An ecopsychologist investigates the 2024 Roswell UFO Festival
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An ecopsychologist investigates the 2024 Roswell UFO Festival
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A Closer Look at the Rio Grande SCOTUS Ruling
BY DANIELLE PROKOP author@sfreporter.com
With the irrigation season still going strong, and recent rains temporarily swelling the Rio Grande, the river is running through most of New Mexico.
In court, the case over the river’s water is in a lull, after the US Supreme Court rejected a deal to end a lawsuit over the water flowing at about just under 5 feet deep at the border between Texas and New Mexico.
Mike Hamman, a central figure in the case, is stepping aside as his retirement from the State Engineer’s position went into effect after the decision came down. Hamman calls the Supreme Court’s decision a setback, in an interview with Source NM. He’s unsure how long it will take to resolve Rio Grande management between three states— Colorado, New Mexico and Texas—and now the federal government.
Colorado, New Mexico and Texas developed a deal to end the litigation last year, pitting the parties against the federal government.
The high court allowed the federal government to intervene in the case in 2018, when it raised concerns that New Mexico pumping threatened the US Bureau of Reclamation’s ability to deliver water to Mexico and regional irrigation districts, and mirrored many of Texas’ claims.
The three states put forward a proposed deal that they say resolved the interstate disputes, and would address further concerns between the federal government and New Mexico in lower federal district courtrooms.
The deal—formally called a consent decree—would have added a new gauge to measure water deliveries at the Texas-New Mexico state line, factored in new drought and groundwater pumping calculations and officially split the water below Elephant Butte Reservoir 57% to Southern New Mexico and 43% to Texas.
The federal government objected that the deal imposed conditions they didn’t consent to. In late June, the court sided with federal objections to the deal, and said the case will continue before the US Supreme Court. The majority opinion argues that the court previously allowed the federal government to intervene as a party in the case to protect its “distinct federal interests.” Those include the maintenance and operation of a network of dams and canals that deliver water to Mexico and regional irrigation districts.
Court watchers react
The ruling’s makeup and breadth was a shock to observers, says Gage Zobell, a water attorney at Dorsey & Whitney based in Salt Lake City, Utah, who has consulted on some water cases in New Mexico. “That was a step even beyond what I ever would have imagined they would have come out with, even had they decided to not approve the consent decree,” Zobell says.
Zobell describes the ruling as allowing the federal government’s position to “hold the settlement hostage,” and require more action from New Mexico on limiting groundwater pumping.
The ruling is limiting the use of a 1938 precedent of deferring to upstream states to manage water governance, says Burke Griggs, a national water law expert and professor at Washburn University School of Law. “There’s a real tension here between how the majority and the dissent understand how an interstate compact works in our federal system,” Griggs says.
Griggs says the decision could embolden the federal government to intervene in water compact disputes between states, even if it’s not a party to them.
“I think that’s a valid concern—but whether the United States actually will, is another question,” he says.
What’s next
“The bottom line is that we do have a significant issue to address in the Lower Rio Grande,” he says. “It means now going back into another possible trial process, or working towards another stab at mediation.”
Hamman says that the Rio Grande is already under pressure from climate change, and that reducing groundwater pumping in the area is a priority, even as the case continues.
“We’re going to work with our stakeholders in the basin to try to get ourselves back in balance,” he says. “This is a perpetual drought setting, and we have to prepare for even more austere times with climate change, changing the whole hydrologic cycle.”
Up the river
It’s been more than a decade since Texas filed its complaint in 2013 that New Mexico groundwater pumping below Elephant Butte was taking water owed to Texas, violating the 1938 Rio Grande Compact, an agreement to split the river. The case, called Original No. 141—has shifted significantly, as the states of
“Having acknowledged those interests, and having allowed the United States to intervene to assert them, we cannot now allow Texas and New Mexico to leave the United States up the river without a paddle,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson writes for the majority opinion. Jackson continues, writing that the federal government is allowed to pursue the claim that New Mexico’s groundwater pumping violates the compact. “That Texas’s litigation strategy has since changed, such that it is now willing to accept a greater degree of groundwater pumping, does not erase the United States’ independent stake in pursuing claims against New Mexico,” she writes.
In the dissent, Justice Neil Gorsuch— joined by Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Amy Coney Barrett—says the ruling overturned water law precedents, allowing more leeway for the federal government to intervene. “In that way, too, I fear the majority’s short-sighted decision will only make it harder to secure the kind of cooperation between federal and state authorities reclamation law envisions and many river systems require,” Gorsuch writes in the dissent. Gorsuch writes that the court’s rejection leaves the states “only with the promise of more litigation to follow,” and no deal.
Hamman’s replacement at the Office of the State Engineer will inherit the continued legal fight over the Rio Grande waters, as the state agency oversees New Mexico’s streams, rivers and lakes, but also the groundwater beneath our feet. Hamman says the challenges facing the state from determining tribal water rights, water-sharing plans, supply and management should be refocused at a regional level, since the challenges for each basin are unique.
The state is working to revamp the rules on regional water planning after passing the 2023 Water Security Planning Act, and make the process less top-down than prior years.
The state is hosting open houses starting July 17 to address the regional boundaries and more before the planning scheduled for later this year.
Hamman says he believes that regional planning balances environmental concerns and the economy. “Having the ability for those regional entities to advise their legislators on what their needs are will help them make good-priority decisions every session, as opposed to just kind of catching kicked cans and putting Band-Aids on problems,” Hamman says.
This story originally appeared in Source New Mexico (sourcenm.com) and is reprinted with permission.
A stretch of the Rio Grande near the Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge, as seen from the upper level of the New Mexico Rail Runner.
Seizing the Day Care Demand
Growing Up New Mexico’s training program for homebased businesses aims to close child care gaps
BY MO CHARNOT mo@sfreporter.com
About a month after Carla Ferrer gave birth to her second child last year, she began looking for a day care, applying to a variety of child care programs offered by Presbyterian Medical Services, the Santa Fe Community College’s Kids Campus and Desert Montessori School. That was her first mistake, she tells SFR.
“I had no idea how difficult it was, and I also had no idea that the waitlists were this long,” Ferrer says. “I unfortunately made the mistake of signing my children up for day care after they were born…if you’re interested, you sign up right when they’re born.”
She was also unemployed at the time, and receiving guidance and family support services through Growing Up New Mexico’s Bridges to Opportunity program. Ferrer’s coach asked if she had ever considered starting her own home-based child care center, given Ferrer’s bachelor’s degree in psychology and family and child studies.
From there, Ferrer learned about Growing Up New Mexico’s statewide, six-month bilingual Training Home Educators Accelerator program, which allows prospective and current child care providers to receive training, peer coaching and individualized support to develop (or expand) their own home-based child care businesses.
“When I found out about this, I realized that I could [not only] make an income and provide for my kids, but also provide for other families who need the assistance and don’t have a day care or a place to leave their children,” Ferrer says.
Her elder child, now 2 ½ years old, only just got into a day care program this year, she says. Her younger child, who is about 10 months old, remains on a waitlist. Ferrer says she knows plenty of other families in similar situations.
New Mexico has made significant strides in recent years making child care more financially accessible for working families, most notably in May 2022 when the Early Childhood Education & Care Department expanded eligibility for child care assistance. Data from ECECD shows that in April 2022 versus May 2024—the most recent month with available data— the number of children receiving child care assistance funds increased by close to 47%. In its annual report for 2023, ECECD reports 25,839 chil dren on average received a monthly child care subsidy.
Reductions in cost, however, don’t al ways translate to a child being accepted into a program, especially with a shortage of providers. According to data from nonprofit Child Care Aware of America, between 2022 and 2023, licensed child care programs in New Mexico decreased from 585 to 529; and the number of licensed family child care homes decreased from 296 to 241. This is an area the THE Accelerator program hopes to address. Calixte Raifsnider, Growing Up
New Mexico ‘s communications and policy operations manager, says its goal is “ultimately, to expand quality child care in New Mexico by strengthening both the business and child care.”
This year’s program, which ended in June, had 76 graduates. Raifsnider tells SFR 43%
Raifsnider says. “It’s a small business model with minimal start-up costs. Plus, many of the home-based caregivers we work with are incredibly driven and are working toward opening their own centers.”
In an email to SFR, ECECD Secretary Elizabeth Groginsky says programs like THE Accelerator are “essential” for growing the supply of quality child care in New Mexico.
“THE Accelerator offers critical resources to help establish and grow a family child care business, like a network of providers to share support, knowledge and skills,” Groginsky writes. “By equipping family child care providers to both manage their business and deliver high quality early childhood education and care, THE Accelerator and programs like it are contributing to a stronger and more sustainable child care industry in New Mexico that meets the diverse needs of young children and their families.”
Ferrer, one of this year’s graduates, now is in the process of preparing her home, applying for a license and looking at funding options for her business, which she says will likely take her about a year to fully set up. Until then, she’s working in early intervention at the ECECD’s Family, Infant and Toddler program, which provides evaluations, therapy and other support for children with developmental delays or disabilities.
of child care providers in this year’s program expressed that they were able to increase the number of children in their care.
“With so many centers at capacity, growing home-based care is a really immediate way to address the child care crisis,”
“I don’t want to take care of someone’s family if I’m not qualified; I want to make sure I am providing the best care,” Ferrer says. “What I loved about THE Accelerator is that every provider who did already have a home-based day care—they were so thoughtful. They really showed that they don’t just take care of your kids at home, but they want to teach them and provide quality care—have fun activities, make sure they’re feeding them well and that they have a good experience.”
Carla Ferrer was first inspired to become a child care provider by her own two children.
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An ecopsychologist investigates the 2024 Roswell UFO Festival
BY JAMES REICH author@sfreporter.com
FRIDAY, JULY 5
UFO abductee Travis Walton occupies a curious position at the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell. He is both present in person for the 2024 Roswell UFO Festival, and as an exhibit. There is something uncanny about finding him sitting at a table not 20 feet from the museum’s collection of news clippings and ephemera documenting his 1975 encounter with a flying saucer and its occupants. Walton’s story would become the 1993 film Fire in the Sky.
Red-haired, mustached, conservatively dressed, this is the last time he will appear so relaxed during the three days of the festival. Walton is one of the stars, a patriarch of the scene. He will find much of his time missing as wide-eyed visitors extend their clammy hands toward him.
He tells me: “I have a lot of people relating to me experiences they had, sightings and even more vivid stories. Mostly, people are sincere. In some cases, they’re mistaken, but it’s a very real phenomenon and people are taking it more seriously.”
What renders one account more credible than another?
“Well, I don’t like to make comments on other people’s stories. My biggest critics didn’t even have the facts. If I haven’t re-
searched a case, I won’t comment on it. In some cases, people are describing an experience, and some are describing things they couldn’t know but are assuming. I shy away from identifying which are the most credible or not, but there’s definitely a huge range. There are people who misidentify something or have vivid dreams or something of that nature.”
Walton’s exhibit is beside that of Betty and Barney Hill, whose 1961 claim of abduction was dramatized as The UFO Incident (1975). Walton’s detractors regard this as source material to his own story. The juxtaposition gives him no discomfort. He is uncomfortable, however, with the body-horror aspects of his Hollywood treatment and thinks it requires revision.
I ask Walton what he has observed of the festival’s evolution. “I think the festival has not only benefited from the increasing acceptance of the phenomenon,” he says, “but they’ve also added to that increasing acceptance. People are much more scientifically oriented in their perception.”
Conceived in 1995, the Roswell UFO Festival commemorates the notorious 1947 Roswell incident when “something” crashed down on the JB Foster ranch, 65 miles outside the city. In 1995, The X-Files was cult viewing on Fox, and the risible Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction aired on the same channel in August that year. “And tourists are money,” as Johnny Rotten sang. The festival zapped the zeitgeist.
The term “flying saucer” entered the Cold War consciousness in the last week of June 1947 when amateur aviator Kenneth Arnold reported a sighting of unidentified flying objects over Mount Rainier, Washington, their trajectories “like a saucer if you skip it across the water.”
On July 8, 1947, a press release from Roswell Army Air Field began, “The many rumors regarding the flying disc became a reality yesterday when the intelligence office of the 509th Bomb group of the Eighth Air Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc through the cooperation of one of the local ranchers and the sheriff’s office of Chaves County. The flying object landed on a ranch near Roswell sometime last week.”
This narrative was hastily revised: merely a ragged weather balloon. This held until 1978 when retired Major Jesse Marcel, who appears in famous 1947 photographs allegedly handling weather balloon materials from the crash site, told UFO researcher Stanton Friedman that the balloon story had been a tinfoil fabrication, swapped with the real materials in a ‘cover-up.’
Academic and para-academic research into the Roswell incident and other UFO phenomena are, nominally, at the core of the festival, its schedule of speakers occupying the video room and North Library of the UFO Museum. But even the larger library space has seating for only 150 guests. This and the 60-seat video room are not always filled.
Outside of these serious environs one is surrounded by the carnivalesque and burlesque trappings of UFO culture. Seven blocks of Main Street are closed to traffic and filled with pedestrians and vendors. There is a shifting landfill of plastic between the rumbling of generators and concession tents, much tinsel waving in the incessantly awful EDM that thuds from the beer garden and from the storefronts, flashing lights, face-paint and alien sunglasses. The iconography of the alien, the bulbous head and large eyes, is everywhere. There is no end of tat to be purchased. These trinkets are fun, the panelists repeat, but don’t forget what we’re really here for.
Three times, I am handed something for free. Each time it is from an evangelical Christian: a child gives me an alien-faced $1 million bill with a tract on the reverse that begins: “Greetings Earthlings! Have you ever wondered about if there’s life outside this world?” and continues incredulously, “If aliens did exist, what would they think of humans—that people are basically good?” Revealingly, there’s no space to endorse my million dollars. A woman hands me Three Final Warning Messages to Planet Earth, a stark ad monition against worship of the Beast, and, apparently, Photoshop. A preppy young man named Billy hands me an “alien card,” something like a driver’s license. It asks, “Are You Alienated from God?” There is a curious tension between the conservative, religious citizens of Roswell and those whom they perceive as perverted cultists invading their city. This clash of ideologies is real but repressed. I push Billy on this—some see aliens in angelic terms, and some as satanic presences—but he stays on scripture.
Diana and Andy Bednara are here to celebrate Diana’s 50th birthday. “As a sci-fi fan,” Andy says, “you’re
gonna know Roswell.” Diana describes a childhood encounter with mysterious lights over Texas. “We followed the lights as far as we could until they suddenly disappeared. I was excited and scared, and it was interesting. It was something that my mom and I shared, and”—she laughs—“we couldn’t talk to anyone else about it!”
SATURDAY, JULY 6
Leaving Stellar Coffee, I interrupt a column of Star Wars cosplayers. Can Darth Maul offer any insights? “I can’t,” Maul demurs. “I’m on my way to judge the Alien Pet Contest.” Of course he is.
Amelia and Bill Kelly are here from Oklahoma. Despite the heat, they are in good humor. Their two dogs are attired for the contest, one as a flying saucer, the other wearing a tinfoil hat. Amelia explains, “I’ve always loved aliens and UFOs. This is our second time to the festival. This one is a lot bigger.”
Did some experience inspire their fascination?
“I’ve seen some stuff,” Amelia says, “but nothing too crazy. I really want to get abducted.”
How does one make oneself a more attractive target for UFOs?
“I mean, we’ve been decorating, and being as welcoming as possible.”
What does she hope to learn?
“I just assume they’re friendly. If they’re out there, and they know about us, they could have done what they wanted with us a long time ago, so I think they’re mostly friendly.”
Bill is enthusiastic about the vibrant community on Main Street. “All the people have been awesome. It’s enough just to be here with everyone else. I haven’t met anyone you’d say is strange.”
Well Bill, I remind him, it’s early.
I am about to talk with a Roswell resident whose poodle is dyed green and wearing sunglasses, when a television crew from NewsNation descends upon her. For the next two days, every event that I attend will include at least one mention of NewsNation. Perhaps the real psy-op here is that NewsNation has identified a debris field of shiny libertarianism and is insinuating itself among the unsuspecting.
Back at the museum, I meet Don Schmitt, former special investigator for Project Bluebook consultant Dr. J. Allen Hynek, and author of Cover-Up at Roswell: Exposing the 70-year Conspiracy to Suppress the Truth. I like him immediately. After Hynek established the Center for UFO Studies, Schmitt became director of Special Investigations. “I was on [Hynek’s] board of directors for 10 years, and I was a skeptic. The one case we wanted to go after was Roswell. And that’s what began all this, the fact that we were wrong. We saw that after the first trip here to New Mexico, because we focused on witnesses who we were speaking to first-hand who held the wreckage.”
What were his emotions during the transition from skeptic to investigator of a cover-up?
“Even being at the crash site for the first time, it was like being on a battlefield. And the isolation added to that.”
With his serious baritone, he will be the best speaker of the conference. In his forthcoming book, he will be “focusing on all of the violations of civil rights, the First Amendment, due process…It’s going to be our day in court, so to speak.”
As a former skeptic, has he met many critics during his visits to Roswell?
“I would imagine that most skeptics would feel that this was a lion’s den,” he says.
Which of us is real?
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Travis Walton and James Reich on day one.
“But I’ve always debated so I’m not afraid to present our case. I would suggest it’s because their case is so faulty on the very premise that they’re asking us to trust and believe the government. Especially in recent years, anyone in the media who begins ‘well, doesn’t the government…’ Right there. End of argument. The other big difference is that we’ve interviewed over 600 witnesses either directly or indirectly involved. Down to a man, woman, and child, from that time, they all swore that it did happen.”
I see several panels on Saturday. Alejandro Rojas of Open Minds TV discusses royal and political claims of UFO experience, notably adduction claimant Miyuki Hatoyama, wife of the former Prime Minister of Japan Yukio Hatoyama; Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the former president of Kalmykia, a Putin ally and sometime chess partner of Muammar Gaddafi, who claimed to have been ab ducted in 1997; and Lord Mountbatten’s statement in support of UFO sighting by a worker at his Broadlands estate in 1955. Rojas also holds forth on the Kelly-Hopkinsville case of 1955 which gave rise to the “little green man” trope and which inspired Spielberg’s Gremlins and E.T. the Extraterrestrial, and on the strange case of the Allagash Abductions of 1976. Thom Reed lays out his “off-world incident,” and a conspiracy surrounding the death of his father.
Ben Hansen of SyFy Channel’s Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files and the Discovery+ series UFO Witness makes the case that “There is no official plan for disclosure” of what the government already knows and may yet come to know about UFOs and extraterrestrial contacts. Hansen makes projections based on other “‘reality compromising events”—not least the COVID-19 pandemic—to predict psycho-
social collapse. On the subject of disclosure, but without evidence, Hansen states, “The last four presidents know enough to not ask more.”
An audience member begins to ask a question: “Does the president know what’s going on—?” provoking hysterical laughter from the packed room. Biden, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye are derided here. In part, the room is packed with people waiting for the next speaker. When Hansen finishes taking questions, he makes room for Travis Walton, who will appear after a 30-minute break. There is a minor stam-
pede for vacated seats towards the front. This is a Darwinian moment at the North Library.
4 PM: Travis Walton’s arrival is preceded by a video montage of clips from Fire in the Sky and television interviews with Geraldo Rivera. A smoke machine would not seem out of place, such is the anticipation in the darkened auditorium. Walton emerges to firm, earnest applause. It has been almost 50 years since his five-day disappearance. He returns to the three beings he saw from an operating table aboard an alien vessel. Of these pallid, slight figures with their bulbous heads and dark eyes he reports, “They were trying to butcher me, or control me. I was hysterical. But in hindsight, they may have been trying to help.” Walton’s affect is not that of a man trying to convince anyone of anything.
