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1) PNM’s residential rates have gone up by what percentage since 2008?

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63%

2) Who has the highest compensation in N.M.?

Teachers | Doctors | YOU! | Firefighters | PNM's CEO 3) Since 2008, how much has PNM’s Wall Street shareholder stock risen?

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250%

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>300%

4) Since 2008, how much have PNM’s profits risen?

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>650%

5) Since 2008, PNM’s San Juan coal plant caused an average of how many hundreds of millions of dollars in public health care costs?

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>$500M

6) PNM is closing their dirty climate-disrupting coal plant in 2022 and wants ALL the profits they would have made if they kept the unreliable plant operating until 2053. PNM wants legislators to bail them out for at least?

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>$400M

7) After making hundreds of millions of dollars in profit for out of state shareholders for the last 40 years of the plant's operation, are we going to let them just walk away scott free and leave us holding the bag?

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n 2018, less than 10 percent of registered voters in Santa Fe cast ballots in the special election that determined school district issues, including bonds for technology and infrastructure. This year, a new mail-in ballot system could at least double the number of voters who participate in the election.

The Santa Fe County clerk sent out ballots on Feb. 5, and voters need to return them in the mail by March 5, giving residents within the boundaries of Santa Fe Public Schools a whole month to make up their minds about whether to renew the 2019 Santa Fe Public Schools five-year education technology note that allows the district to access $11 million each year for the next five years.

Earlier this month, voters in Albuquerque struck down education-related bond proposals in a special election that was similarly decided through New Mexico’s new mail-in ballot option. Could greater voter participation through mail-in ballots result in a similar fate for educational tax measures in Santa Fe? Members of the Santa Fe School Board are optimistic that the majority of voters will choose to renew the bond.

School Board Vice President Maureen Cashmon tells SFR, “[The community] understands that our kids are going to need to be highly familiar with technology in order to thrive and excel in a quickly changing tech economy.”

“We are in favor of greater voter participation and we are grateful for support that Santa Fe Public Schools has received in the past,” says schools spokesman Jeff Gephart. He stresses that the Santa Fe election bond measure

will not raise property taxes, but rather reinstate the current rates to provide funding that “will go directly into classrooms and into training teachers.”

So what does tech education in the classroom look like? Gephart explains the money goes to public schools and charter schools, and much of it goes toward providing professional development and training for educators, as well as digital learning coaches to help students and teachers make the leap from textbooks to digital devices. Students will be able to access more of their materials from home, and schools will more fully integrate technology into the classroom by providing better tools to all students.

Neal Weaver, director of digital learning at SFPS, says the schools are looking into integrating computer science into all curriculums, including the addition of courses in coding and robotics, as well as providing greater access to tools such as computer labs and portable laptops.

“Santa Fe is a leader in digital technology learning in the state,” Weaver says. “We plan to stay ahead of the game.”

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Railyard SOTU Mayor eyes next steps as commercial development phase on public/private project is nearly done

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t’s taken decades for the Santa Fe Railyard to move from a collection of repurposed warehouses in a dusty corridor to a sleek public space with new places to work, play, see and do—most of it happening in just the last 10 years.

As the development phase for the city-owned land nears completion, Santa Fe Mayor Alan Webber is calling for a reconsideration he calls “Railyard 2.0.”

Webber tells SFR it would be a stretch to say he wants the city government to have more control over the Railyard in the near future, but what he wants is “more vibrancy” on the project. The city bought the 60-plus acres in the ’90s and hired a nonprofit to oversee development and avoid political conflict.

Now, Webber’s reminding people that he promised to get more out of all the city’s assets.

“I do think with a full-time mayor … we have an opportunity now to be much more directly involved on an ongoing basis rather than just having a city presence that is hands-off,” he says. “I see myself as an activist mayor, somebody who wants to be involved in creating things that benefit the community and participating in conversations about our economic development future. The Railyard, I think, is a key piece of our economic development strategy.”

Richard Czoski, director of the Santa Fe Railyard Community Corporation, points to an effort that endured a recession and still reflects what hundreds of people in Santa Fe decided they wanted. That includes a park and spaces for nonprofits such as Warehouse 21 and El Museo Cultural that avoid market-rate rents, plus a thriving venue for outdoor public events.

SFRCC’s goal, Czoski says, was to bring the master plan for the space that came from a laborious, years-long planning process to fruition. And today, all but three of

All but three of the 42 commercial parcels on the city-owned land are in the hands of long-term leasers.

42 commercial ground spaces are leased for projects whose managers in turn find tenants for their new buildings. Those that remain are under letter of intent.

“The state of the union of the Railyard is that it’s very near completion of the commercial portion of the development,” he tells SFR, noting that 2019 is on pace to see 58,000 square feet of construction. After that, he says, “the next big global event” will be a transition of the group’s role to management of the public events and common areas.

SFRCC has leased the city space through 2030. Already, coupled with revenue from a city 1/16thcent gross-receipts increment, payments to the city for its master lease have made good on the bonds issued to buy the property, and are now whittling down the loan on infrastructure to kick off the development. By 2030, the nonprofit’s payments of about $1 million per year are expected to have erased all those debts and be contributing to the city coffers, Czoski says.

The biggest leap forward for the Railyard in recent years has been in housing. Not only is the new Railyard Flats apartment building full with a waiting list, but several projects underway in both the Baca Street and North Railyard sections also have residential components. In addition, several new projects are set to offer small spaces for food and retail-oriented uses.

“We really haven’t had that product,” Czoski says. “But there are more small businesses in Santa Fe than there are big businesses, and the sweet spot is probably 500 to 2,000 square feet.”

The problem child is the Market Sta-

tion building. The spot that’s supposed to be the anchor of the Railyard is responsible for 90 percent of the Railyard’s 7 percent overall vacancy rate in completed buildings, he says. The building is out of bankruptcy and has for the last year been owned by a California firm which recently retained a new local leasing agent.

Because the master plan gives prefer-

I see myself as an activist mayor, somebody who wants to be involved in creating things that benefit the community.

-Alan Webber, Santa Fe mayor

ence to local tenants, the SFRCC board of directors can veto prospective users. To date, however, it has approved more than 70 subtenants for the spot, and Czoski says it’s not clear to him why the building remains unleased. He acknowledges those empty storefronts leave a poor impression.

“I think it is a question of perception,” he says, “and the perception of much of the public is that the Railyard is not ful-

filling its potential or has been a failure in some respects. And I think the perception depends on what your point of view is about what the Railyard should be. Should it be what is envisioned in the master plan, or should it be a vibrant commercial center like Albuquerque Uptown? The Railyard was never meant to be Uptown.”

Some onlookers who have been closely following the project say it’s an exciting time.

“I am feeling more optimistic than I ever have,” says Cyndi Conn, director of Creative Santa Fe, a nonprofit that has worked on walkability in the downtown area, among other initiatives. “I feel like the area is becoming what we wanted the city downtown vibrancy to look like. It has really become something that locals live in and take pride in and walk around in.”

Although Webber late last year suggested some new board members for the independent nonprofit and none of those people were subsequently invited to join the board, the mayor tells SFR he doesn’t have a quibble with the way the corporation is fulfilling the plan. He noted the city Economic Development director has scheduled a “visioning meeting” with principals later this month. While that won’t be a public session, he says it’s not intended to move toward renegotiating the agreement with the nonprofit or changing the “local preference clause”— at least for now.

“I think what we need to do is examine how the local preference works,” he says, “and get more data of what options have been ruled out because of a local preference, and where would we want to find more flexibility.”

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In these pages, you’ll find new reasons to be furious with your government (opposite page) and learn how to help normalize and support the local kinkster community (page 12).

We’ll finally uncover why MILF mania is so pervasive in today’s society (it’s science; page 14) and get a hand from tinder (page 17). If that weren’t enough, Santa Fe ex-pat Eamon Armstrong delves into the particulars of polyamory (page 15), a practice shrouded in mystery, but also sexual and amorous health.

We hope these pieces provide some semblance of education, comfort and/or sexiness during this, the sexiest time of the year.

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The War On Sexual Freedom Hits The Internet SESTA/FOSTA do more harm than good

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ith all the news about changing online policies and the quasi-puritanical streak hitting the internet, it’s important to differentiate between sex trafficking (the forced transportation and exploitation of human beings for sexual means and a crime that obviously needs to be addressed) and sex work (the consensual exchange of money, goods or services for sexual labor, including escorts, porn performers, webcam models, strippers and professional BDSM practitioners). In many cases, it’s sex workers’ rights activists who are on the front lines fighting to help prevent sex trafficking, and the two are absolutely not the same thing.

In April of 2018, however, Congress passed the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers

Act and Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, better known as SESTA/FOSTA. The nutshell version is that websites are now responsible for third-party content. (Think Craigslist’s now-defunct Casual Encounters section for the simplest idea of what that entails; Craigslist would be held responsible for selling posters’ sex acts, essentially.)

Craigslist and other media giants such as Tumblr and Facebook responded to these bills by altering their polices regarding sexual content to protect themselves, thus dealing a major blow to sex workers who operate in a consensual manner through the internet.

But it’s time to recognize that sex work is a valid and necessary industry that’s not going away, and such censorship laws only increase the risk for those involved.

Sex workers across the globe agree that SESTA/FOSTA make it more likely that people in the profession might wind up being trafficked.

The recent sexual content bans we’ve seen on social media are a symptom of what sex worker activist and author Suprihmbé called “the rescue industry” in a December 2018 piece for Afropunk titled “Sexual Content Bans Are Dog Whistles for Conservatism.”

“Anti-porn and anti-trafficking ‘abolitionists’ have joined forces against sex worker activists/advocates and sex-positive feminists,” she wrote. “In America our children are protected from ‘female-presenting nipples’ (Tumblr’s policy), comprehensive sex education, adequate infor-

mation on STI/HIV testing and safer sex (which refers to both contraception and performing risky sexual acts safely), but not from racists or incels. Shutting down websites or instituting content bans like Tumblr’s will not protect our children. That idea is a virtue signal evoked by the rescue industry, specifically to stoke people’s conservatism.”

Albuquerque escort Orli Doll, who has been involved in sex work for roughly two years, shares similar sentiments and says she’s has felt the impacts of SESTA/ FOSTA firsthand.

“It’s much harder to find places to advertise,” Doll tells SFR. “My income has been, at best, cut in half. Along with that, clients are more scared.”

Doll also identifies SESTA/FOSTA’s impact on the safety of those in similar fields, noting that such steps limit sex workers’ ability to maintain safety by pre-screening potential clients.

“Clients being more scared means they are less likely to give me the info I need for screening,” Doll explains. “Also, they know business is down, they know we don’t have options, they know we’re desperate—so at this point, it’s a buyer’s market. It used to be that if clients acted up, we’d just replace them. It’s harder to replace them [now], and we can’t afford to lose that income. Clients know that, so they are more pushy.”

Meanwhile, Canadian sex educator Luna Matatas tells SFR that content on her personal Facebook page has been removed, specifically an article she shared about porn censorship in the United Kingdom.

“Censorship makes it difficult for people to find quality, reliable and accessible sex education information,” Matatas says.

“Without that access, it’s difficult for people to create conditions for sexual health and wellness, especially difficult to make

informed choices for their physical and emotional well being.”

We’re also seeing new federal legislation to punish clients of sex workers. The Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act was authorized in late 2018, thus making it legal for law enforcement to use secret wiretaps on sex workers and their customers.

With so much attention being paid to fight sex trafficking—which is undoubtedly a good thing—we must also hold our representatives accountable in identifying what victims of sex trafficking need, especially since every one of New Mexico’s representatives voted in favor of SESTA/FOSTA. Fortunately, New Mexico is home to wonderful organizations such as the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women, which fights hard in advocating for and enacting change within Native communities; the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women indicates a grave problem that is being ignored by those who say they want to protect victims of sex trafficking.

In this way and countless others, SESTA/FOSTA’s reach extends further than we can begin to understand yet. And though victims of sex trafficking and sex workers are often the most vulnerable, their voices are not being included in the search for solutions.

“It’s important to have sex workers included in conversations on trafficking.

Always,” Seattle-based sex worker activist Laura LeMoon tells SFR. “Work in the sex industry does not exist in a dichotomy; it’s not [that] you’re either a helpless victim or a completely liberated erotic professional loving every minute of your job. Many trafficking survivors have also been sex workers at one time in order to survive, often after escaping their trafficker, but, most importantly, stigma is the biggest public health factor that marginalizes and oppresses people in the sex industry.”

