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BLUE CONE DOUBLE-DIP 11 Santa Fe councilors say city needs more police and wants to look to retirees COVER STORY 12 MAKING IT GO ‘BOOM’ New Mexico depends heavily upon oil and gas revenue; what’s the industry forecast?

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SOME QUESTIONS I am a former board member of The Santa Fe Botanical Garden. In 2005 [we] narrowly voted down using grant funds to cut down all the Russian olives and placing Garlon Triclopyr on the stumps. There are no safe herbicides! They kill. After careful study we found that a) most of the studies on the “safety” of these herbicides were funded by the chemical companies; b) the compounds risked DNA damage causing birth defects to reptiles and amphibians eventually reaching near surface groundwater and affecting humans, and c) slow methodical mechanical removal was far more effective for encouraging native riparian reintroduction of plant life and a better long-term way of preserving wildlife habitat, especially for migratory birds.

That was over 12 years ago. We now live in a world where people seem to want instant gratification, where attention spans are about 15 minutes maximum between cell phone checks and no one is looking at the world we are leaving for our children, or for that matter what we are [doing] to our children. I have to call out the current board

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SFR’s time-honored tradition of pop-quizzing candidates for public office is our way of testing their knowledge about the community they seek to represent. The city election on March 6 includes four districted council seats with a total of nine candidates and five people who are running for mayor. For the next several weeks, we’ll bring you a race or two in each print edition.

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What authority does the city have over liquor licenses?

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Where are the places that people in your district can drop off glass to be recycled?

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True or False: Smoking, bicycles and busking are all banned on the Plaza.

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Roughly how much land does the city own in the Northwest Quadrant and what is the plan for it?

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That’s a little bit of a complicated question.

We vote on every license, be it a beer and wine license for a restaurant or for a dispenser’s license. We have state laws to follow with that [process]; however, we could

An artist, activist and realtor, Campos has been involved in community politics for years. She’s run for council three times before.

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Does Santa Fe have any way to protect views and hillsides from unrestrained development?

Lindell is seeking her second term on the council. She’s volunteered for city ethics boards and the Planning Commission and is a retired professor and businesswoman.

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The Escarpment Overlay District governs how tall and large buildings can be in the foothills, as well as other design standards based on terrain. It’s section 14-5.6 in the city code.

Deputy City Attorney Alfred Walker explains there are limited situations in which the city can refuse a license. The state Alcohol and Gaming Division gives preliminary approval of a license or transfer and then it goes to local option district

vote in favor of a license and then the state could choose to deny it, or we could vote to deny a license and the state could overrule us and grant the license.

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Marcy by the tennis courts. Just outside my district—because Siler Road is the divider— they can also drop glass at the Siler Road recycling. But that would be in District 4.

4.

False, because busking is allowed on the Plaza.

5.

I don’t know the size of the parcel. Currently there is no plan for use of that parcel.

Reached by phone Monday, she said she was prepping for a candidate forum that night and was too busy to talk. We agreed to call again Tuesday morning and did so repeatedly. We missed a call from her around 2 pm, but were unable to connect again despite repeated attempts after that.

(the city). Those situations include: 1) It will adversely affect the health, welfare and morals of community; or 2) If the applicant wants to have an establishment within 300 feet (property line-to-building with license) of a church, school or military base, the applicant has to apply for a waiver.

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Glass recycling in District 1 is offered at the Buckman Road Transfer Station and Recycling Center and 118 Murales Road (Fort

Marcy Parking Area)

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False. You can busk with a permit.

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The city owns about 2,000 acres in the Northwest Quadrant, according to its the Land Use and Urban Design draft. La Tierra trails network is on this land. Ten years ago, the city developed a plan to build up to 750 units of housing on 160 acres of master-planned land, but there’s still space in Tierra Contenta and Las Soleras, so it’s on hold for the next 10-15 years.

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Now and Then

Gov. Susana Martinez’ final State of the State address echoes her to-do list from her first, in 2011

ABOVE: Gov. Susana Martinez thanks State Police Officer Dwayne Simpson during her speech.

BELOW: Dream Act supporters stopped the speech cold.

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he governor was nervous.

It was evident when she stumbled over “New Mexico” the first time she said it in the State of the State address.

It was Jan. 18, 2011 and you could hardly blame Susana Martinez. She’d just taken the mantle from the state’s highest-profile governor. She’d beaten lieutenant governor Diane Denish, the heir apparent to Bill Richardson, by relentlessly tying her to the increasingly unpopular incumbent.

Martinez was also the first chief executive other than Richardson to read off of the fancy new teleprompters he bought … and, the early stumble aside, she was at least as skillful as he was at doing it.

She knew where the camera was, too, and looked into it when she wanted to emphasize a point to anyone watching her on TV. “Today, we begin to write a new chapter in New Mexico’s history,” Martinez told the crowd in the House of Representatives chamber. “By working together, we will take our state in a new direction: embracing bold change over the status quo, choosing progress over complacency and putting aside partisan differences to achieve lasting results for New Mexico families.”

Seven years later, as she walked into the House chamber for her final State of

the State address, Martinez looked plenty comfortable. She stopped to shake hands with children, say hello to a few lawmakers and to hug her sister, Leticia, as she headed to the podium.

Martinez was then greeted by protesters as she stepped to the podium Tuesday morning. They were urging US Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich to support the Dream Act (they do) and perhaps just generally trying to make their voices heard. The governor looked to the gallery and listened, then watched as state police officers shuffled the group out. Whether it was the protesters or something else, her sometimes halting delivery this year wasn’t as smooth as her first go-around with the teleprompters.

The speech that followed may have given lip service to the bipartisan effort to solve New Mexico’s problems that she called for in 2011, but a last-minute joke she added to the top of the address belied her cantankerous relationship with the Legislature.

“I was actually going to forgo this speech this year and let you guys get right to work,” she said, a grin working its way to her lips, “but since you all sued me and demanded that I explain myself more, sit back and relax, because I got things to say.”

Indeed, after Martinez sent back a stream of late and unexplained vetoes near the end of the last regular session,

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lawmakers sued and the case awaits a decision by the Supreme Court.

Martinez and lawmakers partnered to create a fund for businesses looking to come to the state, and boosted the film incentives she once vehemently opposed.

She created the Office of Business Advocacy, which she promised she would do that first year—though it has a single employee, an executive assistant at the Economic Development Department who is the lowest-paid person in the agency.

Even when she had a Republican majority in the House, the governor failed to reform the tax code in the wholesale fashion she called for in both her first speech and in her last.

On crime, Martinez lambasted the judiciary for its interpretation of a constitutional amendment that she endorsed last year. It reinforced the constitutional provision requiring bail for all people accused of a crime, but it also gave judges authority to keep dangerous suspects in jail before they were convicted. Martinez said judges weren’t keeping enough offenders behind bars.

“Sounds good, right? But the people’s definition of a serious offender is apparently very different from the one judges have been using,” she proclaimed, adding that it amounted to a bait-and-switch by the courts.

Martinez has made her mark most noticeably in public education. In her first speech, she pledged to cut bureaucracy, boost classroom spending and to end social promotion. While she’s not had banner successes there—classroom spending is actually down from the 61 cents per dollar she bemoaned in 2011 to just above 57 cents—Martinez has made good on her other two promises, to implement a grading system for schools and reward the best teachers. Not everyone agrees with the systems used to do those things (perhaps especially her 2011 promise to make the school grades an “easy-to-understand, easy-to-implement system”), but she’s done what she intended and education department staff are currently working to make sure those changes are difficult to roll back. Her budget this year includes bonuses for highly effective teachers.

Martinez has had the helm of New Mexico’s government through some extraordinarily difficult economic times.

She told lawmakers Tuesday, “Hard times produce heroes. We see courage and strength that is compelling and inspiring.

It has a way of lifting us and giving us resolve.”

There are many in the Roundhouse who have seen plenty of hard times and are still waiting for them to produce a hero.

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Legislature, and this is just an issuance of support for any legislation that might come up.”

New Mexico police officers who retire after 20 years and up 25 years and nine months on the job receive between 70 and 90 percent of their final average annual salary in the form of a yearly pension. Statewide, Martinez’ budget this year proposes a salary increase for state police officers, part of an 8.5-percent increase in the Department of Public Safety’s budget. DPS oversees the state police as well as the Law Enforcement Academy that trains SFPD officers.

Deputy Chief Andrew Padilla, who is currently co-leading the police department with Deputy Chief Mario Salbidrez, tells SFR in an email that the outstanding

Santa Fe City Council votes in support of hiring retired cops to fill vacant SFPD positions

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ou can’t kill an idea, as the saying goes. And it appears that an idea in New Mexico to rehire retired police in order to make up for a purported shortage of officers just won’t die.

Santa Fe’s City Council voted last week to support legislation that would allow police agencies to take back officers who would get a paycheck as well as a pension. It’s called “double-dipping,” and it was banned for public employees in 2010. The state’s Public Employee Retirement Association supported the law, citing limited funds in its retirement system, but with Gov. Susana Martinez pushing a tough-on-crime budget this year, an exception for police may get renewed support.

Here’s the trouble: No such legislation had been formally introduced as of the start of the legislative session Tuesday.

That means City Councilor Christopher Rivera asked his colleagues to support a bill that doesn’t yet exist. A version of it passed the state House in 2016 and was again introduced in the Roundhouse last year, largely at the urging of officials in Albuquerque, where officials have blamed a rising crime rate in part on a shortage of police.

So it’s likely that another swipe at double-dipping for cops could find legislative purchase. And a review by the Legislative Finance Committee already has lent support to the idea that more officers in Albuquerque could deter increases in property and violent crime in the state’s largest city.

“If we can get some of these younger cops to come back … I think it would help ease up some of that crisis,” Rivera said at a Council meeting last week, echoing SFPD’s contention that it has been shortstaffed the last several years. “I know other groups have brought it up to the

Deputy Chief Andrew Padilla

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vacancies as of Jan. 16 included “10 police officer vacancies, one public safety aide vacancy and two animal service officer vacancies.” City Manager Brian Snyder also identified at last week’s Council meeting 15 potential recruits who will begin training at the state academy on Jan. 29.

One potential concern, raised by Councilor Joseph Maestas, was whether formerly retired police who joined SFPD would be recruited as higher-ranking officers. This, he argued, would limit upward mobility within the department for younger cops. He also wondered whether relaxing some hiring standards, such as the requirement recruits abstain from marijuana three years before applying, could boost officers’ numbers.

In the absence of guidance from state legislation, Salbidrez says, Santa Fe could decide where and how the department would rehire retired cops so that they wouldn’t block newer officers from promotions. He claimed that the Santa Fe Police Officers Association approved of the idea, but no representative from the union was present. The union did not return a request for comment by press time.

SFPD is funded to the tune of about $26 million though September, according to the city manager’s proposed budget for the current fiscal year. The department says its officers took 132,677 calls for police service in 2017, over 10,000 more than the previous year.

Snyder says that retirements expected this year, plus the department’s stated need for officers in parts of the city annexed by the county, mean the total shortage of cops could be 25 by year’s end.

There are no uniform standards for how many officers police departments should have on staff. The decision of how many to hire is “political and arbitrary,” argues Alex Vitale, a sociologist at Brooklyn College and a consultant on police accountability practices.

“Just the last maybe three years or so, New York City, Chicago and other places have all been saying we need more police, despite falling crime rates,” Vitale says. Violent and property crime ticked up slightly in Santa Fe over the past two years, according to numbers the city reported to the FBI, but most staffing plans for police departments aren’t tied to crime rates either.

Vitale points to an analysis on police staffing by James McCabe, an associate professor at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut and a retired 21-year veteran of the New York City Police Department.

In the study, McCabe writes that the officer staffing decisions cities like Santa Fe make—where officer numbers are based primarily on city budgetary decisions— are easy, but risk “becom[ing] politicized or predicated on an artificial figure.” “[P]olice departments must embrace the use of more sophisticated data analysis and must identify benchmarks to evaluate staffing decisions,” McCabe concludes. He proposes three benchmarks to determine staffing allocation and deployment decisions: the number of officers assigned to patrol, the workload level of those officers on patrol, and the amount of time a police department spends on calls for service. No department nationwide was using such analysis to determine hiring decisions when his white paper was published in 2016, McCabe wrote.

As of now, the 177 SFPD officer positions for which the city has budgeted brings the number of cops per 10,000 residents to roughly 21, which is on the higher end of cities with populations above 50,000. If the Legislature decides to allow some of those slots to be filled with retired cops, it will have the city’s support: All councilors except Maestas voted to support the non-existent legislation.

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rompted by public outcry over a property owner’s move to bulldoze an alfalfa field and turn it into an RV park, Eddy County commissioners spent half of 2017 drafting an ordinance to govern socalled “man camps” in the southeastern New Mexico community.

The camps collect RVs that house the increasing number of oil and gas workers in the region. Until that new ordinance took effect this month, no county code defined worker camps or regulated where they could appear, how much acreage they needed or how many people could live in them.

At a series of public meetings, county residents groused about traffic, trash, dust and noise coming into their otherwise quiet neighborhoods. So Wesley Hooper, who handles code enforcement as Eddy County’s director of community services, went out to see and assess the issue. In just four square miles of the county, he counted 35 such worker camps. It’s a low bar—just two RVs constitute a camp, but some collected five or 10. He didn’t want to estimate their total number in the county. At some, he found bare electrical wires on the ground, and not all had the necessary sewage treatment systems. Renting space to park an RV with the proper hookups can run more than $650 per month.

“It’s crazy how many of these trailers are coming in,” Hooper says. “This area and south of here is just booming like you can’t believe.”

