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MOVIES, JAN. 20: “GRIZZLY”

FILM DATE SIGNIFICANT Reviewing The Revenant, Alex De Vore describes the movie well but errs badly in claiming it is set post-Civil War. Hugh Glass died in 1833. This is important, considering how young America was. There is a poignancy to an immature nation trying to find its way that is echoed in the themes of the movie: the opening of the West, the coming disintegration of the Indian way of life, and the visual cues of primordial water below ... and the countering sky shots.

Like the Glass character, America was caught between ... the quintessential American hero and the bigger question of who has the right to kill, man or god/nature.

Stating the wrong time frame for the movie is like saying the themes of a World War II film are the same as one about the Vietnam War. MIKE BAKER SANTA FE

the Year. Previously, having had the pleasure of experiencing lovely appetizers in Georgia’s bar, I felt confident that our guests would be equally thrilled.

Our dining experience was suboptimal. The evening’s special, manicotti, was a muddy, cheesy presentation that defied any appearance and flavor of a respectable pasta dish. The shrimp and grits was a slop of cornmeal with a few shrimp, devoid of any “wow” factor. My salmon fish and chips was chunks of soggy salmon, accompanied by a pile of pommes frites two inches in length. The dinner salad was limpid and the flat bread unremarkable.

No one at the table finished their meals ... Simply put, Georgia failed to dazzle as a destination dining experience.

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Say, What’s in This Drink?

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eople ask me all the time, what’s the best thing about being a columnist for SFR? That’s easy. It’s hanging out with my colleagues in the newspaper’s sumptuous staff lounge. It has an open bar, hot buffet table, omelet station ... Because, you know, alt-weekly journalism is all about being pampered.

With its mahogany paneling, stone fireplace and oil paintings, the lounge makes you feel like you’re visiting Downton Abbey, or maybe having your Lexus serviced.

I hit the lounge around cocktail hour, because that’s when Natalie Bovis shows up. Natalie has the very best job at the paper. She writes the “Kiss My Glass” column, all about what classy people drink.

When she’s around, she makes the cocktails.

Can you even imagine how cool it would be to just write about booze? I picture a conversation between me and my wife, if that were my job: “Hey Bob, let’s go for a hike!”

“Sorry honey, I’m working on my new cocktail column.”

“Bob! Look at you! You’re hammered at 8:30 am!

What are all these empty liquor bottles?”

“Research for the column, babe. It’s called journalism.”

“Whatever you call it, Mr. Lush-Face, you’re spilling rye onto your keyboard right now!”

But back to Natalie, who is a fine writer. You should check out her recent column on pumpkin spice cocktails. I would never drink that crap, but I sure admire how she puts words together.

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I’ve analyzed her carefully crafted formula so I can imitate it. Here’s how nearly every “Kiss My Glass” column breaks down: Hint at a better life through drinking. Valentine’s Day, Natalie tells us, “brings an opportunity to really impress someone with whom you want to get drunk and naked!” So that would be win-win, wouldn’t it?

Assume your readers own a butt-load of mixology gear. From a column about serving absinthe: “Place a slotted absinthe spoon across the glass’s rim…”

Damn! Where did I put those absinthe spoons the Sierra Club sent me when I donated?

Cocktail drinkers are erudite, so throw in some history or literary references. “The use of vinegar as a pickling and preserving agent is traced back to Babylonia, around 5000 BC,” Natalie informs us. It’s like having Cliff Claven at the next barstool!

Focus on Santa Fe! Tell readers about local bars that may be haunted. Show them how to improve cocktails with local ingredients, locally distilled spirits, etc. Mention chiles as often as possible.

Keeping Natalie’s brilliant formula in mind, I plan to lure readers away with my own cocktail column.

Watch and learn:

Spring is in the air, and stuff is turning green. It’s the perfect time for Santa Feans to serve seasonally green cocktails such as my own concoction, the Jolly Green Giant. It’s guaranteed to turn your pathetic, worthless life around!

Start with crème de menthe. I prefer to make my own. I blend locally grown artisanal mint leaves, locally harvested cane sugar and locally shoplifted antifreeze.

Did I mention that Agatha Christie’s popular detective Hercule Poirot drinks crème de menthe, or that the Battle of New Orleans was fought after the War of 1812 was already over?

Where was I? Ah. So you take a tumbler of crème de menthe, a handful of sugar and about a mouthful of sweet vermouth and shake them up in a crème de menthe shaker. If you use any other kind of shaker, your kids won’t get into college.

Garnish the cocktail with a Brussels sprout muddled with a Brussels sprout muddler, and serve in special Tiffany Jolly Green Giant glasses …

What do you think? Do I have a winner here? Well, I’m off to the staff lounge. Wednesday is frozen daiquiri day!

Robert Basler’s humor column runs twice monthly in SFR. Email the author: bluecorn@sfreporter.com

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THREE OUT OF FOUR CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATES SAY BUDGET IS OUR BIGGEST PROBLEM They also agree that no services should be cut and no taxes should increase.

ABQ JOURNAL ADVISES FORREST FENN TREASURE HUNTERS TO BE CAREFUL And also, maybe find a better hobby.

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LAW PROPOSED TO ALLOW TEEN CURFEWS

Nobody saw that coming. We mean nobody.

Now serving that weird “green chile sauce.”

No good will come of that.

Dear Mom, The mayor said I could only stay out till midnight. He’s not the boss of me, and neither are you.

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In recent years, SFR has made lots of changes aimed at bringing readers more local, relevant content. But one thing made you mad. So we brought back This Modern World.

We hope you read some other stuff, too.

From the state minimum wage to driver’s license reform, the leaders of the Catholic Church in New Mexico are a big player in the political scene. Catch up on what they’re doing at the Legislature with this report.

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ne of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather who manages to get people to let them do it to them.”

—Douglas Adams It was posited to me, a few weeks back—and the longer I consider the notion, the more I agree—that the reason Santa Fe is so distinctly cliquish is that it’s a place where anyone who comes is allowed to be exactly who they are. There’s a vital core of families who have been around (in some cases) longer than most countries in this hemisphere have existed. But if you’re a weird hippy who didn’t belong in your Midwestern burgh, you’re just about as likely to find “your people” here. If you’re a rich, retired investment banker or captain of industry, there’s plenty for you to buy and lots of room to seclude yourself. If you’re immigrating from Mexico, Central America or South America, you will find a community here trying just as hard as you to create a foothold in this new and often hostile place. Whoever you are, Santa Fe has room for you, and probably—if you look hard enough—a handful of people with similar values, plans and fears. It may not quite welcome you, but in that way, it’s a perfect microcosm of the American dream. Like on the national level, not all of these groups are created equal, and because of that—perhaps more so than most places—voting matters. Just perhaps not for the reasons you thought it did.

It’s apparent that the coming year’s elections are going to be pivotal in the future of our country. One need only look at the options for president. On one end of the spectrum, we might elect the first woman to the office or the first socialist Jew. On the other side, we could very well end up with the first literal fascist president or any one of three or four empty suits

who would make us pine for the good old days of Bush/Cheney. And who we pick is going to tilt the scales heavily in a number of crucial decisions. There are likely to be four (or more) Supreme Court appointments during the next presidency. According to most of the scientific community, the next two to five years represent a crucial point of no return in terms of taking real action on climate change. The banks and corporations that own most of our political establishment are both more dominant and more threatened than they’ve ever been, curled up like the dragon, Smaug, in The Hobbit.

These are turbulent times, and our local elections are no less critical than the decisions CNN hasn’t stopped babbling about since last summer.

You see, in this town, if any one group gains overwhelming control of the political system—like, for instance, the hotel and tourism lobby has, over the last few decades—it will bend that system to suit its vision of what Santa Fe should be. And any “progress” they make will undeniably fly directly in the face of some other demographic’s interest.

If any other interest group wrested that kind of political control for its own purposes, they would use it the same way and only tip the balance in the other direction. This is what actually makes everyone’s participation essential. If everyone has a say, the argument will go on forever. No one will ever get their “perfect Santa Fe,” and that’s the only Santa Fe—or America— I’d ever want to live in.

PS. The last day to register to vote in the city election taking place March 1 is Tuesday, Feb. 2.

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On the Rocks Former state Senator Phil Griego

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meanor offenses punishable with up to a six-month jail sentence and a $500 fine, the State Land Office advises lessees like Griego to “always exercise due caution to ensure that cultural properties are not inadvertently” damaged by others.

Griego, who claims he hasn’t read the terms of the lease in years, and the other men could also face depredation charges for destroying or injuring trees on the property.

The entire incident has some San Jose residents upset. One woman, who did not want to be identified because she says she fears retaliation, tells SFR, “Griego does whatever he wants and then tries to talk his way out of these things when he gets caught.”

She’s also worried about flooding and mudslides now that the rocks are no longer shoring up the base of a hill that holds the community’s water tower.

The person who anonymously tipped off authorities last fall told field division inspectors and New Mexico State Police officers that allowing the removal of the rocks “wasn’t right.”

Griego’s perpetual lease, which is set to be reopened in 2018, could be in jeopardy. Before it’s COURTESY OF STATE LAND OFFICE

ike a fabled cat with nine lives, former New Mexico state Senator Phil Griego keeps landing on his feet. Less than a year after he resigned from the Legislature amid an ethics scandal, Griego is once again under investigation.

This time, the State Land Office wants to know why he allowed sandstone boulders to be stolen from state grazing land that Griego and his family have leased in San Miguel County for decades and why the unfenced property has become an illegal dumping site.

And once again, Griego is claiming ignorance rather than purposeful misconduct.

Griego admits he allowed two men to excavate 8.8 cubic yards of rocks worth an estimated $5,000 from the state trust land last October to slow ditch erosion on private property in nearby Pecos, in exchange for using some of the rocks to block access to the dump ground, which archeologists consider to be a culturally rich area because of its connection to the historic Santa Fe Trail.

While he never applied for a state permit or sought prior approval to allow the men to remove the rocks, Griego insists that he never intended to sell them.

“There was no exchange of money,” he tells SFR during a telephone interview. “If I had known I had to ask permission, then I would have done that.”

But Griego’s story contradicts information uncovered by SFR in an agency report marked “private and confidential,” provided to the newspaper through a public records request.

Emily Stickler, the State Land Office’s assistant commissioner for communications, says field division employees at the agency, including Compliance Officer Kenny Baca, who prepared the “San Jose Rock Theft/Illegal Dumping” investigative report, believe the rocks were being moved off the lease “in order to sell them.”

“They were never sold because the state police and the SLO became involved and halted it,” says Stickler.

Baca’s report reveals that Griego, who first identified himself as “Senator Griego” when they contacted him months after he resigned, claimed he “never intended to violate the terms of his lease.” But Griego, who eventually clarified to Baca that he is a retired senator, asked the investigator what the potential repercussions could be from the removal of the rocks.

Ultimately, Griego and the men could face civil penalties or criminal charges. SFR has confirmed state police referred the matter to the 4th Judicial District Attorney’s office, but Chief Deputy Prosecutor Thomas Clayton says the incident is still under review and no charges have been filed.

State law prohibits individuals from soliciting, employing or counseling others to excavate, injure or destroy cultural property on state land without a permit.

Since violations could be deemed to be misde-

The state Land Office says these sandstone boulders were illegally excavated.

yanked, he and his attorney Robert Stanahan, who was employed as general counsel for the land office during Pat Lyons’ administration, have the opportunity to discuss the matter with agency staff this week.

After meeting with Griego earlier in November, Land Commissioner Aubrey Dunn told him he wants him to pay restitution for the rocks, which haven’t all been accounted for, fence the property and clean up the dump site, where investigators found abandoned vehicles, a school bus and an open septic tank. Griego contends the land is community property, but land office staff say maps show it is on state trust land.

For now, David Eck, a state archaeologist, has recommended Griego be instructed to contract an archaeological damage assessment survey to determine the level of damage to the site. Griego has requested and posted “No Trespassing” signs from the State Land Office.

Meanwhile, Griego tells SFR that he has no plans to campaign for his old Senate seat this year.

He voluntarily gave up the post in March 2015 as his colleagues in the Legislature reportedly prepared to vote on kicking him out over his role in the real estate sale of a historic state building to business associates in Santa Fe and in pushing through the resolution that allowed the building to be put up for sale in the first place.

Greigo avoided an expulsion vote by resigning, and he is collecting a pension because he wasn’t charged or convicted in the matter.

That affair might not be over yet. A spokesman for New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas says staff attorneys are still reviewing potential violations of the Open Meetings Act in connection with Griego’s 2014 real estate deal and potential perjury charges, after Griego failed to disclose his representation of Santa Fe hoteliers Ira and Sharif Seret with the New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department on his 2015 financial disclosure form.

“We will inform the public of the disposition of this referral once that determination has been made.

All complaints received by the Office of the Attorney General are fully reviewed, and appropriate action is taken,” spokesman James Hallinan wrote.

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As Santa Fe Public Schools moves forward with its digital learning plan, upto-date classrooms sport document projectors, smartboards and computers, but some classrooms don’t have the 21st-century upgrades. The district is halfway through its rollout and now can’t complete that plan without more money to pay for it.

With state funding in short supply, the school district has turned to Santa Fe voters to extend an existing tax levy to provide $33 million to continue upgrading Internet speeds in school, add computers and provide technical support for teachers.

The New Mexico Public Education Department’s chosen standardized test, the PARCC, also requires schools to have computers available for students to take those tests on, and that requirement left some schools scrambling last year.

Taxes won’t increase above the $1.50 per $1,000 of taxable property value—average property owners pay $10 per month, according to the district, as they have for the previous two years.

The state doesn’t maintain a special fund for educational technology, the district argues, and the operational budget isn’t sufficient even to cover basics needs (a case the superintendent is making in an ongoing lawsuit against the state education department).

Early voting on the tax takes place through Jan. 29 from 8 am to 5 pm at Nina Otero Community School at 5901 Herrera Drive, the Educational Services Center at 610 Alta Vista St., and Santa Fe County Clerk’s office at 102 Grant Ave. The election will be Feb. 2, with voting centers around the city open 7 am to 7 pm. (Elizabeth Miller)

Not Just Any Hill Santa Fe County commissioners on Tuesday postponed a vote on a resolution to support turning La Bajada Mesa into a national monument after dozens of residents spoke out about the matter, saying such a designation could either be a boon or unnecessary government intervention that would restrict its use, not improve upon it.

