January 22, 2020: Santa Fe Reporter

Ten years after head injury law adopted, New Mexico school districts lack uniformity in guidelines for student athlete concussions

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DEPOLARIZING AMERICAN POLITICS 9 A local group uses marriage counseling techniques to bring together both sides of the political aisle

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COVER STORY 12 LATE TO THE GAME Ten years since the passage of key state legislation on sports head injuries, few districts are on board and concussions continue at an epidemic rate

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR, JAN. 11 LET’S TALK EDUCATION Discussing education reform with the Industrial era mindset of merit, time of day and age-based education of today on the table is a dead-end discussion as would be deciding whether to have an apple or an orange. They are both round fruits that grow on trees but if the health benefits of Vitamin C is the topic, the apple is not relevant to the discussion. Sure, apples may be great but they do not do the job.

Disruptive innovators like Khan Academy and YouTube are offering free online content that dwarfs teachers capability to reach the varied learning styles of all students in a class. Disruptive educational innovation is rapidly growing, offering an entirely new model of how education is done so...students are given the opportunity and resources to master subjects instead of being sorted meritoriously by time/age specific testing and grading.

This rapidly expanding format will undermine and completely destroy the methods of today due to the sheer size and bureaucracy of our entrenched public education system.

Unfortunately, what will remain will be the old factory mindset of school that will only serve the less bright, less responsibly parented children, destroying the entire public educational funding methodology. Agility and flexibility is the key for the tomorrow that is already coming faster and faster down the track.

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Depolarizing American Politics Group uses marriage counseling techniques to bring red and blue together on the eve of the New Mexico legislative session

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n a downstairs classroom of the Santa Fe Community Foundation, 10 people with often differing and sometimes opposite political beliefs sit around a long wooden table, chatting and joking as a short break in the action wraps up.

They’re nearing the end of a workshop by Better Angels, an organization that brings “reds” and “blues” into dialogue in hopes of depolarizing American politics.

It’s Saturday, Jan. 18—two days since the US House of Representatives presented the Senate with two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. Closer to home, the same date is three days before the 30-day New Mexico legislative session begins. In less than two weeks, Iowans will cast the first votes in the Democratic presidential primary.

The mood in the room feels surprisingly cordial.

Paul Gibson and Roxanne Barber, a couple that headed the Santa Fe for Bernie campaign in 2016, trade glances as the moderators call for quiet.

Gibson takes his seat next to Rip Ryness, head of the Santa Fe County Republicans. Ryness is amicably debating something with Eric Jeffries, a Democrat who describes himself as “closer to the center.” Across the table, Mark Abramson and Elaine Sullivan are laughing; they lean together for a brief shoulder squeeze.

Sullivan is a leading advocate for public banking in New Mexico. Abramson is an Albuquerque attorney and owner of the Los Ranchos Gun Shop. The two are unlikely to ever agree on a long list of issues. But over the course of the day, they’ve uncovered some areas of common ground.

According to Scott Lopez, founder of the New Mexico chapter of Better Angels, this is precisely the point.

“We are not here to try to change anybody’s mind,” says Lopez. “The idea is to come together to learn to respect each other’s dignity and humanity.”

Better Angels uses family therapy and marriage counseling techniques to bridge the political divide.

Saturday’s event starts with introductions and a discussion of common stereotypes of both the “reds” and the “blues.”

Next, the flip of a coin determines that reds would go first in an activity called the “fishbowl.”

They take their seats in a small circle in the center of the room. The blues are asked to make a second circle around the reds, to remain silent and listen.

“Why do you think your side’s values or policies are good for the country?” a moderator asks the inner circle.

Reds, they say, promote policies that keep government spending in check by limiting cumbersome social programs, which can be inefficient because all individuals have unique needs.

Their priorities promote a republic, they say, in which each state functions as its own experiment in democracy. They also say reds value free enterprise, which

encourages individual motivation and entrepreneurship leading to more opportunities for everyone.

The moderator takes a moment to let the conversation settle, then asks: “What reservations do you have about your side?” And with this question, the united red front fractures into five individuals who each have different and sometimes controversial concerns.

One man voices discomfort with the red side’s rejection of science and refusal to regulate guns. Others worry reds are failing their constituents because of their “allegiance to corporations.”

We are not here to try to change anybody’s mind. The idea is to come together to learn to respect each other’s dignity and humanity.

-Scott Lopez, founder of the New Mexico chapter of Better Angels

Kelly Ward, whose background includes serving as former Gov. Gary Johnson’s first campaign manager and later as Johnson’s chief of staff, argues that reds are forgetting to champion things that matter to everyday people in New Mexico, such as education. “The American Dream is not working for a lot of people, and conservatives are not will-

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ing to recognize that,” he says with a sigh.

“We’ve created a structure that is OK with leaving people out.”

When the blues enter the center circle, they agree that some people have more opportunities than others. Women, for instance, are still paid less than men, and people of color are incarcerated at higher rates than whites for the same crimes.

Blues try to create policies that correct these power imbalances that stem from a history of oppression, such as segregation and barring women from the ballot box, they say. Blues, they add, are more likely to look for allies in foreign policy. They say their views are based in fact, rather than in ideology.

As they voice their concerns, one person worries that moderate Democrats are being silenced and ostracized, while another worries that the center is too quick to label progressive ideas as “extremist.”

Some blues think their side is too tied to corporate interests, too. Others acknowledge that government spending is out of control.

“Sometimes we just throw money at problems because we so desperately want things to change,” Sullivan says.

Afterwards, the group discusses what each person learned from the other side, what surprised them, and where they could begin to see some common ground.

“I thought all the blues would see things the same way, and it’s refreshing to see that we actually all have disagreements within our own groups,” says Page Ollice, a red who leans “more Libertarian.”

Issues where at least one member from each side find common ground include concerns about education, distrust of media, disdain for Donald Trump’s behavior and fear of corruption.

They see competition as critical to American success, worry the wealthiest Americans don’t pay enough in taxes and say military spending and social programs should be limited. They discuss how to to build an innovative and bi-partisan alternative energy economy in New Mexico.

As the group shares their takeaways at the end of the day, not everyone is optimistic— some still feel diametrically opposed. But most say they have learned to value other opinions more and are learning to listen with less judgement.

“I came here feeling like Democrats and Republicans were so opposed that there’s no hope,” says Laura Riedel, a member of the blue side. “Now I’m leaving with a sense of hope.”

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In Session

State lawmakers have 30 days to pass a budget and tackle policy change

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham highlighted her priorities for the session in an address that opened the 54th Legislature.

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ducation. Cannabis. Public safety.

Last week, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham put forward some of the top priorities she wants lawmakers to address in the legislative session that kicked off at noon on Jan. 21. By law, the 30-day sessions occurring during even-numbered years are restricted to fiscal matters—budgets, appropriations and revenue bills— along with items called for by the governor.

Here is a look at some of the top issues lawmakers will address over the next month—keeping in mind the governor can add to her list and lawmakers have until Feb. 5 to file proposed bills.

EDUCATION In the 2019 legislative session, lawmakers, backed by Lujan Grisham, created the new cabinet-level Early Childhood Education and Care Department. “This new department is the vehicle,” Lujan Grisham said in a release at the time, “to arguably the most important turnaround we must and will make as a state in the coming years.” In November, the governor named Elizabeth Groginsky, a former assistant superintendent of early learning for the District of Columbia, as the department’s first secretary.

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For the 2020 session, “Education leads the charge,” says Victor Reyes, the governor’s legislative director. At the top of the list is establishing the Early Childhood Trust Fund, House Bill 83, to create sustainable revenue for early childhood education programs.

Katherine Freeman, president and CEO of United Way of Santa Fe County, says supporting the trust fund bill will be United Way’s main focus during the upcoming session. The nonprofit’s policy arm, the New Mexico Early Childhood Development Partnership, is working on a strategic plan that builds on a statewide needs assessment it conducted last year. Its findings included exigencies in recruiting, training and retaining professionals who work with young children, and highlighted “the depth of the workforce issues,” Freeman says, and the “need to think about alternative models of credentialing and really an approach to workforce development that supports the long-term contribution of providers in the community.”

Early childhood isn’t the only highstakes education proposal: Lujan Grisham’s New Mexico Opportunity Scholarship would create tuition-free college for New Mexico residents; the proposal made big national news when she first announced it in September. The scholarship program would benefit an

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estimated 55,000 New Mexico students by covering tuition and fees at any of the state’s 29 public institutions of higher education through a $35 million appropriation to the Higher Education Department.

Increasing teacher salaries also is in the pipeline. The governor’s proposed budget includes a 4% increase for teachers. State House Speaker Brian Egolf, D-Santa Fe, has called for a 10% increase. At a Jan. 15 legislative preview sponsored by the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce, Egolf said during a recent visit to Carlsbad, he learned the salary for an entry-level teacher there is $41,000, while a job driving an 18-wheeler in the oil fields pays $100,000. “Both jobs are important,” he said. Still: “We need to be putting more money into these districts so they can pay competitive salaries and we can get the best and brightest into the classroom.”

CANNABIS A “tough lift” is how state Sen. Peter Wirth, D-Santa Fe, described to SFR the outlook for legalizing cannabis this year.

Still, hope reigns eternal. The majority floor leader is not alone in anticipating the Cannabis Regulation Act will continue to face opposition—as it has in past years—from Republicans and conservative Democrats. House Bill 160 (and its Senate companion), sponsored by state

Rep. Javier Martínez, is based on the Cannabis Legalization Working Group’s recommendations, which were released last October.