The camps are just one metric to measure a boom that may brighten the state’s revenue outlook while creating some costs and burdens to those communities. Oil and gas industry advocates look to make the most of this latest rush, while fossil industry opponents caution of the impacts on public health, the environment and longterm ramifications to public lands.

READY FOR HIGHER CAPACITY Between July 2016 and July 2017, the number of oil rigs working in the Permian Basin jumped from 172 to 379, according to the Baker Hughes Rig Count. The way Carlsbad Mayor Dale Janway describes it, it sounds like they’ve stepped up from the farm team. “The majors” have arrived: XTO Energy, Chevron, Occidental Petroleum, Anadarko, Devon Energy, Apache, Santo Petroleum, EOG Resources. Carlsbad, which sits atop the basin, is stretching to meet the demands of becoming, by some projections, the new Bakken Formation— taking the title from oil fields that have been lit up with so many flares that, from space, it looks like that part of North Dako-

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the state’s revenues from the industry plummeted. Last year, with prices having climbed above $40, those tax dollars also increased.

THE BASIN’S LATEST BOOM When the United States Geological Survey energy resource program’s projections on the Permian Basin’s reserves in southeastern New Mexico and West Texas were released in 2016, Walter Guidroz, program coordinator, said, “Even in areas that have produced billions of OIL PRODUCTION IN NM barrels of oil, there is still potential to find billions more.”

Based on the USGS’ esCOMBINED OIL AND GAS TAX REVENUE timates, the basin holds PRICE PER BARREL PER YEAR (DOLLARS) three times as much as the Bakken Formation in North 89 100 94 95 47 32 47 55 93 42 78 Dakota. For context, an energy reporter for the Hous150 $800 ton Chronicle noted, “That’s enough gasoline to drive your car nearly two light years.”

The Permian Basin has been active since the 1920s $600 100 and has produced more than 39 billion barrels of oil. Many thought its best days were behind it, at a 1973 peak of 763.5 $600 million barrels that year.

50 Then, improved technology for horizontally drilling wells, hydraulic fracturing, and us$200 ing water flooding and carbon dioxide injection to extract $0 0 oil changed the outlook in 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 the mid-2000s. In 2016, the YEAR Permian produced 740 million barrels in both states.

GAS PRODUCTION IN NM The latest projections for the basin from IHS Markit promise game-changing reserves. A new 3-D model based PRICE PER THOUSAND CUBIC FEET PER YEAR (DOLLARS) on a century’s worth of data 5 7 8 8 7 6 5 6 7 5 4 suggests it could contain 60 to 2 $800 70 billion barrels of technically available fossil fuels.

The firm, which analyzes data for capital-intensive in1.5 $600 dustries like energy and transportation, says the Permian now ranks as “America’s super basin,” with a potential for 1 $600 lower-risk, lower-cost wells.

This isn’t news to oil and gas producers, who spent .5 much of 2015 and 2016 snap$200 ping up acreage in the Permian Basin for headline-catching prices. In West Texas, bids for mineral rights, which can 0 go for as little as $2 per acre, $0 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 soared to $60,000 per acre. In YEAR

SOURCES: NEW MEXICO OIL AND CONSERVATION DIVISION, NEW MEXICO TAXATION AND REVENUE DEPARTMENT TAX RESEARCH DIVISION, US ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION

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gas industry, which will likely be on the minds of legislators as they head into this month’s budgeting session. This year’s tax revenue from oil and gas is up, but it’s a volatile market, dictated by variables such as the whims of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), the weather and overall economic growth. In late 2014, a glut of supply dropped the price for a barrel of oil, and

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public discourse and elections.

“NMOGA is going to be the most powerful organization in the state of New Mexico, period,” he said, according to a recording of his remarks from the closeddoor meeting that was leaked to SFR. “We are looking to influence the narrative and win these disputes as we move forward.”

A third of New Mexico state government’s revenue comes from the oil and

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ta now houses a city.

“What we’re told is that these reserves are the most developable in the world, other than Saudi Arabia,” says Steve McCutcheon, Carlsbad city administrator.

The city’s water infrastructure is ready for higher capacity, but other areas are struggling to keep up. Apartments lease faster than they can be built, so a few FEMA-style temporary housing units have gone up, some with as many as 400 beds. At least one includes a basketball court, small grocery store and a cafeteria, open 24 hours a day.

Downtown roads are congested, and state highways and county roads are seeing heavier traffic than they were built to handle. That’s a basic headache—Hooper says that during his drive home, the highway backs up for a mile and a half, and a commute that once took 10 or 12 minutes now takes about 25. But it’s also a safety concern. Highway 285 from Carlsbad to the oil field is two lanes and lacks a shoulder.

That highway often packs bumper-to-bumper with white trucks for oilfield workers, water trucks, dirt trucks, oilhauling trucks and service trucks, Hooper says. In the last couple months, it has seen a number of fatal crashes. State proposals to add turning lanes are years out, he adds, and the county needs them now.

“Usually communities grow at a slow pace, but when you have something like this and it booms, and you have a huge influx of people, it makes it tough to adjust,” he says.

How many people has the industry brought to town?

“We’d just be wild-guessing,” Janway says, “but it’s substantial.”

The New Mexico Oil and Gas Association wants to make the most of this resurgence in the Permian Basin and a friendly political landscape, according to the association president’s address during its 2017 annual meeting. The association aims to build a better ground game, said Ryan Flynn, who left his post as cabinet secretary of the state’s Environment Department to become the association’s executive director, and to drive policy,

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intermediary for a meeting attendee who asked to remain anonymous.

When contacted for further comment, NMOGA’s communications director Robert McEntyre said the recording was “unauthorized” and objected to the newspaper quoting from the members-only meeting. But WildEarth climate and energy senior campaigner Rebecca Sobel says it’s just part of watching out for the public.

“The public has a right to know who and what is standing in our way of justly transitioning to more equitable energy economies,” she writes in an emailed statement.

“Our state and our industry is facing unprecedented challenges,” Flynn told association members. “New Mexico truly is the tip of the spear when it comes to anti-industry rhetoric and mobilized opposition. Our industry operates in a constantly shifting environment, and two of the greatest challenges we consistently face are political uncertainty, or regulatory risk, as well as a well-established, extremely well-funded activist machine

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southeastern New Mexico, bids went as high as $26,700.

Though oil prices have hovered around $50 for the past year, some of these reserves have “breakeven prices” at $40 per barrel. In the first week of 2018, the price per barrel topped $60 for the first time since June 2015.

Early production numbers show that 2017 is on track to see more than double the amount of oil produced from New Mexico than a decade ago. The number of drilling rigs in the state has spiked.

TAKING BACK THE NARRATIVE What’s tanked in recent years is public opinion about oil and gas development, Flynn told his group last year. He opened his remarks by talking about how nice it was to be in Santa Fe and not face a room full of people “carrying signs or booing.”

“For one weekend a year, I’ve got more friends than opponents in Santa Fe,” he said.

The WildEarth Guardians environmental advocacy organization gave a recording of his speech to SFR, acting as an

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Two of the greatest challenges we consistently face are political uncertainty, or regulatory risk, as well as a wellestablished, extremely wellfunded activist machine operating in the state of New Mexico.

-Ryan Flynn, executive director of the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association

operating in the state of New Mexico.”

With only three more years guaranteed with the Trump administration’s support of the industry, he said, the association needs to act now to influence federal policy. He’d like to see the feds offer the same assurance Gov. Susana Martinez has as “a backstop to prevent harmful legislation from being passed.” The pending gubernatorial election calls that into question.

Groups “with the anti-fossil fuel agenda” are spending money on elections and recruiting candidates for local races, he said, and they aren’t looking for “a sensible balance.” While Flynn insisted the industry is committed to environmentally responsible oil and gas development, he says it’s facing an opposition that will

settle for nothing less than an end to fossil fuels.

The two biggest issues he’s seen come under fire are hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and methane emissions.

“Opposition to hydraulic fracturing,” he said, “presents the greatest threat to our industry and to our license to operate moving forward. This is obviously not a science- or fact-based discussion. It’s an emotional discussion. But unfortunately, our polling reveals that over 55 percent of New Mexicans are opposed to hydraulic fracturing.”

That sentiment now crosses party lines, he said, a shift from just a few years ago that he attributes to prolonged campaigns about concerns like fracking near Chaco Canyon. If taken to the polls today, he said, “we would see an overwhelming majority of New Mexicans take action to prohibit hydraulic fracturing.”

Now, methane is poised to be the new fracking, he said. Regulations were drafted during the Obama administration to limit methane emissions from oil and gas facilities, but the Trump administration stalled their implementation. The industry calls them unnecessary.

Proponents of the regulations, including Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and gubernatorial candidate US Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, point to millions in lost tax and royalty revenue as well as the cloud of potent greenhouse gas sitting over northwestern New Mexico’s natural gas fields. Lujan Grisham’s campaign has announced a plan for mitigating methane emissions, arguing that such regulations would create jobs, add $27 million in tax and royalty revenue, reduce toxins and smog-causing pollutants, and slow climate change.

“New Mexicans haven’t really made up their mind about methane, and they don’t quite understand the issue,” Flynn told meeting attendees. “So we believe we absolutely can win this fight, but we need to be proactive and we need to make sure

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we are communicating once again all the great things our industry is doing to reduce emissions, to innovate, and to stay ahead of the curve.”

As part of that effort, the association will “build an army” of supporters, he said, to increase turnout at meetings and digital engagement. Their core mission will be to deliver the message that the industry boosts the state’s budget, funding one in three teacher’s salaries and supporting 100,000 jobs.

“We’ve got a window right now, over the next year, to really put in place the pro-industry narrative at the federal level and at the state level,” he said.

McEntyre declined to answer a series of questions about Flynn’s statements.

“The misinformation and falsehoods pushed by activist networks give the public a distorted and inaccurate view of reality, and NMOGA is committed to communicating directly with New Mexicans and giving them the fact and science-based perspective of our industry that they deserve,” he writes in an email just before press time.

In 2017, the US Bureau of Land Management auctioned more than 1 million acres of land for oil and gas development in Colorado, Montana, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico, Sobel of WildEarth Guardians points out, and the agency is on track to sell nearly a million just in the first half of 2018.

“Across the West, this administration has been delivering on industry wish lists, rubber-stamping development and steamrolling the public process and environmental protection,” Sobel writes.

“While NMOGA spends its coffers greasing the skids to reduce regulations and further frack the Land of Enchantment, New Mexicans across the state are busy struggling with the impacts and related health costs of increased fracking, including increased cancer and related health impacts, record-breaking oil and gas ‘incidents,’ and continued assaults on Indigenous rights, clean air and water.”

THE LOGISTICS OF GROWTH If plans to grow face constraints, it may come down to workers. Oil and gas industry analyst BTU Analytics says they’re hearing reports from the Permian Basin that jobs, particularly truck-driving jobs, have been tough to fill.

“Really the biggest limiter on that growth will be the amount of people you can put to work out there,” says Tony Scott, a partner at BTU Analytics. “At this point, it’s not a quality of rock issue. It’s a getting enough people, getting enough infrastructure across the entire value chain up and running.”

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Between July 2016 and July 2017, the number of oil rigs working in the Permian Basin jumped from 172 to 379.

Industry insiders say the region is poised to host the next big boom and that New Mexico could double its oil production from the last decade.

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Trucking jobs require more of workers—hazmat training, a clean drug test—than some other industry jobs.

When oil prices were $100 per barrel, service and trucking companies could lure drivers with salaries of $100,000 to $150,000. But lower oil prices correspond to pay cuts. Those jobs now pay $50,000. At that rate, the trouble and instability aren’t worth traveling from out of state, as many do, to take these positions, Scott says. As prices climb, that might change.

Overall, low unemployment rates nationally—and at 4.9 percent as of October in Eddy County—also reduce the number of potential employees.

“They were having problems as early as 12 months ago finding qualified drivers, especially in the Permian Basin, as activity is ramping up, and all we’ve seen is more activity over the last year,” Scott says.

Bloomberg reported in December that the Permian Basin was short about 3,000

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drivers, with the tightest shortages on its western edge.

Trucking matters because it’s a key marker, Scott says.

“It feeds across everything, because in order to move a rig, you need a truck driver; to move oil, you need a truck driver; to move the frac sand, you need a truck driver,” he says.

The other challenge has been the psychological wear-and-tear of the last downturns that have cost these jobs some of their appeal, even if they pay well.

“Even though you may be offered a potentially higher paycheck to go work out in West Texas or New Mexico, it’s not home

and it’s not viewed as reliable,” Scott says.

“There’s a lot of imported labor. Folks are still flying in from other parts of the country and doing two-week or month-long shifts. If you can get a good, steady-paying job at home and avoid the travel, that becomes a very compelling opportunity.”

Carlsbad city and Department of Development staff are sure some of those folks will make New Mexico their home if they can secure housing and other basic services. Meanwhile, they’re weathering some growing pains.

“Right before Christmas I went to Walmart for some undershirts, and there wasn’t one in the whole store,” says Russell Hardy, with the Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center, which monitors the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, and former president of the board of directors for the Carlsbad Department of Development. “It’s great for business because, as long as you can find employees, you can make a lot of money. But that’s the other downside: Trying to find qualified employees.”

His own staff tells him their rent increases a couple hundred dollars every time their leases end. Of 18 apartment complexes recently surveyed, 15 of them were completely full. Hotel prices are up, and they’re routinely booked close to capacity; parking lots are filled with white trucks. Grocery store shelves are sometimes empty.

“It’s great to see prosperity and business, and at the other end, it’s hard to plan for and hard to gear up for, especially as quickly as it’s coming,” Hardy says.

