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TURNING THE SOIL This is disturbing on so many levels. The lack of regard for people who are different is apparent in the Facebook posts. How can someone hold such disrespect for women, LGBT, immigrants, refugees and Muslims and claim to be able to treat them fairly in a routine stop? And how and where does this reflect what we as the City of Santa Fe believe ourselves to be? Thank you for turning the soil to expose the ugly side. Only when darkness is brought into the light can it be healed.

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and federal workplace standards. Three of the five environment cases are closed, state officials tell SFR. “We have been working with the owner for the last several months to bring some structures on the property into

BY STEVEN HSIEH compliance,” says Alex Sanchez, deputy s t e v e n @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m superintendent for the Regulation and eaps of garbage are scattered Licensing Department. She adds that around Glorieta Camps, a the department typically takes a “busisprawling Christian retreat ness-friendly” approach to inquiries, tucked in the mountainous meaning that it tries to work with owners Pecos woodlands just a few miles south- to fix problems before proceeding with full-scale investigations. east of Santa Fe. “We’ve always wanted the safest camp Helicopter footage aired on KOB 4 Monday night doesn’t offer a flattering in America,” camp director Scott tells view of the camp. Frankly, at least part of SFR. “That hasn’t changed. We welcome the land is a dump. But the camp’s owners these investigations to make sure this is a never applied to zone any of the 2,900- safe place for children.”

Glorieta Baptist Conference Cenacre property as a landfill.

Nor did they seek the necessary per- ter opened in 1952 on the site, but it has mits to construct zip lines, lake slides, changed hands a couple times over the diving boards, a coffee shop, extreme bik- years before coming under the current ownership in 2014. Daing trails or a skeet shootvid Weekley, a wealthy ing range, all of which are homebuilder from Texas, offered as amenities at I found a chairs the board overseethe Christian getaway. ing Glorieta 2.0, the corNow, the nonprofit mouse in the poration that took over that purchased the camp cereal. I found the property. The same in 2014 is facing potential board oversees a camp in fines for violating laws black mold Texas called Camp Eagle. related to development, Changes started hapinside the zoning, littering and pubpening immediately. lic nuisance, according cupboards.

The new management to a February 22 ceasebeefed up the activiand-desist letter sent to -Michael Adney, ties offered at the camp, the camp from the Santa former camp chef constructing a zip line, Fe County Land Use Deslides, diving boards and partment. decks around the propBy law, penalties acerty’s lake. Formerly crue for each day the camp continues to be in violation and can public trails suddenly closed off to hikers.

Neighbors complained of water shortaginclude jail time.

Camp director Anthony Scott says es due to the camp’s increased pumping.

Former camp cook and Glorieta resthe he is working “very closely” with the county to remedy the situation. “We’ve ident Michael Adney says he also raised hired several experts in the different ar- concerns to camp management in the fall eas we need to fall into compliance with,” of 2016, after he was promoted to take he adds. The camp has temporarily closed over the retreat’s largest kitchen.

“I found a mouse in the cereal. I found its zip line and waterfront activities. Scott says it’s currently only serving a cou- black mold inside the cupboards. I found ple dozen children, but hosts thousands rancid oils and rancid eggs in and around the grills. I threw away five dumpsters during the summer.

According to Scott, the camp has al- of food that had been sitting out for too ready faced scrutiny from multiple state long,” he says. “I told these guys about it ... agencies, including the Regulation and and they simply ignored me every time.”

Adney, who identifies as a whisLicensing Department, State Fire Marshal, State Engineer, and several divi- tleblower, says he got fired after reportsions of the State Environment Depart- ing the camp to Santa Fe County health ment, including regulators of food safety, inspectors. After, he made calls to several solid waste, hazardous waste, air quality other state agencies.

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2016 RECYCLING FACTS

Be prepared for Santa Fe’s upcoming recycling changes

BY STEVEN HSIEH s t e v e n @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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rmando Gabaldon still remembers hauling loads of garbage by hand and emptying smelly bins one by one, hundreds of times a day, when he worked as an operator for the city’s waste division.

All that changed about ten years ago, when Santa Fe switched to an automated system for solid waste. These days, garbage trucks employ a mechanical arm to dump garbage from curbside to receptacle, saving time, knees and backs.

In the coming weeks, the city will make the same upgrade for recycling.

Beginning March 13, a contractor called Cascade will deliver to city residents roughly 30,000 64-gallon recycling bins, funded through a grant with Recycling Partnerships, a nonprofit. The new carts replace the flimsy, blue, box-like containers currently used to separate plastics, cardboard, aluminum and glass.

With the new carts, residents can toss out all their recyclables together without separating by type—except glass. When the city rolls out its fleet of seven new recycling trucks, operators will stop accepting glass on their daily pickups. Residents who want to recycle glass must personally deliver it to one of four dropoff spots.

(Those locations are at 1142 Siler Road, 202 Murales Road, 4009 Lucia Lane and the Buckman Road Recycling and Transfer Station, better known as BuRRT.) For Gabaldon, now a recycling supervisor, it’s about damn time. Santa Fe lags behind other jurisdictions, including Albuquerque, which made the switch to automated recycling pickup in 2013.

Since then, Albuquerque has more than doubled its quantity of recycled materials. “We’re still wearing swords and body armor. We’re in the dark ages,” Gabaldon says. “We’re so far behind it’s not even funny.”

The city seems to have a sense of humor about its behind-on-the-times approach to recycling. “The 90’s called.

They want their bin back,” reads a print ad campaign.

On a recent Monday morning, SFR sat with Gabaldon as he trailed one of

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We hopped out at a neighborhood near Payne’s Nursery, where Abe Sanchez and Lloyd Sandoval, operating a recycling truck, just finished dumping another load of cans, bottles and cardboard. We asked them about the upcoming changes.

“It’s going to be easier, labor-wise,” says Sandoval. “But I’m going to go miss the old system a little bit because I’ll be by myself rather than working with a partner.”

He adds, “We’re not going to get the exercise, so we’ll have to start going to the gym.”

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For the city, it’s been a change long in the making. Our current recycling processor, the Albuquerque-based Friedman Recycling, doesn’t accept glass. We used to process all recycled materials here at BuRRT; however, since a joint city/county agency started contracting the task to Friedman in summer 2015, operators are leaving glass piled in Santa Fe and trucking other materials to Albuquerque.

The agency currently grinds up your Yuengling and Yoo-hoo bottles at BuRRT on the northeast end of town. Some of the end product is integrated into pave-

ment. Much of it gets sold to Growstone, a hydroponic substrate manufacturer in Albuquerque, which is currently seeing a boom in sales thanks to the burgeoning marijuana industry. Santa Fe sold roughly 2,100 tons of glass to the company in 2016, according to Growstone CFO Tina Gibson.

City officials predict that recycling rates will stay flat in 2017, but eventually hope to see an 80 to 100-percent increase.

We’ve already made great strides in recent years. Santa Fe County, including the city, raised its abysmal recycling rate from 8.4 percent in 2013 to 19 percent in 2015, according to the most recent available data.

Adam Schlachter, the city’s environmental services division outreach coordinator, says the recent improvement is partly due to Santa Fe’s switch to Friedman, which greatly expanded the array of recyclable materials available for curbside pickup. Suddenly, residents could toss milk cartons, phone books and yogurt tubs into their blue bins.

Switching to a single-stream recycling system, Schlachter believes, will help Santa Fe get closer to the national average of 34 percent. His theory isn’t rocket science.

“The 14-gallon container was the limiting factor for our program,” he says.

“What we think happened—and it’s all anecdotal—is people filled up their 14-gallon container. What didn’t fit probably went into the trash can.”

Eldorado/285 Recycles, an advocacy organization, supports the change. “The city has had a very backwards system,” explains co-founder Joseph Eigner.

The new carts also include embedded chips that can track how often city residents recycle, but the officials aren’t planning on using that tool yet. Drivers will, however, use iPhones to record when residents don’t put their carts on the curb.

But some residents have called the city complaining about the switch from curbside glass pickup to drop-off locations. “People say they don’t want to drive,” says Eva Romero, a receptionist at the environmental services division. Others, she says, misconceive that city will stop recycling glass altogether.

When the new bins get distributed, Gabaldon estimates that it will take another couple weeks to fully implement the new system.

“The change, like anything, will take some time getting used to,” Gabaldon says. “But you’re gonna have to love it and like it because we’re not going with anything else.”

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hen a family driving through the desert near Las Cruces around Christmas 2014 found the bodies of 39 dead coyotes scattered among the sagebrush, they called Kevin Bixby. As executive director of the Southwest Environmental Center, he came out to take a look.

“They’d clearly been killed in a contest because they had the telltale signs,” Bixby says. Their jaws were wired shut around blocks of wood or PVC pipe that listed the date and time they were killed and which number they were in the line of casualties. New Mexico Land Commissioner Aubrey Dunn offered a $1,000 reward for information about the dumping—it wasn’t the killing of the coyotes that was illegal; rather, it was the improper disposal of the carcasses.

In the legislative session shortly following that incident, New Mexico lawmakers had a chance to consider a bill that would ban such contests. It passed the Senate but failed in the House Agriculture Water and Wildlife Committee (now the Agriculture and Water Resources Committee), which conservationists called the place wildlife bills went to die.

This year, the bill is back. Ranchers and their representative organizations are incensed, insisting that these contests provide a necessary management tool for rural livestock owners who can’t afford to keep losing calves or lambs to coyotes.

Proponents of the bill argue it doesn’t limit those options.

“This doesn’t stop anybody’s managing of coyote populations or predators on their land as they see fit, nor does it curtail hunting,” says Sen. Jeff Steinborn (D-Las Cruces), who introduced the bill with Sen. Mark Moores (R-Albuquerque).

Last year, Animal Protection Voters polled 600 active registered voters and found 61 percent opposed to organized killing contests. While it’s tough to tell whether the bill will really move forward, the organization is optimistic.

“We’re definitely feeling like there is a path to success and we could finally resolve the issue of these horrific contests across the state,” says Jessica Johnson,

KEVIN BIXBY

Killing Wily

An effort to end coyote death contests returns to the Legislature, but could hunters just dodge it?

When a family found the bodies of 39 coyotes in the desert near Las Cruces, it prompted lawmakers to discuss banning the contests that lead to these kinds of killings.

chief legislative officer with Animal Protection Voters.

When California’s wildlife agency implemented a similar ban, some contest organizers simply shifted their rhetoric and went on holding events. Steinborn says he thinks his proposed bill is tight enough to close that loophole. Johnson says Animal Protection Voters will “stay vigilant” to make sure that’s the case.

“If they’re doing it for a prize or clearly they’re doing it for primarily entertainment purposes, then it’s going to be illegal,” Steinborn says. “It’s a good start.”

The banter at the committee hearing from those opposed included plenty of hypotheticals, though.

“The bill is loaded with holes,” James Schmidt later told SFR. He worked with the US Department of Agriculture for decades, often tracking and killing coyotes, and has been involved with these contests off and on since the 1990s. “It’s just not very well thought through at all. If a rancher contacts me and says, ‘Hey, come over here and I’ll give you $500 to remove coyotes—and bring your friends, too,’ is that a contest?”

In these contests, hunters lure coyotes using handheld or electronic devices that imitate the sounds of prey animals or other coyotes. Numbers aren’t documented, so it’s tough to pin down how frequently these hunts occur and how many coyotes are killed in them, but estimates run at around 15 to 20 contests a year, with 20 to 40 kills resulting from each. No hunting licenses are required for in-state residents and no special use permits need be procured.

The one thing on which both sides agree is that coyote populations continue to grow. The disagreement breaks down over why.

