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y the time he arrives at a new forest fire, Buck Wickham has already spent hours poring over detailed topographic maps, learning the names of creeks, roads and trails, memorizing the angles of drainages, the heights of ridges and the distances between them.

Today’s digital tools are neat; however, it’s the flat page with its wiggling lines and shades that helps him learn the most.

Although he’s technically been retired for nine years, Wickham’s arrival in Santa Fe two weeks ago for the Medio Fire marked his eighth fire this summer. As a section operation chief for the US Forest Service, his job is to oversee and carry out the strategy for fighting the fire. That means keeping an eye on the price tag (for this fire it’s already more than $3.6 million), plus daily developing plans for all the crews, engines, aircraft and the tactics they use.

For many local residents, Wickham has also become the face of the Medio Fire, appearing as the cleanup batter each night in an online community meeting and getting right back at it each morning for a 7 am update—both filmed from the incident command center at Buffalo Thunder Resort Casino on Pojoaque Pueblo, a few interstate exits away from the nearest access point to the blaze.

When viewers see his 6’6” frame, horseshoe mustache and tan cowboy hat in front of a map, they know they’re about to get the straight story. And they can count on the 67-year-old’s perspective being both colorful and informed.

Helicopters don’t deploy delayed aerial ignition devices in Wickham’s telling.

Rather, ping pong balls are “kicked out of the door of the helicopter.”

Are recent bear sightings because the animals are running from the fire? No, “I think it’s just kind of that time of year

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when they are out cruising around trying to make a living…Most of the bears we have seen were just lollygagging around doing normal bear things.”

Will we see full containment soon?

Yes, but “fire is a dynamic thing and it has made a liar out of me many times before.”

Wickham’s 48 years in fire operations shines through as he expertly explains

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the work of the past day and what’s ahead for the people on the fire lines. He’s a veteran of some of New Mexico’s worst blazes, notably the Pacheco Fire and Las Conchas Fire in 2011 and, two decades ago, he was on the ground when the Cerro Grande Fire swept through Los Alamos.

The Medio Fire is his 68th as an operations leader.

He says he volunteered for the public-facing task because a few years back, he realized more information was a powerful tool. It happened when he was watching the television news one night.

A public information officer was giving an interview and clearly “didn’t have a clue what was going on…It was such a sorry performance, it made me feel like hiding under my couch.”

It’s not a slight to the spokesperson, he says, but a failure of past agency culture.

“It wasn’t cool for ops guys to talk to the

media…and the reason that guy blew it was because the ops guys had not given him the information,” he says. “So I started making it a point to go into the [public information officer] shop every day to give them an update…That morphed into, they want more and more.”

“I’ve rolled with him all summer and everywhere we go becomes ‘The Buck…

Show.’ In our morning briefings and our evening community meetings, we just get tons of comments and phone calls,” says Steven La-Sky, an agency public information officer. “It’s like this on every fire. He talks to people, not at people, which I think is unlike a lot of government officials. He’s so old school and so knowledgeable.”

Wickham’s approach has clearly won over many viewers. Take a sampling of comments halfway through a recent livestream posted on Facebook:“We want Buck!” “Buck for President 2020!” “Buck is the best.” “Buck (three red heart emojis) You keep us calm and completely informed (praying hands emoji).”

The last comment reflects one of Wickham’s goals: helping area residents understand the fire and manage fear. “We try to moderate what the threat is to people so they don’t freak out,” he explains.

“A lot of it is to ease their anxiety.”

He also aims to promote what he sees as top notch efforts by his colleagues, as an “esprit de corps.”

“Whatever team you are on, if you don’t think that’s the best team there is, there’s something wrong,” he says.

Like most of the back-to-back fires he’s been assigned to this summer, the Medio Fire began from a lightning strike. It started on Monday, Aug. 17 near the Rio en Medio and, by Thursday, Aug. 20, Wickham and the rest of the Southwest Area Incident Management Team 4 had arrived.

Two other section operations chiefs round out the field management of several hundred firefighters. At its high point, the fire had 286 staff. As of presstime Tuesday, it was about 55% contained and had burned an estimated 3,500 acres in the Santa Fe National Forest, with some firefighters redeployed to new and more severe fires in other states.

The fire has moved in all four compass directions, and monsoon rains and their accompanying winds have posed challenges many afternoons. But firefighters secured Forest Road 102 as its southern edge and are allowing it to burn to the north into the large Pacheco Fire burn SOURCE: SOUTHWEST INCIDENT MANAGEMENT TEAM 4

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Fire operations chief keeps public calm as the face of the Medio Fire

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Progression of the Medio Fire 8/18: 111 growth acres, 111 total acres

8/24: 134 growth acres, 2,532 total acres

8/19: 421 growth acres, 531 total acres

8/25: 160 growth acres, 2,693 total acres

8/20: 978 growth acres, 1,509 total acres

8/26: 233 growth acres, 2,925 total acres

8/21: 638 growth acres, 2,148 total acres

8/27: 314 growth acres, 3,239 total acres

8/22: 31 growth acres, 2,179 total acres

8/28: 180 growth acres, 3,419 total acres

8/23: 219 growth acres, 2,398 total acres

8/29: 35 growth acres, 3,453 total acres

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Operations Section Chief Buck Wickham’s daily fire explainers are informative and colorful.

scar, where fuel loads are minimal and it should peter out. The western edge of the fire, now close to Tesuque tribal lands, is the biggest area of concern.

While once under order to be ready for evacuation, homes in Rio en Medio and Pacheco Canyon are no longer considered under threat.

“This is not a big fire, and there’s a reason for that. It’s because those guys up there have been busting their asses to keep it small,” Wichkam tells SFR during an interview from the side of New Mexico 576, within sight of the fire’s smoke plume. “We time out after 14 days, but it looks like we are going to be on this fire a little while longer. I would love to go home while my dogs still remember who the hell I am.”

