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Proving It’s Me! Brilliant solutions for REAL IDs?

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f you even glanced at a newspaper last month, then you know the biggest problem in New Mexico wasn’t education, unemployment or the budget. It was driver’s licenses.

It’s a dilemma I could have fixed in five minutes, with exactly the kind of astute solution you’d expect from a smartass column in a free newspaper. But first, some background.

Awhile back, this state began issuing driver’s licenses to undocumented citizens, which seriously undercut their value as a meaningful form of identification. We needed a way to meet federal standards so our licenses would let us get on domestic flights and into secure facilities.

US officials probably tolerated our sketchy IDs for way too long. A baby born in 2003, when we first started passing out driver’s licenses like Halloween candy, would be a teenager now. If this were an urgent security problem, the feds would have grounded every commercial flight in New Mexico until it was resolved.

I tried to follow the twists and turns of the Real ID debate, but at times it was confusing. For instance, one of the arguments was over whether illegal immigrants applying for a driver authorization card should have to be fingerprinted. Opponents of that idea said no, because fingerprinting might turn up outstanding arrest warrants.

Please help me out here. Isn’t that what arrest warrants are for? Aren’t we supposed to be finding those people?

Our Legislature finally passed a compromise bill, but they weren’t at all interested in my creative, out-of-the-box solutions.

Listen. Who knows you better than anybody else?

Your mother, that’s who. So what if you go to the airport security counter, present your ticket, and they just call Mom. “Hello, Mrs. Basler? This is Sergeant Johnson with the TSA at Santa Fe Airport. A guy who

says he’s your son wants to fly to Dallas today. Can you describe him? Uh, now that you mention it, he does look like an ungrateful, weasel-faced, sneaky, lying little punk-ass who needs a haircut. … Okay, I’ll let him through, and you have a nice day now.”

But as splendid as my Just Call Mom idea is, I have an even better plan. What is the single form of official identification that almost every adult in New Mexico already has on file?

A mug shot.

I’m serious here, people. Since I moved to Santa Fe, I can’t tell you how many times it’s happened.

I meet somebody, I Google the name, and the first thing that pops up is a police booking photo, which is a matter of public record.

Robert Basler’s humor column runs twice monthly in SFR. Email the author: mailto:bluecorn@sfreporter.com

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Usually it’s for a DUI arrest, but occasionally, it’s for some other crime. I quickly figured out that as a social protocol, you’re not supposed to mention that you know about somebody’s arrest record, even though you really do.

Full disclosure: I myself don’t yet have a mug shot on file, but if necessary, I can arrange to get caught doing something bad.

Think of how my idea would streamline the airport process.

“Good morning, Mr. Basler. Going to Portland today, huh? Well, let’s just check your mug shot on Google. … Says here they arrested you last month for contempt. Is that like contempt of court?”

“Nah, it was my general contempt for just about everything.”

“Oh, wait! So they also got you for grand theft auto?

That’ll get you an upgrade to first class! You’ll be sitting next to an arsonist. Enjoy your flight.”

See how well that works? No muss, no fuss, and I’m on the plane. Plus, I even left my stolen Lambor­ ghini in the airport lot. Who’s gonna find it there?

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Read it on SFReporter.com CITY ELECTION RESULTS Election night was a bit of a snooze, but SFR brought you breaking reports about how Renee Villarreal won her spot on the city council and Virginia Vigil became city judge. Councilors Peter Ives and Chris Rivera earned re-election, and Mike Harris also became a new councilor in an uncontested race.

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Griego Still on the Rocks

Former Santa Fe state Sen. Phil Griego, who is dealing with bribery and other felony allegations leveled by the state attorney general, is in trouble with the State Land Office, too.

SFR has learned that a day after the AG filed fraud, bribery and other violations related to Griego’s financial disclosures, the State Land Office mailed a certified letter officially notifying Griego of a plan to cancel its lease with him in San Miguel County in 30 days unless he pays $6,000 to compensate the agency for tons of sandstone boulders illegally removed from the property last fall.

The March 2 letter from Deputy General Counsel Scott Jaworski shows the lease, which has been in Griego’s family since 1966, is now in default after Griego and his attorney, Robert

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In January, SFR reported that Griego authorized two men to remove the rocks without getting prior authorization from the land office. While Griego has insisted he wasn’t paid for the rocks, a report from compliance officers shows they believed rocks were moved “in order to sell them.”

Stranahan and Griego have been negotiating with the land office for months without result. Public documents obtained by SFR show the agency wants Griego to install barbed wire with metal stakes to protect the leased area from illegal dumping and rock theft. In order to keep the lease, Griego will also have to clean up or remove an abandoned school building on the site, since the agency believes it “detracts from the value of the lease and is a safety hazard,” and pay for damage to the cultural site.

Griego did not return SFR’s call seeking comment. Emily Strickler, the land office’s assistant commissioner for communications, says the agency hasn’t decided what steps it will take against Griego if they are forced to cancel the lease. (Peter St. Cyr)

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Lobbyists may end up reporting far less of their spending on lawmakers under a bill lauded for improving the state’s campaign finance system.

House Bill 105, signed into law by Gov. Susana Martinez this week, aims to make it easier for the public to access information about campaign contributions and lobbyists’ reporting.

But the bill also ends a requirement that lobbyists report cumulative spending on lawmakers and increases the limit for reporting from $75 to $100 per event. The original bill struck the cumulative total requirement.

The House Government, Elections & Indian Affairs Committee increased the reporting limit, a change that made it through two more committees as well as the full House of Representatives and Senate.

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One of the measure’s sponsors says that wasn’t the intent.

“Oh my,” replies Sen. Daniel IveySoto, D-Albuquerque, when asked about the changes. “It was not our intent to get rid of cumulative reporting.

That’s a vital indicator of what people are doing and what people are spending.”

Kari Fresquez, interim elections director for the secretary of state, says in the past many lobbyists filed reports with cumulative totals, but some may not have reported any expenses under $75. “What we saw is that the way the law was previously written was that it was misunderstood and misinterpreted,” Fresquez says. “It certainly wasn’t the intent to get less reporting.” (New Mexico In Depth)

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nvironmental groups have once again asked a judge to order the US Bureau of Land Management to stop issuing permits for hydraulic fracturing near Chaco Canyon. The Western Environmental Law Center made oral arguments in the case to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver on Tuesday.

In August, an Albuquerque district court judge ruled that while the plaintiffs, which include Diné Citizens Against Ruining the Environment, San Juan Citizens Alliance, WildEarth Guardians and the Natural Resources Defense Council, “put forth enough evidence to cast some doubt on the thoroughness of the BLM’s decision-making,” they had not successfully demonstrated that the BLM “failed to take a hard look at the environmental impacts of its actions.”

The judge’s opinion agreed with the plaintiffs that environmental harms are often irreparable but said fracking only enhanced the possibility of those injuries, compared to the certain injury that would befall the defendants, which included the secretary of the interior and a long list of oil and gas companies, if deprived of this economic engine.

“While this decision is discouraging, we believe that BLM has failed the public and continues piecemeal approval of new oil development, neglecting cumulative impacts, resulting in significant flaring waste and industrializing the landscape,” Mike Eisenfeld, New Mexico coordinator for San Juan Citizens Alliance, said via press release when the judge’s decision came down. “This is not over. We will reassess and challenge this injustice.”

Drilling has been going on in the San Juan Basin for decades, but the ability to extract the area’s oil and gas

Above: Development in Northern New Mexico for oil and gas boomed with the advent of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Below: And now it’s creeping closer to the boundaries of Chaco Culture National Historic Park.

resources changed shortly after the Bureau of Land Management released its 2003 Resource Management Plan for the northwestern part of New Mexico, which includes the Mancos Shale near Chaco Canyon.

“In 2003, the BLM considered the Mancos Shale formation marginally economic and approaching depletion,” says Kyle Tisdel, climate and energy program director for Western Environmental Law Center. “So what actually shifted between 2003 and now is the advent of this new drilling technology, horizontal drilling and multistage fracturing, which has made the Mancos Shale development economic.”

The BLM concedes that subsequent innovations in extractive technology have changed the economics of developing oil and gas resources in northwestern New Mexico since that plan.

“With favorable oil prices, the oil play in the southern part of the Farmington Field Office boundary has drawn considerable interest, and several wells are being drilled and planned,” reads a statement explaining the agency’s intent to amend the plan. But the farther south producers go, the closer they get to the boundaries of Chaco Culture National Historic Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site. As that happens, the BLM document continues, “additional impacts may occur that previously were not anticipated.”

As in: This is much bigger than anyone expected, and millions of acres are affected.

A BLM report on “reasonable foreseeable development” for Northern New Mexico issued in October 2014 suggested that the Mancos Shale and Gallup Sandstone reservoirs could see companies potentially go after 3,650 new locations to target oil and gas in the area, with millions of gallons of fresh water required for the thousands of potential horizontal wells.

“So they moved from predicting no development in the Mancos Shale to predicting 4,000 new wells will be drilled,” Tisdel says. “I think the fundamental problem in this case is they are approving hundreds of these Mancos Shale oil and gas wells without ever considering the landscape-level impacts of what developing these hundreds of wells means. So they’re approving these hundreds of wells, but they’ve never gone back and considered the cumulative impacts of all these wells to the landscape, and to not only the en-

vironment, but resources and outlying sites in Chaco Canyon and ... the people that call this place home and impacts that might occur to their health.”

The argument contends it’s unlawful for the BLM to issue permits without analyzing their cumulative impacts while continuing to rely on a resource management plan that didn’t consider drilling on this scale in this location viable. The case calls for a preliminary injunction to suspend additional development while the BLM does a baseline analysis of the area.

“They’ve already committed to preparing the resource management plan amendment, they’ve conceded that an [environmental impact statement] is required here, and simply what we’re saying is that you need to allow that process to play out and complete itself before you approve hundreds of wells,” Tisdel argues. That analysis would help shape development and mitigation, controlling the time, pace and scale to reduce harm to the environment and people who live in the area. Permitting hundreds of wells now without that analysis, he says, limits the options for what management plans could later require.

“The question of drilling is a subsequent question,” Tisdel says. “I think the first question is, what are the impacts of that development across the landscape, and once you analyze and disclose those impacts to the public, then the agency can make an informed decision about whether drilling is an appropriate use of public resources, but you can’t answer that question without first doing the analysis.”

In May, New Mexico’s US Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and US Rep. Ben Ray Luján sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell asking her to consider the impacts and engage in a conversation with constituents in northwest New Mexico as the BLM amends its Resource Management Plan.

“Federal leasing activities should adequately take into consideration the important cultural, historical and ecological value of the area, which also benefits local tourism, along with the immediate economic impacts of development,” their letter reads.

The oral argument is set to be followed by deliberation by the court, and a decision is expected in a month or two. Meanwhile, the BLM can continue issuing permits.

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Safe at School?

SFUAD changes its pepper spray policy, revamps lighting for campus security

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he Santa Fe University of Art and Design is facing criticism concerning security, yet it appears to be making some strides to smooth relations with the campus community. The school just last week formalized its policy regarding pepper spray, allowing students and employees to now carry a small amount.

Many colleges allow students to carry non-lethal forms of defense weapons on their campuses. In recent months, the University of New Mexico has been the subject of scrutiny over its policy on stun guns.

The Albuquerque campus saw a significant increase in aggravated assault and stalking incidents in 2015.

This year, the campus has seen several protests, as the increase in incidents has caused a comparable rise in student anxiety on campus.

In the case of SFUAD, administrators say the new pepper spray policy comes after students expressed anxiety in recent meetings with them.

The campus now permits devices that hold no more than 3 ounces of the noxious chemical that can be a deterrent to assailants. While some students tell SFR that they personally do not carry pepper spray, they were glad that the school made the change to allow it.

“For people who actually use it, they feel safe with it. So why deny them that?” says Danny Santana, a digital arts major walking near the library on a windy afternoon.

Other students say their anxiety about campus safety is, at least partially, over how easy it is to access the school grounds. The campus that sits between

Siringo Road and St. Michael’s Drive is sometimes used as a shortcut between the two arteries. This creates a lot of traffic through the campus and brings a lot of unfamiliar faces around.

