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Monte del Sol wins prize in Governor’s STEM Challenge for a biodigester project to turn cafeteria food scraps into fuel

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emote learning is challenging during the most normal school day activities. It’s even harder if you’re doing a science project that involves working as a team to build a physical object while still maintaining COVID-safe protocols. Yet, a team of Monte del Sol students won $4,500 in December in the New Mexico Governor’s STEM Challenge for their “garbage to gas” biodigester project despite the odds.

Because of technical problems with a prototype and challenges posed by COVID-19, the team didn’t achieve the exact outcome they were aiming for— they still don’t have a fully functional school biodigester that would turn food waste into methane gas that can be captured and used for cooking and heating.

But the experience taught them that getting something right the first time may not always be as valuable as the ability to problem-solve and the willingness to keep trying.

Benigno Sandoval, a mechanical engineer at Los Alamos National Laboratory who served as one of the judges in the competition, tells SFR the students’ tenacity in the face of the setbacks helped them win the prize.

“Monte del Sol did a really good job of exemplifying the fundamentals of research and development,” Sandoval tells SFR. “They had a problem, they approached it from a bunch of different perspectives. They were able to overcome their situational obstacles as well as technical difficulties…and they didn’t give up.

That’s hard to do.”

The annual challenge was created by the Department of Workforce Solutions and the Public Education Department along with New Mexico State University, and is sponsored by more than a dozen STEM employers from around the state, including LANL. Instead of choosing one grand-prize winner, each sponsor choos-

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Sticker Block panies; some of them are bigger than a lot of countries in how many people they employ and how much business they do,” Frazier says. “When they say you can’t use this word because supposedly it incites violence, or this symbol, especially when you’re using it in a context that is supposed to be protecting against incitement to violence, then that really seems like censorship to me.”

Ashley Settle, a spokeswoman for eBay, tells SFR via email that the company is actively removing QAnon items from the site but offered to review Frazier’s listing again for possible reinstatement. Settle says eBay does “support the freedom of expression.”

Amazon did not return a request for comment by publication time. A search through the platform turns up antique German coins and stamps decorated with swastikas, several books with the symbol on the front and buttons and magnets with a swastika inside a red circle with a bold line through it. Some creative person also turned the number 45

Southside business owner decries censorship by major companies of his anti-Trump and anti-QAnon stickers B Y K AT H E R I N E L E W I N k a t h e r i n e @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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an Frazier started his bumper sticker business because his wife at the time told him he had a “pun brain.” Two decades later, Frazier is now running his online venture called CarryaBigSticker—selling left-leaning bumper stickers, magnets, books and T-shirts—from a small office on Santa Fe’s Southside. He’s responsible, for example, for several versions of the “Coexist” stickers with letters made up of various religious symbols, and another of President-elect Joe Biden waving with “Bye Don! 2020” in large letters.

But in the age of the internet, massive technology companies, algorithms and political unrest have dragged Frazier’s small New Mexico business and his bumper stickers into a discussion around freedom of speech and censorship.

On Jan. 11, CarryaBigSticker received notice from retail giant eBay that its anti-QAnon stickers and magnets had been removed and banned. On Jan. 12, Amazon wrote a similar email, ordering Frazier to remove the “Just Say No To QAnon!” products from his shop. eBay’s email to Frazier read, in part, “Because QAnon has been associated with inciting violence, we have made the decision to remove these items.”

Frazier sees the banning of his products as censorship because of the size and power companies like eBay and Amazon hold. He also wonders whether his products were caught in an overarching algorithm or sweeping search of the sites for anything that had to do with QAnon after the violent events at the US Capitol on Jan. 6.

“We have the First Amendment, which is supposed to protect our right to free speech, and you have these big com-

so it resembles a swastika and put a red line through it on buttons and stickers.

Frazier compares his situation (with some trepidation) to the removal of President Donald Trump from Twitter, Facebook and other major social platforms after the insurrection at the US Capitol when hundreds of Trump supporters forcibly entered the federal building.

“I don’t like Trump and I’m glad to see that he’s getting booted off of Twitter and Facebook and YouTube…But I also see the parallels to my own situation and wonder is that censorship, too?” Frazier tells SFR. “Where do we draw the line and who decides? These companies, it’s

[Censorship] is an ongoing dilemma that we face as a country and I think that the First Amendment and the protection of free speech is great, but it has limits.

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Dan Frazier’s anti-Trump and anti-QAnon stickers have been removed from both Amazon and eBay during the last year.

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not that there’s just one person like Jeff Bezos of Amazon deciding. They’re minions of computer geeks. Underpaid thirdworld employees are making decisions about what Americans can say. So that’s difficult.”

But Phil Davis, a longtime Albuquerque-based attorney with extensive experience in First Amendment law, says Frazier has “no basis” in the legal framework to complain, because it only applies to the government.

“The First Amendment does not apply to private business or private corporations,” Davis tells SFR. “Unless Amazon or eBay have a contract with their vendors that says ‘We will honor the First Amendment and everything that it stands for,’ they can do anything they want.”

This is not the first time Frazier’s products have been removed from eBay and Amazon. When it became clear that Donald Trump was going to be the Republican nominee in 2016, Frazier started selling bumper sticker and magnet variations that featured a photo of President Trump with swastikas in the background and a Hitler-esque mustache. The products also had sayings like “Dump Trump!” and “Not My President.”

They sold well over the ensuing years—until the end of 2019, when Amazon and eBay removed and banned the anti-Trump stickers. eBay even suspended Frazier’s account for several days.

Frazier tells SFR that he is not going to try to get the anti-QAnon or anti-Trump products back on eBay or Amazon, despite feeling “sad and “frustrated.” Instead, he continues to sell them on his own site and says he was selling so few of those stickers anyway that the removal was not a major blow to his business.

But he is introducing several new anti-conspiracy theory bumper stickers and magnets in the coming week to his online store as well as eBay and Amazon.