The state receives about $2 billion in revenue from oil and gas development, according to the Legislative Finance Committee, including through severance and property taxes, royalties and rental income. Another $300 million comes from sales and income taxes on drilling and services.

“The money is really coming into our community and we’re going to put that back into the state,” says Shannon Carr, local development coordinator for the Carlsbad Department of Development.

At job fairs, she pitches Carlsbad to potential residents as having “a small-town feel with a thriving economy.”

None of the growth would be possible without making some concessions, like the worker camps, she adds.

“A lot of people have been upset about them moving in right next to their homes, and I understand, that’s fair to be upset,” she says. “It’s impossible to actually have what we have without them. The companies wouldn’t have come here without it, so it would have probably affected the state’s budget.”

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If Winter Never Comes How to cope when the skiing is … limited

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n a low-snow May morning, writer David Rothman decided go skiing, as he often does, for his birthday. But the north-facing gully he routinely relied upon for this endeavor was so soggy and rotten that his hike uphill left his boots caked and himself bellydown in the mud. An ungainly struggle delivered him to the top, and he was able to ski down what little snow was left— “some turns were even good,” he writes in his essay about the outing, printed in his book Living the Life: Tales from America’s Mountains and Ski Towns. The gist of it matches the general experience so far this season: a little desperate, and a lot of joy at those few good turns.

If you happened to catch that Thursday morning snowstorm that brought several inches to Ski Santa Fe last week, and crowds and palpable joy with them, you know it’s been a season in which to celebrate small victories, rather than that year you finally get your turns on Roadrunner dialed to the point you’re truly thrilled to show them off. At least so far. We’re holding out hope—and it’s not entirely unfounded. Meteorologist Joel Gratz, founder of OpenSnow.com, a powderhound-focused weather site, says a “significant storm” will move across the western US around Jan. 19. Just the southern fringe of the storm reaches New Mexico, but Gratz says it could drop a few flakes on Taos and Sipapu. Then the overall trend could set up to bring more snow during the last week of the month.

While we wait, here are some ideas to stay ready, in the spirit, and keep yourself occupied.

DRY LAND TRAINING Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn was competing for another World Championship medal in Austria in 2013 when a jump landed her in soft snow, her legs buckled, and she tumbled, tearing multiple ligaments in her knee and fracturing her tibial plateau, one of the body’s most important weight-bearing bones. The day after she returned to Colorado, she had reconstructive surgery. The day after her surgery, she resumed workouts, using a medicine ball and crunches to keep up her core strength.

In Vonn’s book, Strong is the New Beautiful, she writes about building back from that and other injuries that have ended her season, but not her career. She was back in Austria this month, competing in the super-G, having scored enough points to qualify for the Olympics in South Korea.

She packs her book with tips on healthy eating and making exercise a habit, but maybe the most interesting are her high-powered strength-training routines that require little in the way of equipment and do a lot to ramp up your ability to jump into those moguls, if and when they do appear. Think scissor jumps, lateral line hops, squat jumps and mountain climbers.

The US Ski Team lists fun tasks like weighted box squats, overhead medicine ball throws and lateral box jumps as their training go-tos. If you want a program with a thorough roadmap, the Mountain Tactical Institute (mtntactical.com) sells training plans online to build strength and lactate tolerance—also known as that ability to feel the burn and keep skiing anyway.

You remember snow, right?

LEARN A NEW SKILL By most standards, it was well past time to call it a day and surrender the slopes to the incoming snowstorm and twilight hour when I decided to strap into telemark skis for the first time. After 25 years as an alpine skier, I still skied almost every weekend, but I went mostly for the scenery, the occasional barside fireplace and time with friends. Skiing was fun, but it wasn’t my focus.

Then, on a whim, I borrowed a set of telemark skis—the free-heel binding, also known as the ones I’d looked at for years and thought I’d never be able to handle— and hopped on the chairlift for a long, easy trail. That one wobbly run was enough to renew my motivation to be a first-chairto-last-chair skier.

A new discipline gave me a way to explore the finer points of skiing from the ground up, focusing on edge angles and weight placement in ways I hadn’t really needed to in years. It’s made me a better skier, but this year, it’s also keeping those intermediate groomed runs entertaining.

PICK UP A NEW SPORT Just maybe not ice climbing. We hear the mountain biking has been great this month. And the newsroom suggestion was napping.

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

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EVENT JAN/21 WE’RE ALL MAD HERE Editor Ellen Datlow may be the queen of the horror anthology, but she’s loved dark fantasy and Lewis Carroll for as far back as she can remember. Thus, the anthology Mad Hatters and March Hares was born. “At a convention, someone asked if there was any [author] I’d like to do a tribute with, and I said ‘I don’t know, I love Lewis Carroll, maybe something inspired by Alice,’” Datlow tells SFR. “And afterwards all these writers came up saying they’d love to do that.” Hatters is indeed inspired by Wonderland, but Datlow says that its 18 contributors, including Stephen Graham Jones, Angela Slatter and more, took it to original places. Further, she comes to Santa Fe to celebrate the book’s release alongside a Mad Hatter contest wherein participants create their best and most avant-garde hats while vying for movie theater gift certs. Lovely. (ADV) Mad Hatters and March Hares with Ellen Datlow: 7 pm Sunday Jan. 21. $10-$30; hat contest entry is free. Jean Cocteau Cinema, 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528.

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Back In Black Clay reimaginings over the millennia The aesthetic similarities between the works of renowned San Ildefonso potter Maria Martinez and contemporary Albuquerque ceramicist Jami Porter Lara are remarkable, but the anthropological similarities run even deeper. Porter Lara discusses the ideas in a Wednesday afternoon talk at the New Mexico Museum of Art. While Martinez (1887-1980) is widely considered a traditional Pueblo potter, she was not brought up learning the black-on-black patterns for which she became famous. “Maria Martinez was actually an innovator of that style,” Porter Lara says. “It had not been practiced for a long time in New Mexico, and she and her husband Julian developed it in response to some blackware potsherds that were found in a dig in Bandelier.” After Edgar Lee Hewett, archaeologist and Museum of New Mexico founder, asked if she could recreate the style, Martinez had to use trial-and-error before she and her husband perfected the method of clay firing to make the pots a glossy black.

“It’s an example of a person who’s taking or referencing new information,” Porter Lara says of Martinez as a contemporary artist. “And it’s not so much

about bloodlines, or reaching into one’s own ancient knowledge, necessarily, as it is dealing with the contemporary information at hand. … I think that rather than mythologizing and attributing it to tradition, it’s interesting how she was responding to new information that was becoming available.”

Porter Lara’s current work follows the same idea. While exploring the US-Mexico border, she took the form of the plastic bottle and revered it, elevated it to the realm of high art, through clay fired in much the same way that Martinez worked. Discarded by migrants, the bottles were left behind in much the same way as the potsherds were left behind by ancestral Puebloans.

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THE CALENDAR Email all the relevant information to calendar@sfreporter.com.

COURTESY OFFROAD PRODUCTIONS

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MAYORAL CANDIDATE FORUM Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 The Santa Fe New Mexican sponsors a forum for mayoral candidates in which candidates are asked audience questions about important issues in Santa Fe (see SFR Picks, page 19).

6 pm, free NEW HOMEBUYER NIGHT Homewise 1301 Siler Road, Bldg. D, 983-9473 Stop by an informal New Homebuyer Night to fingure out how to buy your own home with the help of Homewise, one of Santa Fe's favorite nonprofits.

5 pm, free PUBLIC INFORMATION SESSION: COMMUNITY COLLEGE BOND Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 Learn more about the SFCC bond and how it will help the college and community without raising tax rates. Head to the upstairs mezzanine in the William C Witter Fitness Education Center. Note that there are two sessions, in the morning and afternoon.

11 am and 4 pm, free

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WED/17 BOOKS/LECTURES CLIMATE, FIRE, SALAMANDERS, AND FORESTS: THROUGH THE LENS OF TREE RINGS Christ Lutheran Church 1701 Arroyo Chamiso, 467-9025 The Santa Fe Chapter of the Native Plant Society of New Mexico presents a talk by Ellis Margolis, a research ecologist at the USGS New Mexico Landscapes Field Station, based in Santa Fe, where his research focus is on land use and climate effects on fire regimes and forests of the southwestern US. 6:30 pm, free DHARMA TALK BY SENSEI IRÈNE KAIGETSU BAKKER Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 Sensei Irène Kaigetsu Bakker presents a talk entitled "Open Your Hands and Walk, Innocent." Arrive at 5:20 pm, because silent meditation starts at 5:30 pm.

5:30 pm, free PEOPLE TO PEOPLE GALLERY CONVERSATION: JAMI PORTER LARA New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Contemporary sculptor Porter Lara discusses the work of potter Maria Martinez (see SFR Picks, page 19).

12:30 pm, $7-$12 PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 Get yourself and your kid out of the house and see other real live humans.

10:45 am, free

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

8 pm, free

MUSIC

I just want your extra time and your (ninga-ninga-ninga-ninga-ninga) hiss—“Familiar Hiss,” that is, by Kaelen Green. It’s at Offroad Productions as part of The Collector’s Eye, a uniquely formatted show in which art collectors each choose one remarkable artist whose work they want to showcase, resulting in an eclectic but high-quality exhibition. It opens Saturday.

MAYORAL CANDIDATE FORUM Dragonstone Studios 317 Camino Alire The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Santa Fe sponsors a forum for mayoral candidates in which candidates are asked audience questions about important issues in Santa Fe. 11:30 am, free

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

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

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

10 pm, free

DON CURRY Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Classic rock.

8 pm, free GERRY & CHRIS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Traditional Irish sounds from Gerry Carthy meld with Latin tunes by Chris Abeyta when these two longtime friends play together.

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

6:30 pm, free RAMON BERMUDEZ TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Latin and smooth jazz guitar.

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

6:30 pm, free

SANTA FE MEGABAND REHEARSAL Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, 470-7077 Join this open community band for an opportunity for musicians to get together and play acoustic string band music. Practices are held on the first and third Wednesday of each month, so you'll have more chances to hang out and play.

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

5:30-7:30 pm, free TINY'S ELECTRIC JAM Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Plug it in and rock out. Hosted

by Nick Wymette and Albert Diaz.

8 pm, free

THU/18 BOOKS/LECTURES PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Find new books! Make your kid smart!

11 am, free

EVENTS JOB CREATORS DAY State Capitol Building 490 Old Santa Fe Trail Do you employ people? If so ... Gosh, we need more people like you. Join other business owners, economic developers and legislators to celebrate successful job creation in New Mexico.

9 am-3 pm, free KUNDALINI YOGA New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 Bring your mat to the Meem Community Room for a class taught by Kirpal S Khalsa.

Noon-1:15 pm, free

BILL HEARNE TRIO Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Honky-tonk master Hearne has long been a local legend, as was his wife Bonnie. Bonnie passed away at Christmas time, and in a show of community support, Second Street hosts the man himself for a special Thursday night show as he plays his country and Western tunes we all know and love—but let's heap a little extra love on tonight, shall we?

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

6:30 pm, free BOOMROOTS COLLECTIVE Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Reggae and hip-hop.

10 pm, free DANIEL MURPHY Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Get the jams from this rock 'n' roller, multi-band member, singer-songwriter, composer, guitar teacher and all-around music man.

8 pm, free GERRY & CHRIS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Traditional Irish sounds from Gerry Carthy meld with Latin tunes by Chris Abeyta when these two longtime friends play together.

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Sample soups from Santa Fe’s finest chefs during a benefit event for The Food Depot!

THE GOATHEADS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Rockin’ blues.

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

8 pm, free JOHN RANGEL DUET SERIES El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Jazz pianist Rangel invites one of his besties to jazz it up.

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

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

6 pm, free

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Councilor Signe Lindell, District 1 David Risser & Charles Goodman with

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Saturday, January 27, 2018 (Noon to 2:30 PM) Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W. Marcy Street in Santa Fe Purchase tickets at the Lensic Box Office in Santa Fe 211 W. San Francisco • 505-988-1234 ticketssantafe.org

THEATER ATRAVESADA: POETRY OF THE BORDER Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 As part of Paraguas’ annual Poesía Viva ("living poetry") series, explore the physical and political US-Mexico border and the borderlands of the self (see Acting Out, page 29).

7 pm, free

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FRI/19 ART OPENINGS ALL WALL Santa Fe Clay 545 Camino de la Familia, 984-1122 Wall-hung pieces offer a refreshing look at nine ceramicists who disregard convention in both execution and presentation.

5-7 pm, free LUKE DUBOIS: A MORE PERFECT UNION SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 New York-based artist DuBois presents works that explore democracy, elections, politics and demographics. Featured works include eye chart-style graphics of the most often used words in the State of the Union addresses by every US president, as well as repurposed voting machines hacked to create an interactive “voting” experience that highlights the lack of choice we have in the voting booth. Through April 4 (see 3 Questions, page 27).

6 pm, free RENEWAL ViVO Contemporary 725 Canyon Road, 982-1320 Gain a new perspective for the new year as ViVO gallery artists remake, change and transfigure their aesthetic every time they create a new work. Through March 13.

5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES BROWN BAG IT WITH MoCNA: ELIZA NARANJO MORSE AND TERRAN KIPP LAST GUN IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Bring your lunch to the second-floor project lab and join Morse (Santa Clara Pueblo) and Last Gun (Piikani Nation) as they discuss their artistic practice and current collaborative mural, "Home is a Life Journey," which MoCNA commissioned for the Allan Houser Art Park and is based on ideas around home, place, history and experience.