Earlier, he talked briefly with Juan Handelin, who lives at the bottom of the Chupadero Valley, and who picked up a map from the Forest Service at the junction. Handelin asks about the fire’s intensity. Wickham does not skip a beat.

“Most of it is going to be beneficial for the forest,” he says. “About a third of it burned really hot, and the rest is just an under-story burn. It will prevent

fire, probably in our lifetimes, from destroying it. “ Two more drivers spot Wickham on the side of the road and stop to ask a question. It’s become part of the routine.

A lifelong Arizonan, Wickham grew up near Winslow and started his first firefighting job at 18 in Flagstaff, which he now calls home. With a few sidelines, including the Vietnam War draft and a stint in range management, he’s spent the bulk of his career on fire. He tries to make sure to call his mom every day, and he loves to fish and play golf in his off time.

His veteran presence on the team, he says, helps fill management positions and gives younger firefighters more time to learn and form valuable field experiences.

Want more Buck? He self-published a book two years ago about his life in firefighting and how the job has changed over time—from the days of paper sleeping bags through the digital era. It’s called Spot Fires and Slop Overs: Memoir of a Firefighter but, he warns, be patient with delivery. “I’m not Tolstoy,” he says.

“It’s not like they have a bunch of them.

I think they have to print a copy every time you order one.”

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pre-pandemic weekend night would normally fill casinos and racetracks up and down the corridors of New Mexico to the brim with both locals and tourists. But on a Saturday night in the late summer of 2020, Ohkay Hotel Casino is one of just five tribal casinos open.

The state has 14 tribes that operate more than 25 gaming operations, and as tribal leaders wrestle with cashflow, more are slated to reopen soon. The monthslong closures this spring and summer mean New Mexico is already missing millions in revenue-sharing that’s not likely to rebound any time soon.

This night, cars pack into the parking lot of the casino under an enormous glowing sign that’s shrouded in a thin veil of smoke from nearby wildfires. Inside the huge building north of Española, row upon row of people face the bright flashing screens of slot machines and a virtual blackjack table guided by a cartoon of a busty woman on a digital screen.

The casino scene is almost typical— except for the darkened and cordoned-off bar. Workers take gamers’ and employees’ temperatures at the entrance and provide an option to record one’s name and phone number to aid in COVID-19 contact tracing. Other pandemic-related changes mean power has been turned off on every other slot machine to promote a semblance of social distancing, and some games have plastic curtains between them that sway in the forceful air conditioning.

Outside the casino, Jeanny and her husband stand near their Texas plates, having just just left the casino for the night. The couple (who asked SFR not to use their last name and who did not follow state orders to isolate upon arrival) is making a crosscountry trip, and the Ohkay Casino just happened to be on their way.

Stopping here “feels safer than a Walmart,” Jeanny says, as her husband makes dinner on the tailgate of the car.

She also notes that New Mexico is significantly more strict than other states the couple has visited since COVID-19 hit. In Louisiana, they weren’t required to wear masks in gaming complexes, for example.

New Mexico’s public health orders, enacted mid-March, include no large gatherings; closures of municipal facilities; and limited capacities for hotels and

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restaurants, among other kinds of businesses. While these rules don’t apply to sovereign nations, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has urged them to keep gaming closed.

Compliance with the request is a mishmash: Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo’s Ohkay Hotel Casino closed March 19 and reopened June 15, and the Isleta Resort and Casino opened June 15. Others, like the Navajo Nation gaming spots, remain closed. This Friday, Pojoaque Pueblo is preparing to reopen its three casinos: Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino, Jake’s Casino and Cities of Gold Casino and Hotel.

In an average fiscal year, those operations would bring in tens of millions of dollars for the state’s general fund through the tribal revenue-sharing compacts provide thousands of jobs and support the sovereign nations that run them.

This year, some tribes that relied heavily on gaming revenues are taking hits in the face of continued closures, particularly in the form of stalled economic development plans and job losses.

State economists are planning for tribal revenue sharing and gaming tax revenue to be negatively impacted until at least 2021, maybe even into 2022, contributing to larger shortfalls for the state and tribes. What happens next will depend on the path of COVID-19 and when casino doors reopen.

GAME PLANS The Navajo Nation shut down gaming completely in March and has yet to reopen its three casinos in New Mexico or the two in Arizona. Brian Parrish, CEO of the Navajo Nation Gaming Enterprise, says the board of the enterprise primarily made that decision in a “collaborative effort” with the tribal government. “Our concern was if we opened too soon and patrons came into the casino and bring the virus with them and it gets picked up by our team members, when they go home to visit their families, if they’re living away from their home chapters, they could carry it right back home and spread a whole other wave of the pandemic across the nation,” Parrish tells SFR. While the closures have kept people from gathering in an enclosed space or attracting potentially infected tourists to the nation, which has been hard hit by

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COVID-19, it also led to the layoff of 1,040 employees in July and August—90% of the casino staff. Parrish says the enterprise kept people paid and at home until it spent cash reserves.

Along with the source of jobs that has now dried up, the casinos are a major direct investment. The tribe financed the casinos for the operator and receives a return on the investment, which Parrish describes as “significant dollars” going back to the Navajo Nation.

However, the enterprise has had to put payments on hold for now and stopped the development of new business projects because income dropped to nothing.

The enterprise has continued to pay for important services on the Navajo Nation, such as law enforcement, utilities and emergency fire services, he says.

“The temporary suspension of the debt service, it’s not something where the obligations are being forgiven…It’s just a temporary interruption in the payments,” Parrish says, noting payments will resume when the casinos

reopen and the enterprise receives anticipated federal CARES Act funding.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released guidelines on how to keep gaming complexes safer from COVID-19, with risk decreased if there are no table games allowed and capacity is kept low. But tribes are able to create and follow their own safety guidelines without interference from state governments.

