker colony in Colorado in December of 1944. When their recently drafted 18-year-old neighbor, Jesus Rodriguez, deserts from basic training, the colony is invaded by the military police who vow to find him whatever the cost. Residents panic, sure they will all be deported unless someone hands the boy over.

2 pm, $15-$25

WORKSHOP COSMIC YOGA IN THE GALLERY Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 This all abilities, chair-based yoga class will encourage you to breathe and find awareness, both in your body and in the gallery, incorporating a slow-looking of artist Scott Johnson’s new exhibition, Fissure.

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FRI/20 ART OPENINGS EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED III Keep Contemporary 142 Lincoln Ave., 557-9574 To celebrate three years of filling a much-needed contemporary art niche, Keep is showing the work of several gallery artists.

5-8 pm, free MEXICAN SUBURBS Zalma Lofton Gallery 407 S Guadalupe St., 670-5179 New Mexican visual artist Frank Blazquez presents an exhibit showcasing documentary portraits, mixed-media, and photomontage.

Photography from Blazquez's Barrios de Nuevo Mexico project are shown in combination with newer works from late 2019. Mexican Suburbs highlights contemporary Southwest symbols and Mexican American totems connected to Blazquez's personal narrative.

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BOOKS/LECTURES CIDER FRIDAY Nedra Matteucci Galleries 1075 Paseo de Peralta, 982-4631 Come enjoy cider, cookies and holiday cheer. James Rutherford, associate director at Nedra Matteucci Galleries, gives a talk at 2 pm titled The Essential Gallerist.

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The day my last column came out (Nov. 12), I was diagnosed with pneumonia—and my daughter’s stomach flu. After two weeks of caring for my sick child, I succumbed. It was kind of ironic: The last column was about the isolation of nuclear families and the stresses of parenting under late stage capitalism. Among other things, I wrote about wondering if I would lose my job, which offered no paid sick leave, if I had to take any more time off work to care for my daughter, my wife or myself.

And then Sickpocalypse 2019 hit our household. Cold followed by ear infection followed by stomach flu followed by pneumonia followed by both parents down with stomach flu and another cold. Cue horror movie music. Cue crawling to the bathroom in the middle of the night and sending dramatic SOS text messages to anyone who had ever expressed any interest in our child, begging them to take her so we could rest.

Luckily, our community came through in amazing ways. People swooped in to take the toddler on field trips. They dropped off casseroles and homemade bone broth. Folks did dishes, picked up prescriptions, and bought us diapers. Our community saved us from nuclear family disaster, and we made it out the other side feeling less like we needed to move across the country to live near Grandma, and more like folks had our backs.

My workplace, however, was not so awesome, and in the middle of the misery I put in notice that I was done.

I can’t weather another illness feeling more stressed out about the fact that the boss might not grant my request for unpaid leave than about my ability to breathe. So I’m returning to the precarious but flexible world of selfemployment. Sometimes you have to choose your battles.

It’s a lie, however, that I wasn’t worried about my ability to breathe.

I was very worried. Getting that kind of sick activates very scared young

parts of me that didn’t receive the kind of care they needed earlier in life.

It activates all kinds of feeling out of control, desperate, trapped, angry and overwhelmed. Not my highest self.

Plus there’s Prednisone. Prednisone is a steroid that reduces inflammation and, when you’ve got lungs like mine, helps you breathe when you’re in crisis. It is also my personal kryptonite.

Or maybe it’s more like when when Ron wears the horcrux in Harry Potter: It gets inside my head and it feels like something sinister is creeping around the edges of my consciousness, making me agitated, intense and uncharacteristically dark.

In the depths of a can’t-fall-asleepbrain-racing-down-the-vortex night of despair, I called my best friend in California. He’s the kind of best friend everyone needs when they’re wearing a horcrux. He can offer the much needed reality check. We’ve been through 17 years of brilliance and madness together, plus he’s a trained therapist. He listened patiently, laughed at my overly dramatic analogies, and then reminded me that I have a centered adult self in there whom I’ve spent a lot of years cultivating. He asked me what I would say to my own clients if they were deep in the darkness. He asked me to say it to myself.

Right.

So I put a hand on my heart and closed my eyes: This is scary. Being sick with some degree of grace and acceptance isn’t too hard for a few days, if you can take time off to rest and recover, but being sick for weeks, being sick while parenting a relentlessly energetic toddler, and being sick while trying not to lose a full-time job is a bit much. You’ve been set up by an ableist world that doesn’t support folks who are vulnerable or can’t be “productive.” But you’re not doing anything wrong. You need some time and some love. You will find your center again. You’re strong, and this is temporary, and you’ve got friends.

Breathe.

And then I fell asleep. Friends really do make the best medicine.

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CINEMATOGRAPHER LUKE FITCH ADDRESSES SILENCE New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 Creative Mornings presents Fitch, who recently completed a documentary that explores the powerful effects of silence and meditation, from the seemingly mundane to those that can change the course of the entire planet. Enjoy coffee, bagels and a talk about what Fitch learned.

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EVENTS GLOW Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Thousands of twinkling lights and large-scale light installations are aglow throughout the garden. Tonight, live music from Nosotros.

5 pm, $8-$12 MAGIC: THE GATHERING Big Adventure Comics 418 Montezuma Ave., 992-8783 In-store tournament play.

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5-8 pm, free SOLSTICE CELEBRATION Santa Fe Children's Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 989-8359 Celebrate the solstice by roasting s'mores over a bonfire, walking through a farolito labyrinth and being part of a drum circle.

5:30-8 pm, $3-$5

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MUSIC A BAROQUE CHRISTMAS Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0092 Presented by the Pro Musica Baroque Ensemble, step back into the 18th century and experience chamber music as it is meant to be heard—in intimate, resonant spaces.

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Santa Fe native Eleanor Bauer is a PhD candidate in choreography at Sweden’s Stockholm University of the Arts.

A performer as well, Bauer’s new work is a collaboration with filmmaker Matthew Barney (The Cremaster Cycle, River of Fundament); Redoubt shows at the Center for Contemporary Arts’ The Screen on Sunday Dec. 22 at 3:30 pm ($12, 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, 428-0209) followed by a conversation with Bauer and Sally Berger, a former curator at the Museum of Modern Art. The film retells the myth of Diana and Actaeon in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains, and SFR spoke with Bauer to find out more about her choreography and how movement replaces language in the film. (Allison Sloan) What was your inspiration for the choreography in this film?

Matthew’s original intention when he invited me to work on this film was to do a portrait of the landscape, specifically the Idaho Sawtooth mountain range. We both share coming from the Rockies. I’m from Santa Fe and he’s from Idaho, so one of the original inspirations is this sense of scale of such a sublime landscape that really dwarfs the human perspective. For me there was a lot about seeing and hearing and humility in the human role in relation to the environment—such as the landscape, the conditions and the animals, especially the wolf.

There’s a native hoop dancer in the film. Was that something you choreographed?

As a portrait of the landscape it was really important to include an Indigenous perspective in the film. We discussed how to do that in a way that wouldn’t further marginalize the people native to Idaho. We wanted to include the character of a Native dancer who was also versed in contemporary form. [Matthew] found Sandra Lamoushe in Canada. She’s a hoop dancer, which is a modern form of dance that takes from Indigenous symbols and movements and costuming. All of the dancer roles in the film were collaborative efforts between the dancer, me and Matthew.

Choreography is very much about a negotiation between the person’s own subjective experience of movement in their own body and their history and training in the context of the artwork we’re making.

In the film, you take the movement outside. Was that a challenge in the winter?

The conditions were crazy and unpredictable. I knew the human scale and relationship to the environment was going to be a thing, but it became more of a thing everyday. The snow was different every day, so every single choreography we rehearsed, whether it was indoors or in the snow, we tried to be prepared for the conditions but there was no being prepared. We were always dancing with the conditions and there were always improvisational skills involved. It was performing live in that moment because we couldn’t do another take. Once there were footprints in the snow it had to be over for continuity. Also, the layers of clothing and clumsy shoes and boots made it hard to be graceful.

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2019 we hardly knew ye

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o ends another year in Santa Fe, and with its exit comes the understanding that the last 350-some-odd days were crammed with music and art and all kinds of other stuff. Let’s take a look back at some notable items from 2019, shall we?

In January, we brought you news of

Snot Goblin, an Española-based metal act brimming over with young folks who enjoy both rocking hard and not taking everything so dang seriously. Hot off the heels of their freshman release, the EP Into the Boiling Pot, Snot Goblin was gearing up for more shows and writing all the time. And though 2019 wound up a quiet year for the band and they’ve since become a duo, members tell me they’ve got plans for completing a full-length over the next year and should be doing exciting things in 2020 and 2021.

February was a heck of a month as

we learned jazz piano master Brian Haas teamed with New Orleans trumpet champ Alex Massa for a tour of improv-based shows, and they started right here in Santa Fe, where Haas lives. If it’s jazz you like (even if/especially if you think you hate it), he’s the guy to see. That month also saw Meow Wolf’s first-ever album release, El Cantador, a spirited Mariachi album

from musician/comedian Carlos Medina, and a new EP from sisters/weirdo-rock trio Lindy Vision—a band that rules and lives on and deserves all the attention.

Traditional Norteño and New Mexican folk music act Lone Piñon released Dalé Vuelo, too, and someone even made a documentary about them.

In March, music/arts collective High Mayhem Emerging Arts kicked off its On(e) Day series, a still-going project that finds local and touring acts producing an album in a single day while also being live streamed. Texas’ Satin Spar kicked things off, and others have included High Mayhem leader Carlos Santistevan and local virtuoso Jeremy Bleich. Also that month, the Santa Fe Indian School’s Celebration of the Arts continued to rule, the New Mexico Gay Men’s Chorus sounded off on Harvey Milk, and REMIX Audio Bar—the coolest-ass coffee shop ever around—started offering DJ classes alongside its small-batch, fair-trade, and super-delicious coffee.

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went on to join Superstition, a massively huge metal act that tore up tours in America and Europe over the year—AND Heretical Sect had one of the highest number of Bandcamp streams ever), and Los Angeles’ HEALTH brought a new album and their noise-rock artistry to Meow Wolf. We’ve gotta get that band back here—they’re amazing.

In May, we spoke with Blaze star Ben

Dickey who, at his show at local studio Kitchen Sink, proved to be one of the most talented yet down-to-earth musicians of all time. If you’ve yet to see the Blaze Foley biopic from Ethan Hawke starring Dickey, you should get on it, especially if you’re a John Prine fan. That same month, the Monolith on the Mesa fest went down in Taos and pretty much proved to everyone everywhere that New Mexico fucking loves metal. Seriously, though, it was huge and paired locals and non-locals alike on two stages of beer-fueled mayhem. Oh, metal—how we love thee. May also heralded the first fledgling recordings from promising indie act The Blackout Pictures, a band so full of kickass local artists (like illustrator Lindsay Payton on vocals and painterly genius Jared

April brought Brian Eno fave R. Ariel

to town with her one-woman indie and electro jamz, as well as info on how the annual Record Store Day boosts things for small town retailers. Metal act Heretical Sect wowed local metalheads with crushing black metal based in the blood-soaked history of the desert (and some members R. Ariel

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from singer/guitarist Eliza Lutz. Lutz also put together a nifty art show to coincide with the release, which opened at DIY space Show Pony Gallery, and which yielded a painting inspired by each song on Harrow, and yer buds at SFR streamed the album exclusively for a few days before release. It was a time of goodness in the galaxy. We talked hiphop a few times that month, both with Albuquerque’s Def-i, a Diné artist who was half of Definition Rare featuring tragically killed MC Wake Self (more on that later) and Colorado-living/Santa Feborn Dylan Montayne. We loved Def-i’s new stuff something fierce; we thought Montayne took a step back artistically.

