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Out of the Loop
Residents and service providers want answers as the city rolls out a new plan to address homelessness and safety on the Cerrillos Road corridor
EVAN CHANDLER evan@sfreporter.com
More pallet shelters. Traumainformed street outreach. A housing service center. These are some of the priority actions Mayor Alan Webber identified Oct. 18 to address homelessness and public safety with a specific focus on the Cerrillos Road corridor.
City officials announced the forthcoming actions—which also include a master lease program to prioritize housing for vulnerable groups and an internal city team dedicated to the area—that form part of a larger Homelessness Emergency Action Plan to be revealed at a later date.
Webber tells SFR ongoing safety concerns from residents regarding activity in the Cerrillos Road corridor make it “the first order of business.”
“The Cerrillos Road corridor is in an emergency situation, and we need to call it for what it is,” Webber says, noting the area accounts for roughly 3% of all calls for service to city police. “That’s already an enormous commitment of time and resources, but I do think we need to have a steady, stable and predictable level of eyes on the street and people on the scene, so that we change the feeling as well as the facts on Cerrillos Road. It’s not just the optics, it’s what goes on there.”
In order to address both security and continue efforts from the Built for Zero team to achieve its goal of establishing a by-name list of unhoused individuals, Webber says the city is already in the process of working up a contract for the trauma-informed street outreach team. The city joined the efforts in March 2019.
“This will provide a physical presence up and down the Cerrillos corridor of people who are very well skilled in interceding with individuals who may be having the worst day of their life. They may be homeless, they may simply be mentally ill. They may have no other place to go. They need to be engaged with, and they need to have treatment
options offered to them,” Webber says. “It’s a real skill to do that. You don’t just send well-meaning people out there, because it really does take a lot of work to build that trust and level of engagement.”
The city also announced it would use a month-to-month lease with the Interfaith Community Shelter’s Pete’s Place after a years-long lease expired Oct. 14. The city now plans to phase out the shelter.
Residents, however, have questions about new proposals and feel out of the loop about efforts, they tell SFR. Bill Adrian, a member of the Casa Alegre Neighborhood Association who lives within a half mile of Pete’s Place, says he’d like to see increased communica tion from those leading the project, perhaps in the form of a monthly newsletter.
“So as a citizen, I’ve got these trau ma-informed outreach people, I’ve got alternative response units, I’ve got park rangers that respond to encampments, and I’ve got police,” Adrian says. “Who the hell do I call? Do I call 911, and then they decide? It’s very confusing.”
density of people who are unhoused who are at Pete’s Place to something more stable and then ultimately to supportive housing.”
units, which formed part of one-time investments Webber announced during his annual State of the City address in May.
Furthermore, Interfaith Community Shelter Executive Director Korina Lopez tells SFR while she was aware of several aspects of the immediate action plan, city officials did not communicate that the emergency shelter would phase out.
“The phasing out—I don’t know what to say to that. It’s not like we were approached by the city,” Lopez says. “Everybody’s out of the loop, in my opinion, so some of this is new to me, and it would be great if we knew what the city was planning.”
The Interfaith Community Shelter and the city have collaborated on other efforts to help the unhoused in recent months. In March, Interfaith launched a mobile-hygiene unit leased from the city at three locations to provide showers and services.
Webber says the new plan to phase out the Cerrillos Road shelter represents “a much more agile and nimble approach to rehousing people” where people using Pete’s Place will have discrete alternatives.
“We know that there are roughly 80 individuals who are guests at Pete’s Place, and probably among those 80 are at least a couple dozen people who have been living at Pete’s Place every night for several years, which was really never the mission or the purpose,” he says, noting the shelter was initially established to prevent folks from freezing in winter weather. “The goal now is to reduce the
City officials approved a plan in March 2023 to purchase 25 pallet homes it intended to utilize for SOS sites using up to $1 million from the American Rescue Plan Act.
In April, the city launched its first pallet home location—coined a Safe Outdoor Space—in collaboration with Christ Lutheran Church and The Life Link, which the City Council and Webber approved contracts totaling $828,368 to establish in December 2023. The church hosts 10 pallet shelters, which house 11 people and five pets, and include electricity, heating and cooling. Life Link helps run the site and connects people to additional services.
Now, Community Health and Safety Director Henri Hammond-Paul, who took over the role with the city last month and will lead the larger plan to come, tells SFR the planned program expansion will create several new “micro-communities” across the city over the course of the next few months as officials identify city-owned land and close out on a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) process city leaders began in August to select a second private host site and service provider for one of the additional pallet shelter communities.
The RFQ released by the city seeks host sites and services providers for up to 50 standalone structures. City officials recently approved a budget amendment resolution that dedicated $812,325 to fund the purchase of additional pallet shelters and hygiene
Yet Webber couldn’t identify how much the city’s Cerrillos Road corridor plan would cost or what the specific timeline is.
“There are a number of steps that all have to come together,” the mayor says. “I don’t want to go on record as saying it will be exactly this much or it’ll be exactly this time, but we’re going to focus on this.”
Lopez, however, pushed back on the notion that there is a density issue at the shelter, noting Pete’s Place is currently not at capacity. Furthermore, she adds the phasing out plan is better on paper than in practice, as many of the long-term guests of Pete’s Place are “much more complex cases” of homelessness. Interfaith staff, she adds, does try to engage people and connect them to services—often unsuccessfully.
“It’s almost like there’s this idea that there’s not an effort on our part to engage those people, which isn’t accurate, but a lot of them are people with memory care issues or early stages of dementia; other people with undiagnosed mental or physical health issues who won’t engage. And we’re low barrier, so we’re not going to deny people’s shelter because they don’t want to engage,” she says. “So for those individuals, they are the hardest to engage because I, again, cannot force anybody to, and the city knows that…why am I being asked to consult in other places around the state if my own city isn’t even asking me how I feel about all of this?”
The city announced a handful of immediate action items to address homelessness and public safety on the Cerrillos Road corridor.
Factoring in the “Forgotten Age”
SFPS eases into middle school student enrichment programs
BY MO CHARNOT @sfreporter.com
In middle school art teacher Megan Avina’s classroom, students don’t sit and wait for instruction. In what is known as Milagro Middle School’s ”Maker Space,” students are encouraged to follow their inspiration. To trigger some, Avina’s room brims with recycled fabrics, paints, clays and past student projects ranging from ceramics to a Chinese New Year’s dragon.
Zozobra was at the center of a recent papier mâché project. Avina encouraged students to create a personalized version of the local conduit for communal gloom. Results varied: one was modeled after a chicken nugget with a video game character’s face, while another Zozobra owned a taco stand and another was made to resemble rapper 50 Cent.
In an early October class, Avina showed a few of her students how to operate a sewing machine in preparation for the 2024 Recycle Santa Fe Art Festival’s “trash fashion show” taking place in November. For the project, Avina’s students are sewing together used potato chip bags to make outfits.
“I try to make it a nice, safe, fine place to be so that they can create,” Avina tells SFR of her teaching approach. She believes stricter instruction “will turn them off to art for a very long time.”
To encourage self-expression, Avina presents students with several mediums, but more importantly, displays all their art.
“When they came on August 10, they said, ‘I don’t like art. I don’t know why I’m in this class. I don’t do art. I’m not an artist. I can’t draw.’ That’s what they’ll say,” Avina says. “And this is art, these little tricks in things that they see every day, and they’ll remember.”
While the Maker Space brought the most color to the Midtown area middle school after Avina was brought into the school about six years ago, the classroom doesn’t host the only burgeoning elective at Milagro. In the Apple Lab classroom installed at Milagro a few years ago, students learn coding, and this year a STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) class arrived.
The increased focus on student enrichment through electives like these is part of a series of reforms Santa Fe Public Schools are installing at the middle school level to address inequity—the district’s ongoing Reimagining Process.
The Reimagining Process, envisioned by the SFPS Board of Education in the
2019-2020 school year, was created to address the school district’s declining enrollment and aging facilities. A cornerstone of the process, as shown in a 2022 presentation, is to reimagine programs to be more engaging for students and include subjects like dual languages, computer science, visual and performing arts, business and more.
The Reimagining Steering Commit-
tee has since identified middle schools as an area in need of these programs. In a January 2024 meeting, the committee worked on a list of challenges and opportunities the middle schools currently face, with student retention listed as an overarching challenge.
Veronica García, director of the district’s Reimagining Steering Committee, told SFR in an interview last year that
many parents in Santa Fe currently choose to enroll their middle schoolage students in local charter or private schools. García said in January that she hopes student engagement at the middle school level through magnet and specialty programs will change the trend.
At an October 10 SFPS Board of Education meeting, the school board voted unanimously in favor of a resolution specific to middle schools, directing Superintendent Hilario “Larry” Chavez to establish a middle school level education council.
The council is intended to “engage and educate constituents about innovative programming” available at the district’s middle schools. Additionally, the council is to spend the year recommending ways to reimagine the delivery of middle school education, with a timeline.
“I think it’s very important for everyone involved to understand the options that are available, the innovative programming that’s taking place and the great things happening at our middle schools,” Chavez said at the meeting.
At the meeting, García stressed the importance of middle school students receiving “more exploration and handson learning” in the classroom.
“They’re not high school students, and they’re not elementary students, and they have very unique developmental needs,” García said.
Milagro Principal Georgia Baca says
Milagro endures in wake of tragedy
Editor’s Note: When interviewing educators at Milagro Middle School for this story, assistant principal Susan Greig was among the staff who spoke to SFR. So was STEM teacher Mark Waugh. However, before publication, the two educators were involved in a car crash that killed Greig and left Waugh in a Colorado hospital facing multiple surgeries. Milagro remains in mourning over the loss of Greig while prayers and well-wishes continue for Waugh as he recovers.
During the week following Milagro Middle School assistant principal Susan Greig’s death in an October 11 car accident that also hospitalized STEM teacher Mark Waugh, students and teachers at Milagro came together to mourn and celebrate Greig’s life. When students returned from a long weekend on Oct. 15, staff from the school district’s Office of Student Wellness and social services organization Gerard’s House were available to any students or faculty in need of support. On Oct. 18, the school’s seventh-grade students worked together to create a painting memorializing Greig. Additionally, Milagro Principal Georgia Baca says she is looking at other ways to celebrate Greig, such as dedicating the school’s garden to her. Following the accident in Rio Grande County, Colo., Waugh was flown to a hospital in Colorado Springs, and will need to undergo several surgeries. His daughter, Willow, has been providing Baca with updates on his condition. The first was Oct. 14. Hospital officials tell SFR he remains in fair conditions as of Tuesday afternoon.
Baca says Waugh’s STEM class is being covered internally by several teachers at Milagro while he recovers, and that she and other school administrators will be discussing a possible long-term substitute. Baca says the future of the class itself is uncertain because the STEM class was “a great passion” for Waugh, and she feels the class “would not be the same without him.”
Milagro teacher Megan Avina shows a student how to use a sewing machine in order to make a costume for 2024 Recycle Santa Fe Art Festival’s “trash fashion show.”
Milagro Middle School opened its doors in 2019, after the former DeVargas and Capshaw middle schools were closed and consolidated into one school.
new electives at her school are aimed at increasing enrollment. She says Milagro “doesn’t really have a good reputation,” due to the school being relatively new, and a cause of two former middle schools (De Vargas and Capshaw) closing. She says the school’s relatively small population (under 400 students) is the result.
“We want to change our narrative,” Baca says. “Too often, I think it’s all about perception, and it’s word of mouth and what you’ve heard, but they really don’t know what’s going on.”
Board member Roman “Tiger” Abeyta read a statement from board member Kate Noble, who was not present at the meeting.
“We have an opportunity to focus much-needed energy and attention on our middle grades and better support the development of our students at this crucial time in their lives,” Noble’s statement read. “I hope we can continue to engage families in creating more relevant and experiential learning for these ages while ensuring a safe and supportive environment.”
Diana Padilla, Milagro’s Community Schools coordinator, tells SFR she feels middle school is the area where students are in most need of stronger support.
“This age is sometimes the forgotten age,” Padilla says, “It’s an age where we don’t know what to do with them because they’re kind of silly, and they’re a little bit funky…figuring out who they are.”
In regard to the school’s increased focus on these programs, Baca says she is hoping for more families to visit to see what they’re up to.
“There are so many beautiful things happening by the people who are in here,” Baca says. “We have teachers who are super excited to teach their kids and get the community to be partners with us.”
A few years after Avina established the Maker Space at Milagro, teacher Alan
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Lucero designed a computer science class under an earlier assistant principal’s direction. After teaching a semester-long course where students learned to code through the Python programming language, the success of the class led to Lucero expanding the curriculum into a year-long class.
“I really appreciate the support that the district’s giving to both [the STEM] program and mine,” Lucero tells SFR. “I get statements from the head of digital learning that he wants Milagro to be a center for computing excellence…I took a professional development [course] …on safe ways to bring AI into the classroom. I find it all really exciting.”
Milagro’s STEM class only began this year, but Baca says the class had “been in the plans” for nearly two years beforehand and was only temporarily put aside due to a shortage of teachers.
According to the school’s former assistant principal Susan Greig, Milagro’s administration became interested in developing a STEM program because it would give students more opportunities to be prepared for high school programs.
“That was a really big thing that we want to get our kids ready for,” Greig told SFR. “We don’t just want to stick to traditional methods of traditional work. STEM, to me, is an opportunity for kids to learn lifelong skills and learn about how science works in reality.”
Mark Waugh, who formerly taught science, began this year’s STEM class with a focus on climate change induced by global warming. He tells SFR so far, students had studied real-world events like the summer fires and subsequent flooding in Ruidoso and looked at ways to “mitigate or adapt” to climate change.
“We’re also doing…basically an understanding of the local environment, and how things like climate change are affect-
Milagro Principal Georgia Baca visits the school’s garden, which teacher Mark Waugh uses for hands-on lessons in his STEM class.
We’re also doing…basically an understanding of the local environment, and how things like climate change are affecting us,
-Mark Waugh, Milagro Middle School STEM program
ing us,” Waugh says.
Some of his plans for the class this school year include teaching students how to grow their own plants through both soil-based methods and hydroponics. Waugh explained that teaching horticulture is one way he believes students can adapt to climate change, saying it “gets them out of the food desert that they seem to be in.”
Padilla says in the STEM program’s growing classes, which typically involve visits to the school’s garden, the students’ excitement is palpable.
“You can watch them, and it’s working,” Padilla says. “You can actually see
them engaging when they’re in the dirt or building a greenhouse.”