The Navajo Nation has developed an independent economic reopening plan.

Restoring casinos is part of its fourth and last phase. At present, officials are enacting the second phase. Since March, the nation has closed Navajomaintained roads to outside tourists and visitors and had a weekend curfew.

Parrish says upon reopening, the casinos plan to have full time healthcare personnel on site, temperature testing for employees and PPE for patrons when they walk in the door, as well as an overnight cleaning crew.

“Our concern is that getting to that fourth phase could take a significant amount of time,” Parrish says.

In Northern New Mexico, the Pueblo of Pojoaque plans to reopen its three casinos on Sept. 4. The casinos are the pueblo’s biggest employer. Pojoaque Gov. Joseph Talachy says it’s a necessary step to fund essential services on the pueblo after tribal

New Mexico Casino Status

Apache Nugget Travel Center and Casino - CLOSED

Black Mesa Casino - CLOSED

Black Mesa Travel Center - CLOSED

Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino - OPENS SEPT. 4

Casino Apache - CLOSED

66 Pit Stop/66 Travel Center - OPEN

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Dancing Eagle Casino - CLOSED

Fire Rock Casino - CLOSED

Flowing Water Navajo Casino - CLOSED

Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort & Casino - CLOSED

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Northern Edge Casino - CLOSED

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(Isleta) Palace West Casino - OPEN

Route 66 Casino Hotel - OPEN

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Santa Ana Star Casino Hotel - CLOSED

Santa Claran Hotel Casino - CLOSED

Sky City Casino Hotel - CLOSED

Sky City Travel Center - CLOSED

Taos Mountain Casino - OPEN

Tesuque Casino - CLOSED

Wild Horse Casino & Hotel - CLOSED

Isleta Resort & Casino, south of Albuquerque, is one of the few tribal gaming enterprises currently open in New Mexico.

leaders reconfigured the budget to spend 18% less this year than originally planned.

The casinos also act as a significant financial support because the pueblo has defaulted on its notes for the development of the Buffalo Thunder Casino. The fight between the pueblo and the state over Pojoaque’s gaming enterprises is partly to blame for the default, Talachy says, and COVID-19 closures increased the debt.

The loss of yearly casino revenue, which is typically around $25 to $30 million a year, pushed the pueblo even further into default, according to Talachy. “[The closures] definitely cost the pueblo millions…Part of the decision [to open up] was that revenue from the casinos goes into government services, like the Boys and Girls Club, senior and wellness centers and early childhood development centers,” Talachy says.

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The Pueblo of Laguna is another of the few New Mexico tribes that decided to reopen one of its two casinos, Route 66 Casino Hotel, in June. But the casino is only open to New Mexico residents, according to Skip Sayre, the corporate director of marketing for Laguna Development Corporation.

“There were significant impacts on our cash reserves over the period of time that we shut down from about March 18 until June 24,” Sayre tells SFR, though he would not comment on exact revenue numbers. “It provides dollars for tribal government services across the board: Police, fire, water, sewer, power, recreation, schools, all that stuff. The money goes to the Pueblo of Laguna and they decide as their government how to spend it.”

As soon as Laguna closed its casinos in March, the corporation started planning on how to reopen in a different world from the one it operated in at the beginning edge of 2020. The plan included similar provisions to other open casinos: limited slot

machines operating, a cap on capacity in the casino and the hotel; taking employees’ and guests’ temperatures; as well as the unusual step of only allowing New Mexico residents to gamble and stay at the hotel.

So far, the precautions appear to have worked. There have been no rapid responses from the Department of Health to Laguna’s casinos, which the state deploys when one or more employees at a business tests positive for COVID-19.

“We spent weeks, thousands of hours, planning different scenarios for how we might open,” Sayre says. “And when we got to the point where we developed a reopening strategic plan that we thought we could safely open, we took it to the Pueblo of Laguna, to the governor, to the tribal council. We presented them with what we thought would work.”

THE STATE’S FINANCIAL SHORTFALL The tribes are not the only governments facing financial problems from the loss of gaming due to COVID-19.

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Gaming revenues also fund the tribe’s governmental payroll, tribal police department, foster care system, daycare and water infrastructure as well as Pojoaque’s education program that sends tribal members to college for free. The pueblo and surrounding community did not lose any of those services this year, but some economic development is delayed because of the loss of casino revenue, such as the building of a housing community.

The pueblo’s gaming facilities employed around 800 people before the pandemic. Employees were kept on paid administrative leave until cash ran out, and almost all were furloughed, according to the governor.

It was the “right thing” to close in March, but Talachy says it’s time to reopen now that the pueblo has developed safety protocols and the new case numbers on the pueblo and across the state have declined. Safety protocols will include mandatory masks and partitions between each game.

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The history of tribal gaming in New Mexico is fraught with legal battles.

Lawmakers, governors and the sovereign nations within its borders struggled to work out a deal after the state legalized gaming in the 1990s. Many of the New Mexico tribes signed that eventual deal, called the 2001 Tribal-State Class III Gaming Compact. In 2015, the state negotiated a new deal with 17 tribes, of which 14 offer Class III gaming, such as slot machines, blackjack, craps and roulette. It is set to expire in 2037.

Under the 2015 compact, tribes pay the state of New Mexico between 2% and 9.5% of revenues depending on multiple factors, such as cash flow and the terms of the compact. The percent owed will increase again in most cases in 2030. The tribes also pay the costs of regulation by the New Mexico Gaming Control Board.

Tribal revenue-sharing dollars that typically go into the general fund have been cut by more than a third between February and April, from $73.4 million to $47.2 million, according to the state’s latest general fund accrual reports.

Workers in casino hotels lost 1,846 jobs since COVID-19 closures and freestanding casinos lost 2,216 employees, according to the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions.