Hunter Riley wears many hats in the sex industry. She’s the director of education at Self Serve, New Mexico’s only health- and education-focused sex shop. You can see more of her work at outaboutsex.com.

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Finally! A queer, female-centric kink group for Santa Fe

BY JC GONZO @jcgonzo

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anta Fe is not known for a wealth of youthful nightlife. Without even a basic gay bar, it seems the City Different is no more immune to the loss of LGBTQ+ establishments than the rest of the country.

Still, under the general queer umbrella, there stands a variety of pop-up events and group socials sprinkled throughout the year, along with a backbone of the usual dating app resources. While some might call that sparse, others who fall into the kinkster category may find ample opportunity by comparison. Where does the BDSM subculture lie in the city of Santa Fe? And beyond that, where do the women and queers who fit within this field of interest go to build community?

Now, once a month, women, queer, non-binary and transgender individuals who either practice or are interested in BDSM have a real, physical meeting spot where they can chat, drink, make new friends and simply feel at home with their sexual preferences.

“You want to make sure everyone is taken care of and listened to,” explains organizer Ageliki Klonis, better known as Kiki. The meetups occur at her family’s business, the downstairs portion of Evangelo’s, where she has tended bar for several years.

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Klonis launched the group in January after an influx of interest came her way upon her sharing BDSM-focused photography on her Instagram account. The photographer and taxidermist, who was born and raised in—but then left—Santa Fe, returned to a great surprise: Our town not only has queer kinksters, but they are eager for solidarity and companionship.

Klonis’ first announcement landed on her Instagram account: “I’ve realized there are a lot of kinky people here. Let’s get together and build a community!”

Through a combination of putting herself and her interest in kink out there and the aid of hashtags, the online photo sharing platform became a way for Klonis to tap into some locals’ unspoken desires.

“For the first meetup, I emphasized that I wanted a focus on women, the LGBTQIA+ community, and to be trans- and non-binary inclusive,” she says.

The need for carving out space for these identities within the BDSM world comes from a history of dangerous prejudice and aggressive backlash predominantly instigated by cisgender heterosexual men who abide by biased presumptions.

“Predatory behavior exists in and outside the kink

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community,” Klonis states. “Everyone’s had the creepy come-ons, the creepy direct messages. Those are the kind of people we don’t want in our community— the kind of people that would walk into a bar and see somebody wearing kink gear and automatically assume that just be-

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cause they’re female-passing means that they’re submissive.”

Unfortunately, in Klonis’ experience, and the experience of countless others, these offenders most often happen to be the aforementioned cisgender heterosexual men. This is perhaps why, according to her previous time with established BDSM social groups in metropolitan areas, there is often an emphasis placed on a healthy presence of women, so that it doesn’t devolve, Klonis says, into “a predatory hunting ground for cis men trying to hook up with ‘freaky girls.’”

This is not to say the Santa Fe group will be exclusive to women or queer folk.

“In the future I would like it to be open to all genders and orientations,” she explains.

For now, however, there is a vetting process, and it’s not surprising that such a subculture must take certain measures to protect itself. With Fifty Shades of Grey still being the most popular direct association the American masses have with BDSM, groups like Klonis’ face false assumptions and expectations that can threaten its safety; for kinksters, the process of expressing, practicing and participating in kinky culture may not be too different from coming out of the closet.

This is why the sense of community is a

Ageliki “Kiki” Klonis couldn’t find a Santa Fe kink group, so she started one her damn self.

shared element between queerness and kinksters shouldn’t have to rely on exBDSM. tending their reach to Albuquerque for “When I first became interested in a sense of place—they deserve a scene in [BDSM], I didn’t realize just how many their own town. people were out there that were like “My hope is to normalize the BDSM me, and I felt strange,” says Klonis, who community, and for us to be visible,” was previously in an eight-year mar- Klonis muses. “To welcome people that riage with a partner disinterested in the are interested in it, and to offer that to BDSM world. “It was a secret interest people coming here from big cities who I’d tucked away for a long time. It wasn’t think that it’s something they’ve lost until I moved to Santa by moving to Santa Fe. Fe and got divorced that A place for people to I was able to have my come, meet, and talk, first experience, and I’ve whether you have exnever looked back. For perienced things or eight years I was made not—it’s fine—because It’s not to feel dirty and strange it’s just a meet-up at a for wanting to experibar.” like in the ence it, so to go from Klonis does clarify movies where that her meetup group feeling depressed in a relationship to coming is simply a place to somebody into something that was mingle. so open and welcoming “It’s not like in the walks into was beautiful. It was movies where somefreeing, in fact.” body walks into a bar a bar and Thus, when someand someone’s hanging someone’s one who had underfrom the ceiling being gone similar hurdles atwhipped,” she says. hanging tended a gathering as a “No, it’s people having a first-time kinkster and beer and talking about from the shared their story, it valday-to-day things, idated Klonis’ assumpceiling being sharing ideas and extion that there is the periences, or even just whipped. need for such events. talking about art and “It was a full-circle brainstorming.”

No, it’s people moment for me—I had As for that first been in their shoes at meetup at Evangelo’s? having a beer one point,” Klonis ex“It went wonderfulplains. “When I came to ly. I was fearful that it and talking Santa Fe and I found just would be a flop, or that about day-to- it would become preda single person, just one person that was into it, I atory right off the bat,” day things. felt comforted. I’d found says Klonis. “Everyone somebody who got me.” was very respectful, -Ageliki Klonis But, of course, there’s and more people than I still work to be done. anticipated showed up.

“Even though I’m so People were talking, thankful for that, I wish introducing each other, that there were more playing pool, and really opportunities for peojust hanging out with a ple to experience that new group.” here in Santa Fe,” Klonis tells SFR. “In Klonis says that she plans for the bigger cities I was seeing that there group to grow organically, and part of were meetups everywhere. All the time. that is listening to the community’s There were bars dedicated to it, specif- needs. She plans to set up an email list, ically. There were not only meetups at but for now, you can follow her on Inbars but at restaurants, too.” stagram (@burning_sentiments) to Population and age demographics catch the next gathering. don’t necessarily excuse the lack of a place for BDSMers in Santa Fe. It’s unJC Gonzo is an artist who researches, fair to label its participants a sexual midocuments, and re-contextualizes sub- and nority when multiple studies, starting counter-cultural histories as a form of as far back as Alfred Kinsey’s Sexual Bemeta-ecological reporting. As a freelance havior in the Human Female from 1953, writer, he has written for Sensitive Skin have shown elements of kink and BDSM Magazine and held a year-long art column, falling into practice at higher rates than titled “Sex/Life/Art,” on the Berlin-based its taboo status may suggest. Santa Fe porn site Dandy Dicks.

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Chimpanzees, Bonobos and Evolution explains MILF mania

B Y A L I S A VA L D E S @alisavaldes

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turn 50 this month, and of the many surprises I’ve encountered in growing older, one has stood out: I get more hot, young guys now than I ever did in my youth. Weird.

I never thought I’d be single in middle age, but that’s what happened when my long marriage fell apart. Suddenly single in my 40s, indoctrinated by a culture that says older women are reproductively worthless, I braced myself for loneliness.

Turns out that was unnecessary, as young men were everywhere, vying for my attention.

At first, I thought this was some kind of fluke. But as I talked to older women friends about it, they shared similar stories. What the hell is going on? No one prepared us for this.

This epidemic of much-younger men seeking older women was widespread, yet no one was talking about it—at least not in a respectful or realistic way. If our story was told at all, it was in demeaning “cougar” tropes, with attractive older women presented as ridiculous exceptions to the unspoken rule that men prefer young women. I’d swallowed that lie, too, until my own life asserted a different truth.

As a journalist, I began asking questions. What was the sociology behind this?

The history? The collective psychology?

Was this a new phenomenon, and if so, what brought it about?

At first, I assumed it was all new—another quirky millennial thing. I figured the ubiquitousness of online porn had desensitized men and created a hunger for the taboo. Probably I was just a novelty fuck. Right?

Wrong.

The website Pornhub keeps meticulous statistics about what kind of porn people use. Their rankings for 2017 had “MILF” in third place, after “lesbian” and “hentai,” with “step-mom” (a variant of “MILF”) fourth, and “mom” (WTF?!) sixth.

So half of the world’s most popular porn is about significantly older women.

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It isn’t just me, and I’m not crazy. It is happening, worldwide. But I wanted to know why.

While my hypothesis about pornrelated desensitization seemed to make sense, something about it didn’t feel entirely accurate in real life. When I was with much-younger men, there was a tenderness there; a kindness that bordered, at times, on reverence, from them towards me. MILF porn didn’t show that part—yet there it was.

I needed to understand what was driving this unique emotional bond my friends and I suddenly had with much-younger men. So I asked the men.

Why did they want older women? What did they get out of it?

Time and time again, young men told me they preferred older women, but didn’t know why. When they were able to articulate the reasons, novelty sex was never a factor. Instead, I got things like “they accept me as I am,” or “they know what they want,” or “they know who they are.”

In other words, even in a society such as ours, saturated with the objectification of young women, something in young men was still yearning for something more.

These guys weren’t about a novelty fuck. They wanted to talk, to be validated,

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to connect. As I began allowing myself to explore these connections, I began to suspect that there was something ancient at play here. Something biological.

I turned to the work of primatologists for clues. In his 2013 book The Bonobo and the Atheist: The Search for Humanism Among the Primates, Frans de Waal talks about how male biologists have long told the world we are most closely related to chimpanzees, with whom we share 99.6 percent of our DNA, while hiding from

These guys weren’t about a novelty fuck.

They wanted to talk, to be validated, to connect.

-Alisa Valdes

, Oh My! the world that there is another ape with whom we also share 99.6 percent of our DNA: bonobos.

Humans, chimpanzees and bonobos all share a common extinct ancestor that walked the earth some 6.5 million years ago. But the matriarchal, polyamorous, bisexual, orgiastic bonobos were viewed as immoral by 20th-century white male biologists, whereas the patriarchal, violent behaviors of chimps were more consistent with who we collectively endeavored to be.

This made me wonder: Did young male bonobos or even chimpanzees mate with older females? If so, there would be a compelling biological explanation for what was happening to me.

Turns out, the answer was not just yes—but hell yes.

A 13-year-long study of chimpanzees, published in 2006 in the peer-reviewed journal Current Biology, concluded that “males prefer to mate with older females.” Meanwhile, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology found that among bonobos, mate selection was done entirely by females, and they chose the “most attractive” and virile (ie, young) males.

This means that in both of our closest primate relatives it is the norm, not the exception, for younger males to mate with older females. Which means it is probably the norm for us, too.

But this hasn’t been an easy pill for male biologists to swallow. Researchers of the 2006 study grappled with it, theorizing: “Given that the human lineage evolved from a chimpanzee-like ancestor, [the study indicates] that male preference for youth is a derived human feature.” I’m pretty sure they’re blinded to our own nature, as so many of us are, by relatively recent cultural imperatives and social constructs.

The myth of male preference for younger females is a patriarchal social construct, and we should all stop accepting it as fact.

After all, our DNA, animal relatives and Pornhub all tell a very different story.

Alisa Valdes is a bestselling novelist, screenwriter and composer. A former staff writer for the Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times, she’s now the arts and literature editor for the Weekly Alibi.

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t’s Friday night and I’m home working on this essay about non-monogamy while my beloved is out with friends from high school. We’ve been dating for six months and we both agreed to have an open relationship from the beginning; we wanted our relationship to be something we had, not something we were. I had been exploring non-monogamy for a few years after reading the popular and informative polyamory primer The Ethical Slut by Janet W Hardy and Dossie Easton, and discovering polyamory was the first time I felt like I could have a core bond that could also allow me to explore the multiplicity of my desire.

Last year, I meditated on the next deep love of my life, imagining a relationship of two sovereign beings choosing each other each day. I pictured the two of us sharing exploration, learning and adventure with other lovers in a way that strengthened our core bond. Although at times I still feel lonely or fretful, my twin tools of self-care and clear communication get me through. We are growing. Together, but not as one.

I’ve always had a tendency to grasp for love. After discovering psychologist John Bowlby’s attachment theory—essentially, the idea that our ability to form a sense of attachment to others is the basis of

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our survival—I recognized in myself the hallmarks of an anxious attachment personality. When I feel a threat to my core love bond, I become emotionally dysregulated, which in turn leads me to being preoccupied and fretful. Despite this, I’m still glad I chose non-monogamy as the framework for my current relationship.