From now on, he will just avoid any direct reference to QAnon when listing products on the major retail sites. “[Censorship] is an ongoing dilemma that we face as a country and I think that the First Amendment and the protection of free speech is great, but it has limits,” Frazier says. “Powers have limits and the question is, what should those limits be in the 21st century with these giant platforms, these technological platforms?

I don’t know that I actually know the answer. I’m just a little guy who sells bumper stickers.”

Frazier’s stickers and other products can be found at carryabigsticker.com.

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Rockin’ Rollers, skate shop band together to support each other during the pandemic B Y K AT H E R I N E L E W I N k a t h e r i n e @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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ockin’ Rollers Event Arena, a decades-old venue in Santa Fe that has stood empty during the pandemic until just a few weeks ago, might not survive after all.

The long-term closure that began March 2020 pushed Rockin’ Rollers and its owners, Bill and Robbyn Spencer, to the brink of closing the doors permanently. Now, they are trying to raise $10,000 on GoFundMe to cover just a piece of the back rent.

On top of fundraising and applying for pandemic-relief money, the Spencers have finally—though tentatively—opened with “bubble parties” that allow small groups to rent the space. They have also subleased several of the open rooms to other small businesses, previously used by musicians for rehearsals and even ping-pong players.

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health orders only allow 10 people at a time. But it’s another way the two businesses generate income.

Gold initially planned to open a mobile store. She bought a trailer before the pandemic, but before she could buy a truck, public health orders hit, halting her idea until she worked out a deal with the Spencers.

“This space opened up right when I called [the Spencers] back and I was finally ready to do it,” Gold says.

The cap on participants has been a major hindrance because people assume there won’t be any room and they’ll be turned away at the door, according to Gold. Yet, so far that hasn’t held true. She says there’s plenty of room on skate nights for people to come—masked, of course.

Rockin’ The long history of Rockin’ Rollers Rollers owes tens of has made it easy to tell potential custhousands tomers the location of her new shop, but in back with the store only open one day a week rent and its owners are (Saturdays), the news remains widely fundraising unknown in Santa Fe, even in the skatto keep the ing community. rink open.

“Opening a store in a pandemic doesn’t sound like it makes any sense, but also we have so much product that tate, which recently hired manage- store Haven Skate Shop, which now oc- we don’t have the normal avenues to ment firm Real Property Management cupies two small rooms at the front of sell the stuff ’cause the ski swaps didn’t Albuquerque. the building with skate and snowboard happen,” Gold says. “We’re overloaded with stuff. So how do you sell it?

“We haven’t been able to negotiate gear and clothing for sale. with the new property managers to On a frigid Saturday night this Hopefully this brings us another audicome up with a plan to go forward and month, two men in beanies set up a rail ence but people haven’t really found out we have been keeping the building open for the expected skateboarders. It’s just that we’re here yet.”

A little bit after 6 pm, a boy shows up and taking over a lot of the overhead the fourth “skate night” Gold and the and utility bills to just keep rolling,” Spencers have hosted. Current public with his father, who pays his admission and hugs him around the helRobbyn says. met and skateboard. The young The total amount owed is skater heads for the rink and its somewhere around the cost lights, nostalgic alien decor and of a new car, according to Bill, emptiness. He has the whole although he wouldn’t specify place to himself. exactly how much.

Bill Spencer has spent recent Brett Moses, customer sermonths maintaining the aging vice director at the firm, tells building: painting, patching SFR that property managholes and plumbing repairs. He’s ers are “currently reviewing optimistic about working out a tenant leases and balances to deal to pay off the back rent with develop a plan to move forthe property managers and he’s ward” with Rockin’ Rollers looking forward to when parents and that discussions with all can eat pizza together from the of their new tenants are still in snack bar while their kids skate. the “early stages.”

But he says even when Santa Before it was a skate rink, Fe businesses can have up to 75 the building was used as a people, it will still be difficult church. (The last remnant of to make ends meet. It’ll take the church remains along one a community to keep Rockin’ wall: a massive mural of Moses Rollers open. parting the Red Sea. Bill cov“What’s good for the goose ered Moses with an alien sign.) is good for the gander,” Bill tells One of the newest leasees is SFR. “We have to take care of Emilia Gold and her business Haven Skate and Snow is now subleasing the front of the each other and spread the word Rockin’ Rollers building and hosts a weekly skateboard night.

Haven Skate and Snow, an exand let people know.” pansion of her Albuquerque

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NEW YEAR/NEW PLAN donating money to keep us going. We’re planning on doing projects that work with students—things we’ve started this year and will come to fruition in the spring. It feels very important for the kids and families. And we hope people can get vaccinated and go back out in the world and see each other face-to-face.”

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s we approach the first anniversary of COVID-19’s relentless assault on all things good, SFR asked a number of local arts and culture movers and shakers about how the last year went, and what they hope for next. It all boiled down to three questions:

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April Jouse

Chief Administrative Officer, Center for Contemporary Arts “As with every other organization, CCA had its ups and downs in 2020. Of course, a major down has been the continued closure of all cinemas. It has challenged us to reimagine what that means to our community. In March, when we developed The Living Rooms Series, we made a pivot that would continue to bring CCA cinema-lovers the programming they have come to expect while remaining COVID-safe. Our hope for 2021 is that we can reopen our gallery doors and welcome people back into our community in June. Sadly, we don’t anticipate being able to open our cinema until we can do so with at least a 50% capacity, which is currently looking like very late 2021. But here’s hoping!”

The respondents were many, and we’ve assembled some thoughts from the people who make Santa Fe’s arts and entertainment offerings the envy of the state.

Jerry Wellman

Co-Founder, Axle Contemporary “We have a nice set of programming we’re about to initiate. It’s going to be a lot of experiences that one can have without having to be inside the van itself, which I think is next to impossible. What did they say—25% capacity? That’s less than one person. Axle tries to not just be a visual arts organization. It’s always about building community and revealing to each other as community that we’re developing the strength community can. We’re all here together.”