“We’ve been killing coyotes for 100 years in the Southwest. We have a government agency that kills 80,000 to 100,000 coyotes a year, and their population is still increasing, which tells me it’s not working,” says Dave Parsons, a wildlife biologist who has worked on carnivore management for decades. He is now science advisor for Project Coyote, a national nonprofit that advocates for coexistence with carnivores. He says he knows of no study that verifies coyote killing contests have

the management effects ranchers claim.

“They’re just hunches,” he says. “People believe it works, but there’s no evidence that it works and there’s no reason to believe that it would work based on the science that we do know.”

That science shows that, when left alone, coyotes build social structures that regulate the local population. There, only 35 percent of females will breed—but disrupt their social structure and that number spikes to 90 percent of the females reproducing. You wouldn’t know that, though, if you’d never seen coyotes in an undisturbed population. It’s a chance ranchers aren’t willing to take.

“You can’t eliminate coyotes and that’s not what anybody wants to do, but any tool that allows you to manage that population is a tool that’s needed,” says Caren Cowan, executive director of the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association.

To those who think that pile of dead coyotes is ugly, Cowan charges, there’s nothing uglier than a healthy newborn calf half-eaten by coyotes. At weaning, that calf would be worth $500 or more—and who, she asks, can withstand those kinds of losses?

“In the committee someone called [the contests] a ‘blood sport,’ which is entirely not true,” says Jessica Decker of Oreana Communications, which represents the cattle growers. “It’s more about trying to manage those populations in areas where they’ve just gotten completely out of control. It’s kind of one of those, ‘Why kill an ant one by one if you can control them a little bit better all at once.’”

The bill banning coyote killing contests is one of several aimed at modernizing the laws, policies and makeup of the game commission that oversees wildlife.

A bill also proposed by Steinborn that would have granted the state the authority to manage all wildlife here—some 40 percent of vertebrates aren’t on that list, including coyotes—was tabled in the same Senate Conservation Committee meeting that passed the coyote killing contests bill. Its opponents included Alexa Sandoval, director of the Department of Game and Fish, who argued the department has neither the money nor the staff to add to its duties.

That’s on the list for reform, too. A 2013 study commissioned by the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish found roughly 160,000 anglers and 87,600 hunters among the state’s population of 2 million, and the purchase of those licenses provides the bulk of the department’s funding. Conservationists argue it’s time to democratize that system and correspondingly shift the department’s allegiances when it comes to management.

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magine a mythology, passed down through the generations, packed full of life and the very elements of survival. As the ages pass, each generation grows increasingly less enamored with the story, until, finally, its beginning, its end—even its purpose—are a ghost of memory. Now imagine being that last generation, the one that forgets the story about how life exists on this planet.

This is Emily Arasim’s worst fear, and the 23-year-old seed saver has made preventing this kind of cultural loss her ambition. Seeds, in their vast diversity, once were sacred, cared for, passed from neighbor to neighbor and cultivated in a ritualistic, community-driven fashion. Families knew secrets about the lands they lived on and what grew best there. They kept banks of regional seeds for each season.

That tradition remained somewhat strong in New Mexico, where old Hispanic families cherish chile seeds and Indigenous cultures honor Mother Earth and use certain types of corn and beans in sacred ceremonies. Growing up in New Mexico, Arasim got to witness this unique preservation of seed diversity firsthand—but she’s watching memory fade, too. “I’ve equally heard stories of mourning and loss and grandpas saying, ‘I don’t know what’s going to happen. No one in my family wants to come do this.

There is no one to pass along my knowledge.’”

The forgetting began after the world wars, when large-scale crops supplanted agricultural traditions, as chemicals once used

Seed Memory

How saving and cultivating seeds preserves and protects the future of food MARIA EGOLF-ROMERO m a r i a @ s f r e p o r t e r. c o m

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four-person crew that is rebuilding agricultural memory under the guidance of one of the most knowledgeable seed savers alive: Emigdio Ballón, the Bolivian-born farming genius who, in 2005, took over as agricultural resources director for the Pueblo of Tesuque. For 30 years, Ballón has worked closely with seeds and, at Tesuque, he has helped to build the most extensive seed bank in the state.

Walking into the basement of the adobe building off the frontage road that runs along Highway 84/285, where the bank is stored, the weight of memory overwhelms you. To start, the adobe is real—lumpy, full of honey-colored straw peeking through the hand-smoothed surface. The dusty shelves are littered with coffee tins and burlap sacks, bags full of tobacco leaves and chile pods, -Emily Arasim jars of dalmatian-spotted beans and envelopes of seeds so tiny they look like sand.

It’s nearly pitch black and very dry inside, which Ballón of history were thrown to the wind in less says is paramount for seed preservation, than a century. The forgetting is nearly but it somehow smells like petrichor and complete: Researchers say up to 75 per- the forest floor. The smell reminds you of cent of the world’s seed diversity in food playing in the afternoon as a child, of all crops is gone. things natural and dirty.

Arasim wants to be part of a new reThe bank, though, is more than remembering. membering—more than preservation of That’s why she’s apprenticing with a that most important myth. Scientists who

I’ve equally heard stories of mourning and loss and grandpas saying, ‘I don’t know what’s going to happen.’

spoke with SFR agree with the seed savers that the old ways, when people knew their seeds as friends, point the way ahead as well. As climate change spikes temperatures and saps groundwater, particularly in the already arid Southwest, regional, generational seeds—known as landraces—may be the only ones that can survive.

There’s an irony, too.

The large-scale chemical agriculture industry that has obliterated seed diver-

sity is also among the leading producers of harmful carbon emissions—around 25 percent of total global emissions.

“This is crazy, because what this really means is that these big farming practices are causing climate change, and at the same time we are losing our seeds and our soils that could keep us alive, especially in the face of these things,” says Loretta Sandoval. She is a former analytical chemist CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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to destroy were repurposed into pesticides and artificial fertilizers. “That’s the scary story that’s at the end of this: ‘We used to dump this [chemical] on people in Vietnam, now let’s figure out how to put it on our food,’” Arasim tells SFR. Large-scale farming is a one-crop proposition, so agricultural techniques developed throughout thousands of years

ABOVE: A handful of New Mexico heritage bolita beans ready for planting.

LEFT: Native corn sprouts break ground in Nambe.

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Emily Arasim demonstrates a seed sorting technique using wind—or, in this case, a fan.

who has been a full-time farmer, conservationist and seed saver for 12 years and operates Zulu Petal Farms in Dixon.

‘I BELONG TO THE SEEDS’ Arasim grew up on a lush patch of land in Tesuque, where the acequia runs full in the summer. She knows her life story is part of a longer tale. “For pretty much all of human history, our lives have been based around seeds and water; it literally is life. It’s the source of pretty much all the food we eat, every day at every meal,” she says.

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noticeable here at home, she says, and so are its consequences.

The traditional way of cultivating crops, to which many in New Mexico still cling, is to grow a bunch of things together. Rather than placing one kind of seed every few inches along a straight row, “we put hundreds of seeds in a foot,” Sandoval tells SFR. This is how seeds are selected for strength. “We are always doing something called mass selection. They’ll come up, and we look at the ones that come up together and are uniform,” she says, “and everything else we pull.”

This technique forces the crops to

compete with each other, which strengthens the food and the seeds they produce.

Sandoval says she learned this all-together planting technique from Spanish traditional farmers. “You have to plant it thick and then you [pull] anything that looks weak. That’s really important for seed quality, to select for strong competitive traits.”

“But if you’re trying to cultivate these massive fields, you can’t do that,” Arasim says. “It’s resulted in choosing single varieties and single seeds. Think of the yellow corn you see everywhere. It was a very, very quick change.”

Losing all but 25 percent of that biodiversity is a scary fact. And trying to take on the huge task of reversing, or even slowing that loss, is daunting. Arasim knows this, and the answer, she says, is to look toward home, to lean on heritage. “The scale of the problem is so big, and that’s kind of the only thing that can be done.”

The 70-acre plot in the Tesuque valley where Ballón presides over a conservation effort is home to a lush assortment of food crops, medicinal herbs and, of course, the seed bank.

“The Dalai Lama said, ‘Everyone, they come in with a mission to this earth, and that’s why we are,’” Ballón says. “I am a son of the seeds myself. I belong to the seeds. I am not directing the seeds; the seeds are directing me.”

The farm’s orchard, planted in the traditional way with patches of herbs growing amomg the trees, produced more than 3,000 pounds of apples last year. The fourman team pressed them into cider and apple cider vinegar. The conservation farm sells some of its regional medicinal herbs to Herbs Etc. (1345 Cerrillos Road, 9821265) and the seed savers make chile and garlic oil. But this operation’s true heart and purpose is to save and cultivate seeds.

The Tesuque Pueblo farm uses solar power, generated by panels on site, to run the geothermal greenhouses and some electricity to the main seed bank structure. While Ballón sees the merit behind technology and understands the ways it can help his farming, he is primarily reliant upon the land and the natural elements that provide everything a plant needs. “We have the ability to grow what we want and what we need, but in these times, we are beginning to lose these things,” Ballón tells SFR. “We are beginning to forget how we can eat, how healthy we can eat and how healthy we can live.”

The farmer-philosopher stresses that the forgetting includes losing touch with the importance of seeds—and agriculture in general. “We have to be very careful

a jar of chile seeds that had grown on the property for centuries. “They said they belonged to the field,” she says.

Sandoval, ever the scientist, ran some experiments. “I started ranking the landraces with hybrids, like peppers from Southern New Mexico and other peppers like New Mexico 64 and Anaheims,” Sandoval tells SFR. “I started growing them here, and I didn’t understand the landrace at all: It was amazing, it would break dormancy and germinate so much faster than anything I had ever seen.”

When Sandoval saw how much better that jar of landrace seeds grew, she started researching its secret. The landrace had grown for hundreds of harsh and erratic summers in the same field in Northern New Mexico. Centuries in the elements taught the seed how to survive.

Landraces have built memories through years of evolution and selection, so when a sweltering summer comes along, they can handle it. “Last summer, which was the hottest recorded New Mexico summer in history, I went seven weeks without watering my landraces and they were fine,” Sandoval states as evidence. “They weren’t even wilting, and it was over 100 degrees every day.”

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how we handle technology. Anywhere you go, you see people are very, very busy with their cell phones. They don’t look at each other. They are beginning to block the connection between each other,” Ballón says. “You are beginning to misuse your hands when you don’t have the ability to dig one hole, or hold one shovel, or hold a pencil.”

He says his efforts on the farm and in life are about remembering, which, for both Arasim and Ballón, is inextricably tied to saving seeds. Asked about moving forward or surviving climate change in our future, he produces a picture of the past, or a seed. He talks about how it used to be.

In this adobe seed bank on the Tesuque Pueblo, he palms a photograph of a Hopi man planting a seed in the desert.

The man sweats and wears only a deerskin. You can see the heat rising from the sand, and a stick is his only tool for planting this crop in the desert ground, on an arid patch of dune. It’s a demonstration that if you have the right seed, you don’t need much else.

Therein lies the crux of why seed saving, in New Mexico in particular, is so important. “So much of the world is about to face drought and these crazy hectic weather patterns that we always have here,” Arasim says. “We have seeds that have been around for 6,000 years that have been cultivated generation by generation by our Pueblos that can handle these crazy summers we get.

And that’s going to be increasingly important for the whole world as we face these things.”

GENETICALLY SUPERIOR Sandoval, the former chemist, gives scientific testament and weight to the durability and superiority of heritage seeds.

After working in a laboratory and pursuing more education in that field, she changed course and dove into farming.

