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MURDERED IN 2019 9 Last year, seven people died at the hands of another in the city—the highest number in a decade

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GHOSTS OF INDUSTRY 11 Plumes of pollution threaten city groundwater wells, but remediation efforts are underway COVER STORY 12 2020 DESIRES AND PREDICTIONS What do Santa Feans expect for a new decade?

Hope, community—and God willing, a gay bar THE INTERFACE 17 CULTURE IN RETROGRADE Millennials have found a new religion in AI-powered astrology apps, but they aren’t as religious about protecting their data

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“I’ve never believed in something as much, I think, as I have and continue to believe in the Playhouse,” says outgoing Santa Fe Playhouse Artistic Director Vaughn Irving, who steps down from the role today.

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LETTERS

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Mail or deliver letters to 132 E Marcy St., Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501; or email them to editor@sfreporter.com. Letters (no more than 200 words) should refer to specific articles in the Reporter. Letters will be edited for space and clarity.

State Hwy. 173 from Aztec to San Juan River has been in disrepair for decades. Many other roads in NM are in this condition.

Please help to make your article more advantageous to future tourists by getting to work on our roads.

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A LOT OF MONEY Your article raises the question: What is the real story with the rushed vote by the City Council to spend $20 million on a pipeline of uncertain purpose and utility?

The council took it up one week after it was hastily added onto a resolution concerning water planning. When it got to the full council only the water division was allowed to speak, with the project opponents muted in their seats. This was the first time that the project was presented to the council.

So, in the space of one week, with no discussion of budget, alternatives, energy costs, or other critical aspects, and no public hearings (although lots of “open houses” and other lobbying of the public by the water division) the mayor and all but two council members signed onto an expensive proposal that will drastically cut flows in the Santa Fe River and reduce water security for the city.

We do need to do water planning, but before, not after making a decision that commits the city to an expensive, highly engineered project with uncertain benefits.

Shame on the mayor and those who pushed this through.

GINI NELSON SANTA FE

A&C, DEC. 11: “READING IN THE ARROYO”

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I loved your interest and enthusiasm in your article. I sure hope these ideas find good legs and take off making great success for New Mexico. People coming to our state need to trust in safety of getting to and from their destination. It aids the commerce in that community.

Our roads leading to the most popular areas in the San Juan Basin is Navajo Lake.

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For whatever lands are developed for public recreation in New Mexico, two things seem to bring in the “loved to death” result seen everywhere in the world these days. One is that tourism boards promote the place at all, which brings “loved to death” to home. I would say stay silent about any promotion, or tax it at 20%. Fine those who advertise without supporting the resource.

Second is that the parking lots are located well away from the feature at hand. We are a too-soft, comfortable, entitled culture.

Encourage grit. Give nature respect and plenty of distance from vehicles.

Third is develop a local stewardship council which involves the locals to respect what they have in their own backyards.

Have retirees as well as the kids build the trails and maintain the infrastructure. Can we avoid contracted maintained facilities?

Finally, plan aggressively on how not have the typical trashing of public lands which is so common in New Mexico and elsewhere.

Who wants trash, bullet holes and fire pits at the trails? No one really. Be aggressive about [Leave No Trace]. Become the leading example here in the Four Corners.

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COVER, DEC. 11: “MOVING MOUNTAINS”

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MOST POPULAR NEW MEXICO BABY NAMES OF 2019 WERE SOPHIA AND LIAM Third and fourth places were probably something like “Chile” and “Allsup.”

STATE REP. RICHARD MARTINEZ FOUND GUILTY OF DWI Sentencing hearing to determine if he gets jail time under the Also Wet His Pants Act.

NEW MEXICO PECAN WEEVIL QUARANTINE IS IN EFFECT Pies are often better when they are weevil-free.

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READ IT ON SFREPORTER.COM DREAM THIS A federal lawsuit by Santa Fe Dreamers alleges the Trump administration has “weaponized” the immigration court system to further its anti-immigrant agenda.

W E A R E WAY M O R E TH A N W E D N E S DAY H E R E A R E A CO UP LE O F O N LI N E E XC LUS I V E S :

NO PLACE LIKE HOME Alas de Agua Art Collective settles into its new home in the former digs of Zephyr Community Arts Studio. A win, even it it’s a tough loss.

LETTERS teacher and I’m so glad to see this thoughtful assessment of a few books (I, too, was very intrigued by Jake Skeets’ collection.).

I’ll be watching for more columns.

Wishing you a happy year-end, full of ease and pleasure.

LAUREN CAMP SANTA FE

ONLINE, DEC. 18: “HOLIDAY DWI PREVENTION”

NOT ON PAR Wow ... sounds like a pretty uninspired meeting. I recently wrote to my city councilors and the mayor about whether or not any transportation initiatives were in the works. For example, a safe ride program like other cities in NM have, late night public transportation, partnering with bars to reimburse a portion of Uber rides, etc. From the responses I got, they basically shrugged their shoulders and said “nope!”

LENORE GUSCH VIA FACEBOOK

FOOD, DEC. 18: “LOOKING FOR A BURRITO?”

NOT HERE FOR THE FOOD

ANSON STEVENS-BOLLEN

Not everybody in Santa Fe likes New Mexican flavors every time we eat. Chipotle

is just another option, especially when most of the restaurants close so early and I get hungry after 8:00 pm.

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NEWS, DEC. 11: “THESE HATS ARE MADE FOR WORKING”

BRAVO, RICH DUDE I’m really struggling to grasp the point of Katherine Lewin’s article ... As I’m here thinking about it I need to decide if just it’s lazy reporting bordering on muckraking or a more sinister method of political and class division that really doesn’t match the usual quality investigative reporting that makes the Reporter such an outstanding paper.

My two cents: Alan Webber is a millionaire many times over. Instead of flying off to do his shopping every other week in Paris or Milan, he keeps his money local and purchased a fine hat crafted by local artisans. To press that point: Instead of sitting back and talking as mayor, Webber is quite outspoken in at least vocalizing the issues facing the class divisions in Santa Fe and especially those of the Southside.

I’d say we’re rather lucky as a city to have someone who tries to find the middle ground between the marginalized working class and those folks to whom an $1,800 hat is met with a proud wearer instead of a resentful balk.

Furthermore, in this day and age of the wealthy sitting on vast sums of money, bravo for Mr. Webber doing his part to keep the money flowing. Maybe listen to what he actually has to say instead of worrying what’s on top of his head.

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5:30 p.m., Board Room, Room 223 505-428-1148

Saturday, January 18, 2020 5pm- 9pm

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Monday, Jan. 20 — SFCC closed for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Prepare for the High School Equivalency/GED tests. Orientation Sessions will be held Jan. 13-16, daytimes and evenings. Classes begin Jan. 21 in Spanish and English in Room 503B. There is a $25 registration fee.

505-428-1356 ESL Orientation Sessions 505-428-1356, Room 503B Attend only one — $25 registration fee: Tuesday, Jan. 14; Wednesday, Jan. 15; Tuesday, Jan. 21; Wednesday, Jan. 22, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. or 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

REGISTER FOR COURSES, FIND MORE EVENTS & DETAILS AT SFCC.EDU Individuals who need special accommodations should call the phone number listed for each event.

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Murdered in 2019 Santa Fe homicides and violent crimes were on the rise last year

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anta Fe police may not have spent the last week handling its 80th murder of the year like Albuquerque, but detectives in the City Different investigated more homicides in 2019 than than they have in the last nine years.

Crime reports show yearly homicides dropped significantly in 2011 after reaching a decade high with 13 in 2009. In 2016, the city had just one homicide, but that grew to four in 2017, five in 2018 and the seven this year, according to statistics provided to the FBI from the Santa Fe Police Department.

Of the reported homicides in the city, four resulted in arrest. One was a murder-suicide in a public place, and two remain active, unsolved cases with few leads for detectives.

Five of the victims were killed by gunshot wounds.

At least four of the seven people were killed by others they knew, two of them in domestic violence crimes, most wellknown in the case of Ernestine Saucedo, who was murdered by her husband in a parked car.

Intimate partner violence is an epidemic in the state. The Legislative Finance Committee found in an October 2019 study that levels of domestic violence in New Mexico have not decreased, despite state funding.

Pam Wiseman, executive director of the New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence, attributes that, in part, to low conviction rates of abusers.

Preliminary data from a University of New Mexico study backs up that assessment; according to the coalition, 80% of domestic violence cases are dismissed by prosecutors. Money is also an issue, however. Programs for both victims and abusers are also chronically underfunded.

“Because CYFD’s reimbursement for domestic violence services has not increased since 2008 (and some rates not since 1997) fewer clients were funded

by CYFD over time,” Children, Youth and Families Department Unit Manager David River said in a statement. “In addition, some programs ran out of CYFD funds mid-year and therefore stopped reporting the number of people served.”

Crime overall has risen in Santa Fe. SFR previously reported that the violent crime rate for 2018 was 394 per 100,000 residents while the national average was 380. Violent crimes increased from 2017 to 2018 by 14% while property crimes jumped 6%.

During that same time period, the violent crime rate in Albuquerque also rose, though at a slower rate than previously.

Ricardo Magana 39 years old April 29 Lorca Drive A little after midnight, police were dispatched for a domestic violence incident that turned deadly. Magana, holding a baseball bat, was coming toward his girlfriend Elaina Gomez-Villeda. Her teenage son fired a warning shot from a gun, but when Magana didn’t stop, the juvenile shot Magana in the stomach in self-defense, according to police reports.

He was charged as a juvenile in possession of a weapon but greater charges were dropped, because police said “he was trying to protect his mother.”

Ernestine Saucedo 32 years old July 11 Don Gaspar Avenue Ernestine Saucedo and her husband, Jesse Saucedo, were found dead inside a car near the Jerry Apodaca Education building in a murder-suicide. Around 8 am, Jesse shot Ernestine in the torso several times before turning the gun on himself. She was a well-known performer under the name Ernestine Romero.

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Rodrigo Enriquez-Garray

34 years old July 21 East De Vargas Street

19 years old Sept. 7 Hopewell Street

Mathew Corral was found by passersby early in the morning in the street, face down and shot once in the chest. There are no suspects or arrests in the case, although it’s still considered an active investigation. SFPD is concerned about the “safety” of potential witnesses in this case because “witnesses and others who have knowledge of an incident could be threatened if their names and personal information are released prior to the arrest of a suspect,” SFPD spokesman Greg Gurulé tells SFR.

Sixty-four-year-old Beverly Melendez shot her rifle across the arroyo into her neighbor’s yard while they were having a party, striking Rodrigo EnrqiuezGarray in the back. His family rushed him to the hospital, where he later died of his wounds. Melendez, charged with second-degree murder and two counts of negligent use of a deadly weapon, told officers she was irritated with the loud noise coming from the party on Hopewell Street. A pre-trial is set for February. Melendez is being held without bond.

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Of the reported homicides in the city, four saw someone arrested and charged in relation to it. One was the murdersuicide of Ernestine Romero and two remain active, unsolved cases with few leads for detectives.

Aaron Chapman 37 years old Sept. 15 West DeVargas Street The case is active and unsolved.

Chapman was found underneath the bridge at the West DeVargas Park with his head beaten in with rocks. Police tell SFR there are no arrests or suspects in this case, though they are also “concerned” about the safety of potential witnesses, according to Gurulé.

Robert Barela 51 years old Nov. 18 Lopez Street Police say around 8:22 pm, a female, likely the victim’s girlfriend, called the police to report that Robert Barela had been stabbed by 61-year-old Jonathan Kelly. Kelly is charged with second-degree murder in First Judicial District Court. A jury selection hearing won’t be held until June. City officials discussed whether the location could be declared a “nuisance” due to frequent reports of crime.

Daniel Gisler 20 years old Police say the murder took place around Nov. 19, but the body was not found until Dec. 6, when law enforcement located his body buried in an open field on the Southside. James Garcia, 26, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and tampering with evidence, allegedly for killing Gisler over a drug deal. Records in the case are sealed.

