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A Slippery Slope New Mexico Educational Retirement Board’s investment in private prisons remains controversial, but the board’s not budging
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he New Mexico Educational Retirement Board refuses to divest from private prison companies despite both their underperformance in the stock market and a growing number of educators in Santa Fe who oppose the investments. Even though Santa Fe Public Schools Board of Education recently voted to support divestment in conjunction with Horizons Sustainable Financial Services and the Santa Fe Dreamers Project, a local immigrant rights group, the Dreamers say the board won’t give them an audience to discuss other investment options. That’s despite both The Geo Group, Inc. and CoreCivic, two major private prison firms, trailing behind the investment index the board uses. The ERB’s total portfolio as of June 30 was $13.3 billion. Of that, $3.1 billion—or 23.6%—is managed by the board’s staff members, but the balance of the portfolio is managed by outside investment managers. The outside managers are hired by ERB’s investment committee, says Jan Goodwin, the board’s executive director. Over the last year, Geo Group has underperformed by 22% and CoreCivic by 13%, according to Morningstar, an investment data and analysis firm. “Had the ERB not been in those stocks, it would have done better,” says Johann A Klaassen, chief investment officer with Horizons. “[The prisons] have been underperforming for five years. It’s not a recent thing. They’re not good investments.” Retirement systems around the country, including other education retirement boards, have invested in private prisons for years. The investments have become flashpoints for controversy more recently as inmate treatment in the prisons has come to light. In 2018, the California State Teachers’ Retirement System divested millions of dollars from both CoreCivic and Geo Group. Earlier this year, Bank of America, SunTrust Bank and JPMorgan Chase & Co all decided to stop financing private prisons.
According to the NMERB’s financial reports, it invested less in the prisons this year than last year— and the investments make up just a fraction of the board’s overall holdings. In June 2018, the board had $56,000 invested in both companies. Twelve months later, the board invested $41,400, according to data provided by NMERB. Another reason the board can’t divest, according to Goodwin, is because those two stocks would need to be manually reinvested each day, taking up some staff resources. Klaassen says that’s a sign the NMERB is working with A N SO N ST EV EN S- BO LL EN outdated technology. He suggests the board could reinvest that small amount of money in the other stocks in the index or in cash holdings. vested just $1,000 of that money in cash five years ago, it would have $1,054.66 today versus the $1,034.47 collected through the Geo Group investment. “These two companies are causing ‘portfolio drag,’ more even than merely holding cash, and have been doing so for a long time,” Klaassen says. Ultimately, Godwin tells SFR there are no plans to divest because it would negatively impact the teachers’ fund. If people really want to improve conditions for people in private prisons, Goodwin argues, remaining as a stockholder is a better way. “If you divest, you don’t have a place at the table anymore,” Goodwin says. “It’s only shareholders that can really effectively put pressure on management … When you look at the amount of stock, it’s -Elizabeth Bunker much smaller than the other companies and pension plans that have much larger holdings [that have divested] and what change has that made?” Goodwin insists the board is working Santa Fe educators and activists are with the latest technology and tells SFR more interested in divesting from the priinvesting in cash would not have amount- vate prisons than trying to use a minused to an increase. cule investment to change the policies of Klaassen, who has worked in the invest- Geo Group or Core Civic. Among them ment and finance industry for nearly two is Elizabeth Bunker, a longtime Santa Fe decades, estimates that if the board had in- educator.
If for no other reason at all, if I didn’t care about anybody else, I know that our children should not be in these prisons
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Bunker sees even the relatively small amount of investment by the NMERB as a slap in the face to the children she works with and the decades she has put in helping immigrant and refugee children as a counselor at Piñon and a teacher at Cesar Chavez elementary schools. “If for no other reason at all, if I didn’t care about anybody else, I know that our children should not be in these prisons,” Bunker tells SFR in her office filled with children’s toys. “What worries me is that I don’t know that they’re ever gonna be OK.” The movement to divest has developed behind the scenes since the beginning of the year, when Sylvia Johnson, director of communications at the Santa Fe Dreamers Project, started brainstorming about pushing the NMERB to divest as a way to protest what she sees as the inhumane treatment of people in private prisons. The unanimous vote last week from Santa Fe Public School Board to order District Superintendent Veronica Garcia to pen a letter to the NMERB asking the board to divest from private prisons is just a first step. Johnson and other teachers and administrators are not stopping at the Santa Fe Public School District. They are already working with districts in Albuquerque, Taos, Farmington and Las Cruces to put more pressure on the NMERB to divest. “We need thousands and thousands of signatures from educators in the state,” Johnson says. “Santa Fe is leading the way in that. But if Albuquerque doesn’t fully get on board, it’ll never happen.” Johnson tells SFR a recent email to Dreamers from the board amounts to a denial of any more in-person meetings. She and others next plan to figure out exactly who and how to push the board in order to achieve divestment. The NMERB has seven board members. Divestment would require a majority vote, although as of now, there is no set process in place to divest if that’s what the board decides to do, Goodwin says. “We don’t want to cause a big scene unless we have to,” Johnson says. “If it can be done in negotiations and in private meetings, fantastic, that’s great. And if not it will probably become very public.”
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atthew Martinez loves his job as a paramedic at the Santa Fe Fire Department. He grew up here and started his career with the department, and even when he lived in Albuquerque for a time, he was happy to make the commute. His shifts are long and sometimes grueling, but he sees purpose in helping other people. Once the usual 48 hours on duty are over, he finds joy in the four days off, when he gets to be a full-time dad. But Martinez feels like he’s being short-changed, like his commitment to public safety is being taken for granted. That’s because the city does not report 8.3% of the hours he works to the Public Employee Retirement Association. It’s a problem that the fire department and city finance staff say has existed since 2016 when the city changed the way it reports fire department hours to PERA, and it impacts anyone who works on a shift schedule. That includes most firefighters, paramedics, engineers, ambulance drivers and even battalion chiefs. Moreover, SFR has learned that PERA officials and others believe the city could have fixed this problem years ago—an assertion the city denies. What isn’t disputed: If Martinez retired today, he would not receive the full pension the city promised him. Specifically, he would receive $3,615.43 less per year than someone working in an administrative position for the department earning the same annual pay as Martinez. Over the course of 10 years, that would add up to a loss of $36,154.30 for the paramedic. That’s because employees such as Martinez work six-day rotations with one regular 48-hour shift and a four-day break in between. His shifts fall one day earlier each week, so the actual number of hours he works in a 14-day payroll peri-
Battalion Chief Eric Gonzales, left, will be eligible for retirement within the next 18 months. He’s one of six battalion chiefs who work shifts answering calls and loses benefits.
The city hasn’t given this problem the attention that it needs to be resolved. -Matthew Martinez, paramedic at the Santa Fe Fire Department
od varies from 96 to 128 hours, whereas someone in administration who works 9 to 5 clocks in consistently at 80 hours every payroll period. Fire Chief Paul Babcock confirms the situation, noting that two people of equal rank with the same annual income would have a disparity in their retirement funds, with “my shift employee ... getting a less of a PERA retirement.” For example, the $92,000 annual salary for a battalion chief should result in an annual PERA pension of $64,474.20. But, because of the way the city reports hours, the shift position will get a pension of $59,103.85. Over 20 years, this adds up to a $107,402 difference. The federal Fair Labor Salary Act defines a regular work week for firefighters
at 53 hours, or 106 hours in a 14-day payroll period. Anything over that is considered overtime. PERA does not offer benefits on overtime hours, and therein lies the rub. Shift employees, who work irregular schedules that vary greatly per pay period, end up losing out—in the case of Martinez’s 128-hour pay period, he’s losing 22 hours’ worth of benefits. Martinez has repeatedly raised concerns about it to the Fire Department leadership, the union that represents him, city staff and PERA, but three years have gone by and the city has not come up with a solution. The city says the root of the problem has to do with conflicting federal laws governing overtime and PERA rules about reporting. “This is not just a city problem,” city Human Resources Department Director Bernadette Salazar tells SFR, adding that other municipalities with fire departments across the state face similar issues. Salazar, as well as finance staff and city spokeswoman Lilia Chacon, insist that the solution has to come from the Legislature and there’s little the city can do on its own to fix the problem. Mayor Alan Webber listed statewide legislation on the topic on the city’s legislative priority list for next session. Yet Greg Trujillo, PERA’s deputy executive director, tells SFR the city could have easily fixed the problem years ago. Accounts from multiple sources who spoke with SFR suggest that disorganization, confusion and lack of communication between city departments is the
true explanation for why the problem has dragged on. Martinez has grown increasingly frustrated. “The city hasn’t given this problem the attention that it needs to be resolved,” he tells SFR. Now, though, Martinez’s efforts may be paying off. Councilor JoAnne Vigil Coppler intends to introduce a resolution to the City Council pledging to find a solution, and other councilors have quickly voiced support. Vigil Coppler, who spent years working in human resources departments for Santa Fe and other cities, explains an easy fix: Change the technical details of how firefighter hours are documented. “We figured out a way to report it. In fact, PERA has been telling the city of this solution for a while,” she says. “But our city is undergoing a payroll system change right now. This would be an ideal time to convert some of our fields to make it easier to get these firefighter hours reported to PERA.” Trujillo, at PERA, agrees. “We have provided the city options on how the city can make that happen,” he says. “The city and the firefighters just need to get on the same page and pass a resolution. We have provided guidance but we can’t force them to make the necessary changes.” Vigil Coppler plans to introduce a resolution to make this a permanent part of the procedure for reporting hours. “Our firefighters are our first responders,” she says. “… They show up and do their jobs and we need them and we need to recognize them for that.”