About six months after moving to New Mexico, she met Mary Campbell, a retired Los Alamos scientist who owns certified organic fields. Working with Campbell, Sandoval encountered regional seeds for the first time. They happened to be about 200 years old. Campbell acquired the landraces from an old Hispanic family who owned the farm for generations before she purchased it. They gave her

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Emigdio Ballón sits in front of hundreds of thousands of seeds waiting to be cleaned and catalogued in the seed bank.

This resilience comes from a strong genetic backbone, which creates a response system. Beyond the chile seed Sandoval tested, landrace seeds in general are weather warriors. If they’ve survived hot summers before, they can do it again.

Think of a seed like a doorway between the past and the future. It holds the potential to grow a plant, and it gets that potential from generations of evolutionary information in the plant it comes from. It is a frozen moment in a cycle.

Hybird seeds, however, don’t come with or pass along evolutionary data.

“They are creating a seed for one generation,” says Sandoval.

“Landraces have never been raised like that, they have to mine nutrients and they have to have the capacity to work with the fungi in a co-op relationship. That’s the memory.”

Hybrid and GMO seeds can’t produce healthy plants because they aren’t a part of the natural informative cycle. They don’t have any memories to rely on. So, beyond landrace seeds being integral to surviving climate change, they are the

only way to keep the cycle of food production on our planet alive and well.

Seed saving is a partially undocumented and ever-developing science, practiced by people hidden in rural areas through-

majority of what’s happening in our state still is coffee cans hidden under the floorboard of an abuela’s house in the middle of nowhere.”

A SEED’S INTENTION Linking those coffee-can-stashing grandmothers to the younger generation, of which Arasim is a part, is essential to the remembering. There is wisdom and knowledge in the seeds. “It’s part of what many here are trying to figure out, to bring together these traditional farming communities in a way that’s organized to meet the challenges of these very intense times, and also honoring the way things have been done forever, which is meeting up with your neighbor and trading with your community,” Arasim says.

-Emigdio Ballón In the spirit of seed connectivity, the Mountain West Seed Summit is coming to Hotel Santa Fe (1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200) March out the state. There is no database of de- 3 and 4. The two day conference costs gree-touting experts. Seed savers are “un- $150 for both days or $80 for one, features known heroes, citizen scientists. They’re lectures by some of the foremost seed storytellers. They are keeping our diver- leaders (including Ballón and Sandoval) sity alive and our cultures alive, and it’s as well as seed exchanges and local food totally unrecognized,” Arasim says. “The provided by Squash Blossom, a company

We have the ability to grow what we want, and what we need, but in these times, we are begining to lose these things.

that connects local farmers with restaurants and consumers. Arasim says conferences can help to build a network. Beyond that, she says, “I am trying to learn from these elders and from the Pueblo all that they know and all they’ve been physically doing for so long, and trying to wrap my head around what we do next to bring that together and to make it accessible to more people.”

Another important part of saving seeds is ensuring their cultivation, and Ballón says they need to be grown in different places. Traveling is part of a seed’s intention. His dream is to see all the seeds in his seed bank planted in the ground.

“I am thinking these guys, they are like humans, they don’t want to stay in one place,” he says. “My dream would be to have so many seed banks. In the meantime, these seeds from these seed banks go to other places because that’s the gift of the great spirits. For what? Not to make money—to feed the people.”

Sandoval plays her part in both the connectivity of the seed community and sending seeds out of New Mexico from her stand at the Santa Fe Farmers Market, where she sells landraces and crops from her farm. She’s also sent the seeds to a few fellow scientists. “They couldn’t believe it,” she tells SFR. “It just blew their mind how efficient and fast it was. I wanted to know how well it would do somewhere else, and it’s all over the world now because people come to the market.”

Arasim envisions a future with more seed savers and more banks. “What’s really needed are places in every community where these things are kept safe,” she says. “Where community members can go and get seeds if they lose theirs from year to year. You know, a backup.”

But there are people like Arasim and Ballón, and farmers who grow regional varieties and sell them at the farmer’s market, and abuelos and abuelas who, perhaps, don’t know how much they’re doing for the world by picking a kernel of native blue corn from an ear and saving it in a can in their kitchen.

“Right now I have about 30 varieties of beans, corn, squash, melon and some medicinal plants from around New Mexico and the Southwest, and that’s just my personal saving that I work to grow out on a couple properties of family and friends throughout town,” Arasim says. “That’s just my small work. I am very much still a student and I am honored to be learning from the amazing resources we have.”

Ballón reminds us that the tradition around seeds is knowledge, and it comes with power. He says, “Whoever is controlling the seeds in the culture is going to control the life.”

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Lowriders, Hoppers and Hot Rods at the History Museum and Con Cariño at the Museum of Art even kicked off with an officially-sanctioned cruise (basically a long line of hundreds of beautiful cars), which spurred Mayor Javier Gonzales to declare May 22 Lowrider Day in Santa Fe. Furthermore, if you can believe it, the very first lowrider photo archive on the planet was created under the watchful eye of the History Museum’s photo curator, Daniel Kosharek. “I went everywhere: museums, libraries, everywhere,” Kosharek says, “and nobody had lowrider photos.” This meant record numbers for both museums and also

served as a reminder that lowriders are quintessentially American beasts.

But, sadly, all good things must end, and the exhibits’ final day falls on Sunday March 5. They’re hardly dead, however. Kosharek points out that the assets will visit Western New Mexico University in Silver City this fall and that the Smithsonian has expressed interest in a touring version. To further accentuate the importance of lowriders, a group of car fanatics will have one last cruise— from DeVargas Center to Fort Marcy, where they’ll hold a public barbecue. “It was really an honor to be a part of the exhibit,” Orlando Martinez, who helped organize the cruise and whose car was shown at the History Museum, says.

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10 am, $20 MAYOR KNOX WHITE: HOW STUDENTS AND THE ARTS FUEL A VIBRANT DOWNTOWN New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 As mayor of Greenville, South Carolina, White presents a lecture on economic development and the arts with our mayor, Javier Gonzales.

6 pm, free ROB MARTINEZ Museum of Spanish Colonial Art 750 Camino Lejo Museum Hill, 982-2226 Assistant State Historian Martinez presents a lecture titled "Sacramental Life of Indios, Castas, and Españoles in the Indies," in which he speaks about the habits of Catholic priests in the 1700s.

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8 pm, free KING TAYLOR PROJECT Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Soul, funk and blues.

8 pm, free

THU/2 BOOKS/LECTURES CHILDREN’S STORY HOUR Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 This weekly event offers an hour of stories and picture book adventures about crayons, princesses, dragons and more for infants, toddlers and younger kiddos up to age 5.

The stories change each week and are read by staff.

10:45 am, free DR. KUSHAL KONWAR SARMA: THE ELEPHANT DOCTOR OF INDIA Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Sarma is widely regarded as a world expert on Asian elephants. He is visiting from Assam, India, and speaks about the conservation and care of these endangered animals.

6 pm, free K PAUL JONES: DEFYING THE NAZIS IN VICHY, FRANCE St. John's United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, 982-9274 Jones, a retired professor of modern European history, tells the story of residents in a tiny village south of Paris who saved the lives of nearly 5,000 Jews, most of whom were children.

1 pm, $10

EVENTS BRIAN REGAN Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Stand-up comedy by Regan, who has sold out venues like Radio City Music Hall and appeared in the film Top Five with Chris Rock earlier this year (see 3 Questions, page 27).

8 pm, $47.50-$52.50

GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Be a geek and play other teams to see who knows the most about the chosen subjects of the week.

8 pm, free THURSDAY NIGHT SIT Thubten Norbu Ling Tibetan Buddhist Center 1807 Second St., Ste. 35, 660-7056 Get together with your community regardless of identity, allegiance or preference. This event invites attendees to steady their minds and open their hearts during both a period of silence and one of sharing.

6 pm, free

MUSIC D'SANTI NAVA Starlight Lounge at Montecito 500 Rodeo Road, 428-7777 Solo flamenco guitar at the retirement community offers a little something extra for your Thursday happy-hour outing.

6 pm, free JERRY FENN Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 The multi-instrumentalist and composer plays a soothing set of piano standards.

8 pm, free LILLY PAD LOUNGE WITH DJ REBEL FROG Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 DJ Rebel Frog mixes up the dance tunes to keep you hopping along.

10 pm, $7 LIMELIGHT KARAOKE Palace Saloon 142 W Palace Ave., 428-0690 Stop in, grab the mic and do your vocal best. Try to impress everyone without breaking any eardrums.

10 pm, free THE ROYAL BIRD BROTHERS Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Eccentric traditional rock covers and originals.

8 pm, free

THEATER ENFRASCADA Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 This play by Tanya Saracho is ensemble-directed by the cast and it tells the timeless tale of a woman scorned and the dangers of obsession.

7:30 pm, $20 UNNECESSARY FARCE Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 See what happens in the comedy by Paul Slade Smith that makes the audience think about corruption in politics.

7:30 pm, $15-$25

FRI/3 ART OPENINGS A CENTURY OF SAN ILDEFONSO PAINTERS Adobe Gallery 221 Canyon Road, 955-0550 Featuring over 50 paintings made by a variety of artists from San Ildefonso Pueblo, a large portion of this exhibit comes from the private collection of Charlotte Greenleaf Mittler. Through April (see SFR Picks, page 19).

5 pm, free KATHAMANN: PHYSICAL Axle Contemporary 670-5854 Plastic water bottles are featured in this shimmering hanging installation. Find the mobile gallery in front of the New Mexico Museum of Art (107 Palace Ave., 4765072) for this opening event.

Through March 26.

5 pm, free PEGGY IMMEL AND MICHAEL TATOM: NEW MEXICO TAPESTRY Sorrel Sky Gallery 125 W Palace Ave., 501-6555 This two-person exhibit features landscape paintings by Immel and bronze sculptures

by Tatom. Through March 30.

5 pm, free SANDE ANDERSON: HARMONY Vista Grande Public Library 14 Avenida Torreon, 466-7323 See 12 framed monoprints by Anderson in this solo exhibit.

Through March 30.

5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES AMOS PAUL KENNEDY JR. New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5100 A screening of a segment of the film Proceed and Be Bold follows the life and work of Kennedy, and after, the activist (and subject of the film) speaks about civil rights and the power of the press.

6 pm, free LLYD WELLS St. John's College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, 684-6000 Hear about environmental issues in the Great Hall in Wells’ lecture titled "On the ironies of ecological reservation in North American and the Galapagos."

7:30 pm, free

DANCE SPRING INTO MOTION: NDI WINTER PERFORMANCE National Dance Institute New Mexico Dance Barns 1410 Alto St., 983-7646 This cast includes the apprentice company and the junior company who perform Charleston, a Jerome Robbins piece, and a new production of the fairy tale, Firebird, directed by Allegra Lillard.

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inger-songwriter Donavon Frankenreiter gets tied to surfbum troubadour Jack Johnson a little too often. This is, frankly, a bit of a drag, as Frankenreiter’s style comes across as more personal and considerate. It’s autobiographical and easy to chill along with, yes, but also more sincere. He proves this in particular with 2015’s The Heart, an introspective set of songs recorded in Texas that was accompanied by a 10-day live-stream of the recording process.

Frankenreiter visits Santa Fe this Tuesday as part of his recent tour, one that reportedly finds the musician and his family (he brings ‘em on the road when he can) spending actual time in the cities they visit. Woah.

You always hear about musicians who are like, “I’ve been to Japan, like, 10 times, but I’ve never been to Japan.”

What made you want to visit these towns on a more intimate level?

You know, I’ve been touring like this for 15 years, and it sometimes happens where if you get on the night schedule, you play till three in the morning; you

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wake up, and load into a show, do it again, do it again. You can fall into that routine where you only see venues. I’m bringing my family. I’ve got a wife and two kids, and I wanna show them everywhere we’re going, too. We’re gonna go skiing when we can, surfing when we can. It’s fun for me to bring the family.