The residents, many of whom live in and around La Bajada, long considered the unofficial entrance to Santa Fe, either warned the County Commission that there’s no turning back once the federal government gets involved or, conversely, praised the county for the initiative, saying it could mean big dollars if the land were so lucky to be designated “La Bajada Mesa National Monument.”

“Everybody likes a national monument,” said one man, adding that visitors are liable to stay longer in Santa Fe with one nearby.

Another man, a La Cieneguilla resident, was angry that nobody with the county ever came knocking on his door to tell him about the proposal.

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In all, the land consists of 128,000 acres, stretching from the mesa south to Cerrillos Hills Park, north to the Santa Fe River Basin and west to the Rio Grande.

The resolution, introduced by Liz Stefanics and Robert Anaya, says protecting federal land in New Mexico is important because it’s responsible for 30 million visitors to the state, 68,000 jobs and $6 billion.

The proposal comes after the commission denied Buena Vista Estates Inc. permission to mine, blast and crush basalt on 50 acres of land, but the company has filed a lawsuit, appealing the county’s actions, calling the move illegal and unconstitutional.

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emp: It’s been as popular as it is pragmatic for quite a while, as far back as the mid-1700s, when rope and yarn and even paper were made out of it. Then, in the 1990s, it started making a comeback, in clothes, in hoodies, in shoes, in backpacks.

Like a wildfire set among its drought-resistant stalks, its popularity spread. It was trendy. It was sustainable. It was, in short, cool.

But there was a problem: The crop could legally only be grown in countries like Canada and China, frustrating in light of its economic power. It accounted for nearly $581 million in US sales in 2013, the most recent trend, extracting a compound known as CBD for pain-relieving oils and lotions.

So this Friday, Jan. 29, outside the Roundhouse, legislators and activists and farmers take their turn to rally in what has become a perennial push to legalize hemp agriculture in New Mexico—outlawed since the late 1930s strictly out of guilt by association for being a cousin to the marijuana plant.

The non-psychoactive member of the family contains minimum traces of THC, and for decades now, farmers have not been allowed to cultivate the stalks, although you would not get high even if you smoked a field of them. But with every Legislative session, hope springs eternal, even though Gov. Susana Martinez, a crime- and-punishment Republican, vetoed similar legislation last year.

“I think the governor is sufficiently studied up on the matter now, and we’re optimistic that she’s going to call it this year,” says Doug Fine, 45, a New York native who’s written books on the subject and lives on a 42-acre goat farm outside Silver City; Fine claims he wouldn’t mind growing his own crop someday.

“If this bill is signed, our farmers are off to the races,” Fine says, referring to Democratic state Sen. Cisco McSorley’s Senate Bill 3, which seeks to establish a research and development fund that would operate under the auspices of New Mexico State University and be licensed and monitored by the state Agriculture Department.

It’s pretty much identical legislation to a bill he floated last year, SB 94.

And there’s no indication either way from the governor’s office if she’s changed her mind on the idea.

Last session, Martinez said she had a problem with the bill because

state and federal laws were at odds with each other.

“Given the similarities between growing hemp and marijuana, this legislation could also create serious challenges for law enforcement in investigating drug crimes,” she wrote.

“Additionally, I am concerned by the inconsistent language used throughout this bill to describe the purposes for which industrial hemp may be cultivated. Some descriptions appear limited to research and development whereas others broadly include commercial production. Any permission to cultivate hemp for commercial purposes under this legislation would, of course, also be contrary to federal law.”

But this year, McSorley and Fine and other activists have ammunition: It’s good for the economy, and nearly half the country, from Oregon to Colorado to Kentucky to Vermont, has gotten onboard and legalized it under a special provision in the federal 2014 Farm Bill, which removes the stigma of the crop as a Schedule 1 controlled substance and, in effect, gives the states the opportunity to grow it under university-run programs.

Since then, Fine says the production of hemp in the US has increased from 350 to 6,000 acres across the country.

The way Truchas activist Jerry Fuentes sees it, legalizing hemp could only lead to more jobs, more dollars and a local product that could serve to undercut the price of imports and drive prices down, from textiles to car parts and beyond.

It also sounds like something Martinez would like, Fuentes notes, given her State of the State Address and the emphasis on bringing more industry to the state.

“And there’s no better industry than the agricultural industry,” Fuentes says.

Last fall, Fine said as much, in a letter he penned to Martinez in response to her veto earlier in the year, in which he explained the particulars of the 2014 Farm Bill and its special provision. Martinez received it, not coincidentally, with a basket full of hemp products, including a red chile rub, all courtesy of Seebinger Hemp in ABQ. “The reason is simple: we want to join the billiondollar North American hemp industry, which is growing 24% annually,” he wrote. “It means profits in the ground with low water demand for those hundreds of New Mexico small farmers, right from the first harvest.”

And if that doesn’t convince Martinez, maybe a recent letter from a Colorado company will.

Ed Lehrburger is president of PureVision Technology Inc., which has been processing industrial hemp since in 2014 in Fort Lupton. Last week, he joined the growing ranks of supporters for New Mexico hemp agriculture, telling the governor he’s ready to buy the crop.

At Santa Fe Hemp, in business since 1997 on Water Street, owner Kathleen Savage says she looks forward to the day when hemp is legal and it doesn’t have to be imported at a higher cost to the US and then sold to retailers such as herself.

“I’d rather see it grown in the US,” says Savage, 60, whose business, ever since the 2008 recession, has taken a hard hit, forcing her to shift to organic cotton, too.

Conventional cotton, she says, “is terrible environmentally. It’s the third largest polluter on the planet. It uses so much pesticides, it’s poisoning water tables. Hemp is a weed, it doesn’t require pesticides, and it’s a great rotation crop. Plus, if we’re talking about paper, it’s only one season to grow a hemp crop versus 25 years for a tree to grow. ... It’s a wonderful source for paper.”

Which brings us to the dissemination of fact and fiction with regard to the plant. Contrary to what you learned behind the bleachers, the US Constitution was not written on it, but it’s been said that some working drafts might have been.

If the tree-based paper reaches Martinez, all she has to do is sign her name.

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Sellers’ Market Lawsuit charges PNM’s effort to purchase nuclear power leases locks ratepayers into a bad deal

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e learned some unhappy lessons in the wake of the recession: namely, don’t pay more for something, like a house, than it will be worth when the next

bubble bursts.

Those can be tough cards to read, of course, and very few people recognized the toxic assets poisoning our economy to the tune of 8 million lost jobs and 6 million lost homes as they approached. But a recently filed lawsuit raises questions as to whether the Public Service Company of New Mexico is making just that kind of deal.

Is PNM planning to pay too much to purchase power from the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station?

PNM decided to purchase rather than renew three of eight leases for power from the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Arizona, 50 miles west of Phoe- had been sold due to extreme overrunning of costs and The power utility says it decided to pursue purnix, for a price of $163.4 million for just those three an egregious miscalculation in the amount of power chase of the leases when low natural gas prices were leases’ 64 megawatts of power. Opponents argue that needed in subsequent decades,” the lawsuit argues, drawing down the cost of electric power, but looming move is akin to paying $300,000 for a home that isn’t referencing a separate case against PNM New Energy federal regulations meant the price of coal-fired powworth more than half that.

Economy is appealing. “To rely on that [certificate] as er, the utility’s primary power source, could soar.

“PNM has these legacy investments, in this case it’s somehow an approval for the purchase in 2016 of 64 “Significant reductions of coal generation could Palo Verde, that cost them more to generate the elec- MWs of power from [Palo Verde Unit 2] stretches the be expected to drive electric power prices higher,” tricity than they actually can get for the electricity,” letter and spirit of the law to its breaking point.” according to August testimony from Elisabeth Eden, says Mariel Nanasi, executive direcA financial analysis of the pro- vice president and treasurer of PNMR Services Co., tor with New Energy Economy, which posed purchase would, to con- which provides corporate services to PNM through filed a motion challenging PNM’s eftinue with the housing analogy, their shared parent company. The company decided fort to pass some of these costs on to compare the various options of to purchase the leases, she said, “while there was still The buyer, in ratepayers. continuing to lease the house downward pressure on the power prices, rather than To counter that, Jodi McGinnis, we’ve been leasing, purchasing it waiting until the leases expired in 2018 and hoping the this case the ratespokeswoman for PNM, writes via or moving out. Perhaps, given the fair market value of zero emission nuclear generation email that “PNM makes resource changes to the market since the would not go up significantly by then.” payer, must decide decisions in the best interests of our last full certificate of convenience The purchase locks in the price, Eden argued, what it is willing to and necessity was done for Palo whereas the lease renewal options, which extended customers, and Palo Verde Unit 2 is a cost-effective, zero-emissions part of Verde in 1977, that analysis would only for two years, would not. The five leases for which pay after weighing our portfolio.” She did not respond to show it was time to book the mov- PNM did pursue renewals now end in 2023, and those a question about the purchase’s effect ing truck. renewals, according to Eden, saved PNM’s annual all the risks. on ratepayers, though Nanasi con“PNM conducted no financial lease payments by roughly $16.5 million. tends the price of that cheap nuclear analysis, no economic analysis to PNM agreed to a purchase price of $2,500 to $2,600 power will likely go up. determine that purchasing that per kilowatt, and Eden says that’s “fair market value.”

The nonprofit advocacy group and lease was, in fact, a cost-effective “The $2,500 per kW figure only represents what Bernalillo County argue in their lawsuit that PNM thing that was the best among all alternatives and that PNM, as the seller, believes the plant is worth,” Daushould complete a new “certificate of convenience there was no undue risk involved,” Nanasi says. The phinais argued in 2013. “As in any transaction, there and necessity,” a legally required financial analysis company skirted that legal requirement, she argues, are two parties, a seller and a buyer. The buyer, in this that calls for an assessment of load management, re- likely because they can’t prove that this option beats case the ratepayer, must decide what it is willing to pay newable energy requirements, environmental laws the alternatives. New Energy Economy’s analysis sug- after weighing all the risks associated with the nuclear and regulations (both existing and anticipated), fuel gested other options might surpass this one. Accord- capacity being placed into rate base.” diversity, susceptibility to other market fluctuation, ing to 2013 testimony from New Mexico Industrial Those risks in this case, of course, include potential transmission constraints and system reliability. The Energy Consumers’ James Dauphinais, submitted accidents and the need to someday decommission the state Public Regulation Commission requests that with New Energy Economy’s motion, 100 MW of pho- plant, which has a price tag in the hundreds of millions document every time a utility wants to acquire a new tovoltaic solar capacity could outperform 134 MW of (if not billions) of dollars. resource. In this instance, PNM argues that they don’t capacity at the nuclear plant.

The book value of kilowatts of nuclear power was need approval from the regulatory authority because The drop in gas and oil prices, as well as costs for so- set in the 2013 evaluation of Palo Verde Unit 3 at the provisions of the original lease that was approved lar and wind power, make those options now cheaper $1,071. In other words, half the house’s current list in 1977 provided for renewing or purchasing those than nuclear power, Nanasi says. Nuclear power com- price. Eden says that’s irrelevant here. leases. prised 31 percent of the 10,791 GWh of power PNM PNM has 15 days to respond to New Energy Econ“Obviously, that proceeding did not contemplate … provided to customers statewide in 2014, up from 22 omy’s Jan. 20 filing before the PRC hearing examiner the necessity of re-purchasing part of the plant after it percent of the utility’s power in 2012. decides the matter.

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Was the disclosure of Acoma traditions exploitation or scholarship?

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rom the moment he picked his way through the crowd and took the stage at Collected Works this fall, it was clear that Peter Nabokov was prepared to face public criticism.

Typically, at these events at the go-to local bookstore in a town full of eager writers, the author takes the stage, reads for a few minutes, answers a few softball questions, signs books, shakes hands and says good night. But the air in the store that evening was heavy with tension.

Nabokov, a tenured professor in UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures, had prepared two books about Acoma Pueblo with the publishing behemoth Penguin—and members of Acoma, who made up roughly half the crowd, were not happy about it.

How the World Moves, a sprawling hardcover, is a biography of Edward Proctor Hunt, an Acoma man who collaborated closely with some of the founding members of the field of anthropology in the first half of the 20th century. The OriMARGARET MOLLOY

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gin Myth of Acoma Pueblo, packaged as a paperback “Penguin Classic,” is a re-edited version of the Acoma origin myth that Hunt had shared with researchers in the late 1920s and which Nabokov had dug up from a government archive.

That morning, the Santa Fe New Mexican had published a letter by the governor of Acoma that criticized Nabokov for writing about Acoma without having consulted the tribe first—and the daily newspaper for having given him free publicity by reviewing his books. Then-Governor Fred S Vallo explained that Hunt “never had the permission of the pueblo to impart any Acoma sacred information to anyone, much less to the Bureau of Ethnology for publication. The pueblo has always considered this publication ... to be a fundamental breach of trust by the United States.”

Current and former members of Acoma’s tribal government spoke eloquently and at length about what they felt was a violation by Nabokov, comparing his work to that of grave robbers who sell Native artifacts illegally. “This story belongs to us. It is our intellectual property,” said Brian Vallo, a former director of historic preservation for Acoma (and Governor Vallo’s son). He turned to face the audience. “I would ask you all to not buy this book.”

In the weeks and months that followed, I set out to understand the root of the conflict between Nabokov and Acoma. How had a wellrespected scholar of Native American history and anthropology ended up on the receiving end of such harsh criticism from the very people he had set out to honor?

Acoma (a Spanish bastardization of Haak’u) occupies some 430,000 acres of land in Cibola County in western New Mexico.

South of today’s Interstate 40 and some 60 miles west of Albuquerque, the old Pueblo sits atop a sandstone mesa that rises 367 feet above the valley floor. Its height affords sweeping views of Mt. Taylor to the north and the Malpaís “badlands” to the west. Today, most enrolled members of Acoma live in satellite villages that surround the base of the mesa.

I visited Acoma on an uncharacteristically wet Sunday. Jay, my tour guide for the afternoon, delivered his spiel inside the San Estevan del Rey Mission Church, the enormous adobe structure on the southern end of the mesa that is both a proud landmark of Acoma’s longevity and a stark reminder of Spanish brutality—it was built with forced labor after a skirmish in which the Spanish massacred some 800 Acoma and enslaved many more in 1599. The Spanish were briefly supplanted by the Mexicans, who were in turn ousted by the Americans in the 1840s.