L-R: Hansen, Smith, Walton and Lewis discuss aliens.
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Moments before abduction by NewsNation.
“I am dealing with extreme trauma […] It has been devastating to my life.”
In response to a question, he confirms that he believes he was operated on. But, in general, Walton sees the presence of extraterrestrial life within our precincts as benign. UFOs have shut down nuclear silos to warn us. Their elusiveness, he says, “the glimpses we get are deliberate. It’s the only constructive thing they can do. Right now, they’re not that interested in revealing themselves to us…I’m sorry, but we’re a bunch of savages.”
Walton has only an hour before his next panel. An autograph line forms immediately as he concludes. I listen to people sharing stories with him, young men in NASA T-shirts, punks, cops, married couples. One man won’t leave Walton alone, even as there is concern that Walton hasn’t eaten anything yet. The man insists: Smoking a joint one night, he realized that since WWII, the government has been using satellites to project CGI of UFOs to manipulate the masses. We have drifted into a fathomless current of batshit. Finally, Walton snaps slightly: “And you’ve reported this to people?” He escapes with minutes to spare.
6 PM: Walton returns onstage with Ben Hansen. They are joined by Yvonne Smith, hypnotherapist and author of CHOSEN: From the Alien Hybrid Program to the Fate of the Planet, and moderator Clyde Lewis, host of the Ground Zero radio show. The subject of disclosure recurs. Quite reasonably, Walton appears exhausted. Disclosure, the panel concurs, will be driven not by the government, but by the experiencers. Things are about to get weird(er).
Smith describes her regression sessions with traumatized UFO experiencers: “The hybridization program is very central to this. Everyone that I work with has gone through this: ova taken; sperm taken. When they’re taken up to the ship, they’re shown these children, told that they’re their children and they must bond with them for them to survive. So, they abduct [the human parent] periodically. And they show them their children in different stages of growth. It’s heartbreaking. We humans, we bond with our children…They don’t seem to have that capability. So, when humans aren’t able to take their hybrid babies back to Earth with them, it’s heartbreaking. Men and women cry. […] I’ve asked [the aliens] many times, ‘Can you tell me what you’re doing?’ I don’t have any answers. But they are deceptive…They’ll come into someone’s home to abduct them, and the person is having a regression and they’re saying, ‘Oh, that’s Mom. Mom’s standing there,’ in their dining room. And they’re so happy to see her, but Mom has passed away. And then they go up to the ship because the abductee feels very comfortable. And they’re on the ship and
all of a sudden, they’re looking at Mom and Mom begins to morph into the alien being.”
It’s too much like a chapter from Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles. This, to distort Agent Mulder, is what “I Don’t Want to Believe,” or cannot. I take an existential psychoanalytic position, opposed to Smith’s alien teleology. For me, it would be pro-
foundly unethical, or in itself pathological, to encourage anyone to take these altered states of consciousness as physical and historical realities. It strikes me as cruel to encourage such delusions in vulnerable people. This panel has lost its way.
Briefly, a mist of predictable colonial guilt gathers about the stage.
Of alien morality, Hansen takes a Manichean view: some aliens are “almost angelic,” and some are “very selfish beings.”
When they’re taken up to the ship, they’re shown these children, told that they’re their children and they must bond with them for them to survive.
-Yvonne Smith, hypnotherapist
Clyde Lewis redirects, invoking quantum computer developer Geordie Rose’s view that theoretical physics experiments at CERN are opening dimensions that can bring forth the ‘Old Ones’ of HP Lovecraft’s cosmic horror fiction. Lewis continues, “I call it ‘pushing God through a wormhole.’ Do you think that some of these beings are dimensional beings that are being brought forward with the experimentation we’re seeing in Geneva?”
…I may have stayed too long at the fair.
Lewis continues, “I’ve discussed this idea with Avi Loeb (Harvard)…The possibility that we’re dealing with a number of alien beings, if they exist, that are hanging out in the Jovian system. The Jovian system is the area between Jupiter and Saturn. A lot of people don’t know how big it is; it’s huge… There is always the possibility that there is an armada of alien ships, or rogue ships and they have Bracewell probes watching us every minute.” This is the point I knew I would arrive at. Moments later, to Lewis’ audible irritation, an assistant approaches the stage and takes Travis Walton away. He has to appear in the evening’s parade.
SUNDAY, JULY 7
I’m in the shade on Main Street. Aside from the generators, it is quiet. There is birdsong. Kids play basketball at the end of the enclosure. There is a hungover quality, as if the festival’s Parade of Lights—its cargo cult atmosphere—burned too brightly last night. I listen to Kevin Randle, who seems rattled by the silence and being locked out of the North Library as he was due to begin. Self-effacing, Randle identifies a number of UFO hoaxes, persevering against some disappointed objections from his audience. Don Schmitt gives a dynamic lecture on his latest Roswell research, for which I thank him. I appreciate his methodology, his empiricism, wherever it leads. But now, Yvonne Smith is about to host an Experiencer Session. I can’t bear to watch. I think of JG Ballard’s ironic observation: “The only truly alien planet is Earth.” I start heading for the motorway…
James Reich is an ecopsychologist, author of Wilhelm Reich versus The Flying Saucers: An American Tragedy, and several novels. Learn more at jamesreichbooks.com
Covering the cover-up at Roswell.
JAMES REICH
JAMES REICH
Smith presents what sounds like an X-Files plot as reality.
THE GENESIS OF GEMS
Jewelry designer and gemologist Barbara Weber Yoffee has been interested in jewelry-making since she was 8 years old, after watching a goldsmith and family friend create custom rings for her mother.
One of five regularly presenting artists at Santa Fe’s DBS Fine Art Gallery, Yoffee this week discusses the history of gem and jewelry manufacturing dating back to Mesopotamia, Rome and Egypt, presenting images of ancient pieces (including a diamond ring she says is thousands of years old). “Human beings have had a sense of beauty for as long as we’ve been here, she tells SFR. “It’s really amazing to see what has been created over thousands of years from different cultures.” (Mo Charnot)
Ancient Gems and Jewelry: The Lure and Lore of Gemstones: 4-6:30 pm Thursday, July 18. Free. DBS Fine Art Gallery, 821 Canyon Road, Ste. 5, (505) 395-6178
SUMMERTIME AND THE LIVING IS PRETTY
Obscura Gallery founder and curator Jennifer Schlessinger readily admits the pieces fell into place by happy accident for her currently running Picturesque Summer show featuring photographers Rania Matar, Aline Smithson, Susan Burnstine and Jennifer Spelman. In the show, find seaside portraits, rain-swollen clouds over the desert, an unmanned boat adrift in a lake. “You know what?” Schlesinger says ahead of the show’s public reception this week, “It totally fell into place, and it’s kind of funny, because it occurred to me after it was put together that all four of them are Santa Fe Photo Workshops instructors, but that wasn’t part of why I wanted to show the work.” Of course, each shooter’s eye is totally different, but their disparate bodies of work do somehow create a whole—one steeped in a bittersweet summer-fueled ache of nostalgia; the reminder of being totally free in a world full of beauty. (Alex De Vore)
At this point, the New Mexico History Museum’s Native American Portal Artisans Program is what we might call pretty famous. A quick overview for the uninitiated: A number of Indigenous artists ply their wares on the portal of the Palace of the Governors; and the ongoing program has been popular with locals and visitors alike. This weekend, however, the kids are in charge. At the Summer Youth Show this Saturday and Sunday, meet the next generation of Indigenous creators aged 5-17 and check out their early works before they get all famous later. Chances are, you’ll find some gorgeous pieces, but you’ll also get bragging rights when the kids come into their own down the line. (ADV)
Native American Artisans Portal Summer Youth Show: 10 am-4 pm Saturday, July 20 and Sunday, July 21. Free. New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., (505) 475-5100
Mind-bending Soiree
Leading psychedelic and spiritual leaders descend on Santa Fe for enlightening fundraiser
Ram Dass and Timothy Leary are considered the original gangsters of the psychedelic movement for good reason.
As Harvard colleagues in the 1960s, psychologists Ram Dass, then known as Richard Alpert, and Leary conducted extensive research on psychedelics and discovered a number of benefits for mental health and spiritual growth, plus insights into the brain that would later form the basis for modern neuroscience. Ultimately, they drifted apart, with Ram Dass taking a spiritual path and Leary leaning more toward the revolutionary. The story of their work, lives, friendship and reunion as Leary was dying in the mid-’90s form the premise of the 2014 documentary Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary from director Gay Dillingham. Narrated by Robert Redford, Dying taps into how Ram Dass put his spiritual practices and experiences working with the dying into action to comfort his friend at the end of his life. And though Ram Dass also died in 2019, the work continues.
This Thursday, the Ram Dass Love Serve Remember Foundation teams up with Santa Fe psychedelics proponent Nancy Worthington-Broyles and Violet Crown Cinema for a fundraising event and screening of Dying to Know. Ahead of the screening, moviegoers can attend a panel
discussion between Dillingham and leading experts in today’s psychedelic-spurred healing and spirituality movement— including Upaya Zen Center founder Roshi Joan Halifax; interspiritual author and educator Mirabai Starr; and Adele Getty, director of the pro-psychedelic Limina Foundation. The panel also includes clergy members who participated in a joint John Hopkins University/New York University study into psychedelics and religious leaders. An afterparty with food, drinks and music follows.
Aside from fundraising, WorthingtonBroyles tells SFR, the goal is to build community and raise awareness about the spiritual and medicinal components of psychedelics.
“This work is really, really important,” she says. “People suffer and people are in pain. [Psychedelics help] to relieve anxiety, to relieve trauma, to relieve all of those things; and opening up your neuropathways the tiniest bit to remind your brain what feels normal.” (Heidi Fillingim)
PSYCHEDELICS TO SPIRITUALITY FILM SCREENING AND PANEL 4:30-8:30pm Thursday, July 18. $50-$1,000 Violet Crown Cinema 1606 Alcaldesa Street, (505) 216-5678
RANIA
HANNAH
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WED/17
ART
RECYCLE ART SHOW
Artistic License Gallery
7 Ave Vista Grande d7, (505) 920-0997
Artists Rob and Teresa Reese and Pi Luna create art from salvaged recyclables. 10 am - 6 pm
WEDNESDAY PAINTING CLASS
Mantecon Studio
123 A Camino Teresa, (503) 473-2786
A painting class to connect with other artists and experience demos. 1:30-4:30 pm, $110
BOOKS/LECTURES
ENTRANCING EKPHRASTIC: POETS RESPOND TO ART HERE Gallery
213 E Marcy Street, (562) 243-6148
Poets read works created in response to the art of Gary Barten and Katherine Meyer. 6-7:30 pm
KARAOKE WEDNESDAYS
Santa Fe Brewing Company
35 Fire Place, (505) 424-3333
Karaoke hosted by drag legend CoCo Caliente. 6-9 pm
SHAKESPEARE’S THE MERCHANT OF VENICE TALK
St. John’s College 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca, (505) 984-6000
A St. John’s tutor gives an analysis of one of Shakespeare’s most beloved plays. 1 pm
EVENTS
CHESS AT THE MALL
DeVargas Center 564 N Guadalupe St., (505) 983-4671
Play timed or untimed, and make friends ranging from beginners up to tournament veterans.
10 am-1 pm
CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY AND PAINTING: HISTORY, TECHNIQUE AND TALES
DBS Fine Art Gallery 821 Canyon Road, Ste. 5, (505) 395-6178
Artist Debra Self discusses the ancient art of calligraphy, thought to be one of the oldest continuous art forms dating back to 770 BCE.
11 am-12 pm
DRAG BINGO
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135
An evening of bingo, laughter and dazzling drag. 7-9 pm, $20
KIDS SING ALONG: RAILYARD PARK
Railyard Park
Cerrillos Road and Guadalupe St., (505) 982-3373
Teachers Sarah-Jane and B lead classes through a variety of engaging music games and singalongs for toddlers and babies.
A time to drink some coffee and connect with fellow LGBTQ+ community members. Also? There’s a brunch.
9:30-11 am
THE AVIZEH COLLECTIVE: 3 CUPS OF TEA
Santa Fe Public Library (Southside) 6599 Jaguar Drive, (505) 955-2820
A talk and celebration with Santa Fe Refugee Collaborative founder Miraj Bukhari-Frayer and a group of international panelists on Pakistan’s culture, heritage and beauty.
4:30-6:30 pm
VAMONOS! SANTA FE WALKS
Various locations sfct.org/vamonos (505) 989-7019
Explore trails, get fresh air and meet your community at a free guided walk.
5:30 pm
MUSIC
BOXCAR PRESENTS:
SINDUSTRY NIGHT WITH DJ
D-MONIC
Boxcar
133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222
DJ DMonic busts out the Latin beats.
9 pm-2 am
JIM ALMAND
Cowgirl
319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565
A blues singer-songwriter.
4 pm
KARAOKE NIGHT
Boxcar
133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222
Warm up those vocal chords and come with your go-to karaoke song. Crash Romeo hosts every Wednesday.
7 pm
SWING SOLEIL
El Rey Court
1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931
This four-piece quartet plays music ranging from gypsy jazz to swingin’ standards.
8 pm
WARM UP WEDNESDAY
Boxcar
133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222
Hip-hop night every Wednesday, featuring live performances, a rotating roster of DJs, emcees and more. Curated by DJ DMonic.
9 pm
LATE NIGHT DRIVE HOME
Meow Wolf
1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369
An alternative/indie-rock band with guest act Tony Jupiter. 7 pm, $15-$20
WORKSHOP
BEYOND NORMAL POP-UP
Beyond Normal 312 Montezuma Ave., Ste. E, (505) 690-9829
A studio workshop and popup featuring vintage and contemporary art objects and other random delights. ongoing by appointment
Iconic jeweler and metalsmith Robert Ebendorf displays his inventive use of found objects in Ebendorf & the Usual Suspects II, opening at 5 pm on July 20 at form & concept.
INTRODUCTION TO CHESS
Santa Fe Community College
6401 Richards Ave., (505) 428-1000
Learn chess from square one and start with the basic rules, then progress to tactics and checkmates.
7-9 pm, $129
THU/18
BOOKS/LECTURES
BOOK TALK WITH AUTHOR
SALLIE BINGHAM
Santa Fe Public Library (Main Branch)
145 Washington Ave., (505) 955-6781
Bingham discusses her novel Taken by the Shawnee, which touches on themes of survival, progress and healing.
5:30-6:30 pm
WHY IS AFFORDABLE
HOUSING IN SUCH SHORT SUPPLY?
Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo De Peralta, livabilityspeakerseries.com
Homewise welcomes educator Katherine Levine Einstein to discuss how cities derive neighborhood input on new housing projects.
6-8 pm
DANCE
INTRO TO PARTNER DANCE
Dance Station: Solana Center, 947-B W Alameda St., (505) 989-9788
A beginner’s class on Latin, swing, tango and more.
6:45-7:30 pm, $10
EVENTS
ANCIENT GEMS AND JEWELRY: THE LURE AND LORE OF GEMSTONES
DBS Fine Art Gallery 821 Canyon Road, Ste. 5, (505) 395-6178
Jewelry designer and gemologist Barbara Weber Yoffee discusses the history of jewelry and gems that dates back thousands of years (See SFR Picks, page 17).
4-6:30 pm
ANIMAL MEET AND GREET
Santa Fe Children’s Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 989-8359
Meet the museum’s snake, lizard and turtle.
12:30-1 pm
CHESS AT THE MALL
DeVargas Center 564 N Guadalupe St., (505) 983-4671
Play chess and make new friends.
10 am-1 pm
LADIES NIGHT Boxcar
133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222
Ladies get free entry, $5 for everyone else.
10 pm
LET’S MINGLE ON THE ROOFTOP, SINGLES 40, 50, 60+
Drury Plaza Hotel 828 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 424-2175
Meet singles, form friendships and create meaningful connections.
6-8:30 pm
LOCALS NIGHT: FEATURING WIZARDS KARAOKE AND ONE TRICK PONY BURGER
La Reina 1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931
Though Wizards Karaoke is not run by actual wizards, you might still cook up musical magic betwixt the songs and the burgers.
6
pm
TRIVIA NIGHT AT CHOMP
CHOMP Food Hall
505 Cerrillos Road, (505) 772-0946
Trivia Night every Thursday. Gather a team and win prizes while checking out the food and drink options at Santa Fe’s only food hall.
Leading figures in today’s psychedelics and healing movements discuss the legacy of Ram Dass, followed by a screening of the film Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary
(See SFR Picks, page 17).
4:30-8:30 pm, $50
SHE FREAK
No Name Cinema
2013 Pinon St., nonamecinema.org
A film about a waitress who joins a carnival, marries the owner and makes various employees her enemies. Where has this film been our whole lives?
7:30 pm
MUSIC
BILL HEARNE
Cowgirl
319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565
Santa Fe’s own country music legend drops by with flat-pickin’ and guitar-slingin’.
4-6 pm
BLUE WAVE BLUES BAND AT ORIGAMI IN THE GARDEN
Origami In The Garden
3453 State Highway 14, Cerrillos, (505) 471-4688
Live blues music with Lydia Clark and Blue Wave Blues Band.
6-8 pm
DJ OPTAMYSTIK
Cowgirl
319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565
This local DJ will have you up on the dance floor with dance jams, hip-hop and more. 7 pm
THE CALENDAR
DAVID GEIST MUSIC EXPERIENCE
Osteria D’Assisi
58 S Federal Place, (505) 986-5858
The Tony-winning pianist/ vocalist performs the best of Broadway, pop and originals. 7-10 pm, $5
FOLK MUSIC KARAOKE
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135
Hit the stage and leave the rest to the Queen Bee Music Association—they’ll provide the songbook and live band to back you up.
7-9 pm
GARRY BLACKCHILD
The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 NM-14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743
An indie folk singer-songwriter with hints of Americana, country and blues. 7 pm
GARY GORENCE
Ahmyo Wine Garden & Patio
652 Canyon Road, (505) 428-0090
Gorence’s Oklahoma and West Texas upbringing comes alive in his musical narratives, as do his guitar, banjo, harmonica and vocals. 2-5 pm
PAT MALONE
TerraCotta Wine Bistro
304 Johnson St., (505) 989-1166
Malone plays solo jazz guitar. 6-8 pm
SANTA FE BANDSTAND: SMOOTH: SANTANA’S BIRTHDAY
Santa Fe Plaza
63 Lincoln Ave., lensic360.org
A birthday celebration for Carlos Santana, featuring the Latin rock-inspired band SMOOTH and singer-songwriter, Mickey Cruz. 6 pm
STRANGERS FROM AFAR
Beer Creek Brewing Company 3810 Hwy. 14, (505) 471-9271
Original psychedelic folk-rock and alt.country tunes under the cottonwoods on the patio. 5-7 pm
THEATER
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
Santa Fe Playhouse
142 E De Vargas St., (505) 988-4262
A 1984 musical inspired by the painting, “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” by Georges Seurat. 7:30-10 pm, $5-$60
THE EXODUS ENSEMBLE PRESENTS: HAMLET
Center For Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338
An immersive adaptation of Hamlet. Advanced reservation required. 7:30 pm
Fiesta de Los Niños
July 20–21 10 am–4 pm
AUG. 9 - 18
by Carolyn Gage
Directed by Robert Benedetti
A staged reading of nine years of intimate and revealing letters between Georgia O'Keeffe and Maria Chabot, a non-conforming lesbian, hosted by Mary Wheewright
SEPT. 4 - 22
by Lanford Wilson
Directed by Nicholas Ballas
The struggle toward emotional honesty of Wilson’s lovers exemplifies the strength, humor, and complexity of one of America's greatest playwrights. Like much of Wilson's work, the play includes themes of gay relationships.