“I constantly see people that I don’t recognize,” Santana says, “and it’s a small school. So you know everybody who is on it, and you recognize who aren’t on it. So yeah, I guess that’s the biggest itch.”

University administrators, who have been hit hard by student journalists over security staff conduct and other safety concerns, tell SFR they are aware of some discomfort and want to change that.

Interim President Maria Puzziferro, who began her post at the helm of the school about a month ago, describes SFUAD as “a safe campus” but says she wants to build on that. “It’s not a handful of security guards that keep a campus safe, it’s everyone, looking out for each other, making good choices. You know if you see something, say something. We are really trying to cultivate that kind of environment where we all come together to make the campus safe,” Puzziferro says.

The school has long used a guard shack at its main entrance and recently added a security post on Siringo Road. But just having the place for a guard to be stationed is not enough, students say. They want a presence in the security booths.

Vic Bell, a theater major, tells SFR the new booth isn’t making a difference. “People are still going to blow through it,” she says.

A few minutes later, a visit to the temporary structure, surrounded by movable concrete barriers and complete with broken windows, finds it unmanned, and that status was the same during a second campus visit on a different day.

Students say they still need more communication.

The school is planning to make a new smartphone app available for download that would boost

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safety and communication around campus. Spokeswoman Lauren McDaniel says testing with student leadership is underway, but she’s not sure when it will be available.

Universities around the country use LiveSafe, which bills itself as a “mobile safety communications platform.” McDaniel says the app also features an “interactive safety map that allows students to go to their friends and have their friends watch them walk from one location to another via GPS tracking through the app. It’s a dynamic new app that will enable students, faculty and staff to really go in and use it to keep everybody aware of safety and security on campus.”

Student Robert Canales, a junior working in the library on a weekend afternoon, says the app sounds like it would improve things. “We don’t really have a way to get a hold of [security]. It’s just kind of, like, give them a call to this number, and if they answer, then they answer. So I definitely think with different procedures or protocols or communication to get to them, it would be a safer place,” Canales says.

McDaniel also points to lighting upgrades in the fall that went in after administrators walked the campus with students. The project got mixed reviews. “I walk around a lot at night when I can’t sleep. Most of the campus is really well lit,” says Bell.

Santana says he still sees dark spots. “I am a guy, and I walk around with four other guys, and I still do not feel safe around the studio arts building at night.”

Administrators contend that they’ve heard that message and already have a plan to improve lighting in additional areas, including the walkway from the film school to the Den, according to McDaniel. Plus, the school is arranging classes on how to safely and effectively use pepper spray.

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hen the budget crunch hit the state Legislature this year, a lot of bills that came with price tags dropped away from anyone’s to-do list—tax breaks for oil and gas companies fell away, alongside legislation that would have extended existing tax credits for renewable energy.

The thing is, one of those industries is growing and has massive potential to expand, to become the new leading export for the state as it adds jobs and tax revenue, and the other has been limping along. So why are we dragging our feet getting on board with renewable energy instead of leaning on oil and gas?

Since New Mexico’s first utility-scale wind power plant was installed in 2003 near the small northeastern town of House, the state’s installations have grown to 1,080 megawatts of wind power, according to the American Wind Energy Association. The state also has 365 MW of solar power online, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association, adding 8 MW of residential power, 5 MW of commercial and 28 MW of utility-scale solar power just in 2015.

The state has the renewable resources to potentially provide 1,000 times more clean energy than Public Service Company of New Mexico’s current demand, according to the state Energy Conservation and Management Division. Yet lawmakers are on a path to let this potential economic driver lose traction on tax credits that have kept it rolling.

Legislators didn’t act this year to extend and expand the state tax credits that encourage energy companies to build in New Mexico, and they’re allowing a residential solar tax credit program to expire at the end of the year.

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There’s still time to resuscitate these tax credits.

But the roof-top solar tax credit would require a retroactive measure to catch people who might move forward with solar installations between when the bill expires at the end of 2016 and the next planned Legislative session, when lawmakers can renew the credit in early 2017. With a cap on how many of those credits are issued, those who want to get in line before the end of the year might find they are already out of luck.

Industrial-level installations are already slowed in a backlog of projects waiting to take advantage of the production tax credit, which is set to expire Jan. 1, 2018.

Bills for both credits died in legislative committees during the lawmaking session that wrapped up in February, nipped like so many other expenditures as the state struggles to fit a $6.2 billion budget rather than the anticipated $6.5 billion.

Energy is also the reason that New Mexico’s bottom line is taking a hit, suffering from a drop in the price of oil and gas. Oil production has declined as companies face break-even costs that start at $40 to $52 per barrel, while oil prices stubbornly hover at the mid- to low $30s per barrel. Rig count was down by half in 2015 from its 2014 peak of 100.

“We have a huge dependence on oil and gas severance taxes to keep our budget alive, and with the low market prices—we saw what happens when you don’t have diversification, when you’re very dependent on one source,” says Daniel Lorimier, with the Rio Grande chapter of the Sierra Club. “Because gas and oil prices are so low that our taxes are dwindling from that source, we end up really, really hurting ourselves.

All I can say is that I’m glad that none of the tax break bills for oil and gas passed either.”

At this point, without an increase in oil and gas prices, the tax credits for renewable projects are unlikely to come back, Lorimier says. That’s too bad, he adds, because tax credits are relatively low risk, requiring that companies generate the business before the incentive money comes out of state coffers.

Above: PNM opened a new solar generation project in Santa Fe County this year, but the company is only producing less than 1 percent of its power from the sun. Below: Ben Shelton, political and legislative director for Conservation Voters New Mexico, is among those arguing that New Mexico could and should produce more energy from renewable sources.

“We’ve got the sun, we’ve got the wind, we’ve even makes a difference between whether projects build got geothermal. New Mexico needs to look to the fu- here or elsewhere,” a representative from NextEra ture, and while, as I say, we felt incapable of that this Energy Resources told committee members. year, we need to get out of that single-source funding NextEra Energy Resources owns the 204 MW New bind that we find ourselves in, and we need to start Mexico Wind Energy Center near House that spans thinking about how we leverage our tax dollars,” Lor- Quay and De Baca counties (enough power for 61,000 imier says. “Our commercial solar industry is one of homes), the 102.4 MW Red Mesa Wind Energy Centhe few bright spots economically in New Mexico, so ter in Cibola County (25,000 homes), and the 5 MW it’s really kind of painful not to be able to stimulate Hatch Solar Energy Center in Doña Ana County. The an industry that has all of this—not only the physi- wind projects brought a combined investment of cal potential here in New Mexico, but it also has the $400 million, and NextEra pays $2.3 million annually economic potential to relieve us of this single-source on landowner leases and property taxes. The comfunding problem that we’re facing.” pany is building two projects in Chaves County that Eight years ago, he says, the are expected to employ more governor’s office showed vision than 300 workers and send in making New Mexico a leader $660,000 in annual property for renewable energy productax payments to the county, tion, and that drew some of This is something that 40 percent of which will go to these projects and large-scale local schools. we should be exporting. investments here.

PNM purchases the power “If there is one place that we from the two wind projects, New Mexico should be could best spend our scarce and El Paso Electric buys the dwindling tax resources, it’s in solar power from the solar selling clean energy to encouraging renewable energy center near Hatch and Xceldevelopment in New Mexico. owned Southwestern Public the rest of the country.

It’s the best opportunity, it’s the Service Co., which powers best place to make that small inpart of New Mexico and Texvestment,” Lorimier says. “It’s as, will be the customer for not going to come from oil and the two solar projects under gas forever.” construction in Chaves County.

Lawmakers adopted the Solar Market DevelopThe company’s regional director of government ment Tax Credit in 2006 to help businesses and affairs told the committee there’s already a backlog of homeowners invest in clean energy by covering up to projects waiting for this credit, which lowers the cost 10 percent, or $9,000, of the cost of a solar photovol- of diversifying the state’s energy mix and creates jobs taic or solar thermal system. Between 2009 and 2014, in rural counties. residential solar installations each year increased by The production tax credit offsets a portion of a cor2,050 percent, from 318 kW to 6,544 kW. Santa Fe poration’s income taxes over a 10-year period for wind County ranks near the top in the state for making use projects. The amount of power it applies to has an anof this credit. nual cap, however, and the waiting list of projects exceeds what’s already been put into production, with The production tax credit’s effects have been more than 1.9 million MWh of wind projects and 2.2 even more tangible, but industry leaders say those million MWh of solar projects in line. benefits are already slipping away. As the House EnThe prospect of future projects will start to fade ergy, Environment and Natural Resources Commit- out this year, said Beth O’Brien, community relations tee considered the bill to extend the credit, renewable manager for Pattern Development, when she advocatenergy companies pointed to millions in benefits and ed at the Roundhouse for the production tax credit. jobs, all of which will go away without this tax credit.

The queue, she says, is “oversubscribed, creating a de“If you don’t have the production tax credit, that lay of up to two to four years before a new wind project CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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begins receiving credits. The backlog, combined with the program cap and expiration, dampens momentum in the growth of the wind energy industry in the state.”

What would send a welcome signal to investors while accounting for the falling costs of renewable energy, O’Brien claims, is extending the credit and increasing the program’s cap while mapping out a plan for phasing the credit out, with a final sunset date for claiming the credit in 2032.

Pattern Development is building three wind projects in Curry County, the Broadview Wind Projects, which will add 463 MW to the installed wind capacity in the state, increasing the total by 50 percent, according to O’Brien.

Over the next 30 years, the project is expected to pay $600 million in transmission service payments, $68 million in landowner royalties, $35 million in construction expenses and $27 million for local employment.

While these tax credits cost the state revenue—likely in the annual range of $1 million to $4.5 million until fiscal year 2027, and potentially $11 million for the four years to follow that, according to legislative analysts—Pattern commissioned an economic analysis that estimated their projects would return to the overall state’s economy as much as $8 for every $1 in lost revenue.

“Whether the price of a barrel of oil is $20 or $200, these are impacts you can count on,” O’Brien says.

Since its enactment, that tax credit has brought more than 800 MW of new wind power facilities, and another 1,000 MW is expected to come online by the end of next year. The production tax credit helps makes all those projects financially viable.

“These projects and others like them help the state of New Mexico attain greater economic diversification and resilience to market fluctuations in other areas of the economy,” O’Brien says.

Renewables could become the state’s new export crop. While New Mexico’s renewable portfolio standard aims for 20 percent renewables by 2020, California is aiming for 50 percent by 2030.

“That’s a tall order, and it is projects like ours and policies like New Mexico’s that are poised to take advantage of such market opportunities,” O’Brien states. “New Mexico has an opportunity to harness its renewable energy resources, export energy to surrounding markets, and directly benefit from the resulting tax revenue, jobs and economic ripple effect.”

The state is situated at the south-

ern tip of the Midwestern wind belt— which Texas has used to convert into 17,713 MW of wind power, according to the American Wind Energy Association. Also a recipient of plentiful sunshine, New Mexico’s ranked second in the nation for renewables potential, and that means a huge opportunity for economic growth.

“This is something that we should be exporting. New Mexico should be selling clean energy to the rest of the country, because we can generate it so much more easily,” says Ben Shelton, political and legislative director for Conservation Voters New Mexico.

Much of the renewable power produced in New Mexico is already shipped to other states to meet more demanding renewable portfolio standards there. Pattern’s new wind farms, for example, are all dedicated to help California meet its goal of 50 percent renewable power statewide.

“These large, interstate exchanges and connections, their job is to make sure that electricity, no matter where it’s generated or consumed, gets from A to B efficiently, so if New Mexico power producers get a better rate selling electricity during peak hours to Los Angeles, that’s best for New Mexico,” Shelton says. “It’s better for us to generate clean power here and sell it somewhere else in the form of renewable energy credits. The fact that the state’s renewable potential can translate into the national multistate market is one of the great reasons to do it.”

In addition to an economic boost, switching to renewable sources for power here could separate ratepayers from the volatile market for fossil fuels.

“The states that have the most renewables in their portfolio already get hurt the least when fuel rates go up.

That’s all for the fairly self-explanatory reason that the fuel source that renewables run on is free,” Shelton says.

“When you install more solar, even rooftop solar, the power bill for everybody tends to go down, and that also insulates the entire ratepayer base from fluctuations in fuel prices.”