Noon-1:30 pm, free

EVENTS AUM CHANT Santa Fe Community Yoga Center 826 Camino de Monte Rey, 820-9363 Honk if you love Ganesh. Just kidding—chant aum instead.

7:30 pm, free CHRISTUS ST. VINCENT JOB FAIR Christus St. Vincent Hospital 455 St. Michael's Drive, 820-5202 Lookin' for a stable job with legit benefits? Connect with managers and explore both clinical and non-clinical positions available at the hospital. On-site interviews will take place, so remember to bring a resume and, like, brush your hair or something.

9 am-3 pm, free

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Gary Oakley’s “Dreamer” reminds us why we fell in love with New Mexico in the first place.

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Spark One Firerock: Pass the Spark brings musicals to the high-stakes world of climate change

BY ALEX DE VORE a l e x @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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Gina Breedlove originated Sarabi in The Lion King on Broadway!

What?!

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hy did we choose a musical?” Molly Sturges asks me. When we meet alongside San Francisco climate activist Kristin Rothballer, Sturges seems tired yet satisfied, the hallmark of a creator on the cusp of completing a years-long project with the help of countless others. The project is Firerock: Pass the Spark, a multipronged, musical theater-based approach produced in part with local nonprofit Littleglobe (which Sturges co-founded) that tackles the grim concept of climate change through an easily digestible theater piece.

“Climate change is a tough, overwhelming topic,” she continues, “and we wanted to do it in a way that any community could make it their own.”

Sturges developed Firerock over the past seven-plus years, enlisting a team from across the country and all sides of the climate change spectrum: coal miners, scientists, young climate justice workers, activists, Tony-winning musicians and beyond. She wanted to provide a multitiered scale for other communities to mount the show, from full-on production to simple reading—all without licensing fees—and hoped to circumvent fingerwagging while driving home the importance and time-sensitive nature of our rapidly diminishing ecology. “When the project started eight years ago, people weren’t talking about [climate change],” Rothballer, who served as consultant,

says. “I felt like I was banging my head against the wall; people would shut down, people would feel fear. But the magic of Firerock is that it creates a space for those feelings to be held in a way that supports people.”

The basic premise is that the character Firerock (a sort of anthropomorphized version of fossil fuels played by New York singer Gina Breedlove, who originated the character Sarabi for the Broadway production of The Lion King … yeah, THAT Lion King) dwells beneath a magical forest, and the mining conglomerate PREMCO wants her. Years of overuse of said fossil fuels has imbued the nearby town of Hopewell Junction with what is called “The Snooze,” a haze of disaffected behavior. And though Firerock pleas for help (through song!), she goes unheard, eventually joining forces with a well-meaning otter to try and lift the curse.

“When I was looking at the arts that centered around climate change, it was mainly documentation of the horrors,” Sturges says, “and all that was happening was that people were feeling terrible and shamed … [and] afraid.” Rothballer agrees. “An Inconvenient Truth was a seminal movie and an important movie, but

it left a lot of people feeling guilty,” she says. “Part of what Firerock aims to do is reimagine our relationship to the Earth as a reciprocal relationship; there’s a much deeper gift.”

Musically, Firerock exists someplace between contemporary Broadway and Disney. Some songs cut deep with moving emotional resonance, others simply impart valuable information while keeping things light and breezy. Musical director and composer Enrico de Trizio, whose credits include the bonafide 2015 hit Dear Evan Hansen, came onboard to compose with Sturges and award-winning Los Angeles-based composer Luis Guerra. Rothballer helped develop the story with film, TV and theater writers like Georgina H Escobar and Nancy Vitale. Local cultural powerhouse and director of the Lifesongs program Acushla Bastible directs. And this is just a mere smattering of those who helped in one form or another.

“This is a really hard-hitting artists team,” Sturges says. “This is a story about waking up.” Rothballer expands, saying, “The development of the story is in direct response to things that are happening on the planet and the political realm— the planet is warming, regardless of what

a politician says, and there’s no doubt there are political and technological and economical things to do in the face of climate change—the more we can contribute in fierce, direct and rigorous ways, the more we will allow people to connect and engage.”

For now, Sturges seems relieved to have finally completed her task, and all that’s really left for the time being is to debut this sucker at the Adobe Rose Theatre. During its run, three separate versions will be filmed and incorporated into a DIY toolkit which will be available for free distrobution through Littleglobe.

“Eight years ago it starts as an idea, but this is a project that will evolve,” Sturges says. “Every time it goes to a new community it will evolve. It’s designed to change.

I think we’re far more potent that way.”

FIREROCK: PASS THE SPARK 7:30 pm Friday and Saturday Jan. 19 and 20; also 3 pm Saturday Jan. 20. $15-$20.

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THE CALENDAR MUSIC ALEX MARYOL Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Rock 'n' blues.

6 pm, free BELLA'S BIRTHDAY BASH Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Hella Bella, the rock ‘n’ roll band fronted by the inimitable drag queen Bella Gigante, celebrates its frontwoman's special day.

10 pm, $5 BLINDDRYVE, BLOOD WOLF AND THE HAMMERITZ Zephyr Community Art Studio 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 A night of metal acts from Albuquerque and Santa Fe. 8:30 pm, $5-$10 BROOMDUST CARAVAN Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 Cosmic country and Americana.

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

6 pm, $2 DJ DYNAMITE SOL Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 House, funk, reggaeton and hip-hop from the one and only Sol Bentley.

10 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND BOB FINNIE Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards, classical and Broadway tunes. Doug starts, Bob takes over at 8 pm.

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

9 pm, $5 HALF BROKE HORSES Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Home-grown Americana and country.

6 pm, free JJ AND THE HOOLIGANS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock, blues and Americana.

8:30 pm, $5 JAMES DAVID CHRISTIE First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Selections by Bach, Hassler, Buxtehude and Mohrheim by a highly internationally acclaimed organist.

5:30 pm, free JESUS BAS La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Amorous and romantic Spanish and flamenco guitar.

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JIMMY STADLER La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Good-natured rock and Americana from Taos.

8 pm, free KARAOKE WITH McLAIN Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Belt out your faves.

8 pm, free MATT BRADFORD Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Singery-songwritery tunes on the deck. At this rate it will probably be about 90 degrees out, so wear your Hawaiian shirt.

5 pm, free MIKE MONTIEL TRIO Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Classic rock.

8:30 pm, free OCTOPUS PROJECT Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Party music complete with blown-out rock’n’roll, vibrant electronics, surreal pop and expansive psych landscapes.

With support from psychedelic rockers New Fumes and local songster Cole Bee Wilson.

8 pm, $13-$15 PHYLLIS LOVE Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6:30 pm, free RASCAL MARTINEZ Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Enjoy a dinner-hour show with the Denver-based Martinez, whose hybrid Latinrockabilly-folk-country conjures roots music icons.

6:30 pm, free THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 This musical institution often welcomes a fourth guest, so the number is negotiable, but it's always jazzy piano music.

7:30 pm, free TONIC HOUSE JAZZ TRIO Tonic 103 E Water St., 982-1189 Late-night jazzy stylings (till 12:30 am!) from Loren Bienvenu (drums), Michael Burt Jr. (bass) and Tom Rheam (piano and trumpet).

9:30 pm, free

THEATER ATRAVESADA: POETRY OF THE BORDER Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 As part of Paraguas’ annual Poesía Viva (“living poetry”) series, explore the physical and political US-Mexico border. Our personal and professional opinion: This is gonna be badass (see Acting Out, page 29).

7 pm, free

FIREROCK: PASS THE SPARK Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 A family-friendly musical that digs beneath the surface to help us find connection to one another and to our planet at a critical time (see Music, page 23).

7:30 pm, $15-$20 MACBETH El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 The students' classical theater troupe, featuring actors aged 10-18, presents Shakespeare's tragedy.

7 pm, $5-$10

SAT/20 ART OPENINGS THE COLLECTOR’S EYE Offroad Productions 2891-B Trades West Road, 670-9276 Offroad tasked seven local art collectors with choosing a single artist they are jazzed about, then asked the collectors to curate a mini-exhibit of their chosen artist. The resulting exhibit is a dynamic look at what Santa Fean art collectors value most.

6 pm, free EYE CANDY: VISUAL TREATS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian 704 Camino Lejo, 982-4636 View recent additions to the museum's renowned collection of Native American jewelry, lapidary and silversmithing. Through April 15, 2018.

10 am-5 pm, $8

BOOKS/LECTURES I HEAR … HE DOESN’T: SURVIVING FAMILY LIFE WITH HEARING LOSS Natural Grocers 3328 Cerrillos Road, 474-0111 If "What?" is the most commonly asked question in your home, this could be the meeting for you. Bring your loved one to this meeting of the Santa Fe chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of America.

10 am, free MINDY LITTMAN HOLLAND: ALL MY FUNNY ONES op.cit Books 157 Paseo De Peralta, 428-0321 Holland reads from her collection of humorous tales from 2017. Bless those who can find hilarity somewhere in a dumpster fire.

2 pm, free

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

6:30 pm, $25

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BY ALICIA INEZ GUZMÁN a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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s the snow begins to melt on the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the Acequia de la Sierra flows with water yet again. It makes its way down the 13,000-foot peak by way of a hand-carved ditch, initially cut into the dense clay by the first 11 settler-colonists of Truchas, a community established on New Spain’s northern frontier over 250 years ago.

Their heirs continued to channel that water into communal and private plots for all things agriculture. And until the ’60s, when plumbing came to town, the acequia was the primary source of household water.

When hippies arrived in a ramshackle bus (still broken down on the edge of town), riding the wave of national counterculture, they bathed in the acequia.

There was nothing like the wrath of my great-grandmother who was utterly—and I mean utterly—offended by anyone who might be so uncouth.

You see, to many, the acequia is sacred.

I’ve often heard it likened to a bloodline; having and maintaining water rights is, quite simply, being alive. It’s that serious.

Thursday Jan. 25 is Acequia Day 2018, an event hosted by the New Mexico Acequia Association at the State Capitol Building (490 Old Santa Fe Trail) where acequia leaders are “standing en defensa del agua,” according to the Facebook event.

It’s not uncommon to hear water needs defending. From the calls of “Mni Wiconi” by Standing Rock’s Water Protectors to pronouncements that water scarcity, especially for those living in the

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seven states in the path of an ever-dwindling Colorado River, is the new norm, water not only needs protection from contamination, but also over-allocation. This is also true in New Mexico, where the association is growing a “movement of people of all ages and walks of life to defend and protect our precious water,” in the words of its vision statement.

Paula Garcia, executive director of the association, describes commodification in a take-from-Peter-to-payPaul scenario, in which “any new use of water has to come at the expense of an old user.” All water is already spoken for with “agricultural water rights transferring to industrial and urban uses.” So, to keep acequia water from getting channeled towards a neighboring city, “leaders [within the organization] are working to prevent transferring rights” according to the whims of market forces. In terms of contamination, Garcia and company are “challenging city neighbors who aren’t treating sewage properly,” as well as “holding the Los Alamos National Laboratory accountable for waste dumped in arroyos.”

While I always associate New Mexico’s viejitos with doing much of the acequia’s annual maintenance (including re-digging the earthen channels and pulling reeds from blocking the passage of water), Garcia describes the association’s membership as vast and diverse. There are what we might think of as the traditional users

Acequias are as much about the future as they are about the past.

and irrigators, but today, those who use and benefit from acequias include farmers, scientists, engineers, foresters, EMTs, recent retirees and, Garcia says, a number of “newcomers who have embraced local culture.”

We live in an era of multitaskers, and with that comes a realization, Garcia says, that “farmers aren’t just farmers anymore,” but gente working across sectors.

And though the base still maintains a strong presence of Hispano elders, it’s also multiethnic and intergenerational. Thus, while many Nuevo Mexicanos express their place-based identity and querencia through love for the acequia, others too have a stake in the health and continuance of these age-old waterways. They are humble, no doubt—but, like any inheritance, invaluable.

To continue its mission, the New Mexico Acequia Association has allies in academia, including anthropologists like

Women’s Voices Theater Festival: Readings of new plays by female playwrights

at Studio Center: 1614 Paseo De Peralta Saturday & Sunday, January 20 & 21 / 2–5 p.m.

★ Macbeth: The Upstart Crows of Santa Fe For full details on these and other listings, please see

at El Museo Cultural: 555 Camino de la Familia Friday & Saturday, Jan. 20 & 21 at 7 p.m. / Sunday, Jan. 21 at 6 p.m.

A&C Sylvia Rodriguez and Elise Trott and filmmakers such as Aracely Chapa, as well as graduate students who are “aligning their research” with acequia management and history. “We’ve partnered with faculty in universities,” Garcia explains, “to model trends and scenarios to see how policy shapes acequias into the future.”

Acequias aren’t from some bygone era, then; they are the future, too. And in that vein, NMAA continues to uphold its relevance by hosting the Esquelita de las Acequias, a series of encuentros that “creatively address challenges in local communities involving acequias.” There is also a farmer training program to give young apprentices the knowledge needed to farm “high-value food for market.”

On Acequia Day, expect a march to the Roundhouse that’s more like a “church procession,” in Garcia’s vision. Also planned are músicos to play guitars and sing, and a teatro comprised of amateur performers acting out skits about policy issues and poking fun at almost everyone.

It culminates in a rally at the Roundhouse Rotunda at noon, where youths speak about the significance of the acequia in their lives followed by short speeches recognizing local partners and leaders whose projects have worked to repair and improve community acequias.

The endgame is that, with stakeholders most invested in the health and continuance of acequias present, policy makers can’t ignore the value of New Mexico’s waterways. Indeed, acequias are like all other forms of infrastructure, and by that logic, they deserve investment, too. To Garcia, both people and our beloved landscapes reap the benefits of longterm investment.