“If it’s later than 1 am, I’ll just stay at John’s,” she says as she’s about to walk out the door in her tall black boots. I feel a twinge in my core that she might not come home tonight, and since we haven’t seen each other in a few days, I’m feeling needy.

Open relating (also known as non-monogamy) comes in many different forms, from primary partnerships People in poly that look almost relationships often exactly like mostare thoughtfully nogamy, to full-on into the distance. relationship anarchy. “Poly people” are sometimes stereotyped as irresponsible hedonists or aggressive evangelists, but the truth is that open relationships are simply relationships that are not closed. There are endless possibilities for how people inside the partnership might choose to relate to each other through a set of lovingly ne-

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antsiness builds, distracting me from my writing, I decide to do yoga. I break for 60 minutes of breath and movement, and feel the angst move from my core throughout my body. When I’m finished, I come straight to my writing. I don’t check my phone to see if she’s texted me, because as I witness this familiar feeling move through me, I begin to understand that the way I’ve been feeling wasn’t really about her after all.

Non-monogamy forces me to differentiate from my beloved. I don’t allow myself to regress into a fantasy of escaping myself and the world by dissolving into someone else. Instead, I hold space for her freedom—and my own—by soothing myself. Relationship psychologist Esther Perel says that love desires closeness, but the erotic craves distance.

Letting my beloved go sets up her triumphant return. Our relationship grows like grapes in loose rocky soil, exposed to the wild cliffs of unknowing, allowing our wine to become delicious and complex.

Someday, this love will fade or change, and if not, someday one of us is certain to be mercilessly ripped from the other by the final parting of death. Separation is certain. So I practice equanimity, protect my beloved’s freedom, and take responsibility to heal the wounded boy inside of me. Only I can do the work on myself that needs to be done—but to have this brilliant, silly, wild lover by my side for however long we choose one another suits me well.

I couldn’t clutch her to me if I wanted to, for I would crush her beautiful wings.

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gotiated agreements. In our case, we’ve been building agreements as we go, almost like co-creating a piece of art.

“You’ll text though, yeah?” I belie my sudden insecurity.

“I’ll call,” she says lovingly as she kisses me goodnight.

My anxious attachment is periodically triggered in my relationship, although we rarely connect romantically with others. In a way, knowing that I do not possess her is a type of exposure therapy for my insecurity. Sitting with my possessive instincts is one of the main ways that practicing non-monogamy has supported my personal growth, but it’s not the only one; I have also become a better communicator, and I have two choices when I become anxious about our relationship: to communicate my wants and needs, or to self-soothe.

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few weeks ago, I texted SFR culture editor Alex De Vore: “I just had a silly idea for Love & Sex. I could make a Tinder profile that’s like, ‘I work at a newspaper. Hit me with your most successful pickup line and maybe I’ll put it in print.’ Or something. It could end up funny.”

But you know that any time you say “It could end up funny,” “it” almost certainly ends up anything but funny.

Of course, hookup apps are inherently stupid. That being said, I’ve always been curious about Tinder. I hadn’t been on a dating site of any sort in years—they are cesspools—and my fascination was akin to a desire to peek inside a six-month-old Tupperware.

Plus, I mean … I’m a red-blooded woman, right? Dating is kind of fun, when your date isn’t trash. I like people. I like companionship. I like men. What’s the worst that could happen?

When Alex green-lighted the pickup line piece, I cut up half a wheel of double-cream brie, climbed into bed and texted my friend asking what she thought my cutest selfies were. I made the profile.

Swiping, at first nerve-wracking, became easier as time went on. The dude would only know I swiped right (favorably) if he too swiped right on me, and only then could we correspond.

That first night, I exchanged a few messages here and there and got a few funny pickup lines, but mostly the conversations went nowhere.

Except one.

His occupation was listed as “writer”— usually a douchebag red flag. (Takes one to know one; that was my listed occupation too.) But it turns out he actually was. He lived in the Northeast, had just attended a writing workshop in Taos, and was only in Santa Fe for another couple days. He was working on a second novel and was planning on hitting up a reading or two in Santa Fe before heading back home.

He had an MFA in fiction. I told him

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I had my BA in poetry. We messaged about workshopping, about academia, about how to write and be human at the same time. The banter was quick and smart. I hadn’t had such an invigorating conversation about writing since college.

If it’s possible to swoon over text, I did.

Of course, amidst all the intelligent discussion of craft, a 2:30 am offer of a massage in his hotel room came up— because this was still Tinder, after all. I demurred.

We met up the next night. In a quiet corner of a bar over drinks, it turned out that in person, he wasn’t exactly as he was online—he was better. We continued the talk of writing; I told him about the newspaper, he told me about small-time publishing, we swapped impostor-syndrome anxieties. He mused on the Western paradigm and how it might differ from the Indigenous ethos at the Institute of American Indian Arts, where he planned to catch a couple readings during his brief stay. I told him about recent interviews I’d done with professors there. He told me the ins and outs of a low-residency MFA program when I said I’ve considered applying to one for a decade.

He was intelligent but humble, his energy gentle but strong. He listened deeply and responded thoughtfully. When he smiled, it was blinding. Vehemently single as I may be, I knew that if he lived nearby, I’d do my best to lock that shit down. He was a catch; I was twitterpated.

The bar announced last call. We’d been too busy talking to have more than one drink each. I thumbed in the vague direction of west and said, “I live, like, less than a mile from here. Do you want to, like … keep hanging out?”

He looked surprised, but said with raised eyebrows, “I mean—yeah, totally.

I’ll follow you?”

Later, after we talked for an hour more in my living room and the world had settled into a slow-moving night, his face was close to mine. I guess I hesitated, because his breath was warm on my cheek when he said softly: “Is it because I’m leaving?”

“No,” I replied, perhaps too quickly. I let the word hang for a moment. “I think once you reach a certain age, you just assume everyone is leaving.”

We parted so late it was early, and said we may see one another at tomorrow’s reading. I didn’t contact him the next day,

opting to take a snowy solo drive in Pecos instead of socialize.

The following evening’s reading at IAIA closed with Pam Houston. I arrived a little late and saw him from across the room and gave a small wave once I caught his eye. Really, though, I was there for the reading, so I didn’t look his way again. I imagined his eyes burning holes in the back of my head. But to be honest, I doubt he looked at me.

Houston, that patron saint of rugged, fiercely independent pan-Western women who drive Subarus and cry a lot and feel feelings way too hard, finished the evening. She read a sublime essay about the sources of our sadness and the ways we choose to survive, and the way in which so many women’s chronic pain is rooted in men or love or lack of one or the other or both. And how when we say it out loud, it sounds ridiculous. We should know better.

But the vast majority of nights I’ve spent lying awake, I’ve spent them lying awake over men. The times I’ve felt small have been when men told me I was. The biggest doubts in my heart have always been planted there by lovers. I hate it. But it’s the truth. I wept as she read.

He sent me a message after the reading.

He was already gone, and unlikely to return to Santa Fe in the foreseeable future. I told him to travel safely and that I was glad to have met him.

And then he unmatched me, and our conversation vanished.

The next morning, I woke early. I emailed a former poetry professor from college and said I want to go for my MFA in poetry. I asked for her recommendation and help on a portfolio. I told her I’ve unequivocally decided to get my master’s.

I felt enormous.

She responded: She’d been waiting for this email from me for years. And yes, she’d help.

A week later, I cut up the other half of the wheel of brie. I deleted Tinder.

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uring a freeskiing competition in Taos in 2005, Santa Fe native Claire Smallwood hatched a plan with professional skier Lynsey Dyer and writer Vanessa Pierce. They all shared the experience of often being the only girl in a group of guys, and wishing they had more women as role models out there. So in 2007, they launched SheJumps (shejumps.org), a nonprofit aimed at creating opportunities for girls and women outdoors, with programs modeled after the one Smallwood participated in through Kearney Elementary that first got her skiing.

For years, its growth simmered. Then Smallwood blew out her knee skiing in 2012, and the injury left her time to think about next steps for the nonprofit.

She did what a lifetime on summits had ingrained: She decided to go big. In July, her work at the nonprofit finally took over and became her full-time job. Now, she’s got her heart set on bringing SheJumps programs back to the state where it (and she) started.

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Her family laid some groundwork, ing staff, to pursue guiding certification in 10 new inches of snow, after a string of and would continue nudging her along herself. While skiing solo at Alta, Small- days spent backcountry skiing. She was the way. She first snapped into skis at Ski wood ran into a young Mexican woman already getting tired when she dropped Santa Fe with her stepmom at her side, also skiing by herself and recognized her into a steep chute and caught her ski on who coached her through her first turns. as a participant from a program the pre- a piece of ice, twisting as she fell downThen her brother, an avid skier, became vious year. The young woman said she’d hill. She managed to get herself up and her partner, somewhere amid a “ragtag” fallen in love with skiing and saved up all traverse back to the base area, but she’d crew of mostly guy friends she torn ligaments and broken part skied with in high school. But of her femur. the experience of skiing with her “My whole world fell apart,” elementary school classmates she says. “It really changed my stuck with her. whole path as executive director “Starting that program and of SheJumps, because it forced getting out there with friends me to take a hard look at, what and being on the hill where am I really doing? And I was on there were no rules and boundthe couch all summer, so it was aries and having this sense of like, now or never.” totally unadulterated freedom The big question was was really, really formative to whether her role could go from me,” she says. being a grassroots-y, part-time So when she, Dyer, and gig, split around time spent Pierce started SheJumps, they working as a chef in Utah and borrowed that model for its skiing in Chile, to her full-time first outing, which took Boys job. For knowing how to make and Girls Club kids from Salt that move, she credits learning Lake City skiing at Alta Ski Area, from her dad’s business acumen. covering gear, lift tickets and Rehab also meant adapting instruction. Those offerings to outdoor experiences that fit have expanded to include “jump where she was in the healing in” to trying a new outdoor process, like the neighborhood sport, “jump up” to improve hike. That translated to new or give back, or “jump out” SheJumps programs to meet experiences for elite athletes. women at what she thinks might Community events also include be the hardest step: not building pre-season workouts, picnics advanced skills, but showing up and networking events. Each to try in the first place. year, about 2,800 women and “So are we going to offer alClaire Smallwood co-founded SheJumps to bring more girls girls participated in those pine finishing school? Sure,” and women outdoors with a philosophy of “keeping your feet programs. she says, “but we’re also going to on the ground and your head in the clouds, with a little bit of magic to support you.”

In women-only spaces, womoffer all these building blocks to en can collaborate rather than eventually get to the top of that feel a need to compete with one anoth- summer for a season pass. They’ve since crazy peak.” er or prove themselves to male peers. become friends, Smallwood mentoring The real heartache right now, she SheJumps success stories include see- her in backcountry skiing tours and ava- says, is that she’s short on ambassadors ing a participant in its “alpine finishing lanche beacon practice. in her home state. She’d like to have two school” (a program for women who want Smallwood had plans to become a ambassadors and a regional coordinator to step up in their backcountry touring professional skier herself—“that was my to fundraise for and organize events abilities and confidence) decide, after only guiding light,” she says, until 2012. in New Mexico. Applications for those spending a week with an all-female guid- She was skiing at Lake Louise, Canada, positions will open this spring.

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SFAI national and international artists, Valentine Cadieux, Varuni Kanagasundaram, and Elizabeth Burden, lead participants through a one-night only immersive, collaboratory experience.

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For some, holidays such as that one that goes down on Feb. 14 (you know the one) are a minefield of triggering commercials, hard feelings and difficulty. Clinical depression is all around us, and while we aren’t saying that holidays are a root cause, they certainly aren’t helping anything. Enter Dr. A John Rush, an expert in clinical depression who comes to Santa Fe to lecture on the topic courtesy of the Renesan Institute. Rush delves into the realm of practical knowledge, helping to identify potential causes, understanding and treatment for such disorders. We find this comforting, particularly on the mother of all hurt-feelings days. (ADV) Clinical Depression: What Is It and What to Do About It?: 1 pm Thursday Feb. 14. $15.

St. John’s United Methodist Church, 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-5397.

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We know it’s a little early in the game, but think of how good you’ll feel taking care of your taxes before the April 15 deadline. But if you’re not one to tackle it yourself, and if you don’t want to hand over a healthy chunk of your refund to the H&R Block types, look no further than the Santa Fe Community College’s Tax-Aide days. Previously, folks could just show up to the Higher Education Building and get help from SFCC, the AARP and whatever current and former accountants were on hand, but this year not only features specially trained students lending a hand, it requires an appointment. You can do this by calling 946-3615 or heading to sfcc.edu/taxaide. Don’t you feel better already? (ADV) Tax-Aide Santa Fe: 9 am-Noon Saturday Feb. 16; 8 am-4 pm Monday and Tuesday Feb. 18 and 19.