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grew up in Minnesota. One winter I shivered so hard I pulled a chest muscle. Summers, there were mosquitoes. Maybe some fishing on one of the lakes. The two of us in a rowboat. No life-vests, we could swim across the lake. Trees full of big leaves, dense and tall, the horizon always hidden. Sometimes a solid gray descended and dumped rain. “Socked in.” The weather an unpredictable child. Four seasons. Fuzzy edges, yet real. But here they have monsoons. I only knew of these in exotic places. India, Africa, the Philippines. But this was Arizona USA. The season brought daily rains. Patterns. You move somewhere, you don’t know these things till they happen. Two weeks of mudcracking heat, then came my first desert rain. Mid-afternoon. I smelled it first, the wetdust smell, hints of greasewood. Then I went out to watch. So did the neighbor across the street. We stood under our porches to stay dry, but the slanted wet lines got our feet. Mine and hers too, I guessed. We waved at each other. Sheepish. I hadn’t met her. It went like that every day, except for the porch standing (the novelty gone). Clear every morning, flat blue sky. Mountain horizons all around, puny trees below. Tiny leaves, too, a lacy openness. Then innocent white clouds crept in. You wouldn’t guess they had rain in them, but yes, they’d grow dark, carry the water to somewhere else in the valley. You’d see the streaks coming down, softly vertical where someone else was getting it. But you’d get your turn. Water pouring over everything. Waterfalls off rooftops. Street flow supporting mythical canoeists. You’d find out where the low spots in your yard were. Minnesota lakes in miniature. Then it was over. The dark-light hybrid clouds attracting light from the setting sun, purple and red and Valencia orange, winning magazine-type photo contests every evening. Every summer went like that. Four weeks, maybe five, July and August. Astounding predictability. It had always been like that here, they said. To mean, also, it would always be like that. We had a little baby girl then. I was young, and it would always be like that. But ten years of monsoons and the little girl, age ten, stops eating. No way to get food into her. We control our own mouths, nobody else gets that power. Still too thin, she goes off to college. My first visit, she’s filled out. Good, I think—but no. It’s the meth. The meth makes her not care. I don’t know this yet, but she asks me for dentist money. I tease her about rotting meth-teeth. So she thinks I already know, and that’s how I find out. Somehow, without me, she kicks the meth. Somehow she graduates. Somehow she comes home
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again, gets a job, settles in the desert city where she was born. The office isn’t far, she rides her bike. One day, one intersection, she goes straight while the vehicle alongside her turns right. Right in front of her. It’s a semitruck, an eighteen-wheeler. She falls back, her left leg out. Two sets of duallies run over it. First pair, second pair. We watch it happen, later, in a video. Surveillance camera, courtesy a corner business. We being her dad and I. Years divorced, we come together over this. Imagine the pain. Imagine the dose of opioids. Imagine the healing time needed for bones crushed to smithereens. Tibia and fibula, the two bones between ankle and knee. X-rays, months apart, show ghostly, uncertain growth. They also show a good ankle, a good knee. How is that possible? A pair of semi-truck duallies span two feet. What’s her knee-to-ankle span? A foot? Yet a two-foot width of tires rolled over her. Twice. Against all likelihood leaving a good ankle, a good knee. A video, x-rays, scars: The miracle is documented. Also documented: the opioid prescription. The heroin addiction. Then, a suboxone rescue. But there are vodka weekends, too. Somehow, she keeps showing up for work. Or calling in sick. Sick is not a lie. When the monsoons come I don’t notice them. I have worries. For other reasons, nobody else notices, either. We used to drip and sweat in the humidity, arguing about the swamp cooler. On or off? Did it help? No. Just made everything stickier. Time to get air conditioning. Everyone on the block. The power company adds new lines. AC spews heat instead of cool, moistened air. The city heats up further. Other mothers took their little girls to ballet. I drove mine to riding lessons. Animals were us. Or her, at least. I wanna be a cat, she used to say. Well, who doesn’t. Free food and medical, pillows, massages. But she says it wistfully, with liquid eyes, stroking the head of our Honeyfluff. Little eyebrows drawn together. I wish I was a cat. The job she shows up for helps animals. Not pets: wild ones. Many of them ugly. Hellbenders. Fish. Leggy insects. And she’s not stupid. Her job loves her back. Her job even sends her to rehab. A month of cutting-edge theory. “Co-occurring disorders,” no less. I see some healing, leg and psyche both. She can walk. She gets her own cat. A horror. You say to this cat (your hand withdrawn, not out for sniffing), Hiyeee, sweet Mollyeee! And Molly lets out an openmouthed hiss, cheeyahhh! The monster prefers furniture to catboxes. Has her own eating disorder. Finds the catfood bag wherever it’s kept, rips it open and finishes it off. True, there were brief thoughts of finding a new home. But these were dropped in favor of a growing, hopeful, two-way devotion. My kid is the cat’s only love. The cat worships one goddess, follows one master, and that’s her. It makes her exceptional. Privately loved. Brings healing, once you’ve cleaned the furniture. The demon anorexia hangs on tight. It shape-shifts into rampant bingeing. It’s a new devil, but she’s starting to win. She has fewer vodka weekends. And I’m noticing the monsoons again. There’s not much of a pattern any more. They’re going nuts. Rain can come in the middle of the night, or early in the morning, or not at all. It might be cloudy all day, or sunny from dawn to dusk, with building humidity that never bears its droplet-fruit. There’s no mistaking the decline of our orderly monsoon. Can it even be called
that now, without its pattern? The word on the street is non-soon. I need that water. I have cisterns to fill, two big ones. That’s the amount of water I leave underground. My garden gets rainwater. Loves it. It’s chlorine-free and nitrogen-rich. The plants know the difference. They’re Minnesota-green. Thinner monsoons go with hotter temperatures. At first the oven-like heat thrilled me. Isolated highs of 115 degrees, or 117. Spikes of Death Valley temperatures: You could marvel, you could brag, and sundown brought relief. But the spikes have become gently rolling hills, high ones, the nights shallow dents between them. Glass, concrete, brick, asphalt added to the city every day, absorbing the hot sun, radiating it back in the dark. Mosquitoes have arrived, too, breeding in human buckets, birdbaths, junk. When will it all become too much? I could move back to Minnesota. Warmer, climate-changed winters? Yes please! But now there are polar vortexes. Well then, maybe cool California. Oops. Not with the fire and smoke. The Pacific Northwest? Smoke there, too. Plus a spreading plutonium plume, and radiation from Japan. The East Coast? Florida? Rising seas. The South? Stronger hurricanes. The Midwest? Floods. Tornadoes. I might as well stay here. The desert is built for heat. And my girl is here. Yeah, it’s an age of trouble. I think it’s not where we live, but how. How we prevent the trouble, and how we live with it coming. Through group efforts or private habits? Through facing the trouble, or denying it? Is peace to be found in either? My kid loves her trouble-preventing, habitat-saving work. And she gets paid for it: the best of all possible worlds. But not really. The Wild is losing. Habitat disappearing, court cases lost, protections rolled back. Extinctions. The usual one step forward, two steps back. Sometimes ten.
I watch her healing and dealing. She divorces results from effort. Loves her coworkers, her beautiful sunny office. Values her own contributions: writing, editing, designing. Lingers and laughs at certain postings: colorful photos of cuteness. Or enchanting ugliness. All of this moving her toward health. Moving the world toward health, too, as she fights. It’s an excellent path, but mine’s different. I don’t fight, I refuse to participate. I live small. No car, no flush toilet. No cell phone. No credit card—I shop alleys and curbsides. Grow my own food, swap some of it for diversity. Pick edibles from the landscape. Make what I need. Fix stuff. Cook my own meals, ingredients fresh and unpackaged. Harvest that rainwater. Walk or bike where I need to go. Entertain myself. Keep my income needs low. I love this path. Less worry. No credit card hacks. No toilet repairs. No cell phone to lose, break, get addicted to, see confiscated, reveal my whereabouts. No pesticides on my food. Not much garbage to weigh me down. Less plastic in my body. And no parking problems, license fees, tickets, or traffic jams. No gas to buy, no car-potato weight gain. Planetary poisons are personal hazards. As above, so below. The shiny stuff we order gets hauled by a truck that bites us in the leg. So that’s my kind of fighting. Not taking part. It’s as valid as my kid’s. I think there’s a battle strategy for everyone. The fun is in discovering it. Yes, and my girl is dancing, now. Dancing! No thanks to the childhood without lessons, but not too late. She’s found it herself, out there beyond her assumed talents. Beyond intellect, academics, language—dance was waiting for her. Her first performance, I cried. Couldn’t stop. The physical grace and beauty an overwhelming surprise. Strength and muscle replacing the hunger-weakened limbs. The boldness of movement somehow cancelling the warped image of body. Her work, her fight for wild habitats, a platform to this unexpected passion. So that soon she’s teaching, evenings, with students she loves as deeply as animals. I had no idea. She had no idea. Now there’s little time left for sickness, drinking, overeating. The fight and the dance eat up all her self-doubt. I see her as whole. And I’ve come to believe: No matter the method of fighting, the intensity of threat, or the seriousness of the illness (the planet’s, our culture’s, our own), we can’t forget to dance. It’s why we’re here.
