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NEWS 7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 7 OVERHEARD OF THE YEAR 9 2020’s wild ride in eavesdropping COVER STORY 14 12 THINGS OF WINTER SFR’s last issue of the year includes our Guide to the Season. Find out how to join a cool book club, where to get some sledding done, play some Dungeons & Dragons, get the best cookies and learn what Kwanzaa’s all about, among many other things. If we alter our perception a little bit and think about how to best make sure we’re all taking care of one another, this winter might not be so bad after all

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SFR PICKS 16 Double the hot arts and culture action with two weeks worth of events featuring the likes of Joe West, Joe Illick and maybe some other Joes— plus poetry, zen, Dickens and other things that are probably pretty cool!

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MOVIES 18 HAVE YOURSELF A STREAMING LITTLE WINTER As we look around the world at the roughly 200,000 streaming options, we figured that people who don’t watch movies and telelvision for a living might not be up to date on everything coming out. Get the lowdown on some things to watch while you’re having a responsible travel-free holiday, including Wonder Woman, Saved by the Bell and some thing from a company called Pixar, we think THE CALENDAR We have not yet even begun to calendar, but you can calendar it up at sfreporter.com/cal

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VOTE ON FORMATION OF CULTURAL COMMITTEE THAT WOULD ASSIST IN ADDRESSING THE SITE OF FORMER OBELISK POSTPONED Meanwhile, six random people serve as scapegoats for a lack of leadership and still have charges hanging over their heads.

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PLANETS APPEAR TO CONJOIN IN SOLSTICE SKY When it happens again in 800 years, 2020’s human problems probably won’t seem like shit.

SANTA FE MALL SANTAS WAVE TO KIDS FROM BEHIND PROTECTIVE PLEXIGLASS Countless kids breathe sighs of relief at not having to sit on some stranger’s lap because their folks think the photo would be so cute.

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OBAMA’S PROMISE Barack Obama returns in book form with A Promised Land, his post-presidential memoir and a real longie.

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“I think my wife has the cabrona virus.”

of 2020

“Why would they get rid of the statues? I mean, they are paid for and everything.”

—Overheard at DeVargas Center Starbucks

—Overheard at family dinner

“Can I ask a hypothetical question about something that may have happened at my last workplace?”

—Overheard at sexual harassment training

March 4 “I know I’m not a vampire, because I hate the sight of blood.”

SFR’s long-running, community-generated content feature includes snippets of overheard conversations that speak volumes about life in Santa Fe. Thanks to everyone who added to the narrative in 2020. Submissions have slowed somewhat due to social distancing this year. Please send us what you hear, even if it’s on Zoom or at the kitchen table: overheard@sfreporter.com.

—Overheard in an emergency room

Feb. 5 “I used to have dial-up and it was much, much faster than this!”

Oct. 28 “At the end of this, I’m getting a mask tattooed on my leg.”

—Overheard on a downtown porch

July 22 “I wonder if they’ve tried combatting COVID with bowling shoe spray?”

—Overheard in DeVargas Center

“I tried to throw it up, but it was mostly water.”

—Overheard on a downtown street

Sept. 30 “I can’t stand this mask, it is like wearing a muzzle.”

—Overheard from a woman stomping away from La Montanita Co-op

Aug. 19 “Hey, Dad, I want the real school, not virtuous school.”

—Overheard at Market Street Albertsons

Aug. 26 “I wish the presidential election was tomorrow; I don’t think this campaign is helping anything right now.”

—Overheard at the downtown Post Office

July 8 Male teenager: “I hate having to put on a mask to buy groceries.”

Thirtysomething mom: “If you don’t like wearing a mask when you are out in public, you won’t like being hooked up to a ventilator.”

—Overheard at Sprouts

May 27 “I don’t think I’d be getting through this without my rabbit.”

—Overheard on the Arroyo Chamiso urban trail

Sept. 16 “I was tipsy at the vet the other morning.”

—Overheard at Rowley Farmhouse Ales

May 6

—Overheard at LaFarge Public Library from a patron attempting to use the internet

One woman: “What is it?”

The other: “I think it’s art.”

Jan. 29

—Overheard on the River Trail

“I was listening to the radio and heard about that Coors virus.”

“You mean coronavirus?”

“Yes. The beer one.”

April 15 “With no bartender at home, who’s supposed to cut me off?”

—Overheard at Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument

—Overheard from a fellow donor at the blood bank on Rodeo Road

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April 29

“What I’m saving on lipstick, I’m just spending on mascara!”

“Yelling ‘Get the fuck away from me’ is now a socially acceptable form of communication.”

—Overheard from masked person outside Whole Foods

—Overheard the corner of Washington and Marcy

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Jan. 8

Clerk: ”Do you want cash back?”

“Jesus, can you imagine how open her lower three chakras must be?”

Shopper: “Yeah, somebody else’s.”

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Things of Winter

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n any normal year, our Winter Guide would be a fairly easy undertaking wherein we give you skiing conditions, talk about some upcoming events you could attend alongside hundreds of other people, round it out with maybe a recipe or something and bam—issue done. During a pandemic, however, it becomes more like a game of Tetris.

Piecing it all together became a tricky series of moves that required taking health orders, local businesses, potential quarantines and other fun things into account. These things come by the dozen; here we go.

Inside, find out how to join a cool book club, where to get some sledding done, play some Dungeons & Dragons, get the best cookies and learn what Kwanzaa’s all about, among many other things. If we alter our perception a little bit and think about how to best make sure we’re all taking care of one another, this winter might not be so bad after all.

SFR’s Guide to the Season

1 You’re a Chocolate Chip off the Old Block

A multi-generational Santa Fe native who’s worked as everything from a Hollywood makeup artist to a yoga instructor, Peña’s fast-paced living in Los Angeles lost the appeal. Santa Fe’s cozy atmosphere called her back home, where Chainé’s became a product of her experience. Her New Mexico roots are the starting point for her baking projects.

It’s about the simplicity. Rather than a wide array, she’s laser-focused on cookies and macarons. Peña minimizes the usage of any processed ingredients and

During the era of COVID-19, there’s something precious about the small businesses in town. Chaine Peña knows it, as less than six months after opening, her cookie and macaron business (appropriately named Chainé’s) was halted as the virus began its spread and public health orders came into effect. Still, global pandemics are no match for Peña’s otherworldly baked goods.