Through April 15. Free. Higher Education Building, 1950 Siringo Road.

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MUSIC SAT/16 FROM GLEN TO GLEN Traditional Irish music is dang magical. There is really no way around it. Whether dextrous fiddling gets you thinking about little stone cottages sinking into impossibly green hills or a crowded, rowdy-ass pub on a rainy night, whatever you picture when Randal Bays’ fingers flit around the strings, it’s something awesome. Seattle-based Bays, recognized as a master of Irish fiddle, is joined by Limerick native John Coyne, whose bouzouki-playing and vocal stylings elevate a night of folk songs. Plus, it’s all going down at GiG, one of our favorite intimate little listening rooms in town. But shows there tend to sell out, so don’t waste time getting tickets at gigsantafe.com. (Charlotte Jusinski) Bays & Coyne: 7:30 pm Saturday Feb. 16. $22.

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ART OPENING FRI/15

Music and Pictures Coad and Kyle Miller’s thousand words If you hang around certain local venues (read: most of ’em), you’ll often find a man with a camera snapping literally thousands of pictures of Santa Fe’s musical best and brightest. This man is Coad Miller, and he’s been on a mission for over 50 years.

“Basically, I had health problems and I couldn’t do what I was doing for the last 10 years, working in movies—so it’s time to make a living as an artist, ” Miller says.

“I’ve been shooting since I was 9, and I’m gonna be 63 on [Feb.] 15, and I’ve shot music for two reasons; one, I’ve been a music hound since I was a kid—I grew up in New York and have been going to concerts since I was 10—and two, I don’t know a musician who doesn’t want a good picture posted.”

Miller, whose photos have continuously shown at Tiny’s for over three years, says he shoots the equivalent of 15 rolls of film per night, capturing roughly 300 images, from which he says he’ll usually get around 20 to 25 good ones.

“I can give you a 30-second lesson on how to get a better shot,” Miller tells SFR. “It’s two things you’ve always known: A picture’s worth a thousand words, and

the eyes are the windows to the soul. If you take a shot of someone, where are those thousand words? The eyes.”

As such, he’s captured big names like Willie Nelson and Mavis Staples, as well as Santa Fe’s musicians, all without using a flash in favor of natural light.

Miller shows the fruits of these efforts at a birthday celebration at Tiny’s this Saturday, alongside his painted works.

Additionally, Miller’s daughter Kyle, who pulls from years of travel images she’s taken while in countries like Japan, Italy, South Africa and beyond, is represented in the show.

“It feels great,” Miller says of sharing the night with family. “My daughter is being introduced to the world.”

Throw in a music jam with the house band and friends of Miller’s, and you’ve got a great night.

“Openings aren’t supposed to be two hours,” Miller jokes, “they’re supposed to be eight!” (Alex De Vore)

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WORKSHOP DIY VALENTINE WORKSHOP Museum of Interactive Art at Shidoni 1508 Bishops Lodge Road, 670-2118 Make your own Valentine from the heart.

9 am-5 pm, $5 FILE PREPARATION FOR LASER CUTTING MAKE Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road, 819-3502 Do you have questions about which programs to use for laser cutting? This is the class for you.

6-8 pm, $35 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 SUDS + MUD POTTERY CLASS Paseo Pottery 1424 Paseo de Peralta, 988-7687 Tour the studio and play in the mud with a local ceramic artist at a two-hour class complete with libations.

6-8 pm, $75

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WED/13 BOOKS/LECTURES DAVISON PACKARD KOENIG: COLLECTIVE IMPACT OF THE TAOS SOCIETY OF ARTISTS New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 The executive director of the Couse-Sharp Historic Site in Taos presents a lecture.

1-4 pm, free DHARMA TALK BY KAZ TANAHASHI & SHINZAN PALMA Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 The evening begins with a 15-minute meditation, so please arrive by 5:20 pm.

5:30-6:30 pm, free

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Painter Gary Oakley discusses his beautiful and dramatic landscape paintings at ViVo Contemporary on Friday in an artist talk moderated by host and painter Warren Keating. See full listing on page 26.

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE OPEN STUDIOS Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2351 Join artists-in-residence Cara Romero, Diego Romero, Monique Sonoquie, Brent Michael Davids and Ric Gendron for tours and chats in their art studios.

3-5 pm, free CITYSWIVEL LAUNCH PARTY Plaza Café Southside 3466 Zafarano Drive, 424-0755 CitySwivel launches a new mobile app that allows people to discover everything that is great about Santa Fe. 6:30 pm, free

PUEBLO POTTERY DEMO: RAY GARCIA Museum of Indian Arts & Culture 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 The demo series continues with Garcia (San Felipe Pueblo). Free with admission.

1-4 pm, $6-$12 WAYWARD WEDNESDAYS: IT'S COMPLICATED Chili Line Brewing Company 204 N Guadalupe St., 982-8474 A stand-up open mic special for comedy about relationships. Sign up at 7:30 pm, jokes start at 8:30 pm.

7:30 pm, free

FILM SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL Various locations The annual fest, now in its 20th year, features screenings, panels, workshops and parties. santafefilmfestival.com has info, page 33 has reviews.

All day, $10-$200

MUSIC ESTER HANA Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards y más.

6:30 pm, free

MATTHEW ANDRAE Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Rhythmic folk on guitalele.

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

7:30 pm, free OPEN MIC NIGHT Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. Singer-songwriter Jason Reed hosts his long-beloved open mic. Sign-ups start at 6:30 pm.

7 pm, free

PAT MALONE El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Sweet melodic jazz guitar.

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

7 pm, free ST. RANGE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock 'n' roll, outlaw-style.

8 pm, free

BUILDING RECIPROCITY: PARTICIPATION IN NATIVE AMERICAN HOUSING AND THE PERPETUATION OF EARTHEN ARCHITECTURAL TRADITIONS Museum of Indian Arts & Culture 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 A talk by Tonia Sing Chi reframes the notion of participation through four examples in collaborative earthen housing projects with Native American communities. It will likely fill up, so reserve your spot: historicsantafe.org/salon.

3 pm, $10 CLINICAL DEPRESSION: WHAT IS IT AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-5397 Dr. A John Rush discusses how to recognize, understand, treat and prevent the various types of clinical depression (see SFR Picks, page 21).

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CORPS COFFEE WITH MATT BROWN Santa Fe Art Institute 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 424-5050 Brown, director of the city’s Office of Economic Development, discusses building a diverse economy in the city.

8:30-10 am, free HELENE PFEFFER: LOVE IS A 4-LETTER WORD Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Join an evening of poetry reflecting on the complexity of love. Featured poet Pfeffer is followed by an open mic.

6-7:30 pm, free NINFA AND LA FOCE: A GARDEN DUET Stewart Udall Center 725 Camino Lejo, 983-6155 Join Susan Williams and Bonnie Joseph to “armchair-travel" to Italy and explore two beloved gardens.

3-4:30 pm, free

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 COMMUNITY DAY AT THE GARDEN Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Free admission for New Mexico residents and students.

3-3 pm, free GEEKS WHO DRINK Santa Fe Brewing Company 35 Fire Place, 424-3333 Pub quiz!

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

1 pm, free

FILM SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL Various locations Screenings, panels, workshops and parties! Check out santafefilmfestival.com for info, and page 33 for reviews.

All day, $10-$200

MUSIC BOOMROOTS COLLECTIVE WITH DJ DYNAMITE SOL Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 It's a special Valentine's Day edition of everyone's favorite reggae-meets-hip-hop troupe.

10 pm, free CARLOS MEDINA Lost Padre Records 304 Catron St., 310-6389 Funnyman and mariachi hero Medina previews his new album (see Music, page 25).

6:15 pm, $5-$10

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D'SANTI NAVA Starlight Lounge at Montecito 500 Rodeo Road, 428-7777 Romantic nuevo flamenco tunes in a cozy venue.

6-8 pm, free DANCE PARTY WITH DJ PET Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. Make yourself your own Valentine and bust a move.

7 pm, free DANIEL MURPHY Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana and rock.

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

6:30 pm, free DOUBLE O DJS KARAOKE Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 Croon away.

7 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 GENEVIEVE LEITNER El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Classical guitar from a range of time periods and countries.

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

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

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

6 pm, free RANDOM RAB Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 West Coast electronica with DJ erin e and Tone Ranger.

8 pm, $18-$22 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

THEATER THE BIG HEARTLESS Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 Mac, a reclusive wildlife biologist, has retreated to the backwoods of Montana to work with the controversial Wolf Reintroduction Project.

When Mac's nephew and a friend blow in, isolated worlds collide. Call 986-0847 for tickets.

7:30 pm, $15-$25

THE INSPECTOR GENERAL New Mexico School for the Arts 275 E Alameda St., 310-4194 A comedy about mankind's loss of spirituality as framed by a government farce is here presented by the New Mexico School for the Arts' theatre department.

7-9 pm, $5-$10 THE WINTER’S TALE The Oasis Theatre 3205 Calle Marie, Ste. A, 917-439-7708 Oasis Theatre Company presents Shakespeare's play, directed by Brenda Lynn Bynum and set in 1955 at the height of McCarthyism.

7:30 pm, $25 WE ARE HISPANIC, AMERICAN WOMEN …

OKAY? Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A hilarious, heartfelt romp about sisterhood, generational wisdom and body politics.

7:30 pm, $12-$20

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WORKSHOP DIY VALENTINE WORKSHOP Museum of Interactive Art at Shidoni 1508 Bishops Lodge Road, 670-2118 Flowers and chocolates are so impersonal. Make your own Valentine from the heart to truly tell someone how much you love them.

9 am-5 pm, $5

FRI/15 ART OPENINGS ANONYMOUS Santa Fe University of Art and Design 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 473-6011 Clients of the Santa Fe Recovery Center share their artwork with the community in the former dorm, King Hall, on the SFUAD campus. Enjoy live cello music, snacks from Market Street and Sprouts, and Zia Energia provides non-alcoholic locally brewed beverages.

5 am, free CENSORED! Ellsworth Gallery 215 E Palace Ave., 989-7900 Explore the still-liminal spaces of eroticism, the corners of carnal desire and the nooks and crannies of taboo.

Through April 7 (see AC, page 27).

5 pm, free COAD AND KYLE MILLER: IT'S MILLER TIME Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St Francis Drive, 983-9817 To celebrate his birthday, local roving music photographer Coad Miller hosts an opening at a bar where he frequently snaps snaps, as well as introduces his daughter Kyle at her photographic debut (see SFR Picks, page 21).

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THE CALENDAR HEARTFELT EXPRESSIONS Alexandra Stevens Gallery 820 Canyon Road, 988-1311 A group show features the gallery's established artists, with a special focus on new work from Peggy McGivern.

Through Feb. 28.

5 pm, free MANUEL RAMIREZ: TIME AND PLACE IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Ramirez (Otoe-Missouria) presents new monotypes exploring the physicalities of self-expression. Through Feb. 15.

4 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES ARTIST TALK: GARY OAKLEY ViVO Contemporary 725 Canyon Road, 982-1320 Hear about the inspiration behind his dramatic and beautiful abstract landscapes and the dance he does in his studio while creating them.

5 pm, free CONVERSATIONS WITH COLLECTIONS New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Join the museum’s staff for a discussion about the different ways in which to document and care for your art and heirlooms. Limit 15 people; preregistration is encouraged.

Free with museum admission.

12:30-1:30 pm, $6-$12 DEAN'S LECTURE SERIES: SOPHOCLES’ PHILOCTETES St. John's College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, 984-6000 SJC tutor Richard McCombs lectures about the ancient Greek play in the Great Hall, Peterson Student Center.

7:30 pm, free TALK+TACOS: ACTIVISM AND GRAPHIC ARTS IN MEXICO WITH JOSIE LOPEZ THE Magazine Project Space 1415 W Alameda St., 87501, 424-7641 Albuquerque Museum curator Josie Lopez presents an intimate discussion of graphic works in ¡Victoria!: Selected Political Prints from México (1910-1960).

6-7 pm, free

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

6:30 pm, $25

EVENTS 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.

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MAGIC: THE GATHERING: RAVNICA ALLEGIANCE DRAFT Big Adventure Comics 418 Montezuma Ave., 992-8783 Official in-store tournament play for the collectible trading card game Magic: The Gathering. Step right up for prizes of foil card promos and booster packs.

