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2018–2019 READINGS & CONVERSATIONS

READINGS & CONVERSATIONS

Lannan presents Readings & Conversations, featuring inspired literary writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as cultural freedom advocates with a social, political, and environmental justice focus.

ILAN PAPPÉ with

DIMA KHALIDI

TRACY K. SMITH with

JOY HARJO

WEDNESDAY 23 JANUARY 2019 AT 7PM LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

WEDNESDAY 6 FEBRUARY 2019 AT 7PM LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Ilan Pappé is an expatriate Israeli historian and socialist activist, educated

Tracy K. Smith was appointed the 22nd United States poet laureate in 2017 and was reappointed for a second term in 2018. During her first term, Smith gave readings in rural communities in New Mexico, South Carolina, and Kentucky. She has continued to read in small towns across America, stating, “Poetry invites us to listen to other voices, to make space for other perspectives, and to care about the lives of others who may not look, sound or think like ourselves.” Her poem “The United States Welcomes You” begins: “Why and by whose power were you sent? / What do you see that you may wish to steal? / Why this dancing? Why do your dark bodies / Drink up all the light?” Smith has published four books of poetry: Wade in the Water (2018); Life on Mars, which received the 2012 Pulitzer Prize; Duende (2006); and The Body’s Question. She is a professor of humanities and

at the University of Jerusalem and the University of Oxford. He founded the Academic Institute for Peace in Givat Haviva, Israel, and was chair of the Emil Tuma Institute for Palestine Studies in Haifa. His 2016 book The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories received the Palestine Book Award. He has published 17 other books and is currently a professor at the University of Exeter. Pappé’s research contextualizes the history of Palestine into a larger global context of settler colonialism.

His historiography challenges the dominant Israeli narrative. He writes, “Standing idle while the American-Israeli vision of strangling the Strip to death, cleansing half of the West Bank from its indigenous population and threatening the rest of the Palestinians—inside Israel and in the other parts of the West Bank—with transfer, is not an option. It is tantamount to ‘decent’ people’s silence during the Holocaust.”

director of the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.

Joy Harjo is a poet, writer, performer, playwright, and saxophone player

Dima Khalidi is the founder and director of Palestine Legal and is a

whose books include How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems

cooperating counsel with the Center for Constitutional Rights. Her work includes advising and representing activists and advocating for their right

1975–2002 and She Had Some Horses.

to speak out for Palestinian freedom.

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NEWS OPINION 5 NEWS 7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 7

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AFFAIRS OF CULTURE 9 SFR touches base with the new secretary of the state Department of Cultural Affairs DOUBLE DENSITY SUSPENSION 10 Not so fast on that San Juan drilling, Hilcorp

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LETTERS

Shake off the Winter Blues

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NEWS, JANUARY 2: “SLIP SLIDIN’ AWAY”

SLEEP AT WORK, DUH The majority of the lawsuits are just more examples of our over-the-top entitlement culture. Try doing that in, say, most of Europe.

Sorry, nil, go home. It’s gnarly conditions this year folks. Life in the mountains. Outfit yourself, know that there are risks with life. Learn to fall.

Learn to become aware. Work at home. Camp at the office, do whatever. But please stop abusing a court system that needs care itself.

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FORGE NEW PATHS Understated. The sidewalks around the main post office and federal courthouse [are] finally partially cleared a few days after. But the sidewalk plow leaves a snow mountain on the sidewalk. Intrepid walkers need to choose between walking on the busy Paseo or climbing the mountain (now days later diminished by determined climbers). Thank goodness one can hang on to those rails.

SUZANNE TIMBLE SANTA FE

“LUJAN GRISHAM RESCINDS PARCC FOR NEW MEXICO STUDENTS”

DON’T MISS THE OTHER 13 Until we create a student-centric model where mastery instead of merit is the goal of education, this is just another hype to ensure that low performing educators and policy makers throughout the entire bureaucracy keep their jobs. Kids did not elect the governor but their ability to succeed in the future depends on her.

The big solution in Santa Fe is developing the pre-K model, but what about the kids that are in K-12 now? That is 13 years of graduates that they really have no plan for, except to come up with some new testing drama that still is more about teachers keeping their jobs than kids succeeding in the real world of tomorrow. ...

I once again have asked Las Cruces Rep. Joanne Ferrary for readings she suggests from her committees that would help us, the funders of schools, to understand their thinking. The only material she offered me in the past was Surpassing Shanghai by [Marc] Tucker. After I read it I asked her what they got out of it and was told me they really did not get much out of it. Well, what are they basing their thinking on?

Teacher colleges will depend on knowing this so they can prepare hopefully professional learning facilitators for the education world of tomorrow.

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YVETTE HERRELL FINDS NO ELECTION WRONGDOING, CONCEDES HOUSE RACE TO XOCHITL TORRES SMALL, DECLARES SHE’S RUNNING IN 2020 “I’m the one to beat. Again.”

ABQ CONSIDERS BAN ON PLASTIC BAGS, STRAWS AND TO-GO CONTAINERS

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Santa Fe considers ban on plastic furniture, toys, car parts.

NEW MEXICO HAS RECORD HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION RATE IN 2018 Just think of how many of them will move away to exciting new places with things like jobs and homes as soon as humanly possible!

BLOOMFIELD, NEW MEXICO MAN MAKES BATMAN SNOWMAN Nothing says “winter fun” like a temporary sculpture homage to a billionaire who spends his time and money beating up drug dealers forced into crime by a system that failed them.

NEW ASSISTED LIVING CENTER TO OPEN IN SANTA FE At least some folks will be able to find a place to live.

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In the World

Elizabeth Nelson, Ph.D., Faculty, Pacifica Graduate Institute, with Marilyn Matthews, M.D., Jungian analyst, Santa Fe Lecture: The Re-Emergence of the Fierce Young Feminine Warrior in Film and Literature Friday, January 11th 7-9pm $10 (+$10 surcharge for 2 CEUs or 2 Cultural CEUs) In the last two decades, fierce young women have taken center stage in their own stories, no longer content to be accommodating sidekicks to a strong male protagonist. The activation of an ancient archetypal pattern, the female warrior, is on display in Game of Thrones, Black Panther, Wonder Woman, Star Wars, and the Hunger Games, all of which have commanded critical attention and earned billions of dollars. Dr. Nelson will show images of these female warriors to demonstrate how the protagonists discover an embodied sense of their own power, celebrate their capacity for action, and dedicate themselves to causes that matter. This sweeping change in the contemporary fairy tale—in which she is the central character around which the entire plot revolves, it is her fate that matters, and it is her own power she must understand and develop—has profound psychological meaning for all women, regardless of age. When represented in a young woman (as it often is), the female warrior suggests the vitality associated with youth and also the jouissance of the crone. She is powerful, alluring, and necessary for the next step in human evolution.

Workshop: An In-Depth Exploration of the Vitality and Power of the Female Warrior Saturday, January 12th 9am-4:30pm $80 6 CEUs or 6 Cultural CEUs In this workshop Dr. Nelson will lead us in discerning the important differences between power as domination and the power of leadership, authority, and influence. As we watch film clips, we will explore how power—which is first and foremost an internal, embodied resource—helps people stand up for themselves and their values. Finally, we will discuss the situations and circumstances which can call forth and develop authentic power and dissolve rigid gender roles. Dr. Nelson will bring to our attention the need to remember something that patriarchal cultures have intentionally forgotten: the original powers of the ancestral feminine. It is time to remember, and to explore the various kinds of power women can and should exercise in a desperately wounded world.

Both events at: Center for Spiritual Living, 505 Camino de los Marquez, Santa Fe Friday lecture and Saturday workshop tickets at the door – for information call Marilyn Matthews, 505-660-9134 For expanded program details go to www.santafejung.org

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NEWS After 18 years at the City of Santa Fe, Debra Garcia y Griego is now head of the state DCA.

Affairs of Culture Former city Arts Commission director moves to state Cabinet post

BY JULIE ANN GRIMM e d i t o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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ebra Garcia y Griego is already a huge fan of the state museum system. She remembers going to the Palace of the Governors where, as a young girl, she made a little newspaper hat at the Palace Press. She and her two sons, 12 and 14, visited the International Folk Art Museum over Thanksgiving break, and just before she found out that she had been appointed secretary of the state Department of Cultural Affairs, she spent a Saturday at the New Mexico History Museum with her visiting mother-in-law.

But now, she’ll embark on a statewide tour with a whole new eye.

After 18 years at the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission, and as its director since 2012, Garcia y Griego finds herself settling in to a leading role in Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s Cabinet. The department is most known for management of state museums, but its 400plus employees also run New Mexico’s historic sites and libraries, as well as archaeology, historic preservation and public arts programs on an annual budget of about $45 million.

“Museums are fabulous and I think there is room for raising visibility and access to them,” she tells SFR in an interview from her new bare-walled office at the Bataan Building. “The fact that they are large buildings that are in one place, people seem to identify with those more—but it is a department full of incredible resources. It’s full of uniquely and highly qualified professionals.”

SFR asked Garcia y Griego to discuss the work ahead. This interview has been edited for space.

How hard did the department get hit during New Mexico’s recession?

I’m still getting up to speed on the full set of impacts, but since 2008 we have taken a number of cuts. Those have included some pretty significant personnel cuts.

They have also included budget cuts and reductions to museum hours and reductions in free admission days, as well as increases in admission. But what I am finding on the ground is that the department is stable and we have excellent growth potential.

Fe and the areas you worked in. Do you see that overlap?

I’m very familiar with Santa Fe’s cultural landscape including the museums here, but also have become very familiar with the state landscape in working with colleagues from other local arts agencies around the state and from working with public art. So I feel very comfortable in that, and obviously during my time at the city I worked very closely with our

I understand the vitally important role that [state museums] play in the economy of Santa Fe. But that same understanding extends to all of the museums.

What are the issues that need your attention most quickly?

First of all, it’s just meeting with all of my department, all the division directors and all the boards and advisory and foundation groups and introducing myself to them and understanding what their needs are and what their vision is so that this department as a whole can move forward. Obviously, finalizing the design and the construction of the Vladim Contemporary is a big, visible initiative right now. Long-term, I want to increase our collaboration with other state departments, our partners in tourism and public education and economic development and make sure that I am communicating with those Cabinet secretaries and making sure that we are working on joint initiatives.

The divisions in DCA seem to have a lot of parallels with the City of Santa

- Debra Garcia y Griego, secretary, Department of Cultural Affairs

historic preservations staff as well as with our library staff. So there are parallels, and I feel like my experience and knowledge is definitely translating here in a really positive way.

How will Santa Fe benefit from having you in this position?

I have a great deal of respect for the economic impact that the four [state] museums have on the citizens of Santa Fe. I understand the vitally important

role that they play in the economy of Santa Fe. But that same understanding extends to all of the museums—the two in Albuquerque and the one in Alamogordo and the one in Las Cruces—as well as our historic sites. And my experience with seeing the impact and being involved in increasing that benefit will benefit the state as a whole. … I’m interested to understand how those other museums are interacting with their local communities.

So have you been to all of them?

Yes! But where I am lacking is in historic sites, I will admit.

And I think [division Director] Patrick Moore is going to make sure that I get out there and see those pretty quickly.

What do you think people in New Mexico could also learn about the historic sites and the rest of the DCA? They are open now. It’s often easy to get confused about what is federal and what is state and what is local. But our historic sites are open and ready for visitors. … They are a great asset because they combine culture, history and, in many cases, outdoor recreation. I think they are a rising gem in our portfolio. … This department is full of amazing resources that people are unaware of or are maybe not aware are part of the Department of Cultural Affairs. I enjoyed my work at the city because I was able to see the impact of my work on my community. I was able to see people enjoying an exhibit opening or at a Southside Summer watching a free movie in a park. And the opportunity to be a part of leading that at a statewide level is incredible.

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Double Density Suspended New Oil Conservation Commission orders re-hearing on wells

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rule change passed in November amid protests from the public, tribal representatives and other leaders was undone Tuesday morning in a hearing the energy company’s attorney labeled “political shenanigans.”

Two new members of the Oil Conservation Commission suspended a decision made by their predecessors under former Gov. Susana Martinez.

That ruling allowed Hilcorp Energy to double the density of oil and gas wells in 1.3 million acres of the San Juan Basin in northwestern New Mexico. It was issued despite objections from recently elected and re-elected officials, without notice to all tribes or federal land managers, and without formal participation by the San Juan Citizens Alliance or the State Land Office.

Already, 40,000 oil and gas wells have been drilled in the basin. Hilcorp’s rule change allowed eight wells, instead of four, every 320 acres.

