October 06, 2021: Santa Fe Reporter

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PNM/AVANGRID Merger Will Power Up New Mexico’s Future

Total customer rate benefits of $94 million • $67 million in rate credits to PNM’s customers; • $10 million for residential customer Covid arrearages forgiveness; • $2 million for providing electricity to new customers in remote areas; • $15 million for low-income energy efficiency.

Total economic development benefit has been estimated to have a value substantially in excess of $200 million • $25 million in contributions to economic development projects; • $12.5 million for the benefit of Native American community groups in the Four Corners region; • 150 new full time jobs, with economic impact of more than $200 million; • $1 million in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) scholarships; • $1 million in funding for new apprenticeships.

Commitments to work with our Native American communities to develop more renewable energy on tribal lands.

PNM, as part of AVANGRID, will help New Mexicans achieve a brighter future.

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OCTOBER 6-12, 2021 | Volume 48, Issue 40

NEWS OPINION 5 NEWS 7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6

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UNDERCOUNTING CRIME 9 Santa Fe Police Department grossly low-balls crime stats in national database POP QUIZ 11 District 4 candidates go head to head in the final installment of city trivia COVER STORY 12 CRAZY HOT What began as an off-the-grid farming project evolved into a mini spice empire for the folks behind Taos Hum Hot Sauce

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tive might be a seasoned one. No matter who occupies the office, we, the constituents, must pressure them to exert an urgent response to the climate emergency—every one of our lives and livelihoods depends on this, especially if the feds sell out to polluter interests.

NODIAH BRENT SANTA FE

ONLINE, SEPT. 13: ”MAYOR HOPEFULS TALK ISSUES”

WEIGH THE OPTIONS I feel dismayed by the vilification of Mayor Alan Webber over the obelisk incident. Grievances on all sides are to be expected; it would be highly unlikely for an issue of this magnitude to be handled without alienating some or all of the parties involved; however, the fact that there was no injury or loss to human life was paramount. Can we commit as a community to cultivating the “public mourning, forgiveness, and healing” that truth and reconciliation requires? If not, what’s the alternative? Most of us have important relationships across all ethnicities; it is in our best interests to foster understanding. Mayor Webber navigated the obelisk and COVID in addition to preexisting challenges and he still wants to keep his seat; this shows a willingness to serve that could be of great benefit.

The best choice for mayor would be an unequivocal environmental leader. In the absence of such a candidate, the best alterna-

COVER, SEPT. 29: “SANTA FE UNIDOS”

DEFINE SUCCESSFUL Great article extolling the virtues of soccer and hinting it should have its own, separate stadium—paid for by taxpayers, of course. It’s inaccurate to call a team successful when it can’t build its own stadium on the revenues. That isn’t how sports is done, you say? Remember territorial governor Lew Wallace’s take: “All calculations based on our experiences elsewhere fail in New Mexico.” We have stadiums already.

The sports can share. That will be a good lesson for the children, and we could apply the savings to our schools.

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DEVIOUS LICK TREND FINDS HIGH SCHOOLERS VANDALIZING SCHOOL BATHROOMS As olds, we try not to be all weird about kids doing kid stuff, but, like...what the damn hell?

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Undercounting Crime Santa Fe Police Department grossly low-balls crime stats in national database

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anta Fe saw three homicides in 2020, marking a five-year low for the capital.

But have a look at the FBI’s newly published Uniform Crime Report—the bureau’s annual attempt to present data from hundreds of cities around the nation, known as the UCR—and the homicide total for New Mexico’s fourth largest city looks even lower.

In fact, it looks like zero.

That’s because the Santa Fe Police Department underreported homicides and nearly every other crime documented in the 2020 UCR, in some cases by vast margins.

Figures the department provided for the 2019 UCR are way off, too.

Deputy Chief Paul Joye tells SFR a more accurate picture of crime in the city can be found in the department’s annual reports, which are presented to the City Council each year as part of the department’s budget request.

“I believe the numbers we gave to the governing body should be the most accurate,” Joye says. “We do our best to verify those.”

If that’s correct, consider: SFPD reported 343 aggravated assaults to the council in 2020 and 90 to the FBI. The previous year, the department listed 425 aggravated assaults in its annual report and pegged that number at 230 for the UCR. There’s an even wider gulf in the larceny figures: 1,843 for the 2020 report to the council and 563 for the UCR; 2,465 in the previous year’s annual report and just 1,472 for the FBI’s national snapshot.

Department brass were not aware of the discrepancies until SFR brought them to officials’ attention last week, Deputy Chief Ben Valdez says, adding that they are committed to ensuring the numbers match in the future.

The mismanagement of statistical reANSON STEVENS-BOLLEN porting raises further questions and red flags

about vital record keeping procedures within the department. Last year, a public safety consultant issued a blistering report that listed dozens of problems with the SFPD evidence room, including evidence that had been lost in a first-degree murder case.

And just last month, Assistant District Attorney Tony Long dashed off a letter to SFPD with a laundry list of items missing from the case file in the high-profile shooting of a Santa Fe teen. Long informed the department that prosecutors would have to dismiss charges against the accused while police shored up the investigation—which involved one of the 2020 homicides not listed in the Uniform Crime Report.

There are potentially serious consequences for the low-balled figures in the last two UCRs; it’s not just a matter of optics that inaccurately show Santa Fe significantly bucking the national trend of a rise in several different crime categories.

In addition to documenting crime for the nation, the bureau uses the UCR as a measuring stick to dole out millions through its Justice Assistance Grant program. Failure to submit stats—or misreporting them—for the UCR could lead to a police department’s grant funding being pulled.

That would mean tens of thousands of dollars for SFPD. Most of it goes toward the department’s traffic safety efforts, including radar devices and more, Valdez says.

“To have that be in jeopardy is certainly concerning,” he says. “Those tasks will still need to be done, whether there’s funding or not.”

For at least the last two years, SFPD has reported different numbers for homicides.

In 2020, the department told SFR and the Santa Fe New Mexican there had been three, but reported none to the FBI. The previous year, police officials told SFR seven people were murdered in the city, but reported eight to the New Mexican and the City Council, but just five to the FBI. Neither Joye nor Valdez could say how their department pushed out such radically disparate crime statistics. Valdez points the finger at the New Mexico Department of Public Safety which, by statute, administers the UCR program for all law enforcement agencies in the state.

DPS spokesman Herman Lovato says Santa Fe police entered their own data, and his department’s Records Bureau chief, Regina Chacon, walks SFR step by step through the reporting process.

In years past, police and sheriffs’ agencies provided their yearly statistics to DPS which, in turn, sent them along to the bureau for the UCR, Chacon explains.

“We don’t modify any agency’s data, ever,” Lovato adds. “We are here to facilitate the information being submitted.”

The process changed for 2020, Chacon continues, when New Mexico switched over to the FBI’s new, more comprehensive National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).

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Among other new bells and whistles, NIBRS allows individual law enforcement agencies—rather than a state clearinghouse, such as the public safety department in New Mexico—to submit data directly to the FBI via a flat file or a .xml file.

Public safety department personnel have spent countless hours training departments around the state on how to use NIBRS, Chacon says, including Santa Fe police.

Chacon confirms that SFPD submitted its stats directly to the FBI for the 2020 report. And a review of Santa Fe police data stored on the DPS website shows that the figures reflected in the 2019 UCR were, in fact, the drastically lower numbers, as opposed to the higher ones provided to the City Council.

Valdez says he isn’t sure of the reporting procedures for 2020, but he believes his department used the old process and passed its numbers to the FBI through the public safety department.

“We still need to get that worked out, where there was a mistake,” Joye adds.

“There’s clearly a disconnect between the two agencies.”

Lovato is more certain about the statistical snafu, and he does not see it as a disconnect.

“Any effort to place the blame on the Department of Public safety would not be true,” he tells SFR. Valdez and Joye concede that SFPD uses different systems to compile figures for the UCR versus the department’s annual reports to the council. Numbers are pulled directly from the department’s records management system for the former. For the latter, they say, a newly hired crime analyst verifies and “cleans” the data in a more painstaking process.

The deputy chiefs say they believed there had been a delay with reporting to the FBI for 2020 on account of their transition to NIBRS. But they were unaware of the huge disparities until SFR inquired about them last week.

“A lot of things you don’t know until you know,” Valdez says. “You have to do right by that and make sure you learn from what has just occurred.”

He won’t say whether his department plans to inform the FBI of the errors, but says SFPD wants the numbers to match up with those reported to the council.

“It won’t be an easy, overnight fix,” Valdez says. “But we will look at this and make the improvements that are needed.”

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District 4 With less than a month until the Nov. 2 municipal election, campaign season is in full swing and two candidates have tossed their hats in the ring to represent the Southside. The District 4 seat is occupied by Councilor JoAnne Vigil Coppler, who hopes for a promotion to the mayoral chair,

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challenging incumbent Mayor Alan Webber and newcomer Alexis Martinez Johnson.

In SFR’s final pop quiz of the municipal election season, the two District 4 candidates took their best shot at answering some tough questions about the city. Early voting began this week at the county clerk’s office.

For the other pop quizzes and more information on how to register to vote and cast a ballot, visit sfreporter.com/elections.

SFR asked candidates not to seek any outside help. Both kindly agreed to participate honestly.

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AMANDA CHAVEZ

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The shelter is the St Elizabeth’s shelter and I’m not sure when the contract expires.

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I take my kids swimming there. I know it was around $4 [for a child]

The city recently extended the contract for the Midtown Emergency Shelter that was established in March of 2020. What is this shelter’s name and when does the contract expire?

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What’s the cost of admission to the Genoveva Chavez Community Center for an adult?

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Of Santa Fe’s lowest income residents, 77% are cost-burdened.

What does the term cost-burdened mean?

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True or False: Two properties with short-term rental permits cannot be within 100 feet of each other.

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Name two of Santa Fe’s sister cities.

The Midtown Emergency Shelter is also known as Consuelo’s Place.

The contract ends on June 30, 2022.

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$7.00

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Residents who are cost-burdened spend over 30% of their income on rent.

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False. They can’t be within 50 feet of each other.

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Zhangjiajie, China; Holguin, Cuba; Sorrento, Italy; Tsuyama, Japan; Parral, Mexico; San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; Icheon, South Korea; Santa Fe de la Vega & Granada, Spain; Bukhara, Uzbekistan; Livingstone, Zambia.

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That means that their rent consumes most of their pay. I forget what percentage it is—there’s a percentage that the cost of their home is consuming a certain percentage of their family income. [SFR asks Chavez if she wanted to guess on that percentage, she says 80%.]

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True.

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Española and Las Vegas.

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enough money to be able to pay everything.

They’re able to pay everything but they don’t have any extra money to do anything.

SCORE: 2 / 5

REBECCA ROMERO

Romero works as a management analyst with the state’s Department of Health. This is her first time seeking elected office.

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and I want to say it was seven for an adult but I’m not positive.

SCORE: 1 / 5 Chavez recently started as the director of special education with the Santa Fe Public Schools district.

A former member of the Planning Commission, this is Chavez’s first run for public office.

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I believe [the contract] is extended until the end of the fiscal year of 2022, which would have put it at 6/30, but I don’t know if it would have gone into July. But I think it’s 2022. And I don’t know the name of it. I call it the Midtown shelter, I’m not even sure if that’s the correct name.

