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In her latest book, Deep Creek , Pam Houston gets real about how her ranch raised her to be the kind of woman her parents never could B Y E L I Z A B E T H M I L L E R , P. 1 2

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OH, SUSANA 10 Our art director will miss drawing Martinez NO MERCY 11 Former gov’s pardon history may be stingiest in state history COVER STORY 12 GROWING HOME Author Pam Houston discusses writing nonfiction, buying a ranch in a changing climate, and how to outsmart a riled-up Icelandic ram

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DECAL MANIFESTO I saw a Santa Fe cruiser with a “blue lies matter” decal in the window. Knowing that that saying became popular among cops following the Black Lives Matter protests, I have to wonder if that decal is a statement of intent by the officer who put it there. To what degree do police have an agreement to cover for one another if, say, they’re being investigated for a sketchy killing a year ago?

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Shake off the Winter Blues

courts, police and other inmates. God bless attorney Mark Donatelli for his many lawsuits on behalf of inmates. However, conditions in the jail remain horrible. For example, the food is little better than dog food and there is no access to books and newspapers. The “library” is a joke, little more than a stack of dog-eared paperbacks that no one would want to read.

Inmates should be treated decently, free from being sprayed with poison.

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WEB EXTRA, JAN. 17: “ADULT-USE CANNABIS BILL COMING IN DAYS”

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Pharmacists at Santo Domingo Health Center in Kewa Pueblo are among those working without pay at area clinics.

Pueblo Health Care Hit

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s the federal government shutdown proceeds into its second month, tribal health care services continue to take a hit. Staff at several pueblo clinics aren’t receiving salaries, but most are still open to patients. For at least one Native community, that might not last much longer.

Sitting at the juncture where Highway 22 turns west toward Cochiti Pueblo is its visitor center, which was completely deserted of visitors on a recent Friday afternoon. A sign on the road near the center announces that the Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument a few miles away is closed due to a lapse in funds for the Bureau of Land Management.

“Some of the people who do work in the [Indian Health Service], they come here and talk to us, and they tell us what’s going on,” says a Cochiti tribal member working at the visitor center. “Some of them are trying to look for part-time jobs on the weekend only.”

Cochiti Pueblo Gov. Eugene Herrera confirms to SFR that the clinic’s employees are going without pay.

According to Anthony Yepa, who the tribe pays as a consultant on health-related matters, two types of employees work at the clinic: Those paid by the tribe through contracts with IHS to provide dental, nursing and community health guidance, and those who are paid directly

from IHS, such as physicians who come to federal dollars, says IHS spokesperson the small clinic from the Santa Fe Indian Jennifer Buschick, the government is Hospital on Cerrillos Road. reminding tribes with casinos and other Neither class of employee has seen a larger sources of revenue that they’re paycheck since the shutdown, Yepa says. permitted to supplement any missing While patients’ access to health services in funds from the feds. the tribe has been “more or less” normal, “Tribal health programs and urban he reports, the clinic has been running on Indian organizations are authorized to carry-over funds that were unspent from continue operation; however, contracts last year and are running out. with these organizations to provide health “Once those funds are exhausted, or services cannot be paid by IHS during a coming to be exhausted, the tribe has to lapse in appropriations,” Buschick says. make plans on doing their own internal At the Santo Domingo Health Center furlough,” Yepa says. “Once funds run out, in Kewa Pueblo, where pharmacists are then [health] services will stop.” working without pay, the parking lot was Lt. Governor Michael Quintana tells nearly at capacity, and a construction SFR there’s no timeline yet. crew worked on adding to the facility.

“We still have to … revisit our [conOne man, Tyrecs Coriz of Kewa Puebtracts with various federal agencies] and lo, tells SFR his application for benefits figure out how much carry-over we have from the Social Security Administration in our account to carry staff over,” Quin- has been denied twice, making it difficult tana says. Once there’s nothing left, “it’s to care for himself after suffering a stroke. either we shut down our clinic and send staff home, or the pueblos will pick up the bill. … We’re not a gaming pueblo.

We don’t have a whole lot of revenue coming in.”

Like the other pueblo clinics visited by SFR, the one in Cochiti was constructed after passage of the 1975 Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, which allowed tribes to contract with IHS to administer their own health services and programs. In addition to Cochiti, clinics in the Santa Clara, Kewa and San Felipe pueblos operate under the federal Santa Fe Rep. Deb Haaland (D-New Mexico) says the shutdown Indian Health Service zone. “clearly has a devastating and disproportionate effect In absence of those on tribes.”

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Fed shutdown means funds are low and future uncertain for clinics for Natives

While the government says appropriations for Social Security have not been affected by the furlough, Coriz steadfastly interprets his denial of coverage as a result of the shutdown.

“I’m not getting any of my coverage that I need,” Coriz says as he walked into the clinic to pick up prescription medication. “I would be getting my benefits, but you know, they denied me twice already, and it’s all because of Trump. He’s of no help to the US.” The shutdown’s lasting effects on healthcare for Native Americans has become a significant issue for members of Congress representing constituencies with large Indigenous populations.

Just before Christmas, US Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Oklahoma) introduced a bill to fund IHS at the same level as 2018. US Rep. Deb Haaland (D-New Mexico), one of the first Native women elected to Congress, tells SFR in an emailed statement the shutdown “clearly has a devastating and disproportionate effect on tribes.”

“I’ll be looking at proposals to alleviate the loss of basic services for tribes during unnecessary government shutdowns,” Haaland writes.

About 60 miles away from Kewa, at the Santa Clara Health Center near Española, several patients tell SFR they still have access to reproductive and gynecological services from the clinic.

Sitting in a green Lexus as he waited for his wife to finish an appointment, Angelo Sandoval from Ohkay Owingeh says his life has “been normal like everyday” since the shutdown began.

“It’s just something between the higher-ups, mainly; let them fight. Shit don’t matter to us,” he says.

The lapse in federal funding began because of a demand by President Trump that Congress include billions in funding for a wall on the US-Mexico border. At press time, no deal to end the stalemate appeared in reach.

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Oh Susana, we will miss ... illustrating you.

SFR’s art director and creative voice Anson Stevens-Bollen has illustrated the many faces of Gov. Susana Martinez since he joined SFR in 2013.

‘member that time you got all blood thirsty and wanted to bring back the death penalty?

‘member that time you were against marijuana until your friends could profit from it?

‘member that time you stole burgers?

‘member that time we took you to court for not giving a hoot about the constitution ... and you never showed up?

‘member that time you furiously sought out 101 Dalmatians for nefarious reasons?

(Note: This hasn’t actually happened ...

Yet.)

‘member that time you partied hard at the Eldorado Hotel and then threatened the 911 dispatcher before police arrived?

‘member that there was pizza at that party too? ‘member that time you let health care corporations foot the bill for your awesome ski trips?

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No Mercy Former Gov. Martinez stayed stingy with pardons to the end

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Richardson and Johnson, who pardoned people the Parole Board recommended against, she never did.

NMID and SFR spoke with eight longtime New Mexico criminal justice observers, including retired judges and lawyers who worked on pardon applications dating back to the 1960s. They all said it is “likely” Martinez’ pardon record is the stingiest among governors since statehood in 1912, but none could say for sure.

The New Mexico Sentencing Commission had no data that could answer the question.

Felicia Lujan, division director for the New Mexico State Archives, said no easily accessible records exist that would show pardon figures for every governor in state history. The archives likely contain documents that would show how each governor has used their pardon power, Lujan said, but compiling a list could take months of research.

It is not clear what will become of the five 2018 applications with a new governor in office.

Of the five pardon requests Martinez received in 2018, the Parole Board recommended against pardoning Dawsie Gremillion for filing a phony insurance claim against a gas station in 2002.

But the board endorsed pardons for Benigno Chavez, convicted of domestic violence in 2010; Melissa Hamby, who was 19 when she was convicted of auto theft and conspiracy in 1988; and Mary Beth Gosson who, at the age of 22, wrote a handful of bad checks in 1978.

The board also urged Martinez to pardon Faury Gonzalez, a Cuban national convicted of conspiracy to traffic a relatively small amount of crack cocaine in 1995. It was Gonzalez’ third try—Richardson denied him a pardon in 2008, and Martinez shot him down in 2013.

Gonzalez, who has opened his own business in Florida, wanted the pardon in order to become a US citizen so he could visit his children and grandchildren in Cuba, according to the documents obtained by NMID and SFR. In his application, Gonzalez wrote that he is “wary that the current political climate and the easing of international relations with Cuba would result in his ultimate deportation based on his prior conviction in the state of New Mexico,” the documents show. “He fears the loss of his business in Florida.”

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usana Martinez departed the governor’s office in December granting what appears to be among the fewest pardons in state history.

Martinez granted just three pardons—an act that absolves people of guilt in crimes after they’ve paid their debt to society—during eight years in office, a miniscule number compared to her predecessors, Republican Gary Johnson and Democrat Bill Richardson.

Those pardons all came in 2012, Martinez’ second year as governor, an earlier analysis through 2017 by SFR and New Mexico In Depth found.

The news organizations wanted to see whether Martinez, a Republican, had a change of heart during the final year of her second term. Did she have a Billy the Kid moment, a la Richardson? Did she pardon a friend or political ally at the 11th hour?

Records obtained by SFR and NMID suggest the answer is no.

Of five people who applied for pardons in 2018, the former governor appears not to have acted on any of them, even after the Parole Board recommended pardon in four of those cases, according to the documents turned over to SFR and NMID by newly elected Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s administration following a public records request.

The people who applied included a woman convicted of writing bad checks in 1978 who asked for Martinez’ mercy so she could be a “free person in mind and heart,” and a man who filed a bogus insurance claim in 2002 and wanted his voting rights restored, the records show.

Tripp Stelnicki, a spokesman for Lujan Grisham, and Jim Brewster, general counsel for the state Corrections Department, say they could not locate any records indicating whether Martinez granted or denied pardons for the 2018 applicants.

Efforts to reach Martinez and the applicants were unsuccessful.

Pardon power is nearly unique in the New Mexico Constitution. It leaves the decision to restore someone’s “citizen-

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ship rights”—including voting, the ability to serve on a jury, run for public office and possess firearms—completely with the governor. Chief executives in this state are allowed under statute to seek a recommendation on pardon requests from the Parole Board. They often do, but the recommendations are not binding.

Pardons can change lives, particularly in a state such as New Mexico, where no law exists for people to expunge crimes from their records after a certain period of time.

SFR and NMID have run into brick walls for years in trying to examine how Martinez used her pardon power. The Parole Board coughed up a limited set of records in 2013, which led to a SFR cover story showing Martinez had granted three pardons the year before.

The newspaper successfully sued the Martinez administration to take a deeper look at those who had applied for pardons and why they were denied. The legal victory, coupled with a massive dataset provided by the Parole Board last year,

underpinned a second story, produced by both news organizations.

The ensuing analysis revealed that Martinez never granted another pardon request after 2012. Perhaps more strikingly, the number of requests fell off a cliff under Martinez when compared to Johnson and Richardson.

Lawyers who had helped clients apply for pardons over the years began to advise people not to bother under Martinez, they told NMID and SFR. The former prosecutor, who appeared to approach her job as governor from a prosecutorial posture, wasn’t budging, the lawyers said.

Here’s how the numbers broke out, according to the analysis by SFR and NMID: Johnson granted 113 pardons out of 1,304 requests (8.7 percent) and, under Richardson, 74 of 1,051 applicants received pardon (7 percent).

That compares to three pardons granted by Martinez out of 255 requests, when adding the five 2018 applications to the eight-year total. That’s just over 1 percent.

The records also show that, by percentage, Martinez was far more likely to deny or ignore recommendations for pardons from her Parole Board. And unlike

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PAM HOUSTON

In her latest book, Deep Creek, Pam Houston gets real about how her ranch raised her to be the kind of woman her parents never could

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he ram in Pam Houston’s herd of Icelandic sheep has been breaking everything it can reach.

Isolating him from other sheep would just make it worse, but left in the barnyard with the rest of the herd, he’s brutalizing the outbuildings. Homesteaders built the barn in the 1920s, and it had acquired an endearing tilt by the time Houston bought the ranch 25 years ago, charmed by the view of it in front of a corral and the Continental Divide.

“I think it was Christmas Day when he broke the hell out of the barn, and I just thought, ‘I just want to go live, like maybe in Kaua’i, maybe in a duplex, with a whatever

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they’re called—a homeowner’s association who comes and takes the dead leaves away. All I want is to live somewhere where nothing breaks and nothing dies,’” she tells SFR. “But then I don’t.”

Instead, she bought $600 worth of steel so he could ram that instead.

Ask her why she stays, and her eyes close. She faintly smiles, talking about that last corner toward home.

There, the view opens into a horseshoe-shaped valley near the headwaters of the Rio Grande that holds her 120 acres, two-bedroom house, and century-old barn, all positioned before a backdrop of burn-scarred peaks.

It was on that last stretch where it occurred to her what her next book should be. Houston has made a career writing and teaching, and bought the ranch when she sold her first book, Cowboys Are My Weakness,

Although her fiction has often drawn from her life, Houston first uses the label “nonfiction” for her new book, Deep Creek.

