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Nearing Donor Darkness Faced with a lawsuit over its political spending disclosure rules, Santa Fe might back down B Y M AT T G R U B S m a t t g r u b s @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m @mattgrubs

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he money was mind-boggling: more than $200 shelled out for each vote in May’s special election. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave nearly $1.5 million to a losing effort to support a sugary-drink tax in Santa Fe. Big Soda poured more than $2 million into a campaign to beat it back.

The spending was far beyond anything local voters had seen in a citywide election, and a harbinger of the kind of money that can be thrown at ballot measures like the so-called soda tax as special interests get more sophisticated about political messaging. If not for the city’s disclosure rules for political action committees and campaign communications about the ballot measure, voters might not have known anything about who was behind it.

A political move by a relatively small player in the campaign, though, is poised to force changes to those rules. The Rio Grande Foundation, along with the conservative Goldwater Institute out of Arizona, has sued the city over its determination that the $7,500 production and distribution of a video decrying the proposed tax required disclosure of donors.

The city is faced with the potential of a court battle that city attorneys think they are likely to lose, and officials appear ready to back down.

The City Council is set to vote next month on a bill that would completely eliminate the requirement for “independent expenditure groups” to report on campaign advocacy for ballot measures like the sugary-drink tax.

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chael Dominguez tells SFR. “Generally speaking, this body [the City Council] and this community care about transparency, and for the most part our campaign finance law is about transparency.”

But Dominguez’ bill would eliminate completely the disclosure requirements in ballot measure campaigns for what are broadly referred to as dark money groups. He calls the process that led to the bill he’s sponsoring “really, really frustrating.”

The city’s threshold for disclosure is much lower than what the Rio Grande Foundation spent on the election; just $250 triggers the need to file a report. Depending on how a group like the foundation chooses to follow the law, they argue it could force the disclosure of donors to a nonprofit. That’s what the fight is really over.

“Is there a compelling government interest in forcing anyone involved who takes a stand on this issue to have their name put in a government database?” Rio Grande Foundation President Paul Gessing asks rhetorically. He tells SFR that the foundation thinks the burden of disclosing donors who assumed their donations to be private far outweighs the benefit the public gets from knowing who’s paying for campaign communications like advertisements, mailers or videos.

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dation makes no secret that it favors less government and more individual liberty—and the thinking goes, that should be enough.

Advocates of disclosure, though, say the public always deserves more information about who is trying to influence their vote. That’s especially important, say national advocacy groups like Common Cause, in elections that are not about candidates, but instead focus on ballot measures like the sugary-drink tax.

“There aren’t candidates who have character or voting records to judge,” says

Washington, DC, says the city’s concerns about losing in court aren’t backed up by the federal decisions that tell other courts how to interpret campaign spending laws like Santa Fe’s.

“It seems as though the City Council is running for the hills,” Malloy tells SFR. “The nature of their response is so overblown.”

Santa Fe’s law doesn’t force dark money groups to register as political action committees, she says. It only asks them to file a disclosure statement when they spend enough to blow past the limit for anonymous spending.

Rather than completely strike a law that sets a $250 threshold for disclosure, Malloy says the city could raise it to $5,000 and “there’d be absolutely zero chance” they would run afoul of an existing court decision.

Assistant City Attorney Marcos Martinez sticks to his guns in a phone call with SFR. He says the CLC and Common Cause are picking the very best cases for their side. He doesn’t begrudge them that—he expects it from advocates, he says—but “they’ve kind of glossed over the adverse authority out there.”

The Tenth Circuit Appellate -Paul Gessing, Court has ruled that a $3,500 Rio Grande Foundation threshold for disclosure is too burdensome for such groups.

Anything above that doesn’t mean zero chance of a court Heather Ferguson, Common Cause’s legchallenge, he points out. In fact, the only islative director for New Mexico. “When thing that guarantees no challenge is the it comes to ballot measures, the very first bill that’s going in front of the council thing voters turn to is, ‘Who’s behind that completely strikes the requirement. this?’”

Then, the city can go back to the drawing She thinks the city’s law is mild, and board and see if any pending federal cases points out that the rules only require the set an acceptable threshold. disclosure of people who donated to pay Martinez says it’s a strategy advocates for the campaign communicashould understand. tion in question. “The leap “I wonder why Common Cause … that they are making didn’t talk about the fact that they supis that they’d have ported these kinds of arguments in Colto disclose all their orado, but lost the appeal there,” he says. donors,” she says.

If, on Dec. 13, the City Council does Tara Malloy, vote on to strike the rule for ballot meaa lawyer and sesures, Gessing says the lawsuit would nior director of likely go away—“Either way is a win for appellate litigaus,” he says—but he can’t guarantee it. tion and strategy “Part of the goal of any lawsuit is not at the Campaign just to impact the specific case you’re Legal Center in dealing with, but to have an impact more broadly speaking.” That is, he says, establishing case law against the kind of disclosure Santa Fe wants would be a much larger victory.

Is there a compelling government interest in forcing anyone involved who takes a stand on this issue to have their name put in a government database?

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the mix, most of Chiriboga’s average of 70 ski days a season are at Ski Santa Fe, just a half-hour drive from his house.

“I love every day that I go up there,” Chiriboga says. “If it’s snowing like hell, all the better—to the point where you have to stop and scrape your goggles like a windshield.”

Chiriboga grew up in the mountains, but he didn’t grow up skiing. The Andes near the South American cities where his father’s work with the United Nations took his family weren’t welcoming for a beginning skier. So it was decades later in Aspen, Colorado, that he made a first attempt at skiing with his wife, who has skied since age 5.

“We went up the lift, and of course I couldn’t do anything. I barely got off the

Ski season psych is up, but the long-term forecast for snowsports is mixed

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eige and green have a frustratingly firm hold on the slopes skiers and snowboarders have long since hoped would turn white.

A few determined locals have been spotted hiking uphill to search out marginal turns at Ski Santa Fe while salivating over the Dec. 2 opening date. Some are driving more than an hour north to Sipapu ski resort, where man-made ribbons of white snow lay over a carpet of grass still bare enough beyond the reach of snowmaking equipment that a pickup truck was parked mid-mountain. The turns, however, were smooth, if a bit slushy. Some are eyeing several hours of driving north to Wolf Creek Ski Area in Colorado, which has about 40 percent of its terrain open.

The efforts may soon include burning effigies and sacrificing last season’s gear to the fire in hopes it appeases whatever weather gods and they finally send some snow.

For all the excitement, just how far it carries through the season varies widely.

Nationally, the National Ski Areas Association reported an average use of 10 visits per season pass for the 2016-17 season. In the Rocky Mountain region, which includes New Mexico, it’s just 9.1. Ski Santa Fe lands in between the two at about 9.6 visits.

Then there are skiers like Doug Chiriboga. Though Taos and Telluride are in

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lift, and I wasn’t about to ski down, so she talked me into going back down on the lift—embarrassed,” he says. “I went to take a ski lesson for the day and became highly addicted to skiing from then on.”

His wife aided in building up from those basics on some cautious initial runs.

“I was able to very carefully initially ski down the mountain, and then gradually just turn it into a dance, as it is now,” he says, tapping the notebook page where he’s written a favorite quote: “Skiing is a dance and the mountain always leads.”

He’s in the minority not just for his high-frequency use—one of the ways he’s enjoying his retirement—but for having stuck with the sport at all.

Only about 15 percent of first-time skiers turn into long-term participants,

Snowmaking equipment sits readily positioned for temperatures cold enough to make snow at Ski Santa Fe for an anticipated Dec. 2 opening.

according to data from the National Ski Areas Association. The trade association published a “Model for Growth” in 2000 that identified “unfavorable demographic trends,” an increase in “time poverty” and climate change all as taking a hit on snow sports participation. It called for ski areas to dramatically change their approaches, lest they face more of the same. An annual “Conversion Cup Challenge” recognizes ski areas with programs successfully “converting” one-timers to repeat chairlift riders. Ski Santa Fe launched a “Snow Sports Passport” this year as an opening volley into that arena.

Overall, US ski resorts have seen little growth in visitation over the last 40 years.

For the 1978-79 season, the trade association counted 50 million snow sports visits. Last winter saw just 54 million. In the same span of time, the US population has increased by 100 million.

The geography of that modest growth has mirrored US population trends. Western states have seen increases of more than 400 percent since 1940, more than double any other region of the country.

Likewise, the biggest uptick in skier visits has been in the Rocky Mountain region, up from 15 million visits 40 years ago to 21 million last season.

Baby boomers have long been the dominant demographic nationally, but as they slowly age out of the sport, millennials have taken the lead. At Santa Fe, silver pass holders, ages 62-71, log an average of 16 days per season.

Ski Santa Fe has bet they’ll be sticking with it. The resort invested in infrastructure this year to allow more snowmaking in more places, making it possible to ski and ride whether or not those snow dances pay off.

The Enthusiast is a twice-monthly column dedicated to the people in and stories from our outdoor sports community.

Elizabeth Miller is a part-time ski instructor at Ski Santa Fe.

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We’ll always need storytellers. That’s what one of the judges of this year’s SFR Writing Contest tells us about the future of publishing. We couldn’t agree more. And we’re happy that our readers agree, too.

Like we do each year, the staff at SFR offered a loose theme. This time it was “Take it Back.” One guy who called to inquire about “what it means” seemed puzzled when our editor wouldn’t offer an interpretation other than: “We hope writers are inspired to create something that spins off that idea.”

Sure, some of you took hints from the required words in the fiction category of sweetened, dotard and racket, and you wrote about the nutty political tides of the United States these days. Others took a hard look at ways to interpret the phrase that don’t belong on ball caps or bumper stickers. We especially enjoyed that one entry featured a zombie apocalypse, one a populationchanging epidemic, and another, a serious out-of-body experience. In the end, the judges chose six favorites, and we trust them.

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Under the hot sun, the shanty lean-to of a bus stop does little to stave off the heat baking the arid dusty ground. The grimy bus is just up ahead; it won’t take long before it groans to a halt, belching its sooty breath into the cloudless sky, polluting my senses with the smell of burning rubber and the screech of squealing gears. Slowly, it inches toward the sparse portal, coming to a standstill just after the dilapidated metal structure. As it stops, I look down the road ahead, at a long golden stretch traveling through nothing, Kansas, lost until a tsking sound brings me back to reality.

From his high seat, the driver winks down the stairwell, waving me on.

The first step is the hardest. That’s the way those old Greyhound buses were made. It takes a large stride to reach level ground. Today, that first step is special, my hundredth Greyhound stair since I set out to see America. Five steps a bus equals 20 towns so far.

Sighing, I grab my backpack and sling it over my shoulder along with my newly acquired duffle bag—the one I pinched from the Kum & Go in Friendly, Tennessee. I close my eyes and lift a foot, pausing midair, waiting

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to slip as I step up onto the worn green runner splitting the bus between the left and right sides of town. But I don’t fall. I land solidly, two feet on a carpet that leads to an empty seat near the restrooms at the back of the bus. A seat next to no one; the way I like it.

Out the window, empty fields cup Oakley, Kansas, like a worn baseball glove, closing in on the failing town.

Oakley is a blip, but outside, beyond its dusty main street, the land is starkly beautiful and stirringly desolate.

Once upon a time America felt like this sweetened parcel of promise waiting for me to cultivate for my own. But most of what I’ve seen is vacant, and tribal, and vast enough to distance its citizen from its ideologies. Its enormity makes me shake. Like space, it swallows me up, a molecule in an atomic ocean.

“This seat taken?”

A massive body looms over the aisle, pointing to the seat beside me. The seat is piled high with my bags, a sure tell that it is not, in fact, available.

“What’s wrong with one of the ones up there?” I point toward the front of the Greyhound. Towards the seat the boy occupied before the bus pulled away from the station.

“Nothing.” He shrugs.

I want to say yes, it’s taken, can’t you see all my stuff, you dotard? But I’m curious. The boy’s followed me through

five overnight stops already, trailing behind at each like a shadow only to disappear until the next bus to nowhere pulls into town. He hasn’t said a word to me until now.

“Fine,” I answer, looking out the window at waning fields of dried cornhusks.

Grunting as if my one bag and backpack combined weigh more than the bus itself, the boy pulls my items off the seat, throwing them in the frail overhead bin before sitting down with a thump. He taps his ratty blue Converse repetitively against the seat back, driving me crazy.

“How old are you?” I ask.

“Twenty,” he says to the seat in front of him.

Twenty. Not a boy, not a man.

As the bus makes its way into the setting sun, the sky spreads out in fuchsia ribbons that glow against golden cornhusks and dried farmland. I envy him. We’re almost the same age, and yet, he seems … unspoiled.

The boy stares straight ahead, peeking sideways when he thinks I’m absorbed by whatever it is we’re passing outside— panoramas stretched like taffy by motion. I hate meeting people’s eyes.

Peripheral vision is a gift from God. I can’t count the times it’s saved me.

In the distance, Oakley is a blur of grain silos.

We ride silently beside each other and I wonder what he’s up to, pretending with his frayed knapsack and beat-up guitar case that he’s got nothing better to do than sit with some stranger. That guitar, like a prop from a movie—I wonder if he plays it or just carries it around.

My seat is hard and springy, but I’ve come to expect that. In front of me, blue fabric stretches across the seat’s backrest, a visual racket speckled with colorful polka dots that burst across the frame. It’s a pattern that’s neither comfortable nor attractive, but I’ve pretty much stopped caring about things like aesthetics after seeing so many ramshackle towns.

“Where are you going?” The boy asks earnestly.

“Santa Fe for a couple weeks.” I lie

because I don’t now, and never have had a plan. “Next though, Plains, Oklahoma. Then Clayton, New Mexico.”

“I mean in the end.”

He’s attractive and that bothers me.

But he’s also awkward. Too tall and too big, as though still a child trying to inhabit a man. His fair eyes are innocent despite rugged features, and his soft slow voice, tinged with Southern inflection, makes me want to strangle him.

Where am I going?

“Nowhere,” I shrug. “Just like you.”

I grin at him disingenuously then close my eyes against the glare outside.

Small talk is worse than truck-stop coffee.

“Mind if I go with you?”

“To nowhere?” I raise my eyebrows.

“Yeah. Why not?”

The boy’s grey eyes are unguarded, but not simple. They’re sweet. Unaware. They smile openly above his delicate nose, the only other fragile thing about him. He reminds me of a

Once upon a time America felt like this sweetened parcel of promise waiting for me to cultivate for my own. ... Its enormity makes me shake.

puppy patiently waiting to be thrown a bone.

“Where were you headed?” I ask.

“Santa Cruz. At least I was.”

“You’ve been following me?”

I already know he has been. I first noticed him back in West Virginia, in line for a Minneapolis-bound bus.

Then suddenly there he was again, sitting four aisles ahead of me headed down Interstate 64 for Kentucky. He got off with me in Lexington then got on with me heading for St. Louis.

“Kind of.”

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“That’s creepy.”

He shakes his head. “Not really.”

“Yes it is. It’s called stalking.”

“I’m not stalking you. You just … you seemed alone.”

“We’re all alone.”

He smiles sheepishly. “Sure. But we don’t have to be lonely.”

Shielding my forehead, I meet his stare. The bastard looks sincere; he smiles a small genuine smile, totally unaware I’m packing a .45 and will probably rob someone, maybe him, when we stop for the night in the next town. “You have pretty eyes,” he says, holding his pointer finger near enough to my face to actually poke me. “Like amber.”

“What’s your name?” I ask, pinching the bridge of my nose as though my head hurts, hoping to shut him down.

“Octavian.”

“Seriously? Like Caesar and all that?”

“Seriously. Like Caesar and all that.

Octavian Orion Xavier August Navarro.

What’s yours?”

“Do me a favor.” My name is transient. It has no meaning beyond what other people assign it. Like me, it’s a ghost. Grimacing, I change the subject, because I can’t even care enough to take back the awful things I’ve done, which means I probably shouldn’t get to know him better. “Grab my backpack.”

Octavian stands up and pulls my pack down from the overhead carriage, snagging it on a jagged piece of plastic jutting from the bin before sitting down again. He fidgets beside me, flicking at a flap on his denim jacket as he stares up at the tiny television screen suspended from the ceiling above us. He’s obviously waiting for me to say something else.