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I believe it’s $7.

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That they’re not making

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I’m going to say false.

You said 100 feet? Can we change it to true, I think that’s true.

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I know this one and I’m having to draw a blank, give me a second...I know there’s one in Mexico. I have family that travel to Mexico all the time, and they bring back stuff that looks like it could be here in Santa Fe...I’m gonna have to call them and ask them what’s the name of the city that they go to.

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From seed to bottle, Taos Hum hot sauce makers fire their dreams

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ne way to save chile pepper seeds is to spread them in a thin layer on the dashboard of the Subaru right after harvest. Crack the windows a little so it doesn’t get too baking hot in there.

Check on the tiny discs every day— they’re among the most precious items on the farm and you’ll need them for next year. Mark them carefully so you know which ones will bloom first, which will be bright orange, which will have thick flesh.

For Northern New Mexican farmers and foodies Joe and Loe Marcoline, such improvisation is the only way to make a go of it. While the dashboard method didn’t turn out to be the best tactic last season, it helped them continue cultivating peppers from the Andes, the Caribbean, China and Africa that can thrive in the high desert.

Their Taos Hum hot sauce is the textbook definition of farm to table: a value-added, closedloop regional product that goes from the foot of the Sangre de Cristos to the shelves of grocery stores and the menus of restaurants. In the last three years, it has not only hit the top reaches of heat scales, but also billboards and popularity.

Sales have soared, too.

The Marcolines first hoped their land would be a place where they could grow their own food, but that shifted quickly to selling vegetables at the Taos Farmers Market as well.

Lugging squash and tomatoes to market week after week wasn’t covering the cost, however. Baskets of bright habaneros and cayennes got oohs and ahs, yet people only bought one or two to take home.

Today, buyers are taking home bottles and sending them across the

globe as gifts. And what they are buying is unlike anything else on the shelves.

The peppers in Taos Hum hot sauce aren’t just exotic, hard-to-find varieties, they’re also 100% grown from seed on an off-the-grid, 5-acre patch of earth between the Rio Truchas and a vast section of federal land.

Walking Trout Farm gets its name from folklore that says the fish traverse west from the Truchas to the Rio Grande across dry land. Drivers from the highway dip into and across arroyos and climb past cottonwoods of impressive girth to snag a view of the farm’s seven grow houses. Out of sight, gravity moves springwater downhill to a storage tank and holding pond. Solar panels gear up not only the pumps for the irrigation system, but also the walk-in cooler and other production essentials.

In April, Joe ducks into a humid shack where classical music plays softly. After a few months of warmth from a wood-fired hot-water system connected to computerized heat probes, 2- to 3-inch pepper seedlings reach toward the light.

Farm manager Julia Espinosa and another worker pop in and out of the open door, rapidly moving plants from densely packed trays into bigger containers and into the ground. There’s always so much to be done, and some peppers won’t be ready to harvest until winter is nearly setting in again.

This is the first year Taos Hum has been able to hire long-term help. As the season progresses from planting to weeding to harvest, then to processing, work ramps up.

In December 2019, production included a 30-foot trailer loaded with 55-gallon drums full of peppers rumbling over La Veta pass, Joe explains. “My truck is 20 years old, the diesel that can pull that trailer. I got to Walsenburg and there was 10 inches

of snow; it’s coming down faster than my windshield wipers could go. I’ve got Elvis leg…On the way back it’s double the weight because now you’ve got the glass” bottles containing the sauce.

After that, Joe also had to double as the company’s salesman and distributor when the one he’d signed up to work with backed out. But every leap got the small business further off the ground, and Loe says Joe thinks big.

“We thought it would be great to grow our own food,” she explains of their plans when they bought the land in 2010. Joe had been working as a professional geohyrdologic engineer and he and Loe met when he spent six years in Canada completing a doctoral program before returning to New Mexico. They soon married and she moved south.

“Joe can’t do anything small,” Loe tells SFR, her smile detectable over the phone.

“Our small kitchen garden I imagined morphed into a huge farm garden.”

Then came years at the Taos Farmers Market and long weekends that blurred into late nights after their day jobs—his as a college teacher in Española and a project manager in Questa, hers in philanthropy in Santa Fe. “It took a lot of our time,” she says. “So we thought, ‘What can we do with our land that is within our threshold?’ And he did some test batches of the hot sauce and we just had so much fun with it. The hot sauce market is maybe today where the microbrew market was. It’s a niche market. We wanted to do something complimentary and not compete with something that our community already does well.”

The plan panned out. While Northern New Mexico does peppers, few do peppers like these.

Considering hybrid-cross varieties that they’re working to cultivate along with new varieties and those that they’ve grown the last three years, nearly two dozen different kinds in a rainbow of colors grew in the ground this season, most of them in covered frame houses that help retain humidity.

Of course, there’s green chile, jalapeño, habanero and cayenne in several colors.

But also cherry bomb, three cultivars of bhut jolokia or “ghost,” aji limo, ami amarillo, pot seven, fatalii, Carolina reaper and viper, to name a few.

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ABOVE: Seven grow houses help control humidity for hot pepper cultivation at Walking Trout Farm. BELOW LEFT: Farm manager Julia Espinosa shows off a cherry bomb. BELOW RIGHT: Chocolate Trinidad Moruga scorpion peppers get their name partly from the wrinkled, brown appearance.

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Chile Peppers Tested by the NMSU Chile Pepper Institute: (Scoville Heat Unit)

1. Trinidad Moruga scorpion (2 Million SHU) 2. Chocolate 7 pot (1.8 million SHU) 3. Trinidad scorpion (1.5 million SHU) 4. Bhut jolokia (1 million SHU) 5. Red 7 pot (780,000 SHU) Aji limo peppers originate in Peru and have a long growing season when cultivated in New Mexico.

6. Chocolate habanero (700,000 SHU) 7. Red Savina habanero (500,000 SHU)

And don’t forget the pepper that’s seeing its name in lights: Trinidad Moruga chocolate scorpion (so named, in part, for its dark-reddish-brownish hue, distinctive wrinkles and pointed “tail.”)

It’s listed currently as the hottest pepper tested by the New Mexico State University Chile Pepper Institute and is one of the three hottest Hum sauces—at least for now.

“This year we are boosting our raw green,” Joe explains as he munches a jalapeño straight from a plant in late September. “It’s already hot but we are making it crazy hot. We’ve got these big mama mustards, they are green scorpions—just crazy hot. We have kind of broken into some of the challenge stuff. That is what sells: the hottest thing you’ve got.

Even though our model is really flavor. We

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aren’t going to have the same thing all the time. We aren’t striving for consistency, we are just trying to improve. Some peppers do better some years, some do worse.”

Taos Hum’s retail line began with four sauces. This spring the lineup included nine flavors, ranging from mild to super hot. By September, three new flavors had been blended and a new hot oil was making waves. Loe wasn’t kidding.

The load bottled in Colorado in 2019 was about 1,500 cases. The next season’s crop yielded 2,000 cases, and this year’s looks to top 2,300—the equivalent of about 1,100 gallons.

Today, after blending peppers with hand-crafted vinegar at a commercial kitchen in Taos, the bottling operation takes place 60 to 200 gallons at a time at Apple Canyon Gourmet in Albuquerque

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8. Scotch bonnet (350,000 SHU) 9. Orange habanero (250,000 SHU) 10. Rocoto (175,000 SHU) OTHER PEPPERS NuMex Jalmundo Jalapeño (17,000 SHU) Sandia (1,500–2,000 SHU) Heritage NuMex Big Jim (500-1,000 SHU)

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Hot under the supervision of co-owners Anna and Greg Shawver.

Bright pink liquid splashes into sparkling bottles on the commercial packing line in early summer as the team processes prickly pear hot sauce, a mild blend that includes red ghost peppers along with the cactus fruit and a dash of honey.

Other varieties are not so forgiving, causing burning sensations in eyes and mouths for workers.

“There’s a couple that atomize in the air and, I mean, you sound like you have been smoking nine packs a day,” Greg says. “This stuff is hot. His tagline is ‘make it stop’ and there are times when I feel that!”

Like Taos Hum, Apple Canyon experienced an increase in volume during the pandemic. The packer has been in place for 20 years and plans to move into a new facility early next year to keep up. Anna reports so many local restaurants entered into product-development plans to market a shelf-stable salsa or sauce over the last year that Apple Canyon now has a waiting list for that service.

“They needed to add something else for revenue with fewer people in-person,” she says, “something they could ship or do online.”

While internet sales are important to the Marcolines’ business model, clicks alone aren’t driving that old diesel. Loe says the cartoon pepper labels and the popular lore of the hum—an ill-defined noise or vibration that some people experience in the mountain town—contribute to the growth.

Their products were already in stores and breweries around the Enchanted Circle in the spring of 2020 as the pandemic was ramping up. About the same time, Albuquerque-based restaurant chain Twisters was looking for a way to make its spicy fried chicken sandwich stand out. The mass-produced Tabasco scorpion version didn’t do the trick, but Taos Hum popped up on marketing manager Gabriella Martinez’s Instagram feed, and when testers tried it, they knew it was a winner.

A lot of people say chile peppers are like culinary bungee jumping: How hot is this going to be and how hot can they take it?

-Dave DeWitt, author/historian

Joe and Loe Marcoline deliver cases of hot sauce to La Montañita Co-op in Santa Fe.

Workers at Apple Canyon Gourmet in Albuquerque bottle a batch of prickly pear hot sauce.

“I made the mistake of trying it on a spoon and I was in tears for a solid 20 minutes,” Martinez tells SFR. Twisters’ Scorpion Ranch sandwich debuted in May 2020 with Taos Hum branded billboards and fanfare for its 20 locations in Albuquerque, Rio Rancho, Bernalillo and Denver, and quickly began to comprise 3% of sales—a proportion Martinez says is notable.

Why is it so popular? It’s the crazy heat, she says.

“We were looking to get our faces melted off,” she says. “We wanted something that was intense and super special…I get the little beads of sweat. You almost, like, fight through it. I think it’s the ability to have this new sense kind of ignited. It’s a little zap that elevates everything...It has the novelty about it. People love the intriguing feeling: ‘How am I going to react to it?’ It’s almost like the curiosity that, ‘I know it’s going to be hot, but I’m going to try it.’ Everybody wants to conquer something.”

Now the chain serves Loaded Dynamite Fries with the sauce and in mid-September launched a new secret sauce in its Outlaw Burger that features a caramelized serrano blend from Taos Hum. Dave DeWitt, one of New Mexico’s de facto pepper experts, says the enthusiasm around ever-hotter peppers is akin to adventure-seeking.

“A lot of people say chile peppers are like culinary bungee jumping: How hot is this going to be and how hot can they take it?” he says.

DeWitt is the founder of the Fiery

Foods Show (set to return to Sandia Resort and Casino in March of 2022 for those with proof of vaccination) and author of 50 food books. His most recent title, Chile Peppers: A Global History, recounts his travels to famous pepper regions and places that aren’t known for pepper but where people nonetheless grow and use them.

And you bet it features Trinidad scorpions and aji limos.

DeWitt organizes the annual Scovie awards in conjunction with the 33-yearold show, so named after Wilbur Scoville, the scientist who invented the measurement scale used to rate pepper heat.

“Last year we had 600 entries. This year we had 1,050, which tells you that either we are getting more successful or there are a lot more people out there making products with chile peppers,” he says.