Buying something other than boots When she sold Cowboys Are My Weakness—now a classic among the kind of women who drive Subarus and live with bandanna’d dogs, as she jokes—for $21,000, her agent advised: “Don’t spend it all on hiking boots.”

“I didn’t have a lot of real parenting,

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so when someone said something to me like that, I tended to take it very seriously,” she says. “I was like, ‘OK, I’ve got to do something with this, because this might be the only money I’ll ever get.’”

For months, she drove around the West, considering homesteads in California and apple orchard-adjacent properties in Washington, before returning to Colorado.

“I had come out West as a young person, fallen in love with the West, as many people from the East do, and loved the natural beauty of it,” she says, “Why that translated in that moment to, ‘I have to use this $21,000 to find a piece of land that I will live on forever,’ I can’t even be sure.”

She’d looked at a lot of properties— beautiful pieces of land where her down payment would have been reasonable— but nothing stuck. When the road finally brought her to Creede, a town with a

Her first book, Cowboys Are My Weakness, became a classic among the kind of women who drive Subarus and live with bandanna’d dogs, she says.

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a thinly veiled autobiographical romp through the stories of a young woman adventurous to the point of near self-destruction. After her last novel, Contents May Have Shifted, was published in 2012, her editor called to talk about what she’d like to work on next, inviting Houston to imagine “a book-length adventure.”

“I think she meant dogsled to the North Pole or sailboat around Turkey, because that’s what I’m always up for,” Houston says. “So I thought about that, and I thought of several adventures— things that I could do that would take a year—that sounded like fun.”

She was driving home from the University of California at Davis, where she teaches for 10-week sessions twice a year.

“As I got closer to the ranch I thought, ‘Well shit, that’s my big adventure,’” she says. “That was the most unexpected thing I’ve ever done and will ever do. So I wrote a proposal and I was like, ‘If we’re going to talk about a book-length adventure, this is my book-length adventure.’”

Her latest book, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country, a first work of nonfiction from her, tells that story. It opens with how she hunted down the ranch and took on a mortgage four times more than she’d budgeted, hustling for years to write and teach enough to make the payments. “Ranch almanac” interludes describe her tasks keeping the place together and wrangling its various animals and seasons, unfolding the lessons in each animal death or heavy snow.

Intertwined are the pieces of the abusive childhood that led her to seek out a sanctuary. Eventually, that place taught her what her parents didn’t: how to love and be loved.

It’s a story of change—how the ranch, along with the rest of the planet, has changed, and how it has changed her.

“It’s way more important than I even thought when I started writing, and way more formative of me as a person, in my 25 years of trying to learn how to care for it,” she says. “Seeing myself as a person who can dedicate myself to something like that really changed me. And at the time, it seemed like I was just trying to pay the mortgage. It seemed like I was just trying to mitigate disaster.”

couple hundred residents in the mountains of southwestern Colorado, locals showed her a 120-acre ranch that was for sale. She hopped up on the split rail fence, her would-be realtor snapped a photo to better make the case to the seller, and she knew this was the place.

“I want to apologize for the sort of hubris of this,” she says, but “I would say the ranch called me to it, and I was momentarily awake enough to recognize that call.”

It was four times what she’d budget-

ed—and a massive shift for a graduate student who’d been living on $4,500 a year out of her car and a North Face tent. Still, she put her 5 percent down and made monthly payments to the previous owner, who carried the note for her because, as she writes, any bank would have laughed her out its doors had she sought a loan.

“Buying the ranch in the moment— and it’s a long time ago now, but—it felt like this crazy, risky, adrenaline rush-y thing to do,” she says. “It did not feel like, ‘Oh I’m putting down roots’ or ‘I’m using the money wisely.’ It felt like an insane

thing to do.”

In some ways, saddling herself with 20 years of outrageous monthly payments would often feel like nearly flipping a boat over into the teeth of a strainer. It was in line with the Class V rapids she’d run or the summers she’d spent in the Alaskan bush, guiding Dall sheep hunts.

“In a certain way maybe I was just courting disaster, which I did a lot of in those years,” she says. “But it was good for me. It was good for me to work hard. … I learned I could write almost anything if someone would pay me money for it—I mean, no right-wing propaganda or anything, but yeah.”

When Outside published an essay now in Deep Creek, a fact-checker steered her toward sorting out a pivotal autobiographical detail: She was homestead-shopping right after her mother died, severing her ties to the East.

Any sense of home there was gone, and it was time to make her own.

Her mother was, at best, disengaged and disinterested—drinking to distraction and routinely blaming her daughter for the life she forfeited by having a child.

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began sexually abusing her around age 7.

While she’s written around that abuse for most of her career, she says, a veneer of fiction camouflaged it. In Deep Creek, she finally lays it bare.

What the ranch has hammered in, one fight to keep it and keep it running after another, are lessons that have recolored those childhood scars.

A home away Sit through the public readings for the Institute for American Indian Arts low residency creative writing MFA, and it’s easy to feel the lure of this community. Writers exchange thoughtful and admiring introductions, and then read prose clearly informed with deep thinking and attention to the craft—taking, as one says, “a tiny wrench” to drafts they think are final, giving every sentence one last tightening.

Houston self-deprecates about how she joined the faculty at IAIA four years ago. Then-MFA director Jon Davis invited her to read because she lived just 200 miles upriver and could drive down the same day another writer canceled. She scrambled to arrive on time, and found herself in the bathroom without a hairbrush, asking to borrow one from other women. One woman after another announced having long ago ceased using one.

“I was like, ‘Oh, my friends!’” she says.

She related that sense of being among like-minded people while speaking that night, and Davis asked if she’d like to teach there.

“It was just too much of an opportunity for my own education about my country and all of that to be able to come here and work with these voices; it just was way too appealing to turn down,” she says, seated on a couch near the auditorium after an evening reading. She looks ranch-ready in her snow boots and beige Carhartts, with a thin puffy jacket and tasseled hat her only buffer against the cold outside.

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Houston keeps Irish wolfhounds along with her horses, sheep, miniature donkeys and chickens.

ta Fe Photographic Workshops, Santa Fe has become her city, supplanting Denver as the place she goes for sushi, a Whole Foods, an arthouse movie theater and a good massage. She tallies 100,000 flight miles a year, traveling for teaching gigs and writing assignments, but the miles she logs on her car, driving to Santa Fe three times in four weeks this winter, and to and from UC Davis twice a year, must stack up to a good fraction of that total.

To handle owning a ranch when earning a living necessitates she often be away from home, she uses the recently restored ranch homesteaders’ cabin, also her writing studio, as the host site for an informal writing residency. Young writers stay for six to 12 months, committing roughly two hours a day—barring catastrophes—to basic chores in exchange for a quiet place to live and write.

“I pay their expenses, and they finish their books, and I teach them about the animals and we live together—and it’s wonderful,” she says. “The ranch is a beautiful, powerful place that, in my opinion, really encourages creativity. And I knew from the second I got it, I wasn’t meant to have it all to myself. It feels right to me to share the space with young writers, especially young women writers, and to let it influence others the way it has influenced me.”

To some extent, she says, teaching at IAIA and working with students who often address rough family histories in their work inspired her to finally unpack her own childhood in print; their courage led her to be courageous in telling her story.

In Deep Creek, she describes memories that were tough to talk to close friends about, even those like Cheryl Strayed, who wrote Wild about her time hiking the Pacific Crest Trail and reckoning with her mother’s death. That book, Houston says, in some ways gave permission for Deep Creek. The two had joked Houston’s book could be titled Tame. (Strayed’s cover comment applauds the “beauty, wisdom

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Houston reports her ranch seeing warmer temperatures and less snow over the quarter-century she’s lived there.

and truth” in Deep Creek, declaring, “This is a book for all of us, right now.”)

Writing about her personal history, Houston says, is always easier than talking about it: “I don’t think about the fact that I’m telling everyone. I think about the fact that I’m making an essay—though I am telling everyone.”

That shifted as she read the book out loud for Audible’s audio version, saying into a microphone the very things she’d found it impossible to say to her friends.

Then, her first interview on the book consisted of an hour of questions about the abuse. This time, she’s also shed the label of “fiction,” and that seems to have brought the conversation closer to home, though her material has long sourced from her life and in Contents May Have Shifted, she went so far as to call the narrator “Pam.” “I always used to say, ‘So far, they haven’t made a rule against fiction that is autobiographical. You don’t have to make it nonfiction just because it really happened,’” she says. “I’d felt comfortable blurring those waters because I believe they’re blurry. Because of the nature of memory and the nature of language, I don’t believe that words on the page can represent lived experience wholly or totally or completely accurately.”

But in a world of “alternative facts” in which people declare “there is no truth,” that comfort ended.

“I don’t say that anymore,” she says.

“I’ve come to understand the conse-

quences of that kind of thinking, and in Deep Creek, I did my level best to represent reality.”

That approach challenged her as a writer. In fiction, if she got stuck, she’d make something up or move locations, reinvigorating the story through a change in scenery. This time, she stayed to the truth, without exaggeration or repression.

She also tried to keep the narrative on the ranch itself as much as possible and write deeply into that one piece of land.

Living with the damage Digging into the landscape with her writing illuminated both how she saw the place as a figure in her life, and how the place itself is changing. The quarter of a century she’s spent there is longer than she’s done anything else in her life, she says, except write and love dogs. In that time, she’s seen winters soften from routinely plummeting to 35 or 40 degrees below zero. This year, it’s not yet hit 20 below. The snow is less deep. The beetle-killed trees more common. Last year, for the first time, her pasture didn’t come in and she had to buy hay in the summer to feed her horses and sheep.

“It used to be if it hit 80, people would walk around talking about the end of the world, and now we probably have 30 or 35 days that are above 80,” she says.

With rising temperatures and drier winters have come more wildfires, and in 2013, just as she was making her last pay-

ment, Houston thought she might lose it all as the West Fork and Papoose fires encircled her property. She’d driven through black clouds of smoke to get home ahead of road closures, had her horses hauled to Gunnison to graze under cleaner skies, and for weeks, tore her attention between the

The ranch is a beautiful, powerful place that, in my opinion, really encourages creativity.

-Pam Houston workshops she was teaching and monitoring every fire update posted online as the flames crept closer to her house.

What the fires taught, she said, is the lesson we all face with climate change: how to love the Earth despite how much we’ve damaged it.

“During the fire, I looked out and thought, ‘How am I going to live in this scar for the rest of my life?’” she says. “But in fact, it’s quite wonderful, because it changes every week, every month, every

summer. There’s new trees. There’s new growth. The streams change their course.”

In the five years since, aspens have regrown over the mountains outside her windows. In the fall, their leaves turn riotous colors, a stunning contrast amid the blackened skeletons of spruce trees left from the fire.

“It’s probably taken me three-quarters of my life to really believe that I’m deserving of love because of the damage that I sustained as a kid, but I do believe it now,” she says, “and there’s a real relationship between that and my commitment to continue to love the Earth, even in its diminished beauty, and even if it’s too late.”

Writing Deep Creek felt like making an urgent case, as that Earth has seen increasing attacks from the presidential administration, she says. It was time to write something to honor the natural world that stepped in to raise her in her own parents’ absence.

“For all its frustrations, and for all the things I don’t know, and for all the ways I’m a terrible steward of the land, it has given me an identity in a way that nothing in my upbringing did,” she says. “It takes care of me, I take care of it, and maybe that’s an ideal sort of parent-child relationship.”

As that identity has shifted, it has made space for her to make commitments she’d once avoided. She got married last year— to a man who loves that valley as much as she does and has lived in it for 40 years, she jokes, “so now I’ll never get out.”

She looks back on the woman who wrote the book that helped pay for the ranch with what the ranch has taught her.

Now, she’s got a few things to say to that person, 25 years later.

“I think of [Deep Creek] kind of as a talkback to Cowboys Are My Weakness—that girl was so clueless who wrote that book. I have great affection for her, but she wanted to blame everything on everyone else,” she says. “If I were saying, ‘Who do I hope will feel this book?’, it’s young women who think they have to give their power away, as I did as a young woman.”

What the ranch’s kind of mothering has instilled, as it mandates daily tending and constant defense from small disasters, is her own capacity. She doesn’t need to chase cowboys. She can be the cowboy herself.

PAM HOUSTON: DEEP CREEK: FINDING HOPE IN THE HIGH COUNTRY 6 pm Monday Jan. 28. Free. Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 7 pm Saturday Feb. 23. Free. Garcia Street Books, 376 Garcia St., 986-0151

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“Goodbye, World!� er and conman “Michael Fenne,� and Lamorne Morris plays a fictional investment banker who narrates the show) with real interviews of various characters depicted in the show, tech journalists and the show’s executive producer, Arianna Huffington. These are all spliced together with real news footage. This narrative technique makes for a disjointed viewing experience: half documentary, half dramatic re-enactment. Nat Geo also throws a fair amount of meta into the mix, with actors breaking the wall to comment on what’s happening, a ’90s-style rap battle used to explain the “browser war� between Microsoft and Netscape, and a

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This sentence is spoken in National Geographic’s new show, Valley of the Boom, by the young Silicon Valley founders trying to explain to potential investors what they are doing.

