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JANUARY 25-31, 2017 | Volume 44, Issue 4

NEWS OPINION 5 BLUE CORN 7 ARE YOU TAKING REQUESTS TODAY? Apparently we have to ask for snow plows NEWS

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7 DAYS, METROGLYPHS AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6 IN SOLIDARITY 8 A spread of images from marches near and far UNEARTHED, BUT UNSEEN 11 Artifacts from Chaco Canyon won’t be on exhibit anytime soon TRACKING THE TRAFFICKERS 13 Law enforcement will soon have the funds to stop illegal imports through New Mexico COVER STORY 14 25 THINGS WE LOVE ABOUT SANTA FE There are more than 25, but we had space limits THE ENTHUSIAST 23

AN ANGRY, GENTLE PEOPLE Check out SFR’s pics from the Women’s March on Saturday, Jan. 21, both from our city and from Washington DC. Maybe you’re in one.

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IN FIRST ‘PRESSER,’ SEAN SPICER TELLS FOUR LIES TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC Pretty ballsy for a team that shouts “Fake news!” at everyone.

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s Game of Thrones fans know, winter is coming.

Wait, it’s already here.

And Santa Fe residents may already have noticed that snow and ice are lingering on some streets far longer than they should, thanks to the city’s financial woes.

This raises questions about what city governments are supposed to do for citizens, and how poorly they can do it before a place no longer seems like a city at all.

I live in a subdivision that the snow plowing people say is a Priority 3, out of, let’s see, three priorities. That isn’t where you want to be on the list, in a department that tells me it has had to shed nine workers since last summer.

For this reason, I’ve recently had telephone and personal contact with the snowplow people, and while they have been unfailingly polite, they are clearly up against it.

After learning that I live in a Priority 3 neighborhood, which roughly translates to, “We’ll get to your street when we’ve finished watching Longmire,” I asked about our side streets.

“We do those as we have time, when we get requests,” one official said.

I must have misunderstood him. “You don’t automatically plow residential streets when you see snow?”

“No, somebody has to call and put in a request.”

Mr. Mayor, let me tell you something very intimate about myself. If there’s snow on my street, you may presume I would prefer to have it gone, as soon as possible. I think this requirement for specific citizen requests could get out of hand.

“Hello, Fire Department? My house is on fire!”

“Thank you for calling, sir. Do you have a request?”

“I want you to put the fire out!”

“I’m making a note of your request, sir, but we do have some higher priority conflagrations ahead of you.”

A cynic might wonder if the worker assigned to taking requests might be put to better use actually plowing.

You have to question the wisdom of city officials. It’s not as though the city shrank in size by 30 percent, rendering many snowplow crews superfluous.

We have the same streets we always did.

Maybe more.

So why can’t the city go ahead and presume every snowy residential street needs to be plowed, unless the residents ask to have their snow left alone? (And who is going to do that except for the criminally insane and landscape artists?)

Those parallel situations just keep popping into my mind. I can’t help it.

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“Hello, Pentagon? I’d like to report Russian tanks are rumbling down Marcy Street this very moment, guns blazing!

Oh, the humanity!”

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SIGNS OF THE TIMES AT THE WOMEN’S MARCH ON WASHINGTON AND IN SANTA FE

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In Solidarity

Since November, you may have had an icky feeling in the pit of your stomach. On Saturday, women and free thinkers around the world addressed that ick.

Amongst cries for feminism, equality and reproductive rights and plenty of cheers of unity rose above all else as the world peacefully demonstrated against Donald Trump.

The magnitude of the local crowd—which stretched from West Alameda to the Roundhouse, pink hats filling the breadth of both Galisteo and Don Gaspar—showed that if nothing else, we are not alone. And for the first time in months, that icky feeling let up a bit, if only for a few sweet hours.

The display of protest-signs held by members of every generation was a truly inspirational thing to witness. Here are a few of our favorite shots that SFR staffers and friends captured at home and in Washington DC. (Maria Egolf-Romero) Marchers gathered in the parking lot of the Roundhouse before the noon rally.

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Even Wise Fool New Mexico’s giant puppets came out to support the cause.

Marchers snaked around the Plaza on their way to the Roundhouse.

SFR in WASHINGTON DC CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: National Mall, Independence Avenue; National Mall, before the rally, off 4th Street and I Street; Marchers near 4th and Independence Avenue; outside Trump International Hotel.

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WEDNESDAY 1 FEBRUARY AT 7PM LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Tune in on Sunday, February 5 at 4 pm to hear the rebroadcast on KSFR 101.1FM Santa Fe Public Radio The Trump presidency presents massive, new threats to the protection of civil rights and liberties, long under assault—but also entirely new political opportunities. − Glenn Greenwald, on the 2016 presidential election

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Myles’s book I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975–2014 was described by John Ashbery as being “like a gasp of fresh air in the turbulent urban environment she writes from.”

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Chaco Canyon artifacts won’t get public exhibition this spring after all—maybe never B Y M AT T G R U B S m a t t g r u b s @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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he new archaeological exhibit at the Chaco Culture National Historical Park, scheduled to open this spring, was to be a thing of beauty. Housed in a spiffed-up visitor’s center, featuring hundreds of artifacts that likely hadn’t been on display in generations, it seemed a once-in-alifetime chance to see what the researchers of the late 1800s found when they pried open the long-sealed chambers of what is now the park’s main attraction, Pueblo Bonito.

Back then, archaeological expeditions carted off thousands of items—beads, pots, yucca fibers, skeletons from macaws that prove Chaco’s importance as a center of trade—and gave them to the collections of important East Coast museums like the Smithsonian and the American Museum of Natural History.

“Most of the goodies from Chaco—the really spectacular things—have come from Pueblo Bonito,” says curator Wendy Bustard. “So they’ve never been on exhibit in New Mexico. Ever.”

Generations of Chacoan descendants who live in the Pueblos surrounding the park and on the Navajo Nation would have been able to see the work their ancestors wrought for the first time.

When Dabney Ford, an archaeologist and former head of cultural resources at Chaco, retired last year, she says the unprecedented exhibit “was going great guns.”

Now it seems shot to hell.

Two weeks ago, Bustard sent one of the most embarrassing emails of her professional career. It went to curators and other officials at two Smithsonian museums—the National Museum of the American Indian and the National Museum of Natural History—as well as the American Museum of Natural History.

The exhibit wouldn’t be opening. At all. Years of work identifying and preparing artifacts, negotiating the terms of their loan and building custom mounts for them … gone.

The word came from higher-ups that plans for the exhibit must halt—despite the Park Service having already sunk nearly $2 million to design and build mounts and cases, to rehab the visitor center display hall and to ship artifacts stored in New Mexico to Arizona for stabilization. Bustard, who manages the Park Service’s Chaco research collection that’s housed in the basement of a building on the University of New Mexico campus in Albuquerque, figures that ramping the project back up once it’s scrapped would take five years.

Ford thinks her old colleague’s assessment is too generous. “I think, given what I saw probably in the last five or six years of my being there—and I was there for just over 30 years,” she says, “I would say at this time there is never going to be an exhibit there.”

Never.

I would say at this time there is never going to be an exhibit there.

-Dabney Ford, former chief of cultural resources at Chaco Culture National Historical Park

ABOVE: Chaco collections curator Wendy Bustard got some bad news this month.

BELOW: Pots like these that were excavated from the site will stay in the basement for now.

How did things go so wrong?

In 2010, the park tore down the old visitor center and with it, the 1980s-era interpretive display. As then-superintendent Barbara West planned the rebuild, she OK’d plans for the exhibit. While the visitor center has since reopened, the heating and cooling system can’t control the climate.

While park management says the new building is comfortable, Bustard says the exhibit hall within it is not. A few days before Christmas, she measured the temperature in the exhibit hall at 39 degrees.

Too cold for people and too cold for precious objects.

“The temperature and relative humidities were all over the place,” she says. In one 24-hour period last summer, the relative humidity was as low 14 percent and as high as 58 percent. For museum artifacts that date back hundreds of years—things like bone, wood and textiles—that kind of swing in the room’s moisture content can be lethal. Organic material swells and contracts and eventually splits, cracks or otherwise falls apart. The park service’s own standards don’t allow that.

And forget about getting the Smithsonian to loan you something with those numbers.

And so, when he arrived late last year to become superintendent of Chaco and Aztec Ruins to the north, Michael Quijano-West assessed the HVAC data and looked at the park’s aging infrastructure, unreliable power supply and remote location. Then he pulled the plug.

“This kind of an exhibit should have never been created to begin with,” he says. “It’s unre-

alistic to expect us to do a New York Citystyle exhibit here.”

“We can’t just fix this with a generator,” he says. “We need engineers to come out here, they need to give me estimates and then we need to get funding.”

Barbara West, his predecessor, disagrees.

“If you wait for infrastructure to get fixed, you’re never going to do anything,” she says. “Absolutely there are challenges.

It’s remote. But it’s really important. This is a [United Nations] World Heritage Site.

If you don’t do anything for the visitors, I guarantee you the park will be closed in 10 years.”

Quijano-West says his focus is on providing a sustainable experience for the people who make the trek to Chaco. The new display will center on the culture of Chacoan descendants, not on the museum pieces from the past.

Ford says the decision will undoubtedly hurt visitors who could have better understood the wonder of Chaco, “and not just see the empty buildings, but see the things that made those buildings spectacular.”

For well-funded museums back east, scrapping a project that’s already cost such a colossal amount of time and money is almost unthinkable.

David Hurst Thomas, curator at the American Museum of Natural History, told SFR in an email that news of the exhibit’s delay or possible demise was “a total surprise” to him and his staff. “We have invested considerable time, effort, and enthusiasm to assist in this important exhibition. We are all extremely confused and disappointed.”

Barbara West’s assessment is blunt: “We’re giving up on Chaco and its visitors.”

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he El Paso, Texas, port of entry from Mexico ranks among the nation’s top five for catching illegal wildlife shipments, part of an estimated $23 million-per-year wildlife trafficking industry. And Nogales, Arizona, leads the nation in pounds of illegal products seized. At Nogales, it’s often dead frogs. In El Paso, powdered rattlesnakes, a Mexican folk medicine thought to cure various diseases, dominated the 3,614 shipments of illegally trafficked wildlife products between 2004 and 2014. Shoes made from water monitors, crocodiles and their reptile cousins, caimans—a quick Google search on which will return an option to buy a dwarf caiman, which can grow to nearly 5 feet in length, for $300— were also among the items collected, as were, of course, the high-profile ivory and horns from endangered elephants and rhinoceroses.

Despite this buzzing business in neighboring states, New Mexico currently has no designated border officials monitoring for those products, and no set fines or law enforcement authorized to make arrests if illegal wildlife products are found. Sen.

Mimi Stewart (D-Albuquerque), working in tandem with the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators and Defenders of Wildlife, has filed a bill to change that.

“El Paso is the third largest port entry of wildlife trafficking in the US, so it’s coming up from South America … then it runs through the state in the southern part. So it is an issue in New Mexico—we have a trafficking problem,” Stewart says.

The Wildlife Trafficking Act would set fines of $5,000, or two times the value of the item (whichever is greater), for a first offense. A second offense could lead to a fine of up to $25,000, or three times the item’s value. For perspective: A single rhino horn is estimated to sell for roughly $175,000.

“This isn’t jail time—this is high fines,” Stewart says. The goal is to erode the profitability of these markets, rather than try to arrest everyone involved. “These are run by essentially organized terrorist groups. … The only way to stop them is to stop their cash flow, and so fining them and arresting them and taking these animals’ parts is the way to do it. I’m just following the lead of other states.”

There’s no hard data to define the scope of the wildlife trafficking issue in New Mexico, says Michael Dax of Defenders of Wildlife, but he agrees that if El Paso is such a hot spot, it’s likely some of that commerce is moving through New Mexico.

“We don’t have any US Fish and Wildlife Service officers posted at our ports of entry, so that’s just very much a practical thing coming from the fact that the US Fish and Wildlife Service doesn’t have the

ities. “Very often, the same people who are trafficking arms, drugs or humans are also trafficking illegal wildlife, and it’s used to fund other activities.”

The United Nations has linked human trafficking, frequently of children, to criminal activity that harms marine life, and found the spike in illegal killing of elephants in the late 2000s tied to organized crime and rebel militias in Africa.

Former president Barack Obama signed the Eliminate, Neutralize, and Disrupt (END) Wildlife Trafficking Act in 2016, making wildlife trafficking a serious crime and committing the US to addressing it. The need for state-level laws to complement that law has repeatedly been a topic at the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators, according to Stewart.

The next step for the bill is a hearing before the Senate Conservation Committee on Thursday, Jan. 26.

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Bill aims to give NM law enforcement more options for catching illegal wildlife shipments

resources it needs to fully staff all the ports of entry across the country,” Dax says.

Stewart’s bill would enable law enforcement officers to charge with a misdemeanor those found with products made from threatened species and an intent to sell them. Officers with the Department of Game and Fish, the state parks division of the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, the department of public safety, the livestock board, sheriffs’ departments and municipal police would get new enforcement powers. Ivory-handled guns, antiques, and musical instruments are exempt. Recovered products would go to the Fish and Wildlife Service or to education and research, where DNA testing could pinpoint the source and help reveal the illegal traders’ routes.

“We look at this [law] as an extra tool for law enforcement,” Dax adds, and it could ripple to affect other criminal activ-

No one on New Mexico’s international border is watching for illegal wildlife products like ivory, and those who traffic these goods often traffic drugs and people, too.

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THINGS WE LOVE ABOUT SANTA FE The aerial photos that made up this week’s cover image are from a drone soaring over above downtown during one of our summer markets. We love this view and we love this city. We thought now was a great time to tell you why.

Plus, SFR is gearing up for our annual Best of Santa Fe awards. With no electoral college to contend with, this popular vote puts the power in the hands of our readers.

Check out sfreporter.com/bosf beginning Feb. 1 to nominate your faves.

