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Actually, the 58% increase in robberies should terrify visitors and residents alike.

Personally, I no longer feel safe in Santa Fe or Albuquerque. ... Anyone who visits Santa Fe should be aware of the reality that the odds of being robbed are increasing more and more every year. “Disneyland for old folks” has become a haven for addicts, who will rob or con anyone for their next fix.

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ANTI-RACIST ACTION I see in the first movie review that Alex De Vore names the racist tropes surrounding Woody Harrelson’s character. Thank you, De Vore.

A few pages earlier in the same issue, you have an ad for a white male comedian who purports to have an alter ego named Swami something. Unless he’s Hindu, he should find another alter ego. Better yet, he ought to embrace his whiteness. Maybe write a few jokes about it.

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ava Elementary School students celebrated Veterans Day on Monday by marching in the parade downtown in honor of the school’s namesake, Francis X Nava, the first Santa Fean to die in the Vietnam War. Later, Nava’s brother, Raymond Nava, stood with the students as they somberly lowered the flag.

Relief that the small elementary school will stay open added an extra dose of emotion to the day, Principal Marc Ducharme tells SFR. Last Wednesday, the school board voted 3-2 against a proposal by board member Maureen Cashmon to close and consolidate Nava and two other small elementary schools on the northeast side of town, EJ Martinez and Acequia Madre.

The vote marked the third time in three years the school board has discussed closing EJ and Nava, and the second time in a decade the board has considered closing Acequia Madre.

Changing demographics across the city, budgetary woes and the lack of effective guidelines around school closures drive the vicious cycle. It also highlights the outcome of decades of decision-making about which schools are maintained and which are not.

The schools targeted last week were on the list for potential closure primarily because of their aging facilities and declining enrollment.

“I don’t think the issue is going to go away,” Cashmon tells SFR. “We’ve got a limited budget, and as long as our student population continues to decline, we will have too many seats and at some point schools will have to close.”

Many parents at the meeting expressed outrage that the three affected principals didn’t learn about the proposed closures until the agenda was publicly posted five days before the vote.

Yet Cashmon says the proposal was a signal of her frustration at

number of wealthy and white students.

Meanwhile, Nava has never seen significant improvements and has the greatest number of disadvantaged students such as homeless students, and English-as-asecond-language learners.”

All Nava students qualify for the free and reduced lunch program.

Burke argues that past board decisions arbitrarily favored some schools over others and could make the school district liable in litigation for discriminatory practices.

Fred Nathan, the founder of local Think New Mexico, says the think tank concludes that closing small schools now could further problems. The organization’s research found that nationally, smaller schools produce better results in student performance and teacher satisfaction, especially among at-risk student populations. Nathan fears parents with means will choose smaller private schools

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the perpetual delay that repeated studies and involvement periods entail.

“I don’t think the community is listening,” she says, explaining that the issue was postponed in 2017 after a vote in favor of further review, and was postponed again in 2018 to wait for the outcomes of the Yazzie Martinez lawsuit and the policy changes made by incoming governor Michelle Lujan Grisham.

Many parents saw the action rather as a last-ditch effort by Cashmon to push her agenda before she gives up her seat to board member-elect Sarah Koch Boses in January.

EJ and Nava’s buildings are in need of serious improvements. That’s because these schools have been historically overlooked when it came to allocating bond funds for capital improvement projects, according to lawyer Heather Burke, one of the more than 60 people who appealed to the board to oppose the closure plan.

She says demographics matter in the conversation.

“Atalaya got millions to rebuild their school despite the fact that they have some of the highest numbers of interzone transfers in the district,” she says. “It also is one of the schools that serve the greatest

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over larger public schools, and teachers with mobility will choose jobs elsewhere.

Nava principal Ducharme says no set guidelines are in play to reassure parents that board members are making unbiased decisions.

“There needs to be an established protocol,” he says. This isn’t the first time he’s dealt with school closures. Before this job, Ducharme was principal of De Vargas Middle School when the district consolidated two schools into the new Milagro Middle School.

He says the district lacks consistency or method in choosing when and how to close schools. And this is part of the reason, in his opinion, that the cycle of closure threats just keeps spinning, leaving parents feeling outraged and officials undecided.

Ideally, Ducharme would like to see a moratorium on all school closures for long enough to come up with alternative solutions to closing schools and a set of consistent guidelines for cases when closures are deemed unavoidable.

This is one outcome he hopes emerges from board President Kate Noble’s proposal for a study on equity in the district.

The board adopted the idea the same night it rejected the closure plan.

Noble, who voted against Cashmon’s closure plan, isn’t convinced small schools are always better. She’s also not convinced closing the northside small schools will solve the long-term problems in the district or make the public education system more equitable.

“We have never in a detailed and representative way … surveyed our families and staff about what’s important to them, what builds community, what their needs are in our schools,” Noble tells SFR. Instead, past surveys have always been conducted “in an incredibly traditional way” that relies solely on data about the capacity and improvement costs of specific schools under consideration for potential closure.

Noble says now is the time to start thinking creatively about what needs to change.

“We are not in a budget crisis right now … I think we have the space to do this,” she tells SFR. “To me, this is an opportunity to really reconnect to public education.”

The board tasked the office of the superintendent with devising a framework and process for the study, which will be presented to the new board in February. In addition to Bose, Carmen Linda Gonzales also joins the board, taking the seat from Stephen Carillo, who voted against the closure plan.

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team of women at the Santa Fe Community College has been working for several years to win a highly competitive grant to help blunt Hispanic, Latino and low-income students’ abysmal graduation rates.

The dispiriting reality: Hispanic and low-income students are not graduating as quickly—or, in many cases, at all— compared to their peers.

SFCC is one of only two institutions in New Mexico to earn the $3 million Title V Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program five-year grant with the project “Minority Academic Pathways to Success.”

Local project designers’ work tracked several years of declining retainment numbers for Hispanic and low-income students.

The US Department of Education earmarked funding, says college grants director Ann Black, because officials “recognize that Hispanic-serving institutions, minority-serving institutions, need more resources to make Hispanic students and low-income students and other minorities successful in post-secondary education. We have a high number of students who come to us who are first-generation college [students]. The idea of going to college is really intim-

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idating and it’s challenging if you don’t have that knowledge and background that your parents can often give you.”

According to data provided by SFCC, in the 2017-2018 school year, the school educated 7,684 students; 69% of firsttime, full-time students were Hispanic.

However, only 41% of full-time Hispanic and low-income freshmen stayed in school after their first year. Over half dropped out.

Only 21% of that demographic group graduated within three years, and only 15% transferred to a four-year college or university after graduation with their associate degree. Hispanic students compose the school’s majority of degree-seeking students—but they are placed into developmental classes at significantly higher rates than their non-Hispanic classmates. Developmental classes are for students who are underprepared for college coursework.

The school learned of the award in October and is starting to spend it now.

“We’re hiring a student resource coordinator through this grant to assist students in hooking them up with resources at the college, as well as community resources that they need to be successful because our students come here with all kinds of challenges,” Black tells SFR. “It’s not academic, necessarily. Food insecurity is huge. Housing is huge. We want to be there to help the student.”

Other plans for the grant are more complex, such as creating meta-majors, restructuring developmental math classes, more hands-on, data-supported help from advisers to keep students on track and professional development for faculty and staff, all part of the Guided Pathways model that SFCC wants to set up.

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Project designers for the five-year Santa Fe Community College grant include, from left, Julie Gallegos, project director; Ann Black, grants director; and Colleen Lynch, associate dean for science, health, engineering, math and fitness education.

Meta-majors are groups of majors clustered together that have similar certificates and classes. Higher education experts say they help students start more quickly taking classes that connect directly with the degrees they’re interested in.

According to the school, establishing the model as part of their project will remove “barriers” that Hispanic and low-income students face.

Boosting the school’s online presence is another focus point.

“The online courses … will reach out to a lot of students and help them manage some of the scheduling challenges that are associated with coming to college when they mix in some online courses with their regular, on-ground courses,” says Colleen Lynch, associate dean for science, health, engineering, math and fitness education.

“I think that will help support students who need to take their courses in a variety of modalities.”

Increasing understanding around taking out loans and financial literacy overall is another box to check on the project’s to-do list. The school will host a series of workshops for students and prospective

students so they can understand how to pay for college and manage expenses without taking out massive loans.

Funding also will go to improve the school’s database system in order for advisers and counselors to better identify students who are “at risk” of dropping out so they can intervene. The school hopes improved technology and data collection will increase retention rates and eventually graduation rates.

The Title V grant also comes with a $450,000 endowment for future scholarships for Hispanic, Latino or low-income SFCC students—but not for a while. The endowment funds, half from the grant and the other half from donations, will be available for minority and low-income students in 20 years.

SFCC has always been a Hispanicserving institution—but the staff wants to do more for its students.

“You can be a Hispanic-serving institution just because of the numbers that you have; that doesn’t mean you’re providing any special services,” says Julie Gallegos, the grant’s project director. “We’re trying to go beyond.”

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echo a Mano owner Frank Rose jogs out of his gallery and into the elements to toss me a parking pass. It’s easily the coldest day of the season so far, and finding a spot on Canyon Road is never easy even in the best conditions. Rose has just opened Grabados Oaxaqueños, a collection of prints from printmakers based in in Oaxaca, Mexico. The show is indicative of Rose’s overall style, namely, he mainly shows hand-done prints (hence the gallery name) and often works with Mexico-based printmakers, but it also proves another tenet by which he has run his business since it opened seven months ago: his entry level price points are affordable.

“It kind of spans the gamut and is hard to nail down,” Rose says. “I mean, you can spend $6 or thousands here.”

Rose offers prints, works on paper, jewelry, ceramics and even clothing from time to time, meaning buyers find a more varied and informal price range than at many other Canyon Road galleries. It’s less common overall in a city like Santa Fe where art rules the day. Even as consumers’ tastes lean further toward experiential art and smaller pieces—while modern architecture eschews walls for windows, making the hanging of artwork even more challenging—far too often those who wish to start collecting wind up

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BUY ART Hecho a Mano’s Frank Rose wants the art buying process to be a smooth transaction for all parties.

looking at art, but rarely buying. A survey from SMU DataArts at Dallas, Texas’ Southern Methodist University in August stated that Santa Fe’s art market ranks at the top of arts vibrancy for mid-sized communities throughout the country, but who does that impact the most?

Blue chip galleries dot Santa Fe’s streets with massive pieces carrying obscene price tags, and while nearly everyone you meet is an artist in some capacity, kickstarting a collection seems a daunting task for everyday appreciators. How

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might someone who isn’t rich or wellversed in the art game begin? What are the right reasons for buying? Should the investment angle be a part of it?

The latter is a particularly tough concept, especially at a place like Hecho a Mano, where Rose isn’t just trying to buy and sell art; he’s trying to build a community with local-minded prices and a pipeline to other states and countries. Galleries are evolving, and that thread wends its way in some form through the established system, into the DIY spaces, through artists’

It kind of spans the gamut and is hard to nail down. I mean, you can spend $6 or thousands here.

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ARTISTS, GALLERISTS AND COLLECTORS DEMYSTIFY THE ART COLLECTION GAME studios and iconic Canyon Road spaces to the very edges of the Southside. Thus, for our purposes, we’ll address the concept of art collecting as personal enrichment rather than as a commodity bought to flip at a profit down the line. With a mix of gallerists, artists and collectors, the idea is to help average schmoes understand that it’s not as difficult as they might think to amass a collection. In most cases, it just takes a little research and a whole lot of questions.

“I’m showing 75% to 80% local artists because I’m local,” KEEP Contemporary co-owner Jared Antonio-Justo Trujillo tells SFR. “It’s an amazing thing to be surrounded in Santa Fe by so much art and culture and history, and for me, it was imperative I showed the locals, and not only the locals, but the ones who don’t have a voice in the conservative art market.”

KEEP has been open a mere two years, but Trujillo has worked professionally in art sales for 14. When it came time to pursue his dream of opening his own gallery, however, he balked at the narrow definition of so-called “fine art,” instead choosing to focus on lowbrow works, the unexpected and a healthy percentage of up-and-comers. Future Fantasy Delight founder Nico Salazar, for example, has shown at KEEP since launch, and the walls also feature works by SFR 2019 Best of Santa Fe cover artist Sienna Luna, local graffiti artist Wonky, painter Katy Kidd and countless other Santa Feans alongside icons such as HR Giger, Elizabeth Leggett and Lee Moyer.

Showing local artists and making work accessible are vital for KEEP Contemporary’s Jared Antonio-Justo Trujillo.

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For Trujillo, the idea wasn’t just to provide a platform for locals, it was about creating a space accessible to everyday people, where those who don’t have deep pockets might find something they love and purchase it without careening into debt. Granted, some of KEEP’s works can reach into the tens of thousands of dollars range, but Trujillo says he also carries pieces like prints and limited T-shirts for as low as $20.

“There is something for everybody,” he continues, “and I think that’s rare, which sucks—art shouldn’t be only for rich people.”