“I think there are more manufacturers than ever. When we first started this, people were saying chile peppers are a fad.

If they are a fad, it’s a fad that has lasted thousands of years and I see no end in sight for it.”

The Marcolines do not see an end either. Expansion in the Santa Fe market has the couple’s sauces for sale at not just places like La Montañita Co-op, but also the Food King on Cerrillos Road and Gift and Gourmet and The Chile Shop on the Plaza. They are excited about the future, when the offspring of cross-cultivated aji limo and ami amarillo pepper they’ve nicknamed “Taos Peruvian” are doing exactly what they are hoping for: ripening early into a sunny orange color with a distinctive citrusy burn.

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PROUDLY PRESENTS

chamoy

a solo presentation of new paintings by

Javi Ramirez

October 8th - November 8th 2021

Please join us for an Artist Reception on October 8th at 6pm.

101 WEST MARCY STREET SUITE 203 SANTA FE NEW MEXICO

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THE HEARSE AIN’T THE WORST Patrons of Iconik Coffee Roasters’ original Lena Street location may be curious about what’s up with the mysterious hearse parked at a nearby business. Matthew Horowitz, who opened the doors of Revive Art Restoration back in 2016, is its owner, and he promises to reveal all in his upcoming talk. In addition to that, Horowitz plans to tackle the world of art restoration, explaining how the process works with historic and contemporary pieces. If you’ve ever wondered how some works seem to last forever—or how art can be brought back to life—this is the event for you. (Riley Gardner) Adventures in Art Restoration: 4 pm Thursday, Oct 7. Online. $25. bit.ly/3zRgsri

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EVENT FRI/9 EVENT MON/11 OKTOBER’S HERE Look, we all love the Santa Fe Brewing Co.’s massive flagship compound on the edge of town, and we all know the brewery kicks out some of the best-ass beers in this or any other state. But what we might not know yet is that the house Brian Lock built is going nuts for Oktoberfiesta, a day crammed with live music, an artwalk, a brat-eating contest and a dance party at sunset. The whole shebang is run by suggested donation (pay what you can, friends), and 100% of the proceeds will be donated to various local nonprofits. We’re pretty sure we had some of you at “brat-eating,” but don’t sleep on special one-off brews, cornholing, raffle prizes and that gorgeous HQ building. Also, like, there’s the beer. (ADV) Oktoberfiesta: 2 pm Friday, Oct. 9. Suggested donation Santa Fe Brewing Co., 35 Fire Place, (505) 424-3333

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EVENT SAT/9-SUN/10 ROLL-O-RAMA Expect lows and highs all weekend when The Dusty Mic and Kure Dispensary join forces to offer a weekend of lowriders and, uh, high movies (if you know what we mean). Vote on your favorite whips, browse and sample food vendors, jam to a variety of DJs and take in live music from Santa Fe’s own reggae/rock-. hip-hop act Boomroots Collective. Did we mention comedian Carlos Medina is also performing? Bring kites, picnics and other outdoor ephemera. Saturday includes a free screening of Cheech & Chong’s Up In Smoke and Sunday offers Trailer Park Boys: The Big Dirty. Maybe don’t explain the movies to your kids?

Or do. We’re not your mom. (RG) Low Riding/High Rolling: Car Show and Drive-In Movie: 3 pm Saturday Oct. 9 and Sunday, Oct. 10 Motorama at the Downs, 27475 W Frontage Road $20-$25. holdmyticket.com

This Calls for a Celebration Head to the museum or hit the great outdoors for Indigenous Peoples Day Granted, Indigenous Peoples Day 2021 might not have the thrills and spills of the year the Plaza obelisk came down, but we still don’t celebrate the genocidal Christopher Columbus around here, and that’s worth celebrating. And though you could easily ring in the occasion with donations to any number of local Indigenous causes (the Santa Fe Indigenous Center and Tewa Women United come to mind), if you’re looking to get out into the world with others, look no further than the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts and the Full Circle Farm at Reunity Resources.

At MoCNA, you’ll find a day’s worth of special events, including walk-in tours with docents or printmaking demos with Rebecca Kunz (Cherokee Nation), stories from the pubelo told by Cactus Eddie (Isleta Pueblo) and hoop dancing with the inimitable performers of the Lightning Boy Foundation. You’ll also be able to take advantage of free admission all day, plus 15% off at the museum store (which, btw, has some absolutely fire merch from some of the finest Native artists working today). If you don’t already know, this easily makes Indigenous Peoples Day the best time to discover why MoCNA was named the third best art museum in the country in a USA

Today readers’ poll from May. Meanwhile, down Agua Fría Street, local activist group Three Sisters Collective continues its commitment to responsible, community-based farming practices at Full Circle Farm, a plot of land attached to farm/up-and-coming music venue Reunity Resources. From noon-6 pm, the sisters will be out celebrating Indigenous excellence, tending to the bounty and otherwise giving back to O’ga P’ogeh (the Tewa name for Santa Fe)—a community that is, let’s face it, straight up on stolen land.

So be cool, give if you can, and otherwise remember that our Native siblings are worth so much more than one day—even if it’s a great time to appreciate their countless contributions to what makes Santa Fe special. (Alex De Vore)

@IAIA MOCNA 10 am-5 pm Monday, Oct. 11. Free.

108 Cathedral Place, (505) 428-5912

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY @REUNITY RESOURCES Noon-6 pm Monday, Oct. 11. Free.

Reunity Resources, 1829 San Ysidro Crossing, (505) 393-1196

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ONGOING ART TOTEM TONDO Turner Carroll Gallery 725 Canyon Road (505) 986-9800 Widely known for his maximalist paintings of wildlife, including birds, rabbits and butterflies, Hunt Slonem’s work draws heavily on the visual use of repetition and reiteration, aiming to create a unified mantra.

All day, free NEW CARTOGRAPHIES OF SMELL MIGRATION SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 A multi-sensory sculptural installation by Colombian artist Oswaldo Maciá, celebrating movement and migration through sound, smell and sight.

All day, free A PLACE LIKE NO OTHER: PHOTOGRAPHS IN THE NEW MEXICO BADLANDS Edition One Gallery 728 Canyon Road (505) 570-5385 Examination of the Bisti Badlands, a part of the Navajo Nation in the northwest portion of the state.

All day, free CHRIS MAYNARD: NEW WORKS Gerald Peters Gallery 1011 Paseo de Peralta (505) 954-5700 Intricate designs using feathers and shadowboxes.

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“Resilience“ by Priya Tambe, part of the Museum of Encaustic Art Exhibition opening Friday, Oct. 9.

CREATIVE RESIDENCIES: JOHNNY ORTIZ SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Ortiz’s video and ceramic work documents culinary celebrations of place, reflecting on his own relationship with his New Mexican roots. Also, he really loves food.

All day, free

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GIVING VOICE TO IMAGE ViVO Contemporary 725 Canyon Road (505) 982-1320 This creative alliance of artists draws its inspiration from the ancient Roman poet Horace’s adage, “A picture is a poem without words.” A unique and exciting celebration of the beauty of words and images.

All day, free

GOLDEN LIGHT, LONG SHADOWS AND ROADSIDE FLOWERS Hecho a Mano 830 Canyon Road (505) 916-1341 Daniel McCoy Jr. (Muscogee Creek/Citizen Band Potawatomi) paints and draws psychedelic and comic visions, referencing pop culture.

All day, free

IN SEARCH OF DOMÍNGUEZ AND ESCALANTE New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Ave. (505) 476-5100 The American West has changed since Franciscan friars traveled through in 1776. This photography show contrasts what the friars saw and what exists in New Mexico now.

10 am-5 pm, $7-$12

KILLING YOURSELF TO LIVE: LURE AND LOSS AT RANCHO LA BREA El Zaguán 545 Canyon Road (505) 982-0016 Art inspired by Pleistocene Epoch creatures who stumbled into oil pits and died. Artist Paul Baxendale reflects on our relationship with the chemical substance that has a habit of wanting to kill us. Don’t worry, you’ll be safe here until climate change gets us all.

All day, free PARALLEL TRAJECTORIES Currents 826 826 Canyon Road (505) 772-0953 From Robert Campbell and David Stout. Working within a complex array of generative animation processes, Campbell and Stout explore the translation of virtually constructed forms into inks on paper: organic patterns that evoke landscape, architecture and speculative weaving.

All day, free LAND CRAFT THEATRE SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 Artist Joanna Keane Lopez celebrates the legacy of adobera and enjarradora—women who are masters at constructing and preserving earthen buildings in New Mexico. In other words, the real GOATs. All day, free FACULTY AND STAFF EXHIBITION Santa Fe Community College 6401 Richards Ave. (505) 428-1000 School staff never get enough recognition, no matter how talented they are. Consider this showcase a kind-of remedy: a chance to see the artistic talent from SFCC faculty and staff and to know the cool the stuff the school is teaching. Ceramics, paintings, drawings, film and fine arts—all the cool stuff.

4:30-6:30 pm, free STRATA: A PROLOGUE Strata Gallery 418 Cerrillos Road, Ste. 1C/1D (505) 780-5403 Multiple mediums from over a dozen artists, ranging from oil paintings to photography and mixed media, maybe even some cool-lookin’ sculptures too.

Includes both established and upcoming local artists.

All day, free

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THERE’S NO OTHER LIKE YOUR MOTHER Foto Forum Santa Fe 1714 Paseo de Peralta (505) 470-2582 Photographer Brandy Trigueros, examines the concepts of womanhood and societal expectations, as well as anxieties about modern womanhood and what she wants out of life. Bring your men along and teach them a thing or two.

All day, free VOICES ALONG OUR NORTHSOUTH CORRIDOR El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia (505) 992-0591 A selection from the museum's permanent collection, featuring a blend of American, El Caribe and Latin American works on display. Masks and social distancing required.

3-6 pm, $5

DANCE ENTREFLAMENCO: FALL SEASON El Flamenco Cabaret 135 W Palace Ave. (505) 209-1302 Wine, tapas and of course the most exquisite dancing this side of the Santa Fe River. It ain’t just for the tourists.

6:30 pm, $25-$40

LA EMI: FALL FLAMENCO SERIES The Lodge at Santa Fe 750 N St. Francis Drive (505) 992-5800 La Emi and company, plus a number of special guests, bring that needed flamenco flair. Because more flamenco is always a good thing.

8 pm, $20-$50

WED/6 BOOKS/LECTURES GHOST TOWNS OF THE SOUTHWEST Online bit.ly/2WGJ7Sv Historian Robert L. Spude takes the audience on a tour of some of his favorite ghost towns around the Southwest and discuss their histories, legends and preservation. Probably no actual ghosts, but a spooky mood is possible.

Noon-1 pm, free HISTORY AND CULTURE TALKS 35˚ North Coffee 60 E San Francisco St. (505) 983-6138 Coffee and historical chats with historian Christian Saiia.

Noon-2 pm, free

EVENTS HOTLINE BINGO Desert Dogs Brewery and Cidery 112 W San Francisco St., Ste. 307 (505) 983-0134 Bingo like you've never played it before—a new theme every other week! $2 buy in per round.

Fun prizes and cash jackpot.

Come in costume and get a free round too.