We’ve got all the Condé Nast superlatives a town could want CONDÉ NAST TRAVELER:

TRAVEL + LEISURE:

The world’s 5th best shopping city

Santa Fe is the 4th best US city for travelers

We’re the 2nd best place in the US to retire

We’re one of the world’s 30 friendliest cities (We see you, Lisbon, Portugal. And we’re smiling)

The magazine dubbed us the 8th best US city for vegetarians Readers voted Santa Fe the 3rd best small city in the US (behind Aspen? Come on…)

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Santa Fe is the 4th best city for gay travel and one of the top cities for a girls’ getaway

are the best and everyone knows it It seems pretty rare to have a completely animal-free home in this town, and when it comes to caring for those pets, Santa Fe is full of great resources. You can’t swing a leash without hitting a high-quality, locally owned pet supply store, a pet acupuncturist or a walking trail complete with poop bag stations. The expansive, un-fenced Frank S Ortiz dog park on Camino de las Crucitas is probably the most scenic dog park in the country (those mountain views, though!)—and the Santa Fe Animal Shelter has fencedin dog runs for social play or for individual exercise. Dog daycares are booming businesses here. Most local shops allow a well-behaved pooch to roam the aisles with its owner.

It’s not all good news, though. New Mexico does still have a high rate of animal abuse and neglect, and our lax anti-cruelty laws have been called some of the nation’s worst. Thankfully, dozens of hard-working nonprofits are dedicated to helping out companion animals in our state, and Santa Feans are always quick to volunteer.

So while other towns might roll their eyes at a sentence like, “My cat has a massage appointment right after my dog’s Reiki session,” Santa Feans would likely beam at the concept … and have a few of their own favorite practitioners to recommend. (Charlotte Jusinski)

YOU CAN GET DRUNK OFF LOCAL STUFF

Bring a case of Bud to a party in Santa Fe and you’re likely to be laughed out. You can drink every hue of brew fermented right here in the high desert: from the lightest lager, like the Freestyle Pilsner brewed at Santa Fe Brewing Company, to the darkest chocolatey porter like the Old Pecos Porter made by Second Street Brewery. Duel Brewing ventures from the lager path and specializes in Belgian-style beers, which tend toward fruity flavors and sometimes include unique ingredients, like their Whistler, a blonde ale with orange peel.

We even have a brewery that specializes in making hard cider: New Mexico Hard Cider presses apples, pears and other fruits from local orchards, in places like Galisteo and Villanueva, to make a variety of ciders, including their Dry Mariachi Tart Cherry Cider, which is almost too easy to drink. If you aren’t a bubbly-brew imbiber, have no fear—Santa Fe

Spirits is near, and they make whiskey, vodka, gin and more at their distillery on the Southside.

And we do have to say, hot damn.

These local establishments produce some fine products; the cans and labels alone are enough to have you salivating, like we are right now. (Maria Egolf-Romero)

The opera isn’t just for At the Santa Fe Opera, aficionados love the world-class productions, and opera newcomers appreciate that they can tailgate and wear jeans (OK, so the veteran opera fans are down with that too). The views from its perch near Tesuque are breathtaking, and the open-air theater is a refreshing alternative to stately old houses.

Not only does the Santa Fe Opera present innovative productions of classic operas, but often a world premiere packs the opera house.

Tan Dun’s Tea: A Mirror of Soul premiered in Chinese in 2007 with a hypnotic percussive quality reminiscent of dripping water. In 2015 it was an operatic take on the Civil War epic Cold Mountain, which actually sold so well that the com-

pany added an additional performance. Highly anticipated in 2017 is The (R)Evolution of Steve Jobs, which, according to the SFO, “captures the buzzing sphere of Silicon Valley with a kinetic electro-acoustic score, an absorbing non-linear narrative and a high-tech production.”

Want to go? The company is accommodating to travelers, offering packages tailored to arrival and departure dates, and for tourists and locals alike it’s possible to work out a payment plan for a package of tickets. Single tickets can get down to less than $40, and you could spend more than that on dinner and a few beers downtown. All the more reason to head up the hill and get some culture. (CJ) CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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Pollo in a porn store parking lot Nestled betwixt Cheeks (Santa Fe’s only strip club) and Arcade News (Santa Fe’s only adult movie and novelty shop), you’ll discover an unassuming food truck serving up some of our fair city’s finest fare courtesy of owner/chef/all-around badass Ludovico Arizmendi. Ah yes, it is Pollo Asado (2864 Cerrillos Road, 316-4085), a dream come true for fans of expertly prepared chicken, Mexican food or even just the glorious world of food trucks. And though Arizmendi’s menu boasts such tried-and-true items as tacos ($7 for four), massive beef or ham tortas ($7) and the good old-fashioned burrito, the true star of the show is the whole or half chicken dinner ($10-$20). Flame-grilled to

a perfect tenderness and served up with refried beans, rice and a couple tortillas, it’s enough to feed your family or, if you’re so inclined, just your damn self. Given the perfectly seasoned, melt-in-your-mouth tastes and textures at play, you’d be forgiven for diving into this pollo alone. Oh, and don’t let the location deter you. After all, we’re a modern society of multi-taskers, so why wouldn’t we want to order up some of the best chicken in town and then peruse some toys or snag a quick dance while we wait? (Alex De Vore)

You can make your dreams come true— at a party, no less If you have a business idea, Santa Fe is a good place to turn it into a reality.

There are entire organizations—some state-funded, some private endeavors and some a partnership between the two—dedicated to helping budding businesses flourish. The Santa Fe Business Incubator (sfbi.net), Creative Santa Fe (creativesantafe. org) and MIX Santa Fe (mixsantafe. com) are among them. Each conducts business differently, teaching, pushing and helping however they can, and some groups business-accelerate in innovative (really fun) ways. The Santa Fe Business Incubator hosts workshops and seminars and offers office, lab and manufacturing space

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in their 30,000-square-foot facility.

Creative Santa Fe leads collaborative projects and facilitates relationships at events like their annual FantaSe Dome Fest, which brings interactive light art and live music to DeVargas Park each summer. MIX Santa Fe holds a yearly competition between emerging local businesses called BizMIX (with over $50,000 in prizes) and hosts 10 networking events annually with attendance usually between 200 and 400 people, often in underexposed places around town. Efforts of entrepreneurial support make this town a place for dreamers, but they also help it perk up and make Santa Fe a little less sleepy. (MER)

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The markets are always on the upswing Okay, sometimes we grumble about the traffic and congestion that always comes with our summer art events, but when it comes down to it, Santa Fe is an incredible venue for world-class art, and markets are one of the best ways to see it all, giving sometimes-underserved artists a much-needed venue.

The International Folk Art Market (July 14-16 on Museum Hill) is the only one that requires an entrance fee, but is often considered the favorite among locals and tourists. Since the inaugural market in 2004, it’s hosted artists from 92 countries. Artists bring the best in

It’s a grind A few years back, the Trust for Public Land heralded the arrival of the skate park as a smart investment for forward-looking cities. Because of their propensity to “lure troublesome youth off street corners,” the TPL report said, well-designed skate parks serve the crowd that isn’t playing basketball, football or some other organized sport. Santa Fe’s two skate parks at DeVargas Park near downtown and General Franklin E Miles Park just off Cerrillos Road on Camino Carlos Rey have been around for years. For a city our size, that’s impressive foresight. The design left something to

jewelry, rugs, sculpture, paper art, basketry and more for a one-of-akind tour of the world. For more economically depressed regions, the market also is sometimes those artists’ sole source of income all year.

The Plaza hosts Indian Market, which celebrates its 96th year August 19 and 20. The market, usually crowded as a mosh pit, is considered the largest event of its kind in the world. Indigenous artists from across the United States gather for exposure, sales, connection, and no small amount of Native pride. Keep an eye out for contemporary markets popping up in the Railyard, too.

Of course, there’s also Spanish Market and the Contemporary Hispanic Market, coming up July 29 and 30 this year, when a dizzying array of straw art, retablos, painting, wood carving and jewelry will line the streets.

Periodic art fairs in the Plaza and Railyard areas fill in the weekends between the huge markets, so any time you’re looking for a unique gift or something to fill that blank space on the living room wall, summer in Santa Fe’s got you covered. (CJ)

be desired, though. Joe Lehm, a local advocate and owner of the indoor skate park at Skate School Santa Fe, says that when the city decided to upgrade De Vargas seven years ago, it took some arm-twisting before they decided to do it right. “The challenge was to convince the city to bulldoze it and not to refurbish it,” Lehm says. Almost four years later, De Vargas has held up well enough that Santa Fe is spending half a million dollars to build a new skate park at the Genoveva Chavez Community Center. A true design-build effort, it’s slated to open in June. That gives the city three skate parks for its 80,000 residents, a number that would likely impress the TPL and keep certain “troublesome youth” busy for years to come. (Matt Grubs)

No one ever gained weight in a more delicious way For a town that can be so health-conscious, it sure is easy to get fat around here.

Of course, New Mexican food is king. Enchiladas, green chile cheeseburgers, sopaipillas with honey, rellenos—yeah, nobody ever got skinny on a diet like that.

SFR readers voted La Choza (905 Alarid St., 982-0909) the best New Mexican food in 2016. There’s plenty of good barbecue—the ribs at the Ranch House (2571 Cristo’s Road, 424-8900) are our personal favorite. Beyond American delights, you can gorge on great sushi (SFR readers like Shohko Café, 321 Johnson St., 982-9708—but our wallets are more fond of Kohnami, 313 S Guadalupe St., 984-2002), Indian food (we love India House, 2501 Cerrillos Road, 471-2651, and Raaga, 544 Agua Fria St., 8206440), Afro-Caribbean cuisine at Jambo Café (2010 Cerrillos Road, 473-1269) and more. For fine dining, it’s hard to beat Geronimo (724 Canyon Road, 9821500)—it was also recently recognized by OpenTable as one of the top 100 restaurants in the country.

This list doesn’t even scratch the surface of the options you have for caloric intake. Grab SFR’s Restaurant Guide for more info, or just pick a place and eat there. You’re likely to be happy. (CJ)

It’s the other City of the Stars

Remember some years ago when Gene Hackman slapped some homeless guy who was harassing Mrs. Hackman? How about the other day when Ali McGraw got busted driving and cell-phoning?

Some of you will recall a time when it wasn’t odd to run into Shirley MacLaine at the mall or Val Kilmer gassing up his car. Georgia O’Keeffe once roamed the land nearby, George RR

You (probably) won’t be murdered For the last decade or so, Santa Fe has recorded between two and three murders a year, according to crime statistics kept by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

That puts us at about half the national average. Factors that keep homicides down include the city’s older-skewing population, lack of gang presence and strong community involvement, according to Deputy Police Chief Mario Salbidrez. It also helps that our nightlife is limited and confined to a small section of downtown. “Being aware of those locations, we can identify when they become problem areas,” says Salbidrez.

That being said, Santa Fe has recently seen an uptick in other crimes, particularly burglaries and auto theft.

Salbidrez attributes the latter spike to crime rings that run between our city, Albuquerque and Las Vegas, New Mexico.

(Steven Hsieh)

Martin basically pumps whatever cash he can into the arts and there was even a time when a dude like Archbishop Lamy rolled into town like, “What’s up, you guys?”

Yeah, Santa Fe has long been a haven for the rich and famous, a glamorous home away from the mirage-like glitz and glamour of Tinseltown, where the horizon goes on forever and the sunsets

are so beautiful they’re a guaranteed a hundred Instagram likes no prob. Jane Fonda calls it her sometimes home; ditto Julia Roberts and Alan Arkin. So this begs the question: Does the presence of the rich and famous make Santa Fe worth loving, or is it so lovable the rich and famous couldn’t resist? Probably the second one—but just make sure you don’t hassle Gene Hackman’s wife or he’ll mess you up good. (ADV) CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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We support young artists rather than stifle them A cursory glance at the people who work for and/or run arts organizations like Santa Fe Performing Arts (SFPA), Meow Wolf and even this very newspaper tells the tale of a scrappy bunch of young Santa Feans who were once given the tools to learn, plot and execute their own artistic visions, and that’s a huge deal. Places like Warehouse 21 have tirelessly crusaded for the youth of this city, and they’ve also inspired others to go on and create their own programs. Just look at Meow Wolf’s Chimera, a nonprofit arts education offshoot of the collective, or the youth classes at SFPA, and you’ll notice a trickle-down effect; those who were once given a shot want to impart their knowledge to other generations who we hope will do the same. Hell, we’ve even got an entire school dedicated to youth in arts, and when New Mexico School for the Arts eventually takes over the Sanbusco Center, we’re pretty sure they’ll be churning out dancers and singers and musicians who rival the very best in the country, age irrelevant.

In a world like ours that makes it so easy to simply do nothing, resources like these will have their work cut out for them. But as long as there are young people willing to learn, there will be teachers dying to make that happen. (ADV)

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There’s, like, music everywhere Let’s break down the whole music situation around here in a decidedly unfun yet interesting way: with math!

Santa Fe’s population is, give or take, around 80,000 people. We can take half off the top right away for being too old, too young or too boring to go to shows. Take another half away because they’re sick or they’re working or they’ve fallen victim to the siren song of Netflix. Are you keeping up?

Good. Now we’ll take away another half to account for the people who just hate fun and friendship, another half of that for folks who don’t drink,

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another half of that for folks who are traveling and another half of that for those who live in the more rural parts of town. You get the gist. By the point it all boils down, we can generously say there are maybe 1,500 people out and about on any given night. And man, do those people have options.

They can catch big-name touring acts at Meow Wolf, similar-level artists plus locals at Skylight or Boxcar. AMP Concerts takes over the Railyard each summer with a totally free series of shows, Warehouse 21 hosts metal, punk and hip-hop every week, and

there are non-stop performances at Cowgirl and both Second Street Breweries. No-name (which does not mean bad) bands that absolutely slay play all the time at DIY spaces like Ghost and Zephyr, jazz geniuses take over GiG all the time, Vanessie hosts pianist/vocalists most nights and this doesn’t even account for the hotel bars, the out-of-the way spaces and myriad house shows, studio events and parties going down basically always. It’s actually pretty insane if you think about it, so pick a day and go nuts—you can assume something musically worthwhile is going down.