In 1861, an Acoma boy named Gaire (or “Day Break”) was born on the mesa. At the time, US federal policy was geared towards complete cultural assimilation of young Native men; at 19, Gaire left the Pueblo in order

Acoma Pueblo leaders objected to the publication of their origin story without tribal input. The author agreed to share his manuscript with the tribe before publication, but after they learned it was available on Amazon, activists decided to confront the author at book readings in Albuquerque and Santa Fe.

to begin his “civilized” schooling in Albuquerque. Nabokov describes in How the World Moves the radical makeover this entailed for the young Acoma man and his peers: “Day Break’s headband, homemade cotton pants, baggy tunic, deerhide moccasins, and Navajo blanket were incinerated. His pageboy-style hair was scissored to the head. Buckets of cold water doused his body, and he was scrubbed with chunks of laundry soap. He was measured for a uniform, then heavy leather shoes and a Union soldier-like cap.”

He also received a new name: Edward Proctor Hunt. As Nabokov tells it, Gaire’s return to Acoma as Hunt three years later was uneasy. The things he had learned in Albuquerque put him at odds with the

secretive religious societies that govern social and political life on the mesa.

Acoma, like the other Puebloan tribes traditionally devoted to farming and husbandry, has a clan-based social and religious structure. Membership is passed down the mother’s side and determined at birth. Each Acoma boy and girl is expected to learn the rituals and tales unique to their clan over the course of their lives. Additionally, they are often initiated into special religious societies distinct from the clans.

I met with Brian Vallo, the director of the Indian Arts Research Center at the School for Advanced Research, to learn more about the unique set of stories that explain how each clan came to be part of Acoma. “Those stories are life guides: They are very sacred. Different clan groups and societies have their own version, so the stories differ as a result. So, you know ... you don’t share that information with anyone else. Even internally some things are secret until you reach a certain age.”

After completing his schooling in Albuquerque, Hunt returned to Acoma’s religious and social society, became a shopkeeper and married the daughter of an important political family. But what Nabokov describes as growing “commitments to Christianity, capitalism and individual liberty” meant that Hunt refused to allow his children to participate in the Pueblo’s religious ceremonies—a decision that led to a break with Acoma in 1918. After a failed attempt to start over in a different Pueblo, the Hunts left New Mexico and joined a traveling circus as “show Indians.”

Offered the chance to return to Acoma in the early 1930s, Hunt refused, and he died in Albuquerque in 1948.

But Hunt had an additional life besides that of a wandering minstrel. It would be another 60 years before his watershed contribution to the anthropology of the Southwest would be recognized.

Former Acoma governor, Fred S Vallo, says he wants to preserve the “uniqueness” of the Acoma people.

The federal Bureau of American Ethnology was founded in 1879 as an outgrowth of the US military’s exploratory campaigns.

Its mission to catalog the cultural artifacts of Native peoples often ran in uncomfortable parallel with the federal government’s official policy toward those cultures—vacillating between annihilation and assimilation. As one contemporary researcher I spoke to explained, the first generation of anthropologists stood in opposition to the government’s idea of assimilation. Instead, they scoured the Southwest in hopes of preserving the “ancient” cultures that lined the tracks of the newly built Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad.

As Nabokov writes in How the World Moves, these “professional anthropologists CONTINUED ON PAGE 19

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... did not come to make friends and refused to take no for an answer. Their fervor for esoteric information would often become an intellectual combat between aggressive scientists and increasingly withholding Indians.”

For anthropologists eager to make their mark in a new field, a source as well-informed and skeptical of tribal secrecy as Hunt was a godsend. As Hunt would later explain to the anthropologists interested in his stories, his induction into the Koshare society meant that he was exposed to the ur-rituals that undergird Acoma culture—making him the perfect informant on a people that keep their stories secret even from one another.

Nabokov, who nurtured a childhood fascination with Native Americans into a successful career as an anthropologist and historian, marveled at the obscurity—and great power—of the BAE’s Bulletin 135, “Origin Myth of Acoma and Other Records.” “Printed on cheap paper ... with a drab gray cover and a thirty-fivehundred-copy press run” in 1942, Nabokov writes in the Penguin version of the Origin Myth, it contained the “most complete examples from Native America of the most important narrative that any society can tell itself about itself,” the story of its founding.

The document listed no Acoma authors on its title page; indeed, the “Origin Myth’s” sole author is Matthew W Stirling, an archaeologist who was at the time the lead researcher at the BAE. But the preface to the text alludes to a group of “Pueblo Indians from Acoma and Santa Ana” who met with Stirling and his staff in Washington in September and October of

The fact that one member of the Pueblo ... transmitted this story to persons calling themselves anthropologists without the consent of the whole Pueblo does not matter.

His violation does not sanitize your action.

1928. Nabokov was curious about these anonymous Puebloans who had willingly divulged so many details to outsiders, and, enlisting the help of an archivist at the Smithsonian, was able to establish the Hunt family as the source. Then he tracked down Wilbert “Blue Sky Eagle” Hunt, the last surviving member of the family who had been on the fateful trip to Europe and Washington.

Nabokov conducted a series of interviews with Wilbert Hunt beginning in 1993 that only stopped upon Wilbert’s death in 2007. Nabokov, as he notes

in the acknowledgements section of How the World Moves, his biography of Hunt, is deeply indebted to Edward’s son, “who entrusted me with this story, and to whom I pledged I would make it into a book.”

On numerous occasions, Nabokov has written that he had two goals in re-editing and republishing the “Origin Myth.” The first was to give an Indian man erased from the historical record his due recognition for an enormous contribution to anthropology.

The second was to place the story into the upper echelons of religious texts read the world over, believing it equivalent to “the Old Testament, the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Upanishads, or the Koran.”

But unlike the ancient Israelites, Akkadians, or Hindus and Muslims, Acoma has no written language, much less a single canonical text revered by its people. As Vallo and others explained, since Acoma still exclusively maintains its traditions orally, its religious societies and its lifetime tribal councilors are, essentially, the curators of the traditions that are transferred to younger generations of Acoma people carefully, in metered doses and at the right time.

Theresa Pasqual became the director of Acoma’s Historic Preservation Office in early 2007—around the time the Pueblo learned that Nabokov was planning to republish the “Origin Myth.” That June, she and her team met with attorneys from the Chestnut Law Offices, the Pueblo’s general counsel. In a strongly worded letter to Nabokov, Ann Berkley Rodgers, an attorney at Chestnut, wrote: “The fact that one member of the Pueblo at one time may have transmitted this story to persons calling themselves anthropoloCONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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gists without the consent of the whole Pueblo does not matter. His violation does not sanitize your action.”

In a reply, Nabokov apologized and agreed to meet with Acoma’s tribal council, “comply with Acoma law,” and submit a manuscript of his work to the tribe by the end of that year.

As Pasqual explained to me, the Pueblo feared a loss of control over its social-religious apparatus. “The Pueblo has its own internal mechanisms for when and with whom information gets passed down from generation to generation,” she said. “Once that information becomes publicly available, the Pueblo loses that ability. The traditional religious leadership has always expressed that this information gives us the basis for who we are.”

Indeed, what for Nabokov was an act of overdue recognition for an overlooked Native man is, for the tribe, a fundamental misunderstanding of the way in which the community preserves and maintains knowledge. In February 2008, Nabokov wrote Rodgers to say that work on his project had been delayed; in April, he sent another letter that he was now aiming for September of that year. And then, nothing.

Vallo, Pasqual and others often refer to these stories as the tribe’s intellectual property—a formulation which would suggest the tribe as a whole legally owns the stories, and that therefore any unsanctioned publication of the stories would be tantamount to theft.

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In November, I drove to Albuquerque to meet with Rodgers and Aaron Sims, an enrolled Acoma member who joined Chestnut in 2014. They explained that since the original “Origin Myth” was a government publication, it lies firmly within the public domain—making any threat of a lawsuit on intellectual property grounds toothless. Nabokov reiterated this point when defending his publication at the contentious Q-and-A at Collected Works.

Shortly after meeting with Rodgers and Sims, I called Eileen Maxwell, public affairs director at the Smithsonian’s National Museum for the American Indian. Maxwell told me that if the papers were held in her archives— rather than in the Smithsonian’s Anthropological Archives—they would “never” have been shared with Nabokov without first consulting the tribe.

On Jan. 14, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported that Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-NM, backed Acoma in their fight to protect the “Origin Myth,” asking that the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution “manage these archives with respect for their sensitive nature and in consultation with affected tribes.”

But the attorneys aren’t out of options.

When someone from the tribe saw the book available for pre-order on Amazon.com last March, the Pueblo immediately reached out to Sims, who fired off a letter demanding that Nabokov respect the agreement made in 2007.

THE PROFESSOR AND THE PUEBLO tions ... I have been advised not to comment further at this time.” I tried reaching Eddie Hunt, Wilbert’s nephew, but multiple calls and messages to his caretaker went unanswered.

Sims and Rodgers explained that while they believe they have strong grounds on which to sue Nabokov—breach of contract, based on the 2007 and 2008 letters—his fate, ultimately, lies with the tribal council. “Part of me would like to bring a lawsuit,” Rodgers said, “but you’re talking about years of litigation, and I don’t know that that’s best for the Pueblo.” Many

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“This painstaking restoration,” Nabokov explained in a lengthy response, “has sought to enhance the narrative, eliminate some sensitive material, and delete specialized linguistic clarifications so as to make a publication that would at last stand alongside the world’ [sic] great volumes of religious literature.”

“It was like arguing, ‘Even though these people have done wrong by you, I’m going to do it as well,’” Sims said.

Nabokov did eventually send the Pueblo a copy of the manuscript in May 2015, just a few months before publication. The tribal council held a meeting to review the manuscript two weeks before the book was released, by which time it was too late to halt publication. It was then that they planned a public condemnation of Nabokov, filling seats at his Albuquerque and Santa Fe readings, using the Q-and-A section of the night to make their case, and held a press conference in Santa Fe to further explain their position.

A day after the Santa Fe book event, Nabokov did appear before the tribal council, alongside his lawyer, James Kawahara. According to a handful of people who were present, he made a plea for the tribe to “go easy” on the descendants of the Hunt family who remain on the Pueblo.

When I reached out to ask for an interview, Nabokov politely declined, writing in an email that “out of respect for the privacy of those on-going conversa-

Ritual knowledge, according to tribal officials, is released on a need-to-know basis. Day Break (Edward Proctor Hunt) did not have authority to disclose secrets to the Smithsonian, some Acoma tribal leaders claim, and neither did Peter Nabokov.

Pueblo leaders, she added, “would love for this to molder in the corner and die.”

In How the World Moves, Nabokov draws on Hunt’s past as a shopkeeper and trader to argue that he served as a conduit between Hispano settlers, Anglo lawmakers and his own people, and frames his collaboration with anthropologists as the exchange of ideas crucial to cross-cultural understanding.

But Acoma Pueblo’s leaders don’t see Hunt as a maverick interested in preserving his people’s dying traditions. Instead, many see him as a sellout, a traitor who turned his back on his people in exchange for money and the respect of outsiders, and take umbrage that Nabokov glamorized the act.

Brian Vallo, who oversaw an expansion of the Sky City Cultural Center and Haak’u Museum in the early 2000s, enumerated the complications attached to maintaining Acoma’s unique cultural traditions in the age of the smartphone. “We have language loss, there is separation of community members from their communities, we have intermarriage, [all of which] impact the sustainability of culture and traditions—we have had to ask ourselves some difficult questions. So when a book like Nabokov’s comes out, it’s like, ‘Damn it.’” He laughs. “It’s just another thing that we have to deal with.”

I asked Jay, my tour guide on the mesa, how he and the rest of the guides decide what they’re allowed to tell outsiders about Acoma. His reply surprised me in its simplicity: “I can give a tour and teach people about anything I’ve read about in books because it’s already out there.” He said he hadn’t heard of Nabokov or his books, and didn’t seem particularly concerned about the possibility that an outsider was broadcasting tribal secrets into the world for anyone to see.

I found the resignation implicit in his answer perplexing. It seemed to crystallize the fear expressed by Vallo, Pasqual and others that the ready availability of The Origin Myth of Acoma Pueblo would transform a powerful religious and cultural tool into one story among many, prepackaged for outsiders with a desire to learn about the continent’s original inhabitants.

In fairness to Nabokov, this is largely already the case, thanks to the digitization of government archives. And as he points out, the original publication includes color illustrations of ritual vestments—as sacred, if not more so, than the stories: Eliminating these illustrations from his updated version was a nobrainer for the academic.

But his decision to publish without consulting the Pueblo—even after promising he would do so—raises the question of an ethical or professional failure on his part. It’s unusual to find a work written about Native history or anthropology by an outsider these days that doesn’t explicitly confront the obligation that academics owe to their subjects.

The world we live in is a literal one. This is as true for young Acoma people as for their non-Native counterparts, former Acoma Governor Fred S Vallo, a kindly retired civil servant, conceded to me when we met in late November. “It’s so tough to protect our cultural patrimony now. Everything’s out there on social media, the Internet. We’re slowly realizing this as we hold on dearly to what’s left,” he said quietly.

“Once we lose our ability to maintain our customs, our uniqueness as Acoma people goes too.”

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YOU’RE AS COLD AS ICE The sun and a snowflake have little in common, at first glance. A new exhibit opening Friday at photo-eye Gallery, Fire and Ice, exposes their commonalities and differences through large-scale photos in a truly breathtaking display. Microscopic photographs reveal the crisp, cold geometry of snowflakes, which is usually invisible, while telephotos of the surface of the sun show its violent and unpredictable surface. Through the juxtaposition of the great hot and cold, which are regularly present in our lives but rarely observed closely, photographers Alan Friedman and Douglas Levere work to show (in their own words) the “drama and poetry in the natural world.” (Alex De Vore)

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A Walk through the Forrest Through a monotype, darkly things that stand out most in a given moment—for example, the dominant form in these prints are the trees, surrounded by flurries of contrasting light and shade. What impresses the viewer is not the particular colors or shapes, but the harmony of an abstract whole that gently leads one to deeper contemplations on the patterns of the natural world.

Contrasted with his oil paintings, the monotypes are more expressive and loose while working within the same motifs. Moses is the only one who shows monotypes at LewAllen, and they’ve been working up to this exhibition for a few years to impress with his best. Something more painterly and gestural thrives here, communicating a spontaneity that’s difficult to achieve in oil. LewAllen welcomes the dedicated following Moses has gained through his paintings in the hopes that longtime fans will delight in something new while offering newcomers a deep and intuitive introduction to his work.

(Cole Rehbein) FORREST MOSES: THE MONOTYPES: 5-7 pm Friday, Jan. 29. Free.