So bring your pala (that’s a shovel) and get ready to celebrate the beauty of water.

ACEQUIA DAY MARCH AND RALLY March: 9 am Thursday Jan. 25. Free.

Begins at Garrett’s Desert Inn, 311 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-1851.

More information: lasacequias.org

Atravesada: Poetry of the Border performance

at Teatro Paraguas: 3205 Calle Marie Friday, Jan. 19 / Saturday, Jan. 20 /Thursday, Jan. 25 at 7 p.m. / Sunday, Jan. 21 at 2 p.m.

New Mexico Actors Lab Play Reading: No Man’s Land, by Harold Pinter

at Teatro Paraguas: 3205 Calle Marie Sunday, January 21 at 6 p.m.

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I’m a professional dominatrix, and I thought I’d seen everything in the last five years. But this situation completely baffled the entire dungeon.

This middle-aged guy, seemingly in fine health, booked an appointment with me and my colleague for one hour of some very light play and a golden shower to finish off with. We did no CBT, no cock rings, no trauma to the dick area at all, no ass play, no sounding or catheters, no turbulent masturbation, nothing that could have caused this reaction. We brought him into the bathroom, and he laid down on his back, jerking off with a condom on his penis as my buddy was standing over him and peeing and I was saying all kinds of mean/encouraging sentiments and closely observing his progress. He came and… it was entirely blood. It looked like he shat into his condom, through his penis. He did not seem alarmed or in pain. He took off his condom himself, so he was aware of the situation. He did not remark on it to either of us! He made ZERO effort to prepare either of us, either. And it was not a little blood in his ejaculate—it was entirely blood. He has never returned. Is this person a monster or a vampire? Is he dying? Seriously.

-Mistress Echo P.S. I went back to the bathroom with gloves on and removed the used condom from the trash and took a photo. It’s the only way to communicate just how much blood there was.

“You can tell Mistress Echo that her client was not a monster or a vampire, and he is likely not dying anytime soon,” said Dr. Stephen H. King, a board-certified urologist. “What she observed is a person with hematospermia, meaning blood in the semen.”

While the sight is alarming—I’ll never be able to scrape that photo off the back of my eyeballs, thanks—Dr. King assures me that it’s nothing to worry about, as hematospermia is almost always benign. And even if you had done ball play or rough CBT (cock and ball torture), or if he engaged in solo CBT prior to the session, it’s unlikely that kind of play would result in a condom full of blood.

“The vast majority of the semen actually comes from the prostate and the seminal vesicles, which are located deep in the pelvis just behind and below the bladder, respectively,” said Dr. King. “Very little of the ejaculate fluid actually originates from the testicles,” which primarily pump out hormones and sperm cells.

“The prostate gland and seminal vesicles (also glands) store up the fluids and can become overdistended with long periods of abstinence and prone toward micro tearing and bleeding in this circumstance.”

Blowing regular loads doesn’t just lower your risk for prostate cancer, as multiple studies have shown, it also lowers your risk for filling condoms with blood and alarming your friendly neighborhood pro-Dom. Two good reasons for draining those balls, guys—and other people with balls because, as the Book of Tumblr teaches us, not all guys have balls and not all balls have guys.

“Also, these glands are lined by smooth muscle that contracts to force out the fluid [during ejaculation],” Dr. King continued. “If the force of contraction is excessive—a fucking great orgasm—this may lead toward rupture of some of the surrounding blood vessels and blood will enter the semen.”

Your client’s blasé reaction is a good indication that he’s experienced this previously, ME, because most guys who see blood in their semen—or only blood when they expected to see semen—freak the fuck out.

“In my practice, most guys who see blood in their ejaculate the first time are sufficiently freaked out to seek immediate medical attention, and their doctors usually tell them this isn’t

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something to worry about—unless it persists,” said Dr. King. “In cases where the hematospermia persists, gets worse, or is associated with other symptoms such as pain, difficulty urinating, or general health decline, medical attention is definitely recommended.”

Back to your client, ME: If blood loads have happened to him before (hence the blasé reaction), proper etiquette dictates that he should have said something to you about it afterward (“I’m fine, no biggie”). If it happens to him regularly, he should have warned you in advance—at least that’s what it says in my imaginary edition of Emily Post’s Etiquette.

I’m an old guy, 68 years old to be exact. (Also a Scorpio, if that matters.) I’ve always been a pretty horny person, and I had a lot of fun from the 1960s through the 1980s with a number of lovers. I figured that as I got older, my horniness would lessen and I could think about something other than pussy. Trouble is, I don’t seem to be less horny. I find myself attracted to women in their 30s or 40s, but I wonder how I appear to them. I don’t want to make an utter fool of myself by making an unwanted advance—but the truth is, I’m still pretty hot to trot. What do I do?

-Not Ready For The Nursing Home You could see sex workers (quickest fix), you could look for women in their 30s or 40s who are attracted to guys pushing 70 (gerontophilia is a thing), you could date women in their 50s or 60s with a youthful appearance and/or attitude (there are lots out there, NRFTNH, and they often gather in groups to complain about how men their age are only interested in much younger women), or you could do all of the above. But you shouldn’t regard moving into a nursing home as the end of your sex life, NRFTNH. I’m constantly reading news reports about sexually transmitted disease epidemics in nursing homes and retirement communities. People may not like to think about the elderly having sex—and the elderly apparently don’t think about protection (or they’re denied access to it)—but lots of old fuckers are still fucking. (And, as astrology is bullshit, NRFTNH, being a Scorpio doesn’t matter. It never has and it never will.)

My husband has a foot fetish. The feel of his tongue between my toes when he “worships” my feet doesn’t arouse me in the least. Rather, it feels like I’m stepping on slugs in the garden barefoot. Our sex life is fine otherwise. I resolved to grin (or grimace) and bear this odd aspect of his sexuality before we married, but I cannot continue to do so. When I told him this, he asked to be allowed to attend “foot model” parties. There wouldn’t be intercourse, but he would pleasure himself in the presence of these foot models (and other males!). This would, in my opinion, violate our monogamous commitment and our marriage vows. I enjoy your podcast and I know you often advocate for open relationships. But you also emphasize your respect for monogamy and the validity of monogamous commitments. We are at an impasse. Please advise.

-Throwing Off Expectations While “love unconditionally” sounds nice, TOE, monogamy was a condition of yours going into this marriage (and a valid one), and being able to express this aspect of his sexuality was a stated or implicit condition of his (and, yes, an equally valid one). If you’re going to unilaterally alter the terms and conditions of your marriage, TOE, then you’ll need to reopen negotiations and come to a new agreement with your husband, one that works for both of you. (Jesus, lady, let him go to the fucking party!)

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A DAY OF RITUAL PRAYER PERFORMANCE form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111 As part of the epic exhibit and performance series that is Thais Mather's Reckless Abandon, performance art group Time Beings collaborates with Kara Duval for a 12-hour performance among the artworks. Starting at 7 am, the performance will be visible from outside, but the gallery does not open to the public until 10 am.

7 am-7 pm, free EXPLORE THE WEST TRAVEL SHOW Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Cosmos Tours presents an info session about its custom motorcoach excursion, which hits sites like Yosemite, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Palm Springs, redwood forests, California Wine Country and much more. The trip runs from June 15-23. Check out this meeting to see if you should sign on (it sounds pretty amazing, honestly).

2 pm, free THE FERAL HOWL: PERFORMANCE Freeform Artspace 3012 Cielo Ct., 692-9249 In conjunction with a rabid feminist art exhibit (we mean that as a deep compliment), this performance includes a feral howl by Ahjo Sipowicz, performances involving a Trump piñata by the collective the Furies, a movement piece by Nikesha Breeze, artists’ talks and more. All proceeds benefit the Esperanza Shelter.

6 pm, $5-$10 LUKE DUBOIS AND BORA YOON: SOUND AND SPECTACLE SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 In conjunction with DuBois' current exhibit at SITE, which explores democracy, elections, politics and demographics, DuBois joins composer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Yoon, whose found sounds, invented instruments and voice combine with DuBois’ live video manipulations for a conceptual and immersive concert (see 3 Questions, page 27).

6:30 pm, $10-$15

THE BUS TAPES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Folk ‘n’ rock ‘n’ roll.

8:30 pm, free CONTROLLED BURN El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n' roll, blues, country swing and Americana.

9 pm, $5 DANA SMITH Upper Crust Pizza 329 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0000 Original country-tinged folk songs.

6 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND BOB FINNIE Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards, classical and Broadway tunes on piano.

Doug starts, Bob takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free EVET Paradiso 903 Early St. An evening of Balkan folk dancing, Lebanese debke dances and Middle Eastern dancing. Traditional folk music from Serbia, Greece, Albania, Bulgaria and Macedonia, as well as from Lebanon and Egypt, has a cultural component of group line dancing, so get on your feet (don’t worry, folks there can show you how).

7:30 pm, $15 GREG BUTERA AND THE GUNSELS Ski Santa Fe 740 Hyde Park Road, 982-4429 Relax to some Cajun honky-tonk on the deck of Totemoff’s. There’s not much real snow up there, it’s true, but there’s enough manmade stuff to get a few runs in.

11 am-3 pm, free HALF BROKE HORSES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Country and Americana.

1-4 pm, free JIM ALMAND Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Soulful blues.

6 pm, free JIMMY STADLER La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Good-natured rock and Americana from Taos. Will he play the banjo, mandola, guitar, ukulele, mandolin or all of the above? Only one way to find out.

8 pm, free LONE PIÑON Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Ranchera, cumbia and Norteño swing on the deck.

2 pm, free

FILM THE OPERA HOUSE Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 The Lensic and the Santa Fe Opera, in conjunction with the Metropolitan Opera, come together to bring us a new film by documentary filmmaker Susan Froemke. It surveys a remarkable period of the Met’s rich history and a time of change for NYC. 11 am, $15

MARTY STUART AND HIS FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 The Grammy winner, Grand Ole Opry star, country music archivist, photographer, musician and songwriter comes to town with support from Wayne "The Train" Hancock. His soul, gospel and country roots run deep—sure to be a treat for anyone who loves Americana music.

7:30 pm, $37-$146 PAT MALONE Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Live solo jazz guitar.

7 pm, free PHYLLIS LOVE Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6:30 pm, free RANGEL-JOHNSON DUET Tonic 103 E Water St., 982-1189 John Rangel on piano and Sean Johnson on saxaphone whip up some jazzy stylings.

9:30 pm, free ROBIN HOLLOWAY Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Piano standards.

6 pm, $2 SERENATA OF SANTA FE: THE RUSSIANS First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 David Felberg and Ruxandra Marquardt (violins), Dana Winograd (cello), Keith Lemmons (clarinet) and Debra Ayers (piano) play the music of Russian composers Khachaturian, Prokofiev and Shostakovich.

7 pm, $20-$40 SHOWCASE KARAOKE Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 You know the drill. If you don't (though we don't know how that could possibly be), hosts Nanci and Cyndy will show you what's up.

8:30 pm, free TNT Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Get down to R&B, soul and funk in the Tavern.

8 pm, free VAIVÉN El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Flamenco and jazz from Calvin Hazen (guitar), Jon Gagan (bass) and Robbie Rothschild (percussion).

7:30 pm, free THE WORKSHY Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 On tour from Denver, it’s an eclectic six-piece funk group with an energetic live show whose style is influenced by jazz, blues, funk and beyond.

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THEATER ATRAVESADA: POETRY OF THE BORDER Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Aa part of Paraguas’ annual Poesía Viva (“living poetry”) series, explore the physical and political US-Mexico border and the borderlands of the self (see Acting Out, page 29).

7 pm, free FIREROCK: PASS THE SPARK Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 What riches lie beneath the Wildwood, the magical forest at the edge of a once-thriving mining town? The mining conglomerate PREMCO wants to know. The early performance is followed by a community talkback about environmentalism, climate change and other challenging subjects, and what we can do to make a difference (see Music, page 23).

3 pm and 7:30 pm, $15-$20 MACBETH El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 The students' classical theater troupe, featuring actors aged 10-18, presents Shakespeare's tragedy. When Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes his throne, it isn't long before more murders, guilt and paranoia ensue. It doesn't end well, as you can imagine. Also: Don’t read this listing aloud backstage.

7 pm, $5-$10 WOMEN’S VOICES THEATER FESTIVAL Studio Center of Santa Fe (formerly Warehouse 21) 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 In association with the festival of the same name in Washington, DC, join in a two-day festival of readings of new plays by local women; today's lineup features works

by Marguerite Scott, Talia Pura and Pat Goehe. Folks under 21 get in for free. Three more works are featured tomorrow, so get ready to celebrate female playwrights.

2 pm, $5

SUN/21 BOOKS/LECTURES CHANGE YOUR MIND, CHANGE YOUR WORLD Zoetic 230 St. Francis Drive, 292-5293 Begin the new year on a new path by shedding old habits of mind, like views and responses that bind us to unhappiness. Our mind creates our world moment by moment; reap the benefits of these simple but profound meditations and transform your reality.

10:30 am-noon, $10

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Not really. I guess one thing is that I grew up overseas in England. In college my parents moved to Tokyo, so home for a couple years was Japan. I grew up in a context where I was the immigrant, and I got a little bit of a lens on the United States at a distance. I took a trip to the Soviet Union when I was in eighth grade; I remember my pop and I flew to Berlin right after the wall fell; I remember being in Bosnia before the whole thing caught fire—I’ve seen some things, and I think a lot of the art I’m making is about trying to figure out how to make portraits of the US that get people in the US to think and ask questions and be as little more aware of what we are as a culture; the words we use, the decisions we make.

