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OPINION 5 NEWS 7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6 WITHIN REACH 8 Santa Fe County has new plans in the works to aid residents with mental health resources

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WALKING WILD Local photographer releases book about traveling with nomadic tribe through the Himalayas COVER STORY 10 PASSING THE TRASH Teachers who sexually abuse students continually escape punishment or prosecution by skipping town. A new procedural model in New Mexico aims to prevent such absconsion and cut off predators’ access to kids

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NEWS, DECEMBER 20: Mail letters to PO Box 2306, Santa Fe, NM 87504, deliver to 132 E Marcy St., or email them to editor@sfreporter.com. Letters (no more than 200 words) should refer to specific articles in the Reporter. Letters will be edited for space and clarity.

COVER, DECEMBER 20: “2018 RESOLUTIONS”

MIRA LOOK Speaking of New Year’s resolutions—I have never seen our skies so blanketed with chemtrails (or geo-engineering, as some prefer). Is anyone paying any attention or talking about this?

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NEWS, DECEMBER 20: “SFR V MARTINEZ—STILL”

CHEER AND BOO While I cheer your minor victory in this case, I must admit I object with your accusation that “Trump goes to war with news organizations that scrutinize him.” Your using the word “scrutinize” is wrong and is an example of how many in the press target Trump negatively rather than do honest reporting.

Maybe the press doesn’t actually lie but most news organizations twist news to reflect negatively on Trump ... or simply by not reporting all the facts, just reporting facts that portray Trump negatively.

Instead of using “scrutinize” you should, if you were honest and unbiased, have said, “Trump goes to war with news organizations that distort or twist news stories to dishonestly reflect negatively on Trump.”

That would be truthful rather than fake news. It’s obvious most of the press are grossly liberal and are attempting to build disapproval of Trump among the public.

God bless Trump and all the good he is doing.

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“HOW MANY TIMES”

HEAD ON THE WALL There is a huge difference being adamant, on the one hand, re: SFR’s records requests suit towards the governor’s office and the likes that don’t want to share, to be open and transparent, especially in this here political climate.

However, seeing your enthusiasm spoiled by requests for interviews not given and flagellating yourself over and over is, frankly, childish.

There is no law that states any person, private or in office, has to speak to you, much less on your terms. Period!

Simply adding to your research the fact that your person of interest has not responded to multiple requests for dialogue is enough to make the reader get it. And get it they will!

What irks me tremendously so is ... that your display of self-importance has to be carried out on the backs of us all, the taxpayer. We all have to foot the bill for the governor’s counsel in all this litigation.

Why, may I ask, not turn to using readers’ resources more carefully with more predictable outcomes in mind. Stop running headon into the wall on my dime.

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This is “community journalism”? You think our community wants expletive-laced journalistic narratives as a norm? Santa Fe has a Newspapers In [Education] program, but because of your writers’ poor writing skills and consistent use of profanity we will CONTINUED ON PAGE 7

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TAOS COP WHO SHOT AT A MINIVAN FULL OF KIDS IN 2013 GETS OFF Are they kidding us?!

TRUMP TWEET CLAIMS COLDER NORTHEASTERN WEATHER MEANS NO CLIMATE CHANGE See above question.

IT SEEMS LIKE SPRING HAS SPRUNG And yet it’s still dark out at 3 pm and the skiers in our life won’t stop whining.

CITY HAS NEW $3 MILLION PLAN FOR MEDIANS MAKEOVER Since it’s clearly a growing concern, perhaps the most pressing issue of our time.

STATE SENATOR WANTS TO STUDY POTENTIAL STATEWIDE SUGARY DRINK TAX It seems we’re stuck in a timeless flat black circle of hell.

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ENTHUSIAST, DEC. 20: “CARRYING BIG STICKS”

DON’T DOWNPLAY Writing to you as the “anonymous tipster” who initiated this article (no longer anonymous), I must express my deep disappointment at the light-hearted way in which SFR chose to portray this threat to our sacred mountain forests. Both of the Forest Service employees whom I led to the teepees viewed it as a serious threat, especially in light of the burned-out fire rings in many of the teepees. The article did not mention the fact that the perpetrators of this insanity have also cut down many young aspens and stripped fir trees of their branches to cover parts of the wooden teepees. I hope the Forest Service will implement a plan to counter this threat. At a time when forest fires are ravaging much of the West, we must take any potential forest fire threat seriously.

JOSEPH McKENNA SANTA FE

“WATER WOES”

EMOTIONAL CONVO The Southwest is ground zero for climate change, with—according to all data—insufficient water for the current population, much less a likely doubling mid-century. That includes on the Rio; on the Southwest’s lifeblood, the Colorado; and aquifers, drawing down faster than they can recharge.

Absent acknowledgement of the resource or environmental implications— especially by national media now owned by those who want endless growth—ours is one of just eight nations fueling half of all growth on the planet. ...

Clinton’s Council on Sustainability said immigration should never fuel growth. Yet, thanks to leaders from both parties—more interested in winning short-term votes by embracing endless immigration than considering the common-sense well-being of the nation—they ignore where the Southwest, the nation’s fastest-growing region, will find water.

Today the Southwest is over 40 million souls and powering towards 60 million mid-century. Because immigration is so emotionally charged, that’s a conversation many, quite irresponsibly do not want to have.

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I have been visiting the huts in Aspen Vista for the past four years. They have been a place of solace and celebration, where I have gone to write and read, have in-depth conversations with friends, and mourn the loss of my loved ones. I am deeply grieved to hear that they are in danger of being taken down, as they have been an extremely special place for me. The huts are often the first place I take anyone visiting Santa Fe, and they have deep meaning for myself and others.

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seeks to destroy these sacred spaces out of fear. ... This tipster proves to be a classic case of someone wanting to destroy something they don’t understand, when in actuality it gives great joy and meaning to other people. I am sad for the huts and everyone who has gone to them for serenity. I advocate for their conservation, as their loss means that I and many others will have to search for new places in nature that act as safe, sacred spaces.

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Within Reach Santa Fe County mental health crisis center aims to be an anchor for a tightening network of care

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s Santa Fe County looks to break ground on a new, taxpayer-funded triage center to help people in the throes of psychological crises, one of its most ambitious goals is to rupture the stigma of getting help for mental health.

Community Services Department Director Rachel O’Connor acknowledges there is a desperate need to assist the roughly 2,500 people in the county living with severe mental illness, many of whom are also homeless and addicted to alcohol or drugs. But she insists that the crisis center, which may not be open until 2019, won’t only be for this population.

Anybody “can have situational crises,” O’Connor says. “People lose their jobs, go through divorces, they have hard times in their lives—you can spin into a crisis relatively quickly. … Those issues are just as important as someone who might have a severely disabling mental illness.”

The one-eighth percent gross receipts tax that Santa Fe County Commissioners approved to finance operations at the crisis center went into effect Jan. 1, and last month, the county put out a request for proposals for a primary partner to help decide where to locate the center and how best to plug different services providers into the effort.

In addition, the county recently entered into a contract with the Santa Fe Recovery Center for a detox program that would also receive funding from the city and Christus St. Vincent hospital and be co-located with the crisis center.

At present, there are no plans for other long-term inpatient psychiatric treatment at the facility. Yet, taken altogether, O’Connor hopes it will be the new frontline for people experiencing acute mental distress, displacing law enforcement and the emergency room as a first step for such services. The county estimates the new tax increment will bring in $1.6 million each year to pay for programs and staff, while it plans to use $2 8

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million in capital funding from a bond to construct the center.

The center aims to serve two main functions. The first, O’Connor says, is to “relatively quickly stabilize a person [seeking psychiatric care], and hopefully navigate them into a more appropriate level of care.

The second thing is we have providers who

staffed presence at the center. “We’re hoping to co-locate navigation services here, for example, HUGS [Christus St. Vincent’s High Utilizer Group Services].

We’re hoping to have reps from LEAD [Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion], we’re hoping to have representatives from the PATH [Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness], which runs out of Life Link, and from the MIHO [Mobile Integrated Health Office], which is run out of the city.”

“Navigation services” is county-speak for having people on staff at the center

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work day-to-day with people who may suddenly escalate into a higher level of care than they can support; where that person can come almost in an emergency type of situation to the crisis center, and then go back to their long-term care situation.”

O’Connor imagines several agencies besides the primary partner having a

who talk to patients and figure out what they need, whether it be drug counseling, shelter, postpartum care or other services. Many of the agencies O’Connor envisions as having a presence at the crisis center already work together through the county’s year-old Accountable Health Community action plan, which coordinates care and services among varying

agencies and is one foundation on which the crisis center will be built.

Andres Mercado, an officer with the city Fire Department’s MIHO program that works to navigate frequent 911 callers toward social services, says he is supportive of the county’s efforts at closer coordination.

“There’s no place [in the county] for behavioral health issues when it’s not an emergency but when a person needs a certain level of services on the spot,” Mercado says, “and I think [the county’s crisis center] will fill a big gap we have in that it also provides a physical hub for sys what the county is trying to do at the systems level.”

Another one of the agencies involved in the Accountable Health Community program is the Interfaith Community Direc Shelter at Pete’s Place. Executive Director Joe Jordan-Berenis considers his shelter a “first step in a continuum of care” among agencies in the county.

Folks can show up to Pete’s Place as they are, Jordan-Berenis says, and the shelter’s navigator keeps in contact with other shelters and per social service providers to send a person elsewhere when their personal needs change.

“I feel like I can’t wait for county’s crisis center to open,” Jordan-Berenis tells SFR, “because there are times when we need help to stabilize somebody, and the center’s services would really help us.” The whole arrangement to improve communication between the county and social service agencies is intended to be “[tear] down any artificial barriers between the agencies so that the service seam the person is receiving is relatively seamless.”

The county is hoping that the crisis center will act like a bulldozer to raze such barriers. At a luncheon hosted by the county at the Hilton Santa Fe last month, county Health Services Division Director Patricia Boies told the room full of social and health workers that in the wom first quarter of fiscal year 2018, 65 womser en and 18 men received navigation services from seven different organizations, which were able to deliver on nearly half of the “unmet social needs that influence health” for those 83 people.

Boies said that the approach is part of an institutional paradigm shift that sees a person’s mental, physical and social health as inextricably linked.

“What I hope,” says MIHO’s Mercado, “is that in some years, we look back and see that we were insensitive and we were inefficient and wasted a bunch of time, money, energy and resources, and that we matured as a community.”