Weiss) that it almost seems unfair they’d be so good at so many things. LA’s Cherry Glazerr came to town, too, as part of the Convergence Project Oasis Festival, an event run, produced and booked by and for teens in the community.

Come June, Albuquerque’s Gerun-

ding taught us a thing about feeling our feelings and being in touch with ourselves, while multimedia artist and musician Russian Tsarlag brought the unusual to Santa Fe’s DIY warehouse scene.

We stood up for guitar-based music (it rules) and even ran a Q&A with Guster’s Ryan Miller. This made former copy editor Charlotte Jusinski’s life worth living, even if she left us for an editor-in-chief position with the state museum system’s El Palacio magazine. Seems C-Ju’s long-con was to work someplace off and on for 15 years just so she could talk to homeboy from Guster then split. Yikes.

was pretty nuts, from the Candyman Strings & Things turning 50 and folk singer-songwriter Xanthe Alexis making her triumphant return to town, to newly-minted SFR music writer Aedra Burke’s first-ever piece tackling the bizarre idea that people who live in the same town as you somehow owe your music their support.

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By October, the Game of Thrones concert experience thing at the Santa Fe Opera brought together nerds and stoners in the most meaningful way since Linklater’s Dazed and Confused, while Cold War Kids came to rock and Idaho’s Sun Blood Stories proved Haunt Yourself might be the most underrated album of the year (look ’em up, for real). That same month found blues virtuoso Christone “Kingfish” Ingram’s blues shredding wending its way to Santa Fe, and electronic wunderkind SMOMID taught us all what the heck a light guitar does (and it was rad).

Come November, we not only

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In July, Rebecca Black—yes, the “It’s

Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday” singer appeared in town for some reason, but the real stunner was Robert Ellis, aka the Texas Piano Man, a guy who’s one part Willie, a little bit Nilsson and whose outdoor show on the lawn of the El Rey Court was so magical that we can only feel pity for the goofballs who didn’t bother to show up. Ellis came back later in the year with Rufus Wainwright, so hopefully y’all at least caught that one. Old-school Santa Fe rock gods Babelshack reformed that month after a decade apart, too, and though things have been relatively quiet from camp Barnaby Hazen/Dylan Blanchard/Westin McDowell/Dylan McDowell, we’ve been told things are happening, albeit slowly.

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When we hit August, Santa Fe’s most beloved post-rock quartet Future Scars finally released a full-length called Harrow, and it was jammed with great tunes in weird time signatures with guitar tapping and the FEEEEEEEELS

came perilously close to blowing up Aedra Burke’s brain by sending her to interview rock/metal/folk goddess Chelsea Wolfe; we also learned why Brooklyn, New York’s Bethlehem Steel is an important force in the punk-lite world of today. We also dealt with the shocking death of ABQ rapper Wake Self. Writer Alicia Inez Guzmán brought the absolute heat in a tribute piece to Wake, aka Andrew Martinez, who’d been gearing up to release a full-length album called Ready to Live at the time of his death. We’ve seen the album out there, by the way, and all proceeds will reportedly go to setting up a foundation of some kind in Martinez’s name.

When we know more, we’ll let you know.

Meanwhile, the Plaza buskers dealt with judgmental downtown business owners (AGAIN!), we FINALLY got guitarist/ Native American flute player Ronald Roybal in the pages of SFR and, thank God, discovered that former Angry Samoans member Gregg Turner is set to teach a class on punk rock for New Mexico Highlands University during the upcoming spring semester.

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CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 Modeled after 19th-century Parisian cabarets, enjoy first-rate piano and vocals from Charles Tichenor and friends—playful, interactive, family-friendly and eclectic.

Vive la révolution!

6 pm, free DANA SMITH Upper Crust Pizza (Eldorado) 5 Colina Drive, 471-1111 Original country-tinged folk songs.

6-9 pm, free DRASTIC ANDREW Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Original progressive rock.

8:30 pm, free HIP POCKET Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Rock 'n' soul 'n' probably some dancing.

9 pm-12 am, free HIPPIE HOLIDAYS Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Local and visiting musicians throw down their talents for your holiday festing, with Dela Moon, Oh Lawd, Raashan Ahmad, Tone Ranger and more.

8 pm-1:30 am, $12-$15 JASPER Beer Creek Brewing Company 3810 Hwy. 14, 471-9271 Country.

6:30-9:30 pm, free KATY P AND THE BUSINESS Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 High-energy dancin' rock 'n' roll imported from Taos.

8 pm, free LONE PIÑON Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Ranchera, swing and a contemporary yet rooted take on Norteño favorites.

6-9 pm, free MANZANARES El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Spanish guitar, Latin percussion and soulful vocals form a high-energy sound that ranges from Spanish guitar melodies to flamenco to pop to Latin rock. Led by brothers David and Michael Manzanares, the group is steeped in strong family traditions.

9-11 pm, $7 NEXT 2 THE TRACKS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Outlaw country.

8 pm, free

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RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar by the six-time Native American Music Award nominee and two-time New Mexico Music Industry Award winner.

7 pm, free SAUL CHESSIN Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar (Apothecary) 133 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 Soulful R&B/acidjazz/dream pop fusion.

7-9 pm, free SHANE WALLIN Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Soulful blues.

5-8 pm, free SUSAN CLARKE Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Singer/songwriter.

5 pm, free TGIF RECITAL: CHANCEL BELL CHOIR First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 The choir performs selections of McKlveen, Dobrinski, Wagner, Price, Morris, Beatty and Smith for your happy hour enjoyment.

5:30-6 pm, free THE BED BAND; HERETICAL SECT form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 216-1256 Music from locals in celebration of Todd Ryan White's current solo show, Rainbow Eater (see SFR Picks, page 34).

7 pm, free THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Swinging jazz.

7:30-10:30 pm, free VINCENT COPIA ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Post-punk singer-songwriter.

7-10 pm, free

THEATER NO NUMBER HOME Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Written by Santa Fe resident Tencha Avila and inspired by real events, No Number Home tells the story of a young couple and their daughter living in a migrant worker colony in Colorado in December of 1944. When their recently drafted 18-year-old neighbor, Jesus Rodriguez, deserts from basic training, the colony is invaded by the military police who vow to find him whatever the cost. Residents panic, sure they will all be deported unless someone hands the boy over.

2 pm, $15-$25

SAT/21 ART OPENINGS JUAN SEBASTIAN LIRA: BARRIO 181 Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta Alas de Agua Art Collective founding member Lira shows new paintings about coping with childhood trauma and toxic masculinity, along with arts and gift vendors.

11 am-3 pm, free TONY VACCARO'S 97TH BIRTHDAY Monroe Gallery of Photography 112 Don Gaspar Ave., 992-0800 Come sign a giant birthday card and view the photography from a WWII veteran who is about to turn 97.

1-3 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES REBECCA FERREIRA TROY: HEALING & WITCHCRAFT IN A CONFORMIST WORLD op.cit Books DeVargas Center, 157 Paseo de Peralta, 428-0321 Troy begins her reading from her new book with mini tarot card readings (see SFR Picks, page 34).

2 pm, free TODD RYAN WHITE form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 216-1256 The artist discusses the techniques, materials and journey behind his current exhibit, Rainbow Eater (see SFR Picks, page 34).

12 pm, free

DANCE JOE WEST AND FRIENDS CHRISTMAS BARN DANCE Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Local impresario Joe West and Theater of Death present an evening of good holiday honky tonk fun. Special guests include long-time Johnny Cash pianist Earl Poole Ball, local legend Bill Hearne, musical spiritualist Margaret Burke and others.

7 pm, $15

EVENTS SOLSTICE SALSA Y MAS WORKSHOP Lightfoot Studio 332 Camino del Monte Sol, 369-2055 Learn how to groove to Latin, R&B, Pop and more! No partner needed.

2-4 pm, $20 SOLSTICE SALSA Y MAS POP UP GIFT BAZAAR AND DANCE PARTY Honeymoon Brewery Solana Center, 907 W Alameda St., Ste. B, 303-3139 Celebrate the longest night and all the holidays with Areena & Shell! Latin, R&B, funk and more music by DJ CONCHO. 6-10 pm, free

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EL MERCADO DE MUSEO El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Over 60 vendors with art, jewelry, books, furniture, antiques, rugs and much more from around the corner and around the world.

8 am-4 pm, free GEEKS WHO DRINK Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307, 983-0134 Stellar quiz results can win you drink tickets for next time.

7 pm, free GLOW Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Thousands of twinkling lights and large-scale light installations are aglow throughout the garden. Tonight, live music from Randy & George.

5 pm, $8-$12 MAGIC: THE GATHERING TOURNAMENT Big Adventure Comics 418 Montezuma Ave., 992-8783 Official in-store Modern play.

7-11 pm, $5 SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET Santa Fe Railyard Market Street at Alcaldesa Street, 310-8766 Find pottery, paintings, photography, jewelry, sculpture, furniture, textiles and more from a juried group of local artists.

8 am-2 pm, free

FILM DINNER AND A MOVIE Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 A Hawaiian-themed Christmas dinner precedes a screening of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

You can take your meal into the auditorium.

6:15 pm, $40

FOOD CHEF NATH THAI VEGAN POP-UP BODY of Santa Fe 333 W Cordova Road, 986-0362 An a la carte menu of plantbased favorites, with a second seating at 8 pm.

5:30 pm, free SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-7726 All of the vegetables, fruits and nursery plants available are grown right here in northern New Mexico. The same goes for at least 70% of the ingredients and materials used to make all processed and craft items.

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MUSIC A BAROQUE CHRISTMAS Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0092 The Pro Musica Baroque Ensemble presents this favorite holiday tradition in the festively decorated Loretto Chapel. Step back into the 18th century and experience chamber music as it is meant to be heard—in intimate, resonant spaces.

6 pm, $20-$85 ARDALAN & KEVIN SAUNDERSON AT MEOW WOLF Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Dynamic, progressive house, 21+.

9 pm-2 am, $25-$30 CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 Modeled after 19th-century Parisian cabarets, enjoy first-rate piano and vocals from Charles Tichenor and friends—playful, interactive, family-friendly and eclectic.

6 pm, free CRAWFISH BOYZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 New Orleans-flavored jazz.

7:30-10:30 pm, free DANA SMITH Upper Crust Pizza 329 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0000 Original country-tinged folk songs.