“The biggest impact is going to be to FY20 and to some degree FY 21 as things start to reopen and it may take some time for that recovery to take place,” says LFC Chief Economist Dawn Iglesias in an interview with SFR. “But in FY20, we were looking at about a $37 million hit to FY20 tribal revenue-sharing to the general fund and then about a $19 million hit to the gaming excise tax for the general fund.”

Iglesias describes those figures as a “pretty significant impact” of $55 million total in FY20 alone. She expects tribal revenue sharing to dip in FY21 by an estimated $23 million and the gaming excise

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RACING IN NEW MEXICO Gaming taxes from the state’s racetracks, licensed nonprofit veteran’s and fraternal casinos and the 97 licensed bingo and raffle operators also provide income for the state, but revenue has trickled to almost nothing, too.

While the gaming taxes paid by racetracks and nonprofits like veterans halls that have games are a lesser portion of the money that goes into the general fund, they still make up a $19 million hit to the state. In particular, the purse money for the races has declined significantly, since it is largely driven by casino revenue. Monthly payments to the state from gaming taxes halved in one month, from $6.1 million in February to $2.8 million in March, according to general fund reports.

At Zia Park Casino Hotel and Racetrack in Hobbs, for example, the purse money went from about $220,000 a day in preCOVID times to less than $85,000 now, says Beverly Bourguet, a New Mexico Racing Commission board member and a horse breeder and racer.

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tax collections to drop about $15 million from what would have otherwise been expected in a world without COVID-19.

“And then from there, we are also expecting things to potentially be down in FY22, though that expectation might change a little bit,” Iglesias says. The tribal revenue shares and gaming taxes are one of the many sources that funnel into the state’s general fund, which collected $6.3 billion in recurring revenues from July 2019 through April 2020. Finance officials attribute the drop to other industries in peril, such as oil and gas, mining and manufacturing. So far, it amounts to a 4% decline compared to the same period last year.

The state also maintains something called the Office of the State Gaming Representative, which monitors compliance with the tribal gaming compacts and historically releases a quarterly tribal revenue sharing report that would give an even fuller picture of the hit to the tribes and pueblos.

But reports analyzing the first quarters of 2020, including when COVID-19 hit, are not yet available, according to State Gaming Representative Raechelle Camacho.

There is no set timeline for its release, she says.

“It sounds like [COVID-19] had a large impact on several of the tribes that I’ve spoken to over the last several months,” Camacho tells SFR. “In terms of figures of true impact, I’m not sure how large that is going to be in the end or what it’s at right now.”

COVID-19 Impacts on Gambling Disorder Support Funds to support gambling disorder treatment and counseling have declined significantly since COVID-19. Kandace Blanchard, the founder of the New Mexico Council on Problem Gaming, has experienced this loss in revenue firsthand, particularly since March. The council provides a hotline and usually counseling services, but counseling has stopped almost completely now.

The council is funded partially by the lottery, which has now become its only source of income. But even that has decreased so significantly, the council is looking at about a $700,000 shortfall for the year along with about a 15% increase in calls to the hotline. The council also hasn’t been able to pay its 35 sub-contracted therapists.

Employees and volunteers in the organization also train all of the employees at gaming establishments on how to understand problem gambling.

“We don’t have any income because our income is tied to the net take of the gaming industry,” Blanchard says. “We’re doing some online therapy.”

According to the New Mexico Gaming Control Board’s reports, payments to gambling help programs from racetracks shrunk to $45 for the month of June and nonprofit operators paid nothing to charities. In contrast, in February racetracks paid $57,319 to organizations that help with problem gaming and $155,976 went to charitable and educational donations.

The last major study on the topic in New Mexico, released in 2006, found that roughly 29,000 men and women had gambling problems and tens of thousands more could develop one. The Responsible Gaming Association of New Mexico has funded a new compulsive gambling study, which was set to be released spring 2020.

The problem extends nationally.

Keith Whyte, executive director of the National Council on Problem Gambling, tells SFR his organization predicts roughly between a 25% and 40% cut in public funding for compulsive gambling expenditures nationwide. In 2016, the national spend was $72 million but Whyte fears that in 2020 or 2021 that spend could be down to as low as $40 million.

“Problem gamblers are incredibly discriminated against, even in state health agencies and so by that I mean people with gambling problems have less access to publicly funded services than they do for even other addictions or disorders,” Whyte says. “The problem gambling safety net is already tattered and the potential cuts may literally eliminate it for a lot of people in a lot of places.”

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“It’s a costly operation for the tracks to run, but yet we have 10,000 people in our state that are involved in some factor in our racing industry,” Bourguet tells SFR as she drives to Ruidoso Downs for a race. “Those people are expecting the commission to provide an opportunity to race. They have horses that they’ve invested in, the owners, the trainers, these horses are bred to run and they need to be out training.”

Some tracks have reopened with 25% spectator capacity for the stands and the restaurants as well as pari-mutuel wagering on the races. But onsite gaming remains closed.

Jeremy Romero, a new member on the New Mexico Gaming Control Board, which oversees the five licensed racetrack operators in New Mexico, says the board hopes to work with casinos and racetracks to get the industry going again after COVID-19 restrictions are lifted.

That could potentially include loosening regulations around gaming and legalizing online gambling, which happened in other states after the 2008 recession as legislators tried to boost state economies.

“We’re going to have an open mind from a board perspective to look at all options on the table at this point because let’s face it…we’re, as a whole, in unprecedented times,” Romero says. “We fully anticipate to work together…not only with the five casinos, but in conjunction with the state tribal gaming compact to work together and to rebuild the industry again, to be a leading economic engine for the state of New Mexico.”

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Bad news, it involves me digging up the radioisotope thermoelectric generator.”