“There is an opportunity to do this process right,” Erik SchlenkerGoodrich, a Western Environmental Law Center attorney representing the citizens alliance, told commissioners at the Jan. 8 hearing. “We need to make sure we work together ... to ensure that when we make these decisions, these decisions are in fact in the public’s interest, not the corporate oil and gas interests.”

Gabriel Wade, the acting director of the Oil Conservation Division under Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and who was elected commission chair as the meeting commenced, shortcut debates over whether San Juan Citizens Alliance and State Land Office had standing to request a re-hearing. Instead, he moved that the commission “exercise its own powers” in deciding to rehear the case. He cited concerns over wasted natural gas, human health, the environment and transparency. Allison Marks, newly assigned to the commission by State Land Commissioner Stephanie

Garcia Richard, seconded the move.

Hilcorp representative Michael Feldewert was ready with an argument challenging Wade’s appointment to the commission, pointing out that statute requires the commission be comprised of experts in oil and gas production.

“Mr. Wade, I know you’re a very good attorney, but I don’t believe you’re an engineer,” he said, and moved to have Wade removed, a motion Wade denied.

Marks intervened: “This statute was actually brought to my attention over the weekend, and the first part is pretty interesting as well.”

The first clause states that the commission director must be a New Mexico resident.

“I don’t know if we should get into this conversation or not, discussing the former director and whether she was a resident of this state,” she said, suggesting that failure to meet that criteria could invalidate the former director’s decisions.

La Plata County, Colorado, staff confirm to SFR that former Oil Conservation Division Director Heather Riley is registered to vote there. No financial disclosure statements, which would include a residence address, appear in secretary of state records for Riley.

Feldewert said the procedural moves showed politics overriding expertise.

“It appears to me—and I’ve been involved in this for a long time—this type of political shenanigans that are going on here is a low point,” he said, adding the corporation was “extremely disappointed” with the results.

Marks also pursued the State Land Office’s motion for re-hearing on behalf of 65,000 acres of state trust lands affected by the decision. She also stipulated that Hilcorp mail notice of the re-hearing to tribes and federal land managers.

“Double density done without any consultation to tribes was kind of concerning for us,” says Mario Atencio, tri-chapter liaison for Torreon, Ojo Encino and Counselor chapter houses. In addition to shielding cultural resources amid a sacred landscape, tribal members were uncertain how more drilling would affect water resources and hunting. “This re-hearing seems to open a doorway to better discussion.”

The re-hearing is scheduled for Thursday May 9.

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MARK WOODWARD

Stocking Stuffer

Martinez leaves records lawsuit bill for new governor after years of litigation

Paul Kennedy, second from left, withdrew from the case after filing a notice to appeal a judge’s ruling on how much money the state owes SFR.

BY J E F F P RO CTO R j e f f p r o c t o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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ormer Gov. Susana Martinez slipped a slew of coal for her successor into the stocking hung, no doubt with care, by the governor’s mansion fireplace. Among the many lumps is a bill for nearly $400,000.

The tab comes from a pair of Santa Fe lawyers who spent four-plus years battling Martinez and her favorite private lawyer for public records on behalf of SFR through a 2013 lawsuit. If newly elected Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s administration decides to write the check, it’ll provide something of an ironic coda to what Martinez promised would be “the most transparent administration in New Mexico history.”

It’s not yet clear whether that will happen.

In late November, pro-tem state District Judge Sarah Singleton ordered the Martinez administration to pay lawyers

Daniel Yohalem and Katherine Murray $397,659.02. Working together with no guarantee of a paycheck, the lawyers spent more than 2,000 hours helping SFR argue, among other claims, that Martinez and her aides had violated the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act by delaying responses to requests for documents, outright withholding others and refusing to put in place a process to handle records requests.

Months after a three-day bench trial in the spring of 2017, Singleton sided in December with SFR on three of the IPRA violation claims and ruled against the newspaper on a claim that the governor had violated the state Constitution by cutting off its access to basic information from her administration.

For nearly a year, Yohalem and Murray went back and forth with Paul Kennedy, a well-known Albuquerque attorney who represented Martinez in numerous legal matters including the SFR case, over attorneys’ fees and costs. IPRA allows for

such payouts to prevailing parties.

Kennedy “raised the novel argument that, contrary to the language and public policy of IPRA, a partially successful governmental defendant was entitled to costs under IPRA,” Singleton wrote in a June order establishing how much the state owed the attorneys. The governor’s lawyer “further argued that she was the prevailing party on all claims made in this case and she should be reimbursed for all costs incurred defending against [SFR’s] claims. …

The Court rejects [Martinez’] arguments asserting that [she] is the true prevailing party and trivializing [SFR’s] success on its IPRA claims.”

But Kennedy kept pushing.

“Throughout this fees litigation, [Kennedy’s] arguments and zealous attack on all aspects of the way [Yohalem and Murray] litigated the entire case increased the time Plaintiff had to spend litigating attorneys’ fees and costs,” the judge writes.

On Nov. 26, she issued a final order directing payment to Yohalem and Mur-

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ray. Kennedy had 30 days to appeal. He took them all, filing a notice with the state Court of Appeals the day after Christmas.

Two days later, with the last of his Martinez-representation contracts about to expire in the waning days of her eight years as governor, Kennedy withdrew from the case.

Kennedy was likely paid millions of dollars in taxpayer money to represent Martinez in several public-records and other controversial cases during her governorship. But the former administration has steadfastly refused to say exactly how much, including in the SFR case.

Whether Yohalem and Murray will have to keep fighting in court to collect their fees and costs is now up the Lujan Grisham administration. The Court of Appeals has given the new government until Jan. 28 to decide whether to drop the Kennedy-filed appeal.

Matthew L Garcia, Lujan Grisham’s recently named general counsel, declined to be interviewed for this story. But through a spokesman, he writes in an email: “We’re aware of the matter and we’re reviewing. I think you can anticipate our making a decision as soon as we possibly can.”

Murray worked more than 1,700 hours on the case, according to Singleton’s order.

Yohalem spent just north of 700 hours pushing for SFR’s access to public records.

They took the case on contingency.

In a telephone interview this week, Yohalem says he hasn’t spoken with anyone in the new administration about the case. He adds that he’s happy to give Lujan Grisham and her staff time “to sort this all out.”

It didn’t have to be this way, he says.

“This is a situation that was created by the former governor by withholding public records and fighting this lawsuit tooth and nail from beginning to end,” Yohalem says. “It has created a large attorneys’ fees bill and run up Mr. Kennedy’s bill to what surely is a significant amount. All of this was totally unnecessary, and now she has left the new governor to pay the bill.”

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host of bills automatic vetoes. (Of course, the governor wasn’t shy about signing laws that granted new taxing authority to local governments, so it’s something of a Pyrrhic victory.)

SFR spotted the Santa Fe Democrat last month milling about with legislative leaders from both parties outside Lujan Grisham’s transition office as they waited for a meeting. Wirth says those meetings rarely happened under Martinez. It bodes well for a productive session, he says, and he’s not alone in thinking that.

“I’ve known Michelle a long time, since she worked for Gary Johnson,” says Sen. Steven Neville. “She’s always been fair and a straight shooter.”

The Aztec Republican is under no illusion that the new governor will be pushing a Republicanfriendly agenda.

“There’ll be a difference in philosophy and emphasis. Republicans are always stronger on business and Democrats are always stronger on environmental and social issues,” he tells SFR. But Senate Republican Leader Stuart Ingle sees room to negotiate for his red side in a sea of blue.

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here’s a feeling many people are familiar with before they ski something steeper than is comfortable, or are about to make a work presentation, sing in the church choir or start a race: It’s butterflies. That tingle in the tummy that signals anxiety, excitement or both.

So it is with many lawmakers as they ready for the legislative session that begins Jan. 15. Catch them at a committee hearing and they’ll tell wild stories of 10,000 bills being introduced to sop up the billions in surplus money gushing in from the oil wells in the Permian Basin. That’s extraordinarily unlikely—when Bill Richardson took office in 2003’s healthy economic climate, and after eight years of Gary Johnson, there weren’t even 2,500 pieces of legislation offered up.

Still, it’s a pretty solid indicator of the mood around the Capitol.

For New Mexico’s 112 legislators and one new governor, the next 60 days will go a long way toward setting the tone for Michelle Lujan Grisham’s tenure.

With almost $1 billion in surplus revenue this year and even more than that anticipated for spending next year, the state has room to breathe and consider new programs for the first time in what seems like a decade. It will likely not be this flush for years to come.

Add to that an influx of Democrats at every level of government, in every statewide office, and it starts to feel very much like the butterflies at the start of a race. As in a race, however, no matter how fast you go, you’re in trouble if you run off in the wrong direction.

“There’s been a lot of pentup demand and frankly, frustration,” says Sen. Majority Leader Peter Wirth of the lawmaking sessions under outgoing Gov. Susana Martinez, noting that her pledge to not raise taxes made a

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HOLD ON TO YOUR ASSES, HERE COME THE DEMS

“No governor should get all that they want, and not all legislatures should get what they want,” he tells SFR in a phone call from somewhere in his district around Portales, “because none of us is right all the time.”

Lujan Grisham’s staff tells SFR they couldn’t squeeze an interview about her legislative agenda and plans into her schedule, nor did a legislative aide make a promised phone call. At the same time, she hasn’t exactly been coy about what she’d like to do. It’s the specifics of the bills and proposals that will define what gets passed in the coming 60 days.

“We want to make sure that we are looking at raising the minimum wage. We want to talk about making sure we’re paying our educators more, … that we have a system that’s investing in the classroom,” she told SFR at a news conference late last month, adding that lawmakers are anxious to see hard numbers in a budget.

Speaker of the House Brian Egolf has been talking about an “education moonshot” since the midterm elections began. The state is under a court order to spend more money on education (see SFR’s infographic on page 14 for more key bills), and there’s been talk that it might take something like $1 billion more to bring the state up to an acceptable,

Sen. Peter Wirth, left, says he’s already seeing a difference in the new governor’s willingness to talk with lawmakers.

New Power Democrats rode roughshod over Republicans in November, sweeping every state office and every appellate court seat. Here’s who won, what they do, and a pro’s take on what it means.

Maggie Toulouse Oliver

Stephanie Garcia Richard

Hector Balderas

Secretary of State

Commissioner of Public Lands

Attorney General

The secretary of state will continue to push for campaign finance reform.

She’s beaten back Trump’s voter fraud inquiries, arguing they’re a ruse.

Public land leases generate cash for schools. The new commissioner is an educator. She’ll reexamine doubling natural gas well density in the San Juan Basin.

Brian Colón

Tim Eichenberg

State Auditor

State Treasurer

The frequent candidate finally has an office to call his own. He’ll have to decide whether to continue an unorthodox audit of the criminal justice system in Albuquerque.

Take Your Seat Democrats swiped eight House seats from Republicans in November. They have healthy margins in each chamber of the Legislature.

The attorney general has tried to make a name for himself with public corruption prosecutions. He’s also been eager to sign on to national consumer protection lawsuits.

The treasurer’s is a quiet job, managing money that has to stay liquid to pay state and local bills. He’s claimed reform of his office in his first term.

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Michael Vigil Supreme Court Justice The longtime Court of Appeals judge ousted a Martinez appointee for his spot on the five-member Supreme Court.

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Supreme Court Justice (retired, vacancy)

Daniels retired after shepherding a bail reform constitutional amendment through its overwhelming approval by voters. The new governor appoints his replacement.

Maes steps down following a lengthy term on the state’s highest court.

Michelle Lujan Grisham will appoint her successor.

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Robert Preuhs Metropolitan State University Denver, Colorado

Democratic control of every state office and the Legislature means the next two years—and likely four—will be their show.

Academics call it unified government and these days, it’s a lot less likely to produce the will to compromise, says Metropolitan State University’s Robert Preuhs.

A professor of political science in Colorado, Preuhs is keeping his eyes on the Centennial State’s government, which experienced a similar blue wave

last fall. Democrats even flipped the state Senate, winning it back from Republicans in a state in which there are more independent voters than either party has registered members.

“My guess is you’ll see some bolder Democratic proposals fairly quickly,” he tells SFR. Preuhs says the “current structure of political polarization” gives either party less reason to compromise, a scenario which he says is not necessarily bad for government in the long term.

“I think you actually get more policy

experimentation when unified government does occur,” he explains. Republicans may not be fond of the experience or the experiment, he points out, but with the federal government likely to be gridlocked for the next two years, innovation needs to happen at the state level.

“On one hand this is their chance,” Preuhs says. But while Democrats may not feel the need to listen to Republicans, they still need to be mindful of voters. “On the other hand, the risk is taking policy too far to the left.”

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New Bills Budget

Education

New Mexico is swimming in cash. It’s almost all from the oil boom in the southeastern part of the state, though, so it’s as fleeting as young love. But boy, is it intense. The state is on track to collect about $1 billion more than it did last year, and has even more “new money” to spend above the $6.2 billion budget for the fiscal year that starts in July. Lawmakers will spend, but they also have to save for lean years.