We hear a lot about the responsibility of the artist, especially in dark times. Do you feel you have a responsibility?

Yeah, sure. I think it’s very important now, possibly now more than ever—well, it’s actually always shady to say now is a more important time than the last time but, in this case, it might actually be true—when we managed to elect a shady real estate guy from Queens who eats pizza with a fork—and no disrespect to the great borough of Queens. I think one of the problems is that he’s not only the least-qualified president we’ve ever had, he’s the least-qualified person you or I could think of to be president. And it’s not that I’m so single-mindedly intent on taking down Donald Trump, but I do think I have a specific skill set that gives me the ability to comment on him.

Did anything particularly notable emerge from the synthesis of the State of the Union addresses?

Washington’s number one word is “gentlemen,” and [George W] Bush’s is “terror.” So the question is: How do you get from gentlemen to terror in 43 steps? Some of my favorites are, like, Nixon’s mostused words were “truly,” “environment” and “vision.”

Lyndon Johnson’s number one word was “tonight,” because he was the first to give the address on prime time television. The State of the Union was originally just, like, this document and was really long and kind of boring, but around the Civil War, you got this bump.

Lincoln’s number one word was “emancipation.”

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THE CALENDAR JOURNEYSANTAFE: MELYNN SCHUYLER Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 The founder and executive director of YouthWorks talks about ways to reconnect disaffected young folks to the Santa Fe community.

11 am, free MAD HATTERS AND MARCH HARES Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Master of horror Ellen Datlow is joined by authors Stephen Graham Jones and Matthew Kressel for a live discussion, book signing, and special Mad Hatter Hat Contest—arrive with your own crazy hat by your own design (be sure to enter it by 6 pm) for Datlow to judge (see SFR Picks, page 19).

7 pm, $10-$30 SANTA FE FREE THINKERS’ FORUM Unitarian Universalist Congregation 107 W Barcelona Road, 982-9674 Join the discussion group to muse on a humanist outlook on population growth. (So basically, they’re saying that simply yelling “Just stop having kids!!!!” isn’t helpful.)

8:30 am, free

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THE GATE OF SWEET NECTAR LITURGY Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 In a Buddhist ceremony offering the bodhi mind of love, wisdom, and transformation, chant the Gate of Sweet Nectar Liturgy, which calls out to all those who are lost and left behind.

5:30 pm, free JOEL CHASNOFF Temple Beth Shalom 205 E Barcelona Road, 982-1376 Chasnoff, American-Israeli comedian and author, provides an evening of stand-up comedy with stories of his Jewish basketball team and service in the army as a tank gunner.

7 pm, free SANTA FE WOMEN’S MARCH State Capitol Building 490 Old Santa Fe Trail The reprise of last year’s historic march goes down on its one-year anniversary; march with your likeminded countrypeople to the Plaza. Just remember, folks: Intersectional feminism is the only true feminism.

Noon, free

MUSIC THE BARBEDWIRES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Soulful blues on the deck.

2 pm, free

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BORIS McCUTCHEON Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Gothic Americana.

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

6:30 pm, free JOURNEYS: WITHIN AND WITHOUT Unitarian Universalist Congregation 107 W Barcelona Road, 982-9674 Celebrate music that gives voice to the power of women.

The New Mexico Women's Chorus calls this show "an odyssey along roads not taken and sentimental journeys from country roads to Route 66.” There are also desserts and a silent auction.

4-6 pm, $12-$20 MARIO REYNOLDS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Traditional Norteño tunes and folk songs on guitar, charango and flute.

6 pm, free MATT BRADFORD Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Folk, blues, Americana, country 'n' pop.

8 pm, free MICHAEL UMPHREY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6:30 pm, free NACHA MENDEZ La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Creative but rooted takes on Latin music from around the world.

7 pm, free OPEN MIC Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Show off the new jams you've been working on.

3-7 pm, free PAT MALONE AND JON GAGAN El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 A jazzy duo with blues notes.

7 pm, free SANTA FE SYMPHONY: LISZT, GRIEG AND BRAHMS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Start off the new year with Liszt’s "Les Préludes," the first “symphonic poem” ever to be published under that description, which depicts themes as universal as love and victory. The programmatic theatricality continues with Grieg’s first Peer Gynt suite, combining Norwegian folklore and traditional music with the yearning harmonies of Scandinavian Romanticism.

Finally, Brahms’s Symphony No. 3 encapsulates Brahms’s motto “Free but happy.”

4 pm, $22-$80

THEATER ATRAVESADA: POETRY OF THE BORDER Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 As part of Paraguas’ annual Poesía Viva (“living poetry”) series, explore the physical and political US-Mexico border and the borderlands of the self (see Acting Out, page 29).

2 pm, free MACBETH El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 The students' classical theater troupe, featuring actors aged 10-18, presents Shakespeare's tragedy. When Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes his throne, it isn't long before more murders, guilt and paranoia ensue. It doesn't end well, if you can imagine.

6 pm, $5-$10 NO MAN'S LAND Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Directed by Nicolas Ballas, catch a staged reading of Harold Pinter's 1974 dark comedy, presented by the New Mexico Actors Lab. 6 pm, free WOMEN’S VOICES THEATER FESTIVAL Studio Center of Santa Fe (formerly Warehouse 21) 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 The second half of a two-day festival of readings of new plays by local women features works by Rosemary Zibart, Jayden Chavez and Maria Rinaldi. Folks under 21 are free.

2 pm, $5

MON/22 BOOKS/LECTURES BILINGUAL BOOKS AND BABIES Santa Fe Public Library LaFarge Branch 1730 Llano St., 955-4860 Being bilingual is the wave of the future (and the present too, to be honest), so give your kid a head start with a bilingual (English and Spanish) program for babies 6 months to 2 years old and their caregivers. It’s a play and language group featuring books, songs and finger games from the comfort of your lap. Oral traditions and books provide an important pre-reading experience, so learn how everyday experiences can pave the way to learning success.

10:15-10:45 am, free BILINGUAL BOOKS AND BABIES Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 If you couldn’t make it to this morning’s session (see above listing), here’s your evening chance.

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nearly flawless. Without knowing the performers’ backgrounds (the programs weren’t yet ready when I crashed the party), I assume they are all seasoned actors with a passion for poetry, not poetry fans performing as an afterthought. The pieces become short stories and monologues, the swift movements around the sparse stage engaging and effortless, and the whole thing unfolds as an exhilarating exploration of what it means to live on the US-Mexico border.

There are three types of pieces in Atravesada: single folks reciting poems, trios or quartets acting out story-poems like scripts and ensemble bits with multiple actors entering and moving about the CHARLOTTE JUSINSKI

he inaugural production of the fledgling Teatro Paraguas in 2004 was a Poesía Viva, founder Argos MacCallum tells me just before a rehearsal of the series’ 15th installment. The bringing to life of Latinx poetry has always been a main tenet of Paraguas’ mission, and this year’s production is directed by actress and playwright Alix Hudson.

At first, I was confused about Atravesada: Poetry of the Border. Back in December, I emailed MacCallum and asked, flat-out: “Is it theater?”

“It’s a performance of poetry,” MacCallum, who also appears in the production, wrote back, “and I consider it ‘theater.’”

Those quotation marks made me hesitate, but I decided to trust him.

I sat in on a tech rehearsal on Saturday Jan. 13. As the actors, almost all of whom are women, gathered onstage, their conversations full of code-switching and lifelong Santafesina friendships, a thought I’ve often had, living as a transplant in New Mexico, kept returning: How much Polish do I speak? None. How long ago did my ancestors leave Europe? Not long ago, all things considered. Can I ever consider myself “from” here? Hmm. The rehearsal hadn’t even started and already I was having Thoughts with a capital T. But the lights soon dropped and the Thoughts were quickly silenced. Yes, these actors were reciting poetry, but the show bloomed furiously into what amounted to 37 vignettes; mini-scenes whose language was entrancing, by virtue of the medium. Director Hudson, who also performs, curated the pieces with the savvy of someone whose expertise clearly spans both theater and literature.

The delivery, accompanied by guitar work from Jonathan Harrell, is deft and

stage, each taking a line. It all clips along with no detectable dead air, impressively, even in rehearsal.

In the single poems, the women— particularly Juliet Salazar, Jeni Tincher and Cristina Vigil—coo their poems with swagger and confidence, seduction switching out for repulsion when one or the other is required. A duo piece with Hudson and JoJo Sena de Tarnoff, “Making Tortillas” by poet Alicia Gaspar de Alba, is so evocative we can almost see the metate, the tortillas clapping back and forth between hands, punctuating the words.

The poems that are acted out, like Gloria Anzaldúa’s “El Sonovabitche” or “How I Changed the War and Won the Game” by Mary Helen Ponce, lend themselves easily to characters and blocking; the poems tell a story and even offer props in their descriptive verse.

The most effective places where poems are acted out, however, are those in which Hudson and the cast competently take more vague literary structures and create tableaus with less guidance from the poet.

A striking example was a grouping of selections from Each and Her, a book of poems by Albuquerque resident and former Santa Fe Poet Laureate Valerie Martínez. Martínez explores femicide on the border, particularly in Juárez, and one selection chosen for Atravesada describes women riding a bus home from the maquiladoras at which they

work. The actresses, crowding together on four wooden blocks onstage, exude exhaustion. The cramped scene—women sleeping, women thinking, women sad or dreaming—gently tosses back and forth in unspoken synchronicity, evoking the movement of a rickety bus. Martínez’ poetry can be sparse and challenging, but here, her tight verse plays out as accessibly as a scene from a film.

The question of who “belongs” on the border is an old and complicated one, of course. When you consider the new conquerors in this region appeared in the 1500s, what can a white girl like me, est. 2003, possibly understand about belonging? When you want to celebrate heartily, as in the piece at this show’s climax—a swirling ensemble braying of “You Bring Out the Mexican In Me” by Sandra Cisneros—but can’t crow about dancing with the rooster-footed devil without reflecting on colonization, what does that say about belonging? Anglo people can feel a deep belonging here— but is that trumped by the belonging of Hispanx and Latinx people, and is that then trumped by the belonging of Indigenous people? Is there a hierarchy?

Is it that simple? Could the lines possibly be that clear?

I later picked Hudson’s brain about this via email; she, agreeing with me that this is the stuff of dissertations rather than thumb-typed missives, nonetheless replied: “All the poets ... are Chican@s— they are mestizas. They are metaphorical, bodily borderlands. They have, as Anzaldúa says, lineage that is ‘Hispana, India, negra, Española’ and ‘gabacha’—yet they are not exactly any of those ‘races,’ being a hybrid therein. Speaking in terms of blood quantum, they are all indigenous.”

When Paola Vengoechea Martini recited a poem in Spanish, I was transfixed.

At the actual performance, the translation of the Spanish poems will be projected on a screen, but at this rehearsal it was not. Even after eight years of public school Spanish classes, I could only listen to the sounds. The very last line comes like a punchline; from the wings, I heard other actors giggle in a cascade. But I didn’t know what they were laughing at.

Atravesada let me in on a secret—only, I don’t speak the language. But rather than feeling shut out, I’m intrigued. I’m hungry, and I’m humbled to have been invited to the table.

ATRAVESADA: POETRY OF THE BORDER The actors of Atravesada, led by Alix Hudson, take poetry from the borderlands of the US and Mexico and turn it into cinematic theater. Here, selections from Valerie Martínez’ Each and Her.

7 pm Thursdays-Saturdays Jan. 18-27; 2 pm Sundays Jan. 21 and 28.

All performances pay-what-you-wish.

Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601

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THE CALENDAR SOUTHWEST SEMINARS: KEVIN RED STAR: VISUAL HISTORIAN OF CROW CULTURE Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Artist Red Star (Crow), photographer Kitty Leaken and author Daniel Gibson discuss the formidable role Red Star has played in the preservation of his tribe's culture as part of the Ancient Sites and Ancient Stories lecture series.

6 pm, $15

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EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Draft Station Santa Fe Arcade, 60 E San Francisco St., 983-6443 Stellar quiz results can win you drink tickets for next time. Isabel is your host, and she's wicked smaht.

7 pm, free THE SANTA FE HARMONIZERS REHEARSAL Zia United Methodist Church 3368 Governor Miles Road, 471-0997 Have you been itching to start singing again? The local choral group invites anyone who can carry a tune to its weekly rehearsals. Directed by Maurice Shepard, join in on any of the four-part harmony parts (tenor, lead, baritone or bass). For more information, call Lynda Gomez (310-0224) or Bill Clyde (424-9042).

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

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

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

6:30 pm, free JESSICA LEA MAYFIELD Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Complex, confessional and raw music from a woman born and raised in the church of bluegrass, discovered by a member of the rock band The Black Keys and launched into a modern-mountain garagestyle career full of candor and with no filter (see SFR Picks, page 19).

8 pm, $14-$17 MELLOW MONDAYS Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Continue the weekend chill with DJ Sato.

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MICHAEL UMPHREY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6:30 pm, free SANTA FE GREAT BIG JAZZ BAND Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 True to its name, enjoy the huge sounds of this 16-piece jazz ensemble.

7 pm, free

WORKSHOP PLANNING FOR A STELLAR 2018 Montezuma Lodge 431 Paseo de Peralta, 670-3068 The Transition Network, a group for professional women 50 and forward, presents a workshop on looking at your deepest values and intentions, seeing what really fits you, and setting up guidelines to lead a satisfying life.