Indeed, of all the hurdles to art collecting, exorbitant costs often keep wouldbe collectors at bay. But in the galleries across town, newcomers might not know that the artists themselves most often set the prices. They’re based on a number of factors, from labor to materials and all points between. And whereas most artists concede that the whole thing would probably be much simpler if artists could just sell directly to the people, that’s not always logical or realistic. In many cases, galleries act like agents; though with a standard 50-50 split (which, of course, can vary), galleries have incentive to market, promote and otherwise sell as best they can. Gallerists also often bring connections and years of networking into the mix. For pros who want to spend time creating, working with a gallery can be a godsend.

“Professional artists oftentimes have contracts with their local representation,” local artist Nina Tichava says. Tichava shows exclusively at Turner Carroll Gallery on Canyon Road, and boasts years of experience working within the gallery system.

“It’s against the rules to sell on the DL,” she continues, speaking to would-be collectors reaching out to gallery artists directly (more on that later). “That undermines the relationship with the gallery—the more traditional gallery route that’s existed until now.”

It certainly makes sense: See a piece online you like, email the artist about buying it. In many cases, artists of a certain level prefer to send such potential customers to the gallery which represents them. But not always. Tichava says the market is forcing the gallery world to evolve as artists create their own selling channels. And while it can be about convenience, and also getting her work in front of as many eyeballs as possible, Tichava says the future is a little murky.

“I see change happening really rapidly,” she says, “especially at certain entry points—you can just follow someone you like on [social media]; it’ll be interesting to see which one wins out.”

Turner Carroll has been good to Tichava, so for now she’s staying put.

Selling direct sounds simple, yet in practice the business side of art sales is a mountain of paperwork, tax information and collectors with varying sensibilities when it comes to negotiating.

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are only easily understandable with the gallery and auction systems’ data tracking. For other artists, however, representation can be a headache they accept as a means to connect with fans and collectors without having to trudge through the non-creative side of the business.

And then there are the in-betweeners.

Show Pony Gallery founder Niomi Fawn (who uses the singular “they” pronoun) runs one of these—a space founded on the concept of art as beautifier, of artist as the priority. As a curator and artist themself, Fawn is uniquely positioned to understand all angles of the equation, and though they require a contract for the artists they show, their ultimate goal is to enrich the lives of collectors and the artists. Think of Show Pony Gallery, on the west side at 501 Franklin Ave., as a full service stop—not only does Fawn search out artists, perform their own installations and work sales, they’ll gladly visit a collector’s home to make sure the piece finds its proper forever home.

“We’re looking at a market that has so many different buyers, and I really want my art to be accessible,” Fawn says. “And I don’t just mean people understand it, I mean that they can purchase it—the art world wants art to seem inaccessible because there’s this weird intrinsic sense of value when something is inaccessible, but it’s kind of like being a first-time homebuyer—are you buying this piece because you want to sit and drink coffee with it everyday? It shouldn’t be a one-night stand.”

Fawn’s Curate Santa Fe has been one of the most prolific outfits in town over the last five years. With exhibits at Show Pony—both at its brick and mortar space and in its previous iteration as a mobile gallery—art.i.fact and other spaces, Fawn has shown some of the most popular locals, generally before they became more popular. Their best advice?

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about art to like it,’—but, yeah, you do,” they explain. “You know if you do, and here’s the deal: I think we’re dealing with art in a very different way today … you’re seeing more images in the first hour of your morning than people used to see in their lifetimes, and that’s serious, that’s a whole different way of viewing work. But if you see something, you just have to ask, talk to the curator or the gallerist or the artist about payment plans or discounts.

The worst they can say is no.”

Fawn is a proponent of the payment plan, but says many would-be collectors aren’t familiar with the concept. Every gallery is certainly different, but most if not all are open to breaking up payments.

KEEP’s Trujillo says he prefers to start with half up front, the other half later.

Show Pony works on a case-by-case basis.

Much of the work there clocks in at under $1,000 but, Fawn says, even if something is only a couple hundred bucks, they’re willing to work something out.

“I wish more people would ask, because it gives people a chance to get something they really want,” they tell SFR. “It’s my job to make those people feel welcome.”

Painter Nina Tichava says she sees the gallery system evolving, but there’s still a lot to love about representation for artists.

On the more upscale end, at Peters Projects, Gallery Director Mark Del Vecchio agrees a gallery should make everyone feel welcome. Of all the galleries in town, Peters Projects has a decided museum-like aesthetic. This can be daunting, particularly for new collectors navigating an imposing labyrinth of arts politics. But whereas Del Vecchio says he is aware potential collectors will certainly run into a haughty gallerist or salesperson here and there, he encourages engagement with himself and staff at Peters Projects. In a nutshell, he advises asking as many questions as possible.

Del Vecchio cut his teeth working in New York City galleries and says the Santa Fe scene, while massive and every bit as renowned as New York, is a completely different animal.

ple who buy because they love it rather than looking at whether it’s going to sell.

People are afraid of doing that, and I think that’s why younger collectors are a little more cautious in buying.”

Del Vecchio says he still gets the occasional young buyer and/or new collector, and he loves connecting them with up-and-coming artists and their work, “because it’s like they’re both starting the journey together.”

Like other spaces, Peters Projects offers payment plans and discounts though, interestingly, the higher the price, the fewer the number of payments are accepted. In other words, if a piece has a price tag of $100,000 (or more), Del Vecchio says, the gallery will probably prefer to limit that to two payments. Lucky then, that first time collectors probably won’t start there. Otherwise, Del Vecchio also advises asking about discounts. Galleries are often authorized to offer up to a certain percentage off, and, he says, it’s not offensive to inquire.

“I’m a dealer, therefore deals happen,” Del Vecchio explains. “Let’s talk about it, and we can figure it out. What I enjoy seeing is that look in someone’s eyes when they fall in love with something. Will they buy it? That’s another story, but that magic always excites me. Otherwise, save your money until you can buy something.”

It’s often as simple as that, and the idea that if we want a piece of art we do what we must to obtain it is widespread among artists, many of whom are also collectors. Ian Kuai’i (Kanaka Maoli/Native Hawaiian and Mescalero Apache), for example, who has shown in galleries like Hecho a Mano, as well as in museums around the country, both creates and collects.

Kuai’i’s handcut paper portraits are complex and gorgeous and, lately, he’s been creating what he calls Earthworks, un-purchasable pieces made in the wilds with any natural materials he can find.

Often they’ll represent mathematical or tribal patterns, and Kuai’i says he enjoys how the Earth chooses when to disrupt the piece; he never tells anyone when he’ll make one or where it will be.

For his more commercial practice, however, Kuai’i wants to make it as easy as possible for the consumer. Smaller commissions can start at $350-$500 for those who buy direct, and he’ll accept payment plans on a buyer-to-buyer basis for more expensive pieces.

“There are people who are alive and creating and have things that are available for any kind of pocketbook,” he says.

“Communication is definitely the most important thing.”

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“People think ‘I don’t know enough about art to like it’—but yeah, you do,” says Show Pony Gallery founder Niomi Fawn.

BELOW: Artist Daniel McCoy creates and collects, often through a barter system.

“In New York, you had about a 60% chance of selling to whoever walked through the door,” he says. “In Santa Fe, it’s 15% likely somebody will come in and buy something.”

Granted, Peters Projects is as blue chip as it gets, but Del Vecchio says the gallery sees endless traffic comprised of locals, young folks, potential new collectors, tourists and seasoned vets; the works are generally on the expensive side, but the gallery itself isn’t closed off or inaccessible, nor is it meant to only appeal to the rich. All the same, over his years as a dealer, Del Vecchio says, he’s seen the sales game change as well as how galleries themselves operate and how collectors collect.

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For Kuai’i, it’s about what speaks to the individual.

“If you see something you need to have in your life,” he says, “you’ll do what you can to figure it out.”

This can even involve a bartering system. No, galleries probably won’t enter into a trade agreement with potential collectors, but for local artist Daniel McCoy (Muskogee Creek/Potawatomi), it’s a means to not only get his work out into the world, but to obtain a collection of his own. McCoy’s most recent Santa Fe exhibit, the stellar Allsup’s at the Hinterlands at Midtown DIY space Etiquette, found him new local collectors, and he often trades his work for pieces he likes.

“It started out for me at Indian Market,” McCoy says. “You’d go and make trades with your friends or the artists you were a fan of. There was this powwow-type thing on the last Sunday before we packed up, you’d go and barter, and after a few years of doing that, I realized bartering had more value than the dollar.”

But what of people who don’t consider themselves artists? For Frank Rose of Hecho a Mano, that’s a silly assumption.

“It’s the one thing everyone does,” he says. “I can’t think of any civilization or society that didn’t have some form of self-expression.”

A number of artists interviewed for this story who asked not to be identified say they’d be willing to talk trade for website work or graphic design, for cooked meals or other services. As Fawn says, the worst an artist can say to an offer is no.

Meanwhile, more artists are striking out on their own without gallery help. Many set up shop on social media sites such as Instagram, or on Etsy, the largest online

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BUY ART marketplace for art works made and sold by artists. “[These are] great places to start,” Tichava says. “I always say to people who are looking to collect, you can get work straight from the studios … some of the people [on Instagram and Etsy] are straight-up famous.”

Avid collector, poet and former SFR food columnist Michael Wilson often buys art that way. A collector for six years, he says he’s amassed over 80 pieces from art spaces and online, and that with every purchase—made through a combination of payment plans, struck deals and simply speaking with artists—he’s grown more confident in his ability to obtain pieces he loves.

“I’m hesitant to call myself a collector even though I have a collection of art,” Wilson says. “[The term] comes with a lot of baggage, it sort of has a lot of bougie connotations, but I certainly have an art collection, so I should get over that.”

Wilson says he started collecting by buying pieces he’d see in Betterday Coffee back when local artist Jared Weiss worked as a barista there and curated a rotating selection of artists. It was an affordable and low-pressure beginning according to Wilson, and that it all came down to what spoke to him.

“For a long time I was one of those people who thought I couldn’t collect art, that I wanted to support people but couldn’t because I didn’t have the money, but one day I just decided to buy stuff. Cheap stuff,” he says with a laugh.

“It maybe feels scary,” he continues, “but I think a lot of artists are willing to lower prices if they know you’re really passionate. Maybe it feels bad, but it’s worth having the conversation. Artists are willing to … ‘negotiate’ is the wrong word, but they want people to have their art.”

That’s the thread of community building that can connect artists and collectors.

Creators and curators want to make both newcomers and longtime collectors happy.

They want to experience the magic described by Peters Projects’ Del Vecchio, they want to foster accessibility like KEEP Contemporary’s Trujillo, they want to make connections like Hecho a Mano’s Rose and Show Pony’s Fawn.

Maybe we’ve lost some of the magic in the commodification of art, and maybe in a town like Santa Fe there’s no avoiding the upper echelons of ridiculous pricing. For everyday people, however, there’s so much room to ask questions and add art to their daily lives.

“When I go home,” Wilson says, “I want to look at the walls and say ‘I love this space.’”

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ids have received the message: STEM is important. Now it’s time for the next phase to fully integrate science, technology, engineering and math into their lives. So says neuroscientist Chris Forsythe, a retired distinguished member of Sandia National Laboratory’s technical staff, whose research focused on using brain science to improve human performance. Today, he’s president and founder of the nonprofit Brain Hackers Association.

“I’ve always believed in the hacker mentality,” Forsythe says, “the idea that you learn by pushing buttons and poking things and pulling things apart—understanding how things really work, and as you understand how things really work, that gives you lots of opportunities for things to work the way you want them to work.”

Eleven years ago, Forsythe would not have envisioned he’d spend his retirement creating youth STEM programs. That all changed when he and a friend began doing robotics with his then-young son. Those activities turned into starting a robotics

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ing STEM is important and being engaged and committed.” On any high school campus, he says, 35-40% of students will express an interest in pursuing both education and careers in STEM, but “when you ask those kids ‘how do you spend your time outside of the classroom?’ they’ll say volleyball and debate and dance and list off any number of activities, none of which have anything to do with STEM.” The teen tech centers, as envisioned, will be both environments youth can learn about different types of technology, but also places they can just hang out.

“The No. 1 priority is to satisfy social and recreational needs,” Forsythe says, “but at the same time that you’re meeting the social and recreational needs, you’re immersing [youth] in technology.”

That has been the experience for the students who came with Forsythe to the Roundhouse, who are part of robotics teams at middle and high schools in Albuquerque, experiences they describe as both social and educational. One of them, Forsythe’s 17-year-old daughter Kasey, has been interested in STEM since her older brother’s initiation. Now, she

plans to pursue a career in biotechnology.

“When you’re on a robotics team like ours, you can see how the things you’re learning in school are actually applied,” she notes.

Plus, it’s fun, say Rebecca and Anna Duggar, both 13, and both attending Roosevelt Middle School.

“It teaches you a lot about not just STEM, but how to be a productive part club, which is still going strong. “In the in STEM in your schools,” Rebecca says. process I realized I enjoyed working with “You also get to learn professionalism, students,” Forsythe says. “I enjoy that which is pretty awesome; it’s the backexperience and I started doing more and bone of whatever we do with this.” more and more, and when I got closer to Plus, Anna notes, being involved on retirement, it was obvious: This is what I the robotics team means you gain a comshould do in retirement.” munity “who will support you.”