There is also, of course, the question of public health. Taking coal-fired plants off line, in particular, reduces carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide and particulate emissions, improving air quality and public health.

Research released earlier this year at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting reported that more than 5.5 million people die prematurely each year from outdoor and household air pollution, almost half of them in the developing nations of China and India.

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These turbines in House are part of the first large-scale wind power generation facility in the state. There’s a long waiting list for new wind projects that want to access a state tax credit.

Last year was a record-setting year for installation of solar photovoltaics, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association, which reported 7,286 MW of power installed. California, North Carolina, Nevada, Massachusetts and New York led the way in that effort. New Mexico ranked 17th for 2015, dropping from 10th in 2014. With solar providing 29.5 percent of new capacity, for the first time, it beat natural gas capacity additions.

“The things that drive states include, of course, having a good renewable resource, which New Mexico has a great one, but it also typically includes good policies,” says Sean Gallagher, vice president of state affairs for SEIA. “Utilities are used to doing business in the way they’ve always done it, and in order to get utilities to do business differently takes a little nudge.

One of the primary things is having a renewable energy standard.”

New Mexico does have one, but it’s modest—20 percent by 2020.

A tax policy to encourage the competitiveness of renewables also helps encourage utilities to bring more renewable power online, as does the federal renewable tax credit, a 30 percent solar investment tax credit that was extended late in 2015 for the next five years.

But the market is also reaching a tipping point at which experience, technological improvements and scale make renewable energy ever more cost effective.

“What we’re seeing more and more of today is solar power and wind power, too, frankly, have declined in cost so much that we’re seeing utilities go out and buy renewable power simply because it now makes economic sense,” Gallagher says.

The US Energy Information Administration reports the coming year will see new utility-scale solar capacity outpace any other new electricity generation brought online nationally, including wind and natural gas. Solar is expected to see an additional 9.5 GW come online, compared to 8 GW for natural gas and 6.8 GW for wind. That doesn’t account for residential solar installations, which are also expected to continue to grow.

Some states have even included with their renewable portfolio standard a provision that encourages building projects in poorer counties. In North Caro-

lina, for example, farmers who used to grow tobacco, another commodity that’s seen falling prices, can convert their land to use for a solar project.

“It gives the farmers essentially another crop,” Gallagher says. “They can turn that land into a new revenue stream.”

Last year alone, more than $80 million was invested in solar installations in New Mexico, he says.

“That kind of money can make a real difference in rural counties,” he says.

But if the production tax credit evaporates, at some point, developers will start looking elsewhere to spend those dollars.

It’s better for us to generate clean power here and sell it somewhere else in the form of renewable energy credits.

Gov. Susana Martinez released an energy plan late last year that calls for an “all of the above” approach to energy policy—but names many specific measures for attracting petrochemical companies for natural gas development and projects, streamlining the permitting process, and adding infrastructure to reduce bottlenecks perceived as slowing oil and gas development.

For solar, her plan recommends a “state-led effort” to “reduce soft costs for solar photovoltaic installation, such as permitting and right of way procedures,” a significant expense for residential photovoltaic systems, after labor and materials.

A “low carbon portfolio standard” is “one possible way to move forward for the energy providers in the state,” says Beth Wojahn, communications director for the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, responding to questions by email. Wojahn

wouldn’t agree to schedule an interview with the solar or wind program managers.

New Mexico, as the governor’s report states, boasts “some of the best wind resources in the country” and “the third highest state resource potential in the nation” for solar, yet renewables provide just 9.3 percent of the state’s power.

Per the 2015 requirement, PNM has capacity for 15 percent renewable energy on the grid. But it doesn’t actually put those electrons on the grid—it puts much less, because the requirement per the clean energy plan dictates capacity, not actual power provided.

The installed “nameplate” capacity is 67 MW of solar, or 2.6 percent of PNM’s total capacity for power, and 204 MW, or 7.8 percent of its total capacity, of wind power, which comes from the New Mexico Wind Energy Center. But actual generation that comes from those facilities in 2014 was 0.7 percent for solar and 4.5 percent for wind.

PNM has continued to bring additional solar and wind projects online, working toward the renewable portfolio standard of 20 percent by 2020.

“The crux of the problem with adoption of more renewables in the state is the economics,” Wojahn writes. “New Mexico has some of the cheapest electricity rates in the nation, and because of these rates, the cost of energy generated by renewables in the past has exceeded the energy price from the established utilities.”

She referred SFR to a website, however, that actually reports the average commercial and residential electricity rate in New Mexico is above the national average—and Santa Fe’s is yet again above the state average. Only for industrial rates does the rate in Santa Fe come in below the national average.

At this point, Wojahn writes, the costs of renewable energy is now competitive with coal and natural gas, and the question comes down to “increased efforts to prioritize and integrate these clean resources.”

New Mexico is a net exporter of electrical energy, according to the US Energy Information Administration, but as Wojahn points out, “Demand for electric power has remained relatively flat for the last few years, so to add significant more amounts of wind, solar and geothermal energy will mean cutting back on existing resources.”

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BATTLES The Underground follows in the grand tradition of MC battles by hosting the 505 MC Showcase, a gathering of Santa Fe and Albuquerque rappers who show up and show their stuff. Lyricists like Cas-Uno, Summon, Benzo, Wolfman Jack, OG Willikers and more will be there to spit venom with style, alongside host Doer and live drawing from Wonkey Oner. This is about as hip-hop as it gets, y’all, and you don’t stop … probably.“ This event will represent all aspects of hip-hop culture,” Zach Maloof, aka OG Willikers tells us. “It’s a great opportunity for people who enjoy live hip-hop to see a big variety of what New Mexico MCs have to offer.”

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Singles

Indie-folkers GRYGRDNS perk up Iconik upright bass from Rob Lundberg, the overall feel of the song exists someplace very near the oddness of bands like Carissa’s Weird but with a tad more accessibility and the all-too-rare ability to spark a legitimate emotional reaction, as both Lutz and Scott query, “Tell me how is it wrong, to say goodbye in song?” Digital downloads will be available to anyone who picks up a Matron-branded packet of sunflower seeds as part of the aptly titled “Garden Singles Series.” It’s a cool idea, and we’ve got to give it up to GRYGRDNS for at least trying to spearhead some form of gardening from music fans, and for the unique marketing idea. Of course, the live show will also feature a full set of new material and yet another reason to get psyched about the newest crop of Santa Fe bands. Mark our words on this one: Matron Records will be a big deal. Special guest act Sirens opens. (Alex De Vore) GRYGRDNS WITH SIRENS 8 pm Friday, March 11. $5-$10 Iconik Coffee Roasters, 1600 Lena St., 428-0996

Nostalgia only thrives if an image of the past survives—and the images that Kevin Bubriski has captured might just be nostalgia incarnate. His exhibition opening this Friday at Verve Gallery of Photography, Look into My Eyes, portrays Northern New Mexicans during the early ’80s in the midst of just existing. “It captures a time and place in New Mexico that doesn’t really exist anymore,” says Jennifer Schlesinger, gallery director at Verve. A place that glorified the automobile, Jesus Christ and family, which Bubriski characterizes with sharply composed and intimate portraits. Look into My Eyes, and glimpse a reflection of the present. (Cole Rehbein) Look into My Eyes: 5-7 pm Friday, March 11. Verve Gallery of Photography, 219 E Marcy St., 982-5009

ART OPENINGS ENTRAILS BECOME OUTRAILS The muse is naked before the audience.

Nude photos from local photographer Patti Levey are juxtaposed against Laura Stanziola’s wire-knitted internal organs in their joint exhibit, Body of Work, at the ART.i.factory. “Wire is great. In the sunlight, it looks viscous, like real organs do,” says Stanziola. “To me, all this work is about ‘Who am I?’ I am my heart, I am my brain, but I’m also the exterior. The interior is also a part of who we are. It’s integral about who we are in a very complete sense.”

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GRYGRDNS will release their first single on Matron, titled “Seersucker.”

A lo-fi dreamy indie-folk mélange of passionate vocal work and uniquely minimal instrumentation, the track finds common ground between Lutz’ powerful bellow and Scott’s restrained style. It’s a perfect look into what GRYGRDNS is all about, a combination of many things that so perfectly boil down to each of the vocalists’ particular strong suits (no pun intended).

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8:30 am, free SANTA FE GHOST TOURS Liquid Outpost 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-6503 Explore Santa Fe's spooks with host John Lorenzen.

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5:30 pm, $20 SOCIETY FOR CREATIVE ANACHRONISM Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 Learn about the arts and sciences of the medieval-ish era.

6 pm, free TAPS AND TABLETOPS Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Tabletop gaming in the theater owned by George RR Martin is, like, number one on your ultranerd scavenger hunt. Excelsior!

6 pm, free

FILM NATAN Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 French-Jewish filmmaker Bernard Natan and his forgotten legacy. A Skype interview with directors Paul Duane and David Cairns.

7 pm, $12

MUSIC 505 MC SHOWCASE The Underground 200 W San Francisco St., 819-1597 Santa Fe and Albuquerque MCs like OG Willikers, Context, Summon, Benzo, CasUno and many more come together to rock the mic and battle it out for their share of bragging rights and cash prizes (see SFR Picks, page 21).

9 pm, $5 BILL HEARNE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Have you guys noticed that this local country legend is working his ass off to play for you all the time?

8 pm, free BOXCAR KARAOKE Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Michéle Leidig leads the singing thing (see 3 Questions, page 27).

10 pm, free BRANDEN JAMES Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Pianist/vocalist Branden James joins Australian cellist James Clark for a residency that's just, like, chock-full-o' music.

7 pm, free CALVIN HAZEN El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Classic and modern flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free CATHY FABER La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country.

7:30 pm, free CONNIE LONG The Palace 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Long is one of those country singer-songwriter types who croons beautifully and laments the weird shit that’s gone down in her life.

10 pm, free ERIC UDEL Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 So this guy is part of the original Blues Brother's Band, who has been playing that music ever since Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi put them on the map. Whoa.

7 pm, $7 NMSA ORCHESTRA CONCERT Immaculate Heart of Mary Retreat and Conference Center 50 Mount Carmel Road, 988-1975 The talented student musicians of the New Mexico School of the Arts play for the community.

7 pm, free TINY’S ELECTRIC JAM WITH NICK WYMETT AND ALBERT DIAZ Tiny’s 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 For those musical types among you with instruments that plug into things.

8:30 pm, free

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“Archie West Portrait,” by Alan Pearlman, is on display as part of the New Mexico History Museum’s Santa Fe Faces exhibit, which opens on Sunday.

TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano and vocals and fine Italian dining.

6 pm, free

THU/10 ART OPENINGS TAYLOR OLIVER Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 In this new exhibition at the Cocteau titled Photopaintings, Oliver digitally manipulates abstract photos to look like paintings.

5:30 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES BIRTH OF AN AMERICAN MASTERPIECE: CENTRAL PARK Museum of Indian Arts & Culture 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Bonnie Joseph discusses America's first urban park.

2 pm, $10 NATALIE GOLDBERG Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Natalie Goldberg’s new book, The Great Spring: Writing, Zen, and This Zigzag Life, joins her other powerfully inspirational, educational and beloved titles, like Writing Down the Bones, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year.

6 pm, free

EVENTS

THE AMERICAN SOUTH­ WEST IN THE 21st CENTURY Georgia O'Keeffe Education Annex 217 Johnson St., 946-1039 Bill DeBuys discusses what’s coming to our part of the country due to climate change.

6 pm, free TRANSITS OF MERCURY AND VENUS St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-9274 The Renesan Institute presents Jim Baker, who discusses the movement of the two inner planets across the face of the sun.

1 pm, $10

BOOKS AND BABIES Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 A program to present books organized around a theme of babies from 6 months to 2 years. Awww, they’re so cute at that stage of their innocent lives.

10:45 am, free FREE TAX PREPARATION Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 SFCC accounting students are among 75 volunteers who are willing to assist anyone with their taxes.

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AJ HOBBS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Classic country.

8 pm, free BRANDEN JAMES Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Pianist Branden James joins Australian cellist James Clark for a residency that's just, like, chock-full-o' music.

7 pm, free CATHY FABER La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country.

7:30 pm, free CONTROLLED BURN El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock and blues at Canyon Road's most popular bar.