Additionally, the STEM students are participating in this school year’s Climate Innovation Challenge, in which students must produce a video explaining and advocating for a potential solution to a specific climate problem.
One student is focusing on how climate change affects polar bears. A few want to center their projects on melting permafrost. Some are interested in studying how drought-induced bark beetle damage results in wildfires and flooding.
“It’s cool because they’re coming up with things that I hadn’t thought of, different sort of takes on the big picture,” Waugh said. “It doesn’t have to be anything that’s achievable, but if it’s given some serious, rational thought, there is some potential that eventually some of these things could be used and realized. We’ll see, but at least it gets them thinking. And critical thinking is what kids need seriously right now.”
Additionally, Lucero has connected his own class’s projects to Waugh’s, noting one project where he gave students 30 years of satellite data on global sea levels, which students must chart on their own. According to Greig, covering similar subject matter across classes is intentional.
“We don’t want our programs ultimately to be in isolation,” Greig told SFR. “The ultimate goal for us is to have our kids enriched by all these experiences. We want the children in the computer science class to maybe work on something that they’re doing in a different class with a different perspective…there’s this collaboration.”
Milagro teacher Mark Waugh shows off the school’s hydroponic horticulture system that he and students plan to use to grow plants indoors.
Photos from Le : Kelly Wilgus, Margy Barth, Liz Afshar
DINNER/DANCE THU/24
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In August, SFR’s food newsletter writer The Fork visited Mystic Echos at Santa Fe boutique hotel The Mystic—a five-course meal created by James Beard Award-winning chef Sean Sherman (Oglala Lakota Sioux), aka The Sioux Chef, and executed by local chef Nicole Appels. A combination of Indigenous flavors and inter-tribal dance performances, the event was reportedly an excellent combination of arts. Now, with the weather growing ever-colder, there are scant few chances to catch the dinner and show, so we’ll advise getting while the getting’s good for dishes like black bean soup, three sisters salad and braised turkey or grilled trout, plus more. (Alex De Vore)
The spooky season need not be all about stone-cold terror when there are plenty of options for making it fun. Take, for example, Cebollas at the Santa Fe Playhouse. Written by Leonard Madrid and directed by Jesse Jou, Cebollas follows a trio of Latina sisters who must deliver a dead body from Albuquerque to Denver. Along the way, they’ll stop in notable New Mexico locations including Bernalillo and Santa Fe, all while indulging in the time-honored comedic tradition of a road trip setting. The show stars Christia Marton, Vanessa Rios y Valles and Cristina Vigil, and promises to be quite the romp for locals and non-locals alike. Aw, who are we kidding—it’ll probably be way more fun if you’re from around here. (ADV)
Cebollas: 7:30 pm Thursday, Oct. 24-Saturday, Oct. 26; 2 pm Sunday, Oct. 27. $3-$60. Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., (505) 988-4262
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With October 31 barrelling down upon us like some sort of careening ghost-filled ghost car, some folks are likely feeling the pressure of putting together a costume at the last minute. If you’ve made it this far without deciding, perhaps a trip to Meow Wolf’s Cosmic Howl Costume Show this week might help. In the lobby of the arts company’s House of Eternal Return exhibit, find various costumes created and used by Meow Wolf artists and performers. These are, at least according to Meow Wolf itself, some of their favorites. Even better, it’s free to visit during operating hours—though note that Cosmic Howl requires an RSVP through the website and does not include access to the rest of the exhibit. (ADV)
Cosmic Howl Costume Show: 11 am Friday, Oct. 25 and Monday, Oct. 28; 10 am Saturday, Oct. 26. Free Meow Wolf, 1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369
Paper Innovations
Local artist Valerie Rangel takes Mexican folk art into new realms
In Mexico, no party is complete without three things: music, flowers and papel picado. Papel picado is a traditional folk art (it literally translates to ‘perforated paper’) made by carving designs into colorful paper sheets, which are often hung as banners or canopied over streets and markets in Mexican cities and villages.
The craft has roots in ancient Chinese traditions, as well as the pre-Columbian new world, where the Aztec cut figures into paper made from tree bark to create flags and banners for rituals and celebrations.
The Spanish then introduced the tissue paper, which inspired what it has become today. And while traditions are important to celebrate in their preserved forms, innovations keep the art form interesting. Enter local artist Valerie Rangel.
Rangel was introduced to silhouette paper-cutting in high school and was immediately hooked.
“I discovered I really like working with an X-acto knife,” she says. “It was something that came naturally to me.”
Rangel recalls being a young girl harvesting cactus and wild plants with the women of her family. She quickly developed a skill for whittling the nopales to prepare them for cooking.
“Because I was such a small human at the time,” she explains, “my fingers would fit between the thorns and I could handle a knife pretty easily.”
Rangel continues to perfect those skills while experimenting with the creative potential of papel picado and symbolic interpretations in her upcoming exhibit, Heroes | Villains at form & concept. The show features hanging portraits of fictional and historical characters such as Cesar Chavez, Che Guevara and the Joker, as well as activists such as Leonard Peltier and Reies Tijerina. Through these figures, Rangel says, she explores themes of morality, rebirth and destruction, plus society’s perspective of good and evil.
“The use of these characters—who can be seen as both heroes and villains— challenge the accepted narrative of their roles,” Rangel says. “It’s to make people think and to really question what they know about the characters and whether they’re black and white or ambiguous.”
Meet on the patio, drink coffee and meet new like-minded people.
9:30-11 am
THINGS THAT MAKE FOR PEACE
Westminster Presbyterian Church Santa Fe 841 W Manhattan Ave., (505) 983 8939
This five-part forum promotes peaceful discussions around the election.
10:30 am-Noon
TOUR THE GOVERNOR’S MANSION
The New Mexico Governor’s Mansion
One Mansion Drive, (505) 476-2800
Explore the historic New Mexico Governor’s Mansion on a tour of its extensive collection of fine art from museums and period furnishings. RSVP required. Noon-2 pm
VAMONOS! SANTA FE WALKS
Various locations (505) 989-7019 sfct.org/vamonos
Explore trails, get fresh air and meet your community. 5:30 pm
MUSIC
BILL HEARNE
Piñon Court 201 Montezuma St., (505) 995-0800
Hearne plays country tunes.
5:30-7:30 pm
SANTA FE EAVESDROPPER
Guy: “It’s a film fest, I think.”
BRAD PREGEANT
La Fiesta Lounge 101 E San Francisco St., (505) 982-5511
New Orleans-inspired jazz 7-9 pm
JOHN FRANCIS & THE POOR
CLARES
El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931
Folk/country rock tunes. 8-10:30 pm
Woman: “No, I’m pretty sure I heard they’re just showing Bryan Cranston stuff.”
—Overheard outside Violet Crown Cinema during the Santa Fe International Film Festival
KARAOKE WEDNESDAYS
Santa Fe Brewing Company 35 Fire Place, (505) 424-3333
Songs on piano go great with drinks in the Railayard. 5 pm
LIMINAL
Remix After Dark 222 N Guadalupe St., rmxaudiobar.com
The chill side of electronic music from the best local DJs 6-10 pm
THE MARCH DIVIDE Cowgirl 319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565 Indie/folk. 4 pm
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EVENTS
ALL FIERCE COMEDY SHOW Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., (505) 466-5528
Enjoy the mariachi stylings of comedian, Carlos Medina. 7-9 pm, $15-$40
BOARD GAME NIGHT
The Drinkery by Bosque Brewing 4980 B Promenade Blvd., (505) 303-3356
Santa Fe’s longest-running board game night. Have a drink and enjoy a fun evening of games. 5-10 pm
COSMIC HOWL: COSTUME SHOW
Meow Wolf
1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369
Explore the designs that have brought the Meow Wolf worlds to life, and let the one-of-akind creations spark your own Halloween inspiration. 11 am
GEEKS WHO DRINK
Social Kitchen & Bar
725 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-5952
Challenging trivia with prizes. 7-9 pm
PUMPKIN CARVING CONTEST
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135
Tumbleroot provides the pumpkins and tools, just bring your creativity and carving skills to make the jack-o-lantern of your dreams. Don’t forget your costumes. After, pumpkins will be voted on by Tumbleroot’s patrons with winner’s announced on Halloween via instagram/Facebook. 6-8 pm
SINGLES HANG OUT
The Alley 153 Paseo De Peralta, (505) 557-6789
A chance for singles, 20, 30, 40 to hang out and connect over bowling. You never know, maybe you’ll hit a strike. 6 pm
WARHAMMER OPEN PLAY
WZKD Games Southside 4250 Cerillos Road, wzkdgames.com
Warhammer open play with loaner armies and learn to play instructors. 10 am-8 pm
Man standing over woman at chest press: “If you need any help with your chest...”
Woman: “Dude, please move away from me right now.”
—Overheard at a gym in Midtown
Artist Steven Campbell displays found image collages, mixed media paintings and sculptures in his The Tyranny of Small Things exhibit, opening 5 pm Friday, Oct. 25 at Zane Bennett Contemporary.
FILM
THROWBACK MOVIE NIGHT: THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS
Santa Fe Public Library (La Farge) 1730 Llano St., (505) 955-4860
Free popcorn, hot cocoa and a classic film.
5:30-6:45 pm
FOOD
FIELD OF STARS: A TRIBUTE TO FARMERS
Santa Fe Farmer’s Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, feastnewmexico.com
A celebration of local farmers with live music and local food.
5:30-8 pm, $100
MYSTIC ECHOS: A CULINARY FEAST OF FLAVORS & DANCE
The Mystic Santa Fe 2810 Cerrillos Road, (505) 471-7663
A member of the Oglala Lakota tribe, chef Sean Sherman, presents a traditional and regional five-course meal, while Native American Hoop Dancer Shandien Sonwai Larence performs (See SFR Picks, Page 15).
6:30-9 pm, $65-$145
MUSIC
ANDRÉ MALI TRIBUTE TO MILES DAVIS
Paradiso 903 Early St., (505) 577-5248
A tribute to a jazz legend.
7:30-10 pm, $20
BILL HEARNE
Cowgirl
319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565
Classic country tunes.
4-6 pm
BOXCAR LIVE PRESENTS:
RUMBA THURSDAYS
Boxcar
133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222
Cumbia, reggaeton, bachata and merengue.
9 pm-2 am
DJ OPTAMYSTIK Cowgirl
319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565
A local DJ plays hip-hop. 7 pm
DAVID GEIST MUSIC EXPERIENCE
Osteria D’Assisi
58 S Federal Place, (505) 986-5858
A pianist and vocalist performs Broadway, pop and originals.
7-10 pm, $5
FOLK JAM
El Rey Court 1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931
Jam your favorite folk tunes.
7-8:30 pm
MÉLANGE
La Fiesta Lounge
101 E San Francisco St., (505) 982-5511
Latin jazz and funk. 7-9 pm
OPEN MIC WITH STEPHEN
The Mine Shaft Tavern 2846 NM-14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743
Santa Fe Playhouse 142 E De Vargas St., (505) 988-4262
This comedy tells the story of three Latina sisters traveling from Albuquerque to Denver, not for business or pleasure, but to deliver a dead body (See SFR Picks, Page 15).
7:30 pm, $15-$60
HAMLET
Center For Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 216-6611
A mind-bending revenge, supernatural sensations, next-level immersion and yes, there are jump scares. Free with advance reservation.
7:30 pm
HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING BY WILL ARBERY
New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive, (505) 466-3533
An in-depth exploration into the hearts and minds of Christian Conservatism that offers grace and disarming clarity, speaking to the heart of a country at war with itself.
7:30 pm, $15-$35
WORKSHOP
AUTUMN LEAVES & CLAY WORKSHOP
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum 217 Johnson St., (505) 946-1000
Learn about pressing real autumn leaves into clay.
6-8 pm, $35-$45
MASK MAKING WORKSHOP
Rainbow Rainbow at Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369
Let your halloween spirit manifest through creating a mask. 4-5:30 pm
PUMPKIN PAINTING AND SIPZ
Rainbow Rainbow at Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369
Transform pumpkins into ghoulish works of art and sip on drinks from the bar. 5 pm, $25
FRI/25
ART OPENINGS
AUSTIN COUDRIET: AGGLOMERATION (OPENING)
Kouri + Corrao Gallery
3213 Calle Marie, (505) 820-1888
Coudreit displays ceramic sculptures with bold colors. 5-7 pm
CARRIE PENLEY: THE VINTAGE WEST (OPENING)
Gallery Wild
203 Canyon Road, (505) 467-8297
Iconic wildlife paintings with mixed media such as vintage sheet music and newspapers. 5-7 pm
DAVID T. ALEXANDER: INSCAPE AND THE PERSISTENCE OF NATURE (OPENING)
Evoke Contemporary
550 S Guadalupe St., (505) 995-9902
Alexander’s paintings distill the energy of endless skies, mountains and deserts with layered brushstrokes and bold colors.
5-7 pm
HILLS SNYDER: ALTERED STATES (PART EIGHT) (OPENING)
Phil Space 1410 Second St., (505) 983-7945
Snyder’s color splashed drawings blur the lines of minimal and thought provoking.
7-9 pm
JOSHUA ORSBURN: BOYHOOD (OPENING)
Zane Bennett Contemporary 435 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-8111
Printmaker Joshua Orsburn highlights the divide between art professionals and artists with a body of work which explores queer identity and personal history.
5-7 pm
PAINTINGS BY JAMES RELYEA, KALIL MITCHELL AND STEPHEN THORNHILL (OPENING)
Big Happy
1300 Luisa St., Ste. 3A bighappygallery.com
Three painters with different styles, techniques and ways of expression display their work.
5-7 pm
ROBIN JONES: THE MOTHER TREE (OPENING)
Blue Rain Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St., (505) 954-9902
Oil paintings with gold leaf on aluminum panels that address environmental issues.
5-7 pm
STEVEN CAMPBELL: THE TYRANNY OF SMALL THINGS (OPENING)
Zane Bennett Contemporary 435 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-8111
Found image collages, mixed media paintings and sculptures. 5-7 pm
VALERIE RANGEL: HEROES | VILLAINS (OPENING)
form & concept
435 S Guadalupe St., (505) 216-1256
An installation of papel picado portraits of fictional and historical characters hanging like windows into other realms (See SFR Picks, Page 15).
