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NEWS 7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6 SFR V. MARTINEZ—STILL 11 You win some, you lose some

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CARRYING BIG STICKS 12 Does Bigfoot speak softly?

BACK TO THE BARRIO: HOPEWELL MANN

HOW MANY TIMES? 13 We ask for interviews. A lot COVER STORY 14 2018 RESOLUTIONS Folks around town have some thoughts on the new year, and your best friends at SFR have compiled them for you THE INTERFACE 25 HANDS-ON The rise of maker spaces, and Julia’s sad pop-up holiday card

Alicia Inez Guzmán digs into the local neighborhood as part of her ongoing series on Santa Fe’s past and present.

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SFR PICKS 26 A double dose of all things X-Mas and NYE THE CALENDAR 29 MUSIC 34 THE BIG OL’ 2017 MUSICAL YEAR IN REVIEW Highlights from the last 12 months A&C 37 BACK TO THE BARRIO: HOPEWELL MANN The neighborhoods you (sort of) know and love SAVAGE LOVE X2 38 Twice the Savage, twice the love A&C 43 COLOR THEORY Beads and weaves

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THE ENTHUSIAST, DEC. 6: “TRAIL READY”

WINNER – Best of Santa Fe 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017!

JUST DO IT Last year we hiked from the visitor center to Painted Cave—it was serene and beautiful.

The trail was actually in better shape than the year before when we didn’t quite make it to the cave. Didn’t see another soul the entire three days. The trails wasn’t all that bad—yes, we had to hike the creek bed, but that was easy as it was fall and the water level was low.

Get your packs on, bring a water purifier for Capulin Canyon’s creek (and plenty of water to carry until that point)—sleep out in the peaceful country. What could be better?!

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3 QUESTIONS, DEC. 6: “WITH MARY RIVES”

COLLECTIVE OF BEINGS This is an exhilarating time for the collective, as all beings, whether they are cognizant of it or not, are positively influenced when each of the pieces (or individuals) is respected and acknowledged. I do not find it surprising that the Chief Gaslighting Officer of the land calls women who are bravely stepping into their truth liars. It is the way of the bully to attempt to shame people into silence. Silent no more, we step into our power courageous, vocal, and strong. We started off the year with women marching into their pinkness onto Washington.

Wonder Woman soon exploded across the big screens. It’s time for each and every one of us to acknowledge what we have always suspected.

We are worthy, we are strong, we speak out truths with courage, conviction, and love for the collective.

CANDY JONES SFREPORTER.COM

¡POUR VIDA!, DEC 6: “UNDER PRESSURE”

WE LIKE BLANC DE NOIRS Yeah, yeah, yeah, All this is worthwhile. But I say, as a former Santa Fean, just purchase and enjoy Gruet sparkling wine. It’s local (Albuquerque) and is not pretentious. Plus it is excellent! So there.

MICHAEL McCAULEY SFREPORTER.COM

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Who do you think reads your paper?

It’s winter in Santa Fe. We don’t have crowds of wealthy, elderly visitors picking up hip tabloids.

The average Reporter reader can barely afford a happy hour vintage at a downtown restaurant and yet food and wine articles continually push bottles way beyond our means.

How about a series promoting fine wines for $12 or less from Trader Joe’s?

Or, even better, try a piece encouraging our dining establishments to consider our pocketbooks.

We underpaid/overworked locals enjoy fine dining, too. But, we are continually neglected when it comes to shopping within our budgets.

There’s not a business in town that considers the average local economy during Wine and Chile Festival.

Don’t forget the rest of us.

(Taco article was a terrific exception.)

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On Dec. 8, 2017, while shopping at the Whole Foods Market on Cerrillos Road in Santa Fe, I noticed that the usual placement of periodicals, like the Santa Fe Reporter, was absent.

Management informed that all printed publications are located at the entrance of “the Pub,” the new wine bar area.

Usually the printed publications are at the main door of the Whole Foods Market near the exit. The printed publications are now in an area where some consumers may not see them at all. This may decrease readership, as some consumers do not visit “the Pub” at Whole

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You FCC REPEALS NET NEUTRALITY

And as soon as everyone figures out what that means, they’ll know it’s a sure sign of the apocalypse.

CITY COUNCIL LOWERS RENT FOR SANTA FE UNIVERSITY OF ART AND DESIGN Screwing students turns out to be cheaper than originally thought.

CDC BANS A BUNCH OF WORDS THEY PROBABLY SHOULDN’T HAVE BANNED

If you ban a ’re gonna word .. .

When does the ridiculousness end?

Never? OK. Just checking.

SWAIA CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER TO STEP DOWN And unlike previous COOs, this one didn’t embezzle anything. As far as we know.

BIKE UNDERPASS OFFICIALLY OPENS No word on any future plans for the rest of the city’s deathtrappy “bike lanes.”

EVERYBODY HATES JEROME BLOCK JR. Except for journalists because, damn, this shit is riveting!

IRON CHEF BOBBY FLAY SAYS NEW MEXICAN FOOD IS MAKING A COMEBACK Hey, Flay, we don’t do food to please you.

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LETTERS Foods Market.

The convenience of seeing the Reporter readily, in a place where it it is convenient to obtain the publication is important for the community. If this is the future for the access to the Reporter at Whole Foods Market, then readership may decrease.

NICOLETTA L MUNROE SANTA FE Editor’s Note: Much like the aforementioned situation at Trader Joe’s, unfortunately, our placement at Whole Foods is determined by the store’s parent company. We hear stories like this more and more from corporations that don’t value community journalism the way our community of readers do. But don’t despair: You can still find our stories online (SFReporter.com), and our print edition is available at over 300 locations around the city—check La Montañita Co-op or at Smith’s (both locations in Santa Fe and the one in Los Alamos).

OH I’d really appreciate it if the Santa Fe Reporter and all other newspapers in this city, free or otherwise, would get rid of the boxes. There are over 200 of them in the downtown area alone.

Not only are they an eyesore they also take up valuable sidewalk space.

ROBERT M JOHNSON VIA FACEBOOK Editor’s Note: Guess that’s another way of looking at it.

FOOD, NOV. 15: “SHOW ME THE WAY TO THE NEXT WHISKEY BAR”

WAT Francis you mean to be rude but I thought your review for the ‘tonic’ restaurant was terrible it seemed you were more inti décor rather the the food,and maybe I’m a bit dumb here but the writing was terrible to read, I read it more then once,btw I’ve never been to place or know the owner but you sure didn’t Inspire me to run there it seem’s you work so hard to use some great correct English make so complicated See

what it’s like to read a bad letter?but I’m not a writer for the reporter,next time get to the point.Peace

PATRICK ZINSSER VIA EMAIL Editor’s Note: We left the punctuation and spelling “as is” for this media critic.

NEWS, DEC. 6: “APPEALING DECISION”

FOR SHAME In 2008, Santa Feans overwhelmingly voted to establish a new form of voting for city elections: ranked-choice voting. The city has still not implemented RCV nine years later.

This is totally disrespectful to voters. Earlier this year, concerned citizens urged City Council to finally implement RCV for the election next year. Twice the council voted against moving ahead with RCV—declaring that there wasn’t sufficient time to implement RCV even though the City has had nine years to prepare!

In response to a lawsuit brought by citizens this fall, District Judge David Thomson issued an opinion ordering the City to implement RCV for the March election. Behind closed doors on Dec. 4, the Council decided to appeal the judge’s decision to the NM Supreme Court— now arguing that RCV is unconstitutional. ...

It’s imperative to respect the citizenry when they actively participate in our democracy. ... Many citizens feel voting isn’t important because they’re not convinced their vote matters. For nine years and most emphatically this month, the City has essentially told the voter, “Your vote doesn’t matter. Even if you pass a City law, we may or may not implement that law.”

Shame on you, City of Santa Fe.

CRAIG O’HARE SANTA FE

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“When artists put animal heads on people it just creeps me out!”

—Overheard in a Canyon Road gallery, Dec. 6

“I’m in Santa Fe to work some stuff out. Also for a comprehensive cleanse of my aura, spirit and intestines. Fortunately I found this place here in the boonies where I could order a big juicy cheeseburger.”

—Overheard at Harry’s Roadhouse, Nov. 15 (There is a man in a full cowboy getup—hat, Western shirt, boots, Wranglers)

Woman: “You workin’ on a ranch?”

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“Who is that guy with the white hair?”

“You are going to have to be more specific.”

—Overheard at Santa Fe High School Class of 1977’s 40th Reunion, Sept. 5

“Let’s stop. We just need to find a driver.”

—Overheard at the Mine Shaft Tavern, Nov. 8

“The kids are back, so I had to put the bong away.”

“I drink Coors Light.

Only out of a bottle though. It feels too ghetto out of a can.”

—Overheard at Food King, Oct. 4

“… No—the power grid, not the global energy grid of human consciousness.”

—Overheard at Dinner for Two, March 22

Man: “No, ma’am. I work at a brewery.”

—Overheard at the Education Department’s hearing on science standards, Oct. 18

—Overheard at Walmart, April 5

It doesn’t really matter if you’re lacking the context—these snippets of overheard conversations tell readers plenty on their own. Thanks to everyone who’s submitted an Eavesdropper to our collection in 2017. We couldn’t even begin to make this stuff up! And we’re counting on you to get us through 2018. So start tuning in to strangers and send your illicit tidbits to overheard@sfreporter.com.

—Overheard on the Plaza at Indian Market, Aug. 29

“I’ve finally learned that my ego is not my amigo.”

“I’ve never seen that many tortillas in one place in my life.”

—Overheard at a dinner party, Aug. 16

“This is kind of like Coney Island …”

—Overheard at SFR’s Best of Santa Fe party, Aug. 2

“I just went through the most horrible divorce, and I’m not even married.”

Woman 1: ”Meditation is my drug of choice.”

—Overheard at the Federal Place Post Office, July 19

Woman 2: ”Yeah, I gotta get into that. I’m tired of spending all my money on mushrooms and weed.”

“We’re not going to that part of Santa Fe. You have to pay for parking.”

—Overheard at Yoga Source, Sept. 26

—Overheard in Las Vegas, New Mexico, July 26

“Hey John, do we have any more of the Trump toilet paper?”

Guy: “I really want to get a Santa Fe thing.”

—Overheard at Doodlet’s, March 1

Girl: “What kind?”

Guy: “Just, like, a Santa Fe thing to put on my desk or something.”

“How’s the little one?”

“She’s good. She’s increasingly angry and radicalized.”

—Overheard in Sena Plaza, June 14

—Overheard at a workshop at UNM, Feb. 22

“Just back up until you hit the other car.”

—Overheard while parallel parking at the original Second Street Brewery, June 21

“Dolores, Martita and Jeanette, please report to the Senate chambers.”

—Overheard at the Roundhouse, Feb. 8

“I miss Rouge Cat. It was the one place I could go and have dudes buy me drinks. I feel like it was karma for all the times I bought women drinks and it didn’t go anywhere.”

“If we’re gonna get you to like New Mexico, Tiny’s is a good place to start.”

—Overheard at Violet Crown Cinema, Jan. 25

—Overheard at HQ Santa Fe, May 31

“I’m not buying produce today since I’m driving.”

Guy: ”The problem with much of feminist art is that it is not empowermentcentered but complaintcentered.”

—Overheard at Whole Foods, Jan. 4

Customer: “What kind of oil do you use in your cooking?”

Girl: ”Yeah, that painting seriously needs some cock.”

Waiter (after checking in kitchen): “Clear white oil.”

—Overheard at the CCA’s opening reception for Cryin’ Out Loud, May 5

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SFR v. Martinez—Still

BY MARISA DEMARCO a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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he Santa Fe Reporter’s fouryear legal battle for free press rights and open government ended—for now, at least— when a state District Court judge last week handed down three public records victories but delivered a major blow to the paper’s claim of discrimination by Gov. Susana Martinez.

Judge Sarah Singleton ruled on Wednesday Dec. 13 that Martinez did not violate the paper’s rights under the state Constitution by freezing out its reporters in retaliation for their coverage of her administration’s secrecy, as SFR alleged. The lawsuit was a rare push for press access and equality in treatment by government officials through the courts—and SFR Editor and Publisher Julie Ann Grimm says, fundamentally, she disagrees with how Singleton came down.

“Really, what the judge is saying is that it’s OK for elected officials to choose who they will talk to and about what,” Grimm says.

A three-day bench trial in March revealed in detail the administration’s negative attitude toward the paper—and the press. The fight is familiar nationally, as President Donald Trump goes to war with news organizations that scrutinize him.

David Snyder, executive director of the California-based First Amendment Coalition, says the issue raised in SFR’s case has greater significance today than even just a year ago.

“From Washington on down, we’ve seen a growing sense among elected officials that they’re entitled to exclude particular journalists or publications because they don’t like the way those journalists or publications go about their business,” he says.

Snyder says major changes are happening to the way the government and the media interact, and there’s a dearth of law on the issue. Though this case happened in a New Mexico District Court and doesn’t create law or set precedent elsewhere in the state or country, if the case is appealed, Snyder says, it could have a wider impact down the line.

The newspaper has not decided whether it will appeal. Both sides have until Dec. 27 to make the call.

Lawyer Daniel Yohalem, who represented the Reporter, says in today’s political environment, the ruling could also encourage more secrecy in state and local government. “It’s just that it’s a missed opportunity for the press to have gained additional protection,” he says.

The newspaper had some victories, too: Singleton ruled that the Governor’s Office broke the state’s open records law— which is used by the press and other state residents alike—three times. In a canned statement, Martinez admitted to “minor infractions.”

Grimm disagrees.

“I think that’s a major victory for open government in New Mexico,” she says, “and not just for newspapers but for everyone who is seeking information about what the government does in our name.”

The newspaper’s lawsuit stemmed from investigative reporting years ago into top officials’ use of private email accounts to do the public’s business, which SFR reported was part of a culture of secrecy and less-than-transparent dealings inside the Martinez administration.

Singleton affirmed that those emails are public record and ordered the Governor’s Office to search for emails dating back to 2011 and 2012 for Martinez and her chief of staff, Keith Gardner.

Peter St. Cyr, executive director of the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government, also says that’s a significant victory for the New Mexico Inspection of

Judge rules Martinez can favor friendly news organizations but can’t escape the records law

Public Records Act. “We hope that going forward that the best practice will be for no public officials to use private emails to communicate any public policy issues,” he says.

In the end, Singleton found that the Martinez administration illegally withheld records about pardons the governor had granted to people with criminal convictions and broke the law in delaying the release of her calendar. SFR’s lawsuit also charged that the Governor’s Office doesn’t have a solid method for responding to public records requests. Despite testimony from Martinez’ former records custodian that she relied on an honor system when asking administration officials for email records, Singleton found that was good enough.

“There are real issues with allowing people to self-report their emails or provide them on their own,” St. Cyr says. “We need to transform the culture in government so that there’s this understanding of

the wonderful value and benefit of being transparent in your operation.”

He says he hopes the case will serve as a warning shot for other agencies in New Mexico when public records requests come in. “But we have had other IPRA victories, and we still have stubborn-headed bureaucrats digging in their heels and avoiding as much scrutiny as they can,” St. Cyr says.

The Reporter was awarded to-be-determined attorney’s fees associated with the governor’s IPRA violations, but no damages. The law says there can be fines up to $100 a day for agencies that violate IPRA, but some judges have required plaintiffs to prove they lost money because of the violation.

“It might be time for the Legislature to change the law to make those kind of fines mandatory,” St. Cyr says. “We believe that could motivate people to comply with the law more readily.”

Taxpayers were still on the hook for big bucks in the case, though. The governor hired Paul Kennedy, a well-connected Albuquerque-based attorney, on contract to fight the Reporter’s claims. Those contracts say Kennedy could bill the state up to at least $1.1 million, but the administration has refused to turn over records showing exactly how much he has been paid.

Another lawsuit is pending to unearth Kennedy’s billing records in the SFR case and other legal fights he has waged on Martinez’ behalf. Neither Kennedy nor the governor’s Press Secretary Emilee Cantrell agreed to be interviewed for this story. Cantrell emailed a statement, saying the Reporter’s claims were overreaching, and that the court firmly rejected them.

Grimm points out that at the end of the day, it falls on the person who requests public records—but doesn’t get them—to hold the government accountable. These types of lawsuits aren’t all that frequent in New Mexico, and rarely does a constituent, business or media organization have the time and resources to take a case all the way to trial.

“No newspaper wants to end up in court,” Grimm says. “What we want are the public documents, so we can use them to tell stories about our community to our community.”

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THE ENTHUSIAST

Carrying Big Sticks Structures in the national forest could be cults, Bigfoot, or maybe just artistic expression

BY ELIZABETH MILLER e l i z a b e t h @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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here the Aspen Vista trail bends east and the view opens up of a hillside covered in aspens, a now well-worn path heads west.

Walk it, and you’ll find seven stick structures scattered down the hill. Some are 20 to 25 feet tall, with walls more than a foot thick and a footprint roughly 20 feet in diameter.

The path also passes trees carved with initials and names, dates years or decades past, to a more foreboding set: “If you come here you will die” and “last chance” and “death is upon you.”

“When I saw this graffiti, that’s when I was like, ‘This is not acceptable,’” says an anonymous tipster. “It’s just disturbing to me.”

The graffiti and an increasing amount of garbage he saw around these structures prompted him to call the US Forest Service, whose staff joined him on a tour through the area a couple weeks ago.

Miles Standish, recreation technician with the Santa Fe National Forest, took a chainsaw to some of the structures to try to take them down that way, but the limbs are so entangled they remain standing.

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that,” he says. “We’re kind of left with no good solution other than just to try to get the word out and discourage whoever is doing this to please cease and desist.”

So, the Forest Service issued a press release describing the structures as a fire and safety hazard and asking their unknown builders to stop. The dry, wood teepee or wickiup-like structures sometimes frame a fire ring and bear a remarkable resemblance to the approach used to stack kindling to build a campfire. One spark and they might really go up in flames, and their poles could function as ladder fuels for a crown fire. A fire in that area could threaten the ski area, campgrounds, Tesuque Pueblo and the city’s watershed.

The federal agency declared that who is building them and why remains a mystery, but the infinite wisdom of social media reached a consensus on their creator: Bigfoot. Or perhaps Indians, aliens, the Truchas witch or La Llorona. The press release also cited the code of federal regulations’ ban on building structures in national forests, in case Bigfoot cares about breaking the law.

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declared, “I know for a fact you will think I’m a wack job for telling you Bigfoot/ Forrest people are building these things. … Alot of times with trees 40 foot tall and upside down. Humans are not physically able to pick up some of these trees and lean them like that they weigh 400-500 lbs each sometimes. … PEOPLE CANT BUILD THIS STUFF WITH OUR BARE HANDS.” This reporter didn’t witness any inverted trees on a hike of the area with the same tipster who reached out to the Forest Service, and based on his demonstrations, moving those logs is easily done with bare human hands.

Photographer and lifetime Santa Fean Anne Staveley has hiked, mountain biked, and backcountry skied in those woods for decades and says she’s spotted similar structures coming and going for at least the last 10 years. Sometimes, she discovers them far from trails. She took her own kids, now 18 and 23, up to play in some of these structures when they were younger.

To her, their origins are no secret.

“I know a bunch of people who take their kids up there to be in the woods and to make them,” she says. Yes, she’s seen that work underway.

The US Forest Service has asked the unknown builders to knock it off.

A mural-sized photograph by Staveley that lines a hallway in Meow Wolf depicts the structures behind people who are wearing animal masks. “It just kind of makes it more mystical and interesting,” she says.

The image started a photo series on people in the forest, and the structures, she says, are part of what gives the photographs a curious, earthy feel. She’s also hiked into the woods to capture them as backdrops for portrait shoots.

Of both the structures and the graffiti, she says, “It’s just the mark of the human. … I’m more concerned about my drinking water being clean than carving in the trees.” (Although Miles says too much tree graffiti can kill them.)

Maybe, she suggests, the structures could be viewed as contemplative gathering spaces or creative works. Maybe they should be looked at not as structures, but as sculptures or land art.

Built by Bigfoot? we asked.

“Oh, perfect,” she says.

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H w many times?

A tally of the policymakers who most often ignore requests for interviews

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n the spirit of recordkeeping and looking back on the year that’s about to close, SFR presents this partial list on some of our recent unreported efforts for our readers.

A district court judge ruled this month that elected officials such as New Mexico’s governor can pick which media outlets they consider “favored reporters.”

But anyone who’s read SFR in the last year is aware that she’s not the only policymaker who bestows interviews only on favored newsrooms and outright ignores requests from others who might take a more critical eye.

Gubernatorial candidate Steve Pearce takes the unofficial prize for most epic weaponization of this strategy.

Between Aug. 30 and Dec. 18, we asked 13 times for an interview. The first time, we contacted Pearce’s congressional office, where an employee on the federal payroll ignored us for a week before passing us on to Pearce’s campaign representative. Greg Blair first asked for questions in writing because he said Pearce’s schedule was too packed.

We declined, offering to plan for an in-person or telephone interview when he could find time.

Blair responded between requests number five and six with a promising message noting that he would run the request “up the flagpole.” He asked for an outline of what topics we wanted to cover.

On Sept. 20, SFR replied: “We’d like to talk about his vision for the governor’s office and his intentions for meeting voters in Santa Fe and appealing to them.”

Since then: crickets.

Up next on the list are cabinet officials from the New Mexico Public Education Department.

