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Mail letters to PO Box 2306, Santa Fe, NM 87504, deliver to 132 E Marcy St., 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.

what failed the deceased. It would behoove everyone involved for you to put your intense efforts in addressing this serious health care matter. This is where your efforts should be made to benefit all of the public’s future.

VERONICA O’HALLORAN SANTA FE

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YOUR LIFE IS NOT YOURS

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I have not been able to get a couple of letters recently published in your publication out of my head, so even though weeks have passed since their publication I still have a need to write to you.

There was a correspondence between a younger man who complained about the slow speeds of elderly drivers on the road followed by a response in the subsequent issue by an older man who chastised said younger man for not obeying the rules of the road.

I would like to give my perspective as an out-of-state immigrant from California who’s lived here three years now about why I’m always extremely vigilant of the speed limit in New Mexico.

In less than a year of moving here I quickly learned that New Mexico State police are hopped up on crack cocaine or a similar type of amphetamine. I cannot grasp anything else that explains their extremely violent, aggressive, hostile behavior.

Last year, New Mexico police killed 21 people. The entire country of Germany, population 82 million, lost 14 people to police in that same time span. You’re more likely to be shot dead by a law enforcement officer in New Mexico than any other state.

I always drive the speed limit or a little bit over, not even 5 miles over, because I am terrified that the New Mexico State Police will kill me with the same glee they kill family pets with.

I am terrified for my life every time I get into my vehicle, because in the state of New Mexico, your life is not your own, it belongs to the police.

I enjoyed the letter of Katherine Davie. The recent incident of a teacher criticizing and abusing two Native American students is almost too nuts/crazy to believe.

Although Native Americans are the land owners and protectors of the United States—we almost have no voice in the media.

So thanks to Katherine for mentioning the abrogation of Native American treaty rights by the United States. Raping our land, resources, killing our people, and disregarding our rights as Native Americans and as “Americans.”

Justice is not justice for us (I am Cherokee)—or most Americans. Unless you control the president, congress, senators and governors, etc.

BRYCE FLANAGAN TAOS

MULTI-FACETED I think you missed the mark in the direction of your bias [sic] article on this tragic shooting incident.

The serious insufficiency and lack of comprehensive mental health care in our state is

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EXTRA THOUGHTS LITTERBUGS? Within the past few months, the Albuquerque Journal has been distributing the Journal North to everyone in Santa Fe, whether they requested it or not. I counted over 50 old and unwanted copies on the streets and sidewalks during my walk to work this morning, and that was only three blocks. I don’t see how this isn’t blatant littering. It’s getting to be a real eyesore. ... I sent a complaint to the city of Santa Fe and also emailed the admin staff at the Journal about it, but I don’t know what else I can do other than pick up the copies I come across as I’m walking.

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PHILLIP MORRIS TO OFFER CANNABIS CIGARETTES IN THE NOT-TOODISTANT FUTURE Good news for stockholders, great news for people incarcerated over tiny amounts of weed!

FARMINGTON TEEN STILL GOING STRONG ON NBC’S THE VOICE This issue of SFR runs two weeks, though, so we’ll just see how she’s doing come January.

NEW MEXICO SCIENTISTS FIND NEW DINOSAUR SPECIES

h, Life, u a s d n fi way.

And they probably won’t name it ChileSaurus—like they should.

CATHEDRAL RECTOR CALLS IT QUITS We’ll tell you, the church has had a really rough … 2,000 years.

NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL ORDERS TRUMP FOUNDATION TO DISSOLVE If your charity is too corrupt to even exist, should you be president?

GARBAGE TRUCK CATCHES ON FIRE ON HIGHWAY 599 Landfill rodents distraught over destruction of Christmas presents.

SPEAKING OF GARBAGE FIRES, 2018 IS OVER And if you even try to tell us that New Year’s is an arbitrary construct and signifies no real opportunity or renewed hope we will actually cry.

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COURTESY CANNABIS CULTURE/FLICKR

LETTERS and DC already have enacted the same state law, and together with New Mexico it will then just take another 93 electoral votes to reach the national threshold and make every American vote equal. Our votes should matter in every election, presidential included. For more information, go to the National Popular Vote-New Mexico website (nationalpopularvotenm.org).

DEBORAH VAN HECKE SANTA FE

EXTREMELY SCIENTIFIC SOCIAL MEDIA POLL: “RECREATIONAL CANNABIS: YEA OR NAY?”

FEAR ITSELF Fear Itself is wrong If there is nothing else to fear.

But we are said to fear, inter alia: All immigrants and other nationals The actions of bedrock government institutions and their heads Diverse people Media and communications A true truth The power of women Fear becomes the common element And the proponent Fear Itself.

JAY IMPELLIZZERI SANTA FE

POP CULTURE As a result of the unfortunate state-based “winner-take-all” method of counting Americans’ popular votes during the US presidential elections, twice in the last five presidential elections we have seen a candidate lose the popular vote and still move to the White House. And this is just one of the many tragic disadvantages of the current system. Instead, New Mexico should pass the National Popular Vote bill during the 2019 legislative session, which would allow our state to award all of its electoral votes to the candidate who wins the popular vote across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Eleven other states

THE TWITTERVERSE SAYS 85% Yay 15% Nay Yea all the way! I can’t believe some people are still (willingly?) misinformed on cannabis!

ROBERT SANDOVAL VIA FACEBOOK Hell yea, at least get to be high in the poorest state in the union.

VINCENNES PRUDENCE ORTIZ VIA FACEBOOK Nay.

CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER VIA FACEBOOK Yes! But let’s wait until after the medical program is fixed and the market can handle recreational without disrupting medical patients!

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SANTA FE EAVESDROPPER “I was told to come dressed as a narwhal. I won’t be doing that. I’ll be dressed as Satan.”

—Overheard at a gallery opening “Hey! This is the song from Shrek!”

—Kid in the audience at Teatro Paraguas’ Musical Piñata for Christmas when “Hallelujah” began playing

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Cashier: I thought you must be from Texas.

Customer: Must be my accent.

“I’m 99 percent sure my soulmate is a dog.”

—Overheard at Ojo Caliente , Oct. 17

Cashier: And your big hair.

—Overheard at Dillards, Jan. 3

“Yeah, you’d think legislators would have enough of hearing their own voice, but they love karaoke.”

—Overheard at Low ‘n’ Slow, Jan. 24

Man: Hey, how’s your son doing?

Woman: He’s doing great. He’s in prison.

—Overheard at Allsup’s on North Guadalupe, Feb. 13

Girl, rubbing stomach: “I’m about 20 minutes pregnant.”

—Overheard at Flying Tortilla, May 16

“You eat faster than you walk, really.”

—Overheard on the Dorothy Stewart Trail, June 20

Checker: Are those prescriptions?

Customer: Yes, do you need to see them?

“Dude, those bathrooms are clutch.”

Checker: No, they have started using the same bags for donuts.

—Overheard at a campground in Ojo Caliente, June 13

—Overheard at Smith’s on St. Michael’s Drive, March 6

“If we aren’t having any snow then I’m ready for the hummingbirds.”

“I only visit Santa Fe when I want to pick up or drop off my mink coat from storage.”

SFR’s long-running, community-generated content features includes snippets of overheard conversations that speak volumes about life in Santa Fe. Thanks to everyone who’s submitted an Eavesdropper to our collection in 2018. We couldn’t even begin to make this stuff up! And we’re counting on you to get us through 2019, so start tuning in to strangers and send your illicit tidbits to overheard@sfreporter.com.

“I’m so happy to be playing the Santa Fe Children’s Casino.”

—Singer Mitski from the stage at Meow Wolf, July 4

—Albuquerque resident at lunch at La Plazuela, Oct. 31

“I had to go to the oxygen bar. I had that latitude sickness.”

First Stranger: We’re all Kings of the Universe, right?

—Overheard from a tourist at a private party, Nov. 27

Second Stranger: No, no. I prefer to be a Wanderer of the Multiverse.

“In those days, they didn’t have a hospital in Los Alamos, so I had to come to Santa Fe to be born.”

First Stranger: Oh. —Overheard at Iconik Coffee Roasters, Aug. 15

—Overheard at a local gym, Dec. 5

“Santa Fe has the highest per capita population of old male hippie buskers singing classic rock songs in public than any other municipality.”

“He went to law school for two weeks. He said the books are too big and it’s going to take too long to make any money.”

—Overheard at La Montañita Co-op, Aug. 29

—Overheard at the Chavez Center, Dec. 12

“You’re all blazered up.”

—Engineer to an attorney before a City Council hearing, Sept. 12

—Overheard at La Choza, March 20

“Look, Mom! Kid’s beer!”

—Child pointing to Izze soda at Whole Foods, April 4

“Madame Butterfly. It was wonderful.

I did take a nap.”

—Overheard from a woman on the Rail Trail, July 17

“One thing I’d like to hop on: designing flattering hiking footwear.”

“It’s amazing how many people I end up talking to who mounted their TV set over their fireplace.”

—Man on Big Tesuque trail, Oct. 10

—Overheard at The Firebird, Dec. 12

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Money for Kids in 2019

New state funds might soften impact of declining enrollment in Santa Fe Public Schools

equalization guarantee fund.

Dominic Gabello, transition director for Governor-elect Michelle Lujan Grisham, tells SFR in a written statement that Grisham would “dramatically increase investments in our public schools including pre-K and give our educators a raise,” but offered no opinion on Ruszkowski’s recommendation.

It’s not clear whether $400 million is enough to cover a blueprint of chang-

of money that goes to districts through the state equalization guarantee and that is pegged to a district’s population of “atstu risk” students, identified by proxy as students who qualify for free and reduced lunch. The change, which could end up costing $113.2 million on an unspecified in timeline, would accelerate delayed investments decided in earlier legislative sessions.

Committee members also quickly agreed to endorse a bill that would set an age limit for students whose secondary schooling is funded by the state. In fiscal year 2018, New Mexico spent $6.2 million be educating district students who were between the ages of 22 and 70; to make up rec for the change, legislators agreed to recommend $2 million more for the Higher Education Department for basic adult education.

A more spirited discussion ensued invest when legislators considered a new investment to expand the K-5 Plus enrichment program. Currently, many districts that stu participate in K-5 Plus, which targets students for extra literacy practice, treat it as a summer program; most committee pro members favored a bill to make the program an extension of the school year, and fund it permanently through the state equalization guarantee.

One potential wrinkle, raised by Rep. Dennis Roch (R-Logan), is that funding guar K-5 Plus from the state equalization guarantee could wind up redistributing funds from districts that don’t qualify for K-5 Plus to those that do.

“A lot of counties and schools I represent don’t even have the criteria or option to opt in [to K-5 Plus] and could potentially lose money,” Roch said, adding that many of the districts he represents would not qualify for the K-5 Plus program because their students were not considered “high-risk” of falling behind their peers. Despite his concerns, the committee voted to endorse the bill.

Santa Fe Public Schools, which opts in to the K-5 Plus program, is the type of district the court ruling intended to help: Last year, more than 72 percent of SFPS students qualified for free and reduced lunch, and nearly a quarter speak English as a second language. If the district loses money because of declining enrollment, en the court’s decision should, in theory, ensure that the impact will be minimal for SFPS’s neediest students.

“I don’t really have a sense of what the [price tag] is,” Garcia tells SFR, “but we need training for teachers who teach kids who are English language learners.

We need early childhood education. We need to address the at-risk factors.”

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anta Fe Public Schools saw an overall decline in student enrollment last year, and the district’s numbers for next school year forecast the same.

Normally, school districts can expect to receive less money from the state when their student population falls; Santa Fe’s enrollment number fell from 13,509 during the 2016/2017 school year to 13,269 last year, a drop partially explainable by long-term aging trends in the city’s central region.

But with a new governor and a slew of education bills in the Legislature that would introduce major changes to how New Mexico funds districts, the current horizon for school funding is anything but normal.

Superintendent Veronica Garcia told the district’s board on Dec. 11 that there were 237 fewer students enrolled in SFPS this year than last, according to a headcount that took place on the 40th day of the school year. That could mean a $1.5 million drop in money from the state, if all other factors stayed the same (they won’t). The state averages out headcounts from the 80th and 120th days to determine a district’s funding for the following school year.

The per-student cash, called the state equalization guarantee distribution, represents over 90 percent of districts’ operational revenue, and is calculated with a formula that takes into account enrollment numbers, revenue from a local property tax and other sources. It also considers the educational programs a district maintains, and a number of other factors such as a district’s number of nationally certified teachers, the number of at-risk students served, and whether a district is growing.

Part of the decrease in SFPS enrollment this year, Garcia tells SFR in an interview, was due to an aggressive effort to weed out students in overcrowded Southside schools, including the use of contractors to monitor parents’ addresses and identify boundary-hoppers. Long-term declines at centrally located schools, such as Chapar-

ral and Nava elementaries, continue to impact the district’s overall enrollment.

“It’s too early right now to really project what impact declining enrollment will have on our funding,” Garcia maintains.

The reason: There is almost certainly going to be more money in the state’s education coffers than any other time in recent memory.

In addition to a change in the top executive on Jan. 1, the state is preparing to meet a court-designated deadline to seriously boost investment in public schools, a response to a ruling that found New Mexico deprives vulnerable students of their right to an education. (Garcia was a witness for the plaintiff during the trial.)

Last Thursday, outgoing Education Secretary Christopher Ruszkowski recommended to the Legislative Finance Committee that the state increase its education budget by $400 million.

This includes $196 million for the state

es put forth by reformers who were part of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the state. That coalition has not “costed out” its list of proposed reforms, according to Maria Archuleta, a spokeswoman for the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty.

However, in a meeting of the Legislative Education Study Committee, legislators endorsed several bills intended to make good on the state’s order to bolster investment.

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f you haven’t been paying attention, winter has arrived with a vengeance. Or, at least, more of bitter edge than last year. It already feels like we’ve had more snow, more cold, more of a reason to bust out the puffy jackets and special shoes, but that suits us just fine.

Santa Fe’s a special town when winter rolls around. It might be the lights, the farolitos, the luminarias that pop up everywhere; it might just be that experiencing actual seasons is pretty alright.

Whatever your reasons, we’re there with you.

We’re skiing up mountains (opposite page) and hurriedly buying gifts for our family and loved ones (page 14) at the last minute. We’re making small talk at parties and networking events (page 18) and getting our hands on as many tamales as we can find (page 19). We’re braving the early morning freeze for the goods of the farmers market (page 20), we’re spending time with our favorite streaming service and a nice movie, show—or both (page 22)—and, sometimes, we’re even traveling to nearby areas to see what their winter season is like (page 24). Allow us to show you what we get up to this time of year with our humble 2018 Winter Guide, and may your own season be full of goodness.

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In It to Skin It A 40-something’s trek uphill at Ski Santa Fe I M AG E S + STO RY B Y M AT T G R U B S m a t t g r u b s @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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was 40—okay, 40-ish—when I bought my climbing skins. I’d spent the past 15 years getting good enough at skiing to enjoy steep stuff, deep stuff, trees and even hiking into untracked terrain. I wanted more.

Motivated by old skis and a death that now seemed palpably closer than when I was in my 30s, I decided to buy alpine touring bindings. Mine were built mostly for downhill, but flip a lever and the heel is free enough to mimic the motion of a cross country ski. I wouldn’t be trekking to ski the Truchas Peaks, but I could now do stuff that was previously inaccessible.

I bought the skins the next year.

(Find them for $115-$250 at REI or backcountry.com.) Slick facsimiles of old-school animal skins, they attach with straps, hooks and, most importantly, a layer of glue on one side that bonds temporarily to the ski. They also have a cutting tool to shape them.

Soon, I could haul myself uphill without having to sling skis over my shoulder. I’d earn my run down the mountain and slide myself back uphill as I pleased.

I was ready.

That was three years ago.

When I finally decided to try “skinning” this November, I opened the

carrying pouch and stared at the skins that had spent the last 36 months folded neatly onto themselves. I still had to cut them, which I knew I’d screw up.

Luckily, a few of the guys at the Mellow Velo bike shop next door skin.

Owen Haggard is one such guy. He’s spent half his life on the snow, including time as a guide. He agrees to help, and adds, “If you want some company up there, let me know.”

I want company; if for no other reason than to have someone who can call for help. Ski Santa Fe opens the next day and Haggard expects most of our path will be groomed.

But first, the cutting. Haggard explains that I’m free to use the special tool, but he prefers a cheap utility knife.

“Most people get really nervous when they do this because they’re afraid they’ll …” Haggard pantomimes a slice across the skin and the base of the ski while I mentally count myself as the very person he’s talking about.

He suggests a smooth, deliberate cut—not slow—along the entire ski, using the edge for a guide. He does one ski; I do the other. It’s somewhat tedious, as we repeatedly trim the skins to just less than the width of the ski.

I’ll have an edge if I need to stop on a steep slope on the way up the mountain, which of course I will.

We meet at the base of Ski Santa Fe to start our trek uphill, and Haggard is right: The mountain is almost completely groomed along our route.

Ski Santa Fe is one of the few ski areas that allows uphill climbing in season.

This is a great place to learn before touring into the backcountry. And it’s free.

I peel the skins, place them on my skis and start walking. Which is ridiculous. It takes about five steps to realize I’m supposed to be sliding. Once I do that—with Haggard sneaking a sidelong glance—I’m feeling much better. It’s crazy: uphill on skis. We’re tracking up the bunny slope, so it’s as flat as a mountain gets, but I can feel the skins grabbing the snow before I flick each ski forward.

As the terrain gets steeper, we use risers that are tucked under our heels in the bindings, turning huge uphill strides into something more manageable, like a never-ending staircase. We heat up in a hurry, so a backpack for a helmet and water or shedding layers is a must. Haggard explains the benefits of keeping my eyes up for balance while I wheeze away beside him.

This is fun, though. There’s a peaceful rhythm—even after the ski area opens—to skinning; breath in the shush of the skins with each step. You see the mountain slowly and differently. It’s hard, but it’s not impossible.

At an access road, Haggard takes mercy. We stop, snap a picture and peel off the skins. By this time, I’ve been so obsessed with learning and going uphill and not dying that I’ve forgotten we get to ski down. The entire way—which isn’t far today—I have a huge, stupid grin on my face.

So far this year, I’ve started every day on the mountain with progressively longer treks uphill before locking my heels down and using the lifts for the day. I don’t know if that will continue, but I can’t see a reason other than my own laziness that it would not.

TOP, MIDDLE: Owen Haggard says the key to trimming skins is a smooth, confident cut that leaves enough of the ski bottom exposed to grab an edge.

BOTTOM: A patient Haggard waiting for the author.

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Guide Decorate Those Ears at Maya

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f you’re anything like SFR staffers, you often hit somewhere around Dec. 20 and think “OHMYGAWDIFORGOT TOBUYPRESENTS!” We get it—you’re busy. We are, too. But just because you procrastinate doesn’t mean you don’t want to gift well, and just

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Maya feels so Santa Fe. There’s whimsy, beauty and a natural air about the store.

And it’s a great spot to buy a pair of unique earrings. A large chunk of what’s in the easily perused cases falls into the $30-$70 range, but they can be fancier or more casual. The store is also the only place

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around that stocks the dconstruct brand, an eco-resin line of earrings, bracelets and cuffs accented by precious metals.

SFR Tip: Jewelry buyer Stephanie McKellar knows her stuff and can point you in the right direction.

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Everybody should steal some time to relax around the holidays, and a cannabis gift basket ($39) can help you reach a state of ultimate relaxation.

Included is THC-infused massage oil, soap and bath balm—

As the idea of art as experience picks up more steam, many are looking to get out and see rather than own and hold. Enter Santa Fe Art Tours, the brainchild of arts expert Elaine Ritchel and a fun and educational tour of the galleries and museums right here in Santa Fe. Throw that friend or loved one a gift card ($10-$40) or two, maybe even go with ’em—either way, you’ll know you’ve helped make memories.

SFR Tip: Don’t do that thing where you ask questions designed to make the guide know you know stuff.

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Scientific reports abound about the health and mental benefits of coffee (when not imbibed to excess), and with a homegrown flavor like Caveman Coffee, it’s easy to see why. We’re talking bulletproof (with butter), cold brew and more, plus they’ve got handy gift sets of various roasts and styles available on their website. Feel good about it.

Smart humans know pets don’t make good surprise gifts; the whole fam should be in on that choice. Instead, head to Eldorado Country Pet (7 Avenida Vista Grande, Eldorado, 466-1270) or Critters and Me (1403 Agua Fría St., 982-5040) to buy

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SFR Tip: Look out for other deals on flowers and edibles nearer to Christmas at this and other dispensaries.

Healing Touch from Santa Fe School of Massage 1091 Siler Road, 982-8398 santafeschoolofmassage.com

When it comes to gifting on a budget, you could do a lot worse than a massage from the student clinic at the Santa Fe School of Massage. For a mere $35, you can bestow an hour’s worth of peace and serenity. And before you start in about how they’re still students, understand that everything is supervised and a massage is a massage. Enjoy!

SFR Tip: Remind your giftee not to be gross and to shower first.

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plus a “pain stick,” which looks like a girthy lip balm tube.

Of course, you need a medical cannabis card from the state to purchase the basket.

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because you don’t have a whole lot of disposable income doesn’t mean you don’t want to do so in style. Our list includes gifts that aren’t really things at all, but experiences. If you’re scared, drawing a blank or otherwise giftless as of this moment, allow us to help you out.

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Española Humane’s adoption fees run anywhere from $20$200.

SFR Tip: If you wait ’til kitten season or opt to bring home a senior pet, you might even get your adoption fee waived there or at other local rescues, so investigate your options.

