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curriculum, calendars, administration and other school-related factors, research shows teachers have two to three times the impact on students’ reading and math test scores. Progress achieved since Singleton’s July 2018 ruling in the Yazzie/Martinez case has included higher salaries and more compensated professional development time through extended learning programs. But some of that progress isn’t translating to New Mexico’s most vulnerable students, despite decades-long efforts. Under former Gov. Bill Richardson, the state instituted a three-tiered licensure and evaluation system for teachers in 2003, with the goal of recruiting and retaining qualified educators—following the logic that those with more experience and who have achieved a higher licensure level should receive higher salaries. Despite the large increases in salary between the tiers, which still exist today, a 2009 Legislative Finance Committee report noted, “The differences in teacher effectiveness between licensure levels were not substantial.” The report did acknowledge that teachers with the highest licensure level outperformed their colleagues. Richardson’s successor also centered education reform around improving teacher quality, though then-Gov. Susana Martinez rankled many educators by leaning heavily on Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) tests to evaluate teachers. Martinez’s evaluation system represented an attempt to improve quality of
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hen Matt Montaño returned to New Mexico after a brief stint with the Texas Education Agency, he knew his students in Bernalillo deserved teachers who understood their experiences. “One of the biggest components of what our teachers need is to understand the cultural context, the linguistic context that our students have, so they can frame their educational experience within those contexts,” says Montaño, who is now the superintendent of the Bernalillo Public Schools system. Research confirms Montaño’s philosophy: Students who learn from teachers of the same race have better educational outcomes—especially for young people in low-income homes. To validate this reality, at the beginning of the school year Montaño lobbied his district’s school board, which serves seven nearby pueblos, to equalize pay between Native language and culture teachers and traditionally-licensed educators. Earlier this month Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed House Bill 60 to equalize teacher pay statewide. State officials have made progress toward recognizing the importance of Indigenous knowledge and representation in schools. Still, many students of color in New Mexico learn in classrooms where most teachers are white. Misaligned student-teacher demographics are just one complication hampering the state’s educator workforce. 8
Recent increases to salaries have taken aim at a staggering teacher shortage. But there’s a larger gap to close for educators who work with vulnerable student groups, particularly those learning English and receiving special education services. This shortage disproportionately impacts students already facing challenges to an adequate education. Almost four years ago, the late-District Court Judge Sarah Singleton ruled that the state failed to provide English-language learners, special education students, Native youths and those from low-income families sufficient public schooling—a constitutional right—in part due to inadequate teaching. Experts say providing quality teaching has long eluded New Mexico’s most vulnerable students. Teachers historically misunderstood what English learners needed to be successful in schools, according to research conducted by Rebecca Blum Martinez, a professor emeritus of bilingual and English as a second language education at the University of New Mexico. She found English-language learners in districts around the state were incorrectly assigned to remedial reading programs, which taught students to read short sentences out loud, but did little to support reading comprehension. “What students who are English learners need is access to very rich, challenging and intellectually stimulating texts and curriculum so that they can learn how to use English in the ways that are required
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of them by the schools—by the tests and so forth,” Blum Martinez tells SFR. For students developing a second language, she says, some teachers and administrators don’t have the knowledge to appropriately support both Indigenous and Hispanic children who are learning English. There’s little debate in the education community that good teachers are the best path to quality learning. Of all the tweaks to
What do New Mexico classrooms look like? 80 Student and teacher demographics vary drastically in the state; while the majority of educators are white, most students are Hispanic. Experts say young people need role models they identify with and teachers who have the information and skills to meet the needs of New Mexico's students.
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instruction—despite the flawed assumptions of the exam’s authors. At the beginning of this month, Lujan Grisham made her own mark on New Mexico’s legacy to strengthen the educator workforce by raising salaries for all school employees, including a $10,000 increase to teachers’ yearly pay—positioning New Mexico as the highest-paying state in the region for educators, which she hopes will attract and retain these professionals. According to the 2021 New Mexico Educator Vacancy Report, produced by New Mexico State University, over 1,000 teacher jobs were vacant in the state in October, almost double the previous year’s number. About 30% of the open positions are for special education teachers—the largest vacancy area in the state—reflecting the shortcomings identified in the Yazzie/ Martinez case. Another shortage area of note impacts English-language learners, who benefit from teachers who have a bilingual or Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) endorsement. Figures from PED indicate that almost 60% of New Mexico educators have one of these endorsements, yet only 9% teach exclusively in a state-funded bilingual multicultural education program. Furthermore, at the time of the vacancy report’s release, roughly one in 10 of the vacant positions specified a need for a bilingual educator in the job description. Christine Sims, associate professor of educational linguistics and American Indian education at UNM, explains that one issue within the state’s teaching workforce is the lack of representation in classrooms. According to student and teacher demographic data PED shared with SFR last month, 57% of New Mexico’s teachers are white, while just 22% of students are white. Alternatively, Native and Hispanic students make up 11% and 64%, respectively, of the state’s total, while Native educators make up 3% of the state’s workforce, and 34% of teachers identify as Hispanic. Sims says the issue is emblematic of a larger need. She says communities need support to build the capacity of Native teachers “that have an investment staying in their own homes and in their communities.” Another issue, according to Sims, exists at the source of the teacher workforce pipeline. She explains the university system doesn’t have enough faculty to teach bilingual education coursework. “It’s just another way to clog up the whole system,” Sims tells SFR, “in terms of preparing for
future teachers.” UNM and NMSU have two faculty each devoted to teaching bilingual education, which is a specialized field focused on the delivery of instruction in two languages (often Spanish and English). Sims says more is needed. Mary Earick, dean of the School of Education at New Mexico Highlands University, says that though the majority of her faculty is bilingual or has a TESOL endorsement, there is still a critical need for teachers who can support students’ linguistic development. In addition to the lack of support for children developing a second language, Blum Martinez notes that schools often don’t acknowledge the culture and background of New Mexico’s diverse student population. But this also stems from the university experience, says Blum Martinez. “It’s universities that helped to prepare the teachers who are giving this kind of an education, so the fault lies as much with universities as it does with the schools,” she adds. One “of our objectives is to provide our aspiring educators with coursework and clinical experiences which are culturally and linguistically responsive to the realities experienced by students and communities that our graduates serve in classrooms across the state,” writes Rick Marlatt, NMSU’s interim director of the College of Education.
Does Not Equal
This month SFR is unpacking the 2018 Martinez and Yazzie v. State of New Mexico lawsuit and examining where challenges to provide a sufficient education still exist. Here’s a look at the series.
March 2 - Does Not Equal - New Mexico faces a steep climb to make education more equitable March 9 - Disruptions to testing and muddied accountability Coming Next: March 23 - Students remain disconnected, despite the new, virtual face of education March 30 - Funding shifts for at-risk children April 6 - Language education shapes or denies students
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n order that allowed thousands of New Mexico renters who fell behind during the pandemic to stay in their homes will soon be gone, and an alternative court program is set to replace it. A key difference between the two legal frameworks: The prohibition on evicting people for failure to pay was set in stone, and the new scheme is voluntary for landlords. It’s anyone’s guess how many will choose to participate. After nearly two years, the New Mexico Supreme Court is expected to lift its moratorium on evictions for non-payment starting in April, using a phased approach that’ll be complete in the summer. The court has yet to issue a final order establishing a firm timeline. The original plan, announced Jan. 4, was to lift the moratorium in March, but that got pushed back to give officials more time to raise awareness of the resources available for renters, Justice Shannon Bacon told Source New Mexico. The City of Santa Fe has its own temporary ban that’ll end alongside the court order. City councilors last week unanimously approved $1 million for residents at risk of eviction in an effort to head off an anticipated flood. Officials aim to start distributions in late April or early May. Still, local renters are worried. Rebeca Kueber lived in Santa Fe for many years before moving to a mobile home community in Tesuque. She’d been priced out of the city. Kueber has been unemployed off and on throughout the pandemic, and she’s behind on rent. The restaurant where she worked closed, her kids, who attend El Camino Real Academy, temporarily switched to remote learning, and she and her family contracted COVID-19. “I already have a letter from my landlord telling me that I need to pay my rent,” Kueber says. “I go to bed and wake up the next day thinking, ‘What am I going to do if I become homeless?’ I don’t want to cry…It is hard and it’s really bad for a lot of people.” Kueber spoke with SFR on a recent week-
end during an eviction-prevention legal clinic city officials and community partners hosted. She was there as a volunteer with Chainbreaker Collective, the local economic and environmental justice organization, because she wants to help other people who are in her position. While housing advocates and community groups including Chainbreaker have long warned of a coming wave of evictions, it’s unclear how many Santa Feans might be vulnerable. “It certainly doesn’t seem like it’s going to be a low number, given national trends, but also knowing that there’s a lot of market pressure,” Alexandra Ladd, director of the city’s Office of Affordable Housing, tells SFR. “I think I would be comfortable saying that it’s in the thousands.” A little over a third of homes in Santa Fe are renter-occupied, according to the Santa Fe Association of Realtors’ 2021 Housing Report. About 86% of renter households earning less than $50,000 a year are cost-burdened, meaning they spend at least 30% of their income on rent, the realtors association reports. As of early February, 44% of New Mexico households were either very likely or somewhat likely to be evicted or foreclosed on in the next two months, according to the most recent data from the US Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey. The state ranks fifth nationally on that measure. An analysis of court records by SFR also shines some light on what might be coming— though it does not answer the question of how many people are facing eviction for failure to pay rent in either the near- or short-term.
The Santa Fe Magistrate Court held about three dozen restitution trials between landlords and renters in February. Seven of those resulted in judges ruling in favor of landlords while issuing a stay on the eviction order, called a writ of restitution, citing the moratorium. Those seven households collectively owe about $38,700 in missed rent, with utilities and late fees tacked on, court records show. Five of them are from the Bluffs at Tierra Contenta, managed by Arizona-based MEB Management Services. Asked if the company plans to participate in the alternative program, which officials hope will make landlords whole while keeping people in their homes, spokeswoman Emma Wolff writes that MEB is “in support” of the program. Wolff didn’t respond to follow-up questions about why the company recently filed for evictions and whether it plans to participate in the program in every instance. The state Administrative Office of the Courts doesn’t have data on how many evictions landlords have filed for in Santa Fe over the past two years. That’s because evictions are counted in a larger category known as “landlord-tenant cases,” says spokesman Barry Massey. It also include lease disputes and damage to property, among other issues. When the moratorium ends, cases in which judges already ruled in favor of the landlord won’t result in automatic evictions. Instead, landlords who want to proceed with evictions will have to file what’s called a post-judgement application for a writ of restitution, and courts will schedule a hearing. A judge last month dismissed one case filed by the Bluffs because the renter provided proof that she’d recently been approved to receive federally funded emergency rent assistance, of which there are tens of millions of dollars available.