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Walking Wild Journalist Michael Benanav hiked alongside a nomadic tribe in India that may be facing a permanent end to its migrations ELIZABETH MILLER e l i z a b e t h @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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hen Northern New Mexico-based journalist Michael Benanav first read about a tribe of nomads migrating between the hill country in northern India and the Himalayas, he knew he had to go tell their story. He was drawn partly by the geography through which they travel—“which, no-brainer, would be beautiful,” he says— but also because they’re a rare example of nomads without any sort of village. When snow covers the high Himalayan meadows, the Van Gujjar tribe lives in open-air huts in the forest among their water buffalo as they graze on forage chopped from trees. Then, they migrate into the mountains for summer months.

In 2009, Benanav shouldered his backpack and joined a family of Van Gujjars on that annual migration. For six weeks, he walked alongside this family, slept under the plastic sheets they erected each night for shelter, fetched water, and nudged buffalo up mountain passes, capturing the tribe right at the cusp of transition. His book, Himalaya Bound: One Family’s Quest to Save Their Animals and an Ancient Way of Life, which was released on Jan. 2 and which he’ll discuss this weekend at Travel Bug, retells that story.

The Van Gujjar’s lifestyle faces existential threats, perhaps the most pressing of which is an idea exported from America: the creation of national parks on their tribal lands.

“As Americans, we don’t really think that much about people living in nation-

al parks because here, we kicked those people out over a century ago,” Benanav says.

“So the fact that national parks, which are really supposed to protect things that are special and endangered, in this case was also possibly destroying something that was special and endangered struck me as this ironic twist.”

India’s Forest Rights Act allows historic forest-dwellers to continue living and grazing livestock there; but, Benanav says, “its implementation has been terrible, and in places it’s blatantly or tacitly ignored.”

Forest Department rangers have begun turning Van Gujjars back from those mountain meadows where they have grazed their buffalo for centuries in the name of defending national parks created in recent decades. Spending warmer months at lower elevations would require Van Gujjars to pay for forage, the summer sun having baked the trees to brown, and run the risk of buffalo overheating. The year he joined a Van Gujjar family, whether they could hike to the meadow they’d long used or would need to detour to an alternative was determined during their journey.

The lack of security could shake the tribe’s commitment to their lifestyle.

“By basically traumatizing them, [the Forest Department rangers] will more or less convince them that it’s in their own interest to begin to think of other ways of living,” Benanav says.

The alternatives available, however,

consist of a life in a village, a disconnection from the water buffalo they love so much that the death of one is mourned like that of a family member, and generations fighting their way toward middle class.

While it’s not always the case that people and animals can live off the land without damaging the environment, ecologists haven’t correlated issues with the Van Gujjars.

“Either they’re saying we just don’t know because they don’t have the data, or they’re saying the Van Gujjars are not the problem here,” Benanav says.

Intensifying pressures like climate change, logging, mining and population growth could change those equations, as could an increase in size of the herds and families.

Still, Forest Department officials insist grazing water buffalo is damaging the alpine ecosystem.

The tribe faces other pressures to change. Publicity of their plight brought pressure from Muslim leaders to adjust their generally liberal Islamic practices to more conservative ones. The number of motorbikes and electronics, including cell

The creation of national parks in India led to threats to the traditional lifestyle for the Van Gujjar tribe.

phones, has also picked up, even though those phones can rarely be charged or reach a signal. On a return visit, Benanav saw several of the tribal members huddled around a Nokia phone watching a video on its 1-by-2-inch screen.

“I was like, ‘It’s all over. That little screen just punched a hole into this world,’” he says.

The kids in the family have spoken about wanting to attend school. An education, too, would “open the doors of their community to a whole different kind of change,” Benanav says. “We can’t tell people to continue living a certain way just because we want to, but every time the world loses a culture, there’s something tragic about that, and the world just frankly becomes a more boring place.”

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Passing the Trash NEW MEXICO STARES DOWN THE MENACE OF PEDOPHILES IN POSITIONS OF POWER OVER KIDS

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allely Hernandez knew right away.

There was something different about the way Gary Gregor ran his classroom, she says.

It was more than a decade ago. She was 9 years old, a fourth-grader at Española’s Fairview Elementary. Gregor was 51.

She’d never had a teacher who elected a “council” to sit at the head of the class, specially selected by Gregor and then voted on by the students.

“There was a time we elected all boys,” Hernandez says. “He wasn’t having it. He wanted girls at the table.”

She was one of Gregor’s elected. The grooming, she says, began at once. There were gifts of candy and stuffed animals.

He’d hug her, act more like a friend than a teacher. “He tried to get close. And he did,” she says. Within weeks, she and other victims would later allege, Gregor would keep a girl at lunch, close his door, draw his blinds and take her into the closet to kiss him. He touched them too.

It wasn’t right. Didn’t feel right. She knew it. But she says Gregor told her, “He knew where my family lived and I was better off not saying anything to anybody.

He was this huge man and I was just this little girl.”

Other girls would wait outside the classroom to make sure whomever was inside came back out.

Finally, a small group of small girls got together and marched into the principal’s office. They were embarrassed by what had happened, and unsure how to describe it. They agreed, Hernandez says, to tell the principal Gregor had been touching them privately on their legs—even though he had done much more.

What happened next seems to have come from a script about Gary Gregor’s career as a teacher. It’s reminiscent of priest sex-abuse scandals. It has cost the Española school district more than $7 million so far. And it’s illustrative of the

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Prosecutors charged Gary Gregor last month with three counts of criminal sexual penetration of a child under age 13.

The alleged crimes took place while Gregor taught at Santa Fe’s Agua Fria Elementary in 2003.

size of the problem New Mexico schools face if they can’t stop predatory educators from moving from school to school, district to district, and state to state as they look for opportunities to abuse children.

It’s called “passing the trash.”

The terrifying problem for child advocates and anyone trying to root out pedophilia in schools is that teachers like Gregor have too often been the rule.

Many educators who abuse children aren’t caught the first time they do it.

On a recent Saturday morning in Albuquerque, Linda Paul, a former superintendent and educational leadership consultant, showed sobering statistics to a roomful of educators at the New Mexico School Boards Association annual convention: One in eight boys and one in five girls will be sexually assaulted by someone they know and trust by the time they are 18 years old.

There are more than 1 million convicted sex offenders in the country, Paul informed the room. Not all involve children, and only a small fraction of the adults who assault kids have had careers as educators, coaches, school staff or volunteers. But Sammy Quintana heard those numbers and began thinking of the more than 50,000 employees and volunteers who interact with the 300,000 students in schools covered by the New Mexico Public Schools Insurance Authority.

“That’s a lot of exposure, a lot of opportunities for people who are pedophiles to

get into our schools. And obviously, that’s the place you want to be if that’s your problem.

What better place to be than in schools?” Quintana tells SFR the week after the convention.

NMPSIA—one of those clunky, educational acronyms that actually gets pronounced by those who have to say it a lot (“NIMP-suh”)—self-insures schools for property, liability and worker’s compensation claims up to $1 million. It also pays $12 million dollars a year in premiums to a secondary insurer for coverage above that threshold.

As the agency’s executive director, Quintana has a professional interest in fixing a problem that is personally disquieting to most everyone involved. He knows all about passing the trash.

“A pedophile goes to one school district and gets investigated for some type of an allegation of wrongful touching of a child or something like that,” he explains. “And what that pedophile does is say, ‘Look, I don’t want to go through an investigation. I didn’t do it, but I’m just leaving.’ And they’ll go somewhere else. So that investigation never gets completed and there’s nothing at that school that indicates that this guy had an issue. And that person will go to another school. And every time they get close to getting caught, they’ll say, ‘Oh, I’m going to resign and leave.’”

school girls in his classroom for hours after school ended, watching movies. There was a second complaint that year, too.

But not a conviction. When Gary Gregor arrived in teacher-strapped New Mexico, he clearly had issues. But he wasn’t a criminal.

“One of the things we know about sexual predators is that they cast many lines out there. You’ve got shiny things on the end of a variety of lines,” Paul tells SFR. “And as soon as there’s some heat—as soon as there’s another adult saying, ‘Wait a minute. What’s happening over there every Tuesday at noon?’ or a parent goes, ‘What did you just get from your teacher?’—as soon as there’s an ounce of heat, the predator reels up that line and they move somewhere else. They’re tremendously opportunistic.”

That cycle is not novel. In 2007, New Mexico updated its state law to require districts and charter schools to report not just known felonies and misdemeanors, but to investigate allegations made about ethical misconduct by any licensed employee “who resigns, is being discharged or terminated or otherwise leaves employment after an allegation has been made.” If there’s wrongdoing found, it must be reported to the Public Education Department. If it’s not, superintendents and charter school administrators could face licensure action of their own.

It’s a significant change, and one that’s well-intentioned, but there are holes.

For one, while it assigns responsibility for investigations and follow-up, it relies on someone closer to the students and the employee in question -Sammy Quintana, New to make a report. There are Mexico Public Schools guidelines, but each district Insurance Authority figures out how best to spread the word about what kind of behavior should be questioned.

The law also only applies That’s exactly what happened with to licensed employees. So again, it’s up to Gary Gregor. each district or charter school to properly Before he taught Nallely Hernandez address problematic behavior by custodiat Fairview Elementary, Gregor taught ans, volunteers and other adults who don’t at another school in the Española dishave to be licensed to be in the school each trict. Before that, he taught in Santa Fe and every day. at Ortiz Middle School and Agua Fria El“These predators find a way to meanementary, where there was a complaint der into a system,” says David Poms, the before he left the district. He taught at a man who started the state’s public school Native American reservation in Montana insurance authority. His agency, Poms prior to Santa Fe, where there were also and Associates, is the insurance brokersigns that something wasn’t right. And in age and consultancy firm that is currently Utah, in 1994, about five years before he among those working on the problem in was hired in Santa Fe, police investigated Gregor after he kept two elementary CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

And what that pedophile does is say, ‘Look, I don’t want to go through an investigation. I didn’t do it, but I’m just leaving.’ And they’ll go somewhere else.

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What happened next for Nallely Hernandez and her classmates after telling the principal about Gregor’s touching was … nothing. In fact, in some ways, it was almost worse than being ignored.

According to the lawsuit Hernandez filed, Principal Ruby Montoya told the girls she knew Gregor well and he wouldn’t do such a thing. A few days later, she came to class and warned the fourth-graders that they shouldn’t make false accusations. Mr. Gregor was there, the complaint says, and he looked angry.

Hernandez in 2016, Gregor still hadn’t been charged with with a crime. That’s the reason, despite two settlements with Española schools in excess of $7 million and a third lawsuit pending, that all of Gary Gregor’s behavior is still “alleged.” He wasn’t charged criminally until this year, when the Attorney General’s Office stepped in on long-dormant investigations of allegations from 2003, 2006 and 2007. Appearing on an episode of ABC’s Nightline in April, Attorney General Hector Balderas promised Gregor would be prosecuted at last. Later that month, a grand jury handed up an indictment on the first charges.