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SFR Tip: If you’re looking to go top-shelf, they’re the only place in town that stocks amazing coats from Italian maker Gimo’s. Expensive, but wow.

New Worlds from VR Junkies

Santa Fe Place Mall, 4250 Cerrillos Road, 428-0172 vrjunkies.com What was once a horrible ’90s fad has become a viable form of entertainment with the new wave of Virtual Reality, or VR, games. For those who want to dabble and not own the equipment, VR Junkies in the Santa Fe Place Mall delivers. You simply pay for the time you want to play ($10-$45) and yes, they’re available for parties and group fun.

SFR Tip: Be aware that VR can be disorienting, so pace yourself and don’t push it.

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If you’re an outdoorsy type but haven’t tried snowshoeing, here’s a perfect opportunity to give it a go: Take a tour that meets at El Monte Sagrado Resort (317 Kit Carson Road, Taos, 575-758-3502) and traipse around scenic

concept (435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111), City of Mud (1114A Hickox St., 954-1705) and Giacobbe Fritz Fine Art (702 Canyon Road, 986-1156) to see what they have. Also find listings for artisan markets in the SFR calendar (start-ing on page 30). Happy gifting!

SFR Tip: Most shows close before the end of December.

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The day-long package includes a snowshoe rental for the 2-4 mile trek in scenic Amole Canyon, plus a gourmet picnic lunch and hot beverages. Two people are $175 apiece, or double-date it for $138 a head for three or more.

SFR Tip: A decent pair of snowshoes will run you at least $150, so this is a pretty economical option for those who tend to buy gear only to use it once. (Um, not that we’ve ever done that.)

Mexican Holiday Treats Perfecto para la Navidad Panaderia Zaragoza Bakery 3277 Cerrillos Road, 471-9383

Mexican culture offers some of the best comfort foods this time of the year. You can pick up a dozen conchas ($9.70), which are sweet bread rolls topped with a crunchy cookie layer, or

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For a good bit of the population, this class is unnecessary. You’ve been making masa and packing it around calabacitas or pork and chile for, well, ever. But what if you don’t have an abuela who hooked you up? Santa Fe School of Cooking has you covered. Sign up for a class and learn how to make tamales ($102), or start down the road of red or green chile ($80).

SFR Tip: If we knew tips about how to make tamales, we wouldn’t have to take a class.

a dozen buñuelos ($15), which are similar to cinnamon-covered sopaipillas but thin and crispy instead of puffy. If you’re looking for something savory, get a dozen tamales ($14) or 32 ounces of champurrado, a chocolate-based drink made from corn masa ($2.99).

SFR Tip: This is possibly the best deal on tamales in town.

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1424 Second St., 365-2875 santafesaltcave.com We know it’s a cliche, but this one could really be perfect for the person who has or has tried almost everything. It’s also perhaps a winner for someone on the list who isn’t really a do-er.

All they have to do is sit still in a recliner and absorb the benefits of halotherapy and twinkling lights and soft music—it’s $35 for 45 minutes.

SFR tip: Make sure they know to wear warm clothes for the session. Turns out a cave that’s made from nine tons of pink Himalayan salt is kinda chilly.

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If you’re an uncle or an aunt or anything but a parent, it can be hard to know what to get a kid who may not know themselves what exactly they (or their parents) will find entertaining. Enter Indigo Baby proprietress Katie Hyde, who pointed us immediately to Questa-made North Star Toys and a hilarious “Red Green Christmas Baby” jumper with a cap that reads “burrito,” made by Albuquerque artist Nikki Zabicki.

SFR Tip: At least 30 percent of the stuff there is made in Santa Fe.

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Wrapping one’s hands around a steaming mug of tea is a simple pleasure. Spiff up this ritual by choosing a few flavors from more than 100 loose leaf teas for the herbal or caffeinated tea lover ($4 for each 1-ounce bag).

Pair it with a vessel from a local potter, or find a silly or charming used mug at a thrift store.

When the temperature drops, a hot drink with a spoonful of honey can be delightful. Nine local honeys on offer are sourced from beehives around the Chama mountains and the Rio Grande. The store carries 18 other honey varieties from across the West. Buy them in packs of three jars ($30 for 2-ounce and $45 for 4-ounce) or six ($50 and $80), or opt for a single 4-ounce jar ($18) infused with things like chocolate red chile or green chile pistachios.

SFR Tip: Canyon Road parking is not really that scary.

SFR Tip: The wooden crates the jars come in make a sleek gift for a professional acquaintance or your team of criminal defense attorneys.

Make a Rag Rug to Keep or to Gift

Española Valley Fiber Arts Center 325 Paseo de Oñate, Española, 747-3577, evfac.org At the EVFAC’s Walk In & Weave session, make an appointment to spend about three hours crafting a 26-by36-inch rag rug on a loom, with full instruction if you need it. Either send your friend who needs an afternoon

of a new hobby, or head up yourself to make someone something unique.

A session is $40 and must be scheduled in advance; you can bring your own fabric, but be prepared to spend about $20$30 on upcycled Pendleton fabric there, too.

SFR Tip: This could be cool to do with someone’s sentimental old clothes that are too worn-out to donate.

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serious and schedule private or group lessons with the studio’s professional and friendly instructors for anywhere from $30-$60. If you don’t want to schedule something outright or want to leave it all up to your pal, get a gift certificate.

SFR Tip: Dance is totally the kind of thing where if you know two or three moves, you can extrapolate and make it your own. A little goes a long way!

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oliday shopping can be hard.

There’s the frantic spending of Black Friday, the quiet obsession of Cyber Monday and something that’s now being called Cyber Week.

There’s also all the other days when you’re either virtually or physically running around trying to finish your holiday spending.

Deals abound. The perfect gift is either right there in front of you or right there in SFR’s gift guide (see page 14).

You can’t pass it up. Or you want to be generous. Or that sweater would look better on you than on the rando aunt/ uncle you see once a year, so why not grab it and get them something else?

All those deals still count as spending.

And this is not 1948, so it’s usually credit card country. And, too often, it’s payday loan or title loan territory.

It doesn’t have to be.

Banks and credit unions are equipped for this sort of thing, as are a select few stores. Sure, you might not have known the person approving your loan since you were a kid, but they’re likely friendly enough.

What’s more, old-school things like holiday savings accounts do exist.

“You start putting money away a year in advance,” says Del Norte Credit Union’s Kim Currie. “My goal was toward having a cash Christmas.”

The account can be set up with an automatic transfer from your checking or savings account. At least at Del Norte, you can’t touch it through an ATM or online banking (though you can still get

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at it in an emergency). Come Nov. 1, it’s transferred into your account and you have money for the holidays.

“I know I don’t have access to it, so it’s not as tempting,” Currie tells SFR about her approach to saving. “You’ve got to kind of play mind games with yourself.”

Some banks drop the rates on their personal loans (also called signature loans or unsecured loans because you’re putting down no collateral) during the holidays.

If you’ve already done your shopping and are stuck with a bunch of credit card debt, banks and credit unions sometimes run balance transfer specials in January.

At Del Norte, for example, the credit union locks that debt at 5.9 percent APR until you pay it off.

As far as the stores are concerned, a few like Walmart have layaway plans, so it’s worth at least asking if there’s something on your list that costs more than you’re prepared to spend right away.

What you don’t want to do is fall into a predatory loan cycle. Those are the payday and title loan shops that are everywhere. New Mexico state law caps the rate on short-term loans like these—at 175 percent.

“Compare that to credit unions and traditional bank signature loans,” says Cholla Khoury, who heads the consumer protection team at the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office.

She also warns people to look closely at fees. “Always the first thing that we recommend that consumers do is check what it’s going to cost to get the loan. No money is lended for free,” she explains.

While state law caps interest, things like origination costs and other fees can add up in a hurry. Her office routinely gets complaints about surprisingly high costs to obtain a loan.

Lastly, she warns about scams that require a bank deposit before you can get a loan. Or, though it may sound silly, buying a prepaid card at a store and giving it to someone over the phone or online.

“If they are requiring you to pay via gift card or prepaid card, it is a scam. And that is without exception,” she says.

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he parties. The receptions. The dinners. The fundraisers.

If your social calendar is filling up for the holidays and that fills you with a sense of dread, you’re not alone.

If you don’t want to end up on the receiving end of a tirade about politics or a pondering on the snow forecast, may we suggest a question-based conversation?

For Stacy Sacco, starting conversations and making them feel meaningful to both people talking is the stuff of art.

As the director of the University of New Mexico’s Small Business Institute, he says students need to learn networking skills for their livelihoods, but those tools also come in handy for holiday gatherings that feature fewer business cards and more greeting cards.

“The holidays are one of the best times for quality conversations,” he says. “Everybody is in a festive mood, they may be planning for or have family in town, so there can be discussion of their families and their history. And it’s near the end of the year, so it’s about what are you going to do next year, what are your plans?”

The easiest way to get someone talking? Ask a question. Listen to the answer, then ask a follow-up. See how long you can go without talking about yourself.

“It’s about trying to connect with people and saying hi and being genuine,” Sacco says. “You have to be careful you are not interrogating them. It’s got to be sincere.

What do you like about the place you are from?”—“Oh, they’ve got a cool old movie theater. What was the last show you went to?”—“What made you interested to see that show?”

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one who has trouble chatting, you can use holiday gatherings to become a better listener. Sacco says he’s in that category. And the question strategy works in this case, too.

“Sometimes I put on a different hat and I say I am going to be the interested introvert,” he says. “It turns me into a guy who is still talking, but what am I talking about? You!”

PRO TIPS Give yourself a goal goal: Don’t just show up and start biding time before you can make a getaway.

Promise yourself you will ask questions and listen to the answers of three new people or sort-of-new people. Plan three questions to help get each one started.

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Connect with the host: There are people at the party who have to talk to you, and you don’t even have to come up with something to say. Whether it’s the people who invited you to their home or the president of the company hosting the work event, make a plan to greet and engage with them. Say thanks and then, “Tell me about your group.” or “What’s your favorite thing about this space?”

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Bonus round: Wait until the next person arrives to talk to the host and make sure you meet them. Getting an introduction can give you credibility and motivation.

3 Take along a chatty, curious friend: Do not hole up in the corner with said friend, however. Use their social ease to ease yourself into the conversa conversation in a relevant way. Give the friend a gift for helping you meet the goals in tip number one.

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around for a little over two decades and has sold tamales the entire time. Store manager Moises Tarango tells SFR people can buy them at $6.50 per half dozen all year, but sales pick up around Thanksgiving through early January. Tarango says they’re made “from scratch� by five different cooks, who use meat from the store’s butchery for the fillings. “Last year we sold out before the end of the year, because the demand was way too high,� Tarango says.

The tamale taste upset was particularly surprising because the Posa’s red chile pork is what catapulted that family institution to local fame. Jeff Posa, the restaurant’s owner, remembers selling his grandmother’s tamales as a boy in front of the Roundhouse, when she made them out of the El Merendero cafÊ on Santa Fe Avenue. Today the Posa’s Restaurant’s main location on Zafarano has freezers stocked with tamales made at the business’ tamale factory on Rodeo Road.

They sell for $26.95 a dozen.

Posa tells SFR the tamales aren’t made with masa harina, the flour that goes into most mass-produced tamales, but from actual corn. Their chile has come from a farm in Garfield, New Mexico, for 50 years. The red chile pork has won multiple awards. How does he respond to others’ claims that Posa tamales may not, in fact, be the best in town? “I tell them do a side by side test,�

Posa says.

Well, we called that bluff.

The upshot is we learned that Santa Fe has a number of exceptional tamale options, which is the more important lesson for the holiday season.

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Asked if he was surprised by the taste test results, he said: “I’m a little surprised, but not a lot because we make them like we would make them at our house.�

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Sold under the Authentic New Mexican brand, you can find Foods of New Mexico tamales at Santa Fe grocery stores like Walmart, Albertsons and Smith’s.

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ow popular during end-of-year Christian holidays, the tamale— made with nixtamalized corn and stuffed with savory fillings—was a staple of festive events in Mesoamerica for tens of thousands of years, and any person laying claim to its mastery risks a level of scrutiny millennia in the making.

So it is that at the SFR offices in late November, a shocking upset occurred during a blind tamale taste test. We purchased three of the red chile pork variety: One from a gas station, one from Mexican-themed supermarket El Paisano (3140 Cerrillos Road, 424-9105), and one from the Southside Posa’s (3538 Zafarano Drive, 473-3454), the famed tamale maker in town conventionally regarded as the best. Tasters had to guess where each tamale came from. They were all delicious, but like blind wine tastings that embarrass connoisseurs of expensive vintages, the results were completely upside down.

Three unbiased tasters agreed that the gas station tamale was the best: crumbly and moist enough. They complained that the corn used in the tamale from Posa’s—which the tasters incorrectly pegged as gas station in origin—tasted cheap, like it had soaked in chile too long. The tamale from El Paisano appeared to be the most homemade, and was universally regarded as the second-place winner. Call it groupthink or blame it on a bad batch, but these results needed explanation.

The gas station-souced tamale came from a Phillips 66 store next to Upper Crust Pizza in Eldorado (7 Colina Drive, 466-3509). Raelynn Valencia, an assistant manager at the convenience store, says it sells dozens of green chile chicken and red chile pork tamales a day, at $2.50 for two or $15 per dozen. The store purchases the tamales from Albuquerque-based Foods of New Mexico, a company that manufactures traditional New Mexican foods for distribution at hundreds

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Comestible and Delectable

Squash Blossom (squashblossomlocal food.com), the city of Santa Fe’s 2018 small business of the year, provides farmfresh ingredients to restaurants and individuals every week via its subscription service. For the holidays, the business makes it extra-easy to gift your loved ones delicious local products. Squash Blossom’s holiday gift bag ($50) is festively wrapped and ready to go. It contains goodies from farmers throughout Northern New Mexico, including Heart of the Desert’s red chile pistachios; drinking chocolate from Kakawa; garlic oil and raspberry jam from Heidi’s Raspberry Farm; green chile mustard from Pecos Foods; and handmade lip balm from Nina Botanica, another local company owned by Squash Blossom founder Nina Yozell-Epstein. And if you’d like to make your gift giving extra-fresh, the company also offers gift subscriptions for its regular weekly produce deliveries.

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e all know the benefits of buying local (strengthening the economy and mitigating the climate-damaging impact from shipping packages all over the country, among others). Shopping at the Santa Fe Farmers Market for the holidays carries extra benefits such as supporting community agriculture. The market features more than 150 local farmers, and everything they sell—whether it’s fresh produce or crafts—is generated locally. As the bustle of the market indicates, you’ll have plenty of choices this season, but here are some ideas to get you started.

Form and Function

At first glance, Mesa Ruiz’ pots look too beautiful to use for cooking. But make no mistake, these micaceous clay vessels ($50-$500) have both art appeal and utilitarian value. And in keeping with the farmers market requirement that all products be made from 70 percent local materials, Ruiz makes these pots from the dirt he digs himself and then fires in an outdoor horno. Ruiz runs La Mesa Organic Farms in Dixon, where he grows primarily blue corn and apples (and cooks up blue corn pupusas at the same stand where you’ll find his pottery. Have a bite while you shop).

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Jose Gonzalez quickly admits that the intricate, beautiful wreaths—dozens festooned with pine cones, straw flowers, corn, sticks and, of course, chiles—are his wife Maria’s doing ($25-$100). She’s fast, he says, whereas his handiwork usually takes two to three times as long. Whomever is responsible, the end result is irrefutable: Gonzalez Farm, located in Alcalde (and a 2015 Santa Fe Farmers Market Farmer All Star award winner), is responsible for some of the most beautiful wreaths around. We dare you to buy for others and not take home a few for yourself. Some of

Mesa Ruiz’ pots look too beautiful for cooking.

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the couple’s creations seem purely holiday-driven (reindeer figurines, for example), but plenty of the colorful creations will brighten up the house year-round.

And, as Gonzalez says, red chiles are good luck, which is the best gift of all.

Get Cookin’

If the thought of combining the stress of holiday shopping with the boisterous crowds of the market has you pondering throwing in the towel for some good old planet-destroying online shopping, think again.

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many of us have that service alongside Hulu, Amazon Prime and HBO GO. Companies like DC, Disney, Marvel and even the dreaded Fox News aren’t far behind.

It’s not all good news, it’s not all great programming (who doesn’t flip through Netflix thinking “What the hell is that?”), but it is indicative of how we want to consume our entertainment these days—no physical product cluttering up our shelves, just a simple interface, the click of a remote and the escapism of filmed media. Glory be!

And yet, to maximize our streaming experience, especially in winter, there is much to contemplate and products to add into the mix—here’s our idea of a perfect wintertime evening binge-watch.

A Binge-Watch Winter

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ime was, one had to wait months or years for their favorite movies to make it into their home collections; television series, if they made it to home video at all, were unwieldy and unaffordable. Life was dark. But then DVDs changed everything. Suddenly, we could afford to own trilogies or series or season two of Cheers (that’s the one where Sam and Diane are actually together … until Christopher Lloyd ruins everything), and life brightened. But, by 2013, Netflix’s streaming model, firmly implanted in our hearts and minds, became everything we could ever want—instant movies, instant TV—anytime, all the time. See you in hell, DVDs!

GOING PLACES IS HARD WHEN BINGE-WATCHING IS THIS EASY We started devouring things we’d seen, things we hadn’t, things we didn’t even like that much—but for a few bucks a month, why not? Life became white-hot, and the term “binge-watch” was born.

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By 2015, everyone you ever met had stories about the nights they spent lying “Just one more episode!” to themselves, and the Collins English Dictionary even named the term “binge watch” its word of the year. And so, we watched; pausing so as to never miss a moment, warm under blankets, tears pouring down our cheeks as Sam flipped off the last bar lights and told that last potential customer, “Sorry, we’re closed.” Christopher Lloyd, meanwhile, got off scot-free (great scot-free?).

But it hasn’t been all Cheers since then, and other streaming services have flared up and clamored to stay current and innovative. It used to be you’d get a couple Netflix DVDs in the mail; now

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The Film: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) The Service: Netflix The Premise: The Coen Brothers produce six bite-sized Western vignettes from the silly to the bone-chilling. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll maybe even feel a little bored sometimes, but it’s worth sticking it out.

Pair With: We recommend Trader Joe’s vegetarian chile ($1.99/can) served over their organic corn dippers ($1.99 and essentially Fritos, just better) with shredded cheese for that chuck wagon, Western-y but still kinda New Mexico-ish feel.

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Guide The Show: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014-current) The Service: HBO GO The Premise: Like a new and improved Daily Show, comedy genius and political know-it-all Oliver spends real time dissecting one important issue of the day. From the recent election in Brazil to what they’re calling “Stupid Watergate,” the story could be from months ago and is still reported in a timely, entertaining and meaningful way.

Pair With: You’ll be laughing a lot, so you’ll want to keep your options small and bite-sized. Try picking up a bag of caramel corn ($4.50-$4.95) from local confectioner Señor Murphy’s (DeVargas Center, 177 Paseo de Peralta, 780-5179).

The Film: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016) The Service: Hulu The Premise: Certified comic legend Tina Fey plays a journalist recounting her time in the Middle East (for some reason). Fey wasn’t shy about how little she liked Santa Fe, where the movie was filmed, but you can take solace in how it’s just not very good and was pretty much universally panned. Still, it’s enjoyably dumb.

Pair With: Maybe a bit on-the-nose, but almost anything from Cleopatra Café (Design Center, 418 Cerrillos Road, 820-7381; 3482 Zafarano Drive,

474-5644) would suit this session. Our tip? Get a side of fries ($3.50) and a side of hummus ($5.50) and go to town. Try also the sheesh tewook ($7.95), a chicken dish that’s insanely delicious.

The Show: Zack Morris is Trash (2018)

The Show: Titans (2018)

the cold months, and even more so with the thought of a nice blanket to lounge under.

The Service: DC Universe The Premise: As the line “Fuck Batman” rings throughout the nerd-o-sphere, many still wonder if the DC Comics streaming service has legs. We don’t know yet, especially since we’ve found their filmic offerings pretty lacking after Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, but Titans is still a pretty cool property full of young and/or lesser-known DC heroes like Nightwing and, um, Cyborg.

Pair With: The smug sense of satisfaction that comes from being an early adopter with the kind of disposable income that allows you to have a streaming service so incredibly specific.

The Show: Cheers (1982-1993) The Service: Netflix The Premise: The sitcom that pretty much wrote the book for future beloved shows like Frasier, The Simpsons and too many others to count, we follow the antics of the staff and patrons from a Boston-area bar. What’s that you say?

It came out a million years ago? Maybe so, but that doesn’t change how brilliant Cheers was, and for those who don’t know, we think they’ll find a shocking number of stolen jokes originating here … even if we DO hate Christopher Lloyd for what he did to Sam and Diane, Shelley Long for leaving after season five and Nicholas “Coach” Colasanto for dying—he was the funniest character by far, though, full disclosure, we also love Woody. There are 11 effing seasons to binge.

The Service: YouTube and Amazon Prime The Premise: Born from the website Funny or Die, these mini-episodes tear apart the popular ’90s teen sitcom Saved by the Bell humorously and brilliantly, pointing out all the ways central character Zack Morris is a complete and utter sociopathic garbage person. At three to five minutes apiece, you can tear through them incredibly fast, but trust us— they’re some of the funniest videos we’ve seen in the history of the internet.

Pair With: If you’re going for the full-on 1990s feel, special order you some Dunka-roos, dump some Sour Patch Kids into a bowl and relive the glory days of a time when you could eat anything you wanted whenever you wanted.