I met up with Forsythe and four teenFourteen-year-old Benjamin Roesler, agers last week at the Roundhouse in adwho attends Menaul High School and vance of them pitching a plan for Teen plans to be an electric engineer like his Tech Centers to the Legislature’s interim father, points out that the teams are comScience, Technology & Telecommunications petitive: “And that adds onto the fun; you Committee. get to problem solve in all sorts of ways.”

Forsythe has funding already for The teen tech centers, Chris Forsythe program pilots at Explora Museum and explains, won’t just be robotics-focused.

Nex+Gen Academy in Albuquerque via Using the formula derived through the grants from Sandia Lab, Boeing and Best pilots, each site will decide its location Buy. Now he is working with state Rep. and focus, which could be robotics, bioChristine Trujillo, D-Albuquerque, to retech, game development, virtual reality, quest $2 million in the upcoming session cyber security, media or some to start 16 teen tech centers combination therein. But ularound the state. These will timately, he hopes the protarget two rural commugram helps show kids STEM nities: Raton and Taos; the can be more than just a passmall cities of Alamogordo time. He recalls participating and Roswell; along with two in a Global Game Jam (a team urban centers at Albuquerque game-building event) in which high schools. The funding adult participants essentialwould primarily be for startup ly spent their entire weekend costs, with each location pickconsumed by the STEM tasks ing up costs thereafter (and, at hand. “That’s what we want Forsythe said when I asked, to start relaying to the kids,” there’s nothing to preclude he says, “This can be the thing Santa Fe from participating in you’re passionate about, so the future). much so you’ll sit up until 3 in As mentioned, Forsythe the morning because you have believes the younger generaa problem and you’re not going tion has grocked the message to bed until you’ve figured out Left to right: Neuroscientist Chris Forsythe, daughter Kasey, about STEM’s significance.

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“What we’re missing, though, to make their case for teen tech centers to lawmakers on the Beats binge-watching on is bridging the gap between Legislature’s interim Science, Technology & Telecommunications Netflix. having an interest and knowCommittee.

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EVENT SUN/17 THE PRINTS AND THE PAUPERS This week’s cover story delves into the idea of collecting art for the non-rich, and we can think of no better event for fledgling collectors than at the Santa Fe Art Institute’s upcoming Pop-Up Print Sale. An explosion of hand-done and unique prints, the sale features 10 artists stretching their skills into the artistic and the practical. Our personal faves on hand? Mikayla Patton (Lakota) and Terran Last Gun (Amskapi Piikani). For her part, Patton is a thoughtful printmaker exploring contemporary themes with traditional underpinnings while Last Gun, a serigraph master who has shown at local galleries and at Indian Market, has a technique and compositional eye that are nothing short of stunning. You’ll find lots more, too, just in time for the holidays—just don’t feel bad about picking something up for yourself, either. (ADV) SFAI Pop-Up Print Sale: Noon-5 pm Sunday Nov. 17.

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Be-spoked Cranksgiving merges giving and bicycling in one pedal-powered scavenger hunt Twenty years ago, Cranksgiving began in New York City as a friendly competition between bike messengers. The idea was that bicycling aficionados would travel by two-wheel in a citywide scavenger hunt, picking up specific food items from grocery stores and then donating the meals by the end of the day to their local food banks. Word is, it was so much fun and felt so good, they did it all again the following year. In the time since, Cranksgiving has spread across the country, entering into nearly 100 more communities, and Santa Fe, for the past 10 years, has been one of them.

“I got sucked in when the [local bike club] Pedal Queens put on their first or second one quite a few years ago, and just had so much fun doing it that I came back for more,” organizer Bill Lane tells SFR. “There was a point a couple years ago when they were going to take a break, and my hand went up in the air and I said ‘I wanna do that!’”

Involvement in Santa Fe’s 11th annual Cranksgiving is easy—all you really need is a bike, a lock and $15-$20. You can, of course, bring more money, and organizers sweeten the deal with competitive categories like fastest riders, youngest riders and others.

“Every place makes it their own,” organizer Nathalie Nunez says. “This year, we’re really trying to encourage families to come spectate, too.”

Cranksgiving has always been family friendly, and Lane and Nunez hope to up participation this year to 100 riders. The record is set at 75, but they say registration thus far leads them to believe they’ll do better this year. Regardless, there are numerous ways to get involved, and both Lane and Nunez stress that having fun is the main goal outside of stockpiling a bonkers amount of food for Santa Fe’s Food Depot. Last year, they estimate, riders brought in roughly one ton of donations—a feat made all the more impressive in that people do it without motorized help..

“This is the world’s largest pedal-powered food drive,” Lane says, “but it feels like one of the most fun drives out there.”

“I’ve been part of different organizations and fundraisers, and Cranksgiving is so laid back and you’re having so much fun, but doing so much good,” Nunez adds.

Registration is encouraged through cranksgiving.org, but riders can also just show up to the HQ at Back Road Pizza day-of and take part. Costumes are also encouraged, but not mandatory.

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6 pm, free NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH SUPPORT GROUP Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Meet with fellow aspiring novelists, find resources and get inspired to finish your 50,000 words before Nov. 30.

4-6 pm, free THE HISTORY OF GLASS ART: THE NEW MEXICO CONNECTION St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-5397 Glass artist Sarah Nelson discusses the different types of glass art and the history of the American Studio Glass Movement with a special focus on New Mexico.

1-3 pm, $15 TIMOTHY EDAAKIE: ARTIST TALK, RECEPTION AND OPEN STUDIO School for Advanced Research 660 Garcia St., 954-7200 With a goal of reviving traditional pottery methods, forms and designs that are not currently being used in the pueblo, Edaakie shares reflections on the transition between Matsaki and A:shiwi styles.

5:30-7 pm, free

EVENTS NEW MEXICO VINTAGE TOY BUYING SHOW Courtyard by Marriott Santa Fe 3347 Cerrillos Road, 473-2800 Disney toy expert and frequent Pawn Stars contributor Joel Magee buys your vintage toys, if they're worth something.

9:30 am-5 pm, free SECRETARY OF STATE MAGGIE TOULOUSE OLIVER Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 New Mexicans for Money Out of Politics and Indivisible Santa Fe host a presentation and discussion with Toulouse Oliver.

She speaks on and answers questions about campaign finance reform in New Mexico and the US, ethics in government, voter registration and rights and lobbying reform.

Refreshments will be offered.

6:30-8:30 pm, free

FILM SOUFRA Violet Crown Cinema 1606 Alcaldesa St., 216-5678 The story of social entrepreneur Mariam Shaar, a generational refugee who has spent her entire life in the Burj El Barajneh refugee camp just south of Beirut, Lebanon. The film follows Shaar as she sets out to launch a successful catering company and then expand it into a food truck business with a diverse team of fellow refugee woman.

6:30 pm, $15-$20

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MUSIC BOB FINNIE Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and vocals.

6:30 pm, free DAVID GEIST AND JAMIE RUSSELL Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Solo instrumental piano, with Russell on drums in the second half.

6-9 pm, free HOW THE GROUCH STOLE CHRISTMAS Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 One of the founding members of the internationally-known hip-hop crew, The Living Legends, performs over beats he produced.

7 pm, $22 JESUS BAS Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Spanish and flamenco guitar.

6-9 pm, free JOHN RANGEL'S DUET SERIES El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Jazz piano maestro Rangel is joined by a special guest.

7 pm, free MDC AND THE ELECTED OFFICIALS Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Hardcore punk, with MDC playing acoustic this show. (see SFR Picks, page 19).

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

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

6 pm, free SIMRIT Scottish Rite Center 463 Paseo de Peralta, 982-4414 Psychedelic world beats with hypnotic, ancient intonations.

7:30 pm, $25-$55 TRIO RASMINKO Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Folk to rock, country to TexMex and from global rhythms far and wide.

8 pm, free

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THURSDAY 11/14

SECOND THURSDAY SOCIAL RIDE

WORKSHOP AFRICAN BLUES: MY LIFE IN INDIGO Stewart Udall Center 725 Camino Lejo, 983-6155 Master batik artist Gasali Adeyemo speaks to the cycle of indigo, from harvesting, processing and dyeing, and reveals through this presentation why indigo is “the color of love.”

3-4:30 pm, $10-$15

BIKE RIDE FROM THE RAILYARD TO RUFINA FREE / 7 PM

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WWW.SECONDSTREETBREWERY.COM RUFINA TAPROOM 2920 Rufina St, Santa Fe NM 87507

ARNOLDI & ARNOLDI Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 554 S Guadalupe St., 989-8688 A father and daughter exhibition pairs new work by consummate abstract artist Charles with the atmospheric place paintings and gouaches of Natalie.

5-7 pm, free BEAR WITH ME Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta, 470-2582 A two-person photography exhibition by Lindsey Kennedy and Kevin Bond.

5-7 pm, free JUST BEYOND THE HORIZON Keep Contemporary 142 Lincoln Ave., 557-9574 New paintings from Katie O’Sullivan which challenge typical notions of feminine beauty through portrayals of mythical women.

5-8 pm, free LORNA Art House 231 Delgado St., 995-0231 A showing of the first video choose-your-own-adventure art piece created in 1979 by Lynn Hershman Leeson. Lorna is a woman obsessed with TV who can't leave her apartment and was but one of many digital alter-egos created by Leeson. Also featuring a sound artist performance from Theo Krantz at 5:45 and 6:45.

5-7 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES EMBRUJÓ: A STORY OF RELIGION, SUPERSTITION AND CULTURAL IDENTITY El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 The introduction of a project by artist Gabriel Maestas on the 18th century Abiquiu witch trials with a discussion by State Historian Robert Martinez.

4-6 pm, free JOURNALISM UNDER FIRE State Capitol Roundhouse 490 Old Santa Fe Trail, 986-4589 The second day of the annual conference explores the theme "How does technology shape the truth?" and features world-class speakers and international journalists who will address social media and fake news, artificial intelligence, digital forensics and China’s use of technology.

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SPOKEN WORD form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 216-1256 Performances by Byron Aspaas, Gina Tron, Kathryn Ice-Johnson and Georgia Van Gunten.

6 pm, $5

DANCE FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Experience the National Institute of Flamenco's world-famous dinner show at the longest-running tablao in North America.

Reservations required.

6:30-9 pm, $30

EVENTS 21ST ANNUAL RECYCLE SANTA FE ART FESTIVAL Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W Marcy St., 955-6590 This year's iteration promises to be the first zero-waste event hosted at the convention center and kicks off tonight with a trash fashion and costume contest (see SFR Picks, page 19).

5-9 pm, $5 NEW MEXICO VINTAGE TOY BUYING SHOW Courtyard by Marriott Santa Fe 3347 Cerrillos Road, 473-2800 Disney toy expert and frequent Pawn Stars contributor Joel Magee buys your vintage toys, if they're worth something.

9:30 am-5 pm, free SKI SWAP Genoveva Chavez Community Center 3221 W Rodeo Road, 955-4000 Support the Santa Fe Ski Team and gear up for the season while you’re at it. The annual ski swap features new gear at deep discounts and offers plenty of great deals on used items. Drop off your used equipment between 12-3 pm.

6 pm,$10-$15

FILM THE MESOPOTAMIAN TALE Unitarian Universalist Santa Fe 107 N. Barcelona Rd, 410-458-6694 A screening of a saga based on 4,000 years of recovered tablets and carvings, presented through dramatic recitation, music and dance.

A discussion follows the screening.

7:30-9 pm, free WEEDING OUT THE STONED Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Out of 16 comedians, 15 are stoned—a series of sobriety tests commence to pick the sober one, and the audience could win prizes.

7:30 pm, $12-$15

MUSIC BUS TAPES Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Jazzy folk rock.

5-8 pm, free

CEDRIC WATSON Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Bayou blues.

8 pm, $23 CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 First-rate piano and vocals from Charles Tichenor and friends—playful, interactive, family-friendly and eclectic.

Vive la révolution!

6 pm, free CHILDREN’S CORNER: BRIEF PIANO PIECES First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Pamela McClain is organist at First Congregational UCC Church in Albuquerque, a vocal coach and accompanist.

She performs various classical pieces, and a freewill offering for the recital fund will be received. For more info call 982-8544, ext. 16.

5:30-6:15 pm, free CONTROLLED BURN El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n' blues.

9-11 pm, $5 DK AND THE AFFORDABLES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Southwestern Rock n' Roll 8:30 pm, free DANA SMITH Upper Crust Pizza (Eldorado) 5 Colina Drive, 471-1111 Original country-tinged folk songs.

6-9 pm, free DESTRUCTO Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Electronic music producer, 21+.

9 pm-2 am, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND BOB FINNIE Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, originals and pop with vocals too. Doug opens, with Bob at 8pm.

6-10 pm, free HALF BROKE HORSES Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Americana, honky-tonk 'n' swing.

6-9 pm, free JJ RASCHEL AND THE MYSTIC ROOTS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Positive reggae and blues.

8 pm, free JESSE LAZCANO Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar (Apothecary) 133 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 Classical, jazz and contemporary.

7-9 pm, free LORI OTTINO AND ERIK SAWYER Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Local Americana on the deck.