7 pm, $15 URANIUM SURVIVORS AND ACTIVISTS City of Mud 1114A Hickox St., 954-1705 A benefit for the Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment features speaker Jonathan Perry, former Navajo Nation delegate, with other Native and community activists working on effects of uranium mining.

5 pm, free

FILM A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Relax in the Lensic and enjoy it as it was intended to be used: as a movie theater. The Big Screen Classics series presents the film based on the play by Tennessee Williams.

7 pm, free SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL Various locations Check santafefilmfestival.com for all events, and page 33 for reviews of select films.

All day, $10-$200

MUSIC 4SWING Starlight Lounge at Montecito 500 Rodeo Road, 428-7777 Swinging jazz.

6 pm, $2 ALL-AGES SK8 SESSION Rockin' Rollers 2915 Agua Fría St., 473-7755 Hit up pizza, a snack bar and DJ tunes—an additional $5 get you skates or a scooter.

6 pm, $5 AZA GiG Performance Space 1808 Second St. Fattah Abbou and Mohamed Aoualou join Brahim Fribgane to present a repertoire of music from North Africa.

7:30 pm, $22 BIRD THOMPSON The New Baking Company 504 W Cordova Road, 557-6435 Adult contemporary.

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

9 pm, $5 CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 Piano and vocals from Charles Tichenor and friends.

6 pm, free

CONVERGENCE PROJECT'S BLACKLIGHT PARTY Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Get painted and glittered up by teen artists and glow under blacklight while listening to the best up-and-coming local DJs at a hybrid rave, dance party and concert.

8 pm, $7-$12 DJ D-MONIC Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Any genre you could ever want from a dude born on the ones and twos.

10 pm, free DJ SHIMMY & MR. GRAY The Matador 116 W San Francisco St., 984-5050 DJs spin all-vinyl '60s soul and '70s funk and disco till the wee hours.

10 pm, free DK AND THE AFFORDABLES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Jump-and-swing bluesy rock.

8:30 pm, free DEAR DOCTOR Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Folk 'n' Americana 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 FULL OWL Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 Americana.

7 pm, free HALF BROKE HORSES Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Americana, honky-tonk 'n' swing.

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

7 pm, free JULIAN DOSSETT TRIO Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Delta blues from a dapper dude and his cohorts.

8 pm, free SAVOR QUARTET Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Cuban street music.

6 pm, free TGIF RECITAL: DAVID PHILLIPS First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Selections by JS Bach, Mozart and Beethoven on piano.

5:30 pm, free TERRA WATTS Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. A reggae joyride with Ugandan vocalist Watts.

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present an experience to audiences Medina says might not be familiar with mariachi music—adding that his stories are relatable, even if they come from his own specific life experiences.

“It’s real; it comes from the heart, not from the head,” he says. “That’s what makes it resonate with people in and outside the culture.”

In addition to New Mexico, he’s scheduled to perform with his band across Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, Utah and California, often in venues that more frequently host rock and indie acts, in hopes that he can connect with new audiences.

“Overall, mariachi music is very well-accepted, but I’m reaching out to a different demographic to show just how cool it is in and of itself. [Mariachi music] is intrinsically cool, it’s intrinsically valuable because it’s culturally significant,” Medina explains. “It’s got tons of tradition. It’s been around hundreds of years, so it’s time to share it with another demographic.”

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more than 20 years ago, the band expertly accompanies his soaring lead vocals with an intimate two-step rhythm strummed crisply on guitar. The horns swell for punctuation, the strings lilt and the songs become a crystal-clear example of how Medina’s style fits into the mariachi tradition next to the four standards he’s included.

“It was cool to, in my own way, be able to mix in my music together with these other songwriters,” Medina tells SFR. “At the same time, it’s a way to introduce new songs in that same genre. Culturally and traditionally, [mariachi music] is one of the richest genres. It’s world-renowned.”

Medina’s work as a comedian also drives his contributions to the musical canon.

“Songs are great ways to tell stories, and my comedy is also a great way to tell stories,” he says. “That’s what the comedy is based on: Growing up in Northern New Mexico. It’s unique and specific. At the same time it’s cross-cultural, crossgenerational. I’m really enjoying the process of creating a broader understanding of my culture through my comedy and my music.”

Medina previews the vinyl release of El Cantador at a special listening event at Los Padre Records this week, and the following six-state tour is meant to

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lot of great songwriters and performers describe themselves as vessels; talents that are so natural the act of creation can feel almost automatic, or like the product of some trance state. While it may seem like a way to undercut praise, what it usually means it that the really good stuff comes from an intuitive process rather than a cerebral one.

“I always tell people the best songs are written through me, not by me,” Medina says. “I’ve written a lot of songs and they suck, but the songs that come through you are the good ones. The ones that take sometimes five minutes to jot down.”

Coming from a musical family, Medina has been playing music and writing songs since he began learning the accordion at age 7. On his new album El Cantador, he includes original songs from decades’ worth of material alongside standards by mariachi icons, such as opening track “La Enorme Distancia” by José Alfredo Jiménez-Sandoval, a major influence for Medina and mariachi songwriting and performance as a whole.

Medina has been producing his own home-recorded music in several different genres, as well as performing as a

comedic storyteller, for years. But when it came time to produce his first album professionally with the support of arts corp Meow Wolf, Medina wanted it to be an album dedicated to his lifelong love of mariachi.

“It was always a goal of mine to record mariachi music. I grew up listening to it and always had a fascination with it,” he says. “So when the opportunity came, I picked this genre as my first real music project.”

While there might be some preconceptions associated with Meow Wolf’s psychedelic art banner flying overhead, Medina’s album is refreshingly true to form; like a love letter to centuries of Mexican folk and string band traditions. This is partly thanks to musical director David E Valdez, originally from Española but now Albuquerque-based.

Valdez is a longtime mariachi trumpet player who helped arrange, mix and master the album. The other players have been Medina cohorts for years, and their camaraderie comes through on the album in its tightness.

Similarly, Medina’s bright tenor shines throughout alongside his accordion work, which adds Norteño flair and the occasional polka influences.

On standout tracks like “No Le Digan,” an autobiographical ballad Medina wrote

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THE CALENDAR THE PLEASURE PILOTS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Original and classic R&B. 8 pm, free THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Swinging jazz.

7:30 pm, free TONIC JAZZ SHOWCASE Tonic 103 E Water St., 982-1189 Yes, it’s jazz.

9:30 pm, free

THEATER THE BIG HEARTLESS Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 Mac, a reclusive wildlife biologist, has retreated to the backwoods of Montana to work with the controversial Wolf Reintroduction Project.

When Mac's nephew and a friend blow in, the characters’ isolated worlds collide. Call 986-0847 for tickets.

7:30 pm, $15-$25 THE INSPECTOR GENERAL New Mexico School for the Arts 275 E Alameda St., 310-4194 Nikolai Gogol had a very short career as a writer; this, his last play, was by far his most successful, controversial and best-known work.

7-9 pm, $5-$10 THE WINTER’S TALE The Oasis Theatre 3205 Calle Marie, Ste. A, 917-439-7708 Oasis Theatre Company presents Shakespeare's play, directed by Brenda Lynn Bynum and set in 1955 at the height of McCarthyism.

7:30 pm, $25 WE ARE HISPANIC, AMERICAN WOMEN …

OKAY? Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Four generations of women explore in English and Spanglish what it means to be part of a family, what it means to be a Latina in this day and age, and whether tequila is a good way to empezar la borrachera.

7:30 pm, $12-$20

SAT/16 ART OPENINGS GUADALUPE GROUP SHOW: CLOSING RECEPTION Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery 614 Agua Fría St., 928-308-0319 It's your last chance to see the more than 25 artists' interpretations of Our Lady.

5-9 pm, free

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

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DIVINATION AND HOLISTIC 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, as well as reiki treatments and shamanic healing. Local professionals offer 20-minute services for $25 each, or three for $60. The last event sold out, so pre-purchase is recommended this time.

Noon-6 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 GREAT BACKYARD BIRD COUNT Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve 27283 W Frontage Road, La Cienega, 471-9103 Spend a morning in the unique wetland habitat and learn about the diversity of birds from volunteer bird guide Rocky Tucker.

9:30-11:30 am, free I'D LIKE TO WALK A DAY IN YOUR SHOES galleryFRITZ 540 S Guadalupe St., 820-1888 A special preview of artwork from Santa Fe High School students who were mentored by local ceramicist and ARTsmart 2019 Honorary Artist Heidi Loewen. Embellished ceramic shoe sculptures inspired to reflect the students’ own self-images are on display and for sale for one night only.

4:30 pm, free MAGIC: THE GATHERING: MODERN TOURNAMENT Big Adventure Comics 418 Montezuma Ave., 992-8783 Official in-store tournament play for the collectible trading card game Magic: The Gathering. Step right up for prizes of booster packs.

7 pm, $5 MEET THE MAESTRO: JOSEPH IVACIC Globe Fine Art 727 Canyon Road, 989-3888 Glass Alliance of New Mexico presents a talk by artist Ivacic.

10-11 am, $10 THE CHILDREN'S HOUR LIVE BROADCAST Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 KUNM's The Children's Hour radio show and podcast broadcasts live.

8:30-10 am, free

SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-4098 The place to see and be seen in Santa Fe. 8 am-1 pm, free

FILM SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL Various locations Check santafefilmfestival.com for events, and flip to page 33 for reviews of select films.

All day, $10-$200

MUSIC ALEX MARYOL Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Bluesy rock.

1 pm, free THE BARBEDWIRES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Soulful blues on the deck.

3 pm, free BAYS & COYNE GiG Performance Space 1808 Second St. Traditional Irish tunes (see SFR Picks, page 21).

7:30 pm, $22 BERT DALTON TRIO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Jazz with Latin flavors.

7:30 pm, free BODIES, FIBBER AND UNINVITED GUEST Ghost 2899 Trades West Road Bodies releases a new rock album with support from local punkers and jazzers.

8 pm, $5-$10 BRYAN McPHERSON Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. This protest singer’s agile tenor, uptempo guitar and frenetic harmonica are reminiscent of an amped-up Woody Guthrie.

8 pm, free BUSY Y LOS BIG DEALS Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Pop 'n' jazz.

7 pm, free CHANGO Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 All your favorite rock covers.

10 pm, free CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 Subversive cabaret tunes.

6 pm, free CHRISTINE FAWSON Tonic 103 E Water St., 982-1189 Trumpet-driven jazzy jazz.

9:30 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 FELIX Y LOS GATOS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Americana, blues, cumbia, jazz, ranchera, swing y más.

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Un-Censorship

“Atmus Unzipped” by photographer Tommy Bruce is, as it were, a self portrait.

Albuquerque photographer Tommy Bruce, furries, and Ellsworth Gallery’s ‘Censored!’

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t certainly helps with marketing and interest, having the large commercial holiday—but I think, for me, this kind of imagery that deals with sex and its different aspects has always been of interest,” curator Nathan Rubinfeld says.

Rubinfeld is putting the finishing touches on the next show at Ellsworth Gallery, which opens this Friday in the wake of Valentine’s Day. Titled Censored!, the group exhibit aims to show us something new or different within the intertwining worlds of love and sex. With work from artists like Erica Lord, Diego Suarez and Zachary L Taylor, Rubinfeld is doing just that, albeit deep in the furthest recesses of Ellsworth.

See, this isn’t exactly easy work for the prudish to view and comprehend. On the walls hang photographs, like a self portrait from Lord’s 2007 Tanning Project series.

“Untitled (Colonize Me)” finds the artist tanning the words “Colonize Me” onto the outside of her upper thigh in negative space, her naked body on display, though the frame obscures much of it. Or in Taylor’s 2018 digital image “Muzzled,” we find the artist’s mouth bound by a muzzle wrapped in wooden rosary beads against a pink background. It’s evocative, yes—but also sexy, even if simultaneously chilling.

Perhaps the most exciting piece, however, comes from Albuquerque photographer Tommy Bruce. With 2018’s “Atmus Unzipped,” the Pennsylvania ex-pat puts himself and his furry character Atmus the deer on full

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display, both demystifying the furry fandom and playfully reminding us that sexiness and the erotic come in countless forms.

“You’re at once seeing this character laying down on the grass with his crotch out—a codpiece—and this ‘come hither’ thing with seductive eyes,” Bruce tells SFR, “but also me unzipping the costume and revealing my body underneath, which is in a different way seductive. When you combine the two, it’s like a skinning action.”