In a press statement last week supporting the bill, the governor’s office said legalization would generate approximately 11,000 new jobs in agriculture, manufacturing, regulation and retail, with sales reaching $620 million by the fifth year.

Emily Kaltenbach, New Mexico state director for the Drug Policy Alliance and senior director of DPA’s Municipal Drug Strategies, tells SFR while the bill faces challenges, “we’ve been working on this for almost a decade, so every year, we chip forward, and this could be the year, if the stars align. And if not, we’re going to continue to make progress.” Kaltenbach also notes the growing public support. In December polling, 75% of New Mexicans supported legalization. “I’ve never in the time I’ve worked on this issue seen polling this high.” Kaltenbach says. “So, the public is there, and I feel, again every year, more confident our elected officials will look at what their constituents believe and I hope their votes will align with their voters.”

DPA also will be supporting House Bill 73, which would appropriate $150,000 for an Injectable Opioid Treatment Program study at the University of New Mexico to assess the feasibility of the treatment protocol. “If New Mexico actually does this, we’d be the first in the nation to do so,” she says, describing it as “a tiny little bill that could have an incredibly huge impact for New Mexico.”

PUBLIC SAFETY One high-profile bill, SB 5, the Extreme Risk Firearm Protection Order Act, which is backed by the governor, creates provisions for law enforcement officers to confiscate weapons from people who are deemed a threat to themselves or others.

“It’s been a priority for the governor as a necessary step to make sure we’re fighting against gun violence,” Reyes says. “It’s one of the pieces of legislation law enforcement say they want as a tool in their tool box.”

“We’re not a Pollyanna about the difficulty of getting it through,” Reyes says, “but we are committed to making sure it passes.”

Other public safety measures include creating penalties for those who make threats of mass violence; increasing penalties for drug trafficking; and HB43, from state Rep. Matthew McQueen, D-Santa Fe, aka the Jeffrey Epstein bill, which would expand sex offender registry requirements.

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billion in unfunded liability through the PERA Solvency bill (SB72). Think New Mexico also is pushing to create professional requirements for the PERA board.

“There’s no question the PERA board needs to get reformed,” Sen. Wirth tells SFR. “I think there’s overall agreement on that part of it.” As for PERA solvency, “that’s going be a real discussion and, certainly being from Santa Fe, and representing lots and lots of retired state employees, I’m very attuned to the challenges there, but I’m also super sensitive to the risk that exists if we don’t fully fund the PERA and try and get the percentage of under-funded liability moved down.”

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As SFR reported earlier this month, think tank Think New Mexico has put forward several proposals to address what it characterizes as a retirement “crisis,” in which more than 60% of New Mexicans have nothing saved for retirement, and 80% have less than $10,000. To this end, look for bills repealing the state’s tax on Social Security, and ones creating a voluntary automatic deduction plan for private sector employees whose employers don’t offer the benefit. Lawmakers also will consider ways to shore up the Public Employees Retirement Association pension system, which currently has $6.8

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Citizen Legislature At a pre-legislative Jan. 15 talk with Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce members, the local delegation repeatedly invited constituents to come visit them during the session, with House Speaker Egolf noting, “You have the most accessible Legislature in the United States. You can walk onto the floor of the Senate or the House every day until the gavel comes down to meet with your members… please take advantage of that.” With that in mind, here are members of the local delegation and their emails.

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Late to the Ten years after head injury law adopted, New Mexico school districts lack uniformity in guidelines for student athlete concussions

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ed Bolleter dove for the ball coming hard his way—a reflex, as much as anything else, for the then-17year-old goalkeeper playing in a Santa Fe men’s soccer league. He had one hand on it already when, breaking the rules of the sport, a player on the opposing team kicked the ball into his head.

Bolleter knows he got a concussion that day. But “they basically gave me smelling salts till I woke up, see if you’re dizzy and, you know, ‘how many fingers do you see?,’” he tells SFR. “And then rest for five minutes and go back out there.”

A lot has changed since that day in 1983, but a close analysis by SFR of how schools respond to youth concussions in sports around the state has found that too much has remained the same.

Twenty-seven years after Bolleter’s concussion, the state Legislature adopted the first head injury protocol for school

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districts. The School Athlete Head Injury Safety Protocols law, passed in 2010, came amid a nationwide push to protect young peoples’ brains, especially in football, as research barged into the public discourse linking sports-driven concussions to brain diseases and other problems.

But SFR’s analysis found that, a decade later, there remains a lack of uniformity and enforcement among school districts in even developing head injury protocols that give student athletes the best chance of recovery.

The law, spearheaded by longtime state Sen. Michael Sanchez, D-Belen, was designed to empower the New Mexico Activities Association (NMAA) to require school districts to develop their own head injury plans based on the unique needs of their students. When symptoms of a concussion do occur, the law directs coaches to follow the district’s protocols.

However, it appears few school districts have developed head injury pro-

tocols that meet the standard set out in state law. SFR surveyed all 89 school districts in the state beginning in August; 49 answered our questions in full or in part by presstime.

Of those, just five districts have developed their own head injury guidelines, including Socorro, Rio Rancho, Silver, Los Lunas and Albuquerque school districts. Santa Fe Public Schools is not one of them.

Only 10, including Santa Fe Public Schools, say they have adopted or created return-to-learn policies, which help student athletes gradually return to class after concussion symptoms—a key meaaccord sure in ensuring proper recovery, according to experts interviewed by SFR. respond And among the districts that responded, just five have policies to avert the long-term risk of multiple concussions or subconcussive hits, which some researchers suggest may lead poli to brain disease. These policies require students to stop participating in sports after three to four concussions. produc Youth sports are producing concussions at alarming rates. dis Consider: 16 school districts provided SFR with five years’ worth of concussion con figures. The total: 945 concussions, and that’s from fewer than 20% of the state’s school districts.

It’s not clear how seriously the is state and its schools are taking the issue. The law stops short of telling a state agency, such as the Public Education Department or the state Health Department, to track concussion numbers or enforce its requirements. But experts say that when it comes to youth sports concussions, officials don’t ask questions if they’re scared of the potential answers.

Dr. Dawn Comstock, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Colorado’s School of Public Health, tells SFR that meticulous analysis of information is vitally important in preventing concussions and understanding why they happen.

“We should have data-driven discussions and we should be making evidence-based decisions,” Comstock says.

NO ONE’S WATCHING The biggest gap in New Mexico’s youth concussion protocol law is that it lacks an enforcement mechanism. It’s unclear how much oversight there is of districts’ operations by the NMAA, which also has its own bylaws districts must abide by.

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Hard Hits The organization limits the amount of time athletes in contact sports like football can practice in full gear and with full contact and also educates athletic directors and coaches on the symptoms of a concussion, says Executive Director Sally Marquez during a phone interview.

But when asked how the NMAA is enforcing its bylaws, Marquez tells SFR she doesn’t “need to answer that.” When asked if the NMAA’s bylaws and the head injury law help avert multiple concussions for a student athlete, Marquez also refused to answer.

Sanchez, the former state Senate powerhouse who helped write the state head injury protocol, envisioned NMAA’s role with more responsibility.

“I was hoping that the NMAA and those in charge of our athletics in the state of New Mexico would come up with the process that would be statewide instead of each school individually figuring out a protocol,” Sanchez says. “It should be universal across the state… It should all be the same for every single kid, regardless. But I don’t think that’s happened.”

It hasn’t.

The lack of enforcement is also something that disturbs Comstock.

Of the 89 school districts in New Mexico, 49 responded to SFR’s request for information about compliance with the state law on concussions over the last five school years.

Among them were 21 that track concussions, though none of the districts provide those numbers publicly in their own communities. A total of 945 concussions were reported.

The districts with the highest reported numbers are: AZTEC 116 (2015-19 school years)

BELEN 47 (2017-18 school year)

Here’s the last four years of concussion data from the Santa Fe Public Schools: CAPITAL HIGH SCHOOL 2016-17: 4 2017-18: 5 2018-19: 7 (3 in football, 2 soccer, 1 wrestling, 1 basketball)

BLOOMFIELD 96 (2015-19 school years)

2019-2020: 5 (3 in football, 2 in girls soccer)

CLOVIS 118 (2017-19 school years)

2016-17: 21

HOBBS 82 (2015-19 school years) SILVER 134 (2014-19 school years)

SANTA FE HIGH SCHOOL 2017-18: 9 2018-19: 5 (1 in football, 1 soccer, 2 wrestling, 1 cheer) 2019-20: 9 (5 in football, 2 soccer, 2 in cheer)

Hobbs’ Brayden Strickland, defensive back, takes on a Lovington player last season.

Hobbs, in southeast New Mexico, has one of the highest reported numbers of concussions among districts who shared data with SFR.

“Every single state plus DC had passed some form of concussion legislation by 2013,” Comstock says. “That’s astronomically fast compared to other public health issues… It’s fascinating that it happened so quickly. And yet, not a single state has any enforcement arm to their legislation.”

In replying to SFR, some districts did not mention the state law at all in their answers.

State law instructs districts to create their own head injury protocols. But when SFR surveyed them about their policies, most districts cite the NMAA. Few have guidelines unique to their districts.

In regards to return-to-learn, most districts say they follow NMAA protocols. But neither NMAA nor the legislation have any official return-to-learn requirements.

That’s something Sanchez wishes he had included in the original bill.

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Protective equipment is part of the gear in the locker room at Santa Fe High.

