Santa Fe Reporter, January 18, 2023

CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6

LEFT OUT IN THE SUN 9 City solar panels involved in complex finance plan are generating far less power than expected THE INTERFACE 8

GREEN LIGHT

Advocates hope third time’s the charm at the Legislature for the Green Amendment COVER STORY 11

DOLLARS AND STRENGTHS

Legislative preview: With the governor’s mansion and majorities in both chambers, Democrats eye policy shifts and spending priorities for record surplus SFR PICKS 17

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Cloacas celebrates, ladies take the spotlight, Artes de Cuba puts Cuban photogs on the map and The Food Depot pops up

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CATCH & RELIEF

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“IS THIS WORKING?”

ZERO SENSE

Thank you for your well-written and thoughtful article. It’s nice to read something that doesn’t appear to serve a political agenda. I’d also like to point out that it costs the state zero additional dollars for me to work from home, regardless of the cost to lease the office space I don’t use when teleworking. I have also never had a public-facing job in the 22-plus years I’ve worked in IT for DOH so the “customer service” aspect doesn’t really apply to my job duties.

BRIAN REMPEL SANTA FE

indoor soccer team to the Chavez Center’s ice arena without an agreement. With play starting in less than a year, it seems the city’s deal with David Fresquez, the team’s owner, isn’t far enough along to release details to the public.

Financially it doesn’t make sense to pour possibly more than $300,000 into building a removable soccer field for some six to 12 games a season; to recoup that investment, the field will have to be used more often. Turning the arena into a year-round soccer field was first floated during the city’s Fiscal Year 2021 budget discussions. This recent “collaboration” (likely never discussed at City Council meetings) is just a first step towards eliminating the only indoor ice arena between here and Rio Rancho and Albuquerque. For 23 years the arena has been the community’s sole indoor venue (public or private) for recreational skating, ice hockey and figure skating; these activities ultimately will be lost if “the collaboration” goes forward. The community’s loss of on-ice opportunities should be more important than civic pride.

And while wishing Mr. Fresquez well, public monies shouldn’t be spent on a private entertainment enterprise.

DICK GOLDSMITH SANTA FE

NEWS, JAN. 4: “BALLS TO THE WALL”

LEADING TO LOSS

The story illuminates how Mayor [Alan] Webber already is welcoming a professional

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BLOOD, WHAT BLOOD?

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FILM COMPANY SUES INSURANCE COMPANY AFTER $60 MILLION JURY AWARD FOR INJURED WORKER

Black Label Media and No Exit Film say insurers should’ve settled for $9 million; how about don’t force the guy into a dangerous situation in the first place?

2023 LEGISLATIVE SESSION KICKS OFF

Our legislators may not be paid, but nothing stops them from taking Ziploc bags to the dinners lobbyists host for them.

CITY COUNCIL SCHEDULES SPECIAL MEETING FOR SATURDAY TO DISCUSS OLD PECOS TRAIL DEVELOPMENT

Now people who have jobs can show up and talk about it.

SANTA FE DATA PLATFORM SAYS NEED FOR BILINGUAL EDUCATION IS RISING

Well, duh.

BOXCAR RESTAURANT AND NIGHTCLUB AT ODDS WITH LANDLORD

If there’s one thing Santa Fe doesn’t need, it’s fewer options for things to do at night.

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SANTA FE PREP STUDENT WINS COUNTY SPELLING BEE

Just don’t get too caught up in the glory of the bee, kid.

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NOT SO FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

The deep-pocketed arts company posted a fun FAQ; we respond with some pointier inquiries.

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Green Light

BY JULIA GOLDBERG @votergirl

When The New Yorker magazine began serializing Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring in 1962, her “fable for tomorrow” struck a deep chord in the American psyche. She wrote of “a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to be in harmony with its surroundings” until one spring when “a strange blight crept over the area, and everything began to change. Some evil spell had settled on the community; mysterious maladies swept the flocks of chickens, and the cattle and sheep sickened and died. Everywhere was the shadow of death.” Moreover: “No witchcraft, no enemy action had snuffed out life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.”

Carson’s fable served as introduction to her painstaking research on synthetic pesticides, DDT in particular. Silent Spring ultimately sold millions of copies and, as the New York Times wrote on the book’s 50th anniversary, influenced “the environmental movement as no one had since the 19th century’s most celebrated hermit, Henry David Thoreau, wrote about Walden Pond.”

Actor Mark Ruffalo references Silent Spring in his forward to Maya K. van Rossum’s book The Green Amendment: The People’s Fight for a Clean, Safe, and Healthy Environment. While important environmental milestones followed Silent Spring’s publication—such as passage of the Clean Air Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency—“any honest accounting of where we are as a country must acknowledge that what has been won is woefully insufficient, that in the broader war to prevent the poisoning of the world, we are losing badly,” Ruffalo writes. He has no shortage of examples (Flint, Michigan’s contaminated water

system being perhaps the most well-known), and convincingly concludes “existing laws have clearly failed us. They are neither strong enough nor serious enough to protect what matters most.”

A new strategy is needed, he writes, and van Rossum’s book “has the power to spark a new movement, just as Rachel Carson’s did so many years ago.”

New Mexico lawmakers, environmental activists and van Rossum herself will try—for the third time—to pass legislation during the session kicking off this week that would allow New Mexicans next year to vote on a constitutional amendment guaranteeing their environmental rights (nmgreenamendment.org). Specifically, New Mexico’s Green Amendment would repeal the state’s pollution control provisions and add a new section to Article 2 guaranteeing New Mexicans’ “right to clean and healthy air, water, soil and environments, a stable climate and self-sustaining ecosystems” and directing state, county and municipal governments “to serve as trustees” of New Mexico’s natural environments.

Green Amendments exist in Pennsylvania, Montana and New York, and are being advanced in Florida, Delaware, Washington, New Jersey, Hawaii, Iowa and Maine. The nonprofit Green Amendments for the

Generations (forthegenerations.org), founded by van Rossum, is working to pass Green Amendments across the country and, ultimately, at the federal level.

Given the comparison between her book Silent Spring, I asked van Rossum what she sees as a key difference between 2023 and 1962 in terms of effective environmental

She said regardless of whether one looked at the ‘60s or any decade right up to present time, “the way our laws work in New Mexico and nationwide is they really do presume pollution and degradation, and then figure out how much they’re going to allow through permits. They don’t start from the premise that clean water, clean air, a healthy environment, stable climate are actually fundamental rights of people.”

Federal laws from the 1970s, such as the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act, helped “ratchet down” pollution, van Rossum, a lawyer notes, “but then what happened is we didn’t advance the laws any further. We didn’t recognize that, ‘OK, we’ve made progress. Now, how do we ratchet up protection so that it increases over time?’”

The approach the Green Amendment takes appealed to sponsor state Sen. Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, D-Albuquerque, also a lawyer and former law professor.

“When I first I heard about this, I thought, ‘Oh, joy, just what we need is another constitutional amendment that will be ignored,” Sedillo Lopez tells SFR. But then she read van Rossum’s book and, subsequently, every case involving a Green Amendment. “And I’ve just been so impressed with what people have been able to do using it,” she says,

citing a recent case in Rochester, New York in which that state’s recently passed Green Amendment allowed opponents to successfully (so far) sue for protective measures involving a landfill in the area.

In New Mexico, Sedillo Lopez says water is her top priority when it comes to passing a Green Amendment. “We are not going to have enough water and we’re not going to have enough clean water,” she says. “And so the decisions that the state makes about water in the future are just going to be really important.”

The bill’s sponsor on the House side, state Rep. Joanne Ferrary, D-Las Cruces, referenced the battle environmental groups and residents in Chaparral, New Mexico undertook to fight off El Paso Electric’s new fossil fuel power plant construction in 2021, and how helpful a Green Amendment would have been at that time (the groups ultimately settled with the company). “A lot of kids and people in that area have asthma from [the existing plant], and they came out to object and were telling their stories, that their health had been sacrificed,” she says. “Just think what could have happened if we’d had [a Green Amendment].”

A Green Amendment is useful across a spectrum of environmental issues, van Rossum explains: “Usually, when you achieve a legal or regulatory success, it’s around one issue in a limited context. But the beauty of the Green Amendment is…we’re going to address all of these issues. We’re going to lift all boats. We’re going to be ensuring that all communities are protected equitably.”

The proposed language for the constitutional amendment, in fact, directs the state to protect environmental rights across gender, race and geography.

“We talk a lot about the importance of a green amendment for environmental justice communities and to address environmental sacrifice zones,” van Rossum says. “Too many Indigenous communities in the state of New Mexico are really suffering because the laws are allowing them to be sacrificed to pollution and degradation.”

Advocates also dismiss critics who say the Green Amendment will lead to frivolous and increased litigation. None of the states with these laws have seen an uptick in cases, van Rossum says, and “none of them have been identified or dismissed as frivolous. They’re all meaningful. So even if you did have a lot, as long as they were meaningful, that’s really what counts because it means you have a problem that needs to be fixed.”

Of course, Silent Spring had its critics too. Monsanto published a brochure in 1962 entitled “The Desolate Year,” mocking both the book and its author.

Needless to say, that brochure hasn’t aged well.

KATHERINE LEWIN

Youth climate activists stage a rally at the Roundhouse in 2020. Advocates say amending New Mexico’s constitution to enshrine residents’ environmental rights will help protect the state from threats ranging from extractive industries to nuclear pollution to climate change.

Advocates hope third time’s the charm at the Legislature for the Green Amendment

Left Out in the Sun

BY ANDREW OXFORD oxford@sfreporter.com

The first thing to know about the solar panels on top of the Santa Fe Community Convention Center is that they’re not just solar panels but also a sort of complex financial instrument. That, and they’re about to cost the city a chunk of money.

Installed about a decade ago as part of a bid to cut the city’s greenhouse gas emissions, the array and another like it at a compost facility off Airport Road have been generating far less power than anticipated, according to an assessment from city staff that found the arrays haven’t been maintained.

But while maintenance could boost the output of these solar panels, neither array belongs to the municipal government. Instead, the city has to untangle an arrangement that has left the government paying a California-based company for electricity from the arrays on city buildings at the same time the company has declined to maintain the systems it owns.

The solar arrays went up in 2012 and 2013 at a time when the city was tacking several new solar arrays onto municipal buildings, including at the Buckman Direct Diversion, Fire Station No. 3 and

the Genoveva Chavez Community Center.

For the systems at the convention center and the compost facility, the city made an arrangement with a private, San Francisco-based company, MLH Cripple Creek Solar.

The city loaned the company more than $300,000 to build the array on top of the convention center, which it agreed to repay over 20 years with 2% interest. The company would own the solar panels and reap the tax credits that come from them. The city would pay the company for power generated by the solar panels through at least 2026, getting a rate subsidized by those tax credits.

“Tax credit makes the array cheaper, which makes the power cheaper,” Public Works Director Regina Wheeler tells SFR, explaining the thinking of the time, which was before she took the job.

With the arrays, Santa Fe would take a step towards cutting carbon emissions. And as part of the deal, the company would be responsible for maintaining the equipment. But MLH Cripple Creek Solar sold off the solar arrays to a firm based in Mill Valley, California—Dissigno Holdings— around 2016.

What would that company want with a couple of solar arrays in Santa Fe? Dissigno Holdings didn’t respond to a message

from SFR. And its website doesn’t exactly spell out its interests in arrays like this one. Instead, it only describes the outfit as “a ‘slingshot’ advisory firm advancing climate ventures.”

Wheeler likens the situation to the way mortgages are bought and sold, turning these solar panels into a financial instrument that’s supposed to be attractive to investors for the revenue the arrays generate.

In this case, the revenue for investors is the money the city has contractually

agreed to pay for power generated by the solar panels.

But Wheeler tells SFR the company isn’t situated to actually maintain the arrays.

“They just kind of abandoned these arrays and [took] whatever revenue it’s generating,” she says.

There’s another wrinkle, according to city staff: The panels have not been putting out as much power as expected.

The city initially promoted the system as producing over 170,000 kilowatt-hours per year—about 11% of the convention center’s energy needs. The power would offset more than 3,675 tons of greenhouse gasses over 20 years.

In 2022, the solar panels on top of the convention center were only producing 19% of the energy anticipated. That’s about $20,000 of lost value, according to a city assessment. The solar panels on top of the compost facility were faring even worse, putting out less than 1% of the anticipated power. That’s nearly $23,000 in lost value, the city says.

City staff report in a memo to councilors that they contacted Dissigno Holdings in January 2022, asking the company to repair the systems. But the company said it could not, according to the memo. So the city stopped paying Dissigno for power from the solar arrays.

Dissigno is now offering to turn over ownership of the arrays to the city in a proposed deal that started wending through City Council committees this week. Even so, repairs are expected to cost nearly $95,000, according to city staff.

Councilor Carol Romero-Wirth, chair of the council’s Finance Committee, said Tuesday morning she was not familiar with the matter.

The memo says repairs would bring the arrays up to generating 154,000 kilowatt-hours, with an estimated value of $45,000 a year combined. Agreements for generating the power would also bring in a combined $40,000 a year in value.

The wrangling is the legacy of a convoluted deal in the push to get more of the city’s power from solar energy. But even if attractive at the time, such deals may lose their luster in the future as Mayor Alan Webber pushes for more solar energy at city facilities. The sort of tax credit that was available for building the array a decade ago wasn’t available to the city government, making it more attractive to contract with a private business. The Inflation Reduction Act passed last year, however, gives cities new financial incentives for building such solar arrays, potentially making such deals unnecessary.