The Film: Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018) The Service: Netflix The Premise: Yet another retelling of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, this time with Andy Serkis (he’s a voice actor and face actor but you probably and quite sadly know him best as Gollum) at the helm and Matthew “The Americans” Rhys all up in there alongside voice acting from Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale and Humperdink Cimberflap. We didn’t hate the recent-ish Disney version, and we fully believe in Serkis.

Pair With: A light beer, perhaps brewed locally—like Second Street Brewery’s Kolsch—and you’ll feel just like Norm Peterson.

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One night, two days, three directions

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Rancho Hotel! But don’t stay there. It’s too expensive.”

I’m great at following directions, so I visited the historic hotel (1000 E Hwy. 66, 505-863-9311; route66hotels.org), sat in the cushy leather chairs, admired the autographed pictures of movie stars who have stayed there and pretended I was fancy. When I stopped to chat with the front desk, however, I learned that new management has plunged the prices; rooms (which are named after aforementioned movie stars, from Judy Garland to Errol Flynn to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Suite) start at just $80 and top out at $175 for a suite. Aforementioned skeptical folks tell me you used to have to shell out at least $200 to sleep there. The hallways are funky and brick-walled, but the rooms are airy and comfortable and you couldn’t ask for a friendlier staff, from check-in to housekeeping—plus, they have karaoke in the bar on Saturday nights. Definitely make the El Rancho your home base.

For brunch, it’s Earl’s (1400 E Hwy. 66, 505-863-4201). Your meal will probably be under $10, but bring plenty of cash to get exquisite Navajo jewelry from artisans who visit table to table. It’s like the Palace

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ong weekends are rare; usually we’re just left with two adjacent days. So here are a few trips you can do in two days and one night and still feel like you kinda took a vacation. Plus, we’ve suggested three locations you probably haven’t considered—and they’re often thrilled to get tourists coming through.

(When’s the last time a shopkeep in Aspen actually acted happy to see you?)

And yes, these places are a few hours away—we know. For best results, you should be the kind of person who considers the drive part of the adventure. Bring snacks, bring good tunes, bring a companion if you have one, bring a camera and stop to dawdle if you see something cool along the way.

WEST: GALLUP, NEW MEXICO 200 miles The first thing everyone said when I said I was headed to Gallup was, “Go see the El

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You may be taking your life in your hands at Bishop Castle outside Pueblo, Colorado—but so is everyone else, so you’re probably fine.

of the Governors portal, but with scram- of Grants (nps.gov/elma) to hike some bled eggs. (The jewelers are super polite, cairned trails or go caving in lava tubes. so don’t worry about being interrupted.)

My favorite option, though, might be Downtown Gallup is infamously home heading 45 miles south of Gallup on Highto historic pawn shops, but I really liked way 602 to Zuni (zunitourism.com). About Makeshift Gallery (213 W Coal Ave.) for lo- 80 percent of Zuni Pueblo’s residents are cally made art, candles, soap and trinkets working artisans, and the visitor’s center

by Native and non-Native artists. Close (1239 Hwy. 53, 505-782-7239) can recby are unique gallery exhibits at 123ART ommend local shops or hook you up with (123 W Coal Ave., 505-488-2136), as well as home studio visits. You can also visit the a damn fine cup of coffee at the trendy but historic sections of the Pueblo with a guide friendly Gallup Coffee Company (203 W for $20-$85 per person, but be sure to Coal Ave., 505-410-2505). If you need new schedule a tour through the visitor’s cenboots or a hat, the City Electric Shoe Shop (230 W Coal Ave., 505-863-5252) has every size, shape and color to choose from, and low prices too.

Recommended downtown highlights include the Rex Museum (220 W Hwy. 66, 505-863-1363) and the Gallup Cultural Center (201 E Hwy. 66, 505-863-4131)—but they’re only open Monday through Friday, so I was thwarted on my weekend visit.

For day two, I couldn’t decide what to recommend, so take your pick: You could climb Mount Taylor north of Grants, accessible via Forest Road 193.

Despite being one of the highest peaks in New Mexico, it’s a pretty easy hike. You could Need boots or a hat? The City also head down to El Malpais Electric Shoe Shop in Gallup has National Monument south your hookup.

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Guide ter and don’t explore on your own—it’s proper etiquette.

EAST: AMARILLO, TEXAS 280 miles This city of about 200,000 splatted on some of the flattest land in the world has a gritty reputation—but turns out it’s full of adventure.

My first stop was the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, on the campus of West Texas A&M (2401 Fourth Ave., Canyon, 806-651-2244; panhandleplains.org). The institution had the audacity to open in the heart of Dust Bowl country in 1933, and has been punching up ever since.

Exhibits span geology to dinosaurs to Indigenous tribes to farming to oil extraction (I particularly liked the windmill room, which is exactly what it sounds like). There’s also a large Pioneer Village with a saloon, newspaper shop, saddlery and more, with ambient sound installations triggered by movement as you walk through. Plan on two to three hours for just the first floor—and there’s a whole second floor of art, depending on your stamina. It’s the best $12.50 you’ll spend in this story.

Another must-see is Palo Duro Canyon State Park (11450 Park Road 5, Canyon, 806-488-2227; palodurocanyon.com). It’s the second-largest canyon in the United States, and considerably more accessible than its Grand cousin. In addition to being a mountain biker’s dream, there is lots of Indigenous and New Deal history to learn, winter camping, easy hikes to red rock formations and one-room stone cabins built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the ’30s that you can rent by the night. I think

winter is the best time to visit; the heat and crowds of summer would be too intense. Adult admission is only $5, and stop by the gift shop for a massive selection of regional history books.

Don’t laugh: Eat at the Big Texan Steak Ranch (7701 I-40 Access Road, 806-372-6000; bigtexan.com). Yes, the place with the “Free 72-Ounce Steak” billboards. While the tourist trap-arcade-sideshow-gift-shop-rest stop-restaurant-motel could easily rely on its kitsch alone to get by, the steaks are actually amazing, servers are friendly and there are wandering troubadours that go table-to-table to sing your requests (preferably Hank Williams or Johnny Cash).

The 806 coffee shop (2812 SW Sixth Ave., 806-322-1806; the806.com), a punk-rock mainstay with tattoo flash for wall art, will take care of you from morning ’til night. Just don’t ask for sweet tea. Get lunch at Calico County (2410 Paramount Blvd., 806-358-7664; calicocountyrestaurant.com), where the homestyle servings are as big as your head (the catfish is clutch)—but if it’s Sunday, go later to avoid the post-church rush. Coyote Bluff Café (2417 S Grand St., 806-373-4640; coyotebluffcafe.com; closed Sunday and Monday) is known for its burgers, kind of Amarillo’s answer to Bobcat Bite (RIP).

Important considerations: Texas is one hour ahead, in Central Time, so you’ll lose an hour on your way there. Many Amarillo businesses are closed on Sundays, so always check first (everything mentioned here is open seven days, except Coyote Bluff ). And someone, somewhere, will definitely tell you to have a blessed day.

Sixteen stories tall and full of exposed rebar, there’s no playground quite like Bishop Castle.

enough for a T-shirt. Perpendicular Union Avenue has local shops and towering antique stores in fantastic old turn-of-the-century buildings.

Check out the historic district around the absolutely massive Pueblo County Courthouse (215 W 10th St.) for more historic edifices. There are a ton of multi-use trails and open spaces all around Pueblo; the interactive map at the city’s website (pueblo.us) makes planning easy.

You can find some of Colorado’s best Italian food in Pueblo: La Forchetta da Massi (126 S Union Ave., 719-253-0126) has earned fans all over the country. They’re only open for dinner, but most dishes are less than $20 so it won’t break the bank.

After you eat, if you’re a dive bar fan, Smitty’s Greenlight Tavern (227 N Santa Fe Ave., 719-543-2747) is about as charmingly divey as it gets and often has live music. It’s nextdoor to Shamrock Brewing (108 W Third St., 719-542-9974; shamrockbrewing. com) and its reliable pub fare.

On day two, head to Bishop Castle (12705 Hwy. 165, Rye, 719-564-4366; bishopcastle.org). Don’t let the slick website fool you—this is like if your childhood playground was suddenly 16 stories tall, made of concrete, had exposed rebar jutting out all over the place, and asked you to sign a wrinkled notebook as a waiver before you went in to play.

Apparently, in the ’70s, an eccentric dude named Jim Bishop started building a castle—and just didn’t stop. Today, it’s full of tiny passageways, a grand ballroom, an iron sphere in the sky that you can climb up into, and tattered caution tape around areas in need of repair (like an elevator shaft with no elevator). On a beautiful weekend day, it may be teeming, but there are enough crannies to explore that it doesn’t really matter.

The road to Rye is gorgeous but mountainous, so take heed if it’s snowed recently. If all looks clear, Bishop Castle is only about 50 miles and 50 minutes (and 4,500 vertical feet) from downtown Pueblo. Just bundle up and wear sturdy shoes.

Coming or going, hit the Raton Pass Motor Inn (308 Canyon Drive, Raton, 575-445-3641; ratonpassmotorinn.com).

Even if you don’t stay the night, visit with the fantastically friendly owners Laurie Bunker and Jason Bennett, tour the weird vintage-style themed rooms (we like the Matador and the Man Cave), and get recommendations for local stuff to do—but budget some time. Before I knew it, two hours had passed in the kitschy lobby, chatting and planning my next one-night stand.

NORTH: PUEBLO, COLORADO 280 miles We’ve all sped through that roller-coaster section of I-25 that curves back and forth on the way north. This time, take an exit.

Leave early enough and you’ll hit Pueblo just in time for a pre-lunch stroll along the winter-sleepy Arkansas Riverwalk. Pueblo’s only at about 4,500 feet, so if it’s sunny, a January day could be warm

Palo Duro Canyon State Park outside Amarillo is worth at least a weekend of its own (but we gave you more to see, too).

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Data with a (VR) View

SciVista is a spinoff from Woodruff Scientific, a 13-year-old research and development company that specializes in pulsed power, plasma physics and fusion energy sciences. SciVista President Simon Woodruff, who relocated his company to Santa Fe from Seattle last year, says that while SciVista is one of a few spinoffs from Woodruff Scientific, it’s the one developing the most rapidly. It has received both a federal Small Business Innovation Research grant, as well as a New Mexico Small Business Innovation

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wo neurosurgeons from different sides of the country meet to consult on an MRI scan of a brain. One holds the brain up to the other and then expands it to examine a specific hemisphere, slicing out a discrete area. The other takes the slice and shrinks it to its original size and offers an opinion. Maybe, just for kicks, the entire interaction takes place in outer space.

Such a scenario is not far in the offing as a result of a new Santa Fe startup, SciVista, which is developing a collaborative virtual reality platform for data visualization.

OK, no one at SciVista actually suggested placing the neurosurgeons in outer space for the consult—that’s my own particular spin. I did have the chance to see the three-dimensional brain and hold it (and then promptly drop it) on a recent visit to SciVista’s office at the Santa Fe Business Incubator. But the outer-space motif was used for another visualization the company let me demo, which involved a more complicated fusion reactor, if memory serves—I still haven’t mastered taking notes while wearing a VR headset, I’m afraid.

Santa Fe startup SciVista brings data visualization into virtual reality

research grant, and has significant interest from a variety of parties.

SciVista is currently working as alpha testers with a host of universities and public laboratories, including Los Alamos, Oak Ridge and Lawrence Livermore Berkeley laboratories, where Woodruff—a physicist—did his post-doc.

The project began to address the challenge of distance collaboration for complex data sets using traditional means such as Skype or Zoom. Thomas Meyer, the company’s VR developer, brought in an Oculus Rift headset and imported some data sets into a virtual setting.

“So not only could you go into that environment but you could get other people there with you,” Woodruff says. “You’re in a three-dimensional space with a three-dimensional data set, you could pick it up, move it around, go up to the person next to you and actually point at the features you’re interested in. As a means for really opening the communication and ability to share the intuition you’re deriving from the data set and the meaning you’re deriving from the data set—this really captured our imaginations.”

It captured data scientists’ imaginations as well, along with the heads of the visualization technology company Kitware.

From left: SciVista VR developer Thomas Meyer, business developer Sean O’Shea, VR developer Aaron Lau and President Simon Woodruff are working to bring data into virtual space.

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Since the awarding of the SDRI grant last spring, the work on SciVista has proceeded at a clip with six employees and an expectation of hiring more in the new year.

In the world of data, many folks are thinking about how to work in virtual and augmented reality spaces. SciVista’s focus is on the scientific applications. The program is built with the game engine Unity, and primarily has been using the Oculus Rift and Vive, though Woodruff says the company “is looking at other technologies in the near future with more than double the resolution, so when you’re immersed in this environment, it feels real and has a wider field of view.”

SciVista’s primary tool, though, is Cori, the 12th-fastest super computer on the planet, based at Lawrence Berkeley, from which the company gets “these enormous data sets that we process, post-process and visualize.”

As SciVista has the potential to make distance collaborations more effective, it could also mitigate travel costs, which Woodruff says is a concern for government entities. But the ability to bring twodimensional visualizations into a threedimensional environment also makes for a better presentation of the data, not just for scientists, but for “decision makers who may not have a sense of scale or really understand what the data is in a 2-D plot, but if they see it in context they’ll understand it better,” Woodruff says.

SciVista would be useful for scientists across technical fields, he says. “Principally anyone running these big codes who wants to visualize their enormous data sets.”

For his part, Woodruff has found his new home of Santa Fe a good fit for his combination of scientific prowess and entrepreneurial spirit. “The incubator has been a complete blessing,” he says. “The startup and the small business community is incredibly supportive. I see many people trying to do similar things in Northern New Mexico, and there is a collaborative environment.”

Helmet use is up among skiers and riders as industry subtly pushes for adoption

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tanding at the top of the quad chairlift at Ski Santa Fe, I’m counting helmets. It’s just past noon on a semi-busy Saturday morning, and already ski patrol has hauled a couple skiers down on toboggans. Whether they were wearing helmets likely will make the difference between those skiers or riders who walk away from the incident and those who face a much worse scenario.

Purchasing and wearing a helmet is an easy and—compared to everything but your mittens—relatively inexpensive step toward increasing safety on the slopes, according to the National Ski Areas Association. The association often cites peer-reviewed research showing that increased helmet use corresponds to reducing potentially serious head injuries from 4.2 percent to 3 percent of all injuries. Each year, the association surveys riders at ski areas across the nation, and its latest numbers show of 73,000 skiers and snowboarders, whose headgear was noted during in-person interviews, 84 percent were wearing helmets.

That number seems high, but watching riders unload and tallying how many are wearing helmets, that scattershot headcount often seems to bear it out: The hats and bare heads are rare.

This year, Ski Santa Fe and Sandia Peak became the first ski areas in New

Mexico to require all staff who work on snow to wear helmets. The policy applies whether they’re teaching skiing, patrolling the mountain, or riding snowmobiles while making snow. Noting that ski areas in Colorado and Utah have already made this move, Ben Abruzzo, mountain manager for Ski Santa Fe, says, “We saw that we were behind the times.”

Some resorts in Colorado have also begun requiring helmets for any person par-

What’s pretty cool about helmet safety, in general, is that it’s something that’s grown more organically.

-Adrienne Saia Isaac, communications and marketing director, National Ski Areas Association

ticipating in a lesson. Ski Santa Fe hasn’t yet made that move, except for all-day children’s lessons at Chipmunk Corner.

For adult lessons, helmets can be rented for an additional fee. Abruzzo says in the 15 years helmets have been offered, the price has only climbed from $10 to $12.

“That’s the least price increase of any-

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2012, that rate had nearly tripled. Rather than government regulation, adoption has been driven by ski area promotions, medical groups, professional athletes, and nonprofits like the High Fives Foundation, an organization that helps athletes who sustain life-threatening injuries in the mountains with the costs of rehabilitation and has released a series of prevention-focused videos. Moves like putting all staff in helmets are also hoped to model good behavior. And for a generation of kids who grow up in helmets, the thought is that a helmet will just be a given.

“You’re instilling that this is part of what you wear to go skiing,” Isaac says.

“It’s like having boots or bindings or even skis or a board—it’s natural part of your equipment.”

A peer-reviewed study of 17 years of accidents found that the incidence of potentially significant head injuries deThe National Ski clined from 1 in 4,200 to 1 in 11,000 days Areas Association of activity at the same time helmet use says increases in increased. helmet use correspond to reducing But they do have their limits. Staff potentially serious at the University of Colorado sports head injuries. medicine center estimate the risk of traumatic death is 0.7 per million skier visits—and lower for snowboarders at thing, from a hamburger to a ski ticket, on just 0.5 percent. In the 2014-15 season, 27 the mountain,” he says. of 42 people catastrophically injured in Ski manufacturers have also worked to the US were wearing helmets, according keep helmets affordable, and prices now to NSAA data. If a skier or rider is come as low as $60. But there’s definitetraveling at a speed comfortable for the ly a bump in price for the latest in helmet average intermediate skier, striking a tree technology, MIPS. That system builds a or another object will likely exceed the low-friction layer into a helmet so it slides protection a helmet can offer. relative to the head, better protecting the “Helmets really are their most effective brain from glancing blows or impacts that when they’re used in conjunction with come in from an angle. other best practices of staying safe on the “What’s pretty cool about helmet safehill, like riding and skiing in control, and ty, in general, is that it’s something that’s being aware of your surroundings,” Isaac grown more organically,” says Adrienne says. “A helmet is a fantastic tool, but it’s Saia Isaac, communications and marketjust one tool in your quiver of mitigating ing director for the National Ski Areas your risk.”

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In the 2002-03 season, just 25 percent Elizabeth Miller is a part-time ski of skiers and riders wore helmets. By instructor at Ski Santa Fe.

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THE CARTOONIST If you haven’t caught sight of Ricardo Caté performing stand-up or just walking around town in his trademark bandana, here’s your chance to meet one of the most prominent Native American (Kewa) cartoonists working today. His daily one-panel comic Without Reservations, published in The Santa Fe New Mexican and the Taos News, pokes fun at white and Native people alike, both modern and historical. Hear him talk about his craft and check out his book of collected comics starring beloved characters The Chief and The General. Jackie Chan and Denzel Washington reportedly are fans, so if you’re not familiar with Caté’s work, it comes highly recommended. (SE) Journeysantafe: Ricardo Caté: 11 am Sunday Dec. 23. Free. Collected Works Bookstore and Coffee House, 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226

Strollstice Get those last-minute gifts niture store; Prana Blessings, a metaphysical shop; and Rose Road CBD, a CBD specialty shop, for the event.

Rose Road CBD celebrates its grand opening that night, and rockabilly/ honky-tonk musician Ry Warner plays at Dandelion Guild at 7 pm.

“I think we’re all kind of hippies at heart, so I think solstice has a special meaning for all of us,” Raifsnider says. “There’s a lot of directly Christmas-oriented stuff, but I think solstice is a little more broad and encompassing. My hope for it is that it’ll just be a kind of sweet gathering of community.” (Sarah Eddy) SOLSTICE STROLL ON ROSINA 6-8:30 pm Friday Dec. 21.

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WOKKA WOKKA It appears Santa Fe is making a name for itself in the comedy world, and we aren’t even saying that just to make comedians here feel better about themselves. When New York-based stand-up Doug Mellard found out he’d be visiting family in Santa Fe over the holidays, he thought it would be fun to do a show— and was directed to Wayward Comedy, a collective of local funnypersons who run open mics and stand-up nights, as a source for good times and good people.

See Mellard, with local openers Sam Lynch, Catherine Lynch (no relation) and Meg Specksgoor, in a real live theater. Not that there’s anything wrong with comedy in bars, but this feels all fancy, huh? (Charlotte Jusinski)

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Brace yourselves—the longest night of the year is coming. But what better way to wave off the ultimate hump day than with tarot readings, energy healing, live music, free snacks and holiday shopping? Four women-owned businesses on Rosina Street host a solstice stroll where you can get it all, plus a relaxing CBD mocktail or two.

“This complex we’re in is called Plaza Rosina,” Calixte Raifsnider, the owner of craft and clothing shop Dandelion Guild, tells SFR. “It’s this funky little pink building. It’s really cute, but it’s kind of off the beaten path. We’re tucked behind Cerrillos [Road], so a lot of people who come here go, ‘Oh my gosh, I didn’t even know this place existed.’”

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This year was a doozy, and a lot of folks are looking for an alternative to going out and getting drunk (again). Upaya Zen Center has your solution: Two hours of alternate sitting and walking meditation, followed by a ceremonial ringing of bells at midnight and then an uplifting talk by Roshi Joan Halifax. If that sounds overwhelming (especially for those new to Zen), there will be chances to discreetly slip out early—or if you want to come later, you can sneak in the side door after the start time. The important thing is getting centered. And, since Upaya values the social justice side of Buddhism, it could spur you to do some extra good in the new year. (CJ)

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In Memoriam Gather to remember a beloved Santa Fe son

There are some upsides to living in a small capital city: We have pretty close access to our legislators for at least a month every year, we all know where they tend to eat, and when something big happens in state government, it’s right in our backyard. Ring in the new year and the new governor at Michelle Lujan Grisham’s swearing-in, bright and early on the first of the year. The ceremony actually goes down at noon, but doors open at 9 am and there will be a line, so get on it—and bring your autograph book too, because until 2 pm there’s a meetand-greet with her and Lt. Gov. Howie Morales. (CJ)

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Public Swearing In of Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and Lt. Governor Howie Morales: Noon Tuesday Jan. 1. Free. Santa Fe Community Convention Center, 201 W Marcy St., 955-6590

At the time of his death in November, Santa Fean Frank X Cordero was known to most as the city’s social media guru and a mainstay at local events. But, according to his sister Marghreta Cordero (aka singer Nacha Mendez), he was also lover of all things DJ, as a performer, an audience member and a dancer.