6 pm, free ERIC McFADDEN; KATE VARGAS Kitchen Sink Recording Studio 528 Jose St., 699-4323 Masterful guitar, with Vargas' special blend of dreampop, dusty folk and junkyard blues.

7 pm, $20 HIP-HOP FOR THE HOLIDAYS VOL.6 Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Outstanding Citizens Collective Presents a night of all-local hip-hop hosted by DJ Shatter, plus a special holiday pop-up market presented by City Different Commons.

8-11:59 pm, free JULIAN DOSSETT TRIO Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Delta blues.

8 pm, free KITTY JO CREEK BAND Totemoff’s at Ski Santa Fe 1477 Hwy. 475, 982-4429 Bluegrass.

8 pm, free ROADHOUSE PROPHETS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana.

1 pm, free RON CROWDER BAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Original rock 'n' roll.

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RON ROUGEAU The Dragon Room 406 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-7712 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 SAVOR TRIO Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Cuban street music.

5-8 pm, free STUART WELLES BAND Beer Creek Brewing Company 3810 Hwy. 14, 471-9271 Country rock.

4-7 pm, free STUART WELLES BAND El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Blues and rock.

9-11 pm, $5 SUSAN GABRIEL Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Singer/songwriter on multiple instruments including lute, ukulele and percussion.

7-9 pm, free THE BARBEDWIRES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Soulful blues.

3 pm, free THE HOLIDAY BLUES REVUE BAND Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Review some holiday blues.

6-9 pm, free THE HOLIDAY OF YOUR DREAMS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 The New Mexico Gay Men’s Chorus holiday concert brings together songs that reflect the joy, anticipation, emotion and festivities of the holidays that people of all ages have experienced throughout time.

7:30 pm, $25-$45 THE JAKES Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Southern rock 'n' roll.

9 pm-12 am, free

THEATER NO NUMBER HOME Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Written by Santa Fe resident Tencha Avila and inspired by real events, No Number Home tells the story of a young couple and their daughter living in a migrant worker colony in Colorado in December of 1944. When their recently drafted 18-year-old neighbor, Jesus Rodriguez, deserts from basic training, the colony is invaded by the military police who vow to find him whatever the cost.

2 pm, $15-$25

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SUN/22 BOOKS/LECTURES JOURNEYSANTAFE: HECTOR BALDERAS AND EMILY KALTENBACH Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 JourneySantaFe presents a discussion with New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas and Executive Director of New Mexico Drug Policy Alliance Emily Kaltenbach about the opioid crisis in New Mexico and the ongoing lawsuit against opioid manufacturers.

11 am, free

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO CHRISTMAS SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 An original flamenco show from a Spanish director, plus tapas and drinks available for purchase.

7:30 pm, $25

Wheelwright Museum 704 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM 87505 Ricardo Caté, Santo Domingo Pueblo, Untitled (Santa Fe Coyote), n.d., Acrylic on canvas

Clearing your path to a brighter future YOU MAY QUALIFY TO HAVE YOUR CONVICTIONS OR ARRESTS CLEARED New Mexico’s new Criminal Record Expungement Act will be effective January 1, 2020

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EVENTS EL MERCADO DE MUSEO El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Over 60 vendors with art, jewelry, books, furniture, antiques, rugs and much more from around the corner and around the world.

10 am-4 pm, free GLOW Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Thousands of twinkling lights and large-scale light installations are aglow throughout the garden. Tonight, live music from Nohe & Sus Santos.

5 pm, $8-$12 HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 A round-robin of puppet plays, art making projects, photos with Santa Claus, and other activities.

12-4 pm, free MAGIC: THE GATHERING TOURNAMENT Big Adventure Comics 418 Montezuma Ave., 992-8783 Official in-store Commander play.

12-9 pm, $5 WINTER SOLSTICE LABYRINTH WALK Genoveva Chavez Community Center 3221 W Rodeo Road, 955-4000 The labyrinth pattern has existed for hundreds of years, offering healing and peace for those who walk it. Now is your chance to walk the path and find a new beginning on this, the darkest day of the year.

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FILM REDOUBT The Screen 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, 428-0209 A mythological narrative presented through dance from artist and director Matthew Barney.

Choreographer and actress Eleanor Bauer is in conversation with Sally Berger, former curator of the Museum of Modern Art (see 3Qs, page 39).

3:30 pm, $12

MUSIC A BAROQUE CHRISTMAS Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0092 The Pro Musica Baroque Ensemble presents this favorite holiday tradition in the festively decorated Loretto Chapel.

Step back into the 18th century and experience chamber music as it is meant to be heard—in intimate, resonant spaces.

6 pm, $20-$85 CRAWFISH BOYZ Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 New Orleans-flavored jazz.

11:30 am-3 pm, free DIVAS HOLIDAY DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 The Blues Divas lend their voices to the holiday season.

6:30 pm, $30 DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, originals and pop with vocals too.

6:30 pm, free ERYN BENT Beer Creek Brewing Company 3810 Hwy. 14, 471-9271 Country and folky Americana.

5-8 pm, free GERRY CARTHY Honeymoon Brewery Solana Center, 907 W Alameda St., Ste. B, 303-3139 Irish traditional music, folk and more.

7-9 pm, free GROOVY PANDA Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar (Apothecary) 133 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 Therapeutic sound mixed with elements of soul, blues, beatboxing and transcendental journeying.

7 pm, free MELANIE MONSOUR AND PAUL BROWN Museum Hill Café 710 Camino Lejo, 984-8900 A blend of classical and jazz on piano and bass.

12-2 pm, free SUGAR MOUNTAIN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Neil Young tributes.

12 pm, free THE DEAL Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Grateful Dead cover band.

6 pm, free

TROY KRUSZ Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana.

7 pm, free

THEATER NO NUMBER HOME Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Written by Santa Fe resident Tencha Avila and inspired by real events, No Number Home tells the story of a young couple and their daughter living in a migrant worker colony in Colorado in December of 1944. When their recently drafted 18-year-old neighbor, Jesus Rodriguez, deserts from basic training, the colony is invaded by the military police who vow to find him whatever the cost. Residents panic, sure they will all be deported unless someone hands the boy over.

2 pm, $15-$25

WORKSHOP EROTIC EMERGENCE: TANTRIC WORKSHOP FOR WOMEN Rise Barre Studio 501 Franklin Ave., Unit 3, 690-2605 Sexuality coaches Allison and Monique help you learn to raise your sexual vibration and embrace your innate and powerful sensuality through guided practices of sacral self-massage, movement, meditation and breathwork.

Designed to uplift and embody the sacred feminine, this workshop is open to all female-identifying individuals.

Cost includes tasty treats and a personal pleasure book.

6:30-8:30 pm, $30

MON/23 BOOKS/LECTURES MONDAY STORY TIME Bee Hive Kid's Books 328 Montezuma Ave, 780-8051 Story time for all ages, with song, dance and interactive play.

10:30 am, free

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO CHRISTMAS SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 An original flamenco show from a Spanish director, plus tapas and drinks available for purchase.

7:30 pm, $25 MONDAY NIGHT SWING WITH LE CHAT LUNATIQUE Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, 470-7077 Arrive at 7 pm for a lesson, then get dancin' to live music.

This is a fancy dress party, so dress up to the nines.

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The competition is held for students in the New Mexico School for the Arts’ Visual Arts Program and is meant to encourage exploration in photographic imagery while acknowledging emerging talent.

This year, in addition to the cash awards presented

by the O’Connor Fund, Stafford Squier of Santa Fe Photographic Workshops awards a summer scholarship to one of SFPW’s renowned creative workshops.

JUDGES: Kate Rivers

Artist and Art Educator

Jon Stern

Architect and Photographer

Pilar Law

Owner Edition One Gallery

Stafford Squier

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THE CALENDAR 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.

7 pm, free GLOW Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Thousands of twinkling lights and large-scale light installations are aglow throughout the garden. Tonight, live music from Lucy Barna and Timbo Arnold.

5 pm, $8-$12 LANTERN LAUNCH Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino 20 Buffalo Thunder Trail, 455-5555 Join thousands of other people to make wishes, renew promises, remember loved ones or commit yourself to your dreams by writing a message on a lantern and watching it drift away.

4 pm, $5-$15

MUSIC A BAROQUE CHRISTMAS Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0092 The Pro Musica Baroque Ensemble presents this favorite holiday tradition in the festively decorated Loretto Chapel. Step back into the 18th century and experience chamber music as it is meant to be heard—in intimate, resonant spaces.

6 pm, $20-$85 ALEX MARYOL Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Bluesy rock.

6-9 pm, free BLUE WINDS San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-3974 Sebastien Marconato and Caitlin Alexander weave a hauntingly beautiful tapestry of cultures and sounds using Native American flutes, N'goni, keyboard and vocals for a soothing, mysterious sound.

7:30-9 pm, $15 CASEY ANDERSEN AND MOHIT DUBEY Dinner for Two 106 N Guadalupe St., 87501, 820-2075 Classical and jazz guitar.

6 pm, free COWGIRL KARAOKE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Michèle Leidig hosts Santa Fe's most famous night of karaoke.

9 pm, free

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DIVAS HOLIDAY DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 The Blues Divas lend their voices to the holiday season.

6:30 pm, $30 DOUG MONTGOMERY AND ELIZABETH YOUNG Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Montgomery provides the standards, originals and pop on piano, and Young joins in on violin.

6:30-9:30 pm, free

WORKSHOP LA TIERRA TOASTMASTERS Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, Discover where one can advance their public speaking skills in a lively and rewarding group. Guests are always welcome. Meetings every Monday. latierra.toastmastersclubs.org 12-1 pm, free

TUE/24 MUSIC A BAROQUE CHRISTMAS Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0092 The Pro Musica Baroque Ensemble presents this favorite holiday tradition in the festively decorated Loretto Chapel. Step back into the 18th century and experience chamber music as it is meant to be heard—in intimate, resonant spaces.

6 pm, $20-$85 BLUEGRASS JAM Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 You guessed it: It's a bluegrass jam.

6 pm, free GENEVIEVE LEITNER El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Classical guitar from a wide range of time periods and countries.

7 pm, free THE DAN MARTIN BAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Acoustic folky Americana from Tulsa, Oklahoma.

8 pm, free

WED/25 MUSIC MATTHEW ANDRAE Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Rhythmic covers and originals of a folky bent on guitalele.

6-9 pm, free

THU/26 DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO CHRISTMAS SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 An original flamenco show from a Spanish director, plus tapas and drinks available for purchase.

7:30 pm, $25 FLAMENCO HOLIDAY DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Make a dinner reservation for a show by the National Institute of Flamenco.

6:30-9 pm, $30 FLAMENCO WINTER SERIES

BY LA EMI The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 La Emi graces the season with a special holiday performance.

7:30-9:30 pm, $15-$50

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Santa Fe Brewing Company 35 Fire Place, 424-3333 Stellar quiz results can win you drink tickets for next time.

7 pm, free GLOW Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Thousands of twinkling lights and large-scale light installations are aglow throughout the garden. Tonight, live music from AlmaZazz!

5 pm, $8-$12

MUSIC DON CURRY Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock 'n' roll of the classic persuasion.