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The principal didn’t investigate and didn’t call police.

Hernandez answered nothing with silence of her own. But Gregor’s behavior got worse, she says: He kept touching her, called her on her mother’s cell phone, bought Hernandez her own cell phone (which he later took away) and even asked if she and her sisters could sleep over at his house, with his wife, in a room decorated especially for little girls. They did.

It wasn’t until the father of one of the other girls allegedly being abused

by Gregor heard of what what had been happening—near the end of Nallely’s fifth-grade year—that the police were called. But it was that parent, not the school or the district, that called them.

The investigation didn’t result in any prosecution.

Española Public Schools did not respond to SFR’s requests for comment for this story.

When civil rights attorney Cammie Nichols filed a lawsuit on behalf of

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13. The charges stem from his time teaching in Santa Fe. It is the third criminal case filed by the AG against the former educator this year. The other two cases are for similar crimes in Española. He faces 17 felonies and, after decades spent in schools, he could spend the rest of his life in prison. Such prosecution is rare.

There is no government database for teachers who have been reprimanded for inappropriate behavior.

Most states, including New Mexico, mandate a criminal background check before teachers can be licensed. That, of course, relies on criminal convictions.

To help fill a dangerous gap, the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification created what’s called the Clearinghouse. Phil Rogers, the executive director for the group, says the database gathers disciplinary action against teachers, administrators, school nurses and anyone else who needs to be licensed to be in a school.

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“After that action is final and the results are made public, it’s entered into the Clearinghouse. Basically, it creates an alert,” he tells SFR. The system relies on reports and investigations at the district level, which are then reported to state education departments and finally uploaded to the Clearinghouse. It’s updated monthly, and last summer, the group made the database available to school districts.

“It became clear there was a growing problem,” Rogers says. Appearing on the database shouldn’t necessarily be an automatic disqualifier, he points out, “but it gives information, and then the district can find out more about why a potential teacher shows up.”

Quintana, the insurance authority head, says his agency is putting together a task force to see if the state can better identify how it can detect and prevent sexual abuse by educators. “We’re in the process of trying to find who at [the Public Education Department] could help us,” he says. “There’s been a lot of turnover there. That’s going to be a key player, because that’s where all the licensure comes in.”

The state refused to acknowledge SFR’s requests for comment.

In the absence of state guidelines, Linda Paul has been working with a handful of people at Poms and Associates to develop a model professional boundaries policy. It’s the core of the presentation she made to the New Mexico School Boards Association last month.

Such a policy, Paul says, may seem remedial—why do you need to tell professionals not to put kids in their lap or not to close doors when they’re alone with a child?—but it also acts as a signpost for other teachers, volunteers, staff and administrators.

David Poms explains such a policy can be tremendously helpful if his staff can convince districts that adopting and sticking with it can save them money and, more importantly, prevent abuse: “It’s the tendency to protect your own that’s going to take some doing. Because it’s just human nature to do that, but it’s crazy human nature [when safety is at stake].”

A boundaries policy can act as a fence, Paul tells SFR. She’s dug into this for a long time, and found only Carlsbad had something approaching such a policy. She’s certain it will have an impact, though, and says Albuquerque Public Schools is going to adopt one soon.

“The policy says if you come inside [the fence], here’s what we want you to do and here’s what we want you not to do. Part of the goodness of public education is the relationships between healthy

so much of what’s reportable to the state and to the NASDTEC Clearinghouse relies on a quality investigation.

It also can give school districts the confidence to give a more thorough answer when another school calls for a reference check. “A lot of people default to name, rank and serial number, which isn’t necessarily appropriate,” Meilleur says. “But they do it out of a fear of defamation.”

A sharp investigation is especially important, David Poms says, because the state has been short on licensure investigators for some time. The more professionally a district can handle its own investigations, the less likely they are to get lost at the state level.

Nallely Hernandez says no one listened to her and her fourth-grade classmates when they said that their teacher was sexually abusing them.

adults and children. … We don’t want the goodness to go away, we want to prevent the creeps. We want the badness to go away.”

Teaching certificates are considered a property right, Santa Fe Public Schools Superintendent Veronica Garcia says, carving out a few minutes in a packed holiday schedule to sit down for a brief interview. As such, the former education secretary under Gov. Bill Richardson explains, taking one away requires due process.

That means an investigation, a hearing and potentially an appeal.

In the not-too-distant past, the investigation and resultant follow-up was often the time when problem teachers would make their escape. That’s how Gary Gregor was able to leave Santa Fe with a neutral recommendation instead of a black mark that could have possibly kept him from teaching elsewhere. Garcia says the 2007 change to the law made it “very clear that you have to investigate, and if you find something, [you have to] report it.”

“These little quiet deals in the middle

of the night? They have to stop,” Garcia says.

While she wasn’t familiar with Paul’s boundary policy, she’s supportive of the concept not only because it could catch or prevent abuse early on, but it could give teachers the protection of fair guidelines and clear expectations for their interactions with students.

The National Education Association’s New Mexico chapter is at least conceptually open to the idea as well, union president Betty Patterson tells SFR. “Students are at the center of everything we do,” she says in a statement. “This means ensuring every person at the front of every classroom and throughout the schools is qualified, caring and committed. We certainly support a strong statutory and regulatory environment that supports these values.”

Back at Poms and Associates, Steve Meilleur has mined a 40-year human resources career to make sure districts around the state have access to support when they have to investigate abuse allegations. It’s a vital part of eliminating predatory behavior in schools because

It’s hard to gauge the true cost of the misguided belief that the problem has already been solved. It seems there’s a decent chance settlements from Gary Gregor’s time in Española will top $10 million. There are other quantifiable measures, such as the increase in insurance premiums for the Public School Insurance Authority or the cost of hiring and training new teachers or coaches as predatory ones move on.

There are also costs that are much harder to measure.

Nallely Hernandez says she’s still learning to trust adults. For a long time, she’d punch or kick boys who tried to touch her in the school hallway—her body is hers, not anyone else’s. But she speaks with a quiet strength that belies the spirit underneath.

She’s a sophomore at UNM now, six months pregnant and still waiting tables at an Albuquerque restaurant despite a seven-figure court settlement. That money is in a trust. She’s a double-major in biochemistry and Spanish who wants to become a surgeon. She’s also minoring in psychology and, in this interview and those she’s given in the past, she says that she’d like to speak with children about what happened to her and how to protect themselves.

It’s hard to imagine someone who would handle being sexually assaulted by her fourth-grade teacher better than Hernandez, but she’s an outlier. Many other girls don’t want to talk about what they say Gary Gregor did to them. Nallely Hernandez was able to make a different choice. Her lawsuit named her only as Jane Doe. Eventually, she decided putting her face to her story was important. “[With anonymity] it’ll be told, but not through me. And I lived it,” she says.

“It wouldn’t be the same to say ‘Jane Doe’ when here I am. And I want to be able to make that difference.”

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MUSIC/LECTURE TUE/9 BACH ‘N’ ROLL “This is the first time I’ve ever touched on JS Bach,” composer and outgoing artistic director for Performance Santa Fe, Joe Illick, says of his upcoming lecture, Notes on Music: Bach. Illick’s hybrid talks/ mini-concerts have indeed proved valuable slices of music history, but, he says, there’s something universal about Bach that makes this one special.

“People from all different walks of life love Bach and sometimes don’t know it,” he says. “It’s his reach of emotion, records sold, the millions of people around the world who hear him every day.”

Illick recently took on a position at the Fort Worth Opera in Texas, but remains a Santa Fe citizen, and more importantly—how many lectures come from a man sitting at a piano? (ADV) Notes on Music: Bach: 7:30 pm Tuesday Jan. 9. $15-$30. United Church of Santa Fe, 1804 Arroyo Chamiso, 988-3295

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For All You Ladies Out There Steven Snyder concocts painted homages to the fairer sex “This is the first time I’ve shown in a gallery in Santa Fe,” artist Steven Snyder says, though she’s previously shown in her hometown of Denver and during Miami’s Art Basel. “I moved to Santa Fe full-time in November 2015,” she continues, “and, when I moved down, I was going through this big triple life change: I went from being married to single after 30 years, moved to a new city and, at the same time, changed gender.”

And though Snyder says she’s excited to have found a supportive community in Santa Fe, her paintings don’t focus on the idea of gender politics so much as they examine and celebrate women through faces. This is the premise for Snyder’s upcoming 7 Arts Gallery show, About Face: The Journey to Female. “I’ve been doing a lot of faces; the way I broke into this transgender life was painting my own face, because women wear makeup, that’s how we change the way we look,” she says. “A lot of times [the work] comes strictly out of my head.” Snyder creates with “every kind of paint you can ever conceive of, except for oils,” opting for sporadic pieces on canvas, but focusing mostly on plywood panels

or found wood, surfaces she admires for their imperfections.

“Some of the work is very dark and deals with the dark parts of change, because there are men who are predatory and women have to carry this throughout their lives,” she explains, “but I have other pieces that are more humorous or that are just fun pieces that deal with being female; in my view, it’s way more fun to be female than male.”

This is shown through vast and wild use of color and, Snyder says, rarely starting with a plan, in favor of allowing the work to come to her during the process.

Pieces are often celebratory and usually vivid. “I am so grateful to women, particularly the women of Santa Fe,” Snyder adds. “I am so grateful for the love I’ve experienced and the women who’ve brought me into the fold—this is for women everywhere, but also especially for the women of Santa Fe.” (Alex De Vore) ABOUT FACE: THE JOURNEY TO FEMALE 5 pm Friday Jan. 5. Free.

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SYDNEY WESTAN Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Country bluesy folky Americanaey and Westerny singer-songwritery tunes.

5:30-7:30 pm, free TINY’S ELECTRIC JAM Tiny’s Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Were you plenty inspired by Sydney Westan just then?

There’s time to run home and grab your guitar to join in on the jam, hosted by Nick Wymette and Albert Diaz.

8 pm, free TOM COLLINS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Music that tastes a little lemony, a little junipery, a little sweet too.

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WORKSHOP BEGINNER CONTOURING Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Secret's out: It is possible to shift the bones in your face (or at least look like you did) using makeup. Learn the tricks of the trade with makeup artist Ariana Throne. BYOMC (makeup kit).

6 pm, $15

BOOKS/LECTURES DHARMA TALK BY KIGAKU NOAH ROSSETTER Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 This week's talk is presented

by Kigaku Noah Rossetter a resident of Upaya Zen Center.

