December 11, 2019: Santa Fe Reporter

Outdoor recreation advocates say the industry could shape the state's future—and solve its most entrenched problems

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RECYCLE IT RIGHT 11 SFR discovers the shameful mess some people leave in the blue bin, plus tips for helping Santa Fe’s sorters COVER STORY 12 MOVING MOUNTAINS Outdoor recreation has the potential to bring new visitors, residents and cash to the state

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THE INTERFACE 17 RACK YOUR BRAINS Social media’s “attention economy” may be a lot more harmful than it seems

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Mail or deliver letters to 132 E Marcy St., Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501; or email them to editor@sfreporter.com. Letters (no more than 200 words) should refer to specific articles in the Reporter. Letters will be edited for space and clarity.

FOOD, DEC. 4: “THE MUCK AND THE HOLLAR”

NO SEPTIC PROBLEMS The only Madrid septic problem is at The Hollar. While septic generally requires maintenance, the statement that effluent runs rampant in the streets of Madrid is yellow dog at its finest. I think your reporter attempted objectivity, but the quotes he incorporates are wrong, inappropriate and hurtful.

This is a beautiful town with beautiful people. Were there a septic problem, residents would remedy that promptly no matter the source. It’s what the community does—takes care of problems even when the problem-causers won’t or can’t.

A clarification and correction of this coverage is truly warranted. You will not find support for the idea that there is ever a smell in town from other than The Hollar, the owner of which has made his problem public and dramatic. In his angst he has painted with a brush which should have been narrowed to describe his singular problem. It is now up to you to do so.

Thank you.

CHUCK ASPINWALL MADRID

SENSATIONAL REPORTING Did Cole Rehbein take that walk to verify the statement he just made to the citizens of New Mexico? I would guess not. Claims by the interviewee notwithstanding, this is irresponsible reporting based on an attempt to sensationalize an unfortunate, but limited (to The Hollar) problem. To publish an unsubstantiated story of overflowing septic all over the town of Madrid portrays its citizens and merchants as uncaring about their own homes, businesses and the health of their families. This, on the opening weekend of a holiday season which Madrid depends on for its economic health. Many citizens own, or are employed by, the shops, galleries and restaurants here. Thanks for telling everyone to stay away.

Please retract and rewrite this negative information in an obvious way which makes it clear to your readers that the original article grossly sensationalizes a problem limited to one location.

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CHIPOTLE OPENS IN SANTA FE THIS WEEK In other towns, this probably wouldn’t even be in the newspaper.

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READ IT ON SFREPORTER.COM OF CRIMES AND NUISANCES Police have made more than two dozen visits this year to a Lopez Street address where a man was stabbed to death two weeks ago.

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5:00–8:00 pm This leisurely stroll along the Ancestral Sites Trail, lighted by thousands of farolitos is sure to get you into the holiday spirit!

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Free visitor parking will be located at the Pecos Elementary School, just north of the Village of Pecos, on the west side of Hwy. 63. Limited handicapped parking will be available at the park visitor center. There will be free school bus shuttles to take visitors to and from the park visitor center and parking area. The parking area opens at 4:30 p.m. and buses will begin taking visitors to both events at 5:00 p.m. The last visitor shuttle from the school parking lot to the park will leave at 7:00 p.m. There is no other parking available at Pecos National Historical Park.

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These Hats N are Made for Working

odding toward “classic style” probably isn’t too heavy a crown if you’ve got $1,800 to spend on a hat.

Such is the case for Mayor Alan Webber, according to a glowing front-page piece published in The Santa Fe New Mexican on Nov. 17 about hizzoner’s fondness for the “Open Road” style of headpiece popularized by US presidents Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson.

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But spending an amount of money that contains a comma on a hat … well, that got SFR to thinking. So we went out and interviewed a handful of men about the hats they wear with purpose, then asked what they’d do with an extra couple grand if they had it.

Each barely stopped his task for our interview.

THE BLACKSMITH

Locals explain what their heads require, and what they would do with the $1,800 the mayor spent on his hat

Maxwell Bennett is a born and raised New Mexican who works as an artisanal blacksmith. SFR meets Bennett at his workshop, which he put together himself in the backyard of his childhood home in Española.

He works around the country as a blacksmith for clients, but his dream is to be a sculpture artist full time.

He owns two hats for work on cold mornings: a worn red beanie his grandmother knitted for him and a gray one he figures cost about $7.

If Bennett had $1,800 to spend, he says he would buy more tools for his blacksmith work—or pay off a chunk toward the heavy weight of his student loan.

“Tools are an investment in my business and my work, and can end up making me money,” Bennett says. “But at the same time, it’d be great to get those [loans] out of the way.”

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THE RESTAURANTEUR Hugo Sena co-owns the downtown eatery Tres Colores. Like Bennett, he tells SFR, he’d put a spare $1,800 back into his business.

“Oh my God, with $1,800…I would definitely give it to the employees as a bonus…so they can buy presents for their families or for themselves,” Sena tells SFR as he chops tomatoes and prepares for the breakfast rush.

“I believe that if you give, someone is going to give to you.”

Sena moved to Santa Fe decades ago from Mexico and started working as a dishwasher. He already knew how to cook. He and his brother, also a Tres Colores co-owner, learned to cook young when their mother died.

Sena buys the hats and shirts for his employees whenever they go on sale for $10, since they can cost around $25 each.

“The hats are a key thing for us,” Sena tells SFR.

Chevo Serna, owner of the Santa Fe Tree Farm, almost always needs a hat to work alongside his employees—but the one he’s wearing when he meets up with SFR has a particular significance for him.

It bears the name and logo of a baseball team, Algodoneros de Delicias, based in Chihuahua, Mexico, where Serna was born. Serna plays baseball with a local league here every week during their summer and fall seasons. They call themselves the Algodoneros in an ode to their favorite team and home state.

But Serna has made Santa Fe his home over the last two decades working in the city and now owning the tree farm.

There are struggles in the industry. He tells SFR it’s difficult to keep good workers because of the attraction of the oil booms in Texas and Southern New Mexico.

To keep hard workers, Serna says he makes sure they are paid well and he works alongside them on each job. If he had $1,800, he would spend it on his workers and his business.

“I need to buy oil changes for my equipment,” Serna tells SFR. With that money, he says he would also give his workers Thanksgiving Day off as well as a bonus for a turkey dinner.

THE ARTIST John Paul Granillo, a local Chicano artist, has had his hat the longest among them all. He tells its story in his sunny living room on the Southside as he paints, preparing for an upcoming exhibit of his work.

Granillo’s pageboy hat, well-worn, was a gift from his grandfather, purchased in El Paso when he was a teenager sometime in the early 1900s. It has stayed in the family since then. Granillo wears it often.

“It was his favorite hat and he gave it to me,” Granillo says. “When I have something that makes me nervous or something I need divine help with, like ‘I hope my show goes well’ or I’m scared of doing this thing, I take my hat.”

The hat cost him nothing. But if he had $1,800, he would spend it on art supplies for his collective, Alas de Agua, or for a murals he works on with student artists around the city.

Granillo isn’t accepting offers for his ancestral lid.

“I wouldn’t sell my hat for $1,800,” Granillo says.

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Add less waste to the landfill this holiday season

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ll the festivities of the holiday season have a dark side—between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, household waste production in the nation goes up by 25%, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency. That’s about 1 million tons of extra trash each week.

Stanford University Recycling estimates that “if every family reused just two feet of holiday ribbon, the 38,000 miles of ribbon saved could tie a bow around the entire planet.”

A huge percentage of this trash could have been recycled, but gets dumped instead. Other things that should end up in the trash get tossed in the blue bin, causing havoc at the recycling facility and contaminating correctly recycled materials.

Worst of all, says Martha Lara, CEO of Towns Recycling LLC, the company that took over Santa Fe’s recycling center in August, are “tanglers”—strings of Christmas lights, ribbon, and hoses that can get caught up in the gears of the sorting machines and bring the whole operation to a grinding halt.

This fall, Towns Recycling became solely responsible for sorting single-stream recyclables under contract with the joint city/county Santa Fe Solid Waste Management Agency.

It’s just in time for holiday consumption to crank into high gear.

SFR wanted to see how the recycling facility works under the new company and how to lessen our own burden on the Earth this season. This reporter spent an afternoon on the sorting line.

Santa Fe’s city curbside and county recycle collection programs deliver paper, plastic and metal to a building on Buckman Road in one jumbled mix. Pre-sorters take out things like clothing and toys, then materials move through machines that sort cardboard and plastic by churning the lighter, larger materials to the top and magnetically pulling out metal.

In a final sorting process, workers remove anything that’s not paper. This stage is where SFR learns first-hand that Santa

Do • Buy 100% recyclable wrapping paper and reusable cloth ribbon, use newspaper or scarves, or hide presents around the house for an epic scavenger hunt and don’t wrap them at all.

• ”Unwrap your presents all the way,” says Lara. “Separate all the materials. Even if a box and the wrapping paper and the plastic packaging inside are all recyclable, if it’s not separated we will have to throw it.”

• Bring unwanted electronics to local nonprofit the Computer Charity (9192 Rosina Street Suite E. 983-2577) to be refurbished and given to people in need or responsibly recycled.

Don’t • Put plastic packing materials such as peanuts, plastic bags, or thin plastic film, ribbon, lights or tinsel in the recycling.

• Even think about stuffing that real or fake Christmas tree in the blue bin. Instead, take it Franklin Miles Park or to BuRRT to be turned into mulch.

• Let food scraps from your holiday party go to waste. Instead, call composting nonprofit Reunity Resources (393-1196) to drop off.

Recycling line workers sort out non-paper items that can sometimes be dangerous, or gross, such as hypodermic needles and diapers.

Feans throw a god-awful stew of non-recyclable items into the blue bins.

Reeking baby diapers come down the conveyor belt at an alarming rate; SFR pulls three from the mix in our one afternoon. A woman who works next to us, Hilda (who did not want her last name published), says the worst she’s dealt with include hypodermic needles and barely-live kittens.

But most of the headaches at the facility this time of year are caused by well-meaning residents who are overly optimistic about how much of their holiday excess can be recycled.

Standing on a railing high above the heavy conveyor belts and churning teeth of the industrial sorting machines, Lara points out a wad of tangled lights that make it past the deft hands of the men pre-sorting the mix.

She holds her breath as the lights disappear into the machine. “One strand of lights can shut us down for an entire day,” she says.

Other holiday items that cause problems are plastic packing materials such as peanuts or blow-up plastic airbags, and any gift wrap or holiday cards with metallic foil, glitter and plastic rhinestones.

These materials can make it past quality control and contaminate an entire bale of mixed paper, the company’s primary product. If buyers find too much contamination, the whole batch could end up in the landfill.

In general, though, Lara says her company has lucked out because Santa Fe’s waste stream is cleaner than that of most cities.

Lara is a member of the family that owns the Albuquerque-based business

and has worked there since it opened in 2012. She spent recent years priming the company to take over Santa Fe’s recyclable waste by visiting comparable facilities all over the country.

She says Towns Recycling is “one of the only mixed recycling facilities in the country able to sell mixed paper right now,” because of the purity of their end product. While many facilities have lost money on recycling since China stopped buying from the US, Lara says Towns has been making a profit.

“The quality of the material coming in makes a huge difference,” she says, crediting both the city’s plastic bag ban and public education efforts.

Santa Fe has also gotten a good deal in bringing recycling back home.

Previously, the agency contracted with Friedman Recycling in Albuquerque. By switching to Towns, the city and county will save around $240,000 per year in transportation costs and pay less for processing, Solid Waste Management Agency Executive Director Randall Kippenbrock writes by email.

In the past, Lara says, about 30% of the material brought to the facility ended up as landfill. Now that’s dropped to about 10%.Towns sells bales of paper and cardboard directly on the market.