In July, Santa Fe Judge Sarah Singleton issued an order in a lawsuit that said the state has been failing to provide a sufficient education for all its students. The implications are profound. Lawmakers expect to spend hundreds of millions of dollars more for public education. Expect heated debate over how much to spend, how quickly to spend it, and how to ensure the state will have that money in future years.

Marijuana

San Juan Generating Station

Has the time come for recreational cannabis in New Mexico? Maybe. But it might also take another year for the new governor to get comfortable with the protections she’s said she wants before New Mexico joins the list of states that have legalized marijuana use. Such a program could pump tens of millions of dollars, if not more, into state accounts. Lujan Grisham has said she doesn’t want to move too fast.

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This massive, complex bill is ostensibly about how PNM gets to charge customers for years of lost revenue at the San Juan Generating Station, which is scheduled to close in 2022. It will take a nearby coal mine with it when it goes, and people in the Four Corners are panicking about 600-700 lost jobs, many of which approach six figures.

But it’s also about how much renewable energy the state will demand PNM produce going forward.

Pension Reform

Methane Mitigation

New Mexico’s two public pensions have about $14 billion more in obligations than they do in anticipated income. Add retiree health care, and that number tops $18 billion. The unfunded liability, as it’s called, is so bad that bond rating agencies have dinged New Mexico, making it more expensive for the state to pay for construction projects and other big-ticket items. With surplus money on hand, both public employees and educators will be watching the retirement fix.

When Donald Trump and Scott Pruitt (remember him?) took office in 2017, they axed an Obama-era rule requiring oil and gas drillers to recapture methane they’d previously been either venting into the atmosphere or burning off. Lujan Grisham has said she wants to reinstate the rule for New Mexico. Industry insiders wonder what other restrictions she has in store, but even some conservative voices have decried the Wild West nature of drilling in the state.

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Is now the time to rewrite New Mexico’s tax code?

ew Mexico’s income stream is inextricably tied to oil and gas extraction, which means it’s also wed to the prices for each resource. This is a good year. Lawmakers expect to have about $1 billion more than they budgeted for coming into state accounts through June.

Come the next fiscal year, that number is currently predicted to be even higher.

But when those prices fall, as they had when lawmakers gathered in December for the last of their pre-session meetings, policymakers start to feel a little panicky.

“A downfall is going to happen again until we diversify,” says Sen. Peter Wirth.

Many of his colleagues were eagerly watching the price per barrel of oil during that stretch, when it dropped from about $60 in early November to $43 just before Christmas. (Handy SFR tip: The general rule of thumb for New Mexico prices is to lop off $10$12 from the West Texas Intermediate price for transportation costs.)

When the price drops too low, it costs more to get oil out of the ground than it’s worth. That’s a massive hit to revenue, because most of those oil companies pay tax on their services.

Wirth tells SFR he’s been told that taxes on the oil and gas industry and payments to the state from the permanent funds, which get money from extractive industries and pay the earnings on those investments to the state, account for around 45 percent of the state’s yearly revenue. The permanent fund money doesn’t fluctuate as wildly as the tax money does, but it’s a good indicator of the sector’s importance to New Mexico.

Seeking stability and more predictable revenue, one of the biggest bipartisan efforts by lawmakers over the past few years has been drilling away at the task of revamping New Mexico’s tax code. Rio Rancho Republican Jason Harper and Wirth, Santa Fe’s Dem, have been among those looking at corporate and personal income tax, as well as the gross receipts tax system.

An idea championed by conservatives like the late Rep. Larry Larrañaga

has been to broaden the gross receipts tax, thereby lowering the rate. A GRT is a little like a sales tax, but is applied to more things, like services. To boost businesses and industries, the state has to carve out exemptions.

There are tons of them.

A recent bill authored by Harper sought to close about 100 carve-outs.

That, supporters argue, accomplishes the dual purpose of simplifying the tax code while at the same time giving the state enough wiggle room to consider lowering the gross receipts tax.

But New Mexico relies heavily on that tax to pay for its $6.2 billion annual budget.

“One of the things that really struck me,” Wirth says, “is that to lower GRT by a quarter percent takes $200 million out of our revenues.”

Since counties and cities, especially the latter, rely on GRT for their budgets, too, tax reform is tricky. But doing so is much easier in fat times than in lean ones, so late last month, the Legislature’s interim Revenue Stabilization and Tax Policy Committee met to consider two rough versions of tax reform. They would both decrease the gross receipts tax a little, between 0.6 percent and 0.75 percent at a minimum. It might sound paltry, but the cost to the state would be more than half a billion dollars.

One scenario reinstates the food tax to pay for the cuts, one does not.

“When you look at those [GRT carve-outs] that we can use to buy down the rate, there’s really roughly 10 or 15 that have real dollars,” Harper told his colleagues at the meeting. But both he and other lawmakers favor going the extra mile to eliminate dozens of other carve-outs to simplify the tax code.

“I was hoping for tax reform. I don’t know that that is the case. This doesn’t appear to really be tax reform; it appears to be a tax shifting,” intoned Farmington Republican Rep. Rod Montoya.

For others, like Wirth, changing who pays what tax is worth it, even if revenue is more or less a wash.

“At the end of the day, it makes the tax code a lot fairer,” he says. (MG)

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equitable level for all schools. That’s an astounding increase; the budget for K-12 schools this year is $2.7 billion.

Egolf says $1 billion is too much for one year.

“If the Legislature were to put $1 billion into K-12, most of it would be returned. You can’t hire teachers that quickly or implement programs that quickly,” the Santa Fe Democrat says. He tells SFR a more likely framework for ramping up spending is four or five years. “It’s very possible that number could end up looking like $800 million to $1 billion,” he says.

Lawmakers are also ready to fix stuff both literal and figurative.

Ingle points to roads in what he refers to as “the cash register for New Mexico” in Lea and Eddy counties, where oil and gas development is booming.

“You’re talking as many as 40,000 trucks on one strip of road in a day,” he says. It’s a number he scoffed at initially.

“Until you see it down there, it’s unbelievable. And that’s 24/7. Nobody’s roads are able to stand up to that kind of punishment.”

Democrats like Wirth agree, though how to pay for improvements is likely to be a bone of contention.

“It’s time for us to have recurring dollars for roads. The key is to have it dedicated and not in the general fund,” Wirth explains. That might mean trying to increase the tax on gasoline, which hasn’t seen a hike since the early 1990s.

The state also has to figure out how to pay off tax credits given to companies for film and television production in New Mexico. The current yearly cap on incentives of $50 million has resulted in a $180 million backlog owed to companies.

Egolf says the arrival of Netflix studios to Albuquerque heralds a monumental leap in the state’s status in the production industry, but he also looks to ensure the $50 million cap for incentives doesn’t get eaten up by the big dog every year. What to do about the cap will be one of the session’s premier debates.

When it comes to capital outlay—the brick-and-mortar projects that bring money into communities around the

If the Legislature were to put $1 billion into K-12, most of it would be returned.

You can’t hire teachers that quickly or implement programs that quickly.

-Brian Egolf, Speaker of the House

state—a plan is in place to use surplus money for the projects that normally require the state to borrow money. It will save costs on interest and, some lawmakers believe, bolster New Mexico’s credit rating. It’s a wonky move, but it’s designed to save money in lean years by making it cheaper for the state to borrow then.

Lawmakers can, and likely will, spend tens of millions of dollars squirreling away money in funds that they raided to make it through New Mexico’s prolonged recession. They’ll fix those funds and build the state’s reserves to somewhere around 20 percent in an effort to avoid the kind of gut-wrenching decisions they had to make when the state wasn’t growing its economy.

“That is still very fresh,” Wirth says.

“Our members remember that we’ve been through some extraordinarily difficult times.”

That produces a whole different kaleidoscope of butterflies in the stomachs of policymakers, and no one is anxious to have that feeling ever again.

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New World Resolution Santa Fe Community College aims to showcase what the sustainable future looks like

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f/when the apocalypse hits, my advice would be: Head to Santa Fe Community College. There, as best I can tell, the lights will stay on, clean drinking water will still flow and fresh food will continue to grow long after the rest of dehydrated Santa Fe has given up clubbing one another in the darkened streets while wrestling over the final chimichangas at Allsups.

I’ve written before about some of the features of the school’s Trades, Technology and Sustainability programs.

These include its Controlled Environment Agriculture’s aquaponics, biofuels, solar energy and water/wastewater programs, as well as on-campus businesses that grew out of the school, such as Apogee Spirulina.

Luke Spangenburg, SFCC’s director of the Biofuels Center of Excellence as well as its Training Center Corporation, has helped build those and many other programs, as well as lead the school toward

energy, food and water autonomy. As the new year and the new semester begins, I spoke with Spangenburg about some of those initiatives and the framework in which the school views its sustainability initiatives.

Building the Future SFCC’s Trades, Technology and Sustainability program is housed in the Trades and Advanced Technology Center. The building itself has the highest LEED certification possible from the US Green Building Council. Among its many environmental features are a solar thermal rooftop system, rainwater catchment and a closed-loop system for water storage.

“It has most of its own energy systems,” Spangenburg notes. “We started building these assets, improving our efficiency and our assets because it’s our responsibility. We’re here as representatives of the community of Santa Fe, so we have to demonstrate what the future is actually going to be in a sustainable way. By building these renewable energy assets, we drove down our operating costs at the college. … We’re within two years [of being] off the grid completely and doing all of our own energy.”

Training for the Future SFCC isn’t just aimed at having energy autonomy, but also at training students to work in that field and all the emergent

environmental fields, from horticulture to solar to wastewater management.

Through a partnership with the global energy corporation Siemens, Spangenburg says students will receive hands-on training for the sector. “Local people can get trained and go work globally; they’re in 60 different countries,” he says.

Siemens, he notes, makes “controllers and solar panels and wind generation and gas generators, and when they came here, we integrated it with the greenhouse program. The greenhouse program is a little nanogrid, our campus is a microgrid, and we’re going to be able to island ourselves away from the energy resource that everyone else is using, which is PNM. So here on campus, we’ll be producing our own energy and proving we can manage it.”

Spangenburg has national recognition for his work in the algae sector, and has taught in that program for more than a decade. The algae program also has a strong green workforce component, as well as state and federal partners, such as the national labs. All of the programs and partnerships on campus provide work, internships and field work, Spangenburg says, so “students can get hands-on experience in their business, start getting paid and then step into their future.”

Resilience and Sovereignty “We want to be clear on what we’re trying to achieve,” Spangenburg says.

“Resilience, for me, is a combination of all of our ideas in Santa Fe. … We have all this talk about sustainability, farmers, farmers markets—but are they resilient enough to survive? Without the skills, without teaching these skills … you have no resiliency. As you get better and better with resiliency, all of a sudden, you’re in a framework of autonomy. We own our land, we’re going to own our energy resources, we’re responsible for all of our water on campus, we already recycle all of that water—now we’re getting into the food component. Sustainability can be

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many things: Resiliency is how it applies, sovereignty is how you measure it.”

Portrait of an Entrepreneur In addition to his positions at SFCC, Spangenburg also is president of New Solutions Energy. He ended up in SFCC when he was traveling through Santa Fe to visit his mother and enrolled at the college to take a singing class. He ended up taking green building, solar courses, and many other offerings in the nascent sustainability programs. He stepped in to run the biofuels program in 2012. “That was a stretch for me … but I got skilled at it, and I got mentored. I see myself as kind of an innovator, looking at the innovative ecosystem. Everyone has something to bring.”

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CHILL Way back in 2009, when the world was but a simple place, Washed Out (aka Ernest Greene) sat at the forefront of a burgeoning chillwave movement with the release of High Times, a mellow yet danceable 20 minutes that catapulted the producer and songwriter into household-name status (in some households, anyway). Hard to believe that’s 10 years ago now, but as we humans love recognizing our milestones, High Times is getting the re-press treatment (plus cassettes!) and becomes the catalyst for a Washed Out tour. Santa Fe’s Meow Wolf makes that lineup—hardly surprising given the org’s affinity for electronic jams—and you’re reaping all the benefits. For maximum results, get stoned first. Not a joke. (Alex De Vore)

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PERFORMANCE SAT/12 DANSE, DANSE In October, we told you about the Exquisite Corpse exhibit at the Santa Fe Community Gallery, wherein differing artists each designed one part of a figure (legs, torso, head) for interesting if not unique creations. The inspiration keeps on rolling this week with JoAnne Tucker, founder of the New Yorkbased Avodah Dance Ensemble, who presides over small groups of dancers for an interactive gathering inspired by the idea of how movement works in our heads, feet and torsos. Routines will be choreographed and shared with other attendees for the resultant Exquisite Corpse dance performance. This thing’s 14-and-up, but should yield excellently unexpected results. (ADV) Exquisite Corpse: Movement & Dance: 1-3 pm Saturday Jan. 12. Free. Santa Fe Community Gallery, 201 W Marcy St., 955-6705

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BOOKS MON/14 UN-PROSE In the world of poetry, “accessible” is sometimes a slur—but we mean it as a compliment when we say George Wallace’s intellectually complex poetry is accessible for everyone. The poet-in-residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site on Long Island travels our way from his New York home to share his sometimes psychedelic, often irreverent verse at Teatro Paraguas.

