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NEWS Texas’ lawsuit against NM over the waters of the Rio Grande heads to the US Supreme Court B Y L A U R A PA S K U S

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rom Colorado to Mexico, communities siphon and spread water from the Rio Grande. For about a century, every drop of that water has been divvied up among cities and farmers. It’s not unusual to stand alongside an irrigation ditch in New Mexico and hear someone complain that too much water is flowing to Texas. But, in fact, Texas stands on solid ground in its lawsuit against New Mexico over the Rio Grande, oral arguments for which are scheduled for January in the US Supreme Court.

If New Mexico loses, southern farmers will take a hit—and so will the state budget.

New Mexico could owe billions of dollars in damages (even “just” a $1 billion fine would mean almost 20 percent the entire state budget), and southern farmers could be forced to curtail groundwater pumping. Already, in just four years, New Mexico has spent about $15 million on the case.

The problem started about 10 years ago when Texas argued that by allowing southern farmers to pump groundwater, which is hydrologically connected to the Rio Grande, New Mexico wasn’t sending enough water downstream. To work things out, the US Bureau of Reclamation, Elephant Butte Irrigation District (EBID) and a Texas irrigation district signed a new water agreement based on sharing during dry times.

But in 2011, then-New Mexico Attorney General Gary King sued the bureau, saying too much water was going to Texas. In 2013, Texas fired back with its own lawsuit.

The dispute highlights one tricky fact about water deliveries to Texas: Under the Rio Grande Compact, signed before World War II, New Mexico doesn’t deliver water across the state line, but to Elephant Butte Reservoir about 100 miles north of Texas.

From there, the Bureau of Reclamation sends Rio Grande Project water to Southern New Mexico, Texas—and Mexico, too.

That means about 60,000 acres of fields and orchards within EBID occupy a liminal space.

“Geographically, we’re located in New Mexico, but we believe for compact purposes, we’re in Texas,” says Samantha Barncastle, attorney for EBID. The New Mexico Office of the State Engineer controls groundwater permits, while surface water comes via the federal Rio Grande Project.

The Bureau of Reclamation also joined the suit against New Mexico, alleging that by allowing farmers to draw water from the river and below ground, the state is allowing people to use more water than they legally should. And it says New Mexico’s diversions interfere with water deliveries to Mexico.

The impact to the state will be farreaching, all the way from the Colorado border south through the Rio Grande Valley.

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EBID also tried—unsuccessfully—to intervene in the Supreme Court case. “It’s hard to not feel unrepresented, though I say that very carefully,” Barncastle says.

“We recognize there are attempts on all sides—by Texas, by New Mexico, by the US—to make sure that the project is protected, to make sure EBID irrigators are protected, and we recognize everybody is trying to balance their own sets of complicated issues.” But, she says, EBID’s farmers are feeling isolated and scared.

In just four years, New Mexico has spent about $15 million on the case and could face billions in fines if it loses in court.

“We know what the consequences could be, but we don’t really know what anybody is asking for at this point in the process,” she says. “We can speculate about how bad the loss could be,” Barncastle says: billions in damages, billions of gallons of lost water, and billions in losses to chile farmers, pecan growers and the rest of the agricultural community. “But we certainly know that the outcome, if we do not control it ourselves, is not what we necessarily will want.”

As usual, the questions that New Mexico Political Report and SFR posed to the state engineer, the state’s top water official, were ignored.

But the attorney general’s office formed a joint defense team earlier this year that includes the Office of the State Engineer, the Interstate Stream Commission and Lower Rio Grande water users, like the City of Las Cruces.

Tania Maestas, deputy attorney general, says attorneys for New Mexico, Texas, the US Bureau of Reclamation and Colorado (also named in the suit) will have 10 and 20 minutes each to argue before the Supreme Court in January.

The court won’t decide the merits of the larger case, she says.

Rather, justices will decide the extent to which the federal government can be a part of the case. Maestas and Attorney General Hector Balderas will go to Washington, DC, she says, but will rely on outside counsel for oral arguments. Those contracted firms include Denver-based Trout Raley, as well as Robles, Rael & Anaya in Albuquerque. Trout Raley is wellknown for its water work, and Bennett Raley is a former assistant secretary for water and science at the US Department of the Interior. Robles, Rael & Anaya is Bal-

deras’ former law firm, and partner Marcus Rael, that firm’s lead attorney on the case, largely focuses on business litigation and government and administrative law.

“The impact to the state will be far-reaching, all the way from the Colorado border south through the Rio Grande Valley,” says Water and Natural Resources Committee Chair Sen. Joseph Cervantes, whose district is inSouthern New Mexico.

“Texas is also demanding a greater delivery of water to the reservoir itself—which is water that is going to have to come from upstream of Elephant Butte.”

If New Mexico is forced to find more water, it will have to be bought or traded from an upstream user. Or, the state will have to find another source, such as groundwater, and pump it into the river channel. That’s what happened after a similar lawsuit New Mexico lost against Texas on the Pecos River.

“Right now, New Mexico is isolated and opposed by the federal government, the state of Texas and the state of Colorado— and those are very formidable adversaries if our strategy is to fight,” says Cervantes, who is also campaigning for governor in the June primary election. “I think a much better course is to have the right people sit across the table and find solutions with our neighboring states.”

Most New Mexicans don’t realize the implications of losing in the high court. “If Texas is demanding, which we’ve been told, a billion dollars—and New Mexico’s entire budget is $6 billion, we are not being very thoughtful if we don’t anticipate what an adverse ruling would mean to the state financially,” he says. “It would be devastating to everything the state does and the entire state budget.”

This story was published jointly by SFR and New Mexico Political Report.

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s the dearth of cell phone and internet service in Northern New Mexico hits headlines again with an announcement from Santa Fe’s mayor of a “communications emergency,” rural residents are still waiting for answers about what happened to federal stimulus money intended to increase connectivity for their communities years ago.

Regardless of the $10.5 million granted by the feds to develop broadband in the region, they’re still behind in terms of speed and accessibility, and now the money granted for infrastructure can’t be entirely accounted for. A joint government agency is undergoing a special audit amid allegations that it mismanaged federal broadband stimulus cash.

In 2010, an agency called the North Central New Mexico Economic Development District received $10.5 million in federal stimulus money to develop broadband infrastructure. The district also collected $2 million in matching funds and contributions from members for the project, then formed a community broadband network called REDI Net that aimed to provide internet service to schools, libraries, colleges, government offices, public utilities and fire departments.

The agency oversaw REDI Net’s finances until 2015, at which time Rio Arriba County took over as fiscal agent.

With 140 miles of new fiber optics in place, Rio Arriba County saw the role of fiscal agent as a substantial investment opportunity. From 2011 to 2013, the county had contributed $700,000 to the REDI Net project. It made sense to step up for the role. But Deputy County Manager David Trujillo told the state auditor that the agency never turned over bookkeeping files that were needed to ensure internet service continued.

Trujillo tells SFR in a recent interview he assumed there would be a smooth transition until his staff couldn’t determine REDI Net’s monthly income or whether service was even provided with certain agreements. Its then-general manager Duncan Sill resigned and could not be reached for comment.

“When you’re looking at this stuff, you don’t know how to proceed,” Trujillo tells SFR, noting the agency did not provide bank statements or invoices, and it appeared from the limited documents it did provide that some contracts weren’t executed or were only in draft form.

One of REDI Net’s cus-

tomers, Black Mesa Wireless LLC, provides internet to homes and businesses from Pojoaque to Dixon, Rinconada and Hernandez to the north. Black Mesa co-owner Brock Tice says he had ongoing billing issues with REDI Net before Rio Arriba County took over as fiscal agent.

He says his checks weren’t credited to his account, resulting in invoices double the amount of what he owed.

“We’re talking thousands of dollars.

It’s not a small check to be deposited and go missing,” he says. Further, when Black Mesa Wireless wanted to change its service level agreement to use more bandwidth, REDI Net was unresponsive.

“It was very disconcerting. We were very dependent on them for our business, so I’m glad it’s moving in a different direction now,” Tice says.

Rio Arriba County stepped into the administrative role for REDI Net before billing issues affected service. The county did an internal audit verifying active customers and balances, but after con-

tinuous requests for documents needed to oversee REDI Net, officials filed an Inspection of Public Records Act request.

Trujillo says the economic development agency ignored the request.

That’s when the county reported to the state auditor. The auditor then notified REDI Net it was out of compliance with the state rules, and ordered the special audit that began six months ago in May. While the independent auditor hired to conduct the audit, Jaramillo Accounting Group, hasn’t found any serious indication of fraud or embezzlement, the agency can’t entirely account for how money was spent, says Kevin Sourisseau, director of special investigations at the Office of the State Auditor. “There’s infrastructure there. The money didn’t go into a black hole, but there’s no list of assets.”

Sourisseau tells SFR the firm’s report should be ready early next year.

The scope of work includes identifying assets, inventories, accounts, contracts and administrative costs. Auditors will also evaluate for compliance with federal, state and local laws on accounting principles. Auditors asked that Tim Armor, executive director of the North Central New Mexico Economic Development District, outline policies and procedures followed in the financial management of REDI Net. Armor tells SFR he’s sure the audit will affirm his agency is in the right, and explains the investment by the feds paid solely for the development of broadband infrastructure.

“We noted that we followed policies and procedures and didn’t make any exceptions to the best of our knowledge,” Armor says. “We’re confident none of the dollars were spent inappropriately, misspent or misdirected.”

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POLICING THE CITY DIFFERENT

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wo men are dead, felled by bullets Santa Fe police officers fired in 2017. In one case, the officer has been cleared of criminal wrongdoing; in the other, the city is now facing a civil rights lawsuit after the SWAT team shot a man who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Questions remain about both deadly encounters.

Santa Fe officers and City Hall have faced harsh criticism—and legal action— for the arrests of eight people who were protesting the Entrada pageant at the annual Fiestas de Santa Fe in September.

Charges against each of the eight have been dropped.

The city’s longstanding policy of keeping secret any information about police officer discipline drew the ire in June of New Mexico’s leading government transparency group, and could be reversed by the state Attorney General.

And a past president of the police union here tells SFR that officer morale is at an “all-time low.” Many rank-andfile cops, he says, are dissatisfied with comparatively low pay, insufficient manpower and what they see as an unfair internal discipline system.

The union itself has seen some disarray: Its outgoing president retired amid an internal affairs investigation after SFR revealed in February racist and violent posts on his Facebook page.

He wasn’t replaced until many-times-rescheduled elections installed new leadership just last week.

The 167-officer Santa Fe Police Department has swerved into some potholes this year, bending axles on controversies old and new. Some mirror difficulties law enforcement agencies across the state and the nation are facing as the spotlight on policing brightens; others are specific to Santa Fe. But there’s still some shine on the SFPD badge, SFR has found.

In less than three months, Santa Fe will elect a new mayor. Three city councilors, an ex-city worker and a deep-pocketed businessman have lined up to replace outgoing Mayor Javier Gonzales, who is running for lieutenant governor. Also departing is Patrick Gal12

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lagher, whom Gonzales named Santa Fe Police Chief in July 2015. Gallagher’s last day is Friday Dec. 15.

That means new leadership at police headquarters on Camino Entrada, too, although the two deputy chiefs—Mario Salbidrez and Andrew Padilla—who will serve as co-interim chiefs through the

early part of 2018, both tell SFR they want the top spot full-time.

Despite 2017’s troubling headlines and intensified scrutiny, defense attorneys, civil rights lawyers, the city’s top prosecutor and immigrants’ rights advocates interviewed for this story say that, by and large, the department is profes-

Deputy Police Chiefs Andrew Padilla (left) and Mario Salbidrez will take over the department as interim co-chiefs this week. Both tell SFR they’re planning to apply for the permanent chief job.

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sional and respectful of Santa Feans’ varied approaches to living.

Some expressed mild concern that the department’s missteps this year and penchant for secrecy could portend a shift toward a more aggressive police culture—the kind that has dogged other departments, including in Albuquerque, where the US Justice Department is forcing sweeping reforms.

But for now, they say, whoever takes the reins will inherit a department whose officers and administrators have embraced new technologies such as body cameras, modern techniques that include moving away from handcuffs and toward treatment for people struggling with drug addiction, and working with other players in the criminal justice system to solve the city’s problems without resorting to the nightstick, the Taser or the rifle.

“They have had some problems this year, for sure, but some of those incidents seem aberrant rather than systemic,” says Mark Donatelli, a longtime, Santa Fe-based civil rights and defense attorney. “The problems over there really seem to have been internecine fighting rather than the big civil rights or corruption problems we’ve seen in other places.”

Sgt. Matt Martinez, past president and current board member of the Santa Fe Police Officers Association, says that—the union’s concerns with unequal discipline and short-staffing aside—he isn’t surprised to hear praise for the department from disparate interests around the city.

“That aspect of the job where we’re helping the community: That part is still working just fine,” he says. “The officers we’ve heard from, some of the joy is being taken out of the job by problems with the command staff, but they love their jobs anyway.”

The department’s two deputy chiefs respond differently to Martinez’ claim of tanking morale: Salbidrez says the former union president doesn’t speak for everyone.

“I think morale is doing well,” he says.

“I think a greater percentage is happy.

I’ve heard it from them themselves.”

Padilla disagrees.

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“Morale is low,” he says flatly. “You speak to the officers and the detectives who are out there doing the shift work … we’ve had our ups and downs here within the police department.”

Indeed.

SFPD has had seven chiefs in the past 15 years. The union passed near-unanimous no-confidence votes against at least two of them: Aric Wheeler and Ray Rael. Then-chief Eric Garcia left abruptly in 2015 after four lieutenants wrote an 11-page memo outlining their grievances against him. The union hasn’t taken such a step against Gallagher, but Martinez says insurgence is boiling against most of the command staff these days.