The local school district has reported recent concussions from students in the football, soccer, wrestling and cheer programs.

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BACK TO CLASS Researchers and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention agree that student athletes need time to heal both off the field and out of the classroom after concussions.

After a concussion, it is “critical” that the athlete gets time to rest, according to the CDC. Both cognitive and physical strain can take up a brain’s energy that should be spent on healing. A concussion can also affect a student’s ability to concentrate and remember things, as well as bring on increased irritability, sadness and impulsive behavior in the classroom.

The CDC recommends an approach to return-to-learn that involves a school network: parents, teachers, administration, coaches, medical professionals, a school nurse and the students themselves.

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“In hindsight, I wish we would have thought about [return-to-learn] as opposed to just saying something to the effect about ‘keep him out [of play] for a certain amount of time,’ because I think it’s very important,” Sanchez says.

The problem is, only 10 New Mexico school districts, including Santa Fe Public Schools, say they have adopted an already existing return-to-learn program or have created their own system, either formally or informally.

The school districts that do not currently have a return-to-learn program say it’s not required by either state law or NMAA bylaws.

Dr. Monica Vavilala, a professor of anesthesiology and pediatrics at the University of Washington and director of the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, conducts research on concussion protocols for high school students in Washington. She has also published research on variations in state laws governing return-to-learn policies following a concussion.

According to Vavilala, most schools do not have a robust return-to-learn program because of a lack of resources.

Unfortunately, she believes that also contributes to the chronic problem of concussions being underreported.

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“Let’s say schools suddenly figure out that there’s a lot of concussions happening, then they’re left with the issue of ‘what do we do about it?’” Vavilala says.

“Then there’s the pressure between finding a problem and needing to develop a solution and needing to find resources to develop that solution.”

Vavilala says many school districts are not equipped to both pay for and run a comprehensive tracking program for student athletes. To potentially solve that issue, her work is now focused on developing a return-to-learn program that tracks students through the process.

“Because we don’t have a law either in Washington state around [return-tolearn] and because we don’t have funding, we developed a program that can be administered relatively inexpensively and we just call it the Return to Learn Program,” Vavilala tells SFR. “Students are encouraged to report their symptoms and they’re tracked for four weeks.”

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district has a return-to-learn protocol only for what the district calls the most severe cases. The athletic trainer on site confirms the concussion and administration moves ahead with the return-to-learn policy.

SFPS is also one of the few school districts that says it tracks and analyzes concussion numbers by sport. “[The numbers] are definitely analyzed and reviewed because it does come into play when you’re starting to make decisions,” Chavez says. “Are we replacing facilities? Is it equipment that needs to be upgraded? Is it our coaches that need better education?... If we see an uptick, it could lead into a different avenue of how we’re going to provide that support.”

SFR is not the first to look deeper into the concussion landscape in school districts.

The Governor’s Commission on Disability contracted with the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center Brain and Behavioral Institute in 2014.

In partnership, they conducted a statewide survey of school districts on head injury protocols. The results of the survey revealed that fewer than 40% of schools had athletic trainers, more than 50% of the schools said they did not have the resources to manage concussions and more than 70% said they needed better training and more resources, according to reporting by the Las Cruces Sun News.

TRACKING THE HITS While tracking is not required by state law or NMAA bylaws, experts in head injury prevention and protocol believe data is the only way to know whether student athletes are safe and current protocol is working.

Comstock focuses much of her research on the epidemiology of sports-related injuries among children and adolescents and how to prevent them.

She also founded and runs the High School Sports-Related Injury Surveillance System, which tracks nationwide concussion rates from high schools. She says creating head injury interventions based on an analysis of data are necessary to protect student athletes.

“We should be making decisions about the health and safety of young athletes based on data,” Comstock says. “Then anytime you make a change, anytime you do any kind of intervention because you think it’s going to improve health and safety, you need to monitor and evaluate that.”

Without tracking, there is also no way for coaches, medical professionals, parents and administrators to know whether a student has had multiple concussions within a given timeframe. Multiple traumatic brain injuries, or TBIs, could lead to Alzheimer’s,

epilepsy and other brain diseases over time, while repeated hits to the head in a short period of time could even be fatal.

But tracking is not happening for the most part. Many school districts said they do not track concussions because they don’t have the resources to do so.

Comstock says that’s not a valid excuse.

“Every single school…tracks a whole bunch of stuff because they’re required to do it,” Comstock says. “Concussions just haven’t risen to the level of importance to make them do it yet… So that right there belies their contention that they just don’t have the bandwidth to collect and report data. They actually are doing it already.

They just haven’t made the decision that collecting and reporting concussions is important enough for them to do so. And it’s up to you whether you want to think that this is a bottom up or a bottom down problem.”

ATHLETIC TRAINERS MAKE GREAT EYES One of the best ways to spot concussion symptoms in student athletes and track concussion numbers is by employing athletic trainers, according to an analysis by InvestigateWest, Pamplin Media Group and Reveal. They reviewed return-to-play concussion records from high schools

Every single school…tracks a whole bunch of stuff because they’re required to do it. Concussions just haven’t risen to the level of importance to make them do it yet.

-Dr. Dawn Comstock, professor of epidemiology

across Washington state and found that schools with athletic trainers tend to screen more athletes for concussions and better document the students’ path to recovery.

Their investigation echoes a study led by the University of Colorado that found schools with athletic trainers were better at spotting concussions and had lower recurring injury rates.

SFR asked for individual concussion reports from SFPS to dive deeper into the issue. SFPS denied the request, citing

WHAT THE STATE LAW REQUIRES: • Remove athlete immediately from sport if there are symptoms of a concussion • Coaches, parents and athletes need to be officially educated on signs and risks of a concussion • Athletes can’t return to play less than 10 days after symptoms of a concussion—longer than 10 days if symptoms persist • A medical professional has to release an athlete to return to play • School districts must develop their own head injury guidelines • Coaches must follow the district’s head injury protocol • Coaches must watch athletes for signs of a concussion after returning to play

WHAT’S NOT HAPPENING? • Only five districts of those that replied to SFR have developed their own head injury guidelines for the district, per state law • Only 10, including Santa Fe Public Schools, say they have adopted or created a return-to-learn policy, which helps student athletes gradually return to class after concussion symptoms • Only five schools have policies to avert the long-term risk of multiple concussions or subconcussive hits, which some researchers suggest may lead to brain disease. These policies vary, stopping students from participating in sports after three or four concussions

medical privacy, despite SFR’s suggestion to redact all personal information and only look at the students as numbers to analyze concussion protocol and multiple concussions.

In New Mexico, the trainer landscape does not look filled out. Of the school districts that answered, only 15 employ athletic trainers full or part time. Of those, only six school districts had trainers at contact sports games on the sidelines and available during practices at least some of the time.

At SFPS, athletic trainers are contracted through Christus St. Vincent.

Chavez says they are an integral part of the athletic department because during practices and games, the coach’s “job at that time is to coach and instruct. It’s our responsibility to provide that extra layer of safety.”

WHAT NOW? Only eight states in the country have return-to-learn laws, but all 50 states have some type of head injury legislation on the books. The states passed the laws after the dangers of multiple concussions came into the mainstream. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy and other degenerative brain diseases became household names after researchers linked them to repeated hits to the head.

So far, lawmakers are not planning to address return-to-learn or make other amendments to the rules in the current legislative session. Marquez says the NMAA would “work with anybody,” but she says she has not heard from school district officials with concerns over the state law.

Vavilala, who focuses her career on testing and improving head injury protocols, hopes that in a couple of years her Return to Learn Program will be disseminated across the country and “get the kids who are better back to the classroom faster and the kids who really need support referred appropriately.”

For Comstock, she also hopes that return to learn protocols will become more mainstream to protect student athletes.

“We were late to the game on that one unfortunately,” Comstock says. “The CDC initially dropped the ball on returnto-school. Now most people say that the truly best law would also address returnto-learn.”

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THE BEAT GOES ON Texas sculptor Dewane Hughes says he’s been heavily influenced by the Beat Generation and scholars like emmer-effing Noam Chomsky, and while those concepts might be difficult to convey in welded steel sculpture, there’s something about Hughes’ works that makes the connection. Perhaps it’s the playfulness of some of his lines, or how some of the pieces recall everyday scholastic ephemera like the good ol’ dais, but between the hard-won shapes and curves and the densely packed layers of symbolism, a picture emerges. It’s one of toughness and longevity, but soft curves and intriguing angles. Each piece demands thought and time, and Shidoni Gallery and Sculpture Garden’s James McConnell says Hughes is on his way to national notoriety. We wouldn’t be surprised, either. (ADV)

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As such, hit up Tumbleroot this Sunday to ring in some jams with Diers and a cavalcade of other local musical heroes such as Karina Wilson, Ron Crowder, Betsy Scarinzi and tons of others. They’ll even set up a silent auction with local donations and a learning station to arm guests with knowledge on how to detect stroke warning signs. (ADV) Terry Diers Benefit: 5 pm Sunday Jan. 26. $5-$20.

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Immortal Beloved New Mexico Museum of Art collaborates with the British Museum Devotional art is everywhere in museums, particularly when we’re talking about the Renaissance and the countless impactful artists who rose to prominence at the time. But while the famous paintings have their place and are obviously enduring for a reason, the New Mexico Museum of Art’s newest exhibit aims for a more subdued look at the Christian story of Christ. The aptly named Birth, Death and Resurrection of Christ: from Michelangelo to Tiepolo is really more of an illustration show, though prints and copper plates can be found, and while numerous pieces found in the exhibit did wind up becoming full-scale paintings, many others are more like studies, practice pieces and jumping-off points.