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Accessing that money has been challenging. Officials and community organizers told SFR last fall that there hadn’t been enough government outreach to raise awareness of the funds and that the application was too complicated, which Kueber, the Tesuque resident, says she experienced. Plus, some landlords don’t want to cooperate, sometimes because they’re trying to avoid paying taxes, says Ladd, the city affordable housing director. Rent assistance is a key element of the alternative court program, which officials piloted in Curry and Roosevelt counties last month and are preparing to extend statewide. If both parties opt into the program, judges will put their cases on hold for a minimum of 60 days, with the aim of giving renters time to obtain emergency rent assistance, and dismiss them in the event of a settlement. Judges will also connect landlords and renters with facilitators. But if landlords choose to not participate, evictions will proceed. Once it’s expanded statewide, judges are supposed to inform landlords and renters as hearings begin about how the program works and available assistance. Ladd says landlords are in a tough position, particularly those who have small operations. She used to rent out a property and had a tenant who temporarily couldn’t pay. “I said, ‘Look, you’re a great tenant. I get what’s going on, but I have a mortgage to pay. That affects me personally.’ That’s a huge reality,” Ladd says. The city funding offers some hope for renters and landlords alike. Kyra Ochoa, director of the Community Health and Safety Department, told councilors that officials aim to execute a sole-source contract with nonprofit UpTogether for distribution of the funds within about a month, after which they’d start providing money as quickly as possible.
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ach year during Sunshine Week (March 13-19), The Foilies serve up tongue-incheek “awards” for government agencies and assorted institutions that stand in the way of access to information. The Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock combine forces to collect horror stories about Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and state-level public records requests from journalists and transparency advocates across the United States and beyond. Our goal is to identify the most surreal document redactions, the most aggravating copy fees, the most outrageous retaliation attempts and all the other ridicule-worthy attacks on the public’s right to know. And every year since 2015, as we’re about to crown these dubious winners, something new comes to light that makes us consider stopping the presses. As we were writing up this year’s faux awards, news broke that officials from the National Archives and Records Administration had to lug away boxes upon boxes of Trump administration records from Mar-a-Lago, President Trump’s private resort. At best, it was an inappropriate move; at worst, a potential violation of laws governing the retention of presidential records and the handling of classified materials. And while Politico had reported that when Trump was still in the White House, he liked to tear up documents, we also just learned from journalist Maggie Haberman’s new book that staff claimed to find toilets clogged up with paper scraps, which were potentially torn-up government records. Trump has dismissed the allegations, of course. This was all too deliciously ironic considering how much Trump had raged about his opponent (and 2016 Foilies winner) Hillary Clinton’s practice of storing State Department communications on a private server. Is storing potentially classified correspondence on a personal email system any worse than hoarding top secret documents at a golf club? Is “acid washing” records, as Trump accused Clinton of doing, any less farcical than flushing them down the john? Ultimately, we decided not to give Trump his seventh Foilie. Technically he isn’t eligible: His presidential records won’t be subject to FOIA until he’s been out of office for five years (releasing classified records could take years, or decades, if ever). Instead, we’re sticking with our original 16 winners, from federal agencies to small town police departments to a couple of corporations, who are all shameworthy in their own rights and, at least metaphorically, have no problem tossing government transparency in the crapper.
US Marshals
The Wu-Tang Clan ain’t nothing to F’ with…unless the F stands for FOIA. Back in 2015, Wu-Tang Clan produced Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, but they only produced one copy and sold it to the highest bidder: pharma-bro Martin Shkreli, who was later convicted of securities fraud. When the US Marshals seized Shkreli’s copy of the record under asset forfeiture rules, the Twitterverse debated whether you could use FOIA to obtain the super secretive album. Unfortunately, FOIA does not work that way. However, BuzzFeed News reporter Jason Leopold was able to use the law to obtain documents about the album when it was auctioned off through the asset forfeiture process. For example, he got photos of the album, the bill of sale and the purchase agreement. But the Marshals redacted the pictures of the CDs, the song titles and the lyric book, citing FOIA’s trade secrets exemption. Worst of all, they also refused to divulge the purchase price—even though we’re talking about public money. And so here we are, bringing da motherfoia-ing ruckus. (The New York Times would later reveal that PleasrDAO, a collective that collects digital NFT art, paid $4 million for the record.) Wu-Tang’s original terms for selling the album reportedly contained a clause that required the buyer to return all rights in the event that Bill Murray successfully pulled off a heist of the record. We can only daydream about how the Marshals would’ve responded if Dr. Peter Venkman himself refiled Leopold’s request.
THE OPERATION SLUG SPEED AWARD
US Food and Drug Administration
The federal government’s lightning fast (by bureaucratic standards) timeline to authorize Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine lived up to its Operation Warp Speed name. But the Food and Drug Administration gave anything but the same treatment to a FOIA request seeking data about that authorization process. Fifty-five years—that’s how long the FDA, responding to a lawsuit by doctors and health scientists, said it would take to process and release the data it used to authorize the vaccine. And yet, the FDA needed only months to review the data the first time and confirm that the vaccine was safe for the public.
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Wu-Tang 1-5.
The estimate was all the more galling because the requesters want to use the documents to help persuade skeptics that the vaccine is safe and effective, a time-sensitive goal as we head into the third year of the pandemic. Thankfully, the court hearing the FOIA suit nixed the FDA’s snail’s pace plan to review just 500 pages of documents a month. In February, the court ordered the FDA to review 10,000 pages for the next few months and ultimately between 50,000 and 80,000 through the rest of the year.
THE RETURN TO SENDER AWARD
Virginia Del. Paul Krizek
There are lawmakers who find problems in transparency laws and advocate for improving the public’s right to know. Then there’s Virginia lawmaker Paul Krizek. Krizek introduced a bill earlier this year that would require all public records requests to be sent via certified mail, saying that he “saw a problem that needed fixing,” according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The supposed problem? A records request emailed to Krizek got caught in his spam filter, and he was nervous that he missed the response deadline. That never happened; the requester sent another email that Krizek saw, and he responded in time. Anyone else might view that as a public records (and technology) success story: the ability to email requests and quickly follow up on them proves that the law works. Not Krizek. He decided that his personal spam filter hiccup should require every requester in Virginia to venture to a post office and pay at least $3.75 to make their request. Transparency advocates quickly panned the bill, and a legislative committee voted in late January to strike it from the docket. Hopefully the bill stays dead and Krizek starts working on legislation that will actually help requesters in Virginia.
THE SPYING ON REQUESTORS AWARD FBI
If government surveillance of ordinary people is chilling, spying on the public watchdogs of that very same surveillance is downright hostile. Between 1989 and at least 2004, the FBI kept regular tabs on the National Security Archive, a domestic nonprofit organization that investigates and archives information on, you guessed it, national security operations. The Cato Institute obtained records showing that the FBI used electronic and physical surveillance, possibly including wiretaps and “mail covers,” meaning the US Postal Service recorded the information on the outside of envelopes sent to or from the Archive. In a secret 1989 cable, then-FBI Director William Sessions specifically called out the Archive’s “tenacity” in using FOIA. Sessions specifically fretted over former Department of Justice Attorney Quinlan J. Shea and former Washington Post reporter Scott Armstrong’s leading roles at the Archive, as both were major transparency advocates. Of course, these records that Cato got through its own FOIA request were themselves heavily redacted. And this comes after the FBI withheld information about these records from the Archive when it requested them back in 2006. Which makes you wonder: How do we watchdog the spy who is secretly spying on the watchdog?
What was the technology? Who was the vendor? And they filed public records requests under New Hampshire’s Right to Know Law. In response, CPD provided a license agreement and a privacy policy, but the documents were so redacted, the reporters still couldn’t tell what the tech was and what company was receiving tax dollars for it. Police claimed releasing the information would put investigations and people’s lives at risk. With the help of the ACLU of New Hampshire, the Monitor sued but Concord fought it for two years all the way to the New Hampshire Supreme Court. The police were allowed to brief the trial court behind closed doors, without the ACLU lawyers present, and ultimately the state supreme court ruled most of the information would remain secret. But when the Monitor reached out to EFF for comment, EFF took another look at the redacted documents. In under three minutes, our researchers were able to use a simple Google search to match the redacted privacy policy to Callyo, a Motorola Solutions product that facilitates confidential phone communications. Hundreds of agencies nationwide have in fact included the company’s name in their public spending ledgers, according to the procurement research tool GovSpend. The City of Seattle even issued a public privacy impact assessment regarding its police department’s use of the technology, which noted that “Without appropriate safeguards, this raises significant privacy concerns.” Armed with this new information, the Monitor called Concord Police Chief Brad Osgood to confirm what we learned. He doubled-down: “I’m not going to tell you whether that’s the product.”
THESE 10-DAY DEADLINES GO TO 11 AWARD Assorted Massachusetts Agencies
THE FUTILE SECRECY AWARD
Concord Police Department
When reporters from the Concord Monitor in 2019 noticed a vague $5,100 line item in the Concord Police Department’s proposed budget for “covert secret communications,” they did what any good watchdog would do—they started asking questions.
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The Foilies 2022 public records’ reality to absurd new levels. DigBoston’s Maya Shaffer detailed how officials are giving themselves at least one extra business day to respond to requests while still claiming to meet the law’s deadline. In a mind-numbing exchange, an official said that the agency considers any request sent after 5 pm to have technically been received on the next business day. And because the law doesn’t require agencies to respond until 10 business days after they’ve received the request, this has in effect given the agency two extra days to respond. So if a request is sent after 5 pm on a Monday, the agency counts Tuesday as the day it received the request, meaning the 10-day clock doesn’t start until Wednesday. The theory is reminiscent of the This Is Spinal Tap scene in which guitarist Nigel Tufnel shows off the band’s “special” amplifiers that go “one louder” to 11, rather than maxing out at 10 like every other amp. When asked why Spinal Tap doesn’t just make the level 10 on its amps louder, Tufnel stares blankly before repeating: “These go to eleven.” Although the absurdity of Tufnel’s response is comedic gold, Massachusetts officials’ attempt to make their 10-day deadline go to 11 is contemptuous, and also likely violates laws of the state and those of space and time.
consideration a bunch of data gathered from various local government agencies, including school records, to determine if a person was likely to commit a crime in the future—and then deputies would randomly drop by their house regularly to harass them. Out of suspicion that the sheriff’s office might be leasing the formula for this program to other departments, EFF filed a public records request asking for any contact mentioning the ILP program in emails specifically sent to and from other police departments. The sheriff responded with an unexpectedly high-cost estimate for producing the records. Claiming there was no way at all to clarify or narrow the broad request, they projected that it would take 82,738 hours to review the 4,964,278 responsive emails—generating a cost of
THE HIGHEST FEE ESTIMATE AWARD
Pasco County Sheriff’s Office
In September 2020, the Tampa Bay Times revealed in a multi-part series that the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office was using a program called “Intelligence-led Policing” (ILP). This program took into
In Massachusetts, some agencies believe 10-day deadlines are actually 11-day deadlines.
$1.158 million for the public records requester, the equivalent of a 3,000-square seaside home with its own private dock in New Port Richey.