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Ghosts of Industry City of Santa Fe and state Environment Department plan another go at chemical plumes

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ll of Earth contains repositories of stories, a record of time layered on itself. History emerges in the different colored stripes of rock—sandstone, pumice, shale—in the hills along the highway. The past manifests during spring planting in the backyard when a fossil or an old tin shows up again. When the objects found are of human origin, we call it archaeology.

Future archaeologists might sample soil and the water at places like the empty plot off of Baca Street that was once the Santa Fe Generating Station to determine a record of the area’s 20th century industry.

When the remains are toxic pollutants, we call it contamination.

At least 60 feet below the surface of the property, a petroleum plume floats above the water table. It’s one of five known chemical plumes that contaminate groundwater within the city limits, caused by landfills, leaky gas tanks and dry-cleaning chemical spills before state groundwater regulations were established in the 1980s.

Now, city officials would like to see all the messes gone.

Yet, even when successfully “remediated,” plumes can still leave chemical clues to what kinds of human activity took place here, traces that will last for generations.

Some of these sites, such as a plume caused by an old gas station that is now the location of the Santa Fe County courthouse downtown, have been remediated to “acceptable standards” set by the state and federal government. Others, such as the one on Baca Street, are still “under investigation.”

Even where remediation efforts have been successful, the full extent of groundwater contamination remains unknown, says Bill Schneider, water resources coordinator for the city water division. He adds that the documented plumes could only be the tip of a contaminated iceberg—there are at least 40 other potential release sites around the city.

Schneider says while groundwater pollution doesn’t currently pose a significant threat to public health, it might down the line.

“One of the things we’re trying to do is get out ahead of the problem and take a more proactive approach,” Schneider tells SFR. He says the division is developing what managers are calling the “wellhead protection program,” a project that would attempt to map all potential contamination sites and facilitate testing in as many cases as possible. The other three plumes already on their radar are from a former dry cleaner in a strip mall at the corner of Cerrillos and St. Mike’s; the former Ortiz Landfill; and the Old Trail Garage on Old Santa Fe Trail.

Right now, city taps rely heavily on surface water drawn from rivers and reservoirs. Schneider says the city ground-

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water wells are mostly used as back-up during dry spells and are carefully tested and treated for contaminants.

Schneider worries the increasing likelihood of severe droughts, wildfires and population growth could force the city to rely more heavily on its groundwater, and untreated contamination could jeopardize municipal water security in the future. Private well owners, responsible for their own testing, may currently be at risk.

Yet identifying the full scope of contamination in the city is a significant challenge. That responsibility lies with the New Mexico Environment Department and the party responsible for the contamination.

Complex geological conditions make locating and treating chemical plumes notoriously difficult. The task can cost millions, even under the best of circumstances when city, state and responsible parties work together.

John Hale knows the conundrum all too well. As the environmental manager at Public Service Company of New

This service station closed due to gasoline shortage in Santa Fe in 1979. Gas stations built before the 1980s are a primary source of groundwater contamination.

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Mexico, he oversees remediation at the former Santa Fe Generating Station.

The plume is attributed to a leak in the 1950s that dumped 18,000 gallons of fuel into the ground, Hale tells SFR. Alex Puglisi, an environmental compliance specialist for the city, says that number was closer to 30,000-80,000 gallons, “depending on who you ask.”

PNM excavated many tons of fuel-soaked earth for disposal shortly after, but remaining contamination went undetected until the 1980s and ‘90s when benzene and gasoline compounds began appearing in the city well adjacent to the property.

Hale estimates PNM has spent approximately $10 million investigating the site since the ‘90s, yet the exact dimensions of the plume, its boundaries and direction of movement beneath the earth’s surface could never be accurately determined and sources of secondary contamination were never located.

In 2015, the public utility entered a program with the Petroleum Storage Tank Bureau of the NMED that transfers the responsibility to pay for and oversee investigations and remediation efforts to the state, but PNM will always be responsible for monitoring the site.

“That site was like Swiss cheese—we drilled a lot of wells, we did a lot of testing and we never found the ‘smoking gun’ or the source that was attributable to what we’re seeing in the groundwater,” Hale says of the search for sources of secondary contamination that continually show up in investigations and thwarted past remediation efforts. Hale hopes that by entering the Tank Bureau’s Corrective Action Fund, the utility will have enough support to “hopefully get to a conclusion within our lifetimes.”

Hale worries there is no easy remedy.

That’s partly because the ground at the site holds records of many different contaminants, each with a separate time peg and likely origin—leaded gasoline that was phased out in the ’70s and unleaded gasoline likely from a later release; fresh diesel gas and much older “weathered” diesel gas; chlorinated solvents that were used both at a service center on the property and at the New Mexico Department of Transportation across Cerrillos Road.

PSTB Chief Donna Bahar says a recent state investigation on the site was completed last year and a report of findings is due this month. The next step is to collect remediation proposals.

The Baca Street site is No. 1 on the department’s cleanup list for the Santa Fe area. The second target site is in Arroyo Hondo, Santa Fe County outside the city.

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2020 DESIRES AND PREDICTIONS

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o matter what we ask you, Santa Fe, you tell us what you want to tell us anyway. This year does not break with tradition. Why should it? You don’t need SFR to remind you the gym will be crowded this week until our resolution-making neighbors go back to their snooze buttons and Pop-Tarts.

In our first issue of 2020, let us instead allow your neighbors to issue the reminders. We sent the newspaper staff to the city’s places of work and play to talk about the coming year.

We asked everyone to name their desires and

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predictions. Some talked about values and lofty ideas, others concrete plans and specific goals. There was plenty about the pending political scene, and a bit about art, culture, the economy and even a dance party or two.

The 1920s saw the rise of art deco, with shorter skirts and shorter hair taking center stage for women who had newly won the right to vote. How will history describe the 2020s?

Are we already running headlong toward the brightness when we know the only clear vision is hindsight?

Happy New Year, neighbors.

TIRA HOWARD

My big hope in New Mexico is the Legislature expands the proposal of free college for all.

“I guess my hope, not just for New Mexico, but for the whole country, is that people move away from traditional thinking and start thinking outside the box in how we educate our young people and how we upskill our incumbent workers. And my big hope in New Mexico is the Legislature expands the proposal of free college for all to include all kinds of programs, like certifications and digital badges and internships and apprenticeships …

My prediction is that it’s very hard for

-Sarah Boisvert

people to change, and we’re talking about changing mindsets, and so my prediction is that change in the education space and the workforce training space is going to be slower than a lot of us would hope, but I’m seeing people like [Deputy Secretary for Teaching and Learning for the New Mexico Public Education Department] Gwen Perea Warniment bring real glimmers of progressive thinking to bring real innovation to the education space in New Mexico, which we desperately need …”

—Sarah Boisvert, founder of Fab Lab Hub

“2020 is my year of commitment …

First off, I’m getting married, and there’s not really a bigger commitment than that. Professionally, I’m committing to my Bad Hippie brand. This is the year I prove to myself and others that I can run a kitchen, write a menu, and call myself ‘chef.’ Politically, it’s also the year I commit on America—or not. I don’t care who our next president is, so long as Trump isn’t elected to four more years. As a Jewish man, that’ll be my sign to call it quits on the ‘land of the free’ and seek a new life/ fortune elsewhere. Maybe I’m a quitter, but I’m gonna go practice the democratic values of self governance somewhere people actually value them. Plus, I like speaking Spanish, warm weather, and hate winter months and short days, so heading south looks promising. As far as predictions go: 1.) Santa Fe gets

voted NM city with best roads—shoutout to the mayor. 2.) Meow Wolf continues the trend of actually hiring the locals they claimed their company was created to employ. 3.) Sasella wins best fine dining restaurant with Chef Gerrit [Bravata] at the helm. 4.) NM legalizes recreational cannabis. 5.)

With legal cannabis, every other stat in the state dramatically improves, from DWI deaths to literacy to teen pregnancy. 6.) Legal mushrooms are proposed at state Legislature but it’s like the worst bill ever. Like legit just says ‘we could eat ‘em if we want! #legalmushrooms’” —Josh Lochner, head chef at Santa Fe Tennis and Swim Club

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“I just predict it’ll be a great year. It’s gonna be a fabulous year. I’m going to be optimistic about it, I’m not gonna take any negative vibes in to the new year. I try to stay as positive as possible, y’know? Big things are gonna happen for me. 2019 was crazy. We had some ups and some downs, but it’s over—we’re going into a new decade.

The roaring ’20s are coming back.

Santa Fe needs a strong nightlife that the gay community can get behind. In 2020, Santa Fe needs a gay bar. A place where the community can come out Lisa Harris and feel safe and wanted and have fun.

Once we get that back, the economy will burst. The gays will come into town and start spending money left and right, but if there’s nothing to do, they’re not coming.”

—Calvin A Fields, badass bitch

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“I was just thinking about how we’re on the cusp of a new decade, and it’s exciting. Because of the climate at the moment, I think there will be a lot of eco-anxiety going on … Sustainability will be a hot issue. I think there’ll be some who become more actively involved. Many climate deniers will selfishly keep denying it for their own gain. I’m hoping the refugee crisis wanes, but I don’t think it will. I’m hoping people stop eating—or eat less— beef. My hopes are optimistic, but I’m a realistic person. On a more personal note, because I’ve been showing the work of artists and running a new business, I haven’t had time to paint, so I’d like to do more creative work and also have more time to read and just generally relax. In Santa Fe, we’re different from the rest of America in many ways. I see positive change, more diversity, which is what I’d like—I’m from London where you live on a street with people from 50 different ethnic backgrounds. The local government is largely Democratic, and that’s a good thing for things changing in a positive way. I just love Santa Fe and I can’t imagine leaving. I wish there was a bit more business vibrancy here in terms of jobs for young people, to keep more young people here.”

—Francesca Yorke, owner of FOMA Gallery

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—Ray Aranda

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—Cyndi Conn, Creative Santa Fe executive director

“I’m feeling very optimistic about the new year, definitely. Every year, that’s the name of my game, you know—I’m 82 years old and I say to myself, ‘Lord Jesus give me another year with my business’ … My dad founded [Aranda’s Plumbing] business in 1947, right here in the barrio. I’m the second generation and we’ve been active every year since, constantly doing business in Santa Fe. Now we’ve got the third generation running the business with my son, Patrick.

My concern this year is of course to keep up with my responsibility; we have 10 people that make a living out of this business and that’s a responsibility that things go well, we want to succeed in our own little way, you know.

Last year was a little rough for me, I had the worst scare of my life when I had a little heart attack late in January … My prayers this year are for my health, the health of my workers and my family, and that we have a beautiful year and stay competitive because there must be as many plumbers these days as there are lawyers, people would probably rather be a plumber as the joke goes around here. You gotta be good to survive in this business, and every year we’re just trying to find ways to be a little bit better.”

“2020 is going to be, potentially, on a national level, pretty bruising politically, and perhaps a little disheartening, and so I think my desire is that people, and myself included, can focus on our local engagement and our local politics, because that is where we can get a lot of hope and have a lot of progress …

Sometimes we can just feel bummed out about what is happening on the national level, and there is just so much good we can do locally.”

—Alex Hanna, Invisible City Designs owner/ creative director

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“My prediction is that the arts and the creative sector are going to be more and more important to how we address, communicate and solve both our city issues and our broader global issues in the world, because we need artists now more than ever.

My desire is to increase citywide collaboration to address our great challenges and opportunities and for Santa Fe to become a model for that type of problem solving in the world.”

— Ray Aranda, Aranda’s Plumbing, Heating & Supply

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“My desires are for a less partisan country. I hope we can actually remember that we are Americans first before we’re Republicans or Democrats. And my prediction is Zozobra will rock out his ‘80s fashion at the biggest ‘80s dance party the world has ever seen.”

—Ray Sandoval, Zozobra executive chairman

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I’m feeling very optimistic about the new year, definitely.

Every year, that’s the name of my game, you know—I’m 82 years old and I say to myself, ‘Lord Jesus give me another year with my business’ …

My dad founded [Aranda’s Plumbing] business in 1947, right here in the barrio.

“2020 is overshadowed by battles.

They’re not the typical military wars.