The 53 pieces are all on loan from London’s British Museum, and through some of the biggest names in art history, a picture takes form. You’ll find dozens of names you know, but perhaps the most exciting piece of all is Michelangelo’s “The Three Crosses,” an incomplete rendition of the crucifixion of Christ, Dismas the penitent thief and Gestas the impenitent thief.

“This show is exciting because it allows the museum to fulfill our mission to bring the art of the world to New Mexico, and feature the kind of work that is rarely seen in this part of the world,” curator Christian Waguespack tells SFR. “I’m particularly excited to be able to feature biblical scenes by artists like Michelangelo and other prominent historical figures at the same time as the contemporary New Mexican santeros on display in Picturing Passion, who are working with the exact same subject matter.”

So there you have it—old art, newer art, Jesus-y art and important art all in one place. We can recall a time not so long ago when seeing a Michelangelo in Santa Fe just wasn’t a reality. Be there.

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THU/23 BOOKS/LECTURES FIVE YEAR WATER CONSERVATION PLAN PUBLIC FORUM Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 The League of Women Voters Santa Fe County presents a conversation with Christine Chavez of the city's Water Conservation Office to discuss the plan and its impacts on citizens.

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FRI/24 ART OPENINGS BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES 5. Gallery 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700 1950's photos of posed men in sparse clothing from Bruce Bellas, aka Bruce of LA (see A&C, page 23).

5 pm, free DEWANE HUGHES Shidoni Gallery and Sculpture Garden 1508 Bishop’s Lodge Road, 988-8001, ext. 120 New works from a Texas sculptor (see SFR Picks, page 19).

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THE BIRTH, DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF CHRIST: FROM MICHELANGELO TO TIEPOLO New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 A traveling exhibition of prints and drawings from the British Museum illustrates the story of Christ (see SFR Picks, page 17).

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BOOKS/LECTURES FACING CLIMATE DISRUPTION WITH JUNGIAN AND MORAL PERSPECTIVES Santa Fe Center for Spiritual Living 505 Camino de los Marquez, 983-5022 Jungian analysts Guilford Dudley and Monika Wikman discuss the plight of the soul in these uncertain and perhaps catastrophic times.

7-9 pm, $10

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

6:30-9 pm, $30

EVENTS FAMILY FUN NIGHT: PAJAMA PARTY Santa Fe Children's Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 989-8359 Wear your favorite PJs and enjoy interactive storytelling, book bingo, box forts and more.

5:30 pm, $3-$5 SKI SANTA FE FIREBALL RANDO VERTICAL RACE Ski Santa Fe 1477 Hwy. 475, 982-4429 This is a ski mountaineering vertical race. Racers will race from bottom to top with a vertical gain of 1,700 feet. Registration closes 3:30 pm Jan. 24. Headlamps are required.

4:30 pm, $10

MUSIC C S ROCKSHOW La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock and roll.

7:30 pm, free

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

Vive la révolution!

6 pm, free ELECTROVIBE: WINTER MASQUERADE W/ DJ HEATHER Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Don a mask and bring winter clothing, toiletry and sleeping bag donations to benefit St. Elizabeth Shelters and Supportive Housing, then get down to the stylings of Chicago's DJ Heather, along with a huge line-up of other performers.

8 pm, $20 JOHN KURZWEG BAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock 'n' roll.

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Mike Young (second from left) might have moved to Nashville, but Clementine Was Right lives on.

All American Mood An imperfect but solid debut

BY AEDRA BURKE a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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ike Young, founding member of local rock act Clementine Was Right, seems a man with big questions on his mind.

“A person or a group travels, but what does that travel mean in a cultural history?

Or in context of lineage?” he asks. “What does it mean for people to play music in places that aren’t theirs?”

These questions don’t have answers, but they serve as prompts for Young’s writing, floating through the ephemera and directly into the lyrics of Lightning and Regret, the debut full-length LP from the semi-local band.

And while the album is set to debut on Jan. 29, there are more questions hanging over Young’s head. Having recently relocated to Nashville, Young finds himself in a place where he’s “trying to figure

out what it all looks like. It’s fun to explain to people that my band is in New Mexico and I’m in Nashville.”

So where does that leave Clementine Was Right?

“I feel really good about the people in the band. We have a lot of plans to make another record after this one,” Young says.

Generally, this long-distance relationship is a good thing. Lightning and Regret is not a flawless album, but very few are, of course. Still, it opens strong with “Jekyll Beach,” a straightforward classic rock jam that sounds like a Dire Straits B-side from Brothers In Arms. Young has an MFA in fiction writing, and his ability to weave lyrical beauty and pain into a song comes through directly here, setting the tone for the rest of Regret as he sings, “in a mobile home down a burnt-up ridge, my father dies into his oxygen.”

Morose? Yes. Real? Also yes.

This sort of Zevon-esque poetry follows throughout most of the album, but there are missteps in its nine songs.

The second track, for example, while a

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Right succeeds in extracting beauty and meaning in the low places of rural America—in growing up on the wrong side of town, in telling stories about broken people and the fallout from a life of wrong choices. And when Young lets himself find those moments, the band shines.

“I feel that my art sets up shared spaces for catharsis,” he muses.

For the most part, he’s right. When he’s at his best, he is a lyricist on par with some of the better classic rock influences he carries on his sleeve, the Neil Youngs and such. When the band is in their groove, Regret serves as a reminder of why The Greats will always be The Greats. And maybe that’s why, when the album falls flat, it feels so glaringly wrong; it’s not that those mistakes are objectively terrible or lessen the value of the album—who hasn’t written a song about some variation of a onenight stand, or made a bad choice in their production? Rather, it’s because those mistakes are being held up in comparison to the remainder of the album. And there’s plenty of beauty to go around.

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sonic treat, contains lyrics that are (to put it lightly) dreadfully trite. For all the goodwill “Jekyll Beach” builds out of the gate, I don’t know if there’s a way for me to un-hear the opening lines of “Go it Careful,” which feels like every cis dude’s sexual conquest checklist: “I been with the daughter of a Democrat, I been with a hippie and an alley cat.”

And though the song finishes with the sweet note “If you go it careful with my heart, I’ll go it careful with your heart,” there just has to be a better way to say what Young’s trying to say here. Chalk this up to first-release learning experiences, though, because “Go it Careful” is an anomaly. Young’s sharp lyrical sensibility returns quickly, and by the fourth song, Lightning and Regret finds its footing again. Aside from a few production blips (the most egregious being the poorly mixed “Tarot And Whiskey”), the mix and tonal quality is a marked improvement from their first set of straggler song releases, the appropriately titled Stagecoach Demos, from early last year.

“I have a weird anxiety about things that sound lo-fi,” Young explains. “I love it when other people do it, but when my stuff is lofi, it reminds me that I grew up very poor, and I want to avoid thinking about that.”

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LORI OTTINO AND ERIK SAWYER Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Local singer-songwriters on the deck.

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

6-8 pm, free NATHANIEL KRANTZ BAND Turquoise Trail Bar at Buffalo Thunder 30 Buffalo Thunder Trail, 877-848-6337 Country; 21+ after 10 pm.

9:30 pm-1:30 am, free ROSS HAMLIN & FRIENDS San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-3974 Award-winning Santa Fe educator/musician Ross Hamlin presents a night of eclectic duos and trios with a wildly diverse lineup of collaborators (see SFR Picks, page 17).

7:30 pm, $15 SABACO Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Classical guitar.

7-10 pm, free SAVOR El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Cuban street music.

9 pm, $5 SHANE WALLIN Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Soulful blues.

6-10 pm, free TGIF CONCERT: NATASHA STOJANOVSKA First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Natasha Stojanovska plays selections from Levina, Pejacevic, Bacewicz and Stojanovska on piano for your happy hour enjoyment.

5:30-6:30 pm, free THE BARBEDWIRES Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Soulful blues.

6-9 pm, free THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Swinging jazz.

7:30-10:30 pm, free TOOTIE HEATH TRIO Paradiso 903 Early St. The youngest brother of the Royal Heath Family of jazz masters, veritable founders of the arts, performs on drums and is joined by Bert Dalton on piano and Colin Deuble on bass. Call 946-7934 for tickets.

7 pm, $20-$25 VINCENT COPIA Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Acoustic post-punk folk.

7-10 pm, free

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THEATER THE MERCHANT OF VENICE The Swan 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 Upstart Crows of Santa Fe present Shakespeare's classic, unabridged, with three casts of young actors aged 10-18.

7 pm, $10

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

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

10-11 am, free

SAT/25 ART OPENINGS COMMUNITY THROUGH MAKING Museum of Int’l Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Local and Peruvian artists explore how art shapes healthy and vibrant communities. The exhibition experiments with community curation, filling the gallery with video, stories and artworks as created and told by museum program participants over the course of the spring and summer of 2018.

2-3 pm, $6-$12

BOOKS/LECTURES PUBLIC LECTURE: THE BIRTH, DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF CHRIST New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 British Museum curator Hugo Chapman, keeper of prints and drawings, discusses the new exhibit.

10:30-11:30 am, free

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

6:30-9 pm, $30 SWING DANCE St. John's College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, 984-6000 A day of swing dance lessons and a 1920s themed evening dance with live music by Eddie Brewer and the Manic Episodes.