“It’s like a little nugget of sweetness in a day,” Peña says. “A little bliss, a little unwinding. With everything going on, things like what I do are what get people through.”

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has a pure sense of taste as her guide. For example, her dulce de leche, something one could easily buy premade, is concocted in-house, and the New Mexico cocoa in her recipes is a beautifully dark 85% cacao. Even better? Chimayó red chile is the only red she’ll use for that classic New Mexico contrast. Peña’s other cookies boast such flavors as crème brûlée and dirty chai, while the piñon chocolate chip is her all-time best seller.

The majority of her business is online these days (chainescookies.com), but she’s open weekends from noon-3 pm for pick-ups and walk-ins. Don’t fret, though—safety is paramount, and Peña is certified through the state’s COVID Safe Practices program and follows a strict social distancing process while keeping it simple for the customers.

Peña is fighting hard through the current economy, and her cookies and macarons are being devoured by Santa Feans in the know. Check out the Chainé’s Cookies Instagram (@chaine_santafe) to see what the fuss is about. Stop by the storefront at 131 W. Water St., on your weekends for a snack and her new specialty hot cocoa with edible 24k gold and organic rose petals. It’ll be perfect for your winter feels.

(Riley Gardner)

you are going to have a hard time going to the gym, especially with COVID,” he tells SFR. So he and his wife took the $2,000 hit to buy the bike and the $40 per month family membership. They don’t regret it.

2 Working Out Alone Together While we first chalked up the thing as a gadget for wealthy people who want to watch TV while they work out from a company that obviously spent a lot of money on promoting it, we’ve now learned the Peloton exercise bike is a way to improve your fitness game outside the gym—and to socially engage while staying socially distant.

Exercise enthusiast Matthew Scarborough is also a brand new dad this winter. He, too, was extremely skeptical of Peloton. Then they got the big news.

“I was like, you better figure something out, because

3 You Can Still Spend Your Weekends Outside We’re sad to say we’re taking a hiatus from downhill skiing this year in favor of exploring other snowy adventures. Yes, the Santa Fe Ski Basin is still open at 25% capacity, but the hassle of reserving tickets online (a requirement) and avoiding potentially COVID-infected tourists in the lift line just doesn’t seem worth the $88 day pass.

Luckily, sledding is not just for kids and cross-country skiing is suddenly cool.

Grab your mittens, a mask, a thermos of some kind of hot beverage and go enjoy the sunshine. Or gloomy clouds. Whatever.

Don’t worry if you don’t have a classic plastic sled stashed in your garage—­ virtually any smooth flat or slightly curved piece of plastic, wood or light metal will do.

We’ve tried trash can lids, baking sheets, lids from plastic bins, the bins themselves, pieces of cardboard wrapped in trash

bags and large shovels to varying degrees of ­success. If you’re sledding with kids, Patrick Smith Park and Frenchy’s Field are classic options while Hyde Memorial State Park and the Valles Caldera National Preserve offer multiple spots for both cross-country skiing and sledding that are more fun for older kids and adults.

Cross-country skiing is admittedly much less of a thrill than the downhill version, but it’s a peaceful way to enjoy being outside. Alpine Sports offers ski rentals for $25 per day. We suggest checking out the Nordski cross-country ski trail system located along Hyde Park Road at the final turnoff to the left before the ski basin. The interconnected web of trails is beautiful and relatively flat, but can be somewhat confusing to navigate. Pay attention to the maps tacked onto trees at intersections that show you where you are and the level of difficulty of the trail ahead. (Leah Cantor)

On-demand spin classes with front-row views and motivational instruction from elite level coaches is paired with a heart monitor and other sophisticated exercise science tools to make the most of it, says Scarborough, who works by day as a professional control systems engineer and moonlights as a quantitative financial advisor. While he’s not into the social part, we’ve heard from others who really dig on the interactive aspects of group rides and live classes. There’s already a small New Mexico Peloton group on Facebook, and Scarborough says he expects lots of market competition to sprout up soon and drive prices way down.

Those less inclined to plug things in yet who are also in need of motivation from other humans might look to a lower-tech, on-off kind of event such as the Snowshoe Classic. The race hosted each year by the Santa Fe Striders typically features a 6K lollipop from the Big Tesuque Campground and last year had more than 100 participants. This year, all of the registered ­runners (runsignup.com) donate $30 that goes to Santa Fe Search and Rescue and then complete their own course any time between December 2020 and March 2021 to earn eligibility for raffle prizes.

(Julie Ann Grimm)

4 Get Lit Santa Fe city officials have launched a program called “Light Up Santa Fe” to guide everyone to the best holiday lights. They claim the online map and photos are about building community, but we know they’re really there to ramp up the already-hot competition on inflatable, illuminated yard figurines and all manner of digital displays.

It’s easy to be skeptical of another interactive something-or-other, but this one warmed us right up. As of publication, 127 displays were mapped out with pictures and captions that show how much effort and love went into producing them. We suggest you plan a route and go see them in person.

And yet, we still love the old way: the festive homes and businesses that brighten your night without a plan. Like when we crested a hill in early December and saw a house near Santa Fe High glowing in color against a creamsicle sunset, we gasped and felt as though it was all going to be OK for at least a minute.

Downtown’s Pueblo Revival architecture lends itself to great displays of electrolitos, the fake version of the traditional paper-bag light. When lined up on hotel terraces en masse, the effect is still wonderful.

The other big news this winter on the holiday decoration beat is that famed Canyon Road Farolito Walk will be a drive. Though we know lots of folks reveled in being encouraged to cruise around the Plaza for the annual lighting the day after Thanksgiving, we believe the trend of discouraging walking in favor of the built-in social distancing that comes with riding in a car isn’t one of the pandemic’s better pivots. But if you don’t want to drive in a slow parade up a narrow street with a billion other people, knock yourself out by visiting the totally not cumbersome website: light-up-santa-fe-thecitydifferent.hub.arcgis.com. (JAG) CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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5 The Telephonic Sculpture This artistic game of telephone, said to have been invented by the surrealists in the 1920s and ’30s, lets you collaborate from afar. Art is sent from player to player, evolving at each step as the next person responds with a new creation. It’s perfect for anyone who loves a good surprise and an interesting challenge or who is simply longing to make something cool with friends and stay connected. Here are the rules:

in any medium, as long as the thing you make can easily be physically or virtually delivered to the next player.