Solar panels on top of the Santa Fe Community Convention Center are owned by a private company and are producing far less power than expected.

ANDREW

City solar panels involved in complex finance plan are generating far less power than expected

T hey just kind of abandoned these arrays and [took] whatever revenue it’s generating .

-Regina Wheeler, City of Santa Fe Public Works director

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DOLLARS & STRENGTHS

LEGISLATIVE PREVIEW: With the governor’s mansion and majorities in both chambers, Democrats eye policy shifts and spending priorities for record surplus

BY JEFF PROCTOR, ANDY LYMAN tips@sfreporter.com

It’s been a common refrain in recent years: New Mexico officials are looking at a budget surplus—this time around, a record $3.6 billion in “new money” for a whopping nearly $12 billion in total projected revenues—as Santa Fe prepares to host a mandated, odd-numbered-year 60-day legislative session.

The state’s swollen bank account, predicted to see 11% more revenue than the previous year, comes courtesy of increased consumer spending and an explosion in fossil fuel production, the latter of which has prompted cautionary calls from some leaders of a land that in many ways is ground zero for the ravages of climate change.

But whatever the revenue source, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, and other members of her party who enjoy majorities in both chambers of the Legislature, are prepared to flex the checkbook’s muscles to address a host of long-lingering problems.

Pay even nominal attention over the next two months to the session that began yesterday and you’ll see big bucks pouring into New Mexico’s ailing education system—particularly as the state works to comply with a court order to provide adequate learning for Native students, English language learners and other at-risk kids. The governor is certain to sign off on nine figures worth of funds to hire more cops as the state faces soaring

crime rates, driven largely by Albuquerque. Several aspects of the health care system will get financial boosts, as will programs to address homelessness and an affordable housing crisis that has hit especially hard in the capital city. And there’s no chance the session will adjourn sine die without tax reform and more rebates headed to the state’s residents.

Then, there will be the policy debates. New Mexico has a complicated relationship with oil and gas. It keeps the state financially afloat in good years, but can flatten the economy during the downswings. Lujan

Grisham is pushing for hydrogen again, so hyperbolic debates on that topic are sure to follow. The same goes for public safety. One of Lujan Grisham’s “public safety priorities,” according to a spokeswoman, is to again try to create a “rebuttable presumption” that would make it easier for prosecutors to have defendants locked up before trial. This could get tricky because key lawmakers, including House Floor Leader Gail Chasey, D-Albuquerque, and Senate Majority Leader Peter Wirth, D-Santa Fe, have reservations about making defendants prove their innocence pending trial instead of the

other way around. Abortion access will be another divisive issue, but much more along party lines. Yes, state lawmakers already did some heavy lifting to clarify abortion rights just before the dismantling of Roe v. Wade, and there’s more to come. (Read more about some of the big issues on page 12.)

Lujan Grisham offered a roadmap of what’s ahead on Tuesday when she addressed lawmakers during her State of the State speech—including her vision for the budget surplus.

“I am asking for $1 billion in economic relief—including rebates of $750 to each individual taxpayer or $1,500 to couples filing jointly—to help more New Mexicans afford the things they need right now,” she said before describing proposed tax cuts and reforms to the state tax code. “Everybody should be asked to pay their share, but nobody should face a burden that they cannot afford or limits their investments and potential.”

The governor’s speech marked the beginning of a return to normal after two years of COVID-19-driven Zoom screens and empty corridors that defined legislative sessions. Ahead of the first gavel, dozens of people lined hallways leading into both the House and Senate galleries, waiting to grab the best spots for the show.

But a different pall hung over the beginning of this year’s legislative proceedings: the arrest of a failed Republican state

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham addressed the Legislature with her State of the State speech on Tuesday.

ANDY LYMAN

The issues

would carry an additional benefit—one with a price tag attached. Changing the law would allow the Legislature to avoid a lengthy, costly legal battle with Ivey-Soto’s accuser, lobbyist Marianna Anaya, who filed a lawsuit against lawmakers alleging that the law violates her free speech rights. The case is on hold as lawmakers decide whether to choose transparency over secrecy.

Szczepanski also is looking toward future legislative sessions to create a legislative standards commission that would mimic the state’s Judicial Standards Commission, which could also use a dose of added transparency, as that body’s investigation process is shrouded in secrecy. (Andy Lyman)

BY JULIA GOLDBERG, ANDREW OXFORD, ANDY LYMAN, JEFF PROCTOR

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and the Legislature will have record revenues to spend during this year’s session. Here are some of the big-ticket items to which you can expect to see money flowing—and some of the hot topics sure to drive debate during the next two months.

Ethics Reform

The Legislature has been known to leave advocates for public transparency frustrated and scratching their heads. A bipartisan move in 2013 to exempt state lawmakers from the Inspection of Public Records Act is just one example. But, the general practice these days is to actually comply with a state law the body created.

An allegation last year that state Sen. Daniel IveySoto, D-Albuquerque, violated the Legislature’s anti-harassment policy once again brought legislative transparency to watchdogs’ attention. As things stand, it’s flat-out illegal for an accuser to talk about their allegations against a sitting lawmaker. In fact, the complainant is the only person who has to keep their mouth shut. House Democratic Whip Reena Szczepanski of Santa Fe plans to fix that.

Lawmakers last year approved changes to their own rules to make the complaint process more transparent. The next step, Szczepanski says, is to change the law that governs ethics complaints by striking “complainant” from a line in the statute that prohibits disclosure, thus killing what amounts to a gag order for accusers.

Szczepanski is “very optimistic” about getting the change through. And if her hopes turn out, and Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signs the tweak into law, it

Energy/Environment

The governor and some other Democrats last year began touting the use of natural gas for hydrogen production, often referred to as “blue hydrogen.” The big idea: Turn New Mexico into a “hydrogen hub.”

Rep. Patricia Lundstrom, a Democrat from Gallup who chairs the Legislative Finance Committee, made clear during a Jan. 11 committee meeting that hydrogen would be back this session after a divided Democratic caucus killed it last year. She told New Mexico Environment Department Secretary James Kenney to “saddle up” in preparation for another push for hydrogen.

Potential federal funding could soften some Democratic holdouts, but not all. Rep. Matthew McQueen, D-Galisteo, who chairs the House Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee, tells SFR he’s not a fan of blue hydrogen because it “perpetuates our reliance on fossil fuels and leads to increased carbon emissions.”

Democratic House Floor Leader Gail Chasey of Albuquerque says she’s aware of opposition from environmental groups, but that hydrogen “certainly has attractive outcomes.” Still, she isn’t willing to commit yet to a position on the issue.

But hydrogen could be one bit of common ground between Republicans and Democrats. House Minority Leader Ryan Lane, R-Aztec, tells SFR his caucus is ready to support anything that will “deliver affordable and reliable electricity” to the state.

“Whatever rock we need to turn over to accomplish that is what we’re interested in,” he says. “If that means hydrogen, if that means natural gas, if that means nuclear, whatever that is, the end goal should be affordable and reliable energy for our citizens.” (AL)

Abortion

Within days of the US Supreme Court’s June 24, 2022 decision reversing Roe v. Wade, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed an executive order protecting health care workers who provide abortions to people from out of state, as well as those who come to New Mexico seeking them.

The proposed Reproductive Health Care Protection Act would codify that executive order and is one of two governor-backed pieces of legislation expected this session. A fact sheet describing the bill says it will provide “crucial guidance to New Mexico state entities on how to protect patients and providers from abusive investigation and harassment from out of state entities.”

American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico staff attorney Nadia Cabrera-Mazzeo tells SFR the bill also creates a mechanism “for residents to sue public entities, corporations or nonprofits if their rights are violated under the law” and enacts “more privacy protections” that would cover, for instance, socalled “crisis pregnancy centers,” which are currently unregulated.

A second bill, the Reproductive Health Care Freedom Act, would bar public bodies from discriminating against individuals’ health care on the basis of gender. Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, several New Mexico cities have passed ordinances banning abortion.

“A concrete example of why this is necessary is because it makes it clear beyond a shadow of a doubt that the likes of the ordinances that we are seeing in these rural communities cannot stand,” Cabrera-Mazzeo says.

While the bills were not pre-filed, state Sen. Linda Lopez, D-Albuquerque, state Rep. Linda Serrato, D-Santa Fe, and several representatives from numerous advocacy groups previewed the legislation last week. In addition to supporting the two bills, the governor’s executive budget recommendation includes related items, including $10 million for a “full-spectrum reproductive health clinic in southern New Mexico,” which she announced last summer.

Much of the legislation reflects the priorities national reproductive health care policy organization Guttmacher Institute recently cited as the top ways for states to protect abortion rights and access in 2023.

A look at some of the high-profile areas lawmakers will tackle in the 56th New Mexico Legislature

Notably missing in New Mexico is a constitutional amendment, which the institute lists as “one of the strongest actions that can be taken to establish longterm protections for abortion rights and access.”

Lopez tells SFR while a constitutional amendment isn’t in the queue for this session, the approach hasn’t been ruled out: “We are going to be taking…a much more concerted [look] and…review of what is happening around the country with other legislation,” she said, noting that nothing “would…preclude us from possibly doing such legislation next year.”

As for the two bills this session, she said she anticipates “some lively debate on both measures,” but says “we are prepared and ready to move the legislation from one chamber to the other and up to the governor’s office for her signature.” (Julia Goldberg)

housing. “We’re looking at modernizing our Uniform Resident Relations Act, which is our landlord tenant law,” she says.

And Romero is eying changes to the fines and fees under New Mexico’s Mobile Home Parks Act. “Right now, we’re seeing…out-of-state investors snatching up a lot of these properties and evicting folks that live on those properties, namely, folks on fixed incomes, and a lot of our elderly populations live in these communities. So there’s not a lot of recourse for action, not only within the law, but within just being able to put things in place for these predatory behaviors.” (Andrew Oxford)

certain crimes and create a “three strikes” law.

Meanwhile, progressive legislators on the Democratic side have pre-filed or plan to introduce bills that would align elements of New Mexico’s legal system with modern approaches and behavioral science. They include ditching ticky-tack violations that send parolees back to prison; cutting the number of years for a first parole hearing for people convicted of certain crimes they committed as juveniles; and, more than likely, transparency and accountability laws for police misconduct.

In short, there’s likely to be tension among Democrats when it comes to crime, punishment and modernization in policing and incarceration. (AL, Jeff Proctor)

Cannabis

Housing

New Mexico lawmakers voted decades ago to prohibit local governments from enacting rent control. But with rents rising to absurd levels around the state, some lawmakers are considering repealing that old law to let cities decide for themselves.

State Sen. Linda Lopez and Rep. Patricia Roybal Caballero, both Albuquerque Democrats, have proposed a bill to open the door for local rent control ordinances. And some local governments seem eager for a means of taming an out-of-control market. Members of Santa Fe’s Charter Review Commission, for example, are mulling rent control as they discuss changes to city governance to put in front of voters later this year.

But while this might be the splashiest housing bill of the session, it is sure to get plenty of pushback from deep-pocketed opponents—including landlords, developers and real estate agents—with big bucks to spend on lobbyists. And don’t look for any help from Republicans.

Still, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham featured affordable housing in her inaugural address, signaling she wants to work on solutions—if not necessarily the rent control measure Lopez is pushing.

Moreover, the governor seems willing to spend money to accomplish her goals. Her proposed budget calls for putting $107 million into housing initiatives, including $25 million for rental assistance and eviction prevention as well as $10 million for home ownership down payment assistance.

Meanwhile, Rep. Andrea Romero, D-Santa Fe, is working on a “stop-gap” measure to address affordable

Public Safety/Criminal Justice

Call it criminal justice reform, call it public safety, call it tough on crime, just don’t call it something that unifies lawmakers, or even something that brings the majority party together.

For years, Republicans have played the same record with phrases like “catch and release,” “revolving door” and “career criminals” as leverage to ratchet up penalties, crack down on minor offenses and other 1980s-flavored measures—all in an effort to make New Mexicans feel like the GOP cares about keeping them safe.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham hasn’t gone quite that far, but last year she began selling the idea of shifting the burden from the state to defendants to prove whether it’s OK for them to remain free before trial. (Multiple studies have shown the shift Lujan Grisham is pushing for would not significantly reduce crime, even in Albuquerque, which has driven the state’s rates higher and higher in recent years.)

She’ll have high-placed allies for the idea, including Attorney General Raúl Torrez, who used to prosecute cases in federal court, where the proposed scheme already exists and makes it nearly impossible for defendants to go free while their cases are pending.

Passing such a law would run contrary to recent reforms to New Mexico’s bail system that Democrats—including Senate Majority Leader Peter Wirth of Santa Fe—worked hard to get in front of voters, who approved them by a wide margin.

The governor also wants to spend $100 million to help agencies around the state recruit more cops. And you can expect a slate of bills from Republicans—namely Rep. Bill Rheem, a retired Bernalillo County Sheriff’s captain—to lock up shoplifters, get rid of the statute of limitations for

We’re approaching a year since legal cannabis sales started in New Mexico and nearly two since the governor signed the Cannabis Regulation Act into law. Anyone who was hoping to never hear the words, “cannabis legislation” again is in for some disappointment, because it’s an issue lawmakers will continue to revisit.