Some pieces read like those of a Bukowski who got his act cleaned up, or perhaps a more grounded Kerouac: full of imagery you can sink your teeth into, but that still flies off into the weird and heady directions we expect from good poetry. He’s the author of 34 books and chapbooks, so if you don’t like one poem, chances are he’s got something you’ll enjoy. For an evening presented by Jules’ Poetry Playhouse, Wallace is joined by local writer John Macker. (Charlotte Jusinski) George Wallace and John Macker: 7 pm Monday January 14. $5-$10 suggested donation.

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Hotel Murders Grab your pipe and magnifying glass A killer is steadily claiming victims at the Lone Elm Inn. Hotel security chief Dana Hunt is on the case, and she’s turning to you for help interrogating the suspects.

Could the murderer be Leonora Cooke, a snoopy and combative hotel guest?

What about Stacey Owens, the suspiciously nervous employee? Ask the right questions, guess correctly and you might win a prize. Guess wrong and, well, every audience member gets an ice cream sundae anyway.

Murder at the Lone Elm, performed at the Los Alamos Little Theatre, is writer/ director Miles Ledoux’s ninth interactive murder mystery play. This is his first to make it on stage—the others were performed at fundraisers and potlucks in his hometown of Canton, New York.

“I’ve been a huge fan of murder mysteries almost my entire life,” Ledoux tells SFR. “When I was in college I got to be in an interactive murder mystery and it was very vague the way they defined the interactive part, so I started trying to experiment, seeing what worked and what didn’t. I wanted to make it so that the interaction could be spontaneous, but at the same time it could also advance the

plot.”

Before the curtain rises, the audience gets the chance to mingle with the show’s 10 characters. Before intermission, those who want to can shout out their questions and accusations during a 25-minute interrogation session with the suspects.

“There’s always going to be some kind of unexpected question,” Ledoux says, “but nothing that the actors aren’t prepared for. At rehearsal I would make up questions for them to answer and practice with that, so they’ve developed the skill and they do it quite well.”

After the interrogation, audience members write down their guesses and then watch the mystery unfold in the second act. Bring your best magnifying glass—118 people showed up to the show’s New Year’s Eve special performance, and only four of them picked out the killer. (Sarah Eddy) MURDER AT THE LONE ELM 7:30 pm Fridays and Saturdays Jan. 11-19; 2 pm Sunday Jan. 13. $13-$15.

Los Alamos Little Theatre, 1670 Nectar St, Los Alamos, 662-5493

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5:45 pm, free PUEBLO POTTERY DEMONSTRATION: DINA VELARDE Museum of Indian Arts & Culture 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 The demo series continues with Velarde (Jicarilla Apache); her specialty is micaceous pottery, following the traditions of her ancestors.

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FOOD DIGEST THIS!: FLOATING WORLD SAKE TASTING AND JAPANESE IZAKAYA SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 Sake sommeliers present a small portfolio tasting that they have fallen in love with and want to share with you. Their presentation is paired with a mini-tasting of Japanese Izakaya food from Izanami Restaurant.

6 pm, $30-$35

WED/9 BOOKS/LECTURES ARE YOU A LAWFUL PERMANENT RESIDENT?: A CITIZENSHIP FORUM Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Get your facts straight in an event sponsored by the City of Santa Fe, the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center and other heavy-hitters.

5 pm, free DHARMA TALK BY SENSEI JOSHIN BYRNES Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 The talk by Byrnes is preceded by a 15-minute meditation.

5:30 pm, free IAIA WINTER READERS GATHERING: CHIP LIVINGSTON, KIMBERLY BLAESER AND GEOFF HARRIS Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2351 Head to the auditorium in the Library and Technology Center to hear from Livingston, the mixed-blood Creek author of four books; Wisconsinbased Blaeser (Anishinaabe/ Chippewa); and Harris, former vice president in charge of story and writer development at NBC. 6 pm, free PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 Get 'em learnt!

10:45 am, free

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For the first installation in its new series, The Artist as Collector, Obscura Gallery presents both the original works and the personal art collection of noted Santa Fe photographer Paige Pinnell. Pinnell, who passed away in 2017, was integral to what would become the photography market in Santa Fe at that time. This is a selection from Betty Hahn’s 1976 New Mexico Portfolio, part of Pinnell’s collection of works she admired.

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BETSY FEST Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Be generous at a benefit concert, silent auction and donation-friendly event for Betsy Scarinzi to assist with the multiple expenses related to her recent Stage 4 lung and brain cancer diagnosis. An allstar lineup of local musicians present an evening of good vibes and good tunes. The last one, held at Tumbleroot in December, filled the bar to capacity, so this will be a crowded and fun gathering of friends.

6 pm, free GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Pop, rock and contemporary favorites on piano.

6:30 pm, free JOAQUIN GALLEGOS El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Soulful flamenco guitar that could make you fall in love.

7 pm, free

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MISSI & COMPANY La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rockin' tunes to dance to.

7:30 pm, free OPEN MIC NIGHT Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. Singer-songwriter Jason Reed hosts. Sign up at 6:30 pm.

7 pm, free SANTA FE CROONERS Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 Golden Age standards.

7 pm, free THE SYMBOLS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Spiritual rock that invites funk, blues, R&B and rock into radio-worthy popular music.

8 pm, free

WORKSHOP INTRODUCTION TO ZEN Mountain Cloud Zen Center 7241 Old Santa Fe Trail, 988-4396 Explore the basics and finer points of Zen meditation.

5 pm, free PWD OPEN STUDIO Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 An all-ages choice-based art studio for people with developmental disabilities.

1-3 pm, free

THU/10 BOOKS/LECTURES BRUJERÍA: A HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT IN NEW MEXICO El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road, 982-0016 Deputy State Historian Rob Martinez presents a talk about enduring beliefs in witchcraft and the ways of sorcerers during the Spanish Colonial and Mexican periods.

RSVP is required, so call ‘em.

3 pm, $10 IAIA WINTER READERS GATHERING: JAMIE FIGUEROA, KEN WHITE AND CEDAR SIGO Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2351 In the auditorium in the Library and Technology Center, hear from Figueroa (Afro-Taíno), who explores identity, familial relationships, place, culture and ancestry.

Filmmaker White has written or co-written 10 feature scripts. Sigo was called by Ron Silliman “a Frank O'Hara for the 21st century: witty, erudite, serious, with a terrific ear and eye for the minutest details.”

6 pm, free JOHN KAAG: HIKING WITH NIETZSCHE Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 While hiking Switzerland’s mountains, Kaag pondered Nietzsche's philosophy.

6 pm, free

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Put your kids in someone else’s hair for once.

11 am, free

DANCE COUNTRY-WESTERN AND TWO-STEP Dance Station 947-B W Alameda St. Polish your best moves.

7:15 pm, $20

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Santa Fe Brewing Company 35 Fire Place, 424-3333 Pub quiz!

7 pm, free GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP The Montecito 500 Rodeo Road, 428-7777 The Jewish Care Program offers a grief and loss support group. Register with Ya’el Chaikind at 303-3552.

1 pm, free

MUSIC DANIEL MURPHY Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana and rock.

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

6:30 pm, free GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards.

6:30 pm, free JONO MANSON Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. Rootsy rock 'n' roll.

6 pm, free MISSI & COMPANY La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rockin' tunes to dance to.

7:30 pm, free PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo jazz guitar.

6 pm, free ROBIN HOLLOWAY El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Jazz and classical piano.

7 pm, free ROLL, BOUNCE, SK8 JAM AND ROLLER-OKE WITH DJ RAASHAN AHMAD Rockin' Rollers 2915 Agua Fría St., 473-7755 Pizza, a snack bar, and tunes—and an additional $5 get you skates or a scooter.

7 pm, $5 WASHED OUT Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 DJ Ernest Greene creates a busy, chaotic mix that mirrors a claustrophobic, hyper-stimulated psyche (see SFR Picks, page 21).

8 pm, $15

FRI/11 ART OPENINGS THE ARTIST AS COLLECTOR: PAIGE PINNELL Obscura Gallery 1405 Paseo de Peralta, 670-2447 The photographic collection and personal works of the late Santa Fean artist Pinnell, who passed away in 2017.

5-7 pm, free BARRIOS DE NUEVO MEXICO: SOUTHWEST STORIES OF VINDICATION El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road, 982-0016 Started by photographer Frank Blazquez in 2016, this project incorporates a diverse collection of symbols found in New Mexico. Through Feb. 1 (see AC, page 27).

5 pm, free MEMPHIS BARBREE: NEW MEXICO IN BLACK & WHITE Edition One Gallery 728 Canyon Road, 570-5385 Barbree, a landscape and documentary photographer trained in classical black and white photography, depicts the beauty of earth, water and sky. Through Jan. 29.

4 pm, free RAVEN REDFOX Rebel House Coffee Santa Fe Place Mall, 4250 Cerrillos Road, 819-1037 In the coffee shop next to Dillard's, check out Redfox's contemporary imagery, brash colors and icongraphic, spiritual symbolism.

6 pm, free STEVEN SNYDER: PHOTO UNREALISM: ALTERED FEMALE REALITY 7 Arts Gallery 125 Lincoln Ave., 437-1107 Snyder’s most recent paintings use collage material from vintage and current fashion magazines, as well as retro photographs that have been painted over. Through Jan. 31.

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BOOKS/LECTURES IAIA WINTER READERS GATHERING: JAMES THOMAS STEVENS, BRANDON HOBSON AND INDIGIEFEMME Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2351 The annual series returns again, featuring readings of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and that which cannot be categorized—and tonight's event also features a musical performance from IndigeFemme.

Head to the auditorium in the library.

6 pm, free IAIA WINTER READERS GATHERING: SECOND YEAR MFA STUDENTS Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2351 In the college library, hear from students of the low-res MFA writing program, which is directed by poet Jennifer Foerster.

1-2 pm, free

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IMPRINT TALKS: AN EVENING OF CONVERSATION Ralph T Coe Center 1590 B Pacheco St., 983-6372 An evening of community conversation led by the curators and Indigenous printmakers of IMPRINT, an exhibition that challenges our assumptions about public art.

5:30 pm, free

FREE / 7:30 PM

FRIDAY 1/25

FULL SPEED VERONICA SUNBENDER

FREE / 8:00 PM

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SATURDAY 1/26

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 pm, $25

A BITTER DAY

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RUFINA TAPROOM 2920 Rufina Street, Santa Fe NM WWW.SECONDSTREETBREWERY.COM

GARDEN SPROUTS PRE-K ACTIVITIES Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 A program for 3-5 year olds; listen to a book and enjoy garden-related activities.

10-11 am, $5 QUEER SPACE LISTENING SESSION AND ART THERAPY Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 A listening session to gather input, insights and ideas on how MW can serve the needs of Santa Fe’s community.

6:30 pm, free SECOND STREET ARTS COLLECTIVE OPEN STUDIOS Second Street Studios 1807 Second St. Working artists open their studios. For more info, check out 2acsf.com.

5-8 pm, free

FOOD WINTERBREW Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-7726 The eighth annual beer festival is hosted by the New Mexico Brewers Guild.

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Sliding-fee discount program available.

ALL-AGES SK8 SESSION Rockin' Rollers 2915 Agua Fría St., 473-7755 That $5 get you skates or a scooter, too.

6 pm, $5 BIRD THOMPSON The New Baking Company 504 W Cordova Road, 557-6435 Adult contemporary.

10 am, free BOOMROOTS COLLECTIVE El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Reggae meets hip-hop.

9 pm, $5 CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 Modeled after 19th-century Parisian cabarets, enjoy playful first-rate piano and vocals.

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DJ D-MONIC Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Lots of genres from a dude born on the ones and twos.

10 pm, free DOCTOR BOP Tonic 103 E Water St., 982-1189 Bop and more bop.

9:30 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards: Doug starts, Greg takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free FULL OWL Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 Americana.

6 pm, free JJ RASCHEL AND MYSTIC ROOTS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Rock, blues 'n' pop.

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

8:30 pm, free JESUS BAS La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Spanish and flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free JIMMY STADLER La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock, blues and R&B imported from Taos.

8 pm, free LONE PIÑON Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Ranchera, swing Norteño.