Is it hard to balance your work and family?

It’s the hardest thing I deal with, but it’s one of those things where if I go out for a long period of time, I just bring them.

Since I’ve been doing this before my kids were even born, they’ll ask where I’m going and maybe say, ‘Eh, we’ve already been there.’ What’s cool is, my older son is 14, and he’s been playing a lot of guitar and singing, so every night when we’re out on the road, he gets up and does a song with us.

I hear he wrote the music to one of the songs on your last album.

He wrote a song called “Little Shack.” He was in his room one night jamming, and it was one of the first times I ever heard him on the guitar and I thought that sounded kind of neat. So I learned it and stole if from him and said, ‘Hey dude, I’m putting this thing on the new album.’ I love the story behind that.

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You had a livestream going during recording. Did that change how you worked, or was it more like a performance than recording an album?

It was really strange. The first day we were in there it was really nerve-wracking because we felt like we had to do something for the people who logged on—but after awhile, the cameras seemed invisible. It was a great process, a great experience. Next time, I don’t know what we’re gonna do, but I think it would be so cool if somebody logged on and for a dollar or two dollars we could record and mix and master a song and then send it to them immediately.

I’ve read you say that your last album has some “bummer tunes.” Was it hard to dig into some of those emotions?

What’s cool about this record, it was written in, like, a three-month period. It isn’t something I was emotionally working on for two years. I knew I was going in to make a record, and I had a bunch of these songs, some where I had the chorus and not the verse, or some with the verse or not the chorus. So I called up Grant [Lee Phillips]. … I worked with Grant on my second album, and I sent him this song.

Literally by the next morning it was done.

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it, and if I was going to think of something to write, this would be it. So I sent him another song, and sure enough, it was like, ‘Holy shit! He did it again!’ I’ve never really collaborated with someone where it happened that easily. Grant will be opening the shows just him and an acoustic guitar, and then we play together with the band. … He’s such a great guitar player.

Are you working on anything new or exciting you can talk about?

I just started a new band with Cisco Adler and G Love, the three of us. That was a crazy thing that happened. G Love and I were talking about making a BBQ album; all acoustic. Our whole thing was like, ‘Let’s go in and re-record some of our original songs!’ It turned into all brandnew originals. All three of us singing, and it’s some of the most fun I’ve ever had.

It’s called Jamtown. We weren’t even planning on doing it. … It felt like a modern-day Traveling Wilburys. It’s coming out in a month or so, and we’re gonna go out and tour and do all these festivals this summer.

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KINETIC FRIDAYS Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Movement is good for the soul. Get up and move your butt to these electronica beats.

10 pm, $7 LUNGS AND LIMBS/ SURVIVAL GUIDE/ FULL SPEED VERONICA Zephyr 1520 Center Drive, #2 An evening of pop acts from around the country— Lungs and Limbs are a San Francisco-based indie/pop group, Survival Guide is the solo endeavor of former punk band Tsunami Bomb-member Emily Whitehurst, and Full Speed Veronica brings the local rock.

8 pm, $5-$10 MELODY POND Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Folk originals by this ensemble from Arkansas.

6 pm, free

PETER PESIC St. John's College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, 684-6000 Hear a repertoire of Chopin on piano in the Great Hall and feed your intellect over lunch time.

12:10 pm, free ROB SIMONDS First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave., 982-8544 Unwind with 30 minutes of violin classics performed by Simonds.

5:30 pm, free SEAN HEALEN BAND Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock and folk originals.

8:30 pm, free THE THREE FACES OF JAZZ El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Swinging jazz by the trio who welcomes a different special guest each time, so drop in to see who joins them this week during their jazz-making session.

7:30 pm, free

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ALEX MARYOL Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Blues guitar.

6 pm, free BROTHER COYOTE Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Alternative folk rock.

5 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano standards.

6 pm, free HIGH DESERT PLAYBOYS Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Classic country.

7 pm, free JERRY FENN Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 The multi-instrumentalist and composer plays a set of soothing piano tunes.

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New dance collective Uroboros takes Jill O’Bryan’s artwork for a spin

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hitney Jones grew up in the American South, dancing in a Georgia ballet troupe. It was a community so competitive that ballerinas would sneak shards of glass into each others’ pointe shoes. “We would compete to lose weight to fit into a certain costume, because we rented costumes from other dance companies,” Jones says. “If you’re a man you can get in anywhere, but there’s a huge number of women doing dance and ballet. People are cutthroat.”

In comparison, Jones’s current troupe might as well be from another planet. The four dancers of Uroboros are sprawled on the concrete floor of Center for Contemporary Arts beneath a series of enormous drawings on paper by Jill O’Bryan. O’Bryan, a New Mexico artist, made the works atop the mesa where she lives, crawling over the sheets to cover them with India ink and coal. For a moment the dancers rest flat on their backs. Then Paige Hunter sits up and quietly proposes an idea. “Go for it!” says Jones.

Hunter rises and bounds across the floor on her hands and feet. Her solo performance represents a new part of the movement they’re creating, and it forms in midair as she fearlessly improvises.

Were Hunter covered in pigment, the patterns she’s stamping out would surely resemble O’Bryan’s swirling abstract compositions. Uroboros, founded by Jones, Hunter, Amy Compton and Micayla Duran, is a new performing arts collective with a highly collaborative ethos. Their first performance project, which debuts on Saturday at CCA, has been incubating for weeks among the drawings and sculptures of O’Bryan’s solo exhibition, Mapping Resonance.

It’s about five weeks before the performance, and Uroboros is conducting its first rehearsal at CCA. They formed in December 2016 as an offshoot of the now-defunct dance company Illumine Performing Arts Collective. All of them are Santa Feans with backgrounds in dance. Duran grew up here, while the other three moved to Santa Fe within the past five years.

They met through the dance community: Compton and Jones worked together at Albuquerque’s National Dance Institute where Duran took classes and Hunter worked with Illumine as a modern dance instructor. They’ve been collaborating off and on since then, and the CCA program was a chance to put a new name on it.

“The invitation to do this performance generated the group,” says Hunter. “The last group sort of dissolved, and this was an opportunity to try again in a different way. We totally reformed.” Hence the moniker Uroboros, a reference to the Ancient Egyptian icon of a serpent consuming its own tail, called ouroboros. The symbol represents introspection and eternal regeneration. Just as a dance lives and dies in a series of moments, so the group plans to endlessly resurrect itself through different projects and collaborations.

“It’s a true collective of dancers, sharing responsibility and leadership,” says Duran. “We’re learning how challenging and beautiful that can be.” Compton offered up her warehouse residence off Airport Road as an early rehearsal space for the CCA performance, and they dove straight into the collaboration. They met twice a week for four weeks, each dancer generating ideas inspired by O’Bryan’s work. “It’s a lot of investigating and curiosity and digging and figuring out,” says Compton. “A lot of stuff we think of isn’t going to be what we show. That’s part of the process to get to the end, and we have to do the work to get there.”

Compton’s warehouse was just big enough to fit the foursome with their arms stretched out. Now that they’re in CCA’s Muñoz Waxman space, the dance can significantly expand in volume. The artists wind around O’Bryan’s plaster cone sculptures and between long white palettes covered in small ink-and-tea residue drawings. For now, members of Uroboros watch and repeat each other’s movements, mimicking the forms and lines of the artworks around them.

Two weeks and a few rehearsals after their first on-site meeting, the group has added sound to their performance. O’Bryan practices a Tibetan breathing and meditation technique called tonglen when she’s creating some of her work. Two diminutive sheets of rice paper near the

Dance meets visual art at Saturday’s performance from new dance collective, Uroboros.

front of the show bear over 44,000 graphite strokes, each mark corresponding with a single breath. A few walls away, a pair of large drawings represents a similarly grueling process: O’Bryan captures the minute topography of New Mexico by draping enormous sheets of paper across the earth and rubbing them with sticks of graphite.

The dancers chant one through ten, pacing through the space in a line. When they reach 20, they stop, spin, and then drop to a sitting position. Scooting across the floor, they start their count again.

O’Bryan’s rigorous practice has manifested in the sounds and gestures of the group.

“We’re trying to create a new paradigm,” says Duran. “We’re changing it from being a choreographer instructing dancers, to everyone feeling like they have an equal voice. In other forms, you can almost become a puppet for the choreographer.”

For Jones, the concept represents a personal revolution. “Modern dance is a

totally different animal for me,” she says.

“I’m so used to the rigor, the structure, and being told what to do. I’m like, ‘You don’t want me to be perfectly square? You don’t want me to be perfectly open?’ It’s almost more of an inherent feeling of the movement versus a learned feeling of the movement.”

The group still has one rehearsal left before Saturday’s performance, and there’s no telling exactly what the completed movement will look like. The final product is sure to coalesce as naturally as a chorus of breaths.

UROBOROS IN RESPONSE: MAPPING RESONANCE 6:30 pm Saturday March 4. $15-$18.

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Fortyish, straight, white dude here. I have this weird (possibly misogynistic) belief that, when it comes to sex, I can’t win. Actually, I think men in general can’t win. Thoughtful, well-meaning men at least. It comes down to this: During sex, if the man doesn’t come, it’s the man’s fault, because he clearly has problems with his dick and is barely even a man and should be ashamed of himself. If the woman doesn’t come, it’s also the man’s fault, because he’s clearly bad at sex and doesn’t even care and is barely even a man and should be ashamed of himself. So am I a misogynist or just a guy with issues? Any advice for me moving forward?

Yeah, I Got Issues If you’ve been with women who blamed you when you didn’t come, YIGI, and then turned around and blamed you when they didn’t come, well, that had to be annoying. Or maybe you’re referring to something in the ether and not to any inability-to-climax/inability-to-induce-climax shaming you’ve actually come in for. (Have you been with women who shamed you like this? If so, and again, that had to be annoying. Have you been with any women at all? If not, it’s possible your letter is an MRA setup and/or you’re a misogynist with issues.)

If this has actually happened to you, YIGI, chalk it up to “some people are awful, women are people, some women are awful” and let it go. And remember this about men: Sometimes we come during sex, sometimes we don’t, the number of times we don’t increases with age. Focus more on intimacy, connection, and mutual pleasure, YIGI, and less on spooging all over everything—and seek partners with the same focus.

As for women: You do know that dick alone isn’t gonna do it for most women, right? Only a small percentage of women can come from PIV intercourse alone. (If you didn’t know, you know now, and you’re welcome.) And you’re familiar with the clitoris, right? (If you weren’t, google it, and you’re welcome.) But if you find yourself in bed with a woman and you’re having difficultly helping her come (you’re there to help not make), ask her if she can make herself come. If she can’t, odds are you won’t be able to help her come, either—not you, not anyone else. If she can make herself come, ask her to masturbate to climax while you watch.

Make a close study of what works for her. If she touches herself in a certain way, learn to touch her in that way. If she busts out a vibrator, use that vibrator before, during, and after PIV or instead of PIV. Good luck.

I’m a fan from way back. A therapist told me to go out and have some fun—I’m a married woman with teen boys and feeling a bit lonely—but I’m not looking to have an affair.

I just want a spanking now and then. I found the one kink club I visited in New York to be kind of depressing, and my spanking friends are more of a social group who hang out on the weekends. I just need a little recreation— some good, clean spanking fun. Would love your advice.