When SFR interviewed former Education Secretary Hanna Skandera for our Feb. 1, 2017 cover story, “Drowning in Data,” we had a courteous, half-hour conversation on the value of gathering educational data and how to use what’s being measured. Our story was better for it.

That rapport didn’t last long.

A month later, reporter Matt Grubs transitioned from exposing a systemic problem with data to questioning why the department hadn’t implemented Next Generation Science Standards despite years of recommendations by Skandera’s hand-picked panel of experts (Cover, March 29: “Sanitized Science”).

The department’s spokeswoman, Amy Hasenberg, said she couldn’t schedule an interview over the course of three days, then ignored further requests to speak with Skandera or any other PED official.

It’s gotten worse with Skandera’s replacement, Chris Ruszkowski, and spokeswoman Lida Alikhani. On a variety of issues, Ruszkowski has refused to be interviewed by SFR 10 times. Presumably. A typical Alikhani response is silence. Ruszkowski made the rounds with other news outlets and touted his willingness to talk and have “thought partners” in the debate on science standards. When he capitulated to overwhelming opposition to his proposal, he did so quietly.

Maybe we shouldn’t be too offended: Ruszkowski didn’t show up to hear the hundreds of students, teachers, scientists and parents who testified against his standards. And he’s been hiding from the bipartisan Legislative Education Study Committee, too.

And lastly, the cat has the tongue of the state Medical Cannabis Program.

The first email our reporter Aaron Cantú has on file from Department of Health spokesman Paul Rhien is an automated message from May noting that he was away from his desk. It was a harbinger for an often-frustrating line of communication. In July, Cantú unsuccessfully asked Rhien for an interview with Medical Cannabis Program director Kenny Vigil four times, and didn’t get to talk to him until August.

Since then, we’ve requested to speak with Vigil on two occasions, with no luck.

The program seems to have an unofficial policy of not talking to the press.

Rhien has repeatedly asked Cantú not to contact members of the MCP and to instead email questions to him—a request we won’t honor.

The last email we sent to Rhien asked: “Can you please tell me why nobody at the medical cannabis program, all of whom are government employees with salaries paid by taxpayers, wanted to be interviewed for this article?”

We never got a response.

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Whether the New Year arrives with a bang or a blanket, arrive it must.

For many of us, 2017 was a doozy.

Massive, huge, tremendous, terrifying policy shifts on the federal level trickled into our homes and workplaces. The city’s annual fall Fiestas turned into a police state. The realities of widespread abuse of power and sexual misconduct are having their way with us. And now, the impending local and state election seasons with their soon-to-be-broken promises are looming.

Angry isolation simply won’t do for Santa Fe, though. The days get long, cold and dark, and then they brighten and warm up. We’re going to look forward even as we try to learn from everything that’s come before.

Newsroom staff Aaron Cantú, Alex De Vore, Matt Grubs and Julie Ann Grimm spent a few days seeking out some of Santa Fe’s movers and shakers to gather inspiration for you and from you, dear readers. A woman who’s convinced/coerced someone under 25 to move to Santa Fe and helped them find housing and work for each of the last four years. Bravo!

An artist who wants to exalt this place we share. Hip-hooray! A baker seeking more balance. Hear, hear!

We’re not all going to get to some higher, happier realm all at once in 2018, we’re pretty sure—but with a city like this, and by making, as artist Anastasio Wrobel suggests, “thousands of micro-movements,” we can get closer.

Happy New Year, everyone.

I’d like to see less fascism, more decentralized institutions.

Less authoritarian impulses, less violent persecution of minorities.

What are your predictions, aspirations and resolutions for 2018?

Warren Langford Senior Producer of Podcasting at Meow Wolf “Having this tabula rasa, this blank slate to explore, I would be pushing boundaries in as many ways as possible. To me, podcasting has barely scratched the surface of what it could be. If you build a genre, the fans will come—they’ll seek it out. There are mysteries in New Mexico I’ve wanted to solve. Weird rumors I’ve heard over time like, was The Beach water park really a front for Mexican cartels and that’s why they closed?”

Bill Smith President and CEO of the Santa Fe Community Foundation “I was trying to be an optimist because I am an optimist for the most part, but when I was thinking about

-Kenneth Baumann

predictions, I just keep coming back to: I think there is going to be some type of political cataclysm. Because, between the really reckless rhetoric and hyper-partisanship, it just doesn’t spell a good future for us, particularly at the federal level. We are going to have new leadership in New Mexico and we will have new leadership here in the city, so I think we are excited here at the foundation in particular, to work with new leadership and to move New Mexico and Santa Fe forward. Resolutions: We have been thinking a lot here about, ‘What is the role of the community foundation in addressing our affordable housing crisis?’ So we will be launching some new initiatives in 2018 to help identify solutions.”

Claudia Flores Co-owner of Toy Auto Man “For my family, of course, health.

As long as we are healthy, that’s all we need. I lost my best friend two months ago, so I am more appreciative of time with family. Period. I think that’s what matters. We are not promised a single day. [As far as predictions,] I think this side of town is going to continue to grow. When our previous owners moved down here from Second Street, it was a big deal.

They kept hearing this was a bad side of town, but it’s been wonderful.”

Dead in November with a parade and a full weekend of events. We’ve been working with Casablanca Studios in the past, we’ve done celebrations in the past, but we’re hoping to make it much bigger and more public. It seems like there’s always so much to do; I’m just going to keep plowing through and not worry so much about rocking the boat with resolutions.

We’re going to surprise ourselves with how much stronger theater becomes.”

Honey Harris Host of The Big Show on KBAC (98.1 FM) at Hutton Broadcasting “My aspirations for 2018 would be to maybe pursue more creative things in my life, creative projects. My predictions: Things will change. And that’s where I stand.”

Kenneth Baumann Teacher, Co-chair for Democratic Socialists of America, Santa Fe “In 2018 I’d like to see less fascism, more decentralized institutions. Less authoritarian impulses, less violent persecution of minorities. I’m not sure if one year is going to make any significant change, but I hope to help make some of that change next year. And less reliance on national institutions, which might not survive climate crises. More local sustainable enterprises that can keep people alive and thriving without global supply chains and stuff like that. I feel like Santa Fe is beginning to think that way in terms of water and has always been very savvy.”

Argos Maccallum Co-founder and Creative Director of Teatro Paraguas “I predict that the theater scene in Santa Fe is going to get even stronger with new companies coming in and possibly new theaters being built.

I’m hoping that Teatro Paraguas will continue into its 15th season and be able to maintain its space and provide space for others to use as well, as we have in the past. There’s a number of groups that we hopefully can come together with and do a big Day of the

Martha Alcantar Co-owner of Santa Fe Honey Salon “For the next year, I hope for health and no violence, but I know it’s a dream. I know we can’t do it all in the CONTINUED ON PAGE 17

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2018 RESOLUTIONS community and there is a buzz that is making it more vibrant and bringing the possibility of a tech economy more alive for more people.”

next year. I imagine that educating my child [Xochitl Guadalupe] with love, to me that’s how it can be done, that’s what to do to get there. It’s difficult, though.”

I’d like to qualify for the 2020 Olympic Marathon trials either at the Chicago Marathon or Cal International. I’ll have to run 2:45 or faster.

Madeleine Carey Greater Gila Guardian at WildEarth Guardians “I’d like to qualify for the 2020 Olympic Marathon trials either at the Chicago Marathon or Cal International. I’ll have to run 2:45 or faster.

For every year I’ve been in Santa Fe [four], I’ve convinced/coerced another young person [under 25] to move here and helped them find housing or jobs. I’d like to keep a person per year going. I want to become a more vocal local advocate. I advocate a lot at the federal level for work and I’d like to be more of a constant pest at the city level. Bike infrastructure, event permits, zoning and public food councils are my pet issues. [A selection of ] predictions: Patriots win the Super Bowl, Lobo women win NCAA cross country title, La Entrada has fewer than 50 people in attendance, no one rents the Flying Star space [in the Railyard], and rhubarb margaritas take Santa Fe/my backyard by storm.”

Niomi Fawn Founder, Show Pony mobile art gallery and Curate Santa Fe “I think my major aspiration for 2018, as far as being a curator goes, is to really find new ways to support my

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artists. And by support, I mean help people be able to sustain what they’re doing. What I’m seeing right now is kind of the same thing I was seeing last winter: people working so hard.

Young people in this town are workaholics. They’re just so tapped out.

They’re expected to do everything, and I just want to continue to pursue new avenues of holistic curation, which means looking at people as a whole and not just looking at their art and not just looking at them as a product. I’m always looking to work with people who I feel in line with their values, I’m excited to see that more in the world.”

I think my major aspiration for 2018 ... is to really find new ways to support my artists.

-Niomi Fawn

Jennifer Case Nevarez Director and Lead Educator of New Mexico Techworks’ Community Learning Network “Personally, I work for the ‘restoration of relation’ in every possible way. So my aspiration is that we restore our capacity as humans to connect with ourselves and each other and even with the earth, with what is bigger than ourselves in a good way, with grace and integrity. I think we need that right now.

I also work locally to reconnect young people with our community and with all ages, so that’s another aspiration: to continue the work of restoring our love for where we live and reconnecting all generations to each other and to all the beautiful things about our community. … I also do see change for Santa Fe and I feel that there are ideas coming to fruition and there are micro-enterprises stirring and there are bigger efforts in technology rooting in our

“I think last year was a very difficult year for everybody with all the changes with the new president, and the different things that he’s been changing.

And for next year, I really hope that people have a little more consideration for each other, and have more understanding for where everyone is in their life; you can’t judge someone for where they’re from, and we need to have a little bit more compassion for one another, and that’s the only way we’re going to thrive. Because if we hold each other down just because of where we’re from and everything, this place is going to go downhill really fast. And with different things going on with the government, it’s making it more complicated for people to make their living and things like that. They’re changing their homes, they’re having to move out of places they’ve been for a long time just because of the fact they’re not being accepted as they were before all these new changes happened.”

Andrea Hanley Membership and Program Manager at IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts “For me, and I think this probably goes for the museum as well, creatively, I want to have more opportunities to connect and to learn and to reflect while trying to continue to do

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Jason Silverman Director of the Center for Contemporary Arts’ Cinematheque “It’s kind of a prediction/aspiration: That people will spend less time expressing their outrage about the world on social media and more time actually making the world a better place. I’m constantly making resolutions. I make daily resolutions, I’m big on that.

I’m going to try to eat less candy. I’m exhausted from our annual report, and I’m exhausted from all we did this year.

And we want to do it again next year, because it’s really fun. It was a really good year—it was our second biggest year just missing by a hair. We’re in a nice place. [In 2018] there will be good films both old and new, and lots of projects with our beloved partners.”

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“What I’m hoping for as a new business owner is that I can continue to bring people together over a good meal. I hope to come up with new recipes that are inspired by my culture, where I come from, to continue to source more ingredients locally. It’s going well, and I’m just happy how it’s stimulating me socially and on a creative level. It’s been such a beautiful endeavor, but challenging as well. I like the challenge. It’s stimulating in a good way.

Just learning the process and learning how to deal with the good and bad makes me grow into a better person.

As a mother, I’m hoping to balance my life a little better and be able to spend more quality time with my children.

I’m hoping to find the balance. And to be able to run up the mountain and our beautiful trails.”

2018 RESOLUTIONS lot closer confines of their own construction than it used to be a year ago.

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There are a lot of buyers out there.”

Joel LeCuyer Worker at Red River Mercantile, leather crafter and former SFR employee “There’s a lot of hate out there. There’s a lot of animosity and a lot of lack of thinking, so it would be nice if people started treating each other with patience and temperance and kindness and generosity again, especially in our community. There’s a sense of decency that’s lost and it would be kind of nice to regain that. Nobody wants to talk about anything political or important, everybody’s walking on eggshells. It just seems like everybody’s living in a

“I’ve lost sight of the fact that it’s almost 2018, but it really makes me think about longer-term, bigger-picture. Personally, an aspiration for what we do, and something I’d like to see more and more of, is collaborations. I think that our creative community has a lot to offer, and I also think that by working together we can amplify what is happening so much louder. I’d love to see more out-of-thebox collaborations, like partnering businesses and people who might not ordinarily think of working together.

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I love to meet people from all over the world and all over the place, so I just hope that it continues to be as successful as it’s been, maybe even more people would like to come and visit Santa Fe. -Gloria Payne

Bess Murphy Assistant Curator at the Ralph T Coe Center for the Arts “The Coe Center is at a really exciting place where we’re generating a lot of buzz and moving toward building a new space for our collection and activities and exhibitions and public programming. I’m very excited to help in all of those efforts, because I really see the Coe as a space that will continue to serve a really diverse group of local artists, students and visitors. Part of what we do is to try and say that the Native arts world is really huge; it’s bigger than just Santa Fe. There are 560-some recognized tribes, and we have materials from not all of them, but a lot of them. We have materials that are historic and contemporary, and contemporary Native arts look different all across the platform. It’s something we’re actively working to

unpack. We want to serve artists who work in all formats using all media, and we want to work with artists and community members who use our resources as a tool, but also to expand that conversation. We’re going to have art in the Coe and out of the Coe; we’re going to have art in surprising places.”

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Gloria Payne Cashier at the Five and Dime “I hope the economy continues to be good the way it is now, and the business [continues to be good]. I love to meet people from all over the world and all over the place, so I just hope that it continues to be as successful as it’s been, maybe even more people would like to come and visit Santa Fe.”

“Resolutions I never stick to. I think I would like to grow my business and keep people fed, keep them happy, keep them healthy. When I make anything, I feel the intention comes through in the food. If you’re not feeling well, people feel the energy. If you’re feeling great, it’s nourishing.

[Being a] private chef right now is my main focus; public events are going to be a focus. Catering is definitely picking up. I don’t really do larger-scale

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2018 RESOLUTIONS

I’d like to bridge the gap between Santa Fe and Albuquerque.

is the year for multiple folks to join arms together to continue working toward the betterment of our society.

I hope to be more mindful. In my arts practice this year, I’m hoping to have more context in my work. One of my resolutions is to explain more.

Instead of making a resolution that lasts me for a year, I resolve to make thousands more micro-movements that’ll get me there. I want more action and less talk. I honestly think that the counter-culture is going to continue [in Santa Fe]—an expansion of DIY spaces showing up and showing things.”

-Eliza Lutz

Eliza Lutz Founder of Matron Records and music booker at DIY venue Ghost and Second Street Brewery’s Rufina Taproom “My biggest focus in the next year will be finding bigger audiences and putting out more music. Both Second Street Brewery Rufina and Ghost will be instrumental. I feel like in the past a lot of the legwork was having to coordinate venues, but having two locked in allows me to reach out to more artists. I’d like to bridge the gap between Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Lastly, to use the art scene and music scene as a foundation for doing a lot more political community outreach. I’m working with a great organization called Changing Woman Initiative to do a pretty big two-day music festival at the end of March, so that’ll bring a lot of Albuquerque and Santa Fe musicians together to support their project; they’re raising funds to build a native birthing center, which is obviously really cool.”

Jerry Wellman Co-founder, Axle Contemporary mobile art gallery “It’s been an incredible year. It’s unbelievable. I had a heart attack, for God’s sake; we did a show at the Navajo Nation Museum, a project we’ve been working on the last couple years; and it looks like we’ll be able to take the van down to Hobbs and Artesia.

We’ve got a really full plate for next year. And it’ll be, in some ways, installations—a piece we do with Currents [New Media Festival] and we’ll be doing a piece this summer that includes storytelling and interviews. It’s very community-building. We like to keep it unusual. The experience people have in Axle is, generally speaking, a bit different than in a gallery or museum, and we want to keep it that way. I’m finding there are certain in-

I really want to find ways to exalt this place that we all live in.

-Jerry Wellman

consistencies in the art world wherein the basis of the art world is collecting, and I find that tends to be inconsistent with the desire to just make art. So I’ve been thinking a lot about that, and Axle has always been about that to a degree anyway. I’m thinking about how we can do that. What is the resonance of an image that gets people going? I certainly want to continue to find ways that we can build connections. I really want to find ways to exalt this place that we all live in and to recognize the blessings of this place. That sentiment in some ways sounds like a New Mexico new-agey sort of thing, but I really believe this.

Dion Silva Vice President of Los Alamos National Bank “There is so much going on the world today you hope that there are some resolutions of—I wouldn’t even say world peace, that seems to be an unattainable goal or a direction to ever meet—but at least to have some stability in life. It all seems to be so confusing right now and no one seems to know where they are at on so many levels. So an understanding and a better open dialogue between different people is what I hope for in 2018.”

Gary Cordova Owner of 8-Bit Retro Video Games “With resolutions, we don’t really have any, we just try to be the best to our customers we can possibly be. As a store, I’m getting bigger—we’re already busting out of the seams as it is, there’s always room for improvement and to go bigger.”

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ears ago, I read a Fast Company article in which various futurists predicted the “coolest” jobs that would exist in 2030— among them: body part designer, space architect and time broker.

I’m not sure how one prepares to be a time broker (if it involves punctuality, then most of the people I know in Santa Fe would be singularly ill-suited for such a career). Fortunately, MAKE Santa Fe (2879 All Trades Road, 819-3502) is taking a more practical view of training people for future jobs, ones that also seem “cool.”

Maker spaces are proliferating in communities across the US and the world. Simply put, MAKE Santa Fe allows members, for a fee, to use a variety of equipment, from 3-D printers to laser cutters and beyond. The organization compares itself to a gym, except that the monthly fee allows access to hands-on digital fabrication equipment rather than treadmills.

Earlier this fall, MAKE Santa Fe celebrated receiving a $50,000 Outstanding Achievement CommunityWINS grant from the US Conference of Mayors, in recognition of neighborhood revitaliza-

ground who sees the training program in part as an accelerated introduction to the tools they might want to use in the jobs of the future. “If they choose to continue on this path,” Woodard says, “they’ll have a leg up.”

That seems to be the case for Amanda Barber, Amelia Valdez and Alyshia Gutierrez, three friends who were in a previous educational setting they found less engaging than this one. “It’s easier to pay attention,” Gutierrez says. “It’s a lot of hands-on stuff.”

Inspired by the three young women, I decided to return to MAKE Santa Fe on Dec. 16 for its annual Holiday Make and Take event, which, for a small fee, allows one to learn how to use some of the equipment to make various seasonal gifts. As I have a long history with my own clumsiness and lack of spatial reasoning skills, I opted to learn how to make a pop-up holiday card, which involves only scissors and paper. Despite the clear and gentle instructions of the paper arts crew, my card looked like something a parent would have trouble praising a 5-year-old for making. I then moved to the ornament-making station, where, again with help, I assembled wood pieces pre-made by actually talented people in the lab into some semblance of an ornament.

Kind of.

Time broker, it is!

tion. The award specifically acknowledges MAKE’s work in creating The DigiFab Youth Lab, MAKE’s partnership with YouthWorks that provides training and experience with the various digital fabrication equipment MAKE also makes available to the larger public.

MAKE Santa Fe Board member Zane Fischer created the partnership with YouthWorks (disclosure: Years ago, Fischer worked for SFR as a writer and editor alongside the writer of this article). He describes himself as an admirer of YouthWorks, and modeled MAKE’s program along the lines of YouthWorks’ YouthBuild program, in which participants work with Habitat for Humanity to learn how to build houses.

“I thought the maker space was a great opportunity to fill that Habitat for Humanity role,” Fischer says. “It’s a similarly modeled program to give the kids a broader range for work opportunities and the potential to be hired in digital fabrication and advanced manufacturing.”

The maker movement is in part a response to increased access to automated equipment. As Fischer describes it, “a lot of automated Students learn how to use a variety of digital equipment through MAKE Santa Fe’s DigiFab Youth Lab. equipment that used to be large JULIA GOLDBERG

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and expensive and on factory floors has become more accessible and democratized, so whether you’re talking about doing manufacturing or production on a small bespoke level, or the future of factory manufacturing jobs, you’re still talking about automation.”

At the DigiFab Youth Lab, where attendees learn how to use a wide array of MAKE’s equipment, such experience could lead to myriad types of work, whether it’s operating a metal-cutting table for an HVAC manufacturer doing duct work on a construction project, or someone “who’s doing 3-D printing as a baseline for casting bolts for production.”

I stopped by MAKE’s studios one afternoon and met some of the students working with Andrew Woodard, who runs the education program. Woodard is a sculptor with a construction back-

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PRIMAL, MAN Where else might one expect to dance their asses off harder than at Meow Wolf during the holidays? Indeed, the beloved artists’ collective knows its DJs and can prove it, this time with Sounds Like Primal, a gathering of killer underground types such as Portland, Oregon-based deck masters saQi (funky-fresh electro floor fillers) and Tiger Fresh (which we thought was a magazine aimed at teens but turned out to be bass-y dance jams). If reports we’ve been given about the spiritual nature of electronic music ring true, this oughta be a night to remember. Plus, there’s all those neon lights, so … (ADV) Sounds Like Primal: 7 pm Friday Dec. 22. $20-$25.

Meow Wolf, 152 Rufina Circle, 395-6369.

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Greetings, at 7:30 pm ($15-$25. 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262).

On Saturday Dec. 23, things become even more holiday-centric, if you can believe it, with The Upstart Crows’ staged reading of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at the Unitarian Universalist church (5 pm.

Free. 107 W Barcelona Road, 982-9674).

Ghosts are good teachers for kids, we promise. It’ll be tight, but you can also probably hit Teatro Paraguas for Holiday Flamenco: The Little Match Girl (7 pm. $20-$25. 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601).