BY LAYLA ASHER
WHERE HAS THE SEX GONE?
Arbery
OCT. 9 - 27 by Will
Directed by Zoe Lesser
NOV. 13 - DEC. 1
EDEN PRAIR
19 by Mat
A scrupulously hewn drama about four alumni of a conservative Catholic college who clash over theology, the political ideas of Steve Bannon, revolution, and personal responsibility.
Smart
Directed by Nicholas Ballas
A Vietnam draftdodger steals home from Canada, risking arrest to deliver an important message to his childhood friend. A gentle play that questions our notions of bravery and commitment.
As someone who spent the weekend binging sexy shows on Netflix, for a brief moment I was just delulu enough to think every relationship must be as passionate as those on Bridgerton—and certainly all sex must be as steamy as 365 Days (insert hot pepper emoji here).
I know that even on its best day, Santa Fe feels like a far cry from Regency-era England or 50 Shades of Italy à la 365 Days, but after a quick look through my inbox and discovering the number of writers in sexless relationships therein, my delulu ass was sent spinning right back down to Earth. Let’s see if we can reignite the spark for some of you and some hope for the rest of us.
My boyfriend and I haven’t had sex since the beginning of our relationship. Sex isn’t very enjoyable for me; it’s actually painful, to be honest, and can feel like I am losing my virginity each time. I’m afraid if I keep denying him, he will find another woman and cheat or just break up with me. Please help. I don’t know what to do.
-AFRAID OF THE PAIN
First, has sex always been painful for you? If so, have you talked to a healthcare professional? Maybe you don’t know, but there is actually a name for what it sounds like you’re going through, and it’s dyspareunia. The Mayo Clinic describes dyspareunia as “lasting or recurrent genital pain that occurs just before, during or after sex.” According to the Mayo, although the physical causes can differ depending on whether the pain happens at entry or with deep thrusting, emotional factors can be linked to painful intercourse, too.
The National Library of Medicine also has info on the matter that states dyspareunia can affect “10 to 28% of the population in a lifetime,” so the good news is you are definitely not alone and, in all probability, there will likely be a way for you to enjoy sex. This will take time and a willingness to deepen your understanding of what’s going on with your body, but there is an absolute light at the end of this tunnel if you broaden your understanding and maybe speak with a doctor.
Having said that, I really want to emphasize that if you do this, you should do it for you and your future sex/life and health, not because you are afraid your
boyfriend will cheat on or leave you. Have you told him why you don’t enjoy sex? As I’m sure you know, plenty of other sexual and sensual ways exist to connect with your partner that don’t involve insertion, assuming that’s the painful part for you. Have you been trying those? I’m going to echo the advice from my favorite television therapist, Ona Guralnik of the show Couples Therapy: Simply take sex off the table for right now. You can keep the flow of sexual energy between you by enjoying kissing, foreplay and even sexting, but you might also create some room for your boyfriend to show up for you in the way that you need. If he’s not willing to do that, then, frankly, let the trash take itself out.
My wife and I have been going through a really long dry spell. It’s at the point now where neither one of us initiates sex and we also don’t talk about it. It feels like we are roommates. I want to initiate but what if she rejects me?
-STUCK IN A RUT
Please do initiate, SIAR! The conversation, that is. When we get complacent with communication—which, let’s be honest, absolutely happens in most long-term relationships, so no shade—it leaves a lot of time for people to conjure up what might be happening in their own heads. Like, what if, as you say, she rejects you? Well, what if she’s over there already feeling rejected by you? This is good for absolutely no one. As I’m sure you are sensing, hurt feelings increase, assumptions about the other person become “true” and it starts to feel like the ship has sailed. Setting aside all of the what-ifs, assumptions and ship-sailing, just have the conversation with her. Ask her how she’s feeling about the lack of sex in your marriage and try to be open with whatever she shares with you, no matter how uncomfortable it might be to hear. Remember, this is neither about semantics, nor right or wrong, but ultimately about connecting in a sexual way again. If the pressure of sex feels like too much for both of you right now, then try my earlier advice and take it off the table. Focus on building the sexual energy back up over time. Sometimes in life we receive gifts that don’t feel like gifts, like uncomfortable conversations and advice that reads like, “Don’t have sex so you can have sex!” Trust the process and follow through. The gifts are in there if you can open them.
Layla Asher is a local sex worker on a mission to spread radical self-love to her community and the world. Want to ask your local sex worker their expert opinion on something? Let’s start a sex positive conversation that keeps respect and confidentiality at the forefront and judgment a thing of the past. Please submit your questions to thenakedlayla@gmail.com and include an alias that protects your anonymity.
WORKSHOP WOODSHOP
Make Santa Fe
2879 All Trades Road, (505) 819-3502
Navigate a wood shop while learning the safety basics through practice. Process unmilled lumber for a mini hatrack you can take home.
10 am-2 pm, $90
FRI/19
ART OPENINGS
CHERI CHRISTENSEN: LIGHTING THE WAY (OPENING)
McLarry Fine Art
225 Canyon Road, (505) 988-1161
Christensen’s style conveys her love of farm life and animals through a series of oil paintings.
4-6 pm
PAMELA FRANKEL FIELDER: EMPOWER! (OPENING)
Intrigue Gallery
238 Delgado St., (505) 699-7810
These figurative oil portrait paintings express the message of urging women to find their empowerment.
5-7:30 pm
PICTURESQUE SUMMER (OPENING RECEPTION)
Obscura Gallery
225 Delgado St., (505) 577-6708
This group exhibition radiates the vibrant palettes and warmth of summer through the lens of four female photographers (See SFR Picks, page 17). 5-7 pm
TRANSCENDENTAL AND BEYOND: THE ESSENCE OF ART (OPENING)
Addison Rowe Gallery
229 E Marcy St., (505) 982-1533
This exhibit highlights 100 years of a diverse array of talented visionary women artists inspired by a connection with the Transcendental Painting Group.
5 pm-7:30 pm
YOANN PENARD : THE SILENCE OF SHADOWS (OPENING)
Keep Contemporary
142 Lincoln Ave., (505) 557-9574
On the borders of contemporary sculpture, Penard has sketched a universe of which he seems to know all the workings with infinite precision.
5-8 pm
BOOKS/LECTURES
ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN THE CITY DIFFERENT
DBS Fine Art Gallery
821 Canyon Road, Ste. 5, (505) 395-6178
Drawing from his latest book, The Santa Fe Compendium, John Self discusses the origins and quirks of art and architecture in Santa Fe.
5-6 pm
CREATIVEMORNINGS SANTA FE
NM Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary 404 Montezuma St., (505) 231-5065
This free monthly presentation series presents a talk with artist Peleg Top. RSVP one week in advance and bring your own mug.
8:30-10 am
DANCE
TARJAMA ENSEMBLE WORLD DANCE PARTY Paradiso 903 Early St., (505) 577-5248
A world music concert with global groove and movement masters offering up Arabic, Turkish, Roma and Greek tunes. 7:30 pm, $20
THE PUEBLO DANCE GROUP (LAGUNA, ACOMA, ZUNI, HOPI)
Museum of Indian Arts & Culture 710 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1269
The Pueblo Dance Group (Laguna, Acoma, Zuni, Hopi) performs dances that are connected to their ancestors, community and traditions. 2-3pm
EVENTS
CHESS AT THE MALL
DeVargas Center 564 N Guadalupe St., (505) 983-4671
Play chess and make new friends.
10 am-1 pm
CHESS INTRO AND PRACTICE
Tibet Kitchen
3003 S. St. Francis Drive, Ste. C, (505) 982-6796
Chess and chicken momos, anyone? An intro for beginners and open practice for all levels.
4:30-6:30 pm
SUMMER READING GLOW PARTY
Santa Fe Public Library (La Farge) 1730 Llano St., (505) 820-0292
A celebration for the end of the Summer Reading Program with DJ Roberto Lujan, bike giveaways, door prizes and more. 2-4 pm
TABLE TOP ROLE PLAYING NIGHT
Sorcery and Might 1966 Cerrillos Road, Ste. C, (505) 629-5965
Drop in for stress-free, beginner-friendly and introductory TTRPG games. Each week features a different story.
5-10 pm
THE AVIZEH COLLECTIVE: 3 CUPS OF TEA
Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., (505) 428-1000
A talk and celebration with Santa Fe Refugee Collaborative founder Miraj Bukhari-Frayer and a group of international panelists on Pakistan’s culture, heritage and beauty.
The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 NM-14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743
Psychedelic hillbilly funk. 8 pm
DIRTWIRE
Santa Fe Railyard Plaza 1612 Alcaldesa St., lensic360.org Swamptronica and electro-twang, with the local alt-rock ensemble Free Range Buddhas. 7 pm
ERYN BENT
The Mystic 2810 Cerrillos Road, (505) 471-7663
A full band show on the outdoor stage for a night of country-ish singer-songwriter tunes.
9 pm-1 am
FAMOUS ON THE WEEKEND
Cake’s Cafe
227 Galisteo St., (505) 303-4880
Party to cumbia, salsa and Latin hip-hop and house tunes. There is no way you won’t be up and dancing.
9 pm-1 am
FINE ART FRIDAY
Santa Fe Children’s Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 989-8359
A weekly exploration into the arts with special guests and fun and creative hands-on activities. Fine Art Friday programming is included in museum admission.
2-4 pm
FLASHBACK PROPHETS
La Tienda at Eldorado 7 Caliente Road, (505) 930-4821
Seasoned musicians with a deep love and respect for the classic era of ‘60s and ‘70s rock and blues play the Eldorado Farmers’ Market.
4-6 pm
QUASI Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369
Pacific Northwest indie rock duo plays their 1998 classic third album Featuring “Birds,” start to finish in its entirety for the first time. Our happiness is guaranteed! 8 pm
RANDOLPH AND THE VARIANTS Cowgirl
319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565
Classic Americana. 8 pm
STEPHANIE HATFIELD
The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 NM-14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743 Indie singer-songwriter. The raw power of Hatfield’s expansive voice might just blow you away. 5 pm
THE BLUE VENTURES
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135
The Española based 10 piece ensemble, Los Blue Ventures performs with special guests Santa Fe Express and DJ Optamystik. 7:30 pm, $30-$35
THEATER
ISC SANTA FE PRESENTS: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Dr., B, (505) 395-6576
A gender-swapped take on one of Shakespeare’s most provocative comedies.
The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, (505) 992-5800
PAT MALONE
Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi 113 Washington Ave., (505) 988-3030
Malone’s solo jazz guitar is a great addition to an evening of drinks and dinner in a relaxing environment.
6:30-8:30 pm
PATIO MUSIC SERIES: DJ PYGAR
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135
DJ Pygar takes you on a trip with intergalactic tunes from all over the multiverse.
5-8 pm
PERFORMANCE SANTA FE PRESENTS KENNY BARRON AND REGINA CARTER
Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St., (505) 988-1234
Two generations of jazz musicians join forces for an evening of piano and violin duets celebrating Barron’s 80th birthday. 7:30 pm, $25-$105
A classic musical from the 1950s about friendship, romance and the adventures of high school students. 7 pm, $8-$12
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., (505) 988-4262
A 1984 musical inspired by the painting, “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” by Georges Seurat. 7:30-10 pm, $5-$60
SAT/20
ART OPENINGS
CURATE SANTA FE PRESENTS DELIGHTFUL: A GROUP SHOW (OPENING)
Iconik Coffee Roasters (Original) 1600 Lena St., (505) 428-0996
A wide range of artistic mediums and points of views from a group of 10 talented artists. 4-6 pm
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Through a series of oil portrait paintings, artist Pamela Frankel Fielder inspires women to stand up and speak out for their rights. Empower! opens on Friday, July 19 at Intrigue Gallery.
THE CALENDAR
EBENDORF & THE USUAL SUSPECTS II (OPENING) form & concept
435 S Guadalupe St., (505) 216-1256
A showcase of new curiosities by jewelry and metalsmith icon Robert Ebendorf. 5-7 pm
GOVINDA SAH ‘AZAD’ + JUDY TUWALETSTIWA: BOUNDLESS (OPENING) Pie Projects
924B Shoofly St., (505) 372-7681
This two-person exhibit explores the concept of transcending elementalism through the mediums of paint and glass. 4-6 pm
POETRY IN METAL InterFusion Art
150 Washington Ave., Ste. 103, (303) 514-0193
Renowned contemporary fine art jeweler Liaung Chung Yen displays her work. Noon-2 pm
BOOKS/LECTURES
KIDS’ STORYTIME
Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse
202 Galisteo St., (505) 988-4226
Bring your kids, grandkids, nieces and nephews for story hour with bookseller Sarah. For ages 0-4. 10:30 am
DANCE
THE PUEBLO DANCE GROUP (LAGUNA, ACOMA, ZUNI, HOPI)
Museum of Indian Arts & Culture 710 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1269
The Pueblo Dance Group (Laguna, Acoma, Zuni, Hopi) performs dances that are connected to their ancestors, community, and traditions. 2-3pm
EVENTS
21ST ANNUAL SANTA FE FIESTA DE LOS NIÑOS
El Rancho de las Golondrinas 334 Los Pinos Road, (505) 471-2261
Crafts, storytelling, hands-on history activities and games are just some of the highlights of this festival for children and families.
10 am-4 pm, $0-$15
CHESS AT THE MALL DeVargas Center 564 N Guadalupe St., (505) 983-4671
Play timed or untimed, and make friends ranging from beginners to veterans.
10 am-1 pm
EL MERCADO DE EL MUSEO CULTURAL
El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, (505) 992-0591
A weekend market with more than 50 different vendors bringing art, jewelry and more. 10 am-4 pm
FAMILY STORY HOUR WITH
JOE HAYES
SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 989-1199
Celebrated storyteller Hayes keeps the magic going for another summer.
10:30 am
GLASS PATE DE VERRE
SHOES EXHIBIT
Globe Fine Art
727 Canyon Road, (505) 989-3888
Dori Settles gives a talk about her exhibit of glass pate de verre shoes.
10 am
QUEER NIGHT FEATURING PORTALFEST
La Reina
El Rey Court, 1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931
Synth maven Velvet Vision joins Delicate Flower, while celebrating the queer community and raising money to support Santa Fe’s DIY music festival Portalfest.
5:30-8:30 pm
SAND PLAY SATURDAY
Railyard Park 740 Cerrillos Road, (505) 316-3596
Kids get in the sandbox for a morning of exploration, connection and creative play.
10 am-Noon
SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET
West Casitas in the Santa Fe Railyard
Market Street, (505) 414-8544
Local juried artists sell their fine art and crafts. The best in pottery, jewelry, paintings, photography, sculpture and more.
9 am-2 pm
SANTA FE FARMER’S MARKET
Santa Fe Farmer’s Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 983-4098
Over 150 local farmers offer fresh produce, educational initiatives and community engagement.
8 am-1 pm
SANTA FE INDIGENOUS CENTER MEN’S GATHERING & DRUM MAKING WORKSHOP
Santa Fe Indigenous Center 1420 Cerrillos Road, (505) 660-4210
A drum-making workshop with materials provided: Register at: tinyurl.com/4w87j3du
10 am-3 pm
SANTA FE SOCIETY OF ARTISTS ART FAIR
Santa Fe Society of Artists 122 W Palace Ave., (505) 926-1497
An outdoor art fair with local artists showcasing a variety of fine art, photography scultpure and more.
9 am-5:30 pm
SCIENCE SATURDAY
Santa Fe Children’s Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 989-8359
Fun educational experiments and projects every Saturday. 2-4 pm
SUMMER READING GLOW PARTY
Santa Fe Public Library
145 Washington Avenue, (505) 9552839
A celebration for the end of the Summer Reading Program with DJ Roberto Lujan, grand prize bike giveaways, door prizes, and more.
11 am-1 pm
SUMMER READING GLOW PARTY
Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive, (505) 955-2820
A second round of celebration for book lovers, this time on the Southside.
3-5 pm
THE NATIVE AMERICAN ARTISANS PORTAL SUMMER YOUTH SHOW
New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., (505) 476-5100
Artists ages 5-17 present a variety of artistic mediums (See SFR Picks, Page 17).
10 am-4 pm
MUSIC
JAYCEEOH
Meow Wolf
1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369
A DJ and turntablist gets seamless in his quest for the most excellent EDM mixes to ever hit Meow Wolf’s House of Eternal Return 8 pm, $15-$20 MONSOON Cowgirl
319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565
This trio interprets hits in the genres of rock, jazz, blues, country and R&B/soul, and given the recent glorious rains, the name feels right.
1 pm
BOB MAUS BLUES & SOUL Inn & Spa at Loretto
211 Old Santa Fe Trail, (505) 988-5531
Maus plays classic tunes from Randy Newman to Elton John and Cat Stevens.
6-9 pm
BOXCAR PRESENTS: BRUNCH WITH TERRY DIERS
Boxcar
133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222
Funk music by Diers and brunch on the patio (or in the music room, depending on the weather). Either way, you deserve chicken and waffles. We all do. Noon-3 pm
CHRIS JONAS: MUSIC FROM THE DESERTS Paradiso 903 Early St., (505) 577-5248
Jazz trumpet phenom Delbert Anderson (Diné) returns to Santa Fe to join avant-garde composer/saxophonist Jonas for an evening of innovative jazz. Last time Anderson was here, everyone was so pumped, so get on this one fast. 8 pm, $15-$20
DESERT PARTY
The Bridge at Santa Fe Brewing Co.
37 Fire Place, (505) 557-6182
A fundraiser for and celebration of New Mexico arts and culture with music provided by Mama Mañana Records and an art walk curated by ArtWalk Santa. Suggested donation.
7:30 pm
FIRST FLOOR HIGHWAY
The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 NM-14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743
An ‘80s inspired new wave, post-punk dance sound blending originals and reimagined covers.
Americana, honky-tonk ‘n’ swing tunes. Call to reserve a table.
6-8:30 pm
IL BAROCCO ITALIANO
New Mexico School for the Arts 500 Montezuma Ave., Ste. 200, (505) 310-4194
As part of the MarketMusic Baroque Concert Series, hear the music of Corelli, Vivaldi and their contemporaries on violin, cello and harpischord.
Noon-1 pm
JOHN WESLEY COLEMAN III
W/ THE OUIJA CHORDS
The Mystic 2810 Cerrillos Road, (505) 471-7663
Celebrate Lost Padre Record’s birthday with music by Austin’s slacker indie king John Wesley Coleman III and his band. Albuquerque horror-surf act
The Ouija Chords opens. 7 pm, $10
JON GAGAN AND PAT
MALONE
La Boca (Taberna Location)
125 Lincoln Ave., (505) 988-7102
A jazz duet made up of Malone on guitar and Gagan on upright bass. Jazz goes great with Spanish tapas.
7-9 pm
KIDS KARAOKE
Cake’s Cafe
227 Galisteo St., (505) 303-4880
A chance for the kids to get the energy out and sing their favorite songs before the adults take over for the evening.
2-4 pm
KARAOKE
Cake’s Cafe
227 Galisteo St., (505) 303-4880
Since the kids probably slayed on the mic earlier, don’t forget to practice your own karaoke faves lest ye be outshined, baby.
7-11 pm
LOS FLAMANTES DE CHIHUAHUA
SWAN Park
Jaguar Drive and Hwy. 599
lensic360.org
A passionate interpretation of traditional Mexican songs.
6 pm
NOSOTROS HOSTS EL SHOW
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery
2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135
Expect cumbia, salsa and Latin dance grooves.
8 pm
PAT MALONE
Four Seasons Resort Rancho Encantado
198 NM-592, (505) 946-5700
Solo jazz guitar.
6-8 pm
ROADHOUSE KARMA
The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 NM-14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743
Players from different musical backgrounds fuse blues, jazz and rock into an eclectic sound.