“We had a nightclub here called the Senate Lounge, and it was one of the places he got his start,” Cordero says, also mentioning that Frank performed as DJ FX Cordero at defunct clubs like Rouge Cat and the Cargo Club. “He got involved in his regular jobs, but DJing is what he loved doing.”

Cordero wants people to remember this part of her brother’s life, and so, following a wake at the El Dorado

Hotel and Spa’s chapel at 6 pm, the public is invited to party in his honor. Longtime Frank Cordero cohort Oona Bender spins for the event, and friends of the late Mr. Cordero are urged to show up with good vibes and good stories.

“It’s hard. We were very close.

I moved to Santa Fe because of him,” Marghreta says. “And he was always of service to people. He always had other people in mind; people knew him, people loved him.”

(Alex De Vore)

FRANK X CORDERO MEMORIAL 7 pm Friday Dec. 21. Free.

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GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Pub quiz!

8 pm, free POTP OPEN MIC Zephyr Community Art Studio 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 Listen to and/or share poetry and art and collaborations.

This installment also features guest poets Rebecca Gonzales from Los Angeles, Natasha Hernandez of St. Sucia and Abuela Rosario Torres.

5-7 pm, free VINYASA FLOW Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 One hour of yoga is followed by one of Duel's core beers.

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6:30 pm, $15 WAYWARD WEDNESDAYS Chili Line Brewing Company 204 N Guadalupe St., 982-8474 Local comedy and the occasional touring standup, and an open mic! Signup starts at 7:30 pm.

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WED/19 DANCE FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 A show by the National Institute of Flamenco.

6:30 pm, $25

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EVENTS THE AGENCY AND B YELLOWTAIL POP-UP SHOP VQ Gallery 703 Canyon Road, 415-328-4321 The best in Native fashion, accessories and art.

10 am-6 pm, free CHANTING BY THE DREPUNG LOSELING MONKS Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 Sacred chants and music for world healing. Afterwards, a sale of imported gift items benefits their monastery in India. Please arrive by 5:15 pm.

5:30 pm, free CHILDREN’S CHESS CLUB Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Join other kids to play against.

5:45 pm, free GLOW: COSMIC NIGHTS Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Light up your holiday season with thousands of lights.

Enjoy live music (tonight it's B Squared covering Johnny Cash's album Unchained) and festive beverages.

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Did you hear that The Magazine has a gallery space now? Its first show is a doozy: political prints from Mexico from 1910-1960.

Organized in collaboration with Hecho a Mano (hechoamano.org), it opens Friday and features work from heavy-hitters like Diego Rivera and José Guadalupe Posada. See the full listing on page 38.

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FULL OWL Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 Americana.

7 pm, free GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Pop, rock y más on piano.

6:30 pm, free JOAQUIN GALLEGOS El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Soulful flamenco guitar.

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

7 pm, free SANTA FE MEGABAND REHEARSAL Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, 470-7077 Join an open community band and play acoustic string music.

7 pm, free SANTA FE PRO MUSICA: A BAROQUE CHRISTMAS Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0092 The Baroque Ensemble presents its beloved musical holiday tradition in the festively decorated chapel.

6 pm and 8 pm, $20-$90

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SHANE WALLIN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Soulful blues.

8 pm, free TINY'S ELECTRIC JAM Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Plug it in and rock out.

8:30 pm, free TOM WILLIAMS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country swing.

7:30 pm, free

WORKSHOP BUILD-A-BEAST TOY WORKSHOP Museum of Interactive Art Shidoni, 1508 Bishops Lodge Road, 988-8001 Why buy impersonal toys for your holiday gifts when you can assemble unique toys from a selection of heads, bodies and limbs? You can take it home for anywhere from $2-$5 (depending on how many parts you use).

9 am-5 pm, $5 DIGITAL MUSIC WORKSHOP Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Learn how to make digital collage music using software including Ableton Live and Serato. This workshop is all-ages, but is geared towards kids.

5-8 pm, $40 HOLIDAY ORNAMENT WORKSHOP: CORN HUSK DOLLS Museum of Indian Arts & Culture 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Stop by any time to fashion your own ornament. While this is a free activity, participants are asked to make an ornament for the museum, too! MIAC's tree lighting is Dec. 21, and they need ornaments to adorn the tree.

10 am-2 pm, free INTRODUCTION TO ZEN Mountain Cloud Zen Center 7241 Old Santa Fe Trail, 988-4396 Everyone is welcome, newcomers and experienced practitioners alike, to a weekly class that explores the basics and finer points of medtation.

5 pm, free

THU/20 BOOKS/LECTURES BERNICE ENDE: LADY LONG RIDER Hat Ranch Gallery 27 San Marcos Road W, 424-3391 Since her first long ride at age 51 from Montana to New Mexico, Ende has logged more than 29,000 miles in the saddle, crisscrossing North America on horseback. Lady Long Rider chronicles Ende’s travels; she reads from and discusses the book.

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DANCE COUNTRY-WESTERN AND TWO-STEP LESSONS Dance Station 947-B W Alameda St. Show off your best moves at your favorite honky-tonk.

6:30 pm, $15 ENTREFLAMENCO HOLIDAY SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 Antonio Granjero and his renowned company Entreflamenco present a dramatic new season, perfect for visiting family to get a taste of our town's favorite dance genre. Doors open an hour before performances for authentic Spanish tapas, wine and beer (sold separately).

7:30 pm, $25-$40 HOLIDAY DREAM FLAMENCO Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Compañia Chuscales and Mina Fajardo present a new production. Deborah Newberg and the Saltanah Dancers infuse the evening with a Middle Eastern flavor, complementing the flamenco rhythms with their renowned and mesmerizing movements.

The evening also includes flamenco interpretations of seasonal favorites such as “Silent Night” and “Carol of the Bells.”

7 pm, $20-$25 O2 SWING NIGHT Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar (Apothecary) 133 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 There's a lesson from Rebecca Lucero and Eva Stricker from 7-9 pm (that costs up to $25), then get swinging from 9 pm to midnight; it's only $10 if you just come for the dance. Tonight also features live tunes from The Shiners Club Jazz Band, so you know what to do.

7 pm, $10-$25

EVENTS THE AGENCY AND B YELLOWTAIL POP-UP SHOP VQ Gallery 703 Canyon Road, 415-328-4321 Through Christmas Eve, get the best in Native fashion, accessories and art.

10 am-6 pm, free GLOW: COSMIC NIGHTS Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Light up your holiday season with thousands of twinkle lights and beautiful largescale light installations all aglow throughout the garden.

Enjoy live music (tonight it's country-driven rock from Stephanie Hatfield and Bill Palmer), festive beverages, and meet Santa.

5-8 pm, $7-$10 GEEKS WHO DRINK Santa Fe Brewing Company 35 Fire Place, 424-3333 Pub quiz!

7 pm, free

GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP Temple Beth Shalom 205 E Barcelona Road, 982-1376 The Jewish Care Program offers a grief and loss support group; anyone over 18 years can join and participate.

Please register with Ya’el Chaikind at 303-3552.

1-2 pm, free

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

6:30 pm, free DOUBLE O DJS KARAOKE Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 Today’s suggestion: “Leaving Las Vegas” by Sheryl Crow.

6 pm, free GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Pop, rock and contemporary favorites on piano.

6:30 pm, free JONO MANSON Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. Rootsy rock 'n' roll.

6 pm, free JOSEPH GENERAL & THE HIGH VIBRATIONS Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Reggae.

10 pm, free JULIE STEWART AND ROD WELLES Chili Line Brewing Company 204 N Guadalupe St., 982-8474 Rock 'n' blues.

7:30 pm, free LATIN THURSDAY Café Mimosa 513 Camino de los Marquez, 365-2112 VDJ Dany spins salsa, merengue, bachata, cumbias y más.

9 pm, $5 PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo jazz guitar.

6 pm, free ROLL, BOUNCE, SK8 JAM AND ROLLER-OKE WITH DJ RAASHAN AHMAD Rockin' Rollers 2915 Agua Fría St., 473-7755 Jealous of kids getting all the cool skate parties? This one's especially for grown-ups. Hit up pizza, a snack bar, and tunes—and an additional $5 get you skates or a scooter.

7 pm, $5 SANTA FE PRO MUSICA: A BAROQUE CHRISTMAS Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0092 The Pro Musica Baroque Ensemble presents its beloved musical holiday tradition in the festively decorated chapel with selections by Purcell, Leonarda, Vivaldi and Telemann, as well as traditional Christmas carols.

Tickets sell out every year, so book early!

6 pm and 8 pm, $20-$90

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9 1 0 2 M O R F T N A W I T A H W Three things that could make our music scene so much cooler that requires attention well past simply the next year.

I want people to feel safe at shows in Santa Fe, and not just from drunken flying elbows—although please knock that off—but from harassment and outright assault. Santa Fe has some great inclusive spaces for concert-goers, but if we average it all out, we still have just as serious a problem with safe spaces as anywhere else in the country. Instances of abuse toward women, people of color, queer and genderqueer people, and trans people does occur despite some people’s notion that we are a progressive utopia. It’s happened at shows that I have

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am not going to try and sum up 2018 for you. You were all there and, hopefully, you saw some cool shows.

Instead, I’m looking ahead at what our little town can do next year. This is my end-of-year list for what I am asking of ourselves in 2019.

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SAFER VENUES

I am starting with what may be the most serious item on the list, and sadly one

Itchy-o probably got paid for playing.

Now pay locals, too.

attended, even while I’ve been onstage, though I was unaware in my cis-whitemale ignorance. But it’s stomach-churning and almost made me want to stop playing music altogether this year. Still, I don’t want to just wash my hands of it.

The root problems of these safety issues will take some serious cultural overhauling, mostly targeting the ubiquitous evil of toxic masculinity. In the meantime, we can watch out for each other and hold abusers accountable. Are you friends with someone in the scene who is abusive? Maybe they are in a band with you, or you have known them a long time, or you think they might get you a cool gig. None of that’s worth placing abusers’ comfort and ability to abuse over everyone else’s safety. Break up that band, start a cooler one with less shitty people and call that behavior out when you see it. Talk to people who book shows and run venues and let them know

who is not behaving to the standards of your community. It’s something I know we can all do better.

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MAKE SHOWS FRIENDLIER TO YOUNG PEOPLE

People are going to drink at DIY shows, but as long as they aren’t raving drunk in the streets, no one’s really going to bat an eye. Worth considering, though, is that these shows are great opportunities for young people to come see bands and socialize, and maybe they’d rather not be around a bunch of wasted adults. I am not naive, nor do I want to police the fiery hearts of the young folk who I know are getting drunk. But I also don’t want to be the one fielding questions as to why a 31-year-old man was catching a band’s set alongside a bunch of teens with alcohol poisoning.

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Since Warehouse 21 is in a state of flux, it feels like we really need to step it up in welcoming youths to shows. These kids are going to be so much cooler than us if history has anything to teach us about generational gaps, and I cannot wait to hear the bands they start after having a great time at a show without getting sick or hurt or weirded out by the old-timers. So be cool, do not offer sips of your booze to just anyone—and, while DIY spaces are a good place for people of all ages, maybe we can start throwing more matinee bills. Imagine that: a punk rock matinee show in Santa Fe. We could even make it a potluck.

Until then, more established venues can follow the lead of Tumbleroot and Second Street Brewery and open shows to all ages more often. I get that Meow Wolf has a bar that is not connected to the venue and there are logistics to consider and I am sure concerns with

Mosh pit? Fine. Mosh with love, though.

alcohol sales, but I would love to see more all-ages shows there. They attract cool bands. Let the kids enjoy them too.

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PAY YOUR LOCALS

If you are showing up to hang out and watch a show, bring some cash. Maybe it’s a free show (and there are a ton of those in town, which is great), but local acts have stepped up their merch game recently and likely have tapes, shirts, stickers—maybe even vinyl (though seriously, if you are self-releasing albums, please do not press vinyl—for

you and your credit score’s sake). Any cash you put in local musicians’ hands will lead to more of those cool things being produced, and will even put food in their stomachs and possibly gas in their tanks so they can go out into that wide wide world and spread the gospel that cool bands do indeed come out of Santa Fe. It has long been accepted that local musicians do not get paid well, if at all; a lot of them don’t even expect it.

Plus, in terms of DIY shows, the touring bands should and do get paid (and so does the venue if they are lucky). Locals are thanked and told how cool their set was and maybe out-of-town gigs are promised, but such promises are worth about as much as the air used to make them. Soon, cool bands are more broke than when they started. Much lamenting follows. Breakups occur.

But here’s the thing: The small spaces that offer a place to play your music with very few strings would love to pay local talent. They just need people to show up and for those people to know a suggested donation is not something to blow off. You truly do get what you pay for, and a scene where we show up to each other’s shows and pay the cover is healthier. From a local band standpoint, I certainly have friends ask to get in for free. That used to be an easy yes, but nowadays my philosophy is pretty firmly that friends are the people who definitely cannot get away with skipping the door fee. Pay your friends, and they will keep making music. Show up with a six-pack and no cash and your friends might well break up and it will definitely be your fault.

This applies to bands paying folks as well. Pay your bud who showed up to take photos. Do not cash in friendship points for album art; the outside world is not going to sustain us, so we will do it ourselves. You should know that by now.

LOOKING AHEAD There are a lot more things I want from 2019. I would love for us to all stop using streaming services for our music, for example, because buying music directly from artists benefits everyone. But for now, I have seen much growth in Santa Fe in recent years and want that growth to be nourished even further. I’ve said it before—making music is hard, but we can make it a lot less hard on ourselves if we try to focus on what it is we love about music itself: the people making it, the people going out to see it. They deserve to be safe, inspired and paid.

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We received a lot of good feedback from a piece I wrote for our 2018-2019 Restaurant Guide about how to dien out like a human person, and one of the more regularly requested features found in that feedback was for SFR to have a semi-regular column about “How To ______ Like a Human Being.“ So consider this a bit of a test of that.

The idea here is that I’ll reach out to locals who work or otherwise have strong knowledge of some place or thing and glean information that might be helpful to the populace at large. In other words, we’re all going to learn how to be better people when we’re out in the world. Find here the inaugural piece, a gripping tale of the behaviors and actions to avoid when visiting any of Santa Fe’s numerous fantastic museums.

Keep in mind that those who helped to compile these tips will remain anonymous, but trust me when I say they know from whence they speak.

Be Polite This is good advice for always, but according to our sources, a hefty number of museum visitors find it neccesary to go out of their way to be rude to staff, security, front desk folk and whomever else they come across. Let us tell you something—the people working in museums are hardly rich and, much like you, don’t need your crap.

Don’t Complain About the Cost In most cases, admission to Santa Fe museums hovers between $5-$12, depending on whether or not you’re a kid. That’s already cheap, but throw in special discounts for seniors, free days for residents and any number of one-off events offered for free with admission, and you’ll really have to try hard to find an issue with the cost. Remember, too, that the folks at that desk taking your admission money don’t also set the prices, and that even if you’ve somehow decided that museums aren’t culturally neccessary monuments to the best things we do as people, maybe you should just stay home.

Live in the Now! We didn’t know this one, either, but it’s apparently rude to pester museum staff about what they’re doing next while

you’re at a recently opened show. As an arts journalist, I feel like maybe I get a pass on this one, but we should all probably try to lead with “What a great job you did!” instead of “What have you accomplished since this show opened six minutes ago?”

Not a Public Restroom Probably more of a downtown occurence than on Museum Hill, but museums aren’t really pop-in-and-pee places.

Obviously public bathrooms are scarce downtown, but this one seems like a no-brainer.

Strip Club Rules As one of our sources puts it, you’re allowed to be touched by the art, but the art can’t be touched by you. Honestly, it’s shocking that this even has to be said, but please don’t go into a museum and start pawing at the exhibits—save that shit for Meow Wolf and the Children’s Museum, which we get is technically a museum, but I’m not playing the semantics game with you. To sum up: DO NOT TOUCH THE EXHIBIT! No Shushing—it’s Not Your Job While true that museums are well-known for being great places to use our indoor voices, they’re not the library (oh, I could do one of these columns on the library so fast). You’re allowed to talk and to dissect the arts and culture with your friends out loud and everything. Maybe no shouting?

Oh, and don’t take it upon yourself to get all in the faces of people who are talking at a normal volume and otherwise enjoying themselves in an appropriate manner.

Nobody likes that person.

Read the Signs Museum staff will totally answer your questions if you like, but have you seen that little card near the piece or that big old chunk of text on the wall? In most cases, this will answer your preliminary questions, and somebody worked really hard making those things interesting and legible and, frankly, cool. Think of your own job and how annoying it gets when people ask you the same questions again and again when a little common sense— or the two seconds needed to read whatever sign—would have worked just fine.

Nobody Cares If You Think Your Kid Could Do That It really bums out museum staff when you loudly and publicly deride the work they’ve curated. First off, if your kid’s so great, why DIDN’T they do that? Second, you’re impressing no one. Not even a little bit. Not even at all.

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SISTER MARY AND HER BAND OF MERRY MAKERS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Join the jazzy rock 'n' rollers for a special holiday show.

6:30 pm, $25 TIERRA SONIKETE El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 New and classic jazzy fusion with JQ Whitcomb on trumpet and Joaquin Gallegos on guitar.

7 pm, free WALKING RAIN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Folk, country, blues and swing.

8 pm, free

THEATER ALL IS CALM: THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE OF 1914 Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 The touring Minneapolisbased theatrical concert depicts a remarkable moment during World War I when Allied and German troops laid down their weapons to celebrate Christmas together with food and drink, carols, games, and a chance to lovingly bury their dead. This acclaimed and heart-wrenching production weaves together Christmas carols, songs and patriotic tunes with soldier diary entries, letters home and official war documents.

7:30 pm, $14-$110 PERFECT LOVE Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 The world premiere of a new comedy by local thespian Talia Pura explores the imperfections of relationships, proving once again that love is usually messy and far from perfect.

7:30 pm, $15-$25

WORKSHOP ART + YOGA: ART FOR MIND AND BODY Canyon Road Through close looking, reflection and conversation, discover insights and create connections—then, in a tucked-away gallery space, practice gentle yogic movements followed by a brief guided meditation.

RSVP is required, so register at santafearttours.com.

10 am, $55 BUILD-A-BEAST TOY WORKSHOP Museum of Interactive Art Shidoni, 1508 Bishops Lodge Road, 988-8001 Why buy impersonal toys for your holiday gifts when you can assemble unique toys from a selection of heads, bodies and limbs? Once you assemble your creature, you can take it home for anywhere from $2-$5 (depending on how many parts you use).

9 am-5 pm, $5

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The last year was pretty good for Alan Webber—homeboy became the mayor of an entire town. And while it might still be a little early in his term to get into a definitive rating of his performance, we still think it’s worth it to lob a few questions his way as we head into 2019. (Alex De Vore) How do you feel your 2018 went, and what would you say has been your biggest accomplishment?

I think the number of things we’ve tackled simultaneously has been impressive, and I’m gratified by the progress we’ve made in significant ways. On the campaign trail I heard over and over again that the city needs to get its act together, be easier to work with, more user-friendly. In the past eight months, nine months, we’ve created a strong team of leadership in every department of city government. We’ve brought in a bunch of new talented leaders in jobs. We passed the $20 million [gross receipts tax]-backed bond measure that will go to work immediately to improve libraries and [recreation] facilities; we passed the city sustainability plan, we adopted a housing agenda; we have really upgraded and gotten the implementation of the emergency response system back on track. We came to a peaceful conclusion around the Fiesta and Entrada concern, and I think the respect that everybody felt … is a model for the rest of the country. If you have to pick one thing, the first rule of management is that it’s all about people. If you get the right people into the right jobs, they’ll begin to make the changes that will make things better for everybody in Santa Fe. What’s do you think is going to be big for you in 2019?

I think the first thing is there’s an enormous amount of optimism right now. The feeling is the work we’ve done in 2018 to get things started means we’re ready to go in 2019 to deliver on all of that work. There’s significant change; ... the new governor, the new leadership at the state level, which I think will be incredibly positive for Santa Fe. We’re going to have the ability to work constructively with state government on a whole host of issues, from renewable energy to job creation to investing in infrastructure and upgrading education. The optimism is really not just about the city, it’s about a whole set of activity that extends up and down I-25. I think the we’ve set the stage in 2018, and in 2019 we’re ready to go.

If you could tell the people of Santa Fe one thing here at the end of the year, what might that be?

I would say here in Santa Fe we have a lot to be grateful for, we have a lot to be hopeful about and that we have unlimited potential as long as we keep working together. If you look at Santa Fe, we’re a city that’s really remarkably blessed with volunteerism.

That gives us reasons for gratitude, hope and a continued sense of working together for a better future for everybody.

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ART OPENINGS EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED Keep Contemporary 142 Lincoln Ave., 307-9824 The gallery celebrates its second anniversary with more than 40 artists in this dynamic exhibition that shines light on a wide range of voices and visions, ranging from the sublime to the spooky, from street grit to impossibly polished. Through Jan. 13.

5 pm, free ¡VICTORIA!: SELECTED POLITICAL PRINTS FROM MÉXICO (1910-1960) THE Magazine Project Space 1415 W Alameda St., 424-7641 The Magazine has a new project space, and its inaugural show is a doozy. Mexico has a long history of politically charged printmaking, largely credited to the work of José Guadalupe Posada, who was an artist and social critic during the 1910 Mexican Revolution. Through Feb. 16.