8:30 pm, free DJ INKY INC. The Matador 116 W San Francisco St., 984-5050 Surf, punk, ska and other genres that we mostly don’t have a chance to hear DJs spin around here. Fingers crossed for anything off Milo Goes to College.

9 pm, free GATO MALO The High Note 132 W Water St., 919-8771 A couple of the dudes from Felix y los Gatos break free to perform blues and funk as a duo.

8 pm, $5

GERRY CARTHY Bar Alto at the Drury Plaza 828 Paseo de Peralta, 424-2175 Irish musician Gerry Carthy melts brains with tenor guitar, flute and a traditional style of music that’ll make you wish you were in Carraig Fergus so bad it hurts.

7 pm, free LATIN NIGHT WITH VDJ DANY Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 VDJ Dany channels the energy he would have used on a second letter N in his name to bring all y'all the best in Latintinged dance jams, hip-hop, reggaeton and more.

10 pm, $7 LILLY PAD LOUNGE Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Hip-hop, funk, old-school and more, all up in the Skylab part of the club.

10 pm, $7 LIMELIGHT KARAOKE WITH MICHÉLE The Palace 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 You too can be in the spotlight and hear things from your friends like, "Wow, Sandra, you're like, a really good singer and should go pro!"

10 pm, free LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES Evangelo’s 200 W San Francisco St. Dancey rock and R&B covers, almost as if The Stones had been a little more funky, maybe? Decide for yourselves when you go and then let us know.

9 pm, free MICHAEL TAIT TAFOYA Starlight Lounge at Montecito 500 Rodeo Road, 428-7777 Latin fusion tunes.

6 pm, free NACHA MENDEZ La Boca 72 W Marcy St., 982-3433 Latin world fusion.

7 pm, free

OPEN MIC Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar 102 W San Francisco St., 690-2383 Sip some oxygen and sing your heart out.

8 pm, $5 PONDER THE ALBATROSS Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Consider these alternative rockers from Denver.

10 pm, free RIO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Smooth Brazilian jazz, bossa nova and samba.

7 pm, free TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano and vocals.

6 pm, free

THEATER THE 39 STEPS Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Adapted by Patrick Barlow from the Hitchcock film.

7:30 pm, $20-$25

FRI/11 ART OPENINGS CATCHING THE LIGHT Back Street Bistro 513 Camino de los Marquez, 982-3500 Photographs by Frances Ehrenburg-Hyman and pastels

by Mary Olivera.

5:30 pm, free LOOK INTO MY EYES Verve Gallery of Photography 219 E Marcy St., 982-5009 Kevin Bubriski captures New Mexican youth culture in the faces of Burqueño teens (see SFR Picks, page 21).

5 pm, free TEE POP Caldera 411 Water St., 926-1242 Caldera pays homage to the t-shirt; it’s kind of insane.

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It Don’t Mean a Thing De Vore’s dark swing secret

BY ALEX DE VORE @teamalex

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ere’s an odd confession—I used to be super into swing dancing. My friend Benji, my brother Noah and I had seen the 1993 WWII dance film Swing Kids, gasped, and then immediately signed up for lessons. We did this for a while because it was pretty popular at the time, but also because we thought it would be a great way to meet women (it wasn’t) and make friends (it wasn’t).

We mostly earned good dirt on our dumb friends who had also signed up. Life was good, but then, like much of the world, our interest faded. We got into punk rock and live shows, and as the swing craze slowly disappeared from our shared cultural lexicon, the entire concept became laughable to us.

I tucked the knowledge away someplace in my brain between the “embarrassing” and “useless skill” centers. I assumed that everyone else on earth had done the same. This was not true in the slightest, and swing dancing continued its reign of terror unabated.

In fact, it quietly became even more popular. This was proven to me incontrovertibly at a recent outing to a performance/dance at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center, whereupon I discovered literally hundreds of people dancing, competing, fraternizing and loving the art of the dance.

What?

Naw, it’s true. Swing is just as popular as ever, if not more so. Just ask Silke Maietta-Hatch of Santa Fe Swing, a loosely affiliated group of dancers who exist for little reason beyond they just plain love to dance.

“There’s something about the music and the interaction in the lead and follow or the tracking of someone else who is tracking me back,” Maietta-Hatch says. “It’s something you can play on, so it isn’t just

Do you first jump, then jive? Or do you jive, then jump? We did get in trouble when we wailed. That comes afterward.

about throwing your body into a simple beat; you have this structure, but through that, you can explore movement and the movement of your partner, and there are patterns, but you can change them up once you have them down. … It builds and gets more complicated the more you get into it; I learn something new, and that something turns into something else new.”

Maietta-Hatch, who also teaches lessons alongside her longtime partner Bandi Khalsa at select Monday Night Swing events, says there are a number of different styles that are generally utilized within the world of swing.

“There’s Lindy hop, which is an eight-count, there’s Charleston, which is also an eight-count and that can be used together with the Lindy hop, and there’s balboa, which is sort of coming back,” she says. “That one was developed to be a very close style, because dance halls were getting overcrowded, and people had to dance closer together.”

Which might explain some of the popularity. Either that, or swing is a healthy activity that can be fun and that can be accomplished by varying age groups. Whatever the reasons, Maietta-Hatch feels that blaming the garbage neo-swing movement perpetrated by the likes of thankfully defunct bands like Cherry Poppin’ Daddies (grossest band name of all

time) or Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (a close second) isn’t exactly a fair reason to not give swing dancing a shot.

“The national and international swing communities have really come back to the older styles like traditional jazz or New Orleans jazz, and now lots of newer bands are playing the older styles,” she points out. “Neo-swing really tried to be fresh, but now that it’s come back to more traditional sounds, you can hear the music has amazing rhythms and syncopations.”

All right then, Santa Fe Swing. I may have been a tad judgmental here. Perhaps a lot of us have. We can even give you some serious-ass points for donating a portion of the cover charges at Odd Fellows Hall events to music in the public schools. Plus, everyone could do with more friends, and dancing is fun. So if you’re reading this, Benji and Noah, let’s maybe head over there and bust out our old moves. It isn’t like we’re impressing anyone anyway.

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I’m your average straight 42-year-old white guy. Married for a little less than a year (second marriage for both). We have an active sex life and are both GGG. My wife wants to be forcibly fucked—held down and raped.

Normally I’d be all over this because I do love me some rough sex. My issue: She told me she was traumatically raped by a man she was dating prior to me. All I know is that it involved a hotel room and him not stopping when she said “no.” So for now, I play along, but I know I’m not taking things as far as she’d like. I’m over here wondering if her previous trauma was a result of her encouraging forceful sex and regretting it later, and I worry the same thing could happen to me. Or is she trying to relive the experience? Should I fear her motivation and the potential consequences?

Am I overthinking things?

-Tremulous Husband Is Needing Knowledge When it comes to rough sex—particularly when it involves role-playing forced-sex scenarios— overthinking is preferable to underthinking. But before we think through your specific issues, THINK, a few points of clarification.

A woman who’s into rough sex, even forcedsex/rape-role-play scenarios, can still have been raped by a partner—and a rape can occur during what was supposed to be a consensual forcedsex/rape-role-play scene. If your wife withdrew her consent and her former partner continued, it was rape.

Also, THINK, lots of women fantasize about “rape,” which I’m putting in quotes here because these fantasies typically involve a woman being “taken” by someone she’s attracted to, and lots and lots and lots of women are victims of rape. Obviously there’s going to be overlap between these two groups. Your wife’s forcedsex fantasies could have nothing to do with her rape—it could be a coincidence—or your wife may be one of those people (not all of them women) who have eroticized a past sexual trauma (not always rape), and playing with a partner she trusts provides her with feelings of control and catharsis, empowerment and pleasure.

But what about you, THINK? You worry “the same thing could happen to me.” By that you don’t mean, “I could be raped!” You mean, “I could be falsely accused of rape.” That’s a pretty big and disrespectful leap. What you’re saying is, “I think my wife is lying when she says this other man raped her— and I don’t want her to do the same to me.” I’m not sure what to do with that. I mean, I don’t think your wife is lying, THINK, and I don’t know or love your wife. You presumably know and love your wife, and yet you’re worried she may be setting you up for a false rape accusation. That’s some dark shit—that’s some Gone Girl shit, that’s the plot of some horrible Kathleen Turner/Michael Douglas shit movie from the 1980s.

If you’re really concerned about protecting your own butt, THINK, then have a nice long conversation with your wife about her fantasies over e-mail. I’ve given that advice to people negotiating edgy and/or forced-sex scenes with strangers or near-strangers. It feels odd to give that advice to someone negotiating a fantasy role-play scenario with his spouse. But here we are.

Don’t tell your wife you wanna chat over e-mail because you’re worried about needing an alibi. I would suggest that you believe your wife, first off, and that you have this conversation over e-mail—two anonymous accounts created just for this purpose—because it will allow you both to be more thoughtful and less inhibited (sometimes these things are hard to discuss face to face). Tell her you don’t want to accidentally traumatize or trigger her, first

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and foremost, but you also don’t want to wind up traumatizing yourself. You would feel like a monster if you hurt her while attempting to fulfill her fantasies.

Finally, THINK, this isn’t something your wife will wanna do just once. So take baby steps: Increase the intensity gradually, from scene to scene, check in afterward, google “sexual aftercare” and read the piece on Curve that pops up (it’s a lesbian website, but the lessons/ advice/insight are generally applicable), and keep having long conversations—via e-mail or face to face—about what’s working for her and what isn’t.

Good luck.

I had given up on relationships after a failed marriage and another partner trying to kill me (no joke). Then, after five years single, abstinent, and lonely, I met a man who frustrated me, turned me on, and was understanding about my trust issues. I’m excited about a future with him—except for two things. First, he says he loves me but he’s not sure yet if he wants to spend the rest of his life with me— he’s not sure if I’m “The One.” He also has needs I’m not able to fulfill. It may not seem like a big deal to most people, but swallowing is out for me, as I was orally raped when I was a teenager. I’ve worked my way up to enjoying giving head, but come in my mouth makes me cry. And I can’t give head after anal. He says these are the things that make him come the hardest. I’ve asked him if my inability to provide these things are a “deal breaker” for him and he says no, but when we get into bed, he talks about me doing them the entire time we’re having sex. I’ve asked him to stop, and he says he will, but it doesn’t stop. He will also have sex only in the positions he likes, and if I ask for something different, he’ll just stop having sex with me, leaving me frustrated. If letting him go so he can find the right person to fulfill his needs makes him happier, then I feel it’s the right thing to do, as much as it would hurt.

-Failing At Intimacy/Love You need to let this guy go for your own happiness and sanity.

I know you were alone for a long time— alone and lonely—and you know who else knows that? Your shitty boyfriend, FAIL, and he’s leveraging your desire to be with someone against your right to sexual autonomy and your need for emotional safety. You have an absolute right to set your own limits, to rules things in and out, and to slap “not open for discussion” labels on some things. Ruling two things out— swallowing and ATM—particularly for the reasons you cite, is perfectly reasonable. If he can’t accept that, if he’s going to hammer away at those two things endlessly, that should be a “deal breaker” for you.

You see his inability to determine if you’re “the one” as a separate issue, FAIL, but it’s of a piece. He’s refusing to make you the one— “the one” is an act of will, not an act of God— in hopes that you will submit to his sexual demands. I have a hunch that swallowing and ATM aren’t really the things that make him come the hardest. If it was anal and cunnilingus you couldn’t do, FAIL, then those would be his favorite things. Because the issue here isn’t whether he’s “sure” you’re the one or the sex acts that make him come the hardest. This is about him controlling and degrading you.

DTMFA. Please ignore KISSES and write as much as you want! I read your column because I like what you write!

-Dan Should Go On At Length I’ve obviously reverted to form already, DSGOAL, but thanks for your support!

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TOM KIRBY: MATHEMATICA Winterowd Fine Art 701 Canyon Road, 992-8878 New paintings from Kirby that highlight diagrams, formulas and the history of math.

5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES TWENTY YEARS OF TEXT, IMAGE AND OBJECTS Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 Bonnie Stahlecker discusses exploring physical books and the path to creation.

7 pm, free

EVENTS FREE TAX PREPARATION Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 SFCC accounting students will help you with your taxes.