7 pm, $2-$10

MUSIC DOUG MONTGOMERY AND ELIZABETH YOUNG Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 What's this? The wonderful Doug Montgomery PLUS Elizabeth Young on the violin? Pretty soon we'll have full orchestras in the place.

6:30 pm, free ELIZABETH AND A PIANO The Hollar 2849 Hwy. 14 (505) 471-2841 Country and folk piano covers.

5 pm, free KIDS SING ALONG Railyard Park Cerrillos Road and Guadalupe St. (505) 982-3373 Kids sing-along time. Get them singing, dancing and grooving.

10 am, free

MONOPHONICS Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 A timeless sound that blends heavy soul and psych-rock, led by singer Kelly Finnigan.

7:30 pm, $20-$25

THU/7 ART OPENINGS ADVENTURES IN ART RESTORATION Online bit.ly/3Fe7qIO Hosted by Matthew Horowitz.

An overview of the art restoration process—also, find out why Horowitz drives a hearse (see SFR picks, page 17).

4-5 pm, $25

BOOKS/LECTURES AN HOUR WITH THE CURATOR: SAN MIGUEL CHAPEL AND HISTORY CENTER San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 983-3974 Experience the old, old chapel and its new History Center with the Historian-Curator (see 3Qs, page 20).

3-4 pm, $10

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HONORING WILLIAM WROTH Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St. (505) 988-4226 A collection of interdisciplinary essays by an esteemed group of scholars and colleagues personally selected by Wroth before he died of leukemia in 2019. Includes 180 color illustrations of works by artists he knew and admired.

6 pm, free

EVENTS APPLE PICKING Los Luceros Historic Property West of Hwy. 68 (505) 476-1165 Apples. Sweaters. Historic buildings. Changing leaves.

Time to roll out some dough for a crust and get yourself making a from-the-tree filling to impress your neighbors.

10 am-4 pm, $7

HALF BROKE HORSES Tiny's Restaurant & Lounge 1005 S St. Francis Drive (505) 983-9817 2-Steppin’ Thursdays. Honkytonk and Americana music at Tiny's, but come with a big sound. 21+.

7-10 pm, free

THEATER LUNGS The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576 A modern version of Adam and Eve. Enjoy watching their difficult relationship start and end in that ever-so-dramatic way. Fig leaves not guaranteed, but biblical levels of chaos and melodrama are quite possible.

7:30 pm, $25-$90

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BLAIR & PHIL Cerrillos Station 15B 1st St., Cerrillos (505) 474-4917 Americana music and fresh produce under the beautiful New Mexico sky and down the Turquoise Trail.

4-6:30 pm, free

BRICKS AND MORTAR Santa Fe Women's Club 1616 Old Pecos Trail (505) 983-9455 A chance to check out samplings from all artists on the Santa Fe Studio Tour. Talk to them about their processes of creation, too.

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October 9, 2021 – June 19, 2022 Three artists whose work underscores

RUBEN MENDOZA

With San Miguel Chapel historian-curator Julianne Burton-Carvajal

the importance of the artist’s voice in social discourse.

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San Miguel Chapel (401 Old Santa Fe Trail, (505) 983-3974) has a history running four centuries and ranging from a deep commitment to religiosity to that of outright violence. It was the first building targeted in the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, and the little adobe chapel has withstood more than nearly any other building in the Southwest.

As the chapel’s historian-curator since 2018, Julianne Burton-Carvajal is one of many helping keep the stories from the old building alive. Burton-Carvajal cites the efforts of chapel director Dave Blackman, the St. Michael’s High School Board of Directors and Cornerstones Community Partnerships, an organization which specializes in historic adobe restoration, as some of the key players in keeping the chapel functioning.

She also leads the newly-coined Hour With The Curator events and was critical in developing a new history center that documents the artifacts and histories of this old place. SFR wanted to know—if it’s so old, what’s the new?

(Riley Gardner)

Can you tell us more about this new history center at San Miguel?

We wanted to make it more informal and more dynamic than our usual open hours. It’s a kind of memory book for four centuries you can walk around in, with three dimensional objects that look like they’ve come to us from back in time. These tours are on Thursday or Friday afternoons during October. You can come review highlights of the past four centuries along with new discoveries during the first portion of the hour [of the tour], and explore the three new display areas during the rest of the hour.

What kind of things can people see or learn about, and how does that lend itself to the broader history of Santa Fe? One of the key things is that we had the collaboration with a professional photographer, Thomas Dodge, who took any photos we needed. These photos help see a lot of the hard-to-see artifacts up close in pristine detail. One photo is of the gilded baroque statue of a very young

Archangel Michael, the patron of the chapel probably chosen by the Native Americans.

He [the statue] was here, we know, by 1709.

We know about the Christian Brothers and St. Michael’s (the brothers and the High School fund and operate the chapel, rather than the local diocese) and we know about the missionaries, but then there’s the Mesoamericans. That’s the missing piece—they’ve not been recognized as a key element in the creation of Santa Fe. Every time the Spanish came up from the City of Mexico or New Spain, they brought up a huge number of Indigenous peoples from Central America. They are the ones who built the chapel.

Things on display include a sword cross—a crucifix with a point at the bottom probably for planting it in the ground.

Historians of Native Americans say it has the paint pigmentation of local Indigenous works. There’s also a painting of Archangel Michael painted specifically for the chapel

by Bernardo Miera y Pacheco—it was only in the late 20th century that historians traced it to him, and a lot of Santa Feans are descended from him. It’s really surprising the number of people from different cultures and from different periods who’ve influenced this little modest chapel.

What makes San Miguel Chapel different from other similar structures within New Mexico, and why do so many pieces from it survive from over the centuries?

The most important thing is the untold story, that this was created by Indigenous people who were not from New Mexico.

Pueblos had their own local churches being built—so [building the chapel] was a double responsibility that fell on them. It is on the best site in the entire area, one that is elevated and never flooded. Many historians think while Barrio del Analco [the historic neighborhood that includes San Miguel Chapel and the Oldest House] was settled even before Santa Fe was officially founded in 1610. See, the Spanish were amazed with what they found here. People were living in functional architectural urban designs— something the Spanish were all about and determined to build a labor force on.

But, of course, the Spanish being determined to conquer militarily and spiritually meant we had a two-pronged entrada. It was the soldiers and the friars [conquering]. This resulting architecture in San Miguel Chapel is the earliest example of this in the entire Southwest. There’s nothing that rivals it. As for what survives—really, we have what we have. The stewardship of the Christian Brothers and St. Michael’s High School was critical. Bishop Lamy, some centuries later, founded the first formal school here.

We’d love to have more locals. We outreach through concerts, lectures and public events. Now with the history center, it is an excellent place to bring visitors—and locals should come check out the site.

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CHAMOY Smoke the Moon 101 Marcy Street Ste. 23 smokethemoon.com New paintings by Javi Ramirez with a particular focus on the relationship between the natural and supernatural worlds. Take a deep dive into a world filled with distorted flora and anthropomorphic creatures; your trusted guides through through a feverish dream.

All day, free SANTA FE STUDIO TOUR Santa Fe santafestudiotour.com Open studios. See how the big-timers (and hard working small-timers and part-timers) put together their craft. Meet some artists, mingle, get some walking or biking in.

All day, free TIME AND SPACE Blue Rain Gallery 544 S Guadalupe St., (505) 954-9902 From artist Doug West, this new body of work seeks to encapsulate features of the Southwest that are both dramatic and unique to the region in a series of large format paintings.

5-7 pm, free

BOOKS/LECTURES AN HOUR WITH THE CURATOR: SAN MIGUEL CHAPEL AND HISTORY CENTER San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail (505) 983-3974 For those who love that old building smell. Seriously. It’s nice. Go smell and see what I mean, then report back to us (see 3Q’s, page 20).

3-4 pm, $10 suggested donation

MUSIC AL ROGERS Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 The master pianist is back at the keys—per usual. Sip on a glass of wine, treat yourself more than a little bit and let Rogers soothe your soul with delightful piano medleys. It’ll make you feel like you have your life together (but hey, no promises here).

6:30 pm, free FRONTERA BUGALÚ AND NOSOTROS Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Come dance the night away with El Paso's iconic Latin band Frontera Bugaú and Santa Fe's own Nosotros! Cumbia, salsa, bachata and son. Be sure to bring your dancing shoes. Nosotros brings Latin rhythms with elements of rock, salsa, jazz and cumbia creating an original sound that is unmistakably them.

8-11 pm, free

TGIF CONCERTS First Presbyterian Church 208 Grant Ave. (505) 982-8544 Featuring baritone Aaron Howe accompanied by Jim Ahrend on piano. Donations are welcome.

Attendees must wear masks, social distance and be fully vaccinated.

5:30-6 pm, free (but donate)

THEATER LUNGS The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576 Local theater, local actors, local friends. Support ‘em.

7:30 pm, $25-$90

WORKSHOP MODERN BUDDHIST MEDITATIONS IN SANTA FE: HOW TO TAME YOUR MIND Santa Fe Community Yoga Center 826 Camino de Monte Rey (505) 292-5293 Explore how meditation connects us with our pure potential and become more loving, kinder and confident.

10-11:15 am, $10 NAVAJO WEAVING LECTURE Sorrel Sky Gallery 125 W Palace Ave. (505) 501-6555 Jackson Clark, a leading authority on Navajo weaving and owner of Toh-Atin Gallery in Durango, gives a free lecture on the craft. See some examples on display too.

5 pm, free

POETIC JUSTICE New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W Palace Ave. (505) 476-5072 Exhibition that showcases the formal and thematic intersection of artists Judith F. Baca (b. 1946), Mildred Howard (b. 1945) and Jaune Quickto-See Smith (b. 1940, Citizen of Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation), all of whom had a passion for social and cultural equality.

All day, free SANTA FE STUDIO TOUR Santa Fe santafestudiotour.com Day two of the trail. Wanna see some sculptors sculpting?

Check. Painters painting?

Check. Metal workers... uh, metaling? Check check and one more check.

All day, free

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The Museum is the only encaustic and wax museum in the nation, featuring artwork from around the world. Artists work in the medium of encaustic (beeswax/resin) and/or wax and mixed mediums.

MEETING THE HORSE: UNDERSTANDING THE HORSE-HUMAN RELATIONSHIP Arrowhead Ranch 1373 Arrowhead Ranch Road (505) 424-8888 Susan Smith of Equine Body Balance and Deborah Whalen examine just what the heck is up with this horse-human relationship thing and why they keep letting us mount them.

Good for those fasincated by both human and animal psychology.

8:30 am-5 pm, $250

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SAT/9 ART EX-VOTO SUSPECTO: FROM THE VOW MADE Eye on the Mountain Art Gallery 614 Agua Fria St. (928) 308-0319 Another year, another special Halloween show featuring the artwork of Santa Fe's Lindsay Payton. Her new work plays on traditional and contemporary styles.

All day, free ABIQUIU STUDIO TOUR Abiquiu Studio Tour abiquiustudiotour.org (505) 257-0866 Collectors and art lovers, now is the time to see their work and get a behind-the-scenes glimpse into their working processes. Over 50 artists and craftspeople for you to aim your many questions, like “why do you live out here?“ 10 am-5 pm, free MUSEUM OF ENCAUSTIC ART EXHIBITION Museum of Encaustic Art 632 Agua Fría St. (505) 989-3283 A showcase of over 100 of the Encaustic Arts' Magazine picks from the past decade 11 am-4 pm, free

HOOP DANCING Santa Fe Plaza 100 Old Santa Fe Trail Traditional Indigenous dancing from the Lightning Boy Foundation.