The internal discipline system, he says, looks the other way when command-level officers break policy, but brings the hammer down on front-line cops for minor offenses.

Both chiefs challenged Martinez to provide specific examples that prove it, saying they weren’t aware of any. Martinez says he has been targeted in a handful of internal investigations, all but one of which was launched after he became involved with the union in 2014.

“I got in it to try to help officers,” he says. “No good deed goes unpunished.”

Martinez declined to discuss specifics of any of his cases, or those of fellow union members, citing the city’s secrecy policy on internal investigations and officer discipline. He and others in the union leadership prefer greater transparency— releasing the outcomes of internal investigations to the public—and he expects that debate to be an issue as newly elected association President Tony Trujillo and Vice President Patrick Trujillo (no relation) take office.

It’s also an issue Attorney General Hector Balderas is weighing after Mayor Gonzales sent him a letter in October requesting clarification on whether the state’s sunshine law allows for such secrecy.

Padilla and Salbidrez say they can see both sides of the argument but, for now, they take their cues from the City Attorney’s Office.

Meanwhile, the number of “operational complaints” from citizens and fellow officers, which range from rudeness to speeding to false arrest, dipped from

Officer Celestino Lopez watches the driver of a soon-to-be-impounded car on a recent snowy morning. Lopez is one of 167 SFPD officers.

50 in 2015 to 38 in 2016 (the most recent information the department would provide). In the vast majority of those cases, the officers were cleared.

Internal Affairs investigations, which often involve more serious allegations, rose from 20 to 30 during those same two years, the department’s figures show.

SFPD did not provide the current status of those cases.

Martinez says that as of mid-November, 24 or 25 Internal Affairs investigations and operational complaints hadn’t been resolved. Some of them date to early

2016. He’d never heard of such an extensive backlog.

“You have to worry about doing your job every day, doing it right, doing it correctly, and you have this IA hanging over your head,” he says. “Some of our officers have applied elsewhere and can’t get jobs because of it. It’s definitely distracting for a police officer.”

The functions of a police department go deeper than internal grievances and officer misconduct.

Padilla and Salbidrez point to what

Officer Jacquaan Matherson, center, jokes with officer Chris Mooney as they wait for a vehicle to be towed. The police union says SFPD officers still enjoy doing their jobs, despite disagreements with department higher-ups.

they call a number of successes and innovations at SFPD the past few years: The creation of an “intelligence unit” that monitors social media and uses mobile cameras in an attempt to address crime— property crime, in particular, which comparatively consumes SFPD’s resources; speed-detecting technology that helps the traffic unit decide where to set up; rejiggering the number of officers on the streets based on when crime occurs; a new narcotics team; and the use of body cameras, which they say have improved transparency and exonerated wrongly accused officers.

“I believe the department is in a lot better shape than it was two and a half years ago,” Salbidrez says.

But the department has 10 vacancies, with 11 cadets in the police academy who aren’t due to hit the streets for another nine months. Even when they do, a handful of retirements will keep the department below where both the union would like to see it—195 or so—and where the chiefs think they could be most effective in serving the community—220 or more.

With a population of about 80,000, Santa Fe has roughly 2.1 officers per 1,000 residents. That’s right in line with the national average and what law enforcement think tanks say approaches ideal.

But SFPD officials cite heavy tourism and commuters that inflate the city’s population as an argument for more cops.

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no fault of their own,” reads a lawsuit filed on behalf of Benavidez’ family. “As a result, officers antagonize mentally disabled suspects, needlessly escalating citizen/officer encounters into unlawful searches, seizures, and arrests instead of engaging in de-escalation techniques.

Then, after creating a dangerous situation for all, officers deploy force, both lethal and not, unnecessarily.”

All SFPD officers receive 40 hours of basic “crisis management” training in the academy, according to the department. SWAT officers receive an additional 40 hours of training in basic crisis negotiations, provided by the FBI. Salbidrez says the department has doubled its trained crisis negotiators this year from four to eight. He says officers aren’t necessarily dealing with more people in the community who are living with mental illness since he started at SFPD in 2004, but that residents and politicians have demanded that police deal with that population differently.

We’re not doctors, so when we need the help, we ask for the help.

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show. That’s up from 97,901 in 2011, and on pace to come up a little short of the 128,654 calls in 2014, a peak year.

The deputy chiefs touted short response times—the time from when a call comes in until an officer arrives on scene—that SFPD has maintained through the years. Santa Fe compares well to New Mexico cities such as Albuquerque and Las Cruces, although the chiefs acknowledge flaws in the department’s tracking system.

For the most serious calls, in which someone’s life is in danger, officers arrived on average in seven minutes, 42 seconds in 2011. That figure slipped down to roughly five minutes in 2014, but has ticked back up to 7:13 this year. For less serious calls, the average response time has been between eight and 12 minutes.

Those numbers are down significantly from 2011, but about the same as last year.

Another success, the two chiefs say, has been the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion, or LEAD, program. Launched in 2014, its aim is to help people struggling with drug addiction get help rather than a rap sheet.

“We recognize that we can’t arrest our way out of every problem,” Salbidrez says.

But other mental health issues in the community have led to problems that are certain to persist under the new administration next spring and beyond.

In July, SFPD officers Jeremy Bisagna and Luke Wakefield shot and killed Anthony Benavidez, 24, after the SWAT team was called to an apartment in which Benavidez had barricaded himself after wounding a social worker with a knife. Minutes before emptying his 16-bullet magazine into the apartment and Benavidez’ body, Bisagna appeared to turn off his body camera.

“Too few [SFPD] officers are trained to identify and interact with citizens afflicted by mental illness who are unable to comply with officer commands through

Officer Chris Mooney directs traffic on in an eastside neighborhood after an attempted suicide.

One thing union officials and command staff agree on: SFPD needs more cops.

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“We’re not doctors, so when we need the help, we ask for the help,” he says.

Salbidrez declines to comment on the Benavidez shooting case, citing the lawsuit, but says he doesn’t see his department tilting toward a more aggressive approach. However, he says, it’s the chief’s job to educate City Hall about which of the city’s problems police are trained to solve.

Praise for the department doesn’t just come from the deputy chief or others with institutional pride. Allegra Love, the Santa Fe-based attorney who works mostly on immigration issues, says the department has been an ally in upholding the city’s sanctuary policies. She’d like to see that continue.

“It can only be improved, but we would obviously like to see that relationship continue—the relationship between the immigrant population, and immigration lawyers, and the police department,” Love says, adding that she hopes city officials continue their refusal to use local police resources to aid in federal immigration enforcement.

Morgan Wood, district defender in Santa Fe for the Law Office of the Public Defender, tells SFR that, for the most part, city police officers have been “good ambassadors for our town and less aggressive than officers in other parts of the state.”

Wood, who has been in her job two years, says she hasn’t heard many complaints from clients about officers roughing them up or treating them unfairly.

“There are always going to be a few officers you have to keep your eye on, but that’s really been the exception,” she says.

Bennett Baur, the state’s chief public defender and Wood’s predecessor in Santa Fe, said SFPD has been open to alternative approaches to law enforcement. He cited the LEAD program and open communication lines.

“It’s one of the few departments in the state where we can reach out to the

administration and get a meeting,” Baur says. “That doesn’t mean it’s perfect or that they’re always going to accept other ideas. But they’re willing to be challenged.”

Wood says she hopes the department will remain open and collaborative, regardless of who wins the mayor’s race or takes over SFPD. So does First Judicial District Attorney Marco Serna. He tells SFR that his first year in office has been marked by a solid working relationship with the police department. And the vast majority of cases city officers turn over for prosecution are complete, Serna says, which makes his prosecutors’ jobs easier.

“Especially with the felonies, they’ll typically call our office to go over the law in advance,” he says. “The same with search warrants and arrest warrants. Like anything else and with any team, there are disagreements sometimes, and sometimes we decline to prosecute because we just don’t see it. But that’s definitely not widespread.”

The DA says that if he could advance one aspect of the relationship, it would be that the new chief “goes all-in with LEAD.” Gallagher, the outgoing chief, was an early skeptic of the program and did not always agree that it had the kind of potential Serna and others saw. The competing philosophies created some minor friction between the two, Serna says.

He would also prefer the next chief be “someone local, someone who has been here long enough to have seen the changes in our criminal justice system, someone who understands the drug problem and has seen everything that hasn’t worked in the past.”

Salbidrez says he wants that someone local to be him, saying he, his wife, three daughters, and his brothers and sisters all live in Santa Fe. “I consider it my department—I’m a part of this community,” he says.

Padilla wants the job, too. “This is a great department,” he says. “I feel I have the support of the police officers. I’ve worked with them, I have no hidden agendas or groups or ties to anyone. I’m here for the city of Santa Fe and the officers that are here.”

Donatelli, the civil rights lawyer, didn’t express a preference. But he has some cautious optimism for the future of SFPD. “A transition is always a time to be a little bit nervous,” he says. “But better to be transitioning from what we have in Santa Fe now than from what they have in Albuquerque now.”

SFR Staff Writer Aaron Cantú contributed reporting.

Goodbye, Gallagher An exit interview with the chief of police

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Patrick Gallagher’s last day as chief of the Santa Fe Police Department is this Friday Dec. 15. He’ll take the same job in Las Cruces in a month.

“It’s been an honor to be the chief; I had a great run,” he tells SFR when asked to review his nearly two and a half years in the top job of the capital city force. “I met some great people, and there are tremendous police officers in the city. The people of Santa Fe should know that they have a very good and very competent police department.”

Gallagher, who served on the New York City police force for most of his nearly 30-year police career, says that while he’s proud of the job he did, he had hoped to make more of a “positive impact” on reducing property crimes in Santa Fe, particularly auto and residential burglaries.

He doesn’t seem to have major regrets about other events he oversaw that received blowback from Santa Feans, though. The ACLU, for example, is planning to file a lawsuit against the city after police allegedly violated some people’s civil rights when eight were arrested in September for protesting against the annual Entrada pageant. Charges were later dropped.

“I’m thankful nobody was injured. I have no problem with what was done,” he tells SFR in an interview during his last weeks on the job. “The fact that there was a lot of tension between the two groups the year before. … We knew we needed to keep those groups apart. So I stand by that decision.”

He also demurs when asked if the police department is lacking in crisis intervention training for interacting with mental illness, an issue that went front-and-center with a fatal police shooting this year. Gallagher says police “can always use more training” when it comes to vulnerable populations.

“Society in general has to find a way to stop or at least lessen the amount of times police officers are

forced to deal with these problems,” he says. “There’s got to be a way at the state and federal level to divert them somehow, to divert that problem away from having to deal with law enforcement.”

Under his tenure, Gallagher says, SFPD started a special enforcement team consisting of five cops who “go out to areas that have been hard-hit by automobile burglaries and residential burglaries, which thankfully are decreasing this year.” He says many of these crimes are committed by the same handful of people, which was a reason policymakers cited for creating the city’s Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion program.

Gallagher admits that he was initially skeptical of the LEAD program, which seeks to deliver people arrested for low-level crimes to addiction and social services rather than the courts, but warmed up to it eventually after a preliminary cost-benefit analysis from the city found that it reduced recidivism and costs. He hopes to bring a version of LEAD to Las Cruces.

Gallagher says the LEAD program suffered a bit after the departure of now-retired SFPD Capt.

Jerome Sanchez, an enthusiastic proponent of the program. But now, Gallagher says, SFPD “has a new lieutenant who kind of took it over and is again selling it to the officers,” some of whom still need convincing on the program’s merits.

It’s difficult to get a complete picture of crime around the city, Gallagher says, because the police department’s antiquated records management system doesn’t keep an accurate account of service calls from the areas of the city annexed from the county in recent years— though he says the city has plans to update the system.

His move to Las Cruces was convenient for a number of reasons: He has been an at-will employee under Mayor Javier Gonzales, and had no guarantee of a job here around the time the position in Las Cruces

opened up. It’s also where his wife’s family lives.

What about transparency? Gallagher isn’t very enthusiastic about making officers’ disciplinary records public, as other departments in New Mexico do. Mayor Javier Gonzales recently sent a letter to Attorney General Hector Balderas asking for clarity on how to read the statute governing the matter.

“We’re having a tough enough recruiting problem already,” he says. “I understand that the public has a right to know certain things.

If an officer gets disciplined for having an argument with his wife, that might be very embarrassing to the whole family. Should it be frontpage news?”

In fact, SFR has heard from rankand-file officers that several of them actually support greater transparency. They allege that SFPD leadership goes light on command-level officers while street cops are disciplined harshly, and that the secrecy policy is meant to sink the whole ship so the bosses can swim.

Gallagher acknowledged that factionalism exists within SFPD. He says it may be wiser for the next chief to come from outside the department.

“If it’s a new chief, it’s somebody from the outside without those ties; he or she won’t have that problem.

If it’s somebody from the inside, they might have to run into that problem,” he says. “Because there’s always that perception that people have, that, ‘Oh, he’s just gonna be one of the gang, he’s gonna protect his guys.’ That’s something that can be dealt with. To sit in this chair, to have favorites, to do that—you won’t last long, that’s for sure.”

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stopped eating red meat and poultry as a teenager. I occasionally eat fish but primarily have a vegetarian diet.

This makes perusing a menu quick work because I know what I do and don’t eat—at least until this week, when I was faced with the question: Do I eat insects?