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Wake’s Words A beloved New Mexico rapper leaves behind messages of self-love

BY ALICIA INEZ GUZMÁN a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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ake Self’s album would be titled Ready to Live, a 25-years-in-the-future counter to Notorious B.I.G.’s 1994 classic Ready to Die. In hindsight, that album was an ominous kind of foreshadowing, a confessional and a glimpse into ’90s New York through B.I.G.’s prism. Here, he dwelled in extremes, in the whatcould-have-beens, as much as the cutting realities of the street. Either you were “slinging crack rock or had a wicked jump shot.” You feared for your life or others feared you. The scantiness of the slums could quickly turn into the excess of success and back again. B.I.G. was both the storyteller and the protagonist in this vision, and he had nothing to lose.

B.I.G. didn’t or couldn’t have made much room for hope in his bars. But Wake did, and that’s why I think the album title, both a nod to one of rap’s greats and a call to the future, rang true.

Where Ready to Die captured the loss of agency that results from circular systems of violence, Ready to Live is about electing the path of optimism, self-love and rising up, despite, or perhaps because of, the structures of inequity that Wake so eloquently and critically rapped about in his music.

I first met Wake over a cup of tea at Satellite Coffee in Albuquerque, close to where he lived at the time. He was wearing a pastel pink windbreaker and a matching “dad hat.” I laughed because my hoodie was the same color, making us oddly coordinated strangers in a sea of caffeinated UNM students. He cleared his throat and introduced himself. “My name is Wake Self.

Government name Andrew Martinez.

I’m from Fort Wingate, New Mexico, and Albuquerque. Mainly, I come home from traveling from shows all over the world

and when I’m home I just make music.”

When I asked him how he became a rapper, his response was typical of the kind of conversations we’d later have—poetic and earnest to the point of philosophical.

He said, “Everybody’s into music.

We’re made out of music. We’re born on beat.”

He went on to say it began with writing poetry as a “secret pleasure” in junior high.

“I had a secret folder that I would put rap songs in and then I would hide it away in this box,” he said. “And then some people started encouraging me to rap in public.”

That conversation was eventually edited down and printed in a feature highlighting a swath of New Mexico’s musicians in the May issue of New Mexico Magazine, where I work as senior editor.

Ready to Live, Wake told me a month ago over text, would drop either Nov. 15 or 22, a week or two after his Nov. 7 album release party at Meow Wolf. He said it “was a hundred times better than the last album” from three years ago and had asked if I might help hype it in print.

personal triumphs and a belief that a higher power inhabited all of us, were intertwined.

Unlike in B.I.G.’s realm of feast or famine, where extremes were mutually exclusive, Wake said he didn’t frame the world in the zero-sum terms we’re often conditioned to think in.

“Duality isn’t the only state of existence,” he said.

There was always that grey, that place in the Venn diagram where all things could overlap regardless of whether they were in contradiction. “The world,” he told me, “is fucked up—but the world is also beautiful.”

-Wake Self Both the fuckedupness and the beauty coexist on the album. And though I still needed more time with Ready to Live He was new to Santa Fe, having recently when we met to talk about it later, I knew moved from Albuquerque. “Of course,” I it was incredible. told him and soon got a Dropbox link with In many ways, Wake broke the mold the just-mixed album for a first listen. for a rapper. He wrote a song titled From the opening title “FTP,” a lyri- “Malala” about respecting women becal but hard-hitting meditation on police fore the #MeToo movement and recogviolence, and “Only You,” an energetic, nized the LGBTQ, Indigenous and Black danceable tribute to a lover, to “GOD,” an communities in his raps. More than that, ode to finding godliness among the most he was a disciplined vegan who avoided marginalized, I heard Wake’s testament all processed food and grains, attributing to a life where love and pain, social ills, the decision to having lived in welfare

Everybody’s into

music. We’re made out of music. We’re born on beat.

housing where the bad water quality made him ill as a baby.

“Bacteria got into my body. I got sick at 6 months old for three to four months.

It messed up my stomach,” he said.

“Food affects you. Whatever you ingest musically and physically does. Now, I’m just aware of everything I take in on all levels. My name makes sense.”

As I look back, Wake’s messages reflected both light and dark. But light, he said, “means more” when it’s born from authenticity, from a life in which you’ve had baggage but you don’t let it weigh you down, “because life’s already a trip.” His optimism wasn’t saccharine. It was real. And it was needed, making his death in a Santa Fe car crash last week feel so deeply unjust. It was a profound loss for the community near and far, and like others, all I could feel was that mix of anger and melancholy and helplessness.

I have to think that as Wake joins the ancestors, his words and his recordings carry him forward in a different way, like an echo or a prayer that continues to be received as long as we want or need to hear it. A release date for Ready to Live is unknown for now.

“The truth,” Wake said, “doesn’t have an expiration date. It wants to be discovered. We use these creative forces to allow it to be expressed. Then it can time travel. It can span generations.”

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n my 20s, I always imagined that if I had kids, I would raise them in a collective. Over the years these dreams took on various forms: an intentional community with yurts and goats and one central kitchen; an anarchist collective house in Oakland; a communal farm in New York. I never planned to raise kids in a nuclear family.

I grew up in a nuclear family, and it was an isolating, frequently toxic place. Given, our family had some extra challenges, like severe alcoholism, Reaganite Republicans and chronic illness, but still—the basic structure seemed insufficient. My grandparents and cousins were people I saw once or twice a year. I didn’t really know them. We had few family friends.

My parents and I were an island. A very lonely island.

Because my relationships with my family of origin were so strained, they were never part of my childrearing plan.

My mom died early and my dad peace’d out of my life for several years, so my plan involved chosen family. People who shared my values and were freaky and creative in all the important ways. It was going to be beautiful, intentional, revolutionary and whole.

Except it didn’t work out that way.

By the time I’d done enough healing to even think about kids, I was in my late 30s, and most of my people had moved away, coupled up or become embedded in careers. We weren’t living in collective houses anymore and most of our land projects had gone bust. Many of our polyamorous relationships had detonated.

We were old enough to care a lot more if we had things like health insurance and a car that runs.

So I found myself marrying someone amazing, buying a house, and starting a super-gay nuclear family. It’s so beautiful.

And it’s so hard. My kid’s a perfect little wonder and a rambunctious toddler with a fledgling immune system and many needs. Like all kids, she’s a lot, and we need more hands on deck. We need breaks from parenting. Our families live thousands of miles away. We have wonderful friends who help out for a couple hours when they can, for which we are so grateful, but it’s not the same as having family who want to spend time developing a deep relationship with a little person, and who you don’t feel guilty about leaning on when things get rough.

I recently attended a conference on early childhood trauma where the keynote speaker, Bruce Perry, helped provide some much-needed perspective.

Perry kept mentioning that the brain of a young child did not evolve to have only one or two parents. He insisted our brains evolved to have four adult caretakers for each child under the age of 5. Four!

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That sounds like heaven, except it’s not so abstract and dreamy a concept as heaven. It’s very concrete and reasonable: Tiny humans are a lot of work and thrive when surrounded by tons of love and attention. It’s too much for one or two people.

I can’t help wondering what it might have been like for me, as someone growing up in a stressful and isolated home, to have extra caretakers in my life.

I think it would have been more profound than I can fully imagine, and I want that for my daughter.

The day I heard this talk, my daughter was home sick with my wife. We’d completed stressful negotiations over who’d take the day off work, and she lost, because I’d already used up all my time off during the previous weeks when my daughter (and everyone else in the family) kept catching whatever bugs were going around daycare. No third or fourth caretaker was available. So we were haggling and I was wondering, “Will I lose my job if I stay home with my daughter or should I just quit and stop trying to work full time? Except ... money? My mental health? The mortgage? Maybe we should just move into a van or move to Florida to be near the grandparents or emigrate to some Scandinavian country that cares about families?”

Because raising kids in America is a setup. Our culture, our economy, our government and our workplaces aren’t designed to support families.

American notions of “family values” are most concerned with conformity and supporting the straight, white and affluent—preferably Christians—in policing things like abortion. American “family values” have nothing to do with supporting actual children after they’re born with basic needs like healthcare, childcare, adequate parental leave and food. These values aren’t interested in families who have any kind of marginalized identity. God forbid parents are single, or queer or brown. God forbid anyone needs income assistance or student loan forgiveness. We should all be pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps, right? We’re all on equal footing, right?

The other thing Bruce Perry said is that the basic unit of human survival is not the individual, it’s the clan. It strikes me, however, that capitalism thrives on eroded kinship networks and alienated individuals. Thrives, as in makes profits.

So many families living under capitalism are not thriving. The burden shouldn’t be on each individual household to figure out how to survive. How do we rebuild our clans and kinship networks? How do we lean into our interdependence? How do we dream and mobilize a very different collective future for ourselves and our kids?

Necessary Magic is a semi-regular column wherein writer and artist Jacks McNamara explores queer issues, liberatory politics, magical creatures and other relevant topics.

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NORTH BY NORTH; JESSIE DELUXE; VONNIE KYLE Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Rock 'n' roll.

8-11 pm, free RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar.

7 pm, free SERENATA IN SITE: RIFFS AND DIGRESSIONS SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 Jenny Lin plays a selection from Mompou, Ligeti, Silvestri and Liszt titled "Silenced Music" on piano.

5:30 pm, $20-$30 STEPHANIE HATFIELD Honeymoon Brewery Solana Center, 907 W Alameda St., Ste. B, 303-3139 Acoustic, emotional singer-songwriter.

7 pm, free STORMY WEATHER Unitarian Church of Los Alamos 1738 N. Sage St., Los Alamos Coro de Cámara chamber chorus kicks off its 30th anniversary season showcasing hits from three iconic jazz singers, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan.

7 pm, $10-$20 THE GRUVE Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Soul and R&B. 9-11:59 pm, free THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Swinging jazz.

7:30 pm, free

THEATER BENCHWARMERS Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 The 18th year of short plays written, directed and performed by Santa Feans, all featuring only one set piece: a park bench. Act I is family-friendly, but Act II is for mature audiences, so bring a sitter (see Acting Out, page 31).

7:30 pm, $15-$25 FROZEN James A Little Theatre 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429 Ah yes, just when you thought you could let it go ... the hit Disney animated musical hits the live stage.

7-8:30 pm, $8-$12

WORKSHOP EMPATH, SENSITIVE OR SPONGE? Prana Blessings 1925 Rosina St., Ste. C, 772-0171 Puzzled over how to take care of your sensitivities? Want to avoid being "drained" by others? Learn tools for clarity, protection, boundaries and trust. Bring your stories of sensitivity and empathy to share.

6:30-8:30 pm, $20

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FAMILY CAREGIVER SUPPORT ROUNDTABLE Santa Fe Business Incubator 3900 Paseo del Sol, 424-1140 Caregiving can be a 24-hour, 7-day-per-week job. Do you have the support you need?

Presentations by four speakers review ways to assist family caregivers in managing these roles and provide tips on how to balance the many responsibilities of being a caregiver.

10 am-noon, free

SAT/16 ART OPENINGS GERMINATION Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery 614 Agua Fría St., 928-308-0319 Rev AWL Jones, a.k.a. Aaron Jones, presents a new solo exhibit of post-dystopian art, with a live musical performance by DIEVOLVE. 5-9 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES ARNOLDI & ARNOLDI: ARTISTS' TALK Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 554 S Guadalupe St., 989-8688 Father-daughter artist duo whose exhibit opened on Friday discusses their work with Rani Singh, director of special projects at Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills.

3-4 pm, free FOUNDING SETTLEMENTS ALONG THE CAMINO REAL, 1598-1609 San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-3974 Southwestern historian and author Joseph P Sanchez, founding director of the Spanish Colonial Research Center at UNM, presents on the early Camino Real settlements of San Juan de los Caballeros, San Gabriel, Santa Fe and Barrio de Analco.

2-3 pm, $10 MARILYN O'LEARY: HOW TO BE A WIDOW Shelby House 220 Shelby St., 216-0836 O'Leary gives her personal account of what life is like after losing a companion of 50 years.

2 pm, free NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH SUPPORT GROUP Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 Meet with fellow aspiring novelists, find resources and get inspired to finish your 50,000 words before Nov. 30.

10:30 am-1 pm, free TERROR ON THE SANTA FE TRAIL; KIT CARSON AND THE JICARILLA APACHE Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 A presentation by author Doug Hocking, sponsored by the Santa Fe Trail Association.

1:30-3 pm, free

TR LAWRENCE: LAWRENCE OF MARRAKECH Travel Bug Coffee Shop 839 Paseo de Peralta, 992-0418 The author discusses his adventures in Morocco.

2 pm, free THE COLOR WOODCUTS OF GUSTAVE BAUMANN: A CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Gala Chamberlain presents her new book of Baumann's work, along with a panel discussion and book signing.

1-4 pm, $10

DANCE A QUEST FOR FREEDOM Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 A music and dance collaboration between the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company and the world-renowned Ahn Trio.

7:30 pm, $49-$75 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Experience the National Institute of Flamenco's worldfamous dinner show.

Reservations required.