3 pm
SQUIRRELHEAD
CHOMP Food Hall
505 Cerrillos Road, (505) 772-0946
A mix of originals and covers fusing punk, funk, folk and rock. They had us at “punk” and also “funk.”
8 pm
THE RON CROWDER BAND
Cowgirl
319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565
A blend of rock and soul.
8 pm
THEATER
ISC SANTA FE PRESENTS: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive, B, (505) 395-6576
A flip of the genders in one of Shakespeare’s most provocative comedies turned upside-down.
7:30-9:30 pm, $5-$30
PANDEMONIUM
PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS: GREASE
The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, (505) 992-5800
A classic musical from the 1950s about friendship, romance and the adventures of high school students. 7 pm, $8-$12
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
Santa Fe Playhouse
142 E De Vargas St., (505) 988-4262
A 1984 musical inspired by the painting, “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” by Georges Seurat.
7:30-10 pm, $5-$60
THE EXODUS ENSEMBLE PRESENTS: HAMLET
Center For Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338
An immersive adaptation of Hamlet. Advanced reservation required. 7:30 pm
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WORKSHOP FOREST BATHING: THE PRACTICE OF MINDFULNESS IN NATURE
Ojo Caliente Mineral Springs
50 Los Banos, Ojo Caliente, (877) 977-8212
Journey on a forest walk to the riverside labyrinth where you’ll be guided to connect to the wonders of the natural world through all your senses.
9-11:30 am, $95
SANTA FE URBAN SKETCHING
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum 217 Johnson St., (505) 946-1000
A morning of urban sketching around the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum to capture Santa Fe’s architectural beauty.
9 am-12 pm, $35-$45
YOGA AND ASTROLOGY FOR THE CAPRICORN FULL MOON
Fruit Of The Earth Natural Health 909 Early St., (505) 310-7917
Emmy Aurora will guide you through a cosmic inspired class including an astrology update and a yoga class. Donation based.
11 am-12:30 pm
SUN/21
DANCE
BELLYREENA BELLYDANCE CLASS
Move Studio
901 W San Mateo Road, (505) 660-8503
Learn to bellydance with choreographer Areena Estul. 1-2 pm, $18-$65
KIDS DANCE CLASS
Dance Station: Solana Center, 947-B W Alameda St., (505) 989-9788
Kids ages 7-13 can learn Latin, ballroom and swing dance! 12:45-1:30 pm, $10
EVENTS
CHESS INTRO & PRACTICE
Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103
Hone your chess skills surrounded by native plants and beautiful gardens. Noon-2 pm
EL MERCADO DE EL MUSEO CULTURAL
El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, (505) 992-0591
A weekend market with more than 50 different vendors bringing art, jewelry, books and more from all over the world to Santa Fe.
10 am-4 pm
JOE HAYES
Reunity Resources 1829 San Ysidro Crossing, (505) 393-1196
Join the much-loved storyteller and folklorist and get swept away in his summer tales. 7 pm
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MAKE AND TAKE
Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1204
Kids get to to learn how to make their own rainstick and also get to bring home the finished product.
10 am-4 pm
SANTA FE SOCIETY OF ARTISTS ART FAIR
Santa Fe Society of Artists 122 W Palace Ave., (505) 926-1497
An outdoor art fair. 9 am-5:30 pm
SORCERY AND MIGHT GAME NIGHT
Sorcery and Might 1966 Cerrillos Road, Ste. C, (505) 629-5965
Join a thriving community of gamers and choose from hundreds of games at dedicated tables.
5 pm-12 am THE NATIVE AMERICAN ARTISANS PORTAL SUMMER YOUTH SHOW
New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave., (505) 476-5100
Art and crafts by youth artists ages 5-17 who specialize in a variety of artistic mediums (See SFR Picks, page 17).
10 am-4 pm
FOOD
SUNDAY BRUNCH & JAM
KARAOKE NIGHT Boxcar
133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222
Warm up those vocal chords and come with your go-to karaoke song. Crash Romeo hosts every Sunday.
7 pm
RUSS & MURALI ACOUSTIC DUO
Cowgirl
319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565
Acoustic folk.
7 pm
SANTA FE DESERT CHORALE PRESENTS OUT OF THIS WORLD
Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi
131 Cathedral Place, (505) 982-5619
Explore this cosmic array of contemporary choral music, including works from some of the world’s top living composers.
7:30 pm, $12-$114
SUNBENDER
The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 NM-14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743
A Tom Petty cover band. On the same day as the full moon? Could it be more perfect for a little Full Moon Fever?
3 pm
THE JERUSALEM YOUTH
CHORUS
Lensic Performing Arts Center
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135
Brunch and a jam on the patio every Sunday. Brunch starts at noon and lasts all day, with live music from 3 to 6 pm.
Noon
MUSIC
DOUG MONTGOMERY
Rio Chama Steakhouse 414 Old Santa Fe Trail, (505) 955-0765
Montgomery performs standards, classical, Broadway and movie themes on piano and vocals.
6-9 pm
FELIX Y LOS GATOS Cowgirl
319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565
Guitarist and vocalist Felix Peralta and Los Gatos rock their extensive blues repertoire.
Noon
GERRY CARTHY
Legal Tender Saloon & Eating House
151 Old Lamy Trail, Lamy, (505) 466-1650
Carthy plays Northern New Mexican folk with traditional Irish flavors.
Noon-4 pm
JERRY FAIRES
The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 NM-14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743
Folk singer-songwriter and spoken word hero. He’s also quite the silversmith.
1 pm
PANDEMONIUM PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS: GREASE
The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive, (505) 992-5800
A classic musical from the 1950s about friendship, romance and adventures of high school students. 2 pm, $8-$12
SANTA FE SCENIC FEAT. NATIVE AMERICAN DANCE Santa Fe Depot 430 W Manhattan Ave., (844)743-3759
Take in gorgeous views from the comfort of beautifully restored passenger cars, featuring the Lightning Boy Hoop Dancers. 1:30 pm, $125-$164
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., (505) 988-4262
A 1984 musical inspired by the painting, “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” by Georges Seurat. 2-4:30 pm, $5-$60
THE EXODUS ENSEMBLE PRESENTS: HAMLET
Center For Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338
211 W San Francisco St., (505) 988-1234
The One America Movement and Santa Fe-based nonprofit Tomorrow’s Women joins the Jerusalem Youth Chorus, an Israeli-Palestinian music and dialogue project sing out for peace.
6:30 pm, $34-$74
THE OTHER BAND
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135
Classic guitar-driven rock-n-roll, blues and the occasional covers.
Brunch and soothing jazz go so well together. 11:30 am
THEATER
ISC SANTA FE PRESENTS: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Dr., B, (505) 395-6576
A gender-swapped version of one of Shakespeare’s most provocative comedies. 2-4 pm, $5-$30
MOTHERHOOD: WHAT A BITCH!
Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, (505) 424-1601
Comedian, humorist and storyteller Carolyn Meyer performs her third solo show. 3 pm, $15-$25
An immersive adaptation of Hamlet trades Denmark for Detroit and the modern-day trappings of a family construction company. Advanced reservation required. 7:30 pm
THE EXODUS ENSEMBLE PRESENTS: ZERO Center For Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338
Dive into a world where you are part of the narrative. Team up, strategize and fight for your character’s survival. Advanced reservation required. 1 pm
MON/22
DANCE
MONDAY NIGHT SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road, (505) 690-4165
A swing dance class followed by a social dance followed by your newfound love for the music of Count Basie or someone like that.
7 pm, $5-$10
FILM
VIDEO LIBRARY CLUB Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., (505) 466-5528
Catch a rotating list of free films every Monday with Lisa Harris from Video Library—the oldest continuously operating video rental joint in the country. Call the theater to get up-to-date info on what films have been selected. 6:30-8:30 pm
THE CALENDAR
MUSIC
DOUG MONTGOMERY
Rio Chama Steakhouse
414 Old Santa Fe Trail, (505) 955-0765
All the piano jams.
6-9 pm
GERRY CARTHY
Upper Crust Pizza (Eldorado)
5 Colina Drive, (505) 471-1111
Carthy plays Northern New Mexican folk with traditional Irish flavors.
6-8:30 pm
KARAOKE WITH CRASH! Cowgirl
319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565
You know the drill.
7-10 pm
OSCAR BUTLER Cowgirl
319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565
Soulful acoustic tunes.
4 pm
SANTA FE BANDSTAND: ROUND MOUNTAIN
Santa Fe Plaza
63 Lincoln Ave., lensic360.org
This trio takes listeners on a multi-instrumental journey with vocals, accordion, guitar, dobro, gaida (Bulgarian bagpipe), kora (W. African harp) bouzouki and djembe. High Desert Trio opens.
6 pm
TUE/23
EVENTS
BOARD GAME NIGHT
CHOMP Food Hall
505 Cerrillos Road, (505) 772-0946
Board games with Santa Fe’s largest gaming community.
5-10 pm
SANTA FE FARMER’S MARKET
Santa Fe Farmer’s Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-4098
Over 150 local farmers offer fresh produce, educational initiatives and community engagement.
8 am-1 pm
SANTA FE FARMER’S MARKET
- DEL SUR
Santa Fe Farmer’s Market Pavilion 4801 Beckner Road, (505) 983-4098
If you forgot to grab your fruits and veggies at Railyard or just don’t live downtown, here’s another chance to grab some fresh produce and other goodies from local farmers.
3-6 pm
MUSIC
DR HALL
Cowgirl
319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565
A singer-songwriter inspired by early blues legends, country, Americana, folk and rock. 4 pm
LATIN SINDUSTRY NIGHT
Boxcar
133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222
Music every Tuesday with DJ
DMonic and 10% off for all service industry workers on account of the job’s so hard.
10 pm
SANTA FE BANDSTAND: SOL FIRE
Santa Fe Plaza
63 Lincoln Ave., lensic360.org
Sol Fire brings their unique sound that fuses rock with pop, R&B, and Latin influences. Local band Simpatico opens. Y’know, summer’s not going to last forever, so you should get to some shows before the winter doldrums.
6 pm
WORKSHOP
EXPLORING REALITY:
LEARNING TO LIVE LIGHTLY
Santa Fe Women’s Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 983-9455
In this series, explore the extraordinary chapter on the meaning of emptiness from Geshe Kelsang Gyatso’s book, The New Eight Steps to Happiness, through talks, guided meditations and discussions.
6-7:30 pm
SANTA FE PLAYHOUSE
Sunday in the Park with George
Book by James Lapine
Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Directed by Anna Hogan
June 27 - July 28, 2024
ONGOING
ART
LIVE AND LET FLY
Gerald Peters Gallery
1005 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 954-5700
Chris Maynard carves feathers into intricate art, and Troy Abbot's pieces combine videos of birds he created or repurposed. Gallery director Evan Feldman is killing it lately.
4TH ANNUAL GROUP EXHIBITION
Strata Gallery
125 Lincoln Avenue, Ste. 105, (505) 780-5403
This exhibit showcases the incredible talents of both established artists and emerging artists that delve into a myriad of urgent and thought-provoking themes. You’ve gotta love a gallery that nurtures the artists it shows.
A MODERNIST WALK
Patina Gallery
131 W Palace Ave., (505) 986-3432
Artist Heather Guidero communicates an opulent collage of modernist adornment and geometric glamour with her jewelry. Ooh, la-la!
ACTIVATING OGA PO’OGEH LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Railyard Park Conservancy
805 Early St., (505) 316-3596
An ongoing multimedia installation by Kathleen Wall (Jemez Pueblo/White Earth Chippewa) constructed with metal frames and concrete ears of corn is brought to life through video installations of community members walking across Oga Po’ogeh.
ALICE LEORA BRIGGS: THE FATE OF POETRY
Evoke Contemporary 550 S. Guadalupe St., (505) 995-9902
Briggs finds her subject in the narco-violence that plagues Ciudad Juárez. This time out, Briggs also includes images that examine herself as an artist and person.
AN INNOCENT LOVE: ANIMAL SCULPTURE ARTISTS OF NEW MEXICO
Canyon Road Contemporary Art 622 Canyon Road, (505) 983-0433
The cutest little animal sculptures you ever did see by artists Kari Rives and Fran Nicholson.
ANNE BELETIC: FACES & PLACES
Gallery716
716 Canyon Road, (505) 644-4716
Beletic continues to be amazed at what the interplay of color, water, paper, wax, (and of course imagination) create.
CHERI CHRISTENSEN: LIGHTING THE WAY
McLarry Fine Art 225 Canyon Road, (505) 988-1161
Oil painter Christensen's spontaneous style intimately conveys her love of farm life and animals.
DANIEL D. STINE - TAKE ME TO THE RIVER: AROUND THE BEND
New Concept Gallery 610 Canyon Road, (505) 795-7570
Stine depicts the bounty of New Mexico through the land, sky and sensations in between.
DOUGLAS ATWILL: RECENT PAINTINGS
New Concept Gallery 610 Canyon Road, (505) 795-7570
Acrylics on canvas of the New Mexico landscapes. ELEMENTS OF THE EARTH: CONTEMPORARY NATIVE SCULPTURE
Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, (505) 471-9103
An exhibit featuring seven Indigenous artists' sculptures and ceramic works. BRONZE AND STONE SCULPTURE BY ALLAN HOUSER
Glenn Green Galleries + Sculpture Garden
136 Tesuque Village Road, (505) 820-0008
An exhibition of important bronze and stone sculpture by Allan Houser.
GRANITE SCULPTURE BY KHANG PHAM-NEW
Glenn Green Galleries + Sculpture Garden
136 Tesuque Village Road, (505) 820-0008
Monumental granite sculptures.
FLUIDITY OF TIME: FIBER ART art is gallery santa fe 419 Canyon Road, (505) 629-2332
Fiber art by Sarah Miller.
GLORIA GRAHAM: INDEX CARDS REDRESSED
5. Gallery
2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700, (505) 257-8417
A photo exhibit of discarded library index cards set on fire to explore the idea of temporality.
GORDON FLUKE MEMORIAL RETROSPECTIVE
Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave., (505) 428-1000
An exhibit honoring artist, educator and activist Fluke's paintings, print works and book arts.
GROUP EXHIBIT: METAL MASH-UP
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 554 S Guadalupe St., (505) 989-8688
Three artists whose metalworks offer a wide variety of forms, formats, approaches, fabrications and colors: Pard Morrison, Elliot Norquist, and Jeremy Thomas.
HIGHER FREQUENCY: THE WORKS OF CHRISTINE ALEXANDER
Iconik Coffee Roasters (Lupe) 314 S Guadalupe St., (505) 428-0996
Alexander uses dream-like, etheric and color-drenched photography as a vehicle to reach the realms between heaven and earth.
HOW TO HEAL A LINE
Sun & Dust
616 Canyon Road, (505) 316-3923
Sabrina Farrell’s work combines handmade paper and hand forged steel in unique sculpture,, and Sun & Dust’s commitment to locals is precisely the kind of thing we love to see on Canyon Road.
Gerald Peters Contemporary 1011 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 954-5700
An immersive installation with painting, sculpture and video.
JIVAN LEE: ARBOREAL
LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 988-3250
Lee brings an introspective approach to his vibrantly-colored and textured plein air paintings.
JOYFUL BY NATURE ART EXHIBITION
Sage Creek Gallery 421 Canyon Road, (505) 988-3444
Walt Horton, Charles Dayton, and Laura Westlake create sculptures and paintings that inspire joy through their distinctive styles.
JULIANNA KIRWIN: BABCIA Hecho a Mano 129 W. Palace Ave., (505) 916-1341
Kirwin's works recreate her Polish grandmother's kitchen through woodblock, linocut and monotype, as well as 3D pieces and relief prints wheat-pasted to the gallery wall.
One of the most acclaimed musicals of our time, this moving study of the enigmatic painter Georges Seurat won a Pulitzer Prize, and was nominated for ten Tony Awards.
KATHRYN STEDHAM: WEST: REAL, IMAGINED
Blue Rain Gallery
544 S Guadalupe St., (505) 954-9902
Stedham is a trained academic realist painter and explores the unknown of the West.
MANUEL ALVEREZ: PHOTOGRAPHER
Allá 102 W San Francisco St., Ste. 20, (505) 988-5416
Iconic images by a master Mexican photographer.
MARIE ROMERO CASH: A NEW MEXICO SANTERA’S ABSTRACT WORKS
Peyton Wright Gallery
237 E Palace Ave., (505) 989-9888
A native New Mexican displays her colorful acrylic paintings on canvas.
MARSHALL NOICE: WOODLAND REVERIES
Ventana Fine Art
400 Canyon Road, (505) 983-8815
Oil on canvas in one of the most beautiful spaces on Canyon.
MIA, AVRIL, LOS SITIOS: A KALEIDOSCOPE OF DREAMS AND REALITY
Artes de Cuba
1700 A Lena St., (505) 303-3138
A photo exhibit depicting artist Leysis Quesada Vera's daughters in Havana, Cuba. It’s always worth stopping by Artes de Cuba these days.
MONTY LITTLE : UNACCOMPANIED VOICES
Gerald Peters Contemporary 1011 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 954-5700
Little depicts partially obscured faces charged with bold colors and graphic features.
MY HAIR STORY: FROM BRUNETTE TO GRAY
form & concept
435 S Guadalupe St., (505) 216-1256
Rosemary Meza-DesPlas reveals the scars women bear as a result of living in a society that idealizes the bodies of women of color.
NAGAKURA KENICHI
RETROSPECTIVE
TAI Modern 1601 Paseo De Peralta, (505) 984-1387
Nagakura is known for techniques that evoke the patina and texture of centuries-old bamboo, bronze, rock, wood, cloth and natural phenomena.
NORMA JONES: A TRIBUTE
Big Happy 1300 Luisa St., Ste. 3A bighappygallery.com
Jones takes you to unexpected places through her mixed-media sculpture made from wood, paint and papier-mâché, PICTURESQUE SUMMER
Obscura Gallery
225 Delgado St., (505) 577-6708
This group exhibition radiates the vibrant palettes and warmth of summer from four female photographers.
RACHEL DAWSON: TALISMAN
ELECTR∆ Gallery
825 Early St., Ste. D, (505) 231-0354
Paintings on canvas and linen of bright and uplifting crystalline forms.
REID RICHARDSON: BREATHING COLOR
Globe Fine Art
727 Canyon Road, (505) 989-3888
Paintings that merge the beauty of trees with that of the magnificent skies.
RITUAL RELATIONSHIPS OF LIQUIDITY
Center For Contemporary Arts
1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338
Artists Abigail Smith and Emily Margarit present photomontages presented on large-scale canvas and small-scale collage. CCA’s renewed dedication to all types of art is, frankly, invigorating.
SACRED NATURE: WILD AFRICA
Edition ONE Gallery
728 Canyon Road, (505) 570-5385
Angela and Jonathan Scott document the beauty and diversity of African wildlife via photography.
SCULPTURE, PRINTMAKING AND JEWELRY
Glenn Green Galleries + Sculpture Garden
136 Tesuque Village Road, (505) 820-0008
Melanie A. Yazzie displays her scultpures, printmaking and jewlery designs.
SHAUN GILMORE: IN THE ROUGH
FOMA Gallery
333 Montezuma Ave., Ste. B, (505) 660-0121
Gilmore displays a mix of work that includes acrylic paintings, archival ink, collage and papier-mâché sculpture.
SHOWCASE: NATHAN BUDOFF AND WOOKJAE MAENG
Zane Bennett Contemporary 435 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-8111
Large-scale paintings and faux taxidermy ceramic sculptures.
Huang's resin, clay and painted sculptures delve into the intricate tapestry of social and cultural identity.