But I don’t, and he doesn’t either.

There’s a small travel alarm in my

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duffle; I set it to ring in an hour. The last part of the day’s trip takes us through the Prairie National Grasslands before stopping in Oklahoma, and I don’t want to be sleeping then. Land is my one indulgence; I’m not ashamed to admit it’s my only love.

I revere roads especially. Even before I knew what escape meant, highways, and all their tributaries, haunted me— all that infrastructure, leading somewhere I wasn’t. All that violence. A day on a dusty stretch of empty highway tamps the humdrum noise inside my head. Movement keeps me sound, and that’s stellar, because reason feels like it’s become a dirty concept.

The bus’ tires hum against the tarmac. It’s a soothing sound and I drop my forehead against the hot glass, letting the sun-warmed pane sear my skin.

Drifting I keep my eyes mostly closed and furtively squint out the window. My reflection in the grimy pane makes me anxious. I know my face well, but the rest of me, is so unpredictable.

Minutes later we pass over a pothole and I realize Octavian is sleeping beside me like the dead. As we head southwest into Oklahoma, rows of cornfields give way to prairie grass, and I wonder about him. I wonder whether to change seats, or take him back to my motel room when we stop for the night. I decide to change seats. But then take it back. I’m too intrigued by his credulous nature.

In Plains, Oklahoma, storm tentacles like dark streamers wind through the late prairie light, stalling over dry corn stalks in the near distance. Lingering above a small dearth of land, the storm washes the golden fields in white-hot flashes of electricity. The highway splits the grimy town down its middle. On one

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side, tall silos loom over railroad tracks and an open field of grass dotted with park benches. On the other, abandoned warehouses stand like sentries on the edge of town.

The air is static and the area eerily immobile. We stand under a tin roof, sandwiched between the early-evening sounds of crickets and buzzing electrical lines and hushed obscurity. Up the street, perpendicular to the highway, a neon motel sign blinks Good-Sleep-Inn at us against a mostly dusky backdrop.

Together, we make our way toward it, past a ramshackle Stop and Go I think about robbing later and a shanty aptly named Bar Nowhere. I wonder if once Octavian figures me out, he’ll turn me in. It’s not too late to send him packing, but he’s such an anomaly. Tomorrow we’ll reach Clayton, full of empty spaces and beaten-down people; a good place to bury mistakes and secrets, or ideas that follow you cross-country. I could change my mind. But I’d rather gamble.

About the author: Artist. Writer.

Mother. Bollywood fanatic. Former attorney. Respects Ativan and Albert Camus. Would spend my days outdoors, traveling and writing if I could.

A Call for Help

BY CAROL STEPHENS

Dear Chiang Mai Flock, I feel it is important to tell you what has been happening here in Bangkok.

It has been gradual like the way we wake up in the morning—a chirp here, a chirp there—until suddenly, after a series of loud calls, our sounds are everywhere creating a glorious impromptu concert in the sky—at least that is the way it used to be. But unfortunately, the change I want to tell you about has been different.

I’m not exactly sure when the trees decided to let us down, but we have had to adjust. Maybe that isn’t a fair statement. We never knew exactly what happened. Was there a war, we wondered? The trees obviously lost their power, but perhaps there was a disease we didn’t know about. However, we can usually spot illness. But whatever it was, like I said, we had to adapt when the change, or perhaps takeover is a better word, began.

At first it was just one building or two, but now Bangkok is forested with a new species. There are several classifications, but frankly, it is hard for me to differentiate. Skyscrapers, high-rises, office buildings, condos, apartments and residences … they are all the same to me. But they take the place of banyans, palms and teakwood trees.

That is why instead of writing this from a cool, leafy place, I am sitting on a hard cement railing with a noisy air conditioner drowning out my song.

Yesterday I had an unexpected visitor from the beach in Phuket, where the tsunami hit a few years ago. It was Khun Fa, a delightful little sandpiper I once dated. You can imagine my excitement when she dropped in. Maybe, I thought, she wants to rekindle our relationship.

“What silly branches you have here,” she remarked with a coquettish flick of her tail. “What happened to all the fluffy foliage and the limbs I used to love?”

I had to tell her that this cement forest of downtown Bangkok has taken some getting used to. There still are traditional trees, of course, and she wanted to see them. So I took her over to Bangkok’s famous Lumphini Park.

She really liked it, and as we lunched on some berries sweetened by the sun, she asked me why I didn’t live there instead of where I was. She obviously didn’t understand that park areas have

otts are springing up everywhere and apparently I was at the wrong one. It wasn’t until the evening lights came on that I recognized a shopping mall near my neighborhood, and I was able to fly home.

So, Chiang Mai Flock, even though I do enjoy the view from my rooftop, I have news for you. This Bangkok forest is not doing its job. Rather than cooling things off, it makes things hotter. Rather than make the air purer there are strange odors and exhaust coming from the buildings. Any shade this forest does provide is not peaceful and sheltering.

So, my dear relatives, tomorrow I wing my way north. I may get to you or stop at another town along the way. But I need to resettle where a bird like me can once more live in a tree and hear myself sing.

Sincerely, Your Cousin, Khun Nok

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BY JAMES GOULD

Take the next train south to the hotel in San Diego. Bet on the horses.

Charge the surveillance operation to the expense account. Hole up in Tijuana, somewhere cheap. Don’t fool with hookers. Hang around the station late at night. Piss in the gutters like the drunks. Make yourself known at a few seedy bars in that part of town that smell of cigarettes, stale beer and sick. Look for wrecked cars, broken windows, limp doors, hazy air and greasy tacos on the street with trash strewn into slick pools. Mean dogs will eye you from alleys and snarl. Everything will need a fresh coat of paint. Cool yourself with an iced horchata from the donkey cart.

Get yourself a lousy suit from a thrift store. Take some oil and stain around the collar, the front and the pants—especially around the crotch.

Comb some into your hair too. No one will take you seriously.

About the author: Carol Stephens is a resident of Santa Fe. She enjoys writing short stories and articles based on her experiences living overseas in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

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become very rare and are coveted. Any avian friends who are lucky enough to be hatched there never leave.

I found myself getting a bit maudlin.

“You know, Fa, I miss the old days. It seems you don’t appreciate things until they are gone.”

Of course, Fa, living at the beach, where the majestic palm trees still prevail, did not get it. She had no vision of how a city could change so gradually that you don’t notice it until it is too late.

But I didn’t want to sound like an old dotard so I tried to lighten the mood by spreading my wings and whisking her off to the National Art Museum and the Grand Palace.

Finally Fa grew tired, so we glided back to one of my favorite balconies. She wanted to enjoy the view of the city one last time before leaving. However, after the lushness of the park, I wondered what she was thinking.

Seeing my discomfort, Fa kindly tweeted: “No worries, Khun Nok. This is a very nice place to perch. And look at all the interesting features. Why, there are lots of plants and flowers here and a nice large bowl of water for bathing.”

And with that, Khun Fa jumped into the bowl with a dainty splash and motioned for me to join her. Now I really felt like I was getting somewhere. I could almost hear wedding bells, and I was thinking maybe I should convince Fa to stay a bit longer. But just at that moment everything changed … A door slid open and, even though we were 10 stories high, out sprang a cat!

Oh, how I wish now that I had chosen another balcony! After a great deal of panic and loss of feathers we managed to get away. But reason tells me Khun Fa will never be back.

Sadly, Fa’s visit made me realize how embarrassed I am to be living here. It is only going to get worse.

There are new buildings cropping up all the time. And their births make quite a racket, and it takes forever to complete them. In the old days you hardly even knew when a sapling was growing and becoming an adult.

Needless to say, I miss the old trees.

I love the banyans wrapped in ribbons that have everyone’s respect. But now when you see one, their sashes and bands look worn and weary.

After Khun Fa left, I decided to explore the city a bit. It was not a good idea. My broken heart caused me to lose my bearings and took me to a new part of town. I live near a Marriott Hotel, so I made my way there but nothing looked familiar. I soon realized that I was completely lost. I had forgotten that Marri-

Ease yourself into the One Eyed Jack. Let the barmaid at the place call you Hun or whatever. Smile at her Womand wink. Tell her she’s pretty. Wom en like to hear that. Learn her name or better yet, call her Baby Doll. Buy her drinks. They’ll be watered down, but do it anyway. Sweeten her tip jar with more than she deserves. You’ll need her when the time comes.

Throw back whiskey and stand your ground. Take a few punches if they come your way, but don’t hit back, or if you do make sure it counts.

They need to be laid out on the floor or they’ll shove you out back and slice your face open from ear to ear. You’ll die there if you don’t hit hard. Maybe play deaf instead, or act like the ceil ceil-

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ing fan has you hypnotized. Just don’t be a candy-ass. You got that?

Pay attention to the nuances of the bar flies. Know their game, especially the dotard wearing plaid at the end of the bar. He acts the fool, but he’s a clever con man. Stay away from him and his racket.

Shoot pool badly. Lose discreetly. Look for poker tells. Get inside their heads.

They all know her and where she hides it.

Figure that out. Find out where. They’ll all turn when she walks in. Brace yourself. Your knees will tremble like every other man in the joint with one swinging.

Guard your resolve and resist the urge to toss everything overboard and try to reach her. You’ll want to dive deep for her charms and jewels, so pretend you can’t swim or something. Spill ice down your pants if you have to, just don’t be stupid.

You hear me? Don’t dick around.

It’ll be dark in there so wait till your eyes adjust. Be patient. Don’t act jittery. Listen to what they say around her.

Watch their movements, their hands in particular. These peckers are sly and quick but someone will make a mistake and give up the ghost. Hold your nose if they haven’t washed in months. Buck up if they puke on you or drool. Humor them, but keep your distance. Lie to them. Make up a story. Learn to swear in their language, but don’t say anything idiotic. Right? Don’t be a dumbass.

Now when the day comes you find some punks. Give ’em a few bucks and tell ’em steal from the dry goods store across the street at half past eleven. We’ll handle the double-cross with the police.

Wait for the explosion out front. Move your ass quick when everyone clears out.

Grab Baby Doll if something goes wrong.

Get that sharp knife up to her throat right quick and twist one arm up around her back tight if you need to. Tell her everything is going to be fine if she does what you say and keeps her mouth shut.

Got it?

You find it and stuff it into the satchel, sling it over your shoulder and slip out the back door. Get in the car that’ll be waiting. Run like hell if you hear any gunshots. Don’t worry. You just do your part. It’s going to be fine. We’re gonna score big with this one. We’re gonna take it back. You wait and see.

Pull your hat brim down low. Yeah, like that. Now let’s go.

About the author: James Gould has lived in Santa Fe for over 20 years. He spends part of his time looking after buildings at the Farmers Market and at the Center for Contemporary Arts while also teaching woodworking at the Community College and quietly exercising his creativity.

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I can let go of not becoming a zookeeper or a biomedical research engineer I can let go of not knowing how to spell genius during the fourth grade spelling bee I can let go of not telling my third-grade teacher about what Ma had been doing to me and would keep doing to me because I didn’t say anything to that teacher when she asked I can let go of acting so cruelly to my first boyfriend and letting the last boyfriend act so wickedly toward me. I refuse to let go of wanting to know about the nine months the woman who carried me endured or her experience of expelling me into this world. But no matter the byline, the name on my marriage certificate, or the name my students call me, I am still Marasha Depew. Carrying that woman’s blood the way she carried me, I represent her, even if we never meet.

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BY JENNIFER LOVE

No one can tell me how many nurses surrounded me when I was born. I might find out if I look up the standard for medical assistance offered to an incarcerated woman during labor. I’d ask some nurse or doctor who was present: Did I get stuck in the birth canal?

Was my cry louder than my mother’s screams? Did I even cry? Did you think, just for a moment, about taking me home with you?

Maybe the woman whose body I emerged from held me close to her.

Maybe I drank her milk. Maybe I was only embraced by an incubator and fed formula. Maybe that woman thought about keeping me. Maybe I inherited my stubby feet from her? Maybe I inherited her proclivity to sell myself for money or to commit grand larceny.

Maybe I was addicted to her drugs. Maybe I stayed in the hospital one night, a few nights, or a few weeks. Maybe I was a healthy baby. Maybe someone soothed me when I cried. No one I know can tell me if I slept quietly in a rickety crib.

I do know in the hospital that woman gave me one thing: the name Marasha. Marasha Lynn Depew. In either the state home or foster care, or both, they called me Marasha, too. But when I was adopted, I lost the one gift my birth mother gave me. The woman I call my mother, my adopted mother, wanted to keep my name. But my adopted father overruled her, and they named me Jennifer. Maybe people would have called me Mar. Instead they call me Jenn. Maybe people would have asked me where does the name Marasha come from? Maybe I would have responded I don’t know, but my birth mother gave me that name.

Only a file, with words filled in by some social worker, can tell me about the first year of my life, and no one can seem to find those documents. Disappointment doesn’t describe wanting to know something most everyone else already knows. I wonder about my birth because it feels like level one in the maze of understanding my biology. I should let go of wondering about the context of my birth and who I was born to and whether that woman is alive or dead and ever wonders whether she was right to hand me over to the state of Texas.

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About the author: Jennifer Love coordinates developmental education at the Institute for American Indian Arts. She lives in Santa Fe with her three dogs—Thembi, Diablo, and Hughes—and her husband, Tim Host. She enjoys taking long walks on the concrete through the city.

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BY MELANIE FAITHFUL

I have a history with cab drivers.

There was the time the raving bigot of a taxi driver pulled out her large knife, the blade reflecting in the headlights at the intersection in Times Square. “It’s to take care of the ni**ers,” she screamed with her windows down and the crowds within earshot. I huddled in the back seat, hoping that the men she was referring to outside the car could not hear her horrific words among the horns, blasting music, laughter and all the other distractions that make New York City the pulsating place I love. She must have thought my Southern accent bonded us. I threw a $20 bill into the front and jumped out the door, trembling.

Or there was that time in Chicago, I turned to embrace a friend at the hotel entrance as I climbed from the cab, my purse left gaping open after paying my cab fare. Reaching the front desk to check in I discovered to my horror that I had no wallet. All I had left was a receipt from the cab driver, who when contacted, denied ever being at my hotel. Taxi drivers were not registered with the city so there was no way to follow up, according to the Chicago police.

I have more creepy cab stories which contributed to my calcified attitude when I climbed into the taxi,

that unusually warm day in February of 1995. Back-to-back meetings were the order of the day. I was in New York City to visit several book publishers, the lifeblood of the book wholesaler that was my employer. I love New York, and again I realized that I would probably not get to everything I wanted to do in my small window of spare time, which always happens when I am there. Every corner is like a birthday and every door is like a present, waiting to be opened. Instead of frantically hopping and jumping all over town, I learned how to just enjoy whatever came my way. Really good bagels, a thick newspaper, and vendors lining my walk along Central Park South were usually enough.

This cavalier attitude served me well, until a cancelled appointment delivered up an hour and 15 minutes of freedom.

There was no question where I wanted to go: straight up town to the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, the most notable item at the top of my “things I want to see in New York but never have the time” list. Not that I hadn’t attempted to make the visit before. There was the time I set out walking from Columbus Circle thinking it surely couldn’t be too far north, but my feet and my free time gave out before reaching my destination. Or the time I tried unsuccessfully to convince my traveling companions that going to a cathedral, famous for its never-will-be-completed architecture and unsuppressed liberal heritage, could be just as interesting as Times Square. But now, finally, the opportunity to see the cathedral had arrived! This free time was a gift which, if ignored, would be like giving the fates the raspberries. I was obliged to seize the moment and flagged down a cab.

I climbed into the open taxi door clutching a scribbled address derived from the phone book in the hotel lobby. “The cathedral at 1047 Amsterdam Avenue,” I said with confidence as I slid across the backseat, reaching the spot where I could see both the meter and the driver’s registration. Interesting, the habits that women travelers develop as a way of arming themselves against vulnerability. It was important to know my destination, of course, but beyond that I prided myself on my familiarity with the city well enough to recognize if I was being taken for a ride. It was equally important to be cognizant of all mannerisms and physical characteristics of the driver in whom I put my safety and trust for those few minutes in the taxi.