8:30 am, free MIND BODY SPIRIT 2016 Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-7226 Food, drinks, yoga, juices, tarot, booths, massage, chakra stuff—this wellness expo from your pals right here at SFR has it all and is totally free.

4:30 pm, free

MUSIC THE ALCHEMY PARTY Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 DJs Dynamite Sol and Poetics turn your otherwise leaden night into pure gold with hiphop, reggae, Top 40 and so much more.

9 pm, $7 ALEX MARYOL Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Hometown hero, blues guy, indie-rock adjacent songwriter, high desert plains aficionado and nice haircut haver.

6 pm, free ALPHA CATS Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 2nd St., 982-3030 We just realized that they're kinda riffing on the concept of the alpha dog, but we really all know that all cats are alpha cats. Anyway, this is jazz.

6 pm, free BRANDEN JAMES Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and cello and vocals with Branden James (from the television program America's Got Talent) and James Clark.

8 pm, free BRIAN WINGARD Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Jazz saxophone and vocals.

5:30 pm, free CHARLIE KING: SONGS OF PEACE & JUSTICS Unitarian Universalist Congregation 107 W Barcelona Road, 982-0439 Political satirist Charlie King covers 150-ish years and has even been praised by Pete Seeger.

7 pm, free

DJ DANY'S LATIN FRIDAYS Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Bachata, cumbia, reggaeton, dancing—all that good stuff.

9 pm, $7 DJ FIVE7FIVE The Palace 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Hey everybody, my name is Alex, and if you give me a chance, I’ll tell you all about this hip-hop DJ, and I just might do a dance! I said a-rip, rap, rip, rap, rip-rap rippity do!

10 pm, $5 EQUINOX FEATURING BRENDA FUNCHES, GAYLE KENNY AND LOU LEVIN Starlight Lounge at Montecito 500 Rodeo Road, 428-7777 Jazz and blues.

7 pm, free FOX WHITE WITH JESSE DELUXE Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Jesse Deluxe slays all with garage punk fury in her nonsolo act, Fox White.

8-10 pm, $5 GRYGRDNS SINGLE RELEASE PARTY Iconik Coffee Roasters 1600 Lena St., 428-0996 Matron Records hosts a single release from prog-ish indie rock act GRYGRDNS. Will this show rule? You bet your ass it will (see SFR Picks, page 21).

8 pm, free JJ AND THE HOOLIGANS The High Note 132 W Water St., 919-8771 Rock, R&B, hooliganism and more.

8 pm, $7 KURTÁG'S GHOSTS First Presbyterian Church SF 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Serenata of Santa Fe presents a selection of chamber music featuring guest pianist Yi-heng Yang.

7:30 pm, $15-$35 LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Who's ready for rockin' bluesy covers and rockin' rock? You are!

9 pm, $5 NACHA MENDEZ The Staab House at La Posada 330 E Palace Ave., 986-0000 Latin world fusion.

7 pm, free PIT FOLK Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Folky indie/alternative duo goes nuts on all y'all.

7 pm, free THE ST. RANGE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Desert rock.

8:30 pm, free THEM GUNS AND MAN NO SOBER Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Reggae rock, alternative synth pop and Black Keys-ish (but frankly better) rock.

9 pm, free

THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Three guys, three faces, three reasons to like jazz. Have three drinks (but don't drive), eat three foods, bring three friends and so forth.

7:30 pm, free TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano and vocals.

6 pm, free VOICE STUDENTS FROM SFUAD First Presbyterian Church SF 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 A TGIF concert featuring a varied program of vocal literature.

5:30 am, free ZENOBIA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 R&B. 8 pm, free

THEATER THE 39 STEPS Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Adapted by Patrick Barlow from the Alfred Hitchcock film.

7:30 pm, $20-$25 MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Squid Inc. presents Shakespeare's raucous comedy featuring a cast of all NM School for the Arts students.

7 pm, $5-$10

SAT/12 ART OPENINGS BODY OF WORK The ART.i.factory 930 Baca St., Ste. C, 982-5000 Hauntingly beautiful nude photographs are contrasted by intricately hand-knit copper and brass body parts in the ART.i.factory’s new exhibition from photographer Patti Levey and multimedia artist Laura Stanziola. This is the opening (see SFR Picks, page 21).

4 pm, free TEE POP Caldera 411 Water St.,926-1242 Caldera pays homage to the handmade t-shirt with works from Ann Jag, Benji Geary, Nico Salazar and Niomi Fawn.

The fun lasts all day, but there’s a special workshop from noon-3 pm.

Gallery hours, free

BOOKS/LECTURES ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE? Unitarian Universalist Congregation 107 W Barcelona Road, 982-0439 Pia Orleane and Cullen Smith share wisdom from the stars.

God? Aliens? Who knows?

7 pm, $30

THE CALENDAR ESSENTIAL WELLNESS: NATURE'S OILS FOR HEALTH Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Sniff some oils and learn how they help your holistic health.

3 pm, free

with Michéle Leidig

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brings to Santa Fe a wide range of writers from the literary world of fiction, nonfiction and poetry to read from and discuss their work.

CITIZENS CLIMATE LOBBY MONTHLY MEETING La Montañita Co-op 913 W Alameda St., 984-2852 Focus your climate activism on local issues.

10 am, free IPHONE PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Discuss filters, lenses and more to take the best photos with your phone.

1:30 pm, free SANTA FE PEN FAIR Santa Fe Pens DeVargas Center, Guadalupe Street and Paseo de Peralta, 989-4742 The people who know all about pens hold their 21st annual fair, where you can try out a $10,000 writing implement, get your old pen appraised and win prizes.

10 am-6 pm, free TELLING ON THE WILD SIDE: (MIS)ADVENTURES IN STORY Los Alamos Nature Center 2600 Canyon Road, 662-0460 Craft stories based on your own experiences in the outdoors.

10 am, $20

FILM MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD Los Alamos Nature Center 2600 Canyon Road, 662-0460 A film about things that are too fast, too slow, too small, or outside the visible spectrum.

2 pm, $6

MUSIC THE AUSTIN PIAZZOLLA QUINTET GiG Performance Space 1808 2nd St., 989-8442 This group has been stunning audiences since 2009 with the passionate music of Astor Piazzolla, the late Argentine composer.

7:30 pm, $20 BILL HEARNE TRIO Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 2nd St., 982-3030 Americana and country.

6 pm, free BRANDEN JAMES Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and cello and vocals with Branden James (from the television program America's Got Talent) and James Clark.

8 pm, free

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FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Experience an intimate dinner and authentic Spanish cuisine.

6:30 pm, $25

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You know who loves karaoke? Everyone. That’s how local vocalist Michéle Leidig was able to work her way into our minds and hearts. Leidig is the go-to gal for karaoke around here, working it on Mondays at the Cowgirl (9 pm, 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565), Wednesdays at Boxcar (10 pm, 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222) and Thursdays at The Palace (10 pm, 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690).

(ADV) How long have you been karaoke-in’ it up, Michéle?

I’ve been doing it at Cowgirl for 10 years. I’d been working there at the time, back when the system was on CDs. They’d hire the host from the muscially inclined of the staff, so I took over and built my system. Then I started doing it for Mikey [Baker] when Corazón was still open, and The Palace was because one of the bartenders knew me through Cowgirl and suggested me when they wanted to do karaoke.

What draws people to karaoke?

In some cases, it’s stress relief, and for some it’s about stepping outside themselves and having fun. It’s a quick way to be social, too. Whether or not someone enjoys singing in front of people, everyone likes to sing in the shower or to their car radio, and the next step is to maybe get onstage. It just feels good.

Are there any songs that you just hate at this point?

Oh, I’ve gotta keep my personal tastes out of this; don’t get me started! It’s not just about karaoke, it’s about working in the industry and being around music all the time. Sometimes it’s like, “Oh my God!” But I’m just a button-pusher, and people pick songs that mean something to them. I’d recommend for people to pick a song they know and you feel comfortable with, especially for first-timers. At these things, it’s ultimately a very supportive group of people, and most of my singers do a great job.

NADEEM ASLAM with

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WEDNESDAY 30 MARCH AT 7PM LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Nadeem Aslam is a British-Pakistani novelist whose works include Maps for Lost Lovers, The Wasted Vigil and The Blind Man’s Garden, a tale of two brothers whose lives are upended by war post 9/11. Explaining that his fiction is inspired by “anything that distresses me,” Aslam’s The Wasted Vigil was fed by his conversations with more than 200 Afghan refugees in Britain as well as his travels in Afghanistan.

Aslam’s 2004 novel, Maps for Lost Lovers, tells the story of migrants from Pakistan who live in a cold and unwelcoming English town they have renamed

BRIAN WINGARD Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Jazz saxophone and vocals.

Jazzophone.

5:30 pm, free THE BUS TAPES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Folky folk rock, husbands and wives, bassists that are OK, I guess—this is The Bus Tapes.

7 pm, free CORO DE CAMARA PRESENTS: NEW YORK NUANCE First Presbyterian Church SF 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 I like a Gershwin tune, how about you? Well, they don’t have Gershwin, but they’ve got Bernstein and Copland.

7 pm, $20 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Experience an intimate dinner and authentic Spanish cuisine.

6:30 pm, $25

FOXFEATHER Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 New folk from Boulder, Colo.

1 pm, free JIM & TIM Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Soulful blues that's probably all right because we already know they can rhyme.

3 pm, free J J AND THE HOOLIGANS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Blues rock.

8:30 pm, free LES GENS BRUYANTS Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Cajun jamzorz as fine as any etouffee or crawdad broil.

Clearly our knowledge of Cajun jamzorz could use some work.

6 pm, free

Dasht-e-Tanhaii, meaning the Desert of Loneliness.

Marred by racism and violence, Aslam has explained it is not unlike the Northern English town he moved to at the age of 14 where, “we were experiencing lowlevel September 11s every day.” Through his family, he “learned about political commitment and the life of the mind, and that an artist is never poor.” Nadeem Aslam is the recipient of the Kiriyama Prize, awarded for books about the Pacific Rim and South Asia, as well as a 2005 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction.

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THE CALENDAR MARTIN ROTH Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Anjunadeep star Martin Roth takes over the Skylab while local hero Feathericci brings the locally heroic support.

9 pm-1:45 am, $15 PAT MALONE TRIO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 You can work this out, jazz fiends and friends.

7 pm, free SCOTTY AND THE ATOMICS The High Note 132 W Water St., 919-8771 R&B and blues all the way from the big city (by which we mean Albuquerque).

8 pm, $7 SHOWCASE KARAOKE Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Cyndy and Nanci karaoke it up with all y'all on a weekly basis.

8:30 pm, free SO SOPHISTICATED WITH DJ 12 TRIBE Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Hip-hop, mainstream and EDM. Skylight is the place to be on Saturday nights.

9 pm, $7 TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano and vocals.

6 pm, free ZENOBIA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 R&B. 8 pm, free

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THE 39 STEPS Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Adapted by Patrick Barlow from the Hitchcock film.

7:30 pm, $20-$25 MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Squid Inc. presents Shakespeare's raucous comedy featuring a cast of all NM School for the Arts students.

7 pm, $5-$10

SUN/13 ART OPENINGS

SANTA FE FACES 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 Santa Feans look weird and sometimes cool, and this portrait exhibit by Alan Pearlman drives that point home.

2 pm, free TEE POP Caldera 411 Water St., 926-1242 Caledera pays homage to the handmade t-shirt with works from Ann Jag, Benji Geary, Nico Salazar, Niomi Fawn, Thais Mather, Todd White and so many effing more artists it’s kind of insane.

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BOOKS/LECTURES JOURNEYSANTAFE PRESENTS: JOELLE MARIER Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Marier discusses BLM's role in protecting NM's pulic lands.

11 am, free

EVENTS SUNDAY RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Santa Fe Railyard Plaza Guadalupe Street and Paseo de Peralta Quality local art, jewelry, ceramics, textiles, live music and more.

10 am, free SANTA FE PEN FAIR Santa Fe Pens DeVargas Center, Guadalupe Street and Paseo de Peralta, 989-4742 The people who know all about pens hold their 21st annual fair, where you can try out a $10,000 writing implement, get your old pen appraised and win prizes.

Noon-5 pm, free

FILM MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD Los Alamos Nature Center 2600 Canyon Road, 662-0460 A film about things that are too fast, too slow, too small or outside the visible spectrum.