-Seeks Paddling And Needs Know-How Kink enthusiasts, like dentists and accountants and troglodytes (hey there, CPAC), have conventions, SPANK, where like-minded/employed/aroused folks meet and socialize before heading up to their hotel rooms for some good, clean kinky fun. I think you should get your ass to one of the many spanking conventions out there—and so does Jillian Keenan, journalist and author of Sex with Shakespeare, a memoir about your shared kink (spanking) and how Shakespeare’s plays helped Keenan discover and accept herself, as

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a human being and as a kinkster. (It sounds like a stretch, I realize, but do yourself a favor and read Sex with Shakespeare—it’s a funny, moving read, and it’s packed with fresh and convincing kinky reads on Shakespeare’s plays.)

“National parties are a great way to get safe, fun, no-sex spankings and meet other people in the scene in a low-pressure environment,” said Keenan, who sent along a list of events all over the country: Shadow Lane (Las Vegas), Boardwalk Badness Weekend (Atlantic City), Crimson Moon (Chicago), Spanking Club of New York (New York City), Texas All State Spanking Party (Dallas), and Lone Star Spanking Party (Houston).

“There are some parties I’ve chosen not to attend for political reasons,” said Keenan.

“The spanking community isn’t immune to heteronormative bullshit, unfortunately, and some parties explicitly prohibit M/m play.

Any party for sexual minorities that prohibits expressions of other minority sexual identities doesn’t deserve our time or our money!”

Someone asked me to pee on them and offered to pay me. I didn’t know what to do.

They weren’t unattractive. Would you pee on someone for money?

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I’m a straight man who was recently dumped over text by a woman after we dated for about four months. I thought we were in love, but she said she doesn’t have room for a relationship in her life right now. I know this is BS. I think she dumped me so that she could sleep with another guy. In fact, I think I know who the guy is. Anyways, I recently had some rebound sex (it was awesome), and the whole time during it, all I could think about was my ex-girl sleeping with this other guy, and it kind of turned me on. Am I weird?

-Moving On, Remembering Ex When you say you know “this is BS,” MORE, I trust you’re referring to the text she sent when she dumped you—“I don’t have room for a relationship right now”—because that is definitely bullshit. People say that to be kind, and it’s our job to hear what they’re really saying: “I’m not interested in being in a relationship with you, right now or ever.” But if what you mean by “this is BS” is that she loves you too but had to call it off to go fuck some other guy and you still might have a shot with her, please disabuse yourself of that belief.

Now, in answer to your question, MORE, you’re not weird. I don’t think your reaction is typical, but variance is the norm when it comes to human sexuality. It’s high time we all embraced this bit of cognitive dissonance: Everyone is weird, so no one is weird.

If you and your ex are still speaking/ texting, and you think you may be on potential future-FWB terms, MORE, you could go for broke and tell her about your weird-butnot-weird (and unexpected) reaction to the thought of her with this other guy. If your convos gravitate toward sex or sexy memories— mutually—let her know you’re up for either a FWB/MMF threesome sometime or some cuckolding-themed dirty texting. She may be game, she may not be—but nothing ventured, nothing gained.

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TROMBONE SHORTY AND ORLEANS AVENUE Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Jazz, rock, funk and hip-hop from this New Orleansbased ensemble may have you feeling those recent Mardi Gras vibes.

7:30 pm, $39-$49

THEATER DAVID IVES SHORT PLAYS Greer Garson Theatre at Santa Fe University of Art and Design 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 473-6439 Christina Duarte directs these plays by the acclaimed comedic playwright, who has written more than 30 one-acts.

7 pm, $5-$15 ENFRASCADA Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 This play by Tanya Saracho is ensemble-directed by the cast. It tells the timeless tale of a woman scorned and explores the boundaries of friendship and the dangers of obsession in the lives of three Hispanic women.

7:30 pm, $20 UNNECESSARY FARCE Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Two cops. Three crooks.

Eight doors. See what happens in the comedy by Paul Slade Smith that makes the audience think about corruption in politics and what can happen when power goes unchecked. Sound a bit familiar? We aren’t surprised.

7:30 pm, $15-$25

SAT/4 ART OPENINGS KATHRYN NUN AND MELINDA BON'EWELL: A WALK ON THE WILD Cowgirl Red 2865 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 474-0344 This two-person exhibit features brightly colored equine paintings by Nun and mixed media works by Bon'ewell in the gallery south of town (with cowboy boots, too).

4 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES ART & ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE OUTER HEBRIDES Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 An artist and an archaeologist collaborated on a remote and uninhabited island in Scotland to examine the impacts of climate change on endangered coastal sites and the present their findings in this lecture.

1 pm, free

DANIELLE LOUISE REDDICK & EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Fashion Outlets of Santa Fe 8380 Cerrillos Road, 474-4000 Find the Grottesco Rehearsal Hall in suite 404 to listen in on this conversation between Hall and Weiderholt, who discuss their careers as an actor and dancer, respectively.

2:30 pm, free DAVID-ALEXANDER HUBBARD SLOAN: IAIA AIR OPEN STUDIO AND TALK Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Sloan—a painter, printmaker and jeweler—speaks about his process and opens his studio to the public for the afternoon (see SFR Picks, page 19).

Noon, free DEVELOPMENT WITHOUT DISPLACEMENT SYMPOSIUM Genoveva Chavez Community Center 3221 W Rodeo Road, 955-4000 Hosted by Chainbreaker Collective, this symposium educates the community about the resident’s bill of rights, passed 18 months ago.

8 pm, $15 SHANNON ESSA: HOW TO BE A MODERN VAGABOND IN EUROPE Travel Bug Coffee Shop 839 Paseo de Peralta, 992-0418 Essa has mastered the art of moving around, and she covers living out of a suitcase and eating on a budget in this lecture.

5 pm, free WILD SPIRIT WOLF SANCTUARY Santa Fe Public Library Southside Branch 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 The sanctuary brings an ambassador wolf to this educational lecture about behavior, habits and myths.

1:30 pm, free

DANCE FEATHERICCI: LET'S DANCE Dragon Rising Studio 1512 Pacheco St, Ste. C101, 428-0276 Explore movement and blow off some steam while jiving to electronica tunes by Feathericci.

2:30 pm, $10-$15 SPRING INTO MOTION: NDI WINTER PERFORMANCE National Dance Institute New Mexico Dance Barns 1410 Alto St., 983-7646 They perform Charleston, a Jerome Robbins piece and a new production of the Russian fairy tale, Firebird, directed by Allegra Lillard.

7 pm, $5-$15

UROBOROS: IN RESPONSE Center for Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338 This local dance group created a site-specific improvisational score drawing inspiration from Jill O’Bryan’s Mapping Resonance (see A&C, page 25).

6:30 pm, $18

EVENTS SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET Railyard Park Cerrillos Road and Guadalupe St., 982-3373 See works by local artists.

8 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC CODY CANADA AND THE DEPARTED The Bridge @ SF Brewing Co. 37 Fire Place, 424-3333 Country rock.

8 pm, $15 CORO DE CAMARA Unitarian Universalist Congregation 107 W Barcelona Road, 982-0439 This chamber chorus group performs a concert of highlights from acclaimed musical Les Misérables.

7 pm, $10-$20 DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Piano classics.

6 pm, free HALF BROKE HORSES Ski Santa Fe Hwy. 475, 982-4429 Ski, board or walk to Totemoffs Bar & Grill on the ski mountain for this live Americana performance.

11 am, free JERRY FENN Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Soothe your soul with piano tunes.

8 pm, free JIMMY WEBB: THE GLEN CAMPBELL YEARS Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Songwriter Webb has worked with countless musical greats, including Glen Campbell and this evening highlights recordings from their partnership.

7:30 pm, $20-$55 SHANE WALLIN Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Folky originals.

3 pm, free SIRSY Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Rock, pop and soul.

8:30 pm, free SO SOPHISTICATED WITH DJ 12 TRIBE Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Rap, hip-hop and R&B. 9 pm, $7

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STANLIE KEE AND STEP IN Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Blues.

1 pm, free SUGAR STILL: GO Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 989-3278 Gypsy folk originals at the release party.

5 pm, free TAOS CHAMBER MUSIC: MIDDLE GROUND Harwood Museum of Art 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 Music from the middle register featuring Brahms' Two Songs for mezzo-soprano, viola and piano and more.

5:30 pm, $12-$25 THE BARBWIRES Second Street Brewery (Original) 1814 Second St., 982-3030 Blues rock.

6 pm, free THE JAKES Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Southern rock.

8 pm, free TRASH DISCO WITH DJ OONA Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Electronica and house music.

9 pm, $7

THEATER DAVID IVES SHORT PLAYS Greer Garson Theatre at Santa Fe University of Art and Design 1600 St. Michael's Drive, 473-6439 Christina Duarte directs these plays by the acclaimed comedic playwright who has written more than 30 one-acts.

7 pm, $5-$15 ENFRASCADA GALA PERFORMANCE AND RECEPTION Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 Witness a story of love and loss in this comedy written by Tanya Saracho. This special evening includes a celebratory gala.

7:30 pm, $25 UNNECESSARY FARCE Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 This comedy by Paul Slade Smith makes the audience think about politics.

7:30 pm, $15-$25

SUN/5 ART OPENINGS KIP WALKER: BEYOND THE CAPTURED IMAGE Santa Fe Library Southside Branch 6599 Jaguar Drive, 955-2820 Walker explores multiple realities through layering imagery.

Through March 31.

5 pm, free

THE CALENDAR with Brian Regan

FRIEDMAN BERGMAN

Since his first appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman in 1995, comedian Brian Regan has proven a stalwart—and very funny—workhorse comic. Countless late night talk show sets, albums, specials and live shows later, he continues to be one of the funniest men in the industry, and a constantly touring one at that. Regan performs at The Lensic Performing Arts Center Thursday night (8 pm. $47.50-$52.50. 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234), so if you don’t have your tickets already, what are you even doing with your life? Trust us—it’s worth it.

(Alex De Vore) Have you noticed that everyone is, like, all about standup lately?

When I first started, stand-up was not a thing, it had not exploded. When I first wanted to be a comedian, the only clubs were in Los Angeles or New York City.

But then it exploded in the ’80s everywhere, and it became this cool thing where everyone was like, ‘Oh, let’s go to a comedy club.’ Then the novelty wore off and people became more discerning. It dried up a bit, but lately, it’s hot again. I don’t think it’s ever gonna go away—people like to laugh.

What was your worst heckling experience?

I was playing in this bar, and I’m onstage, and it was a bar that did comedy one night a week—those tend not to be policed very well; it isn’t like there are door guys who are concerned with the stand-up comedy.

It’s drunk people. So I hit the stage, and some redneck yells out ‘Bend over!’ And I said, ‘Hey, uh, no thank you. I’m here to do a stand-up show, so, uh, I’m kind of involved with that right now.’ I always tend to answer honestly—I pretend it’s a nice offer, but I’m going to pass at this time. And so he yells this every minute for my entire set. Nobody thought that maybe he should be stopped. I try to be a nice guy. There are other comedians who are a little more ascerbic, so it’s easier for them to misdirect a heckler. It’s harder for somebody like me to slam somebody and then go back to my joke about donut sprinkles.

Do you have anything else going on to supplement your comedy career?

I pretty much like the stand-up side of the equation.

I like that process of thinking of something and feeling like I’m going to be able to hop onstage and deliver it as a stand-up routine. There are so many different ways of getting content to the people, and I like that different skill sets can take advantage of different things—like, there are people who are great at podcasts, people who are great at writing, cartooning. It’s nice that people can go, ‘This over here is what works for me.’ But that doesn’t mean I don’t like to venture off and do the acting thing or be interviewed. There’s one thing I did do that’ll be coming out, a show called Loudermilk. Pete Farrely of the Farrely Brothers directed this thing for the Audience Network. It’s a 10-episode season, we’ve already shot it. And that was cool.

He saw me do a set, took me aside and the next thing you know I’m on a set.