My vegetarianism is mostly grounded in decades of habit, so I found myself floundering for an ethical framework. Basically, I don’t eat anything I might want to pet or name, and thus far have yet to want to do either with insects. I do have, though, a benign relationship with bugs. I relocate spiders, avoid stepping on ants, reposition beetles stuck on their backs and, on at least one occasion, cooed the sentence, “Oh look! It’s a little baby,” when I saw a small slug oozing away from a larger, possibly parental slug.

The occasion for the My Life with Bugs reverie was a Dec. 6 Digest This event at SITE Santa Fe, a series on the first Wednesday of the month at which culinary experts join with other speakers to discuss ideas connected primarily to SITE’s

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The kickoff event featured chef Fernando Olea, who provided baby grasshopper taquitos (Oaxaqueños, which he serves at his restaurant, Sazón) and presented a tray of other edible insects he plans to incorporate into his menu, including weaver ants, zebra tarantulas and Manchurian scorpions. Olea explained that his menu acknowledges the custom of eating insects in Oaxaca, Mexico, a tradition dating back to the Aztecs. “It’s part of my culture,” he said. Resistance to eating insects, he told me, is basically in one’s head. “The mind is the one that controls all our senses.”

While eating bugs is a culinary convention for many cultures, it’s also touted as a potential food source for the earth’s burgeoning population.

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The growing human population and concomitant issues of food scarcity drive, in part, the rising interest in insects as food source. By 2050, the human population is expected to reach 9 billion. Insects are high in protein, iron, calcium and healthy fats (and they’re low-carb!). Moreover, insects are a more environmentally friendly food source than, for example, cows: They require less feed, less land, less water and less time to harvest.

Fun fact: The FDA already allows for bugs in food. For example, an average of two larvae of three millimeter in length in canned corn, or an average of 225 insect fragments in boxed macaroni and cheese.

Formby also shared photos of more sophisticated insect cuisine: a cricket, mealworm and grasshopper burger from the UK; a queen ant egg tostado from Mexico; and black ant guacamole via New York City.

As Formby spoke, I thought about the 2013 sci-fi film Snowpiercer. Spoiler alert: Post-apocalypse, surviving humans live on a train, divided by class. Eventually, the lower-class folks find out the protein bars

they’ve been eating are made from insects.

Horror ensues, even though it’s also revealed that before they had insect protein bars, they had resorted to cannibalism.

Snowpiercer, in other words, was super dopey. But it fits with the general thesis presented at Digest This by Violet Crown Cinema Manager Peter Grendle, who kicked off the event with a short lecture titled “Sci-Fi 101: On the Origin and Concept of Science Fiction as a Genre, Subgenre, and Prophetic Narrative Device, or Why America Enjoys Paying Money to Strangers to Scare Them with Ideas.”

As Grendle humorously raced us through movies such as A Trip to the Moon, Frankenstein, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Gattaca and The Day the Earth Stood Still, he spoke about the tension between viewers’ interest in and fears of science (space exploration, robots, genetics experiments) and our ability to engage with emergent ideas when they are presented with artistic license in a fictional context.

“The inspiration for a lot of those films was humanity’s fear of conquering space or the pressure that comes along with finding something new and untapped in life through our history or our future,” Grendle said when I spoke with him later. “Hand-in-hand with that success and pure orgasmic confrontation between man versus science [in such films] comes the question of, how does this actually affect our actual future?”

Grendle told me he took home some of the stand-alone dried grasshoppers Olea served as snacks and fed them to his children without telling them what they were.

After they’d eaten them, he told them they were bugs and watched them freak out.

I tasted the baby grasshopper taquito and did my best not to freak out, though I admittedly have the palette and possible mindset of a 5-year-old. It was spicy, and had I not known it was made from insects, I would not have been able to tell.

Olea told me the taquitos pair well with mescal. I may have to try that in the future.

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HOLD ONTO YOUR BUTTS Oh, Greg Butera, how we love your style. You’ve fiddled with fiddles, added a pedal steel guitar so sweet we almost couldn’t believe it, and welcomed fantastic local hired guns like Karina Wilson into the mix. Dude, you’re nailing it. It’s why we named your full-length Tell Me Now one of the albums of the year in our 2016 Music Issue, and why we’re telling people they should fully be at your Tiny’s show this week. You’ve kinda got a Hank Williams croon going on, but you’re still doing your own thing, and given stints with the likes of Albuquerque’s pop goddess Heather Trost, we’re betting you’ve expanded your style as well. Fingers crossed, Greg. We’re counting on you. (Alex De Vore)

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BOOK/LECTURE SAT/16 WHAT A GUY Guy Cross, former editor of THE Magazine, comes out swinging with a brand-new graphic novel (or was it photo-graphic?) called Holy Misery, published by the fine folks at Axle Contemporary mobile art gallery and released this weekend at Phil Space. Think of it like a scattered look into the many facets of Cross’ life, from writer and editor to artist, photographer and all-around weirdo. We won’t lie—some of the images found in this thing are straight-up disturbing, and you probably shouldn’t buy it for your kids, but there’s something about it that begs one’s attention; maybe akin to a car wreck, if a car wreck exploded with subversive and controversial imagery that might be uncomfortable, but certainly pushes some seriously bizarre counter-culture buttons. (ADV) Guy Cross: Holy Misery Release Party: 2 pm Saturday Dec. 16. Free. Phil Space, 1410 Second St., 983-7945.

It’s Lit Plants ’n’ lights ’n’ music ’n’ things Nothing’s blooming, no fruit is forming, no leaves are sprouting. Very little is happening to the plants at the Santa Fe Botanical Garden right now, in fact.

Wintertime isn’t exactly synonymous with plant-watching. Especially not at night. But we still suggest you take some time in the coming weeks to get there anyway. Yes, in the dark. Things are happening up on Museum Hill.

Starting Friday Dec. 15 and running nearly every night through New Year’s Eve, the garden is open from 5 to 8 pm for the fifth year of the Botanical Garden’s GLOW holiday lights display.

Bundle up for what could be an intergenerational night of togetherness, a great date night, or a pre- or post-game for some other holiday outing.

Stroll through the illuminated landscape and pause to rotate for a few seconds before one of the open fires. Trees and bushes, cacti and grasses take on a festive air. The whole effect is more fun when there’s snow on the ground to reflect the colored lights and there’s live music just about every night. Add this to your powder day bucket list.

Or, better yet, put on your dancelike-no-one’s-watching shoes and make for the garden for this Saturday night’s laser dance party inside a heated temporary pavilion—no matter the weather.

Groove to sounds from The Gruve, the

local keyboard and drum duo of Ron Crowder and Steve O’Neill, and stay a couple hours later than you can during the rest of the season.

Sarah Spearman, publicist for the garden, promises fun in the form of bubbles and fog, along with adult beverages, hot cocoa, cider and pizza. “Our event changes every year,” she tells SFR, “and this year the theme is ‘bridging time,’ so we are trying to look at Santa Fe through time for our lighting exhibitions.”

There’s a bit of each of the three ghosts that visit Scrooge—not only farolitos (for the past) but also “spirit poles” by artist Victoria Rabinowe (for the present) and laser light exhibits designed by Christopher Short (the future!). And, speaking of the future: If you miss the dance party, or that’s just too late for you, the garden’s New Year’s Eve celebration includes a countdown to “midnight” at 7 pm. (Julie Ann Grimm) GLOW Laser Light Dance Party: 8 pm Saturday Dec. 16. $8-$10; kids under 12 free.

Regular Events: 5-8 pm Friday-Tuesday, Dec. 15-19. Through Dec. 31 (closed Dec. 24 and 25). $8-$10; kids under 12 free.

Santa Fe Botanical Garden, 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103, santafebotanicalgarden.org

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SYDNEY WESTAN Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Country, blues, folk y mas.

5:30-7:30 pm, free VOODOO VISIONARY Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 Psychofunk from Atlanta.

6 pm, free

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THU/14 BOOKS/LECTURES BRADEN ALLENBY: THE FUTURE OF WAR Drury Plaza Hotel 828 Paseo de Peralta, 424-2175 Allenby, an expert on war and weaopnry, lectures.

5:30 pm, $12-$15 SUSAN MORGAN Foto Forum Santa Fe 1716 Paseo de Peralta, 470-2582 Scholar Morgan discusses the work of architect/photographer Fred Block.

5:30 pm, $5

Contact Charlotte: 395-2906

WED/13 BOOKS/LECTURES GRAVITATIONAL WAVES: THE SOUND OF THE UNIVERSE Mountain Cloud Zen Center 7241 Old Santa Fe Trail, 988-4396 Visiting physicist and Zen practitioner Hartmut Grote explores gravitational waves, black holes and more.

7 pm, free UPON THIS ROCK: OPENING PANDORA'S BOX Night Sky Gallery 826 Canyon Road, 982-8111 Photographer j Madison Rink talks about her personal and artistic journey.

5 pm, free

EVENTS DREPUNG LOSELING MONKS: TIBETAN CHANTS Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 After building their sand mandala at Seret & Sons all day (from 10 am-5 pm), the Drepung Loseling Monks perform traditional Tibetan chants. Afterwards, a sale of imported gift items benefits their monastery.

5:30 pm, free JEWISH WOMEN'S CIRCLE HANUKKAH PARTY Chabad Jewish Center of SF 230 W Manhattan Ave., 983-2000 Join the fun for light dinner, latkes (!), sufagniyot (!!), and a concert with singer Leora Nadtochy of New York.

6 pm, $12

THEATER SEASONED GREETINGS Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 A new piece for the holidays (see Acting Out, page 29).

7:30 pm, $15-$25 THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS SHOW Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 It’s everything you ever dreamed it would be (see Acting Out, page 29).

7 pm, $15-$25

DANCE JUAN SIDDI ARTE FLAMENCO SOCIETY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 It's generally a sign that you've had too much to drink, but when Juan Siddi dances on a table, it's a unique night of flamenco.

6:30 pm, $55 PERPETUAL MOTION DANCE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Throughout the day, included with admission, Oklahoma City’s Perpetual Motion Dance presents a series of performance vignettes.

10 am-8 pm, $12-$20

DANCE PERPETUAL MOTION DANCE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Throughout the day, included with admission, Oklahoma City's Perpetual Motion Dance presents a series of performance vignettes.

10 am-8 pm, $12-$20

PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo jazz guitar.

6 pm, free SEAN HEALEN BAND El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n' folk 'n' roll 'n' country.

9 pm, $5 SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country tunes to dance to.

7:30 pm, free SWING WEST Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Country, Western, rockabilly and jazzy swing.

8 pm, free

FRI/15 ART OPENINGS 400 HOLIDAY BLOCK PARTY Various locations The Canyon Road block near the intersection with Garcia Street presents art, farolitos, bonfires, cider and music.

3-7 pm, free ALCOPLEY: 1950-1965, David Richard Gallery 1570 Pacheco St., 983-9555 The work of Alcopley (d.

1992), abstract expressionist.

Through Jan. 20.

5 pm, free ANNIVERSARY GROUP SHOW Keep Contemporary 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 102, 307-9824 More than 40 artists showcase their cutting-edge work (see 3 Questions, page 27).

5 pm, free HOLIDAY CELEBRATION WITH RACHEL SAHMIE Steve Elmore Indian Art 839 Paseo de Peralta, 995-9677 Fifth-generation Hopi master potter presents new ceramics.

4 pm, free HOLIDAY SELECTIONS Aaron Payne Fine Art 213 E Marcy St., 995-9779 Selected works and recent acquisitions. Through Jan. 27.

5 pm, free INAUGURAL EXHIBITION East of West 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 600, 570-7708 Art from Middle Eastern women (see A&C, age 25).

6 pm, free

MUSIC Baby, would you eat that there snack cracker in your special outfit for me, please? This camel has plenty of questions as part of Kim Dickey’s Unshielded, opening at Peters Projects on Friday.

MUSIC SANTA FE WOMEN'S ENSEMBLE: SONGS OF PEACE Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0092 Music from the 16th century, familiar Christmas Carols and reflections on the New Year, Hebrew texts of healing and liturgical Latin chant and motets.

6:30 pm, $20-$35 BILL FORREST Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano pop of the '60s and '70s, with vocals if you're real nice.

6:30 pm, free BOK CHOY Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Electric, eclectic, grooving psychedelic bok rock.

8 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 DAVID GEIST Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards and Broadway tunes.

6 pm, free FREDDY AND FRANCINE Kitchen Sink Recording Studio 528 Jose St., 699-4323 Soul, R&B, folk and Americana.

7 pm, $20 FULL OWL Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 An Americana trio.

8 pm, free

K.DUTCH, THE OUTSTANDING CITIZENS COLLECTIVE AND DJ CAP Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Local emcee K.Dutch debuts his band The Fat Sweet, playing socially conscious hip-hop on a bed of deep-fried funk.

7:30 pm, $7 PHYLLIS LOVE Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6 pm, free SANTA FE CROONERS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Swingin’ Christmas classics and a visit from Santa.

6:30 pm, free SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country tunes to dance to.

7:30 pm, free

SANTA FE WOMEN'S ENSEMBLE: SONGS OF PEACE Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0092 Christmas carols, Hebrew texts of healing and liturgical Latin chant and motets.

6:30 pm, $20-$35 BROTHERHOOD SOUND SYSTEM Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 It's Reggae Thursday, mon.

Wish Trinkie Starr and Don Martin a happy birthday.

10 pm, free THE GUNSELS Tiny’s Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Americana and Cajun honkytonk (see SFR Picks, page 19).

8 pm, free MAX HATT AND EDDA GLASS ON ART FUSION Artisan Santa Fe 2601 Cerrillos Road, 954-4172 A live taping for the radio show with the jazzy Americana duo.

11 am-2 pm, free

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VOICES OTA Contemporary 203 Canyon Road, 930-7800 Eight artists have a visual conversation with monoprints, stone sculptures, paintings and holograms.