2 pm, $6

MUSIC AN EVENING WITH JAKE SHIMABUKURO Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Energetic ukulele from Honolulu!

7:30 pm, $29-$44 BROOMDUST GOSPEL QUARTET Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Kind of like going to church on Sunday, except it's at Cowgirl, and it's not actually gospel.

It's honky-tonk rock.

Noon, free HANDMADE MOMENTS Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 2nd St., 982-3030 Folk by way of Arkansas, which somehow makes it more valid.

5 pm, free IAN FITZGERALD Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 He's already got the folk hero name, let's see if he's got the folk songwriter chops.

6 pm, free JUKEBOX KARAOKE The Palace 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Karaoke and also half-price pasta specials. Whoa.

9 pm, free KYLE NACHTIGAL Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Singer/songwriter.

8 pm, free

MARTIN ROTH Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Anjunadeep’s Martin Roth comes to Skylab at Skylight for another Global House Collective party.

9 pm-1:45 am, $15 NACHA MENDEZ El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Latin world fusion.

7 pm, free ST. PATRICK'S CONCERT Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0092 The Schola Cantorum presents musical selections from ancient Ireland.

7:30 pm, $15-$20 TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano and vocals.

6 pm, free TY COOPER AND THE CHI GUYS The High Note 132 W Water St., 919-8771 Chicago, where blues was invented, is where these guys call home. Also, those little mask-wearing guys from Super Mario 2 were called Shy Guys.

So, uh, there’s that.

7:30 pm, $10

THEATER

THE 39 STEPS Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Adapted by Patrick Barlow from the Alfred Hitchcock film.

2 pm, $20-$25 MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Squid Inc. presents Shakespeare's raucous comedy featuring a cast of all NM School for the Arts students.

2 pm, $5-$10

MON/14 DANCE MONDAY NIGHT SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, 690-4165 The Shiner's Club Jazz Band presides over this swingin' swing dance, which we heard about from some super-nice people who also teach an introductory lesson at the beginning of the night. Go and meet them and dance, jive turkeys!

7 pm, $10

MUSIC BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country.

7:30 pm, free COWGIRL KARAOKE WITH MICHÉLE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 The queen of Santa Fe karaoke hosts this night of fun.

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Lunch at one of Santa Fe’s most popular bakery-restaurants yields mixed results

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ucked inside a row of industrial-looking buildings off San Mateo Road, Chocolate Maven Bakery & Café (821 W San Mateo Road, 984-1980) has always been one of those places that locals flock to for interesting breakfast and lunch choices that are easy on the wallet and, usually, the palate. My lunch visit proves the restaurant’s popularity hasn’t waned, but some extra attention to service and the preparation of daily specials is in order.

I was lucky enough to find a parking space in the industrial complex—the parking lot and the restaurant are usually so packed that street parking becomes the only other option, unless you’re biking, busing or cabbing it. My dining partner and I are greeted at the host stand and seated promptly in the small and cozy dining room, with a wide view of the large production bakery (but not before we ogle the fancy housemade cakes, pies and pastries taunting us from display cases and shelves at the front counter). Panes of glass separate diners and bakers in the main dining room, presenting a quiet glimpse into the bustling routine that takes place there daily. Pinot noir-colored carpet, pale yellow walls, tasteful art prints and linen-covered tables give the dining room a distinct air of “fine dining,” as do the gussied-up servers dressed in starched white dress shirts and black slacks. But to be clear, service here is casual and friendly, if a bit inattentive.

Coffee drinks are made with Santa Fe’s own Aroma Coffee, a certifiedorganic roaster that services many other local restaurants in town. I order a double cappuccino ($3.75), and what arrives is mostly on the mark. The coffee, milk and foam are properly proportioned, but the whole of it is sprinkled with so much unrequested cinnamon that I must scrape it away to taste anything even remotely coffee-like.

A lengthy lunch and breakfast menu offers everything from omelets, pancakes, French toast and scrambled tofu to soups, sandwiches, quiche of the day, gourmet nachos and an array of made-to-order Roman-style pizzas. A special on this day promises a bowl of black mussels in saffron broth with grilled ciabatta and a side salad ($13). A heaping bowl of mussels arrives, and out of about 18 of them, five are dead and unopened. They should never have left the kitchen in the first place, and this is the first sign of

So sweet it makes your eyes ache.

trouble with the special.

The promised saffron broth has barely any saffron flavor or yellow hue, tasting more of fennel and herbs than anything else. “It’s missing garlic, and it needs it,” my companion says, and upon tasting it, I agree.

The side salad of lettuce, carrots, cherry tomatoes, cucumber and red onion is piled too high on a tiny bread plate, making it difficult to tackle without trashing

the butcher paper covering the table linens. The vinaigrette dressing is overly pungent with either garlic or onion, and there’s way too much of it throughout the salad. The plate is pushed aside, barely touched, where it sits throughout the meal, with no inquiry or concern from the server or other staff members.

I order half a hot Reuben sandwich with a cup of the soup of the day: cream of broccoli and leek ($10 for

the always-available combo). Now things are looking up. The juicy housemade corned beef is swimming (like I like it) in tangy housemade Thousand Island dressing and hit with melted Swiss cheese, sauerkraut and a kiss of mustard, the lot of it sandwiched between two pieces of freshly baked light-rye bread.

It’s one of the better Reubens in town, worth any and all parking hassles. The soup is also good. Broccoli and leek flavors are both up-front and delicious, a great dipping elixir for the killer sandwich.

While pondering dessert, we request to-go containers for the mussels and broth and the salad.

There is never an offer to take the food to the kitchen and package it up, which would help tremendously, as our tiny, dish-covered table doesn’t leave much room for maneuvering. Our server appears with flimsy cardboard containers not suited to hold much liquid, and I request a soup container instead. She brings it, and I proceed to tip the broth and mussels into the cup. And into my lap. And onto the table. And onto the floor. Flush with embarrassment, I apologize, and the server assures me that it’s “no big deal.”

Despite the tasty pastries and other goodies on display, we skip them so I can get home and change into something less … mussel-y. I’ll return for the sweet stuff, which I can vouch for as a longtime patron. But I might skip the special the next time I’m here.

AT A GLANCE: Open: Breakfast 7-10:45 am; lunch 10:45 am-3 pm Monday-Friday. Pastries, and other goodies available from the counter until 6 pm Monday-Saturday Best Bet: Half Reuben and a cup of soup of the day

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THE CALENDAR JESSE VERNIER El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Romantic guitar at an already romantic place.

8:30 pm, free METAL MONDAYS The Underground 200 W San Francisco St., 819-1597 Hey, metalheads—this thing's for you. You can thank host Pascual Romero for keepin' it metal all the dang time.

9 pm, $5

TUE/15 BOOKS/LECTURES GARY MARCUS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Marcus discusses artificial intelligence and the vast developments being made.

7:30 pm, free

DANCE ARGENTINE TANGO MILONGA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 A tango dance event.

7:30 pm, free ECSTATIC DANCE FOR SANTA FE The Dance Space 3208 Richards Lane, Ste. A, 670-4432 A moving meditation to fun.

6 pm, $7-$10

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BOOKS AND BABIES Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Books organized around a theme of babies from 6 months to 2 years. Awww.

10:30 am, free ROYCE AND DEBBIE MANUEL DEMONSTRATION AND CONVERSATION Ralph T Coe Foundation for the Arts 1590 B Pacheco St., 983-6372 A discussion on the use of traditional methods and supplies to create functional Indigenous art.

3 pm, free

MUSIC BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country.

7:30 pm, free BRANDEN JAMES Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and cello and vocals with Branden James and James Clark.

8 pm, free CACTUS SLIM AND THE GOATHEADS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Rock and blues and bluesrock. Guitar solos, we bet.

Also beards like you wouldn't believe.

7 pm, free

DJ PRAIRIEDOG The Matador 116 W San Francisco St., 984-5050 Surg, garage, rockabilly, oldschool country and more.

9 pm, free OPEN MIC NIGHT WITH PAUL WAGNER The Palace 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 It's exactly what you think it is.

9:30 pm, free PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo acoustic jazz guitar.

6 pm, free RYAN HUTCHENS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Solo Americana.

8 pm, free SANTA FE BLUEGRASS JAM Derailed at the Sage Inn 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 All levels of players and all acoustic bluegrass instruments are welcome.

6 pm, free TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano and vocals.

6 pm, free

ONGOING GALLERIES

136 GRANT 36 Grant Ave, 983-0075 John Boland, Mustangs and Other Wild Horses of Northern New Mexico.

ACADEMY FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING 133 Seton Village Road, 955-1860 Archives on Display.

ADOBE GALLERY 221 Canyon Road, 955-0550 Cochiti Pueblo Storyteller Collection. Pablita Velarde and Helen Hardin, Tradition & Innovation.

ARGOS STUDIO & SANTA FE ETCHING CLUB 1211 Luisa St., 988-1814 Prints about Prints ART EXCHANGE GALLERY 60 E San Francisco St., 603-4485 Group show, Faces.

ART GONE WILD GALLERIES 203 Canyon Road, Ste. B, 820-1004 Doug Bloodworth, Photo Realism.

ART HOUSE 231 Delgado St., 995-0231 Group show, Luminous Flux 2.0.

ART.I.FACTORY 930 Baca St., Ste. C, 982-5000 Todd Christensen, Observing the Withdrawn.

BINDLESTICK STUDIO 616 1/2 Canyon Road, (917) 679-8080 Jeffrey Schweitzer, The Biography of an Eccentric Gentleman.

CANYON ROAD CONTEMPORARY 402 Canyon Road, 983-0433 Craig Mitchell Smith, The Winter Garden.

CATENARY ART GALLERY 616 1/2 Canyon Road,

982-2700 Nicolai Panayotov, Sans Frontiéres.

CCA 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Group show, Getting Real.

David O’Brien. In the Garden of Externalities. Through March 20 COMMUNITY GALLERY 201 W Marcy St., 955-6707 Narcissus.

DAVID RICHARD GALLERY 1570 Pacheco St., Ste. A1, 983-9555 Group, Happy Birthday, Meow Wolf.

DOWNTOWN DAY SPA OF SANTA FE 624 Agua Fría St., 986-0113 Sharon Samuels, One-Woman Show.

EDITION ONE GALLERY 1036 Canyon Road, 422-8306 Soft.

ELLSWORTH GALLERY 215 E Palace Ave., 989-7900 Tim Klabunde.

EYE ON THE MOUNTAIN GALLERY 614 Agua Fría St., (928) 308-0319 Nonnie Thompson, Suppression Creates Desire. Guadalupe Art Show.

FINE ART FRAMERS 1415 W. Alameda, 982-4397 Renée Vogelle, Will Schmitt, Tati Norbeck and Chad Erickson, Like ... You Know.

FREEFORM ARTSPACE 1619 C de Baca Lane, 692-9249 Jody Sunshine, Tales from the Middle Class.

GALLERY 901 708 Canyon Road, 780-8390 Eddy Shorty, Sculptures.

GREENBERG FINE ART 205 Canyon Road, 955-1500 Dennis Smith, Lighter than Air. JAMES KELLY CONTEMPORARY 1611 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1601 Bill Jacobson, Lines in My Eyes.

LEWALLEN RAILYARD 1613 Paseo de Peralta, 988-3250 Forrest Moses, The Monotypes: Reflections of a Painter. Michael Roque Collins, The Venetian; Dirk De Bruycker, Memorial Exhibition.

LYN A FOX POTTERY 806 Old Santa Fe Trail, 820-0222 Lyn Fox, Whistlestop.

MARIGOLD ARTS 424 Canyon Road, 982-4142 Carolyn Lankford, Robert Lyn Highsmith and Jim McLain.

MONROE GALLERY 112 Don Gaspar Ave., 992-0800 They Broke the Mold.

NATCHEZ ART STUDIO 201 Palace Ave., 231-7721 Stan Natchez, Indian without Reservation.

NEDRA MATTEUCCI GALLERIES 1075 Paseo de Peralta, 983-2731 Robert Lougheed, A Brilliant Life in Art. OFFROAD PRODUCTIONS 2891-B Trades West Road, 670-9276 Nick Benson, Thais Mather, Todd Christensen, Penumbra Letter Press, Burning Books

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“Vincent’s Song,” part of the Catching The Light exhibit at the Back Street Bistro.