Now that’s thinking outside the box—a little dark, but it sounds pretty cool.

For the late-night set, Vanilla Pop brings their super-smooth and dancey cover versions of beloved pop jams to The Palace Saloon (10 pm. $10. 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690). And, finally, Boxcar brings the dub, house and electro jam-a-lams to X-mas Eve with Eclecticos on Sunday Dec. 24 at 9 pm. (Free. 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222). Drinking and dancing are obviously what you’ll need at this point.

You’re on your own for the big day. Good luck, and may you get cool gifts instead of boring crap you’d never possibly want in a million years.

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We were sorely tempted to put this one in the big fat list of Christmas things over there, but a coming-together of local musicians of this caliber most certainly deserves some highlighting of its own. See, when Jeremy Bleich (bass), Milton Villarubia (drums) and Robert Muller (keys) join forces to play some of that sweet, sweet Vince Guaraldi Charlie Brown Christmas music—plus jazzy takes on other popular holiday tunes—it’s worth it alone to show up and see how they’ll arrange them. In other words, these dudes is talented. It’s also become a bit of a Christmas tradition at Second Street Brewery, and the perfect answer for those who’ve yet to get into the spirit of things. (ADV) Kodama Trio: 6 pm Saturday Dec. 23. Free.

Second Street Brewery (Original), 1814 Second St., 982-3030.

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The buildup is often more intense than the actual day, and we can’t avoid it any longer, even if we wanted to—it’s Christmas.

And while we get the temptation to bury oneself under the warmest pile of blankets one can find, you’re gonna have to do stuff. Your family will make you. Jeeze.

But fear not, for your closest friends at SFR have distilled the week into a veritable cornucopia of Christmassy events.

Just check ’em off like a list and it’ll be 2018 before you know it.

For the kiddos, try the Holiday Tree and Train Display at the First National Bank of Santa Fe (9:30 am-noon daily through Dec. 29, excepting Dec. 24 and 25. Free. 62 Lincoln Ave., 219-3007). We know a bank isn’t usually a place to go for fun things, yet this is happening. On Friday Dec. 22, pop by the Farmers Market Pavilion between 10 am and 4 pm for the Holiday Railyard Artisan Market (1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-7226). If ever there were a place for last-possible-minute gifts, this is it. Later that evening at 5:30 pm, visit the Chancel Bell Choir of the First Presbyterian Church for all those belled-out Christmas jams you know and love (Free.

208 Grant Ave., 982-8544)—you know the ones. The Santa Fe Playhouse also hosts a very X-mas-ish show, Seasoned

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IT’S A TREVOR BAHNSON X-MAS EVE Some of us recall Trevor Bahnson from his days shredding with metal act Seventh Circle, while others only recently made his acquaintance with freak folk act Whiskerman (see music, page 34). There are even those who fondly recall the gorgeous three-part harmonies of his California-based band, Song Preservation Society. But if there’s one thing we’ve always known about Bahnson, it’s that he’s talented as hell and a singer-songwriter set with his new performance partner Zoë Winter on one of the most festive nights of the year might even be a little too glorious. Think Devendra Banhart meets Bob Dylan, but more complex than either with drop-dead gorgeous vocal harmonies. This makes the Cowgirl a perfect location and a must-see for anyone who is able. (ADV) Trevor Bahnson and Zoë Winter: 8 pm Sunday Dec. 24. Free. Cowgirl, 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565.

SOMETHING-OR-OTHER DON’T DO IT FOR US. DON’T DO IT FOR YOURSELF. DO IT FOR THE AULD LANG SYNE.

We did it, everyone! We made it through one of the weirdest years in human history, and it’s bound to look up after this, right?

Y’know, it actually might not. The president is still … who he is and the FCC seemingly has no problems ignoring the vast majority of the American public.

But there is solace in the doing of things, and if ever there were a night to try and forget one’s troubles, this is it. And we know that New Year’s Eve falls on a Sunday, which makes really going for it kind of hard, but try on some of these events for size. We’ll see you next year.

EVENTS SUN/31 Earlier in the day, Key Frances Band hits the Mine Shaft Tavern in Madrid (2 pm.

Free. 2846 Hwy. 14, 473-074) with bluesy jams just sad enough to be realistic without wallowing. That’s a good start. And you can fully make it back to Santa Fe in time for the Santa Fe Crooners belting out the hits of yesteryear at the Palace Saloon (5 pm. Free.

142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690). The later it gets, the more your choices expand exponentially, with Meow Wolf’s Subulnar NYE featuring Worthy and other DJs (7 pm. $30$40. Shellaberger Tennis Center, 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, 395-6369)—an event that

went down last year with different live music and was pretty insane for party fans.

Bodies, Sex Headaches and Cult Tourist punk the hell out of Second Street Brewery’s Rufina Taproom (9 pm. Free. 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068) and the Plaza hosts a family-friendly night with Alex Maryol, Fun Addix, hot chocolate and more (9 pm. Free.

100 Old Santa Fe Trail). Of course, there’s plenty more to do all over town, just make sure you do it all safely and ride Uber or whatever. And remember, everyone—chins up; the way things are now can’t stay this way forever. Happy 2018, y’all! (ADV)

MORE LIKE SAGGA-RIFFIK! Some people don’t love having to see everyone they know around this time of the year, and others really love it. We fall someplace in between, but we do know this: Boxcar is a killer place for hanging out with your homies who’ve come to visit. Any night’ll do, but for these explicit purposes, might we recommend an evening with DJ Saggaliffik and his house, electronica, hip-hop and reggaeton? Dude’s been at it forever and knows how to get the party started. All you have to worry about is the free cover and great drinks and, if you’re up for it, them chicken strips. It’ll be a night of dancing and closeness and a kickass leadup to one of the biggest party nights of the year. Remember to pace yourselves at least a little bit. (ADV)

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FAT OF THE LAND We love when Duel Brewing hosts music, because it’s usually something unexpected and is most often good. Take, for example, El Paso, Texas’ Fat Camp. This trio has risen to prominence of late thanks to a stint on Spotify’s “Fresh Finds” playlist, and from what we’ve heard, they’re no flash in the pan. Catchy isn’t quite strong enough a term as shades of acts like The Breeders, Rivers Cuomo and even early-Beatles sneak up and make a home inside one’s brain. They’re lo-fi, they’re fun, they’re worth it. Fans of doo-wop and punk take note—we’ve found a fabulous intersection for all y’all and we wouldn’t be surprised if this band became a new favorite for pop-rock fans. (ADV) Fat Camp: 7 pm Friday Dec. 29. Free. Duel Brewing, 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301.

DJ Saggaliffik: 10 pm Wednesday Dec. 27. Free.

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WED/20 BOOKS/LECTURES DHARMA TALK BY SENSEI GENZAN QUENNELL Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 This week's talk is presented

by Sensei Genzan Quennell.

The evening begins with a 15-minute silent meditation, so please arrive by 5:20 pm.

5:30 pm, free PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 If you have read your kid the same book six dozen times already this week, let someone else take a crack at story time.

10:45 am, free

MUSIC A BAROQUE CHRISTMAS Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0092 The Santa Fe Pro Musica Baroque Ensemble presents holiday tunes in the festively decorated chapel. Featuring Bach, Handel and Telemann.

6 and 8 pm, $20-$80 BILL FORREST Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano pop of the '60s and '70s.

6:30 pm, free DJ SAGGALIFFIK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 House, electronica, hip-hop and reggaeton.

10 pm, free DANIELE SPADAVECCHIA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Acoustic jazz, swing, Latin and Italian classics.

7 pm, free

DON CURRY Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Classic rock.

8 pm, free GLOW: BEN FINBERG TRIO Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 At the GLOW holiday lights show, the trio (Ben Finberg, trombone; Pat Malone, guitar; Colin Deuble, bass) presents some jazz for your consideration.

5 pm, $6-$10 LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Party-time rock 'n' roll.

7:30 pm, free PHYLLIS LOVE Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards and one heck of a lasagna.

6 pm, free

SANTA FE CROONERS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Swingin’ standards. Today's a special day, full of Christmas classics and a visit from Santa.

6:30 pm, free SANTA FE DESERT CHORALE WINTER FESTIVAL Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi 131 Cathedral Place, 982-5619 For 35 years, the all-professional Desert Chorale has been wowing Santa Fe with choral music. "Home for the Holidays" features carols and lullabies from North and South America led by Music Director Joshua Habermann.

8 pm, $10-$80 SYDNEY WESTAN Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Country bluesy folky Americanaey and Westerny singer-songwritery tunes.

5:30-7:30 pm, free

THEATER NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE IN HD: YOUNG MARX Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 In this new comedy broadcast live from The Bridge Theatre (that's in London), the story of 32-year-old Karl Marx is set in 1850 and features the revolutionary as a broke, restless and terribly oversexed wasted genius.

7 pm, $22

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DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO CHRISTMAS SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 Join Entreflamenco at a special holiday performance. Tapas and drinks are available starting at 6:30 pm, so make an evening of it.

7:30 pm, $25-$40 HOLIDAY FLAMENCO: THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A flamenco performance based on the dark short story

by Hans Christian Andersen.

It's not the most uplifting tale in the world, but certainly would lend itself to the drama and passion of flamenco dance.

7 pm, $20-$25

DANCE HOLIDAY FLAMENCO: THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A Christmas flamenco performance, based on the dark short story by Hans Christian Andersen. It's not the most uplifting tale in the world, but certainly would lend itself to the drama and passion of flamenco dance. Created by musician Chuscales and choreographer Mina Fajardo.

7-9 pm, $20-$25

EVENTS

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Good quiz results can win you drink tickets for next time.

8 pm, free HOLIDAY TREE AND TRAIN DISPLAY First National Bank of Santa Fe 62 Lincoln Ave., 219-3007 As is tradition at the bank, members of the Santa Fe Model Railroad Club run their Lionel trains and will be available to answer any questions.

This stuff is dang enchanting.

9:30 am-noon, free

TINY'S ELECTRIC JAM Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Plug in and get down. Hosted

by Nick Wymette and Albert Diaz.

8 pm, free

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 What’s that? The older kids refuse to read to the younger ones, even though they’re home from school? Well, it’s good to get out of the house anyway.

11 am, free

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HOMELESS MEMORIAL Our Lady of Guadalupe Church 417 Agua Fría St., 983-8868 Join the New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness for a memorial to honor and celebrate homeless friends and folks who passed away in 2017. It's in the courtyard, so dress warmly.

3:30 pm, free MINE SHAFT BINGO Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 It’s a benefit for local friend Walker Weems, who’s still recovering from a motorcycle accident over the summer— boards are just $1, the prizes are dope and Andrew Wice is a hell of an irreverent host.

7 pm, free TAPS AND TABLETOPS Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Happy hour and board games!

6 pm, free

Joan Barber’s work, including “Perch,” is included in Selby Fleetwood’s group show for the holidays. It’s on view now, but attend an opening reception Friday Dec 22. (This painting is huge, by the way: 40 by 36 inches. Holy moly.)

HOLIDAY TREE AND TRAIN DISPLAY First National Bank of Santa Fe 62 Lincoln Ave., 219-3007 As is tradition at the bank, members of the Santa Fe Model Railroad Club run their Lionel trains and will be available to answer any questions.

9:30 am-noon, free NEW HOMEBUYER NIGHT Homewise 1301 Siler Road, Bldg. D, 983-9473 Learn about how the nonprofit Homewise offers everything you need to become a homeowner, all under one roof.

5 pm, free

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PAT MALONE TerraCotta Wine Bistro 304 Johnson St., 989-1166 Live solo jazz guitar.

6 pm, free RIO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Brazilian bossa, samba and jazz.

7 pm, free SANTA FE DESERT CHORALE WINTER FESTIVAL Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi 131 Cathedral Place, 982-5619 Carols and lullabies from North and South America led by Music Director Joshua Habermann.

8 pm, $10-$80 SOLSTICE CHRISTMAS CONCERT: CORDS & STRINGS AND THE KODAMA TRIO La Tienda Performance Space 7 Caliente Road, Eldorado, 465-9214 A musical celebration of Christmas with carols, traditional melodies, neglected verses and prose performed

by Cords & Strings (singer Lisa Keating and guitarist Jesse Vernier) with a second act of excerpts and extrapolations from A Charlie Brown Christmas, performed by the jazzy Kodama Trio.

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SOULBLISS: UNITY IN DARKNESS Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Dress cosmically and be ready to celebrate humanity on the longest night of the year. Beatboxing, grungy guitars, hip-hop, dancehall, reggae—pretty much anything you might want to dance to is gonna happen.

7 pm, $10-$20

THEATER SEASONED GREETINGS Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Six female performers have crafted a new piece about the holidays—from cheer and laughter to the inevitable rough moments, featuring comedy, drama, and a little multimedia and dance.

7:30 pm, $15-$25

FRI/22 ART OPENINGS HOLIDAY GROUP SHOW Selby Fleetwood Gallery 600 Canyon Road, 992-8877 The gallery celebrates the start of its 14th year on Canyon Road with Joan Barber, new artist Helen Steele and exciting work from many more. Through Jan. 1.

5 pm, free

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

6 and 8 pm, $20-$80 BILL FORREST Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano pop of the '60s and '70s, with vocals too.

6:30 pm, free CACTUS SLIM AND THE GOATHEADS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Americana and blues and beards and beers.

7 pm, free DAVE BORREGO'S BIRTHDAY PARTY Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Wish Borrego (from Borrego's Guitars & Music Supply Co.) a happy day.

8 pm, free GLOW: EHREN KEE NATAY Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Bundle up and head to the garden for its holiday lights show, complete with Natay's hip-hop. Dude is an awesome artist, too—see for yourself at ehrenkeenatay.com.

5 pm, $6-$10 HALF BROKE HORSES Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Country and Americana.

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

9 pm, free LIMELIGHT KARAOKE Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 You know what to do.

10 pm, free LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Party-time rock 'n' roll.

7:30 pm, free LUCY BARNA AND LORI OTTINO Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Two-thirds of Hot Honey has reunited and it feels so very sticky. Lucy's visiting from Oregon, so there's folk and Americana from our favorite songstresses on the heated enclosed deck. We’re just missing Paige, who’s in Florida. Hi Paige!

5-7 pm, free MARC SANDERS Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6 pm, free

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JOHN SAUNDERS: A PAINTER OF HORSES True West Gallery 130 Lincoln Ave., 982-0055 Local painter John Saunders demonstrates his love of horses in watercolors and acrylic on canvas.

11 am-5 pm, free KEVIN PATRICK John Rippel Gallery 662 Canyon Road, 986-9115 Santa Fe artist Patrick presents his latest collection of abstract paintings. The mixed-media works are part of a common theme of vessels of varying shapes and colors.

4:30 pm, free LAPIS & GOLD-LEAFED MINIATURES Heidi Loewen Fine Art 315 Johnson St., 988-2225 The ceramicist exhibits her newest vibrant blue and brilliant gold creations—and they're bite-sized, as it were.

If you were to eat ceramics, that is. Don’t do that.

4-8 pm, free MICHAEL SNODGRASS Zalma Lofton Gallery 407 S Guadalupe St., 670-5179 California-based painter Snodgrass creates abstractprimitive works with a nod to the neo-expressionists of 1980s New York (we’re looking at you, Basquiat).

With the use of strong color, thickly applied paint and crudely rendered figures, he always includes social or political commentary, delivered with a healthy dose of humor.

5 pm, free

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO CHRISTMAS SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 Enjoy the work of Entreflamenco at a special holiday performance. Tapas and drinks are available starting at 6:30 pm, so make an evening of it.

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

6:30 pm, $25

EVENTS HOLIDAY RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-7726 Seriously? You aren’t done shopping yet? Good news for you: There’s an additional holiday edition of the regular artisan market. Santa visits at 1:30 pm, all day you can get free gift wrapping by the students of Santa Fe School for the Arts and Sciences and the Reading Group, music by James Westbay, local food and great local gifts.

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HOLIDAY TREE AND TRAIN DISPLAY First National Bank of Santa Fe 62 Lincoln Ave., 219-3007 The Santa Fe Model Railroad Club’s display features a Polar Express, a Hogwarts Express, a Victorian village and a ski village with a skating rink.

How long do you think we, grown-ass adults, could just stare lovingly at it until they finally ask us to leave? We’re willing to find out.

9:30 am-noon, free

MUSIC A BAROQUE CHRISTMAS Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0092 The Santa Fe Pro Musica Baroque Ensemble presents its beloved musical holiday tradition in the festively decorated chapel. Including music by Bach, Handel and Telemann, plus traditional carols. Tickets sell out every year, so book early!

6 and 8 pm, $20-$80 BILL HEARNE TRIO Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Americana, country and honky-tonk.

6 pm, free CHANCEL BELL CHOIR OF FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Enjoy holiday compositions on hand bells. Think "O Come All Ye Faithful," "Angels We Have Heard on High," "Ding Dong! Merrily on High" and all that good stuff.

5:30 pm, free DANIELE SPADAVECCHIA Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Spadavecchia has created his own musical flavor mixing acoustic jazz, swing, Latin and Italian classics, plus singing in Italian, English and Spanish.

7 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND BILL FORREST Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards from two fine fellows: Doug starts, Bill takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free EDMUND GORMAN & TWO LEFT SHOES Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 Progressive rock with blues, folk and Celtic influences, all from right here in Santa Fe. 7 pm, free GLOW: RANDY EGAN AND GEORGE MONTOYA Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Head to the garden for its holiday lights show, one of our favorite events of the winter, and enjoy this duo playing a mix of traditional Christmas, country, vintage and pop tunes.

5 pm, $6-$10

THE GRUVE El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Soul and R&B. 9 pm, $5 LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Party-time rock 'n' roll.

8:30 pm, free MARC YAXLEY Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 All kinds of guitar: jazz, classical, flamenco and fingerpicking on both acoustic and electric.

5:30-8 pm, free MAX MANZANARES AND BERT DALTON Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 An evening of jazz in the piano lounge.

6 pm, free MIKE MONTIEL TRIO Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Classic rock.

8:30 pm, free RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Roybal is a descendent of Pueblo (Tewa) and Spanish Colonial peoples, and is considered a master performer of the Native American flute as well as the Spanish style classical guitar.

7 pm, free SANTA FE DESERT CHORALE WINTER FESTIVAL Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi 131 Cathedral Place, 982-5619 For 35 years, the all-professional Desert Chorale has been wowing Santa Fe with choral music from around America. Catch "Home for the Holidays," which features carols and lullabies from North and South America.

8 pm, $10-$80 SHINERS CLUB JAZZ BAND Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Jazzy jaunty vaudevillian tunes.

6 pm, free SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country tunes to dance to.

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The Big Ol’ 2017 Musical Year in Review

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Hey, look at all this stuff that happened!

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’m just one guy, but I really do try to get around to as many musical topics as I can in a given year (and before you fire up your emails and Facebook statuses about how I didn’t pop by wherever-the-hell to check your totally bitchin’ band do mid-tempo rock-lite versions of whatever it is you’re callin’ music, just stop).

Of course, like everyone, I have my preferences, and things I think are cooler than others— but I digress. The point is this: Lots of music stuff went down this year in much cooler ways than friends texting all like, “Hey dude, wanna go see the same old bands play same old songs we saw them play three years ago?”

January Early in the year, sax-a-mophonist Chris Jonas blew me away with jazzy weirdness (and dudely niceness) with his trio.

We basically learned what jazz was really all about. Also that month, the New Mexico Platinum Music Awards kicked off and taught us all a thing or two about how people

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who’ve done it for a long time are somehow automatically better than everyone else. We also met metal label King Volume Records and I totally got to interview Frank Zappa’s keyboard player, Don Preston.

February Love-month meant collaborations between pianist/composer Grisha Krivchenia and all-around culture champion Tara Khozein, who crafted songs about the plight of refugees. I hear they’re wrapping up the recorded versions right around now. I also spent a

March came in like an emmer-effing lion as I not only had my wisdom teeth yanked, thereby thrusting me into a psychedelic world of acceptance (gross), but promoter Jamie Lenfestey turned 50, I got to interview both Griffin Goldsmith from Dawes and change-music-forever-er Moldover, and I met Paris Mancini (aka PSIRENS)—which was perfect because she totally moved into my old apartment, making my life so much easier!

April Simon and Garfunkel danced in our heads (Google it if you really don’t know) as Pete Williams of The Sticky explained his Staples Singers connection, Canadian one-man pop-punk explosion Rosedale gave me a call and Santa Fe ex-pat Trevor Bahnson brought his new band, Whiskerman (and their sitar) to town to record a live album at The Kitchen Sink Studios. It was also, sadly, the first we started hearing that downtown venue Skylight might be in trouble.

May This was the month everyone on Facebook counted down their top 10 concerts, and SFR counted down the top 10 cool

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music-related things that were happening. Los Angeles’ Campfire Cassettes won my heart, producer to the stars (and also rocker and roller) John Kurzweg and I became best friends and AMP Concerts won a big fat $25 grand to put on shows (like Meat Puppets … which ruled … really hard). I also spoke with Stephen Pope of Wavves and then totally went and saw Wavves with my buddy Jasper and was like, “Hey Jasper, Wavves is totally a great rock band.” And he was like, “Totally.”

June June was super-DJ-heavy with interviews from folks like Joe Ray Sandoval (Poetics), Sol Bentley (Dynamite Sol) and Santiago Gallegos (SaggaLiffik). We were also ass-deep in Best of Santa Fe votes around here and it was like a horrible nightmare you couldn’t wake up from.