THE FOIA GASLIGHTER OF THE YEAR AWARD Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry
In another case involving the TimesPicayune, the FOIA gaslighter of the year award goes to Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry for suing reporter Andrea Gallo after she requested documents related to the investigation into (and seeming lack of action on) sexual harasment complaints in Landry’s office. A few days later, following public criticism, Landry then tweeted that the lawsuit was not actually a lawsuit against Gallo per se, but legal action “simply asking the Court to check our decision” on rejecting her records request. Gallo filed the original request for complaints against Pat Magee, a top aide to Landry, after hearing rumblings that Magee had been placed on administrative leave. The first response to Gallo’s request was that Magee was under investigation and the office couldn’t fulfill the request until that investigation had concluded. A month later, Gallo called the office to ask for Magee and was patched through to his secretary, who said that Magee had just stepped out for lunch but would be back shortly.
Knowing that Magee was back in the office and the investigation likely concluded, Gallo started pushing harder for the records. Then, late on a Friday when Gallo was on deadline for another story, she received an email from the AG’s office about a lawsuit naming her as the defendant. A month later, a Baton Rouge judge ruled in favor of Gallo, and ordered Landry to release the records on Magee. Shortly after Gallo received those documents, another former employee of the AG’s office filed a complaint against Magee, resulting in his resignation.
THE REDACTING INFORMATION THAT’S ALREADY PUBLIC AWARD Humboldt-area Law Enforcement
Across the country, police departments are notorious for withholding information from the public. Some agencies take months to release body camera video after a shooting death or might withhold databases of officer misconduct. California’s state legislature pushed back against this trend in 2018, with a new law that specifically puts officer use-of-force incidents and other acts of dishonesty under the purview of the California Public Records Act. But even after this law was passed, one northern California sheriff was hesitant to release information to journalists—so hesitant that he redacted information that had already been made public. After a local paper, the North Coast Journal, filed a request with the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office under the 2018 law, the sheriff took two full years to provide the requested records. Why the long delay? One possible reason: The agency went to the trouble of redacting information from old press releases—releases that, by definition, were already public.
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For example, the sheriff’s office redacted the name of a suspect who allegedly shot a sheriff’s deputy and was arrested for attempting to kill a police officer in May 2014—including blacking out the name from a press release the agency had already released that included the suspect’s name. And it’s not like the press had accidentally missed the name the first time: Reporter Thadeus Greenson had published the release in the North Coast Journal right after it came out. That isn’t Greenson’s only example of law enforcement redacting already public information: In response to another public records request, the Eureka Police Department included a series of news clippings, including one of Greenson’s own articles, again with names redacted.
THE CLEAR BULLY AWARD
Clearview AI
Clearview AI is the “company that might end privacy as we know it,” claimed The New York Times’ front page when it publicly exposed the small company in January 2020. Clearview had built a face recognition app on a database of more than three billion personal images, and the tech startup had quietly found customers in police departments around the country. Soon after the initial reports, the legality of Clearview’s app and its collection of images was taken to court. (EFF has filed friend-of-the-court briefs in support of those privacy lawsuits.) Clearview’s existence was initially revealed via public records requests filed by Open the Government and MuckRock. In September 2021, as it faced still-ongoing litigation in Illinois, Clearview made an unusual and worrying move against transparency and journalism: It served subpoenas on OTG, its researcher Freddy Martinez, and Chicago-based Lucy Parsons Labs (none of which are involved in the lawsuit). The subpoenas requested internal communications with journalists about Clearview and its leaders and any information that had been discovered via records requests about the company. Government accountability advocates saw it as retaliation against the researchers and journalists who exposed Clearview. The subpoena also was a chilling threat to journalists and others looking to lawfully use public records to learn about public partnerships with private entities. What’s more, in this situation, all that had been uncovered had already been made public online more than a year earlier.
Fortunately, following reporting by Politico, Clearview, citing “further reflection about the scope of the subpoenas” and a “strong view of freedom of the press,” decided to withdraw the subpoenas. We guess you could say the face recognition company recognized their error and did an about face.
APD is also applying this logic to its records process.
DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO AWARD
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
WHOSE CAR IS IT ANYWAY? AWARD Waymo
Are those new self-driving cars you see on the road safe? Do you and your fellow pedestrians and drivers have the right to know about their previous accidents and how they handle tight turns and steep hills on the road? Waymo, owned by Google parent Alphabet Inc. and operator of an autonomous taxi fleet in San Francisco, answers, respectively: none of your business, and no! A California trial court ruled in late February that Waymo gets to keep this information secret. Waymo sued the California Department of Motor Vehicles to stop it from releasing unredacted records requested by an anonymous person under the California Public Records Act. The records include Waymo’s application to put its self-driving cars on the road and answers to the DMV’s follow-up questions. The DMV outsourced the redactions to Waymo, and claiming that it needed to protect its trade secrets, Waymo sent the records back with black bars over most of its answers, and even many of the DMV’s questions. Waymo doesn’t want the public to know which streets its cars operate on, how the cars safely park when picking up and dropping off passengers, and when the cars require trained human drivers to intervene. Waymo even redacted which of its two models—a Jaguar and a Chrysler—will be deployed on California streets…even though someone on those streets can see that for themselves.
#WNTDWPREA (THE WHAT NOT TO DO WITH PUBLIC RECORDS EVER AWARD) Anchorage Police Department
“What Not to Do Wednesday,” a social media series from the Anchorage Police Department, had been an attempt to provide lighthearted lessons for avoiding
Waymo sued the California DMV to keep public records about its autonomous vehicles secret.
arrest. The weekly shaming session regularly featured seemingly real situations requiring a police response. Last February, though, the agency became its own cautionary tale when one particularly controversial post prompted community criticism and records requests, which APD declined to fulfill. As described in a pre-Valentine’s Day #WNTDW post, officers responded to a call about a physical altercation between two “lovebirds.” The post claimed APD officers told the two to “be nice” and go on their way, but instead the situation escalated: “We ended up in one big pile on the ground,” and one person was ultimately arrested and charged. Some in the public found the post dismissive toward what could have been a domestic violence event—particularly notable because then-Police Chief Justin Doll had pointed to domestic violence as a contributor to the current homicide rates, which had otherwise been declining. Alaska’s News Source soon requested the name of the referenced arrested individual and was denied. APD claimed that it does not release additional information related to “What Not To Do Wednesday” posts. A subsequent request was met with a $6,400 fee. FWIW, materials related to WNTDW is not a valid exemption under Alaska’s public records law. By the end of February 2021, the APD decided to do away with the series. “I think if you have an engagement strategy that ultimately creates more concern than it does benefit, then it’s no longer useful,” Chief Doll later said. It’s not clear if
Texas law requires a unique detour to deny or redact responsive records, directing agencies to go through the attorney general for permission to leave anything out. It’s bad news for transparency if that office circumvents proper protocol when handling its own records requests; it’s even worse if those records involve a government official—current Texas AG Ken Paxton—and activities targeted at overthrowing the democratic process. On January 6, 2021, Paxton (who is currently up for reelection, facing multiple charges for securities fraud and was reportedly the subject of a 2020 FBI investigation) and his wife were in Washington, DC to speak at a rally in support of former President Donald Trump, which was followed by the infamous invasion of the Capitol by Trump supporters. Curious about Paxton’s part in that historic event, a coalition of Texas newspapers submitted a request under the state’s public records law for the text messages and emails Paxton sent that day in DC. Paxton’s office declined to release the records. It may not have even looked for them. The newspapers found that the AG doesn’t seem to have its own policy for searching for responsive documents on personal devices, which would certainly be subject to public records law, even if the device is privately-owned. The Travis County district attorney subsequently determined that Paxton’s office had indeed violated the Texas open records law. Paxton maintains that no wrongdoing occurred and, as of late February, hadn’t responded to a letter sent by the DA threatening a lawsuit if the situation is not remedied ASAP. “When the public official responsible for enforcing public records laws violates those laws himself,” Bill Aleshire, an Austin lawyer, told the Austin AmericanStatesman, “it puts a dagger in the heart of transparency at every level in Texas.”
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In the face of increasing public interest, administrators at the Big 10 sporting universities tried to take a page out of the ol’ college playbook last year and run some serious interference on the public records process. In an apparent attempt to “hide the ball” (that is, their records on when football would be coming back), university leaders suggested to one another that they communicate via a portal used across universities. Reporters and fans saw the move as an attempt to avoid the prying eyes of avid football fans and others who wanted to know more about what to expect on the field and in the classroom. “I would be delighted to share information, but perhaps we can do this through the Big 10 portal, which will assure confidentiality?” Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank shared via email. “Just FYI—I am working with Big Ten staff to move the conversation to secure Boardvantage web site we use for league materials,” Mark Schlissel, then-President of the University of Michigan, wrote his colleagues. “Will advise.” Of course, the emails discussing the attempted circumvention became public via a records request. Officials’ attempt to disguise their secrecy play was even worse than a quarterback forgetting to pretend to hand off the ball in a play-action pass. University administrators claimed that the use of the private portal was for ease of communication rather than concerns over public scrutiny. We’re still calling a penalty, however.
Sometimes it may take more than a decade to get records you requested.
THE RIP VAN WINKLE AWARD
FBI
Last year, Bruce Alpert received records from a 12-year-old FOIA request he filed as a reporter for the Times-Picayune in New Orleans. Back when he filed the request, the corruption case of US Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans, was still hot— despite the $90,000 in cash found in Jefferson’s cold freezer. In 2009, Alpert requested documents from the FBI on the sensational investigation of Jefferson, which began in 2005. In the summer of that year, FBI agents searched Jefferson’s Washington home and, according to a story published at the time, discovered foil-wrapped stacks of cash “between boxes of Boca burgers and Pillsbury pie crust in his Capitol Hill townhouse.” Jefferson was indicted on 16 federal counts, including bribery, racketeering, conspiracy and money laundering, leading back to a multimillion-dollar telecommunications deal with high-ranking officials in Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon. By the time Alpert got the 83 pages he
requested on the FBI’s investigation into Jefferson, Alpert himself was retired and Jefferson had been released from prison. Still, the documents did reveal a new fact about the day of the freezer raid: Another raid was planned for that same day, but at Jefferson’s congressional office. This raid was called off after an FBI official, unnamed in the documents, warned that while the raid was technically constitutional, it could have “dire” consequences if it appeared to threaten the independence of Congress. In a staff editorial about the extreme delay, The Advocate (which acquired the Times-Picayune in 2019) quoted Anna Diakun, a staff attorney with the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University: “The Freedom of Information Act is broken.” We suppose it’s better late than never, but never late is even better.