6:30-9 pm, $30

EVENTS 11TH ANNUAL CRANKSGIVING SANTA FE Back Road Pizza 1807 Second St., 955-9055 A food drive on two wheels. Bring a bike, a bag, a lock and $15-$20 to buy food. Navigate city streets, urban trails and store aisles to find the specific ingredients for this year's holiday meal. All food collected benefits the Food Depot.

For more information or to RSVP, go to: facebook.com/ CranksgivingSantaFe (see SFR Picks, page 19).

10 am-2 pm, free 21ST ANNUAL RECYCLE SANTA FE ART FESTIVAL Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W Marcy St., 955-6590 This year's iteration promises to be the first zero-waste event hosted at the convention center and features upcycled art from over 90 artists (see SFR Picks, page 19).

9 am-5 pm, $15-$20 EL MERCADO DE MUSEO El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Over 60 vendors with art, jewelry, books, furniture, antiques, rugs and much more.

8 am-4 pm, free ELDORADO CANNED FOOD LABYRINTH Agora Center 7 Avenida Vista Grande, Eldorado, 466-2603 Purchase extra canned foods as you shop. On your way out, place donations along the chalk labyrinth. All donations will be delivered to Bienvenidos Food Bank.

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HOLIDAY ARTS & CRAFTS SALE Santa Fe County Fairgrounds 3229 Rodeo Road 87507 The Extension Homemakers of Santa Fe County holds a sale with over 30 vendors. A portion of the proceeds go to scholarships for the youth of Santa Fe. 10 am-3 pm, free LOCAL CARTOONIST ALEC LONGSTRETH Big Adventure Comics 418 Montezuma Ave., 992-8783 Longstreth signs copies of his new middle school comic, Isle of Elsi, and draws dragons with interested folks of all ages.

1-4 pm, free SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET Santa Fe Railyard Market Street at Alcaldesa Street, 310-8766 Find pottery, paintings, photography, jewelry, sculpture, furniture, textiles and more.

8 am-2 pm, free SKI SWAP Genoveva Chavez Community Center 3221 W Rodeo Road, 955-4000 Support the Santa Fe Ski Team and gear up for the season while you’re at it. The annual ski swap features new gear at deep discounts and offers plenty of great deals on used items.

9 am- 5pm,free THE POETRY CIRCUS IS BACK IN TOWN Evoke Contemporary 550 S. Guadalupe St., 995-9902 Anne MacNaughton, co-founder of the iconic Taos Poetry Circus, performs with Pojoaque surrealist poet John Knoll.

2 pm, free WELLS PETROGLYPH PRESERVE PUBLIC TOURS Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project 1431 Hwy. 68, Velarde, 852-1351 Pre-register for a two-hour tour of part of the preserve, featuring petroglyphs from the Archaic, Ancestral Puebloan and Historic Period. Visit mesaprietapetroglyphs.org for info and to reserve a spot.

9:30-11:30 am, $35

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

5:30 pm, free SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-7726 Fresh produce and crafts from over 150 Northern New Mexico growers and craftspeople.

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THE CALENDAR MUSIC BILL HEARNE TRIO Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Americana and honky-tonk.

6-9 pm, free BLEEP BLOOP Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Stripped back, bass-heavy beats paired with stark, surreal soundscapes. 21+.

9 pm-2 am, $18-$22 BLUE RHAPSODY Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar (Apothecary) 133 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 R&B, jazz and soul tunes.

7-9 pm, free CANDYMAN Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Acoustic jams.

11:30 am-12:30 pm, free CASEY MRAZ AND LOS METAMORFOS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Blues, Americana and jazz.

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

6 pm, free CRAWFISH BOYZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 New Orleans-flavored jazz.

7:30 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND BOB FINNIE Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, originals and pop with vocals. Doug opens, with Bob at 8pm.

6-10 pm, free FELIX Y LOS GATOS Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Zydeco-Tejano jazz blues.

10 pm-1:30 am, free HALF A SHIPWRECK Honeymoon Brewery Solana Center, 907 W Alameda St., Ste. B, 303-3139 Back-porch apocalypse rock with a side of holy matrimony.

6-9 pm, free HIP POCKET Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Rock n' roll.

5-8 pm, free NOSOTROS Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Latin rock n' roll.

9-11:59 pm, free PORTLAND CELLO PROJECT New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Portland's premiere altclassical group brings a huge orchestral ensemble to perform a night in homage to Radiohead including a performance of selections from Ok Computer.

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RON CROWDER BAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Crowder appears with local lineup of musicians to play his original rock 'n' roll.

8:30 pm, free RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar.

7 pm, free SANTA FE BLUES DIVAS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Blues from Julie Stewart, Mary Evans and Paula McDonald—plus a backup band featuring a who's-who of Santa Fe musicians.

9-11 pm, $5 STORMY WEATHER Paradiso 903 Early St Coro de Cámara chamber chorus kicks off its 30th anniversary season showcasing hits from three iconic jazz singers, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan.

6:30 pm, $10-$20 SUSAN GABRIEL Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Singer/songwriter on multiple instruments including lute, ukulele and percussion.

7-9 pm, free THE BARBED WIRES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Soulful blues on the deck.

5 pm, free THE HOLLYCOCKS Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Alternative country and desert rock.

8 pm, $5 THE MATCHSELLERS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Wild bluegrass.

1 pm, free THE QUIET ONES MEET THE GAS MEN GiG Performance Space 1808 Second St. Irish traditional music.

7:30 pm, $22

FROZEN James A Little Theatre 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429 Ah yes, just when you thought you could let it go ... the hit Disney animated musical hits the live stage.

2 pm, $8-$12 OLIVER TWIST Santa Fe Public Library, LaFarge Branch 1730 Llano St., 955-4860 Dickens’ classic tale about the young orphan, Oliver, who overcomes great hardships in Victorian London during his coming-of-age.

1-2 pm, free PUSS IN BOOTS / EL GATO CON BOTAS Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Local playwright Rebecca Morgan, with the help of JoJo Sena de Tarnoff and Paola Martini, has put a Latinx twist on the favorite French fairy tale, featuring an alladult professional cast in the major roles with smaller roles played by folks from Teatro's children's program.

6 pm, $5-$10

WORKSHOP OPEN STUDIO Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 An all-ages choice-based art studio. Skip the line, come directly to the David Loughridge Learning Center and make art at different stations, find new friends and take some time to chill out in this low-stimulation environment.

10 am-4 pm, free PROSE AND POETRY IN THE PARK Bandelier National Monument 15 Entrance Road, Los Alamos,, 672-3861 Artist-in-Residence Judy Mosher leads writers through Frijoles Canyon to generate material and inspiration. Bring writing materials and snacks.

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 The delightful, timeless tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and his assistant. Through visits from the spirits of time, Scrooge learns the true meaning of Christmas.

4-5 pm, free BENCHWARMERS Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 The 18th year of short plays written, directed and performed

by Santa Feans, all featuring only one set piece: a park bench. Act I is family-friendly, but Act II is for mature audiences, so bring a sitter (see Acting Out, page 31).

7:30 pm, $15-$25

BL VOORHEES: HOLLOW FORTRESS Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Join the author for a talk on myth, art and his latest book, the first in a series that draw from his special forces background as well as his insights into the nature of the human soul.

4 pm, $5-$25 DAGMAR LLEWELLYN ON CLIMATE CHANGE Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 JourneySantaFe presents Llewellyn, a hydrologist with an educational background in geosciences and civil engineering. She is in conversation with Hannah Riseley-White, Pecos River Basin manager.

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Found Space One woman’s journey from a 9-5 grind to creating what she loves full-time

BY COLE REHBEIN c o l e @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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anell Langford and I will make one thing clear at the beginning of this week’s column: Santa Fe is a space for black women, the art world as a whole is a space for black women and black women will be seen and celebrated.

This is the premise behind Langford’s fashion and design line Obsidiopolis (obsidiopolis.com), which launched in 2017 and recently partnered with Meow Wolf to help distribute clothing and print designs. Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, Langford first moved to Seattle and was studying graphic design, where things felt off.

“I wasn’t observing the aesthetic most inspiring to me, which is black women,” she tells SFR. “I think especially a lot of black and brown people can relate to this— you go off to school, or it’s just where you live, the option to move to a more diverse area isn’t something that’s on the table, and we find ourselves, kind of in a funk … and so for me, if I don’t see what I want to see around me, it’s my job to create. I’m a creator.”

After completing her program, she was grinding away at a 9-5 in production design, and “it was not a creative job at all,” she says. She would go home at night to draw and to create her new world.

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we don’t just want to be stuck in a rut,” Langford says.

So what is Obsidiopolis?

“It’s a through-the-looking-glass utopia world inhabited by women of color and it’s a vision that is unapologetically femme, and black, and urban, and pop and fashionable,” Langford explains.

In a recent presser, Meow Wolf described it as a “design universe” which manifests in various media, including sweaters, cards, posters, photography and (the manifestation this author is most looking forward to) a comic book, slated for release in March. Langford tries to stay tight-lipped, but she’s in love with her work and I’m curious about what she plans for the longer format, so she spills some deets.

Her designs are eminently pleasing to view, a mix of pop art and surrealism and soft explosions of color.

“I intentionally chose bright colors because I want people to feel positive vibes when they look at my work,” she says.

Langford paused carefully before choosing to say “positive vibes,” and it’s not a cheap New Age-y sentiment. Each illustration is a moment in reality, expressed through Langford’s particular eye toward unique patterns, textures and forms.

“I’m definitely inspired by … Kerry James Marshall … when you look at his work, you felt the experience of that person, he took you to an era or a place in time … and honestly I just kind of see these images, [they] pop into my head and I need to release them out into the world.”

A lifelong illustrator, Langford recounts an early example of creating black woman-led spaces in her own family, when her nieces saw her drawing a character with an afro.

“One of my nieces said, ‘why don’t you draw them to look like this … white woman?’ I didn’t have the language at the time, but I remember being really sad. I wanted to draw people that I found to be the most beautiful, and my black niece is looking at this image of a white woman, and thinking that is the translation of

Janell Langford’s illustrations often include the things she wants most to see: coffee, cats, cacti, and, above all, black women.

what beauty should be and what I should be drawing.”

These days, the nieces are in high school, and “They love [my art],” Langford says. “They were very young” when that incident happened, but they also weren’t seeing enough art from creative black women like Langford being centered and allowed the space it deserves.

Now, that’s changing with a little support from Meow Wolf. Langford has worked with the arts corporation before, most notably on the mural “Player One” in the arcade at the House of Eternal Return. It brought her on to produce her comic book, and then offered her full-time work under the Obsidiopolis line.

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My goal with Obsidiopolis … is about seeing underrepresented voices—women, LGBTQIA, black and brown people—and Meow Wolf knows that. That’s why they hired me in the first place,” Langford says.

Such support will come in the form of greater production and distribution capabilities, plus help handling the business aspects of being an artist.

Oh, and that comic book coming in March?

“There’s actually gonna be, for real, black girl magic,” Langford says.

Think a colorful planet made of obsidian, a confident, mysterious pop star and maybe even “sort of an avatar of myself,” Langford hints. For now, find her designs in the Meow Wolf shop or online.

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THE CALENDAR EVA SCHLOSS, STEPSISTER TO ANNE FRANK Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Schloss shares her experiences from growing up with Frank and discusses the process of publishing her diary.

1 pm, $20-$90 EVOLUTION DIVERTED: HOW AN ALTERED GENETIC ORIGIN IS DRIVING US TO SELF-DESTRUCT Unitarian Universalist Congregation 107 W Barcelona Road, 982-9674 This book connects the origin of our species to our troubled reality through the ages, utilizing humanity’s oldest recorded tales to do so.

Solutions for future problems are drawn from this look back.

2-3:30 pm, free INDIVIDUAL POLITICAL RESPONSIBILITY IN OUR (DISTURBING) TIME Unitarian Universalist Congregation 107 W Barcelona Road, 982-9674 The UU Freethinker's discussion group talks about political responsibility.

8:30 am, free JENNIFER G EDELSON: BETWEEN WILD & RUIN op.cit Books DeVargas Center, 157 Paseo de Peralta, 428-0321 Edelson reads from her young adult novel of romance, legends and the supernatural, set in a fictional town in New Mexico.

2 pm, free MEDITATION AND MODERN BUDDHISM Zoetic 230 St. Francis Drive, 292-5293 How to develop pure, unconditional love by meditating on Buddha’s surprising and practical wisdom. Sponsored by the Kadampa Meditation Center New Mexico.

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PLACITAS HOLIDAY Fine Arts & Crafts Sale November 23–24 • Sat 10–5, Sun 10–4:30 80 Artists Las Huertas Winery at 3 Sites The Big Tent (east of Presbyterian Church) Placitas Elementary School

preview all 80 artists at www.PlacitasHolidaySale.com The Placitas Holiday Fine Arts and Crafts Sale is sponsored by the Placitas MountainCraft and Soiree Society, a 501-c3 nonprofit organization.

21ST ANNUAL RECYCLE SANTA FE ART FESTIVAL Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W Marcy St., 955-6590 This year's iteration promises to be the first zero-waste event hosted at the convention center and features upcycled art from over 90 artists (see SFR Picks, page 19).

10 am-5 pm, $15-$20 EL MERCADO DE MUSEO El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Over 60 vendors with art, jewelry, books, furniture, antiques, rugs and much more.