They’re the mental and emotional conflicts which people deal with by being couch potatoes. But watching TV will not calm the internal dissonance. The results will show up in your medical bills. There’s a promise of victories, but they come with a price tag. The costs include psyching up yourself and then others to respond to what your brains and spirit are telling you to do, which is operating as a thinking, spiritual human being, going beyond your normal limitations and keeping close tabs on what’s happening in our governmental structures, which are crumbling, not the buildings but the concepts by which they should operate democratically. The year ahead is a transitional one for the social structures in our society. 2021 will be about renovations and building new social institutions. In 2020, we’ll be looking at what has permanent value in our governmental structures and what has to be eliminated. A collective vision for our future is emerging, but not yet clearly defined. It’s important to have a

vision of our collective needs. We need to act responsibly towards it, or be willing to live in a deteriorating dream.”

—Merrylin LeBlanc, KSFR

discussions, articles; documentaries involving artists doing grassroots works in Santa Fe and New Mexico in general.

I predict and desire more radical love, radical community love, radical self care love—did I mention radical love?

So radical, it’s just normal.”

“This year could be a tough one …

It’s strange times because our world is a little iffy on kindness right now and how to think about it, especially when it comes to differences between people. I would like the world to not think of kindness as a weakness and

— Lisa Harris, owner and founder of Video Library

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“I am an optimistic person, for that reason my predictions and desires are focused on positive results for my community. My predictions for 2020 are: Colombia is going to win the American Cup for soccer, the US is going to have a better president, and Capital High School DECA [club] is going to win one category in the state competition in Albuquerque. My desires for 2020 are: A better payment for teachers and employees in the educational sector, leaders more aware and doing something about global warming and more options with good quality for infant care in Santa Fe.” —Juan Acevedo, Capital High School teacher COURTESY JUAN ACEVEDO

for everybody to go forth and just be kind to each other, it’s amazing how far that can go.

Let’s all start by practicing kindness in our own community. If there’s a change you want to see out there in the world, find a way to do something locally that makes your community stronger. I think if we all thought about that it would be a great way to start the new year.

For me personally, I’m just happy that [the Video Library] is still here and will still be here in 2020. That’s something to celebrate.”

—Israel Francisco Haros Lopez, co-founder Alas de Agua Art Collective

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“I guess my predictions and desires are the same. My desire is for more POC spaces in Santa Fe that nurture alternative narratives and give room for more creativity. My desire is to see the Alas De Agua Art School Building fully funded. My desire is to see more sober spaces where we can have compassionate conflict and go deeper in our conversations and healing around historical trauma and utilize the arts to create said spaces. My desire is to see more queer spaces, more Native spaces, more bridging across race, class, gender. Definitely want to see way more diverse murals in a town full of artists. More funding going towards BIPOC [Black, Indigenous and Persons of Color] artists. More panels,

My desire is to see more sober spaces where we can have compassionate conflict and go deeper in our conversations and healing around historical trauma and utilize the arts to create said spaces.

-Israel Francisco Haros Lopez

“We’re blessed to have a very healthy young family and we’re looking forward to watching them grow and continue with school, I guess your average kinds of things. We don’t really do New Year’s resolutions, we kind of maintain our resolutions throughout the year.

If you want to achieve something, you need to start with being honest with yourself, identify your strengths and weaknesses, and come up with a goal to improve those a little bit every day. We’re still at the very beginning here so we’ve got a lot to learn; these are our first two kids. We’re small business owners and we hope that that will show them a little bit of what’s possible in your community. We just hit our oneyear mark [since starting Honeymoon Brewery] on Dec. 6.”

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“My desires are to continue my life along academic roads that fulfill me, which probably means getting out of Santa Fe. I predict that I slot into a program after a year at home and either Bernie gets elected and my debt gets erased or the collapse happens.”

—David Carroll, Violet Crown worker

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—James Hill and Ayla Bystrom-Williams, owners of Honeymoon Brewery, and sons Finn and Liam

“As our sights turn to our second year of filling the large shoes of former owners Tony and Gayatri Malmed, our intention for 2020 is to continue to cultivate Spirit of the Earth, and invest our creative energies in Santa Fe. We want to deepen our relationship with this rich and diverse community. We’ve always been committed to excellence in craftsmanship, and carrying forward the legacy of Spirit of the Earth has been an evolution of that commitment.

Our hope for this year is that we can help people to find a medium of self-expression through our curation. In a world increasingly motivated by speed, ease and technology, we’d like to see ourselves as an antidote, creating connective experiences through objects of adornment for body and space.”

“1.) I am not making any resolutions because I don’t really believe that there is a strong enough punctuation mark between December and January that necessitates me changing the person that I am and I really want to just like the person I am today and not some future self. 2.) In terms of predictions, I don’t know what’s going to happen. But my hope is that no matter what drama plays out on a national stage or with our leaders in this upcoming year, we all find the courage to do our best every day to help each other and make sacrifices for what’s right, not what’s easy.”

—Bridget Love, high school assistant principal, Santa Fe Indian School

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—Sophie Segar and Owen Maher, owners of Spirit of the Earth

We asked readers on Facebook a question: What do you need, and what does Santa Fe need in 2020?

Phil Lucero We need a more bicycle friendly infrastructure throughout the city. Roads should be retrofitted with bike lanes. Urban trails / paved paths need to expand and better connect with one another. We need another tunnel or bridge at Cerrillos road and St. Francis as cyclists and pedestrians coming and going from the rail trail still need to cross Cerrillos. Lastly, our open space trails (like La Tierra) should be treated like city parks with similar amenities. That said, I love the work that’s already been done on this front as of late.

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Audrey Lopez Salazar Better maintenance of roads, traffic lights and street lights. Too many bad roads in the city that need to have holes fixed or roads repaved or cracks resealed, too many dark roads at night on main thoroughfares which could cause pedestrians to get hit, and too many instances where traffic lights are not functioning properly which in turn could cause traffic accidents.

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Taresa Worley Gamblin Affordable housing. Do away with the “Fee In Lieu” and actually help the residents of Santa Fe get off the streets by providing more affordable housing.

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Clare Maraist Better regulation of the Short term rental ordinance. Neighborhoods are flooded with chaos because all the houses on our small downtown and east side streets are now hotels.

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Rhonda Summerlin Less criticism and more pitching in to make things better. I love living here.

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Gabi Momo A reliable taxi service instead of Uber.

Bus service on W Alameda.

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CL Kieffer Nail A college brought back to the SFUAD campus rather than the city let it fall into disrepair.

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Culture in Retrogade You don’t need astrology to predict the future of tech will be complicated

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was sitting at a bar in the dog days of 2019 with my friend Andy talking about astrology. Or, rather, listening to him talk about astrology. Despite my decades in Santa Fe, I remain resistant to the entire concept. This might be because I’m a Sagittarius.1 Andy had recently been exposed (my word, not his) to The Pattern, one of numerous astrology apps contributing to the rise of astro-tech, Big Zodiac and the venture capital following that boom.

Last spring, The New York Times reported that Co-Star, an app through which people can download and compare birth charts, had raised just over $5 million in venture funds. Digital astrology startup Sanctuary launched around the same time with $1.5 million in investments. Pattern got a shout-out from The Times as well, for its growing popularity among financial types and Hollywood folks (actor Channing Tatum helped boost The Pattern with a Twitter video in which he freaked out over its prescience).

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All told, astro-tech is part of a larger boom in the so-called $2.1 billion “mys-tical services market.” Last summer, Mashable reported that users had spent $5.3 million on top horoscope apps, three times as much as the same time the prior year (although not that much compared to meditation apps, which reportedly garnered $30 million during just one quarter last year). Still, astrology apps are having a moment. Some say they have great appeal to women (other people say this is a sexist myth). Everyone seems to agree they use algorithms, primarily in unspecified ways. Purportedly, the millennial demographic 2 is the main driver behind this astrological boom, along with the categorical uncertainty of our times, the decline of organized religion, Donald Trump’s election and narcissism.

At any rate, my friend Andy had received second-hand information about his readings on The Pattern, but was reluctant to enter his own identifying information into his phone, which struck me as the only sensible part of our discussion.

I’ve spent the final months of the year reading, and obsessing over, The Times’’ Privacy Project articles.

On Dec. 19, the series published an opinion piece titled, “Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy,” which ex-

amined a data file that included 50 billion location pings from the phones of more than 12 million Americans. This isn’t information coming from a giant tech company or a surveillance agency.

The location tracking industry is ubiquitous—think weather apps or ones that supply coupons for local stores or any app that uses your location to function.

As The Times opines: “They can see the places you go every moment of the day, whom you meet with or spend the night with, where you pray, whether you visit a methadone clinic, a psychiatrist’s office or a massage parlor.”

This astrological reading from Co-Star, based on incorrect information I used to access the app, seems fairly accurate to me.

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Because I enjoy fact-based anxiety the way some people enjoy astrology, I pivoted from The Times series to continuing to read Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff’s much heralded book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (which former President Barack Obama recently noted as one of his favorites of 2019). What is surveillance capitalism? Zuboff explains it at the onset: “Surveillance capitalism unilaterally claims human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioral data.” Surveillance capitalists bedon’t just use our data to predict our be havior but, rather, to shape it.

In “Astrology in the Age of Uncertainty,” appearing last fall in The New Yorker, writer Christine Smallwood connected astrolthe dots between the rise of astrol ogy and surveillance capitalism, the latter being one of the “opaque and inscrutable systems” that make us feel we don’t have control over our lives and turn us, perhaps, toward magical thinking as an alternative framing device for reality.

With that in mind, I succumbed to an online astrological prediction for the coming year (a general one for my sign that did not require my specific date of exbirth). Among other events, I will be ex periencing communication problems and electronic devices may make my life difficult.

Sounds about right.

For what it’s worth, I did have my astrology chart read 20 years ago or so by a live human using pen and paper and was told that because both my sun and moon are in Sagittarius, I have no subconscious, which rang true at the time…and still kind of does.

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WHRUMEINATE Pitchfork says the new album Venq Tolep is the prettiest music he’s ever made and local DJ heroes Feathericci and Brian Mayhall are all aflutter online—Robag Whrume is coming from Germany, and techno-heads will probably never be the same. A mainstay of the genre (and its outliers) since anyone can remember, Robag Whrume (real name Gabor Schablitzki) is all at once a dance jam trendsetter, a mellowed-out purveyor of timeless techno creations and, of late, a sojourner into minimalist sound design that should fit quite nicely into an early 2020 show inside Meow Wolf’s House of Eternal Return (by which we mean literally inside the installation’s house). It’s early, sure, but for the electronic music set, this might be the most exciting show of the year. (Alex De Vore)

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MUSIC FRI/3 FA-FA-FA-FA-FA-FA-FA-FA-FAR BETTER As if the musical offerings in the first couple days of the new year aren’t enough, Santa Fe continues its love affair with tribute bands, this time with Start Making Sense, lovers of Talking Heads and David Byrne and all the post-rock, art-school, experimental indie-pop sounds of the ’70s, ’80s and beyond. Yes, this is gonna be songs you know (and, we assume, one giant-ass suit), but whereas your average cover band belts out a few recognizable numbers with little to no fanfare, Start Making Sense is an institution, an experience that transcends mere show for blissful recreation bordering on forgery—but, like, good forgery that reminds us how Talking Heads changed everything at a time when everything sorely needed changing. (ADV) Start Making Sense: 8 pm Friday Jan. 3. $12.

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MUSIC MON/6 PALEOLITHIC Ummmm … why didn’t anyone tell us about New Zealand’s The Cavemen? Think FEAR meets all the bands The Hives ripped off meets lesser-known proto-punkers like The Barracudas for a bombastic and high-aggression explosion of punk’s angriest and catchiest elements. Even Caveman’s newest, the two-song collection Burn Out For Love far outpaces our wildest, punkest dreams with bluesy riffage and the scuzziest lo-fi production quality around. We’ve been toetapping and humming it for days, still unsure how a band so fucking killer wound up with Santa Fe on its touring schedule. Certified punk-ish weirdos Microdoser open (look up the song “Debbie Loves Cops” for a glorious Zappa/Clash-esque trip down memory lane). (ADV) Cavemen with Microdoser: 8:30 pm Monday Jan. 6. $10. Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery, 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307, 983-0134

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A Literary Renaissance Indigenous authors from across Turtle Island converge to share their art with the public When Lloyd Kiva New (Cherokee) founded the Institute for American Indian Arts in 1962, he imagined a school which could bring together students from all tribal nations without diminishing their roles and participation in their local lives. With the accreditation of IAIA’s low-residency Master of Fine Arts in creative writing program in 2013, students no longer had to spend two or more years in Santa Fe to achieve their degrees, and the umbrella of IAIA’s community grew to be something bigger than what could be contained on a single campus.