Rep. Andrea Romero, D-Santa Fe, and House Speakerelect Javier Martínez of Albuquerque were among the primary sponsors of cannabis legalization, but with Martínez moving up in rank, weed law changes are mostly on Romero’s shoulders now. This year she plans to change the statute to put micro-producers on an even playing field with their larger counterparts. Current law specifically limits the number of plants for smaller producers to 250. Romero’s change would make that amount 10% of what larger producers are allowed.

Romero is also set to direct where tens of millions of dollars in cannabis tax revenue goes, although she says it’s too soon to offer specifics about how much of that cash gets appropriated. Instead, she says, the plan is to set up the funds this year and lay out non-binding memorials aimed at finding the best spot for that green green.

“When we talk about rectifying the wrongs of the War on Drugs, when we talk about creating equity programs that are robust in supporting industry, what that looks like, where the rubber meets the road, right now, to me is just a little too vague,” Romero says.

Is she concerned that opening the Cannabis Regulation Act might lead to unwanted changes from other lawmakers? Yes. Specifically, sections that require proof of water rights for growers.

“My concern is when it does open up, who’s going to chip away at water protections in order to take away the gains we’ve made elsewhere in cannabis?” Romero says. (AL)

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House candidate on suspicion of heading a conspiracy to fire shots at the homes of four Democratic lawmakers, Speaker of the House Javier Martínez among them. Martínez addressed the case Tuesday in remarks to reporters about what he hopes is a shift in political decorum this year: “It’s long overdue that we lower the temperature.”

With plenty to go around—for the time being—money will be a proposed solution for lots of problems this year. The state has about $3.6 billion in “new money,” or revenue beyond what was available last year. Some ideas already floating around include creating funds where that money will accrue interest, the tax rebates Lujan Grisham brought up and financing loan repayment programs.

Ambitious policy goals are right on par for Lujan Grisham’s first session since her re-election, and just as during her first four years in office, Republicans likely will be doing whatever they can to stall or even block Democrats’ legislative efforts.

No members of the Senate Republican leadership returned SFR’s request for an interview, and House Minority Leader Ryan Lane of Aztec steered clear of explaining his caucus’ strategy for either compromise or blocking bills, only saying there could be some agreement, somewhere.

“The Legislature, like much of life, is a relationship business, so that’s the thing we’ll focus on is issues where there’s common ground,” Lane says. “We’ll certainly try to work and get some good bills passed on that front. If there’s things we can’t agree upon, then of course we intend to represent the concerns across New Mexico in that.”

Republicans were disappointed last year, he adds, when a Lujan Grisham-backed crime package didn’t include signing off on keeping defendants locked up based on their charges alone. “Revolving door,” “career criminals” and “catch and release” will be common phrases when it comes to

policy prescriptions from Republicans— and even some Democrats—for crime rates across the state.

Speaking of the spike in crime, people who watch the Legislature can expect debates, dirty tricks and recriminations around whether increased penalties and other iron-fisted proposals should rule the day, in some cases rolling back hardwon reforms to the criminal justice system in a state that for generations has snubbed civil rights. On the other side of the ledger, lawmakers will offer bills to clean up New Mexico’s draconian probation, parole and youth-sentencing schemes. Accountability measures for police officers who shoot more people each year than in any other state will be on the table, too.

The governor struck a decidedly conservative tone on the legal system in her speech.

“To the lawmakers in this room: This is a tough thing to ask for...This is me, on behalf of the people of New Mexico, challenging the brightest elected officials and staff in

the country to do much, much more to ease the burden of crime being placed on far too many of us every single day in every single corner of our state,” she said, then reiterated her commitment to giving prosecutors more power in pretrial detention hearings.

New Mexicans are likely to see a handful of proposed financial boosts for the criminal justice system, too, including increased funding for prosecutors, public defenders and judges.

There will be plenty of room for Democrats to come together this year, but energy production, like some public safety proposals, will spark some disagreement within the ranks of the majority party. Specifically, Lujan Grisham and some other Democrats are pushing for a move to hydrogen production using methane—which could get New Mexico some of that sweet federal money.

Wirth, the Senate majority leader, tells SFR he’s torn on the issue because he’s got friends who work at Los Alamos National Laboratory who are “all in” on hydrogen, but he’s also for years represented constitu-

ents who have clean energy on the forefront of their minds.

“This is one of those issues that you never say never, but boy, I’ve got real reservations,” Wirth says.

On a slightly more unified front, Democrats are also expected to take action on access to safe reproductive health care through proposals that would write into law the protections of two executive orders the governor issued after the US Supreme Court’s dismantling of Roe v. Wade.

“Let’s codify abortion rights in state statute to make it the law of the land,” Lujan Grisham said to applause in the House chamber. “Your body, your autonomy and your health care choices are, in fact, your own.”

Bolstering the state’s economy is a priority most lawmakers can probably get behind, but it’s a matter of how that might bring differing opinions to the surface.

Wirth reminds SFR that while tax rebates may sound like a great idea—particularly to taxpayers—they are a one-time fix. He says his “immediate radar goes” up when he hears about such proposals.

“You don’t want to do a billion dollars in recurring tax cuts, because that’s what will come back and haunt us,” Wirth says.

Raises for public employees—namely teachers—is one way to improve the state’s public education problems and in theory give teachers more walking around money to spend, but there’s some disagreement on that front, too. The Legislative Finance Committee, for example, is pushing for a 5% pay increase for teachers in its budget proposal, whereas the governor wants a 4% increase.

Go through the two different budgets and you’ll find a list of differences on the budget, taxes and the economy; the end of the session should result in both sides getting a little of what they want, but not everything.

Newly elected Speaker of the House Javier Martínez, D-Albuquerque, thanks his caucus just before taking his new seat.

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What Locals Want

BY ANDY LYMAN andylyman@sfreporter.com

Local political junkies who tolerate—and maybe even enjoy—legislative theatrics can expect long floor debates over politically divisive issues including gun laws, hydrogen energy and how to spend a massive budget surplus as the 2023 session proceeds during the next two months. Santa Feans will also have some bragging rights—or moments of shame, depending on political views—as at least two norteño lawmakers plan on carrying legislation almost guaranteed to induce ideological squabbles that stretch into the night.

Santa Fe’s delegation holds high rank in both chambers: Senate Majority Leader Peter Wirth has long held his leadership role and Rep. Reena Szczepanski, a local freshman Democrat who represents House District 47, was promptly elected House Majority Whip by her caucus last year. That

means Szczepanski must ensure cohesiveness when it comes to floor votes, although she jokes she’s “going to teach the whole caucus the whip and nae nae dance.”

Szczepanski tells SFR she’s going to pull from her prior experience as chief of staff for former House Speaker Brian Egolf—a job that required behind-the-scenes negotiations.

“My plan is to, not unlike what I have done in previous roles, go member by member and talk to them and understand their priorities,” she explains.

But Szczepanski has her own priorities, too. She’ll be one of a handful of Democratic representatives sponsoring gun-law changes. Szczepanski says she has “a really targeted, simple approach” in the works that would raise the age to buy an “AR-platform rifle” from 18 to 21—bringing state law in line with the minimum age to purchase a semiautomatic handgun.

“What it’s going to do is just build in an extra level between a 19-year-old who’s incredibly upset and wanting to gain access to a very serious weapon, and just make it difficult and put that space so that, that firearm cannot be purchased until that person is 21,” Szczepanski says.

Rep. Andrea Romero, D-Santa Fe, whose district is just north of Szczepanski’s, says she plans to go a step further with an outright ban on “assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.” Romero tells SFR her proposal will not include any sort of grandfather clause or leeway for existing owners but will include a deadline to “basically, lawfully relinquish” firearms that fit the bill.

Romero will also spearhead cannabis-law changes this year.

There’s never a guarantee that seemingly innocuous bills will slide through, especially since the only real power Republican legislators have this session is the ability to stall the process. There’s also no guarantee that bills make it to the governor’s desk resembling their original form.

But City Different residents should expect to see health care-related bills from the likes of Rep. Christine Chandler, whose district bleeds into La Cienega, and Sen. Liz Stefanics, who represents an area that spans from Pecos in the north to Lincoln County to the south. They are both Democrats.

Chandler, who chairs the House Taxation and Revenue Committee, recently told constituents at a town hall meeting

she plans on pushing a minimum wage increase. At a separate constituent presentation, Stefanics, who heads the Senate Conservation Committee, said she will sponsor a raft of environment-related bills. Expect, also, a drug harm reduction proposal from Democratic Rep. Tara Lujan, who represents a sliver of the Southside. And Rep. Matthew McQueen, who serves the Galisteo and Lamy areas and chairs the House Energy, Environment & Natural Resources Committee, will likely sponsor some environment bills as well as legislation aimed at making the state’s capital outlay process more transparent. Just don’t expect him to jump on board the governor’s hydrogen train.

Meanwhile, City of Santa Fe officials have their eyes on some of the cash bonanza, too.

Local governments employ a small army of lobbyists to push specific projects and policies, and that includes higher-ups in Santa Fe. They’re asking state lawmakers for $10 million to improve infrastructure at the Midtown Campus and for another $2 million to remodel the Fogelson Library there so it can be turned into a new central library for the city.

The city also wants millions of dollars to improve SWAN Park, build a fire station and construct four multipurpose artificial turf fields for soccer as well as lacrosse at the Municipal Recreation Complex. City councilors are also seeking cash to fund a pickleball complex at Fort Marcy and for irrigation improvements to preserve turf and save water at the MRC, along with pedestrian and bike safety improvements on some roads.

Santa Fe County commissioners have called on lawmakers to boost funding for affordable housing, put a Green Amendment on the ballot and staff up the state Tourism Department.

SFR Staff Writer Andrew Oxford contributed to this story.

From left to right: State Rep. Andrea Romero, Santa Fe County Commissioner Anna Hansen, Rep. Tara Lujan and County Commissioner Justin Greene listen to concerns from constituents at a recent town hall meeting.

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Santa Fe-based lawmakers will likely be in the spotlight this session as they attempt to clamp down on firearms, refine cannabis rules and other priorities

WINTER LECTURE SERIES Matt Fitzsimons

Forging the Future: Navajo Silversmithing & the Art of the Resistance

January 24th, 6:00–7:00 pm

St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art $10, free for Las Golondrinas and MNMF Members

This lecture will focus on the origins of Navajo/Diné silversmithing and the ration-token counterfeiting operation at Bosque Redondo. The hero of this story, Herrero Delgadito, originally learned to work iron from a Hispano blacksmith in Cebolleta (now Seboyeta). The skills Delgadito learned in Cebolleta not only led to a new art form, but would provide thousands of extra rations for starving families imprisoned by the U.S. Army at Bosque Redondo.

Purchase tickets in advance at golondrinas.org. Tickets $10; free for Las Golondrinas and Museum Foundation Members with proof of membership.

To Protect the Earth

Artistic Director Aaron Howe has chosen songs from around the world in praise of and gratitude for Mother Earth, the planet we are privileged to call home. But we must remember, whatever we do to the web of life, we do to ourselves. Native American Saying: “We do not inherit the planet from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”

Featuring Guest Soloist Tasha Booth

January 21 & 22, 2023 @ 3:00PM

First Presbyterian Church, Santa Fe

Tickets: General Admission Adult $25, Child/ Student (under 12) $10. Tickets can be purchased & more information found at www.TheZiaSingers.com

Concert Sponsor-in-Part: We Do Windows

The Zia Singers, under the Artistic Direction of Aaron Howe present

HEY, LADIES

In New Mexico, names such as Georgia O’Keeffe and Nina Otero-Warren are well-known and mentioned often. Like it or not, they’re some of the people who shaped culture as we know it around here. The lesser-known ladies who shaped our territory, however, aren’t elicited nearly as much, but an upcoming talk at the New Mexico History Museum through the School for Advanced Research aims to shine a light on their contributions. This Thursday, find Saint Louis University associate history professor Flannery Burke in conversation with Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez, associate professor of English and an associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion for the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University. Together, they’ll touch on some of the women who made our state what it is. Our guess is that you leave uplifted. (ADV)

Women of the Lost Territory: 7 pm Thursday, Jan. 19 $15 (free for SAR members). New Mexico History Museum, 113 Lincoln Ave., (505) 475-5100

ART OPENING FRI/20

ISLAND IMAGERY

When thinking of Cuba’s cultural exports, photography likely isn’t the first medium to come to mind. Artes de Cuba co-director (and native Cubano) Stuart Ashman aims to correct that blind spot. “Cuba has been a center of photographic activity since the middle of the 19th century,” he notes. “By 1910, Havana had more photography studios than Paris and New York combined.” The nine artists showcased in Foto Cuba utilize the form to drastically different effect, from the tactile archival experimentations of Jose Manuel Fors to Jennifer Rico’s surreal and watery dreamscapes. Taken together, they present a multifaceted view of an island nation too often seen through a limited lens. (Siena Sofia Bergt)

Foto Cuba (opening): 4:30-7 pm, Friday, Jan. 20. Free Artes de Cuba, 1700 A Lena St., (505) 303-3138

FOOD TUE/24

FILL UP

Santa Feans who don’t particularly need assistance might not know that our local food bank, The Food Depot, is easily one of the best in the country, both in terms of impact and community engagement. Whatever their reasons, our citizens deserve to eat—food should be a human right. Of course, it’s not always that simple, but there is help. This Tuesday, find The Food Depot going mobile at the Santa Fe Public Library’s Southside branch. It’s a monthly affair to help Santa Feans, and though the outpost offering only runs a brief 90 minutes, it helps locals from going hungry on the regular. You can always donate to The Food Depot, too, at thefooddepot.org. Just remember a few bucks goes much further than those old canned pears you don’t want to eat. (ADV)

Food Depot Mobile Food Pantry: 10-11:30 am Tuesday, Jan. 24. Free. Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, (505) 955-2820

MUSIC SAT/21

Foxy

Santa Fe’s Cloacas celebrates its third full-length record with anniversary show

How on Earth does one begin to classify Santa Fe act Cloacas? On the one hand, the band pulls from elements of New Orleans big band, Americana, bluegrass, folk and even soul—on the other, even vocalist and clarinetist Lenore Gusch isn’t quite sure how to label what’s going down.