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Have you guys ever been to a hip-hop show at The Underground? It’s pretty cool. Something about the low ceiling and long, hall-like layout of the subterranean venue really works for the genre; it almost recalls the early days of live hiphop and its place in seedy basements or abandoned factories and the like. Thank goodness, then, that an upcoming show featuring Mega Ran, OG Willikers and Budah Bronson is on the horizon. The real magic of the night, though, belongs to Asliani (left), a newly local female MC who brings the positivity and thoughtful rhymes while also keepin’ it real. (ADV) Mega Ran, OG Willikers, Budah Bronson and Asliani: 9 pm Saturday, Jan. 30. $5. The Underground, 200 W San Francisco St., 819-1597

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LewAllen Galleries has featured Forrest Moses in solo exhibitions about 10 times over the past decade, and gallery officials cherish their fruitful relationship. There’s just something about his oil and monotype landscapes that continues to fascinate LewAllen and its patrons—maybe it’s the harmony of colors Moses uses to evoke the flux of nature, or the intimate and even secret perspectives he offers to viewers. He continues to develop these motifs in his new exhibition, The Monotypes: Reflections of a Painter.

The monotype medium lends itself to many of the natural themes that Moses has embraced over his 60-plus-year career. Monotypes are made by painting an image on a plate that is then transferred to paper through a press. Only one print can be made from each plate, meaning that the impression the artist creates is a one-time deal; corrections or revisions are impossible without redoing the whole piece, and as such, every print is unique. Likewise, Moses’ work carries an underlying belief in the uniqueness of each moment spent in nature.

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THE CALENDAR KARAOKE Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Yeah, Michéle Leidig does karaoke over at Boxcar, too, so...in your face, I guess.

9 pm, no cover KARAOKE DANCE PARTY Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 We've always said the only thing missing from karaoke was the dance party action.

DJ Poetics agrees, and so does this show.

8 pm, no cover OMAR VILLANUEVA La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Classical guitar that kind of makes you wonder how many fingers this guy has, because it sounds like he has a lot of fingers.

6 pm, no cover SYDNEY WESTAN Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Westan is one of those singersongwriter guys who knows how to write a damn song.

5:30 pm, no cover TAKEOVER WEDNESDAY WITH MANDY MAS The Underground 200 W San Francisco St. Hip-hop for the middle of your damn week because man, there’s, like, sooooo many days of work left.

9 pm, no cover TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria d’Assisi 58 Federal Place, 986-5858 Binkley goes just bonkers on the piano, but it’s pretty casual, you guys.

6 pm, no cover WINE DOWN WEDNESDAY WITH DJ OBI ZEN The Palace 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Not only can you set adrift with the timeless pleasures of DJ Obi Zen's chillout chill jams, there's 30 percent off wine. Say what!? Good news for depressed house-fraus and quote/unquote oenophiles, right? Too harsh? Sorry. We're sorry, OK? 9 pm, no cover

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WED/27 BOOKS/LECTURES ANSELM’S ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD—AND ITS CRITICS St. John’s College 1160 Camino De Cruz Blanca, 984-6000 Yikes. This is a heavy one, but it should also make for some lively conversation.

3:15 pm, free SPEAKING OF TRADITIONS: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON OLD TRADITIONS St. Francis Auditorium 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 UNM Professor Enrique Lamadrid is here to talk about 400 years of guitar ballads in New Mexico.

6 pm, free WHAT IS THE FIRST FOLIO AND WHY SHOULD WE CARE? St. Francis Auditorium 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Why? Because it's Shakespeare and he was a genius. Why? Because it's sheer poetry. Why? Because there is a reason he has been one of the most universally beloved and analyzed writers in history. And besides, you want to be a little cultured and back up that concept with actual, factual literary information courtesy of Kristin Bundesen.

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DANCE WINGTIPS & WINDSORS Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Despite the war crime that was Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, swing dancing lives on, and you can participate. What's the old Irish adage? Don't be a player hater, be an intramural dance participator?

We're pretty sure that saying dates back to before recorded history. What were we talking about? Oh, yeah—swing.

There's a dance lesson, too.

6:30 pm, $3-$5

EVENTS SOCIETY FOR CREATIVE ANACHRONISM Warehouse 21 1614 Paseo de Peralta, 989-4423 Learn about the arts and sciences of the medieval-ish era with lots of other history dorks and culture nerds just like you.

6 pm, free

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“Release” by Debra Fitts will be on display in The Figure in Clay, an exhibit opening on Friday at Santa Fe Clay.

TAPS AND TABLETOPS Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 This event will cast a level five awesome spell on all y'all, as tabletop gaming in the theater owned by George RR Martin is like, number one on your ultranerd scavenger hunt. Excelsior!

6 pm, free

MUSIC BRANDEN JAMES Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Pianist/vocalist Branden James joins Australian cellist James Clark for a residency that's just, like, chock-full-o' music.

7 pm, no cover

CALVIN HAZEN El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Flamenc-oh-me-oh-my, it’s Calvin Hazen! We are so sorry for that. Anyway, go on down to El Mesón to see this talented guitarist, who has worked with everyone from Ottmar Liebert to Maria Benitez.

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CHRIS DARBY Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana in all of its freewheelin', acoustic guitar-in', songs about trains-in' glory.

Darby is currently on his first tour out West, so show him some support.

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MARIE ROMERO CASH Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Cash discusses her new book, The Mariachi Murders.

6 pm, free

MUSIC BRANDEN JAMES Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Pianist/vocalist Branden James joins Australian cellist James Clark for a residency that's just, like, chock-full-o' music.

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8 pm, no cover DJ INKYINC. The Matador 116 W San Francisco St., 984-5050 Soul, punk, ska, etc. Pickitup, bro.

9 pm, no cover GERRY CARTHY Drury Plaza Hotel 828 Paseo de Peralta, 424-2175 Irish musician Gerry Carthy melts brains with tenor guitar, flute and a traditional style of music that’ll make you wish you were in Carraig Fergus so bad it hurts.

7-9 pm, no cover JOHN RANGEL: DUETS El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Rangel, ever the jazz piano master, welcomes his musician pals for super-cool and super-special duets.

7 pm, no cover LILLY PAD LOUNGE Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Hip-hop, funk, old-school and more, yo.

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LIMELIGHT KARAOKE WITH MICHÉLE The Palace 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Yes, you too can be in the spotlight for one brief moment and hear things from your friends like, "Wow, Sandra, you're like, a really good singer and should go pro!" It's these thoughts that will keep your warm at night. Have fun, y'all!

10 pm, no cover LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES Evangelo’s 200 W San Francisco St., 982-9014 Rock covers by one of SFR writer Thomas Ragan’s favorite bands.

9 pm, no cover LIVE IN HD: LES LIASONS DANGEREUSES Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Based on Christopher Hampton's adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos’ 1782 novel.

7 pm, $22-$28 MANDOBERLIN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 We hear this is all about swing and possibly the mandolin. Huzzah, owners of tiny hands—your day is come.

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MATTHEW ANDRAE La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 His music is featured in movies, television shows, blogs, and events such as the Winter Olympic Games, the World Expo, and Imogen Heap's latest international tour in which he performed an a cappella duet with Imogen—one man, one guitar, one voice.

6-8:30 pm, no cover MAXWELL HUGHES The High Note 132 W Water St., 231-9918 Indie-rock at that one new club downtown. You know the one. Hughes hits Santa Fe after touring the West, including shows in Phoeniz, Los Angeles and elsewhere.

8 pm, $5 MIC FIGHT RAPPER SHOWCASE Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Yes! Rap battle! No kidding, we love these things, and you should, too.

9 pm, $7 TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria d’Assisi 58 Federal Place, 986-5858 Binkley goes just bonkers on the piano, but it’s pretty casual, you guys.

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perience and is made even more tantalizing as it is slowly revealed that each and every story is interwoven with the next.

For example, the star of one story, who may be weirdly obsessed with dinosaur knees, could very well show up pages later in a lesser capacity, or we may learn that a man of science who tries desperately to help his colleague and mentor piece his mind back together following a drug experience gone awry doesn’t have the healthiest marriage and why. This isn’t to say that The Free Brontosaurus doesn’t have its fair share of funny, quirky or downright sweet moments. Even at their worst, the characters are relatable, often the victims of a weird sense of pride, but ultimately very human in motive and execution.

And so, the concept of the things we don’t say or don’t do comes up a lot in Brontosaurus, perhaps as a cautionary tale, but the ultimate implications of living a life closed off from the ones we love or the ones we miss plays well into the idea of songwriting and music performance as catharsis. The most moving songs almost always carry certain autobiographical qualities, and if love is the most universal of experiences and mankind the most stubborn of animals, then the psychoses we carry, hurt feelings we nurse and words we never say represent the opposite or darker side of our shared experience, and pride will most certainly trip you up every time.

As for Cardboard Boat, the 10 songs represent that trademark David Berkeley indie-almost-meets-butdeftly-avoids-the-boring-bits-of-Americana sound, but there is a more emotionally charged aspect to his vocals as compared to 2012’s The Fire in My Head.

Surely this has something to do with the companion book, but either way, it sounds as if Berkeley has been energized, both in terms of creative output and in how much he really means what he’s singing. The album, as a stand-alone project, is nearly flawless and endlessly listenable, especially for those who lean more towards music that is pretty and thoughtful.

Brontosaurus, however, does stumble in places. Su-

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enerally speaking, an album comes with an air of mystery. By its very nature, it is a self-contained piece of media that we are left to interpret as best we can, usually through its lyricism or liner notes, but seldom are we given an actual glimpse into the nitty-gritty creative process of the artist, nor do we become intimately familiar with the stories— true or imagined—behind the songs. Santa Fe singersongwriter David Berkeley is out to change this with his newest project, The Free Brontosaurus (a collection of short-stories) and Cardboard Boat (the companion record).

One feeds into the other with this project as each of the 10 songs are informed by and based upon the characters and stories of the book, each a tale in isolation, human connection—or lack thereof—and a sometimes startling view into the flawed inner-workings and emotions of different kinds of people. It’s an interesting concept that provides a more immersive experience rather than a fleeting entertainment ex-

perfluous dialog, presumably meant to lend a casual, these-are-totally-real-people nature to the characters, can make certain tales drag in parts, and there isn’t always a clear-cut or notable difference between their personalities. This is more easily overlooked when consumed in tandem with Boat—and each story is absolutely enjoyable—but if there is a weakness to the overall package, it’s in how very little usually happens to these characters, and the level to which we care about them consistently falls just short. The

stories all rely on each other, which is really kind of the point and a compelling one at that, but it wouldn’t be so easy to jump in and read just one story if you wanted to get the gist of Berkeley’s style.

The dual package drops Jan. 29 at a Berkeley performance featuring local champs Paul Feathericci and Ben Wright, and you should probably be there.

Boat/Brontosaurus is a staggering project and one that really ups the ante for local music output and professionalism.

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LUNA GALE Adobe Rose Theater 1213 B Parkway Drive, 629-8688 Do the ends justify the means? Find out in this gripping original play at Santa Fe’s newest theater.

7:30 pm, $15-$20 PORT AUTHORITY THROWDOWN Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie,424-1601 Ah, the the-ay-ter, where a play by Mike Batistick, directed by Rick Vargas captures your imagination and makes you feel all cultured.

7:30 pm, $12-$15

SEMBÉNE! Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 This doc looks at Ousmane Sembéne, otherwise known father of African cinema. A benefit for the Center for Contemporary Arts (see A&C, page 29).

7 pm, $15-$100

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LUMINOUS FLUX 2.0 Art House 231 Delgado St., 995-0231 Multi-format art makes its redebut at the Art House. A Flux redux, if you will.

10 am-5 pm, free THE FIGURE IN CLAY Santa Fe Clay 545 Camino de la Familia, 984-1122 Super-cool, super-detailed clay works from artists like Claudia Alvarez, Jason Bige Burnett, Michael Corney, Margaret Keelan and lots more.

5-7 pm, free ALAN FRIEDMAN AND DOUGLAS LEVERE: FIRE & ICE photo-eye Gallery 541 S Guadalupe St., 988-5152 OK, there are some complicated words coming up, so pay attention. Astralphotographer Alan Friedman and photomicrographer Douglas Levere collaborated on this super-rad photo project. Tell your mom, tell your dad. Cool close-up pictures of snowflakes and stuff. (see SFR Picks, page 23).

5-7 pm, free FORREST MOSES: THE MONOTYPES LewAllen Railyard 1613 Paseo de Peralta, 988-3250 Rarely exhibited and surely unique monotypes. (see SFR Picks, page 23).

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EVENTS FREE TAX PREPARATION Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 SFCC accounting students are among 75 volunteers willing to assist anyone with their taxes.

They can help you write off that pair of laser guided lederhosen. It’s a work expense, after all.

8:30 am, free FRIDAY AFTERNOON ART: COME PLAY WITH CLAY Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6837 Bring the fam to get your hands dirty and make cool clay artpieces. Materials are provided, too.

4-5 pm, free

MUSIC BARBARA BENTREE Museum Hill Café 710 Camino Lejo, 984-8900 Vocalist Bentree is accompanied by John Rangel on piano, Andy Zadrozny on bass and John Trentacosta on drums.

7 pm, $25 BRANDEN JAMES Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and cello and vocals with Branden James and James Clark.

8 pm, no cover CHAD WILKINS Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar 102 W San Francisco St., 690-2383 Lively and progressive grooves, prayerful chants, rootsy folk anthems and more.

8 pm, $10-$15 CHRIS ABEYTA AND GERRY CARTHY Low 'n' Slow Lowrider Bar 125 Washington Ave., 988-4900 Abeyta and Carthy join forces to make sweet traditional Northern New Mexican music.

7 pm, no cover CHRIS DRACUP TRIO The High Note 132 W Water St., 231-9918 Blues, rock, R&B and more.

8 pm, $5 DAVID BERKELEY Santa Fe Center for Spiritual Living 505 Camino de los Marquez, 983-5022 Berkeley simultaneously releases an album, Cardboard Boat, and a book, The Free Brontosaurus, at this event.

He's kind of like Nick Drake meets Bob Dylan and usually hangs around in sun-drenched thickets and wheat fields. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. (see Music, page 27).

7:30 pm, $20-$25 DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Show tunes, standards and more with Geist and sometimes special guests. Look, we’re huge fans and you should be, too, dammit!

6 pm, no cover DJ DANY'S LATIN FRIDAYS Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Bachata, cumbia, reggaeton, dancing—all that good stuff.