So proclaims fictional botanist Mark Watney, aka Matt Damon, in the 2015 film The Martian before he pushes play on “Hot Stuff” by Donna Summer. Watney, viewers may recall, was stranded on the very cold planet with only his wits and limited equipment to survive.

Despite the sci-fi premise, that particular piece of equipment—the RTG—is real, but one would not want to use an RTG to stay warm, says Jackie LopezBarlow, manager of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s RTG program, given that it’s radioactive. Still, she was happy when she saw it in the film. “I said, ‘that’s ours.’”

Lopez-Barlow was recently featured in LANL’s new seven-episode limited series podcast, Mars Technica, which explores the science and technical equipment in play for NASA’s 2020 Perseverance Rover

mission, and the scientists behind the gear. That spacecraft set off at the end of July for Mars, where it will drill and collect samples of Martian rock and soil for future analysis to examine signs of past life on Mars and perform various tests to determine habitability for future astronauts.

The RTG basically acts as a nuclear battery, using heat from the natural radioactive decay of plutonium-238 to generate electricity. NASA has been using RTGs to power space vehicles since the early 1960s as a long-lasting power source, given that solar power isn’t always reliable when one is far from the sun or in environments with dust storms.

LANL is one of three national labs involved in creating these power sources, along with Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and Idaho National Laboratory.

At LANL, engineers are responsible for taking the plutonium-238 isotope dioxide, making a ceramic pellet and encapsulating it in a iridium shell, at which point it is known as a fuel clad (you can hear a longer explanation of this process in the Department of Energy’s own podcast, Direct Current).

Needless to say, this is hard science, a field Lopez-Barlow came to through art.

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She grew up in Abiquiu where her mother worked for Georgia O’Keeffe. As a result, she says, “I was always around art,” both in O’Keeffe’s home where her mother had her office and at museums around the country where her mother would visit to meet with conservators. Through that experience, Lopez-Barlow was exposed to the museums’ laboratories, including one at The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. “I remember this one instance when they were working on one of [Edward] Degas’ ballerina statues—they were cleaning the tutu [and] I just fell in love with how they were doing it,” LopezBarlow tells SFR. “They were explaining the process; it was just so awesome. That really got me interested in chemistry at that point and it kind of just evolved after that.”

As a freshman in 2003 at the University of New Mexico studying chemical engi-

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neering, Lopez-Barlow interned at LANL, and later became a staff member in 2007.

She worked on a variety of projects over the years but, ultimately, “my boss decided my skills were “very appropriately geared toward one of the space missions we were working on.” That was in 2011, and she has worked on the space program since then.

“I’m constantly learning,” she says, “and I think that’s one of the things I love about this job is how much we learn. It takes so many disciplines to be able to make this come true and make a mission a reality. You’re working with material scientists, you’re working with electrical engineers, you’re working with mechanical engineers, space astrophysics…so what’s been really interesting to me is exactly how do you decide when to launch it, where to launch it from, how does that all work together? Literally, the planets have to align.”

In addition to exploring RTGs, the Mars Technica podcast also devotes an episode to the SuperCam, the instrument that will both analyze the minerals and chemistry of Mars’ soil and record sounds from the surface of the planet. So far, five of the seven episodes have aired, all of which provide a behind-the-scenes look at the Perseverance mission and the search for ancient life on Mars.

As for the mission itself, the spacecraft is scheduled to reach the Red Planet in February of next year, at which point we will presumably learn more. I’m adding that prospect to the list of things I’m looking forward to in 2021. In the meantime, Mars Technica provides a welcome and heady respite from thinking about COVID-19 and politics as we thankfully move toward the end of this year.

LANL’s new limited series seven-episode Mars Technica podcast can be found on all the usual podcast streaming spots, as well as www.lanl.gov/newsroom/podcasts

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Take, for example, the arts. six-ish months ago, we were in bars and museums, venues and theaters—and we were enjoying live music and visual arts in these spaces, and not having access to these things almost makes life not worth living, right? Right. And while we’ll give it up to outfits like AMP Concerts for figuring out how to do drive-in concerts, the most intriguing COVID-19 workaround we’ve seen thus far comes from the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.

Known as SFS 1:1, the ongoing series offers intimate one-on-one micro-

performances for hire with orchestra members and other classical musicians in nice locations, such as the garden in the Santa Fe Children’s Museum, the Museum Hill Café or the roof of Thornburg Investment Management (the view is beautiful, don’t knock it).

“We are so used to consuming music passively as part of an anonymous crowd, or with a stage barring the way— this series eliminates those barriers,” Symphony Executive Director Daniel Crupi tells SFR. “The series is also a great way to financially support our musicians, who have been some of the hardest-hit professionals by the COVID-19 crisis.”

This could be a real nice date night thing, or just a way to ensure it’s still worth it for world class musicians to stick around Santa Fe. Book one. (Alex De Vore)

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sk almost any tattooer, newschool artist or low brow artist working today or…y’know, ask almost any artist under 70 (with obvious exceptions!) about what brought them into the field, and they’ll almost certainly cite the graphic/artistic design found on skateboard decks when they were growing up.

These weren’t these artists’ sole inspirations, of course, but as something that grew more sophisticated as the sport expanded into the consciousness of the world, skateboards became a ubiquitous feature of everyday life through the 1980s and ’90s (with a tip o’ the helmet to the 1970s, obviously); so, too, did the artwork expand, and the concept of fine art skate decks has only become more refined over time.

The Tate Modern, for example, has been known to sell decks featuring work

by Basquiat and Warhol and a cursory Google search reveals countless projects, exhibits, galleries, one-offs and artists working with skateboards—so what’s all the fuss from the fine art world when this shit’s been going down for years?