5 pm, free

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Monday, Dec. 31st Doors open at 8 pm DJ Oona Passed Hors D’Oeuvres Live Ball Drop | Formal Attire $50 per ticket | reservations required

Hotel Packages Available Call 505-995-4570 CasaEspanaSantaFe.com Casa España is located at 321 W. San Francisco St., Santa Fe next door to Eldorado Hotel & Spa

ENTREFLAMENCO HOLIDAY SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 Antonio Granjero and his renowned company Entreflamenco present a dramatic new season. Doors open an hour before performances for authentic Spanish tapas, wine and beer (sold separately).

7:30 pm, $25-$40 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Make a dinner reservation for a show by the National Institute of Flamenco.

6:30 pm, $25 HOLIDAY DREAM FLAMENCO Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Compañia Chuscales and Mina Fajardo present a new production infused with a Middle Eastern flavor, complementing the flamenco rhythms with their renowned and mesmerizing movements.

The evening also includes flamenco interpretations of seasonal favorites such as “Silent Night” and “Carol of the Bells.”

7 pm, $20-$25

EVENTS FRANK X CORDERO MEMORIAL Casa España 321 W San Francisco St., 995-4527 Gather at the chapel at the Eldorado Hotel to offer up prayers for Frank. At 7 pm, head to a reception on Frank’s favorite dance floor (see SFR Picks, page 28).

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GLOW: COSMIC NIGHTS Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Light up your holiday season with thousands of twinkle lights and beautiful largescale light installations all aglow throughout the garden.

Enjoy live music (tonight it's Americana from Randy & George), festive beverages, and meet Santa.

5-8 pm, $7-$10 GARDEN SPROUTS PRE-K ACTIVITIES Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Weather permitting, head to the garden's outdoor classroom for a hands-on program for 3-5 year olds and their caregivers.

10-11 am, $5 LONGEST NIGHT/BLUE CHRISTMAS Christ Lutheran Church 1701 Arroyo Chamiso, 983-9461 While Christmas is a season of joy, not everyone feels like celebrating. Grief, illness, aging, depression, loneliness, unemployment and loss are magnified. A Longest Night/ Blue Christmas service may provide a time and place of solace during the often frenetic days surrounding the celebration of Christmas. Info at christlutheransantafe.org.

6-7:30 pm, free MUSEUM HILL HOLIDAY STROLL Museum Hill 710 Camino Lejo, 984-8900 Join in for what may become an annual tradition, for special events and free admission to the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and the Museum of International Folk Art. The Tewa Women’s Choir performs at 5 pm at the MIAC Theater; Renate Yazzie (Diné) performs a mix of classical and holiday music on piano at 5:30 pm in the MIAC lobby; at MOIFA, make your own farolito and check out a mercado with holiday gifts; also featuring an outdoor tree lighting, ornament workshop for adults and families, plus holiday refreshments and traditional Western holiday music sung in Diné.

4-7 pm, free SANDY VAILLANCOURT: NEW MEXICO MI AMOR La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 As part of the La Fonda Hotel artist in Residence program, local artist Vaillancourt presents an art demo.

11 am-7 pm, free SANTA FE HOMELESS PERSONS' MEMORIAL VIGIL Our Lady of Guadalupe Church 417 Agua Fría St., 983-8868 Join the New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness for a memorial ceremony to honor and celebrate the lives of homeless friends and neighbors who passed away in 2018. It's in the courtyard, so dress warmly.

3 pm, free

SOLSTICE STROLL ON ROSINA Dandelion Guild 1925 Rosina St., Ste. H, 820-0847 The shops of 1925 Rosina Street stay open late this evening to treat holiday-ey folks to gifts for others or for the self. Enjoy snacks, hot beverages, live music and more; Rose Road serves CBD mocktails, Ry Warner performs Western-nouveau tunes, and get tarot readings and energy healing at Prana Blessings (see SFR Picks, page 28).

6-8:30 pm, free SOLSTICE WISDOM CIRCLE Santa Fe Center for Spiritual Living 505 Camino de los Marquez, 983-5022 Mailyn Hager leads a group in exercises to self-actualize and co-create the future.

Participants are guided through a series of practices for healing. Bring with you a journal and pen, and a symbolic treasure. RSVP or ask questions at 634-0408.

5:30-8:30 pm, $15 WINTER SOLSTICE LABYRINTH Eldorado Community Center 1 Hacienda Loop, Eldorado Join your friends and neighbors for a sunrise gathering to mark the age old tradition of welcoming the winter solstice. (The labyrinth is close to the cactus garden.)

6:30-7:30 am, free WINTER SOLSTICE PARTY Santa Fe Children's Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 989-8359 Chase away the chills and gather by a bonfire to share s'mores and biscochitos, join the drum circle or walk a farolito labyrinth.

6-8 pm, $3-$5

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

6 pm, $5 BIRD THOMPSON The New Baking Company 504 W Cordova Road,, 557-6435 Adult contemporary singer-songwriter—now featuring songs from his new album, Prayer Wheel.

10 am, free CANYON ROAD BLUES BAND Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Blues 'n' rock 'n' R&B from the El Farol legends (Paul E, Mike Montiel, Josh English and Tone Forrest).

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

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ard to believe we’ve had three years of access to Zephyr Community Art Studio already, and yet, here we are. This is one of those important spaces, too: The kind that puts on art stuff for the love of putting on art stuff; the sort of space of which Santa Fe thankfully has many—it’s the goods without money calling the shots and with the spirit of collaboration and DIY leading the charge.

“I wanted a space to play music, personally, and to record music,” co-founder Alysha Shaw says. “Now we’re in a place where there are a lot of folks who are involved and really taking the initiative to create art and share it.”

Zephyr celebrates this momentous occasion on Sunday Dec. 23 with music performances from Miss Pavlichenko, Jessie Deluxe, P S I R E N S, Rumelia Collective and a few others. But the real draw of the show (in my opinion, anyway) is the coming-together of four exciting local visual artists, dubbed After the Darkest Night.

We start with Alexandra Rose, a recent graduate of the Institute of American Indian Art. Rose has worked in numerous media, but until recently, her most complete bodies of work have been in photography. For After the Darkest Night, Rose worked at the IAIA foundry to craft cast metal works; lipsticks in iron that resemble ammunition and a bronzed bra that required affixing to her body, gluing, waxing and ultimately burning before it was cast. Rose says this is a

paintings inspired by the qualities she admires in her friends. Mancini starts with photographs, attains a level of representation with acrylic on canvas, then goes off the rails with hot pinks, light blues and Easter-y yellows.

“They’re things I want to be surrounded by,” Mancini says of the more abstract elements of her work. “These archetypes I’m creating are what I really want to put out into the world.”

Artist Charlotte Thurman rounds out the opening with a stunning hybrid sculpture/video project titled “How to Make a Seine Net.” Thurman says she stumbled onto the concept of the seine net—a type used by fisherman that features a hanging net skimming the water vertically—while studying gyotaku, a Japanese printmaking technique also developed by fishermen for making prints with fish. Ironically, Thurman’s piece doesn’t actually represent the steps of making the seine net, but rather mending one. She was drawn to this concept because, she says, “Mending is an act of empathy,” a tenet she hopes to use in her own life and for the self. In the video, viewers find Thurman literally printing her body using gyotaku; the prints are then rolled up and placed in the net, thereby creating a spine-like three-dimensional sculptural work.

“What’s exciting about the DIY scene is that the artist has so much ownership,” Thurman tells SFR. “It was complete freedom, whereas when I’ve shown in galleries it’s been more regimented.”

Amen, Charlotte.

Oh, and Happy Birthday, Zephyr Community Art Studio!

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loose homage to the bra-burning days of feminism, though also notes that the show isn’t inherently about feminism.

“For me, the core of the [show] is that it’s about the voice and expressing your individuality and what you care about,” Rose explains. “That the voice is your most powerful tool against all these things we want to dissolve in this world.”

Fellow participating artist Andrea Isabel Vargas muses, “Just in this last month, while being in affiliation with [Zephyr], I’ve run into musicians all over town who know them. People who are not within my sphere of influence, who know the space, and I’m enthusiastic about experiencing it myself.”

We spoke of Vargas’ figure paintings on paper in our last issue for a story about The Agency and B Yellowtail pop-up shop (told you we want her on your radar!), and for this event, she’ll show paint-on-paper pieces similar to the ones on display at VQ Gallery (703 Canyon Road) as well as lifesized torsos and other larger-scale works.

She says she created new entries for Night because “I couldn’t help myself—and I feel very fortunate that I’ve been aligned with other artists and creatives who are provoking and quite distinct.” Raw is the name of the game for Vargas’ contributions and, she says, they’ll be presented without frames. “It really helps us identify mark-making as the most important part,” she says.

Paris Mancini, meanwhile, is hard at work completing her own project, a series of figurative paintings that make use of “obnoxious amounts of color.” Like Rose, Mancini identifies a certain inescapable feminist energy to the show, but says it’s no more about feminism itself than would be a woman who is great at guitar simply playing a guitar. Regardless, like the other artists in the show, she’s pushing herself to create with a strong voice; in this case,

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Christmas Eve, Monday, December 24 5:00 pm

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Kid’s Choir and a gift of light for every child! (childcare provided)

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Festival Choir and childcare at 7:00.

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THE CALENDAR DOUG MONTGOMERY AND GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards, classical, pop and Broadway tunes on piano: Doug starts, Greg takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free FELIX Y LOS GATOS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Americana, blues, cumbia, jazz, ranchera, swing y más.

9 pm, $5 HOLIDAY SK8 PARTY Rockin' Rollers 2915 Agua Fría St., 473-7755 At a rollerskating party especially for grown-ups, wear your most festive garb and hit up pizza, a snack bar, and tunes from both DJs and live bands—and an additional $5 get you skates or a scooter.

8 pm, $5 JESUS BAS La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Spanish and flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free REGIONAL/LIQUID Shadeh Nightclub 30 Buffalo Thunder Trail, 819-2338 VDJ Dany has your cumbia, huapangos, Norteñas and more; DJ Poetics has hip-hop, top 40, dancehall, EDM, reggae, funk and more.

10 pm, free RON ROUGEAU Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 Acoustic rock.

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

7 pm, free SANTA FE PRO MUSICA: A BAROQUE CHRISTMAS Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0092 The Pro Musica Baroque Ensemble presents its beloved musical holiday tradition in the festively decorated chapel with selections by Purcell, Leonarda, Vivaldi and Telemann, as well as traditional Christmas carols.

Tickets sell out every year, so book early!

6 pm and 8 pm, $20-$90 SAVOR La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Cuban street music.

8 pm, free SHINERS CLUB Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Special "holiday vaudeville" selections of ragtime 'n' jazz.

7 pm, free STEPHEN PITTS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Folk, Americana and friendship up on the deck.

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TGIF RECITAL: CHANCEL BELL CHOIR OF FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Under the direction of Linda Raney (with assistant director Travis Bregier), enjoy holiday compositions on hand bells from Douglas Wagner, Cynthia Dobrinski, Hart Morris and Dean Wagner.

5:30 pm, free THE SANTA FE REVUE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana 'n' rock 'n' roll 'n' folks who know how to party.

8:30 pm, free THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Swinging jazz.

7:30 pm, free TODD TIJERINA DUO Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 Original blues and roots rock.

7 pm, free WILD MOUNTAIN ROSE SOLSTICE CELEBRATION Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar (Apothecary) 133 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 An eclectic blend of world, soul, funk, gospel, hip-hop and medicine songs.

8-10 pm, free

THEATER PERFECT LOVE Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 The world premiere of a new comedy by local thespian Talia Pura explores the imperfections of relationships, proving once again that love is usually messy and far from perfect.

7:30 pm, $15-$25

WORKSHOP BUILD-A-BEAST TOY WORKSHOP Museum of Interactive Art Shidoni, 1508 Bishops Lodge Road, 988-8001 Put a pony head on a Barbie; turn a Hot-Wheels into a mini parade float; give a baby doll action-hero limbs. Once you assemble your creature, you can take it home for anywhere from $2-$5 (depending on how many parts you use).

9 am-5 pm, $5

SAT/22 BOOKS/LECTURES OPERA BREAKFAST SERIES: VERDI'S LA TRAVIATA Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Lecturer Robert Glick discusses Giuseppi Verdi's La Traviata, the three-act opera scheduled to be broadcast live from The Met at the Lensic at 11 am.

9:30 am, $5

DANCE CONTRA DANCE Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, 470-7077 The New Mexico Folk Music and Dance Society presents a contra dance with tunes from the Santa Fe Megaband.

If you need help, there's a lesson at 7 pm, and the dance begins at 7:30 pm.

7 pm, $8-$9 ENTREFLAMENCO HOLIDAY SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 Antonio Granjero and his renowned company Entreflamenco present a dramatic new season. Doors open an hour early for authentic Spanish tapas, wine and beer (sold separately).

7:30 pm, $25-$40 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Make a dinner reservation for a show by the National Institute of Flamenco.

6:30 pm, $25 HOLIDAY DREAM FLAMENCO Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Compañia Chuscales and Mina Fajardo present a new production featuring choreographer, dancer and singer-songwriter Mina Fajardo, dancers Monze Diaz, Janira Córdova, Sveta Backhaus, Charo Shaffer-Perez, Heather Miro and Lacy Romero.

Deborah Newberg and the Saltanah Dancers infuse the evening with a Middle Eastern flavor, complementing the flamenco rhythms with their renowned and mesmerizing movements.

7 pm, $20-$25

EVENTS THE AGENCY AND B YELLOWTAIL POP-UP SHOP VQ Gallery 703 Canyon Road, 415-328-4321 Through Christmas Eve, get the best in Native fashion, accessories and art from a pop-up shop including work from Patricia Michaels, Charlene Holy Bear, Jhane Myers and many more. Stop procrastinating!

10 am-6 pm, free EL MUSEO WINTER MARKET El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Part fine arts market, part flea market, all full of treasures.

8 am-3 pm, free GLOW: COSMIC NIGHTS Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Light up your holiday season with thousands of twinkle lights and beautiful largescale light installations. Enjoy live music (tonight it's vaudeville and old-timey jazz from the Shiners Club), festive beverages, and meet Santa.

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e’ve hit the second year of the first-ever slightly arbitrary totally subjective end-of-year theater awards from a Santa Fe newspaper. As usual, there were way more awesome performances this year than I have room to talk about here (I saw 50 plays in New Mexico in 2018—seriously), so keep reading Acting Out for what’s good onstage.

That’s exactly what happened this year at the Santa Fe Playhouse. While there were still eight playwrights involved, Playhouse powers-that-be decided to simplify things with a single cast for all eight shows and one director: Hamilton Turner, also a Billie winner in 2017. The result was a tight, well-acted, highly professional show that greatly elevated the project in its 17th iteration.

It follows that the run didn’t sell out like it usually does. But I think it was worth it, and I hope the Playhouse is proud of a chancey decision that ended up superior in the quality department, if perhaps not the pocketbook.

ACTING OUT The 2018 THE MOST ENTHRALLING THEATER OF THE YEAR IN SANTA FE

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Mark Westberg Santa Fe Shakespeare Society, July 13-Aug. 5

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Georgia Waehler Shakespeare in the Garden, Aug. 17-Sept. 2

When I heard Santa Fe would stage back-to-back Midsummer Night’s Dreams in 2018, I knew the Billies had to include a comparison. While the bigbudget Shakespeare in the Garden was more gilded and dazzling than Santa Fe Shakespeare Society’s offering, there was one category that the underdog stole outright: The Puckering.

Georgia Waehler, imported from New York University’s tony Tisch School of the Arts, is precisely what directors dream of when they cast Puck.

She’s tiny, she’s agile, she has a spritely step and acrobatic dance skills and a jaunty, expressive voice—but she’s also exactly what we expect.

But when watching 400-year-old play, I want something new. A company that surprises audiences with its Shakespeare has achieved something special.

Enter Mark Westberg’s portrayal of Puck, as cast by Jerry Ferraccio.

In truth, Westberg scared me a little. His makeup was kinda zombie-like around the eyes. He leapt crazily over benches and cackled like a madman with erratic movements and over-thetop body language. I think this Puck was actually someone’s eccentric uncle with fringe political ideas who ended up in the woods and just kinda stayed there.

It was unique and strange and not what I’ve seen from any Puck heretofore. I liked it. And in the end, I liked it more.

Note: Mark Westberg also ran unopposed for “Best Use of Vest With No Shirt On Underneath” for both Puck and Riff-Raff in the Santa Fe Playhouse’s Rocky Horror.

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BEST FEMINIST THEATER The Revolutionists Adobe Rose Theatre, Oct. 18-Nov. 4

Since Revolt, She Said, Revolt Again from Albuquerque’s Tricklock Company in November 2017 (which freaked me out sooooo hard), Northern New Mexico has been treated to some truly fabulous feminist theater pieces in the last year, from one-woman shows to powerful ensemble pieces. There’s been a lot of mind-blowing stuff, but one stood out.

Starring Mary Beth Lindsey, Maureen Joyce McKenna, Danielle Louise Reddick and Ariana Karp, the cast of The Revolutionists was already a powerhouse—but the script, by current American darling Lauren Gunderson, will give viewers goosebumps for years.

A sorta-modernized account of the French Revolution, the script follows four women as they approach radical social change through education, art, violence and kindness, respectively.

While many aspects of the production were life lessons, the point made that still makes my heart skip was the reframing of history’s treatment of Marie Antoinette (played by McKenna). Gunderson suggests that the shitty, bratty impressions we have of Antoinette, the

eat-the-rich feelings she inspires, are in fact borne on centuries upon centuries of misogyny that persist despite our best education and efforts; that she was in fact a kind and largely innocent woman who only wanted the best for her children and for her country—but she was a woman, and a rich woman at that, so we can’t possibly remember her as good.

Yikes. Unpack that one, would ya?

Samantha Orner Santa Fe Playhouse

Santa Fe University of Art and Design alum Koppany Pusztai played a trillion roles in The Ultimate Christmas Show (Abridged) this year and last, from Elvis to Donald Trump to Mary (yeah, as in, Jesus’ mom). These switcheroos were all entertaining enough, but the most thrilling transformation was from everyday Pusztai to Pusztai in Extremities at the Adobe Rose in May and June.

He became unrecognizable from the affable, clean-cut characters he’s played elsewhere, becoming impossibly slimy, manipulative and intimidating as the character who would attempt to assault Marjorie (Mariah Olesen). Many Santa Fe actors show impressive range, but Pusztai’s ability to turn himself into a wholly despicable person was unnerving—and hard to beat.

The most liquid female of the year, however, didn’t even change between shows—her shifts occurred all within the same character. As Arianna in Flight Plan at the Santa Fe Playhouse in May, Orner went from a suicidal pyromaniac to a defiant patient in a mental ward to a deeply medicated vegetable, staring into space. Watching her descent from madness into numbness was terrifying and a bit too real (how’d she get that vein to poke out so far on her forehead?), but certainly cemented her place as a versatile and adaptive actress.

BIGGEST RISK THAT PAID OFF Having one cast and one director for Benchwarmers The Santa Fe Playhouse, Sept. 27-Oct. 14

One of the ways productions can virtually guarantee good ticket sales is to have large casts—but the bigger the pool, the bigger the margin of mediocrity. If you need 20 actors for a show, chances are you’ll only find 10 really good ones. That’s been a downfall for previous iterations of Benchwarmers, wherein eight short plays by eight local playwrights each had a different director and a different cast.

So what happens if you cut it down to eight actors? Maybe you won’t get the ticket sales you’d get with a large cast— but you’ll probably get a better show.

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Includes live music, wine pairings & admission to Casa España party 6 p.m. - 10 p.m. | $190 per adult

prix fixE dinnEr at agavE 5 p.m. - 10 p.m. | $75 per adult

nEw yEar’s day BrunCH 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. | à la carte specials at AGAVE *All meals plus tax and gratuity.

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NEW MOON WATER WHEEL CEREMONY Frenchy's Field Osage Avenue and Agua Fría Street Pray for moisture, bless the waters and offer up items for blessings.

4 pm, free SANDY VAILLANCOURT: NEW MEXICO MI AMOR La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 As part of the La Fonda Hotel artist in Residence program, local artist Vaillancourt answers questions and presents an art demo.

11 am-7 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

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

3 pm, free THE BLUES REVUE BAND Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Review some blues with a special Crazy Christmas gig.

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

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

9-11 pm, $5 DON CURRY & PETE SPRINGER Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 Acoustic rock.

7 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards: Doug starts, Greg takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free THE FABULOUS MARTINI-TONES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Instrumental lounge, jazz, ‘60s surf and space-age pop.

8 pm, free FIRE SATURDAYS Shadeh Nightclub 30 Buffalo Thunder Trail, 819-2338 VDJ Dany spins cumbia, reggaeton, bachata, salsa y más, while in the other room DJ 12 Tribe has your hip-hop, top 40, EDM, R&B and more.

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HALF BROKE HORSES Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. Country and Americana.

8 pm, free HIP-HOP FOR THE HOLIDAYS Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Outstanding Citizens Collective presents a night of live DJs and MCs hosted by DJ Shatter. Bring a donation of canned food, toys and coats while you get to hang out with some of New Mexico’s top performers. You can even get your last-minute holiday shopping done, too, at a holiday pop-up market by City Different Commons.

8 pm, free JOAQUIN GALLEGOS Kitchen Sink Recording Studio 528 Jose St., 699-4323 The flamenco guitarist performs selections from his album Nuevos Comienzos, as well as new pieces composed especially for tonight.

Tonight's performance will be recorded for a live album, so don't miss a chance to be present in the intimate space as he makes musical magic.

8 pm, $20 JUSTIN MARTIN Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Melodic and tough hip-hop influenced electronica remixes, all with a sense of humor involved. He gets support from Christian Martin, his very own brother, with whom he founded the dirtybird BBQ house music crew.