9 pm, no cover EMIARTE FLAMENCO Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Flamenco your brains out.

8 pm, $15-$20

EVENING CONCERT: BACH’S GOLDBERG VARIATIONS St. John’s College 1160 Camino De Cruz Blanca, 984-6000 You know what they say: Once you go Bach, you never go back.

7:30 pm, no cover JOHN KURZWEG BAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock and/or roll from the producer/musician and his band.

8 pm, no cover JONO MANSON Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Jono keeps it real with rock.

6 pm, no cover JUKEBOX KARAOKE The Palace 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 So in this situation, you are like the jukebox, only nobody monopolizes your time and puts on Bob Seger's rNight Moves four times in a row which, by the way, is a thing that has happened to me (Alex De Vore) twice in my life. 10 pm, no cover MARK YAXLEY; IRON CHIWAWA Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 It's a jam-packed night with the solo jams of Mark Yaxley and the rock and/or roll stylings of Iron Chiwawa (we had a joke about the film Iron Eagle that we were going to get into here, but decided against it).

5:30 pm, no cover PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo acoustic jazz guitar?

Yeah, we’ve got solo acoustic jazz guitar.

6 pm, no cover PINT AND A HALF Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 2nd St., 982-3030 Rootsy Americana.

6 pm, no cover RAMON BERMUDEZ JR. La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Guitar.

6 pm, no cover ST. RANGE Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 You knew ‘em as The Strange, and they keep it going with their desert rock sound (see 3 Questions, page 31).

9:30 pm, no cover TERA FERNA Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Rock ‘n' soul, which sounds enough like rock 'n’ roll to roll.

8 pm, no cover TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria d’Assisi 58 Federal Place, 986-5858 Binkley goes just bonkers on the piano.

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‘Mountain in the Road’

If you’re a cinema lover and don’t know anything about Sembene, don’t feel bad. His collected works have only just begun to be restored, remastered and rereleased. For the entirety of his working life, Sembene has been Documentary sheds light on censored and banned by France unknown African cinema pioneer (the colonial power that claimed Senegal as a territory in 1677; Senegal would claim independence in 1960) as well as in Senegal itself

BY BEN KENDALL because of his scathing subject c u l t u r e @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m matter covering the topics of relirtist. Director. Author. Activist. Rebel. gious colonialism and female genThese are just a few of the words that ital mutilation. His films are still could be used to describe Ousmane timely. It is unfortunate, however, Sembene, the first African filmmaker to that the very same social issues he make African films for Africans. Sembene’s films campaigned against in his films were once lost to time, but no longer. Local film- still plague Africa today.

“Sembene was always at odds maker Jason Silverman has teamed up with Sembene’s biographer and friend, Samba Gadjigo, to with the powers that be,” says produce and co-direct the documentary Sembene! Gadjigo. If that’s not a reason The film is showing at the Lensic as a benefit for the to familiarize yourself with this CCA, where Silverman works as cinema director. man’s body of work, then we don’t “As it is widely known right now, people really read know what is.

This isn’t just Sembene’s story, less and watch more movies. I took inspiration from Sembene, who from 1956 to 1960 wrote books,” says but Samba’s as well. Ironically, Gadjigo. “When he returned to Africa, he realized the very medium that Sembene that his message was being lost, because people did would abandon because it did not not know how to read. So I took inspiration from that have a mass appeal would inspire to not only author a biography, but to make a docu- his biographer to follow his work.

“By the time I was 14, I dreamed of mentary film.”

A son of a fisherman with only a fifth grade edu- becoming French, like the characPensive Ousmane Sembene. Probably thinking about how rad his films are. cation, Sembene would be concerned with effecting ters in the books I read in school,” social change, but he saw that his early literary ef- Samba says in the film. “When I forts reached only literate elites. His message was was 17, I discovered the stories of Ousmane Sembene. paradigm and the battle for African identity, most lost among the very people he was fervently trying to … Suddenly, I did not want to be French anymore. I notably by way of the tribal mask Diouna and her reach most. And so, armed with a small 16mm cam- wanted to be African.” Samba’s story would be as im- employers fight over during the film, all springing era, no lights, no grips, no gaffers, no trained actors portant as Sembene’s, as the two would build a rela- from a distinctly African point of view. Historically and no money, Sembene set to producing some of the tionship that weaves in and out of the main narrative, noteworthy, since Africans were not allowed to promost influential films ever made for an African audi- becoming a method of measurement for the impact duce their own films during Senegal’s era as a French colony. “The point is not that he was the first, but that of Sembene’s work. ence.

“Sembene was very much he was the one who set the trend for the next 60 years about telling stories that had pur- in African cinema,” says Gadjigo. “Sembene is the pose. He was very much a mission- mountain in the road that no one can go around.”

It’s remarkable just how close we came to losing the driven artist. And his mission was to reach the African people with archives of Ousmane Sembene. In the first moments his stories. And with Samba’s sto- of the documentary, the collection of his papers and ry, it was evidence that it worked,” original-language versions of his films sit moldering says Silverman. “He was really de- away in the middle of the floor at his old house in Sentermined to use the camera as a egal, behind chained doors. Later, they’re spread out weapon for liberation of Africans on the concrete outside, almost falling apart in the and did it against the most incred- hands of those sorting them, shards of rust dropping off of ancient film cans, piece by piece—the results of ible of odds.”

His first movie (also the first a life’s work, almost forgotten.

Now, many of his films are being restored and reisfeature film produced by African filmmakers), Black Girl (1966), sued as a classic release from Criterion Collection. “I about Diouna, an African woman think that [Sembene] is the last, greatest filmmaker working for a rich white couple, whose works are not well known to the general pubis certainly a product of its time— lic,” Silverman says. “He’s an essential filmmaker.” with the rough cuts and extreme camera angles that were common SEMBENE! in the French new wave, but with 7 pm Friday, Jan. 29. $15-$100 an eye and narrative all its own.

Lensic Performing Arts Center Filmmakers Gadjigo and Silverman could be a jazz duo in this photo.

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Down to business: Christmas came and went, and every present I bought for my extraordinary husband could be opened in front of our children.

He deserves better, and I have a particular gift in mind for Valentine’s Day. My husband has expressed an interest in sounding, something we’ve attempted only with my little finger. He seemed to enjoy it! But the last thing I want to do is damage his big beautiful dick. So is sounding a fun thing? Is sounding a safe thing?

Recommendations for a beginner’s sounding kit?

Or should I scrap the idea and just get him another butt plug?

-Safety Of Sounding P.S. Here is a picture of the big beautiful dick I don’t want to damage.

Sounding, for those of you who didn’t go to the same Sunday school I did, involves the insertion of smooth metal or plastic rods into the urethra.

Sounding is sometimes done for legitimate medical purposes (to open up a constricted urethra, to locate a blockage), and it’s sometimes done for legitimate erotic purposes (some find the sensation pleasurable, and others are turned on by the transgression, particularly when a man is being sounded, i.e., the penetrator’s penetrator penetrated).

So, yeah, some people definitely think sounding is a fun thing, SOS. “But whether or not something is a safe thing depends on knowledge of the risks/pitfalls and an observance of proper technique,” said Dr. Keith D. Newman, a urologist and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. “The urethral lining has the consistency of wet paper towels and can be damaged easily, producing scarring. And the male urethra takes a bend just before the prostate. Negotiating that bend takes talent, and that’s where most sounding injuries occur.”

Recreational cock sounders—particularly newbies—shouldn’t attempt to push past that bend.

But how do you know when you’ve arrived at that bend?

“SOS’s partner should do the inserting initially,” said Dr. Newman, “as the bend in the urethra is easily recognized by the soundee. Once he is clear on his cues—once he understands the sensations, what works, and when the danger areas are reached—SOS can participate safely with insertion.”

And cleanliness matters, SOS, whether you’re sounding the husband or serving burritos to the public.

“Infection is always an issue,” said Dr. Newman. “Clean is good, but the closer to sterile the better. And be careful about fingers. They can be more dangerous than sounds because of the nails and difficulty in sterilizing.”

So for the record, SOS: Your previous attempts at sounding—those times you jammed your little finger into your husband’s piss slit—were more dangerous than the sounding you’ll be doing with the lovely set of stainless-steel sounding rods you’ll be giving your hubby on Valentine’s Day. Moving on…

“Spit is not lube,” said Dr. Newman. “Water- or silicone-based lubes are good; oil-based is not so good with metal instruments.” (You can also go online and order little single-serving packets of sterile lubricant. Don’t ask me how I know this.)

Using “glass or other breakable instruments” as sounds is a Very Bad Idea. Dr. Newman was pretty emphatic on this point—and while it sounds like a fairly obvious point, anyone who’s worked in an ER can tell you horror stories about all the Very Bad Ideas they’ve retrieved from people’s urethras, vaginas, and rectums.

Now let’s go shopping!

“Choosing the best ‘starter kit’ is not hard: Pratt Dilators are not hard to find online, they’re not that expensive, and they will last a lifetime,” said Dr. Newman. (I found a set of Pratt Dilators on Amazon for less than $30.) And when your set arrives, SOS, don’t make the common mistake of starting with the smallest/skinniest sound in the

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pack. “Inserting something too small allows wiggle room on the way in and for a potential to stab the urethral wall,” said Dr. Newman.

The doc’s next safety tip will make sense after you’ve seen a set of Pratt Dilators: “Always keep the inserted curve facing one’s face, meaning the visible, external curve facing away toward one’s back.”

You can gently stroke your husband’s cock once the sound is in place, SOS; you can even blow him. Vaginal intercourse is off the table, obviously, and you might not wanna fuck his big beautiful dick with a sound until you’re both feeling like sounding experts. And when that time comes: Don’t stab away at his cock with a sound in order to sound-fuck him. A quality sound has some weight and heft—hold his erection upright, slowly pull the well-lubricated, non-glass sound until it’s almost all the way out, and then let go. It will sink back without any help from you.

Your husband’s butt should be plug-free during your sounding sessions, SOS, as a plug could compress a section his urethra. If you’re skilled enough to work around the bend—or if you’re foolish enough to push past it—the sound could puncture his compressed urethra. And a punctured urethra is every bit as unpleasant as it sounds. (Sorry.)

Finally, SOS, what about coming? Will your husband’s balls explode if he blows a load while a metal rod is stuffed in his urethra?

“Coming with the sound in place is a matter of personal preference,” said Dr. Newman. “There is no particular danger involved.”

P.S. Thank you for the picture.

My wife and I have an amazing relationship. Our sex life is as hot as it can be given a child and two careers. A couple of years ago, I bought her one of those partial-body sex dolls (it has a cock and part of the stomach). We took videos and pictures while using it. Very hot for both of us.

We later got a black version of the same toy. (We are white.) Even hotter videos. I have kept the videos in a secure app on my iPad. Over the past year, I have created Photoshop porn of my wife with black men using screenshots from commercial porn. I haven’t shared this with my wife. We never discussed what to do with the videos and pics we made. I assumed she trusted me not to share these images with anyone. (I haven’t and won’t!) Is it okay that I have a porn stash that features my wife? Is it okay that I have a stash of Photoshop porn of my wife fucking black men?

Should I share this info—and my fantasies—with her? I’ve always fantasized about her being with a black man, but I’m not sure either of us would truly want that to happen.

-Secretly Keeping Encrypted Porn That Isn’t Clearly Allowed Lately You need to speak to your wife about those pics and videos, about the way you’ve manipulated them, and about your fantasies—but that’s a lot to lay on her at once, SKEPTICAL, so take it in stages.

Find a time to ask her about those old pics and videos and whether she wants them discarded or if you can continue to hang on to them. At a different time, bring up your racially charged fantasies and let her know what those partial-body sex dolls were doing for you. And finally, SKEPTICAL, if she reacts positively to your having held on to the photos and to your fantasies, ask her how she feels about you creating a few images using Photoshop of her hooking up with a black man for fantasy purposes only. It’s a little dishonest— you’re asking for permission to do what you’ve already done—but you’ll know what you need to do if her answer to the Photoshop question is “No, absolutely not!” (To be clear: You’ll need to delete those Photoshopped pics.)

All that said, SKEPTICAL, if the images you’re holding on to—the originals and/or the manipulated ones—could destroy your marriage and/or your wife’s life and/or your wife’s career if they got out (computers can be hacked or stolen, clouds may not be as secure as advertised), don’t wait: Delete all of the images now.

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MUSIC

LUNA GALE Adobe Rose Theater 1213 B Parkway Drive, 629-8688 Hidden motives, buried secrets and moral ambiguity?

Babies? Good Lord, give them your money! It’s a play, by the way.

7:30 pm, $15-$20 NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: EL BAILE James A Little Theater 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429 NMSA Theatre Department Head Joey Chavez presents an original work set in 1865 Santa Fe. It's all about magical realism and traditional Northern New Mexico music.

7 pm, $5-$10 PORT AUTHORITY THROWDOWN Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Ah, the the-ay-ter, where a play by Mike Batistick, directed by Rick Vargas, captures your imagination and makes you feel all cultured.

7:30 pm, $12-$15

ANDY ZADROZNY El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Zadrozny unleashes his upright bass, his new band (consisting of Horace Alexander Young and Eugene Thulani) and his jazz on an unsuspecting public.

7:30 pm, no cover BENZO III Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Probably you'll be dancing, especially since we hear this guy called Manny "Funk" Lujan is involved.

8 pm, $5 BRANDEN JAMES Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and cello and vocals with Branden James (from the television program America's Got Talent) and James Clark.

8 pm, no cover BUFFALO NICKEL La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Honky-tonk and country tunes.

6 pm, no cover CHRIS ABEYTA AND GERRY CARTHY Low 'n' Slow Lowrider Bar 125 Washington Ave., 988-4900 Abeyta and Carthy join forces to make sweet traditional Northern New Mexican music.

7 pm, no cover DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Show tunes, standards and more with Geist and sometimes special guests. We've said it before and we'll say it again—get a dang date night goin' at this thing.

6 pm, no cover GREGG BUTERA AND THE GUNSELS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana, honky-tonk, country, fiddles, slide guitars and a whole bunch of other super for-real things to consume into your ears.

8:30 pm, no cover JJ AND THE HOOLIGANS The High Note 132 W Water St., 231-9918 Rock, R&B and dance jams.

8 pm, $5 KATHLENE RITCH Christ Lutheran Church 1701 Arroyo Chamiso, 467-9025 Southwest Arts presents soprano Kathlene Ritch in a solo recital.

4 pm, $20 LEVEL UP WITH NIC NAGEL, PIERCE G AND TEDDY NO NAME Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Hip-hop, Top 40, dance jams and lots more.