“The long term goal of the IAIA MFA CW is to promote Indigenous intellectualism and knowledge systems through the literary arts,” says program director Santee Frazier (Cherokee). “Many of the mentors, visiting writers and students participating in winter residency are active in their home communities, which establishes a learning environment akin to the vision of Lloyd Kiva New.” Winter is the time to tell stories, and with such a huge network of authors, IAIA (with a little help from the Lannan Foundation and New Mexico Arts) is able to bring together 18 of the greatest contemporary Indigenous voices for a weeklong series of readings, beginning this

Saturday evening. Their perspectives take inspiration from both their local home lives and from the issues that face Indigenous people around the world.

For the first night, expect readings from David Treuer (Ojibwe) and Kristiana Kahakauwila, a hapa writer of kanaka maoli (native Hawaiian) and European descent.

“Hapa” is a Hawaiian word meaning “half,” and is used to describe folks of mixed race, usually Asian or Pacific Islander and white.

Her first collection of stories was published in 2013 and is inspired by the people and landscapes of present-day Hawai’i, and she has a historical novel set on the island of Maui in the works.

The nightly readings continue until next Saturday with award-winning authors from across the Southwest and around the world taking the stage. The best part?

Each night is free, so all you gotta do is catch a ride out to IAIA—try bus Route 22, which leaves Santa Fe Place mall about every hour. (Cole Rehbein) IAIA MFA CW WINTER READING SERIES: 6 pm each night Saturday, Jan. 4Saturday, Jan. 11. Free. Institute of American Indian Arts Library and Technology Center Auditorium, 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2325

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DANCE SOUL ACTIVATION 2020 Caribe Dance Studio 2008 St. Michael's Drive, Suite C-1 Yoga, dance, meditation and healing arranged throughout the evening to get the year started right. See the full schedule online at santafecommunityyoga.org.

6 pm-2 am, free

EVENTS CHILDREN’S CHESS CLUB Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Join other kids to play against for a nice mix of quiet thought and roaring laughter, and play as many games as time allows.

Plus, library volunteers usually provide a short lecture around 6 pm. If you end up liking it (and are pretty good), the group also holds tournaments, including the Santa Fe Mayor’s Cup. 5:45 pm, free

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HISTORICAL WALKING TOUR La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 What is the first thing you should do when you arrive in Santa Fe? (Or when your family shows up for the holidays and you need entertainment, STAT?) Take a downtown historical walking tour. Get 90 minutes of introduction to the history, culture, art and cuisine of Santa Fe with less than a mile of walking. Kids under 12 go free; wear comfortable walking shoes and dress for the weather.

10 am, free

MUSIC BOXCAR KARAOKE Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 I have a certain Rick Astley song stuck in my head that one of y’all needs to tackle.

10 pm, free BRING YOUR OWN VINYL NIGHT Santa Fe Brewing Company Brakeroom 510 Galisteo St., 780-8648 Bring your favorite records and spin 'em in public. Or, if you're like us and own records but no turntable, maybe finally listen to them, huh?

6 pm, free CRAWFISH BOYZ Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 New Orleans-flavored jazz.

11:30 am-3 pm, free DON CURRY Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock 'n' roll of the classic persuasion.

7 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, originals and pop with vocals too. Doug starts, with Greg taking over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free MATTHEW ANDRAE Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Rhythmic covers and originals of a folky bent on guitalele.

6-9 pm, free PAT MALONE AND JON GAGAN El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Sweet melodic jazz guitar from Malone with Gagan on bass.

7-9 pm, free THE JAKES Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Southern rock 'n' roll.

9 pm-1 am, free

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ROBERT WILSON The Dragon Room 406 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-7712 Crafted vocals.

6-8 pm, free

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THU/2 EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Santa Fe Brewing Company 35 Fire Place, 424-3333 Stellar quiz results can win you drink tickets for next time.

7 pm, free

MEMBERS EXHIBITION Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta, 470-2582 Foto Forum Santa Fe presents its First Annual Members Exhibition featuring work from artists Arista SlaterSanchez, Erik Sanchez, Rayne Kingfisher, Cougar Vigil, Aydi Ortiz, Harry Gamboa Jr., among others. The exhibition runs through Jan. 31st.

5-7 pm, free ANCESTRAL CODEX Vital Spaces 1604 St. Michael’s Drive New works on paper by Israel Francisco Haros Lopez explore the relationship of contemporary art to Aztec codices.

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MUSIC BERT DALTON AND MILO JARAMILLO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 A mixture of jazz and Latin.

7-9 pm, free DANIEL MURPHY Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock n' roll.

7 pm, free ERIC TESSMER WITH ZAY SANTOS Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Rock 'n' roll.

8 pm, free GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, plus pop, rock and contemporary favorites—with vocals too.

6:30-9:30 pm, free JESUS BAS Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Spanish and flamenco guitar.

6-9 pm, free MARIO FEBRES El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Flamenco guitar.

6-8 pm, free ROBAG WRUHME Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Electronic trance (see SFR Picks, page 19).

8 pm, $20-$22

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DANCE FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Make a dinner reservation for a show by the National Institute of Flamenco.

6:30-9 pm, $30 ENTREFLAMENCO CHRISTMAS SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 An original flamenco show from a Spanish director, plus tapas and drinks available for purchase.

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EVENTS FIRST FRIDAY OPEN HOUSE Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts 1590 Pacheco St., 983-6372 Behind-the-scenes access to the collection of global indigenous art.

1 pm, free

MUSIC BRANDON SAIZ BAND Turquoise Trail Bar at Buffalo Thunder 30 Buffalo Thunder Trail, 877-848-6337 Country.

9:30 pm, free CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 Modeled after 19th-century Parisian cabarets, enjoy first-rate piano and vocals from Charles Tichenor and friends—playful, interactive, family-friendly and eclectic.

Vive la révolution!

6 pm, free CURRY SPRINGER DUO Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Acoustic rock n' roll.

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10 pm, free DK AND THE AFFORDABLES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Southwestern Rock n' Roll 8 pm, free DANA SMITH Upper Crust Pizza (Eldorado) 5 Colina Drive, 471-1111 Original country-tinged folk songs.

6-9 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, originals and pop with vocals too. Doug starts, with Greg taking over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free GUSTAVO PIMENTEL Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi 113 Washington Ave., 988-3030 Classical flamenco guitar.

6 pm, free MARIO FEBRES El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Flamenco guitar.

6-8 pm, free RON CROWDER BAND El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Original rock 'n' roll.

9-11 pm, $5 RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar 7 pm, free

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STANLIE KEE AND STEP IN Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Blues 'n' rock.

6 pm, free STEPHANIE HATFIELD AND SHANNON BRACKETT Honeymoon Brewery Solana Center, 907 W Alameda St. Ste. B, 303-3139 Raw and intimate singer-songwriters.

6:30 pm, free START MAKING SENSE Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 The biggest rock event in town, with a Talking Heads tribute band and hard-rocking Zillaphyst (see SFR Picks, page 19).

8 pm, $12 TGIF CONCERT: ROBERT KRUPNICK First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 The acclaimed pianist plays Beethoven for your happy hour enjoyment.

5:30-6 pm, free THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Swinging jazz.

7:30-10:30 pm, free VINCENT COPIA Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Psych-folk post-punk acoustic singer-songwriter.

7-10 pm, free

WORKSHOP GARDEN SPROUTS: PRE-K ACTIVITIES Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Listen to a book and participate in interactive nature and garden related activities.

This program is designed for children aged 3-5, but all ages are welcome with an adult.

When you arrive, please make your way to the Ojos y Manos: Eyes and Hands Garden across the red bridge.

10-11 am, free OPEN STUDIO Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 An all-ages choice-based art studio. Skip the line, go directly to the David Loughridge Learning Center and choose to make art at different stations, make new friends in the community and take some time to chill out in this low-stimulation environment.

10 am-10 pm, free

SAT/4 BOOKS/LECTURES MFA CREATIVE WRITING WINTER READING SERIES Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2351 A series of readings from visiting authors to promote Indigenous intellectualism and knowledge systems through the literary arts.

Tonight, readings from novelist David Treuer (Ojibwe) and storyteller Kristiana Kahakauwila (Hapa kanaka maoli) (see SFR Picks, page 19).

6 pm, free

DANCE FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Make a dinner reservation for a show by the National Institute of Flamenco.

6:30-9 pm, $30 ENTREFLAMENCO CHRISTMAS SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 An original flamenco show from a Spanish director, plus tapas and drinks available for purchase.

7:30 pm, $25

EVENTS EL MERCADO DE MUSEO El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Over 60 vendors with art, jewelry, books, furniture, antiques, rugs and much more from around the corner and around the world.

8 am-4 pm, free GEEKS WHO DRINK Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307, 983-0134 Pub trivia with prizes.

7 pm, free

FOOD CHEF NATH THAI VEGAN POP-UP BODY of Santa Fe 333 W Cordova Road, 986-0362 An a la carte menu of plantbased favorites, with a second seating at 8 pm.

5:30 pm, free

MUSIC CANDACE VARGAS & NORTHERN 505 Turquoise Trail Bar at Buffalo Thunder 30 Buffalo Thunder Trail, 877-848-6337 Award-winning recording artist with traditional Northern New Mexican music. 21+ after 10 pm.

9:30 pm-1:30 am, free

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K, Santa Fe—we did it! For better or worse, we’ve rounded out another decade, signed and sealed the twenty-teens into the annals of history. So long! Farewell! Auf wiedersehen! Goodbye!

Ignoring the madness of the world outside and strictly adhering to the scope of this-here column, it’s probably safe to say we’ve all discovered quite a bit of new music, fallen in love all over again with some classics, maybe even found out that some of our old LP’s aren’t as important—or even as good—as we remember

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(here’s looking at you, blink-182’s Enema Of The State). And it’s not a big logic jump to say that we mostly owe it to the nowubiquitous popularity of music streaming services like Spotify and Pandora.

But there’s more to the rise of instant music gratification. Lying just underneath this rapid-fire, no-consequence tune discovery is an age-old beast that the career musicians and promoters have tangled with since the first hours of Napster.

“I was 15 when I started out as a promoter,” says Theresa Anderson of local post-rock act The Blackout Pictures, noting that promoting was much easier some years ago. “We had Warehouse 21, we could make paper flyers and hand them

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As an aside: Dear Meow Wolf, why are you not putting on a more regular local talent showcase with non-DJs? I know you’ve had a bit of…bad publicity…in recent months, but c’mon—y’all can absolutely do better on this front. You’re the big dogs at the top of the live music food chain here.

Anyway, we’ve seen what happens when people don’t seek out shows. Last month hailed the loss of a beloved local DIY venue (RIP Zephyr Community Arts Studio). While it’s incredibly cool that the Alas de Agua Art Collective is taking over the space, it’s still a tough blow for the underground music community of Santa Fe. “There will always be a deep and special love for Zephyr in my heart,” Weiss says.

“We played our first show at Zephyr, and we thought that five people were going to show up,” Jedlowski adds, “but the house was packed!”

Even with Zephyr closing, or the continued revenue dominance of Meow Wolf—or even the rising tide of streaming music sites—Santa Fe has something special that sets it apart from other music scenes. It’s a city that has actively resisted the trends of bigger cities like Chicago and Nashville, where local bands toil for years before reaching any level of notoriety. It’s a city with promoters who don’t solely care about their bottom dollar and can tread the line of digital and old-school promotional tactics.

But that requires a buy-in on the fan level. And while bands might get lucky and bottle lightning for their first show as The Blackout Pictures did, it also means we can’t just rely on the constant feed of Spotify to sate our need for good music.