5:30 pm, free WINTER GROUP SHOW Sage Creek Gallery 421 Canyon Road, 988-3444 Wildlife artist Edward Aldrich and Santa Fe landscape painters Marilyn Yates and Bill Gallen show their works.

5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES STORY AND POETRY Santa Fe Center for Spiritual Living 505 Camino de los Marquez, 983-5022 Award-winning poet and teacher Tony Hoagland reads selections from his poetry, and storyteller Martin Shaw brings stories from Celtic and Russian traditions.

7 pm, $20

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO CHRISTMAS SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 A special holiday dance performance.

7:30 pm, $25-$40 PERPETUAL MOTION DANCE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Throughout the day, included with admission, see performance vignettes by the Oklahoma-based ensemble.

10 am-8 pm, $12-$20

EVENTS HOLIDAY RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-7726 Santa visits at 5 pm, all day you can get free gift wrapping by student elves. Music and food too.

3-8 pm, free HOLIDAY TREE AND TRAIN DISPLAY First National Bank of Santa Fe 62 Lincoln Ave., 219-3007 This may be geared toward kids ... but we'd be lying if we said we, grown adults, weren't pretty psyched about it.

9:30 am-noon, free INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART MARKET HOLIDAY BOUTIQUE International Folk Art Market 620 Cerrillos Road, 474-6783 More than 30 master artists offer gifts from around the world, plus a reception for Andrea Usai, a master Sardinian jewelry artist.

5 pm, free SHABBAT HANUKKAH DINNER Chabad Jewish Center of SF 230 W Manhattan Ave., 983-2000 Services are followed by a Moroccan dinner.

4:15 pm, $18-$20 THAIS MATHER: RECKLESS ABANDON form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111 In conjunction with her feminist art installation, the artist presents a performance in conjunction with the exhibit.

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JAMES DOYLE: SPARK AND SHADOW Verve Gallery of Photography 219 E Marcy St., 982-5009 Watercolorist Doyle explores natural forms, water, skyscapes, animals and landscapes. Through Dec. 17.

5 pm, free KENTON NELSON: TAMING NATURE Peters Projects 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5700 Paintings with palpable but mysterious narratives and a subtle voyeuristic undertone.

5 pm, free KIM DICKEY: UNSHIELDED Peters Projects 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5700 New sculptures of creatures, each representing a certain human quality.

5 pm, free MARGARET FITZGERALD: REFUGE David Richard Gallery 1570 Pacheco St., 983-9555 Fitzgerald’s paintings are rooted in abstract expressionism and socio-political tension.

Through Jan. 20.

5 pm, free MOTHER AND SON: WORKS FROM NATURE Tune Up Café 1115 Hickox St., 983-7060 Mary Beth Arthur (pastels) and Brian Arthur (bark on panel). Through Feb. 6.

3:30-5 pm, free NINA TRYGGVADÓTTIR: PAINTINGS FROM 19521963 David Richard Gallery 1570 Pacheco St., 983-9555 View the geometric and lyrical abstract paintings of Tryggvadóttir (d. 1968), one of Iceland’s best-known artists. Through Jan. 20.

5 pm, free PETER OLSON: PHOTO CERAMICA Peters Projects 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5700 Olson burns his photographs into his ceramic work.

5 pm, free RAILYARD PHOTO CONTEST RECEPTION Surroundings Studio 1611 Paseo de Peralta, 982-3454 The Railyard Park Conservancy announces the adult and youth winners.

5 pm, free RAY TURNER: POPULATION-SANTA FE Peters Projects 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5700 Turner displays his skill with portraiture. As the show is a fundraiser for the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, many feature locals of the movie industry.

5 pm, free SPREADING THEIR WINGS: GALLERY ARTISTS’ NEW WORKS Lyn A Fox Fine Pueblo Pottery 839 Paseo de Peralta, 577-0835 Enjoy work of artists from Santa Clara, Jemez and San Ildefonso Pueblos, and from tribes around the country.

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You know you are a cute little heartbreaker. Edward Aldrich exhibits in a group show at Sage Creek Gallery, opening Friday.

MUSIC one and only Jason Goodyear,” Smerage says of the Santa Fe Community College audio professor. “I lived across the street from him, so I would go over once I finished a song and record in his personal studio—he really coached me on my playing and pushed me to go down the scary road of a solo guitar album.”

Smerage has done solo before, yet he says that the work he attempted with Goodyear was premature. “The songs didn’t get room to breathe,” he explains. “It took this past summer’s length, I’d say … to find what I could make a song into with just guitar. Lessons with Tom Adler helped.” Adler, a former Santa Fe University of Art and Design professor, is actually better known as a banjo player,

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Nathan Smerage hits his full potential with NO LAND Sessions

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ately, Nathan Smerage spends a lot of time on the road.

The young guitarist, who originally hails from Chicago, hits as many regional shows as he can for a few weeks at a time, swings back through Santa Fe for a month or so, and then back out he goes. It’s a solo affair and an evolving practice for Smerage; both a far cry from his days of straight rock with Venus and the Lion, a once-promising band formed during the heyday of Santa Fe University of Art and Design that is now no more, and a departure from his session and concert work with bands like Storming the Beaches with Logos in Hand. Smerage’s solo work has been con-

templative and complicated, like a gospel-adjacent next step for a fan of Iron & Wine or the culmination of a studied guitarist who splits time between riffs and rock and fingerpicking lessons.

For his new record, The NO LAND Sessions, Smerage enlisted Storming the Beaches’ Luke Carr for production and DIY arts org Strangers Collective’s physical space off the Plaza, NO LAND, as a makeshift studio; the results are staggering. Smerage has obviously matured since his previous efforts, Rain Check and Like Polishing Firewood/Stage Left Exit—though, he says, the new songs have been in the works since the release of those albums last year. “I had started writing the stuff pretty much right after Rain Check came out and, at that time, I was actually recording with the

It took this past summer’s length ... to find out what I could make a song into with just guitar.

-Nathan Smerage but as a veritable font of Americana and bluegrass knowledge, he’s been known to help fledgling guitarists expand their repertoires. “I got super into ragtime,” Smerage adds.

The production of NO LAND occurred over a single weekend at the art space. Carr set up multiple microphones around the room—including a clever telephone mic that sounds pretty much how you’d think it would—and

Smerage played live. “I can’t pretend to understand all of [the audio setup], but I certainly learned a bunch about treating a solo instrument,” he says, “and figuring out what rules can be broken.” Smerage further explains that these rules had mostly to do with a lo-fi sound dialed in

by Carr, and a smaller guitar than most musicians generally record with. “Luke and I were finding ways to bring grit into the record,” he says. “To have parts sound almost like a voice memo … I thought was rad.”

And rad they are, these familiar-yetrefreshing translations of older styles for a modern era. Smerage deftly transitions through waltzes and rags, at once showcasing his talent and understanding of the aforementioned rule-breaking. It isn’t what you’d expect from someone so young, but twentysomething Smerage has skills. “I think the record is totally Santa Fe-inspired,” he continues. “I’m not sure I would have made something like this in Chicago—[I had] so many inspirations; ppoacher ppoacher’s most recent record, Johnny Bell’s endeavors into experimental Americana; the Atalaya mountain trails are rad. I could go on.”

Which actually raises an interesting point: Can Americana-esque albums still break new ground or, at least, not seem stale after so much exposure in a town like Santa Fe? Smerage comes awfully close to proving they can (and we’ll tip our hat to Johnny Bell and the Visitors while we’re at it) and we can’t wait to hear what else he’s been working on. In the meantime, The NO LAND Sessions releases Thursday Dec. 21 at a solo Smerage show. Let’s all go learn together.

NATHAN SMERAGE ALBUM RELEASE 7 pm Thursday Dec. 21. Free; $10 for the CD. NO LAND, 54 E San Francisco St.

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

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

7 pm, free BROTHER E CLAYTON Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Soul and blues.

5:30-8 pm, free CS ROCKSHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Classic rock 'n' roll tunes.

9 pm, $5 CHANGO Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock 'n' roll covers.

8:30 pm, $5 DANA SMITH Upper Crust Pizza 329 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0000 Country-tinged folk songs.

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

7 pm, free DEEP PROGRESSIONS Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 House and bass with DJs Dave Smooth and Dave Burger with special guest DJ DMonic.

10 pm, free GLOW: SHINERS CLUB JAZZ BAND Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Bundle up and head to the holiday lights show. The Shiners Club whips up some old-timey jazzy tunes (see SFR Picks, page 19).

5 pm, $8-$10 GARY PAUL Upper Crust Pizza (Eldorado) 5 Colina Drive, 471-1111 Ballads and tall tales.

5:30-8:30 pm, free IRON CHIWAWA Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 This Albuquerque classic rock outfit says they'll play "Freebird" for $100, and we think someone should call their bluff.

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JESUS BAS La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Spanish and flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free JOE JOHNSON The Burger Stand at Burro Alley 207 W San Francisco, Roots music, y’all.

7 pm, free KODAMA TRIO Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 The jazz trio plays tunes from "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and other holiday faves.

6 pm, free MYSTIC LIZARD Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Bluegrass from Albuquerque.

6 pm, free NATHAN FOX Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Americana, blues, country ‘n’ folk. It's on the deck.

5 pm, free NOSOTROS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 A nine-piece Latin music powerhouse mixes in rock, salsa, jazz and cumbia.

10 pm, $7 THE PALM IN THE CYPRESS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 American roots music.

8 pm, free THE PLEASURE PILOTS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Original and classic R&B. 8 pm, free PRAYERS Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Goth electronica.

7 pm, $17-$20 RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish-style classical guitar.

7 pm, free SEVDA CHOIR: SONGS OF EASTERN EUROPE AND THE NEAR EAST San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-3974 Songs of Eastern Europe and the Balkans, the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.

7:30-9 pm, $10-$20 THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Jazzy piano music.

7:30 pm, free WEEED, LIŁITH AND SEX HEADACHES Ghost 2899 Trades West Road WEEED comes in from the Pacific Northwest with a blend of psychedelia, trance and improv. Joined by locals Liłith (daunting/loud) and Sex Headaches (fuzzy punk).

8 pm, $5-$10

ESSO First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 St. Paul's Suite for String Orchestra (Gustav Holst) and Adagio e Fuga [Falk 65] (WF Bach).

5:30 pm, free

THEATER A MUSICAL PIÑATA FOR CHRISTMAS V Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 The bilingual evening of live music, carols and comedy (see Acting Out, page 29).

7 pm, $5-$10 SEASONED GREETINGS Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Six female performers have crafted a new piece about the holidays (see Acting Out, page 29).

7:30 pm, $15-$25 THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS SHOW Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 It's the Annual Holiday Variety Show and Christmas Pageant at St. Everybody’s Non-Denominational Universalist Church (see Acting Out, page 29).

7 pm, $15-$25

WORKSHOP CREATING SIDE-BYSIDE WITH WANESIA MISQUADACE Ralph T Coe Foundation for the Arts 1590 B Pacheco St., 983-6372 Misquadace, of the Fond Du Lac Ojibway band of the Minnesota Lake Superior Chippewa Tribe, demonstrates and teaches the centuries-old art form of biting patterns into tree bark.

5 pm, free

SAT/16 BOOKS/LECTURES GALLERY TALK David Richard Gallery 1570 Pacheco St., 983-9555 A conversation with Una Dora Copley and Scott Jeffries, moderated by Kathryn M Davis of ArtBeat, about Nina Trggvadottir and Alcopley.

4 pm, free GUY CROSS: HOLY MISERY Phil Space 1410 Second St., 983-7945 Cross releases and signs his photo-graphic novel (see SFR Picks, page 19).

2 pm, free NOT OUR DAY TO DIE: TESTIMONY FROM THE GUATEMALAN JUNGLE Travel Bug Coffee Shop 839 Paseo de Peralta, 992-0418 In his book, pilot and author Mike Sullivan tells the gripping, fascinating, painful—and deeply human—stories of the militant occupation of the jungles of Guatemala.

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East to Southwest Contemporary artwork spans Santa Fe and beyond

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Maha Alasaker examines cultural tradition and identity in her photo series, Belonging.

can support the oppression of women,” Brown says, “which is totally ridiculous to me. I’m happy to take the brunt of that.

Muslim folks get that every single day. I’d love to take that burden off of others, if that’s possible.”

Brown further envisions opening up the gallery for artists in residence, visiting curators and a public library filled with books about contemporary art of the Middle East (which will be accessible at the opening). Through these projects, she aims to transform the gallery into

a community space for conversations that transform negative perceptions and bridge gaps between communities. “I feel that [the gallery] is a platform where I can work to support these communities,” she tells SFR, “and if I don’t do that, I’m not doing a good job.”

EAST OF WEST: INAUGURAL EXHIBITION 6 pm Friday Dec. 15. Free.

East of West, 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 600, 570-7708 COURTESY ELLSWORTH GALLERY

“As soon as I signed the lease it was this feeling of, ‘Holy shit, what did I do?’ and it’s been, ‘Holy shit, what did I do?’ since then,” LE Brown shares over a third cup of coffee. Formerly of the interview-based blog Descent of Man, she now tells the tale of her journey to open East of West, a new gallery in Santa Fe’s Siler Arts District that focuses on contemporary artworks created predominately by Middle Eastern artists who have migrated from their homes to other parts of the world.

“I don’t place too much emphasis on borders because they’re kind of arbitrary,” Brown explains, describing how she picked the group for East of West’s inaugural exhibition this Friday. “I want to show the movement of artists and how their experiences differ in different communities; how these artists have multifaceted identities and don’t fit neatly into any one box.”