THE REMEDIAL EDUCATION AWARD
Fairfax County Public Schools
Once a FOIA is released, the First Amendment generally grants broad leeway to the requester to do what they will with the materials. It’s the agency’s job to properly review, redact and release records in a timely manner. But after Callie Oettinger and Debra Tisler dug into a series of student privacy breaches by Fairfax County Public Schools, the school decided the quickest way to fix the problem was to hide the evidence. Last September, the pair received a series of letters from the school system and a high-priced law firm demanding the removal of the documents from
the web and that they return or destroy the documents. The impulse to try to silence the messenger is a common one: A few years ago Foilies partner MuckRock was on the receiving end of a similar demand in Seattle. While the tactics don’t pass constitutional muster, they work well enough to create headaches and uncertainty for requesters that often find themselves thrust into a legal battle they weren’t looking to fight. In fact, in this case, after the duo showed up for the initial hearing, a judge ordered a temporary restraining order barring the further publication of documents. This was despite the fact that they had actually removed all the personally identifiable data from the versions of the documents they posted. Fortunately, soon after the prior restraint, the requesters received pro bono legal assistance from Timothy Sandefur of the Goldwater Institute and Ketan Bhirud of Troutman Pepper. In November—after two months of legal wrangling, negative press and legal bills for the school—the court found the school’s arguments “simply not relevant” and “almost frivolous,” as the Goldwater Institute noted. The Foilies were compiled by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (Director of Investigations Dave Maass, Senior Staff Attorney Aaron Mackey, Frank Stanton Fellow Mukund Rathi, Investigative Researcher Beryl Lipton, Policy Analyst Matthew Guariglia) and MuckRock (Co-Founder Michael Morisy, Senior Reporting Fellows Betsy Ladyzhets and Dillon Bergin, and Investigations Editor Derek Kravitz), with further review and editing by Shawn Musgrave. Illustrations are by EFF Designer Caitlyn Crites. The Foilies are published in partnership with the Association of Alternative Newsmedia. For more transparency trials and tribulations, check out The Foilies archives at eff.org/issues/foilies.
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ELIIIIIIIIZA! Oh, if you’re the type who loves a pretty crooner’s voice doling out measured and well-earned lyrics about life, the universe, everything, certainly you’ve got room in your heart for Eliza Gilkyson and her newest record, Songs from the River Wind. Out earlier this year, it is, Gilkyson says, like “a love letter to the Old West,” a sort of homage to her folk singer father Terry Gilkyson and a reminder that the Grammy-nominated musician can still run with the best of ‘em all these years later. Gilkyson has assembled a who’s-who of talented bandmates for her upcoming Santa Fe show, and the event promises to be a folk/ Americana experience that almost feels tailor-made for Santa Fe’s acoustic loving set. The venue, the new songs, the timeless singer-songwriter—everything’s coming together on this one. (Alex De Vore) Eliza Gilkyson and the Rifters: 7:30 pm Sunday, March 20 $32-$46 St. Francis Auditorium, 107 W Palace Ave., (505) 476-5072
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WORKSHOP SAT/19 NICE EFFING TRY If, like so many others, you continue to be baffled by news about non-fungible tokens, aka NFTs, you are not alone. For most outside of the crypto-bros and the early tech embracers, what we know is that apes and art are somehow involved, and you maybe own something like a digital promise, or maybe you don’t? It’s a labyrinth, that’s for sure, but local artist and tech-savvy champ Roxanne Darling has the know-how, and she’ll impart it to interested parties at a free workshop this weekend presented by the New Mexico State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. “You have to have a very functional tech IQ as I would call it,” Darling cautions of getting into the NFT world. “It’s challenging, because it’s a technical operation, and if you’re going to participate, you’ve gotta get your tech chops up to speed.” Why all the fuss about NFTs, though? “When things are new, it triggers the safety/survival/security reaction in people,” Darling explains. (ADV) NFT 101 with Roxanne Darling: 10 am Saturday, March 19 Free. Loretto Chapel, 207 Old Santa Fe Trail, (505) 982-0092
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MUSIC MON/21 M-O, M-O-N, D-A-Y...NIGHT We were stone-cold sitting around here lately feeling all weird that our faces continue on un-melted when we learned that Metal Mondays are making a glorious return to Midtown’s Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery this Monday, and suddenly we felt like life was worth living again. This is a good one, too, with a headlining slot from locals TKTWA, plus Albuquerque super-shredders Only Fables. Oh, there are others, too, but you’ll have to attend to find out what they’re bringing to the table. Just know that even if it were only the two bands thus far mentioned, it would be more than worth it for its technical prowess, fierce melodic chugga-chugs and riffage so extreme you’re likely to feel like a wind of metal awesomeness is blasting you with the passion and ferocity of a million suns. Is this hyperbolic? Honestly, who gives a shit—go rock. (ADV) Metal Mondays: 7:30 pm Monday, March 21. $10 Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery, 2791 Agua Fría St, (505) 303-3808
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Strings & Beats Black Violin busts through stereotypes with classical and hip-hop intersection “This is a party, you guys wanna party with us?!” says Kev Marcus as he stands in front of the turntable and drum kit, the flat brim of his cap level across his forehead and color-coordinated with his button-down shirt. The crowd lets out a yell as Marcus grips the mic in one hand and nods to his Miami-based performance partner Wil Baptiste next to him on the stage. In his other hand, Marcus holds a violin, Baptiste a viola. And when the two raise the instruments to their shoulders and draw bows across strings, the sound is riveting. Classically trained strings duo Black Violin merges that genre with the hip-hop of their generation in a combo that earned them a Grammy nomination last year for album Take the Stairs. They’ll appear in Santa Fe with DJ SPS, keyboardist Liston Gregory III and drummer Nat Stokes as part of a tour that breaks down barriers. Marcus and Baptiste met in high school orchestra class about 20 years ago and kept studying music in college. In between classes where they played Mozart and Beethoven, their headphones featured Wu-Tang and Jay-Z, or “whatever was hot,” Marcus often explains during the show intro. Now, they’ve performed all over the world and are known for combin-
ing visits with workshops for low-income youths. While the pandemic has curtailed some of those efforts, they hope to return to them soon. What’s more, the men have launched Black Violin Foundation to push for BIPOC children to engage in the arts in an era of fading school opportunities. Even the high school the two attended, for example, no longer has a strings program, Baptiste tells SFR. “It’s not only the education system but the communities and parents, I don’t think, see the importance either. If the school was trying to cancel the basketball or the football teams, everybody would just go nuts, but there is not enough attention when it comes to the arts,” he says, adding later, “And it’s not just a budgeting issue, it’s also interest; there are not a lot of kids that are necessarily interested in the instrument.” (Julie Ann Grimm)
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ONGOING ART ALYSSUM PILATO PAINTINGS Downtown Subscription 376 Garcia St. (505) 983-3085 Urban landscapes of moody night scenes and vibrant Santa Fe skies. 7 am-4 pm, free (but buy coffee) CHAIRS, TELEPHONES, MAILBOXES AND THE COVID MUTATION SERIES El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road (505) 982-0016 Works in media ranging from watercolor to upcycled children’s furniture and beyond. 9 am-5 pm, free CONVERSATIONS OF OURSELVES Online tinyurl.com/3hh2p8tv A collaborative, immersive conversation on Kivetoruk Moses’ influence as both a documenter and creator of images of Inupiaq life. This show features Alaska Native elders, artists, historians, linguists and culture bearers. All day, free EARTH & SKY: OAXACA TO SANTA FE Kouri + Corrao Gallery 3213 Calle Marie (505) 820-1888 Artist Gary Goldberg continues his exploration of Oaxaca through photography and felted textiles. This new body of work examines horizons in ancient Oaxaca. Noon-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free
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“The Queen of Somewhere Else” by Rodney Hatfield, part of Subliminal Release at Susan Edding Pérez Gallery.
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HOPE DIES LAST: A TRIBUTE TO STUDS TERKEL Railyard Park 740 Cerrillos Road (505) 316-3596 Public artwork paying homage to the late, great oral historian. All day, free INTERSECTIONS ViVO Contemporary 725 Canyon Road (505) 982-1320 How is form found in the space between something and nothing? We don’t have an answer, but there’s a good bet this show at ViVO does. 10 am-5 pm, free METAPHYSICS SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Some may see the plane as a frustrating aspect of life, but artist Kate Joyce saw it as a studio of constraint. View the resulting photo series inspired by life in the clouds. 10 am-5 pm, Thurs, Sat, Sun 10 am-7 pm, Fri, free LA LUZ DE TAOS Couse-Sharp Historic Site 138 Kit Carson Road, Taos (575) 751-0369 This new exhibit features 39 of the most exciting mondern artists working in a variety of media, including painting, pottery, sculpture, jewelry and fashion. By appointment, free LOST & FOUND: A PERSONAL INTERPRETATION Placitas Community Library 453 Hwy. 165, Placitas (505) 867-3355 Placitas artists made art using repurposed, rescue and reclaimed materials to explore the idea of being “lost” and then “found” again. 10 am-7 pm, Tues 10 am-5 pm, Thurs and Sat 1 pm-4 pm, Sunday, free MEDIUM RARE: ART CREATED FROM THE UNEXPECTED Evoke Contemporary 550 S. Guadalupe St. (505) 995-9902 Mariella Bisson, Gugger Petter, Kay Khan and B. Shawn Cox flourish in the playground of unexpected media as they hopscotch genre boundaries and elevate everyday materials to the uses of fine art. These artists look beyond what is to what could be and take the viewer along with them. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sat, free
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INVISIBLE LIGHT Obscura Gallery 1405 Paseo De Peralta (505) 577-6708 A photographic exploration into making the invisible visible. But not like ghosts, like nightvision nature shots. We promise it’s just as cool as ghost hunting pictures. 11 am-5 pm, free PATHWAYS: WILDLIFE CORRIDORS OF NEW MEXICO Wild Hearts Gallery 221 B Highway 165, Placitas (505) 867-2450 Gallery artists come together to honor a local nonprofit org working to protect the wildlife and scenery that have been inspiring Placitas artists for decades. 11 am-4 pm, Tues-Fri 10 am-2 pm, Sat-Sun, free PAULA & IRVING KLAW: VINTAGE PRINTS No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org Twenty vintage prints from the "bizarre fetish underground" photo archive of the brother and sister collaborative commercial photographers Paula and Irving Klaw. What’s a better way to treat yourself than some fetish underground photos? During No Name Cinema events or by appointment, free SUBLIMINAL RELEASE Susan Eddings Pérez Galley 717 Canyon Road (505) 477-4ART Rodney Hatfield sees his work as a collaborative effort, allowing what wants to emerge and reveal itself through him onto a waiting canvas, delighting and surprising both himself and the many collectors who’ve come to appreciate his loose and uninhibited style. 10 am-5 pm, Mon-Sat Noon-5 pm, Sun, free SFCC STUDENT ART EXHIBITION Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820 Works by students in the drawing and painting Program at Santa Fe Community College. Check out the semester's highlights thus far and check out a book or two or 10. 10 am-6 pm, Tues-Sat, free SIXTIES ABSTRACTIONS LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta (505) 988-3250 Warren Davis’ works were championed by major art figures of his day, such as Elaine de Kooning, who wrote of the clarity and wholeness of his abstract work and by the critic and curator Dave Hickey, who lauded both Davis’ sense of control and authority as an artist. This exhibition features works on paper, collage and small paintings on canvas. 10 am-6 pm, Mon-Fri 10 am-5 pm, Sat, free
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SKATE NIGHT Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta (505) 470-2582 A photo series documenting Black rollerskating community, photographed by by Alejandro Sanchez. You probably never thought much about a Black roller skating community, did you? Tsk tsk tsk. 1-5 pm, Wed-Fri, free SPRING GROUP SHOW Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art 558 Canyon Road (505) 992-0711 Cool art, cool folks: See works by Renate Aller, John Garrett, Peter Millett, Lisa Holt with Harlan Reano, Chris Richter and Bryan Whitney. 10 am-5 pm, Wed-Sat, free TOGETHER/APART Turner Carroll Gallery 725 Canyon Road (505) 986-9800 This show is the long-time, international collaboration debuting a new and dynamic body of photo collage and sculpture. 10 am-6 pm, Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm, Sun, free VIBRANT POOL Currents 826 826 Canyon Road (505) 772-0953 Work from New Mexico-based artists, and you know how we like those. With sound installation, experimental photography and light sculpture, the work in Vibrant Pool showcases Kirsten Angerbauer, Emily Margarit Mason and Zuyva Sevilla. Thurs, 9 am-5 pm Fri and Sat, noon-6 pm Sun, 11 am-5 pm, free THE NIGHT FALLS AND THE DAY BREAKS 5. Gallery 2351 Fox Road, Ste. 700 (505) 257-8417 Sumi ink on paper and stoneware vessel. Works by Utako Shindo. Noon-5 pm, Thurs-Sat, free
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EVENTS GEEKS WHO DRINK Second Street Brewery (Railyard) 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-3278 Get your trivia on and prove to the world (or the bar) just how smart and brilliant you are, just like that one teacher one time said to you. 8 pm, free DRINK AND DRAW Second Street Brewery (Rufina) 2920 Rufina St. (505) 954-1068 Bring any sketchbook, paper and pens/pencils you wish. Expect socializing, drawing and drawing games like Exquisite Corpse. Whatever that is. 6:30 pm-9 pm, free
MUSIC LIDO PIMIENTA AND Y LA BAMBA Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. tinyurl.com/4kju4hk7 Miss Colombia boasts 11 new and original songs that boldly celebrate Lido’s ecstatic musical hybridity of electronic meets cumbia, and is at once defiant and delicate and confrontational. Life is a little better with good cumbia in the mix. 7:30 pm, $25 THE STOREY BOYS Tiny’s Restaurant and Lounge 1005 St Francis Dr. Ste. 117 (505) 983-9817 Mellow country tunes with you dinner and dancing. 6 pm, free (no cover) KARAOKE NIGHT Boxcar 530 S Guadalupe St. (505) 988-7222 That’s right, grab the mic and know your moment of fame has arrived. Musical theater kids, we love you but please don’t hog the mic again. 10 pm-midnight, free
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sunday, april 3 | 7:30 pm Lensic Performing Arts Center full-throated, full-bodied exploration “ofalove and desire, exultation and loss, belonging and expulsion, ownership and autonomy...