9 pm, $25-$29 KARAOKE Golden Cantina Lounge 10-B Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3313 Ask the bartenders for the "Karaoke Kourage" drink special to get you started.

9 pm, free KATY P & THE BUSINESS Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Rock 'n' roll imported all the way from Taos.

10 pm, $5 KITTY JO CREEK Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Bluegrass.

1 pm, free LADY LIKE VENUS Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar (Apothecary) 133 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 Siren folk.

7-8 pm, free PAT MALONE Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Solo jazz guitar.

7 pm, free RED NINJA Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Electronica dub, reggae and synth-based soundscapes.

7 pm, free

RON CROWDER BAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock 'n' roll and funky covers.

8:30 pm, free RON ROUGEAU The Dragon Room 406 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-7712 Acoustic rock.

5:30 pm, free RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar.

7 pm, free SANTA FE PRO MUSICA: A BAROQUE CHRISTMAS Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0092 The Pro Musica Baroque Ensemble presents its beloved musical holiday tradition in the festively decorated chapel. Tickets sell out every year, so book early!

6 pm and 8 pm, $20-$90 SAVOR La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Cuban street music.

8 pm, free TOM'S JAZZ CLUB El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Jazz with Tom Rheam on trumpet and piano, Lee Steck on drums, Jack Hanan on bass and James McIntire on guitar.

7:30 pm, free TREVOR BAHNSON Iconik Coffee Roasters 1600 Lena St., 428-0996 Enjoy the folky, Americanaey, ever-melodious tunes of singer-songwriter Bahnson.

He currently performs with Karina Wilson on fiddle, Mikey Chaves on percussion and Ryan Little on steel guitar.

12-2 pm, free

OPERA MET LIVE IN HD: LA TRAVIATA Lensic Performing Arts Center 2211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Giuseppe Verdi’s opera is one of the best-loved operas in history, and includes some of the composer’s most profound music. The title role of the “fallen woman” has captured the imaginations of audiences and performers alike with its inexhaustible vocal and dramatic possibilities—and challenges.

11 am and 6 pm, $15-$28

THEATER PERFECT LOVE Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 A new comedy by local thespian Talia Pura explores the imperfections of relationships, proving once again that love is usually messy and far from perfect.

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THE CALENDAR UPSTART CROWS: A CHRISTMAS CAROL Unitarian Universalist Congregation 107 W Barcelona Road, 982-9674 Five casts of three readers perform Dickens' own dramatic reading script of the classic Christmas tale, follwed by a Victorian high tea featuring many of the Christmas treats mentioned in the story.

2 pm and 6 pm, $10

WORKSHOP BUILD-A-BEAST TOY WORKSHOP Museum of Interactive Art Shidoni, 1508 Bishops Lodge Road, 988-8001 Why buy impersonal toys for your holiday gifts when you can assemble unique toys from a selection of heads, bodies and limbs? Once you assemble your creature, you can take it home for anywhere from $2-$5 (depending on how many parts you use).

9 am-5 pm, $5

SUN/23 BOOKS/LECTURES DAY SCHILDKRET: MORNING ALTARS Garcia Street Books 376 Garcia St., 986-0151 “Morning altars” are colorful mandalas that combine nature, art and meditation using leaves, flowers, berries, feathers and stones. In his book, Schildkret guides readers through the seven-step creation process for morning altars.

4 pm, free JOURNEYSANTAFE: RICARDO CATE Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 The artist, whose popular cartoon column, Without Reservations, appears in The New Mexican, meets his fans (see SFR Picks, page 28).

11 am, free

DANCE BEGINNING SALSA CLASS Dance Station 947-B W Alameda St., 87501 Drop in to try your hand (or feet and body, as it were) at some salsa dancing.

5 pm, $12 ENTREFLAMENCO HOLIDAY SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 A dramatic new dance season, perfect for visiting family.

Doors open an hour early for authentic Spanish tapas, wine and beer (sold separately).

7:30 pm, $25-$40 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Make a dinner reservation for a show by the National Institute of Flamenco.

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AFTER THE DARKEST NIGHT Zephyr Community Art Studio 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 Performances, art and a grand potluck brunch mark Zephyr's third birthday. View art by Paris Mancini, Charlotte Thurman, Alexandra Rose and Andrea Isabel Vargas, and get musical performances

by Jessie Deluxe, ppoacher ppoacher, PSIRENS, Miss Pavlichenko, Lady Like Venus and the Rumelia Collective (see AC, page 39).

3-7 pm, $5-$10 THE AGENCY AND B YELLOWTAIL POP-UP SHOP VQ Gallery 703 Canyon Road, 415-328-4321 Through Christmas Eve, get the best in Native fashion, accessories and art from a pop-up shop.

10 am-6 pm, free GLOW: COSMIC NIGHTS Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Light up your holiday season with thousands of twinkle lights and beautiful largescale light installation. Enjoy live music (tonight it's global folk dance music from the Parson Sisters), festive beverages, and meet Santa.

5-8 pm, $7-$10 GEEKS WHO DRINK Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307, 983-0134 Pub quiz.

7 pm, free LEARN TO MEDITATE Zoetic 230 St. Francis Drive, 292-5293 Explore and deepen your understanding of The Stages of the Path through teachings and meditations. Allow this essential wisdom to naturally increase your happiness and reduce your problems, and perhaps attain the unchanging peace of Nirvana.

10:30 am-noon, $10 EL MUSEO WINTER MARKET El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Part fine arts market, part flea market, all full of treasures.

9 am-4 pm, free SANDY VAILLANCOURT: NEW MEXICO MI AMOR La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 As part of the La Fonda Hotel artist in Residence program, local artist Vaillancourt answers questions and presents a demo.

11 am-7 pm, free SUNDAY RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-4098 Check out pottery, painting, jewelry, sculpture, fiber arts, photography, hand-blown glass, artisanal teas and handmade body products.

10 am-4 pm, free

BAILE DOMINGUERO Golden Cantina Lounge 10-B Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3313 Cumbia, Norteña, pasito satevo and reggaeton tunes with DJ Quico.

9 pm, free BILL HEARNE TRIO Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Country and honky-tonk.

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 JIM ALMAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Jazzy R&B on guitar and harmonica.

8 pm, free NACHA MENDEZ La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Creative but rooted takes on Latin music from around the world from Santa Fe's most buttery-voiced cantadora.

7 pm, free THE PALM IN THE CYPRESS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Old-timey country music from the Appalachians and the blues from the Delta.

Noon, free SANTA FE PRO MUSICA: A BAROQUE CHRISTMAS Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0092 The Pro Musica Baroque Ensemble presents selections

by Purcell, Leonarda, Vivaldi and Telemann, as well as traditional Christmas carols.

Guest soloists Clara Rottsolk (soprano) and Deborah Domanski (mezzo-soprano) join the ensemble in alternating performances. Tickets sell out every year, so book early!

6 pm and 8 pm, $20-$90 SHANE WALLIN Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Soulful blues.

5 pm, free TOM WILLIAMS BAND La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country swing.

6 pm, free

THEATER UPSTART CROWS: A CHRISTMAS CAROL Vista Grande Public Library 14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado, 466-7323 Five casts of three readers from the classical theater troupe perform Dickens' own dramatic reading script of the classic Christmas tale. Each performance includes a Victorian high tea featuring many of the Christmas treats mentioned in the story.

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Restaurant Martín Rios has been a James Beard semifinalist or finalist eight times. The most memorable dish of our visit this time was the ricotta cavatelli appetizer ($17), which had us picturing a little Italian grandmother standing over his shoulder. Plated with artistry, the tiger prawns had a pleasing grilled finish without even a hint of being overdone. The cream sauce made with chicken liver butter had a fresh approach with herbs and watercress alongside cured heirloom tomatoes. Sitting down at our patio table was the beginning of a good thing. (Julie Ann Grimm) 526 Galisteo St., 505-820-0919 Lunch Tuesday-Friday, Dinner Tuesday-Sunday, Brunch Sunday restaurantmartin.com

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Just for kicks, let’s start at the end. Chef Martin Rios and his wife and business partner Jennifer began a tradition a few years back that has stuck around: Dessert comes with an embossed spatula. It helps get those last few smears of delectable sauce off the plate.

We wanted it for the buckwheat-nut tuile and the ginger and cassis ginger curd that dotted the plate around housemade mint chocolate chip ice cream and a coffee and chocolate ganache ($11). Our main is roasted Colorado lamb lollipop chops served with quinoa, spinach, caramelized celery root and English peas with blackened rosemary reduction ($46). The menu is nothing if not creative, but not just for the sake of whimsy: The dishes are really tasty too. There’s a reason

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We love seeing the large old family photo on the wall near the host station—generations of smiling faces at their home in the South Capitol neighborhood. Shohko and Hiro Fukuda started this downtown eatery in 1975, the city’s first Japanese restaurant, and Shokho works most days alongside daughters Iba and Ayame in the restaurant and, from a distance, Mika. The Japanese fare served in a historic downtown setting is clean and remarkable. When we’re choosing among the city’s sushi offerings, Shohko is always at the top of the list. Chefs work in an open kitchen, visible to diners behind a glowing counter with the fish displayed behind glass.

Lunchtime bento boxes and hot noodles are also crowd-pleasers, and of course maki rolls are made for sharing. Our favorites include the premium rainbow roll with tuna,

whitefish, salmon, shrimp and avocado with cucumber ($18) and the spicy tuna roll with daikon radish cucumber ($10). Don’t think about sharing the salmon skin hand roll, however. It’s both a logistical and moral challenge. You can’t and you won’t want to.

Thick pieces of crispy skin with wedges of meat still clinging on are married with daikon radish sprouts, burdock root and cucumber in a seaweed wrapper ($6). The building was a 19th century bordello, and its thick walls and shaded windows offer calm respite. We love the combination of history and current moments that make up the experience of dining here. (JAG) 321 Johnson St., 505-982-9708 Lunch and dinner Tuesday-Saturday shohkocafe.com

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Events are free unless otherwise noted.

Empower Students, Strengthen Community.

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TUES TUES WED

Continuing Education Open House 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Room 131

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Classes Begin for Spring Semester sfcc.edu

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SFCC Governing Board Meeting — Public welcome.

5:30 p.m., Board Room, Room 223 505-428-1148

GERALD CLAY MEMORIAL BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT Saturday, April 6 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Sunday, April 7 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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SFCC William C. Witter Fitness Education Center Registration opens Wednesday, Jan. 2 on newmexicosportsonline.com/events/viewall Learn more: miquela.martinez@sfcc.edu or 505-428-1615

CONTESTS, AWARDS & PRIZES To volunteer, call 505-428-1508.

PLUS ...

SFCC is closed for Winter Break; opening on Wednesday, Jan. 2.

Monday, Jan. 21 — SFCC closed for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Prepare for the High School Equivalency/GED tests. Orientation Sessions will be held Jan. 14-17, daytimes and evenings. Classes begin Jan. 22 in Spanish and English in Room 503B. 505-428-1356 ESL Orientation Sessions 505-428-1356, Room 503B Attend only one — $25 registration fee: • Wed., Jan. 16: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. or 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

• Thu., Jan. 17: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. • Wed., Jan. 23: 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

• Thu., Jan. 24: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. or 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

ESL Classes at various locations begin Jan. 28, 29, Feb. 4 or 5.

The William C. Witter Fitness Education Center will be closed for upgrades through Sunday, Jan. 13. The basketball courts will be closed through Monday, Feb. 4. Thank you for supporting local bonds to help fund these renovations.

Job Club, Résumé Review Days, Free Walk-In Clinics and More www.sfcc.edu/events-resources 505-428-1406 REGISTER FOR COURSES, FIND MORE EVENTS & DETAILS AT SFCC.EDU Individuals who need special accommodations should call the phone number listed for each event.

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DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO HOLIDAY SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 Antonio Granjero and his renowned company Entreflamenco present a dramatic new season. Doors open an hour early for authentic Spanish tapas, wine and beer (sold separately).

7:30 pm, $25-$40

EVENTS THE AGENCY AND B YELLOWTAIL POP-UP SHOP VQ Gallery 703 Canyon Road, 415-328-4321 Through Christmas Eve, get the best in Native fashion, accessories and art from Patricia Michaels, Charlene Holy Bear, Jhane Myers and many more.

10 am-6 pm, free FAROLITO WALK Canyon Road If you like cold weather, lots of people, beautiful lights, fancy art, lots of people, hot chocolate and bonfires, and like it all best in a huge crowd of lots of people, head to Canyon Road for the world-famous walk amidst glowing farolitos. Just, whatever you do, don’t call them luminarias.

5 pm, free

MUSIC CHRISTMAS SONG OPEN MIC Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Croon your favorites or listen to your friends jam out. The food menu with holiday specials is served until 6 pm, so arrive in time for dinner.

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

9 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY 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 pm, free SANTA FE PRO MUSICA: A BAROQUE CHRISTMAS Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0092 The Pro Musica Baroque Ensemble presents its beloved musical holiday tradition in the festively decorated chapel with selections by Purcell, Leonarda, Vivaldi and Telemann, as well as traditional Christmas carols.

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SANTA FE SYMPHONY CHRISTMAS EVE CONCERT Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Maestro Figueroa heads the symphony, joined by special guests Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe, who you might say are revolutionizing the piano duo experience for the 21st century.

5 pm, $25-$92 TOM WILLIAMS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country swing.

7:30 pm, free

TUE/25 FILM FLIX & CHOPSTIX: AN AMERICAN IN PARIS The Screen 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, 473-6494 The Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival's beloved holiday event is back, with a screening of An American in Paris: The Musical, followed by a dinner at Lu Lu's Chinese Cuisine. The movie is $8-$12, and a special dinner-and-amovie package is $27-$33.

Gentiles with no Christmas plans are welcome too!

2 pm, $8-$33

THEATER UPSTART CROWS: A CHRISTMAS CAROL Vista Grande Public Library 14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado, 466-7323 Five casts of three readers from the classical theater troupe perform Dickens' own dramatic reading script of the classic Christmas tale.

6 pm, $10

WED/26 BOOKS/LECTURES DHARMA TALK BY NATALIE GOLDBERG AND KATIE ARNOLD Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 A talk entitled "The Zen of Running" is preceded by a 15-minute meditation, so arrive by 5:20 pm to be polite.

5:30 pm, free LOO’K CLOSER: ART TALK AT LUNCHTIME Georgia O'Keeffe Museum 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 A curator leads a 15-minute discussion of a work of art.

Free with museum admission.

12:30-1 pm, $11-$13

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

6:30 pm, $25

EVENTS CHILDREN’S CHESS CLUB Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Join other kids to play against for a mix of quiet thought and roaring laughter.

5:45 pm, free GLOW: COSMIC NIGHTS Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Light up your holiday season with thousands of twinkle lights and beautiful largescale light installations. Enjoy live music (tonight it's everything from jazz to tango from AlmaZazz), festive beverages, and meet Santa.

5-8 pm, $7-$10 GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Do you basically know everything about everything? Put it to good use. Quiz results can win you drink tickets for next time.

8 pm, free VINYASA FLOW Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 One hour of yoga is followed by one of Duel's core beers.

6:30 pm, $15

MUSIC DOUG MONTGOMERY, ELIZABETH YOUNG AND GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Montgomery provides the standards, originals and pop on piano, and Young joins in on violin; Greg takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free ERYN BENT Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Country and folky Americana.

8 pm, free GENEVIEVE LEITNER El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Classical guitar.

7 pm, free KEY FRANCES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Funky and rockin' blues with a psychedelic twist.

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

7:30 pm, free OPEN MIC NIGHT Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. Signups start at 6:30 pm, and everyone who performs gets a recording afterward.

7 pm, free SLOAN ARMITAGE Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 Folk, Americana and tender R&B with an indie feel.

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SARAH EDDY

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Café Atalaya is Plaza Galeria’s new creperie and coffee shop

BY S A R A H E D DY i n t e r n @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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e can people-watch!” I overhear an elderly gentleman exclaim as he and his friend prepare to dig into their $7.95 Nutella crepes at Café Atalaya on the Plaza.

Open since late November, the eatery is owner/chef Greg Menke’s newest culinary creation. Menke also owns The Beestro, the Middle Eastern joint tucked at the back of Plaza Galeria, and Café Atalaya sits at the front of the same San Francisco Street mall, with wide storefront windows looking out on the Plaza itself.

The café serves up drinks from Las Cruces-based Picacho Coffee Roasters ($2.75 for a 16-ounce cup), soup, salad and an ever-changing selection of gelato flavors (cups for $4-$6.50, pints for $9.95) from Grateful Spoon in Phoenix, Arizona.

Menke tells SFR the Grateful Spoon gelato was out of his price range until he worked out a special deal with one of the company’s owners, who owns a home in Santa Fe. Still, the stars of the show are the crepes, which you can watch Menke cook on crepe makers (essentially small, round griddles) behind the counter. Coming in both sweet—like the cajeta, topped with goat milk caramel, piñon and vanilla gelato ($8.95), or the Tree Hugger, covered with fresh berries, greek yogurt and honey ($8.95)—and savory varieties, all crepes are made onsite.

French onion soup with the crepe complete at Café Atalaya—definitely worth heading downtown for.

Being nearly lunchtime, I opt for a savory crepe, scanning a chalk menu which includes the spinach and mushroom ($9.50), the turkey club ($10.95) and the breakfast burrito, which is topped with red and green chile ($7.95). The friendly cashier directs me toward the popular crepe complete ($8.95), a large, hexagonal dish made with egg, ham and gruyere cheese and then heavily drizzled with bechamel sauce. I’m glad he does, because the blend of savory flavors, accentuated by the creamy sauce and carried by the light and delicately crispy crepe, is delicious.

I also order the French onion soup (cup: $3.50, bowl: $6.50) made au gratin ($6.95) by Menke’s own method: There’s no room for the large broiler usually used to make such dishes, so he melts the cheese on the stove, drapes it over my bowl of soup and uses a kitchen blowtorch to brown it. The salty onion soup is good and very filling, though I imagine it would pair better with a sweet crepe to avoid an overload of savory flavors.

Of course, if you’re not in the mood for a flavorful topped crepe, you can add a plain one to your order of soup or salad

($6.95, or add chicken, ham or turkey for $4 more). That’s an extra $2 for the traditional wheat flour crepe or an extra $3 for the gluten-free buckwheat option.

An avid hiker, Menke plans to cover the walls with maps of Atalaya Mountain and other local trails. He chose the café’s name because “atalaya” is the Spanish word for “watchtower.”

“Really what I want it to be is a meeting place on the Plaza,” Menke says. “They’re meeting to walk their dogs and want a coffee, they’re taking a bike ride or are prehike, post-hike, whatever it is, that they all meet here and go do their thing, go enjoy Santa Fe. I wanted something that meant kind of a lookout, a place where people can people-watch, and meet, and it’s kind of a safe haven. Almost like a basecamp.”

For the holidays, Café Atalaya offers seasonal gelato flavors such as gingerbread, pomegranate and pumpkin spice.

Menke also plans to serve an apple pie-like crepe. Other items reportedly coming soon include gelato shakes and made-to-order crepe cakes. For an especially decadent drink, try the affogato ($6), espresso with vanilla gelato. If coffee’s not your thing,

the shop sells lemonade ($3) and various iced and hot tea options ($2.50-$5.25).

Menke makes the café’s food for now, but says he’ll soon pass the job to a new cook in order to focus on his next project. In September, the Historic District Review Board rejected Menke’s proposal to develop Atalaya Restaurant and Wine bar on the building’s balcony to preserve Plaza Galeria’s mid-1950s facade as-is. All the same, Menke says the proposal will go to the Santa Fe City Council next month, and he still hopes to get the restaurant up and running next year.

“We feel confident that [city councilors] will see the benefits of having something that many European cities have,” Menke explains, “Eateries on their balconies, accentuating our downtown Plaza experience with its architecture, its history, its food and people.”

CAFÉ ATALAYA Plaza Galeria, 66 E San Francisco St., Ste. 11 8 am-6 pm Monday-Thursday; 8 am-8 pm Friday and Saturday; 9 am-6 pm Sunday

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EVENTS

INTRODUCTION TO ZEN Mountain Cloud Zen Center 7241 Old Santa Fe Trail, 988-4396 Explore the basics and finer points of Zen meditation.

5 pm, free

GLOW: COSMIC NIGHTS Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Light up your holiday season with thousands of twinkle lights and beautiful largescale light installations. Enjoy live music (tonight it's cumbia y LatinX nuevo from Nohe y Sus Santos), festive beverages, and meet Santa. Kids under 12 are free.

5-8 pm, $7-$10 GEEKS WHO DRINK Santa Fe Brewing Company 35 Fire Place, 424-3333 Stellar quiz results can win you drink tickets for next time.

7 pm, free GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP Temple Beth Shalom 205 E Barcelona Road, 982-1376 The Jewish Care Program offers a grief and loss support group; anyone over 18 years can join and participate.

Please register with Ya’el Chaikind at 303-3552.

1-2 pm, free

DANCE COUNTRY-WESTERN AND TWO-STEP LESSONS Dance Station 947-B W Alameda St., 87501 Learn steps for the honky-tonk.

6:30 pm, $15 ENTREFLAMENCO HOLIDAY SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 A dramatic new season, perfect for visiting family to get a taste of our town's favorite dance genre. Doors open an hour before performances for authentic Spanish tapas, wine and beer (sold separately).

7:30 pm, $25-$40

THE HAHAHOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Wayward Comedy hosts stand-up Doug Mellard and others (see SFR Picks, page 28).

8:30 pm, $10 O2 OPEN MIC Santa Fe Oxygen & Healing Bar (Kaverns) 137 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 Calling all creatives! Hosted

by Noah Kass.