10 pm, $7

SAT/30 BOOKS/LECTURES JOYCEGROUP SANTA FE Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Discuss the works of James Joyce with renowned Joyce scholar Adam Harvey.

10 am-12:30 pm, free

EVENTS BEE HEALTHY SHARING AND HONEY TASTING Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar 102 W San Francisco St., 690-2383 What's not to like about bees and honey, right? Live music with Miriam Kass, honey from near and far, and that feeling that comes from being a part of something cool (see SFR Picks, page 23).

8 pm, free SANTA FE COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS PRESENTS TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR NEW MEXICO Santa Fe University of Art & Design 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, 982-4931 Former Lead International Trade Analyst for the US, Lisa Alejandro, speaks on this riveting topic.

3 pm, $15-$20

FOOD SOUPER BOWL XXII Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W Marcy St., 955-6206 Local restaurants compete in soup-based categories to benefit The Food Depot, which feeds hungry folks right here in New Mexico.

Noon, $10-$30

MEGA RAN The Underground 200 W San Francisco St., 819-1597 Hip-hop and beyond with Mega Ran, aka Random, OG Willikers, Asliani and Budah Bronson (see SFR Picks, page 23).

9 pm, $5 THE MET LIVE IN HD: TURANDOT Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Puccini really knew how to write a dang opera, that’s for sure.

11 am and 6 pm, $22-$28 MYSTIC LIZARD Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 One can be forgiven for assuming this has something to do with Jim Morrison as opposed to being a bluegrass band. Really, though, that's lucky because The Doors are just awful.

7 pm, no cover NOSOTROS The Palace 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Nosotros has this awesome rock-meets-salsa-meets-jazzmeets-dance kind of thing going on.

10 pm, $7 RAMON BERMUDEZ JR. TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Latin music and smooth jazz guitar.

6 pm, no cover SHOWCASE KARAOKE Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Still sometimes kinda mad about the whole "Don't Stop Believing" phenomenon, but that's cool. Pick a good song, for a change.

8:30 pm, no cover SONGS OF LOVE: LOVE SONGS FROM THE BALKANS San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-3974 Rumelia will show you what it means to have a heart and to love people and things and places, and they'll do it the Balkan way, which means it'll probably be moving and pretty.

8 pm, $20 THE BARBWIRES Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 2nd St., 982-3030 Blues-rock that oughta play well around here given how much everyone likes the damn blues-rock. But that’s cool. It isn’t like they’re Blues Hammer from Ghost World or anything.

6 pm, no cover THE SHACKS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Alt.pop jam-a-lams, which is a term we really regret inventing.

7 pm, no cover

THE CALENDAR TROY BROWNE DUO Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana goes great with lunch. Or with toiling on the railroad all the dang live-longday.

1 pm, no cover TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria d’Assisi 58 Federal Place, 986-5858 Binkley goes just bonkers on the piano, but it’s pretty casual, you guys.

6 pm, no cover LIVE IN HD: PUCCINI'S TURANDOT Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 It's a classic, you know.

11 am, $22-$28 NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: EL BAILE James A Little Theater 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429 NMSA Theatre Department Head Joey Chavez presents an original work set in 1865 Santa Fe. It's all about magical realism and traditional Northern New Mexico music.

7 pm, $5-$10 PORT AUTHORITY THROWDOWN Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Pay-what-you-wish gala for playwright Mike Batistick's tale of NYC Pakistanis and taxis.

7:30 pm, free

SUN/31 BOOKS/LECTURES JOURNEY SANTA FE PRESENTS NEW ENERGY ECONOMY AND ITS BATTLE AGAINST PNM Collected Works Bookstore 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 This sounds really intense, you guys. Meet New Energy Economy's Executive Director Mariel Nanasi and hear all about it.

11 am, free

EVENTS SUNDAY RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Santa Fe Railyard Plaza Guadalupe & Paseo de Peralta, 983-4098 Art, jewelry, ceramics, glassworks and tons more from local artisans.

10 am, free

MUSIC MARC YAXLEY TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo classical guitar over at the Wine Bistro.

6 pm, no cover MARIO REYNOLDS La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 South American guitar, flute and pan harp.

6 pm, no cover MIKE DILLON The High Note 132 W Water St., 231-9918 Indie-rock and Americana.

8 pm, $5

with Braden Anderson

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Y’all know Braden Anderson as the drummer for local desert rock band St. Range (formerly The Strange), but did you also know he’s working hard with new online magazine los foodies (losfoodiesmagazine.com)? We caught up with Anderson to ask about the new site as well as the upcoming St. Range show at Boxcar (9:30 pm Friday, Jan. 29, 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222) (ADV) What the heck is Los Foodies?

We’re an online digital magazine targeted at foodies, and we also make it a point to work with local restaurants that are all about sustainability and community ... farm-to-table, mom ’n’ pop kind of places with great food and great service. Santa Fe has the most restaurants per capita in the country, and we want to get that information out there to the people who want it.

And your band is still going, too?

Yeah, as St. Range, which was a really easy name change—we just put a point to it. We lost a guitarist but brought back our original keyboardist, Mitchell Lacassagne. He was one of the originators, and things have exploded sonically. Our guitarist Justin [Lindsey] and I had talked for years about adding synth or electronics in some way, and whereas we were so rigidly rock before, we can now do that. If someone comes to the show, they’ll still recognize us as The Strange, but we have reimagined a few of the older songs and written some new material. We can get ethereal or sound more like world music. It’s sounding great, and we’re a lot more open now.

So what’s next then?

We’re fundraising, because we need a van, but we’re definitely going to be touring and trying to take it more national. If we were comfortable playing Evangelo’s every other Friday, that would be one thing, but with the way the songwriting is going, we’re ready to go further, and now we’re just trying to keep it DIY and more selfsustainable. Why can’t there be a green band?

NACHA MENDEZ El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Latin and world music.

7 pm, no cover NEIL YOUNG TRIBUTE BRUNCH; JIM ALMAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Neil Young is paid tribute at noon and Jim Almand keeps it real Americana-wise.

Noon, no cover

THEATER EVER THE TWAIN: SHAKESPEARE IN MARK TWAIN'S AMERICA Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 A reading about two authors to benefit station KSFR. 7 pm, $10-$15

LUNA GALE Adobe Rose Theater 1213 B Parkway Drive, 629-8688 Do the ends justify the means? Find out in this gripping original play at Santa Fe’s newest theater.

3 pm, $15-$20 NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: EL BAILE James A Little Theater 1060 Cerrillos Road, 476-6429 NMSA Theatre Department Head Joey Chavez presents an original work set in 1865 Santa Fe. 2 pm, $5-$10 PORT AUTHORITY THROWDOWN Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Matinee performance of playwright Mike Batistick's tale of Pakistanis and taxis.

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hen I go to sleep, I often dream of Scotland. And in those dreams, I sometimes hear the recitation of poetry written by Robert Burns (1759-1796), the national poet of that great country. I’m a Scot-o-phile. I’m not sure why I harbor such a love of all things Scottish, but there are certainly much more harmful obsessions one could have.

Since 1801, people in Scotland and all over the world have celebrated Burns’ birthday (Jan. 25) with a Burns night, or Burns supper. Sometimes the party doesn’t land exactly on his actual birthday, but that’s OK. It’s about the poet and his achievements (he’s the one who gave us “Auld Lang Syne,” you know), and not the day itself.

In Santa Fe, the Burns night fête takes place on Saturday, Feb. 6, at Odd Fellows Hall (1125 Cerrillos Road, 983-7493). Hosted by the New Mexico branch of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, the evening includes dancing; live music by New Mexico Celtic-folk and oldtime-music ensemble Roaring Jelly; dinner; and, of course, the traditional haggis presentation. Address to a Haggis is a 1786 Burns poem memorializing the haggis (a true Scottish delight that is inextricably linked to the country’s culinary identity). In the ceremony, the poem

is recited, a haggis is presented and it is sliced open with a studied flourish.

“Our New Mexico Scottish Country Dance Society’s Burns night dance and dinner is a much smaller-scale event than the Burns night events I know take place in Albuquerque and Taos,” says Lucy Frey, president of the dance society chapter. “The celebration starts with a Scottish Country Dance—jigs, reels and strathspeys danced in different formations set down by the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society.

Dinner follows, with dancers often joined by family and friends.”

The dinner program begins with the Address to a Haggis, as well as a recitation of other Burns poems, Burns songs and toasts. “We do need RSVPs for the dinner by Jan. 30,” Frey explains, “so we can all plan to make the right amount of food and make sure that we do not overfill the hall.”

The menu for the night also includes haggis (of course), salad, roast beef, colcannon (mashed potatoes with kale, cabbage or both), roasted root vegetables, bread rolls, Scottish trifle, shortbread and a few non-alcoholic beverages (coffee, tea and sparkling cider). A dram or two of good Scottish whiskey would also be in order, but this is apparently a booze-free affair.

The haggis will be crafted by one of the dance society’s members, who has had the pleasure of making it for Robert Burns events in New Mexico for many years.

The meal of a true Highlander. There can be only one.

Too Much to Stomach?

A savory pudding traditionally fashioned from sheep’s offal (heart, lung, etc.), onion, oatmeal, spices and other ingredients before being stuffed in an animal-stomach lining and boiled, haggis is best described as an acquired taste. In the United States, authentic haggis can be hard to come by because the US Department of Agriculture still holds a ban on the import of animal lungs. And in Santa Fe, even lung-less versions are impossible to find in stores. Calls to Whole Foods Markets, Trader Joe’s and Sprouts came up empty. The folks at the Sprouts meat counter had never even heard of it.

Gabe Archuleta, the butcher at Dr. Field Goods Butcher Shop and Bakery, says the shop has fielded a few requests for haggis, but no decions

are firm about whether they’ll make some. In the meantime, family-owned and -operated haggis makers Macsween of Edinburgh recently claimed to have created the most expensive haggis ever, although it’s available by commission only, and you can’t get it here in the States. So, what’s in this 8.8-pound, £4,000 ($5,713.88 US) stomach lining?

Highland Wagyu beef, French summer white truffles, telicherry black pepper and edible 24-carat gold finish things off. This offends my Scot-o-phile sensibilities to the core. I may need a dram.

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You forget that the chorizo, the main ingredient, is even there, making it, in his words, “a New Mexican-style cheese dip.” It’s one of the more filling appetizers on the menu, whose very unorthodox dishes pleasingly range from blue corn crusted trout ($22) to sweet crab chile relleno ($17). The trout is a healthier version of fish and chips. The batter is blue corn, soaked in buttermilk, and the trout is coated with blue corn meal before it’s fried. There is a chipotle dipping sauce. As for the sweet crab chile relleno, it’s as sweet as the relleno is amply stuffed, making it one of the best around.

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MON/1 BOOKS/LECTURES BREAKFAST WITH O’KEEFFE Georgia O'Keeffe Museum 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 Continental brekkie from Santa Fe Baking Co. and a special guest speaker who loves O’Keeffe just as much as you.

9 am, $15 LET'S READ SHAKESPEARE! Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Readers of all ages can get together, learn a bit about the bard and then jump into the first scene of King Lear.

6 pm, free

EVENTS FREE TAX PREPARATION Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 SFCC accounting students are among 75 volunteers willing to assist anyone with their taxes.

8:30 am, free

MUSIC ANTONIO AVILA La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Mexican harp, which sounds cool. Admittedly, we only just heard about such a thing just a second ago, but the harp rules.

6 pm, no cover

TUE/2 BOOKS/LECTURES BUSINESS AND ART TALK WITH JOE FEDDERSEN AND DREW MICHAEL Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2300 Have lunch with the IAIA artists-in-residence and learn about business skills needed by artists.

Noon, free

EVENTS FREE TAX PREPARATION Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., 428-1000 SFCC accounting students are among 75 volunteers willing to assist anyone with their taxes.

8:30 am, free

MUSIC BILL HEARNE La Fonda on the Plaza 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 The local country legend works his ass off for you.

6 pm, no cover BRANDEN JAMES Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano and cello and vocals with James and James Clark.

8 pm, no cover CACTUS SLIM AND THE GOATHEADS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Blues-rock.

7 pm, no cover CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Blues jam session.

8:30 pm, no cover

DJ PRAIRIEDOG The Matador 116 W San Francisco St., 984-5050 Surf, garage, rockabilly, oldschool country and more.

9 pm, no cover LOUNGE SESSIONS WITH DJs GUTTERMOUTH AND DYNAMITE SOL Skylight Santa Fe 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 No cover and cheap beer/ food. Plus the music for which you long and pine (hip-hop and dance jams et al.).

8 pm, no cover PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Solo acoustic jazz guitar as performed by just about the coolest jazz guitar guy around.

6 pm, no cover TUCKER BINKLEY Osteria d’Assisi 58 Federal Place, 986-5858 Binkley goes just bonkers on the piano, but it’s pretty casual, you guys.

6 pm, no cover

ONGOING GALLERIES

136 GRANT 36 Grant Ave, 983-0075 John Boland, Mustangs and Other Wild Horses of Northern New Mexico. Through Jan. 31 ACADEMY FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING 133 Seton Village Road, 955-1860 Archives on Display.

ADOBE GALLERY 221 Canyon Road, 955-0550 Holiday Cochiti Pueblo Storyteller Collection. Through Jan. 31. The Marvin and Betty Rubin Collection. Through Feb. 16.

ART EXCHANGE GALLERY 60 E San Francisco St., Ste. 210, 603-4485 Santa Fe Six, Fall/Winter Show.

Through Jan. 31 ART GONE WILD GALLERIES 203 Canyon Road, Ste. B, 820-1004 Doug Bloodworth, Photo Realism.

ART.I.FACTORY 930 Baca St., Ste. C, 982-5000 Todd Christensen, Observing the Withdrawn.

BACK STREET BISTRO 513 Camino de los Marquez, 982-3500 Karen Cole. Geo, Eco, and Atmospheres. Through March 5 BINDLESTICK STUDIO 616 1/2 Canyon Road, (917) 679-8080 Jeffrey Schweitzer, The Biography of an Eccentric Gentleman.

CANYON ROAD CONTEMPORARY 402 Canyon Road, 983-0433 Craig Mitchell Smith, The Winter Garden.

CATENARY ART GALLERY 616 1/2 Canyon Road, 982-2700 Nicolai Panayotov, Sans Frontiéres.