We pulled off, melting into the afternoon traffic, flowing up the West Side in our little microcosm of the city: the

driver, him, and the passenger, me. I was in my chosen state of guarded quiet, sitting in my backseat haven like a soldier waiting for the blitzkrieg. And as air strikes go, this one would not be subtle.

“What is dis place—dis John de Divine?” the words stabbing back at me over his right shoulder. Like lightening, my brain raced, wondering how to answer Mohammed. I had already memorized his name from the registration. I didn’t want to tread across all those dangerous land mines of misunderstanding, conflict and friction, especially while I was feeling very white, very Southern and very protestant.

“It’s a big church, a cathedral.” I was satisfied with my reply. It was a to-the-point answer without getting into details. I thought that perhaps I was off the conversation hook, since he had been silent since my response. I relaxed a bit and gazed out the window to the Central Park collection of walkers, break-takers and sun-worshippers.

My mind finally joined them in their relaxation.

“So, is dis a pilgrimage for you?” Whack! Right between the eyes. I was going to have to have this conversation whether I wanted it or not. And the pause before his question was my clue that for him this was no mindless banter.

“Well, if you are asking, ‘Is this someplace important to me, personally,’ then I would say yes. It is also a place I have waited a long time to see.

And this place does have importance to people in my religion, so now that I think about it, I guess my answer is yes, this is a pilgrimage for me.”

Another pause.

“A pilgrimage is a very important ting in my religion,” he says back to me, slowly, over his right shoulder. “Dat is why I drive dis cab.” At his words I felt an oomph in the pit of my stomach, one of those spiritual kick-boxing jabs right to the midsection that always happens when I am about to be awakened to a soul truth. He continued, “In my religion, a pilgrimage is de most important ting you do in your life. To not make your pilgrimage is a very bad ting. My mother is very sick and will not be able to make her pilgrimage. Dat is why I drive dis cab. I work to raise money to

make de pilgrimage for my mother before she dies.”

“That is a wonderful thing you are doing for your mother. And I like the idea that you can make the pilgrimage for someone you love. This pilgrimage of mine is not as important or as significant as the one you do in your religion.”

Silence returned for a few moments.

“Do you know what else I believe?”

“No,” I responded as I felt my defensive wall start to raise. This had gone well so far, but I did not feel safe entering into a religious debate.

“I believe dat der is only one God. Your God and my God. Dey are all de same God.” I exhaled with the realization that I had been holding my breath. “I am so glad you believe that, because I be-

I was in my chosen state of guarded quiet, sitting in my backseat haven like a soldier waiting for the blitzkrieg. And as air strikes go, this one would not be subtle.

lieve the same thing. We have a saying where I come from. It is, ‘The devil is in the details.’”

“De what?”

“The devil is in the details. It means that it’s only when you get into the details of things that people have trouble or disagreement, but that overall, in the big picture, we can all agree. We have the same God, but our religions have different details—and those details are what separate us instead of bringing us together.”

“I like dat. I will tink about dat today. De devil is in de details.” And then he laughed.

Silence again as we rode in the sunshine. We pulled up to the curb next to the beautiful cathedral as my pilgrimage neared completion. As I paid the fare he paused in thought and I could tell he had one last question.

“When you go in dis place, will you pray?”

I paused at the beauty of this simple

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question and all it implied. “Yes,” I said.

“I will pray.”

“Will you pray for me?”

“Of course. It will be my honor to pray for you. And I will pray for your mother too.”

“Tank you,” he replied softly but hurriedly as the traffic backed up behind him.

“Wait!” I said before he drove off.

“Will you pray for me too?”

I heard him answer “sure” as he pulled away.

When I imagine him now I see him smiling at this point, but I’m not so sure I ever really saw his face except for the photo on his registration.

I ran into the large stone coolness that is Saint John the Divine, not yet able to gaze upward into the beauty of the high open spaces. My knees grew rooted to the kneeler, my head was bent in shame and my tears flowed like the proverbial streams of justice. My fears had created walls of arrogance that were pulled down by a man forced by life to cross every type of boundary. His was a faith of asking questions. His was a faith of tearing down walls. His was a faith that was humble enough to ask for the prayers of others. And I prayed in earnest for him, his work, his mother, and for his need to complete his mother’s pilgrimage. And I prayed for myself, my blindness and my fears that kept me from living an authentic life. I prayed that I might re-learn a way of moving through the world, and the bravery and wisdom to choose another path, knowing that the symbolism of never being finished, just as the cathedral would never be completed, was just what this pilgrim needed.

Decades have passed since my intimate encounter with Mohammed, but still I see him in my mind’s eye, making that long trek across the globe for his mother, and hopefully another for himself. On September 11, 2001, besides

praying for friends and family in New York and Washington, I also prayed for him, though my faith and prayers no longer fall into boundaries that fit into traditional religion. Sure, I’ve had lots of regrets, but it’s probably just as well that life doesn’t come with a rewind button. If you really want to learn the true things, Mohammed taught me that there is a lot to be found in the pauses in life, on the pilgrim’s path.

About the author: Melanie has had a career in academic and scientific publishing to pay the bills, and mostly writes poetry for herself and the cats. But hey, let’s give this prose stuff a try. She lives in Santa Fe with her patient, native New Mexican spouse and enjoys her grown kids, some who live here in Santa Fe and some scattered around the world at different times.

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Take Our Country Back

BY JOHN J CIOFALO

“This rally represents a turning point for the people of this country. We are determined to take our country back.

We are going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump. That’s what we believed in, that’s why we voted for Donald Trump because he said we’re going to take our country back and that’s what we got to do …”

—David Duke, former Louisiana lawmaker and Imperial Wizard of the KKK Nietzsche wrote that he always trusted thoughts that came while walking; I chose to revise this form of mobility to a road trip this summer to the Deep South with my family.

I am, or shall I say I was, a high

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school history teacher. Why I became one is a bit of a long story, but I took the advice of a mentor who said, ‘If you want to make a difference in the world, working in a soup kitchen is OK, but you really should teach high school—get them when they’re young.’ After years of teaching at the college level, I made the move in 2012. I first taught at the Santa Fe Waldorf High School and then moved on to Desert Academy here in Santa Fe, New Mexico. My mostly affluent, predominantly white students loved hearing about the civil rights battles of the 1950s and 1960s, but had little or no exposure to this grassroots movement, a wellspring of most reform movements in this country. They wanted more, especially a readable account of the civil rights movement. Further, there were always questions and a desire to learn more about the women of the civil rights movement who stood in the shadows of the male triumvirate— Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Medgar Evers.

This spring I had an “‘ah ha” moment: I would write that book. It took me some time to come up with a recipe to bring this history alive, and then I thought on one of my favorite pastimes, the road trip; this one would take me and my son, Augie, home from Beloit College and my 12-year-old daughter, Gemma to the seat of the Old Confederacy.

It made perfect sense. I turn 60 this fall, which coincides with the 60th anniversary of the day when the Little Rock Nine walked up the steps of an all-white high school in Arkansas. Emulating the powerful Civil Rights Monument granite table in Montgomery, we would drive in a circle, beginning at our home base of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and then travel to Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma and back again.

Little did I know when we set out on

the trip that the scab of racial hatred would be torn off once again this summer over Confederate statues with chants of, “take it back!” Uncannily—if these protesters want to take the country back—we knew what they meant, for we found ourselves in Southern locales that frighteningly mirror the past with events of the present: We were in Pulaski, Tennessee—the birthplace of the racially violent KKK—on Friday, Aug. 11, the precise evening of the intimidating torchlit parade in Charlottesville; and the next day, we were in Memphis, where Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot dead at the Lorraine Motel, only to hear the news of the whitewing terrorist attack and death of Charlottesville’s Heather Heyer.

For our Friday evening trip to Pulaski, we learned that it was another evening, Christmas Eve of 1865, when six Confederate veterans met there to form the Ku Klux Klan. In 1917, a bronze plaque was nailed to the building that read, “Ku Klux Klan organized in this, the law office of Judge Thomas M Jones, December 24, 1865.” KKK supporters in Pulaski wanted the plaque because they felt that the town had been overlooked in DW Griffith’s Birth of a Nation, a 1915 film that championed the Klan.

Things stayed that way until 1986. That’s when the KKK started returning to Pulaski every January to parade by the plaque as a way to spite the new Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday. As if it was a sacred relic, KKK members would walk up to the plaque and kiss it.

This angered a civil rights heroine, Marguerite Massey, who owned the building that held up the plaque. In August 1989, Marguerite unbolted the plaque, flipped it to face the wall, screwed the bolts back in, and then welded them in place. The words commemorating the Klan were hidden. All that can be seen is the plaque’s blank back side.

“This,” she said, “was better than simply throwing the plaque away.”

It showed that she and Pulaski had turned their backs on the KKK and the past.

President Trump would not agree with Marguerite’s gesture, but Mayor Mitch Landrieu of New Orleans would be the first to applaud her.

On the one hand, for example, President Trump and others see a statue of Robert E Lee in Charlottesville as a part of our country’s history, and therefore this Confederate statue

and others of its kind should stay put.

The KKK placard in Pulaski should not have been turned around. But we know that this placard was like a perverse Russian icon, to be kissed and cherished by the KKK. We should not, the president says, “change history.”

This brings me to a more sensible view of history as expressed by the calming balm of Mayor Landrieu of New Orleans. “The Confederacy was on the wrong side of history and humanity. It sought to tear apart our nation and subjugate our fellow Americans to slavery. This is the history we should never forget and one that we should never again put on a pedestal to be revered.”

Indeed, earlier on our trip, when dusk was settling in on New Orleans, Gemma, Augie, and I were on a trolley. Previously that day, we visited the William Frantz School and the facade that remains to remember and honor the heroics of 6-year-old Ruby Bridges, who was escorted up those school steps in November 1960 by federal agents through a gauntlet of screaming white mothers, known as the “Cheerleaders.” The conductor later that afternoon announced the next stop: “Lee Circle!” We looked toward the setting sun that glowed atop the column; the sun, not statue a of Robert E Lee, became the pinnacle of the pedestal.

Mayor Landrieu did not change the name of Lee Circle; he did not demolish the site. He kept the name and the column to confront history, but the column whose pedestal is now an homage to the sun and stars is literally a shining beacon of racial healing. Marguerite Massey performed a similarly remarkable gesture with the KKK placard in Pulaski, Tennessee.

After our haunting visit to Pulaski, we went to Memphis. That morning, before the distressing news out of Virginia, Augie, Gemma, and I headed for the Lorraine Motel— where Martin Luther King, Jr. drew his final breath before being shot on its balcony on April 4, 1968. Our hope was to revisit that sorrowful day, as we did at the home of Myrlie and Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi, where a bullet from a white KKK member was put into his heart in their driveway on June 12, 1963.

But as we walked up to the Lorraine Motel, we ran into Jacqueline Smith. For 29 years and 198 days!— through rain and snow, cold and heat,

night and day—this unrecognized African-American heroine has staged a one-woman protest against the new owners of the Lorraine Motel, the National Civil Rights Museum and, as she at least infers, its ostensible corporate board. She lived at the Lorraine Motel from the time she was a young girl until 1988, when the police forcibly removed her and her belongings to the street to construct the museum. The incident drew national attention. She has since then been camped out all these years in front of the museum with all of her measly worldly possessions, wishing all visitors to boycott a commercialization of the slain civil rights leader.

Jacqueline Smith believes strongly that this enterprise undermines the ideals of Martin Luther King, Jr. Like a mantra, she quotes Dr. King: “Spend the necessary money, to get rid of slums, to eradicate poverty.” As she says to people who pass by, “rather than standing in the museum’s shoe prints of the alleged assassin, James Earl Ray, do something good today for society.”

After showing us photographs of people who have listened to and supported her, including Cindy Lauper and Kevin Durant, Augie looked at his phone to tell us all the news. “A car driven by 20-year-old James Alex Fields, a misguided neo-Nazi sympathizer from Ohio rams through Charlottesville’s counter-protesters, killing Heather D Heyer and injuring countless others.”

Jacqueline chimed in: “Assassination, terrorism—my god, what kind of a country is this that feels like a broken record?”

Given the context of this news that arcs precisely from the founding of the KKK and the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. to this summer’s torch-lit Neo-Nazi parade and the murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, this was a weighty question that all citizens of this democratic nation urgently need to grapple with, especially given that we have a president who continues to stir the pot of racial animosity. Take the country back, really?

About the author: John J Ciofalo received his BA in history at Colorado University and PhD in art history and comparative literature from the University of Iowa in 1995. He then went on to teach at a variety of universities. Since 2012, he has taught high school history.

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Ariel Gore just returned home to Santa Fe from a tour promoting her new book, We Were Witches. The semi-autobiographical work is her first full-length novel, but she got into the publishing world by producing zines and says that’s still a great place for both her work and that of new writers. Just this week, she released a coloring book, The Art Life.

Gore tells SFR she saw commonality among the fiction entries she judged.

“I love that there is this cowboy-noir aesthetic in all of them, and the theme of displacement was really present in most of the stories. I wondered if that was part of the prompts, but it wasn’t; it was a natural theme that came up in a lot of the stories,” she says. “I thought it was interesting that people were playing with these very Santa Fe motifs, even if they were not set here. Maybe it has to do with the overall political climate, too—this kind of tension between dystopia and life.”

For Hampton Sides, who got his start as a published writer in the Memphis Flyer alt-weekly and now specializes in historical narrative books, reading personal essays was striking.

“They were very heartfelt,” he says of the three winners he chose, “and it felt like there was a quality of memoir to all three of them. They are first-person and very passionate and very personal. It’s a kind of writing that I myself have done very little of. I have been more comfortable as a reporter than sort of turning the camera on myself.”

Read more from Sides in 3 Questions on page 25.

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KIDS ‘N’ WORDS ‘N’ STUFF Whitney Houston famously believed that children are our future, and now you can too, thanks to the young fifth-grade scribes of El Camino Real Academy and their upcoming event, Storytellers and Writers: Imaginations On the Loose. Think of it like a tall tales club wherein young writers go nuts on any and all topics, from fantasy and love to politics, fables and beyond. Did we mention it’s in both English and Spanish? “The way these kids go from English to Spanish with the speed of lightning will knock your socks off,” organizer Carol Aubrey says. “The confidence in self-expression and joy in creating these kids’ show is heartwarming.” (ADV)

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OH, PUKE The hits just keep on coming at midtown DIY venue Ghost, this time in the form of a fearsome trio of weirdo bands from near and far. New-ish Santa Fe act Rusa continues their post-albumrelease domination in funky, jazzy, dreamy pop style. It’s in great contrast to California’s Poppet, an exciting melding of post-pop and electro compositions of classically trained musician Molly Raney—this is the stuff for people who wanted to like Lana del Rey but found it wanting in the more bohemian aspects. Albuquerque’s Glitter Vomit rounds things out nicely with lo-fi guitar-and-vocals shoegazey songs like an emoadjacent version of One Foot in the Grave-era Beck. Be there or be sad. (ADV) Rusa, Poppet and Glitter Vomit: 8 pm Friday Dec. 1. $5-$10. Ghost, 2899 Trades West Road

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EVENT SAT/2 MERRY YAKSMAS The town of Madrid has changed a lot since it was a General Electric company town in the ’20s, but the tradition of going all-out with Christmas lights remains. December’s weekends of open houses and holiday displays kicks off Saturday with the eclectic, festive, friendly, sometimes strange and always fun parade. Arrive early, visit galleries and shops for refreshments, line your chairs up along Highway 14. Afterward, head to the Old Coal Mine Museum at the Mine Shaft Tavern for a meet-and-greet and photos with Santa and his yak, Solo. You may ask, “Why does Santa have a yak?”—but don’t ask. This is Madrid. Let it marinate; let it slide. (Charlotte Jusinski) Madrid Christmas Parade: 4 pm Saturday Dec. 2. Free. Town of Madrid, Hwy. 14

International travel fuels Woven Talon’s creativity Musician Andrew Tumason has a bit of a wanderlust thing going on. Fresh back from New Zealand (his third trip in recent years), he tells SFR that “travel is a huge part of my life—I’m fortunate to make it a priority.” Tumason has also visited Australia and Iceland of late; he says these places, plus his homeland of New Mexico, find their way to becoming major inspirations for his music.