“Many have tried,” she tells SFR, “but hell if I know!”

What Gusch does know is that the band is clicking perhaps like never before. This is evident on Year of the Fox , Cloacas’ third full-length release and their most cohesive work to date. Fox was actually recorded all the way back in 2018 but, according to Gusch, the band kept, “hitting...roadblocks that kept pushing the release back.” This included dark times of separation during the pandemic, which, according to Gusch, gave Cloacas members the space to miss the music and each other.

As such, it actually wasn’t until roughly a year ago that Cloacas’ latest opus hit listeners’ ears. The wait, however, was worth it. This, folks, is maturation. Gusch describes the band’s songwriting process as, “beautiful and synchronous,” the

kinds of jams that are born of group improvisation over many iterations.

“It’s such a cliché,” she continues, “but I really do feel like our songs come from somewhere else.”

Wherever they come from, the tunes on Fox feel almost score-like, like mini stories captured across musical movements that wend through dark and emotive worlds and back again. Track “River Climber,” for example, cuts through soft introspective moments and a haunting bit of singing saw, and “The Widow and the Weaver” adopts an almost medieval jaunty flair between more dissonant clarinet sections. Album closer “Olympus” might be the true banger, though, with its slow trudge to wistful scatting and then full-band caterwauling.

“We have quite a bit of unrecorded material already,” Gusch says of the future. “I wouldn’t be surprised if we end up in the studio before too long.” (Alex De Vore)

CLOACAS ALBUM

ANNIVERSARY SHOW

8 pm Saturday, Jan. 21. Free Second Street Brewery (Rufina) 2920 Rufina St. (505) 954-1068

THE CALENDAR

DIANNA SHOMAKER: A RETROSPECTIVE

Placitas Community Library

453 Hwy. 165, Placitas (505) 867-3355

Abstract and figurative paintings ranging from oils to encaustics. 10 am-5 pm, Weds, Thurs, Sat; 10 am-7 pm, Tues; 1-4 pm, Sun, free

ENCHANTED LAND

Cafe Pasqual’s Gallery 103 E Water St., Second Floor (505) 983-9340

Carved figures, photos, watercolors and more.

10 am-5 pm, free

FRAGMENTS JURIED EXHIBITION

Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road (505) 780-5403

ONGOING

ART

9TH ANNUAL GUADALUPE GROUP ART SHOW

Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery 222 Delgado St. (928) 308-0319

‘Tis the Season for the gallery’s multi-media exhibit of all things Guadalupe.  11 am-6 pm, Mon-Sat, free

ANDREW FISHER:

ILLUMINATIONS

LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250

Fisher’s gilded tapestries masterfully merge bold, geometric designs with a delicate rhythmic touch.

10 am-6 pm, Mon-Fri; 10 am-5 pm, Sat, free

ART FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS ALIKE

Aurelia Gallery 414 Canyon Road (505) 501-2915

Exploring ambiguity in the creative process through works straddling the line between seriousness and whimsy.

11 am-5 pm, Mon-Fri; Noon-5 pm, Sat-Sun, free

CALL FOR ENTRY:

EPHEMERALITY

Online

bit.ly/3wbylli

Submit up to six pieces exploring the concept of ephemerality for a chance to be included in Strata Gallery’s April juried exhibition—and maybe even win a cash prize.  $35-$65

Forty-one artists from 16 states present takes on fragmentation.  10 am-5 pm, free

INTERPLAY

SITE Santa Fe

1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

Immersive, interactive digital art by Robert Rauschenberg and others.

10 am-5 pm, Thurs-Mon, free

INTRODUCING: GARY GOLDBERG

Hecho Gallery 129 W Palace Ave. (505) 455-6882

Mexican textiles with patterns appropriated from photographs of aging Oaxacan walls.

10 am-5 pm, Weds-Sun, free

JOAN FENICLE: DOWN TO THE BONE

Placitas Community Library 453 Hwy. 165, Placitas (505) 867-3355

Memories of a day spent exploring, rendered in acrylic media and construction materials. 10 am-5 pm, Weds, Thurs, Sat; 10 am-7 pm, Tues; 1-4 pm, Sun, free

LIVING DESERT: NEW WORK BY SEAN HUDSON

Smoke the Moon 616 Canyon Road smokethemoon.com

Local landscapes as geometric color gradients. 12-4 pm, Thurs-Sun, free

MAGIC OF THE HIGH DESERT AND MOUNTAINS

Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820

Jessi Cross presents local landscapes with a mystical touch.

10 am-8 pm, Tues-Thurs; 10 am-6 pm, Fri-Sat, free

CATEGORIES

FACES:

MICHAEL ROQUE COLLINS: BLUR

LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250

Unsettling landscapes of oil paint applied to black-and-white photographs.

10 am-6 pm, Mon-Fri; 10 am-5 pm, Sat, free

OUTRIDERS:

LEGACY OF THE BLACK COWBOY

Harwood Museum of Art 238 Ledoux St., Taos (575) 758-9826

Images of cowpunchers, cattle rustlers, drovers and bronc busters with African heritage.   11 am-5 pm, free

PRESENT | EVOKE GROUP ARTIST EXHIBITION

Evoke Contemporary 550 S. Guadalupe St. (505) 995-9902

Immense impact delivered in small packages.

10 am-5 pm, Mon-Sat, free

REGALOS

Hecho Gallery 129 W Palace Ave. (505) 455-6882

A juried show of artists living and working in New Mexico.

10 am-5 pm, Weds-Sat, free SANTA FE 2023

PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD CALL FOR ENTRIES

Online

fotoforumsantafe.com/award Share your best snaps by March 5 to win a solo exhibition.  $25-$45

SHARING THE PROCESS: HELP US TITLE THE UNTITLED

ViVO Contemporary 725 Canyon Road (505) 982-1320

Exploring the collaborative relationship between artist and audience.

10 am-5 pm, free

THE THREE OF US Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

Paintings and photographs from Marcy Snow, Lee Manning and C. A. Crossman.

10 am-8 pm, Tues-Thurs; 10 am-6 pm, Fri-Sat, free

WHO LIVE FOR A DAY AND EXPIRE

5. Gallery 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700 (505) 257-8417

Restrained and angular paintings, photographs and sculptures.

Noon-5 pm, Thurs-Sat, free

Re-envisioned borderlands journeys from Caballos de fuerza, opening at Strata Gallery this week.

COURTESY

WINTER SHOW

G2 Gallery

702 Canyon Road (505) 982-1212

Painters Tom Martinelli and Uzo Hiramatsu join forces with photographer Danae Falliers. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free

WED/18

BOOKS/LECTURES

HORTICULTURE HAPPENINGS: WINTER

LANDSCAPES

Stewart Udall Center

725 Camino Lejo (505) 983-6155

Local garden designer Michael Clark shares strategies for enlivening your garden during its dormant months.

Noon-1 pm, $15-$25

EVENTS

ALL THINGS YARN

La Farge Library

1730 Llano St., (505) 820-0292

Work on knitting and crocheting projects with other fiber-inclined folks.

5:30-7:30 pm, free

BILINGUAL BOOKS AND BABIES

Santa Fe Public Library

Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

Music improves young ones’ language acquisition.  10-10:30 am, free

OPEN MIC COMEDY

Chile Line Brewery 204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

Wayward Comedy welcomes you to the stage. Better make 'em laugh.  8-10 pm, free

TEEN LOUNGE

La Farge Library 1730 Llano St. (505) 820-0292

An after-school oasis with art supplies, laptops, board games and snacks on offer.

1:30-3:30 pm, free

WEE WEDNESDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Story time and play for the little ones. This week’s theme is the meaning of friendship.

10:30-11:30 am, free

YOUTH CHESS CLUB

Santa Fe Public Library

Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

Develop some Queen's Gambit skills to dunk on your friends.  5:45-7:45 pm, free

MUSIC

DR. HALL

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Americana, rock n' roll and great hats.  4-6 pm, free

HALF BROKE HORSES

La Reina

1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

Honky tonk and Americana.  8-10 pm, free

JJ AND THE HOOLIGANS

El Farol 808 Canyon Road (505) 983-9912

Rock, blues, Americana and sass.  7-9 pm, free R.E.S.P.E.C.T.

Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234

A tribute featuring a live band, four narrators and archival footage of Aretha Franklin.  7:30 pm, free

THU/19

BOOKS/LECTURES

DAVID SCHEINBAUM: VARANASSI

Collected Works

Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St. (505) 988-4226

The photographer discusses his work capturing India's spiritual capital.  6 pm, free

READERS HAPPY HOUR: NATALIE GOLDBERG

Santa Fe Women's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail

The author of Homeland of Haiku discusses the origins and practitioners of the poetic form. Free for Friends of the Library and Women’s Club members. 5-6:30 pm, $10

WOMEN OF THE LOST TERRITORY: NEW MEXICO WOMEN OF THE PAST AND PRESENT New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave. (505) 476-5100

Discussing women in NM history—both the famous and the overlooked. Free for SAR members. (See SFR Picks, page 17) 7 pm, $0-$15

EVENTS

AFTERHOURS AT CMB

CrashMurderBusiness 312 Montezuma Ave. cmbcoffeeshop.com

Calling all secret wordsmiths to share their work. Password: kettle of raptors  7 pm, free

ALL FIERCE COMEDY SHOW

Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

Eeeee, Carlos Medina? He's all funny.  7 pm, $10-$30

CHESS AND JAZZ CLUB

No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org

Chess playing and jazz listening. Open to all skill levels; chess sets and tea provided. 6-8 pm, free

DRAG BINGO

Opuntia Café 1607 Alcaldesa St., Ste. 201 (505) 780-5796

Join the Human Rights Alliance for some good ol' fashioned queer bonding. Entry is free, but if you want to play, you can grab six cards for $20.

7 pm, free entry

PECHAKUCHA VOLUME 16: LOST/FOUND

SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199

Artists, architects, photographers and more discuss what it means to be lost—and how we might find ourselves again.

5:30-8 pm;

$5 suggested donation

PAJAMA STORYTIME

Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820

Cozy storytime with parenting experts. For families with children ages 5 and under.

6:30-7:30 pm, free

SEEDS AND SPROUTS

Santa Fe Children's Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Learn about hibernation and habitats with the Children's Museum.  10:30-11:30 am, free

STAND UP COMEDY SHIT SHOW

Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-3278

Ryan Rogers brings his queer comedy to town.

8 pm, free

THIRD THURSDAY: A MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO WESTERN EYE

New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072

Bring your phone to share songs that remind you of the exhibition’s desert landscapes before it closes.

5:30-7 pm, free

FOOD

SUSHI POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808

Brent Jung brings you seafood fresh off the plane.

4-8 pm, free

MUSIC

2-STEP THURSDAY

Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive (505) 983-9817

Honky-tonk and twirling.  7-10 pm, free

AARON DIEHL TRIO AND WARREN WOLF: THE MODERN JAZZ QUARTET

Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234

The trio partners with vibraphonist Warren Wolf for a fresh take on the works of The Modern Jazz Quartet. 7:30 pm, $35-$115

ALISA WEILERSTEIN, cello Three Suites for Unaccompanied Cello by J.S. Bach

Tuesday, January 31 I 7:30 pm I St. Francis Auditorium

OVERTURE SERIES Tuesday, January 31 | 5:30 pm

A dinner, immediately preceding Alisa Weilerstein’s concert, featuring prominent music historian and writer Oliver Prezant in discussion about the unique history and significance of Bach’s Suites for solo cello

All Overture Series events are ticketed and open to the public. To find out more, visit PerformanceSantaFe.org/overture-series.

MASTERCLASS SERIES with Alisa Weilerstein January 30 | 6 pm I United Church of Santa Fe Alisa is joined by students from the Santa Fe Youth Symphony Association for a public master class.

The master class is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. To find out more, call (505) 984 8759.

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Rapper, producer and promoter Chris Soveranez (aka Sove) knows a thing or two about hip-hop in New Mexico—the guy’s been making and recording it here since pretty much always. Soveranez, who runs nonprofit LLC and studio Black Diamond Productions, understands there’s a glut of talent around the state just waiting to be discovered by everyday people, and that’s part of the reason he’s helping to reignite the New Mexico HipHop Awards (5 pm Saturday, Jan. 21. $15. Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W San Francisco St., (505) 988-1234). Technically, a similar event took place back in 2011, but, Soveranez says, the upcoming iteration at the Lensic will be a classy red carpet affair packed with statewide hip-hop royalty coming together to celebrate the art form and, hopefully, taking steps to legitimize hip-hop in New Mexico. We spoke with Soveranez to learn more about the fledgling awards show. This interview has been edited for space and clarity. (Alex De Vore)

What made this the right time to kick off the New Mexico Hip-Hop awards?