What are they doing? They are trying to launch the companies whose frameworks set the course for today’s technological and cultural landscape.

There’s Netscape, the browser that came before Google; TheGlobe.com, the social network predating Facebook; and YouTube’s early counterpart: Pixelon.

These companies and their founders were part of the rise of Silicon Valley as it’s known today, the dot-com “bubble� of the 1990s that lead to the dot-com “bust� of the early 2000s, and the phenomena by which Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) made Instant Public Millionaires out of company founders.

Valley of the Boom chronicles in quasi-factual fashion the stories behind the three companies. The show is a weird blend of scripted drama (Bradley Whitford plays Netscape CEO James Barksdale, Steve Zahn plays Pixelon found-

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puppet brought in to deliver a Bill Gates speech.

I had imagined, being old enough to kind of remember the era, that I’d watch the show with fitful nostalgia. In fact, many of its particulars seemed arcane.

Halfway through, I realized I had spent very little time in my early 20s contemplating the world of venture capital (nor do I seem to have spent much of my 40s thinking about that topic either). Perhaps more significantly than reinforcing my sorry lack of interest in big finance, the show also fails (thus far; I’ve got two episodes left in the six-part limited series) to illuminate the current sorry state of the internet.

Maybe it’s not fair to throw the entire internet into the mix. See, there’s this thing called the internet. And there are these other entities, whose shadows loom across the story of Valley of the Boom: the aforementioned entities of Google, Facebook and YouTube (not to mention Twitter, Amazon, Apple, etc., etc.). Forget the internet and just call it Big Tech.

Writing in Time Magazine Jan. 17, Roger McNamee, an early Facebook investor and Mark Zuckerberg mentor, details

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his regret and lament about the company’s trajectory. (It’s an interesting read even though “I am sad about Facebook� strikes me as an unforgivably soft lead for an essay about the potential destruction of humanity.) I read McNamee’s piece in the midst of idle research over one of FB’s latest trends, the #10yearchallenge (in which folks create a collage of their profile pics spanning a decade). Out of curiosity, I had made one myself, but hadn’t posted it as stories had predictably (and believably) quickly emerged postulating the trend’s potential traction as a Big Tech data-collection point for facial recognition algorithms.

McNamee calls for a variety of reforms to begin mitigating the damage Facebook’s “growth hacking� strategy has wrought in terms of undermining “democracy, human rights, privacy, public health and innovation.� The reforms span categories, from democracy to privacy to public health, but ultimately require revamping the entire architecture of the internet to promote human versus artificial technology. He also calls for regulation of Big Tech companies whose monopolist characters, he writes, have lessened opportunities for innovators and startups.

McNamee’s prÊcis on the state of the internet taken alongside the jocular tone of Valley of the Boom also creates a disjointed experience. Watching the series to investigate first causes (spoiler alert: greed) for present existential threats seems valid. But should it involve musical numbers?

As it happens, both my #10yearchallenge photos included a large glass of wine partially obscuring my aging face but, nonetheless, I abstained from participating for whatever scant good that does in terms of privacy protection. I’m guessing zero good. But perhaps it’s a start.

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FASTER VERONICA; KILL! KILL! If there’s a negative to be found in Full Speed Veronica’s upcoming album June 31st—and it’s honestly more of a positive for some—it’s in its unabashed ’90s-ness. We actually love this, and wouldn’t have expected anything less from a band whose pedigree includes former Santa Fe acts like The Hollis Wake and Cold Cold Bitches. We’re sensing a bit of a Tom Petty vibe by way of Guided

By Voices’ Robert Pollard as well, though more in subtle homage than outright emulation. Regardless, Full Speed Veronica wears its influences proudly and without irony. Special note must be made of bassist Sarah Meadows’ creative lines and rhythms; they’re almost always unexpected and really round out front man Malcolm June’s guitar licks and thoughtful vocals and lyrics. Worth it? You bet.

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EVENT SAT/26 …AND A DAMN FINE CUP OF COFFEE IAIA’s Museum of Contemporary Native Arts has grown into one of the most respected institutions in the nation, and a lot of it has to do with the risk-taking bravery and know-how of its various staff and guest curators. It’s not unusual to see artwork from living masters, up-and-comers and the legends that came before—and with a cohesive vision and constantly rotating exhibit schedule featuring creators both near and far, it’s a stop that should be on anyone’s cultural list. For extra insight, pop by MoCNA’s Curators + Coffee event this week to hear from curators Candice Hopkins (Tlingit, citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation), Mindy N Besaw (from Crystal Bridges, y’all!) and Chief Curator Manuela Well-Off-Man. You’ll learn something about the current exhibits and bask in greatness, we promise. (ADV)

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Free with admission. IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900.

EVENT MON/28 THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY When was the last time you opened your mailbox and felt the anticipation that accompanies personal handwriting on an actual envelope? The thrill of opening it up to find—gasp—a real letter? Or maybe the question is, when was the last time you wrote one yourself? Take the evening to slow down and put pen to paper at the Santa Fe Public Library’s Lost Letters event at the main branch. Surprise an old friend or flame; start a pen pal relationship with someone in prison or serving overseas. It’s much more meaningful than boring old email, and organiz organizers have all the pen pal information, stamps, station stationary and clip art you might need. (Leah Cantor) Lost Letters: Reviving the Lost Art of Letter Writing: 6 pm Monday Jan. 28. Free. Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch, 145 Washington Ave., 955-6781.

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Sucked In to Story Eleven female playwrights hit you with their best shorts In a sort-of reprise of last January’s Women’s Voices Theater Festival, local thespian Talia Pura and her Blue Raven Theatre company have morphed the effort into Fearless Female Voices, a one-afternoon event of readings of 11 new short plays by Santa Fe playwrights.

The short form is a great opportunity to try out new things. Case in point: Dale Dunn’s contribution, a romantic comedy from the writer that often pens more serious scripts. Dunn (whose new drama The Big Heartless receives the full production treatment next month at Warehouse 21) tells SFR, “My work usually has to do with social ills that I’d like to see remedied, but this is just a fun piece about love and language … and letting the light come in through poetry.”

The day will be a mix of drama and comedy. Another featured writer, Lisa Foster (who recently appeared in Oasis’ production of The Shawl), explores the long-term ramifications of assault; and Kita Mehaffy presents Sister, which focuses on disenfranchisement and

marginalization, and how bad fortune can befall anyone. For those playing along at home, Mehaffy is also riding high on her purchase of Santa Fe Improv on the first of the year, so talk to her about classes if you desire.

As for the virtues of a staged reading—perhaps foreign to those who haven’t been to one—there are many. “I think storytelling on any level is really important,” Mehaffy says. “We really learn through stories; in a [fictional] story, we can relate directly,” instead of the separation inherent in learning someone else’s nonfictional tale.

Dunn points out the lack of distraction; it’s about “just hearing the story,” she says. “If you do it well … it is a really clear way to see into a piece, rather than get lost in the shuffle of set pieces and all that movement.” (Charlotte Jusinski) FEARLESS FEMALE VOICES 1-5 pm Sunday Jan. 27. $10 suggested donation. Warehouse 21, 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423

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Sculpture from two artists at Shidoni explore the limits (or lack thereof) of natural materials; these stick-creatures by Rebecca Henson are whimsical and almost mythical, but are also informed by Henson’s extensive background in theology. Her works are accompanied by those of Lionel Chaltiel. See full listing on page 21.

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BOOKS/LECTURES READINGS & CONVERSATIONS: ILAN PAPPÉ WITH DIMA KHALIDI Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Pappé is an expatriate Israeli historian and socialist activist; his 2016 book The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories received the Palestine Book Award. Khalidi is counsel with the Center for Constitutional Rights.

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EVENTS COMMUNITY SEED PACKING NIGHT Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 Join other volunteers to help get the new seed library ready for the growing season. Join the conversation and do some hands-on sorting and packing of seeds.

5:30 pm, free GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Do you basically know everything about everything?

8 pm, free

VINYASA FLOW Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 One hour of yoga is followed by one of Duel's core beers, all for one price. Get $1 off beers the rest of the night, too—but just be sure to bring your own mat.

6:30 pm, $15

MUSIC ESTER HANA Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Masterful classical, jazz and cabaret tunes on piano and vocals.

6:30 pm, free

JOAQUIN GALLEGOS El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Soulful flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free JOHN CAREY Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Boogie-worthy funky blues.

8 pm, free NICOLA BENEDETTI WITH ALEXEI GRYNYUK St. Francis Auditorium 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Benedetti, one of the most sought-after violinists of her generation, is accompanied by Ukrainian pianist Grynyuk.

7:30 pm, $20-$90

OPEN MIC NIGHT Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. Signups start at 6:30 pm, and everyone who performs gets a recording afterward.

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

7 pm, free SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country tunes to dance to.

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WORKSHOP INTRODUCTION TO ZEN Mountain Cloud Zen Center 7241 Old Santa Fe Trail, 988-4396 Everyone is welcome, newcomers and experienced practitioners alike, to explore the basics and finer points of Zen meditation.

5 pm, free NEW YEAR DREAM COLLAGE Museum of Interactive Art Shidoni, 1508 Bishops Lodge Road, 670-2118 Visualize your intentions for the new year by creating an inspirational collage.

9 am-5 pm, $5

THU/24 BOOKS/LECTURES CHACOAN ASTRONOMY, COSMOGRAPHY, ROADS, AND RITUAL POWER: INSIGHTS INTO THE CHACO WORLD USING NEW TECHNOLOGIES James A Little Theatre 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429 Anna Sofaer and her colleagues Robert Weiner and Richard Friedman present their work on the Solstice Project, a nonprofit dedicated to the study of astronomical heritage in Chaco Canyon culture. Using traditional approaches and emerging technologies (LIDAR and 3D modeling), their work reveals new ways of exploring this history.

6:30 pm, $10

DANCE COUNTRY-WESTERN AND TWO-STEP Dance Station 947-B W Alameda St. Show off your best moves at your favorite honky-tonk.

7:15 pm, $20

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

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

1 pm, free

MUSIC BERT AND MILO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Jazz on piano and bass.

7 pm, free DAVID GEIST Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards and Broadway faves.

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DON CURRY & PETE SPRINGER Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Acoustic rock.

8 pm, free DON MARTIN AND BROTHERHOOD SOUND SYSTEM Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Reggae.

10 pm, free DOUBLE O DJS KARAOKE Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 Choose your song wisely and croon away.

6 pm, free ESTER HANA Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Masterful classical, jazz and cabaret tunes on piano and vocals.

6:30 pm, free JJ AND THE HOOLIGANS Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. Rock, blues and Americana.

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

6 pm, free SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country tunes to dance to.

7:30 pm, free THROWBACK THURSDAYS SK8 SESSION Rockin' Rollers 2915 Agua Fría St., 473-7755 Good music, good snacks, good people and good times—and an additional $5 get you skates or a scooter.

7 pm, $5

WORKSHOP NEW YEAR DREAM COLLAGE Museum of Interactive Art Shidoni, 1508 Bishops Lodge Road, 670-2118 Visualize your intentions for the new year by creating an inspirational collage before, during or after exploring the museum's interactive exhibits.

9 am-5 pm, $5

FRI/25 ART OPENINGS ART FOR A NEW UNDERSTANDING: NATIVE PERSPECTIVES 1950 TO NOW IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Chart the development of contemporary Indigenous art from the United States and Canada, beginning when artists moved from more regionally based conversations and practices to an increased agency within national and global contemporary art.

Through July 19.

5 pm, free

FIGURES OF PICASSO: IMPORTANT ORIGINAL PRINTS LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta, 988-3250 Prior to his death in 1973, Pablo Picasso created an astonishing variety of work in painting, sculpture and collage, though it is his prints— more specifically, his figural prints—that trace the intersection between Picasso’s life and art most completely and deeply. View a survey of these figural prints at the gallery we can always depend on to get important modern work on its walls. Through March 16.

5 pm, free LARRY D BLISSETT: ESCUCHA CON TUS OJOS Blue Rain Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St., 954-9902 Blissett, who spent most of his life as a contractor in the building industry, paints stylized portraits, nudes, skulls and skeletons, as well as animals in a slightly spooky yet playful Basquiat-reminiscent style. Through Feb. 9.

5-7 pm, free LIONEL CHALTIEL AND REBECCA HENSON Shidoni Gallery and Sculpture Garden 1508 Bishops Lodge Road, 670-2118 Chaltiel, a longtime artist, discovered while working for an art and antiques restoration shop that he loved the beauty of raw, natural wood.

He found that he was more attracted to figurative art with a touch of Surrealism and a hint of absurdness. Henson's work radiates spiritual forces from the natural materials she assembles in her artworks, including clay, horse and goat hair, wool, driftwood, cypress, walnut, mahogany and stone.

Through Feb. 28.

10 am-5 pm, free NIKA FELDMAN: SPIRITS IN THE MATERIAL WORLD form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111 Nova Scotia-based Feldman unveils a series of seven garment-like works, along with accompanying objects of adornment, made from recycled cloth and can pull-tabs.

Through March 23.