Matthew Chase-Daniel Co-Founder, Axle Contemporary

“We were able at Axle to make changes, provide programming and content, both online and in real life, that we thought was valuable to the community, and our community of supporters has been generous in

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Israel Francisco Haros Lopez Co-Founder, Alas de Agua Art Collective

“After years of pushing forward and creating art

Santa Fe’s cultural leaders talk 2020, the pandemic and what’s up next

research, to think about the world, about my family and my people, my friends and the work I wanted to accomplish. It was this over-arching question of how to make the work we continue to do be relevant, even if there was nobody in the museum. We did a lot of different things online this year…It’s been a way for people who maybe didn’t have access before to have access. The community came together in such a beautiful way.”

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shows, open mics, monologues, workshops, art jams etc., we finally had our own space. We found ourselves in January and February hosting workshops, open mics and art shows four to five times a week.

By the end of February, we had already booked BIPOC solo and group shows all the way into 2021, only to have our doors close mid-March. Luckily, I had space to retreat to and began to farm. These farming efforts led to Alas de Agua Art Collective teaming up with YouthWorks!, Reunity Resources, Mother Nature Center and Santa Fe County to create new farms. On the art side, we went back to our roots. Alas de Agua Art Collective has functioned as a space for people to be with each other. We have always wanted to be grounded in getting away from technologies and be grounded in the healing work that individuals need. The glory of having our building on the Southside…is that with the help of YouthWorks! and other agencies, we were able to distribute 500 to 1,000 food bags a week out of our location.”

“Realistically, we’re going to keep going with our virtual cinema—that was really fun and very successful. It’s not even close to the same as that communal experience you get from sitting in a theater, but we had some fun stuff, like our New Mexico Filmmaker Salon that put our New Mexico filmmakers on a panel together, and people were able to join in and see it live. For 2021, I really hope theaters are able to open again. I’m optimistic they’ll be open by March or April, and in October, we’ll be able to have our festival in theaters again, even if it looks a little different with people in masks. It won’t be those massive sold-out showings, but there are a lot of submissions coming in, a lot of great work. Independent filmmakers have been kind of crafty—they’ve figured out how to still complete their work despite all the hardship.”

Chris Jonas

Executive Director, Littleglobe “We were full steam ahead with lots of projects, and of course the virus came along and shut down all of those. The nice thing is that a lot of the funders were nice enough to say, ‘Just use the money to survive.’ We were able to pivot really quickly and figure out ways to survive the hard moments. We came up with the idea of Littleglobe TV, this DIY city-cast consisting of stories we co-authored with residents about what’s going on in Santa Fe during the crisis. We have these tools using bizarre artistic ideas, and when they’re combined with facilitation and trust-building and conversation, all of a sudden we have access to some really incredible, intimate stories.”

Andrea Hanley

Chief Curator, heel right useum of the American ndian “Our sense of timing and time itself transformed.

Days that turned into weeks and stretched into months—the time itself allowed me to do a lot of

Jacques Paisner

Creative Director, Santa Fe Independent Film Festival “We managed to still have a really excellent fest with great movies at the drive-in and...on the online platform. We were able to give away all the same cash prizes we do in a normal year. The hardest thing for us was, of course, the closure of movie theaters. We’re looking forward to a real renaissance of going to the movies in the spring and the summer, a great festival in the fall. While we’re anticipating the opening of theaters, it’s possible that even with theaters open, we’ll continue streaming films.”

We did a lot of different things online this year…it’s been a way for people who ay e didn t a e a e efore to a e a e . e community came together in u a eautiful ay.

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irector, A A useum of Contemporary ative Arts

“There were many unforeseen and unexpected challenges, but we also had great accomplishments.

Our entire facility was developed into a virtual museum. We documented all our current shows as well as expanded our digital footprint by providing alternative engagement opportunities for visitors, community members, teachers, students and the general audience. The museum will always document our exhibitions virtually and they will live on our website in perpetuity. There has long been a need for change in museums that has started to take CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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NEW YEAR/NEW PLAN hold nationally, and our hope is that the momentum in terms of Black, Indigenous and peoples of color (BIPOC) awareness and social justice continues, and positive change endures. We believe the arts can contribute to the reduction of poverty and injustice and advance human achievement.”

they need, with support from donors, which makes me so happy. I am a realist. I know we are going to continue to be challenged and life has been altered, indefinitely. But, for 2021, what if we stopped waiting for the light at the end of the tunnel, and started lighting up the tunnel? I think we can all continue to support each other in the best way we can.”

Hannah Hausman

Senior Director Development and Communications, Santa Fe Children’s Museum

Nikesha Breeze

Co-Founder, Earthseed Black Arts Alliance “For us it felt really, really necessary to pull close together with Black community. The foundational draw was that we needed to check in on each other and see if we were doing OK. There was a big feeling of isolation and emotion and a sense of so much energy or momentum moving around the fight for Black lives, and in New Mexico in particular, I think there was a need to reach out to other Black folks. From there it was, ‘How can we also support and amplify these voices, pool our resources?’ We have a lot of projects that are in process and are slated for 2021. We’re launching a large initiative within the public school systems in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Taos for Black History Month. We’ve collaborated with Black educators across the state to develop curriculum, and we’ll talk about lesser-known Black people within different scopes of our culture. I’m also producing my first large-scale solo exhibition of my work at form & concept gallery—it’s the entire space, over 3,000 square feet—and there are over 150 sculptures, seven oil paintings...I also launched through Earthseed, and as myself, an international call for Black and Indigenous artists [called] Hand Tools of Reslience, which was an open call to artists to propose a conceptual hand tool for a new world… tools that can be used to build and to dismantle tools of oppression.”