Kay Sather has lived in Tucson for 40 years and has been growing food in her urban backyard much of that time. She is both a writer and an artist. Her illustrations have appeared in numerous magazines and children’s books, including the award-winning Soft Child. She has written for Edible Baja, the Tucson Weekly, and Madden Publishing, and her non-fiction story, “Spadefoot,” was a finalist for the Annie Dillard Award. This story was also published in the Mississippi Review in the summer of 2019. Also this year, Magination Press published Neon Words, a book Sather co-authored with noted children’s writer Marge Pellegrino, which provides concrete methods of using writing and expressive arts to help young people flourish as authors. CONTINUED ON PAGE 15
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“Me too.” With sincere curiosity, I asked him what he was going to do next. He murmured something about teaching and global warming. Not knowing how to initiate conversation on either of those subjects, I glanced away but quickly looked back at him. By his bemused expression I felt pretty sure that his plans weren’t definite for the near future. To be polite, I asked about global warming, no matter that those concerns rarely entered my mind. The only half way serious thoughts I had regarding the environment were when I drove back into LA from the airport on a day that smog hovered over the city. I always blurted loudly in my car the same critical comments that sounded like I was concerned, but that’s as far as it went. As I got closer to home, along with the intense traffic, those thoughts disappeared. Vice President Gore smiled tolerantly at my apparent unawareness on the issues of our world’s climate. Which was completely accurate. But the troubled look on his face imprinted my brain with the slight desire and weak promise to become more mindful to the condition of our planet. After all, he seemed like a nice worried man who knew a lot. As the nursery group dispersed, Al Gore and I went our separate ways down the winding staircase, towards the crowded main floor where photo opportunities with the Vice President were scheduled. Standing on the steps of the staircase, looking upon the well-tended crowd, I gave a little laugh. Here I was, a girl from Appalachia whose grandfather, father and brother were all coal miners and I’m talking to the former Vice President of the United States of America about the environment. In a split second something clicked in me. I knew that I needed to reinvent my life and do something that made sense for the earth and myself – better than what I’d been doing. Which was essentially nothing. But at that moment I couldn’t think about how or what to do. I waved off my grand epiphany. I’d just have to think about that another day. Tomorrows came and went and nothing changed. I continued living the same insignificant life as before. The only difference was the annoying little flame that ignited in my head from time to time reminding me of the promise to myself in the nursery. Two years later, braving the unknown, I moved to New Mexico and finally made changes to my life quite different from my LA days. I bought a house south of Santa Fe on ten acres that my city friends called nuts. Simply because when I bought it, there was no working electricity, finished interiors, nor running water in the CONTINUED ON PAGE 17
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entire house. Besides those “minor” details, the dirt road to the house was horrendous. Everyone called me brave but I cried for a week after the final paperwork was signed and closed. There was an upside. The house was designed to be virtually selfsustained. Just what I wanted. Or so I thought. In the next years, there were many challenges and my precious savings went to making the house livable – most importantly with electricity and water. But things eventually calmed down and gradually I fell in love with the house. It became mine and we suited each other. I have now been living off the grid with no public utilities, relying on the goodness of the earth for fourteen years. Solar, well water and my own sewage system. A long way from LA. I’ve learned to live gratefully looking forward to the rising sun and am thankful each day I see clear blue skies and have fresh spring water. On my own unique path, I believe that I am doing a small part as an acceptable steward of the earth – thanks to that moment in the nursery with Al. As Mr. Gore wrote in his book, An Inconvenient Truth, the time for preserving our earth is now. Sadly, it is perceived that the tipping point has almost passed. Nearly 20 years have gone by since the 2000 presidential election and the LA soiree. And I often wonder if today we would be having somewhat different conversations about global warming if Vice President Gore had been president…
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Brendan Shepherd has worked in the film business in Los Angeles and New Mexico. Some of her career has been working at the Disney Company as well as developing her own film production company. She has written two screenplays, poetry and a book, How Not To Make It in Hollywood. Brendan lives in a house off the grid south of Santa Fe.
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ometimes, when I sit in the passenger’s seat of my mom’s forest green Toyota in the evening, like I do three days a week after dance class, I drag my eyes up to the sunset. Sorbet sky, pink clouds lined with a dull blue, glowing slashes in the sky from passing jets, and a big bright ball of half-melted butter in the middle of it all. I can’t imagine a more perfect sight. It feels as though I am sitting on the edge of a postcard picture. This sunset could turn anyone’s day from bad to good. When I see that sunset, all I can think is “How long till it’s gone? How long till you can’t see the cotton candy clouds behind dark swarms of pollution? How long till we can only see a sunset like this in history workbooks?” This bright-eyed little world will soon feel like a stormy adolescent, and no one knows what that will bring. It’s funny to me that as our planet changes, I do too. I’m thirteen, almost out of middle school, and trying to figure out what I am going to do for high school. I don’t have the best memory or social skills, and I seem to be incapable of organization or being on time. I guess I’m what you would call “a mess.”
Two years ago I was a bouncing sixth grader, ignorant of most things and excited about my future. Now I’m wary. In the near future I will have many opportunities, lots of second chances, and a whole life to explore, but I will also make many, many mistakes, ruin opportunities, and witness the devastation of climate change. Two years ago I was that sunset, no doubt. I was unruined, inexperienced, and protected from everything bad. Now it seems that negative possibilities become more likely every day. As time goes by, it feels like my old sunset is slowly being enveloped by filthy smoke from factories, leaving only a toxic veil of darkness. Am I turning into a dark cloud? I don’t want to be. Neither does the sunset. No matter how many toxic fumes the world wafts toward it, it continues to have a beauty as clear and happy as my childhood memories. Me and the sky are a team, both fighting to preserve that simple youthful joy everyone has once felt. We can’t do it forever. We’ll have to grow up one day; embrace all the bad things, whether they’re UV rays and rising oceans or struggling to pay tuition. This is going to be the biggest change in my life and definitely in humanity’s life. However, while I’ll simply have to live through being a teenager, the planet has to live through climate change. I cannot imagine a challenge more difficult. It appears that there is no way to ease this change into something less than a destructive disaster. I’m old enough to know that all change isn’t bad though. If we can get through this and learn how to fight it off fast enough, it could be almost pleasant. Many places will have elevated temperatures, making for cozy winters. Others will have more snow. Some places formerly dry, will be wet; others dry where it was once wet. We are about to witness the extremes of our atmosphere, and no one can know if we are lucky to get a front row seat or doomed to death. This change is going to be one of the most chaotic experiences we will ever have, but as we live through it, we may discover order within the chaos. Personally, I always thought of order as this polite, quiet little creature that was always tucked away in some convenient corner. But the more I think about it, that doesn’t make sense. Order is not measured by timidness. It is measured by patterns and sequences. Order should make sense, or at least be predictable. Our planet is not deceiving us, so maybe this destructive change is just part of a strange, unwelcome order; an inevitable fate of human greed. In the case of my life, it may be possible to wait out the storms, but the planet needs more than patience. Most of us know how to help and needs to decide that they will. We understand the order. We know the patterns. We know what move we need to make. It’s time for us to step up. What we do right now could make or break our future. So I’m asking you, on behalf of the planet and every other chaotic mess of a person on it, to join the fight for our home. Raven is 13 years old and currently in eighth grade at Santa Fe Prep. She has lived in Santa Fe her entire life. Besides writing, her hobbies are dancing, drawing and reading.
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hen he graduated from college a decade ago with a finance degree from the University of Denver, Santa Fe native Eric Streeper moved to California and began working in the royalty department for an entertainment business management company. His job included divvying up royalties to band members, and also eyeballing royalty statements to find mistakes that shorted the musicians. “I got a taste for how crappy the entertainment industry really is for anyone who’s creative,” Streeper says. The company also represented a YouTube star—a performer who, at the time, was reportedly the first YouTube personality to hit 1 million subscribers (then-teenager Lucas Cruikshank playing the character Fred Figglehorn). “Through that, I saw that there was this big perception gap,” says Streeper, now 33. “People thought these YouTube people
While the online landscape has changed and grown dramatically in the last decade, Streeper says it hasn’t proven more financially beneficial for creatives who were hit hard last year by changes in YouTube’s monetization rules. “Some creators on there have lost 6% of their revenue overnight because of an algorithm change,” he says, “but even before that, average revenue for YouTube was maybe $1,000 per one million views, so you need a lot of million views to even make a … living wage doing it.” Streeper also had been considering Netflix’s role in distribution and its massive growth from direct-to-consumer
Customers who subscribe to individual channels are less likely to encounter endless titles in which they have no interest (see previous Christmas rom-com story) because each organization curates its own channel. Moreover, “for a lot of people, if they know their money is going directly to support the people making the stuff they’re watching, that’s something they are more likely to get behind and feel better about were making a ton of money, when in realipaying for,” Streeper says. ty they were getting a ton of exposure from The companies pay nothing to Xerb to their channel … but they really weren’t set up—and set up is easy (Streeper utilized making very much at all.” his tech background and training to build These experiences and observations the platform on the React framework). planted the seed for Streeper’s new startSo far, subscriptions range from $2.99 to up, Xerb (https://xerb.tv), which $6.99 per month. The Santa Fe Film aims to disrupt the streaming Festival’s charges $5 per month. industry to benefit the creators. Xerb takes 30% of the price of I visited with Streep Nov. 22 at subscriptions, but pays the payXerb’s offices in the Santa Fe ment processing costs, so it works Business Incubator, where he was out closer to 23% or so, Streeper demoing the product as part of says. Regarding TV-connected Global Entrepreneurship Week. devices, for now Xerb works with Essentially, Xerb provides difChromecast, and will probably tarferent organizations their own get Roku next. streaming channels and centralAs for his company’s name, Xerb ized subscription management pays homage to the now-defunct for customers. These function border blaster radio station XERB, “like individual Netflix,” Streeper made famous by George Lucas in says, except “they’re all curated by American Graffiti. humans instead of algorithms.” “Getting around traditional disXerb Founder and CEO Eric Streeper created his streaming (I thought this sounded like tribution was that tie in,” Streeper company to serve independent film creators and their fans. a positive development, given says and “… it also had a film tie in; that my own Netflix account has that’s why we liked it.” been making nonstop recommendations video rentals to streaming to film studio. Focusing on distribution for his startup for movies in which people fall in love at All the companies that had modeled their “may sound boring,” Streeper says, but it’s Christmas—a massive algorithmic error, streaming services on Netflix—Hulu, crucial. “It really is the place from which all unless all these films end with the happy Comcast and Amazon, to name a few— power is derived in film and media. For us couples also being decapitated.) were essentially “cloning a 10-year-old … the critical thing is opening a kind of disXerb recently brought on its 18th model,” he says. That lack of innovation tribution that was never available before to channel: the Wildlife Conservation Film provided “a big opportunity that is really anyone, so all you have to do is make a good Festival. Other channels include The Santa interesting and exciting.” film and you can get it out there and you can Fe Film Festival, Independent Shorts Xerb doesn’t require exclusivity from monetize it.” Award, Classic Film Academy, On Native its creative partners, nor will it be providSANTE FE FILM FESTIVAL Ground and Kids First! While some mem- ing its own content or channels. “We just XERB LAUNCH PARTY ber organizations hail from New Mexico, want to partner with people who are creat5:30-8 pm, Saturday Dec. 7 Xerb’s reach has proven, so far, interna- ing content and make it so they can release Santa Fe Brewing Company, tional in scope. SFFF will officially launch that content themselves and control their 35 Fire Place, its channel to customers on Dec. 7. 424-3333 own distribution.” JULIA GOLDBERG
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BROS! What do we really know about the Penitente Brotherhood? Not much, as it turns out, but the secretive order has been known to do good out there, helping the people and doing the good deeds. Artists, however, always seem to have a keener insight into such things, and big ol’ names like Gustave Baumann, Cady Wells, Gene Kloss, Ansel Adams and more created work based on the brotherhood’s traditions. Their interpretations examine the mythos and realities of the order across a wide swath of mediums from illustration and sculpture and, as always, the New Mexico Museum of Art shows us why that’s important in yet another meaningful exhibit from the state institution. (Alex De Vore)
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EVENT SAT/30 FINAL TOUCHES If you’re looking to finish up that last chapter or just hack your way through a case of writer’s block, look no further than the National Novel Writing Month Support Group. Its upcoming event at the Santa Fe Public Library’s Southside branch is its last for now. Working with like-minded people who know that writing a novel is an intense and difficult thing to achieve comes with the opportunity to spitball ideas off one another and, with a little luck, a chance to grind out those last words. (Cade Guerrero) National Novel Writing Month Support Group: 10 am-1 pm Saturday Nov. 30. Free. Santa Fe Public Library Southside, 6599 Jaguar Dr, 955-2820.