STEVEN J YAZZIE: ELDERS
Gerald Peters Contemporary 1011 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 954-5700
Sculptural/sound installations and abstract paintings from Yazzie.
SUMMER SALON PART 1: FEATURING PATRICK MCGRATH MUÑIZ
Evoke Contemporary 550 S. Guadalupe St., (505) 995-9902
Oil paintings responding to capitalism and consumerism.
TEN GALLON HAT: A GROUP SHOW smoke the moon 616 1/2 Canyon Road smokethemoon.org
Five New Mexico based artists present an invitation to descend into a surreal universe.
THE CLEMMER COLLECTION: A HISTORY OF NEW MEXICO
PRINT ARTISTS
Peyton Wright Gallery
237 E Palace Ave., (505) 989-9888
An exhibit of graphic media from late 19th-20th century New Mexico, encompassing techniques from etching and lithography to woodblock, linocut, serigraphy and monotype.
THE DENSITY OF TIME REVISITED
Aurelia Gallery
414 Canyon Road, (505) 501-2915
Photographer Blaine Ellis uses extended shutter speeds to create images of anonymous beings emerging from the San Francisco Bay.
THE IRISH TRAVELERS: A FORGOTTEN PEOPLE
Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 470-2582
Photog Rebecca Moseman documents the lives, culture and traditions of the Irish Travelers.
THE WEIGHT WE CARRY CONTAINER
1226 Flagman Way, (505) 995-0012
An exhibition highlighting an activism born in youth, bringing together some of today's most influential political and street artists.
WEST: REAL, IMAGINED
Blue Rain Gallery
544 S Guadalupe St., (505) 954-9902
Painter Kathryn Stedham paints Southwestern landscapes in the alla prima painting style.
WHY MAKE ART? NINE ARTISTS ANSWER
ViVO Contemporary 725 Canyon Road, (505) 982-1320
Nine artists create paintings, sculpture, kiln glass and other mixed media.
WOMEN’S HISTORY BANNER EXHIBIT
New Mexico State Library 1209 Camino Carlos Rey, (505) 476-9700
A new banner exhibit celebrates courageous women.
WOODY GWYN: POWER OF ART
LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 988-3250
Colorful and captivating paintings of the New Mexico high desert, seascapes and orchards in full bloom.
ZAHRA MARWAN: A ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE
Hecho a Mano
129 W. Palace Ave., (505) 916-1341
Marwan’s centers roses and Arab poetry through watercolor pieces.
EVENTS
BROOM ROOM: THIN AIR GOODS EXHIBITION
El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road, (505) 982-0016
Julia Tait Dickenson enjoys finding and collecting interesting discarded objects to make handmade brooms and brushes with everyday use and functionality always in mind. Dickenson uses the opportunity to experiment with abstract ideas, which is pretty wild when it comes to the realm of brooms, but also kind of intriguing.
MUSEUMS
GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM
217 Johnson St., (505) 946-1000
Making a Life. Rooted in Place. 10 am-5 pm, Thurs-Mon, $20 (under 18 free)
IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS
108 Cathedral Place, (505) 983-8900
Womb of the Earth: Cosmovision of the Rainforest. The Stories We Carry. Our Stories. Origins. 20232024 IAIA BFA Exhibition: Indigenous Presence, Indigenous Futures. 10 am-4 pm, Wed-Sat, Mon, 11 am-4 pm, Sun, $5-$10 Free admission every Friday
MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE
710 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1269
Here, Now and Always. Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles. 10 am-5 pm, $7-$12, NM residents free first Sunday of the month
MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART
706 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1204
La Cartonería Mexicana / The Mexican Art of Paper and Paste. Protection: Adaptation and Resistance. Amidst Cries from the Rubble: Art of Loss and Resilience from Ukraine 10 am-5 pm, $3-$12, NM residents free first Sunday of the month
NEW MEXICO HISTORY
MUSEUM
113 Lincoln Ave., (505) 476-5200
The Santos of New Mexico. Silver and Stones: Collaborations in Southwest Jewelry.
10 am-5 pm, Sat-Thurs, 10 am7 pm, Fri; $7-$12, NM residents free 5-7 pm first Fri. of the month
FILM
SUMBIT YOUR FILM TO THE 7TH ANNUAL MADRID FILM FEST
Online
Aspiring and established filmmakers are invited to submit a film (15 minutes or under) for consideration in the Madrid Film Festival, with cash prizes up to $500. Deadline is July 31. Visit madridfilmfest.org for submission details and rules. Submit your entry in an email to adw@madridfilmfest.org.
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Submission doesn’t guarantee inclusion.
Anonymous, 1764 ,San Hipólito y las Armas Mexicanas can be found in Saints & Santos: Picturing the Holy in New
NUEVO MEXICANO HERITAGE MUSEUM
750 Camino Lejo, (505) 982-2226
Ugly History of Beautiful Things. What Lies Behind the Vision of Chimayo Weavers. 1 -4 pm, Wed-Fri, $10, children free NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART
107 W Palace Ave., (505) 476-5063
Saints & Santos: Picturing The Holy In New Spain, Selections from the 20th Century Collection. Out West: Gay and Lesbian Artists in the Southwest 1900-1969. Art of the Bullfight. Line by Line. 10 am-5 pm, Sat-Thurs, 10 am-7 pm, Fri; $7-$12, NM residents free 5-7 pm every Fri. May-Oct.
SITE SANTA FE 1606 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 989-1199
Teresita Fernández / Robert Smithson Carmen Herrera: I Am Nobody! Who Are You?
10 am-5 pm Sun-Mon, Thurs, Sat, 10 am- 7 pm, Fri.
POEH CULTURAL CENTER
78 Cities of Gold Road, (505) 455-5041 Di Wae Powa. Nah Poeh Meng.
Masterglass: The Collaborative Spirit of Tony Jojola. Pathfinder: 40 Years of Marcus Amerman. Journeying Through the Archives of the Wheelwright Museum.
10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, $10
Spain, New Mexico Museum of Art.
God’s Country
The
Righteous
explores the messy human condition
BY JULIA GOLDBERG juliagoldberg@sfreporter.com
Years ago I taught a class with Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale on the syllabus and received a paper from a student that began, roughly, with the observation that “this is a novel about how women were treated in the ’80s.”
In fact, Atwood’s novel—though published in 1985—imagined a future society in which the decade’s religious right had taken over the government, and fundamentally examines the abuse of power. All this to say, The Righteous, which had its world premiere July 13 at the Santa Fe Opera, mines some of the same terrain (minus the dystopia).
The opera, from composer Gregory Spears with libretto by former US Poet Laureate Tracy K Smith, opens in 1979 in the Southwest United States, as oil magnate/budding politico Paul (bass-baritone Greer Grimsley) turkey hunts with his friend CM (tenor Brenton Ryan), son Jonathan (countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo) and Jonathan’s best friend David (baritone Michael Mayes), a minister. The scene sets in motion Paul’s gubernatorial ambitions; Jonathan’s possibly unrequited romantic love for David; and David’s plans to marry Jonathan’s sister Michele (mezzo soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano). Turkeys are shot.
“The mess is half the price,” Jonathan tells David about the bloodied fowl, providing a lasting metaphor for the opera’s examination of the human condition, and the opera itself at times.
Act 1 also introduces army serviceman Eli (tenor Andrew Turner) as he tells his wife Sheila (soprano Elena Villalón), to her dismay, that he will soon be heading overseas.
Spears and Smith conceived of the opera in part as a loose retelling of the story of King David from the Bible, in which their David’s ambitions clash with his religious faith amid three large social issues of the late ’70s through the early ’90s: the AIDS crisis, the so-called “war on drugs” and the rise of feminism.
His friendship and professed love for Jonathan should be enough for David to preach compassion for the era’s AIDS victims but he does not do so, nor does he understand how the war on drugs is hurting poorer communities of color. He taps Sheila to lead a women’s group, but does so in a patronizing fashion.
By the second act, David has begun an affair with Sheila, who has revealed the abuse she sustained as a child. Michele senses she’s losing her husband and then loses her father, Paul, to a heart attack. David, at CM’s request, runs as governor in a special election and wins the seat. Flash forward to 1990, David and Sheila are governor and first lady, and he has grown even more conservative in his views, putting him in a tense clash with his stepdaughter Shannon (soprano Jazmine Saunders). Sheila doesn’t abide her husband’s politics either, and goes to try to help at the women’s shelter, where she encounters David’s first wife Michele, now a lawyer for the shelter. The two women make peace—Michele is clearly better off without David—and Sheila begins to try to help other women.
If this sounds like a lot of moving parts for director Kevin Newbury in his SFO debut, it was, and most of those moving parts coincide with moving sets. This became obtrusive and, at one point, a moving wall actually banged into a character (I don’t think this was an intentional “breaking of the fourth wall” site gag). That being said, the scenic design (Mimi Lien), as well as the costume design (Devario Simmons),
coupled with the various televised projections tracking with the changes in political eras (think Carter, Reagan, Bush) create a resonant sense of the opera’s time and place writ large, while the use of the actual landscape as a backdrop underscores the story’s particular placement in the American Southwest.
Smith has spoken of her decision to use the repetitive poetic form of the villanelle to mirror the repetitive nature of the Book of Psalms, for which the biblical King David is traditionally credited. These appear in the opera’s numerous arias, several of which are heartbreakingly beautiful, such as Sheila’s aria about emptiness, which Villalón performed exquisitely to thunderous applause. Other stand-outs include Cano’s Michele and once again bass-baritone Nicholas Newton (appearing this season in Don Giovanni as Leporello) as Jacob, a young Black preacher who argues in vain with David about the negative impacts of the war on drugs in his community. Jacob’s aria also stood out as a moment in which the underly-
ing dissonance between the orchestral music and the arias sounded less pronounced. Despite an abundance of arias, at points the opera felt overly recitative (and marks the first time I have heard anyone sing about write-in candidates).
While the orchestra overall performed with both gusto and precision, I periodically had trouble hearing the singers over the instruments (conducted by Jordan De Souza in his SFO debut). In his review for the Santa Fe New Mexican, Mark Tiarks advises that sitting on the theater’s right side may provide a better aural experience as many of the large orchestra’s brass instruments are on the left; I was on the left in the front.
In preview discussions, Spears spoke about the duality of opera balancing the “play” or story, with the otherworldliness of the music (I’m paraphrasing). In The Righteous, the story—or my critiques of it, at any rate—overpowered the music at several instances.
Still, at the end, where the chorus (powerful and well used throughout under the direction of chorus master Susanne Sheston) take up David’s final aria/psalm, their voices rising in both pain and exultation, capturing the universal truth of Smith’s opening stanza:
“Life is long and wisdom slow I thought I knew What did I know?”
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Michael Mayes (David), embodies his character. Back L - R Brenton Ryan (CM), Greer Grimsley (Paul)
L-R: Wendy Bryn Harmer (as Paul’s wife Marilyn) with Jennifer Johnson Cano (Michele), Anthony Roth Costanzo (Jonathan), Elena Villalón (Sheila) and the Santa Fe Opera Chorus.
Grand Champions
Five revelations from the new Market Steer Steakhouse
BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com
This is not a review of the new Market Steer Steakhouse (213 Washington Ave., (505) 365-1010).
If it were, overwhelmingly positive and flowery language would follow, but since the downtown steakhouse from married couple and business partners chef Kathleen Crook and Kristina Goode will only have been back in business for two days by the time this story drops, we’re still smack dab in the middle of that restaurant grace period when we all give a place a chance to work out the kinks. Even so, following an invite-only dinner last weekend, it would seem there aren’t really kinks to work out, as everything from the service to the ambiance to the food itself was topnotch; better than ever, maybe; really quite something special. But rather than break it all down dish by dish, let’s go big picture and take the measure of Market Steer.
Killer Vibes
Anyone who visited the former El Mesón tapas joint likely has a mental image about the building’s interior, but Crook and Goode have gutted the space, leaving it unrecognizable. The pair tapped Santa Fe designer Thom Ortiz for the reno, and though Market Steer has embraced the minimalist white wall decor that is ubiquitous throughout fine dining, various accouterments give it life—a massive custom-built chandelier in the main dining room, for example, or sconces that implement horse hair. The lighting is fairly romantic, too and, though the patio was not open during the dinner, plenty of summer days remain for al fresco experiences. Each table adheres to the white tablecloth protocol of upscale eateries and is uncluttered. “I think we’ve kind of hit it,” Crook says of the interior design. “Honestly, for the most part, it feels very surreal. I still don’t feel like it’s ours.” But it sure is. In fact, Crook and Goode now own the building.
New Drinks
“I think we outgrew our arrangement with them,” Goode says about the move from the Hotel St. Francis. “We wanted to tell our
story through design, to create our brand and have full autonomy for what that looks like—a space that is completely ours.” Both Goode and Crook have nothing but positive comments about the hotel that had housed their restaurant since 2018, but they’re now able to have their own liquor license, which means Market Steer can for the first time curate its wine and cocktail list. As such, they’ve welcomed Santa Fe sommelier Tyler Rudoff into the fold, both as a business partner and as the restaurant’s beverage director. Rudoff is a born Santa Fean, but cut his teeth in California and Chicago. He spent the evening’s service flitting around helping diners with wine and cocktail selections (including zero proof options like an outstanding and refreshing blueberry shrub) and making use of a dedicated decanting station. “[We] discussed crafting an exceptional wine list while emphasizing the importance of connections with winemakers,” Rudoff says. The most immediately noticeable connection? Rudoff asked a number of notable vintners—such as Robert Sinskey of Robert Sinskey Vineyards and Cristina Torres of Marimar Estate—to provide custom tasting notes, which can be read within the Market
Steer wine book. You’ll also find familiar and signature cocktails with more in store, according to Rudoff.
A Change of Tack
Chef Crook hails from Artesia in Southern New Mexico and is famous to some as an award-winning rodeo champ. Market Steer leans into that with its bar, playfully dubbed The Tack Room. The space is decked out in rodeo ephemera, including real-life trophies won by Crook, not to mention a more laidback atmosphere than the main dining area.
The Tack Room is also where the restaurant will host its happy hour menu from 4-5:30 pm every day but Sunday when the restaurant is closed. During happy hour, Goode says, everything on the bar menu runs $10 (numerous drinks included), and it’s where to find dishes like a forthcoming green chile cheese smash burger; deviled eggs with lobster; a Caesar salad so robust you literally need a knife; and the beloved Market Steer bourbon bread pudding. Perhaps the most interesting item on the bar menu, however, might be the confit duck wings served with a white BBQ sauce and a house made giardiniera. Think of them like chicken wings, only elevated. “I was talking to the guy I buy my proteins from, and I wanted duck bones to make a duck stock,” Crook explains. “He says, ‘I don’t have duck bones, but I do have duck wings,’ and we both at the same time said, ‘What if we confited them?!” If you like duck confit, you’ll like this.” Goode, meanwhile, says the happy hour menu is also about accessibility. “Our intention is for people to not feel like they have to come in here and have this big fancy dinner,” she says. “We’re doing things so people can come in and have something a little more casual, because we’re both bar sitters when we go out to eat.”
Pickled Blueberries Are Phenomenal Surprisingly, Market Steer doesn’t have a pastry chef, but Crook’s sweets are on par with any place in town. Of special note, the beef fat chocolate pâté is a rather interesting dessert that comes with anise shortbread cookies and a spiced peach jam; and the aforementioned bourbon bread pudding remains popular, at least from what I spied on other tables during the dinner. The lemon crème brûlée might take the cake, though, thanks to a pandemic-spurred element devised by Crook: pickled blueberries. “I got this big shipment the day before we found out we’d be shutting down,” she says. “I was like, ‘What am I going to do with this huge case of blueberries?’ So I pickled them, and it’s been a staple ever since.”
The 100% Return Rate
Though it’s borderline unbelievable as Market Steer had been closed since March while the new building came together, all of its original staff apparently returned to work at the steakhouse. “Just…chef and Kristina are seriously awesome bosses,” a busser told me. “It’s a great place to work.” My server had similar thoughts and seemed almost verklempt about being back at work. He also had a series of gentle and excellent suggestions for sides and steak enhancements that never felt coercive or aggressive. In all cases, the workers seemed…happy. Wild. “You surround yourself with the best people,” Crook says, “you get the best results.”
TOP: Market Steer Steakhouse’s Kathleen Crook and Kristina Goode. BOTTOM: The steak is served simply yet beautifully.
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RAMSAY DE GIVE
Longlegs Review
Nicolas Cage partners with the devil
BY RED CELL author@sfreporter.com
With his new horror film Longlegs, writer-director Oz Perkins, son of Psycho’s Anthony Perkins, has constructed a sufficiently atmospheric thriller with a low-simmering unease that oozes throughout.
Just ask the highly successful viral marketing campaign featuring creepily cryptic trailers, cipher-laden billboards, a phone number to call and listen to ominous messages and a ‘90s-style website dubbed The Birthday Murders. In the end, a film poster appeared, exalting Longlegs as “the scariest movie of the decade.” That’s a bold claim.
In the film, It Follows actress Maika Monroe stars as Lee Harker, a possibly psychic FBI agent tasked by her commanding officer (Blair Underwood) with solving a string of grisly family murders. As Harker unravels the seemingly implausible killings through a series of Zodiac-esque ciphers found in letters left at crime scenes, she gradually grasps her own connection to the decades-spanning horrors.
Nicolas Cage contributes an overtly gonzo performance as the titular Longlegs, a serial killer with a love for ’70s-era glam rock who employs an unconventional method of carnage. Obscured in various ways for the better part of the film, Cage’s
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MaXXXine from filmmaker Ti West (X, Pearl) is a bit of a curious case. On the one hand, West is clearly a film buff who maintains a deep reverence for horror and exploitation cinema. He has proved this with the previous films in his X Trilogy, for which MaXXXine serves as a conclusion, though he blurs the line between artistic sincerity and over-the-top so often that one begins to question whether Maxxxine is subtly artful or overtly terrible.
In MaXXXine, we follow up-and-coming starlet Maxine Minx (Mia Goth) circa 1984 as she attempts to transcend adult film for the Wicker Man-esque horror of the fictional film The Puritan 2, a big budget studio affair with a snobby director who thinks herself the new Hitchcock (Elizabeth Debicki; who literally takes Maxine to the Psycho set during the film). Elsewhere, a killer loosely based on the real-life Night Stalker slayings roams the streets of LA ritualistically murdering Maxine’s friends while a private dick (an absurd and not-so-enjoyable Kevin Bacon) trails her, threatening to make public her sordid past.
Goth understands the assignment here and effortlessly phases between earnest emotional depth and ridiculous one-liner quippery. In West’s Hollywood—one constructed from equal parts faux glamor and real filth—the 1980s explode incessantly from every corner, be it a fridge full of Tab, the requisite mohawk-bearing punk in the distance
appearance is both unsettling and strangely comical once revealed. Longlegs’ pasty white face is a direct homage to Marc Bolan’s T. Rex stage makeup and Lou Reed’s Transformer cover art, which surreptitiously crops up in a few scenes. At times, Cage dials up disturbing moments while attempting to channel his inner Tiny Tim (the “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” musician; not the Dickens character). But no matter how accomplished his performance might be, or how obfuscating his prosthetics, one never fully looks past Nic Cage being, well, Nic Cage. Longlegs’ greatest strengths lie in its disquieting score and cinematography. Its bewitchingly shot compositions and stylistic choices draw you in and add up to an anxious ambiance. Long shots of liminal space and aspect ratio changes deliver the claustrophobic feeling of being boxed in with the killer, yet, ultimately, Perkins chooses style over substance, and he’s a far better director than
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he is a writer. The frequent plot holes and leaps of logic leave a muddled mess for anyone paying close attention; the many reviews comparing this film to The Silence of the Lambs and Se7en are somewhat embarrassing.