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BOOKS/LECTURES LISTENING IN THE 21ST CENTURY St. John’s United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail tinyurl.com/57svpmn2 A listening and discussion group focused on 20th and 21st century classical music, ideal for those with “curious ears.” Participants develop a vocabulary for describing what they hear and will begin to observe relationships across music genres, eras, cultures and styles, proving that listeners can understand contemporary music without having a degree in musicology. 3:15-5:15 pm, $60
HOLI STORYTIME AND CRAFT Online tinyurl.com/mpwwcxfw A virtual place for the kiddos to learn about the ancient Hindu festival and do a few crafts and tales. 10:30 am, free
Presented through the generosity of Ann Murphy Daily and William W. Daily, and Timothy and Mary Mitchell
EVENTS LGBT "PLUS PLUS" NIGHT The Sage Hotel 725 Cerillos Road (505) 982-5952 This is an inclusive weekly event to celebrate our colorful community and to support creating more safe spaces. March proceeds go to the Safe Space Alliance. 4 pm- 10 pm, free
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THE CALENDAR MUSIC BLACK VIOLIN Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 For over 18 years, Black Violin’s Kev Marcus and Wil Baptiste have merged strings with modern beats and vocals. The band uses a unique blend of classical and hip-hop to overcome stereotypes while encouraging people to join together to break down barriers. (See SFR Picks, page 17) 7:30 pm, $42-$59 ST. PATRICK'S DAY 2022 CONCERT Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 982-0092 Irish music galore! Ancient monastic chants to classic choral music and few planxtys and ballads are "on tap." 6:30-7:45 pm, $25-$29
THEATER THE EFFECT Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 A dark comedy written by Lucy Prebble. Connie and Tristan meet at a medical drug trial and their chemistry is immediately palpable—but is it real, or a side-effect of a new antidepressant? 7:30 pm, $15-$75
FRI/18 ART EXPANDING MOMENTS: OPENING RECEPTION Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road (505) 780-5403 King's abstract work is created with a dynamic painterly style, tempered with metaphoric associations of our common experience. King's work evokes an expansive intimacy where the temporal blooms into the profound. Artist talk at 6 pm, plus a Q&A! Masks required. 5-7 pm, free
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LOST & FOUND: A PERSONAL INTERPRETATION (ARTIST RECEPTION) Placitas Community Library 453 Hwy. 165, Placitas (505) 867-3355 Talk to the artists and learn the process of creating art from reclaimed and recycled materials. Believe it or not, that’s somewhat of a challenge. 5-7 pm, free
BOOKS/LECTURES AUTHOR TALK: CRAIG CHILDS Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St. (505) 988-4226 Childs discusses his new book Tracing Time: Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau. Arranged by recurring motif— handprints, horses, spirals, rain—this collection, part lyric essay, part field guide, includes insights from descendant knowledge-keepers of the Southwest. 6 pm, free
DANCE EL FLAMENCO: SPANISH CABARET El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 Whoa whoa whoa, it's time to get those beads bouncing and heels clappin'. Spanish flamenco is back downtown. Check out dinner options, plus the show. It rocks. 6:15 pm, $25-$43
FOOD JACK'S MAGIC BAKERY Root 66 Café 1704 Lena St. (505) 780-8249 Even experienced bakers may note vegan baking is a form of magic. Don't ask us how they do it, but man does it rock. Jack's Magic Bakery is a stark reminder of such magical vegan and organic works in the world. In vegan baking we trust. 9 am-3 pm, free
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MUSIC BLACK VIOLIN Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 Missed it the first time? Bummer, huh? Well, thankfully there’s a second chance to check out the incredible hiphop violin show that’ll make the world a little brighter, yes? (See SFR Picks, page 17) 7:30 pm, $42-$59 TGIF CONCERT First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave. (505) 982-8544 Linda Raney brings out them organ skills to celebrate big boi Bach's big boy b-day. The program is, indeed, Bach. 5:30 pm, free
THEATER THE EFFECT Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 In this dark, pill-popping comedy, the pair’s illicit romance forces the supervising doctors to confront the consequences of their work and their personal life decisions. 7:30 p.m., $30-$75
WORKSHOP EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE FOR LITTLES Online tinyurl.com/33yd4jh8 A class for preschool-age kids, where they and their special adults can focus on what they feel and how to deal with their array of feelings. Always good to get the kids being mindful early on. 11 am, free MEDITATION: CONNECT AND ENGAGE Online tinyurl.com/46bxacnw A second class for slightly older school-aged children focusing on using meditation to be calm, focused and engaged. And oof, do we all need that, especially the adults. 11 am, free
PAINTING RETREAT Santa Fe Painting Workshops 5041 Agua Fria Park Road (505) 670-2690 A two-day retreat is for those who want to learn or advance acrylic painting skills in a professional artist’s studio. All supplies (four stretched canvases, paint, mediums, brushes, palette knives, aprons, etc.) and food provided. 9 am-4 pm, $625
SAT/19 ART SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET In the West Casitas, North of the Water Tower 1612 Alcaldesa St. (505) 310-8766 Weekly outdoor Art Market on Saturdays in the Railyard. Enjoy fine art and crafts by local artists. This market offers a wide variety of Santa Fe's best in pottery, jewelry, painting, photography, furniture, textiles and more! 9 am-2 pm, free THE AESTHETICS OF PLACE AND PRESENCE Center For Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 982-1338 Check out a conversation amongst exhibiting artist Marietta Patricia Leis, architect and DNCA founder Devendra Contractor, and Head of Curatorial Affairs at the New Mexico Museum of Art, Merry Scully. The talk addresses themes of place, perception, beauty and loss. 2 pm, $10
BOOKS/LECTURES BILINGUAL BOOKS AND BABIES: STORYTIME AND SONG Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820 Books, activities and art-related things for Spanish-first language kiddos or youth speaking both languages. Every Saturday am. 10 am, free
NFT 101 Loretto Chapel 207 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 982-0092 Artist Roxanne Darling gives us a crash course in how NFTs can benefit and work for artists. (See SFR Picks, page 17) 10 am, free
DANCE DIRT DANCE IN THE PARK Patrick Smith Park 1001 Canyon Road allaboardearth.com Enjoy a weekly dance in the park. This community dance event features live DJs, sound healers, performers and karaoke stars! Participants can dance with the open air speakers or at distance with headphones to access three channels of unique music and collaborative play. Proceeds from this event benefit The Ocean Cleanup. 2-4 pm, $5-$12
EVENTS QIGONG Santa Fe Public Library Main Branch 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780 Guided by Lauri Genesio, consider this a mindful movement class. The outcome? Health, wellness and vitality. Ya’ll need all three. 3 pm, free SANTA FE HOME SHOW Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W Marcy St. (505) 955-6590 Ugh, man, do we love houses. And even moreso do we love houses in Santa Fe. And even more so than that do we love those personalized homes with an eye on functionality and neato architecture. Sound like you too? Check out the 33rd Annual Santa Fe Home Show, featuring fireside chats, a children's Lego-building contest, a remodeling showcase and more. For the folks who just want more out of the home, you know? 10 am-5 pm, $5
UKRAINIAN RELIEF FUNDRAISER First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave. (505) 982-8544 Support Presbyterian Disaster Assistance emergency relief fund for Ukrainians without exiting your car. Hand off your cash or check made out to First Presbyterian Church Santa Fe. 10 am-1 pm, free WITCH + BITCH Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307 (505) 983-0134 It’s like open-mic night for the residents of Halloweentown. Or maybe the occult. Featuring stand-up comedy, music, poetry and anything else you’ve got talent in (within reason) Witchy content is encouraged, but not required. Sign-ups open at 6 pm. 6:30 pm, free
FILM BASEMENT FILMS No Name Cinema 2013 Pinon St. nonamecinema.org 16mm prints from the Albuquerque-based film archive, as well as a program of short artist's films from the Experiments In Cinema festival. 6:30 pm, free
MUSIC BOAZ AND ZITO La Reina El Rey Court (505) 982-1931 Jack Boaz and Eli Zito are a musical and vocal duo creating original songs and folk tunes. 8 pm, free SOURENA SEFATI: A NOWRUZ SPRING CELEBRATION Santa Fe Public Library Southside 6599 Jaguar Drive (505) 955-2820 Enjoy beautiful Persian music in the lovely outdoor space at the Southside Library and celebrate the arrival of spring. We hope it’s real spring now. 1 pm, free
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SUN/20 BOOKS/LECTURES FREETHINKERS FORUM: OUR RESPONSES TO THE CALL TO ACTION Online tinyurl.com/bdx4h3w7 Talk about suggested issues such as homelessness and state government: Namely, how to fix major problems and also hold elected officials accountable. 10:30 am, free SECULAR ALLIANCE: THE SAGAMORE WIND PROJECT Online tinyurl.com/ycksky7p Troy Foos from Xcel Energy leads the discussion, talking about the stated project and wind energy as a whole. Noon-1:30 pm, free
DANCE DANCE CHURCH About the Music 2305 Fox Road (505) 603-4570 Ecstatic Dance is a free form dance party rooted in creativity, connection and consent. Here's a safe, sacred and fun experience for all: A playful atmosphere to move however you wish with inspiring music from around the world mixed by a live DJ. 10:30 am-noon, free
EVENTS SANTA FE HOME SHOW Santa Fe Community Convention Center 201 W Marcy St. (505) 955-6590 We know, we know. The couch doesn’t match the rug and the rug doesn’t match the wall paint and the walls are improperly heightened and... ugh. So we’ll see you at the Santa Fe Home Show, where us plebs can learn how to properly style an abode. Cause some of ya’ll need help. 10 am-4 pm, $5
MAKE + TAKE Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200 Art in the atrium! DIY art projects, all-ages coloring sheets and self-guided treasure hunts. Noon-4 pm, free