5:45 pm, $5

TUE/23 BOOKS/LECTURES BROWN BAG TALK: PUEBLO REVOLT AND REVIVAL: A VIEW FROM SANTA FE The Center for New Mexico Archaeology 7 Old Cochiti Road, 476-4448 Stephen Post (former deputy director of the office of archaeological studies and current OAS research associate) explores the speculative location of a walled adobe pueblo built by villagers from Galisteo, Tesuque and Cochiti Pueblos after the expulsion of the Spanish in August of 1680. This talk presents a new model of the pueblo, conceived within the context of current archaeological research themes and the Pueblo Revolt and its consequences.

Noon-1 pm, free PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Santa Fe Public Library LaFarge Branch 1730 Llano St., 955-4860 Get yourself and your kid out of the house and see other real live humans. Libraries are basically the best places on the planet for families. We grew up in libraries, and look at us! We came out just fine!

10:30 am, free

DANCE ARGENTINE TANGO MILONGA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Put on your dancing shoes and join in—or, if you’re clumsy, just watch people who know what they're doing.

(Clumsy isn’t a bad thing, by the way. Clumsy people are regularly the stars of slapstick scenes set in china shops. For better or for worse...)

7:30 pm, $5

LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Guess what? Ballet can be pretty damn funny. Dancing the fine line between high art and high camp, the New Yorkbased and internationally beloved "Trocks," an all-male troupe—yes, we’re talking drag ballet—wittily parody ultra-feminine en pointe dance classics, complete with tutus. Think Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and more, all danced with incredible technical precision and with a hefty sense of humor. It's a buoyant and hilarious evening for dance aficionados and complete novices alike. Presented by the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet.

7:30 pm, $54-$94

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 This quiz can win you drink tickets for next time. As ever, it's hosted by the kindly Kevin A. Don’t yell out the answers tho, ‘cause he’ll get mad.

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8 pm, free METTA REFUGE COUNCIL Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 A gathering for people who are struggling with illness and loss in a variety of its forms, and an opportunity for the sharing of life experiences in a setting of compassion and confidentiality.

10:30 am, free

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

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

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

7 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND BOB FINNIE Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards, classical and Broadway tunes on piano from Doug at 6 pm, then Bob takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free MICHAEL UMPHREY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

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Turning Cuba Fe Fusion Home Cooking noodles around ramen concept was a no-brainer. “In the wintertime we can introduce the ramen noodles and the timing would be good, because everyone loves soup in the winter,” he says.

I slurped up two bowls of spicy, semifirm noodles replete with the veggie garnishes and sliced spinach cooked into the broth alongside the noodles and meats. I was skeptical at first as the texture of the broth seemed less fatty than I expected, but it ended up blowing me away. It was fragrant and delicious, the noodles were

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had wanted to review the new ramen menu at Cuba Fe Fusion Home Cooking (1406 Third St., 204-4221) for a while, but working a 9-to-5 made it next to impossible to ever walk in the door, which is only open Wednesday through Saturday, from 11 am to 3 pm (and, formerly cash-only, they now accept credit cards). Luckily, takeout options are available, and I made do with a large container packed with two pints of ramen alongside bean sprouts, mushroom, carrot and lime.

There is something about ramen, even in takeout form, that warms the heart. After all, it is the drunk comfort food of choice everywhere from Japan to South Korea, from New York to Portland—and I wish there were a ramen joint in Santa Fe that served late, because I would probably never leave—so I might actually take off work at some point to eat at Cuba Fe in person. The ramen was just that good.

I spoke to co-owner Robert McCormick (he shares the business with David Michael Tardy) on the phone and he exuded a bright, excited energy.

“We opened up the restaurant in April, and when we opened it, we knew that we wanted to do the Cuban food, but we wanted to integrate other countries’ cuisines,” he says. “We’re artists, we wanted to think outside the box, we didn’t want to do the standard— it wasn’t a conscious move, but we knew we wanted to have a laid-back, homey feel.” McCormick explains that once Mu Du Noodles closed last year, the

perfect and the meat was melt-in-yourmouth soft.

Cuba Fe boasts two veggie-based broths with noodles, either miso or soy, for $10. Chicken or pulled pork can be added for $2 extra; I had the chicken in miso and the pulled pork in soy, and the former ended up being my favorite. Softboiled eggs are also available, and McCormick told me he plans on adding thin slices of strip steak for $5 down the road, and maybe even gyoza, small dumplings that can be steamed or fried.

The noodles, however, were the star feature of the soup, sourced from a Japanese company called Sun Noodle that has small-batch kitchens spread out all over the United States (and caters to some pretty high-end restaurants, from Momofuku Noodle Bar in New York to Daikokuya in Los Angeles). Sun Noodle

A lot of us have been like, “Hey! Where’s all the ramen at?!” Turns out it’s at Cuba Fe.

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uses a water process that originated in Sapporo, arguably the ramen hub of Japan, that involves alkalizing the water to impart the perfect al dente, chewy texture to the noodles. That texture really was what sold it for me—remarkably fresh-tasting while thick and hearty, yet slightly soft and a far cry from the instant version I grew up eating in my poor-college-student days. Not to knock that, though, since there are plenty of wonderful ramen joints devoted to the instant concept. In fact, there is a wide spectrum of ramen spots out there in the world, from the gourmet to the hole-inthe-wall, and it can be hard to judge the first glimmerings of the trend in Santa Fe without knowing what kind of framework to compare it to. But Cuba Fe knows what it wants to be.

“We’re not the Four Seasons,” McCormick says. “We just believe in having the core of our business contribute to the famous art culture in Santa Fe. Food is art.

My life is not about being a Wall Street millionaire, it’s about having my soul be happy while I contribute to the community.”

The pop-up ramen menu at Cuba Fe is a step in the right direction in terms of what can work specifically in our town.

I admire McCormick’s positivity and his willingness to embrace a new sort of restaurant paradigm. Would it be nice to have a local restaurant that only serves ramen? That’s an exciting idea, but given how difficult it is to cultivate a large enough clientele, maybe unrealistic. But a flexible, globally minded lunch spot that serves ramen on the menu with an eye toward other styles of cuisine? Perhaps this concept has the mutability to adapt and evolve without becoming pigeonholed.

Santa Fe is starved for diversity, and even though Cuba Fe is only open for a short window, it is absolutely worth seeking out. It was one of the best things I’ve eaten all week.

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THE CALENDAR NATHAN KALISH Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 If you've ever sat at the bar at Cowgirl and looked behind it at the refrigerator, you probably know Kalish's name —his bumper sticker's there.

If you've ever wondered who the Nashville-based music man is, find out and give a listen to his psychedelic country-Americana with hints of folk and rock. His forthcoming album is titled I Want To Believe, so we’re gonna ask him if he likes The X-Files.

8 pm, free

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

Valentine’s Day is coming up, and if you want to serenade your lover, you should probably test the song in front of an audience first, right?

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

6 pm, free

WORKSHOP INTERMEDIATE EXCEL Santa Fe Business Incubator 3900 Paseo del Sol, 424-1140 Go beyond the basics of spreadsheets in a hands-on class with Pi Luna. Bring a laptop or tablet to class, or let WESST (wesst.org) know if you need to borrow one. To be clear, you should already know your way around Excel if you want to take this; ain’t nobody got time for that.

(Just kidding. They’re real nice. But please know your formulas and functions.)

10 am-12:30 pm, $29

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This is no place for a horse. Ati Maier’s “The Placeless Place” is on view in Contact: Local to Global at the New Mexico Museum of Art.

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

HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 Women in the Arts Selfie Project. Ken Price: Death Shrine.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Daniel McCoy: The Ceaseless Quest for Utopia; New Acquisitions; Desert ArtLAB: Ecologies of Resistance; Connective Tissue: New Approaches to Fiber in Contemporary Native Art. All through Jan.31.

Action Abstraction Redefined.

Through July 27.

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

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MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Frank Buffalo Hyde: I-Witness Culture. Through April 30. Stepping Out: 10,000 Years of Walking the West. Through Sept.

3. Lifeways of the Southern Athabaskans. Through Dec. 31.

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

Through Jan. 21. Negotiate, Navigate, Innovate. Through July 16. Crafting Memory: The Art of Community in Peru. Through March 10, 2019.

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

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

NM MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Shifting Light: Photographic Perspectives. Through Oct. 8. Horizons: People & Place in New Mexican Art. Through Nov. 25. Contact: Local to Global. Through April 29.

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

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

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

Through May 18.

SITE SANTA FE 1606 Paseo De Peralta, 989-1199 Future Shock. Through May 1.

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

Through April 15.

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How hopeful for our future that Hollywood produced a prequel that’s not fiction about a galaxy far, far away. Released 42 years after Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman won hearts for journalism on the big screen, The Post is what happened just before All the President’s Men—the story of the story that finally took United States troops out of Vietnam.

At its locus is Daniel Ellsberg (Matthew Rhys), who you could think of the Edward Snowden of the analog era. The sheer mechanics of his leaking thousands of pages of top-secret Pentagon files to the New York Times required months of late-night copy sessions on a machine half the size of a Volkswagen. (From typewriters to rotary phones, hot lead setters and the printing press, it’s a kick to watch the machines in the movie—all thrummed along by an emotional score from John Williams.)

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When the paper was halfway through a frontpage series, a judge enjoined the Times against printing any more about the top-secret documents, and the competing Post got in on the story. Director Steven Spielberg focuses on the evolution of publisher Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep) at the side of pirate editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) as they navigate the choppy waters that ensue.

Streep’s Graham is more heroine in our book than Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman, and we’d make the argument that her courage as the head of her father’s newspaper, a woman in a man’s world, is a bigger stride for feminism than swordfighting in a skirt. It’s her newspaper now. (Or it was,

until it went public—and now, um, Amazon has it or something, but that’s another story.) Hanks brings to Bradlee the gravely voice and straightfrom-the-newsroom aggression that the editor was known for, and Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul) is a treasure as tenacious reporter Ben Bagdikian. We can’t wait to hear some of these iconic lines again.

THE POST Directed by Spielberg With Streep, Hanks and Odenkirk Regal, Violet Crown, PG-14, 116 min.

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Margot Robbie proves her skills in the funny (but also super messed-up) I, Tonya.

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Who among us doesn’t recall when figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed in the ’90s and the whole wide world implicated rival Tonya Harding? Chances are, the way it really went down is nothing like what you think. It was, in fact, so much stupider than one could possibly imagine, but with Suicide Squad‘s Margot Robbie leading the charge in I, Tonya from director Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl), we do get an inside glimpse at Harding and her outliers, ultimately gaining much-needed perspective toward a sympathetic figure who was more tragic victim of circumstance than maniacal villain.

Robbie completely dominates as Harding, an abused and disadvantaged skater with stars in her eyes and just enough terrible hangers-on to make it all impossible. Whether skating was her own dream or one thrust upon her remains unclear, but as the first US athlete to pull off the mind-bogglingly difficult triple axel jump, she clearly had talent. Still, it was either unappreciated by snobby professional figure skating entities or squandered by her ruthless, self-interested mother (played brilliantly by recent Golden Globe winner Allison Janney) and abusive hus-

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band Jeff Gillooly (Sebastian Stan). According to the film, if Harding’s mother wasn’t hitting her, her husband was and, all the while, poverty prevented her from being presentable in the eyes of judges.

Things get pretty rough, but Robbie’s performance perfectly defines a flawed anti-heroine for whom things might have worked out so differently if not for her hot-headed temper and pisspoor relationships. We get the things out of her control almost immediately, and we really do feel for her—especially upon learning it was Gillooly’s thick-headed pal/Harding’s bodyguard, Shawn, who had planned and executed the incident.

This isn’t to say, however, that I, Tonya isn’t also very funny at times. Super Troopers’ Paul Walter Hauser sneaks up on you as the idiotic Shawn, and Julianne Nicholson (Black Mass) has an understated excellence as Harding’s coach and more positive maternal figure. Still, it’s Robbie who makes the film worth watching, even if its faux-documentary style errs a little more toward Ferris Bueller than Goodfellas. She showcases a natural depth and emotional access heretofore unseen from the relative rookie, and it couldn’t have been easy to make an audience root for a figure once so hated. All the same, at this point, Robbie could probably do whatever she felt like. We’d line up to see it. (Alex De Vore) Violet Crown, R, 120 min.

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The Midnight Man: part A Nightmare on Elm Street, part Jumanji.

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IFC continues to fund second-tier horror movies (like that one SFR recently reviewed called Devil’s Gate), but may have finally stumbled upon something not entirely terrible with The Midnight Man. Like an amalgam of nouveau horror tropes pulled from films like The Ring, A Nightmare on Elm Street and the original Jumanji (y’heard us), The Midnight Man becomes part teenaged slasher flick, part supernatural thriller and part mystery, and it’s actually a fairly fun little romp.

When young Alex (horror mainstay Gabrielle Haugh) must stay with her grandmother Anna (played by Lin Shaye, who most will probably remember as the gross landlady Woody Harrelson must bed in the 1996 comedy Kingpin) for … some reason … and stumbles upon a seemingly homemade game with her platonic bud Miles (Grayson Gabriel), the pair decides it might be cool to play. Turns out, though, that it’s the workings of some ancient pagan demon who can fully make you live your worst fears before he straight-up punches your face clean

off. Ruh-roh. Meanwhile, a spooky doctor who probably knows more than he’s letting on (Robert Englund, aka Freddie Krueger) and Alex’s grandma just keep making things worse while the Midnight Man himself pops in, manifesting horrible visions of brutal death.