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A sizeable number of local artists, writers and musicians have taken a look around town, decided the arts scene wasn’t quite what they were looking for, and then started their own damn projects. Look to groups like Strangers Collective (full disclosure: Our visual arts writer, Jordan Eddy, is a founding member), a loosely affiliated group of artists and writers who host events, openings, conversations and more, Southside DIY arts/music space Zephyr and their commitment to underappreciated touring bands, or SCUBA, whom we hear will soon have a new space with

a focus on collaborative output. This doesn’t even include the innumerable free-agent artists who show in unexpected locations like Iconik Coffee Roasters and independent facilitators like Curate Santa Fe’s Niomi Fawn, whose utilitarian project Hitch married form and function in the shape of arts-adorned bicycle hitches located throughout the downtown area. There are still more scads of locals working out the details of their own less-mainstream projects. Respect to the galleries, but we’re way more excited for whatever may be underground. (ADV)

Our genderneutral baños It’s been less than two years since the City of Santa Fe’s governing body passed an ordinance requiring businesses to label all single-occupancy bathrooms as gender-neutral. The move signaled an important, if small, step towards equality for the transgender community.

The nod towards inclusivity happened right before other parts of the nation bolted in the other direction. City Council’s move preceded North Carolina’s vehemently anti-LGBT “bathroom bill,” which last year catapulted the issue into the national spotlight, triggering boycotts and civil rights

lawsuits. Bruce Springsteen cancelled a show in Greensboro. The NBA moved the All-Star game from Charlotte. Mayor Javier Gonzales banned “non-essential” official travel to the Tar Heel State.

But as SFR reported last year, businesses have taken some time getting into compliance with the ordinance. The All Families Matter Coalition took on the challenge, taking stock of the city’s single-stall bathrooms and educating business owners of the new policy. “We’re met with support for the ordinance. Businesses are just not aware of it,” says Jenn Jevertson, who led the campaign.

Notably, Betterday Coffee and La Montañita Co-op quickly came into compliance.

All Families Matter’s campaign halted for a few months, but Jevertson says they’re ready to kick it back into third gear.

We’re still lookin’ at you, Allsups. (SH)

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Our airport actually has flights to other places For most Santafesinos, catching a plane outta here involves the hour-long drive to the Albuquerque International Sunport. But the Santa Fe Municipal Airport is once again trying to up its game.

This time, there’s a twist.

New flights between Santa Fe’s dinky hub and the exotic destination of Phoenix began a couple weeks before Christmas. If too few passengers book tickets on a given flight, however, a fund established by a handful of local businesses and the city’s Convention and Visitors Bureau has agreed to pony up the difference to get the airline to its break-even guarantee.

So far, donors including the city and county governments and individuals such as realtors have pitched in about $350,000 to sock away for

those revenue guarantees and to buy advertising.

Sure, the flights might cost a little more than the Duke City version. Yet, if time is money, spending a little extra to take one of the American or United legs from Santa Fe to Denver, Dallas or the Valley of the Sun might just be your bag. Plus, bumming a ride to or from the airport is a lot easier when the drive is 15 miles instead of 60. Depending on where you go and when you want to get there, you might be surprised how few dollars separate the two cities.

And if this effort pays off, the head of the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce says, we might even have a chance of getting those direct-to-Los Angeles flights back on the schedule. (Julie Ann Grimm)

(if you work near the Railyard) At the beginning of 2016, a city-funded contractor finally completed work on a fiber-optic cable line through the Railyard, creating a public competitor to CenturyLink for the hyper-speed Internet market.

State government buildings are already hooked up to the $1 million line. And this summer, Cyber Mesa, the company tapped to install the infrastructure, started providing wireless access to the system to customers including Hyde Park Estates and the Santa Fe Opera.

Now the challenge is getting private businesses hardwired to

their line, which runs two miles between the Simms Building on St. Francis and CenturyLink’s central offices on Alameda. High costs and low accessibility present barriers to entry, according to Jane Hill, president of Cyber Mesa.

“I’m hoping the city will invest in building this out further,” Hill says. “This is a great start, but it’s limited at the moment.”

Leonard Pascual, owner of ABN Solutions, which provides residential integration services, receives wireless services from Cyber Mesa but would prefer to get hardwired.

That wasn’t an option five months ago, says Pascual, whose business

is about a block from the Railyard.

Hill says if Pascual tried now, her company could get him hooked up. “But he probably wouldn’t like the price,” she adds.

SITE Santa Fe expects to go online with fiber-optic internet in the next week or two, making the organization the first non-government entity to physically connect to the system.

“We’re going up to warp speed with this new system. We’re very excited and we think we’ll be keeping with our new building in being on the forefront of technology,” says Anne Wrinkle, SITE’s Director of External Affairs. (SH)

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You (theoretically) won’t get arrested for marijuana The City of Santa Fe prides itself for upholding so-called progressive values. So advocates for criminal justice reform cheered when our governing body finally decriminalized marijuana in 2014, reducing penalties for minor possession to $25. That’s a far cry from the potential jail time and permanent criminal record faced by pot possessors under state law.

But as SFR reported last year,

Your boss has to pay you enough to live The minimum wage in the city of Santa Fe has a cute name; the city ordinance that created it relabels the concept a “living wage.” Currently, the dollar figure sits at $10.91, but city officials tell SFR it’s likely to increase to $11.08 on March 1.

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police for two years rarely followed the decriminalization ordinance, regularly arresting people for carrying small quantities of marijuana—or, like one unfortunate guy, for smoking in a parked car before catching a movie.

Things could be poised to change. Late last year, City Councilor Joseph Maestas raised concerns that the police department failed to honor the spirit of their rule, which called for officers to treat marijuana as “the lowest law enforcement priority.”

Police Chief Patrick Gallagher responded by instructing officers to take “refresher” courses on the ordinance, which runs through the process for issuing civil marijuana citations and encourages officers to defer to the municipal option with cooperative individuals without criminal records.

Whether the re-training will lead to change in the department is still to be seen.

We’ll keep you posted. (SH)

That’s because the wage is tied to a federal labor statistic called the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (West Region). If that number increases, the city is supposed to hike the wage by a similar percentage.

Between 2015 and 2016, it rose 1.6 percent, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Those earning this pay rate are still well behind the area median income, however, the amount they must be paid is much higher than the federal minimum of $7.25 per hour and the New Mexico minimum of $7.50.

Yet, Santa Fe County’s wage rules have mirrored the city’s since 2016, so workers at all the 6,910 registered area business can save those extra dimes for a rainy day. (JAG)

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We at social media—sort of Sure, the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta is awesome, and White Sands is unparalleled in its eerie beauty. They have both, however, been beaten in at least one ranking: Instagram prowess. According to USA Today in December 2016, Santa Fe’s own Meow Wolf (1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369) claims the distinction as being New Mexico’s most Instagrammed attraction.

The Balloon Fiesta has been around since 1972, and White Sands has been around, well, forever, and Meow Wolf’s current location only opened in March

2016. So this overtaking in popularity was swift and brutal.

At the time of this writing, there are 25,523 public posts with the hashtag #meowwolf, and that isn’t even counting images with geotags. The Insta-popularity of Meow Wolf could be due to a number of things (for example, the demographic that goes there is probably the demographic most likely to use Instagram). USA Today simply says that the rankings were pulled from “Instagram data,” whatever that means. But, hell. We’ll take it. In your face, White Sands! (CJ)

You can go to museums for free (sometimes) While we’re kicking around the idea that Santa Fe is lovable, did y’all know you can go to state museums for free once a month if you’re a resident? Yup. That means you have access to some of the finest arts and history exhibits in the country, and just from a sheer numbers standpoint, you’re coming out on top. You could even make a day of it.

If that was our plan, we’d start things off at the New Mexico Museum of Art, an impressive combination of contemporary works, culturally significant paintings, photos, sculpture and more, plus an ever-rotating exhibit space that has, just in the last year, featured shows like the history of the guitar and the expanded arts of the lowrider world.

Then pop around the corner to the New Mexico History Museum, a beautiful two-story building that continues the lowrider love affair with the nation’s very first photo archive on the subject, plus incredible recent exhibits on such fascinating topics as the Spanish Inquisition and the Harvey Girls.

Nearby, the Palace of the Governors is worth an hour or two for its view into how the politicians of yesteryear lived, but also for its interesting catalog of artifacts. Around the corner, the

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum offers free admission on the first Friday of the month, and since she’s all important to the history of art, you might wanna swing by. Santa Fe even has an entire hill dedicated to museums, and the International Museum of Folk Art should absolutely be on your list. In the last year they’ve featured events like a lecture on the history of tattoos, the mind-boggling Morris Miniature Circus and so much more it would be impossible to include everything. Across the courtyard you’ll find the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian and the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, both boasting compelling insight into Native arts and culture, both free the first Sunday of the month and both recognized as some of the most well-curated and enriching museum experiences in the country. Same goes for the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art. If it’s more contemporary or experimental you’re looking for, SITE Santa Fe has the weirdness you crave and is free all day on Fridays and from 10 am-noon on Saturdays. What?! And there’s more where that came from. You’ll just have to get out there and live. Or, y’know, look it up. (ADV)

Buses that go up to the ski hill are sweeter than our cars We can see movies somewhere other than giant multiplexes Santa Fe should be proud of its recreational options given its small size, and we can think of no arena that exemplifies this humblebrag better than the non-mainstream cinemas. With such celebrated screens as the Jean Cocteau Cinema (419 Montezuma St., 466-5528), The Center for Contemporary Arts’ Cinematheque (1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338) and The Screen at Santa Fe University of Art & Design (1600 St. Michael’s Drive, 473-6494) hosting myriad films week to week (not to mention author appearances, readings, magic shows, political events and so much more), it’s easier than ever to catch award-winning indies, heart-wrenching documentaries and foreign gems. Even the Violet Crown (1606 Alcaldesa St., 216-5678) has been known to cut loose and host one-off documentary screenings, the works of independent filmmakers and special events featuring classics like Dr. Zhivago (the print was gorgeous, by the way).

Plus, there’s beer there, so…

Anyway, added up, Santa Fe has some of the finest cinematic programming in the country (even with the recent closing of the UA theater at the DeVargas Center) put together by curators who live, breathe and love film.

And, when we remember the oodles of exciting film fests such as the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, the Santa Fe Film Festival and the Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival, we begin to realize that it isn’t just impressive for the size of the town, it’s impressive period. (ADV)

Picture this: The snow gods have just dropped some fluffy, wet powder and then a little icy rain. Lifts open in less than an hour and Hyde Park Road is bumper-tobumper with drivers in sedans who really thought they could make it up. Several vehicles have slid off the shoulder, nearly into trees, or begun to float backwards out of control after losing traction. Then, the blue bus starts up the mountain. Safe and sound inside her warm interior and with our gear stowed on the racks in the back, we’re comforted by the crunchy sound of the tire chains and all-wheel drive. The driver’s from Michigan, so she knows how to let the rear end of the bus slide just a little on those corners. While two dudes in sneakers push their Honda Civic into the downhill position, we’re heading up in the southbound lane. The guys behind them—

annoyed at their thwarted Subaru—stare at us, jaws agape. We wave. The driver hollers, “You shoulda taken the bus!” We cheer.

The North Central Regional Transit District’s Mountain Trail Route is running for its second year and it still seems to be a well-kept secret. For $5 each way, skiers and boarders get dropped off at the Ski Santa Fe upper lot. On the way up, the driver also hands each rider a token worth $5 at the base snack bar. (So, like, free pie and a safe ride!)

In the summer, bikers and hikers and leaf peepers can also catch a ride.

On your next snow day, meet the shuttle at the Fort Marcy lot (right above where they burn Zozobra) and avoid all the downtown stops. First bus leaves at 8:15 am. Get more of the schedule at ncrtd.org. (JAG)

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But Santa Fe bears little resemblance to your racist Midwestern uncle’s wacky world where Obama is a Kenyan Muslim and Clinton runs a child trafficking ring out of a Washington DC pizzeria. Here, chemtrails and Trutherism rule the conspiratorial mind.

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aybe it was a year he just didn’t feel like beating himself up on the steep tree runs, jokes Tony Forrest, a longtime telemark ski instructor who returns Jan. 28 and 29 for the 30th annual telemark workshop at Ski Santa Fe—but several years ago, he decided to alter course. The group in the clinic he wanted to teach wasn’t the skiers charging off for steeps and moguls, but the beginners warming up on green runs.

“We finally realized that’s where we need to pay the most attention to who’s coming there and who has the most chance of changing their skiing, who isn’t going to be intimidated by the terrain and put into an environment where at least they have a chance for success,” he says. He started to spend his time, as the most experienced instructor in the clinic, with these little-experienced skiers. The notion spread, and he’s found 25-year attendees enrolling in the beginner-level clinics.

“They were very, very accomplished skiers who could ski the whole mountain, but they had technical flaws that they couldn’t fix when they were up flailing in the black runs—that’s kind of the crux right there,” he says. “So you have to kind of de-evolve and go back to the basics again.”

Progress can only be made in a place where experimentation feels comfort-

able: so people learn the skills they’ll take to expert runs on the easy, lower angle terrain. The mantra that’s spread, Forrest says, is: “‘The level of your skiing is not the terrain that you ski on.’ So even if you can ski black terrain, you’re not necessarily an expert skier, and if you ski on green terrain really well, you’re not necessarily a beginner skier.”

Each year, Forrest sets a theme for the clinic, and this year’s is “one step ahead.”

That’s all that really goes into make a telemark turn—that funny bended knee, freeheel style of skiing, he says. Put your feet together, and then step one forward.

The workshop started in 1987 as a memorial for Edwin Terrell, a ski instructor from Santa Fe who died climbing in Nepal the previous summer, and whose fellow instructors decided a telemark skiing festival was the best way to celebrate his life—even if his affection for telemarking was hesitant, at best. What drew them in then was a sense of the lifestyle, of traveling through the mountains on their own power away from the bounds and crowds at resorts.

At that time, telemark skiing was in the midst of a major renovation. Forrest was among those crafting telemark skiing as we know it today: with heftier, plastic boots on bigger skis that had edges and could ski race gates. That marked a significant departure from Nordic, or cross-country skiing, better known for often resembling a walk in the woods.