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• Repeat until you get back a piece of art that has evolved from the original object you sent. In our experience, the more rounds you play, the more fun the game gets. It can be interesting and at times hilarious to see how one idea evolves as it moves from person to person.

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• Upload all of the pictures/videos you took along the way to a shared platform. Surely, everyone involved wants to see what everyone else has created. (LC)

If you feel like giving back during the holidays and into 2021, The Food Depot, despite a recent infusion of $629,000 from the Legislature, needs both volunteers and financial help.

The nonprofit is among five food banks throughout New Mexico that received cash during the special legislative session to help fight the increased hunger in the state since the start of the pandemic. The local need is great, with long lines reported at a distribution in Santa Fe over the last month.

The additional money helps with the subsequent increase in operational costs, but the organization still needs both volunteer support and continued financial assistance, according to Jill Dixon, director of development. The need for volunteers can’t be quantified because there is an ebb and flow of available people, she says.

“The Food Depot is so grateful for the incredible generosity shown by the community—both time and monetary contributions,” Dixon tells SFR. “This generosity supported the vastly expanded hunger-relief services offered by The Food Depot throughout this year.”

Dixon further tells SFR it’s important the organization has a steady stream of new volunteers to replace those who leave.

“Having a strong corps of volunteers is essential for continuing the work and preserving our hunger relief efforts,” she says.

“For this reason, we are constantly welcoming new volunteers to the team, to stand beside our experienced volunteers as we all make this happen together.”

Get started by emailing volunteer@thefooddepot.org—or donate to a specific program or the overall mission anytime at thefooddepot.org. (Katherine Lewin)

• Gather a group of friends. You can play this game with any number of people, but even just playing with one other person can generate a surprisingly fruitful and intimate artistic dialogue.

• Each player chooses an object as a starting point and sends it to the next person on the list. This can be literally anything—a toy car, a rare material, a song—just make sure it’s not something you are hoping to get back, because it might end up suspended in resin or covered in paint as part of the next person’s art piece.

• Document the thing you received and create something in response. You can use the original object as part of your next piece or simply as inspiration. Respond

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7 Have a Kwaazy Kwanzaa Seems like lots of folks out there only know about Kwanzaa from the poorly written and borderline racist jokes in mid-’90s sitcoms, so ask yourselves right now, white people—how much do you really know? Not a lot, we bet, which is too bad: Kwanzaa is awesome!

The holiday created by Dr. Maulana Karenga in 1966 is meant to center Black voices and strengthen bonds for people of African descent, and it turns out it’s one of the more beautiful and foodfilled holidays ever around—plus, there’s no Victorian-era weirdness forcing us to behave or be punished by a magical bearded arctic-dweller.

Excellent!

Kwnazaa breaks down to a celebration of the Nguzo Saba, or Seven Principles of unity (Umoja), self-determination (Kujicaguila), collective responsibility (Ujima), cooperative economics (Ujaama), purpose (Nia), creativity (Kuumba) and faith (Imani).

Beginning Dec. 26 and ending Jan. 1, each principle is tied to a day, on which a candle is lit. No, it’s not a menorah, but it’s aesthetically similar. Through the week-long celebrations, revelers decorate, share music and offerings of food and drink and, at night,

discuss the principle of the day. Every home can change it up how they see fit, however, because there’s a lot of freedom to Kwanzaa (in your face, Rudolph).

On Dec. 31, the revelers feast (and we mean feast) with both African and African American foods (though, again, freedom means every home is different). The whole thing is kicked off with a poem or statement and comes to a conclusion with a farewell speech, and if it sounds way more mindful than your average Christmas, it is. Plus, if we’re being honest, the feasting part sounds fantastic. There is, of course, so much more to learn, but this year let’s ditch the yuks and make with the support. It’s 2020—or maybe even 2021 by the time you read this. (Alex De Vore)

8 Don’t Go Outside One wonders, if the outdoors are so great, why we’ve spent the entirety of human evolution making the indoors so comfortable? Our couch is inside. So’s all our stuff. This is, of course, general knowledge, but when you wake up to the kind of snow that dominates any street with even the slightest shade, it only makes sense to look at your boots and think “Not today, Satan.”

Of course, many a Santa Fean moved here for the outdoors. Often the refrain goes something like “But there are so many nice hiking trails/biking trails/lakes/woods/sledding spots/pools/spas and skiing zones, Alex!

Why wouldn’t you want to go outside?” Ummm, because like I said—all my stuff’s at my house. Inside. Where it is also warm.

I get it—it’s hard to change up one’s behavior. Hell, even us indoor kids are starting to look at our time spent by our heater as at least a l­ ittle wasted.

I mean, does it scare me how quickly we all adopted a cycle of work, entertainment, sleep, repeat? You bet, but if I’m gonna be stuck indoors, I need distractions. I was smart enough to preorder both the Xbox Series X and the Playstation 5 before their tumultuous release days, so my gaming time is well accounted for, but I’m starting to look at other things to do.

For example, you heard of these things calls books? You stare at dead trees and hallucinate. Amazing! Looking deeper, I’ve been researching the Hunt a Killer service, this site that sends you a fake murder mystery you have to solve over a number of months. It scratches both my need to puzzle-solve and my bloodlust. Apparently you can do it with a friend or partner, too. That’s my plan. Oh, and let’s not forget you can sleep all day, too—it’s not just for depression anymore!

Lastly, we should probably think about people experiencing homelessness if we’re so lucky as to have a warm home and steady work. Maybe take whatever money you were going to spend on strapping planks to your feet and hurtling down a snowy mountain and give it away? That could be cool, and you don’t even have to go outside to do it. (ADV)

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Take a look at the current Xbox and Playstation release drama to learn one unassailable fact—we’re becoming a nation of nerds. Oh, this isn’t a bad thing, quite the opposite, but when one can’t find a current-get console or is too busy trashing Cyberpunk 2077 for its buggy, premature release, it can be good to go back to the classics. Enter Dungeons & Dragons (or D&D if you’re nasty), that Gygax-propelled pastime made popular by dorks back then, who grew into bigger dorks now and are raising a new generation of dorks dying to dork out. Thank goodness for virtual sessions, too, because we’re all looking for something a little fun.