7 pm, free JQ WHITCOMB TRIO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Original and classic jazz featuring Whitcomb on trumpet.

7:30-9:30 pm, free JESUS BAS Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Amorous and romantic Spanish and flamenco guitar.

6-9 pm, free MARIO FEBRES El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Flamenco guitar.

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Extremities at the former Adobe Rose Theatre) to the quieter atmosphere of a front desk behind a keyboard for multiple companies was downright awe-inspiring. Yeah, I said it. Her emails were awe-inspiring.

ACTING OUT The 2019

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elcome to the third annual installment of our totally subjective, slightly arbitrary theater awards. There were many more fine actors and productions than I had room to mention here, but these were this year’s stand-outs.

2019: THE YEAR OF THE YOUNG PERSON If you’re not keeping an eye on Santa Fe’s high schools—and even middle and elementary schools—for the next wave of supreme talent around here, you are sorely mistaken. This year really brought the talented young folk out of the woodwork, with a special nod to the Santa Fe Playhouse’s Young Playwrights Project.

That program is full of talented, hard-working, hilarious and thoughtful students, and one particularly bright star is 14-year-old Ariana Roybal. Aside from discovering an obsession with writing thanks to YPP, she is officially the youngest playwright ever chosen to stage a production in the Playhouse’s Benchwarmers play competition, and she’s showing no signs of slowing down.

I was also particularly enamored of 8-year-old actress Grace Yang in this year’s Benchwarmers, left breathless by 13-year-old Charlotte Carter’s portrayal of Small Alison in Fun Home (also at the Playhouse), and got chills on the regular thanks to New Mexico School

for the Arts student Luca Pacheco’s performance in Elliot: A Soldier’s Fugue at Teatro Paraguas.

Beyond the charter schools and the full productions, there are various ways kids can get involved with theater in town. Check out programs like Upstart Crows of Santa Fe for classical theater (upstartcrowsofsantafe.org), the Santa Fe Playhouse’s Young Playwrights Project for acting and playwrighting opportunities (santafeplayhouse.org/ education), Santa Fe Improv for extra truthiness in life and art (santafeimprov. com), and Teatro Paraguas for Spanish, English and bilingual productions, readings and more (teatroparaguas.org).

and casting Kohnen as the friar, because despite his young age, the actor exudes a penetrating serenity and thoughtfulness that was perfect for the role.

BEST CHEMISTRY BEST YOUNG MAN WEARING AN OLD MAN’S COSTUME Nicholas Kohnen as Friar Lawrence in Romeo & Juliet

Our take on a fraction of the best Santa Fe theater this year

THEATER

Shakespeare in the Garden, May 31-June 9

I’m not sure how old Nicholas Kohnen is, but it sure ain’t the age Friar Lawrence is usually portrayed as. I can’t find any specification of the Shakespearean holy man’s intended age, but every casting I’ve ever seen is of a fatherly or grandfatherly type of potion-maker, gentle and measured in his actions like a benevolent pops of some sort. Kudos to director Patrick Briggs for perhaps taking a risk

Joey Beth Gilbert and Tallis Rose as Sara and Callie in Stop Kiss New Mexico Actors Lab, July 11-28

Both of these actresses endlessly delight me with their versatility and adaptability onstage, so it only followed that when they were paired up by director Barbara Hatch in Diana Son’s poignant and complicated Stop Kiss, sparks flew. The story portrays close friends Sara and Callie, who find themselves edging closer and closer to romance, and tension built sublimely as Gilbert and Rose deftly handled the ins and outs of a play that jumped around in time and required quick changes both of costume and emotion. While Rose had relocated out of state and temporarily returned to Santa Fe to appear in this show, Gilbert continues to show immense talent all around town, from an androgynous villain in NMAL’s No Man’s Land to a frill-covered 17th-century bride-to-be in Oasis Theatre Company’s The Miser, and beyond. Don’t miss a performance where she graces the program.

BEST SET DESIGN INSPIRED

BY NO SET AT ALL Jay Bush, The Big Heartless Just Say It Theater, Feb. 14-March 3

BEST FRONT-OF-HOUSE HAT-WEARER Mariah Olesen It’s true that theater folks regularly wear many hats. Actors go from teaching school children to designing costumes to appearing onstage (looking at you, Zoe Burke), or have been known to both expertly design lights and direct mind-blowing dramas (that would be Monique Lacoste), or lend poise to both Shakespearean queens and the role of stage manager (Sarah Runyan, who else?). So it wasn’t necessarily surprising that Mariah Olesen flexes her muscles both as a performer and as a marketing liaison, but the ease with which she switched from high-profile roles (Joan in Fun Home, Marjorie in last year’s

The scenery for The Big Heartless was impressive enough on its own. The stage had to turn Warehouse 21’s black box into multiple houses as well as a dark forest, and a huge projection screen on the left side of the stage aided excellently for presenting snow, car headlights, fire, and other necessary evils that are hard to get right in theater. In reading the program over again, I was surprised to see that designer Jay Bush was inspired to work with Just Say It Theater by its 2018 production of Constellations. Now, Constellations was a very fine production, but … it had no set at all. It was two actors on an empty stage. Particularly charming, then, that architect Bush was so enamored of the vision of Just Say It’s Lynn Goodwin that he then went on to design the most visually arresting production of the year.

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CARLOS MEDINA COMEDY AND MUSIC Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Northern New Mexico's favorite home-grown comedian.

8 pm, $10

GLOW Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Thousands of twinkling lights and large-scale light installations are aglow throughout the garden. Tonight, live music from The Gruve!

5 pm, $8-$12

FRI/27 ART OPENINGS CARLOS MÉRIDA: ESTAMPAS DEL POPOL-VUH Hecho a Mano 830 Canyon Road, 916-1341 An exhibition of Mérida’s complete 1943 portfolio of an illustrated series depicting the ancient Maya text which depicts the creation of the world and the emergence of the human race (see SFR Picks, page 34).

5-7 pm, free CELEBRATE ART Winterowd Fine Art 701 Canyon Road, 992-8878 A group of gallery artists show new paintings and bronze, ceramic and glass sculptures.

4-6 pm, free ESPHYR SLOBODKINA LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta, 988-3250 A collection of painting, collage and sculpture from Slobodkina, a pioneer of early American abstraction and a co-founder of the American Abstact Artists.

5-7 pm, free

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ENTREFLAMENCO CHRISTMAS SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 An original flamenco show from a Spanish director, plus tapas and drinks available for purchase.

7:30 pm, $25 FLAMENCO HOLIDAY DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Make a dinner reservation for a show by the National Institute of Flamenco.

6:30-9 pm, $30 FLAMENCO WINTER SERIES

BY LA EMI The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 La Emi graces the season with a special holiday performance.

7:30-9:30 pm, $15-$50

FOOD UNCLE DT AND THE SMOKEHOUSE CREW Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Not just a pit master. Uncle DT, of DT's smokehouse, plays Americana with his smokehouse crew.

8 pm, free

MUSIC BUSY Y LOS BIG DEALS Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Pop 'n' jazz.

6-9 pm, free CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 Enjoy first-rate piano and vocals from Charles Tichenor and friends—playful, interactive, family-friendly and eclectic.

6 pm, free COOKER JOHN Beer Creek Brewing Company 3810 Hwy. 14, 471-9271 Solo country guitar.

6:30-9:30 pm, free DANA SMITH Upper Crust Pizza (Eldorado) 5 Colina Drive, 471-1111 Original country-tinged folk songs.

6-9 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, originals and pop with vocals too.

6-8 pm, free GARY GORENCE Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Classic rock and singer-songwriter jams.

5-8 pm, free GATO MALO CD RELEASE PARTY Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Americana.

8 pm, free GEMMA DERAGON Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar (Apothecary) 133 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 Jazz violin and standards from the '30s and '40s.

7-9 pm, free

GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, plus pop, rock and contemporary favorites—with vocals too.

8-10 pm, free JIM ALMAND Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Jazzy R&B on guitar and harmonica.

8 pm, free JOHN CAREY BAND Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Rock n' roll.

9 pm-12 am, free LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock n' roll.

8:30 pm, free MARIO FEBRES El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Flamenco guitar.

6-8 pm, free NOSOTROS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Everyone's favorite Latin jammers.

9-11 pm, $5 NOSOTROS; NOHE & SUS SANTOS; FRONTERA BUGALU Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 A line-up of Latin rock.

8 pm-12 am, $15-$18 RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar by the six-time Native American Music Award nominee and two-time New Mexico Music Industry Award winner.

7 pm, free TGIF RECITAL: JAN WORDEN-LACKEY First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 The acclaimed organist plays Handel's Messiah for your happy hour enjoyment.

5:30-6 pm, free THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Swinging jazz.

7:30-10:30 pm, free VINCENT COPIA ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Post-punk singer-songwriter.

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Dr. Field Goods Kitchen Dr. Field Goods walks a fine line between hard-rock dive, down-home diner and neighborhood pub offering creative, locally sourced, seasonal dishes. Indeed, when Diners, Drive-ins and Dives made a recent pass through the city, the crew stopped at Dr. Field Goods, reportedly for a taste of its Bad Ass BLT ($14.50 + $1.50 egg), a burly 9-ounce house cured and smoked, then wood-fired, patty of bacon topped with special sauce, heirloom tomatoes, and lettuce. Whatever your interpretation, chef Josh Gerwin’s is solid cooking with casual, inventive dishes aimed to fill. The kimchi patatas bravas ($10.50), hunks of fried potato slathered in a miso aioli and house-made kimchi, are warm, spicy and filling, as are the vegetable egg rolls ($6.50), baby’s arm-sized and filled with crunchy veggies and a delectable dipping sauce of miso and peanut. The signature New Mexican sandwich ($14) bursts from a pillowy, house-made bun, with a more-than-ample filling of green-chile-rubbed smoked pulled pork (from the Dr. Field Goods butcher shop a few doors down). A tart apple and jicama slaw topping provides texture and acid. Pizzas and enchiladas come flaming hot from the wood-fired oven anchoring the kitchen, and for those looking to walk a healthier line, the kale salad ($13.50) is served nicely warmed with generous helpings of fingerling potatoes, roasted beets, grilled Brussels sprouts and rich miso vinaigrette. (ZW)

Dolina Dolina is chef/owner Annamaria O’Brien’s ode to the culinary riches of her homeland, Slovakia, where the food was fresh and plentiful, vegetables plucked from her grandmother’s garden and animals raised by hand.

Organic ingredients dominate, with the bulk of Dolina’s produce grown specifically for the restaurant on a friend’s farm. This straightforward approach of simplifying ingredients to focus on freshness and flavor is evident in every dish on the menu. Lighter fare ranges from airy ricotta pancakes ($11) with berries and, of course, real maple syrup, to a spirit-pleasing bone broth morning soup ($10.50). More substantial dishes on the menu include fried chicken and waffles ($12.50), and a breakfast burrito ($8.50), the gluten-free version creatively offered in a jar.