3:30-5 pm, free

EVENTS DRIVE-THRU FLU SHOT CLINIC Christus St. Vincent 455 St. Michael's Drive (505) 820-5202 Flu shots not only protect you against the oncoming yearly strain, but help reduce the spread and in turn increase the number of hospital beds available for any future COVID19 surge. Note this is NOT a vaccination for COVID-19. But it is still pretty important.

9 am-2 pm, free POP-UP PROTECTED BIKE LANE Paseo de Peralta Cerrillos Road/Old Santa Fe Trail santafempo.org Biking seperated from traffic?

Whoa, drivers and bikers must be collectively dreaming. Check out what it’s like to see what other cities have already adopted for safety’s sake. We all want safer lanes—what’s the deal, Santa Fe? All day, free

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LOW RIDING/HIGH ROLLING: CAR SHOW AND DRIVE-IN MOVIE Motorama at the Downs 27475 W Frontage Road Event opens with a lowrider car show, where spectators can vote on their favorite whips. DJs and live music from Santa Fe's Boomroots, plus food vendors.

Free evening screening of Cheech & Chong: Up In Smoke included (see SFR picks, page 17).

3 pm, $25 NEW MEXICO WILDLIFE CENTER: FALL OPEN HOUSE New Mexico Wildlife Center 19 Wheat St., Española (505) 753-9505 Learn all about New Mexico’s local wildlife with educational programs and up-close safe experiences with animals. Enjoy door prizes and all sorts of activities too.

10 am-3 pm, $3-$5 COMMUNITY CLOTHING SWAP General Franklin E Miles Park Siringo Road and Camino Carlos Rey bit.ly/3I9FRZf Swap out lightly used clothing.

Trade Halloween costumes.

Meet some cool people.

10 am-noon, free SANTA FE ARTISTS MARKET The West Casitas 1612 Alcaldesa St. (505) 310-8766 Abundant pottery selections, various jewelry choices, paintings in booth after booth, photographs, sculptures and more. North of the water tower.

8 am-2 pm, free MONTHLY BOOK SALE Main Library 145 Washington Ave. (505) 955-6780 Tens of thousands of items for sale, some up to 90% off.

Expect to be overwhelmed with books, a wonderful thing.

10 am-5 pm, $2 SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726 Like a real-life Stardew Valley harvest fair. If you know, you know. Anyways, vegetables and fancy cheese for sale.

7 am-1 pm, free STAND-UP COMEDY NIGHT Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Comedy gold plus drinks. Like, pay for them, but there’s drinks!

Featuring Sam Alvarado, Felix Cordova, Evan Galpert, Tyler Lovely and Nick Pelton.

8:30 pm, $5 OKTOBERFIESTA ARTWALK Santa Fe Brewing Co. 35 Fire Place (505) 424-3333 Beer, but it’s bier now, you know? Dozens of emerging artists, a sunset dance party, food, a bratwurst eating contest and more Germanicthemed joy (see SFR picks, page 17).

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INDIE SCREENINGS Jean Cocteau Cinema 418 Montezuma Ave. (505) 466-5528 Networking and film screening event with New Mexico talent.

Local short films, music videos, movie trailers and other cool stuff our film friends are putting out with their wicked talent.

2 pm-3:30 pm, $5-$7

LOW RIDING/HIGH ROLLING: CAR SHOW AND DRIVE-IN MOVIE Motorama at the Downs 27475 W Frontage Road Comedy show with local favorite Carlos Medina, and of course the greatest lowriders you've ever seen, perhaps. Free evening screening of The Trailer Park Boys: The Big Dirty included (see SFR picks, page 17).

3 pm, $20 NEW MEXICO WILDLIFE CENTER: FALL OPEN HOUSE New Mexico Wildlife Center 19 Wheat St., Española (505) 753-9505 Day two! Learn all about New Mexico’s local wildlife with educational programs and up-close experiences with animals. Abundant activities, cute little furry things.

10 am-3 pm, $3-$5 YOGA IN THE PARK Bicentennial Park 1121 Alto St. No, you won’t have to do the splits. May feel one with your blood circulation, though.

10 am, $10

MUSIC AL ROGERS Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 Master pianist is back at the keys—per usual. Sip on a glass of wine, treat yourself more than a little bit and let Rogers soothe your soul with delightful piano medleys.

6:30 pm, free CHATTER SITE Santa Fe 1606 Paseo de Peralta (505) 989-1199 A weaving of traditional and contemporary chamber music programs that include a reading by a poet of the morning. Includes Darius Milhaud, arr. Jean-Marie Londeix La Création du monde and Pierre Jalbert's All is Now (in its world premiere).

10:30 am, $5-$16 CONTROLLED BURN Ski Santa Fe 1477 Hwy. 475 (505) 982-4429 Don’t worry, it’s just the band’s name. Music on top of the mountain. Rock’n’roll, country swing and Americana. Pure autumn, pure mountain living and pure air.

6-9 pm, free

THEATER MANAHATTA Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 A staged reading of a timely drama by celebrated playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle, Manahatta shows how history repeats itself with devastating consequences.

7:30 pm, $29-$65 LUNGS The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576 Not a breathing exercise class.

The breath of the-ay-tah.

7:30 pm, $25-$90

SUN/10 ART OPENINGS SANTA FE STUDIO TOUR Santa Fe santafestudiotour.com See a landscape painting in progress, or perhaps a wooden bear sculpture still dusted in wood shavings. See how the artists hold their brush.

All day, free

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“Chamoy” by Javi Ramirez, part of the show Chamoy opening Oct. 8 at Smoke the Moon.

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BILL HEARNE La Fiesta Lounge 100 E San Francisco St. (505) 982-5511 Music via one of the most well known local artists. Honky-tonk sounds in the autumn air.

7:30 pm, free DAVID BERKELEY Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 Songwriter and author David Berkeley writes songs capable of both breaking and mending the heart. The San Francisco Chronicle calls him a “musical poet,” and the New York Times praises his “lustrous, melancholy voice with shades of Tim Buckley and Nick Drake.” If you don’t know who those dudes are, just know: this guy has a killer singing voice.

7 pm, $20 DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 More good piano tunes from a local pianist master. His tunes will sweeten the wine and savorize (is that a word?) the already delightful dishes through the power of music and all that.

But really, he’s great.

6:30 pm, free THE SANTA FE SYMPHONY: BEETHOVEN'S EMPEROR Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W San Francisco St. (505) 988-1234 Maestro Guillermo Figueroa leads The Santa Fe Symphony in an epic afternoon of great music in celebration of master symphonist Ludwig van Beethoven, who will apparently not be in attendance according to the latest reports.

4 pm, free

LUNGS The Actors Lab 1213 Parkway Drive B (505) 395-6576 Love, in a sorta modern biblical style with some existentialism mixed in. What can we say, local theater always has more feels.

2 pm, $25-$90

MON/11 DANCE SANTA FE SWING Odd Fellows Hall 1125 Cerrillos Road Start your week dancing jitterbug or East Coast swing. $8 for the class at 7 pm and the dance, $3 just for the dance at 8 pm, for those who’ve already got the swing in them. Masks required—bring CDC vax proof and then Shim Sham your way to a good time.

7 pm, $3-$8

EVENTS INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY AT MOCNA IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place (505) 983-8900 Come together to celebrate and honor the past, present, and futures of Indigenous peoples.

Walk-in tours with docents, traditional hoop dancing and Pueblo Stories with Cactus Eddie (Isleta Pueblo). Also a Printmaking demonstration with artist Rebecca Lee Kunz (Cherokee Nation) and much more from the regional Native community (see SFR picks, page 17).

11 am-1:30 pm, free

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY CELEBRATION Reunity Resources 1829 San Ysidro Crossing (505) 393-1196 A celebration of Indigenous excellence from the Three Sisters Collective (see SFR picks, page 17).

11 am-1:30 pm, free

MUSIC DOUG MONTGOMERY Fenix at Vanessie 427 W Water St. (505) 982-9966 Fancy foods plus a live piano bar? Don’t chew too fast, it’ll ruin the mood.

6:30 pm, free

TUE/12 BOOKS/LECTURES AUTHOR TALK: JAMES MCGRATH MORRIS Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo St. (505) 988-4226 Pre-publication reading and talk for James McGrath Morris' Tony Hillerman: A Life.

5 pm, free HOW COVID-19 ENDANGERS OUR MENTAL WELL-BEING Online namisantafe.org Lecture with Dr. Kristina Sowar, associate professor of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychology at UNM. Hear about the impacts of COVID-19 on our mental health and will review data and consider how COVID-19 has specifically affected individuals of all ages.

6-7 pm, free

EVENTS YOGA IN THE PARK Bicentennial Park 1121 Alto St. No, none of us have mastered the tree pose yet. We’ll keep you posted.

Noon, $10 SANTA FE ROAD SHOW Hampton Inn 3430 Cerrillos Road premiergoldsilverandcoin.com Got some cool, strange items laying around your house? Come get it checked out by a few specialists and see how much it might be worth.

3 pm, free

FOOD SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market Pavilion 1607 Paseo de Peralta (505) 983-7726 Tired of crowds, tired of standing in lines just to get a half pound of arugula? Escape those 9-5ers that come out on the weekends and get yourself a little quieter happy time. Just you and your cute little beets.

7 am-1 pm, free

MUSIC LOW HUM Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fría St. (505) 303-3808 With special guests Gold Tides and Dream Noise. Described as having "a cinematic romanticism" within the music, Low Hum befits the larger than life moments that carry our dreams.

8 pm, $10

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Unordinary Stationery Where businesses see obstacles, Pushpin Collaborative Co.’s Katie Keener sees opportunity

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ulticolored chalk designs scatter the sidewalk leading up to the open door at Pushpin Collaborative Co. (1925 Rosina St., (505) 372-7728), and owner Katie Keener meanders inside the impeccably organized card shop, which joins with the emerging business strip at Plaza Rosina.

“I hosted ArtWalk here in September,” Keener explains of the festive sidewalk; the twice-monthly outdoor market brings local and emerging artists together, along with food and music.

It’s uncommon to hear of businesses starting because of the pandemic, but that’s exactly what Keener did. Don’t expect Hallmark or Papyrus products here, though—Keener only features creations from American small businesses and, perhaps most importantly, local artists. The main idea for Pushpin came when Keener found herself out of a job last spring during COVID-19 lockdowns. She took that time to reassess her goals.

“We all went so insular and I was really craving community,” she says. “I’ve always

seen Santa Fe as a place that could use another platform to show a variety of artists and layers and goods, and that’s what I’m able to do here.”

Originally from Pennsylvania, Keener arrived in New Mexico through The Santa Fe Opera, where she formerly worked as a costume draper. Before that, however, and in the opera’s off-season, Keener traveled the country visiting art fairs and compiling a list of her favorite artists, many of whom now form her curation at Pushpin.

Behind the counter hangs a large map on spring rollers with pushpins marking the cities where the store’s various artists reside; directly across from that hangs a corkboard plastered with business cards and event posters—an open invitation for even more local artists to advertise themselves. Still, it’s not all about creators from farflung lands: Roughly a quarter of Pushpin’s stock comes from within the state.