Bruce is enrolled in UNM’s photography master’s degree program, having completed his undergrad at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2016. He’s been a lover of the furry community since high school, and an active participant since college. For those who don’t know, the term “furry” is sort of a catch-all for the labyrinthian fandom that enjoys dressing as anthropomorphized animals. Characters are created, lore is written; costumes can be cartoonish or quite real, and the gatherings can be sexual in nature, though not always.

According to Bruce, it really boils down to a hybrid form of personal and sexual liberation and escapism.

“Even though we [furries] are in clear fantasy mode, everybody else is doing that on all fantasy platforms.

Facebook is a curated representation of you; it’s still an avatar, it just looks more like you,” Bruce says. “This identity I have is a product of late capitalism, the need to get away; the contemporary sense is that we’re in a constant state of emergency, bombarded with terrible news and facts.

I’m … constructing my own landscapes or referring to a virtual world.”

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Further, Bruce says, the furry community is self-made and creative, never forced to adhere to strict guidelines. “[With] Disney or Trekkies, there’s always this central canon of media that says, ‘This is the way things are.’

But in the furry community, there isn’t one,” Bruce explains. “It’s all selfmade and constantly taking on new things from the outside and creating its own mythologies.”

These mythologies thus become a comforting oasis in a terrifying world, and though furries can often become the subject of mocking, Bruce describes a supportive and thoughtful community across borders.

“There’s a lot out there in terms of playing with how people can identify right now, what a body can be,” Bruce says. “People have gained, or rather realized, the power to to identify themselves, and those same people are pushing back against the binary— that the one way to be in this world is to love one other person and get married. I don’t think anybody needs examples of how that doesn’t always work. Everybody has one.”

As for Atmus the deer, he’s become Bruce’s main focus, though he was recently awarded a grant from UNM to explore the idea of furries in regard to Disney and its extended canon.

“The plan is to go down to the park and kind of write about the experience of being there, but to draw comparison to how it’s a fantasy world for people to escape this painful world we live in,” he posits. “Disney has certainly imparted part of my culture, but it’s a one-way street and they can’t contend with the fact that some people might be horny for Goofy.”

We can’t wait to see his findings.

CENSORED! 5-7 pm Friday Feb. 15. Through April 7. Free. Ellsworth Gallery, 215 E Palace Ave., 989-7900

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Hidden Treasure: a Georgian Immigrant’s Story

Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 7:30 pm; Sundays at 2 pm

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GARY VIGIL Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 Easy-listening acoustic guitar tunes with hints of country and Western.

7 pm, free THE HOLY KNIVES Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Sultry rock ‘n’ roll infused with desert psychedelia.

8 pm, free JJ & THE HOOLIGANS Ski Santa Fe 740 Hyde Park Road, 982-4429 Head to the deck at Totemoff’s for rock, blues and Americana.

11 am-3 pm, free LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock 'n' roll for dancin' to.

8:30 pm, free PAT MALONE Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Solo jazz guitar.

7 pm, free THE PLEASURE PILOTS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Original and classic R&B. 8 pm, free THE PORTER DRAW Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Rock-ish Americana.

8 pm, free ROCK AGAINST RACISM Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Get down with Babsy, T-ROY, Kapa Kapa, SLB, the Vicious Kitties, Kaido Boss, Dremon and DJ Pandamonium.

10 pm, $5 RON ROUGEAU The Dragon Room 406 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-7712 Acoustic songs from the '60s, '70s and beyond.

5:30 pm, free SHANE WALLIN Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Soulful blues.

5 pm, free WILL CLARKE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 House 'n' techno from a member of the DIRTYBIRD flock.

9 pm, $18-$22

OPERA OPERA MAKES SENSE Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 Created just for children ages 3 to 5, to explore the world of opera through a variety of activities and games addressing different developmental levels of toddlers. It’s never too early to develop a love of Wagner, right?

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THEATER CLASS CLOWNS 3.0 Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Live improvised comedy performed by students from the Quinn Fontaine Studio.

Fontaine teaches improv skills between skits.

7:30 pm, $12 THE BIG HEARTLESS Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 Mac, a reclusive wildlife biologist, has retreated to the backwoods of Montana to work with the controversial Wolf Reintroduction Project.

He tolerates interruptions from his elderly neighbors and their teenage granddaughter—but when Mac's nephew and a friend blow in, seeking refuge from a toughlove reform school, the characters’ isolated worlds collide.

Call 986-0847 for tickets.

7:30 pm, $15-$25 THE INSPECTOR GENERAL New Mexico School for the Arts 275 E Alameda St., 310-4194 The New Mexico School for the Arts' theatre department present Nikolai Gogol’s farce criticizing the Russian government.

7-9 pm, $5-$10 THE WINTER’S TALE The Oasis Theatre 3205 Calle Marie, Ste. A, 917-439-7708 Oasis Theatre Company presents Shakespeare's play, directed by Brenda Lynn Bynum and set in 1955 at the height of McCarthyism.

7:30 pm, $25 WE ARE HISPANIC, AMERICAN WOMEN …

OKAY? Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A hilarious, heartfelt romp about sisterhood, generational wisdom and body politics.

Four generations of women quarrel and explore in English and Spanglish what it means to be part of their family, what it means to be a Latina in this day and age, and whether tequila is actually tasty.

7:30 pm, $12-$20

WORKSHOP FAMILY PROGRAM: SCULPTURE Georgia O'Keeffe Museum 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 Learn about how the sculptural process evolves, from drawing to model to finished work, and explore your own creativity with sketching, wire and clay. For children ages 4-12 and their grown-ups.

9:30-11:30 am, free TAX-AIDE SANTA FE Higher Education Building 1950 Siringo Road SFCC and the AARP have teamed up to offer tax help.

Call 505-946-3615 or visit sfcc.edu/taxaide to reserve a time (see SFR Picks, page 21).

9 am-noon, free

SUN/17 BOOKS/LECTURES JOURNEYSANTAFE: REP. ANGELICA RUBIO Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Rubio is in her second term in the Legislature representing District 35, where she is vice chair of Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources. Hear what she has to say.

11 am, free RAPHAEL NEVINS: THE GHOST OF DONALD J TRUMP op.cit Books DeVargas Center, 157 Paseo de Peralta, 428-0321 Explore the woven tapestry of both factual and fictional events surrounding the uncanny antics and staged performance of our president. Melania and Donald's secret daughter tells what really happens in her family.

2 pm, free SANTA FE FREE THINKERS FORUM Unitarian Universalist Congregation 107 W Barcelona Road, 982-9674 The humanist discussion group welcomes gardener Natalie Delvaille for a discussion about humanity’s interdependence with nature.

8:30 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) at some salsa dancing.

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 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.

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MAGIC: THE GATHERING: COMMANDER TOURNAMENT Big Adventure Comics 418 Montezuma Ave., 992-8783 Official in-store tournament play for the collectible trading card game Magic: The Gathering. Step right up for prizes of booster packs.

5 pm, $5 MAGIC: THE GATHERING: RAVNICA ALLEGIANCE LEAGUE Big Adventure Comics 418 Montezuma Ave., 992-8783 Official in-store tournament play for the collectible trading card game Magic: The Gathering. Step right up for prizes of your choice of booster packs.

2-7 pm, $35 MEDITATIONS IN MODERN BUDDHISM Zoetic 230 St. Francis Drive, 292-5293 Open to all levels. Presented by the Santa Fe branch of Kadampa Meditation Center of New Mexico.

10:30 am-12 pm, $10 SUNDAY RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-4098 Check out pottery, painting, jewelry, sculpture, fiber arts, photography, hand-blown glass, tea and handmade herbal body products.

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

FILM SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL Various locations The annual fest, now in its 20th year, brings together distinguished industry specialists and movie lovers through accessible screenings, panels, workshops and parties. Check santafefilmfestival.com, as well as page 33 for reviews.

All day, $10-$200 THROUGH THE DOOR: MOVEMENT, MEDITATION AND HEALING Unitarian Universalist Congregation 107 W Barcelona Road, 982-9674 Healing Voices - Personal Stories invites folks to view a film about domestic violence.

3:30 pm, free

MUSIC CONNIE LONG AND FAST PATSY Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Rockabilly, country and Western on the deck.

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Art, Antiques, Folk & Tribal Art, Books, Jewelry, Beads, Glass, Hides, Rugs and much much more!!

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Cowgirl server and bartender Sadie Lynn doesn’t want to spend her days managing the Save Our Tip Credit in New Mexico Facebook group, hanging around the Roundhouse waiting for debates or learning about state econ law— she’s a mother and a hard worker whose livelihood is in jeopardy thanks to a clause in a bill wending its way through the session which would eliminate the “tip credit” and instead require restaurants to pay a higher minimum wage. For service industry folk like Lynn, the passing of HB 31 stands to result in a massive pay cut, since taking tips into account often means much higher wages for those restaurant workers than an hourly rate. We caught up with Lynn to learn more about the cause. (Alex De Vore) There’s been a lot of confusion surrounding this bill.

Can you tell us definitively what it is that servers are upset about?

Servers are upset about the fact that this bill is being pushed by people who don’t seem to understand the economic structure of our industry. Any job you have to buy permits and licenses to work for shouldn’t be considered a minimum-wage job. We’re basically contracted workers, and our establishment pays for our income tax and our tips pay our wages. The actions our establishments will likely have to take will result in losing jobs and raising prices and [diners] being stuck with a service charge, which would then be split with the entire staff. So instead of that 20 percent tip I would have gotten from that table, I have to split it.

What would you say to servers who say they don’t make as much as others and who are who are proHB 31?

I think anyone who isn’t making enough tips to live off of or aren’t satisfied should simply find a position in which they would be. Counter service jobs like coffee shops or restaurants like Denny’s where the menu prices aren’t very high so the tipping isn’t high are gateways into the industry. You can definitely find positions that would pay more. Most of us in the industry start as bussers, but you don’t stay there. The beauty of this industry is that there’s so much room for hiring and promoting within.

What do you think might be some of the fallout that people aren’t seeing?

New Mexico is a huge tourist attraction but, especially in Santa Fe, people come for the mom and pop [restaurants] that have been here 30 years, for the tradition and the culture—they don’t want to go to Tomasita’s and serve themselves from the enchilada buffet. It will turn into self-service establishments. A huge point I’ve been trying to get across is that none of us are against a minimum wage raise, it’s the tip credit clause. It’s important to know we are not minimum wage employees. Right now, our establishments pay for our income tax and we live off our tips, but I think it will bump us into a higher tax bracket, and that’s more lucrative for the government. A big thing I keep reiterating is that the restaurants that will survive will be the chains and franchises. No one is specifically going to come to Santa Fe to eat at Applebee’s; no one is going to go skiing then come back to town for Olive Garden. This will destroy our entire state’s economy.

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THE CALENDAR DAVE MENSCH Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Acoustic rock and country.

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

6:30 pm, free GERRY CARTHY La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Traditional Irish tunes.

6 pm, free JONO MANSON & FRIENDS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rootsy rock 'n' roll.

Noon, free NACHA MENDEZ La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Romantic Latin tunes.

7 pm, free PAT MALONE TRIO El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Jazzy tunes.

7 pm, free SANTA FE SYMPHONY: ADOLPHE, WILLIAMS & MAHLER Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 After Bruce Adolphe’s passionate and lyrical Concerto for Violin comes John Williams’ theme from Schindler’s List.

Then soprano Mary Wilson sings “Das himmleische Leben” in Mahler’s wondrous Symphony No. 4.

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THE BIG HEARTLESS Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 Mac, a reclusive wildlife biologist, has retreated to the backwoods of Montana to work with the controversial Wolf Reintroduction Project.

He tolerates interruptions from his elderly neighbors and their teenage granddaughter—but when Mac's nephew and a friend blow in, seeking refuge from a toughlove reform school, the characters’ isolated worlds collide.

Call 986-0847 for tickets.

2 pm, $15-$25 THE WINTER’S TALE The Oasis Theatre 3205 Calle Marie, Ste. A, 917-439-7708 Oasis Theatre Company presents Shakespeare's play, directed by Brenda Lynn Bynum and set in 1955 at the height of McCarthyism.

2 pm, $25 WE ARE HISPANIC, AMERICAN WOMEN …

OKAY? Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A hilarious, heartfelt romp about sisterhood, generational wisdom and body politics, presented in English and Spanglish.

2 pm, $12-$20

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MON/18 BOOKS/LECTURES MELANIE BOUDAR: THE HISTORY OF CHOCOLATE Santa Fe Woman's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail, 983-9455 Join Cacao's co-owner for a delicious discussion over lunch. Call 983-9455 to reserve your spot.