We need to seek it out.

We need to keep our ear to the ground.

We need to find the party.

And if we can’t find one, we need to make the party happen.

But keep in mind, Jedlowski says, “A good party is hard to throw. Don’t half-ass it.”

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out; now we’re in this digital age where people don’t necessarily want paper flyers.”

“We have no way to reach out to the youth [in Santa Fe] other than social media,” adds bandmate Jared Weiss, “and with the way the algorithms on Facebook work, the market becomes saturated. It’s easy to get lost in the fray.”

Anderson is quick to add that Santa Fe is still lacking a youth-centered music scene.

“With Warehouse 21 gone,” she explains, “there’s no place for youth to learn how to promote.”

There’s a cynical line of thought that might push back against Anderson and Weiss’s hypothesis: This is a product of the age in which we live. The many benefits of musical democratization and digital promotion can outweigh the drawbacks, but the fact is, these are very real things almost every band of every genre is actively fighting. There are established, national touring acts that regularly speak out about how to get ahead of the digital promotion curve, how to maintain relevance, how to reach promoters in outlying cities. In fact, there’s already entirely so much coverage of this topic in blogs and think-pieces, that to continue this piece by talking to artists about this topic isn’t just beating a dead horse, it’s setting fire to the glue factory while playing a jaunty dirge.

So instead, let’s take this to a local level.

At the turn of a new decade, how can you help dig in your heels for the folks doing their music type thing?

The obvious answer would be retreading some of what I said in my first column for SFR: Go to more local shows.

Blackout Pictures drummer Jeff Jedlowski agrees.

“In general, I think we need more parties,” he says.

But it’s not as easy as going to or even throwing a good party. We all have to seek out local music. To be more specific, we have to look further than the sponsored ads Meow Wolf blasts us with on Facebook when some gigantic touring act comes to town.

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CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 Modeled after 19th-century Parisian cabarets, enjoy first-rate piano and vocals from Charles Tichenor and friends—playful, interactive, family-friendly and eclectic.

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

9-11 pm, $5 DOUG MONTGOMERY AND GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, originals and pop with vocals too.

Doug starts, with Greg taking over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free JJ AND THE MYSTICS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 9822565 Rock n' Roll.

8 pm, free

LOS PRIMOS MELØDICOS El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Afro-Cuban, romantic and traditional Latin music.

7:30 pm, free MARIO FEBRES El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Flamenco guitar.

6-8 pm, free MYSTIC LIZARD Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Bluegrass.

6-9 pm, free ROBERTO GONZALES Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Acoustic guitar.

7 pm, free RON ROUGEAU The Dragon Room 406 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-7712 Acoustic songs from the '60s, '70s and beyond.

5:30 pm, free

RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar by the six-time Native American Music Award nominee and two-time New Mexico Music Industry Award winner. Ronald Roybal is a native of the American Southwest.

A descendent of Pueblo (Tewa) and Spanish Colonial peoples, he considers his ability to express both sides of his heritage to be a great gift and responsibility. A completely selftaught musician, Roybal has studied music since his youth and is widely respected as a master performer of the Native American flute as well as the Spanish style classical guitar.

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back a lot of the town that we had lost before that.

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What is your biggest regret or mistake?

It’s the same as the biggest victory: I wasn’t willing to step on toes in the way I think I needed to be. And I don’t mean that toes deserve to be stepped on, but I needed to hold my own better when I got into moments of conflict.

I’m a people-pleaser and I like to be everybody’s friend, and I didn’t want to be the one to rain on the parade, so to speak.

If you were to give a piece of advice to the Santa Fe theater community, what would it be?

Embrace the new. … We need to be ready, and we have a lot of really cool, smart people in this town who are ready to be challenged and ready to try new things. And yet, a lot of what Santa Fe is known for is the old, is the history.

And that’s not bad. … I was trying to play both sides of that coin the whole time I was here because I think both sides of that coin are really important.

But, I know visual artists in town say, ‘I can’t get shown anywhere unless I paint a picture of a horse.’ And I think that extends to a lot of the arts in Santa Fe, and we really need to embrace the new or else we will die.

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aughn Irving took over as artistic director of the Santa Fe Playhouse in 2015, and emerged as a key player in growing and sustaining Santa Fe’s blooming theater community. As of Jan. 1, however, he’ll depart the theater for the greener pastures of … well, he’s not sure yet, leaving the job to fellow Santa Fe native Robyn Rikoon. Irving offered SFR his thoughts on leaving, on our arts community and on what he’s accomplished during four-ish years at the helm of the oldest continually running theater west of the Mississippi.

See an extended version of this interview at SFReporter.com.

SFR: What’s your elevator pitch of what you’re doing next? I’m sure you’ve been asked this question 855 times.

Right. You’d think I’d be better at the elevator pitch by now. I want to start a new kind of performing arts company.

I don’t want to say theater, specifically, because I think it should be broader than that. Hopefully we’ll be creating new forms through collaboration. I want to form a company of multitalent-

ed artists who can all be performers, content-creators, technicians and administrators that will cycle through each person being lead on a project. So it’s your passion project, and the rest of this group comes together around your idea and makes it happen, then the torch passes to the next person and their project happens. And everyone is emotionally, artistically and financially invested in this thing.

What was your biggest triumph during the last four years?

Resurrecting the Playhouse’s reputation. When I came here, I was told—and I don’t really know, because I wasn’t in town for the years right before I, uh, got to town—the Playhouse was not a well-respected organization in Santa Fe. So I really made it my mission my first two years to say, ‘We deserve your respect, we’re going to do the best work we possibly can, we’re going to treat people fairly, we’re going to be open and transparent about what we’re doing.’ And it worked. We won

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Is there anything you haven’t yet said that you’d like to say?

Thank you. The amount of love and dedication and passion and support that I and the Playhouse have received over the last four and a half years is unbelievable. It brings tears to my eyes right now as I’m talking to you. I feel like I’ve talked a lot of negativity in this interview so far, but I’ve never believed in something as much, I think, as I have and continue to believe in the Playhouse.

And it’s because of the people. It’s because of the people from the community who appear on the stage, who come to see the shows, because of the folks who crawl out of the woodworks. There’s something magic, and I would not have been able to do anything, to accomplish anything, over the last four years if it were not for the support and passion and love from the people of Santa Fe and beyond.

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10 pm, free ST. ELIZABETH BENEFIT CONCERT Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 For this brunch-time fundraiser, Melissa Riedel sings a selection of classical music, accompanied by Darby Fegan on piano. Plus, pastries, a choice from three entrees, and a glass of rose or a Bloody Mary. Call 982-9966 to reserve your ticket.

11:30 am, $75 STANLIE KEE AND STEP IN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Blues 'n' rock.

1 pm, free SUSAN GABRIEL Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Singer/songwriter on multiple instruments including lute, ukulele and percussion.

7-9 pm, free THE REAL MATT JONES Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Alt-country, new country, all the best country all the time.

6-10 pm, free TROY BROWNE TRIO Ski Santa Fe 1477 Hwy. 475, 982-4429 Classic to contemporary singer-songwriter stylings.

11 am-3 pm, free YACHT Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 LA-based techno pop.

8 pm, $15-$18

THEATER NEW MOON CABARET Honeymoon Brewery Solana Center, 907 W Alameda St., Ste. B, 303-3139 A monthly curated 21+ variety show which celebrates diversity with performance artists in belly dance, drag, comedy, burlesque, spoken word, flow arts and more.

A dance party follows the performance.

8 pm, $5

WORKSHOP THE ART OF THE DOODLE WITH MIKEY RAE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Meow Wolf artist Rae leads the class in a weekly series of exercises designed to activate your creativity and give you plenty of time to experiment with different artistic media. Materials are included.

3-5 pm, free

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SUN/5 BOOKS/LECTURES LAURA RAMNACRE op.cit Books DeVargas Center, 157 Paseo de Peralta, 428-0321 Albuquerque author Ramnacre reads from Sung Home, her post-apocalyptic novel set in the Mogollon Mountains of Southern New Mexico about a girl named Lakshmi and her trusty burro Burl.

2 pm, free MFA CREATIVE WRITING WINTER READING SERIES Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2351 A series of readings from visiting authors to promote Indigenous intellectualism and knowledge systems through the literary arts.

Tonight, readings from poet and screenwriter Ken White, author Chip Livingston and poet Kimberly Blaeser (see SFR Picks, page 19).

6 pm, free THE YEAR AHEAD WITH MAYOR ALAN WEBBER Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 JourneySantaFe presents Webber at the beginning of his third year in office to discuss his progress and what remains to be done in the fields of housing, climate change and city livability.

11 am, free TRANS 101: LGBTQIA EDUCATION SERIES Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Guidance on how to support trans and gender-noncomforming friends and family members, including proper language usage, access to health care and legal protections.

3-5 pm, free

DANCE TARDEADAS DOMINGUERAS Golden Cantina Lounge 10-B Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3313 Domingo es para bailar de cachetito. Cumbias, norteñas, Huapangos, reggaeton y más.

9 pm-2 am, free

EVENTS EL MERCADO DE MUSEO El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Over 60 vendors with art, jewelry, books, furniture, antiques, rugs and much more from around the corner and around the world.

10 am-4 pm, free

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GENDER CREATIVE PLAYGROUP Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 Kids of all ages and their caregivers are invited to this free playgroup in a safe and affirming space for people to explore and express themselves, free from assumptions and gender stereotypes (see 3Qs, page 27).

2-4 pm, free

FOOD SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-7726 Serving more than 150 farmers and producers in 15 Northern New Mexico counties, the market brings fresh food, education and fun to our community and promotes small farms and sustainable agriculture in Northern New Mexico. All products sold by its vendors are always locally grown by the people selling them.

8 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC AN EVENING OF SOUL MUSIC Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 The School of Rock Albuquerque students aged 12-18 play classic and modern soul songs they learned during the fall season.

6 pm, $15 BARD EDRINGTON V Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 An energetic blend of Mississippi Delta blues and Appalachian folk music.

12 pm, free

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

7:30 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, originals and pop with vocals too.

6:30 pm, free JIM ALMAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock, blues and folk on guitar, harmonica and vocals.

7 pm, free MELANIE MONSOUR AND PAUL BROWN Museum Hill Café 710 Camino Lejo, 984-8900 A blend of classical and jazz on piano and bass.

12-2 pm, free NACHA MENDEZ La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Creative but rooted takes on Latin music from around the world from Santa Fe's most buttery-voiced cantadora.

7 pm, free SUNDAY AFTERNOON BEER BASH Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fria St., 303-3808 DJ Audiobuddha throws down his freshest mixes.

4 pm, free

WORKSHOP BELLY DANCE CLASSES: LEVELS 1 & 2 Lightfoot Studio 332 Camino del Monte Sol, 369-2055 Groove to dynamic classical and contemporary Middle Eastern and world music.

Awaken your sensuality and musicality, tone your core and pelvic floor in a fun, nurturing space. The first hour is a level 1 class. Level 2 classes are designed to flow from level 1 with a progression of fun and increasingly challenging isolations, layered movements, combinations, step patterns and more, so advanced students are encouraged to take both for review.

1:15-3:15 pm, $12-$22 ZEN MEDITATION INSTRUCTION Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 This is an opportunity for those new to Upaya to get acquainted and receive instruction on Zen meditation and temple etiquette.

All are invited to this free introduction which is usually offered the first Sunday of the month. Please RSVP to meditate@upaya.org or 505-986-8518 ext. 111.

3-4 pm, free

THE CALENDAR with Carmela Hill-Burke

COURTESY CARMELA HILL-BURKE

Parent/activist Carmela Hill-Burke grew up in Santa Fe, and after stints in Oregon and Tennessee, returned to give birth to their kid, Ever. Finding a decided lack of event options and safe spaces for the gender creative, Hill-Burke founded one of their own. Boiled down, the monthly Gender Creative Playgroup (2-4 pm Sunday Jan 5. Free.