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MID-WEEK TRACKS Who doesn’t love thrashing out until dawn? Probably lots of people. Still—Vintage Vinyl Night is going down once again at The Matador. DJ Prairedog and DJ Mama Goose mix it up with the classic punk, garage and surf rock and, as anyone who has visited can tell you, they know how to put together a bodacious lineup. The pair continues to host the event—for 11 years now—laying down the heavy riffage with tunes from the likes of Agent Orange, The Stooges and Dick Dale, among lesser-known heroes. If nothing else, it’ll definitely help you deal with those work-week blues. (CG) Vintage Vinyl Night: 9 pm Tuesday Dec. 3. Free. The Matador, 116 W San Francisco St, 984-5050
People-fication Local arts collective centers artists, then art If a gallery artist sells a painting for a five- or six-figure price, where does that money go? Some of it pays the gallery’s rent, so it goes directly into the pockets of the landed class. Some goes to support the artist’s Santa Fe lifestyle—the spa at Ojo Caliente doesn’t offer grants for struggling artists, unfortunately. But how much of that sum is contributed to an arts charity or put towards affordable housing or, like, actually used to do something good for our community? Good news: Art of thousand-dollar quality is within reach, it’s being made by artists who don’t play on those bougie blue-chip terms, and you might even be able to barter or trade service instead of exchanging dead currency. This Friday, more than 20 artists associated with the Alas de Agua Arts Collective offer their art in support of the concept of “gente-fication,” a Spanglish term from gente, meaning people and gentrification, a process of displacement due to rising costs of housing from increased demand (usually from white people) in low-income areas. Instead, Israel Francisco Haros Lopez hopes to enable “people-fication,” or a process that centers the needs and wants of marginalized humans in “the midst of gentri-
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fication and other colonizing models that try to dismantle what can never be dismantled.” (That thing that can never be dismantled is our collective power, hope and love for one another, by the way, if you feel that.) For almost 10 years, Haros Lopez has been working towards this dream of creating a community where art serves people and artists are nurtured independently of their output, the opposite of the Canyon Road status quo where art serves capital and the wealthy class. Alas de Agua, which he helped establish, “is probably the only local artists’ collective dedicated to creating support systems and resources for people of color. We also help queer and other historically marginalized individuals in this town,” according to Lopez. So if you’re into art because you value the human experience behind it and not because you’re obsessed with inanimate objects, stop by the Mercado, find an artist you like and offer to cook ‘em a couple dinners or something in exchange for your favorite piece. (Cole Rehbein) ALAS DE AGUA EARTH ECONOMY MERCADO: 4–7 pm Friday Nov. 29. Free. Wise Fool New Mexico, 1131 Siler Road Ste. B. 992-2588
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WED/27 ART OPENINGS PICTURING PASSION: ARTISTS INTERPRET THE PENITENTE BROTHERHOOD New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 View the works of artists who took on the Penitente traditions as source material. 10 am-5 pm, free
BOOKS/LECTURES DHARMA TALK Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 This week's talk, entitled “Finding Dharma in the Cancer Center,” is presented by Marilyn Whitney, a hospital chaplain at Christus St. Vincent in Santa Fe. The evening begins with a 15-minute silent meditation; please arrive on time. A donation to the speaker is respectfully invited. 5:20-6:30 pm, free
EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Do you basically know everything about everything? Put it to good use. Quiz results can win you drink tickets for next time. 8 pm, free
In our postmodern era, inherited myths are not just de-mythologized, but harnessed as engines of profit and psychological warfare. When we no longer fear the beasts and only thirst for power, what will we do to each other? Santa Fe-based Todd Ryan White explores the theme of mythological downfall in a new solo multimedia immersive exhibit opening this week at form & concept gallery, Rainbow Eater. See page 26.
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INTRODUCTION TO ZEN Mountain Cloud Zen Center 7241 Old Santa Fe Trail, 988-4396 Everyone is welcome, newcomers and experienced practitioners alike, to explore the basics and finer points of Zen meditation, including good posture and finding a comfortable position. There's also a chance to go over questions and instruction. 5 pm, free LAST WEDNESDAYS OPEN MIC Iconik Coffee Roasters 1600 Lena St., 428-0996 Come share the words you’ve been working on. This month's featured artist is The Banter Experience with some ethereal theramin. 5 pm, free NEW MEXICO PINBALL MEETUP The Alley 153 Paseo De Peralta Meet people who enjoy pinball and learning more about the hobby. Bring cash or quarters for the machines. 6-11 pm, free
MUSIC BLACK FRIDAY: KATY P AND THE BUSINESS Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Hard rock to get you in the shoppin' mood. 10 pm-1:30 am, free BOB FINNIE Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and vocals. 6:30 pm, free BOK CHOY THANKSGIVING EVE BASH Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 The annual bash is back with local rockers Craig Small, Mark Clark and Michael Burt Jr., with special guest Aoshima. 9 pm, free BRING YOUR OWN VINYL NIGHT Santa Fe Brewing Company Brakeroom 510 Galisteo St., 780-8648 Bring your favorite records and spin 'em in public. Or, if you're like us and own records but no turntable, maybe finally listen to them, huh? 7 pm, free CALVIN HAZEN El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Flamenco and classical Spanish guitar. 7 pm, free CORINA ROSE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana. 8 pm, free
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DEAR DOCTOR Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Local four-piece folk band. 7 pm, free MATTHEW ANDRAE Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Rhythmic covers and originals of a folky bent on guitalele. 6-9 pm, free PAT MALONE El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Jazz guitar. 6-8 pm, free
WORKSHOP INTRO TO FANTASY ART Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Learn the principles and techniques that illustrators use when designing fantasy universes and then practice yourself with pen and paper. 5-8 pm, $25-$40
THU/28 EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Santa Fe Brewing Company 35 Fire Place, 424-3333 Stellar quiz results can win you drink tickets for next time. 7 pm, free OPENING DAY Ski Santa Fe 1477 Hwy. 475, 982-4429 Wax up your board 'cuz we got snow, baby. 9 am-4 pm, free STATE SURPLUS SALE State Agency for Surplus Property 1990 Siringo Road The state has extra stuff for you to buy, like furniture and government vehicles and knives surrendered to the TSA at the airport. 9 am-4 pm, free
MUSIC JESUS BAS Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Spanish and flamenco guitar. 4-8 pm, free 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 SAVOR Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Cuban street music. 12-3:30 pm, free
WORKSHOP THANKSGIVING DAY YOGA Railyard Performance Center 1611 Paseo de Peralta, 982-8309 An all-levels donation-based class at the Railyard Performance Center to help support Santa Fe Community Yoga, SF's only nonprofit yoga studio. Nobody turned away for lack of funds. 10:30 am-12 pm, $15
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[Noura Erakat] forcefully argues that the skillful use of international law as a tool of struggle can be generative of hope and possibility—for Palestine and the world. Justice for Some is precisely the book we need at this time. — ANGELA DAVIS Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney whose book Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine offers a new approach to understanding the Palestinian struggle for freedom, told through the power and control of international law. An assistant professor at George Mason University, Noura has served as legal counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives and as a legal advocate for Palestinian refugee rights at the United Nations. Janine Jackson is program director at the media watch group FAIR, and producer/host of its weekly radio show CounterSpin.