11:45 am, free 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 SANTA FE POETRY TRAILS OPEN MIC Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W Marcy St., 955-6590 The local poetry society brings new poetic voices downtown. Tonight's guest host is Steven Lopez.

5 pm, free SOUTHWEST SEMINARS: CUPULES: WHAT THEY ARE AND WHY THEY ARE MADE Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Ethnobotanist and archaeologist Richard I Ford lectures about those little divets that ancient folks carved into rock surfaces.

6 pm, $15

EVENTS 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 The barbershop harmony chorus wants anyone who can carry a tune (women too!) at its weekly rehearsals.

6:30 pm, free

MUSIC 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 most famous night of karaoke.

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

6-9 pm, free

DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards.

6:30 pm, free

WORKSHOP TAX-AIDE SANTA FE Higher Education Building 1950 Siringo Road Make an appointment for free tax help at 505-946-3615 or visit sfcc.edu/taxaide (see SFR Picks, page 21).

8 am-4 pm, free

TUE/19 BOOKS/LECTURES BLACK HISTORY PANEL DISCUSSION Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 Part of a special event series for Black History Month, learn more about your friends and neighbors in a panel featuring Steve Martinez and guest panelist George Geder. It's in board room 223.

11 am-1 pm, free STEPS TO STARTING A SMALL BUSINESS Higher Education Building 1950 Siringo Road, 428-1725 Get a foundation to move forward on your new project.

4-6 pm, $15

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 BEGINNING BALLROOM Dance Station 947-B W Alameda St. Whether you want to be traditional and elegant or spice things up a bit, ballroom dance is a good foundation to learn.

6:30 pm, $20

EVENTS METTA REFUGE COUNCIL Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 Share life experiences around illness and loss.

10:30 am, free SANTA FE INDIVISIBLE MEETING Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Divide and conquer for progressive group activism.

8:30 am, free

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

7:30 pm, free BILL PALMER Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. Rock 'n' roll ‘n’ dirty country.

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A Single Train of Thought What if Santa Fe actually had a singles scene?

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

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ews reports are casting dire predictions for singles. Americans are spending more time with their screens and, therefore, meeting fewer people, carving out less time to develop personal relationships, and … having less sex. Swiping left might be the new normal but, for many, the short attention span theater that has become our potential love lives is getting old.

In Santa Fe, we look up from our phones to squint at the azure sky, to appreciate the folds in an old adobe wall, to find inspiration in the skeleton of a cholla. Why wouldn’t this be a place where we might actually take notice of people, too?

A good starting point can be through food, it being the fodder of the heart and all. Remember that chapter in Like Water for Chocolate where Gertrudis set the shower house afire, an innocent victim of the sheer passion simmering forth from the rosé sauce served by her frustrated sister Tita? Yeah, like that.

Good food is something we know well here in the city that never stops eating.

If food is the great seducer, the bringertogether of people, the matchmaker of manna, then where in Santa Fe might you actually enjoy a good bite, or drink, and maybe even meet someone interesting?

You know, like, face-to-face?

If you’re the casual type, not into dressing for dinner and all that, Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery (2791 Agua Fría St.) might be a good spot to catch some-

one’s eye over a cast iron skillet of sexy, brie-based mac ’n’ cheese. On a recent night out, the crowd was boiling up beautiful people like a vat of queso, many of whom weren’t shy of direct eye contact. A steady lineup of live music, beer, and cocktails might just be the perfect combination to put your pickup lines to work.

Another option is Second Street Brewery’s Rufina Taproom (2920 Rufina St., 954-1068). It’s an easy, low-maintenance joint, where you can roll in after a hike or a long day of work and know you aren’t the only one keeping it easy. A simple introduction can be bolstered by the possibility of a shared basket of crispy, perfectly fried tots, a side of curry ketchup and a tall cold one.

If you’re more comfortable meeting people from within the protection of a pack, artsy La Reina (1862 Cerrillos Road, 982-1931) may be your spot.

Because it is the bar for El Rey Court motel, there are plenty of people traveling through, but its hip tequila and mezcal-based cocktail program also attracts many locals, particularly those of the mom-jean and man-bun persuasion.

Grab your wing-people and get over there!

For lovers of home cooking, consider bellying up to the bar at Whole Foods (753 Cerrillos Road, 992-1700). Seriously. The exhaustion of navigating the park-

ing lot can be mitigated with a beer from one of the 24 rotating taps or even a glass of wine. Here’s your opener: “I just bought these Brussels sprouts but have no idea what to do with them. Any suggestions?”

Wink. Smile. Cheers. Get cooking.

In the olden days of actual dating, connecting over a good cup of coffee used to be de rigeur. Perhaps it’s time for a second press? Iconik Coffee Roasters (1600 Lena St.; 314 S Guadalupe St., 4280996; Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226) makes a mean cup, and its growing list of locations mean more places for lingering. Talking coffee shop might be a good way to brew up someone who shares your love of coffee, breakfast burritos and the written word.

If you aren’t afraid of putting out a hand and asking for a dance—or accepting one—the always-hopping Cowgirl (319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565) is a choice spot to find some live music and someone to kick up your heels with. The menu has something for everyone so it

FOOD

attracts all types, giving you lots of options for food and potential fun. If you have two left feet, you can always throw down some quarters in the billiards room and hope to take on someone good with their stick.

Despite the number of TVs adorning the walls, you might notice someone down the bar watching the same game and strike up a conversation at Boxcar (530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222). Aside from being one of Santa Fe’s friendliest local bars, its expansive menu and live music lineup also give you every excuse to stay long past the game.

If brews and burgers aren’t your scene but crossfit and paleo are, try upping your heart rate in another way at Caveman Coffee Cave & Lounge (411 W Water St., 988-8042). You just might meet that someone special over an acai bowl or power smoothie and find yourselves sharing WOD war stories well into the night.

Lastly, if you find the whole ValenValen tine’s Day hullabaloo so ridiculous that you’d rather sit it out for a while, there’s nothing wrong with giving yourself some love instead. It may be a cliche, but there a few things better than a good KonKon Mari session with your closet, then hopping in a warm bath with a fine glass of wine. A couple of current favorites, both from the romanroman tic, mist-filled valleys of OreOre gon, that can be procured lolo cally include a Gran Moraine, Yamhill County brut rosé (try Susan’s Fine Wine and Spirits, Spirits 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 984-1582) and the 2016 Siduri Willamette Valley pinot noir ((Market Street, DeVargas Center, 600 N Guadalupe St., 982-4668) 982-4668). And who knows? Both the liquor store and the grocery store are great places to spark up an unex unexpected conversation.

All you have to do is say hi.

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

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

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

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DON CURRY Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Classic rock.

8 pm, free DONATELLA MOLTISANTI: SOUL SINGING Santa Fe Community Yoga Center 826 Camino de Monte Rey, 820-9363 Moltisanti discusses applying operatic practices for health.

2 pm, $20 ESTER HANA Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards.

6:30 pm, free

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

6 pm, free SAVOR DUO Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Cuban street music.

6 pm, free

WORKSHOP TAX-AIDE SANTA FE Higher Education Building 1950 Siringo Road Tax help! (see Picks, page 19.)

8 am-4 pm, free

ANDREW MILLER, THREE APACHE WOMEN SHOWING HEAD-DRESSES, 1880–99?

MUSEUMS

Lifeways of the Southern Athabaskans at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture includes both artifacts and historic photography.

CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Jeremy Thomas: Unintended Consequences. Sharon Bartel Clements: Warrior Women Torso Project. Both through April 21.

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 Darren Vigil Gray: Expanding

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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 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.

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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SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL We live in a city that boasts more film festivals than you might imagine given our diminutive size, and that’s nothing to sneeze at.

And though we’ve been told there’s some confusion over which festival is which, the Santa Fe Film Festival is distinctive for its two decades of screenings, parties and cinema.

So we’re helping it celebrate with a special movies section completely dedicated to a small cross-section of offerings from the upcoming fest.

Get more info, get tickets and plan your week at santafefilmfestival. com.

Bet you’ve never heard of Rudy Love—even if you’ve heard his music.

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When Elijah Mohammed met Reies Lopez Tijerina in the early 1960s, the Nation of Islam leader told the Northern New Mexico Chicanx revolutionary that he wanted God to erect “a pyramid with only the skulls of gringos.” Mohammed hadn’t yet dispatched underlings to murder his star disciple, Malcolm X, and Tijerina saw himself in a similar mold, as a “prince of the Hispanics” fighting gringo rule, according to an interview with him more than half a century later.

Tijerina’s recounting of this memory from his deathbed at 88 years old in

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They Called Me King Tiger looks at the Chicanx revolutionary Reis Lopez Tijerina.

50 years later, his remaining family members—many of whom he enlisted into la causa as children—are now traumatized, bitter and broke. In spite of everything Tijerina fought for in his life, the final thing he remembers is the suffering he created, and the only thing left for the rebel to do is beg forgiveness.

(Aaron Cantú) Unitarian Universalist Congregation, NR, 90 min.

Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, was one of his final moments alive, captured and featured in the bilingual film They Called Me King Tiger from director Ángel Estrada Soto. For this remarkably rare and revealing piece of filmmaking, Estrada Soto’s documentary immediately earns a spot in the canon of classic historical filmmaking. Whatever you think of Tijerina, an outside agitator from Texas, this is a brilliantly made documentary.

Estrada Soto knocks it out of the park, searching out longtime residents of Northern New Mexico both inspired and destroyed by Tijerina’s foolhardy efforts to take back land expropriated from Southwestern Hispanics by the US empire. His raid of the Tierra Amarilla courthouse, where his guerrilla group shot a prison guard and a sheriff’s deputy, was his final desperate act, but Estrada

Soto uses interviews to illustrate lesserdiscussed events that preceded it. The film even features people still prominent in Rio Arriba County politics.

The confusion of Tijerina’s mission stems from confusing racial politics.

What white America always feared about Chicanx people was our mongrelization: semi-Europeans diluted with the impure blood of Indigenous Americans, Africans and others. Tijerina and his contemporaries responded to this racism by using the edicts of Spanish kings to stake roots to the land. Chicanx politics are more nuanced now, and this may be the only area where Estrada Soto could have spent more time.

But he excels in showing the long term consequences of Tijerina’s narcissism.

While some of the former police Tijerina battled have come around to his ideas

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To say Rudy Love is the Forrest Gump of music would be an understatement. Plus, Rudy never really even got his picture taken as he travelled through and shaped the worlds of blues, funk, R&B and rock ‘n’ roll. Furthermore, Robert Zemeckis’ saccharine ode to whitewashed US history via Tom Hanks comes out of the machine as an uplifting tale; for Rudy Love and his Family Band, the story looks more like a boot on the neck.

If you’ve never heard his name, you’re not alone—but you’ve heard his music.

And chances are, it was stolen. From before Rudy ever sang a bar, the Loves were getting ripped off in the music business in moves painted as cutthroat, manipulative money-grabs by filmmakers Shawn Rhodes and John Alexander. In the 1960s, Rudy’s dad wrote “Good Morning Little School Girl,” which was recorded by Eric Clapton and pretty much everyone else who ever picked up a guitar, but the Loves never saw a penny for it. The pattern continued from there.

“I’m mostly in it to make music, which has been my downfall for many years,” Rudy intones during one of his many reminisces during the documentary, which plays like a freight train full of funky bass lines, angry siblings and Mick Fleetwood agreeing that the Loves never got their due.

The filmmakers use color beautifully—from Rudy’s flamboyant stage costumes to the deep purple lighting splashed on him as he growls out a blues tune—and the George Clinton interview is amazing. But some of the movie’s highs are overshadowed by the name-drop-o-thon. And while we left feeling quite sure that the Loves should be multimillionaires for their massive contribution to music, they come off a little victimy in spots.

“Rudy Love and money never thought about each other,” he says at one point, then laments his lack of it later in life.

This one’s worth the watch, though, for all the music history you never knew.

(Jeff Proctor) The Screen, NR, 81 min.

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Natalie Shershow (right) does what she can in My Summer as a Goth. Sadly, it’s not enough.

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It’s a little hard to tell if My Summer as a Goth is mocking or attempting to celebrate goth culture, but one thing’s for sure: The newest from director Tara Johnson-Medinger reads more like a rejected spec script for an episode of Degrassi: The Next Generation.

We follow young Joey Javitts (American Vandal‘s Natalie Shershow) in the wake of her father’s death. Joey’s mom is a famous novelist hitting the road for a summer book tour, thus forcing our heroine to spend the summer with her kooky grandparents in … whatever town it is they live in. Joey’s bummed, naturally, right up until she meets Victor (Jack Levis, who we hopefully never see in anything ever again), a goth written by people whose understanding of goths is that they like black clothes, The Cure and maybe The Matrix. End of list.