10 am-11:30 pm, $17-$30

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

8 am-4 pm, free

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ROBERT BURNS NIGHT Scottish Rite Center 463 Paseo de Peralta, 982-4414 Help restore and preserve the Scottish Rite Temple with an evening celebrating the Bard of Scotland, including a traditional dinner, pipers, Celtic music, songs, dance and guided tours of the building.

4 pm, $65 SKI SANTA FE FIREBALL RANDO INDIVIDUAL RACE Ski Santa Fe 1477 Hwy. 475, 982-4429 A backcountry hiking/ climbing ski event where racers challenge each other to hike and ski the most challenging terrain at Ski Santa Fe. Registration closes 7:00am Jan 24. More information online at cosmicski.com.

7:45-11:15 am, $30-$75

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

5:30 pm, free SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-7726 Fresh food, crafts and other delights directly from the folks who grow ‘em.

8 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC "HEALEN'S NEW 52" LISTENING PARTY Santa Fe Brewing Company 35 Fire Place, 424-3333 Sean Healen is a prolific New Mexico-based award-winning singer songwriter. 21+.

4 pm, free C S ROCKSHOW La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock and roll.

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The Fine Art of Early Gay Erotica Bruce of Los Angeles comes to Santa Fe

BY JC GONZO a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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raded discreetly and thinly veiled as physique images, photographer Bruce Bellas’ scantily-clad and nude Adonises of the 1950s and ’60s impacted a generation of queer art, erotica and pornography.

Originally a chemist from Nebraska, Bellas adopted a new California lifestyle as Bruce of Los Angeles after he headed west in the late ’40s. There, he’d work with the clothed and unclothed male figure in a distinctly homoerotic milieu years before publishing full-frontal male nudity was legalized. He was, in a sense, the creator of beefcake.

“It was sort of a poorly kept secret,” 5. Gallery owner and curator Max Baseman tells SFR, “or had just enough of a veneer so that people could pretend to look the other way.”

5. Gallery is an independent space born of Baseman’s impulse to showcase work he finds interesting. The freedom and flexibility allotted to a warehouse gallery like Baseman’s has brought a wide range of work to the venue, including a decidedly unconventional though thoughtfully curated array of local and national artists. But what brings the photographs of Bellas to Baseman’s space for the upcoming Bruce of Los Angeles exhibit? exhibit?

“They’re gorgeous and fantastical in a number of ways,” Baseman explains. “The photos may be of giant beach hunks, but there’s something sensitive and tender in there.”

Though his work has become well-known and widely-circulated, Bellas’ life remains somewhat enigmatic, “as people behind the camera can be,” according to Baseman, but there is familiarity in the images. Whether it’s vaguely recognizing the face of a model—a famous bodybuild--

er, perhaps—or the classic Hollywood lighting left over from the Golden Age and the models’ contrapposto posing and campy staging, the essence of a particular Hollywood era plays a role in the portraits.

“They’re an erotic fantasy, certainly, but they’re also historical fantasies,” Baseman says. “He goes into Grecian territory along with Hollywood camp. Whether the men are in miner’s uniforms, cowboy hats, or with swords—it’s all fantasy.”

The fantasies played out in cheeky nudes and formal postures were vital for the homosexual underground of the time.

Queer folk were hungry for their desires to be validated, expressed and consumed as images, and Bellas launched a successful physique magazine, The Male Figure, in 1956, showcasing and promoting his

own work. Nude prints were sold through subterfuge in major cities’ hotel rooms rather than risk mailing them cross-country; Bellas played his cards right and was never convicted of any crime, but when depictions of male full-frontal nudity become legal in 1968, his body of work suddenly became tame in the face of the new and heightened pornography and erotica that defined the 1970s. Bellas died not long after, while vacationing with model Scotty Cunningham in 1974.

“What were considered hidden worlds at the time have now become very open in some places,” Baseman says, reflecting on Bellas’ era and the social change that followed.

Did that change re-contextualize Bellas’ body of work as fine art over time, or were the collectors of his heyday consuming it as both erotica and something more?

“I’m sure there were people who recognized it,” Baseman says, “but they were and are erotic photographs—the moment of covertly buying one of these pieces must’ve been invaluable.”

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I try to imagine that feeling in today’s world, when images of homosexual lust can be found more readily than ever. Yet, I experience a precious self-awareness in pondering the thought as I gaze at Bellas’ vintage prints. The power of their history takes on an intimate moment between the viewer and the photograph, as it must have over the decades since Bellas began. His work inspired countless queer photographers and artists who followed, such as Robert Mapplethorpe and Bruce Weber, who have since gone on to inspire even newer generations in their own respective ways. Still, the value of Bruce of Los Angeles’ images remains as both a testament to surreptitiously thriving within underground culture and in their direct, raw beauty.

“They come from a certain time, but in a way they look timeless…and in another way,” Baseman says, “he sets the future.”

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BLOOMING LIKE A CACTUS I got a great piece of advice when my infant daughter’s “four month sleep regression” felt like it was ruining my life. I had written one of those desperate 3 am parenting posts you find in family Facebook groups, the kind where parents ask total strangers how high a fever needs to be to schlep your baby into the emergency room, or whether this rash looks like bed bugs, or how to win a nasty custody battle. My post was a plea for advice about how to get my kid sleeping and stop the daily hemorrhaging of my sanity. A few people offered concrete tips on bedtime routines and white noise machines, but the gem that stuck out was an acquaintance who said the only way she got through was to “surrender, accept and lower my expectations.”

This became my parenting mantra for several months. I’m an ambitious person, but keeping an infant alive brought me to my knees and required me to get a lot less done, give up control and accept that I was on the kind of deeply human and tedious journey people don’t write about enough because it isn’t sexy or spectacular. It required me to go to bed by 9 pm, relinquish my social life and take a lot of short, shitty naps when I would rather have been out in the world or in my studio. I kept thinking of something a friend told me years ago about getting through an emotional breakdown—sometimes you can thrive and bloom like a flower, but sometimes you just have to survive like a cactus.

I love the extravagance of flowers, but I was in full cactus mode—spines and all. I was not so fun to be around.

My wife suffered.

Like all things, this season passed.

Eventually, the baby and I slept again, and I did in fact leave the house, resume my friendships and return to creating beautiful things and getting involved in too many projects. Cacti have some pretty gorgeous flowers when the time is right.

But now, of course, the world is going to hell. Ok, it’s been going to hell for quite a while, but I was too sleep-deprived to pay close attention for few months there. Now that I’m awake and the Trumpocalypse is in full swing, while the bushfires burn in

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Australia and the glaciers melt, I find myself revisiting and challenging that mantra: surrender, accept and lower my expectations.

What does it mean to surrender to the fact that I don’t know if our planet will be livable by the time our daughter is an adult? Am I supposed to accept that we have an incredibly dangerous climate-denying rapist in the White House and a bunch of spineless sycophants in the Senate?

What do we resist, and what do we accept? And how do we resist when it’s so hard to participate? When organizing meetings don’t offer childcare and usually happen after bedtime? When our bodies are so worn out from birth and caretaking that we want to collapse by dinner?

How do we be part of movements for change when we are in cactus mode?

Do we wait for another season? How many more seasons do we have left?

A few weeks ago I responded to one of those desperate 3 am Facebook posts by another parent, a mother who was trying to accept the fact that most of her New Year’s resolutions were not going to happen this year (because toddlers), and I responded: “Yeah, there’s all these things I want to do tomorrow and this year and then there’s my kid who suddenly appears to be coming down with a cold and the only thing she’ll eat when sick is breast milk from the boob, so I will probably be home all day with her tomorrow getting ‘nothing’ done except keeping us both alive—and that’s a lot.”

It’s a lot. But I really want to know, is it enough? What does it mean to keep us both alive on the daily, and what can I do to be part of keeping us alive in the long term, on this planet in such crisis?

My wife and I pass the toddler back and forth like a baton in a relay race so we can do things like show up to plan an action, finish writing a column or attend an open mic. We sneak peeks at the news when we’re on the toilet and try to have adult conversations about something other than diapers and daycare a few times a week. She’s getting involved with groups like our local Extinction Rebellion chapter and I help activists heal their trauma. Is that enough? What does enough mean at this moment in history? When is it enough to be a cactus, and when is it necessary to bloom?

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CARLOS SANTISTEVAN; SHAUN SANDOR Lost Padre Records 905 1/2 W. Alameda St., 310-6389 Experimental sounds from New Mexico artists.

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

Vive la révolution!

6 pm, free DANA SMITH Upper Crust Pizza 329 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0000 Original country-tinged folk songs.

6 pm, free GUSTAVO PIMENTEL El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Classical flamenco guitar.

7:30-10:30 pm, free HIGH DESERT PLAYBOYS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Country western on the deck.

3 pm, free JOURNEYS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Take a journey with the Pro Musica Orchestra and the acclaimed pianist Jeremy Denk in works by Mendelssohn and Schumann. The concert opens with a work by Pulitzer Prizewinner Melinda Wagner and is rounded off with Haydn’s last symphony, the grand Symphony 104, “London.” Thomas O’Connor gives a free pre-concert talk one hour prior.

4-6 pm, $20-$60 JULIAN DOSSETT TRIO Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Delta blues.

8 pm, free KORVIN ORKESTAR W/ ROBBY ROTHSCHILD Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Incendiary Balkan brass music.

8-11 pm, free LOVE & HAPPINESS Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 DJs Raashan Ahmad & Ride bring the best in soul, funk, motown with tasty remixes and classics.

9 pm, free NOSOTROS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Everyone's favorite Latin jammers.

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PINT & A HALF Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Alt. country.