Santa Fe Public Library Southside, 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820) is a space for kids and their parents and caretakers to meet like-minded folks, be themselves and maybe learn (or teach) a thing or two about progressive gender ideals and politics. We caught up with Hill-Burke who, full disclosure, co-parents with SFR music columnist Aedra Burke, to hear more. (Alex De Vore) What was the impetus behind forming the playgroup?

I’ve been an activist for most of my life, and when I got pregnant, I started noticing the intense gendering that happens to kids before they’re even born. The kinds of stereotypes, the kinds of gender policing happening before birth … I wanted to create a space where kids can be free from all that. A space where kids could be affirmed in whoever they say they are, including using the right pronouns for them, affirming their gender identity or expression, but also a space where we question and interrupt assumptions made about gender, especially by adults. Parents and caregivers often harbor stereotypes without even realizing it. We’re committed to trying to bring to light a lot of the stuff we’ve internalized about gender and interrupting that in ourselves and the way we view and treat our kids.

It’s a space for kids to explore gender if they want to.

I’d assume you’re seeing people who are very excited to have a space for the gender creative ethos, particularly as it applies to kids. Has that been the case?

I think there is excitement on behalf of the parents of trans and gender-nonconforming kids as well as parents who are trans or gender-nonconforming. It’s a space where we don’t assume everyone has a mommy or a daddy. When we read books, instead of saying ‘We all have moms or dads,’ I add in things like Zazas and Mos. Kids see themselves reflected back in books and games, and that reflects in their families, and everyone can get exposed to a variety of gender options.

What would you say to those who are maybe on the fence about attending or who don’t understand what you’re trying to do?

It doesn’t look different than any kind of playgroup.

We hang out, read books, we color, the kids play games, we’re about to build a giant blanket fort this month—it’s not like you would even notice if you didn’t know what it was called. It’s just a playgroup, it’s really fun and everyone’s welcome, not just LGBTQ families. It’s free. In other words, no one is going to indoctrinate you or force beliefs on you, it’s about respecting each other, calling each other by language that makes us feel respected. We’re committed to questioning gender stereotypes. It’s really low-stakes and fun, and it’s also really cool to see kids of all ages playing together.

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MON/6 BOOKS/LECTURES MFA CREATIVE WRITING WINTER READING SERIES Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2351 A series of readings from visiting authors to promote Indigenous intellectualism and knowledge systems through the literary arts. Tonight, readings from storyteller Rion Amilcar Scott, author and mentor Jennifer Elise Foerster and author Sherwin Bitsui (Diné) (see SFR Picks, page 19).

6 pm, free THE CODED LANGUAGE OF COLOR Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Introductory talk with enjoyable practical demonstrations of the electromagnetic basis of color and its profound effect on human life and the planetary theatre.

6:30-7:45 pm, free TODDLER TALES Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 A morning reading session and music for toddlers and their parents, followed by an open art studio for toddlers to color, use watercolors, build with blocks, play with puppets, etc.

10 am-12 pm, free THE CURIOUS CASE OF CORONADO’S SHIELDS Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Severin Fowles, an anthropological archaeologist and assistant professor of anthropology at Barnard College of Columbia University, discusses his extensive research in the Northern Rio Grande valley.

6 pm, $15

DANCE MONDAY NIGHT SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, 470-7077 Arrive at 7 pm for a lesson if you desire, then get dancin' to DJ'ed music. Singles are just as welcome as partners, all ages are invited—and if you'd just like to sit, watch and listen, there are also chairs for spectators.

7 pm, $3-$8

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ALEX MARYOL Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Bluesy rock.

6-9 pm, free CAVEMEN; MICRODOSER Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307, 983-0134 New Zealand punk rockers join locals Microdoser (see SFR Picks, page 19).

8:30 pm, $10 COWGIRL KARAOKE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Michèle Leidig hosts Santa Fe's most famous night of karaoke.

9 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, originals and pop with vocals too.

6:30 pm, free

INTRODUCTION TO HEARTTHREAD Healing the Scars 439 C W San Francisco St., 575-770 1228 A transformational modality that releases old patterns of trauma and conditioning through the field of the heart, a field of safety and unconditional love.

7 pm, $20 SANTA FE INDIVISIBLE MEETING Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Join the politically progressive group to put into action the planning you did last night. Divide and conquer! Newcomers are always welcome, so go fight the good fight.

9 am, free

WORKSHOP ART AS SELF-CARE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Art therapist Chelsea Call facilitates a group process to build community and selfcare and enhance emotional intelligence through art.

5:30-7:30 pm, $15-$30

TUE/7 BOOKS/LECTURES MFA CREATIVE WRITING WINTER READING SERIES Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2351 A series of readings from visiting authors to promote Indigenous intellectualism and knowledge systems through the literary arts.

Tonight, readings from poet Cedar Sigo, short story author Toni Jensen (Métis) and author and professor James Thomas Stevens (Akwesasne Mohawk) (see SFR Picks, page 19).

6 pm, free

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THE SANTA FE HARMONIZERS REHEARSAL Zia United Methodist Church 3368 Governor Miles Road, 471-0997 The barbershop chorus is looking for men and women who can carry a tune; join in on any of the four-part harmony parts (tenor, lead, baritone or bass). Directed by Maurice Sheppard. For more information, call Marv (699-6922) or Bill (424-9042).

6:30 pm, free

ARGENTINE TANGO MILONGA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Put on your best tango shoes and join in (or just watch).

7:30 pm, $5 FAMILY (FUN) DANCE New Mexico School for the Arts 500 Montezuma Avenue, Suite 200, 310-4194 No experience needed and all levels welcome. Come in and learn some easy, short, fun dances to get the heart pumping and the face smiling!

6-7 pm, free

MUSIC BLUEGRASS JAM Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 You guessed it: It's a bluegrass jam.

6 pm, free BRUCE ADAMS Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza 100 Sandoval St., 988-2811 Jazz standards on piano.

7:30 am, free CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Sign up to sing or play if you desire, but be forewarned—this ain't amateur hour.

8-11 pm, $5 CHUSCALES La Boca (Original Location) 72 W Marcy St., 982-3433 Exotic flamenco guitar from a dude whose family descended from the inventors of the genre.

He knows his stuff.

7 pm, free DOS AMIGOS Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 A Mexican-style duet featuring trumpeter Chief Sanchez.

6 pm, free OPEN MIC Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Performers of all stripes welcome.

7 pm, free TYLER HILTON Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana.

7 pm, free

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cles. The fact that the Impossible Burger was out of stock for a few months because Impossible Foods couldn’t keep up with demand is proof that people are looking for alternatives to meat. Fast food chains, from Burger King to Carl’s Jr. to Del Taco, are seeing such a demand for meat alternatives that they all now offer at least one veggie option. The Specialty Food Association, which works with a “trendspotter” panel to determine its food trends, looks at the other side of the coin for 2020, predicting “a consumer return to real fruits and vegetables. Consumers will begin to think critically about meat replacements, looking more closely at the ingredient lists, supply chains, water usage and food safety, prompting renewed interest in plants as plants.” Beet burger, anyone?

Factory farming, including dairy, is environmentally devastating and a major contributor to climate change. Add to this the number of people who are lactose intolerant, or struggling with high cholesterol, and it becomes pretty obvious why dairy alternatives continue to flourish.

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appy New Year! And not just that, it’s a new decade which means people are going all-out on their new year predictions, looking more toward what’s on tap for the decade ahead as well. While most professional predictors like to focus on politics, the economy, and celebrities, this writer prefers to focus on the things we’ve all probably had a little too much of lately— food and drink. But now that the holidays are over and the new year (decade) is upon us, let’s look to the future, shall we?

In past years, niche food and drink trends have been all the rage—think paleo and bacon and “alternative” water—but this year it seems the experts are all on a similar page: healthy eating for us and for our planet. Forbes says to be a foodie in 2020 “consumers have more of an obligation than ever before to make responsible decisions about what they eat and how they eat it,” noting that issues such as food insecurity and climate change have become as personal as they are global. Food & Wine also jumped into the fray, asking chefs their thoughts on the biggest food trends of 2020, and many noted responsible eating and regenerative agriculture. To that point, a holiday survey by Statista notes that 50% of people made a New Year’s resolution to eat healthier, with 7% of those aiming to go vegan or vegetarian.

It seems that for the new year, and the decade ahead, food trends indicate eating will become its own form of activism.

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ative with nut-based cheeses, almond-based yogurts, and even cashew-based butter (not nut butter, but actually, like, “butter” butter.) Relative newcomers such as Miyoko’s Creamery, the pioneer of artisan vegan cheese, are redefining choices in alternative dairy products and can be found locally in most grocery store cold cases.

Whole Foods, which releases a highlyanticipated yearly food trends report, notes “butchers and meat brands won’t be left out of the ‘plant-based’ craze in 2020, but they’re not going vegetarian.” What the heck does this even mean? While natural food brands such as Applegate, Lika Plus, and Misfit foods already offer options such as “blended burgers” and chicken sausages bulked up with kale, squash, and sweet potato, mega meat producers will also respond to demand.

For example, Perdue and Tyson Foods (two of the world’s largest processors of chicken, beef and pork) are feeling the squeeze from consumers looking for healthier products with less of an impact on the environment. Both are releasing meat/veggie hybrid foods—Perdue’s

“Chicken Plus” line combines chicken with cauliflower, chickpeas and textured wheat protein, while Tyson Foods is jumping into the fray with “Raised and Rooted” patties combining beef with pea protein. Locally, we’re ahead of the curve with many chefs already regularly serving such blends.

“I love mixing stuff into different types of burgers,” says Peter O’Brien, executive chef at the Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi restaurant (113 Washington Ave., 988-3236). “When we add veggies, we usually jazz things up with roasted chiles, mushrooms and onions. The other day we served a roasted eggplant-bison burger. Of course, it had green chile and pork belly as well. We just couldn’t help ourselves.”

As for drinks, mocktails have been growing in popularity for years. These alcohol-free concoctions have all the flavor of skillfully-crafted boozy drinks but without the side effects. Think botanical-based gin and tonics and faux spirits created with traditional distilling methods. Locally, watering hole Tonic (103 E Water St., 982-1189), known for its craft cocktails, has always offered a non-alcoholic option on its featured cocktail menu, which notes, “just because you can’t imbibe doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy a good drink.” Outside of bars, stores will be stocking straight from the can (or bottle) options such as hopped tea, non-alcoholic IPAs and ales, and sparkling waters that taste just like the hard stuff.

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Eloisa An upscale take on coming home to grandma’s house, Eloisa greets guests with a shiny open kitchen at the head of the restaurant, a cool, huge dining room and unassuming table settings, right down to blue china plates that could be straight out of Gram’s cupboard. Located in the Drury Plaza Hotel just east of the St. Francis Cathedral, the menu is divided into four sections: Puebloan Native American, Spanish Colonial, Western/ Territorial and Mestizo, reflecting the culinary traditions of New Mexico’s past. The Zuni tamalli ($14) with nixtamal masa, smoked trout and horseradish crema is one of the more unique offerings, and for something more savory, the pastrami tacos ($14) come in mini blue-corn shells and are plated on a photo of chef John Sedlar’s Grandma Eloisa herself. The grilled venison chop ($36) pays homage to our mountain communities with super smooth mashed potatoes and roasted carrots, while Eloisa’s red chile in the chile-braised brisket ($32) is made with a New Mexico cabernet and makes us wish some auntie was around to jot the recipe down on an index card for us. And you can’t leave grandma’s house without cookies; the biscochitos ($9) are served with popcorn-flavored ice cream and stir up the fondest feelings of nostalgia. (Cole Rehbein)

Dumpling Tea & Dim Sum If there was one word Fen Weng, owner and chef of Dumpling Tea & Dim Sum, could say to you about her little restaurant, tucked in a back corner of the Plaza Galeria, it would be “homemade.” Weng, a native of Dalian, China, has made an art of homemade Chinese comfort foods—from potstickers to dumplings, noodles to soup buns. Her expertise, as well as that of her staff, is on full display at the entry of this small space (which, coincidentally, expanded within its first two months of business). Place an order and watch as the dough is hand-rolled, filled and formed just minutes before the finished product appears on a plate before you. Menu choices are simple, basically selecting between pork, shrimp, or vegetarian, steamed or fried (ranging from $7.99 to $9.99). You can’t go wrong with any of the dumplings or soup buns; all come expertly cooked, filled with crunchy, lovingly seasoned chunks of pork and/or veggies. The noodles are also homemade and the spicy dan dan variety ($7.99) are a favorite, with noodles, salty pork and crisp veggies swimming in generous sauce (“Sauce, not soup!” Weng will tell you). Don’t be shy about over-ordering. You won’t be the only one. (Zibby Wilder)

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El Milagro It might just be a miracle that you can still sit down in a place like El Milagro Restaurant and enjoy a green chile cheeseburger of this caliber for $6.95— including home fries. We know it’s cliché, but we almost didn’t want to tell you about this deal. The Southside eatery is located in the shopping center that also houses the Regal Stadium 14 movie theater, where mother and son duo Anthony and Frances Armijo have been at it for more than a decade. Its menu is practically bigger than the dining room and includes every New Mexican favorite you’re looking for. Fast service means you won’t miss your show, or you can get back to your day without too much fuss.