Five artists, all of whom Brown found through Instagram, multiple degrees of separation (think friend-of-a-friend-ofa-friend) and artist recommendations, are featured and linked through works that examine identity in light of how cultural tradition informs contemporary existence.

Artists include Nasreen Shaikh Jamal Al-Lail, a Saudi photographer who resides in the UK and shoots layered photographs that explore identity; Madiha Siraj, a Muslim American artist living in Dayton, Ohio, who uses traditional Islamic geometry to create contemporary sculptures, installations, and multimedia paintings; and Maha Alasaker, a Kuwaiti photographer who now lives in New York City and focuses on the concealment of herself and others behind the veil and everyday objects.

Brown hopes these artists’ works will set the tone for East of West to demonstrate the vast array of contemporary art from around the world, but she recognizes that not all people will welcome the aesthetic with open arms.

“I’ve had people say to me, ‘Wow, you represent terrorists,’ or question how I

A&C Southwest

On the local front is Zachariah Ben, a Diné artist who practices sand painting, a medium in which natural materials such as sandstone, turquoise and semi-precious stone are used to create imagery of universal forces that demonstrate the interconnection of all beings. More than an art process, sand painting is a ritual performed during Navajo healing ceremonies.

Ben began learning sand painting when he was just 3 years old; his father, Joe Ben Jr., a renowned artist himself, taught him the art form. As he watched his father create images of medicine men, he realized by the time he was 5 that he, too, wanted to be one of the natural healers, or as he describes, “wizards.” He began dancing and dressing up as Diné deities, and is still learning chants and sandpainting designs for healing ceremonies as part of his medicine man training, a process that can last a lifetime.

Ben’s latest sand paintings are on view at Ellsworth Gallery and depict deities against cosmic skies formed from granular textures of sand. These grains have been carefully sprinkled onto boards by Ben, who rubs his fingers together to release natural energy into an image. “That is what art is all about,” he declares. “Nature. What else is there?”

As he collects earthen pigment to create the paintings, Ben makes an offering to heal patients—but also, he says, to “heal the art world, because the art world is tarnished by commercial paints, commercial this, commercial that. Why not go back to the natural cycle?” Natural materials, he says, have gone through billions of years of life and death. “These colors that I use today have been cooking since the birth of time,” he says, “the birth of Earth, the birth of the Universe.”

But how do these works fit into the world of contemporary art? Ben answers: “The dirt that you walk on is today. The sun that shines upon you, that is of today. That is modern. That is contemporary.’” ÍÍKÁH’ DÍÍYÍÍNÍÍ: SACRED SANDS Opening reception: 5 pm Friday Dec. 22. Free.

Artist Demonstrations: 2-6 pm Wednesday-Friday Dec. 27-29. Free.

Artist Q&A: Noon Thursday Dec. 28. Free.

Ellsworth Gallery, 215 E Palace Ave., 989-7900

Zachariah Ben uses earthen pigment to create sand paintings, a ritual during Navajo healing ceremonies.

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Whenever we’ve seen the three of them, his new boyfriend was fighting with one of them. I don’t want our best man to feel like we are being rude in excluding his new partner, but I don’t want there to be drama for our best man at our wedding.

-Being Rude Isn’t Dat Easy As a 36-year-old straight woman with autism, I am often misidentified as lesbian because my social signaling must read as masculine. I am not bothered by this. However, it is annoying when someone who should know better thinks I would hide it if I were LGBTQ. I’m very direct and honest—sometimes to my detriment—and the idea that I would hide something so fundamental about myself is abhorrent to me. I don’t consider myself disabled; I am different than most people but not broken. But as a person with a diagnosed “disability” that includes an inability to accurately read and display social cues, I know that a person’s perception of your sexual orientation is definitely affected by social signaling. I enjoy your podcast and I feel like I am educating myself about how neurotypical people think. But I wish there was as good a source of advice for people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). I have been searching, but a lot of the advice for people with ASD is written by people who are not on the spectrum and focuses on passing for neurotypical.

-Not Disabled, Not Lesbian, Not Typical I shared your letter with Steve Silberman, the award-winning author of the New York Times best seller NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, NDNLNT. I really have nothing to add to his response—your question is outside my supposed areas of quasi-expertise— so I’m going to let Steve take it from here.

“I’m not surprised to hear that NDNLNT is more annoyed by people thinking she’s in the closet than by them misidentifying her as gay. In my experience, a passionate concern for social justice—and compassion for other stigmatized and marginalized people—is so common among folks on the spectrum that it’s practically diagnostic. Furthermore, there seems to be an interesting overlap between being autistic and having a nonstandard gender identity—whether you define yourself as gay, bi, trans, straight but not cis, or nonbinary.

“My autistic friends share NDNLNT’s concern about the lack of good resources for autistic people who want to learn more about the nuances of sex, dating, and gender identity. As she points out, many of the advice books written specifically for people on the spectrum take the approach that the route to success in this arena involves acting as much like a neurotypical as possible, which just adds stress to an already stressful situation. They also tend to be tediously heteronormative and drearily vanilla-centric.

“But there are exceptions. My autistic friends recommend Life and Love: Positive Strategies for Autistic Adults by Zosia Zaks, The Aspie Girl’s Guide to Being Safe with Men by Debi Brown, and the anthology What Every Autistic Girl Wishes Her Parents Knew edited by Emily Paige Ballou, Kristina Thomas, and Sharon daVanport. While not autism-specific, The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability also comes highly recommended.

My favorite autism blog, Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism, runs frank and fascinating pieces like ‘Autism and Orgasm.’ Another place to look for useful advice is in presentations by autistic self-advocates like Lindsey Nebeker, Stephen Mark Shore, and Amy Gravino (whose TEDx talk ‘Why Autism Is Sexier Than You Think It Is’ is on YouTube).”

Dan here: Thank you so much, Steve. And to everyone else: There’s more about Steve and his work at his website (stevesilberman.com), and I strongly recommend following him on Twitter (@stevesilberman), where he daily battles Republicanism, ignorance, and hatred. (I’m sorry, was that redundant?)

Hmm. A new addition to a poly relationship who creates drama and makes close friends of the original pair uncomfortable? I’d put the odds of their third being in the picture six months from now at zero. So this is a problem that will most likely solve itself. But you could always ask your friend what he would like you to do. You’re not worried about the new boyfriend ruining your wedding, BRIDE, you’re worried about him ruining the day for your best man. So ask your best man what would be worse—the new boyfriend being excluded (and your best man incurring his wrath at home) or the new boyfriend being included (and your best man having to put up with his bullshit at the wedding). Then +1 or +2 accordingly.

I’m an attractive 30-year-old woman. Recently, I was stuck in a packed subway car. I squeezed in next to the best-looking straphanger I could find, faced him like we were slow-dancing, pressed my tits into him, and straddled his leg. We were so close, my head was over his shoulder—I could feel an electrical charge running through his body—and we stayed that way until I got to my stop. Upon parting, I whispered, “You’re very attractive.” And he whispered back, “So are you.” I’ve pulled this on crowded trains a few other times. They’re my favorite erotic memories, and it sure seemed like the guys enjoyed these experiences. But Charlie Rose thought he was “exploring shared feelings.” So I wanted to ask: Am a groper?

-Tiresome Reality Arrogates Intimate Nearness Yup. Some people would say the obvious response—the obvious way to open your eyes to what’s so wrong about your actions—would be to ask, “If a dude did this to a woman on a public conveyance, would that be okay?” But a woman seeking out the hottest guy on the subway and pressing her tits into his chest and straddling his leg exists in an entirely different context than a man doing the same to a woman.

As I wrote recently on my blog in the Savage Love Letter of the Day: “Men don’t move through their lives deflecting near-constant unwanted sexual attention, we aren’t subjected to epidemic levels of sexual violence, and consequently we don’t live with the daily fear that we could be the victims of sexual violence at any time and in any place.” So a man on the receiving end of your behavior—even a man who felt annoyed, offended, or threatened—is going to experience your actions very differently than a woman subjected to the same actions by a man. A man is unlikely to feel threatened; a woman is unlikely to feel anything else.

While the men you’ve done this to seemed to enjoy it—and we only have your word to go on— that doesn’t make your subway perving okay.

There are definitely men out there, TRAIN, who would be upset and/or angered by your actions.

Me, for instance—and not (just) because I’m gay. (I don’t like being hugged by strangers. I would hate being humped by a random perv on the train.) There are also men out there who have been the victims of sexual violence—far, far fewer men than women, of course, but you can’t tell by looking at a guy whether he’d be traumatized by your opportunistic attentions. Even if your humpdar (like gaydar, but for humping) was perfect and you never did this to a man who didn’t enjoy it, you’re normalizing sexual assault on subways and buses, TRAIN, thereby making these spaces less safe for women than they already are. Knock it the fuck off.

My fiancé and I are getting straight-married this summer. My fiancé’s best man is in a polyamorous relationship—which is not the problem.

The issue is that we like only one of his boyfriends. Our best man moved in with the boyfriend we like two years ago. The other boyfriend

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SYMBOLISM OF THE SAND MANDALA Seret and Sons 121 Sandoval St., 988-9151 In conjunction with the monks’ mandala-building, Gonsa Rinpoche gives a talk on the meaning of the piece.

1 pm, $10

DANCE ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET: THE NUTCRACKER Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 An iconic holiday tradition.

2 pm and 7:30 pm, $36-$94 ENTREFLAMENCO CHRISTMAS SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 A special holiday performance. Tapas are available starting at 6:30 pm.

7:30 pm, $25-$40 PERPETUAL MOTION DANCE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Throughout the day, included with admission, the Oklahoma City’s company presents a series of performance vignettes.

10 am-8 pm, $12-$20

EVENTS A TRIO OF ARTISTS Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 In the hotel's Canyon Room, find hand-crafted holiday gifts from three artists in jewelry, fiber and clay.

10 am-4:30 pm, free HOLIDAY MAKE & TAKE MAKE Santa Fe Studios 2879 All Trades Road, 819-3502 Select from hands-on projects or bring your own sweater for Ugly Holiday Sweater Embellishment.

10 am-4 pm, $10-$20 INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART MARKET HOLIDAY BOUTIQUE International Folk Art Market 620 Cerrillos Road, 474-6783 More than 30 master artists offer wool and silk scarves from around the world.

9 am-5 pm, free MANDALA CONSTRUCTION Seret and Sons 121 Sandoval St., 988-9151 Construction of a sand painting; public meditation and chanting at 4:30 pm.

10 am-5 pm, free PICS WITH PUPS Counter Culture Café 930 Baca St., 995-1105 Bring your pet for a holiday photo. Funds benefit the Street Homeless Animal Project.

10 am-1 pm, $10 SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET Santa Fe Railyard Market Street, north of the water tower, 310-8766 Local creations for gifting.

No reason not to buy local!

8 am-1 pm, free

SANTA FE SPIRITS HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE Santa Fe Spirits Distillery 7505 Mallard Way, Ste. 1, 467-8892 Enjoy handcrafted spirits, specialty cocktails, live jazz music y mucho mas.

4-7 pm, free WINTER INDIAN MARKET La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 About 130 artists exhibit paintings, sculptures, jewelry, weavings and more.

9 am-5 pm, $10-$15

FILM JANE Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 The documetary is introduced by Shawn Sweeney of the Jane Goodall Institute, and is followed by a Q&A (see SFR Picks, page 19).

1:30 pm, $8-$11

MUSIC DANCE MONSTER: SOUL CLAP Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 House and disco.

9 pm, $16-$19 SANTA FE WOMEN'S ENSEMBLE: SONGS OF PEACE Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel 50 Mt. Carmel Road, 988-1975 Christmas carols, Hebrew texts of healing and liturgical Latin chant and motets.

3 pm, $10-$25 BAND WITH NO NAME Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Rock 'n' roll.

10 pm, $5 BUSY McCARROLL BAND Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Country and Americana.

6 pm, free CONTROLLED BURN El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n' blues.

9 pm, $5 CORO DE CÁMARA: DECK THE HALL First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 The choral group presents a concert of holiday favorites.

4 pm, $10-$20 DAVID GEIST AND LESLIE LIVINGSTON Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 A holiday cabaret performance on piano and vocals.

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

6 pm, free

ESCAPE ON A HORSE Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 Alt.country, soul and rock.

7 pm, free GLOW: THE GRUVE Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Head to the garden for its holiday lights show, plus some classic R&B (see SFR Picks, page 19).

5 pm, $8-$10 HALF BROKE HORSES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Country and Americana.

1-4 pm, free KITTY JO CREEK Ski Santa Fe 740 Hyde Park Road, 982-4429 Check out live bluegrass at Totemoff’s on your ski day.

11 am-3 pm, free LAURIA & KOTT San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-3974 Original folky Americana.

6:30 pm, $20 PHYLLIS LOVE Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

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

8:30 pm, free THE PLEASURE PILOTS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Original and classic R&B. 8 pm, free RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar.

7 pm, free RYAN FINN QUARTET El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 A swinging jazz quartet.

7:30 pm, free SANTA FE DESERT CHORALE WINTER FESTIVAL Cristo Rey Parish 1120 Canyon Road, 983-8528 Carols and lullabies from North and South America.

8 pm, $10-$80 THE SILVER STRING BAND Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Bluegrass.

8 pm, free SORIBA FOFANA AND FRIENDS DANCE PARTY Railyard Performance Center 1611 Paseo de Peralta, 982-8309 All ages can groove it out to Afro-beat, dancehall, reggae, hip-hop, soul, R&B and more.

8 pm, $10 THE STICKY Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 They sexy. Get funky.

10 pm, free

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SWING SOLEIL Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Swingin' jazz.