CCA 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 David O’Brien. In the Garden of Externalities. Through March 20 CHIAROSCURO CONTEMPORARY ART 558 Canyon Road, 992-0711 Peter Millett. Venus. Holiday Group Show. Both through Jan. 23. Winter Group Show.

Through Feb. 6 DAVID RICHARD GALLERY 1570 Pacheco St., Ste. A1., 983-9555 Christian Haub, Float.

DOWNTOWN DAY SPA OF SANTA FE 624 Agua Fría St., 986-0113 Sharon Samuels, One-Woman Show.

EDITION ONE GALLERY 1036 Canyon Road, 422-8306 Soft.

ELLSWORTH GALLERY 215 E Palace Ave., 989-7900 Tim Klabunde.

EYE ON THE MOUNTAIN GALLERY 614 Agua Fría St., (928) 308-0319 Guadalupe Art Show.

FINE ART FRAMERS 1415 W. Alameda, 982-4397 Renée Vogelle, Will Schmitt, Tati Norbeck and Chad Erickson, Like ... You Know.

FREEFORM ARTSPACE 1619 C de Baca Lane, 692-9249 Jody Sunshine, Tales from the Middle Class.

GALLERY 901 708 Canyon Road, 780-8390 Eddy Shorty, Sculptures.

GREENBERG FINE ART 205 Canyon Road , 955-1500 Dennis Smith, Lighter than Air. IAIA 83 Avan Nu Po Road, 424-2387 Graduating Seniors Exhibition.

JAMES KELLY CONTEMPORARY 1611 Paseo de Peralta, 989-1601 Bill Jacobson, Lines in My Eyes.

LEWALLEN RAILYARD 1613 Paseo de Peralta, 988-3250 Michael Roque Collins, The Venetian; Forrest Moses, Monotypes LYN A FOX POTTERY 806 Old Santa Fe Trail, 820-0222 Lyn Fox, Whistlestop.

MANITOU GALLERIES 225 Canyon Road, 986-9833 Holiday Small Works.

MARIGOLD ARTS 424 Canyon Road, 982-4142 Carolyn Lankford, Robert Lyn Highsmith and Jim McLain.

MONROE GALLERY 112 Don Gaspar Ave., 992-0800 They Broke the Mold.

NATCHEZ ART STUDIO 201 Palace Ave., 231-7721 Stan Natchez, Indian without Reservation.

NEDRA MATTEUCCI GALLERIES 1075 Paseo de Peralta, 983-2731 Robert Lougheed, A Brilliant Life in Art. OFFROAD PRODUCTIONS 2891-B Trades West Road, 670-9276

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READINGS & CONVERSATIONS brings to Santa Fe a wide range of writers from the literary world of fiction, nonfiction and poetry to read from and discuss their work.

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CHEESE IT Congratulations to Cheesemongers of Santa Fe cheesemonger Lilith Spencer, who fought her way to a major win at the Cheesemonger Invitational in San Francisco recently. Billed on the invitational website as the “Fight Club MeetsWrestleMania of Cheese,” the event brings together cheesemongers, cheesemakers and cheese lovers for fun, fromage and fierce-yet-friendly competition. It’s kind of a big deal. Go congratulate her and get some stinky cheese. Hats off, Lilith! You’ve done us proud!

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WEDNESDAY 3 FEBRUARY AT 7PM LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Teju Cole, writer, art historian, photographer, and photography critic of The New York Times Magazine, is the author of the novella Every Day Is for the Thief, named a book of the year by The New York Times. Of his novel Open City, Time Magazine said, “A powerful and unnerving inquiry into the human soul. Cole has earned flattering comparisons to literary heavyweights like J.M. Coetzee, W.G. Sebald and Henry James, but Open City merits higher praise: it’s a profoundly original work, intellectually stimulating and possessing of a style both engaging and seductive.”

Teju Cole has contributed to The New York Times, The New Yorker, the Financial Times, Aperture, The Atlantic, Granta and several other publications. His photography has been exhibited in India and the US, published in a number of journals, and will be the subject of a solo exhibition in Italy.

Born in the US in 1975 to Nigerian parents, and raised in Nigeria, Cole currently lives in Brooklyn. A recipient of the PEN/Hemingway Award and the 2015 Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction, Teju Cole is the Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.

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Some Santa Fe beer lovers had a sad face for a spell when it was announced that on Jan. 30, California-based craft brewer Ballast Point would be holding a Victory at Sea Day taproom takeover—in Albuquerque, at Nob Hill Bar & Grill. Named after the brewer’s titular coffee-vanilla porter, the event now has a separate Santa Fe date at the Violet Crown Cinema in the Santa Fe Railyard. Things kick off at 6 pm on Thursday, Feb. 11.

SANDWICH ME Have you been looking at the sandwich porn on Santa Fe Culinary Academy’s Facebook page? If not, get over there sometime soon. The students have been ramping up their mad sammy skills in anticipation of the reopening of the student restaurant on the campus (on Thursday, Feb. 11). The menu is still a work in progress, but there is no denying these serious cooks have been doing the work of sandwich angels in anticipation of your arrival next month.

HERE’S MUD IN YOUR MOUTH Santa Fe Brewing Co. has added a new brew to its canned lineup, and Betty Crocker could definitely take a few recipe tips from SFBC brewmaster Bert Boyce. The new offering, called Adobe Igloo, is described as “our New Mexican answer to the classic Winter Warmer: dark red, full-bodied, and malt-forward. Traditionally, Winter Warmers are balanced with extra hops or a Wintery spice blend. We instead drew on our rich culinary heritage and focused on cacao nibs and red chile flakes. Offering chile flavor without heat and dusty raw cocoa rather than sweet chocolate, Adobe Igloo’s intriguing complexity will keep you coming back, sip after warming sip.” The cans are beautiful, and who doesn’t like the chilechocolate combo?

MING’S THE THING! Congrats to James Beard Award-winning celebrity chef and former Santacafé chef Ming Tsai, who has been tapped to host the James Beard Foundation Book, Broadcast and Journalism Awards at Chelsea Piers in New York City on April 26. If you want to keep tabs on who the chef semifinalists and other award nominees are for 2016, including best chef of the Southwest, mark your calendars. The Restaurant and Chef Award semifinalists will be announced on Feb. 17, and nominees for all award categories drop live on March 15. If you need to be the first to know, they tend to announce nominees live via Twitter before posting to their website.

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THE CALENDAR MUSEUMS

Sabrina Gschwandtner’s “Camouflage” is part of Luminous Flux 2.0, opening on Friday at Art House.

Nick Benson, Thais Mather, Todd Christensen, Penumbra Letter Press, Burning Books Press, Printed Matter THE OWINGS GALLERY 120 E Marcy St., 982-6244 Holiday Treasures. Historic Selections. Both through Jan. 23 PATINA GALLERY 131 W Palace Ave., 986-3432 Claire Kahn.

PEYTON WRIGHT GALLERY 237 E Palace Ave., 989-9888 Group show, The Art of Devotion. Through March 11.

PHIL SPACE 1410 2nd St., 983-7945 Donald Rubinstein, Music Fields/Energy Lines. Aaron Rhodes, Eye Candy.

PHOTO-EYE GALLERY 541 S Guadalupe St., 988-5152 Chaci Terada, Between Water & Sky. Alan Friedman and Douglas Levere, Fire & Ice. POP GALLERY 125 Lincoln Ave., Ste. 111, 820-0788 Winter Salon. Through March 31 RANGE WEST GALLERY 2861 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 474-0925 Shelly Johnson, Cirque de la Vie. RIEKE STUDIOS 416 Alta Vista St., 913-1215 Serena Rieke, Memento.

SAGE CREEK GALLERY 421 Canyon Road, 988-3444 Winter Show.

SANTA FE COLLECTIVE 1114 Hickox St., 670-4088 Tom Appelquist.

SANTA FE ART COLLECTOR 217 Galisteo St., 988-5545 Ken Bonner, Land of Tom Enchantment.

SANTA FE CLAY 545 Camino de la Familia, 984-1122 Amanda Jaffe and Suzanne Kane. Cups.

SANTA FE WEAVING GALLERY 124 Galisteo St., 982-1737 Judith Bird, Handwoven Shibori Tunics and Shawls.

A SEA IN THE DESERT GALLERY 836 A Canyon Road., 988-9140 Friedrich Geier.

SFUAD 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, 473-6440 Valerie Rangel, Don’t Kill the Messenger.

SORREL SKY GALLERY 125 W Palace Ave., 501-6555 Group show, Winter Wonderland. Jim Bagley, Deep into Nature. Gerald Balciar.

TRESA VORENBERG GOLDSMITHS 656 Canyon Road, 988-7215 Heyoka Merrifield, The New Treasures.

VIVO CONTEMPORARY 725 Canyon Road, 982-1320 Material Matters.

WAITS STUDIO WORKS 2855 Cooks Road, Ste. A, 270-2654 Laura Wait.

WIFORD GALLERY 403 Canyon Road, 982-2403 Barry Thomas, Voices of the West.

WILLIAM SIEGAL GALLERY 540 S Guadalupe St., 820-3300 Kathryn Keller.

EL ZAGUÁN 545 Canyon Road, 983-2567 Carolyn Riman, Advent.

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 From New York to New Mexico: Masterworks of American Modernism from the Vilcek Foundation Collection.

IAIA/MoCNA 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Moving Image Classification X Winners. Through Feb. 14.

Visions and Visionaries. Through July 31, 2017; Akunnittinni: A Kinngait Family Portrait.

Through April 1; Forward: Eliza Naranjo Morse. Through July 31.

Lloyd Kiva New: Art, Design and Influence. Through July 31.

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Turquoise, Water, Sky: The Stone and Its Meaning. Through May 2, 2016. Here, Now and Always and The Buchsbaum Gallery of Southwestern Pottery.

Adriel Heisley, Oblique Views: Archaeology, Photography and Time. Through May 25, 2017 MUSEUM OF INT’L FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Multiple Visions: A Common Bond. Flamenco: From Spain to New Mexico. Both through Sept. 11, 2016 MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 The Beltrán-Kropp Art Collection from Peru; Early 20th Century Artists of New Mexico; Conexiones: The Delgado Room.

NM HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5019 Fading Memories: Echoes of the Civil War. Through Feb. 26.

Lowriders, Hoppers, and Hot Rods: Car Culture of Northern New Mexico. Through March 5. Painting the Divine: Images of Mary in the New World.

Through March 13. Along the Pecos: A Photographic and Sound Collage. Through June 19, 2016. Setting the Standard: The Fred Harvey Company and Its Legacy.

NM MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 An American Modernism.

Through Feb. 21. That Multitudes May Share: Building the Museum of Art. Through March 20, 2016 PALACE OF THE GOVERNORS 105 W Palace Ave., 476-5100 Along the Pecos: A Photographic and Sound Collage. Through June 19, 2016 WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 704 Camino Lejo, 986-4636 Connoirship and Good Pie: Ted Coe and Collecting Native Art. Through April 17, 2016

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barf

Let Him Die!

Dirty Grandpa is the second trumpet of the Apocalypse

BY ALEX DE VORE @teamalex

It’s hard to say for whom Dirty Grandpa is more embarrassing: Aubrey Plaza or Robert DeNiro. Plaza, of course, must have assumed she’d be huge during the fervor surrounding the admittedly excellent Parks & Recreation (she was wrong), but for the veteran, award-winning DeNiro, the summertime “sex”

romp represents a new low, and we’re totally aware of that movie where he’s an old guy who boxes another old guy.

The story follows Jason (Zac Efron, whose embarrassment we won’t even bother to gauge, since he’s basically worthless), a young lawyer whose grandmother has just died and, while on the precipice of marriage to some ghastly woman who forces him to compare tie colors during the funeral,

SCORE CARD

ok

meh

barf

see it now

not too bad

rainy days only

avoid at all costs

yay!

cepting-of-sexual-orientations grandfather’s apt pointing out that, “If you marry this girl, you’ll spend the rest of your life sleepwalking.”

Jason obviously falls for not-hisfiancee (duh) and does exactly what you’d think he’d do. That’s how bad this movie is—it doesn’t even matter if we spoil it. Even the usually super-funny Jason Mantzoukas (also of Parks & Recreation) as a drug dealer can’t provide laughs, and the ridiculous notion that the inept cops of Daytona Beach would simply allow him to leave incarceration with the drugs he came in with blows right past absurd to just plain stupid.

Throw in a Danny Glover appearance for which the word “cameo” would be too strong, the always-painfullybland Dermot Mulroney as Jason’s father and a sad appearance from Adam Pally (who can and should be carrying other, funnier movies), and what’s left is a steaming pile of shit that is so beyond insulting to anyone with a sense of humor even slightly more refined than the average 10-year-old. For the love of God, you guys, do not see this movie.

DIRTY GRANDPA with DeNiro, Efron, Plaza and Mantzoukas Violet Crown, Regal R, 102 min.

SCREENER

yay!

barf

agrees to drive his grandfather to his vacation home in Florida following the service. But oh—what’s this? Turns out Grandpa has an affinity for pornography (he refers to j-ing off as “taking a number 3”), knows everyone’s name in the Wu-Tang Clan and, like the irritatingly tiresome antics of the insanely overrated Betty White, says and does all kinds of dumb/obscene shit that’s supposed to make us laugh because ohmy-God—old people aren’t usually like this! Le sigh.

While en route, the pair runs into a former college classmate of Jason’s (Zoey Deutch, who is somehow still in college even though Jason is a lawyer and what the hell is going on with the continuity here?), whose slutty pal, played by Plaza, convinces them to hit Daytona for the spring break festivities because she is out to bang old dudes because she is.

Since DeNiro wants to, and I quote, “Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck,” following the passing of his wife, the game is afoot despite Jason’s propensity towards being a little bitch from years of living under his awful fiancee’s thumb.

Of course, when you’re as pent up as Jason, even a little bit of partying with co-eds obviously results in bingedrinking, semi-nude “Macarena,” multiple arrests, the accidental smoking of crack (how is that funny?) and the complete implosion of your lifestyle thanks to your borderline racist yet oddly ac-

DIRTY GRANDPA

“For the love of God, you guys, do not

see this movie”

CENSORED VOICES

“war never changes”

IP MAN 3

meh

“overall, this movie is a bunch of

yay!

“takes its time and forces us to con-

yay!