5-7 pm, free STITCHED INK form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111 Masterworks on paper from iconic artists who have used highly tactile printmaking techniques to reflect the textures, patterns and colors of textiles. Through March 23.

5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES DEAN'S LECTURE SERIES: MICHAEL GRENKE St. John's College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, 984-6000 The SJC tutor lectures in the Great Hall, Peterson Student Center.

7:30 pm, free

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A CELEBRATION OF BITTER STYLE BEER Featuring brews from: Blue Corn Brewery La Cumbre Brewing Second Street Brewery Sidetrack Brewing Steel Bender Brewyard Turtle Mountain Brewing & a collaboration brew from Second Street & Sidetrack!

PREPARING FOR THE ASCENSION OF MOTHER EARTH: HOW DO I FIT IN? Live As One 1601 La Cieneguita, Apt D1, 575-770 1228 A spiritual soiree with Raphael Weisman and his angels. Be sure to RSVP. 6 pm, $15-$20

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SPECIAL MENU ALL DAY Featuring International Inspired plates to share 11 AM - 10 PM Goat Skewers & Fufu Duck Poutine Sweet Potato & Curried Cauliflower Samosas Prawns Jalfrezzi Middle Eastern Mezze Platter British Eton Mess

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

6:30 pm, $25

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FREE SHOW

FOX WHITE @ 8 PM

GARDEN SPROUTS PRE-K ACTIVITIES Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Weather permitting, head to the garden's outdoor classroom for a hands-on program for 3-5 year olds and their caregivers.

10-11 am, $5

FILM

Rufina Taproom

2920 Rufina Street, Santa Fe NM 87507

CITIZEN CLARK... A LIFE OF PRINCIPLE Unitarian Universalist Congregation 107 W Barcelona Road, 982-9674 The 2018 film, narrated by Martin Sheen, is a chronological look at former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark. To RSVP: 982-9674 or admin@uusantafe.org.

7 pm, $10 SECURITY IN A WORLD OF CHANGE Santa Fe Meditation Circle 1807 Second St., Ste. 83, 988-4157 In this recorded talk, Sri Daya Mata (1914-2010) offers a positive sense of direction for resolving difficult problems in an increasingly complex world. The video is preceded by light food, beverages and social time.

6:30 pm, free

MUSIC 50 WATT WHALE Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Hot ‘n’ local rock ‘n’ roll.

7 pm, free AFFETTUOSO! HAYDN AT ESZTERHAZA: THE OPUS 20 QUARTETS Fuller Lodge Art Center 2132 Central Ave. Los Alamos, 662-1635 When an extra violinist appeared in a scheduling mixup at Esterhazy Palace one day in the 1760s, court composer Franz Joseph Haydn did some quick rearranging and invented the string quartet, which went on to dominate chamber music for the next 150 years. Severall Friends explore these wide-ranging and emotional pieces.

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ALL-AGES SK8 SESSION Rockin' Rollers 2915 Agua Fría St., 473-7755 Hit up pizza, a snack bar and DJ tunes—that $5 get you skates or a scooter, too.

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

10 am, free CASEY MRAZ & LOS METAMORFOS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Everything from Latin to Celtic to blues, jazz, 'n' pop.

8 pm, free CHANGO Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Danceable cover tunes.

8:30 pm, free CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 Piano and vocals from Charles Tichenor and friends.

6 pm, free DJ RAASHAN AHMAD Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Funk and soul along with classic rap and hip-hop.

10 pm, free DEAR DOCTOR Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Folk 'n' Americana from Stephen Pitts and friends on the deck.

5 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND ESTER HANA Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards: Doug starts, Ester takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free DUO VER: BRUCE DUNLAP AND JON GAGAN GiG Performance Space 1808 Second St. Jazz, classical and world tunes.

7:30 pm, $20 FULL SPEED VERONICA Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Local indie rockers celebrate the release of their new fulllength album June 31st with support from progressive romantic rockers Sunbender (see SFR Picks, page 19).

8 pm, free THE HOTH BROTHERS Lost Padre Records 304 Catron St., 310-6389 Bluegrass from local musicians Bard Edrington V and Boris McCutcheon.

Edrington’s other project, The Palm in the Cypress, makes folks dance every now and then at Tiny’s or the Mine Shaft—but tonight he’s joined

by McCutcheon (sans his Salt Licks) for a night of bluegrass with down-home banjo-playing and harmonica-blowing.

6:15 pm, free

J REYNOLDS AND THE HIGH VIBES Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. Psychedelic funk rock.

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

7 pm, free JULIE STEWART AND ROD WELLES El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n' blues.

9 pm, $5 PAT MALONE TRIO Tonic 103 E Water St., 982-1189 The mellow and melodic jazz guitarist is backed by Cal Haines (drums) and Colin Deuble (bass).

9:30 pm, free RASMINKO Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 A Bohemian mix of covers 'n' styles.

7 pm, free SAVOR La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Cuban street music.

8 pm, free SLOAN ARMITAGE Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 Folk, Americana and R&B. 7 pm, free TGIF RECITAL: JOSHUA WENTZ AND GRISHA KRIVCHENIA First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 The baritone and pianist, respectively, present Schubert’s Dichterlieder.

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

7:30 pm, free

THEATER AS YOU LIKE IT El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Upstart Crows, Santa Fe's classical theater troupe for young actors, presents Shakespeare's comedy.

7 pm, $10

WORKSHOP NEW YEAR DREAM COLLAGE Museum of Interactive Art Shidoni, 1508 Bishops Lodge Road, 670-2118 Visualize your intentions for the new year by creating an inspirational collage. Kids under 10 are free.

9 am-5 pm, $5 TGIF POTTERY CLASS Paseo Pottery 1424 Paseo de Paralta, 988-7687 Tour the studio and play in the mud with a local ceramic artist at a two-hour class complete with libations.

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Two of Santa Fe’s hardestworking label heads discuss the crucial relationship between music and visual art

BY LUKE HENLEY a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

B

ack in the days of the widespread record store, there was really no choice but to trust a band’s visual aesthetic. As a kid, before I could jump online and read reviews and sample albums freely, I spent my allowance carefully based almost entirely on what album art caught my eye. Like most kids, I was fairly clueless, but I somehow lucked into a semi-respectable CD collection simply because bands like Black Flag and The Misfits had album covers that looked cool. The way we experience music today is vastly different, obviously, but the principle remains basically the same: if it looks cool, chances are it’ll probably sound cool.

A band’s visual language is vital and should be congruent to the sound; or at least demonstrate intention and thoughtfulness. Even simply scrolling through a band or musician’s Instagram account gives your brain the same kind of information and signifiers as when people would skim through zines to find their new favorite artists (and by the way, some of us still do the zine thing). It’s an advertisement, yes, but it can be a part of a complete artistic statement.

Eliza Lutz, Matron Records founder, visual artist/graphic designer and member of post-rock act Future Scars, knows the value of promotional art and how it relates to the ways bands sell

themselves. Visual artistry and music have been connected disciplines for Lutz for years—not simply from a promotional vantage, but as it applies to her own work as an artist. On the upcoming Future Scars album, for example, the intention behind the music and the visual art came from the same source.

“I have synesthesia, so for me visuals and sound are just incredibly crossed,” Lutz explains. “For this record, I wanted to lean into that. I created these crazy color collages and made tunings to those collages and wrote the album to the color palettes.”

Todd Ryan White, co-founder of local cassette label King Volume Records, agrees on the importance of aesthetic.

White has created album art for labels like LA-based Prosthetic Records and New York’s Tee Pee Records, and his relationship with the visual side of music marketing stems from growing up entranced by and entrenched in the homemade aspects of punk rock and skateboard culture.

“I just try to be involved in music as much as possible through art,” White tells SFR. “Some people are inspired most by other artists, and the only artists that

COURTESY ELIZA LUTZ

Music as Art

MUSIC

Eliza Lutz designed this piece for her band Future Scars’ upcoming album booklet.

BELOW: Artist Todd Ryan White understands the value of aesthetics.

really inspire me are musicians—there’s something about the sonic quality and what it elicits visually that’s easier for me to perceive than looking at other people’s [visual] artwork.”

King Volume Records specializes in collectible releases with an emphasis on strong visual style. Harking back to the days of flipping through actual records in a real-life retail store, the physical format-focused label seems to favor bands whose sounds and visuals connect, even in unconventional ways.

“There are so many signifiers and expectations that come with a specific peo sound. I’m really interested when people push that,” White says. “You see something that’s completely different and doesn’t fit the mold but it still fits the music. It’s both serving the band’s needs and cutting new territory; if you create a new visual language for a band, their sound will come with it, and you can start to create associations that you would never expect.”

Both Lutz and White tout the

importance of a band’s narrative being conveyed through music and visuals alike.

“When I sit down with a band and they have an album and we’re talking about releasing it,” Lutz says, “I always try to think about what is the story they’re trying to tell about the music and with their band on a larger scale.”

White sums up similarly.

“You can build a band up so much more when you’re crafting a consistent story,” he says. “There’s a sense of immersion in what the artist is trying to accomplish; that would be sonically, visually, and the performances as well.”

So while it’s not always wise to judge an album by its cover, we’re practically hardwired as humans to do it anyway.

The visual language that accompanies music is something that should never be discounted, especially in the streaming age. In other words, hone a visual style to accompany that music. You’ll be surprised what else falls into place.

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SAT/26 ART OPENINGS NIOMI FAWN: FEAST CLOSING RECEPTION Iconik Coffee Roasters (Lupe) 314 S Guadalupe St., 428-0996 After curating the works of more than 50 artists in the coffee shops for five years, curator Fawn celebrates the relationship that Curate Santa Fe has had with Iconik before moving onwards toward new ambitions.

6 pm, free

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ACTIONS MATTER: SACRED SITES La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Multimedia education nonprofit Silver Bullet Productions hosts a fundraiser featuring a panel discussion about land, culture and the power of place. The conversation, moderated by Valerie Plame, features former Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, environmental activist Winona LaDuke (Ojibwe) and former Congressman and Senator from Colorado Mark Udall.

6 pm, $160 ARTIST TALK: NIKA FELDMAN form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111 Feldman discusses her solo exhibition, Spirits in the Material World, an exploration of the coded language of garments within Feldman’s Native cultural context.

2 pm, free CURATORS + COFFEE: ART FOR A NEW UNDERSTANDING: NATIVE PERSPECTIVES, 1950S TO NOW IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Join curators Candice Hopkins (Tlingit, citizen of Carcross/ Tagish First Nation), Mindy N Besaw from the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and Manuela Well-OffMan, curator at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, a discussion on MoCNA's newest exhibition (see SFR Picks, page 19).

10:30 am, free PAUL BAUMANN: PERU'S CORPUS CHRISTI FESTIVAL Travel Bug Coffee Shop 839 Paseo de Peralta, 992-0418 In Cuzco, the native Quechua and Spanish cultures collided in the 1530s—then melded in a unique syncretic culture where ancient native beliefs are still to be found under a Spanish veneer.

Archaeologist and former tour guide Baumann describes the Corpus Christi fiesta in May and June, when the people of Cuzco celebrate by having all the patron saints parade through the city.

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

6:30 pm, $25

SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-4098 Not only the place to see and be seen in Santa Fe, this is one of the oldest, largest and most successful growers’ markets in the country.

8 am-1 pm, free

EVENTS DIVINATION FAIR Prana Blessings 1925 Rosina St., Ste. C, 772-0771 Gather insights into past, present and future events through numerology, taro, aura readings and astrology.

Local professional readers offer 20-minute readings for $25 each, or three readings for $60.

Noon-4 pm, $25 EL MUSEO WINTER MARKET El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Part fine arts market, part flea market, all full of treasures.

8 am-3 pm, free MUSIC AND MOVEMENT Bee Hive Kid's Books 328 Montezuma Ave, 780-8051 Enjoy live music, stories and movement with performers Ingrid and Eric.

11:30 am, free POSITIVELY STRONG & HEALTHY SUMMIT Genoveva Chavez Community Center 3221 W Rodeo Road, 955-4000 Get support, education and empowerment for a strong, healthy and happy life while creating community among HIV+ individuals in New Mexico. Practicing specialists in HIV, motivational speakers, and inspirational presentations cover topics such as creating a framework for HIV survival, legal-financial planning, medical health breakthroughs, mental health solutions and treatments and community exhibitors. RSVP hiv50plussummit@gmail.com, if you so desire.

9 am-5 pm, free START THE CONVERSATION The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 The Life Link hosts its first-ever fundraising gala and silent auction. All proceeds go the The Life Link's programs and services, as well as a member art program as it works to formalize a recovery-based, self-sustaining artists guild.

5 pm, $150 VOLUNTEER RECRUITMENT FAIR Stewart Udall Center 725 Camino Lejo, 983-6155 Wanna spend your warmer months hanging out with plants and learning about Southwestern botany? Talk with various volunteer groups and learn about all of the botanical garden volunteer opportunities.

1-3 pm, free

MUSIC AFFETTUOSO! HAYDN AT ESZTERHAZA: THE OPUS 20 QUARTETS San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-3974 Severall Friends explore Haydn’s astoundingly wide-ranging and emotional Opus 20 quartets, using the period instruments, gut strings and lighter bows with which Haydn himself was well-acquainted. Haydn’s earliest string quartets are rather sprightly; these reflect the sturm und drang of the era.