Last month a mill in Mexico bought the mixed paper to make egg cartons, whereas this month Towns sold it to a mill in the United States. A mill in New Mexico is the primary purchaser for cardboard.

Mixed metal and plastics, though, are still being sold to other Albuquerque recyclers for sorting because, says Lara, “We just don’t have the space to sort plastics here with the volume of material that comes in.”

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Outdoor recreation advocates say the industry could shape the state’s future—and solve its most entrenched problems

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xie Navas isn’t a hunter, nor does she come from a fly-fishing background. She’s soon planning to do both, as hunting and angling—along with snow sports, hiking, biking and rafting, to name a few activities—are now under her purview. As the new director of the state’s new Outdoor Recreation Division, Navas’ mission is to leverage the state’s natural assets—its public lands and the people and businesses who provide activities on and products for them—into a major economic force in the state. She’s spent her first month or so on the job traveling thousands of miles around New Mexico talking to people who hope the new initiative will help revitalize towns long dependent on extractive industries, save the environment and balance economic inequity.

For a start.

And while the office is nascent—operating at this point on an initial $200,000 budget but aiming for a $989,000 appropriation in next year’s legislative session—the word is out.

Last week, the office, which is housed in the state’s Economic Development Department, announced its first grants to help startups focused on outdoor recreation, with San Juan College Enterprise Center in Farmington and Santa Febased Creative Startups each receiving $50,000 through a new equity fund to provide under-served children outdoor opportunities.

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At the same time, Navas and others want to lay groundwork for further protecting natural resources in the midst of climate change. As such, the new focus on outdoor recreation as both an economic and conservation driver provides an inflection point for a poor state that is big on land, short on people and starting to rebound from eight years of a Republican administration criticized for its environmental policies.

New Mexico’s efforts also are part of a larger nationwide pushback to protect public lands and natural resources.

In the West, New Mexico’s profile differs from neighbor states such as Colorado and Utah, where public land use has led to overcrowding and, in many cases, degradation. This provides an opportunity to draw both visitors and new residents to under-populated and more affordable areas. Doing so also comes with risks, of which Navas, who grew up

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skiing in Vail, Colorado, is quite aware.

“People have always thought of Boulder and Denver as mountain towns, where you have access into these wild places, but you also have a place where you can have a good job and you can have a fun time and quality of life,” she says.

“Increasingly, the mountain town aspect of those places has really dissolved, in part because of traffic. The traffic on I-70, where suddenly you might be driving three to five hours to access what a decade ago might be an hour or two. I’ve seen that happen.”

Still, she says, she’s “bullish” about New Mexico, and confident that increased recreation use and businesses won’t alter its communities. Nonetheless, having a conservation plan is one of her top priorities to dig into the “nitty gritty questions of how do each of our agencies set capacity limits that are legitimate and right for the communities they’re in.”

Those communities appear ready for a new era, as do many long-term outdoor advocates.

“What we’re working on doing is transforming our state’s economy to where it’s not exclusively reliant on oil and gas revenues because that’s not a sustainable model,” says Jesse Deubel, executive director of New Mexico Wildlife Federation, a nonprofit that represents sportsmen and women. “Now what we have to be careful of, though, is not loving an area to death.”

Too much love has not been a problem in Raton, New Mexico, which has struggled for years to rebound from the loss of the coal mining industry—recent census figures counted approximately 6,000 residents, a 12% decrease over the last decade. At the same time, folks who have stayed or moved to Raton have plenty of love for their town, and foresee a renaissance in the offing. Outdoor recreation, they say, will play a key role.

“One of our primary goals … is to rebuild a community that’s really been gutted economically and demographically,” says Geoff Peterson, executive director at Raton’s Center for Community Innovation, which operates a commercial kitchen, helps drive Raton’s tourism efforts and provides youth programs.

The center also worked last spring with Creative Startups, which ran a boot camp for startups there in which “half

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ing forward to Navas’ upcoming visit to Raton and hoping to talk to her.

“Maybe she can give me some more ideas,” he says.

Raton’s Economic Development Director Jessica Barfield sees growing evidence of momentum. Born and raised in Raton, Barfield left for 17 years, returned four years ago, and co-owns with her sister Enchanted Grounds Espresso Bar and Cafe. She says the town’s ups and downs have created a collective entrepreneurial spirit. “We were left to save ourselves,” she says, and “we’ve been aggressive in our outreach.” Subsequently, tourists are coming in bigger numbers and retirees are moving to Raton drawn in part by affordable home prices. Her café will have its best year ever, she says. On Nov. 25, the state Economic Department awarded $800,000 to the Raton Main Street/Arts and Cultural District, in partnership with the City of Raton.

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the companies were outdoor companies,” Alice Loy, Creative Startups co-founder and CEO, says. “So that opened our eyes to how much that sector is growing and how few resources there are specifically serving those entrepreneurs.”

Moreover, she notes, Creative Startups pays “attention to the economies in Colorado and Utah to see what our neighbors are doing, so we know that Colorado has been investing heavily in their outdoor rec industries and New Mexico is just getting started, which means our assets— our parks, our rivers, our mountains—are relatively unexplored. So we have destinations and opportunities in outdoor rec that are like the Wild West … compared with some of our western neighbor states that are becoming saturated.”

Creative Startups’ $50,000 grant from the Outdoor Recreation Division will fund entrepreneurial outdoor rec labs in public libraries and community centers.

Peterson says Raton also is poised to capitalize on the transformation of Trinidad, Colorado’s Fishers Peak and surrounding former Crazy French Ranch into a state park, which the City of Trinidad, The Nature Conservancy and the Trust for Public Land will manage for public use, including hiking, mountain biking and other outdoor activities.

This could be a game changer for nearby Raton, Peterson says.

“We see a future where somebody could actually ride a bike from downtown Raton to that property,” he says.

Peterson, who lives in Trinidad, also says Raton could benefit from Colorado’s growth.

“Trinidad has really taken off,” he says. “It’s very difficult to find commercial space or even a home to rent. Raton is four or five years behind, where there’s still a lot of cheap property.” Some folks drive through downtown “and see the boarded-up buildings,” and are deterred, but others are looking and saying “‘I know what this could be.’ I think we’re attracting some new energy.”

Count Jason Bennett among them.

Bennett and wife Laurie “Bunny” Bunker bought the Raton Motor Pass Inn when they moved from Florida nearly four years ago. They were booked all summer, he says, and now Bennett operates another business, Raton Outdoors, from the inn, renting visitors kayaks, fishing equipment, mountain bikes and other gear. Most of his customers head to nearby Sugarite Canyon State Park. He’s also hoping to benefit from Colorado’s new state park, and pondering additional gear that might appeal to visitors—from rock climbing to snow inner tubes to comprehensive camping packages. He was look-

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from Trinidad’s new state park. Outdoor recreation, she says, combined with people looking for affordable living, are ushering in a new era in which the economy no longer depends on one industry, as it did with coal mining.

“I think people look back and of course it makes them a little sad,” she says. “But the people who are left in Raton are the people who love our town, and that’s why we are in a position to grow … We don’t have a big company that’s going to move to our town; it’s up to us to make things happen. A lot of things are coming together—the last two years have been a turnaround, and we’re set for really great things to come.”

Farmington natives Dale and Rhonda Davis, founders and owners of 505 Cycles in Farmington, which they bought in 2018, share a similar optimism. Both have other jobs—Rhonda as a college teacher and Dale as general manager for Lone Star Truck Group—and work part-time at their business. They met with Navas when she visited Farmington in October, and hope the state will help them find funding sources for future outdoor recreation plans.

“Farmington, forever, has been really dependent upon the energy industry, whether it be oil and gas or the coal mines,” Dale Davis says. “… Due to changes in things … some of it being politics, some of it being just changes around the area, the energy industry has really suffered for Farmington and San Juan County.” The outdoor industry, he believes, is the way forward.

“A lot of the outdoor rec industry and jobs are really good paying jobs,” he says.

“And the more that grows, the more of those jobs we’ll be able to offer. I’d love to be able to go from having four employees to having 16 or 20, and I believe that any time you have businesses spawning up, it’s going to drive the economy even more … I think the jobs that it would bring in would be a game changer for Farmington.”

The recent $50,000 grant to the San Juan College Enterprise Center in Farmington funds a makerspace for entrepreneurs working in outdoor product manufacturing. Those efforts dovetail with the city’s Outdoor Recreation Industry Initiative, founded in 2017. Davis, an active mountain biker and member of that group, says it’s led to more bicycle amenities—trails and parks—and he’s noticed an uptick in visitors. He hopes the trail system can expand to connect Farmington to nearby towns of Bloomfield and Aztec.

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“I would say from our end, anything that brings more eyes to the fact that Northern New Mexico has great outdoor recreation opportunities for people of all ages and all ability … we view as very positive,” Hegeman says—a sentiment echoed by representatives at Ski New Mexico and Ski Santa Fe. It’s also the word from the hunting and fishing communities. Kerrie Cox Romero, executive director of New Mexico Council of Outfitters and Guides, hopes the new push will help boost awareness of her industry “and grow from there into more programs that could economically benefit rural areas [where] often these outfitter guides are at.”

505 Cycles owners Dale and Rhonda Davis of Farmington hope the new outdoor recreation division will help the community find more funding for its burgeoning bicycle community.

to enjoy the mountains or whatever, and people would pass through here heading to those places. Now, we’re becoming more of a destination and that seems to be growing quite exponentially.”

Farmington, he says, will be “the big dogs” growing the outdoor recreation economy in the state.

“We have so many different things to offer here,” he says. “Within an hour [or] an hour and a half … you can enjoy any outdoor rec thing you want to do, whether it be hunting, skiing, fishing, golf, road biking, you name it, it’s all there.”

The same can be said for the state overall, which has robust skiing, rafting, angling, hunting and hiking, not to mention 9 million acres of National Forest and 13 million acres of BLM lands.

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The national Outdoor Industry Association reports that the outdoor recreation economy here generates $2.8 billion in wages and salaries and 99,000 direct jobs.

Representatives from diverse industries support the state’s new focus. Steve Harris, river conservationist and owner of rafting company Far Flung Adventures in El Prado, also has a pending meeting with Navas. He says he can see his industry benefiting from help with issues ranging from high premiums paid for workers compensation to more evolved training programs for people who want to work in the field.

Response has been positive from ski areas in the north, booming thanks to last year’s snowy winter. Like ski areas around the country, some are expanding their of-

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ferings to other seasons. Taos Ski Valley Marketing Director Dash Hegeman says next summer Taos will be opening up for summer activities—rock climbing guided tours and lift-service mountain biking.

Taos Ski also recently added California to its airline ski packages, and had an uptick of Colorado visitors last season when it became a partner with Ikon Pass.

The bounty of outdoor industries bolstered the efforts to create a devoted outdoor recreation office.

State Sen. Jeff Steinborn, D-Las Cruces, who co-sponsored in the last legislative session the bill that created the division, describes himself as an outdoor “enthusiast,” but more centrally a committed conservationist, as the Southern New Mexico director for the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance. He said he’s come to believe the way in which the outdoor recreation economic initiative “ties together with conservation is we have a really special thing with our environment here in the state of New Mexico, but it’s vitally important we don’t screw it up.”

New Mexico’s public lands, he says, are in some ways “the proverbial goose that laid the proverbial golden egg.” In other words, if protected, “you have a sustainable asset for the long term.” But high-trafficked public trails and parks in neighboring states such as Colorado and Utah provide a glimpse of the cost—financial and otherwise—from heavy traffic.