This has been apparent in his original music project, Evarusnik, which features no shortage of elements from the music of the world snuck into its songs. Now Woven Talon, an outfit that began as a solo project and expanded to a quartet, remains Tumason’s main focus. He’s hard at work on a four-album series as we speak, a collection of songs and stories inspired by his travels. He’s preparing them for recording alongside Woven Talon percussionist Jackson Mathey, who is also an audio engineer.

The first release is to be called Kahu, which he says is the Maori word for hawk. Tumason still plays solo, most notably during his travels—but, he says, “while it’s something I can do alone to keep the name alive, it ultimately sounds best and has the best delivery when there’s percussion.” He’s hesitant to identify one particular sound, but with elements of rock, older blues, Indian percussion and various bits and pieces picked up in his travels and collaborations, Woven Talon seems an obvious, if not worldly, evolution of the work TumaSFREPORTER.COM

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There is weirdness to be found, and a deliberate rawness of emotion. “When I’m out traveling, I’m constantly blown away by the people I meet and end up playing music with,” Tumason explains.

“You share stories about your cultures or what you dream your cultures could be, and people are brilliant; it’s easy to connect if you let yourself.”

Thus, new Woven Talon material and the band’s first appearance at Zephyr Community Art Studio. Tumason will have the backup band, including Mathey, percussionist Gregory Gutin and Berklee College of Music grad (and all-around bass champion) Jaco Foster. “Friends have mentioned when I share my music that they almost feel these landscapes and other places,” Tumason continues.

“I’ve learned firsthand what the world is rather than an illusion from media or TV.” This concept of learning comes up repeatedly during our conversation, which suggests he’s ready to consistently evolve his practices and output—something that all musicians should hold dear. For now, though, Woven Talon might just be the Santa Fe band to watch. (Alex De Vore) WOVEN TALON WITH BODIES AND REGULUS 8 pm Tuesday Dec. 5. $5-$10.

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Photographer Bill Todino’s New Mexico in Black and White at the Vista Grande Public Library opens Friday evening and features images through the lens of a New Englander transplanted to our desert home. His images are not without humor, too, so get ready to be amused as well as enchanted.

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DHARMA TALK BY ROSHI ENKYO O'HARA Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 This week's talk, "One and Many," is presented by Roshi Enkyo O'Hara, Abbot of The Village Zendo in downtown Manhattan.

5:30 pm, free ROBERTA PARRY: KILLING TIME Brookdale Santa Fe 640 Alta Vista St., 985-5534 Parry reads from and signs her novel, which takes place primarily in Northern Arizona and Hopiland. Its plot includes something for everyone: humor, drama, love, sex, mystery and murder (though we recommend staying away from those whose “something” is murder). Parry also shows an exhibit of her Southwestern watercolor landscapes.

5 pm, free

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Quiz results can win you drink tickets for next time.

8 pm, free

MUSIC BILL FORREST Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano pop and standards, and singin’ too.

6:30 pm, free CALVIN HAZEN El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Flamenco and classical Spanish guitar.

7 pm, free DJ OBI ZEN Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Are you done with your Christmas shopping? Have you not started? Either of those scenarios calls for a good chillout session.

10 pm, free

DJ SAGGALIFFIK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 House, electronica, hip-hop and reggaeton.

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

8 pm, free LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Party-time rock 'n' roll.

7:30 pm, free RAMON BERMUDEZ TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Latin and smooth jazz guitar.

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

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STORYTELLERS & WRITERS: IMAGINATIONS ON THE LOOSE! Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A bilingual performance of original stories created and performed by fifth-graders from El Camino Real Academy.

Admission is free, but call ahead to reserve your spot (see SFR Picks, page 19).

7 pm, free

SHAKTISM: STORIES AND IMAGES FROM THE LIVING GODDESS TRADITIONS OF INDIA Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Goddess worship (Shaktism) is a living tradition with tens of millions of followers. Josh Schrei, yoga teacher and student of the cosmologies of India, presents stories and images of places where wildhaired tribal deities still reign.

Examine colorful goddess imagery, recount stories of rare goddesses, and explore the influence that the goddess has had on all of Indian spiritual tradition.

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THU/30 ART OPENINGS LISA BEMIS: LANDSCAPE WATERCOLORS Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Bemis exhibits her watercolor paintings in a special fundraising event for the library.

It's only up through Dec. 3, so check it out soon.

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EVENTS CARLOS MEDINA Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Comedy is on the up-and-up in Santa Fe, and the Cocteau's monthly stand-up night features local comic Medina.

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MUSIC BILL FORREST Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards.

6:30 pm, free BROTHER E CLAYTON El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 9836756 Soul and blues.

7 pm, free COUCHES, TREEMOTEL AND EDWARD ALMOST Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Fuzzy indie rock from Couches; traditional rock 'n' roll from Treemotel; all kinds of indie sounds from Almost.

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

8 pm, free FELIX Y LOS GATOS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Americana, blues, cumbia, jazz, ranchera, swing, TexMex and zydeco.

9 pm, free FREAKS OF THE INDUSTRY Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 DJ Poetics spins hip-hop, oldschool, funk 'n' disco.

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10 pm, free LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Party-time rock 'n' roll.

7:30 pm, free MARC SANDERS Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6 pm, free MIAMI NIGHT Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Pan-Latin dance jams.

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

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THEATER STORYTELLERS & WRITERS: IMAGINATIONS ON THE LOOSE! Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A bilingual performance of original stories from fifth graders from El Camino Real Academy. Admission is free, but call to reserve your spot (see SFR Picks, page 19).

7 pm, free THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS SHOW Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 It's the Annual Holiday Variety Show and Christmas Pageant at St. Everybody’s Non-Denominational Universalist Church, and only three folks showed up.

Featuring Dylan Norman, Mariah Olesen and Koppany Pusztai playing pretty much every character in the history of characters.

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FRI/1 ART OPENINGS BILL TODINO: NEW MEXICO IN BLACK AND WHITE Vista Grande Public Library 14 Avenida Torreon, 466-7323 Todino, a transplanted New Englander, loves this state's grand vistas, colors and cultures—and also enjoys finding humor in poignant places.

Through Dec. 30.

5 pm, free J MADISON RINK: BEYOND BOUNDARIES Night Sky Gallery 826 Canyon Road, 982-8111 Nine seniors at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design developed this show in the Fundamentals of Marketing class, for which they had to secure sponsorship (form & concept stepped up) and secure a space. Rink, of Taos, presents a series of 23 photographs that capture natural features that have endured for thousands of years in the high desert. Through Dec. 31.

5:30 pm, free THE NUDE: A SURVEY IN PRINTS Argos Studio & Santa Fe Etching Club 1211 Luisa St., 988-1814 More than 150 historical prints (we’re talking works from five centuries) of nude human figures. Hubba hubba!

(Just kidding. Art is serious and should never be joked about.) Curated from the collection of Robert Bell.

5:30 pm, free ROBERT DAVIS: SPIRITOGRAPHY Studio Mudra Santa Fe Arcade, 60 E San Francisco St., Ste. 132, 646-596-3712 Davis' photographic work represents more than 30 years of spiritual observation and the role light plays in our multidimensional lives.

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Reclaimed wood becomes fine jewelry in the hands of Aviva Baumann, whose work is exhibited along with the photography of Chelsea Call at Art.i.factory, opening Friday.

Museum of International Folk Art exhibition highlights the work of resilient Peruvian artists

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eruvian artists who combine creative practice with social justice to demonstrate how art can preserve a culture’s identity in the face of adversity, while also proposing contemporary changes. These resilient artists have, amidst tumultuous challenge, created works that act as records of cultural evolution and link the known past to an unknown future.

Such works are celebrated in Crafting Memory: The Art of Community in Peru at the Museum of International Folk Art. The exhibit shows how 17 Peruvian folk artists use historic traditions, such as weaving, retablo-making and silversmithing, to craft a modern vision through political, economic and environmental lenses.

“When we look at folk arts from Peru, we may imagine them springing from traditional life—small communities insulated from a frantic world, where change occurs very slowly and the daily pace is set by agricultural cycles,” Amy Groleau, the museum’s curator of Latin American folk art and the curator of Crafting Memory, writes in a press release. “While this is sometimes the case, it is becoming increasingly rare. In fact, much of today’s Peruvian folk art is emerging from its urban centers.”

Contemporary work in the exhibit is displayed alongside historic pieces already in the museum’s collection to illustrate the connection and transformation of each across time. Practicing artists include Ruta Mare and Amapolay, two collectives that use screen-printing to make posters, T-shirts and stickers emphasizing solidarity among the internal migrant populations of Lima.

Designer and contemporary artist Qarla Quispe is also featured and scheduled to appear at the exhibition opening to share the woodblock-printed fabric designs she uses to create traditional polleras (Andean gathered skirts).

Many works further address intense waves of change that Peru has experienced over the last 40 years. In 1969, the government seized farmland and began issuing agrarian reform bonds to poorer citizens in efforts to redistribute land to small-scale farmers, but this act prefaced an economic collapse in the late 1970s that lasted through the ’80s. The country saw hyperinflation as well as two currency replacements, which essentially made the bonds of 1969 worthless. This was followed by a particularly violent 20-year span that claimed 70,000 lives during conflicts between government military forces and Maoist revolutionary organization Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path); the government then completely stopped honoring the bonds in 1992. Crafting Memory demonstrates how the local artists helped rebuild a sense of unity through continued hardship.

“I don’t want people to see the show and think Peru has so many problems,” Groleau tells SFR. “I want people to see

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The polleras of Qarla Quispe bridge the divide between traditional clothing and contemporary screen printing—and she has just about the coolest name we’ve ever heard.

how artists have really creative ways of building community strength through roots work and cultural foundations.”

Many of the featured artists share their stories through their art and leadership of social justice movements. For example, Ruta Mare and Amapolay host workshops and street fairs to promote the mix of rural heritage and urban life while fostering a sense of pride among young immigrants in Lima; Quispe operates Warmichic, a business that aims to honor the rural Indigenous heritage of young women living in Lima.

“Crafting Memory shows that artwork doesn’t just reflect community,” Groleau further tells SFR. “Artwork helps create community. Part of this happens in asserting your right to remember and share the collective history; to create a ‘we’ instead of an ‘I.’” The opening reception includes dance and music workshops, food provided by

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the Women’s Board of the Museum of New Mexico, and tunes from Baracutanga, an Albuquerque-based seven-piece band with members from Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and the US who put a contemporary spin on traditional South American music (and, just a heads-up: Their music will probably make you dance). The experience continues with a printmaking workshop led by Quispe at the Española Valley Fiber Arts Center (which we just talked about in our Nov. 15 issue—A&C: “Fiber Fever”) on Tuesday Dec. 5; learn more at evfac.org.

CRAFTING MEMORY: THE ART OF COMMUNITY IN PERU 1-4 pm Sunday Dec. 3. $6-$12; free for New Mexico residents. Museum of International Folk Art, 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200

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me because I wouldn’t make a decision within a week. It’s tearing us apart.

-Opposing Opinions On Pregnancy Situation

I’m a straight man in a live-in relationship with a beautiful woman. There are no sparks in bed, and it’s been more than a year since we’ve had sex. She says, “I’m sorry, but I’m just not interested.” Sometimes she asks me if I’m disappointed, and I say something like “I miss sex.” And she says: “Maybe someday. But the important thing is we love each other, right?”

Before my last birthday, she asked me what I wanted as a gift. I replied, “A soapy handjob.”

That would’ve been the most action I’d had all year. But when my birthday rolled around, all I got was a speech about how she loved me but was not in love with me. My question: In the year 2017, how does a straight man make it clear to the woman he’s with that sex is important to him without coming across as threatening? If I told her I’d leave her unless our sex life improved— and I have certainly thought about this—she’d probably “put out” to save our relationship. She has abandonment issues, and I fear she would be devastated if I left her. I only want to have sex with someone who wants to have sex with me, not someone I’ve coerced. What do I do? I love her, but a sexless relationship isn’t what I want or signed up for.

-Sexless Over A Perplexing Year There’s being sensitive to coming across as threatening and wanting to avoid even unintentional coercion and being cognizant of the ways women are socialized to defer to men and the ways men are socialized to feel entitled to women’s bodies, SOAPY, and then there’s being a fucking doormat. She isn’t in love with you—she told you so herself—and she’s never gonna fuck you or soap you up to get you off. If you don’t want her putting out to keep you—if you don’t want her to fuck you under duress—then don’t give her the option. That means ending the relationship, SOAPY, not entering into negotiations about the terms for remaining in the relationship. (“1. Tell me you’re in love with me, even if it’s a lie. 2. A sad, soapy handjob once a year on my birthday…”)

There’s nothing unreasonable about wanting a romantic relationship that’s both loving and fully sexual, SOAPY, and a man can put his wants on the table without pounding said table with his dick. Your girlfriend’s issue may be a mystery—maybe it’s her (she’s incapable of being in a loving and fully sexual relationship), maybe it’s you (you never turned her on or you did something that murdered her libido)—but you’re not obligated to stay in an unsatisfactory relationship indefinitely because your girlfriend will be devastated if you leave.

Also, devastation is a two-way street. If you dump her, SOAPY, her devastation will be immediate, like the impact of an earthquake or a hurricane. But if you stay, you’ll be the one devastated—but your devastation will be gradual, taking years, like the erosion of coastline or the destruction of our democracy. The destruction of your self-esteem and sense of sexual selfworth could take a decade or more, SOAPY, but it is already under way. She’s a lot likelier to get over the devastation she’ll feel if you leave— being dumped is a common experience that most people bounce back from—than you are to get over the devastation you’ll experience if you stay.

Your gonads/self-respect/preservation instinct are in that apartment somewhere. Get ’em and go.

A man impregnated me about a month into our relationship. He is adamantly against having the kid, as it’s too soon. I really don’t want to have an abortion—I have religious and moral beliefs against it. He states that since one parent doesn’t want the kid, I am wrong for even considering keeping it. Am I wrong? We’re both around 30, and this is my first pregnancy. Do I have the right to continue with the pregnancy? I feel like we’d be great parents. He’s already left

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I’m going to sidestep the whole no-abortionsfor-religious-and-moral-reasons-but-premarital-sex-is-not-a-problem issue. This pregnancy isn’t tearing you apart, OOOPS, it tore you apart.

He already ended things—he left you—which was a shitty thing to do, perhaps, but within his rights. It is absolutely within your rights to continue with the pregnancy—it’s your body, it’s your decision. And while he will be on the hook for this kid financially if you decide to have it, no one can force him to do the work/experience the joy/clean up the vomit that comes with actually fathering this child. I’m sorry you’re in this position, and here’s hoping you have the love and support you need to raise a kid if you decide to keep the baby, and here’s hoping he comes around.

I am a straight woman who just started fucking a hot, younger male coworker. The sexual tension between us was out of control until we stayed late one night and screwed on my desk. Since that night, we’ve hooked up a few more times.

We grope each other in the office daily, as the “fear” of getting caught is a real turn-on for me.

The problem—there always is one—is that he has a live-in girlfriend. He told me they are in an open relationship, so being with me isn’t cheating. As per their arrangement, he won’t tell her about me, but if she finds out, he won’t lie. How do I know if he’s telling me the truth or if he’s saying these things so I’ll keep sleeping with him? She comes to work events with him, and I feel guilty because she is sweet and obviously adores him. Also, being coworkers adds another layer of issues. I am a well-liked employee who people consider very professional. He is new to the company and is a bit of a scatterbrain. The sex is amazing in part because he’s too immature for me to consider romantically. I’d love to keep seeing him for sex, but I don’t want to help him hurt someone else. Can I fuck him guilt free?

-Not A Heartbreak Helper P.S. I’ve already caught him in some minor lies.

For instance, he said one of the rules of the open relationship is no sex in their apartment. Guess where we last fucked?

If the genders were reversed here—if you were an older, more powerful man fucking a “hot, younger” female coworker—I’d have to find you and set you on fire or something. Because even before we get to the is-he-or-isn’t-he (in an open relationship) issue, the power imbalance makes this not okay. Or it does to some/many/ most. But I’m going to let those who object to coworkers fucking—unless both are partners in the firm with equal tenure, power, and salaries— debate that issue in the comments thread while I address the issue you asked me to address: Can you know for sure whether he’s practicing ENM, aka “ethical non-monogamy.”