6 pm, free TARA KHOZEIN & RHONDA TAYLOR form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111 A two-part improvisational performance.

7 pm, $5-$25

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SUN/17 BOOKS/LECTURES JOURNEYSANTAFE: DANIEL YOHALEM Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 The attorney discusses suing the NM Department of Education for basically not educating New Mexico kids.

11 am, free MODERN BUDDHISM: LIVING LIGHTLY Zoetic 230 St. Francis Drive, 292-5293 Meditations on Buddha's profound teachings on emptiness with Gen Kelsang Ingchug, American Buddhist nun.

10:30 am, $10

DANCE ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET: THE NUTCRACKER Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 This iconic holiday tradition— both uplifting and filled with humor—has always been a Santa Fe favorite.

1 and 5 pm, $36-$94 PERPETUAL MOTION DANCE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Throughout the day, included with admission, Oklahoma City’s Perpetual Motion Dance presents a series of performance vignettes.

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THEATER A MUSICAL PIÑATA FOR CHRISTMAS V Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A bilingual evening of live music, carols and comedy (see Acting Out, page 29).

2 pm, $5-$10 SEASONED GREETINGS Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 A series of vignettes brings to life stories of holiday hopes and disasters (see Acting Out, page 29).

7:30 pm, $15-$25 THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS SHOW Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 This one’s fun. Trust us (see Acting Out, page 29).

7 pm, $15-$25

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“Happy first birthday, KEEP Contemporary!” is a thing I could’ve said to gallery owner Jared Antonio-Justo Trujillo, but instead I with asked Name to speak with “Fuck-Face.”

Thank god he got that it was a joke. Which is actually kind of the essence of his fledgling gallery—a distinct lack of artifice and snobbery. In his one year just off the Plaza (112 W San Francisco St., 307-9824) Trujillo has created a contemporary sanctuary for artists he believes in, from street creators like Wonky to SFR fave Nico Salazar. It’s contemporary, y’know? And with a one-year anniversary event at 5 pm this Friday Dec. 15—with free food from La Fogata—we knew it was worth a chat. (Alex De Vore) How do you go about selecting artists for KEEP? Y’know, I’ve been doing this a long time. I used to work on Canyon Road; I curated for Eggman and Walrus, so a lot of the people I’m working with, I’ve been working with for quite some time. I’ve built a rapport with these people. A lot of this business is still word of mouth. Or I’ll go on Instagram or to shows. I used to go to BFA shows at the Santa Fe University of Art & Design. Can’t do that anymore.

And do you think we’re getting to a place where tourists and collectors are embracing contemporary arts more?

I think the whole art world in general has changed.

It’s not like it used to be, where people would come to Santa Fe to buy a Fritz Scholder. Those collectors are older now, maybe even dead, and the younger generation is coming up. Santa Fe is the third-biggest art market in America, and I wondered, where is this [contemporary] voice? All the cities have it, and the galleries here who have been doing it for a long time have been doing it for a long time. I still thought it was important to find my niche, to work with artists I believe in and who I think are exciting and fresh.

Santa Fe can still be a conservative market, but I do believe there’s going to be an influx of more contemporary work. I think people might be over the whole Southwest thing, and that’s still important, but my generation—Generation X ... we started from punk and from graffiti and from skateboarding, and that’s what’s going to be hip in the market now.

Do you have concerns about collectors in a more borrow/share economy? As in, people who Uber instad of buying cars, who stay in an Airbnb instead of buying houses—are they still buying art?

That’s interesting, and I really don’t know because it’s hard to pinpoint exactly what demographic is buying art right now. A lot of times galleries think they’re better than the artist, and it’s hard to find a place where they feel comfortable and believed in. I get it from a business perspective, how the market in Santa Fe can feel oversaturated, but I’m local, I’m independent, I’m underground. I enjoy that aspect.

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THE CALENDAR EVENTS CHAMPAGNE, CHOCOLATES & CHEER Yares Art Project 1222 Flagman Way, 984-0044 A silent auction benefit for the Santa Fe Artists’ Medical Fund.

2 pm, free HANUKKAH ON THE PLAZA Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Menorah lighting, acrobatic feats, latkes, chicken soup, dreidels and chocolate gelt.

3 pm, free MANDALA CONSTRUCTION: CLOSING CEREMONY Seret and Sons 121 Sandoval St., 988-9151 In a symbolic ceremony, the mandala, 16 days in the making, is wiped away.

3 pm, $10 WINTER INDIAN MARKET La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 About 130 artists exhibit paintings, sculptures, jewelry, weavings, rugs and pottery.

10 am-3 pm, $10-$15 WINTER SOLSTICE: CARRYING THE LIGHT Genoveva Chavez Community Center 3221 W Rodeo Road, 955-4000 A peaceful walk through the indoor labyrinth.

2 pm, free

FILM JANE Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 The documentary screens, plus a fundraiser for Defenders of Wildlife and a talk by Brittany Fallon, researcher of chimps (see SFR Picks, page 19).

12:30 pm, $15

MUSIC DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards.

6:30-9:30 pm, free GLOW: TIFFANY CHRISTOPHER Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 To accompany the garden’s holiday lights show, some heady loopy rock 'n' roll (see SFR Picks, page 19).

5 pm, $8-$10 GREG BUTERA TRIO Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Honky-tonk on the deck.

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

6 pm, free NACHA MENDEZ La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Latin tunes.

7 pm, free

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PAT MALONE AND JON GAGAN El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Jazz on guitar and bass.

7 pm, free SCHOLA CHRISTMAS CONCERT Santuario de Guadalupe 100 N Guadalupe St., 988-2027 A cappella Christmas music.

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

Noon, free

THEATER A MUSICAL PIÑATA FOR CHRISTMAS V Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A bilingual performance of live music, carols and comedy (see Acting Out, page 29).

2 pm, $5-$10 SEASONED GREETINGS Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 A series of vignettes brings to life stories the holidays (see Acting Out, page 29).

2 pm, $15-$25 THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS SHOW Adobe Rose Theatre 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 We draw hearts around these actors’ names on the regular (see Acting Out, page 29).

3 pm, $15-$25

MON/18 BOOKS/LECTURES SOUTHWEST SEMINARS: LOSING EDEN: AVOIDING THE GREAT FILTER Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Environmental historian Sara Dant, whose books and research have chronicled both natural beauty and loss of it in America.

6 pm, $15

DANCE PERPETUAL MOTION DANCE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Throughout the day, included with admission, Oklahoma City’s Perpetual Motion Dance presents a series of performance vignettes.

10 am-8 pm, $12-$20

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

7:30 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Gotta get that smooth, smooth piano.

6:30 pm, free

GLOW: MARIACHI BUENAVENTURA Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 The garden’s holiday lights show features the musical stylings of the all-female mariachi group. Stick around after the performance, because the Upstart Crows take over at 6:15 pm (see SFR Picks, page 19).

5-6:15 pm, $8-$10 MICHAEL UMPHREY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6 pm, free SANTA FE GREAT BIG JAZZ BAND Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 A 16-piece jazz ensemble.

7 pm, free

THEATER GLOW: UPSTART CROWS Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Student actors present selections from A Christmas Carol amidst the garden’s holiday light display (see SFR Picks, page 19).

6:15 pm, $8-$10

TUE/19 EVENTS HANUKKAH ON ICE Genoveva Chavez Community Center 3221 W Rodeo Road, 955-4000 Skate around the menorah to Hanukkah music. Enjoy latkes, sufganiyot, dreidels and chocolate gelt. Get in for free, rent skates for $3—does it get better than this? We think not.

3-5 pm, free

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

7:30 pm, free CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Music and camaraderie.

8:30 pm, $5 CHUSCALES La Boca (Original Location) 72 W Marcy St., 982-3433 Exotic flamenco guitar from a total expert.

7 pm, free GLOW: ANDY MASON Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Local musician Andy Mason presents a history of Christmas music for the kids (see SFR Picks, page 19).

5 pm, $8-$10 GARY GORENCE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Classic rock and singer-songwriter jams.

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must admit, I waited in vain for someone to say something nice about the holidays.

Beyond the halting and saccharine delivery, I wasn’t looking for profundity.

And it’s unlikely that anyone else in the audience was, either. There were deeper, more poignant places to which this show could have gone, and it didn’t—but maybe that’s fine. Plus, there was a noisy but very aesthetically pleasing snow machine, and that helped.

Next up on the Christmas Tour was Teatro Paraguas’ A Musical Piñata for Christmas, the theater’s fifth iteration of its community Christmas story. Featuring actors from 3-ish years old to 70-plus, both seasoned pros and newcomers, with music, dance and an actual piñata at the LYNN ROYLANCE

theater friend and I were recently discussing Christmas shows, and we concluded that 70 to 80 percent of them are A Christmas Carol re-tellings, 19 to 29 percent are lame, and about 1 percent are worth performing. And chances are, you or a theater near you put on most of the good ones in the last few years.

However you decide to celebrate this year, the theater is kind of a quintessential part of the season—most folks have memories of bundling up with their parents and seeing a matinee some December. But without great scripts, what’s a company to do? Three venues in Santa Fe are dealing with it in different ways.

First up was the Santa Fe Playhouse’s Seasoned Greetings. To solve the script problem, the cast of six women of varying ages and specialties were tasked with creating an original and honest show about the holidays, drawing from each of their unique experiences. I’ve seen everything the playhouse has staged in 2017, and I’ve been impressed by just about everything …

So it’s forgivable that this one falls flat.

Among the skits and vignettes, poetry, dance, video productions, audience participation and original music, there were some nice moments, but mostly it was an ambitious staging that perhaps could have used another week in rehearsal.

The stories felt heavy-handed (letters to dead family members; vegan lesbians having to go to the Christian mother’s house for the holidays; a reminder that homeless people and deployed soldiers aren’t as happy as you are right now), and focused a lot on how stressful and unpleasant the holidays can be. All of this is valid, sure, but I watched from behind the rose-colored glasses of someone who loves Christmas and has an awesome family, so I

end, it was pretty much what you’d see if you looked up “community theater” in a dictionary.

This year featured, in its first act, an historical play about Santa Fe written by local theater superhero Alix Hudson, whose endless energy always lights up the stage. Even with tenuous performances from some of the less experienced actors, Hudson’s script carried the tale; a special nod goes out to “The Telephone Girls,” student actresses who played operators, whose scenes always flowed easily and got plenty of laughs.

Despite myself, a syrupy rendition of “O Holy Night” put me in tears. One particularly cute little boy played with toy cars onstage (not as part of the show; it’s just what he was doing). A rousing solo performance on charango from Mario Reynolds drew whoops and cheers. Paraguas Executive Director Argos MacCallum danced around wearing some contraption with wooden dowels that turned one Santa into three Santas. Need I say more?

After shows, Santa Feans have a strange habit of leaving the theater immediately— even if they have friends in the cast, no one waits around. Folks who came up in other towns (myself included) don’t get this.

That being said, everyone stuck around after Piñata. I’m telling you—community, man. It’s real at Paraguas.

So, those are two options for folks who just like to have some fun at the theater at Christmas—but what is there for the snobs who want to, like, wear heels to the theater and stroke their beards thoughtfully?

For those folks: The most fun I had at

the theater on my Weekend ’o’ Christmas was at the Adobe Rose Theatre’s The Ultimate Christmas Show (Abridged). This script, by the way, is part of the 1 percent of good ones I referenced at the beginning. Written by Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor of the internationally touring Reduced Shakespeare Company (did you catch them at the Lensic this summer?

They were hilarious), it does precisely what you’d expect: It represents just about every Christmas tradition there is with only three people. There are lots of costumes, strange props and a ton of audience participation. Get ready to yell stuff out.

The actors, all of whom are current or former students of the Santa Fe University of Art and Design and all of whom are heartbreakingly talented (please don’t leave us!), are fast, funny, impeccable, beautiful, and, gosh, just overall great. (Yes, I am totally fangirling over Mariah Olesen, Dylan Norman and Koppany Pusztai.) The script’s bones are strong, off-color (a Confederate choir singing “White Christmas” is just the beginning) and adaptable to current events. The play isn’t old—it debuted in 2012—but there’s plenty that has been added just for 2017, including a creepy and uncanny Trump impression from Pusztai.

They also sing like butter (actually, I think I used the word “velvet” to describe Norman’s portrayal of Cliff Bradshaw in Cabaret over the summer, so let’s stick with that), change costumes with unfathomable speed, pull audience members onstage, and write a new “Twelve Days of Christmas” on the spot based on things attendees shout out. Oh, and there’s also a gift exchange at intermission; bring a wrapped doo-dad worth $5 or so and swap it for something else under the tree.

So, overall, Santa Fe knows how to do Christmas. Be like me and see them all—I dare you. But get your tickets soon, because all the performances I attended were packed.

SEASONED GREETINGS 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday Dec. 14-16; 2 pm Sunday Dec. 17. Through Dec. 24. $15-$25. Santa Fe Playhouse, 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 A MUSICAL PIÑATA FOR CHRISTMAS 7 pm Friday Dec. 15; 2 pm Saturday and Sunday Dec. 16 and 17. $5-$10. Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS SHOW (ABRIDGED) Mary and Joseph (Koppany Pusztai and Dylan Norman—right, obvi) seek a room from a weird innkeeper (Mariah Olesen) at the Adobe Rose Theatre. This one’s not for the easily offended.

7 pm Thursday-Saturday, Dec. 14-16; 3 pm Sunday Dec. 17. $15-$25. Adobe Rose Theatre, 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688

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

HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 Meredith Garcia: Stone Free. Through Jan 2, 2018.

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

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

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nions Etcetera: The Essential Allium Cookbook by Kate Winslow and Guy Ambrosino is a thoroughly enjoyable read of a cookbook, with beautiful pictures matched to interesting, comprehensive recipes all related to the unifying theme of the noble allium.