July Summer was in full swing and everyone was like, “Where does one buy an AC?” on Facebook while sane people were like, “At fucking Target or something!” in their minds. Sex Headaches made a triumphant garage-punk return and Branden & James brought pop to the Vanessie set. Your old pal Alex hung around the offices of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival chatting with Artistic Director Marc Neikrug, and Benzo III explained his roots as toaster

player and relative of the inimitable Joe West. Best of Santa Fe came out, too, with INCREDIBLE artwork from local artist Nico Salazar.

People really hated my guts on Facebook around then, which made my beard grow. Kisses.

August Bands returning apparently became a summer thing as Mark Williams resurrected his utterly weird and fully full-on excellent nerd-rock band, Treemotel. I finally interviewed Sam France of Foxygen only, like, a billion years after I interviewed Jonathan Rado (also of Foxygen), learned of the healing power of singing with 7th Wave Singers and spent oh-so-much time bothering Luke Carr and Caitlin Brothers for a pretty nifty cover story on Storming the Beaches with Logos in Hand (who were kind enough to let us debut a song from the new album on our site). D Numbers also made a bit of a comeback when co-founder Brian Mayhall returned from the sunny beaches of Mexico, where he now lives, for a Santa Fe Bandstand performance, and I got to talk punk with Fraser (like Cher) of Scotland punk act Murderburgers. Man, that was a busy month. Also, it was still hot in my house.

September Oh man, that September, right?

Right. K.Dutch appeared with sincere and cerebral hip-hop, William Cashion from Future Islands spoke about bassin’ it up (his dad emailed me, too, to say thanks, which was adorable), Noise for NOW kicked everyone’s asses with appearances from TV on the Radio and Fleet Foxes among MANY others—and its creator Amelia Bauer told us more about how it raised money for the National Organization for Women— and I totally filled space during a too-busy week with a throwaway column about covers (though we can all agree that Ellen Page cover of Beck was alllllllright).

October October brought in talented ladies and non-binary performers with the first-ever Santa Fe version of the annual Albuquerque-based music festival Gatas y Vatas at Ghost

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while sometimes-local singer-songwriter Liv Lombardi came back with new songs and new ideas. Sacramento MC Mr. P Chill regaled us with his initiation into hip-hop, and totally recognized my Rentals jokes, too, and no matter what that dude who commented on our website for that piece says, it’s true that P Chill fully hates Trump. Womp-womp.

November We’re barely even out of the most Wyclef Jean of months, so you’ll recall that Cloacas’ Johnny Bell forever changed the Banjo with his side project, The Visitors, drag queen Bella Gigante explained herself and I finally had a chance to listen to ppoacher ppoacher and Chicharra releases from local label Matron Records. That was an alright month, especially since I got, like, two entire days off.

December Which brings us pretty much to right now. Already this month we’ve mourned the loss of venues like Skylight and The Underground (which we seriously hear is about to re-emerge with some kind of something-or-other, if it hasn’t already) and celebrated 15 years of Electrovibe Events. Even as this roundup is being written, we’re counting down the hours till the release of guitarist Nathan Smerage’s new album. ’Twas a pretty good year indeed, and with info about upcoming shows from Talib Kweli, Portugal. The Man and Snail Mail, we … wait, those are all Meow Wolf shows. OK, that’s cool and all, but what’re the rest of you getting into? Anyone? Aw, you’ll figure it out. Just lemme know next year when you’re ready to talk.

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THE CALENDAR THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 This musical institution often welcomes a fourth guest, but it's always jazzy piano music.

7:30 pm, free TRUCKSTOP HONEYMOON Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Kansas-based, NOLA-grown music with elements of bluegrass, music hall jazz and straight-up rock ’n’ roll.

Vaudevillian wit and showmanship spike Katie and Mike West's energetic live shows.

8 pm, free WALK IN BEAUTY San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, 983-3974 A unification of cultures and music from Sky Redhawk, Seblue Cloud and Caitlin Alexander. It's a blend of Native American, Celtic and South American medicine songs on Native American flute, percussion, n’goni, keyboard and voice.

7 pm, $10-$20

THEATER SEASONED GREETINGS Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Six female performers have crafted a new piece about the holidays—from cheer and laughter to the inevitable rough moments. A series of vignettes brings to life stories of holiday hopes and disasters. The theater is the place to be around the holidays, folks.

7:30 pm, $15-$25

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JOHN SAUNDERS: A PAINTER OF HORSES True West Gallery 130 Lincoln Ave., 982-0055 Local painter John Saunders demonstrates his love of horses in watercolors and acrylic on canvas.

11 am-5 pm, free LAPIS & GOLD-LEAFED MINIATURES Heidi Loewen Fine Art 315 Johnson St., 988-2225 The ceramicist exhibits her newest vibrant blue and brilliant gold creations—and they're small and portable, if you still need any gifts. And they’re pretty.

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DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO CHRISTMAS SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 Enjoy the dramatic stylings of Entreflamenco at a special holiday performance. Tapas and drinks are available starting at 6:30 pm, so make an evening of it.

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

6:30 pm, $25 HOLIDAY FLAMENCO: THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 A Christmas flamenco performance, based on the dark short story by Hans Christian Andersen, created by renowned guitarist Chuscales and choreographer Mina Fajardo. It's not the most uplifting tale in the world, but certainly would lend itself to the drama and passion of flamenco dance. It's a family-friendly production, so bring the kids.

2 and 7 pm, $20-$25

EVENTS GREYHOUND MEET 'N' GREET Teca Tu DeVargas Center, 165 Paseo de Peralta, 982-9374 The Greyhound Adoption League of TX/NM brings its adoptable long dogs for you to love on. Relieve some of that holiday stress, amirite?

Come meet the hounds and learn about this wonderful breed (they’re bred for running but mostly just like to sleep upside-down) and how to adopt or foster. For more info check galtx.org.

11 am-1 pm, free SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET Santa Fe Railyard Market Street, north of the water tower, 310-8766 A large group of juried local artists sell their wares. Think paintings, drawings, photography, sculpture, textiles, jewelry, wood creations and more. Short of shoving them down your throat, we can’t encourage you more strongly to buy local this holiday.

8 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC A BAROQUE CHRISTMAS Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0092 The Santa Fe Pro Musica Baroque Ensemble presents its beloved musical holiday tradition in the festively decorated chapel. Featuring music by Bach, Handel and Telemann, plus traditional carols. Tickets sell out every year, so book early!

6 and 8 pm, $20-$80

DAVID GEIST AND JULIE TRUJILLO Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Geist whips up the standards and Broadway tunes on piano, accompanied by the vocal stylings of Trujillo.

6 pm, $2 DOUG MONTGOMERY AND BILL FORREST Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards from two fine fellows: Doug starts, Bill takes over at 8 pm. Are you planning on, like, making some kind of big announcement this winter? If so, we’re gonna say: Do it here. Vanessie is way fancy and totally worthy of a special occasion.

6 pm, free FELIX Y LOS GATOS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Americana, blues, cumbia, jazz, ranchera, swing, TexMex and zydeco. You could ask for more, but you’d sound a little greedy. Just sayin’.

9 pm, free FRITZ AND THE BLUEJAYS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 High-energy rock, blues and R&B. 7 pm, free GLOW: RAILYARD REUNION Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Bundle up and head to the garden for its GLOW holiday lights display, plus bluegrass and old-timey tunes from this group headed by Tim Nolen.

5 pm, $6-$10 HALF BROKE HORSES Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Country and Americana.

1-4 pm, free HOLIDAY JAZZ Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Snazzy holiday music with more Clarks than you can even imagine (that would be Lydia Clark on keyboard, Mark Clark on drums and the vocals of Sierra Clark).

6 pm, free JJ AND THE HOOLIGANS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock, blues and Americana.

8:30 pm, $5 JOHN RANGEL QUARTET El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 A piano-led jazz quartet.

7:30 pm, free JONO MANSON La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Singery-songwritery rootsy rock and roll.

7 pm, free KITTY JO CREEK Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Bluegrass on the deck.

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neighborhood is made up of little stories, the lived experiences of community and identity that eventually become the memories we live by. Thomas Romero is a natural storyteller whose anecdotes of growing up in the Hopewell Mann neighborhood unspooled readily. Romero’s father built the family home, located on the corner of Fifth and Mann streets, from cinder blocks purchased from Empire Builders. Every night after work, he laid them line by line until the structure took form. Later, when it was time for a plumber, the elder Romero traded for labor; his currency was in haircuts.

Entire family groups—grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins—bought separate lots near one another and lived as neighbors. During Holy Week, kids would deliver food to their kin that lined the adjacent roads after the pre-Easter fasting ended. Fred’s Market, where locals could pay with cash or credit, was within walking distance and Ingrid’s Drive-In just off

the corner of Cerrillos Road and Fourth Street, was one of several options for movies in Santa Fe. When Romero was growing up, his barrio marked the very edge of Santa Fe. The Toyota dealership that is now rapidly expanding off of St. Michael’s Drive was just dirt roads and prairie dogs. In fact, St. Michael’s Drive didn’t even exist at that point. Romero chuckled when he declared, “It was all llano [flat] back then. That’s how the road got its name,” referring to Llano Street, which intersects with Hopewell, the neighborhood’s namesake.

By “then,” Romero (who is currently the director of the Rio Grande National Heritage Area) means the 1950s, a decade defined by a post-WWII economic and baby boom in America’s lower and middle class, and the 1960s. By the 1970s, the city was stretching its legs as tourism began to reshape downtown and pushed what Romero calls “anchor” businesses—gas stations, general clothing stores and grocery stores—further down Cerrillos Road.

With decades of growth in almost every direction, the Hopewell Mann neighborhood became the city’s center. Now, it is a small but significant slice of Santa Fe at the triangular nexus of three major thoroughfares: St. Michael’s Drive,

Residents of the Hopewell Mann neighborhood are potentially at risk for displacement.

Cerrillos Road and St. Francis Drive. The Rail Runner zips directly through it.

If you’ve spent any time cruising through the area, you’ve probably noticed how the tiny streets within the barrio curve and interlock with no apparent reasoning. A mix of 100-year old adobe houses and cinder block homes, many with the same decorative wrought iron that dominates Northern New Mexico facades, as well as trailer homes and public housing line these streets.

It’s one of the few neighborhoods in town that has retained its “old-school flavor,” in the words of Tomás Rivera, executive director of Chainbreaker Collective, a nonprofit dedicated to housing and transportation justice in Santa Fe. A majority of Chainbreaker’s 600 dues-paying members come from Hopewell Mann.

Rivera himself lives on Fifth Street in an old adobe home with exposed vigas and 2-foot-thick walls built by “his great grandfather from the dirt in the backyard.” While he never met his grandparents, his neighbors still remember them. A significant pocket of community has long lineages in the area, as well as long memories that conjure a deep sense of place.

That’s not to say that the area hasn’t seen its share of challenges; back in the ’90s, Hopewell Mann was distinguished by gang violence. Much of that has settled down in recent years, but other obstacles

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remain: The area has the lowest median income in all of Santa Fe and the highest number of renters, many of whom are “housing cost burdened,” according to a study published by Human Impact Partners in tandem with Chainbreaker. Those renters are also, primarily, Latinx. The study, “Equitable Development and Risk of Displacement,” profiled four neighborhoods two years ago. One of those was Hopewell Mann.

Gentrification has been on the national radar for some time, though the discourse has only just reached its peak.

But generally when a community has seen disinvestment—a dearth of funding toward infrastructure, for instance—this keeps property values low, making it easy for developers to swoop in. In the case of Hopewell Mann, the disinvestment comes as “a lack of sidewalks, bike lanes, transit and parks” in Rivera’s estimation.

However, with the barrio’s proximity to downtown and the “growing number of upscale retail amenities,” the area’s majority-renter population is at risk of displacement, the study concluded. It is unclear for now how putting protections for renters and homeowners into effect might help break the pattern of displacement that has become part of Santa Fe’s story as well. With the right kind of municipal policies, Rivera maintains, “displacement does not have to be inevitable.”

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A Holiday Family Cabaret

at the Santa Fe Playhouse: 142 E. De Vargas Street Dec. 21, 22, 23 at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 24 Party at 3 p.m.

at Wise Fool New Mexico: 1131 Siler Road, Unit B Dec. 30 at 2 and 7 p.m. and Dec. 31 at 4 p.m.

in the Botanical Gardens: Dec. 16 from 5 to 8 p.m.

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I am a 22-year-old Italian man, 100 percent straight, sensitive and sporty. I have been reading Savage Love for years in Internazionale. I have one question for you: Why do I always fall in love with lesbians? Why do I instantly fall in love with girls who have that something more in their eyes? Something melancholy and perhaps insecure? Girls whom I’d rather protect and embrace than take to bed? The last three girls who fit this description all turned out to be lesbians. The last girl with whom this happened told me it was my “Red Cross” mind-set that made me fall in love with girls who are insecure/sad/melancholy, so I have a sort of selection bias that excludes most straight girls I meet. I do not believe this, because the world is full of straight girls who need saving. So why then, Dan? WHY? I have a girlfriend. I truly love her. Since September, we have been living in two different cities because she went away to study. I am afraid that one day she is going to tell me she’s gay too. She always talks with me about a new super-cute female friend. Is she a lesbian? I have recently met another girl, super empathetic. She is gay, and I knew it after an all-night conversation in my car listening to Cigarettes After Sex. Why do I always fall in love with gay girls? Can I love two people at the same time? This is the fourth time that this has happened. Is my girlfriend gay? Why do I find lesbians so attractive? I’m freaking.

-Increasingly Tormented About Lesbian Yearnings There’s a lot going on in your letter, ITALY, so I’m going to take your questions one at a time…

1. Maybe you always fall in love with lesbians or maybe this was a series of coincidences— by pure chance you fell for more than one woman who turned out to be a lesbian—and, hey, since you’re probably going to love a few more women over the course of your life, ITALY, that “always” seems a bit premature.

It’s also possible you find women with a certain degree of masculine energy and/or swagger attractive, and women with that swagger are somewhat likelier to be lesbians, slightly upping your chances of falling in love with four girls-who-turned-out-to-be-lesbians in a row.

Personally, ITALY, I’m attracted to guys with a certain degree of feminine swagger and, needless to say, these guys are likelier to be gay. But while almost all effeminate guys are gay—so stigmatized is femininity in males (even in the gay community)—masculine swagger in women is less stigmatized and therefore somewhat less likely to correlate as strongly with lesbianism. Women with masculine swagger and men with feminine swagger are also likely to be self-conscious about their gender-nonconforming traits, particularly when they’re young and/or not yet out, and that can read as melancholy and/or insecurity.

2. Women—straight or bi or lesbian—don’t need “saving.” They need respect, they need to be taken seriously, they need bodily autonomy, and they need loving partners and political allies.

3. Your girlfriend may be a lesbian—anyone could in these highly fluid days, even me. But if your girlfriend isn’t straight, ITALY, she’s likelier to be bisexual, seeing as there are roughly three times as many bi women as there are lesbian women. And if she seems gayer now than when you met, that could be because you landed a straight girl who had been suppressing her masculine swagger—which many men don’t find attractive—and she’s consciously or subconsciously come to the realization that she doesn’t have to play the girly girl around you to hold your attention. Quite the opposite, in fact.

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4. It’s entirely possible to love more than one person at a time. Just as we are capable of loving more than one parent, child, sibling, friend, and television show at a time (you know I love you both equally, Lady Dynamite and The Crown), we can love more than one romantic partner at a time. But we’re told that romantic love is a zero-sum game so often— if someone wins, someone else loses—it has become a self-fulfilling/relationship-destroying prophecy. It’s a myth that harms not just people who might want to be with two people, but partnered monogamous people as well. A person who is convinced he can feel romantic love for only one person at a time will doubt his love for a long-term partner if he develops a crush on someone new. He’ll say to himself, “I couldn’t possibly feel this way about this barista if I was still in love with my partner of 10 years.” But those feelings can exist side by side—stable, secure, lasting love for a longterm partner and an intense infatuation (most likely fleeting) for a new person.

5. Cigarettes After Sex were on a boat in the Arabian Sea—they sent the pics to prove it— when I reached them about your dilemma.

Drummer Jacob Tomsky said: “About loving more than one person at the same time, a Gabriel García Márquez quote from Love in the Time of Cholera comes to mind: ‘My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.’ Your heart will surprise you with its duplicity.” Or its capacity. Keyboardist Phillip Tubbs wanted to share a Morrissey line with you: “’Cause I want the one I can’t have and it’s driving me mad.” Lead singer Greg Gonzalez declined to comment.

6. Maybe it’s not an accident that you keep falling for lesbians. There are lots of straight men out there who have a thing for dykes. It’s entirely possible that you aren’t worried your girlfriend is a lesbian, ITALY, but secretly hoping she is. Good luck!

My boyfriend and I have been together for five years. We have had an open relationship from fairly early on, but it’s only in the last six months that he’s started using various gentlemen’s apps for meeting new guys. We don’t share apps or have threesomes; our dalliances are solo affairs and that works for us. I snuck a look at his phone and I was horrified—the dick pics he’s sharing are terrible. Poorly lit and with bad angles, they completely do not do justice to his cock. His face pics are great, but I really feel like he’s underselling what else he has to offer. How can I help him take better junk shots without revealing that I’ve been looking at his phone?

-Doesn’t Instinctively Capture Photographic Instant Classics, Sadly You could tell your boyfriend you made a joint appointment with a photographer—perhaps as a Hanukkah/Solstice/Christmas/Kwanzaa/ Ramadan present—because you thought you should both have Sears-Portrait-Studio-quality-or-better dick pics to share with your prospective hookups, DICPICS, or you could let your boyfriend’s hookups be pleasantly surprised when your boyfriend drops his drawers.

Are you really whining about having a president you don’t like in office? Is that so terrible that you have to get little digs in every week?

That’s the problem with you liberals—you’re a bunch of wimps. Man up, dude.

-Make America Strong Again Gee, I don’t recall any whining from you right-wing he-men back when a black guy who didn’t collude with a hostile foreign power and wasn’t poisoning our air and water and didn’t undermine our Democratic norms and wasn’t surrounded by a cadre of deeply corrupt sycophants was president— you guys were so stoic during the Obama years, so he-manly. You ova’d up, you didn’t whine or moan, you didn’t spread wild conspiracy theories or march on Washington waving signs that proved you were every bit

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I have been with my unicorn boyfriend for four months. The sexual chemistry between us is out of this world! I’m a woman who’s very open-minded when it comes to trying new things: I’ve had threesomes and foursomes, tried every toy on the market, done anal sex, BDSM, and many other things. He is sexually experienced, but he’s not open-minded. One thing he won’t do is kiss me after I’ve swallowed his load. We’ve been together only four months, so maybe I just need to wait and hope that he’ll come around. Or is there something I can do to get him to try it?

-Can’t Unicorn Man Up? If that’s the only thing he won’t do—if every toy on the market is on the table, along with threesomes, foursomes, BDSM, etc.—then he’s pretty adventurous. But if kissing after you’ve swallowed is the only mildly kinky thing you’ve attempted with him and it was a no, he may not be adventurous enough to deserve unicorn status. But I will say this in his defense…

Kissing someone who has just swallowed your load (or snowballing with someone who wants you to swallow your own load) presents a challenge for many men. Some silly straight men worry that tasting their own come will turn them gay or make them look gay—I’ve gotten letters from girlfriends who thought their boyfriends were gay because they were too willing to kiss them after a blowjob. But there are gay men out there who don’t want to deep-kiss the guy who just blew them— and they’re obviously not worried about turning gay (already are) or seeming gay (ditto).

So what gives? Blame what’s known as the “refractory period,” CUMU. Immediately after a man ejaculates, his dick starts to go soft and he loses all interest in sex—hormones have been released into his bloodstream that short-circuit sexual arousal. Bodily fluids and orifices a man was happily lapping up or at a minute ago are suddenly repulsive, not because the dude is necessarily inhibited or insecure, CUMU, but because he’s having his period—his refractory period.

I’ve been seeing this guy who keeps making D/s-ish jokes and moves—he smacks my butt a lot, for example. When I let him know I like it, he’s suddenly not into it. He says it’s “disturbing” that I like what he’s been doing. Two questions: (1) Smacking my butt is okay so long as I don’t want it? (2) Enjoying what he’s doing makes me a freak?

-Joking About Consensual Kinks Two options: (1) He goes in for domineering head games and “playful” violence because he’s abusive and controlling. (2) He’s got kinks, but he hasn’t managed to incorporate his kinks into his sex life in a healthy, consensual manner—and now that he knows you enjoy the same things he does (but you’re healthier about them than he is), he’s projecting his self-loathing onto you. Either way, JACK, you’re going to need to DTMFA. You recently said it’s okay to fantasize about other people so long as we keep it to ourselves. Social media and dating apps have given us access to tons of spank material, from that new crush on OkCupid to the (monogamously) married neighbor you always wanted to bang. In this era, we can see actual pictures of the people we’re fantasizing about more often than not. Facebook stalking for spank bank purposes is fine—we all do it—but does it cross a line to actually download the pictures for later? I feel like it’s at least a little creepy to be taking screenshots of people’s photos. But as long as you’re the only one using your phone, what’s the practical difference between looking at Facebook and looking at saved screenshots?

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Keep whatever you want on your phone, SPANK, so long as you keep it to yourself and your phone is password protected.