Steinborn is one of several outdoor recreation advocates who evoke the specter of the loving-it-to-death phenomena when talking about New Mexico’s wild places. The phrase dates to Conrad Wirth,

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who served as the director of the National Park Service from 1951 to 1964, and who warned President Eisenhower and his cabinet in 1956 about overuse of public lands.

That problem has only grown with visitor numbers: 300 million a year. The National Park Service currently has a $12 billion maintenance backlog.

“No amount of money in tourism is worth destroying important habitat and important places,” Steinborn says, stressing that educating people about sustainability and “leaving no trace behind” will be key as New Mexico grows its outdoor recreation industries.

It’s also built into the law, and into the larger outdoor recreation movement. When the new office was signed into law last spring, New Mexico became one of 16 states with such an office. In October, Navas joined other state leaders at the Utah Outdoor Recreation Summit to sign the Confluence Accords, a list of best practices for states related to conservation, economic development and education.

Navas says the conservation element helped draw her to the job. She previously served as Outside Magazine’s digital editorial director, and had watched the dialogue about public lands become more mainstream in the face of political conflicts, such as President Trump’s decision to cut Bears Ears National Monument in

cense sales and matching federal dollars through the federal Pittman-Robertson Act. License fees haven’t been raised since 2005 and, as a result, the department “is grossly under-staffed; we have a fraction of the number of biologists we actually need to do the work they’re tasked to do.”

The Wildlife Federation will advocate in 2021 for a bill to increase fees.

But the prime way to ensure the future of New Mexico’s natural environment, everyone agrees, is to make sure young people experience and learn about it now; particularly, people who might not otherwise have the opportunity.

ABOVE: Ski industry experts in the state say one of the sector’s greatest challenges is the misperception that it doesn’t snow in New Mexico.

BELOW: Naomi Aguilar fishes at Fenton Lake with the New Mexico Youth Conservation Corps, which will be calling for proposals in late spring that provide outdoor recreation and education opportunities for the state’s youth.

Utah by 85%, and another monument, Grand Staircase-Escalante, by approximately half. And of course, beyond politics, there’s climate change.

“We have had an impact as a species on every acre on this planet,” Navas says.

“That is the reason why I believe in this work fundamentally and, in large part, why I left the job at Outside. I believe 100% if you get people outside to appreciate these wild places, they will fight to protect them.”

That’s been the case for Nick Streit, owner of Taos Fly Shop and co-owner of The Reel Life in Santa Fe. Streit, along with Navas, testified to the Legislature’s interim Economic and Rural Development Committee in November about the outdoor recreation’s value as an economic force (he’s scheduled to take Navas fishing soon).

Streit helped lead the Red River Habitat improvement project, served as president of the nonprofit Trout Unlimited and is now conservation chair for Trout Unlimited’s state chapter group Enchanted Circle.

“We worry a little bit about the economy,” he says. “We worry a lot about the weather. The weather and water conditions are the biggest influencer of our business and I would say anyone in the outdoor recreation world is going to probably mirror that same thing.”

Conservation also is a focal point for New Mexico Wildlife Federation. “A lot of people don’t realize that hunting and fishing funds conservation in this state,” New Mexico Wildlife Federation’s Deubel says, noting that the Game and Fish Department is funded entirely by li-

New Mexico wasn’t the first state to have an outdoor recreation division (that was Utah), but it broke new ground with its equity fund. It will be administered by the state’s Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department’s Youth Conservation Corps program, which will put out calls for proposals in early spring. Nonprofits, government agencies and private businesses are all eligible to apply.

“Really what we want to see is quality outdoor recreation—stuff that’s fun, because if it’s fun that does promote a sense of love of the outdoors, and that promotes caring and that promotes taking care of the land,” says Sarah Wood, YCC’s executive director. Forty percent of the youth served through the equity-funded programs need to be low income, with areas served divided equally between rural, tribal and urban regions.

Las Cruces City Councilor Gabriel Vasquez worked with State Rep. Angelica Rubio, D-Las Cruces, to help push for the equity fund component, which will start with $100,000 in funding, but require fundraising going forward (REI and the Turner Foundation have pledged $12,500 and $30,000 respectively). Founder of Nuestra Tierra Conservation Project, Vasquez says he’s seen the lack of opportunities for youth to have outdoor experiences first-hand as a city councilor serving what he describes as the city’s poorest district. “We wanted to be the first in the nation to do this as a way to really build social and environmental justice into an office of outdoor recreation,” he says.

And at the national level, Navas says, the growing movement of statewide outdoor recreation provides an opportunity to create real change nationwide.

“That’s where I can see us moving our small part of the fight forward,” she says.

“To say to Congress with a unified front: ‘We really need to invest in our public lands; it’s crucial to our economies and it’s crucial to our states’ futures.”

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Humans’ Paleolithic brains, Harris writes, “aren’t built for omniscient awareness of the world’s suffering” and also “aren’t wired for truth-seeking.” Subsequently, “technology has outmatched our brains, diminishing our capacity to address the world’s most pressing challenges.” And so, the attention economy “has turned us into a civilization maladapted for its own survival.”

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On the bright side—relatively speaking—people also have the capacity, in theory, to be self-aware and take action, which means we have the ability to reverse some of the existential problems we’ve created. I would also recommend Harris’ “Inconvenient Truth for Tech” talk, available on the center’s website.

I’ve personally implemented some of the “take control” tips on the center’s site, such as setting one’s phone to grayscale to remove the positive brain reinforcement provided by the color screen, and have removed as many of my phone’s app features as possible.

Since my brain is hardwired to fall down a rabbit hole, I then began listening to Harris’ podcast, “Your Undivided Attention,” where I learned the median attention span right now is approximately 40 seconds, and internet brain addiction is intensifying.

What was I saying?

Oh, yes. Internet brain addiction has become prevalent enough that one of its remedies, dopamine fasting (aka not using technology for periods of time), is itself already in a 2.0 phase. And it might work, even though a. it was invented by a venture capitalist and b. it has nothing to do with dopamine.

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tion is going to be wrong,” Stanford professor Russell Poldrack told The Times last month in an article on the trend. “But it would be hard to find something more wrong than associating it with pleasure, because we know that dopamine has nothing to do with the experience of pleasure, at least directly.” Poldrack said technology fasts would be more accurately characterized as “stimulation” fasts (I predict this term will not catch on, as it sounds a bit less techbro, if you ask me).

Back to Harris. Last June, he testified to the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation and the Internet on what he calls the use of “persuasive technology,” saying: “I want to argue today that persuasive technology is a massively underestimated and powerful force shaping the world and that it has taken control of the pen of human history and will drive us to catastrophe if we don’t take it back.”

Harris’ point to Congress was that worrying about when technology would usurp human jobs overshadowed the point when technology “hacks human weaknesses” and takes control of society.

At Google, Harris said, he thought about how to ethically wield the con-

trol that technology has over people’s thoughts and behaviors. In a so-called attention economy, he noted, “it becomes a race to the bottom of the brain stem.”

Technology hacked people’s needs for social validation through social media and their opinions and interests through algorithms, and grew an asymmetrical relationship between technology’s power and human weakness. All of these various types of technology and impacts, he concluded, “are part of an interconnected system of compounding harms that we call ‘human downgrading.’”

“How can we solve the world’s most urgent problems if we’ve downgraded our attention spans, downgraded our capacity for complexity and nuance, downgraded our shared truth, downgraded our beliefs into conspiracy theory, thinking that we can’t construct shared agendas to solve our problems?” he said.

These are pretty good questions, perhaps ones to share around the dinner table this holiday? If that doesn’t sound like the best-laid plan, visit the center website for other suggestions of how to get involved in its humane technology agenda, and for a printable list of tips on how to reverse human downgrading.

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Sing-Alongs and Cookies, Take Seven Teatro Paraguas throws yet another Christmas bash If there’s ever a season for traditions, this would be it. And the fun isn’t limited to families; local community groups pull out all the stops right around now to get everyone in the Christmas spirit.

And yes, we said Christmas, not “holiday”—because we’re talking specifically about Teatro Paraguas’ A Musical Piñata for Christmas, the seventh annual December extravaganza that features skits, music, flamenco, crafts and snacks.

When we say it’s great for the whole family, we really mean it: Older folks take joy in traditional New Mexican Christmas carols, adults and teens stay engaged with a stage full of people and a constantly evolving program, and kids (even toddlers) love the flashy costumes and an actual piñata onstage at the end.

Half the show is a play custom-crafted by company member Alix Hudson.

Regalito (sung to the tune of “Despacito” … there also may be appearances of biscochito, posolito, farolito and other conveniently syllabled words) features a young woman whose birthday is on Christmas, who fears her quinceañera will be overshadowed by the holiday. Hudson

says that she wrote the play for an anticipated 30 cast members of all ages, so there’s plenty of action and lessons to be learned about New Mexico and the magic of the season.

The production often sees a goodsize crowd, which means intermission in the small lobby can get crowded.

Conveniently, the Second Space located right next door to the theater is outfitted for festivities with biscochitos, hot cocoa and coloring activities for the kids, so there’s plenty of opportunity to keep wee ones engaged and for their grown-ups to socialize (because this is all about friendship, right?).

Agnostics and others take note: Even if you don’t celebrate Christmas, you should maybe go anyway. Community, camaraderie and cookies know no religion.

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6-8 pm, free SHANE WALLIN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Soul and pop.

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THEATER CHANTING BY DREPUNG LOSELING MONKS Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 Traditional Tibetan Buddhist chants. Donations are welcome.

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FENCES, THE ADOPTION AND I WALKED ON WATER Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 Three new plays by Jerry Labinger explore the human condition, from what it means to be a good neighbor, a nervous new parent, or what to do when presented with a miracle.

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CALVIN HAZEN El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Flamenco and classical Spanish guitar.

7 pm, free CAROLS AND BLESSINGS FROM AROUND THE WORLD Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0092 The Santa Fe Women's Ensemble presents a collection of music arranged for chorus, piano and violin.

6:30 pm, $10-$35 MATTHEW ANDRAE Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Rhythmic covers and originals of a folky bent on guitalele.

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WED/11 BOOKS/LECTURES HOW TO NAVIGATE A TRANSCENDENTAL PAINTING New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave, 476-5072 Matthew Rowe, art historian and gallery director, discusses how to appreciate paintings by the likes of Kandinsky or Pelton.

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THU/12 ART OPENINGS HOW IT WAS HANDED TO ME Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts 1590 Pacheco St., 983-6372 A collection of jewelry from the Cesar family shows the generational and creative legacies in the family's body of work.

4-8 pm, free MEXICAN AMERICAN GODDESS, GODS AND OMETEOTL Vital Spaces 1604 St. Michael’s Drive Alas de Agua Art Collective and Vital Spaces bring new art works by Israel Haros and John Paul Granillo that explores the idenity and Indigenous roots behind being a Mexican American artist.

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5 pm, free NEW MEXICO PINBALL MEETUP The Alley 153 Paseo De Peralta, 557-6789 Meet people who enjoy pinball and learning more about the hobby. Bring cash or quarters for the machines.

6-11 pm, free WAYWARD WEDNESDAYS Chili Line Brewing Company 204 N Guadalupe St., 982-8474 The freshest organic local comedy, including the occasional friend from the road ... and an open mic! Signup starts at 7:30 pm, jokes start at 8:30 pm.

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11TH ANNUAL HOLIDAY PLAYERS READING Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Ali MacGraw, Bob Martin, Carol and Jim McGiffin and Jonathan Richards return for traditional holiday readings, cookies and cider.

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DAVID GEIST W/ JAMIE RUSSELL Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Solo instrumental piano.

Second set features Mr. Russell on drums.

6-9 pm, free GOLDEN GENERAL Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Curated covers and indie originals.

6:30-9:30 pm, free GUSTAVO PIMENTEL El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Classical flamenco guitar.

7-9 pm, free JESUS BAS Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Spanish and flamenco guitar.