He skied on the first Professional Ski Instructors Association telemark demo team and went on to coach it, helped

Want to tele through the trees like these guys? It takes more than just throwing yourself down the run.

write the curriculum for other telemark instructors and was one of the first three examiners running exams for a telemark teaching certification.

That sense of lifestyle and wanting access to the backcountry is still what he hears people cite when they show up to learn to telemark ski now, same as it was 30 years ago, but whether the numbers are growing isn’t apparent in attendance at the workshop, which has held steady for decades.

At least part of the challenge for potential new recruits lies with equipping them. There’s no option to rent telemark gear in town, leaving beginners not ready to shell out to buy the setup to beg, borrow or steal gear from friends.

“That’s the challenge of it,” Forrest says. “We’re not really growing the sport.

We’re sustaining people who are diehards.”

And with alpine touring (AT) gear now lighter weight and capable at ascending backcountry terrain, what makes telemark gear worth the weight up and the added difficulty down? He contends it’s better at going sideways, traversing

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“It’s a little bit more of a cross-country feeling, having your heel free like that all the time,” he says. “Maybe some people are just wired for that. It’s not a real precise place where you go on these things.

Things are a little bit squirrelly until you figure it out, and that’s why a lot of people go to AT. But there is a certain amount of freedom when your heels are unlocked, and that’s what some people get into. …

“Whether it’s growing or not, the thing that sustains it is people just liking to get out into the woods.”

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KING DAVID There once was a time when Americana was all the rage in Santa Fe, and while it hasn’t left, per se (we know you’re still killin’ it, Santa Fe Revue), it’s definitely been a little quiet of late. Enter David Bromberg, a 50-year-plus Americana veteran often described as the godfather of the genre.

Homeboy has worked with the likes of George Harrison, Jerry Garcia and Bob Dylan, been called an “American icon” by Dr. John and has even been credited as a co-founder of the genre Newgrass.

Damn, that’s a lot of stuff—and he’s a hell of a guitarist. So why not reignite your love while being completely blown away? Ba-doom! (Alex De Vore)

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David Bromberg Quintet: 7:30 pm Wednesday Jan. 25. $34-$54. Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234.

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BOOKS/LECTURE SUN/29 GET ON THE BUS In Bus Stop, Adobe Rose Theatre (ART) kicks out novelist/screenwriter/playwright William Inge’s 1955 tale of stranded bus passengers whose lives intersect. You may be more immediately aware of the film version starring Marilyn Monroe, but this particular show, with lots of local talent in the cast, speaks volumes about ART’s commitment to mounting quality theater productions in Santa Fe. “I truly love Inge’s writing,” director Staci Robbins tells SFR. “He writes really strong women, that’s how he grew up, and I think that’s pretty timely right now.” She’s totally right. (ADV) Bus Stop: 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday Jan. 26-28 and 3 pm Sunday Jan. 29. $15-$20. Adobe Rose Theatre, 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688.

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MUSIC SAT/28 THE BEAT GOES ON Though it may not dominate our Facebook feeds as much these days, we oughtn’t forget that the whole Standing Rock debacle is still very much a thing, and there are still supplies needed and medical bills to pay. Good, then, that Santa Fe has local performers who would come together to donate their time for the cause at Stand and Rock 2, a fundraiser—the second of its kind, the first having gone down on Dec. 23—featuring Jamie Russell, Brian Hardgroove, Talia Kosh, Felecia Ford and so many others we couldn’t possibly include them all. Skylight won’t charge a cover, but donations will go to the Water Protector Legal Collective.

So, y’know, make ‘em. (ADV) Stand and Rock 2: 7 pm Saturday Jan. 28. Free.

Skylight, 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775.

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f you like strong women and space adventures, author Carrie Vaughn’s newest book, Martians Abroad, may be just the thing for you. A departure from the prolific Kitty Norville series for which Vaughn is best known, she says fans will see familiar elements in her newest work. “The strong, really interesting girl protagonist knows what she wants and she’s not afraid to go after it, even if it’s her against the world,” Vaughn says. “Readers who like my Kitty books will be on board with Polly. … The book is a look at Earth from the point of view of someone who didn’t grow up there and imagining a future where we have colonies in other places and that Earth becomes the alien planet.”

Martians Abroad even speaks to the nostalgic throwback sci-fi of yesteryear, a sort of revisiting of dime-store novels featuring futuristic tropes. “The book as a whole is a little bit of a callback to more old-fashioned science fiction, kind of the space adventures in the ’50s and ’60s,” Vaughn says, “a little more optimistic and idealistic.” She says she and her mother used to read these old science fiction works, but they always lacked a strong female presence. “So, I definitely had the desire to write that kind of adventure with a girl protagonist.”

When the Colorado-based author presents her book this Sunday at the Jean Cocteau Cinema, she’ll be introduced by the theater owner and Game of Thrones creator himself, George RR Martin. The two have known each other for about 10 years, having met while working on Wild Cards, a shared-world superhero series of books. “He’s great, [and] one of the things I really like about him is that he’s really supportive of the writing community,” Vaughn says. “Any chance he gets to support other writers, he goes for it.”

As for the night itself, Vaughn says she particularly looks forward to the Q&A portion. “It’s not always easy to get a close-up chance to talk with authors about their work, and why they do what they do, and what they are reading,” she says. “It’s a fun way to get a behind-thescenes view of how books actually get made.” (Maria Egolf-Romero)

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THE CALENDAR E CLAYTON WEST El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 West, usually frontman for local roots band The Soul Deacons, takes his turn at the solo thing.

8:30 pm, free JOAQUIN GALLEGOS El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Gallegos performs a passionate repertoire of classic flamenco guitar.

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

6 pm, free SHAWN SOLO Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Southern pop.

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BOOKS/LECTURES DHARMA TALK: DOLPO TULKU RINPOCHE Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 Rinpoche, a teacher at Ngagyur Nyingma Institute, takes the spotlight in this week’s lecture.

5:30 pm, free LOO'K CLOSER Georgia O'Keeffe Museum 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 Presented by a member of the museum's curatorial department, this talk takes a longer and closer look at the art currently on exhibit. Free with admission.

12:30 pm, $8-$12 MARIA ROMERO CASH Museum of Spanish Colonial Art 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 Romero Cash is a santera whose work is featured in many Northern New Mexico churches, as well as the Vatican and the Smithsonian.

She gives a lecture about her work, accompanied by slides as visual aid.

Noon, $8

BOOKS/LECTURES CHILDREN’S STORY HOUR Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 A weekly event offers an hour of stories and picture book adventures about crayons, princesses, dragons and more to entertain infants, toddlers and younger kiddos up to age 5. The stories change each week and are read by the book store’s staff.

10:45 am, free DAVID STRAUB: THE KOREAN PENINSULA PROBLEM Santa Fe Center for Spiritual Living 505 Camino de los Marquez, 983-5022 The former state department director of Korean affairs offers his thoughts in this lecture titled “The Korean Peninsula Problem: Back to Basics,” as part of the Santa Fe Council on International Relations lecture series.

5:30 pm, $20 DOUGLAS PRESTON: LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Preston presents his newest nonfiction book, Lost City of the Monkey God, which focuses on the ancient legend of a sacred White City in the heart of the world’s densest jungle in Honduras. Rumors were reignited in the ‘40s when an explorer returned from the jungle with artifacts he claimed to have found in the ruins and the New York Times best-selling author follows Preston and a team of explorers as they try to do what no man has done before: find the White City.

6 pm, free

DANCE SWING NIGHT Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 This evening includes a lesson before the floor opens for dance time. So, if you don’t know the moves right now, you will by the end of the evening.

6:30 pm, $5

EVENTS COMMUNITY-STYLE ACUPUNCTURE Southwest Acupuncture College 1622 Galisteo St., 438-8884 Receive community-style acupuncture in a group, rather than private, setting. Make sure to call ahead to schedule.

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John Hitchcock’s print “Ceremonial” is on view at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts as part of New Impressions, a group show on view through June 15.

MUSIC BILL FORREST Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Pop, classics and standards on a swanky piano.

6:30 pm, free CATHY FABER BAND La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Faber and her group perform old-style country and Western swing.

7:30 pm, free

DJ SATO Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Sato spins a set of house and electronica tunes at the Railyard venue that never charges a cover and keeps its kitchen open late. So, if you need a burger at midnight, or you just need the DJ to give you a reason to shake it, this is the time and the place for you.

They turn the TVs off and the music up on Wednesdays, so prepare for a party.

10 pm, free

DAVID BROMBERG QUINTET Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Bromberg is a supremely talented multi-instrumentalist who has collaborated with greats like Bob Dylan and Emmylou Harris. He is known as the godfather of Americana and he plays from his new album (see SFR Picks, page 25).

7:30 pm, $34-$54

DEF-I AND MEGANOKE: 2017 SW X COAST RUN The Underground 200 W San Francisco St., 819-1597 Def-I, an Albuquerque-based hip-hop artist, joins Meganoke, an Arizona songstress, as they stop in Santa Fe as part of their tour around the West Coast. See opening performances by OG Willikers and DJ Cap as well at this full roster of trip-hop and hip-hop ensembles.

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THE CALENDAR FLAGG MILLER: THE AUDACIOUS ASCETIC James A Little Theatre 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429 Miller, a professor at New Mexico School for the Deaf, speaks on the rise of Bin Laden in his lecture titled "The Audacious Ascetic: What the Bin Laden Tapes Reveal About Al-Qaeda."

6:30 pm, $10 VICTOR DI SUVERO Brookdale Senior Living Solutions 640 Alta Vista St., 984-8422 Daniele Spadavecchia performs a set of live guitar as di Suvero reads a selection of his poetry at the event which honors him as poet laureate of the retirement community.

2:30 pm, free

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Be a geek and play other teams to see who knows the most about the chosen subjects of the week.

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MUSIC ALEX MARYOL Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Maryol puts on a famously good solo guitar set.

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BILL FORREST Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Pop, classical songs and standards on piano.

6:30 pm, free CATHY FABER BAND La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Faber and her group do Americana and classics.

7:30 pm, free E CLAYTON WEST El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Usually frontman of local roots group The Soul Deacons, West plays a solo set of pure soul.

7 pm, free HALF BROKE HORSES Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 A danceable blend of honkytonk and Americana.

7 pm, free LATIN NIGHT WITH DJ DANY Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Latin-influenced dance tunes may have you up and moving to the electronica beats.

9 pm, $7 LILLY PAD LOUNGE WITH DJ REBEL FROG Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 DJ Rebel Frog mixes up the dance tunes to keep you hopping and grooving along.

10 pm, $7

PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Malone performs solo guitar at the wine-filled venue.

6 pm, free RANDY RANE Omira Bar & Grill 1005 St. Francis Drive, 780-5483 Brazilian and Spanish guitar.

6 pm, free REGGAE NIGHT: ICONCIOUS Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Jam to dancehall beats and feel the island vibes with iConcious.

10 pm, free SOL FIRE El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 A mix of rock, pop and Latin tunes played by a local duo.

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THEATER BUS STOP Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 This comedy, written by William Inge and directed by Staci Robbins, tells the story of chance companions who meet on a bus out of Kansas City that gets stranded in a blizzard, showing how relationships develop (see SFR Picks, page 25).

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ances with Werewolves is this new horror film about a young woman who leaves an abusive relationship only to get all tangled up with an ancient Romanian countess and, wouldn’t you know it, werewolves! It’s a tale as old as time, and a potentially killer example of the kitsch-horror niche that includes but is hardly limited to such celebrated cinematic highlights as Creepshow, Jack Frost or the Jan-Michael Vincent/Clint Howard-led masterpiece, Ice Cream Man. And while I’m sure the movie is cool and all and totally perfect for a fun late night-ish screening at the Jean Cocteau Cinema, for a dude like me who grew up in a house where Frank Zappa’s We’re Only In It For the Money or Cruising With Ruben and the Jets were basically always played by my maniac of a father (you know I’m all about “Deseri”), I’m actually more enamored with the composer of the film’s soundtrack, Don Preston, a longtime member of Zappa’s Mothers of Invention.

“I wrote what you might call classical pieces because I just thought the music for the film should be classical in nature,” says Preston, now 84. “I’ve been writing classical music for quite some time, and I thought it would suit the characters and what was going on in the film.”

For Preston to say “quite some time” kind of sells his experience and back-

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ground short. This is a man who’s toured the world rocking out—hell, he’s played the pipe organ at the Albert Hall. The son of a resident composer for the Detroit Philharmonic, Preston began as a pianist at the age of 5. “I’d play around on the piano when my father wasn’t using it, but I also took lessons for, oh, I think about 12 years,” he says. He’d go on to

Zappa wrote the songs, but even with the compositions, there were spaces for solos.

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join the Army, during which time he played in a jazz band with none other than Herbie Mann. “I gravitated toward jazz,” says Preston, “but of course, when I first started playing music, there was no such thing as rock … so I played jazz, and I learned a lot.”

After his stint with the Army, Preston applied to the music program at the University of Michigan. “They told me

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because of my experience I could start as a senior,” he adds. But he never enrolled. Family circumstances forced him west to Los Angeles. “Even though I never formally went to school, I studied all the same great books on orchestration, so you could say I’m self-taught, I suppose,” Preston says with a chuckle. “Although, some people have said I made the right choice doing it that way.”

Preston would audition for Zappa by the mid-1960s, though he didn’t get the job at first. “He said, ‘Well gee, Don, I don’t think I can let you in the band because you don’t know anything about rock ’n’ roll,’” Preston recalls. “After that failed audition, I started getting jobs in other rock bands and touring, and I learned a lot; I also knew Zappa’s manager back then, so I eventually told him they ought to audition me again because by then I knew about rock. So I did and Frank said, ‘Great, Don, you’re in the band.’”

Preston would appear on Zappa’s studio debut, 1966’s Freak Out!, and subsequently on countless studio, live and compilation albums with the band.

“Zappa wrote the songs, but even with the compositions, there were spaces in there for solos, and that was always very gratifying,” Preston says. “Of course, when you compose something larger for an orchestra and hear that played back, that’s also very gratifying.”