Perkins, in fact, relies too heavily on coincidentally aligned circumstances and conveniently timed contrivances for any self-respecting film-lover to ignore. Satan is merely a convenient scapegoat for the evils enacted by Perkins’ characters, and the sloppy script becomes unavoidably apparent as the film progresses, leaving the last act reveal feeling ham-fisted rather than the stuff that would make up the promised “scariest movie of the decade.”
LONGLEGS
Directed by Perkins With Monroe, Underwood and Cage Violet Crown Cinema, R, 101 min.
or the cavalcade of chintzy hairdos and pseudo new wave sounds.
Everything is exaggerated, in fact, be it the larger-than-life studio system looming at all times, or the purposefully ridiculous delivery of actors like Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad) and Halsey. Even the foley audio rings fakely across cacophonous footsteps, booming gunshots and squelching gore. West goes out of his way to shoot on unoccupied but familiar sets and in backstage areas, highlighting the non-reality of film while emphasizing that famewanters and star-fuckers are often chasing fleeting ghosts and little else.
He even comes close to brilliance once or twice, but a pair of funny little cops played by Michelle Monaghan and Bobby Cannavale mostly muck up the pacing, and the not-so-dramatic conclusion is cause for laughs—and not particularly in the good way. If nothing else comes from the X Trilogy, however, Goth is quite the talent, and it’ll be exciting to see what she does next. (Alex De Vore) Violet Crown Cinema, R, 113 min.
BALDWIN CASE DISMISSED
After just three days of court, the involuntary manslaughter case against Rust actor Alec Baldwin stemming from the 2021 on-set shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was dismissed last week. First Judicial District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the case with prejudice following the testimony of Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office crime scene tech Marissa Poppell, who revealed that a retired police officer had dropped off
live rounds to investigators the same day in March that Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed had been convicted of similar charges—of which Baldwin’s lawyers were not made aware. Sommer cited case law regarding so-called Brady violations in which a prosecutor fails to disclose information that could help the defendant, whether by bad faith or not.
SO LONG, AMBER
New Mexico Film Office Director Amber Dodson is calling it quits after four years and change in the position. Under Dodson, the state saw record-breaking spending in the movie sphere, plus big-time productions such as Oppenheimer shooting here.
“Serving as director over the past four years has been an honor,” Dodson said in a statement on Tuesday.
“I reflect with pride on the collaborative efforts and shared dedication in advancing the film industry in New Mexico to a globally acclaimed production hub.
While I embark on a new chapter in my professional journey, my fervent hope, as many of yours, is that the film industry in New Mexico will continue to flourish, bringing forth prosperity and opportunity for our residents, communities, and future generations.”
DEEP IMPACT
Also from the New Mexico Film Office this week, a 2024 Fiscal Year economic impact statement reports positive results for New Mexico, despite industry strikes that impacted nearly 150 projects. Nonetheless, film and TV generated more than $750 million in direct production spending. The Film Office also highlights the impact of doubling the film tax
credit uplift from 5% to 10% for productions “outside of the Albuquerque–Santa Fe corridor,” by noting that “rural production spends” reached nearly $40 million in FY24, an increase of nearly 89% from FY23.
REACH THE SUMMIT
As long as we’re still talking about the New Mexico Film Office, Albuquerque’s Clyde Hotel is now the official venue for its Sept. 7 New Mexico Film & Television Summit, which will include networking opportunities, along with panels and talks on topics such as: breaking into film; fostering a film career; and the state’s various incentives. You’ll find a link to more info and to register on the nmfilm.com home page, and tickets run from a $200 option for students and a $274 price for early birds to a whopping $7,500 sponsorship tier that includes access to the summit, a table in a prime location, placement in the summit swag bags and an interview on the Spotlight on New Mexico Film podcast.
JAZZ-A-MA-TAZZ
Santa Fe is a jazz-lovin’ town populated by jazz-lovin’ fools who might like to know that the Center for Contemporary Arts has scheduled a one-off screening of the new 4K restoration of the 1959 concert film Jazz on a Summer’s Day. Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, the film features performances by Dinah Washington, Thelonius Monk, Louis Armstrong, Chuck Berry, Anita O’Day and many more. Jazz screens as part of CCA’s ongoing Amplified series, which is focused on the intersection of film and music. Find more info at ccasantafe.org.
JONESIN’ CROSSWORD
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Rob Brezsny Week of July 17th
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Have you ever been given a Starbucks gift card but then neglected to use it? Many people fail to cash in such freebies. Believe it or not, there are also folks who buy lottery tickets that turn out to have the winning number—but they never actually claim their rewards. Don’t be like them in the coming weeks, Aries. Be aggressive about cashing in on the offers you receive, even subtle and shy offers. Don’t let invitations and opportunities go to waste. Be alert for good luck, and seize it.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The coming weeks will be a favorable time to enhance your relationship with food. In every way you can imagine, be smart and discerning as you plan and eat your meals. Here are ideas to ponder: 1. Do you know exactly which foods are best for your unique body? 2. Are you sufficiently relaxed and emotionally present when you eat? 3. Could you upgrade your willpower to ensure you joyfully gravitate toward what’s healthiest? 4. Do you have any bad habits you could outgrow? 5. Is your approach to eating affected by problematic emotions that you could heal? 6. Are you willing to try improving things incrementally without insisting on being perfect?
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Hybridization could be a fun theme for you in the coming weeks. You’re likely to align yourself with cosmic rhythms if you explore the joys and challenges of creating amalgamations, medleys, and mash-ups. Your spirit creatures will be the liger, which is a cross between a lion and a tiger, and a mule, a cross between a horse and a donkey. But please note that your spirit creatures will not be impossible hybrids like a giroose (a cross between a giraffe and a moose) or a coyadger (a cross between a coyote and a badger). It’s good to be experimental and audacious in your mixing and matching, but not lunatic delusional.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): In 1986, Cancerian singersongwriter George Michael released his song “A Different Corner.” It was a big hit. Never before in British pop music had an artist done what Michael accomplished: wrote, sang, arranged, and produced the tune, and played all the instruments. I foresee the possibility of a similar proficiency in your near future, Cancerian—if you want it. Maybe you would prefer to collaborate with others in your big projects, but if you choose, you could perform minor miracles all by yourself.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the Biblical allegory of Noah and the Ark, God warns Noah about an impending flood and commands him to build a giant lifeboat to save living things from extinction. Noah obeys. When the heavy rains come, he, his family, and many creatures board the boat to weather the storm. After 40 days and nights of inundation, they are all safe but stranded in a newly created sea. Hoping for a sign of where they might seek sanctuary, Noah sends out a dove to reconnoiter for dry land. But it returns with no clues. A week later, Noah dispatches a second dove. It returns with an olive leaf, showing that the earth is drying out and land is nearby. Dear Leo, your adventure isn’t as dire and dramatic as Noah’s, but I’m happy to tell you it’s time for you to do the equivalent of sending two doves out to explore.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): According to an ancient Chinese proverb, “An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.” I will add a corollary: An ant may be able to accomplish feats an ox can’t. For instance, I have observed an ant carrying a potato chip back to its nest, and I doubt that an ox could tote a potato chip without mangling it. Anyway, Virgo, this is my way of telling you that if you must choose between your ispiration being an ant or an ox in the coming days, choose the ant. Be meticulous, persistent, and industrious rather than big, strong, and rugged.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “If it sounds too good to be true, it always is,” said stage magician Ricky Jay. I only partially agree with him. While I think it’s usually wise to use his formula as a fundamental principle, I suspect it won’t entirely apply to you in the coming weeks. At least one thing and possibly as many as three may sound too good to be true—but will in fact be true. So if you’re tempted to be hyper-skeptical, tamp down that attitude a bit. Open yourself to the possibilities of amazing grace and minor miracles.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): What is the largest thing ever sold in human history? It was a 530-million-acre chunk of land in North America. In 1803, the French government sold it to the American government for $15 million. It stretched from what’s now Louisiana to Montana. Here’s the twist to the story: The land peddled by France and acquired by the US actually belonged to the Indigenous people who had lived there for many generations. The two nations pretended they had the right to make the transaction. I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to make a big, important purchase or sale—as long as you have the authentic rights to do so. Make sure there are no hidden agendas or strings attached. Be thorough in your vetting.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): An antiques dealer named Laura Young bought a marble bust of a distinguished man at a thrift store in Austin, Texas. Later she discovered that it was over 2,000 years old and worth far more than the $35 she had paid for it. It depicted a Roman military leader named Drusus the Elder. I foresee similar themes unfolding in your life, Sagittarius. Possible variations: 1. You come into possession of something that’s more valuable than it initially appears. 2. You connect with an influence that’s weightier than it initially appears. 3. A lucky accident unfolds, bringing unexpected goodies. 4. A seemingly ordinary thing turns out to be an interesting thing in disguise.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): My childhood friend Jeanine used to say, “The best proof of friendship is when someone gives you half their candy bar. The best proof of fantastic friendship is when they give you even more than half.” And then she would hand me more than half of her Snickers bar, Milky Way, or Butterfinger. In accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to give away at least half your candy to those you care for in the coming days. It’s a phase of your astrological cycle when you will benefit from offering extra special affection and rewards to the allies who provide you with so much love and support.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you’re a teacher, it’s a favorable time to enjoy a stint as a student—and vice versa. If you’re a healthcare worker trained in Western medicine, it’s an excellent phase to explore alternative healing practices. If you’re a scientist, I suggest you read some holy and outrageous poetry, and if you’re a sensitive, introverted mystic, get better informed about messy political issues. In other words, dear Aquarius, open a channel to parts of reality you normally ignore or neglect. Fill in the gaps in your education. Seek out surprise and awakening.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Jane Brunette, a writer I admire, uses the made-up work “plurk” to refer to her favorite activity: a blend of play and work. I have always aspired to make that my core approach, too. I play at my work and work at my play. As much as possible, I have fun while I’m doing the labor-intensive tasks that earn me a living and fulfill my creative urges. And I invoke a disciplined, diligent attitude as I pursue the tasks and projects that bring me pleasure and amusement. I highly recommend you expand and refine your own ability as a plurker in the coming weeks, Pisces. (Jane Brunette is here: flamingseed.com)
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STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE
FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
No. D-101-CV-2023-01457
VILLAS DE SANTA FE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION INC., Plaintiff, v. WILL BANSE and KAREN BANSE, Defendants.
NOTICE OF SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on August 14, 2024 at 12:15 p.m., the undersigned Special Master will, at the front entrance of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501, sell all of the rights, title, and interests of the above-named Defendant, in and to the hereinafter described real property to the highest bidder. The property to be sold is located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit(s) 1209, Santa Fe, NM 87501, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and is more particularly described as:
a conflict between the legal description and the street address, the legal description shall control. The foregoing sale will be made to satisfy a foreclosure judgment rendered by this Court in the above-entitled and numbered cause on March 25, 2024, being an action to foreclose a mortgage on the Property. Plaintiff’s judgment is in the amount of $7,124.31, plus interest of $794.02 from January 1, 2024 through August 14, 2024. Plaintiff has the right to bid at the foregoing sale in an amount equal to its judgment, and to submit its bid either verbally or in writing. Plaintiff may apply all or any part of its judgment to the purchase price in lieu of cash. In accordance with the Court’s decree, the proceeds of sale are to be applied first to the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fees, and then to satisfy the abovedescribed judgment with any remaining balance to be paid into the registry of the Court.
at the front entrance of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501, sell all of the rights, title, and interests of the abovenamed Defendant, in and to the hereinafter described real property to the highest bidder. The property to be sold is located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit(s) 1209, Santa Fe, NM 87501, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and is more particularly described as:
or any part of its judgment to the purchase price in lieu of cash.
In accordance with the Court’s decree, the proceeds of sale are to be applied first to the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fees, and then to satisfy the above-described judgment with any remaining balance to be paid into the registry of the Court.
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One (1) Timeshare Interest consisting of ONE (1) undivided one fifty-second (1/52) interest in fee simple as tenant in common in and to the below-described Condominium Unit, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Condominium Unit, as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right every calendar year to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit of the same Unit Type described below within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during a Vacation Week, as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then-current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc., all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195-294, as thereafter amended (the “Declaration”).
Unit No.: 1209
Initial Use Year: ____
Unit Type: 1 BEDROOM DELUXE Vacation Week No.: 16
Timeshare Interest: Floating Annual including any improvements, fixtures, and attachments, such as, but not limited to, mobile homes (the “Property”). If there is
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the undersigned Special Master will, as set forth above, offer for sale and sell the Property to the highest bidder for cash or equivalent, for the purpose of satisfying, in the adjudged order of priorities, the judgment and decree of foreclosure described herein, including the costs of advertisement and publication for the foregoing sale, and reasonable Special Master’s fees in an amount to be fixed by the Court. The foregoing sale may be postponed and rescheduled at the discretion of the Special Master, and is subject to all taxes, utility liens and other restrictions and easements of record, and subject to the Defendants’ one (1) month right of redemption and entry of an order of the Court approving the terms and conditions of sale.
Witness my hand this 17th day of’ June, 2024.
By: /S/ Robert Doyle
Robert Doyle, Special Master Legal Process Network P.O. Box 279 Sandia Park, NM 87047 (505) 417-4113
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE
FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT No. D-101-CV-2023-01858
VILLAS DE SANTA FE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION INC., Plaintiff,
v. WARREN A. BROOKS and CAROL A. BROOKS,Defendants.
NOTICE OF SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on August 14, 2024, at 12:15 p.m., the undersigned Special Master will,
1 Timeshare Interests(s) consisting of 1 undivided one fifty-second (1/52) interest(s) in fee simple as tenant in common in and to the below-described Condominium Unit, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Condominium Unit, as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right every calendar year to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit of the same Unit Type described below within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during a Vacation Week, as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then-current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc., all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195-294, as thereafter amended (the “Declaration”).
Unit No.: 1209
Vacation Week No.: 32
Unit Type: 1 Bedroom Deluxe Initial Use Year: 2000
Timeshare Interest: Float Both Odd and Even Years including any improvements, fixtures, and attachments, such as, but not limited to, mobile homes (the “Property”). If there is a conflict between the legal description and the street address, the legal description shall control. The foregoing sale will be made to satisfy a foreclosure judgment rendered by this Court in the above-entitled and numbered cause on June 7, 2024, being an action to foreclose a mortgage on the Property. Plaintiff’s judgment is in the amount of $10,568.85, plus interest of $1,177.92 from January 1, 2024 through August 14, 2024. Plaintiff has the right to bid at the foregoing sale in an amount equal to its judgment, and to submit its bid either verbally or in writing. Plaintiff may apply all
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the undersigned Special Master will, as set forth above, offer for sale and sell the Property to the highest bidder for cash or equivalent, for the purpose of satisfying, in the adjudged order of priorities, the judgment and decree of foreclosure described herein, including the costs of advertisement and publication for the foregoing sale, and reasonable Special Master’s fees in an amount to be fixed by the Court.
The foregoing sale may be postponed and rescheduled at the discretion of the Special Master, and is subject to all taxes, utility liens and other restrictions and easements of record, and subject to the Defendants’ one (1) month right of redemption and entry of an order of the Court approving the terms and conditions of sale. Witness my hand this 17th day of’ June, 2024.
By: /S/ Robert Doyle Robert Doyle, Special Master Legal Process Network P.O. Box 279 Sandia Park, NM 87047 (505) 417-4113
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT No. D-101-CV-2023-01701
VILLAS DE SANTA FE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION INC., Plaintiff, v. ELITE VACATIONS, A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, Defendants.
NOTICE OF SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on August 14, 2024, at 12:15 p.m., the undersigned Special Master will, at the front entrance of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501, sell all of the rights, title, and interests of the above-named Defendant, in and to the hereinafter described real property to the highest bidder. The property to be sold is located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit(s) 1401, Santa Fe, NM 87501, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and is more particularly described as: An undivided 1/104 interest in fee simple as tenant in common in and to Unit Number(s) 1401, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Unit(s), as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right to reserve, use, and occupy an
Assigned Unit within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium ( the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive rights to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during a Vacation Week as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc.; all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195, as amended from time to time (the “Declaration”).
Unit No.: 1401
Initial Use Year: 2011 Timeshare Interest: Odd Year Vacation Week No.: 51
Unit Type (If applicable): 1 Bedroom Deluxe including any improvements, fixtures, and attachments, such as, but not limited to, mobile homes (the “Property”). If there is a conflict between the legal description and the street address, the legal description shall control. The foregoing sale will be made to satisfy a foreclosure judgment rendered by this Court in the above-entitled and numbered cause on March 25, 2024, being an action to foreclose a mortgage on the Property. Plaintiff’s judgment is in the amount of $6,524.58, plus interest of $727.18 from January 1, 2024 through August 14, 2024. Plaintiff has the right to bid at the foregoing sale in an amount equal to its judgment, and to submit its bid either verbally or in writing. Plaintiff may apply all or any part of its judgment to the purchase price in lieu of cash. In accordance with the Court’s decree, the proceeds of sale are to be applied first to the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fees, and then to satisfy the above-described judgment with any remaining balance to be paid into the registry of the Court. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the undersigned Special Master will, as set forth above, offer for sale and sell the Property to the highest bidder for cash or equivalent, for the purpose of satisfying, in the adjudged order of priorities, the judgment and decree of foreclosure described herein, including the costs of advertisement and publication for the foregoing sale, and reasonable Special Master’s fees in an amount to be fixed by the Court. The foregoing sale may be postponed and rescheduled at the discretion of the Special Master,
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and is subject to all taxes, utility liens and other restrictions and easements of record, and subject to the Defendants’ one (1) month right of redemption and entry of an order of the Court approving the terms and conditions of sale.
Witness my hand this 17th day of’ June, 2024.
By: /S/ Robert Doyle
Robert Doyle, Special Master Legal Process Network P.O. Box 279 Sandia Park, NM 87047 (505) 417-4113
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT No. D-101-CV-2023-01836
VILLAS DE SANTA FE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION INC., Plaintiff, v. BRANNON HALL, Defendant.
NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on July 31, 2024, at 12:15 p.m., the undersigned Special Master will, at the front entrance of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501, sell all of the rights, title, and interests of the above-named Defendant, in and to the hereinafter described real property to the highest bidder. The property to be sold is located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit(s) 1203, Santa Fe, NM 87501, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and is more particularly described as: 1 Timeshare Interest(s) consisting of 1 undivided one fifty-second (1/52) interest(s) in fee simple as tenant in common in and to the below-described Condominium Unit, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common furnishings which are appurtenant to such Condominium Unit, as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right every calendar year to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit of the same Unit Type described below within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during a Vacation Week, as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then-current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc., all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk
of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195-294, as thereafter amended (the “Declaration”).
Initial Use Year: 2011 Timeshare Interest: Floating Annual Unit No.: 1203 Vacation Week No.: 03
Unit Type: 1 Bedroom Deluxe including any improvements, fixtures, and attachments, such as, but not limited to, mobile homes (the “Property”). If there is a conflict between the legal description and the street address, the legal description shall control.
The foregoing sale will be made to satisfy a foreclosure judgment rendered by this Court in the above-entitled and numbered cause on May 31, 2024, being an action to foreclose a mortgage on the Property. Plaintiff’s judgment is in the amount of $10,318.63, plus interest of $1,078.79 from January 1, 2024 through July 31, 2024. Plaintiff has the right to bid at the foregoing sale in an amount equal to its judgment, and to submit its bid either verbally or in writing. Plaintiff may apply all or any part of its judgment to the purchase price in lieu of cash.