I don’t know if you’ve heard about what [Albuquerque radio station] The Hustle 101.3 is doing, but they have this thing called The Thursday Throwdown, and it’s a shot for local rappers to get their music on the radio in the regular rotation—not just one time. That started this culture of trying to compete, and also recently there have been a lot of lists going around with the top artists in New Mexico. I just had the idea to make it official. The New Mexico Music Awards has a single rap category, so one thing we’re doing with this is there are 25 different categories, and five of those are voted on by the people. The other 20 are voted on by various artists, radio personalities, station owners from across the state. We wanted to throw this event for the state.

Do you think it’s sustainable moving forward?

We’ve already counted this year as successful enough to go ahead and schedule at the Lensic for next year. We’ve got the whole bottom floor sold out right

now—there are still tickets for the balcony. I do think it’s sustainable. We’re getting artists and radio station personalities from across the state, so it’s not just coming from [the organizers].

We had an event prior to the awards called Tryouts—and that was just doing tryouts to find the artists to perform at the awards—and a whole lot of people showed up to that. As an artist, I’ve done a lot of shows, and New Mexico doesn’t always like to give love, but we’re starting this culture where we’re trying to help each other. There are still the haters out there. We published our list of nominees and there was some backlash, but I do think it’s sustainable, especially once everybody realizes what kind of classy event this is. It’s at the Lensic, we’re going to have red carpets, a...photo wall for the photo ops; we’re going to have photographers out there to take people’s pictures. We’re encouraging people to dress up formal, too. It’s not required, we’re not kicking anybody out, but I know a lot of people will be showing out.

What do you wish more people knew about hip-hop in New Mexico?

For me to really answer something like that, I kind of want to change the question a little bit. I think the reason the local scene doesn’t catch on well is because people can be quite lazy about setting up shows. This isn’t every time, but at a lot of local shows, they sound horrible, the promoters are getting literally whoever to do stuff. I feel like there should be some type of group here in New Mexico that showcases the real talent, the people actually trying to make a living off music— not just ‘I went and got high at the studio, and now I’m going to go perform at the club.’ I’m sure it’s that way everywhere, but it’s oversaturated with people who are not really into hip-hop, they’re doing it for clout. It’s a lot of people who want to look cool, and that’s what hip-hop is—the ultimate cool.

I see it go differently in other kinds of music. When you’ve got a band, you need a professional sound guy or you can’t understand what’s going on. When it’s hip-hop, a DJ shows up with two speakers and an iPod and says, ‘let’s run it.’ [Black Diamond Productions has] a live sound and performance package that we do with lasers, lights, anything but smoke. I want to make New Mexico proud and show people there are talented people here. That’s one of the big things with the awards, too. It’s not necessarily to judge people, it’s more to showcase the people who are doing well.

It’s not to downplay the people who didn’t make the list, it’s to showcase the people.

It’s going to be a very tight show. And we’re a nonprofit LLC. All our donations go to the event and any profit made will go to the Boys & Girls Club of New Mexico.

with New Mexico Hip-Hop Awards co-director Chris Soveranez

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BOB MAUS

Cava Lounge, Eldorado Hotel

309 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-4455

Bluesy takes on ‘60s and ‘70s classics  6-9 pm, free

DAVID GEIST

Osteria D'Assisi

58 S Federal Place (505) 986-5858

The piano maestro performs pop, American songbook standards and more.  7-10 pm, $5

HALF BROKE HORSES

Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive (505) 983-9817

Honky tonk and Americana.  7-10 pm, free

RANDY MULKEY

Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Singer-songwriter tunes.  4-6 pm, free

WORKSHOP

GET A MAKE SANTA FE 3D

PRINTING BADGE

Make Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502

Learn the basics needed to start your first 3D print.  10 am-2 pm, $85

GET A MAKE SANTA FE

WOODSHOP BADGE

Make Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502

Learn your way around a wood shop while making a mini hat rack to take home.

10 am-2 pm, $90

YOGA FOR KIDS

La Farge Library 1730 Llano St. (505) 820-0292

Children of all ages are invited, but must be accompanied by an adult.

10:30 am, free

FRI/20

ART OPENINGS

DAVID SIMPSON | JOHN BEECH: COAST TO COAST (OPENING)

Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 554 S Guadalupe St. (505) 989-8688

Extraordinary abstract works made from ordinary materials.  1-4 pm, free

DIANNA SHOMAKER: A RETROSPECTIVE (RECEPTION)

Placitas Community Library 453 Hwy. 165, Placitas (505) 867-3355

Abstract and figurative pieces.  5-6:30 pm, free

FOTO CUBA (OPENING)

Artes de Cuba

1700A Lena St., (505) 303-3138

Nine contemporary Cuban photographers document life on the island. (See SFR Picks, page 17) 4:30-7 pm, free

GLUE PIES (OPENING)

Honeymoon Brewery 907 W Alameda St., Ste. B (505) 303-3139

Photography by Ceyhan Haksal, edited and printed by Bill Wasp. Probably the only opening in town with kombucha on tap. 6 pm, free

MARLA LIPKIN & SALLY HAYDEN VON CONTA JOINT EXHIBITION: CHASING THE LIGHT (OPENING)

El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road (505) 982-0016

Two former New Yorkers present colorful painted perspectives on the New Mexico landscape.  4-6 pm, free

THE NEW VANGUARD: EXPLORATIONS INTO THE NEW CONTEMPORARY LV (OPENING)

Keep Contemporary 142 Lincoln Ave. (505) 557-9574

A juried exhibition of international artists pushing the boundaries of genre.  5-8 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

MIGUEL TRUJILLO: NEW MEXICO’S UNKNOWN CIVIL RIGHTS HERO Online

Anthropologist Gordon Bronitsky shares stories of the Isleta Pueblo activist and advocate. Free for Historic Santa Fe Foundation members.  2 pm, $10

EVENTS

BILINGUAL BOOKS AND BABIES

La Farge Library 1730 Llano St. (505) 820-0292

Music and song expose young ones to new language sounds and improve their language acquisition.  10-10:30 am, free

CRASH KARAOKE

Chile Line Brewery 204 N Guadalupe St. (505) 982-8474

It may be true that nothing good happens after midnight, but how many places in Santa Fe let you do anything this late?  9 pm-1 am, free

FINE ART FRIDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

A hands-on exploration of leather crafts with the folks from Tandy Leather.  2-4 pm, free

NATIVE

THE CALENDAR

FILM

SING ALONG MOVE-Y NIGHT: PURPLE RAIN

Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle (505) 395-6369

Make some doves cry while singing with Prince. Followed by a dance party with DJ Kyle Gray.  8 pm, $20

FOOD

MAS CHILE POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808

Your favorite wheeled purveyor of capsaicin returns to Tumbleroot.  7-10 pm, free

MUSIC

BOB MAUS

Cava Lounge, Eldorado Hotel 309 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-4455

Blues and soul.  6-9 pm, free

DEAR DOCTOR

The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 State Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

Folk covers and originals.  5 pm, free

HONDO COYOTE

the Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 State Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

Stoner country.  8 pm, free

MADRE MEZCAL AT LA REINA

El Rey Court

1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

Live music from Esther Rose and others, specialty Madre Mezcal cocktails, branded merch—and a loteria raffle.

7:30 pm, free

ON THE RISE 4

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808

A showcase of 12 local up-and-coming acts.  8 pm, $5

ROBIN OXLEY

Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Acoustic Americana, country and blues.

4-6 pm, free

VERONICA MASCARO AND KRISTIN DITLOW

First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave. (505) 982-8544

A program of flute and piano.

5:30 pm, free

COMMUNITY FOOD

DISTRIBUTION

Santa Fe Indigenous Center

1420 Cerrillos Road (505) 660-4210

Free food, clothing and other essentials for any Santa Fe County-based Indigenous folks in need.

10 am-noon, free

THEATER

8X10S: 7 COME 11

Performing Arts Center 1670 Nectar Street, Los Alamos (505) 662-5493

Eight short plays by local playwrights spanning the genre spectrum.

7:30 pm, $15-$20 CONTINUED

THE CALENDAR

DIRTY DANCING SOUNDTRACK-THEMED

DRAG & BURLESQUE SHOW

Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

Your favorite movie soundtrack comes to sexy, gender-bending life. Proceeds benefit Wise Fool New Mexico.  9-11 pm, $20-$50

KING HENRY IV, PART I New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive (505) 466-3533

Local youngsters (ages 10-18) tackle one of the Bard's most famous histories.  6:30 pm, $20

WORKSHOP

COURAGEOUS COMPASSION

Thubten Norbu Ling Buddhist Center 130 Rabbit Road (505) 490-6152

Addressing the development of compassion which encompasses all living beings.  7-8:30 pm, free

DISMANTLING SYSTEMIC RACISM IN THE NONPROFIT SECTOR

Online bit.ly/3QLfAP4

A one-day intensive commitment to deeper learning and engagement about inequity in the nonprofit sector. 11 am-4 pm, $100

GET A MAKE SANTA FE SHAPER ORIGIN BADGE

Make Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502

Learn the basic principles of Computer Aided Design while using the CNC Shaper tool. 10 am-2 pm, $85

MEDITATION 101

Thubten Norbu Ling Buddhist Center 130 Rabbit Road (505) 490-6152

WHAT PRICE A HUMAN: INDIAN CAPTIVES IN NM

Placitas Community Library 453 Hwy. 165, Placitas (505) 867-3355

Robert Torrez dissects the complex history of Indigenous captives in territorial New Mexico, from "adoption" to explicit slavery.  2 pm, free

EVENTS

A NIGHT ON THE STREET WITH STATE LEADERS

Online bit.ly/3IPxHl1

Livestreaming Sen. Harold Pope and Rep. Eleanor Chavez as they spend the night in a tent on the streets of Albuquerque.  6-8 pm, free

FILM

CAT DADDIES

Violet Crown Cinema 1606 Alcaldesa St. (505) 216-5678

A documentary exploring modern masculinity through human-feline friendships. Noon, $13

FOOD

MAS CHILE POP-UP

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808

Your favorite wheeled purveyor of capsaicin returns to Tumbleroot.   7-10 pm, free

PLANTITA VEGAN BAKERY POP UP

Santa Fe’s only Barbershop music chorus, the SANTA FE HARMONIZERS, is having a GUEST NIGHT for all men and woman who love to sing, high school age and up. ◦

Come hear us sing and sing with us. ◦

Learn about Barbershop style, 4-part harmony.

◦ If you sing in a chorus or church choir, you may want to consider joining us. We sing every Monday night, 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.

◦ Bring a friend (who sings). No obligation to join.

Please call 505-596-0350 to let us know you’re coming. Leave your name, phone number, and email for us to contact you.

Exploring techniques such as analytical meditation and visualization—a specialty of Tibetan Buddhism.

7-8:30 pm, free

SAT/21

BOOKS/LECTURES

IMAGINE PEACE: NO NUKES, BUILD WINDMILLS NOT WEAPONS

SOMOS Taos Salon Space

108 Civic Plaza Drive, Taos (575) 758-0081

Bring your own musical instruments and excerpts from your favorite pacifist heroes to share. 2-3:30 pm, free

NASA

TALK WITH MIKE MULLANE

Santa Fe Regional Airport 121 Aviation Drive (505) 204-8579

The retired astronaut dishes about his experience on the space shuttle.

10 am, free

BILINGUAL

BOOKS AND BABIES

Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820

Help the little ones in your life improve their language acquisition and pronunciation skills through music.

10-10:30 am, free

EL MUSEO CULTURAL MERCADO

El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia (505) 992-0591

An eclectic collection of art and antiques.

8 am-4 pm, free MEET CORNELIUS

Santa Fe Children's Museum

1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Santa Fe's most famous cornsnake comes out to meet his fans.

1-2 pm, free

PARENT AND TOT CREATIVE MOVEMENT

Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

Engaging preschoolers in fun exercise through music and stories.  10-11 am, free

SCIENCE SATURDAYS

Santa Fe Children's Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 989-8359

Local data scientist Xiaobai Li pays a visit to the museum.  2-4 pm, free

THE NEW MEXICO HIP-HOP AWARDS

Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234

A red carpet-type shindig celebrating the best local rhyme spitters. (See 3Qs, page 20) 5 pm, $15

WINTER BIRD WALK

Santa Fe Botanical Garden

715 Camino Lejo (505) 471-9103

Take some strolls, watch some birds. Organizers will have extra binoculars available for anyone who needs them, too.  10-11:30 am, $8-$10

Plantita Vegan Bakery 1704 Lena St. Unit B4 (505) 603-0897

The vegan pastries of your dreams. No advance ordering needed.  10 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC

BIG RICHARD

Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808

An all-female neo-acoustic super group.  7:30 pm, $20-$25

CLOACAS: ANNIVERSARY SHOW/PHYSICAL RELEASE RECEPTION

Second Street Brewery (Rufina Taproom) 2920 Rufina St. (505) 954-1068

The local band celebrates its LP’s birthday with a live show and vinyl release. (See SFR Picks, page 17) 8-10 pm, free

HELLO DARLIN' Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Americana duo, playing mostly originals.  1-3 pm, free

JUSTIN NUNEZ

The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 State Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743 Latin Americana.  8 pm, free

ODD DOG

The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 State Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

Classic rock covers and plenty of jamming.  2 pm, free

OSCAR BUTLER

Honeymoon Brewery 907 W Alameda St., Ste. B (505) 303-3139

Easy listening covers and singer-songwriter originals.  6 pm, free

RON ROUGEAU

Pink Adobe 406 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 983-7712

Acoustic tunes from the '60s and '70s.  5:30-7:30 pm, free

THE ZIA SINGERS: TO PROTECT THE EARTH

First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave. (505) 982-8544

The women's chorus presents songs from around the world in praise of Mother Earth.  3 pm, $10-$25

TONY FURTADO

San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 983-3974

Singer-songwriter.  7:30 pm, $25-$30

THEATER

8X10S: 7 COME 11

Performing Arts Center 1670 Nectar Street, Los Alamos (505) 662-5493

One-acts ranging across the genre spectrum. 7:30 pm, $15-$20

KING HENRY IV, PART I

New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive (505) 466-3533

Local youngsters (ages 10-18) tackle one of the Bard's most famous histories.  6:30 pm, $20

WORKSHOP

COURAGEOUS COMPASSION

Thubten Norbu Ling Buddhist Center 130 Rabbit Road (505) 490-6152

Addressing the development of compassion which encompasses all living beings.