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His start in movies came with the 1982 cult classic Android, starring Klaus Kinski. Since then, Preston estimates he’s composed for 23 films including 1984’s Night Patrol with Linda Blair and 1986’s Eye of the Tiger with Gary freaking Busey. Additionally, he’s continued the Zappa legacy with his band, The Grandmothers of Invention, with whom he’s toured the world, and is currently composing original pieces that he says sound like old Weather Report songs—atmospheric, layered and, if we’re lucky, kind of complicated.

Preston appears at this Friday’s screening of Dances With Werewolves along with director Dan Golden and cast member Omar Paz Trujillo (who hails from Chimayó, y’all). It should be a hell of a good time, especially since it’s composed of rock royalty.

DANCES WITH WEREWOLVES SCREENING 9 pm Friday Jan. 27. $6-$13. Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528

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I am quite the follower on social media— Facebook and Twitter in particular. I make no trolling comments, no #MAGA hashtags; I just look with my male gaze. Like Laura Mulvey says, the male gaze is only natural. I’ve lost interest in pornography, so I use everyday pictures of women, typically selfies. It helps me to know the story behind the face and body. None of these pics are pornographic—just feel-good selfies by young women posted on social media. I don’t communicate with these people, because that would be creepy. I’m not worried about whether this is abnormal. I just wondered if people would be okay with this, if people were aware of behavior like mine when they post, and if I should ask these girls for their permission to wank to their selfies.

-Not Anthony Weiner So long as you’re wanking alone, wanking with a reasonable expectation of privacy, and not bothering anyone who isn’t a sex partner or a sex-advice professional with your wanking, NAW, you can wank to whatever you’d like— except for images of child rape, aka “child pornography.”

You remind me of the proverbial shoe salesman with a foot fetish. (Full disclosure: proverb of mine, not a proverb of Proverbs.) Let’s say a guy working in a high-end shoe store has an intense attraction to feet. Is it inappropriate for him to get an obvious boner while helping women try on shoes? Of course it is. It would also be inappropriate for him to drool or pant— and it would be super inappropriate of him to ask the women he’s serving if he can jack off about their feet after his shift. But if he can be completely professional, if he can go eight hours without giving off any signs of secret perving, that guy can (and probably should) sell shoes.

And he’s free to upload mental images to his spank bank for later—we’re all free to do so, NAW, and it’s only creepy if the people whose images we’re uploading/repurposing are made aware that we’re uploading/repurposing them.

So in answer to your question, NAW, under no circumstances should you ask the girls whose selfies you’re wanking to for their permission. People who post revealing pictures to social media—men and women—know they run the risk of their pics being wanked to by random strangers. But there’s a difference between knowing some stranger might be wanking to your pics and hearing from one of those wanking strangers. Being asked by a wanker for permission to wank drags the social-media poster into the wanker’s fantasies—and not only is that creepy, NAW, it’s also no way to show your gratitude. If some stranger is going to make your day by posting a hot pic, why would you ruin theirs—or make them think twice about ever posting a revealing pic again—by telling them exactly what you’re doing while you gaze at their pics?

If you saw a woman on the street that you thought was hot, you wouldn’t stop her to ask if you could wank about her later. You would no more ask a stranger that question than you would flash your penis at her because, NAW, it would constitute sexual harassment. (Promise me you wouldn’t do either of those things.)

You would instead walk on by, minding your own business while discreetly filing her mental image away in your spank bank. You should behave similarly on social media: Don’t harass, don’t send unsolicited dick pics, and don’t ask for permission to wank.

Finally, NAW, your question inspired me to read feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey’s 1975 essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” in which she coined the phrase “male gaze.”

Mulvey describes the male gaze as phallocentric, patriarchal, pervasive, and socially constructed—she never describes it as natural.

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A problem has cropped up for me ever since the reports of Donald Trump’s pissing Russian hookers made the news. Every time someone on social media tries to make a comment about how disgusting that is, someone else jumps in and scolds that person for “kink shaming.” The problem for me is that by normalizing my piss fetish, you’re making it dull for me. Piss was one of the few things that even the kink community found disgusting. I now find myself looking for different porn because, eh, a lesbian pissing in the mouth of another lovely lady on a train platform? No big whoop anymore, it seems. My polyamorous boyfriend and I found each other without knowing we shared a love for piss.

Neither of us had ever had someone to enjoy that with before. The one thing the piss porn I’ve been watching for half my life completely failed to capture is how goddamn amazing it is to embrace and make out with a person you love dearly while you’re both covered in each other’s piss. If you personally don’t want to kink shame, that’s fine. I get it. But everyone, please stop telling your friends not to kink shame so that my boyfriend and I can get back to the business of pissing on each other and feeling disgusting about it and horny because of it.

-Pissed Off Slut Wife I have grappled with this same conundrum, POSW. If a kink is boner- or slicker-inducing to some precisely because it’s so transgressive and disgusting to most, efforts to normalize said kink—by shaming kink shamers, for instance— could piss away that kink’s power to induce all those boners and slickers. But I’m confident that the kink shamers will continue to have the upper hand for decades to come, despite the best efforts of the kink-shamer shamers. So your kink will continue to induce enough revulsion and disgust generally to keep you and your boyfriend feeling disgusting and horny in perpetuity.

Listening to pundits discuss the president on the radio, I was inspired by your brilliant acronym (DTMFA) to yell, “Impeach the motherfucker already!” I’d love to see a line of bumper stickers and T-shirts bearing that sensible message: ITMFA! We need a shorthand for the obvious—think of the boost to productivity we’d get if we could cut half-hour conversations about the president to five simple letters: ITMFA! I appeal to you to bring this acronym into our everyday vocabulary.

-Dumped My Motherfucker Already DEAR READERS: DMMA wrote me that letter in 2006. She wasn’t referring to Donald Trump, our current awful president, but George W. Bush, our last truly awful president. I thought DMMA’s idea was great, I put up a website (impeachthemotherfuckeralready.com), and I raised more than $20,000 selling ITMFA lapel pins and buttons. I donated half the money to the ACLU and the other half to two Democratic candidates for the US Senate. (My readers helped turf Rick Santorum out of office!)

I didn’t think I’d see a worse president than George W. Bush in my lifetime. But here we are.

So I’m bringing back my line of ITMFA buttons and adding T-shirts and, yes, hats to the ITMFA collection. Go to impeachthemotherfuckeralready.com or, if that’s too much typing, ITMFA. org to order some ITMFA swag for yourself or someone you love. All the money raised will be donated to the American Civil Liberties Union, Planned Parenthood, and the International Refugee Assistance Project.

We’re in for a long and ugly four years, folks.

Let’s raise some money for groups fighting Trump, let’s bring ITMFA back into our everyday vocabulary, and let’s remember that we—people who voted against Trump, people who want to see him out of office as quickly as possible— are the majority. ITMFA!

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FRI/27 ART OPENINGS ATHENA LaTOCHA: INSIDE THE FORCES OF NATURE IAIA Musem of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 This solo exhibit (in the South Gallery) features LaTocha's contemporary, and perhaps unorthodox, landscape paintings that involve personal memory and the use of unusual materials. Through June 15.

5 pm, free DANIEL McCOY JR: THE CEASELESS QUEST FOR UTOPIA IAIA Musem of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 McCoy's paintings are inspired by underground comics and contemporary Native American issues. He presents his newest works in this solo exhibit in the Hall & Honor Gallery. Through Jan. 2018.

5 pm, free NOW IS THE TIME: INVESTIGATING NATIVE HISTORIES AND VISIONS OF THE FUTURE IAIA Musem of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 This group show in the North Gallery explores current themes and trends in contemporary Native American art, including Indigenous science fiction and visionary Native histories. See works by Natalie Ball, Joe Feddersen, Jonathan Thunder and more. Through April 16.

5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES MICHAEL MUKASEY St. John's College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, 684-6000 Head to the Great Hall and catch a lecture by the former Attorney General as he speaks as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.

7:30 pm, free

EVENTS LABYRINTH WALK FOR HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY Frenchy's Field Osage Avenue and Agua Frí­a Street Soak in the natural glory of the outdoors and walk the labyrinth in peaceful remembrance of all those who lost their lives during the Holocaust on the international day of remembrance.

Sunshine and fresh air are gifts we do not treasure often enough.

4 pm, free

FILM DANCES WITH WEREWOLVES Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 This special screening features a film starring one of New Mexico's own, Omar Paz Trujillo, who grew up in the Española Valley and features an original soundtrack

by Don Preston (see Music, page 29).

9 pm, $6-$13

MUSIC BARBARA BENTREE Museum Hill Café 710 Camino Lejo, 984-8900 Bentree, a longtime jazz vocalist, puts on a live performance with accompaniment by Andy Zadrozny, John Rangel and John Trentacosta.

7 pm, $25 BILL FORREST Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Pop, classical and standards on a swanky piano.

6:30 pm, free CS ROCKSHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Don Curry, Pete Springer and Mark Clark play rock 'n' roll.

8:30 pm, $5 DK & THE AFFORDABLES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock, roots, pop and swing.

8:30 pm, free DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Geist brings his big-time talent to a small venue performing piano classics.

6 pm, $2 ERYN BENT Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Bent sings her heart out during her country and Americana performances.

5 pm, free FOX WHITE Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Heavy rock with melodic choruses.

8 pm, $5 GREG BUTERA & THE GUNSELS Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Dreamy country tunes.

6 pm, free KINETIC FRIDAYS Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Get kinetic and move around to the electronia beats.

10 pm, $7 RANDY RANE Omira Bar & Grill 1005 St. Francis Drive, 780-5483 Brazilian and Spanish guitar.

6 pm, free

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SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Classic rock.

8 pm, free THE SHINERS CLUB Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Ragtime and jazz.

6 pm, free THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 This weekly concert features a different special guest each week to perform with the swinging jazz trio.

7:30 pm, free TONY FURTADO GiG Performance Space 1808 Second St., 989-8442 Furtado is a renowned slide guitarist and award-winning banjo player who draws from a deep reservoir of Americana originals and traditional roots tunes during his solo performances.

7:30 pm, $29-$32 GRISHA KRIVCHENIA AND DAN PEARLMAN First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Krivchenia is a composer and pianist and Pearlman is a trumpeter. Together, the two perform classic compositions.

5:30 pm, free

THEATER BUS STOP Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 This comedy, written by William Inge and directed by Staci Robbins, tells the story of chance companions who meet on a bus out of Kansas City that gets stranded in a blizzard, showing how relationships develop (see SFR Picks, page 25).

7:30 pm, $15-$20

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SAT/28 ART OPENINGS ARTIST SALON: JOHN FLAX Fashion Outlets of Santa Fe 8380 Cerrillos Road, 474-4000 Get intellectual with artist/ writer/performer John Flax.

2-3 pm, free DRAGONFLY ART STUDIO STUDENT ART EXHIBIT Kellam Orthodontics 539 Harkle Road, Ste. D, 982-5531 See child and adult student artwork in a variety of mediums on display. Enjoy appetizers, beverages and music while you peruse the art.

4 pm, free

DOUG MONTGOMERY AND BILL FORREST Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and vocals, as Vanessie is often wont to do.

6 pm, free JJ AND THE HOOLIGANS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock and blues covers and originals.

8:30 pm, $5 JIM & TIM Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Soulful blues.

5 pm, free

JUSTIN EVAN THOMPSON Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Americana.

6 pm, free LITTLE LEROY & HIS PACK OF LIES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Enjoy an evening of rock 'n' roll covers.

8 pm, $5 PAT MALONE Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Here comes some hot-ass solo jazz guitar tunes.

7 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES TERRENO: BORDERLANDS LINGUISTICS LAUNCH Santa Fe University of Art & Design Tipton Hall, 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, 473-6011 Present Cartographers kicks out their new pamphlet with readings and performances Israel F Harros Lopez, Tara Evonne Trudell, Alicia Inez Guzmán and more.

3 pm, free

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RESIDE

HOME

DANCE

EVENTS EL MUSEO CULTURAL WINTER MARKET El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 See folk and tribal art, antiques, jewlery and more at this indoor weekend market, which happens in the same area as the Santa Fe Farmers Market, so you can market it up all day.

8 am-3 pm, free SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavillion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-4098 C’mon, you guys—you know what goes down at the Farmers Market, right? Of course you do!

8 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC CHANGO Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Rock covers.

10 pm, $7 DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Show tunes and standards.

6 pm, $2

COURTESY DESCARTES LABS

Descartes Labs, the agriculture forecasting startup, launched out of Los Alamos National Laboratory two years ago. Using satellite-imaging technology, the company boasts that it produces more accurate corn yield predictions than the federal government. CEO Mark Johnson has since raised millions in venture capital dollars and, on Monday, opened a brand new office on De Vargas Street in Santa Fe. (Steven Hsieh) I think people have this view of the Bay Area startup scene as being superficial. Does that ring a bell??

Absolutely. I spent half my life in San Francisco working for a bunch of startups. You have to get coffee with every person. You’re reading Tech Crunch everyday.

People are saying, ‘Did you hear what Travis said?’

That’s the founder of Uber. I’m not going to get people to move to New Mexico if I tell them I’m making a social networking app. How do you fake the core research we’re doing here? That big thinking doesn’t happen in Silicon Valley.

How are you getting involved with the community?

The team is getting involved with coding projects, holding sessions with middle and high schools. We’re also planning on recruiting at UNM and NM Tech.

People ask why aren’t there more Descartes Labs here. There’s nothing to point to in New Mexico for venture capitalists to say, ‘That was a great success.’

A few small changes here can have great effects. If we grow to 60 employees by the end of the year, we’ll be one of the biggest success stories in Santa Fe in a long time.

What’s the gender breakdown of your employees?

It’s not the ratio I’d like to see, but it’s higher than most. Five out of our 24 employees are women.

Diversity is important to us, but hiring is hard. We make a concerted effort. I long for the day where I can say our ratio is better.

ACADEMY FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING

FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 A classic combo: dinner and dancing. But this time, you aren’t the one who has to dance.