7 pm, free LORI OTTINO AND ERIK SAWYER Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Americana ‘n’ folk on the deck.

5 pm, free MELISSA GAIL KLEIN AND LOUISE LODIGENSKY Lost Padre Records 304 Catron St., 310-6389 Appalachian folk-influenced solo songstresses.

6:15 pm, free TGIF RECITAL: CHANCEL CHOIR First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 The church’s chancel choir presents works by JS Bach, Louis Vierne, Jehan Alain and Maurice Duruflé.

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

7:30 pm, free TIFFANY CHRISTOPHER Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. Heady loopy rock 'n' roll.

9:30 pm, free

THEATER ATRAVESADA: POETRY OF THE BORDER Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Explore the physical and political US-Mexico border and the borderlands of the self through poems recited and theatrically interpreted.

7:30 pm, $5-$15 MURDER AT THE LONE ELM Los Alamos Little Theatre 1670 Nectar St., Los Alamos, 662-5493 An interactive murder mystery written and directed

by Miles Ledoux, and every audience member gets an ice cream sundae (see SFR Picks, page 21).

7:30 pm, $13-$15

SAT/12 ART OPENINGS BRAD FIERCE: PARALLELS OF THE PLAIN Santa Fe Art Institute 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 424-5050 Photographer Fierce, who has heretofore made a name for himself photographing celebrities and models, now presents stark, almost mystical black-and-white photographs of the American West in a new series.

5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES IAIA WINTER READERS GATHERING: FIRST YEAR STUDENT SHOWCASE Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2351 In the auditorium in the Library and Technology Center, the college's low-res MFA writing program students show what they’re in the process of learning.

3:30-5 pm, free IAIA WINTER READERS GATHERING: JENNIFER ELISE FOERSTER, SHERWIN BITSUI AND PAM HOUSTON Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2351 The grand finale of the winter series goes down in the Library and Technology Center.

6 pm, free JOHN PITTS: THE RARE SPLENDORS OF NAMIBIA Travel Bug Coffee Shop 839 Paseo de Peralta, 992-0418 Pitts and geologist Kirt Kempter discuss their twoweek trip to Namibia.

5 pm, free NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE PUBLIC FORUM Unitarian Universalist Congregation 107 W Barcelona Road, 982-9674 New Mexico Senator Mimi Stewart discusses the National Popular Vote.

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MIRĂ“ STRING QUARTET

MUSIC Miró Quartet’s Joshua Gindele discusses why classical music remains vital in the modern age

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ustin, Texas’ Miró Quartet has lent its educated ears and contemporary tastes to classical music audiences for over two decades.

Their programs are always a refreshing mixture of masterworks from giants like Beethoven as well as contemporary music—such as their incredible 2003 recording of George Crumb’s discordant Black Angels. Founding member and cellist Joshua Gindele spoke with SFR to discuss the current state of classical listenership and the quartet’s unique approach to modern audiences.

SFR: The quartet has a long relationship with Santa Fe. Is this an exceptional town for classical music performance?

JG: It’s actually kind of astonishing, because Santa Fe is the only town of its size that I know that has one of the biggest, most flourishing chamber music festivals in the country, as well as one of the great opera festivals in the world.

Between St. John’s College, the Lensic and other performance spaces in town, it’s pretty extraordinary. And people definitely turn up for concerts. We’ve been playing in Santa Fe for 19 or 20 years, and I can’t recall a single concert that wasn’t very well-attended and well-received.

I always hear people say that young people don’t listen to classical music; is there any precedence to those claims?

We’re a little on the younger side, even though we’ve been around for 23 years.

People relate to us—especially people who are 30, 45 to 50—which classical music deems as ‘younger.’ At the same time, we teach at the University of Texas and we’ve found that classical music, in some ways, has become more prevalent among young young people; 18 to 22. They realize that most movie and TV soundtracks are classical. They’re able to find it more readily on streaming platforms. It’s just become more approachable because it’s easier to get. You don’t have to spend a lot of money to listen to Beethoven anymore. That is, unfortunately, at the loss of the artist in a way, because we don’t get paid nearly as much now as we once did. For a lot of people that’s a real problem, especially in the pop world, but in the classical world in some ways I think it’s a good thing just because young people are generally listening to more classical music.

The Miró Quartet has always performed contemporary composers’ work in addition to pieces from over centuries’ worth of music. Why is it important to include modern music in your programs?

For me, it’s one and the same. If there weren’t people commissioning work from Beethoven, Haydn and Mozart, they

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wouldn’t exist either. There were benefactors and sponsors that were making those composers famous as well. It’s always been a big part of our mission. We [have] averaged about a commission and a half a year over our career. We’ve been very committed to making sure we continue to play new music and that we bring new pieces into the world regularly. We do so with our own approach and ear, so we commission composers that we feel like have a voice that we want or that needs to be heard. That ear is probably a little different than some other quartets, but that’s what allows music to be diverse and broad. I think a lot of [modern music] holds up to these great masters. That’s the thing audiences need to see. They need to see Michael [Ippolito’s] piece against the Dvořåk Cypresses to show that these modern pieces are approachable and listenable, and people shouldn’t be afraid of them.

What is your process in curating a program of music for an audience?

We’re doing more of a cabaret-style program in Santa Fe—a lot of different short works. As far as the curatorial aspect, we want to play stuff that we believe in and that we feel passionate and strongly about. That’s the primary goal because if we’re not committed to it, then we’re not going to play it with as much enthusiasm and love as we might for pieces that we do feel really crazy about. That’s a big part of it for us: just kind of staying true to what

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we believe in as a group artistically. That guides how we put the program together.

Is there any desire to educate the audience? For example, do you specifically try to play pieces that are less known, even if they are by one of the more well-known composers such as Schubert?

We play a lot of early Schubert that people don’t know. In the program in Santa Fe we’re playing the unfinished second movement of Quartettsatz—people don’t know he tried to write a second movement and wanted it to be part of a whole string quartet. He kind of stopped right in the middle of the second movement.

Composers like Michael Ippolito, who’s just starting to gain some prominence but is someone we’ve believed in for some time. We’re playing Cypresses, a lot of people know Dvořåk but people don’t know these songs ‌ because he wrote them early in his career. It comes from us discovering things that we think are great, but it’s maybe an opportunity for an audience to know that Puccini did indeed write movements for string quartet. [Educating] becomes part of it—a talking point more than anything else. We wouldn’t play it unless we believed in it.

MIRĂ“ STRING QUARTET 3 pm Sunday Jan. 13. $12-$80. St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072

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THE CALENDAR UNDER THE WILLOWS: SANTA FE CEMETERIES Montezuma Lodge 431 Paseo de Peralta, 670-3068 Local archaeologist Alysia Abbott lectures.

3 pm, $10

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

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CTHULHA: YOUR BONES OR YOUR BASS form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111 Albuquerque’s experimental music/movement project presents an evening of music paired with aerial dance.

6-9 pm, $5 EL MUSEO WINTER MARKET El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Part fine arts market, part flea market, all full of treasures.

8 am-3 pm, free WILD SPIRIT WOLF SANCTUARY FAMILY PROGRAM Santa Fe Public Library LaFarge Branch 1730 Llano St., 955-4860 Head to the library to meet an ambassador wolf to demonstrate wolf characteristics and behavior.

1:30 pm, free ZAZENKAI SILENT MEDITATION RETREAT Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 At a day-long silent retreat, practice sitting and walking meditation throughout the day. Instruction is available for those new to practice.

6 am, $50 ZIRCUS EROTIQUE BURLESQUE AND VARIETY SHOW The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 A night of glamour, circus and sideshow.

9 pm, $15-$25

MUSIC BERT DALTON TRIO Tonic 103 E Water St., 982-1189 Jazz of the Latin persuasion.

9:30 pm, free CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 Playful and interactive piano and vocal performance.

6 pm, free CHATTER SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 The Albuquerque institution presents slightly weird and comfortably informal contemporary chamber music.

10:30 am, $5-$15

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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. Doug starts, Greg takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free ED & MARIAH Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 Acoustic rock.

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

1-4 pm, free HARTLESS AND LARAIN Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Classic rock.

10 pm, $5 THE HIGH DESERT PLAYBOYS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Country ‘n’ Western.

8 pm, free JAY HENEGHAN TRIO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Eclectic classic jazz.

7:30 pm, free JIMMY STADLER La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock, blues and R&B. 8 pm, free JUKE JOINT PROPHETS Santa Fe Brewing Eldorado Taproom 7 Caliente Road, Eldorado, 466-6938 Honky-tonk, Americana and alt-country.

6-9 pm, free LEFT BANK Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Ragtime jazz.

7 pm, free LONN CALANCA BAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 A Jerry Garcia tribute band is on the heated deck.

8:30 pm, free THE PALM IN THE CYPRESS Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. Folk and Delta-style blues.

8 pm, free PAT MALONE Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Solo jazz guitar.

7 pm, free RON ROUGEAU The Dragon Room 406 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-7712 Acoustic classic rock.

5:30 pm, free SHANE WALLIN Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Soulful blues on the deck.

3 pm, free

TAOS CHAMBER MUSIC GROUP: GOOD COMPANY WITH CHATTER Harwood Museum of Art 238 Ledoux St. Taos, 575-758-9826 TCMG brings a Chatter-style program that includes music, poetry and two minutes of silence. For more information: taoschambermusicgroup.org.

10:30 am and 5:30 pm, $12-$25 TREVOR BAHNSON Iconik Coffee Roasters 1600 Lena St., 428-0996 Enjoy the folky, Americanaey, ever-melodious tunes of singer-songwriter Bahnson.

Noon-2 pm, free WES AND JESS' JUGBAND BLUES Iconik Coffee Roasters (Lupe) 314 S Guadalupe St., 428-0996 Old-timey jazz and vaudeville.

11 am-1 pm, free WINTER ACTIVITIES: DAVID BERKELEY Ski Santa Fe 740 Hyde Park Road, 982-4429 Berkeley croons his poignant folk on the deck.

11 am-3 pm, free

OPERA OPERA BREAKFAST SERIES: CILEA'S ADRIANA LECOUVREUR Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Hear lecturer Robert Glick discuss the opera before its broadcast at the Lensic.

9:30 am, $5 THE MET LIVE IN HD: ADRIANA LECOUVREUR Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Inspired by the real-life intrigues of famed 18th-century actress Adrienne Lecouvreur and her lover, the legendary soldier Maurice of Saxony.

11 am and 6 pm, $15-$28

THEATER ATRAVESADA: POETRY OF THE BORDER Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Last year's fantastic theatrical expression of poetry is back for an encore, and we can't recommend it enough.

Explore the physical and political US-Mexico border and the borderlands of the self through poems recited and theatrically interpreted, as compiled and directed by Alix Hudson.

7:30 pm, $5-$15 MURDER AT THE LONE ELM Los Alamos Little Theatre 1670 Nectar St., Los Alamos, 662-5493 When a guest at the Lone Elm Inn falls down the stairs to his death, the head of hotel security suspects foul play. She rounds up the most likely suspects and tries to determine whodunit (see SFR Picks, page 21).

7:30 pm, $13-$15

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“Bunny” (left) and “Carlos,” shots from photogrpaher Frank Blazquez’ stirring Albuquerquebased series.

Photography Addiction

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he whole force of it probably started back in late 2015 when I first borrowed a friend’s camera,” photographer Frank Blazquez tells SFR of his series, Barrios de Nuevo Mexico: Southwest Stories of Vindication, which opens at El Zaguán on Friday Jan. 11. “I used to use a lot of painkillers, opiates, and hang around the bad parts of Albuquerque, and I saw a lot of interesting subjects and characters. So one of the things I told myself was that some of the faces there are so interesting, I’d like to capture them on film one day.”

Vindication encapsulates a long-running documentation of these people as well as the places and iconography found within Albuquerque’s colloquially named War Zone neighborhood (near Central Avenue and Louisiana Boulevard) and its outlying areas. Think shots of Hispano couples, young men with face tattoos; guns and packets of Suboxone, the drug used to wean addicts off opiates; or black-and-gray tattoo work bleeding seamlessly into recurring themes of state

pride and gang-reminiscent imagery.

Blazquez seems to have a preternatural understanding of what makes a good portrait—the subject, lighting and composition all feel like he’s captured a natural, candid moment in the lives of couples at home, tough-as-nails women living their lives or addicts failed by a broken system, just trying to get by. Blazquez attributes his inspiration to his own struggles with addiction, but also to his uncle, the author Luis J Rodriguez.

Now 31, Blazquez, a Chicago native who has called Albuquerque home for 10 years, readily admits to coming to photography later than most, but says that time he spent working as an optician provided him an intimate knowledge of the inner workings of a camera’s lenses.

“I didn’t get the traditional and formal training,” he says, “but I think admiring photography or observing it for many years is almost as good as going to studio classes.”