10 am-4 pm, free RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-7726 Pottery, painting, jewelry, sculpture, fiber arts, photography, hand-blown glass, artisanal teas and body products right from the source. 10 am-4 pm, free

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SFAI POP-UP PRINT SALE Santa Fe Art Institute 1600 St. Michael’s Dr., 424-5050 Support 10 New Mexico-based artists and get holiday gifts at the same time: letterpress posters, holiday cards, handmade prints, original works and affordable gifts—all oneof-a-kind and custom printed (see SFR Picks, page 19).

12-5 pm, free

FILM LIVING TRADITIONS: FOLK ART OF NEW MEXICO Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 A documentary film by Michael Pettit which explores the National Heritage Fellows of New Mexico, with a discussion by the director and select fellows.

2-4 pm, free

MUSIC BORIS AND FRIENDS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana.

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

6:30 pm, free INANIMATE EXISTENCE Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Progressive and technical death metal.

7 pm, $15 JAY HENEGHAN PROJECT Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Jazzy blues.

11:30 am-3 pm, free JIM ALMAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock, blues and folk on guitar, harmonica and vocals.

8 pm, free STORMY WEATHER Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church 3900 Trinity Drive, Los Alamos Coro de Cámara chamber chorus kicks off its 30th anniversary season showcasing hits from three iconic jazz singers, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan.

3 pm, $20 THE HIGH DESERT PLAYBOYS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Country western on the deck.

3 pm, free TRUCK STOP KILLERS Beer Creek Brewing Company 3810 Hwy. 14, 471-9271 Classic rock and blues covers.

3-5:30 pm, free

THEATER 7 AGES OF (WO)MAN, A CELEBRATION OF SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Eleven New Mexican actresses tackle speeches and scenes from the Bard's plays.

7 pm, $10-$25 A CHRISTMAS CAROL Santa Fe Public Library, Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 The delightful tale of the miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, and his clerk, Bob Cratchit.

Through visits from the spirits of time, Scrooge learns the true meaning of Christmas.

1:30-2:30 pm, free BENCHWARMERS Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 The 18th year of short plays written, directed and performed

by Santa Feans, all featuring only one set piece: a park bench. Act I is family-friendly, but Act II is for mature audiences, so bring a sitter (see Acting Out, page 31).

2 pm, $15-$25 FROZEN James A Little Theatre 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429 Ah yes, just when you thought you could let it go ... the hit Disney animated musical arrives to the live stage.

2 pm, $8-$12 PUSS IN BOOTS / EL GATO CON BOTAS Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Local playwright Rebecca Morgan, with the help of JoJo Sena de Tarnoff and Paola Martini, has put a Latinx twist on the favorite French fairy tale, featuring an alladult professional cast in the major roles with smaller roles played by folks from Teatro's children's program.

2 pm, $5-$10

WORKSHOP ANIMAL TOTEM ART WORKSHOP Santa Fe Oxygen & Healing Bar (Kaverns) 137 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 Explore personal animal totems and guides by learning about their symbols and making art.

6-8 pm, $40

MON/18 BOOKS/LECTURES MONDAY STORY TIME Bee Hive Kid's Books 328 Montezuma Ave, 780-8051 All ages are invited.

10:30 am, free NATIVE PLANT DIVERSITY IN NEW MEXICO Santa Fe Woman's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail., 983-9455 At the monthly meeting of the Woman's Club, botanist Bob Sivinsky speaks. Lunch included.

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Doing the Time Warp A taste of history at Legal Tender Saloon & Eating House

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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ometimes eating isn’t as much about the food as it is about the experience. There are places one can sit and feel, almost through osmosis, the history of a place—the dramas, dreams and disappointments of those who have walked through its doors. The Legal Tender Saloon and Eating House in Lamy is just that sort of place.

Home to the closest national train stop to Santa Fe, Lamy was once one of the main gateways to the exotic American Southwest. Entrepreneur Fred Harvey took advantage, setting up one of his many Harvey Houses to provide weary travelers with options for food, rest and souvenir shopping. At its peak, Harvey’s hospitality empire consisted of 84 Harvey Houses, but that was a long time ago and, over the years, many of these now historic buildings have fallen into ruin.

Thanks to modern day entrepreneurs such as Allan Affeldt, their history is being reclaimed. Affeldt, along with wife Tina Mion, is well-known for his restorations of Harvey’s classic railroad hotels including La Posada, an 80,000-square-foot historic hotel in Winslow, AZ and the recently reopened Castañeda Hotel in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Affelt’s latest passion project is the Legal Tender Saloon & Eating House (151 Old Lamy Trail, Lamy, 466-1650).

Originally constructed in 1881, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006, and has been used on and off as a restaurant over the

years. Affeldt, in partnership with Murphy O’Brien, who also owns Cafe Fina, now have the Legal Tender’s doors once again open for patronage on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights from 5:30-9 pm.

On a recent Friday night, old Lamy was newly abustle with action, cars jockeying for slots in the packed parking lots of the Legal Tender and the adjacent Lamy Train Depot. Still a working Amtrak station, the Depot also houses a Chili Line Brewing taproom, Harvey’s Cafe and El Ortiz Gallery.

My friend and I hus2 tled through the cold night and into the front entrance of Legal Tender. We were transported immediately to another place and time.

Wide-eyed, we took in the impressive oak bar that dominates the bar room. Imported from Germany in 1884, it’s a true masterpiece of fine craftsmanship that sets the tone for the dining experience; you almost expect a time portal to suddenly whirl around you and pop you out in a saloon with lively music, dusty adventurers and curvy Harvey girls.

The menu at the Legal Tender also harkened back to those olden days, purposefully compact and reflecting the traditional options of a typical Harvey House stop—unfinicky dishes highlighting regional American cuisines. The bar menu has just six wines, one sparkling, six draft beers and four old-school “fortified beverages,” aka cocktails. Asked whether it was possible to order an off-menu cocktail, our server seemed a bit taken aback. It was just a Manhattan, but he said he’d need

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1. Sautéed carrots with mint 2. Poached shrimp roll 3. Polenta 4. Onion rings

to ask the bar if they knew how to make one. We got a giggle out of that as we had noted upon entry that the bar was staffed by some of the area’s more experienced mixologists.

As we waited for our cocktails, a man

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stopped by our table and recommended we try the pan-fried chicken liver with onions ($10) and the pecan smoked ribs ($12). I’m not a liver and onions girl, but the pleasant smell of BBQ that permeated the dining room was enough to know those were likely worth the recommendation. Nevertheless, he had us at his third suggestion, the onion rings, claiming theirs were the best he’d ever had. “And I’m old, so I know what I’m talking about,” he added.

We started with the corn chowder ($9) and wedge salad ($10). The chowder was solid, rich and nicely seasoned and with a healthy dose of chewy potatoes and crunchy, fresh corn. I knew it was fresh because here and there also appeared a fine thread of cornsilk to remind me.

The wedge salad was as expected, a full quarter head of crispy iceberg lettuce topped with an extremely generous pour of dressing, in 3 this case a garlicky green goddess, offered in place of odiferous blue cheese.

The onion rings ($6) were served shoestring-style with a salty, crispy batter and tangy chipotle ketchup; we kept revisiting them even after we were full. To balance those out with something healthy we opted for the sautéed carrots with mint ($6) along with a creamy polenta ($8). Neither was a spectacular preparation, the carrots a bit overcooked, the polenta pedestrian.

The poached shrimp roll ($16), on the other hand, was an interesting choice.

How bread can stay crispy when cradling a hefty load of beautifully butter-poached shrimp is beyond me, but somehow it did.

The accompanying slaw wasn’t much on its own but was a nice companion to the tender shrimp, adding texture and mellowing the copious amount of rich butter.

Overall, a meal at the Legal Tender is absolutely worth the short jaunt out to Lamy. It is history come to life; good food for the eyes, imagination and, of course, belly.

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ROCK ART OF SOUTHEAST UTAH Santa Fe Woman's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail., 983-9455 Shanna Diederichs, architectural conservator and archaeologist with Wood Canyon Archaeological Consultants discusses the Anthropomorphic Rock Art Project in Abajo Mountain Canyons.

6 pm, $15

EVENTS ART WALKING TOUR New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Guided by museum volunteers, an hour-long tour highlights the art and architectural history of downtown Santa Fe. Meet at the gift shop. Children 18 and under are free; proceeds support education programs at the New Mexico Museum of Art. Call the front desk to confirm availability: 505-476-5063.

10 am, $10 GRATITUDE AS THE DOORWAY TO FEMININE POWER Montezuma Lodge 431 Paseo de Peralta, 670-3068 For this monthly meeting of The Transition Network, Kate Dow, local author, psychologist and coach, speaks on the power of gratitude and how it leads us to an empowered perspective of life’s choices. Women 50 and forward welcome.

5:45-7:30 pm, $5 SANTA FE INDIVISIBLE MEETING Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Join the politically progressive group for occasional guest speakers, discussing your concerns, and group activism.

Newcomers are always welcome, so go fight the good fight.

7 pm, free

FILM GREAT ART ON SCREEN: THE PRADO MUSEUM Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 In celebration of the museum's 200th anniversary, this cinematic journey explores the artistic story of Spain and the world kept within the Prado's walls.

7 pm, $15

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

6-9 pm, free CASEY ANDERSEN AND MOHIT DUBEY Dinner for Two 106 N Guadalupe St., 820-2075 Classical and jazz guitar.

6 pm, free

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

9 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 VETIVER Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Multi-genre singer/songwriter.

8-11 pm, $22-$24

THEATER 7 AGES OF (WO)MAN, A CELEBRATION OF SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 11 New Mexican actresses tackle the greatest female speeches and scenes from the Bard's plays.

7 pm, $10-$25

TUE/19 ART OPENINGS HOLIDAY MARKET OPENING AND RECEPTION International Folk Art Alliance 620 Cerrillos Road, 474-6783 The 2019 market features textiles by Hemangini Singh from the Rajasthan artist co-op, Sudarshan, and jewelry by beloved Oaxacan artist, Federico Jimenez, plus felt ornaments from Uzbekistan, hand-painted eggs from the Ukraine, intricate metalwork from Haiti, filigree jewelry from Europe, scarves from India and much more.

4-7 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES PLUTONIUM—IT’S THE PITS! City of Mud Gallery 1114 Hickox Street, 954-1705 Learn what you can do to help fight against Los Alamos National Lab's expanded plutonium pit production with presentations by three local activists.

6-8 pm, free SID BALMAN: SEVENTH FLAG Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Pulitzer nominee Balman discusses a new work of historical fiction which imagines a radicalized world and the plight of Americans establishing themselves in the West Texas desert.

6 pm, free

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

7:30 pm, $5

EVENTS SANTA FE INDIVISIBLE MEETING Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Join the politically progressive group to put into action the planning you did last night. Divide and conquer!

Newcomers are always welcome, so go fight the good fight.

9 am, free

FOOD SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-7726 Not only the place to see and be seen in Santa Fe, this is one of the oldest, largest and most successful growers’ markets in the country.

Serving more than 150 farmers and producers in 15 Northern New Mexico counties, the market brings fresh food, education and fun to our community and promotes small farms and sustainable agriculture in Northern New Mexico. Get a snack, hear some music, see some friends and stock up on locavore delights.

8 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC 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 CURRY SPRINGER DUO Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Acoustic rock n' roll.

6-9 pm, free DAVID WOOD AND GOLDEN GENERAL Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Wood starts with piano and vocal covers, with Golden General taking over with indie rock originals at 8:30 pm.

6:30-8:30 pm, free ERIN HARKES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Solo acoustic.

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

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ACTING OUT Barely Legal hort play festivals are a bit of an enigma. Are they new? Are they old?

Are they innovative? Are they tired?

It seems like every other small theater in America has some kind of short play competition—and while the plays, by design, change every year, the notion of a bunch of short stories bound into one theatrical volume can be exhausting.

Kudos, then, to the Santa Fe Playhouse and its annual Benchwarmers presentation, which has offered eight new short plays (10 minutes long or so) every year for the last 18, but has recently made moves to keep the production fresh. While the scripts each year do range from fantastic to mediocre, these last two years have introduced a few innovations in Benchwarmers traditions.

Previously, eight plays would have eight directors and eight casts. In 2018, Playhouse folk decided that eight plays should have one director and one cast, and the company presented a fabulous offering directed by Hamilton Turner. While it didn’t sell out the run like previous iterations of Benchwarmers always did (a cast of 24 has a lot more friends and relatives to buy tickets than does a cast of eight), it resulted in a much tighter production and a more professional front.

This year, under directors Annie Liu and David Carter (who also tackle the

lighting and scenic design of the theater, respectively), the one-cast idea stayed put, with an added notion: The first half of Benchwarmers is family-friendly and appropriate for kids, while the second half gets a bit dark. For some reason, playwrights like to go to really gnarly places in their short submissions, so ensuring the first half is appropriate for everyone was a nice move.

That does, however, mean the second half of this piece is more unsettling than the first, and you don’t leave feeling buoyant.

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while I think the latter three pieces could have been rearranged to leave us headed to our cars with at least a glimmer of hope, it’s hard to avoid a sinking feeling.