Press, Printed Matter.

PATINA GALLERY 131 W Palace Ave., 986-3432 Claire Kahn.

PETERS PROJECTS 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5700 Garo Antreasian, Systematic Abstraction.

PEYTON WRIGHT GALLERY 237 E Palace Ave., 989-9888 Group show, The Art of Devotion. Through March 11.

PHIL SPACE 1410 2nd St., 983-7945 Donald Rubinstein, Music Fields/Energy Lines. Aaron Rhodes, Eye Candy.

PHOTO-EYE GALLERY 541 S Guadalupe St., 988-5152 Baron Wolman, Woodstock.

Alan Friedman and Douglas Levere, Fire & Ice. Chaci Terada, Between Water & Sky. POP GALLERY 125 Lincoln Ave., Ste. 111, 820-0788 Winter Salon. Through March 31 RADICAL ABACUS 1226 Calle de Comercio, 577-6073 Group show, Raylets.

RANGE WEST GALLERY 2861 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 474-0925 Shelly Johnson, Cirque de la Vie. RIEKE STUDIOS 416 Alta Vista St., 913-1215 Serena Rieke, Memento.

SAGE CREEK GALLERY 421 Canyon Road, 988-3444 Winter Show.

SANTA FE COLLECTIVE 1114 Hickox St., 670-4088 Tom Appelquist.

SANTA FE ART COLLECTOR 217 Galisteo St., 988-5545 Ken Bonner, Land of Tom Enchantment.

SANTA FE CLAY 545 Camino de la Familia, 984-1122 Group show, The Figure in Clay.

Amanda Jaffe and Suzanne Kane, Cups.

SANTA FE WEAVING GALLERY 124 Galisteo St., 982-1737 Judith Bird, Handwoven Shibori Tunics and Shawls.

A SEA IN THE DESERT GALLERY 836 A Canyon Road., 988-9140

Friedrich Geier.

SFUAD 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, 473-6440 Valerie Rangel, Don’t Kill the Messenger.

SORREL SKY GALLERY 125 W Palace Ave., 501-6555 John Farnsworth and Michael Tatom, Essential Visions.

Group show, Winter Wonderland. Jim Bagley, Deep into Nature. Gerald Balciar.

TRESA VORENBERG GOLDSMITHS 656 Canyon Road, 988-7215 Heyoka Merrifield, The New Treasures.

VERVE GALLERY OF PHOTOGRAPHY 219 E Marcy St., 982-5009 Micky Hoogendijk, New Works.

Aline Smithson, Self & Others.

VIVO CONTEMPORARY 725 Canyon Road, 982-1320 Material Matters.

WAITS STUDIO WORKS 2855 Cooks Road, Ste. A, 270-2654 Laura Wait.

WIFORD GALLERY 403 Canyon Road, 982-2403 Barry Thomas, Voices of the West.

WILLIAM SIEGAL GALLERY 540 S Guadalupe St., 820-3300 Kathryn Keller.

EL ZAGUÁN 545 Canyon Road, 983-2567 Carolyn Riman, Advent.

MUSEUMS GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 From New York to New Mexico: Masterworks of American Modernism from the Vilcek Foundation Collection.

IAIA/MoCNA 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Lloyd Kiva New, Pitseolak Ashoona and Eliza Naranjo Morse, Winter/Spring 2016 Exhibition. Visions and Visionaries. Through July 31, 2017; Akunnittinni: A Kinngait Family Portrait. Through April 1; Forward: Eliza Naranjo Morse.

Through July 31. Lloyd Kiva New: Art, Design and Influence.

Through July 31.

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Turquoise, Water, Sky: The Stone and Its Meaning. Through May 2, 2016. Here, Now and Always and The Buchsbaum Gallery of Southwestern Pottery.

Adriel Heisley, Oblique Views: Archaeology, Photography and Time. Through May 25, 2017 MUSEUM OF INT’L FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Multiple Visions: A Common Bond. Flamenco: From Spain to New Mexico. Both through Sept.

11, 2016. Sacred Realm.

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 The Beltrán-Kropp Art Collection from Peru; Early 20th Century Artists of New Mexico; Conexiones: The Delgado Room.

NM HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5019 Painting the Divine: Images of Mary in the New World.

Through March 13. Along the Pecos: A Photographic and Sound Collage. Through June 19, 2016.

Setting the Standard: The Fred Harvey Company and Its Legacy.

NM MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 That Multitudes May Share: Building the Museum of Art. Through March 20, 2016 WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 704 Camino Lejo, 986-4636 Connoirship and Good Pie: Ted Coe and Collecting Native Art. Through April 17, 2016

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by Alex De Vore @sfreporter.com Not everyone is enamored with the saccharine-sweet films from the admittedly fine folks at Pixar, and not everyone loves CGI-produced animated films the way they love good old-fashioned cell animation. Still, it would be hard to deny that the field has come light-years since Toy Story unleashed its truly terrifying concept on the world, and every so of-

ten a sincerely special animated movie comes along. Zootopia is one of those. A genuinely clever take on very adult topics like race relations, sexism, strained relationships and the corrupting nature of power, the newest outing from Walt Disney Animation Studios is not only a triumph in terms of storytelling for kids and parents simultaneously (which is actually much harder than you might think), but a wise step from a company that has traditionally/unfortunately of-

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SWORD OF DESTINY

“Hey, the kung fu was good”

THE LADY IN THE VAN “we’re all hooked on her ... stodgy, strong, wittily smart characters”

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past, and the pair must fight the odds to find the bad guys and return order to their city.

Allowing the legitimately funny moments to eclipse whatever paintby-numbers plot points one would expect from a kid’s movie is the way to go here, and the important lesson we’re helped to relearn is that you should never judge a book by its cover (unless that book is about sloths). Sorry if that sounds cliché, but the greatest hits are the ones that ring true forever.

Goodwin’s turn as the flawed and ironically human Judy is fantastic, as is Bateman’s Nick, and we can feel actual, tangible onscreen chemistry between animated animals. With a plot so telegraphed, the ultimate payoff is perhaps a tad underwhelming, but smaller moments and enjoyable cameos from the likes of Tommy Chong as a confused nudist bison make up for small missteps. Either way, the meat of the story never underestimates children, which is huge, and who doesn’t love an unlikely team-up anyway? Besides, the beautiful animation is worth the price of admission alone, and if nothing else, we can all be reminded that we may need help from time to time, regardless of age, even when we truly do believe in ourselves.

ZOOTOPIA With Goodwin, Bateman and JK Simmons Violet Crown and Regal Cinemas PG, 108 min.

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ten told little girls all over the world to just take it easy already, because a man is on the way to fix everything.

We follow the anthropomorphized antics of Judy Hopps (Big Love’s Ginnifer Goodwin), the first ever bunny to join the police force in the city of Zootopia, a glorious metropolis where animals who’ve evolved past predator/ prey instinct live side by side in varying biome districts. All her life, Judy has been told there would never be a bunny cop, they’re just too small, but her strong sense of justice and (borderline irritating) positive attitude mean that she not only makes it to the police academy, but she graduates with flying colors and realizes her dream of moving to the big city.

Zootopia, by the way, is cool as hell and looks beautiful the first time we see the city through Judy’s eyes, via brief aerial shots of dizzying rainforest treetop canopies, scorching deserts, miniature rodent neighborhoods and so on. The attention to detail is staggering, and unlike most Pixar films, there is an actual feeling that the city lives and breathes.

No one takes Judy seriously, though, and she winds up working as a mere meter maid. Still, she does her job well, and through a series of right place, right time moments, she is thrust into the midst of a clandestine plot alongside Nick, a slick con artist fox (played amazingly by Jason Bateman) with a tragic

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DEADPOOL “chock full of full-frontal nudity for both genders”

CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON: SWORD OF DESTINY

When Netflix announced it would produce a sequel to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the news was a bit confusing. It seemed as though the aforementioned film had come to a slightly confusing, and dissatisfying end, but an end nonetheless. This film is part of a genre of kung fu flicks called “wuxia,” which literally translates in English to martial (wu) hero (xia). Common elements include sorcery, martial arts, and the wire-fu that director and fight choreographer Yuen Wo Ping is so famous for. It seems that the nostalgia bug has bitten Netflix, and they somehow greenlit this film, adapted by John Fusco from a series of novels written in the ’40s.

Fusco has a great deal of scriptwriting experience and is responsible for crafting the story arcs a few you may have heard of (Young Guns, Hidaglo, The Forbidden Kingdom, Marco Polo: One Hundred Eyes). The overall quality of these films isn’t necessarily the subject, but it’s obvious that they do have excellent narrative lines—beginning, middle and end—with characters that follow their clear-set motivations and goals.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny’s structure, on the other hand, is problematic. There are too many characters whose motivations are obscure and not very well fleshed out, most notably with the villain. Somehow, the martial world is in

turmoil, and Hades Dai (a stupid Western fusion-y name and played by Jason Scott Lee) wants Li Mu Bai’s (Chow Yun Fat from the first film, now dead) Green Destiny Sword, and intends to rob the house where it is secreted away. And why does he want to do this? Because he’s evil. That’s it. There are a few lines that go something like, “He’ll subjugate the land” with the power of the Green Destiny Sword, but he already has a magic sword. Why can’t he just become an ultra-powerful warlord with the sword he already has? This is weak motivation, and it sets the tone for tenuous connections and half-baked characterizations for the rest of the film.

Donnie Yen does a great job as Silent Wolf, the brother of Li Mu Bai (and Lien’s original fiancé). The trouble is, why did he come back? Why even use his character at all? It could have been anybody else. Instead, a hackneyed love story is tacked onto an otherwise lackluster plot that seems overwrought and underthought.

Ultimately, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny is a film that shouldn’t have been made. But hey, the kung fu was good. (Ben Kendall) Netflix Exclusive, PG-13, 96 min.

THE LADY IN THE VAN

Long venerated actor Maggie Smith frowned her way into today’s pop culture American heart and seems quite at home.

We’re all hooked on her recent delivery of

stodgy, strong, wittily smart, usually sort of evil characters who are also somewhat loveable, from the Harry Potter franchise to the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Just as Downton Abbey draws to its tear-jerking conclusion on PBS, you can get one more glimpse of her familiar puckered face.

Perhaps having the aristocratic Dowager Countess on the brain makes The Lady in the Van even more crushing. And you sort of favor her from the get-go.

One can almost smell the sadness (and the nastyness) in Smith’s portrayal of Mary Shepherd, or we’re not sure what her real name is. At first viewers might feel like the character of Bennett (Alex Jennings) aims to bore us to death with a tired, boring depiction of the boring life of a tired writer.

The slow-moving opening leaves you yearning for connection and also trying to figure out if he’s got a grumpy twin or sort of schizophrenic tendencies. But as the story unfolds in his driveway, more about his own struggles with family and foundations begin to show through the cracks.

Shepherd’s van lands in front of Bennett’s home in north London, where she lives there in a fetid collection of plastic bags for 15 years, chasing away children, shunning music and social workers. The movie carries moments of joy and little redemptions and an in-your-face unavoidable question about what the presence of “the lady’s” ilk means in our communities—how CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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In The Lady in the Van. harboring and caring for those on the fringe matters, even as it reveals our ugly prejudices.

And how you never, ever really know the whole story. (Julie Ann Grimm) Violet Crown, PG-13, 104 min.

GODS OF EGYPT

Poor Geoffrey Rush. Poor, poor, poor Geoffrey Rush. Even an accomplished, Academy Award-winning thespian of his caliber (who somehow made a role in the absurd Pirates of the Caribbean seem excellent) could not save the abysmal Gods of Egypt. We journey back to time immemorial, before recorded history, when the gods lived amongst the humans, even if they were 11 feet tall and all looked like fucking supermodels. Osiris, ruler of the lush Nile-adjacent capital, is to step down from the throne and his son Horus (Game of Thrones’ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) is supposed to take his place. But nope—Set, god of the barren desert wastes (Gerard Butler, who will apparently be in any ridiculously CGI’d action movie based in ancient history/mythology), ain’t havin’ it. He shows up to ruin everyone’s lives and sets into motion a pain-ridden fascist regime marked only by death, ostentatious monuments and a logistics change in the underworld. A young thief named Bek (Brenton Thwaites) gets fed up with the bullshit, though, and along with his girlfriend, he sets out to change things up and restore Horus to power.