“I played D&D when I was a kid, and I played other [role playing games] during college,” says Simon Boses, founder of Eldorado’s Make Time ­(maketimeeldorado.com), a sort of youth-based MAKE Santa Fe-esuqe offering for the kids. “D&D is the easiest one to jump into—and since the thing the kids are missing most right now is social interaction…unfortunately, putting kids online for school doesn’t take care of that even a fraction.”

Boses is a father of three and a former elementary school science teacher, so he knows from whence he speaks. He’s also a longtime Dungeon Master, or DM, the one who runs the game and sets the narrative.

“The reality was, parents were just so overwhelmed with the transition, they couldn’t even consider that,” Boses continues. “What I find works really well is give them lots and lots of assets, tools and things [during a D&D campaign], then throw some problems at them and see what they do.”

Kids who want to get involved need only be part of the Make Time Patreon at the $35 level or above. Once signed up, the D&D campaigns flow and, according to Boses, “It really supports kids who you could imagine becoming writers; screenwriters.”

All kids are welcome, and Boses has broken the campaigns up into age-appropriate groups. Ideally, he says, those who sign up will stay committed. Trust us—missing one session is enough to confuse anyone.

Elsewhere, 12-year-old Mica Santistevan has been knee-deep in a campaign with his friends from Turquoise Trail Charter School for just a couple weeks, but he says it’s made a huge difference in pandemic socializing.

“My uncle used to play, and had some old books, so I knew what it was but never played,” Santistevan, who plays as a sorcerer, says. “I just wanted to see what it was, and [we’re on] our second campaign. I might do some DM stuff myself.”

So there you have it—start your own game, kids, or visit maketimeldorado.com to sign up with Boses. We promise nothing beats good old imagination.

Probably. (ADV)

“Prisoners are experiencing such intense isolation right now,” says Wendy Jason, founder and director of the Justice Arts Coalition, “so to receive a piece of mail from the outside, to know that someone took that extra time out of their day to write a note, to draw a picture, and just to acknowledge their existence and that they are a living, breathing, thinking, feeling human…that is worth more than gold.”

10 Make Holiday Cards for Prisoners Help make this holiday season a bit less lonely for at least one of the 2.3 million incarcerated Americans who have spent the pandemic behind bars, cut off from the outside world and at the mercy of a virus that has moved quickly through the nation’s prisons.

Many facilities have taken draconian measures to slow COVID-19, locking down prisoners in their cells for up to 23 hours a day and cancelling vocational and enrichment programs. Most have stopped visits from friends and family, and the lockdowns have severely limited inmates’ access to phones and art-making/­ letter-writing materials.

11 Learn a Book I started a virtual book club this fall with two different groups of friends. One is here in Santa Fe and the other is scattered across the country. There are three people in each, including myself.

It’s been a necessary way to keep up with my friends and have interesting (or more positive things) to talk about that aren’t about the pandemic or rampant relationship troubles stemming from ­ ­being stuck face-to-face with your partner for the better part of 2020.

With my Santa Fe group, we chose to first read A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. It’s a basic book club set up—we read a couple chapters by a certain time and then talk about it. We haven’t gotten very far between jobs and relationships and the holidays, but we’ve been able to connect on an intellectual level together. Wine, a good book, friends—it’s easy to pass an hour or so talking about Russia’s past and forget it’s 2020, even over FaceTime.

My other book club is set up a little differently, but I love it as a way to keep in touch with my childhood friends who now

live in California and Mississippi respectively. As we finish books (good or bad) we send them to each other. There’s no specific circulation or timeline—it’s about who happens to need a new book at the time.

This has given me strange insight into the topics my friends are interested in (one likes to read the newest romance novels, the other mysteries), and I’ve managed to get them to read some great narrative journalism, like Narconomics: How To Run A Drug Cartel, which is as necessary a read as The Open Veins of Latin America.

Normally I don’t read romance or mystery or anything close to fiction (unless it’s Tolkien), but this club setup has forced me to actually comb through a couple good romances and mysteries, such as One Day and Conviction. Who knew?

The only cons? I definitely have a backlog of books to read now and sometimes I have to tell my friends what they sent me is total crap. But, hey, honesty is important in a friendship. (KL)

The Washington, DC-based coalition helps member organizations across the country (including several in New Mexico) start local arts programing for people behind bars, and hosts an annual handmade holiday card drive and penpal project called pARTners, which pairs artists on the inside with artists on the outside.

All of the inmates on the JAC list are artists or creative thinkers, and in the artistically starved institutional setting, a hand-drawn card or a poem is particularly meaningful. But you don’t have to identify as an artist to make a card that will be treasured, says Jason.

“If you’ve never done this before, just think about what you would want to hear if you were feeling extra alone at this time. It can be very very simple, a few words of acknowledgement and encouragement or best wishes for the new year.”

Before you begin, write justiceartscoalitionmail@gmail. com for details. Prisons often have absurd restrictions on what kinds of paper, ink and envelopes they allow inside, so make sure you read the directions. (LC)

12 Patio Partying Outdoor fire pits, heaters, cheery lights and alcohol—The Beer Hall at the Santa Fe Brewing Co. headquarters is the best place for patio drinking I could find this December (after unsuccessfully hitting up two other breweries that had no outdoor heating—trust me, I looked).

I’m not a frequent beer drinker, so I ­accidentally (but luckily) ordered a “Pepe-Lada,” the michelada version of Santa Fe Brewing’s Pepe Loco, a Mexican-style lager. There were only two kegs of it at the time of this writing, so I wouldn’t wait if you like micheladas, a delicious combination of beer, lime juice, piquant seasonings and tomato juice. Santa Fe Brewing’s is a lighter drink, and with added chile salt, it even felt more festive than a regular beer.

Considering I’m from the sub-tropics of Florida, no other patio I could locate had the necessary heating for me, so I stuck with homemade cocktails for the last week leading up to my vacation. If you have a backyard and drink tequila, the rest of this is for you. String up your own lights and light up your fire pit (assuming you have one), and it’ll be like you’re actually at The Beer Hall!

By homemade cocktails, I mean any recipe with tequila I could find on Pinterest, which has pages upon pages of Christmas cocktail recipes, ranging from super basic to so elaborate I felt like I’d need help to make it (like the Christmas Cookie Martini, which requires actual baking).