6:30 pm, $25

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Learn how instability can call forth wisdom, creativity and strength

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Poetry, Nature and the Politics of Experience with James Burbank

Shirley Melis, Banged Up Heart JOURNEY SANTA FE PRESENTS:

JOURNEY SANTA FE PRESENTS:

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21

John Pen LaFarge, Turn Left at the Sleeping Dog speaks on the Importance of Historical Review Boards

Marty Gerber, Fascinating Facts of New Mexico: Aliens, Artists, Atoms, and More...

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22

Mark Sundeen, The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today’s America and Elizabeth Hightower Allen (Outside Magazine) FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10

David Bedrick, Revisioning Activism

Joe Badal, Bad Angel and Hester Young, The Shimmering Road THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23

Matt Donovan, Rapture and the Big Bam SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25 @ 9:30AM OPERA BREAKFAST SERIES:

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12 @ 11AM JOURNEY SANTA FE PRESENTS:

A Conversation with former Students for Democratic Action Activist Mark Rudd THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16 SANTA FE WRITERS LAB SERIES PRESENTS:

Margaret Wrinkle, Wash and Sally Denton, The Profiteers FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17

Kim Howe, The Freedom Broker in conversation with David Morrell

Desirée Mays on “Rusalka” SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25

Janie Chodosh, Young Adult Code Red SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26 @ 11AM JOURNEY SANTA FE PRESENTS:

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THE CALENDAR RANDY RANE Omira Bar & Grill 1005 St. Francis Drive, 780-5483 Brazilian and Spanish guitar.

6 pm, free SANTA FE PRO MUSICA: MOZART'S BIRTHDAY Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Santa Fe Pro Musica presents a celebratory program honoring Mozart. Directed by Thomas O'Connor and featuring guest violinist Benjamin Beilman, the group performs compositions by the music magnum including his Violin Concerto No. 3.

4 pm, $12-$75 SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Classic rock.

8 pm, free SO SOPHISTICATED WITH DJ 12 TRIBE Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 So-phisticated, they play the newest hits in rap, hip-hop and R&B. So even if you don’t turn on the radio today, you won’t miss the Top 40.

9 pm, $7 STAND AND ROCK 2 Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 This live concert fundraiser will help pay the legal and medical costs for the brothers and sisters of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Donate whatever you can—all donations go directly to the Water Protector Legal Collective.

Featuring performances

by John Kurzweg, Zenobia, Sister Mary, Sean Healen and many more, all backed by the Impulse Groove foundation, and with a special appearance

by Wes Studi as he reads from the book Drums For Peace. Extra good news: It’s an all-ages event, so never mind the sitter (see SFR Picks, page 25).

7 pm, free STANLIE KEE AND STEP IN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Kee and his group perform an afternoon set of Americana, blues, funk and soul.

1 pm, free STELLA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 The threesome—which is Chris Ishee on piano, Ross Hamlin on bass and Lee Steck on drums—plays classic jazz.

7:30 pm, free URBAN PIONEERS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Old-time hillbilly, rockabilly and Western swing with a hint of gypsy flare played on banjo and fiddle by this touring group based in Texas.

7 pm, free

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VANILLA POP Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Zany ‘80s covers are these guys’ gig.

10 pm, $10 WELSH & WATTS Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Rock 'n' roll you can enjoy with a local brew in hand.

Unwind with some R&R. 6 pm, free

THEATER BUS STOP Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 This comedy, written by William Inge and directed by Staci Robbins, tells the story of chance companions who meet on a bus out of Kansas City that gets stranded in a blizzard, showing how relationships develop (see SFR Picks, page 25).

7:30 pm, $15-$20 THE TEMPEST El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Three casts of young actors, ages 10-18, who are part of Upstart Crows, present the Shakespearean comedy.

7 pm, $10

WORKSHOP FERMENTED VEGETABLE CULINARY EXPERIENCE Sunrise Springs 242 Los Pinos Road, 471-3600 Join executive chef Rocky Durham and create your own fermented vegetable jar.

Enjoy tasty treats with wine pairings in the Blue Heron Restaurant. He is introduced

by Sally Fisher. Call to reserve your spot.

2 pm, $35

SUN/29 BOOKS/LECTURES CARRIE VAUGHN: MARTIANS ABROAD Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Vaughn signs copies of her newest book, Martians Abroad, a post-apocalyptic murder mystery that takes place in space. George RR Martin hosts the event in his theater (see SFR Picks, page 25).

1 pm, $5 JOURNEYSANTAFE: KEN MAYERS Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Mayers is co-founder of Veterans for Peace. He speaks about the work his organization is doing in New Mexico, as well as recent developments concerning missile defense.

11 am, free

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EVENTS DRAG BINGO PAJAMA PARTY Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 This crazy mash-up event benefits Santa Fe Prom Closet. $35 gets you nine bingo sheets and you can keep playing for $5 each extra sheet. Dress in your drag-best and join the party.

5 pm, $35 EL MUSEO CULTURAL WINTER MARKET El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 The local cultural center presents a collection of folk and tribal art, antiques, jewlery and more made by many different artists at this indoor weekend market.

8 am-3 pm, free RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Santa Fe Farmers Market 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-4098 Hit the market and peruse a variety of handmade artworks representing mediums like sculpture, painting and ceramics, all made by artists living in Santa Fe. 10 am, free

FILM AWAKE Santa Fe Meditation Circle of Self Realization Fellowship 1807 Second St., Ste. 59, 988-4157 This biographical film tells the true story of the Hindu Swami who brought yoga and meditation to the West in the 1920s.

1:30 pm, free

MUSIC BROOMDUST CARAVAN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Listening to gospel, rock and folk is a good reason to take an extra-long, leisurely time at your mid-day meal.

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Call for Artists

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Former SFUAD students create expansive digital showcase for emerging artists

BY J O R DA N E D DY @jordaneddyart

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ndrea Vaca, the co-founder of Knack Magazine, was finishing her sophomore year at College of Santa Fe when the university announced it was closing.

That was spring of 2009, and by summer, Laureate International had snapped up the school and transformed it into Santa Fe University of Art and Design. Vaca’s junior year at the new institution was strange but inspiring.

“There weren’t as many people, so I was able to use the facilities any time I wanted to. They really trusted us,” says Vaca. She was a photography student, and all-hours access to the labs and equipment allowed for unbridled creativity.

The transition was a lesson in seizing artistic independence, as a long line of substitute instructors cycled through her program. “It wasn’t as consistent as I would’ve liked, but it was overall a great experience,” she says.

By fall of 2012, Vaca had graduated and completed internships at Outside Magazine and here at SFR. “Publishing looked like something that I wanted to be a part of,” she says. “The way I saw myself doing it was to feature emerging artists.” Her idea for a new publication became Knack Magazine, a digital showcase for artists that will release its 42nd issue this Friday.

Vaca’s small team of editors has published an issue almost every month for the past four years, engaging an ever-expanding community of artists. Santa Fe was their incubator.

Vaca kicked off the project by calling up a few old classmates, most of whom had since left Santa Fe. Her friend Will Smith, who transferred to CalArts when College of Santa Fe closed, became her first collaborator and co-founder. Ariana

Shopping c’art: a stunning example of visual poetry from the artists found in Knack Magazine.

Every time an artist submits to Knack, that’s a success.

-Andrea Vaca

Lombardi, who had just graduated from the creative writing program at SFUAD, signed on as executive editor. As creative director and designer, Vaca engaged Jonathon Duarte, a former SFUAD design student who’d moved back to his hometown of El Paso, Texas, to finish his degree.

“It was a bit daunting. The way she described it to me was pretty much a full-on magazine,” says Duarte. “That’s something I had never done before.” The team started brainstorming names, a process that Vaca describes as “all over the place.”

They considered Art Hungry, Mustard Seed, Paprika and Project Lucida. “All of my Knack files are still stored in a folder called ‘Project Lucida,’” Duarte notes.

One thing they settled on immediately was its purpose. “It was really frustrating

to try to get our work out there in Santa Fe and to be respected as emerging artists,” says Vaca. “There’s so much art in Santa Fe, but it’s really focused on making money. You don’t all of a sudden become a famous artist. It takes a lot of time and exploration. That’s mostly why I was like, ‘I’ve got to do something.’”

Vaca’s new collaborators were on the same page: They wanted to support artists who were at the bottom of the ladder. The name Knack—meaning a forte for something—evolved out of this ethos.

Many of the artists they knew possessed an excess of raw talent, but needed a platform to tell their stories and build reputations. Flexing their skills for digital design and marketing felt like a natural solution.

Knack Magazine’s first issue debuted in October 2012 as a 110-page PDF file attached to an email. The team had compiled an email list of about 200 friends and family members. Duarte says Santa Fe’s tight-knit creative community lit up as they got the magazine off the ground.

“Here, there’s a more readily available network of artists,” he says. “They know what it’s like to be a young artist and not have a voice, especially in this age when people are able to consume art more ubiquitously.”

The first Knack email included a call to artists and writers, and the submission guidelines swiftly passed from hand to hand. Since then, they’ve featured upand-coming local creatives such as Brad Trone, Michael J Wilson, Austin Eichel-

berger and Laura San Roman, along with artists from across the United States, Europe and beyond. Knack now has over 800 subscribers, between its email list and other platforms. The magazine’s readership and circle of collaborators has extended far past the editors’ personal networks.

“Every time an artist submits to Knack, that’s a success,” says Vaca. “That’s how this project keeps going. As the staff, we don’t think of it as just ours. It’s for everybody.” Duarte returned to Santa Fe in 2016, but Vaca had moved back to her hometown of Chicago in 2015. Lombardi calls China her home, and travels frequently. Several other editors have rotated in and out, including Smith. The entire editorial team has still never been in the same room for a meeting, but Vaca says that’s a reality of such an expansive project.

Still, Vaca has some analog plans for Knack. She wants to launch a print edition and line of merchandise, and open a brick-and-mortar space in Chicago. She’s also considering applying for Masters programs in publishing. In the meantime, she highly values the freedom of the digital space. “Artists don’t need restrictions,” she says. “There are no rules, but getting to the point of seeing that is really hard.”

For artists and art enthusiasts, the first step is one email away. Subscribe or submit at knackmagazine1@gmail.com.

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THE CALENDAR CHRIS ABEYTA El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 The longtime singer-songwriter performs his folky originals.

7 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano hits featuring Montgomery includes standards, pop and original tunes.

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

8 pm, free FERNANDO BARROS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 A solo performance of flamenco guitar.

7:30 pm, free LONE PIÑON Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 This local threesome draws inspiration from their cultural backgrounds and blends it into their Northern New Mexico roots music, which they perform on a guitar, violin and guitarrón.

2 pm, free NACHA MENDEZ La Boca 72 W Marcy St., 982-3433 Mendez, a longtime Santa Fean, performs a Latininspired set.

6 pm, free SANTA FE PRO MUSICA: MOZART'S BIRTHDAY Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Continuing their 35th season, Santa Fe Pro Musica presents a celebratory program honoring Mozart. Directed by Thomas O'Connor and featuring guest violinist Benjamin Beilman, the group performs compositions by the music magnum including his Violin Concerto No. 3.

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THE TEMPEST El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Three casts of young actors, ages 10-18, who are part of Upstart Crows, present the Shakespearean comedy.

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MON/30 BOOKS/LECTURES ANCIENT SITES AND ANCIENT STORIES 2017: JOSEPH 'WOODY' AGUILAR Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 A member of San Ildefonso Pueblo, Aguilar presents a lecture titled "Archaeologies of Resistance: Pueblo Mesatop Refugees and Vargas' Reconquest" as part of the Southwest Seminars series.

6 pm, $12 LEE ZLOTOFF: THE MACGYVER SECRET Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Zlotoff—an award-winning writer, producer and director of film and television who is best known for his involvement in the world-famous TV series MacGyver—reads from his new book The MacGyver Secret: Connect to Your Inner MacGyver & Solve Anything.

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MUSIC AMERICAN CULTURE AND BOYFRIEND ARMADA The Underground 200 W San Francisco St., 819-1597 Get subterranean for some punk rock (awesome) and one of the coolest band names we’ve ever heard.

9 pm, $5 BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Wear your two-steppin' shoes to this honky-tonk country extravaganza.

7 pm, free CHUSCALES La Boca 72 W Marcy St., 982-3433 This world-renowned guitarist performs a solo set of classical flamenco.

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10 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Montgomery plays a varied repertoire of classical, standards, pop and original tunes on the piano. Plus, he’s got special guests popping by all the dang time.

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TUE/31 DANCE ARGENTINE TANGO MILONGA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Bring your best tango moves to this weekly dance. You know what they say: It takes two to tango.

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FASHION

T-shirts are ruling the fashion world

BY MARIA EGOLF-ROMERO I L L U S T R AT I O N S B Y T H E A MILINAIRÉ

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-shirts are a staple in every closet. Buttery and threadbare, a comfy tee can be the holy grail of clothing. It might not inspire a Friday night outing or be considered your Sunday best, but you can practically live in one, and they often become more a part of you than any specific occasion frock.

When it comes to my wardrobe, tees make a regular appearance. My boyfriend’s old holey white Hanes is among my favorite pieces of clothing. I’ll wear it with anything and everything: my jeans, as pajamas, with maxi skirts and dresses and camis. And I am not alone. Just a few weeks ago, I salivated over an Instagram photo of a lithe lady wearing an oversized, long-sleeved black tee under a powder-blue velvet maxi dress. This is one of those things that’s hard to make sound as good as it actually looked, but the combo helps prove my theory: You can wear a good T-shirt with basically anything to add just the right amount of effortlessness.

Plus, tees have been more popular than ever lately. Hollywood is in the midst of a vintage rock shirt craze and you can easily do a Google search and find the unlikeliest of stars wearing thrash metal tees—and probably pissing off Slayer. They’ve even

seen a fast rise to the catwalk and joined the ranks of high fashion. Think Kanye West churning out $260 sweatshirts or French design collective Vetements producing $1,000 graphic tees, and you just know that cotton tops are at the forefront of the fashion world.