Students free with ID. 7:30 pm, $20 ALEX MARYOL Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Bluesy rock.

1 pm, free BARD EDRINGTON AND THE PALM IN THE CYPRESS Ski Santa Fe 740 Hyde Park Road, 982-4429 Local folks play their blend of Mississippi Delta blues and Appalachian folk music on the deck at the ski lodge. Enjoy your aprés beer and burger with some jaunty tunes.

11 am-3 pm, free THE BLUES REVUE BAND Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Review some blues.

7 pm, free CASEY ANDERSEN TRIO Tonic 103 E Water St., 982-1189 Straight-ahead jazz with a contemporary edge, featuring Andersen (bass), Robert Muller (piano) and Jonathan Rodriguez (drums).

9:30 pm, free CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 Modeled after 19th-century Parisian cabarets, enjoy firstrate piano and vocals from Charles Tichenor and friends.

6 pm, free DASH Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 A wild blend of funk, soul, rock and pop.

10 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND ESTER HANA Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards, classical and Broadway cabaret tunes on piano and vocals: Doug starts, Ester takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free

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ED & MARIAH Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 Ed Guerra and Mariah Romero strum some acoustic rock and singer-songwriter tunes.

7 pm, free FLOR DE TOLOACHE James A Little Theatre 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429 The New York-based all-female ensemble wins the hearts of both progressive and traditional mariachi music fans alike through their distinct artistic vision and sophisticated, enlightened interpretation.

7:30 pm, $17-$22 GATO MALO Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. Rock, zydeco, Norteño y más.

8 pm, free THE JACOBSEN BROTHERS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Santa Fe Pro Musica presents Eric Jacobsen as he leads the Pro Musica Orchestra featuring soulful violinist Colin Jacobsen in a concert with the music of Mozart, Beethoven and Jessie Montgomery. Arrive an hour early for a pre-concert talk.

4 pm, $12-$80 JIMMY DEVENEY AND THE SILVER FOXES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Honky-tonk 'n' country jamz.

8 pm, free JOHN KURZWEG BAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock 'n' roll from a bunch of experts.

8:30 pm, free JULIAN DOSSETT TRIO Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Delta blues on the deck.

3 pm, free THE NOWHERE BAND La Tienda Performance Space 7 Caliente Road, Eldorado, 465-9214 Dance to some lively Beatles tribute tunes.

6:30 pm, $10 PAT MALONE Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Solo jazz guitar.

7 pm, free RED DIRT ACOUSTIC CO. The Bridge @ SF Brewing Co. 37 Fire Place, 557-6182 Country.

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

5:30 pm, free SANTA FE BLUES DIVAS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Blues from some divas.

9-11 pm, $5

THE CALENDAR with Michael Vlamis

NICK JAIRCOMO

The CW’s Roswell reboot, Roswell, New Mexico, attempts to tackle real-world politics and sci-fi alien romance all at once—including a reimagining of main character Liz as the daughter of an undocumented immigrant. We caught up with actor Michael Vlamis, who plays renegade alien bad-boy Michael Guerin, to get the his take on the show.

An extended version of this interview is available online at SFReporter.com. (Leah Cantor) Why reboot this show, and why right now?

I think that [writer Carina Adly MacKenzie’s] specific take on a show about aliens, but that’s really about people feeling alienated, is why this show is important and really necessary right now. Ultimately, I think that the theme of alienation in our country right now is why aliens are back on screen.

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What made you want to be a part of the show?

I think it’s very rare to read material for an audition and just kind of be blown away by it. And I think that speaks to Carina. She’s a great writer with a great voice and something to say; very opinionated, very lively, and that’s what pops up on the page. The show came to me at a point in my life where I was looking for answers, just like this character Michael Guerin was. I grew up with a temper like this guy; I’ve been able to control it much better in my later years. I’ve really valued the underdog my whole life, and I feel like this guy is the underdog. I think the guy is scared, you know—scared of love, he’s scared of maxing out his full brilliance, of getting found out, scared of his own anger. And I think that that’s a really human thing that I was dealing with that I could really bring into the character.

At the end of the first episode, your character shares a steamy and unexpected kiss with Alex, another man. What does it mean for you to play an LGBTQ character who is also secretly an alien?

This is really important to me because I’m from Chicago, and I only knew one gay person growing up. Not that I ever thought [being queer] was wrong, but I just wasn’t accustomed to it.

As a kid, you only know what you know. What I’m trying to get across is that love is love no matter what. It doesn’t matter if it’s a man and a man, or a man and a woman, or a woman and a woman. At the end of the day, you should be able to support love. In the context of the show, in a small town it’s even harder to face your truth because the majority of people are one way—you don’t have a whole lot of examples of people being different, and this is really something Michael struggles with. It comes back to that political message of inclusion and not judging a book by its cover.

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THE CALENDAR SAVOR La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Cuban street music.

8 pm, free TREVOR BAHNSON Iconik Coffee Roasters 1600 Lena St., 428-0996 Folky Americana.

Noon-2 pm, free VAIVÉN El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Jazz and flamenco.

7:30 pm, free WES AND JESS' JUGBAND BLUES Iconik Coffee Roasters (Lupe) 314 S Guadalupe St., 428-0996 Old-timey vaudevilley tunes.

11 am-1 pm, free

THEATER AS YOU LIKE IT El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Upstart Crows, Santa Fe's classical theater troupe for young actors, presents Shakespeare's comedy.

7 pm, $10

WORKSHOP

Los Angeles-based BODYTRAFFIC is “one of the most talked-about young dance companies, not just in L.A. but nationwide” (Los Angeles Times).

With a reputation for “bringing vivid theatricality to a range of provocative works commissioned from some of today’s most dynamic choreographers” (Boston Globe), BODYTRAFFIC has been named one of “25 to Watch”

by Dance Magazine, “Best of Culture” by the Los Angeles Times, and “the company of the future” by the Joyce Theater Foundation. This is a must-see ensemble for both new audiences and longtime dance aficionados.

Tuesday, February 5 | 7:30 pm Lensic Performing Arts Center

Tickets start at $29 Students and teachers receive 50% off to all PSF performances Underwritten by Robin Black; Catherine Oppenheimer Photo: Tatiana Wills PerformanceSantaFe.org | 505 984 8759

IMPROVISATION & INTRODUCTION TO PLAYWRITING Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 Folks age 21 and under are invited to learn more about creating performing art from Quinn Fontaine and Marguerite Louise Scott.

2-4 pm, free NEW YEAR DREAM COLLAGE Museum of Interactive Art Shidoni, 1508 Bishops Lodge Road, 670-2118 Visualize your intentions for the new year.

9 am-5 pm, $5

SUN/27 BOOKS/LECTURES BORDERLESS: THE ART OF LUIS TAPIA Museum of Spanish Colonial Art 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 Artist and author Tapia presents his work and signs his new book. For 45 years, Tapia has pushed the art of polychrome wood sculpture to new levels of social and political commentary.

2 pm, $5-$10 GEORGIA SANTA MARIA AND MERIMÉE MOFFITT Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Two long time New Mexico residents read original poetry about their lives and experience. Santa Maria is currently working on a chronicle her life on a ranch in Miami, New Mexico, in the ‘70s and 80’s; Moffitt arrived in El Rito, New Mexico, in 1970 in a big shiny green Chrysler full of hippies.

She chronicles her experiences in her poetry and memoir.

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JOURNEYSANTAFE: MIRANDA VISCOLI Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Hear the latest news, as well as gun violence bills before the Legislature, from the leader of New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence.

11 am, free

DANCE BEGINNING SALSA Dance Station 947-B W Alameda St. Drop in to try your hand (or feet and body, as it were).

5 pm, $20 BEGINNING SWING Dance Station 947-B W Alameda St. Take advantage of those swing nights that pop up around town!

4 pm, $20 KIDS' PARTNER DANCE Dance Station 947-B W Alameda St. Get your kids moving with friendly and professional lessons in ballroom, Latin and swing.

10:45-11:30 am, $12 PARTNER DANCE FUNDAMENTALS Dance Station 947-B W Alameda St. Whether you want to be more coordinated on the dance floor or just want a little exercise, here's a low-impact (and free!) way to do it.

2:45-3:30 pm, free

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

9 am-4 pm, free GEEKS WHO DRINK Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307, 983-0134 Pub quiz!

7 pm, free LEARN TO MEDITATE Zoetic 230 St. Francis Drive, 292-5293 Explore The Stages of the Path through teachings and meditations. Develop the kind heart of compassion and attain wisdom.

10:30 am-noon, $10 SUNDAY RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-4098 A unique opportunity to enjoy local art and music inside (no blustery breezes here).

10 am-4 pm, free TAI CHI FOR 50+ La Escuela y Galleria del Cuervo Azul 1406 Third St., 551-2345 Azul La Luz teaches the martial art for balance, poise, meditation and stress control.

2-3 pm, free

WILD SPIRIT WOLF SANCTUARY FAMILY PROGRAM Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary focuses its efforts on educating the general public about the wild wolf, wolves and wolf-dogs in captivity. Meet an ambassador wolf, too.

1:30 pm, free

FOOD SOUTHEAST ASIAN FEAST Light Vessel Spa Santa Fe 199 Paseo de Peralta, Ste. D A pop-up fine dining experience features the unique Thai, Cambodian and Vietnamese fusion of Chef Kimnath Nou. To RSVP, call 577-2460.

5:30-9 pm, $45

MUSIC BILL PALMER'S TV KILLERS Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. Rough 'n' tumble rock 'n' roll with polished 'n' sweet country 'n' folk sensibilities.

6 pm, free THE BOOKSHOP BAND Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Reading may be a quiet activity, but buying books is joyous and deserves some jaunty tunes. The songs are the musical outpouring of this touring band’s own response to books they have read.

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

12 pm, free COREY HARRIS & CEDRIC WATSON James A Little Theatre 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429 Two artists grounded in both tradition and contemporary experimentation explore the extraordinary living culture of the blues.

7:30 pm, $22-$27 ESTER HANA Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Masterful classical, jazz and cabaret tunes on piano and vocals.

6:30 pm, free GARY GORENCE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Classic rock and singer-songwriter jams.

8 pm, free THE JACOBSEN BROTHERS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Santa Fe Pro Musica presents Eric Jacobsen as he leads the Pro Musica Orchestra featuring soulful violinist Colin Jacobsen in a concert with the music of Mozart, Beethoven and emerging composer Jessie Montgomery. Arrive an hour early for a pre-concert talk by Thomas O’Connor.

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Against the Wall

ABOVE: “A Cup Holds Water So Do We” is located in Santa Fe. BELOW: The artist.

Joerael Numina’s Mobilize Walls project takes on Trump’s proposed border wall

BY ALEX DE VORE a l e x @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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’m not really an art-school guy,” artist and muralist Joerael Numina tells me over coffee. “I was always more of a graffiti guy, out of West Texas. But there weren’t many writers, so I had to travel to Dallas to study the work.”

Numina grew up in San Angelo, Texas, a city of roughly 100,000. He says it’s similar in some ways to Santa Fe (size, geography, region)—though far less liberal. For a fan of graffiti and street art, it wasn’t exactly an ideal location; he was drawn to the world of graffiti because of the history, the artistry and the narrative elements. Dallas, meanwhile, was far from his last stop.

From there, he spent time in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, learning more about spray art in abandoned factories. Eventually he found himself in Los Angeles where, he says, being an artist seemed trickier than not. After a particularly bad day in 2015, he and his fiancee made the call to relocate to Santa Fe. “I don’t know,” he says, “I just wanted to get out of the pollution and the traffic

and go somewhere where art is appreciated. My fiancee and I were traveling a lot then, to Seattle, to Austin, and every time we came back through here, it just made more sense.”

Almost immediately, Numina found himself in a residency at the Santa Fe Institute, that gloriously venerable think tank from which pan-scientific ideas are born.

“I was illustrating complexity science,” Numina says. “It’s a multi-disciplinary science that’s highly influenced by network science and computational data.

For instance, collective computation: computing how animals move across the Alaskan tundra; finding commonalities in things you may not think are relative. … They were looking for someone to illustrate, and they met with me, and I saw patterns with that and graffiti; I saw a commonality.”

Numina also worked as an apprentice to local tattoo legend Jeffrey Pitt, but given his genesis in spray art and the massive graffiti murals undertaken by artists in cities across the globe, his natural evolution took him back to huge-scale

art pieces. He’s done several across the country in cities like Washington, DC, and Macon, Georgia. Santa Fe is home to Numina work as well: The mural at the corner of Second and Lena Streets, on the outside of the former Cloudcliff Bakery, is his. There’s more work to be found on the former Santa Fe University of Art & Design Campus—and that’s not counting temporary murals at places like the Center for Contemporary Arts. It’s entirely possible you’ve driven or walked by a Numina without realizing it.

What might also not be readily apparent is that his murals are interconnected through his Mobilize Walls project, a sprawling multi-artist undertaking that

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borrows from complexity science and aims to create more square footage of artistically capitalized walls than might potentially be taken up by Trump’s proposed border wall.