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MARY GRAY McGEE: OF COLLAGE AND CLAY Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 Mixed media works.

2 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES JOURNEYSANTAFE: DANIEL TSO Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226 Tso speaks about anti-fracking issues and the damage fracking could cause to the Chaco area.

11 am, free

DANCE SPRING INTO MOTION: NDI WINTER PERFORMANCE National Dance Institute New Mexico Dance Barns 1410 Alto St., 983-7646 This cast includes the apprentice company and the junior company as they perform Charleston, a Jerome Robbins piece, and a new production of the Russian faith tale, Firebird, directed by Allegra Lillard.

2 pm, $5-$15

EVENTS A TASTE OF GREENHOUSE GROCERY Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 Santa Fe's newest community food co-op hosts this pop-up.

4 pm, $10-$15 LOW RIDERS, HOPPERS AND HOT RODS: CLOSING EVENT DeVargas Center 564 N Guadalupe St., 983-4671 Yeah, we’re sad to see it go too. But at least you can witness this awesome cruise of the coolest rides in New Mexico, followed by a barbecue party (see SFR Picks, page 19).

10 am-5 pm, free RAILYARD ARTISAN MARKET Santa Fe Farmers Market 1607 Paseo de Peralta, 983-4098 Peruse a variety of handmade artworks made by locals.

10 am, free ROUND MOUNTAIN AND EMILY BRANDEN: LIVE MUSIC AND VINYASA Railyard Performance Center 1611 Paseo de Peralta, 982-8309 This all-levels vinyasa class taught by Branden gets a live folk soundtrack this Sunday as Round Mountain plays.

10:30 am, $20 WILD SPIRIT WOLF SANCTUARY Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave., 955-6780 The sanctuary brings an ambassador wolf to this educational lecture.

1:30 pm, free

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FOOD S’MORE PIT POP-UP Iconik Coffee Roasters 1600 Lena St., 428-0996 Get your weekend on and start your Sunday over a fire pit, roasting s’mores.

10:30 am-noon, free

MUSIC DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Pop and standards on piano.

6 pm, free GARY GORENCE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Classic rock.

8 pm, free KEY FRANCES BAND Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 Hwy. 14, Madrid, 473-0743 Funky, rockin’ blues with a psychedelic feel.

3 pm, free TAOS CHAMBER MUSIC: MIDDLE GROUND Harwood Museum of Art 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 Music from the middle register featuring Brahms' Two Songs for mezzo-soprano, viola and piano, Leonard Bernstein's songs from Candide for viola and piano, Charles Loeffler's Quatre Poems for mezzo-soprano, viola and piano and more.

5:30 pm, $12-$25 THE CALIDORE STRING QUARTET St. Francis Auditorium 107 W Palace Ave., 982-1890 Listen as these violinists, cellists and viola players perform a repertoire of Mozart.

3 pm, free THE SANTA FE REVUE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., 982-2565 Americana.

Noon, free

THEATER ENFRASCADA Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, 424-1601 This play by Tanya Saracho tells the tale of a woman scorned and explores the boundaries of friendship.

2 pm, $12-$20 UNNECESSARY FARCE Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Two cops. Three crooks. Eight doors. See what happens next in the comedy by Paul Slade Smith.

2 pm, $15-$25

WORKSHOP CALIDORE STRING QUARTET MASTER CLASS St. Francis Auditorium 107 W Palace Ave., 982-1890 These classes feature selected students and string ensembles performing for master teachers who will impart their advice and wisdom.

10 am, free

MON/6 BOOKS/LECTURES ANCIENT SITES AND ANCIENT STORIES: WILLIAM WALKER Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 982-1200 Walker—an archaeologist and professor of anthropology at New Mexico State University—presents a lecture titled "When Clouds Are Ancestors,” which details beliefs of ancient cultures.

6 pm, $12

EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Draft Station 60 E San Francisco St., 983-6443 Bring your smartest friends along and compete against other teams for trivia knowledge victory. Nothing feels better than knowing you know more than everyone else.

7 pm, free

FILM BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL WORLD TOUR Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., 988-1234 Ignite your passion for adventure, action and travel with these amazing big-screen stories. Journey to exotic locations, paddle the wildest waters, and climb the highest peaks. This stop on the world tour is a benefit for the Santa Fe Conservation Trust.

7 pm, $18-$32

MUSIC LAURIA: CD RELEASE PARTY Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., 466-5528 This artist releases her first solo studio album, When I’m An Angel, with a multimedia event and live performance. (see SFR Picks, page 19).

7 pm, $15 COUNTRY LIPS Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 This eight-piece band from Seattle plays Americana and honky-tonk tunes about heartbreak and the backroads of the West.

9 pm, free DOUG MONTGOMERY Vanessie 427 W Water St., 982-9966 Montgomery does his piano thing playing pop tunes.

6 pm, free LADY LAMB Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 395-6369 Aly Spaltro, aka Lady Lamb, performs her original acoustic pop tunes, including ones from her newest album Tender Warriors Club, which debuted in December 2016.

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FASHION Online is great, but local is even better. There are a few plac-

es you can hit with a good chance of leaving with a new pair of jeans. If you want to stick to a budget and perhaps find a used gem:

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good pair of jeans is a necessary staple in every closet. We all need them, but a good pair isn’t easy to find—especially for ladies. Jeans can be unforgiving, and sizing in general is all over the board, which sucks extra when it comes to finding great bottoms. Good jeans can cost a small fortune, and when you do find a pair you really love, you probably can’t fit your hands in the pockets. Am I right? Yes, I am. So, here are some things to look for, and some styles to try on the next time you embark on a denim hunt.

There is no room for argument in my style book—high-waisted is the only way to go. If you want to try a high-rise pair but don’t want to commit to the all-theway-high look, try mid-rise. Finding your ideal rise is as easy as grabbing a measuring tape. Measure from the middle of the crotch seam to the place you want the top of your waistband to rest. That number is the rise you want. You can find this magic number by looking at the product description if you’re shopping online, or by good old-fashioned measuring in person.

Graze through these popular styles on your next lazy Saturday morning trolling the interwebs.

An everyday look You won’t find a better pair of high-waisted, wear-everyday jeans than Levi’s Wedgie Fit Jeans ($89.50-$158.) You need this pair right now. They’re between straightleg and skinny, and are pretty universally flattering. Prepare for a butt lift that will shock you. Yes, that is your butt and it looks good.

The Madewell Perfect Vintage Jean ($128) is a similar cut to the Wedgie Fit and comes in a few colors, plus Madewell denim is soft in a way that usually takes a lot of wear. There’s nothing more tempting than a pair of brand-new jeans that mimics a vintage pair, and you can actually put your hands in the front and back pockets.

A go-to skinny If you’re looking for a versatile fitted pant, keep two things in mind: stretch and color. The darker-hued the skinnies, the more you can do with them. Dark or black pants have a sleek feel that can be dressed up or down, so you can rock these with everything from a blazer during the workweek to an off-the-shoulder blouse on Sunday. Stretch allows for flexibility and movement in tight pants. Nobody wants to feel packed-in. Try ASOS Ridley

High Waist Skinny Jeans ($38-$49), especially in black, for a tailored but wearable pair. They’re really high-waisted and kind of a steal—plus, ASOS offers free returns, so don’t worry if you hate them.

Many ladies swear by TopShop denim because they’re cut well, so the seams fall with the natural lines of your bod. A good skinny bet from there is the MOTO Jamie Jeans ($70-$110). They come in a nice indigo and, with a good balance of 92 percent cotton and 8 percent stretch, they won’t stretch out too much.

Comfy and a little baggy Mom jeans are super-rad. I want to extra-stress this. The implications behind their title makes it easy to be skeptical, but really they’re tight in the butt and hips with relaxed legs, and loose enough to feel comfy. They sit on the line between baggy and fitted in an easy, stylish way. If it’s your first venture into the maternal jean world, try Mango relaxed cropped Mom jeans ($59.99). The cropped length will be a perfect ankle-bearing wear to break into spring, especially with the addition of a sheer pair of socks. This online shop also offers free returns.

If you, like me, are really into pants and high-waisted denim and you happen to have a few spare hundreds lying around, do yourself a favor and nab a pair of Re/done High Rise ($259-$292). You won’t need another pair for years. With plenty of shapes to choose from, Re/done jeans have appeared on supermodels on the cover of Vogue, so you really can wear them anywhere. Made from reconstructed vintage denim, they’ll break in quickly and feel like an old friend in no time.

Double Take 320 Aztec St., 989-8886 Designer options and a ton of Wranglers.

Ooh La La! Consignments 518 Old Santa Fe Trail, 820-6433 Contemporary pieces, so you may find one of the aforementioned pairs, or something like them.

Or if you’re really needing a spankin’ new pair:

Bodhi Bazaar DeVargas Center, 564 N Guadalupe St., 982-3880 They carry denim lines like Citizens of Humanity, which aren’t cheap but are real cute.

Cupcake Clothing 322 Montezuma Ave., 988-4744 Lots of skinnies and good sales mean you may luck out.

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TUE/7 DANCE ARGENTINE TANGO MILONGA El Mesón 213 Washington Ave., 983-6756 Bring your very best tango moves to this weekly dance or pick up some new ones while you’re there. Also, just so you know, there’s tapas, so, like, score.

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GEEKS WHO DRINK Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St., 988-7222 Battle others for the throne as king of knowing everything about trivia.

8 pm, free 1984: A TALK SHOW Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., 988-4262 Local scholars, artists, actors and writers come together to discuss George Orwell’s too-timely novel.

7 pm, free

DONAVON FRANKENREITER AND GRANT-LEE PHILLIPS Skylight 139 W San Francisco St., 982-0775 A folky, beach guitar vibe.

Phillips opens with bohemian rock (see Music, page 23).

8 pm, $20-$32 OTONANA TRIO Zephyr 1520 Center Drive, Ste. 2 Modern jazz, funk and Americana from Japan.

7 pm, $5-$10

FIVE course wine dinner Jose Rodriguez (La Casa Sena) Ahmed Obo (Jambo Café) Paddy Rawal (Raaga) Lane Warner (La Plazuela at La Fonda) Cristian Pontiggia (Osteria d’ Assisi)

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Proceed and Be Bold starss Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., an activist. He speaks after a screening of the film Thursday at 6 pm at the New Mexico History Museum.

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

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St., 946-1000 O’Keeffe at the University of Virginia. Through summer.

HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART 238 Ledoux St., Taos, 575-758-9826 Ken Price, Death Shrine I. Agnes Martin Gallery.

Continuum, Through May. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ART 108 Cathedral Place, 983-8900 Athena LaTocha: Inside the Forces of Nature. Through March. New Impressions: Experiments in Contemporary Native American Printmaking. Through June. Daniel McCoy: The Ceaseless Quest for Utopia.

Through Jan. 2018.

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS & CULTURE 710 Camino Lejo, 476-1250 Frank Buffalo Hyde: I-Witness Culture. Through Jan. 2018. Into the Future: Culture Power in Native American Art. MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo, 476-1200 Flamenco: From Spain to New Mexico. Through Sept.

Sacred Realm. The Morris Miniature Circus. Under Pressure. Through Dec. MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo, 982-2226 Chimayó: A Pilgrimage Through Two Centuries. The Beltran Kropp Collection. The Delgado Room.

NM HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave., 476-5019 Agnes Martin and Me. Through Aug. Lowriders, Hoppers and Hot Rods: Car Culture of Northern New Mexico. Through March.

Out of the Box: The Art of the Cigar. Through Oct.

NM MUSEUM OF ART 107 W Palace Ave., 476-5072 Alcoves 16/17. Small Wonders. Through March.

Conversations in Painting.

Through April.