I am a 29-year-old straight woman on the West Coast in a new relationship. My boyfriend and I have just begun exploring anal sex. Question: HOW DO I AVOID POOP LEAKAGE?!? The first time we had anal sex, my boyfriend came in my ass and then pulled out. Then we decided to go for a run. (We didn’t think it through, CLEARLY.) A few minutes in, I was leaking all over my pants. In short, GROSS. Obviously it wasn’t a good idea to go for a run afterward (NOTED!), but what can I do in the future immediately after anal to avoid poopy come from leaking out of my butt?

-Anal Newbie Avoiding Leakage Yeah, don’t go for a run immediately after anal.

Spend a few minutes on the toilet instead— bring your phone, post something to Instagram, let gravity do its thing. And that wasn’t poop leaking out of you on that run, ANAL, it was santorum—“the frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.”

No one aroused by BDSM could ever truly love someone, could they?

-Violence Isn’t Love, Eh? Of course not, VILE. But only the Duggar girls and Princess Diana’s boys are capable of truly loving someone. The rest of us are just playing.

My boyfriend complains that our sex life is too vanilla. I want him to be satisfied, but he won’t tell me what else he wants to do. Recently, he suggested an open relationship. I don’t want to be in an open relationship and I told him as much. But I’m fully open to being more kinky or whatever else he needs. I’ve tried mixing it up, but he just looks at me strangely and asks me to stop whatever I’m doing. Can I do anything to fix this? Any insight would be appreciated.

-I’m Not Good At Acronyms He knows what he wants, and he can’t or won’t tell you. Either he can’t because he’s so sexually repressed that he’s incapable of pushing the words out of his mouth, or he won’t because his non-vanilla desires are so extreme as to be deal-breaker-level repulsive to anyone who doesn’t share them. But complaining about your sex life without elaborating or giving you any constructive feedback at all is disqualifying assholery, INGAA. You’ll also have to DTMFA. I just read your reply to a woman who wrote to you regarding her partner’s lack of libido.

Although I found the article somewhat interesting, I would have preferred that a woman who was an actual lesbian was rendering advice to other lesbians. As a man, you are not qualified to deal out sex advice to women— especially to lesbians.

-Stating This Obvious Point Take it away, Free Dictionary: “ad•vice: opinion about what could or should be done about a situation or problem.” The only qualification you need to give someone your opinion?

Someone asked you for it. Full stop, STOP. So I’m going to continue giving advice to straight people despite not being straight, to lesbians despite not being a lesbian, to bisexuals despite not being bi, to trans people despite not being trans, to monogamous people despite not being monogamous. Hell, I sometimes give advice to Republicans despite not being a heartless idiot.

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KODAMA TRIO Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 In what has become a Christmas tradition for Second Street, the jazz trio plays tunes from A Charlie Brown Christmas and other holiday faves (see SFR Picks, page 26).

6 pm, free MICHAEL UMPHREY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6 pm, free NEXT 2 THE TRACKS Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 Outlaw rock and renegade blues.

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

7 pm, free RIO Tonic 103 E Water St., 982-1189 This duo whips up some Brazilian bossa, samba and jazz at one of the newest nightlife spots downtown. Get those chicken nuggets, folks.

9:30 pm, free RONALD ROYBAL Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Native American flute and Spanish-style classical guitar.

7 pm, free SANTA FE DESERT CHORALE WINTER FESTIVAL Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi 131 Cathedral Place, 982-5619 "Home for the Holidays" features carols and lullabies from North and South America led by Music Director Joshua Habermann, plus Oregon native Bryan Johanson's "O Magnum Mysterium."

8 pm, $10-$80 SHANNON BRACKETT AND GEOFF PEARLMAN Coyote Den Speakeasy 132 W Water St., 983-1615 Songstress Brackett, an Austin-reared Oklahomaborn artist who now bounces between New Mexico and California, comes through town to play an evening of her smooth tunes with Pearlman, accomplished guitar player and singer-songwriter from Los Angeles.

9:30 pm, free SHOWCASE KARAOKE Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Today’s suggestion from us: “Helter Skelter.”

10 pm, free SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country tunes to dance to.

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The FCC’s vote to end net neutrality is good for some— with Name and by some, we mean huge corporations like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast that already have a monopoly on providing internet service to the majority of Americans.

It’s shitty for everybody else. These companies will now, in theory, have greater power to slow down and speed up your access to certain parts of the internet depending on how it impacts their bottom line. But some states are hoping to circumvent the federal government’s decision to end net neutrality, including New Mexico. State Sen. Howie Morales, D-Silver City, plans to introduce legislation in January that would establish “net neutrality for all of New Mexico.” We spoke to him about what he’s planning and why it’s important.

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What are you proposing?

We want to have New Mexico take control of its direction [with regards to net neutrality]. So we’ve taken a similar approach that’s been done in Washington state and basically just not allowing [the restriction of lawful internet content]. We believe we have the capacity in New Mexico to create our own system, and with that being said, I think that’s where attorneys general across the country are banding together and are saying the same thing: That we feel that this is what’s going to be best for the people we represent; in this case, New Mexico.

Who in New Mexico is most affected by the repeal of net neutrality?

You’re gonna have your elderly, students—let’s be candid, you have your educational community that has for years been underpaid, that have relied on the ability to utilize [internet] resources. These are people affected the most because they so heavily depend on a free internet for their success. We’ve talked many times in an economic development aspect how we’re lacking in our state, and we’re setting ourselves further back at the hands of the overreaching FCC decision, and it’s gonna impact New Mexico for years to come.

What will you do if the feds try to stop state net neutrality regulations?

We don’t have a choice; we have to stand up and challenge this. The threats that are going to be placed out there on the feds’ side is using taxpayer dollars we all pay as ransom to go along with their decision. That’s not the purpose of the dollars we pay in taxes. The purpose is to provide services to people across the country. So I take exception to the threat saying dollars will be withheld. Those dollars don’t belong to the feds, those dollars are generated by taxpayers across the state.

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VANILLA POP Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Sequins, bubbles, a smoke machine, pencil-thin mustaches, and every last cover of every last song—ever. All the kids will be home from college, too, so this should be one hell of a night.

10 pm, $10

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THEATER A CHRISTMAS CAROL Unitarian Universalist Congregation 107 W Barcelona Road, 982-9674 Students present the story in the same way Charles Dickens once did—through a dramatic reading.

5 pm, free SEASONED GREETINGS Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Six female performers have crafted a new piece about the holidays—from cheer and laughter to the inevitable rough moments.

7:30 pm, $15-$25

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EVENTS CANDLELIGHT CHRISTMAS EVE CELEBRATION St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-5397 Whether you go every Sunday or only head to church once a year, tonight's the night to get your fill of scriptures and carols and to listen to the choir at a candlelight service.

Beforehand, there will be costumes available for the kids' Christmas pageant.

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

5 pm, free

MUSIC A BAROQUE CHRISTMAS Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0092 The Baroque Ensemble presents its beloved musical holiday tradition in the festively decorated chapel. Featuring music by Bach, Handel and Telemann, plus traditional carols. Tickets sell out every year, so book early!

6 and 8 pm, $20-$80

DANA SMITH Upper Crust Pizza 329 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0000 Mayhaps Santa will be enticed to come early when he hears these original country-tinged folk songs. Fuel up with a pizza before strolling Canyon Road.

Noon-4 pm, free DANNY HARPS BAND Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Soul, country to blues and more. Enjoy the day in Christmas Town.

2 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND ELIZABETH YOUNG Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards are even better when accompanied by Young on violin.

6:30 pm, free ECLECTICOS Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Dub house, trip-hop, electro swing and world beat. Dance for Santa. DANCE, WE SAY! 9 pm, free MICHAEL UMPHREY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6 pm, free NELSON AND PETRA Chez Mamou 217 E Palace Ave., 216-1845 Join the musicians for classical, jazz and holiday music on guitar and cello.

6 pm, free

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EMIARTE FLAMENCO La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 A flamenco performance from one of Santa Fe's finest dancers.

6 pm, free

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Dang! The new cobalt and gold miniature ceramics at Heidi Loewen Fine Art sure do shine.

Check out the gallery’s holiday openings on two weekends—Dec. 22-23 and 29-30.

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GEEKS WHO DRINK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 This quiz can win you drink tickets for next time. As ever, it's hosted by the kindly Kevin A. 8 pm, free HOLIDAY TREE AND TRAIN DISPLAY First National Bank of Santa Fe 62 Lincoln Ave., 219-3007 As is tradition at the bank, members of the Santa Fe Model Railroad Club run their Lionel trains and will be available to answer any questions.

9:30 am-noon, free METTA REFUGE COUNCIL Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 A gathering for people who are struggling with illness and loss in a variety of its forms, and an opportunity for the sharing of life experiences in a setting of compassion and confidentiality. The holidays can be a hard time, but you’re not alone.

10:30 am, free

MON/25 EVENTS CHRISTMAS DAY CELEBRATION St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-5397 Leaving plenty of time to open Santa's gifts beforehand, celebrate the day at a traditional Christmas service.

11 am, free

MUSIC DANIELE SPADAVECCHIA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Gypsy jazz on acoustic guitar.

6 pm, free NELSON AND PETRA Chez Mamou 217 E Palace Ave., 216-1845 Join the musicians for classical, jazz and holiday music on guitar and cello.

6 pm, free

THEATER A CHRISTMAS CAROL Vista Grande Public Library 14 Avenida Torreon, 466-7323 The Upstart Crows, a students' Shakespeare and classical theater troupe, present the story in the same way Charles Dickens once did— through a dramatic reading.

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OPEN MIC Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Show off the new jams you've been working on. We’ll give you $5 to sing “Jesus Was a Dreidel Spinner” by Jill Sobule. Just kidding, we won’t give you $5. But you should do it anyway.

3-7 pm, free SUGAR MOUNTAIN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Sweet, sweet Americana.

Noon, free TREVOR BAHNSON AND ZOË WINTER Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 We could not have wished for a better present than local singer-songwriter Bahnson coming home from Europe to play us his etherial folky Americana rocky tunes with performance buddy Winter (see SFR Picks, page 26).

8 pm, free

SEASONED GREETINGS Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Six performers have crafted a new piece about the holidays—from cheer and laughter to the rough moments.

This is a special party for Christmas Eve, so get dolled up and arrive at 3 pm for carols and refreshments.

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BOOKS/LECTURES PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Santa Fe Public Library LaFarge Branch 1730 Llano St., 955-4860 Your kids will totally ask if they can bring their new toys to story time. Just say yes, as long as they’re quiet toys.

If you got your 3-year-old an iPad, leave that at home please. Also, please buy the calendar editor an iPad too.

10:30 am, free

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ARGENTINE TANGO MILONGA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Show off your best tango moves.

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FOOD HOLIDAY VEGAN POTLUCK Center for Progress and Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, 467-8514 Bring a vegan dish for eight to share, and don't forget the recipe (in case folks have allergies, or want to make it themselves). Enjoy delicious food, music and good company. Note: There's no oven there, so get creative with ways to keep it warm. We think you should also BYOPC (place setting) to be safe.

Noon-2 pm, free

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

7:30 pm, free

CANYON ROAD BLUES JAM El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Santa Fe's favorite night of music and camaraderie. Bring your instrument to join in, but make sure your skills are up to snuff.

8:30 pm, $5 CHUSCALES La Boca (Original Location) 72 W Marcy St., 982-3433 Exotic flamenco guitar from a dude whose family descended from the inventors of the genre. He knows his stuff.

7 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND BILL FORREST Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards from two fine fellows: Doug starts, Bill takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free GLOW: UPSTART CROWS Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 At the garden’s GLOW holiday lights display, the student theater troupe performs Elizabethan holiday songs.

5 pm, $6-$10 HOGAN & MOSS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Scorch-folk (which they define as old-time music played new, or modern people's music played old).

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

6 pm, free OPEN MIC Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Show off the new jams you've been working on. Hosted by John Rives and Randy Mulkey.

7 pm, free RONALD ROYBAL El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 On Native flute and Spanish guitar, Roybal presents a unique musical portrayal the American Southwest.

7:30 pm, $20

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THE CALENDAR VINTAGE VINYL NITE The Matador 116 W San Francisco St. DJ Prairiedog and DJ Mama Goose spin the best in garage, surf, rockabilly and old-school country.

9 pm, free

WED/27 BOOKS/LECTURES DHARMA TALK BY SENSEI GENZAN QUENNELL Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 This week's talk is presented

by Sensei Genzan Quennell; the evening begins with a 15-minute meditation, so arrive by 5:20 pm to be polite.

5:30 pm, free PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 Is it time for them to go back to school yet? No? Okay.

Well, thank god for libraries.

10:45 am, free

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Celebrate Christmas at St. John’s ~ Santa Fe Christmas Eve Morning Celebration Sunday, December 24 | 8:30 & 11 A.M. Christmas Eve Candlelight Celebration Join us for Scriptures, carols and the choir. Costumes will be available for the kids’ Christmas Pageant.

Sunday, December 24 | 5 P.M. Christmas Day Worship Celebration Monday, December 25 | 11 A.M. New Year’s Eve Day Worship Celebration Sunday, December 31 | 8:30 & 11 A.M.

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GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Quiz results can win you drink tickets for next time.

8 pm, free HOLIDAY TREE AND TRAIN DISPLAY First National Bank of Santa Fe 62 Lincoln Ave., 219-3007 This may be geared toward kids ... but we'd be lying if we said we, grown adults, weren't pretty psyched about it.

9:30 am-noon, free TAPS AND TABLETOPS Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 Happy hour and board games!

Bring your own or play one of the cinema's.

6 pm, free

MUSIC BOK CHOY Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Eclectic electric grooving psychedellic bok rock.

8 pm, free DJ SAGGALIFFIK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 House, electronica, hip-hop and reggaeton (see SFR Picks, page 26).

10 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY, ELIZABETH YOUNG AND BILL FORREST Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Familiar standards from many fine folks: Pianist Doug starts, joined by violinist Elizabeth Young, then Bill takes over on the keys at 8 pm.

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

8 pm, free GLOW: LAST CAUSE Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 In the midst of the garden’s holiday lights display, listen to alt.rock from one of Santa Fe's newest musical acts (no really, these teens can rock).

5 pm, $6-$10 GERRY & CHRIS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Traditional Irish sounds from Gerry Carthy meld with Latin tunes by Chris Abeyta when these two longtime friends play together.

7:30 pm, free MICHAEL UMPHREY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6 pm, free PAT MALONE JAZZ TRIO El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Jazz and camaraderie with Malone on guitar, Kanoa Kaluhiwa on sax and Jon Gagan on bass.

7 pm, free SANTA FE CROONERS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave.., 428-0690 All the best hits from the golden years—think Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday and other swinging crooners.

6:30 pm, free SYDNEY WESTAN Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Country bluesy folky Americanaey and Westerny singery-songwritery tunes.

5:30-7:30 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 School still hasn’t started yet.

Seriously. So get yourself and your kid out of the house and see other real live humans.

11 am, free

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO CHRISTMAS SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 Enjoy the work of Entreflamenco at a special holiday performance. Tapas and drinks are available starting at 6:30 pm, so make an evening of it.

7:30 pm, $25-$40

EVENTS HOLIDAY TREE AND TRAIN DISPLAY First National Bank of Santa Fe 62 Lincoln Ave., 219-3007 As is tradition at the bank, members of the Santa Fe Model Railroad Club run their Lionel trains and will be available to answer any questions.

We love us some wee trains.

9:30 am-noon, free NEW HOMEBUYER NIGHT Homewise 1301 Siler Road, Bldg. D, 983-9473 Get all the info you need to become a homeowner, all under one roof at Homewise—plus services to a variety of income ranges.

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BILL FORREST Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano pop of the '60s and '70s.

6:30 pm, free BROTHER E CLAYTON El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Soul and blues.

7 pm, free DAVID DOUCET Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Doucet, of the band BeauSoliel ("they're kind of a big deal," says Cowgirl booker Case Tanner), brews some of the most potent and popular Cajun music on the planet. He travels solo to Santa Fe this time around for a unique concert not to be missed.

8:30 pm, free FELIX Y LOS GATOS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Americana, blues, cumbia, jazz, ranchera, swing, TexMex and zydeco.

9 pm, free

THU/28 ART OPENINGS EDDY SHORTY: ARTIST DEMONSTRATION AND EXHIBITION True West Gallery 130 Lincoln Ave., 982-0055 Meet sculptor Eddy Shorty, who demonstrates his carving techniques. His one-man show runs through Jan. 6.

11 am-5 pm, free

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Color Theory

grating to New England in 1967, and making a name for herself as a high-fashion weaving designer and producer, she settled in Santa Fe in 1988 while continuing to sell her weaving on the East Coast. She stopped selling her work direct in 1998, and in 2000 she opened the Santa Fe School of Weaving. She continues to teach despite ceasing her efforts in the craft herself in 2010.

Weaving for 30 years on a full loom takes a lot out of the hips and back. Now, she exclusively knits; racks of sweaters and cardigans fill the floor between rainbow shelves of fine Japanese and Italian yarn blends, and she surprises me when she says it’s a one-woman show. “People come in and ask how many people I have helping me make all this … but it’s just me.” She offers me a few skeins of a wool-silk-bamboo blend to touch while she describes her work. “I developed my own knitting technique: knitting in all directions,” she says, pulling off the rack a green sweater with patches of blue, beige and mauve— her first experiment. Her technique enables her to move between colors, create shapes and form textures in ways that are impossible in regular knitting.

While I’m there, a customer comes in looking for felting wool. Each bag of wool Leth-Espensen has prepared comes with a specific palette, but the sets available are not quite what the customer is looking for; this invites her to give a quick lesson on color theory. “Each color has a value on the grayscale,” she says. “If you mix this color with a little bit of something darker, you can make the original color more intense.”

This seemed like appropriate parting advice; the season of darkness doesn’t really dampen our color and light, but enables it to shine forth all the brighter through the work of our hands.

A winter quest for quality light

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or the past few months, the battle between the sun and the Earth has not been favorable to me. To be honest, I can handle the cold just fine, but there’s something about the quality of the light in the winter that takes some work to appreciate, and more often than not it just brings me down. It’s a season where lack of light and warmth drives people indoors and, for the industrious, causes them to supply missing color with the works of their hands.

The color-filled walls and displays of Beadweaver (503 Old Santa Fe Trail 955-1600) are what initially caught my attention and led me inside the store on a cold December day. “Color makes you happy. People come in and get happy,” according to Karima (whoasked SFR not to publish her last name), one of several talented artist-salespeople who staff Beadweaver. In business since 2004, the owners Sudasi Clement and Ruthie Parrott have also operated bead businesses in Oregon and Florida. “We’ve noticed the landscape affects people’s color preferences,” Clement says. “We carry a lot of gemstones and beads in shades of rust, sage, sienna, chartreuse, turquoise, et cetera. Tropical colors and bright pastels were popular

in Miami; Portland favored dusty blues, purples, grays and greens.”

Each person who works at Beadweaver also creates and sells their own pieces. The countertop is full of necklaces, earrings, ornaments and art pieces that they’ve made. The work of Hollis Chitto catches my eye in particular. “This is our rising star,” Karima says, while Chitto smiles shyly nearby. His work is shown at several Native American art markets and events around the country and was highly acclaimed at our own Indian Market in 2016. An amulet of his sits on the counter reflecting the sun, shining like a jewel

ABOVE: A weave prepared at Miriam’s Well to teach students.

BELOW: Multicolored beading flosses at Beadweaver.

from another galaxy. I can’t even bring myself to touch it for how radiant it is.

My search for color continued thereafter; I wanted to find a little more warmth than colored glass when a simple yellow sign across from the foot of the Cross of the Martyrs caught my eye: “YARNS ETC.” Yarns and et cetera are two of my favorite things, and great carriers for color.

I found warmth and light in spades at Miriam’s Well (614 Paseo De Peralta, 9826312), and in the person of Miriam Leth-Espensen herself.

I walked in on Leth-Espensen knitting pairs of small red booties. “Whenever talk turns to war, I knit a few pairs of these— the only boots we need on the ground,” she says.

Born in Denmark under Nazi occupation in 1944, she initially began knitting clothes for her dolls and herself before moving to Jerusalem in 1965 to study knitting at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. After immi-

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THE CALENDAR GLOW: BELLA GIGANTE Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Bundle up and head to the garden for its GLOW holiday lights display, and get a load of the gender-bending largerthan-life performative rock 'n' roll of drag queen Bella Gigante and company.

5 pm, $6-$10 GERRY & CHRIS La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Traditional Irish sounds from Gerry Carthy meld with Latin tunes by Chris Abeyta when these two longtime friends play together.

7:30 pm, free THE GUNSELS Tiny’s Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Americana and Cajun honkytonk led by none other than local superhero Greg Butera.

8 pm, free LIMELIGHT KARAOKE Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 You know what to do. We’re kind of feeling some Elton John right now—just not “Crocodile Rock.” No one likes “Crocodile Rock.”

10 pm, free MARC SANDERS Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

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

6 pm, free SLOAN ARMITAGE Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 Americana-ey folky indie-poppy rock with haunting vocals and tender acoustic guitar with an R&B feel.

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EDDY SHORTY: ARTIST DEMONSTRATION AND EXHIBITION True West Gallery 130 Lincoln Ave., 982-0055 Meet award-winning stone and clay sculptor Eddy Shorty, who also demonstrates his carving techniques. His oneman show in the gallery runs through Jan. 6.

11 am-5 pm, free LARGE-SCALE WILD SCULPTURES Heidi Loewen Fine Art 315 Johnson St., 988-2225 Brought to you by the gallery that installed a giant highheeled gold-leafed shoe on the roof, check out Loewen's newest wild large-scale sculptures. Quite the juxtaposition to her collection of miniature bowls, a show of which opened last week.