Luckily, though, I did find a recipe that was easy to mix on ice at the end of a long day reporting the news: 3 oz cranberry juice, 1 oz lime juice, 1 oz triple sec, 2 oz of tequila and sugar on the rim. I’m warmer already. (KL)

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We don’t know about you, but while we’re missing live theater, we’re also loving the unprecedented level of cultural access that can only come through virtual means. Take, for example, youth Shakespeare company Upstart Crows of Santa Fe, which presents a dramatic reading of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol—on actual Christmas! This nonprofit (we love our nonprofits here) has been opening the lyrical world of Shakespeare and theatrical readings to kids and teenagers who give up a little bit of their Christmas to perform the reading. That’s a really nice thing to do. (RG) A Christmas Carol Virtual Reading: 7 pm Friday, December 25. $12, upstartcrowsofsantafe.org

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Joe West, Young Man Annual Joe West special goes on, this time in the comfort of your own home logues and flamenco dancers round out the show alongside West’s trademarked three-pronged charm/humor/ kickass music skills offensive.

Live on YouTube and Facebook, you can RSVP through AMP Concerts, and donations are very much encouraged since it’ll all be going to supporting the participating performers at the tail end of a year that seemed to do its best to kill art and music as we know them.

“Put on a robe, mix a good warm drink of choice and let the music just take you,” West advises. “Someday we will all be together again—this is about rejoicing.”

We concur. (Riley Gardner)

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So, does anyone else have a new ­appreciation for Santa Fe’s yearly traditions? In the spring, it felt like we had to toss them aside—y’know, to stay alive.

Come winter, it’s like we can’t live without them. Maybe it has something to do with clinging to what we know and what feels good, but even in the virtual format, there’s a sense of coming together this holiday season, and local musician Joe West knows how much we’re longing for winter joy.

Right before Christmas, West takes his show online. In the past, the beloved Joe West’s Annual Christmas Special went down live at local venues.

This meant a lot of music and a lot of drinking. If you do it right, though, it’ll be the same this year, just with a different field of view. Folk- and country-­inspired, original music, classic Christmas tunes, pre-recorded skits, acting mono-

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HAVEN’T WE METAPHOR? Listen, there are many reasons the local poetry scene in Santa Fe is so astonishingly spectacular. As 2020 mercifully winds down and we hope 2021 brings us far less chaos, why not lift the soul with a bit of Zoom poetry? Teatro Paraguas hosts a live reading event with Dale Harris and Damien Flores as part of its ongoing poetry series. These two are some of the best working poets in the state, and though the event is free, we’re encouraging donations so Teatro Paraguas can keep giving us stellar programs just like this. (RG) Dale Harris & Damien Flores Zoom Poetry: 4 pm Sunday, Dec. 27. Free (but you should donate). teatroparaguas.org

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We’ve tried meditating before, and despite assurances it was the key to the kind of personal enlightenment and blissful tranquility that sends folks up mountains, we found ourselves bored and unready. This year, though? We’re willing to try anything to feel a little better. Should you be in search of similar revelations, look to Santa Fe’s Mountain Cloud Zen Center and its Introduction to Zen class. COVID-19 forced the series online, but where better to chase nirvana than in your home? Don’t forget to offer alms, and know that all are welcome so long as they’re courteous, respectful and willing to take a chance at feeling better about [gestures wildly at everything]. (ADV) Introduction to Zen: 5 pm Wednesday, Dec. 30. Free (but you should donate). mountaincloud.org

It’s a Perception Thing Joe Illick and buds help us close out the worst year ever

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No, that’s not a typo, it’s a wildly unfunny way of suggesting that improv classes, like meditation, might provide some personal insight.

Also, you’ll probably laugh and stuff. See, improv is all about saying that one word we all long to hear: Yes. By always saying yes, the scenes—which are made up on the spot in case you magically/depressingly don’t know what improv is—keep rolling on, the yuks keep coming and participants learn something valuable about commitment, positivity and, like we said, yuks. Instructor Eric Weiss is ready to make your improv dreams come true over a variety of classes, and this one’s for the beginners. With how bad 2020’s been, what do you have to lose? (ADV) Intro to Improv: 6-8 pm Wednesday, Dec. 30. $20 (payable by PayPal). santafeimprov.com

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Illick feels what you feel, and that’s why he’s gathered a cadre of musicians from around the globe to record special performances for Santa Feans, all of which can be viewed through the Lensic Performing Arts Center’s online portal.

Find pre-taped jamz from the Anderson & Roe Piano Duo, soprano Devon Guthrie, the Harlem Quartet, pianist Claire Huangci, Daniel Ulbricht of the New York City Ballet, baritone Andrew Wilkowske and others—all for free, all organized by Illick for both Christmas and New Year’s Eves. It’s the kind of cultural powerhouse coming-together of musical titans of which even bigger cities might be envious, and a great start to those “get more cultured” resolutions you should make.

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Christmas is coming and there’s not a thing you can do to stop it. May as well just lean into it, stay home and fire up the ol’ computer or smart TV or tablet or whatever.

Additionally, you know as well as we do that when the ball drops, after “Auld Lang Syne” has been sung and the champagne goes flat, whatever ideas we had about a new year heralding a new beginning will probably fade, leaving us instead with a steady stream of reminders that illnesses don’t end with the flipping of calendar pages and it’ll surely take years to recover from the things the outgoing president has done.

But on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve? On those nights, we party to the best of our ability, friends, and we’re hoping that means staying at home for most everyone.

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e’re all in love with watching and streaming more than ever now (or maybe it’s Stockholm Syndrome with our TV?), but with so many services and programs out there vying for attention, how does one choose what’s what? We’ll hopefully make it a little easier for you with our guide to movies and television offerings coming out in the coming weeks that will probably be more fun to watch than King of Queens reruns. Y’know, fingers crossed.

Wonder Woman 1984 (PG-13) HBO Max, Dec. 25 If you hadn’t heard that Warner Brothers is shipping all its upcoming movies to the HBO Max service in addition to theaters if/when they reopen, now you know. For some, this induces rage, though we really don’t know why— friends in the film biz tell us more options for viewing seems like a better

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plan than halting all productions until theaters reopen. Christopher Nolan’s kind of mad, though, because he is an auteur, and ours is not to question art.