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WEEK'S EVENTS EVERY MONDAY KOREAN POP UP WITH BRENT JUNG
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RAINBOW EATER form & concept 435 S Guadalupe St., 216-1256 Santa Fe-based artist Todd Ryan White shows a new immersive installation of collage, watercolor, pen and ink drawing and wood and glass sculpture. 5-8 pm, free REGALOS Hecho a Mano 830 Canyon Road, 916-1341 A holiday small works show featuring over 50 artists in printmaking, ceramics and jewelry. Largely comprised of New Mexican makers, Regalos features works by Erin Elder, Jason Garcia, Daniel McCoy and Paula Wilson. 5-7 pm, free SFST HOLIDAY SHOWCASE Imaging the World Gallery 222 Delgado St., 467-8815 The paintings of Cindy Fry and Celia Cortez kick of the Santa Fe Studio Tour Holiday Showcase. 3-6 pm, free TONY VACCARO: LA DOLCE VITA Monroe Gallery of Photography 112 Don Gaspar Ave., 992-0800 Photography from a WWII veteran who is about to turn 97. 5-7 pm, free
DANCE FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Experience the longest-running flamenco tablao in North America. Reservations required. 6:30-9 pm, $30
EVENTS ALAS DE AGUA EARTH ECONOMY MERCADO Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Road, Ste. B., 992-2588 An arts and crafts market includes a vintage pop-up boutique and delicious things for sale to support local artists of color and queer artists. Artists may trade and barter or sell their goods. The goal is to support local with the framework of GENTE-fication, a Spanglish term meaning "people-fication," instead of gentrification. 4-7 pm, free BEASTLY BOOKS GRAND OPENING Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 You’d think, if the town’s most famous author owned a building, he might have a bookstore ... and now he does! Meet local authors, get books signed and enjoy refreshments, including a champagne toast. 5-9 pm, free BLACK FRIDAY RECORD SALE Lost Padre Records 905 1/2 W. Alameda St., 310-6389 Find exclusive Record Store Day releases, plus 10% off used vinyls. 11 am-6 pm, free
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COMMUNITY DAY AT THE GARDEN Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Free admission to the Garden for New Mexico residents and students (please provide NM and school identification). 10 am, free FASHIONABLE FRIDAY natasha Santa Fe 403 S Guadalupe St., 913-9236 A post-Thanksgiving model walkabout with new works of fashion from local designers and refreshments. 5-7 pm, free GARDEN SPROUTS: PRE-K ACTIVITIES Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Listen to a book and participate in interactive nature and garden related activities. This program is designed for children aged 3-5, but all ages are welcome with an adult. When you arrive, please make your way to the Ojos y Manos: Eyes and Hands Garden across the red bridge. 10-11 am, free HOLIDAY GIFT FAIR Santa Fe Women's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail Local artisans share their ceramics, textiles, jewelry, recycled objects, paintings, jewelry, basketry, ornaments and more. 10 am-5 pm, free PLAZA TREE LIGHTING Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Festivities begin with the Santo Nino Choir and Girl Scouts giving out cookies and hot chocolate. Volunteers start lighting farolitos at 4:30 pm, with the main lighting of over 10,000 lights at 6:30 pm. 3 pm, free
MUSIC BUSY Y LOS BIG DEALS Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Pop 'n' jazz. 6 pm, free CHANGO Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Rock n' roll. 9-11:59 pm, free CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 Modeled after 19th-century Parisian cabarets, enjoy first-rate piano and vocals from Charles Tichenor and friends—playful, interactive, family-friendly and eclectic. Vive la révolution! 6 pm, free DANA SMITH Upper Crust Pizza 329 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0000 Original country-tinged folk songs. 6 pm, free
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 JJ AND THE MYSTICS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 9822565 Rock n' Roll. 8:30 pm, free MANZANARES El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Spanish guitar, Latin percussion and soulful vocals. 9 pm, $5 MUSIC BY J. S. BACH First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Classical tunes performed by flutist Carol Redman and organist David Solem. A freewill offering for the recital fund will be received. For more info call 982-8544, ext. 16. 5:30-6:15 pm, free RAASHAN AHMAD Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Hip-hop, jazz, soul and funk synthesized into one talented artist. 10 pm-1:30 am, free RASMINKO Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 A Bohemian mix of covers 'n' styles on the deck. 5 pm, free RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar by the six-time Native American Music Award nominee and two-time New Mexico Music Industry Award winner (see Music, page 27). 7 pm, free THE GRUVE Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Soul and R&B. 5-9 pm, free THE LONG GONE CD RELEASE Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Original rock from Santa Fe. 8-11 pm, free THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Swinging jazz. 7:30 pm, free TIMBO ARNOLD Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Americana tunes on the deck. 8 pm, free
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The Most Successful Santa Fe Musician You Don’t Know
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’m always dreaming of music, so I keep a recording device nearby so I don’t lose anything when I wake,” Ronald Roybal tells SFR. “Sometimes it takes years to figure out on my instruments what I actually dreamed of.” After 22 years performing at the Hotel Santa Fe and with a new album titled High Plateau in hand, Roybal is looking back over his career. Originally from San Luis, Colorado, Roybal’s roots are very much sewn into the American Southwest. “San Luis isn’t that far away from Taos, as a matter of fact,” he says. “My mother’s family are descended from the Spanish colonizers over 400 years ago, and my father’s family, of the Tewa Pueblo, were there to meet them.” As for Roybal himself, he studied anthropology and psychology at the University of Southern Colorado and graduated in 1980, but it wasn’t until his 30th birthday, when a friend introduced him to the classical guitar, that he had his great epiphany. Roybal began teaching himself classical, flamenco and rock guitar. “Guitar to me is like a puzzle,” he says. “It calls upon the musician to look at the fretboard intelligently.” By the time he moved to Santa Fe in 1997, Roybal had learned the Native American flute, released a couple albums and become a best selling independent artist for outlets like Barnes and Noble—plus nominations at the first-ever Native American Music Awards for Best Instrumental Album and Best Flute Player. Wanting to be closer to his Spanish and Native heritage led him to settle in Santa Fe permanently, but when it came to the performance circuit, Roybal hit the ground running, picked up his signature Friday night gig at Hotel Santa Fe and became a staple in similar rooms at the Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi and La Posada from 1999 until 2008. The ’08 housing crisis drastically cut down his gigs, but, he says, “For a solid 12 or 13
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years, I was pulling 300 shows a year. I’ve never even needed to tour.” Looking to the present, Roybal says his new album carries multiple meanings and is not only a testament to the high desert he calls home, but a declaration of his more than three decades of experience. “This is a culmination of the later half of my life as a musician,” he explains. So he didn’t pull any punches. High Plateau took three years to complete with Roybal handling the bulk of writing and arranging duties. There are special contributions, like from Santa Fe guitarist Ruben Romero, who Roybal says is a longtime musical influence. “I had recordings of Ruben and I jamming together, which were well over 20 years old,” Roybal tells SFR. “Thankfully I had them saved on a digital medium and incorporated them pretty seamlessly.” Roybal’s solo songs, however, wound up more complicated than ever. Some of the compositions required him to step up his proficiency on instruments like the piano. “Some of the songs are more complicated than what I’m able to play at the time, so it takes a lot of practice,” he says. “The piano accompaniments took me months of mastery alone.” As such, Roybal considers the album a career high, but says he’s not sure how much longer he’ll write and perform. Age, he says, plays a factor, and a diagnosis of trigeminal neuralgia—a neurological disease that can result in mixed messages between the face and brain and sometimes cause extreme pain—has slowed his flute playing. All the same, he has no regrets. “I get paid to load my gear into my car, transport it, and unload it at the performance space,” Roybal says. “I don’t get paid to play. That’s strictly for the love.”
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THEATER DIFFERENT The Swan 1213 Parkway Drive, 466-3533 The experimental theater troupe Grottesco presents a reinterpreted tale of Joan of Arc told through dance and wordless expressions (see Acting Out, page 35). 7:30 pm, $12-$25 WISE FOOL NEW MEXICO'S CIRCUS LUMINOUS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 A socially conscious circus extravaganza filled with daring feats of balance and athleticism, poignant humor and visual delights. 7 pm, $12-$45
SAT/30 ART OPENINGS HOLIDAY POP-UP ART SALE Edition ONE Gallery 728 Canyon Road, 570-5385 Twelve Santa Fe artists show their work across a variety of mediums and offer gifts for sale. 11 am-4 pm, free LIGHTNING BOY FOUNDATION ART SHOW La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Proceeds from sales go to benefit the foundation, which provides hoop and other traditional dance training to Northern New Mexican Native youth (see 3Qs, page 29). 9 am-5 pm, free
BOOKS/LECTURES FIRE GHOSTS Los Alamos Nature Center 2600 Canyon Road, 662-0460 Photographers/Authors Philip Metcalf and Patricia Galagan with writers Craig D. Allen, William deBuys and Katherine Ware discuss their book about wildfire and its aftermath in the Los Alamos area. 11 am-1:30 pm, free
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LISA AND TOM PERINI: PERINI RANCH STEAKHOUSE Santa Fe School of Cooking 125 N Guadalupe St. The Perinis are presented by Santa Fe author and radio host Cheryl Alters Jamison to discuss their cookbook and sign copies. 2-5 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 (see SFR Picks, page 21). 10:30 am-1 pm, free SAINTS AND SINNERS op.cit Books DeVargas Center, 157 Paseo de Peralta, 428-0321 Authors Melanie Faithful and Sally Nelson Kruse discuss their new collection of esoteric poetry and photography from New Mexico. 2 pm, free
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 SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY Sage Mesa Collective 1836-B Cerrillos Road, 428-0486 This new artists’ collective offers 10% off bath and body products, along with complimentary beverages and artwork from over 30 local artists. 10 am-4 pm, free CUSTOMER APPRECIATION DAY Garcia Street Books 376 Garcia St., 986-0151 To celebrate New Mexico Small Business Saturday and sales-tax free transactions, Garcia Street offers mulled cider and biscochito refreshments along with a drawing for coupons. 9 am-6 pm, free EL MERCADO DE MUSEO El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Over 60 vendors with art, jewelry, books, furniture, antiques, rugs and much more from around the corner and around the world. 8 am-4 pm, free
GEEKS WHO DRINK Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307, 983-0134 Stellar quiz results can win you drink tickets for next time. 7 pm, free GLOW Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Thousands of twinkling lights and large-scale light installations are aglow throughout the garden. Tonight, live music from B Squared. 5-8 pm, $8-$12 HOLIDAY GIFT FAIR Santa Fe Women's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail Local artisans share their ceramics, textiles, jewelry, recycled objects, paintings, jewelry, basketry, ornaments and more. 10 am-5 pm, free HOLIDAY GIFT SALE Bullseye Glass 805 Early St., 467-8951 Browse local glass artists' work, enjoy refreshments and even make your own glass ornament. 10 am-5 pm, free LIGHTNING BOY FOUNDATION GALA La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 The foundation offers hoop and other traditional dance classes to Northern New Mexican youth ages 2 and up. Come lend your support with a live art auction, fine dining and spirits. 6 pm, $100 OPEN HOUSE/HOLIDAY SHOW John Boland Photography 2 Cielo Encantado, 231-5234 Boland shows his photographs of wild horses in New Mexico. 10 am-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 from a juried group of local artists. It's in the Railyard, just north of the Water Tower. 8 am-2 pm, free
FOOD CHEF NATH THAI VEGAN POP-UP BODY of Santa Fe 333 W Cordova Road, 986-0362 An a la carte menu of plant-based favorites, with a second seating at 8 pm. Sometimes popular dishes run out, so try the first seating for best luck. 5:30 pm, free
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SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-7726 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. The Santa Fe market assures that all products sold by its vendors are always locally grown by the people selling them. All of the vegetables, fruits and nursery plants available are grown right here in Northern New Mexico. The same goes for at least 70% of the ingredients and materials used to make all processed and craft items. 8 am-1 pm, free
MUSIC BILL HEARNE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Honkey Tonk Roadhouse. 1 pm, free BLUES REVUE Ski Santa Fe 1477 Hwy. 475, 982-4429 Live blues music to celebrate the ski basin's opening weekend. 11 am-3 pm, free BRUCE DUNLAP AND BRAHIM FRIGBANE GiG Performance Space 1808 Second St. World jazz. 7:30 pm, $22 CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 Modeled after 19th-century Parisian cabarets, enjoy first-rate piano and vocals from Charles Tichenor and friends—playful, interactive, family-friendly and eclectic. Vive la révolution! 6 pm, free DIRTY BROWN JUG BAND Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 How could a band with a name like that play anything other than outlaw country and Southern rock? 8 pm, 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 FUNGINEERS WINTER BASHIO Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 A group of musicians create an engaging and odd live performance with covers, parodies, beatboxing and improv. 8 pm, $18-$25
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‘Tis the season of arts shows and gift fairs, but an event this weekend raises money for Lightning Boy Foundation, a nonprofit that teaches hoop dance to Native kids and assists dancers with equipment, costumes and transportation to dance events and competitions. The foundation honors Valentino Rivera, the late son of former Pojoaque Pueblo Gov. George Rivera and Felicia Rosacker-Rivera—a kid who loved to dance, and who died in 2016 at the age of 8 following brain and spinal injuries from a car crash. Together with their friends and champion dancers Steve and Nakotah LaRance, the Riveras established the nonprofit to promote dance for youth and in memory of their son. A fundraising weekend includes a public art show from noon to 8 pm, Friday, Nov. 29 and from 9 am to 5 pm, Saturday, Nov. 30 at La Fonda on the Plaza (100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511). SFR caught up with Felicia in her last-minute preparations. (Julie Ann Grimm)
What is it about hoop dance that is so attractive to children, and what do they get out of it? I think it’s challenging and I think it’s a good way to be able to express who they are and their culture through dance because they can do all the formations. It’s not just their body making the motions, they can also make formations with the hoops. Are programs just for Native kids? The hoop dance portion is just for Native American kids and the biggest reason is it’s traditionally a Native American ceremonial dance, so it varies from tribe to tribe of how they interpret that, but for the World Hoop Dance Championship, you have to be enrolled in a tribe to compete. A lot of them want to get there. That’s one of the goals. They really like performing around New Mexico as well. Is hoop dance experiencing a resurgence or are people in Santa Fe just lucky to see so much of it? I think it’s definitely in a resurgence here in Northern New Mexico and that resurgence has started with the LaRance family moving back to New Mexico and the initial hoop dance group that we started out at the pueblo, and then branching out into a hoop dance group that accepts students from any pueblo or tribe. I don’t know that there were very many Native American hoop dancers at the competition from New Mexico or the pueblos until the LaRances came back and started teaching. It’s the 30th year for the World Hoop Dance Championships. It was always there, but they have commented, too, at the Heard Museum in Phoenix that they are getting a huge amount of participation compared to the previous years.