And oh, how they journey and fight. There is no obstacle too powerful to overcome them, be it windswept deserts, humongous fire-breathing snakes, the murderous Set or Chadwick Boseman’s (42) criminally awful British accent as Thoth. The baffling nature of all movies assigning British accents to any/all non-Americans aside, the above points come together to become a film not only bad by this specific sub-genre’s already low standards, but compared to pretty much anything you can think up. The gods all transform into robotically exaggerated versions of themselves, for some reason; the main guy’s wisecracks fall far short of humor again and again, until you just kind of wish he’d die; the journey to the ultimate showdown is ludicrous (and in some cases straight-up lifted from the video game series God of War); and perhaps most painful of all, Rush’s phoned-in performance as sun god Ra is so inconsequential that even a laser-spear battle with a cosmic Sarlacc wouldn’t be enough of a reason to see this hot garbage.

Why have you forsaken us, Gods of Egypt? And why do people keep allowing movies like this to happen? (ADV) Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 127 min.

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THE WITCH

With focused attention on historical accuracy and A-game production values, it’d be hard not to hit The Witch out of the park. Unfortunately, the care given to the aforementioned aspects of the film was not paid to the writing—at least, not in the way of structure or plot.

Director Robert Eggers reportedly visited museums for four years to better understand and bring life to the subject. It shows in everything the audience lays eyes on, with period dress, architecture and dialogue all outstandingly crafted with a loving touch that brings the time in which the story takes place to life.

The Witch is a 17th-century puritanical folktale wherein the protagonist family’s patriarch William (wonderfully performed by Ralph Ineson) is banished from the village for nigh-heretical religious beliefs. It must be said that William’s religious beliefs don’t seem to be outside what the common theatergoer would construe as “not puritanical.” But apparently, William just wasn’t the town’s brand of Christian and was thrown out to the woods because of it. The family then moves to the outskirts of a forest and tries to scrape a meager living out of the land.

Then, all hell breaks loose after the mysterious disappearance of their baby at the edge of the tree line. Or rather, it insidiously crawls its way into their lives, sowing the seeds of paranoia and psychological terror. Well, that’s what it says on the tin.

What really happens is a plodding slog of a movie bereft of theme or bearable pace. Calling The Witch a slow-burn isn’t as close to the mark as saying it is “glacially painful.” The point of view switches so often that you’re not given enough time with the character to form any kind of attachment, were that attachment possible.

And it isn’t. It seems that every character’s motivations are so steeped in religion that forming a connection with a largely secular audience is a difficult task at best.

This is supposed to be a horror movie. What is built up in the first two acts of the film fails to resolve in any way. The soundtrack is utilized to say, “Hey, there’s something scary about to happen,” and then something only mildly untoward occurs 20 minutes later. Films at their core are meant to tell a story—meant to connect with the audience—and in the context of a horror film, scare the hell out of them. The Witch does none of these things. (BK) Violet Crown, Regal, R, 90 min.

DEADPOOL

It was hard to imagine how 20th Century Fox and Marvel Studios were going to accomplish bringing a the lesser-known cult-status charac-

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barf Gerard Butler is the only real thing this in this whole room in Gods of Egypt ter of Deadpool into motion picture territory.

How could the two major studios backing the production possibly create a film with a lead who frequently breaks the fourth wall, who may be aware that he’s a fictional person (possibly pan-sexual), and whose wisecracking has the same lowbrow comedic resonance as it does in the comic series? Against all odds, it seems that this herculean task of mainstream cinema was completed marginally well, especially considering the current precedent regarding the glut of the nostalgia-driven licensing nightmares the US studio system is fond of churning out these days.

It’s important to touch upon the meta aspects of this character, since in a way, that’s the whole basis of his motivations. Self-referential and turgid with pop-culture call-backs, with even subtle jibes from almost all the film’s characters at the thin plot, the movie is a snide and sophomoric attempt at the superhero genre.

But for some reason, that’s its charm. It’s as if a

couple of young guys who loved comics wrote a movie starring one of their favorite characters, and the studio, somehow being cognizant of the source material and target audience, just let it all happen. The opening credits even lampoon the Hollywood system, declaring that it was directed by “an overpaid tool” and produced by “asshats.” Bundle up, because it might just be a cold day in hell.

Deadpool, much like your socially inappropriate and yet (against your better judgment) still hilarious uncle, isn’t for everybody. If you’re a guy 18-35, you may like it. If you like meta satire on the Hollywood system, comic book movies, pop culture and ham-handed witticisms, it might just be for you. It’s chock full of full-frontal nudity for both genders, F-bombs and dismemberment, with a surface level of snappy dialogue that’s reminiscent of Kevin Smith’s Jersey Trilogy (Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy). If that’s your cup of tea, then go for it. (BK) Regal, R, 108 min.

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE PROBATE COURT SANTA FE COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT ESTATE OF Alfred A. Martinez, DECEASED. STATE OF NEW MEXICO No. 2016-0012 COUNTY OF SANTA FE NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that FOR THE CHANGE OF NAME OF the undersigned has been Barry Scott Routh appointed personal repreCase No.:D-101-CV-2016-00563 sentative of this estate. All NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME persons having claims against TAKE NOTICE that in accorthis estate are required to dance with the provisions present their claims within os Sec.40-8-1 through Sec. two (2) months after the 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, the date of the first publication Petitioner Barry Scott Routh of this notice, or the claims will apply to the Honorable will be forever barred. Claims ELIMINATE TOXICITY IN THE MIND must be presented either to STREAM ALL DAY SEMINAR March Raymond Z. Ortiz, District the undersigned personal Judge of the First Judicial 19, Saturday, 10:00 - 5:00 pm, representative at the address “Purification process in Buddhism District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex at Santa Fe, listed below, or filed with the is core to meditation so that our Probate Court of Santa Fe, vision is clear in order to perceive New Mexico at 8:30 a.m. on reality” - Domo Geshe Rinpoche, the 25th day of March, 2016 County, New Mexico, located at the following address: 102 Tibetan Buddhist Lama. Through for an ORDER FOR CHANGE Grant Avenue, Santa Fe, New purification practice we remove OF NAME from Barry Scott Mexico 87501. what obstructs our ability to see Routh to Lilith Cadin Routh.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) “He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace,” wrote Leo Tolstoy in his novella The Death of Ivan Ilych.

The weird thing is, Aries, that this seemingly crazy strategy might actually work for you in the coming days. The storms you pray for, the tempests you activate through the power of your longing, could work marvels. They might clear away the emotional congestion, zap the angst, and usher you into a period of dynamic peace. So I say: Dare to be gusty and blustery and turbulent.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) “Your anger is a gift.” So proclaims musician and activist Zack de la Rocha, singer in the band Rage Against the Machine. That statement is true for him on at least two levels. His fury about the systemic corruption that infects American politics has roused him to create many successful songs and enabled him to earn a very good living. I don’t think anger is always a gift for all of us, however. Too often, especially when it’s motivated by petty issues, it’s a selfindulgent waste of energy that can literally make us sick.

Having said that, I do suspect that your anger in the TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Quoting poet W. H. Auden, coming week will be more like de la Rocha’s: productive, author Maura Kelly says there are two kinds of poets: clarifying, healthy. argument-makers and beauty-makers. I think that’s an SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) “Even now, all possible feelinteresting way to categorize all humans, not just poets. ings do not yet exist,” says novelist Nicole Krauss. In the Which are you? Even if you usually tend to be more of coming weeks, I suspect you will provide vivid evidence an argument-maker, I urge you to be an intense beautyof her declaration, Scorpio. You may generate an unprecmaker in the next few weeks. And if you’re already a edented number of novel emotions — complex flutters pretty good beauty-maker, I challenge you to become, at and flows and gyrations that have never before been least temporarily, a great beauty-maker. One more thing: experienced by anyone in the history of civilization. I As much as possible, until April 1, choose beauty-makthink it’s important that you acknowledge and celebrate ers as your companions. them as being unique — that you refrain from comparGEMINI (May 21-June 20) To have any hope of becoming an expert in your chosen field, you’ve got to labor for at least 10,000 hours to develop the necessary skills — the equivalent of 30 hours a week for six and a half years. But according to author William Deresiewicz, many young graphic designers no longer abide by that rule. They regard it as more essential to cultivate a network of connections than to perfect their artistic mastery. Getting 10,000 contacts is their priority, not working 10,000 hours. But I advise you not to use that approach in the coming months, Gemini. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will be better served by improving what you do rather than by increasing how many people you know.

ing them to feelings you’ve had in the past or feelings that other people have had. To harvest their full blessing, treat them as marvelous mysteries.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) “I sit before flowers, hoping they will train me in the art of opening up,” says poet Shane Koyczan. “I stand on mountain tops believing that avalanches will teach me to let go.” I recommend his strategy to you in the coming weeks, Cancerian. Put yourself in the presence of natural forces that will inspire you to do what you need to do. Seek the companionship of people and animals whose wisdom and style you want to absorb. Be sufficiently humble to learn from the whole wide world through the art of imitation.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) According to a report in the journal Science, most of us devote half of our waking time to thinking about something besides the activity we’re actually engaged in. We seem to love to ruminate about what used to be and what might have been and what could possibly be. Would you consider reducing that amount in the next 15 days, Capricorn? If you can manage to cut it down even a little, I bet you will accomplish small feats of magic that stabilize and invigorate your future. Not only that: You will feel stronger and smarter. You’ll have more energy. You’ll have an excellent chance to form an enduring habit of staying more focused on the here and now.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) The marathon is a long-distance footrace with an official length of over 26 miles. Adults who are physically fit and well-trained can finish the course in five hours. But I want to call your attention to a much longer running event: the Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race. It begins every June in Queens, a borough of New York, and lasts until August. Those who participate do 3,100 miles’ worth of laps around a single city block, or about 100 laps per day. I think that this is an apt metaphor for the work you now have ahead of you. You must cover a lot of ground as you accomplish a big project, but without traveling far and wide. Your task is to be dogged and persistent as you do a little at a time, never risking exhaustion, always pacing yourself.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) In old Vietnamese folklore, croaking frogs were a negative symbol. They were thought to resemble dull teachers who go on and on with their boring and pointless lectures. But in many other cultures, frogs have been symbols of regeneration and resurrection due to the dramatic transformations they make from egg to tadpole to full-grown adult. In ancient India, choruses of croaks were a sign of winter’s end, when spring rains arrived to fertilize the earth and bestow a promise of the growth to come. I suspect that the frog will be one of your emblems in the coming weeks, Virgo — for all of the above reasons. Your task is to overcome the boring stories and messages so as to accomplish your lively transformations.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) “Look at yourself then,” advised author Ray Bradbury. “Consider everything you have fed yourself over the years. Was it a banquet or a starvation diet?” He wasn’t talking about literal food. He was referring to the experiences you provide yourself with, to the people you bring into your life, to the sights and sounds and ideas you allow to pour into your precious imagination. Now would be an excellent time to take inventory of this essential question, Sagittarius. And if you find there is anything lacking in what you feed yourself, make changes!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) One of the legal financial scams that shattered the world economy in 2008 was a product called a Collateralized Debt Obligation Squared.

It was sold widely, even though noted economist Ha-Joon Chang says that potential buyers had to read a billion pages of documents if they hoped to understand it. In the coming weeks, I think it’s crucial that you Aquarians avoid getting involved with stuff like that -with anything or anyone requiring such vast amounts of homework. If it’s too complex to evaluate accurately, stay uncommitted, at least for now.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) “I wish I knew what I desire,” wrote Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, born under the sign of Pisces. “I wish I knew! I wish I knew!” If he were still alive today, I would have very good news for him, as I do for all of you Pisceans reading this horoscope. The coming weeks will be one of the best times ever — EVER! — for figuring out what exactly it is you desire. Not just what your ego yearns for. Not just what your body longs for. I’m talking about the whole shebang. You now have the power to home in on and identify what your ego, your body, your heart, and your soul want more than anything else in this life.

Homework: What’s the single thing you could do right now that would change your life for the better?

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