“Again, just bringing the community together,” Keener notes. “We have other businesses that have opened, we have other great local owners, and not everybody knows about it, so we can cross-pollinate and share.”

Last year’s economic halts also brought down the longstanding Marcy Street Card

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Pushpin’s upcoming holiday season will feature over 150 designs by New Mexico artists.

Shop, for example, which spent its final year on Canyon Road. When Keener heard the news, she visited owners Rick and Roberta Remington and purchased their remaining inventory and fixtures.

“At the end, it was a really wonderful passing of the torch. Rick and Roberta, the former owners, were happy to pass it on to someone new that was starting something up and they’ve remained contacts to me throughout this, which has been really wonderful,” Keener tells SFR. “And now they’re getting to live their life of retirement and that’s what they were ready to do.”

Katie Keener’s one-woman operation supports small businesses from around the country 10 am-5 pm, Tuesday through Saturday.

Pushpin also functions as a one-stop shop for stationery, wrapping paper, tote bags and other gifts, but Keener remains devoutly supportive of the art of writing, and consistently journals herself.

When customers mention a similar liking, Keener says, it inspires her to develop that feature further.

“If you’re getting into a new hobby, another great thing that is back is hand lettering. Just the art of writing and cursive is lost,” Keener says. “So I do have some really nice hand lettering kits by some businesses across the states. I also have some great pen sets to get started.” Keener hopes this could lead to workshops in the future.

“I’ve always printed, whether it’s on fabric or paper,” she says.

Fellow printer Rebecca Lee Kunz (Cherokee Nation), who also owns Tree of Life Studio, block prints her works, which display in 25 retail stores, including Pushpin. Kunz admires Keener’s appreciation for artists, she tells SFR. “In comparison to other stores, it has been a very good experience so far. She is very encouraging of me as a local artist and is very easy and fun to work with,” Kunz says.

“I’m very happy to be a part of her store.”

But what’s Keener’s bestseller, and what’s her personal favorite?

The “mother fucking girl power” card sells well, and Keener remains unbiased, saying, “honestly, my favorite is all of it together because it all tells a story.”

The best way to learn about upcoming developments is to follow the shop’s Instagram (@PushpinCollaborativeCo) and visit the website (pushpincollborativeco.com)—and be ready to shop online in 2022.

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manding, and though Mendoza still has an hour to go before he opens up for service, he’s still prepping and finalizing when we speak by phone. In those three months, Jesushi has proven a word-of-mouth powerhouse with even the most discerning (read, jerkish) of my friends singing its praises. This isn’t 10 or more years ago, when self-proclaimed foodies would have simply pooh-poohed the idea of sushi from a truck, either, and the ever-evolving food truck movement has proven fine dining need not be attached to a brick-and-mortar kitchen. Even so, Mendoza says he’s still considering a possible patio build-out when the winter passes next year; one that might include beer and wine.

Regardless, he’s got the sushi pedigree, including a stint at the sadly-defunct Osaka restaurant on the Southside that now houses, sigh, Buffalo Wild Wings. Mendoza started there at 15, when, he says, he believes he became the youngest chef in Santa Fe—sushi or otherwise. He’d work Osaka’s teppan grill as well, though, Mendoza says, “I liked making

Jesushi food truck might just serve up Santa Fe’s best sushi from a carwash parking lot

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ith more than 85% of the fish consumed by Americans being imported, most seafood you’ll ever eat was frozen at some point—often right on the boat. Let this soothe any fish-in-the-desert concerns you might have and set adrift in the knowledge that new sushi truck Jesushi (2217 Cerrillos Road, (505)204-5530; Monday-Wednesday Noon-5 pm; Thursday-Saturday Noon-6 pm) from local chef Jesus Mendoza is excellent.

And I know from whence I speak. Yes, we’re all sushi geniuses around here, and we all know what we like, but my dad’s family lived in Japan for years, and the whole raw fish thing has been a mainstay of my life since I can remember first grappling with the concept of flavor. I’ve had staunch requirements because of that, and a schooling in the ancient art of raw fish that I can only truly describe as intensive. Mendoza’s new truck satisfies my criteria with only the smallest of downsides (more on that later) and some of the best and freshest-tasting fish I’ve ever had in New Mexico.

“I’ve been doing it for three months now,” Mendoza says on a late Monday morning.

The food truck world is, to say the least, de-

sushi more. It’s more like an art.”

After Osaka, he worked at Española’s Jo-Ji’s for a few years, but took back up with Osaka and, eventually, moved over to Midtown’s Kai Sushi for a three-year run.

Then the COVID-19 pandemic kicked in.

“We were closed for two months, but my bills didn’t stop,” he tells SFR. “But I had this truck in my yard, and I was asking myself what I should do—and my mind said ‘sushi on wheels.’”

He worked on the truck, developed a menu and a relationship with seafood importer Arizona Mutual Trading Co. (much of his fish comes from California and Japan and arrives in Santa Fe twice weekly) and now spends every day preparing, as he says, art.

That’s the right word, too, because on the day my companion and I arrived to sample Mendoza’s food, everything looked clean and gorgeous. Jesushi’s menu is more complete than you’d expect from a truck (of which, Mendoza says, he’s proud), and being unable to settle on specific nigiri ($2-$6) or roll

We sampled the chirashi bowl tailgate style and will most definitely return to Jesushi.

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($6-$12) selections, we opted for the chef’s choice chirashi bowls as well as the California roll and shrimp tempura roll (sushi standbys that are, at the very least, decent pretty much anyplace). At $18 apiece, the bowls were worth every penny thanks to the crab meat, salmon, tuna, yellowtail and shrimp served atop freshly made rice with pickled carrots on the side (a brilliant and delicious addition to the already brilliant contrasting flavor profiles and textures of the fish). The shrimp, admittedly, felt a tad deflated and listless, but every single other piece of fish was a prime cut with the kind of marbling that makes one perform a double take. By the time we got to the rolls ($8 and $10), we had already been transported to the too-full dimension, but we powered through in the name of science. And though the California roll’s avocado flavor was right in that perfect avocado window, the shrimp tempura roll contained cream cheese which, though I’m not against it in theory, dominated the flavor. That’s a small misstep in an otherwise flawless operation, though.

“I know how to take care of my fish,” Mendoza says of the flavor. “I don’t prep a lot for two or three days—I prep day-of, rice, too. Because I’d rather tell my customers I’ve run out than prep too much fish. You eat with your eyes, too, and I serve my sushi looking like I’d want to eat it, you know?”

Indeed, and Jesushi’s presentation wins big points, as does Mendoza’s commitment to quality. He advises calling in for takeaway—at least until he has seating options, as Jesushi currently has none—or at least being OK with a 35- or 45-minute wait.

“It’s not like a fast food truck,” Mendoza explains. “Nothing’s ready to go, everything is from scratch. Sometimes it takes time.”

And that’s OK. It was nice to catch up with a buddy and tailgate a bit in the early autumn sun. And when that patio comes, I’ll be the first in line. Until then, any sushi aficionados should put Jesushi up at the top of their list.

This stuff’s magic.

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MOVIES The Many Saints of Newark Review Tony who?

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Like the Breaking Bad movie El Camino before it, HBO’s The Many Saints of Newark doles out fan service crumbs for an already-over television show with the promise of fleshing out beloved characters’ stories. This could have meant meaningful writing and some patched-up holes, but, like the Breaking Bad movie, it mostly tarnishes a legacy for Sopranos alums and newcomers alike. Can we or should we revisit the periphery of things once held in the highest esteem, or is there no good way of coming back to something that already felt pretty perfect the first time around?

Turns out it’s the second one, and whereas the marketing for David Chase’s new film promised insight into how Tony Soprano (one of the greatest characters of all time) came to be the powerful New Jersey mobster with whom we all fell in love/hate more than 20 years ago, what we really get is the backstory to questions either never asked or long forgotten by all but the most dedicated Sopranos fans.

Do we see a young Tony Soprano’s place within a burgeoning organized crime empire? Sure. Does it feel like it matters? Hardly. Instead, The Many Saints of Newark focuses more on his uncle, Dickie Moltisanti (Alessandro Nivola), a heretofore unseen force and father of Michael Imperioli’s Christopher from the original series, who narrates this film, but only sometimes, weirdly. Anyway, what we already knew about Dickie was minimal: Tony loved him, Christopher

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APACHE JUNCTION + FUN STUFF; CINEMATOGRAPHY - TOO MUCH TELLING, NOT ENOUGH SHOWING

When a young San Francisco journalist named Annabelle Angel (Scout Taylor-Compton) shows up in the Arizona town of Apache Junction circa 1881, she’s got everything to prove and a rigorous and hard US Army captain (Trace Adkins) who seemingly wants to stop her from doing so.

Annabelle works for Hearst, y’all, and she volunteered to hit the Wild West to document the lives of bounty hunters, the nearby Army folks, the Natives in the area and so forth, but when she unwittingly gets swept up in the world of one Jericho Ford (Stuart Townsend) and his trusty best pal Wasco (Ricky Lee Regan, whom SFR interviewed recently; 3 Questions, Sept. 1), telling the story becomes something else entirely.

Bounty hunters, soldiers and bandit gangs come together to take our heroine down—as does a nefarious gunslinger by the name of Oslo Pike (Ed Morrone)—but with Ford and Wasco keeping that chivalry dream alive, you can bet your 10-gallon hat there’s gonna be shootouts and standoffs and stuff.

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didn’t know him and somehow, his actions in the ’60s and ’70s still had ramifications when the show kicked off in 1999. Here, we learn he was a bit of a bastard as shaped by things like his dad, Hollywood Dick Moltisanti (Ray Liotta, who also plays his own twin for some reason), and a torrid affair with his one-time stepmother Giuseppina (Michela De Rossi). Make your Oedipus jokes now, folks.

Teenage Tony (Michael Gandolfini—son of James, and someone with more than a passing resemblance to his father) is there, yeah, but mostly as a sounding board to the violence, crime and sexual mores of the family. Present also are any number of younger versions of Sopranos faves like Paulie Walnuts, Big Pussy and Silvio, though their impacts are often limited to hokey reminders of later antics (Silvio sure is weird about his hair, for example); Tony’s dad Johnny Soprano (Jon Bernthal) exists here, but not for any compelling reasons, but Vera Farmiga as Livia Soprano...now that’s something special and, as rarely happens, she nails the earlier version of Nancy Marchalnd’s easily maligned character. Corey Stoll as young Uncle Junior feels pointless.

Tony, meanwhile, sees it all and even does some minor mobby things like running numbers at his

out swinging with his ode to the classic Western.

Apache Junction looks and feels contemporary in its cinematography and pacing, but story-wise, character-wise, sense-of-place-wise, Lee clearly did his homework on the Golden Age of Hollywood. To wit: Townsend’s loner-with-a-gun thing hits all the right beats, particularly in his sense of right and wrong (find any essays on the hero’s journey and/ or light-versus-dark), but with a sort of effortless charm that recalls the genre’s greats; Thomas Jane is pitch-perfect as the saloon owner.