Short answer: No, nope, you can’t—and the signs don’t look good. I was making notes as I read your letter, NAHH, and wrote, “Has he lied to you about anything?” before I got to your postscript. While some couples have DADT agreements—outside sex is allowed, but they “don’t ask, don’t tell”—the DADT thing makes it hard for their thirds (or fourths or fifths) to verify that the relationship is actually open and they aren’t a party to cheating. So you have to trust the person you’re fucking—and if they’ve given you reason not to trust them (like lying about other stuff) and/or demonstrated that they aren’t honoring the other rules of their supposedly open relationship (like fucking in the apartment they share), well, then they’ve demonstrated their fundamental untrustworthiness. Basically, NAHH, if he’s lying to her, he’s probably lying to you, too.

So you can fuck him—but not without guilt.

On the Lovecast, Dan chats with Google powerhouse Blaise Agüera y Arcas: savagelovecast.com mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter ITMFA.org

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TWIG & CALL: BEAUTIFUL OBJECTS FOR THE MODERN AGE The ART.i.factory 930 Baca St., Ste. C, 9825000 Aviva Baumann of Twig (reclaimed wooden jewelry) and black-and-white photographer Chelsea Call team up for a two-woman show.

Through Jan. 27.

5 pm, free YELLOWMAN AND BEN NELSON: ARTIST RECEPTION True West Gallery 130 Lincoln Ave, 982-0055 Meet renowned Navajo artists Yellowman and Ben Nelson at a reception for vibrant new paintings.

11 am-7 pm, free

HOLIDAY PARTY Vida Loca Gallery Plaza Arcade, 60 E San Francisco St., Ste. 130, 988-7410 Giftable art like neon zia necklaces, lowrider art and muertos, plus an Avon rep slangin' her wares.

6 pm, free PEYOTE BIRD DESIGNS HOLIDAY BAZAAR Peyote Bird Designs 675 Harkle Road, 986-4900 Handcrafted silver and turquoise jewelry, accessories, a children’s section, crafting supplies, live music, jeweler demonstrations, hot chocolate and biscochitos.

10 am-5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

500 YEARS Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 This documentary explores social and political unrest in Guatemala. Director Pamela Yates attends tonight.

7 pm, $8-$10 FILM NOEL: PERRY COMO’S CHRISTMAS IN NEW MEXICO La Tienda Performance Space 7 Caliente Road, Eldorado, 466-1634 Eldorado's Christmas film fest goes down this weekend, starting with the 1979 television special that stars the towns of Santa Fe and Lamy. The experts advise you bring something soft to sit on.

5:30 pm, free FILM NOEL: SCROOGE La Tienda Performance Space 7 Caliente Road, Eldorado, 466-1634 The fun continues with the 1970 musical that was nominated for four Oscars. Grab some food from La Plancha restaurant next door and settle in.

7 pm, $5

DEAN'S LECTURE SERIES: THE POETIC ART OF THE POSSIBLE: SHAKESPEARE’S THE TEMPEST St. John's College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, 984-6000 Can Prospero’s liberal arts right the wrongs done to himself and his daughter, secure her happiness and establish good government?

SJC tutor Janet Dougherty presents the lecture in the Great Hall, Peterson Student Center.

7:30 pm, free EDUCATE YOUR EAR: THE PATHÉTIQUE James A Little Theatre 1060 Cerrillos Road, 4766429 Explore Tchaikovsky's last symphony. Oliver Prezant gives commentary, and musical examples by the Santa Fe Community Orchestra illuminate his discussion; it all is followed by a performance of its heart-wrenching fourth movement.

7 pm, free

DANCE FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 A performance by the National Institute of Flamenco.

6:30 pm, $25

EVENTS BACA STREET ARTS TOUR Baca Street More than 20 artists open up studios and shops for a weekend of fun. Find a map at Liquid Light Glass (926 Baca St., Ste. 3, 820-2222).

5-9 pm, free HOLIDAY GIFT FAIR Santa Fe Woman's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail, 983-9455 A bazaar for all your holiday gifting needs. That also includes your treat yo'self needs.

10 am-5 pm, free

FILM

MUSIC THE ALPHA CATS Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Swingin’ jazz.

6 pm, free BILL FORREST Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano pop.

6:30 pm, free BROOMDUST QUARTET Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 Cosmic country.

7 pm, free CHILDREN'S MARIACHI MATINEE Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 At the kid-friendly accompaniment to this evening's Mariachi Christmas, youth mariachi with folklorico dancers kick off the holiday season.

2 pm, $10

DANIELE SPADAVECCHIA Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Acoustic jazz, swing, Latin and Italian classics.

7 pm, free DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Santa Fe's consummate cabaret performer plays piano standards and Broadway tunes.

6 pm, $2 ENTERING A SEASON OF PEACE First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Linda Larkin and Julie Hawley play Celtic harps with a reading from poet Miriam Sagan. An Advent medley flows along with the poem "Frenchy's Field."

5:30 pm, free ESCAPE ON A HORSE Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Alt.country, soul and rock.

10 pm, $5 EVET San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-3974 Turkish, Greek, and Bulgarian instrumental and vocal music on both ancient and modern instruments.

7:30 pm, $10-$20 GIRAFFAGE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Electronic pop from San Francisco-based producer and beat guru Charlie Yin. 9 pm, $18-$20 JESUS BAS La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Amorous and romantic Spanish and flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free KMRD FUNDRAISER Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Madrid Community Radio hosts a fundraising bash with live sets by KMRD DJs and handmade radio merch crafted by elves themselves.

KMRD is commercial-free, all-volunteer freeform radio, broadcasting at 96.9 FM and streaming at kmrd.fm.

7 pm, free MARIACHI CHRISTMAS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Holiday jams, mariachi-style.

This one tends to sell out, so get your tickets early.

7 pm, $20-$40 THE PALM IN THE CYPRESS Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Travel the Mississippi watershed of music with unique instrumentation with soulful, smart lyrics. They recorded at Frogville in 2016, so they have mad Santa Fe love.

6 pm, free

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POPPET, RUSA AND GLITTER VOMIT Ghost 2899 Trades West Road Poppet (Californian musician Molly Raney) uses her classical training to craft orchestrated electro-pop. Joined by progressive neo-soulsters Rusa (Santa Fe) and Glitter Vomit (Albuquerque). See SFR Picks, page 19.

8 pm, $5-$10 RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar.

7 pm, free RUSSELL JAMES PYLE Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Singer-songwriter jams on the deck.

5 pm, free SAVOR La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Cuban street music.

8 pm, free SEAN HEALEN BAND El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Folk 'n' rock 'n' country.

9 pm, $5 ST. RANGE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Outlaw desert rock.

8:30 pm, free THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Jazzy piano musical stylings.

7:30 pm, free

THEATER FAITH HEALER Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Four monologues make up this play presented by Taos’ Odenbear Theatre Company (see Acting Out, page 27).

7:30 pm, $20 THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS SHOW Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 It's the Annual Holiday Variety Show and Christmas Pageant at St. Everybody’s Non-Denominational Universalist Church, and only three folks showed up. Dylan Norman, Mariah Olesen and Koppany Pusztai play pretty much every character in the history of characters.

7 pm, $15-$25

WORKSHOP MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID TRAINING Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 Participants learn about the potential risk factors and warning signs for a range of mental health problems.

Learn how to help an individual in crisis or connect them with professional care.

8 am-5 pm, free

THE CALENDAR with Hampton Sides

SERGIO SALVADOR

Hampton Sides has a famous name. The man who’s published books on the likes of Kit Carson and James Earl Ray is one of the Santa Fe celebrities the city’s denizens are proud to wave to at a gallery opening, who makes us proud when on the book jacket we read that he lives here.

And he really does. Sides had just wrapped up a breakfast at Harry’s Roadhouse when SFR caught up with him for a few questions. He’s working now on a book about a major battle in the Korean War and that’s due out in the fall, tentatively titled The Reservoir. We’re elated that he agreed to serve this year as a judge for the nonfiction entries in the annual SFR Writing Contest (see cover, page 10). You can hear a little from him as he offers and introduction next at 6:30 pm next Wednesday Dec. 6 at Meow Wolf (1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369) for our Out Loud event, celebrating the contest winners. (Julie Ann Grimm) You’ve had so much success getting published. Do you have any advice for new writers who want to do the same?

The whole paying field has changed since when I was coming up. There was no internet. I know that feels impossible to believe. There are so many more ways to get published now. It’s easier than ever to get published, but it’s harder to get paid. And that’s because the internet and self-publishing and the whole phenomenon of blogs and the whole phenomena of social media have made it endlessly possible—it’s just, getting paid for it is the trick. ... Yet we have more people interested in writing than ever before. It’s like they did not get the memo that it is a hard way to make a living. You know, there will always be a need for storytellers. That honestly has been the trick for most of human history. You don’t go into this profession strictly for the money.

Is getting the work in front of readers the more important mark of success?

It is really sad when a great book is published and few people read it, but it’s not the only reason you write.

You write a book because something needs to be said. ... So, it’s not the only consideration, how many readers read it. But with the kind of work I do, popular history, I really want people to read my stories and keep turning pages and feel like they were having a pleasurable experience.

You went to really cold places when you were researching The Kingdom of Ice, about an early polar expedition. Do you typically travel as you write?

I think that is the fun part of doing this kind of history writing; it’s physically going to the place you are writing about. It gives you so much more confidence when you’re writing those passages. Even if it’s not a direct influence, you know what it feels like. ... I like hanging out in archives. That is fun as well, but there is nothing that beats breathing the same air and walking on the same ground as the characters you are writing about.

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SAT/2 ART OPENINGS THE LUTED CRUCIBLE Axle Contemporary 670-5854 For the Baca Street Arts Tour, New Mexico School for the Arts students present an exhibition of small bronzes.

The mobile gallery is on—you guessed it—Baca Street.

(Also check out teacher Piers Watson’s talk at the CCA this afternoon at 1 pm to hear about the history of bronze casting.)

5 pm, free YELLOWMAN AND BEN NELSON: ARTIST DEMONSTRATION True West Gallery 130 Lincoln Ave., 982-0055 Meet renowned Navajo artists Yellowman and Ben Nelson, both self-taught painters who create vibrant acrylic and watercolor works.

11 am-5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

G E N E P E AC H

H A M P TO N S I D E S

P R I S C I L L A ST U C K E Y

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DEVON PEÑA: MEXICANORIGIN FOODS, FOODWAYS, AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS op.cit Books DeVargas Center, 157 Paseo de Peralta, 428-0321 A collection of essays on how food and foodways served as an element of decolonization in Mexican communities.

2 pm, free PIERS WATSON: ARTIST TALK Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Watson, who studied with bronze casters in India, discusses the process and history of the medium. Presented

by Axle Contemporary, which exhibits student bronze works made under Watson's tutelage this evening as part of the Baca Street Arts Tour.

1 pm, free

DANCE EMBODYDANCE ECSTATIC DANCE Railyard Performance Center 1611 Paseo de Peralta, 982-8309 Celebrate the full moon with ecstatic dance (it is just like what it sounds like—move around and feel good).

7 pm, $15 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 A performance by the National Institute of Flamenco.

6:30 pm, $25 NOCHE DE FLAMENCO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 La Emi, Elena Osuna and the Flamenco Youth de Santa Fe dance up a storm, accompanied by Joaquin Gallegos on guitar and singer Olivia Rojas.

Make a reservation to be sure you get a spot!

7 pm, $15

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EVENTS ARTS & CRAFTS FAIR Pojoaque Valley Middle School 1572 Hwy. 502, Pojoaque, 490-3167 'Tis the season. The fair is a fundraiser for the Pojoaque Valley High School Concert Band, and you can find it in the Frank B Lopez Auditorium.

Word on the street is that Santa will be present.

10 am-3 pm, free BACA STREET ARTS TOUR Baca Street More than 20 artists open up their studios and shops all weekend. Find a map at Liquid Light Glass (926 Baca St., Ste. 3, 820-2222).

10 am-4 pm, free CHESS TOURNAMENT Sabor Peruano DeVargas Center, 163 Paseo de Peralta, 221-0401 The tourney ($10 entry fee) open to all levels of experience, but there will indeed be a prize awarded to the winner, so bring your A-game.

9:30 am, $10 HOLIDAY FAIRE Santa Fe Waldorf School 26 Puesta del Sol, 983-9727 An artisans market, book sale, candle dipping, games and more. Folk music and food make it a proper outing.

Activity tickets are available for purchase, but admission and parking are free.

10 am-3 pm, free HOLIDAY GIFT FAIR Santa Fe Woman's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail, 983-9455 A bazaar for all your holiday gifting needs.

10 am-5 pm, free HOLIDAY MAKERS WORKSHOP form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111 Engage with the artists and makers who exhibit at the gallery at a special holiday party.

Noon-3 pm, free MADRID CHRISTMAS PARADE Town of Madrid, Hwy. 14 Get there early, find some parking, sip a hot bevvie and enjoy an eclectic, enthusiastic, energetic Madrid-style Christmas kick-off (see SFR Picks, page 19).

4 pm, free OPEN HOUSE & HOLIDAY GIFT SALE Bullseye Glass 805 Early St., 467-8951 Enjoy refreshments, make your own glass ornament, pick up glass gifts by local artists and schedule a beginner class at a discount.

10 am-5 pm, free PEYOTE BIRD DESIGNS HOLIDAY BAZAAR Peyote Bird Designs 675 Harkle Road, 986-4900 Handcrafted silver and turquoise jewelry, accessories, a children’s section and jewelry crafting supplies, plus live music, jeweler demonstrations, hot chocolate and biscochitos.

10 am-5 pm, free

SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET Santa Fe Railyard Market Street, north of the water tower, 310-8766 Haven’t had enough arts markets yet this weekend?

A large group of juried local artists sell their wares.

8 am-1 pm, free

FILM FILM NOEL: CHRISTMAS FILM FEST La Tienda Performance Space 7 Caliente Road, Eldorado, 466-1634 Eldorado's Christmas film fest continues. Randy Travis: Christmas on the Pecos is free at 10 am, but others—Holiday Affair (11:30 am), Miracle in the Wilderness (1:45 pm), Joyeux Noel (4 pm) and How About You? (7 pm)—are $5.

The schedule is tentative, so call ahead if you must.

10 am-8:30 pm, $5

MUSIC CHRISTMAS PARADE WITH JOE WEST Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Watch the quirky and impressively intricate Madrid Christmas parade from a perfect vantage point and enjoy the Americana of Joe West on the deck.

3 pm, free DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Piano standards and Broadway tunes.

6 pm, $2 DOUG MONTGOMERY AND BILL FORREST Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards from two fine fellows: Doug starts, Bill takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free FREDDY LOPEZ El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Blues 'n' rock.

9 pm, $5 GAMELAN ENCANTADA: IN HONOR OF LOU form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111 Lou Harrison passed away in 2003 at age 85, but his influence as a composer, instrument builder, environmentalist, pacifist and gay rights activist is as resonant as ever. Albuquerque percussion ensemble Gamelan Encantada and LGBTQ advocacy nonprofit Equality NM present a concert of Harrison’s works, along with a screening of the biographical film Lou Harrison: Cherish, Conserve, Consider, Create.

4 pm, $15-$25 KITTY JO CREEK Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Bluegrass.

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ACTING OUT Never the Twain Shall Meet

BY C H A R LOT T E J U S I N S K I c o p y e d i t o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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he ways in which in our inner stories will never be anyone’s but our own; the ways in which events are elevated to myth; the ways in which three people living in a van together for years, traveling the cold damp of Scotland and Wales, can spend every day virtually inside each others’ bodies but can come out of it somehow not knowing each other at all, somehow utterly alone. And of course: The ways in which we seek, and sometimes even find, redemption.

Such are the themes of Faith Healer, a dark drama by playwright Brian Friel and presented by Taos’ Odenbear Theatre Company, directed by Bruce Katlin.

It latches inside you and is slow to let go.

After a run in Taos, the small production (a cast of three) made a regional tour; SFR was able to catch it in Dixon on Nov. 11. It finishes this weekend at Teatro Paraguas.