“Turns out the only thing Star Wars

missed opportunities”

THE REVENANT

front its violence”

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS needed was less George Lucas”

CENSORED VOICES War. War never changes. Between June 5 and June 10, 1967, Israel fought a two-front war against the collected forces of Syria, Egypt and Jordan. Looking down the literal barrel of existential destruction, Israeli forces succeeded in handily defeating the collected Arab forces with lightning-fast operations — with Bill Downs of ABC News quoting unnamed US Department of Defense officials renaming “an old combat tactic, now calling it the ‘blintzekrieg.’” The results of this war would shape the modern-day borders of what we know as Israel today.

After the conflict, many soldiers who fought recorded their recollections about the war at their local kibbutz (a community hall originally centered around agriculture; those who frequented them were called “kibbutzniks”), telling stories about reflecting their terror, disgust and broken hearts. Only about 30 percent of the recordings were released, until now, and that is the premise of the new documentary Censored Voices.

The film consists largely of a voice-over of the recordings coupled with present-day reaction shots of the ex-soldiers who are featured in the recordings, as well as film footage of the war and ABC News interviews with Israeli soldiers.

The film delves into the emotional toll that combat can exact on those who participate in it and explores the concept of the “just war.”

Chilling eyewitness accounts of murder

and the forced evacuation of Arab civilians and surrendered fighters by Israeli soldiers are heart-wrenching, with more than a few expressing empathy for those they killed or displaced. Censored Voices is definitely a slow burn, with steady pressure being mounted moment after moment, atrocity after atrocity. If you lack any information on the recent history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, Censored Voices is an excellent place to start. If anything, the film’s subject matter remains timely and shows us that war … war never changes. (Ben Kendall) CCA Cinematheque, NR, 87 min.

IP MAN 3

Kung Fu movies are awesome. When given the opportunity to review Ip Man 3, it’s advisable to jump-kick at the chance. Unfortunately, Ip Man 3 disappointed in everything but the Kung Fu department.

It’s a known story principle that a fight scene only has meaning if the characters involved in the fight have some sort of relationship. Unfortunately, these relationships are erratic and poorly defined, as the story jumps back and forth between several different plots that fail to resolve adequately (or at all) during the course of the film. And there’s Mike Tyson.

Yes, the sport of boxing’s favorite ’80s bad-boy woodenly acts his way through some bizarre scenes as a crime lord in 1959 Hong Kong. He even has his strange facial tattoo. I don’t have to be so harsh, Tyson is

misued by the script. We know that’s Mike Tyson, lines for his character aren’t nescessary. But then, why is Tyson a crime boss in 1959 Hong Kong, anyway? He doesn’t fit.

“Inexplicable” isn’t a strong enough word.

There’s also a badly executed “my Kung Fu is better than your Kung Fu” plot line that weaves its way through the A-plot of crime lords taking what they want in a campaign of muscle and fear. At the same time, Ip Man’s (Donnie Yen) wife has cancer and keeps getting interrupted in delivering the bad news.

This thread takes up most of the third act, and just when it seems like there’s some sort of theme emerging, the film ends. That’s the problem with this movie: There’s no damn story, no resolution, no point.

What is this movie about? Is it standing up for what you believe? Is it “the rich and powerful don’t rule the world, but those pure of heart”? Or maybe the theme is “there’s nothing more important than having the love of your life at your side”? We don’t know. Ip Man 3 suffers from an all-too-common film sin: The script isn’t written well enough to provide emotional content. I will concede, however, that the scenes in which Man cares for his dying wife did tug on my heartstrings a little. Abandoning the crime lord story in favor of greater depth in the feuding Kung Fu schools and its effect on Man’s tenuous marriage in the face of mortality would have been a better way to go.

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Steel your heart for some heavy subject matter in Censored Voices. in this film, either (historical note: Bruce Lee learned Kung Fu from Ip Man in real life during this time of history). If you had added some of Bruce’s hot-headed badassery coupled with Ip Man’s level-headed (and ultimately successful) attempts to control Lee’s furious skill against the backdrop of warring rivals … man, that would have been awesome. If you’re going to go all out in fabricating the life of a historical figure, at least make it good. Let’s be honest, Donnie Yen didn’t look 67, either.

Overall, this movie is just a bunch of missed opportunities wrapped in slick production values. The fighting, taken alone, is well executed and filmed with a wide enough angle to provide an ample view for all the stunts. That isn’t enough to carry a film. (BK) Regal, PG-13 , 105 min.

THE REVENANT

Whereas there are any number of standout western films that occupy the pantheon of filmmaking, there has been an almost unnoticeable resurgence in postmodern, cerebral storytelling within the genre over the past two decades.

Films like Unforgiven, True Grit or even Ravenous took the stripped-down good guy rides horse to the showdown with bad guy trope and replaced it with concepts like obsession, racism, revenge, murder and intrigue that play out in the untapped frontier of a burgeoning nation in fascinating ways.

Director Alejandro González Iñárritu—the man behind 2014’s brilliant Birdman—tackles these ideas in the new Leonardo DiCaprio-driven western, The Revenant. Set in 1800-something, DiCaprio plays Hugh Glass, a homesteader/survivalist type who, in an American melting pot of violence and tense race relations, lives between conflicting planes of existence. We know little of Glass’ past other than he fathered a son with a Native American woman who was killed during the war. This death continues to haunt Glass some years later as he assists a hunting party from the Rocky Mountain Fur Company during a harsh winter on the wild and wooly American frontier.

Based on true events (Glass really did exist, y’all), the men must contend with the elements as well as a pursuing sortie of Native warriors hell-bent on finding the kidnapped daughter of their leader. During the expedition, Glass is brutally mauled by a grizzly bear and ultimately left for dead by the villain of the piece, John Fitzgerald, a gutless wonder of self-absorption and greed who also murders Glass’s son right before him. Against all odds, our hero survives and, propelled only by his thirst for revenge, traverses hundreds of miles while physically and mentally

broken and alone.

It is intense, a twisted sort of love letter to a father’s love for his son. The constant solitude and indifference found in the vast unsettled expanses are crushing, and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki (Gravity, Children of Men) captures the bleak cold and hopelessness in such stunning detail that one can almost feel the frozen expanses looming ever closer; the closing darkness suffocating; the brisk winds clawing from all sides; the perils that lurk behind every tree and over every distant hill.

This is an exceptionally violent film in ways that may shock even the most desensitized viewer. But it is never gratuitous. Rather, with each decision Glass must make to survive, we are shown the true meaning of fight-or-flight in a way that only serves to illustrate his drive. The real horror is found within the cruelty of man and the indifference of nature. And it is beautiful. The stark contrasts between establishing shots of ominous towering trees or the fractured chaos of an icy river bend make the imagery of coldblooded murder, survivalism and even rape seem far more startling than they already are, and as we struggle and fail to understand Fitzgerald’s motives, a point is reached where we too begin to relent to Glass’s bloodlust.

DiCaprio gives the performance of his career as a man who rarely speaks but can still convey more than his fair share of hurt. Even in something as simple as the vocalization of pain, he conveys a labored sense of life to which he clings only to achieve his goal.

The Revenant takes its time and forces us to confront its violence in almost uncomfortable ways, but this is actually refreshing. No scene or exchange seems unnecessary. Every last moment is riveting, and as far as the po-mo western is concerned, it sets a new standard in terms of the assumption that audiences can be intelligent and truly savor a slow burn. (ALEX DE VORE) Violet Crown, R, 156 min.

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS

Obviously the new installment from sci-fi overlord JJ Abrams had been highly anticipated by super-nerds like us, but even more than that, it represented a possible turning point for the series after the garbage of the prequel trilogy.

I am happy to report that it has essentially erased any concerns we may have had about the franchise while opening an exciting new chapter in the operatic space tale of love, loss and lasers.

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The Force Awakens is a sci-fantasy of the first order. Eh? Eh? Sorry. old and the new into a tight and action-packed story. The Empire, as we all know from Return of the Jedi, is no more, but a new shady and evil sect has risen in their place. The First Order is basically the same thing—maybe a little more Nazi-like—right down to the storm troopers, the mysterious and monstrous puppet master who pulls the strings from his throne and is like, I dunno, royalty or something, maybe, and the masked super-villain, Kylo Ren, who is so totally evil, but maybe there’s something about his past we don’t know yet that might explain why, and we’ll just have to be patient and find out.

We shan’t delve into further details so as to not spoil it for those who haven’t been yet, but suffice it to say that some serious shit goes down. The battle of light vs. dark is the oldest story in existence, but through artfully executed moments of fan service via cameos, blink-andmiss-it background moments and the use of CGI as enhancement rather than focus, The

Force Awakens solidifies itself in the canon while blasting its way into a league of its own. For every harrowing dogfight in space or samuraiesque light saber duel, there is a tantalizing emotional thread to follow or legitimately funny exchange to enjoy; for every gasp-inducing reveal or unbelievable plot twist, there is a beautiful vista or solid performance. Seriously, this movie is far better than you were probably prepared to hope for.

Of course, this is only the first chapter of a trilogy, so questions remain, but the heartwrenching final moments provide a satisfying conclusion while leaving the door wide open to take the story in any direction its caretakers desire. Longtime fans and initiates will find more than enough to love here, and no matter where you fall on the Star Wars love spectrum, one thing’s for sure—the next chapter can’t come soon enough. (ADV) Regal, Violet Crown, PG-13, 135 min.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Do you know Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights? At one point, the heroine Catherine tells her friend about Edgar, a man she’s interested in. “He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace,” Catherine says, “and I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.” If you’re a typical Aries, you’re more aligned with Catherine than with Edgar. But I’m hoping you might consider making a temporary compromise in the coming weeks. “At last, we agreed to try both,” Catherine concluded, “and then we kissed each other and were friends.”

compare your life to these two events may be bombastic, but I’m in a bombastic mood as I contemplate your exciting possibilities. I predict that in the second half of 2016, you’ll claim a victory that will make up for a loss or defeat you endured during the last few months of 2015. And right now is when you can lay the groundwork for that future triumph.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) People turn to you Tauruses for help in staying grounded. They love to soak up your down-to-earth pragmatism. They want your steadfastness to rub off on them, to provide them with the stability they see in you. You should be proud of this service you offer! It’s a key part of your appeal.

Now and then, though, you need to demonstrate that your stalwart dependability is not static and stagnant— that it’s strong exactly because it’s flexible and adaptable. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to emphasize this aspect of your superpower.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Playwright Edmond Rostand (1868-1918) had a lot of friends, and they often came to visit him uninvited. He found it hard to simply tell them to go away and leave him alone. And yet he hated to be interrupted while he was working.

His solution was to get naked and write for long hours while in his bathroom, usually soaking in the bathtub.

His intrusive friends rarely had the nerve to insist on socializing. In this way, Rostand found the peace he needed to create his masterpiece Cyrano de Bergerac, as well as numerous other plays. I suggest you consider a comparable gambit, Scorpio. You need to carve out some quality alone time.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) “I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.” The preceding reminiscence belongs to a character in Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) When winter comes, pine I bring it up in hopes that you will do the opposite: trees that grow near mountaintops may not be able to Say the words that need to be said. Articulate what draw water and minerals from the ground through their you’re burning to reveal. Speak the truths that will roots. The sustenance they require is frozen. Luckily, send your life on a course that’s in closer alignment their needle-like leaves absorb moisture from clouds with your pure intentions. and fog, and drink in minerals that float on the wind.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) According to some Metaphorically speaking, Gemini, this will be your traditional astrologers, you Capricorns are vigilant to preferred method for getting nourished in the coming avoid loss. Old horoscope books suggest that you weeks. For the time being, look UP to obtain what you may take elaborate measures to avoid endangering need. Be fed primarily by noble ideals, big visions, what you have accumulated. To ensure that you will divine inspiration, and high-minded people. never run out of what you need, you may even ration CANCER (June 21-July 22) We all go through phases your output and limit your self-expression. This when we are at odds with people we love. Maybe we’re behavior is rooted in the belief that you should mad at them, or feel hurt by them, or can’t conserve your strength by withholding or even hiding comprehend what they’re going through. The test of your power. While there may be big grains of truth in our commitment is how we act when we are in these this conventional view of you Capricorns, I think it’s moods. That’s why I agree with author Steve Hall when only part of the story. In the coming weeks, for he says, “The truest form of love is how you behave instance, I bet you will wield your clout with toward someone, not how you feel about them.” The unabashed authority. You won’t save yourself for coming weeks will be an important time for you to later; you’ll engage in no strategic self-suppression. practice this principle with extra devotion—not just for Instead, you will be expansive and unbridled as you the sake of the people you care about, but also for your do whatever’s required to carry out the important own physical, mental, and spiritual health. foundation work that needs to be done.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) After fighting and killing each other for years on end, the Roman and Persian armies agreed to a truce in 532 A.D. The treaty was optimistically called “The Endless Peace.” Sadly, “endless” turned out to be just eight years. By 540, hostilities resumed. I’m happy to announce, though, that your prospects for accord and rapprochement are much brighter. If you work diligently to negotiate an endless peace anytime between now and March 15, it really is likely to last a long time.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) “I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people, to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole.” Author Lauren Oliver wrote that, and now I’m offering it to you, just in time for your Season of Correction and Adjustment. The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to get smarter about evaluating your allies— and maybe even one of your adversaries, as well. I expect you will find it relatively easy, even pleasurable, to overcome your misimpressions and deepen your incomplete understandings.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) In June 1942, the U.S. Navy crushed Japanese naval forces at the Battle of Midway. It was a turning point that was crucial to America’s ultimate victory over Japan in World War II. One military historian called it “the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare.”

This milestone occurred just six months after Japan’s devastating attack on U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor. To

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) “It seems that the whole time you’re living this life, you’re thinking about a different one instead,” wrote Latvian novelist Inga Abele in her novel High Tide. Have you ever been guilty of that, Aquarius? Probably. Most of us have at one time or another. That’s the bad news. The good news is that the coming months will bring you excellent opportunities to graduate forever from this habit. Not all at once, but gradually and incrementally, you can shed the idea that you should be doing something other than what you’re doing. You can get the hang of what it’s like to thoroughly accept and embrace the life you are actually living. And now is an excellent time to get started in earnest on this project.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) “Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales,” says a character in Ivan Turgenev’s novel Fathers and Sons. In other words, these marvelous birds, which sing sublimely and have long been invoked by poets to symbolize lyrical beauty, need actual physical sustenance. They can’t eat dreamy stories. Having acknowledged that practical fact, however, I will suggest that right now you require dreamy stories and rambling fantasies and imaginary explorations almost as much as you need your daily bread. Your soul’s hunger has reached epic proportions. It’s time to gorge.

Homework: What could you do to free your imagination from its bondage? Read “Liberate Your Imagination”: http://bit.ly/Liberate

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