PALACE OF THE GOVERNORS 105 W Palace Ave.,476-5100 Treasures of Devotion/ Tesoros de Devoción.

POEH CULTURAL CENTER AND MUSEUM 78 Cities of Gold Road, Pojoaque, 455-3334 Ashley Browning, Perspective of Perception.

The Past of the Govenors.

SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDENS 715 Camino Lejo, 471-9103 Bill Barrett: Visual Poetry.

Through March. Ojos y Manos.

WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 704 Camino Lejo, 986-4636 Eveli: Energy and Significance.

WINE

¡Pour Vida!

Say hello to our new monthly wine column— written by a real-life sommelier!

BY MARY FRANCIS CHEESEMAN

W

hen I was first approached to do a column on wine for SFR, I was flattered but skeptical.

People’s tastes are deeply ingrained, and most people know whether they want some sort of decadent epicurean experience or an easy-drinking standby. Honestly, I try to drink with good judgment but no prejudice—so I believe in both, and I hope in this column to explore the world of wine without fetishizing it.

I like to compare wine to the microbrew movement, which began in the 1970s. It was a modern offshoot of more artisanal, traditional styles of brewing native to Europe, a “return to roots”-style rebellion against large-scale corporate breweries. A few years ago, I worked in the wine department at Whole Foods, and I remembered being inspired there by unique styles of beer that offered a higher quality and a new drinking experience (even if the price point was slightly higher).

It wasn’t long before I perceived the same trends in certain wines taken to almost comical extremes.

For example, there is no parallel to single vineyard wines in the beer world; I am unaware of a beer that proudly proclaims itself the product of a single field of wheat … although I would totally drink one if there was (even if I’d kind of hate myself for it), so please let me know if that’s a thing. Eventually, I wondered why smaller-scale, limited-production styles of wines weren’t more popular, or why the shopper with an all-malt Vienna-style lager in his shopping basket wouldn’t also want to drink pre-prohibition old-vine American Zinfandel with the same level of curiosity and excitement.

While beer can be a beautiful experience, it doesn’t suit every occasion. Sometimes you want to buy a bottle of wine for your friends in a restaurant and toast with them because you haven’t seen each

other in years. Sometimes you want to bring something special to your family’s table because you’re feasting together and you need something that deeply complements the kind of food you love deeply, the kind of food you can’t find at any other table in the world. Sometimes you want to drink something from the year you were born. Maybe you’re wondering how you can pursue quality in wine without being taken advantage of, talked down to, or ripped off.

So here’s what to do if you’re first starting out: Start out drinking cheap wine (for me that’s wine around $15), but maybe don’t buy it from a grocery store. Go out of your way to get it from a small retailer, even if that means you’ll have to seek it out the way you might have to source good chocolate or good cheese. You’d be surprised at the passion behind a smaller and more eclectic selection. Wines on the shelves of a grocery store are bought based on what the majority of shoppers like to consume. But in a smaller shop, that one dolcetto on the sales floor is the one that, out of many others, really struck a chord with the wine buyer because it tasted the best.

There’s a singular intention behind it. Maybe you’ll even find an advocate in a small local business that strongly supports your tastes.

Drink wine in local restaurants, especially anywhere with owners and staff you appreciate and admire. We have such a casual luxury in Santa Fe: a surplus of men and women with talented and thoughtful palates. If I’ve trusted a restaurant to craft a meal for me, I trust it to provide me with the wine that matches it. It can get expensive, but a good restaurant will provide you with options that might end up much cheaper than ordering a succession of glasses of wine.

So, in short: Drink wine locally, but don’t get too married to the idea of local wines. The impulse that inspires locavores is noble, but historically, wine is built to export. For example, the French court cultivated wines from faraway Burgundy as the English aristocracy sipped on Bordeaux. Today the wines from both regions are totally different because the tastes that shaped them were different. From Champagne to Madeira, the process of exporting a wine can have as much of an impact on its character as the dirt where the vines are grown.

I don’t mean to imply that wine is process-driven.

But the people who drink wine have as much of an impact on the final product as the people who made it. If there isn’t a local demand for good wine, regardless of whether it is produced locally or not, then good wine will not be sold locally. The demand has to exist in order for there to be a supply.

And it will. I’m in favor of empowering people to use knowledge of their tastes to expand their horizons, until eventually everything comes full-circle.

Someday in the future, my children will rediscover the virtues (or lack thereof ) of mass-market bulk blends and roll their eyes over anyone out of touch enough to drink anything under 15.2 percent ABV.

ANSON STEVENS-BOLLEN

I am unaware of a beer that proudly proclaims itself the product of a single field of wheat.

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Get Out Review: Shattered Expectations Jordan Peele conquers the horror world

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Much of the draw of Get Out is in seeing its writer/director Jordan Peele (of legendary comedy duo Key and Peele) strike out of the genre for which he’s known. But the film proves to be far more than a simple foray into uncharted territory from a talented comic mind, and instead becomes one of the most original and well-executed horror films in generations.

A young photographer named Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) is set to visit his girlfriend’s parents for the weekend. “Do ... they know I’m black?” he asks her nervously beforehand, and we honestly believe Rose (Girls’ Allison Williams) when she answers, “They are not racist.” And at first this seems to be all well and good, though Allison’s doctor-father Dean (a brilliantly disarming Bradley Whitford) and therapist-mother Missy (a wildly discomforting Catherine Keener) seem

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a bit off, they still appear to at least be trying in that I-swear-I’m-totally-not-racist kind of way.

But something is just not right at the Armitage house. It could be Rose’s obviously sociopathic brother Jeremy (Caleb Landry Jones), a far-toochipper maid (Betty Gabriel) who stands silently smiling at all times or the ominous and terrifying groundskeeper (Marcus Henderson) who speaks like he just so totally has something to hide. Regardless, it’s creepy as hell up in there, but Chris seems to be the only one who can feel it.

Get Out shines in its metered examination of tokenism, conditioned racism and even our societal expectations. Peele neatly pulls this off with-

out ever resorting to overt explanations, however, instead allowing the actions of its characters to slowly unfold the goings-on at Rose’s spooky family home. He trusts his audience will be patient, which is a sadly lacking quality of modern filmmaking. By the time all is revealed, we share in Chris’ realization that it may be too late, but we savor the slow burn right up to the shocking truth.

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The camera moves along the ancient streets of Istanbul, following a particularly adorable orange cat. Diners at streetside cafés hand over treats.

Passersby respectfully step around her. Nearby, a clever striped fellow scales a three-story building to visit a human friend in her apartment. At an outdoor flea market across town, young and old cats alike sleep amongst the wares. The camera pans along the port and cranes up over the gorgeous Golden Horn, revealing the massive labyrinth of a city. This is Kedi, a new documentary on the street cats of Istanbul from director Ceyda Torun, and it is awe-inspiring.

We follow the seemingly ordinary lives of various cats who live throughout the sprawling Turkish metropolis on the sea. From a rather polite comrade who haunts a deli patio (but is never so rude as to go inside), a beat-up old tabby who rules her perceived turf with an iron paw, a portside puffer who keeps the mouse population under control and beyond, the brief windows into the lives of cats come together to prove one thing: Cats are beloved in Istanbul.

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cutesy aspects of felines, Kedi instead proves an inspiring treatise on the enriching aspects of animals and a satisfying glimpse into the beauty of the city itself. (ADV) Center for Contemporary Arts, NR, 80 min.

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Picture it: a bunch of mostly white mercenary types from various countries set aside their differences to journey to China in seach of black powder—a most poweful weapon that’ll basically make ’em rich, or at least help them with a cool fireworks show. Pursued by desert-dwelling maniacs, said mercenaries wind up either dead or captured by a Chinese army inhabiting the Great Wall which, as it turns out, wasn’t built to keep Mongol hordes at bay, but rather a bizarre meteor-propelled alien species of quadruped lizards that emerge every 60 years from some glowing mountain to eat everything in the world/ feed everything else in the world to their gigantic lizard queen. Yeesh.

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minutes, we see the bodies of 60s-era leaders and snapshots of Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and other modern-day victims of racist oppression.

This is painfully difficult to watch, yet riveting, especially within the juxtaposition of Baldwin’s gorgeous prose and ugly images of Klansmen, the violent police and the everyday racists.

These days they’re growing bold once more, and though I Am Not Your Negro remains timeless in its message, it is particularly needed right now. 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. (ADV) CCA Cinematheque, Violet Crown, PG-13, 95 min.

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couple seconds) who, along with his Spanish pal Tovar (Pedro Pascal of the Netflix hit series Narcos), came for the weapons but, wouldn’t you know it, has a change of heart and decides to put all of his axe-swingin’, trick-shootin’, pony-tailflappin’ war experience to good use saving the planet. Because, y’know, if the lizard aliens ever get past the wall they’ll probably just eat everyone everywhere.

From a simple CGI/action point of view, The Great Wall is exciting and enjoyable enough—full of explosions and light elements of gravity-defying kung-fu á la other works of director Yimou Zhang (Hero or House of Flying Daggers). And this would be fine if the film didn’t fall victim to tired movie missteps, such as plans devised with knowledge about the lizards Damon and company couldn’t possibly have, or the unfortunate white savior trope. Oh sure, they kind of sidestep that by giving us a whole song-and-dance about how William and Tovar are strangers in a strange land just looking for gunpowder, but c’mon—let’s call a spade a spade here.

By the time we’ve had our fill of female-led bungee jumping units and crazy-ass lizard explosions, what’s left is a pretty thin premise despite truly gorgeous sets and some midly enjoyable action sequences. Hats off especially to the character Lin Mae (Tian Jing from the upcoming Kong: Skull Island) who proves a strong female lead without a tacked-on love story. But, sadly, even she can’t save this movie from itself. (ADV) Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 103 min.

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You’d never know it was Samuel L Jackson reading the words from activist and writer James Baldwin’s unfinished work, Remember This House, in the new documentary I Am Not Your Negro, but it mostly works. The downside, of course, is that Baldwin’s emphatic and lilting voice, so brilliantly strong and effortlessly convincing, doesn’t take center stage. Still, Jackson’s reserved cadence conveys the importance of the man (as well as his observations on explosive race relations) who, during the 1960s after years living in Paris, returned to America to fight the good fight alongside his friends and fellow crusaders, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. and Medgar Evers. How inexplicably awful it must have been to watch as your friends, your loved ones, your very people were killed as they pursued simple rights that ought to be extended to all humans. As we know, these particular men never did make it to the mountaintop, but their contributions—not to mention Baldwin’s, offered through literature— were obviously vital.

With the text of Remember This House as narration, director Raoul Peck weaves footage from then and now deftly throughout the film, reminding us of the brutality black people have faced throughout all of recorded history, even more unforgivable now. In the span of mere

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Iranian director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation) hasreceived much praise for his newest movie, The Salesman, but it’s difficult to understand why.

We follow Rana and Emad Etesami (Taraneh Alidootsi and Shahab Hosseini), a young couple acting in a production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman who unknowingly rent an apartment formerly inhabited by a prostitute. Rana is attacked in their home by a man looking for its former tenant, and Emad sets out to figure out who he was and how to exact revenge. It sounds like a relatively exciting premise, but it plays out as anything but. As the plot unfolds at sub-snail speed and Emad descends further into obsession—even at the potential cost of his relationship with his wife—we can’t help but wonder why they won’t, oh, I don’t know, call the police or something.

Rana seems to be stuck in a shame spiral, not wanting her neighbors or friends to perceive her as weak, and though we might assume this has something to do with cultural translation, it mostly leads to more questions: Why wouldn’t she want support? Why won’t Emad at least try to understand her wishes rather than ignore her at every turn in his own quest for answers? Why would anyone presume to tell an attack victim how to feel? At a certain point, it isn’t even about justice so much as it’s about Emad’s misguided need to slake his revenge thirst, but even as he closes in on the attacker, the pacing is so painfully slow that we simply begin to not care.