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MARINA ESKEETS Foto Forum Santa Fe 1716 Paseo de Peralta, 470-2582 Marina Eskeets, conceptual artist from Naná’áztiin, New Mexico (on the Navajo Nation) creates work stimulated by her childhood herding her grandmothers’ sheep in a region directly affected by the Church Rock uranium disaster. In her multimedia works, she focuses on energy extraction within Dinétah and the repercussions it has had on Indigenous identity.

5 pm, free MERRILL MAHAFFEY: ENDURING LANDSCAPES LewAllen Railyard 1613 Paseo de Peralta, 988-3250 The simple, time-chiseled details of Western America’s rocky terrain take center stage in Mahaffey's works. Avoiding saccharine sunsets, sentimental vistas and exaggerated skyscapes, Mahaffey chooses as his subject the extraordinary within the ordinary: the simple details of the land itself.

Through Jan. 31, 2018.

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DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO CHRISTMAS SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 Enjoy the work of Entreflamenco at a special holiday performance. Founded

by Andalucian native Antonio Granjero in 1998 in Madrid, Spain, the company has traveled throughout the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas.

Tapas and drinks are available at the performance starting at 6:30 pm.

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

6:30 pm, $25 NIA GLOW-IN-THE-DARK FREE DANCE Sneha Blue Yoga & Energy Boutique 112 W San Francisco St. Suite 104, 702-373-1146 Soul-stirring music and eclectic sonic landscapes help unleash movement creativity and promote healing through self-expression. All fitness and experience levels welcome—and, woo boy, body paint available upon request.

8:30 pm, free

EVENTS HOLIDAY TREE AND TRAIN DISPLAY First National Bank of Santa Fe 62 Lincoln Ave., 219-3007 As is tradition at the bank, members of the Santa Fe Model Railroad Club run their Lionel trains and will be available to answer any questions.

9:30 am-noon, free

MUSIC ALEX MARYOL Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Rock, folk, Americana and all that good stuff.

6 pm, free ALTO STREET Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Steve Linger, Casey Andersen and Arne Bey play poignant folk-pop.

6 pm, free BROTHER E CLAYTON Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Soul and blues.

5:30-8 pm, free CHRIS DRACUP La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Known for his soulful electric and acoustic blues guitar, Dracup's playing heavily reflects the Southern delta blues tradition. His original songwriting and regular performance schedule have garnered him critical and popular acclaim.

7 pm, free DANIELE SPADAVECCHIA Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Acoustic jazz, swing, Latin and Italian classics, all with singing in Italian, English and Spanish.

7 pm, free DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Santa Fe's consummate Broadway performer plays piano standards and tunes from his long career in the business.

6 pm, $2 DOUG MONTGOMERY AND BILL FORREST Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards from two fine fellows: Doug starts, Bill takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free DRASTIC ANDREW Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Original progressive rock.

8:30 pm, free FAT CAMP Duel Brewing 1228 Parkway Drive, 474-5301 Indie pop from El Paso, Texas.

After being featured on Spotify’s “Fresh Finds” playlist (aw yiss), the band's currently on tour through the American Southwest (see SFR Picks, page 26).

7 pm, free GLOW: CONTROLLED BURN Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Enjoy the garden’s holiday lights display to the soundtrack of live funky, soulful R&B dance grooves.

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saw a lot of plays this year. Like, a lot.

Many of them were great, but a few folks stood out in particular; so I created the Billies, the first-ever slightly arbitrary totally subjective end-of-year theater award from a Santa Fe newspaper, to recognize them. (They’re named after the first character I had the pleasure of portraying on a Santa Fe stage—more on that later.) There were many more deserving folks than I could fit here, so you’ll just have to keep reading Acting Out to hear me gush about ’em in the new year.

Here’s to our 2017 selves; see you from the audience in 2018. ~ Char

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WHEREIN WE HONOR THE WEIRDOS AND WINNERS OF SANTA FE THEATER

MOST LIKELY TO SWING WILDLY FROM YOUR HEARTSTRINGS Apollo Garcia Orellana: Joseph in PIE, Theater Grottesco, April 13-30 This show from Santa Fe’s go-to experimental troupe had me scratching my head.

Furrowing my brow. Mouth hanging open with a slight Elvis lip. It covered quantum physics, the geology of the Grand Canyon, race relations, the history of commerce and much more in a two-hour show with less than 15 pages of dialogue. It was, well … weird. Awesome, sure. But weird.

So imagine my surprise when suddenly Apollo Garcia Orellana was bathed in stark white light, talking straight from the broken heart of his character, a ruddy youth minister in training. In the hands of a less capable, less genuine actor, the script’s turn toward a guaranteed tear-jerker would feel cheap—but here, it was brutal. I didn’t even realize I was crying until I was absolutely blubbering. Like a child, I tell you. Ugly-crying. Oh, he was also swinging from the ceiling while doing this. No bigs.

BONUS POINTS: This is the only show on this page that you can actually see again! After winning a National Theater Project grant, Theater Grottesco is taking PIE on the road; a two-year (!) national tour kicks off in Albuquerque Jan. 10-27 at the q-Staff Theater. Get info and tickets at theatergrottesco.org.

MOST CAT-LIKE REFLEXES IN THE SOUND BOOTH Lynn Smith: Stage manager, Moonlight and Magnolias, Adobe Rose Theatre, March 16-April 2 A good sound person goes unnoticed. A really good sound person gets noticed about an hour after the production, when you think: “Wait, holy shit! Those were all sound cues!”

One scene in the comedy Moonlight and Magnolias features three characters repeatedly slapping each other in quick

realm of slapstick to a place of relatable, endearing vulnerability. In Adobe Rose’s Moonlight and Magnolias, in which two grown men act out the script of Gone with the Wind, he was the one birthing a baby (among many other things); In The Next Room at the Playhouse featured his insufferable Leo, heartbroken and disconsolate, until he discovered the joys of an electric vibrator; in Anton Chekov’s short play “A Marriage Proposal,” presented as part of Oasis Theatre Company’s Marriage by the Masters, his hypochondriacal, water-gulping and nearly dead Lomov actually brought tears of laughter to my eyes; in the Playhouse’s collection of short plays, Benchwarmers, his portrayal of Devin found him running through portals and turning occasionally into what we can only assume was some kind of velociraptor-Demogorgon hybrid.

Hamilton has that fantastic quality of an actor who is not afraid to make fun of himself, but in taking that risk, he never actually does act a fool—he is simply good, and thoughtful, and invaluable to any production in which he appears.

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succession. The majority of the slaps were fake, paired with sharp sound effects triggered by the impeccable button-pushing of stage manager Lynn Smith. I didn’t even notice at first how remarkably perfectly timed they were, but once I got home I realized that every last one was airtight. Lynn, you should probably be an air traffic controller for your next job. But not too soon—we still need you in the booth for now.

MOST LIKELY TO ROLL ON THE GROUND WITH YOU Vaughn Irving: Director, Unnecessary Farce, Santa Fe Playhouse, Feb. 23-March 12 Okay, full disclosure: I was in Unnecessary Farce. That’s how I know this award is deserved. I was playing Billie Dwyer, a witless cop who (long story short) ends up bound and gagged in the second act and must inchworm across the floor and make her way from a prone position to standing in about 90 seconds. It was ridiculous, it was hilarious, and it was really hard.

I am not the most athletic of humans. Three days before we opened, I was still unable to accomplish this feat. While sitting dejectedly on the set during a break in dress rehearsal the Monday before our Thursday opening night, director Vaughn Irving came over and asked what was wrong. I said, without use

of my hands, I couldn’t figure out how to stand up. He then proceeded to clasp his hands behind his back and lie down on the carpet, contorting his grasshopper body into all kinds of unnatural shapes in order to figure out how I could best do this. He may have gotten rug burn on his face.

I’ve done a lot of shows. I’ve worked with some truly amazing directors.

But never have I had a director literally get in my place and figure out a stupid slapstick stunt with me. It is this passion, dedication and downright friendliness, extrapolated to all members of the company, that made the Santa Fe Playhouse a great stage on which to act.

MVF (MOST VALUABLE FOLKS) Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601, teatroparaguas.org The theater scene in Santa Fe, as I have found this year, is a pretty welcoming place. I have been very pleasantly surprised by the community I’ve found among all of Santa Fe’s companies and stages, but one place stands out.

Paraguas, which staged its first production in 2004, says it has three main foci: Contemporary plays, its poetry readings series, and the retelling of traditional folk tales, all of which focus specifically on Hispanic and Latinx writers and performers.

That list, while vast enough on its own, still doesn’t give Paraguas enough credit for all the people to whom it gives a home. So many other groups have found space here—think New Mexico Poetry Trails’ open mic nights, readings and solo performances by women and nonbinary folks, a stage for venueless companies like Odenbear and New Mexico Actors Lab, and rehearsal space for groups like Santa Fe Improv.

And, of course, on a personal note, Executive Director Argos MacCallum and Community Liaison Coordinator Julia Gay have been nothing but welcoming, available and helpful in the creation of this fledgling column. Their sense of service speaks volumes for the organization they run. Felicidades, Paraguas.

MOST NOTANNOYING REIMAGINING OF PHYSICAL COMEDY Hamilton Turner: Everything Every couple shows I saw in Santa Fe featured actor Hamilton Turner in some way; the only way I knew time was actually passing was that his beard was getting more and more glorious.

The man is busy, and he’s also really damn funny.

The Santa Fe University of Art and Design grad has a unique ability to take physical comedy and elevate it from the

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6 pm, free JAN WORDEN-LACKEY First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Enjoy seasonal music on organ from Worden-Lackey, who plays selections including all your faves, and likely some stuff you don’t know.

5:30 pm, free JESUS BAS La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Amorous and romantic Spanish and flamenco guitar.

7 pm, free JOHN KURZWEG BAND Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Rock 'n' roll from a bunch of experts.

8:30 pm, free LITTLE LEROY AND HIS PACK OF LIES El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n' roll to dance to!

9 pm, $5 NEXT 2 THE TRACKS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Outlaw rock and renegade blues.

10 pm, $5 ROB LUNDBERG, MISS PAVLICHENKO AND SCISSOR LIFT Ghost 2899 Trades West Road Rob Lundberg of GRYGRDNS presents a night of experimental solo sets. He is joined

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SANTA FE PRO MUSICA: LOVE, THE MAGICIAN Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Ring in the New Year with the Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra, conductor Thomas O’Connor and violinist Benjamin Beilman as they perform colorful music by the American masters Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Manuel deFalla and Aaron Stern.

7 pm, $20-$80 SCHOLA CHRISTMAS CONCERT Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, 982-0092 The ever-etherial Schola Cantorum of Santa Fe performs an a cappella Christmas concert, including all the seasonal favorites like "Auld Lang Syne" and "Ave Maria," plus some lesser-known compositions.

6:30 pm, $15-$20 SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country tunes to dance to.

8 pm, free STEPHEN AND THE TODDLERS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Stephen Pitts and his singery-songwritery friends bring us originals and covers in the Americana vein on the deck. We’re expecting some Leonard Cohen, some original tunes, and all kinds of friendly faces.

5 pm, free STRING DINNER Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Bluegrass. Don't eat the strings. They're stringy.

8 pm, free THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Jazzy piano music from an ensemble that is sometimes a trio, sometimes a quartet.

7:30 pm, free

WORKSHOP GARDEN SPROUTS PRE-K ACTIVITIES Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Weather permitting, head to the outdoor classroom for a hands-on program for 3-5 year olds and their caregiver.

Listen to a book and participate in interactive nature and garden related activities. If you have family visiting from out of town and they think playing outside at this time of year will be cray cray, tell them about the whole “winter sun” phenomenon and get them to the garden.

10-11 am, $5

SAT/30 ART OPENINGS EDDY SHORTY: ARTIST DEMONSTRATION AND EXHIBITION True West Gallery 130 Lincoln Ave., 982-0055 Meet award-winning stone and clay sculptor Eddy Shorty, who also demonstrates his carving techniques. His one-man show runs through Jan. 6.

11 am-5 pm, free LARGE-SCALE WILD SCULPTURES Heidi Loewen Fine Art 315 Johnson St., 988-2225 Brought to you by the gallery that installed a giant highheeled gold-leafed shoe on the roof, check out Loewen's newest large-scale sculptures, including a giant jigger.

Noon-6 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES END OF THE YEAR CELEBRATION Bee Hive Kid's Books 328 Montezuma Ave, 780-8051 A celebration with live music and stories from Ingrid and Eric to say good-bye to one year and usher in a new one.

Open to all ages, but especially great for little ones—as is this store, which we pretty much really love.

11:30 am-12:30 pm, free

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO CHRISTMAS SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 Enjoy the work of Entreflamenco at a special holiday performance. Founded

by Andalucian native Antonio Granjero in 1998 in Madrid, Spain, the company has traveled throughout the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas.

It has made its home in Santa Fe since 2011. Tapas and drinks are available at the performance starting at 6:30 pm.

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

6:30 pm, $25 YOGA-DANCE-GLOW Sneha Blue Yoga & Energy Boutique 112 W. San Francisco St. Suite 104, 702-373-1146 Yoga poses and guided movement with upbeat music might just help release negative energy. Ladies and gents of all experience levels welcome. Led by Jacqueline Almond and with tunes curated by DJ John Santos. Body paint available too, if you’re about that scene.

8:30 pm, free

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Trattoria a Mano brings warmth and liveliness to a chilly downtown

BY MARY FRANCIS CHEESEMAN a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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alking into Trattoria a Mano (227 Galisteo St., 982-3700) on its third night open, a Tuesday night in December in Santa Fe, I was pleased to encounter a healthy bustle of activity. The crowd felt pleasantly local despite the restaurant’s prime location amidst downtown hotels and tourist attractions, inhabiting the space once occupied by the Galisteo Bistro just blocks from the Plaza.

In the background, I could see Charles Dale, the man behind the concept, co-partner of the burgeoning New Mexico Fine Dining group headed by Jim and Jennifer Day, running food from the open kitchen alongside his servers. A man with 35 years in restaurants from Aspen to Santa Fe, he’s not above any task on the floor, taking the opportunity to shake hands and greet guests between dropping off plates of pasta. It contributed to the warm, familial ambiance of the place—a trattoria in the style of an old-world eatery with no celebrity and no ego.

This might be related to why Dale’s famous Santa Fe restaurant, Bouche, is so successful, taking the concept of a simple French bistro and dressing it up with just enough upscale elegance (Hermitage on the wine list, for example), while retaining winks and nods to more humble old-world culinary traditions. A Mano operates according to a similar formula, with a relaxed but nicer dining atmosphere where the ambiance is warm but not pretentious, the dishes simple but not overwrought, and the service graceful but not stuffy.

This style of high/low Americanized versions of traditional European restaurants is not new, but it

does seem to fit remarkably well within a Santa Fe aesthetic. Look out the window here at the mountains and you could almost mistake it for the old country.

But the original Italian trattoria is a humble place, probably the equivalent of a diner or dive or even the basement of somebody named Giovanni who won’t tell you his last name but will cook you whatever he has in the house for 30 euros. There is no fanfare or trend, and everything is local, seasonal and handmade.

But Trattoria a Mano is no one’s basement. The lighting is warm but diffuse. Ornate deco ironwork covers the large windows,

The wine list impresses as well, though some bottles do run on the more expensive side.

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Bruschetta how it should be. LEFT: Fusilli with artichokes, leek and a truffle sauce? Yes. Sign us up, Trattoria a Mano. Sign us up right now.

offset by twinkling lights on the holiday decor. The tables extended at a right angle in perpendicular directions, giving guests the option of either watching the kitchen work or watching the world go by.

In terms of food, the ethos of the trattoria is fully on display. The pasta is house-made, as is the bread (although, in a wild divergence from anything traditionally Italian, there are gluten-free options available for all dishes.) There is a seasonality inherent in many of the offerings and, because I was dining out with girlfriends, I had the chance to explore the smaller plates more deeply. We started with the bruschetta with pesto, housemade ricotta, and tomatoes for $7. The bread was dry and crunchy, as it should be, the ricotta providing a creamy counterpoint. We followed it with an insalata tricolore for $12, a salad of bitter winter greens of endive and radicchio offset by sweet, lush tomatoes and a white balsamic dressing. It was a great palate-cleanser, but out of the pastas that we sampled, the favorite was the $15 fusilli with artichokes, porcini mushrooms and leek tossed in white truffle oil and garnished with pecorino cheese.

My personal favorite part of the meal was the dessert: a panna cotta for $9, flavored with a hint of amaretto, served on a crunchy

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As far as wine was concerned, A Mano’s list focused primarily on Italian varieties—but not dogmatically so, as they are accompanied by a subset of American classics with many nods to the Italian heritage of the American wine industry. We enjoyed a few by-the-glass selections, but the average bottle price was around $55—only a few dollars less than the most expensive entree, the Tuscan-style porterhouse for two ($59).

I had the Enrico Serafino Gavi di Gavi, a lovely dry cortese with Mediterranean overtures for $13, while my friend enjoyed a $14 chardonnay by Castello della Sala called “Bramìto,” from Umbria, a half-stainless steel and half-oaked iteration that was the favorite wine at the table. In fact, I came back the next night to take a second look at the wine list and got invited over to a table with friends enjoying the 2012 Il Chioso “Faro” Gattinara for $45 (a price-friendly alternative to other cebbiolo-based wines from the north of their nexus in Piedmont), while I sipped on a $15 glass of a dry red refosco

by Marco Felluga.

There are a few bottles on the list left over from the original owners, offered at discounted prices, but I was more interested in the newer ones being brought in and what kind of clarity the list will achieve once the older inventory is sold through. Further, I’m interested to see what Trattoria a Mano achieves for downtown Santa Fe in terms of building its local clientele in the style of the old-world restaurants it so lovingly homages.

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THE CALENDAR EVENTS HOLIDAY CABARET Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Road, Ste. B, 992-2588 Wise Fool teachers, students and community members wrap up the year circus-style with performance and acrobatics. Their shows are always fun for the whole family, so bring 'em all. There’s another performance tomorrow if you can’t make it today.

2 and 7 pm, $5-$20 SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET Santa Fe Railyard Market Street, north of the water tower, 310-8766 There’s still time to shop for that aunt you won’t see until January. Paintings, drawings, photography, sculpture, textiles, jewelry, wood creations and more.

8 am-1 pm, free TOM JOYCE: EVERYTHING AT HAND CATALOG RELEASE & CLOSING RECEPTION Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 Internationally renowned sculptor Tom Joyce, who has innovated and elevated the art and science of forging iron, opened his show Everything at Hand at the CCA over the summer. It has now come to a close, but don't fret—an exhibition catalog published by Radius Books is available in limited quantities at the closing reception.

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

2 pm, free BERT DALTON QUARTET El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Piano-led jazz with Dalton on keys, Milo Jaramillo on bass, Dave Bryant on drums and Jesse Parker on other percussion.

7:30 pm, free DAVID GEIST Pranzo Italian Grill 540 Montezuma Ave., 984-2645 Santa Fe's consummate Broadway performer plays piano standards and tunes from his long career in the business.

6 pm, $2 DOUG MONTGOMERY AND BILL FORREST Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards: Doug starts, Bill takes over at 8 pm.

6 pm, free FRITZ AND THE BLUEJAYS Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 High-energy rock, blues and R&B. 8 pm, free

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GLOW: HALF BROKE HORSES Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Enjoy the garden's holiday light event with some Americana listenin'.

5 pm, $6-$10 HOGAN AND MOSS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Scorch folk! What does that mean? Think traditional Appalachian tunes, Delta soul, gypsy swing and gospel blues, delivered with twice the attitude you'd see from the Carter Family—and we mean that in a good way.

7 pm, free JOHN KURZWEG BAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock 'n' roll.

8:30 pm, free JONO MANSON La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Rootsy rock and roll.

7 pm, free KITTY JO CREEK Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Bluegrass.

1 pm, free MICHAEL UMPHREY Osteria D'Assisi 58 S Federal Place, 986-5858 Piano standards.

6 pm, free PAT MALONE Inn and Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, 984-7997 Live solo jazz guitar.

7 pm, free SHOWCASE KARAOKE Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 You know the drill.

8:30 pm, free SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country tunes to dance to.

8 pm, free SISTER MARY El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Rock 'n' roll from folks who aren't actually nuns. We checked.

9 pm, $5 STANLIE KEE AND STEP IN Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Bluesy rock.

6 pm, free

SUN/31 DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO CHRISTMAS SEASON El Flamenco de Santa Fe 135 W Palace Ave., 209-1302 A special holiday dance performance. Tapas and drinks are available starting at 6:30 pm.

7:30 pm, $25-$40

EVENTS HOLIDAY CABARET Wise Fool New Mexico 1131 Siler Road, Ste. B, 992-2588 Wise Fool teachers, students and community members wrap up the year circus-style with performance and acrobatics. Their shows are always fun for the whole family, so bring 'em all.

4 pm, $5-$20 NEW YEAR'S EVE ON THE PLAZA Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Bundle up for a favorite annual tradition (for the last two years, at least—this is the third year of this event, and folks love it). Live music from Alex Maryol, Sol Fire and Fun Adixx; plus bonfires, hot chocolate, biscochitos, a memorial banner for sharing your hopes for 2018, fireworks—and rather than dropping a ball, they'll raise a zia to the new year. Bring the kids, and maybe a balaclava.

9 pm, free

MUSIC AMERICAN JEM Rio Chama Steakhouse 414 Old Santa Fe Trail, 955-0765 Your favorite jaunty Americana trio performs its annual New Years pre-game gig at the swank steakhouse.