“I’ve had a few artists turn me down because they didn’t want their fine art associated with skateboarding,” Bobby Beals tells SFR. Beals has been a curator, gallerist and art consultant in Santa Fe for years, and the upcoming fourth anniversary of his skateboard company Kamagraph proves on a local level—and don’t forget that we’re, like, Art City, USA, basically—that it’s possible to

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merge fine art with skate decks for intriguing results.

“It’s like if you paint a mural and then go back to canvas? I think there’s a cool change in the dynamic,” Beals continues. “I’ve done murals with fine artists [who usually work smaller], and they’ve said they really enjoyed going that big. Working on skate decks is kind of the same thing for some artists—plus it allows them to find collectors who couldn’t normally buy the work.”

You know? Because art is insanely expensive a lot of the time? No judgment, just saying.

Decks from Beals’ latest series are screen printed and run $50-$65 for the most part (not counting a few original pieces that can jump up to $300, which is still affordable) and are fully skateable. Further, he says, while a good number have already sold to real-life skaters who are out there shredding the gnar, some of his fine art collectors have picked up a deck or two as well.

“They’re going to unexpected places and hanging next to these $12,000 pieces and sculptures,” Beals says. “For those new contemporary collectors, they look kind of fresh.”

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“I don’t do, like, oil on canvas,” says featured artist Felicia Gabaldon (Choctaw and Chickasaw), whose deck “Alibrijes” is the sort of centerpiece of the new series. “I do work on wood panels, though, so it was something I was kind of used to, painting on a skateboard was not a different idea for me.”

Alibrijes is inspired by a sub-genre of Mexican folk art featuring strange, mythical creatures rooted in reality but stylized in unexpected ways. Gabaldon’s

Doran Austin’s “Jam Time!”

Field Studies Editions’ “The Corn of Our Love.”

Felicia Gabaldon’s “Alibrijes.”

deck is a howling coyote, but with tribal pattern and design imagery inspired by both her Indigenous and Spanish sides.

“I consider most of my artwork, my style, to be very inspired by folk art the indigenous cultures,” Gabaldon says from her home in Oakland, California, “these mystical symbolic images and depictions of animals, stories from folklore. I feel like a lot of old folk artists were so stylized you could pinpoint each, like Frida Kahlo or TC Cannon; a lot of my animals have this abstract, symbolic reference—they’re more decorative than just representing [the animal] completely.”

Gabaldon, a regular at Indian Market when it hasn’t been canceled, is a prime example of a muralist shrinking down her process to work in skate decks.

To frame it like an art snob might, one might say it’s almost like going from long form poetry to haiku, where space is precious and concision is paramount.

Elsewhere in the show, pieces like “The Corn of Our Love” by Field Studies Editions or Doran Austin’s “Jam Time!” run the gamut from Southwestern representational to delightfully silly.

“I’ve been studying a lot about the beginning of skateboarding,” Beals explains. “Or the mixed media collage advertising [skateboard companies] use for magazines or clothing, and a lot about skateboarding has influenced our culture. Even music. Even in New Mexico. It’s just so heavily influential.”

“I feel like everyone I grew up with skateboarded,” Gabaldon adds. “It’s fun and they’re very sellable pieces of art, functional or not.”

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While these things aren’t listed explicitly on Arable’s brunch or dinner menus, you can find them hiding in items like their shrimp and grits ($16.50), Santa Ana Pueblo corn grits smothered in a Creole bell pepper sauce with jumbo, perfectly tender shrimps; or bacon green chile mac and cheese ($12.50). And though the restaurant’s weekend brunch offerings are on hold right now, Arable continues to do a great lunch and dinner.

Arable’s lighter plates retain the comfort angle, too; the Eat Your Beets salad ($10) with warm roasted beets, feta cheese, spiced nuts and greens helped me rediscover my relationship with the earth, which I think is the point—everything’s farm-to-table, and chef/owner Renee Fox brings a deep respect for the ingredients (and the diner) to each preparation. I left my meal with a smile that stayed on my face all weekend and with rave reviews for all my friends. (Cole Rehbein)

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For us, The Teahouse will always be a Sunday brunch kind of place, and a recent stop-in for its famous oatmeal with gluten-free oats, forbidden rice, buckwheat and a thick side of whipped cream ($9) proved brilliant and upped our energy factor immensely. Our dining partner was ready for lunch, however, and they repeatedly insisted their roasted eggplant panino with goat cheese, arugula and balsamic glaze ($13.50) was easily one of their top five sandwiches of all time.

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Decades later, it remains a go-to for residents from across town, and its no-frills ambiance coupled with some of the most noteworthy chile in town do not disappoint.

We snuck our lunchtime meal in between errands, starting with chips and creamy guac plus a pint of Santa Fe Brewing Co.’s Pepe Loco ($3.50), a Mexican style beer that’s refreshing and delicious no matter the time of day. It paired well with red chile chicken enchiladas ($11.49) stuffed with more than enough cheese and smothered with enough chile left over to sop up with a fresh sopapilla—over easy egg on top, of course. Café Castro serves breakfast items all day as well, and a breakfast burrito smothered Christmas ($8.99, and that’s red and green chile both for our out of town friends) provided a satisfying protein boost midday. The green chile was bright and spicy, but plenty flavorful, while the rich, earthy red leaned into its own thick body just right.

Our server even recognized us, making the whole thing feel homey, and when the check came, it was almost hard to believe something so good could be so affordable. (ADV) 2811 Cerrillos Road, 473-5800 cafecastro.net These restaurants also appear in SFR’s recent 2020 Restaurant Guide. Find pickup locations at SFReporter.com/pickup.

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Let it first be known that Keanu Reeves—celebrated nice guy, not very good actor and gigantic movie star—certainly didn’t have to make a movie like Bill & Ted Face the Music, but he should be commended for doing so out of what I can only assume is love for his co-star Alex Winter. And maybe the desire to have some fun.