The play, which runs a bit less than two hours, is made up of four monologues. It opens with Francis (Frank) Hardy, an Irish faith healer traveling the countryside of Scotland and Wales sometime in the amorphous 20th century. From first entrance, actor Jeff Spicer strikes a commanding image. He is dashing but severe—when he smiles, dimples make him irresistible; when he doesn’t, his cheeks become sunken, his face drawn and grave.

The story he tells is harsh: Frank, his wife Grace and manager Teddy have spent years driving around, stopping at churches and pubs, putting on one-night-only

shows where the ill or infirm take their chances at being healed by Frank’s touch.

It’s unclear whether Frank even believes he has any particular power, but he must keep up the act—which even he refers to as a “charade” or “performance.”

He paints himself as introspective and analytical of his own character. He speaks fondly of Grace and Teddy. He seems dreadfully unhappy, but is mercifully charismatic. Frank seems a benevolent showman who quietly knows he’s full of crap.

But then, every once in awhile, his act works. Someone is healed. A blind person can suddenly see; a twisted leg is somehow straightened. Frank, however, seems even more tortured by those he heals than those he doesn’t; as if to say, And now they expect me to do it again.

After we meet Frank, his wife Grace takes the stage. Played by Irene Loy, Grace is an old woman in a young body. Her face is exhausted, her clothes are dowdy; she keeps a bottle of Jameson on the side table at all times.

Any warm feelings we had about Frank are short-lived. Grace begins to recount her time with him, and clearly, the experience of being married to Frank was traumatic. Their bad years together were peppered with even worse instances of violence and tragedy.

But it isn’t overbearing, somehow; Loy’s portrayal of Grace is authentic and natural, and we’re entranced by her soft brogue. That isn’t to say, of course, that her tale isn’t disturbing. It is. But it feels digestible in Loy’s calm, understated delivery.

Our stomachs drop, however, when Grace starts to directly contradict Frank’s stories. Her version of specific events are so opposed to his that we felt frustrated—with ourselves, for having fallen for

Frank’s act. We even knew it was an act.

But we bought it anyway. We felt healed and understood. We were conned.

At intermission, we’re left haunted by the place name (Kinlochbervie, in Sutherland, in the north of Scotland, two miles south of the village, in a field on the left hand side of the road as you go north) that became like an incantation to Grace and Frank as their parallel stories reach their climax.

The second half of the play initially lets up on the intensity as Frank’s bawdy manager Teddy says his piece. Played by an amiable and comedic Jim Hatch (also artistic director and founder of Odenbear), he directly contradicts Grace’s version of events in his very first sentence. But we take that in stride by now. His cockney accent is cartoonish (he calls us “dear ’art;” counts one, two and “numba free”), a stark contrast to Grace and Frank’s soft Irish lilts. From his mouth we take the differing stories not as sinister manipulations, but rather an example of small-town syndrome, where not every story is the same but none is necessarily untrue.

“Friends is friends and work is work, and, as the poet says, never the twain shall meet,” Teddy says with eyebrows raised.

“Okay? Okay.”

Teddy refers to Frank and Grace as his colleagues, and perhaps in a sense they are—but it becomes clear that they were far more than that to Teddy, who loves each of them equally, despite their endless flaws. The monologue that starts off jaunty slips slowly to pensive recollection, because of course it does; this is not a happy story. This is a tragedy, at its core.

But it’s beautiful.

After Teddy speaks (and breaks our ’arts), Frank returns to the stage.

Perhaps everyone was waiting to see what the man of the hour would have to say for himself.

He tricked us into liking him, then had his dishonesty exposed … Now what?

Somehow, our anger dissolves. It melds with understanding. It confuses with frustration—not at Frank, or Grace, or Teddy, but at the cruel circumstances around them. When Frank finally finds some kind of closure, it’s unclear whether it’s absolution, a relief, a surrender or simply a void.

But isn’t that true of everything, in the end?

FAITH HEALER 7:30 pm Friday and Saturday Dec. 1 and 2. $20. Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601

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THE CALENDAR MARK'S MIDNIGHT CARNIVAL SHOW Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Indie rock, jaunty original tunes and more Wilco covers than you even know what to do with.

8:30 pm, free PAT MALONE Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Live solo jazz guitar.

7 pm, free RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar.

7 pm, free SAVOR La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Cuban street music.

8 pm, free STANLIE KEE AND STEP IN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Bluesy rock.

1 pm, free STILETTO SATURDAYS Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 It's a dance party with DJ 12 Tribe.

9 pm, free THE BLUES REVUE Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Review some blues.

6 pm, free THE SWEET LILLIES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 High-energy tunes with a three-part female harmony.

8 pm, free THE TYLOR BRANDON BAND Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Traditional country that bridges the divide between new-fangled and old-fashioned. Two-step to your heart’s content.

10 pm, $7

THEATER FAITH HEALER Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Four monologues from three actors make up this play written by Brian Friel (see Acting Out, page 27).

7:30 pm, $20 THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS SHOW Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 It's the Annual Holiday Variety Show and Christmas Pageant at St. Everybody’s Non-Denominational Universalist Church, and only three folks showed up—so it's on them to perform every holiday story they can think of.

7 pm, $15-$25

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SUN/3 ART OPENINGS CRAFTING MEMORY: THE ART COMMUNITY IN PERU Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Explore the intersections of history, art and society in Peru. The museum is free for New Mexico residents on Sundays (see AC, page 23).

1-4 pm, $6-$12

BOOKS/LECTURES CATHERINE FERGUSON AND JAMES McGRATH Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 An afternoon of poetry comes at love from two different angles. Ferguson reads from I Thought You Would Be Shelter, which struggles between a longing for connection and a need for independence, and McGrath’s sixth book, A Festival of Birds, features love poems from 12 years in Japan.

2 pm, free EP ROSE: POET UNDER A SOLDIER'S HAT Garcia Street Books 376 Garcia St., 986-0151 A new biography explores a century of colonial rule in British India. A discussion follows the reading.

4 pm, free JOURNEYSANTAFE: GARRETT VENEKLASEN Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 The Democratic candidate for land commissioner talks about the direction he envisions for the office.

11 am, free

EVENTS ALTERNATIVE CHRISTMAS MARKET First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Handmade gifts both local and international, all to benefit nonprofits.

9 am-1 pm, free BACA STREET ARTS TOUR Baca Street More than 20 artists open up their studios and shops. Info: Liquid Light Glass (926 Baca St., Ste. 3, 820-2222).

11 am-4 pm, free FULL MOON WATER WHEEL CEREMONY Frenchy's Field Osage Avenue and Agua Fría Street Pray for peace, moisture and bless the waters at the water wheel near the footbridge.

3:33 pm, free FUSATSU Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 Join a traditional Buddhist ceremony of atonement, purification and renewing of the precepts. Please arrive by 5:20 pm as not to disturb the opening silent meditation.

5:30 pm, free

HOLIDAY FLEA Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian 704 Camino Lejo, 982-4636 Check out an assortment of Native American art for sale at a variety of price points, including pottery, dolls, baskets, jewelry, textiles, beadwork, sculptures, folk art and 2-D work, plus a wide selection of books on Native American culture and other subjects.

1-3 pm, free HOLIDAY GIFT FAIR Santa Fe Woman's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail, 983-9455 A bazaar for all your holiday gifting needs.

10 am-5 pm, free LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: STAN HORDES Temple Beth Shalom 205 E Barcelona Road, 982-1376 The Santa Fe Jewish Book Council honors former New Mexico State Historian Stanley M Hordes with its Lifetime Achievement Award for his scholarship on crypto-Jews in New Mexico. David Graizbord of the University of Arizona is the keynote speaker.

2:30 pm, free

FILM SONG OF SONGS Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 In a Jewish shtetl in the early 20th century, Shimek and Buzya grow up together as friends; but when, as adults, Shimek receives the news that Buzya is about to be married, he realizes what she means to him. Presented by the Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival.

11 am, $8-$10

MUSIC DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Gotta get that smooth, smooth piano.

6:30 pm, free GUSTAVO PIMENTEL La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Classical flamenco guitar.

6 pm, free HONEYWISE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Original folk music and unique covers on guitar, piano, mandolin and Native American flutes.

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

7 pm, free PAT MALONE AND JON GAGAN El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Live jazz on guitar and bass.

7 pm, free

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RALPH’S WORLD LIVE! Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Ralph Covert plays rock ’n’ roll for the grade-school set, perfect for parents who grew up with rock and want to share it with their children.

3 pm, $12-$15 SANTA FE COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA: WINTER CONCERT James A Little Theatre 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429 Works by Tchaikovsky and Bach feature soloist Martha Caplin and a side-by-side performance with the strings of the Santa Fe High School Symphonic Orchestra.

2:30 pm, free SUGAR MOUNTAIN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Sweet, sweet Americana.

Noon, free THE BARBED WIRES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Soulful blues on the deck.

2 pm, free

THEATER THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS SHOW Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive,87505, 629-8688 It's the Annual Holiday Variety Show and Christmas Pageant at St. Everybody’s Non-Denominational Universalist Church, and only three folks showed up. It's on them, then, to perform every holiday story they can think of to their best of their ability.

3 pm, $15-$25

WORKSHOP LIVE SCREEN PRINTING WITH DAVID SLOAN Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian 704 Camino Lejo, 982-4636 Join Sloan (Navajo) for a free live screen printing session.

Bring a blank T-shirt to print with his designs.

Noon-3 pm, free

MON/4 BOOKS/LECTURES 12 AUTHORS SIGNING: A HOLIDAY EVENT Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 A dozen writers come together for the best holiday gift-giving combo ever: books and buying local.

4-6 pm, free SOUTHWEST SEMINARS: LOWRIDERS I HAVE LOVED Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Don J Usner talks about his research and photography surrounding the coolest cars on the face of the planet.

6 pm, $15

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GEEKS WHO DRINK Draft Station Santa Fe Arcade, 60 E San Francisco St., 983-6443 Quiz results can win you drink tickets for next time.

7 pm, free

GEEKS WHO DRINK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 This quiz can win you drink tickets for next time.

8 pm, free METTA REFUGE COUNCIL Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 A gathering for people who are struggling with illness and loss in a variety of its forms.

10:30 am, free PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY OF SANTA FE MEETING St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-5397 Photographer Jim Gautier demonstrates painting color on black and white prints.

Attendees may bring up to two images for peer review.

6:30 pm, free

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

7:30 pm, free COWGIRL KARAOKE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Michèle Leidig hosts Santa Fe's most famous night of karaoke.

9 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND ELIZABETH YOUNG Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Gotta get that smooth, smooth piano. Montgomery is joined by Young on violin at 8:30 pm.

6:30 pm, free MELLOW MONDAYS Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 You partied all weekend and worked all day. Or maybe you didn't do a damn thing and want to continue the chill. DJ Sato can help with that.

10 pm, free

TUE/5 ART OPENINGS DON STREL: LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Strel, who has been taking pictures for 60 years, has also created books about the Southwest with his wife, writer Anne Hillerman. Strel's landscape images are on view through Dec. 31.

5:30 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES SFUAD SENIOR READINGS: CHARLOTTE RENKEN, ALISON GAMACHE AND KELSEY MOGHADASPOUR Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 December's graduating seniors from the Santa Fe University of Art and Design's writing department present their final readings of original poetry and prose.

6 pm, free

DANCE ARGENTINE TANGO MILONGA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Show off your best tango moves.

7:30 pm, $5

FILM MASTERPIECE: VICTORIA Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 A screening of the first episode of season two of Victoria, about the young queen who wants it all. Victorian Era costumes encouraged, so don't disappoint. Tickets are free, but are also required.

7 pm, free

MUSIC BASS INVADERS Santa Fe University of Art and Design Benildus Hall, 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 473-6011 Students of the Intro to Reason and Live class at Santa Fe Community College take the stage for a multimedia audio-visual performance featuring original electronic music created with music software programs.

7 pm, free BENNY BASSETT Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Acoustic soul-baring rock.

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

7:30 pm, free BODIES, REGULUS AND WOVEN TALON Zephyr Community Art Studio 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 Loopy indie tunes from Regulus of Austin, Texas— they're joined by locals Woven Talon (desert-grown groovin' dissonant bluesy stuff) and Bodies (see SFR Picks, page 19).

8 pm, $5-$10 CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Santa Fe's favorite night of music and camaraderie.

8:30 pm, $5

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THE CALENDAR CHUSCALES La Boca (Original Location) 72 W Marcy St., 982-3433 Exotic flamenco guitar.

As a descendant of those who lived in the caves of Sacromonte, one of the legendary cradles of flamenco, he is one of our local experts on the style. And we love it.

7 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND BILL FORREST Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards. Doug starts, Bill takes over at 8 pm.

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NÓIRÍN NÍ RIAIN: CELTIC SOLSTICE CONCERT Academy for the Love of Learning 133 Seton Village Road, 4690430 Get your fill of Irish and Celtic music of the season with acclaimed Irish singer Nóirín Ní Riain and her sons Owen and Micheal (“Moley”) Ó Súilleabháin.

6:30 pm, $50 PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St. 989-1166 Live solo jazz guitar.

6 pm, free

RONALD ROYBAL El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 On Native flute and Spanish guitar, Roybal presents a unique musical portrayal of the lands and peoples of the American Southwest.

7:30 pm, $20 VINTAGE VINYL NITE The Matador 116 W San Francisco St. DJ Prairiedog and DJ Mama Goose spin the best in garage, surf, rockabilly and old-school country.

9 pm, free

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EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS 334 Los Pinos Road, 471-2261 Closed for the season; reopens June 1, 2018.

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 A Great American Artist.

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

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

Action Abstraction Redefined.

Through July 27, 2018.

MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART 623 Agua Fría St., 989-3283 Silent auction benefit exhibit. Through Dec. 17.

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Jody Naranjo: Revealing Joy. Through Dec. 31. Frank Buffalo Hyde: I-Witness Culture. Through Jan. 7, 2018. Stepping Out: 10,000 Years of Walking the West.

Through Sept. 3, 2018.

MUSEUM OF INT’L FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Sacred Realm; The Morris Miniature Circus; Under Pressure. Through Dec. 2017. Quilts of Southwest China. Through Jan. 21, 2018. Negotiate, Navigate, Innovate. Through July 16, 2018. Crafting Memory: The Art of Community in Peru.

Opening Dec. 3; through March 10, 2019.

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 Time Travelers: and the Saints

COURTESY WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN

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Frankly, my deer, we are really into the Wheelwright’s Beads: A Universe of Meaning. This bag by Sandra Okuma (Luiseño/Shoshone-Bannock) exemplifies why.

Go Marching On. Through April 20, 2018.

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

NM MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts .

Through Dec. 31. Horizons: People & Place in New Mexican Art. Through Nov. 25, 2018. Shifting Light: Photographic Perspectives.

Through Oct. 8, 2108.

Contact: Local to Global.

Through April 29, 2018.

PALACE OF THE GOVERNORS 105 W Palace Ave.,

476-5100 Tesoros de Devoción.

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

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

Through May 18, 2018.

SITE SANTA FE 1606 Paseo De Peralta, 989-1199 Kota Ezawa: The Crime of Art. Through Jan. 10, 2018.

Future Shock. Through May 1, 2018.

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

Through April 15, 2018.

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Baca Railyard Teahouse Takes Root

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ew teahouse Opuntia has officially opened this week in the steely industrial nucleus of the Baca Railyard that is the Trailhead Design Center (922 Shoofly St.). I’m already impressed at the level of talent on display. It’s obvious that co-founders Todd Spitzer (formerly of Iconik and also involved in the other up-and-coming original Railyard café, Sky Coffee), Jeanna Gienke, Solange Serquis and Andres Paglayan each contributed to the creative and aesthetic input that

Opuntia brings coffee, tea, food and cacti to burgeoning district

transformed the wooden bones of the old Monte Vista Fuel and Feed warehouse into a working restaurant. All of its facets, from the menu to the ambiance, mesh harmoniously and flow together remarkably well.

A water feature runs blithely along the side of the 5,000-square-foot building, emptying into a gravel cistern where rainwater is collected and re-pumped into the fountain. The clean, cavernous space inside is beautiful. It would feel empty and exposed, all large glass windows and steel underneath old wooden timber and ferrous ceiling panels, were it not purposefully softened with various potted plants

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littering the floor and wooden shelves.