The Salesman is currently up for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar but, and we’re just being honest here, that’s a tough pill to swallow given how boring it gets. As of this writing, Farhadi won’t be able attend the Academy Awards thanks

to our idiot prezzie, and that’s some serious bullshit. But, if we’re just talkin’ the movie itself here, most people probably won’t like it unless they’re the kind of person who pretends they like boring movies so their friends think they’re smart. (ADV) CCA Cinematheque, PG-13, 125 min.

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Here’s the thing—it’s kind of hard to not like Hidden Figures, at least insofar as it’s the simultaneous story of uncredited black women who were so awesome at their jobs that they literally made safe space flight possible, yet they were treated so poorly amidst the racist atmosphere of 1960s Virginia that we’re all kind of like, “What the hell, man?!” That said, the overall tone seems a tad breezy for the subject matter. It could be that director/screenwriter Theodore Melfi wanted to tell the story, which was based on the book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly, in a palatable fashion, but you just know that the actual story was far more intense.

We mostly follow Katherine Goble/Johnson (Taraji P Henson), a lifelong math ultra-genius who works as a human computer for the space program at NASA with dozens of other black women. Along with her close friends/fellow NASA employees Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), Katherine attempts to deduce the incredibly complex science needed to launch John Glenn into space. Of course, it’s the ’60s, and white people are basically the absolute worst, so even though Katherine can do any math that comes her way and Dorothy teaches her damn self how to program NASA’s newly-minted (and roomsized) IBM supercomputer and Mary is some kind of goddamn engineering phenom, they have to fight some pretty nasty racism on the part of people like lead engineer Paul Stafford (The Big Bang Theory’s Jim Parsons) and supervisor Vivian Mitchell (a perfectly condescending and bitchy Kirsten Dunst).

Henson’s performance exists in the sweet spot between vulnerable mother and widow and complete badass, unafraid to excel at math or to fight for her race and gender. And though Spencer and Monáe prove indispensable to the pacing and overall feel of Hidden Figures, some of the impact of the real-world achievements made by the women they portray winds up dissipated as they’re relegated to periodic bits of comic relief.

Still, it is Katherine’s story, and there’s much to enjoy here. The sting of racism cuts deep

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I Am Not Your Negro is a jarring, yet powerful and necessary, glimpse into the mind of James Baldwin during the turbulent Civil Rights era. even now, and we must never forget that these people literally had to be complete geniuses and fight their asses off to receive even a modicum of respect. Don’t be surprised if Hidden Figures becomes required viewing for students down the road at some point and, we hope, we start to get other films about the incredible people of color throughout history who perhaps didn’t get the recognition they so obviously deserved. (ADV) Violet Crown, Regal, PG-13, 127 min.

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Forget Frozen. Just let it go. And ditch your heartbreak-turned-fury over the role sexism likely played in the recent presidential election.

Instead, let your thrill for a 13-year-old Mongolian girl named Aisholpan Nurgaiv soar above the ice-covered steppes of Mongolia in The Eagle Huntress, which has to be the girlpower movie of the year. The new Sony Pictures Classics documentary, narrated by Star Wars newcomer Daisy Ridley, tells the story of the traditional hunting bond between golden eagles and men from the Kazakh, a nomadic tribe that’s been around since before the days of Genghis Khan. But more than that, it’s how this young girl breaks the glass ceiling between verdant expanses and craggy mountains.

You see, like being president of the United States, eagle hunting in Mongolia is just for men.

And, boy howdy, even if you stopped reading the subtitles for a few minutes, you’d know how the men interviewed for the film really feel about Aisholpan’s interloping on their sausage fest.

Women are weak; they don’t have the courage to hold the bird; they should stay home and make tea for the hunters.

Her father, to be congratulated on his forward thinking and bold dedication to his daughter, sees past the gender barrier. “It’s not choice,” he explains, “it’s a calling that has to be in your blood.”

And it’s in hers. Aisholpan thus shows no fear, strapping on her fur-lined hat and trotting into town on her sturdy horse, arm extended as it becomes a perch for the avian predator. The bird’s wingspan is wider than she is tall, dwarfing the ruddy-cheeked girl with each restless flap.

She pets its head as if it were a house cat, talking all the while with praise and comfort. Oh, and by the way—she had to rappel down a cliff side and

snatch the eaglet from its nest. Then months of training. No bigs.

What majestic footage: the grace of the powerful wings alighting from the edge of the mountain, the expressions on the old dudes’ faces as she earns perfect scores at the region’s annual eagle festival as the youngest competitor and the first-ever female. It is a trip for the imagination to look inside yurts and back to stone goat enclosures, across barren snowscapes and through villages with stumpy homes and smoky corridors. See too the textures of the textiles, the steam from the mouths of beasts, and the expressive faces not just of the starring eagles, but the scruffy horses and bleating lambs.

We dare you to watch impassively as father and daughter ride off together after Aisholpan passes the ultimate test of recognition for a hunter: catching a fox in the snowy mountains.

The Eagle Huntress is a great winter movie that stands to touch the coldest chambers of heart with fierce inspiration. Grab it with your talons. (Julie Ann Grimm) Violet Crown, G, subtitles, 87 min.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) I predict that you will have earned the title of Master Composter no later than March 26. Not necessarily because you will have packed your food scraps, wilted flowers, coffee grounds, and shredded newspapers in, say, a deluxe dual-chamber tumbling compost bin. But rather because you will have dealt efficiently with the rotting emotions, tattered habits, decrepit melodramas, and trivial nonsense that has accumulated; you will have worked hard to transform all that crap into metaphorical fertilizer for your future growth. Time to get started!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) The poet Rainer Maria Rilke bemoaned the fact that so many of us “squander our sorrows.” Out of self-pity or lazy self-indulgence, we wallow in memories of experiences that didn’t turn out the way we wished they would have. We paralyze ourselves with repetitions of depleting thoughts. Here’s an alternative to that approach: We could use our sadness and frustrations to transform ourselves. We could treat them as fuel to motivate our escape from what doesn’t work, to inspire our determination to rise above what demoralizes and demeans us. I mention this, Libra, because now is an excellent time to do exactly that.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) It’s a good time for you to wield your emotional intelligence with leadership and flair. The people you care about need more of your sensitive influence. Any posse or tribe you’re part of will benefit from your thoughtful intervention. So get out there and build up the group morale, Taurus. Assert your healing ideals with panache. Tamp down the insidious power of peer pressure and fashionable nonsense. You have a mandate to wake up sleepy allies and activate the dormant potential of collective efforts.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) It’s time for the Bliss Blitz—a new holiday just for you Scorpios. To celebrate it properly, get as buoyant as you dare; be greedy for euphoria; launch a sacred quest for pleasure. Ah, but here’s the big question: Can you handle this much relief and release?

Are you strong enough to open yourself to massive outbreaks of educational delight and natural highs? Some of you may not be prepared. You may prefer to remain ensconced in your protective sheath of cool cynicism. But if you think you can bear the shock of unprecedented GEMINI (May 21-June 20) If you were ever in your life exaltation and jubilation, then go ahead and risk it. going to be awarded an honorary PhD from a top univer- Experiment with the unruly happiness of the Bliss Blitz. sity, it would happen in the next few weeks. If there were SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) In his book The even a remote possibility that you would someday be Horologicon, Mark Forsyth gathered “obscure but given one of those MacArthur Fellowship “genius” necessary” words that he dug out of old dictionaries. grants, now would be the time. Likewise if you had any One of his discoveries is a perfect fit for you right now. hopes of being selected as one of “The World’s Sexiest It’s “snudge,” a verb that means to walk around with a Chameleons” or “The Fastest, Sweetest Talkers on pensive look on your face, appearing to be busy or in the Earth” or “The Planet’s Most Virtuoso Vacillators,” the midst of productive activity, when in fact you’re just moment has arrived. And even if none of those things goofing off. I recommend it for two reasons: 1. It’s happen, I’m still pretty sure that your reputation and important for your mental and physical health that you status will be on the rise. do a lot of nothing; that you bless yourself with a healing CANCER (June 21-July 22) You’re wandering into places you’ve always thought you should be wary of or skeptical about. Good for you! As long as you protect your innocence, I encourage you to keep exploring. To my delight, you have also been fantasizing about accomplishments that used to be off-limits. Again, I say: Good for you! As long as you don’t overreach, I invite you to dream boldly, even brazenly. And since you seem to be in the mood for big thinking, here are other revolutionary activities to consider: dissolving nonessential wishes; transcending shrunken expectations; escaping the boring past; busting irrelevant taboos.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) I did a good job of raising my daughter. She turned out to be a thoughtful, intelligent adult with high integrity and interesting skills. But I’m not sure my parenting would have been as effective if I’d had more kids. I discussed this issue with Nathan, a guy I know. His six offspring are all grown up, too. “How did you do it?” I asked him. “Having just one child was a challenging job for me.” “I’ll tell you my secret,” Nathan told me. “I’m a bad father. I didn’t work very hard on raising my kids. And now they never let me forget it.” In the coming weeks and months, Leo, I recommend that you pursue my approach in your chosen field, not Nathan’s. Aim for high-quality intensity rather than scattershot quantity.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) In her poem “Not Anyone Who Says,” Virgo writer Mary Oliver looks down on people who declare, “I’m going to be careful and smart in matters of love.” She disparages the passion of anyone who asserts, “I’m going to choose slowly.”

Instead she champions those who are “chosen by something invisible and powerful and uncontrollable and beautiful and possibly even unsuitable.” Here’s my response: Her preferred formula sounds glamorous and dramatic and romantic—especially the powerful and beautiful part. But in practice it rarely works out well— maybe just ten percent of the time—mostly because of the uncontrollable and unsuitable part. And now is not one of those times for you, Virgo. Be careful and smart in matters of love, and choose slowly.

supply of refreshing emptiness. 2. It’s important for your mental and physical health that you do this on the sly as much as possible; that you avoid being judged or criticized for it by others.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) I wish your breakfast cereal came in boxes decorated with Matisse and Picasso paintings. I wish songbirds would greet you each morning with sweet tunes. I wish you’d see that you have more power than you realize. I wish you knew how uniquely beautiful you are. I wish you’d get intoxicated with the small miracles that are happening all around you. I wish that when you made a bold move to improve your life, everyone greeted it with curiosity and excitement. And I wish you would let your imagination go half-wild with fascinating fantasies during this, the Capricorn wishing season.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) “You’re a different human being to everybody you meet,” says novelist Chuck Palahniuk. Now is an excellent time to contemplate the intricacies and implications of that amazing truth—and start taking better advantage of how much freedom it gives you. Say the following statements out loud and see how they feel: 1. “My identity isn’t as narrowly circumscribed as I think it is.” 2. “I know at least 200 people, so there must be at least 200 facets to my character.” 3. “I am too complicated to be completely comprehended by any one person.” 4. “Consistency is overrated.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Your immediate future is too good to be true. Or at least that’s what you, with your famous self-doubt, might be inclined to believe if I told you the truth about the favorable developments that are in the works. Therefore, I have come up with some fake anxieties to keep your worry reflex engaged so it won’t sabotage the real goodies. Beware of dirty limericks and invisible ladders and upside-down rainbows and psychic bunny rabbits. Be on guard against accountants wearing boxing gloves and clowns singing Broadway show tunes in runaway shopping carts and celebrities telling you classified secrets in your dreams.

Homework: What’s the best surprise you could give yourself right now? Testify at Freewillastrology.com.

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