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Fredrick Cruz (Tohono O’odham) Untitled (Dog with Hat), ca. 2009
Is this owl just landing or taking off? Why is he holding a key? Does he have friends? These questions and more are answered in Jim Vogel’s new exhibit, Bird on a Wire, opening this week at Blue Rain Gallery; see page 23.
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GUSTAVO PIMENTEL El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Classical flamenco guitar. 7:30-10:30 pm, free JAKE REYNOLDS Honeymoon Brewery Solana Center, 907 W Alameda St., Ste. B, 303-3139 Acoustic guitar and vocals. 8 pm, free JOHN CAREY BAND Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Rock n' roll. 9-11:59 pm, free JOHN KURZWEG BAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock 'n' roll. 8:30 pm, free MALIN'S RHYTHM 'N ROLL BAND Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Rhythm blues. 8-11 pm, free
MICHAEL GARFIELD Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar (Apothecary) 133 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 Folk and psychedelic rock. 7-9 pm, free NMPAS WINTER SOLSTICE CONCERT Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel 50 Mt. Carmel Road, 988-1975 The New Mexico Performing Arts Society presents selections from Bach and Vivaldi, performed by the New Mexico Bach Society. 7 pm, free RON ROUGEAU The Dragon Room 406 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-7712 Acoustic songs from the '60s, '70s and beyond. 5:30 pm, free RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar by the six-time Native American Music Award nominee and two-time New Mexico Music Industry Award winner. 7 pm, free
SAVOR El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Cuban street music. 9 pm, $5 SHANE WALLIN Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 A bit of soul and pop from New Mexico's own. 5-8 pm, free SISTER MARY MAYHEM Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Classic rock covers. 10 pm-1:30 am, free SUSAN GABRIEL Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Singer/songwriter on multiple instruments including lute, ukulele and percussion. 7-9 pm, free TIMBO ARNOLD AND FRIENDS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Americana tunes on the deck. 3 pm, free CONTINUED ON PAGE 32
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So Long, Steve
After nearly four decades in journalism, Steve Terrell calls it quits
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onfession time: Steve Terrell has scared the hell out of me for the vast majority of my career. It’s not anything he ever actively did to me, more like he was this intimidating phantom of experience looming over me doing everything I was doing (and way more) but so much better and seemingly so much more easily. He’d probably disagree because he’s nice, but for any Santa Fe culture writers who came or come after, Terrell should feel like the gold standard. We finally met in real life last week—my fault, not his—to look back over his career following his retirement from the Santa Fe New Mexican, his home paper since 1987. For someone like Terrell, though, who covered pretty much anything that wasn’t sports, a retrospective is a tall order. For that reason, we’ll skim past how he moved to Santa Fe from Oklahoma in 1968 and attended high school where City Hall now stands, how he says his mom convinced him a Methodist teen hang would be a good way to make friends, how there were two drive-in theaters back then and how he tried to become a high school English teacher but only ever made it as far as a sub. We’ll start instead with Terrell’s journalism, which kicked off in 1980 after a Time Magazine article about the best records of 1979 pissed him off so badly that he submitted his own list to the Santa Fe Reporter’s then-editor Richard McCord. Turns out SFR liked the piece so much that McCord ran it without bothering to tell Terrell beforehand, and it wasn’t long before arts and culture editor Anna Dooling (like a proto-me, but y’all probably liked her better) came calling
with a freelance offer to cover folk singer Dave Van Ronk. Terrell describes the subsequent show and meeting as boozy. “Every one of Dave’s rounds was a Guinness, a Jameson Irish whiskey and a shot of tequila,” Terrell says. “I wrote it up. It went well.” And the freelance SFR jobs kept coming, including an ill-fated drunken journey to cover blues legend Taj Mahal during which Terrell argued with his wife and wrestled with a broken-down tape recorder. “I had to hitchhike home,” Terrell recalls. “My notes were raw gibberish, my tape was messed up, I only remembered a few things, didn’t memorize it good enough—but I turned it in with a straight
face and it was the lead story that week.” Features came later, as did a full-time position with SFR. By then, Terrell had had a kid or two, and the Albuquerque Journal lured him away in 1984 with promises of fame and fortune. “I felt invincible,” he says of the transition. He worked there for three years before moving over to the New Mexican— and the rest, as they say, is history. While there, Terrell worked crime, police and courts, culture, the city beat and so on. He started a radio show, he started a podcast. If there was a story to tell, he probably told it. By 2000, he began covering the state Legislature, a beat he worked so well that his retirement last week found
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politicians swinging by Marcy Street to say their emotional goodbyes and Twitter abuzz with journalists from around the state touting his influential coverage and presence; the Roundhouse, it seems, will never be the same. Still, Terrell says, he’s seen Santa Fe evolve since the ’60s, and pretty much everything goes back to the old axiom about how the more things change, the more they stay the same. “Physically, there are a lot of different buildings. Restaurants have come and gone. The city has grown in size. But the same issues pop up,” he says. “Some things have fallen in or out of favor, but they’ll be back or they’ll go away again. The basic essence of Santa Fe? It’s the same.” Which brings us to today. “Today, except for running errands, this is my obligation,” Terrell says during our interview. “Right now it just feels like a day off.” But why now? Sure, Terrell is 66 and had a bit of a health scare last year that almost killed him (necrotizing fasciitis, aka flesh-eating bacteria), but these are dark times and capable journalists with deep insight into the city and the years under their belt to prove it—who also understand wit and levity—are needed now more than ever, I say. “I’ve seen colleagues wait too long,” Terell explains. “I survived I don’t know how many layoffs, had to do more with less, I said … ‘life is too short.’” He’s got grandchildren now. He’s got a big fat pile of books to read. He’s got plans to take his tablet to the park on nice days and while away the hours. He’ll still host Terrell’s Sound World on KSFR, and his Big Enchilada podcast will go on. “I had a recurring mantra in my music column,” Terrell says. “Santa Fe has more good musicians than we deserve, and it’s true.” We probably didn’t deserve Steve, either, but then, hindsight is 20-20. We’ll miss you, buddy.