6-9 pm, free MARIO FEBRES El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Flamenco guitar.

6-8 pm, free PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo jazz guitar.

6 pm, free SECOND THURSDAY SOCIAL RIDE Second Street Brewery (Railyard Location) 1607 Paseo De Peralta, 989-3278 Ride from the Railyard to the original 2nd Street location with a group of other cycling enthusiasts.

7-9 pm, free TRIO RASMINKO Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Folk to rock, country to texmex, and global rhythms from far and wide.

8 pm, free TWO LOOPING CELLOS Littleglobe 2350 Fox Road, Ste. 200, 670-4364 Earwaves presents Albuquerque’s Keely Mackey (Celloquacious and Delphi Project) and Bend, Oregon cellist Billy Mickelson (Third Seven) with guest pianist Elizabeth Capra.

7 pm, $20 XMAS IS CANCELLED Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Live performances of original Xmas songs led by a supergroup of musicians, with members from Rubedo, Dandu, Laura Goldhammer, Decollage and guest performances from even more local celebrities. 21+. A portion of proceeds will be donated to Youth Shelters and Family Services. Please bring a donation of new or slightly used winterwear and clothing, hygiene products or nonperishable food for a discount.

8-10 pm, $10-$15

NO NUMBER HOME Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Written by Santa Fe resident Tencha Avila and inspired by real events, this is the story of a young couple and their daughter living in a migrant worker colony in Colorado in December of 1944. When their recently drafted 18-yearold neighbor, Jesus Rodriguez, deserts from basic training, the colony is invaded by the military police who vow to find him whatever the cost.

Residents panic and are sure that they will all be deported unless someone hands the boy over.

7:30 pm, $15

WORKSHOP DIY WREATH MAKING Dragonstone Studios 317 Camino Alire Make your own holiday wreaths with floral business All The Pretty Flowers.

6-8 pm, $55

FRI/13 ART OPENINGS BARBARA HEINRICH: FORGED IN ICE Patina Gallery 131 W Palace Ave., 986-3432 A 20-piece jewelry collection to celebrate the gallery's 20th anniversary.

5-7 pm, free CLAY VORHES: TRAPEZE Gerald Peters Contemporary 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5700 New oil paintings featuring the artist's signature motif of circus performers.

5-7 pm, free COLLECTION STARTERS ViVO Contemporary 725 Canyon Road, 982-1320 A group of established Santa Fe artists show their smaller contemporary works across a variety of media, with a lecture by Warren Keating about how to buy and collect contemporary art.

5-7 pm, free DINOSAUR BONE JEWELRY Semiotique Gallery 1807 Second St., Ste. 4, Local artist Linda Storm shows jewelry and small works made with an unconventional material.

12:30-5:30 pm, free HOUSE OF CARDS Studio WFC 1406 3rd St., Unit A, 303-587-8074 A multitude of artists show their handmade note cards.

4-8 pm, free JAMES CASTLE AND PHILADELPHIA WIREMAN 5. Gallery 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700 New work in paper and multi-media from two artists.

5-7 pm, free

JOSE SIERRA: NEW WORKS Gerald Peters Contemporary 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5700 Contemporary ceramics.

5-7 pm, free PERIPHERAL SHELTERS Santa Fe Art Institute 1600 St. Michaels Dr., 424-5050 Eighteen artists develop multi-media works which explore questions about shelter, hope, trust and system failure in Santa Fe. 5:30-8:30 pm, free ROGER WINTER: AT WORK Gerald Peters Contemporary 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5700 New works from the artist’s Construction Site series, inspired

by Manhattan’s overlooked work sites covered in scaffoldings or exposed buttresses.

5-7 pm, free SECOND STREET ART COLLECTIVE OPEN STUDIOS Second Street Studios 1807 Second St. Meet collective artists in their studios and see their work.

Look for the blue signs.

5-8 pm, free SHADOW Gerald Peters Contemporary 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5700 Five artists explore the sculptural possibilities of black, or the absence of color, through contemporary ceramics.

5-7 pm, free SMALL WORKS SHOW Canyon Road Contemporary Art 622 Canyon Road, 983-0433 A host of local and traveling artists show their smaller works.

5-7 pm, free TWO-ARTIST TRUNK SHOW Ahmyo River Gallery 652 Canyon Road, 995-8513 Jennifer Lamprey shows jewelry in gold, sterling and gemstones while Sara Griego presents her handcrafted, plant-dyed silk scarves 4-7 pm, free WINTER TALES Currents 826 826 Canyon Road, 772-0953 Four gallery artists show multi-media works that explore the darkest quarter of the year.

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BOOKS/LECTURES CIDER FRIDAY Nedra Matteucci Galleries 1075 Paseo de Peralta, 982-4631 Henry Monahan, Director of Morning Star Gallery gives a talk at 2 pm entitled "A Brief of History of New Mexico," plus cider, cookies and holiday cheer.

1-4 pm, free WHY KNOT? EVOKE Contemporary 550 S Guadalupe St., 995-9902 Susan Latham, a metal and fiber art sculptor, shares her moments of amazement at the knots found in nature and how she integrates science and art in the creation of fiber knot sculptures and jewelry designs.

5:30 pm, free

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ENTREFLAMENCO CHRISTMAS SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 An original flamenco show from a Spanish director, plus tapas and drinks available for purchase.

7:30 pm, $25 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Make a dinner reservation for a show by the National Institute of Flamenco.

6:30-9 pm, $30

2019 HA-HA-HOLIDAY CHUCKLEFEST Zephyr Community Art Studio 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 Live stand-up comedy from a lineup of five locals.

8:30-11 pm, $5-$10 CS ROCKSHOW La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock and roll.

7:30 pm, free CAITI LORD Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Singer/songwriter Caiti Lord sings and plays ukulele on the deck.

5 pm, free CAROLS AND BLESSINGS FROM AROUND THE WORLD Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0092 The Santa Fe Women's Ensemble presents a collection of music arranged for chorus, piano and violin.

6:30 pm, $10-$35 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 DK AND THE AFFORDABLES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Southwestern rock ‘n' roll.

8:30 pm, free DANA SMITH Upper Crust Pizza 329 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0000 Original country-tinged folk songs.

6 pm, free ERYN BENT Beer Creek Brewing Company 3810 Hwy. 14, 471-9271 Country and folky Americana.

6-9 pm, free EVANSTON TONY Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar (Apothecary) 133 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 This jazz duo brings talents from both the east and west coasts.

7-9 pm, free GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, plus pop, rock and contemporary favorites—with vocals too.

6:30-9:30 pm, free HALF A SHIPWRECK Honeymoon Brewery Solana Center, 907 W Alameda St., Ste. B, 303-3139 Back porch apocalypse rock.

6-9 pm, free

EVENTS CANYON ROAD HOLIDAY BLOCK TO BLOCK PARTY Canyon Road All of Canyon Road gets lit up with farolitos and bonfires, plus live music and libations at galleries along the way.

5-7 pm, free CHRISTMAS AT THE PALACE New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 An evening of hot cider, cookies, live music, a chance to operate an antique printing press, old fashioned activities and a visit from Mr. and Mrs. Claus, all in the magic of the Palace of the Governors and Courtyard. Donations of non-perishable food welcomed.

5:30-8 pm, free DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION CAR SEAT FITTINGS Santa Fe Fire Station #3 1751 Cerrillos Road, 471-3965 Fittings are by appointment only. Trained and certified child passenger safety seat technicians inspect your child’s car seat or booster, and parents and caregivers can receive education on the proper selection, installation and use of safety seats. Bring the car seat and, if possible, the child. If you miss this one, they happen on the second Friday of each month, so you'll have another chance.

8:30-11:30 am, 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 Stephanie Hatfield and Bill Palmer.

5 pm, $8-$12

FOOD LA MODA VIII: LUNCHTIME FASHION SHOW Eloisa Restaurant 228 E Palace Ave., 982-0883 New works by local fashion designers.

12 pm, free

HALF BROKE HORSES Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Honky Tonk and Americana.

6-9 pm, free HIGH HIPPY ASSOCIATES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Covers from the '60s and '70s.

8 pm, free IRIS DEMENT St. Francis Auditorium 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Singer-songwriter acclaimed

by NPR as "one of the great voices in contemporary popular music" in 2012.

7:30 pm, $39-$49 JESSIE DELUXE; SUNBENDER; GOLDEN GENERAL Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Indie rock.

8 pm, free MAX GOMEZ James A Little Theatre 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429 Folk noir.

7:30 pm, $25-$35 PAPADOSIO PRESENTS: DESERT DOSIO Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 A two-night performance of rock-jazz-electronic-progrock. 21+ 8 pm-12 am, $20-$25 POWER DRIVE USA Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Classic Northern New Mexico tunes, rock, soul and oldies.

9 pm-12 am, free RON CROWDER BAND El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Crowder, award-winning singer-songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist, appears with an all-star lineup (Jim Casey, Milo Jaramillo, Alex Murzyn and Rich Reed) playing his original rock 'n' roll.

9-11 pm, $5 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 TGIF RECITAL: ETERNAL SUMMER STRING ORCHESTRA First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 The orchestra performs a concerto by Bach and selections from a Mozart symphony.

5:30-6 pm, free

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Guess That’s Why They Call it the Blues

BY AEDRA BURKE a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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COURTESY ANDREW LOVATO

A new book from a Santa Fe musician aims to answer the “how” and “why” of the blues guitar

Andrew Lovato says he’s taught over 1,000 students to play the guitar, and his new book should reach even more.

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usician, educator and guitar instructor Andrew Lovato estimates he’s taught well over 1,000 people to play over the last 30 years.

“This translates to about one out of 80 people,” he says, referring to Santa Fe’s populace.

That experience and devotion to the guitar— something he says that, along with his hometown of Santa Fe is his overriding passion— spurred him to write and release a new book, his third, titled The Big Book of Blues Guitar: The History, The Greats And How to Play. Equal parts musical knowledge, chord charts and love letter to the six string and the blues, the book is as much a journey in playing the guitar, from the first chord formations to advanced the theory, as it is a story about nurturing a lifelong relationship with the instrument.

“Dogs and guitar are the two greatest gifts to mankind,” he tells SFR. Lovato’s love of the guitar began at age 12, when he met his first teacher, Wally Graham.

“He not only taught me how to play guitar at an early age, but he sort of built a fire in me that wasn’t just about the guitar—it was about being creative and artistic,” Lovato says.

Said fire never materialized into an onstage career, but Lovato’s musical trajectory was never really about the performance aspects in the first place. Mentorship and instruction, he says, were the goal. “[Graham] kind of guided me as a young teenager into the world of creativity, and it was such a gift in having a mentor who could uncover what was inside of me as a musician,” Lovato says. “That inspires me, that’s my inspiration for wanting to carry this torch. My real love comes from showing somebody how to do it themselves and creating that sparkle in their eye.”

With that in mind, The Big Book of Blues Guitar doesn’t aim to be yet another boring theory compendium full of dry chord formations and applications presented in a protracted and unreadable manner—a quick scan of Amazon would yield tons of those if you prefer, but Lovato’s publisher, Santa Fe’s Terra Nova Books,

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was instrumental in making sure the book was beginner-oriented.

“My editor is a beginner guitarist, and as I was working on the manuscript, he would look over it as a first time player,” Lovato explains. “I would ask him ‘does this make sense to you?’”

Does the book have charts for learning chords?

Absolutely. But, Lovato says, “I wanted to be able to be understood from the perspective of a person who might not have a technical background.”

And fear not, tech-heads—The Big Book of Blues Guitar does cover technically advanced ground.