MUSIC ELIZA GILKYSON AND THE RIFTERS St. Francis Auditorium at NM Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. tinyurl.com/2p8rzw4r Gilkyson's acclaimed new album Songs From the River Wind is her love letter to the Old West. It’s composed of places, lives and loves lost, because existence is beautiful but also gets pretty hard, too. (See SFR Picks, page 17) 7:30 pm, $32-$46 ROMANTIC LEGACIES The Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 Santa Fe Symphony brings to life the extraordinary Symphony No. 1 by Florence Beatrice Price, the first female AfricanAmerican to be recognized as a symphonic composer and the first to have a composition played by a major orchestra; followed by Giuseppe Verdi’s dramatic and romantic Overture to La Forza del Destino. 4 pm, $22-$80 THEO KUTSKO Vanessie Piano Bar 434 W San Francisco St. (505) 984-1193 Enjoy the piano and vocal stylings of Santa Fe's youngest cabaret pianist, NMSA senior Theo Kutsko. 6:30-9:30 pm, $10
THEATER RED BIKE AND THE BOOK OF MAGDALENE Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601 We missed a lot of good theater back in the shutdown days. Teatro Paraguas knows the same, and they’ll be screening works that didn’t get the premiere they deserved. Note that Red Bike plays at 5 pm and Magdalene at 7 pm. 5 pm; 7 pm, $10
WORKSHOP BELLYREENA BELLYDANCE CLASS Move Studio 901 W San Mateo Road (505) 660-8503 Belly dance as a movement practice cultivates our capacity for pleasure, releases tension, increases strength and suppleness. With care, it might even help us heal from injury. Awaken your sensual wild thang, move like poured honey, harness the chaos of earthquakes in your shimmy and walk in beauty. Please RSVP in advance. 1-2 pm, $15
MODERN BUDDHIST MEDITATIONS: FIND FREEDOM DISCOVER THE INNER PATH TO LIBERATION Center For Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail (505) 292-5293 Begin a journey that can only lead to happiness. Find protection from mistaken attitudes and feel secure knowing you’re headed in the right direction. Let go of the obstacles in your life and relax! True and lasting pleasures will appear. Experience meditations on the truth of Karma and past and future lives. Sponsored by Kadampa Meditation Center of New Mexico. 10-11:30 am, $10 YOUTH IMPROV Santa Fe Improv 1202 Parkway Drive, Ste. A santafeimprov.com Be bold, be brave, be creative, be completely yourself and have fun! A new wild and wacky fourweek series for kids 11 and older. Unleash creativity and imagination. Laugh and have fun with teacher Gail Trotter and learn the art of improv. 1-3 pm, $100
FOOD CHARCUTERIE & COCKTAILS Bosque Brewing Co. 500 Market St., Ste. 110A (505) 557-6672 Picnic New Mexico and Yapopup will be serving natural and Pueblo culinary charcuterie offerings and other unique choices. $1 off all craft beverages for industry folks and students. 3-8 pm, free to enter
MUSIC BILL HEARNE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St. (505) 982-2565 Americana and roots from a local Santa Fe legend. 4 pm, free
METAL MONDAY Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 It’s metal, what more do you want? (See SFR Picks, page 17) 7:30 pm, $10 THEO KUTSKO Vanessie Piano Bar 434 W San Francisco St. (505) 984-1193 Classic rock piano and more. 6:30-9:30 pm, $10 JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 González’s performances are never merely shows—they are events. It’s serious guitar (but still fun). 7:30 pm, $39-$59
OPERA VIRTUAL VIVACE BOOK GROUP: CARMEN Online tinyurl.com/4v94f27f To prep for Carmen's arrival at the Santa Fe Opera (we refer to the show, not some random woman), the Virtual Vivace book club meets to discuss aspects of the adaptation. Special guests include Virginia Browning and maestro Joe Illick. 6 pm, free We’d love to hear from you Send notices via email to calendar@sfreporter.com.
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THEATER RED BIKE AND THE BOOK OF MAGDALENE Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie (505) 424-1601 Video performances of two plays by prize-winning playwright Caridad Svich, which were filmed at Teatro Paraguas during the pandemic. Note that Red Bike plays at 5 pm and Magdalene at 7 pm. 5 pm; 7 pm, $10 THE EFFECT Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St. (505) 988-4262 *Maybe* drug induced love is the Romeo and Juliet we didn’t know we needed (this isn’t Shakespeare’s play, but it’s still needed). 2 pm, 7:30 p.m., $30-$75
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MON/21 DANCE SANTA FE SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road Weekly swing dance in Santa Fe with different teachers and DJs every week. Class starts at 7 pm and the open dance at 8 pm. $8 for the class and the dance, $3 for just the dance. Masks and proof of vaccination required, but after that it’s all in the form. No lifting, the ceiling’s a little low. 7 pm, $3-$8
EVENTS QUEER NIGHT La Reina at El Rey Court (505) 982-1931 Unlike that hellish place called the Florida legislature, we say “gay“ here quite often. It seems queer solidarity must continue no matter how far we’ve come, so journey out and have some drinks/virgin drinks and plan for world domination with fellow queers and allies. 5-11 pm, free MONDAY FUNDAY Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle tickets.meowwolf.com/santa-fe To thank the New Mexican folks who made good ‘ol Meow Wolf possible, them artsy folks are giving half-off to state residents. Use MONDAYFUNDAY at the promo code at check out: And yes, and ID check is required upon checking in. C’mon now, no scamming allowed. Behave yourself, at least in there. Outside it’s your own thing. 3-8 pm, $20
“Children swimming in the pool at the Carrie Tingley Hospital for Crippled Children, Truth or Consequences, New Mexico” part of Curative Powers: New Mexico’s Hot Springs at the New Mexico History Museum. IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS 108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900 Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology. IAIA 2021–2022 BFA Exhibition: Awakened Dreamscapes. 10 am-4 pm, Wed-Sat, Mon 11 am-4 pm, Sun, $5-$10 MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200 Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass. Birds: Spiritual Messengers of the Skies. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$9 MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART 706 Camino Lejo (505) 476-1200 Yokai: Ghosts and Demons of Japan. Música Buena. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $3-$12
NEW MEXICO HISTORY MUSEUM 113 Lincoln Ave. (505) 476-5200 The Palace Seen and Unseen. Curative Powers: New Mexico’s Hot Springs. 10 am-5 pm, Tues-Sun, $7-$12, NM residents free 5-7 pm first Fri of the month GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM 217 Johnson St. (505) 946-1000 Artist-in-residence Josephine Halvorson. 10 am-5 pm, Thurs-Mon $20 MUSEUM OF SPANISH COLONIAL ART 750 Camino Lejo (505) 982-2226 Pueblo-Spanish Revival Style: The Director’s Residence and the Architecture of John Gaw Meem. 1-4 pm, Wed-Fri, $5-$12, free for members
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Since it was founded in 2019, Queen Bee Music Association (1596 Pacheco St., Ste. B-1, (505) 278-0012; queenbeemusicassociation.org) just can’t quit growing with its mission to musically educate the Santa Fe masses. What started as a program for kids has since expanded to adult instruction, and with spring music sessions starting March 21, director Lindsay Taylor spoke with SFR to give us the lowdown on what makes this particular org unique within the local music scene, where things might go from here and what’s up with the bee reference. (Riley Gardner) What’s the reality behind running a full-time music education program? Since we’ve been able to get a space in Midtown, it’s gone full-time and it’s been extremely rewarding. Now we’re surrounded by something that brings people a lot of joy in their lives, and I’m honored to have that as my profession. It’s been a lifelong dream to get to this stage. I have memories of nerding out when I was a kid, drawing music schools and putting pianos in every classroom. Santa Fe has a big need in music education that we’re really happy to help fill, and...we’ve been selling out classes left and right. There’s a lot of room for growth, and one avenue is that we want to be a big resource for music teachers in Santa Fe. There’s always been a really strong private lesson community, but this newer realm of group classes is an awesome way to meet new people. If you’re an adult who’s wanted to learn, you’re surrounded by people in the exact same boat as you are. That builds strong friendships, and people are always asking for more. When we started it was just 76 regular students in our programs, then we jumped to 1,000. By the end of the year, we’re aiming for 3,000. The name comes from a Taj Mahal song, Queen Bee, which my husband used to sing to me when we first were
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dating. It’s personal, but also pays homage to the American roots music that’s been the soundtrack of our lives. What difference do you find in teaching children versus adults? Our approach is actually similar, because our goal isn’t to produce a virtuoso. We’re not focused on classical music, but rather familiar songs. My husband— Artistic Director and co-founder Brian Nelson—and I met in Denver working for a folk music school, Swallow Hill Music. It’s a very large school with a method of teaching based on experience rather than theory. You get into a classroom to learn to strum and string from familiar tunes, and then the theory gets worked into that, so not just scales and major and minor triads. For adults and for kids, it’s just to genuinely enjoy the process and to build a lifelong appreciation for music. At any age, we want to make them more appreciative, whether at a concert or in their everyday surroundings. We meet people where they are and make sure they don’t move too slow or too fast. It’s mostly content driven—adults get a Johnny Cash tune and kids get something like “Baby Beluga.” We’re seeing people of all ages, from their 30s to retired folks who’ve had a guitar stuffed in their closet gathering dust for 30 years. What have you learned about the Santa Fe music scene you might not have known before? It’s hard to say what we didn’t know, since Brian has been a music educator here, so a lot of what he saw as a musician is what we responded with for Queen Bee. Music education and allowing people to get over the misconception that in order to be a musician you have to start learning when you’re 3. That’s not true! It’s like riding a bike, it’s just a skill to learn. The thing I’ve been most impressed with is how resilient everyone has been, since we’ve been shut down longer than other cities, especially in returning to live performances, but the creativity here is really overwhelming. We accept donations of money or instruments, plus volunteer opportunities. Later this spring, we’ll be hosting a fundraiser for our scholarship program. I think if someone is interested in learning music and has had that twinge in the back of their mind, it’s not as hard to get started as you think. Plus, we teach with local gig-musicians Karina Wilson of Lone Piñon, classical guitarist Tito Rios and Bonnie Sims as a guest teacher later this spring.