The premise of Benchwarmers, of course, is that the story must revolve around a park bench. This prerequisite immediately requires thoughtful design when it comes to lights and costumes, since there isn’t much story to be told with the scenery; lighting designer Joshua Billiter typically provides audio-visual skills and here does not disappoint, lending great help to the scenes by adding depth and nuance to the tableau via the grid.

It is up to the actors, then, to do the rest. This cast is an impressive one, if a bit low-energy on preview night. There is no weak link in the group of eight, which featured mostly familiar faces with one notable newcomer: tiny Grace Yang. At 9 years old, Yang is perhaps a third the age of the next-youngest cast member, but offered twice the professionalism I’ve seen in some grown adults. Her lines were perfectly memorized, her facial expressions right on, dynamism and nuance all down pat—occasionally, volume was an issue, but it was a small price to pay to see such a young performer make so many impressive moves.

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It was wholly unsurprising to see mainstay Marguerite Louise Scott in mismatched socks, a Hawaiian shirt and pigtails to play a total goofball in DS Magid’s “Vultures in Bowling Shoes,” and she has great comedic timing—but I’ve loved seeing her in straighter, more intricate roles, which thankfully “The Full Story” by Vicki Meagher provided for her.

In another fun departure, Brett Becker, who played a largely humorless Bernard in last year’s Boeing Boeing, showed his comedic side as a stealthy furniture salesman in the best-written piece of the evening: “The Bench” by Robert Eyster.

Duchess Dale and Don Converse provide the requisite “old people” for plays about aging; there always seem to be at least two of those in Benchwarmers. I have previously theorized it was because many playwrights in town are retirees flexing their creative muscles, but one of the “old people plays” this year comes from 14-yearold Young Playwrights Project member Ariana Roybal, so what do I know?

The very last piece, Robert Butler’s “Tolly’s Burger Heaven,” busts through the 10-minute limit and clocks in at more like 25 minutes, but its cast of one speaking role (Niko’a Salas) pulled it off with finesse.

It’s not uplifting, mind you, and takes a few minutes to really get rolling, but by the time we hit that final blackout, it stands out as one of the more memorable pieces of the evening, both in writing and in performance. I sure didn’t leave feeling joyful after that one—but satisfied? Certainly.

Go check out what local playwrights have offered up this year—then, if you think you can do better, keep an eye out for next season’s submission period in May 2020.

The bench awaits.

BENCHWARMERS There’s plenty of goof to be had in this year’s Benchwarmers (like with Duchess Dale and Marguerite Louise Scott in DS Magid’s “Vultures in Bowling Shoes”), but stay tuned for the darker stuff in act two.

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THE CALENDAR PINBACK; DISHEVELED CUSS Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Hybrid of pop, folk, rock, reggae and subdued funk.

8-11:30 pm, $22-$25 VINTAGE VINYL NITE The Matador 116 W San Francisco St., 984-5050 Every Tuesday nite is Vintage Vinyl Nite at the Matador.

DJ Prairiedog and DJ Mama Goose spin the best in garage, surf, country and rockabilly till the wee hours.

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THEATER 7 AGES OF (WO)MAN, A CELEBRATION OF SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Eleven New Mexican actresses tackle female speeches and scenes from the Bard's plays.

7 pm, $10-$25 NT LIVE IN HD: HANSARD Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St, 988-1234 A new play by Simon Wood offers a witty, devastating portrait of England's governing class.

7 pm, $19-$22

NIGHTS OF GRIEF AND MYSTERY James A Little Theatre 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429 Part poetry, part lamentation, part book reading, part ribaldry, part concert, part lifting the mortal veil and learning the mysteries there ...

7-9:30 pm, $40

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CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Scott Johnson: Fissure Through Feb. 2, 2020.

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 Contemporary Voices: Jo Whaley. Through Feb. 24.

HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 Dolichovespula Maculata: Works of Paper by Dianne Frost. Through Jan. 2020.

IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Wayne Nez Gaussoin: Adobobot. Through Nov. 30. Reconciliation. Through Jan. 19. Heidi K Brandow: Unit of Measure. Through Jan. 31. Sámi Intervention/ Dáidda Gázada. Through Feb. 16.

MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART 632 Agua Fría St., 989-3283 Artworks in wax.

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Beyond Standing Rock: The Past, Present, and Future of the Water Protectors.

Through Dec. 31.

Diego Romero vs The End of Art. Through April 2020.

MUSEUM OF INT’L FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Girard’s Modern Folk.

Through Jan. 26. Gallery of Conscience: Community Through Making from Peru to New Mexico.

Through Jan. 5. Música Buena: Hispano Folk Music of New Mexico. Through March 7, 20201.

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 NM HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5019 Working on the Railroad.

Through 2021.

The Massacre of Don Pedro Villasur. Through Feb. 21.

Atomic Histories. Through Feb. 28. We the Rosies: Women at Work.

Through March 1.

NM MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Alcoves 2020 #1 #2.

Through August 2020.

Social and Sublime. Through Nov. 17. Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist.

Through Jan. 5, 2020.

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

POEH CULTURAL CENTER 78 Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3334 Di Wae Powa.

EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS 334 Los Pinos Road, 471-2261 Living history.

SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Human Nature: Explorations in Bronze.

Through May 10, 2020.

SITE SANTA FE 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 Bel Canto: Contemporary Artists Explore Opera.

Through Jan. 5, 2020.

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Remakes, reprises and late-breaking sequels seldom captivate in contemporary cinema—especially when they’re trying to follow moviemaking greats. So, imagine our chagrin when, nearly 40 years later, the second chapter of The Shining turned out to be such a delightful little house for horror.

Doctor Sleep kept us awake and not even a little annoyed, which is no small accomplishment given the letdown that came with this year’s other Stephen King title.

This one was a crafty, well-paced and well-acted bit. Although the recreated scenes from weeks after the sour end of Jack Torrance at The Overlook Hotel include Danny’s childhood complete with a Shelley Duvall look-alike mom has us at first wondering if this would be a cheesy recap, we quickly join Dan (Ewan McGreggor) as he’s all grown up and still shining, sort of. What seems to be a disconnected set

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of stories soon weaves together into a frightening garment.

Director Mike Flanagan makes a righteous effort to stand up to Stanley Kubrick with his own screenplay based on King’s book, reminding us that the scary parts get even more scary when they happen just out of sight. Fan service sinks right in with the continuity of the ghosts, the hallways and even the waterfalls of blood near the elevator from 1980. While the first chapter was so strong with gaslighting that we can still smell the fumes, however, now women rule the day.

Rebecca Ferguson’s (Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation) villainess Rose the Hat runs a

gang of soul-sucking child killers with a witchy finesse that’s creepy AF in nearly every scene, and newcomer Kyleigh Curran is believable and composed as Abra Stone, the new child wonder with psychic powers that make her a target. Abra and Danny take on a sort of crimefighting duo motif, and there’s a surprising depth of emotion in how the whole thing wraps up. Or does it?

DOCTOR SLEEP Directed by Flanagan With McGregor, Ferguson and Curran Regal (both locations), Violet Crown, R, 152 min.

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When it comes to a filmmaker like Pedro Almodóvar—a director who inserts bits and pieces of himself into practically everything he does—it can be hard to tell what’s real, what’s not and what might just be fantasy. In Pain & Glory, Almodóvar blurs the lines further, telling the story of a once-lauded writer/director named Salvador (Antonio Banderas) who, on the cusp of senior citizenship, starts to feel wistful and hopes to come to terms with the events of his life thus far.

Between chronic pain, depression and haunting memories of his past, Salvador has chosen to leave writing and filmmaking behind.

This comes with a sense of meaninglessness, but when a small theater asks him to present his most famous work as part of a film festival, Salvador sets out to make peace with its lead Alberto (Asier Etxeandia), a man he hasn’t spoken with since the film premiered three decades earlier. Alberto introduces Salvador to heroin which, for a time, calms his pain and anxieties.

But when the pair collaborates once more on a

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one-man show based on Salvador’s cinematic awakening as a youth, old friends come calling and he is faced with a dilemma he can no longer ignore.

Banderas is a revelation, a calming and dimensional if scattered presence and a man who’s lived enough to know he wants to set right the missteps of his past. The performance is a masterclass in vulnerability and buried fears dredged up again, and it’s easily one of his best. But the real magic of Pain & Glory is in its disparate timelines. Are Salvador’s flashbacks really flashbacks, or are they a grand vision for something new? Call it a midlife crisis, call it a bout of crippling nostalgia—call it what you like, but Salvador’s own salvation comes in the form of acceptance that a new chapter always comes if we let it.

One often wonders if one’s best days are behind them, and while what we learn in Pain & Glory can’t possibly quell those fears, it does provide resounding hope. Almodóvar proves his skills for the umpteenth time while coaxing one of the year’s best performances out of Banderas. The lesson is fuzzy, but there for those who look. In a simple phrase? You ain’t seen nothing yet. (Alex De Vore)

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ple rockets to the face. However, the film left me wanting more dialogue, as it was heavy with explosions and physical altercations. It feels like there is so much more to be learned about the newly revamped franchise. The backgrounds of the newly introduced characters are incredibly shallow; cyborg Grace (Mackenzie Davis) is an enticing heroine, yet we learn very little about her features as a augmented human whose sole mission is to save the young Dani.

Cameron gets a gold star for trying to retcon the Terminator universe, but pulling from the first two incredibly iconic movies doesn’t have the same feel as it did in the ’80s. Then again, if never-ending action and a Terminator that doesn’t quit with a taste of Schwarzenegger nostalgia is your cup of tea, this movie is for you.

(Cade Guerrero)

Violet Crown, Regal (both locations), R, 128 min.

JOJO RABBIT

Living up to his promise that he’d be back, Arnold Schwarzenegger rejoins Linda Hamilton for more baffling timelines and oversized guns in Terminator: Dark Fate. Oh, and it sucks.

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Is poverty inescapable? Are its symptoms self-wrought? Must the poor stoop to extreme measures just to get by, and do the wealthy have an ethical obligation to take notice and maybe do something about it? Filmmaker Bong Joon-ho (The Host) raises these and scads of other questions in his newest, Parasite, a semi-comedy, semi-dark parable examining the lengths to which one family will go to survive.

We follow Kim Ki-woo, (Choi Woo-shik), a college-aged youth who unwittingly scores a job tutoring English to the daughter of the wealthy Park family. Kim’s own family has slipped into a sort of default conman mode, and he must fake credentials in order to keep his position. Soon after, his sister (Park So-dam), mother (Jang Hye-jin) and father (Song Kang-ho, a regular Bong collaborator in films like The Host and Snowpiercer) have all weaseled their way into various jobs for the Parks, and life seems doable for possibly the first time ever. But when a former employee returns in search of something she left behind, the comfy jobs transform into a hellscape, wrenching security from the Kim family and spiraling everything out of control.

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more overt symbolism based in modern-day classism to the subtler moments and examinations of insanity, even if it’s temporary. Each character proves a powerhouse on their own, but the ensemble dynamic of the Kim family feels so natural and comfortable that we find reasons to empathize even when they’re at their worst. Song in particular carries the film in the background with a commanding performance as a desperate father pushed to his very limits. Elsewhere, the Park family’s innocent yet irritating cluelessness starts to make us wonder if vilifying the rich always makes sense— they’re not bad people, they’re just blissfully ignorant of the goings-on in their own home.

Parasite morphs so suddenly and jarringly that it becomes a breathless dash to the finish line. Bong brings us to the brink of unforgivable, but keeps us grounded the entire time. Pity, then, that it begins to lag once the major conflict kicks in. The final 30 minutes, which could have reveled in sheer chaos and nearly do, feel more like a sudden drop in pacing than they do a satisfying conclusion. It isn’t even that satisfaction is mandatory, rather that Parasite‘s ending feels more like a tacked on series of events. The journey to get there is riveting, but it surely seems like Bong felt he needed to hedge his bets in an otherwise fantastic tale. (ADV)

Center for Contemporary Arts, Violet Crown, R, 132 min.

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Skynet is back—actually, they were stopped, but now a new self-aware AI, Legion, seeks to destroy the new John Conner, a very confused but resilient Mexican protagonist, Daniella “Dani” Ramos (Natalia Reyes).

The film stays with the normal formula the Terminator franchise knows: a shit-load of action.

So much action, they literally throw the audience into a 45-minute battle scene at the beginning.

Exhilarating, yet exhausting.

Terminator: Dark Fate tries to continue the first two films’ timeline, beginning in 1988 where/when Sara Conner (Linda Hamilton) fails to stop the iconic T-1000 terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) from murdering the young CGI animated John Conner (1990s-era Edward Furlong).

This scene alone shifts the entire Terminator storyline, deeming the last three films and the short-lived TV series irrelevant, or, as producer James Cameron has described in interviews, alternate timelines.

Director Tim Miller (Deadpool) crafts well-designed fight scenes that provide a very precise attention to detail when coming to, for example, bullets grazing skin, or when the new Terminator (Gabriel Luna) takes multi-

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Filmmaker Taika Waititi (What We Do in the Shadows) is rapidly becoming one of our generation’s most important auteurs, and he’s just earned a spot in the pantheon of semihumorous war films like Life is Beautiful or King of Hearts with his uproarious, uplifting and very funny Jojo Rabbit based on the Christine Leunens novel Caged Skies.