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“The pandemic pushed me further personally and professionally than I have ever gone before. It has been a year of switching gears, learning, growing…and sometimes crying. All that being said, I am so grateful for my family, number one, and for my job at the Santa Fe Children’s Museum. I am honored to work in an industry that, through my work in fundraising, continues to help our unique and diverse community that we call home. Our donors have really stepped up.

Kids, families and teachers are getting programs that

I am a realist. I know we are going to continue to be challenged and life has been altered, indefinitely. But, for 2021, what if we stopped waiting for the light at the end of the tunnel, and started lighting up the tunnel?

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Joel Aalberts

Director, Lensic Performing Arts Center “You can acknowledge, from the beginning, the thing people want to do most is be together and experience an event. We were not able to provide that after March. That said, we jumped both feet into virtual programs almost immediately. We’ve developed things that engaged local performers. We’ve done things that have had artists from around the world perform for the Lensic. One of the things that I think was really terrific was an education program we did in October and November. We love to have kids at the theater because it’s an important part of development, but we brought a virtual program to the public schools—and whereas we’re normally limited to two performances in a day, over the course of a week we engaged over 9,000 students, and that is something you can celebrate. We are very thankful for the community that realized what we bring to Santa Fe, and we’re looking forward to bringing back shared experiences. I feel very excited about going back to arts education. We’ve found many ways where we’re able to engage an audience, and we can continue to use virtual to extend our reach into underserved areas. The commitment to keep those things going—what the Lensic brings for quality of life—those experiential things people appreciate from us.”

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drive-ins in 2021. We’re actively talking to the state so we’re in a position to do things when COVID-19 clears up—hopefully late spring or summer.”

Robyn Rikoon

Artistic Director, Santa Fe Playhouse “We are a group of theater-makers who had to start doing virtual programming, editing, video-making, writing newsletters, all the marketing—because we couldn’t afford to hire a marketing person—and our education program had to go online. There were some really brilliant, beautiful moments and there were some tough, dark ones. The positive that came out of it was that I got to know some of the other theater groups in town on a much more intimate level. Teatro Paraguas, Santa Fe Improv, New Mexico Actors Lab, Ironweed and others—all of us reached out to one another when we needed help. I think almost everything we learned last year we’ll continue to do. I don’t think anything will ever replace a live theatrical experience, but theater is going to have to change in some ways to become even more of a focused experience—to focus more on the exchange between actor and spectator. What I hope will happen is that sometime in the summer or early fall, we’ll be able to be with a live audience again and that the playhouse will be ready with a theatrical experience to give to our audience.”

Neal Copperman xecutive irector, A

Concerts

“2020…it kind of sucked, y’know? What’s funny about the pandemic is that it forces you to be creative and think in new ways. Actually, I won’t say that that’s fun. It’s not like I was thinking, ‘It would be great to challenge all of my conceptions about how to work and come up with new ways to work,’ but when forced to, we have, to some degree. So, we’re really proud of what we did in 2020. We don’t have any more information than anyone else does, but what we’ve been trying to do is to make little shifts to the guidelines that will support the arts to some degree. We loved being at HIPICO. It was a great space, the people were supportive, they loved having us there—but they do horse events, that’s their reason to exist, so if they can do horse events, that’s what they want to do. Everybody’s just hedging. We are working on options, we’re trying to talk to various other places that may be accessible.

Obviously HIPICO didn’t really exist as a concert venue, so we’re tying to find other places that we can stand up and maybe make work.”

Honestly, I wasted two or three months preparing for a reopening that never happened, but my goal is that, if they call tomorrow, we can open in two weeks’ time. We’re also working on what we’re calling RSVP Cinema... up to nine of your friends can buy tickets, and then you can watch a movie.

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ple together again around Santa Fe’s fantastic contemporary art. Even before it is possible to do that in real space, we’ve committed to creating more digital opportunities for Vital Spaces artists to gather and talk about their artwork and artist practices or anything else. We’re also launching an online video series called Intersections that brings together visual art, poetry, dance and music around a common theme.”

Peter Grendle

Manager, Violet Crown Cinema

Jamie Lenfestey

Director of Santa Fe Operations, AMP Concerts “I think we did a great job in pivoting as best we could given what we were dealing with. The first part of the pandemic, the March and April phase, we thought, ‘We’ll be back in the summer”—but as it became apparent that wasn’t going to be the case, my focus was always on getting back to doing live shows in some way. We were pushing for a drive-in, and I wrote a very detailed proposal that had the specific distances for tailgating based on… parking spaces for cars. Honestly, it wasn’t frustrating, because my strength in this business is in event managing, creating venues, solving problems. It’s a wrinkle I never saw coming, but we’re going to solve it. AMP really hasn’t been making money on this.

Our most successful [drive-in] concert broke even, and I don’t want to spend a great deal of time doing

Hannah Yohalem Co-Director, Vital Spaces

“As for most other organizations, 2020 necessitated a lot of adaptations on Vital Spaces’ part. We moved up our plans for a series of storefront window installations [called] Windows on the Future from the fall to the summer to get money out to the creative community and make art safely visible to the public sooner; we started developing online programming for the first time and canceled in-person indoor events; we shifted some focus this winter from the arts to helping fundraise for basic necessities, because no one can enjoy art or tap into their creative potential without heat or lights. In 2021, we hope to bring peo-

“I finally got to kill my maintenance list! Every box is checked. Selfishly, getting to be alone in the building without thousands of people was totally refreshing.

We started with [wood oven] pizza in October, and it’s kind of an apprenticeship in exchange for rent with [Tender Fire Pizza’s] Ben Crosky. Honestly, I wasted two or three months preparing for a reopening that never happened, but my goal is that, if they call tomorrow, we can open in two weeks’ time. We’re also working on what we’re calling RSVP Cinema, and if it works how I think it’s going to work, you’ll pay for a rental, then up to nine of your friends can buy tickets, and you can watch a movie—we have a library with, like, all the Rocky movies or Tenet or the Michael Keaton Batman movies and lots more— or we can even hook up video games. Mario Kart on the huge screen is just majestic…refreshing. If we have our way, we’ll be able to show any movie that was released during COVID.”