The evening begins with a 15-minute meditation, so please arrive by 5:20 pm to be polite.

5:30 pm, free FRIENDS OF HISTORY LECTURE SERIES: ROXANNE SWENTZELL New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5200 To say Swentzell (Santa Clara Pueblo) is simply an artist and author sells her criminally short. For three months in 2013, Swentzell and 13 other Pueblo volunteers ate only the foods available to their ancestors before first contact with Europeans in 1540; in this talk, Swentzell discusses the experience.

5:30 pm, free SMITTEN FORUM: CURATOR’S TALK form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111 Each year since 2014, Sara Brown and Marissa Saneholtz have invited a new group of pioneering jewelers and metalsmiths to work in a communal studio for seven days.

Call it a mobile artist colony, a social experiment or a piece of performance art—or by its real name, the Smitten Forum. A curator’s talk features Brown, Saneholtz and 2014 participant Robert Ebendorf.

2-3 pm, free

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

8 pm, free

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THU/4 BOOKS/LECTURES SANTA FE NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK'S MAYORAL FORUM Santa Fe University of Art and Design 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 473-6011 The Forum on the SFUAD campus plays host to a forum (fitting) in which all Santa Fe mayoral candidates have agreed to participate: Peter Ives, Joseph Maestas, Kate Noble, Ronald Trujillo and Alan Webber. They’ll address questions about important issues in Santa Fe submitted by members of the audience.

7 pm, free

EVENTS Painter Steven Snyder has created a series of feminine portraits as she transitions to female, and years’ worth of her works are on view in About Face at 7 Arts Gallery, opening Friday. Also check SFR Picks on page 15 for more about Snyder.

LIBRARY OPEN HOUSE New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Snag a unique opportunity to browse the museum's massive archive of books and artist files about contemporary art, plus ask questions of librarians.

1-4 pm, free

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

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CALVIN HAZEN El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Flamenco and classical Spanish guitar.

7 pm, free DJ SAGGALIFFIK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 House, electronica, hip-hop and reggaeton. And one heck of a chicken strip basket. We talk about the strips a lot, but really, they’re just that good.

10 pm, free

LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock 'n' roll. The glut of holiday tourists is gone, but there will be a few left—probably just the fun ones. Party on.

7:30 pm, free RAMON BERMUDEZ TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Latin and smooth jazz guitar, maybe with a little blues thrown in for good measure.

6 pm, free

SANTA FE CROONERS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Swingin’ standards.

6 pm, free SANTA FE MEGABAND REHEARSAL Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, 470-7077 Join an open community band and play acoustic string band music. Open practices are held on the first and third Wednesdays of each month, so if you miss this one, you'll have another chance soon.

7 pm, free

NEW HOMEBUYER NIGHT Homewise 1301 Siler Road, Bldg. D, 983-9473 Stop by an informal New Homebuyer Night with Homewise, the local nonprofit that offers everything you need to become a homeowner, plus services to a variety of income ranges.

5 pm, free WOMEN’S VOICES THEATER FESTIVAL PLANNING MEETING Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 Join Talia Pura and Blue Raven Theatre to brainstorm for an all-female playwright festival (see Acting Out, page 21).

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MUSIC BERT AND MILO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 A jazzy duo features Bert Dalton on keys and Milo Jaramillo on bass.

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

6:30 pm, free JOE WEST’S HONKY-TONK EXPERIENCE Tiny’s Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Are you experienced?

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 MADMARTIGAN Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 Melancholy guitar and tight vocal harmonies combine to form a compelling but approachable post-modern rock sound.

6-9 pm, free OPEN MIC WITH STEPHEN Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 The mic. It is open. Your host Stephen Pitts will show you the way. Ask him about his recent Death Valley vacay.

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

6 pm, free SUTHERLIN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Portland-based Thomas Dietzel, who considers rock ‘n’ roll a religion, modernizes country—and nods to the inherent weirdness of the genre.

8 pm, free

FRI/5 ART OPENINGS ABOUT FACE: THE JOURNEY TO FEMALE 7 Arts Gallery 125 Lincoln Ave., 437-1107 The human face has been the principle subject matter of Santa Fe artist Steven Snyder’s work for the past four years; trace the time that Snyder began transitioning to the female gender in late 2015 through 2017. The portraits, which are alternately dark and playful, chronicle a period in the artist’s life of incredible and challenging personal change. Through Jan. 31 (see SFR Picks, page 15).

5 pm, free

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FIRST FRIDAY New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 The whole museum is free, and you can enjoy the poppy musical stylings of AlmaZazz at the museum's monthly First Friday celebration. Also catch occasional 15-minute pop-up talks from volunteer guides about the museum's history and collection.

5-7 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES SEXUAL PREDATION AND THE BETRAYAL OF THE TRUE YANG Railyard Performance Center 1611 Paseo de Peralta Santa Fe, 982-8309 In a talk subtitled "How the Binary Gender Code Makes Us Less Human," Master Zhenzan Dao (an intersex and transgender Daoist monk) discusses the MogaDao Daoist concepts of True Yang and True Yin in an attempt to shed light on the way in which the prevailing culture’s limited definitions of gender and sexuality contribute to sexual predation.

6 pm, $10

MUSIC ALTO STREET Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Poignant but fun folky pop.

6 pm, free BROOMDUST CARAVAN Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 Cosmic country and Americana featuring cellist Lucky Strike Mike from Tacoma, Jim Goulden of Gluey Brothers fame, Johnny Broomdust and steel guitar whiz kid Ryan Little.

7 pm, free DJ DYNAMITE SOL Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 House, funk, reggaeton and hip-hop from the one and only Sol Bentley.

10 pm, free DANIELE SPADAVECCHIA Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 The guitarist’s worldly travels (from Italy to New Orleans to Santa Fe) inform the unique sound of his gypsy jazz.

7 pm, free DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Broadway standards and other piano tunes.

6 pm, $2 DOUG MONTGOMERY AND BOB FINNIE Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards and classical tunes on piano from two fine fellows: Doug starts, Bob takes over at 8 pm. By the way, 2018 marks Doug’s 35th (!) year at Vanessie. Mazel tov!

6 pm, free

GARRY BLACKCHILD Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Old-timey indie Americana and folk.

6 pm, free THE JAKES Tiny’s Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Rock ‘n’ roll made for dancing.

8:30 pm, free JESUS BAS La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Amorous and romantic Spanish and flamenco guitar.

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7 pm, free JOHN KURZWEG BAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock 'n' roll.

8:30 pm, free JULIAN DOSSETT TRIO Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Delta blues.

8 pm, free LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n' roll.

9 pm, $5 LORI OTTINO, ERIK SAWYER AND FRIENDS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Bluegrass and Americana on the deck.

5 pm, free LOS PRIMOS MELODICOS Cava Lounge at the Eldorado 309 W San Francisco St., 988-4455 Pan-Latin jams (flamenco, Afro-Cuban y más).

7 pm, free SAVOR La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Cuban street music (see SFR Picks, page 15).

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

7:30 pm, free TIM WILLSON AND FRANZ VOTE First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 This week's TGIF recital features Willson (baritone) and Vote (piano) performing selections from "Winterreise"

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I married my high-school sweetheart at 17, had a baby, together a few years, mental illness and subsequent infidelity led to things ending. My ex-husband remarried, divorced again, and is now in another LTR. I’m in a LTR for a decade with my current partner (CP), we have a few kids, and I’m so in love with him, it terrifies me. My ex frequently makes sexual remarks to me, low-key flirts. I feel an animal attraction in the moment. Whatever.

I don’t want to be with him, my relationship with CP is solid AF, and I get amazing fucking at home from a man far more skilled. CP knows about ex-husband’s remarks and one actual physical advance. CP has offered to talk to my ex. I told him nah, I’ll deal with it and make it stop. I talked to my ex-husband today, and he said: “I’m sorry, it’s just teasing, I won’t make an actual move ever again, but you’re the only woman I ever just look at and get immediately hard for, and it’s only a few more years before our kid is fully grown and we don’t see each other anymore. So humor me because you know we both enjoy it.” And it’s true that I do enjoy it. But how harmful is it to engage in flirty banter without any touching, nudity, or worse? I hate having secrets, as I feel they are barriers to intimacy, but I’m a thirtysomething mom and it is so fucking unbearably sexy to be made to feel so desirable even after all that shit between us and it’ll never, ever happen because hell no am I sleeping with my ex-hubby, but knowing this man will never get a whiff of my pussy again but can’t help but beg for it with his eyes gives me a sense of power like I’ve never fucking felt before, but even so I don’t want to be a terrible person for hiding this from my CP because I don’t like having secrets from him but this is just one that turns me on to no end but I should nip this in the bud and put a stop to it yesterday because it’s wrong, right?

-Secret Longings Utterly Titillating I love a good run-on sentence—grammar fetishists are going to get off on diagramming that doozy you closed with—so I’m going to give it a shot, too: I don’t see the harm in enjoying your ex-husband’s flirtations so long as you’re certain you’ll never, ever take him up on his standing offer, but you are playing with fire here, SLUT, so pull on a pair of asbestos panties when you know you’ll be seeing your ex-hubby, and I don’t think you should feel bad about this secret because while honesty is great generally and while the keeping of secrets is frowned upon by advice professionals reflexively, SLUT, a little mystery, a little distance, a little erotic autonomy keeps our sex lives with long-term partners hot—even monogamous relationships—so instead of seeing this secret as a barrier to intimacy, SLUT, remind yourself that the erotic charge you get from your ex-hubby—the way he makes you feel desirable—benefits your CP, because he’s the one who will be getting a big, fat whiff of your pussy when you get home and there’s nothing wrong with that, right?

I’ve been with my girlfriend “J” for two years.

Her best friend “M” is a gay man she’s known since high school. M and I have hung out many times. He seems cool, but lately I’ve been wondering if he and J are fucking behind my back. For starters, J and I rarely have sex anymore. Even a kiss on the cheek happens less than once a week. Meanwhile, J’s Facebook feed has pictures of M grabbing her tits outside of a gay club in front of her sister.

She told me he’s spent the night in her room, even though he lives only a few miles away.

I’ve also recently found out that although M has a strong preference for men, he considers

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himself bisexual. I understand that everyone loves tits, even if they’re not turned on by them, and gay men can sleep with a girl and actually just… sleep. I also know that her antidepressants can kill sex drive. All three things at once feel like more than just coincidence, though. At the very least, the PDAs seem disrespectful. At worst, I’m a blind fool who’s been replaced. Am I insecure or is there something to these worries?