10 am-4 pm, free

GET A MAKE SANTA FE MIG WELDING BADGE

Make Santa Fe 2879 All Trades Road (505) 819-3502

Learn to cut, shape and weld steel while building a steel table. Part of a two-day class.  10 am-2 pm, $180

SUN/22

EVENTS

EL MUSEO CULTURAL

MERCADO

El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia (505) 992-0591

An eclectic collection of art and antiques. 10 am-4 pm, free

OPEN MIC

Honeymoon Brewery 907 W Alameda St., Ste. B (505) 303-3139

Listen and share with kombucha to take the edge off.  6 pm, free

FILM

CAT DADDIES

Violet Crown Cinema 1606 Alcaldesa St. (505) 216-5678

A feel-good doc exploring modern masculinity through human-feline friendships. Noon, $13

MUSIC

WORKSHOP

COURAGEOUS COMPASSION

Thubten Norbu Ling Buddhist Center 130 Rabbit Road (505) 490-6152

Increase your compassion toward all living beings. 10 am-4 pm, free

TUE/24

ART OPENINGS

CABALLOS DE FUERZA Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road (505) 780-5403

DANCE

COMPAGNIE HERVÉ KOUBI

Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234

SENSORY STORYTIME

Vista Grande Public Library 14 Avenida Torreon, Eldorado (505) 466-7323

Engaging kids through movement, play, music, stories, etc. 3:15 pm, free

MUSIC

9,999

DUO LIVE ACOUSTIC MUSIC SUNDAYS

Native Wings Coffee House 7 Avenida Vista Grande, B8, Eldorado (505) 577-1693

Caffeine accompanied by Kevin Miller and Larry Israel.  10 am-12:30 pm, free

DOUG MONTGOMERY

Rio Chama Steakhouse 414 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 955-0765

Master pianist performs in the President's Room. 6-9 pm, free

ONE

NUITSUGI MENDING WORKSHOP

International Folk Art Market Center

620 Cerrillos Road (505) 992-7600

Maki Aizawa demonstrates mending techniques used in the kimono-making process. Noon-2 pm, $25

NEW MOON CEREMONY: THROWING OF THE BONES

Santa Fe Community Yoga Center 826 Camino de Monte Rey (505) 820-9363

Paintings and drawings inspired by 2021 photos of Border Patrol pursuing Haitian migrants. 10 am-5 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES

ARLENE GOLDBARD: IN THE CAMP OF ANGELS OF FREEDOM

Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St., (505) 988-4226 Examining shortcomings of the educational system.  6 pm, free

Choreographer Koubi melds capoeira, gymnastics, contemporary dance and the imagery of oriental paintings. 7:30 pm, $36-$94

EVENTS

AFTER SCHOOL ART

Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780

A themed creative relaxation session for kids, tweens and teens.

3:30-4:30 pm, free

FOOD DEPOT MOBILE FOOD PANTRY

DON CURRY

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Acoustic rock.  4-6 pm, free

WORKSHOP

4-WEEK PAINTING SERIES

Santa Fe Painting Workshops

Downtown 341 East Alameda St. (505) 670-2690

MORE SILVER DOLLAR

The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 State Hwy. 14, Madrid (505) 473-0743

Get smothered in Allman Brothers covers.  2 pm, free

SANTA FE PRO MUSICA

PRESENTS: DANISH STRING QUARTET

Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 Haydn, Shostakovich and more. The Quartet assures audiences that they "are only pillaging the English coastline occasionally." 3 pm, $22-$92

SUGAR MOUNTAIN

Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

Paying tribute to Neil Young.  12-3 pm, free

SWING SOLEIL El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road (505) 982-1931

An all-acoustic swing jazz manouche band.  7:30-9 pm, free

THE NIGHTINGALE OF INSTRUMENTS

San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 983-3974

Three violins, accompanied by harpsichord and viola de gamba. 3 pm, $20

THE ZIA SINGERS: TO PROTECT THE EARTH First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave. (505) 982-8544

The local women's chorus presents songs from around the world in praise of Mother Earth.  3 pm, $10-$25

THEATER

Get guidance for the lunar new year from the ancient divination technique.

3-4:30 pm, $20

UNDERSTANDING ABSTRACT ART

Placitas Community Library 453 Hwy. 165, Placitas (505) 867-3355

Dianna Shomaker leads a handson exploration of abstract art.  2 pm, free

MON/23

BOOKS/LECTURES

WHAT MAKES US HUMAN? INSIGHTS FROM THE FOSSIL RECORD

Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta (505) 982-1200

Sherry Nelson presents on habitat preferences in chimpanzee-human common ancestors. 6 pm, $20-$75

EVENTS

2023 LEGISLATIVE RECEPTION

Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W Marcy St. (505) 955-6590

The SF Chamber of Commerce gives business professionals and governmental policymakers the chance to rub shoulders.

5-7:30 pm, $40-$45

MUSIC

BILL HEARNE

Cowgirl

319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565

A country recording legend.

4-6 pm, free

WORKSHOP

FORGING THE FUTURE

New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072

Recounting the ration-token operation at Bosque Redondo. 6-7 pm, free-$10

MUSEUMS

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM

217 Johnson St. (505) 946-1000

Making a Life. Radical Abstraction. Spotlight on Spring.

10 am-5 pm, Thurs-Mon, $20 (under 18 free)

IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS

108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900

Matrilineal: Legacies of Our Mothers. The Stories we Carry. 10 am-4 pm, Wed-Sat, Mon 11 am-4 pm, Sun, $5-$10

MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE

706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200

Grounded in Clay: the Spirit of Pueblo Pottery. ReVOlution. Here, Now and Always. Painted Reflections.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$9

MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART

706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200

Dressing with Purpose: Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia. Fashioning Identities. #mask. Multiple Visions. Yokai: Ghosts & Demons of Japan.

10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$12

NEW MEXICO HISTORY MUSEUM

Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820

Swing by if your pantry needs a little extra support this month. No ID needed. (See SFR Picks, page 17) 10-11:30 am, free

Learn how to paint abstractly by combining fundamental skills. All Day, $395

MODERN BUDDHISM: MEDITATION CLASS

Santa Fe Women's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail

Guided meditations dissolve stress, anxiety and anger. 6 pm, $10

MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART

750 Camino Lejo (505) 982-2226

Pueblo-Spanish Revival Style: the Director’s Residence. Trails, Rails, and Highways. 1-4 pm, Wed-Fri, $5-$12

POEH CULTURAL CENTER

78 Cities of Gold Road (505) 455-5041

Di Wae Powa. Nah Poeh Meng: The Continuous Path. 9 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-$10

ALCHEMY

IN HYDE PARK (SCREENING AND RECEPTION)

Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528

An esoteric drama about four Chicagoans. Reception at 6 pm, screening at 6:30 pm.  6 pm, free

KING HENRY IV, PART I

New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive (505) 466-3533

What’ll become of Prince Hal? Will Falstaff ever get sober? Find out on this episode of the Henriad.

6:30 pm, $20

ELEMENTS OF SACRED SPACE: ACTING FOR FILM WITH EB LOTTIMER

Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 310-0871

Bring your vulnerability—and an SD card.

6:30-9:30 pm, $40-$220

113 Lincoln Ave. (505) 476-5200

Honoring Tradition and Innovation. The First World War. The Massacre of Don Pedro Villasur. The Palace Seen and Unseen. Setting the Standard. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-$12, NM residents free 5-7 pm first Fri of the month

NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART

107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5063

Selections from the 20th Century Collection. Western Eyes: 20th Century Art Here and Now. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-12

WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIA3N

704 Camino Lejo (505) 982-4636

Center for the Study of Southwestern Jewelry. The Mary Morez Style. Peoples, Places, and Perspectives. Rooted: Samples of Southwest Baskets. 10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, $8

Turner Avery Mark-Jacobs’ The Massacre of Don Pedro Villasur, from the exhibition The Massacre of Don Pedro Villasur at the New Mexico History Museum.

COURTESY

NEW MEXICO HISTORY MUSEUM / TURNER AVERY MARK-JACOBS

BY ALEX DE VORE

By the time chef Dakota Weiss’ parents moved the family to Santa Fe from California’s Antelope Valley, she was 13 or so—a terrible age to find oneself facing culture shock and potentially infiltrating long-standing friend groups as a newcomer.

“It was a really crappy time to move,” Weiss tells SFR. “At the time, I had blonde hair and blue eyes—I stuck out like a sore thumb, and I got my butt kicked several times.”

Her folks would open Genesis Spas & Pool Supply in the DeVargas Center (it’s still there, with different owners), yet Weiss struggled to find her place when she first turned up in town. She was also a picky eater—a mantle she still claims despite foodservice laurels from around the country, a degree from the Scottsdale Culinary Institute in Arizona, not to mention a stint on season 9 of the ever-popular Bravo food show Top Chef. She loved to cook, too. But it wasn’t until she was in college that she started expanding her foodie horizons. That’s where she tried a steak for the first time and, she explains, “my tastebuds got woke.”

Today, Weiss is the executive chef at iconic Santa Fe fine dining institution Coyote Café,

and, as of four weeks ago, she’s also opened Catch Poke on Marcy Street, a glorious bastion of diced fish goodness served up with Asian and Latin influences across numerous proprietary bowls. This follows on the heels of Weiss’ California-based Sweetfin chain of poke joints (her stake in which she’s since sold) and represents much of the reason she returned to Santa Fe in 2021. Four weeks in is pretty early to say such things, but I’m comfortable calling it: Catch is excellent and fills a much-needed gap in our culinary landscape. May it live for a thousand years!

Of course, I’d heard of the excellence from numerous foodie types in recent weeks. If you do something well in Santa Fe, word gets around. Once I’d assembled a crack team to check it out, though, I learned Weiss’ creations are even better than the gossip said. Everything at Catch is $16 (unless you want beef, which clocks in at an extra $3) and well worth it; perusing the menu proved challenging, however, because each item sounded better than the last. Did I want the Hatch green chile shrimp

bowl with red cabbage and macadamia nuts? The vegan imposter bowl with plant-based tuna? Everything at Catch is gluten-free, too, so that’s a score for the celiacs and the maniacs.

In the end, I landed on the leche de tigre salmon bowl with fresh fish, avocado, jicama, cilantro and pickled Fresno chile. Catch offers either bamboo rice (think sticky sushi style) or forbidden rice (a chewy and flavorful grain that not only adds complexity to the bowl, but a layered texture).

The champions get a little of both, I assumed, and so I did—though I might stick to the forbidden variety when next I visit as it proved a more notable flavor profile than the other. Otherwise, the bowl was a masterpiece with sustainably sourced salmon from Santa

and complex sauce of Peruvian origin featuring nearly two dozen ingredients (aji amarillo peppers, citrus and fish juice among them) plus Weiss’ own Asian influence—I found a flavor combination I’d never quite tasted before. Brilliant.

My companions were pleased with their orders as well, including the spicy tuna bowl and the yozu kosho salmon bowl. A melange of avocado, togorashi mayo, cucumbers, seaweed and—no joke—hot Taki chips, the spicy tuna reportedly scratched the spice itch while cutting the heat with subtly sweet mango. Weiss, meanwhile, says sourcing tuna has become complicated and expensive, and to do it ethically, she uses food supplier Shamrock. Like the salmon, it’s sustainably caught.

The yuzu kosho salmon bowl was also scarfed in entirety, from the zesty and citrus-y yuzu-based sauce to the sake-braised lotus root, which added a gratifying crunch with an unexpectedly familiar yet novel taste. The companion who did said scarfing says he’s already eaten at Catch numerous times, and doesn’t see himself slowing down. Weiss, meanwhile, remains cautiously optimistic.

Fe-based seafood supplier, Above Sea Level. Served raw, the fish was clearly the star of the show and expertly prepared by Weiss. Later, she told me how she fell in love with butchery in culinary school, and that while quadrupeds receive most of the love in that regard, the idea can more or less be applied to fish. Served with a healthy splash of Weiss’ own leche de tigre—a tangy

“I kind of like these high desert mountain towns because they aren’t inundated with poke places,” she notes, adding that her partner and so-called poke sommelier, Rich Becker, has made the whole thing possible. “Right now, it’s my baby. Opening a cold seafood restaurant in the dead of winter in a landlocked state is risky, but we’re doing well.” Let’s keep it going.

Catch Poke’s leche de tigre bowl (foreground) was a revelation—ditto the spicy tuna bowl back there with its hot Takis and everything.