This creates an emphasis on organic irregularity with a Southwestern feel, with succulents and cacti side-by-side on display in small, handmade ceramic pots, or tucked into corners on the floor; Opuntia itself is named after a genus of cacti, the most famous species of which is the prickly pear.

The pots and plants are also for sale, alongside wooden spoons, chocolate truffles from local chocolatier Kakawa, coffee from San Francisco-based Blue Bottle and tea from Samovar, another Bay Area company. Inspired by craft beer and coffee movements, Samovar focuses on single-origin tea sourced through farmers from India to China, and provides staff training and education for their assorted teahouses.

Like Spitzer’s previous work with Iconik, Opuntia acts as a retail space, although here the emphasis on retail is decidedly more lifestyle-oriented. Through its ambiance, Opuntia highlights notions of what makes the Baca Railyard area so visually appealing: There is no kitsch or bright colors and patterns, only natural textures and organic shapes, cleanly rendered in neutral shades of cream and taupe. It makes a beautiful restaurant space, and Spitzer tells me the plan is to bring in a small beer and wine list and eventually extend the hours to include dinner service.

But all of it would fall apart into pretention and annoying hipster artifice were the food and coffee not so damn good. Chef Kim Müller, formerly of Izanami and The Compound, designed the menu, which includes everything from a polenta bowl ($9) to grilled cheese ($9 and dressed up by the addition of Gruyere and Fontal and house-cured pickles) to cinnamon tartine ($5). It’s designed with the vegan/vegetarian in mind, but bacon and eggs are available and some items feature alternative protein possibilities. It’s not

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The tea list is interesting but purposefully not expansive. With three or four options each of green, black and tisanes (herbal teas), Opuntia features a curated selection designed not to overwhelm but to highlight the very best of the global tea offerings presented quickly and efficiently in small glass kettles and smooth ceramics.

I had the avocado toast ($9) and the mushroom tartine ($8), both of which were clean, fresh and lively—similar in style to the kind of food I like to make for myself at home. The avocado toast was piled high with green fatty goodness, served on top of crisp radish and salad greens and dusted with lemon dressing, aioli and grated parmesan. The mushroom tartine was spicy with roasted garlic and kale, and two different kinds of cheeses melted on top.

All the coffee is made with an AeroPress, providing an especially rich taste.

This day it was single-origin Kenyan ($5 a cup; a little steep if you ask me). It was fruity, earthy and balanced, served in the same kind of ceramics sold on the shelves.

Of course, it’s still very early in Opuntia’s timeline, and there are definitely kinks to be worked out. A recent revisit precluded me from ordering food because of a staff training, which was disappointing, because the food is the most exciting aspect of the restaurant. But considering it had only been open a few days, I was heartened that they were at least taking the time train their servers properly; it seemed slow the first time around, but that’s a pretty average experience at soft openings. Once the adult beverage program starts up I’ll probably be back.

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December 2017 EVENTS A L L E V E N T S AT 6 P M U N L E S S O T H E R W I S E S TAT E D

For the month of December works by the renowned Santa Fe artist, Carol Anthony will hang in the CW Gallery M O N D AY, D E C E M B E R 4 @ 4PM–6PM

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Two Authors present their new works:

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James Reich Soft Invasions and Quintan Ana Wikswo A Long Curving Scar Where the Heart Should Be

12 Authors Signing — A Holiday Book Event

Jann Arrington-Wolcott, Ricardo Caté, Lynn Cline, William deBuys, Dan Flores, Deborah Madison, David Morrell, T H U R S D AY, D E C E M B E R 1 4 James McGrath Morris, Gene Peach, NINTH ANNUAL Hampton Sides, Priscilla Stuckey, HOLIDAY PLAYERS: Rob Wilder

Ali MacGraw, Bob Martin, Carol & Jim McGiffin and Jonathan Richards read Holiday Stories and Poems.

T U E S D AY, D E C E M B E R 5 SANTA FE UNIVERSITY OF ART AND DESIGN’S CREATIVE WRITING AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT AND COLLECTED WORKS PRESENT:

The featured authors will include Kenneth Grahame, Damon Runyon, Dylan Thomas, Dr. Seuss, and others.

The annual public readings by the graduating class.

The public is invited and encouraged to attend to celebrate these graduates.

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There exists in the human fabric dark thoughts and desires we won’t allow ourselves to truly feel.

But what if there were something within us that indulged these feelings and manifested them into terrifying reality? This is the power—or curse, as it were—of the titular Thelma (Elli Harboe), in the film from Norwegian director Joachim Trier (Louder Than Bombs), perhaps one of the most subtly gripping movies this year.

Thelma is young and off to college; a bit of a bumpkin living in the big city for the first time.

But when she begins suffering seizures with no apparent ties to epilepsy, she also starts to notice small, nearly indiscernible events that occur nearby. These things start inconsequentially enough and eventually might have seemed more pressing if Thelma weren’t falling in love with another young woman from school (Kaya Wilkins) and emerging from a couple decades’ worth of religious oppression at the hands of her parents, a doctor father (Henrik Rafaelson) and wheelchair-bound mother (Ellen Dorrit Petersen);

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the victims of some nameless looming accident from long ago that Thelma has blocked out from her memory.

Trier obviously relishes the slow burn, to the point we wonder if he’s trying to make us lose our grip on reality along with Thelma. Pacing thus becomes all the more important, and we repeatedly believe throughout the film’s movements that maybe things aren’t what they seem and we’re simply following a normal young woman through coincidences and anxiety issues. Harboe (The Wave) proves capable as Thelma, especially as concerns that she just isn’t likable fade into abject knowledge of that fact; it isn’t so much that

she’s evil, just too willing to indulge her deepest darkness.

If it feels too slow, this is deliberate, and trust us—it’s leading to one of the most shocking moments ever committed to film. Which makes Thelma a deft combination of thriller, scifi, horror and Twilight Zone for fans of any of the above willing to put in the effort to reach the payoff. It’s ultimately so worth it.

THELMA Directed by Trier With Harboe, Wilkins, Rafaelson and Petersen Center for Contemporary Arts, NR, 116 min.

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You know that feeling you get when you’re pretty sure a movie is going to be just awful, but you have nostalgic feelings about its characters, so you suck it up and go anyway? Ignore that feeling as it applies to Justice League—this thing is just sloppily executed expositional garbage layered over an awful screenplay, hollow heroes and villains and a complete mess of a plot that probably won’t even excite the most naive of moviegoing children.

It’s some time after the death of Superman from that also-awful movie, Batman v. Superman, and Bruce Wayne/Batman (Ben Affleck) is all freaked out about how something extra-evil might go down soon since the evil forces of the universe are aware Earth has no real guardian. Cue mildly humorous team-building with reluctant other heroes like Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot, who does, in fairness, rule), The Flash (Ezra Miller and his painful stabs at comedic relief), Aquaman (Game of Thrones’ Jason Momoa, whom we can tell tries his damnedest) and The Cyborg (the brooding and all-too-emotional Ray Fisher). Turns out li’l Brucey was right, and some

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amalgam of pure evil and jagged metal helmets called Steppenwolf—who was surely born to be wild—shows up to claim powers and take over the planet and kill everyone and stuff.

Between the first hour of said team-building, wherein we’re reminded for the umpteenth time what these characters are all about, and the second hour, wherein we are force-fed barely digestible fight scenes shot on blue screen and crammed with shaky cam, it may occur to some that they’re seeing this film out of a misguided sense of duty to their childhoods. Others will attend simply to see Momoa’s glistening pecs; there may even be fans of that Wonder Woman film onboard (there should be—it was awesome), but that doesn’t mean Justice League deserves such throngs. See, the Marvel universe has been smart and calculating, doling out movies like breadcrumbs in a metered fashion that are often (not always) worth being excited about. DC, however, seems to subscribe to a throw-in-everything-we-can-and-see-whatsticks plan, and it’s obvious. Hell, it often seems like the people behind this thing don’t even know what they’re doing. Furthermore, if director Zac Snyder doesn’t ditch his love of slow-mo played out at every possible second, we’re gonna lose it.

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some, but it also comes with catharsis and gently suggested lessons rather than underestimation of its audience. A simple story told well shouldn’t be so surprisingly refreshing and moving, and yet here we are. Brava. (ADV) Center for Contemporary Arts, R, 93 min.

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feel of Justice League—“insulting” actually might be the better term. So thanks bunches, DC, for thinking we’re all too stupid for something with any depth whatsoever. Thanks for the underdeveloped characters and terrible one-liners from actors who seem as if they barely want to be there themselves. We’re begging you here—make better movies. (Alex De Vore) Regal, Violet Crown, PG-13, 120 min.

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We have been to Sacramento. And like the Joan Didion quote that kicks off filmmaker Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird, we agree that Christmas there would surely be horrible. But then again we wonder, as does the film: Why would we think we’re too good for such a place? What are we rushing toward—or from? And when did we start to believe that the next step, next place, next milestone was the last piece of a puzzle that could finally make us happy? And do we even know how to be anymore?

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Lady Bird is fairly mundane as characters go; a misfit weirdo longing for more than her hometown for typical teenaged reasons, but never quite anything enough to belong to any of the laughably perfect subcultures: closeted theater kids and super-serious rock band dorks; queen-bee mean girls in short skirts, and those best friends we hurt and left behind for reasons we still don’t fully comprehend. In the end, the moral might be about being true to oneself, sure—but it’s also important to find comfort where one can.

Ronan is utterly brilliant as an average teen convinced she’s anything but; ditto for her mother Marion, played so flawlessly by Laurie Metcalf (Roseanne) that we can’t help but think of our own collective mothers and their innate ability to transcend passive aggression into an art form. We believe Ronan and Metcalf are related in ways that most films never begin to approach—a matter of onscreen chemistry, but also a testament to the ability of each actress and Gerwig’s spot-on script.

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Blockbuster cinema hasn’t focused on the whodunnit genre nearly as much as it has on others in recent decades, so the snowy sojourn of the Orient Express this fall is nothing if not different. But it’d be untrue to say that contemporary moviegoers aren’t intimately familiar with—and always half expecting—the plot twist that comes with the classic murder mystery. In that respect, this adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express fits within the standards of the day.

Based on a 1934 novel that was part of Agatha Christie’s prolific library of titles, the script—tackled by writer Michael Green, who we can blame for the 2011 Green Lantern trainwreck— is smart. We were expecting boredom at the hands of England’s English from 80 years ago, so the crisp exchanges between globetrotting characters keep the plot chugging along at a unexpected clip. Even under that amazing mustache, director and starring actor Kenneth Branagh’s diction as the best detective on the planet, Hercule Poirot, didn’t waver. Johnny Depp’s mouthful of East Coast gangster is a little mushy, but we don’t linger on him long enough; there’s too much else to look at, and listen to.

Cowabunga! Michelle Pfieffer had it going on in a sexed-up role in Mother earlier this year, but her portrait of longing lady Caroline Hubbard is a standout in the loaded cast. Beside them, Judi Dench as a Russian princess feels almost as unnecessary as Willem Defoe as a German professor. Or is he? Is she?

The setting is remarkably lovely. From the cerulean shores of Malta through mountainous terrain somewhere between Paris and Istanbul, audiences are no doubt loving the escapism of this retelling the way we did. But, like every other movie made from a book, readers who want a movie version of the tome will be disappointed.

Come on, though—how many of us actually read the thing or remember how it ends? We’ve gone out of our way here to not so much hint at the conclusion. Let us know if you figured it out before the big reveal.

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Before we go any further, it’s important to know one thing about Loving Vincent: It is gorgeous— like, GORGEOUS. But it’s just not quite where you’d want it to be in terms of narrative content, and it becomes increasingly difficult to stay engaged.

See, Loving Vincent is touted as “the world’s first fully painted feature film” by its filmmakers, and this is true; famous Van Gogh subjects (such as the postman Joseph Roulin and his son Armand, or Dr. Paul Gachet) become characters who inhabit a world that is brought to life by over 60,000 actual oil paintings from 125 artists done in Van Gogh’s post-impressionist style. It’s all at once jaw-dropping from both aesthetic and technical standpoints, and it seems like another iconic piece finds its way into the film every few seconds. Outside of this feat, however, lies a fairly middling story about the famed painter’s pros and cons as told through those who met or knew him in the small village

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Murder on the Orient Express: probably the most British thing you’ll ever see. of Auvers. Did you already know Van Gogh was tortured? Of course you did.

Quite well-known was brothers Vincent and Theo Van Goghs’ affinity for correspondence, so when the postman Roulin discovers a final undelivered letter written by Vincent, with whom he shared a friendly relationship, he sends his son to Auvers to deliver it. The son, unhappy with the assessment that his father’s friend committed suicide, becomes fixated on getting to the bottom of his untimely death.

This is all well and good, and again— gorgeous. But it’s really just that the son presses the villagers in a completely unnatural manner, and the way everyone he meets has numerous in-depth memories of Van Gogh’s time in their town feels like a stretch. The story begins to unravel and stall, and the main performance from Douglas Booth (Noah) falls flat under a run-of-the-mill screenplay that could have really stretched out and done something wonderful, but didn’t appear to have been given enough time. The most exciting actor to appear is Chris O’Dowd, who plays the postman himself, but even he disappears almost immediately.

Bummer.

Still, it’s fun to wonder which paintings are which and, if nothing else, it truly is an astounding creation. It’s worth seeing for the visuals alone, just don’t expect it to grab you beyond its reminder that Van Gogh was a genius unappreciated in his own time. (ADV) Center for Contemporary Arts, Violet Crown, PG-13, 94 min.

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Marvel Studios has an ongoing publicity problem with their Thor films; namely, they can’t seem to decide on an identity or tone. Thor was fine, Thor: The Dark World was a mess, and now, with Thor: Ragnarok, they seem to have simply decided to lean way hard into the feeling and aesthetic of the (arguably) superior and more popular series Guardians of the Galaxy.

We rejoin the titular Norse god (Chris Hemsworth) in the events after the previous Avengers film. He’s struck out on his own to get answers for these horrible visions he keeps having, but it seems like the only real thing he’s picked up is a pithy sense of humor. One could say this is about character growth, but really it seems like the filmmakers saw Hemsworth in the Ghostbusters reboot, realized he can be kinda funny, and chose to focus on that. It’s light at first and even borderline enjoyable, but before long he

just starts to feel like a cheap Starlord clone sans Chris Pratt’s everyman charm.

Still, when a heretofore unheard of sister of Thor’s named Hela (the goddess of death, played cooly and enjoyably by Cate Blanchett) shows up with a bunch of hurt feelings and violent ambitions, Thor and his adoptive brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) are swept up into crazy galaxy-spanning antics and lessons about what’s actually important in life. Spoiler alert: It’s family or something.

Along the way, of course, other Marvel characters appear to lend a hand or comic relief, like the dickish Dr. Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) or the Incredible Hulk—who would have been a nice surprise if the trailers hadn’t insisted on spoiling it. Thanks, internet— for nothing. Jeff Goldlbum is fine, also, as … himself, actually; he always just plays himself, though his unhinged intergalactic slave master character does squeeze out a few chuckles.

Everything else shakes out just like you thought it would, but if it weren’t for a seriously hysterical one-liners from an alien voiced by director Taika Waititi (What We Do in the Shadows), we might have already forgotten about this in favor of better Marvel films.

Seriously, guys, don’t start pigeon-holing yourselves now. (ADV) Regal, Violet Crown, PG-13, 130 min.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): I hope that everything doesn’t come too easily for you in the coming weeks.

I’m worried you will meet with no obstructions and face no challenges. And that wouldn’t be good. It might weaken your willpower and cause your puzzle-solving skills to atrophy. Let me add a small caveat, however.

It’s also true that right about now you deserve a whoosh of slack. I’d love for you to be able to relax and enjoy your well-deserved rewards. But on the other hand, I know you will soon receive an opportunity to boost yourself up to an even higher level of excellence and accomplishment. I want to be sure that when it comes, you are at peak strength and alertness.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here are themes I suggest you specialize in during the coming weeks. 1. How to gossip in ways that don’t diminish and damage your social network, but rather foster and enhance it. 2. How to be in three places at once without committing the mistake of being nowhere at all. 3. How to express precisely what you mean without losing your attractive mysteriousness.