-You Pick The Acronym I Gotta Get To Work Your girlfriend’s best friend isn’t gay, YPTAIGGTW, he’s bisexual—so, yeah, it’s entirely possible M is fucking your girlfriend, since fucking girls is something bisexual guys do and, according to one study, they’re better at it. (Australian women who had been with both bi and straight guys ranked their bi male partners as more attentive lovers, more emotionally available, and better dads, according to the results of a study published in 2016.)

But while we can’t know for sure whether M is fucking J, YPTAIGGTW, we do know who she isn’t fucking: you. If the sex is rare and a kiss—on the cheek—is a once-a-week occurrence, it’s time to pull the plug. Yes, antidepressants can be a libido killer. They can also be a dodge. If your girlfriend doesn’t regard the lack of sex as a problem and isn’t working on a fix—if she’s prioritizing partying with her bisexual bestie over talking to her doc and adjusting her meds, if she hasn’t offered you some sort of accommodation/outlet/workaround for the lack of sex—trust your gut and get out.

I’m a recently divorced woman with a high libido. Now that I’m single, I’ve come out as a kinkster. I quickly met someone who swept me off my feet—smart, funny, sexy, proudly pervy, and experienced in the BDSM scene— and soon he declared himself as my Dom and I assumed the sub role. This was hot as hell at first. I loved taking his orders, knowing how much my subservience pleased him, and surprising myself with just how much pain and humiliation I could take. However, his fantasies quickly took a darker turn. When I say I’m uncomfortable with the extremely transgressive territory he wants to explore, he says, “I’m your master and you take my orders.” I think this is shitty form—the bottom should always set the limits. When we’re in play, he says that I chose him as my top precisely because I wanted to see how far I could go and that it’s his job to push me out of my comfort zone. I think he’s twisting my words. Arguing over limits mid-scene makes us both frustrated and angry. I’m not in any physical danger, but his requests (if carried out) could ruin some of my existing relationships. Did I blow it by not giving him a list of my hard limits in advance of becoming his sub? Or is he just a shitty, inconsiderate top trying to take advantage of a novice? After play, he checks in to see if I’m okay, which on the surface looks like great form—aftercare and all—but this also feels manipulative. How can I pull things back to where I’m comfortable? Do I run from the scene—or just this guy?

-Tired Of Overreaching From A Shitty Top A top who reopens negotiations about limits and what’s on the BDSM menu during a scene—a time when the sub will feel tremendous pressure to, well, submit—is not a top you can trust. The same goes for a top who makes demands that, if obeyed, could ruin their sub’s relationships with family, friends, other partners, etc. Run from this guy, TOOFAST, but not from the scene. There are better tops out there. Go find one.

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SAT/6 ART OPENINGS ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: MAYUMI WATANABE AND RAND MARCO City of Mud 1114 A Hickox St., 954-1705 A duo show featuring Watanabe’s abstract paintings, which often include silver leaf and textural elements, and Marco’s metal vessels featuring both clean geometric grids and inviting rounded forms.

3-5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES THE CULTURAL POWER OF NATIVE ART: MATEO ROMERO Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1269 Join a discussion about Romero’s paintings, which reflect a pattern of evolution and change through swirling gestural paint marks.

Overall, Romero’s work evokes a rhythmic, hypnotic feeling, referential to the metaphysical space of the Pueblo. Free with museum admission.

1 pm, $6-$12 MICHAEL BENANAV: HIMALAYA BOUND Travel Bug Coffee Shop 839 Paseo de Peralta, 992-0418 Featuring remarkable images of nomadic life in the jungles and mountains of north India, local author and New York Times photojournalist Benanav takes a visual journey with the Van Gujjars, a tribe of forest-dwelling nomads, as they trek with herds of water buffalo into the Himalayas on their annual spring migration. Benanav traveled with one nomadic family for 44 days. He came to know his companions well, and here presents a slide show and a new book that chronicle his experience (see The Enthusiast, page 9).

5 pm, free WINTER READERS GATHERING: JON DAVIS, CHERIE DIMALINE AND PAM HOUSTON Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2351 As part of a formidable series presented each year

by IAIA, faculty and visiting writers read their work in poetry, fiction, nonfiction and that which cannot be categorized. Head to the auditorium in the Library and Technology Center.

Visiting writer Cherie Dimaline (Georgian Bay Métis) is most noted for her 2017 novel The Marrow Thieves; she also was the first Aboriginal writer in residence for the Toronto Public Library.

6 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

MUSIC ALPHA CATS Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Jazz.

6 pm, free DAMN UNION Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 The Doña Ana Music Night Union plays all kinds of genres (think folk, Americana and rock) with a focus on community and resistance. Down with the bourgeoisie, y’all. (Yes, we had to look up how to spell bourgeoisie.) It's on the deck.

2 pm, free DK & THE AFFORDABLES Ski Santa Fe 740 Hyde Park Road, 982-4429 Twangy guitar and a ripping rhythm section makes for a hootenanny at Totemoff's. A perfect apres-ski activity.

11 am-3 pm, free DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Santa Fe's consummate Broadway performer plays piano standards and tunes from his long career in the business.

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

6 pm, free JACK GWYDION Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 Gwydion views music as a tonic in times of upheaval, singing from the heart about his home state of Colorado and the human condition.

7 pm, free KITTY JO CREEK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Bluegrass.

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

7 pm, free PIGMENT Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Jammy noodley fusion tunes and organized improvisation.

8:30 pm, free

THE PORTER DRAW Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Rock ‘n’ roll and indie tunes.

8 pm, free RYAN FINN QUARTET El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Trombonist Finn heads a jazzy group of folks.

7:30 pm, free SAVOR La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Cuban street music straight outta Havana (see SFR Picks, page 15).

8 pm, free SHOWCASE KARAOKE Tiny’s Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 SFR’s suggestion of the week: anything by Jidenna. It might be a little new to be in the machine, but see if they have “Long Live the Chief” and report back to us.

8:30 pm, free STANLIE KEE AND STEP IN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Bluesy rock.

1 pm, free THE BOOMROOTS COLLECTIVE El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Reggae and hip-hop.

9 pm, $5

WORKSHOP BEGINNER BODY PAINTING Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Make yourself into something else. Plenty of time to get practice in before next Halloween. Learn the tricks of the trade with makeup artist Ariana Throne.

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2-5 pm, $15

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SUN/7 BOOKS/LECTURES CHANGE YOUR MIND, CHANGE YOUR WORLD Zoetic 230 St. Francis Drive, 292-5293 Begin the new year on a new path by shedding old habits and views and responses that bind us to unhappiness.

Our mind creates our world moment by moment; reap the benefits of these simple but profound meditations and transform your reality.

10:30 am-noon, $10 THE CULTURAL POWER OF NATIVE ART: CANNUPA HANSKA LUGER Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1269 Luger’s work combines critical cultural analysis with dedication and respect for the diverse materials, environments, and communities he engages. Known for his ceramic innovations, he also tells stories using fiber, steel, cut paper, video, sound, performance, monumental sculpture, land art installation and social collaboration. Free with museum admission.

1 pm, $6-$12 JOURNEYSANTAFE: PETER WIRTH Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Wirth, the majority floor leader of the state Senate, previews the upcoming legislative session.

11 am, free WINTER READERS GATHERING: CHIP LIVINGSTON, MARIEHELENE BERTINO AND JENNIFER ELISE FOERSTER Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2351 Faculty members read their work in poetry, fiction, nonfiction and that which cannot be categorized. Head to the auditorium in the Library and Technology Center.

6 pm, free

EVENTS LEAH MATA: ARTIST DEMONSTRATION Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian 704 Camino Lejo, 982-4636 Mata (Northern Chumash) discusses the materials and significance of her coastal California jewelry and regalia.

1-4 pm, free NAUGHTY AND NICE CABARET Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 An Ascension Space presents six local performers, who each present two pieces representing the Shadow (naughty) and Light (nice). Think hip-hop dance, trapeze, spoken word, music and more.

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In case you were wondering, avant-garde arts and music collective High Mayhem is still around—its members have just been busy starting families and stuff. No matter, though, as The Wires (three quarters of noise/art rock act The Late Severa Wires) dust off the ol’ instruments and get to playing this Friday Jan. 5 alongside their fellow Mayhem-ers We Drew Lightning and Albuquerque’s Bigawatt (8 pm. $5-$10. Ghost, 2899 Trades West Road).

This doesn’t happen often, so we checked in with member Carlos Santistevan, one of our favorite weirdos and a staunch supporter of indie, underground and original music in Santa Fe. Read an extended version of this interview online at SFReporter.com. (Alex De Vore) What’s been up with High Mayhem lately?

We’ve been getting that a lot. I guess a lot of it’s just kind of been life. Individually, we’re all really productive and have a lot of stuff going on. Collectively, we haven’t been working together a whole lot. This year, I had a new son get born, so that’s been taking a lot of energy. We got this new studio space and we’re still working on that and there’s a lot of development, but just for me, within the last three or four months I’ve gotten things going again. I went out and played the High Zero festival in Baltimore. I played a set with one of the guys from Matmos; they bring in all these players from all over the country and throw you into four different ensembles and you’ve just gotta go up onstage and perform without ever having met. This year the intention is to get the webcast series going, but [we’re] trying to upgrade gear so we can do it as HD broadcasts. And trying to work on music, work on albums, trying to stay productive on the artistic tip. Leave the production stuff of shows to other people who are a little fresher. The majority of us have families and jobs and relationships and only so much energy. Am I gonna devote that energy to putting on other peoples’ shows and investing money there, or continuing to work and developing my own art?

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Right now the DIY scene in Santa Fe has got a nice pulse on it, but we haven’t presented in quite some time. We just decided to do that. It looks like we’re gonna have Ben Tempchin from Bodies doing some guitar for us. Ben’s an incredible and diverse musician.

Will we hear old stuff? New stuff? Some combo of the stuffs?

The Late Severa Wires, we basically work with a sonic vocabulary, so it’s like the pieces are directed to a certain extent, and there’s also a lot of conducting going on. Certain gestures signify for certain music to go into certain spaces. We sonically take it to a different place, but there are certain things that pertain to all music. The music still has sustain, it still has pulses, it still has dynamics. If you work within these sorts of vocabularies, you can create structures that are very directed but still improvised. The band members can, at any time, conduct or change the music and take it to other places. But the sound we go for is as much about vibration as it is about sound.

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BORIS McCUTCHEON Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Gothic Americana from everyone's favorite local farmer-cum-musician. Hey Boris, we want to hear “Don’t Get Weird.” Yeah, it’s oldschool, but we like it.