In accordance with the Court’s decree, the proceeds of sale are to be applied first to the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fees, and then to satisfy the above-described judgment with any remaining balance to be paid into the registry of the Court. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the undersigned Special Master will, as set forth above, offer for sale and sell the Property to the highest bidder for cash or equivalent, for the purpose of satisfying, in the adjudged order of priorities, the judgment and decree of foreclosure described herein, including the costs of advertisement and publication for the foregoing sale, and reasonable Special Master’s fees in an amount to be fixed by the Court.
The foregoing sale may be postponed and rescheduled at the discretion of the Special Master, and is subject to all taxes, utility liens and other restrictions and easements of record, and subject to the Defendants’ one (1) month right of redemption and entry of an order of the Court approving the terms and conditions of sale.
Witness my hand this 21st day of’ June, 2024.
By: /S/ Robert Doyle Robert Doyle, Special Master Legal Process Network P.O. Box 279 Sandia Park, NM 87047 (505) 417-4113
NOTICE OF PENDENCY
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE
FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
No. D-101-CV-2023-01400
VILLAS DE SANTA FE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff,
v. THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF JAMES DOSCHER and THE UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF JAMES DOSCHER, Defendants.
NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION
STATE OF NEW MEXICO
TO: THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF JAMES DOSCHER and THE UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF JAMES DOSCHER
You are hereby notified that the above-named Plaintiff has filed an action against you in the above-entitled Court and cause, the general object thereof to foreclose a mortgage on real property located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit 2120, Santa Fe, NM 87501, said property being more particularly described as: 1 Timeshare Interest(s) consisting of 1 undivided one fifty-second (1/52) interest(s) in fee simple as tenant in common in and to the below-described Condominium Unit, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Condominium Unit, as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right every calendar year to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit of the same Unit Type described below within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during a Vacation Week, as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then-current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc., all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195-294, as thereafter amended (the “Declaration”).
Unit No.: 2120
Initial Use Year: 1999
Timeshare Interest: Floating
Annual Year
Vacation Week No.: 19
Unit Type: 1 Bedroom
Unless you serve a pleading or
motion in response to the Complaint in said cause on or before thirty (30) days after the last publication date of this Notice of Pendency, judgment by default will be entered against you.
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
No. D-101-CV-2023-01693
VILLAS DE SANTA FE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff, v.
THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF BRUCE A. FLEMING, JR. AND THE UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF BRUCE A. FLEMING, JR. AKA CINDY DARREN, Defendants.
NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION
STATE OF NEW MEXICO
TO: THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF BRUCE A. FLEMING, JR.
You are hereby notified that the above-named Plaintiff has filed an action against you in the above-entitled Court and cause, the general object thereof to foreclose a mortgage on real property located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit 2210, Santa Fe, NM 87501, said property being more particularly described as: An undivided 1500/263000 interest in fee simple as tenant in common in and to Unit Number(s) 2210, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Unit(s), as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive rights to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during (A) in the case of “floating” Timeshare Interests, such Use Periods as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc.; and (B) in the case of “fixed” Timeshare Interests, such Fixed Vacation Week as is specifically
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set forth below, all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195, as amended from time to time (the “Declaration”).
Initial Use Year: 2003
Timeshare Interest: UDI-Float
Fixed Use Period (If applicable): N/A
Number of Rights (If applicable): 1500
Fixed Assigned Unit (If applicable):
Vacation Week No.: N/A
Unit Type (If applicable):
Unless you serve a pleading or motion in response to the Complaint in said cause on or before thirty (30) days after the last publication date of this Notice of Pendency, judgment by default will be entered against you.
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT No. D-101-CV-2023-01398 VILLAS DE SANTA FE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION INC., Plaintiff, v. THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF CLYDE W. NEU and THE UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF CLYDE W. NEU, Defendants.
NOTICE OF SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on August 14, 2024, at 12:15 p.m., the undersigned Special Master will, at the front entrance of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501, sell all of the rights, title, and interests of the above-named Defendant, in and to the hereinafter described real property to the highest bidder. The property to be sold is located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit(s) 2117, Santa Fe, NM 87501, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and is more particularly described as: 1 Timeshare Interest(s) consisting of 1 undivided one fifty-second (1/52) interest(s) in fee simple as tenant in common in and to the below-described condominium Unit, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Condominium Unit, as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right every
calendar year to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit of the same Unit Type described below with Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings Located Within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during a Vacation Week, as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then-current Rules and Regulations promulgated by villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc. all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195-294, as thereafter amended (the “Declaration”).
Unit No.: 2117
Initial Use Year: 2010
Timeshare Interest: Floating Annual Year
Vacation Week No.: 51 Unit Type (If applicable): 1 Bedroom including any improvements, fixtures, and attachments, such as, but not limited to, mobile homes (the “Property”). If there is a conflict between the legal description and the street address, the legal description shall control. The foregoing sale will be made to satisfy a foreclosure judgment rendered by this Court in the above-entitled and numbered cause on June 20, 2024, being an action to foreclose a mortgage on the Property. Plaintiff’s judgment is in the amount of $6,890.25, plus interest of $767.93 from January 1, 2024 through August 14, 2024. Plaintiff has the right to bid at the foregoing sale in an amount equal to its judgment, and to submit its bid either verbally or in writing. Plaintiff may apply all or any part of its judgment to the purchase price in lieu of cash.
In accordance with the Court’s decree, the proceeds of sale are to be applied first to the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fees, and then to satisfy the above-described judgment with any remaining balance to be paid into the registry of the Court. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the undersigned Special Master will, as set forth above, offer for sale and sell the Property to the highest bidder for cash or equivalent, for the purpose of satisfying, in the adjudged order of priorities, the judgment and decree of foreclosure described herein, including the costs of advertisement and publication for the foregoing sale, and reasonable Special Master’s fees
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in an amount to be fixed by the Court.
The foregoing sale may be postponed and rescheduled at the discretion of the Special Master, and is subject to all taxes, utility liens and other restrictions and easements of record, and subject to the Defendants’ one (1) month right of redemption and entry of an order of the Court approving the terms and conditions of sale.
Witness my hand this 21st day of’ June, 2024.
By: /S/ Robert Doyle
Robert Doyle, Special Master Legal Process Network
P.O. Box 279 Sandia Park, NM 87047 (505) 417-4113
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
No. D-101-CV-2023-01893
VILLAS DE SANTA FE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff,
v. ESTATE OF PELCYIDA SARNO, Defendant.
NOTICE OF SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on August 14, 2024, at 12:15 p.m., the undersigned Special Master will, at the front entrance of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501, 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. The property to be sold is located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit(s) 2211, Santa Fe, NM 87501, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and is more particularly described as: An undivided 5000/263000 interest in fee simple as tenant in common in and to Unit Number(s) 2211, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Unit(s), as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive rights to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during (A) in the case of “floating” Timeshare Interests, such Use Periods as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc.; and (B) in the case of “fixed” Timeshare Interests, such Fixed
Vacation Week as is specifically set forth below, all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, A Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195, as amended from time to time (the “Declaration”).
Initial Use Year: 2003
Timeshare Interest: UDI-Float Fixed Use Period (If applicable): N/A
Number of Rights (If applicable): 5000
Fixed Assigned Unit (if applicable):
Vacation Week No.: N/A
Unit Type (if applicable): including any improvements, fixtures, and attachments, such as, but not limited to, mobile homes (the “Property”). If there is a conflict between the legal description and the street address, the legal description shall control.
The foregoing sale will be made to satisfy a foreclosure judgment rendered by this Court in the above-entitled and numbered cause on January 25, 2024, being an action to foreclose a mortgage on the Property. Plaintiff’s judgment is in the amount of $9,763.73, plus interest of $1,762.29 from August 14, 2023 through August 14, 2024. Plaintiff has the right to bid at the foregoing sale in an amount equal to its judgment, and to submit its bid either verbally or in writing. Plaintiff may apply all or any part of its judgment to the purchase price in lieu of cash.
In accordance with the Court’s decree, the proceeds of sale are to be applied first to the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fees, and then to satisfy the above-described judgment with any remaining balance to be paid into the registry of the Court.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the undersigned Special Master will, as set forth above, offer for sale and sell the Property to the highest bidder for cash or equivalent, for the purpose of satisfying, in the adjudged order of priorities, the judgment and decree of foreclosure described herein, including the costs of advertisement and publication for the foregoing sale, and reasonable Special Master’s fees in an amount to be fixed by the Court. The foregoing sale may be postponed and rescheduled at the discretion of the Special Master, and is subject to all taxes, utility liens and other restrictions and easements of record, and subject to the Defendants’ one (1) month right of redemption and entry of an order of the Court approving the terms and conditions of sale.
Witness my hand this 21st day of’ June, 2024.
By: /S/ Robert Doyle
Robert Doyle, Special Master Legal Process Network
P.O. Box 279
Sandia Park, NM 87047 (505) 417-4113
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE
FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
No. D-101-CV-2023-01393
VILLAS DE SANTA FE
CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION INC., Plaintiff,
v. THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF CORDELIA V. CAROLUS and THE UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF CORDELIA V. CAROLUS, Defendant.
NOTICE OF SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on August 14, 2024, at 12:15 p.m., the undersigned Special Master will, at the front entrance of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501, sell all of the rights, title, and interests of the above-named Defendant, in and to the hereinafter described real property to the highest bidder. The property to be sold is located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit(s) 1106, Santa Fe, NM 87501, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and is more particularly described as:
1 Timeshare interest(s) consisting of 1 undivided one fifty-second (1/52) interest(s) in fee simple as tenant in common in and to the below-described Condominium Unit, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Condominium Unit, as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right every calendar year to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit of the same Unit Type described below within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during a Vacation Week, as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then-current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc., all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195-294, as thereafter amended (the “Declaration”).
Unit No.: 1106
Vacation Week No.: 14
Unit Type (If applicable): 1
BEDROOM DELUXE
Initial Use Year: 1998
Timeshare Interest: Floating Annual Year including any improvements, fixtures, and attachments, such as, but not limited to, mobile homes (the “Property”). If there is a conflict between the legal description and the street address, the legal description shall control.
The foregoing sale will be made to satisfy a foreclosure judgment rendered by this Court in the above-entitled and numbered cause on June 24, 2024, being an action to foreclose a mortgage on the Property. Plaintiff’s judgment is in the amount of $7,199.56, plus interest of $802.41 from January 1, 2024 through August 14, 2024. Plaintiff has the right to bid at the foregoing sale in an amount equal to its judgment, and to submit its bid either verbally or in writing. Plaintiff may apply all or any part of its judgment to the purchase price in lieu of cash.
In accordance with the Court’s decree, the proceeds of sale are to be applied first to the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fees, and then to satisfy the above-described judgment with any remaining balance to be paid into the registry of the Court.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the undersigned Special Master will, as set forth above, offer for sale and sell the Property to the highest bidder for cash or equivalent, for the purpose of satisfying, in the adjudged order of priorities, the judgment and decree of foreclosure described herein, including the costs of advertisement and publication for the foregoing sale, and reasonable Special Master’s fees in an amount to be fixed by the Court.
The foregoing sale may be postponed and rescheduled at the discretion of the Special Master, and is subject to all taxes, utility liens and other restrictions and easements of record, and subject to the Defendants’ one (1) month right of redemption and entry of an order of the Court approving the terms and conditions of sale.
Witness my hand this 26th day of’ June, 2024.
By: /S/ Robert Doyle
Robert Doyle, Special Master Legal Process Network
P.O. Box 279 Sandia Park, NM 87047 (505) 417-4113
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
No. D-101-CV-2023-01584 VILLAS DE SANTA FE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION
INC., Plaintiff, v. BRADLEY N. ECKERT and GISELA ECKERT, Defendant.
NOTICE OF SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on August 14, 2024, at 12:15 p.m., the undersigned Special Master will, at the front entrance of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501, sell all of the rights, title, and interests of the above-named Defendant, in and to the hereinafter described real property to the highest bidder. The property to be sold is located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit(s) 1212, Santa Fe, NM 87501, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and is more particularly described as: An undivided 500/289000 Interest(s) in fee simple as tenant in common in and to Unit Number(s) 1212, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Condominium Unit, as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during (A) in the case of “floating” Timeshare Interests, such Use Periods as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc; and (B) in the case of “fixed” Timeshare Interests, such Fixed Vacation Week as is specifically set forth below, all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195, as amended from time to time (the “Declaration”).
Initial Use Year: 2004
Timeshare Interest: Fixed Use Period (If applicable): N/A Number of Rights (If applicable): 500 Fixed Assigned Unit (If applicable): Vacation Week No.: N/A Unit Type (If applicable): including any improvements, fixtures, and attachments, such as, but not limited to, mobile homes (the “Property”). If there is a conflict between the legal description and the street address, the legal description shall control.
The foregoing sale will be made to satisfy a foreclosure judgment rendered by this Court in the above-entitled and numbered cause on June 25, 2024, being an action to foreclose a mortgage on the Property. Plaintiff’s judgment is in the amount of $6,743.35, plus interest of $751.56 from January 1, 2024 through August 14, 2024. Plaintiff has the right to bid at the foregoing sale in an amount equal to its judgment, and to submit its bid either verbally or in writing. Plaintiff may apply all or any part of its judgment to the purchase price in lieu of cash.
In accordance with the Court’s decree, the proceeds of sale are to be applied first to the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fees, and then to satisfy the above-described judgment with any remaining balance to be paid into the registry of the Court.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the undersigned Special Master will, as set forth above, offer for sale and sell the Property to the highest bidder for cash or equivalent, for the purpose of satisfying, in the adjudged order of priorities, the judgment and decree of foreclosure described herein, including the costs of advertisement and publication for the foregoing sale, and reasonable Special Master’s fees in an amount to be fixed by the Court.
The foregoing sale may be postponed and rescheduled at the discretion of the Special Master, and is subject to all taxes, utility liens and other restrictions and easements of record, and subject to the Defendants’ one (1) month right of redemption and entry of an order of the Court approving the terms and conditions of sale.
Witness my hand this 26th day of’ June, 2024.
By: /S/ Robert Doyle Robert Doyle, Special Master Legal Process Network P.O. Box 279 Sandia Park, NM 87047 (505) 417-4113
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT No. D-101-CV-2023-01459
VILLAS DE SANTA FE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION INC., Plaintiff, v. ALEX F. GARCIA and UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF ALEX F. GARCIA, Defendant.
NOTICE OF SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on August 14, 2024, at 12:15 p.m., the undersigned Special Master will, at the front entrance of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa
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Fe, NM 87501, sell all of the rights, title, and interests of the above-named Defendant, in and to the hereinafter described real property to the highest bidder. The property to be sold is located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit(s) 2117, Santa Fe, NM 87501, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and is more particularly described as: 1 Timeshare Interest(s) consisting of 1 undivided one fifty-second (1/52) interest(s) in fee simple as tenant in common in and to the below-described Condominium Unit, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common furnishings which are appurtenant to such Condominium Unit, as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right every calendar year to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit of the same Unit Type described below within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during a Vacation Week, as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then-current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc., all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195-294, as thereafter amended (the “Declaration”).
Unit No.: 2117
Initial Use Year: 2000
Timeshare Interest: Floating Annual Year
Vacation Week No.: 21
Unit Type (If applicable): 1 Bedroom including any improvements, fixtures, and attachments, such as, but not limited to, mobile homes (the “Property”). If there is a conflict between the legal description and the street address, the legal description shall control.
The foregoing sale will be made to satisfy a foreclosure judgment rendered by this Court in the above-entitled and numbered cause on June 24, 2024, being an action to foreclose a mortgage on the Property. Plaintiff’s judgment is in the amount of $7,998.56, plus interest of $891.46 from January 1, 2024 through August 14, 2024. Plaintiff has the right to bid at the foregoing sale in an amount equal to its judgment, and to submit its bid either verbally or in writing. Plaintiff may apply all or any part of its judgment to the purchase price in
lieu of cash.
In accordance with the Court’s decree, the proceeds of sale are to be applied first to the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fees, and then to satisfy the above-described judgment with any remaining balance to be paid into the registry of the Court.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the undersigned Special Master will, as set forth above, offer for sale and sell the Property to the highest bidder for cash or equivalent, for the purpose of satisfying, in the adjudged order of priorities, the judgment and decree of foreclosure described herein, including the costs of advertisement and publication for the foregoing sale, and reasonable Special Master’s fees in an amount to be fixed by the Court.
The foregoing sale may be postponed and rescheduled at the discretion of the Special Master, and is subject to all taxes, utility liens and other restrictions and easements of record, and subject to the Defendants’ one (1) month right of redemption and entry of an order of the Court approving the terms and conditions of sale.
Witness my hand this 25th day of’ June, 2024.
By: /S/ Robert Doyle
Robert Doyle, Special Master Legal Process Network P.O. Box 279 Sandia Park, NM 87047 (505) 417-4113
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT No. D-101-CV-2023-02042 VILLAS DE SANTA FE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION INC., Plaintiff, v. THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF JEAN C. HUNTINGTON and THE UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF JEAN C. HUNTINGTON, Defendant.
NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on August 14, 2024 at 12:15 p.m., the undersigned Special Master will, at the front entrance of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501, sell all of the rights, title, and interests of the above-named Defendant, in and to the hereinafter described real property to the highest bidder. The property to be sold is located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit(s) 1103, Santa Fe, NM 87501, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and is more particularly described as: An undivided 1000/289000 interest in fee simple as tenant in common in and to Unit Number(s)
1103, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Unit(s), as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during (A) in the case of “floating” Timeshare Interests, such Use Periods as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc; and (B) in the case of “fixed” Timeshare Interests, such Fixed Vacation Week as is specifically set forth below, all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195, as amended from time to time (the “Declaration”).
Initial Use Year: 2003
Timeshare Interest: UDI-Float Fixed Use Period (If applicable): N/A
Number of Rights (If applicable): 1000
Fixed Assigned Unit (If applicable):
Vacation Week No.:
Unit Type (If applicable): including any improvements, fixtures, and attachments, such as, but not limited to, mobile homes (the “Property”). If there is a conflict between the legal description and the street address, the legal description shall control.
The foregoing sale will be made to satisfy a foreclosure judgment rendered by this Court in the above-entitled and numbered cause on June 24, 2024, being an action to foreclose a mortgage on the Property. Plaintiff’s judgment is in the amount of $6,730.09, plus interest of $750.08 from January 1, 2024 through August 14, 2024. Plaintiff has the right to bid at the foregoing sale in an amount equal to its judgment, and to submit its bid either verbally or in writing. Plaintiff may apply all or any part of its judgment to the purchase price in lieu of cash.
In accordance with the Court’s decree, the proceeds of sale are to be applied first to the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fees, and then to satisfy the above-described judgment with any remaining balance to be paid into the registry of the Court.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the undersigned Special Master will, as set forth above, offer for sale and sell the Property to the highest bidder for cash or equivalent, for the purpose of satisfying, in the adjudged order of priorities, the judgment and decree of foreclosure described herein, including the costs of advertisement and publication for the foregoing sale, and reasonable Special Master’s fees in an amount to be fixed by the Court.
The foregoing sale may be postponed and rescheduled at the discretion of the Special Master, and is subject to all taxes, utility liens and other restrictions and easements of record, and subject to the Defendants’ one (1) month right of redemption and entry of an order of the Court approving the terms and conditions of sale.
Witness my hand this 25th day of’ June, 2024.
By: /S/ Robert Doyle
Robert Doyle, Special Master Legal Process Network
P.O. Box 279 Sandia Park, NM 87047 (505) 417-4113
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
No. D-101-CV-2023-01888
VILLAS DE SANTA FE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION INC., Plaintiff, v. DEBORAH LEE FRITZ, Defendant.