Still, it’s more fleshed out and palatable for the newcomer. As a professor of communications at Santa Fe Community College, teaching is Lovato’s forte, and he explains concepts through the book’s step-by-step process, which runs in tandem with information about the historical aspects of the blues. This includes players who shaped and continue to shape the genre. Through blurbs on the likes of Chuck Berry, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Howlin’ Wolf, Bonnie Raitt, Jimmy Page, Taj Mahal and tons of others, Lovato pays homage to the greats, showing the reader how the genre has evolved alongside information about how to potentially join them in the pantheon of blues shredders.

This means that in addition to exploring the “how” of the blues guitar, Lovato is every bit as interested in providing the “why.” “[The] reason a certain structure of notes we hear in combination with each other gives us certain feelings,” he says. “To understand why those notes work the way they do with each other, so they can paint a picture of how music works.”

“Music is a very elegant kind of physics,” Lovato adds.

The idea of learning the guitar might sound like learning physics: a pipe dream of unattainable magic that can’t possibly make sense. But then, Lovato doesn’t believe the guitar is quite as indecipherable as advanced math.

“The guitar is such an accessible instrument.

You can take it anywhere,” he says. “It can add a whole dimension to your life.”

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THE CALENDAR THE HOTH BROTHERS; BILL AND JIM PALMER Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Wild New Mexicana.

7:30 pm, free THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Swinging jazz.

7:30-10:30 pm, free TROY BROWNE TRIO Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Dextrous Americana.

5-8 pm, free VINCENT COPIA ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Post-punk singer-songwriter.

7-10 pm, free WINTERY FRIDAY THE 13TH Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Your Boy Reflex throws down the hottest pop and hip-hop hits to make your 21+ booty thump.

10 pm-1:30 am, $5

THEATER A MUSICAL PIÑATA FOR CHRISTMAS Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A community celebration with classic and contemporary carols performed by The Teatro Paraguas Orchestra, dancing, seasonal poetry, skits and an original short play, Regalito by Alix Hudson (see SFR Picks, page 19).

7 pm, $5-$10 NO NUMBER HOME Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Written by Santa Fe resident Tencha Avila and inspired by real events, No Number Home tells the story of a young couple and their daughter living in a migrant worker colony in Colorado in December of 1944. When their recently drafted 18-year-old neighbor, Jesus Rodriguez, deserts from basic training, the colony is invaded by the military police who vow to find him whatever the cost. Residents panic and are sure that they will all be deported unless someone hands the boy over.

7:30 pm, $15-$25

SAT/14 ART OPENINGS 6TH ANNUAL GUADALUPE GROUP ART SHOW Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery 614 Agua Fría St., 928-308-0319 In honor of the Feast of Guadalupe, the gallery features over 30 new artworks on the theme of "Our Lady," with live electric harp music

by Santa Fe's Roark Barron, plus free seasonally themed refreshments and treats.

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DESERT WOMAN Peralta 320 Paseo de Peralta A one-night art show features the work of five artists who pay homage to the desert through a variety of media.

5-8 pm, free DINOSAUR BONE JEWELRY AND ART Semiotique Gallery 1807 Second St., Ste. 4 Local artist Linda Storm shows jewelry and small works made with an unconventional material.

12:30-5:30 pm, free HOUSE OF CARDS Studio WFC 1406 3rd St., Unit A, 303-587-8074 A multitude of artists show their handmade note cards.

10 am-2 pm, free RICK PHELPS: MISFIT TOY BOX Cafe Pasqual's Gallery 103 E Water Street, Second Floor, 983-9340 Papier-mache and papier colle sculptures from a Santa Fe-based artist.

1-4 pm, free YOUNG NATIVE ARTISTS WINTER SHOW & SALE New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 Begin collecting art, jewelry, pottery and more from the next generation of Native American artists and craftspeople. Children and grandchildren of artists associated with the museums Portal Program will demonstrate and sell their own arts and crafts in the NMHM main Lobby.

10 am-4 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES BARCELONA: MODERNISMO ART NOUVEAU Travel Bug Coffee Shop 839 Paseo de Peralta, 992-0418 Ken Collins shows an architectural slideshow highlighting the design from the movement most known for Antoni Gaudi's Sagrada Familia cathedral.

5 pm, free KUNDIMAN IN THE SOUTHWEST op.cit Books, DeVargas Center, 157 Paseo de Peralta, 428-0321 An afternoon of poetry featuring Elizabeth Lee, Sharon Suzuki-Martinez and Heather Nagami.

2 pm, free MARK SPENCER: BEINGS Gerald Peters Contemporary 1011 Paseo de Peralta, 954-5700 The author signs copies of his new art book.

2 pm, free YE GODS! THE WILD AND WEIRD AZTECS Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 Artist Richard Balthazar discusses the history and mythology of the Aztecs.

2 pm, free

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO CHRISTMAS SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 An original flamenco show from a Spanish director, plus tapas and drinks available for purchase.

7:30 pm, $25 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Make a dinner reservation for a show by the National Institute of Flamenco.

6:30-9 pm, $30 THE NUTCRACKER Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Aspen Santa Fe Ballet presents another year of their beloved, whimsical take on the the classic Tchaikovsky ballet, performed by more than 60 dancers.

2 and 7:30 pm, $54-$94

EVENTS 2019 WINTER INDIAN MARKET La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 The Southwestern Association for Indian Arts presents more than 150 artists to show their work, alongside performances of live music and dance.

9 am-5 pm, $10-$15 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 ENCHANTED EVENINGS: TYNKERS TRIO & 14 BELLY DANCERS Honeymoon Brewery Solana Center, 907 W Alameda St., Ste. B, 303-3139 A bevy of NM's best bellydancing talents solo to Middle-Eastern music by Sam and Santiago Tynker and Sitara Schauer. Appetizer specials by Milad Betterday Kitchen.

8-10 pm, $5 GEEKS WHO DRINK Desert Dogs Brewery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307, 983-0134 Pub trivia with prizes.

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 Coro de Cámara.

5 pm, $8-$12 HOLIDAY HOME TOUR Santa Fe Woman's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail., 983-9455 A self-guided tour of seven homes, including the governor's mansion.

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IAIA HOLIDAY MARKET Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2351 More than 90 artists affiliated with IAIA show their work and offer it for sale.

9 am-4 pm, free SFCC GREENHOUSE GRAND OPENING Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 The Aquaponics and Hydroponics Club invites the public to tours, educational demonstrations, food provided by local businesses and tastings of fresh produce.

Tours begin at 10:15 am and continue every half hour.

10 am-4 pm, free SAN ILDEFONSO CHRISTMAS BAZAAR San Ildefonso Pueblo Gym 2 Tunyo Po, 455-2273 Fifty vendors, entertainers and food suppliers bring their goods for the 13th year in a row. Bring winter clothing for those in need and get a free ticket for a door drawing.

9 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.

8 am-2 pm, free SANTA’S VILLAGE Santa Fe Railyard Market Street at Alcaldesa Street, 310-8766 Rio Metro hosts the seventh year of mini-train rides, holiday crafts, face painting, live entertainment and an appearance by Santa. Bring a toy to donate to Toys for Tots and get a free train ticket.

10 am-3 pm, free TRAIN DEMONSTRATIONS Santa Fe Children's Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 989-8359 Train enthusiasts host activities and demonstrations.

11 am-1 pm, free UGLY SWEATER PARTY FUNDRAISER Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Wear your best ugly sweater in benefit of the Santa Fe Dreamer's Project. DJ AudioBuddha serenades the learning center with funky holiday tunes alongside a family friendly pop-up holiday drink bar.

3-5 pm, $25-$40

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

5:30 pm, free SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-7726 Fresh produce from the source.

8 am-1 pm, free

with Justin Hartery

COURTESY JUSTIN HARTERY

Justin Hartery has dedicated his life to the study and practice of behavior change based on our direct experiences as human beings. It is through this work as a psychotherapist as well as his background in filmmaking that he has created an event aimed to “break our collective paralysis and move people to action from a place of wholeness and inspiration rather than fear or anger.” Hartery’s initiative, The I Am Project, hosts its first event in Santa Fe on Sunday Dec. 15 at The Swan Theater from 6-9 pm (1213 Parkway Drive, 466-3353). The community rally and fundraiser, dubbed “Earth in Action,” includes meditation, performances and presentations to inspire action based in environmental, social justice and mental health issues.

SFR asked Hartery to tell us more. (Allison Sloan) In your description of the event you say that in order to overcome the “complacency that holds us back from creating the world we want,” we must ask ourselves this question: “What becomes possible when we identify not just with the Earth, but as the earth itself?” How would you begin to answer this question?

The notion that “I am the Earth” is ancient wisdom, but as the survival of our species comes more into question every day, the emerging collective awareness of our connection with the universe can no longer be denied. If we recognize that we are not just on the Earth but also of the Earth it would instill in us a greater sense of responsibility and a greater investment in this place we inhabit. By connecting to the source of where we are from and taking action from a sense of wholeness, rather than insecurity, we develop the agency we need to address our fears that hold us back from fulfilling our destiny and becoming who we are meant to be.

What can we expect to experience?

I designed the arc of the event to loosely parallel the arc or model of transformation that I work with when I work with my clients one-on-one as a psychotherapist. In my background of somatic psychology, we recognize that in order for any new behaviors or change to emerge there needs to be a balance between safety and curiosity. At the event we’ll start with a meditation to help give the audience the experience of connecting with something greater, followed by musical and dance performances. After establishing this deep sense of connection and wonder, we will have presentations from Mark Nelson, an expert in sustainability, and from Allegra Love, founder of the Santa Fe Dreamers Project.

Besides attending, what are some simple steps our community can take to remain part of this ongoing conversation and remain active allies?

I would suggest downloading the meditation from my website (theiamproject.one) to get familiar with the perspective that we are not separate from our environment. If we can live from this perspective, we’ll naturally be making decisions for our highest benefit and the benefit of all beings.

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THE CALENDAR MUSIC BARD ERDINGTON V Honeymoon Brewery Solana Center, 907 W Alameda St., Ste. B, 303-3139 An energetic blend of Mississippi Delta blues and Appalachian folk music.

7 pm, free BRIAN HAAS; RYAN SCOTT LONG Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Jazz.

8 pm, free C S ROCKSHOW La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rock and roll.

7:30 pm, free CALVIN HAZEN El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Flamenco and classical Spanish guitar.

6-8 pm, free CAROLS AND BLESSINGS FROM AROUND THE WORLD Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel 50 Mt. Carmel Road, 988-1975 The Santa Fe Women's Ensemble presents a collection of music arranged for chorus, piano and violin.

3 pm, $10-$25 CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 First-rate piano and vocals from Charles Tichenor and friends—playful, interactive, family-friendly and eclectic.

6 pm, free CHATTER SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1199 Chatter weaves together traditional and contemporary chamber music with poetry.

This morning's poet is Peter Anderson, with chamber selections from Penderecki, Clarke and Prokofiev.

10:30 am, $5-$16 CONNIE LONG AND FAST PATSY Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Country music with a twist of rockabilly and blues, plus rock 'n' roll and '60s and '70s classics.

8:30 pm, free DAVID GEIST Hervé 139 W San Francisco St., 795-7075 Piano standards and Broadway faves.

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?

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FELIX Y LOS GATOS AT BOXCAR Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Zyde-Tejano blues.

10 pm-1:30 am, free GEMMA DERAGON Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar (Apothecary) 133 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 Jazz violin and standards from the '30s and '40s.

7-9 pm, free GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards, plus pop, rock and contemporary favorites—with vocals too.

6:30-9:30 pm, free HALF BROKE HORSES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Honky Tonk and Americana.

1 pm, free JOHN KURZWEG BAND El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n' roll.

9-11 pm, $5 PAPADOSIO PRESENTS: DESERT DOSIO Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 A two-night performance of rock-jazz-electronic-progrock. 21+ 8 pm-12 am, $20-$25 RHOMBUS ENSEMBLE El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Eclectic jazz.