4. How to be nosy and brash for fun and profit. 5. How to unite and harmonize the parts of yourself and your life that have been at odds with each other.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I predict that in the coming months you won’t feel compulsions to set your adversaries’ hair on fire. You won’t fantasize about robbing banks TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You were born with the to raise the funds you need, nor will you be tempted to potential to give the world specific gifts -- benefits and worship the devil. And the news just gets better. I expect blessings that are unique to you. One of those gifts has that the amount of self-sabotage you commit will be been slow in developing. You’ve never been ready to close to zero. The monsters under your bed will go on a confidently offer it in its fullness. In fact, if you have tried long sabbatical. Any lame excuses you have used in the to bestow it in the past, it may have caused problems. past to justify bad behavior will melt away. And you’ll But the good news is that in the coming months, this gift mostly avoid indulging in bouts of irrational and unwarwill finally be ripe. You’ll know how to deal crisply with ranted anger. In conclusion, Scorpio, your life should be the interesting responsibilities it asks you to take on. pretty evil-free for quite some time. What will you do Here’s your homework: Get clear about what this gift is with this prolonged outburst of grace? Use it wisely! and what you will have to do to offer it in its fullness.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “What is love?” asks GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Happy Unbirthday, Gemini! philosopher Richard Smoley. “It’s come to have a greetYou’re halfway between your last birthday and your next. ing-card quality,” he mourns. “Half the time ‘loving’ That means you’re free to experiment with being different someone is taken to mean nurturing a warmish feeling from who you have imagined yourself to be and who in the heart for them, which mysteriously evaporates the other people expect you to be. Here are inspirational moment the person has some concrete need or irritates quotes to help you celebrate. 1. “Those who cannot us.” One of your key assignments in the next ten months change their minds cannot change anything.” - George will be to purge any aspects of this shrunken and shrivBernard Shaw. 2. “Like all weak men he laid an eled kind of love that may still be lurking in your beautiexaggerated stress on not changing one’s mind.” - W. ful soul. You are primed to cultivate an unprecedented Somerset Maugham. 3. “A foolish consistency is the new embodiment of mature, robust love. hobgoblin of little minds. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson. 4.

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.” - Friedrich Nietzsche.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You know that unfinished task you have half-avoided, allowing it to stagnate? Soon you’ll be able to summon the gritty determination required to complete it. I suspect you’ll also CANCER (June 21-July 22): I suggest that you take a be able to carry out the glorious rebirth you’ve been shy about climaxing. To gather the energy you need, piece of paper and write down a list of your biggest fears. Then call on the magical force within you that is reframe your perspective so that you can feel gratitude for the failure or demise that has made your bigger and smarter than your fears. Ask your deep sources of wisdom for the poised courage you need to glorious rebirth necessary and inevitable. keep those scary fantasies in their proper place. And AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In an ideal world, your what is their proper place? Not as the masters of your work and your character would speak for themselves. destiny, not as controlling agents that prevent you You’d receive exactly the amount of recognition and from living lustily, but rather as helpful guides that appreciation you deserve. You wouldn’t have to keep you from taking foolish risks. devote as much intelligence to selling yourself as you LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In his book Life: The Odds, did to developing your skills in the first place. But Gregory Baer says that the odds you will marry a milnow forget everything I just said. During the next ten lionaire are not good: 215-to-1. They’re 60,000-to-1 that months, I predict that packaging and promoting youryou’ll wed royalty and 88,000-to-1 that you’ll date a self won’t be so #$@&%*! important. Your work and model. After analyzing your astrological omens for the character WILL speak for themselves with more vigor coming months, I suspect your chances of achieving and clarity than they have before. these feats will be even lower than usual. That’s because you’re far more likely to cultivate synergetic and symbi- PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): There used to be a booth at otic relationships with people who enrich your soul and a Santa Cruz flea market called “Joseph Campbell’s Love stimulate your imagination, but don’t necessarily pump Child.” It was named after the mythological scholar who wrote the book The Hero with a Thousand Faces. The up your ego. Instead of models and millionaires, you’re booth’s proprietor sold items that spurred one’s “heroic likely to connect with practical idealists, energetic crejourney,” like talismans made to order and herbs that ators, and emotionally intelligent people who’ve done stimulated courage and mini-books with personalized work to transmute their own darkness. advice based on one’s horoscope. “Chaos-Tamers” were VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): What might you do to take also for sale. They were magic spells designed to help better care of yourself in 2018, Virgo? According to my people manage the messes that crop up in one’s everyday reading of the astrological omens, this will be a fertile routine while pursuing a heroic quest. Given the current meditation for you to keep revisiting. Here’s a good astrological omens, Pisces, you would benefit from a place to start: Consider the possibility that you have a place that sold items like these. Since none exists, do the lot to learn about what makes your body operate at peak next best thing: Aggressively drum up all the help and efficiency and what keeps your soul humming along inspiration you need. You can and should be well-supwith the sense that your life is interesting. Here’s anothported as you follow your dreams on your hero’s journey. er crucial task: Intensify your love for yourself. With that Homework: What change have you prepared yourself as a driving force, you’ll be led to discover the actions necessary to supercharge your health. P.S. Now is an to embrace? What lesson are you ripe to master? ideal time to get this project underway.

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LEGALS LEGAL NOTICE TO CREDITORS/NAME CHANGE STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE PROBATE COURT SANTA FE COUNTY No. 2017-0169 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Alfonso U. Barela, DECEASED. NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of this estate.

All persons having claims against this estate are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice, or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either to the undersigned personal representative at the address listed below, or filed with the Probate Court of Santa Fe, County, New Mexico, located at the following address: 102 Grant Avenue - PO Box 1985, Santa Fe, NM 87504.

Dated: Sept 19, 2017.

Virginia L. Garcia 229 Villeros St. Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-988-4613 Raymond B. Barela 55 Vereda Serena Santa Fe, NM 87508 505-986-1372 FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE Silvia Lopez Xicay Petitioner/Plaintiff vs.

Edwin Bamack Garcia Respondent/Defendant Case No.: D-101-DM-2017-00211 NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF SUIT STATE OF NEW MEXICO TO Edwin Bamack Garcia.

GREETINGS: You are hereby notified that Silvia Lopez Xicay, the above-named Petitioner/Plaintiff, has filed a civil action against you in the above-entitled Court and cause, The general object thereof being: to establish parentage, determine custody and timesharing and assess child support.

Unless you enter your appearance in this cause within thirty (30) days of the date of the last publication of this Notice, judgment by default may be entered against you.

Silvia Lopez Xicay 2721 Walnut St Santa Fe, NM 87507 WITNESS this Honorable SYLVIA LaMAR, District Judge of the First Judicial District Court of New Mexico, and the Seal of the District Court

of Santa Fe/Rio Arriba/Los Alamos County, this 6th day of November, 2017.

STEPHEN T. PACHECO CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: Angelica Gonzalez Deputy Clerk STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE PROBATE COURT SANTA FE COUNTY No. 2017-0198 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Joan R. Koch, DECEASED. NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of this estate.

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

Dated: Nov. 15, 2017.

Cathie Lyn Koch 3781B State Rd. 14 Santa Fe, NM 87508 505-474-7239 STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF Robert James MacLean Case No.: D-101-CV-2017-02873 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. the Petitioner Robert James MacLean will apply to the Honorable Gregory S. Shaffer, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 1:30 p.m. on the 28th day of November, 2017 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Robert James MacLean to Jerad James MacLean.

STEPHEN T. PACHECO, District Court Clerk By: Victoria Martinez Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Robert James MacLean Petitioner, Pro Se

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LEGAL NOTICES ALL OTHERS STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT Cause No. D-101-CV-2015-00547 LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST, Plaintiff, v.

JYL DEHAVEN, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS ANCILLARY PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF JAMES WAYLAND ROBERTS, DECEASED; JYL DEHAVEN, AS ANCILLARY PERSONAL REPRESENTIVE OF THE ESTATE OF ARCHIE LEE ROBERTS, DECEASED; THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF PUEBLO ENCANTADO CONDOMINIUM UNIT OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., A New Mexico nonprofit corporation.

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NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned Special Master, in accordance with the terms of the Order Granting Summary Judgment (“Association Order”) entered on June 20, 2017 in favor of the Board of Directors of Pueblo Encantado Condominium Association (the “Association”), the Order Denying Plaintiff’s Objection to Defendant the Board of Directors of Pueblo Encantado Condominium Unit Owners Association, Inc.’s Proposed Form of Summary Judgment and Motion for Reconsideration of Summary Judgment entered on October 5, 2017 (“Oct. 5 Order”), the Summary Judgment in Rem (“Trust Order”) entered on November 17, 2017 in favor of LSF9 Master Participation Trust (the “Trust”), and the Court Approved Stipulation of Lien Holders Regarding Foreclosure Sale (“Lien Holder Stipulation”) also entered on November 17, 2017, will on Wednesday, December 20, 2017, at the hour of 10:15 a.m. MT, at the entrance of the First Judicial District Court, located at 225 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, offer for sale and sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the following described property located in Santa Fe County, New Mexico: The property to be sold is located in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and is a condominium unit within the Pueblo Encantado Condominiums, generally described as Pueblo Encantado Condominium, Unit K-2, 15 Mesa Encantado #227 and more particularly described as: Unit K-2, Pueblo Encantado Condominium (“Condominium”), created by the “Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions for Pueblo Encantado Condominiums”, recorded on December 30, 1980, in Book 412, pages 824-841 in the office of the Santa Fe County Clerk (“Declaration”);It is also described as:UNIT K-2 OF THE PUEBLO ENCANTADO CONDOMINIUMS AS THE SAME IS SHOWN AND DESCRIBED IN THAT DECLARATION OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS UNDER THE NEW MEXICO BUILDING UNIT

OWNERSHIP ACT FOR THE PUEBLO ENCANTADO CONDOMINIUMS FILED FOR RECORD ON THE 30TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 1980, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK OF SANTA FE COUNTY, NEW MEXICO IN BOOK 412 MISC., AT PAGES 824-840 AND FURTHER SHOWN AND DESCRIBED IN THAT PLAT AND FLOOR PLAN FILED WITH THE DECLARATION ON THE 30TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 1980 IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF SANTA FE COUNTY, NEW MEXICO AS DOCUMENT NO. 471,107; SUPPLEMENTAL DECLARATION OF COVENANTS AND RESTRICTIONS RECORDED IN BOOK 480 MISC., AT PAGE 387; SUPPLEMENTAL DECLARATION OF COVENANTS AND RESTRICTIONS RECORDED IN BOOK 480 MISC., AT PAGE 392; SUPPLEMENTAL DECLARATION OF COVENANTS AND RESTRICTIONS RECORDED IN BOOK 480 MISC., AT PAGE 399 SUPPLEMENTAL DECLARATION OF COVENANTS AND RESTRICTIONS RECORDED IN BOOK 480 MISC., AT PAGE 405; AFFIRMATION OF DECLARATION OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS RECORDED IN BOOK 426 MISC., AT PAGE 413; AND ALSO SHOWN ON PLAT OF SURVEY ENTITLED “PUEBLO ENCANTADO CONDOMINIUMS CLUSTER B & C”, BY BERNIE A. ALARID R.P.L.S. NO. 5338, DATED AUGUST 25, 1981 AND RECORDED ON SEPTEMBER 16, 1981 AS DOCUMENT NO. 484,929, ALL IN THE RECORDS OF SANTA FE COUNTY, NEW MEXICO,15 Mesa Encantado 227 - 427, Pueblo Encantado K2, Santa Fe, NM 87501. (the “Property”).

The Association Order, the Oct. 5 Order, the Trust Order and the Lien Holder Stipulation are collectively referred to as the “Orders”.

The Orders authorize the foreclosure of the liens the Association and the Trust hold at a foreclosure sale of the Property, conducted through a special master. The Court has appointed Jonathan Morse as the Special Master. The Special Master has authority to assign special master duties to another.

In the Association’s Order of June 20, 2017, the Association obtained judgment in favor of its lien (“Association’s Judgment Lien”). The Court reaffirmed the Association’s Judgment Lien in its Oct. 5 Order. The Trust obtained a judgment in favor of its lien on November 17, 2017 in the Trust Order (“Trust Lien”), and the Association and the Trust stipulated as to lien priorities in the November 17, 2017 Lien Priority Stipulation.

The Association’s Judgment Lien as of April 5, 2017 was $34,053.16 (“Association’s Judgment Lien”).

The Association’s attorneys represent that the Association’s Judgment Lien on December 20, 2017 will be $46,214.97, plus any additional costs, expenses and reasonable attorney’s accruing prior to the December 20, 2017 date of sale through to a Final Order Approving Sale.

The Trust’s lien on December 20,

2017 will total $214,296.18, which consists of the $207,870.01 as set forth in the Trust’s Lien, plus interest from 7/20/17 to 12/20/17 of $6,426.17. The Trust can also recover and include in its lien any fees for advances actually incurred either on or to the judgment date, or after the judgment date, through to a Final Order Approving Sale.

At the foreclosure sale, the Association and the Trust, or an assignee, may apply all or any part of their judgments liens to the purchase price in lieu of cash as a credit bid. At the foreclosure sale, the Association and the Trust, or an assignee have the right to bid at such sale and submit their bids verbally or in writing.

The Association’s Judgment Lien is first and primary; the Trust’s Lien is second and primary to any other interest, except the Association’s Judgment Lien and subject only to rights of redemption. This means that at the foreclosure sale, the Association can credit bid all or part of the Association’s Judgment Lien in lieu of cash first, and that the Trust can credit bid all or part of the Trust’s Lien in lieu of cash, second to the Association, and only with cash payment satisfying the Association’s Judgment Lien in full.

Proceeds of the sale shall first apply to the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fee, for any costs incurred for the maintenance and protection of the property, then to the Association’s Judgment Lien and then to the Trust’s Lien. If a sale results in a winning bid that exceeds the these costs and judgments, then the excess amounts will be put into the Court’s registry for distribution by further order of the Court.

The Sale of this Property includes ANY AND ALL IMPROVEMENTS, FIXTURES, AND ATTACHMENTS, AND ANY AND ALL ABANDONED PERSONAL PROPERTY AS DESCRIBED IN THIS COURT’S JUDGMENT, together with all and singular tenements, hereditaments, and appurtenances thereto belonging or any wise appertaining thereto. If personal property of Ms. DeHaven, her agents, or representatives, or of any other person or entity separately ordered to vacate and quit possession of the Property on or before the date of the sale, remains on the real property after the date of the sale, such personal property is deemed abandoned and the purchaser may dispose of the property in any manner pursuant to applicable law.

The property will be sold subject to a nine month right of redemption; easements, reservations and restrictions of record; taxes and governmental assessments including unpaid utility bills; any liens or encumbrances not foreclosed in this proceeding; the valuation of the property by the County Assessor as real or personal property; affixture of any mobile or manufactured home to the land; deactivation of title to a mobile or manufactured home on the property; environmental contamination, if any; any homeowners’ association or condominium dues, assessments, declarations, rules, requirements and restrictions and the Association’s con-

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tinuing assessments and recorded rights as set forth in the Declaration and other matters of record; any requirements imposed by city or county ordinance or by state law affecting the property; and zoning violations concerning the property, if any. No representation is made as to the validity of the rights of ingress and egress.

Transfer of title to the highest bidder shall be without warranty or representation of any kind.

ALL PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS AT THE SALE ARE ADVISED TO REVIEW THE DISTRICT COURT FILE, TO MAKE THEIR OWN EXAMINATION OF TITLE AND TO CONSULT THEIR OWN ATTORNEY BEFORE BIDDING. The sale may be postponed and rescheduled at the discretion of the undersigned Special Master as stated above or in the event of weather closing the Courthouse on the date of sale. The purchaser at such sale shall take title to the above described real property subject to Defendant Jyl DeHaven’s nine month right of redemption. /s/ Jonathan Morse Jonathan Morse, Special Master P.O. Box 8387 Santa Fe, NM 87504-8387 (505) 982-3305 Address inquiries to the Attorneys for the Association: Walcott, Henry & Winston, P.C. Charles V. Henry 200 West Marcy St., Suite 203 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 (505) 982-9559 (505) 982-1199 fax charlie@walcottlaw.com

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