5-7 pm
EVENTS
ART WALKING TOUR
New Mexico Museum of Art
101 E San Francisco St., (505) 476-5072
A walking tour highlights the art and architectural history of downtown Santa Fe. 10 am-Noon, $20
COSMIC HOWL: COSTUME SHOW
Meow Wolf
1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369
Explore the designs that have brought the Meow Wolf worlds to life (See SFR Picks, Page 15). 11 am
DARKSIDE OF THE MYSTIC
The Mystic Santa Fe 2810 Cerrillos Road, (505) 471-7663
A halloween party with electronic music by Boom Box, a costume contest and more. 6-10 pm, $30-$35
LESLIE JONES
Lensic Performing Arts Center
211 W San Francisco St., (505) 988-1234
Jones is a three-time Emmyaward winning comedian. 7:30 pm, $65-$189
This class focuses on the basics of Argentine Tango. $20/class or sliding scale. 4-4:45 pm
EVENTS
7TH ANNUAL SPIRITS OF NEW MEXICO
El Rancho de las Golondrinas 334 Los Pinos Road, (505) 471-2261
Listen to tales about the ghosts that roam the land of enchantment. This event is sold out. 5-9 pm
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CANNABIS DISPENSARY
with Tattooer/Podcaster Bud “Wizzo” Weeks
With a penchant for Star Wars and more than two decades working as a tattooer, Bud “Wizzo” Weeks has made a name for himself both in the local tattoo world, and within the broader nerd sphere with his Dork Side Cantina podcast (follow him on Insta at @thedorksidecantinapodcast or @budwizzo). On his show, Weeks digs into all things Star Wars, and his love for the films has translated to countless tattoo flash designs pulled from their many characters (though he definitely tattoos non-Star Wars designs). A relative newcomer to our fair city, Weeks has built a clientele with his old-school tattoo style and disarming bedside manner, and with his podcast ongoing—including an upcoming pair of episodes with Albuquerque comic book shop Astro-Zombies’ Chris Losack dropping on Tuesday, Oct. 29—and a thriving practice at Four Star Tattoo, we figured it was a good time to highlight Weeks. This interview has been edited for clarity and concision. (Alex De Vore)
It seems like the Santa Fe tattoo scene has exploded in terms of artist numbers and shop quality in recent years. How do you stand out and/or build a clientele with so many options for collectors? It can be difficult, because there are so many tattooers right now. And it’s easy to blame the pandemic for everything, but I do believe it’s because of the pandemic. People were sitting in their houses and decided ‘Hey, I can get an Amazon tattoo machine sent here and I can tattoo myself, my partner, my friend,’ and that bloomed into a different type of tattooer. I think that has flooded the market. Every [tattooer] I’ve talked to this year has said it’s been the worst year for clients and business, and I think it’s because of that culmination. How do you build a clientele? Well, you want to focus on the customer. That’s my number one thing—always trying to take care of that person. If you take care of them, they’ll
take care of you. And word of mouth in these times is really very important. It’s important to have an Instagram presence. I hate having to be a content creator, but I work at it. I try, and I do my best, but when it comes down to it, it’s about the customer and the client. Everybody should be trying to make good tattoos, but in the long run, I guess you do stand out when you’ve worked hard to create something really strong, and within that strength comes style. When I first came here five years ago, the artistic ability of the tattooers here wasn’t quite what it is now. But there’s an old adage in tattooing that there’s a tattooer for every client.
Let’s talk about your Dork Side Cantina podcast, because you’re a major Star Wars nerd, and that’s what it’s all about. Can you talk about that love?
It is something that’s always been a part of my life. For as long as I can remember I’ve loved Star Wars and loved talking about it and going through the ins and outs—talking with people about their favorite moments, and just connecting with other people who are huge fans, too. It’s a way to escape into another world and another galaxy, it’s just such great world-building and it’s the new myth. On the other end, you have commercialism and selling toys, but it’s a really beautiful mythological story that has been told, and it keeps branching out into these other things like TV shows and books…it’s interesting to think that when I’m gone, Star Wars will still be here.
When did you realize you could apply your Star Wars love to your tattoo practice, and how do they intersect?
I was part of an art project called Mr. Flash Machine, and through that we would draw these little 4x6 images of tattoo flash and lay them out on a table at tattoo conventions, then people would walk by and pick something to get tattooed. We really wanted to touch on pop culture stuff, so basically it was really about connecting a client with something they want and giving them so many options they almost couldn’t not get tattooed. It was like, ‘There’s gotta be something you like,’ and you have four or five guys doing it, so you have hundreds of images. By now, I probably have 70 pages of Star Wars flash, but I think the first image was [the droid] BB-8, and that’s actually in my work station at Four Star today. That first one was, I think, 2016. It kind of grew from there. Tattoos mean something to me…they’re art we wear as a talisman. As beautiful as the art can be—and I love it and looking at beautiful tattoos—it’s not about being artsy-fartsy, but it goes back to taking care of your client. I know every time I get a tattoo, I feel more like myself, like that was supposed to be there. That’s the thing! That’s me!
COMMUNITY
CONVERSATIONS WITH THE Q/C: THE SHOULDERS WE STAND ON
Santa Fe Public Library (Main)
145 Washington Ave., (505) 955-2839
A discussion on Queer history and the trailblazers who fought for the rights.
10 am-Noon
COSMIC HOWL: COSTUME SHOW
Meow Wolf
1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369
Explore the incredible designs that have brought the Meow Wolf worlds to life.
10 am
DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS OPEN HOUSE
Santa Fe Public Library (Southside) 6599 Jaguar Drive, (505) 955-2820
Contribute to the community ofrenda, create seasonal crafts and more.
3-5 pm
FALL CARNIVAL
Vista Grande Public Library
14 Avenida Torreon, (505) 466-7323
Dress as your favorite character for a costume contest, face painting and more.
3-6 pm
SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET
West Casitas in the Santa Fe Railyard Market Street, (505) 414-8544
The best in pottery, jewelry, paintings, photography, sculpture, furniture, textiles and more.
9 am-2 pm
SANTA FE CACTUS & SUCCULENT CLUB’S FALL PLANT SHOW & SALE
Santa Fe Woman’s Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 983-9455
An event for cactus lovers looking to add to their collections.
10 am-4 pm
SANTA FE FARMER’S MARKET
Santa Fe Farmer’s Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, santafefarmersmarket.com
Local farmers offer fresh produce, educational initiatives and community engagement.
8 am-1 pm
FILM
SANTA FE INDEPENDENT FILM CLUB
Tiny’s Restaurant & Lounge
1005 S St Francis Drive, Ste. 117, (505) 983-9817
Meet with other independent filmmakers and artists. 4-6 pm
FOOD
THE MYSTIC BRUNCH SERIES
The Mystic Santa Fe 2810 Cerrillos Road, (505) 471-7663
Chicken and waffles with red chili maple syrup and a spiced pear mimosa? Yes, please. Live music is from 11 am-1 pm.
8 am-2 pm
MUSIC
ANDY KINGSTON JAZZ TRIO
La Fiesta Lounge 101 E San Fransciso St., (505) 982-5511
Pop and classic jazz. 7-9 pm
BOB MAUS
Inn & Spa at Loretto 211 Old Santa Fe Trail, (505) 988-5531
Blues, soul and pop covers.
6-9 pm
BOXCAR LIVE PRESENTS: KYLE MOORE
Boxcar
133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222
Pop/rock on piano. 8 pm-12 am
CELEBRATING THE 1960’S MUSIC AND ITS MOMENTS
St. John’s United Methodist Church 1200 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-5397
The Santa Fe Harmonizers, the Los Alamos Lasses and Lads of Enchantment celebrate the 1960s.
2-4 pm, $0-$15
CHRISTINA GOMEZ
San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail, (505) 983-3974
Country, blues and soul. 5:30 pm, $25-$50
EMOWEEN
Boxcar
133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222
DJs spin emo tunes. 9 pm-2 am
GUSTAVO PIMENTEL
Bishop’s Lodge
1297 Bishops Lodge Road, (888) 741-0480
Jazz and flamenco guitar. 5-8 pm
HALLOWEEN PARTY WITH HILLARY SMITH
The Mine Shaft Tavern
2846 NM-14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743
Blues, soul and R&B.
8 pm
JOHNNY LLOYD
Upper Crust Pizza
329 Old Santa Fe Trail, (505) 982-0000 Lloyd plays Americana. 6-8 pm
KID CONGO POWERS + THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery
2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135
Garage rock. Slim Cessna’s Auto Club opens.
7:30 pm, $18-$23
MARIACHI AZTECA DE SANTA FE
Santa Fe Public Library (Southside) 6599 Jaguar Drive, (505) 955-2820
Mariachi tunes. 3 pm
PATIO MUSIC SERIES: MAJÉ
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135 Jazz, soul and R&B with hip-hop drums. 5-6 pm
ROADHOUSE KARMA
The Mine Shaft Tavern
2846 NM-14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743
Folk rock.
3 pm
SUNBENDER
Cowgirl
319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565
A Tom Petty tribute band.
7 pm
THE HOT SARDINES
Lensic Performing Arts Center
1005 S St Francis Drive, Ste. 117, (505) 988-1234
Brazz, jass and swing.
7:30 pm, $55-$175
THEATER
CABARET PARADISO: HALLOWEENIE
Paradiso
903 Early St., (505) 577-5248
A variety show with belly dancing, burlesque, comedy, a halloween costume contest and more.
7:30-10 pm, $25
CEBOLLAS
Santa Fe Playhouse
142 E De Vargas St., (505) 988-4262
This comedy tells the story of three Latina sisters traveling from Albuquerque to Denver, not for business or pleasure, but to deliver a dead body. What could possibly go wrong?
7:30 pm, $15-$60
HAMLET
Center For Contemporary Arts
1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 216-6611
A mind-bending revenge, supernatural sensations and next-level immersion. Free with advance reservation.
7:30 pm
HEROES OF THE FOURTH
TURNING BY WILL ARBERY
New Mexico Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive, (505) 466-3533
An in-depth exploration into the hearts and minds of Christian Conservatism that offers grace and disarming clarity, speaking to the heart of a country at war with itself.
7:30 pm, $15-$35
WORKSHOP
LOVE THE SKIN YOU’RE IN: CULTIVATING BODY ACCEPTANCE & CONFIDENCE
Prana Blessings
1925 Rosina St., C, (505) 772-0171
Learn to feel comfortable, confident and empowered in your body. Noon-2 pm, $40 WOODCUT RELIEF PRINTMAKING
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
217 Johnson St., (505) 946-1000
A workshop on traditional, Japanese-style, woodcut relief printmaking.
9 am-4 pm, $70-$90
SUN/27
DANCE
BASIC SWING DANCE
Dance Station
947 W Alameda St., Ste. B, (505) 989-9788
A basic swing dance class. 5:30-6:15 pm, $15-$20
BELLYREENA BELLYDANCE CLASS
Move Studio
901 W San Mateo Road, (505) 660-8503
Learn to bellydance with choreographer Areena Estul. 1-2 pm, $18-$65
HEY KIDDO! WITH DJ CHRISTINA SWILLEY
El Rey Court
1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931
DJ Christina Swilley spins her collection of vintage vinyl. 8 pm
EVENTS
DIA DE LOS MUERTOS ANNUAL COMMUNITY CELEBRATION
Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1204
Celebrate Día de los Muertos/ Day of the Dead and view the Ofrenda installation by local artist, Stephanie Riggs and more. 11 am
HOWL-O-WEEN
Meow Wolf
1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369
What better time to experience House of Eternal Return than on Halloween? 11 am-5 pm
SORCERY AND MIGHT GAME NIGHT
Sorcery and Might 1966 Cerrillos Road, Ste. C, (505) 629-5965
Play from hundreds of games at dedicated tables. 5 pm-12 am
FOOD
REBEL PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS: SUNDAY DRAG BRUNCH
The Mystic Santa Fe 2810 Cerrillos Road, (505) 471-7663
This drag brunch includes food, drinks, music, games and a costume contest. 10 am-1 pm, $10-$120
MUSIC
CHRIS DRACUP TRIO Cowgirl
319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565
A celebration of blues. Noon
CHUCALIS RETURNS
La Fiesta Lounge
101 E San Francisco St., (505) 982-5511 Classic flamenco. 7-9 pm
CROSSROADS JAM
Tiny’s Restaurant & Lounge
1005 S St Francis Drive, Ste. 117, (505) 983-9817
Some of Santa Fe’s best musicians host a jam made for dancing.
4-7 pm
DOUG MONTGOMERY
Rio Chama Steakhouse
414 Old Santa Fe Trail, (505) 955-0765
Montgomery performs standards, classical, Broadway and movie themes on piano and vocals.
6-9 pm
GERRY CARTHY
CHOMP Food Hall
505 Cerrillos Road, (505) 772-0946
Carthy plays traditional Irish folk tunes.
6-9 pm
PATIO MUSIC SERIES: THE FLAME THROWERS FT. BUSY
MCCARROLL
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery
2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135
Jazz, soul, blues and R&B.
3-6 pm
SUGAR MOUNTAIN BAND
The Mine Shaft Tavern
2846 NM-14, Madrid, (505) 473-0743
A Neil Young cover band. Sundays are just so much better when Neil Young is involved.
3 pm
SUNDAY JAZZ JAM
Kohnami Japanese Restaurant
313 S Guadalupe St., (505) 984-2002
The High City Jazz Quartet and guests, enhance the Japanese cuisine experience. 6:30-8:30 pm
THE SANTA FE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS: CHORAL MASTERWORKS
Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi
131 Cathedral Place, (505) 982-5619
Experience choral sung by the voices of The Santa Fe Symphony Chorus. Free/pay what you wish. 3-4:30 pm
THEATER
CEBOLLAS
Santa Fe Playhouse
142 E De Vargas St., (505) 988-4262
This comedy tells the story of three Latina sisters traveling from Albuquerque to Denver, not for business or pleasure, but to deliver a dead body. What could possibly go wrong?
2 pm, $15-$60
HAMLET
Center For Contemporary Arts
1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338
A mind-bending revenge, supernatural sensations and next-level immersion and yes, there are jump scares. Free with advance reservation. 7:30 pm
SHOW UP. SHOW OUT. STORIES OF PERSONAL + COLLECTIVE POWER Center for Progress & Justice 1420 Cerrillos Road, (575) 556-4390
High Desert Playback listens to your real-life stories and plays them back using theater, music and spoken word. Suggested ticket price of $35-$100. 2-3:30 pm
WORKSHOP
CACAO CEREMONY AND SOUTH BATH Mongata Healing Center 501 Franklin Ave., Studio #3, (828) 246-5899
JoAnne Dodgson leads a cacao ceremony followed by a sound bath journey.