Anyway, in this installment, we check in

on Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) in the ’80s for some reason. New Order blares in the background while jokes about neon clothes swirl beside SNL alum Kristin Wiig as the villainous Cheetah. Probably all hope will seem lost right up until the end when the good side wins.

that’ll somehow benefit them both, thus returning each to whatever their rightful place or body was.

The Magic School Bus Rides Again in the Zone (TV-Y) Netflix, Dec. 26

Soul (PG) Disney+, Dec. 25

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Pete Docter, the director of Pixar’s 2015 emotion-a-thon Inside Out, returns with another animated look at the things that drive us, this time in the form of a jazz musician (voiced by Jamie Foxx) who loses his love of jamz. Apparently his soul leaves his body and he has to journey with some sad-sack soul (Tina Fey) to some place of interpersonal realizations

It’s not just the longest and weirdestto-say title on the list, it’s the revival of Canadian animated goodness for kids!

This time, the teacher with the bus that can go to space for some reason takes the kids along on some pop star’s New Year’s Eve tour, whatever that means (how does one do a tour in one night? Is the pop star from Barenaked Ladies, the only Canadian band we can think of right now? Is there ham or hockey involved?).

The kids learn about time zones

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Bill Nighy and Annette Bening star in a movie about a couple who go to visit their son and then the dad’s like, “I’m leaving your mom, son.” Yikes.

An ongoing series about the history of pork belly in Korea, plus its many uses as a delicious ingredient in foods (and how to make those foods)? We can think of about a bazillion people who’d be on board for this.

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Conan Without Borders HBO Max, Dec. 31 Longtime late night (and later, not-solate night) TV host Conan O’Brien leaves his talk show format behind after 250 years (poor Andy Richter) to star in yet another docu-series wherein a wealthy, white, fish-out-of-water type travels the globe poking fun at differing cultures (just Google O’Brien’s trip to Cuba from a couple years back for reference). We didn’t like it when Phil Rosenthal did it, we DID like it when Anthony Bourdain did it (because he showed us how cool the world was if we just try shit out), and though we think Conan was incredibly funny once upon a time, we’re hoping he

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Peacock This isn’t a premiere, but we just think you should know. With 30 Rock‘s Tracey Wigfield calling the shots, a willingness to lambast the seminal teen show’s cheesy roots, an openly trans lead and a more socially conscious tone, this reboot (continuation?) of the beloved high school dramedy might not be the best thing you’ve ever seen (it 100% won’t be), but it will hit your nostalgia in all the right places if you’re, like, 30-45. Also, if you can bang out the 10 episodes in a week, the NBC streaming service with the awful name has a free trial.

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Listen the f*$# up, mother%*&@$#*— Nicolas Cage is back in documentary series form, this time digging into the origins of all our favorite effing swears. We fucking love it, and not just because they’re some of the most fun words around, but because Nic Cage is somehow the best person for the job in a we-didn’t-know-we-needed-this kinda way. Ah, etymology. Where the shit have you been all our lives?

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your capacity for pioneering feats and impressive accomplishments will be at a peak in 2021. So you could become the best human ever at balancing a ladder on your chin or typing with your nose or running long-distance while holding an egg on a spoon with your mouth. But I’d prefer it if you channeled your triumphal energy into more useful innovations and victories. How about making dramatic strides in fulfilling your most important goal? Or ascending to an unprecedented new level of inspiring people with your passionate idealism? Or setting a record for most illusions shed?

ment, as I understand it, will be to shed your certainties about what love is and is not so that the wild, fresh challenges and opportunities of love can stream into your life in their wildest, freshest state.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Until 1893, Hawaii was a sovereign nation. In January of that year, a group of wealthy foreigners, mostly Americans, overthrew the existing government with the help of the US military.

They established a fake temporary “republic” that excluded native Hawaiians from positions of power.

Their goal, which was to be annexed by the United States, was fulfilled in July 1898. I propose that you TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Ark Encounter is a funda- use this sad series of events as a motivational story in 2021. Make it your goal to resist all efforts to be mentalist Christian theme park in Kentucky. Its main attraction is a giant replica of Noah’s Ark. Constructed colonized and occupied. Commit yourself passionmostly from spruce and pine trees, it’s one of the world’s ately to preserving your sovereignty and indepenlargest wooden structures. Even though I don’t believe dence. Be a tower of power that can’t be owned. that there was in fact such a boat in ancient times, I do SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 2021, you may be admire how its builder, Ken Ham, has been so fiercely smarter than you have ever been. Not necessarily devoted to making his fantasies real. I encourage you wiser, too, although I have reason to hope that you will to cultivate an equally zealous commitment to mani- leverage your smartness to also deepen your wisdom. festing your own visions and dreams in 2021.

But as I was saying, your intelligence could very well soar beyond its previous heights. Your ability to speak GEMINI (May 21-June 20): From 1961 until 1989, a concrete barrier divided the city of Berlin. Communist articulately, stir up original thoughts, and solve knotty riddles should be at a peak. Is there any potential East Berlin lay on the east side of the Berlin Wall, and downside to this outbreak of brilliance? Only one that I capitalist West Berlin on the west. It was an iconic can imagine: It’s possible that your brain will be worksymbol of the Cold War between the US and Soviet ing with such dominant efficiency that it will drown out Union. More than 100,000 people tried to escape messages from your heart. And that would be a from east to west, but just 5,000 succeeded. The shame. In order to do what I referred to earlier— leverstandoff ended in 1989, during the peaceful revoluage your smartness to deepen your wisdom—you’ll tions that swept through Eastern Europe. In subseneed to be receptive to your heart’s messages. quent months, the Berlin Wall was slowly demolished.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The birds known as Today, tiny fragments of the wall are marketed as red knots breed every year in the Arctic regions. Then medicines for asthma, headaches, narcolepsy, and they fly south—way south—down to the southern ulcers. Now I will propose that in 2021, you adopt the edge of South America, more than 9,000 miles away. demolished Berlin Wall as your metaphor of power.