7:30-10:30 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 RY TAYLOR Ski Santa Fe 1477 Hwy. 475, 982-4429 Acoustic groovin’ Americana.

3 pm, free RYAN AND JASPER Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Country western.

3 pm, 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 THE BARBEDWIRES Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Soulful blues.

6-9 pm, free

THE FREE RADICAL ROBERTS Beer Creek Brewing Company 3810 Hwy. 14, 471-9271 Blues, R&B and rock.

5-8 pm, free THE REAL MATT JONES Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Alt-country, new country, all the best country all the time.

5-8 pm, free THE GRUVE Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Soul and R&B. 9 pm-12 am, free

THEATER A MUSICAL PIÑATA FOR CHRISTMAS Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A community celebration with classic and contemporary carols performed by The Teatro Paraguas Orchestra, dancing, seasonal poetry, skits and an original short play, Regalito by Alix Hudson (see SFR Picks, page 19).

2 pm, $5-$10 NO NUMBER HOME Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Written by Santa Fe resident Tencha Avila and inspired by real events, No Number Home tells the story of a young couple and their daughter living in a migrant worker colony in Colorado in December of 1944. When their recently drafted 18-year-old neighbor, Jesus Rodriguez, deserts from basic training, the colony is invaded by the military police who vow to find him whatever the cost. Residents panic, they are sure that they will all be deported unless someone hands the boy over.

7:30 pm, $30 YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS PROJECT PERFORMANCES Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Improvisation, short plays, monologues, and even a couple of surprises, all created and performed by kids and teens ages 8-14 under the guidance of YPP instructors Quinn Alexander Fontaine and Marguerite Scott.

1:30 pm, $10

WORKSHOP COME MAKE A PRINT! FOMA 333 Montezuma Ave., 660-0121 Community monotype session for all ages hosted by exhibiting artists Ron Pokrasso, Bill Sortino, Joel Greene and Stan Berning (see SFR Picks, page 19).

1-4 pm, $5

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Reading in the Arroyo: An Occasional Column About Books Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers

by Jake Skeets & I Used to be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz B Y M O L LY B O Y L E a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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orty years ago, Richard Avedon took a photograph of Jake Skeets’ uncle. Benson James, Drifter, Gallup, New Mexico, 06/30/79 shows a Navajo man against a white backdrop. He stares into the camera, his stained snapbutton Wrangler shirt half-untucked, his shoulders squared into a stance that reads as either confrontational or cool.

He clenches a fistful of dollars. The other hand is cupped elegantly at his side.

It’s an intriguing image on its own, but it is also a ghost story. By the time Avedon sent a signed copy of his 1985 book In the American West to Benson, whose portrait appears in it, Skeets’ uncle was gone. A year after the photo was taken, Benson had been stabbed to death in Gallup. Skeets grew up staring at the photo by the famous photographer in his aunt’s house, wondering what was behind his uncle’s dark eyes.

Benson James, Drifter is the cover of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers (Milkweed Editions, 2019), Skeets’ National Poetry Series-winning debut collection of poems which was published just one year after Skeets’ MFA graduation

from the Institute of American Indian Arts. In the book, the poet reckons with the shadow of his uncle’s legacy — “his face becomes a mirror/if I stare long enough”— and of his own queer identity. The poems are set in Gallup and on the Navajo Nation, where Skeets grew up in Vanderwagen as a member of the Black Streak Wood clan.

Reading Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers is dizzying and hallucinatory, an experience that might be akin to siphoning gasoline (which happens in one of its poems). It’s hard to tell what’s happening when and where in the liminal place Skeets calls Drunktown, where a gay kid comes of age among toxic masculinity and reservation trauma. Violent events are retold from a state of grace. Images of light and darkness are locked in battle, swirling around each other in a precarious balance.

Standing up from reading the book in one sitting, I staggered a little.

There’s a lot of staggering in the poems.

Skeets writes, “Like my father, I come upon death/staggering into the house with beer on the breath.”

Drunk men lurch into lanes of traffic, or sleep beside the train tracks. Their machismo and their alcoholic bloodlines are their armor.

“Men around here only touch when they fuck in a backseat,” Skeets writes, “go for the foul with thirty seconds left/hug their son after high school graduation/ open a keg/stab my uncle forty seven times behind a liquor store.”

Sex offers an escape, stolen in arroyos and fields vibrating with cottonwoods, sagebrush, bellflowers and snakeweed.

These erotic interludes are still attached to violence. “Such a terrible beauty to

witness men ripen,” Skeets writes. But fragility creeps in. “He unlearns how to hold a fist/with my hand.”

Throughout the book, Skeets filters stereotypi-cal depictions of Gallup through his mind’s eye.

His poem “Sleepers” is a response to a 1971 Calvin Trillin story in The New Yorker called “Drunken Indians.”

It quotes from the article: “The drunks picked up after the jail was crammed full used to sleep on the stairs that led down from the old jail to the main of the Gallup City Hall. Skeets’ poem becomes a benediction for this faction of drinkers. He conjures an image of the sleepers out in the fields, decorated with crowns made from desert flowers, laying on brush that becomes “medicine beneath them.”

I’ve never read any poetry like these alternately herky-jerky and rollicking lines—sometimes scattered all over the page, other times neatly coupled together—and their mixture of Dinè lore and language with pastoral sex, glittering brutality and cultural reckoning. The stories Skeets tells us, along with the terrible beauty he conjures, are their own medicine. ***

Meanwhile, I just read an essay about Santa Fe in I Used to Be Charming, the new collection of nonfiction pieces by Eve Babitz (New York Review Books Classics, 2019). Babitz is the ultimate LA cool girl, a

’70s rock chick and album cover designer who was pho photographed nude at age 20 playplay ing chess with Marcel Duchamp.

She’s also a sharp, hilarious writer whose best work has been reissued over the last few years, sparking a Babitz renaissance and a show in develdevel opment at Hulu. In contrast to the New Mexico Skeets depicts in Eyes Bottle Dark, most of Babitz’s Santa Fe observations, written in 1995, are generically touristy. Here’s an especially hokey line about the city in December: “Spirits hang in the air, exiled in this romantic place made from the geology, the three cultures, and the altitude.”

But just next to that, right after a digression on blue corn enchiladas at The Shed, she hits the nail precisely on the head about the perks of winter in Northern New Mexico. It’s an echo of recent thoughts I’ve had during silent snowbound walks through the WestsideGuadalupe Historic District: “I prefer Santa Fe in the winter,” Babitz writes. “No one’s there but the angels and the sky, the clouds, the sunsets.”

Molly Boyle is a former editor of crime fiction at Penguin and Random House.

She has worked at five bookstores and only been fired by one.

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DINOSAUR BONE JEWELRY AND ART Semiotique Gallery 1807 Second St., Ste. 4 Local artist Linda Storm shows jewelry and small works made with an unconventional material.

12:30-5:30 pm, free YOUNG NATIVE ARTISTS WINTER SHOW & SALE New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 Begin collecting art, jewelry, pottery and more from the next generation of Native American artists and craftspeople. Children and grandchildren of artists associated with the museums Portal Program will demonstrate and sell their own arts and crafts in the NMHM main Lobby.

10 am-4 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES BRIAN EGOLF Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 JourneySantaFe presents New Mexico House Speaker Brian Egolf to discuss the upcoming 2020 legislative session. Among his legislative successes, Egolf championed equal pay for equal work for women and passed legislation to penalize the distribution of sensitive images, such as child pornography.

11 am, free WINTER RITUALS AND CELEBRATIONS FOR HUMANISTS Unitarian Universalist Congregation 107 W Barcelona Road, 982-9674 The Unitarian Universalists discuss wintertime celebrations from a variety of traditions.

8:30 pm, free

DANCE THE NUTCRACKER Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Aspen Ballet of Santa Fe presents another year of their beloved, whimsical take on the the classic Tchaikovsky ballet, performed by more than 60 dancers.

1 and 5 pm, $54-$94

EVENTS 2019 WINTER INDIAN MARKET La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 The Southwestern Association for Indian Arts presents more than 150 artists to show their work, alongside performances of live music and dance.

10 am-3 pm, $10-$15

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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 Jono Manson.

5 pm, $8-$12 DEMO DAY Ski Santa Fe 1477 Hwy. 475, 982-4429 Try out some new gear from a wide range of vendors.

10 am, free MONA LISA ART-A-THON Railyard Artisan Market 1607 Paseo de Peralta Oil painter Susan Kahn and acrylic painter Christina Miller show their tribute paintings to Da Vinci's genius and invite other artists to show their tribute works.

10 am-4 pm, free THE I AM PROJECT: EARTH IN ACTION The Swan 1213 Parkway Drive, 629-8688 An evening of performances and presentations to bring out the light as we edge deeper into a season of darkness. This is a nonprofit event and all proceeds support the artists as well as the Santa Fe Dreamers Project.

6-9 pm, $0-$75 WINTER SOLSTICE COMMUNITY CELEBRATION Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2351 Local nonprofit Praising Earth hosts an event to honor the threshold of solstice through shared song, dance, and ritual, featuring Madi Sato and Song Carriers Women’s Circle alongside Timothy P. McLaughlin and Speaking Fires Men’s Circle, with honored guest grandmother Pat McCabe. A community pot-luck follows the main event.

4 pm, free

FILM INCITEMENT The Screen 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 428-0209 The Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival presents a provocative look at the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin told from the perspective of the assassin, Yigal Amir. The 2019 film, which premiered amidst controversy in Israel, went on to win the Israeli Academy Award for Best Picture, only to be denounced by Israel’s Minister of Culture.

2 pm, $8-$12

MUSIC BERT DALTON & FRIENDS Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Piano-led Latin jazz.

11:30 am-3 pm, free BREWHOUSE BAZAAR Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 A holiday market featuring 40 local vendors with handmade gifts, one of a kind ceramics, photography, vintage and upcycled clothing and way more.

12-6 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 GARY GORENCE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Classic rock and singer-songwriter jams.

8 pm, free MELANIE MONSOUR AND PAUL BROWN Museum Hill Café 710 Camino Lejo, 984-8900 A blend of classical and jazz on piano and bass.

12-2 pm, free ODD DOG Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Rock 'n' blues classics on the deck.

3 pm, free SUGAR MOUNTAIN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Neil Young tribute.

12 pm, free

THEATER A MUSICAL PIÑATA FOR CHRISTMAS Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A community celebration with classic and contemporary carols performed by The Teatro Paraguas orchestra, dancing, seasonal poetry, skits and an original short play, Regalito by Alix Hudson (see SFR Picks, page 19).

2 pm, $5-$10 NO NUMBER HOME Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Written by Santa Fe resident Tencha Avila and inspired by real events, No Number Home tells the story of a young couple and their daughter living in a migrant worker colony in Colorado in December of 1944. When their recently drafted 18 year-old neighbor, Jesus Rodriguez, deserts from basic training, the colony is invaded by the military police who vow to find him whatever the cost. Residents panic, they are sure that they will all be deported unless someone hands the boy over.

2 pm, $15-$25

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YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS PROJECT PERFORMANCES Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Improvisation, short plays, monologues, and even a couple of surprises, all created and performed by kids and teens ages 8-14 under the guidance of YPP instructors Quinn Alexander Fontaine and Marguerite Scott.

6 pm, $10

THE CODED LANGUAGE OF COLOR Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Introductory talk with enjoyable practical demonstrations of the electromagnetic basis of color and its profound effect on human life and the planetary theatre. Presented

by The Living Theatre.

6:30-7:45 pm, free

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

Dry mixed media materials and paper will be provided.

Students may bring any additional materials they would like to work with. Students are encouraged to bring photo references of any animal(s) they are interested in drawing.