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

7-10 pm, free ROGER JAMESON AND THE JADED HEART BAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock n' roll.

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

5:30 pm, free ROSE, WHITE & BLUES Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Smoldering blues chanteuse Myrrhine Rosemary and Santa Fe's most beloved former bellboy Pete White tease your ears with a mix of blues, R&B and soul.

6-9 pm, free SOUL FOUNDATION Ski Santa Fe 1477 Hwy. 475, 982-4429 Funk, blues, R&B and Latin jazz.

11 am-3 pm, free STEPHANIE HATFIELD: OUT THIS FELL RELEASE PARTY Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 An indie folk pop album tells the story of the artist's physical, mental and emotional growth since coming to the Southwest. Cost includes copy of the CD (see SFR’s online music section for more info).

8 pm, $20 THE BUS TAPES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Alternative folk-rock with funk 'n' blues for good measure.

8 pm, free

THEATER THE MERCHANT OF VENICE The Swan 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 Upstart Crows of Santa Fe present Shakespeare's classic, unabridged, with three casts of young actors aged 10-18.

7 pm, $10

LGBTQ IMPROV CLASS Santa Fe Improv Warehouse 21, 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 395-0580 Santa Fe Improv is thrilled to announce their first LGBTQIA+ class series.

Taught by Grace Penzell, the class is a low-stress, high-fun opportunity to be in a safe and supportive community while learning both short form games and the beginnings of long form improvisation. Classes are weekly through Feb. 22.

A sliding scale for the fee is absolutely available.

2-4 pm, $140

SUN/26 BOOKS/LECTURES HERE, NOW, ALWAYS: A FINAL LOOK Museum of Indian Arts & Culture 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 The museum's permanent exhibit documenting the history, geography and lifeways of Indigenous peoples is closing for over a year to undergo a $5 million renovation. Today is your last chance to see it, with a panel discussion

by Bruce Bernstein, former MIAC director, and Lillie Lane (Diné) alongside other Native co-curators.

2-4 pm, $6-$12

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

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

7 pm, free TERRY DIERS BENEFIT Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery, 2791 Agua Fria St., 780-5730 Local musician Diers recently visited the hospital, so local musicians came together to rock out and raise some funds.

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HOW IT IS AND HOW IT COULD BE Thubten Norbu Ling Buddhist Center 1807 2nd Street, #35, 660-7056 Investigate “samsara,” the eternal cycle of dissatisfaction, and then learn what “nirvana” is and how to achieve a total transformation of existence and cease dissatisfaction.

10:30 am, free

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

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

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JOURNEYS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Take a Journey with the Pro Musica Orchestra and pianist Jeremy Denk in works by Mendelssohn and Schumann.

The concert opens with a work by Pulitzer Prize-winner Melinda Wagner and is rounded off with Haydn’s last symphony, the grand Symphony 104, “London.” Thomas O’Connor gives a free pre-concert talk one hour prior.

3 pm, $20-$60 KEY FRANCES BAND Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Blues on the deck.

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

12-2 pm, free OSCAR BUTLER Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Solo acoustic guitar.

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

7-9 pm, free

THEATER DON'T CALL ME YOUNG LADY! Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A silver-haired woman walks into a bar. The bartender asks, "What can I get for you, young lady?" Thus begins Carolyn Meyer's story of how she, the author of more than 60 children’s books, steps out of her comfort zone at the age of 80 and into an improv comedy class, goes on to standup, and ultimately finds a new career as a storyteller and comedian. Ticket price includes tea and snack service before performance.

4 pm, $22 THE MERCHANT OF VENICE The Swan 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 Upstart Crows presents Shakespeare's classic, unabridged, with three casts of young actors aged 10-18.

2 pm, $10

WORKSHOP BELLY DANCE CLASSES: LEVELS 1 & 2 Lightfoot Studio 332 Camino del Monte Sol, 369-2055 Groove to dynamic classical and contemporary Middle-Eastern and world music. Awaken your sensuality and tone your core in a fun, nurturing space. The first hour is an intro class, with the second hour progressing into more challenging moves.

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Tricia English’s day job is that of interior designer, but her true passion project is Unum Magazine (unummagazine. com), an online and limited edition print product that focuses on the artistic and cultural work of women around the world. English cooked up the idea while working in fashion, attending the Melbourne School of Design in Australia and otherwise hoping to discover what would happen if a media product focused on uniting and celebrating women.

The next big issue drops March 9 alongside an Unum party at downtown restaurant Paloma, but we couldn’t wait that long to ask English a few questions.(Alex De Vore) Give us the elevator pitch. What is Unum, exactly?

It’s a magazine that highlights the contributions and achievements of women all over the world. We basically curate an issue based on a specific theme, and we’ve done anything from science to art to agriculture. We bring women together from different parts of the world to show different ways we could be united, know each other and connect. They open up their lives, and the magazine is written in first person—we make it completely in their voice, so it’s like reading their own story.

You’ve been traveling a lot for Unum, most recently to Mexico. Was an international angle always part of the idea, and do you have countries in mind for the future?

Yes. When I started it I had a dream of doing four issues a year in four different countries. It’s the same kind of idea, but instead of being a theme based on art, we’d make it about the country. It is a hybrid magazine, so it’s an LLC, but it has a nonprofit umbrella [Littleglobe]; it’s under that 501c3. So, someone generously donated money last year, and I went to them and said instead of hiring more writers or photographers, how would they feel about me traveling and highlighting other countries? They were thrilled that’s what I wanted to do. We’re thinking Colombia next. We’re starting closer [to home], but ideally, there are countries we’re looking at in Southeast Asia and Africa. We want to highlight countries that don’t get enough recognition, and honestly, the work there doesn’t get enough recognition. Because of what I’ve done in the last two-and-a-half years, I’ve met a ton of people who drive me to want to travel internationally.

I hear you’ll have some kind of physical space in the works. What’ll that look like?

There’s not a physical space in the works...but we’re branching Unum out into its own 501c3 entity, so it will not just be a magazine at that point. Ideally, because of the outpour of enthusiasm, we want to keep [the magazine] for sure. The main thing I’m adamant about doing is…people who’ve never written for a magazine, people who haven’t been in a magazine, I want to give them a shot. I have writers in different countries who love writing, and I give them the platform to do that. Ideally, I’m working on getting board members from different countries, so we can make it very international, the opportunity to do more events—I’d want all the funding to go into the foundation which would then feed into projects by women here and in different parts of the country and different parts of the world instead of it just being an opportunity for media. Unum didn’t start out in print, now it’s in print—a limited edition print—but I’m very open to whatever comes next. It’s supporting women, but you don’t have to be a woman to be a part of it.

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MON/27 BOOKS/LECTURES DREAM UP YOUR BEST LIFE...AND LIVE IT Montezuma Lodge 431 Paseo de Peralta, 670-3068 The Transition Network presents Laura McAllister Hall to discuss building a personal vision and designing your best life. Women 50 and forward welcome.

5:45-7:30 pm, $5 JACK LOEFFLER: HEADED INTO THE WIND Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Loeffler is a bioregional aural historian, author and a recipient of the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. He discusses Southwestern traditional cultures in the wake of Manifest Destiny.

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DANCE MONDAY NIGHT SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, 470-7077 Arrive at 7 pm for a lesson if you desire, then get dancin' to DJ'ed music. Singles are just as welcome as partners, all ages are invited—and if you'd just like to sit, watch and listen, there are also chairs for spectators (and they won't think it's weird!).

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7 pm, free THE SANTA FE HARMONIZERS REHEARSAL Zia United Methodist Church 3368 Governor Miles Road, 471-0997 The barbershop chorus is looking for men and women who can carry a tune; join in on any of the four-part harmony parts (tenor, lead, baritone or bass). Directed by Maurice Sheppard. For more information, call Marv (6996922) or Bill (424-9042).

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LA TIERRA TOASTMASTERS Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Wanting to improve public speaking? Discover where one can advance their skills in a lively and rewarding group.

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12-1 pm, free MEDITATION 101 Thubten Norbu Ling Buddhist Center 1807 2nd Street, #35, 660-7056 An introductory course that provides an overview of meditation including breathing, mindfulness, visualization and analytical meditation.

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FOOD DUMPLING POP-UP Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Brent Jung serves up Korean dumplings and more.

4 pm, $10 THE HORSE SHELTER'S EQ-WINE FINE DINING FUNDRAISER Restaurant Martín 526 Galisteo St., 820-0919 Enjoy a five-course meal with wine pairings and help support the rescue of abused, abandoned and neglected horses. Half the ticket price is tax-deductible. Please purchase tickets in advance online or by calling 471-6179.

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MUSIC CAREY MURDOCK Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Rock n' roll.

6-9 pm, free COWGIRL KARAOKE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Michèle Leidig hosts Santa Fe's most famous night of karaoke.

9 pm, free THEO KATZMAN Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Contemporary singer-songwriter on a variety of accompanying instruments.

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

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STATE AND FATE OF OUR MOUNTAIN FORESTS New Mexico Land Conservancy 5430 Richards Ave., 986-3801 Research ecologist Craig Allen speaks on the future impacts of climate change on Southwestern forests, including effects from wildfires.

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新年快乐 to write about any of our local Chinese offerings, and this seemed like fortuitous timing to do so. I perused Google reviews and chose two (there’s only so much I can eat) of the highest-rated— Lulu’s Chinese Cuisine & Bar (3011 Cerrillos Road, 473-9898) and Chow’s Asian Bistro (720 St. Michael’s Drive, 471-7120).