Victor is an absurd caricature, all over-long trench coats, combat boots and corpse paint.

In other words, he’s reductive, and maybe even offensive to people who found common company, comfort and a way of life in the goth world. It could have been funny if they’d meant to lampoon the culture, but My Summer as a Goth aims for dramedy, missing the mark on both counts.

Joey falls for Victor and goes totally goth herself with the help of Victor’s also-goth pals Pen (Jenny White) and Cob (Carter Allen), whom we’re told have chosen their names because it’s the terminology for female and male swans, respectively. They’re also completely

fucking ridiculous, and we wish that was the worst of it. But, sadly, there’s still the “punk with a knife,” Antonio, who really seems to hate goths, but promises Joey that he’s not such a bad guy. His punk-dom is represented with a leather jacket. Seriously.

But Joey begins to lose herself in the de rigueur trappings of goth, and she just wants to ignore the telltale signs of Victor’s emotional abuse even if her super-cool grandparents take her to drag queen bingo for some reason and warn her that he’s bad news. And it goes

Neanderthal-ing ain’t easy in Tim Disney’s William.

downhill steadily.

Joey, for example, has an established best friend, but ignores her, calling instead for her newfound coven when she “really could use a friend.” Hey Joey—YOU JUST MET THEM, LIKE, A WEEK AGO! Further, we’re told her dad died, but it never really enters into the equation save a feverish dream sequence wherein we learn the fleeting nature of young love from … the dad’s ghost, maybe? Jesus. Still, Shershaw manages a serviceable and sometimes relatable performance, even if Levis’ Victor so painfully

vacillates between wooden and over-the-top in his mannerisms that we cringe anytime he says or does anything. It’s not entirely his fault, though—the script is crammed with plenty of “I’m good. How are you doing?”-caliber lines for the cast to fumble with.

Elsewhere, incidental goths in the background of cemetery silent discos and the third-act love showdown at Club Medusa— which we mention because it’s seriously so funny—trend toward the myopic as well.

And so we wonder if there was some kind of vetting process for the actors or the script, because the best we can say for My Summer as a Goth is that it might be fun to make fun of with your pals. The worst we can say, however, is that it could feel hurtful to people who embraced the goth lifestyle wholeheartedly. This reductive glance could have worked had it stuck to a good old-fashioned lampooning, but we’re afraid they’re going for serious, and it winds up seriously bad. (Alex De Vore) Center for Contemporary Arts, NR, 98 min.

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In Tim Disney’s (son of Roy) William, professors Julian Reed and Barbara Sullivan hatch a plan (and a romance) to learn more about ancient humans by creating a modern Neanderthal.

“Wouldn’t it be great if someone could figure out how to use his DNA to clone a living Neanderthal?” asks Reed (Waleed Zuaiter, The Men Who Stare at Goats) to an auditorium of fawning students who applaud his lecture.

No, Reed. It would not.

William is heavy-handed throughout, yanking viewers through a script burdened by expository lines that too often blow past opportunities to develop characters and instead condense plot points in a single line. At its apex, the heavyhandedness is laughable and literal. It shouldn’t be. The ending piles unbelievable cop-out upon unbelievable cop-out, and for a movie that spends so much time lecturing the viewer, it’s borderline infuriating.

The underused Paul Guilfoyle (CSI) is the university president who too briefly wrestles with the dilemma of such a project. In a single scene, he consults a guy who says only, “As a bioethicist, I find the idea abhorrent.” We’re then spared the “I think this research will benefit us” line from another scientist, but it’s summarized before Guilfoyle decides no.

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Finally hear about the best muscials you’ve never heard of in Bathtubs Over Broadway. they’ll get married. In a random Elvis-themed Nevada wedding chapel. Apparently you can thumb your nose at the ethics of your research and impregnate yourself with a Neanderzygote, but you can’t do it if you’re not married.

William is born, complete with a comically overdeveloped brow. When one nurse mouths “What the fuck?” to the other as they take stock of the poor fella, we feel her pain.

Will Brittain (Kong: Skull Island) does a solid job with an identity-confused, late-teens William, but scenes like fighting over meatloaf at the dinner table and the lad’s preternatural camping skills are stunning in their simplicity.

Should he go to college or get a job at a hardware store? Seriously.

While the ethics of cloning underpin William’s angst, the film tries to explore broader themes of conformity and societal expectation. But it gets bogged down in relationship issues between Reed and Sullivan that masquerade as character development.

We ultimately don’t care about them.

William eventually comes face-to-face with the body that birthed his DNA. Suddenly, this perceptive, modern Neanderthal moves his head about the body like a confused ape. How did his ancestor die in that bog, he asks the scientist who discovered the body.

“Perhaps he just became trapped in the mire.”

Get it? (Matt Grubs) Center for Contemporary Arts, NR, 103 min.

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In the ’90s, Steve Young, then a writer for The Late Show with David Letterman, had what he calls “comedy damage;” after decades of being relentlessly funny, nothing entertained him any more.

Nothing, that is, until he accidentally discovered industrial musicals.

From the 1950s through the 1980s, titans of American industry (think Frigidaire, Ford, Lipton tea and JC Penney) gathered their sales reps and retail managers at massive conventions and put on “industrials:” Fully staged Broadway-style musicals about the wonders of plastics, management skills or innovations in farm equipment. They featured some of the biggest names in showbiz. Florence Henderson, Martin Short and Chita Rivera got their starts in industrials.

While a huge Broadway show in the ’50s may have had a budget of $460,000, an industrial could have $3 million. Not only flawlessly composed by prolific geniuses, they oozed the bright optimism of postwar America.

But virtually no one today knows the genre even existed.

Young became obsessed, collecting thousands of records and networking across the country to get rare recordings. But soon, we see him meeting the humans involved: The aging actors and composers of industrials become his friends. He travels to their homes, meets their families—and eventually attends their funerals.

We follow him in Dava Whisenant’s directorial debut, a highly entertaining and ultimately uplifting documentary about the worlds that can open up to us when we just give in and come alive.

The film itself, which moves swiftly and effortlessly, swells like an orchestral score, keeping just shy of saccharine. We deeply care about Young; we get misty as he composes music with his idols; despite ourselves, we sway to the catchy, corny tunes.

We almost gave this film a 10, but there are some people will probably roll their eyes and find it just too strange.

Honestly, the point of the film is to just love what you love. Even if you are literally the only person on Earth who does. So screw it. Maybe it is a 10 after all. (Charlotte Jusinski) The Screen, NR, 87 min.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): When directors of movies say, “It’s a wrap,” they mean that the shooting of a scene has been finished. They may use the same expression when the shooting of the entire film is completed. That’s not the end of the creative process, of course. All the editing must still be done. Once that’s accomplished, the producer may declare that the final product is “in the can,” and ready to be released or broadcast. From what I can determine, Aries, you’re on the verge of being able to say, “it’s a wrap” for one of your own projects. There’ll be more work before you’re ready to assert, “it’s in the can.”

es people the fine points of laughter, and he holds the world’s record for longest continuous laughter at three hours and six minutes. I nominate him to be your role model in the next two weeks. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you will be especially primed to benefit from the healing power of laughter.

You’re likely to encounter more droll and whimsical and hilarious events than usual, and your sense of humor should be especially hearty and finely-tuned.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A study published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science suggests that people who use curse words tend to be more TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to create your own royal throne candid. “Swearing is often inappropriate but it can also be evidence that someone is telling you their honest and sit on it whenever you need to think deep thoughts opinion,” said the lead researcher. “Just as they aren’t and formulate important decisions. Make sure your filtering their language to be more palatable, they’re power chair is comfortable as well as beautiful and elegant. To enhance your ability to wield your waxing author- also not filtering their views.” If that’s true, Scorpio, I’m ity with grace and courage, I also encourage you to fash- going to encourage you to curse more than usual in the coming weeks. According to my analysis of the astroion your own crown, scepter, and ceremonial footwear. logical omens, it’s crucial that you tell as much of the They, too, should be comfortable, beautiful, and elegant. whole truth as is humanly possible. (P.S. Your cursing GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In 1995, astronomer Bob outbursts don’t necessarily have to be delivered with Williams got a strong urge to investigate a small scrap total abandon everywhere you go. You could accomplish of the night sky that most other astronomers regarded a lot just by going into rooms by yourself and exuberas boring. It was near the handle of the constellation antly allowing the expletives to roll out of your mouth.) known as the Big Dipper. Luckily for him, he could SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In the mid-1980s, a ignore his colleagues’ discouraging pressure. That’s California carrot farmer grew frustrated with the fact that because he had been authorized to use the high-powgrocery stories didn’t want to buy his broken and oddly ered Hubble Space Telescope for a ten-day period. To the surprise of everyone but Williams, his project soon shaped carrots. A lot of his crop was going to waste. discovered that this seemingly unremarkable part of the Then he got the bright idea to cut and shave the imperheavens is teeming with over 3,000 galaxies. I suspect fect carrots so as to make smooth little baby carrots.

They became a big success. Can you think of a metayou may have a challenge akin to Williams’, Gemini. A phorically comparable adjustment you could undertake, pet project or crazy notion of yours may not get much Sagittarius? Is it possible to transform a resource that’s support, but I hope you’ll pursue it anyway. I bet your partially going to waste? Might you be able to enhance findings will be different from what anyone expects. your possibilities by making some simple modifications?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): A study by the Humane Research Council found that more than eighty percent CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):Mongolia is a huge landlocked country. It borders no oceans or seas. of those who commit to being vegetarians eventually Nevertheless, it has a navy of seven sailors. Its lone ship give up and return to eating meat. A study by the National Institute of Health showed that only about 36 is a tugboat moored on Lake Khovsgol, which is three perpercent of alcoholics are able to achieve full recovery; cent the size of North America’s Lake Superior. I’m offering up the Mongolian navy as an apt metaphor for you to the remainder relapse. And we all know how many people make New Year’s resolutions to exercise more draw inspiration from in the coming weeks. I believe it makes good astrological sense for you to launch a seemoften, but then stop going to the gym by February. ingly quixotic quest to assert your power, however modThat’s the bad news. The good news, Cancerian, is estly, in a situation that may seem out of your league. that during the coming weeks you will possess an enhanced power to stick with any commitment you AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “A freshness lives know is right and good for you. Take advantage! deep in me which no one can take from me,” wrote poet Swedish poet Gunnar Ekelöf. “Something LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Are there two places on earth more different from each other than Europe and Africa? unstilled, unstillable is within me; it wants to be Yet there is a place, the Strait of Gibralter, where Europe voiced,” wrote philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. In and Africa are just 8.7 miles apart. Russia and the United accordance with your astrological omens, I propose States are also profoundly unlike each other, but only 2.5 we make those two quotes your mottoes for the next four weeks. In my opinion, you have a mandate to tap miles apart where the Bering Strait separates them. I foresee the a metaphorically comparable phenomenon in into what’s freshest and most unstillable about you — and then cultivate it, celebrate it, and express it your life. Two situations or influences or perspectives with the full power of your grateful, brilliant joy. that may seem to have little in common will turn out to be closer to each other than you imagined possible.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): According to the Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, the word VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo basketball star Latrell Sprewell played professionally for 13 years. He “obsession” used to refer to the agitated state of a person who was besieged by rowdy or unruly spirits arrivcould have extended his career at least three more ing from outside the person. “Possession,” on the other seasons, but he turned down an offer for $21 million hand, once meant the agitated state of a person strugfrom the Minnesota team, complaining that it gling against rowdy or unruly spirits arising from withwouldn’t be sufficient to feed his four children. I will in. In the Western Christian perspective, both modes ask you not to imitate his behavior, Virgo. If you’re have been considered primarily negative and problemoffered a deal or opportunity that doesn’t perfectly atic. In many other cultures, however, spirits from both meet all your requirements, don’t dismiss it out of the inside and outside have sometimes been regarded hand. A bit of compromise is sensible right now. as relatively benevolent, and their effect quite positive.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) In 1992, an Ethiopian man As long as you don’t buy into the Western Christian named Belachew Girma became an alcoholic after he view, I suspect that the coming weeks will be a favorsaw his wife die from AIDS. And yet today he is able time for you to consort with spirits like those. renowned as a Laughter Master, having dedicated Homework: Read free excerpts from my most recent himself to explore the healing powers of ebullience and amusement. He presides over a school that teach- book: https://bit.ly/JoyLuckLove

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