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he last time my dear friend Angelo came to visit, we found the best croissant of all time at Cafécito, so I think he maybe has it in his head now that when he travels back here, his hometown, from New York City, I’m supposed to forever up the ante with better and better meals. Santa Fe isn’t facing an amazing-places-toeat shortage by any stretch of the imagination, luckily, but it’s still a daunting task to find something more exciting than that croissant (seriously, have you not tried that Cafécito croissant yet?!), and yet, somehow, downtown Mexican-inspired Paloma (401 S Guadalupe St., (505) 467-8624) did the trick. As I write this, it’s the following morning, and I envision him on his flight, still full of food and margaritas, already cursing the day he decided he’d leave this weird little town behind. We arrived late to Paloma by Santa Fe standards—after 7 pm—and though the dining room was packed with an assortment of olds and youngs, hipster doofuses, fashionable middle-agers and even a few toddlers, the hostess was kind and hospitable, and she found us a table in under 10 minutes despite our lacking a reservation. This was a last-minute dinner, as Angelo had been arguing with me about spending time with his family. “Fie and foo,” I told him. “Fie and foo.” I’m glad he came out, too, because Paloma is a sight. Somehow straddling that sublime mix between fine dining and an almost rustic, casual affair, it’s the type of spot that would feel welcoming to many palates and styles; thick glassware and earthenware plates feel right but not stuffy, and the lighting was dim enough to be romantic but not so dark as to feel like creepy. By the time our guacamole appetizer with warm and thick housemade tortilla chips arrived, I’m fairly certain he forgot about his family. At $12, this one seemed a little high for guac, but the generous portion belayed those fears. The chips were phenomenal, sturdy and load-bearing and easily eaten on their own,
I’m sure. The guacamole itself tasted like it was missing a little something, however. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for mashed avocados in pretty much any configuration, but Paloma’s was light seasoning, if it had any, and the diced tomatoes, which I believe can make or break any good guac, were few and far between. This is a high-class problem, however, and we ate the serving in its entirety—with gusto. Cheers to our server, as well, a kind and quick young gentlemen whom we decided had Paul Rudd vibes. As the driver, I didn’t want to drink, and this can sometimes warrant subtle grief from servers. Oh, sure, Angelo had a couple house margaritas ($10 each), so maybe that offset my teetotaling. Made with Cimarron Blanco tequila (or Rayu mezcal, if you prefer), he described the marg as “pretty good” at the time, though he later cautioned that the included lime smelled strange. Regardless, neither of us hated the large glass bottle of water left on our table (who doesn’t like being the captain of their own water needs and desires?), and if our waiter had any bad feelings about my self-imposed sobriety, our service was so flawless—including from our food runner whom, we later learned, is well-acquainted with Angelo’s sister, but only after she nailed the drop-off and subsequent “thanks bunches,” chat—that we’d never have known. That’s the hallmark of a champion.
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The fajitas at Paloma could easily feed more than one diner, but go ahead and eat them solo.
We struggled with entree selection, particularly me. As a pescatarian, the crispy fish tacos ($15) with beer battered sea bass and jalapeño slaw served with a chipotle mayo sounded excellent, but then, so did the cauliflower tacos with almond salsa, olives and, weirdly but temptingly, golden raisins ($14). Friends have described wanting to compose poetry to those cauliflower tacos, and items like papas fritas ($8) and crispy Brussels sprouts ($8) mean Paloma has considered vegetarian palates. Non-meat items have become more commonplace in local haunts in recent years, but this was more than bread and cheese. All the same, I had to get the fish tacos. Obviously. Some will whine and wonder why, if we’re in the desert, this was the choice. Because they sounded good, end of list. My companion, meanwhile, zeroed in on the fajitas with marinated skirt steak and sides of corn tortillas, black beans and rice, plus grilled veggies ($30). The idea, like basically all fajitas, is that you’ll assemble your own ratios of things from the provided cooked ingredients. It looked and smelled incredible, even to a meat-hater such as myself, and though this dish, too, was reportedly a little light on seasoning, being served a literal entire steak softened the blow. If anything could improve here according to my old pal, and this is a small complaint, it’s that he’d like to have been warned the dish was enough for two people. Angelo is a bit
of a service stickler, and he waxed poetically on how, when he owned a restaurant in California, he loved to arm customers with as much knowledge as humanly possible. Nevertheless, Paloma server, I don’t personally believe that’s your responsibility, and worse things have happened to people than a $30 steak fajita dish with enough left over for later. The fish tacos were absolutely incredible, from the satisfying crunch of the fried fish to the ever-so-slightly bitter tang of the slaw. The spice of the jalapeño was mild, just enough to add bite, and when dipped into the red and green salsas our food runner brought along, an entire world of complementary textures and flavors exploded in unison. I know that sounds flowery, but fish tacos is the sort of dish everyone loves if it’s done right. Chef Nathan Mayes? I salute your fish tacos with ferocity and passion! We closed the night with a dessert from oft-celebrated pastry chef Jessica Brewer, whom SFR has written about before. She’s become a bit of a celebrity around here, and why not? Her desserts are creative and beyond delicious. We selected the smoked chocolate mousse cake served with aleppo marshmallow, whipped caramel and a scoop of ice cream ($14). Like most things Brewer makes, this was a marvel of flavors and mouthfeel. Anyone who has worked out how to effectively use marshmallow is OK in my book, and for this and so many other reasons (cauliflower among them), I find myself champing at the bit to get back over to Paloma as soon as possible.
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f there’s one thing former students of high school theater teacher Joey Chavez have in common, it’s a deep reverence for the man who instilled within them a love of all things theatrical. Chavez taught theater for decades at Santa Fe High and New Mexico School for the Arts, and he directed and wrote countless full-length productions, shorts and all things between, but a recent diagnosis of cerebral amyloid angiopathy— boiled down, when blood vessels in the brain become brittle—pushed Chavez, 66, into an early retirement. “I was going to do another two years,” Chavez tells SFR, “until I was 68. But I taught right up until the Thanksgiving break, when it became clear I was no longer the teacher I used to be. But it didn’t affect my creativity.” Now, as Chavez grapples with his new reality, the folks behind celebrated Midtown theater Teatro Paraguas are putting the final touches on a retrospective/revue sort of thing featuring 11 shorts penned by Chavez between 1999 and 2009, when he was working for Santa Fe High. They represent, according to the theater’s co-founder and board vice president Argos MacCallum, “quite a range.” “There’s everything from really dark and strange stuff to one called Texting Zombies, which our teens are having a lot of fun with,” MacCallum says. “Then there are some poignant ones, like one in which two people meet again after 20 years and dig up a time capsule
Former Chavez student Jonathan Harrell and New Mexico School for the Arts freshman Steele Rose prep for the upcoming show. LEFT: Joey Chavez himself.
about a baby left in the trash—some have heart, some sick C Y humor, some have sarE JO Y ES casm and drama. It’s just RT U CO really fun, and Joey is very excited about how we’re going to present his work, and that we’ve got some students who worked with him in the past.” “It’s kind of weird, and I’m also surprised I did that much,” Chavez says of the upcoming show. “Mostly I’m excited, because this has kind of forced me to get back to work, and it’s freed me up, in a sense, to use a different part of my brain. I’m incredibly proud of the students and adults who are in it. That’s my celebration—them being onstage.” Chavez says he’ll continue writing, and that he’s even working with local theater company Ironweed Productions on a new show. His wife, Robin, he says, has been instrumental in his continuing to write. “She helps me edit,” he says with a laugh. “I write something and then I run it over to her and she helps me out.” Z
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they buried in fourth grade—it’s going to be a very entertaining evening.” MacCallum diercts a number of shorts, as do other Paraguas regulars, and says his favorite might be Father Do You Know Me?, an emotional tale of a son and father with alzheimer’s who visit a favorite pond to see if the ducks still hang around. MacCallum’s own father is now in his mid-90s, he tells SFR, and such material hits close to home. “I’m a native of Santa Fe and I went to Santa Fe High—my dad was one of the principals—and Joey Chavez and I were there at the same time,” says Teatro Paraguas board president JoJo Sena de Tarnoff. “I wasn’t in the same grade, but I knew him because I was also in theater, and he was very well-known in the theater, even back then. He’s just so great and knowledgeable, and with the pandemic...we usually have a season, and since we were unable to have that season, we were faced with getting into March and having nothing to produce.” Enter Chavez, and Sena de Tarnoff says her favorite entry might be the aforementioned Texting Zombies. “It’s really fun and I’ve got this whole creative way of making it look like a comic book,” she explains. “Basically, it’s a fun one about a couple girls inside a zombie lair because one of them has a boyfriend who is a zombie. But everything I’m directing—all the way up to a monologue that’ll just rip your heart out
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Meanwhile, at Paraguas, Sena de Tarnoff says she can hardly wait to show off Chavez’s works. Given the small scope of the theater, she often performs duties outside her role as board president and leader of the children’s troupe. Janitorial, for example—and other things that punctuate the importance of a reliable and regularly-operating bilingual theater. Productions like the Chavez revue make it all worth it, she says. “He deserves it, too,” she adds, “and it’s a great time to honor him.” “I’ve always known Santa Fe should have a theater that promoted the Latinx and Chicano experience,” MacCallum concludes. “I would say this is a very enjoyable way of honoring one of our great citizens.”