Think of it like an aggregate for murals’ square footage, wherein the dimensions of any participating artist’s wall, regardless of location, becomes part of the overall square footage of the project. Numina estimates that the project sits at roughly 50,000 square feet, with submissions from artists around the region like Santa Fe’s Vitanie Berger, Tuke One of Denver, Phoenix artist Jesus Rodriguez and others throughout California.

“The thing is, we’re trying to counter everything the wall’s about,” Numina tells SFR. “Being decentralized, colorful, transformational and inclusive—it’s my goal to be international.”

Numina is open to any submissions through his website (mobilizewalls.com) and says he’s more interested in artists being able to craft their own narratives than asking for specifics of any kind.

Artistic autonomy is paramount to the project, after all, though Numina says he’s wide open when it comes to the prospect of local collaboration.

“It’s like the yoga relationship,” he says. “It’s always good to open yourself up to new experiences. There’s … always going to be tension, but it creates strength and awareness—friendships, relationships in general, are about collaborations in space.”

For now, Numina’s on the lookout for available walls (SFR has a few in mind that could use some sprucing-up, so we assume everyone else does, too), and you can contact Numina to donate materials like paint through the website or by emailing mobilizewalls@gmail.com.

“I remember the first articles that came out [about Trump’s wall], and he was proposing, I think, 480 million square feet,” Numina says. “That needs to be outscaled.”

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THE CALENDAR KEY FRANCES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 The blues are on the deck.

3 pm, free MATTHEW ANDRAE La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rhythmic folk on guitalele.

6 pm, free NACHA MENDEZ La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Latin music from Santa Fe's most buttery cantadora.

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

7 pm, free

THEATER AS YOU LIKE IT El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Upstart Crows, Santa Fe's classical theater troupe for young actors, presents Shakespeare's comedy.

6 pm, $10 FEARLESS FEMALE VOICES Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 Blue Raven Theatre and Warehouse 21 presents readings of new plays by Santa Fe's best female playwrights (see SFR Picks, page 19).

1-5 pm, $10

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MONDAY STORY TIME Bee Hive Kid's Books 328 Montezuma Ave, 780-8051 Story time for all ages at the fabulous little book store (which is also for all ages— with a particular focus on kids, of course).

10:30 am, free PAM HOUSTON: DEEP CREEK Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it (see cover, page 12).

6 pm, free SOUTHWEST SEMINARS: BEARS EARS ARCHAEOLOGY: ANCIENT CULTURAL LANDSCAPES IN SOUTHEASTERN UTAH Santa Fe Woman's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail, 983-9455 Archaeologist and curator Jonathan Till lectures as part of Southwest Seminars' Mother Earth and Father Sky lecture series.

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EVENTS CLEAN ENERGY CONFERENCE Temple Beth Shalom 205 East Barcelona Road, 982-1376 Hear inspiring climate action, learn about upcoming climate legislation and become a grassroots activist. A coalition of environmental organizations host an important and timely conference. Keynote speakers are Laura Paskus (who is also an SFR environmental freelance writer, as it were) and Destiny Watford.

2 pm, $5-$15 GEEKS WHO DRINK Draft Station Santa Fe Arcade, 60 E San Francisco St., 983-6443 Stellar quiz results can win you drink tickets for next time. Isabel is your host, and she's wicked smaht.

7 pm, free LOST LETTERS: REVIVING THE LOST ART OF LETTER WRITING Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Take a moment to write a letter (see SFR Picks, page TK).

6 pm, free RE-CREATE YOUR LIFE AND LIVELIHOOD WITH MINDFULNESS Montezuma Lodge 431 Paseo de Peralta, 670-3068 In a talk for women 50 and up, Maia Duerr shares her six keys to liberation-based livelihood and how they can transform your life.

5:45 pm, $5 SANTA FE INDIVISIBLE MEETING Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Join the politically progressive group for group activism.

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

6:30 pm, free

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

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

7:30 pm, free COWGIRL KARAOKE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Michèle Leidig hosts Santa Fe's fave night of karaoke.

9 pm, free

JAMIE RUSSELL Chili Line Brewing Company 204 N Guadalupe St., 982-8474 Americana, pop and rock originals and covers.

7 pm, free

WORKSHOP SUDS + MUD POTTERY CLASS Paseo Pottery 1424 Paseo de Paralta, 9887687 Tour the studio and play in the mud with a local ceramic artist at a two-hour class complete with libations and all materials, clay, glazes and firing.

6-8 pm, $75

TUE/29 BOOKS/LECTURES GARDEN CONVERSATIONS Stewart Udall Center 725 Camino Lejo, 983-6155 Share and engage in informational conversations around gardening and horticulture.

Noon-2 pm, free RICHARD MELZER: MAXIMILIANO LUNA AND THE ROUGH RIDERS St. Francis Auditorium 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 El Rancho de las Golondrinas kicks off its winter lecture series, Speaking of Traditions, with a talk by author Melzer.

7 pm, $10 TECH TALK: FAKE NEWS Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Explore fake news: what it is, how to look for it, and how to analyze like a researcher.

2 pm, free

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

7:30 pm, $5

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

10:30 am, free SANTA FE INDIVISIBLE MEETING Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Join the politically progressive group to put into action the planning you did last night.

8:30 am, free

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

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ACTING OUT The Kids Are All Right Myths about theater kids: They’re funny ‘cause they’re often true

BY C H A R LOT T E J U S I N S K I c o p y e d i t o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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here are a lot of stereotypes about drama kids, some more accurate than others. (If you haven’t already, look up SNL’s “Crucible Cast Party” sketch with Lin-Manuel Miranda; it’s a bit of a touchstone.) And by the way, “kids” is not age-specific; we use the term forever.

After more than 25 years in theater, and with the help of some fellow thespians I’ve met along the way, I dissected some of the most commonly assumed characteristics of stage-folk; let me know if you think I’m wrong.

The men are all gay.

So incredibly untrue. Theater may not have a larger percentage of LGBTQIA+ participants, but it’s probably a field in which those folks feel more comfortable being out. So it may seem the population is larger—but you’ll find plenty of hetero (or otherwise not specifically homosexual) dudes onstage.

If the men are not gay, they are misogynistic womanizers.

Also untrue. Recent allegations about the trash humans in pretty much every industry ever reveal that #yesallmen— so sure, a number of people in theater are dumpster fires. But, like the example above, I don’t think it’s a particularly large percentage, and I personally have met some of the finest, most progressive men I’ve ever known through theatrical endeavors.

Theater kids all love Halloween.

Even if I am the only theater kid on Earth who despises Halloween, my sheer existence disproves this assertion. Yes, it’s a chance to dress up and play with your identity, but it’s also a shitty holiday, and candy sucks. You can’t change my mind. False.

Beyond rehearsal, you need to memorize your lines, review blocking, practice music and dancing, and try to keep yourself healthy to make it through Hell Week and the run without succumbing to the crud ( jk, there is no way to avoid the crud). A show is ON a world you build and inhabit, and that’s a lot of work—so we gotta miss some social obligations for that. Come find us in a few weeks. (But OFF not a few months, because by then we’ll be in another show.)

There is a canon of shows that everyone has done.

Totally. If you haven’t done at least three of the following, you are fake news: Fiddler on the Roof, Once Upon a Mattress, The Crucible, Grease, Guys & Dolls, Oklahoma!, Our Town, You Can’t Take It With You, Annie, How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (abbreviated in discussion as H2$), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cabaret, A … My Name is Alice, The Vagina Monologues, The Laramie Project, or The Importance of Being Earnest.

Extra points if you are a girl who wore a beard in Fiddler, or if your Midsummer was outdoors.

It’s super cutthroat and you can’t trust anyone.

They are all super melodramatic.

At the College of Santa Fe (RIP), the late, great novelist and professor Mark Behr taught his students the essential Gustave Flaubert quote: “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”

The vast majority of serious artists I have encountered in any field live by this doctrine. When your life is in constant manufactured upheaval, it’s hard to concentrate on your craft. So no, actors are not drama queens. They can actually be pretty boring, and many are kinda awkward introverts once you get them out of the spotlight.

They’re always saying, “I can’t, I have rehearsal.”

Yup. A theatrical production is an incredible time commitment. Rehearsals often go down five to seven times a week for up to three months, depending on the show, and you do not miss rehearsal unless you’re on your deathbed.

Untrue. The theater is a tiny community, especially in small towns—and, as a result, everyone sees everyone’s dirty laundry. That may seem to prove the above assertion, but think of it this way: If everyone knows everything about you, there aren’t any secrets. There’s nothing but trust, in a way.

Sure, stories about you and your work ethic may get around. If you’re an asshole, your reputation will probably precede you and you’ll be toxic, but that’s your fault for being an asshole. If you’re talented, professional and easy to work with, that will precede you too—and good on ya.

Techies are weird.

I mean, yeah. But everyone’s kinda weird.

And the truth is, no one would be able to see or hear you without the booth crew. You’d be r running into furt on u C

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niture without your run crew. You’d miss your cues without your dressers.

You’d basically have no show without your stage manager. Those purposefully unseen folks in black are the true heroes of the stage, so pay them the respect they deserve.

Everyone is always ON, all the time.

Untrue. Those people certainly exist—the folks who you feel like getting a beer with them is attending your own personal stand-up comedy show, or those who consider every single damn thing that has ever happened a deep, artistic, heart-wrenching experience. But that’s not everyone. Most of us are much more chill.

One thing that does happen, though, is unique to people learning tap dancing: They are constantly moving their feet. It’s subtle, but watch for it. I, for one, have never tap-danced, but I’ve heard it’s just so dang fun you can’t not do it 24/7 once you learn.

They’re really superstitious.

Absolutely. I’ve been practically tackled to stop me from reciting a certain poem in a theater (I didn’t know it was forbidden!), and anyone who says the M-word (aka The Scottish Play) backstage is immediately shoved outside to spin three times, spit, curse and knock to get back in. Every theater has a ghost light to appease the ghost—because there is always a fucking ghost. Don’t you dare whistle backstage, while you’re at it. Ask any theater kid you know about their crazy stories about what befell those who broke tradition.

You’ll get your mind blown.

They’re really good liars.

Untrue. I’d even argue that many actors are particularly bad liars. Acting is not about putting on a veneer of another person’s identity; it’s about truly believing you are that person, inhabiting their life. It’s essentially about the deepest truth possible: Becoming another being in every authentic way.

Trust your actor friends. They don’t know how to fake it.

Everyone is getting laid.

Yes.

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FIBBER, THE BLACKOUT PICTURES AND SELF NEGLECT Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Santa Fe's newest punk outfit, Fibber, hosts other fine locals from right here in town and Albuquerque.

8 pm, free THE HIGGS The Bridge @ SF Brewing Co. 37 Fire Place, 557-6182 Jam rock, prog, alt-rock, reggae and blues straight outta California.

6:30 pm, free

THEATER NT LIVE IN HD: THE TRAGEDY OF RICHARD II Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Shakespeare’s play is broadcast live from the Almeida Theatre in London. Simon Russell Beale plays the title role in this visceral new production about the limits of power.

7 pm, $22

MUSEUMS KEN ROSENTHAL, “PHANTOM”

Give a little, get a little.

BLUEGRASS JAM Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 Yes. It's a bluegrass jam.

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

8 pm, $5 CHUSCALES La Boca (Original Location) 72 W Marcy St., 982-3433 Exotic flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free

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At first glance, these kinda look like creepy deep-sea octopuses—but the’re actually trees, homie. Explore other images spooky, surreal and sublime at the New Mexico Museum of Art’s Shots in the Dark exhibition of low-light photography.

CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Galleries closed for installation; reopening Feb. 1.

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

Through April 22.

HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 The Legacy of Helene Wurlitzer: Works from the Harwood Collection. Through May 5.

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

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

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

Through Oct. 31. Wayne Nez Gaussoin: Adobobot.

Through Nov. 30.

MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART

632 Agua Fría St., 989-3283 National and international wax artists.

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Maria Samora: Master of Elegance. Through Feb. 28.

What’s New in New: Selections from the Carol Warren Collection. Through April 7. Lifeways of the Southern Athabaskans. Through July 7.

MUSEUM OF INT’L FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Beadwork Adorns the World. Through Feb. 3.

Crafting Memory: The Art of Community in Peru.

Through March 10. Gallery of Conscience: Community Through Making from Peru to New Mexico.

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 GenNext: Future So Bright.

Through March 29.

NM HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5019 The Land That Enchants Me So: Picturing Popular Songs of New Mexico. Through Feb. 28. Atomic Histories. Through May 26. On Exhibit: Designs That Defined the Museum of New Mexico. Through July 28. The First World War. Through Nov. 11, 2019.

NM MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072

Good Company: Five Artists Communities in New Mexico.

Through March 10. Shots in the Dark; Carved & Cast: 20th-Century New Mexican Sculpture. All through March 31. Wait Until Dark; Night Life Imagination Station. Both through April 21.

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

POEH CULTURAL CENTER AND MUSEUM 78 Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3334 In T’owa Vi Sae’we.

EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS 334 Los Pinos Road, 471-2261 Closed for the season; to reopen June 1, 2019.

SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDENS 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Dan Ostermiller: Gardens Gone Wild! Through May 11.

SITE SANTA FE 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 Hildegarde Duane and David Lamelas: The Dictator.

Through Feb. 28.

WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 704 Camino Lejo, 986-4636 LIT: The Work of Rose B Simpson. Through Oct. 6.

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Tea-ing Off The world’s second-favorite beverage is b(l)ooming

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here’s a month for just about everything, and January seems especially fitting for this one: National Hot Tea Month. I prefer beer or wine or coffee to tea—yet I counted 11 varieties of tea in my own kitchen. Thinking more on this, I realized this is because tea is more a staple of an offering; a universal beverage most everyone has on hand.

Considering tea is just about the most widely consumed beverage in the world (second to water, that is), it being a staple makes sense. The US is the third-largest importer of tea in the world (after Russia and Pakistan), which means, on any given day, 159 million Americans are enjoying a cuppa.

Tea has a long history and in modern times, its popularity has continued to soar thanks to the continual pouring forth of studies touting its myriad health benefits.

These include everything from boosting heart health and cognition to aiding in weight loss and lowering stress levels. According to the Tea Association of the USA Inc., millennials (those born around 1980ish) have also been pushing the popularity of tea, with 87 percent claiming to drink it.

“True” teas are black, green, white, dark and oolong. These are “true” because they all originate from the same plant, the Camellia sinensis. Herbal teas aren’t considered true teas because they don’t share this plant of origin. Camellia sinensis is an evergreen shrub that grows mainly in forests and has two varieties, one native to China and the other to India.

The differences among the five types of

Literal wars were fought over tea, so how about a little respect, huh?

true teas are due to degrees of processing and levels of oxidation—natural chemical reactions caused by rolling, withering and other techniques—which result in the taste and color changes that distinguish the teas. Black tea is fully oxidized, green and white teas are not. Oolong is midway between black and green tea in strength and color. Dark teas are fermented after manufacture.

So, with these basics covered, if you’re thinking it might be fun to move past Trader Joe’s mint melange and into something more exotic, you’re in luck—tea is as easily procured as a margarita in Santa Fe, so I checked in with some local experts to find out more.

Named one of the “top 10 tea joints in the US” by Sunset magazine, The Teahouse (821 Canyon Road, 992-0972) offers more than 150 varieties, making it one of the best places in New Mexico to explore the wide-ranging tastes of tea. Its owners procure teas from the best sources around the world, offering everything from oolong and Earl Grey to ritualistic quality matcha and the Petrus of teas, Himalayan Snowflake.

“People come in a lot to buy bulk teas,” notes Teahouse manager Neal Polonsky.

“If you’re interested in trying new things,

Opuntia’s Todd Spitzer points out that most Americans brew tea incorrectly.

Below are some basic instructions to maximize your tea experience:

Brewing white, green and oolong teas: (assuming a standard 10-oz. coffee cup) • Put 1 tablespoon loose tea in a tea infuser and rinse it • Add 2 oz cold water to cup then fill remainder with hot water (175 degrees is ideal). Boiling water can burn these teas, which Spitzer warns can take away nuances in the flavor • Drop in the infuser with the tea

Brewing black and pu-erh teas: • Follow the same steps as above, but you can use boiling water

Tips: To maximize flavor, be careful not to over-steep your tea. Ideally, you should be aiming for two to two and a half minutes for white and green tea, and three minutes for oolong, black tea or pu-erhs. And don’t toss the tea!

Spitzer says the second, third and fourth steepings are the best because each brings out different flavor profiles.

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these are great because you can work your way through different flavors.”

Another way to explore is via one of the tea drinks popular at the Teahouse.

Among the most requested are the London Fog, a latte with Earl Grey and vanilla, and the matcha latte with lavender honey.

“People are starting to rediscover tea, thanks to the coffee culture,” adds Polonsky. “It’s different from coffee but has the same shared social culture. Before, a latte was with coffee. But now you can have it with tea.”

For those looking for a more guided journey down the river of tea, Opuntia (922 Shoofly St., 780-5796) features a more curated selection, with a few options each of the true teas, as well as herbals and creative tea drinks. The food menu is also based on tea culture, with dishes being specifically designed to compliment many of the teas.

“Drinking tea is an analog experience, a tactile experience,” says Todd Spitzer, who co-owns Opuntia with partner Jeanna Gienke. “In American culture, everything is overly marketed and processed—whereas with tea, it’s about the experience. It’s a relaxing, centering thing that can get you in tune with your body and mind.”

Popular choices at Opuntia include an oolong called the Iron Goddess of Mercy, which has been made by the same family for over 1,500 years, and Moon Bud, a white tea with blossoms that look like little moons.

“There is nothing industrial about loose leaf tea,” Spitzer points out. “It is all by hand: hand-harvested, hand-processed and hand-manufactured.”

If a hand-held introduction to tea sounds interesting, starting this week on Jan. 25, Opuntia offers tea tastings at 3 pm on the third Friday of every month.

OPUNTIA TEA TASTING 3 pm Friday Jan. 25. Free.

922 Shoofly St., 780-5796

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In the late 1930s, comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were about the biggest stars on the planet. We’re talking Beatlemania levels of fandom—they were mobbed in the streets by screaming fans. But by the time World War II had concluded, Laurel and Hardy’s sheen had faded, and a 1953 tour of a post-war United Kingdom undertaken as a moonshot attempt at re-breaking into film proved to be the final chapter of their careers.

This lesser-known tour is examined up close in Stan & Ollie from filmmaker Jon S Baird (HBO’s Vinyl), a sad yet hopeful biopic that eschews comedy for the most part (though there are certainly laughs) for a darker look at waning stardom and the closing out of a particular era in Hollywood. Here we see the nitty-gritty of Laurel and Hardy’s later lives, from the impact of lost fame and the pressures of consistently being “on” to lingering resentment born from Hardy’s having worked with a different partner in the infamous 1939 film Zenobia.

Steve Coogan and John C Reilly disappear completely into their respective roles, masterfully phasing between the archetypical art of

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comedy—blueprints drawn by Laurel and Hardy themselves, among others—and regular people clinging to scraps of fame. Reilly as Hardy in particular proves without question that he’s grown into one of the finer actors of our time. Coogan’s tender portrayal of Laurel isn’t far behind, however, and the film truly excels in portraying how much these men loved one another, even to the near detriment of their careers. Their chemistry is electric.

“I’ll miss us when we’re gone,” Reilly says plainly to Coogan in one particularly moving scene; a simple moment conveyed so resonantly that we almost overlook Coogan’s response: “So will you,” he says, the hint of a smile on his face. Stan & Ollie is full of these exchanges, and smartly so.

This helps us forgive early missteps in pacing or the glaring concern that those unfamiliar with the duo’s work might find it hard to connect with the gravity of the film. That’s partly good news, though, because if you don’t know their films, now’s a great time to start, especially since Stan & Ollie is sure to make waves come Oscar time. And even if we aren’t sure it merits a Best Picture win, we’re officially on team Reilly from here on out … assuming he ratchets back the awful Will Ferrell movies.

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Oh, how satisfying was it to watch Fyre Fest go down in flames, circa summer 2017?

How gleefully rapt were we in observing young folks with more money than sense descend upon the nightmarish event in the Bahamas only to learn they’d been oversold nothingness by snake oil salesman Billy McFarland? It was the type of schadenfreude that doesn’t come along every day—or every generation, even—and now we can relive the glorious drama in the new Hulu documentary, Fyre Fraud.

It’s important to note that Hulu competitor Netflix has a similar documentary out now as well, titled Fyre: The Greatest Party that Never Happened (which we haven’t seen yet) and, according to outlets like NPR, there are journalistic issues with both—namely that the Hulu doc’s exclusive on-camera interviews with McFarland were bought and paid for. The Netflix version was produced by Jerry Media, the selfsame company that helped produce and promote the disastrous Fyre Fest itself, and members of which are reportedly extensively interviewed in that movie. But we’re almost willing to forgive these ethically shitty steps to

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observe the beautiful train wreck that hit the Bahamas all those many months ago. Besides, no one is filing these docs in the annals of history as anything more than trashy fun. We hope.

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but by enlisting the dubious marketing/meme factory Jerry Media (aka Fuck Jerry), an army of Instagram-famous models and influencers and tapping into millennials’ FOMO (fear of missing out), McFarland managed to kick up the perfect storm of desire and stupidity like almost nothing before it. As one interviewee in the film says, Fyre Fest looked like the most enticing parts of Instagram come to life.

Admit it—you watched with glee as Fyre Fest came crashing down. A new documentary from Hulu helps you relive those good times all over again (and understand this image).

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But there was one big problem: McFarland and his partners impatiently insisted on a sixmonth timeline. Events and marketing experts interviewed in the film estimate that even 18 months would have been cutting the planning too close. Throw in a cast of other idiots, from longtime McFarland collaborator Grant Margolin and early-2000’s rapper Ja Rule, and one wonders why anyone thought it was a good idea. Of course, we all know the rest— from the infamous images of FEMA tents on the Bahamian “beaches” and cheese on bread to the cacneled bands and mad dash to the airport from terrified young folk who realized they’d made a horrific mistake too late. It’s frankly miraculous that no one was killed.

But, since everyone survived, Fyre Fraud is pretty fun (funny?), even if McFarland’s interviews mostly amount to him not commenting on things. The other players are absent altogether. Ja Rule was famously unwilling to accept accountability, though, so … y’know. We do hear from people on the ground as well as culture journalists who predicted the mess—people should’ve listened to them in the weeks leading up to the event—but we mostly feel bad for these unpaid and unheeded people. McFarland is of course now serving six years in prison for wire fraud, but we hear rumblings of potential new business ventures in CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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The lesson, though, we think, is in how prevalent we’ve allowed the internet to become in our decision-making process. The evidence was all there and smart people were begging people not to do it. But they did, and we now know exactly how that turned out. Glorious.

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Setting aside the often unbearable pacing of Glass, one-time wunderkind M Night Shyamalan’s followup to Unbreakable and Split, there’s one glaring problematic issue at play that needs mentioning: the indelicate portrayal of mental illness. Now, we’re not saying that movies shouldn’t examine such things, nor do we believe it’s necessary for them to portray those grappling with such issues in an unyieldingly positive light— but the moral here, if there is one, seems almost to be that the mentally ill are over-the-top crazies who are probably going to kill people.

Glass is ultimately a sequel to 2016’s Split, the James McAvoy-led thriller about a man named Kevin suffering from dissociative identity disorder who, in the wake of childhood abuse, develops a violent personality called The Beast that runs roughshod over the rest of his internal personalities causing him to commit heinous

crimes. Here, however, Shyamalan has added the threads from 2000’s Unbreakable—namely that that movie’s villain Elijah/Mr. Glass (Samuel L Jackson) has been imprisoned for his own crimes carried out while in search of extraordinary humans with extraordinary abilities, of which Bruce Willis’ character David Dunn is one.

Woof, that’s a lot; and we haven’t even thrown American Horror Story‘s consummate over-actor Sarah Paulson into the mix as a psychiatrist specializing in disorders that find people believing they are superheroes. Thus, Mr. Glass, Kevin and David are thrust together into treatment and left to ponder whether they’re actually super or simply suffering from trauma that caused them to shape their own bizarre narratives rooted in fantasy and comic books.

Jackson, as always, is fantastic and portrays Elijah’s cold and calculating nature in an eerily sympathetic way. McAvoy hits some very high notes when the writing allows for his various personalities to prove distinct enough from one another, but the vast majority of his performance can be distilled into how he does different accents. The Beast is at turns truly frightening and rather silly, though it does settle into the latter by the film’s end. Willis’ David—whom the film goes so far as to straight-up identify as the reluctant hero archetype—feels every bit as vexing as in the original film, though not in the best ways. His unfeeling tone that we’re supposed to interpret as some sort of facade for dealing with pain feels more like shoddy development than it does a statement on the strong and silent type.

Yes, Samuel L Jackson’s character Elijah killed those people in Unbreakable and Glass, and he hopes they burn in hell!

Still, certain twists and turns recall the faintest whispers of Shyamalan’s once-formidable Hitchcockian powers, even if he didn’t ever get the less-is-more in the cameo department memo; Glass thrills once or twice in unexpected ways. But then it’s back to long-winded monologues, overly dramatic thoughts on the human condition and—one of Shyamalan’s biggest weaknesses—the over-explanation of plot. We don’t need to be beaten over the head with reminders about foreshadowing! We’d much prefer, in fact, to be trusted as audiences to follow along and understand.

And it’s a shame, because when he wasn’t overindulging in symbolic camera angles or “Don’t forget that one thing!” dialogue, Shyamalan came perilously close to helping us get lost in Glass‘ starkly beautiful cinematography and characters. But we never forget it’s a movie we’re watching in a theater, no matter how badly we want to believe it could have been something super. (ADV) Regal, Violet Crown, PG-13, 129 min.