In the early stages of the project, Blazquez began with friends and contemporaries he met while getting clean. This spiraled outward to friends of friends or people he’d meet while out shooting. He

Photographer Frank Blazquez documents another side of Albuquerque in El Zaguán exhibit

likens the process to “not much more than me walking around.” Though some potential subjects declined his invitations, most who took part are still in his life, and it’s important to him it stays that way. Still, he’d like to widen his parameters to include other parts of New Mexico and other subcultures found here. Blazquez also envisions a photography book at some point, though he estimates he won’t be prepared to call the project quits for another couple years.

“Around 2021, probably,” he says.

“Around that time I’d like to close out the project; I’d say I’m about 60 to 70 percent done.”

Additionally, Blazquez recently partnered with Albuquerque filmmaker John Acosta, with whom he attended the University of New Mexico, for Duke City Diaries, a collection of documentary shorts that tell similar stories to his photographs. The two even caught the eye of the creator and executive producer of Netflix’s Fightworld documentary, Colin Moniz. The three formed an association in late December, and Blazquez says they’d like to shop the series around to networks and/or streaming services.

“We’re going to see if we can pitch this and get it in front of a larger audience, and it’s definitely going to stay in documentary form. We’re still doing the micro-doc structure; we … envision it something kind of like Flint Town,” Blazquez tells SFR. “I’m a big fan of documentary because it’s as real as it can get—it’s gaining an understanding that people are going through the same struggles and hardships. It’s a cathartic thing.”

For now, though, the photography comes first. Vindication does what all good photography does: A single shot launches a thousand impressions and captures that seemingly unimportant but nearly perfect moment. This has been a lifesaver for Blazquez.

“It’s definitely helped with my sobriety,” he muses. “I was able to transfer my addiction and obsession with substance to the camera, to this project. I’ve been clean 25 months.”

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The Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus has been led by its founder Gregory Heltman since its inception in 1984—but Heltman retired last May, so leadership switched hands to Daniel Crupi, who heads to town in March to take over as the nonprofit’s executive director.

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You’re taking over from the symphony’s founder, who was at the helm for over 30 years. Are you feeling any pressure to fill his shoes?

It’s an exciting new challenge. ... Greg deserves a lot of credit. It is no easy task to found and then steward a classical arts nonprofit successfully for 34 years and leave it in great financial shape, with a healthy endowment and a cash reserve. I think the organization is poised, because it’s in such great shape, to do some innovative and interesting things.

How do you plan to bring the symphony into its next chapter?

I think the reputation for symphony orchestras in general in this country is that they are elitist, stuffy, inaccessible, difficult to understand. It does not need to be that way.

It is some of the most beautiful and exciting and visceral music that has ever existed, and it deserves to be experienced in that way.

I’m interested in increasing access to the orchestra so it is not an organization that seeks to cater solely to those who can afford it, but caters to the whole community. The Santa Fe Symphony already does that to a great extent, but I want to expand the profile. While I do believe that the most pure way to experience classical music is in the traditional fashion, I would actually like to see the orchestra get outside the concert hall and out into the community, whether it’s in art galleries, breweries or in the Plaza.

Another big priority of mine artistically is increasing diversity, both on and off the stage: make sure that we’re representing all aspects of our community, make sure that we are highlighting the works of composers that are female, ... make sure we’re representing the works of 21st-century composers, that we are highlighting minority composers and featuring minority soloists.

Do you have plans to engage the youth of Santa Fe? That, I think, is at the crux of what every classical arts organization has to be doing. It is so vital to the future of this industry as a whole. At Greensboro Symphony, we reach about 50,000 different kids every year in a variety of different programs from preschool all the way through high school. Not every program that has been successful in Greensboro is going to be successful in Santa Fe, but I think if we are not seeking to educate the next generation of potential audiences, then the classical arts are not going to have an audience in 20 or 30 years.

In Greensboro, another big emphasis of mine has been getting millennials into the concert hall. We’ve seen a lot of success in getting people in their 20s and 30s really invested in the orchestra, not just in terms of attending single events, but in subscribing to an overall series across the entire season. Santa Fe is a radically different market, so we’re going to have to evaluate how that will work there, but I think there’s room to really bolster attendance in that demographic.

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2 pm, free JOURNEYSANTAFE: GLENN SCHIFFBAUER Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 The executive director of the Santa Fe Green Chamber of Commerce presents a talk about bills in the upcoming legislative session.

11 am, free MISSING PERSONS Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Beatlick Press launches its first book dealing with the diseases of dementia.

5 pm, free SINGULAR BUTTERFLY: RESONANT HARMONICS OF NATURE’S ARCHITECTURE Stewart Udall Center 725 Camino Lejo, 983-6155 Heather Hoeksema discusses the butterfly effect, and the relationship between fields in nature and how nature supports human health.

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Winn-Lenetsky are particularly animated it had songs, it had movement. The Hoabout subjects like storytelling, a survey Chunks, they had a play of life and death. of Indigenous and POC dramatic litera- … It’s a ceremony, but it was a story, but it ture, Indigenous influences on American was a play, but it was music, it was moveculture and queer and two-spirit perfor- ment and dance, for the purpose of actualmance. As the program grows and evolves, ly bringing an individual back to life.” the dance and music offerings will blosWhen considering the need for thesom as well. ater and performing “The history of arts in everyday InIAIA is really about digenous life, Rocha empowering and cresays, “It’s a different ating a space for Naepistemology. It’s a tive Indigenous arts,” different thought proWinn-Lenetsky says, cess and knowledge “and I think somesystem that you enter thing that IAIA does into.” very well is it blends While non-Native both traditional people can and do Western forms and attend IAIA, there’s arts and what’s cuta special draw to this

BY C H A R LOT T E J U S I N S K I ting-edge within the program for Indigec o p y e d i t o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m art scene.” nous students from Rocha, who holds around the world; and a doctorate in Amerthat pull may attract ican Indian studies performers to Santa his week in New York City, an in“We’re still going to teach Stanand has taught all over Fe that we have lost ternational, high-profile, entirely islavski’s acting practice, we’ll still teach the American West in since the closing of Indigenous theater festival takes Anne Bogart’s viewpoints; what a stuIndigenous-orientSanta Fe University off—the first of its kind in the United dent would get at any theater program,” ed higher education of Art and Design.

States. The First Nations Dialogues New Winn-Lenetsky, whose doctoral disserinstitutions and de“So many of our NaYork/Lenapehoking goes down in Man- tation explored protest performance art partments, emphative and Indigenous hattan through Jan. 12, and the artists in- in the UK and Palestine, tells SFR. But, sizes the long history students have had to volved are jazzed to show New York (and, he adds: “Both Sheila and I come from a of performing arts in go elsewhere to study Sheila Rocha brings decades of in turn, the world) what Indigeneity in background of community-based perforstudy of Indigenous performace tratribal communities, theater or dance—reperforming arts looks like. mance and theater for social change … and dition and modern art to Santa Fe. and how art is inextriluctantly, to a degree,” “It’s contemporary art, it’s live, it’s it could certainly be argued that there’s a cable from everyday life. IAIA’s program Rocha says. “It’s like, ‘Ehh, I have to go experimental, it’s multidisciplinary, it’s decolonizing practice to that, because it’s will look closely at “the transmission of into this Western paradigm. Which one cabaret, it’s queer, it’s drag, it’s theater,” about performance that comes from the story, which is a way of maintaining his- is going to give me the most flexibility in series organizer Merindah Donnelly told community and is tory; and what does terms of my creative voice?’” To be able to the New York Times. “The people making focused on specific that look like?” she stay in Santa Fe and study these arts will it are Indigenous, but Indigenous is not a relevant issues. … tells SFR. “Well, it’s help plug up that brain drain. genre.”

That [Indigenous been done for thouIn addition to offering a unique proOur city is about to get its own potent sensibility] is one sands of years on gram, Rocha emphasizes that the IAIA dose of that idea: The Institute of Ameri- thing that we really Turtle Island and department will also hold space for incan Indian Arts has become the first tribal want to hold space around the world. credible performers who may not fit into arts college in the country to host an ac- for and make clear Indigenous societ- the colonized box of what is considered credited degree program in performing as we develop this ies have performed a “performer.” She references a former arts, and students can start taking those program … because stories, history, lan- student whose Lakota upbringing encourclasses next week. there’s no other art guage, and have used aged a soft speaking voice and discourSince its beginnings as a secondary school out there performance to actu- aged eye contact; he wasn’t accepted into school, IAIA long offered performing arts that is doing this. … alize ceremony and higher learning performance programs, classes. But due to budget cuts in the ’90s, You’re going to get rituals. That’s all in- despite being one of the her best students. the program was axed in favor of studio a great arts educategral.”

“So this may open the doors for people arts and film. Now, it’s back—and with tion, but you’re also And that integra- who have a different sensibility about how faculty members Sheila Rocha (Tarasco/ going to learn about tion raises the stakes. to work in public, how to interact in a comPure’pecha) and Jonah Winn-Lenetsky at and celebrate Indig“The Cheyenne used munity,” Rocha says, no small amount of the helm, it’s poised to be one of the most enous work.” to have a ceremony, hope and excitement in her voice. “If your important Indigenous arts programs in Classes include a four-day perfor- community doesn’t do things the same America. the expected submance, so to speak; way, does that mean that community is The program, like all at IAIA, features jects like acting, iman acting out of the any less articulate? Not at all! The world is everything a student can expect from a prov, playwriting, creation of life in or- a big place. And I think we’ll honor those more Western-oriented curriculum, yet performance, and der to sustain life,” differences.” with a particular focus on Indigenous interdisciplinary Rocha continues.

For info about performances by IAIA history and a Native worldview, and in- classes that overlap Jonah Winn-Lenetsky’s extensive “It had parts, it had students, keep an eye on theatresantafe.org, knowledge of protest performance formed by the nuances of decolonized with writing and roles, it had lines, iaia.edu and SFR’s events calendar. art dovetails the ethos at IAIA. thought. film; but Rocha and

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9 am-4 pm, free LEARN TO MEDITATE Zoetic 230 St. Francis Drive, 292-5293 Develop the heart of compassion and attain wisdom.

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MUSIC BORIS AND THE SALTLICKS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Gothic Americana.

Noon, free DAVID GEIST TEA TIME CABARET Kingston Residence of Santa Fe 2400 Legacy Court, 471-2400 Piano standards and Broadway faves celebrate the life of Norton Bicoll, a beloved local dentist and member of the Jewish community who passed away in November.

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1-5 pm, $25 DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards.

6:30 pm, free JW TELLER Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Visceral folk and Americana.

8 pm, free JOAQUIN GALLEGOS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Flamenco guitar.

6 pm, free LUCY BARNA AND TIMBO ARNOLD Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Americana tunes on the deck.

3 pm, free PAT MALONE AND JON GAGAN El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 A jazzy duet.

7 pm, free SANTA FE PRO MUSICA: MIRÓ STRING QUARTET St. Francis Auditorium 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Selections by Puccini, Beethoven and more (see Music, page 25).

3 pm, $12-$80

THEATER ATRAVESADA: POETRY OF THE BORDER Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Explore the physical and political US-Mexico border and the borderlands of the self through poetry.

2 pm, $5-$15

MURDER AT THE LONE ELM Los Alamos Little Theatre 1670 Nectar St., Los Alamos, 662-5493 An interactive murder mystery written and directed by Miles Ledoux (see SFR Picks, page 21).

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MON/14 BOOKS/LECTURES GEORGE WALLACE AND JOHN MACKER Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 The writer-in-residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace in New York is joined by local writer Macker (see SFR Picks, page 21).

7 pm, $5-$10 MONDAY STORY TIME Bee Hive Kid's Books 328 Montezuma Ave, 780-8051 Story time for all ages.

10:30 am, free OPERA BOOK CLUB: HARD BARGAIN Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Legendary opera singer Richard Tucker demanded that his son become a surgeon, but David Tucker wanted to follow in his father's footsteps. Discuss the younger Tucker's memoir.

6:15 pm, free SOUTHWEST SEMINARS: KATSINAM (KACHINAS): HOPI LIFE BRINGERS Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Kachina carver Randy Brokeshoulder (Hopi/Navajo/ Shawnee) lectures.

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EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Draft Station Santa Fe Arcade, 60 E San Francisco St., 983-6443 Pub quiz!

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7 pm, free THE SANTA FE HARMONIZERS REHEARSAL Zia United Methodist Church 3368 Governor Miles Road, 699-6922 Have you been itching to start singing again? The barbershop harmony chorus wants anyone who can carry a tune (women too!) at its weekly rehearsals.

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

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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.

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EVENTS METTA REFUGE COUNCIL Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 A support group for sharing life experiences around illness and loss in a variety of its forms.