3:05-5:30 pm, $59
CONTINUUM MOVEMENT MEDITATION CLASS
Breathe Studio 826 Camino de Monte Rey, Ste. A5, (505) 954-1034
Lynette Kesler leads a guided movement meditation class. Registration is suggested. 10:30 am-Noon, $18-$75
WHEEL-THROWING POTTERY EXPERIENCE
Paseo Pottery 1273 Calle de Comercio, (505) 988-7687
Learn to use the potters wheel, slab building, coiling and more. 4-6 pm, $125
MON/28
BOOKS/LECTURES
RENESAN: GERSHWIN IN HOLLYWOOD Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave., (505) 466-5528
This presentation about Gershwin’s Hollywood experiences features interviews, photographs and video excerpts. 3:30-5:30 pm, $15
SOUTHWEST SEMINARS: BENJAMIN AARON BELLORADO
Hotel Santa Fe 1501 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 982-1200
A talk by an anthropological archaeologist. 6 pm, $20
DANCE
MONDAY NIGHT SWING Odd Fellows Hall 101 E San Francisco St., (505) 690-4165
A swing dance class. 7 pm, $5-$10
EVENTS
ART WALKING TOUR
New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave., (505) 476-5072
This tour highlights the art and architectural history of downtown Santa Fe. 10 am-Noon, $20
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COSMIC HOWL: COSTUME SHOW
Meow Wolf
1352 Rufina Circle, (505) 395-6369
Explore the incredible designs that have brought the Meow Wolf worlds to life.
11 am
MONSTER MANSION
Santa Fe Elks Lodge
1615 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 920-9550
Every Halloween needs a haunted house and a haunted hayride. Proceeds benefit Gerard’s House and Elks Drug Awareness.
6-10 pm, $5-$10
QUEER NIGHT
El Rey Court
1862 Cerrillos Road, (505) 982-1931
Celebrate and strengthen the Santa Fe Queer communities.
5-9 pm
FILM
VIDEO LIBRARY CLUB
Jean Cocteau Cinema
418 Montezuma Ave., (505) 466-5528
Free films every Monday with Lisa Harris from Video Library— the country’s oldest continuously operating video rental store. If you have never seen French film maker Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s The City of Lost Children, this is your chance.
6:30-8:30 pm
MUSIC
DOUG MONTGOMERY
Rio Chama Steakhouse 414 Old Santa Fe Trail, (505) 955-0765
Broadway and more on piano and vocals.
6-9 pm
KARAOKE WITH CRASH!
Cowgirl
319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565
Get the week started with some karaoke.
7-10 pm
KIPP BENTLEY
Cowgirl
319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565
Folk and Americana. 4 pm
WILLI CARLISLE
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135
A folk singer-songwriter. 7:30 pm, $17-$20
TUE/29
ART OPENINGS
INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ART A-I-R: OPEN STUDIOS
Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road, (505) 424-2300
Visit the studios of artists Patricia Michaels (Taos Pueblo) and Lewis deSoto (Cahuilla). 3-5 pm
BOOKS/LECTURES
DAVID MCCLOSKEY: THE SEVENTH FLOOR.
Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse
202 Galisteo St., (505) 988-4226
McCloskey discusses his novel The Seventh Floor with Jim Falk, Program Chair at Global Santa Fe.
6 pm
EVENTS
BOARD GAME NIGHT
CHOMP Food Hall 505 Cerrillos Road, (505) 772-0946
Play board games with Santa Fe’s largest table-top gaming community.
5-10 pm
DANZA TONANTZIN DE ANALCO
Santa Fe Public Library (Main) 145 Washington Ave., (505) 955-6781
A traditional altar blessing and Aztec dances.
5-6 pm
QI GONG
Railyard Performance Center 1611 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 986-0887
Learn gentle movements to enhance a sense of well-being.
6-7 pm, $10
SANTA FE FARMER’S MARKET
Santa Fe Farmer’s Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta, santafefarmersmarket.com
Over 150 local farmers offer fresh produce, educational initiatives and community engagement.
8 am-1 pm
WEIRD SCIENCE HALLOWEEN BASH
Santa Fe Children’s Museum 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 989-8359
Dress up in costume, delight in 20+ STEAM experiment stations and more.
3-7 pm, $10-$25
FILM
SANTA FE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN PRESENTS: STILL WORKING 9 TO 5
Center For Contemporary Arts 1050 Old Pecos Trail, (505) 982-1338
A documentary that explores the still-relevant gender disparity in today’s workplace and society, 7 pm, $10
MUSIC
BOXCAR LIVE PRESENTS: TWO STEP TUESDAYS Boxcar 133 W Water St., (505) 988-7222
A country night experience.
7-11 pm
ILLUMINATI HOTTIES
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St., (505) 393-5135
Indie rock.
7:30 pm, $20-$25
MARION CARRILLO
Cowgirl
319 S Guadalupe St., (505) 982-2565
Americana. 4 pm
THE DOWNTOWN BLUES JAM Evangelo’s 200 W San Francisco St., (505) 982-9014
An open blues jam with some of Santa Fe’s most talented musicians.
8:30-11:30 pm
ONGOING
ART
A VIBRANT LIFE: THE ART OF ALICE SCHILLE
Nedra Matteucci Galleries 1075 Paseo De Peralta, (505) 982-4631
Watercolors of French villages, the Taos pubelo and more.
AMONG MONSTERS
Gerald Peters Gallery 1005 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 954-5700
This group exhibit of artists whose works address and reinterprets mythological references, includes paintings, sculptures, textiles and works on paper.
ANNALISE GRATOVICH: ULTRA HORIZON
Hecho a Mano 129 W Palace Ave., (505) 916-1341
Gratovich creates works on paper that reflect the iconography of borderlands: from the prints and murals of the US-Mexico borderland, to the traditional arts of Ukraine.
LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 988-3250
A memorial exhibit for John Fincher, an artist who explored diverse and captivating subjects.
HIGHER FREQUENCY: THE WORKS OF CHRISTINE ALEXANDER
Iconik Coffee Roasters (Lupe) 314 S Guadalupe St., (505) 428-0996
Dream-like and color-drenched photography.
Carrie Penley displays wildlife paintings in mixed media with materials such as sheet music and newspaper in her The Vintage West exhibit, opening 5 pm Friday, Oct. 25 at Gallery Wild.
JACKS MCNAMARA: THE POETICS OF GROWTH
form & concept
435 S Guadalupe St., (505) 216-1256
Ink-wash paintings on wood unveil a new process of creation.
JAMES O'CONNELL: THE STARS DREAM DARKLY
Electra Gallery 825 Early St., Ste. D, (505) 231-0354
A series of photographs that transform local models into dreamlike mythological figures.
JOYCE RAMADA: RAVEN, RAVEN Strata Gallery
125 Lincoln Ave., (505) 780-5403
A series of paintings inspired by animals and landscapes.
LA HABANA HOY
Artes de Cuba
1700 A Lena St., (505) 303-3138
Sixteen Cuban artists display paintings, sculptures and more.
LIQUID LIGHT GLASS GROUP SHOW: EMBODYMENTS
Liquid Light Glass Gallery and Studio 926 Baca St., #3, (505) 820-2222
Glass scultpures.
LISA GORDON: EQUUS ALOFT
Sorrel Sky Gallery
125 W Palace Ave., (505) 501-6555
Bronze horse sculptures.
LIZ STEKETTE: REMEMBER THIS
Jen Tough Gallery/AIR Studios
4 N Chamisa Drive, (505) 372-7650
A body of work that conveys memories reconstructed from personal history.
LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta, (505) 988-3250
Abstract paintings.
PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT: THE BEST OF US
Monroe Gallery of Photography
112 Don Gaspar Ave., (505) 992-0800
Photographs depict the diversity of the human experience.
REVOLT X TVLSE
Revolt X Tvlse
54 1/2 E San Francisco St., tvlsestudios.com
A group exhibit of paintings, photography, beadwork, jewelry and charcoal.
RICHARD HOGAN, SAM SCOTT, AND PAUL BLOCH: VARIATIONS
Pie Projects 924B Shoofly St., (505) 372-7681
This exhibit features Richard Hogan’s darkened yet mutedly luminous ‘shape paintings,’ Paul Bloch’s lyrical marble sculptures, and Sam Scott’s Brilliant Corners painted in homage to Thelonius Monk.
ROBERT BRUBAKER: ANTHROPOMORPHIC WESTERN CHARACTERS
art is gallery santa fe 419 Canyon Road, (505) 629-2332
Bronze and ceramic sculptures
ROLAND OSTHEIM: MICROCOSM | MACROCOSM
El Zaguán
545 Canyon Road, (505) 982-0016
Hand-carved panels with gesso, clay and gold leaf.
SALLY THOMSON: CULTIVATING HOMEGROUND Co-Fe
314 S Guadalupe St., (505) 690-3094
Thomson presents a series of nature photographs that relate to conservation.
SEAN HUDSON: SUN & SHADOW
L’Ecole Des Beaux Arts
717 Canyon Road, (505) 780-8761
Watercolors of the high desert. SELECTED WORKS FROM THE ESTATES
Peyton Wright Gallery
237 E Palace Ave., (505) 989-9888
This exhibit displays a range of painting styles by artists whose estates are represented by the gallery.
STEVEN A. JACKSON AND KATHLEEN M. JACKSON: SHARED VISIONS
New Concept Gallery
610 Canyon Road, (505) 795-7570
Photographs and water colors of similiar landscapes.
TABULA RASA
Duende Gallery
5637 NM-41, Galisteo, (505) 466-6737
This group exhibit explores the creative potential of raw clay. TRANSCENDENTAL AND BEYOND: THE ESSENCE OF ART
Addison Rowe Gallery
229 E Marcy St., (505) 982-1533
This exhibit highlights 100 years of visionary women artists while exploring spiritual themes.
VINCENT MADRID: TRANSCENDENCE
Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery
222 Delgado St., (928) 308-0319
Contemplative oil paintings that speak to the human psyche.
VIRGIL ORTIZ: REVOLT
1680/2180: DAYBREAK OF THE RESISTANCE CONTAINER
1226 Flagman Way, (505)995-0012
Clay, sculptures, paintings and special effect projection mapping.
WILLIAM METCALF: IN PLANE SITE
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art 554 S Guadalupe St., (505) 989-8688
Metcalf displays his series of acrylic on aluminum panels.
MUSEUMS
GEORGIA O’KEEFFE
MUSEUM
217 Johnson St., (505) 946-1000
Making a Life. Rooted in Place.
10 am-5 pm, Thurs-Mon, $20
IAIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS
108 Cathedral Place, (505) 983-8900
Arctic Highways: Unbounded Indigenous People.
Common Thread: Indigenous Perspectives from the Arctic. The Stories We Carry. Our Stories.
10 am-4 pm, Wed-Sat, Mon,
11 am-4 pm, Sun, $5-$10 Free admission every Friday
MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE
710 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1269
Driving the Market: Award Winning Native Contemporary Art. Here, Now and Always. Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles.
10 am-5 pm, $7-$12, NM residents free first Sunday of the month
MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART
18 Country Road Road 55A, Los Cerillos, (505) 424-6487
11 am-4 pm Fri-Sun; $10, Kids under 18 Free.
MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART
706 Camino Lejo, (505) 476-1204
La Cartonería Mexicana / The Mexican Art of Paper and Paste. Protection: Adaptation and Resistance. Amidst Cries from the Rubble: Art of Loss and Resilience from Ukraine
10 am-5 pm, $3-$12, NM residents free first Sunday of the month
NEW MEXICO HISTORY MUSEUM
113 Lincoln Ave., (505) 476-5200
Forks in the Road: A Diner’s Guide to New Mexico, Zozobra: A Fire that Never Goes Out. Home on the Range: From Ranches to Rockets, Palace Through Time.
10 am-5 pm, Sat-Thurs, 10 am7 pm, Fri; $7-$12, NM residents free 5-7 pm first Fri. of the month
NUEVO MEXICANO HERITAGE MUSEUM
750 Camino Lejo, (505) 982-2226
Ugly History of Beautiful Things. What Lies Behind the Vision of Chimayo Weavers. 1-4 pm, Wed-Fri, $10, children free NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART
107 W Palace Ave., (505) 476-5063
Saints & Santos: Picturing The Holy In New Spain, Selections from the 20th Century Collection. Line by Line.
Carved Stories, Pablita’s Wardrobe: Family & Fashion. Pathfinder: 40 Years of Marcus Amerman. 10 am-4 pm, Tues-Sat, $10
The Segesser Hide Paintings exhibit is currently on display at New Mexico History Museum.
Raising the Bar
Escondido bar manager
Dario Jimenez has big plans for the future
BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com
Believe it or not, Escondido from chef Fernando Ruiz—the guy who beat Food Network braggart Bobby Flay on the aptly named Beat Bobby Flay show, no less—has only been open twoish months. Perhaps the two-year wait following Ruiz’s initial announcement that he was partnering with former Meow Wolf Ceo Vince Kadlubek for a taco joint distorted time, but somehow it feels like Ruiz’s first-ever self-owned eatery has been around much longer. Aw heck, that’s probably because it’s just plain nice to have an elevated yet affordable Mexican joint outside of downtown Santa Fe, and all the early anecdotal reviews have pretty much said the same thing: Escondido is excellent.
But this story isn’t about Ruiz. I doff my hat to the guy, of course, as proven by SFR pieces from his Palace Prime days—or the time I took him shopping and he made me some of the best tacos of my life on a grill in a buddy’s backyard. Still, Escondido’s early successes certainly haven’t happened in a vacuum, and a big part of the fervor comes down to its bar program run by longtime local restaurant pro Dario Jimenez.
moved up to food runner; barbacking; bartending when I turned 21—I’ve worked everywhere in Santa Fe,” Jimenez says. “I’ve probably worked at more places that closed, like Wilee’s [Blues Club], but also La Casa Sena and every incarnation of bar or club before Hervé Wine Bar—like Milagro and Milagro 139 and Skylight…I worked at El Paseo; was a bouncer at The Matador; worked at Agave Lounge; and I helped open Radish & Rye among other things.”
This is a common story in the restaurant world, but Jimenez also leveraged his skills when he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. There he worked in various restaurants and clubs. But he also struggled with substance abuse.
“I mean, I was in my mid-20s in Vegas, and I was doing a lot of drugs,” he says. “I was going to die if I stayed, so I came home and got clean and have been clean for almost 15 years.”
Jimenez is the first to admit he was a last-minute addition after Escondido’s original manager departed the project before the grand opening. He’s the right guy for the job, though, both as a longtime friend of Ruiz’s, and as a glutton for foodservice punishment with literal decades in the industry.