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DIFFERENT The Swan 1213 Parkway Drive, 466-3533 The experimental theater troupe Grottesco presents a reinterpreted tale of Joan of Arc told through dance and wordless expressions (see Acting Out, page 35). 7:30 pm, $12-$25 WISE FOOL NEW MEXICO'S CIRCUS LUMINOUS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 A socially conscious circus extravaganza filled with daring feats of balance and athleticism, poignant humor and visual delights. 2 & 7 pm, $12-$45
WORKSHOP BODY PERCUSSION Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Maurice Oliver teaches how to utilize counting games from India, Africa and Latin America to involve participants in polyrhythmic counting, chanting, onomatopoeia, clapping, stepping and slapping of body parts to create symphonys and concertos. 6-7 pm, $15-$30 FRACTALS ARE SMART: SCIENCE, MATH AND ART Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Learn about fractals with the Fractal Foundation. 1-6 pm, free
SUN/1 BOOKS/LECTURES WITHOUT RESERVATIONS TWEAKS THE WORLD Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Cartoonist Ricardo Caté discusses growing up on the reservation and how his daily cartoon column, Without Reservations, resonates across cultural boundaries. 11 am, free
EVENTS EL MERCADO DE MUSEO El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Over 60 vendors with art, jewelry, books, furniture, antiques, rugs and much more from around the corner and around the world. 10 am-4 pm, free GLOW Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Thousands of twinkling lights and large-scale light installations are aglow throughout the garden. Tonight, live music from Lauria & Kott. 5-8 pm, $8-$12
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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 HOLIDAY GIFT FAIR Santa Fe Women's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail Local artisans share their ceramics, textiles, jewelry, recycled objects, paintings, jewelry, basketry, ornaments and more. 10 am-5 pm, free MEDITATION CIRCLE El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road, 982-1931 All abilities welcome! Bring a blanket or cushion and start your Sunday with some breath. On the event lawn across from the pool. 9-10 am, free MUSEUM STORE SUNDAY Various locations Santa Fe Museum shops around the country, including many in Santa Fe, offer special gift deals and festive shopping experiences with refreshments. Participating locations include SITE Santa Fe, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and the Museum of New Mexico Foundation's shops. 9 am-5 pm, free OPEN HOUSE/HOLIDAY SHOW John Boland Photography 2 Cielo Encantado, 231-5234 Boland shows his photographs of wild horses in New Mexico. 10 am-4 pm, free
MUSIC BERT DALTON AND FRIENDS Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Piano-led Latin jazz. 11:30 am-3 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 JACK SENFF; FUTURE SCARS (ACOUSTIC); ATALAYA Ghost 2899 Trades West Road, 87507 Sweet and sometimes emotional acoustic music from Michigan, Santa Fe and beyond. 7-11 pm, $5-$10 MELANIE AND PAUL Museum Hill Café 710 Camino Lejo, 984-8900 A blend of classical and jazz on piano and bass. 12-2 pm, free
ROBERT MARCUM WITH BRIAN DEAR La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Acoustic covers and originals. 6-8:30 pm, free RYAN & THE RESISTORS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Country 'n' folk. 8 pm, free SPACE IN TIME; JESSIE DELUXE; BLACK MARIA Zephyr Community Art Studio 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 Heavy rock'n'roll out of Denver with support from local rockers Deluxe and Maria. 7-11:30 pm, $5-$10 SUGAR MOUNTAIN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Neil Young tributes. 12 pm, free SUNDAY AFTERNOON BEER BASH Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 A new monthly event featuring DJs from across New Mexico. This first iteration includes Albuquerque’s DJ K.Oss playing an exclusive digital set and DJ Atakra with access to his entire postpunk music collection to play whatever he thinks is fun right now. 4-9 pm, free THE AMAZING HONEYBOYS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Blues on the deck. 3 pm, free
THEATER WISE FOOL NEW MEXICO'S CIRCUS LUMINOUS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 A socially conscious circus extravaganza filled with daring feats of balance and athleticism, poignant humor and visual delights. This is a special low-sensory performance for people who aren't into all the flashy loud stuff that circuses usually do. 4 pm, $12-$45
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lunching spots in town, suddenly shuttered its doors with a sign reading “Santacafé is under new ownership and temporarily closed,” local teeth were a-chatter about what that meant. Who was this new owner and what did it mean for the old Santa Fe standard? “Santacafé was similar [to Coyote Café] in the sense that it’s not like I waited for a ‘for sale’ sign to come up—I initiated
contact,” Stephenson explains. “I felt that if I hadn’t inquired, I would regret it.” Nerves were eased when it turned out Santacafé’s sudden closure was Stephenson once again exercising his entrepreneurial muscle and, after four months, Santacafé reopened with a light new look and revamped menu. Where Coyote Café focuses on modern New Mexican, Santacafé continues its
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tradition of fresh, fusion-ish cuisine. Though the menu is a bit healthier—for instance, buttered lobster on brioche has been implemented in place of a ridiculously rich lobster pot pie—it’s still thoughtfully curated bistro-style food that takes advantage of Northern New Mexico’s seasonal harvest bounty. “With the remodeled space, we truly have the architecture to create something very special,” Stephenson tells SFR. “My vision is to not necessarily focus on quantity, but quality. For me it’s not about the number of guests but the quality of their experience.” While some gripe that Santa Fe dining has become overpriced and too tourist-focused, Stephenson disagrees. “There are some great restaurants which comprise the majority of the 400 restaurants that I imagine cater very much to the locals. I don’t think the average person understands what it takes financially to provide a beautiful space for you to relax in and provide a professional staff to serve you,” he says. “When you factor in rents, licensing, very high minimum wage, cost of food and beverage and what it takes on a daily basis, it never ceases to amaze me when frugal people complain.” Owning two restaurants, each with its own nuances and audience, is a lot to manage. One wonders if Stephenson ever gets a chance to relax? “Unfortunately not lately, I’m still very much working my tail off day in and day out,” he says. “My work is social so it’s not like I don’t ‘get out,’ but I could certainly use a day at home in the hammock!” While maintaining the high standards of excellence for which Coyote Café and Santacafé have become known, and “building a company that has integrity and genuine values,” Stephenson may want to plan ahead for a little time off, and not just in a hammock, but for his next, and perhaps most exciting venture: “marrying my fiancé, Nicole.”
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WORKSHOP BELLY DANCE CLASSES Lightfoot Studio 332 Camino del Monte Sol, 369-2055 A Level 1/warm-up class begins at 1:15, with a Level 2/ intermediate class at 2:15 pm. 1:15-3:15 pm, $12-$22
MON/2 BOOKS/LECTURES FAMINE FOODS OF THE SOUTHWEST Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Paul E Minnis, archaeologist, discusses ancient foodways during times of little. 6 pm, $15
MONDAY STORY TIME Bee Hive Kid's Books 328 Montezuma Ave, 780-8051 Story time for all ages. 10:30 am, free
DANCE MONDAY NIGHT SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, 470-7077 Arrive at 7 pm for a lesson if you desire, then get dancin' to DJ'ed music. Singles are just as welcome as partners, all ages are invited—and if you'd just like to sit, watch and listen, there are also chairs for spectators (and they won't think it's weird!). 7 pm, $3-$8
EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Draft Station, Santa Fe Arcade, 60 E San Francisco St., 983-6443 Stellar quiz results can win you drink tickets for next time. 7 pm, free
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 THE SANTA FE HARMONIZERS REHEARSAL Zia United Methodist Church 3368 Governor Miles Road, 471-0997 The barbershop chorus is looking for folks who can carry a tune; join in on any of the four-part harmony parts (tenor, lead, baritone or bass). Directed by Maurice Sheppard. For more information, call Marv (699-6922) or Bill (424-9042). 6:30 pm, free
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n the cover of a large art book I picked up in Brussels, Belgium, a few years ago is a crisp image of stark black letters on a yellow background. It’s a piece by British printmaker and graphic artist Anthony Burrill, and I think of it often when viewing various forms of art in Santa Fe: “I LIKE IT. WHAT IS IT?” The quip ran through my head almost incessantly during Different, the newest presentation from local experimental troupe Theater Grottesco. Indeed, when asked what I thought of the performance, I say I enjoyed it—even if I didn’t always necessarily know what was going on. Still, it raised the question: Is theater communication, spectacle, art or some hybrid of the three? And what could this be considered? That seems to be a typical response to pieces from Grottesco, which specializes in improvisation, interpretive movement and non-word vocalizations; actors work to create atmospheres rather than settings, feelings rather than stories. The relationship between actors is always key. While each participant invariably has a thick resume dotted with some of the best schools and teachers of theater and movement, what is created in the moment between folks onstage takes precedence
over what we typically expect from a rehearsed piece of theater. In Different, six women depict an adaptation of the story of Joan of Arc, written by Patrick Mehaffy, through movement, utterances and narration. I wasn’t positive what I was getting into when I sat down, and after a solemn start to the piece with performers running barefoot in all directions and relating to each other through huffs, clicks and crystalline single-note drones, I couldn’t help but wonder how I’d get through an hour of this. But then, thank goodness, someone starts talking. We are brought to a farm in northern France, where Joan and her sister Camille wake up in a farmhouse and prepare for their morning chores. The piece unfolds organically and smoothly, and nothing like a rebus—as in, when the narrator mentions birds chirping, a performer doesn’t start making bird sounds. When Joan is described leaping from bed, there’s no one miming that action on the other side of the stage. The performers instead seem to act on a deeper, more quintessential instinct, offering ambiance rather than discernible settings, creating something at once ancient and contemporary. Most folks know how the Joan of Arc story ends (spoiler alert: She’s burned
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FOOD DUMPLING POP-UP Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Brent Jung serves up Korean dumplings and more from an a la carte menu. 4 pm, cost of food
MUSIC CASEY ANDERSEN AND MOHIT DUBEY Dinner for Two 106 N Guadalupe St., 87501, 820-2075 Classical and jazz guitar. 6 pm, free COWGIRL KARAOKE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Michèle Leidig hosts Santa Fe's most famous night of karaoke. 9 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, originals and pop with vocals too. 6:30 pm, free HIP POCKET Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Rock n' roll. 6-9 pm, free MELLOW MONDAYS WITH DJ OBI ZEN Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Chill-out tunes with drink specials to celebrate the "service worker's weekend." 10 pm, free
WORKSHOP ART AS SELF-CARE Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Art therapist Chelsea Call facilitates a group process to build community and selfcare and enhance emotional intelligence through art. 5:30-7:30 pm, $15-$30
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LA TIERRA TOASTMASTERS Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road Discover where one can advance their public speaking skills in a lively and rewarding group. Guests are always welcome. Meetings every Monday. latierra.toastmastersclubs. org. 12-1 pm, free
TUE/3 BOOKS/LECTURES BOOKS AND BABIES Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Bring the baby to enjoy books, songs and finger games from the comfort of your lap. 10:30–11:30 am, free MELINDA SNODGRASS: DOUBLE SOLITAIRE Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 The author discusses her new work of science fiction, which is soon to be a Hulu series and was edited by our local fave George R R Martin. 6:30-8:30 pm, $5-$25
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 ANNUAL HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE New Mexico Governor's Mansion 1 Mansion Drive, 476-2800 Come see the Governor's residence all gussied up for the holidays, with refreshments and sourvenirs provided. Children are welcome. 1-3 pm, free SANTA FE INDIVISIBLE MEETING Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Join the politically progressive group to put into action the planning you did last night. Divide and conquer! Newcomers are always welcome, so go fight the good fight. 9 am, free METTA REFUGE COUNCIL: SUPPORT FOR ILLNESS AND LOSS Upaya Zen Center, 1404 Cerro Gordo Road 986-8518 This group is appropriate for those living with an illness, approaching end of life, partners, caregivers, hospice staff and clergy. For more information, contact Susan Benjamin: arttherapy@aol.com. 10:30 am–12:30 pm, free
VIDEO LIBRARY HOLIDAY EVENT Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Enjoy good food, live music, raffles and a silent auction in support of Santa Fe's homegrown video rental service. 6-9 pm, $20
FOOD BEYOND THE TEA BAG ArtfulTea 101 W Marcy St., 795-7724 This class is an introduction to loose-leaf teas, with the opportunity to taste four different kinds: a white, green, oolong and black. Register online at artfultea.com/teaclasses or call ahead. 2 pm, $20
MUSIC ALEX MARYOL Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Bluesy rock. 6 pm, free BLUEGRASS JAM Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 You guessed it: It's a bluegrass jam. 6 pm, free BRUCE ADAMS Hilton Santa Fe 100 Sandoval St. 988-2811 Jazz standards on piano. 6:30 pm, free CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Sign up to sing or play if you desire, but be forewarned— this ain't amateur hour. 8 pm, $5 DAVID WOOD Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, Broadway tunes and classical faves. 6 pm, free PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo jazz guitar. 6 pm, free CHUSCALES La Boca (Original Location) 72 W Marcy St., 982-3433 Exotic flamenco guitar. 7 pm, free VINTAGE VINYL NITE The Matador 116 W San Francisco St., 984-5050 For 11 years and counting, 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 (see SFR Picks, page 21). 9 pm, free
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Russell Cheney, New Mexico (Penitente), 1929, oil on canvas. A new exhibit exploring the Penitente brotherhood opens this week at the New Mexico Museum of Art. Expect lots of momento mori and mysterious landscape.