Lulu’s was my first stop. My dining partner and I were immediately seated in a high-backed booth upon arrival, our drink orders appearing within minutes.

And then we sat. And sat. And sat. While

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that was literally orange but also tasted of oranges, the only thing sesame about the tofu was the little sprinkle of seeds. Aside from the yummy veggies, dining at Lulu’s was a mostly disappointing experience.

My fortune cookie read, “A sense of humor is one of your greatest assets.” Indeed.

At Chow’s, a festive interior immediately signaled a change of intention, as if to say “we want you to like it here!” Our server was a true pro, attentive and actively offering suggestions. Our orders were taken as soon as our menus were down and, to give it all a fair shake, we ordered the same dishes we’d tried at Lulu’s— fried rice, sesame tofu, and kung pao tofu ($10.95 each).

Our server (and the menu) proclaimed “Dragon sesame” as the most popular dish at Chow’s, and for good reason. The cubes of tofu were deep-fried golden and crispy on the outside, soft and juicy on the inside, and ideally engineered to absorb the orange sauce which, in this case, was sweet but also savory thanks to the addition of garlic and chile. The kung pao tofu was served up with fresh veggies and nuts and packed an appropriate spicy punch.

The tofu was wok-fried versus deep-fried, allowing the sauce to fully coat the protein, rather than absorb it, leaving drippings to spoon over the fried rice. As for the fried rice, well, again, fried rice is always good.

My fortune cookie read, “Happiness is not pleasure, it’s victory.” And Chow’s was the clear victor here.

If Chinese food isn’t your thing, perhaps Vietnamese is? You may think you’d be hard-pressed to find a true T t fête in our neck of the woods but, luckily, Open Kitchen (openkitchenevents.com) is hosting a traditional Lunar New Year dinner crafted by chef and owner HueChan Karels. Each course of the Feb. 1 celebration will be paired with sake chosen by certified sake sommelier Linda Tetrault, co-owner of locally based sake importer and distributor Floating World.

A deliciously memorable way to ring in the rat!

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he Lunar New Year is nearly upon us! The celebration, which falls on Saturday Jan. 25 this year, is based on the cycles of the moon. It also signifies new beginnings, just as with the solar-based New Year, but because it celebrates according to the rhythms of nature, it just feels more powerful. Maybe that’s because I am a moon child. Or, maybe it’s because 2020 is the Year of the Rat—of which I am also.

Either way, I’m not the only one excited about the Lunar New Year. Converse, Nike and New Balance have dropped Year of the Rat sneakers and even Gucci and Diane von Furstenberg have similarly released rodent-themed collections. If I were so inclined, l might throw on some Year of the Rat Jack Purcells ($100) and a Gucci coat ($4,900) and head up to the Museum of International Folk Art where, on Sunday Feb. 2, they’ll welcome the new year with lion dances and Japanese Taiko drumming performances. I would also gorge myself on my spirit food: fat, fragrant, delicious dumplings.

Dumplings are one of the signature foods of the Lunar New Year, signifying wealth and prosperity, but there are also pork, chicken and fish dishes offering similar tidings. We already know Santa Fe has some damn fine dumplings at Dumpling Tea & Dim Sum but, I wondered, what about other Chinese foods? While the Lunar New Year is celebrated in countries other than China, I realized I had yet

we waited, we discussed our hopes that the lack of attention to ambiance, and us, might be due to an overabundance of attention to the food. For 30 minutes we struggled from within the confines of our vinyl-lined nest to make eye contact with someone, anyone, who might take our order. When someone finally did, apologizing for the wait, we hoped the food wouldn't take as long to cook as the wait.

Approximately 45 seconds after ordering, food started arriving at our table.

Perhaps ordering here is done by telepathy? The fried rice ($2 per person) was first, steaming hot and calling to us to dive in. We did. It was good. But then, fried rice is always good. An order of sesame tofu ($9.95) and kung pao tofu ($9.95) followed. The kung pao was softly fried and studded with crisp veggies and chewy nuts, but with no spice whatsoever, the sesame was confusing. Swaddled in a thick, sticky, overly sweet orange sauce

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Richard Stanely (an uncredited writer for the disastrous 1996 film Island of Doctor Moreau) puts on his director’s cap for Color Out of Space, a new cosmic horror flick based on a Lovecraft story wherein a literal color from space crashlands on a farm and starts wreaking havoc.

The film version follows the Gardner family, a new-to-the-country bunch who seem to be running from some unexplained trauma and for whom farm life is still an adjustment. Alpacas roam free, as do the children. Patriarch Nathan (Nicolas Cage) seems well-suited for the new environs, experimenting with recipes and curating a top-notch wine cellar, while wife Theresa (Joely Richardson) and the kids (Madeleine Arthur, Brendan Meyer and Julian Hilliard) struggle to get onboard while maintaining their Alexandrian witching rituals, love of weed and dog ownership respectively; in the distance, a squatter named Ezra (Tommy Chong, somehow) keeps to himself with his cat, G-Spot. A cancer subplot is briefly mentioned, though never really explored.

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Or some kind of alien? Nobody really knows (Lovecraft loved unknowable horror, didn’t he?), but a super-hot hydrologist named Ward (Elliot Knight) is pretty sure it contaminated the water, so no one should drink it. But they already did drink the water! And if it’s not Nic Cage’s character phasing into a bizarre surfer dude rendition of his hateful (and dead) father while exploding on his family without warning, or his son bafflingly unable to put the fucking alpacas back in the barn, it’s Joely Richardson’s absorbing other people and transforming into a horrifying John Carpenter-esque hybrid spider-person.

Where Color Out of Space fails is in trying to take itself seriously, particularly in the meandering setup and exposition. Characters deliver “As we both know, X happened before we came here,” kind of lines, and clunkily introduced supporting cast members make no discernable mark or difference. When things do finally get cooking, however, it becomes a crazy enjoyable monster movie with some pretty cool practical effects and a wild-

ly unsettling payoff. Stanley’s direction thrives in the moments that could have felt silly but suddenly seem high-stakes, and Cage really leans into…his whole thing in a way he hasn’t since Con Air (this is meant as a compliment). Everything becomes a chaotic mess of sci-fi creeps and scares, shot surprisingly beautifully against an untamed nearby forest.

It feels old-school in a way studios have been trying to replicate to no avail in recent years (go to hell, Tom Cruise Mummy), and it must have been a complete blast to make. For audiences, however, it’s tricky to navigate a solid hour before things get weird. But get weird they do, and for those who just want a bit of outlandish sci-fi/ horror, this is just the ticket.

COLOR OUT OF SPACE Directed by Stanley With Cage, Richardson, Arthur, Meyer, Hilliard, Chong and Knight Jean Cocteau Cinema, NR, 111 min.

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World War I went down at such a strange cusp in human history—the politics, the evolving technology, the rapidly changing world—that it wound up trapped between modernist experimental ideas and the tail end of aging battlefield tactics. The weaponry, for example, was the most lethal and advanced ever conceived at the time, and those who used it were so new to the equipment that the violence borne down from all sides was some new kind of horrific.

Director Sam Mendes (Skyfall) knows this intimately, because his newest, the harrowing 1917, turns out to be based on a true story related by his grandfather Alfred, who was really there in the trenches of France when the German army enacted a strategic retreat to sow discord, false confidence and confusion among the British troops.

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the perceived advantage and dug in with 1,600 men some miles away. If they fail, Chapman and Schofield are told, it’ll be a massacre; they’ll need to go on foot, and the stakes are even higher as Blake’s older brother is meant to lead a garrison into battle at the new front line.

Much has been made of Mendes’ seemingly cut-free film, and one really must see it to believe it. 1917 is a technical marvel both in terms of immersion and pacing, but this is no meathead, glory of war nonsense crammed with action scenes and bulging muscles. The violence plays out more on a macro scale, and the conditions facing our heroes are actually few and rather muted; the tone is one of quiet desperation more than it is of fearless heroes meting out righteous bullets at a faceless enemy. In fact, 1917 does not glorify or try to justify war, it simply tells a story contained therein.

It’s not all grand. Sometimes a massive scene crammed with extras wears thin, seemingly drawn out to justify the large scope. Nobody listens to anyone, either, and a scene with a mud-bound truck just feels pointless. Of course, it’s possible Mendes was trying to honor his grandfather by

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who have lost countless loved ones to the cause Franz rebukes, begin to ostracize Fani and her children, forcing her to do all the strenuous farm labor with only the help of her equally petite sister (Maria Simon) and Franz’ stern mother Rosalia (Karin Neuhäuser).

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

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

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

It’s hard not to wish Franz would just give up already, especially as we watch Fani and her family suffer the hardships of life without their beloved around. But with all the heavy-handed Christ allegories being drawn—cue Bach’s St. Matthew Passion—we pretty much know that isn’t going to happen.

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

including smaller events, and they even sort of humanize some of the nameless soldiers. But the true surprise of the film are the moments of beauty that sneak up on us: cherry blossoms sailing through the wind, a bucket of milk discovered undisturbed, new life growing from the rubble of a destroyed country town—hope, above all else. (ADV)

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that women in the 19th century didn’t have a plethora of options (nor did they in the 18th century, which is when another famous novel about sisters was written from which this review’s opening lines are cribbed).

Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women tells the story of four sisters: Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth March (Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh and Eliza Scanlen), growing up poor in New England during the Civil War. Despite having little, the sisters have spunk and dreams. Particularly Jo who, like Alcott, is the writer in the family. Little Women was a huge hit when it was published in 186869, and it has never been out of print since then. And yet, at the same time, it’s a problematic text if you don’t like stories about women getting married.