By comparison, Regan’s Native sidekick role comes correct with a dose of compassion and humanity; perhaps even representing the last good bit of Ford’s soul if we wanna get philosophical here. Sadly, though, like most Native characters in film, Regan doesn’t get enough to do and certainly not enough dialogue—a pity given his pedigree with Oklahoma’s American Indian Theater Company. Still, he strikes a satisfying balance between compassion and badassery. Same goes for Mary (Danielle Gross), an enigmatic citizen of Apache Junction who sees the looming tide of proper civilization as a sad inevitability. Gross’ take on heartache over something she hasn’t quite lost yet is one of the more compelling pieces of the puzzle, though it does overshadow TaylorCompton’s wide-eyed newcomer.

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Catholic school; “Hey, Carmella—do you got a quarter?” at a later payphone scene sure reminds us that he’ll marry her one day (love you, Edie Falco!!!!!).

Once we get beyond scenes that amount to “No one will ever drive your auto-mo-car, Henry Ford,” what’s left is a fairly tame movie about a messed up family and maybe something about how pride is weird and guns don’t solve a whole lot of problems. Even Leslie Odom Jr. (Hamilton) can’t elevate the goings on as one-time Moltisanti ally Harold—and one particularly violent scene almost makes Marathon Man’s dental stuff seem pleasant.

Toss in a bunch of Italian guys going “Ohhh!” and you get the gist. Honestly, it feels like they’re gearing up for a sequel film if enough folks get behind The Many Saints of Newark, but the young Gandolfini simply doesn’t have the gravitas his pop did. Longtime fans will watch out of curiosity, and everyone else will keep meaning to pop it on, but never actually get there.

THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK Directed by Alan Taylor With Nivola, Gandolfini, Liotta, Farmiga and De Rossi Violet Crown, HBO Max, R, 120 min.

Still, when the dynamite’s tossed and the explosions punctuate the flying bullets, Apache Junction works. Seems like every few years we get a decent Western making the rounds, and this is that, even if a little more character development would have worked wonders. Can’t really beat those sunsets and landscapes, though. (ADV) Apple TV+, R, 94 min.

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I Carry You With Me offers something akin to perfection before its sense of self-importance ventures too far. Even still, prepare for its better elements to sweep you away even when it might ultimately leave you adrift.

In the early 1990s, Iván (a wonderful Armando Espitia) isn’t having much luck on his path to becoming a chef and Puebla, Mexico, isn’t offering much. All the while, he’s trying to support his young son amidst his poverty—but, as any queer drama requires, things begin to change when he meets Gerardo (Christian Vázquez) and the two fall into a loving but hushed relationship. Circumstances devolve until Iván is forced

to immigrate illegally to the United States for a chance at giving his son a better economic footing.

The narrative storytelling in I Carry You With Me is a knock-out. Still, it suffers from a glaring creative misdirection—blending the wonderful narrative with documentary, focusing on the present day lives of the men who’ve inspired the film.

Director Heidi Ewing (Jesus Camp) proves herself to be a hell of a filmmaker, but she can’t seem to separate entirely from her documentarian background, even when the project begs for it.

I Carry You With Me began as a doc before it evolved into a narrative, according to Ewing, but its genre-blending yanks the rug out from under the viewer (the entire third act transitions into documentary), shattering the illusion so well built for us. Even if these sections are well-crafted, it’s harder to swallow because Ewing’s creative choices are otherwise solid. She shoots the film tightly, having her actors dominate the frame and sacrificing dialogue for subtle looks and glances. It is tense, funny and often affecting, even if its plot beats are familiar.

I wish we got a complete film rather than two separate works stitched together—at least its narrative elements are worthy of celebration.

(Riley Gardner) VoD, NR, 111 min.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries poet Anna Kamieńska said her soul didn’t emanate light. It was filled with “bright darkness.” I suspect that description may apply to you in the coming weeks. Bright darkness will be one of your primary qualities. And that’s a good thing! You may not be a beacon of shiny cheer, but you will illuminate the shadows and secrets. You will bring deeper awareness to hidden agendas and sins of omission. You will see, and help others to see, what has been missing in situations that lack transparency. Congratulations in advance!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Some people are crazy drunk on rotgut sobriety,” wrote aphorist Daniel Liebert. I trust you’re not one of them. But if you are, I beg you to change your habits during the next three weeks.

According to my reading of the astrological omens, you have a heavenly mandate to seek more than the usual amounts of whimsical ebullience, sweet diversions, uplifting obsessions, and holy amusements. Your health and success in the coming months require you to enjoy a period of concentrated joy and fun now. Be imaginative and innovative in your quest for zest.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion—a false hope.” So declared author Sue Miller, and now I’m sharing it with you, Taurus—just in time for the end of at least one of your illusions. (Could be two, even three.) I hope your misconceptions or misaligned fantasies will serve you well as they decay and dissolve.

I trust they will be excellent fertilizer, helping you grow inspired visions that guide your future success. My prediction: You will soon know more about what isn’t real, which will boost your ability to evaluate what is real.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Afghan-American novelist Khaled Hosseini writes, “People mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really what guides them is what they’re afraid of—what they don’t want.” Is that true for you, Gemini? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to meditate on that question. And if you find you’re motivated to live your life more out of fear than out of love, I urge you to take strenuous action to change that situation! Make sure love is at least 51 percent and fear no more than 49 percent. I believe you can do much better than that, though.

Aim for 75 percent love!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.” Oglala Lakota medicine man Black Elk said that, and now I’m passing it on to you. It’s not always the case that dreams are wiser than waking, of course, but I suspect they will be for you in the coming weeks. The adventures you experience while you’re sleeping could provide crucial clues to inform your waking-life decisions. They should help you tune into resources and influences that will guide you during the coming months. And now I will make a bold prediction: that your dreams will change your brain chemistry in ways that enable you to see truths that until now have been invisible or unavailable. (PS: I encourage you to also be alert for intriguing insights and fantasies that well up when you’re tired or lounging around.)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Don’t hope more than you’re willing to work,” advises author Rita Mae Brown. So let me ask you, Leo: How hard are you willing to work to make your dreams come true, create your ideal life, and become the person you’d love to be? When you answer that question honestly, you’ll know exactly how much hope you have earned the right to foster. I’m pleased to inform you that the coming weeks will be a favorable time to upgrade your commitment to the work and therefore deepen your right to hope.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scottish Poet Laureate Jackie Kay, born under the sign of Scorpio, writes, “It used to be that privacy came naturally to everybody and that we understood implicitly what kind of things a person might like to keep private. Now somebody has torn up the rule book on privacy and there’s a kind of free fall and free for all and few people naturally know how to guard this precious thing, privacy.” The coming weeks will be a good time for you to investigate this subject, Scorpio—to take it more seriously than you have before.

In the process, I hope you will identify what’s truly important for you to keep confidential and protected, and then initiate the necessary adjustments. (PS: Please feel no guilt or embarrassment about your desire to have secrets!)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretense that pain is the proper price of any good thing,” wrote feisty author Rebecca West (1892–1983). I am very happy to report that your current torrent of good things will NOT require you to pay the price of pain. On the contrary, I expect that your phase of grace and luck will teach you how to cultivate even more grace and luck; it will inspire you to be generous in ways that bring generosity coming back your way. As articulated by ancient Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu, here’s the operative principle: “Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “If you don’t ask, the answer is always no,” declares author Nora Roberts. In that spirit and in accordance with astrological omens, I urge you to be bold and lucid about asking for what you want in the coming weeks. In addition, I encourage you to ask many probing questions so as to ferret out the best ways to get what you want. If you are skilled in carrying out this strategy, you will be a winsome blend of receptivity and aggressiveness, innocent humility and understated confidence. And that will be crucial in your campaign to get exactly what you want.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Few persons enjoy real liberty,” wrote poet Alfred de Musset. “We are all slaves to ideas or habits.” That’s the bad news. The good news is that October is Supercharge Your Freedom Month for you Aquarians. I invite you to use all your ingenuity to deepen, augment, and refine your drive for liberation.

What could you do to escape the numbness of the routine? How might you diminish the hold of limiting beliefs and inhibiting patterns? What shrunken expectations are impinging on your motivational verve? Life is blessing you with the opportunity to celebrate and cultivate what novelist Tim Tharp calls “the spectacular now.” Be a cheerful, magnanimous freedom fighter.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The brilliant Piscean composer Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) wrote, “I wish I could throw off the thoughts that poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.” What?! That’s VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “To be truly visionary, we crazy! If he had been brave enough and willful enough to have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that stop taking pleasure in indulging his toxic thoughts, they might have lost their power to demoralize him. With this reality.” This shrewd advice comes from author bell in mind, I’m asking you to investigate whether you, like hooks (who doesn’t capitalize her name). I think it Chopin, ever get a bit of secret excitement from undershould be at the heart of your process in the coming mining your own joy and success. The coming weeks days. Why? Because you now have an extraordinary will be a favorable time to dissolve that bad habit. potential to dream up creative innovations that acknowledge your limitations but also transcend those limitaHomework: Hold your own hand and tell yourself what you will do to end a nagging discomfort in your life.. tions. You have extra power available to harness your https://Newsletter.FreeWillAstrology.com fantasies and instigate practical changes.

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Representative of this Estate.

All persons having claims against this Estate are BECOME AN ESL required to present their VOLUNTEER TUTOR. Literacy Volunteers of Santa claims within four (4) months STATE OF NEW MEXICO Fe tutor training workshop after the date of the first IN THE PROBATE COURT prepares volunteers to tutor publication of this Notice, or SANTA FE COUNTY adults in English as a Second the claims will be forever IN THE MATTER OF THE Language. This includes an barred. Claims must be orientation on November 11th ESTATE OF ELIZABETH B. presented either to the from 4:00 to 6:00 pm, training HENRY, DECEASED. undersigned Personal on November 12th from 9:00 No. 2021-0170 Representative, Teya NOTICE TO CREDITORS am to 5:00 pm. For more Andersen, c/o Barry Green, information, please call (505) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Law Office of Barry Green, 428-1353, or visit our website that the undersigned has been Suite 7, 200 West DeVargas www.lvsf.org to apply to be a appointed personal representaStreet, Santa Fe, New Mexico volunteer tutor. tive of the estate of the decedent.

87501, or filed with the First All persons having claims against Judicial District Court Clerk, the estate of the decedent are PO Box 2268, Santa Fe, New required to present their claims Mexico 87504-2268. within four (4) months after the Dated: 9-24-21 date of the first publications of Teya Andersen any published notice to creditors Teya Andersen, Personal Gerard’s House grief center is or sixty (60) days after the date Representative of mailing or other delivery of hiring a Program Director.

Submitted by, this notice, whichever is later, or A minimum of 2 years of LAW OFFICE OF BARRY the claims will be forever barred. experience in the supervision/ GREEN Claims must be presented either management of a non-profit Barry Green volunteer program is preferred. to the undersigned personal rep- Attorneys for Applicant/Estate Experience initiating and setting resentative at the address listed Suite 7 goals for programs according to below, or filed with the Probate 200 West DeVargas Street the strategic objectives of the Court of Santa Fe County, New Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 organization. Please visit www. Mexico, located at the following 505/989-1834 (Phone) gerardshouse.org and send address: 505/982-8141 (Fax) resume/cover letter to P.O. Box 1985 LawOfficeOfBarryGreen@msn. nicole@gerardshouse.com.

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Santa Fe, NM 87502-5333 (505) 988-5600 -- office (505) 982-0185 -- facsimile eharwood@simonsfirm.com FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF SANTA FE STATE OF NEW MEXICO IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JAMES CHANCELLOR, Deceased.