Some of Dolina’s most delightful dishes boast Eastern European influences. There’s savory, satisfying paprikash ($15) topped with freshly baked dumplings, and langos ($13), a traditional Slovakian street food and the kin of fry bread. Borscht ($11.50) even makes an appearance, made even earthier with the addition of potatoes, sauerkraut, hard-boiled egg and herbed yogurt. Since you’re likely to have a trek to wherever you parked your car (the location’s parking issues are legendary), be sure to stop at the fresh case on your way out and partake of the beautiful baked goods to keep you company. I satisfied myself with Mexican wedding cookies ($1.50 each), a slice of summer Bavarian cake ($6) and banana cream pie ($6). Obviously, I had a long walk. (Zibby Wilder)

2860 Cerrillos Road, 471-0043 Lunch and dinner daily drfieldgoods.com

Cleopatra’s Cafe After ages spent as Santa Fe’s go-to Mediterranean restaurant in the Design Center building, Cleopatra spread to the Southside some years back, and both locations still boast some of the best dishes in town.

Start with the creamy hummus ($5.50) served with warm pita, or an order of spanakopita ($6.95) with lettuce, tomato, feta and olives; or maybe some savory dolmas ($5.50) before making your way to items like the massive falafel sandwich ($6.95)—an enticing combination of flavors with falafel that’s slightly chewy on the inside, satisfyingly crunchy on the outside.

Mediterranean faithful will find plenty of other familiar dishes as well—like the lamb or chicken gyros ($7.95) and baba ghanauge ($5.50), but Cleopatra also does a popular burger ($9.95; add $.70 for cheese) and, if you didn’t know, has great fries. It doesn’t stop there, as you’ll find larger, shareable dishes like the Nile and Pharaoh plates ($11.95 and $12.95), gyro meat with pita and salad and boneless marinated chicken with rice and veggies respectively, not to mention a kid’s menu with familiar standbys like chicken nuggets and smaller Mediterranean items for kids out to try something different. There’s a different atmosphere to each location, and it really just depends on what your day’s going like. (Alex De Vore) 418 Cerrillos Road, 820-7381 3482 Zafarano Drive, 474-5644 Lunch and dinner daily, cleopatrasantafe.com

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402 N Guadalupe St., 982-9394 Breakfast and lunch daily dolinasantafe.com

These restaurants also appear in SFR’s recent 2019/20 Restaurant Guide. Find pickup locations at sfreporter.com/pickup.

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Teatro Paraguas, Compania Chuscales, and Mina Fajardo present:

Holiday Flamenco: Gypsy Moon and Stars

No Number Home

by Tencha Avila • World Premiere Directed by Vaughn Irving

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SAT/28 DANCE END-OF-YEAR LATIN DANCE PARTY Lightfoot Studio 332 Camino del Monte Sol, 369-2055 Live music by Los Primos Melódicos de Santa Fe, festive refreshments and a Latin fusion dance lesson from 7:30-8:30 if you need a little help.

7:30-10:30 pm, $10 ENTREFLAMENCO CHRISTMAS SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 An original flamenco show from a Spanish director, plus tapas and drinks available for purchase.

7:30 pm, $25 FLAMENCO HOLIDAY DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Make a dinner reservation for a show by the National Institute of Flamenco.

6:30-9 pm, $30 FLAMENCO WINTER SERIES

BY LA EMI The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 La Emi graces the season with a special holiday performance.

7:30-9:30 pm, $15-$50

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EL MERCADO DE MUSEO El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Over 60 vendors with art, jewelry, books, furniture, antiques, rugs and much more from around the corner and around the world.

8 am-4 pm, free GEEKS WHO DRINK Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307, 983-0134 Stellar quiz results can win you drink tickets for next time.

7 pm, free GLOW Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Thousands of twinkling lights and large-scale light installations are aglow throughout the garden. Tonight, live music from High Hippy Associates!

5 pm, $8-$12 SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET Santa Fe Railyard Market Street at Alcaldesa Street, 310-8766 Find pottery, paintings, photography, jewelry, sculpture, furniture, textiles and more from a juried group of local artists.

8 am-2 pm, free

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TRAIN DEMONSTRATIONS Santa Fe Children's Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 989-8359 If you love model trains and wanna see ‘em run around, maybe even discuss some technical aspects, this is for you.

11 am-1 pm, free

FOOD CHEF NATH THAI VEGAN POP-UP BODY of Santa Fe 333 W Cordova Road, 986-0362 An a la carte menu of plantbased favorites, with a second seating at 8 pm.

5:30 pm, free SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-7726 One of the oldest, largest and most successful growers’ markets in the country serves more than 150 farmers and producers in 15 Northern New Mexico counties. All of the vegetables, fruits and nursery plants available are grown right here in northern New Mexico. The same goes for at least 70% of the ingredients and materials used to make all processed and craft items.

Furthermore, no reselling is permitted. That means that the people doing the growing and producing are the same smiling folks who sell those products to you at the market.

8 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC ALEX MURZYN QUARTET El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Simmering and explosive jazz.

7:30-10:30 pm, free ALPHA CATS Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Blues, jazz and Western swing.

6-9 pm, free BOOMROOTS COLLECTIVE El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Reggae meets hip-hop.

9-11 pm, $5 CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 Modeled after 19th-century Parisian cabarets, enjoy first-rate piano and vocals from Charles Tichenor and friends—playful, interactive, family-friendly and eclectic.

Vive la révolution!

6 pm, free CONNIE LONG AND FAST PATSY Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Rockabilly, country and Western on the deck.

3 pm, free

EMANCIPATOR Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Ethereal electronic.

9 pm-2 am, $25-$28 FUGITIVE COLORS Beer Creek Brewing Company 3810 Hwy. 14, 471-9271 Loud jam rock.

5-8 pm, free GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, plus pop, rock and contemporary favorites—with vocals too.

8-10 pm, free JOHN CAREY BAND Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Rock n' roll.

9 pm-12 am, free KITTY JO CREEK Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Bluegrass.

1 pm, free MOBY DICK AND PINK FREUD Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Rock 'n' roll.

7 pm, $12 ODD DOG Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Odd Dog's meteoric rise to mediocrity earned them tens and tens of dollars and a small but loyal cult following of vegan jihadists. It's amazing what classic rock covers will do for your sense of self.

Catch all these rock 'n' blues classics on the deck.

8 pm, free RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar by the six-time Native American Music Award nominee and two-time New Mexico Music Industry Award winner.

7 pm, free RUDY BOY EXPERIMENT Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Bluesy tunes.

8 pm, free SHANE WALLIN Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Soulful blues.

5-8 pm, free SUSAN GABRIEL Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Singer/songwriter on multiple instruments including lute, ukulele and percussion.

7-9 pm, free THE BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 An hour-long exploration of JS Bach and his famous concertos, perfect for introducing kids to classical.

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ith the opening of new corporate burrito chain Chipotle (1001 S St Francis Dr., 303-4534) last week, the Railyard area is now inundated with burrito suppliers. But there are just as many delicious, local restaurants within a threeminute walk—all of which our readers have undoubtedly heard about before—so we thought it’d be nice to put together this little reminder, because it’s easy to be tempted by cute, new, red things. And plus, outof-town folks might need a primer on the less prominent—but billion times better—options just around the corner.

La Choza (905 Alarid St, 982-0909) gets a lot of love from SFR because it’s one of the best places to enjoy a real New Mexican meal with a whopping marg on the side. Its new corporate neighbor isn’t serving up anything remotely like the 1580 ($11), with premium ArteNOM tequila and tart house-made secret sour mix, or the Gran Gold ($12.50), with Don Julio añejo and Gran Marnier. Both pair excellently with (among anything) the burrito grande plate ($12.75; add chicken, beef or adovada for $3). That burrito is about double the size of your typical fast-casual version and comes smothered in chile auténtico, red or green, with a side of posole. For something like a burrito that isn’t a burrito, try the stuffed sopapilla ($11.75; add meat for $3), with a crispy exterior and a soft inside that cradles the filling and is the epitome of New Mexican comfort food. If the main draw for the chain place is its cheap prices, good news: you can skip the food and get extra sloshed at La Choza on a house margarita ($7.75) for about the same cost as one of their burritos.

Without Burrito Spot (1057 Cerrillos Road, 8200779), I would not have survived college (and ended up

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Despite corporate incursions, Santa Fe’s burrito scene remains as locally-driven and fire as ever

looking as good as I do). Dining hall plans are expensive, but $5 for a fresh, hot, huge burrito is not—that’s cheaper than their corporate competition up the street, and that’s before any deals the Spot might have. On my way home late after class last year, I would drive past the corner of Cordova and Cerrillos Roads, which at 11 pm was still a bright, fluorescent bastion of burritos, and I would realize I hadn’t eaten all day. Luckily at the time, they were offering breakfast burri-

A roughly accurate geographic arrangement of the Cerrillos and St. Francis burrito scene.

tos in the morning and late-night hours for just $2.99!

There’s still regular specials and the whatnot, but that deal was what made me really fall in love. Previously a city-wide chain, it sold off a few of its locations last year, spawning another chain called Fast & Real (2207 Cerrillos Road, 474-6202; 5741 Airport Road, 660-0087). From what I can tell, that downsizing has only led to an increase in consistency and quality at the remaining location. I always get a carnitas burrito ($4.90) but if you’re looking for something a little different, a little sandwichy-er, try a torta—pillowy, buttery bread softly holds your desired fillings, available in beef, ham, chicken, carnitas or adobada, and all for a little more or less than $5.

When El Chile Toreado (807 Early St, 500-0033) moved about 1000 feet away from its original location, folks rejoiced that it was still around, because the burritos are distinctive and delicious, full of smoky, hot flavor and really, really chunky. They were happy, anyway, until some flashy, corporatedesigned behemoth of burritos was built directly between El Chile Toreado and Cerrillos. Let’s be real, who are you supporting when you spend money at Chipotle? Some richass white CEO dude who’s already made a ton of money off “revitalizing” Taco Bell, another menace to real cuisine everywhere. Who should your money be going towards instead? Local Santafesino Luis Medina and his staff, who work tirelessly every morning churning out burritos to the dozens of folks who line up for a bite before work. They’re strictly breakfast and lunch, so wake up early for a brekkie-b ($6.50) that features numerous meat options or veggies. For lunchier options, there are (you guessed it) even more burritos ($6.50) but also tacos ($7.50 for 3) or, curiously but awesomely, hot dogs ($5-$6.50).

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JOURNEYSANTAFE: MELISSA MOORE Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 JourneySantaFe presents Melissa Moore, executive director of the New Mexico Wildlife Center. Learn how the center rehabilitates and releases hundreds of injured and orphaned wild animals each year. Find out more about their outreach and education program, how you can help, and what you can do if you find an injured wild animal.

11 am, free

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO CHRISTMAS SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 An original flamenco show from a Spanish director, plus tapas and drinks available for purchase.

7:30 pm, $25 FLAMENCO HOLIDAY DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Experience the National Institute of Flamenco's world-famous dinner show at the longest-running tablao in North America.

Reservations required.

6:30-9 pm, $30 FLAMENCO WINTER SERIES

BY LA EMI The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 La Emi graces the season with a special holiday performance.