May it inspire you to be gleeful and forceful as you dis- A few months later they make the return trip to the far north. In 1995, ornithologists managed to put a mantle psychological obstacles and impediments. monitoring band on one red knot’s leg, making it posCANCER (June 21-July 22): The year 2021 will consible to periodically get a read on his adventures over tain 525,600 minutes. But I suspect you might enjoy the subsequent years. The bird’s nickname is the subjective sensation of having far more than Moonbird, because he has traveled so many miles in 525,600 minutes at your disposal. That’s because I the course of his life that it’s equivalent to a jaunt to think you’ll be living a fuller life than usual, with the moon. He’s known as “the toughest four ounces greater intensity and more focus. It may sometimes on the planet.” I nominate him to be your magical seem to you as if you are drawing greater riches out creature in 2021. I suspect you will have stamina, harof the daily rhythm—accomplishing more, seeing fur- diness, persistence, and determination like his. ther, diving down deeper to capitalize on the privilege AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): An Aquarian park ranger of being here on planet earth. Be grateful for this named Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning seven times blessing—which is also a big responsibility! in the course of his 71 years on the planet. (That’s a LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Our lives are filled with puz- world record.) None of the electrostatic surges killed zles and enigmas and riddles. We all harbor aspects him, although they did leave a few burns. After studying of ourselves that we don’t understand. I hope that in your astrological potentials for 2021, I’ve concluded that 2021, you will be on a mission to learn more about you may be the recipient, on a regular basis, of a much these parts of yourself. One of your superpowers will more pleasurable and rewarding kind of lightning strike: be a capacity to uncover secrets and solve mysteries. the metaphorical kind. I advise you to prepare yourself Bonus: I suspect you’ll be able to make exceptional to be alert for more epiphanies than usual: exciting progress in getting to the root of confusing quandainsights, inspiring revelations, and useful ideas. ries that have undermined you—and then fixing the PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Coral reefs are in danger problems so they no longer undermine you. all over the world. These “rainforests of the sea” are VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When actor Gene Wilder was being decimated by ocean acidification, toxic runoff eight years old, his mother began to have heart-related from rivers, rising temperatures, and careless tourists. health issues. The doctor that treated her suggested he Why should we care? Because they’re beautiful! And could help her out if he would try to make her laugh. From also because they’re hotbeds of biodiversity, providing then on, Wilder cultivated an ability to tell jokes and got homes for 25 percent of all marine species. They also interested in becoming an actor. Ultimately he appeared furnish protection for shorelines from erosion and in 22 films and was nominated for two Oscars and two storm damage, and are prime spots to harvest seaGolden Globe Awards. I foresee a comparable developfood. So I’m pleased people are finding ways to help ment in your life in 2021: A challenging situation will reefs survive and recover. For example, a group in inspire you in ways that generate a major blessing.

Thailand is having success using superglue to reattach broken-off pieces to the main reefs. I hope this LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In my astrological opinion, vignette inspires you to engage in metaphorically similove won’t be predictable in 2021. It won’t be easily lar restorative and rejuvenating activities, Pisces. In definable or comparable to what you’re experienced 2021, you will have an enhanced power to heal. before. But I also suspect that love will be delightfully Homework: Make a bold positive prediction for your enigmatic. It will be unexpectedly educational and fervently fertile and oddly comfortable. Your assign- life in 2021. FreeWillAstrology.com

Week of December 30th ARIES (March 21-April 19): Author Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) carried on a long love affair with books.

He read thousands of them, wrote more than 20 of them, and further postulated the existence of numerous imaginary books that were never actually written.

Of all the writers who roused his adoration, a certain Russian novelist was among the most beloved. Borges wrote, “Like the discovery of love, like the discovery of the sea, the discovery of Fyodor Dostoevsky marks an important date in one’s life.” I’m wondering if you will experience one of these pivotal discoveries in 2021. I strongly suspect so. It may not be the work of Dostoevsky, but I bet it will have an impact close to those of your original discoveries of love and the sea.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In his masterpiece the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci applied 30 layers of paint that were no thicker than a single human hair. Can you imagine the patience and concentration that required? I’m going to propose that you be inspired by his approach as you carry out your big projects in the coming year. I think you will have the potential to create at least one labor of love that’s monumentally subtle and soulful.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Modern civilization has not spread to every corner of the planet. There are at least 100 tribes that inhabit their own private realms, isolated from the invasive sprawl of our manic, frantic influence.

Among these enclaves, many are in the Amazon rain forests, West Papua, and the Andaman Islands. I have a theory that many of us civilized people would love to nurture inner qualities akin to those expressed by indigenous people: hidden away from the mad world; content to be free of the noise and frenzy; and living in attunement with natural rhythms. In 2021, I hope you will give special care and attention to cultivating this part of you.

Divine Wow, that will be a perfect prayer for you to say on a regular basis in 2021. If you don’t have a connection to the Supreme Intelligence, I suggest you address the same prayer to your Higher Self or Future Beauty or whatever source of sublime inspiration you hold most dear.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Climate change is proceeding with such speed in central Mexico that entire forests are in danger of perishing. In the hills near Ejido La Mesa, for instance, the weather is getting too hot for the fir trees that shelter millions of monarch butterflies every fall. In response, local people have joined with scientists to physically move the fir forest TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Vietnamese-American novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen has won numerous awards to a higher, cooler elevation. What might be your personal equivalent, Scorpio: an ambitious plan to carry for his work, including the Pulitzer Prize. Here are his views about the nature of accomplishment: “We don’t out an idealistic yet practical project? According to succeed or fail because of fortune or luck. We succeed my analysis of your astrological potentials, you’ll have a lot of energy to work on such a scheme in 2021. because we understand the way the world works and what we have to do. We fail because others underSAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Author Gérard de stand this better than we do.” I bring these thoughts to Nerval (1808–1855) made the following observation: “I your attention, Taurus, because I think that in 2021 you do not ask of God that he should change anything in will have an extraordinary potential to enhance your events themselves, but that he should change me in understanding of how the world works and what you regard to things, so that I might have the power to create must do to take advantage of that. This could be the my own universe, to govern my dreams, instead of year you become both smarter and wiser. enduring them.” If you have a relationship with the