10:30 am, free PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY OF SANTA FE MEETING St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-5397 Professional photographer Shelly Moore presents on how to create photo books.

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f you’ve ever been confounded by how to work your way through a formal setting of silverware (always work from the outside in), you may have had the same reaction when confronted with multiple styles of wine glasses. It’s easy enough to just drink what is being poured, but one does have to wonder—why are there so many different shapes and sizes?

The answer is simple: Science!

The different shapes of wine glasses simply allow you to smell and taste wine better. A 2016 study from the Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering at Tokyo Medical and Dental University found that when the bowl of a glass is wider than the rim, the smell of alcohol does not permeate the rim. This allows those who are sniffing to detect the nuances of the wine itself.

“The shape of the wine glass has a very sophisticated and functional design for tasting and enjoying the aroma of the wine,” the report concludes.

Because the senses of smell and taste are intricately linked, being able to smell the wine means you can also better taste it, something to which anyone who suffers from Santa Fe’s allergy season can certainly attest.

At a recent dinner at Arroyo Vino (218 Camino La Tierra, 983-2100), the pinot noir was served in the appropriate wide-bottomed red glass. As a comparison, our server also provided a swirl in a thinner-bottomed, higher-walled glass normally reserved for white wines. It was no contest, and the larger bowl of the red glass actually did make the smells in the wine more intense, and therefore the taste was different.

Chances are, unless you are in the home of a wine connoisseur or at a specialized tasting, it’s unlikely you’ll be

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By doing so, you can deposit the taste of lotions, perfumes, stinky dogs or anything else your fingers may have recently made contact with. The stem allows one to keep control of the glass without potential odors from hands affecting the drinker’s nose.

THE BOWL: This is obviously the best part of the glass, because it’s where the wine goes! A wider bowl than rim allows for proper swirling of the wine, which unlocks the array of aromas. The larger the bowl, the more surface area to be covered; the more surface area, the more release of aroma. For proper swirling, a glass should never be more than one-third full, giving the wine plenty of room to move and emit its inherent enticements.

Why are there so many wine glass shapes?

BY ZIBBY WILDER a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

faced with many choices in glassware.

When it comes down to it, there are really three basic glass shapes: those for red wines, white wines and sparkling wines.

Red wine glasses have a wider bowl and may be a bit shorter than white wine glasses, which tend to have a smaller bowl and higher sides. Sparkling wines can be consumed from a white wine glass, though they are most popularly served in the standard flute (think Champagne). And though these all have different shapes, here’s what they have in common:

THE BASE: Probably the most important part of a wine glass because without one (unless you have lots of cats, and therefore prefer stemless drinkware) your wine would be all over the table instead of in your mouth.

THE STEM: The stem exists to keep your grubby hands off the bowl of the glass. Holding a glass by the bowl allows your body heat to warm the wine. While this is fine if whatever you are drinking is too cold, it’s not so good if you’re, say, trying to enjoy a spicy malbec on a warm day. Holding a glass by the stem also ensures your fingers don’t touch the rim of the glass.

THE RIM: This is the area you drink from. A good wine glass has as thin a rim as possible, allowing for the wine to be easily and seamlessly deposited into the lucky drinker’s mouth.

Beyond these commonalities, wine glasses come in all shapes and sizes, created to maximize the unique scents and flavors of different grape varietals.

Popular producer Riedel offers a handy wine glass guide as a main function of its website store (riedel.com/en-us/shop), for those looking to find glass specific to their taste of wine. These range from a standard red wine glasses to exotics such as “Extreme Shiraz” and “Performance Pinot Noir.” Such purchases are as subjective as wine tasting notes, but the experts at Riedel “always recommend you think about what your favorite grape varieties are, both red and white wine. If you can’t live without shiraz, buy some shiraz glasses. If you go crazy for oaked chardonnay, purchase the right glass for it. Don’t compromise on the things you love!”

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MUSIC AL ROGERS Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards 'n' jazz on piano.

6:30 pm, free BILL HEARNE TRIO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Honky-tonk and Americana.

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5-8 pm, free BLUEGRASS JAM Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 You guessed it: It's a bluegrass jam.

6 pm, 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.

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CHUSCALES La Boca (Original Location) 72 W Marcy St., 982-3433 Exotic flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free OSCAR BUTLER Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Singer-songwriter jams from a dude some folks refer to as the black James Taylor.

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

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See what happened when Eastern painters discovered Santa Fe in Good Company: Five Artist Communities in New Mexico at the New Mexico Museum of Art. CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Galleries closed for installation; reopening Feb. 1.

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 Jo Whaley: Echoes. Through Feb. 24. The Candid Camera.

Through April 22.

HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 Peter Chinni: Inside/Out. Pop Chalee: Blue Flower Rooted.

Through Jan. 13. The Legacy of Helene Wurlitzer: Works from the Harwood Collection.

Through May 5.

IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Ma’ii Narratives: Coyote.

Through Jan. 23. Holly Wilson: On Turtle’s Back; Rolande Souliere: Form and Content. Both through Jan. 27. Darren Vigil Gray: Expanding Horizons; Meeting the Clouds Halfway. Both Through Feb. 16. Action/ Abstraction Redefined.

Through July 7. Robyn Tsinnajinnie and Austin Big Crow: The Holy Trinity.

Through Oct. 31. Wayne Nez Gaussoin: Adobobot.

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If Beale Street Could Talk is the most beautifully intimate film of 2018. Director Barry Jenkins’ follow-up to his award-winning film Moonlight holds up to that movie’s weight, adapting James Baldwin’s story of the same name that still powerfully resonates.

Set in Harlem in the early 1970s, we follow Tish and Fonny’s relationship; the childhood friends turned lovers have their lives flipped upside down when Fonny is incarcerated for a crime he didn’t commit. But with the help of family, Tish discovers her true strength after revealing she’s with child. We were lucky to have seen so many creative contributions to black cinema in 2018, but Beale Street is a remarkable cut amongst the rest.

This movie would’ve been nothing without flawless performances, and no, there is not one weak actor in the lot. At the forefront, Kiki Layne and Stephan James are revelations as Tish and

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Fonny. Every conversation they have is layered, bestowing an incredible level of affection or, at turns, frustration, anxiety and longing. They’re captivating. Regina King as Tish’s mother deserves every single award imaginable. She takes command during every scene, her power shining through the camera lens like the sun. Some familiar faces pop up along the way as well, like Diego Luna, Dave Franco and Game of Thrones alums Pedro Pascal and Ed Skrein.

It’s hard to tell what Jenkins’ best quality is as a filmmaker, as both his eye and language approach perfection. Every moment is rich with emotion, lighting and depth, practically demanding you savor them. Every one of Jenkins’ collaborators gives their all, from the cinematographer, production designer and sound designer—a scene of anger poetically drowns background noise for weight, only to raise that volume subtlety once the moment passes—to composer Nicho-

las Britell. Britell, who scored Moonlight, brings yet another intensely moving score, dramatically raising the bar for every other composer in Hollywood.

Thus, Beale Street is rich with atmosphere, seamlessly including real-life photographs of racial strife in New York City in the ’70s. It simultaneously enriches the personal drama, and makes the viewer acknowledge that this singular story is part of a much bigger and more tragic narrative.

Beale Street is a stark reflection of racial tension, but also a celebration of what makes family so important in everyday life. You are wholeheartedly dared to watch this film and leave with dry eyes.

You won’t be able to pull it off.

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“Vice” is the nickname President George W Bush gave Vice President Dick Cheney. It’s also a stock character in Elizabethan morality plays, a devilish opportunist often cloaked as Virtue, remorseless for evil acts. This is the promising prism through which director Adam McKay refracts Cheney, the brooding fulcrum of a right-wing movement that began with Nixon and continues through Trump.

But a feature film, like Shakespeare, requires other elements. Vice, an ambitious mess, is a parody in search of a punch line—a cheap-seats harangue no more insightful than Wikipedia. It opens with a disclaimer from the filmmakers, who ostensibly set out to reveal something about the notoriously inscrutable Cheney: “We did our fucking best.” As the film goes on, this defiant declaration sounds more and more like an exasperated mea culpa.

We first meet Cheney (a corpulent Christian Bale) in 1963, a hard-drinking “dirtbag” who goes from running high-tension line across Wyoming to a congressional internship on Capitol Hill without much transition. Cheney learns at the feet of Donald Rumsfeld (Steve Carell), a young representative with a Cheshire grin and a crass

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disposition. They worm their way into the White House, eventually scoring high-ranking positions amid the wreckage of Watergate.

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as his running mate. It’s intriguing to observe how the initially ambivalent Cheney sizes up Bush as a greenhorn and gradually reels him into augmenting the power of the vice president. Less intriguing are McKay’s caricatures. Bale turns in a

Golden Globes, schmolden schmlobes—we didn’t care for Vice.

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masterful act of mimicry that reveals little about the man or his motives. Lynne Cheney (Amy Adams) is just a sanctimonious prude. Rockwell pigeon-toes his way through a cornpone W that minimizes Bush’s culpability.

At one point, Alfred Molina appears as a waiter offering Cheney, Rumsfeld and the rest of their dinner party such menu items as “Enemy Combatant,” “Extreme Rendition,” and “Guantanamo Bay,” a surreal aside similar to the one McKay used in The Big Short. The scene is an apt metaphor for the whole of Vice, in which a parade of horrors—9/11, Abu Ghraib, Cheney shooting his friend in the face—swirl in a haze of visual tchotchkes and think-tank argot. Accompanying it all is the needless nattering of a narrator, a common crutch of McKay’s, who dangles the identity of his omnipresent observer like the MacGuffin it becomes.

For all its faults, Vice nearly stumbles onto an ending that befits its tragic, dramatic aspirations: a montage of Cheney’s political casualties that fades to black on the image of his transplanted heart. But then McKay tacks on one of the most misguided mid-credits codas you’ll ever see, allowing Cheney to break the fourth wall and defend his actions in service of “keeping us safe.”

It’s remorseless Vice, still as much a stock character as ever. (Neil Morris) Regal, The Screen, Violet Crown, R, 132 min.

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endgame sequence, we never lose the story or the characters for a moment.

Of course, this could be because Spider-Verse is ultimately courting a younger audience and attempting to make quantum physics digestible.

For the nit-pickers, this will surely mean small flaws to pick apart; for those who came to have fun, however, they’ll be able to let go and enjoy what must be hands-down the most fun movie of the year for any age. (ADV) Regal, Violet Crown, PG, 117 min.

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Those who’ve seen the new Sandra Bullockled thriller/kind-of horror film Bird Box have been flocking (ha!) to Facebook in droves to cleverly and angrily clack their keys to the tune of “It’s basically A Quiet Place!” They’re not entirely wrong, they’ve just got it backwards.

Indeed, Netflix’s new vehicle does find the world ending amid a strange threat with a particular means of killing its victims, but the Josh Malerman novel on which it’s based came out way back in 2014. Sorry, Krasinski fans.

In Bird Box, Bullock is swept up in the end of the world as we know it, a calamity caused by some invisible force (they call them “creatures”) that, when gazed upon, causes people to see some invisible something and then kill themselves. We get hints that maybe it’s literal angels, maybe it’s demons, maybe it’s some ancient force that cleanses the Earth every so often. Whatever. All we really know is that the mentally ill seemingly have no problem looking right at whatever the creature might be, and they want everyone else to look, too. So, like, there’s more danger there, too.

Those who wish to stay alive stay indoors (because the creatures’ one weakness is apparently being inside) or wear blindfolds when they have no choice but to scavenge for supplies and such out in the open. But when all seems lost and Bullock is forced to traverse a river, blindfolded and with a couple of kids and a box full of birds in tow, blah blah blah blah blah.

Bird Box leans too intently into its own premise, building and building but never really revealing. There’s that old horror movie rule about how showing the monster defuses the scares—but in this case, never learning what the creatures are or what exactly they’re up to is incredibly irritating.

Even worse are the pointless characters who, in most cases, may as well announce they’re just there to die moments later. John Malkovich is particularly grating in a role that seems as if it were written to mock his Malkovichian gestalt; he yells and stomps and is a dick. Everything else, meanwhile, pretty much just happens to Bullock, and she reacts in wide-eyed terror or fumbles sightlessly against her invisible foes and errant tree branches alike.

There may be something to be said for creating a sense of dread and tension, but the resolution that eventually comes in Bird Box is as hollow as it is dissatisfying. If you Google the book or movie, you’ll find plenty of

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articles about how director Susan Bier (a foreign language Oscar winner, by the way) decided to keep the ending less dark than in the book. This seems a misstep, and ultimately one designed to play better to underestimated audiences rather than trust us to soak in and appreciate a more nihilistic viewpoint. Pity, that, because the core ideas at play would have been enough to keep us caring had the pacing, acting and those damn nosy kids not been so profoundly lacking. (ADV) Netflix, R, 124 min.