Full disclosure: My wardrobe rotation also relies heavily on an oversized Rolling Stones shirt. The fact that it’s too big for me only makes me like it more, and that may be partially owed to the style world embracing sizing up. Fashion forward ladies like Rihanna have blurred the lines between big tee and tiny dress as they wear XLs and ditch anything else. In fact, if my own rock tee were just a bit bigger, I may go full-on trend and wear it alone. I mean, there is something inherently feminist about saying “fuck you” to pants, and this girl is a huge fan of just about anything you can sleep in, roll out of bed in and fashionably wear that day. Come to think of it, I’ll probably write about robes soon.

Aside from being insanely easy to wear, T-shirts can also make a statement.

Emblazoned with your favorite band’s logo, a witty feminist saying or an artist’s work, you can bring your “ t h i s - i s -w h o - I - a m ” subliminal messaging

to the surface. There’s never been a better time to dress to impress something upon others, especially if you believe in it.

A ton of tees are made right here in Santa Fe (all of which you can nab for much less than $1,000) which support locals. Eliza Lutz, founder of the local independent record label Matron Records, says that while band tees are a great way to generate cash, they can be about more than that. “You are also extending a hand to your fans to come and be a part of what you’re doing,” Lutz says, “On one hand, you are presenting your love and your fandom for something, and on the other hand you become part of a community because you are branding yourself as being into that.”

Find locally designed and printed tees for Lutz’ bands like GRYGRDNS, As In We or Future Scars under the “store,” then “merch” tabs on matronrecords.com ($18). Even cooler? Each one comes with a free streaming code, so you’ll get some new music as well.

Local artist Christopher Merlyn also

creates his own tees and works with other designers and artists like tattooer Crow B Rising, owner of Talis Fortuna (913 Shoofly Way, 490-6749), an appointment-only shop that also carries enviable shop tees. Much of Merlyn’s imagery is pulled from New Mexican ephemera, like on his High Desert sweatshirt ($35), an explosion of cultural emblems like Zozobra and the Virgin of Guadalupe settled among instantly recognizable starbursts a la Louis Vuitton.

Merlyn says collaboration is part of what he loves about designing. “I believe that 10 heads are better than one,” he says.

“I love working with artists because you are always going to get something that you wouldn’t have otherwise.” You can catch Merlyn at local events, like last year’s SFR Music Fest, or check out his current stock online at cmerlyn.bigcartel.com.

Graphic tees can even support movements. Women’s Marches around the world this past Saturday featured a spectacular array of feminist statement tees, which spurred me to immediately look for one of my own. There are quite a few out there, but these are my two favorites: Google Ghost’s Nasty Woman tee ($25): Half the profits from this silkscreened shirt are donated to Planned Parenthood. They’ve raised over $100,000 so far, and this is tee would be especially cute with a red maxi skirt or for Valentine’s Day.

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DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Montgomery plays classics and pop songs on the piano.

6:30 pm, free IRENE ADAMS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Adams does her originals, classic folk songs and a few country tunes.

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

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St.,946-1000 O’Keeffe at the University of Virginia. Through summer 2017.

HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 Ken Price, Death Shrine I. Agnes Martin Gallery.

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MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ART 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 New Impressions. Through June 15. Athena LaTocha: Inside Forces of Nature.

Through April 29. Daniel McCoy Jr. The Ceaseless Quest for Utopia. Through Jan. 2018.

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Into the Future: Culture Power in Native American Art.

MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Flamenco: From Spain to New Mexico. Through Sept.

2017. Sacred Realm. The Morris Miniature Circus.

Under Pressure. Through Dec. 2017.

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 Chimayó: A Pilgrimage Through Two Centuries. The Beltran Kropp Collection. The Delgado Room.

NM HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5019 Agnes Martin and Me. Through Aug. 2017.

Lowriders, Hoppers and Hot Rods: Car Culture of Northern New Mexico. Through March 2017. Out of the Box: The Art of the Cigar.

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NM MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Alcoves 16/17. Small Wonders. Through March 2017. Conversations in Painting. Through April 2017.

PALACE OF THE GOVERNORS 105 W Palace Ave.,476-5100 Fractured Faiths: Spanish Judaism, The Inquisition and New World Identities.

POEH CULTURAL CENTER AND MUSEUM 78 Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3334 Ashley Browning, Perspective of Perception. The Past of the Govenors.

SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDENS 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Bill Barrett: Visual Poetry.

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FOOD

Sweet Retreat Angel’s Bakery and Café has the treats in downtown Santa Fe

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echnically this is a breakfast and lunch place that also has baked goods, but on our first visit to Angel’s Bakery and Café, the sweet stuff definitely outshone the savory.

Angel’s occupies the ground floor of the building that used to house that sports bar, The Catamount. Inside it’s cheery, with yellow walls, bright white woodwork and a set of glowing bakery cases. On the gray day we were there, the place was empty aside from a young couple eating breakfast at the table behind

They were fine, filled with nice grilled fish and accompanied by a perfectly respectable medium-hot red salsa. I appreciated what appeared to be a garnish of pickled onions. The corn tortillas were soft and pliable but the filling was so wet that by the time I got to the second one it had a blow out. Messy. Plus they were stuffed full of some kind of spring mix heavy on the feathery stuff, mizuna or escarole, and it was distracting in its quantity and texture.

The tacos came with perfectly cooked Spanish rice: fluffy individual grains, each just as tender as they should be. The black beans were well-seasoned, al dente and topped with a pleasant sprinkle of shredded cheese.

My buddy got a green chile cheese-

us. I looked at my watch. It was noon. Had they been up all night together? I hoped so. Ah, youth!

The lunch menu includes some standard salads (Caesar, Greek, Cobb, tuna and an Italian-accented chicken caprice, $10.95-$12.95), along with several wraps, familiar-looking sandwiches plus quesadillas, enchiladas and fish tacos. There’s nothing wildly weird on the menu, although I was intrigued by the Hawaiian chicken sandwich ($12.95). Chicken, ham, pineapple, mozzarella and Thousand Island dressing. Crazy? Or crazy-good? Hard to tell.

You may think restaurant reviewing is all red carpets, champagne and caviar, but if I’m doing it right I have pretty much exactly the same experiences as you, except that I have to write about them later. For me the math works out to about 70 percent meals that are perfectly fine, 25 percent meals that are somewhere between meh, bleh and GAH, and maybe 5 percent that are mind-blowingly delicious. I’m not good at statistics, but my gut told me the Thousand Island dressing would drag down odds on that sandwich.

So I settled on the fish tacos ($13.95), which I thought had a high probability of being both relatively healthy and tasty.

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burger ($10.95-$12.95)—he usually gets a burger—which was pretty meh. The meat was cooked brown all the way through and tasted dry. The chile, on the other hand, was fantastic. Very “roasty” and full of flavor but not searing-hot.

The fries were GAH. You know how sometimes you dig around in the back of the freezer and you’re all, “Oh hey! There’s an open bag of Ore-Ida crinkle-cut fries in here!” But after you cook them you’re all [sad trombone] “Wah-wah?” Angel’s fries tasted like they came from an open bag of fries that had been lost in the back of the freezer for 14 months. Total bummer.

However, the highlight here were the sweets we took back to the office. The pumpkin cheese muffin ($3) was very good. Baked with a dollop of cream cheese on top, the muffin was huge and delightfully pumpkin-y. Everyone at the office agreed they wanted more of the cheesy stuff inside.

An apple and almond tart ($4.35) was sinfully good with thin slices of apple and crumbles of sliced almond sat on top of an almond paste filling and a rich crust.

I think I might have gotten a cavity from that one. It disappeared quickly.

The cream puff ($4), however, was disappointing. The dough was good and the chocolate glaze had an addictive saltiness, but the filling was—I swear to god—unflavored whipped Crisco. White as snow.

Tasted like if it melted it might double as an industrial lubricant, which was such an unpleasant surprise when we expected something like pastry cream.

So if you’re wandering down Water Street and feeling a little peckish, Angel’s not a bad spot to pop in for a coffee and a muffin. Try the pumpkin cheese.

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Everyone has eaten at a McDonald’s at least once, but the actual story of how the mega-chain came to exist within a few miles of wherever you happen to be right now is slightly darker than the family-friendly style they’re selling. And even if you know the name Ray Kroc—the famous CEO of McDonald’s—from whatever secondhand history lesson, The Founder gives us the unabashedly true history of his rise to fast food billionaire: He was a blindly ambitious bastard who didn’t really care who he stole from or hurt as he single-mindedly pursued his own distorted version of success.

Michael Keaton practically disappears into Kroc, and we almost root for him as the film begins. But as he devolves from seemingly decent man into megalomaniacal cutthroat, even

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his wife Ethel (Laura Dern) is forced to ask him when enough will be enough. “Honestly?” he asks. “Probably never.”

It’s our first clue that his desire to be a big shot borders on an unhealthy obsession. When Kroc happens upon Dick and Mac McDonald (Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch) selling burgers at a then-unheard of speed, we do understand why he falls victim to his own impatient vision, but our sympathies soon fade. Within a couple years, Kroc manages to sneakily wrest control out from under the McDonald brothers and completely crushes their decent ideals and business practices; there is seemingly nothing he won’t do, even stealing a franchisee’s wife (Freaks and Geeks’ Linda Cardinelli) while inwardly believing himself to be the

hero of his own story.

Though interesting enough as a semi-unknown piece of Americana, The Founder tends to lag, dwelling too long on certain elements and flat-out glossing over others. If the goal was for us to understand Kroc’s behavior, we simply don’t.

As a cautionary fable on the dangers of business and the aggressively ambitious, however, it’s perfectly fine—just don’t expect to feel much of anything for its key players.

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When I was a kid, my aunt bought an 1980s-era Mercedes; her dream car, and I started to notice them everywhere. A similar catalyst occurs in the life of Paterson (Star Wars’ Adam Driver) in the new film Paterson from auteur Jim Jarmusch (Only Lovers Left Alive, Dead Man), a sort of love letter to the New Jersey city of the same name, but also an examination of the enormity hidden in everyday human existence.

The mere suggestion of twins from Paterson’s live-in girlfriend Laura (Golshifteh Farahani) causes him to notice similar pairs everywhere, and it’s like a doorway to his constant observation of the beauty discoverable within the commonplace or mundane.

Paterson carries with him what he calls a “secret notebook” which he fills with poems based on the seemingly inconsequential moments and objects found in his day-to-day.

Something as simple as a box of matches flips a switch in Paterson’s mind, causing him to draw connections between the potentially ignited match and an almost painful love for Laura. Yet Paterson isn’t exactly what you’d call emotional,

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nor does he appear willing to open up to anyone.

It’s almost as if he were taught long ago to never rock the boat.

Jarmusch hides clues from his past throughout the film, such as a photo of Paterson in a Marines uniform or an obsession with the poet William Carlos Williams, whom we learn also

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hails from Paterson, but our hero seems more content to quietly drink in the world moving around him rather than engage or affect it in any particular way. It’s almost unnerving at first, but as coworkers complain and former lovers clash and his girlfriend perpetually changes her dream from interior decorator to country music super-

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star to cupcake master, we begin to appreciate his introverted nature for its dignified simplicity; Paterson is a good man.

There’s a comfort in his soft existence, and though Paterson ends with a whimper—and it would have been helpful to get a clearer idea of his origins—Jarmusch has tapped into an often-overlooked type of storytelling that favors relating a simple tale told well over spectacle or, even worse, the assumption that audiences can’t enjoy a film without nonstop explosions or CGI. Of course, that’s kind of Jarmusch’s whole deal, but whereas previous films in his repertoire have had some sort of borderline fantastic element lurking in the background (like vampires or mistaken identity), Paterson is a patiently executed microcosm that serves to remind us how sometimes the most beautiful minds toil in obscurity. (Alex De Vore) Violet Crown, R, 118 min.

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20th Century Women as Jamie’s mom Dorothea (Annette Bening) is riddled with insecurity when she suddenly realizes she knows her teenage son (Lucas Jade Zumann) less with each passing day.

So she enlists the help of seemingly every friend the two can claim. This includes their two housemates—Abbie (Greta Gerwig), a punkrock feminist with a killer record collection, and William (Billy Crudup), a hot hippie handyman with a sensitive streak. She also recruits Julie (Elle Fanning), Jamie’s longtime friend.

Together, they forge a sort of Montessori school wherein Jamie gets all kinds of manbuilding experiences and some straight-up doses of Life Ain’t Easy.

We were relieved Dorothea’s character comes across more like a real person than the over-dramatized TV mom she threatened to be. We want to be invited to one of her dinner parties. We admire her tenacity. Her deeply wrinkled, mostly make-up-free face annotates the raw pain of her aloneness. As Jamie begins the move from boy to man, she’s more aware that there’s not one in her life.

It’s tiresome, though, to always see Dorothea with a cigarette clamped between two fingers.

We get it—people smoked all the time and wherever they wanted in the ’70s. Just maybe make it feel less like a dramatic crutch so we can laugh harder when she has to sneak one during William’s attempt to teach her how to meditate.

It makes us sigh with relief when Julie tries to teach Jamie how to “look cool” and he replies, after a few minutes of failed lessons: “Smoking’s gross.”

Some other jokes in this film elicit laughs not because you see, but because you know. What diagrams does Jamie see in his new copy of Our Bodies, Ourselves? What happens when he explains his newfound knowledge of the clitoris to his high-school peers? In the end, it’s clear they’re all raising each other—but then again, we kind of all are. (Julie Ann Grimm) CCA, Violet Crown, R, 119 min.

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Here’s the thing—it’s kind of hard to not like Hidden Figures, at least insofar as it’s the simultaneous story of uncredited black women who were so awesome at their jobs that they literally made safe space flight possible, yet they were treated so poorly amidst the racist atmosphere of 1960s Virginia that we’re all kind of like, “What the hell,

Annette Benning hatches a plan to stay close with her son in 20th Century Women.

man?!” That said, the overall tone seems a tad breezy for the subject matter. It could be that director/screenwriter Theodore Melfi wanted to tell the story, which was based on the book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly, in a palatable fashion, but you just know that the actual story was far more intense.