“I started when I was 18 as a busboy;
These days, Jimenez says, he enjoys a beer now and then. But with two young kids entering the picture during the pandemic, he’s committed to doing so responsibly. Besides, the Escondido job is a big one.
“Having come on as a manager late, I had to undo some things, because the previous manager had a pretty ambitious vision for what he wanted to do,” he explains. “And then we were busier than we anticipated at first. We couldn’t do walkins, we couldn’t serve at the bar at first, and I wanted to make it executable for my bartenders with drinks people know, just with a twist.”
The drinks list showcases that mission well. Included, of course, are a number of margaritas running $14-$17, plus a handful of signature cocktails. As Jimenez says, many are recognizable, like the negroni
and the silver coin margarita. But rather than overloading the drinks with complicated syrups and liqueurs, Jimenez sticks to simpler—yet still delicious—methods.
“The Palomita, for example,” he says, “has the tequila, the lime juice; but also the grapefruit juice and the grapefruit Jarritos. It’s effervescent and refreshing.”
In keeping with Ruiz’s Mexicaninspired menu, Jimenez also stocks plenty of mezcal and tequilas, plus corn-based whiskeys and, within the next few weeks, he says, numerous Mexican wines.
“We’re building that program and should have a new list by next Friday,” he tells SFR. “We’ll have more non-alcoholic drinks pretty soon, too, because as somebody who took a long time off from drinking, I know there’s a market for people who want to sit at the bar but don’t necessarily want to imbibe.”
Having recently sampled a mocktail version of Jimenez’s Palomita margarita, I can confirm he’s on the right track. Not only was the mix of grapefruit juice and soda a bitter yet sweet delight, Jimenez is right on the money with its effervescent nature. Given that I was also working my way through literally every taco Ruiz offers (Escondido serves beef, pork and seafood tacos at $16 per each four), plus beef cheek croquettes ($12) and bacon-wrapped and cheese-stuffed jalapeños ($10), the fizzy booze-free drink
was a pleasant accompaniment. Ruiz is a taco master, by the way, and while the beef-based options like carne asada and barbacoa were both tender and brilliantly seasoned standouts, the subtle spice of the achiote-braised chicken and the melty pork carnitas wowed as well.
The restaurant itself will stay firmly focused on locals, according to Jimenez.
“We’re staying busy even though the slow season is creeping up on us,” he says. “We look forward to serving everyone, but we’re dealing with 85%-90% locals, because people don’t really have a place like us on this side of town. We’re hoping to take the slower winter months to catch up a little and be creative.”
Surely Jimenez and Ruiz will need taste testers during the coming months. Make it a point to do that.
Escondido’s Dario Jimenez says he plans to bring more mocktails to the restaurant’s bar menu, as well as a more robust wine list and other surprises down the line.
ALEX DE VORE
A potppourri of meat and veggie tacos with avocado puree. Fantastic.
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
In the poem above, Robert Frost imagines doomsday by assigning human traits of jealousy and passion, disinterest and hatred to seemingly opposing, non-sentient entities—fire and ice. Written in 1920, Frost’s poem predates the discovery of Antarctica’s Florida-sized Thwaites Glacier by several decades. Thwaites is called “Doomsday Glacier” because it’s melting at an alarmingly fast pace, shedding massive ice chunks into an ever-warming ocean. Within a couple hundred years, scientists say, Doomsday will melt entirely, causing disastrous changes to the world’s sea levels.
Glacial Optics, on view at SITE Santa Fe through March, features large-scale photographs by Los Angeles-based artist Tristan Duke. Duke’s previous works include holographic installations and handmade pinhole cameras; for this project, he replaced the glass lens of his camera with ice, most of it gathered from melting glaciers.
During a recent walk-through tour of the exhibition, Duke describes an “obsessive” fascination with glaciers.
“Glacial ice’s structure is unique because it’s constantly being compressed,” he says, “which forces out air bubbles and makes the ice unusually clear.”
Curious to know what it would be like to replace a human gaze with a glacial one, Duke headed to Svalbard, an Arctic Norwegian archipelago where some of the planet’s fastest-rising temperatures have been recorded. Here, he set up an insulated walk-in tent, which he transformed into a giant camera. Duke gathered ice from the surrounding tundra and shaped it into lenses, using molds of his own invention.
“Photography is deeply embedded in a narrative of technological progress,” Duke explains, “but the ice lens isn’t about progress—it’s about shifting perspective.”
Do Glaciers Dream of Melting Sheep?
Tristan
Duke’s SITE Santa Fe show examines Earth’s fiery temperatures from an icy perspective
BY IRIS FITZPATRICK | author@sfreporter.com
In some ways, Duke says, his interest in ice began when he picked up an old Chinese book and came across the story of a third century alchemist who created fire using a ball of ice and reflected sunlight; later, Duke successfully recreated the alchemist’s experiment, resulting in a “union of opposites” that continues to inspire his work today. Glacial Optics might not be directly focused on man’s “technological progress,” according to Duke, but it sure does speak to its ingenuity.
As ice lenses melt, the images they capture become distorted. Duke leads the tour past photographs of sailboats, whitecapped waves and a group of huddled human forms. In one composition, we can just make out the blurred contours of a sailing
Upon returning to the States, Duke reviewed his Arctic photos and grew concerned that they were too shrouded in mystery, too distant—too indomitable.
“I was taken aback by the romance of the images,” he explains. “I didn’t want them to feel remote or ‘other-worldly.’”
He pauses in front of a forest landscape.
“I wanted what I was photographing to be animate, to have agency—and to speak to the unchecked, cataclysmic impact of human life on Earth,” he adds.
In response, Duke headed to Colorado and New Mexico, where he photographed the aftermath of the Marshall and Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fires, respectively. Duke crafted lenses of local tap water, keeping them as cold as he could in scorching, post-blaze temperatures. Blurred, charred trees seem to huddle together in one image, their branches stark and scarred by flames. Because they are seen through melting lenses, Duke’s trees appear to swirl together, retreating from the viewer’s gaze.
SITE curator Brandee Caoba, who began planning Glacial Optics with Duke in 2021, says the show’s seemingly oppositional entities of ice and fire are united in depicting climate change’s far-reaching impacts.
“Tristan is tenacious,” Caoba says, “and he follows his curiosity and intuition. The photographs in Glacial Optics stand on their own, and can be enjoyed for their beauty, but they also disallow us from dismissing the reality of climate change.”
Towards the end of the tour, Duke stops in front of a black and white image of five vertical, translucent cylinders. These are ice cores, he tells us, extracted from dying glaciers near the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in the 1970s and ’80s, and currently stored at a research lab in Ohio. Duke says some of earth’s glaciers have been around for millions of years, and act as remarkably accurate time-keepers. Pointing to a dark smudge in the bottom of one of the slim cylinders, he says, “This is a layer of compressed dust that accumulated 4,200 years ago, over a hundred-year period. It lines up with several major earth-changing events, like the drought that was responsible for bringing down Egypt’s Old Kingdom.”
ship, moving unhurriedly through gauzy pink clouds and blue sea. On the opposing wall, black and white photos offer crisper visions of snowy climes. The camera’s narrowed, circular viewpoint feels strangely intimate: the portholed view of an ancient mariner, maybe.
Before the group disperses, someone asks about his future plans. Duke says he’s planning to continue documenting glaciers, and also mentions a new dream.
“Meteorites are fascinating to me,” he notes,” and I’d really love to be able to study them in depth.” Fire, ice, and now cosmic dust: For Tristan Duke, it’s all inexorably, ephemerally related.
Artists Tristan Duke uses camera lenses made from ice to capture beautiful, eerie moments in the Arctic.
Brothers Review
Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage avoid chemistry at all costs in new Amazon Prime “comedy”
BY ALEX DE VORE alex@sfreporter.com
Somehow there’s this silly little cinema micro-genre that might best be described as “piece of shit brothers do crimes.” (See 2017’s Logan Lucky with Adam Driver and Channing Tatum or even 1995’s Money Train with Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes). These can be fun and all, but Brothers from Amazon’s Prime Originals feels more like a contractual obligation for its actors than it does a comedy anyone actually wanted to make. Perhaps that’s why its theatrical and streaming premieres practically overlapped. Or maybe Brolin’s Thanos juice has evaporated? Either way, Brothers is just plain a pretty bad movie.
Brolin and Dinklage are Moke and Jady Munger, twins and lifelong larcenists who know a thing or two about blah blah blah. The meat of Brothers mostly occurs following Jady’s release from prison. Moke fell in love and went straight during his brother’s stint in jail, but Jady’s got one last big jobber in mind. With a corrupt prison guard (an over-the-top and underused Brendan Fraser) on their tails and Moke and Jady’s crime-breakin’ mama (Glenn Close, weirdly) pulling their strings, the titular brothers set out for their final big score.
SATURDAY NIGHT
6 + LABELLE AND SENNOTT - REQUIRES WAY TOO MUCH KNOWLEDGE BEFOREHAND
With long-running sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live becoming a ghost of its former self over the last…few decades, it can be easy to forget there was once a time the show was revolutionary. Still, SNL has maintained a presence throughout most Americans’ lives over the last 50 years, and it has birthed comic careers for more notable performers than can be counted. Today’s toothless and predictable “politics are crazy!” vibe can’t take away from what once was.
Enter filmmaker Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night, a bombastic look at the 90 minutes leading to the 1975 premiere of SNL that feels a bit like Iñárritu’s Birdman if that film required an audience to already have a borderline encyclopedic knowledge of its premise and particulars before they ever visited a theater.
In Saturday Night, Gabriel LaBelle (The Fabelmans) plays SNL creator and producer Lorne Michaels. Around him, the now-legendary likes of John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Dan Aykroyd Laraine Newman, Gilda Radner, Chevy Chase, Andy Kaufman, Jim Henson and many others run amok, while behind-the-scenes names like Al Franken, Paul Shaffer and Michael O’Donoghue create more problems than they solve. Of course, hardly anyone outside of National Lampoon fans knew these names
Brothers comes to us from Palm Springs director Max Barbakow and Idiocracy/Tropic Thunder screenwriter Etan Cohen, who is absolutely not to be confused with Ethan Coen, who makes good movies— though it does seem like Etan is trying to do his own little Coen Brothers dark comedy sort of thing. Unlike Cohen’s previous efforts, which have been at least a little funny, this one is a fairly boring affair throughout. Brolin and Dinklage have zero chemistry as a pair, brotherly or otherwise, and despite an unexpectedly stacked cast including the aforementioned Close and Fraser, plus M. Emmet Walsh (RIP) and the ever-excellent Marisa Tomei, audiences will find little with which to connect.
Yes, yes—there’s a scene where a man throws an escaped orangutan a handie, and it’s certainly fun to see Close attempt a borderline slapstick comedic performance. But when a film’s main players strug-
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at the time. In fact, we learn, SNL’s very existence was a power play to scare Tonight Show host Johnny Carson into embracing the then-fledgling concept of reruns—NBC brass (here amalgamated into one character played by Willem Dafoe) was counting on the show to fail.
Reitman clearly holds a special place in his heart for SNL to the point of hero worship for Michaels. Like The Fabelmans, LaBelle pulls moments of magic from a so-so script. Frankly, he’s a natural. But when a film casts a fantastic performer like Rachel Sennott (Shiva Baby) to play Michaels’ then-wife Rosie Shuster, then barely uses her? Well, that’s a tough blow.
Elsewhere, the fast cuts and focus on Michaels prevents us from getting an actual feel for anyone. Chase (Cory Michael Smith) was an asshole, you say? Man, we already knew that, Reitman! Couldn’t you have dug deeper into Morris’ (Lamorne Morris, no relation) Julliard training? Or given Newman (Emily Fairn) more to do than glance longingly at Aykroyd (Dylan O’Brien)? Radner’s barely there, man, and you kind of glossed over how Michaels poached much of his cast and writers from Doug Kenney at National Lampoon, Reitman. Kudos, though, for JK Simmons’ brief and funny turn as Milton Berle and his big fat dick.
Saturday Night ends with a moment most comedy fans know well—the first-ever sketch featuring Belushi (Matt Wood) and O’Donoghue (Tommy Dewey). This moment comes so close to capturing why people still tune in to the show, but rather than reminding us how SNL can still be special when it hits just right, this moment feels more like a confirmation
gle to find even mildly funny moments amongst a mountain of non-engaging dialogue and the jokes all come from the “that’s gonna leave a mark!” vein… look, Brothers is a slog. In fact, everyone who acted in this thing deserves better, which almost makes it feel like a Producers-ish deliberate-failure-for-complicated-tax-reasons sort of thing, without the unexpected popularity part.
Thank goodness Brothers is watchable at home, because it sure would have been a drag to have watched it in a real theater. Break the glass only in case of a severe boredom emergency. Otherwise, watch anything else.
BROTHERS
Directed by Barbakow
With Brolin, Dinklage, Close, Fraser, Walsh and Tomei Amazon Prime, R, 89 min.
of what most people say of the show today: It was a lot funnier a long time ago. (ADV) Violet Crown Cinema, R, 109 min.
TOSS NO MAS=NO MAS
‘Twas a good run multi-decade for New Mexico’s Toss No Mas anti-littering campaign, but Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has officially introduced a new campaign featuring actor Bryan Cranston.
Known as Breaking Bad Habits, the multipronged campaign finds Cranston stepping back into his iconic Breaking Bad character Walter White for a series of ads, including a parody commercial wherein he menacingly demands trash stay out of his territory. Presumably in this instance, White’s territory includes the entire state.
CRANSTON CHECKS IN
Speaking of Cranston, the actor spent a whirlwind weekend in New Mexico that found him both hanging out at the Governor’s Mansion for a chat session/press thing/photo opp, re: that anti-littering campaign; and accepting the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Santa Fe International Film Festival. We’re here for this, honestly. Cranston’s love for New Mexico is well-documented when plenty of actors have publicly called our state boring or weird (see Seth McFarlane who, in 2014, pretty much told anyone who would listen that we suck as a place).
Anecdotal evidence we’ve gathered says Cranston has been super-kind to everyone he’s met, too.
THAT’S A WRAP
The Santa Fe International Film Festival did more last week than hand out awards to Seinfeld guest perfomers like Cranston—this year’s fest was huge. Maybe the hugest ever. We’re talking premieres, inernational movies and makers, a strong Indigenous filmmaker presence, parties, hootenannies, screenings, talks, sessions, friendships, networkings and so on. We hear The Rightoues Gemstones star/Santa Fe resident Cassidy Freeman’s All That Remains was excellent, and that Christopher freaking Guest was in town promoting Sunlight, a film he produced from Albuquerque comedian and writer Shenoah Allen. Clearly there is way more to mention than we can fit here, but we have to ask—is Santa Fe cool now? Hopefully if you’re reading this and you don’t already live here, you don’t move here. You can visit, just... don’t move here.