For something different, we recommend the spicy cream of potato soup, made exciting with toppings of real bacon and a hot twist of chopped green chile, and served with a few fresh fried tortilla wedges ($4.25 cup). It’s one of six soups on the menu, just to show off how much there really is to choose from.

If you’ve taken a friend or two, share a sopaipilla sundae for dessert. They come in caramel cinnamon with whipped cream and strawberry with more strawberry ($6.50). (Julie Ann Grimm) 3482 Zafarano Drive, Ste. C, 474-2888 Lunch and dinner Monday through Saturday, Lunch only on Sunday

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Spread the Love We asked our 215 individuals and 13 Business Friends to recommend Santa Fe charities that deserve attention for end-of-year giving.

CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO!

www.cvnm.org

200 West De Vargas St., Suite 1, Santa Fe, NM 87501 (505) 992-8683

THE LIFE LINK OF SANTA FE www.thelifelink.org

2325 Cerrillos Rd., Santa Fe, NM 87505 (505) 438-0010

ST. ELIZABETH’S SHELTER www.steshelter.org

804 Alarid St., Santa Fe, NM 87505 (505) 982-6611

UNITED WAY OF SANTA FE COUNTY www.uwsfc.org

440 Cerrillos Rd., Suite A, Santa Fe, NM 87501 (505) 982-2002

A Gustave Baumann print of a Penitente ceremony from 1922, part of the New Mexico Museum of Art’s exhibit Picturing Passion: Artists Interpret the Penitente Brotherhood.

LANL FOUNDATION

www.lanlfoundation.org 1112 Plaza del Norte, Española, NM 87532 (505) 753-8890

CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Scott Johnson: Fissure Through Feb. 2, 2020.

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 Contemporary Voices: Jo Whaley. Through Feb. 24.

HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 Dolichovespula Maculata: Works of Paper by Dianne Frost. Through Jan. 2020.

IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Wayne Nez Gaussoin: Adobobot. Through Nov. 30. Reconciliation. Through Jan. 19. Heidi K Brandow: Unit of Measure. Through Jan. 31. Sámi Intervention/ Dáidda Gázada. Through Feb. 16.

MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART 632 Agua Fría St., 989-3283 Artworks in wax.

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250

Diego Romero vs The End of Art. Through April 2020.

MUSEUM OF INT’L FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Girard’s Modern Folk.

Through Jan. 26. Gallery of Conscience: Community Through Making from Peru to New Mexico.

Through Jan. 5. Música Buena: Hispano Folk Music of New Mexico. Through March 7, 20201. Yokai: Ghosts and Demons of Japan. Through Jan. 2021.

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 NM HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5019 Working on the Railroad.

Through 2021.

The Massacre of Don Pedro Villasur. Through Feb. 21.

Atomic Histories. Through Feb. 28. We the Rosies: Women at Work.

Through March 1.

NM MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Alcoves 2020 #1 #2.

Through August 2020.

Social and Sublime. Through Nov. 17. Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist.

Through Jan. 5, 2020.

Picturing Passion: Artists Reinterpret the Penitente Brotherhood.

PALACE OF THE GOVERNORS 105 W Palace Ave., 476-5100 Closed for renovations.

POEH CULTURAL CENTER 78 Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3334 Di Wae Powa.

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

SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Human Nature: Explorations in Bronze.

Through May 10, 2020.

SITE SANTA FE 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 Bel Canto: Contemporary Artists Explore Opera.

Through Jan. 5, 2020.

WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 704 Camino Lejo, 982-4636 Laughter and Resilience: Humor in Native American Art. Through Oct. 4, 2020.

THE FOOD DEPOT

www.thefooddepot.org 1222 Siler Rd. #A, Santa Fe, NM 87507 (505) 471-1633

SKY CENTER OF THE NEW MEXICO SUICIDE INTERVENTION PROJECT www.nmsip.org/sky-center

4164 S Meadows Rd., Santa Fe, NM 87507 (505) 473-6191

KITCHEN ANGELS

www.kitchenangels.org 1222 Siler Rd. #A, Santa Fe, NM 87507 (505) 471-7780

SANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER

www.sfhumanesociety.org 100 Caja del Rio Rd. Santa Fe, NM 87507 (505) 983-4309

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True to form, director Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life) deals with the loftier spiritual and existential matters of life in his mournful new film, A Hidden Life. Taken from a George Eliot passage about those who silently sacrifice their lives for the good of others, Malick based the film on the true story of Franz Jägerstätter (August Diehl) and his wife Fani (Valerie Pachner).

The two live in the idyllic farm village of Radegund in Austria with their daughters.

They spend their days bouncing around lush green hills, tilling fields, picking wildflowers and harvesting wheat—all the while stealing loving glances and childlike smiles reminiscent of Bill and Abby, the love struck sharecroppers from Malick’s 1978 film Days of Heaven.

“How simple life was then. It seemed no trouble could reach our valley,” Franz says.

But the trouble does reach their valley in 1940 as their pastoral bliss is shattered when Franz is summoned into the Army. At this point in the war, every Austrian soldier called for active duty had to swear loyalty to Hitler. Franz doesn’t agree with the Nazi agenda and becomes a conscientious objector by refusing to swear the oath, getting himself imprisoned in Berlin.

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While he remains steadfast in his beliefs—not even able to swear the oath with metaphorically crossed fingers—the townspeople, who have lost countless loved ones to the cause Franz rebukes, begin to ostracize Fani and her children, forcing her to do all the strenuous farm labor with only the help of her equally petite sister (Maria Simon) and Franz’ stern mother Rosalia (Karin Neuhäuser).

A Hidden Life thus becomes one big “Pfui Hitler!” to the Nazi officers who continually try to convince Franz his defiance isn’t doing anyone any good, least of all himself and his family.

“You think it will change the course of things?” one officer asks him.

And later another says, “No one will be changed. The worlds will go on as before.”

It’s hard not to wish Franz would just give up already, especially as we watch Fani and her family suffer the hardships of life without their

beloved around. But with all the heavy-handed Christ allegories being drawn—cue Bach’s St. Matthew Passion—we pretty much know that isn’t going to happen.

Malick’s decision to get political is a timely one, and it’s impossible not to draw the comparisons between 1940s Austria and 2020 America. Unfortunately, the comparison isn’t hugely revelatory and neither is the message; A Hidden Life film is as slow and plodding as a pair of Austrian clogs, but the subtle acting, poetic cinematography (Jörg Widmer) and staggering mountain backdrops make it worthwhile.

A HIDDEN LIFE Directed by Malick With Diehl and Pachner Violet Crown, R, 174 min.

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It’s easy to write off the long-legged, thick-eyelashed and Spanx-bedecked female personalities of Fox News as the Anchor Barbies they strive to be. And to be sure, that right-wing, regressive stance doesn’t engender sympathy for their characters. But it would be a mistake to discount the power of their story—and how their actions helped shove off a movement that took down some gross dudes who heretofore seemed untouchable.

Bombshell is hands-down one of the best choices on the big screen this blockbuster holiday season. The eye-catching trio of blondes who make up its core cast is almost an intergenerational look.

With Nicole Kidman as Gretchen Carlson, Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly, and Margot Robbie as a fictional catch-all for the new set, Kayla Pospisil, they represent decades of women journalists fighting their way through through corporate television media, its pervasive sexism and worse.

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sexual harassment was the precipitating event for story, yet it’s Kelly’s decision about whether to stick her neck out as a second high-profile woman making similar allegations that makes up the central plot tension in the retelling.

Theron, also a producer, nails Kelly from the voice and posture to the tips of her pointy shoes—with big props to facial prosthetics and a crack makeup team the New York Times is already naming on the Oscar shortlist.

Makeup and prosthetics also transform John Lithgow into the corpulent, predatory Ailes—utterly unlikeable and smarmy. In one scene with Robbie, the isolated sounds of their breathing and his fidgeting in the chair are enough to tell a long, terrorizing story.

The tone of the whole production leaves room for the audience to cheer for the obvious heroines and hiss at the blatant villains, even get in a few chuckles and maybe a tear or two. How those lines are blurred—even in who is labeled as winner and loser—also factors into what makes this one a hit. (Julie Ann Grimm)

Violet Crown, Regal 14, R, 109 min.

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Uncut Gems, the new film by the Safdie Brothers (Good Time, Heaven Knows What) sits somewhere between the realm of magical realism and hyper reality. Much like Good Time, the Safdies’ high-stress crime thriller from 2017, Uncut Gems is unrelenting, frenetic and not for the faint of heart.

The film follows Howard “Howie Bling” Ratner (Adam Sandler), a fast-talking, leather jacket-clad, down on his luck diamond dealer and hustler as he desperately tries to pay back his huge gambling debts by placing bigger and riskier bets. He was once at the top (fancy house, fancy car), but has gotten himself into a hole thanks to too many unlucky deals and a diminishing interest in the diamond-encrusted Furby necklaces he sells at his shop. His wife Dinah (Idina Menzel) can’t stand the sight of his “stupid face” anymore, his daughter hates him, his assistant Demany (Atlanta‘s Lakeith Stanfield) thinks he’s a joke.

Only his mistress, Julia (Julia Fox) continues to believe in him and comforts him as he cries, “Everything I do is not going right!”

Howard is both schlimazel and schlemiel (Yiddish for unlucky and foolish) in every sense but we can’t help but love him. It’s Sandler in diamond earrings! What’s not to love?

The Safdies have a knack for capturing Howard’s sliver of New York—from the non-stop dialogue to the cacophony of cars honking on the street to the sound of the incessant buzzing of the double-bulletproof entrance to his shop.

It’s a completely immersive experience that you sort of can’t wait to get out of.

At the heart of all this chaos is Howard’s biggest gamble yet, a giant Ethiopian black opal he’s planning to put up for auction at a hugely inflated price. “You can see the whole universe in opals,” Howard explains to Boston Celtics star Kevin Garnett (playing himself), who then insists on using the opal as a talisman for his upcoming game.

The opal brings a sense of mysticism to Howard’s seedy world. Daniel Lopatin’s ethereal soundtrack, part sci-fi, part outer-space and part yoga class, adds another layer of depth, elevating Uncut Gems from the excruciatingly real streets of New York to the cosmos. An absolute must-see for those who could handle 48 hours in Midtown Manhattan. (Allison Sloan)

Violet Crown, R, 135 min.

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It would seem there are two types of contemporary Star Wars fans at this point— those who embraced director/writer Rian Johnson’s vision in the previous mainline series entry, The Last Jedi, and those who don’t. Last time out, we learned how light-side Rey (Daisy Ridley) and dark-side Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) share some kind of bond through The Force.

We learned that Leia (Carrie Fisher) could survive in the cold vacuum of space for some reason. How Luke (Mark Hamill) could project a hologram across the galaxy that could choose whether or not to physically touch people and things. Meanwhile, the rest of the gang (John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Kelly Marie Tran and them droids) flew all over the place visiting space casinos, freeing space horses, learning space secrets and doing space stuff.