6-8 pm, $15-$20 ACTIVIST KIDS! Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 Bring your kids to discuss the issues they care about, connect with other kids and learn how to be activists with activities and learning resources.

2 pm, free

GEEKS WHO DRINK Draft Station Santa Fe Arcade, 60 E San Francisco St., 983-6443 Good at trivia? Win drink vouchers for your next visit.

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

MON/16 ART OPENINGS MOMO TAOS POP UP Banyan Fierer Studio 1235 Siler Road Ste. F, 469-2116 A one-day pop-up features artists, potters, jewelers and clothing designers from MoMo's flagship store in downtown Taos.

3-7 pm, free

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

10:30 am, free NARRATIVE AS ART, HISTORY AS LITERATURE: IN CONVERSATION WITH HAMPTON SIDES Santa Fe Woman's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail., 983-9455 Historian, journalist and acclaimed author Hampton Sides in conversation with Ed Robertson as part of Southwest Seminars' Mother Earth, Father Sky speaker series.

6 pm, $15

FOOD DUMPLING POP-UP Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., 303-3808 Brent Jung serves up Korean dumplings and more.

4 pm, $10

MUSIC CASEY ANDERSEN AND MOHIT DUBEY Dinner for Two 106 N Guadalupe St., 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 CRAWFISH BOYZ Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 New Orleans-flavored jazz.

11:30 am-3 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND ELIZABETH YOUNG Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Montgomery provides the standards, originals and pop on piano, and Young joins in on violin.

6:30-9:30 pm, free

WORKSHOP 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/17 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 INTRODUCTION TO HEARTTHREAD Healing the Scars 439 C W San Francisco St., 575-770 1228 A transformational modality that releases old patterns of trauma and conditioning through the field of the heart, a field of safety and unconditional love.

7-9 pm, $20 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 TRENDS 2020 The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, 992-5800 Jose and Lena Stevens of the Power Path School of Shamanism in Santa Fe explore the energies, major themes, opportunities and challenges of 2020.

7 pm, $25

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

6-8 pm, free ALEX MARYOL Tesuque Casino 7 Tesuque Road, 984-8414 Bluesy rock.

6-9 pm, free BLUEGRASS JAM Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 You guessed it: It's a bluegrass jam.

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

8-11 pm, $5 GOLDEN GENERAL Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Golden General plays curated covers and indie originals.

8:30-10:30 pm, free

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FRIDAY 12/13

KOREAN POP UP WITH BRENT JUNG

RUSSELL ASH 6 PM

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SATURDAY 12/14

GEEKS WHO DRINK 7 PM

JUSTIN McGLAUCHLIN 6 PM

EVERY WEDNESDAY VINYL DATE NIGHT WINTER SEASONAL BEER RELEASE

www.tumblerootbrewing.com 32 Bisbee Court Unit 3-4 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87508 Mon-Sat 5 pm to 9 pm

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SUNDAY 12/15 BLOODY MARY AND MIMOSA SPECIALS BRYAN MCPHERSON 7 PM www.tumblerootbrewing.com 2791 Agua Fria Street Santa Fe, New Mexico 87507 Mon-Fri 4 pm Sat-Sun 12 pm

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THE CALENDAR OSCAR BUTLER Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Solo acoustic guitar.

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

6 pm, free

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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.

9 pm, free

THEATER NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE IN HD: PRESENT LAUGHTER Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Andrew Scott leads in Noel Coward’s play as Garry, who must sort his life out back home before departing on an overseas tour (see SFR Picks, page 19).

7 pm, $19-$22

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Adelina Garcia paints a clay pig during a healing pottery workshop at Elder Kathy Wan Povi Sanchez’s house at San Ildefonso Pueblo, photographed by Chloe Accardi and on display at the Museum of Int’l Folk Art.

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

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

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

Through Jan. 5. Música Buena: Hispano Folk Music of New Mexico. Through March 7, 20201. Yokai: Ghosts and Demons of Japan. Through Jan. 2021.

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

Through 2021.

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

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

Through March 1.

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

Through August 2020.

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

Through Jan. 5, 2020.

Picturing Passion: Artists

Reinterpret the Penitente Brotherhood.

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

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

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

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

Through May 10, 2020.

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

Through Jan. 5, 2020.

WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 704 Camino Lejo, 982-4636 Laughter and Resilience: Humor in Native American Art. Through Oct. 4, 2020.

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Clockwise from top left: white rice, Vietnamese goat curry stew, and wok-fried ginger-lemongrass crab legs.

They’ve got fried rice in several varieties ($7-$13) including vegetarian options, pad thai ($14-$18), a whole baked Asian cod ($28) and Chinese five spice ribs and chicken ($26). There’s a generic-looking Indonesian spicy vegetables ($16) “stir-fried in an Eastern Hot Sauce,” besides tofu options for meatless diners.

We ordered our mains before our fries arrived. I chose the Vietnamese goat curry stew ($23), with my partner opting for wok-fried crab legs ($39). Then we waited. We finished our short waters and waved down the waiter for a refill. After

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was more distracting than adding anything important to the meal, and for anyone who’s worked in a kitchen, it might feel a little exhausting. Good thing there’s a main room, then.

The menu had a lot of exciting appetizers, from traditional egg rolls ($5) to organic chicken dumplings ($10), Thai red curry mussels and tuna sashimi (both $16); I sprung for the kimchi fries ($13) with their promise of mozzarella, Korean ketchup, pork belly and Lucky Goat dressing, because since when hasn’t Pan-Asian included American food? I was offered cucumber water with a whole cucumber slice lining the glass which was a nice touch, but as I waited for my appetizer, it began to tease me with its food value.

For entrees, the menu is even more promising. A build-your-own pho option lets you pick a broth ($4), noodle ($3), protein ($1-$5) and veggie ($1).

about 45 minutes, our mains arrived— with no sign of the kimchi fries. I was content to abandon them, however, as the smell of the stew was so enticing—but where was my spoon?

For several minutes the only waitstaff around was the maitre d’, from whom I received a spoon. Thank God I finally got it, too, because the stew was delicious.

Bright lemongrass gave way to an earthy, spicy curry, with big chunks of flavorful goat, potato and carrot. The goat was lean and tender, with just enough fat to flavor the stew.

My partner was a bit more disappointed in his crab legs: The plate was a little too small for the portion and they seemed haphazardly thrown on. Some parts were just lukewarm and on a whole it was over-salted. The menu promises a side of brown or white rice and an Asian cucumber salad; the brown rice I ordered was flawlessly prepared, but my salad was missing. I didn’t have the chance to mention it to the waiter, because he didn’t come to check on us until after we finished our meal.

I understand it takes some time to establish a work-flow in a restaurant, but there are certain service standards that should be well-sorted before opening.

Lucky Goat’s menu shows a dedication to quality and an interest in innovation, but the execution was decidedly lackluster for the cost of the plates. I won’t write it off, though, and I wait patiently for the folks at Lucky Goat to all get on the same page, because I’d really like a chance to try those fries—and the pho, and the cod, and the wings, and the … well, Asia’s a big place, you know.

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ould you like to be seated in the main room or … The viewing room?” the maitre d’ asked, and my brows rose. I had just entered the red door of Lucky Goat (500 Sandoval St, 772-0239),, a new Pan-Asian restaurant owned by Santa Fe restaurateurs Jennifer and Jimmy Day, the same folks who own, among other excellent restaurants, Trattoria a Mano and Bouche Bistro. This place just opened a few weeks back on Nov. 25, but I’d heard some buzz already so I thought I’d give it a shot. At 6 pm on a Sunday night, it wasn’t busy.

To my right was the main room, and to my left was a small alcove with two walls of windows covered in bamboo bars facing into the kitchen. Not just food, but an experience? Count me in.

The experience offered is like ¼th of a traditional hibachi, which I think is sort of what they’re going for. It’s hard to tell what’s going on with the “Pan-Asian” genre, as Asia is actually a whole-ass gigantic continent with over 60% of the world’s population and a hugely diverse set of culinary traditions (Kudos to Lucky Goat for distilling it into two pages of menu items, though). Instead of dramatic scenes of cooking and food flying out the kitchen, I mainly saw a lot of staff quietly doing their work in a fluorescent-lit kitchen. There was one pan-flare up, but the disparity between our environments

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Honey Boy Review Shia LaBeouf and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad childhood

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Actor Shia LaBeouf has been a bit of a wildcard over the last decade or so. But for every screaming YouTube video he released, every blockbuster schlock-fest he appeared in or Daniel Clowes comic he plagiarized, he managed to churn out a halfway decent or memorable performance (Peanut Butter Falcon from earlier this year is pretty OK and say what you will about Nymphomaniac—that shit’ll haunt you). Has he been an unhinged Hollywood lunatic, or is he secretly some kind of marketing genius uninterested in whether the attention he receives is good or bad? Newly released Honey Boy might provide some insight, but it’s still hard to say and ultimately lacks a satisfying conclusion.

In the film, which LaBeouf wrote and which is loosely based on his life, he plays a version of his own father Jeffrey (James in the movie) alongside Noah Jupe (A Quiet Place) and Lucas Hedges (Lady Bird) as a fictionalized version of himself, here named Otis. We cut between 1995 and 2005—a young Otis on the cusp of early childhood stardom and grappling to connect with anyone, especially his father—and then a post-DWI Otis forced into court-mandated rehab to avoid jail time. 1995 Otis employs his father as a means to stay close,

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2005 Otis deals with the aftermath of the abusive paternal relationship; the alcoholism in his family that comes to a head the more lonely he feels and the pain planted all those years ago catch up.

Jupe manages the performance of his admittedly short career, careening wildly from tersely delivered barbs meant to sting to ageappropriate confusion over why his dad acts the way he does. Living in a rundown hotel, young Otis forges a strong relationship with a neighboring resident credited only as Shy Girl (singer FKA Twigs, whose small but pivotal turn will surely generate buzz) who we’re led to believe is a sex worker. LaBeouf and director Alma Har’el succeed here in leading us to believe the worst will happen, but young Otis’s desperation for a parent figure feels more vulnerable and real in scenes with Shy Girl than it does in the adversarial ones with his dad.

Hedges’s scenes feel less enthralling, however, and it’s rarely as interesting to see 22-year-old Otis

screaming in the woods or stomping his feet during therapy sessions as it is in the simpler moments with Jupe.

It’s just as well, because it’s LaBeouf’s movie and he can do what he wants—and he does disappear so deeply into the role of his father that you straightup forget it’s him. LaBeouf’s dad has reportedly seen Honey Boy and the two are apparently on the path toward reconciliation, and it seems the film has been healing for its writer and star as well. But then, it starts to feel awfully self-important, and we don’t really get a payoff to so much exposition. It’s like we’re just supposed to know that LaBeouf had a career after 2005, which of course we do—you remember 2007’s Transformers, right?

HONEY BOY Directed by Har’el With LaBeouf, Jupe, Hedges and FKA Twigs Violet Crown, R, 94 min.

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with her current beau (Gleeson). They’re all very selfish and charming and human if a little bit boring.

Thus, the world of Frankie is pretty and hypnotic at first, but as the single day in which the film plays out unfolds, the conversational vignettes grow stale. Kudos all around for natural and nuanced performances from some of film’s most seasoned vets, but by the fifth or sixth awkward exchange between Frankie and her people, it becomes challenging to stay engaged. In the end, we just feel bad for those who’ve been drawn into her powerful orbit— she’s manipulative and cunning and, despite staring down the barrel of so much love, seems uncomfortable in her own skin, particularly at the idea that her kids might go on with their lives after she’s gone.