Either way, it’s been more than 30 years since the duo originally traveled through time to complete a history report—thereby solidifying a most excellent future for all humankind—and nearly 30 since they journeyed most bogusly through heaven and hell to defeat the nefarious gym teacher/sit-up champ Chuck De Nomolos in the sequel.

It was triumphant, but conditions have deteriorated by the time we catch up with B&T in 2020.

Sure, the eponymous duo sired a couple kids with their medieval-era princess brides and put out a string of records meant to unite the globe, but they’ve still not managed to write that one all-important song predicted by the since-dead time

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There was a time in the ’90s, at the advent of widespread CDs taking over our homes and cars, when the vinyl record suddenly became the least important physical media on Earth.

Or so it seemed, anyway. In Vinyl Nation from filmakers Christopher Boone and Kevin Smokler, however, we learn that while the rise of digital formats placed vinyl firmly in the ICU for a decade and change, the audiophiles, record store geeks, artists, businesspeople and young folks looking for a more meaningful experience somehow managed to keep it on life support long enough for a resurgence, and we’re now smack-dab in the middle of a real-life renaissance.

With the help of collectors, musicians, producers and craftspeople, Boone and Smokler argue that vinyl holds a magical and superior place amongst the true believers in the pantheon of recorded sound. As one subject succinctly puts it, some folks are just drawn to its inconvenience. We learn that the size and shape were marketing ploys that unwittingly cast a spell on those who wished

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traveling Rufus (RIP George Carlin), and this can only spell trouble. Looks like it’s back in the phone booth in search of an era during which the future versions of themselves have written the song, or time and space will cease to exist.

While there’s certainly a wonderful nostalgia pang seeing Winter and Reeves reunite alongside original Bill & Ted creators Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, Face the Music falls victim to a strange combo of overextended expectations, unfortunate additions and a confusing lack of spark.

Tossing in Samara Weaving and Brigette LundyPaine as Zoomer carbon copies of the heroes feels like an out-of-touch stab at harnessing the youth market, and William Sadler’s return as the literal Grim Reaper feels all too short. The same goes for appearances from newer stars like Jillian Bell, Kristen Schall and Anthony Carrigan—and

to hold something tangible, how liner notes were and still are important and who’s making the beefy 180-gram records and creatively fascinating packaging of today.

This means interviews with everyone from Gen Z noobs and Record Store Day founders to Urban Outfitters buyers and Instagram recreationists. We learn how the stuff is made, how it’s a shareable media across generations; we meet precocious pre-teens and certified snobs—all of whom tell the same story: Vinyl can and does change lives.

Thankfully, Boone and Smokler also tackle the concepts of misogyny and racism, though a slightly deeper look would have been a welcome extra few minutes in an already fairly short running time. Still, the notion of ponytailed weirdo spinning records like some Hornby-esque unappreciated scholar is thankfully diminished in place of music lovers at every end of the spectrum.

If nothing else, you’ll wanna flesh out (or start) that collection after watching this film, and its very existence proves that the medium—and its proponents—continue to evolve.

In other words, this isn’t some inaccessible hipster trend anymore, it’s a movement. And within that movement, togetherness. (ADV)

Jean Cocteau, Violet Crown, NR, 132 min.

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there’s one cameo that could have been glorious but falls so flat it almost hurts. SNL’s Beck Bennett should have been in it less, and recasting the princesses with younger actresses Jayma Mays and Erinn Hayes just plain sucks.

It all leads to an ending that feels telegraphed and a song that is NOT EVEN CLOSE TO AS GOOD as the KISS cover of Argent’s “God Gave Rock ‘n’ Roll to You” from Bogus Journey. In other words, we lose the thread of nostalgia to a meandering plot full of shoehorned characters that have little to do when we could have focused on Bill and Ted and had a more excellent time.

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In the aftermath of the ’80s glut of just, like, truly terrible cartoons that worked more like commercials than anything else (lookin’ at you, Transformers), something seemingly impossible happened—children’s network Nickelodeon completely revitalized the art form with a block of programming known as Nicktoons. People of a certain age may recall how the 1991 Nicktoons premiere included Rugrats, Doug and little show called Ren & Stimpy. The latter moved mountains.

The brainchild of animator and animation obsessive John Kricfalusi, the stories of the idiot cat Stimpy and his unhinged lunatic best friend Ren the chihuahua not only became a fast favorite of kids and parents alike, it brought a significant level of artistry back into the cartoon world that hadn’t been part of the equation since Fleischer Studios. The world was rapt, the newly formed Spumco Studios behind the cartoon was stocked with rockstars of animation— and someplace at the center stood Kricfalusi, proving creator-driven content steeped in actual artistry was possible if one could assemble

BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC Directed by Dean Parisot With Reeves and Winter VoD, PG-13, 91 min.

a talented enough team. The first year was legendary.

But as we learn in the new documentary Happy Happy Joy Joy from filmmakers Ron Cicero and Kimo Easterwood, the good times were short-lived and quickly overshadowed by Kricfalusi’s dictatorial work practices, obsessions, missed deadlines and even pedophilia.

Through interviews with former Spumco artists, Nickelodeon execs and Kricfalusi himself, we learn of impossible hours and heartbreaking conditions; of the 16-year-old who moved to California to become an animator only to live under Kricfalusi’s manipulative thumb. On camera, he readily admits it happened, though its late-film inclusion feels unfortunate when stacked against the many other “We were true artists and he was a genius!” interviews beforehand.