Noon, free CONNIE LONG AND FAST PATSY Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Country music with a twist of rockabilly, rock 'n' roll and blues. January can be a sleepy season but the folks at the Shaft keep things hoppin’.

2 pm, free DETROIT LIGHTNING Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 When Ben Wright (guitar), Paul Feathericci (drums), Josh Martin (bass) and Kevin Zoernig (keys) come together, they form Santa Fe's favorite/only Grateful Dead cover band. Buy a poncho on Shakedown Street, wear sandals even tho it's freezing cold, and get ready to jam.

8 pm, $10-$12 DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Classical, standards, pop and original tunes on piano and vocals. Did we mention it’s his 35th season at Vanessie?

Well, we did, but we’ll do it again: It’s his 35th season at Vanessie. Help him celebrate.

6:30 pm, free MARIO REYNOLDS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Did you see this guy last month at Teatro Paraguas' Musical Piñata for Christmas?

It totally brought the house down—he can really rock a charango. Expect traditional Norteño tunes and folk songs on guitar, charango and maybe even flute.

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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 all that.

10 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 NEXT 2 THE TRACKS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Outlaw rock and renegade blues. And, wow, time to get your mind blown: Cowgirl is kind of next to the tracks too. Not quite as next to the tracks as, say, Second Street Brewery, but it’s quite close.

8 pm, $5 OPEN MIC Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Show off the new jams you've been working on. Hosted by the Mike Montiel Trio.

3-7 pm, free PAT MALONE AND JON GAGAN El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 A jazzy duo with bluesy notes plays for a spell on what has come to be known as Civilized Sunday at the bar.

7 pm, free SCHOOL OF ROCK ABQ: LED ZEPPELIN Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 High school-aged students perform the best of Led Zeppelin, with School of Rock's middle-school students on backup. The middle-school musicians also bring a reggae set for your enjoyment (see SFR Picks, page 15).

7 pm, $15

WORKSHOP MAKING HISTORY: BLOCK PRINTS New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5087 Head to the museum’s Learning Lab and make your own small block prints from scratch with pros to show you how. Be prepared to get messy with a hands-on demonstration of the Palace Press. This will fill up, so reserve your spot!

1:30-4 pm, free ZEN MEDITATION INSTRUCTION Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 Those new to Upaya and meditation can receive instruction on Zen meditation and temple etiquette. There is no fee, but registration is recommended so the fine folks at Upaya may plan accordingly.

3 pm, free

MON/8 BOOKS/LECTURES BI-LINGUAL BOOKS AND BABIES Santa Fe Public Library LaFarge Branch 1730 Llano St., 955-4860 Being bilingual is the wave of the future (and the present too, to be honest), so give your kid a head start with a bilingual (English and Spanish) program for babies 6 months to 2 years old and their caregivers, featuring books, songs and finger games from the comfort of a lap (the baby gets a lap, not you). A solid pre-reading experience can pave the way to learning success.

10:15 am-10:45 pm, free BI-LINGUAL BOOKS AND BABIES Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 Couldn’t make it to this morning’s session at the LaFarge library (see above listing)?

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5:30-6 pm, free PETERSON YAZZIE PRESENTATION & BOOK SIGNING Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian 704 Camino Lejo, 982-4636 Yazzie, a Navajo artist and educator from Greasewood Springs, Arizona, discusses how the Navajo culture and his personal experiences are the foundation of his work.

He also signs copies of a children’s book that he illustrated, The Hogan that GreatGrandfather Built.

2:30 pm, $10 WINTER READERS GATHERING: KEN WHITE, TONI JENSEN AND SHERWIN BITSUI Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2351 Writing faculty members read their work in the Library and Technology Center.

6 pm, free

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

7 pm, free NEW MEXICANS FOR MONEY OUT OF POLITICS: REACHING OUT FOR A UNITED PURPOSE Higher Education Building 1950 Siringo Road, 473-9070 Rebecca Alvarez and Valerie Stasik present a review of basic communication concepts and a discussion of approaches one can use to effectively communicate. NM MOP is a grassroots anti-corruption organization.

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he actor-writer-director-educator-costumer-producer-dancer (and much more, but we have a word count here) moved to Santa Fe from Winnipeg, Manitoba, about two years ago, and wasted no time making herself invaluable. Pura is a jane of all trades and a master of all, it seems—and she’s only just getting started.

Her latest endeavor is taking over management of the black box theater at Studio Center of Santa Fe (formerly Warehouse 21). There’s been much apprehension about the future of the transitioning teen arts center; with this announcement we can rest assured that the theater, at least, is in great hands. Her first project in her new role is a one-day festival of readings of work by local female playwrights. But more on all this later; first, every superhero needs an origin story.

In talking with Pura (which is an easy thing to do; “a quick interview” lasted two

hours), you discern almost immediately that her homeland of Canada values the contribution of artists significantly more than does the US. (Shocking.) She and her husband, noted artist and composer Bill Pura, moved to Santa Fe from a pretty cushy situation in Winnipeg; “There was nothing wrong with my life,” she says.

Talia had been teaching theater at the university level, producing plays and films, receiving prestigious assignments from arts-based organizations, conducting workshops all over the world and writing prolifically. They had visited Santa Fe on vacation and, as often happens, just fell in love and decided they had to live here.

“When I researched it and saw all the theaters between here and Albuquerque, I wasn’t worried; I thought I’d have as many or more opportunities,” Pura says.

“But I come from a city that’s the size of Albuquerque and has seven Equity houses.” What she hadn’t realized: There are no Equity houses in Santa Fe. Albuquerque has one. For the uninitiated, that means that there are no venues guaranteed to work under Actor’s Equity Association, ie union, rules (in Canada, venues are in the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres). Bluntly, among other things, this means that money can be tight for theater folk. (Also shocking.)

While this is a change from Winnipeg,

WOMEN’S VOICES THEATER FESTIVAL Planning Meeting: 5:30 pm Thursday Jan. 4. Free.

Festival: 2 pm Sunday Jan. 21; staggered schedule to be announced. $5-$10.

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ample, 67 percent of audience members are female; yet only two of 10 new plays debuted in 2017 were by women. Both of those women, Lynn Nottage and Paula Vogel, are Pulitzer winners, while none of the men had even comparable resumes. It could be said that this gap exists in Santa Fe as well, though laudably to a lesser degree: In a representative sample of 24 shows this columnist saw in Santa Fe in 2017, 15 were by men, and seven were penned by women (one of which was Pura’s own Metamorphosis). There were also two ensemble-written shows by groups that included women.

A planning meeting for the festival is this week, and it will all be whipped into shape pretty quickly—the festival falls on the anniversary of the Women’s March (Jan. 21). It will run about six hours; “We’ll see what happens,” Pura says. “If we ... just have enough plays to fill the time we want, then that’s TA what it’ll be; if we get SY E T UR CO more than six hours’ worth of programming, we’ll have a lottery. And people can come and go.”

It seems like a tight timeline. I ask Pura if she’s apprehensive.

“No,” she answers, without hesitation.

“It doesn’t feel daunting, because I’ve organized so many things, it’s second nature.” She’s done this kind of thing before.

And, as Santa Fe has seen, she’ll continue to do it again and again.

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Pura doesn’t consider it a hindrance. She just has to hustle in a different way. She set to work immediately, making friends and connections at as many companies and venues as she could. She became a board member of Theatre Santa Fe. She started her own theater company, Blue Raven Theatre. And, perhaps most impressive in the theater scene: I’ve never heard a negative word spoken about Pura. That’s a feat, even in a town as affable as ours (everyone “plays together in the same sandbox nicely,” as Pura says).

For her new ventures, she’s looking forward to partnering with as many organizations as she can, and her first undertaking at Studio Center is the Women’s Voices Theater Festival. In association with the festival of the same name that started in 2015 in Washington, DC, it’s a one-day amalgam of readings of new, unproduced work from local female playwrights. She has a few women signed on already, but is eager for more—particularly students, as she wants to get young people more involved in Santa Fe theater. (Schools seem notoriously hard to “get into” for some theater professionals in town; schools have become fortresses of security, and establishing contact in order to reach out to students for classes, workshops and casting has proven no easy thing.)

“There’s a lack of parity in theater, not only in acting—because so many classical plays are written for male actors—but for female playwrights,” Pura points out. Indeed, while women stereotypically (and actually) vastly outnumber men in arts fields, it still comes as no surprise that women are underrepresented. As explored by the New York Times last year, taking Broadway in New York as an ex-

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7:30 pm, free COWGIRL KARAOKE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Michèle Leidig hosts Santa Fe's most famous night of karaoke. SFR’s suggestion this week: something instrumental. Would that even be possible? Find out and report back.

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

6:30 pm, free TÏNA-HANÄÉ, SABINE HOLLER AND TONE RANGER Ghost 2899 Trades West Road tïna-hanäé is an NYC-based, four-piece shinto-futurist band that's been described as "Princess Mononoke meets pop-music." Bruh. They're joined by Holler (alternative, experimental and pop tunes) and Tone Ranger (soundscapes and dance rhythms on pedal steel guitar).

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TUE/9 BOOKS/LECTURES BOTANICAL BOOK CLUB: THE TRIUMPH OF SEEDS Stewart Udall Center 725 Camino Lejo, 983-6155 Join other botanical book enthusiasts over tea, cookies and great conversation about The Triumph of Seeds by Thor Hanson. Seeds are quite literally the stuff and staff of life, and especially in a place like New Mexico where ancestral foods are a hot topic, the subject is ripe for discussion.

1 pm, free NOTES ON MUSIC: BACH United Church of Santa Fe 1804 Arroyo Chamiso, 988-3295 Presented by Performance Santa Fe, the series from lecturer Joe Illick teaches more about the composers you thought you knew. The perfect synthesis of intellect and emotion, the grand master of counterpoint of fugue, Bach perfected every style that existed during his lifetime and elevated them to compose some of the greatest masterpieces of artistic expression ever created (see SFR Picks, page 15).

7:30 pm, $15-$30 PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Santa Fe Public Library LaFarge Branch 1730 Llano St., 955-4860 You have children. You gotta do something with them. May we suggest a public library story time? You can take out some books too, while you’re at it. Then go to Mucho for sandwiches after. It’s right down the street. Day made.

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10:30 am, free WINTER READERS GATHERING: MIGIZI PENSONEAU, BROOKE PEPION SWANEY AND SYDNEY FREELAND Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2351 A formidable series presented each year by IAIA, faculty and visiting writers read their work in poetry, fiction, nonfiction and that which cannot be categorized. Head to the auditorium in the Library and Technology Center. This evening features visiting writer Brooke Pepion Swaney (Blackfeet and Salish) also a film director. Prior to attending NYU, she worked at the Indian Law Resource Center, a legal organization dedicated to protecting the land and culture of Indigenous people.