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Filmmakers have really made Spider-Man a lot more fun as a character in recent years. Sorry, Tobey Maguire, but gothy/jazzy/brooding Spider-Man just isn’t as fun as wise-cracking, backflipping, tons-of-heart Spider-Man. The newest film in the hero’s extended universe, Into the Spider-Verse, proves it with its unique animation style, clever script and nonstop cavalcade of in-jokes, out-jokes and good oldfashioned Marvel mayhem.

Here we follow Miles Morales (Shameik Moore), a teenager and relative newcomer to the world of Spidey, as he deals with being too smart and talented to particularly fit in at his new fancy school. Cue radioactive spider bite, the origin of

powers, high stakes and, in this case, a supercollider funded by longtime Marvel villain Kingpin (Liev Schreiber) that opens up parallel universes from which other Spider-Heroes emerge. You’ve got schlubby middle-aged Spider-Man (Jake Johnson), super-cute/punk-rock Spider-Gwen (Hailee Steinfeld), Noir Spider-Man (Nicolas Cage), the ultra-anime Peni Parker (Kimiko Glenn) and Spider-Ham (a delightful Looney Tunes homage character voiced by John Mulaney). Turns out bridging between dimensions is no good for any of them, though, so they have to stop Kingpin, get back to their respective dimensions and blow up the super-collider while learning about love and what’s important and stuff. Easy.

Into the Spider-Verse truly shines in its willingness to riff on past Marvel mistakes (dancing Spider-Man, for example) and highlighting and/ or parodying beloved fan elements while throwing enough curveballs to keep us guessing. A number of twists even managed to surprise this longtime comics fan, and Phil Lord’s script, co-written by Miles Morales creator Brian Michael Bendis, keeps up the feels while never straying into material that’s too heavy-handed or emotional.

The animation style, meanwhile, is off-thewall fantastic with disparate styles representing the different Spideys and an old-timey comic book filter tying everything together via Miles’ dimension, where everything takes place. You’d think it would feel confusing, but even as the different planes of existence begin collapsing on one another in a gloriously colorful and chaotic

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Director Yorgos Lanthimos does like his moody comedies, but whereas his previous works such as 2015’s The Lobster leaned heavily into magical realism, he stays grounded with The Favourite for a darkly funny and captivating period piece the likes of which we’ve never really seen.

It’s 1700-something, and an aging Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) reigns over England and war with France (Queen Anne’s War, to be precise)— but the country land owners who fund the dustup are emptying their coffers at a pace too quick for their own tastes. Enter Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz, who reunites with Lanthimos for the second time), the queen’s close confidant, sometimes lover and the true power behind the throne. Sarah rides roughshod over Anne almost always, navigating the temper tantrums and sexual tugs-of-war between moments of brief lucidity, medical issues and the rising tide of a dissatisfied citizenry.

While the queen whiles away the hours lonely, wandering the halls, eating her way to sickness or tending to the rabbits she’s raised to replace her 17 dead children, Sarah exercises power and bends the country to her will. But when her cousin Abigail (Emma Stone)—once a lady and since fallen from grace—arrives looking for work, a battle for the queen’s ear (and thus, absolute power) unfolds like a gloriously slow-burning train wreck.

Weisz is phenomenal as the too-proud Sarah and often does more with body language or a simple expression than should be possible.

Colman shines as well, particularly in scenes with Weisz, and there’s undeniable chemistry between them. Never once do we comfortably understand their relationship, though there does seem to have been a foundation of sincere love laid at one point, even if it’s mutated into a sort of puppet regime.

Stone impresses, too, and not just with a capable British accent, but in the smug way she comes into her own. At first, we see her as a wounded animal intent on survival and little else, but with writers Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara’s clever script, she evolves into a bit of an evil monstrosity.

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Our allegiances shift several times over, and it’s satisfying to watch men who believe themselves powerful reveal their pettiness, juvenile sexual motivations and ultimate impotence in the face of strong women leaders. Don’t get us wrong, no one woman particularly uses her strength for good; it’s lust and power they’re feeding throughout The Favourite.

These struggles are well-illustrated through some of the most gorgeous cinematography we’ve seen this year. The closing moments of practically every shot read almost like Renaissance paintings, and Lanthimos reliably lends a few extra moments toward the end of many scenes for their goings-on to land. They hit hard and drive the pacing forward—no easy job for a film set in the 1700s and full of fanciful clothes, ridiculous wigs and stuffy bedchambers belonging to nobles.

And even if we don’t quite know whom to root for as the film winds down, we do rather enjoy ambiguity so artfully displayed. They snuck this one in right under the awards-season wire and already have a number of Golden Globes nominations for acting and writing, and we won’t be surprised if The Favourite team takes home a couple statues—but even if they don’t, it doesn’t make it any less fun watching the would-be powerful stoop so low. (ADV) Center for Contemporary Arts, R, 119 min.

likes of Tim Blake Nelson as the titular Buster Scruggs, as funny and layered a performance as we’ve ever seen from the O Brother, Where Art Thou? vet. Kudos go as well to Harry Melling, whose turn as a limbless actor tethered to a Liam Neeson-run traveling theater act far surpasses what we know of the Harry Potter alum.

Neeson, as always, is pretty damn good in the quieter moments.

But it’s not all good news, especially in the case of Big Sick actor/writer Zoë Kazan’s toolong and too-slow installment wherein a woman traveling by covered wagon caravan loses everything to the unforgiving era and region. Still, by the time we reach the final entry and are thrust into the capable hands of talented actors like Brendan Gleeson, Tyne Daly and Saul Rubinek, all is mostly forgiven.

It would be strange to take in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs in a theater, though its sweeping panoramic vistas and stunning cinematography surely help defuse its more stilted moments. All the same, it’s better to view on the couch at home where one might have a chance to pause and reflect if they so chose. The premise is interesting and the writing is solid—it’s just not quite what we’re used to, for better or for worse. (ADV) Netflix, R, 132 min.

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While the anthology film is nothing particularly new, it’s most often relegated to horror— think Creepshow. We’ve almost definitely never seen one so intricately crafted and large in scope as with the Coen Brothers’ new Netflix (and in select theaters) production, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Six disparate tales of the Wild West are told from various genre standpoints, from the dark comedy of a sing-songy gunslinger or the robber ever-destined for the gallows to the sparse and ultimately triumphant tale of the aged prospector and the subtle scares of a mysteriously populated stagecoach bound for who-knows-where.

The episodes, as it were, are at turns quite funny or heartbreaking or, in one case, almost Tolstoyan—though without a singular narrative thread interwoven throughout, it’s challenging to carry the events or lessons of one tale with us into the next. This is by design, and Scruggs almost never stumbles in its pacing, but it can cause a sort of disconnect or cognitive dissonance when we’re presented with such emotionally differing material in such a rapid-fire manner.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Computer-generated special effects used in the 1993 film Jurassic Park may seem modest to us now. But at the time they were revolutionary. Inspired by the new possibilities revealed, filmmakers like Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas, and Peter Jackson launched new projects they had previously thought to be beyond their ability to create. In 2019, I urge you to go in quest of your personal equivalent of Jurassic Park’s pioneering breakthroughs. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you may be able to find help and resources that enable you to get more serious about seemingly unfeasible or impractical dreams.

there any tribe more skillful at finding correlations, establishing equivalencies, and creating reciprocity? In all the zodiac, who is best at crafting righteous proportions and uniting apparent opposites? Who is the genius of balance?

In the coming months, my friend, I suspect you will be even more adept at these fine arts than you usually are.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There’s a modest, onestory office building at 1209 North Orange Street in Wilmington, Delaware. More than 285,000 businesses from all over the U.S. claim it as their address. Why? Because the state of Delaware has advantageous tax laws that enable those businesses to save massive amounts of money. Other buildings in Delaware house TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I’m a big proponent of thousands of additional corporations. It’s all legal. No authenticity. I almost always advise you to be yourself one gets in trouble for it. I bring this to your attention in with bold candor and unapologetic panache. Speak the truth about your deepest values and clearest perceptions. the hope of inspiring you to hunt for comparable situations: ethical loopholes and workarounds that will proBe an expert about what really moves you, and devote yourself passionately to your relationships with what real- vide you with extra benefits and advantages. ly moves you. But there is one exception to this approach.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): People in the Solomon Sometimes it’s wise to employ the “fake it until you make Islands buy many goods and services with regular curit” strategy: to pretend you are what you want to be with rency, but also use other symbols of worth to pay for such conviction that you ultimately become what you important cultural events like staging weddings and setwant to be. I suspect now is one of those times for you. tling disputes and expressing apologies. These alternate forms of currency include the teeth of flying foxes, GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The students’ dining hall at which are the local species of bat. In that spirit, and in Michigan State University serves gobs of mayonnaise. accordance with current astrological omens, I’d love to But in late 2016, a problem arose when 1250 gallons of see you expand your sense of what constitutes your the stuff became rancid. Rather than simply throw it wealth. In addition to material possessions and funds in away, the school’s Sustainability Officer came up with a brilliant solution: load it into a machine called an anaero- the bank, what else makes you valuable? In what other bic digester, which turns biodegradable waste into ener- ways do you measure your potency, your vitality, your merit? It’s a favorable time to take inventory. gy. Problem solved! The transformed rot provided electricity for parts of the campus. I recommend you regard CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1984, singer-songthis story as a metaphor for your own use. Is there anywriter John Fogerty released a new album whose lead thing in your life that has begun to decay or lose its usesingle was “The Old Man Down the Road.” It sold fulness? If so, can you convert it into a source of power? well. But trouble arose soon afterward when Fogerty’s CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you grow vegetables, fruits, former record company sued him in court, claiming he and grains on an acre of land, you can feed twelve people. stole the idea for “The Old Man Down the Road” from “Run Through the Jungle.” That was a tune Fogerty If you use that acre to raise meat-producing animals, you’ll feed at most four people. But to produce the meat, himself had written and recorded in 1970 while playing with the band Creedence Clearwater Revival. The you’ll need at least four times more water and twenty times more electric power than you would if you grew the legal process took a while, but he was ultimately vinplants. I offer this as a useful metaphor for you to consid- dicated. No, the courts declared, he didn’t plagiarize er in the coming months. According to my analysis of the himself, even though there were some similarities between the two songs. In this spirit, I authorize you astrological omens, you should prioritize efficiency and value. What will provide you with the most bang for your to borrow from a good thing you did in the past as you create a new good thing in the future. There’ll be bucks? What’s the wisest use of your resources? no hell to pay if you engage in a bit of self-plagiarism.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Modern kids don’t spend much AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Rudyard Kipling’s The time playing outside. They have fun in natural environments only half as often as their parents did while grow- Jungle Book is a collection of fables that take place in ing up. In fact, the average child spends less time in the India. Three movies have been made based on it. All of them portray the giant talking snake named Kaa as an open air than prison inmates. And today’s unjailed adversary to the hero Mowgli. But in Kipling’s original adults get even less exposure to the elements. But I stories, Kaa is a benevolent ally and teacher. I bring this hope you will avoid that fate in 2019. According to my to your attention to provide context for a certain situaastrological estimates, you need to allocate more than tion in your life. Is there an influence with a metaphorithe usual amount of time to feeling the sun and wind cal resemblance to Kaa: misinterpreted by some people, and sky. Not just because it’s key to your physical but actually quite supportive and nourishing to you? If health, but also because many of your best ideas and so, I suggest you intensify your appreciation for it. decisions are likely to emerge while you’re outdoors.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): NASA landed its robotic explorer Opportunity on Mars in January of 2004. The craft’s mission, which was supposed to last for 92 days, began by taking photos and collecting soil samples.

More than 14 years later, the hardy machine was still in operation, continuing to send data back to Earth. It far outlived its designed lifespan. I foresee you being able to generate a comparable marvel in 2019, Virgo: a stalwart resource or influence or situation that will have more staying power than you could imagine. What could it be?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In 1557, Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde invented the equals sign: =. Historical records don’t tell us when he was born, so we don’t know his astrological sign. But I’m guessing he was a Libra. Is

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Virginia Woolf thought that her Piscean lover Vita Sackville-West was a decent writer, but a bit too fluid and effortless. Self-expression was so natural to Sackville-West that she didn’t work hard enough to hone her craft and discipline her flow. In a letter, Woolf wrote, “I think there are odder, deeper, more angular thoughts in your mind than you have yet let come out.” I invite you to meditate on the possibility that Woolf’s advice might be useful in 2019. Is there anything in your skill set that comes so easily that you haven’t fully ripened it? If so, develop it with more focused intention.

Homework: I’ve gathered all of the long-term, big-picture horoscopes I wrote for you: https://bit.ly/ YourGloriousStory2019.

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