8 pm, $5

MUSIC CHRISTY HAYS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 The Austin Chronicle called her "Lucinda Williams in a Carhartt jacket," and we couldn't hope to be more eloquent than that.

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

6:30 pm, free

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This seems a little dark for the holiday season, but it is actually illuminated cut paper by Case Jernigan and is titled “Zombie Apocalypse,” so it doesn’t depict, like, actual atrocities. It is part of the small works show Microcosm at form & concept (435 S Guadalupe St., 982-8111) through New Year’s Eve.

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DOUBLE O DJS KARAOKE Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 Choose your song wisely.

6 pm, free GRACE ASKEW Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Americana on the deck.

5 pm, free GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Pop, rock and contemporary favorites on piano.

6:30 pm, free JQ WHITCOMB QUARTET El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Original and classic jazz.

7 pm, free JONO MANSON Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. Rootsy rock 'n' roll.

6 pm, free LATIN THURSDAY Café Mimosa 513 Camino de los Marquez, 365-2112 VDJ Dany spins salsa, merengue, nachata, cumbias y más.

9 pm, $5 LEFT BANK Starlight Lounge at Montecito 500 Rodeo Road, 428-7777 Ragtime jazz.

6 pm, $2 MISSI & COMPANY La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Rockin' tunes to dance to.

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

6 pm, free PAT MALONE El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Even more jazz guitar.

8:30 pm, free ROLL, BOUNCE, SK8 JAM AND ROLLER-OKE WITH DJ RAASHAN AHMAD Rockin' Rollers 2915 Agua Fría St., 473-7755 Jealous of kids getting all the cool skate parties? This one's especially for grown-ups. Hit up pizza, a snack bar, and tunes—and an additional $5 get you skates or a scooter.

7 pm, $5

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HOLIDAY FAMILY PROGRAM Georgia O'Keeffe Museum 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 Children ages 4-12 and their grown-ups are invited to learn, create and—most important—have fun together.

1-4 pm, free

FRI/28 DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO HOLIDAY SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 Antonio Granjero and his renowned company Entreflamenco present a dramatic new season. Doors open an hour early for authentic Spanish tapas, wine and beer (sold separately).

7:30 pm, $25-$40 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 A show by the National Institute of Flamenco.

6:30 pm, $25

EVENTS GLOW: COSMIC NIGHTS Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Light up your holiday season with thousands of twinkle lights and large-scale light installations. Enjoy live music (tonight it's Americana and honky-tonk from Half Broke Horses), festive beverages, and meet Santa.

5-8 pm, $7-$10 GARDEN SPROUTS PRE-K ACTIVITIES Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 In a hands-on program for 3-5 year olds and their caregivers, listen to a book and participate in interactive nature and garden-related activities.

10-11 am, $5 QUEER SPACE LISTENING SESSION AND ART THERAPY Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Offer input, insights, and ideas on how MW can serve the needs of Santa Fe’s LGBTQIA+ community.

6:30 pm, free

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MUSIC

ART + YOGA: ART FOR MIND AND BODY Canyon Road During a two-hour tour, let discussions of art open your mind and gentle yoga poses open your body as you visit two or three galleries in a small group (limited to 8 people). Through close looking, reflection and conversation, discover insights and create connections with the work on view—then, in a tucked-away gallery space, practice gentle yogic movements followed by a guided meditation. RSVP at santafearttours.com.

10 am, $55

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

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

6 pm, $5 BIRD THOMPSON The New Baking Company 504 W Cordova Road, 557-6435 Adult contemporary singersongwriter.

10 am, free

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

7 pm, free CALI SHAW Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Folk nuevo on the deck.

3 pm, free CHAT NOIR CABARET Los Magueyes Mexican Restaurant 31 Burro Alley, 992-0304 Modeled after 19th-century Parisian cabarets, enjoy firstrate piano and vocals from Charles Tichenor and friends.

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

8:30 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards: Doug starts, Greg takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free ED & MARIAH Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 Acoustic rock.

7 pm, free FELIX Y LOS GATOS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Americana, blues, cumbia, jazz, ranchera, swing, TexMex and zydeco.

9 pm, $5 JESUS BAS La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Spanish and flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free ODD DOG Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Odd Dog's meteoric rise to mediocrity earned them tens and tens of dollars. It's amazing what classic rock covers can do.

8 pm, free REGIONAL/LIQUID Shadeh Nightclub 30 Buffalo Thunder Trail, 819-2338 VDJ Dany has your cumbia, huapangos, Norteñas and more; DJ Poetics has hip-hop, top 40, dancehall, EDM, reggae, funk and more.

10 pm, free RON ROUGEAU Upper Crust Pizza 329 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0000 Acoustic songs from the '60s, '70s and beyond.

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

7 pm, free SAVOR La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Cuban street music.

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THE CALENDAR SCHOLA CHRISTMAS CONCERT Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0092 Schola Cantorum performs an a cappella Christmas concert of all your favorite holiday songs—and maybe some you've never heard.

6:30 pm, $17-$22 SUGAR MOUNTAIN AND DRASTIC ANDREW Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. Neil Young covers and fun alternative rock 'n' roll.

8 pm, free TGIF RECITAL: JAN WORDEN-LACKEY First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Selections my JS Bach.

5:30 pm, free THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Swinging jazz.

7:30 pm, free TONE RANGER Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar (Apothecary) 133 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 Ethereal lap steel, whistling and vocal elements over solid tantalizing grooves.

7-9 pm, free WHITE ROSE MOTOR OIL Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Americana on the deck.

5 pm, free YOUR BOY RE-FLEX AND LEAHI'S UGLY X-MAS SWEATER PARTY Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Dance 'n' party 'n' shit with Your Boy Re-Flex, and wear your most hideous sweater to compete with other poorly dressed folks.

10 pm, $5

SAT/29 BOOKS/LECTURES NEW YEARS CELEBRATION WITH INGRID AND ERIC Bee Hive Kid’s Books 328 Montezuma Ave., 780-8051 Enjoy live music and stories with the talented duo. All ages welcome.

11:30 am, free

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO HOLIDAY SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 A dramatic new dance season. Doors open an hour early for authentic Spanish tapas, wine and beer (sold separately).

7:30 pm, $25-$40 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Make a dinner reservation for a show by the National Institute of Flamenco.

6:30 pm, $25

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EVENTS EL MUSEO WINTER MARKET El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Part fine arts market, part flea market, all full of treasures.

8 am-3 pm, free GLOW: COSMIC NIGHTS Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Light up your holiday season with thousands of twinkle light, live music (tonight it's rock 'n' blues from Controlled Burn), festive beverages, and meet Santa.

5-8 pm, $7-$10 SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET Santa Fe Railyard Market Street at Alcaldesa Street, 310-8766 Pottery, paintings, photography, jewelry, sculpture, furniture, textiles and more.

8 am-2 pm, free

MUSIC 13TH NOTE Santa Fe Oxygen & Healing Bar (Kaverns) 137 W San Francisco St., 986-5037 With roots in Latin and classical music, Jennifer Perez (vocals) and Michael Tait Tafoya (guitar) present smoky and edgy vocals over passionate flamenco-style guitar.

8-10 pm, free BUKU AND GLADKILL Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Architectural, twisted, layered soundscapes.

9 pm, $25-$30 CW AYON Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 A one-man blues band.

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

6 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards, classical, pop and Broadway tunes on piano: Doug starts, Greg takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free FANTUZZI & THE FLEXIBLE BAND Paradiso 903 Early St. Latin, reggae and Afro-funk with a mystic twist.

7:30 pm, $20 FIRE SATURDAYS Shadeh Nightclub 30 Buffalo Thunder Trail, 819-2338 VDJ Dany spins cumbia, reggaeton, bachata, salsa y más; DJ 12 Tribe has your hip-hop, top 40, EDM, R&B and more.

10 pm, free

GRACE ASKEW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Electronic Americana.

9 pm, $5 JOHN RANGEL QUARTET El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 A piano-led jazz quartet.

7:30 pm, free JUKE JOINT PROPHETS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 American dance hall tunes, Delta River blues and swinging country 'n' jazz.

1 pm, free KARAOKE Golden Cantina Lounge 10-B Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3313 Ask the bartenders for the "Karaoke Kourage" drink special to get you started.

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

8:30 pm, free MOBY DICK AND PINK FREUD Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. All the Zeppelin covers you could ever ever ever want from one of Santa Fe's favorite tribute bands, and Floyd covers from a different one of Santa Fe's favorite tribute bands.

7:30 pm, $8 PAT MALONE Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Solo jazz guitar.

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

5:30 pm, free RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish classical guitar.

7 pm, free RYAN WELSH DUO Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Rock 'n' roll with the vocalist of local jam band Pigment.

7 pm, free SANTA FE PRO MUSICA: THE BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 The Pro Musica Orchestra presents Bach’s complete set of Brandenburg Concertos (called “the most stupendous miracle in all of music” by not-too-shabby-himself Richard Wagner).

7-9 pm, $20-$90 SAVOR La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Cuban street music.

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TREVOR BAHNSON Iconik Coffee Roasters 1600 Lena St., 428-0996 Folky Americana.

Noon-2 pm, free

THEATER WINTER CIRCUS CABARET Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Road, Ste. B., 992-2588 Clowning, juggling, rope and fabric feats, unicycles, acrobatics and hoops.

2 pm and 7 pm, $5-$15

SUN/30 BOOKS/LECTURES JOURNEYSANTAFE: PAUL GIBSON Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Gibson, of Retake Our Democracy, takes a look at the legislative session.

11 am, free

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO HOLIDAY SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 A dramatic new dance season.

7:30 pm, $25-$40 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Make a reservation to be sure.

6:30 pm, $25

EVENTS EL MUSEO WINTER MARKET El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 992-0591 Part fine arts market, part flea market, all full of treasures.

9 am-4 pm, free GLOW: COSMIC NIGHTS Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Lights and laser installations, live music (tonight it's rock from Bella Gigante), festive beverages and more.

5-8 pm, $7-$10 KWANZAA FAMILY GATHERING Genoveva Chavez Community Center 3221 W Rodeo Road, 955-4000 Food, music, drumming, dancing and stories, plus activities for children and a candle-lighting ceremony.

2-4 pm, free LEARN TO MEDITATE Zoetic 230 St. Francis Drive, 292-5293 Explore and deepen your understanding of The Stages of the Path.

10:30 am-noon, $10

MUSIC BAILE DOMINGUERO Golden Cantina Lounge 10-B Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3313 Cumbia y Norteña con DJ Quico.

9 pm, free

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

6:30 pm, free GARY REYNOLDS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Western rock.

8 pm, free JIM ALMAND Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Soulful blues and R&B. 5 pm, free JOAQUIN GALLEGOS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Flamenco guitar.

6 pm, free KEY FRANCES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Funky blues on the deck.

3 pm, free NACHA MENDEZ La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Latin music.

7 pm, free THE PALM IN THE CYPRESS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Old-timey country music.

Noon, free

THEATER WINTER CIRCUS CABARET Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Road, Ste. B, 992-2588 Clowning, juggling, rope and fabric feats, unicycles, acrobatics, hoops and more.

4 pm, $5-$15

MON/31 DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO HOLIDAY SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 A dramatic new dance season.

7:30 pm, $25-$40 FLAMENCO DINNER SHOW El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Pregame with some dance.

6:30 pm, $25

EVENTS GLOW: COSMIC NIGHTS CHILDREN'S NEW YEAR'S EVE Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 A celebration just for kids— count down to "midnight" at 7 pm and enjoy tunes from performer Andy Mason. Kids 12 and under get in free.

5-8 pm, $7-$10 NEW YEAR’S EVE ON THE PLAZA Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail The family-friendly tradition ticks off another year with live music, hot chocolate, biscochitos, bonfires and an address from the mayor.

9 pm, free

NEW YEAR'S EVE SPECIAL MEDITATION Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 Sit zazen until midnight (see SFR Picks, page 28).

10 pm, free

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

7:30 pm, free THE CAROUSEL Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 DJs Amtrac, Spoolius, Commodore 256, Billiam, Brian Mayhall and Max PF-FP. 9 pm, $40-$45 DJ RAASHAN AHMAD Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Hip-hop-adjacent beats.

10 pm, free DETROIT LIGHTNING Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. Santa Fe’s preeminent Grateful Dead tribute band.

8:30 pm, $20 DOUG MONTGOMERY AND GREG SCHLOTTHAUER Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards. Make your reservations tonight; it's sure to be one of the classiest parties in town.

7 pm, free JJ AND THE HOOLIGANS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n' roll.

9 pm, $20 JOE WEST Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Let the country-folk-Americana revelry begin!

8 pm, $10 TODD TIJERINA DUO Social Kitchen & Bar 725 Cerrillos Road, 982-5952 Original blues and roots rock.

7-9 pm, free UNDERGROUND CADENCE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Bluesy, eclectic, funky tunes that keep you dancing.

9 pm, $10

THEATER MURDER AT THE LONE ELM Los Alamos Little Theatre 1670 Nectar St., Los Alamos, 662-5493 This original murder mystery is interactive, and every audience member gets an ice cream sundae. Dang!

7:30 pm, $13-$15 THE NEW YEAR'S EVE ORCHESTRA Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 An evening of Tchaikovsky sounds like a sublime way to bid 2018 farewell. The earlier show is only $5-$20.

1 pm and 5 pm, $30-$80

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SWEARING IN OF GOVERNOR MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM AND LT. GOVERNOR HOWIE MORALES Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W Marcy St., 955-6590 The doors open at 9 am, and it's followed by a meet-andgreet until 2 pm (see SFR Picks, page 28).

Noon, free

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

Ring in the new year with all the toursts who came to spend the New Year in a quaint lil’ locale. Oh yes, so quaint.

7:30 pm, free CHUSCALES La Boca (Original Location) 72 W Marcy St., 982-3433 Exotic flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free

DOUG MONTGOMERY, ELIZABETH YOUNG AND AL ROGERS Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Montgomery provides the standards, originals and pop on piano, and Young joins in on violin; Al takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free RASMINKO Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 A Bohemian mix of covers ‘n’ styles on bass, guitar, drums and accordion.

8 pm, free

MUSEUMS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Three Image Makers. Shelley Horton-Trippe: A Greater Sublime: 8 Poets / 8 Paintings.

The Wanderer: The Final Drawings of John Connell. All through Jan. 6.

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 Jo Whaley: Echoes. Through Feb. 24. The Candid Camera.

Through April 22.

HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 Peter Chinni: Inside/Out. Pop Chalee: Blue Flower Rooted.

Through Jan. 13. The Legacy of Helene Wurlitzer: Works from the Harwood Collection.

Through May 5.

IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Holly Wilson: On Turtle’s Back; Rolande Souliere: Form and Content. Both through Jan. 27. Darren Vigil Gray: Expanding Horizons; Meeting the Clouds Halfway. Both Through Feb. 16. Action/ Abstraction Redefined.

Through July 7.

MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART 632 Agua Fría St., 989-3283 National and international wax artists.

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Stepping Out: 10,000 Years of Walking the West. Through Dec. 30. Maria Samora: Master of Elegance. Through Feb. 28. What’s New in New: Selections from the Carol Warren Collection. Through April 7. Lifeways of the Southern Athabaskans. Through July 7.

MUSEUM OF INT’L FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Beadwork Adorns the World.

Through Feb. 3, 2019.

Crafting Memory: The Art of

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Carved & Cast: 20th Century New Mexican Sculpture recently opened at the New Mexico Museum of Art, and we’re feeling these carved wood dancers.

Community in Peru. Through March 10.

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 GenNext: Future So Bright.

Through March 29.

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Jurassic World: The Fallen Kingdom Reviewed June 22

We said: Boo. Muck. Filth. Slime.

Rubbish. Boo.

Devil’s Gate

FRIDAY, DEC 21 10:30a The Favourite 10:45a Shoplifters* 1:00p The Favourite 1:15p Shoplifters* 3:30p The Favourite 3:45p Shoplifters* 6:00p The Favourite 8:30p The Favourite 8:45p Shoplifters*

Score: 3 |

Reviewed Jan. 2 We said: We feel bad for the actors—especially [Shawn] Ashmore, because we kind of like him otherwise—and our minds wander; the sequel setup at the end cuts deep.

Score: 4 |

Sorry to Bother You

SAT - SUN, DEC 22 - 23 10:30a The Favourite 10:45a Shoplifters* 1:00p The Favourite 1:15p Shoplifters* 3:30p The Favourite 3:45p Shoplifters* 6:00p The Favourite 6:15p Shoplifters* 8:30p The Favourite 8:45p Shoplifters*

Reviewed July 13

We said: Lakieth Stanfield brings a subtle vulnerability to his first big screen starring role.

Score: 8 |

Phantom Thread Reviewed Jan. 19

We said: [Daniel] Day-Lewis, as always, disappears completely into the role.

Score: 9 |

Off the Menu Reviewed Feb. 6

We said: It’s hard to recommend this to anyone.

Kusama: Infinity BlacKkKlansman Reviewed August 10

We said: BlacKkKlansman so vividly and powerfully captures our attention, taking us right up to the brink of hope before abruptly pulling us back down to reality.

Score: 10 |

Score: 3 |

The Happytime Murders Isle of Dogs

Reviewed March 28 We said: Should not be missed under any circumstances.

Score: 10 |

Reviewed August 24 We said: The movie is almost never funny despite appearances from comedic champions like Maya Rudolph and Joel McHale.

Score: 4 |

Reviewed Sept. 25

We said: If you even think you like art, you must see this film.

Score: 10 |

First Man

We said: We can only hope RBG is shown to everyone—particularly young people—for a long time to come.

Score: 9 |

The Predator

We said: A meditative portrait of a taciturn yet resolute hero.

Score: 9 |

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Reviewed Nov. 16

We said: Sorry, Potterheads—it’s just not the same.

Score: 4 |

Reviewed Sept. 14

The Favourite

We said: There are also space dogs; literal space dogs. Ugh.

We said: [Rachel] Weisz is phenomenal.

Score: 5 |

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Reviewed Oct. 22

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Reviewed Dec. 7

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Filmmakers have really made Spider-Man a lot more fun as a character in recent years. Sorry, Tobey Maguire, but gothy/jazzy/brooding SpiderMan just isn’t as fun as wise-cracking, backflipping, tons-of-heart Spider-Man. The newest film in the hero’s extended universe, Into the Spider-Verse, proves it with its unique animation style, clever script and nonstop cavalcade of in-jokes, outjokes and good old-fashioned Marvel mayhem.

Here we follow Miles Morales (Shameik Moore), a teenager and relative newcomer to the world of Spidey, as he deals with being too smart and talented to particularly fit in at his new fancy school. Cue radioactive spider bite, the origin of powers, high stakes and, in this case, a super-collider funded by longtime Marvel villain Kingpin (Liev Schreiber) that opens up parallel universes from which other SpiderHeroes emerge. You’ve got schlubby middleaged Spider-Man (Jake Johnson), super-cute/ punk-rock Spider-Gwen (Hailee Steinfeld), Noir Spider-Man (Nicolas Cage), the ultra-anime Peni Parker (Kimiko Glenn) and Spider-Ham (a delightful Looney Tunes homage character voiced

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by John Mulaney). Turns out bridging between dimensions is no good for any of them, though, so they have to stop Kingpin, get back to their respective dimensions and blow up the supercollider while learning about love and what’s important and stuff. Easy.

Into the Spider-Verse truly shines in its willingness to riff on past Marvel mistakes (dancing Spider-Man, for example) and highlighting and/or parodying beloved fan elements while throwing enough curveballs to keep us guessing. A number of twists even managed to surprise this longtime comics fan, and Phil Lord’s script, co-written by Miles Morales creator Brian Michael Bendis, keeps up the feels while never straying into material that’s too heavy-handed or emotional.

The animation style, meanwhile, is off-thewall fantastic with disparate styles representing the different Spideys and an old-timey comic book filter tying everything together via Miles’

dimension, where everything takes place. You’d think it would feel confusing, but even as the different planes of existence begin collapsing on one another in a gloriously colorful and chaotic endgame sequence, we never lose the story or the characters for a moment.

Of course, this could be because Spider-Verse is ultimately courting a younger audience and attempting to make quantum physics digestible. For the nit-pickers, this will surely mean small flaws to pick apart; for those who came to have fun, however, they’ll be able to let go and enjoy what must be hands-down the most fun movie of the year for any age.

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE Directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman With Moore, Johnson, Steinfeld, Schriver, Cage, Mulaney and Glenn PG, Regal, Violet Crown, 117 min.

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Hey, Hollywood Foreign Press—give Olivia Colman a Golden Globe for The Favourite.

+ QUITE FUNNY; PERFORMANCES FROM PRINCIPAL CAST

- DRAGS ON A TAD TOO LONG

Director Yorgos Lanthimos does like his moody comedies, but whereas his previous works such as 2015’s The Lobster leaned heavily into magical realism, he stays grounded with The Favourite for a darkly funny and captivating period piece the likes of which we’ve never really seen.

It’s 1700-something, and an aging Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) reigns over England and war with France (Queen Anne’s War, to be precise)—but the country land owners who fund the dustup are emptying their coffers at a pace too quick for their own tastes. Enter Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz, who reunites with Lanthimos for the second time), the queen’s close confidant, sometimes lover and the true power behind the throne. Sarah rides roughshod over Anne almost always, navigating the temper tantrums and sexual tugs-of-war between moments of brief lucidity, medical issues and the rising tide of a dissatisfied citizenry.