In 2003, she graduated with honors from Stanford in psychology, writing an honors thesis on the media's effect on American Indians. So, long story short: She is as legit as they come.

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

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

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

8:30 pm, $5 CHUSCALES La Boca (Original Location) 72 W Marcy St., 982-3433 Exotic flamenco guitar from a dude whose family descended from the inventors of the genre. He knows his stuff.

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

6 pm, free ERYN BENT Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Country and folky Americana.

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

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

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A book back on American wine in 2017— plus vintage thoughts for 2018 Nowadays, some people are asking for something different. There are artificial ways to take out alcohol, but in the case of Matthiasson, the solution to producing a low-alcohol vintage is to merely pick the majority of the fruit early, and the rest much later, combining two different levels of ripeness to craft a chardonnay with a unique balance. All of Steve and Jill Matthiasson’s wines are low-alcohol, but the 2016 Linda Vista Vineyard chardonnay ($31) stands out for its refreshing tension between the expected chardonnay flavor profile and zingy structure.

Finally, there is a movement towards drinking outlier varieties of grapes. People are getting more experimental and flexible in their approach to wine, branching outside usual suspects of cabernet sauvignon and pinot noir to drink barbera, grenache, and carignan-hardy varieties that are naturally easy to grow and disease resistant. The Lioco Sativa carignan ($31) is made from dry-farmed, 70-year-old carignan vines from a single mountainside vineyard in Mendocino County.

It’s bold and unique, but it’s also a medium-bodied red with plenty of herbal and spice notes that make it remarkably food-friendly. And the grapes are harvested by hand rather than machine, giving jobs to workers at a time when jobs in CalCal ifornia are sorely needed.

Wine is, after all, a reflection of culture, and to talk about it is to talk about the fears, feelings and dreams that might shape our tastes this year. Happy New Year, thanks for reading, and may the future be bright and full of toasts and celebrations.

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Related to the reexamination of American wine’s origin story is the trend toward lower-alcohol wines. The tendency to reduce it to mere alcohol content as opposed to a piece of our cultural heritage is a vestige of Prohibition’s effective erasure of the burgeoning American wine-drinking culture in the early part of the 20th century. Wine was the happy medium between beer and spirits, but still today a lot of people are turned off by the cheap high-sugar/high-alcohol examples that saturate the market and almost ignore the product itself entirely.

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t was a tough year for the Californian wine industry in 2017, but it was also an important one. After wildfires spread across the North Coast, December brought even more devastation to Ventura and Los Angeles—where the damage to people’s lives and livelihoods continued to compound. We touched on fire’s impact on wine in last month’s column, but what does this have to do with trends in 2018?

Well, perhaps we will see a renewed embrace of California’s offerings. Everyone wants to help, especially by buying bottles from producers who are actively working to hold the American wine industry to a higher standard.

A lot of sweeping change that is impacting the greater agricultural world are trickling into viticulture, and California’s wildfires are forcing us to reexamine our industry standards. There are fashions within the niche realm of wine that are fleeting trends, and then there are broader social concerns about the impact of growing grapes and vinification that give rise to genuinely new ideas. Underneath and around California’s wine world there exists a centuries-old pioneering spirit that learned its lessons from the Old World, and utilizes a style of winemaking that is as transparent as possible in expressing a sense of place. Learning about wine means learning about culture, and our culture in America right now is experiencing great growth and change.

The rise of sustainable and organic growing have had a major impact, spawning many different kinds of both private and government-sponsored certifying organizations, from the biodynamic Demeter USA to the federal USDA organic seal

of approval, alongside many different informal pockets of sustainable winemaking that have little use for certification. I don’t mean to imply that these kinds of wine are any better or worse than those made using more conventional growing and vinfiying methods, only that they have changed the conversation about viticulture in a profound way. Just as industrialized methods of production are beginning to be questioned, so too the world of winemaking is experiencing a fashionable reinvention of its origins, with the goal of achieving a more refined product.

After all, wine was originally symbolic of a miracle: Grapes are transformed through the hand of man and nothing else; not commercial yeasts, not GMOs, not additives like Mega Purple.

Ridge Vineyards is an eminently approachable point of entry into the world of non-interventionist, pre-industrial, arguably “natural” wine, particularly the East Bench zinfandel ($36). Ridge is a member of the Old Guard of the new California viticulture, having used a more minimalist approach to winemaking for years. Generations of Ridge’s winemakers have eschewed artificial adjustments of acid and sugar and yeasts in favor of a more “hands-off” approach.

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The Museum of International Folk Art’s Crafting Memory: The Art of Community in Peru is a colorful collection of art, much of it poltical, including contemporary works that draw from folk art roots to create something effective and exciting.

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

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

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

Action Abstraction Redefined.

Through July 27, 2018.

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

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3, 2018. Lifeways of the Southern Athabaskans.

Through Dec. 31, 2018.

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

Through Jan. 21, 2018.

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

Through March 10, 2019.

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

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

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

8, 2018. Horizons: People & Place in New Mexican Art. Through Nov. 25, 2018.

Contact: Local to Global.

Through April 29, 2018.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

Ultimately, though, this is a fantasy movie that

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

The movie trips over itself in these parts, and it’s better as a story about life, love, anger and regret.

I DREAM IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE In Spanish with subtitles Directed by Ernesto Contreras Meléndez, Poncelis, Rebeil and Molina Jean Cocteau Cinema, R, 103 min.

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follows are some pretty terrible special effects, a couple mildly gruesome deaths and the sweet relief of only 90 minutes’ running time.

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

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

See, Devil’s Gate has an identity problem, never knowing whether or how to settle into a genre. Is it horror? X-Files caliber sci-fi (the bad episodes)? Gritty cop drama/thriller? Whatever it is, it ain’t great, and we’re the ones who pay the price. Daria, like so many movie cops, has a checkered past, but doesn’t let this dilute her dickish approach to everything and everyone when she shows up from some big city to investigate the disappearance. Even friendly local cops like Conrad (Shawn Ashmore, The

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into a stupid role, though maybe that’s to be commended). To be fair, he has a spooky basement and a property full of death traps in the middle of nowhere, but just when we’re ready to admit Daria may be right, we discover this is actually a movie about aliens. Jesus. What

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

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drama, science fiction, old-timey Hollywood musical, etc.

It is the 1960s, and Elisa (Sally Hawkins) works as a custodian for some clandestine military facility that’s big on experimentation and decidedly lacking in scruples. Hawkins is adorable as a young mute who lives a very routine life until a mysterious fishman (yup) is shipped to the facility, along with a former-soldier-turned-security-exec/ asshole (played by the ever-overbearing and uncomfortable Michael Shannon). Cue extraordinary circumstances and a change in Elisa who, for the first time in her life, feels true kinship for another living being. Like her, the fishman can’t much speak, and is perhaps misunderstood; the pair obviously hit it off. But, as is always the way, the brass has other plans—namely, they wanna dissect this creature despite warnings from a facility scientist (the always understated and excellent Michael Stuhlbarg) who may have a secret of his own. del Toro expertly recalls the tone of his previous works with seeming nods to the works of Jean-Pierre Jeunet (City of Lost Children) for good measure. Elisa is quirky and charming, as are her neighbor Giles (Richard Jenkins) and co-worker Zelda (a completely on-point Octavia Spencer), while the pleasant-yet-bizarre and distorted version of Anytown, USA, makes the perfect backdrop and counterpoint to the dark dealings of the military base. Shannon, however, seems to be stuck in his character from Boardwalk Empire in his over-the-top bad guy way. The best villains have some sympathetic trait or backstory that allow us to at least try and understand their nonsense; Shannon, however, has neither, and he deserves everything that’s coming to him (some of which is super-gross, by the way).

But in the end it’s the age-old story of love against all odds that shines through.

Perhaps it’s a bit predictable at this point, but The Shape of Water still wrests out something sweetly original and exciting nonetheless. Hawkins, however, is the true prize found within. It’s brave to take a role with no lines whatsoever, yet her nuanced and emotional performance is staggering in its authenticity. This one will be big come Oscar season, without a doubt. (ADV) Center for Contemporary Arts, Violet Crown, R, 123 min.

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

-Finn (John Boyega), who found his heart, moral center and stylish jacket after not much caring about anything, is making his way through the intricacies of intergalactic rebellion.

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

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

Last Jedi is mostly a whole lot of obvious setup for the next numbered entry and a so-very-thinly veiled allegory-lite about the power of love, but even with Leia Organa herself (Carrie Fisher, RIP) and Luke Skywalker (the delightful Mark Hamill) back in the mix, it drags with misplaced exposition, a few too many characters and an overemphasis on grand set pieces rather than character development. Who is Snoke, anyway? Why does he do these things? We may never know.

Why do powerful women like Leia and Rey continually balk at their better judgement and allow men to make all the (often poorly considered) decisions? Perhaps it’s something to do with a rushed production schedule and Disney knowing we’ll all line up for tickets no matter what but, regardless, Last Jedi feels like a stumble.

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

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

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

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

Morgen wisely stays out of the way during the film, letting Goodall herself narrate and the pictures and film do the talking. Frustrations abound, however, from media-led ridiculousness of the day amounting to “Pretty Girl Does Thing” headlines and the underlying concerns

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of academic communities who felt her lack of education damaged her credibility. Still, her seatof-the-pants study is the sort of radical thing that would probably never happen today, and the information she learned in the bush proved anthropologically, zoologically and scientifically invaluable. In the end, it’s that she did it at all—never mind so meticulously and persistently—that matters, and Morgen’s assertion that our broadened understanding of the natural world had much to do with Goodall’s research is spot-on.

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

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

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.

Lady Bird could have been ripped from any of our lives and will no doubt feel painfully familiar to 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) Violet Crown, R, 93 min.