Well, JJ Abrams is back at the helm now, and he’s undoing or re-kajiggering as much of Johnson’s stuff as is humanly possible. Part of this is fan service (there is perhaps no more toxically vocal fanbase than the Star Wars set), part of this is trying to wrap up a Disney-fied version of George Lucas’ original vision—and say what you want, he did it his way the whole time without concerning himself over corporate interests (see the documentary Empire of Dreams for more on that). Part of it is how obviously the filmmakers painted themselves into a corner by not working together on an actually unified story—but part of it is the unrealistic pressures put on a series that may borrow from mythology, but is ultimately about lasers in space and hairy beasts shrieking “Ruggggghhhhhhh!” at humans and droids who somehow understand them (and vice-versa).

Anyway, in Rise of Skywalker, Han Solo’s dead, Luke’s dead, Leia’s barely hanging on and the upstart young rebellion folk are busy trying to dismantle the empire. But ruh-roh, turns out Snoke (the big baddie from the first two new movies) was a clone the whole time, and Emperor Palpatine (the big bad from the other six movies) is totally still alive somehow, and he’s trying to pull the strings from his totally bitchin’ and evil Sith compound on some farflung planet no one can find. But find it they will, so long as actors like Keri Russell show up to have a few lines that work like stand-ins for actual story and character development. Space lasers are shot, lost planets are found, harrowing backstories are revealed and oh-so-many sequel possibilities are set up. All the while drama unfolds while John Williams music swells.

But no one really acts in these movies so much as they deliver ham-fisted rhetoric about fate and destiny and space lasers. They’re kinda like monologues that provide the same information over and over again. Then there are the crammed-in love stories, the abandoned love stories and the whole mire of unanswered questions raised by Abrams and crew; they all lead to an ending that’ll make you think things like “OK, that coulda been worse,” or “I will defend this to the death because liking Star Wars defines me as a person!” Either way, the movie’s fine if you don’t take it too seriously— kind of like all Star Wars movies. (Alex De Vore)

Violet Crown, Regal (both locations), PG-13, 142 min.

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Clint Eastwood’s new biopic Richard Jewell tells the story of—you guessed it—Richard Jewell, the security guard who discovered a backpack filled with three pipe bombs at Centennial Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.

Jewell, who first alerted the police and helped to partially evacuate the area before the bombs exploded was initially lauded as a national hero and later considered the prime suspect, suffering a grueling trial by media until he was ultimately cleared 88 days later.

Paul Walter Hauser (I, Tonya), who bears an uncanny resemblance to the real Jewell, does a fantastic job as the awkward and endearing underdog who loves his mama (Kathy Bates) and who just wants to do his job; “I believe in protecting people,” he says; Jewell is only guilty of being naïve and it’s up to his disgruntled, baseball hat and cargo short wearing lawyer, Watson Bryant (Sam Rockwell) to repeatedly remind him that the FBI agents ransacking his house for evidence are not his friends but “jackals looking to eat him alive.”

In the film, the real crime is committed by Kathy Scrugg (Olivia Wilde), a journalist from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution who trades sex with FBI agent Tom Shaw (John Hamm) for the scoop on their prime suspect and publishes a story pinning Jewell as the bomber. Agent Shaw protests a little: “what makes you think you can fuck it out of me?,” but in the end he’s no match for Scrugg and her low-cut silk blouse.

Maybe no one reminded Old Man Eastwood what decade we live in but the female-journalist-who-uses-sex-for-a-story trope just doesn’t work anymore. In fact, it never did. While the Atlanta Journal-Constitution deserves to be held accountable for their misrepresentation of an

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If you ignore the unanswered questions, the abandoning of character development and the snubbing of Kelly Marie Tran as Rose Tico, the new Star Wars ... is still kinda shitty. innocent man, slut-shaming certainly isn’t the way to go about it. Unfortunately, this gross display of misogyny clouds the entire film and cheapens the gravity of Jewell’s story.

I think Eastwood would like to go back to a simpler time, like 1996, when people danced in unison to “The Macarena” and sexism went unchecked. (Allison Sloan)

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Marriage Story begins with Charlie (Adam Driver) and Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) reading lists of what they love most about one another. They are sweet and nuanced: both loving parents, he’s a successful Broadway director and she’s a star actor—in fact, his “favorite actor.” It seems a match made in heaven and we are quickly swept up in their idyllic partnership, making it all the more stinging when we learn the lists are part of an assignment given by a mediator to aid in the process of Nicole and Charlie’s impending uncoupling. This is writer/ director Noah Baumbach’s (Francis Ha, Mistress America) intention. He wants it to hurt, and it does.

On the surface, the divorce is one of logistics, a tale of two cities: Nicole moves to Los Angeles to pursue a big role in a TV pilot and to enjoy all that “space” everyone keeps talking about, while Charlie stays in New York to bring his production of Electra to Broadway. Charlie sees her move as only temporary and insists they are a “New York family,” while Nicole maintains this move is something she’s always wanted—something Charlie failed to take seriously amidst all his self-importance.

His play, it turns out, is an apt allusion (a woman scorned), and although they’d discussed parting amicably and without lawyers, Nicole finds cutthroat, stiletto-wearing divorce attorney Nora Fanshaw (portrayed fabulously by Laura Dern) to represent her. During their first meeting Fanshaw asks Nicole for her side of the story.

Nicole says, “It’s difficult to articulate.” And it is, because with no true villain to blame we are left navigating the little things that lead to the demise of their relationship.

Of course, there are problems aplenty, and while it may take Charlie (and us) a moment to play emotional catch-up with Nicole, we eventually come to understand just how insidious these “little things” can be in a relationship. It’s

difficult to watch as Nora paints Charlie as a sortof deadbeat dad too consumed with his work to truly care. For Nora, the inadequacy of the father is not just about Charlie, but about all men; “God is the father and God didn’t show up,” she tells Nicole. “It’s fucked up, but that’s the way it is”— this could be a tagline for the film. Meanwhile, Charlie seeks his own council, meeting with two lawyers: a pussycat (Alan Alda) and a shark (Ray Liotta).

We may want to pick a side, but Baumbach won’t let us off so easily. Nicole and Charlie are so perfectly messy and endearing that we are left feeling like their 8-year-old son Henry (Azhy Robertson), grasping at his parent’s hands while they literally pull him in different directions.

This is Driver and Johansson at their best and Baumbach’s finest work yet.

Marriage Story is at once Greek tragedy, absurdist comedy and a surrealist dystopian reality. A must-see. (Allison Sloan)

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “We are all hostages of the joy of which we deprive ourselves,’ wrote poet Odysseus Elytis. Isn’t that an astounding idea? That we refuse to allow ourselves to experience some of the bliss and pleasure we could easily have; and that we are immured inside that suppressed bliss and pleasure? I call on you, Aries, to rebel against this human tendency. As I see it, one of your main tasks in 2020 is to permit yourself to welcome more bliss, to aggressively seize more pleasure, and thereby free yourself from the rot of its nullification.

took so long to finish. But there was another explanation, too. He told his patron, the Duke of Milan, that he sometimes positioned himself in front of his painting-in-progress and simply gazed at and thought about it, not lifting a brush. Those were times he did some of his hardest work, he said. I trust you will have regular experiences like that in 2020, Libra. Some of your best efforts will arise out of your willingness and ability to incubate your good ideas with concentrated silence and patience.

DR. JOANNA CORTI, DOM, Powerful Medicine, Powerful SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): By 1895, Henry James had Results. Homeopathy, already published 94 books. He was renowned in the Acupuncture. Micro-current TAURUS (April 20-May 20): At age 22, Taurus-born U.S. and England, and had written the works that would (Acupuncture without neeDutch citizen Willem de Kooning sneaked into the later lead to him being considered for a Nobel Prize. dles.) Parasite, Liver/cleansUnited States. He was a stowaway on an ArgentinaThen, at age 52, although he was not physically fit, he es. Nitric Oxide. Pain Relief. bound freighter, and stealthily disembarked when the decided to learn how to ride a bicycle. He paid for lesTransmedium Energy Healing. ship made a stop in Virginia. As he lived in America dur- sons at a bicycle academy, and cheerfully tolerated ing subsequent decades, he became a renowned painter bruises and cuts from his frequent falls as an acceptable Worker’s Compensation and Auto Accidents Insurance who helped pioneer the movement known as abstract price to pay for his new ability. I admire James’ determiexpressionism. His status as an illegal immigrant rarely nation to keep transforming. Let’s make him a role model accepted 505-501-0439 presented any obstacles to his growing success and stature. Not until age 57 did he finally became an American citizen. I propose we make him one of your role models in 2020. May he inspire you to capitalize on being a maverick, outsider, or stranger. May he encourage you to find opportunities beyond your safety zone.

for you in 2020. May he inspire you to keep adding new aptitudes as you outgrow your previous successes.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When Sagittarian composer Ludwig van Beethoven created the Eroica symphony in the early 1800s, many observers panned it. They said its rhythms were eccentric, that it was too GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When British novelist E. long. One critic said it was “glaring and bizarre,” while M. Forster was in his late 30s, he had sex with anoth- another condemned its “undesirable originality.” This er person for the first time. Before that he had pubsame critic concluded, “Genius proclaims itself not in lished five novels. After that, he produced just one the unusual and fantastic but in the beautiful and submore novel, though he lived till age 91. Why? Was he lime.” Today, of course, Eroica has a different reputation. having too much fun? Looking back from his old, age, It’s regarded as a breakthrough event in musical history. he remarked that he would “have been a more famous I’ll go on record here, Sagittarius, to say that I suspect writer if I had published more, but sex prevented the you created your own personal version of Eroica in 2019. latter.” I suspect that sensual pleasure and intimacy 2020 is the year it will get the full appreciation it will have the exact opposite effect on you in 2020, deserves, although it may take a while. Be patient.

Gemini. In sometimes mysterious ways, they will CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I’m going to speculate make you more productive in your chosen sphere. that sometime in the next six months, you will experience CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Every part of our personalievents that years from now you’ll look back on as having ty that we do not love will regress and become hostile to been the beginning of a fresh universe for you. What us,” wrote poet Robert Bly. I don’t know anyone who should you call this launch? I suggest you consider elegant doesn’t suffer from this problem at least a little. That’s terms like “Destiny Rebirth” or “Fate Renewal” rather than the bad news. The good news for us Cancerians (yes, I’m a Crab!) is that 2020 will be a favorable time to engage in a cliché like the “Big Bang.” And how should you celebrate a holy crusade to fix this glitch: to feel and express more it? As if it were the Grand Opening of the rest of your long life.overed the manuscript she’d put away in the hatbox. love for parts of our personality that we have dismissed

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er liberating truths about mysteries that have flustered you. Frustrations and irritations you’ve grudgingly tolerated for far too much time will finally begin to wane. Congratulations in advance, Aquarius! The hard work you do to score these triumphs won’t always be delightful, but it could provide you with a curiously robust and muscular kind of fun.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Let’s say you wanted to dress completely in silk: shirt, pants, vest, scarf, socks, shoes, hat, underwear all made of silk. And let’s say your dream was to grow and process and weave the silk from VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The fame of Virgo-born Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533) has persisted scratch. You’d start with half an ounce of silkworm eggs.

They’d hatch into 10,000 silkworms. Eventually those through the ages because of Orlando Furioso, an epic hard-working insects would generate five pounds of poem he authored. It tells the story of the Christian knight Orlando and his adoration for a pagan princess. silk—enough to create your entire outfit. So in other This great work did not come easily to Ariosto. It wasn’t words, you’d be able to generate an array of functional until he had written 56 versions of it that he was finally beauty from a small but concentrated amount of raw material. By the way, that last sentence is a good descripsatisfied. I suspect you may harbor an equally perfection of what I think your general approach should be in tionist streak about the good works and labors of love 2020. And also by the way, dressing in silk wouldn’t be you’ll craft in 2020. May I suggest you confine your too crazy an idea in the coming months. I hope you’ll experiments to no more than ten versions? have fun cultivating your allure, style, and flair.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Leonardo da Vinci worked on his painting The Last Supper from 1495 to 1498. It’s a big Homework: I declare you champion, unvanquishable piece—about 15 by 29 feet. That’s one reason why he hero, and title-holder of triumphant glory. Do you accept?

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