It’s the most important part of the story, and one that comes perilously close to ruining the built-up image of Ren & Stimpy harbored by many. But as the doc eventually points out, Kricfalusi was only one part of the machine, and the dozens of others who made Ren & Stimpy— without abusing a child—deserve their moment in the sun. They created something truly special.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it’s modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.” Those words were written by Aries author Marge Piercy, who has been a fount of good new ideas in the course of her career. I regard her as an expert in generating wheezy, fragile breakthroughs and ultimately turning them into shiny, solid beacons of revelation. Your assignment in the coming weeks, Aries, is to do as Piercy has done so well.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I propose we resurrect the old English word “museful.” First used in the 17th century but then forgotten, it meant “deeply thoughtful; pensive.” In our newly coined use, it refers to a condition wherein a person is abundantly inspired by the presence of the muse. I further suggest that we invoke this term to apply to you Libras in the coming weeks.

You potentially have a high likelihood of intense communion with your muses. There’s also a good chance you’ll engage with a new muse or two. What will you do with all of this illumination and stimulation?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Every day I discover even more beautiful things,” said painter Claude Monet. “It is intoxicating me, and I want to paint it all.

My head is bursting.” That might seem like an extreme state to many of us. But Monet was a specialist in the art of seeing. He trained himself to be alert for exquisite sights. So his receptivity to the constant flow of loveliness came naturally to him. I bring this to your attention, Taurus, because I think that in the coming weeks, you could rise closer to a Monet-like level of sensitivity to beauty. Would that be interesting to you?

If so, unleash yourself! Make it a priority to look for charm, elegance, grace, delight, and dazzlement.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):Author Renata Adler describes a time in her life when she began to notice blue triangles on her feet. She was wracked with fear that they were a symptom of leukemia. But after a period of intense anxiety, she realized one fine day that they had a different cause. She writes: “Whenever I, walking barefoot, put out the garbage on the landing, I held the apartment door open, bending over from the rear. The door would cross a bit over the tops of my feet”—leaving triangular bruises. Upon realizing this very good news, she says, “I took a celebrational nap.”

From what I can tell, Gemini, you’re due for a series of celebrational naps—both because of worries that turn out to be unfounded and because you need a concentrated period of recharging your energy reserves.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak,” proclaimed Cancerian author Lillian Hellman. I feel the same way.

So often people have nothing interesting or important to say, but say it anyway. I’ve done that myself! The uninteresting and unimportant words I have uttered are too numerous to count. The good news for me and all of my fellow Cancerians is that in the coming weeks we are far more likely than usual to not speak until we are ready to speak. According to my analysis of the astrological potentials, we are poised to express ourselves with clarity, authenticity, and maximum impact.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Of all the mournful impacts the pandemic has had, one of the most devastating is that it has diminished our opportunities to touch and be touched by other humans. Many of us are starved of the routine, regular contact we had previously taken for granted. I look forward to the time when we can again feel uninhibited about shaking hands, hugging, and patting friends on the arm or shoulder. In the meantime, how can you cope? This issue is extra crucial for you Leos to meditate on right now. Can you massage yourself? Seek extra tactile contact with animals? Hug trees? Figure out how to physically connect with people while wearing hazmat suits, gloves, masks, and face shields? What else?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Each of us has a “soul’s code”: a metaphorical blueprint of the beautiful person we could become by fulfilling our destiny. If our soul’s code remains largely dormant, it will agitate and disorient us. If, on the other hand, we perfectly actualize our soul’s code, we will feel at home in the world; all our experiences will feel meaningful. The practical fact is that most of us have made some progress in manifesting our soul’s code, but still have a way to go before we fully actualize it. Here’s the good news: You Scorpios are in a phase of your cycle when you could make dramatic advances in this glorious work.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules,” observes Sagittarian author Ashleigh Brilliant.

According to my research, you have made excellent progress in this quest during the last few weeks—and will continue your good work in the next six weeks.

Give yourself an award! Buy yourself a trophy! You have discovered at least two rules that were previously unknown to you, and you have also ripened your understanding of another rule that had previously been barely comprehensible. Be alert for more breakthroughs.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “If you’re not lost, you’re not much of an explorer,” said rambunctious activist and author John Perry Barlow. Adding to his formulation, I’ll say that if you want to be a successful explorer, it’s crucial to get lost on some occasions. And according to my analysis, now is just such a time for you Capricorns. The new territory you have been brave enough to reconnoiter should be richly unfamiliar. The possibilities you have been daring enough to consider should be provocatively unpredictable. Keep going, my dear! That’s the best way to become un-lost.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you,” said psychic Sylvia Browne. She was referring to the mysterious stories that unfold in our minds as we sleep. I agree with her assessment of dreams’ power to show us who we really are all the way down to the core of our souls.

What Browne didn’t mention, however, is that it takes knowledge and training to become proficient in deciphering dreams’ revelations. Their mode of communication is unique—and unlike every other source of teaching. I bring this up, Aquarius, because the coming months will be a favorable time for you to become more skilled in understanding your dreams.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In June 1876, warriors from three Indian tribes defeated U.S. troops led by General George Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana. It was an iconic victory in what was ultimately a losing battle to prevent conquest by the everexpanding American empire. One of the tribes that fought that day was the Northern Cheyenne. Out of VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Like any art, the creation fear of punishment by the U.S. government, its leaders of self is both natural and seemingly impossible,” says waited 130 years to tell its side of the story about what happened. New evidence emerged then, such as the singer-songwriter Holly Near. “It requires training as fact that the only woman warrior in the fight, Buffalo well as magic.” How are you doing on that score, Virgo? Now is a favorable time to intensify your long- Calf Road Woman, killed Custer himself. I offer this tale as an inspiration for you Pisceans to tell your story term art project of creating the healthiest, smartest about events that you’ve kept silent about for too long. version of yourself. I think it will feel quite natural and not-at-all impossible. In the coming weeks, you’ll have Homework: Maybe sometimes it’s OK to hide and be secretive and use silence as a superpower. a finely tuned intuitive sense of how to proceed with Example from your life? FreeWillAstrology.com flair. Start by imagining the Most Beautiful You.

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