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We follow Christine (or Lady Bird, depending on whom you ask—Saoirse Ronan of The Grand Budapest Hotel) in her final year at a Catholic girl’s high school in the Northern California town circa 2002. It’s one of many facets shared with scriptwriter Gerwig, who also hails from Sacramento and attended Catholic school.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In 2018, your past will undergo transformation. Your memories will revise and rearrange themselves. Bygone events that seemed complete and definitive will shimmy and shift, requiring new interpretations. The stories you have always told about how you became who you are will have to be edited, perhaps even rewritten. While these overhauls may sometimes be disconcerting, they will ultimately be liberating.

trips across the Atlantic. I propose that we make the caravel your symbol of power for 2018, Libra. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will find or create a resource that enables you to do the metaphorical equivalent of effectively sailing into the wind.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The Aztecs were originally wanderers. They kept moving from place to place, settling temporarily in areas throughout the land we now call Mexico. An old prophecy told them that they would TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In 2018, people will be drawn to you even more than usual. Some will want you eventually find a permanent home at a site where they to be their rock—their steady, stable source of practical saw an eagle roosting on a cactus as it clutched a snake truth. Some will ask you to be their tonic—their regular, in its talons. There came a day in the fourteenth century restorative dose of no-nonsense. And others will find in when members of the tribe spied this very scene on an island in the middle of a lake. That’s where they began you a creative catalyst that helps them get out of their ruts and into their grooves. And what will you receive in to build the city that in time was the center of their empire. I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, so it can return for providing such a stellar service? First, there’ll be many opportunities to deepen and refine your integ- serve as a metaphor to guide you in 2018. I suspect that you, too, will discover your future power spot—the rity. To wield that much influence means you’ll have to consistently act with high-minded motivations. And sec- heart of your domain for years to come. ondly, Taurus, you’ll get a steady supply of appreciation SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Not every minute of that will prove to be useful as well as gratifying. every day, but when you have had the time, you’ve been searching for a certain treasure. With patience and perGEMINI (May 21-June 20): Influences that oppose you will fade as 2018 unfolds. People who have been resistant sistence, you have narrowed down its whereabouts by collecting clues and following your intuition. Now, at last, and uncooperative will at least partially disengage. To you know its exact location. As you arrive, ready to claim expedite the diminishing effects of these influences and it, you tremble with anticipation. But when you peel away people, avoid struggling with them. Loosen the grip they the secrets in which it has been wrapped, you see that it’s have on your imagination. Any time they leak into your field of awareness, turn your attention instead to an influ- not exactly what you expected. Your first response is disappointment. Nevertheless, you decide to abide in the ence or person that helps and supports you. Here’s presence of the confusing blessing and see what happens. another idea about how to collaborate with the cosmic Slowly, incrementally, you become aware of a new possirhythms to reduce the conflict in your life: Eliminate any bility: that you’re not quite ready to understand and use unconscious need you might have for the perversely the treasure; that you’ll have to grow new capacities invigorating energy provided by adversaries and bugabefore you’ll be ready for it in its fullness. boos. Find positive new ways to motivate yourself.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I predict that in 2018 you will figure out how to get your obsessions to consistently work for your greatest good. You will come to understand what you must do to ensure they never drag you down into manic self-sabotage. The resolute ingenuity you summon to accomplish this heroic feat will change you forever. You will be reborn into a more vibrant version of your life. Passions that in the past have drained and confused you will become efficient sources of fuel for your worthiest dreams.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Just because you have become accustomed to a certain trouble doesn’t mean you should stop searching for relief from that trouble. Just because a certain pain no longer knocks you into a demoralized daze for days at a time doesn’t mean it’s good for you. Now here’s the good news: In 2018, you can finally track down the practical magic necessary to accomplish a thorough healing of that trouble and pain.

Make this the year you find a more ultimate cure.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Have you ever nursed a yearning to speak Swahili or Chinese or Russian? The coming months will be an excellent time to get that project underway. Do you fantasize about trying exotic cuisines and finding new favorite foods? I invite you to act on that fantasy in 2018. Is there a form of manual labor that would be tonic for your mental and physical health? Life is giving you a go-ahead to do more of it. Is there a handicraft or ball game you’d like to become more skilled at?

Get started. Is there a new trick you’d like to learn to do with your mouth or hands? Now’s the time.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Soulful beauty will be a major theme for you in 2018. Or at least it should be. But I suppose it’s possible you’re not very interested in soulful beauty, perhaps even bored by it. Maybe you prefer skin-deep beauty or expensive beauty or glamorous beauty. If you choose to follow predilections like those, you’ll lose out on tremendous opportunities to grow wilder and wiser. But let’s hope you make yourself available for a deeper, more provocative kind of beauty—a beauty that you could become more skilled at detecting as the year unfolds.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Let your freak flag fly” was an expression that arose from the hippie culture of the 1960s and 1970s. It was a colorful way to say, “Be your most unique and eccentric self; show off your idiosyncrasies with uninhibited pride.” I propose that we revive it for your use in 2018. I suspect the coming months will be a favorable time for you to cultivate your quirks and trust your unusual impulses. You should give yourself maximum freedom to explore pioneering ideas and maverick inclinations. Paradoxically, doing so will lead to stabilizing and enduring improvements in your life.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In accordance with the astrological omens, I suggest you start compiling a list entitled, “People, Places, Ideas, and Things I Didn’t Realize Until Now That I Could Fall in Love With.” And then keep adding more and more items to this tally during the next ten months. To get the project underway in the proper spirit, you should wander freely and explore jauntily, giving yourself permission to instigate interesting mischief and brush up against deluxe temptations. For best results, open your heart and your eyes as wide as you can. One further clue: Act on the assumption that in 2018 you will be receptive to inspirational influences and life-transforming teachings that you have never before been aware of.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Before the fifteenth century, European nations confined their sailing to the Mediterranean Sea. The ocean was too rough for their fragile, unadaptable ships. But around 1450, the Portuguese developed a new kind of vessel, the caravel. It employed a triangular sail that enabled it to travel against Homework: I’d love to see your top five New Year’s the wind. Soon, exploratory missions ventured into the resolutions. Share by going to RealAstrology.com and open sea and down along the coast of West Africa. clicking on “Email Rob.” Eventually, this new technology enabled long westward

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NAME OF Kimber Lee Marsin Case No.: D-101-CV-2017-03601 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE PROBATE COURT SANTA of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq.

FE COUNTY the Petitioner Kimber Lee No. 2017-0219 Marsin will apply to the IN THE MATTER OF Honorable RAYMOND Z. THE ESTATE OF Juliet L. ORTIZ, District Judge of the Campbell, DECEASED. First Judicial District at the NOTICE TO CREDITORS Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, that the undersigned has New Mexico, at 10:00 a.m. on been appointed personal the 12th day of January, 2018 representative of this estate. for an ORDER FOR CHANGE All persons having claims against this estate are required OF NAME from Kimber Lee Marsin to Nameh Kimber to present their claims within Marsin. four (4) months after the STEPHEN T. PACHECO, date of the first publication District Court Clerk of this notice, or the claims By: Veronica Rivera will be forever barred. Claims Deputy Court Clerk must be presented either to Submitted by: Kim Marsin the undersigned personal Petitioner, Pro Se 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: Dec. 12, 2017.

LEGAL NOTICES A. Rachel Pfiefle P.O. Box 213 ALL OTHERS Loon Lake, WA 99148 NOTICE OF SALE ON 505-577-5384 FORECLOSURE/ D-101-CV-2016-01083 FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT Alfonso Cantu COURT STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE COUNTY OF SANTA FE STATE OF NEW MEXICO FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT NO. D-0101-CV-2017-02873 COURT IN THE MATTER OF A Villa Sonata Homeowners PETITION FOR CHANGE OF Association, Inc. Plaintiff NAME OF ROBERT JAMES v. Alfonso Cantu,; JOHN MacLEAN DOES I-V, inclusive; AMENDED NOTICE OF PETITION FOR NAME CHANGE JANE DOES I-V, inclusive; BLACK CORPORATIONS TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions I-V, inclusive; WHITE PARTNERSHIPS I-V, inclusive; of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. Unknown Heirs and Devisees 40-8-3 NMSA 1978 Comp., the Petitioner, ROBERT JAMES of each of the above-named Defendants, if deceased, MacLEAN, will apply to the Honorable Gregory S. Shaffer, Defendant(s). NOTICE OF SALE ON FORECLOSURE District Judge of the First Please Take Notice that the Judicial District at the Santa above-entitled Court, having Fe Judicial Complex, 225 appointed me or my designee Montezuma Avenue, in Santa Fe, New Mexico at 9:00am on as Special Master in this matter with the power to sell, the 4th day of January, 2018, has ordered me to sell the for an ORDER FOR CHANGE real property (the “Property”) OF NAME to Jerad James situated in Santa Fe County, MacLean.

New Mexico, commonly STEPHEN T. PACHECO, known as 4096 Luna Grande District Court Clerk Lane, Santa Fe New Mexico, By: Corinne Onate and more particularly Deputy Court Clerk described as follows: Lot Submitted by: numbered Forty-three (43) Robert James MacLean of Beaty Subdivision Phase STATE OF NEW MEXICO I, a subdivision ofLot 1, Book COUNTY OF SANTA FE 560, Page 040; and Lots 2A FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT & 2B, Book 610, Page 014, COURT Santa Fe County, New Mexico, IN THE MATTER OF A as shown and designated on PETITION FOR CHANGE OF the Plat thereof, filed in the

office of the County Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Plat Book 645, Page 10.

The sale is to begin at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, January 10, 2018, on the front steps of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, City of Santa Fe, County of Santa Fe, State of New Mexico, at which time I will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash in lawful currency of the United States of America, the Property to pay expenses of sale, and to satisfy the Judgment granted to Villa Sonata Homeowners Association, Inc. (“Villa Sonata”). Villa Sonata was awarded a Default Judgment Decree of Foreclosure on September 9, 2016, in the

principal sum of $5,477.00, plus attorney fees in the sum of $1,451.54 and attorney costs in the sum of $291.16 for a total amount of $7,219.70, plus interest thereafter at the rate of 8.75% per annum from September 9, 2016, until the property is sold at a Special Master’s Sale, plus costs of the Special Master’s Sale, including the Special Master’s fee in the amount of $212.88, plus any additional attorney fees and costs actually expended from the date of this Default Judgment until the date of the Special Master’s sale, plus those additional amounts, if any, which Plaintiff will be required to pay before termination of this action for property taxes, and insurance

premiums, or any other cost of upkeep of the property of any sort. Notice Is Further Given that the real property and improvements concerned with herein will be sold subject to any and all patent reservations, easements, all recorded and unrecorded liens not foreclosed herein, and all recorded and unrecorded special assessments and taxes that may be due. Villa Sonata and its attorneys and the Special Master disclaim all responsibility for, and the purchaser at the sale takes the property, subject to 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, if any, environmental contamination on the property, if any, and zoning violations concerning the property, if any. Notice Is Further Given that the purchaser at such sale shall take title to the above described real property subject to a one (1) month right of redemption.

Prospective Purchasers At Sale Are Advised To Make Their Own Examination Of The Title And The Condition Of The Property And To Consult Their Own Attorney Before Bidding. By: /s/ Robert Doyle, Special Master P.O. Box 51526 Albuquerque, NM 87181 505-417-4113

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