7:30-9:30 pm, $15-$50 INTIMATE SOLO Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Jean Fogel Zee is a Southwest poet, dancer and sculptor who combines kinetic forms with the written word, and her first full-length performance in Santa Fe is a performance of pure emotion.

2 pm, $10

EVENTS EL MERCADO DE MUSEO El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Over 60 vendors with art, jewelry, books, furniture, antiques, rugs and much more from around the corner and around the world.

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GLOW Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Thousands of twinkling lights and large-scale light installations are aglow throughout the garden.

Tonight, live music from Westin McDowell & Friends.

5 pm, $8-$12 INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART MARKET WAREHOUSE SALE International Folk Art Alliance 620 Cerrillos Road, 474-6783 Up to 70% off internationally handcrafted art, jewelry, textiles, and home decor. No on-site parking available, so take the bus or something.

10 am-5 pm, free THE GATE OF SWEET NECTAR LITURGY Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 During this ceremony, participants call out to all those who are lost and left behind, those who hunger and thirst, including those parts of the self that are thought of as insufficient and lacking. In this ceremony, Upaya offers the bodhi mind of love, wisdom, and transformation. Please arrive on time.

5:20-6:30 pm, free

JAY HENEGHAN PROJECT Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Jazzy blues.

11:30 am-3 pm, free KEY FRANCES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Funky and rockin' blues with a psychedelic twist.

3 pm, free MELANIE MONSOUR AND PAUL BROWN Museum Hill Café 710 Camino Lejo, 984-8900 A blend of classical and jazz on piano and bass.

12-2 pm, free SUGAR MOUNTAIN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Neil Young tributes.

12 pm, free THE BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Santa Fe Pro Musica performs all six of Johann Sebastian Bach’s masterpieces.

7 pm, $57

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AUSTIN VAN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana.

7 pm, free BENEFIT CONCERT FOR SANTA FE DREAMERS Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 The Dreamers Project, led by Allegra Love, is at the forefront of the fight to protect the rights of immigrants in Santa Fe and the broader New Mexico community. Tonight, 10% of drink sales benefit the organization. Featured musicians include Korvin Orkestar's Balkan Band with incendiary brass music and Los Klezmerados de Santa Fe with traditional klezmer and hassidic dance tunes directly from Eastern Europe, along with Ladino tunes 6 pm, $10-$20 DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, originals and pop with vocals too.

6:30 pm, free GERRY CARTHY Honeymoon Brewery Solana Center, 907 W Alameda St., Ste. B, 303-3139 Irish traditional music, folk and more. From the West of Ireland to Santa Fe, Carthy plays the tradition wild and sweet on tin whistles, fiddle, banjo, concertina, saxophone and guitars—plus a bit of Spanish guitar and jazz.

7-9 pm, free

JULESWORKS FOLLIES YEAR-END BLOWOUT Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 The longest-running locally-produced variety show around, with improv, skits, comedy, music, poetry, dance and more.

7 pm, $5 THE LAST LAUGH Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Brutally funny comedian Ariel Isaac Norman presents her LGBT-centric style. 18+ 7 pm, $10

MON/30 BOOKS/LECTURES MONDAY STORY TIME Bee Hive Kid's Books 328 Montezuma Ave, 780-8051 Story time for all ages, with song, dance and interactive play.

10:30 am, free

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO CHRISTMAS SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 An original flamenco show from a Spanish director, plus tapas and drinks available for purchase.

7:30 pm, $25

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FLAMENCO HOLIDAY DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Experience the National Institute of Flamenco's world-famous dinner show at the longest-running tablao in North America.

Reservations required.

6:30-9 pm, $30 FLAMENCO WINTER SERIES

BY LA EMI The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 87501, 992-5800 La Emi graces the season with a special holiday performance.

7:30-9:30 pm, $15-$50 MONDAY NIGHT SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, 470-7077 Arrive at 7 pm for a lesson if you desire, then get dancin' to DJ'ed music. Singles are just as welcome as partners, all ages are invited—and if you'd just like to sit, watch and listen, there are also chairs for spectators (and they won't think it's weird!).

7 pm, $3-$8

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.

7 pm, free GLOW Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Thousands of twinkling lights and large-scale light installations are aglow throughout the garden. Tonight, live music from Karina Wilson & the Big Heart Band.

5 pm, $8-$12 INTERN MIXER The Alley 153 Paseo De Peralta The City of Santa Fe in partnership with NMInterns.com invites young Santa Fe-based young people looking for summer 2020 internships to mingle with local businesses, start-ups, nonprofits and government agencies.

5:30-7:30 pm, free

MUSIC CASEY ANDERSEN AND MOHIT DUBEY Dinner for Two 106 N Guadalupe St., 820-2075 Classical and jazz guitar.

6 pm, free COWGIRL KARAOKE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Michèle Leidig hosts Santa Fe's most famous night of karaoke.

9 pm, free

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DOUG MONTGOMERY AND ELIZABETH YOUNG Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Montgomery provides the standards, originals and pop on piano, and Young joins in on violin.

6:30-9:30 pm, free ROSE, WHITE & BLUES Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Smoldering blues chanteuse Myrrhine Rosemary and Santa Fe's most beloved former bellboy Pete White tease your ears with a mix of blues, R&B and soul.

6-9 pm, free THE BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Santa Fe Pro Musica performs all six of Johann Sebastian Bach’s masterpieces.

7 pm, $30

WORKSHOP LA TIERRA TOASTMASTERS Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Discover where one can advance their public speaking skills in a lively and rewarding group. Guests are always welcome. Meetings every Monday. latierra.toastmastersclubs.org 12-1 pm, free

TUE/31 DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO CHRISTMAS SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 An original flamenco show from a Spanish director, plus tapas and drinks available for purchase.

7:30 pm, $25 FLAMENCO HOLIDAY DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Experience the National Institute of Flamenco's world-famous dinner show at the longest-running tablao in North America.

Reservations required.

6:30-9 pm, $30 FLAMENCO WINTER SERIES

BY LA EMI The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 La Emi graces the season with a special holiday performance.

7:30-9:30 pm, $15-$50 SOUL ACTIVATION 2020 Caribe Dance Studio 2008 St. Michael's Drive, Suite C-1 Yoga, dance, meditation and healing arranged throughout the evening to get the year started right. See the full schedule online at santafecommunityyoga.org.

6 pm-2 am, free

EVENTS GLOW Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Thousands of twinkling lights and large-scale light installations are aglow throughout the garden. Tonight, live music from Andy Mason, plus Kids’ New Year’s Eve with a flower petal drop at 7pm to celebrate the new year.

5 pm, $8-$12 NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY Casa España 321 W San Francisco St., 995-4527 Enjoy hors d'oeuvres, music

by DJ Oona, and a live ball drop. Formal attire required.

8 pm-12 am, $60 NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 With live entertainment, a decadent dessert and coffee bar, a midnight countdown with Champagne and a balloon drop, this is the place to be on NYE. Accommodation packages available if you wanna spend the night and catch a flamenco show.

8 pm-12 am, $35-$60

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MUSIC BLUEGRASS JAM Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 You guessed it: It's a bluegrass jam.

6 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, originals and pop with vocals too.

7 pm-1 am, free FELIX Y LOS GATOS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Latin Rock.

8:30 pm, free JJ AND THE HOOLIGANS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n' roll.

9 pm, $5 JOE ILLICK AND THE NEW YEAR'S EVE ORCHESTRA Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Bid farewell to 2019 with longtime Santa Fean Illick, music director and principal conductor of the Fort Worth Opera, leading an all-star orchestra featuring world-renowned violinist Augustin Hadelich performing Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto.

1 pm, $20 NEW YEARS DANCE PARTY WITH DJ PDOG The Matador 116 W San Francisco St., 984-5050 The best funky soul dance jams, vintage soul to new wave '65-'85.

9 pm-2 am, free

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RICK MENA Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Multi-genre guitar maestro.

5-8 pm, free THE CAROUSEL: MEOW WOLF NYE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Welcome in a new decade, a new era, your new self, leave the past at the door, dress as your future best, and lose yourself in the whirling of the dancefloor, with Ana M, Audio Buddha, Space Jaguar and more throwing down the beats. 21+ 8 pm-2 am, $39-$97

THE JAKES Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Southern rock 'n' roll.

9 pm-1 am, free

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NEW YEARS' EVE WITH BETSY & THE HOLLYHOCKS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Alternative country and desert rock to ring in the New Year.

9 pm-1 am, $10 PAT MALONE AND JON GAGAN El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Sweet melodic jazz guitar from Malone with Gagan on bass.

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Tengu toy figures from the Tohoku region of Japan, crafted circa 1960; part of the Museum of Int’l Folk Art’s exibit Yokai: Ghosts & Demons of Japan.

CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Scott Johnson: Fissure Through Feb. 2, 2020.

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 Contemporary Voices: Jo Whaley. Through Feb. 24.

HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 Dolichovespula Maculata: Works of Paper by Dianne Frost. Through Jan. 2020.

IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Wayne Nez Gaussoin: Adobobot. Through Nov. 30. Reconciliation. Through Jan. 19. Heidi K Brandow: Unit of Measure. Through Jan. 31. Sámi Intervention/ Dáidda Gázada. Through Feb. 16.

MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART 632 Agua Fría St., 989-3283 Artworks in wax.

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250

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Diego Romero vs The End of Art. Through April 2020.

MUSEUM OF INT’L FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Girard’s Modern Folk.

Through Jan. 26. Gallery of Conscience: Community Through Making from Peru to New Mexico.

Through Jan. 5. Música Buena: Hispano Folk Music of New Mexico. Through March 7, 20201. Yokai: Ghosts and Demons of Japan. Through Jan. 2021.

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 NM HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5019 Working on the Railroad.

Through 2021.

The Massacre of Don Pedro Villasur. Through Feb. 21.

Atomic Histories. Through Feb. 28. We the Rosies: Women at Work.

Through March 1.

NM MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Alcoves 2020 #1 #2.

Through August 2020.

Social and Sublime. Through Nov. 17. Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist.

Through Jan. 5, 2020.

Picturing Passion: Artists

Reinterpret the Penitente Brotherhood.

PALACE OF THE GOVERNORS 105 W Palace Ave., 476-5100 Closed for renovations.

POEH CULTURAL CENTER 78 Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3334 Di Wae Powa.

EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS 334 Los Pinos Road, 471-2261 Living history.

SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Human Nature: Explorations in Bronze.

Through May 10, 2020.

SITE SANTA FE 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 Bel Canto: Contemporary Artists Explore Opera.

Through Jan. 5, 2020.

WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 704 Camino Lejo, 982-4636 Laughter and Resilience: Humor in Native American Art. Through Oct. 4, 2020.

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Richard Jewell Review

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Clint Eastwood’s new biopic Richard Jewell tells the story of—you guessed it—Richard Jewell, the security guard who discovered a backpack filled with three pipe bombs at Centennial Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Jewell, who first alerted the police and helped to partially evacuate the area before the bombs exploded was initially lauded as a national hero and later considered the prime suspect, suffering a grueling trial by media until he was ultimately cleared 88 days later.