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The mathematically oriented website WaitButWhy.com says that the odds of winning a mega lottery can be compared to this scenario: You know that a certain hedgehog will sneeze just one time in the next six years, and you place a big bet that this sneeze will take place at exactly the 36th second of 12:05 pm next January 20. In other words, CANCER (June 21-July 22): Hurricane Maria struck the WaitButWhy.com declares, your chances of winning Caribbean island of Dominica in 2016. Scientists stud- that lottery are very small. But while their analysis is true in general, it may not be completely applicable to ied two local species of anole lizards both before and you in 2021. The likelihood of you choosing the precise after the natural disaster. They were amazed to find moment for the hedgehog’s sneeze will be higher than that the lizards after the hurricane had super-strong usual. More realistically and importantly, your chances grips compared to their predecessors. The creatures were better able to hold on to rocks and perches so as for generating positive financial luck through hard work and foresight will be much higher than usual. to avoid being swept away by high winds. The researchers’ conclusion? It’s an example of one of the AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Author Anaïs Nin was most rapid rates of evolutionary change ever recorded. supremely adaptable, eager to keep growing, and I bring this to your attention, Cancerian, because I sus- receptive when life nudged her to leave the past pect that you, too, will have the power to evolve and behind and expand her understanding. At the same transform at an expedited pace in 2021—in response to time, she was clear about what she wanted and positive events as much as to challenging events. determined to get what she wanted. Her complex attitude is summed up in the following quote: “If you LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I hope that in 2021 you will limit your choices only to what seems possible or reaspend a lot of time meditating on your strongest longings. Are they in harmony with your highest ide- sonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.” I hope you als, or not? Do they energize you or drain you? Are will heed her counsel throughout 2021. (Here’s they healthy and holy, or are they unhealthy or unhoanother quote from Nin: “Had I not created my whole ly—or somewhere in between those two extremes? world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.”)

You’ll be wise to re-evaluate all your burning, churning yearnings, Leo—and decide which ones are in PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In 2013, workers at a most righteous service to your life goals. And as for clothing manufacturing plant in Gazipur, Bangladesh those that are in fact noble and liberating and invigo- staged a mass protest. Did they demand a pay raise or rating: Nurture them with all your tender ingenuity! better health benefits? Were they lobbying for air conditioning or longer lunch breaks? None of the above. In VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “You can’t move mounfact, they had just one urgent stipulation: to dispel the tains by whispering at them,” says singer-songwriter ghost that was haunting the factory. I’ve got a similar Pink. Strictly speaking, you can’t move mountains by entreaty for you in 2021, Pisces. I request that you shouting at them, either. But in a metaphorical sense, exorcise any and all ghosts that have been preventing Pink is exactly right. Mild-mannered, low-key requests you from fully welcoming in and embracing the future. are not likely to precipitate movement in obstacles that These ghosts may be purely metaphorical in nature, resemble sold rock. And that’s my oracle for you in the but you still need to be forceful in banishing them. coming months, Virgo. As you carry out the project of relocating or crumbling a certain mountain, be robust Homework: Has anything in your life changed for the better during the pandemic? What? FreeWillAstrology.com and spirited—and, if necessary, very loud.

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FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF SANTA FE STATE OF NEW MEXICO No. D-101-PB-2020-00245 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MILTON ARLEN ASHER, Deceased.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of this estate.

All persons having claims against this estate are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice if this Notice is given by publication as provided in Subsection A of Section 45-3-801 NMSA 1978 or within sixty (60) days after the mailing or delivery of this Notice for creditors who are given actual notice as provided by Subsection B of Section 45-3-801 NMSA 1978, whichever is later, or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either to the undersigned Personal Representative at 320 Osuna Rd NE, Ste G-4, Albuquerque, NM 87107, or filed with the Santa Fe County District Court.

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Kelly Asher, Personal Representative of the Estate of Milton Arlen Asher, deceased 9210 Cherokee Road NE Albuquerque NM 87111 (505) 414-6463 KENNETH C. LEACH & ASSOCIATES, P.C. By /s/ Sara M. Bonnell Attorney for Kelly Asher, Personal Representative of the Estate of Milton Arlen Asher, deceased 320 Osuna Rd NE, Ste. G4 Albuquerque NM 87107 (505) 883-2702 STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF MARGARET BLAIR THRALL Case No.: D-101-CV-2020-02590 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. the Petitioner Margaret Blair Thrall will apply to the Honorable Maria Sanchez-Gagne, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 9:00 a.m. on the 21st day of January, 2021 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Margaret Blair Thrall to Margaret Blair Williams.

KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court Clerk By: Desiree Brooks Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Margaret Blair Thrall Petitioner, Pro Se

STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN A. BAILEY, Deceased.

No. D-101-PB-2020-00247 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of this estate. All persons having claims against this estate are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or the claims will be forever barred.

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Dated: November 24, 2020. /s/ TRACY B. BRIGHTMAN LAW OFFICE OF KAREN AUBREY By: /s/ KAREN AUBREY P.O. Box 8435 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-8435 (505) 982-4287; facsimile (505) 986-8349 ka@karenaubreylaw.com STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF KRISTIN ASHLEY GARCIA Case No.: D-101-CV-2020-02326 AMENDED NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. the Petitioner Kristin Ashley Garcia will apply to the Honorable Bryan Biedscheid, District Judge of the First Judicial Disctrict at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 10:30 a.m. on the 29th day of December, 2020 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Kristin Ashley Garcia to Kristen Ashley Garcia.

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF JORGE ENRIQUE LUGO Case No.: D-101-CV-2020-02669 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. the Petitioner Jorge Enrique Lugo will apply to the Honorable Bryan Biedscheid, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 9:50 a.m. on the 21st day of January, 2021 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Jorge Enrique Lugo to Jorge Enrique Alejandro.

Dated: 12/17/2020 KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court Clerk By: Leah Baldonado Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Jorge Enrique Lugo Petitioner, Pro Se STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF SANDRA J. ALEJANDRO-LUGO Case No.: D-101-CV-2020-02674 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. the Petitioner Sandra J. Alejandro-Lugo will apply to the Honorable Bryan Biedscheid, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 9:40 a.m. on the 21st day of January, 2021 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Sandra J. Alejandro-Lugo to Sandra June Alejandro.

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No. D-101-PB-2020-00242 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of this estate. All persons having claims against this estate are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either to the undersigned Personal Representative in care of Karen Aubrey, Esq., Aubrey Law Firm, LLC, Post Office Box 8435, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-8435, or filed with the First Judicial District Court, Santa Fe County Judicial Complex, Post Office Box 2268, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-2268.

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