Broker Review

Ooh—baby, baby

BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com

Korean writer/director Hirokazu Koreeda comes out swinging with Broker, a sort of examination of economics, given vs. chosen family and the choices we make while backed into a corner. And though Koreeda’s tale lacks the sharp sting of films like Parasite, it does wend its way through the beauty of South Korea, landing upon a moral that’s something like: You can’t always get what you want, but you might find you get what you need; if you’re open to it.

We mainly follow Sang-hyeon (now-legendary Parasite star Song Kang-Ho) and Dong-soo (Dongwon Gang), a pair of lower-class worker types who, through Dong-soo’s job at a church orphanage, sometimes sell the babies surrendered at the doorstep. When one such baby’s mother returns to claim her child, however, their plan seems doomed—right up until it turns out she’s on board with selling the kid so long as she gets a cut. That mother (a magnetic Ji-eun Lee) seemingly cares very little for the child, but once the trio picks up a stowaway orphan (Seung-soo Im), lessons on relationships abound, leading each of the ragtag family members to examine their choices, their agency and their place in society. With a pair of cops hot on their tail and no shortage of would-be parents clamoring for the infant, our heroes travel the breadth of their coun-

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER

Director James Cameron has been plenty clear about his newest Avatar film being incredibly expensive, but he kind of failed to mention it’s basically a narrative clone of his 2009 original. Oh, sure, it’s jaw-droppingly gorgeous and a technical marvel and all that, but he recycles plot, characters and story beats in a way that feels more exhausting than satisfying—and viewers can easily predict what’s up next because it’s painfully obvious. This is tech over story all the way. And you know what? That’s fine.

In The Way of Water, we catch up with Jake (Sam Worthington, who we forgot was a person until just now) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), a pair of Na’vi—people native to the planet Pandora. Last time out, the pair Fern Gully’d their way to victory over an evil mining corporation that was sucking the planet dry, and our heroes now live peacefully amongst the trees with kids the’ve sired and some sort of teenage Na’vi replica of Sigourney Weaver’s character from the first movie, whom they adopt. Life’s good in the forest until the bad guy military jerks from the first movie all get cloned as Na’vi (complete with their memories, the movie explains in a two-second science dump) and set out at the behest of Earth general Ardmore (Edie Falco) to do...whatever.

try deprogramming from their traumas both shared and not. Bonds form and tensions ease. You’d almost root for them if it weren’t for the whole selling babies thing.

Kang-ho has certainly proven a powerful performer in recent years, and one with an endless reservoir of charm. Here he gets the opportunity to stretch out across a stirring variety of motivations and emotional storytelling moments. We go so quickly from distrust to devout respect that it hardly seems possible. He particularly shines in scenes with the young Im. Gang’s performance is life-affirming, too, and sometimes a harsh reminder that ambivalence doesn’t look good on anyone. Lee might be the true standout, though, particularly in her ability to convey so much while saying so little. The baby is just plain cute.

Thing is, though, the squad’s leader, Colonel Quatrich, (the big bad from the first movie; Stephen Lang) turns it more into a personal vendetta. Violence ensues.

So Jake and the fam flee to the coast, where a neighboring tribe who have evolved flipper-like extremities and the ability to hold their breath for a super-long time take them in and teach them the way of water. At best, The Way of Water is a reductive take on Indigenous ideologies; at worst, it’s pretty racist. Either way, Jake and Neytiri’s kids are all about it, especially the younger brother, Lo’ak (Britain Dalton), who befriends a space whale and really embraces the sea and stuff. Wouldn’t you know it, though, Quatrich and his goons take up with some space poachers, and they do evil poacher stuff to flush Jake and the family out. People yell; Jemaine Clement plays a scientist with a crisis of conscience; Kate Winslet does a regrettable accent—and all the clunky “why we hurt planet?” messaging comes at us like a ton of convoluted bricks.

Worthington, weirdly, does pretty OK as a father struggling with his family’s safety and his own desire for doing what’s right. Saldaña, though, is underused. The kids are the focus here, even if Weaver’s take on teenager is mostly about talking like a goofball and magically controlling sea beasts with no real explanation. The rest goes down just like you think. Still, the water effects are stunning and even those who don’t like 3D might wanna check it out. Just don’t expect a good movie so much as a pretty one. Know

Cut to no shortage of environmental storytelling, gorgeous coastal backgrounds and cities swelling with too many people; find a different kind of love story. The most shocking surprises, though, hit slowly and unfold across the film, be it the cop who secretly loves very deeply or the young son of a neighborhood merchant who went down the dark path. Broker is like a masterclass in character development, and though slow, feels more than worth it once its bittersweet conclusion rolls around.

BROKER

Directed by Koreeda

With Kang-Ho, Gang, Lee and Im Center for Contemporary Arts, R, 129 min.

there’s no ultimate resolution, though, and given the 13 years it took to get a second film, who knows when the third will arrive? The blockbuster film is dying, friends, and that’s OK. (ADV) Regal, Violet Crown, PG-13, 192 min.

THE BINGE 2: IT’S A WONDERFUL BINGE

2 + GENERALLY VERY FUNNY PEOPLE ARE SOMEHOW IN THIS THING - THEY DON’T GET TO BE VERY FUNNY

All the way back in 2020, there was this comedy movie called The Binge wherein a not-too-distant future society outlawed all drugs and alcohol except for one night a year. It was kind of like The Purge, only decent parody movies kind of ended with Hot Shots! Part Deux, so its tie-ins to anything real were tenuous at best.

Still, with a cast including Righteous Gemstones alum Skyler Gisondo, Stranger Things/Booksmart funnyman Eduardo Franco and Saved By the Bell reboot star Dexter Darden, it was...well, it was OK as high school stoner comedies go. The new Christmas-adjacent Hulu original sequel dubbed The Binge 2: It’s a Wonderful Binge, however, cannot claim the same. It mostly just feels bad, even if the first film’s writer, Jordan VanDina, is still on board, as its director and writer, no less.

We jump forward a couple years (Gisondo, wisely, jumps ship altogether, likely to be in better movies) to learn Hags (Darden) and Andrew (Franco) are living their sad little lives in their drugfree town, only The Binge has now been moved

to Christmas for some reason. Hags doesn’t want to get fucked up this time, though, because he’s gonna ask his girlfriend to get married just as soon as her dad (Tim Meadows) gives his permission. Andrew wants to hang at home with his two dads, his mom and her lover (played by the incomparably weird Steve Little, who represents åone of the few decent parts of the movie), but when he realizes his family doesn’t seem to care about him, he decides to George Bailey himself right off a bridge. He survives the fall and meets Angel (not an angel; Danny Trejo), whose can-do attitude and angel dust stash really put things into perspective for our hero. A bunch of other dumb shit happens, and everyone learns the true meaning of Christmas. And drugs.

Despite numerous small appearances from comedy champions like Meadows, Kaitlin Olson, Paul Scheer and Nick Swardson, The Binge 2 feels more like a contractual obligation than a film anyone wanted to make. Like, if Hulu had learned of some weird accounting error that forced it to shoot one last binge movie for tax purposes, that would make more sense than anyone wanting to do this thing. The drug jokes land flat, the actors are barely trying, the Christmas of it all feels tacked-on at best. Maybe there’s some redemptive quality for stoners hidden in there, maybe there’s a couple laughs when Meadows or Little deliver a line. The rest of it is just sad and weird and Franco is straight up too good for this, as is just about everyone else. Don’t bother. Please don’t bother. (ADV) Hulu, TV-MA, 98 min.

+ GORGEOUS VISUALS; 3D ACTUALLY COOL - REPETITIVE AND PAINFULLY LONG; RECYCLED EVERYTHING

+ KILLER WRITING AND CHARACTERS; A SIMPLE STORY TOLD WELL - PACKED WITH NEEDLESS SCENES THAT DO VERY LITTLE FOR PLOT

PSYCHICS

Rob Brezsny Week of January 18th

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Good news, Aries! During the next episode in the age-old struggle between the Impulsive You and the Farsighted You, I predict the latter will achieve a ringing victory. Hallelujah! I also foresee you overcoming the temptation to quit a project prematurely, and instead pushing on to complete it. There’s more! You will refrain from knocking your head against an obstacle in the vain hope of toppling it. Instead, you will round up helpers to help you wield a battering ram that will produce the desired toppling.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You may not have a clear picture of where you’ll be going in the next five years. The detailed master plan that your higher self devised for you before you were born might even be obscure. But I’m here to tell you that in the coming weeks, a new lucidity can be yours. You can summon an acute instinct about which way is forward, if only you will recognize the subtle ways it’s speaking to you. In fact, I believe you will regularly know what move you should make *next* so as to expedite your long-term evolution. Life will be rewarding you with mysterious step-by-step guidance. Now please write a short statement affirming your intention to love, honor, and obey your intuition.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Do you believe in the existence of guardian angels and spirit guides and ancestors who can intervene in your behalf from the other side of the veil? Do you wonder if maybe your invisible friends from childhood show up in your vicinity now and then to offer you support and kindness? Or how about the animals you loved earlier in your life but who have since passed away? Is it possible their souls have never left you, but are available if you need their affection? Even if your rational mind tells you that none of these possibilities are authentic, Gemini, I suspect you will nevertheless be the beneficiary of their assistance in the coming weeks and months. Their influence will be even more potent if you proceed as if they are real.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Among your potential strengths as a human being are empathy, sensitivity, and emotional intelligence. You may or may not choose to develop these natural gifts. But if you do, they can be instrumental in helping you achieve the only kind of success that’s really meaningful for you—which is success that your heart and soul love as much as your head and your ego. According to my astrological analysis, you are moving into a phase of your cycle when you will have extra power to ripen your empathy, sensitivity, and emotional intelligence—and thereby enhance your ability to achieve the kind of success that’s meaningful for you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Dear Rob the Astrologer: The computer firewall at my youth hostel is blocking your website. I am being told you practice ‘Illegal Folklore and Insurrectionary Fairy Tales.’ What the hell? Can you do anything at your end to get me access to your wonderful horoscopes? Maybe cut back a bit on your Illegal Folklore and Insurrectionary Fairy Tales? Haha. Just kidding. I love that crazy stuff. —Deprived Leo in Ireland.” Dear Deprived: Many of you Leos have lately had problems getting all the Illegal Folklore and Insurrectionary Fairy Tales you need. I hope you will push hard to compensate. In my estimation, you currently have a strong need for dreamy stories that appeal to the Wild Child in you. They’re essential to your mental and spiritual health.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In his book A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life, Donald Miller acknowledges that fear can be a “guide to keep us safe.” Being afraid may indeed have its uses and benefits. But Miller adds that it’s also “a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.” In my astrological opinion, Virgo, fear will be of service to you—a guide to keep you safe—about nine percent of the time in 2023. Around 83 percent of the time, it will be a manipulative emotion not worth acting on. For the other eight percent, it will be neither. Please plan accordingly.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Select two sticky situations in your world that you would love to reinvent. Let other annoyances and glitches just slide for now. Then cultivate a focused desire to do everything in your power to transform the two awkward or messy circumstances. Proceed as if you will have to do all the work yourself— that nothing will change for the better unless you take full responsibility. If you’re absolutely sure this involves other people altering their behavior, consider the possibility that maybe your behavior needs to shift as well.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Three out of four toxic waste dumps in the US are located in predominantly African American or Latino communities. Two million tons of radioactive uranium tailings have been dumped on Native American lands. Three hundred thousand Latino farm workers in the US suffer from pesticide-related sicknesses every year. These travesties make me furious. More importantly, my rage motivates me to mitigate these travesties, like by educating my readers about them and donating money to groups crusading to fix the problems. In the coming weeks, Scorpio, I hope you will take advantage of your astrological potentials by using your anger constructively, too. Now is a favorable time for you to fight fiercely and tenderly for what’s right.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I predict that love will bring you many AHA! moments in 2023. You can’t fully prepare yourself for them—and that’s a good thing! The epiphanies will be brighter and deeper if they are unexpected. Your motivation to learn the available lessons will be wilder and stronger if you enjoy being surprised. So be ready for lots of entertaining rumbles and reverberations, Sagittarius. The adjustments you will be asked to make will often be strenuous and fun. The inspirations you will be invited to harvest will require you to outgrow some of your previous beliefs about the nature of intimacy and togetherness.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Some insects are helpful to humans. For example, ladybugs devour aphids, which are highly destructive to crops. Damsel bugs eat the pests called leafhoppers, and lacewings feed on the pernicious nuisances known as mealybugs. I also remind you that some bugs are beautiful, like butterflies, dragonflies, and jeweled beetles. Keep these thoughts in mind, Capricorn, as you contemplate my counsel. Metaphorically speaking, you will have experiences with bugs in the next three weeks. But this won’t be a problem if you ally yourself with the good, helpful, and beautiful bugs.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): What are “brain orgasms”? Can you seek them out and make them happen, or do you have to wait patiently for them to arrive in their own sweet time? When they occur, what should you do? Surrender into them with all your welcome fully unleashed? Or should you question whether they’re real, be suspicious of their blessings, or dismiss them as irrelevant flukes? I encourage you to meditate on questions like these. That will raise your receptivity to the stream of brain orgasms that life will offer you in the coming weeks.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): My Piscean pagan friend Valie says God is stealthy yet blatant, like a green chameleon perched on a green leaf. After analyzing the astrological omens, I conclude that this is a helpful, all-purpose metaphor for you to use in the coming weeks. I encourage you to be alert for beauty that is hidden in plain sight. See if you can spy the miracles embedded within the ordinary. Ask life to pleasantly blow your mind over and over again. Here’s your phrase of power: open secret.