We mostly follow Katherine Goble/Johnson (Taraji P Henson), a lifelong math ultra-genius who works as a human computer for the space program at NASA with dozens of other black women. Along with her close friends/fellow NASA employees Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), Katherine attempts to deduce the incredibly complex science needed to launch John Glenn into space. Of course, it’s the ’60s, and white people are basically the absolute worst, so even though Katherine can do any math that comes her way and Dorothy teaches her damn self how to program NASA’s newly-minted (and roomsized) IBM supercomputer and Mary is some kind of goddamn engineering phenom, they have to fight some pretty nasty racism on the part of people like lead engineer Paul Stafford (The Big Bang Theory’s Jim Parsons) and supervisor Vivian Mitchell (a perfectly condescending and bitchy Kirsten Dunst).

Henson’s performance exists in the sweet spot between vulnerable mother and widow and

complete badass, unafraid to excel at math or to fight for her race and gender. And though Spencer and Monáe prove indispensable to the pacing and overall feel of Hidden Figures, some of the impact of the real-world achievements made by the women they portray winds up dissipated as they’re relegated to periodic bits of comic relief.

Still, it is Katherine’s story, and there’s much to enjoy here. The sting of racism cuts deep even now, and we must never forget that these people literally had to be complete geniuses and fight their asses off to receive even a modicum of respect. Don’t be surprised if Hidden Figures becomes required viewing for students down the road at some point and, we hope, we start to get other films about the incredible people of color throughout history who perhaps didn’t get the recognition they so obviously deserved. (ADV) Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 127 min.

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Now that we’re apparently going to get our Star Wars movies in annualized form, it’s only natural to question the validity of Rogue One, the first in a series of non-core films in the franchise, and one to tell a story outside the main plotlines

we’ve come to know and love.

We follow Jyn Erso (The Theory of Everything’s Felicity Jones), the daughter of an Imperial science officer played by Mads Mikkelsen (Hannibal). Jyn is orphaned when her father grows a conscience and doesn’t want to fight for the Empire anymore. She’s young and brash and doesn’t much care about anything, but when the Rebel Alliance needs to track down someone close to her, she enlists in exchange for whatever semblance of freedom is available in this particular galaxy. And so, along with a Rebel captain named Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), who is beginning to question his place in the fight, and a wise-crackin’ reprogrammed Imperial droid (voiced brilliantly by Firefly’s Alan Tudyk, even if he’s awfully similar to Douglas Adams’ Marv from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), Jyn must traverse the planets to uncover the plans for an Imperial mega-weapon you may have heard about called the Death Star.

Rogue One separates itself from previous Star Wars films with a tale that’s more about the individual human cost of war than the admittedly fun fantasy of space magic. This isn’t to say that known elements from the Star Wars realm don’t find their way into the film, but rather than focus on one young man’s journey to selfdiscovery and missing hands in a black-andwhite, good-versus-evil universe, Rogue One isn’t afraid to point out that the Rebel Alliance must sometimes do ugly things in the name of peace.

This paradoxical concept not only helps to flesh out a chapter in the saga that we’ve always kind of wondered about, it is a solid foundation for the humanization of the rebels who, in previous outings, had proven disappointingly dimensionless.

The CGI is as brilliant as one would expect from the franchise, save a few creepy choices such as a computer-generated version of Peter Cushing (RIP) as Governor Tarkin that is understandable given he’s not alive, but that still falls victim to the uncanny valley. It’s also possible that the heavy emphasis on fan service for the second Star Wars film in quick succession could arguably be perceived as a crutch. Regardless, the action sequences are just right and every conceivable detail seems to have been considered. We actually grow to care about characters that represent a fairly huge shift in a monumental piece of shared culture, and Rogue One does a fine job in establishing a number of new characters.

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But, if you’ve ever been into Star Wars to any degree whatsoever, you’ll want to see this film immediately; the last three minutes alone are worth it. (ADV) Regal, Violet Crown, PG-13, 134 min.

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Forget Frozen. Just let it go. And ditch your heartbreak-turned-fury over the role sexism likely played in the recent presidential election.

Instead, let your thrill for a 13-year-old Mongolian girl named Aisholpan Nurgaiv soar above the ice-covered steppes of Mongolia in The Eagle Huntress, which has to be the girlpower movie of the year. The new Sony Pictures Classics documentary, narrated by Star Wars newcomer Daisy Ridley, tells the story of the traditional hunting bond between golden eagles and men from the Kazakh, a nomadic tribe that’s been around since before the days of Genghis Khan. But more than that, it’s how this young girl breaks the glass ceiling between verdant expanses and craggy mountains.

You see, like being president of the United States, eagle hunting in Mongolia is just for men.

And, boy howdy, even if you stopped reading the subtitles for a few minutes, you’d know how the men interviewed for the film really feel about Aisholpan’s interloping on their sausage fest.

Women are weak; they don’t have the courage to hold the bird; they should stay home and make tea for the hunters.

Her father, to be congratulated on his forward thinking and bold dedication to his daughter, sees past the gender barrier. “It’s not choice,” he explains, “it’s a calling that has to be in your blood.”

And it’s in hers. Aisholpan thus shows no fear, strapping on her fur-lined hat and trotting into town on her sturdy horse, arm extended as it becomes a perch for the avian predator. The bird’s wingspan is wider than she is tall, dwarfing the ruddy-cheeked girl with each restless flap.

She pets its head as if it were a house cat, talking all the while with praise and comfort. Oh, and by the way—she had to rappel down a cliff side and snatch the eaglet from its nest. Then months of training. No bigs.

What majestic footage: the grace of the powerful wings alighting from the edge of the mountain, the expressions on the old dudes’ faces as she earns perfect scores at the region’s annual eagle festival as the youngest competitor and the first-ever female. It is a trip for the imagination to look inside yurts and back to stone goat enclosures, across barren snowscapes and through villages with stumpy homes and smoky corridors. See too the textures of the textiles, the steam from the mouths of beasts, and the expressive faces not just of the starring eagles, but the scruffy horses and bleating lambs.

We dare you to watch impassively as father and daughter ride off together after Aisholpan passes the ultimate test of recognition for a hunter: catching a fox in the snowy mountains.

The Eagle Huntress is a great winter movie that stands to touch the coldest chambers of heart with fierce inspiration. Grab it with your talons.

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In a new work based on the previously unproduced screenplay In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney, director Barry Jenkins (Medicine for Melancholy) brings us a romantic drama fueled by self-discovery.

A young boy grows up in Miami during the ’70s and ’80s while struggling to accept his identity. We tour through three significant chapters of Chiron’s life, from timid boy to deluded man, as played at various ages by newcomer Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders from Straight Outta Compton and Westworld’s Trevante Rhodes. Chiron must navigate a veritable minefield of adolescent strife, from a drug-addicted mother, an antihero crack dealer named Juan (Mahershala Ali) and his budding sexuality with lifelong friend Kevin (Jharrell Jerome and André Holland).

Moonlight focuses on the paradoxical question of who you are and who you are expected to be, as Chiron learns he can be open with Kevin sans judgment and utilizes that presence as a safe space. Chiron uncomfortably flits through adulthood, defying the stereotypes of gay and black men, but eventually becoming a crack dealer running the inner city of Atlanta.

When Chiron and Kevin reconnect in adulthood, however, Chiron must evaluate who he has become and who he has portrayed himself to be.

The gritty plot is beautifully accompanied by ambient lighting and carefully composed scenes, further supporting the poignancy each character brings to the screen, and though Chiron’s voice is rarely heard, he expresses himself with his actions, whether violent or passionate. Moonlight thus becomes a cinematic masterpiece, a journey of love, loss and selfdiscovery that will leave viewers captivated by Chiron’s character long after the film is over.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Westward Ho! is the name of a village in southwestern England. Its name is impressive because of the exclamation point. But it’s not as dramatic as that of the only town on earth with two exclamation points: Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, which is in Quebec. I invite you Aries folks to be equally daring.

According to my reading of the astrological omens, you have a cosmic mandate and poetic license to cram extra !!!!s into all your writing and speaking, and even add them to the spelling of your name! Why? Because this should be one of the most exciting and ebullient phases of your astrological cycle—a time to risk showing just how enthusiastic and energetic you are!!!!!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) In the beginning was the wild cabbage. Our ancestors found that it had great potential as food, and proceeded to domesticate it.

Over the centuries, they used selective breeding to develop many further variations on the original. Kale and kohlrabi were the first to appear. By the 15th century, cauliflower had been created. Broccoli came along a hundred years later, followed by Brussels sprouts. Today there are at least 20 cultivars whose lineage can be traced back to the wild cabbage. In my astrological opinion, you Libras are in a wild cabbage phase of your long-term cycle. In the coming months you can and should do seminal work that will ultimately generate an abundance of useful derivatives.

EVOLUTIONARY ASTROLOGER TERRI ZEE has recently moved to Santa Fe and is now welcoming new clients.

She is certified by both schools TAURUS (April 20-May 20) The New York Film Critics of Evolutionary Astrology, Circle named Casey Affleck the Best Actor of the year for SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) In 1733, workers finished Steven Forrest’s Apprenticeship building the New Cathedral in Salamanca, Spain. But if his role in the film Manchester by the Sea. In his accepProgram, and Jeffrey Wolf tance speech at the award ceremony, Affleck gave a dra- you go there today, you will see two seemingly modern Green’s School of Evolutionary elements on one facade: carvings of a helmeted astromatic reading of quotes by David Edelstein, a prominent naut and of a gargoyle licking an ice cream cone. These Astrology. Terri has over critic who has criticized his work. “Mumbly and mulish,” was one of Edelstein’s jabs about Affleck. “Doesn’t have a two characters were added by craftsmen who did reno- seventeen years of experience in vations on the cathedral in 1992. I offer this vignette as soul-based astrology and offers lot of variety,” was another. A third: “Whenever I see metaphor for your life, Scorpio. It’s a favorable time to Affleck’s name in a movie’s credits, you can expect a consultation either in person standard, genre B picture—slowed down and tarted up.” I upgrade and refine an old structure in your life. And if or via Skype. Please visit her suspect that in the coming weeks, Taurus, you may get a you do take advantage of this opening, I suggest you website http://terrizee.com/ or add modern touches. vindication comparable to Affleck’s. I suggest you have email zee2@airmail.net or call wicked fun with it, as he did.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) I suspect that in the 214-912-3126. coming weeks, you will be afforded opportunities to GEMINI (May 21-June 20) The roulette wheels at casinos in Monaco have 37 pockets. Eighteen are black, 18 are red, and one is green. On any particular spin, the ball has just less than half a chance of landing in a red or black pocket. But there was one night back in August of 1913, at the Casino de Monte-Carlo, when probability seemed inoperative. The little white ball kept landing on the black over and over again. Gamblers responded by increasingly placing heavy bets on red numbers. They assumed the weird luck would soon change. But it didn’t until the 27th spin. (The odds of that happening were 136,823,184 to 1.) What does this have to do with you? I suspect you’re in a comparable situation—the equivalent of about 20 spins into an improbable streak. My advice: Don’t bet on the red yet.

bend the rules in ways that could make life simpler, more pleasurable, and more successful—or all of the above. To help you deal with the issue of whether these deviations would have integrity, I offer you these questions: Would bending the rules serve a higher good, not just your selfish desires? Is there an approach to bending the rules that may ultimately produce more compassionate results than not bending the rules?

Could you actually get away with bending the rules, both in the sense of escaping punishment and also in the sense of being loyal to your own conscience?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) I don’t necessarily guarantee that you will acquire paranormal powers in the coming weeks. I’m not saying that you will be able to foretell the future or eavesdrop on conversations from CANCER (June 21-July 22) Born to a religious mother on July 8, 1839, John D. Rockefeller amassed a fortune in a half-mile away or transform water into whiskey-flavored coffee. But I do suspect that you will at least tap the oil industry. Even in comparison to modern billionfurther into a unique personal ability that has been aires like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, he’s the richest American who ever lived. “God gave me the money,” he mostly just potential up until now. Or you may finally start using a resource that has been available for a long said on numerous occasions. Now I’m going to borrow the spirit of Rockefeller’s motto for your use, Cancerian. time. For best results, open your imagination to the possibility that you possess dormant magic.

Why? Because it’s likely you will be the recipient of blessings that prompt you to wonder if the Divine Wow AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) A London-based think is involved. One of these may indeed be financial in tank does an annual study to determine which of the nature. (P.S.: Such boons are even more likely to tranworld’s countries offers the most freedom. The spire if you’re anchored in your sweet, dark wisdom and Legatum Institute measures indicators like civil liberyour holy, playful creativity.) ties, social tolerance, and the power to choose one’s destiny. The current champion is Luxembourg. Canada LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) What influence do you need most in your life right now? Are you suffering because is in second place. France is 22nd, the U.S. is 26th, and Italy 27th. Since I’m hoping you will markedly enhance you lack a particular kind of help or teaching? Would your own personal freedom in the coming months, you you benefit from having a certain connection that you might want to consider moving to Luxembourg. If that’s have not yet figured out how to make? Is there a person or event that could heal you if you had a better not an option, what else could you do? The time is ripe understanding about how you need to be healed? The to hatch your liberation plans. coming weeks will be a favorable time to get useful answers to these questions—and then take action based on what you discover.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) I love to see dumpsters that have been decorated by graffiti artists. Right now there’s one by the side of a busy road that I often drive down.

Its drab gray exterior has been transformed into a splash VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) The next two weeks will be of cartoon images and scripts. Amidst signatures that a favorable time to kiss the feet of helpful allies, but look like “Riot Goof” and “Breakfast Toys” and “Sky not to kiss the butts of clever manipulators. I also Blooms,” I can discern a ninja rhinoceros and a goldadvise you to perform acts of generosity for those who crowned jaguar and an army of flying monkeys using will use your gifts intelligently, but not for those who squirt guns to douse a forest fire. I suspect it’s a perfect will waste your blessings or treat you like a doormat. time to for you to be inspired by this spectacle, Pisces.

Here’s my third point: Consider returning to an old fork What dumpster-like situation could you beautify? in the road where you made a wrong turn, and then Homework: Say “I love you” at least 25 times a day for making the correct turn this time. But if you do, be the next seven days. Report your results to motivated by bright hope for a different future rather Truthrooter@gmail.com. than by sludgy remorse for your error.

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