THEY’RE HERE/NIGHTMARES
Santa Feans in search of films to ring in the creepiest of seasons need look no further than the Jean Cocteau Cinema, where the adorable little arthouse theater has upcoming screenings including Poltergeist, A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. OK, that last one’s not so much scary as much as it’s sexy, but still! Make sure to visit jeancocteaucinema.com for times and such, and to look around online for all the things you must do to attend a Rocky Horror screening the right way. As an addendum, Freddy rules. As does Craig T Nelson.
JONESIN’ CROSSWORD
by Matt Jones
ACROSS
1. “Pulp Fiction” star [*November 4 marks the 30th anniversary of my professional crossword debut, so here’s a throwback to that first puzzle!]
11. SALT concerns
15. “No, you got the wrong number, this is ___” (Chief Wiggum quote on “The Simpsons”)
16. Devonshire cream lump
17. Vehicle in a 1967 thought experiment
18. Old board game that means “I play” in Latin 19. Garfunkel and ___ (musical comedy duo)
20. To some degree 22. Jellied delicacy
23. Abbr. after Cleveland or Washington 25. Baltic Sea tributary
26. Dominant Mexican political party for most of the 20th century
27. Moliere play segment, maybe
30. “Benevolent” group
32. Alter
34. It’s also called a “majestic plural”
36. First human in space
38. Gets at
39. Struggle
40. Hard hitters of ancient literature?
41. Specialized vocabularies
42. Dash instruments
43. Words before “I say!”
45. Even ___ (chance of Kamala Harris winning the election)
46. ___ streak
47. Romanov ruler
49. Taco Bell’s Live ___ Scholarship
51. Trucker’s ID need
52. “Hoo boy ...”
54. Croupiers’ equipment
58. CT scan units
60. Surgical protection
62. Vet school subj.
63. Compliment, for some
64. Chat signoff
65. Engaging DOWN
1. “Once more ___ the breach ...”
2. Paul Sorvino’s daughter
3. In ___-so-distant future
4. Video visits with a doctor, e.g.
5. His most famous work opens with “Mars, the Bringer of War”
6. “Ceci n’est pas ___ pipe”
7. Co-authors Margret and H.A., for instance
8. New Zealand’s highest peak
9. Party after prizes?
10. Sur’s opposite
11. Letters often on an injury report
12. 1901-1904, in art history
13. Got with the times
14. Impassivity
21. Zaragoza’s region
24. “Ratatouille” setting
27. Noble
28. “Police Academy” head rank
29. Norm’s time to shine?
31. What shields allow you to take, in RPGs
33. Dip with fruit, onions, and salt
35. Snows
37. Workplace antidiscrimination focus
44. Talented talker
48. Lug
50. Laser gas
53. Cardinals’ beaks
55. “Today” host until sometime in 2025
56. First name in jumping
57. Sun-baked
59. 2011 World Series hat letters
61. “Hollywood Squares” block
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Secrets and hidden agendas have been preventing you from getting an accurate picture of what’s actually happening. But you now have the power to uncover them. I hope you will also consider the following bold moves: 1. Seek insights that could be the key to your future sexiness. 2. Change an aspect of your life you’ve always wanted to change but have never been able to. 3. Find out how far you can safely go in exploring the undersides of things. 4. Help your allies in ways that will ultimately inspire them to help you.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): From the early 1910s to the late 1920s, silent films were the only kind of films that were made. The proper technology wasn’t available to pair sounds with images. “Talking pictures,” or “talkies,” finally came into prominence in the 1930s. Sadly, the majority of silent films, some of which were fine works of art, were poorly preserved or only exist now in second- or third-generation copies. I’m meditating on this situation as a metaphor for your life, Taurus. Are there parts of your history that seem lost, erased, or unavailable? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to try to recover them. Remembering and reviving your past can be a potent healing agent.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): An old proverb tells us, “You must run toward the future and catch it. It is not coming to meet you, but is fleeing from you, escaping into the unknown.” This adage isn’t true for you at all right now, Gemini. In fact, the future is dashing toward you from all directions. It is not shy or evasive, but is eager to embrace you and is full of welcoming energy. How should you respond? I recommend you make yourself very grounded. Root yourself firmly in an understanding of who you are and what you want. Show the future clearly which parts of it you really want and which parts are uninteresting to you.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Early in his musical career, Cancerian innovator Harry Partch played traditional instruments and composed a regular string quartet. But by age 29, he was inventing and building novel instruments that had never before been used. Among the materials he used in constructing his Zymo-Xyl, Eucal Blossom, and Chromelodeon were tree branches, light bulbs, and wine bottles. I’m inviting you to enter into a Harry Partch phase of your cycle, Cancerian. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to express your unique genius—whether that’s in your art, your business, your personal life, or any other sphere where you love to express your authentic self.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Life’s unpredictable flow will bring you interesting new blessings if you revamp your fundamentals. Listen closely, Leo, because this is a subtle turn of events: A whole slew of good fortune will arrive if you joyfully initiate creative shifts in your approaches to talking, walking, exercising, eating, sleeping, meditating, and having fun. These aren’t necessarily earth-shaking transformations. They may be as delicate and nuanced as the following: 1. adding amusing words to your vocabulary; 2. playfully hopping and skipping as you stroll along; 3. sampling new cuisines; 4. keeping a notebook or recorder by your bed to capture your dreams; 5. trying novel ways to open your mind and heart; 6. seeking fresh pleasures that surprise you.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In an old Irish folk tale, the fairies give a queen a crystal cauldron with special properties. If anyone speaks three falsehoods in its presence, it cracks into three fragments. If someone utters three hearty truths while standing near it, the three pieces unite again. According to my metaphorical reading of your current destiny, Virgo, you are now in the vicinity of the broken cauldron. You have expressed one restorative truth, and need to proclaim two more. Be gently brave and bold as you provide the healing words.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Let’s review the highlights of the recent months. First, you expanded your perspective, blew your mind, and raised your consciousness. That
Week of October 23th
was fabulous! Next, you wandered around half-dazed and thoroughly enchanted, pleased with your new freedom and spaciousness. That, too, was fantastic! Then, you luxuriously indulged in the sheer enjoyment of your whimsical explorations and experimentations. Again, that was marvelous! Now you’re ready to spend time integrating all the teachings and epiphanies that have surged into your life in recent months. This might be less exciting, but it’s equally important.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): As a teenager, I loved the music of Jefferson Airplane. I recall sitting on the couch in my New Jersey home and listening to their albums over and over again. Years later, I was performing on stage at a San Francisco nightclub with my band, World Entertainment War. In the audience was Paul Kantner, a founding member of Jefferson Airplane. After the show, he came backstage and introduced himself. He said he wanted his current band, Jefferson Starship, to cover two of my band’s songs on his future album. Which he did. I suspect you will soon experience a comparable version of my story, Scorpio. Your past will show up bearing a gift for your future. A seed planted long ago will finally blossom.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): My horoscopes are directed toward individuals, not groups. Yet it’s impossible to provide oracles about your personal destiny without considering the collective influences that affect you. Every day, you are impacted by the culture you live in. For instance, you encounter news media that present propaganda as information and regard cynicism as a sign of intellectual vigor. You live on a planet where the climate is rapidly changing, endangering your stability and security. You are not a narrow-minded bigot who doles out hatred toward those who are unlike you, but you may have to deal with such people. I bring this to your attention, Sagittarius, because now is an excellent time to take an inventory of the world’s negative influences—and initiate aggressive measures to protect yourself from them. Even further, I hope you will cultivate and embody positive alternatives.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I suspect you will be extra attractive, appealing, and engaging in the coming weeks. You may also be especially convincing, influential, and inspirational. What do you plan to do with all this potency? How will you wield your flair? Here’s what I hope: You will dispense blessings everywhere you go. You will nurture the collective health and highest good of groups and communities you are part of. PS: In unexpected ways, being unselfish will generate wonderful selfish benefits.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Do you fantasize about being a masterful manager of your world? Have you imagined the joy of being the supreme sovereign of your holy destiny? Do you love the idea of rebelling against anyone who imagines they have the right to tell you what you should do and who you are? If you answered yes to those questions, I have excellent news, Aquarius: You are now primed to take exciting steps to further the goals I described. Here’s a helpful tip: Re-dedicate yourself to the fulfillment of your two deepest desires. Swear an oath to that intention.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Liberation Season is here. How can you take maximum advantage of the emancipatory energies? Here are suggestions: 1. Plan adventures to frontier zones. 2. Sing and dance in the wilderness. 3. Experiment with fun and pleasure that are outside your usual repertoire. 4. Investigate what it would mean for you to be on the vanguard of your field. 5. Expand your understandings of sexuality. 6. Venture out on a pilgrimage. 7. Give yourself permission to fantasize extravagantly. 8. Consider engaging in a smart gamble. 8. Ramble, wander, and explore.
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NOTICE OF SALE
STATE OF NEW MEXICO
COUNTY OF SANTA FE
FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
No. D-101-CV-2023-01994
VILLAS DE SANTA FE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION
INC.,
Plaintiff,
v. NHP GLOBAL SERVICES, LLC, Defendants.
NOTICE OF SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on November 6, 2024 at 12:15 p.m., the undersigned Special Master will, at the front entrance of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501, sell all of the rights, title, and interests of the above-named Defendant, in and to the hereinafter described real property to the highest bidder. The property to be sold is located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit(s) 1104, Santa Fe, NM 87501, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and is more particularly described as:
An undivided 5000/289000 interest in fee simple as tenant in common in and to Unit Number(s) 1104, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Unit(s), as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during (A) in the case of “floating” Timeshare Interests, such Use Periods as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc.; and (B) in the case of “fixed” Timeshare Interests, such Fixed Vacation Week as is specifically set forth below, all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195, as amended from time to time (the “Declaration”).
Unit No.: 1104
Initial Use Year: 2012 Fixed Use Period (If applicable): Number of Rights (If applicable): 5000
including any improvements, fixtures, and attachments, such as, but not limited to, mobile homes (the “Property”). If there is a conflict between the legal description and the street address, the legal description shall control.
The foregoing sale will be made to satisfy a foreclosure judgment rendered by this Court in the above-entitled and numbered cause on September 3, 2024, being an action to foreclose a mortgage on the Property.
Plaintiff’s judgment is in the amount of $11,739.17, plus interest of $1,797.65 from January 1, 2024 through November 6, 2024. Plaintiff has the right to bid at the foregoing sale in an amount equal to its judgment, and to submit its bid either verbally or in writing. Plaintiff may apply all or any part of its judgment to the purchase price in lieu of cash.
In accordance with the Court’s decree, the proceeds of sale are to be applied first to the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fees, and then to satisfy the above-described judgment with any remaining balance to be paid into the registry of the Court.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the undersigned Special Master will, as set forth above, offer for sale and sell the Property to the highest bidder for cash or equivalent, for the purpose of satisfying, in the adjudged order of priorities, the judgment and decree of foreclosure described herein, including the costs of advertisement and publication for the foregoing sale, and reasonable Special Master’s fees in an amount to be fixed by the Court.
The foregoing sale may be postponed and rescheduled at the discretion of the Special Master, and is subject to all taxes, utility liens and other restrictions and easements of record, and subject to the Defendants’ one (1) month right of redemption and entry of an order of the Court approving the terms and conditions of sale. Witness my hand this 12th day of September, 2024.
By: /S/ Robert Doyle
Robert Doyle, Special Master Legal Process Network P.O. Box 279 Sandia Park, NM 87047 (505) 417-4113
Fixed Assigned Unit (If applicable): Vacation Week No.: Unit Type (If applicable): NOTICE
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE
FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT
COURT
Case No.: D-101-DM-2023-00455
Mirna Luz Romero Piñon Petitioner, vs.
Raymundo Rodriguez Espino NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF SUIT STATE OF NEW MEXICO to Raymundo Rodriguez Espino Respondent, GREETINGS: You are hereby notified that Mirna Luz Romero Piñon, the above-named Petitioner, has filed a civil action against you in the above-entitled Court and cause number, The general object thereof being: Dissolution of Marriage
If you do not file a response or a responsive pleading in said cause within thirty (30) days after the last publication of this Notice, a default judgment against you may be entered.
Mirna Luz Romero Piñon 7409 Sandy Creek Road Santa Fe, NM 87507 505-231-2847
WITNESS the Honorable DENISE M. THOMAS, District Court Judge of the First Judicial District Court of New Mexico, and the seal of the District Court of Santa Fe County, this 26 day of August, 2024
KATHLEEN VIGIL
CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT
By: Edith Suarez-Munoz Deputy Clerk
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE
FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT No. D-101-CV-2023-02071
VILLAS DE SANTA FE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff, v. THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF RICHARD W. FRAZIER AND THE UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF RICHARD W. FRAZIER, Defendants.
NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION
STATE OF NEW MEXICO TO: THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF RICHARD W. FRAZIER AND THE UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF RICHARD W. FRAZIER
You are hereby notified that the above-named Plaintiff has filed an action against you in the above-entitled Court and cause, the general object thereof to foreclose a mortgage on real property located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit 1202, 1203, 1202, Santa Fe, NM 87501, said property being more particularly described as:
An undivided 1/104, 1/104, 1/104 interest in fee simple as tenant in common in and to Unit Number(s) 1202, 1203, 1202, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Unit(s), as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right during alternate calendar years, during alternate
calendar years, during alternate calendar years to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during (A) in the case of “floating” Timeshare Interests, such Use Periods as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc.; and (B) in the case of “fixed” Timeshare Interests, such Fixed Vacation Week as is specifically set forth below, all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195, as amended from time to time (the “Declaration”).