NOTICE OF SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on August 28, 2024, at 12:15 p.m., the undersigned Special Master will, at the front entrance of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501, sell all of the rights, title, and interests of the above-named Defendant, in and to the hereinafter described real property to the highest bidder. The property to be sold is located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit(s) 1105, Santa Fe, NM 87501, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and is more particularly described as: An undivided 5500/289000 interest in fee simple as tenant in common in and to Unit Number(s) 1105, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Unit(s), as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii)
non-exclusive rights to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during (A) in the case of “floating” Timeshare Interests, such Use Periods as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc.; and (B) in the case of “fixed” Timeshare Interests, such Fixed Vacation Week as is specifically set forth below, all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195, as amended from time to time (the “Declaration”).
Unit Number: 1105
Initial Use Year: 2003
Fixed Use Period (If applicable): N/A
Number of Rights (If applicable): 5500
Fixed Assigned Unit (If applicable):
Vacation Week No.:
Unit Type (If applicable): ___
Timeshare Interest: UDI-Float including any improvements, fixtures, and attachments, such as, but not limited to, mobile homes (the “Property”). If there is a conflict between the legal description and the street address, the legal description shall control.
The foregoing sale will be made to satisfy a foreclosure judgment rendered by this Court in the above-entitled and numbered cause on June 27, 2024, being an action to foreclose a mortgage on the Property. Plaintiff’s judgment is in the amount of $10,495.23, plus interest of $1,242.18 from January 1, 2024 through August 28, 2024. Plaintiff has the right to bid at the foregoing sale in an amount equal to its judgment, and to submit its bid either verbally or in writing. Plaintiff may apply all or any part of its judgment to the purchase price in lieu of cash.
In accordance with the Court’s decree, the proceeds of sale are to be applied first to the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fees, and then to satisfy the above-described judgment with any remaining balance to be paid into the registry of the Court.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the undersigned Special Master will, as set forth above, offer for sale and sell the Property to the highest bidder for cash or equivalent, for the purpose of satisfying, in the adjudged order of priorities, the judgment and decree of foreclosure described herein, including the costs of advertisement and publication for the foregoing sale, and reasonable Special Master’s fees
in an amount to be fixed by the Court.
The foregoing sale may be postponed and rescheduled at the discretion of the Special Master, and is subject to all taxes, utility liens and other restrictions and easements of record, and subject to the Defendants’ one (1) month right of redemption and entry of an order of the Court approving the terms and conditions of sale.
Witness my hand this 3rd day of’ July, 2024.
By: /S/ Robert Doyle Robert Doyle, Special Master Legal Process Network P.O. Box 279 Sandia Park, NM 87047 (505) 417-4113
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT No. D-101-CV-2023-01627
VILLAS DE SANTA FE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION INC., Plaintiff, v. THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF THADDEUS MAREK and THE UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF THADDEUS MAREK, Defendant. NOTICE OF SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on August 14, 2024, at 12:15 p.m., the undersigned Special Master will, at the front entrance of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501, sell all of the rights, title, and interests of the above-named Defendant, in and to the hereinafter described real property to the highest bidder. The property to be sold is located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit(s) 2210, Santa Fe, NM 87501, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and is more particularly described as: An undivided 500/263000 interest in fee simple as tenant in common in and to Unit Number(s) 2210, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Unit(s), as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit within Villas de Santa Fe, A Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during (A) in the case of “floating” Timeshare Interests, such Use Periods as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then current Rules and Regulations
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promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc; and (B) in the case of “fixed” Timeshare Interests, such Fixed Vacation Week as is specifically set forth below, all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195, as amended from time to time (the “Declaration”).
Initial Use Year: 2003 Timeshare Interest: UDI-Float Fixed Use Period (If applicable): N/A
Number of Rights (If applicable): 500 Fixed Assigned Unit (If applicable):
Vacation Week No.: N/A Unit Type (If applicable): including any improvements, fixtures, and attachments, such as, but not limited to, mobile homes (the “Property”). If there is a conflict between the legal description and the street address, the legal description shall control.
The foregoing sale will be made to satisfy a foreclosure judgment rendered by this Court in the above-entitled and numbered cause on June 21, 2024, being an action to foreclose a mortgage on the Property. Plaintiff’s judgment is in the amount of $5,799.33, plus interest of $646.35 from January 1, 2024 through August 14, 2024. Plaintiff has the right to bid at the foregoing sale in an amount equal to its judgment, and to submit its bid either verbally or in writing. Plaintiff may apply all or any part of its judgment to the purchase price in lieu of cash.
In accordance with the Court’s decree, the proceeds of sale are to be applied first to the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fees, and then to satisfy the above-described judgment with any remaining balance to be paid into the registry of the Court.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the undersigned Special Master will, as set forth above, offer for sale and sell the Property to the highest bidder for cash or equivalent, for the purpose of satisfying, in the adjudged order of priorities, the judgment and decree of foreclosure described herein, including the costs of advertisement and publication for the foregoing sale, and reasonable Special Master’s fees in an amount to be fixed by the Court.
The foregoing sale may be postponed and rescheduled at the discretion of the Special Master, and is subject to all taxes, utility liens and other restrictions and easements of record, and subject to the Defendants’ one (1) month right of redemption and
entry of an order of the Court approving the terms and conditions of sale. Witness my hand this 25th day of’ June, 2024.
By: /S/ Robert Doyle Robert Doyle, Special Master Legal Process Network P.O. Box 279 Sandia Park, NM 87047 (505) 417-4113
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT No. D-101-CV-2023-01608
VILLAS DE SANTA FE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION INC., Plaintiff, v. FRANK D. RAMIREZ, JR. and EVELYN R. RAMIREZ, Defendants.
NOTICE OF SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on August 28, 2024, at 12:15 p.m., the undersigned Special Master will, at the front entrance of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501, sell all of the rights, title, and interests of the above-named Defendant, in and to the hereinafter described real property to the highest bidder. The property to be sold is located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit(s) 2210, Santa Fe, NM 87501, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and is more particularly described as:
An undivided 1000/263000 interest(s) in fee simple as tenant in common in and to Unit Number(s) 2210, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Unit(s), as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during (A) in the case of “floating” Timeshare Interests, such Use Periods as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then-current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc.; and (B) in the case of “fixed Timeshare Interests, such Fixed Vacation Week as is specifically set forth below, all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195, as amended from time to time (the
“Declaration”).
Unit No.: 2210
Initial Use Year: 2003
Fixed Use Period (If applicable): N/A
Number of Rights (If applicable):
1000
Fixed Assigned Unit (If applicable):
Vacation Week No.: N/A
Unit Type (If applicable):
Timeshare Interest: UDI-Float including any improvements, fixtures, and attachments, such as, but not limited to, mobile homes (the “Property”). If there is a conflict between the legal description and the street address, the legal description shall control.
The foregoing sale will be made to satisfy a foreclosure judgment rendered by this Court in the above-entitled and numbered cause on July 1, 2024, being an action to foreclose a mortgage on the Property. Plaintiff’s judgment is in the amount of $6,889.19, plus interest of $815.38 from January 1, 2024 through August 28, 2024. Plaintiff has the right to bid at the foregoing sale in an amount equal to its judgment, and to submit its bid either verbally or in writing. Plaintiff may apply all or any part of its judgment to the purchase price in lieu of cash.
In accordance with the Court’s decree, the proceeds of sale are to be applied first to the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fees, and then to satisfy the above-described judgment with any remaining balance to be paid into the registry of the Court.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the undersigned Special Master will, as set forth above, offer for sale and sell the Property to the highest bidder for cash or equivalent, for the purpose of satisfying, in the adjudged order of priorities, the judgment and decree of foreclosure described herein, including the costs of advertisement and publication for the foregoing sale, and reasonable Special Master’s fees in an amount to be fixed by the Court.
The foregoing sale may be postponed and rescheduled at the discretion of the Special Master, and is subject to all taxes, utility liens and other restrictions and easements of record, and subject to the Defendants’ one (1) month right of redemption and entry of an order of the Court approving the terms and conditions of sale.
Witness my hand this 3rd day of’ July, 2024.
By: /S/ Robert Doyle
Robert Doyle, Special Master Legal Process Network
P.O. Box 279
Sandia Park, NM 87047 (505) 417-4113
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE
FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
No. D-101-CV-2023-01942
VILLAS DE SANTA FE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION INC., Plaintiff, v. TANYA’S TIMESHARE COMPANY, LLC, Defendant.
NOTICE OF SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on August 28, 2024, at 12:15 p.m., the undersigned Special Master will, at the front entrance of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501, sell all of the rights, title, and interests of the above-named Defendant, in and to the hereinafter described real property to the highest bidder. The property to be sold is located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit(s) 2014, Santa Fe, NM 87501, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and is more particularly described as:
An undivided 10000/263000 interest in fee simple as tenant in common in and to Unit Number(s) 2014, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Unit(s), as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during (A) in the case of “floating” Timeshare Interests, such Use Periods as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc.; and (B) in the case of “fixed” Timeshare Interests, such Fixed Vacation Week as is specifically set forth below, all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195, as amended from time to time (the “Declaration”).
Initial Use Year: 2003
Timeshare Interest: UDI-Float
Fixed Use Period (If applicable): N/A
Number of Rights (If applicable): 10000
Fixed Assigned Unit (If applicable):
Vacation Week No.: N/A
Unit Type (If applicable):
including any improvements, fixtures, and attachments, such as, but not limited to, mobile homes (the “Property”). If there is a conflict between the legal description and the street address, the legal description shall control.
The foregoing sale will be made to satisfy a foreclosure judgment rendered by this Court in the above-entitled and numbered cause on June 26, 2024, being an action to foreclose a mortgage on the Property. Plaintiff’s judgment is in the amount of $15,600.45, plus interest of $1,846.41 from January 1, 2024 through August 28, 2024. Plaintiff has the right to bid at the foregoing sale in an amount equal to its judgment, and to submit its bid either verbally or in writing. Plaintiff may apply all or any part of its judgment to the purchase price in lieu of cash.
In accordance with the Court’s decree, the proceeds of sale are to be applied first to the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fees, and then to satisfy the above-described judgment with any remaining balance to be paid into the registry of the Court.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the undersigned Special Master will, as set forth above, offer for sale and sell the Property to the highest bidder for cash or equivalent, for the purpose of satisfying, in the adjudged order of priorities, the judgment and decree of foreclosure described herein, including the costs of advertisement and publication for the foregoing sale, and reasonable Special Master’s fees in an amount to be fixed by the Court.
The foregoing sale may be postponed and rescheduled at the discretion of the Special Master, and is subject to all taxes, utility liens and other restrictions and easements of record, and subject to the Defendants’ one (1) month right of redemption and entry of an order of the Court approving the terms and conditions of sale.
Witness my hand this 3rd day of’ July, 2024.
By: /S/ Robert Doyle Robert Doyle, Special Master Legal Process Network P.O. Box 279 Sandia Park, NM 87047 (505) 417-4113
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT No. D-101-CV-2023-01598
VILLAS DE SANTA FE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION INC., Plaintiff, v. NORM S. THOMSON and GAYLENE THOMSON,
Defendants. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on August 28, 2024 at 12:15 p.m., the undersigned Special Master will, at the front entrance of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM
87501, sell all of the rights, title, and interests of the above-named Defendant, in and to the hereinafter described real property to the highest bidder. The property to be sold is located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit(s) 1208, Santa Fe, NM 87501, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and is more particularly described as: An undivided 1000/289000 interest in fee simple as tenant in common in and to Unit Number(s) 1208, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Condominium Unit, as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during (A) in the case of “floating” Timeshare Interests, such Use Periods as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc; and (B) in the case of “fixed” Timeshare Interests, such Fixed Vacation Week as is specifically set forth below, all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195, as amended from time to time (the “Declaration”).
Initial Use Year: 2002
Timeshare Interest: UDI-Float Fixed Use Period (If applicable): N/A
Number of Rights (If applicable): 1000
Fixed Assigned Unit (If applicable):
Vacation Week No.: Unit Type (If applicable): including any improvements, fixtures, and attachments, such as, but not limited to, mobile homes (the “Property”). If there is a conflict between the legal description and the street address, the legal description shall control.
The foregoing sale will be made to satisfy a foreclosure judgment
LEGALS
rendered by this Court in the above-entitled and numbered cause on July 1, 2024, being an action to foreclose a mortgage on the Property. Plaintiff’s judgment is in the amount of $6,698.95, plus interest of $792.86 from January 1, 2024 through August 28, 2024. Plaintiff has the right to bid at the foregoing sale in an amount equal to its judgment, and to submit its bid either verbally or in writing. Plaintiff may apply all or any part of its judgment to the purchase price in lieu of cash.
In accordance with the Court’s decree, the proceeds of sale are to be applied first to the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fees, and then to satisfy the above-described judgment with any remaining balance to be paid into the registry of the Court.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the undersigned Special Master will, as set forth above, offer for sale and sell the Property to the highest bidder for cash or equivalent, for the purpose of satisfying, in the adjudged order of priorities, the judgment and decree of foreclosure described herein, including the costs of advertisement and publication for the foregoing sale, and reasonable Special Master’s fees in an amount to be fixed by the Court.
The foregoing sale may be postponed and rescheduled at the discretion of the Special Master, and is subject to all taxes, utility liens and other restrictions and easements of record, and subject to the Defendants’ one (1) month right of redemption and entry of an order of the Court approving the terms and conditions of sale.
Witness my hand this 3rd day of’ July, 2024.
By: /S/ Robert Doyle
Robert Doyle, Special Master Legal Process Network P.O. Box 279 Sandia Park, NM 87047 (505) 417-4113
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE
FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT
COURT
No. D-101-CV-2023-01892
VILLAS DE SANTA FE
CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION
INC., Plaintiff, v. THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF CHARLOTTE M. CARROLL and THE UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF CHARLOTTE M. CARROLL, Defendant.
NOTICE OF SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on August 14, 2024, at 12:15 p.m., the undersigned Special Master will, at the front entrance of the First Judicial District Courthouse,
225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501, sell all of the rights, title, and interests of the above-named Defendant, in and to the hereinafter described real property to the highest bidder.
The property to be sold is located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit(s) 2202, Santa Fe, NM 87501, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and is more particularly described as: 1 Timeshare Interests(s) consisting of 1 undivided one fifty-second (1/52) interest(s) in fee simple as tenant in common in and to the below-described Condominium Unit, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Condominium Unit, as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right every calendar year to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit of the same Unit Type described below within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during a Vacation Week, as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then-current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc., all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195-294, as thereafter amended (the “Declaration”).
Unit No.: 2202
Vacation Week No.: 15 Unit Type: 2 Bedroom Initial Use Year: 1998
Timeshare Interest: Floating Annual including any improvements, fixtures, and attachments, such as, but not limited to, mobile homes (the “Property”). If there is a conflict between the legal description and the street address, the legal description shall control.
The foregoing sale will be made to satisfy a foreclosure judgment rendered by this Court in the above-entitled and numbered cause on June 25, 2024, being an action to foreclose a mortgage on the Property. Plaintiff’s judgment is in the amount of $12,001.23, plus interest of $1,337.56 from January 1, 2024 through August 14, 2024. Plaintiff has the right to bid at the foregoing sale in an amount equal to its judgment, and to submit its bid either verbally or in writing. Plaintiff may
apply all or any part of its judgment to the purchase price in lieu of cash.
In accordance with the Court’s decree, the proceeds of sale are to be applied first to the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fees, and then to satisfy the above-described judgment with any remaining balance to be paid into the registry of the Court.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the undersigned Special Master will, as set forth above, offer for sale and sell the Property to the highest bidder for cash or equivalent, for the purpose of satisfying, in the adjudged order of priorities, the judgment and decree of foreclosure described herein, including the costs of advertisement and publication for the foregoing sale, and reasonable Special Master’s fees in an amount to be fixed by the Court.
The foregoing sale may be postponed and rescheduled at the discretion of the Special Master, and is subject to all taxes, utility liens and other restrictions and easements of record, and subject to the Defendants’ one (1) month right of redemption and entry of an order of the Court approving the terms and conditions of sale.
Witness my hand this 27th day of’ June, 2024.
By: /S/ Robert Doyle
Robert Doyle, Special Master Legal Process Network
P.O. Box 279 Sandia Park, NM 87047 (505) 417-4113
OF PENDENCY
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
No. D-101-CV-2023-01699
VILLAS DE SANTA FE
CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff, v. LINDA S. TRIVETT and ROGER L. TRIVETT, Defendants.
NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION
STATE OF NEW MEXICO TO: ROGER L. TRIVETT
You are hereby notified that the above-named Plaintiff has filed an action against you in the above-entitled Court and cause, the general object thereof to foreclose a mortgage on real property located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit 1205, Santa Fe, NM 87501, said property being more particularly described as: An undivided 1/104 interest in fee simple as tenant in common in and to Unit Number(s) 1205, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are
appurtenant to such Unit(s), as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right during alternate calendar years to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive rights to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during (A) in the case of “floating” Timeshare Interests, such Use Periods as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then current Rules and Regulations 71037.0100 promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc.; and (B) in the case of “fixed” Timeshare Interests, such Fixed Vacation Week as is specifically set forth below, all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195, as amended from time to time (the “Declaration”).
Initial Use Year: 2004
Timeshare Interest: Odd Year Fixed Assigned Unit: 1205 Vacation Week No.: 43 Unit Type: 1 Bedroom Deluxe Unless you serve a pleading or motion in response to the Complaint in said cause on or before thirty (30) days after the last publication date of this Notice of Pendency, judgment by default will be entered against you. GREENSPOON MARDER LLP
By: /s/ S. J. Lucero
Mx. S. J. Lucero (they/them) 500 Marquette NW, 12th Floor Albuquerque, NM 87102 Telephone: (888) 491.1120
Email 1: S.J.Lucero@gmlaw.com
Email 2:
gmforeclosure@gmlaw.com
Attorneys for Plaintiff
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
No. D-101-CV-2023-01899
VILLAS DE SANTA FE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff, v.
UNKNOWN HEIRS OF BENJAMIN L.
REYES and UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF BENJAMIN L. REYES, Defendants.
NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION
STATE OF NEW MEXICO
TO: UNKNOWN HEIRS OF
BENJAMIN L. REYES and UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF BENJAMIN L. REYES
You are hereby notified that the above-named Plaintiff has filed an action against you in the above-entitled Court and cause, the general object thereof to foreclose a mortgage on real property located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit 2201, Santa Fe, NM 87501, said property being more particularly described as: An undivided 1/52 interest in fee simple as tenant in common in and to Unit Number(s) 2201, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Unit(s), as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right every calendar year to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive rights to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during (A) in the case of “floating” Timeshare Interests, such Use Periods as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc.; and (B) in the case of “fixed” Timeshare Interests, such Fixed Vacation Week as is specifically set forth below, all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195, as amended from time to time (the “Declaration”).
Vacation Week No.: 22 Unit Type: 2 Bedroom Standard
Unless you serve a pleading or motion in response to the Complaint in said cause on or before thirty (30) days after the last publication date of this Notice of Pendency, judgment by default will be entered against you.
STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE PROBATE COURT SANTA FE COUNTY No. 2024-0154
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Jerry A. Sanchez, DECEASED. NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the estate of the decedent. All persons having claims against the estate of the decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of any published notice to creditors or sixty (60) days after the date of mailing or other delivery of this notice, whichever is later, or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either to the undersigned personal representative at the address listed below, or filed with the Probate Court of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, located at the following address: 100 Catron St., Santa Fe, NM 87501.
Dated: June 28, 2024 /s/ Dolores L. Archuleta Dolores L. Archuleta 9 Pumpkin Lane Pecos, NM 87552 505-920-0109 doarchuleta@gmail.com
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Auction Sale Date, 7/31/24
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