While the queen whiles away the hours lonely, wandering the halls, eating her way to sickness or tending to the rabbits she’s raised to replace her 17 dead children, Sarah exercises power and bends the country to her will. But

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when her cousin Abigail (Emma Stone)—once a lady and since fallen from grace—arrives looking for work, a battle for the queen’s ear (and thus, absolute power) unfolds like a gloriously slowburning train wreck.

Weisz is phenomenal as the too-proud Sarah and often does more with body language or a simple expression than should be possible.

Colman shines as well, particularly in scenes with Weisz, and there’s undeniable chemistry between them. Never once do we comfortably understand their relationship, though there does seem to have been a foundation of sincere love laid at one point, even if it’s mutated into a sort of puppet regime. Stone impresses, too, and not just with a capable British accent, but in the smug way she comes into her own. At first, we see her as a wounded animal intent on survival and little else, but with writers Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara’s clever script, she evolves into a bit of an evil monstrosity. Our allegiances shift several times over, and it’s satisfying to watch men who believe themselves powerful reveal their pettiness, juvenile sexual motivations and ultimate impotence in the face of strong women leaders.

Don’t get us wrong, no one woman particularly uses her strength for good; it’s lust and power they’re feeding throughout The Favourite.

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and while we don’t see what’s happened to Celeste in that time, the older version (played

by Natalie Portman, who also produced) seems exhausted, a long-time pop icon who can play the game and get her shit done but whom, we’re told, has gone blind in one eye from drinking household products during a southern America leg of a previous tour—and she’s become awfully difficult. She dominates the sister she once seemingly loved and speaks to her teenage daughter like she’s trying to sell her something.

This second act takes its time through long and simple yet effectively clever scenes of dialog and little else. Portman brings it here, half-lying to her daughter and half-believing those lies herself. She is a diva, and perhaps an arrogant one, and if not for the earlier bits of the film, we’d hardly believe it’s the same young woman, nor would we probably empathize with her during contentious interviews with press or explosive arguments with her sister and manager.

This is a testament to writer/director Brady

Tragedies go down, faces get glittered, jams get jammed in Vox Lux.

The film is primarily cut into two acts. The first follows high school-aged Celeste (Raffey Cassidy), a survivor of the heinous event, as she collaborates with her older sister on bubblegum pop songs that uplift rather than provide soundtrack for wallowing. As Celeste puts it in one scene, she doesn’t want people to have to think about it too much; she just wants to provide something comforting. Vox Lux‘s songs were written by Sia, and they’re nothing if not catchy; vignettes that illustrate the studio process or the early, hopeful days of fame and notoriety are certainly interesting as well.

Along for the ride is Jude Law as Celeste’s manager. He’s the only one who can speak to her plainly, though he’s rough around the edges and seemingly more interested in protecting her than shooting straight. Law works fine in this role, and produced the film as well, though his native English accent creeps up from the corners of his take on a gruff American music industry type nearly always.

And so it goes that we begin to feel protective of Celeste ourselves. Cassidy embodies her naïvete, sweetly regarding producers and session musicians and label PR talking heads, growing a closer bond with her sister and operating like a wide-eyed innocent barely accustomed to a higher level of attention.

Whether we mean to or not, we begin to care for her, too. We just want her to be OK. Act two, however, plays out a mite differently. The jump accounts for 16 years,

we’ve seen this year. The closing moments of practically every shot read almost like Renaissance paintings, and Lanthimos reliably lends a few extra moments toward the end of many scenes for their goings-on to land. They hit hard and drive the pacing forward—no easy job for a film set in the 1700s and full of fanciful clothes, ridiculous wigs and stuffy bedchambers belonging to nobles.

And even if we don’t quite know whom to root for as the film winds down, we do rather enjoy ambiguity so artfully displayed. They snuck this one in right under the awards-season wire and already have a number of Golden Globes nominations for acting and writing, and we won’t be surprised if The Favourite team takes home a couple statues— but even if they don’t, it doesn’t make it any less fun watching the would-be powerful stoop so low.

(ADV) Center for Contemporary Arts, R, 119 min.

VOX LUX

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Vox Lux begins with a bang. No spoilers, but it’s the kind of onscreen violence to which most of us have hopefully not yet become desensitized.

But rather than focus on the grief following tragedy—at least outwardly and obviously—the event, as we’ll call it, spurs hope—and, oddly, a major pop music career.

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Corbet’s vision. Corbet, primarily an actor from films like Mysterious Skin and Funny Games, proves a capable knack for crafting story, and his patient, metered scenes of character development stand in stark contrast with the thoughtless pop of his principal’s body of work.

Still, if the goal was to nudge us toward consistently caring for Celeste by showcasing her more vulnerable youth, we start to lose that thread during the second act. Visually, the late-film concert scene is stunning—whether or not we’re buying Portman as dancer and singer, however, is another story. The short version is that we don’t. She’s a bit of an asshole. The longer version, however, says something about the corrupting nature of fame and fortune and something else about walking a mile in someone else’s bejeweled spandex bodysuit.

Is there a moral, though? Not particularly, but one isn’t particularly needed. All told, Vox Lux is a relatively simple story about its characters, is written quite well and is a different kind of film existing someplace between the cold worlds of Aranofsky and the offbeat timing of Jeunet.

Fame may well be a sickness, but even if it is, it’s one we might gleefully accept just for the hollow love of countless strangers. Oh! Maybe there is a moral after all. (ADV) Center for Contemporary Arts, R, 110 min.

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Maria Callas sang better than anyone.

ANYONE.

+ CALLAS IS PHENOMENAL, NO QUESTION

- THIS MOVIE GETS SLOW

Filmmaker Tom Volf’s Maria by Callas works a bit like an opera itself—wildly fascinating for longtime fans and aficionados, dense and not particularly inviting for newcomers. Through narrated writings and recorded audio from the famed Greek-American opera singer Maria Callas, we get an intimate view of her career, her home life and her trials and tribulations in her own words—but by adding numerous full-length performances throughout the film, Volf slows things to a snail’s pace fairly often. Again, if you love opera, you’ll probably love that; if you’re trying to learn more or understand its popularity—tough luck.

Callas was, we learn, like the preeminent rockstar of her day, or perhaps even bigger.

We see numerous TV interviews or footage of her being mobbed by fans and paparazzi in the 1950s, and we realize just how gigantic she truly was. Of course, this was as much about talent as it is the world’s bizarre fascination with the famous, and it is proven time and time again that Callas’ effortless style was unparalleled, and has surely never been matched since. Try to name even one living opera singer real quick, though … probably only a few of you reading this can.

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And though we feel for Callas as we observe her first marriage crumble or watch her adoring public turn on her when she was forced to cancel a performance due to bronchitis, we also get the sense that she was a bit of a prima donna—y’know, in the bad sense of the term. Callas dances around this idea by erring toward showcasing the pressures of her career and fame; however, we feel as we follow the journey that there is no question that too much was expected of the woman.

That makes scenes of her yachting or hitting the town or even just being a normal person at home all the more interesting, and Volf does manage to humanize her throughout the film. But somewhere around the third or fourth complete aria, we kind of zone out despite Callas’ gorgeous voice and stirring interpretations. If opera’s your thing, you’re going to love this portrayal of a 20th-century icon. If you aren’t already familiar with the world, though, this won’t be the thing that converts you. (ADV) Center for Contemporary Arts Violet Crown, PG, 113 min.

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we’ve ever seen from the O Brother, Where Art Thou? vet. Kudos go as well to Harry Melling, whose turn as a limbless actor tethered to a Liam Neeson-run traveling theater act far surpasses what we know of the Harry Potter alum.

Neeson, as always, is pretty damn good in the quieter moments.

But it’s not all good news, especially in the case of Big Sick actor/writer Zoë Kazan’s toolong and too-slow installment wherein a woman traveling by covered wagon caravan loses everything to the unforgiving era and region. Still, by the time we reach the final entry and are thrust into the capable hands of talented actors like Brendan Gleeson, Tyne Daly and Saul Rubinek, all is mostly forgiven.

It would be strange to take in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs in a theater, though its sweeping panoramic vistas and stunning cinematography surely help defuse its more stilted moments. All the same, it’s better to view on the couch at home where one might have a chance to pause and reflect if they so chose.

The premise is interesting and the writing is solid—it’s just not quite what we’re used to, for better or for worse. (ADV) Netflix, R, 132 min.

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While the anthology film is nothing particularly new, it’s most often relegated to horror— think Creepshow. We’ve almost definitely never seen one so intricately crafted and large in scope as with the Coen Brothers’ new Netflix (and in select theaters) production, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Six disparate tales of the Wild West are told from various genre standpoints, from the dark comedy of a sing-songy gunslinger or the robber ever-destined for the gallows to the sparse and ultimately triumphant tale of the aged prospector and the subtle scares of a mysteriously populated stagecoach bound for who-knows-where.

The episodes, as it were, are at turns quite funny or heartbreaking or, in one case, almost Tolstoyan—though without a singular narrative thread interwoven throughout, it’s challenging to carry the events or lessons of one tale with us into the next. This is by design, and Scruggs almost never stumbles in its pacing, but it can cause a sort of disconnect or cognitive dissonance when we’re presented with such emotionally differing material in such a rapid-fire manner.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Consumer Reports says that between 1975 and 2008, the average number of products for sale in a supermarket rose from about 9,000 to nearly 47,000. The glut is holding steady. Years ago you selected from among three or four brands of soup and shampoo.

Nowadays you may be faced with twenty varieties of each.

I suspect that 2019 will bring a comparable expansion in some of your life choices, Aries—especially when you’re deciding what to do with your future and who your allies should be. This could be both a problem and a blessing. For best results, opt for choices that have all three of these qualities: fun, usefulness, and meaningfulness.

your own. “On Earth I am held, honeysuckled not just by honeysuckle but by everything—marigolds, bog after bog of small sundews, the cold smell of spruce.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): People have been trying to convert ordinary metals into gold since at least 300 AD. At that time, an Egyptian alchemist named Zosimos of Panopolis unsuccessfully mixed sulfur and mercury in the hope of performing such magic. Fourteen centuries later, seminal scientist Isaac Newton also failed in his efforts to produce gold from cheap metal. But now let’s fast forward to twentieth-century chemist Glenn T. Seaborg, a distinguished researcher who won a share of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1951. He and his team did an experiment with bismuth, an element that’s immediately adjacent to lead on the periodical table. By using a particle accelerator, they literally transmuted a small quantity of bismuth into gold. I propose that we make this your teaching story for 2019. May it inspire you to seek transformations that have never before been possible.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never, ever get it out.” This advice is sometimes attributed to sixteenthcentury politician and cardinal Thomas Wolsey. Now I’m offering it to you as one of your important themes in 2019. Here’s how you can best take it to heart. First, be extremely discerning about what ideas, theories, and opinions you allow to flow into your imagination. Make sure they’re based on objective facts and make sure they’re good for you. Second, be aggressive about purging old ideas, theories, and opinions from your head, especially if they’re outmoded, unfounded, or toxic.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Memorize this quote by author Peter Newton and keep it close to your awareness during the coming months: “No remorse. No if-onlys. Just the alertness of being.” Here’s another useful maxim, this one from author Mignon McLaughlin: “Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.” Shall we make it a lucky three mottoes to live by in 2019? This one’s by author A. A. Milne: “You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Until 1920, most American women didn’t have the right to vote. For that matter, few had ever been candidates for public office.

There were exceptions. In 1866, Elizabeth Cady Stanton GEMINI (May 21-June 20): United States President Donald Trump wants to build a concrete and fenced wall was the first to seek a seat in Congress. In 1875, Victoria between Mexico and America, hoping to slow down the Woodhull ran for president. Susanna Salter became the flow of immigrants across the border. Meanwhile, twelve first woman mayor in 1887. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Sagittarius, 2019 will be a Northern African countries are collaborating to build a Stanton-Woodhull-Salter type of year for you. You’re like4,750-mile-long wall of drought-resistant trees at the ly to be ahead of your time and primed to innovate. You’ll border of the Sahara, hoping to stop the desert from have the courage and resourcefulness necessary to try swallowing up farmland. During the coming year, I’ll be seemingly unlikely and unprecedented feats, and you’ll rooting for you to draw inspiration from the latter, not have a knack for ushering the future into the present. the former. Erecting new boundaries will be healthy for CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Studies show that the you—if it’s done out of love and for the sake of your best possible solution to the problem of homelessness is health, not out of fear and divisiveness. to provide cheap or free living spaces for the homeless.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian poet and filmNot only is it the most effective way of helping the peomaker Jean Cocteau advised artists to notice the ple involved; in the long run, it’s also the least expensive. aspects of their work that critics didn’t like—and then Is there a comparable problem in your personal life? A cultivate those precise aspects. He regarded the dispar- chronic difficulty that you keep putting band-aids on but aged or misconstrued elements as being key to an artthat never gets much better? I’m happy to inform you ist’s uniqueness and originality, even if they were as-yet that 2019 will be a favorable time to dig down to find immature. I’m expanding his suggestion and applying it deeper, more fundamental solutions; to finally fix a trouto all of you Crabs during the next ten months, even if blesome issue rather than just addressing its symptoms. you’re not strictly an artist. Watch carefully what your AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Many people in Iceland community seems to misunderstand about the new write poems, but only a few publish them. There’s even trends you’re pursuing, and work hard to ripen them. a term for those who put their creations away in a LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 1891, a 29-year-old British drawer rather than seeking an audience: skúffuskáld, litmother named Constance Garnett decided she would erally translated as “drawer-poet.” Is there a comparable phenomenon in your life, Aquarius? Do you prostudy the Russian language and become a translator. duce some good thing but never share it? Is there a She learned fast. During the next forty years, she produced English translations of 71 Russian literary books, part of you that you’re proud of but keep secret? Is including works by Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, and there an aspect of your ongoing adventures that’s meaningful but mostly private? If so, 2019 will be the Chekhov. Many had never before been rendered in year you might want to change your mind about it.

English. I see 2019 as a Constance Garnett-type year for you, Leo. Any late-blooming potential you might PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Scientists at Goldsmiths possess could enter a period of rapid maturation.

University in London did a study to determine the catchAwash in enthusiasm and ambition, you’ll have the iest pop song ever recorded. After extensive research in power to launch a new phase of development that which they evaluated an array of factors, they decided could animate and motivate you for a long time. that Queen’s “We Are the Champions” is the song that more people love to sing than any other. This triumphant VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I’ll be bold and predict that tune happens to be your theme song in 2019. I suggest 2019 will be a nurturing chapter in your story; a time you learn the lyrics and melody, and sing it once every when you will feel loved and supported to a greater day. It should help you build on the natural confidencedegree than usual; a phase when you will be more at building influences that will be streaming into your life. home in your body and more at peace with your fate than you have in a long time. I have chosen an appropri- Homework: Write a parable or fairy tale that captures what your life has been like in 2018. Testify at ate blessing to bestow upon you, written by the poet Freewillastrology.com.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): I suspect that in 2019 you’ll be able to blend a knack for creating more stability with an urge to explore and seek greater freedom.

How might this unusual confluence be expressed in practical ways? Maybe you’ll travel to reconnect with your ancestral roots. Or perhaps a faraway ally or influence will help you feel more at home in the world. It’s possible you’ll establish a stronger foundation, which will in turn bolster your courage and inspire you to break free of a limitation. What do you think?

political matters with allies. I’d love it if you could wangle a comparable arrangement for yourself in 2019. Are there wise confidants or mentors or helpers from whom you could draw continuous counsel? Seek them out.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The body of the violin has two f-shaped holes on either side of the strings. They enable the sound that resonates inside the instrument to be projected outwardly. A thousand years ago, the earliest ancestor of the modern violin had round holes.

Later they became half-moons, then c-shaped, and finally evolved into the f-shape. Why the change? Scientific TAURUS (April 20-May 20): On the average, a total analysis reveals that the modern form allows more air to eclipse of the sun happens every 18 months. And how often is a total solar eclipse visible from a specific loca- be pushed out from inside the instrument, thereby producing a more powerful sound. My analysis of your life tion on the planet? Typically, once every 375 years. In 2019, the magic moment will occur on July 2 for people in 2019 suggests it will be a time to make an upgrade living in Chile and Argentina. But I believe that through- from your metaphorical equivalent of the c-shaped holes to the f-shaped holes. A small shift like that will enable out the coming year, Tauruses all over the world will experience other kinds of rare and wonderful events at a you to generate more power and resonance. higher rate than usual. Not eclipses, but rather divine SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian singer-songinterventions, mysterious miracles, catalytic epiphanies, writer Sia has achieved great success, garnering nine unexpected breakthroughs, and amazing graces. Expect Grammy nominations and amassing a $20 million fortune. more of the marvelous than you’re accustomed to.

Among the superstars for whom she has composed hit tunes are Beyoncé, Rihanna, and Flo Rida. But she has also GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “The world’s full of people who have stopped listening to themselves,” wrote had failures. Top recording artists like Adele and Shakira mythologist Joseph Campbell. It’s imperative that you have commissioned her to write songs for them only to subsequently turn down what she created. In 2016, Sia got NOT be one of those folks. 2019 should be the Year of Listening Deeply to Yourself. That means being on sweet revenge. She released an album in which she herself sang many of those rejected songs. It has sold more than high alert for your inner inklings, your unconscious longings, and the still, small voice at the heart of your two million copies. Do you, too, know what it’s like to have destiny. If you do that, you’ll discover I’m right when I your gifts and skills ignored or unused or rebuffed, Sagittarius? If so, the coming months will be an excellent say that you’re smarter than you realize. time to express them for your own benefit, as Sia did.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Jackson Pollock is regarded CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A typical fluffy white as a pioneer in the technique of drip painting, which involves drizzling and splashing paint on canvases that lie cumulus cloud weighs 216,000 pounds. A dark cumuloon the floor. It made him famous. But the truth is, Pollock nimbus storm cloud is 106 million pounds, almost 490 got inspired to pursue what became known as his signa- times heavier. Why? Because it’s filled with far more water than the white cloud. So which is better, the fluffy ture style only after he saw an exhibit by the artist Janet Sobel, who was the real pioneer. I bring this to your atten- cumulus or the stormy cumolonimbus? Neither, of tion, because I see 2019 as a year when the Janet Sobel- course. We might sometimes prefer the former over the like aspects of your life will get their due. Overdue appre- latter because it doesn’t darken the sky as much or cause the inconvenience of rain. But the truth is, the cumulociation will arrive. Credit you have deserved but haven’t nimbus is a blessing; a substantial source of moisture; a fully garnered will finally come your way. You’ll be gift to growing things. I mention this because I suspect acknowledged and recognized in surprising ways. that for you, 2019 will have more metaphorical resemLEO (July 23-Aug. 22): As the crow flies, Wyoming is blances to the cumulonimbus than the cumulus. almost a thousand miles from the Pacific Ocean and AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A hundred years ago, more than a thousand miles from the Gulf of Mexico, most astronomers thought there was just one galaxy in which is part of the Atlantic Ocean. Now here’s a surthe universe: our Milky Way. Other models for the strucprise: in the northwest corner of Wyoming, the North ture of the universe were virtually heretical. But in the Two Ocean Creek divides into two tributaries, one of which ultimately flows to the Pacific and one that reaches 1920s, astronomer Edwin Hubble produced research that proved the existence of many more galaxies. Today the Gulf. So an enterprising fish could conceivably swim from one ocean to the other via this waterway. I propose the estimate is that there are at least 400 billion. I wonthat we make North Two Ocean Creek your official meta- der what currently unimaginable possibilities will be phor for 2019. It will symbolize the turning point you’ll be obvious to our ancestors a hundred years from now.

Likewise, I wonder what currently unforeseen truths will at in your life; it will remind you that you’ll have the power to launch an epic journey in one of two directions. be fully available to you by the end of 2019. My guess: more than in any other previous year of your life.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I have come to the concluPISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Author Elizabeth Gilbert sion that softening your relationship with perfectionism offers advice for those who long for a closer relationwill be a key assignment in 2019. With this in mind, I offer you observations from wise people who have stud- ship with the Supreme Being: “Look for God like a man ied the subject. 1. “The perfect is the enemy of the good.” with his head on fire looks for water.” I’ll expand that —Voltaire 2. “Perfection is a stick with which to beat the approach so it applies to you when you’re in quest of possible.” —Rebecca Solnit 3. Perfectionism is “the high- any crucial life-enhancing experience. If you genuinely believe that a particular adventure or relationship or end version of fear.” —Elizabeth Gilbert 4. “Nothing is transformation is key to your central purpose, it’s not less efficient than perfectionism.” —Elizabeth Gilbert 4. enough to be mildly enthusiastic about it. You really do “It’s better to live your own life imperfectly than to imineed to seek your heart’s desire in the way people with tate someone else’s perfectly.” —Elizabeth Gilbert their heads on fire look for water. 2019 will be prime LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In 1682, Peter Alexeyevich time for you to embody this understanding. became co-Tsar of Russia. He was ten years old. His 24-year-old half-sister Sophia had a hole cut in the back of Homework: Forget what Time magazine thinks. Who is his side of the dual throne. That way she could sit behind your “Person of the Year”? Tell me at Freewillastrology. sparkns.com; click on “Email Rob.” him, out of sight, and whisper guidance as he discussed

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Case No. D-101-CV-2018-03346 IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF MAGDELENA YAMILET GALDAMEZ NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, the Petitioner Magdelena Yamilet Galdamez will apply to the Honorable Francis J. Mathew, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex at Santa Fe, New Mexico at 10:00 a.m. on the 28th day of December, 2018 for an FINAL ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from MAGDELENA YAMILET GALDAMEZ to MAGDELENA YAMILET DERAS GALDAMEZ. STEPHEN T. PACHECO CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT BY: Monica Chavez Crespin Court Clerk Respectfully submitted, SFREPORTER.COM

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