Paul Walter Hauser (I, Tonya), who bears an uncanny resemblance to the real Jewell, does a fantastic job as the awkward and endearing underdog who loves his mama (Kathy Bates) and who just wants to do his job; “I believe in protecting people,” he says; Jewell is only guilty of being naïve and it’s up to his disgruntled, baseball hat and cargo short wearing lawyer, Watson Bryant (Sam Rockwell) to repeatedly remind

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him that the FBI agents ransacking his house for evidence are not his friends but “jackals looking to eat him alive.”

In the film, the real crime is committed by Kathy Scrugg (Olivia Wilde) a journalist from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution who trades sex with FBI agent Tom Shaw (John Hamm) for the scoop on their prime suspect and publishes a story pinning Jewell as the bomber. Agent Shaw protests a little: “what makes you think you can fuck it out of me?,” but in the end he’s no match for Scrugg and her low-cut silk blouse.

Maybe no one reminded Old Man Eastwood what decade we live in but the female-journalist-who-uses-sex-for-a-story trope just doesn’t work anymore. In fact, it never did. While the

Atlanta Journal-Constitution deserves to be held accountable for their misrepresentation of an innocent man, slut-shaming certainly isn’t the way to go about it. Unfortunately, this gross display of misogyny clouds the entire film and cheapens the gravity of Jewell’s story.

I think Eastwood would like to go back to a simpler time, like 1996, when people danced in unison to “The Macarena” and sexism went unchecked.

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Actor Shia LaBeouf has been a bit of a wildcard over the last decade or so. But for every screaming YouTube video he released, every blockbuster schlock-fest he appeared in or Daniel Clowes comic he plagiarized, he managed to churn out a halfway decent or memorable performance (Peanut Butter Falcon from earlier this year is pretty OK and say what you will about Nymphomaniac—that shit’ll haunt you). Has he been an unhinged Hollywood lunatic, or is he secretly some kind of marketing genius uninterested in whether the attention he receives is good or bad? Newly released Honey Boy might provide some insight, but it’s still hard to say and ultimately lacks a satisfying conclusion.

In the film, which LaBeouf wrote and which is loosely based on his life, he plays a version of his own father Jeffrey (James in the movie) alongside Noah Jupe (A Quiet Place) and Lucas Hedges (Lady Bird) as a fictionalized version of himself, here named Otis. We cut between 1995 and 2005—a young Otis on the cusp of early childhood stardom and grappling to connect with anyone, especially his father—and then a post-DWI Otis forced into court-mandated CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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rehab to avoid jail time. 1995 Otis employs his father as a means to stay close, 2005 Otis deals with the aftermath of the abusive paternal relationship; the alcoholism in his family that comes to a head the more lonely he feels and the pain planted all those years ago catch up.

Jupe manages the performance of his admittedly short career, careening wildly from tersely delivered barbs meant to sting to ageappropriate confusion over why his dad acts the way he does. Living in a rundown hotel, young Otis forges a strong relationship with a neighboring resident credited only as Shy Girl (singer FKA Twigs, whose small but pivotal turn will surely generate buzz) who we’re led to believe is a sex worker. LaBeouf and director Alma Har’el succeed here in leading us to believe the worst will happen, but young Otis’s desperation for a parent figure feels more vulnerable and real in scenes with Shy Girl than it does in the adversarial ones with his dad. Hedges’s scenes feel less enthralling, however, and it’s rarely as interesting to see 22-year-old Otis screaming in the woods or stomping his feet during therapy sessions as it is in the simpler moments with Jupe.

It’s just as well, because it’s LaBeouf’s movie and he can do what he wants—and he does disappear so deeply into the role of his father that you straight-up forget it’s him.

LaBeouf’s dad has reportedly seen Honey Boy and the two are apparently on the path toward reconciliation, and it seems the film has

been healing for its writer and star as well. But then, it starts to feel awfully self-important, and we don’t really get a payoff to so much exposition. It’s like we’re just supposed to know that LaBeouf had a career after 2005, which of course we do—you remember 2007’s Transformers, right? ( Alex De Vore)

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Marriage Story begins with Charlie (Adam Driver) and Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) reading lists of what they love most about one another. They are sweet and nuanced: both loving parents, he’s a successful Broadway director and she’s a star actor—in fact, his “favorite actor.” It seems a match made in heaven and we are quickly swept up in their idyllic partnership, making it all the more stinging when we learn the lists are part of an assignment given by a mediator to aid in the process of Nicole and Charlie’s impending uncoupling. This is writer/ director Noah Baumbach’s (Francis Ha, Mistress America) intention. He wants it to hurt, and it does.

On the surface, the divorce is one of logistics, a tale of two cities: Nicole moves to Los Angeles to pursue a big role in a TV pilot and to enjoy all that “space” everyone keeps talking about, while Charlie stays in New York to bring his production of Electra to Broadway. Charlie sees her move as only temporary and insists they are a “New York family,” while Nicole maintains this move is something she’s always wanted—something Charlie failed to take seriously amidst all his self-importance.

His play, it turns out, is an apt allusion (a woman scorned), and although they’d discussed

parting amicably and without lawyers, Nicole finds cutthroat, stiletto-wearing divorce attorney Nora Fanshaw (portrayed fabulously by Laura Dern) to represent her. During their first meeting Fanshaw asks Nicole for her side of the story. Nicole says, “It’s difficult to articulate.” And it is, because with no true villain to blame we are left navigating the little things that lead to the demise of their relationship.

Of course, there are problems aplenty, and while it may take Charlie (and us) a moment to play emotional catch-up with Nicole, we eventually come to understand just how insidious these “little things” can be in a relationship. It’s difficult to watch as Nora paints Charlie as a sortof deadbeat dad too consumed with his work to truly care. For Nora, the inadequacy of the father is not just about Charlie, but about all men; “God is the father and God didn’t show up,” she tells Nicole. “It’s fucked up, but that’s the way it is”— this could be a tagline for the film. Meanwhile, Charlie seeks his own council, meeting with two lawyers: a pussycat (Alan Alda) and a shark (Ray Liotta).

We may want to pick a side, but Baumbach won’t let us off so easily. Nicole and Charlie are so perfectly messy and endearing that we are left feeling like their 8-year-old son Henry (Azhy Robertson), grasping at his parent’s hands while they literally pull him in different directions.

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Just in time for the holidays, Last Christmas from director Paul Feig (that 2016 Ghostbusters reboot) provides a heartwarming story about a young woman named Kate (Emilia Clarke, the mother of dragons herself) and her attempts to get her life together.

Kate spends her days working as an elf for “Santa” (Michelle Yeoh) in a yearround Christmas store and her nights either couch-surfing or auditioning for any acting or singing gigs she can find. Kate struggles to maintain an already strained relationship with her Yugoslavian immigrant family and any number of friendships, but after a life-saving heart transplant, she transforms from a bumbling but caring dork into a cold shell of a woman—and we haven’t even gotten to the the shoehorned romantic interest Tom (Crazy Rich Asians star Henry Golding) and the big twist ending!

The twist does manage to be surprising, but the remainder of the film, particularly Clarke and Golding’s chemistry, falls flat. Feig’s vision becomes a good-enough movie for families to watch together, and there’s some kind of pseudo-valuable message about how we need to love ourselves before we can love others, but most of the cast’s heavy hitters—like Patty Lupone and Emma Thompson (who also wrote the script)—aren’t used effectively.

Still, holiday movies are going to come out every year, and Last Christmas is at least a little better than typical Hallmark schlock. You’ll get the feels, you’ll get the unpredictable conclusion—but Jesus, pump the breaks on the George Michael music! (Cade Guerrero)

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When it comes to a filmmaker like Pedro Almodóvar—a director who inserts bits and pieces of himself into practically everything he does—it can be hard to tell what’s real, what’s not and what might just be fantasy. In Pain & Glory, Almodóvar blurs the lines further, telling the story of a oncelauded writer/director named Salvador (Antonio Banderas) who, on the cusp of senior citizenship, starts to feel wistful and hopes to come to terms with the events of his life thus far.

Between chronic pain, depression and haunting memories of his past, Salvador has chosen to leave writing and filmmaking behind. This comes with a sense of meaninglessness, but when a small theater asks him to present his most famous work as part of a film festival, Salvador sets out to make peace with its lead Alberto (Asier Etxeandia), a man he hasn’t spoken with since the film premiered three decades earlier. Alberto introduces Salvador to heroin which, for a time, calms his pain and anxieties. But when the pair collaborates once more on a one-man show based on Salvador’s cinematic awakening as a youth, old friends come calling and he is faced with a dilemma he can no longer ignore.

Banderas is a revelation, a calming and dimensional if scattered presence and a man who’s lived enough to know he wants to set right the missteps of his past. The performance is a masterclass in vulnerability and buried fears dredged up again, and it’s easily one of his best. But the real magic of Pain & Glory is in its disparate timelines. Are Salvador’s flashbacks really flashbacks, or are they a grand vision for something new? Call it a midlife crisis, call it a bout of crippling nostalgia—call it what you like, but Salvador’s own salvation comes in the form of acceptance that a new chapter always comes if we let it.

One often wonders if one’s best days are behind them, and while what we learn in Pain & Glory can’t possibly quell those fears, it does provide resounding hope. Almodóvar proves his skills for the umpteenth time while coaxing one of the year’s best performances out of Banderas. The lesson is fuzzy, but there for those who look. In a simple phrase? You ain’t seen nothing yet. (ADV)

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): The English word “hubris” means prideful, exaggerated self-assurance. In the HBO TV series Rome, the ancient Roman politician and general Mark Antony says to his boss Julius Caesar, “I’m glad you’re so confident. Some would call it hubris.”

Caesar has a snappy comeback: “It’s only hubris if I fail.”

I’m tempted to dare you to use you that as one of your mottoes in 2020, Aries. I have a rather expansive vision of your capacity to accomplish great things during the coming months. And I also think that one key to your triumphs and breakthroughs will be your determination to cultivate a well-honed aplomb, even audacity.

Questions you’ve harbored about the nature of home will be answered. With flair and satisfaction, you’ll resolve long-running riddles about home and community.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity,” wrote philosopher and educator Mortimer Adler. He was exaggerating a bit for comic effect, but he was basically correct. We all must mobilize a great deal of intelligence and hard work to initiate new friendships and maintain existing friendships. But I have some very good news about how these activities will play out for you in 2020, Scorpio. I expect that your knack for practicing TAURUS (April 20-May 20): For years I’ve lived in a the art of friendship will be at an all-time high. I also house bordering a wetland, and I’ve come to love that believe that your close alliances will be especially ecosystem more than any other. While communing gratifying and useful for you. You’ll be well-rewarded with reeds and herons and muddy water, my favorite for your skill and care at cultivating rapport. poet has been Taurus-born Lorine Niedecker, who wrote about marshes with supreme artistry. Until the SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1933, Sagittarian artist Diego Rivera was commissioned to paint a huge age of 60, her poetic output was less than abundant mural in one of the famous Rockefeller buildings in New because she had to earn a meager living by cleaning York City. His patrons didn’t realize he was planning to hospital floors. Then, due to a fortuitous shift in cirinclude a controversial portrait of former Soviet cumstances, she was able to leave that job and Communist leader Vladimir Lenin. When the deed was devote more time to what she loved most and did done, they ordered him to remove it. When he refused, best. With Niedecker’s breakthrough as our inspiration, I propose that we do all we can, you and I, as we they ushered him out and destroyed the whole mural.