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Teenage members from local nonprofit Girls Inc. host an online panel detailing the importance of passing an affirmative consent law for New Mexico public schools at the upcoming legislative session. The ultimate goal is for schools to teach communication skills to students looking to enjoy intimate moments with their partners—something for which the organization advocates. This could be a good one for families to watch together, specifically young boys, and you know what we mean. Those interested in attending as well as learning about Girls Inc.’s broader priorities in the Legislature can register on the website. While you’re there, learn about some of the other things the org does. Worth it. (RG) Teens Talk Affirmative Consent: 5 pm Thursday, Jan. 21. Free. girlsincofsantafe.org

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Even better, you can expect a live performance from classical musicians every Friday at 5:30 pm through the church’s YouTube channel. We’re talking anything from pianists and violinists and more. In your face, Hollywood Bowl! (RG) TGIF Virtual Concert Series with Michael Gawle: 5:30 pm Friday, Jan. 22. Free. fpcsantafe.org/tgiftube

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THE PANTRY Vital Spaces is already pretty great for providing low-cost space to artists who aren’t working with a lot of capital, and the nonprofit extends its helping hand even further with the Community Art Closet project. The premise is simple: Get art supplies to those in need with a special focus on youth and families. The closet opens up for a few hours on the third Saturday of each month, and fledgling, struggling or otherwise needy artists can snag some supplies and get down to creating. Vital Spaces also recently entered a partnership with SFR to be the official gallery space of our 2021 Photo Contest, so you know this is for real. So for real. (Alex De Vore) Community Art Closet: 11 am-3 pm Saturday, Jan. 23. Free. Southwest Annex, Midtown Campus, 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, vitalspaces.org

Curmudgeons in the time of Zoom A timely romantic comedy? You bet!

Despite obvious hurdles to live performance, Teatro Paraguas has kept it going strong through 2020 and into the new year, even going so far as to further develop shows that proved popular during the time of virtual productions. Enter Hunker Down by playwright Robert F. Benjamin, a romantic comedy about isolation between two older folks. Benjamin’s play began as a short and evolved into a larger piece after online audiences responded positively. Now ready to hit the virtual stage, the new version stars Duchess Dale (who also directs) as Bari and Don Converse as Kevin.

Benjamin describes the show as a timely romantic comedy about seniors coping with isolation during COVID times.

“We follow a lonely widow, desperate for an in-person connection as the pandemic goes on and on. She

confronts her curmudgeonly neighbor whom she dislikes,” Benjamin explains.

“They reluctantly and clumsily befriend each other. Sort of.”

Within the drama is the larger spiritual side quest the characters undertake, and their disparate world views.

A talk-back session with Benjamin and the actors follows the performance—a deeper offering that further illustrates the more robust elements available to companies producing virtual performances. (Riley Gardner)

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One of Many Curator Amber-Dawn Bear Robe kicks off new online exhibition series through SWAIA

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’m calling this an ‘online exhibition,’ and I want to be clear that it’s not virtual,” curator Amber-Dawn Bear Robe (Blackfoot Sikiska) tells SFR. “We want it to be an online gallery space, and each month we’ll be doing a new theme.”

Bear Robe’s upcoming online event through the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA) fits with the organization’s ongoing efforts to both offer up a more robust online experience during the COVID-19 pandemic and to loop in more contemporary and conceptual artists.

While massive in scope—and a financial godsend for Indigenous artists—SWAIA’s annual Indian Market is, according to Bear Robe, very Southwestern and steeped in tradition. She’d like to evolve the narrative.

“For this show,” she says, “I’m looking at fiber artists, but not who you’d think of when you think of fiber arts—for example, I’m looking at artists who use unconventional materials that mimic or represent fiber arts.”

Bear Robe points immediately to Barry Ace (Anishinaabe), a mixed-media creator from Greater Sudbury in Ontario, Canada, whose pieces for the upcoming online exhibition look like traditional Native regalia from afar but reveal a surprising reality upon closer inspection.

“They look like beads, but they’re computer materials, transistors; materials that are not used for clothing,” Bear Robe

explains. “He’s speaking to the power of Indigenous people, of bringing Native people into the future and our connections to these other worlds.”

That level of unexpectedness permeates Bear Robe’s plans for the first exhibit.

Anita Fields (Osage), for example, turns the idea of wearable clothing into pieces fit to hang on any wall. A militaristic coat opens to reveal antique photography; masks created in response to COVID-19 feature both traditional symbolic and design elements, but throw in subtly complex beading, Osage ribbon work and even a pill pouch ripe for commentary.

New York’s Jeffrey Gibson (Choctaw and Cherokee) shines as well. His current show at Culver City, California’s Roberts Projects includes a gorgeous punching bag piece made of trading post carpet, felt, beads, nylon, cotton and more; a similar punching bag piece contains mind-blowing levels of detailed beadwork, and Gibson’s been known to create doll-like creatures from tin, cop-

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per and more fibers than seem possible in a single cohesive piece.

Look as well to the Northwest Coast, where fiber artist Meghann O’Brien (Kwakwaka’wakw) works with basketry and Yeil Koowu (also known as Raven’s Tail), a weaving pattern with origins among the Tlingit and Haida weavers in Alaska. Even a cursory glance at O’Brien’s site finds a near-flawless marriage of minimalist presentation and complex execution—the baskets alone are jaw-dropping, and the symbolic presence runs deep.

And there are many more artists included, nine total, such as Vancouver’s Charlene Vickers (Anishinaabe), who works in woven coverings; multi-media creator Wally Dion (Salteaux) who, like Ace, uses computer parts—in one stunning instance, circuit boards—to build

Artist Barry Ace creates these gorgeous regalia pieces—and all from computer parts.

large-scale tapestry; and Merritt Johnson, whose woven basket grenades are reason enough to pay attention on their own without her wider focus on narrative, shadow and light and the examination of existence.