This year it's “New York” themed, so we're thinking that means crowded, slightly spooky public transit leaving Midtown at 3 am on New Years Day and the sinking feeling that you may be sweating well gin for the rest of your life. Just kidding.

Nobody wants that. This party focuses on the fun part of New York. The price tag includes dinner, Champagne, music 'n' dancing. But you have to let them know you're coming ahead of time, so head to americanjem.com to reserve your seat.

6:30-10 pm, $125 BODIES, SEX HEADACHES AND CULT TOURIST Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Experimental rock (Bodies), fuzzy garage punk (Sex Headaches) and psycho-spiritual tunes (Cult Tourist) for the set of listeners that doesn't want to just bop around to Americana for their New Years.

9 pm, free BREAKTHROUGH: ROMPECADENAS 2018 Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar Caverns 137 W. San Francisco St., 629-8686 Transformational hip-hop artist Asliani performs. The evening also includes an open mic, musical performances, a live community freestyle cypher and a dance party to usher in the new year.

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ince learning the biscochito is the official state cookie of New Mexico, I’ve made it my mission to figure out how to make these tasty treats at home. Two things held me back: the sheer number of recipes out there—it seems literally every New Mexican grandmother has her version—and the fact that most traditional recipes call for lard, which I don’t regularly keep in my kitchen.

So, upon intense investigation and experimentation, I found elements of several biscochito recipes I liked and figured out that vegetable shortening works as a less-gross substitute. Traditional shapes for biscochitos include fleur de lis, stars and crescent moons, but you do you. If you don’t have a rolling pin (who does?), a wine bottle will do, and I’m sure you have one of those.

But what to pair with such sugary goodness? Even more sugary goodness, of course. Coffee liqueur, which you might know in its commercial form as Kahlua, adds a deeper, almost coconut flavor to traditional hot cocoa.

Added bonus: Making this is almost as easy as canceling plans because of “snow.” The cocoa is my mom’s recipe, so it’s pretty standard, although I did add a touch of cayenne pepper and cinnamon to get more of a Mexican hot chocolate flavor.

So settle in, snuggle up and get ready for a sugar rush. We’ll get through this winter.

SWEET TREATS FOR SNOWY (OR OR NOT-SO-SNOWY) EVES FIGHT THE WINTER WITH A SUGAR RUSH B Y B Y E L I S E R AT T a u t h o r @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

Directions: 1. In a large saucepan, combine sugar and water over medium heat. Stir until dissolved and bring to a boil.

2. Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes.

3. Remove from heat, stir in coffee crystals and allow to cool.

4. When cool, stir in vanilla extract and vodka. Bottle and store in a cool, dark place.

SPIKED (OR NOT) HOT COCOA Ingredients: • 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa • 4 tablespoons sugar

BISCOCHITOS

• Dash cinnamon

Ingredients:

• Pinch salt

• 3 cups all-purpose flour

• Pinch cayenne pepper (optional)

• 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder • ¼ teaspoon salt • Zest of one orange • 1 cup vegetable shortening • 1 cup granulated sugar • 1 large egg • 2 tablespoons brandy or whiskey • 2 tablespoons orange juice • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract • 2 teaspoons anise extract Topping: • ¼ cup granulated sugar • ¾ teaspoon ground cinnamon Directions: 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees 2. In a large bowl, sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Stir in orange zest.

3. Combine cinnamon and sugar for topping in a small bowl and set aside.

4. In a separate bowl beat vegetable shortening with a mixer, gradually adding sugar, until light and fluffy.

Add egg, brandy, orange juice, vanilla extract and anise extract and beat well.

5. Add dry ingredients to the shortening mixture gradually, stopping when everything is combined. Do not overwork—dough will have consistency similar to pie crust.

6. Refrigerate dough for 30 minutes.

7. Line baking sheets with parchment paper. Spoon dough into cookie press, and press shapes onto lined baking sheets.

Alternately: Roll out dough to ¼-inch thickness between two sheets of parchment paper, using

• 2 cups whole milk

about half to one third of the dough at a time. Cut out cookies and place on lined baking sheets.

8. Bake cookies 10 to 15 minutes, or until lightly browned.

9. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar mixture immediately. Cool one minute and loosen cookies from paper. Allow to cool completely.

• 2-4 ounces coffee liqueur (may substitute 1 teaspoon vanilla extract) • Topping of choice (marshmallows, whipped cream or chocolate or caramel sauce) Directions: 1. Stir together sugar, cocoa, cinnamon, salt and cayenne pepper in a small saucepan.

2. Over medium heat, slowly add milk, stirring to dissolve cocoa mixture.

3. Stir constantly, until cocoa is completely dissolved and mixture is piping hot, but not boiling.

4. Remove from heat; stir in coffee liqueur (or vanilla). Top with your fave sweet addition.

COFFEE LIQUEUR Ingredients: • 8 cups sugar • 4 cups water • 1 ½ cups instant coffee crystals • 2 tablespoons vanilla extract • 1 teaspoon cinnamon extract to taste (optional) • 4 cups vodka

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CARLOS LOMAS La Boca (Taberna Location) 125 Lincoln Ave., 988-7102 Drawing inspiration from years spent in Spain, Lomas' special technical skills have earned him the respect and admiration of flamenco guitarists around the world. His artistry and magnetism reflect the emotional and cultural heritages of traditional flamenco.

7 pm, free DJ ELVIS KARAOKE Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Is it a DJ? Is it Elvis? Is it karaoke? We still aren't sure, actually. Happy dang New Year.

10 pm, free DJ PRAIRIE DOG'S SUPER MELTDOWN DANCE PARTY The Matador 116 W San Francisco St. P-dog spins a New Year’s Eve set of vintage funk, soul and disco for your dancing pleasure.

9 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND BILL FORREST Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards from two fine fellows. Happy New Year!

7 pm, free FRITZ AND THE BLUEJAYS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock, blues and R&B. 8 pm, free GLOW: KIDS' NYE PARTY WITH ALMAZAZZ Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 We get pretty cranky when we have to stay up till midnight, and many kids are the same way. Count down to "midnight" at 7 pm while hanging at the garden's awesome holiday light display and getting down to the jazzy poppy stylings of AlmaZazz.

5 pm, $6-$10 JJ AND THE HOOLIGANS El Farol 808 Canyon Road, 983-9912 Celebrate with rock, blues and Americana.

9 pm, $5 JOE WEST AND THE SANTA FE REVUE Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 The calendar editor's favorite psychedelic country and Americana at the calendar editor's favorite bar on the calendar editor's favorite night of the year. Opa! 9 pm, $10 JOHN KURZWEG BAND Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Rock 'n' roll.

9 pm, free KEY FRANCES BAND Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Blues on the deck. Get your pre-game on.

2 pm, free

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MEOW WOLF'S SUBLUNAR NYE WITH WORTHY Shellaberger Tennis Center 1600 St Michael’s Drive, 395-6369 A one-night world as only Meow Wolf can concoct, complete with installation art, dazzling lights, sick DJs and awesome sound. Headlining is Worthy, who cultivates such an energetic dance floor that even the most skeptic hater will likely bust a move.

7 pm, $30-$40 OPEN MIC Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Show off the new jams you've been working on. If you’re planning on using a song to propose to your significant other tonight (it’s the season for that, right?), maybe run it by this crowd first.

3-7 pm, free SANTA FE CROONERS Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 All the best hits from the golden years—think Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday and other swinging crooners.

5-9 pm, free SIERRA La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St., 982-5511 Country tunes to dance to.

9 pm, free SUGAR MOUNTAIN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Sweet, sweet Americana.

Noon, free VANILLA POP Casa España 329 W San Francisco St., 995-4502 A regular Vanilla Pop show is cause for insane celebration.

A New Year’s Eve Vanilla Pop show is likely to make you lose your dang mind. Get ready for bubble and smoke machines, sequins, disco balls, and covers of every song you could ever want to hear from every era ever. It goes down at the Eldorado Hotel’s relatively new nightlife hot spot.

8 pm, $35-$45

MON/1 EVENTS FUSATSU Upaya Zen Center 1404 Cerro Gordo Road, 986-8518 A traditional Buddhist ceremony of atonement, purification and renewing of the precepts.

5:30 pm, free GEEKS WHO DRINK Draft Station Santa Fe Arcade, 60 E San Francisco St., 983-6443 Stellar results can win you drink tickets for your next visit. Isabel hosts your holiday hangover edition of the pub quiz.

7 pm, free

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

7:30 pm, free COWGIRL KARAOKE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Songstress and mistress of ceremonies Michèle Leidig hosts Santa Fe's most famous night of karaoke.

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

6 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND ELIZABETH YOUNG Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Montgomery's piano standards are even better when Young joins in on violin, starting at 8:30 pm.

6:30 pm, free MELLOW MONDAYS Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Dude. Last night. I know, right? Let’s just chill out. Yeah.

And drink water. Yeah. Let’s just do that. DJ Sato can help with that.

10 pm, free

TUE/2 BOOKS/LECTURES PRESCHOOL STORY TIME Santa Fe Public Library LaFarge Branch 1730 Llano St., 955-4860 Get yourself and your kid out of the house and see other real live humans.

10:30 am, free

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 This quiz can win you drink tickets for next time. Hosted by the kindly Kevin A. 8 pm, free

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

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

7 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY AND BOB FINNIE Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Standards, classical and Broadway tunes on piano from two fine fellows: Doug starts, Bob takes over the keys at 8 pm.

6 pm, free

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FIELDS OF ELYSIUM, SCALAFREA AND TRANSCEND THE REALM Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St., 954-1068 Send off locals Fields of Elysium on tour with a night of metal bands. They're joined by Denver's Scalafrea (death metal/grindcore) and California's Transcend the Realm (technical/progressive metal). The culture editor says that “transcend the realm” basically translates to “fuck all y’all” to metal heads, and we feel that viscerally some days.

8:30 pm, $8 JIM ALMAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock and blues.

8 pm, free

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OPEN MIC Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive, 983-9817 Hosted by John Rives and Randy Mulkey.

7 pm, free VINTAGE VINYL NITE The Matador 116 W San Francisco St. DJs spin garage, surf, rockabilly and old-school country.

9 pm, free

THEATER A CHRISTMAS CAROL Crow's Nest 7 Caliente Place, Ste. B-4, Eldorado The Upstart Crows present the story in the same way Charles Dickens once did— through a dramatic reading.

6 pm, free

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We do have some guidelines as to what we include, so submission doesn’t guarantee inclusion, but we do our best to feature everything we can.

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 Journey to Center: New Mexico Watercolors by Sam Scott. Through Nov. 1, 2018.

HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 Meredith Garcia: Stone Free. Through Jan 2, 2018.

Divergent/Works. Through Jan. 14, 2018.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Daniel McCoy: The Ceaseless Quest for Utopia; New Acquisitions; Desert ArtLAB: Ecologies of Resistance; Connective Tissue: New Approaches to Fiber in Contemporary Native Art. All through Jan. 2018.

Action Abstraction Redefined.

Through July 27, 2018.

MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART 623 Agua Fría St., 989-3283 American and international encaustic art.

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Lifeways of the Southern Jody Naranjo: Revealing Joy. Through Dec. 31. Frank Buffalo Hyde: I-Witness Culture. Through Jan. 7, 2018. Stepping Out: 10,000 Years of Walking the West.

Through Sept. 3, 2018.

Athabaskans. Through Dec. 31, 2018.

MUSEUM OF INT’L FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Sacred Realm; The Morris Miniature Circus; Under Pressure. Through Dec. 2017. Quilts of Southwest China. Through Jan. 21, 2018. Negotiate, Navigate, Innovate. Through July 16, 2018. Crafting Memory: The Art of Community in Peru.

Through March 10, 2019.

COURTESY NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART

MUSEUMS

We know those hills, yo. Familiar scenes grace the walls of the New Mexico Museum of Art’s A Place Like No Other, like in Sheldon Parsons’ “Clouds.”

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 Time Travelers: and the Saints Go Marching On. Through April 20, 2018.

NM HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5019 Voices of Counterculture in the Southwest. Through Feb. 11, 2018. A Mexican Century: Prints from the Taller de Gráfica Popular. Through Feb. 18, 2018.

NM MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts.

Through Dec. 31. Shifting Light: Photographic Perspectives. Through Oct. 8, 2018. Horizons: People & Place in New Mexican Art. Through Nov. 25, 2018.

Contact: Local to Global.

Through April 29, 2018.

PALACE OF THE GOVERNORS 105 W Palace Ave.,

476-5100 Tesoros de Devoción.

POEH CULTURAL CENTER AND MUSEUM 78 Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3334 In T’owa Vi Sae’we: Coming Home Project.

SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDENS 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 GLOW Holiday Lights Display. Through Dec. 31.

Dan Namingha: Conception, Abstraction, Reduction.

Through May 18, 2018.

SITE SANTA FE 1606 Paseo De Peralta, 989-1199 Kota Ezawa: The Crime of Art. Through Jan. 10, 2018. Future Shock. Through May 1, 2018.

WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 704 Camino Lejo, 986-4636 Beads: A Universe of Meaning.

Through April 15, 2018.

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MOVIES

BEST REVIEWED MOVIES OF 2017

BY ALEX DE VORE |

My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea

Fences

Reviewed June 27

We said: Denzel Washington makes Fences his own by practically disappearing into a careerdefining performance and one of the finest films of this or any year.

Score: 9 |

Reviewed Feb. 14

We said: Take your children or your students; take yourselves for a refresher course in the tragic absurdity of such racially charged hatred.

Prepare to be blown away.

Score: 10 |

Wednesday, Dec 20 11:45a Lady Bird* 12:00p Jane 1:45p The Breadwinner* 2:00p Jane 3:45p Lady Bird* 4:00p Jane 5:45p The Breadwinner* 6:00p Jane 7:45p Lady Bird* 8:00p Jane

Reviewed April 25

We said: Hopefully, some weirdo kid out there who feels lost will look up at the screen and realize there’s a whole world out there waiting for them.

Thursday, Dec 21 11:15p Jane 11:45p Lady Bird* 1:15p Jane 1:45p The Breadwinner* 3:15p Jane 3:45p Lady Bird* 5:15p Jane 5:45p The Breadwinner* 7:15p The Shape of Water 7:45p Jane*

Score: 9 |

The Hero

We said: This isn’t easy to watch, but it does raise poignant questions, all the while cutting to the very core of universal self-doubt and our innate human need to feel we did OK with whatever limited time we may have had.

Score: 9 |

I Am Not Your Negro

SHOWTIMES DECEMBER 20 – 26, 2017

a l e x @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

When we redesigned our movie review section with a numerical score barometer jam-packed with custom emojis, we knew we’d have to up our game. The goal, as it were, was to feature a minimum of two new reviews a week. And though we sometimes faltered in this mission, we’re proud to point out we saw a whole mess of films. These were, in our humble opinion, some of the best of 2017:

Reviewed Jan. 3

THE GOLDEN BEST FROM THE SILVER SCREEN

Dunkirk

Friday - Saturday, Dec 22 - 23 10:45a Jane 11:00a Lady Bird* 12:45p The Shape of Water 1:00p Jane* 3:00p Brimstone & Glory* 3:15p The Shape of Water 4:45p Jane* 5:45p The Shape of Water 6:45p Jane* 8:15p The Shape of Water 8:45p Brimstone and Glory*

hend as the absence of sound, but the disruption of life’s cacophony.

Score: 9 |

Only the Brave Reviewed Oct. 19

Sunday, Dec 24 10:45a Jane 11:00a Lady Bird* 12:45p The Shape of Water 1:00p Jane* 3:00p Brimstone & Glory* 3:15p The Shape of Water 4:45p Jane* 5:45p The Shape of Water 6:45p Jane*

We said: By the time we’re led to the Yarnell Hill Fire and we know what’s coming next, the tears start to flow.

Score: 9 |

Reviewed July 23 We said: This isn’t just one of the best war movies in recent memory, it’s one that will no doubt be shown in schools and referred to forever as an artful depiction of one of the ugliest chapters in human history.

Score: 10 |

Monday, Dec 25 12:45p The Shape of Water 1:00p Jane* 3:00p Brimstone & Glory* 3:15p The Shape of Water 4:45p Jane* 5:45p The Shape of Water 6:45p Jane* 8:15p The Shape of Water 8:45p Brimstone and Glory*

Lady Bird

Reviewed Nov. 10 We said: A simple story told well shouldn’t be so surprisingly refreshing and moving, and yet here we are. Brava.

Tuesday, Dec 26 10:45a Jane 11:00a Lady Bird* 12:45p The Shape of Water 1:00p Jane* 3:00p Brimstone & Glory* 3:15p The Shape of Water 4:45p Jane* 5:45p The Shape of Water 6:45p Jane* 8:15p The Shape of Water 8:45p Brimstone and Glory*

Score: 10 |

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Guillermo del Toro sure does like his fairy tales.

But like 2006’s Pan’s Labyrinth or even the Hellboy series, though, they’re never really aimed at children so much as they’re dark and twisted—y’know, like the original fairy tales wherein people die, the good guys don’t always win and flawed and fragile characters are thrust into extraordinary circumstances. The Shape of Water falls somewhere in there, though it straddles any number of genres from love drama, science fiction, old-timey Hollywood musical, etc.

It is the 1960s, and Elisa (Sally Hawkins) works as a custodian for some clandestine military facility that’s big on experimentation and decidedly lacking in scruples. Hawkins is adorable as a young mute who lives a very routine life until a mysterious fishman (yup) is shipped to the facility, along with a former-soldier-turned-security-exec/asshole (played by the ever-overbearing and uncomfortable Michael Shannon). Cue extraordinary circumstances and a change in Elisa who, for the first time in her life, feels true kinship for another living being. Like her, the fishman can’t much

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speak, and is perhaps misunderstood; the pair obviously hit it off. But, as is always the way, the brass has other plans—namely, they wanna dissect this creature despite warnings from a facility scientist (the always understated and excellent Michael Stuhlbarg) who may have a secret of his own.

Del Toro expertly recalls the tone of his previous works with seeming nods to the works of Jean-Pierre Jeunet (City of Lost Children) for good measure. Elisa is quirky and charming, as are her neighbor Giles (Richard Jenkins) and co-worker Zelda (a completely on-point Octavia Spencer), while the pleasant-yet-bizarre and distorted version of Anytown, USA, makes the perfect backdrop and counterpoint to the dark dealings of the military base. Shannon, however, seems to be stuck in his character from Boardwalk Empire in his over-the-top bad guy way. The best villains have some sympathetic trait or backstory that allow us to at least try and understand their

nonsense; Shannon, however, has neither, and he deserves everything that’s coming to him (some of which is super-gross, by the way).

But in the end it’s the age-old story of love against all odds that shines through. Perhaps it’s a bit predictable at this point, but The Shape of Water still wrests out something sweetly original and exciting nonetheless. Hawkins, however, is the true prize found within. It’s brave to take a role with no lines whatsoever, yet her nuanced and emotional performance is staggering in its authenticity. This one will be big come Oscar season, without a doubt.

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Note: Minor spoilers follow, but we totally don’t get into anything major. Promise.

It’s mid-December, which apparently will be Star Wars time for the rest of our lives (though filmmakers could probably take a cue from the gaming industry wherein annualized franchises tire fans and have an adverse affect on the work), and the far, far away galaxy from long ago continues to face turmoil that somehow mirrors its past turmoils with preposterous levels of coincidence. For example: -Rey (Daisy Ridley), who fully awakened to The Force last time, is in a faraway land seeking training from a reluctant retired Jedi.

-Finn (John Boyega), who found his heart, moral center and stylish jacket after not much caring about anything, is making his way through the intricacies of intergalactic rebellion.

-Poe (Oscar Isaac) is fighting the good fight, even if it gets pretty much everyone around him killed almost always.

The resistance at large is in disarray and

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the New Order—literally just The Empire led by yet another deformed magic-wielding geriatric named Snoke (Andy Serkis is all his mo-cap glory)—has seemingly regrouped from previous defeats, though their new Darth Vader, Kylo Ren (Adam Driver, who is the best part of this movie), is at odds with himself,

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having done some fairly ghastly things the last time he left the house.

Last Jedi is mostly a whole lot of obvious setup for the next numbered entry and a so-very-thinly veiled allegory-lite about the power of love, but even with Leia Organa herself (Carrie Fisher, RIP) and Luke Skywalker

“I, too, have traveled to a forgotten system to learn the Jedi way, Rey,” says Luke Skywalker.

“But let’s not think about that too hard right now. Unsheathe your saber.”

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(the delightful Mark Hamill) back in the mix, it drags with misplaced exposition, a few too many characters and an overemphasis on grand set pieces rather than character development. Who is Snoke, anyway? Why does he do these things? We may never know.

Why do powerful women like Leia and Rey continually balk at their better judgement and allow men to make all the (often poorly considered) decisions? Perhaps it’s something to do with a rushed production schedule and Disney knowing we’ll all line up for tickets no matter what but, regardless, Last Jedi feels like a stumble.

With The Force Awakens, there was almost an unspoken agreement that we’d all do our best to like it because, hey, it was Star Wars coming back for the first time in ages.

The newest installment, however, fails to reach the reckless fun of last year’s offshoot, Rogue One, and advances the overarching story incrementally in barely meaningful ways. BB-8 is amazing, though, and it’s always fun to catch up with Chewie and Ar-Too. Of course Last Jedi is a jaunty romp through space-splosions and soap opera-caliber drama; just don’t think about any of it too hard or try to convince yourself it’s anything but. (Alex De Vore) Regal, Violet Crown, PG-13, 152 min.