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
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Though the Chinese legend of Lady White Snake dates back to around the Tang Dynasty (that’s the 600s, y’all), its enduring legacy has stretched into any number of television, comic book, opera and film formats. Its newest foray is that of the computer animated film from newcomer directors Amp Wong, previously an animator himself, and Ji Zhao, previously an editor, and it’s a rather enjoyable though imperfect retelling. In the tale, a beautiful woman/snake spirit named Blanca is sent to assassinate an evil general who is using dark magic to consolidate his power. Failing, she loses her memories and awakens sometime later in a Snakecatcher Village high in the mountains. There, the denizens catch snakes for a living for some reason; there, she falls in love with Xuan, the black sheep of the villagers who fears snakes but thirsts for knowledge alongside his dog Dudou. Blanca mistakenly believes herself to be human, but as her snake spirit kin and the evil general search for her, she slowly begins to remember her past as Xuan winds up willing to do whatever it takes to be with her—even giving up his humanity altogether. Cue martial arts and awesome demons both good and bad; cue legendary Chinese storytelling
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tradition of challenging adventure and painful circumstance which both make way for moral and inter-personal growth. White Snake is a gorgeously animated affair, from the strange worlds of windswept mountains and frozen battlefields to the bizarre and exaggerated takes on Chinese demons. While certain characters, mostly Xuan, fall victim to the uncanny valley, others, particularly a fox demon and some of the snake spirits, bear artful and compelling designs. It’s a pity other characters like Dudou the dog wind up feeling Disney-fied at times, but for every moment it feels like White Snake might be pandering for laughs, it unleashes a massive fight scene choreographed and animated in a way we don’t honestly see in the States or a story beat far more tragic and real than we’re used to from such films. But then, it’s hard to tell exactly who White Snake is for. Some scenes contain non-cartoonish violence while others are far too sexy for kids—so
why does the dog seem to play to youths? Chalk it up to some kind of cultural difference; maybe kids in China are trusted to understand darker themes? Either way, White Snake never treats its audience like it won’t or can’t understand, and that is rare in animated features. So really, don’t take your kids unless they’re a little older, and don’t expect hand holding. Instead, prepare for an artfully told journey film with enough surprising elements to feel fresh and enough familiar ones as to avoid culture shock. You’ll laugh and cry and also probably gasp—you’ll forgive them for a middle section that feels sooooo long and boring.
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for families to watch together, and there’s some kind of pseudo-valuable message about how we need to love ourselves before we can love others, but most of the cast’s heavy hitters—like Patty Lupone and Emma Thompson (who also wrote the script)—aren’t used effectively. Still, holiday movies are going to come out every year, and Last Christmas is at least a little better than typical Hallmark schlock. You’ll get the feels, you’ll get the unpredictable conclusion—but Jesus, pump the breaks on the George Michael music! (Cade Guerrero)
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Just in time for the holidays, Last Christmas from director Paul Feig (that 2016 Ghostbusters reboot) provides a heartwarming story about a young woman named Kate (Emilia Clarke, the mother of dragons herself) and her attempts to get her life together. Kate spends her days working as an elf for “Santa” (Michelle Yeoh) in a yearround Christmas store and her nights either couch-surfing or auditioning for any acting or singing gigs she can find. Kate struggles to maintain an already strained relationship with her Yugoslavian immigrant family and any number of friendships, but after a life-saving heart transplant, she transforms from a bumbling but caring dork into a cold shell of a woman—and we haven’t even gotten to the the shoehorned romantic interest Tom (Crazy Rich Asians star Henry Golding) and the big twist ending! The twist does manage to be surprising, but the remainder of the film, particularly Clarke and Golding’s chemistry, falls flat. Feig’s vision becomes a good-enough movie
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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. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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the pair collaborates once more on a 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. (ADV)
Doctor Sleep does Stephen King ... or something. No Terminators here.
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 (Alex Essoe) and 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 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? (Julie Ann Grimm)
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Pain and Glory: Terminator-free.
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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. CONTINUED ON PAGE 43
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When it comes to terminating Terminators and Terminator-like entities, there is nobody who terminates those Terminators as proficiently as Sarah Conner (Linda Hamilton). Bong’s eye is, as always, masterful, from the 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 goingson 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)
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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 multiple 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. (CG)
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Humans invented the plow in 4,500 BC, the wheel in 4,000 BC, and writing in 3,400 BC. But long before that, by 6,000 BC, they had learned how to brew beer and make psychoactive drugs from plants. Psychopharmacologist Ronald Siegel points to this evidence to support his hypothesis that the yearning to transform our normal waking consciousness is a basic drive akin to our need to eat and drink. Of course, there are many ways to accomplish this shift besides alcohol and drugs. They include dancing, singing, praying, drumming, meditating, and having sex. What are your favorite modes? According to my astrological analysis, it’ll be extra important for you to alter your habitual perceptions and thinking patterns during the coming weeks.
in the meantime, you’ll get fully recharged. No more than three weeks from now, you’ll be so energized that you’ll make up for all the lost time—and more.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): What’s something you’re afraid of, but pretty confident you could become unafraid of? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to dismantle or dissolve that fear. Your levels of courage will be higher than usual, and your imagination will be unusually ingenious in devising methods and actions to free you of the unnecessary burden. Step one: Formulate an image or scene that symbolizes the dread, and visualize yourself blowing it up with a “bomb” made of a hundred roses. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The word “enantiodromia” refers to a phenomenon that occurs when a vivid form of expression turns into its opposite, often in dramatic fashion. Yang becomes yin; resistance transforms into welcome; loss morphs into gain. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you Geminis are the sign of the zodiac that’s most likely to experience enantiodromia in the coming weeks. Will it be a good thing or a bad thing? You can have a lot of influence over how that question resolves. For best results, don’t fear or demonize contradictions and paradoxes. Love and embrace them. CANCER (June 21-July 22): There are Americans who speak only one language, English, and yet imagine they are smarter than bilingual immigrants. That fact amazes me, and inspires me to advise me and all my fellow Cancerians to engage in humble reflection about how we judge our fellow humans. Now is a favorable time for us to take inventory of any inclinations we might have to regard ourselves as superior to others; to question why we might imagine others aren’t as worthy of love and respect as we are; or to be skeptical of any tendency we might have dismiss and devalue those who don’t act and think as we do. I’m not saying we Cancerians are more guilty of these sins than everyone else; I’m merely letting you know that the coming weeks are our special time to make corrections. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation,” wrote the sensually wise poet Kenneth Rexroth. That’s a provocative and profitable inspiration for you to tap into. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you’re in the Season of Lucky Plucky Delight, when brave love can save you from wrong turns and irrelevant ideas; when the grandeur of amour can be your teacher and catalyst. If you have a partner with whom you can conduct these educational experiments, wonderful. If you don’t, be extra sweet and intimate with yourself.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Most sane people wish there could be less animosity between groups that have different beliefs and interests. How much better the world would be if everyone felt a generous acceptance toward those who are unlike them. But the problem goes even deeper: Most of us are at odds with ourselves. Here’s how author Rebecca West described it: Even the different parts of the same person do not often converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other. That’s the bad news, Libra. The good news is that the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to promote unity and harmony among all the various parts of yourself. I urge you to entice them to enter into earnest conversations with each other! SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Poet Cecilia Woloch asks, “How to un-want what the body has wanted, explain how the flesh in its wisdom was wrong?” Did the apparent error occur because of some “some ghost in the mind?” she adds. Was it due to “some blue chemical rushing the blood” or “some demon or god”? I’m sure that you, like most of us, have experienced this mystery. But the good news is that in the coming weeks you will have the power to un-want inappropriate or unhealthy experiences that your body has wanted. Step one: Have a talk with yourself about why the thing your body has wanted isn’t in alignment with your highest good.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In his own time, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was acclaimed and beloved. At the height of his fame, he earned $3,000 per poem. But modern literary critics think that most of what he created is derivative, sentimental, and unworthy of serious appreciation. In dramatic contrast is poet Emily Dickinson (1830–1886). Her writing was virtually unknown in her lifetime, but is now regarded as among the best ever. In accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to sort through your own past so as to determine which of your work, like Longfellow’s, should be archived as unimportant or irrelevant, and which, like Dickinson’s, deserves to be a continuing inspiration as you glide into the future.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian composer Ludwig van Beethoven was inclined to get deeply absorbed in his work. Even when he took time to attend to the details of daily necessity, he allowed himself to be spontaneously responsive to compelling musical inspirations that suddenly welled up in him. On more than a few occasions, he lathered his face with the nineteenth-century equivalent of shaving cream, then got waylaid by a burst of brilliance and forgot to actually shave. His servants found that amusing. I suspect that the coming weeks may be Beethoven-like for you, Sagittarius. I bet you’ll be surprised by worthy fascinations and subject to impromptu illuminations.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the follow-up story to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, our heroine uses a magic mirror as a portal into a fantastical land. There she encounters the Red Queen, and soon the two of them are holding hands as they run as fast as they can. Alice notices that despite their great effort, they don’t seem to be moving forward. What’s happening? The Queen clears up the mystery: In her realm, you must run as hard as possible just to remain in the same spot. Sound familiar, Virgo? I’m wondering whether you’ve had a similar experience lately. If so, here’s my advice: Homework: You have the power to re-genius yourself. Stop running. Sit back, relax, and allow the world to zoom by you. Yes, you might temporarily fall behind. But Guidance: https://tinyurl.com/ReGeniusYourself
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Sensual Art Showcase Nice n’ Naughty Edition Thursday, Dec. 26 - 6pm - 10pm David Loughridge Learning Center at Meow Wolf FREE EVENT * $5 Suggested Donation
TEXTILE REPAIR 505.629.7007
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SAGE MESA COLLECTIVE
NM Artisan Goods Wed thru Sun - 10 am to 5 pm @sagemesacollective
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INNER FOR TWO 106 N. Guadalupe Street (505) 820-2075 •
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live jazz band!
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of your life –
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108 Galisteo Street
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