“The Native art circle is honestly pretty small,” Bear Robe says. “We all generally know each other, but also, because I’m from Canada, I have this scope that is outside the Southwest bubble. The contemporary Native art scene in Canada is so vibrant and so well-represented and is such a huge part of the arts up there, period—this is just such a great platform for me to be able to bring in these artists who’d maybe never even think to work with SWAIA. It’s OK to show art that doesn’t have a pricetag.”

And again, it’s just a start. Bear Robe already helms the massively popular fashion show segment of SWAIA’s yearly offerings, and she’s hard at work on February’s online exhibition, the theme being jewelry.

If this month’s kickoff event is any indication, we can likely expect artists working outside of cut-and-dry milieus.

“I’m reaching out to artists who push boundaries and manipulate materials in ways that are both innovative and conceptual,” says Bear Robe.

Other items on the docket include an updated SWAIA site, the return of some form of fashion show (Bear Robe says she’s eyeing an outdoor event but can’t reveal more just yet) and potential guest curators for ongoing online shows.

“The possibilities are endless,” Bear Robe adds. “We can hopefully even start working globally. SWAIA is branching out and really wanting to reach new audiences.”

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sed to be, you could only trust maybe a shop or two in Santa Fe. In the old days, there was Four Star Tattoo owned by Dawn Purnell and Mark Vigil, who carried on the work started by the late, great tattooer Bill Wissman. It was unequivocally the best (with respect to other shops that were pretty OK, but not the best).

Purnell eventually peeled off to open Dawn’s Custom and apprentice artists of her own; Vigil continued the work at Four Star, training a new generation of artists like Scott Buffington, J. Green, Crowe B. Rising (who runs the private studio Talis Fortuna), Jeffrey Pitt (also a private studio owner) and newcomer Miguel Chavez, as did Purnell. Both would welcome guest artists who became part of the family (like Guido Baldini at Four Star, who’d go on to open Lost Cowboy with his apprentice Owen Lostetter, now a kickass artist in his own right) and Amelia Albright at Dawn’s Custom—and someplace within all of that, a young artist named Zac Scheinbaum learned the trade.

Full disclosure, I’ve got a preexisting relationship with Scheinbaum (and some totally sweet ’toos), so he won’t be part of this story other than to say he recently assembled a veritable A Team of tattooers to open Shrine Tattoo (55 W Marcy St., 795-9708), Santa Fe’s newest shop and a welcome addition to an already exploding landscape. If you’ve ever considered collecting work on a serious level, this place needs to be on your radar. I’ll break it down by artist.

Shrine Tattoo adds to Santa Fe’s growing tattoo shop landscape

“Zac approached me about a year ago, and we were both talking about moving home, and he asked if I wanted to do something together,” she tells SFR. “I’ve known Zac a long time, so it evolved into a shop.”

Known primarily for her signature twist on traditional tattoo work (think birds and snakes to get the slightest inkling), Sena’s background in medical illustration proves a unique and bedazzling element of her work. Look to the small details in a hawk’s wing or even just anatomically correct hands, and you’ll find an artist with almost shocking ability. Sena paints as well and says Shrine could easily—and probably will—collaborate with local orgs and artists for potential pop-up shows, youth mentorships and who even knows what else. But why return now?

“I definitely had to find myself outside of New Mexico,” she says. “I had to realize how special it is, and now, as an adult professional, I’ve been feeling I need to come back home and give something back to the town I grew up in—there’s no place like it.”

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Sultana hooked up with Scheinbaum in the small tattoo world of New York City. A Brooklyn native, he says he came to Santa Fe for a change of pace, adding that he “absolutely loves the desert climate.”

Sultana’s got 15 years under his belt and specializes in a combination of fine line and pointillism that ultimately make up psychedelic black-and-gray geometrical shapes.

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Now that he’s here, Sultana says, he finds inspiration in the mountains, particularly when snowboarding, and in the

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Regular readers of SFR will already be familiar with Sena’s work as she designed the mega-popular 2018 Best of Santa Fe cover art (the one with the jackalope). Sena also shows annually at Spanish Market when it actually goes down (stupid COVID) and is represented by Pop Gallery. Born and bred in New Mexico, Sena’s been running Electric Eye in Dallas with her husband Caleb Barnard for years but, she says, the time to return home is now.

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“It’s a creative place,” he says. “I know it’ll help me to be more proactive in my own practice.”

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Dubois came up in Colorado and Oregon but already had the Santa Fe connec-

tion as his fiancée Emma Bagley (a semiretired tattooer herself, which is a tough pill to swallow because her work is phenomenal) came up here. She returned with Dubois in tow about two years ago.

Since then, he’s been working in more private settings, but joins Scheinbaum’s team with what can only be described as a strangely gorgeous mix of esoterica and mysticism with an occult-ish edge.

“I can tell you’re looking for juicy adjectives,” he says with a laugh by phone when asked to come up with a descriptive term. “I guess…mystic Americana.”

“I was always drawn to Tim Burton kind of stuff, like, darker imagery that’s still hopeful,” he continues.

“A lot of that imagery isn’t directly taken from occult or esoteric art, but I do find that stuff interesting and try to distill it and use that same kind of ideology in what I do—it’s trying to communicate something more spiritual and doing it through the symbolic lexicon of my own life.”

I wish I could explain precisely what it is that Dubois creates, but you’ll just have to check it out yourself.

Know that he cut his teeth doing street art and graffiti, and that he says he’s inspired by the land and feel of the high desert, as well as the artistic milieu.

“The [Museum of International Folk Art] is my number one,” he explains.

“Everything in there inspires this idea that art doesn’t need to be intellectual or serious or exclusive. I like that idea… people allowing themselves to create something.”