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of the day amounting to “Pretty Girl Does Thing” headlines and the underlying concerns of academic communities who felt her lack of education damaged her credibility. Still, her seat-of-thepants study is the sort of radical thing that would probably never happen today, and the information she learned in the bush proved anthropologically, zoologically and scientifically invaluable. In the end, it’s that she did it at all—never mind so meticulously and persistently—that matters, and Morgen’s assertion that our broadened understanding of the natural world had much to do with Goodall’s research is spot-on.

The Philip Glass score accentuates highlights from her meager beginnings as bright-eyed newcomer to the establishing of a research center, still in existence, flush with students and scientists. Glass’ compositions nudge us toward how we might feel without ever forcing us, though it is worth noting we might not have cried quite so hard without them.

Regardless, to observe the lifelong efforts of a young woman from their earliest inception is inspiring and emotional, and an absolute mustsee experience for animal lovers, documentary aficionados and anyone with even the slightest proclivity for living things. At just about 90 minutes, it is captivating throughout and a strong contender for best documentary feature this year.

(ADV) Center for Contemporary Arts, NR, 90 min.

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When famed paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey sent a 26-year-old Jane Goodall into the wilds of Tanzania’s Gombe Park in Africa to study chimpanzees in the wild in the late 1950s, she’d never conducted field research and did not hold a degree—she simply loved animals passionately.

And though Goodall’s work with chimps is the stuff of legend and the sort of thing everyone just knows about, until a massive archive of footage feared lost for years was rediscovered in 2014, the scope of her time in Gombe was mostly speculative. Not any more.

In Jane, director Brett Morgen (2015’s Cobain: Montage of Heck) sifts through over 100 hours of footage taken during Goodall’s time in Gombe and, later, the Serengeti. It’s an unprecedented and fascinating look into her early days gaining the trust of chimpanzee communities, falling in love with wildlife photographer and cameraman Hugo van Lawick, mothering a son and learning then-unknown information about the habits of chimps. Goodall changed everything.

Morgen wisely stays out of the way during the film, letting Goodall herself narrate and the pictures and film do the talking. Frustrations abound, however, from media-led ridiculousness

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Parvana is just 11 or 12 but, as a newly minted member of the Taliban tells her father, she is “old enough to marry.” This comes mere moments into the new animated film The Breadwinner (from the same team behind 2009’s The Secret of Kells and based on the series of novels

by Deborah Ellis), and sets the tone for one of the best, if not most harrowing, films this year, animated or not.

It is post-civil war Afghanistan in the early aughts, and the wounds have yet to heal. The Taliban attains more power daily, and common folk are the ones to suffer. Parvana and her family struggle just to get by, sitting regularly at a makeshift market stall amounting to little more than a blanket. But her father was once a teacher, and educated people pose a problem to the skittish Taliban. Thus, when he is arrested and imprisoned for no particular reason, Parvana is forced to pose as a boy to buy food, get work and otherwise leave her home without a male escort; this was truly a man’s world.

And it goes beyond mere culture shock to become a subtle dissection of the contemporary Middle East and its still-present chauvinism and misogyny. Villains aren’t exactly clear-cut and the tension is ever-present, though it lies in wait in the periphery, building stronger without overpowering the central story of family. Scenes of mute shopkeepers fearing Taliban backlash for serving a girl melt into tense chases with dogmatic military types too young to check their anger, or too drunk with power to tell right from wrong. Parvana, meanwhile, is forced to grow up too fast, navigating authorities and the marginalized by day, telling her infant brother tall tales by night and, all the while, never giving up hope that her father is out there somewhere, still alive.

Director Nora Twomey (Song of the Sea) helms the fascinating tale, which ultimately becomes less about the perils of the day and more about the human ability to adapt and evolve. Voice actor Saara Chaudry (Degrassi: The Next Generation) humanizes Parvana with a layered performance that conveys a flawed yet heroic youth who may have risen reluctantly to challenging conditions, but thrives in knowing she’s doing right by her loved ones.

The circumstances might not be familiar to all, but The Breadwinner does hit enough universal themes as to spur us to ask ourselves big questions. Generally speaking, it would be convenient to push its truths out of our minds, but there is value in its stark confrontation of the

Middle East’s explosive nature. This bodes well for its Oscar chances and makes for a film no one can afford to miss. (ADV) Center for Contemporary Arts, PG-13, 94 min.

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It would be nice to think we’ve matured beyond liking things from a strictly ironic standpoint, but when it comes to the 2003 independent movie The Room, one can’t help but be drawn into how utterly, mind-bogglingly, almost unbelievably bad it is—to paraphrase Ghost World, it’s so bad it goes past bad and back around to good.

James Franco (Freaks and Geeks) knows this, too, and with the help of his brother, Dave Franco (Now You See Me), Freaks alum Seth Rogen and a veritable who’s-who of comedic character actors (Paul Scheer, Hannibal Buress and Jason Mantzoukas, to name a few), he delves into the bizarre world of its writer, producer, director and star, Tommy Wiseau, and his longtime friend Greg Sestero.

In the late-’90s, Wiseau and Sestero set out to make names for themselves as actors.

But after years or rejection, they chose to mount their own film about betrayal, alleyway football and definitely having breast cancer. Despite their best efforts and Wiseau’s vision, however, it was complete garbage—an amalgam of failed stabs

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James Franco tackles Wiseau (not to mention directing duties) who, true to life, is mysterious and bizarre beyond all reason. With a heavy pan-Slavic accent, he’s clearly from some Eastern European country, but refuses to admit it. In fact, to this day no one is sure where the hell he comes from, nor is anyone sure how old he is or from where he made his seemingly endless amounts of money. It’s estimated that The Room cost over $6 million to produce; for perspective, Jordan Peele’s horror masterpiece from earlier this year, Get Out, ran somewhere around $4 million. But thank goodness Wiseau stuck it out, because The Room is a gift for Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans, cheesy cinema buffs or even just those who enjoy a good train wreck.

In The Disaster Artist, the Franco brothers seem to revel in this; though, rather than leer at its shortcomings, they humanize its characters.

It’s easy to make fun of Wiseau, when the reality is that he is a massively insecure man with impossible dreams of stardom. The same goes for Sestero, whom the younger Franco absolutely nails as a would-be star trapped between wanting to make it and wanting to do right by his friend.

That’s the real upside of The Disaster Artist, and the making of The Room itself plays support to the evolving relationship of its two central players. Both Francos surprise with nuanced performances as well, making us feel like we’re part of something that may have been the worst, but came from a place of artistic purity. (ADV) Violet Crown, R, 103 min.

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We have been to Sacramento. And like the Joan Didion quote that kicks off filmmaker Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird, we agree that Christmas there would surely be horrible. But then again we wonder, as does the film: Why would we think we’re too good for such a place? What are we rushing toward—or from? And when did we start to believe that the next step, next place, next milestone was the last piece of a puzzle that could finally make us happy? And do we even know how to be anymore?

We follow Christine (or Lady Bird, depending on whom you ask—Saoirse Ronan of The Grand Budapest Hotel) in her final year at a Catholic girl’s high school in the Northern California town circa 2002. It’s one of many facets shared with scriptwriter Gerwig, who also hails from Sacra-

mento and attended Catholic school.

Lady Bird is fairly mundane as characters go; a misfit weirdo longing for more than her hometown for typical teenaged reasons, but never quite anything enough to belong to any of the laughably perfect subcultures: closeted theater kids and super-serious rock band dorks; queen-bee mean girls in short skirts, and those best friends we hurt and left behind for reasons we still don’t fully comprehend. In the end, the moral might be about being true to oneself, sure—but it’s also important to find comfort where one can.

Ronan is utterly brilliant as an average teen convinced she’s anything but; ditto for her mother Marion, played so flawlessly by Laurie Metcalf (Roseanne) that we can’t help but think of our own collective mothers and their innate ability to transcend passive aggression into an art form. We believe Ronan and Metcalf are related in ways that most films never begin to approach—a matter of onscreen chemistry, but also a testament to the ability of each actress and Gerwig’s spot-on script.

Lady Bird could have been ripped from any of our lives and will no doubt feel painfully familiar to some, but it also comes with catharsis and gently suggested lessons rather than underestimation of its audience. A simple story told well shouldn’t be so surprisingly refreshing and moving, and yet here we are. Brava. (ADV) Center for Contemporary Arts, Violet Crown, R, 93 min.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your life in the first half of 2018 will be like a psychological boot camp that’s designed to beef up your emotional intelligence. Here’s another way to visualize your oncoming adventures: They will constitute a friendly nudge from the cosmos, pushing you to be energetic and ingenious in creating the kind of partnerships you want for the rest of your long life. As you go through your interesting tests and riddles, be on the lookout for glimpses of what your daily experience could be like in five years if you begin now to deepen your commitment to love and collaboration.

themes: A resource you have underestimated or neglected will be especially valuable—and may even redefine your understanding of what’s truly valuable.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In fairy tales, characters are often rewarded for their acts of kindness. They may be given magical objects that serve as protection, like cloaks of invisibility or shoes that enable them to flee trouble. Or the blessings they receive may be lifeenhancing, like enchanted cauldrons that provide a never-ending supply of delicious food or musical instruments that have the power to summon delightful TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’ll soon have a chance playmates. I bring this up, Libra, because I suspect that a similar principle will be very active in your life during to glide out into the frontier. I suggest you pack your bag of tricks. Bring gifts with you, too, just in case you 2018. You’ll find it easier and more natural than usual to express kindness, empathy, and compassion. If you must curry favor in the frontiers where the rules are a consistently capitalize on this predilection, life will bit loose. How are your improvisational instincts? Be readily provide you with the resources you need. sure they’re in top shape. How willing are you to summon spontaneity and deal with unpredictability and try SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Like all of us, you go through mediocre phases when you’re not functioning impromptu experiments? I hope you’re very willing.

This may sound like a lot of work, but I swear it’ll be in at peak efficiency. But I suspect that in 2018 you will a good cause. If you’re well-prepared as you wander in experience fewer of these blah times. We will see a lot of you at your best. Even more than usual, you’ll be an the borderlands, you’ll score sweet secrets and magic cookies. Here’s more good news: Your explorations will interesting catalyst who energizes and ripens collaborative projects. You’ll demonstrate why the sweet bracposition you well to take advantage of the opportuniing brightness needs the deep dark depths, and vice ties that’ll become available throughout 2018. versa. You’ll help allies open doors that they can’t open GEMINI (May 21-June 20): These days it’s not unusu- by themselves. The rest of us thank you in advance! al to see male celebrities who shave their heads. Bruce Willis, Dwayne Johnson, Seal, Tyrese Gibson, and Vin SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The blunt fact is that you can’t be delivered from the old demoralizing Diesel are among them. But in the 20th century, the pattern that has repeated and repeated itself—until bare-headed style was rare. One famous case was actor Yul Brynner. By age 30, he’d begun to go bald. In you forgive yourself completely. For that matter, you probably can’t move on to the next chapter of your 1951, for his role as the King of Siam in the Broadway play The King and I, he decided to shave off all his hair. life story until you compensate yourself for at least some of the unnecessary torment you’ve inflicted on From then on, the naked-headed look became his yourself. Now here’s the good news: 2018 will be an trademark as he plied a successful acting career. So he excellent time to accomplish these healings. capitalized on what many in his profession considered CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 2018, one of your pria liability. He built his power and success by embracing an apparent disadvantage. I recommend you prac- mary missions will be to practice what you preach; to walk your talk; to be ambitious and masterful in all the tice your own version of this strategy in 2018. The ways a soulful human can and should be ambitious and coming weeks will be an excellent time to begin. masterful. Live up to your hype in the coming months, CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the Northern Capricorn! Do what you have promised! Stop postponing Hemisphere, where 88 percent of the world’s populayour dreams! Fulfill the noble expectations you have for tion resides, this is a quiescent time for the natural yourself! Don’t be shy about using exclamation points to world. Less sunlight is available, and plants’ metaboexpress your visions of what’s right and good and just! lisms slow down as photosynthesis diminishes.

Deciduous trees lose their leaves, and even many ever- AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Years ago, when I started my career as a horoscope writer, my editor counseled me, greens approach dormancy. And yet in the midst of “Always give priority to the Big Three. Romance, money, this stasis, Cancerian, you are beginning to flourish. and power are what people care about most.” After a few Gradually at first, but with increasing urgency, you’re months, he was disgruntled to realize that I wrote about embarking on an unprecedented phase of growth. I how to cultivate psychological health and nourish spiritual foresee that 2018 will be your Year of Blossoming. aspirations as much as his Big Three. He would have LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If you’ve had an unfulfilled curi- replaced me if he could have found another astrology writosity about genealogy or your ancestors or the riddles of er whose spelling and grammar were as good as mine. But your past, 2018 will be a favorable time to investigate. his edict traumatized me a bit. Even today, I worry that I Out-of-touch relatives will be easier to locate than don’t provide you with enough help concerning the Big Three. Fortunately, that’s not relevant now, since I can sinusual. Lost heirlooms, too. You may be able to track cerely declare that 2018 will bring you chances to become down and make use of a neglected legacy. Even family secrets could leak into view—both the awkward and the more powerful by working hard on your psychological charming kinds. If you think you have everything figured health . . . and to grow wealthier by cultivating your spiritual aspirations . . . and to generate more love by being out about the people you grew up with and the history wise and ethical in your quest for money and power. of where you came from, you’re in for surprises.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Most of us regard our ring fingers as the least important of our digits. What are they good for? Is there any activity for which they’re useful? But our ancestors had a stronger relationship with their fourth fingers. There was a folk belief that a special vein connected the fourth finger on the left hand directly to the heart. That’s why a tradition arose around the wedding ring being worn there. It may have also been a reason why pharmacists regarded their fourth fingers as having an aptitude for discerning useful blends of herbs. I bring this up, Virgo, because I think it’s an apt metaphor for one of 2018’s important

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): What binds you? What keeps you closed down and locked up? I urge you to ponder those questions, Pisces. Once you get useful answers, the next step will be to meditate on how you can undo the binds. Fantasize and brainstorm about the specific actions you can take to unlock and unclose yourself. This project will be excellent preparation for the opportunities that the coming months will make available to you. I’m happy to announce that 2018 will be your personal Year of Liberation.

Homework: Write a parable or fairy tale that captures what your life has been like in 2017. Freewillastrology.com

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I need more smart allies, compassionate supporters, ethical role models, and loyal friends, and I need them right now!” writes Joanna K., an Aries reader from Albuquerque, New Mexico. On the other hand, there’s Jacques T., an Aries reader from Montreal. “To my amazement, I actually have much of the support and assistance I need,” he declares. “What I seem to need more of are constructive critics, fair-minded competitors with integrity, colleagues and loved ones who don’t assume that every little thing I do is perfect, and adversaries who galvanize me to get better.” I’m happy to announce, dear Aries, that in 2018 you will benefit more than usual from the influences that both Joanna and Jacques seek.

of 2018 will bring you a showdown between wrong and right, between ugliness and beauty. But it just ain’t that simple. It’s more like the forces of plaid will be arrayed against the forces of paisley. The showdown will feature two equally flawed and equally appealing sources of intrigue. And so you may inquire, Libra, what is the most honorable role you can play in these matters?

Should you lend your support to one side or the other?

I advise you to create a third side.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 2018, your tribe will be extra skilled at opening things that have been shut or sealed for a long time: heavy doors, treasure boxes, rich possibilities, buried secrets, shy eyes, mum mouths, guarded hearts, and insular minds. You’ll have TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the Scots language spo- a knack for initiating new markets and clearing blocked ken in Lowland Scotland, a watergaw is a fragmented passageways and staging grand openings. You’ll be rainbow that appears between clouds. A skafer is a faint more inclined to speak candidly and freely than any rainbow that arises behind a mist, presaging the immiother generation of Scorpios in a long time. Getting nent dissipation of the mist. A silk napkin is a splintered stuck things unstuck will come naturally. Making yourrainbow that heralds the arrival of brisk wind and rain. In self available for bighearted fun and games will be your accordance with the astrological omens, I propose we specialty. Given these wonders, maybe you should use these mysterious phenomena as symbols of power adopt a new nickname, like Apertura (the Italian word for you in 2018. The good fortune that comes your way for “opening”), Ouverture (the French word for “openwill sometimes be partially veiled and seemingly incom- ing”), Šiši (Yoruban), Otevírací (Czech), Öffnung plete. Don’t compare it to some “perfect” ideal. It’ll be (German), or Kufungua (Swahili). more interesting and inspiring than any perfect ideal.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I predict that the GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In 2018, half-buried resi- coming months won’t bring you the kinds of opportunidues from the past will be resurfacing as influences in ties you were imagining and expecting, but will bring your life. Old dreams that you abandoned prematurely you opportunities you haven’t imagined and didn’t are ripe to be re-evaluated in light of what has hapexpect. Will you be alert and receptive to these sly pened since you last took them seriously. Are these divergences from your master plan? If so, by September good or bad developments? It will probably depend of 2018 you will have become as smart a gambler as on your ability to be charitable and expansive as you maybe you have ever been. You will be more flexible and deal with them. One thing is certain: To move forward adaptable, too, which means you’ll be better able to get into the future, you will have to update your relationwhat you want without breaking stuff and wreaking ships with these residues and dreams. whirlwinds. Congratulations in advance, my daring darCANCER (June 21-July 22): Poet Diane Ackerman tells ling. May your experiments be both visionary and practius that human tongues, lips, and genitals possess neural cal. May your fiery intentions be both steady and fluidic. receptors that are ultra-responsive. Anatomists have CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Hungarian psychiatrist given unsexy names to these bliss-generating parts of Thomas Szasz dismissed the idea that a person should be our bodies: Krause end bulbs, also known as bulboid on a quest to “find himself” or “find herself.” “The self is corpuscles. (Couldn’t they have called them “glimmering not something that one finds,” he said. Rather, “it is somerapture hubs” or “magic buttons”?) In any case, these thing one creates.” I think that’s great advice for you in sweet spots enable us to experience surpassing pleasure. According to my understanding of the astrological 2018, Capricorn. There’ll be little value in wandering around in search of fantastic clues about who you were omens for 2018, Cancerian, your personal complement born to be. Instead you should simply be gung-ho as you of bulboid corpuscles will be even more sensitive than usual. Here’s further good news: Your soul will also have shape and craft yourself into the person you want to be. a heightened capacity to receive and register delight.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Mise en place is a French term whose literal translation is “putting in place.” When used by professional chefs in a restaurant kitchen, it refers to the task of gathering and organizing all the ingredients and tools before beginning to cook. I think this is an excellent metaphor for you to emphasize throughout 2018. In every area of your life, thorough preparation will be the key to your success and fulfillment. Make sure you have everything you need before launching any new enterprise or creative effort.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Experimental composer Harry Partch played one-of-a-kind musical instruments that he made from objects like car hubcaps, gourds, aluminum ketchup bottles, and nose cones from airplanes.

Collage artist Jason Mecier fashions portraits of celebrities using materials like noodles, pills, licorice candy, bacon, and lipstick tubes. Given the astrological configurations for 2018, you could flourish by adopting a similar strategy in your own chosen field. Your most interesting successes could come from using things as they’re not “supposed” to be used. You could further your goals by mixing and matching resources in unique ways.

master? If your answer to any of these questions is yes, the coming months will be an excellent time to grow up, climb higher, and try harder. I invite you to regard 2018 as the Year of Kicking Your Own Ass. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In 2018, one of your themes will be “secret freedom.” What does that mean? The muse who whispered this clue in my ear did not elaborate further. But based on the astrological aspects, here are several possible interpretations. 1.

You may have to dig deep and be strategic to access resources that have the power to emancipate you. 2.

You may be able to discover a rewarding escape and provocative deliverance that have been hidden from you up until now. 3. You shouldn’t brag about the liberations you intend to accomplish until you have accomplished them. 4. The exact nature of the freedom that will be valuable to you might be useless or irrelevant or incomprehensible to other people.

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thereafter at the rate of 8.75% per annum from September 9, 2016, until the property is sold at a Special Master’s Sale, plus costs of the Special Master’s Sale, including the Special Master’s fee in the amount of $212.88, plus any additional attorney fees and costs actually expended from the date of this Default Judgment until the date of the Special Master’s sale, plus those additional amounts, if any, which Plaintiff will be required to pay before termination of this action for property taxes, and insurance premiums, or any other cost of upkeep of the property of any sort. Notice Is Further Given that the real property and improvements concerned with herein will be sold subject to any and all patent reservations, easements, all recorded and unrecorded liens not foreclosed herein, and all recorded and unrecorded special assessments and taxes that may be due. Villa Sonata

and its attorneys and the Special Master disclaim all responsibility for, and the purchaser at the sale takes the property, subject to the valuation of the property by the County Assessor as real or personal property, affixture of any mobile or manufactured home to the land, deactivation of title to a mobile or manufactured home on the property, if any, environmental contamination on the property, if any, and zoning violations concerning the property, if any. Notice Is Further Given that the purchaser at such sale shall take title to the above described real property subject to a one (1) month right of redemption.

Prospective Purchasers At Sale Are Advised To Make Their Own Examination Of The Title And The Condition Of The Property And To Consult Their Own Attorney Before Bidding. By: /s/ Robert Doyle, Special Master P.O. Box 51526 Albuquerque, NM 87181 505-417-4113

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