Homework: Ask life to bring you an insight that will help you ameliorate a long-running dilemma.

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EMPLOYMENT

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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT Cause No: D-101-CV-2021-02086

LOS ALAMOS SCHOOLS CREDIT UNION, Plaintiff, vs. DAVID A. MARTINEZ, GILBERT D. MARTINEZ, BERNADETTE MARTINEZ, and ONEMAIN FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., fka Springfield Financial Services, Inc., Defendants.

NOTICE OF SALE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on January 31, 2023, at the hour of 10:00 a.m. the undersigned Special Master will, at the main entrance of the Judge Steve Herrera Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, New Mexico, sell all of the rights, title, and interests of the above-named defendants in and to the hereinafter described real property to the highest bidder in cash or certified funds. The property to be sold is located at 6B Calle Martinez, Santa Cruz, New Mexico 87567, and is more particularly described as follows: Parcel B, as shown on plat entitled “Lot Line Adjustment Survey for Ana Martinez and Lillian Martinez, Lying and Being situate within Santa Cruz Grant, in (Projected) Section 4, Township 20 North, Range 9 East, Vicinity of La Puebla …”, filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Santa Fe County, New Mexico on November 14, 2003, in Plat Book 547 at Page 001, Document No. 1301148 (the Property), which is more commonly described as 6B Calle Martinez, Santa Cruz, NM 87567. (hereinafter the “Property”). If there is any discrepancy between the property address or location and the legal description, the legal description shall control. The property will be sold subject to the right of redemption (if any); easements, reservations and restrictions of record; taxes and governmental assessments including unpaid utility bills; any liens or encumbrances not foreclosed in this proceeding; the valuation of the property by the County Assessor as real or personal property; affixture of any mobile or manufactured home to the land; deactivation of title to a mobile or manufactured home on the property; environmental contamination, if any; any homeowners’ association or condominium dues, assessments, declarations, rules, requirements and restrictions; any requirements imposed by city or county ordinance or by state law affecting the property; and zoning violations concerning the property, if any. No representation is made as to the validity of the rights of ingress and egress. Transfer of title to the highest bidder shall be without warranty or representation of any kind.

ALL PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS AT THE SALE ARE ADVISED TO REVIEW THE DISTRICT COURT FILE, TO MAKE THEIR OWN EXAMINATION OF TITLE AND TO CONSULT THEIR OWN ATTORNEY BEFORE BIDDING. The foregoing sale will be made to satisfy a foreclosure judgment rendered by the Court in the

above-entitled and numbered cause on November 18, 2022, being an action to foreclose a mortgage on the Property. The total amount awarded by the judgment to Los Alamos Schools Credit Union (“Plaintiff”), with further interest to the date of sale, is $32,999.90, plus its costs and attorney fees from November 9, 2022 through the date of sale of the property and any amounts advanced by Plaintiff to protect its interest in the property before sale, including insurance, maintenance, taxes, assessments or other expenses relating to the property.

The proceeds from the judicial sale will be applied first to the payment of the costs and expenses of the sale; and then to the payment of the Judgment in favor of Plaintiff, including additional fees, costs and expenses as stated in the foregoing paragraph. Any excess funds shall be deposited with the Clerk of Court for distribution by further order of the Court. Plaintiff may credit bid all or a portion of its judgment towards the purchase price at the foreclosure sale. Otherwise, terms of sale shall be immediately payable in cash or certified funds.

ELECTRONICALLY FILED /s/ Donald A. Walcott 150 Washington Avenue, Suite #207 Santa Fe, NM 87501 Phone: (505) 982-9559

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New Mexico Auction Ad Notice of Public Sale

Pursuant to NEW MEXICO STATUTES – 48-11-1-48-11-9: Notice is hereby given that on the 26th day of January, 2023 At that time open Bids will be accepted, and the Entirety of the Following Storage Units will be sold to satisfy storage liens claimed by A-1 Self Storage. The terms at the time of the sales will be Cash only, and all goods must be removed from the facility within 48 hours. A-1 Self Storage reserves the right to refuse any and all bids or cancel sale without notice. Owners of the units may pay lien amounts by 5:00 pm January 25, 2023 to avoid sale. The following units are scheduled for auction. Sale will be beginning at 09:00 am January 26, 2023 at 3902 Rodeo Road

Unit#D059 Denise Gonzalez 6 Gallina Peak, Santa Fe, NM 87508; Tires, mirror, refrigerator, toolbox, entertainment system, tote. Unit#A038 & A080

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Vallieres 324 Calle Loma Norte, Santa Fe, 87501; Boxes, totes, suitcase. Unit#1507 Jim Furguson 113 Loncoln Ave, Santa Fe, NM 87501; Bags, boxes, mattresses, guitar, speakers. Unit#2090

Charlotte Grahm PO Box 414, Truchas, NM 87578; Boxes, bags, bean bag, bedding, rug, table, mattress. Unit#4031 Eunice Gomez PO Box 23855, Santa Fe, NM 87505; Boxes, bags, clothes, speakers, bike. Unit#1411 Jessica Gomez9507 Perrin Bitel #306, San Antonio, TX 78217; Boxes, mattresses, couch, step ladder, furniture, lamps, rug.

Auction Sale Date, 1/26/23

Santa Fe Reporter 1/11/23 & 1/18/23

STATE OF NEW MEXICO

COUNTY OF SANTA FE

FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT

Gene C. Fulgenzi and Cynthia A. Romero, Petitioner(s) No. D-101-DM-2022-00584

IN THE MATTER OF THE KINSHIP GUARDIANSHIP OF E.L.L.R., (a) Child, and concerning Jennifer Griego, Respondent.

NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION

STATE OF NEW MEXICO TO Jennifer Griego, Respondent.

Greetings: You are hereby notified that Gene C. Fulgenzi and Cynthia A. Romero, Petitioner(s), filed a Petition To Appoint Kinship Guardian(s) for Ella L. L. Romero, born 2016 against you in the above entitled Court and cause.

Unless you enter your appearance and written response in said cause on or before 30 days after 3rd publication, a judgment by default will be entered against you.

Gene C. Fulgenzi

Cynthia A. Romero 2097 Botulph Rd. Santa Fe, NM 87505

Issued on December 15, 2022 Kathleen Vigil Clerk of the Court Tamara Snee Deputy

STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT

VINCENT A DANIALS AND JUDY DANIELS, Petitioner(s) D-101-DM-2022-00603

IN THE MATTER OF THE KINSHIP GUARDIANSHIP OF AUDIANNA ORTEGA, (a) Child, and concerning EZIEKEL ORTEGA, Respondent.

NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION

STATE OF NEW MEXICO to ISAAC ORTEGA, Respondent.

Greetings:

You are hereby notified that VINCENT A DANIELS and JUDY DANIELS, Petitioner(s), filed a Petition To Appoint Kinship Guardian(s) for AO and EO against you in the above entitled Court and cause.

Unless you enter your appearance and written response in said cause on or before 30 days after 3rd publication, a judgment by default will be entered against you.

Vincent A Daniels and Judy Daniels

2548 Camino Cabestro Santa Fe, NM 87505

LEGALS

STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE

FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT

NO. D-101-CV-2022-01943

IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION FOR NAME CHANGE OF LOGAN CHRISTOPHER METZGER AMENDED NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME

TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq., the Petitioner LOGAN CHRISTOPHER METZGER will apply to the Honorable Bryan Biedscheid, District Judge of the First Judicial District, at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 11:00 AM on the 26th day of January, 2023 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from LOGAN CHRISTOPHER METZGER to LOGAN CHRISTOPHER METSON.

TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that this hearing shall be by remote access. All hearings are conducted by Google Meet. The court prefers counsel and parties to participate by video at https://meet.google. com/hdc-wqjx-wes. If it is not possible to participate by video, you may participate by calling (US) +1 954-507-7909 PIN: 916 854 445#.

ROSE THOMPSON to SAMANTHA ROSE METSON. KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court clerk

By: Kayla Vigil Deputy Court Clerk

Resolution #23-04 SANTA FE-POJOAQUE SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT OPEN MEETINGS

RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, Section 10-15-1 (B) of the Open Meetings Act (Section 10-15-1 through 1015-4 NMSA 1978) states that, except as may be otherwise provided in the Constitution or the provisions of the Open Meetings Act, all meetings of a quorum of members of any board, commission, other policy making body of any state agency held for the purpose of formulating public policy, discussing public business or for the purpose of taking any action within the authority of such board, commission or other policy making body are declared to be published meetings open to the public at all times; and

Schedule and Proposed Agendas for each regular meeting will be available from the District office, 4001 Office Court Drive, Ste 1001, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87507, and may be requested by email at sfpswcd@gmail.com; Proposed Agendas will be posted on the district website at least 72 hours in advance. Notice of regular meetings will be given ten (10) days before the meeting to parties who request it in writing.

2. Special meetings of the Santa Fe-Pojoaque Soil and Water Soil and Water Conservation District may be called by the Chairman or a majority of the members upon a three day notice. Parties who have requested notice of meetings in writing will be notified by telephone.

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B. If called for when the Board of Supervisors is not in an open meeting, the closed meeting shall not be held until public notice, appropriate under the circumstances, stating the specific provision of law authorizing the closed meeting is given to the members and to the general public.

5. Individuals with a disability who are in need of a reader, amplifier, qualified sign language interpreter, or any other form of auxiliary aid or service to attend or participate in the hearing or meeting should contact Shelley Winship, District Administrator, at 505-3102029. Public documents, including the agenda and minutes, can be acquired in various accessible formats from Shelley Winship, District Administrator, at 505-3102029.

Alfredo Roybal, Chairman, Board of Supervisors

SANTA FE-POJOAQUE SWCD Date: 12/14/2022

District

Court Clerk By: Bernadette Hernandez Deputy Court Clerk

STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT

CASE NO: D-101CV-2022-01942

IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF SAMANTHA ROSE THOMPSON

NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME

TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the Provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq.

The Petitioner, Samantha Rose Thompson will apply to the Honorable MARIA SANCHEZGAGNE, District Court Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Steve Herrera Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico at 10:40 am on the 27th day of February, 2023 for an ORDER

FOR CHANGE OF NAME

WHEREAS, any meeting subject to the Open Meetings Act at which the discussion or adoption of any proposed resolution, rule, regulation or formal action occurs shall be held only after reasonable notice to the public, and

WHEREAS, Section 10-15-1 (B) of the Open Meetings Act requires the Santa Fe-Pojoaque Soil and Water Conservation District to determine annually what constitutes reasonable notice of its public meetings;

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Santa Fe-Pojoaque Soil and Water Conservation District, on this 14th day of December 2022 that:

1. Regular meetings of the Santa Fe-Pojoaque Soil and Water Conservation District shall ordinarily be held at 9:00 a.m. on the second Wednesday of each month at the USDA Service Center Conference Room, 4001 Office Court Drive # 1001, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87507. If pandemic meeting restrictions prohibit any meeting from taking place in person, the district website https://sites.google.com/ site/santafepojoaqueswcd/ will provide virtual meeting information. An annual

3. Emergency meetings of the Santa Fe-Pojoaque Soil and Water Soil and Water Conservation District are meetings called by the Board of Supervisors under circumstances which demand immediate action. Although the Board of Supervisors would avoid emergency meetings whenever possible, such circumstances may occasionally arise. Emergency meetings may be called by the Chairman or a majority of the members upon 24 hour notice. Parties who have requested a notice of meetings in writing will be notified by telephone.

4. Pursuant to Section 10-15-1 (E) NMSA 1978, the Santa Fe-Pojoaque Soil and Water Conservation District may close a meeting to the public if the subject matter of such discussion or action is included in Subsection E of the Opening Meetings Act, Section 10-15-1 NMSA 1978. If any Board of Supervisors meeting is closed pursuant to Section 10-15-1 (E) NMSA, such closure:

A. If made in an open meeting, shall be provided by a majority vote of a quorum of the Board of Supervisors and authority for the closure shall be stated in the motion calling for the vote on a closed meeting. The vote on a closed meeting shall be taken in an open meeting and the vote of each individual member is to be recorded in the minutes. Only those subjects announced or voted upon prior to closure by the Board of Supervisors may be discussed in a closed meeting;

STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE JUDICIAL DISTRICT ANGELA MARIE ULIBARRI, JOHN JEFFREY ULIBARRI, PETITIONERS No. D-101-DM-2022-00491

IN THE MATTER OF THE KINSHIP GUARDIANSHIP OF X.V.O., a Child, and concerning MARIO RUDDY ORTEGA and DEVYN NICOLE ORTEGA Respondents.

NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION

STATE OF NEW MEXICO to MARIO RUDDY ORTEGA Respondent.

Greetings:

You are hereby notified that Angela Marie Ulibarri, Petitioners, filed a Petition To Appoint Kinship Guardian(s) for X.V.O. born 2017 against you in the above entitled Court and cause.

Unless you enter your appearance and written response in said cause on or before 30 days after 3rd publication (dte), a judgment by default will be entered against you.

Name and Address of Petitioner’s Attorney:

ANGELA MARIE ULIBARRI JEFFREY ULIBARRI1723 AGUA FRIA ST SANTA FE, NM 87505

from SAMANTHA