Initial Use Year: 2003, 2003, 2003
Vacation Week No.: 52, 29, 19
Fixed Use Period (If applicable):
N/A
Number of Rights (If applicable): Fixed Assigned Unit (If applicable): 1202, 1203, 1202
Timeshare Interest: Even Year, Odd Year, Even Year Unit Type (If applicable): 1 Bedroom Deluxe, 1 Bedroom Deluxe, 1 Bedroom Deluxe Unless you serve a pleading or motion in response to the Complaint in said cause on or before thirty (30) days after the last publication date of this Notice of Pendency, judgment by default will be entered against you. GREENSPOON MARDER LLP
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
No. D-101-CV-2023-02325
VILLAS DE SANTA FE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION INC., Plaintiff, v. THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF DIANA
M. HILL AND THE UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF DIANA M. HILL, Defendants.
NOTICE OF SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on November 6, 2024 at 12:15 p.m., the undersigned Special Master will, at the front entrance of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501, sell all of the rights, title, and interests of the above-named Defendant, in and to the hereinafter described real property to the highest bidder. The property to be sold is located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit(s) 2211, Santa Fe, NM 87501, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and is more particularly described as:
An undivided 10000/263000 interest(s) in fee simple as tenant in common in and to Unit Number(s) 2211, together corresponding undivided interest in the Common furnishings which are appurtenant to such Unit(s), as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during (A) in the case of “floating” Timeshare Interests, such Use Periods as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc; and (B) in the case of “fixed” Timeshare Interests, such Fixed Vacation Week as is specifically set forth below, all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195, as amended from time to time (the “Declaration”).
Unit No.: 2211
Initial Use Year: 2005
Fixed Use Period (If applicable): N/A
Number of Rights (If applicable): 10000
Fixed Assigned Unit (If applicable):
Vacation Week No.: N/A
Unit Type (If applicable):
This timeshare interest, also known as
Tract A & B Lot 7 & 8, Parcel 4 S24
T17N R9E Villas De Santa Fe Condos (Timeshare) recorded in Book 1462, Page 195 of plats, County of Santa Fe, New Mexico Records. including any improvements, fixtures, and attachments, such
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as, but not limited to, mobile homes (the “Property”). If there is a conflict between the legal description and the street address, the legal description shall control.
The foregoing sale will be made to satisfy a foreclosure judgment rendered by this Court in the above-entitled and numbered cause on September 4, 2024, being an action to foreclose a mortgage on the Property. Plaintiff’s judgment is in the amount of $16,216.00, plus interest of $2,479.05 from January 1, 2024 through November 6, 2024. Plaintiff has the right to bid at the foregoing sale in an amount equal to its judgment, and to submit its bid either verbally or in writing. Plaintiff may apply all or any part of its judgment to the purchase price in lieu of cash.
In accordance with the Court’s decree, the proceeds of sale are to be applied first to the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fees, and then to satisfy the above-described judgment with any remaining balance to be paid into the registry of the Court.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the undersigned Special Master will, as set forth above, offer for sale and sell the Property to the highest bidder for cash or equivalent, for the purpose of satisfying, in the adjudged order of priorities, the judgment and decree of foreclosure described herein, including the costs of advertisement and publication for the foregoing sale, and reasonable Special Master’s fees in an amount to be fixed by the Court.
The foregoing sale may be postponed and rescheduled at the discretion of the Special Master, and is subject to all taxes, utility liens and other restrictions and easements of record, and subject to the Defendants’ one (1) month right of redemption and entry of an order of the Court approving the terms and conditions of sale.
Witness my hand this 14th day of September, 2024.
By: /S/ Robert Doyle
Robert Doyle, Special Master Legal Process Network
P.O. Box 279
Sandia Park, NM 87047 (505) 417-4113
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
No. D-101-CV-2023-01731
VILLAS DE SANTA FE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION INC., Plaintiff,
v. THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF D. JEAN
MILLER and THE UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF D. JEAN MILLER, Defendants.
NOTICE OF SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on November 6, 2024 at 12:15 p.m., the undersigned Special Master will, at the front entrance of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501, sell all of the rights, title, and interests of the above-named Defendant, in and to the hereinafter described real property to the highest bidder. The property to be sold is located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit(s) 1105, Santa Fe, NM 87501, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and is more particularly described as: An undivided 4000/289000 interest in fee simple as tenant in common in and to Unit Number(s) 1105, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Unit(s), as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive rights to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during (A) in the case of “floating” Timeshare Interests, such Use Periods s shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc.; and (B) in the case of “fixed” Timeshare Interests, such Fixed Vacation Week as is specifically set forth below, all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195, as amended from time to time (the “Declaration”).
Initial Use Year: 2003 Timeshare Interest: UDI-Float Fixed Use Period (if applicable): N/A
Number of Rights (if applicable): 4000 Fixed Assigned Unit (if applicable): Vacation Week No.: Unit Type (If applicable): including any improvements, fixtures, and attachments, such as, but not limited to, mobile homes (the “Property”). If there is a conflict between the legal description and the street address, the legal description shall control.
The foregoing sale will be made to satisfy a foreclosure judgment
rendered by this Court in the above-entitled and numbered cause on September 10, 2024, being an action to foreclose a mortgage on the Property. Plaintiff’s judgment is in the amount of $9,349.61, plus interest of $1,429.34 from January 1, 2024 through November 6, 2024. Plaintiff has the right to bid at the foregoing sale in an amount equal to its judgment, and to submit its bid either verbally or in writing. Plaintiff may apply all or any part of its judgment to the purchase price in lieu of cash.
In accordance with the Court’s decree, the proceeds of sale are to be applied first to the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fees, and then to satisfy the above-described judgment with any remaining balance to be paid into the registry of the Court.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the undersigned Special Master will, as set forth above, offer for sale and sell the Property to the highest bidder for cash or equivalent, for the purpose of satisfying, in the adjudged order of priorities, the judgment and decree of foreclosure described herein, including the costs of advertisement and publication for the foregoing sale, and reasonable Special Master’s fees in an amount to be fixed by the Court.
The foregoing sale may be postponed and rescheduled at the discretion of the Special Master, and is subject to all taxes, utility liens and other restrictions and easements of record, and subject to the Defendants’ one (1) month right of redemption and entry of an order of the Court approving the terms and conditions of sale.
Witness my hand this 16th day of September, 2024.
By: /S/ Robert Doyle
Robert Doyle, Special Master Legal Process Network P.O. Box 279 Sandia Park, NM 87047 (505) 417-4113
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE
FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT No. D-101-CV-2023-01899
VILLAS DE SANTA FE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION INC., Plaintiff, v. UNKNOWN HEIRS OF BENJAMIN L. REYES and UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF BENJAMIN L. REYES, Defendants.
NOTICE OF SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on November 20, 2024 at 12:15 p.m., the undersigned Special Master will, at the front entrance of the First Judicial District Courthouse,
225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501, sell all of the rights, title, and interests of the above-named Defendant, in and to the hereinafter described real property to the highest bidder. The property to be sold is located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit(s) 2201, Santa Fe, NM 87501, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and is more particularly described as: An undivided 1/52 interest in fee simple as tenant in common in and to Unit Number(s) 2201, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Unit(s), as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right every calendar year to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive rights to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during (A) in the case of “floating” Timeshare Interests, such Use Periods as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc.; and (B) in the case of “fixed” Timeshare Interests, such Fixed Vacation Week as is specifically set forth below, all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195, as amended from time to time (the “Declaration”).
Initial Use Year: 2003
Timeshare Interest: Annual Fixed Use Period (If applicable): N/A
Number of Rights (If applicable): N/A
Fixed Assigned Unit (If applicable): 2201
Vacation Week No.: 22 Unit Type (If applicable): 2 Bedroom Standard including any improvements, fixtures, and attachments, such as, but not limited to, mobile homes (the “Property”). If there is a conflict between the legal description and the street address, the legal description shall control.
The foregoing sale will be made to satisfy a foreclosure judgment rendered by this Court in the above-entitled and numbered cause on September 24, 2024, being an action to foreclose a mortgage on the Property. Plaintiff’s judgment is in the
amount of $12,508.03, plus interest of $1,998.54 from January 1, 2024 through November 20, 2024. Plaintiff has the right to bid at the foregoing sale in an amount equal to its judgment, and to submit its bid either verbally or in writing. Plaintiff may apply all or any part of its judgment to the purchase price in lieu of cash.
In accordance with the Court’s decree, the proceeds of sale are to be applied first to the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fees, and then to satisfy the above-described judgment with any remaining balance to be paid into the registry of the Court.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the undersigned Special Master will, as set forth above, offer for sale and sell the Property to the highest bidder for cash or equivalent, for the purpose of satisfying, in the adjudged order of priorities, the judgment and decree of foreclosure described herein, including the costs of advertisement and publication for the foregoing sale, and reasonable Special Master’s fees in an amount to be fixed by the Court.
The foregoing sale may be postponed and rescheduled at the discretion of the Special Master, and is subject to all taxes, utility liens and other restrictions and easements of record, and subject to the Defendants’ one (1) month right of redemption and entry of an order of the Court approving the terms and conditions of sale.
Witness my hand this 25th day of September, 2024.
By: /S/ Robert Doyle
Robert Doyle, Special Master Legal Process Network P.O. Box 279 Sandia Park, NM 87047 (505) 417-4113
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT No. D-101-CV-2023-01982
VILLAS DE SANTA FE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION INC., Plaintiff, v.
JOHN D. SWETISH AND THE UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF JOHN D. SWETISH, Defendants.
NOTICE OF SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on November 6, 2024 at 12:15 p.m., the undersigned Special Master will, at the front entrance of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501, sell all of the rights, title, and interests of the above-named Defendant, in and to the hereinafter described real property to the highest bidder.
The property to be sold is located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit(s) 1106, Santa Fe, NM 87501, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and is more particularly described as: 1 Timeshare Interests(s) consisting of 1 undivided one fifty-second (1/52) interest(s) in fee simple as tenant in common in and to the below-described Condominium Unit, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Condominium Unit, as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right every calendar year to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit of the same Unit Type described below within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during a Vacation Week, as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then-current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc., all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195-294, as thereafter amended (the “Declaration”).
Unit Number: 1106
Initial Use Year: 1999 Timeshare Interest: Floating Annual Year Vacation Week No.: 10 Unit Type: 1 Bedroom Deluxe including any improvements, fixtures, and attachments, such as, but not limited to, mobile homes (the “Property”). If there is a conflict between the legal description and the street address, the legal description shall control.
The foregoing sale will be made to satisfy a foreclosure judgment rendered by this Court in the above-entitled and numbered cause on September 11, 2024, being an action to foreclose a mortgage on the Property. Plaintiff’s judgment is in the amount of $11,584.81, plus interest of $1,771.05 from January 1, 2024 through November 6, 2024. Plaintiff has the right to bid at the foregoing sale in an amount equal to its judgment, and to submit its bid either verbally or in writing. Plaintiff may apply all or any part of its judgment to the purchase price in lieu of cash.
In accordance with the Court’s decree, the proceeds of sale are
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to be applied first to the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fees, and then to satisfy the above-described judgment with any remaining balance to be paid into the registry of the Court.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the undersigned Special Master will, as set forth above, offer for sale and sell the Property to the highest bidder for cash or equivalent, for the purpose of satisfying, in the adjudged order of priorities, the judgment and decree of foreclosure described herein, including the costs of advertisement and publication for the foregoing sale, and reasonable Special Master’s fees in an amount to be fixed by the Court.
The foregoing sale may be postponed and rescheduled at the discretion of the Special Master, and is subject to all taxes, utility liens and other restrictions and easements of record, and subject to the Defendants’ one (1) month right of redemption and entry of an order of the Court approving the terms and conditions of sale.
Witness my hand this 16th day of September, 2024.
By: /S/ Robert Doyle
Robert Doyle, Special Master Legal Process Network P.O. Box 279 Sandia Park, NM 87047 (505) 417-4113
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT No. D-101-CV-2023-02007
VILLAS DE SANTA FE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION INC., Plaintiff, v. TVC INC., Defendant.
NOTICE OF SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on November 6, 2024 at 12:15 p.m., the undersigned Special Master will, at the front entrance of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501, sell all of the rights, title, and interests of the above-named Defendant, in and to the hereinafter described real property to the highest bidder. The property to be sold is located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit(s) 1203, Santa Fe, NM 87501, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and is more particularly described as: 1 Timeshare Interests(s) consisting of 1 undivided one fifty-second (1/52) interest(s) in fee simple as tenant in common in and to the below-described Condominium Unit, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such
Condominium Unit, as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during a Vacation Week, as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then-current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc., all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195-294, as thereafter amended (the “Declaration”).
Unit Number: 1203
Initial Use Year: 2009
Timeshare Interest: Floating Annual Year Vacation Week No.: 49 Unit Type: 1 Bedroom Deluxe including any improvements, fixtures, and attachments, such as, but not limited to, mobile homes (the “Property”). If there is a conflict between the legal description and the street address, the legal description shall control.
The foregoing sale will be made to satisfy a foreclosure judgment rendered by this Court in the above-entitled and numbered cause on September 16, 2024, being an action to foreclose a mortgage on the Property. Plaintiff’s judgment is in the amount of $11,065.43, plus interest of $1,691.65 from January 1, 2024 through November 6, 2024. Plaintiff has the right to bid at the foregoing sale in an amount equal to its judgment, and to submit its bid either verbally or in writing. Plaintiff may apply all or any part of its judgment to the purchase price in lieu of cash.
In accordance with the Court’s decree, the proceeds of sale are to be applied first to the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fees, and then to satisfy the above-described judgment with any remaining balance to be paid into the registry of the Court.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the undersigned Special Master will, as set forth above, offer for sale and sell the Property to the highest bidder for cash or equivalent, for the purpose of satisfying, in the adjudged order of priorities, the judgment and decree of foreclosure described herein, including the costs of
advertisement and publication for the foregoing sale, and reasonable Special Master’s fees in an amount to be fixed by the Court.
The foregoing sale may be postponed and rescheduled at the discretion of the Special Master, and is subject to all taxes, utility liens and other restrictions and easements of record, and subject to the Defendants’ one (1) month right of redemption and entry of an order of the Court approving the terms and conditions of sale.
Witness my hand this 20th day of September, 2024.
By: /S/ Robert Doyle
Robert Doyle, Special Master Legal Process Network P.O. Box 279 Sandia Park, NM 87047 (505) 417-4113
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT
COURT No. D-101-CV-2023-01699
VILLAS DE SANTA FE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION INC., Plaintiff, v. LINDA S. TRIVETT and ROGER L. TRIVETT, Defendants.
NOTICE OF SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on November 20, 2024 at 12:15 p.m., the undersigned Special Master will, at the front entrance of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501, sell all of the rights, title, and interests of the above-named Defendant, in and to the hereinafter described real property to the highest bidder. The property to be sold is located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit(s) 1205, Santa Fe, NM 87501, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and is more particularly described as:
An undivided 1/104 interest in fee simple as tenant in common in and to Unit Number(s) 1205, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Unit(s), as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right during alternate calendar years to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive rights to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during (A) in the case of “floating” Timeshare Interests, such Use Periods as shall properly have been reserved in accordance
with the provisions of the then current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc.; and (B) in the case of “fixed” Timeshare Interests, such Fixed Vacation Week as is specifically set forth below, all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195-294, as amended from time to time (the “Declaration”).