We follow Jojo (newcomer Roman Griffin Davis), a 10-year-old Nazi growing up in the fading days of World War II Germany. Jojo’s a bit of a fanatic, a patriot to a terrifying degree with a penchant for his country’s military and Adolf Hitler for an imaginary friend (Waititi plays Hitler in addition to directing and screenwriting duties). But when Jojo discovers a young Jewish woman named Else (Thomasin McKenzie) hidden in his home by his mother (Scarlett Johansson), he’s shaken to his core and begins to question the very fabric of his beliefs and being.

The kudos are almost too numerous to hand out, from Waititi’s brilliantly sardonic and darkly hysterical take on Hitler to a trio of bumbling Nazi officers played by Rebel Wilson, Sam Rockwell and Alfie Allen, a startlingly nuanced Johansson (who can hopefully lose the transphobic behavior someday soon), to Stephen Merchant’s deeply disturbing turn as an imposing but painfully polite SS officer. But it’s young Davis’ performance as the sensitive and evolving Jojo that steals the film. Certainly Waititi’s direction had a little something to do with it, but for a kid actor in a first outing, Davis absolutely nails comedic timing, heartbreaking

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WED - THURS, NOV 13 - 14 11:30a Fantastic Fungi* 11:45a Parasite 1:30p JoJo Rabbit* 2:30p Parasite 3:45p JoJo Rabbit* 5:15p Parasite 6:00p JoJo Rabbit* 8:00p Parasite 8:15p JoJo Rabbit*

The Lighthouse: Get into cosmic horror or go to hell! revelations and even the subtleties of selfdoubt and sexual awakening. It may be the most fully-formed and memorable youth performance since To Kill a Mockingbird, which is especially fascinating in that he’s a literal Nazi.

But, like all of Waititi’s work, there’s an absurdism bubbling beneath the surface of the more overt messaging. He’s a master at pulling an audience into the awkward and keeping us there, questioning. It isn’t always easy but, like Jojo, we need to face it if we’re to gain a better understanding. If nothing else, Jojo Rabbit isn’t anything like you assume—it’s far better.

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Center for Contemporary Arts, Violet Crown, PG-13, 108 min.

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I don’t believe I’ve used the word masterpiece when reviewing a film, but when it comes to The Lighthouse, director Robert Eggers’ stunning new tale of madness and violence told against the sweeping backdrop of some remote and nondescript island off the coast of New England, it fits.

It begins like a dream: Suddenly and without warning, lighthouse keepers Ephraim and Thomas are on a rock in the middle of the sea, tasked with keeping a lighthouse running and utterly, painfully, terrifyingly alone. Thomas (a jaw-droppingly brilliant Willem Dafoe) has been here before, or perhaps he’s never left; other partners, he says, were driven to madness. The solitude has crept in for Thomas, as well, leaving him a callous and particular sort of man.

The younger Ephraim (Robert Pattinson, who is so very good let it lay any Twilight jokes to rest), however, is wide-eyed and seemingly innocent, unprepared for the commitment he’s made. He’s new to the job and the demands of the sea; a man looking for a fresh start and running from something dark in his past. Whatever their circumstances before now, cabin fever sets in. Hallucinations take over and any hope for relief, or maybe escape, is soon lost. The longer they toil, the darker their conditions become.

Like in Eggers’ previous works (The VVitch, for example), he proves a master of atmosphere and building tensions. Self-inflicted horrors creep up from the shadows and are made unbearable as Ephraim’s behaviors start to mimic those of Thomas’ previous partner, or so we’re told. The omnipresent cacophony of the rotating light’s machinery drones on in the background and becomes the one thing grounding us to what we believe is reality. Or

sanity. But then, maybe it isn’t—maybe it’s a low-level form of hypnotism driving us mad, too.

The pair becomes intimate during drunken nights and sets out to torture one another during the labor-intensive days. Why is Ephraim there, anyway? Why won’t Thomas let him tend to the massive bulb at the top of the lighthouse? It’s downright Lovecraftian in its building of the unknown; it’s downright mythic in its jumps and scares, right down to Dafoe’s artfully delivered poetic and threatening rants.

Is it better not to know ? Are we punished for our obsessions? Would we even know if we’d lost our minds? Eggers presents these questions, leaving room for interpretation, but never irritatingly; rather, he brings us to the brink of madness alongside his characters, then sends them hurtling headlong into the abyss.

We have no choice but to watch, powerlessly.

Answers might not come, but they’re not really needed. It’s about the journey, and from every conceivable filmmaking angle, it is brilliant and shocking and disturbing to the very core. Shot in crisp and foreboding black and white, The Lighthouse is as powerful as cinema gets, an absolute must for anyone brave enough to come face to face with its madness. (ADV)

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Week of November 13th

ARIES (March 21-April 19): If there are any potential Aries heroes or leaders or saviors out there, the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to fully bloom and assert your practical magnificence. The lessons you have learned while improvising workable solutions for yourself are ripe to be applied to the riddles that are puzzling your tribe or group or gang. I want to let you know, however, that to achieve maximum effectiveness, you should be willing to do good deeds for people who may not be able to pay you back.

usually hide. That’s now! To egg you on, read this mischievous rant by Libran blogger Clary Gay (claryfightwood.tumblr.com): “We Libras are constantly thinking about how to make everyone else comfortable and happy. There’s not a minute going by when we’re not worrying about radiating a soothing and comforting aura so everyone can have a good time. If a Libra is cranky, it’s because they snapped! Because of some non-Libra who doesn’t appreciate them! If a Libra is mean to people, it’s their own damn fault!”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’re entering a phase of your astrological cycle when it’s crucial that your receptivity be as robust as possible. To guide you in this delightful but perhaps challenging work, here are good questions for you to pose. 1. Do you know what help and support you need most, and are you brave and forthright enough to ask for it? 2. Is there any part of you, perhaps unconscious, that believes you don’t deserve gifts and blessings? 3. Do you diligently cultivate your capacity to be refreshed and restored?

4. Are you eagerly responsive when life surprises you with learning experiences and inspirations?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Poet Robert Bly tells us that the door to the soul is unlocked. You don’t have to struggle through any special machinations to open it or go through it. Furthermore, the realm of the soul is always ready for you. Always! It harbors the precise treasure you need in order to be replenished and empowered. I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because I think that during the next two weeks, you should abide as much as possible in the soul’s realm— the cornucopia of holy truths and ever-fresh riches.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In my estimation, what you’ve experienced lately has been akin to a fermentation process. It’s as if you’re undergoing a transGEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Many people will not be honest because they fear loss of intimacy and together- formation with resemblances to the way that grapes turn into wine or milk becomes yogurt or dough rises ness,” writes self-help author Henry Cloud. But the before being baked into bread. You may have had to truth, he adds, is that “honesty brings people closer endure some discomfort, which is the case for anytogether,” because it “strengthens their identities.”

Therein lies the tender paradox: “The more you realize thing in the midst of substantial change. But I think you’ll ultimately be quite pleased with the results, your separate identities, the closer you can become.”

Living according to this principle may not be as easy or which I expect will be ready no later than ten days after your birthday—and quite possibly sooner. convenient as being deceptive and covert, but it’s ultimately more gratifying. Henry Cloud concludes, “Telling CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Many books have loved ones what is really on your mind and telling othbeen written about Joan of Arc, a fifteenth-century ers what you really think is the foundation of love.” teenage peasant girl whose improbable ascent to miliCANCER (June 21-July 22): “Maturity is having the tary leadership, under the guidance of her divine ability to escape categorization,” said poet Kenneth visions, was crucial in France’s victory over the English.

Among the many miraculous elements of her story Rexroth. That’s the opposite of the conventional wisdom. For many people, the process of growing up was the fact that less than a year before she led troops into battle on horseback, she didn’t know how to ride a and becoming a seasoned adult means trying to fit horse. She learned by riding around her father’s farm in, to find one’s category, to be serious and steady astride his cows. I foresee an equivalent marvel in your and stable. Rexroth, on the other hand, suggested future, Capricorn. By this time next year, you will have that when you fully ripen into your potentials, you transcend standard definitions; you don’t adhere to developed an aptitude that might seem unimaginable others’ expectations; you are uniquely yourself, out- now. (P.S. There’s evidence Joan was a Capricorn.) side and beyond all pigeonholes and classifications.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Divine Comedy is The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you one of history’s greatest literary works. Its author, to practice and cultivate this sacred art.

Dante Alighieri, was 43 when he began writing the Inferno, the first part of his three-part masterpiece. Up LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Is there an event from your past until that time, he had published just one book and a that would be empowering for you to remember in few poems, and had also abandoned work on two detail? Is there a neglected but still viable dream you unfinished books. Early on in the Inferno, the not-yetcould resurrect, thereby energizing your enthusiasm for the future? Are there old allies you’ve lost touch with but renowned author presents a fictional scene in which he meets with the spirits of antiquity’s most famous who, if you called on them, could provide you with just authors: Virgil, Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan. the boost you need? Is there a familiar pleasure you’ve Those illustrious five tell Dante he is such an imporgrown numb to but could reinvigorate by visualizing the original reasons you loved it? The coming weeks will be a tant writer that he ranks sixth, after them, in his excellence. I’m going to encourage you to dare indulging in favorable time to meditate on these questions. behavior like Dante’s: to visualize and extol—and yes, VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Catholic saint St. Francis even brag about—the virtues and skills that will ulti(1181–1226) loved animals and the natural world. mately be your signature contribution to this world.

According to one folkloric tale, he was once traveling on PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Latin word for sea foot with several companions when they came upon a place where the trees were filled with birds. Francis said, is mare. Flustra is the calm sea. Undisonus means “resounding with waves.” Caeruleus is the sea’s deep “Wait for me while I go preach to my sisters the birds.” shade of blue, aestus is the tide, and aequoreus He proceeded to do just that. The birds were an attentive audience for the duration of his sermon, apparently means “connected with the sea.” My hope is that as you meditate on these lyrical terms, you’ll be moved captivated by his tender tones. Seven centuries later, author Rebecca West offered a critique of the bird-whis- to remember the first lakes, rivers, and oceans you ever swam in. You’ll recall your time floating in your perer. “Did St. Francis preach to the birds?” she asked. mother’s womb and your most joyous immersions in “Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.” In the coming weeks, warm baths and hotsprings. Why? It’s a favorable time to seek the healing and rejuvenating powers of Virgo, I encourage you to do the metaphorical equivaprimal waters—both metaphorically and literally. lent of preaching to both the birds and the cats.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Every now and then I authorize you Libras to shed your polite, tactful personas and express the angst you sometimes feel but

Homework: “How easy it is to make people happy when you don’t want or need anything from them,” said Gail Godwin. Give an example. FreeWillAstrology.com

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PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF Sherrie Linn Sanchez A/K/A Sherrie Lynn Sanchez Case No.: D-101-CV-2019-02709 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. the Petitioner Sherrie Linn Sanchez A/K/A Sherrie Lynn Sanchez will apply to the Honorable Raymond Z. Ortiz, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complez, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 10:00 a.m. on the 6th day of December, 2019 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Sherrie Linn Sanchez to Sherrie Lynn Sanchez.

KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court Clerk By: Monica Chavez Crespin Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Sherrie Sanchez Petitioner, Pro Se STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Case No.: D-101-CV-2019-02717 IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF Edward Adam Carrillo NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. the Petitioner Edward Adam Carrillo will apply to the Honorable Raymond Z. Ortiz, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 10:00 a.m. on the 6th day of December, 2019 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Edward Adam Carrillo to Adam Edward Carrillo.

KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court Clerk By: Monica Chavez Crespin Submitted by: Adam Carrillo Petitioner, Pro Se

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CALL ROBYN AT 988.5541 STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE PROBATE COURT 1ST DISTRICT COURT SANTA FE COUNTY No. D-101-PB-2019-00074 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Lawrence W. Presnell, DECEASED. NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HERBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the estate of the decedent. All persons having claims against the estate of the decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of any published notice to creditors or sixty (60) days after the date of mailing or other delivery of this notice, whichever is later, or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either to the undersigned personal representative at the address listed below, or filed with the Probate Court of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, located at the following address: 102 Grant Ave, Santa Fe, NM 87501.

Dated: November 1st, 2019.

Laura Presnell Signature of the personal representative Laura Presnell 697 Old Las Vegas Hwy Santa Fe, NM 87505

STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE PROBATE COURT 1ST DISTRICT COURT SANTA FE COUNTY No. D-101-PB-2019-00196 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Florence Salazar Presnell, DECEASED. NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HERBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the estate of the decedent. All persons having claims against the estate of the decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of any published notice to creditors or sixty (60) days after the date of mailing or other delivery of this notice, whichever is later, or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either to the undersigned personal representative at the address listed below, or filed with the Probate Court of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, located at the following address: 102 Grant Ave, Santa Fe, NM 87501.

Dated: November 1st, 2019.

Laura Presnell Signature of the personal representative Laura Presnell 697 Old Las Vegas Hwy Santa Fe, NM 87505

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