OK, so it’s a little goofy, and we’d point out that a great rule of horror is to never show the monster unless it’s completely horrifying (2013’s Mama being a pretty apt example of when it’s a good plan to reveal)—advice this movie sidesteps almost immediately—but The Midnight Man winds up being not so bad. There are a few twists you didn’t see coming, some pretty cool CGI that really sells the atmosphere and the cinematography is surprisingly excellent. Not too shabby for a relative newcomer director like Travis Zariwny, who previously was a camera department guy for movies like Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

See this thing at night and take your friends, because it’s just jump-scary enough to be fun and just silly enough to be enjoyed. By no means should anyone expect a new era in horror, but we can all but guarantee you’ll have a good time. (ADV) Jean Cocteau Cinema, NR, 95 min.

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- NICOLAS CAGE IN A MISFITS T-SHIRT

Come for the soundtrack, the cherry Trans Am, Selma Blair’s deft handling of a shiny meat tenderizer and the modernized upside-down allegory about the most natural love in the world: Parents’ for their children. Stay for the deranged Lance Henriksen cameo (we’ve come a long way from his muted portrayal of Bishop in the Alien films), the nifty visual of how Facebook has infected teenagers’ souls, and Nicolas Cage’s brief but torrid affair with a billiards table of his own making.

The latest from writer/director Brian Taylor (Crank, Gamer), Mom and Dad is a fucked-up film premised thusly: Some unknown force has reversed the parental instinct and sent out-oftheir-minds hordes of folks into schools, streets and kitchens to murder their children (at one point, a newscaster describing the horrors over the radio intones that “we are under attack,” though she does not say by what). Before any of that, we meet two privileged 14-year-old girls (Anne Winters and Olivia Crocicchia) as they plan to do the sex and the drugs with their boyfriends after another day of drudgery, school, and once-cool, now-overbearing parents’ constraints. It’s easy to see why these girls’ moms and dads might want to end them.

Cage is Cage, only pretty much on full blast from stem to stern this time around. It’s too much, even for this gory romp. But Blair (Cruel Intentions, Mothers and Daughters) sells it for real, mixing actual human depth in the twin struggles of aging and parenting with the near-slapstick hunger to kill woven throughout.

The movie is paced and shot to jar, but it feels a little too stitched-together in spots—a poor man’s stop-motion, look-at-me neck-whipper that falls short of, say, Requiem For a Dream.

There are, however, moments of true harrow.

Among them: One of the most disturbing scenes we’ve ever encountered, set to Roxette’s 1987 classic, “It Must Have Been Love.” If you can stomach ultra-violence in a movie you’re supposed to laugh at, this’ll do the trick. Also, don’t kill your kids; that’s a felony crime. (Jeff Proctor) The Screen, R, 123 min.

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If Mary and the Witch’s Flower, the breakout animated film from recently formed Japanese animation outfit Studio Ponoc, seems immediately recognizable, that could be because

According to our reviewer, Mom and Dad is “fucked up.” That means you should see it.

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many from Ponoc are former Ghibli people. Further, the overall narrative and setup are awfully familiar—young, seemingly incapable girl thrust into extraordinary and magical circumstances works it out on her own—with hints of Miyazaki classics like Castle in the Sky, Kiki’s Delivery Service and Spirited Away. Director Hiromasa Yonebayashi even went so far as to voice hesitations over those inevitable comparisons in an interview for The Verge in late 2017, but obviously the film was made all the same and it’s fine. Just fine.

Based on Mary Stewart’s 1971 book, The Little Broomstick, Mary and the Witch’s Flower follows a clever young girl named Mary (duh) who unwittingly winds up enrolled in a school for witches and warlocks. But when she uncovers the dubious methods of its headmistress and top teacher, Mary discovers strength she didn’t know she had and sets about foiling their nefarious plot. There’s something in there about how one had the courage they needed all along, but the real draw here is in both the utter weirdness and the gorgeous animation.

Character and world designs are undoubtedly Ghibli-esque, but this is hardly a bad thing

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Still bummed about Miyazaki’s retirement even though he’ll probably make another film soon? Studio Ponoc’s Mary and the Witch’s Flower oughta ease the pain.

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woman alive. From her beginnings starring in underground Austrian erotica to disastrous marriages with everyone from Nazi-sympathizing munitions manufacturers to philandering screenwriters, Lamarr’s was not always a charmed life. Through a once-lost phone interview with a Forbes reporter from the ’90s, we glean that Lamarr perhaps resented superficial stardom and family life, inventing in her free time and navigating a world that seemed more than prepared to use her at every turn.

Ultimately, Bombshell provides a message of hope—not least of which for a greater appreciation of Lamarr’s intelligence—with interviews from historians, family members, friends and fans. Like the consummate “don’t judge a book” lesson or fascinating underdog story, Bombshell sidesteps expectations almost always, shining a light on the seedy underbelly of Hollywood’s star factory and never canonizing its subject; Lamarr was far from perfect, and we see some of her darkest days, but we gain new understanding for her contributions to humanity, many of which define our society to this day. That’s the type of thing everyone ought to know. (ADV) Center for Contemporary Arts, NR, 90 min.

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By 1940, the outlook of WWII was bleaker than ever as German U-boats decimated military and civilian ships at sea. The allies struggled to adapt at home and abroad, but an unlikely inventor set about solving the problem from Hollywood: actress Hedy Lamarr. Alongside avant-garde composer George Antheil, Lamarr devised a method for wirelessly controlling torpedoes via radio wave called frequency hopping, which would have allowed then unheard-of control over the explosives by communicating between rapidly alternating radio frequencies, thereby circumventing enemy attempts to jam transmissions. It was a low-key brilliant deduction that was unfortunately never used by the US Navy, but it does have myriad practical applications today (do you like wi-fi, GPS and shuttle launches?) and raises a rather interesting point: Lamarr was a straight genius who was often underestimated because of her staggering beauty.

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Regardless, the pacing feels off and the interplay between characters is almost always rushed. It’s hard to tell whether or not the school officials wish to do Mary harm, and even big-name performances from Kate Winslet and Jim Broadbent can’t work around that. It’s possible that the film’s transition to a new intended audience (American children) caused darker themes to be lost, but it’s hard to get a sense of motivation for anyone outside of “They do the things they do because they’re just those kinds of people.”

Kids, however, will love this movie. It’s cute and fun and speaks to what young people can accomplish if they’re given a chance to work things out on their own. Just don’t expect as timeless a tale as Miyazaki has created—he is, after all, the master—and prepare yourself to have unanswered questions by the uplifting end. (ADV) Center for Contemporary Arts, PG, 102 min.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Many American women did not have the right to vote until August 18, 1920. On that day, the Tennessee General Assembly became the 36th state legislature to approve the Nineteenth Amendment, thus sealing the legal requirements to change the U.S. Constitution and ensure women’s suffrage. The ballot in Tennessee was close. At the last minute, 24-year-old legislator Harry T. Burns changed his mind from no to yes, thanks to a letter from his mother, who asked him to “be a good boy” and vote in favor. I suspect that in the coming weeks, Aries, you will be in a pivotal position not unlike Burns’. Your decision could affect more people than you know. Be a good boy or good girl.

important reasons why I say this: Your brain would be inclined to keep the conflict going until one party or the other suffers ignominious defeat, whereas your heart is much more likely to work toward a win-win conclusion.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When he was 24 years old, Scorpio-born Zhu Yuanzhang (1328-1398) was a novice monk with little money who had just learned to read and write. He had spent years as a wandering beggar. By the time he was 40 years old, he was the emperor of China and founder of the Ming Dynasty, which ruled for 276 years. What happened in between?

That’s a long story. Zhu’s adventurousness was a key asset, and so was his ability as an audacious and crafty tactician. His masterful devotion to detailed practical TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the coming weeks, matters was also indispensable. If you are ever in your Destiny will be calling you and calling you and calling life going to begin an ascent even remotely comparable you, inviting you to answer its summons. If you do indeed answer, it will provide you with clear instructions to Zhu’s, Scorpio, it will be in the coming ten months. about what you will need to do expedite your ass in the Being brave and enterprising won’t be enough. You direction of the future. If on the other hand you refuse to must be disciplined and dogged, as well. listen to Destiny’s call, or hear it and refuse to respond, SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1892, the influenthen Destiny will take a different tack. It won’t provide tial Atlantic Monthly magazine criticized Sagittarian any instructions, but will simply yank your ass in the poet Emily Dickinson, saying she “possessed an direction of the future. extremely unconventional and grotesque fancy.” It dismissed her poetry as incoherent, and declared that an GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Looks like the Season of a Thousand and One Emotions hasn’t drained and frazzled “eccentric, dreamy, half-educated recluse” like her you. Yes, there may be a pool of tears next to your bed. “cannot with impunity set at defiance the laws of gravitation and grammar.” This dire diss turned out to be Your altar might be filled with heaps of ashes, marking your burnt offerings. But you have somehow managed to laughably wrong. Dickinson is now regarded as one of the most original American poets. I offer this story up extract a host of useful lessons from your tests and trias a pep talk for you, Sagittarius. In the coming als. You have surprised yourself with the resilience and months, I suspect you’ll be reinventing yourself. You’ll resourcefulness you’ve been able to summon. And so the energy you’ve gained through these gritty triumphs be researching new approaches to living your life. In the course of these experiments, others may see you is well worth the price you’ve had to pay. as being in the grip of unconventional or grotesque CANCER (June 21-July 22): Every relationship is fantasy. They may consider you dreamy and eccentric. unique. The way you connect with another person— I hope you won’t allow their misunderstandings to whether it’s through friendship, romance, family, or interfere with your playful yet serious work. collaborative projects—should be free to find the disCAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Bubble gum is more tinctive identity that best suits its special chemistry. elastic and less sticky than regular chewing gum.

Therefore, it’s a mistake to compare any of your alliances to some supposedly perfect ideal. Luckily, you’re That’s why you can blow bubbles with it. A Capricorn accountant named Walter Diemer invented it in 1928 in an astrological period when you have extra savvy while working for the Fleer Chewing Gum Company. At about cultivating unique models of togetherness. So I the time he finally perfected the recipe, the only food recommend that you devote the coming weeks to dye he had on hand was pink. His early batches were deepening and refining your most important bonds. all that color, and a tradition was born. That’s why even LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): During recent weeks, your main today, most bubble gum is pink. I suspect a similar tasks have centered around themes often associated with theme may unfold soon in your life. The conditions strain and struggle: repair, workaround, reassessment, present at the beginning of a new project may deeply jury-rigging, adjustment, compromise. Amazingly, Leo, imprint the future evolution of the project. So try to you have kept your suffering to a minimum as you have make sure those are conditions you like! smartly done your hard work. In some cases you have even thrived. Congratulations on being so industrious and AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “When one door closes, steadfast! Beginning soon, you will glide into a smoother another opens,” said inventor Alexander Graham Bell.

“But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the stage of your cycle. Be alert for the inviting signs. Don’t closed door that we do not see the one which has assume you’ve got to keep grunting and grinding. opened.” Heed his advice, Aquarius. Take the time you VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Norwegian artist Edvard need to mourn the lost opportunity. But don’t take MORE Munch (1863-1944) created four versions of his iconic than the time you need. The replacement or alternative to artwork The Scream. Each depicts a person who seems what’s gone will show up sooner than you think. terribly upset, holding his head in his hands and openPISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Gilbert Stuart painted the ing his mouth wide as if unleashing a loud shriek. In most famous portrait of America’s first president, George 2012, one of these images of despair was sold for Washington. It’s the image on the U.S. one-dollar bill. And almost $120 million. The money went to the son of a yet Stuart never finished the masterpiece. Begun in 1796, man who had been Munch’s friend and patron. Can it was still a work-in-progress when Stuart died in 1828. you think of a way that you and yours might also be Leonardo da Vinci had a similar type of success. His able to extract value or get benefits from a negative incomplete painting The Virgin and Child with St. Anne emotion or a difficult experience? The coming weeks hangs in the Louvre in Paris, and his unfinished The will be a favorable time to do just that.

Adoration of the Magi has been in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “I think I like my brain best in a since 1671. I propose that Stuart and da Vinci serve as bar fight with my heart,” says poet Clementine von your role models in the coming weeks. Maybe it’s not Radics. While I appreciate that perspective, I advise you merely OK if a certain project of yours remains unfinto do the opposite in the coming weeks. This will be a ished; maybe that’s actually the preferred outcome. phase of your astrological cycle when you should definiteHomework: Report your favorite graffiti from a ly support your heart over your brain in bar fights, wresbathroom wall. Go to Freewillastrology.com and click tling matches, shadow boxing contests, tugs of war, battles of wits, and messy arguments. Here’s one of the most on “Email Rob.”

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Creditors of the estate must present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or within sixty (60) days after mailing or other delivery, whichever is later, or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented to the Co-Personal Representatives in care of their attorney, Bryan Biedscheid, Sawtell, Wirth & Biedscheid, P.C., 708 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM, 87501, or filed with the First Judicial District Court of Santa Fe County, New Mexico.

Dated January 17, 2018 SAWTELL, WIRTH & BIEDSCHEID, P.C. Attorneys for the Estate of Bernard Pomerance (Alexander Moby Pomerance, Eve Pomerance and John F. Breglio, Co-Personal Representatives) 708 Paseo de Peralta Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 (505) 988-1668 By /s/ Bryan Biedscheid

LEGAL NOTICES ALL OTHERS Region IX Education Cooperative on behalf of the New Mexico Public Education Department’s Indian Education Division seeks to contract with a Native American Talent Scout who will play a significant role in realizing the NMPED’s Indian Education Division’s vision and mission through active recruitment.

They will perform the steps and leadership necessary to build the Native American Educator Pathway program to address the issue of Native American teacher shortage in NM PED’s (23) Nativeserving school districts dispersed across the state of New Mexico. ?For more information and details on submitting interest, please see the posting on our website: https://www.rec9nm.org/ RFP18006

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