Which is not at all high on my list of favorite foods—in fact, the taste of raw onions is one of the most repellent flavors to my palate, so I tend to write them off as an ingredient I can tolerate at best, and avoid at all costs when raw or undercooked. It was a pleasure to challenge that notion with a few recipes from the book, although results were mixed.

Winslow and Ambrosino have been a husband-and-wife food writing and photography team for many years, starting with SFR, where they worked as culture editor and photographer, respectively, in the late ’90s and early aughts and, notably, a long stint at Gourmet Magazine not long after. Their recipes reflect a sensibility regarding food that is, at turns, both humble and globally far-reaching in its scope. Humble in that none of the ingredients are too expensive to source, although some of them are a little difficult to find. I made a spiced onion brittle called vadouvan, a French-Indian dish that calls for curry leaves I could only find at Talin Market and, unfortunately, on the very day that the grocery store section closed (they’ll still serve dumplings through January). If I want to make it again I’ll have

to make a pilgrimage to Albuquerque for my more exotic ingredients. Still, I probably could have omitted it without too much trouble.

There is even a strong appreciation for New Mexican foods apparent in these pages, no doubt inspired by the authors having lived in Santa Fe; demonstrated in direct homages like a page devoted to New Mexican enchiladas, and more indirect, subtle nods like a Burmese seed salad inspired by now-closed, legendary local noodle house Mu Du Noodles.

This book is global, in that the authors’ appreciation for the foods of different cultures, inspired by their mutual lifetimes of travel across the globe, resulted in recipes that give equal appreciation to Middle Eastern, North African and European culinary traditions. They also include bits of practical advice on cleaning and preparing onions and little historical anecdotes

On giving the humble allium a second look about the history of this cheap, practical, flavorful staple.

Everything is arranged intuitively according to color and season, with some recipes featuring onions only as supporting characters, and others highlighting them as the main event.

The vadouvan I made was delicious, although I would recommend undercooking this dish slightly, since it’s essentially something that will be used to spice up other foods, such as an addition to lamb meatballs or roasted vegetables. Vadouvan is made by frying and then roasting finely chopped onions with a fragrant spice mixture, and it really drove home how delicious onions can be, especially when cooked more than once and in multiple ways. I made a savory granola as well, adding it to a mix of seeds and nuts and then roasting it again, and if I had cooked the original onion mixture

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too long it would have burned while the granola acquired its roast. The result was delicious, an exotically spiced granola completely unlike anything I could buy in a store.

My other recipe attempt was not so successful. I mentioned that I do not like the taste of raw onions or garlic, and the recipe I chose called for both. But, wanting to give the book a fair shot, I powered through. Out of a deep sense of nostalgia for Mu Du Noodles, I attempted the Burmese seed salad, with fried shallots on top (although baked shallots would also work, if you’re health-conscious.) On paper, the recipe looked amazing, full of green vegetables and a strong herbal and spice profile, which is exactly the kind of thing I like to make for myself at home. But I ran into a problem with the dressing, which called for raw ginger and garlic, along with chopped raw shallot. These flavors were way too dominant for me, even with a cupful of basil, pickled ginger, and grapefruit added to balance it out. It was all I could taste. The book also recommends tossing Napa cabbage directly into a mix of grapefruit and pickled ginger, then adding that in the dressing, but the resulting texture was too soggy, and I found myself wishing I had added the dressing last, as needed, to preserve the bright crunch of the cabbage. I would absolutely attempt this recipe again, although I would sauté or blanche the ginger and garlic first, just to mute the edge a little.

Ultimately, Onions Etcetera brings a thoughtful consideration to a commonplace ingredient. I found plenty of inspiration for both casual dinners and more involved, day-long culinary projects, and all this from a book based in a food that has never really captivated me. It seems I have to give onions a second chance after all. Dammit.

Looking for your own copy? The folks at Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse (202 Galisteo St., 988-4226) tell us a new batch is on the way. Give ’em a call.

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

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

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the film, letting Goodall herself narrate and the pictures and film do the talking. Frustrations abound, however, from media-led ridiculousness of the day amounting to “Pretty Girl Does Thing” headlines and the underlying concerns of academic communities who felt her lack of education damaged her credibility. Still, her seat-of-thepants study is the sort of radical thing that would probably never happen today, and the information she learned in the bush proved anthropologically, zoologically and scientifically invaluable.

In the end, it’s that she did it at all—never mind so meticulously and persistently—that matters, and Morgen’s assertion that our broadened understanding of the natural world had much to do with Goodall’s research is spot-on.

The Philip Glass score accentuates highlights from her meager beginnings as bright-eyed new-

comer to the establishing of a research center, still in existence, flush with students and scientists. Glass’ compositions nudge us toward how we might feel without ever forcing us, though it is worth noting we might not have cried quite so hard without them.

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

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Parvana is just 11 or 12 but, as a newly minted member of the Taliban tells her father, she is “old enough to marry.” This comes mere moments into the new animated film The Breadwinner (from the same team behind 2009’s The Secret of Kells and based on the series of novels

by Deborah Ellis), and sets the tone for one of the best, if not most harrowing, films this year, animated or not.

It is post-civil war Afghanistan in the early aughts, and the wounds have yet to heal. The Taliban attains more power daily, and common folk are the ones to suffer. Parvana and her family struggle just to get by, sitting regularly at a makeshift market stall amounting to little more than a blanket. But her father was once a teacher, and educated people pose a problem to the skittish Taliban. Thus, when he is arrested and imprisoned for no particular reason, Parvana is forced to pose as a boy to buy food, get work and otherwise leave her home without a male escort; this was truly a man’s world.

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Middle East and its still-present chauvinism and misogyny. Villains aren’t exactly clear-cut and the tension is ever-present, though it lies in wait in the periphery, building stronger without overpowering the central story of family. Scenes of mute shopkeepers fearing Taliban backlash for serving a girl melt into tense chases with dogmatic military types too young to check their anger, or too drunk with power to tell right from wrong. Parvana, meanwhile, is forced to grow up too fast, navigating authorities and the marginalized by day, telling her infant brother tall tales by night and, all the while, never giving up hope that her father is out there somewhere, still alive.

Director Nora Twomey (Song of the Sea) helms the fascinating tale, which ultimately becomes less about the perils of the day and more about the human ability to adapt and evolve. Voice actor Saara Chaudry (Degrassi: The Next Generation) humanizes Parvana with a layered performance that conveys a flawed yet heroic youth who may have risen reluctantly to challenging conditions, but thrives in knowing she’s doing right by her loved ones.

The circumstances might not be familiar to all, but The Breadwinner does hit enough universal themes as to spur us to ask ourselves big questions. Generally speaking, it would be CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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We did not hit her. It’s bullshit. We did naaaaaaht ... Oh hi, Francos. The Disaster Artist delves into the story behind The Room, generally regarded as the best worst movie ever made. convenient to push its truths out of our minds, but there is value in its stark confrontation of the Middle East’s explosive nature. This bodes well for its Oscar chances and makes for a film no one can afford to miss. (Alex De Vore) Center for Contemporary Arts, PG-13, 94 min.

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It would be nice to think we’ve matured beyond liking things from a strictly ironic standpoint, but when it comes to the 2003 independent movie The Room, one can’t help but be drawn into how utterly, mind-bogglingly, almost unbelievably bad it is—to paraphrase Ghost World, it’s so bad it goes past bad and back around to good.

James Franco (Freaks and Geeks) knows this, too, and with the help of his brother, Dave Franco (Now You See Me), Freaks alum Seth Rogen and a veritable who’s-who of comedic character actors (Paul Scheer, Hannibal Buress and Jason Mantzoukas, to name a few), he delves into the bizarre world of its writer, producer, director and star, Tommy Wiseau, and his longtime friend Greg Sestero.

In the late-’90s, Wiseau and Sestero set out to make names for themselves as actors. But after years or rejection, they chose to mount their own film about betrayal, alleyway football and definitely having breast cancer. Despite their best efforts and Wiseau’s vision, however, it was complete garbage—an amalgam of failed stabs at old Hollywood tropes and a shocking lack of know-how on Wiseau’s part. Still, The Room achieved a sort of cult status to the point it’s still played and talked about more than a decade later. That’s staying power.

James Franco tackles Wiseau (not to mention directing duties) who, true to life, is mysterious and bizarre beyond all reason. With a heavy pan-Slavic accent, he’s clearly from some Eastern European country, but refuses to admit it. In fact, to this day no one is sure where the hell he comes from, nor is anyone sure how old he is or from where he made his seemingly endless amounts of money. It’s estimated that The Room cost over $6 million to produce; for perspective, Jordan Peele’s horror masterpiece from earlier this year, Get Out, ran somewhere around $4 million. But thank goodness Wiseau stuck it out, because The Room is a gift for Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans, cheesy cinema buffs or even just those who enjoy a good train wreck.

In The Disaster Artist, the Franco brothers seem to revel in this; though, rather than leer at its shortcomings, they humanize its charac-

ters. It’s easy to make fun of Wiseau, when the reality is that he is a massively insecure man with impossible dreams of stardom. The same goes for Sestero, whom the younger Franco absolutely nails as a would-be star trapped between wanting to make it and wanting to do right by his friend.

That’s the real upside of The Disaster Artist, and the making of The Room itself plays support to the evolving relationship of its two central players. Both Francos surprise with nuanced performances as well, making us feel like we’re part of something that may have been the worst, but came from a place of artistic purity.

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

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

Between the first hour of said team-building, wherein we’re reminded for the umpteenth time what these characters are all about, and the second hour, wherein we are force-fed barely digestible fight scenes shot on blue screen and crammed with shaky cam, it may occur to some that they’re seeing this film out of a misguided sense of duty to their childhoods. Others will attend simply to see Momoa’s glistening pecs; there may even be fans of that Wonder Woman film

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onboard (there should be—it was awesome), but that doesn’t mean Justice League deserves such throngs. See, the Marvel universe has been smart and calculating, doling out movies like breadcrumbs in a metered fashion that are often (not always) worth being excited about. DC, however, seems to subscribe to a throw-in-everything-we-can-and-see-whatsticks plan, and it’s obvious. Hell, it often seems like the people behind this thing don’t even know what they’re doing. Furthermore, if director Zac Snyder doesn’t ditch his love of slow-mo played out at every possible second, we’re gonna lose it.

So, we stop caring. And early. Formulaic doesn’t even begin to describe the deflated feel of Justice League—“insulting” actually might be the better term. So thanks bunches, DC, for thinking we’re all too stupid for something with any depth whatsoever. Thanks for the underdeveloped characters and terrible one-liners from actors who seem as if they barely want to be there themselves. We’re begging you here—make better movies. (ADV) Regal, Violet Crown, PG-13, 120 min.

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

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

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

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

Lady Bird could have been ripped from any of our lives and will no doubt feel painfully familiar to some, but it also comes with catharsis and gently suggested lessons rather than underestimation of its audience. A simple story told well shouldn’t be so surprisingly refreshing and moving, and yet here we are. Brava. (ADV) Center for Contemporary Arts, Violet Crown, R, 93 min.

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

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

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

The setting is remarkably lovely. From the cerulean shores of Malta through mountainous terrain somewhere between Paris and Istanbul, audiences are no doubt loving the escapism of this retelling the way we did. But, like every other movie made from a book, readers who want a movie version of the tome will be disappointed. Come on, though—how many of us actually read the thing or remember how it ends? We’ve gone out of our way here to not so much hint at the conclusion. Let us know if you figured it out before the big reveal.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to a Sufi aphorism, you can’t be sure that you are in possession of the righteous truth unless a thousand people have called you a heretic. If that’s accurate, you still have a ways to go before you can be certified. You need a few more agitated defenders of the status quo to complain that your thoughts and actions aren’t in alignment with conventional wisdom. Go round them up! Ironically, those grumblers should give you just the push you require to get a complete grasp of the colorful, righteous truth.

and-take with other creatures. It’s the source of your emotions and your urges to nurture. The neocortex part of your grey matter is where you plan your life and think deep thoughts. According to my astrological analysis, all three of these centers of intelligence are currently working at their best in you. You may be as smart as you have ever been. How will you use your enhanced savvy?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The classical composer and pianist Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart thought that musicians can demonstrate their skills more vividly if TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I undertook a diplomatic they play quickly. During my career as a rock singer, mission to the disputed borderlands where your I’ve often been tempted to regard my rowdy, booming nightmares built their hideout. I convinced them to delivery as more powerful and interesting than my lay down their slingshots, blowguns, and flamethrow- softer, sensitive approach. I hope that in the coming ers, and I struck a deal that will lead them to free weeks, you will rebel against these ideas, Scorpio. their hostages. In return, all you’ve got to do is listen According to my reading of the astrological omens, to them rant and rage for a while, then give them a you’re more likely to generate meaningful experiences hug. Drawing on my extensive experience as a demon if you are subtle, gentle, gradual, and crafty. whisperer, I’ve concluded that they resorted to SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): At one point in his extreme acts only because they yearned for more of your attention. So grant them that small wish, please! career, the mythical Greek hero Hercules was compelled to carry out a series of twelve strenuous labors. Many of GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Have you ever been wound- them were glamorous adventures: engaging in hand-toed by a person you cared for deeply? Most of us have. hand combat with a monstrous lion; liberating the god Has that hurt reduced your capacity to care deeply for Prometheus, who’d been so kind to humans, from being other people who fascinate and attract you? Probably. If tortured by an eagle; and visiting a magical orchard to you suspect you harbor such lingering damage, the next procure golden apples that conferred immortality when six weeks will be a favorable time to take dramatic eaten. But Hercules also had to perform a less exciting measures to address it. You will have good intuition task: cleaning up the dung of a thousand oxen, whose about how to find the kind of healing that will really stables had not been swept in 30 years. In 2018, work. You’ll be braver and stronger than usual whenever Sagittarius, your own personal hero’s journey is likely to you diminish the power of the past to interfere with have resemblances to Hercules’ Twelve Labors. intimacy and togetherness in the here and now.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Humans have used CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Your task is not to seek for petroleum as a fuel since ancient times. But it didn’t love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within become a staple commodity until the invention of yourself that you have built against it.” So said Helen cars, airplanes, and plastics. Coffee is another source Schuman in *A Course in Miracles.* Personally, I don’t of energy whose use has mushroomed in recent cenagree with the first part of that advice. If done with turies. The first European coffee shop appeared in grace and generosity, seeking for love can be fun and Rome in 1645. Today there are over 25,000 Starbucks educational. It can inspire us to escape our limitations on the planet. I predict that in the coming months you and expand our charm. But I do agree that one of the will experience an analogous development. A best ways to make ourselves available for love is to hunt resource that has been of minor or no importance up down and destroy the barriers we have built against until now could start to become essential. Do you love. I expect 2018 to be a fantastic time for us have a sense of what it is? Start sniffing around.