Director Greta Gerwig is not the first filmmaker to grapple with contemporary readers’ dissatisfaction with the marriage plot of Little Women. But she is the first to navigate it in a satisfying way. While the film captures cinematically the domestic warmth of the story—the March home is cozy and the sisters bedecked in costumes for the plays they put on for one another and the frocks they wear to parties—it also breaks a domestic story wide open. Gerwig accomplishes this with a narrative slice-and-dice of the original story’s timeline, and an imagined amplification of Jo’s career as a writer.

Ronan acts winningly as Jo, a surrogate for Alcott, who hoped her heroine could end up a literary spinster. “I’m sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for,” Jo says to her mother Marmee (Laura Dern). Alcott also was sick of it. She was involved in the women’s suffrage movement, and the first women to register to vote in Concord, Massachusetts.

Little Women doesn’t just pass the Bechdel test; it pays tribute to a woman writer who pushed at the constraints of her time. (Julia Goldberg)

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

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

They spend their days bouncing around lush green hills, tilling fields, picking wildflowers

and harvesting wheat—all the while stealing loving glances and childlike smiles reminiscent of Bill and Abby, the love struck sharecroppers from Malick’s 1978 film Days of Heaven.

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

But the trouble does reach their valley in 1940 as their pastoral bliss is shattered when Franz is summoned into the Army. At this point in the war, every Austrian soldier called for active duty had to swear loyalty to Hitler.

Franz doesn’t agree with the Nazi agenda and becomes a conscientious objector by refusing to swear the oath, getting himself imprisoned in Berlin.

While he remains steadfast in his beliefs— not even able to swear the oath with metaphorically crossed fingers—the townspeople,

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Bombshell is hands-down one of the best choices on the big screen this blockbuster holiday season. The eye-catching trio of blondes who make up its core cast is almost an intergenerational look. With Nicole Kidman as Gretchen Carlson, Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly, and Margot Robbie as a fictional catch-all for the new set, Kayla Pospisil, they represent decades of women journalists fighting their way through through corporate television media, its pervasive sexism and worse.

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Sandman didn’t get the Oscar nom, but Uncut Gems is still a beast of a movie.

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

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

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

The tone of the whole production leaves room for the audience to cheer for the obvious heroines and hiss at the blatant villains, even get in a few chuckles and maybe a tear or two.

How those lines are blurred—even in who is labeled as winner and loser—also factors into what makes this one a hit. (Julie Ann Grimm)

The Safdies have a knack for capturing Howard’s sliver of New York—from the nonstop dialogue to the cacophony of cars honking on the street to the sound of the incessant buzzing of the double-bulletproof entrance to his shop. It’s a completely immersive experience that you sort of can’t wait to get out of.

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

The opal brings a sense of mysticism to Howard’s seedy world. Daniel Lopatin’s ethereal soundtrack, part sci-fi, part outer-space and part yoga class, adds another layer of depth, elevating Uncut Gems from the excruciatingly real streets of New York to the cosmos.

An absolute must-see for those who could handle 48 hours in Midtown Manhattan. (AS)

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

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

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

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

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) declared that English writer Lord Byron (1788–1824) was the greatest genius of the 19th century. Here’s an interesting coincidence: Byron regarded Goethe as the greatest genius of the 19th century. I bring this to your attention, Aries, in the hope that it will inspire you to create a similar dynamic in your own life during the coming months. As much as possible, surround yourself with people whom you think are wonderful and interesting and enlivening—and who think you are wonderful and interesting and enlivening.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Learning to love is difficult, and we pay dearly for it,” wrote the serious and somber author Fyodor Dostoevsky. “It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship,” he added. All that’s true, I think. To hone our ability to express tenderness and warmth, even when we’re not at our best, is the most demanding task on earth. It requires more courage than that of a soldier in the frenzy of battle, as much imagination as a poet, and diligence equal to that of an architect supervising the construction of a massive suspension bridge. And yet on the other hand—contrary to what Dostoevsky believed— sometimes love is mostly fun and inspiring and entertaining and educational. I suspect that the coming weeks will be one of those phases for you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus-born Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) was a renowned German composer who lived most of his life is Germany and Austria. He became so famous and well-respected that England’s Cambridge University offered him an honorary degree if he would visit the campus. But Brahms was too timid to risk crossing the English Channel by boat. (There were no airplanes and Chunnel in those days.) He declined the award. I beg you not to do anything even remotely like that in the coming weeks, Taurus. Please summon the gumption necessary to claim and gather in all you deserve.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): According to my analysis of the astrological omens, the coming weeks will be one of those rare times when you can safely engage with influences that might normally rattle you. You’ll be protected as you wander into the unknown and explore edgy mysteries. Your intuition will be highly reliable if you make bold attempts to solve dilemmas that have previously confounded and frustrated you. If you’ve been waiting for the perfect moment to get a bit wild and exploratory, this is it.

DR. JOANNA CORTI, DOM, Powerful Medicine, Powerful Results. Homeopathy, Acupuncture. Micro-current (Acupuncture without needles.) Parasite, Liver/cleansSCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): How well do you nurture es. Nitric Oxide. Pain Relief. yourself, dear Scorpio? How diligent are you in providTransmedium Energy Healing. ing yourself with the sustenance that ensures your body, mind, and soul will thrive? Are you imaginative in Worker’s Compensation and the ways that you keep yourself excited about life? Do Auto Accidents Insurance you take strong measures to avoid getting attached to accepted 505-501-0439 mediocre pleasures, even as you consistently hone your focus on the desires that lead you to joy and deep satisfaction? The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to meditate on these questions.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Seven books of the Bible’s Old Testament refer to a magical place called Ophir. It was a source of exotic finery and soulful treasures like gold, peacocks, jewels, frankincense, and precious sandalwood. One problem: No one, not even a Biblical scholar, has ever figured out where it was.

Zimbabwe? India? Tunisia? Its location is still unknown. I am bringing this to your attention because I suspect that in 2020 there’ll be a good chance you’ll discover and gain access to your own metaphorical Ophir: a fount of interesting, evocative resources. For best results, be CANCER (June 21-July 22): J. M. W. Turner (1775– primed and eager to offer your own skills and riches in 1851) is regarded as one of England’s greatest painters. He’s best known for his luminous and imaginative exchange for what this fount can provide to you. landscapes. His experimental use of light and color CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn filmmaker influenced the Impressionist painters who came after Steven Soderbergh says it’s crucial for us to have a him. But the weird thing is that after his death, many well-developed story about who we are and what of his works were lost for decades. In 1939, a famed we’re doing with our lives. It’s so important, he art historian found over a hundred of them rolled up feels, that it should be the trigger that flings us out like tarpaulins in the basement of an art museum. of bed every morning. We’ve got to make our story Let’s apply this event as a metaphor for what’s ahead so vivid and interesting that it continually motivates in your life, Cancerian. I suspect that buried or lost us in every little thing we do. Soderbergh’s counsel elements of your past will soon be rediscovered and is always good to keep in mind, of course, but it will restored. I bet it will be fun and illuminating! be even more so for you in the coming months.

Why? Because your story will be expanding and LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In my early adult life, I lived deepening, and you’ll need to make the necessary below the poverty line for many years. How did that adjustments in how you tell your story to yourself. impact me? Here’s one example: I didn’t own a matAQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’m a big fan of selftress from ages 23 to 39, but rather slept on a twoediting. For example, every horoscope I write evolves inch thick foam pad that lay directly on the floor. I’m doing better now, thank you. But my early experienc- over the course of at least three drafts. For each book es ensured that I would forever have profound empa- I’ve published, I have written but then thrown away hundreds of pages that I ultimately deemed weren’t thy for people who don’t have much money. I hope good enough to be a part of the finished text. And yet this will serve as inspiration for you, Leo. The next seven weeks will be the Empathy Building Season for now and then, I have created a poem or song in one rapid swoop. My artistic artifact is exactly right the you. The cosmos will reward you if you build your first time it flows out of me, with no further tinkering ability to appreciate and understand the pains and needed. I suspect you’re now entering a phase like joys of other humans. Your compassion will be tonic that, Aquarius. I’m reminded of poet Allen Ginsberg’s for both your mental and physical health. operative principle: “first thought, best thought.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Ancient Greek author PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Who don’t you want to Theophrastus was a scientist before the concept of “scientist” existed. His writings on botany were influ- be, Pisces? Where don’t you want to go? What expeential for hundreds of years after his death. But some riences are not necessary in your drive to become the person you were born to be? I encourage you to ask of his ideas would be considered unscientific today.

For example, he believed that flute music could heal yourself questions like those in the coming weeks. sciatica and epilepsy. No modern research suggests You’re entering a phase when you can create longthat the charms of the flute can literally cure physical term good fortune for yourself by knowing what you don’t like and don’t need and don’t require. Explore ailments like those. But there is a great deal of evidence that music can help relieve pain, reduce anxi- the positive effects of refusal. Wield the power of saying NO so as to liberate yourself from all that’s ety, reduce the side effects of drugs, assist in physiirrelevant, uninteresting, trivial, and unhealthy. cal therapy, and even make you smarter. And my reading of the current astrological omens suggests Homework: I’ve gathered all of the long-term, big-picture that the therapeutic effects of music will be especial- horoscopes I wrote for you in the past few weeks, and bundled them in one place: https://bit.ly/2020BigPicture ly dramatic for you during the next three weeks.

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