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Cassie (Carey Mulligan, The Great Gatsby) lives her days as a disappointment to her parents—a med school dropout working in a coffee shop, still living at home as she heads into her 30s. After some unknown incident involving her best friend Nina, Cassie changes course to exact revenge on frat boys who take advantage of women when they can’t defend themselves, but when Ryan (Bo Burnham, writer/director of Eighth Grade) comes into her life, a different avenue becomes possible, tearing her between justice and love.

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“He will transcend this game and bring to the world a humanitarianism which has never been seen before.”

Those were the words spoken at a college golf awards banquet in 1996 by a hard-drinking, chain-smoking, womanizing Black combat Green Beret who’d taken up the ancient, lilywhite game many years prior.

His name was Earl Woods, and his son, Eldrick “Tiger” Woods, was about to accept the Fred Haskins Award, the golf equivalent of the Heisman Trophy. It was a powerful, if hyperbolic statement—and a powerful way to lead viewers into Tiger, the new two-part docuseries from directors Matthew Heineman and Matthew Hamachek (Cartel Land) streaming on HBO Max. Ultimately, Tiger became arguably the greatest to ever play the sport, amassing fortunes for himself and his fellow professionals and becoming one of the world’s most recognizable faces. But he fell short of the grand predictions from his father, a complicated man Tiger would come to emulate in countless ways—and it’s not clear from watching the film (and the golfer’s career these many years) whether he had interest in living up to those ideals anyway.

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Not a bad first cinematic foray for director Emerald Fennell (Killing Eve’s show-runner), who looks to be a great new voice in the medium. Even as she guides an imperfect narrative through a Candy Land color palette, confidence shines with bold and unapologetic choices. She knows what she’s doing here, and trusts audiences are smarter than general assumption allows.

Fennell molds our expectations in real time,

Based on the 2018 biography by Armen Keteyian and Jeff Benedict, Tiger tackles a subject far too big for the combined three-hour run time. Still, it chronicles the rise from child prodigy to amateur phenomenon to world-beater with quality insights from fresh voices in the Tiger Woods milieu. It also unpacks puzzling life choices—painful, extensive training with Navy SEALs, soldiering on in competition despite crippling injuries—in the years following Earl’s 2006 death.

The filmmakers’ treatment of Woods’ public crash in the wake of revelations he’d had a dozen or so illicit affairs starts to fall flat; they lean too heavily on the first-ever televised interview with New York party queen Rachel Uchitel, one of Woods’ more high-profile mistresses. Thankfully, they do give weight to the racism that flowed through the media and golf intelligentsia post-scandal, culminating with the shameful finger-wagging in 2010 by Billy Payne, then-chairman of the Augusta National Golf Club, home of the Masters Tournament, which Woods has dominated since his early 20s.

But for 2021, there’s too much dashcam video of the star athlete stoned out of his mind on painkillers in advance of his 2017 DUI arrest and not enough deep exploration of Tiger’s issues and how they exist in a country that still can’t help demonizing a Black athlete when he’s down—and lionizing him when he’s not.

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Promising Young Woman shocked, awed and infuriated audiences at Sundance, but the onthe-nose nature of its storytelling could be vital in reaching ever-dense male audiences. Even its title comes from the infamous “promising young man” quote at the Brock Turner rape trial—a key point, as Fennell knows society gives men the benefit of the doubt every time. This one exploits our internalized biases.

aiming for a 360-degree portrait of a man but, perhaps inadvertently, they provide a tortured indictment of the American mass marketing and promise-making machine, sometimes falling themselves into traps they sought to expose. (Jeff Proctor) HBO Max, TV-MA, two parts; 201 min.

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You remember David Arquette, right? The actor from the Hollywood family that also boasts Rosanna, Patricia and Alexis Arquette? He was in Scream? Eight Legged Freaks? He married Courteney Cox? Yeah—that guy.

Anyway, turns out Arquette once had this super-promising acting career until the year 2000, when he joined the WCW pro wrestling league as a promotional stunt for the notvery-good movie Ready to Rumble (also with Scott Caan...ugh) and became its Heavyweight Champion of the World. This set off a firestorm of hate among the wrestling faithful, who’ve spent the last 20 years hating Arquette’s guts— and it almost certainly derailed his acting.

What’s a guy to do? Well, according to the documentary You Cannot Kill David Arquette, the answer is to start wrestling for real, start training in earnest, hopefully to win the respect of…whoever…while simultaneously clearing out

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the cobwebs of mental illness and undoing two decades’ worth of ire from the wrestling community. And it’s a trip.

You Cannot Kill David Arquette didn’t feel like it was worth the $19.99 rental on Amazon when it dropped a few months back, but now that it’s found a home at Hulu, it’s endlessly watchable in a trainwreck kind of way. Arquette produces his own redemption story, one in which he gets fit, travels to Mexico to train with luchadores, enrolls in a real-life wrestling school and ultimately finds himself while being accepted within the wrestling world. It honestly feels like a long con bit at first, but as scenes wherein backyard wrestlers seriously mess him up or even an ER visit that comes after a bout results in a nicked throat artery show, there’s something to learn from the star of See Spot Run—homeboy is dedicated and, as the people who sincerely love wrestling are quick to remind you, even if it’s akin to a play, it’s still a sport (Arquette’s athletics prove that, too).

We also get interviews with living Arquette siblings (RIP Alexis), Cox herself and Arquette’s present-day wife, the journalist Christina McLarty. McLarty’s insistence that hubs is for real lends credence to the journey, and it’s heartwarming to see her support in action. Both give the audience even more of a reason to root for the guy. You’ll almost surely come to respect Arquette by the end, and you’ll appreciate how much he really, truly means it. (Alex De Vore) Hulu, R, 91 min.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): On May 4, 2019, my Aries friend Leah woke up in a state of amazement. During the night, she felt she had miraculously become completely enlightened. Over the next 16 hours, she understood her life perfectly. Everything made sense to her.