As a result, Rivera also lost another commission to creconspire to make 2020 the year you devote more ate art at the Chicago World’s Fair. In any other year, time to the activity that you love most and do best.

Sagittarius, I might encourage you to be as idealistic as GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the English language, Rivera. I’d invite you to place artistic integrity over finanthe prefix “re” comes at the beginning of many words cial considerations. But I’m less inclined to advise that in with potent transformational meaning: reinvent; 2020. I think it may serve you to be unusually pragmatredeem; rediscover; release; relieve; redesign; resuric. At least consider leaving Lenin out of your murals. rect; rearrange; reconstruct; reform; reanimate; reawaken; regain. I hope you’ll put words like those at CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “People mistake their limitations for high standards,” wrote Capricorn the top of your priority list in 2020. If you hope to take maximum advantage of the cosmic currents, it’ll author Jean Toomer. In my astrological opinion, it’s crucial that you avoid doing that in 2020. Why? First, be a year of revival, realignment, and restoration.

I’m quite sure that you will have considerable power CANCER (June 21-July 22): I won’t be surprised if to shed and transcend at least some of your limitayou’re enamored and amorous more than usual in tions. For best results, you can’t afford to deceive 2020. I suspect you will experience delight and yourself into thinking that those limitations are high enchantment at an elevated rate. The intensity and standards. Secondly, Capricorn, you will have good depth of the feelings that flow through you may reasons and a substantial ability to raise your stanbreak all your previous records. Is that going to be a problem? I suppose it could be if you worry that the dards higher than they’ve ever been. So you definitely don’t want to confuse high standards with limitations. profuse flows of tenderness and affection will render you weak and vulnerable. But if you’re willing and eager to interpret your extra sensitivity as a superpower, that’s probably what it will be.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Historians once thought that 14th-century Englishmen were the first humans to track the rhythms of the planet Jupiter using the LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Does the word “spirit” mean any- complicated mathematics known as calculus. But in thing to you? Or are you numb to it? Has it come to seem 2015, researchers discovered that Babylonians had done it 1400 years before the Englishmen. Why was virtually meaningless—a foggy abstraction used carelessly by millions of people to express sentimental beliefs Jupiter’s behavior so important to those ancient and avoid clear thinking? In accordance with astrological people? They were astrologers! They believed the omens, I’ll ask you to create a sturdier and more vigorous planet’s movements were correlated with practical events on earth, like the weather, river levels, and grain definition of “spirit” for your practical use in 2020. For harvests. I think that this correction in the origin story instance, you might decide that “spirit” refers to the life of tracking Jupiter’s rhythms will be a useful metaphor force that launches you out of bed each morning and for you in 2020. It’s likely you will come to understand motivates you to keep transforming yourself into the your past in ways that are different from what you’ve ever-more beautiful soul you want to become. believed up until now. Your old tales will change.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “There are people who take PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): China produces the most the heart out of you, and there are people who put it apples in the world. The United States is second. That back,” wrote author Charles de Lint. According to my wasn’t always true. When Europeans first reached the analysis of the astrological omens, your heart will encounter far more of the latter than the former types of shores of the New World, crab apple was the only people in 2020. There may be one wrangler who tries to apple species that grew natively. But the invaders planted other varieties that they brought with them. take the heart out of you, but there will be an array of nurturers who will strive to keep the heart in you—as well They also imported the key to all future proliferation: honeybees, champion pollinators, which were previas boosters and builders who will add even more heart. ously absent from the land that many indigenous peoLIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Composer Igor Stravinsky was ple called Turtle Island. I see 2020 as a time for you to born a Russian citizen, but later in life became a French accomplish the equivalent, in your own sphere, of getcitizen, and still later took on American citizenship. If you ting the pollination you need. What are the fertilizing have had any similar predilections, Libra, I’m guessing influences that will help you accomplish your goals?. they won’t be in play during 2020. My prediction is that you will develop a more robust sense of where you Homework: Start dreaming about who you can be in belong than ever before. Any uncertainties you’d had 2020. My long-range audio horoscopes are here: about where your true power spot lies will dissipate. https://RealAstrology.com

Week of December 25th ARIES (March 21-April 19): Nazi Germany invaded and occupied Denmark during World War II. In 1943, Hitler ordered all Danish Jews to be arrested—a first step in his plan to send them to concentration camps.

But the Danish resistance movement leapt into action and smuggled virtually all of them to safety via fishing boats bound for Sweden. As a result, 8,000+ Danish Jews survived the Holocaust. You may not have the opportunity to do anything quite as heroic in 2020, Aries. But I expect you will have chances to express a high order of practical idealism that could be among your noblest and most valiant efforts ever.

Draw inspiration from the Danish resistance.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libra-born mystic poet Rumi (1207–1273) wrote that he searched for holy sustenance and divine inspiration in temples, churches, and mosques—but couldn’t find them there. The good news?

Because of his disappointment, he was motivated to go on an inner quest—and ultimately found holy sustenance and divine inspiration in his own heart. I’ve got a strong feeling that you’ll have similar experiences in 2020, Libra. Not on every occasion, but much of the time, you will discover the treasure you need and long for not in the outside world but rather in your own depths.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Among his many accomplishments, Scorpio rapper Drake is an inventive TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When she was 31, rhymer. In his song “Diplomatic Immunity,” he rhymes Taurus writer Charlotte Brontë finished writing her “sacred temple” with “stencil.” Brilliant! Other rhymes: novel Jane Eyre. She guessed it would have a better “statistics” with “ballistics”; “Treaty of Versailles” with chance of getting published if its author was thought “no cease and desist in I”; and—my favorite—”Al to be a man. So she adopted the masculine pen name Jazeera” (the Qatar-based news source) with of Currer Bell and sent the manuscript unsolicited to “Shakira” (the Colombian singer). According to my a London publisher. Less than eight weeks later, her analysis of the astrological omens in 2020, many of new book was in print. It quickly became a commer- you Scorpios will have Drake-style skill at mixing and cial success. I propose that we make Brontë one of blending seemingly disparate elements. I bet you’ll your role models for 2020, Taurus. May she inspire also be good at connecting influences that belong you to be audacious in expressing yourself and confi- together but have never been able to combine before. dent in seeking the help you need to reach your SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian poet goals. May she embolden you, too, to use ingenious Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) embodied a trait that stratagems to support your righteous cause. many astrology textbooks suggest is common to the GEMINI (May 21-June 20): 2020 can and should be Sagittarian tribe: wanderlust. He was born in Prague a lyrically healing year for you. Here’s what I mean: but traveled widely throughout Europe and Russia. If Beauty and grace will be curative. The “medicine” there were a Guinness World Records’ category for you need will come to you via poetic and mellifluous “Time Spent as a Houseguest,” Rilke might hold it. experiences. With this in mind, I encourage you to There was a four-year period when he lived at fifty difseek out encounters with the following remedies. 1. ferent addresses. I’m going to be bold here and hypothTruth Whimsies 2. Curiosity Breakthroughs 3. Delight esize that 2020 will NOT be one of those years when Gambles 4. Sacred Amusements 4. Redemptive you would benefit from being like Rilke. In fact, I hope Synchronicities 5. Surprise Ripenings 6. Gleeful you’ll seek out more stability and security than usual.

Discoveries 7. Epiphany Adventures 8. Enchantment Games 9. Elegance Eruptions 10. Intimacy Angels 11. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Fifteenth-century Italian metalworker Lorenzo Ghiberti worked for 28 Playful Salvation 12. Luminosity Spells. years to turn the Doors of the Florence Baptistry into CANCER (June 21-July 22): “There are years that ask a massive work of art. He used bronze to create questions and years that answer,” wrote author Zora numerous scenes from the Bible. His fellow artist Neale Hurston. According to my astrological analysis, Michelangelo was so impressed that he said Cancerian, 2020 is likely to be one of those years that Ghiberti’s doors could have served as “The Gates of asks questions, while 2021 will be a time when you’ll Paradise.” I offer Ghiberti as inspiration for your life get rich and meaningful answers to the queries you’ll in 2020, Capricorn. I think you’ll be capable of beginpose in 2020. To ensure that this plan works out for ning a masterwork that could take quite some time to your maximum benefit, it’s essential that you formucomplete and serve as your very own “gate to paralate provocative questions in the coming months. At dise”: in other words, an engaging project and first, it’s fine if you generate too many. As the year delightful accomplishment that will make you feel progresses, you can whittle them down to the most your life is eminently meaningful and worthwhile. ultimate and important questions. Get started!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’re wise to cultivate LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Roman Emperor a degree of skepticism and even contrariness. Like all of Vespasian (9–79 AD) supervised the restoration of the us, your abilities to say NO to detrimental influences Temple of Peace, the Temple of Claudius, and the and to criticize bad things are key to your mental Theater of Marcellus. He also built a huge statue of health. On the other hand, it’s a smart idea to keep Apollo and the amphitheater now known as the checking yourself for irrelevant, gratuitous skepticism Colosseum, whose magnificent ruins are still a major and contrariness. You have a sacred duty to maintain tourist attraction. Vespasian also created a less majes- just the amount you need, but no more—even as you tic but quite practical wonder: Rome’s first public urifoster a vigorous reservoir of receptivity, optimism, and nals. In accordance with astrological omens, I invite generosity. And guess what? 2020 will be an excellent you Leos to be stimulated by his example in 2020. Be time to make this one of your cornerstone habits. your usual magnificent self as you generate both inspiring beauty and earthy, pragmatic improvements. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Dante Alighieri (1265– 1321) finished writing The Divine Comedy in 1320. Today VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When Virgo author Mary it’s considered one of the supreme literary accomplishShelley was 18 years old, she had a disconcerting ments in the Italian language and a classic of world litdream-like vision about a mad chemist who created a erature. But no one ever read the entire work in the weird human-like creature out of non-living matter.

English language until 1802, when it was translated for She set about to write a book based on her mirage. At the first time. Let’s invoke this as a metaphor for your age 20, she published Frankenstein, a novel that would life in the coming months, Pisces. According to my ultimately wield a huge cultural influence and become visions, a resource or influence that has previously a seminal work in the “science fiction” genre. I probeen inaccessible to you will finally arrive in a form you pose we make Shelley one of your role models for can understand and use. Some wisdom that has been 2020. Why? Because I suspect that you, too, will have untranslatable or unreadable will at last be available. the power to transform a challenging event or influHomework: Your imagination is the single most ence into an important asset. You’ll be able to generimportant asset you possess. What can you do to ate or attract a new source of energy by responding creatively to experiences that initially provoke anxiety. ensure it serves you well and doesn’t drive you crazy?

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