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Young Sawyer (Hermione Corfield from bit parts in movies like Mission Impossible and the more recent Star Wars), a promising chemistry student, is heading to a job interview someplace in the South during Thanksgiving, but when she gets lost because phone GPS is apparently bad, she’s swept up in some barely there plot about a backwoods drug ring run by paint-by-numbers hillbilly types and their meth-cook cousin with a heart of gold (Jay Paulson, Mad Men).

Rust Creek starts off enticingly enough with a simplistic but seemingly authentic look at how insular communities distrust outsiders and can be rather scary, but whereas a film like Deliverance had the truly disturbing goods, the characters here feel more like broad stroke caricatures crafted by a writer whose idea of Southern folks was forged in the crucible of bad standup, sitcom and movie jokery and a complete misunderstanding of what makes bad guys scary.

Take Hollister, the leader of the drug operation (Homeland’s Micah Hauptman); it’s all shiteating grins and frights conveyed by wide-eyed and overbearing fight-picking, but he’s never truly scary—even when descending into the usually nightmarish combination of toxic machismo and

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

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

This movie would’ve been nothing without flawless performances, and no, there is not one weak actor in the lot. At the forefront, Kiki Layne and Stephan James are revelations as Tish and Fonny. Every conversation they have is layered, bestowing an incredible level of affection or, at turns, frustration, anxiety and longing. They’re captivating. Regina King as Tish’s mother deserves every single award imaginable. She takes command during every scene, her power shining through the camera lens like the sun. Some familiar faces pop up along the way as well, like Diego Luna, Dave Franco and Game of Thrones alums Pedro Pascal and Ed Skrein.

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Ditto for his brother Buck (Daniel R Hill, The Resident), who was probably cast for his tightlipped and imposing appearance but here brings basically nothing. As Sawyer, Corfield doesn’t impress either, though it’s hard to tell if that’s because she’s working from a poor script, tethered to other boring performances or because the minimal hints at Stockholm Syndrome are flat-out irritating.

Regardless, Rust Creek drags, and the peril never feels pressing or real. Instead, the twists and turns wind up telegraphed too obviously or, worse, lead nowhere in particular. What might have been a meaningful look at at a certain cross-section of society, the terror of helplessness, the heartbreaking nature of meth or even the nationwide drug epidemic playing out on a smaller but no less vital stage feels more like a profoundly reductive half-tale from movie makers who seem to have a myopic view of their own setting. Rust Creek is thus boring at best and mind-numbingly tedious at worst. We expected better all around. (ADV) Jean Cocteau Cinema, R, 108 min.

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

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

We first meet Cheney (a corpulent Christian Bale) in 1963, a hard-drinking “dirtbag” who goes from running high-tension line across Wyoming to a congressional internship on Capitol Hill without much transition. Cheney learns at the feet of Donald Rumsfeld (Steve Carell), a young representative with a Cheshire grin and a crass disposition. They worm their way into the White House, eventually scoring high-ranking positions amid the wreckage of Watergate.

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At one point, Alfred Molina appears as a waiter offering Cheney, Rumsfeld and the rest of their dinner party such menu items as “Enemy Combatant,” “Extreme Rendition,” and “Guantanamo Bay,” a surreal aside similar to the one McKay used in The Big Short. The scene is an apt metaphor for the whole of Vice, in which a parade of horrors—9/11, Abu Ghraib, Cheney shooting his friend in the face—swirl in a haze of visual tchotchkes and think-tank argot.

Accompanying it all is the needless nattering of a narrator, a common crutch of McKay’s, who dangles the identity of his omnipresent observer like the MacGuffin it becomes.

For all its faults, Vice nearly stumbles onto an ending that befits its tragic, dramatic aspirations: a montage of Cheney’s political casualties that fades to black on the image of his transplanted heart. But then McKay tacks on one of the most misguided mid-credits codas you’ll ever see, allowing Cheney to break the fourth wall and defend his actions in service of “keeping us safe.” It’s remorseless Vice, still as much a stock character as ever. (Neil Morris) Regal, The Screen, Violet Crown, R, 132 min.

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Thus, Beale Street is rich with atmosphere, seamlessly including real-life photographs of racial strife in New York City in the ’70s. It simultaneously enriches the personal drama, and makes the viewer acknowledge that this singular story is part of a much bigger and more tragic narrative. Beale Street is a stark reflection of racial tension, but also a celebration of what makes family so important in everyday life. You are wholeheartedly dared to watch this film and leave with dry eyes. You won’t be able to pull it off. (Matthew K Gutierrez) Violet Crown, R, 119 min.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months.

FEBRUARY: You’ll be invited to make a pivotal transition in the history of your relationship with your most important life goals. It should be both fun and daunting! MARCH: Don’t waste time and energy trying to coax others to haul away the junk and the clutter. Do it yourself. APRIL: The growing pains should feel pretty good. Enjoy the uncanny stretching sensations. MAY: It’ll be a favorable phase to upgrade your personal finances. Think richer thoughts. Experiment with new ideas about money. JUNE: Build two strong bridges for every rickety bridge you burn. Create two vital connections for every stale connection you leave behind.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months.

FEBRUARY: Be open to romantic or erotic adventures that are different from how love has worked in the past. MARCH: You’ll be offered interesting, productive problems. Welcome them! APRIL: Can you explore what’s experimental and fraught with interesting uncertainty even as you stay well-grounded? Yes! MAY: You can increase your power by not hiding your weakness. People will trust you most if you show your vulnerability. A key to this season’s model of success is the ability to calmly express profound emotion. JUNE: Wild cards and X-factors and loopholes will be more available than usual. Don’t be shy about using them.

DR. JOANNA CORTI, DOM, Powerful Medicine, Powerful Results. Homeopathy, Acupuncture. Micro-current (Acupuncture without needles.) Parasite, Liver/cleansSCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Here are your fortune cookTAURUS (April 20-May 20): Here are your fortune es. Nitric Oxide. Pain Relief. ie-style horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months.

Transmedium Energy Healing.

The world may finally be ready to respond favorably to FEBRUARY: You have access to a semi-awkward magic Worker’s Compensation and the power you’ve been storing up.

MARCH: Everything that will serve you well if you don’t complain about its Auto Accidents Insurance you thought you knew about love and lust turns out to semi-awkwardness. MARCH: To increase your clout be too limited. So expand your expectations and capaci- accepted 505-501-0439 and influence, your crucial first step is to formulate a strong intention to do just that. The universe will then work in your behalf. APRIL: Are you ready to clean messes and dispose of irrelevancies left over from the past? Yes! MAY: You can have almost anything you want if you resolve to use it for the greatest good.

JUNE: Maintain rigorous standards, but don’t be a fanatic. Strive for excellence without getting bogged down in a counterproductive quest for perfection.

ties! APRIL: Extremism and obsession can be useful in moderation. MAY: Invisible means of support will become visible. Be alert for half-hidden help. JUNE: Good questions: What do other people find valuable about you? How can you enhance what’s valuable about you?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months.

FEBRUARY: You’ll have the need and opportunity to accomplish some benevolent hocus-pocus. For best GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here are your fortune results, upgrade your magical powers. MARCH: Make cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months. sure the Turning Point happens in your power spot or FEBRUARY: Be alert for vivid glimpses of your best on your home turf. APRIL: You should be willing to go possible future. The power of self-fulfilling prophecy is anywhere, ask any question, and even risk your pride if even stronger than usual. MARCH: High integrity and necessary so as to coax your most important relationethical rigor are crucial to your success — and so is a ships into living up to their potentials. MAY: If at first longing for sacred adventure. APRIL: How can you you don’t succeed, change the definition of success. make the best use of your likability? MAY: Cheerfully JUNE: You can achieve more through negotiation and dismantle an old system or structure to make way for a compromise than you could by pushing heedlessly sparkling new system or structure. JUNE: Beginner’s ahead in service to your single-minded vision. luck will be yours if you choose the right place to CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Here are your fortune begin. What’s a bit intimidating but very exciting? cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here are your fortune FEBRUARY: A new phase of your education will begin cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months. when you acknowledge how much you have to learn.

FEBRUARY: Your sensual magnetism peaks at the same MARCH: Initiate diplomatic discussions about the Things time as your spiritual clarity. MARCH: You want toast- That Never Get Talked About. APRIL: Revise your ideas ed ice? Succulent fire? Earthy marvels? Homey about your dream home and your dream community. strangeness? All of that is within reach. APRIL: Sow the MAY: You have the power to find healing for your oldest seeds of the most interesting success you can envision. lovesickness. If you do find it, intimacy will enter a new Your fantasy of what’s possible should thrill your imag- Golden Age. JUNE: Solicit an ally’s ingenuity to help you ination, not merely satisfy your sense of duty. MAY: improvise a partial solution to a complex problem.

Deadline time. Be as decisive and forthright as an AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Here are your fortune Aries, as bold as a Sagittarius, as systematic as a cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months.

Capricorn. JUNE: Go wading in the womb-temperature FEBRUARY: Start a new trend that will serve your noble ocean of emotion, but be mindful of the undertow. goals for years to come. MARCH: Passion comes back LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Here are your fortune cookiestyle horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: There’s a general amnesty in all matters regarding your relationships. Cultivate truces and forgiveness.

MARCH: Drop fixed ideas you might have about what’s possible and what’s not. Be keenly open to unexpected healings. APRIL: Wander out into the frontiers. Pluck goodies that have been off-limits. Consider the value of ignoring certain taboos. MAY: Sacrifice a small comfort so as to energize your ambitions. JUNE: Take a stand in behalf of your beautiful ideals and sacred truths.

into fashion with a tickle and a shiver and a whoosh.

APRIL: As you expand and deepen your explorations, call on the metaphorical equivalents of both a telescope and a microscope. MAY: This is the beginning of the end of what you love to complain about. Hooray!

JUNE: You’ll have an abundance of good reasons to celebrate the fact that you are the least normal sign in the zodiac. Celebrate your idiosyncrasies!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months.

FEBRUARY: You’ll have a knack for enhancing the way you express yourself and present yourself. The inner you and the outer you will become more unified.

MARCH: You’ll discover two original new ways to get excited. APRIL: Be bold as you make yourself available for a deeper commitment that will spawn more freedom. MAY: What are the gaps in your education?

Make plans to mitigate your most pressing area of ignorance. JUNE: Your body’s ready to tell you secrets that your mind has not yet figured out. Listen well.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months.

FEBRUARY: Master the Zen of constructive anger.

Express your complaints in a holy cause. MARCH: You finally get a message you’ve been waiting to receive for a long time. Hallelujah! APRIL: Renew your most useful vows. Sign a better contract. Come to a more complete agreement. MAY: Don’t let your preconceptions inhibit you from having a wildly good time. JUNE: Homework: Want to enjoy my books, music, and videos Start your own club, band, organization, or business. without spending any money? http://bit.ly/LiberatedGifts..

Or reinvent and reinvigorate your current one.

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COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST STEPHEN T. PACHECO, JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN District Court Clerk THE MATTER OF A PETITION By: Monica Chavez Crespin FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF Deputy Court Clerk Gina Marie Williams Submitted by: Amanda Jane Case No.: D-101-CV-2019-00026 Carey Petitioner, Pro Se NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME STATE OF NEW MEXICO TAKE NOTICE that in accorCOUNTY OF SANTA FE dance with the provisions FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. the FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF Petitioner Gina Marie Williams JOERAEL JULIAN ELLIOT will apply to the Honorable CASE NO: D-101-CV-2019-00042 RAYMOND Z. ORTIZ, District Judge of the First Judicial District NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. Fe, New Mexico, at 10:00 a.m. on the 8th day of February, 2019 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. the for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF Petitioner Joerael Julian Elliot NAME from Gina Marie Williams will apply to the Honorable Matthew J Wilson, District Judge to Jina Song Williams. of the First Judicial District at STEPHEN T. PACHECO, the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, District Court Clerk 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa By: Ginger Sloan Fe, New Mexico, at 1:45 p.m. on Deputy Court Clerk the 20th day of February, 2019 Submitted by: for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF Gina Marie Williams NAME from Joerael Julian Elliot Petitioner, Pro Se to Joerael Ammil Numina STATE OF NEW MEXICO STEPHEN T. PACHECO, COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST District Court Clerk JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN By: Marina Sisneros THE MATTER OF A PETITION Submitted by: FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF Joerael Julian Elliot Amanda Jane Carey Case Petitioner, Pro Se No.: D-101-CV-2019-00096 STATE OF NEW MEXICO NOTICE OF CHANGE OF COUNTY OF SANTA FE NAME TAKE NOTICE that in FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT accordance with the provisions IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. the KRISTINA ROBERTA SERNA Petitioner Amanda Jane Carey Case No.: D-101-CV-2019-00043 will apply to the Honorable NOTICE FOR CHANGE OF NAME FRANCIS J. MATHEW, District Judge of the First Judicial District TAKE NOTICE that in accorat the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, dance with the provisions

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STEPHEN T. PACHECO, District Court clerk By: Marina SisnerosSubmitted by: Kristina Roberta Serna Petitioner, Pro Se STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE PROBATE COURT COUNTY OF SANTA FE No. PB-2019-0004 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DELLA S. O’KEEFE., Desceased.

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