11 SHORT PLAYS BY JOEY CHAVEZ: 7:30 pm Friday, March 25 and Saturday, March 26 2 pm Sunday, March 27. $10-$20 Teatro Paraguas 3205 Calle Marie, (505) 424-1601
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From the get-go, it’s worth pointing out The Long Walk is not designed for general audiences. That’s not to say it’s unreachable, incomprehensible or a series of long, pointless montages. It’s a methodical film that refuses to explain itself, that comes together in a connect-the-dots fashion which, for many, will be too opaque. Those with an interest in how Buddhism can intertwine with cinema, however, will find much to ponder. The Long Walk follows an unnamed old man (Yannawoutthi Chanthalungsy) and young boy (Por Silatsa), both of whom can talk to spirits. One in particular (Noutnapha Soydara) joins them during long walks along forested roads for decades on end, though it never speaks a word. When numerous women go missing, authorities tap the unnamed man for assistance, but he might be more interested in undoing the flaws of his past with help from his spirit friend. In a strike against the Asian Orientalism that continues to plague Western filmmaking,
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As part of the generation that was just the right age for Pixar’s Toy Story—the first fully-CGI movie ever, mind you—to be mind-blowing, it begins to feel less and less like these movies are for those of us who were kids at the time, particularly when we don’t have any of our own. Still, the animation juggernaut’s newest full-length, Turning Red, which just dropped on the Disney+ streaming service, kinda-sorta recaptures that magic from all those years ago, even if it’s a relatively elementary allusion to our changing bodies that also, despite being set in Canada, somehow misses out on making Degrassi references. In Turning Red, we meet Toronto kid Meilin (Rosalie Chiang), who is newly 13 and ready to rumble with her best buds circa 2002; when boy bands roamed the Earth and flip phones, Tamagotchis and overalls were all somehow cool. Mei struggles under the weight of her mother’s expectations (hats off to Sandra Oh as the overbearing but loving mom), but she’s still a killer student and fun friend who makes time for everything, which includes lending a hand at the family temple—the oldest in Toronto, we learn. Things seem pretty OK (which is the default 28
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Laotian-born director Mattie Do builds her world from everyday Laotian anxieties: Namely, the belief that bodies not properly cremated bear spirits which find themselves stuck wandering the Earth. Deeper Buddhist themes reflecting life, death and rumination make for a sturdy, if pessimistic, undercurrent. Here, the living aren’t frightened by ghosts so much as they are the more earthbound fears they illicit—if a dissatisfied ghost can be stuck on Earth for eternity, is there a point in striving for a type of perfection already disproved by the very existence of these stuck spirits? It’s too easy to call The Long Walk a horror film or a psychological trip. It’d have to be stretched, stuffed and disjointed if you wanted it to fit into more mainstream horror definitions, or as I like
Pixar starting point) until Mei discovers a family curse that finds her family’s young women transforming into gigantic red pandas whenever they get too emotional...something about an ancient curse, but really just a stand-in for puberty. As Mei comes to terms with her new panda form, the infamous boy band 4-Town announces North American dates, and while older folks might find the idea of stakes that come in the form of a stadium pop show laughable, it’s life or death for Mei, as it would be for any 8th grader. Cue hijnks. Director Domee Shi (who won an Oscar for her short Bao in 2018) finds ludicrously enjoyable common ground for both kids and adults here, and even better, she never shies away from frank talk about things like crushes, periods and complicated familial relationships. This is Disney, though, so some things fall short, from toothless jokes that don’t quite land and nods to queer culture that never come out and say so. Still, Chiang is brilliant and relatable as the evolving Mei, and that we get an entire film dedicated to, created by and starring Asian people ultimately feels like a step in the right direction. Oh, and Mei’s panda form is absurdly adorable. Toss in some songs by Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas, the kind of painstaking animation we expect from Pixar and numerous funny-adjacent early-aught moments and you’ve got something that’s almost groundbreaking, if Pixar would trust its audiences
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to call it, the old stab-stab/jump-jump. Do’s opus doesn’t fit neatly into any genre, in fact, and a viewer can’t expect any coddling from her. Her elements of Asian futurism are not deeply crafted (everyone in this future has a microchip installed) but they do emphasize a common misconception that tech and tradition are mutually exclusive. But then, The Long Walk is a film of ideas—and what a success it is.
THE LONG WALK Directed by Do With Chanthalungsy, Silatsa and Soydara Center for Contemporary Arts and VoD, NR, 115 min.
to roll with a little more maturity. Turning Red could have been a generational high point. As it stands, it’s fun and mostly funny and exactly the kind of thing elder millennials and their kids can enjoy together. (Alex De Vore) Disney+, PG, 100 min.
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One might finish The Bombardment and question why the film exists at all. Sure, given current world circumstances, it’s a prescient outing, but prescience doesn’t equal purpose, and in the words of Sunset Boulevard’s Betty Schaefer, “I think a picture should say a little something.” And though conflict being a terrible thing is certainly a message, we were already well-versed in this concept going in. War is bad? No kidding! The result is a flailing WWII film, interesting enough for its subject matter but confused by its own multitude of plots and characters. Based on the real-life Operation Carthage, during which the Royal Air Force accidentally bombed a Catholic Girls’ School in Copenhagen on the eve of WWII, killing 120, The Bombardment posits that this misstep was a horrible thing. OK, yeah, but adding a doubtful German collaborator (Alex Høgh Andersen) and a nun facing a crisis of faith (Fanny Bornedal,
whose character spends her evenings whipping herself to find God) doesn’t add depth to the tragedy in director/writer Ole Bornedal’s newest. Instead, we get a collection of loose threads jammed into an oddly short runtime and a first half trudging desperately along between classic Nazi resistance tropes and children’s fables. Past its midpoint, the film transforms into Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center, wherein unlikely heroes emerge and half the cast sits in rubble. Despite posh looks and cinematography touting far better production values than most middling WWII portrayals, such things can’t fix a hodgepodge of emotional scenes with no discernible conclusions. Was the film’s last quarter misplaced, but Netflix needed to premiere something regardless? Even erudite WWII fanatics might struggle in deciphering a purpose. Despite bringing attention to an otherwise lesser-known tragedy, is this only to tell us how terrible the whole war thing was? It might shock these filmmakers to know that we, the audience, can gauge such a thing without them crafting manipulatively dramatic and likely expensive portrayals. The Bombardment is an otherwise competent film, passable in the technical sphere and with a few acting triumphs. Even so, a film that thrives in most sectors but its screenplay is not truly success—no matter how many times filmmakers try getting around that. (RG) Netflix, NR, 107 min
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Singer, dancer, and comedian Sammy Davis Jr. disliked the song “The Candy Man,” but he recorded it anyway, heeding his advisors. He spent just a brief time in the studio, finishing his vocals in two takes. “The song is going straight to the toilet,” he complained, “pulling my career down with it.” Surprise! It became the best-selling tune of his career, topping the Billboard charts for three weeks. I suspect there could be a similar phenomenon (or two!) in your life during the coming months, Aries. Don’t be too sure you know how or where your interesting accomplishments will arise.
later, American author Arthur Yorinks wrote, “Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold.” Now I’m relaying his message to you. Hopefully, my heads-up will ensure that you won’t miss the silver lining for any reason, including the possibility that you’re fixated on gold. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “This is the most profound spiritual truth I know,” declares author Anne Lamott. “That even when we’re most sure that love can’t conquer all, it seems to anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds.” Lamott’s thoughts will be your wisdom to live by during the next eight weeks, Scorpio. Even if you think you already know everything there is to know about the powers of love to heal and transform, I urge you to be open to new powers that you have never before seen in action.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I love author Maya Angelou’s definition of high accomplishment, and I recommend you take steps to make it your own in the coming weeks. She wrote, “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” Please note that in her view, success is not primarily about being popular, prestigious, powerful, or prosperous. I’m sure she wouldn’t exclude those qualities from her formula, but the key point is that they are all less crucial than selfSAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Witty Sagittarian love. Please devote quality time to refining and upgrading author Ashleigh Brilliant has created thousands of this aspect of your drive for success. cheerful yet often sardonic epigrams. In accordance with current astrological omens, I have chosen six that will be GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I’m not fake in any way,” useful for you to treat as your own in the coming weeks. declared Gemini actor Courteney Cox. On the face of it, 1. “I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are that’s an amazing statement for a Gemini to make. After excellent.” 2. “I have abandoned my search for truth and all, many in your tribe are masters of disguise and am now looking for a good fantasy.” 3. “All I want is a shapeshifting. Cox herself has won accolades for playing warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.” 4. “Do a wide variety of characters during her film and TV your best to satisfy me—that’s all I ask of everybody.” 5. career, ranging from comedy to drama to horror. But let’s “I’m just moving clouds today, tomorrow I’ll try mounconsider the possibility that, yes, you Geminis can be tains.” 6. “A terrible thing has happened. I have lost my versatile, mutable, and mercurial, yet also authentic and will to suffer.” genuine. I think this specialty of yours could and should CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “All experience is an be extra prominent in the coming weeks. enrichment rather than an impoverishment,” wrote CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Sometimes I prayed for author Eudora Welty. That may seem like a simple and Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn’t,” obvious statement, but in my view, it’s profound and wrote author Barbara Kingsolver about her childhood revolutionary. Too often, we are inclined to conclude that approach to self-improvement. Just because this method a relatively unpleasant or inconvenient event has diminfailed to work for her, however, doesn’t mean it won’t ished us. And while it may indeed have drained some of work for others. In saying that, I’m not implying you our vitality or caused us angst, it has almost certainly should send out appeals to Baby Jesus. But I suggest you taught us a lesson or given us insight that will serve us call on your imagination to help you figure out what well in the long run—if only to help us avoid similar influences may, in fact, boost your goodness. It’s an downers in the future. According to my analysis of your excellent time to seek help as you elevate your integrity, current astrological omens, these thoughts are of prime expand your compassion, and deepen your commitment importance for you right now. to ethical behavior. It’s not that you’re deficient in those AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Life swarms with innodepartments; just that now is your special time to do what we all need to do periodically: Make sure our actual cent monsters,” observed poet Charles Baudelaire. Who are the “innocent monsters”? I’ll suggest a few candibehavior is in rapt alignment with our high ideals. dates. Boring people who waste your time but who LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo classicist and author Edith aren’t inherently evil. Cute advertisements that subtly Hamilton specialized in the history of ancient Greece. coax you to want stuff you don’t really need. Social The poet Homer was one of the most influential voices media that seem like amusing diversions except for the of that world. Hamilton wrote, “An ancient writer said of fact that they suck your time and drain your energy. Homer that he touched nothing without somehow honThat’s the bad news, Aquarius. The good news is that oring and glorifying it.” I love that about his work, and I the coming weeks will be a favorable time to eliminate invite you to match his energy in the coming weeks. I from your life at least some of those innocent monsters. realize that’s a lot to ask. But according to my reading of You’re entering a period when you’ll have a strong knack the astrological omens, you will indeed have a knack for for purging “nice” influences that aren’t really very nice. honoring and glorifying all you touch. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Never underestimate the VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Starhawk, one of my favorite wisdom of being easily satisfied,” wrote aphorist Marty witches, reminds us that “sexuality is the expression of Rubin. If you’re open to welcoming such a challenge, Pisces, the creative life force of the universe. It is not dirty, nor is I propose that you work on being very easily satisfied during it merely ‘normal’; it is sacred. And sacred can also be the coming weeks. See if you can figure out how to enjoy affectionate, joyful, pleasurable, passionate, funny, or even the smallest daily events with blissful gratitude. Exult purely animal.” I hope you enjoy an abundance of such in the details that make your daily rhythm so rich. Use your lushness in the coming weeks, Virgo. It’s a favorable time ingenuity to deepen your capacity for regarding life as an in your astrological cycle for synergizing eros and spiritu- ongoing miracle. If you do this right, there will be no need to ality. You have poetic license to express your delight pretend you’re having fun. You will vividly enhance your about being alive with imaginative acts of sublime love. sensitivity to the ordinary glories we all tend to take for granted. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In 1634, English poet John Homework: What small change could you initiate that Milton coined the phrase “silver lining.” It has become will make a big beneficial difference? Newsletter. an idiom referring to a redemptive aspect of an experiFreeWillAstrology.com ence that falls short of expectations. Over 350 years
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