She was in love with every person and animal she knew.

But by the next morning, the exalted serenity had faded, and she realized that her enlightenment had been temporary. She wasn’t mad or sad, however. The experience shook her up so delightfully that she vowed to forevermore seek to recreate the condition she had enjoyed.

Recently she told me that on virtually every day since May 4, 2019, she has spent at least a few minutes, and sometimes much longer, exulting in the same ecstatic peace that visited her back then. That’s the Aries way: turning a surprise, spontaneous blessing into a permanent breakthrough. I trust you will do that soon.

invocation of gleeful fun, I offer you the following thoughts from Tumblr blogger Sparkledog. “I am so tired of being told that I am too old for the things I like.

No cartoons. No toys. No fantasy animals. No bright colors. Are adults supposed to live monotonous, bleak lives ? I can be an adult and still love childish things. I can be intelligent and educated and informed and I can love stuffed animals and unicorns. Please stop making me feel bad for loving the things that make me happy.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): One morning, famous French army general Hubert Lyautey (1854–1934) instructed his gardener to spend the next day planting a row of saplings on his property. The gardener agreed, but advised Lyautey that this particular species of tree required 100 years to fully mature. “In that case,” Lyautey said, “plant them now.” I recommend that you, too, expedite your long-term plans, Taurus. Astrologically speaking, the time is ripe for you to take crisp action to fulfill your big dreams.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Someone asked poet E. E. Cummings what home was for him. He responded poetically, talking about his lover. Home was “the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside your ribcage.” What about you, Gemini? If you were asked to give a description of what makes you feel glad to be alive and helps give you the strength to be yourself, what would you say? Now would be a good time to identify and honor the influences that inspire you to create your inner sense of home.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Be sweet to me, world,” pleads Cancerian poet Stephen Dunn in one of his poems. In the coming weeks, I invite you to address the world in a similar way. And since I expect the world will be unusually receptive and responsive to your requests, I’ll encourage you to add even more entreaties. For example, you could say, “Be revelatory and educational with me, world,” or “Help me deepen my sense that life is meaningful, world,” or “Feed my soul with experiences that will make me smarter and wilder and kinder, world.” Can you think of other appeals and supplications you’d like to express to the world?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Nature cannot be ordered about, except by obeying her,” wrote philosopher Francis Bacon (1561–1626). That paradoxical observation could prove to be highly useful for you in the coming weeks. Here are some other variants on the theme: Surrendering will lead to power. Expressing vulnerability will generate strength. A willingness to transform yourself will transform the world around you. The more you’re willing to acknowledge that you have a lot to learn, the smarter you’ll be.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In his book The Lover’s Dictionary, David Levithan advises lovers and would-be lovers to tell each other their very best stories. “Not the day’s petty injustices,” he writes. “Not the glimmer of a seven-eighths-forgotten moment from your past. Not something that somebody said to somebody, who then told it to you.” No, to foster the vibrant health of a love relationship—or any close alliance for that matter—you should consistently exchange your deepest, richest tales. This is always true, of course, but it’s especially true for you right now.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): On October 18, 1867, the United States government completed its purchase of Alaska from Russia. How much did this 586,000acre kingdom cost? Two cents per acre, which in today’s money would be about 37 cents. It was a tremendous bargain! I propose that we regard this transaction as a metaphor for what’s possible for you in 2021: the addition of a valuable resource at a reasonable price. (PS: American public opinion about the Alaskan purchase was mostly favorable back then, but a few influential newspapers described it as foolish. Don’t let naysayers like them dissuade you from your smart action.)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “My business is circumference,” wrote poet Emily Dickinson in a letter to her mentor. What did she mean by that?

“Circumference” was an important word for her. It appeared in 17 of her poems. Critic Rochelle Cecil writes that for Dickinson, circumference referred to a sense of boundlessness radiating out from a center— a place where “one feels completely free, where one can express anything and everything.” According to LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Throughout his many rough trav- critic Donna M. Campbell, circumference was els in the deserts of the Middle East, the Leo diplomat Dickinson’s metaphor for ecstasy. When she said, and army officer known as Lawrence of Arabia (1888– “My business is circumference,” she meant that her 1935) didn’t give up his love of reading. While riding on calling was to be eternally in quest of awe and subthe backs of camels, he managed to study numerous limity. I propose that you make good use of tomes, including the works of ancient Greek writers Dickinson’s circumference in the coming weeks, Aeschylus and Aristophanes. I’d love to see you perform Aquarius. It’s time to get your mind and heart and comparable balancing acts in the coming weeks, Leo. The soul thoroughly expanded and elevated. astrological omens suggest you’ll be skilled at coordinatPISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Should I quote the wising seemingly uncoordinatable projects and tasks—and dom of people who have engaged in behavior I conthat you’ll thrive by doing so. (PS: Your efforts may be sider unethical or immoral? Should I draw inspiration more metaphorical and less literal than Lawrence’s.) from teachers who at some times in their lives treatVIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Sculptor Stefan Saal testifies ed others badly? For instance, Pisces-born Ted that one of his central questions as a creator of art is to Geisel, better known as beloved author Dr. Seuss, know when a piece is done. “When making a thing I need cheated on his wife while she was sick, ultimately to decide when is it thoroughly made, when is it dare-we- leading to her suicide. Should I therefore banish him say ‘perfected.’” He has tried to become a master of from my memory and never mention the good he did knowing where and when to stop. I recommend this prac- in the world? Or should I forgive him of his sins and tice to you in the next two weeks, Virgo. You’ve been continue to appreciate him? I don’t have a fixed set of doing good work, and will continue to do good work, but rules about how to decide questions like these. How about you? The coming weeks will be a good time to it’s crucial that you don’t get overly fussy and fastidious redefine your relationship with complicated people. as you refine and perhaps even finish your project.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’re entering the potentially most playful and frisky and whimsical phase of your astrological cycle. To honor and encourage a full

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