Initial Use Year: 2004
Timeshare Interest: Odd Year Fixed Use Period (If applicable): N/A
Number of Rights: N/A Fixed Assigned Unit (If applicable): 1205
Vacation Week No.: 43 Unit Type (If applicable): 1 Bedroom Deluxe including any improvements, fixtures, and attachments, such as, but not limited to, mobile homes (the “Property”). If there is a conflict between the legal description and the street address, the legal description shall control.
The foregoing sale will be made to satisfy a foreclosure judgment rendered by this Court in the above-entitled and numbered cause on September 26, 2024, being an action to foreclose a mortgage on the Property. Plaintiff’s judgment is in the amount of $6,888.46, plus interest
of $1,100.64 from January 1, 2024 through November 20, 2024. Plaintiff has the right to bid at the foregoing sale in an amount equal to its judgment, and to submit its bid either verbally or in writing. Plaintiff may apply all or any part of its judgment to the purchase price in lieu of cash.
In accordance with the Court’s decree, the proceeds of sale are to be applied first to the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fees, and then to satisfy the above-described judgment with any remaining balance to be paid into the registry of the Court.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the undersigned Special Master will, as set forth above, offer for sale and sell the Property to the highest bidder for cash or equivalent, for the purpose of satisfying, in the adjudged order of priorities, the judgment and decree of foreclosure described herein, including the costs of advertisement and publication for the foregoing sale, and reasonable Special Master’s fees in an amount to be fixed by the Court.
The foregoing sale may be postponed and rescheduled at the discretion of the Special
Master, and is subject to all taxes, utility liens and other restrictions and easements of record, and subject to the Defendants’ one (1) month right of redemption and entry of an order of the Court approving the terms and conditions of sale.
Witness my hand this 2nd day of October, 2024.
By: /S/ Robert Doyle Robert Doyle, Special Master Legal Process Network P.O. Box 279 Sandia Park, NM 87047 (505) 417-4113
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT No. D-101-CV-2023-02011 VILLAS DE SANTA FE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION INC., Plaintiff, v. ROBERT S. LERMA and MARIE T. MURPHY, Defendants.
NOTICE OF SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on November 20, 2024 at 12:15 p.m., the undersigned Special Master will, at the front entrance of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501, sell all of the rights, title, and interests of the above-named Defendant, in and to the hereinafter described real property to the highest bidder.
The property to be sold is located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit(s) 2120, Santa Fe, NM 87501, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and is more particularly described as: 1 Timeshare Interests(s) consisting of 1 undivided one fifty-second (1/52) interest(s) in fee simple as tenant in common in and to the below-described Condominium Unit, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Condominium Unit, as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right every calendar year to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit of the same Unit Type described below within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during a Vacation Week, as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then-current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc., all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa
Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195-294, as thereafter amended (the “Declaration”).
Unit No.: 2120
Initial Use Year: 2000 Timeshare Interest: Floating Annual Year Vacation Week No.: 51
Unit Type: 1 Bedroom including any improvements, fixtures, and attachments, such as, but not limited to, mobile homes (the “Property”). If there is a conflict between the legal description and the street address, the legal description shall control.
The foregoing sale will be made to satisfy a foreclosure judgment rendered by this Court in the above-entitled and numbered cause on September 27, 2024, being an action to foreclose a mortgage on the Property.
Plaintiff’s judgment is in the amount of $10,874.92, plus interest of $1,737.60 from January 1, 2024 through November 20, 2024. Plaintiff has the right to bid at the foregoing sale in an amount equal to its judgment, and to submit its bid either verbally or in writing. Plaintiff may apply all or any part of its judgment to the purchase price in lieu of cash.
In accordance with the Court’s decree, the proceeds of sale are to be applied first to the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fees, and then to satisfy the above-described judgment with any remaining balance to be paid into the registry of the Court.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the undersigned Special Master will, as set forth above, offer for sale and sell the Property to the highest bidder for cash or equivalent, for the purpose of satisfying, in the adjudged order of priorities, the judgment and decree of foreclosure described herein, including the costs of advertisement and publication for the foregoing sale, and reasonable Special Master’s fees in an amount to be fixed by the Court.
The foregoing sale may be postponed and rescheduled at the discretion of the Special Master, and is subject to all taxes, utility liens and other restrictions and easements of record, and subject to the Defendants’ one (1) month right of redemption and entry of an order of the Court approving the terms and conditions of sale.
Witness my hand this 2nd day of October, 2024.
By: /S/ Robert Doyle
Robert Doyle, Special Master Legal Process Network P.O. Box 279 Sandia Park, NM 87047 (505) 417-4113
LEGALS
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT No. D-101-CV-2023-01693
VILLAS DE SANTA FE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION INC., Plaintiff,
v. THE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF BRUCE
A. FLEMING, JR. AND THE UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF BRUCE
A. FLEMING, JR. AKA CINDY DARREN, Defendants.
NOTICE OF SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on November 20, 2024 at 12:15 p.m., the undersigned Special Master will, at the front entrance of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501, sell all of the rights, title, and interests of the above-named Defendant, in and to the hereinafter described real property to the highest bidder. The property to be sold is located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit(s) 2210, Santa Fe, NM 87501, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and is more particularly described as: An undivided 1500/263000 interest in fee simple as tenant in common in and to Unit Number(s) 2210, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Unit(s), as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive rights to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during (A) in the case of “floating” Timeshare Interests, such Use Periods as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc.; and (B) in the case of “fixed” Timeshare Interests, such Fixed Vacation Week as is specifically set forth below, all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195, as amended from time to time (the “Declaration”).
Initial Use Year: 2003
Timeshare Interest: UDI-Float Fixed Use Period (If applicable): N/A
Number of Rights: 1500
Fixed Assigned Unit (If applicable):
Vacation Week No.: N/A Unit Type (If applicable): including any improvements, fixtures, and attachments, such as, but not limited to, mobile homes (the “Property”). If there is a conflict between the legal description and the street address, the legal description shall control.
The foregoing sale will be made to satisfy a foreclosure judgment rendered by this Court in the above-entitled and numbered cause on September 27, 2024, being an action to foreclose a mortgage on the Property. Plaintiff’s judgment is in the amount of $7,378.44, plus interest of $1,178.93 from January 1, 2024 through November 20, 2024. Plaintiff has the right to bid at the foregoing sale in an amount equal to its judgment, and to submit its bid either verbally or in writing.
Plaintiff may apply all or any part of its judgment to the purchase price in lieu of cash. In accordance with the Court’s decree, the proceeds of sale are to be applied first to the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fees, and then to satisfy the above-described judgment with any remaining balance to be paid into the registry of the Court.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the undersigned Special Master will, as set forth above, offer for sale and sell the Property to the highest bidder for cash or equivalent, for the purpose of satisfying, in the adjudged order of priorities, the judgment and decree of foreclosure described herein, including the costs of advertisement and publication for the foregoing sale, and reasonable Special Master’s fees in an amount to be fixed by the Court.
The foregoing sale may be postponed and rescheduled at the discretion of the Special Master, and is subject to all taxes, utility liens and other restrictions and easements of record, and subject to the Defendants’ one (1) month right of redemption and entry of an order of the Court approving the terms and conditions of sale. Witness my hand this 2nd day of October, 2024.
By: /S/ Robert Doyle Robert Doyle, Special Master Legal Process Network P.O. Box 279 Sandia Park, NM 87047 (505) 417-4113
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT No. D-101-CV-2023-01927
VILLAS DE SANTA FE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION INC., Plaintiff,
v. ANN HEACKER and ESTATE OF
ROBERT R. KIMBRO, Defendants.
NOTICE OF SALE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on December 4, 2024 at 12:15 p.m., the undersigned Special Master will, at the front entrance of the First Judicial District Courthouse, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501, sell all of the rights, title, and interests of the above-named Defendant, in and to the hereinafter described real property to the highest bidder. The property to be sold is located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit(s) 2121, Santa Fe, NM 87501, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and is more particularly described as: 1 Timeshare Interests(s) consisting of 1 undivided one fifty-second (1/52) interest(s) in fee simple as tenant in common in and to the below-described Condominium Unit, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Condominium Unit, as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right every calendar year to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit of the same Unit Type described below within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during a Vacation Week, as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the provisions of the then-current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc., all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195-294, as thereafter amended (the “Declaration”).
Unit No.: 2121
Initial Use Year: 1999
Timeshare Interest: Floating Annual Year
Vacation Week No.: 48
Unit Type (If applicable): 1 Bedroom including any improvements, fixtures, and attachments, such as, but not limited to, mobile homes (the “Property”). If there is a conflict between the legal description and the street address, the legal description shall control.
The foregoing sale will be made to satisfy a foreclosure judgment rendered by this Court in the above-entitled and numbered cause on October 2, 2024, being an action to foreclose a mortgage on the Property. Plaintiff’s judgment is in the amount of
$11,677.19, plus interest of $1,946.41 from January 1, 2024 through December 4, 2024. Plaintiff has the right to bid at the foregoing sale in an amount equal to its judgment, and to submit its bid either verbally or in writing. Plaintiff may apply all or any part of its judgment to the purchase price in lieu of cash.
In accordance with the Court’s decree, the proceeds of sale are to be applied first to the costs of sale, including the Special Master’s fees, and then to satisfy the above-described judgment with any remaining balance to be paid into the registry of the Court.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the undersigned Special Master will, as set forth above, offer for sale and sell the Property to the highest bidder for cash or equivalent, for the purpose of satisfying, in the adjudged order of priorities, the judgment and decree of foreclosure described herein, including the costs of advertisement and publication for the foregoing sale, and reasonable Special Master’s fees in an amount to be fixed by the Court.
The foregoing sale may be postponed and rescheduled at the discretion of the Special Master, and is subject to all taxes, utility liens and other restrictions and easements of record, and subject to the Defendants’ one (1) month right of redemption and entry of an order of the Court approving the terms and conditions of sale.
Witness my hand this 8th day of October, 2024.
By: /S/ Robert Doyle
Robert Doyle, Special Master Legal Process Network P.O. Box 279 Sandia Park, NM 87047 (505) 417-4113
NOTICE OF PENDENCY
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
ROXANA ELIZABETH LOPEZ de BERNAL Petitioner
v. No. D-101-DM-2024-00394
IN THE MATTER OF THE KINSHIP GUARDIANSHIP OF DABF, (08/2018) a child and concerning IVAN ALEXANDER BERNAL LOPEZ
Respondent(s) TO: Respondent, Ivan Alexander Bernal Lopez
NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION
IN THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO to Respondent Ivan Alexander Bernal Lopez, biological parent of David Alexander Bernal Flores, a minor. You are hereby notified that Roxana Elizabeth Lopez de Bernal, Petitioner, has filed a
Verified Petition for Order Appointing Kinship Guardianship of the minor child DABF. You have thirty (30) days to enter a response with the First Judicial District Court at 225 Montezuma Ave., P.O. Box 2268, Santa Fe, NM 87504-2268 and send the same to Petitioner’s attorney. Regarding this petition, if you do not enter a response and send the same to Petitioners’ attorney, the Court may enter a default judgment in your absence. Attorney for Petitioner is Saul J. Ramos, 621 Dakota St SE, Albuquerque NM 87108.
Witness the Honorable Shannon Broderick Bulman, District Judge of the First Judicial District Court of the State of New Mexico, and the seal of the District Court of Santa Fe County, this 9 day of September, 2024.
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT No. D-101-CV-2024-01759 VILLAS DE SANTA FE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff, v. JERRY ROBERTSON AND THE UKNOWN SPOUSE OF JERRY ROBERTSON, Defendants. NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION
STATE OF NEW MEXICO TO: JERRY ROBERTSON AND THE UKNOWN SPOUSE OF JERRY ROBERTSON
You are hereby notified that the above-named Plaintiff has filed an action against you in the above-entitled Court and cause, the general object thereof to foreclose a mortgage on real property located at 400 Griffin Street, Unit 1203, Santa Fe, NM 87501, said property being more particularly described as: 1 Timeshare Interest(s) of 1 undivided one fifty-second (1/52) interest(s) in fee simple as tenant in common in and to the below-described Condominium Unit, together with a corresponding undivided interest in the Common Furnishings which are appurtenant to such Condominium Unit, as well as the recurring (i) exclusive right every calendar year to reserve, use, and occupy an Assigned Unit of the same Unit Type described below within Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium (the “Project”); (ii) exclusive right to use and enjoy the Limited Common Elements and Common Furnishings located within or otherwise appurtenant to such Assigned Unit; and (iii) non-exclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Elements of the Project, for their intended purposes, during a Vacation Week, as shall properly have been reserved in accordance with the
provisions of the then current Rules and Regulations promulgated by Villas de Santa Fe Condominium Association, Inc; all pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium for Villas de Santa Fe, a Condominium, duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in Book 1462, at Page 195-294, as thereafter amended (the “Declaration”).
Unit Number: 1203
Vacation Week No.: 41
Unit Type (if applicable): 1 Bedroom Deluxe
Initial Occupancy Year: 2020 Timeshare Interest: Floating Annual Year Unless you serve a pleading or motion in response to the Complaint in said cause on or before thirty (30) days after the last publication date of this Notice of Pendency, judgment by default will be entered against you.
GREENSPOON MARDER LLP
By: /s/ S. J. Lucero
Mx. S. J. Lucero (they/them) 500 Marquette NW, 12th Floor Albuquerque, NM 87102 Telephone: (888) 491.1120
Email 1: S.J.Lucero@gmlaw.com
Email 2: gmforeclosure@gmlaw.com
Attorneys for Plaintiff
STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
No.
D-101-PB-2024-00218 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARILYN J. O’BRIEN, Deceased
NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Century Bank has been appointed Personal Representative of this estate. All persons having claims against this estate are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either to the attorneys of the Personal Representative, Sommer Udall Law Firm, P.A., (Kurt A. Sommer) P.O. Box 1984, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-1984, (2000 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505) or filed with the First Judicial District Court, Steve Herrera Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501.
DATED: October 4, 2024
Respectfully Submitted, SOMMER UDALL LAW FIRM, P.A. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: Kurt A. Sommer P.O. Box 1984 Santa Fe, NM 87504 (505) 982-4676