There is so much in the setup, in fact, to be drawn to, it’s a pity Sachs’ vision feels so very self-indulgent and downright trite now and again, but as travelogue movies go, one could do plenty worse. In other words, come for the character studies and stay for the Portugal of it all, but don’t expect filmmaking bliss so much as a simple and uneven glimpse into the life of the flawed. (ADV)

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Cinephiles are sure to hear a lot about Frankie, the newest from director Ira Sachs (Little Men) and a darling at Cannes this year. And while the film boasts a rather impressive cast of internationally respected names like Isabelle Huppert, Brendan Gleeson, Marisa Tomei, Greg Kinnear and any number of others who are probably huge in Europe, its minimalist approach ultimately droops under the weight of too much nothingness.

Huppert is Frankie, a big-time actress facing a terminal disease who gathers friends and family in Sintra, Portugal, for what must be the most maudlin vacation of all time.

Knowing full well her fate, her adult children struggle with their own realities despite the gorgeous Portuguese backdrop. Frankie’s daughter (Vinette Robinson) yearns to leave her husband, her son (Jérémie Renier) searches for meaning in his life through the past and finds none; a former on-set stylist of Frankie’s (Tomei) grapples with a lovesick boyfriend (Kinnear) pushing for too much, too soon and her ex-husband (Pascal Greggory), finally free to be openly gay, trades marriage war stories

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Marriage Story begins with Charlie (Adam Driver) and Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) reading lists of what they love most about one another. They are sweet and nuanced: both loving parents, he’s a successful Broadway director and she’s a star actor—in fact, his “favorite actor.” It seems a match made in heaven and we are quickly swept up in their idyllic partnership, making it all the more stinging when we learn the lists are part of an assignment given by a mediator to aid in the process of Nicole and Charlie’s impending uncoupling. This is writer/ director Noah Baumbach’s (Francis Ha, Mistress America) intention. He wants it to hurt, and it does.

On the surface, the divorce is one of logistics, a tale of two cities: Nicole moves to Los Angeles to pursue a big role in a TV pilot and to enjoy all that “space” everyone keeps talking about, while Charlie stays in New York to bring his production of Electra to Broadway. Charlie sees her move as only temporary and insists they are a “New York family,” while Nicole maintains this move is something she’s always wanted—something Charlie failed to take seriously amidst all his self-importance.

His play, it turns out, is an apt allusion (a woman scorned), and although they’d discussed parting amicably and without lawyers, Nicole finds cutthroat, stiletto-wearing divorce attorney Nora Fanshaw (portrayed fabulously by Laura Dern) to represent her. During their first meeting Fanshaw asks Nicole for her side of the story. Nicole says, “It’s difficult to articulate.” And it is, because with no true villain to blame we are left navigating the little things that lead to the demise of their relationship.

Of course, there are problems aplenty, and while it may take Charlie (and us) a moment to play emotional catch-up with Nicole, we eventually come to understand just how insidious these “little things” can be in a relationship. It’s difficult to watch as Nora paints Charlie as a sortof deadbeat dad too consumed with his work to truly care. For Nora, the inadequacy of the father is not just about Charlie, but about all men; “God is the father and God didn’t show up,” she tells Nicole. “It’s fucked up, but that’s the way it is”— this could be a tagline for the film. Meanwhile, Charlie seeks his own council, meeting with two lawyers: a pussycat (Alan Alda) and a shark (Ray Liotta).

We may want to pick a side, but Baumbach won’t let us off so easily. Nicole and Charlie are so perfectly messy and endearing that we are left feeling like their 8-year-old son Henry (Azhy Robertson), grasping at his parent’s hands while

Director Noah Bombach’s Marriage Story is all about divorce, which we’re pretty sure is the only thing he makes movies about. they literally pull him in different directions.

This is Driver and Johansson at their best and Baumbach’s finest work yet.

Marriage Story is at once Greek tragedy, absurdist comedy and a surrealist dystopian reality. A must-see. (Allison Sloan)

Violet Crown, Netflix, R, 136 min.

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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 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)

Regal, PG-13, 103 min.

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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.

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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?

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Regal (both locations), R, 152 min.

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

Between chronic pain, depression and haunting memories of his past, Salvador has chosen to leave writing and filmmaking behind. This comes with a sense of meaninglessness, but when a small theater asks him to present his most famous work as part of a film festival, Salvador sets out to make peace with its lead Alberto (Asier Etxeandia), a man he hasn’t spoken with since the film premiered three decades earlier.

Alberto introduces Salvador to heroin which, for a time, calms his pain and anxieties. But when the pair collaborates once more on a 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.

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Week of December 11th

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Nobody knows really what they’re doing,” says Aries comedian Conan O’Brien. “And there are two ways to go with that information,” he continues. “One is to be afraid, and the other is to be liberated, and I choose to be liberated by it.” I hope you’ll be inspired by O’Brien’s example in the coming weeks, Aries. I suspect that if you shed your worries about the uncertainty you feel, you’ll trigger an influx of genius. Declaring your relaxed independence from the temptation to be a know-it-all will bless you with expansive new perspectives and freedom to move.

works very well. To be constantly thinking about what you’re not supposed to do and say and think about tends to strengthen and reinforce what you’re not supposed to do and say and think about. I prefer author Elizabeth Gilbert’s strategy. She writes, “I don’t try to kill off my fear. I make all that space for it. Heaps of space. I allow my fear to live and breathe and stretch out its legs comfortably. It seems to me the less I fight my fear, the less it fights back.” That’s the method I recommend for you, Libra—especially in the coming weeks.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Creativity expert Roger von Oech tells us, “Everyone has a ‘risk muscle.’ You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don’t, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.” Here’s what I’ll add to his advice. If your risk muscle is flabby right now, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to whip it into better shape. Start with small, modest risks, and gradually work your way up to bigger and braver ones. And what should you do if your risk muscle is already well-toned? Dream and scheme about embarking on a major, long-term venture that is the robust embodiment of a smart gamble.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Many people engage in laughably feeble attempts to appear witty by being cynical—as if by exuding sardonic irony and sneering pessimism they could prove their mettle as brilliant observers of modern culture. An example is this lame wisecrack from humorist David Sedaris: “If you’re looking for sympathy you’ll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.” I bring this to your attention in the hope of coaxing you to avoid indulging in gratuitous pessimism during the coming weeks. For the sake of your good health, it’s important for you to be as open-minded and generous-spirited as possible.

And besides that, pessimism will be unwarranted.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “You can shop online and find whatever you’re looking for,” writes pundit Paul Krugman, “but bookstores are where you find what you weren’t looking for.” That’s a good principle to apply in every area of your life. It’s always smart to know exactly what you need and want, but sometimes—like now—it’s important that you put yourself in position to encounter what you need and want but don’t realize that you need and want.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Bachianas Brasileiras is a nine-part piece of music that blends Brazilian folk music with the compositional style of Johann Sebastian Bach. The poet Anne Sexton relied on it, letting it re-play ceaselessly during her long writing sessions. My painter friend Robin sometimes follows a similar method with Leonard Cohen’s album Ten New Songs, allowing it to cycle for hours as she works on her latest masterpiece. In accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to select a new theme song or collection of theme songs to inspire your intense efforts in behalf of your labors of love in the coming weeks. It’s a favorable time to explore the generative power of joyous, lyrical obsession.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination,” mourned Virgo musician Nick Cave, who’s renowned for his original approach to his craft. I’m bringing this to your attention because I suspect you will be endowed with an extra fertile imagination in the coming weeks. And I would hate for you to waste time and energy trying to make full use of it in the presence of influences that would resist and discourage you. Therefore, I’ll cheer you on as you seek out people and situations that enhance your freedom to express your imagination in its expansive glory.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A scholar counted up how often the Bible delivers the command “Fear not!” and “Don’t be afraid!” and similar advice. The number was 145. I don’t think that approach to regulating behavior

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Isaac Newton (1642– 1726) was one of history’s most influential scientists and a key contributor to physics, astronomy, mathematics, and optics. His mastery of the nuances of human relationships was less developed, however. He had one close friendship with a Swiss mathematician, though he broke it off abruptly after four years. And his biographers agree that he never had sex with another person. What I find most curious, however, is the fact that he refused to even meet the brilliant French philosopher Voltaire, who reached out to him and asked to get together. I trust you won’t do anything like that in the coming weeks, Scorpio. In fact, I urge you to be extra receptive to making new acquaintances, accepting invitations, and expanding your circle of influence.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): How did humans figure out that a luxurious fabric could be made from the cocoons of insect larvae? Ancient Chinese sage Confucius told the following story. One day in 2460 B.C., 14-year-old Chinese princess Xi Ling Shi was sitting under a mulberry tree sipping tea. A silk worm’s cocoon fell off a branch and landed in her drink. She was curious, not bothered. She unrolled the delicate structure and got the idea of using the threads to weave a fabric. The rest is history. I foresee a silkworm’s-cocoon-falling-in-your-cup-of-tea type of event in your future, Sagittarius. Be alert for it.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “It is the soul’s duty to be loyal to its own desires,” wrote Capricorn author Rebecca West. “It must abandon itself to its master passion.” That’s a high standard to live up to!

But then you Capricorns have substantial potential to do just that: become the champions of devoting practical commitment to righteous causes. With that in mind, I’ll ask you: How are you doing in your work to embody the ideal that Rebecca West articulated?

Is your soul loyal to its deepest desires? Has it abandoned itself to its master passion? Take inventory— and make any corrections, if necessary.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I would never try to talk you into downplaying or denying your suffering. I would never try to convince you that the pain you have experienced is mild or tolerable or eminently manageable.

Who among us has the wisdom to judge the severity or intractability of anyone else’s afflictions? Not I. But in the coming months, I will ask you to consider the possibility that you have the power—perhaps more than you realize—to diminish your primal aches and angst. I will encourage you to dream of healing yourself in ways that you have previously imagined to be impossible.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “You owe it to us all to get on with what you’re good at,” wrote Piscean poet W. H. Auden. In other words, you have a responsibility to develop your potential and figure out how to offer your best gifts. It’s not just a selfish act for you to fulfill your promise; it’s a generous act of service to your fellow humans. So how are you doing with that assignment, Pisces? According to my analysis, you should be right in the middle of raising your efforts to a higher octave; you should be discovering the key to activating the next phase of your success—which also happens to be the next phase of your ability to bestow blessings on others.

Homework: Resolved: The answer to a pressing question will come within 72 hours after you do a ritual in which you ask for clarity. FreeWillAstrology.com.

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A STATE OF NEW MEXICO PETITION FOR CHANGE OF IN THE PROBATE COURT NAME OF JENNIFER TREE SANTA FE COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF Case No.: D-101-CV-2019-003116 THE ESTATE OF KATE NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME BRAVERMAN, DECEASED. TAKE NOTICE that in accorCase No.: 2019-0239 dance with the provisions of NOTICE TO CREDITORS Sec. 40-8-1 through NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et that the undersigned has seq. the Petitioner Jennifer been appointed personal repTree will apply to the resentative of the estate of Honorable Matthew J Wilson, decedent. All persons having District Judge of the First claims against the estate of Judicial District at the Santa the decedent are required to Fe Judicial Complex, 225 present their claims within four (4) months after the date Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, of the first publication of any New Mexico, at 1:15 p.m. on published notice to creditors the 6th day of January, 2020 or sixty (60) days after the for an ORDER FOR CHANGE date of mailing or delivery of OF NAME from Jennifer Tree this notice, whichever is later, to Jennifer Paloma Tree. or the claims will be forever KATHLEEN VIGIL, barred. Claims must be preDistrict Court Clerk sented either to the undersigned personal representative By: Francine Lobato at the address listed below, or Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: filed with the Probate Court Jennifer Tree of Santa Fe Country, New Mexico, located at the follow- Petitioner, Pro Se ing address: 100 Catron Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501.

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MEET TOBY! He is a handsome pooch who currently weighs about 45 pounds.

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