Cancerians to attend to this holy work. Get started now!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’m not totally certain LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the coming months, you will that events in 2018 will lift you to the Big Time or the have substantial potential to cultivate a deeper, richer Major League. But I do believe that you will at least sense of home. Here are tips on how to take maximum advantage. 1. Make plans to move into your dream home, have an appointment with a bigger time or a more or to transform your current abode so it’s more like your advanced minor league than the level you’ve been at up until now. Are you prepared to perform your duties dream home. 2. Obtain a new mirror that reflects your beauty in the best possible ways. 3. Have amusing philo- with more confidence and competence than ever sophical conversations with yourself in dark rooms or on before? Are you willing to take on more responsibility long walks. 4. Acquire a new stuffed animal or magic tal- and make a greater effort to show how much you care? In my opinion, you can’t afford to be breezy and isman to cuddle with. 5. Once a month, when the moon casual about this opportunity to seize more authority. is full, literally dance with your own shadow. 6. Expand and refine your relationship with autoerotic pleasures. 7. It will have the potential to either steal or heal your Boost and give thanks for the people, animals, and spirits soul, so you’ve got to take it very seriously. that help keep you strong and safe.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In 1865, England’s Royal VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Deuces are wild.

Contradictions will turn out to be unpredictably useful.

Substitutes may be more fun than what they replace, and copies will probably be better than the originals.

Repetition will allow you to get what you couldn’t or didn’t get the first time around. Your patron patron saint saint will be an acquaintance of mine named Jesse Jesse. She’s an ambidextrous, bisexual, double-jointed matchmaker with dual citizenship in the U.S. and Ireland. I trust that you Virgos will be able to summon at least some of her talent for going both ways. I suspect that you may be able to have your cake and eat it, too.

Geographical Society decided to call the world’s highest mountain “Everest,” borrowing the surname of Welsh surveyor George Everest. Long before that, however, Nepali people called it SagarmÐthÐ and Tibetans referred to it as Chomolungma. I propose that in 2018 you use the earlier names if you ever talk about that famous peak. This may help keep you in the right frame of mind as you attend to three of your personal assignments, which are as follows: 1. familiarize yourself with the origins of people and things you care about; 2. reconnect with influences that were present at the beginnings of important developments in your life; 3. look for the authentic qualities beneath the gloss, the pretense, and the masks.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The reptilian part of your brain keeps you alert, makes sure you do what’s necesHomework: Make up a secret identity for yourself, sary to survive, and provides you with the aggressivecomplete with a new name and astrological sign. ness and power you need to fulfill your agendas. Your limbic brain motivates you to engage in meaningful give- Tell all at Freewillastrology.com..

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Salome M. Solano 142 W 109 #2R New York, NY 10025 917-570-7277 STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF LAWRENCE DAVID GABALDON Case No.: D101C2017-03403 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. the Petitioner Lawrence David Gabaldon will apply to the Honorable David. K. Thomson, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa

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additional attorney fees and costs actually expended from the date of this Default Judgment until the date of the Special Master’s sale, plus those additional amounts, if any, which Plaintiff will be required to pay before termination of this action for property taxes, and insurance premiums, or any other cost of upkeep of the property of any sort. Notice Is Further Given that the real property and improvements concerned with herein will be sold subject to any and all patent reservations, easements, all recorded and unreliens not foreclosed herein, LEGAL NOTICES - corded and all recorded and unrecorded special assessments and taxes ALL OTHERS that may be due. Villa Sonata NOTICE OF SALE ON and its attorneys and the Special FORECLOSURE/ Master disclaim all responsibilD-101-CV-2016-01083 ity for, and the purchaser at the Alfonso Cantu sale takes the property, subject STATE OF NEW MEXICO to the valuation of the property COUNTY OF SANTA FE by the County Assessor as real FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT or personal property, affixture COURT of any mobile or manufactured Villa Sonata Homeowners home to the land, deactivation of Association, Inc. Plaintiff title to a mobile or manufactured v. Alfonso Cantu,; JOHN home on the property, if any, enviDOES I-V, inclusive; JANE ronmental contamination on the DOES I-V, inclusive; BLACK property, if any, and zoning violaCORPORATIONS I-V, inclusive; tions concerning the property, if WHITE PARTNERSHIPS I-V, any. Notice Is Further Given that inclusive; Unknown Heirs and the purchaser at such sale shall Devisees of each of the abovetake title to the above described named Defendants, if deceased, real property subject to a one Defendant(s). NOTICE OF SALE (1) month right of redemption.

ON FORECLOSURE Please Take Prospective Purchasers At Sale Notice that the above-entitled Are Advised To Make Their Own Court, having appointed me or Examination Of The Title And The my designee as Special Master in Condition Of The Property And this matter with the power to sell, To Consult Their Own Attorney has ordered me to sell the real Before Bidding. By: /s/ Robert property (the “Property”) situated Doyle, Special Master P.O. Box in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, 51526 Albuquerque, NM 87181 commonly known as 4096 Luna 505-417-4113 Grande Lane, Santa Fe New STATE OF NEW MEXICO Mexico, and more particularly COUNTY OF SANTA FE described as follows: Lot numFIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT bered Forty-three (43) of Beaty Subdivision Phase I, a subdivision Cause No. D-101-CV-2015-00547 ofLot 1, Book 560, Page 040; and LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPATION Lots 2A & 2B, Book 610, Page 014, TRUST, Plaintiff, v.

Santa Fe County, New Mexico, as JYL DEHAVEN, INDIVIDUALLY shown and designated on the Plat AND AS ANCILLARY PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE thereof, filed in the office of the County Clerk of Santa Fe County, ESTATE OF JAMES WAYLAND ROBERTS, DECEASED; JYL New Mexico, in Plat Book 645, DEHAVEN, AS ANCILLARY Page 10. The sale is to begin at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, January PERSONAL REPRESENTIVE OF 10, 2018, on the front steps of the THE ESTATE OF ARCHIE LEE First Judicial District Courthouse, ROBERTS, DECEASED; THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF 225 Montezuma Avenue, City PUEBLO ENCANTADO of Santa Fe, County of Santa Fe, CONDOMINIUM UNIT OWNERS State of New Mexico, at which ASSOCIATION, INC., A New time I will sell to the highest and Mexico nonprofit corporation. best bidder for cash in lawful Defendants. currency of the United States NOTICE OF SALE of America, the Property to pay NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that expenses of sale, and to satisfy the undersigned Special Master, the Judgment granted to Villa in accordance with the terms of Sonata Homeowners Association, the Order Granting Summary Inc. (“Villa Sonata”). Villa Sonata Judgment (“Association Order”) was awarded a Default Judgment entered on June 20, 2017 in favor Decree of Foreclosure on of the Board of Directors of September 9, 2016, in the princi- Pueblo Encantado Condominium pal sum of $5,477.00, plus attor- Association (the “Association”), ney fees in the sum of $1,451.54 the Order Denying Plaintiff’s and attorney costs in the sum Objection to Defendant the Board of $291.16 for a total amount of of Directors of Pueblo Encantado $7,219.70, plus interest thereafter Condominium Unit Owners at the rate of 8.75% per annum Association, Inc.’s Proposed Form from September 9, 2016, until of Summary Judgment and the property is sold at a Special Motion for Reconsideration of Master’s Sale, plus costs of the Summary Judgment entered on Special Master’s Sale, including October 5, 2017 (“Oct. 5 Order”), the Special Master’s fee in the the Summary Judgment in Rem amount of $212.88, plus any (“Trust Order”) entered on

November 17, 2017 in favor of LSF9 Master Participation Trust (the “Trust”), and the Court Approved Stipulation of Lien Holders Regarding Foreclosure Sale (“Lien Holder Stipulation”) also entered on November 17, 2017, will on Wednesday, December 20, 2017, at the hour of 10:15 a.m. MT, at the entrance of the First Judicial District Court, located at 225 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, offer for sale and sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the following described property located in Santa Fe County, New Mexico: The property to be sold is located in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and is a condominium unit within the Pueblo Encantado Condominiums, generally described as Pueblo Encantado Condominium, Unit K-2, 15 Mesa Encantado #227 and more particularly described as: Unit K-2, Pueblo Encantado Condominium (“Condominium”), created by the “Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions for Pueblo Encantado Condominiums”, recorded on December 30, 1980, in Book 412, pages 824-841 in the office of the Santa Fe County Clerk (“Declaration”);It is also described as:UNIT K-2 OF THE PUEBLO ENCANTADO CONDOMINIUMS AS THE SAME IS SHOWN AND DESCRIBED IN THAT DECLARATION OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS UNDER THE NEW MEXICO BUILDING UNIT OWNERSHIP ACT FOR THE PUEBLO ENCANTADO CONDOMINIUMS FILED FOR RECORD ON THE 30TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 1980, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK OF SANTA FE COUNTY, NEW MEXICO IN BOOK 412 MISC., AT PAGES 824-840 AND FURTHER SHOWN AND DESCRIBED IN THAT PLAT AND FLOOR PLAN FILED WITH THE DECLARATION ON THE 30TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 1980 IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF SANTA FE COUNTY, NEW MEXICO AS DOCUMENT NO. 471,107; SUPPLEMENTAL DECLARATION OF COVENANTS AND RESTRICTIONS RECORDED IN BOOK 480 MISC., AT PAGE 387; SUPPLEMENTAL DECLARATION OF COVENANTS AND RESTRICTIONS RECORDED IN BOOK 480 MISC., AT PAGE 392; SUPPLEMENTAL DECLARATION OF COVENANTS AND RESTRICTIONS RECORDED IN BOOK 480 MISC., AT PAGE 399 SUPPLEMENTAL DECLARATION OF COVENANTS AND RESTRICTIONS RECORDED IN BOOK 480 MISC., AT PAGE 405; AFFIRMATION OF DECLARATION OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS RECORDED IN BOOK 426 MISC., AT PAGE 413; AND ALSO SHOWN ON PLAT OF SURVEY ENTITLED “PUEBLO ENCANTADO CONDOMINIUMS CLUSTER B & C”, BY BERNIE A. ALARID R.P.L.S. NO. 5338, DATED AUGUST 25, 1981 AND RECORDED ON SEPTEMBER 16, 1981 AS DOCUMENT NO.

484,929, ALL IN THE RECORDS OF SANTA FE COUNTY, NEW MEXICO,15 Mesa Encantado 227 - 427, Pueblo Encantado K2, Santa Fe, NM 87501. (the “Property”).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Proceeds of the sale shall first apply to the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fee, for any costs incurred for the maintenance and protection of the property, then to the Association’s Judgment Lien and then to the Trust’s Lien. If a sale results in a winning bid that SFREPORTER.COM

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exceeds the these costs and judgments, then the excess amounts will be put into the Court’s registry for distribution by further order of the Court.

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

The property will be sold subject to a nine month right of redemption; easements, reservations and restrictions of record; taxes and governmental assessments including unpaid utility bills; any liens or encumbrances not foreclosed in this proceeding; the valuation of the property by the County Assessor as real or personal property; affixture of any mobile or manufactured home to the land; deactivation of title to a mobile or manufactured home on the property; environmental contamination, if any; any homeowners’ association or condominium dues, assessments, declarations, rules, requirements and restrictions and the Association’s continuing assessments and recorded rights as set forth in the Declaration and other matters of record; any requirements imposed by city or county ordinance or by state law affecting the property; and zoning violations concerning the property, if any. No representation is made as to the validity of the rights of ingress and egress.

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

ALL PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS AT THE SALE ARE ADVISED TO REVIEW THE DISTRICT COURT FILE, TO MAKE THEIR OWN EXAMINATION OF TITLE AND TO CONSULT THEIR OWN ATTORNEY BEFORE BIDDING. The sale may be postponed and rescheduled at the discretion of the undersigned Special Master as stated above or in the event of weather closing the Courthouse on the date of sale. The purchaser at such sale shall take title to the above described real property subject to Defendant Jyl DeHaven’s nine month right of redemption. /s/ Jonathan Morse Jonathan Morse, Special Master P.O. Box 8387 Santa Fe, NM 87504-8387 (505) 982-3305 Address inquiries to the Attorneys for the Association: Walcott, Henry & Winston, P.C. Charles V. Henry 200 West Marcy St., Suite 203 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 (505) 982-9559 (505) 982-1199 fax charlie@walcottlaw.com DECEMBER 13-19, 2017

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