No. D-101-PB-2021-00206 NOTICE TO THE HEIRS OF JAMES CHANCELLOR, TO WIT: DOLORES (BIRDIE) TRUJILLO; JO ANN TRUJILLO; JAN RARICK; CARMEN JO ALEXANDER; WILL SANDERS FULBRIGHT; MICHAEL TRUJILLO; MARIA TRUJILLO; KEVIN COBB TRUJILLO; DARLENE TRUJILLO; EDDIE TRUJILLO; KENNETH COVER; KEVIN COVER; JOE S TRUJILLO; MICHAEL (TONTO) ALEXANDER; CEDRICK TRUJILLO; RAYMOND TRUJILLO; NANCY HEFRIN; DAVID JOHNSTON; LORENZO (LUCAS) TRUJILLO; REBECCA (BECKY) KEHOLM; ADAM TRUJILLO; JUANITA HUERTA; ANNA MARIA TRUJILLO; DIANA TRUJILLO CHENEY; DEBRA TRUJILLO GABLER; AARON DUANE TRUJILLO; DOLORES TRUJILLO TURNAGE; ROBIN DENISE COBB TRUJILLO; AND ALL UNKNOWN HEIRS COMES NOW the Applicant and Personal Representative of the Estate of James Chancellor, Teya Andersen, by and through her attorneys, the Law Office of Barry Green, by Barry Green, Esq.; and pursuant to NMSA 1978, §45-3-705 (2017), notifies you as follows: 1. You are hereby notified that you have an interest in the Estate of James Chancellor, deceased, because it appears that you are an heir pursuant to New Mexico’s laws of Intestate succession.

2. You are further notified that Teya Andersen has been appointed Personal Representative of the Estate of James Chancellor in the First Judicial District Court, County of Santa Fe, State of New Mexico, in the above-listed cause number, on the 20th day of September, 2021.

3. You are further notified that the Personal Representative, Teya Andersen, can be contacted c/o Barry Green, Law Office of Barry Green, Suite 7, 200 West DeVargas Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, 505/989-1834.

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6. The names and addresses of the persons so notified are: Teya Andersen PO Box 1006 Espanola, New Mexico 87532 Darlene Trujillo HCR 73 box 517 San Jose, New Mexico 875659712 Eddie Trujillo 1501 North Washington Avenue Roswell, New Mexico 88201 Kenneth Cover 1502 Honeysuckle Road Livermore, California 94551 Kevin Cover 6052 Ocotillo Avenue 29 Palms, California 92277 Joe S Trujillo 1736 North Ohio Avenue Roswell, New Mexico 88201 Michael (Tonto) Alexander 4715 Norfolk Circle Portage, Michigan 49024 Cedrick Trujillo 1650 Fox Ridge Circle Auburn, California 95603 Raymond Trujillo 3012 Via Contessa Henderson, Nevada 89044 Nancy Hefrin 251 Hoffman Avenue Auburn, California 95603 David Johnston 521 Altivo Avenue La Selva Beach, California 95076 Lorenzo (Lucas) Trujillo 308 East Conner Street Roswell, New Mexico 88203 Rebecca (Becky) Keholm 308 East Conner Street Roswell, New Mexico 88203 Adam Trujillo c/o Juanita Huerta, 1362 West Wasatch Avenue Salt Lake City, Utah 84104 Juanita Huerta 1362 West Wasatch Avenue Salt Lake City, Utah 84104 Anna Maria Trujillo 5 Briar Wood Place, # 1611 Roswell, New Mexico 88201 Diana Trujillo Cheney 4081 Sandia Vista Road Santa Fe, New Mexico 87507 Debra Trujillo Gabler 187 North Blythe Drive Pueblo West, Colorado 81007 Aaron Duane Trujillo 3515 Austen Court Rosharen, Texas 77583 Dolores Trujillo Turnage 311 Cricket Ridge Road Mt Olive, North Carolina 28365 Robin Denise Cobb Trujillo PO Box 471 Lewis Center, OH 43035 Michael Trujillo, 1106 Cleveland Street, Greenville, Texas, 75401 7. Applicant has attempted to determine the address of the following heirs but has been unsuccessful and shall notify those heirs by publication: Dolores (Birdie) Trujillo Jo Ann Trujillo 29

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Jan Rarick Carmen Jo Alexander Will Sanders Fulbright Kevin Cobb Trujillo Respectfully Submitted, LAW OFFICE OF BARRY GREEN Barry Green Attorneys for the Applicant/ Personal Representative Suite 7 200 West DeVargas Street Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 505/989-1834 (Phone) 505/982-8141 (Fax) LawOfficeOfBarryGreen@msn.com (E-Mail)

FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE No. D-101-CV-2021-01732 IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF ELIZABETH HORRIGAN IRELAND AMENDED NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Section 40-8-1 through Section 40-8-3 NMSA, et seq., the Petitioner Elizabeth Horrigan Ireland will apply to the Honorable Bryan Biedscheid, District Judge of the First Judicial District Court of the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Avenue, in Santa Fe, New Mexico at 1:30 p.m. on November 1, 2021 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from ELIZABETH HORRIGAN IRELAND to ELIZABETH JOSEPHINE IRELAND. TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that all hearings are conducted by Google Meet. The court prefers counsel and parties to participate by video at https://meet.google. com/hdc-wqix-wes. If it is not possible to participate by video, you may participate by calling (US) +1 954-507-7009 PIN: 916 854 445# KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court Clerk By: Breanna Aguilar Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by:

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Elizabeth Horrigan Ireland Petitioner, pro se STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE IN THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF SHARON WOOTTEN STAFFORD COOPER, Deceased.

No. D-101-PB-2021-00205 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that SHARON WOOTEN COOPER SHAFFER, now known as SHARON WOOTEN COOPER, 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 undersigned Personal Representative in care of Karen Aubrey, Esq., Aubrey Law Firm, LLC, Post Office Box 8435, Santa Fe, New Mexico 875048435, or filed with the First Judicial District Court, Santa Fe County Judicial Complex, Post Office Box 2268, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-2268.

Dated: September 21, 2021 Aubrey Law Firm, LLC By: /s/ KAREN AUBREY P.O. Box 8435 Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-8435 (505) 982-4287; facsimile (505) 986-8349 ka@karenaubreylaw.com

FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF SANTA FE STATE OF NEW MEXICO In the Matter of the Estate of Hella Anderson, Deceased.

No. D-101-PB-2021-00219 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of this Estate.

All persons having claims against this Estate are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publications of this Notice, or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented either to the undersigned Personal Representative, Vibeke Hamberg, c/o Barry Green, Law Office of Barry Green, Suite 7, 200 West DeVargas Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, or filed with

the First Judicial District Court Clerk, PO Box 2268, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87504-2268.

DATED: Sept. 29, 2021 /s/ Vibeke Hamberg, Personal Representative Submitted by, LAW OFFICE OF BARRY GREEN By: /s/ Barry Green Barry Green Attorneys for Estate Suite 7 200 West DeVargas Street Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 505/989-1834 (Phone) 505/982-8141 (Fax) LawOfficeOfBarryGreen@msn. com (E-Mail) STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN THE MATTER OF A PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF BRADLEY JAMES MADAHAR CASE NO.: D-101-CV-2021-02118 NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME TAKE NOTICE that in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 40-8-1 through Sec. 40-8-3 NMSA 1978, et seq. The Petitioner Bradley James Madahar will apply to the Honorable Matthew J. Wilson, District Judge of the First Judicial District at the Santa Fe Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Ave., in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at 8:30 a.m. on the 1st day of December, 2021 for an ORDER FOR CHANGE OF NAME from Bradley James Madahar to Bradley James Madason.

KATHLEEN VIGIL, District Court Clerk By: Maureen Naranjo Deputy Court Clerk Submitted by: Bradley James Madahar Petitioner, Pro Se

NOTICE OF SALE STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT DAVID L. BARSKY, Plaintiff, v. MARCUS A. HERRERA, et. al., Defendants.

Cause No.: D-101-CV-2019-03049 NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to the Final Judgment entered on March 23, 2021, the undersigned Special Master will sell at public auction, for cash or certified funds, at the hour of 10:00 a.m. on November 1, 2021 at the main entrance of the Judge

Steve Herrera Judicial Complex, 225 Montezuma Avenue, Santa Fe, New Mexico, the real property situated in Santa Fe County, New Mexico described as follows: A certain tract of land being situate within the Bishop John Lamy Grant and being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point from whence the closing corner of Sections 12 and 13, Township 15 North, Range 10 East, N.M.P.M. bears N 40° 32’ 13” E, 18603,03 feet; thence from said point and place of beginning along the following bearings and distances: S 30° 27’ 54” W, 116.74 feet; S 59° 32’ 06” E, 100.00 feet; S 30° 27’ 54” W, 146.38 feet; N 59° 30’ 42” W, 866.88 feet; N 26° 37’ 00” E, 261.35 feet; S 59° 40’ 55” E, 784.42 feet; to the point and place of beginning. All as shown on plat of for Virginia Gray, surveyed by Robert L. Benavides, dated May 1980, as Project No. A-235, recorded in the office of the County Clerk, Santa Fe County, New Mexico on December 30, 1980 in Plat Book 93, Page 16, as Document No. 471075. (the “property”) commonly known as 109 Los Homos Road, Lamy, New Mexico, 87540. If there is any discrepancy between the property address or location and the legal description, the legal description shall control.

The property will be sold subject to the right of redemption (if any); easements, reservations and restrictions of record; taxes and governmental assessments including unpaid utility bills; any liens or encumbrances not foreclosed in this proceeding (including, but not limited to, the Mortgage against the property recorded on August 30, 2007, as Instrument Number 1497804, in the Office of the Clerk of Santa Fe County, New Mexico); the valuation of the property by the County Assessor as real or personal property; affixture of any mobile or manufactured home to the land; deactivation of title to a mobile or manufactured home on the property; environmental contamination, if any; any homeowners’ association or condominium dues, assessments, declarations, rules, requirements and restrictions; any requirements imposed by city or county ordinance or by state law affecting the property; and zoning violations concerning the property, if any. No representation is made as to the validity of the rights of ingress and egress.

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PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS AT THE SALE ARE ADVISED TO REVIEW THE DISTRICT COURT FILE, TO MAKE THEIR OWN EXAMINATION OF TITLE AND TO CONSULT THEIR OWN ATTORNEY BEFORE BIDDING. This action is a suit to foreclose a lien for unpaid association dues secured by the real property described above. The total amount awarded by the Judgment to the David L. Barsky (“Plaintiff”), with interest to the date of sale, is $52,526.10; plus his costs and attorney fees from March 23, 2021 through the date of sale of the property and any amounts advanced by the Plaintiff to protect its interest in the property before sale, including insurance, maintenance, taxes, assessments or other expenses relating to the property.

The proceeds from the judicial sale will be applied first to the payment of the costs and expenses of the sale; and then to the payment of the Judgement in favor of the Plaintiff, including additional fees, costs and expenses as stated in the foregoing paragraph. Any excess funds shall be deposited with the Clerk of Court for distribution by further order of the Court.

The Plaintiff may credit bid all or a portion of its judgment towards the purchase price at the foreclosure sale. Otherwise, terms of sale shall be immediately payable in cash or certified funds.

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